Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 November 1941 — Page 8

By CHARLES McMAHON s United Press Staff Correspondent : CLEVELAND, Nov. 26—The most unenviable job in baseball fell to. 24-year-old shortstop Lou Boudreau today with his selection as ‘player-manager of the Cleveland Indians. Boudreau, with only two and a half seasons of. major league expetience, became the youngest man ever chosen for such a post when he . was named to succeed Roger Peckinpaugh, who was made a vice presi- . dent in the Indians’ organization. Lou’s appointment robbed Joe Cronin, Bostoh Red Sox: manager, of the major leagues’ “youthful manager” title. Cronin was named manager of the Washington Senators in 1929 when he was 26 years old to depose Stanley (Bucky) Harris, who was 27 when he was named manager of the Senators in 1924. Boudreau’s' two-year appointment, although somewhat of a surprise because of his youth and comparative inexperience, may be the answer to the internal difficulties that have beset the ‘Tribe. ;

HE CAME TO Cleveland in August, 1939, with sseond! ‘baseman “I HOPE TO mould a greater degree of good fellowship, aggresRay Mack from Buffalo of the International League and has been in siveness and good. spirit,” he sald. “I'm going to stay close to the the Indians’ infleld ever since. His appointment came after ‘Club _ fellows and: I’ ‘don’t anticipate any trouble with disciplirie.” President Alva Bradley. promoted Peckinpaugh, manager during : The Indians made baseball history when they staged a group past dismal season, to the: “front office” to handle the ‘Tribe's 1 revolt—not participated in: by nll the plbyers—against Manager Oscar affairs. That post’ had ‘been. vacated by the resignation of: C. C. Vitt in. 1840. Slapnicka at the end. of last season. : " “1 can’t say ‘whether’ wy duties as manager wil affect my, playa Boudreau’s task will ‘be difficult. Rated pre-season: favorites after ing,” said Boudreau, who is married and has a three-year-old daughfinishing second to Detroit by a single: game in’ 1940, the Indians col= ter, “only time will tell that. But I don’t think there will be any

lapsed during the last season and finished in fourth place, tied with trouble on that score.” the Tigers, 26 games behind the pennant-winning New York Yankees. - Boudreau said he. would attend the minor league meetings at Although faced with the practically impossible job of replacing Jacksonville, Fla. starting Dec. 1 and then go to Chicago for the maBob Feller, the Indians’ pitching ace, who is due for Army induction jor league conferences. He said he would select as two new coaches, sometime in January, Boudreau said he hoped to “have the club fin- “men with experience,” and would probably’ quit_his position as asish in the fst division next ‘season.” sistant basketball coach at the University of Illinois.

State Basketball— Tipton, Burris Hottest In

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r ranklin Township Has Eyes on Goal But Fergie Says: Clovland Should Have Three More, IT's More Fun to Fire Four

By HARRY FERGUSON United Sports: Editor ‘NEW YORK, Nov. 26—Autumn is the lovely season of the year when the leaves turn red and gold, college football players start cashing their pay checks and the Cleveland Indians get a new manager. Once more all those things have happened. Yesterday the word came - out of Cleveland that Roger Peckinpaugh had been booted upstairs into a vice presidency, leaving the position of manager open again. : Deponent knoweth not ‘whether,

Lou Boudreau, right, signs a contract with Cleveland president, Alva : B. Bradley.

The Muncie Evening Press MUNCIE, Ind., Nov. 26 (U. P.).— For any basketball team suffering from - championship fever or the

BIG-TIME baseball has another “boy” manager . « . Lou Boudreau, shortstop, was elevated to the Cleveland helm last night after calm Roger Peckinpaugh had been unseated as field skipper and moved into the office as vice

president. Baseballs first boy manager in the majors was Stanley (Bucky) Harris of the Washington Senators in the early Twenties. . . . Boudreau will be a player-pilot. Cleveland is taking a big gamble on shouldering heavy responsibility on its fine young shortstop. . . . We hope he makes good 0 on the double-duty job, ‘and it’s a cinch he’ll go all out to deliver, but the odds are against him at 24. . . . He'll have to match wits with an all-veteran brigade consisting of Joe McCarthy, Joe Cronin, {i © Jimmy Dykes, Del Baker, Luke Sewell, Stanley Harris and Connie Mack. Former Boy Manager Harris was 27 and a star gecond sacker when Owner Clark Griffith, handed him the Washington reins in 1924 . . . but Harris inherited a strong team from Owen J. Bush | of Indianapolis, who had the Senators going good in 1923. : Bush had the Senators up-and-coming in 1923 - and they finished fourth just under the .500 mark with 75 victories against 78 defeats. . , . But Bush did not see eye to eye with Owner Griffith, who re-

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portedly interefered with Bush’s policies. : Bush resigned and young Harris got the toga and directed the Senators to the pennant in 1924 and 1925. . . . Bush returned to his - Indianapolis home and took over the Indianapolis Indians’ reins-for ~ three years. : At the time we recall that many baseball observers attributed 1 Harris’ success to Bush’s achievements in putting the Senators on their feet and firing them up. At any rate, three years later Bush was back in the majors managing the Pittsburgh Pirates . . .. and later the Chicago Wise Sox and Cincinnati Reds. 9 £7

Brooklyn Has Nation’s Largest Pin Loop | DOWN THE ten-pin alleys: The Brooklyn Eagle's 136-team league is the country’s largest sanctioned circuit reported to the

American Bowling Congress so far this season. Doris Behnke, two-year bowler of Elmonte, Cal, wis rolled 672

recently, is a star softball pitcher, ¢ Two hundred out-of-town teams took out reservations last week . for the A. B. C. tournament which is to be held in Columbus, O., March 3 to May 11. . .. This brings the reservation list up to 4223 teams, which is 1016 ahead of last season’s figure as of Dec. 1 for the . St. Paul tourney. ~ Kay Wirtensohn, a feminine southpaw shooter of Lo; Angeles, reached the ten-pin heights recently when she rolled a 298 game and & 705 total. . . . Her games were 172, 235 and 298. ’ They're conservative in Dubuque, Ia., where one team has this name monogrammed on their blouses—“Ch—mps.” , « + Only time will tell,

Fried Chicken and Basketball—in Indiana

BASKETBALL IN INDIANA, Louisville Times’ version as: pice tured by James Finegan, no less, the baseball writer: ‘Miss Kay Dodd, a former Silver Creek, Ind., high school student, has just about earned her basketball letter, ‘A staunch supporter of the team, she promised the boys all the fried chicken they could eat: it they beat Charlestown last week. At the half, it appeared the Creekers Weren't hungry, for they enjoyed but a 17-17 tie with the Bombers. Stationing herself at the dressing room door, Miss Dodd cornered the boys las they made their exit. : “How about it, boys?” she demanded. © eall and have them start frying?” In less than three minutes, the Creekers took a seven-point lead and matched the Bombers py for point the rest of the way to yin, 81-24. The Bombers were seen throwing rocks at all roadside chickens e-next day. .

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Mistaken About Waldorf,’ Declares Bill DeCorrevont

CHICAGO, Nov. 26 (U. P.).—Bill DeCorrevont, Northwestern University football star, said in a radio interview last night that he didn’t believe his “full football possibilities were brought i in his Sollegiate career at Northwestern. “The fact I wasn’t an All-American isn’t the reason r have closed y-college football with many regrets,’ he said. “For a number of reaI don’t believe my full football possibilities were brought out.” : . He said he had been mistaken “4n some reports on the coaching of Lynn Waldorf before he enrolled ‘Northwestern.

¥ had been told that flexibility a definite mark of Waldorf

OKLAHOMA CITY, Nov. 26 (U. P.) —Coach Lynn Waldorf of Northwestern University ‘said regarding criticism of his style of coaching by Bill DeCorrevont: “Bill is a fine kid. He’s all right —just- a misguided boy though, when he came to Northwestern with all that highschool buildup. “Bill's all right. He finished. the season splendidly. He played good ball for us, but it seems that the wrong people pores; out. advice to him.”

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itch for an undefeated season, neither Uncle Johnny Ward’s “Blue Devil aromatic nor Scott Fisher’s

Golden Elixir is recommended. Doses of either will be poisonous and plumb fatal to teams with leakages of the defense, myopic basket eyes or paralytic floor games. Tipton and Burris of Muncie may not set the world on fire this

team conference. Both are studded with veterans; both are husky, tall and rugged; both have centers ranking among the State’s hall dozen best pivot men, and both are coached by smart, tried and true campaigners—Ward, the impassive clotheshorse, and ‘his opposite, Fisher, the drawling, - humorous farmer. The two teams meet at Tipton on Friday. It should be a game that corn country’ fans will long remember. Three moved. into Tipton

promising youngsters this summer towns, bulwarking a squad that is almost identical with Ward’s team of last season, Ertel Is Top Man

Top man of the Blue Devil squad is a sturdy, oak-hewn lad—handsome, red-haired Jim Ertel. The big senior, who weighs almost 200 and tops two yards by a couple of inches, comes from a basketball line. His brother, Mark, captained Notre Dame a few seasons ago. Veteran of three years, handy in the pivot circle arid with a basket eye more accurate than the Norden bombsight, Ertel is heading for his big season. Playing supporting roles to the leading man are Tudor, Shupperd, Jackson, Foland and others, members of last season’s team, which finished third in the conference. Scott ' Fisher of Burris has built teams of such caliber for the last three seasons that Muncie cage fans are forgetting Central, holder of two state championships. Last year Burris’ Golden Owls won the Central Indiana conference championship with eight wins and no losses and advanced to the semi-finals. of the state tournament. As for this year’s team, facts and

tained four men who saw regular service last year. They are Bud Brown, Clay Moody, Lowell Black and Harold @alyer. Senior Bud Brown, who stands 6 feet 41% inches and who weighs 186 pounds, plays an outstanding rebound and underbasket game.

Average 6-2

Height of the first team averages 6-2. Smallest man on a squad of 15 is 5-10. | Only three of the 15 are fourth-year men, the remainder ranging from freshmen to juniors. But a black beauty picture book contains no more dark horses than the Central Indiana conference this season. Warsaw, while not of Tipton’s caliber, may show its heels to Burris. Wendell Walker, Indiana University cage and grid star of the early thirties, has taken over the basketball reins there. He has a veteran team to work with. Warsaw could make the biggest hop up the ladder of any conference team. It finished seventh last season and this winter should do no worse than third. Over at Elwood, Coach Hunk Francis also possesses a dark horse. Francis lost Muff Davis, - accuratefingered forward, but retained several experienced regulars plus a good second team. In Copeland, Floyd; the Lambert boys, Powell, Runyon and McGraw, he may have a winner as good as his conference champs of two years back. Purdue, under smart Clair Holly, is always strong, but lost its basket ace, Bob Harn, one of the loop’s leading scorers. Plymouth finished fifth last season and may do as well or better. They say that Rochester, next to the bottom in the conference standing last winter, has t | improved. Wabash, third from last, has a new coach, Ken Gunning, another ex-1. U, basketball ace. Huntington, however, lost most of last season’s great team, and Jim Crowe will be on the build.

Best in Years

‘But of the loop’s 10 teams, Alexandria' considers itself most fortunate. The Tigers played all games last winter away from home because their new gym still abuilding, and lost every .conference engagement. This year Coach Myrle Rife has a new $75,000 edifice and some valuable veterans. Stimming up, basketball in the conference should be .the best in years, - Teams seem more evenly matched than ever before. Perennial favorites all show usual strength

ers are improved.

Munger’s Best Year PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 26.—P sylvania enjoyed its best football season in the four years it has coached by Munger. victories and a 13-6 de-

winter but they are the Lottest| .|potions in Central Indiana’s ten-

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Madison Wins By Big Score

By UNITED PRESS Little Madison, State final run-ner-up last year, as well as Con-

nersville, Frankfort and Ft. Wayne Central, scored hardwood victories last night to supply highlight games on a slim high school basketball card. 4 Madison overwhelmed Scottsburg, doubling the score, 40-20, while Connersville had little trouble downing Lawrenceburg 44-30. Everett Case’s Frankfort Hot Dogs continued on a winning season, finding the going hard against little Flora, but triumphed, 38-34. After losing its season opener last week-end to Winchester, 37-32, Muncie’s. Central Bearcats dropped another last night to Ft. Wayne Central, 51-30. Tonight's basketball slate offers more in the way of outstanding contests. Heading the list will be Lebanon at Anderson, Noblesville at Crawfordsville, Columbus at Martinsville, Shelbyville at Franklin and Vincennes at Evansville Reitz. Most oi the teams get into full swing again Friday night when the schedules start in earnest, teams begin to meet tougher opponents and a few more of the bigger schools join the pack after polishing off their football schedules.

Grid Guesses

The Times’ board of grid guessers .turned in a fair job last week on the leading games but, as usual, the sharpshooters fell off the limb and bounced on several major contests; The - seers were fooled by Ohio State deadlocking- Michigan, Nebraska’s one-point victory over Iowa, Temple's comeback against Holy Cross, Florida’s triumph over Georgia Tech, Vanderbilt’s victory over Alabama and Oregon's win over University of Washington. The “experts” also had T. C. U. over Rice and Kansas State over Jowa State. These tilts ended in no-decision. A Eddie Ash had a week's percentage of .793, Red Grange, 760, Bob: Godley .724 and Harry. Ferguson .692. z ™ Stanaings for the seasbn® ] . Won Lost Ash dsso ence 179 59 Grange ..... 166 60 Ferguson ... 141 57 Godley ...... 163 66

The Franklin Township basketball boys have their eye on the goal this year. Already they have conquered three opponents in as many games and are looking for ward to another successful season. From léft {o right the members are Melvin McFarlin, Robert Windhorst, Herod Toon, Jack Wheatley, Harry Toon, Donald Bradley, Jack Burton, Don Birge, Art Cook, Leroy Compton and" Coach Carl Buffenbarger.

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Unbeaten So Far This Year.

Everything points to another successful season for Coach Carl Buffenbarger of Franklin Township. This affable gentleman - whose teams in the last two years have rolled up 31 victories against only nine defeats has another good squad. Gone are many .of the members of last year’s runners-up in the county, finals but the two leftovers were voted on the all-county team last year. They are Robert Windhorst, a tall high-scoring center, and Leroy Compton, veteran guard. Others who appear to have made the first 10 are Don Bradley and Jack Wheatley, seniors; Melvin Mc. Farlin, Art Cook, Jack Burton and Herod Toon, juniors, and Don Birge and Harry Toon, sophomores, The team is undefeated this sea. son with victories over Moral, Beech Grove and Manual. They averagecl over six feet last year but will be smaller this season. Most of the boys lack experience but the coach doesn’t have to worry about eligibility. They are all good students, he says. The Franklin Township - School was formed in 1936 by a union of Acton and Bethel. Coach Buffenbarger is a graduate of Manchester College. He plans to build a scoring offense around the pivot play and ball handling of Windhorst whose play has improved considerably over last season. (B. F.) The schedule:

Nov. 12—Moral (F.

Nov. 19).

T. 22 14—Beech Grove (F. rR Op. 21). Manual (F. T. 25, Op. iors e there, ‘Dec. 6—Terre Haute, here, - Dee. 1 ustane, hate. Dec. 12—Lawre Dec. there.

Feb. 14—Swayzee, Feb. 21—Warren Content, here.

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Peckinpaugh got a new desk along with his new job, but if so he is | going to be plenty busy for a month {cleaning out the old one, Those Jempty aspirin boxes are tough to get rid: of. As you know, the Indians start almost every season with a great mechanical ball team, boasting the best pitcher in the game, and still manage to lose the pennant. Some- | times they lose it early and some- {4 times they wait until September, but they-always lose it. Oscar Vitt, who had & whirl at managing them, is a ‘ |good baseball nian. Sols Peckinpaugh. The trouble is that they were struggling by themselves to do a job that really calls for a board of three. How can one man direct the team on the field, supervise trades and patrol the front office to keepito the players from running there on Tuesday, Thursdays and Saturdays?

Since Lou Boudreau, 24-year-old regular shortstop for two and a half seasons, has been given the ob, -sifhoush nobody asked me to ,’I shall now suggest that a dy of directors be named to run the Indians in 1942. There is no rule that one man has. to be in | charge, ‘and think how much fun we will have in the autumn when the Indians get rid of four managers instead of one.

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{to put Bad Boy Brown to sleep |in 18 minutes.

Tech city champion football squad, are wearing gold footballs today. The gold ovals are a present from the football] team, given to the coaches last night at banquet honoring the team. Coach Bo McMillin of Indiana University, spoke to the team and the more than 300 guests who saw All-City halfback Jack Hanna receive a medal from the Marion ‘County Alumni Club of 1. U. as the most valuable player:at Tech: A letter was read from Coach Bob Nipper of Shortridge High’ School, whom’ Tech beat for the championship, acknowledging the championship and congratulating the team. Other speakers were Tech’s principal, Hanson H. Anderson; Mr. Ball, and Athletic Director R. V. Copple. Members - of the team who received gold footballs as gifts from the faculty were:

John Rainey, John Dobkins,- k Hanna, John Whitesell, Dale hac Robert Mey <%, Keith Hanna, gene Newland, Bill. Volk, Robert Johnson, Frank Owings Vrilliam AT James Myers, W ne Graham, Ernie Medcaite, Jack Morton and Brice

Wild Bill Beats

Here are my choices: 1. Uncle Don, 2. Lana Turner. 3. Joe Louis. At first blush, it would seem that this would lead to a conflict of authority, Not at all. Each mem-

per of the board would have a definite function. Uncle Don, for instance, would do his work while the players were in the dressing room—strictly an inspirational Jo The players: would “gather ‘around

a radio and Uncle Don would say:] “Well, kiddies, how are you this afternoon? Uncle Don has been very, very busy since yesterday getting the prizes ready. But I didn’t forget a single one of you, because you know what I told you at the start of the season—every day’s your birthday on the Cleveland Indians. “Yes, sir, that’s what I said and that’s 'what I mean. Now if each one of you will go to his locker Hignt now and look way, way back in the right hand corner you will

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White Sox today, Uncle Don will have something for you tomorrow. .

the day. She lines them second base and takes the bench. The idea is - ace for the bench to sit - e her and the last one es. Miss Turner, no fool ° omes to baseball strategy, Feller start 15. yards be-

Turner wears a thick the boys can cry on her hen they strike out. But value comes when the disgruntled and threaten to go to [President Alva Bradley. Miss ner sidles up to the disgruntled player and says: “What do you want go see that old Bradley for? |What’s he got that I . haven’t got? How’s about you and me going to a nice restaurant for dinner and maybe having a dance or two afterward?” That settles that. Joe Louls? Oh, he would just wait in the dressing room to slug each player every time they lost a game,

(College Gridders Held Anemic

Times Special

. DENVER, Colo, Nov. 26.—Dr. Broda O. Barnes, head of the Uni» . versity of Denver's health and physical education department, says the great trouble with many college football players is that they are anemic,

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Minnesota, Michigan, Duke, Notre - Dame, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Penn | State, Fordham, “Texas A. and M., _ Texas, California, Washington, Washington State, Georgetown, * Boston College, Tulane, William and Mary and at least 100 other 1941 varsities. Dr. Barnes traces the players’ state of health to their financial condition. Dr. Barnes should go south, oung man. Some of the boys down ere ask to sit on the bench to keep them out of the next income tax bracket.

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Dorve Roche

“Wild Bill” Longson, Buffalo heavyweight, turned the tables on Dorve Roche, of Decatur, Ill., last night at the Armory in the “main event clash of the weekly wrestling card. After these two mat gladiators

Longson surprised Roche in seven minutes of the last session to win the match with a double toe hold. The Buffalo mat meanie took the

The semi-final fracas was won

ton, Jnd., who flopped Joe Maich,| Prench-Canadian - -newcomer .to the Armory ring. Thom gained the verdict in 22 minutes with a step-

The third bout on the program ended in a victory for Ali Pasha, Hindu grappler, and it was. his| third straight local win. Pasha used his unusual “Indian Cobra” bye

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