Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 October 1940 — Page 24

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SPORTS... ur ‘By Eddie Ash

BASEBALL Stove League Jottings: The Philadel. phia Athletics finished last in the American League this year but if military conscription takes all bachelors on the club they probably will win the pennant in the

army league if permitted to play on the same team,

The Mackmen have a dozen chaps in the preferred age. « « . They are Chubby Dean, pitcher, 23 years old; Porter Vaughan, pitcher, 22; Fran Hayes, cateher, 26; Benny McCoy, infielder, 24: Joe Gantenbein, infielder, 23; Fred Chapman, infielder, 23; Al Brancato, infielder, 31; Dario Lodigiani, infielder, 23; Crash Davis, infielder, 39; Sam Ohapman, outfelder, 23; Eddie Collins, oute fielder, 23: Brie Tipton, outfielder, 24. Unmarried ball players called for the selective service arm would do well not to expect any favors just because they are ball players. . . . Army officials in Washington plan extensive athletic programs for the conscription army, and baseball is to be played all over the draft camp map next summer, The army men would like to see professional players, and as many big leaguers as possible, on these teams, believing the dia mond stars would give the selective service teams splendid publicity.

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IT LOOKS LIKE the start of an era of very young men and ay x Lal | the aged veterans in baseball for the next four years, the length HE a of time in which conscription is to be enforced. Only two 1040 managers in the majors were required to register under the national conscription law-Joe Cronin- of the Boston Red Sox and Leo Durocher of the Brooklyn Dodgers. , , Both are married. . . . « The others are above the age maximum. , . , Cronin was 34 on Oct. 13 and Durocher also 34 on July 27. Connie Mack of the Athletics, oldest of the managers, will be 78 Dec. 23. Others above the draft age are: Billy Southworth, Care dinals, 47; Del Baker, Detroit, 48; Jimmy Dykes, White Sox, who will be 44 on- Nov. 10: Frankie Frisch, Pittsburgh, 42; Fred Haney,

Alan Traugott of Shortridge (18) finds a hole in the Washington wall and skips through for 15 yards, Ted Colbert finally got to him and downed him. ni 3

‘Just Ballyhoo, |Rockets Ride Over Manual

Charles Cole of Washington (26) fades back to throw a pass into the end zone in_the second quarter ‘of the Continental-Shortridge game, The pitch was grounded. ’

Bruised and Battered Bulldogs Have Only

Says Harmon

Browns, 41; Stanley Harris, Washington, who will be 44 on Nov 8; Gabby. Hartnett, Oubs, who will be 40 on Deo. 20; Joe McCarthy, Yankees, 53; Bill McKechnie, Reds, 63; Doc Prothro, Phillies, 47; Casey Stengel, Bees, 49, and Oscar Vitt, Cleveland, 50. a 0 “ ua 8 According to Sporting News, the baseball weekly, Jim Weaver, Louisville pitcher, ve up his baseball age of 36 years and assumed the real age of 37 4 couple ‘of weeks ago. Jim said he didn't mind confessing, since the draft limit was 85 and he was going to retire anyway for a permanent job with a Louisville brewery.

‘Alabama Idle, Miss. State Invades Raleigh

DUR to a change in the football schedules of two Southern teams, this column conductor alters one “selection” made yestere | day. . « « Instead of Alabama meeting Mississi State this Sate urday, the Orimson Tide has an open date and Mississippi State goes on the road and-plays North Carolina State at Raleigh in a © hight game, Spalding's Football Guide and United Press schedules carried it Mississippi State and Alabama at Tuscaloosa Oct. 26. . . . In the “picking league,” therefore, our prediction is Mississippi State over orth Carolina State ._. . in a close battle, . . . The team: rate just about even on past performance, . . . Alabama’ next game will be against Kentucky Nov. 2. :

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OHIO STATE. fumbled three times last Saturday and recove ered the ball three times, . . . Minnesota fumbled three times and lest the ball on each occasion. . . . A crowd of 63,000 is predicted at Minnesota Saturday when Iowa invades. . . . It's the Gophers’ home-«coming. . . . The record attendance for Minnesota was the game between the Gophers and Notre Dame in 1037 which drew Bernie Bierman, Gopher coach, gives this slant on Iowa: “I would much rather play the Hawk team of last year than their 1040 aggregation. Eddie Anderson has a team that [is positively stronger than last season.” All. of which increases the Indiana Hoosiers’ prestige.

a 8 8 a wu 8 ILLINOIS’ home«coming game Saturday with Notre Dame will bring a pair of high school teammates together, but this time in rival uniforms. / : Dick Good, Illinois reserve halfback, and Owen Evans, Notre Dame reserve halfback, played on the same football team at Riley High School in South Bend, Ind. . . . In succesSive years both boys won Riley High's “most valuable athlete” award. Good is regarded as one of Illinois’ best passers and Evans, according to Coach Elmer Layden, is one of the best breakaway runner prospects the Irish have had in some time. .., . Both are

sophomores, Butler's Trackmen (Detroit First Onl. U. Card

After 5th Straight

Butler's undefeated ocross«country ‘team sought its fifth consecutive victory of the ourrent season this afternoon running against Miami University at the Fairview campus. Max Armer, Charles Dreissen, Earl Mitohell, Richard Clarke, Frank Wintin and Maurice Nahmias comprise today’s Butler squad which eviously had defeated Illinois tate, Ohio University, Ball State and Titinots Normal. ' James Adams toured the Butler 2% «mile course yesterday in 12 mine utes and 39 seconds to lead Butler freshmen to their first vietory of the year, 156 to 40.

For Extra Speed GHICAGO, . Oct. 24 (NFA) — Cieorge McAfee, Bobby Swisher and Ken Kavanaugh, speedsters of the Chisago Bears, wear cleated sprint sandals instead of the higher foot ball shoe. |

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Dorals announced today. It will be the fourth time the Titans have met a team of the Western Conference.

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LEXINGTON, Ky, Oct. 24

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DETROIT, Oct. 24 (U.P.) ~The University of Detroit football team will open University of Indiana's football season in Bloomington, Ind, next Oct. 4 Coach Cus

In 1938 they lost to Purdue 19-6 and the other losses were

(U. P.) Ashes of Oalvacade, 1034 Kentucky Derby winner, who deid Monday, will be shipped to the Brooke meade, Va, farm of Mrs. Dodge Sloane, owner of the thoroughbred, for incorporation in a memorial to

Tony Hinkle set and baited his traps today as his Butler Bulldogs completed heavy preparations for their non-conference football game Saturday against the Washington Bears at St. Louis.

However, the bait is anything but meaty. y : The same backfield that started against Wabash, probably will start against Washington. In fact as Wally Middlesworth, assistant coach, says, “There is only one backfield. It's a mystery around here how so many players can get injured.” Ralph Swager, 155-pound senior who can and has played every backfield position this season, will call signals for the Bulldogs, Saturday. The remainder of the foursome will include Charles Metzelaars, sophomore, and Harold Feichter, senior, at the halfbacks, and Elwood (Woody) Norris, junior, at the plunging position. Steve Stoyko, sophomore halfback from South Bend who broke into the scoring column last week after a pass interception and a 40-yard touchdown run, has been missing practice because of a leg injury. Claude Stfopes and John Reno, reserve ends, are disabled with a foot infection and Dan Zavella, letter man tackle, has watched from the sidelines all week because of a skin rash on his face.

Rules Altered By I. H.S. A.A

Elimination of practice and limitation of the high school basketball schedules to 18

games in a season were announced today by the Athletic Council of the Indiana High School Athletic “Association. ’ : The Council had received a proposal to allow football practice beginning Aug. 20 and ending Nov. 30 of each calendar year, However, their ruling provides for practice beginning Aug. 20 and ending June 1, eliminating the months of June, July and part of August from the practice period. The Council further ruled. that the maximum number of football games for a season will be 10. A maximum of nine games was proposed. Inter-school football games are limited to the period beginning with the opening day “of school and ending Nov. 30. Under today's ruling, all basket ball practice shall be limited to the period beginning with the opening day of the school year and ending with the cluose of the school year. The Council affirmed its previous ruling that no inter-school games shall be played by students or schools prior to Nov. 1 of each year or after the beginning date of the sectional tourneys. The 18-game limitation on the basketball schedule will be effective at the end of the 1941-1042 season.

Also-Rans Get

Series Shares

CHICAGO, Oct. 24 (U. P.).—~The Brooklyn Dodgers of the National League and Cleveland Indians of the American League received $30,« 331 each for finishing second in the 1940 baseball race, Leslie O'Connor, secretary to Commissioner K, M., Landis, announced today. He sald $947.85 shares had been sent to the following Brooklyn play« ers: Durocher, Camilli, Carleton, Casey, Coscarart, Fitzsimmons, Franks, Hamlin, Hudson, Lavagetto, Gallagher, Mancuso, Phelps, Reese, Wyatt, Dressen, Tamulis and Walker, Checks for one gent less were sent Voemik, Wasdell, Medwick, Da-

Mungo and Tincup. For Cleveland shares of® $919.13 went to Vitt, Allen, Boudreau, Chapman, Feller, Harder, Hemsley, Mack, Trosky. Che‘ks for one cent less were sent Bell, Campbell, Dobson, Eisenstat, Grimes, Hale, Heath, Humphries, Keltner, Milnar, Peters,

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All Aboard

Butler football fans, members of the marching band, the cglor guard and drum majorettes, will go to the Washington game Saturday at St. Louis in a special train. Tickets, which sell for $6.50 and will include the round trip fare, transportation to and from the Washington stadium, and the admission ticket to the game, are being sold on the local campus. Those in charge of the plans have said tentatively that the special train will leave Indianapolis at 8 a. m. Saturday and arrive in St. Louis at 12:20 p. m. The train is expected to leave St. Louis at 8 p. m. and arrive in Indianapolis at 12:20 a. m.

Dr. George Davis, university physician, however has announced that if there is no secondary infection Stropes will be able fo play. Zavella will se some action. Hinkle has announced that he will take 30 gridders with him by train, tomorrow morning at 8:30 o'clock and will practice at Francis Field tomorrow afternoon. Ten extra

One Backfield to Give for Their College

student-chartered train, Saturday morning at 8 o'clock. University officials, also, are planning to send the 80-piece band and color guard. Saturday’s tilt will be Butler's fourth non-conference game of the season, having lost to Purdue, Xavier and tying Ohio University. Two victories have been made over state foes, St. Joseph and Wabash: Two additional triumphs over DePauw and Ball State this year will give the locals their seventh consecutive

Indiana College Conference title. Washington, which is not the same team that annexed the Missouri Valley Conference crown last year, has a one and two record this season, Maryville Teachers upset the Missourians, 7 to 6, in the opener. Washburn was repulsed, 28 to 26 Last week Oklahoma's Aggies gave the Bears a sound 53 to 12 thrashing. Washington, also, will be the fifth team using the Notre Dame system that Butler has opposed this year, Frank Loebs, a great end at Purdue several years ago, is in his first year as Washington’s head coach. He succeeded Jimmy Conzelman, now coach of the professional Chicago Cardinals. Meanwhile Butler’s freshman-team will meet Wabash’s = rhinies, tomorrow afternoon at Crawfordsville.

players will be sent on a special

Butler defeated DePauw freshman last week, 39 to 0. :

Mad Russian From West May Be Another Pepper

By JOE WILLIAMS NEW YORK, Oct. 23.—~The boys are saying mournfully there'll never be another Pepper Martin in the Natiorial League and maybe they're right. But there's a fellow coming yp to the Chicago Cubs who may make a photo finish. That, would be Lou Novikoft. You'll he reading a lot about him pretty soon so you may as well take time out from football and get a load of him now. You wouldn't want to be caught on one of those inevitable quiz programs and not know all about the Mad Russian, would you? a That's what they call him out in his native Los Angeles, and you'd be surprised to know why they call him this. First, he’s a Russian and second, he’s amusingly mad. They think up the strangest things in Los Angeles, don’t they? Mr, Novikoff is a graduate of soft ball. He used to be a pitcher. But it was the way he i the ball that made Joe Rodgers ¢ecide he had it in him to be a big leaguer. He'd slam the rag ball clear out of sight. The relationship between Mr. Novikoff and Mr, Rodgers is pertinent at this recital, they ‘are just like this. Mr. Rodgers is the brain and the Machevelli of the Association. . He does the thinking and the scheming. A surprising amount of the latter commodity is necessary. The Mother Novikoff lives in the immigrant district of Los Angeles. There is much about the Engliy= language and the American pattern of life that still elude her. The neighbors are similarly unsophisticated. This is where Mr. Rodgers re-enters, chuckling softly. His first job was to divorce Mr. Novikoff from soft ball, which was purely a recreational activity. His second was to make it possible for him to get into hard ball as a professional. The Mother Novikoff didn’t know what baseball was, doesn't yet, but it didn’t sound like a business, and she insisted her Lou must go to work. “A good plumber, a good butcher, something respectable,” she explained in her homé tongue. “So it is a business you want your in?” purred Mr. Rodgers.

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was properly grateful. That was last summer. It was also the summer the Mad Russian played with Tulsa and led the Texas

League in hitting. Twice a month he wrote home, enclosing checks. It was good business, steel, and Mr. Novikoff the traveling salesman, was doing well. : It so happened Mr. Novikoft, the ballplayer, was doing even better and Los Angeles recalled him .... “What do I do now?” the young man nervously asked of his preceptor and protector. “Here I am back in Los Anegles. What will Mamma say when she finds out I'm playing ball for a living?” By now, as you have probably observed, Mr. Rodgers is not easily stumped. “What will you do now? Why you sell more steel. You were so good in Texas the firm advanced you and raised your pay.” So it was as a mythical steel pedler that the Mad Russian finished out the season with L. A. and in the process became something of believe-it-or-not by leading the league in hitting, thus winning two such distinctions in one and the same season.

‘ANN ARBOR, Mich., Oct. 24 (U.P.).—Michigan’s Tom.Harmon and Coach’ Fritz Crisler today branded stories of a “personal” rivalry between Harmon and Pennsylvania's Francis Reagan as “ballyhoo and a pretty good stunt.” When Michigan meets Pennsylvania here Saturday Harmon, the nation's No. 1 scoring star with 79 points and Reagan, second with 61, clash in what may be the greatest individual duel of the football season. But there’s no animosity between the two. “As far as our team is concerned, no such feud exists,” Crisler said. “I don’t know about Penn, but we'll have 11 men on the field for 60 full minutes and every one is level-headed enough - not to be affected by this ballyhoo and realize that Harmon is a vital part of our outfit.” Harmon said he thought it was “a pretty good stunt and it should draw a good-sized crowd into the stadium but we'll probably be hearing the same kind of ballyhoo about Bill Decorrevont and myself when we play NorthWestern, Actually there's nothing tt”

Shuns Clean-Up Spot LOS ANGELES, Oct. 23 (NEA). — Lou Novikoff, Los Angeles outfielder who reports to the Cubs next spring, has one superstition. He refuses to bat fourth.

Jeffers’ Foe Charles Duncan, West Side A. C. heavyweight mauler, and Jethro Jeffers, Leeper A. C. knockout, specialist, will collide in the feature five-round bout on the weekly amateur boxing card tomorrow night at the Armory, Matchmaker Fred DeBorde announced today. Duncan has split even in two appearances here against Vic Hutton, Anderson belter. The boys will be on even terms in the weight department, Jeffers scaling 184 pounds to his opponent’s 186. The Leeper slugger packs a load of dynamite in his right hand and has eight knockout victories to his credit in local scraps. Another ' three-round supporting bout added to the card today will bring together Charlie Teckenbrock, English Avenue Boys’ Club feather-

weight, and LeRoy Simmons, Hill Community Center.

Practice Tonight

The Keystone Boys Town football team will practice tonight at the clubhouse.

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By J. E. O'BRIEN Shortridge stood acquitted before the bar of high school football opinion today—free to go after another city

championship.

Up until yesterday there had been talk—you know the kind—that the Blue Devils didn’t have the correct mental attitude—that they lacked a human speedball to give them go in the stretch. ‘Apparently a bit listless in their two defeats, they were supposed to be ripe for the high-spirited and high-stepping Washington outfit. : j

Maybe they found that human speedball. Maybe they were downright sore about that Washington flag that

flew from the. Shortridge flagpole yesterday :norning. Anyway, we couldn't see anything wrong with the Blue Devils’ attitude as they bested the Continentals, 6-0. oh Continentals Have Zip, Too

In fairness to Washington, it must be said that a break here or there might have may have put a different ending to the entire proceedings. The Continentals, too, went at their duties with lots of Zip. ! In the end, it was the bogging down of the Continental passing attack that lost the game. In the first quarter, for instance, after the Continentals had recovered a Shortridge fumble 41 yards from the goal, they drove to two straight first downs to the Shortridge 19. But the Blue Devil front. line sealed all the holes, and the West Siders finally had to take to the air —with no results. Again in the second quarter, only 14 yards from the goal this time, Washington was stopped on the ground and tried its passing—still with no results.

other series of pitches atia late hour but Shortridge’s defense was effec~ tive af both ends and virtually nullified the assault. Shortridge started what was to be its touchdown march at the end of the third quarter. Chuck Benjamin returning Charles Cole's quick kick to the Washington 46. Halfback Jira Mitchell and Barnie Casselman, his running mate. headed the ade vance that took the Blue Devils to the 19, from where Mitchell went wide around his right end down to the Washington five-yard line. Twice Mitchell stabbed unsuce cessfully. at the Washington line. On fourth down, with Alan Traugott as ‘the decoy, Casselman lateraled to Mitchell, who swept his right end into payoff territory,

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“The Washington line showed its stuff in the first quarter by snuffing a Shortridge - attack 24 yards short of the goal after Ted Colbert’s kick into the wind had gone only five yards. Shortridge had the same trouble later with the wind, Bill Allerdice’s. boot fram

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