Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 February 1943 — Page 13
By Badie Ash
‘FLORIDA, while yielding. sacioidly. to the ulti matum that deprives the state of the/annual visits from seball clubs in training, because of the exigencies of
war, is not taking as kindly that indoor workouts are to 8,
to comments in the north be ‘preferred over outdoor
Also, the wise cracks that baseball fields in Florida are no good, anyway; that one cannot run, but only slip in Florida; that it isn't warm down there, anyway; that the food is terrible and the hotels worse; that the natives don’t properly. appreciate the big leaguets,
and so on.
‘These statements brought vigorous’ refutation from Sam Butz,
sports editor of the Florida Times-Union at Jacksonville. “Ag far as we know,” comments Butz, “there has béen no ronclad contract between Florida and the baseball people forcing th
“We thought the weather usually gave the ‘boys ‘a oti} fair
break, that they were treated hospitably, and they usually. proclaimed themselves as pretty well satisfled when they headed home.
Florida Sun and Ocean Breezes | “NOW, it's far from our intentions to start a fuss with the base-
ball people. They're all good friends and we want ‘em back when
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| the war is over. If they want to train indoors, we'll try to have some fieldhouses built so the athletes won't be: #Xposed to the Florida
sun and the ocean breezes.
“And we also realize, of course, why the ODT order must be
taken in a spirit of sweetness and light.
But please fellows, don’t
e it too tough on us when explaining to the cash customers y everything is going to be all right.”
HAVING LOST five outfielders to the service, the Boston Red Sox must pick their 1943 outfield from Pete Fox, the lone holdover; ohnny Lazor from Louisville, Tom McBride from Little Rock and
Ford Garrison from Ft. Worth. .
. + Now you have an idea of the ndard of big league ball this year.
"The old-timers in baseball are on the road back. .... The St. ‘Louis Cardinals have signed 73-year-old Joe Sugden as a scout.
+ . » Old. Joe used to be some shakes as a big league catcher. , ..
And
he is safe from being requested to display a amas card.
. Hockey Skipper Lewis on Talent Hunt
HERBIE LEWIS, the Indianapolis ‘Hockey team manager, is on the hunt for new talent to restore some life in his slumping Caps.
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Wings, parent club of the Caps.
Lewis is interested in closing deals for experienced asters and : “a gostie to replace Fats Perras, who has lost form in the 3. . He is not kicking them put like in early season." : _ The Caps’ skipper expects to get some help from Detroit yt ) 1% he also is willing to. deal outright for cash or swing ‘player trades | “with other clubs in the American league.
. His first stop was Detroit, home of the ‘National league Red
sets.
aaa Chief reason for the Caps’ poor showing; according to Lewis, was the loss of such seasoned centers as Ken Kilrea, Les Douglas,
| Doug Mills®
-~ | wibas - Tinois ~-{howevers: There “was splendid dis-
«1 Connie Brown, Jerry Brown and Gus Giesebrecht.
=k . Official ‘Off’ Indianapolis Home List . CLEVELAND plays Hershey tonight and a victory for the Barons a tie game will drop, the Hoosier icers to Sixth place in the league standings. ~~ The Caps’ seheduls for the week, including Sunday: Af Pitls~ urgh tomorrow, at home with Pittsburgh Thursday, at Cleveland Saturday, at home with Hershey Sunday. Coliseum General Manager Dick Miller has received the assurance of President Maurice Podoloff of the league that Walton Russell would not be assigned to officiate any additional games in Indian- _ apolis this season. . . . Russell's officiating in Sunday's game with Cleveland aroused the ire of local players and the fans . , , and he required an escort after the fracas. gs 8 TF 2 8 = BILL LIND, Minnesota's basketball forward-center, is Mr. Dead Eye Dick from the free-throw line. . .. In six Big Ten cage games e has connected on 16 and with only one miss. . . . In all games (12) ‘his record is 30 out of 33. ,.. They'ré calling him the Gopher Bomb
Northwestern | ’ By 68-51 Count "
By Tomy DEVINE United Press. Staff Correspondent CHICAGO, Feb, 2—Big Ten
that the current University of Illinois basketball team is superior to the combination that won the ‘con-
That conclusion was reached after Illinois” decisive 68-51 triumph over Northwestern last night at Cham-
paign and the “persuader” who settled the argument that has raged most of the season was Art Mathi-
sen, the 6-foot-5 Illini center.
For the first time this season Andy ‘Phillip, the brilliant Illinois forward, failed to go “field goal crazy,” but Mathisen stepped into the breach with his greatest con-
seasons~—18 points—to give: Coach
straight’ league victory. The triumph left Illinois just a half game behind pacesetting Indiana.
Total Hits 107
Phillip’s sharpshooting, while not as accurate as usual, brought his
‘| season’s total to 107 points and re-
gained for him the Big Ten scoring lead, which had been held by Iowa's Tom Chapman. Bud Hasse, lanky Northwestern guard, put up a splendid exhibition of defensive play to shackle Phillip in the first half and limit him to five points. In the second half, Phillip broke loose to score 10 more points, however. Mathisen was a “dud” as a scorer on Illinois’ championship combine last season. He was low man among the regulars with only 66 points in 15 conference games. This season he’s boosted his point-making total considerably and the increased offensive punch he’s furnishing is what gives the defending titleholders greater over-all strength.
Surpasses Last Year
Mathisen’s spree last night boosted his season’s total to 55 points. The 22 field goals he’s accumulated in five contests surpasses the aggregate made all last season. “Mathisen wasn’t the whole show remained undefeated,
tribution. of offensive honors as Phillip added his 15 points, Ken Menke and Gene Vance came through with 12 each and Jack Smiley contributed seven. Northwestern threw a scare into Illinois midway through the first half; but the Wildcats couldn’t keep the pace. With the score 25-14 in favor of the Illini, Northwestern went wild to score 10 points while holding the Champaign . quintet scoreless. Team Settles Down
There's no method of panicking Illinois, however. The team quickly settled down and went out to pile up a 32-26 advantage by halftime. In the final period they added steadily to the margin. Northwestern could have made the game much closer with any degree. of accuracy from the freethrow line. The Wildcats converted only six out of 19 charity tosses. Otto Graham, Northwestern's great forward, who finished second in the individual scoring race last season, took the game's scoring honors with 19 points. i ‘The Big Ten standing follows:
basketball critics conceded today|
ference championship a season ago.|
ference scoring exhibition in two}
“proteges : their fifth}
Kept Off Track By Navy Duties
ATHENS, Ga. Feb. 2—Ensign
Fred Wolcott, former Rice in-'
stitute hurdle star and world rec-ord-holder, will be missing from ‘the indoor track campaign this winter. Wolcott turned ‘down invitations to six major meets because of duties at the navy pre-ight school here. ; Wolcott has appeared in competition only once since entering the naval reserve last spring. He turned in a performance of 14.1 seconds to set a new Sugar Bowl 120-yard hurdle record in New Orleans late in December,
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A’s Eliminate Bonus Clause
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 2 (U. P.). —The Philadelphia Athletics begin mailing out 1943 player contracts today under a new arrangement
| whereby all bonus ‘clauses have been
eliminated from the working agreements. “So much’ trouble resulted from that type of contract last year,” President Connie Mack said, “that I've decided to forget about them.” Two of Mack’s top players, Bob Johnson and Dick Siebert, were in the bonus category last season. Reportedly the A’s highest-paid player, Johnson, has notified Mack that he will not report unless he is paid the second bonus under an atiendance clause in his 1942 contract. Mack refused because his attendance did not reach the 450,000 stipulated in the contract. “I'm sending Johnson a contraet,”
|Rochester Has Strangle-Hold {On State Basketball Honors
By UNITED PRESS With a record of 14 victories and only one defeat, Rochester’s skillful Zebras appeared to have a strangle-hold on state-wide basketball honors. . . Rochester held No. 1 spot again in the weekly United Press poll, and unless the Zebras are beaten during three remaining games, or unless Ft. Wayne Central, Muncie Burris and South- Bend Central end their slates in a blaze of impressive wins, Clyde Lyle’s quintet seems destined to finish on top. ® # = Rochester's record cannot be dis-| The stack-up: puted. State-wide opinion rates the Zebras’ competition in the top-notch caliber. Rochester victims include such “toughies” as Peru, * South Bend Riley, Greensburg, Mishawaka, Warsaw and: Logansport, With many state leaders coming under the upset knife, this week's rankings are jumbled, however, and it appeared that only the first. six teams in the stack-up actually deserve mention. The bottom three are in-and-outers, while many sports observers report that “Marion is winning ‘on borrowed time” and is not as tough as the record indi-
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To Sleigh Ride
NEW YORK, Feb. 2—Johnny . Cooney, outfielding dean of major ~ league players recently acquired ‘by Brooklyn, broke in as a lTefthanded pitcher. A hesitation pitch helped Cooney do moderately well with weak clubs and without too much stuff, Cooney relates how
jm recovered his equilibrium, got the ball across the plate, and Cooney noticed that the batter was off balance. That gave Cooney the idea. As he strode forward, 5 his weight shifting to his right Jeg, his arm came to a stop. He completed the pitch as the batrelaxed, wondering what hap-
vansville Wins
from Normal Five sme.
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Evansville ' college antral Normal under a barrage of d goals last night to romp away the secund half to a 64-43 vicin a conference game. - ‘Evansville led 23-20 at the half. TT. 8. Ary, former Evansville antral high school star, who didn’t ato the game until ‘the second scored 15 Points. for high
other games, Great Lakes Pr Naimyp St.. Joseph's, 63-28, and ; naval base defeated Earlham, in Hon-conierence battles,
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LYWOOD, Feb. 3 (U, P).—
*¢! boys seem to be quite satisfied.” He
Cowley Takes
{Cowley of the National Hockey |
Basketball Results |
Hockey Lead
MONTREAL, Feb. 2 (U. P.).—Bill
league’s pace-setting Boston Bruins, registered; five points during the past week’to displdce Lorne Carr of Toronto at the head of the. individual ‘scoring leaders. today. - In ‘35 games, Cowley has scored 14 goals and handed. out 37 assists to mark up 51 points, two better than Carr's total of 24 goals and 25 assists in 33 games. Max Bentley of the Chicago Black| Hawks moved 4nto third place by
of 45, one better than. Bill Taylor of ‘Toronto. ; ' The 10 leaders:
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Cooper Brothers Sign With Cards
‘ST. LOUIS, Feb. 2 (U. P.). Mort and Walker-Cooper, brother battery
first players in the 1943 salary fold for the National leaguers today. The Coopers dropped in at the|. | Cardinals’ office yesterday to pick up “a dozen bails and start working out” .but lingered long enough to agree to terms for the coming season =», increases over their 042 wages. “i President Sam Breadon said “both
declined | to reveal the amount ot}
. | Mack said, “and he can do what he gg) Wants with it, but he will not get any money from me because there 32) is none owed him.” Mack intimated that none of the s| salaries this year would be above that paid, the top-priced player last year.
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By HARRY GRAYSON Times Special Writer NEW YORK, Feb. 2—Pittsburgh again has a distinguished football coach—Clark Shaughnessy.
Pittsburgh had L] distinguished . coach four years ‘ago—Dr. Jock Sutherland. It is difficult to understand what Pittsburgh gained by the change. A more attractive schedule, perhaps, for it got so ‘the top colleges would no longer have any truck with the precisive Pitts of Dr. Sutherland. There is nothing wrong with Pittsburgh engaging T-Man Shaughnessy because he is better than a green hand in the profession. ; If the Panther cared to remain in the big time it could not continue to take 50-point pastings from Big Ten teams,
There was an alarming decrease
in ativndance, and, among other things, there was the little matfer of the stadium debt. But why try to ram down the public's throat that trite
about the ideals of the new ath- :
~letic policy? AS A COACH of the first water Shaughnessy knows that the life's 7 + blood of his reputation depends on oblathing the right kind of material, ‘He knows he cannot depend on the usual academic chazinels to get boys capable by Waging winning wars against opponents of Western conference caliber. Any football man acquainted with the Pittsburgh situation will
tell you that the material over the. Jast four years was 5: Juss as good
as it ever was.
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SHAUGHNESSY gave as a reason for switching’ to Maryland the fact that he was/given the full rank of professor,
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cates. This, however, remained problematical. Coach Orville Hooker always bring forth a threat,
“Biggest disappointment of the week was the fall of Jasper to Evansville Bosse by a two-point margin, After Coach Cabby O’Neil’s Jasper machine gained snowballing favor over the state by thumping
- | Bloomington, 52-32, the boys fell to
Bosse, 26-24, to drop from third to fifth in the poll. :
after falling to Hammond Clark, 5638. Columbus climbed ahead of Marion by defeating Shelbyville, as the Giants lost to Marion Crawley’s improving Lafayette team.
All-Heavy Mat . Bill at Armory
The rivalry between the popular Dorve (Iron Man) Roche and the not-so-popular George (K. 0.) Koverly will be continued tonight at the
wrestling bill of the Hercules A, C. Winner of tonight's ‘tussle is to get a chance at young Bobby Mana-
Feb. 9.
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‘HAMBURG. N. Y. Feb. 2— Business Men’s league of Eden bowls at Hamburg, six miles away. When the ban on pleasure driving was put into effect, and the ground , these keglers—39 in number—hired a sleigh. When there is insufficient snow for that form of transportation, they use a hay rack,
Lippy Takes Exam Today
ST. LOUIS, Feb. 2 (U. P.).—Selective service doctors decide today whether Lippy Leo {Durocher will} fight for Uncle Sam ‘or: battle National league umpires as usual. The 37-year-old manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, fresh from a thorough checkup by Mayo clinic
doctors, reports to the city hospital clinic for his initial physical test
‘lat 6 p. m, and once okayed, faces
early induction after another examination. But Leo was confident he would pass both tests, including the first one which usually consists of a
‘| plood test along with detection of
any obvious physical or mental defects. “I have no intention of seeking deferment because of a perforated right eardrum,” the voluble pilot stated. “I am ready, willing and able fo go whenever they want me. Trouble with’ my ear drum was practically cleared up about 10 years ago. » It was during his term with the St. Louis Cardinals in 1933 that his right ear drum was ruptured, Leo said, but Mayo surgeons repaired the break and he has béen going back to the clinic every winter
NEW YORK, Feb. in baseball leagues, annual source of
ing the most important crisis in
| their history today but although the
1943 war road looks rocky, most of circuits of higher classification will operate.
Minor league owners have a little less than a month to come: to a decision as to whether their cir-
Jcuits can continue ' in operation
‘ince March 1 was the deadline set at the Chicago convention of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues last December, Club moguls will then have to provide forfeits W Profght Their 4 Serr tory.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 (U. . —War manpower commission sources said it was a “safe bet” that actors and professional ath letes, including baseball: players, would: ‘be included in additional lists of non-essential activities. WMC repeatedly has held baseball players to be non-essential, and actors were not included in the recent list of essential occy= pations under the movie industry, Thus, actors and athletes soon may find themselves unable to obtain deferments from the draft, even for reason of dependency, unless they get inte an essential occupation.
The over-all picture is not as pessimistic as it first appeared. Only most of the lower classification associations appear on the verge of folding—nine leagues in either the “C” or “D” groups having given up since the start of the 1942 season. During the past week-end, three circuits folded up, bringing to 19 the total of minor, leagues which have suspended since Pearl Harbor, In 1942 there were 26 circuits in operation, 10 less than the 1941 total. Bi : Five other leggues suspended after the 1942 campaign opened and after it closed, four others quit, That would leave a total of 17 ape parently ready for operation ‘this year but there will be more fatalities, President Elmer Dally of ' the Mid-Atlantic and Penn State baseball leagues announced yesterday that “there is no hope. at all” of the two circuits operating this season unless present restrictions on gasoline and pleasure driving are re« laxed. Daily said he was reluctant to make a final decision and planned tor call a meeting of both leagues for ‘late this ‘month, probably at Pittsburgh, at which owners will de-
‘|cide whether to operate. Daily (ov
added that the player problem was not the chief difficulty but he couldn’t figure out “how to get the people to the ball parks.” William C. Bramham, president of all the minors, said that he would have a good idea on the 1943 setup by the middle of the month. and “felt sure that baseball would do all it can to continue.”
Tulsa Boys Spur Spartans of Mat:
EAST LANSING, Feb..2. —~Three Tulsa boys haye Michigan State rivalling Oklahoma A. and M. as a wrestling stronghold and’ efeing ‘the. Aggies’ N. C. ALA.
. championship. They are. Merle
and Burl Jennings, i identical twins, and Bill Maxwell, The twins won N, C. A. A. titles the last’ two years, and Maxwell also finished on. top last spring. They have won national A..A, 4.
Gary Lew Wallace sank to 10th|
armory where the pair of power-{ f house heavyweights tap the weekly| | Si
goff and his heavyweight title one| ‘week from tonight. Managoff, from| Chicago, has agreed to take on the| victor and risk his crown here on :
Roche and Koverly staged a fast] ‘and exciting match three weeks ago,| with Dorve-pulling up a close win-}| | ner, George's protest of the verdict} was not allowed and he has been | anxious for a return. Roche is from} ¥ Decatur, 111, and Koverly from Los|
a Pipi Fein .
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since for a checkup.
and sectional Shamplonsiips.
freshman major leagues, were fac