Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 January 1941 — Page 22

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FRIDAY; JAN; 2 1941 1041

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A man may be down but he’ out. The camera caught Clintc Leeper A. C. on the canvas after one of Johnny Walker's dynamite punches in their 147-pound Open Class battle. But Clinton got up—and knocked jout Walker (unaftached).

| SPORTS. By Eddie Ash

ANYWHERE FROM four to six [rookies are coming up next season as odds-on favorites to make the grade in the major leagues, observes John P.|Carmichael of the Chicago Daily News, who says he cannot recall a year | when so many standout youngsters were making their

| debuts, with success practically assured in advance. “How long has it been since a guy could sit down, three months { before a major league season opened, and note anywhere from four to six names of rookies who are odds-on favorites to make the grade?” asks Carmichael. “In our time, at least, that kind of'youngster hasn't | grown on trees, yet right now there are at least four first-year men who are practically guaranteed to stick. “There isn’t a; dissenting voice against 1 regular with the Cubs. You won't find anykody to deny that Phil | Rizzuto and Gerald Priddy can’t wear Yankee uniforms next season. The Cardinals think so much of Catcher Walker Cooper that they sold Mickey Owen. “Elsewhere the managers may be hoping tp cull something—any- | thing—from their training camp crops, but the Messrs. Jim Wilson, Joe McCarthy and Bill Southworth seem to have standouts dropped | right into their laps. It “There were a few such standouts last season, but not until the year was well along did they begin to assume much proportion. 4 It took a little time to establish that Bob Kpnnedy would hold up at third for the White Sox and for Sid Hudson to find himself as the ace of the Senator hurling staff. “It wasn’t until the teams were touring down the backstretch, ' 80 to speak, that Dominic DiMaggio hit his stride, that Walter Judnich took up the cudgel for the Browns, Vern Olsen for the Cubs and Ernie Bonham of the Yankees looked like diamonds in the rough. “From our point oi" view, the rookie of all rookies to walk onto a big league club and stay there is Joe DiMaggio. The rookie tag never stuck to Joe long. He was a veteran almost from the day he | stepped on the field and no sooner had folks ot used to seeing him around than he became an ‘old-timer,’ with [all the finesse of one | who had been there always.”

| A. A. Batting Leaders Down Through [Years

IF THE champion batter of the Americsn Association for the season of 1941 should be a member of either the Minneapolis, St. | | Paul or Milwaukee clubs, that club will step into first place in the | matter of having the most clouting kings during the 40 years of | the league’s history. As it stands now these teams are in a three-way deadlock, each having had six batting leaders. . . . Should Kansas City or Toledo | have the No. 1 hitter of 1941 that club would ti¢ the other three, since the Blues and Hens are close on the heels of tlie other three with five champions. The eastern quartet of clubs have been s | batting championships as compared with 23 for the west. . . . Indianapolis and Louisville have boasted the king-pin hitter four years each while Columbus trails the pack with but thre}.

, ” ” ” THE MINNEAPOLIS “greats” include Cravath twice, O'Neill, | Ruble, Williams and Wright. . . . The St. Paul sextet is made up of Geier, C. Hemphill, Butler, Rap, Washington and G. English while hy ie Je OF Milwaukee have been Stone, Chappelle, W. Johnston, an e . Kan i p: Lelivelt, Becker twice and Dugas. fo Ys sders Were Berkley, Lamar was the first to lead for Toledo in|1923. . . . Then in the period from 1926 to 1930 the Hens captured the batting championship iour out of five years, LeBourveau doing it in 1926 and again in 1930, Indianapolis has seen Jack

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Veach in 1928 and Ruble in 1929. Hayden, Reb Russell, Frank Sigafoos and Johnny Cooney ‘lead the |

Gus Dugas Posted Highest Average

TOPPING THE LEAGUE for Louisville have been Ganzel, Hall- | man, Hendryx and J. Kirke, while the trio of Columbus champions have been W. Hinchman, Murphy and Slaughter. The highest batting average ever recordzd in the league was marked up in 1931 by Gus Dugas of Kansas City with a fancy .419. Cae + On only one Sper Sesasion has the batting king's average been r the mark: at was far back in 1904 v Milwaukee hit at a .405 clip. 4 Wher Sine of At the opposite end of the ladder stands O'Neill of Minne i 1 apolis, who won the batting laurels of the American Association P1908 ih 2 eadey, 296, the only time the lead ing hitter had batted

8 8 » » 4 » ART RUBLE, outfielder, led the A. A. batting ra i ith different clubs, first for Toledo in 1929 and oe rr i in 1932, and each time he had exactly the same average of .376. Indianapolis’ four batting champions accumulated the following averages: Jack Hayden, 1908, .316; Reb Russell, 1927, 385; Frank Sigafoos, 1038, 370; Johnny Cooney, 1935, 311. . . , Cooney still is playing league ball with the Boston Nationals. i

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Derringer Has It

CINCINNATI, Jan. 24 (NEA).— Paul Derringer of the Reds has walked more than 50 men in only one season out of the past six. His mark for, the period came in 1937, when he| passed 55.

Giy H. S. Card Is Homey One

TONIGHT’S GAMES | Silver Creek at Cathedral. | | New Augusta at Manual. | | Carmel at Broad Ripple. | New Winchester at Eowe., || Louisville Central st Crispus ‘Attucks. | l Shortridge at Rushviile, | Washington at Connersville, | Sacred Heart at Viashingion §t. Simon's. Bloomington University at Perk.

Of the 14 basketball games| | tacing city high school teams this week-end, 10 can be reached on a city bus or streetcar, with the bther four serviced by souti-bound vehicles. In this unpredictable weather, only Shortridge, Washington, Manual 2nd Sacred Heart have to leave home tonight and tomorrow: and fortunately nobody has to go north. Tonight Shortridge gdes to Tushville, Washington to | Connersville and Sacred Heart to Washington to play St. Simon’s. Tomorrow evening Manual has ga &hort hop to Decatur Central. There's no end of ¢ntertairiment for the home-town fans. Six games are on this evening’s ¢ard and four

. | tomorrow. Busiest of {he lot will be

Cathedral, Manual, l}3road Ripple and Washington, each! of which has two games to play. |

Howe Forfeits (ames |

After ‘this evening's encounter against the usually strong Silver Creck club from soutiiern Indiana, the Irish resume city competition tomorrow night againiit Broad Ripple. Cathedral has won two and lost two against other town jeams, while Ripple has wor, one of four. Both Jim Dilger, a guard, and Al Obergfell, forward, are expected to be ready for action for Cathedral after layouts. Eowe, which has had to | forfeit eight of its games bgcause of the ineligibility of Kenny Burns, will play New Winchester this evening at home. Tomorrow night’s/ game against the Silent HoGsiers has been postponed because of] illness at the School for the Deaf. Burns disqualified himself by playing Sunday School basketball aft:r the conclusior: of the 1940-41 seiison. Washington’s Continentals, whose secomd-half showing | against Tech in the City Tournament las} week has encouraged West Side fars, face another unfortunate in Ccnnersville. The Spartans have won three games this season ani hold seventh plecedn the South Central Gonference, Another Redskin Shuffle

Probable starters for Washington, still seeking its first victory, will be Miller, Fulton, Peterc¢heff, Cole and Berry. Following thnight’s | game, the Continentals return |fo .the West Side ballrooni tomorrow to tackle Crawfordsville’s Athenians, one of the state's Jughes scoring teams. Another shuffle at Manual has resulted in this probable starting lineup: Joe Nahmias and | Ralph McFall, forwards; Bill Arriold or Charles Wilson, center, and [Sidney Feldman and Wendell ((rarrett, guards. Preparing for a vigorous week-end against | the |weteran Franklin Township team and Decatur Central’'s Marion | County champions, the Redskins completed practice with a sesyion devpted to goal shooting, play rehearsing and an intra-squad scririmage. | Shortridge’s invasion of Rushville will be its second [taste df South Central Conference i:ompetition this week. The Blue Devils expect to atone for that one-point defeat at Columbus Wednesds.y—their, fourth

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In the Corners

It was easy to overlook him during the commotion in the Fieldhouse ring. After all, Golden Gloves is for the kids, and an aged trainer is taken for granted—Ilike the ropes, the lights and the haze of resin dust. He stood on the bottom step at the side of the ring. He didn’t shout, hardly seemed to be watching, but those shaking hands were a dead giveaway that he was actually a bundle of nerves. His protege, Arnold Deer, wasn't having an easy. time with Jesse Johnson, Leeper A. C. entrant in the 147-pound Open class. Arnold was hitting, but he was being hit— taking punches in the face and body. Between rounds he whispered a word or two to Deer as he bathed that reddened face with a cold

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carrier and former trainer for the South Side Turners. In past years he’s had quite a large entry list in Golden Gloves. This year he’s handling only Deer. And you could tell, even though he didn’t smile,

The Butler Bulldog’s basketball team will seek its 19th consecutive Indiana College Conference triumph tonight when it meets Franklin at

the Fieldhouse at 8:15 o'clock. A Butler victory tonight would place double importance upon the Butler-Ball State game tomorrow night at Muncie where the Bulldogs have not played since 1927. In other Indiana Conference games Huntington plays at Anderson, Concordia at N.C.A.G.U, and Taylor at Manchester. Two Play Outsiders Evansville and Indana State look at out-of-state competition, the Aces entertaining Western Kentucky and the Sycamores travelling to Southern Illinois Teachers. Fraklin will come to the FieldHouse tonight loaded to the hilt to throttle Butler whose lone league triumph this year has been over DePauw. Coach Roy Tillotson’s team "is out of the running for league honors this year but remains a potential threat in dumping’ the Bulldogs. Tillotson probably will call upon John Duncan and Dick Frazell, forwards; Capt. Don Reichert, center, and Myron Knauff and Roy Grefe. guards, to start against Butler. Meawhile Butler's Tony Hinkle has been redressing his team and probably will call upon his early season combination of Capt. Bob Dietz and Wilbur Schumacher, forwards; Bill Hamilton, center, and Lyle Neat and Jim McCray, guards. Percentages Are Low Neither Franklin or Butler are above the 500 percentage mark this year in games won and lost. The phi lirl have dropped out of step with other conference contenders while Butler's lone triumph against DePauw has placed it in a tie for the lead. The Bulldogs, however, have won only four of nine starts this year. After the Ball State game tomor-

Harris Will Sprint For I. U. in East

Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Jan, 24.— Archie Harris, Indiana's pass-catch-ing fodtball end, discus thrower and shot putter, also can run the 440-yard dash, Coach E., C, Hayes has found out. And so Archie will do a turn with Indiana's mile relay team tomorrow night against Princeton in a special event at the K. of C. games at Boston. Needing a fourth man to complete the team, Hayes held time tryouts yesterday, and Harris did the trick in apporximately 51

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Miles of Smiles and Heartaches Are Found as Boys Battle for Glory

that he was pleased as the judges awarded young Arnold the decision.

Last night's show got away te a usual Golden Gloves start. The first scheduled three - rounder failed to last a round. Joe Louis couldn’t have finished it much faster.

Don Schooley and Rogers Hall, a pair of 147-pound Novices, went to leather pushing in a hurry, and Schooley ended the bout in a hurry when he brought up a punch from about the same spot from which Lyle Neat tosses in Butler field goals.

Said one feminine ringsider, in describing a fight: “The tall bey reaches out, and the other fellow’s face is right there.”

Fans who booed the decision that went to Julius Holman, Fayette C. C., over Leonard Roberts of Rhodius might be interested to know that the judges considered it one of the evening's hardest to decide. But

Butler Seeks 19th Straight Victory in State Conference

there shall be no draws, remember.

Danning Balks

NEW YORK, Jan. 24 (U. P.). —The first holdout of 1941 for the New York Giants was listed as Harry Danning, catcher, today. Only comment forthcoming from Danning was the terse statement, “I'm not satisfied.” Giants’ president Horace Stoneham brushed off the Danning dissatisfaction as an annual habit -and announced that he had written outfielder Morris Arnovich, bought from the Reds, suggesting that he join the army and forget about baseball for the “year if his draft number is so low he’ll be called in June as reported.

row night, Coach Hinkle will select a probable 10-man team that will leave Sunday afternoon by train for a two-game invasion of the East, meeting Long Island University next Wednesday night in Madison Square Garden, New York City, and St. Joseph at Philadel-

The Wildcats hold a previous decision from the first game of their annual home-and-home rivalry.

Evansville Central tangles with

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J. -Tunstill won by a techird knockout photo shows

Paul Adams (Leeper A. C.) down with William Harris (Wilson Milk A. C.) going to a neutral

corner.

For your information, the lady was pleading “C’mon, Deer,” not “C’mon, dear.”

Edward Evans was the victim of a delayed action punch in his fight with Johnny Anthony. The 147pound Novice entrant was struck near the end of the second round, but several seconds passed before he pancaked to the canvas. Then the bell cut short the count.

Arnold Trunner, N. C. A. G. U. southpaw, got one of the best hands of the evening. The fans like the way he tosses that left,

Press row was sprayed when Hugh McGinniss, WPA handler, stepped on a stray lemon.

Amateurs from the Leeper A. OC. perhaps are wearing the most colorful trunks of the tourney. They're a pastel pink, with blue lettering.

Salesmanship at its best: The soft-drink vendor who chirped, “Anybody want a coke back here? Your tongues are hanging out.”

Cagers Renew

Old Rivalries

By UNITED PRESS You don’t need a telescope to see that some old rivalries, grudge battles,- loom on tonight’s high school basketbail chart. Not even a Supreme Court opinion would help much in doping who'll win the Anderson-Muncie clash. Sure, Anderson has only been beat= en three times and is tops in the North Central Conference. But this game is on the Bearcat floor, where the locals are unbeaten in seven games. Nothing would please them more than to scalp the Indians, and vice versa. Down among the limestones, Martinsville locks with an old rival at Bedford in a game where statistics count for little. It'll be simply a case of the Stonecutters trying. to dig an Artesian well, ggainst resistance. Farther south, the Eappy Hunters of Huntingburg are with us again. This time they meet Jasper with premeditated murder in their hearts.

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flying fists. On the whole the boys were

more evenly matched than on the first night but the knock-|

out artists kept the resin dust blowing in typical Golden Gloves fashion and nine battles ended ahead of the sched-

uled three rounds. This creates a total of 23 knockouts in 46 bouts, since 14 k. 0.’s were chalked up in 24 matches when the

tourney lid was lifted on Jan. 17. Attendance last night was a tribute to the willingness of the amateur knuckledusters to get in there and throw punches and it was the best second night crowd in the history of the local fistic attraction. Next tourney dates at Butler University’s Fieldhouse are Jan. 31 and Feb. 7 and 14, all Friday night affairs.

First Boui—47 Seconds

First to enter the ring last night were William Harris and Paul Adams, Novice middleweights, and in 47 seconds Adams was sprawled on the canvas and “through until next year.” Harris swarmed over the foe and scored two knockdowns before Jimmy Cooley called it a night by stopping the melee and awarding. the verdict to the Wilson A. C. boxer while the Leeper Boxing School boy dozed on the floor. However, it remained for Don Schooley, Northeast Community Center 147-pound Novice, to win the “quickie” honors of the evening. In the 11th bout he galloped out of his corner to exchange potent leather with Roger Hall of the Wilson Milk A. C, and Hall charged with both gloves flying. Buf Schooley met the rush by elinehing, then straightened up and scored a direct hit to the chin with a righthander. Hall hit the deck pronto and was counted out in 31 seconds.

3000 Thrilled by 22 Bouts As Title Competition Narrows

By EDDIE ASH Golden Gloves gladiators gave their all again last night in the Fieldhouse Fistic Frolics during the 22-bout program of the second show of The Times-Legion tournament and approximately 3000 sports goers sat in on the carnival of

and in four matches between the seasoned fisticuffers, three ended in knockouts. Jimmy Buhr, Northeast Community Center lightweight, sub= dued James. Sheldon, unattached, third round; Alfred Sansbury, Wilson Milk A. C., lightweight, stopped Charles Bodell, Stark & Wetzel A. C., second round, and Clinton Brooks, Leeper Boxing School welterweight, stopped Jchn Walker, un

» | attached, in the second round.

In the fourth Open class match Arnold Deer, South Side Commun= ity Center welterweight, decisioned Jesse Johnson, Leeper Boxing School, over the regulation three rounds. This was an entertaining fight to veteran ringsiders and was a battle between left hands.

Glenn Wins Slambanger

It was a well-fought bout and the exchange of left jabs was in rapidfire order. However, the adversaries didn’t forget they had right hands and whipped them over with plenty of sting. No knockdowns occurred but a right-hander in the second session, delivered by Deer, sent Johnson back on his heels. The first bout to go to a decision was the second on the card and it was a toe-to-toe tilt between James Glenn, Washington A. OC, Novice 160-pounder, and Sam Bene nett, Leeper Boxing School. Glenn won the verdict after three sessions of slambang stuff. He was the stronger at the finish and was the more effective in landing telling blows. One of the best skirmishes on the menu for sustained action was a “terrific” affair between Julius Holman, Fayette Community Center 135-pound Novice, and Leonard Roberts, Rhodius Community Cen=ter, Holman took the aggressive at the outset and piled up points with a two-handed attack. Finally, Roberts discovered that a sharp-shooting lefft hand was the proper weapon to cool off his fae and he made a gallant come-from-behind fight. His nose was bruised and bloodied in. the opening round

Open class contestants made their first appearance of the tournament

but he shook that off. and started (Continued on Page 23)

phia, next Friday night.

Basketball

Tonight’s schedule in the BushFeezle Friday League at the Pennsy Gym: 7:30—xingan Reliables vs. Kay Jewelry. 8:30—Shamrock A. C. vs. Shawnee A. C. 9:30—Morton-X vs. Seven Up.

Royal Crown Colas, 30-26 losers to Pure Oil, will play the Plainfield Specials at Plainfield tonight in a benefit game. Cola players will meet at 1631 English Ave. at 6 p. m.

Tomorrow's schedule in the C. ¥.

O. Cadet League: St. Joan of Arc vs. St. Catherine at St. Philip; Holy Cross at St. Philip; Little Flower at Holy Trinity, Cathedral at Sacred Heart, Patriek’s vs. Lourdes at Sacred Heart and St. John vs. Holy sat Holy Trinity. omorrow’s pairings in the C. Y.

O. Junior League: Holy Cross vs. St. Thomas at St. Philip, St. ya a St. Patrick at $ Blip Trinity St. Joan of Are and Cathedral at Holy rrinit

one. to shell peanuts, but their mentor, Orville Hooker, will be bringing his charges to the school where he used to coach. His lads should be primed for a killing.

Side tangle in what may be a preview of the sectional. game is dynamite. Central has devastated eight straight opponets since losing to the Redskins early last. month. North Side has lost two in 11, but the defeats were to the two outstanding teams in the state, South Bend Central and Hammond Tech. Take your choice.

the hot water tap against New Castle last week, where the

Washington in a classic battle. Both teams were slated to be the powerhouses of the Southern Conference, although Vincennes currently enjoys top spot in the league, Marion is the guest of those demon New Castle Trojans in a clash that might possibly surprise everyThe Giants may be too weak

Ft. Wayne Central and North This

Frankfort, the team that turned on

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Wildcats are smiling

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DETROIT, Jan. 24 (NEA).— Basketball Coach Lloyd Brazil of the University of Detroit .forbids players to scout foes. He believes they come away with false impressions.

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