Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 February 1943 — Page 12

United Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO, Feb. 6—The Big Tens two outstanding basketball ; ‘Indiana and Illinois, attempt to prolong brilliant winning streaks tonight when they meet second division opponents in the out« * standing games of the conference program. Indiana faces Michigan at Bloomington, while the co-feature ‘sends’ Illinois against Ohio State at Columbus. The other league en‘gagements pit Minnesota against Chicago and Purdue against North- - western. In pon-conference contests Towa entertains Knox and Great Lakes tangles with Wisconsin, Indiana and Illinois have held a monopoly on the Big Ten fend

SPORTS

By Eddie Ash

. LIKE the Indianapolis Indians, the Toledo Mud Hens are going collegiate in 1943 spring training and will pitch camp at Ohio university, at Athens. . . . The Hoosiers, & as you know, are to share the training facilities at Indiana

university. ] Seven of the eighth American associhtion clubs have settled on training camps. . . . St. Paul is yet to get around to the problem. +» « Here are the A. A. camps: Kansas City, Excelsior Springs, Mo.; Columbus, Portsmouth, O.; Milwaukee, Waukesha, Wis., Minneapolis, Terre Haute, Ind.; Indianapolis and Toledo, designated; Louisville, at home. : Seven St. Paul players are employed in war wdnstries this winter and three others own farms. . . . The farmers are Pitchers Art Herring, George Coffman and Clay Smith, . . . In other years they have left the spring farming to hired help while they departed to ~ training camp. . . . This year hired help is difficult to locate and these twirlers may nave to till the soil and plant. ‘= The seven St. Paul players working in war plants are Pitchers Dick Lanahan, Joe Bowman and Howard Belknap, Catchers Stanley i Andrews and Johnny Pasek, Outfielder Jake Powell and Second Baseman Frank Drewes. . . . The St. Paul player roster is down to ) 13, including the seven named. . , . It isn’t at dn certain that all of them would give up their jobs to play ball ... ‘even with an order

: ¥ giving baseball the government green light.

Soldiers Like ‘Feel’ of Baseball

or SOLDIERS in the Pacific feel like regl Americans when they are playing ball, Elmer E. Heindl, a chaplain with the armed forces, wrote President William Harridge of the American league, in acknowl-

_ edging the receipt of some baseballs.

The letter said, in part: “We have received the three dozen “: baseballs, sent us by Harry Grabiner, vice president of the Chicago : White Sox, at your request and were very happy to get them. “The primary issue of baseballs from the government was exX- ~ haustéd. Baseball is one of the strongest bonds that we have here ; in foreign service to tie us with home. As you know, we never feel & Smore like Americans than when batting the old ball around. “The men all agree that one of our anticipated pleasures, in the «= near future, will be to root again and again in the ball parks back _ home for our favorite teams.”

£ £ Coast League to Drop Playofis

THE Pacific Coast league will shelve its ost Season plavolts, "The league's all-star game, instituted two years ago, With proceeds ~ going to the Association of Professional Ball Players of America, ; a charity organization, Ww will be continued unless transportation .. difficulties interfere. Several army-navy ball and bat fund ' games sey be arranged, s ”- i # ” 2 LIEUT. ROBERT J. BYRNE, ‘former minor "league outfielder, and a son of Robert J. (Bobhy) Byrne Sr. former big league infielder, living in St. Louis, was wounded in fighting over Africe in January, i in which his plane was struck by enemy fire. . .'. He was reported : . to have bumped off one, and possibly two, attacking planes. . . The war department reports bed is making normal improvement. ” #" » » 8 " ~ DON MATSON, the large-sized forward who was expected to be an important cog in this season’s University of Minnesota basketball team, is definitely Jost for the season. . . . Dr. Carl Nordly, head coach, says Matson’s physician advised he should give up basketball for the time being. . . . The player has been kept out of practice

- and Big Ten games put his physical condition remains below par.

Connie Mack Confident That Baseball Will Solve Problems

By BERNARD J. NILLES United Press Staff Correspondent

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 6—Connie Mack who started in baseball as a $12-a-week catcher and became

! figures was honored last night at a banquet in celebration of his 80th

birthday anniversary, ~~ More than 800 Stratford ‘hotel to pay homage to Philadelphia Athletics. He was 80 years old last Dec. 22. After five hours of dining, #nterlainment and speeches, Connie ught the dioner—~which was re or Jess a large scale replica of gestion of the hot-stove league— climax with an exssion ‘of confidence that baseball ould solve its wartime problems. “Mr, Baseball,” as Connie Was dled by one of the speakers, did elaborate but he brought loud s when he declared: *

Quite a Problem

#At present we have quite a prob on otir, hands. But baseball's board of Judge Landis, n Harridge and Ford Frick, I sure, will solve the problem

to quit his job as a bootmaker 3 play professional baseball. He - Meriden in the Connecticut

diners erowded the large ball room of Bellevue-

the tall, gray-haired patriarch of

but suggested that it was wrong to try io compare the players of the 1890's with the present-day baseball performers. He said it is wrong to try to pick an all-time ‘all-star team because conditions and rules change over the years. He suggested that all-star teams. be picked

{every 10 ‘or 15 years, with the re-

quirement that a player must be in the major leagues 10 yeals to be eligible. Mack was presented with an oil portrait of himself, a check for

{$1000 from the American league and |

a huge plaque containing baseballs autographed by every player in organized baseball in 1942. A huge birthday cake with 80 candles was also presented. Speakers included Harridge and Frick, American and National league presidents, respectively, Clark: Griffith, president of the Washing-

_|ton Senators, Branch Rickey, presi-

dent of Brooklyn, Gerry Nugent, president of the Phillies, Lieut. Gov. John C. Bell of Pennsylvania; Governor Walter Bacon of Delaware;

: Mayor Bernard Samuel of Philadel-

phia, and Thomas H. Richardson, president of the Eastern ‘baseball league, who acted as toastmaster.

w|Ohio State’s Year

~ COLUMBUS, , O., Feb. 6.—With three National A. A, U. and as many

of Western conference champions on

ice. iite. catset of the camphlen. The: Hoosiers now] arb six straight triumphs and Illinois is a step. behind W

five in a row.

Both leaders are top-heavy Iavorites, tonight.

race is indicated clearly by the decisive manner

“which they tr-

umphed. The Hoosiers boast an average “per game, while Illinois’ average edge is 18

margin of victory was eight points; while no on

within 13 points of Illinois.

Playing on its home floor where it has lost Indiana is expected to have

‘games in five seasons,

it to conterenen

Or the Way Down

Caps to Play Hershey Bars

At Coliseum

night to break the jinx those powerful Hershey B’ars have on Herbie Lewis and his gang.

the pleasure of pinning back the

' | ears of the Easterners all season and

Herbie Lewis figures that tomorrow night is just as good a time as ever to turn the trick. Especially does he wani to beat the Bars after the way the Caps slumped for a while in that fivegame losing streak before they plastered Pittsburgh last week-end. Five times Indianapolis and Hershey have met this season and all but’ once the Bar's emerged victorious. That one bright spot was a 1-1 overtime tie the Caps played with Hershey here Nov. 15.

Brown Outstanding

Other engagements have found Hershey on the winning side of the ledger, scoring 2-1, 3- 1, 6-3 and 7-2 victories. Tonight, Indianapolis will be in Cleveland to play the Barons. Cleveland was the victim of a Hershey goal barrage the other night and they will be gunning for the Caps net. The Caps will have Connie Brown with them when they play here tomorrow night and his presence may

Abe what is needed to beat Hershey.

Connie played a fine ice game last Thursday when the Caps tied Pittsburgh here, 2-2. Other games in the American Hockey league this week-end will pit Hershey against Pittsburgh and Buffalo against Washington © tonight, while the Bisons and Lions will ‘meet in a return engagement tomorrow night.

Landis Cancels

Dahlgren Deal

The deal whereby Babe Dahlgren, first baseman for Brooklyn, was to be bought by the Indianapolis Indians fo play here this season, has been called off by order of Commissioner Kenesaw M. Landis Al Schlensker, secretary for the Indianapolis club, said that he had received a letter from Judge Landis today disapproving of the deal,

Rickey Announced Deal

Schlensker said that when the Tribe had been dickering to bring Dahlgren here, the answer he received from the first satker was so favorable that Branch Rickey, president ‘of the Dodgers, announced in New York that terms had been agreed on that would allow the local club to buy Dahlgren: Today, however, Rickey said that the Dodgers would mail Dahlgren a contract before Feb. 15 and that the first baseman would report for spring training at Bear Mountain,

Wires Two Clubs

. Rickey said in New York today that he expects to see Dahlgren when he goes to the west coast late

one of the game's outstanding]tHis month in an attempt to per-

suade Dolph Camilli to reconsider

his decision not to play baseball |dog of Trainer Eddie Rozmaryafter receiving the news from Landis that the deal was off, now is in search of a capable first sacker to fill in the empty spot in the Tribe infield. He said that two clubs already had been wired and’ that he probably would know

this season. Schlensker,

more of the outcome next week.

The Caps will be out tomorrow

The Indianapolis team hasn't had

ein | frofit with

Tate ADPES 10 1008 40 sacler assigimen than Thihols vows’.

when it tangles with Ohid State. The Bucks have’ a league record of

oe ks Foote fea Ja aiegsaely ‘ervabi as ta rose. series with Purdue indicates. ‘The Bucks won the first game, 34-32, and then

the 56-38.

second, With the return of forward Ken Menke to regular action, Tinois

[Tech Defeats

Marion Squad In Close Tilt

The Big Green of Tech displayed

la powerful cffensive last night in

It looks like Oren McKinney, No. 98, of Western Kentucky, is about to come down with both hands on Mike Shinkarik, No. 16, of City college. Actually, Mike is falling to the floor after missing a pass from a teammate and Oren still has his arms frozen in the position in which he tried to snare the toss. Behind Shinkarik, Dee Gibson, No. 1, ofWestern Kentucky, goes after

the ball. In right foreground, Western Kentucky, and in left No.3, of C.C. N. Y. Western son Square Garden, 69-49.

is Wallace Sydnor, No. 77, of background, Everett Finestone,

Kentucky won the game at Madi-

Asks to Confine

Game to Majors

WASHINGTON, Feb, 6 (U. P.). ~The fate of professional baseball for 1943, according to President Roosevelt, is now in the hands of two of his secretaries, Stephen T. Early and Marvin H. Mcintyre. The president said at his press conference yesterday that the matter had been brought to his attention by a letter from a minor. league official who said he did not see how his team could con‘tinue this year and expressed the hope that the president would confine operating baseball clubs this year to the majors. Mr. Roosevelt said he had. referred the matter to his two White House secretaries because he did not know enough about the situation himself. There has been considerable speculation ' whether the : war manpower commission will place the sport in: the non-essential category.

Ass

Gone Again!

MILWAUKEE, Wis.—Home again, gone again—that’s the favorite coon

noski of Marquette university’s athletic teams. The dog, a Christmas present in 1941, disappeared last Februaiy and, tail between its legs, returned: 11 months later, The stay: was short, however, for Rozy’s pet has once more romped away.

It’s name is Ranger.

2 Heavyweight Bouts Carded

Two top heavyweight attractions

will feature the next: boxing pro-

gram to be staged by the Hercules

A. C. Friday night at th when Matchmaker Lloy will present a five-event professional bill.

Armory

Three well-known punchers already have signed on the dotted line for action on the card, including Bob Garner, one of the hardest hitting maulers of the present heavyweight crop; Bob Arthur, the Columbus, O., slugger who was to -

Heavies Open

have fought Willard Reed, Indiana state champ, here recently and was withdrawn from the card when managerial troubles interfered, and Bucky Lewis, a newcomer from Phoenix, Ariz. Garner, a 21-year-old product from Louisville, Ky., who will tangle

with Lewis, has had Indianapolis

fans talking for some time. He is

a power hitter with either hand and impressed local mitt followers while winning three straight bouts here, two via the knockout route. Friday's fracas with Lewis will be

Carter

taking over the top spot. in the North Central conference race by toppling Marion on the Giants’ home floor, 36-34. - In other games, Howe's Hornets

tive victory at the expense of Beec

Attucks lost its first game of the

|season to an accurate five from

Campbellsburg, 39-28. Park school nosed out the Naval Armory court. men, 21-20. Tonight's schedule calls for Greencastle at Washington, Southport at Tech, Noblesville at Broad: Ripple, Silent Hoosiers at Howe, Sacred Heart at Amo and Crispus Attucks at Smithville. Big Bob Evans led the Tech scoring with 13 points, but high-point honors went to Pfeiffer, Marion guard, who clicked for 16 points. ;

Lead Changes Hands

The capacity crowd in the Marion gymnasium held on to their seats right ip to the final minute of play as the lead changed hands time and again during the game. Seven times in the first half Marion and Tech pulled in front of each other. Swihart dropped in a free throw to start the scoring and Mehl followed up with a fielder. Pfeiffer and Earnhart combined to rack up six points, but Tech lost its lead at the end of the first quarter when Sutter's fielder swished through the net. Marion led, 8-7. : Tech took over twice in the second quarter but the Giants, battling desperately to keep up the pace, knotted the count once again at the half, 14-all. %-Point Lead

The Big Green went to work shortly after the start of the sec‘ond half. A free throw and three consecutive fielders gave Tech a sevenpoint lead, one they kept until the end of the quarter when the consistent sniping of Marion whittled the count down to 26-23. * The count was tied up once again, 30-30, but Evans hit once and Maas twice to throw Tech into a six-point lead. Sutter and Pfeiffer clicked for the Giants to make up the final score, 36-34. Howe didn't get up steam until the second-half last night. Leading 13-10 at intermission, they romped up and down the floor, pouring in 25 points during the third and fourth quarter. Beech Grove could get but one field goal and two free throws in the last half.

marked up their seventh consecu- :

Grove, ‘38-14; Loogoctee walloped ; Sacred Heart, 63-29, and Crispus }

Wrestling Bill

Rudy Strongberg of Milwaukee and Don Lee of San Diego, Cal., will open the four-bout mat card at the Armory Tuesday night where the chief attraction is a heavyweight championship tussle. Strongberg was here two seasons

his first start in the heavyweightiago and impressed local fans with

division and the Kentuckian expects to come in around the 180pound mark. Arthur has ironed out his man-

agerial difficulties and will be on hand this time to take on a worthy

opponent as yet to be selected by the local matchmaker, Friday's card will be the first double main event of the 1943 boxing season in Indianapolis.

Mills Is the Daddy of Them All-Broadribb

By HARRY GRAYSON Times Special Writer NEW YORK, Feb. 6—While he has been a member of the royal air force since October, 1939, Freddie Mills is managing to keep

veloped to such an extent that Ted Broadribb now calls him the greatest fighter he ever saw. ‘Mills, a ferrific attraction on the other side, knocked out a 6foot 4-ineh, 210-pound Alf Robinson in six rounds in Manchester the other night.

‘Mickey Walker, save that he is bigger. at 23, he stands 5 feet 10 and now weighs 182 pounds.. Mills is light-heavy as well as

“British Empire, but— Culnan, the.

who is his American representative, “We're after the big boys

free of ring rust, and has de- °

Broadribb ‘likens Mills to

heavyweight ' champion of the

“We're through with light heavies,” Broadribb writes Babe Newark promoter

‘there at this time. Tommy Mar-~ tin, a. Negro, whom . he twice ironed out, campaigned in California with some success, divided de-

“cisions ‘with Buddy Knox among

Not yet fully developed

other things. ’. ‘Mills spent three years in the boxing booths before breaking into the record books in 1936. He hasn't lost, except once on a foul, since June, 1939, and nobody has gone Very far with him since August, 1941, 1

Allowances must be made for 5

the fact that Broadribb is his manager, of course, but trained ‘boxing men rave about this fellow. ‘And Broadribb always was conservative in discussing his own

daddy of them all, Broadribb, who

- knows a fighter when he sees one,

includes Joe Louis, for it was he who handled Farr against the,

- Brown Bomber. Broadribb was

sd vit ou oie good ous of

his power. Lee is a newcomer of the aggressive style. They are heavies. Although Armory patrons have little if any love for George (K.O.) Koverly they feel as though the rough Los Angeles husky will prove fa tough customer to handle for Young Bobby Managoff, heavyweight champ. Managoff was here for the first time six weeks ago and beat Roland Kirchmeyer, but was forced all of the way. The title holder is from Chicago. . In other bouts Soldier Thomas of Detroit makes his first local appearance, meeting Rene La Belle of Montreal, while Sailor Olson of Chicago opposes Walter Roxey of Detroit.

Wabash T ops St. Joseph's

By UNITED PRESS Wabash college retained runnerup post in the state conference basketball chase today after turning

‘|back St. Joseph's, 48-37, for its ninth

victory in a row and-its 17th consecutive home-floor triumph. Well-divided power, led mainly by Blum, Gage and Greve, sparked the Little Giants last night, just as it has done ever since Wabash started a snapback rally after losing five of ligs first six starts. The Little Giants held ‘a 24-10

iadn. MARIE Sots oki Whidar every. inetber Js 1» dangerous aeorer. 5 ‘Obio State's only consistent point maker has been Freddie Miller, J 8; vetatalf forward. ‘Miller leads the Buck scorers with 49 points...

has split even

» Which western has been “soft pickings” for Purdue for many seasons.

in six starts, rates the nod over

as ol Ey

The SI IReTS Waiting 79 i OF 3 Snes tr a ete Chicago enters. its game against Minnesota with a string ‘of 34 consecutive conference defeats. Everything points to its adding another .

loss to the string. The Maroons haven't won a league game since 1940. Great Lakes, one of the nation’s greatest service teams, seeks its: 14th suaighl,viewsy and its 24th In, 36 starts agains Wisconsin,

Zebras Down

| Warsaw, 39-37,

For 15th Win

By UNITED PRESS i The state-leading Rochester Zebras fought to their 15th triumph in 16 starts last night by edging a

Bob Cole, junior Howe forward, will see action tonight when the Howe Hornets play host to the Silent Hoosiers. Cole has tallied 31 points so far this season, 16 of them in the

: |keep their grip on top position in state-wide rankings. :

Other outstanding victories on the night’s card included those by Ft. Wayne Central, Jasper, Columbus, Richmond and Lebanon—all members of Indiana’s “top ten.” However, Marion ‘was bumped in its fourth defeat of the year, this time by the strong Indianapolis Tech squad, 36-34. The upset appeared to polish off Marion's Giants as a major state threat, although they will be a definite tourney favorite, Orville Hooker’s lads led state rankings for a month before losing to: ‘Muncie, New Castle and Lafayette. Victory No. 13 Ft. Wayne Central downed Hun- ¢ tington, 58-26, to register its 14th win in 15 tries, while the impressive Jasper team made easy work of a strong New Albany outfit, 54-37. It was victory No. 13 for Cabby O’Neil's lads, who have lost only twice. Columbus coasted to its 14th trie umph in 16 games by victimizing Rushville, 47-35, and Richmond and Lebanon each copped their 11th victory, with ‘Richmond downing Frankfort, 35-21, and Lebanon whipping the Wabash Valley champion, Brazil, 42-24. Many top-notch battles last night held conference implications, even though the contestants are not major threats in the state. Bloomington rolled over Evansville Central, 31-19, In an S.1. A.C. game. Marion Crawley’s steadily improving Lafayette team added Logansport to its victim list, 44-36. New Castle powered to a 57-35 triumph over

Shortridge game.

Muncie Central. Seymour defeated : Connersville, 29-22.

go into conference tomorrow. The National league gathers Tuesday at the Hotel New Yorker, the TriState circuit meets in Trenton, N J., on the same day and the Ca-nadian-American league holds forth on Wednesday. Minor league moguls, due to a shortage of players and difficult transportation problems, face an important decision. They have until March 1 to post forfeits with the |national association to protect their territory and, since many have already folded, only the circuits in the upper brackets appear able to carry on.

May Call Meeting

Like the major leagues, the minors will probably weigh the possibility of the game being placed in the “non-deferable” class, a fact which will probably keynote the meeting scheduled today at the Hotel Roosevelt for the advisory council of the big leagues. This triumvirate — composed of Commissioner Kenesaw M. Landis; William Harridge and Ford Prick, presidents of the American and National leagues, respeltively — donceivably might decide to call an emergency meeting of the major leagues to discuss the advantages of a direct appeal to the government for ga definite commitment regarding basebali’s future. Tris Speaker, venerable “gray eagle” of the game, struck a decisive note when he stated it was his belief that the sport hasn’t.had the proper voice in Washington because its offiulals are hesitant toask for any definition of their status for fear of being branded “unpatriotic.”

Clear Up Now

“This uncertainty about whether married players with dependents will be drafted or not. should be cleared up now, not in the middle of the season,” he said. Stopping off at Cleveland after two months of convalescence at his Texas farm, Speaker said he believed baseball players expected no more : officials than the next fellow. “But they ought to know where they stand, like the rest of us, so

ingly. - Baseball would have to be

“about it.

treatment from draft|’

Baseball Hasn't Had Proper ¢ Voice in Washington-Speaker

By PAUL SCHEFFELS United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Feb, 6.—Baseball magnates, managers and players converged here today with attendance at the 20th annual dinner of the local chapter of the baseball writers as their initial objective but = conferences before and after the celebration may help shape the fate of the sport for 1943 in both the minors and the majors. The International league meets today and the Eastern league owners

ried players with dependents were drafted. There are no two ways Most of the players fall into that category—and that is one good ‘reason why they should be told what to expect from their draft boards.”

$25,000,000 Investment

In addition, he said, the game represents an investment of some $25,000,000 and an industry that largely deserves better consideration from the. government than it is getting. j “That's secondary, however,” he concluded. ‘“There’s no question of the players’ patriotism, It's my opinion that the game could be classified as necessary because of the position it holds as a morale= builder. It not only affords escape

{for worrying home folks but also +

because service men overseas definitely want to read about baseball, I think someone should go to bat for iv~

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Acquires Meet

NEW YORK, Feb. 6 (U. P.).—~The homeless Metropolitan Intercolle-: giate Indoor Track championships were taken over by the New York Athletic club today to be run as part of its 75th anniversary Meet | £ at Madison Square Garden, Feb. 20.%

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