Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 October 1942 — Page 20
George Washington hardly ‘will match Willlam and Mary at Wile Jliamsburg, nor is Furman up to Tennessee in- Knoxville. Matyland should hurdle Western Maryland in Baltimore and I les 7. M. L over Richmond in Richmond and V. P. I over Washington and Lee
at Lynchburg. : Georgia air cadets carry too much heavy artillery for Louisiana State at Baton Rouge. 8 8 = 8 8 8 _ In the Southwest, it’s Baylor over Texas A. and M. at Waco, Texas over Rice in Houston, Texas Christian over Pensacola air at Pensacola and Corpus Christi over Southern Methodist in Dallas. In the Big Six, my selections are Oklahoma over Nebraska at Nor= man, Missouri over Iowa at Columbia and Kansas over Kansas State at Manhattan. I see U. C.-L. A. ¥nocking off Santa Clara in Los Angeles and Stanford turning on Southern California at Palo Alto. California may finally get somewhere in its date with Washington in Seattle. Washington State probably will do a comeback against Qregon State at Corvallis and St. Mary’s should successfully hurdle Loyola of Los Angeles in a Sunday game in Los Angeles, Anyway, that’s the way it looks from here.
Surprising Princeton was good enough to tie the mighty sons of Pennsylvania. The feat may have taken considerable out of. the Tiger, but he should have enough left to repel Bob Margarita and Brown at Princeton. Colgate is given an edge over Penn State at State College and Syracuse over at Syracuse. Penn should massacre Columbls and the green Lion line at Franklin field. X Teams of the tobacco triangle travel to New England and North Carolina State is expected to have a bit more luck against Holy Cross in Worcester than Wake Forest will have opposed Boston college, although this doesn’t mean the Deacons are not formidable, Having found itself against Colgate, Duke is the choice over Pitts burgh in Pitt stadium. * Duqueshe should outsteady the Manhattan sophomores at the Polo Grounds. Lafayette has the stuff with which to turn back Virginia at Easton. Temple may be a bit overmatched in its night appointment with the North Carolina air cadets in Philadelphia. Amherst appears much stronger than Wesleyan in Little ‘Three firing at Middletown. Tulane should trip the young North Carolina club in New Orleans. I like Alabama over Kentucky in Lexington, Mississippi over Arkansas in Memphis, Auburn over Villanova in a night game in Montgomery and Mississippi State over Florida at Gainesville,
Ray Eliot and his Tlinols sophomores have done a sémarkoble job, but I can’t see how they can get over the Notre Dame team that smothered Stanford and Lieut. Col Bernie Blerman's Iowa Navy Pre-flight school seahawks. i Angelo Bertelli is pitching and the Irish at Tast are rolling for their stricken coach, Frank Leahy. Look for Ohio State to beat down Northwestern at Evanston and _ for Wisconsin to continue its winning way against Purdue at Lafayette. It is my idea that Towa will bounce back against Indiana at Bloomington. . 8 8 8 : 2 8 8 In Midwestern intersectional- games, it’s Detroit over Georgetown, Marquette over Arizona in Milwaukee, Georgia in a breeze over Cincinnati. Great Lakes figures to repulse Michigan State at East Lansing. Army should finish in front of Harvard at Cambridge, but the very good squad of cadets will know they have been in a football game. You must pick Georgia Tech over Navy at Annapolis, but the same thing holds true there. Yale is going to get going one of these fine days and, with Capt. Spence Moseley, an accomplished center, returned to the thick of things, I suspect the Elis may get rolling against Dartmouth in the Bowl,
= Times’ Special Writer : MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 21.—Bruce Smith set it up with a long pass
8s Minnesota beat Michigan before 85,753 persons at Ann Arbor a year ago. 4 ‘There will be 65,000 patrons—all the place will —in Minnesota's Memorial stadium when these “rivals meet once more on Saturday. . The present generation of Michigan students to wonder if the story of the Little Brown Jug isn’t just a myth. Despite its Tom Harmon and other stars, Michigan hasn't whipped Minnesota in nine campaigns, Das lost eight straight following a scoreless tie in
+: The Little Brown Jug is still there, however, and I have a hunch that Michigan will get more ; than a fleeting glimpse of it this trip. | Tom Kuzma is back and the Wolverines did very well without him. There have been times this season when the Vikings lacked their sharpness ;
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\ By Eddie Ash
UNDEFEATED Ohio State will have Northwestern’s
Otto Graham to contend with this week in the home-
comer at Evanston. . .. As you are aware, Graham is a
forward pass wizard. , . . In four games he has passed his eight-game mark of 1941.
~ Northwestern lost to Iowa Cadets, Purdue and Michigan, but
halfback. Graham did all right and looked good while. iosing. . . .
The Wildcats’ lone victory in their four 1942 starts was achieved over Texas, a better than fair outfit. In four games Graham completed 37 out of 73 passes for 482 ~ yards. . . . Last year he had 38 completions in 75 attempts. . . .
= _ Against Michigan this fall he completed 20 out of 29 passes for 295
yards. . . . And he carried the ball 19 times from scrimmage. eee He was a busy gridder, indeed: | Minnesota expects a capacity crowd of 55,000 at its home-coming attraction with Michigan Saturday. . . . It’s home-coming at Indiana ind Purdue, too. . . . Hold ’er down to 35, fans. . . . Indiana-Iowa nd Purdue-Wisconsin ‘games usuaily are thrillers, according to past performances, and there are plenty of seats available at both Bloomington and Lafayette, | Indiana is a slight favorite over the Hawkeyes and the “form heet” gives the Badgers the nod by a wider margin over the Boilernakers. . . . But maybe Purdue is due to have a “day,” like Notre e last Saturday. ... You never can tell,
otre Dame Invades Illini Stronghold
NOTRE DAME plays the Illini at Champaign this week. . . . e Iilind had trouble squeezing by Iowa last Saturday and the Irish are the choice of the “pickers” to hand Coach Ray Eliot's fine eleven first defeat. | Butler travels to Kalamazoo to ‘meet Western Michigan. . . . Due 0 cancellations the Kazoo Broncos have played but three games. . .. hey lost to Dayton, 21-0, and defeated Toledo, 13-0, and Iowa Teachers, 14-6. :
Lack of practice time is hampering the service elevens. . . . . At
Annapolis the Navy gritders only get in about one hour handling
the - pigskin. - ” ” u 8-8 ” ‘ IN THE EVENT that Georgia and Georgia Tech come up to their Nov. 28 clash undefeated, well, there'll be plenty of thunder
aver the Cracker state. . . . The rival student bodies probably are
drawing their battle lines now . . . to be ready just in case. . . .
: ; The game is scheduled at Athens.
Changing the Pace, Hockey Returns Friday
. INDIANAPOLIS’ hockey players will glide out on the ice at the state fairgrounds coliseum rink Friday night for the first time “since winning the American league championship and playoff last coring. . . . Manager Herbie Lewis will trot out a mixture of veterans snd rookies in the exhibition with the 8 Detrols Red Wings of hockey’s - znajor league, the National. It will be the Caps’ only appearance here until they open “heir home league season on Nov. 1... . The Friday attraction is «ne of a series of exhibitions and Skipper Lewis predicts his team y.ill be a strong wartime contender.
: #" # 8 ” 2 ” ALL HOCKEY CLUBS have lost stars to the armed forces and ‘though the Indianapolis Caps Will not be as fast and as rugged . 5 last season, they expect to place a team on the ice that will be _.. contender from the start. The Caps play the Red Wings in Detroit tomorrow, here Friday -ad again in Detroit Sunday. . . . Last week the Caps got off on the ight skate by. trouncing Cleveland, 5 to 2, in an exhibition test.
Grid-Irony
By BOB HIGGINS Pepper Petrella and Penn State Head Coach, Pennslyvania State College | would lead, 6-0. ~ TWO YEARS AGO our center, PETRELLA RECEIVED the Gajecki, was chosen to represent | kickoff and ran to the Colgate 20 ‘the East in the Shrine game in | pefore Indian Bill Geyer caught San Francisco. The West used a ' him. We might have scored with quick lineup. play. The halfback, | straight football but our quarterwho had carried on the previous | back immediately called the scoop. down, became the center, scooped Krouse was to run the wide rethe ball to a fast man. verse first—and he fumbled! : Colgate recovered and soon was on our 20. We had practiced the play for a month. ¢ I even explained it toc Umpire Bill Crowell in detail, so there would be no dispute. It wasn’t much fun for us - coaches when it backfired, but o i Crowell got a great kick out of it.
Seven Men Injured
1On DePauw Team Times Special GREENCASTLE, Oct. 21—Seven DePauw university grid men are on the sidelines with injuries this week as the Tigers prepare for their Old d day homecoming clash with Hanover college on Blackstock field here Saturday, Oct. 24. While none of the men are injured seriously, at least two will be out of action in Saturday's game,
‘So we put the play on olrlig ‘and planned to use it against Col te. Krouse, our wingback, was 5» run a wide reverse. The ref-
2 would bring the play in 15 our team would spread, » would scoop the ball to
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A Seaman Now
First Class Seaman Phil Rizzuto is doing his swinging for Uncle Sam now. The little Yankee shortstop is in training at the
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Despite the constant shift of manpower to the colors, talent will be available for “big time”
basketball because it is the most widely played team-game in. the nation’s high schools, colleges, military establishments and defense plants. It’s a sport that thrives on local loyalty and close-to-home rivalries. Hence, it's “big-time” wherever played. Some semi-pro and college teams do make long trips during the season, with squads that are small compared to those in football or baseball. But these trips could be eliminated and intersec“tional play dropped entirely during war time without hurting the game. Distance does not lend enchantment in basketball as it does on the gridiron or diamond. Rarely does a distant quintet build up a following among the home folks like a distant football or baseball outfit. Games would be just as well attended, perhaps better, if basketball teams concentrated on competition in their own areas. The game is particularly adaptable to war conditions because of available talent, a minimum of transportation difficulties, and because it lends itself to odd-
Norfolk training station.
Play at Illinois
SOUTH BEND, Oct. 21 (U. PJ). —Acting head coach Ed McKeever gave Notre Dame gridders their first glimpse at University of Illinois plays yesterday when he put the Irish through intensive drills for the Illini battle at Champaign Saturday. The Irish T-formation will be nothing new to the Illini as Coach Ray Elliot's crew worked against
the system in beating Iowa, 12-7 last week-end. Doctors at Mayo Brothers’ clinic, Rochester, Minn., meanwhile, said Coach Frank Leahy may be sufficiently recovered to view Saturday’s game. Leahy has been under ob-
‘servation and treatment for spinal
arthritis at the hospital. It was first thought that Jim Mello, fullback, would be in condition for the Illini game, but Trainer Eugene Young said yesterday that he would not return to the lineup. Both Owen Evans, left halfback, and Creighton Miller, "right halfback, had possibility of playing Saturday, although their workouts this week have been minus contact work.
Smerke to Miss Wisconsin Game
LAFAYETTE, Oct. 21 (U. P.).— Attempting to improve play in all Purdue university departments, Coach Elmer Burnham yesterday worked football squads an fundamentals in a hard scrimmage, concentrating on individual maneuvers such as signal drills and running formations, blocking drills and punting practice. The Boilermakers will -be the underdogs for the fifth consecutive
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consin Badgers at - Lafayette for
ham said Fred Smerke, end, would not see action because of side injuries, but aside from that casualty,
“rarin’ to go.” J Lettermen members of ’17, who will celebrate their silver anniversary Saturday, have been invited to
of honor.
Saturday when they meet the Wis-| Purdue’s home-coming game. Burn-|
he expected all the gridders to be
sit on Purdue’s side lines as guests :
CIGARETTE BURNS
REWOVEN LIKE NEW
hours of practice. We mean that
Leahy May See Notre Dame
Saturday
BLOOMINGTON, Oct. 21 (U. P.). —Coach Bo McMillin appeared somewhat relieved yesterday with the appearance of two Indiana gridders on the practice field after both had been benched during past two weeks due to injuries. McMillin said Bob Zimny, tackle; and Chuck Jacoby, halfback, went through workouts yesterday in preparation for Saturday's spectacle with Iowa's Hawkeyes—which, incidentally, is I. U.s home-coming game. However, Ted Hasapes, right end, will be sidelined for the game because of thigh and ankle injuries. McMillin transformed halfback Bob Dean to the end position. Yesterday’s practice consisted of dummy scrimmages and running of Towa plays. McMillin said the Hoosiers showed well and he is confident of a victory before Hoosier alumni.
Wright Scores KO
Over Puerto Rican
NEW HAVEN, Conn., Oct. 21 (U. P.) —Chalky Wright, world featherweight champion from Los Angeles, scored a technical knockout over Henry Vasquez of Puerto Rico after 17 seconds of the eighth round last night in a scheduled 10-round bout fought before a crowd of 4000. Wright led all the way, capturing five of the first seven rounds, before Vasquez’ manager tossed in the towel. Vasquez won one of the others on a foul but was floored three times in the seventh and went down again in the eighth. rh scaled 130, and Vasquez,
HOOSIER PETE
Basketball will Adapt Self To War Conditions This Year And Flourish as Before
By JACK CUDDY United Press Staff Correspdndent
YORK, Oct. 21.—Regardless of what happens to other sports during the war, basketball seems destined to flourish. The hoop game is easily adaptable to wartime conditions. More=over, it has thousands of active participants—male and female— throughout the country, and its millions of fans generally are more prosperous now than in recent years.
players can practice in.their spare time, day or night. This is important these days when men in uniform are so busy for long hours, when defense plant workers can’t take time out to groom for a game, and when many colleges are taking a “four-year course” in three. In addition, the sport—usually played indoors — requires only modest equipment. Paul S. Gilbert, representative of the Grumman Aircraft Co. of Bethage, N. Y. told basketball writers yesterday that he considered the game ideal for 18,000 workers in that plant. He emphasized that about half of the 18,000 were participating in interplant and inter-departmental sports of some sort, and that basketball appealed to most of them. The game gave them mental relaxation and exercise, he said. Moreover, their interest in the best teams in their departments and in their various plants gave them something to cheer about. Too, all employees took great pride in the tearn that will represent the whole company during the approaching season. Gilbert said basketball was proving it-. self of equal importance in other defense establishments.
Ali Pasha Pins Talaber Twice
Ali Pasha, the unpopular Hindu grappler who has lost only two bouts here in previous matches, dumped Frankie Talaber to the canvas for two straight falls to rack up another victory in the headliner of the weekly mat bill staged at the Armory last night. The Windy City scissors artist was over-powered by the heavier Pasha, who won the first fall in 26 minutes with a cradle hold and took the second in 11 minutes with a body press. :
Cleete Kaufmann, of Columbus, O., fell before Coach Billy Thom,
of Indiana university, in the semi-
final skirmish. Thom used a body slam to down the Buckeye wrestler in 22 minutes. Cowboy Luttrall, of Houston, Tex., was too much for Ralph Garibaldi, St. Louis Italian, and beat the latter with a cradle hold in 17 minutes.
Reports Dec. 7
“Ray Sears 82 8 =a
Sears to Join
U. S. Marines
Ray Sears, Butler university track coach and former national twomile champion, will report to marine officers’ training school, Dec. 7, at San Diego. He will be the fourth Butler coach to enter the services. Athletic Director Paul D. (Tony) Hinkle; Hugh M. (Wally) Middlesworth, assistant football coach, and Jim Hauss, line coach, already are serving in the armed services, Sears became track coach at Butler in 1938 succeeding Larry Holmes. He began his distance running at Greencastle high school. While at Butler he won the Drake relay twomile event three times, one of three athletes to gain a triple triumph in the relays’ 31 years. Dr. M. O. Ross, university president, said last night that one of the football coaches probably would replace Sears, who has been granted a leave of absence. Sears and his wife, the former Miss June Nackenhorst, live at 4670 Hinesley ave.
Purdue Runners Seek 3d Victory
LAFAYETTE, Oct. 21 (U. P).— Purdue's cross-country team, defending Big Ten champion, seeks its third conference victory Saturday when the harriers match strides with Wisconsin in a homecoming preliminary event to the BadgerBoilermaker football game. The long distance runners of Coach Hermon Phillips have beaten Illinois and Ohio State, losing only to Indiana. The Boilermakers’ remaining schedule after Wisconsin will be western Michigan on Oct. 31; the Indiana state meet, Nov. 7; Big Ten meet at Chicago, Nov. 16, and the N. C. A. A, meet at East
Lansing, Mich., Nov. 23.
In New York
Branch Rickey
For Showdown
NEW YORK, Oct. 21 (U. P.).— The post of general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers remained open today but the presence of Branch Rickey for ' a reported “show-down” “conference indicated today that the St. Louis Cardinals’
executive had the inside track for the job. Rickey arrived here last night by plane from St. Louis and, while refusing to comment on the :Dodgers’ position, admitted he planned to sever relations with the Cardinals. “I've heard the report about the Brooklyn offer, of course,” Rickey said, “but I can not discuss it.” Asked whether he planned to leave St. Louis, Rickey said: “Very definitely. I'm leaving— I've said that before. I hate to go though, they're a great bunch of boys and it’s a great town for baseball. They are a great supporting people.” Rickey added that he didn’t believe the draft would hurt the Car-
National league triumph in 1943. “It won't affect that club much,” he said. “Not under present arrangements anyhow, since most of them have children.” Rickey said rumors tHat he had been conferring with Leo Durocher, current manager of the Dodgers, must have sprung from the fact that his son, Branch Jr., and Durocher were together constantly at the recent world series. Asked whether that friendship would lend strength to the report he would replace Larry MacPhail, former Dodgers’ president who resigned to become a lieutenant colonel in the army, Rickey said: “Well, you heard who won the world series.” He refused to explain the remark.
Weingardt Leads Manual ‘B’ Team
Shortridge and Manual reserve football teams scored victories yes-
terday. Jack Weingardt led Manual to a
32 to 7 triumph over Broad Ripple at Delavan Smith field by scoring two touchdowns and as many extra points. John Meyer's eight-yard plunge for a touchdown and Charles Hawthorne’s kick for the extra point gave Shortridge reserves a 7 to 0 victory over Washington.
Frosh Football
Washington high school’s freshman football team scored a 7 to 0 victory yesterday over Shortridge. Ray Browne scored the touchdown and Louis Urbancic plunged for the
extra point.
dinals’ chances of repeating their|
Satisfied
Will Manage Oversea Club
/ BOSTON, Oct. 21 (U. P.).—Man=
ger Joe Cronin of the Boston Red Sox said today that acceptance of an offer to manage done of the Red Cross overseas recreation clubs satisfies an “urge to do something to help ever since the war started.” First big league manager to vole * unteer for war duty, Cronin revealed that he will return to this country to pilot his club during 1943 as his war service will only be temporary. The Sox mentor has two years re maining under the second of two five-year contracts with Owner Tom Yawkey. The Red Cross did not specify where Cronin would be sent. He will probably visit the wounded and try to promote sports functions in vare ious overseas cantonments.
Named Referee
MONTREAL, Oct. 21 (U. P.).— Lieut. Jack Dempsey of the United States coast guard today was named referee of the Dave Castilloux-Al Lust fight for the Canadian weltere weight championship at Montreal, Nov. 5. Castilloux, the titleholder, is & member of the Royal Canadian air force. Lust is an army private.