Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 February 1942 — Page 6

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Illinois Soph

SPORTS...

By Eddie Ash

pionship.

And Hocking won't be without his glory if Illinois, undefeated in seven starts. captures the Western Conference crown. . . . He'll have proven himself a leader who “could take it.” . . . And no one is louder in praise of Hocking’s splendid attitude and perserverance than Coach

Doug Mills.

Hocking won varsity monograms both as a sophomore and junior and on the basis of his play during those two seasons was honored with the captaincy of this year’s hardwood squad. . campaign started, however, he was forced to the sidelines by the brilliant work of a pair of sophomore guards, Gene Vance and Andy

Phillip, and he's been a bench rider e

Some youngsters might sulk in such a, role, but not Hocking.

. . « He's strictly a team man and h a more talented performer. Hocking did not get to play at al

Minnesota and Northwestern, and saw only brief service in Big Ten

contests with Wisconsin, Michigan the last-place Chicago Maroons did scoring column.

Hocking not only is a model athlete, but likewise a model student.

.« . He averages A's in his classroom

Experience Helps Others in Practice

“HOCKING HAS EXERTED a

opment of this Illinois team.” says Coach Mills. “His experience has

proved extremely valuable when he scrimmages against the varsity.”

This basketball case is not without parallel in Illinois athletic In 1909 Bill Kopp was elected captain of the football team, but was forced to yield his position with the advent of Jack Crangle, one of the greatest fullbacks ever to wear the Orange and

history. . . .

Blue. And Kopp saw scant service un when Crangle was hurt and he w

starred.

THE ILLINOIS basketballers will continue their title drive against

Indiana in Bloomington tonight. . .. lost three. .. to 37 for opponents.

In eight games Indiana has averaged 46 to 43 by opponents. . . The averages are close enough to indicate a rousing battle, with In-

diana holding the home-floor advant

Purdue takes on Northwestern at West Lafayette tonight. . The Boilermakers have won four and lost three, averaging 44 points . . Northwestern has won three and lost four, averaging 45 points to 43 by opponents. The law of averages is now running against Illinois’ sophomore- . Last year Wisconsin dropped its

to 35 by opponents. .

packet quintet . . . or is it? . opener and then won 11 in a row and

McKechnie Points Reds for Fast Start

THE VALUE of a good start is something that never will be underestimated by Bill McKechnie, manager of the Cincinnati Reds,

for it was in 1941 that McKechnie’s it was left at the post in the National

It wasn’t until about Memorial Day that the Reds of 1941 started to click in the fashion that was predicted for them. . .. By then the damage was done, though, and they were unable to recoup their

losses. . . . They were left in a rut.

As well as they played thereafter, they couldn’t get out of it

soon enough to overcome the lead Brooklyn and St. Louis. 2

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EVERY PRECAUTION is now being taken to prevent 2 repeti-

tion of what happened a year ago. . . in years is being taken to the trainin has been scheduled, and a pitching

insure more batting practice for each and every player on the squad. If the combination of a smaller squad, and the resultant increase

in dail work, plus a longer conditio do not do the job, then McKechnie he is determined that his 1942 team

the race.

THE CAPTAIN of the University of Illinois basketketball team has spent more time on the bench this season than he has on the playing floor. . . . He's Bill Hocking, a guard, and Illini students are singing his praises as

the squad enters the stretch drive for the Big Ten cham-

In seven Big Ten starts Illinois has averaged 49 points

. . Before the

ver since. as gracefully yielded his place to 1 in games with Ohio State, Iowa, and Chicago. . . . Only against the Illini captain break into the

work,

splendid influence on the devel-

played with the second team in

til the final game of the season as rushed into the breach and

The Hoosiers have won five and

age.

the championship.

team suffered so much because League race.

set up by the two pacemakers,

” ” 2 . The smallest Cincinnati squad g camp. A longer training period machine has been installed to

ning period and new equipment, will try some other means, for will go to the barrier ready for

omores Wil

Hoosiers Need Triumph or

They're ‘Out’ Wonder Kids Are Undefeated

CHICAGO, Feb. 9 (U. P.).—Over in what the boys like to call a “hotbed of basketball’—on the home floor of Indiana's firewagon Hoosiers —the Wonder Kids of Illinois will attempt to weed out another challenger for the Big Ten basketball championship. Two of them fell Saturday night, one under the relentless sweep of the Sophomore Illini, and unless Indiana can upset the undefeated leaders the Hoosiers also are out of it.

Standings

W. L. Pet. 1.000 700 625 DT1 BHT71 500 429 400 333 .000

Illinois Minnesota Indiana Wisconsin .. Purdue Towa Northwestern Ohio State. . Michigan Chicago

CDT = OWWWo

Wisconsin and Purdue are still in the running with four victories and three defeats. Both are in action tonight but only Purdue has a job on its hands, Wisconsin plays at Chicago and Purdue tangles with Northwestern. In the only other conference game scheduled, Ohio State travels to Iowa. Illinois personally took care of one challenger Saturday night with its seventh straight victory. Stepping out to a 22 to 12 lead at halftime, this amazing young team carried on to a administer Northwestern its fourth—and probably eliminating—defeat, 41 to 33.

Both Teams Rusty

Both teams were rusty from their mid-year layoff, but even a rusty Illinois team is a pleasant sight to see. A balanced attack, led by the 14 points contributed by the only junior in the starting lineup, Vic Wukovits, easily shaded Northwestern's two-man offense of Otto Graham and Russ Wendland. Graham also scored 14 points but Wendland was held without a field goal and that’s the answer. Minnesota served notice a week ago it wouldn't lose another game, including the Illinois encounter on Feb. 16. A 63 to 33 lacing the Gophers handed Ohio State indicated they aren't fooling. With four of its five remaining games at home, second place Minnesota (7-3) is in a better spot to catch the leaders than any of the other “three defeat” teams—Wisconsin, Purdue or Indiana. Purdue barely survived a second half Iowa attack to win, 45 to 44. Out in front at halftime, 29 to 15, the Boilermaekrs faded as Iowa's Big Milt Kuhl rolied his 17 points but the clock ran out and Iowa's title chances along with it. It was Iowa's fourth Big Ten defeat. Wisconsin returned to action against Great Lakes Naval Training Station and made a creditable

Veteran Herman Barron Wins

Western Open

PHOENIX, Ariz.,, Feb. 9 (U. P) eran of the pro-golf circuit, held the day after a sensation of the nation’s foremost golfers. A professional for 17 years and since 1929, Barron

last round, but fired a blistering 67)

which wilted all his opposition. Four Under Par

Barron won $1000 of total purses of $5000 for his victory. Henry Pic-

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the final round!

Championship

—Herman Barron, 32-year-old vetWestern Open golf championship to-

al final round which overcame early leads of several

a follower of the winter pro swing

trailed one to three strokes as the field teed off for the

Notre Dame Wins Season's Opener

Times Special

SOUTH BEND, Feb. 9—Nine firsts, including a grand slam in the broad jump enabled the University of Notre Dame indoor track team to defeat Marquette, 71 to 33, Saturday in the season’s opener. Bill Dillon, Notre Dame junior, set a new gym record of 7 seconds for the 60-yard low hurdles. Jim Delaney tossed the shotput, 50 feet 6% inches, and Charles Murphy jumped the crossbar at 6 feet 3% inches for other outstanding Irish

| performances.

die on the Afth with a 25-foot putt, Boilermakers Beat

par on the sixth and seventh, a bir-| die on eighth and a birdie on the, ninth for 32 going out, four under par. Coming in he mixed a couple of birdies with bogies for a par 35. His card for the 72 holes was 138-71-67—276. Picard’s 72-hole card was 137-69-72—278, and Harrison's 137-72-70— 279. Harrison was seriously in the running for the title with but nine holes to play. Then he hit out of bounds on the 14th, pitched into a trap and took a six. Low amateur was dapper Johnny Dawson of Hollywood, a sporting goods salesman and winner of the Bing Crosby toutney a week ago. He toured the 72 holes in 136-72-74—282.

Kenneth Orr Wins Table Tennis Match

Kenneth Orr won the weekly tournament at Jimmy McClure’s Table Tennis Club yesterday, defeating Gharles Dorsey in the finals, 21-12, 15-21, 21-18 and 21-11. The two finalists had eliminated Warren Seenson and Stan Weble, respectively, in the semi-finals, % 3 .

Chicago Trackmen

Times Special 2 CHICAGO, Feb. 9—Purdue Uni-|g;

versity opened its Big 10 indoor ‘track season, here, Saturday, defeating Chicago, 64 to 40. | The Boilermakers captured eight first places and the mile relay. The | Maroons took firsts in the pole (vault, mile run and high jump. | Clarence Keim performed well for

|Purdue running the 70-yard high|

hurdles in 9.2 seconds and the low {hurdles in 8.4 seconds.

Get Lowdown From Caps’ Herbie Lewis

Herbie Lewis, manager of the Indianapolis Capitals, will tell “inside” stories about his hockey team when he addresses the Indianapolis Hunting and Fishing Club in the Bamboo Room of -the Washington Hotel at 8 p. m. tomorrow. Ralph E. Hueber is presie dent of the club and the program

showing. A Bluejacket rally pulled out a 47 to 42 decision.

Tarzan Comes

To The Armory

Tarzan Zimovich of Cleveland and Joe Maich, a Canadian, will meet in a one-fall tussle to open the grappling show tomorrow night at the Armory. The other one-fall match pits Carlos Freeman, local performer, against Gorilla Poggi of Trenton, N. J. Main go opponents who are scheduled to grip for two falls out of three are Ali Pasha of Calcutta, India, and Billy Thom of Bloomington, Ind. : The bearded Ali has yet to be defeated since coming here last fall and his victims include two former light heavyweight title holders. He beat The Great Mephisto recently, while Thom tossed “Lord” Lansdowne two weeks ago.

BASKETBALL

R. C. Colas and Stewart Warner BShippers, favorites in the East Side sectional play of the Sunday basketball tourney, will meet tonight at 9 o'clock at the Pennsy Gym The vesterady’s round. U. A. E. W., 35 to 29 while the Shippers edged Kingan Reliables, 34 to 30. Other Class A results were Allison Patrol Service, 29: Libby Lathe, 22 and Richardson Rubber, 36; Inland Container, 30 Class B bracket scores were: Drikold, 54: Ramblers, 36. : Electric Steel, 28; Internat’l Printing,

5. Beveridge Paper, 38: Ind. Dental College,

two Class A teams advanced in Colas defeated Allison

Electronic Lab, 35; Standard Grocery,27. Tonight's second round schedule is: 7—Drikold Jrs. vs. Electric Steel. 8 Beveridge Paper vs. Electronic Lab. 9—Shippers vs. R. C. Cola.

Thursday night's schedule in the West Side cage tournament at Hawthorne Community Center is: —B. H. T. Products vs. R. C. Colas. 8—J. D. Adams vs Hawthorne House 9—Nat'l Malleable vs Electric Steel. Friday's night's schedule is: 7—Ind. Nat'l Bank vs. Allison Warriors. 8—Link-Belt vs. Allison Cylinder Head

ept. 9—Allison In 10—G. J. Mayer Co. Treat.

terceptors vs. Curtis-Wright. vs. Allison Heat-

Tonight's schedule in the Brookside Big Six Sunday School League at Brookside U. B. Church are: T7—First U. B. vs. Brookside U. B. 8—Southeastern Union vs. Englewood Christain. ' 9—Brookside C. H. B. vs. Mormon Me-

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Sacred Heart Starts Meet

FT. WAYNE, Feb. 9 (U. P)— South Bend Catholic and Sacred Heart of Indianapolis will start the ball roiling Feb. 20 in what may be the last state Catholic tourney. Cathedral of Indianapolis plays St. Paul of Marion at 9 p. m, Friday. The tourney will continue

through Saturday and Sunday, with the title game set for 8:30 p. m. Sunday, Feb. 22. By a recent ruling of the Indiana High School Athletic Association, Catholic and Negro schools were inivted to take part in the I. H. S. A. A. state tourney, becoming members of the I. H. S. A, A. Members may not compete in any other state tourney.

14 Teams Take Part

Fourteen teams will participate in the Catholic tourney this year, seeking the crown held now by Evansville Memorial. The draw: 2 p. m. Friday—Sacred Heart vs. South Bend Catholic. 3 p. m. Friday—St. Mary's of Michigan City vs. Evansville. 4 p. m. Friday—Decatur vs. St. Mary's of Anderson. 7 p. m. Friday—South Bend Central Catholic vs. Washington. 8 p. m. Friday—St. Joseph’s vs. Hammond Central Catholic. 9 p. m. Friday—Marion St. Paul's vs. Indianapolis Cathedral. On Saturday at 2 p. m., Hunting-

[ton Catholic and Ft. Wayne Cen- | tral

Catholic, who drew first round byes, will tangle in their first tourney appearance.

R. C. A. Girls Take 1st Spot

R. C. A. No. 1, carrying a handicap of 563 pins, today leads all other women teams in the 23d annual city bowling championships. Phyllis Johnson's 207 gave the R. C. A. girls a big middle game of 851 yesterday at the Antlers alleys and they led at the finish with a 2866. Their mark forced the early leader, I. W. B. A No. 4, to fifth position. Miss Johnson led the quintet with a 503. Other scores were Elinor Folkening, 482; Rosella Hagist, 473, Dorothy Shepherd, 432, and Mary Glass, 413. Squeeze ladies with 2734 moved into second position followed by Hotel Lincoln and Stout’s Super Service teams. Kathryn Meeker and Mildred Ruschaupt led all others in the opening day’s competition for .the doubles title. The pair toppled 1006 actual pins, plus 167 handicap for 1173 total. Ruth Hitzelberger’s 605, including 102 free pins, was best in the singles division. The tournament will resume action next Saturday and Sunday. The men’s division, numbering 495 quintets, will begin next Saturday at the West Side Bowling Center.

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Marion Loses

To Tech, 40-34

The Big Green of Tech again stands high in City basketball, taking the play away from Washington, their conquerors in the City tournament. While Washington has had indifferent success since taking the City title, Tech seems to have hit its stride and may be reaching that well-known tournament peak. The Green beat the strong Marion five Saturday night decisively, staving off a last period rally in championship style. The score was 40 to 34.

Pease, Wilson Again

Bill Pease and Bob Wilson again |

led the Tech attack as they did Friday night when the East Siders beat Southport, runner-up to Decatur Central in the county tourney. Pease had 14 and Wilson had 12 points. In other Saturday City games, Broad Ripple absorbed its monotonously regular beating, this time to Noblesville, 45 to 23; Warren Central beat Manual, 33 to 28; Amo beat Sacred Heart, 33 to 21, Crispus Attucks trampled Smithville, 44 to 30, and the Silent Hoosiers defeated Claypool, 44 to 37, in an overtime tilt for their second victory of the season. Broad Ripple managed to keep within striking distance of Noblesville during the first period of the game there, but the home squad pulled away to a 20 to 7 advantage at the half and coasted to the finish. 15th for Warren

Manual fought hard and gave Warren Central a good tussle before falling as Warren’s 15th victim in 18 starts. The Redskins led at the first quarter, 10 to 6, and at the half, 18 to 13, but the Warriors reduced Manual’s advantage to 22 to 21 at the third quarter. Sacred Heart never had a chance against Amo, trailing all the way. Ed Matthews, Attucks guard, scored eight field goals and two free throws for 18 points in the locals’ victory over Smithville.

One Cue Match

Only one match is scheduled this week for the state three-cushion billiard tournament at Harry Cooler's. Walter Ramsey meets Phil

Greenberger, Wednesday night.

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Three Casters Record 97s

Three men tied for first place in the three-eighths ounce accuracy test yesterday afternoon in the Indianapolis Casting Club's meet at Tomlinson Hall. Harry Bee, Al Hoffman and Jack Mcore each scored 97 points to share first honors. Mrs. Gladys Smith won in the women’s division with 95. Mrs. Elsie Edwards had 94. Dick Wiikey with a 99 and Dick

Vernon with a 97 led junior threeeighths ounce entrants. Moore scored a perfect score to win the five-eighths event. Mrs. Smith and Vernon led the entrants in their divisions,

(Cage Tournament

Begins Tonight

Six of the seven teams entered in the City Recreation department's February basketball tournament will play first-round games at the Rhodius Park Community Center tonight according to the scheduled announcement yesterday by Harry Wincel. Eagle Community Center will play the Lauter Boys’ Club at 7 p. m,, the Rhodius P. A. L. Club will oppose First U, B. Church an hour later and South Side Community Center will clash with the English Avenue Boys’ Club in the final tilt

—Pfff and Warmerdam Hits Ceiling He Never Thinks of Two-Story Fall

By JACK GUENTHER United Press Staff Correspondent

NEW YORK, Feb. 9 (U. P).= The daring young man on the fly ing trapeze was quite a remarkable fellow and my admiration of Garie baldi, the human cannonball, always has been intense. But today I'm putting the two of them be= hind me. I've finally realized that they are just a couple of bush league pikers. At long last, I've seen Cornelius Warmerdam. Warmerdam doesn’t swing from a trapeze and he isn’t shot from a gun, but he floats through the air with a skill and an ease that makes everyone who has gone before him look like a gold-plated sucker. Technically, he is a pole vaulter. Actually, he is part bird, part pursuit ship, part high diver —and wholly a creature of another world. I saw Warmerdam for the first time at the Millrose games. He was stamping his heel prints on the ceiling and catapulting his string bean body to a new world indoor record of 15 feet, three-eighths of an inch. Strange Poles

The experts say vaulting is a pastime requiring complete precie sion, synchronization and concentration. Yet, this man Warmerdam teed off in Madison Square Garden with a strange set of poles while guns banged, runners hammered around the track and every camera fiend in greater New York popped flash bulbs. Warmerdam never even blinked. He cleared 13 feet, then 14 feet. The bar was lifted to a new indoor record of 14 feet, eight inches. He stepped the distance, hustled down the runway and went over the top like a Joe DiMaggio home run. Then the standard was raised to a frace tion over 15 feet, a mark no other man had reached before. Corn made it on the first try, just like that— pfff. In doing this, he proved once again he is farther ahead of the times than Buck Rogers’ rocket ship. A nice boy, this Warmerdam. He is the sort of boy you would find on the basketball team at Notre Dame, Southern California or Long Island—thin, supple and graceful in his movements. Only one thing about him made me curious, and it probably has made you curious, too. That is, how does he feel when he knows-he must fal] 15 feet, or about two stories. That's easy, he says. never gives it a thought.

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