Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 November 1943 — Page 7
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THE sight of teen age football paves. Pn thls Tor thousands of sportsgoers this fall has made an impression on the bageball stove league front. . . . Next
holding down league jobs on the theory that if they can carry the load on the grdiroin they can do so on the
At hand is a letter from George M. Trautman, president of the ‘American association, distributed fo members of the American Association Chapter of Baseball Writers, pertaining to the 1943 season and the league's success in troublesome times, . . . And Chief Trautman deals in facts based on official figures. . .. His letter is in the nature of Thanksgiving greetings to the writers. + «'» The letter, in part, follows: “1 mentioned to a visitor in my office the
i is world-of 30d confusion ‘had anything .to be thankful for.
“I thought a bit about his remark and con-
ing and unhappy world, - Geo. Trautman “One of the things I feel T have & right to be thankful prompts | this note to you. When baseball started. the 1043 season, there - were a good many skeptics who said—baseball might start but it wouldn't finish,’ ‘the play would be mediocre,’ ‘the fans would not Support it,’ ‘there would be no interest,’ ‘baseball might go as far as the Fourth of July,’ and so forth and so on. :
A. A. Season Topped Some Normal Years
“WELL, baseball did start in the American association and it did Anish, and I am glad to say to you that our league had a more satisfactory year than some of the years of normal times. .~%One of the chief factors contributing to the continuation of the game in this, a war year, has been the attitude of the members sf the American Association of Baseball Writers. You fellows have geen tolerant and sympathetic.’ ss = 8 ss 8» , " “THERE has been criticism and always will be. Any institution as uch a part of American life as baseball must expect criticism and, personally, I think the game would be unhealthy without it. ~ “The purpose of this note, then, is to express to you men the ° shanks of this office and all identified with it.”
Selections on Turkey Day Grid Games THE TURKEY DAY college football menu is rationed. . . . Seections on tomorrow's games: Penn over Cornell, Colgate over 3rown, Texas over Texas Aggies, Tulse over Arkansas, North Jaroling Pré-flight over’ North Carolina State, PFranklin-Marshall weg Bucknell, Oltlaboma Aggies over Denver, Lafayette over Lehigh. s =» bo cr ® 8 ® ANSWER to query: Annapolis Navy defeated Duke, 14-13, and Duke defeated Georgia Tech, 14-7... . Notre Dame defeated Navy, 13-8, and Georgia Tech, 86-13. . . . Southern California started off gull ali sauient Violet Shia dessin, bus has Jos 4s Just twp star, oth against service teams,
Af Last, Leahy Laughs, Sovi Cuddy; Picks Navy Over Army
2 By JACK CUDDY | United Press Staff Coryespondent error. . NEW YORK, Nov. 24~Picking| SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA over he football : ght be 8 tle. {Including Thanksgiving Games) | WAKE FOREST over South Cear- _ EAST olina—Ever chop a Wake tree? over Rice—
Tipton-Burris, |_
{collide with a Tipton team that.
belted North aro Pre-Flight, 31-0; Cornell, 46-7; shaded mighty Duke, 14-13; Penn State, 14-8; turned back Georgia
[3 Heads Satans
Both Unbeaten, Highlight Card i
Dismissal of school tomorrow for. | the Thanksgiving holiday brings § forth an unusual crop of mid-week high school basketball games and at least one which may have a def-
such an important meeting come up as that scheduled at Tipton | tomorrow night between the Blue Devils and Burris of Muncie, The Owls, defending their C. I C. crown,
- Bob Klein, a top-scorer in: the -
Coach Johnny Ward has described city grid race, was ‘elected cap-
as Jang J Sotiplowiisy possi-
es piles? tain of the 1944 Shortridge high. ’ “school football team yesterday by " the 16 lettermen of this year's ON THE LOCAL squad. A junior, Klein won a varBASKETS ALL FRONT sity letter in his sophomore year.
-He was a regular halfback on the city champion Blue Devil eleven touchdowns for a fotal of 42 po,
TONIGHT Washington at Tech. Greenfield at Shortridge. New Augusta at Howe. : Decatur Central at Ben Da-
Warren Central at Lawrence Central. Franklin Twp. at Speedway.
Don't Expect Much of I, U., Good Warns|*
Both team have registered three victories . without setbacks and the I eter ; Digit be able to collect Elwood
son record in the Moon-Lite league
| Penn
Southport tomorrow and’ IT
{Soutisport ‘Central on Friday, both gamed 30. 16 good measuring sticks of Elwood strength. Indians Are Unbeaten
__ Anderson plays host to Marion's Giants in an important North Central conference tit. ‘The Thillang sre unbeaten in three starts but .are likely to find Coach Myrl Rife’s Giants rather rugged. Martinsville, with three South Central conference triumphs already
racked up, meets a fourth loop foe tomorrow night when the Artesians
Seymour at Greensburg n ’ other South Central conference games tomorrow: night. Rushville, of the same circuit, entertains Richmond of the North Central. Bedford tackles the Hatchets at Washington in one of the top southerm Indiana athletic conference encounters.
serve and freshman squads
od Indiana university ‘basket-_ ball fans not to expect much until late in the 'season- after watching his inexperienced squad in fits first workout in the fieldhoiise, Good, in his first season at I. U. after 14 successful seasons at Indiana Central college, pointed out that not one of the 21 men on | the squad has had anything but high school experience. Fourteen candidates are frosh, four . are juniors, two are sophs and one a senior, Indians opens its schedule against Camp Atterbury Dec, 1.
Techmen Are
| Given Awards
Tech's varsity football team was awarded 15 major letters and rewere
The. awards, presented by Principal Hanson H. Anderson, were as | follows:
Beck. Coal’ & Coke x
Don Wratten id . bos Paul Bowman, ntl. Machine ‘& Tool. BAS Harold Cloud, armer ....... 584 E. Diets, dg 584 Orville Pitea Curtin. Wright S-sun 588 Allison Rotary Tum 31 s .. Joe #ajee, Dezel 510 Rex Marmaduke, “5 ment Security 568 A Ri Fils Wright ei 34 Orvel Tells, Indians n. . . 550 Bobby Skinner, Blue Ribbon Ice Cream 5504 Woodruff, Allison Mized 540 Price, Curtiss-Wright Mixed. . Ed Fanchally, Bridgeport Bass ...... 8. Brossart, (Rg +e slessasuas sot
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MEER a a ul Milton Pate, James Pringle, James Reddick,
Paul Walker, Kenneth Weaver of Varsity A. Yn, fay Brown, Howard Thanksgiving eve and one which |; neon, Ralph Kastner,
clarify the status of a number | Robert . Paul erent high schoo) Josie. J eynaids, Ausler andl: Risharg Go — . : | gReserve T. X. 8—James Barnett, Nolan Det : J Siarics Bani pune, Fresmes, Bari Gor: Bruins Defeat |i iene, Fant : ; n Reserve A, T. 8B. hlers, Carl Toronto, 8-5 yl ry
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| Coveted Mark |=
Scoring. in last night's tenpin sessions showed some improvement over Monday night, but the top series was 27 pins below the coveted 700 mark. Lean Cattongim, in setting a. sea-
at the Moon-Lite alleys, topped all city rivals for individual honors. The leading
jeasily outdistanced other members
{of his league, Sam Hasty's 601 being
{second best. City-wide runnérup honors went to Richard Gayde of the Pennsyl vania Recreation league of the’ Pennsylvania alleys, who “had - 255; | 233 and 179 for 667. Three rival gave him a chase, Walter Gillespie getting 636, Oscar Kossman, 631, and Harry Stiver, 612. , i Head Lady Bowlers
Fred Schmitt of the John Hancock Insurance league with 658, Dave Roberts with 657 in the LinkBelt No. 2 loop and Paul Hubbell with 650 in the Speedway circuit were other outstanding scorers in the men’s leagues. Schmitt had 213, 221 and 224; Roberts, 208, 234, and 225, and Hubbell, 219, 241 and 190. Dorothy Erler and Mary Bass
Parkway; as the latter nr r- 5731 in the Marott Shoe loop at PritchLett’s. Frances Deer was also over 550 getting 566 in the Marott league. OTHER 600 BOWLERS (MEN) Earl Giodhue, Commercial ©........ EH ;Commerek
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grounds, we buzzed out there the other day to quiz the most_famous 1 rabbit in Indiana. or for that |
pinman had games| of 103, 224 and 256 for a 673. He!
On the coast, Southern
California ends a disastrous season trip by Del Monte Pre-Flight.
in Providence. . Without going all out.
ficulty with North Carolina State,
the call over Utah State,
Christian, where Dutch Meyer Southwestern of Texas, the war baby, will will the Rose Bow! game with Washington On Thanksgiving day, Peninsylvania packs t00 much
well-drilled Cornell. Freshman Frank Muehlheuser- and attack should - successfully hurdle Brown in & morning
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In the Southwest, I'm giving Texas the extra bite in’ the dog fight with Texas A. & M. at College Station. Tulsa takes Arkansss
In the South, Wake Forest has an edge on South Carolina, Marys land on V. M. I. and North Carolina Pre-Flight should have no dif-
IN THE ROCKIES, young Oklahoma A. & M. Yeam should get something more than the trip out of its match at Denver. Utah gets
But remember that the bookmakers are the sorriest to see this
crazy season of give and take points close.
By TIM TIPPETT REMEMBER. WHEN we all used to go out to the Speedway on Memorial day for thrills—that being before P-38s, jeeps, Mussolini's hiding behind haystacks, 1000-plane raids on the reich and low order numbers. . ‘Well, connecting the Speedway with hunting because we remembered about the famous rabbit family that lives on the Speedway
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“anybody’ s alm. Rabbits are probably as plentiful as ever but you just can’t get a clear enough fleld of vision to send the shot home, However, it's a great bird season and if you can beg, borrow, steal or pay on the line for a dog you'll get some awfully good hunting with what shells you have left if you had any shells to begin with and if-you don’t, you know how to ‘beg.. borrow or _ steal, so. forgel about the dog and just go out and walk around catching pneumonia which we do every day we get off or tell the boss we have an inverted eyelash and can't possibly come down to the office today-— which reminds us that we have to call him and tell him our grandmother has died again and the funeral is tomorrow if it doesn't rain and we can get some shells.
, matter, in any other state. This ‘particular rabbit is the one who always managed to run across the track ust before the starting flag wns fluttered down to start 3 : those (waymere EE ‘back «then - heMr. T. roes of speed who “tore” around the trick’ at over 150° m, p. h.—tore being pronounced creep in these days of super charged super. chargers) ‘speed demons on their way. (Come to think about it the Speedway race is only 500 miles and we were all amazed when four to-10 cars finished. the complete: - course. It now being common practice for the Yanks to fly from England to Berlin and back to England—-a distance much greater than a mere 500 miles and with
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being dangerous. As a8 matter of fact we might go to sleep at the next Speedway race—if there ever is one.) How-some-ever, and to get back to hunting, this Speedway rabbit friend of ours, was very polite and glad to see us when we finally found the - right burrow and stamped gently three times. This rabbit by the name of
H Marlowe was very apologetical at
the state the .surrounding track was in and explained that there was a war on and people didn't race any more and the rabbits had grown tired. of marking the calendar every day because every time May 30th came around they would stay awake all night with nervousness and then at the crack of dawn dash out across the track at exactly 10 a. m. and no car would whiz past so they had given up the custom for the duration and were just sitting around waiting for the post-war era which they’ understood would be wonderful with at least eight rabbit babies in each hutch and twice as often. (That last breathless sentence reminds me of same of our reviewers
Gains Revenge
23 Cig from” Agkansas, - gained ‘quick revenge over Abe Coleman of New York City. in the featured bout of the weekly wrestling bill staged last night at the Armory before a crowd ‘of approximately 2800 rabid tussling fans, Coleman conquered the Montgomery county ring athlete here a week ago after a three-fall clash. The hillbilly rustic evened the count last night, however, by taking Coleman in straight falls, winning the first in 12 minutes with a “mule kick” and the second after Coleman was disqualified by Referee Harry Burris for unnecessary roughness, Martino Angelo, Akron, O., Italian, topped Frankie Hart of Chicago, 1l., in the semi-final. Angelo won with a hammer lock in 18 minutes. Whitey Wahlberg of Minneapolis and Jackie Nichols of Nova Scotia tussled to a fast, 30-minute draw in the opening bout. re
Attaboys Win
CAMP ATTERBURY, Ind. Nov, 34 (U. P).—A powerful last-quarter attack gave Camp Atterbury a 4435 triumph over the Crane Marines in the opening basektball Gitngs of of
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Unusual Crop of Mid-Week Net Tilts Slated IKeglers Are
Philly Fans See Carpenter
B/As Good Omen
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 24 (U. P), —Die-hard fans of the Philadelphia Phillies interpreted as a good luck
Ruliph Morgan Carpenter Jr, new
National league penant. “The 28-year-old Carpenter, young est club president in major league
a background of athletics that included football at Duke university and the “angeling” of a sports pro. gram at Delaware university. He had a share in two prize fighters and is president and-half-owner of the Wilmington, Del, Bombers of the. American, Professional. Baskets ball league. In between, Carpenter managed to sandwich the: of the Wilmington Blue Rocks of the Ine
he took in 1940—and the co-owners ship with Connie Mack of the same team, dating back to 1042.
Cox Ruled Out
Carpenter was made Phillies pres ident after his father purchased the club stock of President Bill Cox who
missioner K. M. Landis, for placing bets on the Phillies. Carpenter has the Du Pont background that is part and parcel of industrial Delaware™
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His father, Robert R. M. Carpehter Sr, and an uncle, W. 8. Carpenter Jr, are vice presidents of
the Du Pont company. He, himself, -
until & year ago, was a member of
the public relations office for Du Pont oh - ey
“Stay of Induction Within the selective service age limit, Carpenter now has a stay of induction to settle his business aflairs but expects to be called for service in January, Discussing his plans for the Phil-
lies, Carpenter declared himself an
“absolute believer of the baseball farm system.”
He visualizes a farm program, he ~ said, that includes a working agree-
ment with an A. A. club, the outright ownership of an' A and B league team, and the ownership of “a couple of D clubs.” War conditions, Carpenter said, would keep the system from becoming effective in two years but proper results could be shown in five. : Phillies ‘definitely include a general manager in charge of baseball. He has one in mind, but has “not approached him yet. “He is in baseball now,” Care penter said. “We got to have a goud
omen today the fact that Robert club. president, was born in 1016—
|the year the Phils won. their only...
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was ruled out ‘of “Baseball by Comis
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