Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 January 1947 — Page 18
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CHICAGO, Jan. 20 (U. P.) ~The of Indiana, responding to
~ ligned. Quinn, playing B for the Browns at tortured
ing ketball title. -- Last Previously an in-and-out ball club, the Hoosiers caught fire in
night contest against Iowa and man always . wa turned a nine-point halftime de“What's the matter with that guy, gil
a writer asked another ENT Big Nine Standings ) w Pet. TP
player. “Is he going ‘high-hat’ ct on
something?” . . . The player an-/.. S10 18s 188 swered: “It's nothing like that. | Michigan 1 9% m1 16 's arm hurts so much that | ECan 3 Meo a am he'd almost fall to the floor if he Minneao 3 300 in In shook hands with anyone. The Tire Co: i dee ms ml - reason he doesn’t let anyone know |purdue 2 00 » 1]
» » = ficit into a two-point victory agains’ WILL a team rated as one of the bes’ “MAYBE THE INDIANS ane |i the circuit, GET HIM . . . That's | It the fire holds up. and under local baseball wag said when he \rcCracken there is every chance heard that Frank McKinney bought Hank Greenberg for the . Pirates. , . . The strange slant every chance to at on that deal is the fact that all
the series if he’s found out.”
attraction around the circuit. . . . Prank McKinney stands a good
sparkplug for the Indiana comein Pittsburgh alone—a one-club peck which netted the Hoosiers a
= Being Threat |
the second half of their Saturday
COUNTY BASKETBALL CHAMPS—Hers are the Franklin township Flashes who
(Lawrence Cent.) Stegemoller (Ben Davis)... .g-...
‘Times All-Tourney Selections to a record of 13 straight triumphs. gi (Franklin Twp). ....:f...... Long (Beech
| Roberts (Franklin Twp.) . ...f... Winters
ference man who returned from Wise (Beech Grove) . .. war service this year, was the Craig
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successfully defended their Marion county basketball championship in the tourney Saturday. Front (left to right) Jack Whaley and Richard Ault, student managers; first row, Don Adcock, Charles Lacy. Dwight Swails, Richard Glesing, Junior Rockey; rear, Bob Elrod, Warren Trott, Gene Krebs, Wendell Roberts and Don Toon.
Second Team : Flashes Defend cove) County Diadem
arren Decatur Cent.) | Franklin township's basketball (Flashes today stowed their Marion {county tourney championship tro-
iphy into the case alongside last year's cup.
c... Reilich g.. Brown (Lawrence Cent.) . +. Yestich (Ben Davis)
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major league city, where Hank has 50.48 triumph over the Hawkeyes. never played. . | his | . = to 64,
“> ” { ALL TO THE MERRY HERE ., sverage . . . The Indianapolis Indians are i.v. second sure to benefit, sooner or later, once the Pirates’ new farm system settles down to the business of developing talent on a wholesale scale. . . . Indianapolis is Pittsburgh's No. 1 affiliate, class tripleA. . . . Prank McKinney has expanded his Buc “chain” to 12
and Cook
the coun for promising players. . » Ted McGrew, Indianapolis, will te the heap big chief of the ivory ~{eague “chain” will embrace leagues from Class AAA through A, B, C and D. . . . That places the home-
had trouble, Berberian netted
17 points for the Boilermakers. ~~ Tr
Spot. aaa : [the half, The Wildcats revived in * MONEY SHOWER . . . Green- the final half to narrow the gap to backs are falling like snowflakes seven points, but Ohio State spurton the shoulders of halfback [ed to take a 54-to-43 lead with only Charlie Trippi . . . Guesses [three minutes left, and that was ranged up to $100,000 for the four [the ball game. seasons he signed to play pro | football for the Chicago Carflinals
offered a minimum of $40,000-for an agreement embracing four
years if the gridder desired to [house record of 30 set by Tony,
Greenberg Purchase Price Figure Placed at $50,000
By DAN DANIEL Scripps-Howard Staff Writer | NEW YORK, Jan. 20—Many an innocent man has been cast into trouble by an old photograph. But not until now was a major league ball player disposed of because of a camera shot. It was a four-year od| picture of Hank Greenberg displaying the blouse of a Yankee uniform | that led to his surprising sale by the Tigers to the Pirates for $50,000. | DWight Swails and Wendell RobAlso involved in Detroit's decision to get rid of its only power hitter, and outstanding reason for | : Re ~+much of its past glory, were some | SAYS REPORT ‘SILLY’ thoroughly suppositious. quotes..| ‘Hank was alleged to have town : Northwestern for five minutes, and nounced hope th Indians in an advantageous, moved to a 30-to-18 edge at his playing career with the Yankees, | and his intention to demand $75,000 ' for the 1947 season. : In August 1943, when Greenberg | was in the army air force at Pt. Worth, he was ordered to New York | league ‘career. to play in an all-star war bond! Minnesota won a non-conference ggme. He flew here without basetussle with Michigan State, 3 to! pall equipment. and a Chicago wrestling promoter 5, as Jim McIntyre, the Gopher| my. gay before the exhibition, cepter, sank 28 points, only EWO ihe stars had a workout in. Yankee counters under the Minnesota field-| 4 ‘and Greenberg borrowed |and nis
an-
at he would finish 3s “silly”
{a New York uniform. An enter- profits into his club.
Coach Angus Nichoson's charges swept past Lawrence Central in the title game at the Butler fleld house Saturday night, 51-41; before some T7000 fans. . Franklin township entered the finals with a 31-26 conquest of a scrappy Ben Davis combination while the Bears were buzzing past
contest, 47-38. Swails, Roberts Star
lerts provided the scoring punch inecessary for victory in the decidJ yr NEW YORK, Jan. 2 (U. PJ). |; erformances. Five of Swails i flelders came in the final ‘period ‘when the chips really were down after a bare six points separated the teams at the intermission. The { Flashes led at that point, 26-20. | The winners never were behind the Giants in the afternoon game, ialthough Ben Davis pulled on even | terms twice. ; = Lawrence Central took an early ‘that Detroit had set a new at=|lead and had things fairly well un- | tendance mark of 1,700,000. He also |der control all the way against the ialluded to Walter O. Briggs Sr.s Hornets in the other matinee eniknown lavishness with his players, | counter. policy of putting all of his | ———
| —Hank Greenberg today branded reports that he might retire from baseball as result of being sold by Detroit to Pitts . burgh and aj the same time exdisappointment that he leaving the club with which he had spent his entire major
Beech Grove in the other afternoon | 1g
try the mat game. . . gia all-around star also is weighing several offers from big league baseball clubs. . . To keep the | record straight, Trippi is a Geor-
The @eor- | Jaros last year. quing had a 35-25 margin at the oi, that blouse. nail,
the schedule tonight as Iowa faces
Camera Shot Used
: of Only one conference game is on Recently a sports weekly used|
The Minnesota , ino photographer posed him| I got the impression that, with {not more than two ‘seasons of his | diamond career left for him, with his home here, and his first child |
{about to be born, Greenberg would | . the 1943 camera shot in connection |, - iiked io nish up ¥ight here making good
Tinker Loses Leg ORLANDO, Fla., Jan. 20 (U. P).
old-time Chicago Cubs, today was recovery from the
ian out of Pittston, Pa. urd! te. wy : ” *# x 3 Furs Ne ot Latsyens with a summing up of the Green-|,, yj, 4 New York. And I amputation of his left leg and said ANOTHER SLUGGER . . . The - _ . berg sisuption i witish the Eieed. never knew about MacPhails|the operation relieved him of sei | i n 0 5 " i . Minneapolis Millers have signed a Knox and Terry in i ie in; poceibily ne as {vere pain
new long ball hitter for the new; A. A. season. . . . He is Bill Barisoff,! who hit 41 home runs and batted in| 155 runs .for Bremerton, Wash, in| the Class B Western International league last season. . . . He is a six-footer. . flychasers are Babe Barna, Harold Gilbert, John Metkovich and] Maurice Movvali, who led the New| England league in batting last year. . . . Barisoff bats righthanded,! Barna left, Metkovich right, Gilbert! right and Movvali left. # » = MORE SEATS, MORE FANS. | . The Tndiana high school bas- |
ketball semi-final at Indiana uni- |
versity’s fieldhouse next March will be seen by nearly 3000 more fans than were accommodated last year. . . . Seating in the I. U. fieldhouse was increased this season from 6500 to 9330.
o " ¥ BASEBALL ODDITY. . .. Victor in only two South Atlantic league games in 1946, Randy 8mith, southpaw, of Savannah, hurled: the lone regulation no-hit, no-run contest of
the season in that loop. . . . He! N 1-GA EALED CANS turned the trick on May 12. . . . In|POSES 3 newcomer in Duke Keo- IN 1-GAL. SEALE contrast to his pair of victories, | Huka, Hawaii, in the 8:30 opener on | 5-Fallon Sealed Can 5.98 young Smith lost six games, Me all-star Program. : BLUE POINT AUTO ; ro ” ” ° " | ) SAYS HE'S HAPPY . . . Discount PTO Basketball SUPPLY
«Other Miller 1947+
—Joe Tinker, star shortstop of the
By UNITED PRESS Valparaiso's defending champions return to the state college conference basketball race Saturday night after a two-month absence, but, even if they win, the Crusaders probably wan't be able to keep In-
diana State from taking undisputed possession of the lead.
Valpo, season-long leader, an Indiana State currently share the I. ©. C. lead with three victories in as many starts, with Butley’s twonothing record. third and Evans-
* ville’s one-nothing mark fourth, All
the other teams have lost at least one conference game. The Crusaders go against Butler .n Indianapolis Saturday in a game
that figures to eliminate one or the
other from title considerations. Meanwhile, Johnny Wooden's Sycamores are host to Hanover's second-division Panthers Wednesday and ‘then face St. Joseph's sec-md-division Pumas on Saturday. The Valpo-Butler game takes top jilling on the conference card, but /ields the No. 1 berth on the 21game statewide schedule to a rematch between Purdue and Notre Dame at South Bend. Purdue hit the heights two weekends ago when it trimmed the Irish, 60-56, at Lafayette. Since then, the Boilermakers have been battered
_ {badly in their first two road games
~—at Indiana and Michigan, Before meeting Butler, Coach Loren Ellis’ Valpo quintet, the mosttraveled of Indiana fives, is at home
travels to Western Michigan Wednesday.
State Net ; Race
Tonight—Canterbury at Hanover, Manchester at Concordia, lows at Purdue; St. Joseph's. at Loras, Havana at Valparaiso. Tomorrow—Tri-State at Huntington. w er at Indiana State; Valparaiso at Western Michigan. ursd Earlham at DePauw; Murray State at Evansv
Normal a ter; Hanover at Canterbury: } City st Pranklin; Huntington at Indiana Central: Indians at Minnesota; Purdue at Notre Dame; Indians State at St. Joseph's; Tri-State at Indians Tech.
On the Ice
AMERICAN LEAGUE Western Division
w T Pts. G OG INDIANAPOLIS 21 10 11 53 195 138 Cleveland 25 10 3 53 190 1M Buffalo 31 12 T 40 180 123 Pittsburgh 21 15 5 45 184 133 St. Louis 10 21 11 31 138 180 Eastern Division W L T Pts. G OG Hershey 36 8 6 58 172 9 New Haven 17 19 5 39 134 140 Providence 14 20 7 3 132 11 Sprin 13 22 6 32 125 18 Philadelphia 3 33 5 11 14 Mm RESULTS LAST NIGHT
INDIANAPOLIS 4, Providence 2. Buffalo’ §, Cleveland 2. New Haven 4, Philadelphia 3. SATURDAY SCO INDIANAPOLIS 17, Cleveland 4. Pittsburgh 8, Buffalo 4. Providence 4, St. Louis 1. Hershey 8, New Haven 4. Philadelphia 4, Springfield 4s (te).
NEXT GAME Wednesday—Providence at Buffalo.
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started his athletic career at James Monroe high, was discussed. As Col. Larry MacPhail revealed today, he just had made two éfforts to. obtain the home run hero. Though the picture showed, Greenberg in an army uniform, though it was quite apparent that it could not have been taken since Hank’s return to the Tigers in July | 1945, two Detroit newspapers] launched a .siolent attack on the] Babe Ruth of thé Bengals. ! The train of events which has] landed Greenberg with a Iriendly,| enterprising,” reconstructed ~ Pitts« : ; burgh ball club started with my in-| time limit. The grapplers, therefore, terview with Hank not so long ago. | {will meet for two falls out of three| 1 ,redicted Greenberg would de- | jand there will be no 90-minute time m,n an increase of $10,000 over his limit gong to halt them. 11946 salary of $65,000. He pointed | “Friendly” Jack and Buddy staged |o,¢ that he had driven in 127 runs! (one of the “hottest” tussles seen |,.; contributed 44 homers in 1946, | here in several years when they met|,,.4 called attention to the fact! two weeks ago. It was declared a! |
No-Limit Bout
All of the skill and power of the popular Buddy Knox, rugged Tulsa matman, will be aimed at “Friendly” Jack Terry, Oklahoma City, when the two meet in a return match tomorrow night at the Armory. Knox, a formidable and willing substitute, replaces Rene LaBelle as Terry's opponent. Rene had to cancel out and Matchmaker Carter helped get Knox released from a match in another city. In accepting -- the. .engagement, Buddy insisted that it be for a no
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| Whitey Wahlberg, Columbus, 0, | meets: Monty LaDue, Midnchester,|] RADIATOR { 29 |Mass., in the semi-windup, while | ANTI-FREEZE . gal,
| Rod Fenton, Birmingham, Ala., op-
that talk about outfielder Ron NATIONAL LEAGUE | Delaware, Madison and Ray Sts. Northey wanting to leave the PHil-| Werte L Pet. Pia. OF. EEE — adelphia Phils because he can't get INDIANAPOLIS ...18° 7 606 1322 1182, along with Shibe park fans. . . Suienen i it tw fs ur | WREST LING orthey was one of the happiest | Sheboygan wien ddio 10) 593° 1076 11804 : = ~plaYers I the National loague when Suicte 5 4 5 ia ills] Armory-cTusin Jun. 21 the Phils began to climb last sea- Eastern Division 8:30 P. M, son ‘and he sald he would like to|Toledo ...........13 10 84s 131 1337 Return Bout “ »|Ft. Wayne ....... 12 10 545 12568 122 remain with the club “a long time.” |T!; Wavne ........13 10 S48 1308 1338 Buddy KNOX menses 010 1] 2% i stown .. .... : ‘ , YAN ware tr Es ese Friendly’ Jack Terry
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recognition. They were:
to Havana university tonight and of the 10 correct.
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uricovering not only - e but two Perfect Plokers last week, : | The old boy didn't fare so badly himself, with seven of thé 10 correct,
At Top of Heap © {But what troubled him the most was the fact that one of the fairer
sex was able to pick ‘em all okay. : : We assured him that women could be just as interested in basket ball as the men-—and sometimes a durn sight smarter about their selections. This seemed to soothe our snooty soothsayer a bit, but he still grumbled something about them “stayin’ with the cohn:pone bakin’. Another thing which pussied him was whether it was two or three people who were letter perfect ih their picks. One of the blanks had ‘a hyphen in it, or maybe just a smudge. At any rate, here are the experts plu-perfect, a j WILMA FRELJE, 118 Kansas St, Indianapolis. JACKSON-ENDSLEY, 1425 Sturm, Indianapolis. : . =» The Kunnel's* Hammond and Richmond-Marion. This last game was the biggest stumbling block on the list and the Red Devil victory deserves to be classed as the upset of the week. ; The old boy past-posted s lot of the fans on that Bicknell-Evanse
ville Memorial game. That one was played on Jan. 8 due to Bicknell's late entry in the Wabash Valley tourney and Bicknell won, 47-37. A
lot of the fans went right ahead and picked Memorial, nevertheless, |
But not Charles W. Tooley. He knew all about it and certainly had that one right.
The Kunnel brought his season's average back tp to 691 with 47 winners in 68 trips to the picking post... »
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choice and deserve
Walter William, 1630 Arrow ave, Indianapolis. Gerald McCarty, 1702 W. Wyoming, Indianapolis. Fred N. Wilson, 1407}; Silver ave, Indianapelis. Robert Palmer, R. R. 15, box 377A, Indianapolis, Jerald Eden, 4828 E. New York, Lester LeCompte Jr, 1313 Hoyt ave, Indianapolis. A. W. Hutchinson, 12 Arcadia pl, Cincinnati, 0. Barney E. Walker, 313 N. Koehne, Indianapolis. Seventeen of the fans beat our “expert” by one sélection with eight =» ” » J - » Fifty-six of the customers had the same number of misses as the Kunnel but the old fellow beat a passel of folk on the rést of them. Four of the fans will have to cut up the “booby prize” with only
Lithree of the 10 selections correct. They were: . William H. Seward, 1827 3 {Sharon ave, Indmnapolis; Gilbert ‘Barrick, 126 N, Oriental st., Indi
anapolis; Diane Breedlove, 21 W. Penn st, Shelbyville, and Walter Stahlhut. Jr, 2511 E. Raymond st, Indianapolis. x =» =» ; . = » There are some tough ones on this week's docket and the Kunnel has culled through them for the games he considers best for the Jough
| ©. Two Perfect Pickers . | JH KUNNEL'S Tough Ten. contest succeeded in one
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Ten. If you can call the turn on all of these correctly, you indéed are
a Perfect Picker. It costs nothing except a three-cent stamp to try. Just mail your. selection to Short Shots at The Times before next Thursday midnight. Maybe you, too, are a Perfect Picker. . Here they are, the week's Tough Teni.. (All Friday games) His choice, in capitals YOUR CHOICE
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6. ROCHESTER over Greensburg fama CRAPPER IIRR Pessina 7. CONNERSVILLE over Rushville.........cootvinrcesnersroncscassine
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