Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 December 1940 — Page 7
, DEC. 31, 1940
OFF THE
BACKBOARD
By J. E. O'BRIEN
FOR A WHILE last night it looked like old times at the Tech gym—times when basketball points were Precious and forwards and ‘+. guards and centers didn’t romp around like two-year-old colts and a popcorn vendor could make change without missing four baskets.
There was the half-time score— Tech, 10; Cathedral, 10—and you knew it was correct for its keeping was in the capable hands of Brother Mel and Coach Robert Ball. Mr, Ball seemed especially delighted with the state of affairs at the midway point, since he is one of the old school that believes " & two-pointer should be shot with two hands and that a firewagon has no place except in a hose house, - Really, friends, you don’t realize what a comfort it is to follow a game of roundball and: be able to keep up with the scoring. But if we were able to keep up with the scoring, Cathedral wasn't able to keep up with Tech until the final few minutes of that first half when a couple of free tosses by Ott Hurrle and Jim O'Neal squared things. Up to that time the Greenclads had managed to stay a head in front of the Irish, while Cathedral's Hurrle was careful not to bump the injured nose of Tech’s Roy Hurley, and young Hurley was showing the same regard for Hurrle's sore proboscis. # t- ® MAYBE THIS retarded style of play was more what the crowd wanted, for the gentleman to our left said Tech's yelling was its loudest of the season. After all, a cheer leader can’t do much with a couple hundred youthful throats if he works in perpetual fear of being flattened on a fast break. But this peaeeful pace was gone when the third quarter opened, and most of the blame can be laid on a tow-headed Tech sophomore who goes under the monicker of Bob Wilson. Young Wilson, who isn’t. very long or very wide, shot thrice from the field during this eight minutes and made every one and did the same stunt from the free throw bar. All of Wilson’s field goals were from the outfield, where a guy has to depend on his eye and not his height or mobility. Thanks to Mr. Wilson, Tech had a 25-20 lead at the threequarter mark, and the situation wasn’t what Coach Joe Harmon would have called pleasant. 'But his Irish, under the guidance of Hurrle, clipped the Greenclads’ margin to three points and managed to stay within this distance for a while. i ” ” THEN WILSON connected ‘again from the free bar, Hoot Meyer slipped under and Harry Hagans showed his marksmanship at the foul line. - Meanwhile, Cathedral was being forced to work under a close guard and couldn’t shake anybody loose. The final score, if you haven't heard, was: Tech, 34; Cathedral, 26. Through the courtesy of the gentleman to our left, we can tell you that Tech bucketed 11 of 41 field goal attempts for a mark of .268, while Cathedral scored direct . hits on 10 of 52 tries for a .192 percentage. This same gentleman to our left—who is a rabid Tech supporter, even though his dad teaches at Howe—said the Greenclads are hitting the basket now the way they should and he said as he left that we might warn Rushville tor beware Wednesday night. Mr. Ball shook his head as he left and muttered something about the kids running their legs off these days.
.Cage Scores
STATE COLLEGES Indiana, 48; Kentuc oky, 55 Indiana State, 75; entenary, 31. OTHER COLLEGES Princeton, 30; Mic a 2. LaSalle, 41; Santa 35. Creighto n, 3%; Michigan State, Colorado, 47; St. s, 42. Pittsburgh, is; ohte. "States, ” 1 36: ayne, 33. Was. Shinkton, 46; University of
House of 39;
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Loiig Island U., 61; Ric Tennessee, 31; Austin ay Normal, 23. Temple, 40; Kansas, 35. Seton Hall, 34; Kansas State, 29. Augsbury (Minneapolis), 24; Eau Claire (Wis.) Teachers, 2 Geneva, 12; St. 3 ancl; 68 Jovertime), Dayis-Eikins, 49; Hudson Colles. (Jersey 0 on State, 61; Nebrasgk 2 35 t. ry’s, 44; Utah State, Denves "38: Western State, 32. HIGH SCHOOLS Tech, 34; Cathedral, 26. Virginia Poly, 42; ‘Langley Field,
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CHARLESTON, W. Va. Pec, 31 (NEA)—Pop Galligan, 62, pro at the Capitol View Golf Club, got his first hole in one in 50 years recently, scoring an ace on a 165-yard par 3_hole.
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Grayson Is Tired of the Same Old New Year's Games, So He'll Cover the Pineapple Bowl Classic in Honolulu
He Wants to Ride a Surf Board
By HARRY GRAYSON : NEA Sports Editor SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 31— I've seen so many games in the Rose Bowl that I decided to steer clear of it this trip. I don’t want people to get it into their heads that I go with the lease. : i Sugar Bowl? Fine, and in a grand place — New Orleans — but I don’t want to be around when Bob Wilson of the Knox ville News Senti- ® nel starts ex- & plaining wh y Tennessee remains unbeaten in the south but Harty Grayson tls apart on New Year’s Day.
Cotton Bowl? I couldn’t stand watching Sleepy Jim Crowley while ' John Kimbrough blasts Fordham’s blocks of granite. " Orange Bowl? Ted Husing has a copyright on that one, and I'm not one to infringe on the eminent broadcaster’s privileges.
Sun Bowl? No, sir-ee!! Something always happens to me when I visit El Paso. Pancho Villa chased me across the border there in 1912, and a smallpox epidemic forced us to visit Juarez surreptitiously when we were en route to the Rose Bowl along about this time in 1933. It was an. out-and-out dilemma until A. H. Vieira yanked me out of it—kerplunk!!
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WOULD 1I be interested in seeing. the Rainbows of the University of Hawali tackle the Fresno State Bulldogs in the third annual Pineapple. Bowl classic in Honolulu come New Year's afternoon? : Well, there was a lot to be considered. This being a sports writer is a hard life. In the first place, I would have to pack up and leave at a moment’s notice winter sports adjacent to Cleveland and New York. To reach the famous archipelago, I would have to travel 3000 miles on an extra fare train, deep in the plush of a lounge car,
- Honolulu Junior
Butler Faces High-Scoring Musketeers:
Xavier University’s marauding Musketeers will seek additional booty Saturday night, when they meet the Butler University basketball team in the Fieldhouse at 8:15 o'clock. The Cincinnati tomm. does not bother with point-a-minute games. It has been keeping scoreboards busy all season with an average slightly
fi} | better than 61 points per 40 minutes.
University of Hawaii gridders take fime out from practice for pineapple juice and a bowl of poi. Noelle Smith and Captain Joe Kaulukukui are served refreshments by Gertrude Kamakau and Martha Levy, hula-dancing co-eds at the university.
and another 2000 miles on the luxury liner, Matsonia. But the game, said Vieira, who happens to be president of the Chamber of Commerce, required my presence. So did Fresno State, I made u my mind, after an extensive vestigation brought out that the Bulldogs journeyed 10,000 miles to keep their appointments with the Healani Athletic Club on Christmas day and the Hawaii Rainbows on New Year's Day. They arrived on the islands via Little Rock, Ark... where they warmed up for the invasion of - hula hula land by dropping a 13-0 decision to Arkansas State. If a trip to Arkansas affects the Bulldogs like that what will happen to them when the Roaring Rainbows get hold of them where the balmy breezes blow—on or off sea-legs and with or without mid-year examinations? But to get back to my decision to visit Honolulu, I at once sensed
that Fresno State needed a press
agent much more than a booker and travel bureau chief.
And when Vieira brought in that part about the parade of flo-
. ral floats, adorned by the Terri-
tory’s outstanding beauties, he had a deal.
os » » FRESNO STATE, coached by Rabbit Bradshaw, the old Nevada tailback, isn't as bad as that
Arkansas State result might indicate. The Bulldogs won seven, held San Diego State to a scoreless tie, and their only other loss was suffered at the hands of Pop Warner's very good San Jose State club, 14-7. They beat Whittier, 13-7; Santa Barbara, 20-0; West Texas State, 15-6; Amos Alonzo Stagg’s College of the Pacific, 3-0 Nevada, 7-6; Texas Mines, 16-0, and Colorado Mines, 28-0. Pop Warner considers them the finest outfit his San Jose Staters deployed against all fall. But ‘my traveling companion on. this trip is Walter Macfarlane,
Polynesian
and he says the Roaring Rain--
bows, who trimmed Denver this year and who are now coached . by Luke Gill, former Oregon
State star, will take all the bite out of the Bulldogs. 2 2 2
WALTER MACFARLANE sounds Scotch, but he’s an Hawaiian, now an important advertising executive in his native land. Walter played plenty of quarterback for Hawaii under Otto Klum in 1926-27-28 and ’29, and if any fair share of the current crop of Rainbows are as big and formidable‘ as he is, the Bulldogs will indeed find the chawing tough. Scotty Macfarlane also promises me outrigger canoe rides, says he’ll make me stand on my own feet on a surf board. Husky Macfarlane says he is as sure that he will make me stand on.my pins on a surf board as he is that the Roaring Rainbows will shellack the Fresno State Bulle dogs, which is the only thing that fails todispel lingering doubt. Alcha. : And, as for the remainder of those bowl games—kulkuli!! In Hawaiian, Walter Macfarlane tells me, that means “nuts.”
'Putt It Again, Mister Duke,’ Said the Caddy (H.R.H. Did)
By JOE WILLIAMS
NEW YORK, Dec. 31.--Putting one little word after another, and
| whatever became of 1940? From an
official Albany source we hear no recommendation will be made by the legislative committee to reduce the racetrack take. Nor will the committee make any recommendation as to the daily double. This is optional with the tracks, anyway. War or no war, there is still much to be thankful for; for example, the radio comics have stopped gagging about their Christmas gifts. Ring magazine has named Max Baer as Joe Louis’ foremost challenger but fortunately for Baer there is nothing compulsory about it. Bill Crouse, MiamiBiltmore’s tub thumper, has sent us the score card used in a golf match the Duke of Windsor played over the Coral Gables’ course some days ago. The Duke had 44 going out and 45 coming back. He started ut 1k three straight pars. At Sh Srey. Joe Wiliam fifteenth he bet two golf balls with Capt. Alastair Mackintosh he would get down in at least five. He was on the green with his third and narrowly missed a birdie four. “I would have done anything for a four there,” commented the Duke. Hearing this, his Negro caddie tossed the ball back to the royal visitor and said, “Putt it again mister Duke, and keep the ball a little mo’ to the left.” The Duke putted again and the ball dropped. Sam Snead and Gene Sarazen were the two other members of the foursome. a 64 and Sarazen a 71. The Duke is listed on the score card as H. R. H. Nobody else was allowed on the course while the match was being played. Hagen, Sarazen, Armour and Bob Jones are going to play two benefit matches for Red Cross, March 15-16. The Duke, now governor general of the Bahamas, is to referee and keep score. ” ” 2
“MIKE JACOBS may try to persuade Jimmy Bronson to join Billy Conn’s camp when the Pittsburgher starts training for Louis next summer. It would be smart ballyhoo. Bronson is one of the few gents in the beak busting game who truth-
{fully believes Conn will whip the
champion. You may recall Bronson was a member of the gallant minority who rode with Tunney against Dempsey, and in those days the odds were just as prohibitive and the prospects of success seemingly just as bleak. Considering the circumstances Bronsen would fit into the picture perfectly and since he is imaginative and a gentleman of a few million well chosen words there would be no dearth of copy for the authors. Our Boots or Whirlaway will be the winter book favorite to win the
Kentucky Derby. Connie Mack's
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charge that the Yankees didn’t bear down until it was too late last season would seem to demand some sort of rebuttal on the part of Joe McCarthy or Ed Barrow. Those could be fighting words.
Wonder why Mrs, Stew Iglehart always looks so startled when a cameraman snaps - her picture? Sonja’s Xmas present from Mr. Dan Henie Topping was a solid gold dresser set, whatever that is. Hazy Daisy thinks the Brenner Pass is something Sammy Baugh cooked up. The oft-beaten football coach has it softer than Mussolini; he can at least explain he was building characvter. A number of conservative old Blues are demanding that Ducky Pond be kept as Yale head coach for another year to see what he can do on his own, especially since a better than average freshman squad is coming up. They point out that when Yale won in the past Greasy Neale got the credit and when Yale lost Pond got the'blame. There could be something in that, too.
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NEW YORK isn't going to look the same without the World’s Fair next year but the scene will not be changed too sharply. Ott and Hubbel will be back at the Polo Grounds. Red Blaik’s decision to move from Dartmouth to West Point must have been hurriedly made. Up to a few days before the shift was announced the coach was scouting = prospective high school
|stars in this vicinity. Incidentally,
the West Point coaching school will have two representatives in the bigger bowls New Year's Day; Major Bob Neyland at New Orleans and Captain Biff Jones at Pasadena. Casey Stengel’s Xmas card was drawn by Al Demaree. Wonder how many people still remember him as a tall, lean pitcher under McGraw? San Francisco's East-West game is the only post-season contest that has a public-spirited purpose. tie other bowl games are financial windfalls for the competing colleges. They split the swag. But nobody makes any youth out of the EastWest games. Except for expenses, all the money goes to the rehabilitation of crippled children, The slogan, “strong legs run that weak may walk” is enlightening and accurate. The game is 16 years old. Babe Ruth once booted the opening kick off. Nowadays the President of the United States starts play by pressing a button. The half-time spectacle outstrips the imaginative mind of even a Billy Rose. Four thousand men in uniform carrying hundreds of massed flags, march to the music of a 1000-piece band. Andy Kerr is the Eastern team’s perennial coach. He doesn’t get a dime but says it’s his happiest assignment year after year. For dignity and
decency the East-West game stands Miami. Mississippi State were Southern|s,
alone.
N. C. A. A. Sets 1941 Track, Field Dates
NEW YORK, Dec. 31 (U. P.).— The National Collegiate A. A. track and field championships of 1941 will be held at Stanford University June 20-21, President W. B. Owens of the N. C. A. A. announced today. Sites and dates of nine other athletic tournaments were announced as follows: Wrestling, Lehigh University, March 21-22; Boxing, Pennsylvania State, March 27-29; Swimming, Michigan State, March 28-29; Fencing, Ohio State, March 29; Basketball Finals, Kansas City, Mo March 30-31; Gymnastic championship, University of Chicago, April 12; Tennis, Merion Cricket Club, Pa., June 23-28; Golf, Ohio State, June
23-28; ° Cross Country, an State, Nov, 24. :
All
Underdogs Get Coaches’ Vote
(Continued from Page Six)
the poll follow: Lou Little, Columbia; Bo McMillin, Indiana; Herb Kopf, Manhattan; D. X. Bible, Texas U.; Mal Stevens, New York U.; Harry Stuhldreher, Wisconsin; Dick Harlow, Harvard; Ray Morrisgn, Temple; Moon Mullins, St. Ambrose (Iowa); Fritz Crisler, Michigan; Ossie Solem, Syracuse; Frank Murray, Virginia; Doc Spears, Toled.; Buff Donnelli, Duquesne; Joe Meyer, Cincinnati; Don Peden, Ohio University; Hooks Mylin, Lafayette; ¥rank Wilton, Miami U. (Ohio); Pete Cawthon, Texas Tech;
Wallace Butts, Georgia, and Rex Enright, South Carolina.
Nebraska Big Favorite
One of the strangest things about the poll was the preponderance of opinion for Nebraska. Every coach who voted for Nebraska was convinced that the Cornhuskers would win. Many of the Stanford votes were lukewarm or sentimental. Only two coaches out of the 21 who voted really thought Stanford would win because it has a’ superior football team. The Cotton Bowl game developed new angles. Several Texas and Southern coaches favored Fordham and when they were asked why replied: “The Texas A. & M.s team heart isn’t in the game. The boys didn’t want to play in any bowl game after they were beaten by Texas. Pressure caused them to accept the Cotton Bowl bid.” One prominent coach who knows the situation at both Fordham and Texas A. & M. said, “If the Aggies think they are just going to duck their feet in water they'll be licked soundly. If they dive in and play to the best of their ability they'll win. But I doubt if they can do it. Mental attitude still plays a vital|R part in football.”
B. C. Votes Weak
Most of the heavy thinkers believe Tennessee is a cinch in the Sugar Bowl game. The six votes cast for Boston College were by three East-|L. ern coaches who admitted they were hoping and by three Middle
West coaches who admitted they A
didn’t know an awful lot about the two clubs.
One coach who must be unnamed |}
said, “I hope Boston College has a good football ‘club because if they |B do it'll be a swell game in New Orleans. I know Tennessee is good and I know the boys are up. "If Boston College isn’t ready for its
toughest me of the’ year it'll be P dri
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Contrary a public opinion the |&s coaches believe that Georgetown |4
will vanquish Mississippi State eas-
ily in the Orange Bowl game at|p
Three. of the six who picked coaches who admitted’ they made
they selection solely on sentiment. ey
The ’ level-headed = pickers rank Georgetown as superior in material, both as to quality and quantity.
Pour I+ On
Times Special TERRE HAUTE, Ind. Dec. 31.—The Gentlemen from Centenary College must be a bit groggy foday after the 75 to 81 shellacking Indiana State's cagers gave them last night. The Evansville Aces handed the Shreveport, Iowa, five the short énd of a 80 to 50 score. last week and the loss to the Sycamores gave Hoosier teams 155 points in the two games. Schlater led State's scoring : with eight field goals and two
|| dianapolis Kautskys °
5 Teams Get ‘Kiss of Death’
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pass from center when two inches from a touchdown, or have the quarterback play “K-K-Katy” on' a Srophons betore each forward pass P a, Ye And it'll be the same at Miami and El Paso. Mississippi has one of the greatest lines ever turned out: in the South, a line that Georgetown shouldn’t do much against, but the Southerners will work out some scheme to hand me another loser, even if they have to|g spread a box lunch of turnip greens and possum right in the middle of a huddle and talk things over between courses. You have every right to wonder why I go on making selections of football games. If I knew, I'd tell you. I have spent many an hour trying to figure it out, and heaven knows ‘how many dollars I have wasted on phrenologists, gypsy tea leaves experts, palmista and alienists in search of an answer. I'll tell you one thing, though—if to-
morrow’s selections all go haywire] .
I promise not to make another pick until Thursday at the earliest. Hold everything! I've got to make another prediction right now. I forgot about the East-West game. Give me the East. Now I feel bétter. What a fool I would have been to miss a prediction on that one.
Bowling
Last night's high scores: F. Komlanee, W. 10th St. Businessmen 675 R. Klein, Fraterna 673 C. Koch, South Side Businessmen H. Fon, W. 10th St. Businessmen . B. Schock, Reformed Church 649 B. Hanley, St. Joan of pid National... 643 R. 10th S Ww. L. J. B.
gic, W. 10 t. Businessmen ... Hohlt Jr., Reformed Church Fout, South Side Businessmen Bright, W. 10th St. Businessmen ... 63 Haagsma, Auto Transportation .... Roveraon,. Opti Carlsted, Auto Transportation . Guntz, formed ure, . Wilbur, Auto a3 hapertation 3 Broun, State Hishw McCome, South Side Bu a Transportation rieje, Holy Williamson, South Side Businessmen., 601
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Kautskys Vanquish
Evansville Bakers
Times Special : EVANSVILLE, Dec. 31—The Inprofessional basketball team continued its vic-| tory march with a 49-34 win over the Lincoln Bakers here last night. The Indianapolis team into an early lead and was never in danger. Scoring was evenly divided,
Young getting 11 points, Sines, Ma- |
laska and Andres, 10 each, and Ertle, 8. ; The Kautskys are scheduled to meet the New York Rens Jan, 7 at} Tipton and Jan. 8 at Ff. Wayne. The Kautskys will play Oshkosh
(Wis.), present leaders of the Na-| tional Professional 3 at Butler
608 defense. os| Jackson and Buck Jones will form
Jumped |
It will be the first game of the new year for Butler who has dropped its last three games after a good beginning. Tony Hinkle, Butler coach, is not making any new year resolu-
‘|tions or turning over new leafs. In-
stead he intends to make the most
‘lout of the fact that Xavier sacrifices
defense for the sake of making
points. : The Musketeers admit their defense is an open door affair but as long as their “tit for tat” field goaling is a jump ahead of the opponent they feel safe. In six games this year the Queen City team has registered 367 points, the highest average of any team in Ohio. * Bill Gates and Jack Tetens, the two starting forwards, are tied
{with 80 points apiece for individual
scoring honors. Xavier has never scored less than 57 points per game and has won over Kentucky Wesleyan, Youngstown, Centre, Transylvania and William & Mary. Ohio University is the only school that found the open door the easiest door and won 69 to 57. . On the other hand, Butler could match Xavier's scoring punch if it doubled its average points per game.
Coaches ‘Fill’
Nine Vacancies
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talk approached these conclusions, which may be right or wrong: . 1. Paul Brown of Massilon (Ohio) High School still has the inside track for the coaching vacancy at
Ohio State, although Athletic Director L. W. St. Jonn has been interviewing “candidates” in oevies. St. John leaves tonight for the university and will make no announcement until after a huddle with the athletic council. 2. Tuss McLaughry of Brown has virtually clinched the Dartmouth job, although certain members of the athletic council favor a Dartmouth alumni like Adam Walsh of Bowdoin or Bill Clerk of Exeter. New York members of the council met last night. Announcement may be delayed until Jan. 10. 3. Francis Schmidt, who recently resigned from Ohio State, has practically acepted the post at Tulsa U., where he once coached when that insttiution was known as “Kendall College.” 4. Chet Benefield, who coached at Tulsa last season, is understood to have accepted the berth at Washington and Jefferson. 5. Red Rendall, former famous Brown U. quarterback and more recently coach at Haverford College, is said to be wrapped up for delivery at Maine. 6. Vic Hanson, once pilot at Syracuse, is rated a front-runner for the biloking post at Massachusetts
Bi arguetie is trying to get Herb Kopf of Manhattan. Little was said about the vacancies at Colorado or Springfield College, but there was plenty of conjecture about Yale. Some of the rumor artists insisted that the entire Yale coaching staff would be cleaned out, including Ducky Pond, but most of the feedbox boys | opined that Ducky would remain with the Elis for another year and pick his staff.
Capitals Sign Defenseman
fwenty-one.year.ota Doug Mcaig, defense mate of Dick Behling last year in amateur hockey, today signed a contract with the Indianapolis Capitals and will report for tomorrow night's game at Philadelphia, Herbie Lewis announced. The husky defenseman has been
3 attending the University of Detroit
and has been sought by the Capitals and Detroit Red Wings for two
641| years, according to Lewis.
He and Behling played together on the Holzbaugh team of the Mich-
ag | i8an-Ontario League Which won the
U. S. amateur title. He will team with Behling in one combination, while Hal
the other duo. Lewis also announced that Joe Fisher has been ordered to Fepors to the Red Wings: this even ng.
| State A. A. U. Girls st Tourney Feb. 6-7-8
The state A. A. U. girls’ basketball tournament is to be held Feb. 6, 7 and 8 at the Noblesville Arm-
2%, 0ry, with the winning team being
eligible to represent Indiana in the national tournament in March.
553 Trophies and individual awards also
will be given. All state girls teams desiring to enter are requested to file an entry with Everett Babb, tournament
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By GENE PLOWDEN United Press Staff Correspondent
MIAMI, Fla., Dec. 31.—Two' fine football teams—Georgetown and Mississippi State— donned bright new jerseys today and limbered up in preparation for their battle in the
Orange Bowl tomorrow.
Georgetown won the toss of a coin and had first claim to the field where the game will be played before a capacity crowd of 40,000. The Hoyas wore blue cotton jerseys, silver football pants and silver helmets. They went through limbering-up exercises and: punting and passing drills for an hour, then left the field to Mississippi State, which also held a light workout to get the boys accustomed to the turf of Roddey Burdine Memorial Stadium. Georgetown wound up practice yesterday and Coach Jack Hagerty said his 34 men were ready. Hagerty Is Confident “The team is in good shape and I am confident we will win,” Hagerty said. “The boys have had plenty of practice and are more primed than they were for the Boston College game.” Boston College, incidentally, was the only team to beat the Hoyas in three seasons, and that game ended 19-18. : Hagerty planned to start Joe Daniels, 200-pound tackle from Bloomfield, N. J. instead of Al Blozis, a 240-pounder from Jersey City. Daniels will do the punting and his work during yesterday's final practice was so impressive Blozis was moved to the second team. Jim Reichey, center from Bradley Beach, N. J., and Bill Nealon, tackle from Scranton, Pa.,”will serve as cocaptains for the Hoyas. Kicker on Sidelines Mississippi State, which has not practiced since Saturday except for a light session yesterday, apparently had reached its peak and Coach Allyn McKeen said the team was ready and confident of victory. Mississippi State’s weakness, if there is one, appears in the punting department, since Sonny Bruce, best kicker on the team, is out with a sprained ankle and may -not play. Georgetown’s line outweighs Mississippi State, 207 to 196 pounds, and the backfield tops the Southerners, 187 to 173. Nevertheless, the Maroons continued the favorites, at 8-5, and most Mississippi backers were giving six points at even money. Bands and trainloads of supporters of both schools arrived late yesterday and enthusiasm continued to mount as game time. approached.
Sun Shines Hot On Ohio Team
EL PASO, Tex., Dec. 31 (U. P.).— Coach Bill Edwards borrowed jerseys today for his Western Reserve players, who meet Arizona State of Tempe in the Sun Bowl tomorrow. “If we don’t use lighter shirts,” Edwards said, “this warm sun may melt our boys down before the first half is over.” The Redcats brought along the heavy jerseys they had used in the North and Edwards said he might
Mississippi State Is Favorite In the Betting but Hoyas Are Confident of Victory
~ Three Blanks
By NEA Service NEW YORK, Dec. 31.-Jo8 DiMaggio failed to hit home runs in only the Cleveland and Washington baseball parks during the 1940 season. The Yankee outfieider collected 17 home runs in the Yankee Stadium, five at Sportsmen's Park, St. Louis; four at Comiskey Park, Chicago; three at Fenway Park, Boston, and one each at Briggs Stadium, Detroit, and Shibe Park, Philadelphia. Some of the Yankees’ games with Cleveland were played in League Park, others at Municipal Stadium.
Oppose Shrine
(Game Plans
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 31 (U. P.).—Officials of the 16th annual East-West football game today protested the British War Relief Asesociation’s plans to rematch the Sollege stars in’ Los Angeles Suna The East-West game, to be played
tomorrow in Kezar Stadium for the
Shrine Hospital for Crippled children, is a 60,000-ticket sellout, but Bill Coffman, Shrine game manager, said the war relief game would turn the East-West match into “part of a barnstorming trip for athletes and may break down all the good will we have been building with the universities for 15 years.” Another Shriner said, “This thing is an absolute steal.”
Stars Are Lined Up
~ Capt. Norman Glover, Southern California secretary of the War Relief Association, announced yesterday that 39 of the 44 college seniors had agreed to play in the Los Angeles benefit. : Coach Babe Holiingbery of Washington State, boss of the Western squad, said he “didn’t think they could get 11 men out of our squad.” Glover had named 19 Western and 20 Eastern stars willing to play. Tom Harmon of Michigan, the East’s biggest star, said, “The boys wanted to play for a worthy cause.” He said the relief association had agreed to fly them back to their col= leges for Monday classes.
Fears Consequences
All four coaches involved in the East-West game—Hollingbery, Matty Bell, Andy Kerr and Bernie Bierman—hoped their players would not take part in the second game. How= ard Jones of U. S. C. and Doug Kerr, Harmon’s high school coach, are scheduled to coach the teams for the Los Angeles game. Glover said the game would be strictly within amateur bounds and
{the players would receive only ex=
penses and transportation. But Coffman said he feared the players’ eligibility would be affected.
Ben Kish Drafted
TONOWANDA, N. Y., Dec. 31 (U. P.).—Ben Kish, 23, former Univer= sity of Pittsburgh star quarterback who played with the Brooklyn
Dodgers in the National Profes-
sional Football League last season, today was ordered by his selective service board to report for induction into the Army on Jan. 16.
have to accept an offer from Texas, College of Mines coaches for the use of their uniforms. Edwards took his squad for a sight-seeing tour of the city and Juarez, Mexico, this morning to get players’ minds off the. game. said he would- put them through a stiff final workout this afternoon. Edwards said he. was worried about the ability of his line to stop Arizona State's speed thrusts and added he “might have to resort to a policy of matching their offense with one of our own and try to outscore them.” Gamblers were giving seven points on Western Reserve, mainly because they felt the Ohioans still hadn't gotten over the train ride from Cleveland or become accustomed to the 3700-foot altitude here. Coach Dixie Howell said his Arizona State squad was set, cheered by the news that Bob Lackey, star end, had sufficiently recovered from an attack of influenza to be able to play. Howell slated a light drill for this afternoon.
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For the New Year
Ostermeyer Paper Co. 219 West South St.
A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR
To Our Many Friends and Customers. .
Indianapolis Belting & Supply Co. 34 S. Capitol Ave.
BEST WISHES
for a Happy New Year
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38 N. Pennsylvania St.
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the development of our city.
firms we have served.
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