Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 December 1942 — Page 12
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By Eddie Ash
BUFFALO, American Hockey league western division leader, scheduled to play the Hoocsier Caps here tomorrow night, is ahead of Indianapolis by four points. « « . However, the Bisons have played two more games. . The rivals rate about even in scoring, 76 goals scored by Buffalo, ‘77 by Indianapolis; 58 against the Bisons, 57 against the Caps. «+ +. Looks like a Mexican standoff. : In three previous clashes, Buffalo beat the Caps, 5-3 at Buffalo; 3-1 at Indianapolis; and the Caps won an exciting overtime fracas in the Bison city, 4-3. Pittsburgh, tied with Buffalo, has an unusual record. ... The Hornets have scored 81 goals and have seen the same number. fly “through their own net. . . . Pittsburgh also has played two more : games than the. third-place western division Hoosiers. Hershey, the over-all league leader, has played 24 games, ditto Providence, second in the over-all. . . . Since Indianapolis has played only 20 games, it is a good position to do some catching up if the Caps can only launch a sustained winning streak. . . , Official standing and statistics from league headquarters:
AMERICAN LEAGUE Western Division
G Ww L Buffalo essecsansssnscs 2B 11 9 Pittsburgh sesasesssess 2? 12 10 Indianapolis eeseivences2l 9 9 Cleveland ......e000...23 8 12
Eastern Division
G Ww L cesssecsssssnesld 15 5 14 10 6 12 4 12
T G GA Pts 2 1% .58 24 0 8 8 24 2 9. 512 3 14 81. 1 G 85 93 73 50
GA 66 86 104 76
Pts. 34 28 17 12
Hershey Providence ....ccosees:24 Washington ...cec0000.23 New Haven .c.oececees.20
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By JOE WILLIAMS ’ Times Special Writer NEW YORK, Dec. 2¢—~There was one thing they did have in common and that was a strong brotherly attachment so it wasn't a surprise to pick up the paper and read that Max and Buddy Baer had gone into the service together out in California. They frequently fought on the same card and the main interest of the one seems to be to root the other home. You couldn't tell Buddy that Max wasn't a great fighter and you couldn't tell Max that Buddy wasn't on the way to the heavyweight championship. The truth is, of course, they weren't great fighters. Max had the necessary physical equipment, won the title, in fact, but there was too much drudgery about fighting for his loose, ebullient nature; a fellow has to do a certain amount of work to get on top and stay there and the magnificent screwball looked upon work as a poisonous thing. He had about as good a right hand punch as you'd want to look at. Came by it naturally, instinctively. That was a mistake. It gave him the comfortable feeling everything came easy. Why work on a left hand? One day he'd wake up and, surprise, have a good left hand, too. Perhaps he was less dreamy than this but the fact is he never developed a left; never tried to.
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One of the best fights he ever made around here was one of his earliest. This was the time he stopped Max Schmeling in ten rounds and gave him a cruel going over in the process. It was about this time, too, that the pixie nature of the gentleman began to assert itself.
dressing room before the fight and found him butting his head against an iron pipe. : “What the . . .” exclaimed M. Laird. «Just toughening myself up,” explained the incredible Max. Baer almost blew Schmeling out of the ring in the first and second rounds, but even in his early days he was never in the best of shape. He'd get a man going, then run out of gas. He had Schmeling stopped three or four times, but didn’t have enough stamina to put on the clincher. . He might not have stopped him at all if Schmeling hadn’t hit him after the bell in the ninth. This moved Baer to a burst of fury. He wasn’t capable of sustaining any kind of emotions very long but they were awe inspiring moods while they lasted. , At the bell for the tenth he was across the ring before the German could scarcely get his hands up. He belted him about the head and body without letup for better than a minute, climaxing the assault
Mr. Tom Laird, the San Francisco author, visited Baer in the .
Former Tribe Catcher Becomes Club Owner
ERNEST LORBEER, former Indianapolis catcher, has purchased the Beaumont Texas league club from the Detroit Tigers. ... A graduate of Kansas State Teachers’ /[eollege, has run the baseball
scale, as player, manager, president and now owner. . .
. In college
he was a star football, basketball and baseball player and later ‘coached at his alma mater and at Peru State Teachers’ college,
' Peru, Neb.
Whether the Texas league operates in 1943 remains to be seen. ... Fina] decision will be made at a club owners’ meeting in
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GEORGE KIRKSEY, former ace. sports writer for the United Press, has been advanced to the rank of captain in the air corps. . .. Capt Kirksey saw one football game this year. ... In other seasons he covered from 15 to 20, including both college and professional. . . . He now is attached to the army air forces technical
training command.
Shokes and Ryan Join the Navy
| EDDIE SHOKES, Indianapolis’ first sacker in 1941, is in the navy at Norfolk, Va., training station. . . . He played with the Syracuse
Internationals the past season and the Cincinnati Reds.
his contract is the property of
Blondy Ryan, best remembered in baseball for his “they can’t beat us” telegram, is in the navy, as lieutenant (jg). ... Corp. Johnny Beazley, St. Louis Cards’ star rookie hurler, has moved up to officers’ * training school in Florida. . . . Jack Christensen and Leon Balser,
1942 Milwaukee pitchers, are in the army.
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BOSTON RED SOX have lost their 1942 outfield, Ted Williams,
Dom DiMaggio and ‘Lou Finney. . .
. Williams and DiMaggio are in -
the navy and Fifiiey, a farmer, has decided to remain down on the farm for the duration. “At the request of his draft board.”
Ice Hockey Is a Rough Sport
THAT Pittsburgh at Hershey hockey match Tuesday night was a rough-house in the second period. . . . Maybe the boys are toughen--ing up for military duty. ... Second period penalties: Schultz, holding; Laurzon, hooking; O'Neill and Dewey, five minutes each in the doghouse for fighting, and 10 minutes each in the doghouse for misconduct: Lauzon, hooking for second time, and Pelangio, holding. In the first period the penalties were on Corrigan for holding, and Currie and O'Neill for roughing. . .. After that hectic second period, the boys squared off again in the third and the penalties
were: Moe, tripping; Moe and Pelangio, roughing; Howard, tripping; Mercer, interference; and Currie, 10 minutes, misconduet.
‘I'm Comin’ Back, Boys,’ Says
~ Orange, N. J.,
Beer Barrel
NEW YORK, Dec. 2¢ (U. P.).—Consternation cascaded into Stil!lman’s
gymnasium this stormy petrel of the
afternoon when utterly without warning that former heavyweight division, “Two-Ton” Tony Galento,
officially launched a comeback campaign by popping out of a dressing cubicle and going through a 12-round workout.
The wise boys of Lammers’ da gag?’ But when Deadpan Johnny Burke, Galento’s trainer, assured them, “there ain’t no gag; ' Tony's makin’ a comeback” — the wise boys started figuring. © And Fat Galento, the beer barrel that walks like a man, helpetl them with their arithmetic. While skipping the rope with elephantine grace, he gruntingly informed:
“I'm comin’ back, boys. I ain’t| .
kiddin’. I'm only 32 years old, and I kin lick any heavyweight in the business, .includin’ Louis—with a coup’ a weeks’ trainin’. I'll mow down those bums and fight Louis for nothin’—just to get the title.” The side-of-the-m out h-talking guys took Galento’s statements with a grain of epsom salts, and snickered when the fat man in the black tights and white sweatshirt advanced upon the little pear-shaped p bag. But their snickers faded, and they watched pop-eyed as he “moidered” the noisy target. His machine-gun work on that bag made the colleagues of cauliflower canyon believe Tony was in good shape. . But apparently these bravos of punch prado had forgotten that Signor Galento—the rotund pub proprietor of Orange, N. J.—is perhaps the most expert bag-puncher the heavy division ever knew, Ga-
. lento could punch the bag impres-|
sively, while asleep. And his ropeskipping always has been a wonder for a chap who always packed more than 235 pounds on a five-foot eight-inch beam. He was an artist with the rope today, although he admitted he scaled about 255. And ~ he went: through his limbering exercises with the ease of a ballet
Lane at first wanted to know, “what's
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lick most of the heavies around. But I ain’t gonna fight until I train for six more weeks. Sure I been trainin’ already. I been playin’ handball. for three months, ‘nen I trained at Bey’s camp for a week, and now I'm movin’ over here.” When Galento first started playing handball he wasn’t certain that he wanted to stage a comeback, but, “when I seen that Mauriello-Nova fight at the Garden a couple weeks ago, I says to myself I could knock both of them out in the same night with a coupla fast left hooks,” he
Fat Tony, who has: restricted his activities to. operating his Orange cocktail lounge since being stopped
¢| by Buddy Baer in April, 1941, said
he would take on his first comeback
bout six weeks hence—no opponents|
barred. Then he would cuf: through the current crop of heavies like a
May Train
In Carolina
BOSTON, Dec. 24 (U. P.). — War transportation permitting, both the Boston Braves and the Boston Red Sox hope to stage their spring training schedule south of the MasonDixon line—perhaps in North Carolina. In a dual announcement yesterday, President Bob Quinn of the Braves and General Manager Eddie Collins of the Red Sox said they had abandoned hope of training in’ Florida. : 5 ‘ The announcement came as somewhat of a surprise. Though the Red Sox had not discussed the subject, Quinn said earlier this week that he expected the Braves’ would train in Sanford, Fla., in March. - Conferences with. ODT officials, it. was believed, caused his e¢hange of mind. The Sox are not.yet sure where they will train. But Quinn said the Braves were considering such sites as Rocky Mount, Charlotte, Win-ston-Salem, Gastonia, Wilson or Greenshoro, all in North Carolina.
- Martinsville Is
Bumped Again
. Martinsville’s attempt to bound back toward high school basketball supremacy flopped last night, and the Artesians continued their tailspin with a defeat to Seymour, the “Giant Killer,” 39-30. oe The Seymour Owls, who made a habit of upsetting the favorites last year, handed Martinsville its second defeat of the year. The Artesians, coached by Pat Malaska, former Purdue court ace, slip from their top-notch spot in state rankings last week when Bloomington dished out their first loss in nine starts. Meanwhile, Rochester, Logansport, and Ft. Wayne Ceniral--members of Indiana’s top ten—made gains last night. The Rochester Zebras took’ their tenth consecutive triumph, defeating a rugged Greensburg squad, 44-37, to lead the entire state in the victory column. High-scoring Ft. Wayne Central climbed another notch nearer top position, romping over Auburn, 6130, for its seventh victory in seven starts ‘and Logansport’s Berries avalanched Peru, 48-29, for their seventh triumph in nine games.
All-Stars Nip Pistons, 46-43
Ft, Wayne's Zollner Pistons came up last night with another of their
miseranle games, and, as i had in two of their four previous games,
the ball game. Oshkosh, defending professional league champs, nipped the Pistons by a 46-43 score. For the first three quarters the Pistons held the All-Stars well under control, and enjoyed a 39-30 lead at the end of the third quarter. Then Ft. Wayne stopped driving and stopped scoring. * Slowly Oshkosh overhauled the Hoosiers, and with two minutes to go took a lead they held 40 the end. The
‘man on the floor.
FT. WAYNE, Dec. 24 (U. P.)—|b three-quarters good, -one-quarter| Wash
the one miserable quarter gost them|,
Red-Hot Tech Outelasses the Blue Devils From Shortridge, 35-19, Before 3000 Net Fans
By FRANK WIDNER Shortridge found out last night that the. Big Green of Tech has one of the best basketball teams it has had in years. 1 The Blue Devils were completely beaten by the East Side school, 35-19, before 3000 fans in the Tech gym, all of whom probably will agree that the North Side school was never in the ball game. . There’s no doubt that Tech was “hot.”
They hit shot after shot from the field, under the basket and from the side that during the course of any other game might not have gone in. ' But their ball handling was about the best they have displayed all season and they repeatedly “stole” the ball from the Shortridge players, who during: part of the game appeared completely bewildered. Big Bob : Evans, the Green's rangy center, started the fireworks
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Buddy Baer, left, and his brother, Max, after a stiff workout.
. “They frequently fought on the same card and the main interes
the one seems to be to root the other home.” with a long, sweeping right hand that. turned Schmeling clear aro
and hurt him plenty. .
Then turning to Arthur Donovan, the referee, Baer said ¢:
matically: “Stop it before I kill him.”
There was more ham than harm in the elder of the Baers. He more at home at.a ringside table than in the ring. He had a daffy : of charm and affability that made everybody . . . except his trair ers
and managers . . . fond of him.
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ahead, never to be headed, although the Blue Devils tied. the score twice in the first period.
Rogers Ties Score
Rogers tied the score the first time on a neat pivot play and then Bob Andrews, high scorer for the winning five with 11 points, sent Tech ahead from the foul line. The Blue Devils tied the score for the second and last time on Rogers’ gratis shot. Then Tech went to work, although Shortridge was but one point behind, 8-7, at the end of the first period, Tech started going. away in the second quarter, holding a 20-10 advantage. at half-time. Evans sank a free throw and Lyman hit a long one to make the score 11-7. Tech then intercepted several Shortridge passes in midair, Andrews getting hold of one of them and swishing it through. He hit two more times before the half ended. ‘
" Take Big Lead
The Big Green took over a commanding 14-point lead in the third quarter, leading 28-14 before the period ended. started to get rough. The fans were kept in a continuous uproar during the final quarter as Shortridge tried desperately to stem the tide of the battle and at least make a fair showing. But Tech was not to be denied. They continued to intercept Shortridge’s passes, controlled the ball on the rebound and captured « majority of the “jump ball” plays.
A Football Game
The final few minutes of the game were more of a football game than one of basketball. Two Blue Devils left the game via the personal foul route and both sides substituted - freely,” each substitution sending a bigger and brawnier Hilkene and Rogers . were the Shortridge netmen with four personal fouls on them and their absence didn’t do Shortridge any good.” Oufgside of Casselman, who hit three fielders to lead the Shortridge scoring, they were high on the Blue Devils’ offensive list. The summary:
Tech - (3) Shortridge (19)
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This patriotic spaniel has collected 300 golf balls on the Auckland, N. Z,, course and is still going strong. Apparently he too knows ' that there is a rubber shortage but it is doubtful if the golfers appreciate his gestures.
Sinkwich Has 2 Bad Ankles
PASADENA, Cal., Dec. 2¢ (U. P.). —The annual pre-game bear stories began coming out of this lackadaisical Rose Bowl city today and one of them vitally interested the Georgia football team. : Its star all-America backfield ace, Frankie Sinkwich, was hobbling around on two bad ankles and everyone from the Georgia water boy to Coach Wally Butts feared the worst, although Sinkwich tried to put them at rest. “I'll play even .if I have to use crutches,” he said, indicating that even that assistance would not be necessary. : He twisted his right ankle during an offensive forward passing drill yesterday and had to be helped from the field. He injured his left ankle a week ago today as the team went through its final drill before boarding the train at Athens, Ga., for Pasadena.
Not Concerned
- To the west, some 35 miles away, the University of California at Los Angeles didn’t seem concerned over reports of Sinkwich’s injury. They figured it was just another one of those stories that the opposing team brings to throw opponents off guard. Butts said he would keep Sinkwich out of future drills until the trainers said he was ready. There appeared little doubt that he would be ready when the whistle blows at 2:30 p. m. a week from tomorrow. : : :
La Belle to Face Ali Pasha Here Rene La Belle, the young French-
man who has established himself as a favorite with local fans, will en-
counter Ali Pasha, bearded Hindu| ceek
from Calcutta, India, in one of the
features on = the . wrestling card
Tuesday night at the armory.
J ‘La Belle is from Quebec and has
a powerful and aggressive grappler
Who features the “cobra” hold. The
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Cagle’s Death Caused From
Subway Fall
NEW YORK, Dec. 24 (U. }.)— Christian K. (Red) Cagle, 37, cne of the fanciest stepping bac: ficld men in football history, died yesterday of injuries that may ive been suffered when he fell dor. a flight of subway stairs. An autopsy showed - that (azle suffered a skull fracture Sat. cay
| night. The injury was not. dis-
covered until hours later and ‘hen he was rushed to a hospital r neumonia also had developed. H: twas unconscious when taken to the hospital and never came out o the coma. Police, who were not inform «d of Cagle’s injury until a few ours before he died, today ques’ oned Elwood Ford and William '<{ain, bank employees, who said the; first saw Cagle on His hands and :nees
lon a subway platform early & itur-
day evening. Didn’t Know Cagle .Nejther previously knew Jagle and they told police they dic not ‘see him fall and did not » alize that he was hurt seriously. :.eut. George Andrews said the me; believed Cagle was intoxicated and remained to help him. For informed police that he had been with Cagle. after he read o’' his death today. Ford said that he, Kain an! two sailors helped Cagle to a seat. He told them he was Red. Caglc and Ford said that excited his in erest
| because he had admired him as a
football player. “I was just being a good St naritan,” he said. “Kain and I d: cided to go home with him.”
Collapsed Twice
Cagle complained that his hsad hurt, but the men could not fi:.d an injury and believed he merel: had a headache. They made sever 11 ef= forts to help him aboard a trai , but each time he collapsed in their arms. After two hours they barded a train and got off a few ' locks from Cagle’s apartment. Cagle played four years at West Point and in 1928 and 192 named an -all-America back He was captain of the team hi: last year. He resigned from the :adet corps in 1930 when it was le rned that he had been secretly m: rried and never served with the rcjular army. . He was employed by 21 insurance firm. : The autopsy showed laceraii jn of the brain and a bruise of the srain tissue. . Doctors said an ope: ation might have sayed Cagle’s life { the fracture had been discovered i: ime as pneumonia was only inciden al to Cagle’s death. Funeral services will be he d at 2 p. m: Saturday in Jamaica, I. Y,, and interment will be in New I: cads, La. 3
Bowling Scores
Last night's leading bowlers Bud Schech, Indianapolis Oscar Behren, Indianapolis ... Charlie Cray, Indianapolis ... Larry Fox, Indianapolis ... Frank Hughes, Indianapolis Johnny Fehr, Indianapolis . Al - Dole, Uptown Recreation ... L. Faust, Omer
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but Max Didn't Care
Baer had hit the big dough, had become a definite figure in ‘the headlines and was being unhappily extosed to the impoftante of his position, when our James Burchard, now a sergeant with the American forces in Africa, approached him with an idea. : ; The idea, briefly, was that our James would see if he could keep, pace with Baer on the night club circuit for a week. A photographer, would go along and there would be daily illustrated pieces in the paper about the contest. : : oe | Baer was enthusiastic. . . . “But no phony stuff,” he insisted. “Real staying out and real drinking.” Bier That's how it was, too. The kicker at the finish was a picture of” the two lyjng in bed in their dinner clothes all in, settling for a draw, a decision ‘we've always looked upon with suspicion. Our James wasn't: that good. vad fia We've lost count of the number of times we've been in dressing: rooms watching dethroned champions slowly peel sweaty bandages’ off bruised knuckles. The ceremony has an unchanging pattern, The atmosphere is bleak and the victim teems with anguish and mos’ roseness. . . . “Next time it will be different.” ) 54
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The night Baer dropped the title to Jim Braddock you might have thought he had won so different was the background in his dressing room. For a while he tried to follow the| labored lines of the con. ventional script but it wasn’t in him; 't like him. Presently he was picking out guys he wanted to join him in a must be properly celebrated,” he laughed. . : : © We seem to have neglected the younger brother. But then he was always overshadowed by Max both as a fighter and an eccentric. Out of the ring Buddy was everything Max wasn't, a big, quiet farm boy: who hoped earnestly one day to be a. real fighter. Actually he was too big, too awkward. There were whispers he didn’t like it, too. This galled him, His biggest night was when ] ! in Washington and fought resolutely right up to the moment the Bomber finally caught up with him and stowed him’away.. He be~ * came something of a hero in defeat and was sympathetically acclaimed in the spogts pages, especially since the finishing blow was controversial. We came across him the next morning at breakfast; he was reading
the papers. ; ; ; “It’s the first time you fellows ever said anything nice about me,” time I meet. ... "
he smiled. “It makes me feel good. And the next Buddy was always thinking about-the next time; Max never cared.
whether it came or not.
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© By JACK CUDDY United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Dec. 24.--Por-trait of a man with an arfificial fireplace waiting for good old Santa to come down the imaginary chimney and leave gifts for the following persons: . Billy Conn—A father-in-law he can lick. Branch Rickey—A magnifying glass to study the flora and fauna of Flatbush, before it is too late. Frankie Sinkwich—A. U. 8S. marines assignment that will give him more action than he ever saw on the gridiron, without the bother of autograph seekers.’ The Chicago Bears—A primer of the Hatfield-McCoy feud, which shows that the outfit seeking vengeance usually gets it, particularly if the outfit happens to be the 73-0 Washington Redskins. 4 .. Mike Jacobs—A shield to turn aside the wrongly-aimed wrath of Secretary of War Stimson, Comm: J. E. Whelchel of the Navy—A huge crying towel to absorb his tears before sending a task football force into action against the Army-or any other opponent. Leo Durocher — Overstuffed- dice that do not click, and carefully powdered cards that do not whisper when . his Brooklyn Dodgers continue their games of chance in vio-
lation of Branch Rickey’s edict.
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AY this indeed be a happy holiday season, is Sterling’s earnest wish for all of you. You have certainly given us much ‘to be thankful for in your ever-increasing preference for Sterling; “America’s Choicest.Pilsner.” We thank you with all our hearts.
Xmas Gift for Billy Conn: A Father -in-Law He Can Lick’
Cornelius Warmerdam—A magie
party. ... . “A defeat J
he knocked Joe Louis out of the ring’
acid that will eliminate elbows and .
knees when he next tries to clear the pole-vault bar at 16 feet.
The Philadelphia Phils—An uprise ing of the populace in the City of Brotherly Love that will spur the Phils to become a pennant cone tender, or sell their franchise to Baltimore. ;
* The New York Yankees—Realiza~
‘tion that you've got to have more
than a reputation to play Cards
these days.
Jack Dempsey—A new romance
that can make him forget Hannah,
who apparently is determined on a
divorce.
Judge K. M. Landis—A complete course in double talk so that he may clearly understand the application of new government transportation edicts to baseball. Beau Jack — A correspondence course that will enable him to sign his .name to checks on his newly won wealth—instead of merely mak. ing an “yx » : ( Clark Griffith — Permission ft. move his Senators to the Arctie where he can play night baseball for six months of the year.
Joe Louis—A collection amon,
his Negro admirers to pay his bac.
taxes to Uncle Sam
ile he is in the army. ”
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