Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 December 1942 — Page 37

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: CHIEF BENDER, the great Philadelphia Athletics pitcher of the old school, worked a semi-pro game in Dillsburg, Pa., 41 years ago while still a student at the Carlisle Indian school in Pennsylvania. . , . The Indian lost in 10-innings. | After the game, the Dillsburg- manager paid the young hurler $3.20 and promised to pay the $1.80 balance “the next time I see | you. » . -Bender recently. told the story to a Philadelphia - sports. writer.

Eo Somebody read it in Dillsburg. , . . Several days latér Bender re-

celved & canvas money bag. .. . It contained a 3-zent piece of 1864, a 2-¢ent piece dated 1865, 23 nickels each with -the Roman numeral . Total, $1.80. «. « A note inside the bag, signed “Dillsburg baseball club” read: - “We have searched our files and found your claim against our . club of $1.80 to be correct. After the 1901 season we harvested the cabbage crop and collected enough money to pay off. However, we had no idea of your whereabouts until recently. Please sign and return enclosed receipt.” i The old coins have been added to Bender's baseball souvenirs. «« « “It just goes to show what I've contended all along, that in this

' world there are a few honest palefaces,” said Bender.

Seton Hall Sailor Sparks Great Lakes

. BOB DAVIES, No. 1 star on Lieut. Tony ‘Hinkle’s Great Lakes

basketball squad, sparked Seton Hall to 43 consecutive victories against strong competition. . , . He played out his collegiate string before enlisting in the navy. + Seton Hall may sound iike a young ladies finishing school except to persons who follow the cage game and know their stuff. .

= “The college is located at South Orange, N. J., and has an enrollment

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of approximately 700, all men. . . . The Setonites (Pirates) do not play football except on its intramural program. - ® 8 = j 2 8 8 DAVIES also plays baseball and his contract is the property of the Boston Red Sox. . .. He is an infielder. , , . At Great Lakes he is an acting company commander. Most of the Great Lakers’ who won 31 of 36 games last basketball season are now in active service, but they have been replaced by even

“more talented newcomers. . . , The new team has won five straight.

Franks Fifth Negro All-America

‘ WHEN Julius Franks of the University of Michigan was named as guard on Grantland Rice's all-America football team in Collier's weekly, he was the fifth Negro in 54 years to be so honored. . . . The other four were Lewis of Harvard, Pollard of Brown, Robeson and Holland of Cornell. , , . Michigan has “scored” on Collier's team 24 times. : . 2 8 =» 8 8 8 . CORP. BARNEY ROSS of .the marines, who was wounded by the J aps in Guadalcanal last month, may return to the United States any day, his brother, Ben Rasof, said in Chicago yesterday. , . . Mrs. Sarah Rasof, of Chicago, mother of the former lightweight and welterweight boxing champion, received a cheerful letter from her 32-year-old son which was postmarked Dec. 3... . It was reported Barney suffered a bullet wound in the shoulder in addition to other injuries.

Dean of Boxing Instructors Dies SERVICES for Bill O'Connell, dean of American boxing instructors, were held in Chicago this week. . . . O'Connell, who died Sunday after a long illness, was 83 years old. . . . He taught boxing in the Chicago loop from 1834 to 1940. . His pupils included such headliners as Packey McFarland, Jack Britton, Charlie White, Jess Willdrd, ‘Jack Johnson, Jock Malone, Charlie Glaser, Harry Wills, Joe Burman, Joe Welling and Maurie Bloom. go . 8 =» WHEN Johnny Kotz of Wisconsin made 21 points and Bobby Faught of Notre Dame collected 18 in the recent 61-to-59 Notre

Net Contest Canceled to

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. The annual city high school basketball tournament became a war casualty today and there will be no official city champion for the 194243 hardwood season. Instead of the annual tournament, principals ‘of the high schools announced, a five-game schedule has been set up for the week-end of

Jan. 15 and 16.

The decision of the high school athletic . directors led to speculation as to whether the annual state

year for the duration.

the city tuornament after a series of meetings which has been going cn for several weeks. :

Relieve Transporfation Load “The main reason: for dropping

said, “was to cooperate with -the war effort of the whole .community by decentralizing the usual tournament crowd and thus relieving the load on local transportation systems. “There was no objection on the part of athletic directors to holding the three-day meet this year as in past years. We simply felt that it was unwise at this time to gather 5000 or more persons in-one spot for three consecutive nights.” The city tournaments usually are held at. Technical high school and attract capacity crowds. With gasoline rationing now in effect, school heads anticipated that most fans would seek to use publie transportation facilities to get to the games.

Schedule of Games

The schedule which will take the place of the title meet will be: Friday, Jan. 15—Manual at Tech; Broad Ripple at Washington, Saturday, Jan. 16—Manual at Shortridge; Tech at Broad Ripple; Washington at Howe. Shortridge and Howe were scheduled_ for only one substitute game each since they already have 17 games booked for the season and 18 is the limit set by the Indiana High School Athletic association. The cancellation, it was -understood, will affect the current season only for the present but may be extended for the duration. if trans-

Jportation facilities are not relieved.

The * annual Marion county high school tournament was cancelled last week.

LU. Gridders To Be Feted

Alumni and former students of Indiana university will get together at the Claypool hotel tonight to

‘| honor Coach Bo McMillin, his staff

and the 1942 football team, Sponsored by the I. U. Alumni club of Indianapolis, phe affair will get under way at 8 p. m. Stuart Wilson, club president, will be master of ceremonies. Speakers and guests will be introduced by Leroy Sanders, president of the “I” Men's

tournament would be canceled this|-

The principals agreed to cancel].

the city meet this year,” W. G.| Gingery,p rincipal at Washington ' [high school,

Georgia Heads For Rose Bowl

ATLANTA, Ga., Dec. 18 (U.P.).— The football forces of the University ‘of Georgia, traveling in two private pullmans, today headed for Pasadena, Calif., and the Rose Bowl —probably the last team to represent the Eastern United States in the West Coast gridiron extravaganze for the duration, Coach ‘Wallace Butts, who used freshmen sparingly this season despite a conference rule making them eligible for varsity competition, included eight yearlings in the squad of 42 making the trip. Assistant coaches, trainers and several Georgia: newspapermen rounded out the Tournament of Roses party. The Southeastern conference champions - will continue straight through to the coast, making no frequent stopovers: to limber up as Rose Bowl-bound teams: have one in previous years, In preparation for their game with the University of California at Los Angeles, Butts planned an intensive series of blackboard sessions along the route through Birmingham, Ala, Memphis, Tenn. and]base Kansas City, Mo. They are scheduled to arrive in Los Angeles Mon-. day.

Mize Named King; Ott 2d

By PAUL. SCHEFFELS United Press Staff Correspondent

NEW YORK, Dec. 18.—The beliet|

that the close race between St. Louis and Brooklyn Rist season was due to the Cards’ sale of Johnny Mize received considerable backing today when official averages of the National league classified the husky first baseman as the slugging champion. and runs-batted-in king of

for three players and cash last year Mize won .the slugging crown with a. percentage of .521 and the. new runs-batted title for the second time with a total of 110 in 142 games.

His "bat shared’ general = hitting|:

honors: with Manager Mel Ott of the

Giants, however, who set seven new |

circuit records and tied two. . Mize went to bat. 541 times, collected 282 total bases, 60 bases on balls, fanned 39 times, was hit by

-|{five pitchers and eight times hit

into double plays. Ott finished second among the sluggers in 152 games with a record of 273 total

|bases in 549 times at bat, 93 runs| batted in, 109 bases on balls and

61 strikeouts. He was hit by pitchers three times and also drove into eight double plays.

Played 152 Games

Enos Slaughter, runner-up for the batting championship, played 152 games for the Cardinals and garnered 292 total bases in 591 trips for an average of 464. He drove in 98 runs, received 88 bases on balls, fanned 30 times, hit into six double plays and was hit by six pitchers. New league records set by Ott were most home runs, 445; most years 30 or more homers; 8; most time. two homers game, 43; most bases on balls, lifetime, 1444; most seasons 100 or more bases on balls, 10; most years leading league bases on balls, 6, and most runs batted in, lifetime, 1648. J ‘Four other circuit’ standards set were most relief games pitched, Ace Adams, New York, 61; most games finished, Adams, 49; most times 100 or more home runs, New York, 13; and most successive last-place finishes, Philadelphia, 5.

Ott Ties Twe

Of the six league records tiled, Ott contributed two—most years, 100 or more runs, lifetime, 9; most times leading homers, 6. Other standards equalled were Jim Tobin, Boston, and Clyde - McCullough, Chicago, three homers in one game; most homers pitcher, Tobin, 6; most base-hits inning, Babe Young, Giants, 2; fewest chances game, 10 or more innings, Lilly Jurges, Giants, 0.

Baseball's Condition Will Be Good After War Is Over

Times Special NEW YORK, Dec. 18.—While the major and more prominent minor league owners view with alarm, Ray Dumont, president of the National

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The undefeated Shortridge Blue Devils will risk their unblemished record twice this week-end, play~ ing at Ben Davis tonight and journeying to Columbus tomorrow to engage the tough Bulldog five. The - probable starting five for tonight's battle includes, left to right, Lee Hummel, Don Rogers, Bruce Hilsene, Bruce Christie and Leroy Casselman.

Scrap Tonight

Johnny Denson, Indianapolis heavyweight#will enter the ring in the role of underdog tonight for possibly the first time in his professional boxing career when he faces Irish Mickey Hayes, Milwaukee slugger, in the main event of a five-

. | scrap ‘pro mitt bill to be staged by

the Hercules A, C. The complete card follows: Main event—10 rounds (heavyweights) —Irish Mickey Hayes, 195, Milwaukee, vs. Johnny Denson, 191, Indianapolis. ‘ Semi-windup —8 rounds - (lightheavyweights) —Bobby Millsapp, 163, Milwaukee, vs. Al Sheridan, 170, Indianapolis. Prelim—6 rounds (lightweights)— Earl Paul, 135, Indianapolis, vs. Louis (Whitey) Hewitt, 134, Indianapolis, Prelim—4 rounds (middleweights) —Eugene Simmons, 158, Indianapolis, vs. Rube Jones, 160, Indianapolis, : Prelim—4 rounds (lightweights) — Willis McCoy, 127, Indianapolis, vs. Gene Miller,” 134, Indianapolis, -Millsapp will spot Sheridan seven pound in the weights. The first bout is scheduled to start at 8:30 o'clock. The armory is located at 711 N. Pennsylvania st.

Reds Defeat Eagles, 3-2

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their grip on second place in the American Hockey league’s eastern division last night when they defeated .the New Haven Eagles, 3-2. Webster and Aubouchon started

The Providence Reds tightened |

Recoguiition

NEW YORK, Dec. 18.—A foot-

“ball trainer finally was given rec-

-ognition when Roland Bevan of the United : States Military academy was given the award of the Touchdown club of New York as ‘one who made a contribution df permanent value to football. The award in past years has gone to coaches and officials,

The Irish Really : Got Around

NOTRE DAME, Dec. 18. — Any

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the T-formation adopted by. Coach Frank Leahy were dispelled with’ the release of 1942 statistics for: Notre Dame here today. The Irish not only won 7, lost 2 and. tied 3 during the course of undoubtedly . the hardest schedule ever played. by Notre Dame, but they averaged. 437 yards in every running play. as compared with 3.19 in 1941,

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LEON’S Holiday Spree

Dame overtime basketball victory, they eclipsed team scoring for the club. Semi-Pro Congress, is doing something about baseball in war-time. Providence off with two first

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21 to 14, in 1927-28. ,

first two games of the series.

The Irish won the first game, 19 to 14, in 1926-27, and the second,

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previous high for the series

was its 51-to-33 victory three seasons ago. Highest previous combined total came in Wisconsin's 44-t0-43 victory two years ago. , + « The total in this year’s game was 120 points in 45 minutes!

Skyscraper Competition in

By HARRY

EBasketball Now Under Way

GRAYSON

Times Special Writer

+ MEW YORK, Dec, 18—Basketball's annual I-Gotta-Bigger-Guy-*#hgn-You Handicap is now under way and an unlimited crop of un-

Miniteds is at hand.

At this time the college publicity mills grind dope about Harry Hightower of Higgenbotham, who stands nine feet in his stocking feet.

There used to be a time when this niania was confined to the open spaces, but of late it has traveled im all directions in a hurry, like the corn borer, Madison Square Garden addicts for example, suspect they are looking at a team of southwestern or

‘midwestern giants when the St. ‘John's Redmen of Brooklyn take

the floor. The team average is to six feet three. The tallest, and consequently most interesting (Redman at the moment, is a six-foot e-inch center, Harry Boykoff. "Long Island U. has a six-foot séven-inch center in Don Kotter, 3 8 Bn ” a QUESTION at the end of the season, however, always is whether these big guys are worth much more than their salt in competition with “boys of ordinary stature and speed. West Texas State Teachers a year

ago advertised itself as ‘possessing ‘the tallest team in the.world, but was twice repelled in the Garden groups of athletes. who were hique only because of their playing lity, ven-foot Bob Kurland of Okla1a A. & M. now leads the high ts, but there was every indicain His brief Garden appearance other night that he is a basketfreak rather than a player. fchigan State has six-foot six Stone, Oklahoma A. & M.- sixive Lou Steinmeir and so on. ® 8 8 J PROPONENTS of the * boys is Coach John Lawther ‘State, who contends that if y shoot up ahove six feet he'll em if they never saw a court. n side ‘are students of the thelieve tall men can con-

ession at all times, but ad-

She normal and speedy s poo-bah this theory. “believe that with larg-

break the beanstalk boys to a fare-the-well.

ZONE DEFENSES, they say, cannot be executed by lanky bays who cannot shift quickly enough with the moving ball. Then again, Coach Lawther is the originator of the shifting zone, the toughest of its kind." There are two sides to every story. It undoubtedly boils down to the good big man, etc. The records favor the boys who don’t stop traffic, but the water tower lads certainly make fine copy.

Classes Rusie With Johnson

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18.—Clark Griffith, who always rates Walter Johnson as the greatest pitcher over a span of years in baseball history, says he guesses that Amos Rusie, - who died in the Pacific northwest : the other day, was as great—for one game. The owner of the Washington Senators. also recalls that Rusie, the old New York: Giant fireballer, made no more than $2900 a season, or less than practically any recruit earns now. In Rusie’s day, the National league had a $2400 salary limit, with stars getting $500° bonuses for outstanding seasons,

Do It Again

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. Dec. 18.—

For the fifth straight year since 1938, when: Branch McCracken became Indiana’s basketball coach, the hotfooted Hoosiers have finished their home non-Big Ten. schedule without a defeat. - During McCrackén’s presence at I. U. only tWe nonconference contests have lost,

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Also scheduled to be present are Billy Hillenbrand, I. U's all-Amer-fca back; Captain-elect’ Lou Saban and. Bob White, retiring captain. Motion pictures of Indiana’s games with Purdue and Minnesota will be shown as a feature of the program. The committee in charge of arrangements is headed by Dr. R. E. Mitchell and includes Cecil Weathers, Harry Gause, G. R. Redding, Robert Loomis and A. H. Warne.

Hutson Will Just Kick Extra Points

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 18 (U. P.). —Don Hutson, the National Professional Football league’s top pass receiver, was slated today to perform only as an extra-point kicker in the Pro-Bowl game at Philadelphia, Dec. 27. Hutson suffered a chest injury during the regular season and his physician refused permission for him to scrimmage.

Lose Six Men BLOOMINGTON, Ind. Dec. 18.— Indiana university's football team loses six of ‘its’ members by graduation next April, and all six will be commissioned as second lieutenants by the United States army. They are Bob White; Joliet, Ill;. Earl Dolaway, Port Allegany, Pa.: Dan Proger and Jack Nash, South Bend, and Dale Swihart and Pat Ronzone, Elkhart,

Bowling Scores

Last night's leading bowlers were:

Pete Ernst, Printeraft Ed Horton, International Harvester . Clarence Robinson, Automes Gene Blanford, Unive Harold Murray, Curtis Wight Classie Mueller, Universa Moxley, erent Gene Briner, P. R, Mallory Gil Durnell, Parkway BD roryation Bill Lep rt, St. Catherine's ......., ” Harry :Stiver, Sturm Recreation..... ee Wurre, Universal Weizel, Universal .......... row Ed Bush, Allison ....... ee R. Dick, Handicap Day, Universal oe Bob Bollinger, Vegetable Growers...... Norbert Watness, E. C. Atkins... . Denny Brearden, El C. McAfee, Universal William Wulzen, Squ . Ed Stevenson, Coca-Cola . seesssassnneer

LADIES Muriel Hays, Roberson Coal . Sennen 01 rien, s.Oela Optical.

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+ war ‘plants, many unable to return om to organized ball. They’ll want to 631 continue playing - in - the spring.

639| frowned upon the idea of sponsor-

Even though only a few sca operation in 1943, Dumont says nothing to fear as to the future of

His organizatioh is adopting plans which he insists will-make the sport hum more than ever before. ‘The National Semi-Pro Congress is publishing a 300-page guide, edited to convince more industrial plants and towns that they should sponsor. clubs in the spring. In January; to encourage baseball play, 100,000 -copies will be mailed to service athletic officers, industrial firms, team backers and sporting goods stores,

Continue Money Spending

Unlike most organizations founded to govern athletics, the National Semi-Pro Congress is continually spending money to develop interest —to bring out more teams, This money has not come from organized baseball or athletic goods manufacturers, the groups which no doubt|_ benefit mostly from the efforts of the organization, ° Enlarging his structure with district. - tournaments, : national associations of leagues, umpires and scorers and a sandlot player contract system, Dumont . discovered more teams were needed. So he took all the profit from entry fees and receipts of the national tournament in Wichita, which annually draws about $50,000 in two weeks, and started having printed

for the organization of more clubs. Causing Semi-Pro Boom

“War, if anything, is causing a semi-pro boom, Dumont stresses. He estimates that 3000 professional minor league. players are now in

Many factories, : which formerly ing a club, will be represented on the field. In the past there usually was not enough material available, The result’ was softball teams, . Army teams, too, play an impor-

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ttered minor leagues may be in organized baseball moguls have the game following the war.

tant part in the semi-pro setup. Fort Riley, Kas. finished in third place. and Camp Wheeler, Ga., with Cecil Travis at third: base, fifth in the 1942 national tourney, ' Baseball men once traced the decline of minor league and town team ball to the automobile and ability of people to get around the country. .Next season, as Ray Dumont points out, gas rationing and requests of ODT will keep the folks

| at home in the smaller communities.

It will be easier than. ever before to obtain backing for a club.

baseball movement continues at its present pace, organized baseball is going to find a healthy condition on the sandlots when victory is achieved.

As long as the national semi-pro .

period goals, Patterson scoring for New Haven in the second. Cook then tallied what proved to be Providence’s: winning counter before Mancuso shot New Haven’s second tally in the third, The standings:AMERICAN LEAGUE Western Division

Buffalo INDIANAPOLIS... Pittsburgh Cleveland ,.....

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Washington ,.... 6 11 4 New Haven ..... 4.10 3

RESULTS LAST NIGHT Providence, 3; New Haven, 3. Only game scheduled.

NEXT. GAMES TOMORROW—Ruffalo at Cleveland, New Haven at Washington, Hershey at Pitisburgh.’ SUNDAY — Hershey at Indianapolis,

Washington at Buffale, Pittsburgh at New Haven, Cleveland at Providence.

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