Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 February 1943 — Page 26
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SPORTS...
Eddie Ash
ound out a team to start off on « » « Until yesterday the
ence about showing up on 1943
\ _ Opening day. g ‘The Apostles’ decision to
the same eight cities which s
+ + «» Toledo withdrew one ses transferred the franchise to Mud Hens were back in the
pperate keeps the league intact with arted the A. A. ball rolling in 1902.
leveland, but the §
fold the next year.
The A. A. has had only one
ule since it entered organized b:
was in 1918 in world war I whe
Sin July. .. . Player ranks we armed forces and attendance were too occupied to attend a
e depleted by the? fell off. , . . Fans
night baseball was not in vog)
The league was back in g barely struggled through the the early Thirties and survived
in the league by the Indianapolis
St. Paul's new manager is © stop for the Indianapolis Indi Texas league last year and wo
Acquire Vernon Washing
ST. PAUL late yesterday the Shreveport club and al transaction only six will be abl the armed services. Se One of the players acquired "ington, outfielder, who was son dianapolis several years ago. . . and a later transfer placed him * back to his native territory, the
3 cis (Salty) Parker, former short- . . . . He piloted Shreveport in the that loop’s playoff title.
n in Deal rchased the entire playing roster of
gh 16 players were involved in the to report. . . . The others have joined
is the veteran Vernon George Wash-
se shakes as a power hitter with InThe Indians sold him to the majors
with St. Paul, after which he drifted Texas league.
A St. Paul civic group is forming plans to purchase the Apostle
~ franchise from the Walter Se _ out but is keen to see the fran offer by Omaha men to take down by President Seeger. . |
: Cleveland to Play Six Ga
; THE CLEVELAND ball clu Purdue university on April 2 to complete training. . . . The in Indianapolis through April will start at West Lafayette on ! Manager Lou Boudreau’s hibition games at Victory field other games in this state are + . « At this time the Clevelan teen Cleveland-owned players, in service and three are on the two in war plants. : The club did not lose man
ger interests. . . . Seeger is stepping se remain in his home city. ... An er and transfer the club was turned
es Here ? is to break spring training camp at d move to Indianapolis’ Viftory field erican league players are to remain . ... The first part of their training arch 15. ig leaguers have scheduled six exand one at Ft. Harrison. . . . Their be played at Muncie and Richmond. roster contains 30 players. . . « Sixincluding regulars and rookies, are voluntary retired list, one on a farm,
regulars to the armed forces and is
gharing the pre-season pennant favorite spot with the St. Louis
Browns.
Pirates and Reds Also on Local Card
THE American league Indians are to play their six games at Victory field on consecutive days, meeting the Pittsburgh Pirates on
April 6 and 7; the Indianapolis Cincinnati Reds on April 10 and played at Ft. Harrison on ‘April 12. After which Cleveland playing at Richmond, April 13; .0., April 15; Middletown, O:, April and 18. . . . Boudreau’s men th for the opening of the American le Tigers on April 21.
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Indians on April 8 and 9; and the
11. . « « The Reds are to be
and Cincinnati will barnstorm together, at Springfield, O., April 14; Dayton
16, and at Cincinnati, April 17
en will hustle to Cleveland to rest up
ague season against the Detroit .
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CLEVELAND has 14 pitchers on its squad and the Indianapolis
Indians probably will landed a good one on who won 15 and
bid for one or two of the spares. . .. They option from Cleveland last season in Ray Poat, lost eight for the Hoosier Tribesters. . . . Pilot
Boudreau is banking on keeping the tall righthander this year.
20 of the City's Top Bowling Teams Are in Action Sunday
with 20 of the city’s top-notch action at 7:30 Sunday night a
scoring combinations scheduled for the Pritchett-Hunt-O’Grady alleys, lead-
ers in the 37th annual city owling tournament have enough worries
to make them gray-haired. - Marmon-Herrington is and Vogue Theater is the wo If these scores stand up after the star-studded quintets from the Indianapolis, Fox-Hunt and | West Side Classic complete their trio of ~ games, it will really be something.
ders of the three c cuits, : Ti Sealfast of the Indianapolis and Fox-Hunt and Hara Jojes of the West Side are among tne 20 teams that make up the squad. Also numbers among the top-notch-ers is Dick Nordholt's ‘Cook’s | Goldplume, defending champions in the championship class. With a dozen members of the three loops toting averages of 200 or better, railbirds should be - treated to som real maple smashing. | "Several dark-horse entrants carry4ng big handicaps threaten the “Vogue team’s, leading position. Glenn Campbell’s Lions Club, Joe | DezeJan's Birely’s Orange, Bernie Harmon’s Sheridan Theater, Mike O'Grady’s Buy-More-Bonds To
are 1 Joose with striking sprees. Link-Belt Co. will have 14 teams in action at 8 o'clock Sunday, while Eli Lilly Co. Jas an entry of 12 teams on the +45 o'clock squad. Mouldings, Inc., last year's handicap division champions, will Toll in defense of their title at 9:15 tomorrow night. * Entrants in the minor events who will get into action at the Pritchett
in an attempt to unseat the
| championship division leader with 2778 team in the handicap class with 3108.
Phillies Sold;
Owner Secret
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 19 (U. P)). —The Philadelphia Phils had been sold today to.an unnamed syndicate but the National league retained temporary control while final details were being settled. “We have told this group that the ball club is theirs,” League President Ford Frick revealed last night after formally taking over the Phils’ stock from Gerry Nugent. He refused to disclose the identity of the new owners, saying an announcement would be made within a week.
Reds Hit Four Goals in Final
{Two Periods
Times Special PROVIDENCE, R. I, Feb. 19.— Herbie Lewis and the Indianapolis Caps now face the job of winning three of their next four games in order to fulfill their hopes of taking three out of five contests on
the current road trip. The Caps lost their first engage-
|ment here last night when the Reds
rallied in the last two periods to win, 4-3. The defeat dropped Indianapolis to fifth place and gave Providence sole possession of fourth. Indianapolis jumped into an early lead when Jud McAtee and George Patterson ‘poked shots by Goalie
‘Karakas. Bill Jennings and Sandy
Ross aided McAtee, but Patterson’s score went into the record books as unassisted,
Quackenbush Penalized
Bill Quackenbush was the only player to go to the penalty box in the first period, but the second heat was a humdinger. No less than five penalties were called, Steele, Patterson, Sherritt, Adam Brown and Calladine filing into the “jail” in that order. The latter two players drew major penalties. E The fans were thrown into an uproar during the period when Adam Brown and Sherritt had words with the front row spectators.” Other
|players jumped in, though, to pre-
vent any further disorder. Joe Fisher Scores
er scored for the Caps, aided by Quackenbush and Connie Brown after Toupin had broken the ice for the Reds, unassisted. Steele and McDonald put Providence one point behind, 2-3, at 17:53 of the heat, the former getting the goal. Webster and Ritson connected for the .Reds in the final period while holding the Caps scoreless. No penalties were called in the heat. The Caps bump into those tough Hershey Bars Saturday night in the second of their five-game road trip. : Summary:
Providence (4). Karakas G Singbush Whitelaw Calladine
Indjanapolis (3). oaley ..%........Perras Right Driver Jackson Left Driver Sherritt Center ........C. « Right Wing ......... .. Left Wing ...Adam Brown Referee—Ag Smith. Linesman — Gus
Rivers. Providence Spares—Andy Brown, Ritson, Webster, Toupin, Smith, Steele, McDonald, Boothman. Indianavolis Spares—Patterson, McAtee, Jennings, Richard, Thompson, Weaver, Quackenbush, Ross, Kilrea. : —Score by Periods— Indianapolis 1 Providence 2 Pirst Period Scoring—1, Indianapolis, McAtee (Jennings-Ross), 6:30; 2, Indianapolis, Patterson (unassisted), 14:12. Penalty. Quackenbush. Second Period Scoring—3, Providence, Toupin (unassisted), 11:12; Indianapolis, Fisher (Quackenbush-C. Brown), 5.42; 5, Providence, (McDonald), 17:35. Penalties—Steele, Patterson, Sherritt, Adam Brown (major), Calladine (major). Third Period Scoring—6, Providence, Webster (Brown-Ritson), 15:19; 17, Providence, Ritson (Aubuchon - Boothman), 17:19. Penalties—None.
Buffalo Swamps . Lions, 9-2
By UNITED PRESS The Buffalo Bisons took a firmer grip on second place in the American Hockey league race last night by dusting off the last-place Washington Lions, 9-2. Bill Summerhill paced. the Bison attack with four goals, Chet Smith adding a pair and Hunt, Bennett and Gauthier cleaning up the scoring. McManus sent Washington into a 1-0 first-period lead but Buffalo tallied five in the second and four in the third before Gracie tallied Washington’s second goal.
0—3 2—4
AMERICAN LEAGUE w
Hershey Buffalo Pittsburgh Providence INDIANAPOLIS Cleveland ‘Washington
RESULTS LAST NIGHT :
Providence, 4; INDIANAPOLIS, 3, Buffalo, 9; Washington, 2.
WEEK-END SCHEDULE TOMORROW-—INDIANAPOLIS at Hershey, Buffalo at Pittsburgh, Providence at Washington.
SUNDAY—INDIANAPOLIS at Buffalo. Pittsburgh at Cleveland, Washington at Providence.
One in 100
NEW YORK, Feb. 19.—A total of 1037 unborn colts were nominated for the 1945 running of the Belmont futurity. One in 100 reaches the starting gate. .
Speaker
William B. Cox, New York lumber company executive, was believed to head the syndicate. Cox and John
"|B. Kelly, Philadelphia Democratic
leader, had been known to be bid‘ding for the franchise but Kelly said the league had not advised him of acceptance of his offer. Cox, who owns the New York Yankees of the suspended American Football league, was said to be associated in the Phils’ deal with three prominent Philadelphians, Lieut. W. Potter Wear, Capt. G. Herbert Walker Jr. and Cummins Catherwood..
directors to handle club business
and |until the sale is completed. The
division douJim
board included Frick, National League Attorney Louis Carroll, As-
Traband, League Publicity Director ‘William E. Brandt and
sistant League Secretary Harvey|
Frick named a temporary board of |
Harry Geisel, retired American league umpire, will he the princi-
During the second heat, Joe Fish-|
Is Blow Early Lead To
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By FRANK WIDNER ‘Basketball fans all over the state are racking their brains this week in an attempt to look in on the conglomeration of 700-odd high school teams and pick the winner of the state tournament. It is a custom of most sports writers to aid them in their se lections by choosing a winner themselves. Hence, this nonsense. We are placing ' our two-bit piece on the fortunes of the Holy Terrors of Sharpshoot high. They are so hot they could turn the sizzling Big Ten race into a boil- . ing pot.
Sharpshoot high hasn't been. beaten since last year when their star forward got his directions mixed up and dropped the leather in the wrong basket. You see, he’s something like Two-Top Gruskin, Archie’s famous baseball player, who has two heads so that he can keep an eye on home plate and second base at the same time. : :
Rubber-Neck, as this gent from Sharpshoot is called, can stretch his head around so fast he can keep both baskets in view in a split second. And that’s how Sharpshoot happened to lose its only game last
Ever Hear of Sharpshoot High? Neither Did We ‘But They're a Cinch to Cop the State Tourney
year. When the opposition started playing “fire-wagon” basketball, Rubber Neck’s head turned like a top spinning on ice in an attempt to keep track of the ball. And when he got his hands on it he was so confused he flipped it in the wrong basket. = The Sharpshoot boys average seven feet in height (who was that coach that sighed?) and they are a Greg Rice on ' their feet. They've got the timing of Joe Louis and the accuracy of a Yank on Guadalcanal. Boy! They're really something. (Come to think of .it, that would be something!) Don’t ask how we found out,
but the grapevine has told us that Sharpshoot has drawn a bye all through the tournament until the+ final game March 20. Now all they have to do is sit in the stands and make faces at the other players. Then there’s a rumor that the team which will face them in the finals at the Coliseum has already decided to forfeit. Of course, there are such teams as South Bend Central, Rochester, Jasper, Burris of Muncie and a few others who have been riding along smoothly this year, but they can’t stand up to Sharpshoot. ° Who is Sharpshoot, you say. We dunno! Never heard of them.
| Racing Asks | A Hearing by U. S. Agencies
By CHARLES MOREY United Press Staff Correspondent
' NEW YORK, Feb. 19.—Horse racing—a $160,000,000 industry— today protested against govern-
-| ment “discrimination” and represen=
tatives asked that a hearing be given them by government agencies before any special restrictions are invoked. Through the Thoroughbred Racing associations, representing 33
Mlinois Faces That Mighty
Wisconsin Five
By TOMMY DEVINE United Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO, Feb. 19.—Undefeated Illinois seeks to cement its claim to a place among the greatest basketball teams in Big Ten history tomorrow night when it faces Wisconsin at Champaign, Ill, in the feature contest of a conference schedule. . ; In other games Indiana attempts to keep alive its dimmed title chances when it entertains Minnesota at Bloomington, Northwestern faces Chicago at Chicago, Michigan tangles with Ohio State at Columbus and Iowa meets Purdue at Lafayette. Illinois went into undisputed possession of the league lead Monday night when it won its ninth consecutive game, To stay there the proteges of Coach Doug Mills must beat Wisconsin . « . the team that enabled them to grab the top spot. The Badgers topped previously undefeated Indiana in their last start.
Badgers Much Stronger
Early in the season Illinois downed Wisconsin, 52 to 40, and is favored to repeat, but not by any wide margin. The Badgers are far stronger than they were at the outset of the campaign. They've won five of their last six games. The Illinois-Wisconsin encounter brings together two of the best offensive players now active in collegiate circles, Andy Phillip and Johnny Kotz. Their individual performances likely will go a long ways toward deciding the issue. Indiana is the choice to handle Minnesota easily. Although their perfect season’s record was punctured, the Hoosiers retain a championship chance. Indiana plays 13 league games against 12 for Illinois. That schedule quirk would give the Hoosiers a percentage advantage if they swept their remaining games and Illinois happened to slip once.
Garner-Denson
Battle on Tap
Bob Garner, the Louisville puncher with dynamite in both mitts, and Johnny Denson, rangy Indianapolis heavyweight, have been signed by Matchmaker Lloyd Carter of the Hercules Athletic club for an eight-round clash as one of two featured attractions of a five-scrap professional boxing card at the armory next Friday night, Feb, 26. The bout is a battle local fans have been asking for and Denson
{will have his hands full when he 28 5 squares off against the Kentuckian.
Garner is a shifty, rugged youngster who puts them to sleep early if they get in front of his potent punching power and has racked up three knockout wins in four ring outings before Indianapolis fistic followers. He got ‘off to a flying start here by handing Al Sheridan an eightround pasting and had the latter in the resin for three nine counts. His next victim was Toughy Gib Jones; who was blasted out in the third round of a scheduled six. Garner took only two rounds to flatten Gene (Baby Face) Luker and then took charge: of Bucky Lewis of Phoenix, Ariz, on the last armory bill. Lewis was counted out after 1:18 of the fourth stanza. Carter also has signed Pfe. Richie Shinn, of the special service branch at Ft. Harrison, for action in. the other headliner of the double windup.
lightweight with the big punch will tangle with Sammy Scully of Chicago over the eight-round route.
Hoosier in Golf Finals
PALM BEACH, “Fla, Feb. 19
Hammond., Ind., victor over defending champion Georgia Tainter of Fargo, N. D., meets Mrs. R. M.. Dagentas of Montreal today for the Palm Beach women’s golf championship. = Miss Garman scored an upset 1-up triumph over her Rollins college sorority sister yesterday on the 24th hole. Mrs. Dagenias gained the finals by defeating Mrs. F. L. Yates of 2-up. i
The little American-born Korean*
(U. P.).—Mary Jane Garman of |
Palm Beach,
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SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 19 (U.
yesterday. center yesterday morning.
replied: “I prefer the army.” : Budge explained he had been school in Florida, conducting a physical training course for cadets and members of the R. A. F., when his Oakland, Cal., draft board told him of his reclassification. “Voluntary induction” was the next step.
‘Just a Landlubber’
Asked why he preferred the army, Budge said: “I don’t know, I guess I'm just a landlubber.” Budge learned his tennis as a boy at Oakland, Berkeley and San Francisco. He won the national singles titles in 1936, 1937 and 1938, and the Wimbledon crown in 1937 and 1938. Beginning his professional career in 1939, Budge was guaranteed $75,000 for a barnstorming tour with such top-notchers as Ellsworth Vines, Fred Perry and Bill Tilden. His last tournament play was on July 4, 1942, when he won the professional championship from “Bobby Riggs of Chicago. : Married Two Years
Budge was married two years ago to Deirdie Conselman of Beverly Hills, daughter of the late William Conselman, film writer. They have no children. His induction followed by 24 hours of another top-flight California athlete—Joe DiMaggio. “I'm ready to go whenever they order me,” said Budge. “I'm in pretty good shape.” >
Final Rites Set For Irish Coach
SOUTH BEND, Ind., Feb. 19 (U. P.).—Several thousand persons are expected to pay final tribute tomorrow to George Keogan, Notre Dame basketball coach, as solemn requiem high mass is conducted at Sacred Heart church on the uni versity campus. x Keogan, 53, died Wednesday night.
Rev. Hugh O'Donnell, C. S. C, president of Notre Dame, will be
Highland cemetery, a short distance from the burial plot of Knute
Keogan to Notre Dame from Valparaiso university in 1924.
Meet Canceled
Asked which branch of the armed services he wanted to enter, Budge
working at the Riddle aviation
Death was due to a heart attack. celebrant. Burial will be made at
Rockne, the man who brought
Just a Landlubber’
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Budge #
Don Budge; 3-Time Amaieur King, Is Inducted Info Army
P.)—Red-headed Don Budge, three-
time king of amateur tennis, was inducted into the army as a volunteer
Budge, top man of American professional tennis since he abandoned his amateur status in 1938, appegred at the San Francisco induction
Long and Short |
GREEN BAY, Feb. 19.—Cecil Is-
pleted the longest, 73 yards, and the shortest, 4 inches, touchdown
passes thrown during the 1942 National league football season.
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Valpo to Meet Indiana State In Stiff Test
By UNITED PRESS
paign against Valparaiso tonight while the runners-up — Wabash
pack of bloodhounds.
victories. Ted Bean and Steve Gaza
up berth in conference standings Valpo Victory Vital
both win Saturday.
tle Butler in a rivalry contest; Manchester, with 11-and-2 count, hosts
The state-pacing Sycamores of Indiana State Teachers college endure their stiffest test of the cam-
,| Horse racing, the officials said,
Manchester and Indiana Central— take up the chase Saturday like a
Valpo is rated a good chance to sink the Sycamores, who boast a record of five straight conference
chief Valpo scorers, were expected to carry the brunt of Coach Loren Ellis’ offensive attack, as the Valparaiso outfit seeks to oust one of the top four leaders and gain a runner-
.| already-imposed wartime
With the campaign drawing to an end, the Sycamores consider a victory over Valpo vital if they want to hold top position in the conference. A defeat would drop Indiana State to .833 per cent, and both Wabash and Manchester would move ahead of the Sycamores, providing they
The Wabash Little Giants, with eight triumphs/and one defeat, bat-
demanded the same consideration 1given any other large business dur« ing wartime. This stand for the sport was announced by T. R. A. President John
C. Clark and his associates, Matt Winn of Churchill Downs, Ben Lindheimer of Arlington and Washington parks, George Francis of Belmont, Judge James Dooley of Narragansett and Henry Parr III of Pimlico. They pointed out that every state in which racing is conducted is a partner of the sport.
Willing to Confer
,| was willing to send its leading figures to confer with government officials whose duty may embrace con= trol of the turf but. who may be unfamiliar with racing and its complexities. In support of their stand, the ,| track moguls asserted that racing has contributed more in state taxes and greater sums to local, national and war relief charities than all other sports combined. They added that the sport can operate under restric= tions. Racing will take the initiative in making the sport conform with conditions, emergencies and contingencies, the T. R. A. said. This indicated a willingness to consolidate meetings if necessary. The association pointed out that racing, legalized in 22 states, is con= tinuing in England, Australia, Germany and Japan and that the war should not be used as an excuse to attack racing here. a
member tracks, the sport of kings.
Huntington, and Indiana Central, with 6-an-2, invades Hanover. Backgrounding this card will be Concordia at Tri-State and Carleton at DePauw in non-loop tilts. The “big three” engage rugged opposition when Indiana hosts Minnesota, Iowa invades Purdue and Notre Dame takes on Great Lakes. The current conference standings: Ww Pct Indiana State... 5 Wabash
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CORVALLIS, Ore., Feb. 19.—Don Durdan, Oregon State’s Rose Bowl back and basketball mainstay, was forced out of action by chickenpox.
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