Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 July 1942 — Page 20

SPORTS .

By Eddie Ash

3 THE University of Wisconsin's 1940 boxing squad ‘was a fighting bunch of lads. . . . They battled their yay to six wins in seven dual meets, won two NCAA itles, and what good Badgers believe to be a fine hold

a third title.

Today, when the youth of America is called on to do fighting a much more serious vein, eight of the nine members of that eat combination are now continuing their fighting i under

colors of Uncle Sam.

- Woodrow Swancutt of Wisconsin Rapids was one of the most orful 156-pounders ever to wear Cardinal trunks. . . . He was wice NCAA champion and became famed for his lightning knockout ttacks, . . . Today he is a first lieutenant in the army air corps. . Ray Cramer and Stanley Kozuszek are also wearing the silver

gs of the army. Warren Jollymore was only a

sophomore that season, but he

y came into his own this past season to take the NCAA 145pound crown and won the John S. La Rowe trophy for being the itstanding competitor in the tournament. . , . He is now in train in California to join Swancutt, et al, in the army air corps.

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OMAR CROCKER still holds the highest niche in Wisconsin lore. . . . His knockout record reads like the accomplishments 2 one-man army. . . . He is now a captain in the army. Three of the 1940 boxers have favored the navy, all of them air ‘branch. . . . Bill Roth, 165 pounds, Clay Hogan, 127 pounds, ve already earned their wings as members of the first group of Badgers, a name which is fast becoming famous in the navy corps. . . . Little Bob Sachtschale is a member of the fourth unit ‘the Flying Badgers and is now getting further toughening up

the navy’s ‘pre-flight school at:

Iowg City.

Svner Wrigley ‘Cures’ Lou Novikoft

i : ALTHOUGH Owner P. K. Wrigley of th Chicago Cubs readily f qa he isn’t an expert on the science of the baseball, he has ap-

his own cure to bring a player out of a& long batting slump,

pd it has worked, reveals Shirley Povich of the Washington: Post. “The story was told by a high government official who was a . visitor to Wrigley’s Chicago office the other day,’ says Povich. . i “In the midst of their conference, Wrigley’s telephone bell ed and the message he received caused him to ejaculate: ‘Great I’ His visitor asked him why the elation and ‘Wrigley said: ‘Lou

vikoft just hit a home run..

ce + it customary. for Wrigley to be advised wheiiever Novikoff

a home run, he was asked?

‘No, said Wrigley, but. he was

fate + interested, he added. -And then he told the story. ,

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«q GUESS Novikoff’s my favorite ball player,’ he related. ‘On

minor league clubs, he led every

league he played with in hitting,

t one, but every time we brought him up to the majors, he flopped. knew he'd be a great favorite with Chicago fans if he started hitg, but Jimmy Wilson, our manager, told me Novikoff was brying outguess the National league pitchers.

8tood With Bat On His Shoulder

# “qIN THE MINORS, Novikoff could try a guess with the pitchers oy hd get his hits, but up here the pitching was too smart for him,

e took too many strikes through

the middle. It sickened me to

him stand with his bat on his shoulder. I brought him up to office one day and talked fo him. I told Lou he was taking too called strikes, He has a powerful swing and I wanted him

0 keep swinging, I said, and stop 44 “To encourage him, I said I

th his bat on his shoulder he got

guessing. 'd give him $10 every time he

out, if he struck out swinging: If he let a third strike pass

nothing. He's been hitting 370

since and the whole experiment has cost me only $30.”

at a Glance

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GAMES TODAY AMERICAN ASSOCIATION (All Games at Night)

t St. Paul sas City at St Paul, (two).

AMERICAN LEAGUE nd at Now York. \ladelphia. hington (night).

NATIONAL EAGLE

RESULTS YESTERDAY

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION ' (Ten Innings)

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Detroit . Pm ts ° was ashington ..... 100 010 100 01— 4 12 ©

Bridges, White and 'Tebbetts, Parsons; Wynn and Early.

NATIONAL LEAGUE .

(First game) iladelphis 2111-000 1 00 020— 8 3 I ji . 020 1% 22x 7 a 1 Horst, Pearson ‘Nahem and Wasson; Beazley and W. Cooper. (Second game) Philadelphia ves 100 200 100—4 7 B St. A nin 107 dot— 9 11 1 Woy Beck Naylor and Warren; Dickson and 0’'De

Bost. | rinse gu for si0 000—2 & 3 Boston, : 012 000 80x— § 12

Tobin and Lombardi; Walters and La-

; Boeond Boston ...... {Seon ol 050 101-7 9 © Cincinnati . . 000 001 100— 2 7

Salvo and Klatts; "Der r, Thompson, Shoun and Hemsley, West, Lamanno.

New Pittsburgh Car, enter, Sunkel, Adams and Danning; Sewe! opes. ke . 018 35 01010 3 3 Chien 0 000 2 i an 5 and Owen; Passeau, “ni

way ef Pressnell, Mooty and Herpandes, McCullough,

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Major Leaders

NATIONAL LEAGUE

Times

the championship.

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Seeded Netmen Near Finals

NEW YORK, July 16 (U. P).— Argentina’s tennis champion, Alejo Russell of Buenos Aires, faces a severe test today against Charles T.

Mattmann, towering blond slugger from Forest Hills, in a quarter-final match of the Eastern men's clay court singles championships. Russell reached the quarter-final round yesterday with a 4-6, 6-4, 6-3, victory over George Ball of El Paso, Tex., and Mattmann advanced over Eddie Moylan of Trenton, N. J., 7-5, 1-6, 6-4. Top-seeded. Ted ‘Schroeder of Glendale, Cal, Sidney B. Wood Jr., of New York, Harris Everett of Jacksonville, Fla.,, and Francisco

Segura of Ecuador also advanced

into the Quarter-finals. Schroeder eliminated: Richard Odman of Seattle, Wash,, 6-2 6-4, and Dick Hart of Miami, 5-7, 8-6, 6-2. In the women’s singles, Edna Steinbach, Jackson Heights, reached the semi-finals by beating Argyll Rice, Hartford, Conn., 9-7, 6-2. Helen Bernhard, New York, seeded second, reached the quarter-finals as did Nellie ‘Sheer of Miami, Miss'Bernhard defeated .Mrs. Rose . Boch of Elmhurst, N. ¥., 6-0, 6-0 and Miss Sheer upset Mrs. Millicent Hirshlang of New York, 6-1, 0-6, 6-2. Mary Jane Metcalf of Winter

1| Park, Fla., won over Tung Grinles

Deer, Kigsai On Mitt Show

The . signing . today of “Tiger” Kiggans, Indianapolis welterweight, by Matchmaker Lloyd Carter completed the five-event professional mitt bill to be offered local boxing fans tomorrow. night at the open air Sports Arena. Kiggans will meet Arnold Deer, another local scrapper, in the opening four-round clash on the card. Headline action will be provided when Johnny Denson, 190-pound Allison war worker, collides with Leo (Red) Bruce, also an Indianapolis heavyweight, in the top 10round battle. = Another ‘featured 10-round mill will pair Jimmy Brownlee of Butte, Mont. against Bud Cottey, popular Indianapolis - junior welter. Marshall Allison of Shelbyville and Joe Poindexter of Indianapolis, will tangle in the top prelim, scheduled for six sessions. : Another fourrounder brings together Roy Lewis of Munele and Roy Reeves of Cleveland, O.

'Show-M ¢ Players Lead Grid Poll

CHICAGO, July 16 (U. P)— Three members of the University

2881. of Missouri's Sugar Bowl team.

took over the leas at their posi« [5 tions today for places onthe col-

i52] lege all-star football tesm that

oppose the Chicago here Aug. 28. Bears The Missouri stars "who moved ahead in the nation-wide poll were Center Darold Jenkins with 18,156 votes, Guard Bob Jeffries with 17,278 votes and Tackle Norv ‘Wallach with 15,104 votes. ° : The individual poll quarterback Don Northwestern with 47,356 votes.

| Puerto Rican

CHICAGO. July in Bit-|

“113 to 2.

Reed, Kowal, David Among { 3 Survivors for Today’s Play;

[Seott, Morey Upset Victims

David Eliminates Dick McCreary, 2 Up, Firing 2 a 2 Below Par 33 on the Front 9 Holes

Special

WEST LAFAYETTE, July 16.—When the firing is over today "we men will have survived the semi-final round of the 42d annual state amateur golf tournament and will batile over 36 holes tomorrow for

Eight survivors of the original field of 115 teed off this HorBinG. Another 13 holes of match play was scheduled for this afternoon.

And among the classy eight are

. {three Indianapolis representatives, : |Bill ‘Reed, Henry Kowal and John

David. [Reed and Kowal are in the same upper bracket and if they were to win this morning they would ‘be paired with each other in the afternoon round. ‘David is paired in the lower bracket making it possible for an all-Indianapolis final tomorrow morning. v

Campbell Beats Morey

tournament’s medalist, and Dale Morey, the runner-up and present Indianapolis District golf champ, were early upset victims. Reed eliminated Scott yesterday morning, 2 ‘to 1, and Morey’ was ousted by Keith Campbell of Lo-

lost to Phil Talbot. Today's upper bracket schedule called ‘for the: following matches:

Talbot,” Bloomington, vs. Henry Kowal, Indianapolis. . The lower bracket schedule was: - John David, Indianapolis, vs. Tom Buyaker, South Bend, and Bill, Dahl,

Richmond. _ Close Call With McCreary David played his best .game in

§ [the afternoon against Dick Mc-

Creary, Indianapolis Meridian Hills and former state amateur champ.

after doing the first nine in 33, two below par. He was 1 up coming into the 18th green and birdied with a 3 for his victory. Kowal was extended to an extra hole in his afternoon match against Noble Knowlton. of Lebanon. He was three down 'at the turn, evened the score, lost it_and evened the score again before taking a three on the extra hole, Reed won his second-round match gos W, Q. Neal of Crawfordsville, 4 and 3,

Sparks Wins Thriller

After playing three extra holes to beat Bob Blake, Anderson, in the morning, Paul Sparks of Speedway lost in the afternoon to Dick Taylor, who is playing his home course. Taylor won, 3 and 2. Bill Dahl, the state junior champ, qualified for the quarter-findls by downing Andy Granock, Hammond, 3 and 2. Grdnock won ' his firstround match from Ike Cummings, Indianapolis Country club. Dick Stackhouse, Indianapolis, lost to Tom Buyaker, South Bend, in the afternoon, 3 and 2, after Stackhouse had eliminated a fellow townsman, Harold Cork, 2 and 1, in the morning. Charles Harter, Speedway, lost his morning round to McCreary, 3 and 1, after Harter had a 1-up margin at the turn.

Former Net Star With Red Cross

WASHINGTON, July 16 (U. PJ). —Mary K. Browne, former national women’s tennis champion, has been assigned to Red Cross duty with the

_.- armed: forces in Australia and with .|three associates has “arrived safely

at an Australian port,” the Red Cross: announced today. Miss Browne, formerly associated with the Office of Civilian Defense at its national headquarters here, will serve ag an assistant club director for the Red Cross.

LA. B. A. Allows

Two Protests

The Indianapolis Amateur Baseball association allowed two pro-

Sunday league. : Ft. Harrison had to forfeit last Sunday’s game to Empire Life for using an ineligible player and Leonard Cleaners /had to give up a game played June 7 to Falls City. The forfeits made no change in the league stan Sunday's sch game between Falls City and Gold Medal Beer has been moved to Garfield park diamond No. 3.

Trotters Attract

NEW YORK, July 16.—More. tha 20,000 ' tickets were sold f benefit ‘for service men whi opened a 55-day meeting for trotters at Roosevelt raceway, Westbury, L. I.

Softball Notes

Jimmy Scott, New Albany, the|

gansport, 5 and 4. Campbell later].

« Bill Reed, Indianapolis, vs. Dick| | Taylor, West Lafayette, and Phil

West Lafayette, vs. W. W.: Norton, :

David, the 1940 winner, won, 2 up|

tests last night in the Municipal }

The Em-Roe Industrial lea, Ti 3 cheagle io Facts and at nT fom

PY adale Afams or ft Auto bo Parts v8,

7: Wire Bound Box. 8:15 -Machine vs, Bridge-

weg Fr ‘D. Adams vs. La Pinfa Whole-

Riverside Amusement park won the Emdium last niet by t - neers um : ing, to 32

Lukas-Ha 3 Place ‘by defeating Rose's

Stout sta- ||

Bergere 3 E

Indianapolis .assigned affer training.

Longtail.”

field in a remarkable ghratch drive to win the Massachusetts handicap yesterday, will be shipped to Chicago for the $25,000-adcied Arlington handicap, Aug. 1, and then will go to Saratoga. He has been nominated for six stakes there, including the $10,000 sarz toga handicap and $10,000 Saratoge cup. The Calumet cannon:hall created

biscuit’s all-time earning mark with a 2%-length victory ove: the Irishbred Rounders in the $50,000 Suffolk Downs feature. Whitly’s fifth triumph in 10 starts this season earned him $43,850 and shot his life-time winnings to vit, 336 in his

“The Jack: Bot

Boston, Mass, July 16 (U. P.).—Here’s how hirlaway eclipsed Seabiscuit’s | all-time money-winning reccic as result: of his triumph in the $50,000 added Massachusetts handicap at Suffcls Downs

yesterday: WHIRLAWAY Starts Wirs Earnings 16 7 $725 20 13 272,386 10 5 | 1046%

. Totals... 46 25 || $454,336 SEABISCUIT Starts wits Earnings 33 5 812510 23 | $28,995 15 | 168,580 11 i 130,395 1 Hi 400: 4 | 96,850 -

Totals ... 89 $437,730

brief three years at thie races. Seabiscuit was a sever -vear-old vet when he closed out his career with purses totaling $437,730.

all-America .out-curver to run straight, described it as the “best race he has ever run’ = And it undoubtedly ‘was. The (riumph was even more - brilliant] than Seabiscuit’s in the Massa; iiusetts. The ‘Biscuit had been thg only favorite ever to win seven. previous runnings of this stake—the ‘graveyard of champions.” - Th Trailed at Start

The . four - year = Oud Bluegrass beauty trailed far i: the ruck at the start but began 0 move in the backstretch, roared {nto contention | stretch and

Something Difrerent in

AUTO RACING

"It was “goodbye” for six weeks when Capt. Cliff Bergere left his wife: at Municipal airport Sunday en route to Miami Beach, Fla. to attend officers’ training school in the army air force.

The headline

Mr. Longtail Passes "Biscuit's All-Time Race Earning Mark

~ BOSTON, July 16 (IJ. P)—Big Ben Jones today groomed little Whirlaway, the “crazy” [horse that became the greatest money- winner

in racing history, to: extend his golden record beyond the fabulous $500,000 mark—a feat conjsigered impossible before the advent of “Mr.

Whirlaway, who fla iated his bushy tail in front of a seven-horse

racing history and shéitered Sea-|

Trainer Jones, who taught the|

and Whirly pour it on that the Warren Wright ace covered the mile and furlong course in 1 minute, 48 1-5 seconds, clipping two-fifths of a/second from the track record set by War Relic in winning the event

[Tribe Returns To Celebrate ‘Shrine Night’ Waste Good Pitching And Lose, 5 to 4

The Indians rolled in from Louisville today to begin another home stand at Victory field, opening with the Toledo Mud Hens under "the lights tonight. This home stay will be brief, calling for seven games, three with Toledo and four with the Columbus Red Birds. > Shrine night is to be celebrated at the Tribe park tonight and ceremonies are to begin at 7:30 and finish at 8:30. All hitting and fielding practice must be completed by 7:25. Players of both clubs are to stand at attention in front of. their respective dugouts when the Murat Temple band plays the National Anthem. The pre-game program will ‘consist of a band concert and entertainment by the local Shrine drill team. Toledo a Tough Foe

The Indians and Mud Hens will swing into diamond action at 8:45. Ray Poat is the probable Tribe pitcher for the mound toil in the series opener although Bob Logan also is ready for the tall. Owing to the fact the Shriners’ share of tonights receipts goes to their hospital for crippled children, no - complimentary tickets will be issued or honored except for Tribe players’ wives. Good pitching by Steve Rachunok in Louisville last night was wasted and the Colonels edged the Indians, 5 to 4. Big Steve held Louisville to seven hits but four Tribe errors beat him, two by Rabbit McDowell, one by Bill Skelley and one by Johnny McCarthy. All were costly and helped the Cdlanels manufacture runs.

Lose On 10 Hits The Redskins garnered 10 hits off

was the sixth when they splurged for three runs on singles by MecDowell, Joe Moore, Joe Bestudik and Gil English and a Louisville error. Wayne Blackburn smacked a home run as first up in the game. His drive cleared the right field fence. That's quite a feat for “Blackie.” Louisville tied it up ‘in the third and took the lead in the fourth by scoring twice. Then the Indians snatched the lead,. 4 to 3, in the sixth only to falter and the Colonels tied it at 4-all in their sixth. The Colonels chalked the winning run in the seventh. Morgan was safe when McCarthy juggled his bunt, Lazor sacrificed and Gilbert lined a double to left, scoring Morgan. That was the ball game. How=ever, the Indians won the series,

two games to one.

Nelson Potter and their best inning|gin

Gene Saran

Ryder Teams Rated Evenly

DETROIT, July 18 (U. P) is Sarazen, one of the earlier arrivals for the Ryder Cup charity golf matches beginning Saturday, said today as he began serious practice for his role as a member of Capt.

Craig Wood’s Ryder team, that “at \

best, the two teams should be rated at even money.” “Personally,” he said, “I'm ne clined to believe the challengers will win, especially if we play eight man teams. If we play 10 men & day, the Ryder team will have the edge. 2” : The stocky veteran's prediction carries the ring of authority because he has been on the losing as well as the winning sides in Detroit’s last two Ryder Cup challenge rounds. In 184, he led @ group of challengers:against Walter Hagen’s cup squad and lost, 7-5. Last year, Bobby Jones’ challenge team, including Sarazen, whipped the Hezig’s players by the same mar=-

“The fact that the Ryder team

won't have Sammy Snead to help’

them this ‘year is a big factor,”

Movie, Director Is Tough Boss--Dickey

NEW YORK, July 16—Bill Dick-

ey calls Sam Wood, who directed the Lou Gehrig picture, “Pride of the Yankees,” the toughest hoss he’s ever had. “Gary Cooper (acting the part of Gehrig) batted fourth,” exe plains the New York .Yankee catcher, “but every time he'd get through and I'd step up to the plate the director would shout ‘cut!’ ” ;

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