Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 March 1941 — Page 6
SPORTS...
By Eddie Ash
DELAYED by a blizzard in the Rocky Mountains,
Wade Killefer, the Indianapolis Indians’ field pilot, was unable to fill a date with the Tribe’s other chieftains yesterday and the pre-spring training powwow out at the
Perry Stadium wigwam was set back until this afternoon.
From somewhere in Utah, Killefer got a message through informing General Manager Leo Miller that he was waiting out a snow storm but hoped to get going again in time to arrive in Indianapolis late today. ; The Tribe manager departed rain-drenched Southern California by train and the weather got no better fast as he headed east. . . . But’ come rain or snow, the noisy Redhead is en route to begin a second hitch at the helm of the Hoosiers. Snow storms are nothing unusual in*Killefer’s life, as he spent °his early days in Michigan in the vicinity of Paw Paw and later sat out a land claim in Oregon where he rustled logs and learned the lumberjack business in frigid weather. General Manager Miller and Killefer will depart for Florida tonight or tomorrow morning and join the Cincinnati Reds’ camp at Tampa, where they will give the once-over to players who look like
. strong support for state
disposing of Mitchell, last year's de-
surplus talent on the champions’ roster. , the Indians obtain from the Reds this year and the Tribe bosses are anxious to get an early slant on the prospects. ’ : Tribe batterymen will report at the Bartow, Fla., training camp on March 12 and infielders and outfielders on the 17th. ... The exhi-
bition series will start on March 22.
After playing 17 games in Florida, two in Alabama at Montgomery and two in Evansville, Ind. the Indians will check in at Perry Stadium on April 16 and open the American Association season against the Milwaukee Brewers on the following day.
Brewers in Financial Straits
. COMMENTING ON the baseball situation in Milwaukee, R. G. Lynch of the Milwaukee Journal says, in part: “The death of Lou Nahin, business manager, is apt to precipitate a crisis in the affairs of the Milwaukee club and bring about a partial or complete change
in the ownership.
“An experienced, competent baseball man to run the business It is no secret that the Brewers are in financial straits. Confidence in Nahin’s baseball judgment was a prime factor in maintaining credit. President Henry Bendinger will have to find a successor to Nahin in whom the creditors will have the same confi-
must be found.
dence. :
“The club needs new money. It faces a period .of heavy expense —traveling expense, spring training bills and some outlay for needed The owners may find a buyer for a part interest. do not, it would be no surprise to. see the Brewers change hands
players.
before long.”
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THE FEUD is on!
‘by brother Wade.
Mickey Heath, former Milwaukee manager, now handling a radio job, may perform in the Brewers’ park again microphone giving play-by-play accounts of his old team’s games. . « » But the radio regulations will
umpires on the air.
Six A. A. Clubs Train in Florida
SIX OF THE EIGHT American Association clubs will pitch . . . These are Indianapolis, at Bartow: Louisville, at Bradenton; Milwaukee, at
training camp in Florida. Kansas City, at Lake Wales: Ocala, and St. Paul, at Leesburg.
Minneapolis is deserting Florida for Texas this year and will
spruce up at New Braunfels in the
also prefers the Texas brand of weather and will prep at Harlingen. First to report in camp will be the Louisville Colonels, tomorrow. and all clubs will be going through the paces by mid-March,
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A SIX-GAME exhibition series will he played in Florida between Mil'vaukee and St. Paul. . . . Both teams had a tough time arranging
. . . Bill Killefer, the Brewers’ new manager, told Frank Colley, director of the American Association Press Bureau, he was making no pennant predictions for his club, but that his one ambition was to have Milwaukee finish ahead of Indianapolis, piloted
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Indianapolis Downs Philadelphia, 2 to 1
This is to be a week of {sleeper jumps and one-night ‘stands for our hockey Capi-
tals, and it’s very likely to develop into a showdown for that third-place playoff position.
While the Hoosiers are peddling their pucks in New Haven, Provi-
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And Buffalo will be at Cleveland and at home to New Haven.
AMERICAN LEAGUE Western Diyision
Cleveland Hershey ve. 33 INDIANAPOLIS 16 Pittsburgh 1s
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Providence Springfield ..... New Haven Philadelphia ... RESULTS LAST NIGHT INDIANAPOLIS, 2; Philadelphia, 1. Buffalo, 3; Cleveland, 1. Pitisburgh,, 4; New Haven, 2. Providence, 4; Hershey, 2. NEXT GAMES WEDNESDAY—INDIANAPOLIS at New Haven, Pittsburgh at Philadelphia, Hershey at Springfield.
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Today the Capitals, who lead the Hornets and the Bisons by two
| points, would have you inspect their
defenses, which they are ready to match against any in the American League. There is still a short vield from the goal crop, but Manager Herbie Lewis continues to look
| hopefuily ahead to a bountiful har-
vest one of these evenings. Meet the Misers
“There was nothing wrong with defense, was there?” Herbie asked, and he was referring to his Caps’ tightfistedness in besting Philadelphia, 2-1, at the Coliseum last night. “Don’t be surprised, either, if we break out with 11 goals any night now.”
It was hard to believe that this cheerful, confident Herbie was the same Herbie who paced the boards behind the dasher for almost the whole last period last night. He had seen his boys lose too many or those last few turns of the clock and he was doing all he could with-
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a schedule on account of the location of their camps, miles away from the heart of the grapefruit league.
Louisville caught on with four
big league clubs, two with the
Yankees, two with the Red Sox, two with Cleveland and one with
Detroit. . . . Incidentally, Indianapolis and Louisville are scheduled for two battles in the grapefruit circuit, one
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Hoosier Hoopla Is Coming Into the Back Stretch
By UNITED PRESS Sixty-four sectional tourey winners today began sharpening offense and polishing defense for regional play Saturday, second big hurdle to \the state high school basketball : ghampionship. While all Hoosierdom looked on breathlessly, the select 64 were crowned last Saturday night after three days of eliminations in which 77 cage teams of every size and description battled for sectional honors. Probably the outstanding single .event. of the sectionals wag little Winslow's giant-killing act at Jas-
I. Eyebrows shot up all over the state Thursday night when it became known powerful Huntingburg had fallen by one point to Winslow. ! When equally powerful Jasper went down by one point Friday night folks began to murmur Winslow in tones of awe, speculating that for boys known as Eskimos they certainly were hot. In the semi-finals Winslow again won by a single point. against Spurgeon, but disappointed everyone by winning the sectional by five whole points over Holland.
Big Guns Roll On
Teams of class and power that wound up brilliant season records and entered the tourneys “with honors swept by all opposition and wound up with sectional standards in their hands. Notable among these were Ft. Wayne North, Muncie Burris, Anderson, South Bend Central, Madison and Washington. Among a host of other strong winners were Greencastle, Kokomo, Logansport, New Castle, Shelbyville and Batesville. Gary Froebel took the Steel City sectional away from Horace Mann, team that knocked off Hammond Tech’s 1940 champions and assured this 30th annual fracas of a new king. ; To Bedford went the honor of
feated finalists, as the Stonecutters captured their own sectional.
Precedent Broken
Rolling Prairie took the La Porte “crown away from Michigan City in an inspired final game performance. It marked the first time in all tourament history thas either La Porte r Michigan City falled to take the sectional. Vincennes, Goshen, Columbus, Prankfort and Evansville Central ‘joined Huntingburg and Jasper as ajor upset victims. The Alices were knocked out by Freelandville for the first time in . 20 years, and the upstart five went n to take the Vincennes meet, too. Goshen’s fine season record went for naught as it fell to New Paris, which Iso went on to win the title. At Shelbyville the Golden Bears and Columbus were a pair of powerhouses destined to meet with the dds riding Columbus by virtue of jouth Central Conference record. the powerful Bears banished ‘Bulldogs to the doghouse and
at Bradenton, one at
of the annual Hoosier madness, nose dived in the semi-finals before Jackson Township in a double avertime and again the upsetter went on to win in the final. Evansville Central also was cooled off in the semi-finals in an overtime defesit by Mt. Vernon, but this time WVernon slipped on Evansville Bosse in the final. No less than 28 teams repeated as winners in the sectionals they took last year. Gary Froebel would make 29, although strictly speaking Froebel won at the Valparaiso center last year and at Gary when shifted there this year. Among the 64 titlists, Lebanon posted the highest offensive gverage of 56.7 points per game, while Winslow hit the lowest offensive average with 26.25 points.
Tops in Defense
Madison's powerful Cubs took defensive honors by limiting opponents to an average of 17.75 points. Delphi had the lowest defensive average, allowing opponents to score an average of 37 points against it. Bedford was the chief walloper of the crowd of champions, toppitig all foes it played by an average of 30 points per game. Taking in the whole tourney, Evansville Central recorded the highest score, 82 to 13, against Griffen at the Pocket City Center. Washington Twp. had the doubtful horior of lowest score, posting only two points against 66 for Portage Twp. at the Valparaiso sectional. Highest total score for a single game was 104, on the combination of Angola 71, Scott Center 33, iat Garrett. Lowest total score was 20 on the combination Hagerstown 14 Boston 6, at Richmond,
One-Eye! After All These Years
WICHITA, Kas., March 3 (U. P). — The world’s No. 1 gale crasher sold out to the “interests” today. One-Eye Connolly, who claims to have crashed more gates than
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contract with officials of the National Semi-Pro Baseball Tournament to act as head gate-keeper, He will be in charge of all gales during next summer's tourney and be on the pass gate “in person.” “I know the guys who try to get in on passes—they’re plenty tough, but they arent real gate crashers,” Connolly said. “I'm going to crack down on them.’ The 65-year-old Connolly said his. deflection was a “vacation.”
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out actually getting on the ice. But the Ramblers cued, poked swung unsuccessfully in the last minutes and were forced to accept their first defeat in the last 10 starts. The winning Indianapolis goal that came at 3:38° of the final period was a honey. Two quick cross-rink passes put the disc on Butch McDonald's stick, and Butch was rid of it in nothing flat. The puck landed squarely behind Claude Bourque in the Philadelphia cage.
Doing It the Quick Way
“We practiced on those tactics all week,” Herbie declared. “Up until now the boys have been unwilling to shoot hurriedly. But that’s all changed. We're going to fire before they get ready.” The rest of the period was one of those pass-the-aspirins-please things. Once Murdo McKay and Herb Foster failed to drop short putts against Jimmy Franks. But whenever the Ramblers got in our backyard, they didn’t stay there long. This was that previously mentioned Capital defense at work. There were some heartbreakers, too. Ken Kilrea rode right into Mr. Bourque’s lap before releasing the puck, but Mr. Bourque stopped it. During another flurry around the Philadelphia cage, it seemed that every Hoosier on the ice got an (Continued on Page 7)
Slamin’, Ralph Are Paired
CORAL, GABLES, Fla. March 3 (U. P.)—Sammy Snead, Hot Springs, Va., and Ralph Guldahl, Chicago, play Johnny Bulla and Lloyd Mangrum;, bcth of Chicago, in the feature second - round match of the 18th annual $5000 international four - ball golf championship today. Defending Champions Billy Burke, Bellaire, Fla., and Craig Wood, Mamaroneck, N. Y,, meets Clayton Heafner, Linville, N. C.,, and Leo Walper, Washington, D. C., named this morning to replace Ed Oliver, who left by airplane in response to an urgent summons from his draft board at Wilmington, Del. : The -rest of the second - round schedule sends Gene Sarazen, Brookfield Center, Conn. and Ben Hogan, White Plains, N. Y., against Willie Goggin, Miami, and Leonard Dodson, Springfield, Mo.; Paul Runvan, White Plains, and Horton Smith, Chicago, against Byron Nelson, Toledo, O., and Jug McSpaden, Winchester, Mass. Snead and Guldahl dispatched | Jimmy Hines of Garden City, N. Y., and Vic Ghezzi, Deal, N J.., 7 and 6, in yesterday’s first-round competition, while Bulla and Mangrum scored almost as good a triumph downing Henry Picard, Hershey, Pa., and Johnny Revolta, Evanston, Ill, 6 and 5.
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Relay Sponsors
Named by Sears
Sponsors for the 15 events of the ninth annual Butler Indoor Relays to be held in the Fieldhouse, March 15, have been announced by Ray Sears, Butler track coach and relay director. Indianapolis merchants, clubs and business organizations again will
sponsor trophies, awards and medals valued at more than $1,000. Butler, the host school, will award the giant trophy to the school scoring the most points in the university division. A similar trophy, Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan’s, will be awarded to the team scoring the most points in the college division. A trophy will be awarded by the Hotel Washington for outstanding individual performance. Gold replicas of the track shoe worn in the 1926 Olympics by Hermon Phillips, originator of the Butler Relays and present coach at Purdue University, will be presented to first and second place winners in all events. ; Sponsors for the eight relay races are the Indiana University Club of Indianapolis, university two-mile relay; Tom Joyce, college two-mile relay; Mercator Club, university medley relay; Indianapolis Athletic Club, college sprint medley relay; Michigan Alumni Club of Indianapolis, university four-mile relay; American Business Club, college one-mile relay, and Mallory Athletic Association, university onemile relay. Individual event sponsors are Spink-Arms Hotel, 60-yard low hurdles; Blue Key, shot put; Ray C. Fox, 60-yard dash; Fendrick’s high jump; Purdue Association of Indianapolis, 60-yard high hurdles; Antlers Hotel, pole vault, and the Indianapolis Junior Chamber of Commerce, special one-mile run,
Amateurs
Auburn scored a 27-24 victory over -Tlkhart to win the Y..M .C. A. state senior championship. Eight teams were represented in the tourney, held at the Central “Y.” Auburn will represent Indiana in
the national tourney at Reading, Pa.
Drinkold, Allison Assemblers, Monarch Steel and Kingan Reliables will compete for the Sunday city championship next week at the Pennsy Gym. Drinkold completed the quartet over the week-end by annexing the North Side sectional title, After eliminating StewartWarner Rangers, 35-33, in the semifinals, Drinkold downed Bookwalter - Ball - Greathouse in the finals, 45 to 27. .
With 28 teams eliminated the second round of the 24th Annual City Independent basketball tournament will get under way tonight at Pennsy gym at 7 o'clock.
It's the Same Old Story
Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind, March 3. —Stop us is you have heard this one, but Coach Billy Thom’s Indiana University wrestling team has concluded another Big Ten dual meet season with a perfect record. Starting the season with what he called his ‘greenest squad since 1927,” Coach Thom has sent his Hoosier grapplers into nine dual meets this season and in only one were they defeated. The powerful Franklin-Marshal? team won a 15-14 decision over Indiana’s flu-stricken squad. Indiana won all four of its Big Ten meets. With the annual Big Ten championships coming up March 7 and 8 at Columbus, O., the title-defend-ing Hoosiers will seek their second straight crown with the following record behind them: Indiana, 21; Evansville “Y.” 3. Indiana, 24; Evansville “Y,” 0. Indiana, 18; Duncan, 8. Indiana, 24; Ohio U., 3. Franklin - Marshall, ana, 14. Indiana,
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15; Ohio State, 11. Indiana, 17; Michigan, 9. Indiana, 17; Illinois, 9. Indiana, 18; Purdue, 8.
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Big Ten Relays Will Set Marks
Times Special LAFAYETTE, Ind., March 3.—At least two new records are certain to be established in the 31st annual
Big Ten indoor track and fleld|
championships to be held here in the Purdue University Fieldhouse on Friday and Saturday nights, March 7 and 8. The certainty over the establishment of new standards arises from the fact that by action of the conference two new events, the 70-yard
low hurdles and broad jump, will be
included on the championship program for the first time in history.
Consequently, the 1941 victors in the
two events will reign as record holders for at least a year. Records in the other 10 events on the championship program can hardly be predicted with any degree of certainty, although several, such as the half-mile run, appear to be in a shaky position with one of the greatest flelds in history entered. Roy Cochran, Indiana’s fleet-foot-ed flier who established a new Big Ten and American indoor record of 48.2 seconds in the 440-yard run last year, will be the only record holder returning to defend his laurels. a
Another Feller?
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ST. LOUIS, March 3 (NEA).— rookie pitcher who won 19 and lost five with Decatur last season, is only
Max Surkont, Cardinal
18 years old.
We don’t know if he was out by two feet or whether it. was just another one that got away. Anyway the teller of tales is Honus Wagner, one of baseball's all-time greats, relaxing in the locker room with other Pittsburgh strategists at the Pirate camp in San Bernadino, Cal. Left to right the men that worry over the rookies are Manager Frankie Frisch, Coach Wagner, Scout Hollis Thurston, Coach John Gooch, Coach Jake Flowers, former Tribe infielder, and Coach Mike Kelley of Indianapolis.
William Pierson Tops City Bowlers With 764 Pins
An average 161 bowler led all the competition in the 35th annual city bowling tourney as early leaders fell and the meet moved into the final stages. William Pierson, the man who came on, topped the field with his big 764 total. Charles Meyer, Rex Dawson, Herbert Feathergill, Leo Loman, Joe Fulton and W. Seyfried all passed up Carl Wright's 715 score to take the top positions. With a 93 handicap Pierson moved ahead of Meyer who rolled 743 on games of 226, 224 with a 48 handicap. Feathergill just managed to beat Lawson out of the third place lead when his 741 total topped Lawson by five pins. To Fulton went the best actual count of the meet as he toppled the maples for 212, 236 and 265 for 713, ousting Larry Pavey who was leading in the championship division. The Ulsas brothers and the Backenstoe brothers continued to hold the doubles team lead with 1322 actual pins apiece, but E. Pearson and E, Kelly moved into third place with a 1322 total. The tournament closes next weekend, when 13 full teams, including the defending champions in both events, go on the drives.
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pockef, first prize money as the annual 1050 sweepstakes at the Indiana alleys came to a close last night. ; Lee Wickliff led the scoring for the team from the Sturm handicap league with 587. He was followed by Tom Kelly, 560; Paul Briles, 128; Tom Elliot, 488, and John Collins, 456. The B. & O. Railroad five was second, falling 90 pins short of the winning quintet’s total. Harlin Brothers captured third place. L. S. Ayres turned in the best actual score but its 2941 total with only a 205 handicap relegated them to sixth place.
Joe Boland Takes Purdue Job
LAFAYETTE, Ind., March 3 (U., P.).—Joe Boland, line coach at Notre Dame for seven years, will come to Purdue University as assistant football coach, it was announced today. A. H. (Mal) Elward, Purdue athletic director, who made the announcement, said Boland would report here tomorrow: for the
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Win—Badgers Shot
Who Got Away—Hans or the Fish
Hoosiers and Purdue Play Final Games
By STEVE SNIDER United Press Staft Correspondent
The Midwest may be the cradle of firewagon basketball, but Wisconsin's new Big Ten champions had to use more than a firewagon to win their first undisputed title in } 23 years. } When percentage basketball was needed, the Badgers played that and played it well, They defeated the nation’s greatest exponent of thw.’ whirlwind attack with percentage ti) basketball at Indiana and they used | it again Saturday night to defeat | Minnesota for their 11th straight | victory and the championship. = §
BIG TEN STANDINGS
Team W.L. Pct. TP. OP. Wisconsin ...11 1 917 536 424 Indiana ..... 9 ; As Minnesota .. 7
Ohio State .. Michigan ... 5 Iowa 3 Northwestern, 3 Chicago ..... 01
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The victory over Minnesota, 42 to 32, belonged to the entire Wiscons sin team. High Scorers Gene Enge lund and Johnny Kotz were no more valuable than Charley Eppers son or Ted Strain, who engineered the offense.
Indiana Out for Record
Indiana, the pre-season favorite, has only one consolation and the Hoosiers will shoot for that at Chie cago tonight in the fina] game of the season. Wisconsin's total of 536 points for the season, which broke Indiana's all-time Big Ten record of 519 set last year, still can Tall to the Hoosiers. ; They're a cinch to defeat Chis # cago’s last place Maroons and if | they score more than 56 points— about average Against Chicago this year—they’ll have another new scors ing record. . " The Hoosiers already have clinched second place, Minnesota third and Ohio State and Illinois fourth. Tonight's Games
On tonight's final program of the season, Indiana plays at Chicago (0-11), * Minnesota (7-4) at Iowa (3-8) and Northwestern (3-8) “at Purdue (5-6). 2 Ohio State and Illinois finished their season with seven victories and
five defeats in a tie for fourth place, Michigan also ended its season, fine ishing in seventh place with five victories and seven defeats. If Pure due loses tonight, the Wolverines will be tied for sixth. i Another piece of business still une settled is the individual scoring lead, Englund, who has led since midseason, completed his career with 13 points against Minnesota, bringing his total to 162. td Joe Stampf of Chicago picked 14 against Illinois and has 155 wi one more game to play. All he needs tonight is eight points against
opening of the Boilermakers’ spring practice. .
the Hoosiers and he wins the score 2 ing title—with a last place team.
The Virginta Reel, traditionally American dance since colonial days, bas engaged the gliding feet of many gemerations. It was a sprightly dance, kwowsn 10 earlier Americans as "between a rout and a romp.”
Riggs Wins Title JACKSONVILLE, Fla. March 3 (U. P.).—Bobby Riggs of Chicago held the Annual Southeastern Tennis Championship today following a 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 triumph over William Talbert of Cincinnati.
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