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CONTINENTAL CAGERS—Washington High Scho ol will seek its 15th win when it closes its regular schedule Friday night at home against Wiley of Terre Haute. Members of the Continental squad which has lost only six ames this season are: Front row (left to right) Don Masterson, Maurice Wilhoit, Bill Niemann, Chris Theofanis and obert Kikendall; second row, Lowell Lentz, Robert Young, Lew Little, Ralph Lollar, Stanley Benge and Richard Crittenden; third row, Assistant Coach Amos Slaton, Richard Lipscomb, George Theofanis, Coach Rowland Jones, Robert Tillery, Robert Trinkle and Charles Trotter. :

3 High Schools |Kautskys Lose Steam Put on Probation As Lakers Roll On, 66-58

Glamack Rings Bell for 22 Points, The THSAA's Board of Control But Locals Get Only 4 in Final Period on the eve of today's state bas- :

By BILL PITTMAN ketball drawings, placed three

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Bud Sawin's mermaids will be in fotal points, with 203 for uine derstood there were two |hostesses to some of the Mid- ames, his average of 22.5 points| Versions of it.

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counted out as playoff may about a month ago, the (J land Barons today look lik strongest outfit in the Ar Hockey League's Western sion, and a certain bet to g in view of their third

standing. ei The Barons, who ranked ond in offense and defense swamped the Washington Liogs 7 to 2, last night. The

Two Divisions | d Wi : c. mantyre ond Veer. Rickey Stands By Running Close Race Y : y * * * _ Michigan's basketball team, lead-| fd A rt M ing the Big Nine cage race by IS sse ion a ors half a game, also was in first ° y ° pe oven be ote 00 [ied 't Went Robinson The Wolverines, attempting to] \ CE ” achieve a grand slam of the (oot- Says There Is Little to Gain in Any tops in league scoring with an Further Discussion of the Matter {average of 56.7 points per game for eight contests and led in de-| NEW YORK, Feb. 18—In the face of dénials, “no comment,” fense, too, holding the eight op-|avagions, and forgetfulness by other club owners, Brooklyn Dodgers (ponents to an average of 50.6 president. Branch Rickey stuck to his assertion today that there It was a surprise to find the 00, out of the majors. Wolves at the top in both class= pyaey- who arrived by plane from Chicago, admitted he saw cations. Under a defensively little to be gained by further dis{Michigan has led the conference “ {like that.” } ! , that “if there is any need, I will at. y {in that department ever ‘since the| do so at some iy time.” “Never heard of it at all.” sald put them one point behind {season began, but the offensive He refused to indicate when ROY. Mack of the Philadelphia, second-place - Buffalo Bisons | h | Until this week the Wolverines oq that the matter would not be Meeting, because “I attended them | Pittsburgh Hornets. Both |were far behind running In giseussed when the Dodgers hold all.” “I can't remember anyone idle last night. : {point-making but in their last ; ;,ncheon for newspapermen to- Pringing it up. It may have been| The Lions were | ame ‘for, |feated Indiana, 66 to 54; Purdue, some of their more promising Pe the individual team’s concern.” managed ae lod a2 2a [Be or Soules, o'C Deni on goals by Johnny LCarr-Har | onnor venies .- ’ Rickey's Charge

CHICAGO, Feb. 18 (UP) place in both the offensive Be {ball and basketball titles, were By JOHN GRIFFIN, United Press Sports Writer points. ‘was at one time a concerted movement to keep Negro Jackie Robminded coach. .Osborne Cowles |. ion of the matter, but said|be unwise enough to do a thing |punch was something new. that time would be and intimat- Athletics, who said he was at thelsix points behind the firsts \three games, in which _hey de- gay to present ‘information on SOmeone’s opinion, but it would only in % the lead. 2 Versions “and Johnny Portland. The

Ric ’ {Cleveland's Roy Kelly - In individual race Jim McIntyre. Rickey said he hadn't seen elly - and of Minnesota and Murray Wier newspaper accounts of the speech |Johnny Holata broke up th

adelphia Rockets, led! manager of the Chicago White Bad ' different 50x who served as acting base- by Eddie Man) Bush, de

f gfie {ball commissioner, flatly dented gos he Epiin geld Indians; 5) per game ranks little ahead of| “I repeat that the 15 other own- today the charge that baseball! cr... y elphia de

sota star has a one point edge |of Negro college students, but un-

Kenneth the Kautsky fan, asked himself a moot question today West's best swimmers Sunday at

the 22.4 which Wier has chalked|ers in a joint major league meet- club owners made a concerted

high schools on probation. Windfall High School drew a

year's probation for the slugging

incident last Friday night at Kokomo where Lyall Fisher, Lapel referee, was injured by an assail-

ant after the Windfall-Greentown 66-.

game: L. V. Phillips, THSAA commis-

sioner, also has directed Windfall

Principal L. J. Baker to inform

as he reviewed the National Basketball League game between Kautskys and the Minneapolis Lakers last night at the Butler fieldhouse. Kenneth watched last night while the Kautskys for three quarters played the brand of ball which allowed them to win the pro championship last year and then disintegrate into a fourth rate

(11 a. m. at the Riviera Club for yp in each league contest. |ing prepared and adopted a re-|effort to keep Negroes out of or[the second annual state AAU| These two were the only olay- port which said the use of Negro ganized baseball, jopen indoor swimming meet; fers to average over the much/players would hazard all the, O'Connor served as executive A feature of the meet will be sought 20 points per game; and Physical properties of baseball,” secretary to Commissioner Judge e sa

team In the final stanza to lose,

58. The local basketeers came out of the first period with a onepoint lead over the league's Western division leaders.

students and fans that repetition| The Kautskys played the sec:

of such a disturbance will result - in the school's suspension from

all" among fans Feb. 6 near the end of a game at Fayetteville, The game ended in a 20-20 tle and has been declared no contest. All three probation periods will extend until June 1, 1949,

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poll, Hockey fans’ latest tabulation also pushed Fddy Bruneteau the first five, The count for the first five. places is: Podolsky, 942; Cliff Bimpson, 853; Hagh Millar, 714; Bruncteau, 644, and Tony Licari, 629. i ————

Combat Delinquency NEW YORK, Feb. 18 (UP)— Plans for a Junior Olympic track

meeting of the National AAU liere Sunday, President James A.

3 total of 21 for the Lakers, a little| mM

vote and Hale “matched shots with

ond quarter with the verve of high school kids, with Klier and Hale, who played all the way, taking a terrific beating as they hawked the ball. : | Glamack Scores 22 { George Glamack did his pirouette seven times and got three more under the basket to rack up 10 field goals. He dropped in two free ones for the best tutal of 22 points. ; George Mikan, unused to no being able to reach the basket, barely managed to get his aver-|

and at times seemed y peeved about being outscored oy

After the breather, the Kautskys continued to burn up the boards. In this stanza Glamack

Jim Pollard, ‘Don Carlson and |Mikan, -and came out ahead. A {five-point lead looked good to the Kautskys. i Run Out of Steam And then the steam ran out. Right here is Kenneth the Kautsky fan's answer, Five men cannot cavort for 40 minutes in the high powered manner it takes to win ball games. The Kautskys, with. leaden feet, watched while

15th annual fathers and sons {banquet drew a packed house of 600 last night. ;

Minneapolis (66) FO PTP Pollard, f Carlson, f .. 4 Jaros, f .... Mikan, ¢ ... Schaefer, g.. Dwan, g ... 6° Smith, g Jorgenson, g

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Indianapolis (58) PT

- 28.10 20/ Totals -.. 23 12.11 ~Score by Period . : | INDIANAPOLIS Minneapolis C18 18 IT 17-86 Pree Throws Missed -- (Minnes ) Carlson 3. Mikan; Adianspoiiay Kl 3 }

Hale 4, Glamack res. Officials — Norris Ward and Babe

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RESULTS LAST NIGAT Minnespoils’ 86. INDIANAPOLIS $6. el Oshkosh 70, Toledo 68. .TONIGHT'S SCHEDULE t Anderson, Rochester at

Pini, neh, Sheboygan, 600 Attend Banquet

At Little Flower Little Flower Catholic Church's

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ithe race for National AAU hon-

lors in the junior 50-yard free

style event for women. } All entrants will be registered AAU swimmers, and entrants in Junior 50-yard race are to be who have never won a championship in this particular event. ’ | The girls are training also for

17 19 18 4-ps the state AAU swimming meet yorihwestern

to be held March 20 and 21 in the Indianapolis Athletic Club.

in diana, Ball State, Indiana State DePauw, YMCA teanfs from InHuntington, LaPorte Wayne, and the IAC team. Entry blanks: will not be

J33/accepted after March 186.

In the state meet many titles will be at stake and several rec-| ords are expected to fall before, the splashing of more experienced | swimmers. Adding zest to the meet will be the running of both men’s and women’s events on the|

same program. Previously the state

was not a co-ed proposition.

Soviet in Ice Events MOSCOW, Feb. 18 (UP) After passing up the Winter Olympics and other European winter sports events, Russia today entered the world men’s speed ska champlonships, to be held at Helsinki, Feb. 28. The Russian news agency; | Tass, reported last night that a team of Soviet men skaters, led

Possible entries for this meet - clude teams from Purdue, In- schnittker, O. 8. 10 ° . Badieman, 00K,

Dick Schnittker, Ohio State, was Kenesaw Mountain Landis for in third place with 171 points in| Rickey said the meeting oc- some 20 years. When 10 games for a 17.1 average. {curred in Cleveland on April 26, died in November, 1944, O’ConThe team statistics: 11945, and that it was the same nor became acting commissioner Def ; meeting in which the club own- serving until April, 1945. The j ers named A. B. (Happy) Chand- date Brooklyn Dodger President er as commissioner, = {Branch Rickey says club owne “His - assistant, Arthur Mann, tried to keep Negro Jackie Robsaid it was possible that Rickey inson out of the majors. ; might have “confused the date,” O’Connor in an interview said

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owners -Temembered nothing of plete news to me.” that sort being discussed in that “If such a meeting ever was |meeting. held,” O'Connor continued, “I did Among others, Chandler had not have any knowledge of it.” ‘his usual “no comment” on Rick- w— ey's statement. . Ducks Press Conference . : | Rickey charged that all copies Gives Bosse Victory {of the resolution had been de- ‘EVANSVILLE. Feb. 18 (UP)— - |stroyed according to league of- A field goal made with only four, |ficlals from whom he tried to ob- seconds remaining in the game! {tain one, . “But let them deny they adopted Victory over conference such a report, if they dare,” he Huntingburg in a Southern Indi-] jana loop high school basketball! |game last night. i

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Managoff | Wins In Straight Falls

Bobby Managoff, 235, Chicago, bested Irish Dan O'Connor, 238, Boston, Mass, in two straight falls last night to win the final) event on the Armory’s wrestling] : card. i Ad Rickey guciced out of a sched-/"y,, Bosse Bulldogs won 37-38 . uled press conference at Chicago ; Sh, gp l2nagell given the SW), ie rday, keeping a group of re- chalk up their 11th victory in| disqualified O'Connor for un-|POfters Waiting for more than an

(hour, but finally was reached at necessary roughness. He took | ; the second fall in nine minutes | ere pe 0 Fausival _airpost) with a drop kick and press. .

“The best proof is production Ray Villmer, 218, St. Louis: of the document,” he said. “That's Mo., used an airpiane spin and|gy 1 have to say to you. I don’t

press to win over Buddy KnoX,know where ; pioas 10 Win Ser Budd cate [Sa v. ere that document is

weights bout. : Several club owners, including greats, today accepted the capAfter eight minutes of the Alva Bradley, who then was pres- taincy of one of two five-man opener, Warren Bockwinkel, 250, ident of the Cleveland Indians, teams that will competé in the St. Louis, threw Babe Sharkey, flatly denied Rickey's statement. first annual Cavalier Specialists

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Hagen to Head Team Of Expert Golfers |

DETROIT, Feb. 18 (UP)—Walter Hagen, one of golfdom’s

r.andis

'when advised that several club that Rickey’s charges were “com-!

gave Evansville Bosse a one-point;

starts. Credit for the winning’ -

{fenseman tied the all-time Amer ican Hockey Ledgue mark for {goals scored by a defenseman fp a season with two scores and came within one of tying the league record for points scored by a defenseman in one season, Both marks are held by Roger Leger of Buffalo. Leger, now a Montreal defense

man, took the marks in the 194 |

46 season.

~ In, the only other game, the 8t

{Louis Flyers and Hershey Bears | battled to a 3-to-3 tie. : Caps in Buffale © cJieanwhile, . the. In Capitals open their last road {trip here tonight % Ving toad ; against the Bisons,

i In order to gain the playoffs, {the Caps must win at least 12 of

their remaining gdmes. Thain

(Simon, defenseman, was left jn

Indianapolis, and probably wil be lost to the Caps for a 10-day. stretch. to recover from a rib separation.

The Caps will play at New:

rival Haven tomorrow night and at

Philadelphia Saturday night be.

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ORLANDO, F Owner Clark yashington Sen at young pla more attention he club opens huarters here Mg The eldera © jas particula about young Al fielder who cam from the Boston deal for outfielde Despite the er “Old Fox" for young players p the Nats will h ager in Joey Kul figure the club 2 ender, “It looks like between the ¥

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{Pollard and Jack Dwan poured League umpire, served as toast- PY champion Ivan Anikanov, Philadel

{three fielders apiece through the 0. ‘go would leave shortly for Finland. : 2 . Speakers included Mayor . They couldn't stop the un Al Feeney, Johnny (Red) Corri-| ’

hoop. Basketball Results ger Vasite Plays made a zrand den, New York Yankee baseball STATE COLLEGES : . g coach; Byron Kennedy, assistant

total of four points in the hnal . Butler 81, Val ise B%. te conservation director, and © Defince 80. Hunting period.. Two free shots by Bruce nog guijvan, secretary the In-

Frankiin 3. Hansuer 38.0. HHinle Land a--felder. by. George; 4. Rw hos | A ane Ce Ohi Northern 3%. _|Glamack. dianapolis Baseball Cub. Moose Lodge Wins

Nutra Damng 81 The Kautskys meet MinneapoReston: 48 QIHER COLIRGES o is again tomorrow night on the : Conirat 8, Miwon "Vatley fg Lakers" home Boor, but in the AAU Cage Title Clemson 63, i. 37. meantime, Kenne e Kautsky Lodge of Indianapolis ah a eyan 8. {tan wants to know_‘“what haP- | won the tg mop tg pened last night. {ketball “tournament last night, edging the Hockett American Le{gion team of Anderson, 36 to 34, In.3 Way Meet ; in the final game at the Dearborn - gym. Butler University will enter Arnold Thompson led the winswimming competition for the first ners with 11 points. The Moose time in 10 years tomorrow night quintet qualifies for the state elim when the Bulldog tankers swim inations that will begin Friday. against the Indianapolis Athletic! or—— - 3 Club and the Huntington YMCA Rj ! Rhode "island State 79, Providence College in ua id the pool Billiards : { Jel . | Walter Ramsey and Joe Bogue .Ripon 57 Carroll 54 (overtime), 5) Butler will lack experience in are matched in tonight's state St Tous $8, DePaul 86 (overtime). [the distance events, but Coach, .._.. hion billiard tournament! Sampson 51, Hartwick >» Phil Reisler sees a chance for vie- in the Board of Trade parlor at x Wastern State 71. Loulsville sb ory-in diving events with the en-{ "orn, ™ gy riey Mahoney de- |: WGRl © | {try of Don Roberts, 1046 state + ’ >= NS &

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