Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 January 1941 — Page 8

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By Eddie Ash

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_ KEEPING THE hot stove league burning and with the American Association Press Bureau shoveling the - coal: Nine American Association pitchers made the come plete cycle in 1940 by hanging one or more defeats on each of the other seven opponents. . . . There could hardly have been a more even division, since the records list two from Minneapolis and one each from the other seven clubs. : * - Two veterans, Elon Hogsett, a southpaw, and Harry Kelley, a righthander, were the Miller pair, while the others turning the et were Don Hendrickson, Kansas City righthander; Tom Sunkel, Columbus portsider; Wes Flowers, Louisville lefthander: Vedie Himsl, St. Paul righthander; Bob Logan, Indianapolis scuthpaw; . Moose Marcum, Toledo righthander, and Jiinmy DeShong, Milwau-

kee righthander. , . . Thus four southpaw: and five righthan were included. 9 Te Mpa

Looking at the situation with reverss english, eight A. A.

'. moundsmen were defeated by every other club jn the league. . . .

Three of the eight are also included in the list of nine who defeated every opponent. They are Logan, Marcum and Himsl. The other five, beaten at every port of call, included Red Evans of Minneapolis, Pete Sivess and Red Barreit of Indianapolis, Buck Marrow and George Blaeholder of Milwaukee. . . . Kansas City, Columbus and Louisville had no pitcher who [lost to every other club. Only three Kansas City pitchers held decisions against every other club. , . . They were Hendrickson, Lindell and Wensioff. . . , Hendiriceson, while defeating every club, failed to lose only to Mil= waukee,. Lindell defeated everyone but Minneapolis and didn’t lose to Columbus, Indianapolis or Louisville. , .|. Wensloff failed 70 defeat only Toledo and was not beaten by Indianapolis or Minneapolis. Ernie Bonham beat six clubs but mide no appearances against . Bt. Paul, while Charley Stanceu likewise held triumphs over six teams, but didn’t show against Louisville, -

How Hoodier Mound Staff Fared

' THE INDIANAPOLIS situation at a glance: Logan. Sivess, French, Caldwell and Barrett faced all the Tribe foes during the son, while Johnny Vander Meer missed a decision only against inneapolis. , . . He held a victory over/every club he faced except nsas City. “ Logan, as reported, won from and lost to everyone, , . « Sivess Jost to all other clubs and couldn't beat 'I'cledo or Milwaukee, while

Barrett, also losing to everyone, failed to ton Louisville, Kansas City,

thwarted 10 times,

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St. Paul or Minneapolis. : French garnered all his victories from ‘Toledo, Columbus and St.

Paul, and lost to every one but St. Paul, a club he faced only once, . + « Caldwell could beat only Louisville and Milwaukee, and lost to all but Milwaukee. 2 8 8 ® 8» 8

FIVE COLUMBUS pitchers appeared against every opponent, Bunkel, F. Barrett, Melton, Brecheen and White. . « « Surnkel beat everyone and didn’t lose to St. Paul; {Barrett couldn’t stop Kansas City but wasn’t beaten by Toledo or St. Paul; Melton was foiled by Milwaukee and never lost to Minneapolis; Brecheen found Kansas City his nemesis, but had perfect records against Toledo, Milwaukee and St. Paul. White failed to get into the victory column against the Blues but didn’t lose to St. Paul, Minneapolis or Indianapolis. . . . Murry " Dickson defeated all six clubs he faced buf never opposed Indianapolis while Lee Sherrill likewise held wins over six clubs but no

decisions against louisville, -

Omaha Fans Soften Up Own Goalie

ICE CHIPS from the Detroit Times: The Red Wings brought more than a victory back from their charity hockey game with the Omaha Knights, a Detroit farm team. They brought a new goalie story for the Detroit Hockey Club collection, which Jack Adams "was ha enough to relate. 1 : “1 id worried. when we came into Omaha,” said Adams, “by * the fact that! Minneapolis had just beaten the Knights, 7 to 3. I knew Floyd Perras was a better goalie then that—we’'d considered for the Red Wings. But I"so0 got the answer. - | Hl ne civic organizations iy staged a big ice carnival as 4 Christmas benefit. One of the leading citizens conceived the idea of having goalie Perras get in the net and letting fans come down on the ice and shodt at him for 25 cents a whack. i 2 8 = 2 = 2

. IDEA was a great success—-for the carnivél. The pros : Ege $140 from Perras’ efforts as the Omaha hockey fans paid for 560 shots and kept Johnny i th ire in his pads until middodging pucks. They say only one got past nim. i night o iy ot Johnny faced Minneapolis. That's when Johnny made his real contribution -to- the benefi. The fans had softened

up their own goalie.” ‘They Don’t Always Catch Gee Najiping LEAGUE diamond chatter and how the Cleveland Plain BI na in the Gerald (Iron Head) Walker deal’ “Glee Walker's fame as a chap given to carious base ruuning habits ‘has obscured thie fact that he has been, ever since his advent into American League, one of the foremost base stealers in the game, “In fact, if base stealing records were kept on the basis of pers _ centage, as batting, pitching and fielding records are, the new Cleveland outfielder would have been the league champion last

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“walker stole 21 bases out of 25 attimpts, for a percentage of $10, while George Case, who was credited with 35 thefts, was which made his percentage only .788. * “In nine years in the league Walke' has stolen more than 20 pases five times—s record which few players can approacii. = s x ' k » =»

| WITH THE ANNUAL football Bowl games over cen spring practice be far behind? . .. The boys veally deserve time out for grind of gridirony. In the old days, before spring practice was installed as a regular thing, the teams got along all right, and the coaches, 100. . « + But that was when early games were breath¢ts and no major tilts were played in September and early October. bi *" Nowadays a coach is compelled to ge} a spring line on is talent to keep step with the game’s speed-up program and to sickle’ the alumni and rush the season on the ticket sale.

Listless Eastern Eleven Gets * ‘Another Chance Sunday

the Mississippi teamed up 11 at a time 11: Stars, 20 ty 14, before 60,000 persons ‘annual Shrine charity football game.

Today the bulk of the squads move {in to Los Angeles fo prepare for | year, is a suitable nent for thé in Memorial [oliseum for the benefit of the Tuan. No rattar what | tenn

. another game on Sunday British War Relief Association. I ‘The West's superiority wasn't yare ; marred by (statistics. The Eastern touching him.

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Coming out of their lethargy, the

Stanford treated Nebraska to a “T” party in 1941's

Rose Bowl conflict at Pasadena, coming out on

top with a score of 21-13. Nebraska scored first blood when Mike Francis (38), plunged over for a counter, Stanford halfback Pete Kmetovic' (17) and Stan Graff (41), look on,

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Stanford Back Good as Any McLemore Has Looked Upon

He’s Fast, He’s Deceptive and He Can Take It— What More Do You Want?

By HENRY McLEMORE United Press Staff Correspondent

PASADENA, Cal, Jan. 2—Do me a favor, will you? Take all the all-American teams that didn’t honor Pete Kmetovic with a halfback position, wrap them carefully in a cemeni slipover, and drop them in the river along with that last batch of ring-tailed kittens. Mzeke sure it’s a deep river, too. I don’t want any all-America teams withou; Kmetovic on them having a single chance to float and thus haunt {heir pickers any longer. Whaj I'm trying to say—and I'm a man who'll finally say what he aims to even if it takes 17,000 words —is that Kmetovic is the best halfback I have seen since the start of the 1940 football season. And modest creature that I am, I'll point out with a calloused index finger that I saw just about all the good ones. I'll name you a few that Kmetovic, wlio is the main reason Stanford leat Nebraska in. the Rose Bowl, is superior to. There's De Correvpnt. There's Franck. There’s Reagail, There’s—well, that’s enough to give you a general idea.

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Kmetovic didn’t even make the official all-Coast team. He was forgotten in the balloting for Gallarneau, a team mate. The fact that Gallarneau scored two touchdowns to Kmetovic’s one in the Rose Bowl yesterday, doesn’t alter my view. Gallarneau’s first score was set-up by Pete’s runs. Maj. Biff Jones said after the ) : game that Kmetovic was one of the| Wesern Reserve's football team en-

finest backs he had seen since he|trained for their Ohio homes today, was a plebe at West Point, and the|taking with them the 1941 New major enrolled at the Point just|Year’s Sun Bowl laurels. about the time Attila the Hun was| Although outrushed and outpassed a militaristic scourge, ! all over the field yesterday, the Kmetovic is faster than a dog|Western Reserve eleven exploded all chasing its own tai] around a|their scoring dynamite in a wild greased pole. And he doesn’t take fourth period to defeat Arizona long to get fast, meaning that he State, 26-13, and help keep alive the needs no spur to start him off. With |jinx that has prevented a border his speed he has all the things that conference team from ever winning make for yards in the open field.|the Sun Bowl title. : He cen show a tackler a leg and| It was a battle of backfields from take it away with a Houdini touch.|the start with the border outfits He hes a beautiful change of pace.|speed merchants pitted against ReJust when you think he is going|serve’s power runners, and the suat top speed, he slips the throttle perier power and tricky versatility another notch and really slips into|of the pre-game underdog Reserve high jear. : team proved to be the deciding “H It—an factors. e- Takes aCe Although Reserve took the title, Kmetovic can take it, too. He|nalfhack Hascall Henshaw of the took 4 severe beating from the burly losing team provided the game's bigNebipans but a4 ni ae ya gest thrill for the crowd of 14,000 4 o- - abou Vith plenty of spring left in Rhen he 13m 202 yards {or a touch jruscles, Arizona . State fullback Wayne - Befpre the Rose Bowl game the|pjits On back to a from ye

talk was all about Standlee, Gallarneau, Luther, Hopp and Rohrig. Bind ‘his own. goal . iy he. second

They! were the ball carriers who were rated as tops .and likely to stand out. But Kmetovic was. so much, better than any. of them—so much smarter, faster, tougher—that you wondered why the coast experts had flected to hide his light under a bushel of clippings—for other backs. : : He'll be back next year. 89 will ost / all. of the Stanford team t Jasted Nebraska. So will Clark

Fresno Wins

HONOLULU, Jan. 2 (U, P.. —A fourth-period field goal gave the Fresno State College football team a 3-0 victory over the University of Hawaii in the annual Pineapple Bowl game yesterday. Guard Dale Mickelwait kicked the winning . point from the eight-yard line after Fresno had marched 38 yards. A crowd of 20,000 watched the game.

Jinx Unbroken

In Sun Bowl

EL PASO, Tex. Jan. 2 (U. P.)—

Henshaw, who raced the entire length of the field to score. Reserve iced the game in the final quarter with two = touchdowns. Johnny Ries scored in two plays from Arizona’s five following a 52-yard jaunt. Ries counted again late in the game for his third touchdown of the day. Coach: Dixie Howell of Arizona State said Western Reserve “just too much for us.”

Zale of Gary Wins On Technical K. O.

e tose Bowl boys have to worry abou’, from now until this time next

comes out, I'll take my man Kmeto-

s. without an Eastern player|vic to be the star. He has it, and| MILWAUKEE, Wis, Jan. 2 (U.

P.).—Middleweight Tony Zale of Gary, Ind., scored an eighth-round technical knockout over. Tony

he hands it out. : Ask Nebraska!

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Charlie Was

Sweetest Guy In Sugar Bowl

By JACK GUENTHER United Press Staff Correspondent NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 2, —The smallest boy in the Sugar Bowl was the biggest man in the Sugar State today. The name is Chuckin’ Charlie O'Rourke and he’s a scrawny splinter of a lad with a pasty face and a tuft of straw-colored hair, His over-all weight is 154 pounds. But Charlie O’'Rouke has a pair of piston legs, a catapult arm and a watermelon heart. Yesterday he showed 73,181 people all three. In two mad minutes and in seven plays he drove the Eagles of Boston College 80 long yards to the touchdown which defeated Tennessee, 19-13, and gave the East its most memorable triumph of the season,

Three Minutes to Play

For 57 minutes two great teams smashed and pounded one another. Twice the Tennessee speed artists ripped through to touchdowns and twice the young stalwarts from the Hub came from behind to tie the count. The clock showed three minutes to play and the scoreboard showed a score of 13-13. A desperate Tennessee attempt for a field goal barely missed, and Boston took the ball on its 20. At this point Charlie O'Rourke went to work. He and his mates got a first down in three plunges. Then he uncoiled his arm. All through the third period he had sat on the bench, saving himself for this spot. He flipped to Ed Zabilski for 20 yards. He flipped again for 19 and first down on the Vol's 31. He passed; yet again—to Frank Maznicki—and again he connected for seven yards. Then O'Rourke took to his stubby legs. Around left end he eluded two linemen, brushed by three more orange shirts, got into the clear, and raced 24 yards for a touchdown,

You Could Hear Tackles

Aside from little Charlie, there was little to choose between the teams. Many a block and tackle could be heard as well as seen. In all but a few minutes of the second period—when Tennessee coasted on its lead—the breakaway plays,

snap passes and vicious line plunges| KALAMAZOO, Mich, Jan. 2—

kept the record throng in Tulane Stadium in an uproar. The statistics showed the teams remarkably close; The Vols gained 245 yards, the Eagles 248." The defeat was only the second

Three men on a pass was two too many for "‘ennessee when Boston College gridders broke up

aerial play in field action that led to a 19-13 victory for the Eagles in yesterday’s. Sugar Bowl game

New Orleans.

Boston touchdown stars Holovak (12) and O'Rourke kept the grasping hand (top)

Tennessee’s Coleman from snaring the ball, Quarterback Toczylowski of Boston (right) failed to intere

Hoyas Beg Victors

MIAMI, Jan. 2 (U. P.) —George= town’s Hoyas, stunned by their 147 defeat in the Orange Bowl, rested in a Miami Beach hotel today and collectively agreed they'd like to tackle Mississippi State again. Augie Lio, Georgetown’s allAmerica guard, led the chorus in wishing for one more crack at the Maroons. “I'd like to play those boys in Washington,” Lio said. “It might be a different story.” But that can never happen. Every man on Georgetown'’s starting team was a senior, and eight members of Mississippi State's first team will graduate in June. The Maroons were glad it was over and that they had come through with a victory to avenge the defeat Duquesne handed them in the Orange Bowl back in 1937. “Georgetown was the best team we played all year,” said Coach McKeen after the game. “I aged 10 years and I'm glad it’s over.” The game had few spectacular moments. Longest run of the afternoon was at the end of a pass, good for 35 yards, and an offside penalty nullified that. Short, flat passes clicked frequently and bruising, battering line play told the story. A crowd of 35,101 paid admission to the game, played in perfect weather under a blue sky.

Stampf’s Eye Fails To Save Maroons

Twenty-three points racked up by Joe Stampf, center, failed to save Chicago's ‘Big Ten cage quintet against Western State Teachers College here last night, the home team winning, 59-48.

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Saturated With Glory

DALLAS, Jen. 2 (U., P.).~Texas A. & M. ot the victory but Fordham got its sliare of the glory. The Rams rolled back toward New York today, defeated but happy in the knowledge that they had outplayed the mighty Aggies ‘most of the 60 minutes and lost the game only because an attempted conversion hit the cross bar and dropped the wrong way. The 45,507 spectators in the Cotton Bowl saw a heart-stopper yesterday in Texes A. & M.'s 13 to 12 victory. Fordham made more yards and more first downs, but the Aggies got poinis when points were needed and that’s the story of the ball game. . It was the kind of game you see but once in a life-time—a bruising, battering, hell-for-leather affair that could have gone on’ forever without either team winning by more than a point or two. And the Aggies still were shaking today—that’s how close they came to getting licked by a team that was a 9 to 5 underdog in the betting; an eleven that the Southwest had thought was a fair club but not good enough to match the Aggies’ vaunted power and stop big Jarrin’ John Ximbrough. A matter o’ inches prevented it from being ¢ tie ball-game. Ih the fourth period, with Texas leading 13 to 6, Fordham scored a touchdown when Jim Blumenstock broke loose and scampered 15 yards through the Aggie line, When they lined up for the allimportant extra point, young Steve

for Tennessee in three years and| Western led at the half, 24-22.|Hudacek, who had seen one fry

the eighth in 126 games for Bob|Emil Elsner and Fred Kahler scored |blocked in tho seco period but lateralled the ball 10|Neyland, their coach. The victory|15 points each for the winners.

was the llth this year for Boston, which has lost only two games in two years. : \

y » Greek Boxer in ® 4 ® Ring Title Go CLEVELAND, Jan. 2 (U. P.).— Melio Bettina of Beacon, N. Y., ranked by the National Boxing Association as No. 1 light heavyweight, and Anton Christoforidis, local Greek boxer, were signed last night for a 15-round championship bout under the N. B. A’s sanction here

on Jan. 13. The fight will decide the succes-

period, tried hard this time to tie the game. But

Bowl Gravy. |

By UNITED PRESS A total of 348,289 fotball fans ' attended the eight major bowl * games yesterday. The attens dance at each game:

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up leaped the giant deflect the ball. The . pigskin soaredy hit the cross bar, wavered a second and then dropped back the wrong way. Ye That's all the difference there was between the teams, = Both coaches thought so. . “It was a great game and ham was a rugged bunch. We ly were lucky to win,” said’ Homer Norton of the Aggies, I ———————————

Golden Gate’

OAKLAND, Cal, Jan, opening of California’s ne race course, the Golden G Club, was again postponed day because of the sloppy cont tion of the track. A $10,0005 Ne Year's Day Handicap had scheduled. g Heavy rainstorms eau ponement of the.op 0 set for last Saturday,

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were listless. Their deception mast combination of Earmon and Ed failed because they walked through Frufie of Miohigan hegan io Slick : ticularly after: the |With passes from ‘their own. Jo-yar Westemes tock the lead. Ta eh a 1 Meotine hrs rime and Jobnson, passe) who outsnatched two Westerners in 1 es eeting iihem Jin: Soumte 3 of al|the end zone, Tony Ruffa of Duke| | | a he bv, whl Som 0 ee compte. 1.8. dons ts onl nl cmon of [Eight for Rockets aed MN §E 3 fe i t . < . - s y son excelled at ball-carrying and |, jy) for the West, bu: the West out- Nati nal *, In tate Athletic : m— - 1H ne for hoe {e executive session| Ohio BoxXer’s Win | roice cetonios thelr naskets

punting. | aired the team coached by Bernie | asso. ‘The East got off to an early start rman and Andy Kerr; 275 yards a In on recommen- ) : Riende E bagksthall : I. . Jb was Darimouthis first .,

n the first period when Michigan's (is 201, fom Harmon, Pennsylvania’s Frank| X. Teagan and Prin 's Dave Al- 7 dice marche score,| eo I : : five start farmon DE HS SII yards Grid Results - Fores evski an. | i Wo Se HY Buffs of Dee Sanvated. t to Tose BOWL~—Stanforc, 21; ‘Nebraska, e members ‘and. n wen : ord, 213 s deft il ; : i] : i year He ork and in four minutes tied the | 7. Wi—Boston + ;|of the committee that they asked winning streak. He prev 67 yards on 8 half-|Torsses, 190 hoses ~ Collegs, 13: ) employees of the. Valley {had won 32 bouts in his pro : A Jaana spot pass| COTTON BOWi—Texh: A, and M, uo Club : fo ak bn 5. 5 . Cnristman to Dean McAdams|™ s dn 2 Ri 2S EL Md iasbington turacd the tric, and yeh BOVIS en Be | Ne 1 HAST J AllStar, RO; | WAR ive. minutes the West|Eaitorn te 3

Martin, Wisconsin’s 160 - pound titleholder, in a scheduled 10-round Bon-title bout last night. ‘A

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the second round uppercut by ‘Zale, failed to answer the bell in the eighth.

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