Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 November 1940 — Page 14

SPORTS...

By Eddie Ash

ACCORDING to Lew Byrer, Columbus Citizen sports editor, the long forward pass tossed by Hal Hursh in the third quarter of the Indiana-Ohio State grid game at Columbus last Saturday deserves a high niche in the

record books. ; Byrer fashioned an article on that particular play

and said, in part: “As the pigskin was thrown your correspondent figured Hursh, who had dropped far back, was on the Indiana 18-yard line when he threw the ball and Red Zimmer was on Ohio State’s 22 when he caught it. “If that was [the case it was a 60-yard pass. “But the press box announcer figured Zimmer was on the Ohio State 27 or 28 when he caught it. That would make it a 53 or a 54yard pass. : : : < “And I'll defy anyone to prove who was right unless the movies give a clear view of the yard markers which they probably won't. But if it was caught on the 22-yard line—as your correspondent thought—it was & 60-yard pass. E : “If it was it was longer than the Brick Muller (California) pass . in that 1921 Rose Bowl game between California and Ohio State which is in the record books as the longest completed pass in college football history.

THINKS HURSH'S TOSS SURPASSED MULLER’S

“THE record | book lists that Muller pass as 65 yards or thereabouts. It actually went 57 yards. Harvey Miller, then ‘sports editor of the Columbus| Dispatch, was “seated next to your correspondent in the Pasadena press box that day. And we both caught it at that figure—or within ja yard of it. “Anyhow that Hursh-to-Zimmer pass was, from this corner, the high spot of Saturday's game. There's so much involved in throwing a ball accurately to the right spot from that distance and getting a fast receiver out where he can be in the right spot at the right time that you don’t see it happen often. And little, Zimmer was sure a picture as he gathered that one in.” ” be ” ” MICHIGAN will have the law of averages on its side in the Midwest's “Game of the Week” Saturday when the Wolverines invade Minnesota's gridiron. . . . But like a superstition, the law of averages doesn't always come through in the clutch. . . . So that game between giants is a tossup. At any rate, Minnesota has defeated Michigan for six straighd years. .-. . Not since 1933, the Wolverines’ last championship year, has an Ann Arbor team triumphed over the Gophers. Even last fall, with Tom Harmon, the Hurrying Hoosier, beginning to reach his present form, Minnesota trounced Michigan by the decisive score of 20-7. . . . However, Forest Evashevski, the Wolverines’ ace blocker, was unable to play in the 1939 encounter.

GOPHER STREAK LAUNCHED IN 1934

THE present Minnesota streak over Michigan began in 1934, when the Gophers rolled home, 34-0. . . . The Gophers upped this score to 40-0 in 1935 and in 1936 it was 36-0. Michigan scored six points in 1937, but Minnesota collected 39. ... In 1938 it was a bitter battle and the Gophers won on a kick, 7-6. . . . The Gophers engaged in a bruising struggle with North-

# ”

western last Saturday while Michigan was idle. . . . Their records ~

to date: Minnesota—Defeated Washington, Seattle, 19-14; Nebraska, 13-7; Ohio State, 13-7;\lIowa, 34-6; Northwestern, 13-12. Michigan—Defeated California, 41-0; Michigan State, 21-14; Harvard, 26-0; Illinois, 28-0; Penn, 14-0.

8 n'a 8 8 nn

PURDUE followers say the Iowa game last Saturday marked Johnny Galvin's peak since he came to the Boilermakers’ campus. . . . In addition to three placement kicks for extra points, he booted eight punts for a total of 334 yards, and an average of 41.7 for the day. ... Two of these went 50 yards. Galvin didn't do much ball carrying, but he did pick up 15 yards in eight tries. . . . In the forward passing department he’ connected three times in eight tries for 43 yards, including an eight-yard toss to Paul Anderson for a touchdown. Johnny caught one pass for a 20-yard gain, and made the interception which led to another Boilermaker score. . . . Johnny is a Junior and hails from Chicago.

2 ® " 2 2 EJ

PURDUE AND FORDHAM first met in 1934 and have continued each year, with the exception of last season. . .. The Boilermakers won the first two contests; the Rams took the West Lafayette warriors into camp in the 1936-37 games and the 1938 grid match wound up in a 6-6 deadlock. The series has always produced interesting football and is expected to draw 35,000 at the Polo Grounds, New York, Saturday. . . . Other, big games on the same day in New York will be Wisconsin against Columbia, Marquette, against Manhattan and FranklinMarshall against N. Y. U. A 1

Snappy Georgefown's Coach

Gives Credit to the Boys

By HARRY FERGUSON United Press Sports Editor

NEW YORK, Nov. 5.—The last time his team went down to defeat

was in 1937 and today he is riding one of the best winning streaks ever

made in college football.

The United Press nominates for the coach of the week—Jack Hag-

erty of Georgetown.

This is the way he explains the] record he has made at the Washington, D. C., school: |

“Great teams make great coaches and nothing succeeds like success. | I am not better qualified as a coach | today than I was prior to 19317. The | manage the Washington Senabreaks simply started falling my | : .1(] tors baseball club, ending reway and some wonderful material | tarted playing som t football” || Ports that he would transfer to Siar ed Playing Some grea ? Cleveland as manager. Taught by Lou Little Owner Clark Griffith refused

Another explanation is that Hag-|| fo divulge salary terms of the erty learned his football under Lou'| Dew contract which marks Little, one of the smartest men in | Harris Seven consecutive the business, in the days when| yea! as Waghingion ae Little was the Georgetown coach.] artis declined to discuss ais Just before Jack's graduation in| Begolistions Wie Cleveland 1926 Little had this to say about|[ Ci beyond onTns ropa him: “There is one of the brainiest |

/ .| with Alva Bradley, owner of and most versatile players .I ever|| (ho Indians. coached.”

“Mr. Bradley asked me if I Hagerty's football education was/| would accept the Cleveland job completed in the toughest league of [| and I told him I would be them all—the professionals. A half-|| obliged to think it over,” he back at Georgetown, he was shifted || said. “I decided later that I to quarterback when he joined the would prefer to stay in WashNew York Giants and turned into a!| ington.”

Bucky Stays Put

WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 (U. P.).—Stanley (Bucky)

Harris has signed a 1941 contract to

/ /

brilliant field general as well as a great back. In 1931 he left the Giants to become backfield coach at Holy Cross, but returned to the | Giants in 1932. | He left in mid-season for his present post at Georgetown, and the going was rough for a while. In 1933 Georgetown won only one game and the school’s record was indifferent until 1936 when Hager- | ty’s boys won six, tied one and lost two. The following year they won two, tied two and lost four, but that was the turning point. Maryland Was Last They dropped the last game of the 1937 season to Maryland, 12 to 2, and since then nobody has beaten them. A 13:to-13 tie with Syracuse in 1939 is the only speck on an oth-

erwise, perfect record. Last week Georgetown defeated

daughter, Barbara Rose. at Colonial Village, Va.,

hobby is fishing.

develop his great teams. One

The other is the present director “Father Kehoe,”

will.

CHICAGO, Nov. 8 (NEA).—

He was married seven and a half |years ago and has a six-year-old They live outside Washington, and Hagerty’'s favorite

Always anxious to pass the credijt around, Hagerty believes two men have been invaluable in helping him

them was the late Fr. Vincent McDonough, who died two years ago.!

athletics, the Rev. John J. Kehoe. said Hagerty, “knows more football than I ever He's the real reason football has gone big time at Georgetown.”

Ready, Nevertheless

11-

Varini

Ids Sco

ring

ead

Buckeyes in Path

By JOE WILLIAMS United Press Sports Writer

Tommy Harmon goes on the spot

when with the Big Ten championship hanging tentatively in the balance.

spot so often this season he's beginning to look like a leopard.

the other corner. This was ballyhooed as the individual duel of the century, the top back of the East against the top back of the West. It was a landslide for Mr, Harmon. In the end he had even Reagan cheering for him. From now on it's one big test after another for the Michigan Merriwell. around here about George Franck of Minnesota, but he's a fair coun- } try back in any league. enough to extend even such a dazzler as Mr. Harmon.

Ohio State with Don Scott. three gents think they are pretty good, too, and it is to be suspected. they will have little hesitancy in

to commonplace dimensions. ; We hear that Forest Evashevski is lost for the Minnesota game, and this will add to the burdens of Mr, Harmon in particular and Michigan in general It also will shed some light on the value of a blocking back to a ball carrier: not that a great deal of illumination is needed, since it's pretty generally agreed no ball carrier ever found a good blocking back a handicap. But Mr. Harmon is known not to need an) undue amount of help. Indeed, | there have been times this season| when he gained large hunks of yardage without the co-operation of Evashevski—but on those occasions | Minnesota was not the opposition Anyway, if Mr. Harmon can go! places and commit touchdowns] more or less on his own Saturday, | even the more conservative critics | will be compelled to concede he can | do something more than. take a| good picture in a football suit. | others are

substitutes, though'

NEW YORK, Nov. 5—The famed again this week-end. This will be

Michigan meets Minnesota

Young Mr. Harmon has been on the

The most important spot he's. been on so far was in the Pennsyl- Eo vania game with Francis Reagan in

We don’t hear much 8 Good §

After Minnesota comes North- § western with Billy DeCorrevont, § and for the season's finale comes §

These §

trying to whittle Mr. Harmon down §

Tommy Harmon kept his lead

week, although Michigan didn’t play. He has scored 12 touchdowns.

five games.

worthy ones, the Rose Bowl will continue to be the main post-season attraction. Up to now the Rose Bowl has been run as an open shop. The promoters took the best and most respected opponent they eould get. This condition isn't likely to exist much longer. Efforts to make it a closed shop are gaining momentum. The ultimate objective is an annual meeting between the Coast champions and the Big Ten champions. This may be the last

made,

It’s Just One Hectic Saturday After Another For the Galloping Mic

Gophers,” Wildcats and °

Valpos Are Key To Butler Hope For State Title

Valparaiso, not Ball State whom Butler gridders will play, here, Saturday afternoon, probably is to decide whether the Bulldogs will clinch their seventh consecutive Indiana Conference title. \ The Uhlans from up-state™ will entertain Manchester Saturday, and at present the Spartans are cosharing the conference leadership with Butler. Last year, Ball State

upset Manchester to throw the undisputed title into the Bulldogs’ camp. However, Carl Burt's Spartans hold a 7 to 6 victory this season over Ball State and are favorites

‘to win over Valpo.

in the national ‘scoring race this Harmon has 87 points, made in

It would have gone into effect this year if the educators in the Western .Conference hadn't overruled their athletic directors, all of whom were for it. The educators desired to wait another year to examine the situation more closely. We are told when the subject comes up again next September the vote will be a mere formality. The only difference between athletic directors and educators in matters like this is

Because it is the original and the year an unrestricted selection if in they like to do it the pontifical way.

Newcomers on

Boxing Card

Matchmaker Fred DeBorde has included several new faces for the weekly amateur boxing card to be staged at the Armory Friday night. In three-round clashes already arranged Fred Riley, unattached lightweight, will take on Earl Etheridge, English Avenue Boys Club belter; Charles Reed, unattached heavyweight, will meet Howard Boler, also unatached, and Harvey Caine, Washington A. C. middleweight, will tangle with Claude Dixon, unattached. Riley, Reed and Dixon are newcomers to the Armory ring. "De Borde hopes to land an outstanding heavyweight fight to top the show and is seeking suitable principals for the five-round feature. A four-round semi-windup and seven three-round preliminaries will complete the card, which calls for 30 rounds of milling.

W.H.S. Player’s Leg Is Broken

The injury jinx struck again at the Washington High School foot'ball team today and Eugene Stone|house, 1028 N. Mount St. was laid up with a broken left leg suffered in a scrimmage session yesterday. The accident occurred as Stonehouse was tackled while running with the ball in practice for the mportgnt city series game with Tech Friday. Stonehouse is the second Washington fullback lost to the team. Dick Gingery is still on the sidelines with an arm injury suffered last week. The Continentals now have only one experienced fullback for the Tech game, Bob Millspaugh. Coach Henry Bogue will be forced to juggle his backfield to provide relief for Millspaugh.

Godoy Headlines Christmas Show

Syracuse 28 to 6. So far this year Georgetown has yielded only 22 points in six games. The biggest obstacle to a perfect record this season is the powerful Boston College team, which Georgetown meets at Boston on Nov. 16. It's hard to see how they can keep the winner of that one out of one of the bawl games. ; © The experience that Hagerty had ‘with the pros still stands him in ‘good, stead and today he uses a ‘combination of the lou Little system and the professional game. He is patiet and painstaking with his players. - Born in Dorchester, Mass, on July 3, 1903. Hagerty was an all- _ yound athlete at Dorchester High School before entering Georgetown

{dog Turner, Chicago Bears’ center from Hardin-Simmons College of Texas, was the only National League football player who didn’t have to register for the draft. He is not

quite 21.

HOCK

World Hockey Champions

INDIANAPOLIS CAPITALS VS. ‘BUFFALO

EXHIBITION GAME—FRIDAY, NOV. 8

New York Rangers

NO ADVANCE IN PRICES

PRICES $2, $1.10, "5c, 44c. Reservations: TA Ibot 4555 or L. Strauss &

COLISEUM, STATE FAIRGROUNDS

NEW YORK, Nov. 5 (U. P), — Arturo Godoy, Chilean heavyweight, has been matched for a 10-round pout with Tony Musto of Chicago at the Christmas Fund show in Cleveland, Dec. 2, it was announced today. Godoy, it was reported, will do most of his training in New York.

Radio Repairing Expert Radio Repairing

Phone LI-6789 for quick, expert guaranteed service on any make o1 model.

BLUE POIN

* DELAWARE & MADISON

Tomorrow

8:30 P. M.

TAX INCLUDED. Co. LI ncoln 1561.

Hustling Hutson Tells How He Does That Gridiron Magic

By HENRY. McLEMORE United Press Staff Correspondent

CHICAGO, Nov. 5.—~You'd never take the man for a genius just

to look at him. - He hasn't any of the standard ge

nius equipment, such as a sheepdog

haircut, big forehead and bigger glasses, firecracker temperament, or

love of seclusion and peace.

He's 6 feet 1, weighs 180, is trim, as a sail, has a wife and a 2-year-old baby girl, blond, curly hair, a Southern drawl, two taped ribs and a bruised shoulder. :

This genius's: name is Don Hutson, and he’s a football genius.

He plays end for the Green Bay Packers in the pro league and there never has been one like him. Football's been going on for a long time, but until Hutson came out of Arkansas on a slow train five years ago to burn’ up the league, no one had made the catching of a forward pass an| art.

During his time with the Packers he has made more records than the Victor company, and gained enough yards to carry Him to Key West had he always run in a straight line. He is the most feared man in the league, and when the Packers are on the offense, and Don goes down the field, two, not one, defenders trail him.

I met this genius today while I was on the way to stuff a ballot box (if John Quincy Adams doesn’t win I've wasted m time) and had a talk with him| He still was a bit shaky from e beating he took from the Chicago Bears here on Sunday, but obligingly tried to answer the questions I asked him concerning his amazing ability. His answers’ were very illuminating because he| simply doesn’t know how he, Don Hutson of Pine Bluff, (Continued on Page 15)

Layden Leads Expert Parade

Notre Dame’s Elmer Layden and United Press’ Harry Furguson did some powerful pigskin picking last

week-end to move to the top of The

Times’ experts’ league. Ringing the bell on 20 games, Layden upped his percentage 17 points to a healthy .762. Furguson was wrong on only two of 21, and he bounced into second place with a mark of .759. Don’t forget, either, that Fergy was in the cellar just two weeks ago. Our Eddie Ash and Harry Grayson of NEA turned in identical week-end scores, each having 18 winners; six losers and a tie. Bob Godley picked 16 right, six wrong, with one tie—which is no way .to get out of the basement in this league. The standings: WwW. Elmer Layden....93 Harry Ferguson. .85 Harry Grayson...88

L. 29 217 29 33 32

Pct. 162 159 152 J27

T 9 8 8 9 9

- So You

found

out about

~ La Paling, too! :

Y Mildness

Plus Character

Many kinds of tobacco come from Cuba. But only the choicest Havana crops from the island’s finest plantations are blended with other smooth, mild tropical tobaccos to produce LA PALINA’S mildness plus character.

Excellente and Panetela Sizes

¥ . = uw é / . ? ~ x v /

Meanwhile, Coach Tony Hinkle today sent his Bulldogs through the week’s first scrimmage against the freshman in preparation for Saturday’s battle.

Boy Scouts Guests

Approximately 2500 Boy Scouts and the fathers of Butler football players will be the university's guests. The dads will sit on the players’ bench and will wear their son’s jersey number. Both Hinkle and his assistant, Wally Middlesworth were impressed with Butler's 32 to 6 showing against DePauw last Saturday and observed that blocking and offensive play had

problem. Although Joe Guenel; a week-old newcomer to the team, has been sidelined with a cut over his right eye, and Cirarles Bohnstadt, reserve tackle, has”left the squad to report for Naval Reserve duty, the team will be in top condition for the Cardinals.

Eight Regulars Ready

And in Ball State, Coach John Magnabosco is molding his eleven around eight senior regulars,. including Jimmy Phend, Garland Frazier and Dick Stealy who have played against Butler for two years. Ball State has yet to score a triumph over Butler. In six previous contests, the Muncie boys have tallied but four touchdowns. They almost won in 1932, 13 to 12. The Ball State record to date this year shows triumphs over DeSales, Valparaiso and Central: Normal and defeats by Central (Mich.) State and Manchester. They played a scoreless tie with Miami. Butler's three victories thus far all have been over conference foes, St. Joseph, Wabash and DePauw. Purdue, Xavier and Washington of St. Louis, hold decisions over the Bulldogs while Ohio University was played to a 7 to 7 tie.

100-to-1 Shot Wins The Melbourne Cup

MELBOURNE, Australia, Nov. 5 (U. P.).—0Old Rowley, a rank outsider, won the Melbourne Cup today. Maikai was second and Tidalwave third. Old Rowley shot to the front a furlong from home, withstanding a determined challenge by Maikai to close the three-quarters of a length gap. Tidal Wave finished a neck ahead of Beau Vite, the favorite. The time of the race was 3.26 and the winner’s price was 100 to 1.

improved. Pass defense remains a|-

Slr

Trish Stu

St. Joe Ace Has

~ Cadets Pu} Crimmins on Skids in State Race

By UNITED PRESS Notre Dame’s scoring juggernaut bogged down against Army Saturday and although the Irish won, 7 to 0, neither Steve Juzwik nor Bernie Crimmins, leading Notre Dame scorers, were able to take over first place in the Indiana - individual scoring

race.

Juzwik pushed over for the only Irish score and ‘ran his total to 43 points to hold second place while Crimmins went scoreless and dropped to seventh place wita 30 points. Pete Varini, St. Joseph's driving fullback, held first place with 54 points on nine touchdowns in six games, St. Joseph's was idle Saturday and it had been expected that Varini, who has held the lead for four weeks. would be ousted by at least one Notre Dame star.

Others Make Gains

Although the Irish weren't able to take command of the scoring list, plenty of other Hoosier runners helped their position in the chase, and the lineup of the top ten changed considerably. Klatte of Rose Poly, who scored 24 points a week ago, went over for another 12 to raise his total to 36 and take over undisputed third place. Little Red Swager of Butler ran somewhat wild against DePauw and counted 14 points to grab fourth place with 35 points. Brandon of Manchester scored 10 points in the Spartans’ route of Defiance and tied Petty of Purdue for fifth place at 32 points. Petty scored 12 points against Iowa, leading the Boilermaker attack. :

Piepul Adds One

Pitts of Indiana State and Piepul of Notre Dame were tied for eighth place with 25 points each, but Pitts failed to score Saturday and Piepul netted only one point after touchdown. . Jones, a Manchester sub, was the scoring leader of the day with four touchdowns for 24 points against Defiance, but the scores were his first of the year and his total only tied him with four other players. They were Snider of DePauw, with one touchdown against Butler; Metzelaars of Butler, who failed to count Saturday; Phend of Ball State, who garnered six points Saturday, and Gray of Wabash who put over two touchdowns against Hanover. Deadlocked at 20- points were F. Mueller of Valparaiso, B. Williams of Hanover and Frazier of Ball State. Frazier scored 13 points Saturday, while the previous week he scored his other seven points.

Cop in Summer

UNIVERSITY, Miss., Nov. 5 (NEA). —Chuck Gladding, Mississippi end, worked as a part-time desk sergeant for the West Chicago Police Depart-

ment during the summer.

the Day Off

But Juzwik Has an Off Day

Varini , . . still tops.

Big 10 Crowds Exceed Million

Times Special CHICAGO, Ill, Nov. 5—An increased scoring tempo and the closest title race in recent years give promise of drawing more people to Western Conference football games in 1940 than 'in any season in the last decade. The season’s first 28 games, which included 18 in non-Conference competition, drew a total 1,031,455 people, beyond the average of 1939's 53" games, which drew in all 1,729,290. The 1939 total represented an’ advance of more than 8 per cent beyond the previous year. Outstanding strength in Con=ference teams is credited with a large share of the early-season ine terest and a round-robin schedule which will put Conference leaders against each other promises heightened interest in the last stages of the season's play. Ohio State, which in the first five games of its sched ule played before almost a quartermillion people, was ranked as a national leader in pre-season predictions while Minnesota, North western and Michigan built places as national leaders in early season play. : Paralleling the interest in topranking teams representing the Conference has been an increase in scoring which has marked the first half of the current schedule. In their first 10 title games Western Conference teams averaged 27.4 points per game and in 18 non-

Conference games an average of 30

points was scored. The 1939 season, which indicated a trend toward higher scoring, showed a game average of 25.6 points over the 53-:

|game schedule. y

Lions Are Youngest

DETROIT, Nov. 5 (NEA).—The Detroit Lions are the youngest team ° in the National Professional League, averaging 22 years. Tia

2 }

AHIR AH THT Naa

pipes are not large enough

water pi

plumber upon request.

Z 7 kk IN a

to supply several outlets at once. It’s the size of the pipes that needs increasing—not the water pressure. When you build, remodel, or buy be sure to have s of adequate size. A free folder giving detailed information is Jvailable to you and your licensed

NNN

GTI

When the volume of water from an outlet sharply decreases it is usually because the household water

to carry the water needed

/ 7 Dinimnn

an a | <THE HIDDEN CAUSE OF ” POOR PRESSURE” Ase

3 0)

EES vl

Safe Water delivered day and night COSTS LESS than anything else you buy.

INDIANAPOLIS WATER COMPANY

® §

| 1

af,

eo!

3 {

ho.

RRR

ro Sct tite

CHARRETTE