Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 January 1941 — Page 4

SPORTS

By Eddie Ash)

ON A VISIT to the Yankee Stadium in New York the other day, Dan Daniel of the New York World-Tele-gram obtained an interesting slant on what the club’s | chief executive is thinking about and the reaction felt over the 1940 collapse of the Bronx Bombers.

a group picture in his office. pion Yankees.” .

Carthy had won that third straight title. . .

Daniel relates that Ed Barrow, Yankees’ president, pointed to | .."% It was labeled “1938 World Cham- | . These were the stalwarts with whom Joe Me- |

. These, in the main,

were the heroes of the fourth consecutive championship—in 1839. “That picture preaches a sermon to every baseball executive in|

the majors,” said Barrow.

“In the midst of a triumph prepare for

a slump. Two years have passed since that group was photographed and nine of them have retired from the Yankees. i “Those missing are Bump Hadley, recently’ sold to the Giants;

Monte Pearson, transferred to the Reds;

Arndt Jorgens, retired;

fl Knickerbocker, traded to the White Sox for Ken Sylvestri; Joke) | Powell, sold to San Francisco; Ivy Andrews, Joe Glenn, Myril Hoag and last, but most important of all, Lou Gehrig. ““““Five of the nine have left the Yankees the last few weeks—

Hadley, Powell, Knickerbocker,

“Pearson and Jorgens.”

According to Daniels, it is suspected that the Yankees House-/

‘cleaning has far from spent itself. . ..

While Barrow has decided to |

give Lefty Gomez another chance, that pitcher’s future still is very

much in doubt. .

.’And though the transfer of Knickerbocker fo the |

White Sox perhaps paves the way for the retention of both Frankie Crosetti and Red Rolfe, their futures also are shrouded in Encers

tainty. Dearth of Backstop Prospects

In Chain

LHE ACQUISITION of Ken Sylvestri does not mean that tha

.calling of Tom Padden from Newark will be canceled. .

. Tom and |

Ken will have it out for the job left vacant by the passing of Jorgens. . Catchers are scarcer than ever and there is a dearth of good

prospects in the Yankee chain.

Only recently Tony DePhillips, who went to the Yankee chain/ from the Fordham campus, was sold to Birmingham. , , . He played

on the Yanks’ Kansas City farm last season but New York scouts decided he lacked the makings of a hitter. Sylvestri, a switch hitter who used to play for St. Paul, has plenty. of power to belt the horsehide into the short right field stands

at Yankee Stadium.

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OF INTEREST to vetertan fishermen who have ‘a tough tinie making any kind of a good catch: Twelve-year-old Robert Alger of Peru, Ill, fishing off Miami Beach, Fla., Saturday broke the United States Coastal record for African Pompano witl. a 34% pound catch,

«¢ #. What a whopper for a kid! .

. The old mark was 34% pounds.

Anglers at Stuart, Fla., counted 256 sailfish caught off St. Lucie

Inlet last Friday, breaking by far the old one-day record.

great many of those caught were released in the interest of cone

servation. .

. The longest was 8 feet 5 inches, the heaviest 84 pounds,

The St. Lucie Inlet area is the most northerly point of the Florida

East Coast in which sailfish customarily feed in large numbers. The Gulf Stream is seven miles off shore and experts believe thas

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the sails come inshore there to get out of the swift current,

Touch Off Big Ten Fireworks

THEY'RE OFF in the annual Big Ten basketball championship race tonight and Defending Champion Purdue goes on the spot in the inaugural games, playing a high-scoring Illini quintet at Urbaha. . A dingdeng thriller is forecast by the experts and the contest is

being “picked” both ways. . .

. This department’s choice is Purdue

by a thin margin despite the Tilini’s home-floor edge. Ohio State plays at Michigan and we're going against the “fom

sheet” by picking the Bucks. . . . Butler defeated Ohio State and

Michigan trounced Butler.

Wisconsin invades the Minnesota fieldhouse and the home-floor Gophers shquld take the measure of the Badgers. , , . But nothing

gambled, nothing guaranteed. Last year Ohio State finished sixth, Minnesota seventh, Wisconsin ” n ”

INCLUDED in the Purdue

third, Illinois fifth, Michigan ninth,

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array are three expatriates from the

State of Illinois, who as sophomores contributed 23 of the 34 points

with which the Boilermakers

routed the Illini in the closing game of

the season at Urbana last year, Forrest Sprowl, Oblong; Don Blane

ken, Dundee,

and. Jack Tierney, Chicago.

The Hurrying Hoosiers of Indiana U,, will invade the Illi Saturday for their Western Conference opener. ni floor

i Joe Says the Bomb Aimed] At Grid Horrors Was a Dud

By JOE WILLIAMS NEW YORK, Jan. 4.— The 8 stern-faced profs have had their annual say about the horrors of football and retired to the privacy of their brain cells for another year, at which time they will Te=\ appear to view with alarm. They always do. « Some of these classroom coaches are sincere, earnest, well-mean-ing gents and once in awhile they make good listening, as did Dean Christian Gauss of Princeton the other. day when he cranked up his good right arm and threw the foul word ‘professional” at kept football players; but for Joe Williams the most part the profs never take their hair all the way down. They put on a sort of hirsute _ atrip-tease and just when you are edging up to the rim of your seat - in salacious anticipation, they give the silken folds of their fiery oratory a quick, subtle concealing twist and the show is over and _ you find yourself saying, “Aw nuts.” What we've been hoping for all these years is a forthright prof who'll get up and name names; ‘a prof who'll say this er that college is strictly professional in its approach to football and flatly state his college wants no part of it and, furthermore, will have no part of any other college that consorts with it. : ” » ” THERE WAS an excellent spot for just such a prof at the National Collegiate Association meeting recently ended. He could _ have called on tlie president 1) University of Alabama to refu the charge in Collier's that the ~ university's football team, almost an annual visitor to the Rose Bowl, is out-and-out professional; that the president must know this, because evidence is presented to show the football players were bootlegged through the classrooms; in short, that they were brazen scholastic fakes who emerged with degrees obtained under false representation and

through the connivance of in- |

structors.

We can’t say we have much re-

~ spect for the party who brings the charges against Alabama, one William Bradford Huie, since he is a graduate and. admits he plotted most of the second-story work which enabled the balltoting oafs to .steal counterfeit academic ratings, but the picture he paints of one of the largest state universities in the country is so shocking and indecent it compels attention. Personally, we can’t see how the president of

seems to be a subject which calls for a thorough legislative investi= gation, By his charges, M¢. Huie, the kiss-and-tell author, who admits that after many years of collaborating in scholasti¢ dishonestly he, himself, became disgusted and reformed, ha: made the university an untou¢hable, #2 5 =» i IT APPEARS, according to Mr. Huie’s testimony, that evirybody who was big enough, strong enough and dumb enougli could go to Alabama and carn a pretty comfortable living. All

.he had to do was play foote

ball, Of course, he had to be

good, for Alabama’s football stand grds are high, even if the academic standards arent. And he had to keep physically intact, because if he got himsel! badly hurt he was kicked off the campus. She wants nobody arourid who can’t score touchdowns, lielp fill stadiums and attract howl bids.

Caps Hail New Era as They Rap Ramblers

Season With Confidence

, Br J. E. O'BRIEN | Half finished with their home work, our hockey Capitols are convinced they can cram enough in this sicond semester! to get a pégssing grade out of the course. A passing grade, of course, means a ticket into the American l.eague playoffs and payoffs, open cply to first second and third-place residents in the two divisions. |About the only memory the Capital; want to keeps of their first 14 gaines at the Coliseum is that 2-1 victoiy over Philadelphia last night. Most of the other happenings they're wiljing to file and forget. “It’s a new era,” proclaimed Manager Herbie Lewis. “We're hn the move now and we're going right up. ”» Red Wings Flying Higl,

In support of his views, M1 Lewis pointed to his boys’ spanking of the Ramblers, iwho 24 hours pre viously

.{had handed the haughty Cliveland

Barons their worst defeat or. home ice in three years. Also on ihe encouraging | side was the National Hockey League standings showing the Caps’ pappies, the Detriit Red Wings, in a tie for first place! which means they shouldn’t be jieeding any further filial assistance. Most of last night's actiyn was squeezed . into the second | period when the [Caps got both their goals and what they still contend vas the third, when the Ramblers git their one and when two gentlemen from each team did stretches in tlle clink. The Raniblers wanted to] make something out of the third period, but received no co-operation from the Hoosiérs. Jack Keating popped in the first Cap goal ‘at 10:01, pulling ihe bis- | & cuit out of a mass’ of skales and sticks at ithe red line and [drilling it into a high corner of nt Rambler cage.

Sorry, Boys, It Doesn't Chunt

Shortly | afterward Bill Thomson turned around in the offensij’e zone, found the puck at his feet and smacked it at the cage.| Goalie

| Bourque kicked it out with his skate

while the goal judge flipjled the switch onthe red light. Referee, Norm Ramport ordered the light Bxtinguished, clainjing the puck hada’t crossed the gqal line, while the Caps stood arouhd and argued, for after all had’t the Ramblers! been granted an almost identical goal against the !ioosiers in Philly New Year‘s night? Maybe this bit of bickeririg made everybody mad, for a couple of minutes later our Hal Jackson ahd their Ab Collings pushed and shoved at the dashér until both were ousted. When former footballer Johii Polich came int¢ the penalty box, Jackson persisted lin_ talking about he disallowed goal to a’ Mr. Polich who wouldn't be convinced.

Thanks, Mr. Allum!

The second Indianapolis joal was credited fo Dick Behling, vith Bill Jennings and Butch McDonald getting assists, although in all {fairness Capt. Bill Allum of the Flamblers should have been recogni:ed officially for his help. Behlihg" fired from way out, and the shot bounced neatly ofi Allum’ s skate intc| the net. Less than two minutes oi the period remained when the Iiamblers ganged the Capital goal sucessfully. Murdo McKay slipped arcund behind the! cage while being annoyed by Archi? Wilder and delivered the puck to Frank Boucher, ‘who was standing on Jinimy Franlis’ doorstep. That kind of shot is always a cinch. You almost knew what ‘0 expect during the final 20 minuies. The Capitals |weren’t going to lake any chances lat losing a one-ghal lead, while thie Ramblers, you realized, would téke any.gamble 0 get out of the hble.

19 Saves for Franks

Ramblers were all over Ir dianapolis territory. They were being given a bumping, too, by Capital: who like to make their checks ratile teeth. Wicket picket Franks bou!ced and (Continued on Page live)

Strikes to Spare

To convert 5-7 pitt, ball sh

ould hit | on outside of 5 pn.

By FREDDIE FISCHER : Warld - All-Events Chamnipion = CONVERTING SPLITS is the most difficult thing the howler is called on to do. Also, it's one of the most unnecessary—for | the split is almost invariably the result of a bad fiist ball. One of the most fearful is the 6-7-10 split, but it can be made.

The bowler should aim to shave t

he 6 pir close, with the Hall going

on to hit the 10 pin. The 6 pin should then cross the alley to topple

the 7. The hook bowler should

make his delivery from &bout the

middle of the foul line; otherwise his ball will go into the gulter.

The 5-6-7 split can usually be

and forgetting all about the 7 pin. The 5 pin should take care of it. A hook ball bowler requ iires excellent control to make this shit, as the

ball must shave both pins.

made by aiming for the 5.6 pocket “4

The kegler proficient with a number of deliveries may | find the

back-up ball more satisfactory for

the 4-8-10 split, as the bail | wi hit

the 4 pin going into it. not away from it.

NEXT: Keeping score.

{three-game . series.

|Park Will Play Two

At Home This Week

Park gets back into! action this week-end with a brace of home

games. Jamestown High School is scheduled for a game here Friday. Saturday will bring Williamsport here in the rubber inatch of "a . Paik. won. the first; one and lost last. ison.

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Mary Hardwick, England’s No. 1 woman tennis player, knits sweaters for Britain in spare moments as she prepares for her professional debut with Alice Marble.

So Alice Says ‘Goodby’ to Wonderland

By HARRY FERGUSON United Press Sports Editor NEW YORK, Jan. 6.—Alice says goodby to Wonderland—the wonderland of amateur tennis with its pompous badge wearers and its bloated expense accounts—when she steps on the canvas court at Madison Square Garden tonight and starts a professional tour that may earn her $50,000. A great supporting cast has been assembled to aid and abet the professional debut of Miss Alice Marble. Her opponent will bé Mary Hardwick, the steady, sturdy English girl who plays a good game of tennis but one that is several Jotches below that of Miss Marble. In addition, there will be Don Budge, the red-haired wizard who is the best in the business, and that great showman, Big Bill Tilden, who ‘is still hitting and chasing tennis balls as he approaches his 48th birthday. Here is the schedule for the eve-

Miss Marble vs. Miss Hardwick, two out of three sets. Budge vs. Tilden, three out of five sets. Marble and Tilden vs. Hardwick and Budge, two out of three sets. Tonight marks Miss Hardwick's first venture as a professional, but the English girl has largely been overlooked in the publicity over Miss Marble. She is one of the members of the British Wightman Cup team stranded in this‘ country when the war broke out a year ago last autumn. Miss Hardwick went to the semifinals in the National Women’s Singles at Forest Hills, losing -to Helen Jacobs. She will accompany Miss Marble and Budge and Tilden on the tour that will carry them across the country and back.

Bowling

The city’s bowling teams today were concentrating on the coming city-wide tournament that opens Feb. 8, as the last sweepstakes event arranged by the Indianapolis Bowling Alleys Proprietors’ Association tournament ' warmup entered the final stage. Larry Pavey, anchor man for the Indiana Equipment Co., missed a perfect score last night when the No. 10 pin remained upright in the

ninth annual Fountain Square 1050 scratch classic. Pavey turned in a 627 series to take first honors. The Equipment bowlers are in the Parkway Recreation League. The Frank Irish Plumbing Ce. team went into first place at the half-way mark of the scratch classic by bowling a series of 963, 962 and 952. With their 2877 actual pins added to a 295 handicap the Irish team had a total score of 3172. The Aristocrat Tavern squad is in second place, just 34 pins behind.

Wings Catch Leafs In Hockey Race

By UNITED PRESS The Detroit - Red Wings climbed into a tie for first place in the National Hockey League Sunday night by trcuncing the Montreal Canadiens 3-0 while the leading Tor-

jonto Maple Leafs were idle.

The Wings, in extending their current winning streak to five straight, scored twice in the firgt period and. coasted in behind the stellar goal-tending of Johnny Mowers.

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Cage Battles

Power Teams Face Real Tests in Week’s Play

By UNITED PRESS Swinging into a new week

88 of basket barraging, Indiana's i (major high school cage teams

face a heavy array of conference and non-league battles.

League front, New Castle's

| [powerful Trojans play at Muncie and Marion invades| Loop-|

Frankfort Tuesday. leading Andersor tangles with Richmond Friday, while the early-week quartet bounces right back for more

action the same night.

New Castle entertains Kokomo, Muneie locks with Marion and Fran t invades Lafayette. On Saturday, Naptown for a clash with Indianapolis Technical. Shelbyville, the surprise team of last week when it sent the previously unbeaten Franklin Grizzly Cubs back to hibernation, opens South Central Conference firing, taking on Rushville Tuesday. The pair hits the hardwood again Friday, Rushville playing at Greencastle and the Golden Bears at Greensburg, and licking its wounds, Franklin stalks Connersville. Burris Faces Test

Central Conference arguments are confined to Friday when Elwood entertains Rochester and Muncie Burris and Huntington, two courtplasterers, lock at the latter school. In the Southern Conference, Evansville Central, humbled for the first time last week by Reitz, a city sister, stacks up against anothér one in Evansville Bosse Friday. The same night Reitz plays at -Sullivan and Jasper, which left Vincennes last week with the city’s

the Alices. A flurry of action in the Southeastern Conference Friday spotlights the fireworks of the AuroraMadison. clash. Also in the loop, Scottsburg plays at Batesville, Orleans at Brownstown, Vevay at Lawrenceburg and Paoli at Salem.

Hammend on Card

In the Western N. I. H. S. C. still unbeaten Hammond Tech gives Gary Horace Mann a whack at its record Friday. Other games are East Chicago Roosevelt at Gary Emerson, Gary Froebel at Gary Lew Wallace and Valparaiso at Hammond. Eastern Division games Friday include La Porte at Goshen, Nappanee at South Bend Central, and the match of two other South Bend Clubs, Washington and Riley. In the Northeastern Conference, Kendallville tangles with Garrett. Tough non-Conference battles dot the week’s card. Columbus’ ferocious Bulldogs hunt a “brace of juicy bones in North Vernon Friday and New Albany Saturday.

State Colleges Play 20 Tilts

UNITED PRESS Eleven nore ‘College Conference basketball games head this week’s 20-game schedule with the high-scoring Evansville Aces entertaining Illinois Wesleyan Monday and Central Normal seeking its fifth straight ~ conference win against Taylor Saturday in headline attractions. The ' Aces, who play their first conference game at Franklin next Saturday, have averaged 63 points in their five games this season. Their latest victory came last Wednesday when they downed Ohio University, 58 to 57. Butler, after a 57-t0-33 win over Xavier Saturday, meets Notre Dame next Saturday. Close on the heels of league-

and Indiana Central with perfect conference records of The schedule for the week: MOND.

AY— Illinois Wesleyan at Evansville, Wabash at Netrg Dam; oy gyite oledo,

oseph’s at RE Anderson at Manchester. WEDNESDAY Wabash at Earlham, Oakland City at Franklin, TUMURSVAY— Ball Sta te_a at DePauw. Giffin at Huntington, Eastern Illinois State at Indiana Central, FRIDAY — Rose Poly at Wabash. Taylor at Hanover, SATURDAY — Manchester at Ball State. | er a : Butler at "Notre Dame. Tayler at Comal Norma)

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By ED CONKLIN United Press Staff Correspondent LOS ANGELES, Jan. 6.—Jimmy Thomson ‘and Johnny Bulla, a pair of powerhouse hitters, match brawn and wits today .down the final rainsoaked lap of the $10,000 Los Angeles Open golf tournament. Thomson blasted his way through the semi-final round over the long and treacherous Riviera Country Club course for a par 71. His-per-fect score gave him a 54-hole aggregate of 211, which enables him to tee off today one stroke better than Bulla. It might have been another story had not Bulla hit Harold (Jug) McSpaden’s ball on the first hole yesterday. He finished with a 75, but coupled with a 66 the previous day, it was enough to keep him in second position. Close behind Thomson and Bulla, close enough, in fact, that any could win $3500 first prize money if the .two leaders faltered, were half a dozen of the nation’s best pros, all the sluggers for whom the 7000-yard course was made. Willie Goggin of Miami, whose 68 gave him low money yesterday, and Denny Shute of West Newton, Mass., were bracketed at’ 213. Clayton Heafner of Neville, N. C., and Ben Hogan of White Plains, N. Y., were tied at 214. Lawson Little, the National ‘Open king who captured the title last year, was bracketed with Craig Wood at 215, after muffing a chance to pressure the leaders. The strapping Little knifed the 18th: fairway with a pair of beautiful wood shots and chipped on ‘three feet from the pin. But the iron putting that gave him his long-shot triumph last year collapsed and it

Thomson and Bulla Match Golf Shots Down Stretch

Faces One of Toughest Foes In the Opener |

Ohio at Michigan

GAMES TONIGHT Purdue at Illinois. Ohio State at Michigan, ‘Wisconsin at Minnesota. North Dakota at Iowa, Princeton at Chicago.

GAMES SATURDAY

Indiana at Illinois. Northwestern at Ohio State, Michigan at Purdue, Iowa at Wisconsin.

By STEVE SNIDER \ United Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO, Jan, 6—Big Ten basketball heads into another Conference campaign tonight and Purdue’s defending champions must open their defense ‘on a court they fear the most—at Illinois. ~ Only twice since 1929 has Purdue been victorious at Illinois. Tonight, with each team possessing 30 vice tories in thejr long, bitter series, the champions meet an Illinois squad that still doesn’t know how good it can be.

Wisconsin’ plays at Minneapolis and Ohio $itate’s rejuvenated Buckeyes travel to Michigan. In non-Conference

its outside schedule to a close with its sixth victory in a row at the expense of North Dakota and Princeton ends its Midwestern tour at Chicago. Bowed to DePaul

expert ball-handling has produced six non-Conference seven games and makes the Boilermakers a slight favorite over the Illini. Purdue dropped one to De-

too tough that night. In their other six, however, the

scoring power to fight it out with

required a disastrous three-putt to get down. A large portion-of the 5000 gallery dogged the red-sweatered Thomson yesterday as he boomed his long shots far beyond his threesome partners, Horton Smith, who came in with a total 217, and Paul Runyan with a 222. The field was cut to the low 6 today—those with 231 or under.

Roche, Villmer In Third Mix

Following a lay-off of three weeks because of the holiday season, Matchmaker. Lloyd Carter of the Hercules A. C. is all set to resume his weekly wrestling cards at the Armory and has his first 1941 offering set for tomorrow night. Headliners are Dorve Roche, 220, of Decatur, Ill, and Ray Villmer, 222, of St. Louis, “a pair of rugged

and speedy front liners. It will be a case of “now or never” with Roche as he has twice fallen before Villmer in closely contested matches. Dorve figures the third meeting will find a different result. Villmer, appearing here 14 times in two seasons, has lost only to Ray Steele, National Wrestling Associa-

‘tion heavyweight champ. The tussle

is for two falls out of three. “Lord” Lansdowne and Buddy Knox, light heavies, are in the semi-windup, with Irish Jack Kennedy and Warren Bockwinkle, heavies, opening the bill at 8:30 o'clock.

Indiana’s pre-season favorites for the Big Ten crown. In. Frosty Sprowl and Don Blanken they have

Four other teams open their Big: |"Ten schedules tonight.

Paul of Chicago ahd looked none

Purdue Puts Big 10 Title on Line at Illinois Backboard Hawk for Illini In High School f

Badgers Battle Gophers)

contests, Iowa will attempt to bring -

Typical Purdue speed, balance and :

victories in

champions indicated they have the

two of the top scoring threats im

the league. Lack of size is com=|pensated for by brilliant floor play. Illinois has lost its great star of the last three years—big Bill Hapoc. In his place, Coach Doug Mills has groomed a high-scoring pair, Hoot Evers and Art Mathison, to split Illinois scoring and the effect is four victories in six games. Illini Have Balance

scramble for every point, but ap=

than last year. Ohio State is a distinct threat to Michigan, although the Bucks have dropped three of their five nonConference games. Development of sophomore Roger Jorgensen as a scoring center put Ohio State back on its feet against Creighton and produced a dangerous offense for the first time. Led by Center Gene Englund, third in league scoring last winter, Wisconsin will prove a tough open= er for Minnesota. The Badgers thumped Nebraska Saturday night, 46 to 31, while Minnesota was @e= feating Montana, 53 to 38.

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