Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 March 1943 — Page 23

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SPORTS... By Eddie Ash

- HANS LOBERT, the former Phil manager who has - signed as coach with Cincinnati, attained his first real _ Success as a major leaguer as third baseman of the Reds in 1906, 07, '08, 09 and ’10, after being traded to the - Queen City club by the Cubs in a deal that took Harry

Steinfeldt to Chicago. : As a member of the Reds in 1010, Lobert circled the bases in the " record-bresking time of 13-4/5 seconds and ran out a bunt to first hase in 3-2/5 seconds, both being marks which stood for years. ++» He was participating in a field meet for ball players. : Bill Veeck’s action in hoisting a 40-foot ~ chicken wire fence over right field in Milwalkee’s ball park brings up an old argument again. .,. It's a defensive stunt to curb lefti the 143 Brewers arent going to have any . southpaw swingers. A football field is always of standard length, the same goes for a basketball or tennis court, the distances are always the same. . . . Not so in haseball, : ; ae 4 Hers are the right field distances trom ‘home Hans Lobert ~ plate in the eight American association parks: St. Paul 365 feet, Indianapolis 350, Kansas City 350, Louisville 350, Toledo 327, Columbus 316, Minneapolis 279, Milwaukee 268. The Milwaukee club's president now has a new moniker. ... It's “Spite Fence” Veeck. "© Anent Pitcher Fiddler McGee's decision to stay on his farm instead of reporting to the New York Giants this spring. «+. Hell

- ¥piteh hay for a changs.

Saints Turn to Robbing Cradle : WARTIME baseball: ‘The St. Paul Saints recently announced the signing of three “teen agers” for tryouts this spring. . . . They are out of the Minnesota American legion junior baseball ranks. ; « «+ The trend nowadays is to lift ‘em out of the cradle .. . and : from that other extreme . , . home for the aged. X : s = = * Tig el

- “FRANK ‘KOHLBECKER, business manager of the Cleveland ball club, struck his first spring training snag when he sought hotel quarters in Springfield, O., where Cleveland will play an exhibition game with Cincinnati on April 14. ' “=The one hotel I contacted couldn’t accommodate us,” said Kohl-

and told him I understood that hotel space for the Reds already ~ had been arranged. 1 reminded him that is: takes two teams $0 play a game, and left it up to him to do the rest.”

Louis’ Gate Records Don’t Check

ANSWER to query: The World Almanac carries a , different set of figures on gate receipts at Joe Louis’ boxing performances . . . different than the totals listed in Nat Fleischer’s ring record book. According to Fleischer, Champ Joe fought before two million jos sates.» Ausoreiag to the Almases, Lows” bes gates were der a million. . The Almanac lists the Louis-Max Baer match gate receipts at $048,352 and the second Louis-Schmeling bout gate receipts at $940, 096... . . Could be:that the “difference” isin picture and radio ;

earnings,

Rogers Hornsby Said It With Sirlsin

: WRITING IN Sporting News, Ed Burns of the Chicago Tribune, sald, in part: “Rogers Hornsby, who was serving as general manager of the Ft. Worth club, wasn't for folding the Texas league, but it folded anyhow and we are wondering what this one of our heroes will be doing in the way of baseball endeavor. “Some team that needs a lot of base hits should hire Rog as a scout—not to scout players, but to locate and purchase juicy steaks for the batters. Rog always said that without at least one steak a day he never would have averaged more than .250. Those marks . of his, which include seasons of 424, 403 and 401 and a lifetime of | 308 ware products of siriekn. tt s-s ®»'S s = “HORNSBY always has contended, in great seriousness, that there wasn't a hit in a carload of spinach and carrot juice always upset his stomach. Now he'll probably try to get some team to put In & pen of steers out 1 the ares Where they used to"have the Bull Durham sign.” :

Old Faces Will Be i in Strange Places When Season Opens

2 . By LEO H. PETERSON : United ~Press Sperts Editor NEW YORK, March 5—~There are going to be a lot of old faces places when the major league baseball season opens next

: rere will be a lot af new faces, too, for the manpower problem is becoming more acute every day as the clubs prepare for spring train“ing drills scheduled to begin a week from Monday. Hardly a day passes

goes into the army; Cleveland, with

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NEW YORK, March 5 (U. P)—| Promoter Nick Londes of = Detroit ‘announced yesterday that he has]

‘at the Detroit arena, March 19.} Bi LaMotta won a large following in| {Detroit in his two bouts there with|.

Hockey league.

junior chamber of commerce and there were more than 2000 service-

Teno had a hard time around the Hornets’ goal all evening as the Indianapolis club plastered him re-

Pittsburgh goalie altogether was credited with 49 saves. Fats Perras of the Caps turned in his best job of goal-tending this season. He stopped 27 attempts by

all angles. The Indianapolis goalie received plenty of help from his

time and time again. Takes Scoring Honors Scoring honors went to little Connie Brown who turned the “hat

every period. Adam Brown and Jud McAtee rapped in two goals apiece while Bill Quackenbush scored another. The game was only four minutes and 57 seconds old when Connie Brown scored the first tally. He

the Pittsburgh defense zone and with the help of Joe Fisher sent the Caps ahead.

cropped up reminiscent of the last

Moose Sherritt was clubbed on the head by Chuck Shannon. Hec Kilrea and Normie Mann

Hornets’ center made a wild slashing swing with his stick at the Indianapolis utility man. Kilrea came right back with a vicious stab that fanned the air and both men went to the penalty box for two minutes. Jud McAtee Scores The front line of Jud McAtee, George Patterson and Bill Jennings sent the Caps ahead, 2-0, in the second period with McAtee getting the goal at 4:01. Thirty-nine seconds later, Connie Brown made it 3-0 with help fromJoe Fisherand Bill Quackenbush just a few seconds after

forward line in off the ice. Pittsburgh continued its slashing tactics and Chuck Corrigan was

attack on Adam Brown. While the Hornets’ wingman was in the penglty box, Adam Brown drove through ‘the Pittsburgh defense and scored at 7:59 with Teno and Chuck Shannon laying prone on the ice in front of the goal. Assists went to Connie Brown and Fisher, : Quackenbush ran the count to 5-0

and McAtee. Bill Cunningham of the Caps drew a two-minute penalty for holding Shannon toward the end of the period.

Gets Second Goal 3 "Adam Brown rammed in his second. goal of the evening at 3:05 of the third session with help from Hal Jackson and Connie Brown. At 9:09 of the period, the. Caps made the count 7-0 on McAtee’s goal. Patterson and Ross received the assists. Connie Brown turned the “hat trick” at 14:27 of the final period after a scurry in front of the Pittsburgh net. Adam Brown and Fisher received credit for bringing the puck down the ice. Manager Lewis announced last night that Hal Jackson would be

when the Caps travel to Pittsburgh Saturday for their final road game of the season. Jackson will go to Detroit to play with the Red Wings, replacing Jimmy Orlando who was injured this week in a tilt with the Boston Bruins. Lewis said he hoped Jackson would be back here in time for the game with Cleveland Sunday at the Coliseum.

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Connie Brown Leads | {With ‘Hat Trick’ Honors as Indianapolis Takes 3d Place

By FRANK WIDNER

The Tadiasapolis Capitals bombarded Goalie Harvey Teno of Piits- ‘| burgh for 60 minutes last night to hang a decisive 8-0 defeat on the Hornets and assume sole sole possession of third place in the American

The impressive victory was turned tn before a crowd of 7500 persons. The occasion was “army-navy” sighs sposssied by Wh Tufissapelia

in the game as the forward line |of the Caps functioned smoothly to| ram home scores in every period.

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Name Officials For Regionals

Officials for the regional high school basketball tournaments, which will be played Saturday at 16 centers in the state, were announced yesterday by A. L. Trester, commissioner of the Indiana High School Athletic association. AT ANDERSON=--Louis A, Griner and William N. Reimann; AT BLOOMINGTON — Karl Dickerson and Irvin Springer; AT CLINTON— William E. Pointer and William M. Coulter; AT EVANSVILLE—Walter N. Ringer and Robert Hoffman. : AT. FI. WAYNE - Walter E. Thurston and Norris Ward; AT HAMMOND—Phil N. Eskew and Lawrence Gaunt; AT HUNTINGTON—Harold McSwane and Cecil E. Young; AT LAFAYETTE—L. E. Fink and A. T. Krider; AT MARION —Fred R. White and Jacob H. McClure; AT MUNCIE—Frank Jarrell and C. N. Phillips. : : AT NEW ALBANY—C. P, Silver and Dean Malaska; AT PERU — George. Vaulk and J. ‘Clayton Hughes; AT RUSHVILLE-T. R. Smith and Cecil Tharp; AT SHELBYVILLE—George: Bender and Herbert Edwards; AT SOUTH BEND— Allen Klinck and Paul Bateman; AT WASHINGTON-—Thomas Baker and George Williams.

Bruce, Garner

Are Matched

Leo (Red) Brice, the former Indianapolis newsboy who has established himself here in heavyweight boxing circles, -has been matched with Bob Garner, the Louisville slugger who. battled to a draw with Johnny Denson two weeks ago at the Armory. The maulers will meet in one portion of a double main event boxing bill to be staged next Friday night at the Armory by the Hercules Athletic club, with both top bouts slated for eight rounds, Bruce holds two decisions and a draw over Denson in four trips to the ring wars against the rangy, blond belter eight-round

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reports from sectional centers were available yet, but estimates showed that more than 100,000 Hoosiers

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use their gasoline ration for a night ‘of basketball—and walk to work ‘next week. Full houses were expected to range from 2500 at Clinton to 7464 at Muncie. Offset Ticket Deficit

ites as Columbus, Indianapolis Tech, Bloomington, Lafayette, New Albany and Anderson was expected to oust

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Winchester was. expected to draw a full house at Muncie’s huge 7464~ seat fieldhouse. Six major favorites remained in the swim, but at least six will not pull through Saturday’s eliminations because Muncie Burris and Richmond are docketed to tangle in the Muncie tourney. South Bend Central, Jasper, Lebanon and Ft. Wayne Central also hold favored positions to cop regional titles, However, Ft. Wayne's Tigers drilled with special earnest this week, recalling their up5% Gelent 10 iP Wall Jaks 18 last year’s: regional.

For Sportsmen

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By UNITED PRESS ; Sixty-four prep basketball teams set their siglits on 16 tightlyrationed regional titles today as 68,017 Hoosier nel addicts clung to precious pa$teboards which will give them the Fiat to 68,017 seats

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|Jones Paired

With Pasha

One of those bouts local mat fans have been hoping would develop, but a tussle they did not expect would. materialize for some time, has been arranged for the armory wrestling ring next Tuesday night. The match pits Farmer Jones, a bearded performer from Montgomery county, Ark., against Ali Pasha,

also a bewhiskered grappler, from|

Caluctta, India. They are. junior hesvies and meet in. a special semi‘windup. It will be “whiskers vs. whiskers” to the tune of what armory patrons expect to be one of the best actionproducers of the season. Jones’ “hill billy” style kas won the favor of local fans, with whom he is extra popular, He has captured three bouts in the same number of appearances, but meets an extra powerful opponent in Pasha, who fea-| Tulsa tures a tricky and rough style of

grappling. Roland Kirchmeyer,

Seek Hagg as

| Rice's Opponent

NEW YORK, March 5.~Nego= ‘tiations have been. opened to a bring Gunder Hagg hers for two-mile race with Gregory Rice at Princeton May 20 under the sponsorship of Asa Bushnell of the I. C. 4-A. Eric Winberg, New York COITe= spondent of a Stockholm newse paper, cabled Hagg, Swedish rece ord-breaker, the proposition. The amateur athletic union could not obtain priorities when it invited Hagg and his distance shadow, Arne Anderson, and & hurdler to this country for the indoor season. * If Bushnell is successful in ob. taining priorities for . , “the race probably would be vitched 2%) to Randalls stadium, New Yor! because of traffic Testrietions,

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