Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 October 1940 — Page 31
SPORTS... By Eddie Ash
HERBIE LEWIS, Indianapolis’ hockey team manager and coach, dropped down from Detroit yesterday and painted a glowing picture for the local Capitols. . . . He has them in “spring” training in the Motor City and the battle for berths.is generating plenty of heat, says Herbie.
From Lewis’ sizeup of the candidates now hustling for positions, Indianapolis’ 1940-41 team in all probability will be selected from the following: Left Wing—Archie Wilder, Carl Liscombe, Butch McDonald and Jud McAtee. Center—Connie Brown, Les Douglas, Bob Gracie and Art Herchenratter. : Right Wing—Joe Carveth, Bill (Cyclone) Jennings, Cecil Dillon, Bill Thomson, Hec Kilrea, Ronnie Hudson and the old boy himself, Herbie Lewis. Defense—Bob Whitelaw, Eddie Bush, Buck Jones, Sandy Ross, Dick Behling and Scotty Bowman. Goalie—Looks like Bobbie Franks at present, though the Detroit Red Wings are giving this net minder the once over. . McAtee, Jennings, Herchenratter and Behling are rookies up from the amateur ranks, who turned pro this week. . . Last . Winter McAtee scored 40 goals and 31 assists for Oshawa, Ontario, junior team, crowned world junior champs of 1939.
Two Up From Michigan-Ontario Loop
: BILL JENNINGS was one of the leading right wings in the Michigan-Ontario League, amateur, last winter, scoring 44 points, consisting of 24 goals and 20 assists. Art Herchenratter, also out of the M.-O. League, tallied 47 points on 31 goals and 16 assists. Cecil Dillon is a veteran trying for a right wing assignment. . He is a former “big name” player with the New York Rangers. Players who were with the Capitols last season and who are striving to return as regulars are Wilder, Liscombe, McDonald, Brown, Douglas, Gracie, Carveth, Thomson, Hec Killea, Hudson, Whitelaw, Bush, Jones, Ross, Bowman and Franks.
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THERE are nine teams in the American Hockey League, the same number as last year, but among the missing is: the Syracuse club. . Buffalo, with a new hockey plant, has taken over the Syracuse franchise, Teams in the Western division of the league will be Indianapolise, Cleveland, Hershey, Buffalo and Pittsburgh. . .. In the Eastern division, New Haven, Providence, Springfield and "Philadelphia. ; Canadians form the bulk of the American League talent and army training during the summer has made them that much closer to physical condition for the strenuous hockey season ahead.
Indianapolis Bowlers Dine and Dance
INDIANAPOLIS BOWLERS are to take time off from the runways tomoriow night and do some frolicking at a dine-and-dance party in the Riley Room, Claypool Hotel. Indianapolis Allied Bowlers Association is sponsoring the affair and it's the second annual. The dinner is scheduled at 6:30 o'clock and tickets for the event are available at all bowling establishments. Neil C. King, Indianapolis, president of the American Bowling Congress, is general chairman of the dinner-dance and also will serve as toastmaster. . Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan will give the address of welcome.
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AMONG the guests expected at the local bowlers’ dinner-dance are Elmer Baumgarten, Milwaukee, who is A. B. C. secretary; Mrs. Jeanette Knepprath, Milwaukee, Women’s International Bowling Congress secretary, and A. B. C. officials from Indiana and .surrounding states. Officers of the Indiana State Bowling Association also will be present at the function. . Approximately 300 attended last year’s inaugural dinner and committee members predict a higher ‘attendance tomorrow. Films of several A. B. C. tournaments will be shown and there will be an A. B. C. medal presentation to Hank Shriver, Indianapolis, who recently rolled a perfect 300 score.
Rensselaer High Has Won 13 Straight
RENSSELAER is going places in Hoosier high school football . and as a matter of fact the Rensselaer boys have been going places over a two-year stretch. The team was undefeated and untied in 1939, and is undefeated and untied in its first five games this season. Including last year, Rensselaer has won 13 straight, with nary a tie to mar the record. Three tilts remain on ‘the 1640 schedule. .. . The team is light but fast and only two linesmen are back from last fall's undefeated squad. . . . The team lost Halfback Kanne, 1939 ace, and Hudson is doing a good job filling the star's shoes
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Eddie Alone Likes Indishs: Brondfield Is on a Fence
And Ferguson Won't Talk
Everyone but the U. P.’s Harry Gets Off Ohio State; Irish Considered a ‘Sure Thing’
Hurray, we have The Times’ board of football experts squabbling—and right in their own backyard, too. At press time it appeared the boys might square off and go to punching noses over the Iowa-Indiana game tomorrow at Bloomington. : Eddie Ash—our boy Eddie, we call him—came out forthright for Indiana. But Elmer Layden of Notre Dame couldn’t see it that way and said “Iowa.” Bob Godley felt the same way. Jerry Brondfield of NEA, better known as Pussyfoot, called it a tossup, while Harry Ferguson, United Press sports editor, refused a guess—the sissy.
But if these differences can be ironed out, this “happy” family may be kept together—at least for another week. On 15 of the nation’s 25 football standouts the boys are in perfect agreement.
Tennessee, Cornell, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Duke, Holy Cross, Georgia Tech, Texas A & M., Southern Methodist, Texas, U. C. L. A. and Southern California. : Fergy Sticks With Ohio State
Let a team slip once, and our guys are off that one. Ohio State, loser to Northwestern last week, gets only Mr. Ferguson's vote, while the other four are waving the flag for Minnesota. Godley won't agree with his four companions that Fordham ‘will beat Pitt, and 1ayden casts the lone vote for Yale against Dartmouth. : The four votes cast on the Georgia-Columbia game are split evenly while Rice holds a 3-2 edge over Tulane. Layden is the only one_who thinks Duquesne will beat Mississippi, and Ferguson does a solo in select ing Washington State ower Stanford. The consensus:
Ash Layden Indiana Iowa ~ Notre Dame Notre Dame Minnesota Minnesota Michigan . Michigan Northwestern Northwestern Tennessee Tennessee Fordham Fordham Cornell Cornell Dartmouth Yale Harvard Harvard Penn Penn Duke Duke Holy Cross Holy Cross Georgia Georgia Mich. State Mich. State Mississippi Duquesne Ga. Tech Ga. Tech Texas A. & M.Texas A.&M. Rice Rice : S. M. U. S.M. U. Texas Texas U. C. L. A. U. C. L. A, U. S. C. U. Ss. C. Stanford Stanford Nebraska Nebraska
Butler and Wabash to Renew 33-Year-Old Feud Tomorrow
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Notre Dame Ohio State Michigan Northwestern Tennessee Fordham Cornell Dartmouth Harvard Penn Duke Holy Cross Columbia
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visible man behind the scenes tomorrow when two of Indiana’s long-time grid rivals, Butler and Wabash, clash at Ingalls Field, Crawfordsville, at 2 p. m. It will mark homecoming for returning alumni at Wabash and ac=|.. Butler cording to records the battle will Rabold be the 33d waged between the two, fant rreke ase schools, Butler having won 16 while Dugger three games went scoreless. {ocean (e) Coach Pete Vaughan, in his 22 swager .. years of coaching Little Giants, has | Meigelants oe defeated Butler five times. Mean- Norris while, Butler's Tony Hinkle never
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a strangle hold on the state crown for six consecutive years. However, this year's picture Is none too rosy. for the Hinklemen: They have won over St. Joseph,
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Times’ Football Prophets Are in a Squabble
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And This—for Carnegie Tech
Steve Juzwik « « o carries the Irish mail,
Irish to Meet Power Attack Of the Pittsburgh Type
Times Special NOTRE DAME, Ind. Oct. 18.—For those who like slam-bang football, tomorrow's Carnegie Tech-Notre Dame game here is the.dish. The Irish successfully overcame the spread formation of College of the Pacific, 25 to 7. They put down the razzle-dazzle deception of George Tech, 26 to 20. Tomorrow they face a power attack of the Pittsburgh type. Dr. Eddie Baker of the Tartans has a pair of hard-driving backs: in Frank Jordano and George Muha. || Jordano understudied Merlyn Condit the last two years, and Muha was Condit’s running mate. Quarterback Paul Friedlander, one of the central figures in the wrong down incident of two years ago, and Tony Laposki round out a senior backfield.
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Muha Laposki Time—2 p. m. Place—Notre Dame Stadium. Broadcasts—WENR Chicago (870) starting at 3 p. m.; WSBT-WFAM South Bend.
Pacing the way for these stars is a veteran line. The Tech starting lineup contains nine two-year lettermen, and a junior and a senior
seen considerable action. Notre Dame's 7 to 0 and 7 to 6 victories of the last two seasons, put the high pre-season ranking of the Irish, plus the jinx which has
with first-year coaches make the possibility of a Tech victory much brighter than might be expected off Tech’s 18-0 loss to Holy Cross last week. Only one Notre Dame lineup | change developed out of last week's | game. Bob (Pigeon) Dove, a sopho- | more, was advanced to the starting lineup over George Rassas, Stam-
Michigan and Minnesota Have A 1-Year-Old Bill to Pay
Harmon Remembers a Little Illini Named Wes Martin; Gopher Recalls Some Flying Fists.
By STEVE SNIDER United Press Staff Correspondent
_ CHICAGO, Oct. 18.—The longest year in the lives of the talented giants at Michigan and Minnesota ends tomorrow when at last them lay hands on their chief tormentors of 1939—Illinois and Ohio States Tommy Harmon, for one, thought the year a decade. He can’ forget—nor will anyone let him try—the afternoon he spent on the seat of his pants with a little Illinois guard named Wes Martin sitting
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on top of him. (Illinois 16, Michigan 7.) George Franck, for another, can’t forget “those flying fists that cut loose the last ‘three times he carried the ball for Minnesota against Ohio State. . (Ohio State 23, Minnesota 20.) These are the key men in a dual campaign of vengeance and tomorrow the Big Ten will discover what happens when two teams of superior personnel key themselves as underdogs have been doing for years. Iowa, tied with Northwestern with one victory, seeks its second in a row at Indiana and Northwestern travels to Wisconsin. Despite Minnesota's vows to wipe
dangerous passing. It requires some tackling, 100, to bring down slippery George Frank and bulling Bill Daley, Illinois hopes for another Michie gan victory sagged badly this week, The Illini figured if they could keep - Harmon behind the line of scrime mage most of the afternoon, they might get in a couple of touchdown licks and win despite Harmon. Now, they'll be lucky to score once. Half« back George Rettinger, key figure in last year’s upset, injured a knee in practice Tuesday night and is out. Earlier loss of George Bern=
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of bounding bac kafter defeat and perhaps no defeat in recent years was so unexpected for the Conference champions as that Northwestern upset a week ago. Whereas, Chio squadmen were described as “just along for the train ride” last week, they have banded together under Capt. Jimmy Langhurst to do something about the situation. They demanded and got more physical contact work to toughen up their blocking and tackling. The
blocking they'll need to ‘break up an anticipated rush of ends and tackles to break up Ohio State's]
| backfield possessing little in the way of reserves puts a black look cn the Illini outlook. Northwestern and Iowa, each with powerful running: attacks, expect to hold their leads in the conference standings, Wisconsin, led by Georzs Paskvan and Hadley» Hoskins, should have better luck than Ohio State against Northwestern’s inexperienced line but it takes more than luck unless the Wildcats have come down badly after keying last week. Indiana passing is no match fop Iowa running, but the Hoosiers have a spunky little back in Harold (Red) Zimmer, who might wind up as a game breaker. a
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Rance in headline action on the Armory grappling bill next Tuesday night. The Great Mephisto, Buck Weaver and Thom had been named as
Crispus Attucks vs. Lincoln, East St. Louis, at Shortridge. Cathedral vs. Ft. Wayne North Side at Butler Bowl (night). Westfield at Ben Davis.
tied Ohio University, and lost to Purdue and Xavier of Cincinnati,
Earlham and has lost to Rose Poly and Denison. And to complicate
while Wabash has chalked up two, league victories over Franklin and |
" SEATTLE, Oct. 18 tU. P.).—AllAmerica Halfback Tom Harmon of Michigan was the nation’s best ground-gainer today but came In second to Paul Christman of Missouri in total offense—gains, rushing
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possible opponents for La Rance and Billy was chosen today by Matchmaker Lloyd Carter as the logical performer to test La Rance, | who hails from Montreal and is _-generally recognized as the light heavyweight champion. Carter has been seeking the services ot La Rance for more than a month. The Canadian had an out-| standing record before he came to| the top to be generally listed as light heavyweight champ. The bout wilt be for two falls out of three.
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matters further, the Bulldog pass defense and ground offense is only a whisper of the 1939 team. But Hinkle and his assistant, Wally Middles= worth, have a new backfield to shoot against Wabash. Henry Abts probably will not play because o f a knee injury, and Elwood Norris will replace him. Ralph Swager, who can and has played every backfield position this year, will be moved up into the blocking berth and Charles Metzelaars and Harold Feichter will take over the halfback assignments. Swager and Metzelaars will share the passing and Metzelaars, Mattoon, Ill., sophomore, will do the punting. Wabash, who already has started pre-game friction by painting tne Butler campus with red W's, will be outweighed 14 pounds to the man on the line, However,” Hinkle says their backfield is ‘pretty big.” Hinkle concluded all preparations with a light signal crili this afternoon after Butler ~nd DePauw freshman teams had played their first scheduled games of thz season.
and passing. Figures compiled by the American Football Statistical Bureau revealed that Harmon had gained 377 yards in three games by carrying the bail 63 times, but had gained only !48 yards in the air for a total of 525 yards. Christman’s passing gave him total offense honors. He complated 26 of 61 forwards for 504 yards and picked up 27 yards rushing ior a total of 531 yards in three games. Other sectional leaders in total offense: East — Hal McCullough, Cornell, two games. 40 plays, 353 yards: Southeast—Adrian Dodson, Louisiana State, four games, 83 plays, 421 yards; Southwest—Marion Pugh, Texas A. & M., three games, 55 plays, 400 yards; far West—Bob Peoples, Southern California, three games, 81 plays, 322 yards. - John Knolla of Creighton ranked second to Harmon in yardage gained from scrimmage. Knolla carried the ball 46 times in three games for 374 yards. Walt Zirinski of Lafayette was third with 342 yards on 39 rushes in three games, Second best passer in the nation was Jose Frank of New York University who completed 23 ot 41 attempts in three games to lead the East. Among men who have punted 10 times or more, Dobbs of Tulsa was best with a 46-yard average in three games. Walt O’Connor of Drake caught 10 passes in thrce games to lead the pass receivers.
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Culver’s Gridmen Going to Illinois
Times Special CULVER, Ind., Oct. 18—The Culver Militaty ‘Academy football schedule reaches the half-way mark tomorrow when the Flying Squadron, with three straight wins to its credit, goes to Peru, Ill, for the annual game “with St. Bedes Academy. In the four games played to date the Illinois Catholic preps hold the edge with three games won. Culver broke the jinx last year by winning at 13-0. At home the cross-country team |D=Gallon Cans is scheduled to meet North Side of
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