Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 December 1941 — Page 12

SPORTS.

By Eddie Ash

THREE Indianapolis players, Adam Brown, Joe Car-

veth and Jack Keating, are western division of the Ame

the leading scorers in the rican Hockey League. . . .

And the Caps as a team are co-leaders with Hershey. ...

Yes, there is a Santa Claus, H

erbie.

Manager Lewis’ Caps have been on top or close since the new season opened and they evidently intend to remain in the running.

« « « They have scored 19 more goals are a tough outfit to score against.

than opponents in 25 games and . « « Adam Brown is pacing the

western division scoring with 26 points on 10 goals and 16 assists; Carveth 24

on eight and 16, and Keating 22 on and 13,

nine

Top three in the eastern division are Lou Trudel, Washington, 30 points on 14 goals and 16 assists; Bill Summer-

hill, Springfield, 27 on 10 and 17,

and

Norm Calladine, Providence, 25 on 15

and 11.

Summerhill the

achieved

“hat

trick” plus an assist for four points in

Springfield against Philadelphia night. . . . He scored a goal in the ond period and assisted on another scored two goals in the third heat. Trudel, the league's No. 1 score

last secand

r, is Adam Brown

a 28-vear-old veteran who served seven seasons in the National League and who was with New Haven part

of last season, . sion and if Trudel sticks around th

. Washington is running third in the eastern divi-

e Lions are expected to make it

interesting during late-season competition. Les Cunningham of Cleveland led the league last season with 64

points. . . . He has 21 to date in the

current campaign.

The Indianapolis Caps’ next home game will be Sunday, playing

the fast-stepping Cleveland Barons. . . .

Caps play at Buffalo tomorrow and

The Indianapolis icers can’t afford a slump. .

25 games, three more than co-lead third-place Cleveland, one point beh sion leaders have won the same nu apolis has lost nine . . The ties are three for Indianapolis, Cleveland. The American League scoring le

WESTERN DIVISION G. A. A. Brown, Indpls... 10 16 Carveth, Indpls..... 8 18 Keating, Indpls..... 9 13 Frost, Hershey 9 Cunningham, Clev.. 14 Douglas, Indpls..... 17 Pettinger, Hershey. . 18 Mann, Pitisburgh... 13 Toupin, Buffalo..... i5

28 24 22 21 21 21 21 20 2

On the road this week, the at Hershey Saturday. . They have played er Hershey and five more than ind. . . . The three western civimber of games, 13. . . . Indian-

. to six by Hershey and five by Cleveland. .

three for Hershey and two for

aders:

EASTERN DIVISION G. A. Trude!, Washington 12 16 Summerhill, Spring. 10 17 Calladine, Prov 1 DeMarco, Prov..... 12 Collings, Prov 17 Kaminsky, Spring.. 10 12 Drouin, Washington 9 13 Boucher, Prov....... 8 14 Smith, Washington. 9

Pro Grid Magnates Don Thinking Caps

THAT SKIMPY CROWD at t game in Chicago last Sunday stunne

he Bears-Giants pro grid title d the players and magnates. . . .

The guess is that the $4.40-83.30-$2.20 ticket scale was too much of a

squeeze on the sports goers too close Christmas.

to the last shopping days before

And it might be that Chicago sports goers were fed up on the

grid sport after the long season

that started in September. .

. At

any rate, the professional grid bosses are giving serious thought to

the situation. . .

. It’s hardly a contest any more when the Bears trot

out on the field and get down to business. Had the Green Bay Packers defeated the Bears in the western division playoff a Green Bay-New York title game probably would

have packed the park. ..

. But the Bears swamped the Packers, and

Bears vs. Giants evidently was tagged by the public as just anti-

climax.

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THE NEW YORK football Giants drafted Al Blozis, Georgetown University tackle, on the theory the big fellow packs too much weight

for the Army. . . . pound

Huge Al stands

6 feet 6 inches and weighs 245

Pro grid club owners were all looking for star football players

who won't be called into service and to go around.

discovered there weren't enough

The same guessing business is under way in baseball and many deals fell through after the Japs bombarded Pear! Harbor,

Indiana's Kane

fo Run Against

MacMitchell at Sugar Bowl

Times Special

BLOOMINGTON, Ind, Dec. 24 — Indiana University, represented at the Sugar Bowl track carnival every year since its inauguration in 1235, will send three of its fleetest run-

ners to the 1941 races to be run off|

Dec. 28 in New Orleans. Fred Wilt of Pendleton, Indiana's national collegiate two-mile and] cross-country champion, and Earl] Mitchell of Anderson, a freshman long-distance man, will represent I U. In the three-mile run, and the veteran Campbell Kane of Valparaiso, N. C. A, A 880-yard champ, will seek new honors in the mile. Rane will be making his third trip into the Sugar Bowl races while Wilt and Mitchell are staging their debut in this carmival. Mitchell recently won the junior nationa: A. A U. cross-country crown. Two years ago Kane set a new half-mile mark at the Sugar Bowl and last December repeated his triumph with a new record of 1:535, which was

his 1939 standard.

.

This will be Kane's first shot at|

the Sugar Bow! mile, in which he will match strides with Leslie Mac- | Mitchell of New York University,

who has tuned up for his race by active cross-country competition. Kane, for the first time in three | years, did not run with the Crimson harriers this fall. He has been the Big Ten mile champion for the past fvo vears, and last June captured the mile in the Big Ten-Pacific coast meet. Charley Hornbostel, Don Lash, Bob Collier, Tommy Deckard, Sam Miller and Roy Ccohran are Indiana’s former stars who have won honors at the Sugar Bowl events.

Keep ’Em Flying NEW YORK, Dec. 24. Jim Blumenstock and Alex Santilli are the latest Fordham football players to pass Naval Air Corps physical examinations. Eight squad members will report for training in January.

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Horace Mann Still King in North State

Kokomo’s Triumph Called Biggest Upset

By UNITED PRESS Horace Mann of Gary is still king of the north today. The Horsemen defeated their nearest threat, South Side of Ft. Wayne, in a pitched battle

last night, 34-31, and Kokomo swamped Mgrion’s Giants, 36-29, in what many considered the biggest upset of the high school hardwood card. Kdkomo’s play has been inconsistent. The Wildcats had the distinction of beating Frankfort earlier, but lost to Marion on Nov. 12. With Hammond High downed by Hammond Tech last week, and South Side. under its belt, Horace Mann stays even with advance predictions of having a state title threat for the North-State fans. Shelbyville continued its devastaticn of all oncomers by beating Bedford, 35-25. Only little Seymour has beaten Shelbyville’s Golden Bears this season. Evansville Central stayed on the tail of the Washington Hatchets in the S. 1. C. loop by defeating Huntingburg in a conference game, 51-30, but Brazil supplied a surprise turn by downing the Crawfordsville Athenians, 43-38. Richmond downed Connersville, 55-43, in a night of cage firing that proved the unpredictable element in Hoosier basketball. New Castle downed Rushville, 29-21, and Ft. Wayne North Side beat Goshen, 26-18, in other principal battles, as the teams wound up first-round schedules preliminary to their Christmas layoffs. An abbreviated card Friday night will round out 1941, before many fives launch their holiday invitational tourney play. Then the New Year will send all 800-odd quintets into the January back stretch, the February final turn, preparatory to the all-important home stretch eliminations in March.

Cards Declare Extra Dividend

ST. LOUIS, Dec. 24 (U. P)— Sam Breadon, president of the Louis Cardinals, has announced that directors of the company have declared an additional dividend of $50,000 to stockholders of record Dec. 15, 1941. As a result, the 123 stockholders will divide $100,000 this year, They shared in a $50,000 dividend voted last October. Breadon holds the largest block of stock, it being generally understood that he owns three-fourths of all stock, or approximately 7500 shares, which makes his return for the year about $75,000. Cardinal stock, originally worth $25 per share, is now worth between $80 and $100, based on the last sale made public some months ago, This is not an unusually large sum to distribute ameng sharehelders, Breadon said. He pointed out that the club paid $12 a share in 1936 and that payments this year total only $10 per share. Last year the dividend totaled $7. Sale of players added to this year’s revenues, the most important sale being the deal that sent First Baseman Johnny Mize to the New York Giants, In 1941 the team drew approximately 645,000 fans at home and nearly 900,000 on the road.

NEW YORK-—-The National Leagues All-Star football team, strengthened by the addition of the Green Bay Packers’ famed aerial twins—Cecil Isbell and Don Hutson—begins two-a-day praetice sessions Friday for their annual pro bowl game here Jan. 4 against the champion Chicage Bears.

NEW YORK-The National Lieagues’s pace-setting Boston Bruins bagged a pair of thirdperiod goals and defeated the fourth-place New York Rangers, 3-2 last night before 10600 at Boston Garden. Brooklyn's Amerfcans shaded the Chicago Black Hawks, 4-3.

BLOOMINGTON — Five members of the Indiana University football coaching staf? will at-

Two points for Shortridge—but there weren't enough of these.

Indians, Dirt And 500 Best

(This is another in a series of yearsports roundups by United Press). Professional sports in Indiana left a wake of thrills trailing through 1941, but narrowed down to limitations of the “significant,” three major events in the pro ranks stand out: 1. The change of ownership of the Indianapolis Indians baseball team,

jovial Gabby Hartnett as manager for next year. 2. The mercury-like soaring of popularity in dirt track racing, which found a great revival during 1941. 3. And, of course, the old-faithful spectacle of a thousand thrills—the

St. | Indianapolis 500-mile Speedway

race. Some Changes Made

After a dismal season in which the Indians wound up in sixth position in the American Association, Ownie Bush and Frank E. McKinney, well-known local diamond fans, purchased the floundering club and began a rebuilding process by (1) changing the name of Perry Stadium, scene of the Indians’ downfall, to an undecided monicker, and (2) changing the name of the manager to Leo “The Gabby” Hartnett, veteran of 15 years of major league baseball wars and famous for leading the Chicago Cubs to their 1937 flag by hitting a twilight home run with a ball he didn’t see. With the virile organization in the front office, and the jovial Hartnett at the helm, Indiana diamond fars expect a renaissance of basebal! interest and the owners expect a revival of “folding money” to pass through the box office. The dirt track race was a risky venture, but staged a comeback that would make a horse racing man call for the saliva test. The famous, tradition-shrouded Indianapolis Fairgrounds dirt track operated for the first time in 15 years, Tracks at Hammond, Winchester, Columbus, Franklin, New Castle and many others of a widespread network sprung up like mushrooms. The fans liked it, and the sport showed great financial profit. Only the deathy of dirt track champion Harold Shaw marred the season. Shaw, not to be confused with the 500-miler, Wilbur Shaw, was injured in a race at Franklin and died several weeks later,

Two Winners at Speedway

The 500-mile classic this year was slightly muddled by the fact that Floyd Davis and Mauri Rose were both listed as winners. Rose relieved Davis and took the winning car across the finish line. The two racing buddies took a lion's share of ne $01,126 prize money dished out. The winners averaged 114.275 miles in three hours and 43 minutes. Wilbur Shaw, trying for his fourth victory, cracked up at the 380-mile mark, but collected $5875

anyway. Motorcycle racing and midget racing, a night sport, also clicked well in the State this year in other revivals. The Indianapolis Caps hockey team filled out the picture, but not in any grand manner, The had a bad year in ‘41, failing to protect their crown after winning the Western Division championship | an A the American Hockey League in But the Capitals are back on the winning

Lewis thinks he may have another otal

outfit to ascend the league

and the subsequent appointing of|

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Jock Sutherland . . . tricks?

S. A. Splashers Sweep N. C. Meet

GOLDSBORO, N. C, Dec. 24 (U. P)—A team of South American goodwill swimmers swept all events in a special meet in the Wayne County Memorial pool here last night. The South Americans were competing against a team composed of swimmers from Duke University, the University of North Carolina, North Carolina State College and the Goldsboro Swimming Associa<

tion. Maria Lenk of Sao Paulo, Brazil, set a new American record of one minute, 15.2 seconds in the 100-yard breaststroke, bettering the old mark of Loraine Fisher, New York, by eight seconds. Patty Pate, 16-year-old Goldsboro swimmer, aiso broke the old mark, finishing three seconds behind the winner. Carlos Sos, Buenos Aires, Argentina, won the men’s 100-yard breast stroke in one minute, 6.4 seconds. In the 100-yard backstroke, Pablo Forseca E Silva, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, finished ahead of BEd Shumate, Goldsboro, with a time of one minute, 45 seconds.

Plan Shootin’ At Durham

DURHAM, N. C, Dec. 24 (U. P). —There may be some shooting when Oregon State and Duke meet in the Rose Bowl game here New Year's Day, but it won't be in Duke Stadium. Visiting sports writers, dignitaries to/and Rose Bowl officials will have a chance to hunt ducks, geese, deer and bear—all as added attractions. Other diversions also are being planned—barbecues, fish fries and other typical Carolina Sponsor of the entertainment features is the North Carolina State

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Draft Pros in Tank Towns;

What About All-Americas?

By JACK GUENTHER United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Dec. 24 —A free ride on the sports merry-go-round: Professional Football—=It is an established fact that the place to search for pro huskies is in the tank towns, not on All-America rosters, but gaze on the weird assortment of schools from which the Brooklyn Dodgers drafted their 1942 squad—Arizona, Emporia Teachers, Denver, MuN\eRperg, Niagara, Scranton, Kansas, Chattanooga, Elon,

Wichita and George Washington! This list is conclusive evidenee either that All-Americas should be abandoned or that Jock Suther land belongs in the hands of a psychiatrist. Apparently the good gray doctor had more than a few tricks up his sieeve in his attempts to obtain boys who won't be drafted by the Army. In Vike Francis of Nebraska, for instance, he drew a lad who not only is married but has more bridgework than San Francisco. He hasn't a tooth of his own in his mouth and, therefore, probably will be deferred. Horseracing—No matter what you hear to the contrary, there is no way in which Whirlaway may run in Florida's $50,000 Widener Cup race this winter. The horse of the year wasn't nominated for this event and even if Warren Wright should buy Hialeah Park lock, stock and paddock, Whirlaway still would not be eligible. Incidentally, the ban on publication of weather reports has been a sad blow to the boys who improve the breed in the bookie shops and probably will incite mass hari-kari among sports writers covering the Kentucky Derby. They always rely on the weather for at least two yarns. Boxing—The year of 1941 will be written down as the saddest of all for the New York State Boxing Commission. The rival National Boxing Association succeeded in moving three of its title claimants into undisputed world championships. Gus Lesnevich took charge of the light heavyweight division; Tony Zale took over the middleweight class; and now Sammy Angott has captured the lightweight crown. This represents a decided loss of face for the “Three Dump Dukes,’ who persistently refused to recognize any of the three new champs as qualified leaders of their weight stratas until they went right out and settled matters for themselves.

College Football<It appears to me, for one that the colleges who get Bowl invitations should be a little less greedy with the fat gates they receive for the post-season games and pay the expenses of every squad member to and from the spot where the contest is played. Oregon State, for instance, is take ing only 31 boys to Durham and Fordham cut seven men before departing for New Orleans. The lads who stayed home might not even have been given a chance to play in the Bowl games had they gone, but that doesn’t matter. After working and drilling just as hard as the others they are entitled to the vacation, too. Baseball-Criticizing Connie Mack is akin to robbing graves, but I'm afraid the amiable old rascal had his tongue in his cheek when he advised baseball players not to become holdouts or they would become ripe pickings for the draft boards. Mack apparently was speaking for his own purse strings when he gave out that statement. I've been informed by men who profess to know that he doesn’t come close to paying the normal major league scale at Philadelphia, and as for holdouts, we know how all owners feel about them. A man can be patriotic and still look out for his own salary so long as he doesn’t hinder the common cause—which a baseball holdout certainly would not be doing.

Last Night's Victory

now in their book of victims.

38 to 24. Meanwhile, three other City schools, Manual, Washington and Cathedral, lost to

out-of-town opponents. Smart, heads-up basketball gave the Greenclads a 14-to-4 advantage at the quarter and a 17-to-12 halftime margin. The count read 28 to 16 at the third period as the subs poured in. But you can't wipe the Blue Devils from the City slate. The loss of pivotman Chuck Hunt in the third period, right when their drive was started, hurt the Blue as did a hp A night under the basket. Bill Pease with five baskets for Tech and Hunt with three for Shortridge paced the point getters. Bob Meh] collected on two fouls and Bill Pease snagged a long before the Blue Devils entered the game with a long by Bernie Casselman. Pease one-handed another and Bob Wilson raced under on a sweet pass from Evans before Hunt's fast break sparked Shortridge. The quarter ended after Evans hit a pivot turn and then flipped a short pass to Pease breaking under. Charles Maas added two fouls for a 14-to-4 Green advantage. Jean Ingle’s two fouls out of four coupled with Bernie Casselman’s basket and foul brought the Blue Devils within range but Evans netted a long, then added Hunt's foul. The Blue Devil pivot man came back with a turn shot of his own. The score at the half read Tech, 17, Shortridge, 12. Mehl opened the second half with a one-hander which Hunt offset from the pivot as Pease and Casselman matched longs. Evans and Mehl took turns from the foul line and the Tech center hit a foul as the third period ended, 26 to 16. Pease opened the final frame with a long. Leroy Casselman sprinted under for Shortridge but Charles Maas dribbled around and Mehl tipped one in. Bruce Christie hit a long for the fading Blue and Don Rogers tipped one in but Bill Zody's foul shot gave the Green a 33-point total.

Wiley Starts Fast

Cathedral lost, 41 to 28, to Wiley of Terre Haute at Terre Haute. Wiley got off to a fast start and Cathedral had only two points at the end of the first period. It was 23 to 9 at the half. Led by their twin stars, Leo Barnhorst and Al Obergfell, Cathedral rallied in the second half, but the margin was too great. Plainfield ended Manual’s threegame winning streak by turning back the Redskins at Plainfield, 32 to 30 in a tight ball game. Manual led, 20 to 19 at the half, and after Plainfield had gone ahead near the end of the game, it was a wild flurry by the Redskins to take the lead but their shots went wild. Ben Davis swamped Washington's Continentals, 34 to 20. Led “by Dewey Hoss, the Giants held an 11 to 2 lead at the end of the first period and led, 17 to 9 at the half, County basketball continued to improve with Warren Central pacing the entire Marion County field of 20 teams. The Warriors made it eight in a row with a 23 to 19 victory over Pendleton. Southport toppled Monrovia, 43 to 34, and Beech Grove added Franklin Masonic Home to its list of victims,

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Washington, Howe, Irish And Now Shortridge Listed Among Vietims of Big Green

Coach Johnson's Boys Precise and Polished in

Over Blue Devils

By BOB FLEETWOOD The Big Green of Tech was pretty much all alone atop the City basketball standing today. . Washington, Howe, Cathedral and Shortrdige are listed

The “drive, drive, drive” of

Coach Glenn Johrison was polished and precise last night with Bob Evans back in form as Shortridge was beaten,

Tech, 38; Shortridge, 24. Den Davis, 34; Washington, 20. Plainfield, 32; Manual, 30. Wiley (Terre Haute), 41; Cathedral, 28. Beech Grove, 31; Franklin Masonie

Home, 25. Warren Central, 28; Pendleton, 19.

Southport, 43; Monrovia, 84.

Denver Quits Big Seven Loop

DENVER, Dec. 24 (U. P.) —Withe drawn from the Big Seven Cone ference because of ‘complete dome ination by the conference” of its athletic program, Denver University today mapped plans for football, basketball, baseball and track came paigns as an “independent.” Chancellor Caleb F. Gates Jr. after a meeting of faculty members of the board of trustees last night issued a statement which said:

“The University of Denver here with submits its resignation from the Mountain States Intercollegiate Conference, effective at the close of the fiscal year in May, 1942.” The Pioneers thus made good their threat, first voiced at a Denver meeting last month when officials voted to cancel member schools to play a home-and-home schedule and refused to permit them to have training tables. Denver opposed home-and-home schedules because, its representa= tives said, the University could draw larger crowds in Denver than at the smaller schools, such as Utah Slate and Brigham Young Univer sity. The Pioneers’ resignation left the conference with but six schools: Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado State, Utah State and Brigham Young. Speculation as to a possible successor to Denver in the Conference included Colorado College, which dominated the Rocky Mountain Conference this year, New Mexico University of the Border Conference, and Montana University of the Pacific Coast Conference.

Irish Never

In Ball Game

Times Special

CHAMPAIGN, Ill, Dec. 24.—~The University of Illinois sophomores took the Irish of Notre Dame 0 the cleaners last night, 48 to 29 The Illini basketeers never had any trouble with Notre Dame and got off to an early 21 to 7 lead. The Irish couldn't get started and never were in the game. Illinois players hit six of their first 12 attempts, most of them long, Sophomores Andy Phillip and Ken Menke led the scoring with 15 and 14 points respectively. The summary: Notre Dame (290) FG PT PP ilearker.

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Spivey Beats Cooler In State Billiards

Lou Spivey today held the quicke est victory in the Indiana State three-cushion billiard championship. He beat Cooler’s parlor last night, 50 to 32 in 62 innings. Spivey had a high run of four and built up his lead steadily after the first 10 innings. Walter Ramsey and Harry Rubens meet at 8 p. m. Friday.

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