Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 December 1941 — Page 14
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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
Report Big League Baseball To Get ‘Green Light’ Next Yea:
SPORTS.
By Eddie Ash
WRITING IN the Mihneapolis Morning Tribune, George A. Barton, the American Association's dean of baseball scriveners, declares that Mike Kelley's Millers will be better fortified with material than most independent operators of minor league clubs during the duration
of the war. At any rate, quoting Barton: “Mike Kelley, along with being wise in the ways of baseball, is a far-sighted individual who Keeps closely in touch with world events and their effects on the diamond sport. “Playing a hunch that the United States would be involved in war before the 1942 season Ek opened, Kelley retained 37 players on his reserve list, knowing the ® military draft would make deep in- & roads in baseball talent. . “Kelley expects to lose seven or y eight players to the service before tau the Millers begin spring training in - March. This means that he and 3 Manager Tom Sheehan will have 3 a squad of about 27 or 28 players to work with. Mike believes he and Tom will be able to assemble a first-division club from their sizable squad. “Of the pitchers, Harry Kelley, Walter Tauscher, Chief Hogsett, Mickey Haefner, Bob Kline, Van Lingle Mungo, Wilfred LeFebvre and Owen Sheetz are married. Loren Bain and Donald Schoenborn are only 19. Mike Kash is single, but is the sole support of a widowed mother. “Angelo Giuliani and George Rensa, catchers, are married. Wesley Westrum, best young catching prospect Kelley has acquired since buying the Minneapolis club, is only 19. Donald Wheeler and John Richards, two other rookie receivers, also are 19. “Among the infielders, Frank Houska, Frank Trechock, Frank Dannekar, Huck Geary and Buck Fausett are married. Bill Barfacle is single but supports a widowed mother. “Zeke Bonura’s status is unknown. He may be recalled by the army from which he was recently released because he is turning 33 . . .. but he is single “Bob Hargrave, first baseman obtained from Moline of the Three-I league, is only 18. “Ab Wright and Hub Walker, outfielders, are married. But three rookie flychasers, Pat Stasey and Earl Lurzt from Moline, and Harold Schadt from LaCrosse of the Wisconsin State League, are of draft age. “In recapitulation the players Uncle Sam may take from the Millers are: Pitchers Frank Nesseth, Morris Skaalen, Joe Merrick, Bill Clark and Henry Glor; Infielder Zeke Bonura and Outfielders Lurtz, Schadt and Stasey.”
Tribe Boss Keeps Step With War Problems
OWEN J. BUSH, president of the Indianapolis Indians, also is far-sighted. . . . As a matter of fact he not only is holding onto the Perry-regime leftovers of 1941 but is loading up with veterans. When Bush and Frank E. McKinney purchased the Tribe from Norman A. Perry. Sr, the club roster was cleaned out of nine players, four sold and five recalled. . . . Then Bush got busy and launched the rebuilding process. . . . At this time the Tribe chieftain has outfielders to spare and is all set in the catching department and at shortstop and third base. And now he is on the lookout for and two or three new pitchers.
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“THE WAR put a stopper on a lot of player deals,” said Bush yesterday, “but we’ll catch up in time and will have a formidable club in the fleld when the American Association's 1942 bell rings. We're practically starting from scratch in player talent and it's unlikely that we will be at full strength before spring. “The next heavy military draft has all ball clubs guessing, all in the same boat. We haven't checked our players’ draft status and probably won't until after January. Uncle Sam has the first call, you know.”
: 8 Oh, yes, the football Bowl selections: Duke over Oregon State, Fordham over Missouri, Alabama over Texas Aggies, Texas Christian over Georgia, Tulsa over Texas Tech, East over West.
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Scoring Boilermakers Meet Big Texas Aggies Tonight
The vaunted scoring machine of Purdue goes after its fifth strai collegiate victory in 1941 tonight when they wind u against Texas A. & M. at Lafayette. 4 Boulet The Boilermakers begin the Big Ten race
Faayette. then take on Michigan Monday night. th games are
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Everything for Ice Hockey Except Ice
: HANOVER, Dec. 31.—Don't try to convince hockey coach Eddie Jeremish that Dartmouth is located in the frozen North. All of the Indines’ pre-vacation hockey games Wrére cancelled because there was no Jeb on the colleges outdoor Fink.
height and weight of a big A squad. Pete atkins, 200- posta center, is 6 feet 7 inches and races beside a 6 foot 4 inch and 6 foot 2 inch forward. The Aggies took a drubbing from Kentucky last night, 4 to 29.
PROBABLE LINEUP
When the Buffalo Bisons play the Capitals at the Coliseum tonight, Bob Gracie (left) will be at left wing and Bill Cunningham (right) will be at the other wing. Bill
DURHAM—Wallace Wade and Percy Locey. athletic directors of Duke University and Oregon State College said in a joint statement’ today that gross receipts of the transplanted Rose Bowl game would be approximately $200,000 after State and Federal taxes are paid.
NEW ORLEANS—Ted Schroeder of Glendale, Cal, held the singles championship of the Eighth Annual Sugar Bowl Tennis Tournament yesterday after winning from Francisco Segura of Ecuador. Schroeder, top-seeded and ranked fifth in the country, struggled for 2% hours yesterday and came from behind a two-set deficit.
BERKELEY — Displaying the smoothest passing attack seen on California courts in many years, the Loyola University of Chicage basketball team defeated University of California 35 to 31 here last night. Loyola got out in front 19 to 15 by halftime and during the closing minutes of play, its passing-stalling tactics almost completely demoralized the California five.
PHILADELPHIA — Frank Kovacs, the “Clown Prince” of tennis, held a perfect record today’ after four matches in his barnstorming tour with Don Budge, Bobby Riggs, Fred Perry and Gene Mako. : Kovacs scored his third singles victory of the tour before 2433 persons at Convention Hall last night when he outlasted Don Budge, 2-6, 6-3, 6-4.
NEW YORK-—Boston bagged a trio of third-period goals for a 4-1 triumph over the Toronto Maple Leafs and possession of first place in the National Hockey Lieague before 15,835 fans at Boston last night.
Tribe Buys Rich, Red Sox Pitcher
Woodrow Rich, 24-year-old piteh= er, was purchased by the Indianapolis indians from the Boston Red Sox today in a straight cash deal. The tall righthander won nine and lost nine with San Diego in the Pacific Coast League last year, aecording to Ownie Bush, new Tribe|p owner. Rich hurled for Louisville in 1939. Rich is the seventh man acquired
ans. Bush feels that he can restore the young pitcher to his 1939 form when he was a rookie sensation. He won four straight for the Bosox before a sore arm stopped him. The Tribe needs about two hae |B moundsmen now to fill out the hue | en ing corps for 1942,
Triple Diamond Leads Rifle Shoot
Triple Diamond again leads the week's shooters in the Central Indiana Rifle League competition with 957. Second was the Danville team, ¢| ith a score of 945. Two were tied ti for high individual score: G. Burtes
did F. Thoman of Shelbyville. The Indianapolis team was low, with 813.
Pete and Punky
ARCADIA, Cal, Dee. 31.—William I. Brann calls Challedon “Pete” and to the owner Pictor is “Punky.”
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Top Baseball Men Honored
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 31. (U. P)— Recognition by the Sporting News, national baseball weekly, as top men in the major leagues went to President Ed Barrow of the New York Yankees, Manager Billy Southworth of the St. Louis Cardinals and Outfielder Ted Williams of the Boston Red } Sox today. President Emil G. Sick of the Seattle Club, Pacific Coast : League; Man- dc 5S ager Burt Shot- Shotton ton of the Columbus Red Birds in the American Association, and Pitcher Johnny Lindell of Newark in the International League were the minor leaguers honored. Barrow is the fourth td receive the distinction twice, the others being Manager Joe McCarthy of the Yankees, Manager Bill McKechnie of Cincinnati and Pitcher Johnny Vander Meer of Cincinnati. Barrow was selected becalise he built the Yankees into world champions after they had finished in third place in 1940; Southworth because he piloted a badly-erippled team to the runher-up spot in the National League, and Williams, because his 406 batting average made him the first player since 1923 to reach the 400 mark. Sick was recognized for his skill in molding the Seattle club into three successive pennant winners; Shotton for wiffning the American Association pennant and playoffs, and the Junior World Series at Columbus, while Lindell’s pitching was considered the best individual performance, He won 23 and lost only four, registering 13 consecutive victories. He hit in 51 games for an average of 298 in a league where the official batting leader attained only .306.
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Bisons Fifth, But Terrific
By BOB FLEETWOOD
The Buffalo Bisons are down in fifth place in the American Hockey League's Western Division, Don't let that fool you. When the Bisons are herded out against the Caps at the Coliseum
| [tonight they will be defending their f [bid “for the most improved team
in the league” honors. It is their first shewing here. The boys of Coach Tiny Thomp-
) son have only won 10 while losing
a like number and tying two. But consider that they lost their first
; |seven games and it was Nov. 16
before victory came their way. They blanked Hershey that night, 2 to 0, and proceeded to blast out seven straight victories before the Bars caught up with them again.
Only Three Defeals
Since then only three teams have toppled them. Goalie Claude Bourgue has become very stingy. His net minding in the last five games boasts two shut-outs and only four points. The Caps snared two of these in their victory last week, The Caps will remain intact for tonight's game but it may mark the final showing for star wingmen Joe Carveth and Adam Brown. Sunday night against Cleveland the local boys in blue turned in two first periods of what Manager Herbie Lewis termed “the best two periods ever played on the Ooliseum ice and the best any team ever played for me.” They won, 3 to 2. The trade with the Red Wings yesterday sends the two wings to Detroit after tonight's game and brings back wing Bill Jennings and defenseman Bob Whitelaw. Bill was called up earlier in the season to work on the “house that Jack (Adams) is building.” Bob, also a former Cap, came across the border late and couldn't get back into the National L.eague stride in the short time allotted him,
Brown Can Lead
Carveth’s play with the Caps has been strictly major league and the excellent wing deserves another try at the “big time.” His loss, partially offset by the return of Jennings, will be felt in more than one way. Best when the chips were down he was also valuable in sparking Les Douglas’ fine work. Adam Brown has a chance to leave town in a blaze of glory by capturing momentarily the league's scoring leadership. The sophomore skater whose speed and hopping
630 style has garnered him 30 points 1/this season has been headed big oa time since the season opened.
Brown is only one point behind “Polly” Trudin, the league leader, and the Washington team does not
sil play tonight.
Should Hershey, our Sunday night visitor, lose to Philadelphia tonight, then the Caps, with a victory, could regairt the first place spot.
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Jennings (center), wing, just back from Detroit in the trade that sent Adam Brown and Joe Carveth to the Red Wings, may see action.
Marion County High School basketball teams start up the long road to the Butler Field House tomorrow with the old year’s warmups and defeats forgotten. From now until March is the test run before the sectionals, regionals, semi-finals and State.
Three county schools and Noblesville get together at Warren Central tomorrow afternoon and night in a blind tournament which finds the hosts favored. Two City schools swing into the action Friday and Saturday nights, with the bulk in both Indianapolis and the county hitting the road by Jan. 9. Warren Central, unbeaten in eight starts in 1941, will entertain Franklin Township, Central of Lawrence and the Millers. The draw for pairings will be held tomorrow at 1 p. m. with the first two matching baskets at 1:45 p. m, The second game follows at 3 po m. with a consolation at 7 p. m. and the finals at 8 p. m. Coach Ralph Clevenger reports the host school has purchased a trophy for the winner.
Battle of Pivots The games will match three of the county's high-scoring pivot stars and an equally versatile center from the Millers. Starring at the turns for the Warriors is tall Carl Limbach whose pivot work has kept his team’s record clean. Big Bcb Windhorst, Alle County center last season, paces Franklin Township, while Bob Negley, who came from Oaklandon in the Central consolidation, sparks Lawrence. Noblesville boasts of Ar nold’s deeds around the foul circle. A victory here should establish Warren Central as pre-county tour nament kings. One of Lawrence's two defeats came from the Warriors.
Decatur Central, defending sectional champs, are the only other county team in action New Yeai's night. They travel to Mooresville. An intra-city battle highlights the City’s 1942 opener Friday night when the improving Redskins of
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Noblesville, Franklin Township, Central of Lawrence and Warren Central at the Warriors’ gym.
Decatur Central at Mooresville. FRIDAY Decatur Gefitral at it Speedway,
h Southport at Greenwood. SATURDAY Richmond at Tech.
Cathedral ai Danville. Clayton at Sacred Heart.
Manual take a fling at Cathedrals Irish. Tech, rapidly becoming a State power, tackles Rushville. Decatur Central meets Speedway in a county contest and Southport travels to Greenwood. Heartened by the news that this is the year they enter I. H. 8. A. A. the Irish should begin 1942 with thumbs up. They cannot play in the ’'42 tournament, but they are finally in the organization. Manual's tall men stand right alongside the big boys of Joe Harmon. Saturday's games find about the same teams in action. Richmond, recent victors over powerful Muncie Burris, visits the Greenclad’s gym for a North Central Conference game. The only two defeats Tech has suffered this year were in the Conference. Cathedral goes into action again, meeting Danville at the latter's gym, The sharpshooters of Sacred Heart swing into 1942 action by entertaining Clayton.
Pennsy Gym Tourney
Sixteen teams will begin play at 1 p. m. tomorrow in the annual Pennsy Gym New Year's Day tournament. They are, on the hour: Farm Bureau. vs. Schocht Rubber, Maxwell vs, Drikold Jrs., Donley Ptg. vs. Decatur Centrals, Corner Cafe vs. Easter Coal, Pleasant View vs. Monarch Steel, Stewart-Warner vs. Kingan, Allison Patrol vs. Allison U. A. E. W, and Bluffton vs. Richardson Rubber.
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 31,
Griffith, Frid In Conference
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Meet With Army Morale Captain
NEW YORK, Dec. 31 (U, P.) ~The memory of the sue« cessful liaison work of Clark Griffith of the Washington Senators in the first World
War which won the major leagues support of military men and his early actions in conference with the Army in this war, gave e the report that be given the “green
Baseball in general, and the major leagues in particular, have been planning for the coming sos son with no particular emphasis on player eonscription but anxiety has been expressed in some quarters that the game might suffer the fate dealt to sports on the Pacific Coast, Griffith and National League President Ford Frick conferred with Capt. Prederick H. Weston of the Army Morale Division at Washing ton yesterday and out of their talk came an order for 1500 baseball kits to be distributed free to the men in the armed forces. The initial order—comprising 18,« 000. baseballs. and 4500 bats — was placed by Griffith as head of the Professional Baseball Equipment Fund. It was Guiffith who led the drive to supply Army camps with baseball equipment during the last war. Full Schedule
Griffith expressed confidence that a “full 154-game schedule” would be played. He emphasized, hows ever, that the immediate interest was “supplying the boys in the service with bats and balls." With most of the funds to come from proceeds of next July's Alls Star major league baseball game at Brooklyn, orders “up ta $42,000" will be placed immediately for serve ice baseball kits, he said and later they may be increased to $100,000, Baseball's good fortune (so far) only highlighted the confusion created among other sports, not ably in California. The Rose Bowl football game, Shrine East-West college All-Stars gridiron fixture, Chicago Bears-Professional Alle Stars game and the National Figure - Skating Championships have been shifted from the danger zone. The rich Santa Anita race meets ing is opening, scheduled for today was deferred but officials are hope= ful that racing may be begun on Jan. 15. Other Sports as Usual These shifts were a boon to the South which got the Rose Bowl ab Durham, N. C., the Shrine game at New Orleans and focuses attention at Tropical Park, Miami and the recently-opened Fair Grounds track at New Orleans. The professional bowl game went to New York's Polo Grounds and the figure-skaling., championships to Chicago. Winter yachting and winter spe vis in general, will go on as usual, even in California where the only restrictions are in localities necessary to the Army or Navy. Basketball, with national head= quarters in Madison Square Garden, hasn't even heard a hint of cure tailment. Hockey, which lists severdf men of military age from across the Canadian border, has heard no call to colors. College football's part in the Wale time program is being threshed ouk in Detroit at the concurrent three. day meeting of college coaches and the N. C. A. A.
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