Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 November 1940 — Page 30

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SPORTS

By Eddie Ash

THE Indianapolis ball club put over a stove league session last night that measured up to ‘any promotion stunt tried before. . . . There were no invitations by mail or phone and it was open to all fans, come and go as you

liked, and enjoy the atmosphere of baseball out of season.

However, the general amdission customers, the real backbone of attendance, didn’t show up to gad about, toss the free lunch down the hatch and: watch the Nafional League movie. The Indianapolis Indians’ officials left nothing out of the picture in the way of entertainment in their offices, warm and cozy, but most of the persons who checked in were Perry Stadium {‘regulars.” . «.. In other. words, the baseball fans of the mine-run class—fans whom the Indians are trying to “reach,” did not show up. It was more or less of a house-warming for Wade (Red) Killefer,

* who is doing a stint (or a stunt) as a manager, recalled after others

had “failed.” > Persons at last night's party would not commit themselves on Owner Norman A. Perry’s backtracking but the concensus was that firing managers in midseason has hurt the Indianapolis ball club. . Maybe we're wrong, but we think Ray Schalk was a good manager. .. . We still are waiting to be talked out of that opinion.

Official Averages On A. A. Pitchers

Ernie White, crack southpaw of the Columbus Red Birds, holds down the No. 1 spot among American Association pitchers for the season of 1940, official averages released today disclose. Charlie Wagner of Louisville is the nominal leader with his mark

of nine victories and but one defeat and an earned run average of -

1.84, but he took part in only 11 games, with 20 considered necessary for recognition. ; White Jed the field in both the percentage column and the earned run averages among all pitchers taking part in 20 or more games, winning 13 and losing four for an average of .765 and having an earned run mark of 2.25. Of the 10 leaders ip earned run averages, five were from the championship Kansas City club, three from Columbus and one each from Louisville and Indianapolis. . . . Of the 10, six were right-handers and four southpaws.

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FOUR MOUNDSMEN gave up more than 100 bases on balls, Frank Melton of Columbus leading with 130. . ... The runner-up was his teammate, Tom Sunkel, who gave up 117... . Stanceu issued 109 and Kimberlin 107. Melton was at least consistent, for he also led the circuit in strikeouts, 142 enemy batsmen going down before his slants.

Others with more than 100 whiffing bees to their credit were Kim- -

berlin with 131, Stanceu with 126, Brecheen with 124, Sunkel with 113, Johnny Vander Meer of Indianapolis with 109, Dickson and Red Evans of Minneapolis with 105 each, Logan, Haefner and Elon Hogsett of Minneapolis with 104 each and Art Herring of St. Paul with an even 100.

Grid Coach Becomes An Expert

DANA X. BIBLE, Texas University football coach, qualifies as an expert WITH portfolio. . . . He predicted his team would trim the undefeated and untied Texas Aggies and the Longhorns delivered. It took a long time for the Aggies to topple, but when it happened they lost to an old pal. . . . Well, that makes Indiana U. look good, if you recall the Longhorns defeated the Hoosiers, 13-6. - In playing eight games before meeting the Farmers, Texas won

%s8ix and, lost two, the defeats coming at the hands of the Rice Owls

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A READER wants to know about the Dec. 7 college football schedule. . . . The best we know is that Notre Dame plays at Southern Califernia, Los Angeles, Texas plays at Florida, Southern Methodist plays at Rice, Texas Tech meets San Francisco University at San Francisco, all major games. That Florida eleven has been steadily Amproving and Texas may bump into a little surprise party in spite of its victory over Texas Aggies. . . ..:However, the Longhorns are a cinch to be the favorites in the game at Gainesville. « « «+ In last year’s. skirmish, Texas prevailed, 12-0.

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Layden Predicts Everything Will Be Rosey for Stanford

By ELMER LAYDEN Noire Dame ‘Football Coach

Top game of the last day of the last month of the main football show is Stanford-California. The Redskins should [forms have been issued to Joe Boarclinch their invitation to the Rose Bowl and reaffirm Clark

Shaughnessy s title as the coach of the year.

: Hoping for a reversal of Stanford form are the Washington Huskies, who believe|victory of the season tomorrow eve-

is at Nashville, where Tennessee will overcome Vanderbilt.

that a California upset of the Indians might swing the Bowl bid to them. They feel that Stanford’s victory over them was one of those things and they have no doubt of their ability to defeat Washington State impressively. I look for both Stanford and Washington to win their games tomorrow. That means Stanford in the Bowl. : Boston College should hurdle Holy

Cross tomorrow and keep the record clear. second, “Count” Pietro, who makes 5) of the Panther’s- matches and pilots the masked grappling giant delphia. Duquesne will become champion of Pittsburgh by |around.

. taking Carnegie Tech, although the Tartans are much

Elmer Layden Navy should win the service game at Phila-

improved. Such traditional rivalries will be fought out in‘ the

South as Georgia Tech-Georgia and Tulane-Louisiana State (I take Georgia and Tulane), but the most important game

Grid Results

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Six Contests

Local Floors

. Tech Opens. Its ‘Season At Andersin Tonight

TODAY

Noblesville at Shortridge ‘(afternoon). Broad Ripple at Howe. Rushville at Washington. Manual at Southport. Tech at Anderson.

TOMORROW

Plainfield at Broad Ripple. Jamestown at Sacred Heart.

High school basketball in and about Indianapolis will start at teatime today and run late into tomorrow evening. Altogether, seven games are scheduled, with youthful Howe putting on the biggest show in its gym dedication this evening. Broad Ripple will be the Hornets’ basketball guest for the evening, with. 1.H.S.A.A,, school and city officials as the sideline guests. Beside basketball, there will be music and speeches.

Howe Starters Listed

Likely Howe starters against Ripple will be Bob Collins nd Carl Barnes, forwards; Kenny Burns, center, and Don Clapp and Don Pfeiffer, guards. Against the combination Coach Frank Baird probably will use Bob Maxwell and Art Halekamp or Fred Wood at forwards; Bill Melick, center, and Paul Blakeslee and Herb Eaton or Bill Steck, guards. Ripple has another engagement tomorrow night, meeting Plainfield on the Racket court. Coach Robert Hinshaw’s lanky Rushville team will be Washington's guests this evening at the West Side arena. The Continentals, hoping to height with speed, will open with ‘a combination of Harold Fulton and Don Cau-

ter, and Charles Petercheff and Bob

Tech Faces Indians

Tech opens its season this evening at Anderson against the up-and-coming Indians. After losing two of its first three games, Anderson

Lebanon. Coach Bayne Freeman of Tech will take a 12-man squad composed of Roy Hurley, Harry Hagans, Dudley Cole, Hoot Meyer, Bob Wilson, Bob Evans, Dick Plummer, Barclay Johnson, Bill Pease, Don Rademachen, Dale Burries and Sylvester ux. Athletic Director Russell Julius, who looks with favor on matineecage entertainment, has another tea-time game scheduled this afternoon for Shortridge against Noblesville. The Blue Devils, having edged Green~ field Wednesday, will be out for their second victory. Likely Shortridge starters fire Bryan West and Dave Strack, forwards; Bob Paddock, center, and Chuck Benjamin and Bob Harris, guards. ] Nine Redskis in Uniform A nine-man squad will represent Manual at Southport. Redskin uni-

man; Joe Nahmias, Wendell Garrett, Ralph McFall, Bill Arnold, Richard Phillips, Albert Nahmias, Charles Wilson and Sidney Feldman. Sacred Heart goes ‘after’ its third

ning, entertaining Jamestown.

Panther Returns To Armory Mat

With him will be his manager and

Ted Christie, weighing 221, did’

Panther last Tuesday, but other than his willingness to try, he was an early victim of. the masked heavy’s punishing back-breaker hold. The Panther, incidentally, is six feet, five inches tall and scales 280 pounds. His identity has not been disclosed. Next Tuesday, Powerhouse Frank Sexton, 233, of Akron, O., will pit his experience and skill against the Ponther. Sexton is six feet, one inch tall, and figures he is-a formidable opponent. They" meet in a special semi-windup. Billy Thom, head mat mentor at Indiang University, encounters Jules (Speedy) La Rance of Montreal in the headliner. La Rance is generally rated light heavyweight king and did a neat job of smearing Thom in two consecutive falls a few weeks ago. Thom is determined not to let

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Bob Dietz, who six years ago could not make his own high school team, probably will set a new all-time scoring record this year as captain of the Butler University basketball team. ~ In two years the local product has scored 305 points and needs’ but-159 to break Oral Hildebrand’s three-year mark of 463. Dietz must average at least nine points per

Georgia Tech in the Cracker battle. chose California to beat Stanford. ‘The dope in full:

Navy Bqston Col. Fordham Duquesne Duke Marquette’ Santa Clara Nebraska Tennessee Alabama Auburn Georgia Tulane

Rice Stanford

Washington Oregon St. Texas Tech

“Shootse at + College Record

The Big Ti Three Give Their All For Bowl Bids

But Army-Navy Pageant Draws: Nation's Eyes.

By PAUL 'SCHEFFELS | ' United Press Staff Correspondent : 4

NEW YORK, Nov. 29 (U. P.).—The 1940 collegiate football season, which brought bitter disappointment to an unprecedented mumber of teams and high honors: to only a few, comes t0.a close tomorrow with three elevens —Stanford, Tennessee and Boston College—striving for

sectional championships. Bowl invitations for all three, so far unbeaten and untied, will be at stake as the other two. surviving perfect record teams, Minnesota and Lafayette, rest after completing

| their schedules.

Top ‘game. of the day so far ‘a8 crowd appeal goes will be the Army-

‘| Navy classic. Lacking any particu-

lar importance, the contest between the two service elevens will attract

colorful pageantry. Navy is a heavy favorite because Army has won bus one game this season.

Bears Pursue Indians

But it’s. on the other three games that bids to post-season bowl extravaganzas hinge, Stanford, surprise team of 1940, can sew up the|. Pacific Coast title and western Rose | Bowl bid by defeating’ the tough California Golden Bears in their traditional encounter, The Bears have improved steadily and should cause trouble. If Tennessee beats Vanderbilt in its final game an invitation to some bowl will arrive by the next mail.

|The volunteers also will gain sole

Bob Dietz , , . now he’s grown up.

game to set a new record. And the Bulldogs will play .22 games this year, opening against Indiana University Dec. 12 in the Fieldhouse. As a sophomore and junior at Washington High School, Dietz missed prep play because the coach said he was too small. In his senior year, however, he made the squad and ‘all-city selections to boot. Since then he estimates that he has played in 400 games.

Headin’ for Last Roundup

It’s a fight to protect. batting averages today as The

Times’ football experts square away for their final week's work. ‘

Twenty games were selected from tomorrow’s abbre-

. |viated schedule for the five dopesters to mull over, and, for

the most part, they were very congenial, There was no argument whatever on 14 games—the boys all being convinced that Navy will beat Army, that Boston College will remain undefeated, that Fordham will take care of N. Y. U, and that Duqueshe, Nebraska, Tennessee, The Black Panther returns to the | Tulane, S. M. U., Rice, U. S. C., Washington of Seattle, Oregon State Armory next Tuesday night, prepared to dish out another “killing” in the wrestling ring.

and Texas will conquer.

But Harry Grayson of NEA refused to join the parade to Duke,

choosing Pitt. Our Eddie Ash and Elmer Layden of Notre Dame were the only ones to take a chance on the Marquette-Arizona game, Eddie leaning to Marquette, Elmer to Arizona. Bob Godley and Grayson voted

Oklahoma in the face of three Santa Clara ‘ballots, while Henry

Super, doing United Press’ picking this week, gave Mississippi State its lone vote.

Ash and Layden teamed on Georgia, while the others preferred Super vras alone again when he

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possession of the Southeastern title. Mississippi State and Alabama, each with a mathematical chance for the crown, meet at ‘Tuscaloosa, Ala. Winner of this game probably will

against Fordham. Boston College ‘meets Holy Cross in a game that shapes up as fairly

_|easy for the undefeated Eagles.

Victory may open the ,way to an invitation to the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans and a meeting with Tennessee.

Huskers Play for Title

s The only other major game sends Nebraska against Kansas State with the Big Six. crown at stake. Play is finished in the Big Ten and Big

leaguers have ‘ended competition. The season's second Thanksgiving Day schedule, while numerically small, served up an exciting prologue to Saturday’s finale when Texas humbled mighty Texas A. &M

Never in “the history of the Southwestern Conference has a champion repeated and as a result of yesterday's upset, one of two teams—Southern Methodist or Rice —may tie the Aggies for the title. The Aggies’ record is five and one while both S. M. U.'and Rice have won three and lost one with two to go. If both elevens win tomerrow, then the victor in. their Dec, 7 meeting will tie with the Aggies. Texas scored the only touchdown in the first minute of play. After taking the kickoff on the 35, Layden passed 32 yards to Crain'on the first down. Another pass fell: incomplete, then Layden tossed to Doss on the one-foot line and drove through center on the next play: to score. Crain converted. Z

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' ‘Snow and ice aver the Meadow“brook Country Club course at. ‘Detroit failed “to prevent ‘Don; Lash, former I." U. distance star and mow a state trooper, from ‘hanging up: ‘a new record of 30:25:83 for. the 10,000 - meter course: in the national senior ‘A. A. U, cross-country run. Yes-. terday’s triumph was Lash’s seventh straight Shampivasuip, in. the event,

Butler Enters : Six Harriers

+ Ray Sears, Butler University track cbach, today announced he would enter six runners in.the Mid-States cross-country championships at the Indiana - Boys School, Plainfield, Ind., Sunday ‘at 1:30 p. m Earl Mitchell, Anderson sophomore who placed ninth last week in the National Collegiate crosscountry meet at Michigan State, will lead the Bulldog harriers that will include Max Armer, Frank Wintin, Bob Dreessen and Maurice Nah-

James Adams and Jack Rice, freshmen, in the junior division. Sears, meet director, and starter, also announced that Greg Fice, former Notre: Dame athlete holding the world’s outdoor two and threemile records, has entered individually along with his South Bend A. A. team. Walter Mehl, former National Collegiate titleholder, and Don Lash, Indiana trooper and senior champion of the National A. A. u, also will compete. Sanctioned by the Indiana ‘A. A. U.,, the meet Sunday also will be held +in conjunction with the state A. A. U. championships. The. senior race, with Rice defending his title, will: be run over a four-mile course, and the juniors three miles. ‘Robert |. Crouser of Plainfield will . defend his junior crown won last year. A. ‘A. U. gold, silver and bronze medals. will be awarded team and individual ‘winners in the state race.

Signed at Rochester "ROCHESTER, N. Y., Nov. 2! ‘(U. P)). — Charles (Tony) Kaufmann, will begin his 21st year in organized baseball next March as manager of the Rochester Red Wings of the International League. Kaufmann’s reappointment was announced yester-

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: ‘Help of Providence

By J. E. O'BRIEN

Herbie Lewis—a harried Herbie for the last couple of. weeks—stood still in the Coliseum dressing room

long enough. to expose the woes that

beset a manager and at the same time to repledge his confidence in

| his hockey Capitals.

It’s no fun, Herbie guarantees,

losing streak. “When you're playing, you at least think you're help ing, but when you're managing, you're just helpless.” That from the

| Duke of Duluth who has really had | his fizst dark days as a Manager in A the last few games. | «But that 2-to-1 victory last eve- . | ning over the Providence Reds has

given - Lewis temporary cheer, at

|least.. And he still believes his boys, | with a break or two, can return to : the road of success.

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RESULTS LAST +. INDIANAPOLIS, 2; Providence, 1. __ Philadelphia, . 4: Hershey, ‘1. . : New Haven, 6: Buffalo, 1. "Cleveland, ' 1: Sprimgfield, 1 (overtime), ; NEXT GAMES SATURDAY—Providence at Pit Cleveland at Hershey, Buffalo at Phila. delphia, New Haven at Springfield.

“Jack Adams of the Red Wings ¢ called from New York today,” Her= bie said last night. “He wanted to know if I wanted to trade or shake up the squad. I told him no, thanks, : I was satisfied ‘with what I had, And I told the boys the same thing before they took the' ice against Providence.” The breaks still wouldn't come: to the Capitals last night and you can be sure—as 1821 fans were—that the ' Hoosier icemen worked for three | periods for that 2-1 triumph. They bounced the white-shirted Reds

’|around the ice, rode them into the '

curb and dee-double-dared them to! just: tty and come close to the cage Jimmy Frank was watching over. But all the while the rubber muf-,| fin went everywhere except into thas sacred territory; behind the Reds®’

Capitals even played a tune oh the; iron goal posts like Adrian Rollini banging his chimes eight to the bar, Still no luck.

“The Capitals came back into the’ third period determined to end the

leg right in front of the cage. Then Carl sneaked around the cage, re=|

and came face-to-face with a much baffled Mr. Karakas. There was nothing Mr. Karakas could do there —and he didn’t. Things weren’t so bright, though, when Referee Rabbit McVeigh took offense at Thomson's overzealous defense tactics on Hub Wilson ‘and

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