Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 January 1943 — Page 12

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By Eddie Ash

PROFESSIONAL boxers and wrestlers drew a caty house at the armory last night as the Hercules C. staged its fourth annual show for the benefit of infantile paralysis fund... .. Paid attendance was 3162 ite the cold wave. : Lloyd Carter, promoter and matchmaker, announced gross repts of $3787.55 and net receipts of $3147.37... . Federal tax was per cent of the gross. . . . The Indiana state athletic commission ted its share of the tax to the paralysis fund, Sam Murbarger, of the commission, announced. . . . This announcement brought big Hand from the crowd and the veteran Murbarger had to pond with a bow. ‘Matchmaker Carter estimated that the fund would receive apximately $2100 from the combined fistic-grappling entertainment, new high for his annual paralysis fund promotions. . . . Chief nouncer Harry Geisel called Carter to the ring to receive the aim of the fans and the matchmaker said he hoped to increase donation in next year’s paralysis fund drive. Practically all of the local regular boxing and wrestling addicts ned out for last night's twin attraction and they cleaned out the served seats in no time,

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Reed Gains Nod Over Bruce

“IN THE boxing main go of eight rounds, Pvt. Willard Reed, the Times-Legion Golden gloves ace, decisioned Red Bruce, also Jocal heavyweight, in a bout that produced no knockdowns. . . . d now does his boxing out of Camp Atterbury where he is a ber of Co. M, 330th infantry, 83d division, ~ Bruce accepted the bout on short notice and turned in a good hb of mixing freely. . . . He fought and decisioned Johnny Denson h Evansville on Monday night but the heavy duty didn’t slow him Reed's margin of points over the veteran was not “by too much.” . Willard lacked a keen edge, was off in his timing and apparently “was over his best fighting weight. = 8 » 828 8’ PVT. REED depended mainly on his left hand for a scoring sapon because he was uncertain with his right . . . either short r off balance when he threw it. . . . The Indiana state heavyweight hampion is kept busy at Camp Atterbury learning the art of the ntry and naturally boxing drill is secondary to Uncle Sam’s tine. The state heavyweight crown was not at stake last night. « « + : ad won tie crown from Brucé by a ninth round technical knockseveral weeks ago and prior to that flattened Bruce in one nd. Bruce received & puffed left eye, cut lips and a bruised nose. . . Reed was unmarked, although he absorbed several potent

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aul and Hewitt Prevail in Slugfests

BEST of the boxing matches was a four-rounder between Earl , Indianapolis lightweight, and Frankie Rice, Dayton, O. . . « aul won the unanimous decision of the judges after losing the first ind. . « . The adversaries really threw leather. "Paul rallied in the second stanza and floored Rice for the count six with a rousing right to the jaw. ... It was a torrid stanza Bnd Rice was groggy at the bell. . . . Action slowed in the third but boys were back at it in the foruth and Paul prevailed. In the opening four-rounder, Whitey Hewitt, who is to join the Imavy tomorfow, decisioned Al Evans in a slugfest. . . . The local flightweights threw punches with both hands and from all-directions. « « There was never a dull moment. .

Landsdowne Tosses Meanie Bill Venable 3g IN THE wrestling main go “Lord Landsdowne,’ Columbus, O.; “defated Billy Venable, Dallas, Tex, “meanie,” by winning the first fand third falls. . . . Landsdowne won the first flip in 12 minutes

= Swith arcradle hold. . . . Venable won the second fall in three minutes

th a hammerlock. Then Landsdowne rallied and annexed the third and deciding

in eight minutes with what was announced as a “surf board” _... Venable stormed around the ring protesting the decision ‘until officials cooled him off. 1 N ” 2 ” # # 2 BILLY THOM, Indiana university wrestling ccach, and Martino Angelo, Toledo, mixed it up in wild action in a 30-minute time mit match. . . . No falls occurred and the verdict was a draw. ... grapplers turned on the full scale of mat holds, tricks and tics and it was a tough bout for Referee Harry Burris, who was sezed aplenty while trying to part the light-heavies. « « « They » resorted to punching, choking and kicking.

ole Vaulter and Polo Player Jead Army Team in Solomons

By REUEL S. MOORE .

WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 (U. P.)—The U. S. army team, which wo first Guadalcanal offensive with the capture of Mt. Austen, is headed

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a pole vaulter and a polo player. "The pole vaulter His presence in

is Maj. Gen. Alexander McCarrell (Sandy) Patch the Solomons was unknown to the world: generally

his Guadalcanal headquarters announced that

three tours at Staunton Military academy. In 1939 he became an instructor in the Alabama national guard. He was assigned thereafter to Ft. Bragg, N. C., and Camp Croft, S. C., before being designated for the command in New Caledonia Th 1942. George, polo player and graduate from West Point, was. born in Scotland, May 18, 1897, He served overseas during the last war. His long career as a language student and observer made him highly qualified for his present job in the Pacific, where he was assigned nearly a year ago. After his return’ from Japan in 1938 he served at the San Francisco Presidio, Ft. Riley, Kan., and in the Panama canal department.

til a dispatch from army had captured the 1800ridge above Henderson field. Last spring he became commander of American forces in ‘New Caledonia. When he went _to Guadalcanal has not been dissd. Announcement that he is command of a headquarters Shere indicates that the army is faying a bigger part in ground ations in the Solomons, inding the possibility that Maj. a Alexander A. Vandegrift, _'S, marine corps, and his amphibious marine forces may have ‘or are turning over to the army. The polo player is another Alnder—Col.- Alexander George, n command of the troops which the ridge from three sides,

Greg Rice and Get Berths on 2 High School

youths were honored today when Ferris announced the all-America scholastic team. : . All-America choice for

41 Top-Notch Net Contests Dot State Bill

By UNITED PRESS

Ft. Wayne Central, one of Indiana’s two major undefeated high school teams, gains its big chance to draw nearer the leading Rochester Zebras this week when the Tigers face three opponents on a state card of more than 41 topnotch contests. The aggressive Ft. Wayne cagers, idle last week-end, seek victories No. 10, 11 and 12 against cityrival South Side tonight, at Columbia City Friday and as host to Whiting Saturday. The Tigers aré favored over Columbia City but may have a little trouble with the

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Bitter cold weather, icy roads and snow threatened to disrupt Indiana’s high school basketball ‘card today. Fans feared the full week-end card would be ¢gwindled by cancellations unless the cold subsided before Friday night. Last night's game between Elkhart and South Bend Riley was canceled and tonight's South Bend Central-Washington engagement also was cut from the

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Except for a few contests such as Peru at Logansport tonight, and Gary Emerson and Gary Froebel Thursday night, state prepsters will mark time until the week-end when at least 27 significant battles stud the Friday night slate and about 10 are scheduled for Saturday night.

Rochester is favored to cop ifs 13th straight triumph of unbeaten season against Peru.” Most of the “elite” membership of Indiana’s top-ten also wage war, with Marion's Giants after triumph No. 12 at New Castle, Muncie Burris at Wabash, Gary Lew Wallace at East Chicago Washington, Martinsville at Bedford, Madison at Columbus, and- Logansport at Richmond. Lew Wallace hosts Valparaiso Saturday, while Shelbyville invades Anderson and Marion Crawley’s improving Lafayette team bucks Indianapolis Tech.

Greyhounds Lose, 43-33.

The Indiana Centrdl Greyhounds, who lost their first game after 30 streight victories to - Manchester Jan. 9, tumbled again last night to

the Peru Naval Air Base, 48-33. The victory avenged an earlier defeat to the Greyhounds as Joe Platt, former Indiana university star, paced the Bluejackets with 15 points. : St. Joseph's, the only Indiana College conference team which has not played loop competition, meets its first league opponent tonight at Valparaiso, where Coach Loren Ellis’ great ball club of one month ago slowly is disintegrating. Recently two of the Valpo crew became ineligible, one . graduated and another went to the army. Steve Gaza and Ted Szikora are the latest losses. The two Gary boys have received notice to report for army induction. : Wilmington, O., invades Earlham in the only other contest on tonight's card. ’

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former Notre Dame ace, now of the New York A.

Roy Cochran All-American; Youths Cited

: By UNITED PRESS Two former Indiana college trackmen and two Hoosier high school|

National A. A. U. Secretary Daniel

track and field team and the all-

‘the fourth straight year was Greg Rice,

C., Roy Cochran, product of Indiafla university's Coach Billy Hayes, was selected: in the 600-yard event. On the scholastic team, Ashley Hawk of Ft. Wayne North Side's great track team, was the choice in the 880-yard division, and Logansport’s Bill Moore, outstanding pole vaulter in the state, was named in the vault event. Fourteen Easterners, five men from the West and six each from

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the All-America track and field team. The veteran of the team is Fordham'’s Joe McCluskey, perennial distance star, now a lieutenant at North Carolina Pre-Flight, who is named for the 12th year. Winning} the 10,000 and 15,000-meter A. A. U. titles last year boosted his total to 23 championships.

Lou Gregory of the Millrose A. A. is named to the team for the 10th time in the official track and field guide. Ensign Fred Wolcott of Georgia Pre-Flight and Cornelius Warmerdam, San Francisco Olympic club, both are nominated for the fifth year; Greg Rice of the New York A. C., and the late John Borican, for the fourth year; Hal Davis, | San Francisco Olympic club, and Billy Brown, Norfolk naval training station, for the third consecutive time.

Named 2d Time

Two-time All-Americans are Barney Ewell, Penn State; John Kelley, Boston; Walt Fleming, Hamtramck, Mich.; Boyd Brown. San Francisco Olympics, and John Connolly and Frank Berst, New York A. C.

Named to both the All-America and All-College teams by Ferris are Bob Fitch, Minnesota; Adam Berry, Southern university; Al Bloazis, Georgetown; Bob Wright, Ohio State State; Frank Dixon, N. Y. U.; Cliff Bourland, Southern California; Davis and Ewell. The All-America team: Sixty yards, Ewell; 100 and 220 yards. Davis; 440 yards, Bourland; 600 yards, Roy Cochran, Great Lakes; 880 and 1000 yards, Borican; 1500, meters, Gil Dodds, Boston; 5000 meters, Rice; 10 and 15 kilometers, - McCluskey; 20 kilometers, Gregory; 25 kilometers, Kelley; 30 kilometers. Don Heincke, Baltimore; Marathon, ] Norfolk; cross steeple chase, George De George, N. Y. A. C, 70-yard hurdles, Wolg| cott; 110-meter hurdles, Bill Cum

mins, Rice; 200-meter hurdles, 3 Greg

Interested in [Cooney, Waner

BY PAUL SCHEFFELS United Press Staft Correspondent NEW YORK, Jan. 20.—Presidents Ford Frick and William Harridge of the National and American leagues hold a routine meeting today to iron out kinks in the 1943 major league schedule but this placid baseball picture may be disrupted by the beginning of spirited bidding for outfielders Paul Waner and Johnny Cooney. Although the major leagues’ opening and closing dates have been set for April 21 and Oct. 3, the two league heads must realiocate a few games, arrange the night game program and then submit it to club heads for approval. The final schedule usually is announced at the February meeting of the majors. Harmony, which returned to the big league scene for a few hours when the New York Giants and the New York Yankees agreed on a new spring schediile that eliminated a previous conflict in exhibition game dates, may be erased by the need of the Dodgers and Giants for outfielders. ,

35 Years Experience

Cooney and Waner, both over 40, have 35 years of major league experience between them and . were released by the Boston Braves yesterday. Both have been classified 4-H by the army and President Bob Quinn of the Braves admitted he had let them go because of an agreement to free them if they could “better their status as a player on manager.” : The Dodgers could use both or either one of them, since they have only five outfielders, including Dixie Walker, who has tentatively -admitted plans to quit the game and retain his post of recreation director with the Sperry Gyroscope plant. Both Cooney and Waner are wintering in Sarasota, Fla., and both are former members of the Dodgers. Cooney, an all-round utility man, was with Brooklyn in 1935-36-37, while Waner was with the Dodgers for a few weeks of the 1941 season.

Interested in Both

“Naturally, I'm interested in both players,” Brooklyn President Branch Rickey said. “I'm in no position to let a good man get by—particularly one of these fellows. But nothing may be done for a few days.” Manager Mel Ott of the Giants is home in Gretna, La. and might possibly enter the bidding, although Horace. Stoneham, president of the club, said they “held no appeal” for him. The Yankees erased the difficul-

settling on the following program: April 3, Newark at Plainfield, N. J.; 4, Newark at Newark; 7, Newark at Asbury Park, N. J.; 9, 10 and 11,

Rice Brooklyn at Yankee stadium; 12

Wright; 400-mefer hurdles, J. Walter Smith, Southern California.

Warmerdam Gets Post

walking: 3000 meters and 15 kilometers, Connolly; 10 and 30 kilometers, James Wilson, New York; 20 and 50 kilometers, William Mihalo, Detroit, and 40 kilometers, Fleming. High jump, Berry; broad jump and hop, step and jump, Billy Brown; pole vault, Warmerdam; 16-pound shot, Blozis; 35 and 56pound weight, Berst; Hammer, Maj. Chester Cruickshank, Camp Devens, Mass.; discus, Fitch; javelin, Boyd Brown; decathlon, Bill Terwilliger, Dekalb, IlL .

Crabtree Joins While the Big Ten season is only

Cincinnati Reds one-third of the way through there : appears scant chance that any

CINCINNATI, Jan. 20 (U. P).—|rival will come up with a def Veteran Estel Crabtree, left-handed tough SE Se , on HP outfielder and utility man, joined| =... y- ; Hank Gowdy as a coach of the :

of the University of Illinois team.

lead in the individual scoring race,

(2)—Most field goals. : (3)—Best scoring average per game. :

\Phillip of Illinois Is Shooting For Three Big Ten Records

By TOMMY DEVINE United Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO, Jan, 20.—Three all-time Big Ten basketball scoring records today became the goal of Andy Phillip, the sharpshooting forward,

Phillip, who has 92 points ‘in four conference games to hold a wide

(1)—Most total points in a season,

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Phillip has been con-|sgiy consecutive ring victory today

and 13, Boston Braves at Yankee stadium; 15, Giants at Yankee stadium; 16, 17 and 18, Brooklyn at Ebbets field. The controversy began when the Yanks and Dodgers set April 16, 17 and 18 for games at Yankee stadium. Stoneham charged that a "| long-time understanding between the Yanks and Giants permitted the cliibs to alternate at home the week before the season opened and |that this was his year. He protested to National League President Ford Prick and had threatened to carry the issue to Commissioner Kenesaw M. Landis. The Yankees will report at their Asbury Park training site on March 21 and break camp, April 8.

is gunning for these marks:

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Pep Wins 58th Straight Fight

P.).—Little Willie Pep of Hartford, the “dancing dynamiter,” held his

Plan Freshman Net Tourney

LAFAYETTE, Jan. 20 (U. P.).—

ties from their spring schedule by

Cincinnati Reds today. Crabtree has been in ill health for the past few years. 341 as a utility outfielder for the St. Louis Cardinals in 1941 but retired as manager of the Rochester Red Wings in the International league ‘ last season because of illness. -

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Bowling Scores

Last night's leading bowlers were: vee 686

Henry Hudson Siddall, Speedway Charles Gillock, Allied Printers’. Clarence Baker, Speedway ssa nee Bob Cainagua, West Side Classic...... 661 Ray Jackson, West Side :

Tony McCann, Lady of Lourdes Nein, vania Recrea-

Sisienuy Brillint in pacing the ge. and appeared fully ready for his ending conference champions venture into the lightweight class four straight victories by decisive on Jan. 20, when he meets Allie

663| hoints against = Northwestern

von Eek wing, Wess Side Classis... doi then dropped in 23 and 26 points Gl ¢tt, Commervial 645

Indiana Recreation: .... 640 . Pennsyl

margins. The Illinois ace played a guard position last season and scored 159 points in 15 league games. He ranked sixth in the individual scoring race. To take full advantage of his keen eye, Coach Doug Mills switched Phillip to- forward this year and the move has paid big dividends in every game.

23-Point Average

Phillip started the conference season by garnering 19 points Michigan. - He followed with 24 and respectively in a pair of games against Iowa. The ‘all-time Big Ten point

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was established a season ago by 640! Johriny Kotz of Wisconsin with 242 e33| markers in 15 league games. 12 .con-

Phillip will play * only

Stolz in Madison Square Garden. Pep, third featherweight cham pion this city has had in 15 years —he is recognized by the New York commission, but not by the National Boxing association—easily -defeated Bill Speary of Nanticoke, Pa. in a 10-round non-title bout last night. TE Weighing 129%, Pep battered Speary unmercifully to win. every round in an overweight bout before a crowd of 3000. Speary, whose left eye was cit and puffy and his lips swollen after the bout, never had a

Guy Mackey, Purdue athletic director, said today that fentative plans are under way to sponsor a

four-team freshman basketball tournament in Purdue’s fieldhouse Feb. 13. vi Mackey said that Purdue, Indiana and Illinois frosh would be joined by either Wisconsin or Ohio State to compose the four contestants. The tournament was viewed by sports observers as an outstanding event, because both Puldue and Indiana have powerful ‘freshman teams composed of some of ‘the greatest of last year’s high

chance in the one-sided encounter.

school crop.

‘Six-foot-n ne-inch Harry Boykoff, who lays center for St. John’s of Brooklyn, astonishes his coach, iix-foot-six-inch Joe Lapchick, on: of bask:tball’s orig-' inal tall mer. J

{Boston Takes

.: 7-Point Lead By UNITED PRESS Paced by Flash Follett, who scored their first and last goals, the Bruins ‘buriec. the Montreal Canadiens, 5-2, before 9.199 fans at Boston Garden last night to move into a seven-ioint lead in, the National Hockey league. Hollett’s fir:t tally came at 4:04 of the second period ater a scoreless opening period. Don Gallinger made it 2-0 zt 18:34. Toe Blake scored for Montreal at 4:02 of the third apd four minut¢s later Art Jackson snagied one for Boston. ‘Herbie Cain tallied for the Bruins a-minute late * and Johnny. Mahaffy scored uiassisted at 12:13 for the Canadiens, Holletl;- added his second goal five minute; before the final whistle. The standings: ey w. Boston Detroit Toronto .cseeeen. Chicago ...eoces. Montreal .... New York

Pistons Take League Lead

FT. WAYNE, Jan. 20 (U. P).—A spectacular rally in th? last two minutes, engineered chiifly by Big John Pelkington, gave: the Ft. Wayne Zollner Pistons # 46-38 win over the Chicago Studelakers here last might, and mcwd (he Pistons out in front in the Nalional Professional league. with a half-game edge on Oshkosii. ° ) Chicago led at 38-34 with two and

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ingly had the b:ll game in the ice‘box. ' Pelkingtor came iii for Tows ery, hit for two I askets inimediately. Bush clippéd in another, and Pelkington and McDermott siwed it up as the Studebak:rs fell : part completely. ‘ Most of the ga:ne lookeil more like commando practice then basket ball, as the players scrainbled and roughed it up ir. a gam: that was much more exciiing thar polished. Ft. Wayne led at the hal, 22-14.

Lots of Bowling CHICAGO, Jar. 20.—Norman Nelson, the only southpaw in ‘the finals of the All-Star tournament here, was forced to bowl ‘72 games in three days. He delivered two

tons of ice on rach of the three

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ference games, but still is accorded 620 | an excellent chance of breaking the Badger star's. mark. The highest total made for 12 league games peter. Fun Bowl Social -.... oas| Under, present cage rules is the 184 Harry Tegeler, Central Grotto ....... 604) Point aggregate of Jewell Young of | Carl Hindel, Moonlite Mixed ........ 802] Purdue in 1938. :

Basketball Results

HIGH SCHOOLS Lebanon, 52; Cathedral, 29. Shelbyville, 41; Madison, 31. Evansville Memorial, -41; Evansville

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