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By JOE WILLIAMS Scripps-Howard Staff Writer SAN FRANCISCO, March 26.— Tyrus Raymond Cobb, retired millionaire, lives 30 miles south of here in exclusive Atherton, where only the more substantial Dun & Bradstreet ratings are accepted. The 59-year-old Georgia Peach, who came out of Augusta in | 1905 to tear baseball apart, lives alone surrounded by his servants and his memories. Twice a week he plays golf. At

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playing days. He is losing a gallant fight against baldness and constantly wears glasses. “I not only look 59,” he laughs, “but I feel 58.” William Cunningham was among the guests the night I visited Cobb. You may remember Cunningham as : . a member of the New York Giants 2 outfield in the early 20's. i As you can imagine most of the dinner table talk had to do with baseball. Presently Cobb got around to the fist fight he had with Buck Herzog of the Giants years ago in a Dallas hotel room. I had always wanted to hear his version of the fight. There’ have been many versions and few followed the same

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intervals he entertains old friends in his lovely home. Otherwise he merely rides the serene tide of the fading years: Cobb sits at the head of the table and personally serves his guests. He looks to be in robust health, though he must be some 40 pounds heavier than his Detroit

pattern. Only on one point has there been any consistency, namely, . that it was Herzog who challenged

“It's a funny thing,” commented Cobb. “People always want to talk about the fights I had in baseball. They seem to forget that I took time off from fighting to play a

And of course that's true. As a matter of fact no man ever played more or better baseball. When Cobb retired he held’ or had tied 90 major league records. More than 30 still exist, It is unlikely that two of them will ever be broken. I refer to Cobb's batting mark of 367 for 24 years and his 892 stolen bases.

“Now about that fight,” Cobb re“I was late arriving at the ball park, and the Giants started in to heckle me. I was a prima donna, the big star and therefore I didn't have to respect the rules. The fact is Hughey Jennings, our manager, was also late. We had

“lI had gone along at Jennings’ invitation. Herzog was the leading heckler. I finally turned on him and said ‘I'll be seeing you at second

Folks Prefer to Talk of Ty’s Fights—Not His Baseball

base before the game is over.’ He played second you know. ‘m Coming Down’ “Well, the first time up I got on and I yell to Herzog, ‘I'm coming down on the next pitch,’ which I proceed to do. The throw is there ahead of me and Herzog comes up the line and I dive into him spikes first. The next minute we are throwing punches. Somehow I managed to duck but Herzog didn’t and I caught him a good one in the mouth. “Bill Brennan is umpiring and he orders us out of the game, which was proper of course. But apparently Brennan meant the order to apply only to me. In the next inning ‘Herzog walked to the plate to hit. I turned to Jennings and said, ‘If you permit Herzog to stay in

game for you as long as I live’ “I don't know whether I meant it or not. Anyway, Jennings protested and Brennan sent Herzog to the dugout.” Herzog Challenges The next scene is in the dining room of the Oriental hotel. Cobb is eating his dinner. Pretty soon Herzog appears at his table. “I think he’s going to shake hands and call it quits; but instead he asks me if I'll fight without knives or pistols. “When I see he is actually challenging me, I tell him most certainly I'll fight him anywhere, any time, under any conditions. It was then that we agreed to go to my room and fight it out.” Oscar Stanage, the catcher, was | Cobb's second; Heinie Zimmerman, the third baseman, was Herzog's. Cobb tells how he went to the room, moved the furniture back against the wall and—get this—sprinkled the carpet with water. “I did that so I'd have surer footing in moving around,” he explained.

no time as a ball player did Cobb ever overlook a bet. An Easy Winner According to Cobb it wasn't much of a fight. He was bigger than Herzog and beat him handily in the grim, taut presence of the two seconds, John McGraw heard of the fight and gave Cobb a brutal tongue lashing in the hotel lobby. “I was talking to a Texas” friend at the time,” Cobb recalls, “and my friend turned to McGraw and said, ‘If you don’t shut up I'll put a bul-

through McGraw must thought my friend meant it. shut up.” spoke to him for the first time.

right guy when you hit Herzog."

Graw meant by that.

Lazy Coaches Want Basketball's Long Boys Penalized, Charges Iba of the Aggies

tonight attempts to retain the N. C. A. A. title against North

~NEW YORK;-March -26—Peering | Carolina. If the Aggigs-repeat they out from under the shadow cast by |Will be the first team 'n history 9-foot Bob Kurland, Coach Hank|t® Pull such a stunt.

But Hank clears that idea up quickly. “Kurland was easy: to handle

ng am charged today that|because he had a sincere desire to ttempts legislate against the|be a great player,” Iba explained. of the court were inspired

“He's a straight A student and he worked hard at basketball, which Iimade my job simple.”

a big Soy ordinarily,” Iba| The easy-going coach doesn't be-

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rules appreciably to halter the

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To Even Ice - Series Tonight

By BOB STRANAHAN

Convinced by their own play that the Buffalo Bisons are far from invincible, the- Indianapolis Caps meet the Easterners at the Coliseum tonight with fond hopes of squaring the Calder cup playoff series at two games apiece. The Bisons took things easy yesterday after Sunday night's session, but Coach Babe Seibert called a morning working session for his club. Seibert didn’t reveal his battle plans for the second encounter on the local rink, but it is a very good guess that the Caps will follow the same open “blazeaway” style of play which netted them the 7-1 triumph on the heels of the two tight defensive games in Buffalo, Play Alertly The Indianapolis skaters played just as alertly and as well in Buffalo as they did Sunday—but still finished in. arrears, The conclusion would seem to be that the highscoring Caps are more formidable when they depend on their shoot and run type of play. This 1s no reflection on.the defensemen, however, for they've been in near-spectacular form in the playoffs. The work of Dick Behling and Doug McCaig has been

birds and Seibert. Behling has been taking miost -of Seibert’s playing turns on the ice and was credited with saving several goals. Behling, too, has been checking well and hasn't paid a visit to the penalty box in the first three games of the series. While some of the customers didn’t seem to care particularly for the officiating, there have been few complaints from the players.

Veteran Arbiters

Charles (Rabbit) McVeigh and Eddie Burke, the arbiters assigned to the set between the divisional winners, were at, the head of a list on a players’ poll. McVeigh is the league's top veteran, for over the space of eight playoff seasons he has handled the whistle in no fewer than 61 games. He worked 12 playoff contests last season, Burke's playoff exeprience has been gained from 41 games. General Manager Dick Miller announced that the Caps will leave for Buffalo tomorrow night at 10:30. Should they win tonight's game to square the series, they'll be back in Indianapolis for the sixth game next Saturday. Buffalo can close it out by winning tonight and on the Bison home ice Thursday. Tonight's game starts at 8:30 and the management announced that there still were plenty of seats available. A

A. B. C. Runner-Up Off to Play Ball

BUFFALO, N. Y, March 26 (U. P.).—Casey Kroeninger, 24-year-old war veteran, grabbed his mask and mitt today and hurried to join the Cleveland Indians baseball team after rolling a 679 score to take secodn place in the singles division of the 43d Ameriean Bowling Congress championships. Kroeninger, a Milwaukee cab driver when he's not competing in

: By J. E. O'BRIEN If you want to talk high school baseball, let's get Technical. Baseball tradition is deep-rooted at the East side school, and this year’s Tech team will have a brilliant—yes, highly polished—30-year record to- uphold in its 14-game schedule that will begin April 11 against Ben Davis. In fact, Tech, teams over those 30 years have won 235 and lost only 41—a record just about as remarkable as the job Dick Best, the Tech Cannon sports editor, did in digging it up. Incidentally, Best will: have a hand in maintaining that record as a returning letterman and catcher this season. Tech has a new baseball coach in Charley Gilbert, but Charles P. Dagwell, the athletic director, is going to have as much trouble steering clear of the diamond as the much - talked - about firehorse always had in disregarding the much-talked-about fire gong. ’ Coached 10 Years

Dagwell took over the baseballcoaching assignment in 1936 after

a four-year lapse of the sport and

when he finished his 10th season last spring he had produced 111 victories in 128 games—which, as you see, fitted right in the Tech tradition. During the Dagwell era Tech won North Central conference champion= ships in 1943 and 1944, was unbeaten three years in a row and came close to another championship in 1941 when it knocked off Anderson’s eventual champions, 2 to 1. One bugaboo that Dagwell had to contend with has been the North

Western Team Gloves Victor

NEW YORK, March 26 (U. P.).— Eastern amateur boxers were singing “The St. Louis Blues” today, after four scrappers from the St. Louis area had helped the West beat the East, 10 bouts to 6, in the annual Inter-City Golden Gloves final before a turn-away crowd of 19,216 at Madison Square Garden. It was the first time in the classic's 19-year history that leath-er-tossers from old St. Loo had shown such strength,

The Chicago Tribune Charities, and the Eastern team sponsored by The New York Daily News Welfare association, battled through eight

pionships and five alternates, of which St. Louis belters took three titles ahd one alternate victory. Summaries of the scheduled three-round bouts:

Championships Heavyweight—QGabby Marek, U. 8. Marines, outpointed Joe Frucci, Niles, Mich. 175 pounds—Bob Foxworth, East St. Louis, nl, knocked out Robert Isler, New York (3). 160 pounds—Gilbert Garcia, Ft. Worth, Tex., outpointed Lubby Grant, Huntington, W. Va. 147 pounds—CIlift Hart, Syracuse, N. Y., outpointed Julius Menendez, East St. Louis, Ill. 135 pounds —Herschel Acton, Oklahoma City, stopped

|sports, rolled a 213-213-253—679 {yesterday to take second, 36 pins behind Sgt. Ed Easter, 62-year-old Waukegan, Ill. veteran who rolled a 715 to take the lead a week ago. Kroeninger left immediately after his three games to join the Indians, who own his baseball contract. Unbeknown to Kroeninger, -his | 679 barely withstood the assault of | John Chapman less than an hour later. The - 36-year-old Sandusky, 0., bowler strung together 10-con-secutive strikes for a 289 final game and a 677 total for third place.

Fight Results

NEW YORK (8t. Nicholas arenz)— Charley Cabey) Lewis; 130, Brooklyn, stopped Patsy Giovanelll, 135, Brooklyn,

(7. BOSTON — Willie Joyce, 138'%, Gary, Ind., outpointed Bobby Zollo, 148%, Providence, R. I, (10), NEWARK, N. J.—Charlie Pusari, 143%, Irvington, N. J., outpointed Joey Peralta, 142%, Tamaqua, Pa, (10). PROVIDENCE, R. I.—Vince de Salva 146, New York, outpointed Ralph Zanelli, 145, Providence, R. I, (10). PHILADELPHIA — Frankie Carto, 131, Philadelphia, knocked out Willle Weasel,

Calu-

CHICAGO-—Johnny O'Brien, 161, N 1

met City, Ill, stopped Jimmy Crow, Danville, Ill, (6),

BERGENFIELD, N. J.—Jimmy Callura,

| May, 121, Montreal, (8). LEWISTON, Me. — Bobby Pooler, 138, Portland, Me., outpointed Flash Dutil, 137, Lewiston, Me., (8). HOLYOKE, Mass. -— Bert Lytell, Fresno, Cal, outpointed Cocoa Kid, New York, (10),

154, 159,

coaches. Proof of the fact that basketball is okay is that most ¥ schools are going -to-have-to-build larger fieldhouses to take care of

the crowds.” Kurland, the 21-year-old giant who wrapped up national individual scoring honors this season with 620 points in 32 games, will be playing his last game for Iba in the N, C. A. A. finals tonight. But Iba isn't particularly worried about Height come next season. = He has two freshmen coming along who will make ‘plenty of headlines. One is a 6-foot, 10% -inch |growing boy named Jim Moore®and the other is an undersized 6, 8 article called Don Slocum. Then, too, there's a sophomore, Joe Hal-

Majoele Pacheco (1). j8 pounds.lack L L T . chairman; Connor and Wishmeier icker, St uis, outpoint oe Barone i Pittsburgh. 118 pounds—Eddie Dames, OCa eague enpin cores in charge. : : St. Lous, Sutpoinied Adolfo Calderon, The . association's , board of diPuerto co pounds—Asuncion 600 BOWLERS (MEN) OTHER LEAGUE pose i Llanos Puérte Rico, ompoimed Keith | nonnis Lauer, Fraternal ............. 660|Roy ES St. oun at Are National oe BE . wig 4 of direcions ukall, Srignam ¥. . Claude Stone, Fraternal ......... 658| Ted Lippencott Sr., Kiwanis ........ Tom She live courses. Alternates’ Bob McPherson, Capital Paper "nina 36 | Julian Adams, wants Ceineaiann on Heavywelght—Mike Buha, St. Louis, | Richard Brocking, South Side B. M... 633| Otto Rosemayer, West Side Church... 581 gutpointed Wade Chancey, Staten Island, | Don Sinclair, Little Flower .......... 626|J. Nowaski, Auto Transp. ........... 589 N. Y. 175 pounds—Lordizo Johnson, New| Carl Kiefer, U. 8. Rubber ............ E. Whalon, Ravenswood Merch. ..... 582 I S York. ouipointed Presley Darnell, Pt. Fanchaly, Fraternal .............. 5| Walt O'Neil, Brightwood Merch. .... 580 oX Dcore Worth, Tex. . 160 pounds—Ralph Jones, | Abe Bailey, South Side B. M.. Tony Siggar Real Silk Mixed (W. 8.) 579 Springfield, Il, outpointed John Komlo, | Russell Read, U. 8. Rubber . Philip Caito, Pt. Square Classic ..... 78 Fredericktown, Pa. 141 pounds—Nick | Bob Carnagua, Inter-Plant ... J. D. Peterson, Service Club ........ 7 Kashuba, Frenchtown, N. J. outpointed | Mike O'Grady, Little Flower . Bill Funke, Transportation .... INDIANAPOLIS Vince Foster, Omaha, Neb. Busny Hare, Courthouse ........ John Kayser, Reformed Church . 561 135 Pounds—Max Grothe, Kewanee, Ill, | Bill Lee, Indiana Bell ...........c..c. 20 | Jack Ervin, Pt. Square Hdep. ........ 5 AB R H O A E outpointed George Fraser, New York.|Bob Woolgar, Kroger Grocery .. Bert Garland, Lakeshore Mixed ..... sep | Staucet, 3s ........ 4.99 119 126 pounds—Del Flanagan, St. Paul, |Joe Argus Jr. Optimist ...... Prank Alford, Lions Club ............ 57 |Shemo, 2b ......... 4-2 2 32.1.0 Minn, outpointed Louis Castrilll, New [Everett Lakes, St. Philip 5{Vic Crou:h, McQuay-Norris .... 41 |Shupe. 1b ......... 5 0 0-690 0 York." 118 pounds—Eddie Chys, U. 8.|Richard Cox, Moose Lodge ... Bert Owings, Stewart-Warner Mixed. . 532 | Bestudik, 3b ....... 33-73-42 navy, outpointed Paul Iguchi, Chicago.| Bill Faust, South Side B. M 3 500 BOWLERS (WOMEN Nieman, cf ......... 3.21000 112 pounds—Keith Hamilton, New Orleans, | Chettwood, R. (M. L.) ) Blackburn, ef ...... 1-901 0-0 outpointed Tommy Rhett, Jacksonville, | Bob Eder, Kroger voes ve Pauline Jenkins, Darleene's Mirabeaux 563 Neill, If .... .......4 1 2 1 0 0 Fla. Bob Kays, St. PhAP ...onnn Betty Bradley, Blue Ribbon Ice Cream 555 | Wieczorek, rf ...... 5 1.3 2 0 0 Al Holman, Indiana Bell .... Mary Hearn, Insley Mfg. ............ 551 |Brady, ¢ .......00.. 5 0 0.9 1 0 Dave O'Dell, Optimist ....... Alice Turk, Coca-Cola (Dez.) ........ 543 |Derringer, p ....... 1 0 0 0 1 0 . Sherman Clark, St. Philip Margaret Bakius, John B, Wolf Ins... 537 Burrows, p ......... 2.0.1.0 .1.¢ Jim Sugrue, Holy Cross .......ceoaes Mickey Rotert, Real Silk Mxd. (W. "si 526|Cecil, p ......o0vvee e 1-0-0. 9-0 nswer 1 e W. Maher, North Side B. M.. 605 | Isabel Kroger, Blue Ribbon ' 830] on em ew — — Geo. Miller, Fraternal Thelma Farrell, Real 8k, Mxd. (Ww ‘8. 538] Totals .......... 1 -% 1 Nn 8-3 Clifford Pittman, Oapnal Paper Irene Pope, Blue Ribbon ........... 526 ST. PAUL R. Nolan, Inter-Plant .......... Jo Berkopes, Coca-Cola (Dez) ...... 526 asena Jack Brown, Courthouse ............. 601 | Marge Gerbeck, Coca-Cola (Dez) .... 523 AB R H O AE Howard Deer Sr., South Side B. M.... 601 | Mary Brisnik, Coca-Cola (Dez) 523 | Tucker, BD ERREEETEE 4:0 -90 3 8340 Bob Walker, Praternal ............... . 601] Dorothy Neel, Blue Ribbon .......... 532 | Youngman, 8s ..... 4.0 1-2" "2-1 One letterman was included In|R. Land, International Harvester .... 600] Dora (Duffy) Woodall, J, B. Wolf Ins. 820 Schoendiesat, ..4 8 0-1-0 08 the 50 candidates that turned out Perkins, Blue Ribbon ................ S17 |Mstsey, Mt +04 28 e Ruth Ittenbach, DArleene’s .......... 514 Rosenths 1-00 2 0:90 yesterday for Broad Ripple high J : H : Alice Clossin, Rasenswood Merch. .... 508 Davis, ef 3 0.10.00 school’s first baseball practice. unior eavies Flossie Eater, Ravenswood Merch. .. 507 | Chapman, I 3.3.3 30.3 arta rts, - Jol h . Jack Legan, the sole award-win- Rudy Wetton Reo Ar (Pon 1211 302 (mig, (4.0 8.3 Yip ner, is a right-handed pitcher who / n M at F eafure SIHER LEAGUE LEADERS (WOMEN) a um a ssa will head a chucking corps prob- A Dragan Ae & Poe) ii 40) | Tayler, p 2 8 0.000 ably including Gordon ‘Coghill and| Whitey Wahlberg, Columbus, O.|Clara Hafield, Lakeshore Mixed .... 463 Sloat, p 1.01 91.9 egRY ew, erman Schmit Bill Kidney. Another promising and Ace Freeman, Bronx, N.Y. |Muxine Dysert, J. D. Adams —. 453] TOUS ooo candidate is catcher Dick Smith, 428 Indianapolis

three-sport performer who was out of the Rockets’ basketball squad because of a broken wrist. Coach Frank Baird announced that Ripple will play a 15-game schedule, opening at home April 8 against Franklin township. The Rockets, who will play 10 of their games at home, have booked two {games each with Cathedral, Man- | ual and Sacred Heart and a single

Give Us Seats, We'll Top That

. MINNEAPOLIS, March 26 (U. P.).—Basketball officials believe today that the largest crowd ever to watch a single high school game in the nation saw the Aus-tin-Lynd finals of the Minnesota state tournament here March 23. Attendance totaled 16,091, and at least 3000 others were turned away from-the jammed University of Minnesota field house, Officials estimated that the 61264. fans who attended the week-end meet might constitute the largest crowd to witness an eight-team prep tourney in the United States. The Iowa state tournament at Des Moines drew 65,000 persons for seven sessions, while Illinois had only 48,000 fans. Both these meets were 16-team events.

Simmons Wins CHICAGO, March 26 (U, P.).— Bob Simmons, 147, Indianapolis, decisioned Hershel Junior, 147, Cin-

bert, who goes 6 feet 7% inches,

cinnati, in an eight-round bout here

The Western team, sponsored by|.

championship and eight alternate| = bouts. The West won five cham-

JSeturday squads start at 4, 6:30 and

Central ruling specifying that a team had to play four league games to win the title. That rule suited the Greenclads, but somehow they couldn't locate enough foes. In 1942, for example, Tech was willing to risk its perfect record against Muncie Central just for a chance at the crown, but it. was no go. Marion, too, always has been a bit hesitant, it seems, about crossing bats with the Green,

Seven Conference Foes But this season Dagwell is taking no chances on Tech's losing the

crown because of a lack of work. For the first time all North Central schools will play baseball, and Dagwell has booked seven—Ander-

Hunt Saturday.

reported already registered, with a pants in Bill Brunot, tournament manager, reports entries are rapidly increasing as the Priday midnight deadline approaches. One t prize will be awarded for each seven entries, so as fast as the entry list swells the total awards will increase. The entry fee is $1250 and bowlers may have their choice of rolling on any of the six days of tournament competition. It will be scheduled March 30, 31 and April 6, 7, 13, 14. The

Brunot

9 p. m.,, while Sunday's shifts are slated at 1:30, 4 and 8:45 p. m. Handicaps will be based on league averages as of March 16 and teams must use at least three of their regular members. Teams will draw for

rival junior heavyweights who have met on two previous occasions, top tonight's wrestling show at the Armory. The pair of skilled matmen drew earlier in the season in a 30minute tussle, while Freeman upset Wahlberg in a second scheduled 30-minute match last week, it being Whitey's first local defeat of the year. The match tonight is over a longer route, being for two falls out of three, or 90 minutes, and will be backed up with two supporting tussles. Buddy Knox, Tulsa, opens the show’ at 8:30 against Billy Fox, Cleveland, while Ace Abbott, Texas grappler, goes against All Pasha, Caloutta, India, in the semi-windup.

Hoosier Hurricane

Wins at Boston

BOSTON, March 26 (U. P)., — Willie Joyce, former natiorial amateur lightweight hampion, — was established today as a leading professional challenger after winning a decision over - Bobby Zollo of Providence, R. I.. in a 10<round bout at Boston garden. : The Hoosier hurricane lost only the first round fo Zollo. From then on he administered nine rounds of bruising punishment.

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son, Logansport, Kokomo, New Castle, Lafayette, Muncie and Richmond—for the Green nine. He still hopes to make Frankfort an eighth league foe. Four city schools—Manual, Broad Ripple, Sacred Heart and Cathedral—also are on the Tech card, while county contests with. Ben Davis, Franklin Township and Southport fill it out. Six lettermen form the nucleus of the team that will play the above schedule, with the pitehing department—a . vital part of any high school baseball team—headed by a pair of lettermen. There's Don Stark, starting his third year with the varsity, and Louis Shipman, younger brother of Charley Ship-

Prizes of $650 Assured 3 Top Finishers in Fox-Hunt Pin Meet

Prizes of $300, $200 and $150 are assured the top three finishers in the 1050-scratch team bowling tournament, scheduled to open at Fox-

The 150 entries necessary to pay off the $650 to the leading trio is

possibility that the total partici-

the event may reach the 200 mark.

alleys at the start of each squad. To make entry, get in touch with Brunot at MA. 1198 before Friday midnight. Oscar Behrens, city bowling association secretary, reported today that several prize-winning checks for the recent men’s city tournament are still unclaimed. These checks will be available at the Delaware alleys any time this week, and

Behrens requests they be picked up

as soon as possible.

The top scoring of last night's was confined to the Fraternal

league matches at the Illinois, where the only totals over 650 were posted.

Dennis Lauer set the pace with

180, 212, 268—660 for Hamilton-Har-

ris and Claude Stone connected for 198, 191, 269—658 for Seven-Up. Ed

Fanchaly turned in the best single

game of the season in the Fraternal

loop when he finished his trio of games with a 277.

Marion Baker, Stewart-Warner M....

Await Army 0. K. On Cage Game

day night.

meet the Oilers.

Tech's Baseball Team Has a Brilliant Tradition to Uphold; | Green Has Won 235, Lost Only 41 Over 30 Years

Coach Charley Gilbert holds a meeting with his Tech lettermen. Pictured (left to right) are Pitcher Don Stark, Shortstop James Tribby, Gilbert, Catcher Bill Haines, Outfielder Corydon Strawser, Pitcher Louis Shipman and Catcher Dave Best.

Wieczorek Is Star as Tribe Blanks Saints

DELAND, Fla, March 26.—The Indianapolis Indians have accumulated 21 hits in two regular exhi-

bition games and Manager Bill Burwell is thrilled. It's an old Hoosier custom to look anemic at the bat in springtime but evidently the boys down here are going to perform in reverse fashion this year. Against the Washington Senators’ “B"” team here on Sunday, the Redskins garnered 10 blows, including several extra-base wallops, although they lost. And yesterday, in Sanford, the St. Paul American association camp, the Tribesters slammed out 11 safeties including a triple by Butch Nieman and doubles by Tom Neill and Chet Wieczorek.

NEW YORK, March 26 (U. P.).— The war department was expected to announce today whether it would permit the undefeated first division army team to fly here from Munich to play the National A. A, U. champion Bartlesville,” Okla., Oilers in a Red Cross benefit basketball game at Madison Square Garden Thurs-

Vice President Ned Irish of the Garden said if the soldier five, ETO champion and winner of 27 straight games, is unable to make the trip another squad would be invited tq

man, who chucked for Tech in the late 30's and now is in the Indianapolis Indiaps’ camp at DeLand, Fla.

Two lettermen—the aforementioned Best and Bill ‘Haines—will divide the receiving chores, while James Tribby, a sharp fielder, will be at shortstop for the third straight year. The other returning awardwinner is outfielder Corydon Strawser. = Bolstered with newcomers, this group should do a nifty job of preserving Tech's baseball tradition. They'll“look nifty, too, in their new uniforms, After all, when an exbaseball coach becomes athletic director, he sees to that.

Jones Elected Publinks Head

Francis Jones was elected president of the Indianapolis Public Links association at a meeting of the associatioh’s board of directors yesterday at the South Grove clubhouse. James Dawson was elected vice president;, Kenneth E. Hoy was re-elected secretary and Charles Wishmeier was renamed treasurer. J. N. McDaniel and Dale Colville are the retiring president and vice president, respectively. The board also discussed 1946 tournament plans. The association sponsors the annual amateur golf championship of Indianapolis and a team competition known as the Tyndall Cup association, in which the Coffin, Pleasant Run, Sarah Shank and Riverside clubs compete. This year, also, it will sponsor a team in the national public links championship, a tourney conducted by the U. 8. Golf association that is being resumed after a lapse because of the war. William Connor of Coffin was reappointed chairman of the Tyndall Cup competition committee. The association’s annual banquet will be held in April, with a committee composed of Irvin Green,

Ne tes in—Nieman- 2, Wieczorek 4, Burrows, Neill, Shemo. Two-base hits— Neill, Wiecorek, Davis. Three-base Hit— Nieman, Double plays—Bestudik to Shemo to Shupe; Tucker to Schoendienst. Left on bases—Indianapolis 8, St, Paul 6. Bases on balls—Off Burrows 3, Taylor 1, Bloat 6. Strikeouts—By Taylor 3, Derringer 1, Burrows 2, Cecil 4. Hits— Derringer 1 in 3 innings, Cecil 2 in 3, Bloat 2 in 3, Burrows 0 in 3, Taylor 9 in 6. Wild Pitches—Burrows, Sloat,

The rugged Wieczorek, who

played. right field and probably will stay there, banged out three hits,

batted in four runs and scored one.

He paced the Indians’ attack in their

9-t0-0 Apostles.

victory over the

Turn on Saints

Last year, in regular season

competition, the Saints were poison

to the Hoosiers,. but from what happened yesterday it's going to be St. Paul's turn to suffer the shellacking in the A. A's 1946 campaign. Pitchers Paul Derringer, John Burrows, southpaw, dnd Rex Cecil, each working three innings, held Ray Blades’ club to three hits in achieving their goose-egg triumph, The Indians picked out the sixth inning to explode their power, and before the side was. retired they had pushed over flve runs. They added three in the seventh and one in the eighth. Steve Shemo, second sacker, got two Tribe hits. Neill weighed in with a pair. Joe Needs More Work

Joe Bestudik, third sacker, also garnered two blows but had another erratic day in the field. He had a lot of chances, however, and accepted eight out of 11. He did not get a chance to play much baseball while in service and needs additional practice around the hot corner to get his old bearings. “Oom Paul” Derringer held the Saints to one hit in three rounds, Burrows, the lefty, allowed none in his hitch, and Cecil was only touched for two in his turn, Cecil struck out four in his threeinning stretch. Pruning Knife Chief Burwell cut 10 players off the Tribe squad today. Some were released outright, others were sent to Boston - Indianapolis - Hartford farms in the little minors. Sent away were Tom Earley, Sam Foxx, Bob Fletcher, Gene Patton Al Festa, Joe Walsh, Paul Peitrich Bob Springtall, Jake Shirk, Tom Davis. Since camp opened, Burwell has weeded out 17 players. The Tribe looks fairly well s except at shortstop and perhaps a second base. These holes will be plugged later when the Boston Braves make another cut in thei huge squad at Ft. Lauderdale. Dicker for Others The Tribe management would like to land Shortstop Dick Culler and Second Baseman Frankie Drews—or Whitey Bill Wietelmann, the former Louisville star, who is at home either at short or second The battle for the Tribe outfield posts is sure to give Skipper Bur well some sleepless nights. He has a flock of fly chasers here and mosf4 of them are seasoned pastimers Bill probably will retain five and use the surplus in deals, or sell them. At this time the leading candi dates for the three starting patrol berths are Nieman, Wieczorek and Stanley Wentzel.

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