Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 January 1941 — Page 12

SPORTS...

By Eddie Ash

WHEN Willie Hoppe or Jake Schaefer begin play as world’s champion in the 1941 three-cushion billiards title tourney starting in Chicago on Jan. 13, one of them will be topping the greatest field ever fo compete for the cue

sport’s most coveted crown.

Which of the two aces will gain this hénor—and .additional cash—will be determined in their title challenge match in the same “arena” Jan. 6-9. Schaeffer earned the right to challenge Hoppe by finishing second to the former “boy wonder” in the 1940 world tournament. The National Billiards Association says the match will embrace 480 points to be played afternoon and evening for four days in eight ‘blocks of 60 poirits each, 8s continuous competition with total points to count. ; In the tournament proper, beginning Jan. 13, the leading 18 cue wizards will participate in the $20,000 event that will run through 30 days of play until Feb. 12. . The schedule calls for competition over a round-robin basis; thereby making a book of 17 games for each player. Five matches will be held daily, three comprising the afternoon entertainment and two featuring the evening programs. . . since seating accommodations only total 1250, all seats willl be reserved, a novelty in high-grade sports presentations. The tourney room. will be Bensinger’s, 131. S. Wabash Ave. . . . . Heading the stellar cast of talent, of course, are Hoppe and Schaefer. . . . Right with them, however are five former three-cushion champs, Welker Cochran, Otto Reiselt, Tiff Denton, Arthur Thurn-

blad and Joe Chamaco, Mexican artist, the only foyeigner in

the field.

Grid Coaches Pick Four Bowl Losers

DO THE FOOTBALL COACHES pick ’em and how! ... . in ‘reverse. . . . At the coaches meeting in New York. prior to the New Year’s Day Bowl games, George Kirksey, United Press sports scribe, polled thé grid mentors on the outcome of the upcoming games— the Big: Four—Rose Bowl, Sugar, Cotton ‘and Orange. The consensus vote named Nebraska, Tennessee, Fordham and Georgetown. . . . Four losers! ., . . Twenty-one “name” coaches - participated in the Kirksey poll. The pick ’em league is plenty tough, huh? . ... when even the football professors miss ’em all. . . . The best your column conductor got out of his Big Four Bowl picks was 50-50 by hitting on Stanford and Texas Aggies and muffing the Sugar and Orange winners. » ” ” o n ” ONLY MISSISSIPPI STATE was immune to Henry McLemore’s - Kiss of Death. ... By some trick the Staters “rubbed it off” and went on to defeat Georgetown. . . . But Henry's Kiss put the whammy on Nebraska, Tennessee, Fordham, Arizona State and the East squad in the Shrine game . . his pre-game selections. Things that don’t add up in football: Auburn held Mississippi State to a 7-7 deadlock; Boston College slaughtered Aubgrn, 33-7; Boston barely edged Georgetown, 19-18; Mississippi State defeated Georgetown, 14-7.

Michigan ‘Accepts’ Darkhorse Cage Role

| LOOKING IMPRESSIVE in defeating Michigan State, Butler and Pittsburgh in pre-Conference play, Michigan’s Wolverines are ~ setting themselves up as the darkhorse entry in the Big Ten basket- . ball championship race of 1941. ..,., They take off against Ohio State at Ann Arbor Monday. The game will be the 39th in basketball between the two schools, « » « Competition with the Buckeyes in this sport was started in 1209 and to date, Michigan has won 21 games and Ohio State 17, » # " "8B ”

WHEN THREE regulars and one sub left the recent Notre Dame

Illinois basketball game on personal fouls, a new record was established for teams coached by George E. Keogan. . . . In his 17-plus

seasons at South Bend the carnage from the whistle blowers has |

never been so severe. In addition to the men who were whistled to the sidelines, two others had three fouls apiece. . . . Those ejected were Capt. Eddie Riska and George Sobek, forwards; Bob Smith, guard, and Jim Carnes, reserve forward. Larry Ryan and Frank Quinn, starting guard and center, respectively, had three fouls each. . .. Notre Dame finished with a make-shift lineup, losing sn overtime decision, 41 to 39. There were 24 fouls called on the Irish, 17 on Illinois. ... This game, incidentally, preserved the rhythm of the series in which tHe |

° .winner has now alternated in 10 straight ames;

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THE SYMPATHY of Hoosier sports fans goes to Tom O’Boyle of |

Gary, Tulane’s 1940 grid captain. . . . Stalked by hard ‘luck on injuries during the early regular season and grief stricken by the death of his father and aunt who died in an auto crash while motoring to one of Tulane’s mid-season games, young O’Boyle still carried on and accepted an invitation to play in the Shrine charity game for crippled children in San Francisco New Year's day. And then out of a pileup in that game—the only Bowl game of the day played strictly for charity—they carried Tom on a stretcher, his right leg broken. . . . He's genuine All-America!

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New Castle's Big 4 Champs: Meet Bronchos

The Hot Dogs Travel to Jeffersonville |

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rest or tournament’ competition behind them, Hoosier high school hardwood teams began a new year of wide-

Ispread firing tonight.

Fresh from their Year's Day tourney triumphs, all six major holiday titlists have to leap to defense of

their laurels again tonight.

The New Castle Ti 'ojans, redoubtable winners of the Big 4 meet at Logansport, engage a North Central conference fo¢ in Lafayette. They hold a .nip-arnd-tuck 45-to-44 previous decision ovr the Bronchos.

Jeff vs. Hot Dogs

|The Shelbyville tournament titleholders, Frankfori’'s Hot Dogs, travel “down unde:” to Jeffersonville for an inter:sectional clash. Both teams hgve somewhat comparable records, in-and-out. Muncie Burris, winner of its own tourney, plays a competing team in the meet, Alexandria. The two quintets did not clash New. Year's Day, however. Ditto the same sit uation for Madison, ultimate vice tors in the Lawrenceburg fracas, who meet a Southeastern conference team in North Vernon. Jasper, surprise, winner of the tourney at Vinceiines when they took the title away from favored plays Salem, while Mitchell, inhospitable king-pin- of its own invitational, engages Paoli.

Records on Block Action elsewheie is heavy but uninspiring. Little is at stake in

unblemished records

unimpressive crew. Hammond Tech's defending state champions face formidable competition in

.|Gary Emerson, winners of the Gary

city crewn last week. | Other Friday right specials: The; super South Beiid Central Bears, big, fast and eterything else, vs,

‘South Bend Riley; New Albany afl

Bedford; Ft. Weyne South at Ft Wayne North in a city duel; Shel. byville at Franklin; Goshen aj Michigan City; Indianapolis Short. ridge at Martinsville; Peru at Tip} ton; and Elkhart at LaPorte,

Solters Signs New White Sox Contract |

CHICAGO, Jin, 3 (U. P).—Tks Chicago White Sox today announce:

contracts had bien signed by Julius

Solters," regular) outfielder; George catcher from Oklahoma City, and Walter Navi,

southpaw’ pitcher from Shrevepo:t.

DePaul Is Stopped

CHICAGO, Jan. 3.—In a college basketbal¥ double-header play:d here last night Santa Clara stopped DePaul’s winning streak at seven straight, 43-39, and Kansas defea’2d Loyola, 41-40. In the Santa Cla: aDePaul game ‘he lead changed five times.

By JOE WILLIAMS NEW YORK, Jan. 3.—Whether those foothall games you were list 2ning to the other day established a natiortal champion, say Boston ! ollege, and whether they deflated the super stars, sfich as Kimbrough and Harmon, are| debatable points. | - ‘But there is one point that isn’t debatable; tliese post season games have becom¢ big business. More than 300,000 people turned out for the five inajor

games played on

New Year's Day. That adds ap to big business with a capital I. It also adds up to a distressing headache for th¢ con- f Joe Wilkams ball, those earnest reforming’ gentlemen who are '‘working for the sanity of the sport.| Only the [bigger and better teams are wantec for the various bowl programs. |This inevitably e:cour=ages high pressure football. Thus, on the on¢ hand, you have pro-

|| moters making it very much worth

while to emphasize football as a business an, on the other hard, you have educstors who recognize the

{| wisdom of keeping it a sport.

An invitation to play in one of the big bowls can, and frequently does, make the difference between financial failure and success at the boxoffice. [This was so in tlie case of Fordham, which did not lave an overly prosperous season at tie gate. Thus the check of $53,000 more than takes care; of the deficit. £tanford and Nebraska each picked uy checks close to $100,000 and Tennessee and Boston College fattened thei: purses

| almost equally as well.

As long as such opportur ities for heavy cash exist, post seascn games of this one are going to be popular and thera - always be certain universities which will re:pond to them. Araong them will be the out-and-out football foundries, like Alabama, and the universiies, like

| | Fordham, where football i; regard- £ Defther as crime nor as a sub-

lime blessing. As long #5 admissions are charged colleg: football is .

With a holiday period of] |

INAPOLIS TIMES

Six Holiday Tourney Cage Kings Risk I Laur

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||| At least two unbeaten teams put their records on tie block. Powerful | Evansville . Central stakes its un-| broken five-game string in a game

with. Evansville Fleitz, a good but: Jk Ul! which resulted in the 41 to 28 rout

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A Basketball’s View of Its Home, Sweet Home

Ben Davis’ Giants hope the basket looks as big to them this week as it did to the photographer here. After meeting the strong Greenfield club this evening, the Giants will entertain South Bend Central’s powerhouse tomorrow evening. leather are (left to right) Robert Seeman, Roy Pearson, Howard Record, Jesse Moore and Boris Chaleff.

Likely Giant. starters anxious to toss

Purdue’s Title Defense Ready

By UNITED PRESS

Purdue’s Big Ten basketball champions were all set for the de-

ifense of their Conference title fol-

lowing the final test of their power

of Indiana State Teachers College last night. The defending titleholders thus closed a pre-conference card with a record of six victories in seven starts. They make the first defense of their crown at Illinois Monday. Purdue opened sluggishly but stayed on even terms with the Sycamores until late in the first period. With the score at 9-9 they opened up a barrage that netted 11 points while State was helpless, and

||held a 20 to 9 advantage at inter- | | mission.

The Boilermakers had no trouble

| lin protecting their lead in the sec-

ond half while Coach Ward Lambert experimented freely with floor

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Don Blanken with 10 points and Capt. Bob Igney with 9 took scoring honors for Purdue. Purdue (41) Ind. State (28) FG FT PFI FG FT PF

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Joe V/ ould Chase the Money Grabbers From the Bowls

university accepting a bowl bid and the dough that goes with it. Personally; we are all for the bowl games. We were disappointed that the Western Conference didn’t tie up with the Rose Bowl people. That would have made an interesting and exciting annual. We predict that within two. years the Conference will change its attitude. Our only quarrel with bowl games would have to-be centered on the shameless money grabbers who recruit players, pay them salaries and take dead aim at bowl bids. This is the sickening side of socalled college football but happily it exists only in isolated cases. It has been interesting to watch the growth of these games. As everybody knows the Rose Bowl was first in the field and as such it always will be important, even when the attraction is not the best, as was the case this time. The best attraction of the day, from the point of national interest was the Tennessee-Boston . College game which brought, together two unbeaten giants. Did the Rose Bowl suffer? Not very much. All that happened was that you couldn't buy a seat two weeks before the game.

Brubaker Is Sold To Rochester Club

PITTSBURGH, Jan. 3 (U. P.).—

Butler Bulldogs begin their ’41 basketball schedule tomorrow night, meeting Xavier University of Cincinnati in the Fieldhouse at 8:15 o'clock. | The Queen City five, winner in five of six games this season and boasting of the highest game average in the Buckeye State, expect no end of trouble from th& Bulldogs. And all of this is because of a football game played here several months ago. At that time Xavier muzzled the locals and won, 13 to 6, the first griditon game ever played. between the two schools. Tomorrow night, Coach Clem Crowe, of the Notre Dame line of famous Crowes, brings his Xavier netters here for the first basketball meeting between the two schools. Crowe, a Hoosier, is from Lafayette and also coaches the football team. * Butler, after losing to Indiana and then defeating Ohio State and Northwestern in order, has slipped into a losing streak against Michigan, Pittsburgh and DePaul of Chicago. Meanwhile, the Musketeers, averaging better than 61 points per game, have been mopping up victories against secondary schools such as Kenfucky Wesleyan, Youngstown, Centre, Translyvahia and Willian and Mary. They lost only to Okio University, 69 to 27, and meet their first real opponent of the season tonight when they entertain Creighton University. 2 Creighton includes # Kentucky, Michigan State, Minnesota, Marqu:tte and South Dakota in its list of victories and has lost to Ohio State and Michigan State in a return game. A curtain-raiser tilt will be played tomorrow night begihning at 7 o'clock.

Roche Renews

Villmer Feud

Dorve Roche, 221, of Decatur, Ill, and Ray Villmer, 223, of St. Louis, sectional. rivals, will top the wrestling card next Tuesday night at the Armory where Roche, hopes to “do something” about turning in a victory over the Missouri matman. Ray and Dorve- have met twice and Villmer came out on top.in both matches which were closely contested; Since coming here two seasons @ago, Ray has been in 14 bouts and has lost only to Ray ‘Steele, heavyweight champ. « Promoter Lloyd Carter will offer “Lord” Lansdowne, a colorful lightheavy, as an added attraction. Lansdowne goes against Buddy Knox, a newcomer from Cleveland who is listed as a “meanie” type of grappler. Another match is to be arranged. :

Left for Right

SPRINGFIELD, Mass., Jan. 3. — In g hockey player trade completed last night, Normie Schultz, local left winger, will go to Pittsburgh in exchange for Pete Kelly, right winger. the American League.

The Pittsburgh Pirates today an-|fpeem nounced the oufright sale of Bill|f# 7%

Brubaker, veteran utility infielder, |} to the Rochester club of (he Inter- |g

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High-Scoring Xavier First 1941 Foe for the Bulldogs

Bear Story

NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 3 (U. P.).—Charles O'Rourke, passing hero in Boston College's victory over Tennessee in the Sugar Bowl, said today that he was willing to talk business with the Chicago Bears and had accepted 8 position with the Malden; Mass., high school. O'Rourke said he was unable to disclose any further information until he had con=ferred with officials of the Bears. . He said, however, that he could use the money that pro football would bring in.

Soose to Face

Hostile Crowd

— JACK CUDDY United Yee Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Jan. 3.—Hostile New York will learn tonight whether collegiate Billy Soose is actually “uncrowned king” of the middleweights, or merely an overpublicized pug 3 from the hinterlands. Slender, dark-haired Billy had better be good in his first metropolitan appearance against hardhitting young Tami Mauriello of the Bronx for this 10-round challengers’ battle that opens Madison Square Garden’s 1941 fistic program. Never was a box-fighter more squarely on the spot than William Stephen Soose of Farrell, Pa. Soose is on the spot in this tilt to determine a middleweight challenger for two reasons: (1) he has had a bad New York press, and (2) he is meeting in Mauriello an unbeaten, popular home boy with a slightly crippled right foot. Soose, former Penn State scrapper and former pal of Dick Powell and Joan Blondell of the movies, has had a bad New York press because most metropolitan writers at the Scranton, (Pa.) ‘ringside on July 24 thought he received an undeserved non-title decision over Ken Overlin, who is recognized as champion by the New York Boxing Commission and affiliated state bodies. Billy's decisive victory, less than a month later, over Tony Zale, the N. B. A. ruler, at Chicago, surprised but did not impress the Manhattan Boswells of Biff, virtually none of whom had seen Zale in action, Moreover, it was unfortunate that Mauriello served as sparring partner for Soose at Billy’s Scranton

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Zale. Some of the writers charged that Soose picked a soft spot for his New York debut—that he chose an ex-sparmate. " Be that as it may, Soose is the 2-1 favorite to win tonight, largely because of his reputation.

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Stars Tee Off At Los Angeles

By ED CONKLIN United Press Staff Correspondent LOS ANGELES, Jan. 3.—When the first drives whiz off the tee today and the $10,000 Los Angeles Open Golf Tournament gets under way, a goodly portion of the gallery will trail after Byron Nelson, Sammy Snead and Jimmy Demaret, classiest threesome in the 132player field. The field ranges from the best in the nation, to Canada and south to Argentina but Nelson, former U. S. Open champion; Snead, hottest player in pre-tournament practice who fired a 65 two days ago; and Demaret, 1939 winner, rule as the men to watch. Two Buenos Aires stars, Eduardo Blasi and Martin Pose, and Freddie Woods of Vancouver, B. C., give the tournament |& international flavor.

least 30 of the field, however, when the end comes Monday afternoon after 72 holes. Such former champions as Jimmy Thomson, Harry

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Shortridge Wilk Tackld Two Tough Opponents.

TONIGHT’'S GAMES Manual at Cathedral. Tech at Richmond. Shortridge at Martinsville.

Crispus Attucks at Stinesville, - _

TOMORROW'S GAMES Lafayeite Jefferson at ial Cathedral at Danville, |

This will be the last week-end ‘of scatfered holiday firing on the hig school basketball front, with hea cards in prospect on the Friday and Saturday nights to come. Only five city teams are in action tonight and tomorrow, but the quality of the program should offsé the lack of quantity. There's one intra-city game, a conference eft® gagement and a couple of Susiomers for unaffiliated SHofw ridge The Blue Devils will risk | season record of five victories 3 one loss this evening at the

|tesians’ home in Martinsville, tht

will return to their own gym te morrow : evening to . engage we Broncos of Lafayette Jefferson. Last year Shortridge took a 50-83 spanking from the . Artesians sng they expect to avenge that, Martinsville, winner in six of its pe contests this year, scored a 40-27 victory over Greencastle, the only team able to down the boys in Blue, Manual, with a record of four victories and two' defeats, m Cathedral in the N. Meridian ballroom. Cathedral has been a to. win only two of its four s and sill seeks its, first intracity victory. The record on intraciey competition: Ww. Manual ,,...... 1 Shortridge secee. 1 Howe Tech Broad Ripple ... Cathedral ...... Washington .... 0

Tech, 36-32 loser to Rushville Wednesday, will meet a Richmond club that buried Connersville under a 37-17 score this week. Probable Tech starters in this North Central Conference argument: will be Boly Evans and Harry Hagans, forwards Roy Hurley, center, and Bob Wilson and Dick Plummer, Houston Meyer or Dudley Cole, guards.

A. B. C. Tournament | To Run 54 Days iq

LWAUKEE, Jan. 3.-—Becausd of the heavy registration for coms petition the American Bowling Cong gress tourney at St. Paul has beemy extended another three days; Elmes umgarten, A. B. C. secretary, rée vealed today. k New dates are March 13 to Magt 3, a stretch of 54 days. Team en~ rollment to date is 3757, exclusive of

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