Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 January 1943 — Page 20
SPORTS...
By. Eddie Ash
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ACCORDING to the Cleveland Press, the Cleveland ball club may negotiate for the: use of Indianapolis’ Victory field for outdoor spring practice if Roger Peckinpaugh, Cleveland vice president, fails to line up a suitable park in southern Ohio. Victory field can easily house two ball clubs. . . + The clubhouses are roomy, the heating plant is okay and there is plenty of space . afield. . . . Victory field’is one of the finest parks in the minors and ~ Cleveland doesn’t have to be told. , : With the Indianapolis Indians and Cleveland Indians training in the same park it would be a treat for local sports goers as this setup would | call for some exhibition games here between the - pair of Redskin outfits. : President-Manager Owen J. Bush of the Hoosiers and Peckinpaugh are old pals and it’s a safe guess that Bush would be pleased to offer his park to the Cleveland team. .., Peckin« ‘paugh announced in the Cleveland Press that he was considering the fieldhouses at Marietta ‘college, Wittenberg, Springfield and Ohio university as possible sites for indoor spring training. We are planning to start indoor practice about March 21,” he said, “and continue that for about two weeks. Then we plan to go outdoors for the rest of our conditioning until the American league season opens April 21.” Ih the event that Cleveland establishes its outdoor camp in In- ~ dianapolis, local ball fans would get a look at Lou Boudreau, the boy manager who shines at shortstop. ... The Victory field premises would be familiar to Ray Poat, Cleveland pitcher. a « y He toiled for the Hoosiers in the 1942 season.
Lou Boudreau
Hoosier Banana League in Making WARTIME BASEBALL is making Indiana a “southern state.” « « Gone is the Florida grapefruit league for the duration and in its place perhaps there will be the Hoosier papaw league, come spring. ; Cubs and White Sox are to camp at French Lick, the Detroit _ Tigers at Evansville, Minneapolis at Terre Haute, Indianapolis at home and perhaps Cleveland to boot. = The Cubs and White Sox will get some consolation out of the . fact that French Lick, is in Orange county ... although far away from the citrus belt. 2 2 ”2 2 a 2 ! IF TERRY MOORE sticks to his plan to remain out of baseball for the duration, it will leave a big hole in the St. Louis Cardinal outfield. . . . He is one of the greatest fiyhawks of all time and he can mash that old apple. ~The fact that the New York Yankees signed Billy Knickerbocker, a free agent inflelder, furnishes a tip on the acute player shortage in the majors. . . . Things are that bad. . . . And the military status of additional players will be changed before spring.
_ Toledo to Open at Indianapolis
THE “big” game, the 1943 opener at Victory field, calls for the “Toledo Mud Hens to furnish the visiting attraction. . . . The date is April 29.,.. Other American association openers: Columbus at Louisville, Milwaukee at Minneapolis and Kansas City at St. Paul. This is 16 days later than last year’s start. ... The A, A. has scheduled the usual 154 games with the season closing on Sept. 19 3 » + ONE week later than in 1942. #® 2 8 8 t 4 # FOOD RATIONING probably will save baseball clubowners “some dough but it looks like agony in the player ranks... . The average big league player thrives on a daily intake of huge, juicy steaks but there isn’t that much beef around nowadays.
Basketball Results
53 SoLLrexs Tem s Syracuse, New ¥ ork upiversity, 49; Penn State, 40.
Columbia, , 40. Ohio a 58; Ohio Wesleyan, 87. - Penn, 55; Swasthmore, 38.
Kansas, 69; Misso 44, ‘Manhattan, 52; Cathedral, 46. . Princeton, 47; Seton Hall, "Panzer, 55; Rider, 52.
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Ww L | pittsburgh .... 15 13 2 99
{Face Eagles
In Coliseum At 8:30 P.
ning for a second-place tie in the western division of the
the Coliseum ice. The game will get underway 8:30 p. m.
three straight games. They were edged by the Pittsburgh Hornets last night, 5-4, in a game which saw
goals. Can Tie Buffalo
If New Haven had beaten the
were able to turn the trick against the Eagles tonight, Indianapolis would be tied for first place with Buffalo and Pittsburgh. As things go now, they can tie Buffalo for second by winning tonight. Herbie Lewis has been his Caps on better defensive formations to prevent a recurrence of the Cleveland game here Sunday night which saw the Barons sneak six goals into the Caps net. Joe Brown has been teamed with Bill Jennings and Adam Brown in one of the Caps’ forward walls against the Eagles tonight. J. Brown will be taking the place of Johnny Holota, popular little skater who was called to service in the Canadian army this week.
Weaver Is Recalled
Lewis also has recalled Fred Weaver from Washington to give added strength to the squad. Weaver will join the team at Hershey Saturday, Lewis said, and will make his first appearance before the local fans Sunday night against Providence. The Caps, with the best scoring average in the entire league and the second best defensive average, will be facing a new goalie tonight that has been doing all right ‘by himself since he joined the Eagles. He is Frank Ceryance, former netman with Hershey. His close play, added to the sudden uprising of the Eagles, enabled the eastern team to upset Buffalo and Washington twice in the three games New Haven played before losing to Pittsburgh last night.
Washington Blasts. Barons
Besides the Pittsburgh - New Haven battle last night, Washington blasted the upstart Cleveland Barons, 5-2, thanks to two scores each by Weaver and Gracie. Trudel tapped in the other for Washington. The Eagles racked up four goals in the first period against the Hornets last night, had one slip by their own net in the second and
oe sadugnis Teh, Boston uni-|then watched helplessly ‘as the Soiiyshurs, 53; New Clyerlang, 51, 2; Fi.
Hornets banged in four more in the final heat to cop the contest.
AMERICAN LEAGUE \ Western Division T G
Buffalo 1 12 3 94 INDIANAPOLIE 3 10 8 103 Clevela “ee 15 3 99 — ‘Division
ey 1 Providence .... 116 11 Washington .. 17 6 New Haven ... 7 5 6 RESULTS LAST NIGHT Pittsburgh, 5; New Haven, 4. Washington, 5; Cleveland, 2.
NEXT GAME TONIGHT—New Haven at INDIANAPOLIS (8:30).
Title Hopes Are Dimmed
A tabulation of individual scoring totals for Indiana and Purdue basketball teams revealed today that Ralph Hamilton of I. U. and Ed Eh-
lers of the Boilermakers pace Indiana’s Big Ten schools as they launch their conference campaign Saturday. However, title hopes for Branch McCracken’s Hoosiers appeared dimmer than they were last week because Hamilton and John Logan, two of iis highest scorers, will not be in action for the vital Ohio State contests Saturday and Monday. . Purdue’s unpredictable outfit has a cinch victory over Chicago Saturday, and fans must wait until the Boilermakers face Minnesota on Jan. 16 before obtaining an insight to Purdue’s strength. 2
First in 32
‘Unless Chicago decides to win its first ‘Big Ten game in 32 tries, the Boilermakers will have further opportunity to experiment before meeting the tough teams. Chicago has lost 25 straight games and 31 straight conference battles. In losing five pre-conference starts this year, the hapless Maroons averaged only 231-5 points,
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As for the Hoosiers, who have won seven non-loop games, the loss of Hamilton and Logan may be disastrous, unless the combination of | williams-Denton-Swanson-Whitten-braker-Lewis can turn the trick against the Buckeyes. It’s apparent
that Illinois is not going to lose|el in three starts, and trailed only
many games this year, and in a conference where competition is sharper than a tack, a team that loses the first games on the slate can almost. kiss its title hopes _goodby.
: Placed at Top
- "WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan. 7 (U. 43| National Boxing association today
‘sized in discussing the lightweight I'lineup that “titles are won and lost
Herbie Lewis and his Indianapolis|: Caps, riding the crest of a three-
American |. hockey league tonight - when they}: entertain the New Haven Eagles on}:
New Haven, prior to last week, wasn’t making much of a showing} |in the eastern division of the league| but suddenly bounced to life to take}
the Eagles tire in the final period|; while the Hornets poured in four
Hornets last night and the Caps];
Joe Brown
al Wo Florida [Race T racks [Are Shut Down
By JOHN B. McDERMOTT United Press Staff Correspondent
MIAMI, Fla. Jan. T.—Florid: = horse-racing season went on the
Pf | war-time sports casualty list tod:y | | as a direckresult of the latest gas: - line restrictions.
Racing at both Hialeah and
. | Tropical parks has been suspend d f |and apparently the shutdown will : | continue until the gasoline ban his | been lifted or eased.
Fred Weaver
«us| A Safe Prediction:
Will Finish
Chicago Last in Big Ten
Gerald Brady, director of rack | at Tropical whichehas been opera -| ing since Dec. 21, announced the| decision after a telephone conve: -| sation with Track President Har:y L. Straus, who is in Baltimore. “We are all soldiers and orders are orders,” Straus was quoted hy Brady. Transportation Halted
John C. Clark, president: of tie elaborate Hialeah racing plant
which was scheduled to run from
Jan. 13 to March 6, announced: “It being tne desire of the go: ernment, as expressed through the office of the price administrator, that all motor transportation :o race tracks cease, Hialeah will fi into the war pattern by ein
. CHICAGO, Jan. 7.—Sports’ safest prediction is that the University | until such time as there is full ap of Chicago basketball team will finish last in the forthcoming Big Ten|proval for the continuance of tn
race.
The Maroons abandoned football several seasons ago because they were outclassed by a wide margin by every other team in the league. The gridders never were more hopeless than Chicago cage teams of
Butler Will Be Right at Home
It will be old home week at Jeffersonville when Butler's basketball team meets the 36th armored division quintet from FY. Knox at the Jeff high school gym on Jan. 16. Captain Fred. Hunckler, Clift Maschmeyer and Bob Constantine of the Bulldog squad are from Jeffersonville and probably will see action on their former home floor. Hunckler, a senior guard, has scored for the Bulldogs in 29 successive contests, starting with the last three games of the 1940-41 season and continuing through the 22 games on last year’s card. He is in the marines enlisted reserve and will report for officer training after graduation. A gridiron letter winner, Maschmeyer played with the reserve basketball squad last season and should break into the regular crew soon, ‘He is a senior guard. Constantine, a freshman member of the reserve squad who plays at a guard post, was captain of the Jeffersonville high™ school squad last year.
Beau Jack Is
P.). — Quarterly rankings of the
placed Beau Jack of Augusta, Ga., at the head of the lightweight “contenders” and, om the assumption that boxers in the service might be permitted to appear intermittently, included all men in uniform in the classifications. President Abe J. Greene empha-
in the ring and not by commission dictum.” He designated Jack as the leading contender for the crown vacated by Sammy Angott, The Listings
Heavyweight: Joe Louis, champion; Billy Conn, Melia Bettina, Tami Mauriello, Turkey Thompson, Pat Valentino, Lee Savold and Roscoe Toles. Light-heavyweight: Gus Lesnevich, champion; Jimmy Bivins, Ezzard Charles, Billy Soose, Anton Christoforidis. Middleweight: Tony Zale, champion; George Abrams, Tony Martin.
Welterweight: Freddie Cochrane, champion; Ray Robinson, Henry Armstrong, Jackie Wilson (California). Lightweight: (Title vacant); Beau Jack, Willie Joyce, Allie Stolz, Juan Zorita and Bob Montgomery. Featherweight: Jackie Wilson (Pittsburgh) champion; Willie Pep, Chalky Wright, Lulu Costantino. Bantamweight: Manuel Ortiz, champion; Kui Kong Young, Lou Salica. Flyweight: Little Dado, champion; Jackie Patterson, Peter Bans Sammy Reynolds.
N. Y. U. Wins 8th
recent seasons, but as yet the school hasn’t seen fit to withdraw from conference competition, While not throwing in the sponge
ted when the schedule was drafted that they had neither hopes nor expectations of figuring remotely in the title race. They requested, and received, an abbreviated schedule of nine conference games as com=pared with the 12 other members will play. Chicago opens Saturday: night against Purdue’ and it goes into the game with the unbelievable record of having lost 31 consecutive Big Ten games. The Maroons haven’t beaten a conference outfit since they edged Minnesota, 35 to 30, in 1940.
Have New Coach
Chicago is playing under a new coach, Kyle Anderson, this season. But a change in mentors hasn't resulted in any switch in the team’s fortunes. Anderson: succeeded Nels Norgren when the latter entered the army. The Maroons have played and lost five straight non-conference games thus far this season. They were nipped, 39-37, by the Glenview air base in the first contest, but haven't even been close since then, subsequently losing to Navy Pier, 52-44; Marquette, 53-40; Loyola, 52-30, and DePaul, 67-20, The average margin of defeat as Chicago dropped 15 in a row a year ago was 24 points, so it can be seen the Maroons would have to in-
{crease their effectiverless tremen-
dously to get a “look-in.” Included in their nine league games are contests against three of the top-notch conference outfits, Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana,
Five Lettermen Back
Chicago has back five lettermen of last season, but even experience isn’t much help to players of the caliber the Maroons have. Among the many deficiencies of Anderson’s squacl is the lack of height. Only four players on the 14-man squad top the six-foot mark and the tallest is 6 feet 2. The five lettermen form the starting team. They are Ed Nelson and Dave Zimmerman, at forwards; Jim Crosbie at center and Bob Oakley and George Krakowa at the guards. Other players who have seen considerable early season service include Don Fogel and Howard Husum, eserves ve Syed members a year ago, an omore Lou Ni Armond Lilien. ° Sey and
| Auker Doubts He'll Report
DETROIT, Jan. 7 (U. P) —Elden Auker, former Detroit Tiger
St. Louis Browns, said today he
i ‘Washington SenaI's, - Auker was traded to the Senators by the Browns for Paul Dean and cash yesterday. When advised of the trade, he said he preferred to remain at his war job. He said he had attempted to work for the Midwest Abrasive Co. Detroit, as a fleld representative last season while playing baseball and that the arrangement did not prove satisfactory.
Before 17,235
NEW YORK, Jan. 7 (U. P)— New York university’s basketball team’ stretched its winning streak to eight by downing Penn State, 4940, before a crowd of 17235 at Madison Square Garden last night. The Violets ran into little trouble with the Staters, previously unbeat-
in the first few minutes of the game.
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doubted very much that he would
sport.”
‘Both parks are located suburban Miami. The Tropical plant, 11 miles away, in Coral G bles, is one and one-half mil: from the nearest bus line. Officials of the Coral Gables ov: declined to comment.
Wage Losing Battle
Tropical park has been waging : losing battle since it began its se: son. Attendance dropped fio 50,61 —a 40 per cent slump--and the mutuel handle was off $1,148,104. California racing became a wii
orphan in the late fall of 1941, when |” officials ordered a shut-down of
tracks to prevent large gathering: of crowds.
Only one of the four dog tracks :: 1 8
the Miami area will be hit by the new regulations. The Hollywood Kennel club about 15 miles north |
of Miami and four miles south «f| Of
Hollywood, Fla., will nave a diff - cult time surviving.
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Discuss Travel Problems =‘
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Baseball Commissioner Judge
K. M. Landis, center, with Ford
Prick, left, National league president, and Will Harridge, American’ league chief, got together for a little chat in between their discussion
of travel problems for the majors’ 1943 season at Chicago.
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Fo Haul Race Fans to Tracks.
By JACK CUDDY
United Press Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK, Jan. T.—Herbert
Bayard Swope,
‘7orker who holds so many turf positions that he sometimes is called “)r. Racing,” has come through with the most sensible suggestion since the war began to question the necessity for racing's existence. Crisp-Clad Swope, with the flower in his lapel, suggested that horse¢rawn vehicles be used to haul fans to race tracks, thereby modifying
I the Han on pleasure driving.
Swope wants to bring back the hoss-and-buggy days to shake off {Ize stranglehold of gas buggies on the sport. The gas-buggy is so deadly v that already both Hialeah aiidl Tropical parks, at Miami, Fla., sive called off current and schedied meetings. 1f Swope can put over this projag for suburban tracks, he will hive done more for the betterment y{ the breed of horses than all the organizations of which he is chairwn, And he is chairman of so any outfits that if all the tables were. supposed to head were qced end-to-end youd have sough firewood to last the boys in Teeland all winter, Swope, despite his purist, patriotic notives and his love of all classes ' dobbins, is certain to encounter opposition in at least two quarters: {) 'The farmers are crying for nags
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who can pull the things that till the soil, now * that both machinery, and fuel oil is scarce, and (2) bee cause of the virtual disappearance of beef from the butcher shops, any le horse is looked upon as a likely prospect for our war-time market. Even if Swope and his disciples can get priorities on enough nags to move the suckers to the fracks, they may be furnishing the forme sheeters with “Trojan horses” = goats that will so disgust the prose pective bettors, with their lethargio progress along the highways, that said bettors will shy away from
all horses is disgust.
However, those same bettors may be inspired .to higher wagering bee cause of their contact with the animals en route. They may put reverse English on the corny adage and say: “If you can beat a horse, why can’t you beat the horses?”
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