Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 January 1941 — Page 8

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| Rhode Islanders beat St. Joseph's of

- Keaney type of basketball where . defense is ignored. ; + Our basketball savants stress a more balanced pattern of play. Na-

and the first real team.they meet

SPORTS...

By Eddie Ash

JIMMY DYKES, White Sox nage Now proposes

not to open the 1941 season

at second base, as originally planned,

ookie Don Kolloway but with the veteran

with

Bill Knickerbocker, late of the New York Yankees, occupying the important keystone defensive assignment.

“Don’t think I have given up

chatting with Chicago baseball writers the a kid who has a long way to go before he’s

oway,” said Dykes while other day. “Kolloway is at his peak. Right now

on Kol

he might cover more ground than the seasoned Knickerbocker, but

wouldn’t be as handy in the making “And we still have to find out wh

ofl douple plays. ether he'll hit big league pitching

over the long route. I'll admit I am taking much for granted in the -

Knickerbocker experiment. He has

been ditting around a lot as a

reserve infielder the last two years, but I cap’t forget what I saw him

do at second base for the Yankees an injury.

when Joe Gordon was out with

“If he’s still that good, and there’s n¢ reason he shouldn't be, he’s my man. Besides, there's no risk inyolved. By the time the season gets under way Ill have a pretty fair idea of Knickerbocker’s

usefulness and it won’t be much of a job to

let Kolloway take over.”

The Sox chieftain added that the remainder of his starting in-

field would be made up of Joe Kuhel, the veteran, at first; Kennedy, a freshman last year, at third

veteran, at short stop.

Open Against That Feller Again

Bob and Luke Appling, the

ALL the White Sox have to worry abolt is facing Bob Feller in

Cleveland on April 15, the season’s opener year Cleveland opened in Chicago and Mr.

as his Indians won, 1 to 0. . .. That game in major league history. The St. Louis Browns will have

for both nines. . . . Last Feller pitched a no-hittet was the first opening day no-hii

or their 1941 rhound staff fou:

twirlers who were with rival American Lpague clubs last season—: George Caster, Athletics; Johnny Allen, Cleveland; Fritz Ostermueller

and Denny Galehouse, Red Sox.

Four American Leaguers took part in e

rery game last campaign—:

Rudy York, Tigers; Lou Boudreau, Cleveland; Digi Siebert, Athletics

George Washington Case, Washington,

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ON THE SUBJECT of winter ballyhoc Brown, Chicago Herald-American, speaks the following piece: in Chicago we have been subjected to s

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for ball players, Warrer: “Here ch a battering from the

ballyhoo guns firing Lou Novikoff and Lou Stringer shells, it may be

that we have forgotten that the Yankees -major leagues a pair of rookies who may be¢ of some consequence, too. j “They are the Kansas City twosome] Rizzuto. As far as we are able to discover,

has ever worked in an oil field nor

are introducing into the

Gerald Priddy and Phil neither Rizzuto nor Pridd:’ doubled as a quaint character,

who might have been anything from a Russion peasant to a puffing

Siberian wrestler. . Sees Yanks Making ‘Startling

- “NEITHER HAS ANY research on our

Move’ part disclosed any courses

taken by Rizzuto and Priddy in a School of Speech, the better to

qualify them for conducting one-w

magnates.

“As far as we know the Yankees are

‘ay canversations with baseball

making the startling mov:

of bringing up this pair with nothing at all to endear them to

fandom save an ability t6 play base

ball.

‘However, it is not so very long ago that many of the best minds

of baseball were pondering over the

his proper place in the history of the game.

“We could have heard more deli

the fact that the deliberators got very

mildly that when Rizzuto had pulled Lou Boudreau we'd be willing to get

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QUOTING ARCH WARD in the

problem of assigning to Rizzuto

berations than we did, save for mad at us for suggesting even|with a young man named on the band wagon, too.” ” ” ”

Chicago Tribune: “Frank Mc-

Cormick, University of Minnesota athletics director, who recently

conferred with war department officials phase of army training camps, believes the

concerning the athletics most formidable army in

the world could be mustered by conscriptihg every football player in

the United States. : “And how about supplementing nation’s Golden Gloves fighters?”

the football battalion with tha

Rhode Island's

Basketball ers I

Pour 'Em In and Pack 'Em In

By JOE WILLIAMS Times Special Writer NEW YORK, Jan. 29.—If you can make your Adam’s apple go round and round instead of up and down, if you've got a dancing flea that can rhumba, if you have seven thumbs on your left hand, in short, if you can attain a freak or gaudy note, come to New York. We'll love .you. Take the Rhode Island basket ballers for example. Nobody knows for sure whether they can play basketball, Yet theyll pack the Garden to"night facing St. Francis of '‘Brooklyn. No basketball team ever Joe Williams rolled into the big : own on a more lurid wave of ballyhoo. To listen to the tub beaters this is a basketball’ team to end all basketball teams. It combines the best features of the incredible and the impossible. An old New England Irisher naried Frank Keaney is the coach. Mr. Keaney is something of a shock to the purists of the basketball. He scoffs at systems and such. He simply tells his young men to go out and get themselves a lot of scores. “I don’t care how many scores the other fellows get just so we get more,” he explains. His reasoning is that the more times

you shoot at the basket the more|

times you score, - Let ’Em Shoot

This eliminates defensive play altogether and defense is supposed to be an important part of any competitive game. “What good is defense?” bellows Mr. Keaney. “I never saw a fellow score a basket on defense.” If you remind him mildly the defense keeps the opposition Scoring down he has an answer for that, too. “People don’t go to see Joe Louis block blows; they go to see him land blows. Same thing in basketball. People go to see scoring.”

Well, whether the Rhode Islanders rate with the powers of basketball may be an open question, but the records show they don’t sit on the kall once they get it. They claim to.be the highest scoring team in the country and perhaps they are.

in nine games this season. Maybe it was like Joe DiMaggio hitting against bush league pitching but still 80 points is ‘a lot of scoring in any league. In a recent game the

~ Philadelphia 72-66. This is presented as a classic example of the

turally they view the Keaney tactics with sharp skepticism. To them it just isn’t basketball and even if it’s good they aren't going to like it, Their feeling is that the Rhode Islanders have been playing pushovers:

(St. Francis is better than fair, by the way) will expose them in a ridiculous light. In fact, one of our

agents confides that another edition| »

of the Keaney handiwork invaded Westchester a couple of years back

. They've averaged better than r 80 points—that’s right, 80 points—|

court, It was also one of those alloffense and no-defense units and our dgent insists it was the worst team| he saw all year.

It Pays to Advertise

He| wonders if the main difference | between the newest Keaney product and the one he clainis he saw bn the Westchester court isn’t publicity. “If they're any better it's probably because they've hired a press, agent,” our agent snaps. It should be mentioned that our agent is a [basketball purist and as such is not likely to accept the freakish without a vigorous struggle, To} the average sports fo!lower who | can take his basketball = or firmly ignore it, the Rhode Islanders, freaks or not, are welcome. A new (note in any sports is always a relief. And it could be that the old Irish coach has something in his all out for scores philosophy. After all, most sports stress offense these days, so why not basketball? As a

stregsing offense for some s:asons now: The criticism against. Mr. Keahey seems to be that he is abusing the privilege, but this is & point on which the jury is still out. We'll know more about that after tonight's demonstration. Razzledazzle football commands a large and articulate spectator appeal. It may be that we,are in for a period of razzle-dazzle basketball, to.

~ Cage Scores

STATE COLLEGES

Purdue, 38; Detroit, 16. St Joseph's, 40; Central Normal, 37,

STATE HIGH SCHOOLS

Bedford, 25; Seymour, 20. Huntington, 27; Marion, 22. Greenwood, 58; Alumni, 28. N ¢ ernon, 33; 7 30. } tche! : Oolitic, 30.

iry Wallace, 47; Gary Emerson, 36. c. 39; Monmouth, 26. arengo. 29: Milltown, : Shoals, 33; Crothersville, 12, i Chicago Leo, 55; Hammond Catirolic, 38.

OTHER COLLEGES

Chicago Teachers, 25; George Williams College, 22. »rth Carolina, 43; Wake 40. svidson, 45: Furman, 34. 2orgia, 59; Mercer, 47 bfiance, 59; Mexico, 54. i Elkins, 46: Bethany, 43. ; Richmond, 22. nn, ; Parsons, 22, maha, 66: York, 37. 45;. Nebraska. Wes-

ayne Teachers, n, 40, ru (Neb.), 46: Midland, 39. alvin, 7%: Ferris In awrence Tech, 43; ivet, 46; Jackson Junior, 25. iana (Pa.) Teachers, 40: Slippery . Thomas, 39; River Falls (Wis.) chers. 35. r LaSalle, 43: West Chester (Pa.), 31, ton, 43

48; ‘Missouri Valley, 35. I 8.

Forest,

y 25.

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entral, 43, astings (Neb.), 39; Kearney. 25, thany (Kas.),

e 3 50; Kansas Wesllevan, 47. juena Vista, 47: Western Union, 36. rinity, 48; McMurry. 36. alifornia, 49; St. Mary’s, 39. PROFESSIONAL Akron Firestone, 58; Oshkosh (Wis.), 48.

18 ty Higbe, Walker Sign NEW YORK, Jan. 29 (UJ. P.).— Pitcher Kirby Higbe and outfielder Di ie Walker have forwarded signed contracts for 1941 to the Bioklyn Dodgers, it was arnounced ay.

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2 Fights on Friday's Card At Fieldhouse

Middleweights Also Due To See Action

In the event that all Open class featherweight eligibles weigh in and pass the physical examinations Friday, Indianapolis (Golden Gloves tournament customers may expect some red hot competition. Six young mitt tossers remain in that division and the crown is undefended. Lee Prettyman, last year’s 126pound champ, advanced to the lightweight (135) division this year and a battle royal is predicted before his successor is named. The contenders are A. C. Lee, Hill Community Center, the 1940 bantamweight king; + Earl, Paul and Louis Hewitt, Leeper Boging School; Cliff Goddwin, Fhodius Community Center; Raymond Glenn, Washington A. C, and James Louis, Wilson Milk A. C. The Novice class featherweight division is down: to the round of four and remaining eligibles are Curtis Harrington, Leeper Boxing School; Clarence Bell, Washington A. C. and John Douglas and Robert Beaman, both: of the Hill Community Center,

Eight Middleweight Eligibles

Open class middleweights are sure to be called upcn to throw gloves at Butler Fieldhouse Jriday night if the eight eligibles make weight and are found in shipshape by the tournament physicians. This 160pound title also is |undefended. Keith Shelp, the 1940 winner, departed Indianapolis arid is out of competition. In the group challenging for the crown are Buddy Noel, Leeper Boxing School, the 1940 welterweight champ; Howard Hamlin, and Billy Jones, also Leeper bhoxer; Leroy Reed, West Side A. C.; Billy Hall, Wilson Milk A. C,; and William Henry Jennings, Jack Durham and

'| Ernest Roache, ail of the Hill Com-

munity center. The Open class light heavyweight division still has seven eligibles ‘and barring a shrinkage the 175-pound-ers will have to go to work in Friday’s show, the third of the tournament. The eligibles at this time are Willard Reed, defending. champion, Northeast Conmimunity Center; Frank Cotter, unattached; James Stone, Hill Commurity Center; Chuck Montgomery, Wilson Milk A. C.; and Tony Vogt, Janes Williams and: Buck Cunningham, all of the Leeper Boxing School.

Estimate 24 Bouts

Approximately | 24 bouts will be fought Friday, accordirig to the estimate as of today. Starting time

all matches are scheduled over the the round to ‘a

nament dates are Feb. 7 and 14. All tourney boxers must report at the Fieldhouse Friday afternoon for the weigh-in check, starting at &:30 o'clock. Drawing for the night's bouts will be held around 5 p. m. Reserved seat tickets at $1 are on sale downtown at Feezle Sporfing Goods Co., and at the Sportsman’s Store. General admission prices are 50 and 25 cents, tickets on sale at the Fieldhouse box office on fight nights only,

The Sportsmen's

Show Will Open Here March 22

The Hoosier state-wide Sportsmen’s Shew will open at the State Fair Grounds on March 22, it was announced todey. The show will run for a week, closing on Sunday, March 30. The new headline attraction: at this year’s show will he 10 springer spaniel dogs valued at $6000, who will retrieve diving ducks in the large water pool and perform other startling stunts. The Indian chief Nee-Dah-Bah will be back with the show this year as master of ceremonies. Buddy, the trained seal, also will return and will bring along a small cub seal who will perform a ropewalking act over the water pool. Spike Horn Meyers, an 80-year-

| old bear den keeper of North Mich-

igan will bring down three bears and three playful cubs. : For the figst time the Canadian government will ent¢r an exhibit, illustrating the travel advantages from Nova Scotia to British Columbia. The group ‘of nortli woods guides whose canoe tilting &nd log birling contests have made a popular hit in Indiana also will stage their thrilling contests again. The management has arranged to place bleacher se:ats on all four sides of the water pool instead of just on two sides, a; was the case last show.

Football Still Topic At Washington High It may be basketball season, but Coach Henry Bogue is thinking of football season—ancd especially of a couple of open dates on the Washington Continentals’ schedule next fall. Coach Bogie wants a game for either Sept. 19 or Sept. 24. Opponents interested can iron out the detalls by calling Coach ‘Bogue at Washington High School.

| | and Refinancing 20 MONTHS! TO PAY

again has been sect at 7:30 p. m. and |cinnati. three-round route, twc minutes tojof St. Louis felled Jack Hader of

decision of two|Omaha, Neb., in the feature wresjudges and the referee. Other tour-|tling bout.

and physical|and press.

downe of Barrington, England, in

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I. Sidney Pavey, |2-pound Golden Glover, is all attention as Raymond Crady, English Avenue Boys' Club boxing instructor, doles out the fistic pointers. Pavey is a novice.

2. Glenn Stidd is one of the most enthusiastic members of the Boys' Club Gloves team. There's never a dull moment in the gym when this novice flyweight is going through the ‘paces.

3. "Ring the bell, I'm ready to throw punches," says Charles Teckenbrock, Boys' Club Open class Golden Gloves lightweight, as he flashes a fierce challenge to "come on" while

stepping between he ropes.

Denso Victor On a Decision

Johnny Denson, local Golden Gloves graduate, made aggressiveness pay last night &s he pounded out a 10-round decision over Bernard Davis, Birmingham, Ala. heavyweight, in the feature bout on the infantile paralysis benefit box-ing-wrestling card, It was a narrow verdict, but Denson got the judges’ nod for carrying the fight to Davis most of the time. In the scheduled six-round semifinal, Willie Cutsinger of Dayton, O., scored a second-round technical kayo over Peewee Weghorn of CinBoth were featherweights. In two straight falls, Youis Thesz

Thesz took 18 minutes for the first, using a flying scissors, then came back nine minutes later to pin Hader again with a dropkick

Buck Weaver of Terre Haute got the judges’ nod over Lord Lans-

the other wrestling bout when

a fall in the 30-minute time limit.

Basketball

The Y. M. C. A. will sponsor two charity basketball games tomorrow evening, the ieturns from which will be donated to the Maiion County Chapter »f the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. The games will be held at the Central “Y” at 8 p. m. Tickets are aviiiakle ai the “Y” desk or from th2 physical departm:znt. ! Pure Oil will meet the ¥ Reps in the first encounter while two feams from It Harrison wil play the second.

Em-Roe basketball schedules for this week: Independent League at School 9 tonight: 7, Crown Paper vs. Green Shields; 8, Decatur R. C. vs. Olive Branch; 9, Roumanian vs. George J. Mayer Co. Wednesday Church League at First Presbyterian gym: Broadway vs. First Presbyterian; 8, Christamore vs. Clermont Christian; 9, Union Trust vs. Second Friends, Hawthorn Industrial, tomorrow night: 7, Adams vs. Mt. Jackson; 8, Kingan vs. Link Belt; 9, Farm Bureau vs. National Malleable. Friday night Industrial at H. A. C.: 7, Balkamp vs. Pure Oil; 8, Stokely-Van Camp vs. Progress Laundry; -9, Armour vs. Book-walter-Ball-Greathouse.

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Ohio State Still the No. 1

Scoring Team in Big Ten

Pct. 1.000 833 150 667 .600 .600 .333 200 143 000

57 92 62 49 95 68 45 73 93 32

Indiana 0 Wisconsin 1 Illinois 1 Iowa 1 Ohio State . 2 Minnesota ... 2 Purdue 2 Northwestern. 4 Michigan 6 Chicago 3

Although two straight defeats have lowered them to fifth place, Ohio State's Buckeyes continue to set the offensive pace in the Big Ten bas-

ketball race.

In five games the Bucks have tallied 236 points, an average of 47.2

points a game. Indiana's Fireball

league, ranks second in offensive, having poured in 141 points in three games for a 47-point-a-game average. 8 fensively, too, limiting their opponents to 35.7 points a game. sota leads in this department, having allowed foes only 35.2 points in

each contest.

Purdue ranks eighth defensively and seventh offensively. The hapless Chicago Maroons are at the bottom in both departments.

April 4, 5 Dates For Grid Clinic

LAFAYETTE, Ind, Jan. 29 (U. P.).—Athletic director Mal Elward announced today that Purdue University's annual football clinic for high school and college coaches throughout the Middle West will be held here April 4 and 5. Elward said prominent high school and college mentors would conduct lectures. s

FG FT FTM PF Pts.

Ave. O.P. 35.7 36.5 41 413 41.8

Ave. Pts. 47 42.3 4 42.7 47.2 36.6 39 45.7 39 45.2 13g 21 33 48.7

0.P. 107 219 164 124 209 176 137 266 281 146

141 254 176 128 236 183 117 199 262 99

22 39 30 18 32. 40 19 45 43 28

54 80 63 40 82 79 26 78 83 50

Five, undefeated and leading the

The Hoosiers. rank second deMinne-

Y.M. C. A. Swimming Meet Carded Here

More than a dozen teams are ex-

pected to compete in a state-wide |

Y. M. C. A. junior swimming and diving meet, to be held at and sponsored by the Central Y. M. C, A. Feb. 22. Among the events will be a 160yard relay, 40-yard breast stroke, 40, 220 and 100-yard free style events, 120-yard ‘medley relay, 40vard back stroke and diving. ‘The junior class is for svvimmers 15 years

Firestones and

Kautskys Mix

The Firestone Non-Skids of Akron, O., National Basketball League champions for the past two seasons, will tangle with the local Kautskys at 8:30 tonight at the Butler Fieldhouse. The visitors will be out to avenge a 45-42 defeat handed them by the Kautskys at Noblesville a few weeks ago. The team, after failing to click in its quest of a third loop championship, recently added re-enforce-ments and is expected to present a much stronger lineup than, the one that met defeat at Noblesville. The game should prove an interesting affair to local Notre Dame followers, as each team will start an ex-Irish center. Mark Ertel, who starred with the upstate quintet last season, is wearing the Kautsky uniform, while Paul Nowak, one ‘of the all-time greats from the South Bend institution, is pivot man for the Tiremen. V Three additional former Notre Dame players, Johnny Moir, Paul Du Charme and Tommy Wukovits, also are with the Ohio team. The first of a double preliminary, between Pure Oil and U. S. Tires, is *scheduled at 7 o'clock, with 'a second slated at 7:45 pits Trimble

35.2 NOil against International Harvester.

Probable starting lineups for main attraction:

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Iden Gloves Feather Crown

Purdue Gets In Tune for

Indiana Game

Boilermakers Frolic Against Detroit

TONIGHT'S GAMES

Butler Vs. Long Island at New York. Peiroit at Indiana State.

Purdue loo ked forward

‘with more confidence today

to its traditional game this week-end with Indiana after ending a two-week furlough by routing the University of Detroit.

The Boilermakers poured points almost at will against the Titans last night apd recorded a 38-16 vice tory. The Lambert club got away slowly but soon found its stride and romped into a 19-6 half-time lead, In spite of frequent substitutions— Purdue used 14 players—the Boiler= makers continued to surge forward in the second period. Purdue's style of “pick-’em-up-all=-over” kept Detroit worried, and the

[Titans caged only five field goals in

the course of the evening. After missing their first eight free throws, the Titans improved somewhat and eventually threw in six of 21. In the Indiana Conference, St, Joseph’s hung up its second victory against no defeats by nosing the powerful Central - Normal Warriors at Danville, 40-37. The game also was a personal victory «for Neal Mosser, St. Joe forward, whose eight points shot him to the front in the individual Conference score ing race. He now has 172 points, while Wile

fred Doerner, Evansville’s hippere

dipper, point pourer, rates second with 166. Central Normal had a fat 10-3 lead early in the first half, but accurate sniping by Mauri Gutgsell put the Pumas into a 28-17 lead at intermission. Once more the Ware. riors spurted and grabbed a slim 37-36 lead. Two quick Puma base kets, however, stopped the Warriors, Summary of the Purdue-Detroit game: Purdue (38) Detroit (16) FG FT PF

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Score at Half—Purdue, Umpire—Lyle Clarno, Adams,

Open Casting Series

The Marion County Fish and Game Association's winter indoor target casting program opens at 7 p. m. tomorrow at Tomlinson Hall, President Charles K. McCormack announced today. The program, open to all fishing enthusiasts, will

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Totals... 5 6 18 19; Detroit, 6. Referee—Glenn

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