Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 October 1940 — Page 19
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is Will Be
Record| for the season: Games picked, 291; winners, 207; losers,
66; ties, 18. Batting average over
all, .758.
By EDDIE ASH LP
Beginning the November stretch in the football “picking league,” all the experts can hope for is to emerge from a slump that made their last week’s calculations look amateurish. However, it was a tough week-end for any : pf crystal gazing and it won't be the last one.
, This week is dotted with traditional battles, home-comings and giant against
giant
from coast to coast.
The only safe
big rn in the Midwest Saturday is Michigan. The Wolverines do not play. All Western Conference games are in
. the toss-up
class and another series of
thrillers is promised. In other words, the
“fear” business is terrific.
In the several
important games involving Hoosiet elevens we are selecting Ohio State over Indiana, Iowa over Prudue, Notre Dame over Army and Butler
over DePauw. /
+ In other standout Midwest tilts, Minnesota over Northwestern and Wisconsin over Illinois. Selections for the week on all fronts: ,
STATE COLLEGES
* Ohio State over Indiana.
Our voice is thin and weak.
Iowa over Purdue. Toss a coin and take a chance. Notre Dame over "Army. Irish give New York a show. Butler over DePauw... It's home-coming at the Bowl.
Rose Poly over Franklin. Engineers seem to have it. Evansville over Earlham. The Quakers have lost punch. Manchester over Defiance: Spartans by wide margin.
Ball State over Central Normal.
In State Conference tilt.
Wabash over Hanover. Little Giants are improving.
Ind. State over Eastern Illinois.
Short on dope here.
Capital over Valparaiso. Valpo won a year ago. -
MIDWEST Minnesota over Northwestern. Wildcats prevailed in 1939. Wisconsin over Illinois. Illini probably due, however. Michigan State over Kas. State.. Figures to be close. Nebraska over Oklahoma. = Stirring encounter indicated.
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Toledo over John Carroll. Rockets are judged superior. Carnegie Tech over Cincinnati. This should be a fooler. Xavier, Cincinnati, over Ohio Wesleyan. Call it close. Dayton over Transylvania. The Flyers have come back. Ohio U. over Miami, O. Based on comparative scores. Missouri over N. Y. U. Violets invade the West. Washington, St. Louis, over Centenary. A toss-up. Detroit over Tulsa. One of the day’s standouts.
EAST
Cornell over Columbia. It was a battle last year. Brown over Yale. It should go to the Bulldogs.
Princeton over Harvard. An Penn State over S. Carolina.
Ivy League traditional. Nittany Lions are strong.
Boston College over Manhattan. ' Boston has class.
Temple over Bucknell. Owls
in front last fall.
Duquesne over Marquette. Be careful of this one.
Colgate over Holy Cross.
Measure up on even terms.
- Fordham over North Carolina. Try it on your fiddle. Villanova over Kansas. Nova boys come back. Dartmouth over Sewanee, Big Green finds stride.’ Syracuse over Georgetown U. Trying for an upset.
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WEDNESDAY, OCT. 30, 1940
Toss-up Week at the Football Experts’ Club |
SOUTH Duke over Georgia Tech. Ouly by a point last fall.
Tennessee over Lou. State.
Vols had trouble last week.
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Texas A.-M. over Arkansas. But the Razorbacks are tcugh., Texas Tech over Miami, Fla. Tech has a rot of power, Baylor over Tex. Christian. It's one of the toughies. Auburn over Georgia. By one touchdown last fall. Mississippi over Vanderbilt. A bitter battle in "39. Alabama over Kentucky. Another problem to tackle. Clemson over Tulane. Prefer to forget this tilt.
Wake Forest over Geo. Washington,
Not by too much,
Sou. Methodist over Texas. One for a professional seer. N. Car. State over Furman. Count it a toss-up. Rice over Texas A.-I, Judged on the ratings. ; Miss. State over Southwestern. Looks like a breather. FAR WEST 5 Stanford over U. C. L. A. It was a tie last year.
Wash. State over Idaho.
Free-scoring a year ago.
California over Ore. State. This is aglinst the ratings. St. Mary’s, Cal., over Portland. The Gaels are clicking.
Santa Clara over San Francisco.
A deadlock in ’39.
Oregon U. over Montana. Not far apart in ratings.
They Laughed To Hear Gaels Talk of Victory
So Rams’ Rose Bowl ||
Hopes Fade Again
By ELMER LAYDEN “Notre Dame Football Coach Jim Crowley was pretty sure, before the 1940 season started, he had a team that could win ’em all.’ The New York experts did not im- . mediately share this view.
early-season predictions for Fordham had been dashed so many successive years, they were growing sagey. But after
the, Rams had |
3 uccessively beaten Tulane + and Pitt, their optimism began to revive. /Rose Bowl hopes began to dance before their eyes again. hha When Coach Strader of St.| Mary's sugges- | ted that | his Galloping Gaels might beat the Rams there were expert smiles and jibes. Coach Strader was a bit touched in his red head. The Rams had beaten the Gaels the year before, 13-0. St. Mary's gallop so far this year had been only a trot. Not a chance, Red. So St. Mary's beat Fordham.
' Don’t Count Em Until—
There you have one of last Saturday’s reasons why most coaches of favored football teams don’t count their victories until they're hatched. Similar reasons would be Rice's upset of odds-on-Texas, Arkansas’ trip of Mississippi, and the ‘score (21-7) if not the outcome of Stanford's defeat off Southern California. Wisconsin's | Merriwell finish against Purdue is perhaps the best illustration of all why coaches are worry warts. { . The safe attitude toward .all opposition, no matter how seemingly + outclassed, is one of respect. Such a spirit has possessed the Notre Dame squad this year, and accounts in considerable measure for our effectiveness to date. Notre Dame's 26-0 victory Saturday is no reflection on Illinois team or coach. We had better men, and we took the game seriously although we were played up as heavy favorites.
Elmer Layden
Army Uses Its Power
In spite of Army’s poor record, we mean to go into our game this week-end prepared to work for what we get. Against straight stuff Army ‘plays its usual tough game, Cornell, a team usually well drilled in the art of deception, used a spinning attack throughout against the Cadets, and Lafayette, one of the nation’s undeteated, could not make much progress until it resorted to a deceptive spread formation. The Cadets, by the way, have a first rate sophomore back named Mazur who was not in the first two games, but ‘scored Army's touchdown after a long run against Harvard and
featured the Lafayette game with a c
dazzling 52-yard sprint, Most of the major clean-slaters maintained the status quo Saturday. One of the most impressive of the ‘victories marked up by the favorites was Minnesota's 34-6 over Iowa. This one-sided score resulted partly from Minnesota's general superiority, partly from the continued op‘eration of the law of averages. The Hawkeyes set a pace last year they could hardly be expected to main- - tain without a break.
Watch Iowa From Now ‘On
3 Towa's defeats by Indiana and . Minnesota should have a rationalizing effect. The Hawkeyes are again in the position - of having everything to win and little to lose, and should improve from now on. Michigan's 14-0 defeat of Penngylvania was in stride, ds was Cornell’'s 21-7 over Ohio State. Re(Continued on Page 19)
Two Bouts Added ToBoxing Show
Matchmaker Fred DeBorde today added two more three-round suprti scraps to the weekly amaoe RE on card bo be staged at the rmory Friday night. : AS Caine, Washington, A. C. middleweight, will collide with Garfield Foster, unattached, and Billy Carlisle, Leeper A. C. 125-pounder, will take on LeRoy Simmons, Hill Community Center, in three round ttles. baste fve-tpund feature clash will pit Buddy: Jones, Leeper A. C. slugger, against James Sheron, Hill Community Center 135-pounder, while the four-round semi-final fracds will bring together Raymond
Glenn, A. ©. featherweight, and Earl Paul, popular
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- Turner Choice
Scoity Scotten . . « he’ll coach
Frank Neu, chairman of the South Side Turners Athletic Committee, today announced the appointment of Scotty Scotten, former top-ranking amateur boxer, as head coach and trainer at Turners Hall.
- |Scotten will be assisted by Sunny
Mitchell, also a former amateur leather tosser. The annual City and County Championships, to be staged at rs Hall, are scheduied for Nov. 29 and Dec. 6. Scotten won fame in amateur circles in 1927 at Turners Hall when he knocked-out three opponents in one evening to capture the city and county flyweight titles. He later entered the professional ranks. Chairman Neu also announced that work-outs will start at 7:30 tomorrow night and continue each Monday and Thursday thereafter until tourney time. Saturday afternoon work-outs also have been arranged, to start at 2:30. All unats tached simon-pures desiring a place to work-out are invited.
Butler Plays InN.Y. Jan.29
NEW YORK, Oct. 30 U. P.).— Twenty-one teams from all parts of the country will invade Madison Square Garden for the seventh Metropolitan season of intercollegiate .baskethall, Promoter Ned Irish announced today. Butler will play Long island University in the Garden Jan. 29.
The opening double-header on Saturday, Dec. 14, will pair City College of New York against the. Oklahoma Aggies dnd Long 1sland University versus the University of Oregon. New York University is carded for nine appearances in the 16 double-header schedule while L.’ I. U' and St. John's will take part in seven each. City College of New York plays six times. * The schedule:
Dec. 14—C. C. N, Y.-Oklahoma A. & M.: ._ 1. U.-Oregen. ¢. 21—N. Y., U.-Syracuse; St. John's-
ec. Oklahoma U. C. Ny ec. —C. C. N, Y.-Sant 3 - hattan-Illinois. 8 Clara; Man Dec. 28—N. Y. U.-Minnesota; FordhamKansas U. alse 30—8t. John's-Colorado; L. I. U.Jan. 4—Fordham-North Carolina; L. I. U.-Michigan State. areling; L.1 Jap. 3-2. Y U.-Manhattan; St. John's‘Jan. 15—St. Francis-Bradley; L. I. U.-
DePaul. I an. — . U.-Butler; . - Rhode Island State. oF BL Francis Feb, 5—N. Y
eb, 5— . U.-St. Fr is; - tan-St. John’s ancis; Manhat
Feb. 8—L. I. U.-Duquesne; C. C. N. Y.Fordham, tA 14—N. Y. U.-Notre Dame; St. Fran-
eb. cis-Manhattan Feb. 19—N. Y. U.-Fordham: St. John'sSoh TaN Y. U.-8 eb. . U.-8t. 's; C. C. N. Y.-Manhattan Johw's; 10.0: rch 5—N. Y. U.-Temple; L. IL U.-10—-C. C. N. Y-N. Y. U.: St.
Toledo. March Francis.
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Olympic Games Action Deferred
NEW YORK, Oct. 30 (U. P.) — Decision on the Pan-American Games, proposed as a substithite for the cancelled Olympics, has been deferred until early next year, it was announced today by The American Olympic Associaon. The Association, meeting here last night, voted the American Olympic Committee out of exist ence and then postponed any action on the Pan-American Games until after the American Athletic Union's meeting at Denver early in December and the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s conclave in New York during Christmas week, : Jurisdiction of United . States’ participation in the Pan-Ameri-can Games met. with general disapproval by the Association and was voiced by Federal Judge J. Murray Hulbert, former president of the A, A. U. He said that reports on the constitution for the games—discussed at Buenos Aires last August—have not been specific enough. He believed, and other members agreed, that the initial decision should be left to America’s two main athletic bodies, the A. A. U.
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Lewis Beams as His Icers Nip Wings, 3-2
By J. E. O'BRIEN
Manager Herbie Lewis is. satisfied with ’em and that] apparently goes for at least! 4638 cash customers, so the can pronounce their coming-out party a success. ] Having slapped their big brothers from Detroit, 3-2, in that Coliseum debut, the Caps now can turn their attention to American League busi--ness, the first order of which is an engagement Saturday night ati Cleveland against the Barons. The Capitals showed last night that they intend to be a speedy, hard-working club again this year. Of course, there are still some rough spots on passing, defense and such that have to be sanded out, but Manager Herbie expected that, what with four amateurs on the team. He's confident, though, that
he can school them in the pro tricks in no time at all.
A Steam Bath Helps
Dealing with Detroit last night, the Hoosiers didn’t really get out of low gear until the rink had been given a steam bath during the first intermission. Before that, the boys coming back to the bench complained of the sticky surface. Oddly enough, “Detroit seemed to enjoy its only advantage during this session, yet wound up trailing, 2-1. The Red Wings popped the puck thick and fast at goalie Jimmy Franks early in the session but Jimmy managed to keep the doorstep clean, -
Meanwhile the Red Wings were so effective in their own territory]:
that the Caps couldn't even get colse enough to speak to goalie Johnny Mowers. Finally, after the second change of lines, a Buck Jones-t0-Bill
Thomson maneuver required Mr. || Then Carl Lis- | §
Mowers’ first save. combe came close to the Detroit cage to do some pestering, but his line drive was wide. Down they went to the other end of the rink, where Syd Abel scored the only Detroit goal of the period. It was a fluke, at that—a measly Texas Leaguer that arched in from the side, hit the iron post and bounced over Frank's shin guards.
Just Like Minnesota ¢
The Caps came back to tie it Wb on a well-executed power play from Connie Brown to Eddie Bush, Eddie ramming home the disc from within the red stripe. It was rookie Art Herchenratter that scooted the second Indianapolis goal into the Detroit awning in the midst of a general pileup around the cage. By the time the red light was burning, Ken Kilrea was on: home guard duty with Mowers in the nets. The second period was a succession of futile attempts on both cag. Four times Indianapolis struck unsuccessfully early in the period, Douglas first, then Liscombe twice and’ Jones and Jud McAtee teaming on a power play. But fumbles or intercepted passes spoiled each one. :
The G-Men Attack
Don Grosso and Gus Giesebrecht, Detroit's Greenbergs of the ice, laid down a barrage on the Capital meshes, but this also was fought off. The rest of the period was one continual round of backing-and-forthing. Eddie Goodfellow—a misnomer as far as the Caps were concerned— cracked the Indianapolis defense four minutes after the start of the third period. With all five mobile (Continued on Page 19)
Nova Launches
His Comeback
OAKLAND, Cal, Oet. 30 (U.P.).— Lou Nova, once the “white hope” of the heavyweight boxing ranks, returns to the ring after an 18-month absence tonight to meet Johnny Erjaves, Duluth veteran, in a 10round bout. Winner over Max Baer and headed for the top until he ran into Tony Galento, Nova was suddenly stricken with a strange ailment @gnd spent months in the, hospital. He has been working out since t June in the Nevada mountains and local gymnasiums, He now weighs 207 pounds. Erjavec has just returned from Manila where he had a pair of fights, but he wasn't given much chance against Nova, who has been
By JOE WILLIAMS
NEW YORK, Oct. 30.—We regret to report Ohio seems to be a particularly fertile field for angry squawks. If it isn’t one thing, it’s another. If it isn’t baseball, it's football. You may recall that time when the Yankees went out to Cleveland on their last road trip of the season to face the Indians. They were very much in the American League race. at * the time, only a thin, feathery margin separated them from first place. There was dissension. among the Indians. i Everybody knew Williams about it. Indeed, the Indians themselves made tt a matter of public knowledge. Twelve of them walked into the office of owner Alva Bradley and complained that their manager, Oscar Vitt, was a rude person: He had called them unkind names in moments of stress. Neutral writers weren't too gracious. They began calling the Indians cry babies. Rival managers and players took it up. There was much razzing from various dugouts. Even out-of-town fans joined in. They brought baby pants to the games~ and waved them derisively at the athletes. In Detroit the fans gathered in front of the hotel in which the Indians were staying and sang “Rock A-Bye Baby in the Tree Top” until the flat feet dispersed them.
Yanks Are Dumbfounded
Well, to get back to that last road trip the Yankees made. When they got in town they were amazed and shocked to read in the papers an appeal to the home fans to come out and abuse Arthur Fletcher, who
kees. It seems that Mr. Fletcher had directed uncomplimentary remarks at the cry babies whén they were last in New York and this was the time to pay him off in kind. They did. They bombarded Mr. Fletcher with an assortment. of slightly antique fruit and vegetables until the Yankee manager threatened to take the team off the field. This was the beginning of what grew into a rowdy tradition. When the Detroit Tigers came into Cleveland later, with the pennant at stake, the ruffians broke out in redoubled fury. One of them dropped a basket of fruit and queensware on the head of an unguarded and unsuspecting Detroit catcher as he sat in the bullpen. It could conceivably have broken his neck. All this summed up to an indictment against Cleveland journalism and Cleveland fans: They couldn’t take it.
Into the Grid Season Now comes a somewhat similar manifestation from another Ohio institution — the football team, meaning Ohio State. This was to be State's big year in the national football scene, just as it was to have been the Indians’ big year in the major league hurly burly. Something happened to the Indians and something is happening to State. The footballers won their first conference game of the season from
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The Goalie Had to Be Cagey in This Riot
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- It's first down, goal to go, as the Capital icers storm the Red Wing cage in the first period.
Ohio State's Football Squawk Causes Joe To Recall the Hurly-Burly at Cleveland
It involved loftier
mistake. The coach, Francis Schmit,| and more subtle qualities than block-
was accused of making illegal use of a drop-kicker whose three points in the closing minutes of play decided
Finally came the time for State to face Cornell. This wasn't just
Tech Seeks a
Conference Win
Tech's football team will be out after its first North Central Conference victory next Friday, when the Greenclads tackle the Morton Red Devils of Richmond at. the Richmond field. i Tech came out on the wrong side of the ledger with its first two league opponents, and the next week the Green and White tied Anderson, 6-6, on the home grounds. However, since that three-week famine for a conference win, the Tech athletes have shut out two city foes, beating the Manual Redskins 26-0 and the next week nosing out the Irish of Cathedral, 6-0. Last year Tech beat Richmond in the season opener, 14-6. But this year Richmond still has the backfield ace who made life miserable for Tech in the game last year, Bryant Leavell, a shifty runner, accurate passer and good punter. Richmond has yet to hang up a conference win, however, having lost to New Castle 12-0 and tying. Marion at 13-13. Buf Richmond rules as the favorite in this game because of the advantage of playing on the home field. ;
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ing and tackling. Cornell had unexpectedly beaten State the year before, and after trailing by 14 points at the half. This was a grudge game, as well as a technical test of Eastern and Mid-western football and how it is taught.
You know what happened. Cornell spotted State a touchdown and then took complete charge of the game. After fhe first quarter it was scarcely a contest. Then came the bombshell. L. W. St. John, the athletic director, and Mr. Schmidt, the beaten coach, resorted to the squawk which seems to flourish with such extraordinary vitality of Ohio State’s sport fields. The Cornell coach had done a little cheating; he had called signals from tHe bench, using a mysteriously magic instrument described loosely as a “white cylinder.” By a series of wig-wags Mr. Snavely, it is charged, pulled the strings which led to victory. : : What a juvenile charge to make, and in what bad taste (exclamation point.) It wouldn't surprise us at all if Mr. Snavely flashed signals to his quarterback. We know very few coaches who don’t do this in one way or another, Surely, Mr. Schmidt, the old razzle-dazzle man from down Texas way, isn't going to tell us he never did; because if he ever dnes we are going to walk right on him holding our ribs in loud laughter.
Detective McLemore Scents
ABig Ten ‘0.K.’ on Rose Bowl
Midwest Entry Into Fiesta in 1942 Expected ‘For
Good of Sport’
By HENRY M'LEMORE United Press Staff Correspondent
CHICAGO, Oct. 30.—For a man who doesn’t have a false mustache, a pair of gumshoes or a skeleton key to his name, I do a pretty good job of snooping. Here I've been in Chicago fewer than 24 hours, yet. already I have snooped enough to get a fairly good lowdown on why the Pacific Coast Conference is so anxious to make the Rose Bowl game a closed affair between one of its members and a representative of the Big Ten.
The Coast schools see such a move as a tremendous step toward cleaning up intercollegiate football. For some reason or another football out there in the Golden West is going pure. Either the boys have had enough glory and made enough money, or else they have finally decided that cleanliness is next to Godliness.
Their G-man investigator, Edwin Atherton, is peeking through every gridiron keyhole and seeing to it that things are kept in order. This sudden shift of the finer and higher things made. the selection of a Rose Bowl opponent a bit difficult. The Coast boys couldn’t get the Holy Ivy League schools or the Army or the Navy or Notre Dame. With the Big Ten (or rather the Big Nine since Chicago took up drop the handkerchief) opposed to post season games the Coast had to get a Rose Bowl rival from the Southeastern or Southwestern Conferences.
This, it was decided, wouldn't do. section will vote to Because the boys in Dixie and: the |New Year's Day, 1942.
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Southwest openly admit subsidization and will tell you not only the names and numbers of the players, but the salaries.
So the Coast went to work on the Midwestern powers. It argued, and with much sense, that if Northwestern, Illinois, Michigan and the others would agree to play in the Rose Bowl, the bad boysamong the other schools of the natign would start cleaning house in order to be eligible for a shot at the $100,000 that goes along with a Rose Bowl bid. ’ In my snooping I learned that if the Big Ten officials vote in favor of playing in the Rose Bowl at their meeting on Dec. 6 and 17, it doesn’t necessarily mean that the Pasadena fiesta will always be a closed corporation. At least one Midwestern bigwig has indicated that, if after a few years, all universities abided by the N. C. A. A. rules on behavior and ethics, it would be all right for the Coast representative to choose any team it wanted to. \ The chances are right now, I gathered with a bit of delicate eavesdropping, that. the Western Conference nabobs will vote in favor
of making the trip to Pasadena, At
the present time four favorable votes are pretty certain, two: are indefinite, three are against, and Chicago isn't going to cast a ballot. That's mighty close, but I learned that the indefinite cusses stand to be swayed toward a trip west for the footballers. v My guess is that the boys in this go west starting
The Big Ten in Figures
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