Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 January 1942 — Page 18

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SPORTS... By Eddie Ash

INDIANAPOLIS baseball fans are going to fall in line for Walter Tauscher, the local Indians’ new playercoach. . . . He's been an idol in Minneapolis for many

years and is one of the best rally-stoppers in the business. The Indians were able to obtain the veteran pitcher because

Miller President Mike Kelley and

have been close, personal friends 40 years.

relief hurler, knows the American

Owen J. Bush, Tribe president, . + « Tauscher, mainly a Association inside and out and

is sure to be of invaluable service to Manager Gabby Hartnett who

never played in the A. A.

When Bush and Frank E. McKinney purchased the Indians they announced they wanted a coach who also could be called upon for

utility playing or relief pitching. And Tauscher fills the bill. . .

. Minneapolis was reluctant to sell

Tauscher but is protected in the bullpen by Bob Kline, another star

relief flinger.

For the Millers last season Tauscher won 13 games and lost six and worked 155 innings. . . . Walter was on the staff when Bush

managed the Millers.

Woodie Rich, also bought by the Tribe yesterday, is out of

the Boston Red Sox chain. . .

. Formerly of Louisville, Rich pitched

for San Diego last season and turned in a 500 record in the Pacific

Coast League (Class AA). . and lost nine. Tribe Prexy Bush thinks Rich and believes Coach Tauscher will bring them out. . . , Still young as baseball ages go, Woodie ptched for Bush in Louisville in 1939.

The Yankees Again!

THE YANKEES, unless torn by war losses, will win the American League pennant again next season, said Ed G. Barrow, club president, in an interview with Dan Daniel, New York WorldTelegram. “Not cheerful news for the rest of the league. However, the race cculd be turned topsy-turvy by the war. The weak clubs could get on top, we could land on the bottom. But perish the thought. “Boston and Chicago should furnish the major contention in our league. Detroit, minus Hank Greenberg, and Cleveland, without Bob Feller, do not present very attractive potentialities. Besides, Cleveland will be under the leadership of a 24-year-old player. That is ap experiment, frankly. “And nothing would suit me better than to beat the Dodgers in another World Series—and do it with the Yankees combing the horsehide, instead of being in a batting slump, as they were in the series last October.”

Wade Impresses Reds CINCINNATI'S REDS think they have something in young

Ben Wade, up from Indianapolis. « « « He is the youngest el of their mound staff, born Nov. | 26, 1922. . . . Standing 6 feet 3 inches the slender righthander | bears all the earmarks of a| comer. And the lad is not afraid to think out there on the mound.... In a game here last season Poke, Wade was pitching and rookie Al Lakeman was catching. . Ben | was delivering what Lakeman] was calling for and the opposing | team kept an attack clicking. Suddenly, Wade called his] catcher into a huddle and said, | “You've been doing the thinking and were getting no place. Let me do the thinking for a while! and see how it works”. . .. it did.

“Tall Firs’ THEY GROW em big in Texas, | too. . . . West Texas State College | can put a basketball team on the | floor that averages 6 feet 6 inches. . . . Charles Halbert, center, measures 6 feet 10 inches, and Price Brookfield, star forward,

And |

stands 6 feet 4 inches. That Oregon State outfit that plays Butler's Bulldogs at the local fieldhouse tonight stresses height and plenty of it. . . . The| Beaver basketballers were excited no end today. . . . Their football |

team was battling Duke in the]

transplanted Rose Bowl game in North Carolina. . « The “Tall Firs” are a long way from home &s 1942 makes its bow.

rs 8 = THE GREAT LAKES basket-

ballers are invading the Hoosier State again. . . . The U. S. Naval Training Station's crack quintet plays Central Normal College at Danville tomorrow night, Butler in the fieldhouse Saturday night and Western Kentucky State at Jeffersonville Monday night. The Bluejackets have averaged 51 points a game and won seven of eight contests. . . They number Notre Dame, Indiana and Purdue among their victims. . Scoring & grand slam over the Hoosier Big Three is something to chirp about. Ernie Andres, the Louisville Colonels’ third sacker, stepped from the diamond to the hardwood at Great Lakes and is disthe form that made him famous at Indiana University.

JOE BEGGS, the Reds’ ace refief pitcher of 1940, got fat on the boys last season and only won four games against three defeats. ++ « In 1940 the “fireman” won 12 and lost three. He's already in

. . He worked 139 innings and won nine

has possibilities yet undeveloped

Bill Jennings Comes

And Still the i Show Carries On

H. S. Basketball

TODAY Warren Central Blind Tourney Noblesville, Franklin Township, Central of Lawrence and Warren Central at the Warriors’ gym. Decatur Central at Mooresville, TOMORROW Decatur Central at ai Spesaway, Manual! at Cath Tech at A ee Southport at Greenwood. SATURDAY Richmond at Tech. Cathedral at Danville.

Clayton at Sacred Heart.

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Rose Bowl-Duke vs. Oregon State—WIRE—2 p. m.

Sugar Bowl—Fordham vs. Missouri—WISH—1 p. m.

Cotton Bowl—Texas A.-M. vs. Alabama-—WIBC—1 p. m,

Orange Bowl—Georgia vs. T. C. U—WFBM-—1 p. m.

Purdue Beats Texas A. & M.

LAFAYETTE, Jan. 1 (U. P)-— Purdue University closed its nonconference basketball schedule last night, handing Texas A. & M. a 55-to-31 drubbing in a game that frequently found the Texans on the floor, looking up. The Boilermakers’ smooth and easy ball-twirling, with Frosty Sprowl taking the offensive lead, drove the Aggies to innumerable rolls and spills in their scrambles for the ball, but the Texans were unable to sustain any threat to the comfortable Purdue lead. Capt. Don Blanken and Mickey Tierney shared the defensive spotlight for Purdue, with Sprowl tossing in 18 points for high-scoring honors. Jarrett, Aggie forward, was the unsupported hub of the Texan threat with 11 points. Cokinos, Texan guard, provided the defensive backbone for the visitors. PURDUE (55). TEXAS A, & M. (31).

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Beware Oregon State! Wade

Has Been Seen

By JOE WILLIAMS Times Special Writer NEW YORK, Jan. 1—Don look now but the fre wardens are all poised for an all-out New Year's Day today. They will be on the alert for .the well known blaze of glory with which the college football players hope to end their long drawn out season. They'll be watching Fordham beat Missouri in the Sugar Bowl, Duke beat Oregon State in the Refugee Rose Bowl, Texas A. & M. beat Alabama in the Cotton

| Bowl and Georgia beat Texas | Christian in the Orange Bowl.

Our approach on picking “ds different. We go in for the intangibles, the occult and the mystic. Two factors will contribute to Fordham'’s victory; neither will appear in the summary. One: Good food. Two: No New York crowd. New Orleans is a distinguished place for good food. This will be a novelty for the Missourians who, we fear, are accustomeo to corn pone and black eyed peas. New York of course is the best eating place in the world, and the most exciting. It's a place where you can get a Zorina with your Zombie and take both in stride. The reaction of the Fordhams to New Orleans’ famous food will be: “Just another hamburger stand.” This will not be very gracious but then after all everything is relative. As to tangible No. 2: New York teams playing outlanders before New York crowds carry an added burden. The outlanders always want to look good before New York crowds. Result: They play over their heads. = = = We also have our own private and peculiar reason why we think Duke is a shoo in against Oregon State. We ignore Duke’s perfect record. It means nothing to us that Oregon State couldn't even beat Southern California or Washington State, and just did beat Oregon—a team which was later murdered by Texas. All these things we throw over. our left shoulder, using a full wind-up. Our supreme confidence in Duke is based on the fact that a week or So ago we sat around with Wallace Wade and heard him laugh. , That's right. We heard him actually Mr. Wade coaches Duke. Mr. Wade thinks laughing 1s obscene. To him a cheerful parley is a typhoon, arsenic and old lace and a mess of jolly obituaries. When he laughs—and in public, too—you can bet he hasn't a care in the world. By the way, Mr. Wade has sort of made us famous. We are now

Laughing!

one we've reached down deep in the bag for. Again it has to do with a coach—Mr. Frank Thomas of Alabama. Mr. Thomas is a conviviai, gregarious soul. This game is to be played in Dallas. There are many people in Dallas who will eagerly welcome Mr. Thomas to their arms. The first spot Mr. Thomas will land in is an intimate rendezvous called the Little Mothers Club. This club is populated by extremely hospitable hosts who have a positive aversion for sunlight. There are rumors that some of them have not been home since last New Year's Day when Fordham played the Aggies there but this is sharply denied by Mr. Dick Andrade, the big father of the Little Mothers. Mr. Andrade claims to have conclusive evidence that Judge Roland Bond and Buddy Gofelson both returned to their homes last Fourth of July. “Thy are restless and like to travel,” explains Mr. Andrade, who is not the nomadic type. Considering one thing and another, Alabama's prospects would not seem completely alluring. As for Mr. Thomas, he has our sympathy.

= =” = We hold you must be a southerner to appreciate what southern pride really means. That's why we pick Georgia over Texas Christian. The star of the Georgia team is a little fast stepping, hard hitting back named Sinkwich. He will be playing his last game in Miami's Orange Bowl, which, we take it, will be packed to the brim with descendants of those who fought the valiant but lost cause. We took for this splendid representative of the deep South, who comes from Youngstown, O.,, and whose old man runs a very fine pub, to take charge of the game and tear it wide open. It figures to be another Pickett’s Charge but with a different payoff. Of course, there will be Southérn boys on the other side but they will not have come from 'way down South in Ohio where the magnolias bloom and the darkies sing “Old Man River Keeps Rolling Along.” And now will you go for the $64 question or will you stop here?

Local Service Five Plays Army Team

Members of the U. 8. Naval Training School here basketball team will meet an Army hardwood RW e non met &

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Sophs Win for Irish Five

Times Special

EVANSTON, Ill, Jan. 1. — The year 1941, famous for sophomores by now in sports, ended on a typical keynote last night for Notre Dame. Trailing Northwestern by six points, the Irish called on a couple of yearlings, Center Bob Faught and Guard Orlando Bonicelli, who entered the game in the second half. Notre Dame won, 40 to 36. Northwestern led at the half, 17 to 14, but when Faught and Bonicelli started to connect, the Irish began pulling away. The score was tied at 26-all and later at 28-all, but from then on, Notre Dame was in front all the way. Russ Wendland led the N. U. attack with 11 points. Otto Graham, another sophomore flash, had nine points and his passing kept the Wildcats threatening throughout. It was Northwestern's first loss this season and was the 16th victory "for Notre Dame in 29 starts against N. U. Faught's eight points led Notre Dame.

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City’s Archers To Vie at ‘Y’

A city-wide open Y. M. C. A. archery tournament will be held at the Central branch “Y” archery range at 4 p. m. today in connection with the annual open house program. 3 Under the auspices of the Y. M. C. A. Cardinal archery club, competition is open to all archers in Indianapolis and vicinity. R. W. Caldwell, president of the Indianapolis City Archery Club, will officiate in the tournament. The tournament will be held on the Y. M. C. A. indoor archery range according to the rules of the American Indoor Round—98 arrows at 20 yards. After the completion of the hain | oy contest, a novelty shoot will be held in which all archers will shoot at anchored balloons. Winner of last year’s men’s open

tet | tournament was W. B. Lincoln Jr,

and the winner of the women's division was Mrs. F. M. Coulter.

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LOS ANGELES, Jan. 1—Short-

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sured that the Pacific war would no athletics, but instead would enlist physical fitness essential to victory.

for redoubled emphasis on competitive and non-competitive athletics and compulsory physical education for all college students. Closing their three-day joint convention yesterday, the groups drafted their program in a resolution which they directed be laid before a meeting of the nation’s college presidents. The academic heads were expected to give speedy approval. Policies of the N. C. A. A, which represents 230 of the country’s leading universities, are not mandatory upon members but generally are followed. The resolution asked immediate establishment of three hours weekly compulsory military training, and intensification of all forms of college athletic endeavor. No ‘Deals’ Upsetting earlier indications, the conventions did not take up a fouryear eligibility rule to bring into varsity sports and help offset losses of men to the armed forces. Instead, the matter was left up to individual conferences throughout the country. The more or less grim coaches’ convention went by without the announcement of a single “deal” in jobs. Notable openings were at Illinois, where Bob Zuppke retired, and at Washington, where Jimmy Phelan was dismissed. Zuppke, incidentally, has indicated he is in the market for another coaching job. The mentors spent much time in diagraming plays and telling each other that if so-and-so had only caught that pass they’d have had a successful season. In fact, the nostalgic tug of the game was s0 strong many rushed off early to attend today’s Bowl games. Those who stayed behind proposed to shatter precedent by splitting with the N. C. A. A, which chose New York, and naming a Bowl game city for the 1942 convention. A. F. C. A. Secretary Tuss McLaughry of Dartmouth said a decision on next year's site had to be deferred, but that the coaches “probably” would follow the N. C A. A. to New York. : Matty Bell of Southern Methodist Suesceded Fritz Crisler of Michigan

vice president. Philip O. New York University re-

Coaches Urge Compulsory Physical Training in Colleges

DETROIT, Jan. 1 (U.P. .—Sports-minded America today was as-

t curtail collegiate football and other them as allies for the morale and

Encouraged by Washington to expand rather than limit sports programs, the American Football Coaches’ Association responded by calling

Police Club

Sponsors Bouts

A benefit amateur boxing show, sponsored by the Indianapolis Police Department Boys’ Club No. 3, will be held at the Pennsy Gym tomorrow night at 8 o'clock. Ten bouts and a “battle royal” are on the card. The double main event pairs Ted Hayes, P. A. L. Club No. 3, against Don Guinn, Northeast Community Center, and Gilbert Wainscott, P.A.L. No. 3, against Wilbur Frankline, N.E. E. C. Both main event bouts are in the 112-pound class, Hayes is County Open champion and Wainscott is County Novice champion. In other fights Fred Johnson, Rhodius, meets Willis McCoy, P. A. L. No. 3, Bill Wingler, P. A. L. No. 3, tackles Bill Henry, N.E.C.C.; Jimmy White, P. A. L.. No. 3, boxes Don Jones, Rhodius, and Mickey Hoyes, P. A. L., goes against Jackie Canton, South Side Community Center. All boxers are coached by Marion County WPA boxing instructors. The P.A.L. Club No. 3 is under the direction of Officer Louis W. Mikesell Jr. Proceeds will go to buy equipment.

Net Scores

STATE CosLkoxe

Purdue, 55; Texas A. M., 31. Notre Dame, 40: Nor thwestorn, 86.

OTHER COLLEGES

Marquette, 49; State, 49;

Michigan, Drake, or ad New 57; Maryig . © far ry ville Mo.) Teachers, 28; Wichita n rs! » Los Angeles City College, 84; Phoenix

\ 57; Wisconsin, 40.

HIGH SCHOOL Shundie Tourne®

Junior Dartmout!

Bearcats in

rprise Win Surprise W By UNITED PRESS Two Muncie and Ft. Wayne net teams were slated to angle in the semi-final rounds of the Muncie invitational holiday tournament today, with Burris facing North Side and Muncie Central, hapless losers of eight games this season, meeting the strong Ft. Wayne Central. Biggest surprise of yesterday's preliminary rounds was the revival of the Muncie Central Bearcats, who entered the semi-final rounds by sinking a favored team of Frankfort Hot Dogs, 31-30. A consolation tournament will progress simultaneously with the championship rounds today. Tipton and Elwood, losers yesterday to Burris and North Side, will face off, while the vanquished Frankfort meets Pt. Wayne Central's stepping stone, Alexandria. The tourney championship tilt is scheduled for tonight, with Ft. Wayne Central doped to come through with the winnings. Central used its second stringers during the second half yesterday in beating Alexandria, 49-33. In another hard-fought holiday playoff, Greensburg nosed out Batesville, 37-36, last night in the Rushville tourney, while Connersville downed the host Rushville teAm, 38-33. Three other super tournaments supplement the eight-game Muncie affair today, with four teams clashling at Washington, Anderson and Madison. The champion Washington Hatchets will host Vincennes, Jasper and Huntingburg, while topnotchers in the North Central loop—Kokomo, Newcastle, Logansport and Ander-son—-clash at the later city. Madison’s Cubs, runnersup to Washington in last year’s state finals, will be host to minor competition, and are favored to sweep the play. Madison has lost only one game in regular season play, a 23-19 defeat to Jeffersonville.

Butler Faces Giant Beavers

Pacific Coast bagketball timber, towering like giant redwoods over players of other sections sends its favorite child to the Butler Field House tonight. : ~The tall Beavers of Oregon State, anxious to add net laurels to their football fame, are favored to capture the Pacific Coast Conference this season. When the Beavers take the floor against Butler they can present a first squad looming up at a 6 feet 5 inch average. Five seniors, John Mandic, Paul Valenti, Jack Mulder, Sam Dement and George McNutt are on the squad. Mandic, 6 feet 4 inches, is an all® Conference holdover and a national star. Big, loose-jointed and unusually fast for his size, he was second in conference scoring last season with 156 points.

Height Tremendous

The height of the team is tremendous, There is one 6 feet 7 inches aspirant, two standing 6 feet 5 inches, four towering 6 feet 4 inches and two in the 6 feet 3 inches bracket. Don Durdan, the left-handed and left-footed halfback, will join the outfit after today’s Rose Bowl game at Durham, N. C. Pacing the Bulldogs against this array of tall timber will be Glenn Miller and co-captains Wib Schumacher and Woody Norris. Miller's under the basket turns and the cocaptains’ work on the “run, Bulldogs, run” system of Tony Hinkle have accounted for 199 of Butler's 299 points this season. The Fairview record to date reports three losses and four victories. Purdue, Northwestern and 1llinois boast victories while Pittsburgh, Franklin, Michigan and Iowa were victims,

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Tourney Begins

The first round of the Pennsy Gym New Year's Day basketball tournament was to get under way today at 1 p. m. Quarter-finals will be played finals are scheduled for Jan. 11. The first-round schedule today brings together:.

1 P. M.—Indian Schoogt Pabbarisns Farm ‘Butea vs,

2 P. M.—Maxwell vs, Drikold Jrs. 3 P. M.—Donlev a vs. Decatur

op Corner Cafe vs. tern Soal.

5 o P. —Pleasant View Tas

teel. P. M.—Stewart- e oa BET ET fon oe P. 'M.—Bluffton vs. Richardson Rub-

Hold Down Awards

NOTRE DAME, Jan. 1.-—Only 24 members of 1941 Notre Dame football won monograms, smallest since 1921.

De eaabure. $7: Batesville, 38 (AnaD. {

THRILLING

Sunday and the semi-finals and 2]

TH URSDAY, JAN. 1,

Home to Turn Hat T

They're Next

By BOB FLEETWOOD

ple, It was quite an occasion for the 4811 who paid. Bill turned the “hat trick” for the

second time in his Americal Hockey League career. And at the other end of the ice Goalie No! No! Joe Turner was turning in his third shutout. The final score was Caps, ¢; Buffalo, 0.

and try to laugh that one off.) Adams is the manager of the De= troit Red Wings, a hockey team

tency in the National League. He asks for and is given the cregm of the Caps. Adams sent Jeninngs down for tonight’s game and Bob Whitelaw will return for the Sunday contest with Hershey at the Coliseum. In return Mr, Adams is getting our two i | leading scqQrers, Adam Brown and Joe Carveth™\ They both said farewell with the year. a chance to gain Wrst place in the American League's sores, but he couldn't contact the nets

The Sad News “ Besides the departure of Joe and

in the Caps dressing room last night. Gallant Sandy Ross, the defense man with his shoulder chained down, dislocated the tricky bone again. This was the third time and now it appears an opera= tion may be necessary. Big Joe Fisher pulled a tendon in his leg but says it will only keep him out of tomorrow’s practice. The depressing news that Hershey won again keeps the Caps in second spot in the Western Division. But the B’ars are next in line at the Coliseum. It was a hard, rough hockey game with the Caps taking their share of the bootings. Jennings’ first goal came at 13:09 and was unassisted. Skating down along the rail the’ wing fired straight at the net from directly even with the pipes. Along came Pep Kelly of the Bisons, the puck snagged his stick, took a nice curve, and slipped past Goalie Claude Bourque.

a world’s recorde~ But last night there were four minutes between the first and second. This time Bill took a pass from Jerry Brown just ahead of crack defenseman Bill Allum. Rocketing straight in on Mr. Bourque he fired at the open right side and hit. Defensemen Score

Larin Mercer did time for interference late in the second period and this time the defense duo did& buck and wing. Doug McCaig took the slider from Dick Behling and crashed it home. As the period closed Joe Turner turned in a great defense job while scorer McCaig was doing & twominute stretch. No! No! stopped ‘em low, he stopped ’em high, he stopped

gambling kick at the wild pitches.

at 11:03 in the final frame, Jud McAtee and Jack Keating were pounding at the bewildered Bourque and Bill picked up one of their rebounds for goal No. 4. Goalie Bourque was very pained.

the five games before. But the Caps are in mid-season form now, Claude.

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Bill Jennings came home | last night—home to his peo-

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It was Bill Jennings who last year scored three goals in 57 seconds for

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Those four goals were exactly the = - total that had been scored on him