Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 December 1943 — Page 10

A ale guess that al college lineups will be limited to 17-

The caliber of play will be lowered but

more evenly matched than in 1943 and the will get a better break for their money when closer competi-

tion is furnished.

‘Some colleges which abandoned the sport in 1043 are expected fo restore it a year hence. . . . On the other hand, some schools which

played out their string this

year are thinking of calling the Whole

ps. . . . But football's usual

MEMBERS of the American association board of directors acted

wisely at their meeting in New York when they voted to restore the

mid-season All-Star game in 1944. .

. » This attraction, popular with

* gang since its inception in 1932, was abandoned by the club owners

Jast season to reduce “rail transportation,” they said. . .

didn't work out that way. . . . Exhi

. But it bition games with service teams

were substituted which used up more rail travel than the All-Star

. game ever did.

“The American association All-Star game has been a financial success from the start and brought the league a lot of favorable

Tass

up at the game. . . . The detalls of

out later; ; ; The receipts probably will be donated to service funds. _ News of Boxers on the Service Front Pris

Many major league officials and scouts always showed

the 1944 classic will be worked

Anthony Coppi, Indianapolis correspondent for Ring magazine keeps close tab on boxers and former boxers in the Hoosier state

ares. . . . He informs us that Irish

welterweight, is convalescing at Billings hospital, Ft. Harrison. . . «

Eddie McGeever, Scranton, Pa,

Twice winner over Lou Ambers before Lou became champion, Mc--Geever is recovering from a leg injury received from gun. fire on

maneuvers. :

McGeever's boxing career was halted temporarily in 1939 in a

(now a Japanese prisoner) at St. Louis in Tony Motisi, Wild Bill McDowell, Bobby Yeager, Maxie Berger and

i-¢+ Irish Eddie has defeated

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COPPI also finforms this department that Art Tatta, 21-year-old - $lew Haven, Conn. middleweight, is stationed at Camp Atterbury and will soon make an appearance in an Indianapolis ring. . «+ »

_ "atta won 32 of 35 pro bouts and He recently won the championship ing, Fla.

16 of- his amateur matches. . . . in his division af Camp Bland- .

DICK RAINES, the wrestler, who has appeared in Indianapolis bouts, is now a sergeant in the army at Camp Hood, Tex. where he 48 teaching commando tactics. . . . Wrestling goes to war!

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army ferry command.

Muncie Game

Highlights Bill Muncie Central was expected to fo four straight tonight when the Bearcats play Winchester at Muncie. The game was the top attraction ‘on a slim mid-week card which also _ scheduled Hammond Catholic Cen_$ral at Whiting in a northern opener and Lafayette West Side against Attica. In the feature game last night, Gary Emerson made an auspicious start in defense of its Calumet title and western division championship in the Northern Indiana conference. ~~ Emerson ran roughshod over Ho- ~ bart, 48-18, in “warmup non-con-ference game, Crawfordsville nosed Noblesville, 82-31; and Princeton dumped Hazleton, 55 to 29.

DePauw Whips Central Normal

DANVILLE, Ind. Dec. 1 (U. P). =DePauw university opened its basketball season last night with 8 38-30 victory over a hardfighting Central Normal quintet. Central Normals team, made up of seven of the 11 boys in school, got away to an early lead, but DePsuw caught the out manned Purple Warriors late in - the first half and squelched a second-half Normal threat to assure victory. Forward C. Redcliff was best ~~ for the winners with 15 points, while Fine paced Normal scoring with 11 points, : :

Favors Return

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Dodgers will Keep Cawthon

NEW YORK, Dec. 1 (U, P)~— Officials of the Brooklyn football Dodgers reiterated today that Pete Cawthon would -be retained as coach of the National Professional Football league team for 1044, Er ; Jack Davies, president of the club, said Cawthon was not at fault for the poor showing the team made this season. “He wasn’t called in until July,” Davis said, “and you can't build # winning team in this league in a couple of months.”

2 Net Tilts Slated Tonight

Four high school basketball teams resume action tonight on a two-game card which will precede a program of heavy firing over the week-end calling for a total of 20 games: Tonight's schedule calls Yor Sacred Heart to play at Beech Grove and Decatur Central to play host to Speedway. The remainder of the week's card follows:

FRIDAY

Shortridge at Greencastle,

Fans Are Satisfied HARTFORD, Conn, Dec. 1 (U. P)—"Wild Bill" McDowell, 160, Paterson, N. J, last night out-

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dig deeply to do, otherwise. Sixteen of the 21 men on the Indiana squad

—{are freshmen in enrollment, and all

are freshmen as far as varsity expe-

“|rience is concerned. None has had

any college experience. Good started dafly basketball practices Oct. 20 in preparation for a 22-game schedule which will take the Hoosiers against good teams week after week. . Succeeded McCracken “The mustached Good, who Iéd Indiana Central basketball teams to 190 victories and 52 defeats in his 15 years as head coach there, suc~ ceeded Branch McCracken at Indiana when McCracken went into the navy, and has been cautious in his statements... . ... .-. But fans, who realize that Indiana basketball, like football, must

depend upon: civilians. for man-}

power, note that Ohio State and

Minnesota. both of whom are on

the Indiana schedulé for two-game series, are similarly limited. Several other opponents — Wabash, Iowa, Wisconsin—have naval trainees, but

1will be rebuilding and can not be

said to have veteran quintets. And the freshmen at Indiana appear to be capable boys. Tonight's starters were expected to be George (Red) Tipton, 6-foot-3 star from Terre Haute Wiley, and Paul Shields of Monrovia at forwards. : “Big and Fast ~ At center will be Don Barnhart, former Marion high school player who uses his 6-feet-2 to good advantage under the basket. Slated for guards were 6-foot, 192-pound Bob Rowland of Martinsville and Sam Young of Rusliville, who is 6-2

land weighs 185.

Indiana will be big, and reporis from practice sessions indicate they will be fast, Good favors a fast break offense, but has indicated he may slow down for a while until his boys are more experienced and can take the chances which the fire-

- |wagon style demands.

Atterbury, ral games alBut win or lose. tonight, and allcivilian or no all«civilian, Indiana fans have an idea that the Hoosiers will be traditionally tough on the

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Bruins Nose

Hawks, 6-5

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The Boston Bruins moved back into a three-way tie for third place in the National Hockey lcague by beating the second place Chicago Black ‘Hawks, “6-5, in the league’s only contest last night. Tied with the Bruins were the Toronto Leafs and the Detroit Red Wings. ‘ Maintaining their perfect record on home ice this season, the Bruins pleased the 10,000 customers with a goal in the opening period, four in the middle stanza and the clincher in the third period. The Hawks were blanked in the first, scored twice in the second and closed with a futile rush of three, just failing to catch the victors. Bip Guidolin paced the Bruins with two goals.

lllinois Racing Dates Are Set

SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Dec. 1 (U. P).~Racing dates for Illinois tracks in 1944 were announced tcday, with a ‘special five-day charity program established. for Arlington Park, July 3-7. The Illinois racing board sched.uled two meets for . ns park, April 20-May 15 and Oct. 18Nov. 4, and set the following dates for other tracks: LINCOLN FIELDS — May 16 through June 17. ARLINGTON PARK-—-June 19 through Aug. 3. WASHINGTON PARK-—Aug. 4 through Sept. 7. ) HAWTHORNE — Sept. 8 through Oct. 17. The board said the Fairmount park at Collinsville, Ill, did not apply for 1944 dates,

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league clubs holding the power if only the nine had been permitted to vote, the smaller leagues were afraid that the large clubs would seize control of the association. James R. Boyd Jr. of Jackson-

Mr. T, we are, we dashed down to the gas company and asked for our double fin, : The trip wad well worth ten dollars. First we entered the street floor and said, waving our claim for the ten, “where do we g0 to collect.” And so this pretty

“girl behind bars said: “Go up.the

ville, Fla. “attorney for the South|

Atlantic league and representing the 15 suspended leagues, told the meeting that if the inactive circuits were not permitted to vote they would take the matter to base-

The strike famine of last week seems to have caught up with the ball's high commissioner, Judge bowling public again, for last night's figures failed to develop anything Kenesaw M. Landis, or into the worth shouting about. Although the feminine pastimers fared well, only federal courts. He sald any. susfour male pinsters passed the 850-mark. . The top series came in the Link-Belt No. 2 league at the Pritchett be illegal and a “detriment to basealleys, where Norman De Hoff rolled games of 201, 232 and 234 for 667.

Two big series came in the Pennsylvania Recreation circuit at the Penn alleys, Carl Snyder taking

honors with a 658, while -Jake|.

Roeder trdiled by one pin. Snyder

his big - series in .the West Si classic, getting 654 on 244, 200 and 210. : r Five other Penn members made

Ed Sowar, 607, Tom Connor, 602, Ralph Allen, 602, and Amos Bruhn, 600. ,

Muriel Hayes, rolling with the brn Lakeshore Country club in the Blue|lLeonard Valls

Ribbon Ice Cream loop at the Sport Bowl, posted a 601 to set.the pace In the ladies’ activities, She had 164, 231 and 206. Other 500-shooters in

the Ice Cream organization were|Ed Mellvaine,

Ella Heckman 523, Marjorie Hoflheim 514, Marguerite Ray 509, Laraine Lauty 506 and Lucille Barkhand08. =

Marott Shoes Score

-Seventeeen members of the Marott Shoe Ladies’ league at the Pritchett alleys passed 500 with four of the iber passing 550. Ruth Graham turned in the top series, 578; Ann Reynolds had 575, Eva Dampert 566 and Helen Sheets 554. > : Other 500-shooters in the league were Elizabeth Pfielschifter, 531; Helen Thomas, 530; Helen Gardner, 520; Maxine Thayer, 528; Julia Lang, 522; Jane Leonard, 520; Zella Engler, 518; Mildred George, 514; Clara Mendenhall, 512; Margaret Christian, 512; Frances Snyder, 511; Dorothy Mashek, 502, and Jewel Sally Twyford had a 550 to lead the Beck Coal & Coke ladies at the Parkway. Other outstanding totals there were Edna Garringer, 541; Dolah Bearhope, 528; Etta May Vickery, 520; Artie Stevenson, 513; Leona Fields, 507, and Marie Fulton, 500.

Ruth, Murphy Give Films to Services NEW YORK, Dec. 1 (U. P)— Babe Ruth, America’s immortal home run hitter, and John Murphy, veteran New York Yankee relief pitcher, officially presented the American league's action films of the 1943 world series to the armed forces yesterday in a ceremony at LaGuardia field where 125 copies of the sports reels were put on an army overseas plane bound for the fighting fronts.

Bowling Scores

= OTHER 600 BOW (MEN wink 2 CERN Art Phelan, Commercial Paul Lawvere, Allied Printers Al _Tacke, Speedway Recn. . Guy Dillman, Speedway Reen Kuzmaul, Speedway Reen Doe Pieper, Allied Printers Frank Johns, n Keen Lynn Lee, Stevens Mortuar EW he Produc 6 Cecil South, Stewart< .. Roy Crombey, Speedway Recn + 008 Carl Schiefelbein, Allied Pri “ 4 vo 604 .» 608 .. 608

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OTHER LEAGUE LEADERS (MEN) 588 .. B88 C. L. 583 John Duke, Community... «. 581 Tarvin Fisher, BR. C. A. .... « MN And; Ge

y Indiana AP. ss sane BIT Norman Hamilton, Foreman Reen. 56 Ed Stevenson, Our Lady of Lourdes . 574 Lewis Woodruff, Allison office Mixed.. 572 Bill Jenkins, Bridgeport Brass........ §il Lee Jackson, Grotto . —.... ......... Db6l Chas. Gross, Ind. Empit. Security. .. 5'¢ C. Lightenover, Intl. Machine & Tool.. 54

OTHER 500 BOWLERS (WOMEN) Kate Hoover, Allison Office Mixed .... 532 Dorothy Handy, R. C. A Derothy Hoover, Bemis Charlotte Cavin, Triang OTHER LEAGUE LEADERS (WOMEN Edith Williams, Kilee-Coleman ....... 490 Betty Fox, Curt Mixed .... 493 Ruth Smith, Mallory « 0 Marie Little, Ladies . Evelyn Pryor, Ft. Square Nigh Marie Christian, Ind. Empit. Sec. A. Crinzall, Link-Belt > Ruth Phillips, St. Philip Frances Cook, Broad Ri “0 Evelyn White, Herman Schmitt Ins. . 454 Margaret O'Gara, Uptown Tues. Night 451

Bunker Hill Is 59-37 Victor

BUNKER HILL, Ind, Dec. 1 (U. P.) ~The Bunker Hill naval air station basketball team last night added another game to the long list of Bunker Hill victories by beating Baer field, Ft. Wayne, 59-37. The triumph was the fifth in a row for the undefeated netters, and {follows an undefeated football season for the Cloudbusters. Bunker Hill took command of the

game at the beginning and never was headed, maintaining a 235-14 half-time margin. Prank Klee and Jack Thurnblad led the winners with 11 and 10 points; Olin was best for Baer field with 10 points.

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pension of their voting rights would

ball.” a The voting rights of the suspended leagués then were challenged by George M. Trautman, American association president;.J. Kemp Bartlett, president of Baltimore of the

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Gets 18 Votes . Trautman challenged Bramham'’s right to reverse his original decision jand Bartlett argued that the sus{pended leagues could not know and act wisely on the war-time prob{lems of the operating leagues. Veeck charged that permission for 'the inactive leagues .to vote could

put-them in control of the associa-

tion. “It -develops into .a wrestling match as to who shall run the association, those in business or those on the side-lines” Veeck said. Willlam G. (Billy) Evans, Southern. association . president, charged that elimination of the suspended | leagues’ voting rights would change {the whole baseball structure. Bramham, president since 1932, was then re-elected without opposition, his critics among the still operating clubs declining to nominate

leader of the opposition, had been 1 to be nominated as a rival candidate. Representhtives of 18 leagues voted for Bramham, five passed and

Leaders of the oppostion threatened to appeal Bramham'’s re-elec-tion

first flight of stairs and ask for - Mr. Smith (this is no exaggeration). So we went upstairs and asked for Mr. Smith. Then we went up another flight of stairs and asked for Mr. Smith. A pleasant woman said: “Oh, another one!” And we fell exhausted in the nearest chair. Then we looked around and decided to protest against civilization. To the right of us were calculating machines: "To thé Teft of - us were calculating machines. To the front of us were calculating

machines. By this time we were

hiding under the stenographer’s desk and screaming that we would pay- the ‘ten spot if they'd only let us out of there. But they didn’t. Working up our courage we peaked out of our foxhole and saw “our pleasant woman” running experienced fingers through the files. The files incidentally were housed in tripledoored vaults for what reason we shall never fathom. One bill a month is enough without stealing & vault 1 of it all,” had reverted to the good old days when you paid for your. purchase with wampum or Just pulled off your quarry by the hair of her head, If this irritates the gas company let me make amends. We don’t propose that we could run the utility any better . . . but we COULD make it a lot simpler. All we would ‘do is not send out any letters saying we owe you $10. We would achieve the same resylts. Of course, we didn’t get the ten. “Our pleasant woman” pointed out that after we failed

' to call for the money (a small

pause of several months) they credited it to our bill and that settled that. Now mind you we think they are right but we still remain baffled when we think of that ten they owed us and the ten we got in credit. It’s like the rabbits you plan on getting and the rabbits you don’t get. . Ye *

Billy Thom Rallies

To Whip Nichols

to his $25,000-a-year post to| Coach Billy Thom, Indiana uni-

triumphed over Jackie

""" | Nichols, Nova Scotia, in the fea-

Colas, Stout Field

Meet on Court

ketball

five iff the first

this season tomorrow at

tured clash of the weekly mat bill staged last night at the Armory

Athletic club before

2500 tussling fans, Royal Crown Cola amateur bas-|.

After Nichols had taken the first

team will play the Stout field fall in 47 minutes with a double toe

game of thelr tWo-i;,5q, the Bloomington'

from the role of pitching star to manager of the New York Giants’ farm system. Long-pants Hubbell, the lean, bushly-haired Oklahoman who captivated the nation’s fans with “his ‘mound’ magic and modest personality, now ' attempts the herculean task of attracting war-

decimated talent to the Giants’ ~ bedraggled banner, through the

luster of his name. lad: Hubbell, main-stay of the Giants’ mound staff since 1928, was released as a player yesterday and immediately rehired as farm manager. The Giants have had no farm supervisor since Bill Terry left the organization in 1941.

Hub will have nine scouts to assist :

in the search for talent.

. Regardless of what he may

carve out of the future, old “Long-

Pants” can be justifiably proud of

“his pitching ¢areer, ~ which was high-lighted by his being voted the most valuable player in the circuit in 1933 and 1936, and which was glamorously featured by his amazing performance in the 1934 all-star game.

Whenever baseball men talk of -

great mound achievements, they must include Carl's spectacular feat that summer's day in ‘34 when he fanned in succession the cream of American league sluggers—Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jimmy Foxx, Al Simmons and Joe Cronin. Brother—that was pitching'l

Set on Cinders

NEW YORK, Dec. 1 (U. P) ~The Amateur Athletic Union today announced that amateur athletes established 63 new records in recognized —eompetition inthe United States this year. Gunder Hagg of Sweden led the pack with three new distance rune

ning records, established during his all-victorious tour of this country

last summer. : Paul Jordan, chairman of the records committee, said the list would be submitted to the 85th annual A.A. U. convention at Co-

lumbus, O. Friday, and that all

marks accepted there would automatically become new American

| records.

Submit Hulse’s Mark Hagg’s record-shattering performances included a 4:05.3 time in the outdoor mile, which replaces Glenn Cunningham’s record of 4:06.7; his 3:478 in the 1500 event, Walter Mehl'’s recofd of 3:479, and his two-mile time of 8:513, which eliminates the 8:58.3 mark held by Don Lash. : Bill Hulse of the New York Athletic club, who ran a 4:06 mile while chasing Hagg at Berea, O, will have his mark submitted" for approval as the fastest time ever recorded by an erican. : Other marks which will be submitted Friday include Cornelius Warmerdam'’s pole vault of 15 feet 8% inches, .

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