Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 January 1943 — Page 14

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By E

ddie Ash

THERE'S an army of former Golden Gloves boxers

th the armed forces scattered all over the world and

all branches of the service. ... In most instances

ese fighting lads didn’t wait

to be called. . . + They en-

ted pronto and asked for action. Recently, the New York Mirror carried a story describing the “determination of a former Golden Glover to throw punches for his country. . « « The article, in part, gives you an idea of the courage of the lads brought up on a diet of amateur fist throwing .. . It read: “The most popular man at Ellington field, Tex. is Brooklyn's Gasper J. Giunte who is an aviation cadet in the bombardier school. Everybody knows Gasper, a former Golden Glover, radio playwright ‘and poet. These are not the talents that made him famous, however. “His attempts to become a bomber pilot have made his name

“First he stretched on a hard mattress for 48 hours and gained

only a quarter of an inch. Then he

$0 physical instructors and was stretched.

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tried Yoga but missed. He went

: “ALL THESE things failing, Gasper persuaded a girl friend to hit him on the head. He almost wept when the bump added

only one-half inch to his stature. or “Discouraged, Gasper enlisted in

the First Engineers. He learned

~ his class.”

Couple of Grid Reputations Were Deflated

© THE Boston college football Eagles were deflated . « « and defimitely «s « by Alabama in the Or&nge Bowl ... That 55-to-12 de- . feat by Holy Cross convinced this department that the Eagles got their “super” rating on a weak schedule diet and high-pressure publicity. « +» Althought Alabama lost three games in regular season, ~ this department picked the Crimson Tide over the Eagles. ... Ala-

fore played a rugged schedule.

~ For a similar reason this department picked Tennessee .over » Tulsa in the Sugar Bowl... Undefeated and untied in regular "season, Tulsa also played gy weak schedule. ... One of our major

_ bowl predictions was u Funny thing, Texas, _ lone victory in a lon _ department had Georgia

when Texas nudged Georgia Tech. as defeated by Northwestern, the Wildcats’

i dispal-season «+. In other selections this er U. C. L. A. and the East over the West

in the Shrine Bowl . . . Just a little horn tooting to help pad out

ithe column.

~ Had Best Season After Home Training ; IN 1925 Tommy Thomas was a member of the Baltimore Orioles’ ‘

mound staff. . . . He was a holdout and remained in Baitimore

instead of going to the team’s spring training camp in the south.

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Tommy trained “on his own” in Baltimore and accepted terms

* shortly before the start of the season. ... All he did was to have his

season by winning 32 games.

Now manager of the Orioles, Thomas is readily willing to train

his club at home this year. |

LEADING the Illinois basketball team in scoring is Ken Menke with 69 points in six games: . . . That's a sizzling pace. . . . The defending Big Ten champs are not going to be easily removed from

But they'll get stiff competition from Wisconsin and Indiana. . .

Ib has been 12 years since the winner of the Big Ten basketkall race went through the conference schedule undefeated. . . . Purdue was the last team to turn the trick, going undefeated in the Big Ten in 1930.

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ONCE the league baseball clubs get their spring training bases picked out, their next big job will be getting the players to quit

. heir high salaried war plant jobs to train. The Cincinnati Reds have lost Ray Lamanno, their star rookie

er. . . . He enlisted in the navy.

Rhode Islands’

Average Down

92-Point fo 75

By JACK CUDDY United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK,/Jan. 4—Eastern basketball enthusiasts are still agog over that goofy game at Madison Square garden Saturday night in which Fordham abandoned its usual defensive tactics and pitted “firehouse” “firehouse” methods to upset Rhode Island State, 84 to 75. _ The Garden’s record cage crowd of 18,394 developed balata necks watching the torrent of shots at both ends of the court, as a half-

Garden scoring marks were “bettered. Today the experts are arguing all over the East about the signifieance of this upset—if any. Some * gay Fordham’s triumph proves that object of basketball is to outthe other team, regardless of ense. Others maintain that am’s superior defense preventRhode Island from scoring as much as the Fordhamites in a fastg game. : - Adding Machine Score The latter school of thought, + which supports the bookish game the blitz type, points out the Rhode Islanders had aved 93 points per game, before ng with the Fordham Rams. fact, the Rhode Islanders defeatFt. Williams by the adding maa figure of 124-59. And bese of Fordham’s apparent abanbut instinctive deference, hode Island was unable to mainin its average of 92 Saturday deht. It was restricted to a mere 75. H ever, supporters of the “firegame insist that Fordham’s pected all-out attack surprised Rhode ISlanders and put them the defensive, thus permitting am to monopolize the ball, do shooting, and make more bas-

p do not know which theory is}_

. We do know, however, that season Coach Ed Kelleher of ham concentrated on defense

for taking the hoop game too seriously, and for being “just too, too technical.”

Just Have Fun

“Basketball is just a game which was invented so that the boys could hhve fun playing it,” Keaney says. “I just send them out there to have fun—win- or lose. If anybody beats us—so what? I just pivot and go home. I can always eat my supper.” Does Keaney ever read hooks on the technique of basketball? “Sure I do,” he chuckles. “I read them all, even the books by Holman and Bee. But we always do the opposite from what those books tell us. If they say float, we don’t float. That’s why the other coaches call me ‘unsound.’ “Im always willing to give the other fellow one basket! if we can get two in exchange. I tell the boys to go out there and run around and shoot and have fun. We don’t expect to win every game. But as long as the boys and I have a good time I figure we're playing the right kind of basketball.”

Hockey Standing

AMERICAN LEAGUE Western Division

Ww .L Buffalo ....... 14 12 Pittsbu h 4 13 8 DIAN. Lis 13 10 3 14 3

fufers Division L TT

New ‘Haven sl MM Washington .. 6 "17 RESULTS LAST NIGHT INDIANAPOLIS, 3 Cleveland, 6 (overBiflaly >. h, 2. Horahey, 3; 3; "Providence.

NEXT GAMES WEDNESDAY—New Ha $ Pitis Ee DAY ew ven & burgh, A ——————————— ABA

Run Harder

ATHENS, Ga, Jan. 4—Frankie i All-America

(overtime tie). |

Score 7-6 Win After Jennings Ties Up Game

By FRANK WIDNER It took our Caps a full 70 minutes to slap down a determined band of Cleveland Barons at the Coliseum last night, but thanks to Bill Jennings and Jud McAtee, Herbie Lewis

in a red-hot overtime battle. The game was g thriller from the start and enabled the Caps to pull within two points of league-leading Buffalo. The Bisons took over first place by posing Pittsburgh, 3-2. It was the second victory for the Caps on consecutive nights. They whipped Pittsburgh again Saturday night, 5-2, and will play their next encounter here Thursday night against New Haven, The 4327 fans who laid cash on the line to see last night's encounter saw both fine offensive .as well

both teams. Our Caps started out with a bang. As soon as the game got underway, Bill Beveridge, goalie for the Barons, found out that he was in for a hot evening. In the first few seconds he had three saves to his credit and wound up at the end of the overtime with 33. Floyd Perras, guardian of the Caps’

4 gates, was credited with 20, six of

which came in the overtime period}. as the Barons attempted vainly to gain a tie.

Caps Take Lead

Les Douglas, assisted by Sandy Ross and Bill Thomson, sent the Caps into ther lead with a sizzling shot from the side at 3:04 of the first period. Cleveland swarmed all over the Indianapolis goal after that but the Caps ganged up around the nef and prevented them from hitting pay dirt.

Shortly before the . Caps got their second goal, the Barons’ left defenseman, Robertson, drew a twominute penalty for holding. The Caps were unable to take advantage of his absence from the ice but at 16 minutes of the first period, Johnny Holota made the score 2-0

"lon assists from Adam Brown and

Bill Jennings. Holota barely missed another score but was sent sprawling on the ice. There were but 11 seconds of the initial heat left when Art Giroux slammed the puck into the net for the Barons’ first tally. He took assists from Burlington and Horeck. Cleveland went wild during. the first part of the second period, scoring two goals in one minute and 18 seconds. The Caps’ defense folded up like a wet dishrag during this spree when Bartholome, assisted by Foster end Hergesheimer, slammed one in at 5:25 and Hergesheimer came back on assists by Bartholome. and Cook at 6:43 to send the Barons into a 3-2 lead.

Referee Booed Again

The Caps went ahead again when they took advantage of Giroux’s absence from the ice for tripping. Rill Thomson tied it up at 3-3 on assists from Jud McAtee and Les Douglas at 8:37, and the Caps went into the lead at 9:25 when Hal Jackson poured one in, He took assists from McAtee and Douglas. The referee, as usual, received a nice round of “boos” from the fans when he called a double penalty against Levwick and Hec Kilrea for high sticking. The right wing for the Barons started giving Kilrea the shoulder around the goal, and Hec didn’t like it. Hence, both players received a free ride to the penalty box. Cook of the Barons later drew a penalty for hooking and Hal Jackson was given one for tripping, but neither side suffered any damage as far as the score was concerned. There were only 18 seconds of the third heat gone when Levwick tied the game up again. He took assists from Cunningham and Locking.

Have But 4 Men

Leo Richard drew a two-minute penalty for tripping and then Sandy Ross was penalized to leave the Caps with but four men on the ice. Cleveland took advantage of its superiority in numbers with Hergesheimer jamming a shot in the net at 6:30 on assists from Cook and Cunningham to send the Barons into a 5-4 lead. Bill Quackenbush, who had been worrying the Barons all evening, teed off from the blue line to tie the score up once again on assists from Brown and Holota at nine minutes of the period. But the Barons, .scenting victory that would give them a hefty boost to help get out of the cellar of the | division, roared back into a 6-5 lead when Hergesheimer scored at 10:05 on assists from Bartholome and Foster. Cook went, back into the penalty box again for tripping and during his absence the Caps tried vainly to score hut whenever they appeared to be getting away for a

i| wide-open shot, they were called!

offside. Jennings Ties It Up

Bill Jennings brought the crowd

3{to its feet when he tied up the

ball game and sent it into an overtime at 19:34. Taking fast assists from Douglas and Fisher, Jennings blasted a shot into the net to knot the score with but 26 seconds of the

ice to score-the final point, Pvt. Joe Turner, former goalie With the local club, wag inkrotuond

as defensive work on the part of |

It's Indiana vs.

and his boys came out on top, '7-6,|

The Hoosiers of Indiana university clash with Butler's Bulldogs at Tech high school gym tonig1t and four men

mbers of the two

teams almost certain to see action are Ed Denton, extreme left, Indiana center, and Capt. Irvin Swa sor, extreme right, Hoosier guard, and in the center picture, George Mingle, left, and John Barrowcliffe, two sophomore Bulldogs.

Greyhounds Lead League

As Indiana college conference teams enter the first gruelling week of their post-holiday “stretch” campaign, Indiana Central's Greyhounds - lead the victory column, with Butler and Earlham sharing a three-way tie on a percentage basis. The Greyhounds, winners of 30 straight games, took over undisputed lead in the win column with three triumphs when Manchester was dropped by Central Normal in tHe finals of the Valparaiso tourney. In a lone non-conference game Saturday night, Ball State downed Northern Illinois, 51-47, The standings:

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Play 1st Tilt In Bermuda

HAMILTON, Bermuda, Jan. 4 (U, P.).—A crowd of 7000 spectators —largest in this island’s history— watched an Army football team shade a Navy team, 19-18, in the Lily Bowl game yesterday—the first gridiron contest ever played in Bermuda. Army scored two touchdowns in the first quarter but Navy drove to a touchdown in each of the next periods to tie the score. Both clubs put over a touchdown each in the last quarter but Army made the only extra. point to provide the margin of victory.

Pep Seeks 57th

NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 4 (U. P.).— Willie Pep, world’s featherweight champion and winner of 56 straight professional bouts, will meet Vince Dell’Orto of New York in a 10-round non-title battle here tonight. Matchmaker Lew Diamond said Pep’s crown would not be at stake because both fighters agreed to come in over the 126-pound featherweight limit.

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Way Up in the Air

Ol Indiana launches its conference

Prd, Meets Great Lakes To Launch a 15-Game Week

The hottest week of cage firing in the current basketball season oper : tonight when Indiana and Purdue play Butler and Great Lakes 1° launch a 15-game week that includes two Big Ten contests and figky ;

college conference games.

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Branch McCracken’s Indiana outfit, which leads the Big Ten in pre - conference victories with six straight, renews an old rivalry against

so-so Butler team. The Hoosiers lead 18 triumphs to four in the series which began in 1897. I. U. has won five times since the rivalry was resumed in 1936. Butler has won two this season, losing to Purdue and Great Lakes.

Tony Hinkle’s Great Lakes squad,|

containing two former Purdue men in Frosty Sprowl and Red Caress ag well as five other Hoosier boys, will test Piggy Lambert's question-mark strength. , Win 10 of 12

The Boilermakers, under the high-scoring attack of Al Menke, Ed Ehlers and Rudy Lawson, appear to be developing into another powerful Lambert creation. Great Lakes has won 10 out of 12 contests, scoring 744 points. Topnotch games sparkle from this week’s card every night except Tuegday. Climax of the 15-game slate will come Saturday night, when

campaign, hosting Ohio State, and Chicago invades Purdue seeking its first Big Ten victory in 31 games.

The Week’s Schedule

Eight conference games during the week -are certain to create an upheaval in the loop standings. The full schedule follows: Tonight—Indiana at Butler, Great Lakes at Purdue. Wednesday = Evansville at Ft. Knox, Thursday—Manchester at Wabash, Ball State at Franklin, Valparaiso at Indiana State. Friday — Valparaiso at Central Normal,- Anderson at Taylor. Saturday—Ohio State at Indiana, Chicago at Purdue, Manchester at Indiana Central, Central Normal at Hanover, DePauw at Earlham, Camp Atterbury at Franklin, St. Joseph’s at Illinois Normal.

Hagans Tops Colas

Royal Crown Cola basketball team defeated Beveridge Paper, 44-27, at Pennsy gym yesterday. Harry Hagans, with 14 points, and Bob Wolf,

with 12, paced the winners, Dowden led the losers with 11. Colas play Malosil at Pennsy tonight at 9 o’clock. Players report at 8:30.

Caster Hanes Is Perfect Scorer

In the Indianapolis Casting club’: weekly tourney at Tomlinson hall yesterday, Hap (Elmer) Hanes de livered a perfect score of 100 in th: men’s five-eighths-ounce * accurac’ event. Harry Sutphin and Jacl: Moore tied for second with 99. Mrs. Ed Bright led the women’: competition with 98 and Charle: Sutphin posted 99 for high junior score. Bill Manning won the three eighths-ounce accuracy with 89. Mrs. Myrtle Sutphin scored 95 anc. | Charles Sutphin led the Junior: at 97. The three-eighths-ounce plug team of Ralph Carr, Manning, Car. Rearick, Sutphin and Moore defeat: ed the larger plug team with a score | of 479. The regular team cast was won by the “Hof” five-eighths-ounce plug team, scoring 482. Capital City team was second with 475. In a challenge match between team composed of Dick Wilkey anc Ralph Carr and a team composec of Moore and Manning, the latte; won, 198 to 195. |

Unwise to Train Far From Home

NEW YORK, Jan. 4—In con‘nection with spring training trips, Ford Frick takes into considera tion public opinion to an even greater extent than the attitude

of the office of defense transportation, “Long and luxurious jaunts would not sit well with fans living in houses with less heat than | usual, having food rationed and | | standing up on commuter trains | coming in to work” says the president of the National league. “It would be unwise to go very | far afield for training. The reac-. tion to the usual training camp

times like these.”

Hockey Summary

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2 Indianapolis ease * { Cleveland 2 First Period Scoring — Grease

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- | Burlington, Hergesheimer. ‘| Referee—Lee,

| ke (tipping), Cook

«+ Right wing . Leswick tee.....+.. Left Wing eli Locking

Spares Sndianapolis) Jackson, Jen-| nings, Brown, Sherritt, Kilrea, ‘A, Brown, Frolote Richard, Pisher; (CleveRobertson, H. Foster, Matte, Horeck, ‘Herb’ Foster, Giroux, Bartholome,

Linesman-—-Goodman. -—Score DY Petlods~.

1-7 2 0—6

cesses 1

Douglas (Ross, B. Thomson), 3:04; dianapolis, Holota (A. Brown, Jennings),

Penalties Robern (holding).

5:25; 5, Cle

Leswi Jackson ish is : Dd Period Scoring —s, Cleveland, LesClovelang. De p 118; 3 ham), 6:30; 15; Todas (A. Brown, H

lome, Foster), 10:05; 13, EI Jennings” (Douglas, Fish-

er) 9’ 134. (tripping), Ross

ar apolis, MAtee (Thomson, Douglas), 5:50. saves by

Per T&S S300. 6 Beveridge . ;

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3enoit sparked the Canadiens’ at- { tack, each scoring two goals. Blake

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Bruins in Tie or 1st Place

| By UNITED PRESS i |

‘The Boston Bruins went into ie for firs! place in the National Flockey league last night by shading the Red Wings, 3-2, before 12,209 at Detroit while Toronto tied “[ontreal, 4-4, at Montreal before 000.

The Bruins scored first on Buzz in

Boll's short goal at 7:03 of the frst period and never were headed 1lthough Eddie Wares gave the Red V7ings a brief ‘tie. at 14:45 of the same period. Boston added two more in the second, one by Herbie Cain and another by Art Jackson. Last-place Montreal matched the Leafs goal for goal to earn their ig.- Veterans Joe Blake and Joe

1ssisted in another pair while Elmer uch assisted in all four Montreal

Wildeats Must | Turn to Sophs

By TOMMY DEVINE United Press Staff Corespondsnt

EVANSTON, Ill, Jan. 4 ©. P= oe The ambition to wipe out the dise ct appointments of a disastrous foot=. ; ball season spurs Northwestern's basketball quintet as it practices for the opening o the Big Ten

season, The Wildcat gridders were one of

Lonborg’s outfit to finish im second division. ; Northwestern finished last = sor. in a tie for seventh place five victories and 10 defeats,

While his squad isn’t as heavily loaded as usual with players who have just finished a hard football campaign, Lonborg still must, de~

faces the handicap of using. cagers who started practice well behind competitors at other colleges. * Two members of Northwestern's starting five played football. They. Re are Otto Graham, a great forward, . it and Nick Vodick, sophomore guards Three lettermen and two sopho= Pr mores form the team Lonborg has been giving first call. In sddition’

{to Graham, the veterans are Baty

Jake at forward and Capt. Wendland at guard. Vodick a sophomore George Felt at center round out the team. Graham, if not slowed by the Je. injury he suffered in football, make the Wildcats dangerous mis | big junior forward scored 197 points conference competition las; sea= = son to be the runner-up to Wis= consin’s Johnny Kotz, -

Hit Stride at End ‘Jake Yailed to click at the outset games of the campaign hifi his

stride and contributed 56 points. Two sophomores, Ron §ichu=

ward. Felt, who stands 6 feet 4, has gained an edge over the veteran

soals. Benoit’s goal with one min-|Bud Hasse for the first string hives 4

¢ and nine seconds of the game 0 pa tied the score. ‘The Rangers spotted the Chicago 3lack Hawks a 3-goal lead and then ane from behind to tie, 3-3, at

Reg ‘Bentley and Red Hamill in the first period and Bill Thoms in the second, put Chicago in front 3-0, b ut Hank Goldup opened the scoring for the Rangers and Bob Kirkpatrick added two more for the tie.

Basketball Results

LOCAL HIGH SCHOOLS

Technical, 40; Rushville, 28. Vianual, 30; Cathedral, 19.

OTHER HIGH SCHOOLS ame (Evansville), 24; Memorial (Evansville

Iolumbus, 33; Bloomington, 27. Fairland, 2%; St. Paul, 21. {orace Mann (Gary), 30;

28. (South Bend), 40;

a Porte, 388; Plymouth, 35 {outh Side (Ft. Wayne), Catholic (Ft. Wayne), 31. ‘Warsaw, 28; 2%. Wallace : Gary) NH Tolleston (Gary), 30. Washin ngton (East Chicago) 37; Roosevelt (Eas Chicago), 82 (overtime).

GRASS CREEK TOURNEY (Grass Creek, 50; Kewanna, 39. Ifonterey, 26; Star City, 19. i sitag City, 54; Kewanna, 25 (consola-

flon). lionterey, 24; Grass Creek, 19 (final).

BURLINGTON TOURNEY

n, 39; Young America, 22. Wiig ton, 33; Ervin Township (Howar),

} Young America, 41; Erwin Township, 28 (consolation). Turlington, 34; Carrollion, 31 (final).

STATE COLLEGES Fall State, 51; Northern Illinois Teach-

OTHER COLLEGES’ Washington State, 55; Wayne university,

31; Long Island university,

Northwestern, 59; Great Lakes, 47. y wisn Be State, 40; Washington (St. louis), Illinois, 38; Stanford, 26. Oberlin, 593 Camp Perry, 4% Ohio State, 45; Kentucky, 40 Wyoming, 45; Lawrence Tech, 37. Ohio Wesleyan, 61; Case, 40. Detroit, 34; Harvard, 19. Fordham, 84; Rhode Island State, Missouri, 49; Ft. Leonard Wood, Ohio university, 48; Cincinnati, North Dakota, 49; Concordia (Minn. ), 39. Minnesota, 62; South Dakota State, 52. New York City College, 61; Geneva, 16. Georgetown U., 58; Scran

Froebel Michigan

36; Central

Thurlin

ton, 43. North Carolina Navy pre-flight, 41; La~

Salle, 39. Villanova, i: Niagara,

89. a ar vis (Chicago), 51; Tinois Wesleyan, | =

Towa, 69; Ripon, 38. Duke, 4; Temple, 44. Lo 43; Arkansas, 37,

post. Wendland scored 137 points ns * league play last season to rank °° ninth in the scoring race. He's a capable all-around performer, Vodick is 6 feet 2 and has shown fine defensive ability. Other good sophomore prospacts are Frank Kelly, a forward, and Mason Dixon, a guard. 4 Northwestern has lost two games. bi and won one this season. ‘The losses were to Western Michigan and Notre Dame and the victory over Great Lakes. The Wildcats open the conference season Satu. : day against Wisconsin,

Rhode Island

Pours 'Em In

KINGSTON, R. I, Jan. /d:— Rhode Island State’s basketbsll team scored 124 Pos ot 5 Fort Williams, but that isn’t a Rhody record. The little’ scored 127 against New ; shire a few years back. Bob Ap= = plebee and Earl Shannon, en

last winter's team are back, but. a freshman, Henry Zablerek, .

high scorer.

Constantino Rules Slight Favorite

PHILADELPHIA, Jan, 4 (U. Py. —Lulu Constantino, New ¥i erstwhile contender for the. featiys erweight crown, resumed his light weight title quest tonight against Ellis Phillips, hard-hitting Philie delphia Negro, in a tenat Convention hall.

orite on his record of 74 w T bouts. Phillips, a bull-rus

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