Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 February 1943 — Page 14
SPORTS .
By Eddie Ash
~ HIGH SCORING in basketball is tough on the players, officials and box-scorekeepers but <i pays big dividends at the box office. . . . Attendance picked up tremendously down through the years as the game! 8 pace increased. Marquette university presents a striking indication of the trend of basketball scoring and a comparison between this season and two décades ago. . . . This season’s team, only moderately successful, is averaging a4 points a game while the brilliant Hilltop quintet of 1923 averaged 20.2 points. . . . That team scored a 7-t0-6 victory over Creighton and a 9-to-8 triumph over Wisconsin, » 2 #8 ® # 8 MILWAUKEE'S auditorium is basketball's gift to neck-stretch-ing. . . . The hall’s capacity for the cage sport is 6000 seats but in only about 2500 of them can a spectator see hoth baskets. . . . Milwaukee’s baseball park, an ancient structure, always confounds new customer spectators. . . . At no spot in the grandstand can a fan see down both foul lines. st... kL 2 8 = : - FROM the St. Paul Pioneer Press: “On April 29, according to the American association schedule, the Kansas City Blues will play the St, Paul Saints at St. Paul's Lexington park. That's the Sptimistio viewpoint. . At present, St. Paul has no manager, no spring site, few players and no working plans beyond the blueprint stage.” - Ball Player Stock Pile Thins Out BASEBALL'S dwindling manpower: Harold (Peewee) Reese 4s the Brooklyn Dodgers’ latest loss to the armed forces. . . . The shortstop joined the navy over the week-end. . .. Don't let that nickname Peewee fool you. . . . The lad is no shrimp. . . . He was & boy marble champ in Louisville, which explains the -monicker. The Chicago Cubs have lost three catchers to the armed forces and it is possible that Clyde McCullough, their No. 1 backstop, will be called to take a “physical” before the 1043 season ends. "8" . 8 : DON'T be too surprised if the 1943 major league season is shortened to close in September and the world series played that * month. . . . Loss of manpower, instead of the transportation problem, mow looms as the main threat to the national pastime. From all the accounts, the united nations plan to throw the whole works into the war effort this year and that will call for all available manpower for the armed forces, war industry and ‘agriculture. . . + All sports will be hit . . . professional, amateur and intercollegiate.
Banister Shuns Early Spring Night Air
a JIMMY WILSON, manager of the Chicago Cubs, plans on using tlie veteran, Jimmy Foxx, as a catcher the. coming season.
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+ «» Foxx, now a seasoned | first sacker, did considerable catching °
far the Philadelphia Athletics. . . . He broke into league ball as a
backstop. . ... He also has played
third base.
Toledo and Leuisville may follow Indianapolis and open their
home seasons at night this spring. <
ball at Red Bird stadium until May 3...
. Columbus will not play night . Prexy Al Banister doesn’t
‘gare to gamble on ¢ early spring night alr,
GONE FROM the Sacramento club of the Pacific Coast league since war was declared Dec. 8, 141, ate 33 pliyess. . , . Only Deb
Garms remains on the roster as an outfielder. .
. The club/is owned
~ by the St. Louis Cardinals and is the Coast loop’s defending
champion,
‘Boudreau Is Early ‘Bird on Limb ' GOING OUT on a limb, Lou Boudreau, Cleveland Indians’ . manager, declares that his team is going to be the club to beat for
~ this year’s American league
pennant. . .
. He looks for Buddy Rosar,
catcher obtained in 5 deal with the Yankees, to plug the Year's
big weakness.
Red Ruffing, the New York Yankees’ veteran pitcher now in "the army, is a manager, no less and already, after only a couple of weeks in uniform, . . He'll master mind a team for the Sixt Ferry
Command st Long Beach, Cal.
BASKETBALL
| LOCAL HIGH SCHOOLS . Central of Lawrence, 39; Broad Rip-
PM Sithington, 33; Warren Central, 30 41; Muncie, 35. rt, 39; Catheds sl, 22. 1, 56; Culver Military, 34. Lalayette, 35; Shortridge, Beech Grove, 56; Silent Hoosiers, 35. . | Howe, 38; Franklin Township, 31.
' OTHER HIGH SCHOOLS
Ben Davis, 31; New Augusta, 27. wood, 42; D 41. North Side (Ft. Warne ‘88; John Adams
{Bouth Bend), 32. Central (Ft. Wayne), 4¢ Huntertown, 42; Cen New Haven, 38; Aubu Fratbel Lh 38; Te 47; Clayton > way, » a; Concordia (Ft. Wayne), a St. Joseph's,
Beste (Evansville), 26; Jasper, xu. 42; Moral Township, Watkington (South Bend), 44; Crown St. Mary's (Anderson), 3%; Alexan-
y 20. “Culver, 39; Winamae, 17. Bremen, 42; Walkertown, 23%.
46; Elkhart, 34. teal ee 20. "South Side (Fe
Wabash Valley Tourney Ellettsville, 49; Plainville, 28. . Brasil, 42: Linton, 34.
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Valparaiso, 74; Concordia (River Forest, IL), - Concordia (Ft. Wayne), 52; Giftin, 36.
OTHER COLLEGES : Coast Guard academy, 54; University of Connecticu University of - Cincinnati, 40; Wooster, $9. Montana State, 66; Montana, 45. Manhattan, Ls Yale, 32 Heidelberg, 34; Ohio Northern, 468. Otterbein, 46; Denison, 38. : Main, 54; Bowdoin, 26. Maryland, 68; Navy, 54. Pennsylvania, 39; Army, 28. Syracuse, 40; Temple, 32. Oklahoma, 56; Nebraska, 32. Great Lakes, 47; Kansas, 41. daho, 56; Oregon State, 44. isconsin, 54; Minnesota, 33. 65; Bowling Green, 59.
Pittsburgh, 60; Corn §t. Joseph's Pontohis), 63; West Texas State, 52. Creighton, 84; Camp Crowder (Mo.), 32 Lehigh, 41; Brooklyn college, Georgia Tech, 53; Auburn, 21. * Duke, 60; North Catolisa State, 47. North Carolina, Wake Forest, 31. - Miami (0.), 42; By 30. Toledo, 42; Bald win-Wailase, 26. , 51; Knox, 38. Camp Grant, 36; i Sanide Field, 38, Alma, - Wes Michigan college (Kalamagoo), $6. Betz git Tein, 70; Ft. ‘Wayne (Michigan)
, 32. Whienbers, 53; Findlay, 4. ‘State, 101; Camp Livingston
Louisi: . | 38th division, 50.
el a Petersburg, 46; Spurgeon, 4d. - Wissiow, Sv (Anal). STATE COLLEGES
Indians, 53; Purdue, 85. , 88; Tri-State, 36. ester, 42; Evansville, 40. Central, 39; Ball State, 37.
93; Eai , 18. Dame, 50; DePaul {Chicage), 49%
St. Louis, 15 Ft. Leonard Wood, 18. Princeton, 44; Dartmouth, 39. Luther, ey Loras, 32. Marquet , 45. ie 49; Vanderbilt, Pe
Mississi West Virginia, 32; Penn North HA Dakatn State, Feiesias. »
3 Reserve, Manhattan Beach coast guard, or SeranCamp Wheeler, j Georgia, #1. Alabama, 41; kealasty, 5 Ambrose,
St. 47; 1 ows preflight. school officers, 31.
s |Largest Crowd Sees State Win
. BUFFALO, N. ¥., Feb. 1 (U. P). —The largest crowd ever to wit-
ness a ‘basketball game in this city |g = | —9672—watched ‘a Western Ken- | tucky State quintet chalk up fits
fourth consecutive victory agains a game St, Bonaventure club, 85-32, last night.
The Kentuckians, sparked by
Center, Oran McKenney and For- ns
ward Don Ray, who each contributed nine points in. the first period, |
|e ata the ann tet.
Referee Draws
gain a 6-2 verdict while the Caps a full team. on the ice.
alty box and four of those sentences were singled out to Indianapolis team members. Adam Brown and Fred Ferrens drew two minutes each in the first period for roughness, ‘Art Giroux of the Barons got the time in the second part for interference and Freddie Weaver, Joe Fisher and Hal Jackson of the Caps were jailed in the third heat along with Fred Robertson of Cleveland. By this time, the crowd had worked itself into a lather over the decisions of Russell and when he had added a 10-minute misconduct penalty onto Weaver's two-minute sentence for roughness, the missles started to fly.
Additional Sentence Weaver and Robertson had start-
jed toward the penalty box, and
as with most other penalties called, the players skated yp to the referee to ask why they wege being penalized. Russell seemed to think that Weaver talked too much and slapped on the additional sentence. One irate fan even tossed a full loaf of bread (don’t know -if it was sliced) toward the rink but the aim was short and it fell into the press box. Cleveland never was behind in its six-goal assault which spelled the fifth consecutive setback for the Caps and placed them in a twoway tie for fifth place with the Barons The last time the Caps hit the victory column was Jan. 20 at Providence, when they hung a 6-5 overtime defeat on the Reds. Since that game, they have lost to Hershey, Washington, Pittsburgh and Cleveland (twice). . Norm Locking, on assists from Les Cunningham and Tony Leswick, scored at 30:7 of the first period just -when the fans were getting seated. And before the Caps could get up steam, the Barons had
‘Janother goal at 5:29 when Phil
Hergesheimer clicked with the help of Alex Cook and Earl Bartholome.
Caps Finally Score
The Caps appeared to be sluggish during the period and were unable to get their offensive under way. Leo Richard finally scored at 8:04 of the heat when he took assists irom Bill Quackenbush and Freddie Weaver. Cleveland ran the count to 3-1 after 44 seconds of the second quarter had elapsed. Tony Leswick sped down the ice, fired the puck from an angle and it filtered into the net through a mass of players. It was a difficult shot for Goalie Floyd Perras to stop as it took a little bounce just before it reached him and hurtled over his stick. Sandy Hoss came through for the Caps at, 6:21 of the same period with the help of Bill Jennings and Adam Brown. That ended the scoring for the local club for they were unable to take advantage of the absence of Art Giroux, who was sent to the penalty box, Three-Goal Assault Cleveland exploded any hope of the Caps bringing the game out of the fire in the third heat with a three-goal assault. Locking took an assist from Cunningham at 2:32 for the Barons’ fourth marker, Cunningham turned the trick at 8:31 on assists from Cook and Leswick and thén flashed the red light again at 17:07 with the help of Leswick. Bill Jennings scored for the Caps just before the game ended but the referee refused to allow the marker, ‘claiming that the puck was dead in front of the net. The officials ruled that the puck was deflected into the net off Jennings as it was in motion near the net. After the game, however, Jennings said that {after the puck struck him, he hit ‘|it and it went into the net after glancing off Goalie Ceryance. ' Crowd Gets Hot Although the Caps had no chance to win or even tie the game at this late stage of the game, this decision brought the crowds’ ire to the boiling point and Referee Russell had to be escorted to the dressing room where several of the fans remained,
door. A revised schedule for the Caps,
Sunday then Cleveland will pay a return visit to the Coliseum Feb. 11 in-
stead of Pittsburgh. Washington, as scheduled, will play here Feb. 14.
) (Indianapolis) Suackenbush, Sherri STIG, | Ross, J. Brown, Patterson, A. ‘Weaver, Richard, Jennings; (Cleveland) Rerrens, Giroux, Cook, Bartholome, Herb Foster, Burlington, Horek,
Hergsheimer, Matte.
i i indismapels, mish ¥ {} > alties—A. Brown and Pervens (rough cond Period Bcoring—4-Cleveland, LesPE Cumaitena End ToC: Brows), 6:31. Penalty—Giroux (interfers
By FRANK WIDNER : The Cleveland Barons and Referee Walton Russell made it hard for the Indianapolis Caps last night at the Coliseum. Before 3364 fans, the Barons took advantage of every opening to
hooting and kicking on the locked 3
‘caused by the disbandment of the |d . | New Haven Eagles, will bring Pittsburgh’ here . Thursday night and] send the Caps to Cleveland Satur- | day night. Hershey will be here|# night as scheduled andj}
Referee—Walton Russell. Linesman Mike Goodman. 2 i
Local Sextet Falls Into Tie For 5th Place With Cleveland;
Crowds Tre
at: times had a hard: time keeping
Five times during the tilt Referee Russell sent players to the pen-|
Brazil Takes Wabash Valley Basket Title
Times Special TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Feb. 1.— Now that Brazil has won the Wabash Valley high school basketball crown for 1943, the annual argu-
the valley champion deserves compared to the other teams ‘of the state. The Red Devils captured the title by a 46-t0-35 victory over Ellettsville Saturday night, ending a twoweek title quest in which 109 Indiana and Illinois schools were entered—the largest non-state basketball tournament°in the country.
in 1928, won six games to capture the 1943 title, but was not extended until the quarter-finals when Palestine, 111, the 1941 champion, held the Red Devils to a 26-t0-23 margin. Miners Lose in Semi-Fnals The semi-final victory was over Linton’s Miners, 1924 and 1927 champions, who met their third defeat this season, 42 to 34. Ellettsville, which had also been runnerup to Terre Haute Wiley last year, had lost only one pre-tournament game. Ellettsville won its way into the finals with a semi-final victory over Plainville, 1937 champions and conquerors this year of the favored Terre Haute State five. “The valley tournament is pre-
and its champion has never won the Indiana state crown. In 1922, however, Terre Haute Garfield was
field team was Harold (Babe) Wheeler, now Brazil coach. Other outstanding - valley teams have reached the state’s final 16 in more recent years. . The fact that neither Washington, Vincennes or Greencastle competes in the valley event has helped prevent recognition. This year, however, two of the teams among the final 16—Linton and Sullivan— have better records in the southern Indiana conference than either the Hatchets or the Alices. The Miners and Golden Arrows gave Brazil its only two defeats in season play.
State’s First Defeat
Likewise Brazil, Clinton and Attica, all valley finalists, have better records in the western section of the state than Greencastle. Linton and Terre Haute State had both been rated high on state polls, but both were defeated in the valley play, State for the first time this season, For Brazil in the final game, MacDanhour and Bill Powell each scored seven baskets, but Ellettsville’s Johnny Hynds was the high point man of the tournament with 74 points. Ellettsville’s Paul Hudson won the sportsmanship trophy.
Ft. Wayne Gets Baseball Confab
CLEVELAND, Feb. 1 (U. P)~ The annual winter meeting of the National Baseball Federation will be held in Ft. Wayne, Ind., Feb. 2627, J. A. Downey Jr., president, announced today The federation’s 30th annual meeting will be held in conjunction with the annual tournament at Youngstown, O., where the tourney was held in 1941 and 1942. Downey said that 24 cities were represented in last year’s tourney.
Comeback?
ment can begin as to what rating|
Brazil, which won the valley crown |
A Double Jolt
. Willie Pep, right, unbeaten featherweight from Connecticut, gets a right eye full of glove from Newark lightweight Allie Stolz, and vice versa, in the second round of their Garden bout which Pep won with ease. Stolz took a licking in: all but a few rounds of the 10-stanza non-title bout which extended Pep's victory string to 59 straight. :
The Ft. Wayne Zollner Pistons, breaking even in two week-end professional encounters, maintained their lead in the National league race and officials said today it appeared almost certain the F't. Wayne club would host the annual all-star
dominantely a “little team” affair |game.
The league, in voting to continue the all-star game, said the host club would be the one which finishes
state runner-up; star of the Gar-|in first place at the end of the regu-
lar schedule. The all-stars will be chosen from other teams by vote of managers, coaches, radio and newspapermen. - Ft. Wayne dumped Oshkosh Saturday night, 40-33, on the all-stars’ court, breaking a jinx of two years; but, in an engagement last night at Sheboygan with the Redskins, took a beating to the tune of 47-31. The Pistons’ win over Oshkosh broke a reign of terror which lasted two years. In the last six home games, Oshkosh managed to defeat the Ft. Wayne club, and for a while it appeared as if they would succeed in trouncing their opponents for the seventh time.
\ Coast to Victory
However, Bob McDermott, leagueleading scorer, put the game on ice for the Pistons in the final phases of the fourth stanza with ¢wo rapidsuccession shots to break a 28-all tie. From then on, F't. Wayne coasted to the victory. The first three periods were - nip-and-tuck with both teams fighting desperately for the advantage.
est game of the season when: they: met a superior Sheboygan outfit. Aside from the early stages of the encounter when the score stood at 10-all at the end of the first period and 18-12 for the Redskins at halftime, the game, was a walkaway. McDermott had his poorest game this year, scoring only five points.
Sycamores Hold Firm Grip on 1 irm Grip on Ist By UNITED PRESS = : Indiana State’s Sycamores, undefeated in college loop competition, today held a firm grip on first place for at least another week. The Sycamores will be idle until Feb. 8 when they meet St. Joseph's. Chief interest this week centered on Wabash’s bid for honors. After Manchester slipped from second place on an upset defeat to Tay-
lor, Wabash moved into runner-up spot with five wins and onc defeat,
| and now waits for Indiana State to
falter. Wabash faces St. Joseph's Friday night. The conference standing:
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Ft. Wayne Almost Certain To Host All-Star Contest
Pelkington carried the team load,
Werner Captures Skating Crown
SCHENECTADY, N. Y,, Feb. 1 (U.
The Pistons experienced their cold- |-
aap?
sinking seven fleld goals and six free throws for Piston scoring
honors. Chicago Studebakers travel to Ft. Wayne tomorrow night, The Chicago club beat Oshkosh, 73-60, last night, preserving for Ft. Wayne their two and one-half game lead. Championship playoffs will open Feb. 20th, exact location for the meet, however, will be determined later. The quintet in first place will clash with the fourth-place club, while second and third-place finshers meet in the other series. Winners of the preliminaries then will meet for the championship game. All will be on a best | | two-out-of-three series. League standing: ° ; Ww . Pct. Pts, Opp. 705 846 785 555 778 1767
444 871 892 411 709 740
Ft. yayne Zollner Piston Ofbtan All-Stars. . Chicago Studebakers Sheboygan Redskins
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SAVE THE SOLDIER~—
P.).—The senior men’s title of the
New York state speed skating championships belonged to Dick
Werner, 28-year-old food salesman of Paterson, N. J, today. Werner won the Middle Atlantic States crown last week at Newburg, N. Y.Werner annexed a title-winning total of 70 points by winning the 440yard event and placing second in the 220 and 880 yesterday. Bob Jahn of Cresskill, N. J.,, was second with 60 points and Bud Handlan of Jef-
ferson Barracks, Mo., third with 40.
Carmelita Landry of Fitchburg, Mass, national women’s champion,
scored a clean sweep of three senior}
women’s events to total a perfect 90 points. Beatrice Amann of Hartford, Conn., was second and Mrs.
Bessie Douglas of Chicago, third.
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' By PAUL SCHEFFELS United Press Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK, Feb. 1.—~The Brook-
{lyn Dodgers and Philadelphia Phils
hit the baseball headlines simultaneously today, the Filatbushers beginning .an all-out campaign to rebuild their tattered infield and the up-for-sale National league tailenders moving close to a solution of their current financial plight. The are a team without an infield.. Loss of talented little Pee Wee Reese, who enlisted in the navy at Louisville Saturday, left the club with five infielders on the reserve list but only one is scheduled to report for 1943, Manager Leo Durocher, logical substitute for Reese, is momentarily excepting to undergo his draft board's physical examination—regular preliminary to tion. Inability to obtain enough help to run their ranches will keep first baseman Dolph Camilli and third
|sacker Arky Vaughan based in Cal-
ifornia when the season begins. Herman Only Infielder
Life as a Sacramento, Cal., fireman appeals so much’ to utility infielder Alex Kampouris that he will forego returning to the Dadgers, leaving second baseman Billy Herman as the only infielder definitely slated to return to competition this year. Eighteen men, including Reese, have carried the Dodgers’ pennant hopes into the services with them.
the loss of such key performers as outfielders Pete Reiser, Don Padgett
{and Johnny Rizzo; infielders Reese,
Lew Riggs and Harry Lavagetto and pitchers Larry French and Hugh Casey. The natural flow of replacements,
{expected from the Dodgers’ Mon-
treal farm club in the International league, has been wiped out by calls to service. Infielders Les Burge, Stan Rojek ‘and Claude ‘Corbitt; outfielder Jack Graham, catchers
and pitchers Al Fazone, Tom Drake and Joe Hatton have all answered the call to colors.
Phils. Desperate The Phils always are in a bad
annual last-place finish has brought the club into desperate financial straits where only help from the National league itself may present a solution. Major league magnates will gather here for the 20th annual baseball writers’ dinner of the New York chapter on Feb. 7 but National league owners will get dawn to serious business two days later. Programmed as the Tegulas spring schedule meeting, the annual fab will have little to do with the playing dates since that task is now
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