Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 February 1943 — Page 6

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SPORTS .

By Eddie Ash

SO LIGHTLY have the demands of the armed services affected the Cleveland Americans the club will be able to field virtually the same roster this year that held forth last season. . . . Of course, the club has lost the services of Bob Feller, but the young speedballer joined

the navy before the 1942 season got under way. The infield of Les Fleming, Ray Mack, Ken Keltner and Manager Lou Boudreau remains intact, as does the regular pitching staff of Jim Bagby, Mel Harder, Al Smith, Al Milnar, Chubby Dean, Vern Kennedy and Joe Heving. Jeff Heath and Orris Hockett will perform in the outfield again and it is expected Roy Cullenbine will take over for Roy Weatherly and Buddy Rosar will rate first-string catcher: ; The Pacific Coast league is to open on April 18, the first Sunday opening in years. . . , The loop shortened its 1943 schedule to 154 games . . . to conform with travel restrictions. . .. It used to play

180. . . . Furthermore, the six California clubs will make but one .

trip each to Seattle and Portland. . . . Some schedule! The directors increased the player limit of each club from 20 to 25, but the move has its ramifications. . . . Only 20 players may be taken on the road and when game-time rolls around, the home club must limit its eligibility list to an equal 20 men. t J ” » A E 4 ” “WHAT we want to know,” remarks Halsey Hall of the Minne~=olis Star-Journal, “is: Who is that minor league traitor who wrote . President Roosevelt suggesting that only major leagues operate?”

w.cek Boxer Ready to Aid Uncle Sam _ANTON CHRISTORIDIS, the Greek light heavyweight boxer

—and a good one—lost his father, a Greek army officer, in world

war IL ... Anton settled in Cleveland in 1939 after touring Europe and® Africa as a boxer, , . , He was reared in a small town near Athens, Greece. : Christoforidis won the American light heavy title’by defeating Melio Bettina. . . . Later he lost the crown to the current champ, Gus Lesnevich, now in the armed forces. ., . . Tomorrow, in Cleveland, Anton will box Jimmy Bivins for the “duration” title. The Greek is 25 years old and ‘was married last summer. . . . He's been given a 1-A draft classification and probably will be called within a couple of ‘months. . . . “This country has been good to me and I am willing to fight for it,” he told a Cleveland Press sports interviewer. .

Chance to Sharpen Up That Eye

WANT TO SHARPEN up your shooting eye? ... The Indianapolis rifle team is sponsoring marksmen classes every Friday, 8 p. m., at “the Pennsy gym building on South State ave. . . . More than half of the team’s members are serving in the armed forces. Any American citizen is welcome to receive the training. ... The regular army courses for qualifications are fired regularly and are recognized by the war department.

The Indianapolis Rifle lub team is a member of the National Rifle

association and is made up of marksmen, sharpshooters and experts. ... Active members are: Art Jones, Harry B. Smith, Earl McCleerey, Fred A. Dietz, Bennie Kirk, Dan Alig, Clyde Pierson, Fred L. Dietz, Duke Hanna and Kenneth Reese.

Horse Fans Back on Heavy Diet

BOOKIES and horse race followers who have been rationed to one track for some time—New Orleans Fair Grounds—will have three tracks going for them this week. . . . The ponies will be off and running at New Orleans, Hot Springs, Ark. and Bay Meadows, San Mateo, Cal. : Oaklawn park at Hot Springs expects a land office business. . . . Horse fans who usually spent the winter in Florida flocked to “vapor valley”. and the spa is thriving. .". . The horse park is located about a mile and a half from the downtown district. ® 2 = # 2 = SOME CHISELING against government orders that automobiles must not be used tb reach Bay Meadows was reported when Bay Meadows opened Saturday. . . . Track officials rigidly observed orders from the rubber administrator by blocking off the general parking area. ... But many autos were parked along a nearby highway within easy walking distance. . . . The track is approximately 20 miles from San Francisco. ie

Illinois Knows the Answers To All the Cage Questions

CHICAGO, Feb. 22 (U. P.).—Illinois’ pace-setting Big Ten basketball .

team knows all the answers to cage questions. Throughout the season mid-Western experts have been asking: “What's happened to the defense in basketball?”

By FRANK WIDNER Tech’s Big Green! ] That’s our choice to travel the glory road that leads to the Indiana state high school basketball crown.

As one who has seen a limited number of basketball

teams in action this year (travel restrictions, you know)

we choose Tech because we think they have the potential

power to stand up to the best in the state—and that includes South Bend Central, Ft. Wayne Central, Rochester and Muncie Burris. Once this power is unleashed, the East Siders are hard to step. They stand a good chance to survive the Indianapolis sectionals and if they do, they probably will run smack up against the Anderson Indians in the regionals. From then on, their fate is in the laps of the gods. Tech has played “hot-and-cold” basketball all season and it is our opinion that if they get “hot,” the opposition is bound to have its hands full.

Their path to'the title is not strewn with roses. They’ll have trouble from the opening gun of the sectional tourney here beginning Thursday until the last basket is marked up Saturday night. Here's the way we figure Tech to squeeze through the sectionals. : Tech’s first sectional opponent is Southport. The Cardinals still remember the drubbing the Big Green gave them a few weeks back and the decision is all in Tech’s favor. Tech probably will face Manual Friday night as the Redskins ought to brush off Sacred Heart. We look for Howe’s Hornets to take Decatur Central Friday morning and then bump up against Washington in the second round that night. Howe has been coming along

in fine style since mid-season and has 11 straight victories to its credit. They get the nod over the Continentals.

Manual isn’t up to par with Tech, leaving the Big

Green and the Hornets in the lower bracket of the semi- ).

final round. : 5. The top bracket is loaded with dynamite and most any team can come to the front. Lawrence Central's Bears, county champs, have beaten Warren Central and can do it again. Broad Ripple will have a tough time with Ben

‘Davis and Shortridge should remove Crispus Attucks. The.

Beech Grove-Silent Hoosiers contest is a toss-up, with the nod going to Beech Grove. : Lawrence has the power to trip Broad Ripple in the second round and Shortridge should have a “breeze” with Beech Grove. That puts Lawrence and Shortridge in the semi-finals and in what should be a ding-dong battle, we say—LAWRENCE.

The Tech-Lawrence finals should be a lulu. Tech’s

- superior power, however, will remove the Bears from coms

petition. (It says here!)

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Illinois indicated nothing has “happened to the defense as far as

Our Caps Need To Take 3 Out

Two down and two to go.

rently are engaged in.

775 Net Teams Are Ready for The Sectionals

With season schedules completed, 775 prep cage teams, composed of more than 8000 youths, girded themselves today for the annual ‘sudden death” sectional tournaments that will kill off 711 of the starting quintets, leaving 64 survivors for regional competition. Only seven teams in the entire state captured a pre-tournament of “favorite”—South Bend Central, Muncie Burris, Columbus, Jasper, Rochester, Ft. Wayne Central and Indianapolis Tech. Therefore, it was deemed a great year

for dark horses, and upsets were expected to pop thick and fast.

Two Favorites Tumble

Two of the favorites tumbled in their wind-up games of the season last week, Rochester losing to Peru and Tech falling to Shelbyville. In games Saturday night, New Albany knocked off Ft. Wayne South Side, 36-34; Kokomo defeated Muncie Central, 38-31; Gary Emerson downed Valparaiso, 43-40, and Evansville Reitz sank Owensville, 35-24. Inspection of all 64 gymnasiums has been completed by insurance companies in an attempt to prevent injuries to fans, the I. H. S. A. A. announced. The state fairgrounds coliseum, where the finals of the state tournament will be held, has announced that it has purchased a new floor for the playoffs, and Commissioner Arthur L. Trester of the I. H. S. A. A, said the ushering system has been arranged.

Early Round Decisions

Examination of tourney pairings reveals that many sectionals will be decided in early rounds. Outstanding contenders, in many cases, were

a championship-bound quintet is concerned, for Coach Doug Mills outfit | turned in a brilliat defensive per-,

night as it dangerous

formance Saturday trounced Wisconsin's combination, 50-26. The victory was Illinois’ 10th straight and moved it nearer its second consecutive conference crown. The Illini have Northwestern and Chicago yet to meet, but only the Wildcats represent the slightest threat to a perfect season. + Keyman in Illinois air-tight defense was Jack Smiley, six-foot-two junior guard, Smiley was assigned the task of guarding burly Johnny Kotz and he turned in a remarkable "job. Smiley didn permit the Badger forward to score a point. It was the first time in Kotz’s high school ‘and college career that he was blanked.

Gene Vance Injured

The magnitude of Smiley’s accomplishment increases when it is considered that Kotz set an alltime conference scoring record of 242 points in 15 games last season and had tallied 116 points in eight games this year until he bumped into the Illinois star. Whil~ Smiley was stopping Kotz, Andy illip turned in another sterling offensive performance to pace the Illinots attack. Phillip garnered 22 points to push his season’s total to 199. That mark enables him to eclipse the old 12-game record of 184 points set by Jewell Young of Purdue in 1937. The victory may prove costly to the defending champions, however, for Gene Vance, junior guard, was carried off .the floor with an injured knee. K-rays will,be made today to determine the extent of the injury. ° Indiana Rallies

Illinois swings back into action next Saturday night at Chicago. © Runner-up Indiana kept alive its first title chances by staging a fine second half rally to thump Minnesota. ' The Gophers led, 28-16, at half- _ time, but soon after the start of

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Shrider were the stars in the Purdue and Ohio State victories. Ehlers scored 17 points to pace the Boilermakers to the win over Iowa and Shrider’s field goal and free throw in the final minute of play provided the Buck's winning margin over Michigan. :

Bobby Simmons

Faces Parsons

A 17-bout winning streak is something to be proud of and Robert Simmons, Indianapolis welterweight boxer and the owner of the string will try to wipe out the only blot on his local record Friday night at the armory when he meets Bill Parsons of Danville, Ill, in a return match. Parsons is the puncher who punctured Simmons’ sensational march through such well known

ner, Benton Cobbins and Arnold Deer, just to mention a few of his victims. The Danville belter upset Simmons on the occasion of the latter’s 18th trip to the professional

knockout. Wanted Return Match

In fact, it took only one minute and 33 seconds of the

battlers as George (Sugar) Kost-|g

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opening stanza to turn the trick. That was|:

bracketed together and appeared due to clash on Thursday night or Friday. Last year, the final “big four” consisted of Crawfordsville, Frankfort, Muncie Burris and Washington’s Hatchets, who won their second straight title. However, none is rated a chance to regain the final tourney except Burris. The Owls are coached by Scott Fisher, whose 11th Burris edition is fast and rangy with 15 wins and only one defeat in season play. Washington, with its entire championship five lost by graduation and with Coach Marion Crawley shifted to Lafayette, was not conceded the slimmest chance of repeating.

Kink-Remover

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 22 (U. P.)—Pat Valentino, curly-headed coast guardsman, meets Freddie Fiducia, Newark, N. J., heavyweight, at - Civic auditorium tonight. The bout will be a kink-remover for both fighters, who have been out of action for the better part of a year.

Bound

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last December and Simmons has: been after Mafchmaker Lloyd Car-|: ter of the Hercules A. C. ever since | for another opportunity to square|s off against his conqueror. Friday|: will furnish the chance and it willl} be a six-round mill. . i The big events of the evening; will be provided by a double windup attraction, the second of the 1943 boxing season here. Heavyweights

1 More Win of 5 Games

On Their Current Road Trip

That's the way Herbie Lewis and our Indianapolis Caps stand today in their quest for three victories in the five-game road trip they cur-

The Caps, playing hedds up hockey after losing the opening game of the trip to Providence, bounded back into a fourth-place tie with the

Reds over the week-end by stunning Hershey, 6-2, and polishing off second place Buffalo, 4-2. It was the first time this season the Indianapolis club has come out on the winning side of a game with the Bars. And they did it the hard way. After the Caps took a brief lead from the Pennsylvania boys, Hershey tied the count at 2-all at the end of the second period. That was when the Caps went to work.

Turns “Hat Trick”

Within 53 seconds of the final heat, Joe Fisher rammed home two goals to give him “hat trick” honors for the evening and Jud McAtee added two more scores to turn the game into a rout. Bill Quackenbush scored the first goal for the Caps and Fisher hit pay dirt the first time in the second period. There was -only one thing about the game with Buffalo last night that took a wee bit of the glory out of the Caps’ victory. That was the fact that Rookie Gordon Bell, ace goal-keeper of the American Hockey lead league, was not in the nets. Bell was out of play because of illness and the Bisons substituted 17-year-old Nelson Little of Niagara Falls. Buffalo gave Little a one-goal lead in the first period and held the: Caps scoreless in the second. Then the Buffalo defense crumbled in the face of a fast-charging Indianapolis attack. Hits Final Goal

George Patterson smacked in a tying goal 19 seconds afer the. start of the heat and Adam Brown added another less than five minutes later, Hunt tied the score for Buffalo, but Connie Brown broke away to send Indianapolis into the lead once again Bill Jennings sent home the final goal, : The Caps now are but two points behind third-place Pittsburgh and only four points in back of Buffalo. They meet Washington on Wednesday night and then play Cleveland Saturday before returning here to face Providence Sunday night. : In other games played in the American league last night, Providence scored a 5-3 decision over last-place Washington and the Pittsburgh Hornets were held to a 3-3 overtime draw by Cleveland. Summaries:

Hershey (2). Indianapolis (6).

Goalie Perras Right Defense ss M Left Defense ..Quackenbush aley Center Patterson Levandoski.... Right Wing Left Wing

Referee—Charlie McVeigh. Lloyd Blinco. ’ Hershey Spares—Frost, Wally Kilrea, Lauzo, Hergert, Sorrell, Fitzgerald, Graboski, Jenkins, O'Neill, Indianapolis Spares —Jackson, Connie Brown, Sherritt, Thomson, Hec Kilrea, Adam Brown, Weaver, Richard, Fisher. —Score by Periods—

INDIANAPOLIS 1 Hershey 2

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Pirst Period Scoring—1-Indianapolis, Quackenbush (Adam Brown and Connie Brown), 11:20. Penalty—Moe. Second Period Scoring—2-Hershey, Depew (Levandoski and Daley), 7:59; 3-In-dianapolis, Fisher (Adam Brown and Connie Brown), 15:21; 4-Hershey, “Hergert (O'Neill and Lauzon), 19:52. Penalty—

Moe. : Third Period Scoring — 5-Indianapolis, Fisher (Adam Brown and Connie Brown), 6:40; 6-Indianapolis, Fisher (Adam Brown and Connie Brown), 7:33; %-Indianapolis, McAtee (Patterson and Jannings), 11:15; 8-Indianapolis, McAtee Patterson and Jennings), 17:02. Penalties —None. —Saves—

Damore, 18; Perras, 27.

Indianapolis (4). Buffalo (2). Little Right Defense Left Defense Center

Sherritt Patterson

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0SS. ; . Indianapolis Spares—Quackenbush, Ross, C. Brown, Thomson, Kilrea, A. Brown, Weaver, Richard, Fisher. Buffalo Spares) —Allum, Allen, Rimstad, Bennett, Smith, Dyck, Hunt, Lewis, Gauthier. —=Score by Periods— INDIANAPOLIS . 0 feed Buffal 0 1—2 First Period—Scoring: 1-Buffalo, Klein -(Allen-Allum), 13:55. Penalties—Ailum, A. Brown, Summerhill. Second Period—No scoring. Penalties— Third Period—Scoring; 2-Indianapolis, Patterson ' (Jemnings-McAtee), :19; 3-Ine-dianapolis, A. Brown (Fisher-C. Brown), 5:02; 4-Buffalo, Hunt (Lewis-Dyck), 6:55; 5-Indianapolis, ©. Brown (A. BrownFisher), 13:47; 6-Indianapolis, Jennings (Sheritt-Patterson, 16:45. Penalty Weaver.

Map Plans to Get

Boxing Equipment NEW YORK, Feb. 22 (U. P)— Representatives of the nation’s various boxing organizations are tentatively scheduled to meet in New York Thursday to map plans

Now Batting for Uncle Sam

Seven Teams Will Wind Up Season Play

By UNITED PRESS : Five college conference games, three of them significant in the heated race for top positions, high= light a 19-game state card thig week, with seven loop teams finishe ing their season’s schedules. Wabash hosts DePauw in a rivale

ry tilt Wednesday night, and the battle is expected to clinch the league crown for the Little Giants, who are favored to sweep their 10th conference victory in 11 startsyy their 13th straight triumph. £

Meets Ball State Indiana State, after spilling from

i) top perch last week, comes back

Pee Wee Reese and Hugh Casey of the Brooklyn Dodgers and Phil Rizzuto of the New York Yankees, left to right, are taking aim for Uncle Sam as shipmates at the Norfolk naval training station.

Bill Burwell Signs Contract

LOUISVILLE, Ky., Feb. 22 (U. P.). —Bruce Dudley, president of the Louisville Colonels baseball team of the American association, said today that manager Bill Burwell had signed his contract for 1943 and that the team had purchased

four players from Montgomery of the Southeastern league. Burwell, manager of the Colonels for the past four years, signed a one year contract, Dudley said.

Tv Betz, Segura Win Crowns

MIAMI, Fla. Feb. 22 (U. P.).—

National Women’s Champion Pauline Betz of Los Angeles and Francisco (Pancho) Segura of Ecuador, fourth-seeded nationally, rules today as champions of the annual Miami midwinter tennis tournament. : Miss Betz blasted Doris Hart, national girls’ champion, 6-0, 6-2, yesterday to take the women’s crown in 28 minutes, Segura, a University of Miami student, defeated Lieut. Campbell Gillespie of Atlanta, Ga., 6-3, 6-0, 6-2,

2 More Loops Are Disbanded

PITTSBURGH, Feb. 22 (U. P.).— Transportation problems and general war conditions today had caused suspension of the Mid-Atlantic and Pennsylvania State association baseball leagues. Representatives of eight of the 10 clubs in the two circuits took the action at a meeting yesterday and also voted to freeze club franchises for the duration. Players will be declared free agents after Feb. 25, deadline for sales and trades.

against Ball State Wednesday in hopes of nosing a percentage ade vantage over Manchester for rune ner-up spot. Manchester will be tested Tuesday night by the same Valparaiso team that killed off Ine diana State, and the Spartans must triumph fo prevent slipping to an .800 mark, below the Indiana State Sycamores.

Wind Up Season

Loop quintets winding up their season slates this week are Butler, DePauw, Hanover, Earlham, Ball State, Central Normal and Mane chester. Indiana Central, Concor= dia, Anderson and Taylor already have completed their cards. After losing a heartbreaker 60-56 overtime battle to Great Lakes Saturday, Notre Dame goes back into action by hosting Butler Tuesday and invading Michigan State

for a return game Saturday,

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Take Your Change in War NILE Stamps

Lieut. Carl (Swede) Anderson, former Indiana university football backfield - coach, has been

equipment for army ‘camps. Yesterday, Promoter Mike Jacobs phoned Sergt. Joe Louis in Holly-

the final period lost three regulars

on personal fouls. The team then Johnny Denson of Indianapolis and

Jolinny Denon of Tudtasapols od WIEDEMANN BREWING CO., INC., NEWPORT,

went to pieces and Indiana pulled away to win easily. Otto Graham dropped in 25 points to pace Northwestern to its triumph over Chicago. The loss was the

mauler, will meet in one of these

assigned to the navy’s pre-flight

featured tilts, while Sammy Scully

of Chicago will test Pfc. Richie Shinn, Ft. Harrison American-born Korean lightweight, in the other

Maroons’ 37th straight in conferen n. 2

: top duel.

Both scraps: are listed

“school staff at Athens, Ga. Lieut.

wood and asked the heavyweight champion if he would assist in the

N. C. He joined the Indiana grid

Anderson recently concluded his ; indoctrination course at the naval pre-flight school at Chapel Hill,