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| TUESDAY, FEB. 11, 1941

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BACKBOARD

By J. E. O'BRIEN

COACH LOU REICHEL'S Park point-harvesters are

far enough ahead of their &unger, no matter what the

city companions to be out of next week or so brings. The

week-end’s most notable development was the slump of Sacred Heart. The Sharpshooters’ deuble defeat dropped them to fifth place in the standings, while Howe and Short- :

‘ridge each advanced a notch.

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IT MIGHT interest foes in the city-tourney-vs. no - city-tourney argument that Tech, the city tournament champion, and Shortridge are running neck-and-neck the mythical city race. Both have won four and lost one, while Cathedral is in second place on four triumphs and a pair of losses. Here's how things stand if you prefer to select your champion on an over-all game basis: W.L. TP.

Technical ....4 164 Shortridge ...4 181 Cathedral .... 193 Howe 3 140 Manual 139 Broad Ripple. .1 119 Sacred Heart. .0 21 Washington ..0 .93 ” » sn

It’s Vaughan Night

PETE VAUGHAN, grand old man of Wabash College athletics,

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this evening bystudents, Indianapolis - fp alumni and high school pupils and townsfolk. he ceélebration will be, held .in conjunction . with the Wabash - Hanover game. -I ndianapolis high school pupils and the Mr. Vaughan Indianapolis Alumni Association will be. dined by various fraternities before the game. After ‘the game Wabash College officials will give a special smoker for those attending. More than 150 aye expected to go from here by bus. Vaughan has been at Wabash since the fall of 1919 as head football coach, and his 22 years’ serv= ice makes him the dean of tutors. He was head basketball coach during this whole period until he was relieved of that position this year at his own request. He became athletic director in 1931.

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White County Feudin’

Bloomington, Ind. Dear Backboard: ‘As ‘a White County citizenx I was surprised, if not amused, to see that “A Basketball Fan” had

nominated Monticello as a strong contending regional team. I say Monticello must win the sectional first. It is quite true that Monticello beat last year’s sectional champions very easily (33-31 at Monticello), but the writer had overlooked, or forgotten, the list of county teams that have beaten Monticello. First came Wolcott on Nov. 15," Then Monon on Nov. 29, and Reynolds on Dec. 13. If Monticello should win the sectional, I fear it will have trouble defeating” the team representing Cass County, for on Dec. 298 Logansport beat Monticello, 35-28. If any White County team wins the regional, I say more power t0 it. Wi t h these facts, I wish to do some nominating myself. I nominate Chalmers, Reynolds, Brookston, Idaville, Wolcott, Buffalo, Round Cove and, if: I thought Burnettsville had a chance, I would nominate it, too.

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Stop, Look at Look

LOOK, the picture magazine, takes a look at Indiana’s Fireball Five in today’s issue, reviews Branch McCracken’s three-year record at Bloomington and fills up several pages with shots of the Hoosiers during their December West Coast trek. In the spread Coach McCracken says: “There is no substitute for "speed in basketball. To achieve it, we use seven to 10 players in a revolving plan. To develop it, Indiana players are trained on a program of outdoor cross-country running.” Players shown prominently in the article are Jay McCreary of Frankfort, Paul Armstrong and Herman Schaefer of Ft. Wayne, Bill and Bob Mehke of Huntingburg, Bob Dro of Berne, Irvin Swanson of LaPorte, John Logan of Richmond and James Gridley. » # »

FROM NORTHWESTERN'S publicity department. . . . The Wildcats played Wisconsin in nylon jerseys last night—supposedly _the first team to frolic in the new material. . . . They're supposed to be lighter and more comfortable. . . . Henry Clason, Northwestern's chief scorer, holds the Sigma Nu ping-pong championship. . . . He also hopes to play left field for the Chicago Cubs one of these days. . . » Forward Art Seder has a new design for studying. . . . He hits the books early in the morning and compiled an A average last semester. . z lon a a» ; Bloomington is going to have two teams in the sectional tournament for the first time. The new University School definitely has

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Hoppe Is Still In First Place

CHICAGQ, Feb. 11 (U. P)— Champion Willie Hoppe was holding his own in the world’s three-cushion pilliard tournament today with 13 consecutive victories and only four more games to play, but he was hard pressed by two contestants who this week will meet the master. Jay Bozeman of Vallejo, Cal, and Jake Schaefer Jr. of Chicago were tied in second place with 11 victories and two defeats each after their matches last night. They will meet each other and each plays against Hoppe before the end of the tournament. Hoppe found the going difficult in his match against Art Rubin of New York, but won 50 to 38 in 58 innings. The score was#only 20 to 19 in Hoppe's favor at the end of the 20th inning. He had a high run of eight in the 35th

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boys to be ready at starting time and remain ready until their turn rolls around. The weigh-in and physical examinations will start at 6 p. m. in the Fieldhouse dressing room, and under this arrangement the contestants will be able to remain in the building until their numbers are called, instead of making an extra trip to their homes. The boxers are requested to put on an early evening “feed bag” and then depait for the weigh-in. The tournament physicians will begin

the physical checkups at 6 o’clock. A! Novice class bout not to be overlooked will be between Herbert! Broadwell, Normal College of the North American Gymnastic Union, and Dan Roth, Leepre Boxing

School, light-heavyweights.

They Relish Slambang Milling

On past performances this setto measures up as a slambang, toe-to-toe .ffair. But it isn’t tHe only one full of promise, as several of the 16 booked will be between punchers who prefer dishing it out in large portions rather than jab their way through the distance. The advance sale of reserved seat tickets is reported brisk and stepping wp day by day. These are ringside chairs, 780 in number, and the price is: $1. You'll have to hurry! The Mreserved ducats are on sale downtown at the Bush-Feezle Sporting Goods Co. and at the Sportsman's Store. There is no shortage of room in the spacious Fieldhouse, however, and general admission tickets sell at two prices, 50 eents, lower floor, and 25 cents upper floor.

Gloves Tickets

There are three prices for the Indianapolis Golden Gloves amateur boxing tournament at Butler Fieldhouse—$! ringside reserved chairs and 50 and 25 cents geheral admission. The fifth and last show of the ninth annual event is to be ‘held Friday night starting at 7:45 o'clock and 16 finals bouts are to be run off,’ all scheduled over the threeround distance, two minutes to the round.

Reserved seat ducats are on

and went scoreless 10 innings before making six points in the 57th frame. Hoppe’s opponent today is Welker Cochran of San Francisco who last night defeated Allen Hall of Chicago, 50 to 39 in 50 innings. The game was tied, 24-all, at the 23d inning and the iead changed hands

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10 times until the 27th inning when Cochran began chipping off a point at a time to pass his opponent and win, : Bozeman defeated Otto Reiselt of Philadelphia, 50 to 25 in 34 innings, and Schaefer, runner-up to Hoppe last year, won from Arthur Thurnblad of Kenosha, Wis., 50 tp 33 in ‘46 innings. Joe Chamaco of Mexico City, who has toppled several of the contestants from their undefeated records, warmed up to his game last night when he scored a high run, of 12

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while defeating John Fitzpatrick of Los Angeles, 50 to 29 in 53 innings.

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City’s Basketball Tourney Launched

Three games comprise the opening program of the City Recreation Department’s amateur basketball tournament which opens tonight at the Hoosier Athletic Club gym, : / At 7 olclock, United States Tires will. play the English Avenue Boys’ Club five and at 8, StewartsWarner Dua] Temps will engage the L. S. Ayres quintet. The final game, at 9, will be between the Salvation Army Green Shields and the Eli| Lilly Biologicals. . | The program for the ‘remainder of the tournament will be announce¢! later by Joe Kelly, tournament manager. ; Teams entered include P. R. Mallory, . Stewart-Warner Ranges, Dri=kold Refrigeration, Beveridge Paper, “© Reps, Stokely Van Camp, Indi~ ana Farm Bureau, Lawrence Trojans, R, 1. P. Club, Holy Cross Crusaders, Meridian A. C., Armour, Labor Temple, Mt. Jackson Tire & Battery, Kingan Reliables and the Indianapolis Pharmics, Em-Eone League schedules: Tuesday Night Independent—17, Salvation . Merchants; 8, Tabcking; 9, St 8

ch. asda urch—7, Broadway Vs. 2, Susk, 8 Clemony, Ghrisisn vi er ey v9, rs resbyterian vs. Hiwthorne Industrial—7, Mt. Jackson Tires vs. k ;_8, Malleable vs. Kingan; 9, Adams vs, Farm Bureau.

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winners of seven and losers of seven, have a double date this week-end, goturning home to meet the Southport Cardinals Saturday night. a council of war with his five likely starters. They are (left to Bob Maxwell, with Millard Grimme peering in from behind.

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The ‘Rodeo’ at

By HENRY McLEMORE United Press Staff Correspondent

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 11.—If you bet anything in tomorrow’s $50,000 Santa Anita Derby that isn’t 5 to 1 or better you should go back and Have the sleeves in our straightjacket shortened. This is one race where the favorite doesn’t stand any more chance than a flea on. a chihuahua. You can read through the records of past derbies until you get as bored as I was reading through them, without finding a favorite who was first to salute the judges. Now don’t get technical on me and tell me that He Did, which won the second derby in 1936, was the favorite, because he wasn’t. He was coupled with Valevictorian and, but for this partnership, would have been at least 15 to 1 on the board. Valevictorian was the big gun of the Silas B. Mason entry that year.

Long Shots Scored

The other derby charts list such luscious winners: as Gillie in 1935, who came pounding home 40 pay $32.20. In 1937 Fairy Hill paid $30.80. In 1938 Stagehand was ggod for $13.20, and a year later the lone filly to capture the derby, Ciencia, paid $19.80. And last year the Cali-fornia-bred Sweepida swung by first to reward his few backers $68.20 for $2. The reason for these prices probably is to be found in -the fact that the derby seldom is truly run. The field is always too big for the track, as witness 1937, when no fewer than 21 steeds broke from inside apd outside gates. In this race one-third of the field had to start outside the stalls and the bumping was one of the 5 o'clock subway variety. The jockeys, with their eyes on a $5000 cut.of the purse, always add to the interest in tite big races with riding that is worthy of a rodeo. Circus Start Expected

Good horses draw . unfortunate pole positions and are lost in the shuffle. Bad horses are lucky in the draw and get off well and avoid trouble. Tomorrow's derby promises to provide another circus start. There is a good chance that well over 20 horses will answer the call to the post. Right now the favorite is Charley Howard's bargain beauty, Porter's Cap. Howard got Porter’s Cap for little or nothing at the Saratoga sales, and, like so many other Howard purchases, The Cap turned into a four-legged mint. The Howard star probably will go postward a 2-to-1 or 3-to-1 favorite. But you are silly to’ bet on him. The past performances say he is doomed and that some mysterious hide will come bounding from nowhere to take it all. My special code hide for the race is—well, turn to Page 313 of Dickens’ “Tale of Two Cities,” and in the fifth sentence of the fifth paragraph youll find it. Only in the calfskin edition, though. But I won't be a meanie and make those of you who haven’t a calfskin edition go out and buy one. I'll give you the best. And what ‘a filly. Nasca. That's the name. Nasca.

Hash Gets the Top Weight in Handicap

HIALEAH, Fla., Feb. 11 (U, P.).— Greentree Stable’s Hash has been assigned top weight of 122 pounds for the $10,000-added McLennan Memorial Handicap Saturday, first of Florida's three big winter stakes and preview of the $50,000-added Widener- which climaxes the season here. E. D. Shaffer's Heliopolis, at 121, followed Hash in the assignments. Also listed - as potential starters were E. S. Moore's Get Off, 118; Joseph E. Widener’s Raphael II, 117; Le Mar Stock Farm's Many Stings, 116; J. B. Partridge’s Robert I 116, and Mrs. B. F. Whitaker's Sickle T, 116.

Armstrong to Play ! With Kautskys Here

The management of the Indianapolis Kautskys today announced the addition of Curly A Indiana University star, to their lineup for the game with the New York Rens at the Butler Fieldhouse next Monday night. Armstrong, important cog in the Fireball squad in the first half of the current season, recently was deSlated ineligible for college basket-

Riggs Wins Again

|In South Florida

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., Feb. 11 (U, P.).—Bobby Riggs, former national tennis champion of Chicago, held the South Florida championship for the sécond time today

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Santa Anita Colfax Falls

Times Special CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind, Feb. 11.—Colfax reached the - end of glory road here last night when West Point defeated them, 38 to 27, to end Colfax’ 20-game winning streak. It the longest winning record of the season in Indiana high school basketball. West Point's . record now is 19 victories and one defoét.

Arky's Record

For Anderson

By PAUL SCHEFFELS United Press Staff Correspondent

NEW YORK, Feb. 11.-It's a full two months until the opening of the major league baseball season, but baseball men have already chosen "a successor to Arky Vaughan, perennial Pittsburgh Pirates’ slug-

ger. The man so honored at this early date is rookie Alf Anderson, up from Atlanta with a .350 batting average in 148 S. Anderson’s re¢ord is good. He's been in organized baseball for three seasons, is only 26 years old and was graduated from the University of Georgia, where he was a three-let-ter man in baseball, basketball and football. However, there's one joker in the_setup—Vaughan himself. When National League records for the past nine years are considered, there is hardly any basis for Vaughian’s removal and little room for improvement.

Tremendous Speed

Arky, only 28 years old, lacks only the color and dash of a Babe Ruth to be one of baseball’s greats. Chin tucked in, he resembles a West Point cadet or heavyweight fighter in action when he takes his cut at the plate. He has powerful legs and tremendous speed in getting down to first and seldom hits into a double piay. It's not easy to find out anything about close-mouthed Arky. In fact, he is so self-effacing that when he

1932 he was almost shipped back without even being looked over. However, regular shortstop Tommy Thevenow was injured, and Vaughan was inserted into the breach and he’s been there ever since. at Pie Traynor, then manager of the Pirates, didn’t make a mistake in using Vaughan is attested to by the official averages. Here are some of the facts that make the “shift Vaughan for Anderson” movement look absurd.

Average Is .325

In nine years in the majors he’s never batted under .300 and has a lifetime average of .325. He won

with a .385 mark. In 1940 he fell to .300, lowest mark in his career but finished among the circuit’s three “top tens.” He played in 156 games and was ninth hardest to fan with only 25 strikeouts in 691 times at bat for an average of one strikeout in every 27.6 chances.

getters with 88 bases on balls in his 691 trips to the plate or boiled down, was able to draw a walk once in every 17.8 trips. As evidence of his speed on the basepaths, he was seventh in the ten tough-to-double, hitting into a double play only five times during the year for an average of only once every 138.2 times at bat. That's all Anderson has to equal

A’s Will Wait for College Catcher

CORVALLIS, Ore., Feb. 11.— (U.

il Lave get along this season out Johnny Leovich, O n State College catcher. To Leovich signed a contract recently with the .Athletics and was scheduled fo report to training camp at Anaheim, Cal, later this month. When Percy Locey, Oregon State athletic director learned of the contract, he blew up and threatened to protest to Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, inasmuch as Leovich. has anoth year of football competition, - Manager Connie Mack told Locey

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yowtGET | 7:00—Court of Missing Heirs, 7:30—First Nighter, WFBM.

9:00—Bob Hope, WIRE. 3 9:30—Uncle Walter's Doghouse, WIRE. :

Wendell Willkie’s address before

the Republicans’ Lincoln Day din

day’s Music Hall program. Bing Crosby will be away on vacation but returns to the program next week. . » . Harry Salter, music director of

ing last week’s broadcast, the first he has made since starring i the Aldrich family program. He said “I'll have to BEAT my mother at 4 o'clock.” The world should have been. “meet.”

# # f Local Badger alumni can listen in on Wisconsin's Founders Day program tomorrow evening over WENR from 8 to 8:30. Speakers are to be Clarence A. Dykstra, Wisconsin president and Selective Service Director; Michael J. Cleary, president of the western Mutual Life Insurance Co., and Philip ‘D. Reed, chairman of the board of General Electric. The Wisconsin band also will be

heard. “So Little Time,” a romance in fantasy and an original written by Peggy Blake, is to be the starring vehicle tonight on the First Nighter program for Barbar Luddy and Les Themayne, WFBM, 7:30. ¥ » ”

The Philadelphia Opera’ Company will be heard t in “The Old Maid and the Thief,” by Gian Car-lo-Menotti, WENR, from 9 to 10. In the cast are Gabriele Hunt, contralto; Robert Gay, baritone, and Frances Greer. : ® =» ” A mother who turned her son over to the police (he was sentenced to the penitentiary for one year to life) will tell her tragic story on tonight's We, the People, 8 o'clock, WFBM.

SEEKS SCHRICKER'S VIEWS ON SPENDING

The House Ways and Means Committee tomorrow afternoon will ask Governor Henry-P. Schricker for his ideas on how to balance the State budget. Pending beforé the Committee are three bills calling for expenditures totaling $110,000,000 for the next two years. The. Committee—composed of 12 Republicans and two Democrats—

the Governor before making any detailed study of the budget bills. Committee members are faced

Legisla/ A possible deficit by 1943. has been forecast. 2

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STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Feb. 11 (U.

victim probably is a non-driver.

HOME ON THE RANGE

.s Feb. 11 (U. P.).— Rep. Doyle Pevehouse has introduced a bill in the Texas House of tatives to classify as justi-

instigator of un-American activity within the state.” .i

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NEW YORK, Feb. 11 (U. P)— All the British official announcement said at the time—in the days before France fell—was that: “Flying Officer E. J. (Cobber) Cain, R. A. F,, has been killed in a flying accident in France.” The announcement didn’t say that the 22-year-old giant from New Zealand and the Royal Air Force’s greatest ace died because, in his boyish exuberance, he was unable to pass up a final chance to

show off before his comrades. At the moment Kain crashed another plane was waiting to take him to England—to a job as R. A. F. instructor and to .his flancee, Actress Joyce Phillips. The whole story was revealed today with publication of “Squadrons Up,” a book by Noel Monks who covered the R. A. F. in France for the London Mail. The place was an R. A. F. airdrome near Blois. Before starting the flight home

Lya Lys Saves Studio $75,000

NEW YORK, Feb. 11 (U. P.).— Lys Lys made a profitable appearance for her. employers, Warner Bros, in Federal Court yesterday, where the film firm was sued for $75,000 by Kate Moog. : Miss Moog, a witness for the

- Government in the 1938 German

spy trial, asserted she had been defamed by a character in the Warner Bros. film “Confessions of a Nazi Spy.” The film character was p by Miss Lys. The gazed at Miss Lys, who is 5 feet 3 inches tall, and then at Miss Moog who stands six feet. It decided in three minuess that there was no cause for damages. The physical of Mis8 Lys was the only defense offered by the film company. :

MAN PUMPS FOR LOBSTERS BOOTHBAY HARBOR, Me., Feb. 11 (U. P).—Piremen saved the lives

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German plane. “One more beat called out. Kain kicked the Hurricane down the runway and pulled it into the sky. According to Monks: ; “With a roar like a thunderclap the Hurricane comes back over the drome, over the heads of the little group of officers. Only just over their heads, because it is rarely 20 feet off the ground, is upside down, and traveling 360 miles an hour.

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