Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 March 1942 — Page 6
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SPORTS Wr
; . By Eddie Ash — 1. : TOP FLIGHT fives and “people’s choices” toppled together in the state high school basketball regio Saturday, but some of the big fellows, mild threaters and underdogs are left in the sugary sixteen and the dopesters are in no danger of running out of copy before the whistle blows on the semi-finals series next Saturday. ~ Colleague Harry Morrison’s Madison pre-tourney choice ‘still is in the running snd this columns pick—the Wachington Hatchets .=—made that Jasper hurdle in the regionals, though hard pressed.
." The Internati News Service also is riding the Washington bandwagon.
Horace Mann of its regional to
» picked by the United Press, sailed through in. the bitter battle. * Ex-colleague Bob Fleetwood, now in the U. &. naval air corps; received his flying before the tourney got .under way, but lft a secret cholcs 4 an enveiops “to be opened after the tourney.” . He released secret by mail immediately alter the sectionals. . He had named Shelbyville. ’. Exscolleague J. [E. O'Brien joined the army kefore this season’s basketball hysteria got under way. . He was last year’s cham pion picker; you will recall, by nominating the Washingtoh Hatchets, who now stand a ht chance of repeating’ the trick.
# # s F GUESS WELL HAVE to include Central of Lawrence as a “people’s choice” to give Wolflake company. . All other "People’s choices” passed qut [of the picture in the regionals. Lawrence's won the key to Marion county by spanking Brownsburg and rson. . . . Anderson was picked to annex the Indianapolis “but Lawrence refused to Be awed by the ~ odds or by the Indians and simply played their game. / - There are no home teams in three of the semi-finals centers, Muncie being the: exception. . . And Burris of Muncie has to worry about the Wo ~glant Killers. . And cur own Lawrence Central feels capable of faking the roar out of Aurora when they collide headon in the 2:30 tilt at Anderson Saturday.
Willard Reed Named on Intercity Team
THE CHICAG TRIBUNE has picked 30 boxers to make up Chicago’s Intercity Golden Gloves squad. . These boys will reassemble on March! 20 to prepare for the ‘Pratehps with New York, which will be held in Madison Square Garden on March 30. Willard Reed, ndianapolis’ Golden Gloves heavyweight champ, was named as an glternate on the Chicago team. . . . Two other Hoosier leather are members, the Burns brothers of Ft. Wayne, Tommy in the 118-pound class, and Bobby in the 147-pound, . . Bobby is the western Golden Gloves welter champ. Reed was picked because of his good showing against Hubert . Hood, the heavyweight champ. . . . Other heavits on the team are * James Phillips, Pt. Worth, Tex., and George Roscoe, Cleveland.
# » # 8 o » ' ‘SIXTEEN OF the 30 boxers will get to fight in the Intercity Golden Gloves matches. . . Therefore, there will be hot competition for these places f the ‘ime the squad reports for training under Head Coaeh Jo Behr in the Illinois Athletic club, Chicago, until the lineup of fhe team is definitely Set. The New York Golden Gloves squad will be chosen following a series of eliminations ‘along the eastern seaboard. . In 14 previous tan tehes Chicago has won eight, tied three and lost three. . . . Last year the score was 10 to 6 in faver of Chicago forces.
Indians Open g rin Florida
THE INDIANAPOLIS ball club's batterymbn today were scheduled to take off the wraps in Cocoa, Fla., for their first spring training session. . | . Infielders and outfielders will join the pitchers and catchers a week from today. On hand over the talent in Florida today were President Owen J. Bush and Manager Gabby Hartne(t. , The Tribe's field skipper mapped out a heavy program of drills and expects the pitchers to bel all set for the batters next Monday. ) So far the In have lost only two players to the army, both outfielders, and club is' well-stocked in tha} department. . . . “Stanley Mazgay 4 Morte Arnovich are already in Uncle Sam’s uniform.
.._° ‘The Tribe's schedule is light this year, consisting ; of only 12 games, but that won't deter Manager Hartnett from | ~irounding the team into form for the big opfner against Columbus here on April 16. |
borer Says Ballplayers Must Protect Their Rights
9 @. P.) ~Paul Derringer, Cincinnati Reds’ pitching ace, made a lhole-hearted plea to the public today to try to understand some of problems of baseball player; during these times. ‘are very many ball players who are trying to duck do. their share,” Derringer said. “But here we find Ted Wiliams dor ao accepting deferment from military e " facts of the case.) Do you think an appeal draft yuld deéfer Williams or anybody ‘else if they didn't| have some "solid facts to go
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Defeat Anderson, 32 to 29, in Regional Battle
Definition: Indianapolis is a sub-
city limits of Lawrence, Ind. That's what Smiling Jake Luther said Saturday night after Central of Lawrence had: beaten Anderson to go into the semi-finals of the state basketball tournament. That's .the. way all the 250-odd pupils of the high school feel, as
There’s no school today at Lawrence and at the pep meeting at 8 a. m., the big word was: “Four more games to the state title.”
Meets Aurora
Lawrence meets Aurora in the second afternoon game at Andgrson next Saturday. If they win-—and the word “if” is practically out of a good Lawrenceite’s vocabulary— they'll meet the winner of the Madison-Crawfordsville game Saturday night. Intidentally, folks from Lawrence now pronounce “meet” with a “b” instead of an “m.” The first thing the Bears did Saturday, of course, was take Brownsburg apart, 39 to 27. Then, not given too good a chance against the more seasoned Anderson Indians, they jumped to a 9 to 2 first quarter lead, lost that, and then finished with a rush to beat the Indians, 32 to 29. Lead at Half Anderson took the lead in the ball game for the first time with a minute to: go in the first half, at, 17 to 15, but Pete Negley took a pass from Lane to tie it up.
Glenn Seymour dropped one .in from the side to give Lawrence the lead at 24 to 23 as the third quarter ended and the Bears never relinquished it.
But that , fourth quarter was agony for about 2500 Lawrence rooters. The score went to 26 to 23, stayed there a while, then went to 26 to 35, then 28 to 25, then 28 to 26, then 29 to 27 and when Jake Luther tipped in Negley’s miss, it was 31 to 27, with 1 minute and § seconds to play. Oscar Melson fouled Charley Pugh and the little Bear made it. Adrian Keesling fouled Seymour and while the crowd pleaded with 15 seconds to £80, Seymour frantically called to Luther to take the ball out of bounds instead of trying for the free throw. The crowd raised Luther and’ Sey~ mour to their shoulders and sompone ripped «off Coach Fred Kees ling’s coat. Then came a Five
and steaks for all—including the cheer leaders.
Bear scoring honors for the repoints. Luther and Bd Lane got 14 each.
Summary of final game: Cen. of Lawrence (32) Anderson (29)
Totals ..14 4 _ 8 Totals ppcore at. half; Layo 17; Bon Officials: Re hale: gree: Karl Dickerson; um-
The state high school basketball tournament now moves. into the third chapter, the semi-finals, to be played at four centers next Saturday, :
The two afternoon winners (games at 1:30 and 2:30) will clash at 8 p. Mm. for the right to play in the finals in Butler university's fleldhouse on March 21. The semifinals’ pairings; : x - . AT ANDERSON
Crawfordsville vs. Madison. Central of Lawrence vs. Aurora.
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Central of Lawrence players are: kneeling (from left fo right) Charles Pugh, Wayne Pugh, Glenn Seymour, Jos McDaniel and Robert Kee. Standing (from left to right) are Harold Hay, Fred Kautzman, Jake Luther, Ed Lane and Pete Negley. These boys defeated Anderson, 32 to 29, last ‘Soturday night in the final local foglonsl: tilt and will meet Aurora next Saturday at Anderson in a
Indiana Ends Secon With
semi-final contest.
Wins Widener
TROPICAL PARK, Fla., March 9 (U. P.).—Horsedom’s hall of fame has been graced by many a surpris-
ing colt in the long history of the|
turf but none ever brought such a story of fiction-like success to his particular niche than Mrs. Payne
Pew stableboys had ever heard of The Rhymer before Saturday--clos-ing date of the racing season at Hialeah park. He was just a field horse entered by the Greentree stables in the $50,000-added Widener Cup classic, richest of the winter stake raees. He was accorded even less distinction by the fans who rated him just another “horse to clutter up the track” but The Rhymer buried their disdain in the dust of a sensational victory over a bulky Widener field of 17 and returned $53,950 to the Greentree stables. The Rhymer’s story began two years ago at Belmont park wien he was near death from pneumonia. Stable attendants gave up hope for the 2-year-old and it was only in desperation that the young son of
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Three games are ‘scheduled to-
athletic association senior basketball tournament at the Brookside U. B. church. a Three additional games will be played there tomorrow night.
games will be" played Wednesday, Thursday and Friday night at the central “¥.” = = Center Methodist and. Broadway |’ Methodist teams drew first round byes. Tonight's schedule is: J—Emanual Baptist vs. ‘Englewood “Second, rriepte vn. me 9—West = Side Mission vs. Tuesday night's schedule is: - baat Sihtain Square Christain vs. Lyn-
S=Central sve. Mothodist vs. Brookside| Hershey
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night when he dropped in 31 points as Wisconsin rolled to an easy 62-to-45 triumph over Iowa. The, big Badger star scored 16 points in the first half of the con-
the nefs in the final period. : The 31-point total was the second highest in conference history. The all-time record is 34 points,| which Bill Hapac, former Illinois star, scored in 1940 against Minnesota. 4 Kotz High Scorer »
By virtue of his spree against Iowa, Kotz boosted his season's scoring total for 15 conferences games to 242 points, which easily the individual championship. While - Kotz previously had broken the 184-point record set by Jewell Young for a 12-game season in 1938, he had trailed Young's per-game average until Saturday night, His final spreé then gave him an average of 16.13 points a game against Young's record of 15.33.
first ‘ contest after clinching the championship a week ago, Illinois bounced back to’ flash its titular form ‘as it edged Purdue 34 to 32. The Big Ten champions trailed most of the game, but spurted in the final eight minutes of play to
Art. Mathisen topped the Illinois point-makers with 10 tallies. Indiana gained a share in second ‘place spoils along with Iowa and Wisconsin, by beating Ohio State 48 to 33,
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CHICAGO, March 9 (U. P)—A year ago University of Wisconsin basketball fans were toasting a championship quintet and a great individual performer in Gene Englund. Today the Badger followers had to be ‘satisfied with a tie for second place in the Big Ten basketball race but they had another outstanding star to hail, Johnny Kotz. Kotz stole the spotlight as the Big Ten campaign ended Saturday
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KANSAS CITY Mo., March 9 (U.
P.).~Indiang State and Evansville colleges from Indiana were included in the list of 16 schools foday: that
were to open first round play of the
national intercollegiate tournament.
Indiana State was to meet Stevens Point college of Stevens Point,
Wis. Evansville was carded to play Nebraska State teachers.
After suffering a letdown in its}|-
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x CHICAGO, March 9 (U. P) ciie Detroit. - Eagles, : defending :cham-
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finals of -the world’s professional basketball tournament today. The Eagles eliminated their second ‘round opponent, a U.: 8. army team from Aberdeen, Md., 40 to 34, last night to reach the : quarterIn other second round matches tonight the Harlem Globe Trotters meet Sheboygan; Chicago Bruins play Grumman Flying V's; and Oshkosh meets the New York Rens: The Bruins tied for the highest team scoring mark of the tourna-
AAA, 56 to 46, with a second half
Aberdeen, Md., rang up a similar total to upset Ft. Wayne Zoliner Pistons, 56 to 42, Saturday.
tournament scoring mark of 32 points Jat night in leading. New York’s Rens to a 55 to 37 victory over Northern Indiana. Sheboygan defeated Columbus, 56 to 46, Oshkosh beat Davenport, 44° to 20, and Grumman Flyers beat Indianapolis
Kautskys, 54 to 32.
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