Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 December 1942 — Page 20
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Great Lakes, Seahawks Ask To Continue Big 10 Relations
THE 1942-1943 National
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. ketball Guide, fresh off the press, is one of the most com-
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At this moment when basketball is being prescribed as the sport
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The features of this new sports
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and the results of state high school
basketball tournaments, sugges-
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We game in all parts of the world. - College conference statistics are team records include totals of season
unusually complete, and college scoring and won and lost totals,
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Records of Sugar Bowl Grid Teams— “ ANSWER TO QUERY: Undefeated Tulsa university's football
1942 schedule was on the lighter side. . .
10-game campaign and piled up 427 es « Tulsa is paired with Tennessee
. The team waded through a points against 32 by opponents. in the Sugar Bowl.
Tulsa’s record: Defeated Waco Air corps, 84-0; Oklahoma, 23-0; Randolph field, 68-0; Washington of St. Louis, 40-0; St. Louis university, 41-0; Drake, 40-0; Oklahoma Aggies, 34-6; Baylor, 24-0;
Creighton, 33-19; Arkansas, 40-17. It is said Tulsa authorities tried
: had to take what they could get.
to book more major games but
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TENNESSEE played a 10-game schedule, won eight, tied one and
lost one. . . . The tie was with South defeated the Vols, 8-0. . . . The Vols ton, 34-6; Furman, 52-7; Louisiana
Mississippi, 14-0; Kentucky, 26-0; Vanderbilt, 19-7. ,
Tennessee, 245; opponents, 54. # 1 ”
Eggert Exchanges Civies For
THE TIMES sports department, ‘contributed a fourth member to the
Carolina, scoreless. . . . Alabama defeated Fordham, 40-14; DayState, 26-0; Cincinnati, 34-12; . . Total points:
Khaki
“old military prep,” yesterday armed forces when William C.
(Bill) Eggert exchanged Sires for khaki and became No. 55 on The
Times’ service list. . A graduate
of Manual and Butler, young
Eggert was well on the way to becoming an all-around sports writer. Preceding Eggert in Uncle Sam’s army from Times sports were
J. E. O'Brien, Bob Fleetwood and Harry Morrison Jr. , After becoming a sergeant, O’Brien was trans-
are doing all right. ...
. . And they
ferred to an officers’ training unit, Ensign Fleetwood won his wings in naval aviation and is a dive bomber, and Morrison was advanced
to corporal after brief training.
Young Eggert is determined to keep step with his army prede-
cessors from this department and is His father, Herman (Dutch) Eggert,
well equipped for the task. served in world war I and. was
in officers’ training school in France when the armistice ‘was signed.
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New Draft Rule May Jolt Baseball
UNDER the new military draft
to be left at home tg be drafted for industry. . ..
regulations, men above 38 are This means the
armed forces will have to call on a corresponding number of younger men, regardless of their domestic status. . . . Thus, the new draft ceiling of 38 is likely to hand baseball another manpower jol
Many players, now classified in 3-A becailse of having wi
s and
families, may have to go to meet draft board calls before the 18-19
year old lads are available, . .
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. This also applies to other professional
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JIM STEINER, catcher, who finished the 1942 season with the Indianapolis Indians on option from the Boston Braves, will be under
Gabby Hartnett’s wing again next season at Jersey City. . . .
The
Braves sold him to the New York Giants’ class AA farm. .,. If he makes the grade, Steiner can be assured he will see plenty of ac-
tion. . . . With the Indians, | Steiner batted a sad 161 in nine games “and 31 “at bats.”
ANSWER TO QUERY: The Kentucky university eleven completed the 1942 grid season almost on an even basis as far as points were concerned, scoring 155 to 154 for its opponents, but the wildcats only won three games while losing six, with one game a tie. Kentucky took on the best the Southeastern conference had to offer, losing 7-6 decisions to Georgia and Vanderbilt and bowing to
Georgia Tech, by 47-7; to Tennessee,
i a Filley to Lead
Irish Eleven
SOUTH BEND, Ind. Dec. 9 (U. P.) —Patrick Filley, South Bend,
~ junior right guard on the Notre
Dame football team, was named 1943 captain last night as the university team was honored at the
. 28d annual testimonial banquet.
Filley succeeds George Murphy, right end, also of South Bend.
. Do-Re-Mi
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 9.—Gerry Nugent is reported to be asking $400,000 for 52 shares of stock in the Phillies.
26-0, and to Alabama, 14-0.
Reds Cancel Spring Tour
CINCINNATI, Dec. 9 (U. P.).— The Cincinnati’ Reds became one of the first major league baseball clubs to comply directly today with [Transportation Director Joseph Eastman’s request for the clubs to reduce mileage in 1943. The Reds announced they have canceled their annual spring tour with the Boston Red Sox, their spring sparring mates for the past six years. The club will make only one or two stops en route home from the training camp at Tampa, Fla., playing minor league clubs on each occasion. General Manager Warren Giles said that the first squad will open camp at Tampa on March 8 instead of Feb. 22 and the club will remain|: in Florida until April 7.or 38, instead of starting north near the end of March as customary.
Busik Missing WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.—Bill Busik, Navy’s fine back of 1940-41, is reported missing in the South Seas.
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Don’t Favor Playing Only College Men
. By TOMMY DEVINE United Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO, Dec. 9~—The Midwest’s two top service teams, Great Lakes and the Iowa Pre-
Big Ten to alter its 1943 schedules to provide them with Igpresentative playing programs. The requests were made by Lt. Com. Russell Cook, athletic director at Great Lakes, and Lt. Col. Bernie Bierman of the pre-flight school, before a joint meeting of conference athletic directors, faculty resentatives and football coaches. While there was no immediate action taken on the requests, they probably will be granted although revision of football schedules may be postponed until a March meeting. The 1942 conference schedules were scrapped to provide competition for four service teams, but it is unlikely that either Camp Grant or Ft. Knox will want places on next season's cards as teams were badly outclassed. Great Lakes played six conference schools and the Iowa Pre-Flight team five.
Same Type Schedule
“We hope to continue our relations with the Big Ten on the same basis as we did this past fall,” Cook said. “It is the only way our athletic program can have life in it. Our hope is for the same type of schedule we had this season although that doesn’t mean we’ll meet the same ‘teams again.” Cook did not feel that Great Lakes could make any concessions on the players used on the team, such as playing only collegians and prohibiting competitign by players with professional experience. “We played only enlisted men on our teams,” he said, “there were no officers on the squad. We'll ‘stick to that standard, but any enlisted man at the station is eligible to compete. We could not discriminate against any of them.”
Intend to Carry On
Bierman, whose Seahawks were the target for considerable criticism because of the heavy use of officer material, said: “It is our intention to carry on football at the pre-flight schools as long as it does not interfere with our program. We had to abandon our plans to play an extensive basketball schedule against mid-Western teams because to turn the mnasium over for practice would have hindered the conditioning of several hundred cadets. I cannot say anything about what the make-up of the 1943 football team would be as it relates to officers and cadets.” The “deal” to permit officers to play on the Seahawk team originally was made with Lt. Tom Hamilton, who is in charge of the physical program of the pre-flight schools. Hamilton undoubtedly will be asked to confer with Maj. John W. Griffith, commissioner of the Big Ten, on the issue before a schedule is drafted. Conference faculty representatives, the legislative group of the Big Ten, may act today on the controversial freshman rule, In some quarters it was believed a decision on permitting first year men to play on varsity teams would be delayed to see how deeply the military serv-
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Tourney Action Expected Soon
By UNITED PRESS Hoosier basketball fans were advised today that they may expect a definite decision “by Jan. 1, 1943” on plans for the annual Indiana high school basketball title play-off. A. L. Trester, I. H. 8S. A. A. commissioner, sald the board of control will act on tournament arrangements before the January date. He said no decision ‘has been made, either on the site or play-off arrangements. The Butler university fieldhouse, scene of high school final tournaments in former years, now is being used by the navy. War-time transportation restrictions also has caused I. H. S. A. A. officials to consider broad changes in the general tournament set-up.
Trester—No Comment
Trester said he had no comment to make on reports that southern and northern semi-finalists would meet in separate tournaments at Purdue and Indiana universities and would be followed by a restricted tournament of north and south winners at Muncie, Ind. The method by which Indiana high school basketball teams will determine their 1943 champion, and whether a state-wide play even
ice calls of 18 and 19-year-old boys cut into college enrollments.
would be played, has been subject to widespread speculation.
Times Special NEW YORK, Dec. 9.—With the]; ODT demanding drastic reduction in train travel and the baseball people worired about transportation
teams roll right along. The combatants are dragging out the football season by journeying magnificent distances—Washington State to San Antonio to meet Texas A. & M., William & Mary to Oklahoma and Detroit to. San Francisco for an appointment with St. Mary’s, for example. And in come the basketballers with near-transcontinental trips. The college season opens at Madison Square Garden, Dec. 12, with Brigham Young coming all the way from Provo to tackle Long Island U. and Oklahoma A. & M. from Stillwater to engage City College of New York. Other Garden importations during the campaign will include Oklahoma, Oregon State, Colorado, Southern California, Kansas, Washington State, Wyoming, Creighton, the North Carolina Pre-Flighters, West - Virginia, West Texas State, Western Kentucky, Notre Dame and Toledo. The average basketball party numbers 14, so it is easy to see that considerable valuable wartime space will be taken up by Garden combatants alone. The Big Ten, which up until now has insisted upon its team playing in their own gymnasiums, is pere mitting them to show in the Chicago Stadium this winter. With the people unable to get to fhe game, Illinois, Wisconsin, Purdue, Northwestern and others are bringing the game to the people Basketball junkets can be made highly profitable. En route to New York, Oklahoma A. & M. and Brigham Young stop off in Buffalo to tackle Niagara and Canisius, re-
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man center of Oklahoma A. & M. easily outjumps teammate Sam Aubrey.
to answer: for the war.”
pared for ad school,” Sinkwich added. Hazel-haired Sinkwich, who was changing from his U. 8S. marine dress uniform to civvies in the little room at the Downtown Athletic club was a talkative surprise to one who had been given to understand that the Great Frankie was a man of few words. Sinkwich, of Georgia U., was humming and bubbling all over the place as he got ready to take a train. And his vocals were echoed by another marine reserve, Paul Governali of Columbia, runner-up to Sinkwich in the voting for the Heisman award
player for 1942. A newspaper man asked Sinkwich: “Do you like the running or passing game better?”
Likes Running Game
Frankie, who looks much smaller than one would imagine, replied: “I like the running game better. Even when I was in high school my coach told me I'd never be a good passer. But I did the best I could at Georgia. I did more passing this season than ever before. “But you just remember this—I played only about 20 minutes of every game this season. Usually we had such a lead that Coach Wal-
any more. That’s why I threw only 10 touchdowns this season, although I threw 14 last year when I wasn't concentrating so much on plghing, and seven as a sophomore. Yes, I like the running game a lot better than the passing.” This remark was greeted by a yowl from Governali. “Hey, you can’t kick the passing game around like that,” he shouted. Governali, a sharp contrast to Sinkwich in every respect—taller, dark-haired and ' eagle-beaked—is one of the greatest passers the grid game ever knew.
The Toughest Game
Sinkwich was cornered near the bed where the little bellhop was trying to close his over-stuffed grip, He was asked: “What was the toughest team you played against?” Frankie gave the bellhop an assist and said “Alabama, this season. They were awful tough. Yes—
‘| tougher than Auburn, which beat
us. Auburn had a good team and a good day, but Auburn really wasn”t as tough as Alabama. A couple years ago Tulane was plenty Sinkwich earlier had made a big hit with the 600 persons at the downtown A. C. during the ceremonial presentation of the Heis-| man memorial trophy,
football player. The starry-eyed modesty of this Georgia Cracker— out of Youngstown, O.—captivated the crowd. Particularly when he said: “I always wanted to win this award, and I never thought I could, but there it stands.” Later, when Sinkwich and Governali, of the marine reserves, were
Drilled by blond -Henry Iba, the Oklahoma Aggies represent a southwest court tradition. They are perennial rulers of the Missouri Valley Conference. ‘This is Coach Iba’s plinth season at Stillwater, and over the last seven his squads have never finished worse than second. They have won three titles and shared three
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including Jas Years with Crofghton: high-powered Garden
changing back to civvies in the little Roost Governali - stopped humming to ask. Sinkwich if he Would say “hello” to Paul's gal friend at the station. 4
Maybe it'll make me miss my train, I'm heading for Youngstown now, and then California where we play
others, |in the Rose Bowl. But I'd rather
to the outstanding college footballs
lace Butts figured I wasn’t needed |State
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Howe's Hornets Have Plenty of Sting
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“Pro football gives a college player a chance to make a little nest egg for himself while he’s trying to. get started in the profession he pre-
Smith Heads
Swim Team
NEW YORK, Dec. 9 (U. P).— Bill Smith, 18-year-old Hawaiian star, now a freshman at Ohio State, heads the 1942 All-American swimming team announced today by the Amateur Athletic Union, with three individual places and one relay berth. The selections, made by a special A. A. U. committee, must be confirmed by the 54th annual A. A. U. convention at Chicago, Dec. 11-12-13. Smith was chosen top-ranking performer in the 220-yard free style, at which distance he set an American record, and in the 440 and 880yard free styles, in which he established new world marks last summer. - . He was also selected for the 880yard free style relay. The rest of the team:
50-Yard Free Style—Bob Amundsen, Northwestern 100-Yard Free Style—Bill Prew, Detroit Athletic club. One Mile Free Style—Kiyoshi Nakama, Ohio State. Backstroke—Adolph Kiefer, Chicago. Breaststroke—James Counsilman, Ohio
Individual Medley— (300 yards) —Kiefer. Long Distance Medley—Joseph Lucas, New York Athletic club.
Springboard Diving—Miller Anderson, Ohio St! ate.
High Fancy Diving Sammy Lee, Pasa-
dene Athletic club. 300-Yard Medley Relay—Backstroke, Counsilman; free
Kiefer; Preastetroke, style. Prew 880-Yard Pree Style Relay—S8mith; Alan Ford, Mercersburg, Pa., Academy; Jo son and Rene Chouteau, both of Yale: el ——————————————————————————
Orleans Dropped
From Conference
AURORA, Dec. 9 (U. P.)—J. A. Mohler, Scottsburg, Southeastern Indiana Athletic conference secretary, announced yesterday that Orleans high school had been dropped from the S. T. A. C. for failure to pay annual dues. Banning of Orleans high school left only 12 teams in the conference for the basketball season. Milan was voted out earlier this year because of violations of conference regulations.
The folks out Irvington way are all pepped up about the perfomance. of Howe's Hornets § this. year and thoy expect to make the other city schools sit up and take notice around city tourney time. To date, Howe has won three games and lost one—a 32-31 decision to Tech. Members of the Hornets who will see action against Washington Friday night are, left to right, Jerry Pfeiffer, senior forward; Jack Buchanan and Bill Hanafee, senior guards; Robert Houck, senior center, and Bill Watson, junior forward.
Sinkwich Says He Likes The Running Game Best
By JACK CUDDY United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Dec. 9.—Frank Sinkwich stopped humming “My Devotion” and quit stuffing the apparel into his big black grip long enough “Sure—I'd have turned@®professional next year if it wasn’t
Bruins Rout
Black Hawks
By UNITED PRESS
The Boston Bruins climbed into a tie for first place by routing the league-leading Chicago Black Hawks, 9-6, last night before 10,000 fans at Boston Garden in perhaps the wildest game of the National league season. The win was Boston’s seventh in a row on home ice and was featured by two free penalty shots, a questionable Boston goal and a final period in which the Bruns tallied five times. Chicago took an early lead with Red Hamill, Aud Tuten and Doug Bentley scoring in the first period, while Art Jackson tallied for Boston. The score was tied at 4-all in the second when Boston came back with three goals by Art Jackson, Jack Crawford and Bill Hollett, while Doug Bentley scored for Chicago. Hollett’s goal was allowed, although the Hawks protested that Goalie Bert Gardiner fell into the
net with the puck. At this point, Referee Norm Lamport pulled the
watch on Chicago before play resumed. . Boston went ahead for keeps in the final period, when Bill Cowley scored twice and Bill Shill, Buzz Boll and Capt. Dit Clapper each added a goal. 2 . es i 4 3 ii Detroit . 1 Toronto ... eee 15
Montreal .ceeoesscessosece & 10 New York ..oececess seve 4 9
She Follows in Father's Steps
BAY MEADOWS, Cal, Dec. 9 (U. P.).—Sea Frolic, first offspring of Seabiscuit to reach the races, came from behind in the stretch yesterday te win her first victory in three attempts. The daughter of the Biscuit and Sun Frolic made up a twolength deficit to win by a nose in a five-furlong contest with, Alfred Shellhamer ‘up. : : She paid her owner, Charles: S. Howard, under whose colors Seabiscuit also raced, $3.80, $2.60 and $2.40.
Shot Specialist
NEW YORK, Dec. 9.—Long Island university’s basketball team has another set shot specialist in Don Kot-
Bulldogs Hand
| Golden Bears First Defeat
By UNITED PRESS Columbus’ scrapping Bulldogs, who seem to hold a lithe grees= eyed jinx for Shelbyville, last’ night dumped the Golaen Bears, 33-28, in a South Central conference game, for their fourth victory in five starts, The defeat halted the Shelbyville victory string at five straight and blemished a perfect record, as the Bulldogs added their hot breath to the state leaders Martinsville and Rochester, who have seven and six wins, respectively.
Did It Last Year
It was Columbus who upset the sectional title hopes of Shelbyville last spring after the two teams had finished in a dead-lock for the S. C, C. crown. The Golden Bears have defeated Greencastle, Rushville, Franklin, Seymour and Connerse ville, Columbus has lost only to Martinsville. Marion and Lebanon also asserted their unrelenting pressure on the leaders last night. ‘The skyscraping Marion giants protected their pere fect record by nosing out a surprise ingly strong Huntington quintet, 35-32, for their fifth straight win, Marion previously spilled Alexandria, Anderson, Peru and Logansport.
Hog Dogs Cooled
Lebanon copped its fourth trie umph in five starts by setting down the Frankfort Hot Dogs, who met their second defeat of the year, 46-29. The victory served notice thag the high scoring Lebanon Cagers, led by Pete Yount, are bidding for wide-spréad net recogintion this year. Other significant scores last night revealed that Greenfield defeated Rushville, 36-28; Marion Crawley’s Lafayette Jefferson team overs powered its city rival, West Lafay= ette, 32-28, and Gary Emerson edged out Hammond, 29-28, in a Northern Conference game.
Net Leagues Fire Tonight
. Two basketball leagues spone sored by the city recreation department will open their schedules at the Brookside park comsmunity center this week, In the junior league tonight for players, 13 tc 16, St. Joseph's will oppose First U. B. at 7 o’cock with the Brookside and North East community centers batting at 8 o'clock and the East Side Warriors facing Keystone community center at 9 o'clock. A six-team league for senior players will open its schedule Friday night.
Roche Defeats Italian Matman
Dorve Roche of Decatur, Tl, took the last two falls after dropping the
copped the main event on the four« bout wrestling program at the Arme ory last night. Cistoldi gained a short-lived ade vantage by taking the first fall in six minutes with a body press, but Roche squared accounts in the sece ond by using a flying tackle and press and went on to win in three minutes of the third with a full nelson.
Coach Billy Thom and Rene Ia’
Belle, of Quebec, Can, tusseled to a draw in the semi-windup. The Indiana university mat mentor ran up against a tough one in La Belle, who countered hold for hold and
hig, first appearance h : In other bouts on the card Al Massey defeated Cowboy Luttrell
Will Continue
Tennis Games
NEW YORK, Dec. 9 (U. P).— Tennis will be continued in 1943 to ald¢ the national health programs and raise funds for war relief as long as the government authorizes the manufacture of tennis balls, Holcombe Ward, president of the United States Lawn Tennis assoe ciation, stated today. Ward expressed belief in the fue ture of tennis in a letter to the Lawn Tennis Writers’ Association
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