Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 February 1943 — Page 17

In Lip y Leo, Uncle Sam ‘May ) Get A Natural T, op Sergeant

Stormy Leader

of Dodgers

Reports for His Final Army

Examination Next Monday

By PAUL SCHEFFELS United Press Staff Correspondent NEW, YORK, Feb. 23.—When Leo Durocher reports for induction on Monday, Ebbets field and the Brooklyn Dodgers may lose one of the stormiest and most vociferous leaders in baseball but Uncle Sam may fcquire a man born to be a top sergeant. The scrappy manager whe brought Brooklyn its first pennant in 21 years in 1941 originally was classified 3-A, but was reclassified 1-A on

Feb. 16 after a physical examination. Now local board No. 133 in Brooklyn has ordered him to re-

port at 7 a. m. Monday morning

for his final army examination. He ‘ will be 38 on July 27 and is married but has no children. Since Club President Branch Rickey is in California to talk terms to half a dozen players headed by * First Baseman Dolph Camilli, possibly selection of a new manager was limited to widespread speculation. Contacted in Los Angeles Rickey reaffirmed his intention of “doing nothing” as far as selecting a new manager until Durocher actually enters the army. : ‘No Candidates’ : “When Durocher has passed his final examination and is actually in the army, then ll try to find another manager,” Rickey said. “There are no candidates, leading or otherwise. I'm not going to start looking until I know Durocher is in” Rickey at first was dubious when informed that Durocher was only one step away from service, but gaid he still “would wait and see.” “Certainly, I have plans,” he said. “My plan is to find another manager if I lose Durocher. There isn’t anything else to announce now and " won't be until we see how his examination turns out.” Hero to Brooklyn

Leo the Lip first brought his limber larynx to the Brooklyn man‘agerial post on Oct. 12, 1938, and in the ensuing years piloted the Dodgers to one National league pennant, the Flatbushers losing to the New York Yankees in the 1941 world series. Brooklyn finished third in 1939, second in 1940 and runner-up to the champion St. Louis Cardinals last year.

His fiery, blatant style found a natural habitat at Ebbets field and;

his constant bickering with umpires and rival fans kept National league President Ford Frick busy slapping fines on him, but made him a hero to Brooklyn’s enthusiastic fans. He has played with the New York Yankees, Cincinnati Reds, St. Louis Cardinals and Dodgers during his 17 years in the major leagues. Rickey signed Durocher as 1943 manager on Nov. 20. In January

he was discharged in “fine physical |.

shape” from the Mayo clinic at ‘Rochester, ‘Minn., after his annual checkup. Monday -he was scheduled to start as assistant coach of the baseball team at West Point.

Another Loop Is Disbanded

ALBANY, Feb. 23 (U. P.).—An-

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? Leo Durocher

5 Men Receive

Word to Report

Five Indiana Central college army air force reserves have received notice to report for active training. They are Norman Meier of Vincennes, | a senior; Robert Noel of Lagrange and Merrill Hoban of St.

Paul, juniors; and William Maddock of Liberty and Delbert Kistler of Grass Creek, sophomores. All five men withdrew from regular college courses yesterday. Other college men who have had a 1-A classification and have been notified by their selective service draft boards during the past week to report for physical examinations include John Myers of Plainville, Allen Steckley of Butler, sophomores; Kendall Burns of Huntington, Paul Mackey of Indianapolis, Wayne Hostetler of Lagrange, all freshmen.

K. O.s Foe After

Referee'sWarning

BALTIMORE, Md., Feb. 23 (U. P.)—Lee Murray, Negro heavyweightt from Norwalk, Conn. stung when the referee threatened to expel him irom the ring for stalling, knocked out Buddy Walker, another Negro from Columbus, O., in the sixth round of a scheduled 10-round fight here last night. Murray had b een chased around the ring for four rounds

other minor baseball league had been added to the wartime casualty list today with disbandment for the duration of the Canadian-American circuit. Club owners voted for discontinuance yesterday after major league club owners failed to offer sufficient support for 1943 operations. The vote to quit was 5 to 3 with only Utica in New York state, Quebec and Three Rivers in Canada casting continuance ballots. Rome, Oneonta, Amsterdam, Gloversville in New York state and Pittsfield, Mass., voted to disband. Representatives of these five clubs adopted a motion to suspend for the duration with all league territories _ *frozen.” Oneonta withdrew earlier this month and Rome announced its withdrawal by telephone yesterday afternoon.

by Walker without attempting to. fight back. Warned that he would be put out of the ring, he charged into Walker in the fifth, drove him into the ropes with a hard, straight left in the sixth and finished him off with a right to the chin.

Barnhart to Speak

The Marion County Fish and Game association will meet at 8 p. m. tomorrow in the Hotel Antlers. Hugh A. Barnhart of the Indiana Department of Conservation, will speak and pictures will be shown.

‘Annie Oakleys’ NEW YORK (U. P.).—More than 100,000 members of the armed forces

have been admitted free to sports events at Madison Square Garden

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Times Special NEW YORK, Feb. 23. — While major league baseball clubs go on aimlessly with plans for a full 154game schedule and business as usual with no little apprehension, professional football stands a fine chance of having one of its biggest seasons in 1943, war manpower rulings and all. The cash-and-carry the mail boys are in a position that is peculiarly advantageous. Many of the best players, married men with children, enjoy longevity professionally,

there will be enough to carry on. Greater Field And with college football suf-

forces, there will be a greater field for the professional game, National league teams hold light workouts daily and play on Sundays. Squads rarely scrimmage once the campaign begins. Athletes can do their chores in war plants which abound in every city in the circuit. They can get in their practice in the late afternoon, even as the college boys. Professional practice in the past has been held in the morning, chiefly as a measure of getting the behemoths out of the stack at a decent hour, and insuring against extracurricular activity at night.

Keep in Condition

Saturday afternoon will be all the time required to get to battlegrounds, for with the loop split in two divisions, none of them is-more than a short day coach haul away. War work won’t hurt the players’ football. It will do it a lot of good, as a matter of fact, for it will keep the lads in condition. The national leaguers next fall will do a great deal toward exploding the myth of outlandish training deemed necessary for professional athletes, a veil behind which many a prima donna has hidden. Professional football is the one form of . athletic entertainment which may be enhanced by war.

St. John’s Clips

Georgetown

NEW YORK, Feb. 23 (U. P.)— St. John’s basketball quintet was one step closcer to a national invitation tournament bid at Madison Square Garden today following an impressive 65-43 victory over Georgetown university. Long Island university defeated Canisius, 48-44, in the opening contest at the Garden last night, A crowd of 16,235 watched St. John’s lead throughout except for a brief moment early in the first half. Successive baskets by Bill Hassett and Dan Kraus gave the Hoyas that edge, but St. John’s, paced by Larry Baxter, Tom Henry and Harry Boykoff, rocketed to a 40-24 half-time lead. Henry won scoring honors with 16 points while John Mahnken paced Georgetown with 14.

and there is every indication that

fering heavy losses to the armed

Greco May Get His Chance at

Jack’s Crown

By JACK CUDDY United Press Staff Correspondent

NEW YORK, Feb. 23. ~Pvt. Johnny Greco of the Canadian army is only 19 years, old, but if he licks Cleo Shans impressively at Madison Square garden Friday night, he will get a chance at Beau Jack’s lightweight title within two months.

Italian one of the youngest challengers for the 135-pound crown; probably the youngest. While the dark-haired knockout artist was sparring at Stillman’s gymnasium today, his manager, Murray Elkins, declared that Greco

nadian-born lightweight king. Elkins, a former lightweight serapper, said, “This kid is the hardest puncher, pound for pound, I ever saw. Since I took him over, when ‘he was practically an amateur, he has had 22 pro bouts.- He won 18 by knockouts and two by decisions. He lost an early fourrounder to a welterweight, Herbie Kronowitz, and fought an eightround draw with Frankie Duane.”

Sparring Partners Wary

Elkins, a youngish, brown-haired chap with but few battle scars as mementoes of 11 years in the ring, pointed up at the roped platform where Greco was sparring with stablemate Johnny Price, a blond Canadian lad.

Elkins said, “He has to work with Price because none of the sparring partners around here will box with him. He hits too hard. They get headaches and sore stomachs. Money won't tempt ’em. I make him take it easy with Price because I don’t want Price to get hurt. Price is fighting in one of the prelims Friday night.” The .Canadian army apparently rates Greco quite a fellow. It sent down Sergt. Bill Roper of the public relations division to ride herd on Johnny. Roper explained to reporters that Greco is in the recruiting division. He aids in getting enlistments for foreign service.

Service Men Back Him

Sergt. Roper said all the service men in Canada realized that Greco is tackling the toughest opponent he ever faced when he squares off against Shans, the Negro “windmill” from Los Angeles. “But everyone hopes he wins this 10-round bout and then goes on to lick Beau Jack for the title,” he continued. “That would be a great boost to the Canadian army and all Canada would be proud of him.” It seems that Canada never had a world lightweight champion although this country of 11,000,000 population (about the same as that of New York state) has turned out a surprising number of great and near-great pugilists, As a puncher, Greco is compared with McLarnin. In Johnny's last two appearances at Madison Square garden, he scored first-round knockouts over Harold Greene and Bill

Speary.

are scrambling for ball in game Square Garden.

1000 Face loss Of Ration Books

. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 23—(U. P.)—More than 1000 motorists who parked their automobiles near Bay Meadows ré&cetrack were being investigated today, and many of them face loss of their gasoline ration books. Enforcement Chief Joseph F. Rankin of the office of price administration said 1204 cars were found parked on El Camino Real, adjacent to the track. Investigators said 83 machines bore no

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May Name Phils’ Pilot This Week

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 23 (U. P.). —Wwilliam D. Cox, New York lumberman and head of the syndicate that bought the Philadelphia Phils, today was expected to confer with Hans Lobert, present manager of the club, regarding available spring training sites. Cox, clearing up some business in New York last night before heading for the Philadelphia headquarters of the club, said he hoped to announce the name of his new pilot this week. He intimated he might reveal the names of his associates today. Cox repeated that the players he is considering for the post are not under contract to any major league club and might come from a group that includes Bill Terry, Pepper Martin, Bucky Harris and Chuck Dressen.

No Effect

AMES, Ia. (U. P.).—The army order against intercollegiate athletic competition for its trainees returning to college campuses for further training will have no effect on Iowa State college, according to George F. Veenker, director of athletics. “We have made no plans to use these boys for we knew they would be too busy with their own concéentrated program of class work,”

Veenker said,

BOWLING

Bobby Ginn Promises to Jolt

Track Stars

By OSCAR FRALEY United Press Staff Correspondent

NEW YORK, Feb. 23.—Pint-sized Bobby Ginn, Nebraska's national

to jolt the mile title hopes of Dodds,

Mitchell, Dixon et al. in the national A. A. U. track and field championships at Madison Square Garden Saturday night. Now an army private in Texas, the bounding Bobby headed a with the idea of creating even more confusion in the season-long scrap

over the eight-furlong mantle abandoned by N. Y. U's Leslie MacMitchell. Gil Dodds, the Boston theological student, stepped into the thick of

ithe battle after two previous dis-

appointing starts shen he won-the Baxter Mile at the New York A. C. games Saturday night. He took an early lead and then ran, the field into the boards with a driving pace that gave him a 4:08.8 victory — 15 yards ahead of Dartmouth’s Don Burnham.

Mitchell Is Last

Indiana’s Earl Mitchell, the Wanamaker Mile winner, finished last in the five-man field, and Frank Dixon of N. Y. U.,, Hunter Mile victor, was, third.

Dodds scored his first mile victory when he defeated MacMitchell in this A. A. U. meet last winter and will be the favorite. Sixteen events are on the program with nine listing ‘defending champions. Seeking repeats are Barney Ewell of Penn State in the sprints, N. Y. U. in the sprint medley relay, Seton Hall in the two-mile relay, Josh Williamson in the high jump, Dick Morcom of New Hampshire in the pole vault and Hank Dreyer in the weights. The New York A. C. again goes after the team title.

Rice Wins 59th

Greg Rice, who scored his 59th consecutive triumph by winning the New York A. C. two-mile in 8:58.5, should find it easy in the longer A. A. U. route. Morcom’s hopes again winning the pole vault were dashed with the entry of Cornelius Warmerdam—only man ever to clear 15 feet. The cloud-busting school teacher has bettered that altitude 27 times and 'is expected to smash Earl Meadows’ 14 feet, 4%

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Montgomery | Is Notch Nearer Angott Fight

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 23 (U. PJ). —Bob Montgomery, Philadelphia Negro, was another notch closer today to a meeting with Sammy Angott, back in the ring after his announced retirement, or Beau Jack, New York State lightweight champion, after belting out an impressive decision over flashy Lulu Costantino of New York. Montgomery practically eliminated Costantino from the lightweight picture with a unanimous, 10-round decision before 904} fans! at Convention hall last night.

The fast-moving Costantino made Montgomery look slow in the early rounds, staying away from the Negro and using a workman-like left hook to adantage. After the third, however, Montgomery, who scaled 134% to his opponent’s 12972, began to use his weight to advantage with a close-quarter body attack.

Forces Close Fighting

Costantino took the first, ninth and 10th rounds. In the other sessions Montgomery forced him to fight in close and used a withering body attack to wear him down. He

Costantino’s heart and in the fourth opened a cut over the New Yorker's eye. In the seventh and eighth, Montgomery’s body assault was particularly effective and he was close to a knockout but Costantino weathered the storm. Lulu slipped and fell in the seventh but was up without a count.

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SAN DIEGO, Cal, Feb. 23 (U. P.). —Armando Verdugo, chairman of

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N. D. Tonight

- By UNITED PRESS : Three games feature tonight's

basketball card as the end of the season nears. Seven teams wind up their schedules this week. Butler, without the services of Ernie Tidrow, center and guard, who “was injured in the Wabash

game Saturday, goes to South Bend to face Notre Dame. The Irish lost a tough overtime 60-56 decision to Great Lakes Saturday night while the Bulldogs were dropping their eighth game in 12 starts to Wabash, 36-31. Tonight's game is the last one of the season for Butler. DePauw, Hanover, Earlham, Ball State, Central Normal and Manchester also wind up their schedules. Manchester faces Valparaiso in a real test. Valparaiso beat Indiana State and the Spartans need a win tonight to keep ahead of the Sycamores. Cincinnati invades Hanover in the other game tonight. Last night's games saw Illinois Normal nose out St. Joseph's, 54-50; Indiana romp through Minnesota, 40-28, and Western Kentucky State Teachers beat Evansville, 62-39.

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NEW YORK, Feb. 23 (U. P.)— Professor Philip Badger of New York university, president of the

existing rules a serviceman cannot compete in association championships if he is a professional or a college graduate. “We adopted that policy last De= cember,” Badger said, “and unless it is amended later, it will stand as a blanket ruling as far as I'm concerned.”

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