Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 March 1942 — Page 10

. THE Minneapolis her have lost Huck Geary,<their star shortstop . +. and he's one of the best at the position in the minor leagues. . ., He has decided to retire from ‘baseball for the duration to retain a lucrative position in a defense plant in his home city, Buffalo, N. Y. Buck Fausett, utility infielder, quit the Millers for

the same reason, : _ Mike ‘Kash, reliable southpaw pitcher on the Minneapolis staff, has been reclassified from 3-A to 1-A, which means he'll be in the army shortly. . . . He won ten games and lost seven last season in addition to doing great work in the relief role. . . . Manager Tom Sheehan ed Kash as one of his dependables be the co season. 3: "The pss of shortstop Geary comes as a jolt . » He is a fine fielder, batter and base runner, and President ley” refused $20,000 for him last year when big league ‘scouts dickered for.the player's services. . Players of the Geary type are hard to replace : nowadays what with the draft and enlistments making heavy inroads all through baseballs structure. ... . Frank Trechock, also on the Miller roster, can play the shortfield in capable fashion, but isn’t in the same class with Geary as a batter. The Toledo club’s roster) also has been thinned by the war. . . . Sam Harshany, who shared the catching with Hal Spindel last sea~ son, is in the navy; Jess Newmann, utility infielder, formerly of Indianapolis, is engaged in construction. work in the Panama Canal Zone and won't be back, and Les Wirkkala, counted on again as a regular hurler, is in the army air corps. The Mud Hens also lost two rookies ta the armed forces, Chili Wagner, southpaw pitcher up from the Texas league, and Johnny Novosel, outfielder, up from the Three-I loop. . . . And Bobby Dil« . linger, second base prospect, is working in an aircraft factory and may pass up the game.

Old Marks Topple in Hockey League :

AMERICAN HOCKEY | LEAGUE athletes have given existing records scant courtesy this season, according to a partial recapitulation, . . . With the season practically at its journey’s end before the annual play-offs, it is apparent there will be few marks remaining on the books. .. . And this applies to both team and individual efforts. Cleveland, for one thing, has already set up a new total in games “won. . .. At this writing the Barons had 33 and the Philadelphia club of 1938-1938 established 32 as a mark to shoot at. On the other side of th | picture is Philadelphia's setting of a new mark in games lost. . . . A adelphia club in 1939-1940 dropped 31 contests and the present cothbination has lost no fewer than 39. Another Philadelphia record is that of the 1938-1939 club which ‘scoréd 214 goals. , . . Pit: , with three games to go, has a chance to better the mark. . . . Pittsburgh now has an even 200 goals. ! ss = : ER a THE OLD American y league record of goals scored against also has been wiped out. . | . Last season Hershey was scored on 189 times but the Philadelphia Rockets of this season have seen 239 discs go into the net so far in 53 games. The crack Philadelphia outfit of 1038-1939, some of whose members are now starring for the ‘New York Rangers, succeeded in scoring 69 points, but Cleveland has surpassed that this season with 70 . and two games to go. |

i Kelly Chalks Up New Scoring Record

THE PRESENT ROCKETS have picked up only 24 polis and appear doomed to finish ower than Springfield did in 1937-1938, when the Indians could get no more than 28 points for their season’s ef orts. . . . The ‘Rockets Have only three games to go. ! Among the individual marks, there is, of course, the new record for points that is being set by Pete Kelly of Springfield. , , . He's six above Don Deacon’s 65 he 9 and has three games to play. ~~ Les Cunningham's t total of 36 has been passed by Kelly and O'Flaherty, while Phil Hergesheimer’s goal-scoring effort of 34 has been surpassed by. Lou Trudel of Washington. . . . The Lion sniper now has 35 to his fre

# # ® » 8 TOTAL GOALS a single, game has been raised from six to 17 and Pittsburgh shared in the feat twice and, Cleveland in picking up mine shutouts has topped a record held jointly by Pittsbuigh and Philadelphia. As for that matter of | scoring in SuCcasIive games, 13 was the old mark, but Gus Manc: "= yi Mew Haven want 15 and gets in the gal-

ery of fame.

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Veteran, Treated CORAL GABLES, Fie, March 11,

~-Honey Cloud, frequent |stake winner, is undergoing a [firing and

Anderson Tonight blistering treatment for| injury to

a suspensory ligament. The veteran! Jerry Nolan, president of the is at Tropical Park. - ‘Rollerland skating club, with Nellie Poer as*his partner, will represent

Roller Meet at

“I killing,

nie Hay.

Joe Bestudik

In Cocoa Now

Times Special COCOA, Fla.; March 11 ~Reporting ahead of the time, Joe Bestudik, the Indianapolis Indians’ 1941 third sacker, today joined the ‘pitchers and catchers in the spring training routine. Tribe infielders and outfielders are not scheduled to show up until next Sunday, but President: Owen J. Bush and Manager Gabby Hartnett decided that young Bestudik can very well use some extra practice around the hot corner. ‘ While Joe was one of the Indians’ best batters last season he was faulty on the defense, particularly on slow rollers and bunts and in getting the ball away on the third-to-second-to-first double play. He had to straighten up to throw and this lessened the chances for: an- out or in completing a twin

He Combs the Horsehide

But Bestudik’s ability to wallop the ball on the line cannot be denied and if the Tribe master-minds succeed in bringing him out on the defense he’ll probably have the big league scouts trailing him this season. As a matter of fact, the New York Yankee chain is interested in Joe at - the moment and has been for some time. Yankee ivory hunters took a liking to the lad’s batting form last season and put out feelers on him during the winter. Bestudik is a “turn hitter,” swinging from either side of the plate, depending upon the. pitcher facing him, lefty ‘or right-hander. Climbs fo .302

, Fresh out of the little minors last year, Bestudik was carried as an utility infielder. Finally, he was installed at third base, and while his batting average was in the lower bracket during his early play, he

By HARRY Did you know that big Ed Lan

baseball team?

Gussie’s Mark Is Shattered

KANSAS CITY, Mo, March 11 (U. P.).—San Diego state college, a bruised and shaken champion, and 15 surviving challengers hegin second round play today at the national intercollegiate basketball tournament. After today’s eight games, only eight of the tournament’s o 32 topflight entries will remain to contest for the 1942 title, Spectators at the close of first round play saw an inspired, underrated team from Chadron, Neb, state teachers college almost knock San Diego out of the tournament in its first game last night. In other games yesterday two top title contenders were knocked out of the tournament lists. Eastern Washington college of education of Cheney fell 43 to 33 before the Southern state college of Durant, Okla., which held Bobby Stoelt, Pacific coast star to five points. George Pepperdine College of Los Angeles was eliminated by a flashy squad from Missouri Valley college of Marshall, Mo., 68 to 53, but not before Pete Fogo, its star forward, had left a new individual scoring record for surviving players to shoot at. Fogo poured in 38 of his team’s 53 points to shatter by four points 1he tournament record set by Wil-

learned to meet the ball by midseason and finished with a mark of 302 in 117 games. His blows included 10 doubles, 10 triples and three home runs. I Manager Hartnett today planned to “turn it on full blast” in the! conditioning process for the batterymen. He stepped up the pace slightly yesterday and said he was| Pleased with the progress made so ar The Great Gabbo is bearing dow on “road work.” Hse is a firm believer in running as a means of strengthening the legs and wind’ and all pastimers in camp are com- |

the club in the senior competitions lot the Indiana state championship finest tonight at Anderson. | Joseph Coleman and Joan Grabile Maurice Alexander and Dorothy Walls and Irwin McGinnis and ‘Ellen Gephart will be novice class! participants from Rollerland. The meet will determine Indiana ‘ state champions in various classes. State champions will receive cu

| CONCRETE §

GRIPS TIRES IN EMERGENCIES

for first place and gold, silver and bronze medals for. runners-up, and will represent the state in the national meet to be held in conven-. tion hall at Philadelphia, April 15-| 18, 1942,

K. O. Koverley

pelled to mix turns around the

park with the regular diamond! drills.

fred ({3us) Doerner of Evansville, Ind., Monday night.

Smith Leads Match Shooting at Manual

Results in’ the firing of the Hearst trophy rifle match by five Manual R. O, T. C, cadets have been an'nounced by Sergt. Harry E. Smith, Manual R. O. T, C. instructor. Cadet First Lieutenant James 'Smith led the marksmen with 161 i points out of a possible 200, and was followed by Cadet Sergt. Don Wiebke, 158; Cadet Private Clarence Craig, 150; Cadet Capt. J. Donald Blettner, 147, and Cadet Second Lieutenant Harold Bretsz, 128. |

Zimmer Named Most Valuable

By Teammates at Indiang u.

BLOOMINGTON, March 11.—An-

the beginning of Central of Lawrence's basketball year? Or that Charley Pugh used to be bat boy for the Ft. Harrison

Gather ‘round, then, and listen to who makes up this team that will be battling next Saturday for the right to go to the finals of the

But there are girls out at Lawrence, too. The cheer leaders, some say, are as responsible as the players for the team victories. Here they are, left to right, Fredda Miller, Jean Wildridge, Wanda Dear and BonBonnie is the sister of Harold Hay, one of the squad members.

Did'ja Know That Ed Lane Was On the 2d Team This Year?

MORRISON e wasn’t even on the first squad at

’

state tourney. Take Jake Luther. Hes 19. He was planning to go to college but now he thinks he'd like to go into the air corps. Both his parents are dead and he lives with his sister and brother-in-law, who is a technical sergeant at Ft. Harrison. Jake, according to coach Fred Keesling, is the guiding influence of the team. ' The boys look up to him. When things are going bad, and they see Jake out there smiling and calm, they take heart. He's an athlete. He pitches for the baseball team and is known as “Golden Toe” for his kicking work on the six-man football team. He works most of the time he isn’t in school—at nights and all #hrough the summers. When he isn’t thinking of athletics—it’s his “junker,” a beautiful old Ford. Fred Kautzman is co-captain with Luther. He's the boy you don't notice very much, but he’s a fine ballhandler and when the team slips a little, Kautzman goes in. A Team Man

His father is a dispatcher for the Big Four.. He never tried to play basketball much before he came to Lawrence, but is a team man valued highly by Keesling. Pete Negley lives in Oaklandon. His father works in the State Highway Commission offices. He's an only child, a “pretty fair” student, and wants to go to Purdue. He's quiet, effacing, but a terrific competitor when aroused. : Ed Lane’s faiher didn’t want him to play basketball Early in the season Keesling “gave up” on him and sent him back to the second team.

“He took it fine,” said Keesling. “He told me if I thought that was the thing to ‘do, that’s the way it would have to be. He said he'd be in there next year, perhaps better for it.” : ‘Most Improved’ But Keesling found hecouldn’t get along without big Ed. And when |he came back to the first squad, he was a much better player. He lives on a farm west of Castleton. Keesling says he’s the most improved boy on the team. Charley Pugh—one of 10 children. ' His father runs Pugh’s lunch at the corner of U. S. 67 and the Post road. He lives south of the fort. He’s one of Lawrence's outstanding athletes, is 'a regular infielder, but caught on last year’s Bear team. Wayne Pugh, who with Bob Kee, put out Brownsburgs fire in the opening game of the regionals last Saturday,

brother. How'd It Happen?

5 .

a (Ted Williams. Begins Drill:

Faces Queries

‘Conscience Is Clear,’ Says Red Sox Star - -

By GEORGE KIRKSEY United Press Staff Correspondent SARASOTA, Fla, March 11. — Steslitig himself to face a storm of abuse from the nation’s fans

_| because of his draft deferment, Ted Williams, ninth 400 hitter in Amer-

ican League history, today began

[training with the Boston Red Sox

to defend his crown as baseball's

| batting champion,

When he arrived last night after a 1700-mile automobile trip from

' | Minneapolis, Williams was so anx-

fous to get his hands on a bat he drove straight to the Red Sox clubhouse, 100 yards from the club's

- | hotel, and rushed to his locker. The

Jake Luther, who is the “guiding influence” of the team, acoprding

to Coach Fred Keesling, thinks of That’s his beloved “junker,” upon

one other thing beside basketball. which -he spends many ‘hours.

clubhouse was empty except for two attendants. “Where are my bats?” Williams queried of clubhouse man, ‘Johnny Orlando.

Fives Lined Up For National

COLUMBUS, O, Match 11 (U.

P.) —Eight crack teams, including seven “big league” . conference champions, were lined up today for the fourth annual national collegiate athletic association basketball tournament. Five of the eight contestants have been definitely named by district committees, two others will be decided in playoffs and the eighth— Dartmouth — is expected momentarily to receive faculty permission to compete. Harold G. Olsen, Mills Ohio State cage mentor and “father”

calls college basketball's “world series,” said he believed the 1042

in the country.” Here’s the lineup for the eastern and western regional playoffs at New Orleans and Kansas City on March 20-21: At New Orleans—Penn State: Kentucky, southeastern. conference champion, Illinois, Big Ten champion, coached by Doug Mills and Dartmouth, eastern intercollegiate league champion. At Kansas City—Rice, co-cham-pions of the southwestern conference; Colorado, Rocky Mountain conference champion, either Stanford or Oregon State, who will play for the Pacific coast title this weekend, and either Kansas or Oklahoma Aggies, respective winners in the Big Six and Missouri valley loops. The latter two teams meet at Kansas City Tuesday, to determine which will enter the N. C. A. A. playoffs.

Wisconsin Last Year

The two eastern and western survivors will battle March 28 at Kan<

last year by Wisconsin, The only one of last year’s district contenders back for another try is Dartmouth. Kansas was runnerup to Indiana in the 1940 meet while Rice and Colorado also competed in the western sectional] in 1940. Olsen said he believed this year’s entrants are “really representative of the best basketball played by topnotch colleges and universities.” A committee of coaches and officials selected the district entrants on the basis of season records, -

Dark Horses in

4-Ball Final

CORAL GABLES, Fla. March 11 (U. P.) —~An all-dark-Horse quartet

4 Lim E | Elmer Hy Cudahy

of the N. C. A. A. playoffs which he|jouis

representatives would be “the finest | Alfred

sas City for the national title, won|the

Is Too Rough

| Tom (Killer) Zaharias, voungest ‘member of the Colorado Zaharias clan, won over George (K. 0.) Kov‘|erley, Los Angeles roughneck, in the

dividend ‘of endur- | ing, —

main event of the weekly mat bill|

held at the Armory last night.

When you've got After splitting the first two falls

quick—you're ‘way concrete grips tires " But concrete’s ey i not ~ limited to emerge cies. Concrete pavement, es bein uniformly skid Sides beinz _ bighly visible at night. Its even,

flat-crowned surface carries

stop—

for the |out by Referee Harry Burris for un-

‘|necessary roughness at the 7 min‘lute’ mark of the third canto. | Zaharias won the first session in S minutes with a reverse body slam .and Koverley the second in 9 min‘utes with a body slam and press. Dorve Roche was billed to tangle with Andy Rascher in the semiwindup, but the Decatur, Ill, “Iron |Man"” was forced to withdraw due

with his rival, Koverley was tossed ||

drew (Handy Andy) Zimmer, who couldn't make a freshman basketball numeral, has been chosen as the Indiana university “most valuable player” for 1942. = Zimmer's teammates votéd him the distinction yesterday, a selection which makes him eligible to receive the trophy presented by

radio station WGN, Chicago, to the Western conference basketball player selected from the ten team representatives.

A unanimous choice for all-Big

Ten honors during the past season,

Zimmer scored 164 points for the

| Hooslers during’ the 2l-game sea-

son. As a

: helped Indiana capture the national

Andy Zimmer . . . team voted.

Tunney Promoted

To Navy Commander WASHINGTON, March 11 (U. P.). —Former heavyweight champion James J. (Gene) Tunney has been

collegiate’ basketball at a forward position. Last year he alternated with big Bill Menke at the pivot position and during the 1042 season Zimmer was siationed en at guard, where he became recognized as the best rebounder in the Western conference. A native of Goodland, Ind., Zim-

Glenn Seymour is the other regulaf. In the words of the coach, “he just loves to win.” He's 19 and a senior. He's an unorthodox player, tosses the ball from nowhere and was hard to play with until the boys caught on to his style. : “He’s overwhelmed by our winning,” said Keesling, -“After the winning games, he'll sometimes sit apart, wondering how it all hap-

_|tees off today in the final round of the $5000 international four-ball golf championship.

Although both tandems were over-

looked in the early rankings, the team of Herman Keiser of Akron, O., and Chandler Harper of Portsmouth, Va., was favored because of their “giant-killing” in early rounds.

Keiser fired eight birdies in 32 holes during yesterdays semi-

Hoosiers Still 3din A.B. C.

COLUMBUS, O., March 11 (U. P.) ~The American wling Congress entered: its ninth day of competition today with virtually no changes in the standings. Four shifts of firing by 250 bowlers failed to produce scores worthy of mention last night as a lowscoring plague seemed to infect the alleys. : The standings: FIVE MAN

Weighs i. Es Tadustrial, Kzabeth, N. J. 2790

Wright Hubber * Heels, Elyria, 0. .... 2752 righ t-Aero, Paterson, 2145 Dar te Bleach, Mount Pleasant, 1il.. 2744 DOUBLES Bert Stanger-Edmund Westbrook, St.

1205

- ann, dzien-H Harold Breutzm * q191

Vincent Gries, Elizabeth, Harold Breutzmiann, Cudahy, Wis." John Difloria, Buffalo LY. Lurch, Tenanec Donald Streeter, EE N. ¥ ALL EVENTS

Howard Dammel, Sinelunap Faragalli, Paterson, N. J. (Only two in all events)

Riley, Menke Lead Purdue

LAFAYETTE, March 11 (U. P.).— Robert Riley, junior guard from West Lafayette, and Allen Menke, sophomore center from Huntingburg, Ind. will co-captain Purdue university’s 1943 basketball team. Riley and Menke were elected by their teammates last night at the annual Purdue cage banquet which this year jointly celebrated Coach Ward Lambert's 25th year as Boilermaker basketball mentor. Forest (Frosty) Sprowl of Oblony, 111, was chosen most valuable player on the Purdue squad for the second consecutive year. Sprowl finished his last season as forward for ilermakers with a total of 186 ts scored in 15 games, gaining a berth on the Big Ten all-star conference team and third place in the conference scoring race. Twelve members of the basketball squad received major letter awards, seven of them going to outwardbound seniors. President Edward C. Elliott, in commemoration of Lambert's quar-ter-century of effective service, during which the Boilermakers have won 206 of 291 Big Ten starts, presented the veteran coach with a silver anniversary certificate especially prepared for the occasion.

Metcalfe a Director.

ANNISTON, Fla, March n~ Ralph Metcalfe, “world’s fastest human” when he was a sprinter at Marquette, is director of a national Catholic. community service recrea-| tion center | for Negro soldiers here.

. | willlams said.

1830 country and myself.

“In the trunk,” replied Orlando. But before Orlando could get them out Williams grabbed one of Dom DiMaggio’s bats and rushed.out to home’ plate and took some swings at an imaginary ball in the gather ing-dusk of an empty ball park.

Then the Questions

Manager Joe Cronin then came in to greet Willams with a “fello, kid.” They. shook hands and Williams asked, “what time does hitting prac tice start?” Then came the first of many ore deals for Willilams—an inquisition by the newspapermen about his strange case which saw him classi fled in 3A, shifted to 1A, and then

2153 | reclassified in 3A by the presidential

appeal board. For 30 minutes Williams answered every question put to him, explain-

1219| ing how: he obtained additional facts 1218 for the Minneapolis draft board and 1200 | how the highest Minnesota draft

authority recommended to him that he ask for an appeal.

“Did Nothing Wrong” “I didn’t do wrong,” “My conscience is clear and I think I am doing the right thing for my mother, my If the true facts of the case were knownelI don’t think anyone would try to crucify me. But I am not asking for any special consideration now or any time. My record is Tights there in the files. “If anybody thinks I have. a lot of money. they are wrong. I've been in the majors three years. The first season I didn’t make enough to pay all my yearly expenses. "IL made a little the second year, not much. Last year I made enough to invest $6000 in annuities. If I went into the service now that money would all be lost. I have to pay them up for the next two years but I hope to make enough to do that this year. Then I may enlist —I'm thinking about it, anyway. But I've never told anybody that I wanted to Play one more year and ul i Letters for Him ~ I" left, Mr, Harriige (president of ‘the American League), called me via long distance and said,

HOCKEY

Indianapolis Capitals “Buffalo Bisons TONITE—8:30 P. M. COLISEUM

Final Game Pittsburgh, _ Sun., « March 15

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otied and thinking how wonderful t is.” Glenn is a fighter, a fist-shaking pepperpot. Even in practice, he can't’ be stopped. His father works D0 Tae or and | they live near Oakiandon.

for the rst time tn years, for the first time in years.

A Patriotic Gong CORVALLIS, Ore. March 1.~ Playing of the national anthem was

the only thing that could stop tha a sey-

he

free-for-all between play- |

final play, eliminating defending champions Ben Hogan and Gene

Sarazen, 5 and 4. It was the third

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