Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 October 1942 — Page 29

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THE Detroit Tigers ave. purchased Joe Hoover, “shortstop, from the Hollywood club of the Pacific coast league. . . . He batted .329 for Hollywood this, year. .'« « Hoover is a former Indianapolis. player. . . . The Indians

signed him off the sandlots i in 1937 an sold him to Holly-

‘wood in 1988."

Pvt. Morrie Arnovich did not ‘voport to the odisapolis:.

Indians last spring because Uncle Sam had first call, managed the

Ft. Lewis, Wash, nine this summer and his team had a record of

39 wins and only six losses. +» + Morrie led his club at bat witli an average of 368. : Leading Arnovich's pitchers was the giant Negro, Stafl’ Sergt. Ford Smith, formerly with the Kansas City Monarchs, who had 17 (victories: ‘and enly two losses. ; Duster ‘Mails, ‘dt 48, enlisted in the marines on July 31.

After. completing his ‘strenuous training period, his weight had

dropped from. 204 to 183 pounds. . - « AS Steff Sergt. Mails, the former . star: southpaw of the, Cleveland Americans, is now on recruiting duty at San Francisco, ro Andy Sierra, of the Buffalo Bisons’ 1843 mound staff, was inducted into the army the other day. . .'. The big southpaw won 17 games: and the Bisons ‘had anticipated selling him to the majors for $15,000. . . . He is the 15th Bison or Bison-owned player to enlist or be inducted within the last 20 months. s

Erie Tipton to Return to Reds

ERIC TIPTON will be back in the outfield for the. Cincinnati Reds pext season, having been rejected by the army because of ear drum perforations resulting from a childhood attack of measles. . . . The navy also rejected him because of color blindness. : The former Duke university football star is freshman coach at William and Mary college. . . . He ‘started the 1942 baseball season

with Kansas City and was sold to the Reds in mid-season. ~~ ¢

Gabe Paul, the Reds’ widely known traveling secretary, is contemplating joining the army as a transportation officer: . . . He passed his “physical” last week at Ft. Thomas, KY. . . « Gabe 4s in class 3-A, having a wife and two children.

Feels She Is Taking Son's Place in Army

ERNIE PADGETT, who as shortstop for the Boston Braves completed an unassisted triple play: against’ the Phillies in 1928, is now taking cooking lessons at his home in Philadelphia. . . His instructor is Mrs. Padgett, who is leaving to join the WAACS. Five years ago, the Padgett’s only son, Joseph, was fatally inured while playing basketball. . . . “I feel that I am taking my son’s place,” said Mrs. Padgett. “If he had lived, he would be 21 now and in the army.” . . . The Padgett’s have a daughter, 18.

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8 to 3. . . . The umpires ruled “darkness.” ; There seemed to be enough daylight fo continue and iJudge Landis ordered the recepits, abotit $167,000, split among New York

charities. « + + The Giants won the series. . « +» The Yanks failed io

win a game.

Good Picker Picks Irish and Indiana iid

SHIRLEY POVICH of the Washington Post once picked 48 football winners out of 50 games in mid-season when the tough ones were scheduled. . . . He’s a 20-year. man on the grid scene. . . . In -this week's “picks” Povich likes Notre Dame over Stanford by 12 points, Indiana: over Nebraska by seven and Norihwesiem over Purdue by. Mh id i 8 ¥ = = : ss = % : JIMMY (SLEEPY) CROWLEY, formerly Fordham’s head grid

coach ‘but now in charge of the North Carolina pre-flighters’ eleven

as lieutenant commander, tells newcomers he got his nickname durfng his Notre Dame football days “because 1 could sleep all night and morning but I used to Toll and toss something terrible in the

inal 1avesiens and several a more college clubs make sorrowful! && acquaintance with service teams as| Ji iy

‘| Wwas a 7-5 choice to subdue mighty

.| Virginia, Rice over Tulane,

preflight over North Carolina State

8-to-5 Choice Over Stanford

By OSCAR ¥RALEY United Press Staff Correspondent . NEW YORK, Oct. 9.—Midwestern football Mteals the play from the

the Midwest takes over. Meanwhile, in the South, the fireworks are touched off with three bruising Southeastern conference tilts; the Far West holds three Pacific coast clambakes and the East lists a number of closely watched battles. Interseotional: Battles

‘Notre Dame and Ohio State do battle with Stanford and Southern California, respectively, with the Fighting Irish an 8-5 choice and the Buckeyes favored to outspeed the U. S. C. Trojans. In the Big Nines it’s Illinois and Minnesota while Northwestern’s Wildcats claw Purdue. X Elsewhere on the erowded Midwestern schedule, Bernie Bierman's power-packed Iowa pre-flight eleven

Michigan; Great Lakes was touted over Pitf, Towa over Camp Grant, Iowa State over Marquette, Indiana over Nebraska and Wisconsin over Missouri.’ On the coast, Santa Clara was favored slightly over a highly-rated California club which got off to a slow start. ‘Conference contests sent Oregon against Washington, Oregon State’s favored Rose Bowlers against U. C. L. A. and Washington State, the big threat, against Mon-

Southeastern conference games headlining ‘the southern schedule are the Vanderbilt-Kentucky, Geor-gla-Mississippl a n d Mississippi State-L. S. U, battles, with the first named as the popular choices. The top intersectional game found Boston college's ‘Eagles a 3 to 2 favorite over Clemson while South Carolina was the choice: over West

Georgia pre-flight over Duke, Georgia Tech over Chattanooga, Alabama over Pensacola = Fliers, North Carolina

and Tenneessee over Dayton. Fordham _ Shares Toners

The intersectional battle between North Carolina and disappointing Fordham shared honors in the East with the bout between undefeated Colgate and Dartmouth. The heels were over

Tar16 to 5, with the Red Raiders of the| ~{ Chenango favored at the same odds

over Dartmouth. Army was rated 3-2 over a battered Cornell team while the Navy was 2-1 over a similarly briised Princeton club that had unsetting potentialities. Penn ruléd 3-1 over Yale in an Ivy league battle and Harvard was chosen by a narrow margin over William and Mary conqueror of the Navy. Georgetown was fayored at 3 to 1 over Manhattan d Duquesne was favored over Kansas State. Columbia rated 6 to 3 over Brown.

Georgia Scores

ATHENS, Ga. Oct. 9.~Georgia has scored in 27 consecutive foot-

since Wallace Butts began his second year as head coach.

AMATEUR BASKETBALL

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Don Galbraith (left) junior awiierbods will do most of the passing tomorrow for DePauw university when the Tigers host the U. S. Navy Radio school football team at Greencastle. DePauw is seeking its first triumph of the season. Don Kammer, big Butler tackle (center) has returned to the lineup for the Bulldogs for tomorrow's tilt at Ohio university. Bob Livingstone (right) sophomore halfback from Hammond high school, will start for the Irish tomorrow when Notre Dame and Stanford clash in a "T" filt at South Bend.

.’U. Wins 60 Of 67 Meets

Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Oct. 9.—There’s a long tradition to be upheld by Indiana's cross-country ° runners when \they launch their 1942 season tomorrow against Purdue's veteran squad at West Lafayette.

During the past 14 years, Indiana’s|:

{long-winded boys, under the direction of Coach Billy Hayes, have achieved a string of wins unmatched by any college or university. Against 36 Big Ten team victories, Indiana has lost but five matches, two of them last fall. Against all comers, the Hoosiers have captured 60 or 67

just beginning to mold champions: for Indiana in all forms of foot-|: rating. Indiana’s 1927 cross-country:

team lost to Ohio State, 28-29, in the opener. The Hoosiers then started an string which

won and in 1032 ‘added the National A.A TU. 1933 and

to avenge last year’s loss to Purdue,

the first Boilermaker victory over Indiana in 16 years.

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The Times football: pickers, who received a bath in defeatism last week, are back another batch of predictions on 30 selected there a difference of opinion crops up, but . on the whole the grid experts follow the “form sheet.” Said “form sheet” got them in hot water last week and their “winning percentages” fell with a thump. On Hoosier Big Three Biies, nal. ames Hoople. disag'ees ont Nowe, Dame and lois

Eddie Ash is alone in choosing Dartmouth over Colgate. Leo Petersen, United Press sports editor, takes over on the “board” for Jack Cuddy this week. The selections: :

Can't Agree.

Hoople also goes out on the limb for Southern California over | | Ohio State and Illinois over Minnesota. The old boy is a glutton

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Leahy Has the Flu and Evans Is Injured; Woe Are the Irish

By UNITED PRESS

. Shaking off last week's setbacks, Indiana gridiron teams todsy prepared new dynamite for ‘rougher competition ahead, but the outlook

remained dark for Indiana, Purdue and Notre Dame as they set their|

teeth for bitter struggles.

After taking it on respective chins last Saturday, the state’s

“Big

Three” concocted Zew offensive tricks and stiffened defenses. Mean-

Stanford coach comes back to play his alma mater.

Taggart Wins Golf Title

Al Taggart Jr. won the Indianapolis Opticists club's annual Calcutta sweepstakes golf tournament

crest Country club. : Taggart was given a 30-stroke handicap. George S etz was ‘with 86-22-64 Frank aa third witn 90.27.06. The Whiffers with a net total of

Grid-Irony

By TUSS McLAUGHRY

won the team title.}

while, college conference elevens, after dropping three out of five intersectional contests last week, faced a nine-game card that contains three loop battles. At the Bloomington camp, the 64dollar question is “Can the Hoosiers sink ‘the always-tough Nebraska

to whip up a stiffer defense than the cream-puff forward wall presented against the Buckeyes Saturday. The Hoosiers were rated slight

| |favorites over Nebraska, but the go-

ing will be rough. Still an unknown quantity, Purdue’s gridders tangle with the powerful Northwestern machine in

With key men sidelined with injuries, Notre Dame faced a “T" party with Stanford without a head coach, as Frank Leahy suffered a relapse

yesterday with a net 61 at the Hill- [*0¢

Five Games on

CYO Schedule

Holy Rosary will battle Holy Trinity - tomorrow morning at 9:30 o'clock at Garfield park in the top attraction of the C. Y. O. cadet football league. Other games scheduled are St. Joan of Arc vs. St. Patrick’s at Brookside park; St. Catherine vs. Our Lady of Lourdes at Christian park; Sacred Heart vs. Little Flower at Ellenberger park and Holy Cross vs. Cathedral at Riverside park. St.

Towa Cadets = { Face Unbeaten | Michigan Te:

CHICAGO, Oct. 9 (U.P.).~The

i Towa naval cadets attempt to plete one of the greatest early sea= son sweeps in football history tomorrow when they meet Michigan at Ann Arbor in the headinie game of the Midwest's schedule.

the unbeaten and unscored-upon

Cadets Over Michigan Two intersectional games and a

pair of Big Nine clashes occupy places of secondary importance in the schedule. tilts send Southern California against

The intersectional

balance that factor. Michigan didn’t yield a point: Great Lakes or Michigan State. I

Philip's drew a bye this week.

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