Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 November 1940 — Page 22

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Sam in the 1940 army draft is Bill Embick, outfielder, a member of the Harrisburg, Pa., club the past season. Bruno Betzel, manager of Indianapolis’ 1928 pennant winners, is job hunting. . . . He piloted the Binghamton,

N.-Y,, club last season. Rat Hy Andy Lotshaw, formerly of Indianapolis, stays on as trdiner of the Chicago Cubs. . . . He has seen an army of managers and coaches come and go at Wrigley Field. . . . Atlanta, Ga., host city to the minor league convention next week, consistently outdraws its population at Ponce. de Leon Park, home of the Southern Association Crackers. : : Earl Mann, Cracker president, grew up in the park. . .. He successively worked up in roles of peanut vendor, ticket taker, secre-~ tary, vice president and now the chief. The Crackers have had the unusual distinction of’ going from first place to last in one day, and late in the season. . . . This happened in 1928. . . . Atlanta was going strong in the second half " when Judge John D Martin, then league president, took away 14 games, due to a player limit violation. Gil English, St. Paul's veteran third sacker, wants to switch to the outfield, figuring he will have more years of usefulness there. « « « Gil is a consistent swatter, one of the American Association's best.

Fan Party On At Perry Stadium

CALLING ALL FANS for the stove league session at Perry Stadium this evening, 4:30 until . .. ??? ... Well, at any rate the open house will remain open several hours to permit the day workers to get in on the big party in the “cool of the evening.” Club officials extend an invitation to all fans and urge them to walk right in and up to the Stadium’s warm and cozy office where the hofise warming will take place. . . . The session is in the nature of a “welcome back” to Roaring Red Killefer, the Tribe's field manager who has been absent from the local baseball orchard for three years. : in : _Killefer wants his many old friends here to show up at the party, baseball and offer suggestions for the improvement of the team and attendance.

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KILLEFER picks up the Tribe reins with the following players on the roster: ; Pitchers—Don French, Glenn Fletcher, Pete Sivess, John Wilson, Yimmy Sharp, Paul Taylor. * Catchers—John Pasek, Albert Lakeman. Infielders—Bob Prichard, Bennie Zientara, Wayne Roland Van Harrington. : Outfielders—Walter Berger, Milton Galatzer, Allen Hunt, Legrant Bcott, Gilbert Brack, Carmel Castle. J Batting averages of the players, exclusive of pitchers; who were / with’ the Indians last season: Galatzer, .336; Pasek, .315; Blackburn, 312; Scott, .303; Prichard, .279; Brack, .276; Zientara, .263; Hunt, .257; Harrington, .245; ‘Berger, 245. . Pitchers’ records—Wilson, won 3, lost 8; Sharp, won 1, lost 5; Sivess, won 7, lost 12; French, won 6, lost 8; Fletcher, won 4, lost none,

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DAN TEHAN, umpire, has resigned from the Arian Association staff. . , . Tall Daniel had rough going in the ‘league last season. ... The A. A. has lost Umpire Ernie Stewart to the American League. . . . He's a pretty fair guesser and probably will make the big league grade. ’ Mike McCormick, ex-Indianapolis star who finished the. 1940 Season in Cincinnati’s middle garden, was a ball of fire in the September stretch. In the closing months of the campaign Mike collected 46 hits, drove in 12 runs, and scored 22 in 130 times at bat in 30 games, a pace of 354, to increase his season's average from .275 to an even .300....

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BOB KAHLE, Richmond, Ind., product and former Indianapolis third sacker, batted .312 for Hollywood in the Pacific Coast League this year and will receive a tridl with the Philadeiphia Athletics ~ next spring. yi During a previous big league stretch, with the Boston Nationals, Kahle was handicapped by arm trouble. . . . If Bob makes good with the Athletics, Philadelphia will have two Hoosier third sackers. . . . Merrill May, ex-Indiana University star, holds down the hot corner for the National League Phillies.

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The North Central Thinks It

By DEKE NOBLE Written for the United Press KOKOMO, Ind., Nov. 28—Something - just has to be done about North Central Conference basketball! The final act of Mr. ‘Trester’s short-pants drama was staged last spring without the loop even having

1 a team there! Ahd that from the

“league of champions”—the conference that has won pine state titles since its organization in -1928! Marion, New Castle, Kokomo and Muncie—the top four finishers in the conference race last spring— could do nothing about coming through to the state finals and South Side of Fort Wayne represented the semi-final’ section in which all - four of these teams played. None of the other, league members got very far, either, but the pre-season dopesters are pinning their hopes for a return of North Central supremacy on teams that finished in the lower bracket last season. It’s Anderson, or Frankfort, or Logansport that must carry the N.C.C. banner this year, say the dopesters ,with Richmond a possibility. The “boys” just can’t see Marion, New Castle, Kokomo or Muncie “up there” and, of course, no one would dare predict where Indianapolis Tech will ‘finish. Marion Loses Nine Marion lost nine of its “tourney ten” by graduation and Coach Orville Hooker must mold anew team around Jeffrey, a sub last season, and a group of second-termers. New Castle and Kokomo are not

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Coach Strings Allen of New Castle has Marshall Coon - Dog Koontz, who set an all-time individual scoring record for the conference last year, and a couple of tournament substitutes. ‘Coach Pee-Ddd Campbell of Kokomo has Hump Campbell, who, despite enforced idleness by illness e last four games: of the conAference last season, finished#in 10th

~~ place in individual scoring. Coach {| Harry Kemmer, the only new men- . tor in the league this season, will

build his Muncie team around three substitutes of the “tourney ten” of last: spring. - The dopesters like Anderson because Coach Archie Chadd has Ecoff, eleventh in individual scoring last season, and Snow and Tur-

. ner and a host of good reserves . ,,back and ready for action.

Like the Hot Dogs

ey like Lafayette because Coach “Abie” Masters has Biggs, fourth in scoring last year, and

Olm, a great guard, and a group

of talented and speedy reserves. They Frankfort because Coach Everett N. Case has Witsman, Unroe, Hazelwood and A.

_ Laughter from his starting five of

last season. They like Logansport because Coach Cliff Wells has come

up this season with five new players who have won five straight

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early-season games—one a conference victory over Anderson. Richmond comes in for. a favorable “look” because Wallace and Baumgardner are back for Coach

YElder Eberhart to build with.

As for Tech, there is no “build up” system at the Indianapolis school that can be used as an accurate gauge of a new team. So the Capital City boys may finish at the bottom ‘of the conference ladder as they did last season, or they might be at the very top of it. The fight for a conference championship, which in recent years has become alinost as important as the winning of a state title, has barely begun. Anderson dropped a twopoint overtime decision to Logansport and then came back to soundly thrash Marion. But, the race gets started in earnest this week with eight of the 10 teams playing in conference competition. ° Early season non-conference games have indicated the league will hold its own against “outsiders” for conference teams have won 13 of 18 games played. Even so, the conference took a bit of a beating last Friday night when Greensburg, a South Central member, nosed Richmond; Tipton, a perennial great in the Central Indiana loop, edged Frankfort, and Lebanon trounced Lafayette. To make up for this, New Castle, Muncie, Kokomo Logansport turned in victories aos non-league foes last Friday. -

Silents Open Cage

Season Tomorrow

The Silent Hoosiers will open their basketball season this weekend, .playing at Fishers tomorrow night and meeting Trafalgar at the School for Deaf Saturday night. - The Hoosiers, winners in 16 of 22 games last season, will have three of last year’s regulars from the National Deaf Championship team in Berg, Patton and Travis. Hanyzewski, another regular of last year, will be out of the line-up until the first of the year, having suffered a broken leg in early season football practice.

And No Cracks, ISir=Remember Last Year

We Laughed at the Reds * Before, but— By J. E. O'BRIEN

fun at the Rhode Island Reds was all the rage in local hockey circles. Every time

big on the fowl remarks—pietured them flapping their wings, cackling and waddling around the ice. : Last spring we had to change our journalistic tune. These same Reds from Providence bumped into our Calder Cupping Capitals, defeated them in the five-game series garnished with fresh vegetables and rode on to win the InternationalAmerican League title.

Tonight the 1940-41 eds make their first appearance on the Coliseum ice cake, and again one is tempted to do a little heckling in print, inasmuch as Providence is

eastern division as our boys are in the west.

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Springfield New Haven Philadelphia Providence RESULTS LAST NIGHT Cleveland. 3: Philadelphia: 2. Buftale. 3; Providence, 1. Pittsburgh. 6: Hershey. 4. GAMES TONIGHT Providence at INDIANAIPOLIS. Philadelphia at Hershey. Buffalo at New Haven. Cleveland at Springfield.

But one look at the Providence roster brings back not-too-happy First and foremost, that

minds the Providence meshes. Although many of that championship club are gone, owner Lou Pieri has promised the red-hot Red fans that the. new boys are going to play as good hockey as their predecessors. Right now the Reds are proud of their new kid line, reading from left to right, Paul Platz, Max Bentley and Bill-Mo-sienko. The talk is that the Chicagp Black Hawks expect to grab the trio after it gets a year’s experience in American League company. Then there is Bucko McDonald, who played defense with the Detroit Red Wings when Manager Herbie Lewis was serving in the same livery. Two other new defense men are Dave MacKay, a University of Alberta product, and John Mariueci, a Minnesota Gopher who also did some gridiron service at end.

You Should Know These Guys

Among those youll remember from last year’s club are Crossley Sherwood, Windy Steele and ,K Art Giroux, wings; Ab DeMarco, center, and Bun Cook and Hal Jackson, defense. Seeking more scoring punch, Manager Lewis has remoulded two of his three front lines for tonight’s encounter. Impressed by young Jud McAtee’s aggressiveness, Herbie has moved Jud to center ice and flanked him with Carl Liscombe and Hec Kilrea. Billy Thomson will play center for Jack Keating and Cecil Dillon, while the Fisher-Brown McDonald line will remain intact. Rookie Bill Jennings has been sidelined temporarily with tooth trouble and probably will remain in civvies this evening. : Defense formations received the Caps’ attention at their final drill yesterday morning after Manager Herbie had spent considerable time seeking to bolster the Caps’ scoring ability. “Two things are wrong,” Herbie candidly reported. “We're not scoring enough, and our opponents are scoring too much.” That, briefly, explains the trouble.

Amateurs

BASKETBALL

Results in the Em-Roe Wednesday Night League: ’ Geo. J. Mayer, 31; Decatur, 21. Rumanian Star Society, 26; Crown Paper, 16 Scores in the Wednesday Church League: Second Friends, 33; First Presbyterian,

101 Class, 37; Christamore, 21. Clermont’ Christian, 21; Union Trust, 16.

Bush-Feezle League results at the Pennsy Gym: , Drikold, 42; Eastern Coal

. 27. . Liehr’s Tavern, 39; Degolyer Printers, 22. Trimble Oil, 36; Weidemann Beer, 29.

College Football

Howard, 28; Millsaps, 14.

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Hanging he Draperies in Howe's New Home

Howe High School's basketball Hornets figured that they needed a woman's touch to put their new gymnasium in apple-pie order for tomorrow night's -

dedication game against Broad Ripple. So they

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in Betty Van Arendonk to hang the new nets. Basketballers doing a bit of kibitzing are (left to right] Don , Pfeiffer, Kenny Burns, Don Clapp, Carl Barnes and

Bob Collins.

Attendance Up In-the Big Ten

Times Special boa CHICAGO, Nov. 28.—A 149 per cent [increase in average attendances over [1939 featured the 1940 Western Conference football campaign. Total attendance for 48 games amounted to 1,799,898, an increase of 4.08 per cent over the 1939 total when 13 games were played. Average attendances in 1940 reached 37,498 as compared to 32,627 in 1939. Peak crowd of the year was that of 76,747 which saw Northwestern play Michigan. Comparative team statistics for 1939 and 1940 indicate no reversal of the trend toward offensive stress which reached perhaps an all-time peak for the Conference in 1939. Although an average of about 12 yards per game less was gained by each team and passes were slightly less, scoring increased by more than a half point a game for each team. An analysis of scoring in Conference games showed the second and fourth periods to be most productive. Given impetus by Minnesota's total of 54 points, a total of 213 points were scored in the second period while 199 points were scored in the last period, including 61 by Northwestern. Michigan led first period scorers with 39 of the 159point total. Despite wide open play in midfield a preponderance of the 97 touchdowns _cored in Conference play came from within the 10-yard line, 49 on rushes and four on passes. Seventy touchdowns came on runs from scrimmage, 20 on passes. Longest scoring play ‘was George Franck’s 95-yard ; kickoff return against Purdue. ruce Smith of Minnesota and Ollie Hahnenstein of Northwestern made the longest scoring runs from scrimmage, 80 yaius, both against Michigan. A T4-yard Wisconsin pass against Minnesota, John Tennant to Dave Schreiner, was the longest scoring aerial, Paul Kromer of Michigan returned an Ohio State. punt 79 yards and Tom Farris of Wisconsin returned an intercepted Minnesota pass 47 yards for a score. One touchdown was made on a blocked punt, another on g& recovered fumble. Nine field goals were scored during the season, three each by Indiana- and Minnesota, but no safeties were scored. Notable, too, was the absence of a tie scor® in any Conference game.

° o Win Their ‘H’S’ HANOVER, Ind, Nov. 28.—Capt. Bill Isley, John Williams, Elmer Love and Bruce Williams, all of Indianapolis, are among football let-ter-winners announced at Hanover

Brr! Lash Defends His Title

Over Snowbanked Course

DETROIT, Nov. 28 (U. P).—Don Lash, Indfana state policeman, today led a field of approximately 60 runners into the 10,000-meter National A. A. U. cross-country grind through the snowbanks of the Meadowbrook Country Club Golf Course. A pathway had been plowed by tractor over the six-mile stretch of rolling country but sub-freezing temperatures, a poor footing and the threat of more snow made it. virtually impossible for Lash, in his seventh consecutive defense of the title, to shatter his record of 32 minutes 17 seconds set in 1934. : ; Lash, powerful-striding Hoosier who has dominated the business of up-and-down hill running ever since he left Indiana University, had several challengers to make it a race and some had an outside chance ‘to edging him. ; Two harriers from the Middle West—Gregory Rice, former Notre Dame star, and Walter Mehl, former Western Conference champion from Wisconsin—were expected to push the champion, and three ace performers of the New York A. C. each had a formidable record behind him. } 2 8 = 2 8 = THE THREE were Gene Venzke, one of the great milers in the nation, Joe McCluskey, former Fordham steeplechase star," and Luigi Beccali, Italian importation who won the 1500-meter title in the 1932 Olympics. They and Jim Rafferty probably will give N. ¥. A. C. the am title. tes Millrose A. C. of New York, 1939 champion, did not enter this year and after the withdrawal of the Indiana University team the firstranking group was N. Y. A. C. : = es an. Michigan A. A. U. secretary, said the course had been laid out to enable spectators to see nearly the entire race. Before the blizzard struck, the turf offered the best footing for a national championship cross-country runners ever had. The track today was

slushy in spots terday.

2d Thanksgiving Brings 37 Games

NEW YORK, Nov. 28 (U. P.).— The second Thanksgiving football program of the season offers 37 college games in widely separated sections of the country today but as far as the national picture is concerned only one game is significant—Texas vs. Texas Aggies.at Austin. This will be the last game of the year for the unbeaten Aggies and victory or a tie will give them their second straight southwest

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Max ls Better

BERLIN, Nov. 28/(U. P.).— Max Schmeling, former world’s heavyweight boxing champion, has recovered from a leg injury suffered while training as a. parachute jumper, the official German News Agency D. N. B.. said today. 2

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Honored at Purdue Times Special / LAFAYETTE, Ind., Nov. 28.—K. C. McLaughlin of Indianapolis was among members of Purdue’s crosscountry team given minor awards.

their winning streak to 20 games.

conference title and make them the | Major awards went to Capt. Ed Holfirst team in the history of the|derman and C. C. Reeves.

Cross-Country

Field Swelled

Several unattached cross-country and track runners have filed last-

- Iminute entries in the Mid-States

Open meet to be run over the Indiana Boys School course next Sunday. | Robert Kelley of -Indianapolis, former Washington High School track star, has entered the senior event to compete against a field of national stars augmented yesterday by the entrance of Tommy Deckard, former Indiana University runner.

Another late ‘entrant is M. L.| 4

Crossland of Peru, Ind. 30-year-old trackster who probably will be the oldest competitor, Paul R. Jordan, Indiana A. A. U.

president, will referee the meet,

while J. R. Townsend will be clerk of the course. Other officials: Ray Sears, starter; Bert Coffin, William Jordan and Paul E. Myers, timers; Don Knight, time scorer; John Lauck Jr. and Raymond Van Arsdale, finish judges; Ed Clemens and Mrs.’ Clemens, finish scorers, and Doyal Plunkitt, George Wade, Ed Diederich, George Farkas and Paul Phillips, course inspectors.

Mr. Harmon Is Nation’s Best

On Paper, Too

Tom Gains 1368 Yards In| Eight Games

» By WILLIS S. a United Press Staff Correspondent

‘SEATTLE, Nov. 28.—AllAmerica Tom Harmon of Michigan, who one week ago faced the almost hopeless task of gaining 300 yards in one

age total, did that and more, the American football Sta. tistical Bureau revealed ' today. Toast The mighty Harmon ran wild against Ohio State for 309 yards and hung up his moleskins with an eight-game

[total of 1368 yards, 12 better

than last year. This was the best performance in an eightgame schedule since Whizzer White starred for Colorado. By virtue of his amazing display, leaped from eighth to first

backs. But first place for peared likely to go to Creighohnny Knolla who, with one

Knolla was in third place, behind Paul Christman of Missouri, who

of Washington State College, in fifth and one game to go, also had

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hesquiere, I sity’s heavy-duty back,

ing department again with 80 come pletions although Christman’s passe ing yardage of 1131 yards .was the best since Davey O’Brien played for Texas Christian. | . A new record was set by Jimmy Reynolds of Oklahoma A. & M., who the ball 202 times. nt of :Virginia caught eight in last Saturday’s North 1a contest to lead in pass re« ceiving with 20 completions. Owen Price of Texas Mines continued to hold top place in punting, although his average sagged slightly to 47.76, Other totals: :

To Sewell, 1248; Ghesquiere, 1242; Bill Dudley, Virginia, 1191; Jimmy Riche ardson, Marquette, 1087; Dave Allere ceton, 1025; Merle Hapes, Me, a on 8 — Harmon, 869 yards; Who 765; Havor 100: Tony Gale lovich, Wake Forest, 686. , P g—Sewell, 80 completions; Allerdice, 76; Christman, 69; Dudley, 67; Hal Hursh, Indiana, 53. P Receiving — Krouse, Penn State, | 25; Humbert, Richmond, 25; Jennings, Oklahoma, 23; Gianakos, Virginia, 21 Pun

g—Jack Jacobs, Oklaho 4494; Dick McGowen, Auburn, 43.7;

SYRACUSE, N. Y, Nov. 28 (U, nior halfback Dick Bangor cago was elected honorary capt of the Syracuse football squad for the past season last night,

division to repeat. Victory also will| —7 give the Aggies their second straight : unbeaten campaign and stretch| '§ '

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Should the Aggies lose, the worst they can dd is tie for the title. In second place, with three victories and one defeat each, are Southern Methodist and Rice. Each have two games to play and one will have to win both to tie the Aggies. S. M. U. plays Texas Christian this Saturday and Rice meets Baylor. The week after they play each other. : The East offers only one major game—Columbia-Brown at Provi-

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