Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 February 1942 — Page 11
| “'| the respect and
/
THE following sports editorial appeared in the
‘Thursday, Feb, 28, edition
of the Purdue Exponent,
the student’ daily at the Boilermaker institution:
tions in order
not only for Red Mackey and
Eine, Burnham but Jor the board of trustees of the university ‘who selected an athletics director and a football coach who have
: support of the Purdue student body. “Mackey has been part of the Purdue. coaching staff for 13
EF acclaim and approval
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years, ‘Under Mal EI as executive assistant knows weil the compl
tion of the teams and the whole-hearted
rd he served as assistant football coach and the athletics director, He is a men who ties of the athlefip situation at Purdue.
“Burnham has served on the staff as freshman coach for seven
years and prior to that time coached He knows the men who, will be the preciates their potentialities.
South Bend Central high school. football team next fall and ap-
“This action of the board of trustees will meet with widespread
return of Purdue to the e position of have.
| the student body and may well mark the
leadership in athletics it should
“In expressing the cpinion of the student body, the Exponent
| extends congratulations to the new athletics director and to the
coach and offers its support and co-operation to Red Mackey and
Elmer Burnham.” |
Afternoon Game Catches Bookies Napping
FROM DAN PARKER'S column in the New York Mirror: | “What happened to the basketball bookmakers on’ Washington's
birthday shouldn't even occur to a cherry tree. the game was one of the ‘heavy action’
quintets met that day
| contests. The book a a
“Assuming the contes was to be
| ing, the bookmakers took| wagers on
| scoring a 46-38 upset,
time, it was all over. It ders who
{ the result after hearing it.
bettors who weren't in on the deal,
s » ” TH
Mike and asked
Army and Harvard
6 (give)-8 (take)-point favorite. played in the cool of the evenit up to 8 p. m. Alas, by that
been played in the afternoon with Army
had access to the score, bet on
“When the bookies finally tumbled because of the flood of Army money that started to shaw up, they declared all bets off. Some of them got away with it. Others had to pay off. But most of the small
just got their money back!”
MATTY SCHWAB JR. Bsookiv baseball groundkeeper, met St. Louis Cardinal coach, while in Havana last week, about the Johnny Mize trade. .
. Mike d the
IF or 1st Place; Play at Home
Hershey and Cleveland Meet Next Tuesday
Hershey goes to New Haven,
the race draws to a close. Although Philadelphia is at the tail end of
hockey .even when they lose. Cleveland, in first spot, has eight games
nine each. Cleveland Idle Tomorrow
Cleveland is idle tomorrow night, but meets the Providence Reds tonight at Cleveland, The Reds are the team that tied the Caps Tues-
Hershey. has the toughest row to hoe this week-end, however, The
Hershey, before their return game with the same club the following evening. Next Tuesday will be a night to watch for Cap fans, since Hershey and Cleveland meet at Hershey. Right now it seems that a tie might help the Cap cause, although subsequent events may make it nicer for one or the other team to win. The Caps don't play Hershey again, but meet Cleveland at their arena March 14 The season closes at home the next night, when Pittsburgh will be the team to beat.
Every game is “for keeps” now, as|™
left and Hershey and the Caps have |i
day, when Mike Karakas was hard
B'ars meet New Haven tonight in|Es
Vie Lofvendahl will be in the Philadelphia defense line when the Rockets meet the Capitals here tomorrow night at the coliseum. Lofvendahl, only 20 years oa, ‘was purchased from the New York
Americans,
~Manual-Lawrence
[team to score, but McIntosh made a foul shot for Manual and Feldman passed to Baker under the bucket to tie up the game, 19-all,
Manual looked like a different team when it played Central of Lawrence in the final game last night. Limping to an unimpressive win
Negley made a bucket, but Feld-
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final and final rounds in Hoosierland's hectic basketball eliminations.
this afternoon, and the 8 p, m. title be: 192 more victims severed from the running; 64 sectional champions, Almost complete lack of upsets
cagers in the state against each other today, since virtually all fa-
vorites still remain in the running.
Surprising Eliminations
heartless and unsparing eliminations that cut 388 additional squads out, after Thursday night rounds had pruned out i55 teams. Martinsville was the chief upset
‘| victim, dumped by little Monrovia.
After - the Martinsville Artesians had vaulted over the biggest barrier, Bloomington, the Monrovians came back last night to blast them out of the race, 22-18.
Mann Plays Close After killing off its No. 1 menace
the Gary wars today against three other Gary schools—Tolleston, Emerson and Lew Wallace. Mann sunk Froebel by a scant 35-31 last night. The Washington Hatchets are rated an easy row to ‘hoe today when they continue defense of their crown against Shoals, Elmore and Barr township. Two Evansville|® schools, Reitz and Bosse, joined |Ki
After the 1:30 and 2:30 contests Strtim’ battles tonight, déhe net result will Bemstel
in early rounds will throw the best|"
Martinsville and New Castle yes- Miler, terday received the brunt of the|%
last night, Horace Mann returns to |Push, f
Sirimarios
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3 Totals 10 & 17
Wp at Hall—New Augusta, 15; ManOfficials—Referee, Clifford Phillips; ume Smith.
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DECATUR CENTRAL (34)
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MANUAL (38)
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Totals .. 17 § 8 ‘Totals ...13 712 Score at Half—Lawrence, 17; Manual, 12. Officials <Rateres. T. R. Smith; umpire, Cecil Tharp
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[Four Schools Eye Local Sectional Crow (Martinsville, New Castle Join Ranks {Of Former State Champs Already Out
Tech vs. Washington at 1:30-p. m. and Decatur Central Meets 2:30 p. m. Today in One of the ‘Closest’ Tournaments Heid.
By HARRY MC
Play at 8 P.
The winners play for glory” at 8 o'clock past crowds are any
overtime to win, 33 to 32, 4 ing belting, 31 to 29,
offside pass, with. Ben ing and 20 seconds left in| game, to, win for Washington + sounded, 32 to 31. ; Beech Grove came from to almost nip Decatur lost, 34 to 31. Lagging all the way, Mu the score six times in the minutes of play, but lost to € of Lawrence, 39t0 83, «=
Cards got a couple of pretty good men and $50,000 for the first
baseman from the New York Giants, and Schwab, admitting that was right, insisted Mize was a pretty good ball player. Matty reports Mike Just looked at him and said:
Poseyville to form today’s competition for the favored Evansville Central Bears. Ft. Wayne Central's chief threat
over New Augusta yesterday afternoon, the Redskins lagged behind Lawrence until midway in the third then tied the score six
man tied it up again. The Bears couldn't shake off the Manual boys. They couldn’t get more than a onebasket lead until, with 40 seconds
H. Miller, g. 0 Montg'm'y, gs! 1
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"| Two Married Men tor One Bachelor
| are owned by the St. Lo
THE COLUMBUS hen BIRDS are crowing over a recent trade
they put through with Houston of the Texas league. . . , Both teams s Cardinals. . . . The Birds traded one
| bachelor for two married m
|New York Yankees have Detroit Tigers and Boston Red Sox six each, Chicago White Sox five,
| Washington three and Cleveland one. . . .
Ahh i ee
| they |
‘seventh place Northwestern tonight in hope of nailing down and copper
ititle honors with Illinois, ‘of their number will be
Outfielder Buck Jones, tor two years an American Association
| slugger (sifgle and classified 1-A), was swapped for Jack Angle,
first baseman, and Johnny Antonelli, infielder, both married. Angle and ‘Antonelli do not compare with Jones in the slugging
department, but they are married men and are not subject to selective service call—at this time,
Of the 42 American league races the on 12, the Philadelphia Athletics nine,
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The St. Louis Browns have yet to win the flag.
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Gophers at I. U. Tonight; Loser Will Be Out of Race
CHICAGO, Feb. 28 « P.) —Illinois conference leaders attack its first undisputed Big Ten basketball championship since 1915. igh if a Lia an unexpected victory, the Illini still can capture an uncontested title by defeating either Purdue or Iowa in its remaining two games. . Four teams— — Minnesota, Towa, Indiana and Purdue —still have a mathematical chance of sharing t two ted ‘tonight when: Minnesota s at Indiana and the Boilermakers meet Towa. The four teams now are tied for second place.
can claim second place conference
honors. Indiana will be oui to even the score with Minnesota which defeated the Hoosiers at Minneapolis earlier in..the season. The game may be close as both teams were rated title ' contenders when the
.| popular
"Cecil Travis, who were inducted be-
| ito move into a Sifluplase : | ” defeating Ohio State at
Phils were en route today
Wisconsin, 1941 champich seeks tie by umbus, while Chicago makes a d psperate try for its first conference bapersse in 31 starts by beating Michigan ‘Ann Arbor. Iowa has the advantage of playing on its home floor when it meets ue tonight but even a victory for the Hawkeyes would leave them facing a tough hurdle in they |
fielder Bob Johnson, who announced that he definitely was a
holdout.
RICHMOND—The Ph delphia their Miami Beach training ca with assurances from Coach Bill Killefer that the club would not sell players. unless the Sr mps tone would strengthen the a the fact that the Cleveland ‘pitchers were behind schedule wound up their firsi said he was
season began Johnny Kotz, Wisconsin forward and leader in the conference indi-
vidual scoring race, will try to con-|-
solidate his position in the game t|with Ohio State. Kotz has netted 173 points in 12 games. If Chicago, smothered by Michigan Monday night, fails to beat the Wolverines tonight, it will have to wait until next year tu score a conference victory.
Bob Johnson Holding Out
« 8T. PETERSBURG .—St. Louis Cardinal batsmen were doing double duty in their hitting routine today, despite the fact that many of them had been in training camp for only a day. Manager Billy Southworth, anxious to get the boys in tune for a heavy schedule in the grapefruit circuit, started the boys out against his regular pitchers.
LAKELAND, = Manager Jack
yesterday, then sent them through
their first drill—exactly one hour
Into Disfavor
BOSTON, Feb. 28 (U. P.).—Boston baseball fans were at odds today on President Roosevelt's order allowing Ted Williams to play this season, but they agreed that the deferment might be a psychological curve ball that would strike him out. -A consensus of man-on-the-street interviews dis’ closed that the Williams might fall into disfavor and find it difficult to keep swinging in the frame of mind which enabled him to bat .406 for the Boston Red Sox last year. to lead the American League. A majority of fans, figuring Williams’ past salaries should be enough to support his mother, were skeptical of the appeal board ruling which did not function for Hank Greenberg, Hugh Mulcahy and
fore draft regulations were tightened. : Cronin Tickled “I'm tickled to death that we're going to have Ted and we'll welcome him with open arms,” said Cronin, “but remember it’s a decison of Uncle Sam’s. He's running the show.” Here's a typical sampling of Boston comment: “There’s something going on that no one knows about yet,” said Sidney Graves, 36, of Brighton, a salesman. “Ted’ll enlist. Wait and see, . « he's no sap. He won’t expose himself to adverse criticism.” Sergt. Thomas H. Nipps, stationed at a Massachusetts camp, said, “if I had as much money as he ought to have, I'd feel pretty ashamed of myself at being deferred.” Walter Salva, 17, of Southbridge, waiting to enlist in the marines with parental -consent, said, “if it’s so, it's pretty raw. . . . He’s an athlete, the kind of man we want in the service.” Three youths, lined up for physical exams by navy doctors, agreed it was “good for the morale of service men because the fellows want! a little recreation, regardless of how! long the war lasts.” “I'm going to the opening game of the Sox,” Edward J. Meath, Charlestown rag picker, said. “I'm ‘going to send the biggest razzberry ever heard at Fenway Park at Williams, and then I'm going to walk out. I'll never go to the Sox games bay if Williams continues to,
- |Bowling Scores
Mate, night's leading bowlers: nuel Schonecker, Classic L a SE ned : ust Crieal Rotate +" C. Amer
Jim BE Ladi
Wika hw ie “aha
National, eesaa
and Pugh sharing the honors.
bled through the whole Manual
- Decatur-Beech Grove
Beech Grove’s two in the third quarter and seemed to have the game well in hand, but Beech Grove put on another rally in the fourth quarter, scoring 11 points to Decatur’s four,
quarter, times, but lost, 39 to 33. Lawrence got off to a middle-of-the-first quarter 8-to-3 lead and kept things pretty much that way until the half, with Luther, Lane
The score at the end of the first quarter was 8 to 7 and at the end of the half 17 to 12. But Baker pushed in a shortie as the second half, opened and Arnold followed with a tipin. Luther drib-
Beech Grove gave Decatur Central, defending champions, a big scare in the next to last game of the evening last night, Decatur Central finally won, 34 to 31. The Hornets, boosted by some great cheering from all over the Tech gym, took a 10-to-8 lead at the end of the first quarter, leading, 5 to 2, and 7 to 4 But the Hawks, led by Bob Lollar, scored eight points in the second quarter before Beech Grove could make another marker. Lollar made a great underhand shot to open the second half and then followed with another of the same kind. Prosch fouled him. He missed the foul shots, but made the tip-in and Decatur led, 26 to 18. The Hawks made 10 points to
to go, : straight Lawrence bucket.
35 to 33 by following up one of Seymour’s long shots and then Pugh stole the ball to get his two-pointer.
the Lawrence team took the ball out of bounds. again. It was a two-point foul and Negley this time took the shots, making both of them to put the game on ice.
dle distance shots as the final quarter began, but Prosch sank a fielder and then a free throw and Hughes dropped one in on the run
and made both free throws. Score: 32 to 29, Decatur Central.
onds to play, Fields threw one over his shoulder to bring it to 32 to 31, Decatur. Grove's chance for an upset, but Charlie Miller tipped one in and|gnd Thorntown in Thursd Decatur had the ball game tucked 3 2y might away.
Pugh made the second
Luther had brought the score to
Strietelmeier fouled Negley and Blettner- fouled Negley
.
Hughes and McGill traded mid-
Lou Fields was fouled by Lollar Then, with one minute 25 .sec-
It looked like Beech
Washington-Ben Davis
The Washington-Ben Davis game last night was a heartbreaker for Coach Hinshaw and his boys, but they left their mark on the sectional with some great playing. With the game in their grasp and
20 seconds to go, they took the ball offside, ahead by a single point, but Bob Montgomery broke through for the Continentals to take the offside pass and then pushed the ball through the hoop as the gun sounded, Washington won 32 to 31. Washington started out like the city champs they are, taking a 12 to 5 lead in the first quarter, but the half ended with Ben Davis trailing only 17 to 14 The third quarter again was all Washington. Waller O'Brien dumped one in from the sideline to make it 19 to 14 and Berry, going past the basket, slipped one off his hands to increase the Continental lead. |
Washington as Sears sunk a long one for Ben Davis and the score was 25 to 17. Berry made a free throw and then hit for two points.
happened to Washington. Dewey Hoss had made it 28 to 19 and then Stegemoller, Sears, and Stegemoller again brought it to 28 to 26.
Sears made a free throw and with a minute and a ‘half left,” Ross|
Waller and R. Miller scored for
At this point “that something”
With 2 minutes 55 seconds to ‘play,
pivoted one in to tie the count at 29-all. King dropped in a free throw for Washington but Fines made a long shot with about 40 seconds to go and Ben Davis led, 31 to 30. It was on R. Miller's foul of Stegemoller that Ben Davis elected to take the ball offside. Then the blow fell as Montgomery stole the offside throw and the crowd went absolutely nuts.
Bob Myers scored for Tech in the last seconds of play to send the Howe-Tech game into overtime and then Billy Arnold pushed one in with Howe leading to win Toorrs first sectional game last night,
Technical-Howe
throw for Howe after a foul by Maas. Maas took the ball away from Buchanan under for another counter,
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today comes from South Side, while Leo and Hoagland fill out the card. One of tae spiciest tiffs of today’s card ic the approaching battle between Shelbyville and Columbus, who enter the late rounds along with Hope and Flat Rock. Craziest and most unpredictable of all tourneys so far have been the East Chicago and Indianapolis playoffs. Baffling to the predictor, the East Chicago records today pair off four hot tournament teams of near-equal caliber—East Chicago's Roosevelt, and Hammond's Tech, Clark and High. Eye Local Title After early-round: battles that produced six nip-and-tuck battles, Indianapolis Tech, Indianapolis Washington, Decatur Central and Lawrence Central eye the capitalcity deciding games today. In other chief victories in yesterday’s late rounds, Jasper sunk Dubois, 55-20; Lafayette’s Broncos rode over Dayton, 45-15; Madison's Cubs took Scottsburg, 47-20, and Shelbyville’s Golden Bears downed Morristown by a low 19-13. Connersville ran up 70 points to 15 for Everton, while at East Chicago Roosevelt sunk Washington, 38-35, Hammond Clark downed Dyer, 55-28, and Hammond Tech defeated Whiting, 36-22. Six former state champions have fallen victims so far: Bloomington
games; Muncie Central, New Castle vnd Martinyville last night. Muncie Burris took Yorktown into camp, 47-32, while the Warsaw Bengals swamped Atwood, 58-38.
.| Terre Haute Wiley remained odds-
on favorite at Terre Haute by sinking Fontanet, 52-26. Hot Dogs found it a task to down Jackson township, 30-26.
Navy Gets Harron
NEW YORK, Feb. 28.—Bob Harron, director of sports publicity at Columbia university since 1933, has been given a leave of absence to enter the U. S. naval reserve.
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Davis 14 at Half—Washington, 17; Ben
Officisls—Referee, Cecil Tharp; umpire, Clifford Phillips.
TECH (33) HOWE (32)
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PI) $l Holloway, 5 ion Houck, . 3/Buchanan, 5. 3) Capp. 8 vse Wade, LIRR
: Totals
Fg Maas, 1 ... 4 Pease, f ... 0 R. Evans, c. § O'Mara, g§°. 1 Wilson, g .2 Arnold, g 1 Mehl, e* 0 Meyer, 1
Totals ...14 5 14) Score at Half—Howe, 14; Tech, 13.
Officials—Referee, T. R. Smith; umpire, Cecil Tharp.
Cochran Enlists As Coxswain
GREAT LAKES, Ill, Feb. 28 (U. P.).—Roy "Cochran, holder of one world track record and co-holder of another, will carry the colors of the U. S. Navy when he competes in the 660-yard run at the national A. A. U. championships at New York tonight. The former Indiana track star was enlisted in the U. 8. naval reserve as a coxswain here yesterday and was granted time to finish civilian business before reporting for active duty.
BASKETBALL
Castleton Eagles who Golden Bears, to 36, last ip at the m will meet the Broadway urch yim there, Monday night, and will play the naval armory team, Tuesday night at \Tawthorne.
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Royal Crown Colas will play Ricnardsel Pennsy 3:30] -
Ruble Tr at y gym tomorrow at
Stewart-Warner and Allison Patrol teams will participate in the Big 8ix north central sta tournament. tomorrow at
Frankfort’s | Koko
morrow’s north side sectional schedule for Tome Pennsy I. 5:30—Kingan A. A. vs..Cline Lumber of Andstaoh, 6:30—Pure Oil vs. Castleton. 7:30—North Side Eagles vs. Lune. Pure Oil Big Fo re vs. ur. asd B
Turtles. 130 Taner emple vs. Mallory Bobcats. 2:30—Curtis-Wright vs. Standard Gro-
P vs.
cery. 4:30—Electric Steel vs. Trojans.
Manual and New Augusta battled evenly through four quarters of wild, loose basketball, each team throwing floor-length passes and neither one able to score consistently. Manual won, 24 to 22. Manual led at the end of the first quarter, 11 to 10, after taking a 5-to-0 lead on fielders by Don Blettner and Don Strietelmeier and a free throw by Sid Feldman. After three minutes, George Longmire counted for the Red Devils’ first score, a pivot shot, and Power followed with a tip-in to bring the count to 5 to 4. ; " Devils Come Back
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Manual-New Augusta
Augusta was held to two points as Monninger sank two free throws on a foul by Baker. But those points gave New Augusta the lead with two minutes to play. Feldman pushed one in 10 seconds later and Strietelmeier dribgled the length of the floor with a minute to go to give Manual the game.
New Augusta came back in the
McNeelys|
For Title
CHICAGO, Feb. 27 (U. P.)~Tony
Motisi, young cagoan, slapp veteran Fritzle Zivic off the come« back trail last night and left the t
ring at the end a 10-round fight, Zivic, heavily ved to rout h opponent and return 1 with the titleholder, Freddie (Red), Cochrane, tried hard, but his olds time accuracy was missing. He began to fade as early as tb he/ fourth round against NOW erful right hand assault. Pittsburgh battler rallied
seventh to stagger Motist left hooks, but his p
to find the range when follow up the advantage.
St. Joseph's Wins i ; Final Home Tilt
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leading the Pumas to a 30 to
buque, Iowa. Gutgsell collected 13 px Joseph's led all the way. called but 11 personal fouls during the entire game.