Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 December 1943 — Page 10

won four pennants, fin-

~ @ wiminate the farm system. American association

clubs which are owned. outright

Browns, and Kansas City, New York Yankees. r > . . . * INDIANAPOLIS and Minneapolis are strictly independent, Milwaukee is independent but has a close tie-in with the Chicago Cubs.

and St. Paul has § player working agreement with the -Brooklyn

Dodgers. EE In norma! times the farm system saved little minor loops and

also helped the big minors survive, especially during the depression. . . It probably wili continue as a part of the baseball setup.

‘ro Boxing to Return to Minneapolis PROFESSIONAL hoxing is about to return to Minneapolis after an absence of 18 months. . .. That there has not been a professional card in the Mill City since then wasn't the fault of the promoters, or the Minfesota Athletic commission. . . . The reason was the war which has claimed more than 3000 professional boxers, There were no good pros available in Minnesota. or the surrounding states. . .. It is a matter of record that boxing fans in ‘the Minneapolis and ‘St. Paul area will not lay their dough on the line to see two boxers imported from other. cities perform there. Minneapolis promoters hope tq revive interest in the pros by using home talent just out of the amateur ranks against boys In their class from nearby cities.

Toledo Loads Up With Hoosier Netters

BURL FRIDDLE, ye olde Hoosier basketballer, has rounded np more Hoosiers for his University of Toledo basketball team. . . . Hig leading 1942-43 players were Hoosiers. . . . He has but one man returning from his last season's club but he knew where to scout up

Youngsters from Ft. Wayne, Bedford and Hammond, Ind., make up most of Friddle's new squad. . . ; and Bob Bellush are from Bedford. , . . George Stefko and Steve

Bindas are from Hammond and Charlie Feistkorn and Ward Gil-

bert are from Ft. Wayne South Side, and Bob Leu is from Pt. Wayne nN -

Central. Friddle is the University of Toledo athletics director and basketball coach.

Indiana Soldiers Win Boxing Honors

HOWARD BROWN, regular guard on the Indiana university 1042 football team, recently won the novice heavyweight boxing championship of Camp Wolters, Texas, where Brown is stationed Brown is the second former Indiana football player to win a

“camp Boxing shampionship, ; . Jolin Bochnicka, another Crinison =

guard of the 1942 gridiron season, wori the Camp Croft, N. C., camp heavyweight title last summer. Co : } Bochnicka was refurned to the I. U. campus for two months for additional training and i§ now about to enter-officer’s candidate school at Fort Benning, Ga } ’

Jim Padgett, Bill Concannon -

Sextet

For Red Tilt;

[Gets Bukovich

more disturbed than the most loyal fan and he’s determined that the picture is going to change, beginning with the local icemen’s game with Providence at the Coliseum tomorrow night. ’

Johnny is putting his youngsters through long stiff drills.

Then the Fadeout

ond period of Sunday night's game, fhe said, “they looked like no one {could beat them, then they folded. They should be in great shape. They're too young a club to weaken.” So—for two and one-half hours yesterday and for the same time again ‘today, he told them so and put them through some strenuous |skating and scrimmage. There'll be some changes made in the lineup tomorrow night. Tony Bukovich is coming down from the Detroit Redwings in a temporary

Kane will probably be a starter

recently. | Seeks Scoring Power

Sorrell wants to get a fin man,

the “ocean,” on both lines, i

appearance of Providence here this year, The Caps haven't done so good against the Easteners this year, lost one to them and tied in another. . “I “I'he face off is at the usual time 8:30. {

‘Wally Kilrea Sets - | Pace In Scoring >» To NEW HAVEN, Cann. Dec. 7 ( P.).—Wally Kilrea of Hershey, with 25 points, and a teammate, Gaston Gautherie, with 21 points, headed the list of high scorers today in the American Hockey league: Burlington of Cleveland held third place with 20 poin's. Horeck of: Cleveland, Klein of, | Buffalo and -Hergert of Hershey. ‘were tied with’ 18 points each for

fourth spot: Trudel of Cleveland: took fifth place with 17 points; Burtholome of Cleveland and Tou{pin of Providence were tied at 16, points for sixth place, and N. Smith, {of Indianapolis and Bennett of Buffalo had 15 points apiece.

Pro F ootball League Breaks All Attendance Records

CHICAGO, Dec. 7 (U. P).—The game included in the figures, atNational Football league reported tendance reached 1,115,154 for 56 Assuming that sional games this year has broken the championship contest at Wrig-| ley field, Chicago. Dec. 19. will be crowd 3 sellout, the 1943 attendance will exceed last vear's by 1000 for only

today that attendance at profes- games [ast season,

all previous records. Assuming that a: sellout will attend the New York-Washing-ton game Sunday, a total of 41 games. . 1.072469 fans have flocked to 40

per contest.

higher than 1941, when an average ‘he favorites consistently. To sup-| of 21611 attended each game, the Port the figures, the league reported

league announced. the following points: Tighter Raté Credited

In 55 games last year, a total of

League officials credited the in-

pro games for an average of 26,811 Crease to a tighter race and the : This is 24 per cent ability of the underdogs to defeat i

{| The Washington Redskins played [to six consecutive sellout crowds.

Green Bay's Packers drew wos Angelo Defends :

' Harvard Star | Gets Yale 'Y'

NEW HAVEN, Conn., Dec. 7 (U. P).~The first man in football history to win a letter at both | Yale and Harvard was Wayne i Johnson Jr, who yesterday received notification that he would receive his “Y". . Johnson, a native of Worton, ! M.d.. and a marine trainee at Yale, received _his “HH” -last year for | playing 60-minutes against Yale. Transterréd to the Elis this season, he joined the varsity but was

{ injured in the opening game |

against Muhlenberg and unable to |

1,079,148 pushed through the turn- Pro football crowds against the Chi-

stiles for an average of 19620 per cago Bears at Green Bay and This year's total” was only a%ainst Washington at Milwaukee. Phil-Pitt's Steagles pulled Phiia-

pro

game. 6679 less than 1042 when the sched- oo ule contained an additional 15 deiphia’s record games. The increase over 1942 was SaMes—34,204, 7191 per game or 36.7 per cent, With the annual division playoff

Decatur (Central |—8 total attendance of 245.398.

Frosh Scheduled = |Blozis, Pro Star,

The Dééatur Central high shoot 10 Take Physical

crowd for

freshmen, the first freshmen team| NEW YORK, Dec. 7 (U. P).—Al Blozis, 245-pound tackle for the New

Decatur at 2:30 p. m. Thursday. |» '% Giants, was scheduled to take The team dropped the first two pre-induction physical examina- |

the school ever had, will play its third game against New Augusta at

games to Southport and Ben Davis. | 0, (day.

Coach Joe Pike has arranged a 14- - game schedule for the boys.

The Detroit’ Lions drew a total of 16,360 in five games, with one . game played in rainy weather, and {the New York Giants pulled more

. {than 40,000 fans in four of six games of three, brings together two of Dutch Lonborg also is counting on

Blozis, regarded as one of the best linemen in the National Professional

Unbeaten Record

Martino Angelo appears in defense of his undefeated record when

feature tonight's wrestling show at: the armory { The bout, listed for two falls out

the best junior heavyweights in the [game and is expected to be one {of the best encounters ¢f the in- | door season. The rugged Angelo is| {out of Akron and although he fea-

the fans credit him with having plenty of skill and. power. Thom is

versity. Opening the program at 8:30 win be Rene La Belle of Toronto and Bob Castle of Mehphis. The semi-

. Coach Johnny Sorrell of the Indianapolis Capitals is not only an unhappy man, he’s an irritated man. | The Caps’ recora of two won, | \ seven lost and six tied Has him | N=

“For 10 or 12 minutes of the sec-|

trade for Hymie Buller and Red

because of his great defensive work'|

a fellow who can put the disc into

| Not one accustomed to losing, |

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and Hinkle’s

Floor Powers

CHICAGO, Dec. 7 (U. P.).—Midwestern colleges faced imposing basketball schedules with confidence today as coaches detected a “leveling| Great Lakes game and a pro

off” process among wartime talent.

"At the Big Ten meeting last week, coaches and athletic directors said

«| that the 1943-44 basketball season U. recent conference football rate hecause:

1. Vast differences in personnel between civilian and navy-powered teams is “leveling off” as’talent begins to redistribute itself and more teams are forced to use freshmen, 2. Boys just out of high school,

who find it difficult to break into

rigorous collegiate football, can turn in a good fioor per.ormance: :in-

experience 1s 1ess Tikely to upset the

caliber-of basketball teams than in

footbail because there is” less need who have played ‘together for 151

for teamwork, coaches said. Cite Co-ordinating Task -

At the same time, Big Ten officials privately protested the tendency to minimize the acclaim of teams that were working with socalled lend-lease material. - Too many persons, they said, are inclined to shrug. off the victories of a navy-powered squads by saying “Well, why shouldn't they win? They got all their players from other schools.” Actually, they contended, coaches

have a difficult job co-ordinating | the many different types of indi- | smooth- |

vidual stars into one functioning team after converting their style of play to the new; coaching system. | For this reason, many coaches] agreed that Elmer Burnham of |

were the outstanding football! coaches of the year because they

winning combinations.

Wildcats Look Strong At first glance, Northwestern ap- | peared to be the power of the cong ference, witn Otto Graham spear- | heading the offense. tile Graham is back in his natural

molded their “too many cooks” into ; participate the rest of the season. | y David Palmer, Joe Ricketts, Charles

ixabit on the court, where he scored | 0€nt of the Park School Dads’ asso-

1£7 points as a sophomore and 177 last year. Hell team with Nick

he takes on Coach Billy Them..t0 yedick, his football running mate, Devoe. secretary, and.F. N. Ropkey,

Ronnie Schumacher varsity forward, and George Fell, six-foot four-inch = veteran center. Coach

Dave Thompsox, six-foot seveninch center, who is too tall for the army. ! ; Nlinois, minus the “whiz kid” champions, was not hopeful of re-

tures a rough style of grappling, peating for the title. Coach Doug Mills has a young and green team, {but like Piggy Lambert of Purhead mat coach at Indiana uni- due, Mills always turns out a top

contender,

| Michigan, with Bob Wiese, Dave

Strack and Don Lund held. over

{from last year's varsity, is a defi-

|Coach Reichel announced the elec-

The versa-|

1+Indians and Park squads,

will- bring a “hotter” race than the

teams fear Indiana under Harry Good, who compiled ‘a record of 30 straight victories at Indiana Cen- | tral. The best among non-conference schools in the Midwest appeared to be Great Lakes under Tony Hinkle, {who . has Herman Schaefer "and Curly Armstrong of Indiana, a smooth working pair. of forwards

|vears; De Paul, Notré Dame, under | Ed Krause, and Kentucky,

Park Athletes

Get Letters

Eighteen Park High school football players wore new letters today alter awards were made last night at the annual banquet at the school. > Coach Lou. Reichel made the awards after addresses by Coach Elmer Burnham of Purdue and Joe Dienhart, one of his assistants.

tion of Charles Bennett as next season's captain,

{ Purdue, Fritz Crisler of Michigan Winners and Tony Hinkle of Great Lakes| Capt. ot ATS netuaed

Bennett, Henry Bennett, Tom Cunningham, Wally Lee, John Barrett,

Hawthorne, Jack’ Stark, Smiley Chambers Jr. Dick Parker, Al Rabb, Peter Nairn, Henry Taggart, Bob Hanley, Fred Leete and Student Manager Phil Moores. Dads’ Club Elects 1 Wallace O. Lee was elected presi-

ciation. Other officers named were J. H. Hare, vice president; L. M.

treasurer, % {| Other speakers included John R. | Caldow, headmaster; Alex Taggart, {retiring president of the Dads’ club; W. R. Higgins, treasurer; Jim Pierce, trainer of the Indianapolis and {Eugene Miller, head of the Dads’ club nomination committee, :

Soldiers Greet Touring Stars

HEADQUARTERS, Alaska De-

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DePauw's two high-powered teams —the university squad and Lt. Everett Cases’ V-5 Naval Flight Prep-

atory cagers—were to clash at the

Greencastle high school gym, which is the home floor for the Casemen. DePauw has won both its games, including a 47-36 decision over Indiana, while the V-5 quintet has won five out of six, its only loss being to Wisconsin. The Army and the Navy tangle here. The Indianapolis Naval armory five. is to play Stout field. Stout fleld absorbed a 68-10-28

day.

rdue Eleven

Will Be Feted

MEMBERS OF the Purdue football team and coaching staff will be guests of the Indianapolis. Purdue alumni at a dinner at 6:30 p. m. Priday at the Co- { lumbia club. : | Motion pictures of the Purdue-

| league game will be shown.

Hall, Famed Relief Pitcher, Is Dead -

VENTURA, Cal, Dec. 7 (U. P.).— Charlie Hall, 58, one of baseballs great pyeliet pitchers, died *at his home yesterday after a long illness. Hall was a member of the Boston Red Sox five-man pitching staff that won the 1912 world series from the New York Giants. In that series he

duel “with “the Giants” Christy Mathewson that went 13 innings to a 4-4 tie. on Hall once farned Ty Cobb, Sam Crawford and Jim Delhaney of the Detroit Tigers in succession. In Hall's 27-year career he also pitched for Cincinnati and Columbus and St. Pall of the American association, - He also was St. Paul manager. :

JT] naval V-12 trainees and one civilian. |.

'} thuniping from DePauw V-5 Sun-| |

pitched a long-remembered- mound!

Foothills,

Rates Bertelli 4

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Oklahoma A. and M.'s basketball squad swings east before the holidays with a seven-foot center, aptly called

Robert Kurland,

{—A-game between two undefeated Ft. Wayne teams—Central and Cens {tant North Central conferen {clashes headlined the week's high | {school basketball schedule. ¥ Central, defending state chame pion, has won its ohly game so far, _ while Central Catholic boasts four

{victories without deeat.

{the hands of New Castle, plays {twice this week—on Wednesday {and Priday—and both games are {important in the N. C. C. Lafas ‘|yette is the opposition Wednesday, while Muncie Central, which, - é | Anderson, suffered its first defea$: | {last week, is host to the Indians Friday. '

New Castle at Tech

New Castle's veteran five, n : as the team to watch in state ag" {well as N. C. C. competition aftep+ its decisive 50-35 triumph over Ane: derson, meets Indianapolis Tech in ‘{another good conference game.” The New Castle Trojans, whe | average a little over 8 feet 2 inches {in height, play Muncie Burris, {which can put a team on the floor averaging almost 8 feet 4, on Saturday. : Artesians vs. Rushville

In the South Central conference, Martinsville, defending champion and. winner of five of six games so far, is carded against Rushville Friday. Rushville has lost only one of four games. . : * Shelbyville goes against Colum= bus; in -another- game - involving -& 8. C. C: leader, be Bedford plays Huntingburg and Jeffersonville meets Washington in

Over Luckmann

BUFFALO, Dec. 7 (U.P.).—Herbert O. (Fritz) Crisler, Michigan university football coach, last night rated the passing of Notre Dame's Angelo Bertelli over that of Sid Luckman, the Chicago

Bears’ stellar pigskin tosser.

“Of course, I can base my opin--jon only on what Bertelli did to

good southern games. Jasper, ‘the only team to beat Bedford and ite self loser of only one game—a 53-48 ° affair with Jeffersonville last week —meets undefeated Evansville Reits,

Bob Simmons Loses In Chicago Bout

CHICAGO, Dec. 7 (U. P).—~Joe Sulick, 148%, New York, won & uhanimous 10-round decision last night over Robert Simmons, 147, Ins |dianapolis, in a closely contested

us, Which was pletity;* the coach {Nght

of the eo-winner of the Big “Ten” championship this year told the

Michigan club of Buffalo.

Notre Dame was the only team | to beat Michigan this year. Crisler said he believed a letter after that game from a student at a

girls’ school, which read:-

“Don’t feel badly; we have no

football team either.”

" Sulick suffered a gash over his left eye in the second round and the wound was reopened several times during the bout, but he retained the initiative throughout and carried the match on the strength of hie body attack. . Sef nT Gene Simmons, 165, Indianapolis, won a.five round decision from Al ~. {clark, 164, Detroit. :

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{ football league, was turned down on

windup is between Gil La Cross of nite threat. Purdue has a con-

; Twenty-two are on the squad They are: _ ®Howard Mills, David Reilich, John - Beeriey, Raymond Horner, Charles Thornberry, James Taylor, Jack - Ozment, Don Douglas, Don Burkhart, Carl Weidner, Max McGraw, John , John Brosema, Robert Farley, Arthur Bowman, Ervin Minton, James Leapley, Chester Dorrell, Jack Shanklin, Bill Armstrong and Tom Macy. " : Marion county has been divided i160 four sections. The team out of section having won the

{a previous examination because of this size, He is six feet six inches

tall, :

Soldier Heads Bowling Honor Roll With 683;

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passing the 650-mark.

Dayton, O., stationed at Pt. Harrison, was the best in the city-wide individual competition, getting a 683 in his Evangelical Church league games at Pritchett's.

‘lof a pair of bowlers t¢ fill vacan-

Boston and Whitey Wahlberg of [tender with John Swant, Jack Ken are nedy, Duffy Priend and a flashy i sophomore, Bill Lodge: Conference

Minneapolis. Supporting bouts ‘one fall each. :

partment, Dec. 7 (U. P.)—Pive major league baseball stars, touring army camps outside the continental United States, opened bull sessions

Bowlers opening the week's ac-iformed Church loop at Pritchett's, Barry Mulinix, tivities got off to a nice start in and John Burge turned in 652 on! kl Dryer’ Cost last night's sessions, six pastimers 221 208 and 223 in the Allison Man- | Fred Simmens. F. R Mallory |ufacturing & Inspection Circuit at Boma Laser Prete Joé Cherry, army private from the Speedway. Fo

A new four-team loop got under way at the Delaware alleys as the. Stewart Filmtone organization! opened its schedule. Al Prick paced | his fellow bowlers in the initial session, getting 501.

Two feminine loops are in search

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