Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 November 1948 — Page 52

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"Jets, who won the Big Six League + title last year with 36 wins in 48

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

SUNDAY, NOV. 28, 1048

‘To Athletically Inclined Worker at Allison Plant

Employees Find Fun With Everything

From Horseshoe Pitching to Softball oe By BILL PITTMAN You don’t have to be an athlete to work at Allisons. However, if you are athletically inclined there is plenty of ' opportunity to display your talent in the company’s gigantic sports

program. Allison has had a definite athletic program since 1942, Before that time employee’s “extra-curricular” activity was purely catch as

catch can. Now the plant sponsors a program, big enough to shade some colleges. All activity is directed by Dave Banker, editor of the AllisoNews, plant paper. | Bowling Interest Bowling, being the greatest participant sport, gets the most attention with four leagues sponsored by the company. Three other leagues composed of Allison employees are also in operation but are unsponsored by Allison. Interest in bowling is so great among the Allisonites that a 12-team league, the Allison Owls, operates o nthe Dezelan alleys after 1:30 a. m. Harry Jordan is president of that league. Other bowling leagues are, Plant 10, headed by John Lockwood: Commercial Products, led . by Bob Sweany, and the Plant 2 loop, under Bill Betsill. Hooper Heads Jets Of major interest to most of the plant personnel are the fortunes of the Allison Jets, com-pany-sponsored basketball team, managed by Gene Hooper. The

starts, got off to a good start this season when they

against Eagles Lodge. Captain

. Who was also floor leader last

year. Besides the “big” team the company sponsors a 12-team

eral Motors Institute students here for on-the-job training.

, up the bulk of the winter recrea-

mer the athletes really flourish. Two golf leagues, two-man and

two organized teams of horseshoe pitchers besides the noontime players, and a baseball team represent the plant and its subdivisions on the summer sports Win. City Title Allison's baseball team, also managed by Hooper and captained by George Maple, once were city champions in the Manufacturers’ League of the amateur baseball organization, but finished last in this year’s regular’season. However, they made it to the quarterfinals in the playoffs. Eight teams are entered in the softball league, which plays its games on the lighted field owned and maintained by Allison back of Plant 3. The company also sponsors an annual golf tournament on the Speedway course. More than 180 men turned out for the tourney Sept. 12, The horseshoe teams finished fourth and fifth in the Industrial Horseshoe Pitchers Association competition this year. That isn’t really so good when one remembers that Arlo Harris, state champion and former president of the Indiana association, was a member of team one. The company outfits the throwers and pays entry fees to all tourneys. Sports Seal Relations In addition to the many teams the company also leases and maintains Columbia Park for the exclusive use of Allison employees. The park is an 11-acre tract on 8. East St. near Troy Ave. enclosing recreational and picnic facilities. There are horseshoe courts, basketball courts, a softball diamond, pavilion, barbecue pits and even a casino with dance floor. Employee relations have entered the field of sports and it

four-man teams, a softball loop,

appears they are theer to stay.

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Alonzo Watford, football

use for next season, proving a co

: eyes. t y Alonzo J. Watford has been Attucks since 1933, and just two of the overall athletic program as the school's first athletic director. : Sa Watford himself knows what

& this football business is all about. & He was an-all-state selection at

end for Jeff of Lafayette, and while at Butler he made all Indiana College Conference fullback for three years. He was graduated from Butler fn 1930 and for the next three years worked as custodian in the state house while completing a masters degree. In 1933 he became head football coach at Attucks and climaxed his work with a T-to 7 tie against Howe this past season. . Health Teacher, Too Watford doubles as a health

& as well as carrying the load of « athletic director. At one time, ¢ every student in the school passed % through Watford’s class. He was

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and physical education instructor

Attucks Coach Drives ; Hard, but Gets Results.

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coach and athletic director at

Crispus Attucks High School, dreams up a new series of plays to

ach's worries are never over.

Watford, Former All-Star Football Ace, Keeps School's Rating High

Crispus ‘Attucks High School's athletic star has been in ascendancy for the last several years, but not without pushing from a & wiry little man with a whiplash

in his voice and a twinkle in his

guiding the football fortunes of years ago took over the guidance

the only health teacher in the school. I Alonzo and his wife, Marie, live at 2435 Wheeler 8t., surrounded by five of their six children. The first, Barbara, is now married. The Watfords were married while Alonzo was a sophomore at Butler. As far as Watford’s football charges are concerned he is a driver, but he gets results. As one player put it, “He's easy to get along with, but he sure drives you hard.” Athletics and recreation seem to fill Coach Watford’s life, even in the summertime. He recently acquired a fourth interest in the Hollywood Recreation Corp. at 25th and Yandes, and spends his summers with this business. Watford is successful as coach, athletic administrator and businessman. It seems only fair that the star to which Attucks hitched its athletic wagon should also be driving the wagon.

Allison division of General Motors has as well rounded a sports program as many small colleges. Illustrating this are (upper left) M. D. Saurbaugh, B. Poynter, H. D. Williams and Chester Yovanovich, four entrants in the annual Allison golf tourney. (Upper right) Coach Gene Haoper tells Capt. George Maple how

Hinkle to Unveil Bulldog Cagers -

Varsity Team Plays Alumni Tomorrow Coach Tony Hinkle will show his 1948-49 Butler University varsity basketball team for the first time tomorrow night when his Bulldogs take on a team of former Butler University cage stars at the Butler Fieldhouse. The tipoff is scheduled for 8 p. m. The Butler mentor will put on the floor four of the starling five members of last year's team with only Jerry Cranny missing from Se the regular lineup. Slated to start|i © at the forward posts will be Ralph| © (Buckshot) O’Brien and Robert Evans or William Shepherd. Opening at the center pivot will BOB MALLOY be the veteran John Barrowclifff CHICAGO, Ill, Nov. 27 (UP)— and at guard will be two-year vet-|Glenn McQuillen, Toledo outerans Charlie Maas and Jimmie|fielder, won the batting championDoyle. : ship of the American Association Alumni Loses Two for the 1948 season with a mark The Butler alumni, who have|of .320, official final averages lost the last two contests of the Showed today. four-year, wil counter with sev-| It was the lowest winning mark eral veteran performers formerly|8ince 1917 when Beals Becker of |with the Kautskys and currently| Kansas City led with .323. Al with the Indianapolis Secos, in-| Rosen, Kansas City, was runnerdependent pro team. upto MoQuillen with SEL 3 ‘anh er honors were we ed. Coach George Perry, '39 will Ted Beard, Indianapolis out{probably start Jerry Steiner, "40, fielder, led in three departments {and Woddy Norris, '42, at for- : :

{ ) : _{runs with 131, triples with 17 and {wards; Paul Weaver, '47, at cen bases on balls with 128.

ter; and Bob Dietz, ’41, and Ben

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the Allison team should play the field in one of the games during the amateur baseball season. (Lower left) A group of Allison secretaries check their bowling scores and Bob Highland's addition. Left to right are Mary Terry, Violet Appleget, Highland, Mary Ellwanger, LaVerne Crafton, Katie Leich and Mrs. Alberta High-

Four Indians Tops In Official Averages

JACK CASSIN

TED BEARD

Mike Natisin, Columbus, paced|in won and lost with 21 victories) the field in home runs with 30,/and only 7 defeats. Malloy also while Jerry Witte, Louisville, had|led in most innings pitched, 242, the most strikeouts, 122, {batsmen faced, 966, and complete] Les Fleming of the pennant-|games, 18. He was the only 20winning Indianapolis team had|game winner in the league. the most runs batted in with 143,) Malloy was drafted by the St. while Jack Cassini on the same Louis Browns for the 1949 sea-! team led in base stealing with 33..son. Beard, the leader in three! In club batting Indianapolis was|league departments, was pro-} high with .289 while St. Paul and moted to Pittsburgh after In-| Columbus both had fielding aver-|iianapolis clinched the American | age of 967 to tie for first. Association pennant and finished, Glenn Elliott, Milwaukee, hadthe 1948 campaign with the] the lowest earmed-run average Pirates. | among the pitchers with 3.76. Bob| Fleming and Cassini are sched- |

{Malloy of Indianapolis was firstiuled for tryouts with the Pirates)

{Gunn, '40, at' the guards. Dietz is now assistant to Coach {Tony Hinkle while Steiner is head {tutor at Shortridge High School. {Norris plays with the Secos, |Weaver is coaching at Clairmount {High School, while Gunn is hand{ling the coaching reigns at |Greensfolk. | The varsity won last year’s con[test, 78 to 49. Butler's varsity will tune up tomorrow for the in-§ jaugural pair of contests facing |} {Butler this week-end. The Bulldogs will meet a pair of Big Nine teams, tangling with] {Illinois Friday and then moving {to Ohio State the next evening. |The Bulldogs will meet Indiana] {State Dec. 11 in their first home, game of the year,

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land. Lower (center), Bob Mock, tabulating supervisor, sends one down the alley for Allison in the West Side bowling league. Lower right, Capt. Wendell Baker floats through the air like an Allison propelled jet plane as he tries a difficult layup shot for the Allison

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Akron Star Dies 10f Foothall Injury

BATAVIA, N. Y., Nov. 27 (UP) —Harry R. Bow, 18, star fullback of Akron High School, died in St. Jerome Hospital today of injuries suffered in a semi-pro football game Thanksgiving Day. It was the first gridiron death in western New York this year. Bow, a three-letter athlgte and post-graduate at Akron, Mich, iwas injured while playing what was supposed to be his last game of the season— perhaps of his career. : Following the end of the scholastic season, he had decided to take part in the annual “Gypsum Bowl” game between the Akron Athletic Club and the Oakfield ; www Athletic Club. Midway through : the third quarter, he received the LES FLEMING ball near midfield, eluded several next spring. They were taken up tacklers and then, with head lowby the Bucs, the Indianapolis ered, plunged into two others. Indians’ parent club, before the The impact fractured a vertebra big league draft meeting. ‘near the base of his brain.

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