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MORE BASEBALL stove league fan fodder from the

‘American Association Press Bureau:

It has often been

said that a pitcher is “too wild to win.” , « x A study of the outstanding evidences of wildness evinced by Association chuckers in 1940 indicates that this statement is

incorrect as often as it is correct. There were 42 occasions during the last campaign when one hurler gave up seven or more bases on balls during the game. , . « Yet that pitcher was victorious 22 times, lost 16 and was neither credited with a victory nor charged with a defeat the other four

times. Columbus pitchers experienced more of these fits of wildness than did those of any other club. . . . Red Bird chuckers. yielded seven or more free tickets 15 times, but won 10 of them. , . . Indian apolis and Milwaukee each had this trouble seven times. . . . Tribe moundsmen garnered one victory, lost three times, and had no decision three times. . . . Milwaukee chuckers won three and lost four, It happened four times each to Kansas City and Louisville. . . . The Blues and Colonels had similar records of ‘three victories and a defeat. . . . Toledo and Minneapolis each split two games of this calibre, while the only St. Paul occurrence failed to find the perpetrator either winning or losing. Probably the outstanding example in the league of “how to win although wild” was Tom Sunkel, one of Columbus’ trio of southpaw stars. . . . No less than six times during the season Sunkel yielded seven or more walks and yet he won all six of those games. His first effort of this kind was on May 19 when he franked seven mien to first in as many innings yet gained a 6-to-4 decision over the Colonels. The most spectacular performance of such a nature by any pitcher was turned in by Sunkel on May 25 in Columbus against Indianapolis. . . . Sunkel was removed from the game after pitching 53%; innings. . .. He had then given 13 bases on balls but had not allowed anything that closely resembled a hit. . . . He was credited with a 5-to-2 victory.

Dope On Local Hockey Scoring

WHEN JOE FISHER -said farewell to the Indianapolis hockey team to join the Detroit big leaguers he was in a tie with Butch McDonald for the Caps’ individual scoring lead, both having racked up 20 points on 8 goals and 12 assists each. . Bill Jennings, with 15, is the local icers’ next best scorer. , . . Cleveland, Hershey and Pittsburgh, all ahead of Indianapolis in the American League Western Division, see action tomorrow night while the Caps are idle until Sunday when they battle Cleveland here. Cleveland is nine points ahead of the Hoosiers and is deadlocked ' with New Haven of the Eastern Division for the league’s over-all lead. . . . However, the Barons hold an edge owing to the fact they have played two less games than New Haven. Individual scoring statistics by Indianapolis players, including the icers who have departed to other fields:

‘ Goals Assists Pts. McDonald ..... 8 12 20 20 15 14 13 11 10 9 8

Goals Assists Pts. Herschenratter 1 «7 Behling # H. Kilrea Jones Whitelaw Bush

Keating ...... McAtee .... Thomson ...... Liscombe ...... 4 Dillon ,...00000 7

hree Towns ‘Claim’ Michigan Star

» CLIFF WISE, one of the more promising sophomore athletes at the University of Michigan, has the . distinction of having . more Michigan towns claiming him as a local product than any other star at the Ann Arbor institution. . , . Cliff, who understudies Tom Harmon during his football season and won his letter as a halfback, is claimed by three towns in Lower Michigan—Jackson, Grand Haven and Spring Lake. His home is in Spring Lake, he attended high school in Grand Haven and worked summers in Jackson. . . . Kiski Prep in Pennsylvania also has a hold on him because he attended that school before entering Michigan. : i" Ab presen Wise Sookjng forward to the baseball season. . . . . Hie Is a pitcher and is tabbed as a sure-fire member of th ines’ diamond staff next spring. S Wolverines

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DETROIT offers Bobby DeBacker as a coming champ on the bowling alleys... . He's 17 years old and captains the Grosse Pointe High School tenpin team. . , . Stepping out of high school circles, the boy wonder competed in regular league play last week-end and posted a score of 708 on games of 242, 210 and 256. ae He had six strikes in his first game but had his greatest chance in the third. ,. . After eight strikes his next ball left the 6-10 split

and spared. . . . On the next he missed the N to this 708, DeBacker’s best was 679. 5.4 pin ++ Brevis

Honest, Maxie Baer Is Called

Ferocious, Cross My Heart

By JACK CUDDY

United Press Staff Correspondent

NEW YORK, Dec. 27—~The Ring magazine’s annual rating of the world’s “fighters today proclaimed Maxie Baer the No. 1 heavyweight contender, ranking him above Billy Conn.

Pittsburgh Billy may be mollified somewhat, however, at having won the magazine’s fighter-of-the-year award, which was voted the light heavyweight king because of his victories over bigger men. The Eing’s board of 168 experts in the United States, Canada and . Cuba differed sharply with the judgment of promoter Mike Jacobs when they tabbed Madcap Maxie the top heavy contender for Joe Louis’ crown. Only last week Jacobs signed Conn to challenge for the heavy title in June, after virtually booting Baer out of the championship picture. The Ring’s board named Baer the leading contender because of his knockout victories over the outstanding heavy threats: Tony Galento and Pat Comiskey, according to edit® Nat Fleischer’s copyright

story in the Ring's February issue. Fleischer calls Baer’s kayq over Galento “The thrill of ‘the year.” Commenting upon Conn’s chances against Louis, Fleischer says, “it is my prediction that he won’t last long against Louis’ powerful wallop, and that defeat by the Bomber may forever ruin the career of the classiest boxer in captivity.”

Although Conn’s victories over four big fellows were not as significant in the heavy division as Baer’s two kayoes, nevertheless they won for Billy the coveted fighter-of-the-year award by 57 votes against 36 for Baer, 26 for Henry Armstrong, 21 for Ken Overlin, 17 for Louis, and 11 for Fritzie Zivic. The board's balloting gave the ring its eight divisional leaders as follows: Heavyweight, Louis; light heavy, Conn; middleweight, Ken Overlin of Washington, D. C.; welterweight, Fritzie Zivic of Pittsburgh; lightweight,” Lew Jenkins of Sweetwater, Tex.; featherweight, Harry Jefira of Baltimore; bantamweight, Tony Olivera of Oakland,

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LOS ANGELES, Cal, Dec. 27 (U. P.) —Indiana - University’s basketball nomads are going to: wind up

week-ends ever attempted by a college club. Three games in four nights, with a cross-country airplane tour sandwiched in—that’s the schedule facing the Hoosiers. Tonight the national collegiate champions meet U. C. L. A. in quest of another victory to add to their string of 29 straight outside the Big Ten Conference. The Hoosiers also will be out for their fifth victory of the season and their third of this trip. They have defeated Stanford and California. Tomorrow night the Hoosiers tangle with Southern California, the team they almost met for the national title last year. The Trojans, boasting one of their best squads in years, bowed out in the semi-finals to Kansas by .one point. . Indiana conquered both U. C. L. A. and Southern Cal in its last appearance here two years ago. Following tomorrow night’s game the Hoosiers will depart from Glendale Airport for New Orleans, where they will clash with Kentucky next Monday evening in the annual Sugar Bowl basketball game.

Garms Pulls

(Big Surprise

By GEORGE KIRKSEY United Press Staff Correspondent

MEW YORK, Dec. 27. — Debs Garms, one of those 1000 to 1 shots,

pulled one of the big surprises of the 1940 baseball season by winning the National League batting championship, the official averages revealed today. i Garms, third baseman for the Pittsburgh Pirates, batted .355 to top his nearest rival, Ernie Lombardi, Cincinnati catcher, by 36 points. Garms’ triumph was a surprise to everyone including himself. Not until the last few weeks of the season did Garms learn that he had a chance to cop the official laurel. Like everyone else Garms labored under the impression that a player had to go to bat 400 official times to be recognized as batting champion. Investigation, however, proved that the National League had no such rule. Hack Barely Missed Garms played in 103 games and went to bat 358 times. If the National League had had a 400 times at bat rule, Stanley Hack, Cubs’ third baseman, would have been the batting champion. Among the players who went to bat 400 or more times Hack was the leader with a 317 average. Although long considered a dangerous hitter in a pinch, Garms’ record offered no hint that he was destined to join such stalwarts as Rogers Hornsby, Paul Waner, Bill Terry, Chick Hafey, Lefty O’Doul

‘land others as a batting champion.

In seven years in the majors (four with the Browns and three with the Bees), Garms had batted over .300 only twice and his lifetime major league average was a mere .293. The Pirates bought Garms from the Bees last spring, chiefly at Frankie Frisch’s insistence. Frisch, who had observed Garms from a radio booth in Boston during the 1939 season, wanted him as a utility outfielder and pinch-hitter. Garms, who started his career as an infielder, however, soon took over the third base job. Named for Debs Garms was born at Bangs, Tex., Jyne 26, 1908, and was named for Eugene V. Debs, the late Socialist leader. He was a four letter man at Howard Payne College (Texas), and broke into organized baseball with Abilene in the West Texas League in 1928. : Johnny Mize, Cardinals’ first baseman, led the league for the third straight year in total bases (368) and, for the second successive year in home runs (43). His homer total set a new record for .a Cardinal

previous mark of 42. Frank McCormick, Reds’ first baseman, tied Stanley Hack, Cubs, for the most base hits (191), making the third | straight year in which Cincinnati’s big infielder has showed the way in hits. He also led in doubles (44) and most times at bat (618). McCormick and Arky Vaughan, Pirates, were the only players who took part in all the clubs’ games. .

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so-called underdog the winner. You can take your pick tonight, and no matter which side you root for, you'll get your money’s worth. This year it is Shortridge that comes onto the floor with the glossiest record. Shortridge has won four out of five games. Greenfield, Noblesville, Southport and Shelbyville have fallen~before the onslaught of the North Siders. Bowed to Greencastle

The Blues’ only defeat to date came at the hands of a powerful Greencastle team, 40 to 35. " In the other corner we have a Tech team that has won only one of five starts. But that one victory was a honey, a rout of the classy Frankfort Hot Dogs, 40 to 30. And the Greenclads needn’’ hide the black marks on their shields for they were put there by worthy opponents. © There was Anderson, a tribe of rampaging Indians that have attracted state-wide notice in the early rush for favorite positions in the Indiana high school title race. There was Franklin, a pack of undefeated Grizzly Cubs, already heralded as one of the teams to watch when the title showdown comes. The other two setbacks came from the well-respected aggregations representing Kokomo and New Castle. Just Toss a Coin The way to pick tonight's winner is to toss'a coin. And after the smoke of battle clears and the victors ring the rafters with their cheers, don’t forget that these traditional foes will meet again this season. While the battle rages on Tech campus, the Irish of Cathedral will be matching shots with Lebanon on the Lebanon floor. The Irish will be seeking vengeance for a 52-39 licking administered by the Lebanons' last season. : The only other local scholastic game will be the clash between Sacred Heart and.its alumni team. Cathedral holds the local high school limelight alone tomorrow when it entertanis the Terre Haute Red Streaks. Terre Haute defeated Cathedral, 34 to 24, last year,

Dew Is Hunting ‘Live Horses’

MIAMI, Dec. 27 (U. P.).—Earl Dew today was en route by airliner for California where he hopes to get enough “live horses” to ride to maintain his lead over Walter Lee Taylor in the 1940 American jockey sweepstakes. - Dew, who has ridden 283 winners to Taylor’s 281, boarded a plane last night and will be in Oakland, Cal, in time to ride Saturday at Golden Gate Park. The day’s riding lost to travel will be made up Sunday when Dew will go to Agua Caliente while Taylor is idle here. “I just couldn’t get enough live horses in Florida,” Dew explained. “Maybe I've just run into a streak of hard luck, but I think I'll get better horses in the West.” Although Dew said he had made

.|arrangements for the trip after the

last race yesterday, and “had cleared up everything,” his agent said that he had not been able to cancel the five mounts he was scheduled to ride today, thus leaving himself open to disciplinary action by Tropical Park stewards, It

|is possible that trainers of the five

horses will agree to. cancel Dew’s contract to ride today.

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The Kautskys Return Home To Battle the Durable Celts And It’s All Even Up to Now

the Kautskys Triumph and" ~ Ft. Wayne Watched the New Yorkers Win |

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The Blue Devils Have the Best Record to Date But Smile When You Say That On East Side

The bombshell of holiday sports on the city’s scholastic front explodes at 8 o'clock tonight, the zero hour for the battling Greenclads of Arsenal Tech and the charging Blue Devils of Shortridge. It is the annual post-Christmas battle of the baskets between old rivals that throw previous performance records to th up a slam-bang affair each year that more than once has returned the

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Western “yippees.”

shreds. | . Coach Jim Crowley plans

after the 36-hour train ride.

DALLAS, Tex. Dec. 27 (U. . P.).—Dallas roared a TeXas welcome to the Fordham Rams

The team arrived by special train this morning and was greeted by a crowd of several hundred, who braved brisk ’ winds to put on a demonstration with blazing six-guns and

At Mesquite, - just outside of Dallas, a sham train robbery ‘halted the special and the blast of blank shells routed the New Yorkers from their beds. The 31 squad members, who meet the Texas Aggies in the Cotton Bowl New Year’s Day, donned cowboy hats donated by Dallas business men and rode" on to Dallas to be driven - through the downtown section amid a shower of ticker tape, cotton lint and thousands of papers and old books torn into

light practice session this afternoon to limber up his players

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DEC. 27, 1940

13 Bulldogs Defy Jinx in DePaul Lair

Times Special \ : CHICAGO, Dec. 27.—Butler University’s 13-man basketball squad— don’t mention the jinx, please — squares ‘off against DePaul here this evening as one-half of the basketball double-header at the Colieum. ‘The Indianapolis Bulldogs, losers in consecutive games to Michigan

and Pittsburgh, hoped to write another victorious chapter in the story of their Chicago invasions. - Last season they dowhed Loyola here and the previous year they knocked over DePaul. DePaul, which gave Purdue its first defeat of the season two weeks ago, 37-33, was ready to stifle any personally conducted Butler offense, remembering that two years ago Lyle Neat, then a sophomore guard, went virtually unmolested to score 18 points. Neat is expected to start at guard tonight along with Jim McCray. Capt. Bob Dietz and Wilbur Schumacher are likely forward starters, with Bill Hamilton at-cen-ter. Other Butler players who made the trip were Elwood Norris, Harold Braden, Jack Clayton, John Petrie, Lester Combs, Bob Fletcher and Fred Hunckler. The unbeaten DePaul club will be gunning for its seventh straight victory. - The DePaul man for the sawed-off Bulldogs to watch is big Elmer Gainer, who threw” in four field goals and six free throws to wreck the Boilermakers. Yale, which suffered its first setback of the season the other night at the expense of Bradley Tech, will meet Loyola in the other part of the twin bill.

Strikes to Spare

Ball should hit in 1-3 pocket for a strike, ' By FREDDIE FISCHER:

|! World All-Events Champion

TOO MANY howlers—particularly beginners—go up to the foul line and heave the ball, Wiihous, taking any particular care to attempt to

|Good bowling isn’t a matter of luck—it takes

: thought and careful practice.

They just hope.

The approach and

delivery should be co-ordinated so that they are as perfectly adapted as possible to the bowler’s speed and the alley on which he is competing. | On the first roll the bowler should aim for the 1-3 pocket. If it hits between those two pins the ball is most likely to carry through and spill the rest of the pins. However, it is also important that the No. 5 pin should be taken out, for it is in reality the key to the whole setup. | It is the No. 5 pin‘which must bear the bulk of carrying off the pins to the left hand side of

the alley. Freddie Fischer

The bowler should look at his target as he

starts the approach, then switch his eyes to his spot on the alley before the delivery. The head should stay down as the ball starts on its course. .

NEXT: Making spares.

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Jeffersonville Saw

Tonight's game is fo settle ®the Kautsky-Celtic feud that has been waged in both the north and south ends of the state. The pro foes first clashed at Ft. Wayne this season and it took an overtime period to gain a decision. The fast-breaking New Yorkers eked out a 70-to-69 victory after both quintets had peppered.the baskets from all angles.

Kautskys Turn Tables

Southern Indiana fans witnessed the second meeting when the Kautskys turned the tables on the Easterners and carried off a 46-36 hardearned victory, the game being much closer than the score indicates. ’ . So tonight it’s the rubber game and a hard-fought battle is anticipated. : The Celtics for years have been one . of professional basketball's greatest attractions and were rated world’s champions for several seasons. Four veterans of many of their campaigns will be included in their starting lineup. Bobby McDermott, one of the quartet, has been rated by several sports authorities as the greatest player in the game today. The team is being coached and managed by Davy Banks, who also manages to get into the game occasionally.

Ertle Defense Ace

The Kautskys star-studded lineup includes the cream of Hoosier luminaries of the last few years. Among them is Mark Ertle, former Notre Dame flash, who since joining the team recently has been a stone wall on defense. The Kautsky-Celtic tilt is scheduled at 8:30 and will be preceded by a preliminary game between R. C. A. and Allison Engineering. The amateur game is slated to get under way at 7:15. Probable lineups of the pro game: Kauiskys

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COLLEGES Illinois, 56: Manhattan, 40,

Santa York, 41

SUN FLOWER TOURNEY Wichita, 25° Ewinotia Teachers, 22 : mpor! ac '. I Maryvitie Teron 39; pd Weseyan,

Clara, 49; City College of New fl

St. Benedict’s, 31; Washburn, 30.

The Indianapolis Kautskys come home to Butler fieldhouse tonight to bring professional basketball back fo the city after several weeks’ abe sence and to have a showdown withthe famed New York Celitcs.

The Lid Is Off -} Of Sugar Bowl |

NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 27 (U. P.), «~The annual Sugar Bowl sports

national collegiate champion Unie versity of Idaho boxing team meets University of Louisiana, three-time

ference. : ‘The medley of ring, tennis, track and regatta events will be climaxed by the football game between Boston College and the University .of Tennessee in the Sugar Bowl Jan. All 70,000 seats in the football bowl and all combination tickets {for the game and other events were gold out a week before Christmas.

be the basketball game between Indiana University, national college champions, and the University of Kentucky, Southeastern Conference champions. The Played Monday night. Bobby Riggs of Chicago, former

‘national tennis singles champion, (drew the top seeded position in the ,

tennis tourney last night. Frankie Ifovacs of Oakland, Cal., was sec= ond; Jack Kraemer of Belvedere (rardens, Cal., was third, and Bryan (Bitsy) Grant of Atlanta drew fourth. - a National champion Don McNe fo Oklahoma City will not appear to defend his Sugar Bowl title, offi= cials ahnounced. oi

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