Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 February 1942 — Page 17
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'e quick to catch on... . Yestertion’s 1942 schedule was reto and by the pr 8... and presto! . . . The lis ball club sold approximately 800 tickets for y. before the Vi tory Field office locked up late in the afternoon. | Kiwanis Glub. topped the day's field by ordering 500 grandstand pasteboards . , . and with orders of that magnitude registering till) Tribe Secretary Al Schlensker was moved to predict a cacrowd on April 16 when the Redskins lift the lid against the
ceil Schlensker says the grandstand capacity is 10,240, including box | seats, and that not many ducats are left. . . . All grandstand seats will be reserved on opening day, including general admission grandd at 80 cents . . . and these are available now. sand Inaugural day grands prices (adv.) are boxes, $1.25; first eight rows back of boxes, $1; all others, 80 cents. , .. These prices are printed for the information of some fans who gained the imPp on that the Indians were jacking up the gate fee. | Secretary Schlensker places the park’ seating capacity at 12,440, including room for 2200 in the bleachers. , . . Parking will be free, ‘| as| in the past, for all Victory Field customers. . . However the ring system will be improved, particularly the entrances and ts. J. , And the cinder situation in the parking lots will be given
a i going-over.
‘Bush and Hartnett to Depart od March 6
| TRIBE PLAYERS will not assemb in Indianapolis for the trip to| the Cocoa Fla, training camp,. . . . This used to be the custom the flush early Twenties when the boys rolled out of here in a ple of Pullmans, .'. . But gone are|the days! The 1942 Indian pastimers will go their homes to the trainin base. « « « Batterymen are under ers to report at Cotoa on h 7 and infielders and outfielders on March 13. Departing Indianapolis for Cocoa $2 March 6 will be President
en J. Bush, Manager Gabby Hartnett, Trainer Jim Pierce and tcher Bob Logan. . . . The leatnamba is the only Tribe player ‘who resides here 0 Original plans called for Trainer aim Pierce % go to Cocoa two ks lahead of the first squad but so many favorable reports on he ap clubhouse and hotel were received that it was decided that e presence of an advance man was unnecessary. A » | ® = #2 8 8 | 7 SECRETARY AL SCHLENSKER said the Cocoa Chamber of ~ Commerce notified him that everything was well in hand and that hy Indianapolis players and officials are going to be surprised at e reception and training facilities. Cocoa baseball fans are well-posted on Gabby Hartnett's- -name d fame and they feel they are getting the next best thing to a hig league club for the duration of spring training.’. . . The Indians 1 be there from March 7 until well into April and it's la safe guess
that many Hoosier winter tourists will stop off in Cocoa to watch he boys go through the paces.
ndianapolis Glovers Face Stiff Competition
INDIANAPOLIS’ Open Class Golden Gloves champions are going to face heavy competition in the Tournament of Champions f1_Chigago, Feb. 23; 24, 25. . . . Golden Gloves cities have been dided into two groups for the first round in all weights. . . . Division has been made according to population. In one group will be Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, St. Louis, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Kansas City, Indianapolis, Memphis, Dayon, Oklahoma. City, Nashville and Omaha. In| the other group will be Evansville, Ft. Wayne, Gary, Terre Haute, Muncie, Kokomo,\Richmond and Michigan City (in Indiana); A Moline, Centralia, Danville, Joliet, Peoria, Quincy, Rockford, Spring- - field and Streator (in Illinois); Des Moines, Burlington, Cedar Rapids nd "8 Sioux City (in Iowa); Ft. Worth, Texas, Ft. Smith, Ark., Alex-
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cated, withqut exception, throughout
a ndris, La., and Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
| 8 ” ” ” ” 8 | CHICAGO STADIUM, scene of the Tournament of Champions is located at 1800 W. Madison St. . . . In the classic the 112, 118, 126, jand 135 classes will box on Feb. 23. . The 147, 160, 175 pound .|classes and heavyweights will box on Feb. 24. . All eight classes will compete on Feb. 25. | Contestants weight in on the first day they compete. . . . They do not weigh in on Feb. 25, but there is 3 medical examination. lw. + Drawings will be made each day at 2 p, m. . . . Boxing starts at 6 » p. m. on Monday and Tuestiay and at|T p. m. on Wednesday.
‘Brooklyn Club Will Share In Nation-Wide War Effort.
YORK, Feb. 17 (U. P.) ~The Brooklyn Dodgers became the frst team in organized baseball today to arrange contribution of a .| substantial cash sum to the armed services. hey announced a four-way program designed as their share of the nation-wide war effort. The club offered to contribute the entire receipts for one day at
Ebbets
| | Also, every individual on the club from President Larry MacPhail to|: bat y, will purchase defense. |bonds and stamps and the facili‘ties of radio broadcasts of the| &a games, billboards, loud speakers), land score cards, wili be used to! promote the sale of bonds ' and
Faddition to admitting at least service men in uniform free lof charge to Ebbets Field, the 5 Dodge rs also will play exhibition game! during the training season and the pennant race with camp ! , donating the profits to camp athletic funds. Coaches Will Serve The services of coaching, outs and players be made av e for HO eT when requested by Bihlotie officers and health divisions my, Navy and Civilian Defense izations. All| ‘expenses of Brooklyn players to participate in the two mapague all-star games for the
Lesnevich, has matched Jimmy ‘Webb of Houston, Tex. and Johnny |Colan of New York for a 10 or 12-round contenders’ battle at fliscn Square Garden, March 13. :
NEW YORK.—Stanley (Stutz) Modzelewski's 1598 points will be recognized as the new all-time collegiate basketball Taoid Slang - ard, breaking Hank setti’s mark of 1506 points, authorities said today.
‘PHILADELPHIA, — Former Lightweight Champion Lew Jenkins tries to comeback trail tonight in a 10-round bout with Marty Servo, U. 8. Coasiguardsman, at the Arena.
PITTSBURGH. The Pittsburgh. Pirates have signed up : 17 pitchers for the 1942 season the entire Brooklyn organization| and. their records of the 1941 includes 10 minor league season show a total of 136 vicabs, tories and 127 losses.
, his 1942 gpring program | Eo > an auspicious start ros the| ' ST. AUGUSTINE — Match play of Baseman) in the 15th annual National championship of golf club champions began today with 32 qual- | ifiers. Medalist was Carl Dann of Orlando, Fla, who carded a :| 34-8569, : *WICHITA--John (Lefty) Olmstead, 27-year-old Indiana University graduate has been named football line coach at Wichita University,
including Ebbets Field, will be available for co-operation with es Or organizations programs of various service
agencies. he entire program will be ‘dupli-
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Only Indiana Has Chance .to Tie Illinois
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| Purdue Puts
Wisconsin Out Of Big 10 Race
Win, 40 to'34, as They | Honor ‘Piggy’
LAFAYETTE, Feb. 17 (U. P.).— Purdue climbed into a three-way
‘Isplit with Jowa and Wisconsin to-
day for the fourth ranking spot in Big Ten basketball with a 40 to 34 victory over Wisconsin last night, making it six up, four down for each of the fourth place contenders. The defeat killed any title! hopes for Wisconsin, defending champions. Before a record-breaking crowd of 8000 fans come to pay tribute to Coach Ward L. Lambert in his
Purdue basketball mentor, the BoilSN ermakers added 2their victory wreath to the
by staging a sec Sprowl
keel most of the way. To Cecil Polk,
sive game. Kotz Stopped Assigned the task of keeping Wisconsin’s John Kotz, conference point star, from the scor-
Kotz to a three-point game total, two of them coming on a wild, onehanded shot from the sidelines.
Standings
Team Ww. Illinois ..cocoeee 9 INDIANA ...... 8 Minnesota .c.... 8 Wisconsin eo ehen 6 IOWa ...coc0000s/6 PURDUE ...... 6 Northwestern ... 4 Ohio State . 4 Michigan ......3 Chicago ........ 0
Pet. 900 ~27 667 600 600 600 400 333 273 000
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Purdue trailed 21 to 20.at the half. Midway in the second period, successive baskets by Menke and Blanken, and a sleeper by Riley gave the Boilermakers a six-point margin they never relinquished. Leading the Purdue offensive, Frosty Sprowl tipped in six field goals and four from the stripe for a 16 point total. Sullivan, Wisconsin forward, high-pointed the Bade gers with 13. : It was Purdue’s'last home game of the current campaign. Gifts for Piggy In an intermission ceremony, Lambert received a specially desighed “P” blanket, emblazoned with silver basketballs in each corner and marked. with a erown and his) name, beneath which ‘was carried the numerals of the 11 years
Lambert’s tutelage. From the Purdue Exponent, tus dent newspaper, Lambert received a wrist watch in honor of his silver jubilee. Among special guests present for
' |the occasjon were three former Pur-
due coaches; Wallace Reimann of Shelbyville, Charles Jamison of La-
“| fayette, and Justin Maloney, Craw-
fordsville, while several former Purdue players and captains also were on hand. Summary: PURDUE _ (40). WISCONSIN (34). PT PR PG
Shgowl, LE. 0K ¢ IE eeaitach; 1 Consad, £. osu {Sullivan,f..
Tierney, L.. 3Battersoi.c. 3|Skrags.c. 0
olLynch,c.... 0 OiRehm.g.. 2 Scheiwe, g.. 2
Totals Totals ..14
Score at ol ih ori 21; ‘Purdue Referee—Gale Robinson (Indiana). pire—Earl Townsend (Michigan).
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CHICAGO, Feb. 17.—While Wisconsin and Minnesota were being knocked out of the Big Ten race and only Indiana retained a slim chance of the title, Chicago had its moment of glory last night. The Maroons almost beat Northwestern for its first victory in 28 conference games, but they folded in| the final minutes, after leading, and the Wildcats won, ll to 46.
25th year as|
“Piggy Lambert: Night” celebration |:
ond period rally: to wipe out thel: Badger threat|: that had kept the score on an even|:
junior Purdue guard, went the “huzzas” of _the|} evening for an outstanding defen- |
in (which Purdue teams have won| the big ten basketball title under :
top-ranking | =
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watch for the rebound.
and Rose Poly will have an easy
On Guard
Joe Prewitt, Martinsville senior, probably will start at one of the guards for DePauw University tonight, when the Tigers host Franklin College at Greencastle.
Pete Kelly Holds 6-Point Lead
NEW HAVEN, Conn., Feb. 17 (U. P.).—Pete Kelly of Springfield held a six-point lead today in the American Hockey League scoring race. Kelly, who went on a scoring rampage last week, now has a total of 56 points. The leading scorers:
Kelly, Springfield.... 21 Trudel, Washington... 2 Calladine, Providence. 28 Cunningham, Cleveland 21 Demarco, Providence... 20 McDonald, Buffalo.... 24 O'Flaherty, Springfield 14 Heron, Pittsburgh..... 23 Boucher, Providence.. 15
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Bernie Friedkin, perennial “schoclboy” of boxing, is in the Coast Guard ‘contingent at Ellis Island, together with Marty Servo, Tony Marteliano, Nathan Mann, Al Reid and Joe Torrens. | 8.8 8
Jim Neville, young heavyweight. is/in the Navy... Cincinnati welter, has turned up at an Army camp near Baltimore. : » = = ’ Steve (Crusher) Casey, the wrestler, is back. in the Army at Ft. Devens, Mass, # Earl Breitbart, ne of Mike Jacobs’ staff, finds the routine at Maxwell Field more exacting than even the hectic day of a big fight. { sz » aa Ward, national amateur golf p, Bow a private in the Air at’ Ft.” Wright, Wash, will
* CTARS in the ERVI ESx
. Herschell Joiner, | until he recently was transferred to
‘two Nebraska gridders,
Private Al Flair, considered a
likely successor to Jimmy Foxx on|A.
the Red Sox, is concentrating now on winning his stripes at Ft. Bragg.|* ” ” ” Sergt. Cy Valasek, former Ford® City and Duke basketballer, was starring, for the Camp Lee team
another camp. 2 8 ” Sonja Henie lost a' partner but the Canadian Army gained a lieutenant - when = Stewart Reburn
crossed back over the border and|
went on active duty. o tJ 8 x
One of the second lieutenants at|
Ft. Leavenworth is Harry (Slippery) Ice, Missourl backfield ace. . . The Big Six also contributes Harry Schwartzkopf - with the Army, and Wayne Blue in the Army Air Corps.
Butler at Wabash Tonight Headlines College Card
Butler and Wabash, two College Conference foes who delight in painting each other’s campus in school colors or haze by hair shaving, meet tonight in a basketball encounter at Crawfordsville. It will be one of four college tilts on tonight's card. Franklin meets DePauw at Greencastle, St. Joseph's plays Central Normal at Danville
night with Anderson's Ravens at Anderson. Wabash has nothing to lose and everything to gain tonight since Butler has won 29 straight games while the Little Giants dwell in seventh place away from any title hopes.
~ «4A 1938 Repeat? : It was back in 1938 and Butler
went to Crawfordsville with an im-
pressive record. The Cavemen rose up and knocked the Bulldogs off their perch, the last Butler defeat in 30 starts. Wabash will be without Ralph Hessler, one of the squad’s leading scorers. The former Shortridge player is ineligible temporarily because of scholastic difficulty. He may rejoin the squad within a few Otherwise Wabash will be
Meanwhile the Butler lineup will differ from that when the Bulldogs defeated Wabash, 34 to 29, earlier in the season. Since then Butler has lost its two senior forwards | 5 through injury
two starts defeated Chanute Field, 39 to 37 and St. Joseph's, 61 to 29,
ana State fell before Western Kentucky, 53 to 48, at Bowling Green, Ky., and Valparaiso trounced Hunt-
a conference tilt.
Net Scores
STATE HIGH SCHOOLS Spencer, 20; Gosport, 20.
STATE COLLEGES
Indiana, 47; Michigan, a Purdue, 40; Wisconsin, secon (Ky.) a: 53; ate
Indiana
| Valparaiso. 62: Huntington, 45.
OTH SULLEGEe Illinois JMuniies rs sro ivetsity of 7 on Michigan
37. te oniyn ogre 45; dog th 43. Kenbicky Bios Keck,
0 0 male, Sup 8. Ste Sari Presivietian e “Viey pia ia Tech, j Furman, 42. ; Washington row ge, o; Boston College Roanoke Co! 87 chburg, 22. Weshington b y (Bt. Louis), 36; Tule Unboorsity 3 en
Union College, 33; rt Wesleyan,
= Moravian, 53; Albright, 51. Syarthmere, 87; Mexico City Y. M C
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An Anniversary Gift for’ Piggy’ Lambert
Last night at Purdue, the Boilermakers took an opportunity to express sincere, heart-felt tribute to Ward "Piggy" Lambert, their veteran net coach. At the left, Phil Johnson of Mooresville, sports editor of the Purdue Exponent, student newspaper, presents "Piggy" with a wrist watch from Purdue students. At the right, the Boilermakers are in the process of winning another ball game for Lambert. Al Menke, sophomore center, tries a one-hander under the basket as Capt. Don Blanken of Purdue (6) and Patternson of Wisconsin (16)
Leads Peppers To New Record
Charles Reinbold led the Dr. Pepper five to a new record 3169 for $he 17-year history of the Fraternal League last night at the Illinois Alleys. Réinbold rolled a 691 to lead the team and also the nignt’s bowling. Other members of the team, and their scores, are Otis Taylor, 637; Virgil Hall, 631; E. Thompson, 625, and Perkins, 585.
New Meet Scores
Meanwhile, late scores in the championship and handicap division of the men’s city championships revealed a shakeup in the leaders. Ed Donham rolled 651 to place second behind Lou Chandler's 654 in the championship class. W. Holtman places third with 639. Ray Vollet and Joe Danna were pushed down to a tie for fourth, with 634. H. Miller got a 690 in the handicap division to tie with Chandler for the top spot. O. Baxter's 689 ranked him next, with’ Danna following at 684. Leaders in last night's league
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Kautsky’s Win Loop Tilt From Goodyear
Trip Michigan, 47-42, in LastMinute Rally
Hoosiers Must Win All, llinj Drop Two
Times Special ANN ARBOR, Mich., Feb. 17.—~ Indiana’s Hurryin’ Hoosiers are still in the Big 10 title race. They stayed that way last.night by beating Michigan in a last-mine ute rally, 47 to 42, Captain Andy Zimmer and Warren Lewis dropped in the winning goals with minutes to go, after the Wolverines had taken a 40-t0-39 lead. ' So the Hoosiers have a Chinae man’s chance of overtaking the Illinois sophomores, who pushed Minnesota out of the running last night at Minneapolis, 41 to 37. 3 If Indiana wins all four of its ® [remaining games, the Hoosiers can i [tile Illinois, providing the Illini Ff [drop two of the five contests.
A See-Saw Affair
The first quarter of the tilt here last night was a see-saw affair, with
vantage of 9 to 8. Little Irv Swan son then helped the Hoosiers pull away to a 16-t0-12 advantage midway in the second period on a couple of one-handed push shots. Indiana matched the Wolverines basket for basket and held to a 23 to-19 advantage at half time. Although holding a 28-t0-20 lead at. one time, the Hoosiers finally dropped and Michigan drew up to a 35-10-35 tie in the final period.
Denton, Swanson Lead
The Wolverines went ahead, 36 to 35, and again, 40 to 39. But then came jhe rally that kept Indiaha in the title race, winners of a hard fought game. Ed Denton and Swanson tallied 15 and 12 points respectively to lead the Hoosiers’ scoring, but Mandler of Michigan was the game's high scorer with 17 markers. John Logan, Indiana junior fore
Times Special RUSHVILLE, Ind, Feb. 17~
Indiana holding a first-period ade
Johnny Townsend and Jewell Young led Kautsky’s All-Americans, here last night, to a 46 to 39 triumph over the Goodyear team from Akron, O., in a National Professional Basketball League tilt,
Young with 17 points and Townsend’s 13 helped the Kautsky five to an easy victory after leading 27 to 20 at the half.
HIALEAH, Feb. 17.-~Two days utilized for charitable purposes at Hialeah Park netted various funds
i i $55,575 From Hialeah A:
ward, remained here today with the flu while his teammates returned to Bloomington. Logan is being treated in the health center at the University of Michigan, He did not play last night. The summary: . MICHIGAN (42) FT PF)
INDIANA (47)
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FG Cartmill,f. S Hamilton,f. 3
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Totals..15 13.18] Totals ..18 11 18
Score at Half—Indiana, 23; Michigan, 19 Referee — Glen Adams. Umpire — Fred
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