Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 February 1941 — Page 8
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Don Jones of DePauw (in the air) tries a one-handed toss during the first half of last night's game
with Butler at: Greencastle. ~ shown are Hunckler (back to camera), Hamilton (23) and McCray (14).
SPORTS By Eddie Ash
JIMMY SHARP, the slender left-hander who never caught up with the American Association pace after several seasons’ efforts with the Indianapolis Indians, was
sold outright today to the Tulsa club of the Texas League. When the young red-head reported to the Indians during Wace Killefer’s first stretch as Tribe manager he was tabbed a “boy warider” and the Tribesters believed they had a future great in the making. . , . But Jimmy never mastered control, and after being farmed out to the little minors three times he was retained on the local roster for the entire 1940 campaign. The experiment failed to net results as Sharp still lacked confidence and control. . . . He won one game and lost five and issued 56 bases on balls in 76 innings. . . . His relief pitching also was below standard, so Freckle-Faced Jimmy says farewell to Perry Stadium for a new start in the Texas cireuit. . . . He is 24 years old. Jimmy was picked off the California sandlots where he played : American Legion Junior baseball and stacked up a huge amount of strikeouts for a schoolboy. Perry Stadium fans always pulled hard for Sharp to make the "American Association grade and they will be watching his record at Tulsa this year. The mound staff is the Tribe's greatest problem for the 1941 campaign but it’s useless to carry on with losing pitchers. . . . The Indians had too many of that type last year, and with Bob Logan promoted to the Cincinnati Reds the team is minus a “Sunday” pitcher. Red Barrett was shipped back to the Reds who in turn shipped him to Birmingham, and Earl Caldwell retired from the game. They were a couple of the leading “losing hurlers” in the business last year. ... Barrett won five games and lost 13, and Caldwell won five and lost 12.
Fletcher Is Rated Best Prospect
THE INDIANAPOLIS roster now contains 10 pitchers but if is reported that one—John Deets, North Carolina rookie—acceptec terms to perform for Uncle Sam this year instead of spending the summer tossing baseballs. Tribe holdover hurlers and their 1940 records: Don French, won gix and lost eight; Pete Sivess, seven and 12; John Wilson, thre: and three; Paul Taylor, rookie, and: Glenn Fletcher, the potential ace who won four and lost none after being brought in late in the season. Fletcher is a 21-year-old right-hander who stands 5 feet 9 inches and weighs 170 pounds.
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THE TRIBE'S new pitchers are George Gill, Jake Wade and Ray Starr, all veterans in Class AA ball and also all in-and-cuters, and Bill Pheobus, a free agent, picked up in California by Manager Killefer. Based on past performances, these hurlers are unlikely to put the Indians in the pennant race and the Tribe chiefs don’t intend to stand pat on them. ... Cincinnati isn’t sure of lending assistance but has promised to stretch a point without weakening its own staff. However, the Reds hardly will be in a position to reduce its mound roster before early April. . . . The Reds and Hoosiers will be close together in Florida, the fornier at Tampa, the latter at Bartow, ‘and frequent business POWWOWS will be in order.
Glovers Prepare for Chicago Invasion
INDIANAPOLIS’ GOLDEN GLOVES champions will depart for Chicago at 10:20 a. m. Sunday over the New York Central to get in a night's sound rest before swinging. into action Monday in the 14h annual Tournament of Champions at Chicago Stadium. . . . Tearas from 44 cities, including the strong Chicago squad, will compete in ¥ ae three-night event. Invading teams from the Middle West, South, Southwekt and Northwest are catching up with the Chicago boys who were held to three of the eight division titles last year in-the Tournament of Champions. For information of Indianapolis sports fans who wish fo take in the tourney the ticket price range follows: Monday and Tuesday—50 cents, 75 cents and $l. 10,
y Wednesday—15 cents, $1.10 and $1.65.
Other DePauw players pictured are Crane (14) and Prewitt (8). Butler players
Schnoz Wants. More Dough
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 19 (U. P.).—Ernie Lombardi still is a holdout against terms offered by the Cincinnati Reds, it was learned today from members of his family. He mailed back his second unsigned contract Jan. 26 and won't leave until his salary troubles are solved. . However, Dominic DiMaggio, who signed with the Boston Red Sox at the close of the season, leaves by auto Friday for Sarasota. He will take as passengers Eddie Joost of the Cincinnati Reds and Joe Orengo of the New York Giants. Joost and Orengo haven't signed, but expect to
Hank Greenberg, another holdout of the Detroit Tigers, arrives today on the liner, Lurline, from Hawaii. He wants a salary increase, but the Army may want him too. Greenberg holds ‘a low draft number,
Cage Scores
HIGH SCHOOLS New'd 31; Lyon
New Castle, 15 "Yonnessvilte 36. Ladoga, 29;
2 (overtime). Deca Sy 35; Hartford ity, (37. Byro i4; A ngol 24. [Cent catholic & Wayne), 52; Bluft-
Coesse, 33; Washington Central, 32. Leo (Chicago), 29; Hammond Catholic,
Lima, 42; Wawaka, 26.
STATE COLLEGES
Butler, 33; DeP 28. Ball Stat te, 2 Frankiin, 3 Rose Poly ; Oakland "bits. 21. Wabash, bai Earlham,
OTHER Le 3 34. Simpion, 44. 0.
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523 45; ‘Elmhurst, 33. 40; Western Reserve, 22, 48: Mt. St. Mary's, 34. } Hillsdale, 37. 55; Ba ker, 42, ; Southwestern Teachers, 63; Whitewater
a istissl pi State, 40. : New Mexico Uni-
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ilmin Witten RTE. 51: Bowling Green, Wooster, 69; Findlay,
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By J. E. O'BRIEN Times Staff Writer GREENCASTLE, Ind., Feb. 19. —=Safely past the: second hazard ° erected by DePauw, Butler's bas-
ketball boys in blue face only two more ‘danger spots on the boulevard to the Ipdiana Conference title—or at least a share of it. Wabash and Franklin still may waylay the Bulldogs, but the best chance was offered DePauw last night in overloaded Bowman Gym. Here was the place for the kill, and all DePauw knew it. So coeds left textbooks uncracked to risk their hosiery on the bleacher splinters, and the smart DePauw band struck up its liveliest tunes, and the guy who came at 7:45 needed spiked shoes and a safety belt to get to his seat. ? Capt. Bob Dietz may have limped on his healing heel for 40
times, boards
Chi showed 33 for Butler, 28 for DePauw,
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never those
wanted to believe so on two or three occasions. The Tigers made their best bid late in the second half and it was climaxed when Max Biggs went ball-bouncing the
length
lead to . It was time
strike, trol.
set-up doing
Butlers could try their hand.
Lyle Neat, Jim McCray and Bill Hamilton all missed lovely
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Neat’s free throw was responsible ‘for that final point, in case you're worried. : : -While a small party of 27 was" still trying to get seats in the row behind us, Neat and Dietz put Butler into a 3-to-0 lead. But Ear] Shalley tied for DePauw at 3-3, and Biggs did it again’at 5-5. That was the last time things were even. Biggs’ two-handed overhedd toss put the Tigers within a point of the Blue at 9-8, but Butler rolled on to a 19-12 lead at intermission. At the half the Greencastle High School drum corps staged a floor show. We're sorry we can’t report it, but while the show was going on, the small party of 27 from the row behind us decided to move to the second row in front of us, clearing all traffic through our seat.
but at the end the scorebequeathed by Sigma Delta
were in trouble, although with DePauw leanings
of the floor to trim Butler's 32-28.
for DePauw to but Butler stayed in con-
shots, and the gun ended before any of the other
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minutes and Butler may have tossed ball and scoring opportunities into front-row laps. several
. DePauw’s.-George Taylor tossed . in a long shot to open.the second half, just as his girl friend told our .companion he would. . With DePauw two points up and my companion 10 cents down, Don Jones hit another from off the green, and Biggs one-handed another from the corner. Our companion now was 30 cents in the’ red and on the “outs” with all the Tigers’ girl friends. During Butler's timeout, such ‘things as poor passing and timing were discussed with the result that Lyle Neat put three straight baskets through the ropes. The tuba player then walked out on the DePauw band and Butler's Bill Hamilton had a few words with Umpire Homer Stonebraker, until both found out they were arguing the same case. You might like to know that
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Roberts, Crane, Biggs and Prewitt .
‘headed the assault and brought.’
the Tigers on the Bulldogs’ heels at 32-28. The rest, we think you've heard. All that is except what a girl drummer said to the short boy drummer when the game was over. “C'mon, tinhorn,” she ordered, and they carried their respective drums out into the night. We followed. Summary: Butler (33). Schu'achr,f, ¥ McCray. f. Hamilton, c. Dietz,g
DePauw (28).
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Referece—W, H. Homer Stonebraker. umpire,
Seek Probe of Louis ‘Farce’ Senators Say Dorazio Took a ‘Dive’
HARRISBURG, Pa. Feb. 19 (U, P.).—A special subcommittee of the Pennsylvania State Senate Judiciary General Committee today studied a resolution to determine whether the Legislature should investigate Monday night’s Joe LouisGus Dorazio heavyweight title fight at Philadelphia. Two Philadelphia Senators charged prior to the fight that there was “connivance” with gamblnig interests and a third Senator who saw the bout said that he was ‘“convinced this man Dorazio took a perfect ‘dive’.”
Silvetro, who presented the resolution, also demanded an investigation of the State Athletic Commission for approving the fight. Senator John M. Walker of Pittsburgh, Judiciary General Committee chairman, said the resolution “will not, be smothered” and that he expected the subcommittee to report within two weeks on whether the bout should be investigated. Senator John J. Haluska, Cambria County Democrat, joined the two Philadelphians in demanding the inquiry by making the “dive” charges. “We should investigate who was responsible for such a farce of a fight,” he said. “It was a disgrace to take the people’s money. Dorazio either sold out for a consideration or he was unfit to meet the champion.”
Teacher Takes A Beating
ATLANTA, Ga., Feb. 19 (U. P.). —Prof. Douglas McClay of Geor- - gia Tech, Ph. D., Harvard, was positive today that it was easier for a boxer to become a scholar —in the manner of Gene Tunney—than for a scholar to become a boxer. . A right cross to the mouth convinced McClay of that when he suffered a technical knockout in his first public fight, in the welterweight division ‘of a Golden Gloves tournament last night. A professor in mathematics at
McClay was beaten in a street brawl several weeks ago. He then decided. to learn to box to “protect” himself. ‘He entered the -tournament after instruction in boxing at a. local gym. The referee stopped McClay’s fight after one minute of the third round and awarded the decision to Lorenzo Allgood, 19, a student at Piedmont College.
NEW YORK, Feb. 19 (U. P.)., — Pitcher Ernie Bonham, nine-game winner for the New York Yankees last season, has signed contract for 1941, the club announced today. Bonham’s con-jg tract brought the total signers for
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Here We Go Again, Boys!
champion? Will it be an upstate upstart or ‘a downstate dark-
Who will be Indiana's next state high school basketball
horse? A farmland favorite or a ——_ metropolitan meanie?- Frankly, - 1 — ‘nobody will know until after the = evening of March 22. Nevertheless, J. E. O'Brien, alias Off the Backboard, thinks he has the winner right now. And he can't keep his secret much longer. He's let-
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horse is more impressive than mine. Conformation, blood lines, and the like bewilder me as thoroughly as would a lecture on .the fourth dimension delivered - in esperanto by a tongue-tied mathematician. Still, I am willing to state, and flatly too, that Maryland’s No. 1 steed, that prize beastie of -the free state, Challedon, will have to accomplish
‘a horse miracle if he is to become
a factor in the running of the $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap a week from Saturday. I watched the Brann beauty in a workout at Santa Anita yesterday —watched him carefully through a pair of powerful binoculars. But even if I had been watching him through a bit of smoked: window pane left over from the last eclipse I could have seen that he was a long way from being the Challedon
Bowling
Bob Williamson wears the bowling orchids today, the result of his 692 last night in the City League play at Pritchett’s alleys. ' The full list of star shooters:
ation Mert Jacobs, Fountain uae Rec. Paul Fields, Cit Red Wencke, Fountain Square Rec. . Larry Rudbeck, Hoosier Athletic R. McCullough, Fpecdway Sharum, Pritchett Recrea Harold Gold smith, Westside "Classic. |
id Reinking, Fougiain Square Ree.. tay Comer, Allied Printing van Stuart, Nestaide Classic arl Dunn, berson, Westside
in B. Deonlan, Christison, Penn Recreation. . Faust, Speedway Mi Penn Recreation . J. Posner, Prite Bett SO ceation; aseens McClintock, Pritchett Recreation.,.... Madden, St. Philip/g No. 1 Pas Carl Hin
next season to 22.
If Challedon Wins Santa Anita, It'll Be a Horse Miracle
H. Jerome Jaspan and Anthoy di}
By HENRY McLEMORE United Press Staff Correspondent LOS ANGELES, Feb. 19.—The chances are you could turn over every rock, shake every bush, and ransack every house in the United States without finding anyone whose lack of knowledge of the thoroughbred race
that licked Kayak II in the Pimlico Special or ran wild in the Preakness. That was a queer sort of workout Challedon had. It was undoubtedly the most elaborate practice ever arranged for a thoroughbred. Four other steeds went to the post under silks, with their regular riders up. They were saddled in the paddock, walked around the ring and paraded to the post just as if they were going out for a regular race. The only difference was that the parimutuel machines wéren’t working. Challedon was paced for a while by Pictor and then picked up the cheap Wisbech after half a mile. The Maryland pride made a game effort to beat Wisbech to the wire but couldn't quite make it. You may . be interested to know that Owner Brann, Trainer L. T. Whitehill and Jockey Georgie Woolf were pleased with the horse's trial spin. Brann and Whitehill were downright enthusiastic; but Woolf admitted that while Challedon worked better than he did in a previous practice, he was blowing a bit at the finish.
...Kautskys Rally, i: Shade Trotters
Times Special RICHMOND, Ind., Feb. 19.-—Hold-
4 of ing the world champion Harlem
Globe Trotters to 10 points in the second half of a professional basketball game here last night, the
. 5 Indianapolis Kautskys came from 83 |behind to win, 33-31.
It was the
winners’ second victory over the Harlem boys in five meetings this
17 season.
Ernie Andres and Jewell Young divided the scoring honors for the Kautskys with eight points each, while Sonny Boswell starred for the
609 | Trotters with 15. The same teams
are scheduled to clash at Elwood Friday night. The Claypool City aggregation continues its series with the New York Renaissance at Peru tonight and will be gunning for an edge over the famed Negroes, their series
:@ standing at present. being three-all.
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Pepper Starts A New Career
Takes Over the Solons In Sacramento
SACRAMENTO, Feb. 19 (U. P.).— John (Pepper) Martin kicked the Oklahoma mud from his boots today and settled down to a new
mento Solons in the Pacific Coast League. His ambition is a similar big league berth. The pepper-pot of the Gas House Gang completed his spring plowing on his Oklahoma City ranch last Saturday, put Mrs. Martin, his
into the family car and trailer, and, without waiting to shuck his mudcaked boots, headed West. “I'm starting a new career,” said Martin, who chose Sacramento among the St. Louis Cardinal farm clubs to manage because “there is something fascinating about the West Coast. “I was in big leagues as a player and had considerable success. Now I want to go back to the majors as a manager. I think I can do it and I know I will hustle hard to make good in Sacramento.” Martin balked at the round of public appearances arranged by President Phil Bartelme. He said he wouldn't talk, but Bartelme thinks he will. tomorrow. Martin will open a rookie school at Fullerton, Cal., Feb. 26. The Sac-
ramento squad will report to him;
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Greenkeepers
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Times Special
LAFAYETTE, di Feb. 19.—The problems of turf culture and golf course management will be discussed at a two-day short course next Tuesday and Wednesday at Purdue University. It is ‘being sponsored by the University physical education division, the Indiana Greenkeepers Association and the Purdue agricultural school. Among the speakers will be Dr. John Monteith Jr, U. S. G. A. greens official; O. J. Noer of the Milwaukee sewage commission; O. C. Lee, Purdue botanist, and W. H. Diddel, Indianapolis architect. Herb Graffis of Chicago, editor of Golfdom, will serve as toastmaster at the banquet Tuesday evening.
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Meanie Roche
. Dorve (Mean Man) Roche, the Decatur, Ill, coal miner who took up wrestling, applied a rolling head scissors to Alabama Bill -Lee last. night and won the top match on the mat show at the Armory. It was a 60+minute time limit match but it took Dorve just 26 minutes to down the Montgomery, Ala., groaner and former all-America football ace. The other matches: Joe Dusek, Omaha, Neb., forced Harry Kent, Minneapolis, to concede after 22 minutes when Kent suffered a knee injury; Gina Garibaldi, New York, and Ray Eckert, St. Louis, drew in 30 minutes; Emil Dusek (brother of Joe, Omaha, slammed Don McIntyre, St. Louis, in 17 minutes. All matches were in the heavy-
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