Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 January 1942 — Page 6

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BEFORE spring training time rolls around big

league ball clubs are going to

be shorn of a lot of talent.

« «+ » Uncle Sam didn’t scratch the surface last summer when only two top-flight players were drafted—Hank

Greenberg of the Tigers and the Phillies.

Now the situation is serious and

Pitcher Hugh Mulcahy of

the ball player toll to the armed

forces is sure to make a big difference in club rosters. The 20-44 draft covers player ages 100 per cent, although many

of the pastimers will be deferred on account of dependents. . . .

ever, there will be enough players to veterans who thought they were out

Howgo around by calling back some of the majors forever.

The slogan is “Keep "Em Playing” in both majors and minors and

that’s what the club owners intend todo...

get along the best they

can by preparing others to ll the shoes of the boys who are called

to the colors. In 1917 both majors and minors 1918 the minors cut off in July and . The “Work or Fight” order was War and the Government ruled that

completed their seasons but in the majors in early September, in effect during the first World baseball was not “work.”

This time there is no indication that the Government will clamp down on professional baseball but will encourage it instead, without granting special draft deferment to players.

Sunday Ball Attendance Expected to Increase

ITS TOO EARLY to speculate

effect on attendance at sports events. . .

on the rubber shortage and its . The guess is that sports

goers will conserve tires by taking in big events and skipping the

minor.

Last Sunday's hockey match here drew more than 6600 paid, one

of the largest crowds of the season at

the Coliseum ice rink, ... Come

spring and summer, attendance at Sunday ball games is expected to

increase as motorists remain in town

instead of ‘taking long week-end

drives over the State or driving to Cincinnati or Chicago to watch

the big leaguers.

The bulk of the Kentucky Derby crowd drives to Louisville and the 1942 horse classic is sure to feel the pinch, especially in the gen-

eral admission attendance.

Harness Horsemen Assemble in Indianapolis

HARNESS HORSEMEN and fair secretaries and other officials connected with trotting and pacing were to meet here this afternoon

at the Lincoln Hotel in conjunction

with the annual Indiana Fair

Managers’ convention, today and tomorrow, to thresh out plans, dates and other problems for 1942, and to elect a District 2 director of the

United States Trotting Association. Leo C. McNamara, Indianapolis pected to seek

sportsman and breeder, is ex-

re-election for the district composed of Indiana and

Michigan, after being appointed a director at the formation of the

U. S. T. A. two years ago.

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ONE OF THE MAIN topics the horsemen are talking about with

fair men is the rubber situation. . about attendance this summer, . . fairs comes in an auto. .

. Fair managers are worrying

. Practically everyone who attends . . Fair men are wondering how much fair

transportation will be cut down due to the rubber edict. L. V. Hauk, Morristown, Ind., presides at the local meeting. . « « Hauk is president of the Indiana Trotting and Pacing Colt Breeders’ Association and former owner of Eddie D., 2:03%, the 1941 season's

fastest 2-year-old pacer in a race.

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GRAND CIRCUIT stewards are to assemble in Indianapolis Sate urday to assign meetings and dates for the 1942 big-time harness race

season.

The Indianapolis Grand Circuit race meet is held annually during

the Indiana State Fair in September,

Baer’s in Shape, but That 2d Time With Joe Louis Is Awful

By JACK GUENTHER United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Jan, 6.—For more than a month the smiling hulk Buddy Baer has been jogging the roads, belting the bags and swapping blows with his sparring mates—but all this work represents just so

much wasted effort.

For regardless of Buddy's condition, Joe Louis will knock him out in the sixteenth minute of fighting Friday night.

This isn't a prediction, an approximation or a guess. It's a factual conclusion any small girl can reach without delving into the mysteries of numerology, astrology or eenie-meenie-miney-moe. . . . To verify it you need merely turn to page 45 of Nat Fleischer’s ring record book, where all pertienent data is plainly listed. Under the name of Joe Louis are listed the records of the 56 assassinations in which the honey-colored world champion has engaged since he left the Ford Motor Co. with a pair of Golden Gloves in quest of the Golden Fleece. The records read somewhat in the manner of a casualty list and they dont offer room for much debate. With the aid of a little simple arithmetic I find that in defeating 55 of those 56 men and being defeated by the other Joe Louis has needed only 841 minutes of fighting time. Unless my long division is immoderately inaccurate, this means that the former cotton picker has banged out the boys in a few seconds more than five rounds, or 16 minutes apiece.

Dice Are Cocked

This in itself may mean much or little. The baby Baer himself broke par by some four minutes the last time he walked into the champ’s fist primed to avenge his family’s honor. But in so doing he cocked the dice against himself. Only five men have fought Louis twice and, like Buddy, each made an excellent showing. But when they came back|gs for a second helping of thunder and lightning—man, it was murder. Here is the roll call on these dis-

into never-never land in two rounds, Brown in four, Schmeling in one, Godoy in eight and Pastor in 11. The figures for these retum bouts drop as alarmingly as those of a bathing suit merchant in Alaska in January. Instead of averaging the 11

boys stood up only 5.1 rounds apiece —or at almost even par with the whole list of Louis opponents, the very worst bums included. Only Pastor kept the rating up that high, and he spent much of his time in the ring desperately trying to stay awake. These aren’t encouraging figures

man like Buddy. He has done much to deodorize the family name. He once had Louis on the floor and he

fixture which can upset all mathematical maneuvers quicker than you can say logarithm or geometry.

Net Scores

Ball State, 21; OTHER COLLEGES Northwest 5; Minnesota, 38. own, 58; Winona Teachers, 13;

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Michigan to 18

Saturday might: Indiana at Minnesota and Ohio State at Purdue.

Monday night: Purdue at Indiana— dish those Big Ten Ttiing: ag

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By BOB FLEETWOOD Revenge and a ranking belong to Indiana University today. They are back in the Big Ten race and Wisconsin, the last year champs who snuffed out Hoosier title hopes at the last minute, has been ridden into the cellar class. The score at Bloomington last night was Indiana, 38; Wisconsin, 34. Initiating a zone defense that bottled up the famed dribble and drop shots of Johnny Kotz the Hoosiers gained the lead late in the first half and held it the rest of the way. Indiana now shows a one and one standing in the Big Ten race. The Badgers have lost two straight.

Standings

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The Hoosier zone defense, not used in their Northwestern defeat, floated and swung with experience. Unable to penetrate with any degree of effectiveness the Badgers closed in too sharply and Indiana started to run and throw.

Miss Englund

Kotz played a good floor game and turned in 13 points but there can’t always be a Gene Englund on the pivot like last year. Ed Denton’s one handers paced the Hoosiers with 8 points while the slender farm boy, Capt. Andy Zimmer, sparked the Hurrying Hoosiers off the backboard. But the “Eye” man is John Logan. The former Richmond High star seems to have eyes all over his head. His premium passing was perfect. Logan started the evening’s point getting with a foul shot but Ed Scheiwe, destined for 14 points, hit a long for a Badger lead. Wisconsin maintained their lead until the half was closing when the Hoosiers started to race horse. Kotz, often working alone, was holding the Badgers together while Denton’s pivot turns made the Branch McCracken men tick. The half found Indiana ahead, 17 to 14 as Zimmer spun a long, Warren Lewis a one-handed one and Denton one-handed two in the last min-te.

Blaze in the Se*ond Period

Indiana was firing 'em up to start the second period. Zimmer, under full stride, took a neat pass from Denton and Swanson, fast breaking with Lewis added another. Warren came back with a long before the Badgers could get out of their holes. With a 24 to 15 lead the Hoosiers let up a while as the two squads matched baskets. Scheiwe did most of the Badger matching, as Zimmer’s rebound play tied Kotz in knots. Wisconsin was climbing as the game ended but Indiana had the situation well in hand. The say-it-with-numbers man reports that Indiana shot 58 times and hit 16 baskets while Wisconsin got 13 out of 61. The Hoosiers could only snag half of a dozen fouls while the Badgers hit eight of their 12. Summary: INDIANA (38)

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Tech, defending City basketball champion, will open the city tourney

Continentals. Manual and Shortridge will clash

in the other first round battle Friday evening, Jan. 16.

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Hoosiers Get Revenge Over Wisconsin as Purdue Holds

Little Points

Boilermakers Sweep to 36-18 Win for Second Big Ten Victory; I. U. Back in Conference Race

Times Special LAFAYETTE, Jan. 6—Purdue’s basketball squad swept to its seventh collegiate victory over Michigan’s hardwood quintet, 36-18, here last night as Coach Lambert's title seeking Boilermakers annexed their second Western Conference win at the expense of the Wolverines. Sophomore Al Menke of Purdue tossed in four field goals and four free throws for 12 points, leading the scoring, and Jim Mandler, 6 foot, 4-inch , veteran Michigan center, main threat to the Gold and Black attack, led the losers with eight points. Both teams displayed a poor percentage from the field, the Boilermakers hitting 14 out of 60 attempts for 23.3 per cent, and Michigan connecting on 7 of 52 shots for a 13.5 per cent average. Although Menke got the opening tip for Purdue and a few moments later went under the basket for the first two points, Michigan's forward Fred Cartmill, connected on a long shot and Mandler banged away at the defenders’ goal for two baskets,

*lgiving the Wolverines a 6-2 lead.

Michigan kept the scant lead for

1! five minutes, but Forrest Sprowl and

Mickey Tierney, Purdue forwards, pulled the hosts ahead with under-the-basket drives, and the Blue and Yellow never again threatened. Bill MaConnachie scored the only other Michigan point the first half

Tland the score at the end of the

period was 20-7. Mandler Sparkling ' Jim Mandler, who had been temporarily benched with three fouls in the first period, sparked the Wolverines in a desperate attempt to get back into the scoring race during the second half, but superior ball-handling kept the Boilermakers well in the lead. Captain Don Blanken, Sprowl, and Menke were the second half mainstays in the Purdue attack, Blanken scoring on three fast breaks down the floor. Midway in the period Lambert's squad attempted to stall, but play was moving fast when the final gun sounded, Purdue far ahead, 36-8, MICHIGAN (18).

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No. 1 Race to Hialeah Park

HIA LEAH, Fla, Jan. 6 (U. P)— The No. 1 horse race of the winter season moved from California to Florida overnight with the $50,000 added Widener stakes at Hialeah Park on March 9%, replacing the $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap, cancelled because of the war. Charles S. Howard's Mioland, in training on the Pacific Coast, was named the favorite in a field of 20 thoroughbreds which have been nominated for the seventh running of the Florida classic. Mioland drew a top weight of 128 pounds. Alsab, sensational 2 - year - old champion of 1941 and an early season Kentucky Derby favorite, was assigned 109 pounds. But the colt’s main objective at Hialeah is expected to be the $25,000 added Fiamingo Stakes. Challedon and Pictor, both owned by W. L. Braunn;, and Charles S. Howards Kayak II have been in California training for the Santa Anita event. Turfmen here predict, however, that most of the leading thoroughbreds will be shipped here for the duration.

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Schedule for the Bm. Em-Roe_ Inde ent Yeague tonight at South Side rners

Ye Hoosier Veneer vs. Allison Assem-8-—Raab Bothers vs. Central Motor 9 Baker Shoe vs. S. S. Turners.

The annual Noblesville Industrial state tournament will be

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THRILLING

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Here is the “from where” in the Indiana-Wisconsin game at Bloomington last night. Both halves of the game for each side are recorded on one goal with right and left shots at both ends of the floor placed accordingly.

WISCONSIN

Farry Johnny Helps

Bandaged up with a bad leg suffered in the Northwestern game, Johnny Logan, Indiana’s fancy-passing junior forward, gets his only basket of the game with Wisconsin at Bloomington last night.

NEW YORK-—A check for $26,654.84 went to the Naval Relief Society as its share of the Chicago Bears-All-Stars game in the Polo Grounds Sunday, Tim Mara, owner of the New York Giants, announced today.

PHOENIX-—The National Collegiate Athletic Association football rules committee expects to cut its scheduled four-day meeting short late today after adopting no more than a half dozen rule changes. Chairman Walter Okeson of Lehigh refused to reveal what changes were contemplated.

MINNEAPOLIS—Berne Bierman, Minnesota football coach, said last night that a letter from Marine Headquarters at Quantico, Va., indicated he “might be called to service the middle of this month.”

Won 18, Lost 14 For the Tribe In 1940 Season

32 And Married, He May Escape Army By EDDIE ASH

Lefty Bob Logan is coming back to the Indianapolis Indians. The popular veteran southpaw today was purchased outright from the Cincinnati

Reds and said he was happy to return to the Tribe roster. Although Logan had a poor season in 1941, President Owen J. Bush believes he is due to achieve a comeback this year and thinks the Indians made a smart deal. Logan resides in Indianapolis and

‘accomplished his best ball playing

in the uniform of a Tribester over a long span of years. In 1940 Logan won 18 games against 14 defeats for the Hoosiers and was sold to ‘Cincinnati for his fourth trip to the majors. Prior to that he had big league trials with Brooklyn, Detroit and the Chicago Cubs.

Arm in Good Shape

Experienced southpaws are scarce and Logan, who is 32 and married, is unlikely to be caught in the Army draft. Lefty Bob's arm was all right last season but he had trouble stopping rallies and only won eight games while dropping 14. He was recalled by the Reds last September. But he is a good investment for the Indians. He's always in sound physical condition and rounds into shape early. In fact, in the past, he was always ready to work nine innings before the end of spring training. Another thing, Logan knows the American Association and won't have to be introduced to many of the opposing batsmen next campaign. The Reds didn’t give Lefty Bob a fair chance before optioning him back t6 Indianapolis last season, according to many baseball observers and it hurt his spirit, many fans thought. At any rate, it was a difficult task to pitch winning ball for the 1941 Tribesters because they lacked a scoring punch and seldom presented their moundsmen with a lead.

Tenth New Player

In announcing the purchase of Logan, Tribe Secretary Al Schlensker pointed out that it is the tenth deal completed by the Indians since Owen J. Bush and Frank E. McKinney took over the franchise early last month. And they have yet to give up a player. Logan is the fifth addition to the mound staff under the new ownership and just about rounds out that department, along with a couple of holdovers from 1941. The catching department is set and the outfield is okay, leaving only the infield to be worked on hefore the Redskins head for the

Southland in March for 1942 s ring training. P

Dartmouth Jubilee

HANOVER, N. H, Jan. 6.—Proceeds of the Dartmouth-Army basketball game, Jan. 31, will go to the Naismith Memorial Fund.

Bob Logan . . . « comes home

Five Leaders

Play Tonight

By UNITED PRESS This week's cage firing, crowded with 55 important battles covering every night for the rest of the week, may be the Gettysburg of the hardwood season, and swing the tide toward either the north or the south. Five of the leaders see action tonight. Frankfort battles Marion, but if the favored Marion Giants down Frankfort, it may drop them from among the 10 leaders next week and open a notch where a southern team may establish squatter’s rights. : : Shelbyville meets Rushville, and is slated to annex its llth victory of the regular season. Crawfordsville will try to stop the unbeaten Gary Horace Mann squad, winners of eight season games and two tournament tilts. And Madison's Cubs have high odds to take their ninth win against North Vernon tonight. Other important games will be Brazil at Greencastle and New Castle at the revived Muncie Cenf tral. Tomorrow night Jeffersonville plays at Jasper, Hammond High at Gary Froebel and Batesville at Lawrenceburg. Two significant contests Thursday—Gary Lew Wallace at Horace Mann and Sullivan at Evansville Reitz — sets up the giant week-end card as a “pruning fork” to pluck the good ones from the bad ones. Choice games on the 29-tilt card Friday will include Washington at Bedford, Shelbyville at Greensburg, Martinsville at Bloomington, Marion at Muncie Central, Hammond Tech at Emerson, New Castle at Kokomo, Jasper at Vincennes, Lafayette at Frankfort, Indianapolis Tech a#% Logansport, Evansville Bosse at Evansville Central and Huntington at Muncie Burris. Leading the 15-thriller Saturday card will be Connersville at Anderson, Huntingburg at Evansville Bosse, Hammond High at South Bend Central, Mitchell at Washington, Gary Froebel at Gary Wallace and Whiting at Hammond Tech.

NEW YORK, Jan. 6.—Valentine (Dutch) Lentz of the United States Military Academy was re-elected president of the Eastern College Basketball Coaches Association.

INDIANA

INDIANA 4. Swanson. 9. Lewis 9%. Zimmer 10. Denton 3. Logan 41. Driver 5. Hamilton

WISCONSIN 40. Kotz 39. Alwin 11. Scheiwe 33. Sullivan

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