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Rose Bowl Mud Is Prospect as

Teams Drill

Odds -Raised on Corn_huskers by Weatherman

PASADENA, Cal, Dec. 30 (U. P.).—The threat of rain came to Southern California in general and the Rose Bowl in particular today, bringing a mixed portion of gloom to Stanford’s fleet Indians and joy to Nebraska.

‘Because, should it rain in the next 24 hours—and the weatherman says it probably will—then Stanford’s chances of dazzling the Cornhuskers Jan. 1 with its particular brand of football sleight-of-hand are as dark as the clouds overhead. : Both teams took final workouts today: Stanford in the shadow of the Rose Bowl and Nebraska at nearby Occidental College, on turf still glistening with moisture from a 43-hour downfall. Neither practice was heavy.

Weather Changes Odds

With prospects for. a sluggish, cloggy gridiron, despite use of tarpaulins, should New Year's Day be wet, stock of Nebraska's rugged

team soared to a new high, and|

Stanford’s sagged cogrespondingly. Nebraska, which plays many of its early games in drizzles such as this and sometimes ends the season in a snowstorm, was jubilant over the prospect of meeting Stanford on a slow gridiron. That's just their element, Cornhusker supporters said; there's where the power plays that grind, grind, grind to touchdowns are most effective—because Stanford then must meet them at their own game. Maj. Lawrence (Biff) Jones brought his squad in from its desert retreat yesterday with but one casuality from the week of hard practice there. Quarterback Roy Petsch, suffering from an injured - back,

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Nebraskans Jubilant as Rain Threatens Stanf ord Strategy

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MONDAY, DEC. 30, 1940

Foemen Get

a secret between the two, but it is

at Dallas Wednesday.

Confidential

Len Eshmont, Fordham University star back, whispers into the ear of Jarrin’ John Kimbrough of the Texas Aggies. What he is saying is

no secret the two will say it with

power when. they square off in the Aggies-Fordham Cotton Bowl game

Before He Hits

By HENRY M’LEMORE United Press Sf{aff Correspondent LOS ANGELES, Dec. 30.—Notes | written while I wished it would rain

worked out lightly today, and Jones said he hoped to start him Wednes- | day, completing the powerhouse | backfield, since triple threat star Herman Rohrig has recovered from a mild influenza attack. Stanford, on the other hand, was having its- woes in addition to the threat of rain.

Standlee Injured

Coach Clark Shaughnessy worked “eapable of making just as poor a tg

long and hard with third-string fullback Rod Parker to fill the gap created behind big Norm Standlee when Milt Vucinish went to the sidélines with a wrenched knee,

Parker, a senior who played but 32 mminutes this season, is almost sure to see action on the reverse-shy Indian squad, because Standlee still favors a twisted ankle which placed him on crutches several weeks ago. The rest of the Stanford club suffers no outward bruises, but the team doctor said all players who contacted influenza during the recent epidemic could not be expected to be in top condition. The land-locked Cornhuskers saw the Pacific Ocean and the T Formation on their first day in California, and it’s a toss-up which impressed them the more. They saw the ocean after a luncheon in Santa Monica, and, due to a local and “unusual” storm, the Pacific was making a joke of the man who named it (name on request). Only five of the 43 Nebraska players had ever seen the ocean before, and even they were unable to be blase in the face of the mammoth rollers. From luncheon the Cornhuskers, with Major Biff Jones leading them in brave Army style, filed into Gilmore Stadium in Los Angeles to watch the Chicago Bears play the all-stars of the National Professional League. The major arranged this stop in order that the boys could see for themselves what the T Formation that Stanford will employ in the Rose Bowl looks like. As you know, the Bears are masters of the T style of offense, and the Stanfords were taught it by a Bears’ quarterback, Bernie Masterson, who is now a very unhappy man, he having been a star Nebraska player in the early 1930s,

Bears Even Rougher

If the ocean was rough, the Bears and their T Formation were rougher. The Bears generated almost as much power as did the long rollers of the Pacific, and they tore apart a squad composed of the super players of the other teams in the National League. ~ From the T formation the Bears threw short passes, lomg passes and laterals all over the place. They sent backs cracking through the line for touchdown runs, and they swept the ends. The All-Stars tried more defenses than a gangster's lawyer, but to no avail. The Bears were irresistible, winning 28 to 14, and both of the - All-Star touchdowns were in the nature of gifts, one coming on a forward pass - interference ruling and the other on a do-or-die pass py Sammy Baugh with but a second to go in the second period. The Cornhuskers saw all of this from choice seats on the 50-yard line. Not a detail could have escaped them. They didn’t have the luck to be placed in poor seats behind the goal line or back of posts. For 60 minutes they were treated to the offensive powers of the T Formation in all of itd scoring fury.

Morale Is Question

Having the Midwesterners watch the Bears is something like asking a fellow who is afraid of the dark to spend Halloween with Boris Karloff, or taking a man who is about to start a journey into the Indian jungle to the zoo to watch the cobras at play. 3 Perhaps Major Jones worked on the theory that after watching the damage the T Formation can do, the Cornhuskers will play their best game to be certain that they get back to Lincoln. hale and hearty. Too, he can always bolster the boys by reminding .them that the T Formation they saw was operated by such gents as Luckman, Nolting, Famiglietti, Osmanski, Stydahar, Turner, Musso, and others of like

play golf: Californians feel that Promoter Mike Jacobs would be def-| initely carrying a large piece of] Godoy out here for a fight with | Joe Louis . , . there is no use, they | believe, to import a second-rate, fighter all this distance when the state is alive with second-raters;

Crow Control

Contest Ready

Indiana's eighth annual crow control contest will officially get under way this week, Virgil M. Simmons, commissioner of the Department of Conservation, said today. Receipts of 26 entries from conservation clubs during the past week brings the total enrollment of clubs in the contest to 67. Entries were received during the week from the following clubs: Schnellville Conservation; Country Conservation, Decatur; Jamestown Conservation; Henryville Conservation; Eaton Conservation; . Ferdinand Fish and Game; Black Creek Conservation, Van Buren; Eastern Howard County Conservation; Bark- | ley Conservation, Jasper County; Gilliam Township Conservation, Jasper County; Frankton Conservation; Washington Township Conservation, Newton County; Por-| ter County Conservation; Porter X-Roads Conservation, Porter County; Green Township Conservation, Randolph County; Calvert Rod and Gun, South Bend; Walkerton Conservation; Metz Conservation; .Sullivan Conservation; East Enterprise Conservation; Battle Ground Conservation; Clinton Fish and Game; Rich Valley Conservation; Lynnville Conservation; Warrick County Conservation, and Reynolds Rod and Gun Club.

Strikes to Spare

By FREDDIE FISCHER World All-Events Champion SPARES LEFT standing on the left side of the alley should be taken down with the cross-over, or Brooklyn, hit. The delivery should be made from a point slightly to the right of the strike position and with the body turned somewhat to the left. It is important that the bowler take into consideration the angle of de- : flection in order to carry the pins which the ball does not hit, Otherwise, the stance and approach 1 should be made in just the same way as the strike roll, The diagram shows the approximate approach position and the course of the ball, although this will vary with each individual kegler and also with the spare set-up being aimed at. In | addition, there are other spare set-ups, with ‘the pins on the left side of the : alley which require similar shots. In shooting for the 4-5-7 spares, for instance, the ball should go between the 4 and 5 pins in such a way that the 4 pin will be deflected to carry the 7 pin. . In bowling at the 2-8 set-up, the kegler should aim just to right of the center of the 2 pin, so that the ball will carry through to topple the 8.

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Mac Pens California Notes

Fairways

showing against the champion as Godoy would . . . the idea seems to be to give [the home boy a break and let him get knocked silly by

{so I wouldn't have to go out and | Joe. . . . As a matter of fact, there

is a negro boy out here called Turkey Thompson who hits hard enough given even Joe trouble. . . .

| coal to Newcastle to bring Arturo|l saw him belt out Junior Munsell

at the Hollywood Legion stadium the other night and he’s better than bad, 88 n TOMMY HARMON, who figures make more out of being an AllAmerica footballer than anyone since Red Grange, definitely is under the Crosby radio wing. . .

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Baron Goalie Shuts Out the Battling Caps -

Roberts Is Invincible As Visitors Score 5°

By J. E. O'BRIEN The most encouraging

hockey news we have to report today is that Cleveland’s Barons won’t be back at the Coliseum until the evening of March 9. For two Sunday

nights now they’ve been our Capi-

|tals’ visitors, and yow can put them

down as about the most ungrateful, most unobliging week-end guests to scatter towels and skates around your extra dressing room. Their 3-3 tie here a week ago could have . been ' excused, but not last night's performance when they rammed in five goals and allowed the Caps nery a one. Such treat-

. {ment leaves the Caps*no choice but

to sock it to Philadelphia and Hershey on their travels this week. Bouncing goals off the iron pest, detaining Capitals hustling to their scoring duties and bottlenecking their own goal—it’s stuff like that that makes these Barons unwelcome. And to make it worse 5539 of the Caps’ best friends had accepted invitations last night to what was intended to be a pleasant party.

Moe Up to Old Tricks

The party did get off to a good start, with the Capitals being the life of it while goalie Moe Roberts performed ‘all his party tricks to keep his hosts from stuffing the black muffin into the enclosure he’s paid ta guard. To get the attention away from Moe, Norm Locking and Les Cunningham of the Barons skipped up to the Capitals’ end of the ice, whence the former took the latter’s pass from near the dasher and calmly drilled it home. All this was done with such ease that even the red-light-turner-onner missed .his cue, and our Jimmy Franks was put in the embarrassing position of having to discover the puck nestled behind him in the cage. : This, friends, was just the start. Twenty seconds later Don the Deacon went a-streaking past blue line and red line and clanged goal No. 2 off the far post. Don tried the same route a minute later, but this time Hal Jackson and Dick Behling were waiting for him and promptly separated Deacon and puck. -

All's Quiet—for 11 Minutes There followed a 11-minute lull

-'in the scoring while the Capitals

Bing told me while lining up a putt tried various ways and means of

for a birdie that he had correspond-| mowing down Moe.

ed with Tommy for a couple of years, would use him on his show, and that he was being handled by brother Everett Crosby. . . . Fred Purner, Santa Anita publicity man who has earned the title of the “Burbank of the Bangtails” because of his love of nature, is bursting with pride because the track’s infield will have 990,000 plants in bloom at the opering, the 28th of this month. .. . This floral display will be in the form of a giant fountain or .winner and loser alike to gaze upon in gwe. . . . In his rapture over the flowers Purner all but forgot to tell me that Santa Anita had voluntarily cut its take from 8 to 6 per cent, that 1400 horses were stabled in the barns, that the new tote board would revolutionize the tote board busihess, and that nearly

$1,000,000 in prize money would be) ting close, but there was nothing to

offered during the meeting. ... Charles S. Howard has not increased his popularity among horsemen by complaining of the weights assigned his stars, Kayak II and Mioland, for the $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap. . .. The general feeling is that the man who won with Kayak in 1939 and ran one-two with Seabiscuit and Kayak this year, should accept any weight up to a ton with a smile. .., . ” ” ”

SCALPERS are getting as high as $20 for a single Rose Bowl ticket and the price figures to go even higher before game time. . . . . |. . If you're looking for “sleepers” in the $10,000 Los Angeles open golf tournament, you might get down a little on George Von Elm and Johnny Dawson. . . . Von Elm, “the gentleman golfer,” is better than when he was a red-hot rival of Bob Jones, and Dawson, one of the finest swingers in the world, finally has solved the mystery of that mysterious stick, the putter.

Zale on First

(Chicago Card

The first major boxing bout of| cape.

{he 1941 season in Chicago will pit Tony Zale, the N. B. A. middleweight titleholder, against the newest 160pound sensation, Steve. Mamakos, at the Chicago Stadium in a 10-round non-title match Friday evening, Jan. 10,

Zale is a native of Gary, Ind, having done much of his fighting in and around Chicago. Mamakos, when he is not fighting, is a mem-

| ber of the National Guard in Wash-

ington, D. C. He earned this bout with Zale on. the strehgth of his terrific punching power and stamina, evidenced in his last Chicago

But nothing happened even though our Buck

Jones did get face-to-face with him |

at one time. ~¥ At 17:31 of this same first period the Barons got their third goal, ‘a bit of sneak business conducted by Freddie Robertson and Deacon while most of the Hoosiers were. busy body-checking an innocent bystander on the 50-yard line. Earl Bartholome’s goal, effected with the help of Oscar Aubuchon, gave Cleveland a 4-0 lead as the period ended,

{but the customers still were confi-

dent, for after all didn’t the Caps erase Cleveland’s 3-0 lead a week ago. In the second period the Barons stayed in their own territory for the most part, merely discouraging excursions By the Capitals, There were several of - these excursions, with all three Indianapolis lines get-

write on the scorecards. It was late in the period when Les Cunningham muscled in on a Capital gathering, pilfered the puck, sidestepped Behling and smacked home the fifth and final Cleveland goal. If you'll remember, he did the very same thing a week ago. ’

A Wild Time Had by All

All finesse and formality disappeared in the wild, wide-open third period. One of Connie Brown's shots hit the post and bounced the wrong way; Bill Thomson fired a

rebound into a pile of three foes|

and one friend, and Cunningham again broke up a Hoosier formation only to have the puck lodge in Franks’ generous padding. An Archie Wilder-Jackson play missed, after which Deacon, Jake Milford, Ossie Asmundson and Norm Locking demonstrated in front of the Indianapolis cage. But Cleveland didn’t need any goals and the Caps couldn't get any, so the party broke up. The summary: Indianapolis (0) Cleveland (5) Goal ...e000.e- Roberts

L. D. ....... Mackenzie

* +... Bareholome

Spares— (Indiana Jackson, McDonald, Thomson, er, Douglas, Fisher; son, acon, Asmunds Desilets, Locking, Adolph, Milford. Referee—Babe Dye; lineman, Stan Mec-

—S8Score by Periods— Indianapolis Cleveland

\ First Period Scoring—-(Cleveland) Locking (Cunningham), 5:19; Deacon (unasisted), 6:01; Robertson (Deacon, Milford), Bartholome (Aubuchon), 19:42. No

s 10315 penalties. . Second Period Scoring— (Cleveland) Cun- . 14,22, No penalties. er scoring. No penalties. aves—Franks (Indianapolis), 30; Roberts (Cleveland), 30.

Ice Hockey

AMERICAN LEAGUE Western Division . T GF GA Pts. 4 87 58 3

start when he defeated Milt Aron|H in one of the good slugfests in re- ND)

gent months. : Promoter Bill Rand is eXceptionally well pleased with the setup for his initial card of the 1941 season, having secured Davey Day, one of

|the high ranking lightweights, and

Nick Castiglone, a Chicago boy, for a 10-rounder which will serve to give the card a double windup. Day holds a decipion over Sammy Angot, the N. B. A\ lightweight champion.

Football Scores

Georgia Tech, 13; California, 0. North All-Stars, 14; '' 'AllStars, 12. .

: Chicago Bears, 28; Pro All-Stars, r i id

loo over the coa

RESULTS LAST NIGHT Cl s 3 . i opera ro nee, 3 SDT New Haven, 3; Springfield, 1 NEXT GAMES

WEDNESDAY—INDIANAPOLI delphia, Buffalo at Hershey

New Haven, Pittsburgh at Springfield,

Produces 11 Winners

LAFAYETTE, Ind., Dec. 30.—Purdue University basketball teams have won or shared the Big Ten title 11 times since Ward Lambert ching duties in

‘llike that, but he stuck with it,

at Phila. i at

By HARRY GRAYSON NEA Sports Editor SAN "FRANCISCO, Dec. 30.—The last time I saw Edward Patrick Madigan he was head coach of the Saint Mary's College football team. Slip Madigan, the old Notre Dame center, once was beaten as coach of e Galloping Gaels by California, 100 to 0, or something

and soon was trimming the Golden Bears as often as they repelled him. If a year ago you would. have ' told me I would now find Madigan general manager of a tremendous racetrack venture, I would have] laughed. Madigan’s only previous experience with the bangtails was as a $2 bettor, and he seldom went

to an oval to risk that amount.

Madigan says ‘he is still bewildered as to how he became general manager of the new $2,000,000 Golden Gate Turf Club, but the directors are by no means hesi®ant in stating specific reasons for hiring -him on a three-year contract at $15,000 a year. They engaged him because of his terrific crowd appeal, great popularity in northern California and proven executive ability. The Golden Gate track, whichy is to open New Year's Day is situated at Albany, between San Francisco Bay and the Berkeley foothills, 15 minutes across the Bay Bridge from San Francisco, eight

minutes from the thriving city of

Slip Madigan of St. Mary's Gridiron Fame Is Head Man at New $2,000,000 Racetrack

Slip Madigan . . . in a new field.

Oakland. There are 1,700,000 persons within easy distance of the strip. The course is unique from a structural standpoint. It has the only three-tiered race track grandstand in America. The grandstand, clubhouse and Turf and Paddock Club inclosure are under one roof, Through such construction, clubhouse customers, on the second tier,

and Turf and Paddock Club -mem-:

bers, on the third tier, are directly centered on the finish line. Grading of turns makes both front and back stretches 183 feet longer than those at any other mile track.

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The track is built on the side of a hill. The front of the | was blasted away to make a place for the front of the stand. "he back of the stand is, literally, the hill itself. This saved $1,500,00) in steel construction. It also. engbled the architect to outline roads that follow the contour of the hill, so patrons of the higher tiers can drive right up: to entrances. : , Golden Gate has the only paddock built in front of the stand, enabling racegoers to watch the hol'ses being saddled. | T

The Cinder in Pitt's Public Eye

PITTSBURGH, Dec. 30 (NEA). —Fritzie Zivic was an ea:y winner of a contest to deterinine the sports figure who did the most to publicize Pittsburgh during the year, Zivic, who won the world welterweight championship from Henry Armstrong, was given a $200 watch. a He beat out Billy Conn, who captured the award in 1939; Dr. Jock Sutherland, the Piltsburgher who coaches the Brooklyn football Dodgers; Bill McKechnie, Pittsburgher who manages (he Reds; Buff Donelli, Duquesng coach; Debs Garms, Pittsburgh's National League batting champion, and Frank Frisch, manager of the Pirates. .

Irish-Wildcat Tilt Ends 1940

Times Special NOTRE DAME, Ind., Dec. 30 Notre Dame will close its books on 1940 athletics at the latest possible moment—New Year's Eve against Northwestern in basketball at Evanston. This brilliant rivalry, which has seen Notre Dame win 24 games, lose

stand-off since Arthur (Dutch) Lonborg became the coach of the Wildcats in 1928. Notre Dame has won 13 games, lost 10, and tied one in the last 12 seasons. The tie occurred on New Year's Eve, 1935, when the teams

won, 20 to 19. It was discovered later that a Notre Dame free throw had not been recorded, and Althletic Director Kenneth L, (Tug) Wilson of the Evanston school declared that the game would henceforth be re garded as a tie. As interesting as the freak tie, is the fact that 14 of the last 26 games have been settled by 4 points or fewer. Last year marked a depare ture from the small victory margins, but the series was even, Northwest« ern winning, 47 to 37, at Evanston, while Notre Dame took the return game, 56 to 27, here. Capt. Eddie Riska, forward; Larry Ryan, guard; and Charles Butler, sophomore center, on the Notre Dame starting team, are all from Chicago. Bob Smith, starting guard, is from Joliet. Art Pope, junior fore

ward, is also a Chicagoan.

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