Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 December 1941 — Page 20

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Things are looking up at Howe High School. That eld ball-in-the-hoop play is beginning to work. From left to right the Hornets are Bob Gynn, Bob H. Brown, Bob Hauck, Ed Holloway, Jim Wade, Jack Jones, Bob E. Brown, Don Clapp, Jack Buchanan, Bob Eicher and Jerry Pfeiffer.

Gilfoy, is not in the picture,

SPORTS... By Eddie Ash

UNHAPPY since the Chicago Cubs pulled a fast one and released him after the 1940 season, Gabby Hartnett is expected to resume his old familiar strut and become “Laughing Leo” again when he parades the Indianapolis Indians onto the greensward in 1942, The American Association glad hand is extended to Owen J. Bush and Frank E. McKinney for bringing the colorful veteran into the league. . . . He's a crowd pleaser, a natural gate attraction, and he is sure to put some fresh pep and vigor into the local baseball Nobody ever accused Hartnett of failing to hustle, and the 1042

The coach, Lewis W.

On Equal Basis In Three Years

The Howe Hornets are working up to the cadence of the best of them. » This is the third year for varsity basketball at the new school and they have advanced to where city | rivals can be played on an equal basis.

Coach Lewis W. Gilfoy says to give his boys a couple of more games under their belts and they won't backtrack from the best of

With Schedules

Bowl Games Will Be

ing circles, although a certain garded is inevitable, officials prepared to carry on for the duration. While making it plain that all their actions hinge on

Government approval, sponsors of the impending bowl football games, boxing matches and race meetings said that their events will be held as scheduled. Here are thumb-nail summaries by sports: BASEBALL—A revised draft law would be the biggest problem, but the sport survived all but a few weeks of World War I-—operating through 1917 and until September of 1918. Commissioner Kenesaw M. Landis said “it is too early yet to form opinions” but American League President William Harridge stated that “while the nation's welfare is our first consideration, I am sure baseball will carry on as it always has and complete its schedule in 1942 and for years to come.” BOXING—-Mike Jacobs, the nation's leading promoter, will retain

as long as available. He said “I stand ready to do anything I'm asked, whether it is to promote bouts for the Army and Navy or to work in any other manner.” COLLEGE FOOTBALL Hal Reynolds, chairman of the Toutnament of Roses committee, said: ‘We desire to co-operate with the Government as we did in 1918 and 1912 when we scheduled service teams and we believe we will be expected to carry on with our entire New Year's Day football program.”

them, The Hornets lost four from the 1941 first five but three boys from Elwood Yeager's outstanding re-| serve squad have filled these va-| cancies. Yeager is now at Ft. Knox | but his second team dropped only four encounters last season. Walter Leasor is taking his place.

Abe Goldberg, president of the Sugar Bowl committee, said: “The New Orleans game will be played under current conditions but added “whenever the policy of the country is crystallized we will do what all good Americans should do—act to the best interest of the nation.” Dan Rogers of the Cotton Bowl

All Leaders Ready to Go On

Duration, Like Britain, Russia

tinue; Boxing and Racing ‘as Usual’

By JACK GUENTHER United Press Staff Correspondent

NEW YORK, Dec. 9.—It will be business as usual in gports during the war—so long as the Government agrees. That was the unanimous reaction obtained by the United Press today in a nation-wide survey of leaders in all spert-

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Speed Sports In Colleges

Times Special CHICAGO, Ill, Dec. 9.—The Big Nine athletic commissioner today keynoted the athletic attitude of all colleges in the national crisis. Maj. John L. Griffith said schools and colleges would “extend and intensify” their sports programs wherever possible, in line with wishes of the government. Maj. Griffith cited speeches made at various times by leaders of the Government, Army and Navy, in which they pointed out that the intellectual and physical development of the nation's youth goes hand Maj. Griffith .") ond with the country’s safety. : In addition, Maj. Griffith pointed out that in September 1939 the National Collegiate Athletic Association called for a program of athlectic emphasis on the part of schools and colleges. He said the resolution had been framed after consultation with leaders of the Government's military and naval departments. Further evidence of the co-opera-tive spirit of the Western Conference, he said, was the discussion last week when specific proposals for program enlargements were submitted.

Among these was a plan for the

Sports For Next Year Is Left Up To Uncle

Continentals Use Triangle System

Washington's five includes, back row, Captain Lester Berry, Don King, Robert Miller, Waller O’Brien and Bob Jones: second row, Johnny Brent and Harry Miller; third row, Jack Montgomery and Everett Tackett, and front, Walter O'Brien. Two members of the squad, Dick Gingery and Harold Fulton, are

not in the picture. Good Defense, Poor Offense

Washington's Continentals have a good defensive ball club this year, according to the scores of their three games so far in the season. If they can sharpen their cage gaze, they may be able to run up some scores. In any case, they will be a threat in the city competition and a hard team to beat in their loop, the South Central League. They have won one and lost two in three games so far. The losses were to Tech, 21 to 19, and to Columbus, 29-to 21. They beat Southport, 25 toc 24. “We won only one game last year,” said Coach Rowland Jones, who is in his 15th year at the West Side school, “but we should win a majority of our games this season.” Their win, incidentally, last year, was over Greencastle, who the next week beat the Washington Hatch-

Coach Rowland Jones is in the center.

Purdue Shooting Is Way Off, But Little Giants Bow, 41-29

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LAFAYETTE, Ind, Dec. 9—Sparked by the brilliant offensive of Forrest Sprowl, veteran forward who scored 14 points, Coach Piggy Lambert's Boilermaker basketball squad swept to a 41-29 victory over the Wabash quintet here last night. Approximately 6000 hardwood fans saw the Purdue squad launch its first offensive of the 1941-42 season, and although the score ended

with the Gold and Black holding a 12-point margin, a slow start and a poor percentage of 17 field goals in 73 attempts, for a .233 average, revealed that the Riveters had a long way to go for Western Conference honors. Last year Purdue defeated the Little Giants 67-28. Junior forward Ray Grave on the Crawfordsville squad took individual honors in last night's fracas, accounting for seven baskets and three free throws, totaling 17 points. In the first half, sophomore Al

the ball in the air under the Purdue basket, scoring two field goals, and free throws by Swantz and Charlie Caress shot the Boilermake« ers 13 points in the lead as the second half opened. Fans were screaming for 50 points as Capt. Don Blanken, Sprowl and Tierney exhibited their ball handling powers, but inaccuracy and a lastminute Wabash thrust left the score at 41 to 29 at the final gun. PURDUE (41) WABASH (29) FG FT PF . FG FT PP

4 : big The record for 1941 reads 11 vie- and E. E. Seiler of the Orange Bowl Indians will learn about that when spring train \ \ tories against nine defeats and so | said the war would not alter their ing days roll around . Although the amount X far this season they have won one plans.

introduction of 150-pound football | tS: later to become State champs.

| schedules among Conference teams. In one game this year,” said The N. C. A. A. will give further| Jones, “we made only five field goals

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of Gabby's salary was undisclosed when he signed yesterday to skipper the Indianapolis club, it can be taken for granted that Owners Bush and MecKinney forced into the higher money brackets to swing the deal. . . . Hartnett has been in the big money for many years and is accustomed to taking life easy in major league style. And he is anxious to earn his way back to the big time as a pilot by achieving a comeback as field boss of the Hoosier Redskins. . . . With the exception of last season With the Giants, Hartnett spent all of his big league career with the Cubs . . . as a player from 1922 to 1938 and as player-man-ager from July, 1938, through the 1940 National League campaign,

Gabby Crashed Majors in One Year

HARTNETT BROKE INTO professional baseball with Worcester in the old Eastern League in 1921 and advanced to the majors in one . . He was born in Woonsocket, R. I, and now resides in

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Gabby Hartnett

year. . Chicago. When Gabby catcher, the base fashion: “Hartnett is the Cubs’ official noisemaker and the delight of the fanettes. who swarm outside the club dressing rooms to cheer him and seek his autograph. He's the hero of thousands of worshiping urchins and one of the world’s champion mixers in any circle. “All his vocalizing and clamor isn't confined to the ball field.

was a* his playing peak as the Cubs’ mainstay ball Who's Who of that era described him in this

He's in possession of amazing tonsils all the time.” = » = = = = HARTNETT'S APPOINTMENT completes the American Associ ation lineup for 1942 . . . The other master-minds are: Columbus, Eddie Dver: Louisville, Bill Burwell; Kansas City, Johnny Neun; Minneapolis, Tom Sheehan; Toledo. Fred Haney; St. Paul, Truck Hannah: Milwaukee, Charlie Grimm, Hartnett, Dyer, Neun and Hannah are the new skippers since st season. comprising a 50 per cent turnover. : - Burt TY Columbus, joined Cleveland as conti: Bill Myer, Kansas City, switched to Newark, trading jobs with Neun; Wade Killefer, Indianapolis, and Red Kress, St. Paul, lost out in the shuf-

fles.

Hartnett and Grimm in Opposite Dugouts NOW THAT HARTNETT has followed Grimm to the A. A, the fans in Indianapolis and Milwaukee who are gifted with good hear ing are in for some rare entertainment in garrulous voice culture. Hartnett played with and under Grimm at Chicago, and then succeeded him as Cubs pilot. . . . Both are on the lighter side off the field and prior to gametime, but once that official be!! rings the

wraps are off. Two noise-bovs in the park at the same time is certain to furnish

a treat for the customers. Indianapolis fans were tickled yesterday when they lemned that Messrs. Bush and McKinney had signed Hartnett. . .. The general comment: “The Gabby Guy won't catch a lot of games at his age, but that old bazoo will keep the Indians on their toes. And Hartnett will give Indianapolis baseball that big-time touch.” = = = = s = HARTNETTS HIGHEST batting average was 354 in 1937 and he participated in 110 games. . .. His best home run year was 1930, when he collected 37. Gabby played in four World Series, 1929, #2, 35 and "38... . He f¢ a smart handler of pitchers and furnishes a splendid target for their stuff. . . . He caught Grover Cleveland Alexander, Dizzy Dean «and other “name” hurlers and worked under high-grade managers like Reindeer Bill Killefer, Joe McCarthy, Rogers Hornsby and Charlie Grimm. : He led the National League catchers in fielding percentage for seven years and caught 100 or more games per season for 12 years, eight of them consecutive, for a league record.

Herman In Market

CHICAGO, Dec. 9.—Babe Herman. former National League outfielder, says he will buy a minor league club if he fails to land a managerial or coaching berth,

and lost two. They stopped Broad Ripple, 32| to 23, and lost to Tech by the reverse of the first score. The Happy | Warriors of unbeaten Warren Central edged out a four point vic- | tory over them last Friday night. But it was close all the way. i Coach Gilfoy thinks he may have been working the boys too hard! getting them in shape so now he has introduced less strenuous rou-| tines. Give them time. At the present the first five is made up of Jack Jones, a senior at center; Bob Houck and Jack Buchanan, junior forwards, and Don Clapp and Bob Eicher, senior guards. This is the first year of varsity ball for Eicher. The team’s offense is but around a three out and two in variation with the back men blocking and crossing to start the figure eight motion, The Howe athletic plant is excellent. The gym is new. The spirit is good and the personnel is young.

Spanish Matman On Armory Card

Two newcomers will appear on the wrestling card tonight at the Armory, where a double main event will be served up. Carlos Rodriques, a Spanish grappler out of New Orleans, will test Dorve Roche, Decatur, Ill, in one of the features. Rodrigues is making his first appearance and replaces Nocholas Elitch who originally was to have met Roche. In the other feature, The Great Mephisto, Newark, takes on Jules La Rance, Canada. The second newcomer on the program is Ede Virag, a Hungarian matman, who faces Ray Viller of St. Louis in a one fall tussle, President Roosevelt's radio speech will be broadcast at 9 p. m.

N. U. Wins, 61-39; Look: Out, Butler

EVANSTON, Ili, Dec. 8 (U. P) — Sophomore Otto Graham, Northwestern University’s star passing halfback, made his basketball debut last night and scored 26 points to give the Wildcats a 61-to-39 victory over Western Michigan of Kalamazoo. Graham started alongside another sophomore, Bobbie Jake. Jake tallied 11 points, and Guard Russ Wendland added 13.

{schedules but Santa Anita Park will

RACING-—Dr. Charles Strub said! “I anticipate no change in plans or]

race only at the pleasure of the Government, If the Government feels people should not go to the races, we'll close.” Sylvester W. Labrot said the Néw Orleans Fair Grounds will open as scheduled on Dec. 25 as “one fundamental purpose in holding a race meeting at stich times is to keep up morale through recreation.” Operators of Tropical and Hialeah Parks in Florida expressed similar sentiments. GOLF-—Joe Dey, secretary of the U. 8. G. A, said a meeting planned | for Jan. 9 will determine the fate of golf. In 1917 and 1918 the U. S. G. A. abandoned the Amateur, Open and Public Links Championships voluntarily and raised $125000 for relief in a series of exhibitions. “We'll do whatever the country wants,” Dey added. TENNIS—Fate of sectional tournaments will rest with the individual clubs. The next U. S. L. T. A. sponsored tournament is the National Indoor Championship scheduled for Oklahoma City in early March and it will be considered at a meeting on Jan. 17. Wightman and Davis Cup competition already has been dropped and if conditions are critical next summer the National Championships may be cancelled as in 1918, On the professiona! side, the Budge-Riggs-Ko-vacs-Perry tour planned by Alexis Thompson will be carried through unless the classification of the principles—all married—is revised.

PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL — Only three games remain on the 1041 schedule and probably won't be affected. As for 1942, Commissioner Elmer Layden said “material will be scarce because the colleges will be hit and that hits us. However . ... nations engaged in war have kept up a well rounded sports program . . , even in England and

Moscow.

ris, secretary of the A. A. U, said war stimulates athletics and incites greater interest among service men. He recalled that the 1918 A. A. U. championships were held at Great Lakes Naval Station and that the majority of titles was won by Army and Navy men.

Akron Trounces Zollner Pro Five

FT. WAYNE, Ind, Dec. 8 (U. P). —Led by Benny Stephens, one-time Towa star, the Akron Goodyears last night trounced the Ft. Wayne Zollner Pistons by a 49 to 35 score in a National Basketball League game here,

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consideration to the problem at its| annual convention Dec. 29-30 at Detroit. Among statements from national leaders were:

General George C. Marshall, U. S. A. Chief of Staff: “Physical training and athletics are of great importance to the welfare of any nation. The War Department places great emphasis on the physical development of officers and soldiers of the Army.” Navy Secretary Frank Knox: “From the experiences the Navy has had in examining men for service, it is clear that our educational institutions have neglected the physical education of American youth for their intellectual development.”

Romp On Court

LAFAYETTE, Ind, Dee. 9.—Three erstwhile gridders, Forrest Sprowl, | Bob Johnson and Bob-Chester, are now performing on the Purdue basketball squad.

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in 42 chances. You can't win ball games with that kind of an average. But we'll improve. The Continentals have five senior lettermen returning. Another veteran who played part of the year in 1941 is Don King, who will certainly see lots of work. He pulled the Southport game out of the fire Saturday night with his fielders. Jones uses the triangle system, first popularized by “Doe” Carlson at Pittsburgh. ball is passed and the passer runs to the basket side of the boy who gets the ball. In many cases a block results, the original passer is freed and he gets the ball over his head for a chance at the basket. There's a set of twins on the team this year, Wailer and Walter O'Brien. “Quer thing, they work better when they're not playing together,” said the coach. cause it'd be wonderfully confusin to have both of them in there a the same time.”

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