Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 April 1948 — Page 9

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PRACTICE MAKES’ PERFECT —Taking a meeting of ‘the Indiana PGA are (left to right] T. H. Crane, executive secretary of the National PGA; Lou Bola, chairman of the meeting, and Wayné Timberman, president of the Indiana section, Timbe rman tests his ‘eye while demonstrating

putting posture.

Pro Golfers Relive the Old Days As State PGA Winds Up Meeting

Qualifying Trials

At Anderson Monday By BILL PITTMAN There may be a golfer’s heaven where the ns are - smooth as a billiard table and the fairways are clip as close as a crew haircut—but it is apparent that as far as the. professional i

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golfers of Indiana are concerned they will take the annual PGA meetings. Where else can they relive the old days when they traveled the circuit and where else can they tell of the tales (true or false) of the miraculous shots they

where else may they get straight on the complexities of the work. Preceeding last night's banquet in the Lincoln Hotel members of the Indiana Professional Golfers Association replayed famous

Tt. tourneys and called the names

of golfdom’s great with the familiarity of long association. Sober Note To top it off the master of ‘ceremonies “for the after dinner program was a top-notch golf

writer of long standing, Herb QGraffis, editor of magazine and columnist for: the Chicago Sun Times, A somewhat sober note was in-|N jected into the meeting when {The Rev. Fr. Eligius Weir, OFM, principal speaker, spoke on the effect, or lack of effect, ‘of penal institutions on the stamping out of criminality. Mayor Al Feeney, guest of honer at the banquet, went on record for making the shortest non-political speech ever uttered by a person in the field of politics. Promoting Game When the average divot digger

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" Thomas H. Crane, executive secretary of the National PGA and Speaker for the morning session, gave the most comprehensive and illuminating explanation of the activities of the national organization along those lines. Summer Schedule With qualifying trials for the annual PGA classic set for Monday at the Anderson Country Club, the rest of the Indiana PGA summer tourney schedule will resume May 3 with a pro-am a the’ Kokomo Country Club. Th ischedule: May 10, Riverside, Indianapolis, Wally May ‘17, Delaware Country Club, Muncie, Woodstock Club, Indianapolis,

oil tviden. June 1, Pro-seniors, no site.

June 7, Forest Park, Noblesville, Bill Heinlein. June 14, Pleasant Run, Indianapolis, Tommy Vi o une 21, Grandview, Anderson, Wayne sley. ’ June’ 28, Sarah Shank, Indianapolis, uy 4 or 8 Elwood Country Club, John July 11, Meridian Hills, Wayne Timber. man pres Indiana state amateur hatapis urpament). July He aay Country Club, Loule Quarandiilo, Jul 26, Tipton Golf Club, Floyd Hamblen. Aug. 2, Hillcrest, Indiaanpolis, Charley a nAug 9, Anderson Country Club, Dick Aug. ' 16, Coffin, Jodisnapolls, Paul . Sountry Club, Indianents, no site. Country Club, New

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hears the mention of the magic letters PGA he immediately thinks of those fellows who make! their money on what appears to bé a perpetual vacation. When the majority of profes-| sionals—more than 90 per cent of the 2500 members of the PGA— hear the magic letters they think of bread and butter and what that particular organization does in the way of helping them make a living.

PGA president, announced today {that dates and sites for the State {Open and match play champion-

{ships would not be set for at least

to the National In Soday aesapied the of California, Los

Lowry Reappointed Tournament Director

sioner. Ralph Warren, Muncie, has been named state t director.

trict tournaments throughout the state qualify champions for the playoff. Sites include Hammond, Plymouth, Winchester, Terre Haute,

Lawson to Take Franklin Golf Post

‘Jimmy Lawson, former professional at the Country Club of

Basketball Position at UCLA

Signs 3-Year Contract With Bruins;

Was 3-Time All-American at Purdue Johny Wooden, who coached Indiata Stats Teachers Collage

basketball runner-up spot this the head Basketball coaching job at the University

Terms of his three-year contract were not disclosed. Wooden's acceptance solved the Bruins’ problem of naming a

man to succeed Wilbur Johns,

interviewed 89 coaches, centering his attention in the Midwest. Indiana State officials have an-

mediately but that Wooden would | 4 ot 8:30 p. m.

College Baseball

not leave Terre Haute until July because he is ill. Played at

his two assistants,

of athletics at Indiana, State for the past two years. Dur- } ing that time his cage teams won

Tag-Jeam Match On Tap Tonight

Australian tag-team matmen will swing into action in tonight's main event at the Armory when Jimmy James, of Houston, and Rene La Belle, the “Bouncing Canadian,” tangle with Steve Nenoff, of Toledo, and partner Lefty Pacer, of Cleveland. ‘Tommy Martindale, of Milwaukee will appear in the special supporting match when he meets newcomer Bill Alexander, of Brooklyn, N. Y. It's for one fall,

“jor 30 minutes and will start the

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Sox Sign Pearson CHICAGO, Apr. 20 (UP) The Chicago White Sox have announced that Ike Pearson, a former pitcher ty the Phil nei 29, was with the club throughout spring training working without a contract.

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and baseball coach as well as|Alabama 13, Western Michigan 8,

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Johnny learned his Hoosier Oregon 3, Idaho b.

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basketball under Glen Curtis at Martinsville and was a member of the Martinsville quintet that won the state high school championship in 1926, beating Marion, 30 to 23, in the final tilt. Wooden Scored 35 points in the final four games. At Purdue, he was a three-time

Indianapolis for many years, will return to Indiana soon to accept a position in Franklin. Lawson at present is professional in Long Beach, €al. Upon his return here he will have complete charge of the Hillview Country Club in Franklih. He expects to open up there about May 10.

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pay d in inbu " Open re ay 16 and 23 open in June 0. A $35 guarantee for travel exjentes will be given. Write el, . R. 5, Box 209, in, Ind The In jonal Furniture Co, of ushville will sponsor a junior ball team this’ r and a ule American ion and B _Juaior baseball Pea: for Sarerdays sundays

ms and ail holidays. Write or phone Wil liam Pearsey, International Furniture co, Rushville.

Mercer on Golf Team

George E. Mercer, son of Mr.

E. 32d St, Indianapolis, member of the 1948 golf team at Triple cities College, Endicott,’ N. Y. Mercer was a golf letterman for three years at Bhortridge High School from which he was graduated in 1940. The Triple Cities team plays its first match May 1 against Hartwick College.

Junior Baseball

The Junior Baseball Managers Association will meet in the YMCA tomorrow at 7:30 p. m to elect new officers and plan the summer season. Three classes of leagues will play again this season: A; 16 to 17 years; B, 1415 years, and 'C, 13 and under, ——————————————

Olympic Swim Coach PHILADELPHIA, Apr. 20 (UP)—-Joe Kirk, La Salle College swimming coach who developed world’s champion Joe Verdeur, has accepted an invitation to be an associate coach of the U. 8. Olympic swimming team. :

Chaney to Fight NEW YORK, Apr. 20 (uP) | ~The Twentieth Century Club announced yesterday that it had signed for a bout between Billy Smith of Oakland, Cal., and Colin Chaney of Indianapolis at the

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{| The three-day meeting con-)*= | cluded today with Stan Graves, president of the Indiana Greens-|

keepers Association; Warren Bevington, president of the Highland Country Club, and William Walker, a certified public ‘accountant, as speakers,

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all-American guard under Coach Piggy Lambert. During that time, {he had led Purdue to two Big Ten |championships and to the nation- | lal crown in 1932. He captained the team in 1931 and 1932. In 1932 he broke the conference scoring record with 154 points and was named player of the year by the Helms Athletic Foundation, He later played professional basketball with the Indianapolis Kautskys and retired to take the head coaching job at South Bend Centrgl from Where he moved to te.

He is a brother of Maurice (Cat) Wooden, former Ben Da-

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