Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 October 1942 — Page 16

SPORTS... Qi By Eddie Ash

er THEY are not counting

any of the football games

‘with service team in rating the college elevens. . . . That's as it should be. . . . The service teams are not required

to adhere to the college rules governing eligibility. This explains why the grid experts—at least the majority—size up Minnesota as the nation’s top team despite the Iowa Cadets’ 7-6 victory over the Gophers. . . In our book the Gophers are just as ‘golden as’ ever in collegiate competition. . . . Their backs will make many a team suffer from now on. , , . They have a superb line in

front of them.

Writing in the Chicago Tribune, Wilfrid Smith, one of DePauw university's all-time greats, gives an interesting analysis gf the Ohio State-Indiana game based on the number of rushes. . . «+ In that game the table of-statistics listed Ohio State with 67, Indiana with

only 36.

“Here is adequate explanation for Indiana's defeat despite the brilliance of its star runner and passer, Billy Hillenbrand,” says Smith. “This tabulation points to the weakness of the Hoosler's line

of defense.

“Brilliant as though Hillenbrand is on offense the young man uses none of his talents to help Indiana's defense against rushing.

Anytime Hillenbrand tackles a ball

carrier the damage already has

been done. In other words the runner has broken through the line

for a sizable gain by the time he territory. :

reaches Hillenbrand’s defensive

- Hoosiers Played Against Heavy Odds “PURTHER DEVELOPING this idea, Hillenbrand on offense, is only as good as his team is on defense. Playing with Ohio State ~ Saturday, for instance, he would have had a chance to participate in far more running plays than he actually did with Indiana. “Ohio State, in 60 minutes of play, had nearly twice the rushing opportunities. In other words, Indiana, by its own inadequate line defense, was playing with the odds 3 to 1 against it. “It is not unusual that the most successful halfbacks play on the football teams with the best tackles and guards. Expand the

idea and the capabilities of the team.”

the linemen determine the success of

Expert Hoople Gives You a Grid Parlay

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ANOTHER LETTER from Maj.

Amos Hoople, fullback and big

"front, concerning the big grid games coming up this week: “Egad! ~ My Boer war -experienceycomes in handy in adjudging the merits of the various football teams. If my perspicacity has not given out

s this will be a ‘large week for service establishments here and there,

SWith such fine teams as Towa pre-flight cadets, Great Lakes and Georgia pre-flight going into action against major foes, it’s a good thing your correspondent is an old soldier. : “My suggested parlay to you, gentle reader, is to play all the - army and navy teams to win. According to my astronomical calcu lations one game will be decided by a sacrifice fly, Illinois 3, Min

nesota 2,

“Perhaps I amaze you by choosing Bernie Bierman’s Seahawks to macerate Michigan, 13-6, Sometimes I am amazed at these pre-

dictions myself.”

/

Major Picks Irish and Purdue to Lose THEREUPON Maj. Hoople unloads his predictions and—umpf! «he picks Indiana to defeat Nebraska, Stanford to down Notre Dame and Northwestern to belt out Purdue. . . . The Hoople specials:

Indiana 21, Neb, 6. Colgate 13, Dart’th 12. Brown 15, Columbia 0. Army 9, Cornell 7. Navy 7, Princeton 6. Bos, Col, 23, Cle’son 6. N. Car., 1, Fordham 6. Xale 20, Penn, U, 6.

Wm.-Mary 12, H'v'd 0. Kentucky 9, Vandy 7. * Oregon 14, Wash., 12.

Stant’d 21, N. Dame 6. N'west’n 20, Purdue 0. ~ Ja. Cadets 13, Mich., 6. - Gr. Lakes 21, Pitt. 7. C’p Grant 13, Iowa 6. IIL, 3, Minn, 2. 8. Cal, 12, O. State 7. Wis, 14, Missouri 6. ,

Auburn 12, Florida 7. Ga. Cadets 14, Duke 12. ° La. St., 14, Miss. St., 6. Rice 7, Tulane 0. Okla.-13, Texas 7. Miss, 16, Georgia 14. Kas, 13, T.C. U, 12. 8S. Clara 18, Calif, 14.

Hurrle to Start for Purdue; Bertelli Given New Berth

LAFAYETTE, Oct. T (U., P)=— Purdue's Boilermakers tasted Northwestern offensive tactics for the first time yesterday when Coach “Eimer Burnham sent his varsity a freshman squad that dummied the Wildcat plays to per-

But the scrimmage revealed that Purdue’s defense was in for some ‘quick stiffening or another debacle of the Vanderbilt variety would be the result, : The Northwestern game Saturday will be the rubber match and the

Otto Hurrle, sophomore center i from Indianapolis Cathedral, was ‘good bet to replace Alex Leugo

3 knee and is determined to play, even though his leg is still healing.

ox Trim Cubs or City Title

CHICAGO, Oct. 7 (U. P.).—~All quiet on the baseball front toy as the last of the major teams, Chicago Cubs and Sox, dispersed r the Sox won the Chicago city es four games to two. . ‘It was the eighth consecutive time

SOUTH BEND, Oct. 7 (U, P.) = Prank Leahy began scrambling his backs again today in an effort to find an elastic combination to use against Stanford Saturday, when the two foremost exponents of the “T” formation clash here. Leahy shifted Russell Ashbaugh from quarterback to right half, and moved right guard Harry Wright to the signal calling post in an effort to relieve Angelo Bertelli of leader ship responsibilities. : Leahy said Bertelli was inexperienced and too self-conscious in the signal calling position and would not call his own number. Leahy believes that without the added duties of directing the team, Bertelli will be more valuable to the Irish. Wright played quarterback for Notre Dame last year. The squad spent the greater part of its drill in dummy scrimmage against Stanford’s plays, which are sure to be sprung by Coach Marchy Schwartz, former Notre Dame great, who employs the same T-formation as the Irish. '

® Grid-Irony By TOM LIEB Head Coach, University of Floride Tl never forget the day the Notre Dame team which featured the Four Horsemen played Wis consin at Madison, About the middle of the second quarter, when Notre Dame was ahead by three touchdowns, this incident happened: : ' The field judge—a big, fat fellow—was carrying a revolver to stop the game at the half. In jumping around on the recovery of a punt, the revolver dropped

|Indiana Has

full fury.

lat Madison where Harry Stuhl-

-| Michigan at Ann Arbor, .I like the

Grange Picks N.

8% ‘Louis Gives Cardinals the Glad Hand

Power Over Cornhuskers

By RED GRANGE The Original Man-in-Motion

CHICAGO Oct. 7.~~Notre Dame,

to move into high gear Saturday with Stanford as the proving ground. The Indians, no great shakes on the Pacific coast, invade South Bend in an attempt to carry on the upset tradition set by Wisconsin and Georgia Tech in the first two weeks of the campaign. t The Irish, tied by the Badgers and beaten by the Engineers, face a team coached by one of the greats of the 1930 Notre Dame national champions, Marchmont Schwartz, It is an odd twist, in that Frank Leahy's 43 edition was favorably compared to the '30 array in pre-season roundups. One of these Saturdays, the latent Irish power is going to explode in| They have depth and talent, but apparently the machinations of the T have proved confus-| ing. ~ - The Leahy-men are my choice to scalp the Indians — perhaps in a"

rout. Sticks With Badgers The lean years seem to be over

dreher has welded a Badger defense to go along with his potent offense of last season. Missouri, well-manned under the astute Don Faurot, invades the Badger lair in a real test. I'm sticking with Wis-

consin, ; Lieut.-Col, Bernie Bierman has a fine powerhouse rolling in the Iowa Air Cadets. The fliers snapped Minnesota's victory skein at 18 and face another imposing barrier In

Speedy Swede To Race Rice

NEW YORK, Oct. 7 (U, P.)~— teams. 2 Track and field fans are in for oo Innescfa should ii an entertaining winier, with indoor and Northwestern, Whicn Wen a ind to y Jo Hin Song Bre et ry, TT 8 ™speedy Swede, tangle with little Paul Brown's speedy Ohio State Greg Rice, The word is that Hagg, backs should ramble against South- who now holds all world marks diana hss too much power for| Sweden for America by plane about Nebraska at Lincoln, Marquette is Dec: 1. Arne Anderssen, the Vengke to my choice over Iowa State at Ames. a

Bluejackets Over Pitt ately attempting to obtain leave

Great Lakes is rolling and rates|from his post as a school teacher over Pittsburgh in Cleveland. to join the expedition, Hakan LidThere will be no secrets as Penn-|man, outstanding Swedish hurdler sylvania tackles Yale at New Haven. who hasn't been defeated in six George Munger of Penn and his as-| years, also is expected to make the sistant of last season, Howie Odell|trip. of Yale, will direct the strategies.| The Swedes never have run inThe Quakers are out of the Eli class./ doors, which makes Rice, the little Skip Stahley has a dark-horse ati mechanical man from Notre Dame, Brown, and I'm picking the Bruins|g pretty good bet at his favorite to upset Columbia in New York. distance of two miles. Rice never Cornell is young and inexperienced has been pressed at this distance, and Army ‘is understaffed, but I'll gong a session with Hagg and AnMazur to spill the Ithacans at West|;, oo Point. >» Fordham, routed by Tennessee,| Hammering Henry Armstrong, tastes southern chivalry again in|fighting his way back toward a New York when North Caroline in-|main event at Madison Square Garvades, The Ram is my choice. den, still pulls in the fans. He drew Navy and Princeton have moved|qa $20,000 gate in Oakland, Cal, and their game to Yankee stadium, and|tyrned in a five-round knockout the Middies shouldn't have too much) victory over highly regarded Earl fguble taking the snarl out of the Turner, The boys in eaulifiower ger. ~ |eanyon believe that the former tri. ~~~Cholee Upsets ple-crown king won't be long catch Hels Slo CUO NPIL Shite: Dele 3 Wain East. , , gate to beat Dartmouth at Hanover. s ® » William and Mary to top Harvard| Freddie Fitzsimmons of the late at Cambridge. ; lamented Dodgers is pushing the Buff Donelli of Duquesne, one of|Sale of war bonds and stamps at the game's unsung strategists, his Flatbush bowling emporium. A should take Kansas State in stride|special committee greets all bowlers in Pittsburgh. Manhattan wins the|8t the door and well, Brookiyn benod over Georgetown in Washing-|ing Brooklyn, you better buy, brothton. er. . , « Al (The Vest) Weill heard Georgia = Mississippi at Athens|a fight manager remark that he and Tulane-Rice in New Orleans had seven fighters in the service. are southern features. I like the|Weill snorted and said: “You've got Bulldog with Frankie Swish angseven I've fob 10-inwaiid they. tan

’ have my other three when - Georgia Air Cadets are too heavily| for them.” , , . Wey ask buttressed for Duke at Durham and 2 8 = the North Carolina Fliers should| A leading golf pro suggests take North Carolina State at Ra-|the U. 8. G. A, lift the leigh. Vanderbilt can go as it|ing only five minutes to 1 pleases against Kentucky at Lex-|[lost ball. Seems kind ington. Auburn holds a slight edge| though, because we alwi over Florida at Gainesville, until sundown anyhow,

Texans Bounce Back

Tennessee has little more than a scrimmage against Dayton at Knoxville. Mississippi State figures to top Louisiana State at Bajon Rouge. In other games: Boston college to| Last night's leading bowlers: win eat Clemson; South Caroling Bob Susemichel, Commercial . over West Virginia at Morgantown; | Jen hr V. M. I over Virginia at Charlottes. | Boy B» ville, and Wake Forest over Fur- Joe Bea, West - n Ne

Bowling Scores

Dallas. Texas Christian is a strong Tavorite over Kansas at Ft. Worth. Frits M ; io kansas gets a wink over Baylor ehring, Ri Becreatio

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Dead Heat

DETROIT, Oct. 7 (U. P.)= A dead heat for first place among three horses — believed to be the first in the history of the American turf—was registered at Detroit yesterday when Sabra, OCutloose and Queen Echo broke the camera's beam together in the fifth race. The finish was so close that only a nose separated the leading three horses from Mack's Gem, with Southern Jane in fifth place, only another head away. A three-horse dead heat for show was registered last year at Thistledown.

Chanute Field Net Card Is Canceled

Times Special CHANUTE FIELD, Ill, Oct. 7.~— Chanute Field will have no post basketball team this winter, Maj. Spencer Barlow said this week, but will devote all of its athletic facilities and personnel ‘to “developing physically trained and hardened individuals.” This policy of all-out emphasis on physical training is sounded in a circular issued by headquarters, 2d district, army air forces technical tralning command, which reads in part, “athletic events of this command will be confined to intramural contests within the limits of the Ma). Barlow, special services officer, pointed to army air forces technical training .command athletic policy in announcing that considered plans for a 3l-game basketball schedule with colleges and universities in this vicinity .will be abandoned. Among reasons cited by the message for not having a post team were transportation difficulties and the belief such -competition would interfere with training of soldiers,

For Poetic Justice

Yale Over Penn

SIOUX CITY, Iowa, Oct. 7 (U. P.).—Mrs. H. H. Odell of Sioux City will attend the Yale-Pennsylvania football game at New Haven, Conn. Saturday. . That would be a routine society page item except for these extenuating circumstances: Her oldest son, Howard, is head

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A crowd estimated at 50,000 turned out fo reseive the St. Louis Cardinals yesterday when they returned home after winning, the final four games of the world series from the Yanked®. George (Whitey) Kurowski, rookie third baseman (upper left) waves his arm. He locks happy. His ninth-inning homer with a mate on base clinehed the series Mondey. A portion of the erowd that pasked the street near the union station is shown In the right picture (above).

Dana X. Bible May Have Been

C.U. and Rice

AUSTIN, Tex, Oct. 7 (U, P.) ~Last August, when most people were looking the other way, Dana X. Bible predicted that Texas Christian and Rice were the Southwest conference football teams most likely to

Omitting his own Texas Longhorns, Bible pointed out that T. ©. U, retained most of the power that beat Texas’ wonder team in 1941 and

that Jesse Neely’s Rice Owls had an improved eleven and a favorable schedule with seven home games. In this year of travel difficulty, the home-game factor looms more important by the week. . Two weeks of competition finds Texas Christian and Rice alone among the undefeated teams from the Southwest conference's. seven members. Texas Christian has a good chance to continue its winning streak over Kansas at Fi. Worth this week, for the Jayhawkers have been mediocre so far,

Aerial Strength” For Rice, which goes to New Orleans to meet Tulane, the outlook is different. Tulane upset Southern California then stumbled against Alabama Poly. But if Rice, whose chief weakness is lack of reserve strength, can get past Tulane, its stock—already ascending as a result of last week's triumph over Louisiana State—will rise still more. Both undefeated Southwest'teams have aerial strength, a department in which the other teams seem weaker than usual, T, 0, U/s. combination of Emery Nix to Bruce Alford, the latter a candidate for all-America end, beat Arkansas last week, For Rice, it was sophomore Virgil Eikenberg who passed Louisiana State into defeat. Failure of its passing attack was a prin reason for Texas’ 3-0 loss to@Northwestern. Texas went to the air in an attempt to capital ize on its several scoring oppor tunities, but nothing came of it. Texas renews its long rivalry with Oklahoma university at Dallas this week. All odds favor the Longhorns,

Russian Soldier Sets Record

MOSCOW, Oct. 1 (U. P.)—Moscow radio said today that a Russian soldier named Sivanin had set a new world record of 1 hour 3 minutes and 51 seconds for the 20,000-meter run, Sivanin was said to be an army instructor. In a talk broadcast by the radio he pointed out that the war had not hampered the development of sport in Russia.

Named Coach

AMES, Iowa, Oct. 7 (U. P.).—En~ sign Robert Charles, former Uni. versity of Toledo basketball star, today was named coach of the Iowa State college naval training school basketball team. He was graduated from Toledo in 1940 and atténded the Harvard graduate school of business administration before en-

tering the navy.

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ST. LOUIS, Oct. 7 (U. P.).—The

St. Louis Cardinals, « happy bunch

of apple-cheeked kids who knocked over the New York Yankees four in a row, were home today, glad to have done with most of the hullabaloo attendant upon the world’s baseball champions. The Red Birds took their amazing world sereis victory in their stride, but facing the mighty Yankees was nothing to running into the mob of

160,000 excited fans that roared a

welcome when the players stepped off -the train here last night. Johnny Beagley, the brash young

rookie who defiled precedent to win } [two games of the first world series

he had ever seen, took-s look at the crowd and summed up the senti«

iL: [ment of his teammates.

Bosse Hosts Northern Foe

By UNITED PRESS South Bend Washington, unbeat« en and untied, tangles with Evansville Bosse in the outstanding intersectional contest on this week's high school card, while the Northern conference divisions—hotbed of Hoosier powerhouse football—go back to war,

Five unbeaten squads from the powerful northern league resume the chase for the mythical state title, and four strong Evansville elevens play hosts in a big home-card week-end. At least one unbeaten outfit is due for a tumble when Elkhart and South Bend Riley, both cleanslate aggregations, square off in the outstanding eastern division battle Friday. night.

. Mishawaka at Goshen

Riley now leads its conference with a trio of victories, while close behind is South Bend Washington with two wins, and Elkhart and Michigan City with one triumph each, . Topping off the eastern loop card will be Mishawaka at Goshen; Laporte at Valparaiso and Michigan City at South Eend Central. In the northern league’s western circuit, where defending state champion Gary Lew Wallace heads the standings with two conference victories, the top battle on the card appears to be the Lew WallaceWhiting game. Gridiron attention centers on Evansville as the far South present four ftopsnotch contests. Bosse, once-beaten buf still dangerous, faces the power of the north, South Bend Washington, in Saturday's highlight. : Evansville Central risks its unbeaten SIAC record against twicebeaten Vincennes; a strong Evansville Memorial machine hosts Boonville Thursday, and Princeton, now leading the conference with three victories and no losses, meets Evansville ‘Reitz.

baseman from the coal fields, was the first to step off

“Gosh!” he said. “I'd rather face

: the Yankees!”

Maestro Southworth George Kurowski, the blond third Pennsylvania

the train. He got an earful of the uproar and started back. But four

j |husky policemen hoisted him on

their shoulders and broke through the crowd while a band played “There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight.” It was Kurowski’s home run in the ninth inning thet clinched the fifth and final game of the series for the Cards. \ The players were herded to an improvised platform’ at one ene trance to union station where Mane ager Billy Southworth introdueed every member of the organization, Jimmy Brown, tough little second baseman, got a great hand from the fans when he said: “You see, folks, we just got the most runs and that was what we wanted. After that we got the most dollars, and that was what we really wanted,” :

Beasley Bluffed

Beasley, who intends to join the marines when he returns to bis Nashville, Tenn. home, said he anted to let everyone know he was “just. as scared as Billy Southworth” when he pulled his big bluff in the final game with the Yankees. The Yankees then had three men on base and only ong out. South worth walked out on the mound and said, “Johnny, are you all okay?” “Sure, Billy,” Beazley replied. “I'm / all right, but how are you?” “I was just bluffing then,” he told the crowd. “Honestly, I was plenty scared.”

Club President

Leonard King was elected presi- * dent of the Pleasant Run Men's Golf club last night at the organ ization’s annual banquet. Ralph Webber was elected vice president. Other new officers are Art Smith, secretary; Charles Spahr, treasurer, and Bob Schuman, recording sec retary.

Fisherman Wickett

GORVALLIS, Oct. 7. — Lloyd Wickett, Oregon State’s letterman left tackle, spent the symmer as a professional fisherman in Alaska.

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