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SPORTS...

By Eddie Ash

| A FINAL summary of the year so far as the Western conference National Collegiate Athletic association meets and tournaments are concerned has been prepared by Mai. John L. Griffith. commissioner of Big Ten athletics. : All but one of the championship meets were held in the Middle West. . The finals of the basketball tournament were played in Madison Square Garden. New York. , . , The Western conference normally promotes nine meets or tournaments but this vear it was decided not to hold a Big Ten gymnastic meet. For the swimming meet Northwestern was the host and the team championship was won bv Ohio State. . . . The eross country run was sponsored by the University of Chicago and Indiana university was the winner. The indoor track meet also was held at the University of Chicago and was won by the University of Michigan. . . . Michigan also won the outdoor meet which was promoted by Northwestern university. Ohio State won the tennis tournament. the matches being played the Northwestern courts and Michigan won the golf tournament which had as sponsor Northwestern. . . . Indiana won the wrestling meet in the Northwestern gymnasium and Illinois won the fencing tournament which was conducted by the University of Chicago. All eight of these Big Ten meets and tournaments were held either at Northwestern university or the University of Chicago.

N. C. A. A. Conducts Seven Meets

AS REGARDS the National Collegiate Athletic association naional championship meets and tournaments, seven were conducted this year, it having been decided not to attempt to stage a national gymnastic, fencing or wrestling meet in 1943. The cross country run sponsored By Michigan State college last was won by Indiana university and Penn State college (these two inst Hunter of Notre Dame was the individual

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stitutions tied). . .

Dick Taylor, left, Lafayette, lines up a putt on the green ag Phil Talbot, Bloomington, looks on. More than 100 entrants are seeking the crown left vacant by Henry Kowal, now in the navy. ,

This three-some compared scorecards at the end of nine holes today in the 43d annual state amateur golf tournament which opened at Broadmoor. Left to right, they are Clifford Wagoner, | Speedway: Dwight Mitchell, French Lick, and Ceeil Weathers, Indianapolis Country club.

Field of 1 50

Faces Longson

Bill Hanafee, 17. year - old Pleasant Run sharpshooterg sur-

winner. The outdoor track meet was sponsored by Northwestern and was by the University of Southern California . Ohio State was host to the swimmers and won the national championship swimming meet

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Opens State Amateur Tourney and the matches were played on Olympia Fields. . . . Yale won the Several 01 d

a So Tp Soe | ongsen Allison's Gain Spot in Amateur Joe Reeve, Red Cross Receives Basketball Receipts ; Standbys Are | ; | : Day Program With 13-2 Victory TI. Connelly Jr. jaa Over Curtiss-Wright Nine Cop Trophies

AS FOR BASKETBALL, the western play-offs were held at | Kansas City, Texas, Washington, Oklahoma and Wyoming competing, Stull Around Joe Reeve won the Dr. Paul Schmi tr Fi he A 17-hit assault gave Allison's a 13-2 victory over Curtiss-Wright : Ye in one of the highlights of the 10-game Indianapolis Amateur Baseball

with Wyoming the winner; and the eastern play-offs were held in New York with Dartmouth, DePaul of Chicago, New York U, and Georgetown competing. ; TL The eastern tournament was won by Georgetown university. Pho Bandl pid he Jurnament 8 Pleasant Run . . Wyoming later 3 " ; : | 4 i y service, april . : Se : : ht yesterday with a card of 76-9-67, ae later defeated Georgetown for the national collegiate the 43d annusl Indiana amateur Sule son or adie or Joe SY ds Yeaeriay and ed re nie Harlan Jean was second with 81y \ ¢ : RHR : ud 0 i . = : : CU 9-1 13-68 and William Hoyt third Wyoming also played the winner of the tournament which has golf tournament got underway this The win whittled down the lead of E. C. Atkins in the Manufacturers with 75-7-68 ; been generally known as the sports writers tournament. . , . That morning at the Broadmoor coun- league to a single game as the P. R Mallory nine dropped the Sawmen, Tom Connelly Jr. won the Wyoming defeated St. John's. The money made at this game try club with approximateiy 150 — — » - 9-4, for their first defeat since May Tommy Vaughn trophy in a holewas turned over to the Red Cross and made a total contribution of entrants. 2 when they were set back by Alli-| jn.one tournament when he came $30,000 08 The field son's, within 2 feet, 8 inches of the cup siderably slower than in previous ( Besides the Allison club, Atkins on the 138-yard 11th hole. Paul years due to so many top-flight! ‘will share honors on the Amateur Schreckengost was second. 2 feet, | golfers having been called into day program in that loop while Gold! 3 inches away, and Harold Strick service. Medal Beer will be the representa-| )in third, 3 feet. 8 inches away. | Several old standbvs. however.

| J Set for Boys tive from the Municipal circuit and # were around to hear the call of the 30 & 8 will represent the Big Six starter. Among them were Dick

A relay meet for teams represent- league. McCreary, Phil Talbot, Bill Reed. ing municipal playgrounds will be Clark Espie. Dr. Robert Blake. and

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tennis tournament was held at Northwestern The singles were won by Francisco Segura of Miami, and the doubles by Hickman and Driver of Texas | The golf tournament was sponsored by Northwestern and Chicago |

Patrolmen Are

Turned Back By Osborn

The Osborn Paper Co. 10, of [Marion, Ind, won the featured {game of a twin bill played under the {lights of Softball stadium last night {when the visitors topped Allison (Patrol by a 7-to-4 count, The El Lilly Negro All-Stars won the open« [ing game from the Allison Red Rings by a score of 8-t0-3,

| Trailing 7-to-1 going into the last half of the ninth, the Patrolmen came to life with a five run out burst that produced three runs buk | Hal Mahaney, who went all the vay ‘for the invaders, finally put out thé fire. The winners were out hit, 11« to-8, but bunched their blows to pile up an early lead after the locals

this year looked con-

Last Tourneys for Many Stars

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BEFORE

was determined to conduct the meets and tournayear as usual, there were some who thought that the championship contests should be abandoned for the dura- . They felt that all of the boys would be in the service and consequently the meets would not be of championship ealiber,

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Willowbrook m a d e it two straight over Indian Lake on the former course, 38 to 18. In the

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Big Boy Davis. the “Memphis

Mauler,” who weighs 245 pounds Collier Hits Homer

the Willard Joe Harbor slammed out four hits

While it is true that thousands of the college athletes are in mniform, vet there were good athletes left and these men welcomed chance of competing in what would perhaps be their final national tournament or meet. Many of the top ranking men in the different sports have, since the games were completed. entered the service and most of the others are waiting the call .

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OF COURSE none of the college athletes were deferred because they were athletes. . . . Some of them were below draft age, others belonged to certain reserve units and were in training for military or naval or marine service, and others had been accepted but had not as yet been inducted by their draft boards.

Basebal

| Calendar

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION L

n 2% 32 36 3% 3% 39 12

(Second Game: & Innings; Curfew) Cincinnati 130 400 03—11 18 Philadelphia 810 010 e— 2 3

Starr and Lakeman: Gerheauser. son. Diet>, Mathewson and Finley.

INDIANAPOLIS Milwaukee Columbus Toledo Minneapolis St. Paul Louisville Kansas City

(First Game: 18 Innings) .

Chicage 200 900 001 »— 3 3 New York 000 120 00 1— ¢ 12

—9 a. m. when the first 18-hole

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Bo McMillin. | Champ in Navy Last years champion. Henry Kowal, Indianapolis, is now serving as a lieutenant (jg) in the navy {and when last heard from was at Kev West. Fla. His runnerup, Ensign John David. | {has been taking a few divots out of Il Duce’s fleet in the Mediter-| {

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renean rather than from Hoosier {golf courses. Ensign David won the | championship in 1940. The event was launched today at quali- | fving session was inaugurated. Tomorrow will see the windup of the 36-hole preliminary test and two rounds of match play on Wednesday | and Thursday will cut the field of 32 to 2. The finalists will duel over a 36-hole route on Friday.

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and features an aggressive style of wrestling, clashes with “Wild Bill” Longson, heavyweight champion from Salt Lake City, in the outdoor mat feature tomorrow night’ at Sports arena. Iongson scales 230. It is a title bout. Davis polished off John Grandovich and Dorve Roche in recent local matches.

Peacock Wins Fourth Title

ELIZABETH, N. J. July 12 (U. P.) —Eulace Peacock, former Temple university star now runninz for the Manhattan Beach coast guard, held his fourth national A. A. U. pentathlon championship sipce 1933 today. Peacock, who won in 33. '34 and 37. racked up 3225 points after three of five events at Warininanco park vesterdav to ‘urn in his best performance. His previ-

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held at track Wednesday o'clock, according to an {ment by Harold Geisel, city recreation director. Harry Painter, athletic activities grounds this summer, charge of the event with

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| trants divided into three classes ac- | cording to weight.

The program will include a 220yard relay for boys under 80 pounds, a 440-yard relay for boys under 100 pounds; a mile relay for boys in the unlimited class, a team broad jump to be decided on total distance of

each four-man squad and three individual events—50-yard dash. 100vard dash and baseball throw. Ribbons will be awarded as prizes and the relay races will be scored on a 10-6-2 basis with a 5-3-1 dis-

events,

in five trips to the plate and Slo Yovanovich rapped out three bingles

in four attempts to pace the Allison attack. Carson Collier lashed out with a home run in the fifth inning and the C-W club never was in the ball game. They got to Allison pitchers for only six hits and were guilty of eight errors. An eighth-inning rally which netted four runs gave Mallory its victory over the Sawmen. Stull,

Baird and Rearick smacked singles, |

Layton doubled and Briner rapped

another one-bagger to lead the rally. |

The victors outhit Atkins, 13-8.

Thirty-two runs crossed the plate | in the Lukas-Harold-Kingan slug- | fest as the naval ordnance plant |

team wound of the score, 21-11. Charles Gregor, center fielder for the viectors, hammered out six hits in seven trips to the plate as the winning

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feature match, George Stark, host pro. defeated Fred Keesling, 3 to 0. Indian Lake women defeated Willowbronk women, 22's to 13%.

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The Calcutta Sweepstakes Meridian Hills will start next Saturday. Wayne Timberman, pro, reported 60 entries for the event which will close Sunday. ”

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” J. J. Wirthlin sank his tee shot on the 155-yard 12th hole at Hillcrest,

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U. S. Rubber whipped CurtissWright, 44': to 3': in the Industrial league play at Speedway. Ralph Jordan featured for the winners with a one-over par 72 round. In other league matches, R. C. A. heat Schwitzer-Cummins; P. R. Mallory’'s beat Lukas-Harold and Allison defeated BE. C. Atkins.

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Dr. BE. W. Grant and Mary Gorham with a combined 79 led the

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men with a perfect night at

plate.

A twilight softball league for play= teams with no age limit play tomorrow with a The sched«

start

Brookside at Wil«

and Meridian, Lentz at

The 16-game schedule for playe ground softball teams tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock follows: Greer at Keystone, Kansas and Meridian at Garfield, Rhodius at Ringgold, Riley at Willard, Morris Square at Oak Hill at George Washington, Brightwood at High land. Christian at Ellenberger, Are nolda at Coleman, Lentz at Hawe thorne, School No. 75 at Indianola

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tribution of points in the individual ain rang up 25 hits to the losers ous top mark was 3020 in ‘37. 1 — - |

(First Game) Upset Pure Oil MINNEAPOLIS

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No. 32 at 61st and Broadway

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Deitinger and McCullough: Melton and

Lombardi. gross division in a two-ball mixed

foursome tournament at Highland. Runners up were Dean Burns and Carolyn Varin with an 86.

(Second Game)

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gh: Chase, Wittig,

The latter took batting honors with , six safeties in seven trips. ‘Nelson Wins Kentucky Open ier ! Haslin

Gold Medal had little trouble with | Allison's Red Rings in the only other Municipal loop game played. | |ing frame and emerged victorious, | LOUISVILLE, Ky. July 12 (U. p. | Fairly jock 8 in the Big &i {—Byron Nelson, playing out ot] Seushn Pirst-place 10 & 8 In the Big BiX ious ©, pocketed & $1000 war| . a double-header and R. C. A. clipped | 00nd today as a reward for winning, |the Southport Merchants, 10-4, in |the Kentucky Open golf tournha-| other league games. ment.

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AMERICAN LEAGUE

Chicage New York Passean and MecCullon Adam: and Mancuse.

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In a play-off for first place in the Hale America. John Hare Jr. and Paul Jock again deadlocked with net 72s. There will be an= other playoff this week.

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Gornicki, Rescigno, Hebert and Baker: Melton, Webber, Allen, Head and Owen.

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APOLIS

AB 14 163 213 252 247 258 244 143 201 184 56

Pets 357 337 329 313 201 279 27% 231 224 185% 161

New York Detroit Washington Chicago St. Leuis Cleveland Boston Philadelphia

RESULTS YESTERDAY AMERICAN ASSOCIATION (First Game) 000 901 101— 3 9 : 000 022 00x— § 8 Sproull and Helf; Cox an

INDIAN

| Schlueter Pike .. English Moore Morgan Blackburn

Blackburn, Moore, cf | English, 3b | Morgan, 1b —— { Hofferth, c¢ AMERICAN LEAGUE | Fike, rf (First Game) | Fairly,

..000 600 001— 1 3 o Jeffcoat, p ..... ‘ Cleveland ..311 000 g0x— 3 7 0 Hogsett, p “ri

Candini, Carrasquel and Early; Smith | Haslin and Rosar. Totals . 9 1 i

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Milwaukee Toledo Gassaway, Hayworth, Second Game; 57 Innings: Agreement) Milwaukee 000 000 — @ 3 ® Tecledo 104 00 x— 35 Fleming, Sproull and Helf; Seinsoth and Keller. | Tt Liki | (First Game) 000 000 son— & & 2 Philadelphia Louisville 160 011 33x—11 14 1 Detroit , “Smith, Strincevich, Mistele and Blae-| Black and Swift: mire; Deutsch, Schupp and Doyle. and Parsons. Innings: Agreement) 100 $03 o— 8 11 1 Philadelphia p01 200 1— § 11 2 Detroit Bowman, Wilson Flores. Bridges and Richards.

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Washington 000 000 400 2— 6 8 0 Minneapolis ..001 000 0247 Cleveland ...010 000 111 0— 4 16 1] mdianapolis 100 000 000—1 ;

Scarborough, Haefner, Mertz, Pyle and! Runs batted in English, Danneker, | Giuliani, Early: Reynolds, Dean, Harder, wright, Dill 2, Pofah! 2. Two-base hit | Poat, Center and DeSautels, Rosar. Rolandson. Three-base hit—Wright. Home! - run—English. Stolen base—Clifton. Sacri-| (First Game) | ices—Jeffcoat, Trechock, Clifton. Double | 8 (3ame | play—Pofahl to Trechock to Danneker (2). | 000 002 BIl— & 9 1 Left on bases Minneapolis 8 Indianap- | 010 920 000— 3 9 Biolis 8. Base on balls—off Jeltcont 2, Te vermire, N | febvre 3. Hogsett 1. Struck out—by JeftOre, WH oat 3: LErtEvee 5 Ht of Jeffcoat, 8 (Seco G {in 8'2 innings: Hogsett, 2 in 25 innings; ne th o0— {| Hit by pitcher—Pike bv Lefebvre: Wright, | C821 201 30 ° 1 ol bY Hogsett Losing pitcher Jeffcoat EE yA | Umpires—Oppegard and Navior. Time— Besse and Wagner: 2:07

They rang up 12 runs in the open- | a loop rapped Armour, 5-2 and 6-5, in |

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(Second Game: St. pani Louisville Speer and Andrews: and Millies.

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| GAMES TODAY

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION (All Games At Night)

Minneapolis at INDIANAPOLIS (8:30), St. Paul at Louisville. Milwaukee at Toledo (twa). Kansas City at Columbus.

NATIONAL LEAGUE Ne games scheduled.

000 000 200— 2 0 v oo... 210 000 10x— 4 °

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(First Game) 040 021 000— i 12 Priladelphis , Mueller; Rowe, Karl, Kraus

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BASEBALL

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. . . . Sixth in Fielding Although Lin Storti of Toledo was 3 sixth in fielding among third bases = ¥ Nelson furned in a 68 in the final men of the American association in a 0 . D ! d round yesterday to make his final 1042, he played 18 games at second, ! rtiz eien S | tally read 275 for 72 holes. four handling 87 chances without & mise {strokes better than Chick Harber! eye, Bantam Title |of Battle Creek, Mich. who won a m—— — ; He war bond worth £500 | Harbert slipped to a 72 on his las: Handled Most NEW YORK. July 13 (U. Py [round after equalling the course] Fifteen American association One current champion a Bantam. Standard of 67 in his initial round. pitchers failed to make an error in | weight Manuel Ortiz—and a former | Nelson posted a card of 68-71-68-68' 1042. Hal Vandenberg of Milwaue | welterweight titleholder — Fritzie ol hig foun unas While Harper: kee handled she most chances, §1, | Bivie—see action tonight in the two Dos reais of Evansvill ind most important bouts on the week's | ok third place ‘and " 0 Hes | PRbnG! Saeing Diowrein ‘bond with 287. Bill Kaiser, Louis- | Ortiz defends his crown against ville, pro, won a $100 bond for his Joe Robleto at Seattle while ZIViC | 90x ‘and Jim Ferrier Australian | (tangles with Jake LaMotta of New| open champion posted 301 for | (York in a returh bout at Pitts ooo q's 850 bond. |burgh. LaMotta Jon the Afb eRe | counter. | New York He. yweight ®Tami| Wrestlin |Mauriello returns to active come | petition against Tony Musto at Bal- | Puetday; Jug 1ieg'2 P.M. 'timore tonight. | Arm Phil Terranova, New York, con | H ’ eavywe {Queror. of N. B. A. featherweight WILD ight Championship ruler Jackie Callura, battles Angel BIL L | Aviles at Hartford, Conn,, tomorrow. | b ongson . Champion vs. BIG soy DAVIS Challenger Prices: Gen. admission, ie, Reserved seats, $1.10: Ringside E150. Prices Ineluds Tax ~Herenles A. C=

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