Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 December 1941 — Page 16
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ARCH WARD, Chicago Tribune sports editor, who originated the popular and nation-wide Golden Gloves toumnament for amateur boxers, has announced there will be no interruption of the event because of the war. . . « The word is to carry on and also encourage the full co-operation of Army camps. In a letter to this department, Mr. Ward said, in part: “It is more important than ever that we have a successful tournament this winter. In a good many centers entries will be reduced, of course, because of conscription, enlistments and employment. As a consequence we shall have more young talent than at any time in the history of Golden Gloves. “We can make a valuable contribution to the ‘defense program by continuing events that encourage virility among men who haven't reached conscription age. We can help to harden them for more important assignments. “It looks as if the number of teams coming to Chicago will be greater than ever this year because of the enthusiasm for the meet in Army centers.
2 = » . 8 - TWO OF THE Open class champions in the 1941 Indianapolis Golden Gloves tourney are now with the armed forces . . . Charles Duncan, heavyweight, Hill Community Center, is in the Army, and Elmo Latta, fivweight, Leeper Boxing Club, is ir the Navy. Latta played football at George Washington High School and
|would complete the current season
intended boxing as a featherweight in the 1942 Golden Gloves before choosing to do his fighting for Uncle Sam.
Alabama Is Veteran Rose Bowler
THIS Jan. 1 will mark the first appearance of Alabama footballers in the Cotton Bowl at Dallas, playing Texas A. and M. . . . As a matter of fact, the Crimson Tide is a veteran Rose Bow! visitor and has never played in any other New Year's Day attraction.
In five Rose Bowl tilts, Alabama
has compiled the splendid record
of three victories, one tie and one defeat. . . . The boys from Tusecaloosa edged Washington, 20-19, in 1926; tied Stanford, 7-7, in 1027: swamped Washington State, 24-0, in 1931; defeated Stanford. 29-13. in 1935, and the lone defeat for Alabama at Pasadena was California's
victory, 13-0, in 1938.
CLARENCE CAMPBELL of the
brought into this world to be a burglar.
» " - Cleveland baseball club was not
. . His 1041 base-stealing
record proves it. , , . He tried 10 times and was caught on nine
attempts.
Old Red Ruffing of the Yankee mound staff is still some shucks as a swatter. | . , He collected 27 hits in the 1941 season for a .303 average and more than one-third of his safeties were for extra bases. . The veteran belted eight doubles, one triple and two home runs.
Old ‘Fitz’ Plays Santa on the Air
FRED FITZSIMMONS, the old “around and about in the big leagues
Mishawaka Marvel, who is still with the Brooklyn Dodgers, has
a perfect Santa Claus build and that’s the role he played on the air
last night on the Vox Pop program.
Fat Fred was doing his bit for the East Side Boys’ Club in New York. . .. The former Indianapolis pitcher was nipped by the bowling bug this winter and is constructing a tenpin plant in Brooklyn, where
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he is an idol of the sports goers.
Fitzsimmons said he is okay physically and is looking ahead to
another big season on the diamond.
; WHEN DAVE SCHRINER, left wing of the Toronto Maple Leafs ice hockey team, crashed the boards in his team’s first game this sea-
son, he sustained the first injury of consequence in a major league ice career that was launched in 1934-35.
In two successive seasons he was
among the National loops lead-
ing scorers with 45 and 48 points, respectively.
Arcel Wants a Dream Boy For Christmas to Beat Louis
NEW YORK, Dec. 23 (U.
P.).—This column really shouldn't have
been written before Dec. 25 because it contains a Christmas presen for every fight manager in the United States—a complete set of be prints of the boxer who someday wil] knock the world heavyweight crown
from Joe Louis’ kinky head.
The specifications and dimensions
has been knitting good, bad and indifferent boxers together again for so long he carries sutures in every pocket, twirls a swab stick in his mouth instead of a tooth pick gad prefers spirits of ammonia to eer.
He is Ray Arcel, a lean, graying operative of undetermined years. He has been a trainer and a second since 1914 and around Lammers’ Lane he is known as the “meat wagon.” That's because it has been his task to drag 10 of Louis’ rivals back fo their corners and revive them, On the physical side Arcel’s dream boy would be around 23. He would stand 5 feet, 11 inches tall and weigh 180 or 185 pounds. His neck would be short, his chest and stomach well muscled and his hands strong so that they wouldn't fail him when he needed them most. His first professional equipment would be the ability to take a punch and not only keep his feet but keep moving forward. He would have a lethal left hook. That's important, because a left hook has put Louis on the floor twice and can again. The boy also would be able to dodge, bob, weave, duck and punch at the same time he advanced. As for mental make-up,:get this straight at once—he wouldn't be a
were drawn up by a man who
thinker. Arcel says Lows can't be outsmarted, stared into submission or lured into traps at this advanced date of his career. ‘The boy would be able to count 10, of course, but brains wouldn't matter if he had enough of the killer instinct. “That's my man, briefly,” Arcel sald wistfully. “That's the boy for me. And do you know what I'd tell him when I sent him out of the corner? I'd say to him, ‘get out there and start punching, bub, and forget everything in the world except the point of Louis’ chin and the imaginary target over his head. And don't stop punching as long as you're on your feet.” Even for a dream man this task wouldn't be just whipped cream and cherry tarts. Arcel considers Louis one of the really great fighters; next to Benny Leonard, the Arcel idol, maybe the greatest he has seen. With that in mind, he said it would be best to catch him after a lay-off, as Al McCoy did, for then Louis always takes a while to regain his timing. “Maybe I'm thinking of Dempsey and maybe I'm not,” Arcel grinned. “You guess. I can't compare men who were 20 years apart. But, boy, oh, boy, what a riot those two— Dempsey and Louis—would have put
on while it lasted.”
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they are the terrors tof (1) the 8. I. A. C. (2) the State of Indiana.
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per, Vincennes, ville, Bicknell and N A victory over Delphi Friday night in 1941 without a blemish. In Tough Loop With the week's cage bill-o-fare left a little hungry because of the holiday layoffs, the battles largely narrow to loop races, and the Hatchets are striving t6 keep ahead in! one of the toughest conferences in! the state. Also with 1.000 per cent in the S. I. A. C. are Evansville Central and Boonville, but they have played
Bedford, a newcomer to the 15-team | circuit. looms a strong contender with three wins and one defeat. Another hot league race is pro-, gressing in the North Central loop the herd. Frankfort, New Castle, Logansport, Anderson, Indianapolis Tech, Kokomo, Richmond and Muncie follow behind to make this conference one of the most imposing! in the state. |
Shelbyville Leads
Shelbyville, with only one defeat, matches advance predictions by leading the South Central loop, and Columbus’ Bulldogs follow close. behind. Huntington and Muncie Burris lead the Central Indiana conference, but Burris has only played one loop game and should forge ahead after the season ages. Tonight's card will offer a couple of contests which bear on loop play, and a couple that may change the state-wide set-up. The 10-game slate offers the biggest portion of the week. Huntingburg and Evansville Central, both S.I. A.C. teams, meet, and Marion and Kokomo square off | for a North Central tilt. The upcoming Indianapolis Shortridge meets city nival Tech and Bedford engages Shelbyville in what should be the most bitterly contested battle of the night. Other games tonight: Rushville at New Castle, Elkhart at Greensburg, Richmond at Connersville, Ft. Wayne North Side at Goshen, Ft. Wayne Central at Auburn, and Brazil at Crawfordsville.
Golden Gloves Gets Go Sign
With the dates announced yesterday for the 1042 Times-Legion Golden Gloves amateur boxing tourney at Butler Field House (Jan. 16, 23, Feb. 5), the tournament committee today was cheered by the expressions of sportsgoers. It's the consensus of Indianapolis sports fans that even. in these trying times with America at war that the tournament be held as usual. It will be the tenth renewal. There is no better way to get the boys in shape for the army and navy in the event that they are called. The majority of Golden Glovers are under 20, ‘with the starting age at 16. ' The Bruce P. Robison Post tournament committee: Vernon Scott, irman; Homer Asher, finanoe; Fred Hasselbring, tickets; Leland Rees, secretary; Frank Collman, entries and weighmaster; Paul MeDuff, ring. Col. Will H. Brown is Post commander. All Golden Gloves tourhaments are sanctioned by the Amateur Athletic Union and the Indianapolis event is sanctioned by the Indiana district. Tournament equipment and supplies will cost more this time, the committee learned in a preliminary survey. Army and Navy camps are buying a huge supply of boxing equipment and some manufacturers cannot make an definite promises on meeting requirements for civilian events.
Pistons Swamp
Kautsky’s 5946
FT. WAYNE, Ind, Dec. 23 (U. P.).—Displaying an irresistible last half seoring punch, the Ft. Wayne Zollner Pistons rolled over the In-
score in a National League basketball game here last night, At one time trailing by 12 points, the Pistons shot up to a 29-27 lead at half-time, and then went on to turn on the power in the second half. McDermott led Ft. Wayne with 17 points, and Jewell Young, with 14, was best for Indianapolis.
A. A. to Graduate Four Shortstops
DETROIT, Dec. 23.—If they esthe services, four shortstops are coming out of the American
far less contests than the Hatchets.!
where Marion and Lafayette lead!
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Wilbur Schumacher, tireless Butler guard, tries from the side in |
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Pitt last night at the Field House.
He is being guarded by James Egan, Panther guard. Ernest Tidrow, another Butler guard (No. 35), is waiting for the rebound. :
Riddle Leads
N. L. Pitchers
By GEORGE KIRKSEY United Press Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK, Dec. 23. — Elmer
Riddle, the Cincinnati Reds’ sopho-|
more from Birmingham, Ala. was the “Pitcher of the Year” by any yardstick, according to the official National League pitching averages released today. Riddle, who started the season as an unknown member of the Reds’ pitching staff, topped the league in
earned runs with 224 and in per-|
centage with 19 victories and four defeats for an average of .826. The modest Alabaman, who was nursed along carefully as a rookie in 1940 by Deacon Bill McKechnie, arrived sensationally last season when he started an ll-game winning streak on May 20 and wasn't stopped until July 23. Riddle replaced his own teammate, Bucky Walters, as the earned run leader. Walters, who led in 1939 and 1940, dropped to fourth the past season with 283. Whit Wyatt, Dodgers, was the runner-up to Riddle with 2.34, and Ernie White, Cardinals’ southpaw, came third with 240. Johnny Vander Meer, Reds’ southpaw who started a come-
\back, came fifth with 2.83.
Reds Exist on Pitching
Thus thé Reds, who existed last season solely on their pitching, landed three men among the firs five earned run leaders—Riddle first, Walters fourth and Vander Meer fifth. Even so the Reds had to bow to the Champion Dodgers in the club pilching ranks. Brooklyn lod the league with an earned run average of 3.14 as compared to Cincinnati's 3.17. Kirby Higbe, the Dodgers’ $100,000 beauty, was one of the loop’s hardest workers and most active pitch ers even though he finished no higher than ninth in earned runs with 3.14. Higbhe pitched in the most games, 48; started the most games, 39; faced the most batsmen, 1266; gave up the most walks, 132; made the most wild pitches, 9; allowed the most earned runs, 104. Whit Wyatt, the Dodgers’ other big gun, led in shutouts with seven and tied with Higbe for the most victories, each with 22. Among the other leaders were: Most Complete Games—Bucky Walters, Reds, 27. Most Innings—Walters, 302. Allowed Most Hits—Walters, 202. Lost Most Games—Truett Sewell, Pirates, 17. Allowed Most Runs—Sewell, 126. Finished Most Games—Ike Pearson,’ Phils, 30. Hit Most Batsmen—Pearson, 8. Most Strikeouts—Johnny Vander Meer. Reds, 202. Allowed Most Sacrifices — Paul Derringer, Reds, 20. Longest Losing Streak—Lee Grissom, Phils, 11. The ten leaders in earned runs who pitched at least ten complete games follow: _Pitcher, Club
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Earns I. U. Trip In 5 Minutes
1 Times Special
BLOOMINGTON, Dec. 23—Five minutes of scrapping basketball action has earned Jim Funk, sopho-
{more center on the Indiana Univer- | Sity hardwood squad, an Eastern {trip with the Hoosiers during the
| Christmas holidays, and a one-day visit in the world's war capital. Coach Branch McCracken today
named Funk, former La Porte High | School player, to the 12-player {Crimson traveling squad on the {basis of his abbreviated performance in the UCLL.A. game here Thursday night. It was Funk’s first appearance in the Hoosier lineup, and his sparkling play earned him the McCracken nod over several competitors who had seen action in as many as three games. The Indiana squad, which leaves Indianapolis Christmas Day for Eastern tilts with Pittsburgh Friday and George Washington University Saturday, is composed of Captain Andy Zimmer, Goodland; Dick Wittenbraker .and Warren Lewis, New Castle; John Logan, Richmond; Ralph Hamilton, Ft. Wayne; Ed Denton, Jeffersonville; Hal Driver, Aurora; Irvin Swanson, La Porte; Everett Hoffman, Evansville; William Torphy, Bedford, and Funk. Coach McCracken and his Hoosiers will remain over in Washington, D. C., home of George Washington's quintet, Sunday for a sightseeing trip arranged for them by their host team officials. After the two Eastern contests, they will return to the campus to get ready for the Big Ten opener Jan. 3 against Northwestern and Otto Graham at Evanston.
Deny Change as Eli Coach Quits
NEW HAVEN, Conn., Dec. 23 (U. P.) —Speculation on Yale's new {head football coach vied with campus reports of a change in athletic policy today as Director of Athletics Ogden Miller announced that the resignation of Dr. Emerson (Spike) Nelson would not affect the continuation of sports at the University. Nelson, whose 1941 Yale team won only one game while losing seven, was the university's first non-grad-uate head football coach and his announcement last night that he intends to enter the procurement division of the Army Engineer Corps came as a surprise. He said hg had been considering this move for a few weeks because of the “uncertainty of athletics and general conditions.” He will report to Lieut. Col. H. B. Vaughan Jr, head of the procurement division at Philadelphia Jan. 5. He has “the idea in mind of obtaining a commission.” Nelson, who had been assistant
./céach at Yale, succeeded Raymond
(Ducky) Pond when Pond resigned after a disastrous 1940 season.
Name Whelchel
Coach at Navy
ANNAPOLIS, Md. Dec. 23 (U.P). —Commander John E. Whelchel, backfield assistant during the past year, has been appointed head football coach of the United States Naval Academy, succeeding Major Emery Larson, who returned to active service several weeks ago. Commander Whelchel, a graduate of the Navy class of 1920, played in the Middie backfield during his un-
.|dergraduate years and has been an
assistant coach at Annapolis on two occasions, from 1920 to 1924 under Gil Dobie, and during the past season under Maj. Larson. His duties as football coach will be coupled with another position— that of executive office of gunnery and ordnance. He will take over a squad which will contain only six lettermen who played against Army
#& | this year and will have only two
Ft. Wayne, 59; Indianapolis, 46.
No Wrestling
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+ Bulldogs Drub Carison’s Boys in Second Half
By BOB FLEETWOOD
Purdue spies took off their black hats today and sat down to tell the Boilermakers about Butler's Bulldogs. Piggy Lambert's boys will bounce and break at the Field
House Saturday night as the Black and Gold can. They will fire those floor-length passes and nip those circus one-handers as they drop out of bounds. That is taken for granted. But Butler won't be idle, the spies say. Because, although Butler 1s small, they love to race up and down that floor, too. They snipe their longs well and there is a big Glenn Miller who is Mr. Trouble under the basket. They point out that the Bulldogs loafed through a sub-par Pittsburgh team, 30 to 29, last night. It was their second straight victory over a caliber quintet. Iowa was No. 1 Saturday night. Pitt's bad ball provoked a little bad ball, but that always happens when one team is off-key. The report in part: This big Miller looks like he may drop on his face any moment. Don't let that fool you. He shot eight times against Pitt and eight times the score changed. On one goal they gave him two points on a technicality. A Panther hit the net. But seven out of eight isn’t knitting. The co-captains put the kick in the fast break. Both Elwood Nor-
(ris and Wilbur Schumacher netted
three goals and two fouls through their speed antics. Fred Hunckler, breaking in the center, sets them up. Ernest Tidrow didn't hit any longs against Pitt. That was against Towa. But in the Panther tussle those way-out shots cast a shadow too close to deny his accuracy. When Bob Fletcher comes in, don’t get behind him on the break. There is no more shifting of two teams Coach Hinkle has his first five. Remember that the time ran out on them at Illinois and two have fallen since. Offensive example The start: Schumacher stole a Pitt pass and bounched half the length of the floor for a goal. Hunckler and Norris’ speed drew charity tosses, while Miller revolved on the pivot. Butler, 6; Pitt, 0. Ed Ziolkowski cut in on the parade with an underneath basket. Lawrence Paffrath, who was scheduled to pace Pitts with 14 points, added a foul. But with Norris and Miller sprinkling the net the Bulldogs had jumped to 13 to 5 before the Pitt figure eight started to add up. : Paffrath and Ziolkowski's netting counted for a Butler 18, Pitt 16, at the half, Butler applied the pressure in the second half and waltzed away. Example No. 2 when score stood 20 to 18 for the Bulldogs: Hunckler up and in from the foul line on a fast break. A short pause for a Paffrath long, then Miller tipping, Hunckler breaking, Miller tipping again and Schumacher cutting off a pass. Score, Butler, 32; Pitt, 20. From there on it was easy. But you see what we mean about when the heat is on. BUTLER (39) FG PT PP
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Net Tourney At Cathedral
Cathedral High School will be host to champions from downstate, Kentucky and Chicago in an invitational net tourney at Cathedral gym Saturday. The visitors are Leo of Chicago, national Catholic basketball champions last year; St. Xavier of Louisville, finalists last year in the Kentucky state tournament, and. Memorial of Evansville, Indiana state Catholic titlists in 1941. Leo has continued as a power this year at Chicago. having won eighth straight games against strong Windy City competition. Drawings for the games will be
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Tebbetts Studies
DURHAM, N. H, Dec. 23.— Birdie Tebbetts, Detroit catcher, is taking an agricultural course at the University of New Hampshire,
150-Pound Letters
NEW BRUNSWICK, N, J. Dec. 22. — Rutgers University awarded
letters to 19 for participation in 150-pound football.
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Remember Hunk Anderson? He Coached That Bear Line
By JOE WILLIAMS Times Special Writer
CHICAGO, Dec. 23.—Men who know call Hunk Andere son the most talented line coach in football He began to attract attention at Notre Dame, where he coached the line under Rockne—and subsequently took over the complete
held Friday night and the first}
closed to us today. “I just wanted to keep on coaching the line. It was work I was
happy at. I suggested Bach-
man or Dorais. but finally the temptation to be the big boss proved too much. As I had .foseseen in my saner: moments, things did not work out happily.” Currently Mr. Anderson is coaching the Chicago Bears’ line, and specifically he readied the young brutés for Sunday's game with the New York Giants. Like most members of the coaching profes sion, who are pessimists by nature and diplomats by necessity, Mr. Anderson had professed to be alarmed. “After all they won the Eastern championship,” he pointed out, “and besides we had to be lucky to beat them in an exhibition game this year.” Mr. Anderson played and coached under Rockne. One of his teammates was the immortal George Gipp, still the most glamorous name in South Bend history. One of Rockne’s greatest teams was the 1930 machine; some experts say it was even greater than the Four Horsemen. “How would that team have fared against a representative pro team of today, say the Bears?” was asked. “The Bears could give 'em three touchdowns and practically coast,” Mr. Anderson replied. “Too much manpower, too much savvy, too much determination.” “The Bears opened against the Packers last year. That was my first connection with them. I never saw a team that was so emotionally fired. It has been my experience in college football that this is just as dangerous as indifferénce and complacency. I expressed my concern to Halas (the head coach) and he was receptive to suggestions.
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“We daecided to do something ridiculous — something that would crack the tension and at the same time disturb the Packers’ line of thought. Just before the game we took the whole squad out to midfield, sat down on the 50-yard line and started to sing songs. It was really laughable. The Packers, who were limbering up, stopped to watch the mad spectacle. The results were profitable. We won 41 to 0.” Here in Chicago everybody says George McAfee, formerly of Duke, is the best back of all time, even better than Red Grange; and when they say that out here in Grange's backyard, it is saying a great deal. Mr. Anderson agrees but he quickly reminds you of another back who could have been better than MecAfee or name your own candidate. It's George Gipp, of course. “Being the best of all time wasn’t an ambition that appealed to Gipp. That took work and. he was lazy. He’d put out only when we needed some scores.” Probably nobody, not even Rockne, knew Gipp better than Mr. Anderson. They went to a Michigan high school together, came to Notre Dame together, Legend has it that Gipp had never played football before arriving at Notre Dame. This always gives Mr. Anderson a
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laugh. “We played together in school for three years,” he tells you. Gipp didn't come to Notre Dame as a footballer; he got his scholare ship as a baseballer. Perhaps that's how the legend started. Mr. Anderson says he was one of the best baseballers anybody ever saw, a hard hitter, ground-devouring center fielder.
“Joe DiMaggio reminds me of him a lot,” muses Mr. Anderson. Gipp died in his senior year with three big league contracts submitted for his ‘study. Mr. Anderson still keeps them as mementoes of his youthful days with his old pal and team mate.
“Gipp was an unusual fellow,” recalls Mr. Anderson, “smart, shrewd and crafty. He could do more with a deck of cards than a magician, He used to sit in poker games with professional gamblers and take their dough. He always had more dough than anybody else on the campus. He was a pool shark of the old school, too, a dangerous fellow for a so-called smoothie to tackle with a cue.
“One day we dropped into a pool room in Indianapolis. We wera playing ° Indiana there the next afternoon. None of the bets on the board appealed to Gipp. Nobody knew who he was. Presently he said: “I'll bet $100 Gipp scores more points than the whole Indiana team put. together.” There was a rush for that bet. “Suckers,” laughed Gipp as he left the pool room. “They think they've got a 11 to 1 het. It's no better than 3 to 1 at best.” Gippn’s mind worked like that. And of course, he won. the bet; he could carry whenever he wanted to and he carried just often enough to make the bet stand up. Quite a gent, the old Gipper was.”
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