Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 February 1946 — Page 10
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Three More Bouts Added to Card
Three more pro beak bashers "have been added to the five-scrap pro boxing bill to be staged Priday
night at the Armory, Matchmaker
Lloyd Carter of the Hercules Ath-
be a 10-round light-heavyweight duel between Charlie Banks, another Cincinnati product, and Bob Garner, of Louisville, Ky. Banks was in action last week at Hunt.
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Ralph Lollar and John Seerley. lin and James Taylor. the picture was made,
Farmer Jones Wins Feature
Farmer Jones, Arkansas hillbilly, settled a score at the Armory last night when the bewhiskered rustic {took two of three falls from Gil La Cross, the “Boston badman” to win featured bout honors on the weekly mat bill staged before a crowd of approximately 3200 wrestling followers. The Bostonian handed Jones a setback here two weeks ago. La Cross threatened to repeat by taking the first fall after only two minutes when he rushed the Montgomery county grappler off his feet and clamped on a leg breaker, Jones staged a comeback to take the second session after 12 minutes with a bear hug and the final in 10 minutes with a “mule kick.” In other bouts “Gorgeous George” Wagner of Hollywood pinned Lefty Pacer of Cleveland after nine minutes with a flying headlock and press and Rene La Belle of Toronto flipped Buddy Knox of Tulsa, Okla. with a dropkick and press in 16 minutes.
Jenkins Re-enlists For Three Years BALTIMORE, Feb. 20 (U.P). Former Lightweight Champion Lew
Jenkins, who served a hitch in the peacetime army before he began to
: box professionally, re-enlisted for a
three-year period late yesterday, at the recruiting center of the 3d service command. During the war, Jenkins put in three years as a boatswain's mate _|in the coast guard and was aboard landing craft at Sicily, Salerno and Normandy. ‘ He later was assigned duty in India, Burma and Marshall islands and the Philippines. Jenkins was discharged from the coast guard about four months ago and returned to the ring with only fair success.
Dyer: Tabs Dodgers As ‘Club to Beat’
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. Feb. 20 (U, P.)~Proclaiming: Brooklyn to be “deeper at more positions than we are,” Manager Eddie Dyer of the St. Louis Cardinals today tabbed '|the Dodgers as the club his Red Birds would have to beat to cap|ture the National league pennant. Dyer added that the New York Giants aso will be strong.
Mosconi Far Ahead In Pocket Match
NEW YORK, Feb, 20 (U. P)i— World Champion Pocket Billiard Player Willie Mosconi closed out a seven-day stand in New York to-
blocks here yesterday.
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day with an imposing. 670-point lead over Challenger Jimmy Caras after two straight. victories in final
\ These Continentals of Washington high school will try to keep history from repeating itself in the local sectional basketball tournament starting tomorrow at the Butler fleldhouse when they oppose Decatur Central. The Hawks sent the West Siders to the sidelines in last year's meet. Back row, left to right, Ralph O’Brien, Odia Boston, Kelly Strange, Gilbert Sellers, Don Seller and Jim Clevenger, Front row, Bill Mattingly, Roy Jacobs, Wayne Fields, Don Pulliam, Jack Woodson and Boyd DeBaum, .
The Hawks of Decatur Central will be striving equally as hard to repeat their 10435 victory and the regular season triumph over Washington. Back row, left to right, Raymond Horner, Erwin Minton,
Front row, Kendrick Shedd, Lloyd
Marvin Armstrong, another member of the tourney squad, was absent when
Morris Raps on D
comfortable lead in the conference appears to be the third cager in repeat as the point-making king. Morris, who has been up and down the standings from first to fifth place, put on a pair ot brilliant individual exhibitions in his last two starts as he dropped in 20 points against Illinois and then came back with 23 against Wisconsin. The spree gave Morris a total of 190 points for 11 games, He concludes the season here Saturday against Ohio State. The big Northwestern forward won the individual scoring title last season with 189 points, so that he already has topped his winning 1945 mark.
Basketball Hall of Scoring Fame
CHICAGO, Feb. 20 (U. P.).—One of the Big Ten's most coveted honors today was within the easy grasp of Max Morris, brilliant forward of Northwestern's basketball team. With a spectacular late season rush, ‘Morris has bounded into a
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‘By UNITED PRESS «-. Indiana university's “hurryin’
| Hoosiers,” tuning up ‘for a pair of |
closing games that will make or break their Big Ten basketball
championship bid, scored almost at
will last night in routing their
rivals from Ball State.
The final score showed Indiana the winner by a lopsided 84-41
margin over the injury. and draftriddled Cardinals.
Codch Harry Good, serving his
last season as “wartime” head man
at Indiana, emptied his bench.
GAMES TONIGHT
Nofre Dame at Michigan State. Evansville at Indiana State, Indians Central at Central Normal, iti
Palmer, Dave Reilich, Jack Shank-
oor of Big Ten’s
's individual scoring race and now the Big Ten's 40-year history to
back in 1908 only John Schommer of Chicago and Jewell Young of Purdue managed to make successful defenses of a point-making title, Tony Jaros of Minnesota, not among the 10 leaders a week ago, bounded into second place in the current Big Ten standings with an average of 14.3 points per game, The Gopher star has 129 points in nine contests. Third place is held by Bob Cook of Wisconsin with 149 points in 11 games for a 13.5 average. Bob Doster of Illinois, who held the lead for several weeks, fell to fourth place with a 13.4 average. The 10 leading scorers follow:
Huntington 51, Anderson #4. Indiana 84, Ball State 41. Manchester 57, Taylor
42. Western Michigan 75, Valparaiso 3.
OTHER COLLEGES American University 85, Catholic Univer sity .
Baylor 44, Texas A. and M. 41, Furman 49, Clemson 39. Drake 52, Kansas State 23 Kentucky 60, Ohio University 53. Long Island 78, Camp Upton 49. Canisius 54, Assumption 33.
Hoppe Retains Cue Lead in Marathon
CHICAGO, Feb, 20 (U. P.) —Cue Master Willle Hoppe of White Plains, N. Y,, today held a 800 to 642 lead over Jake Schaefer of Chicago in their 1000-point threecushion billiards. marathon match as the contest passed the threequarter mark, Schaefer in both blocks yesterday.
Bogue Is Winner
Joe Bogue downed K George Atkin-
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Morris needs 10 or more points Games PG FT TP Avg. Morris, Northwestern. 11 73 44 190 17.2 against the second-place Bucks to|Jjaros, Minnesota ... 9 41 a 120 143 Cook, Wisconsin. .... 1 61 : gain the distinction of being the Doster, Iliinois...... 11 60 28 148 13.4 fourth player ever to score 200 or Undermann, o. State Jd 5 I 18 13 Hoffman, ue ; h more points in a conference cam- |i "Northwestern. 11 44 48 136 123 paign. « Wallace, Indiana. ... 10 8 3 1 113 Ibo, Michigan..... . Since the Big Ten was formed |Viies, Purdde ... . 12 53 26 133 110 STATE COLLEGES Loyola wiChicago) 50, Chicago Teachers 2. eyan y Denison DePauw 37, Wabash 31 West Texas State 850, Texas Tech 44.
Hoppe defeated
Chalking up a high run of five,
son, 50-35, in 91 innings in a state at the Board of Trade parlor last night. Atkinson's best cluster was a three.
ppl 43. Wake rest 1 James Millikin 60, Illinois Wesleyan 39.
PROFESSIONAL
Indianapolis Kautskys 60, Linton 46 (exhibition). Chicago 46, Youngstown 39. Rochester 64, Ft. Wayne 59.
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BALBOA, C. Z,, Feb. 20 (U. P). —Manager Joe McCarthy of the New York Yankees rejoiced today over the prodigious home-run hit by Joltin® Joe DiMaggio yesterday. The outfielder admitted he hadn't hit many like it before. The blow was a 450-foot clout.
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However, all but four of the 15 players he sent into the game
scored, : It was Indiana's 16th victory in|} 19 games and left the Hoosiers “in|§
the pink” for Big Ten wind-up
Monday at Iowa. Big “Its” If Indiana wins both, and if Iowa loses another, and if North-
western whips Ohio State, then— land only then—would the Hoosiers share the title.
John Wallace boosted his all-time
Indiana scoring record to 272 last night with a 12-point effort against the Cardinals. Wallace snapped the previous mark, held by Ernie Andres, last week-end.
Elsewhere last night, Western
Michigan surprised inconsistent Valparaiso, 75-49; DePauw beat Wabash in another of those bitter rivalry games, 27-21; gained undisputed possession of third place in the state conference by downing hapless Anderson, 5126, and Manchester skidded Taylor further into the cellar, 57-42.
Huntington
Aces Play Sycamores Tonight’s action will be high-
lighted by Evansville’s invasion of Terre Haute to play Indiana State. Also on tap are Notre Dame at Michigan State and Indiana Central at Central Normal.
Evansville, paced by high scor-
ing Harold Brown, has lost twice to the Sycamores®and tradition says it's all but impossible to beat a good club three times in a season, If the Purple Aces win, it could mean the state championship.
‘Evansville now has won five out
of six I. C. C. starts and has only to get by second division Indiana Central in its finale. On the other
hand, Valpo's undefeated pace-set-ters have won four league games, but still must get by Indiana State. State, too, is in the running, with three loop victories in four games and two more yet to play.
Greyhounds Face Warriors
The Indiana Central Greyhounds will journey to Danville tonight to attempt to break even in a twogame series for the season with the Central Normal college warriors. The Central Normal five trimmed the Greyhounds in mid-December, 43-33, at Indiana Central.’ The Central quintet finally found itself Saturday night against Manchester and is hoping to hand the Warriors the same kind of prescription. It will be the last out-of-town trip for the Greyhounds this year. Their remaining game will be with Evansville in University Heights, Feb. 27.
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it's all because of basketball. Mr Stranahan. And Mr. Stranahan O'Brien. :
up the argument from here.
By J. E. O'BRIEN OERCION—that’s what it is. Mr. Stranahan, the cooperator of this little place of basketball business, has been forced to pick New Castle. He knows that if he mentioned any other team, he would be blackballed from New Castle society and have his Henry county visa revoked.
Never let it be said
that
erced. Of my own free will, § choosing obviously ¢ the best team im the state to win the state. Give me Central of Evansville, if you please, and you can have the other 775. I am picking Central, knowing full well that Bosse's state champions already have a sectional ambush laid and that the Bears’ jumping-jack forward, Bob Kohlmeyer, may be on crutches with a wrenched ankle until at least Saturday night.
But Cenwral’s assets still outweigh these liabilities. The Bears have shown stamina and an ability to fight back. They prefer to get under, rather than shoet out on the floor—and this means less chance for them to go “cold,” which often is a deadly menace to tournament teams. They devote a little more effort to defense than the run of 1946 teams, and I like that, too. One factor against. them in the tourney, I know, will be the shortage of losses on their season record. A team should suffer to be seasoned, and maybe the Bears haven't suffered enough. But that is a “handicap” the Bears must accept. » » » Maybe I shouldn't want the Bears to win, Things already have been bad enough around our house with Brother No. 3 on the squad, and the whole family transformed into a fireside cheering section. The last time I was home pennants already had replaced the living-room pic” tures, and a contractor was quoting his price on doing over the whole place in gold and brown. I strenuously objected when the Kid came to the dinner table one night dressed in his game suit. But worse than that, the entree tasted suspiciously like bear meat, which I thought was carrying school spirit a bit too far. All this, mind you, from a maternal parent who three months ago thought a per-
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There's strife in The Times sports department these days. And
It seems that there's a state tournament coming up and there's a difference of opinion on who's going to win it. But you can take
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By BOB STRANAHAN IF Mr. O’Brien can go back .to Evansville to pick the 1946 Indiana high school basketball champion, there's nothing to keep Old Kunnel
from meandering’back to New Castle to get his winner. The old boy will be first to admit that there absolutely is no logic asses 10F DiS selection. The Trojans could even get bumped off in their sectional this week. Middletown could do it. Then if they get to Muncie for § the regional, they i will have to go all out against the Muncie and Richmond sectional winners. * It gets no easier in the semifinal, for the Green and White will be up against such possible worthies as Central or South Side of Ft. Wayne, etc. Then it looks like Chuck Stuckey’s kids will have to lick Lafayette and Mr. O’Brien’s own Centrals to win the title. » = ~ But, strictly on a hunch, the old guy once again has cast his lot with the Trojans. Hunches ‘sometimes are just as good as figures in this high school show. » - 5 New Castle isn’t a big team, and] most of tive dupesters say you have to have size to come through. But the Trojans have proven on several occasions this year that they have all the spirit and drive so essential to a champion. Anderson found out about that last Friday night, Lafayette’ not so long ago. Another bunch of New Castle kids had that same spirit back in 1932, They didn’t have a center that year to match Jack Mann or Jess McAnally. But they took the title
Stranahan
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<| ending an eight-game losing streak.
Hockey Flyers | Snap 8-Game Losing Streak
_By UNITED PRESS : The St.-Louis Flyers, showing an encouraging reversal of form, commenced a final effort today to get out of the western division cellar in the American Hockey league after
The Flyers topped the Hershey Bears, 7 to 5, at St. Louis last night to run up their highest total in any game this season. The teams battled on even terms through the first period in which Stan Robertson of Hershey and Fido Purpur of St. Louls scored goals, Gladu Scores Twice In the second stanza the Flyers went all out with Paul Gladu score ing the puck twice and Joe Jene
one each before Hershey oould episte r Sa shite by Armand Gaudreault and Norman Larson, tallied twice. whe In the third period Harvey Fraser ii Jud Meates tallied for St. Louis while 0 Rozzini rang u for Hershey. Spa pou) In games tonight, New Haven plays at Buffalo and Hershey invades Cleveland, AMERICAN LEAGUE Western Division
WLT INDIANAPOLIS ..37 19 8 2% a Pittsburgh 1 213 184 @1 Cleveland 208 189 51 Bt. louis ......... 19 7 165 24 4 Buffalo ........... 5 7 221 1712 & Hershey .......... T 160 170 53 Providence 178 207 40 New Haven 166 217 »
LAST NIGHT'S SCORE St. Louis 7, Hershey 5.
THIS WEEK'S SCHEDULE
Tonight—New Haven at Buffalo: - shey at | Cleveland. vi yrsday—Buffalo at Providence, yi Skday. INDIANAPOLIS at St. Louis; rshey a h; Hershey iL urg! Providence af)
Sunday—Pittsburgh at INDIANAPOLIS: Hershey at Providence: Cleveland at New Haven; St. Louis at Buffalo.
Detroit Signs Two
Still in Service DETROIT, Feb. 20 (U. P). Tackle George Speth and end Joe Stringfellow have signed 1946 con tracts with the Detroit Lions pro fessional football club, Coach Gus Dorais announced. Both men still are in service but expect to be separated shortly. Their signing raises to 27 the total number now under contract for the 1946 season
back to the Rose City just the lsame. ” » » The worst thing about picking | New Castle is the fact that it is (-durn hard to find anything to rhyme with Trojan, New Castle or Rose City.
" # = You may talk of Bears and Tigers And of Broncs and Wildcats, too; But when it comes to winners, It's the Trojans we’ll give you. | Yep! Trojans! Trojans! Trojans! (They'll make O’Brien sweat). The hubba hubba high school team. That's New Castle, you can bet!|
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