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Turnstiles Click in Big Way As Caps Roar On Ice

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES -

“Big Nine Loaders.

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(Greyhounds

Slap Knights

By Eddie Ash:

Sports Editor

money situation . . . Indianapolis’ roaring

Thursday A Sxowé_ of 9000 horace league setti an 's 8 continue ny ‘em in if they continue their

tootball ; « some simple rules, at that. . . . The same probably applies to present-day basketball, hockey, and some other sports, except baseball. average are in Proviso ian fan is fairly well posted on baseball, After perusing _|the answers to “his questiohnhalre, : “score” on “Sion, and ‘on. Saturday the lenke turned » this - 1. Fifteen geroent of - coaches flunked the quiz. Tour 2. Fifty percent of the players flunked.

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two victories each , + “spectators flunked. 4. One hundred percent of the officials answered all questions

: 4 correctly. division that continues to fur mays it or leave it, fans. . . nish the league's red hot excite put before tearing the hide off ment and the close fight probably ip, official, just remember he’s will highlight the competition calling "em as he sees ‘em. the wire, ‘. 8» LOVE threw a bloé¢k and the Navy football team lost a star : a “McCully has IE i to marry his hometown sweetheart .-. . But Me-

Oully wil oustinus fo play foot- | «- He'll enroll at the

starts . .. Assistant Treasurer Al Schiensker, ye' olde Hoosier, alhas banked $525,000 in

TE Various §roups. - - - He picked out | where money grows on trees.

‘manager for the aren ©. Harding. At Walter Johnson of the Nats.

: . A‘WINNING TEAM in any line of professional sports sal lures the customers despite some tightening of the|.

; ese Caps played before approximately 9000 cheering * fans at the Coliseum ice palace last Sunday night and their at home also having been drawing all right , .. on big league turnout figures in a minor safe guess that the Hoosier Caps will

SgETeysive type ‘of J... Ott Heller's spirited tedm Is undefeated in its last eight and is hanging in there battling for a berth In the post-

“a test, : a {appl TAAL a * a a - questionnaire on tn 30 Schlensker tnaily # found the , city

Fans Forgave Ownie His Bobbles

y day at Waghingfon in 1923.

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It Fast Pace

71-53 Victory Puts indiana Central in Conference Lead . Times Special diana Central's Greyhounds can

triumph . over the Knights ~in a }oosier

lust night.

hounds at ‘the top of the Confifth in six starts for Central. Central's fast break.

command. Canterbury Bpurts Canterbury staged a short spurt in the second half and

{sliced Central's lead to six points, [40-34. Central, with t

3 Ninety-eight percent of the gyails meshing 20 points on a

446 average performance, went on from there to win in a breeze. Woody McBride, held to two

+ichatity conversions in the first

half, scored 16 points after halfInd. Centtsl (11) Canterbury (53)

" t McGrath, { 0 Prine, ¢ 1 5 3% Roberts, { 0 1 HP t : wails, 18 4 diNoe, t 2 i Stevenson, f 1 1 1Barry.e 3 Qriftith, ¢ 5 1 3Miles, 0185 “Blevins, © 92 3 Pine, 7 : 2 pee, TARR 314 Rr 1 neon, § 0 1 yg 0 0 em —— 28 15 231 Totals 13% Score at Half— i a . 4

South Side Turners To Play Fehr's Quintet

DANVILLE, Ind, Feb. 2-In-| thank a fgst break for a 71-53"

Conference basketball game here t : The triumph placed the Grey-/ forerice race. The win was the| Canterbury couldn't cope with| |!

At half-| § time the Greyhounds were in|

_ |pFowes.

= duck Hippo} Haines

To Win Heavyweight

JACK HAINES throws a lot Th ing ataed heavyweight put Shammble out of ‘the running. the Northeast Community Center, six feet of bulging biceps topped pad of gon Sroppsd blond his eh attest to his og

. = 8 NOW 18 YEARS old, Haines was graduated from Tech High

ments while a student.

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Ownie Bush (right) was. . In the ceriter is the late Pres. Se left is Bush's friend, Pitcher

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1a Golden TSloves toga.

knockouts in the second round.

and the second was over a large

“School footbalt team and was a member of. the Tech

He speaks with pride when he of winning the North Central rencé wrestling championship and going on to place fourth the state competition.

the Appliance Distributing Co. but he isn’t letting his muscles get flabby. He works out hard at the community center and expects to make his hard work pay off with

The hairy-chested stack of muscles only started boxing this re in preparation for the 16th * [Times-Legion tournament. Prior to the opening of Gloves

competition, Hippo had two amateur fights. He won both by

His first win was over a South 5 Community Center heavy

lad from Brightwood. “I CAN'T SAY for sure I'll win

soft-spoken big boy, “but I'll certainly be trying.” But there are no doubts as to who will. be the champ Novice in

The Bigger They Come vine:

"Hippo* Haines Tips Scales At 222 for Gloves Tourney

. King-Sized Tech Graduate Hopes

By JIM HEYROCK Gloves Tournament--~222 pounds of it. aiming t pionship in the Novice Class. And it'll take a lot of man to "Haines, who has been dubbed “Hippo” by his stablemates at

School last year and boasts athe Com. | String of athletic accomplish

title, said--thet

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+202 poynds of mind;

Title for Novices

of weight in this year's Golden!

is at. the hea

McGinnis and Trainer Buddy Watts, “They're certain Hippo is

Those eligible for the gloves vy weigh-in between 3:5 and 6 p. m. Friday in the Armory. Drawings will be made following weigh-ins. Lists of fights will be posted in the dressing rooms of Armory.

r » . AT 8 P. M. the first fighter is scheduted to climb through the; ropes of the Armory’s squared circle. There will be about 16}; fights to follow in rapid order. This week's fights will be the fifth session for this year's tournament and plenty will be dished up by the eager amateurs. Forty-

for competition. The finals will be Feb. 11. On that night the champs will: be

of the gloves and a capacity crowd is expected Friday night. Extend AAU Net Tourney Deadline

The Indiana A. A. U. announced today it had extended

the deadline for entries in its!

state basketball tournament to midnight Feb. 4. Chairman Wayne Ross of the tournament committee said entries Jostmarked by that date deadline ‘was Feb. 1. Ross said 28 teams already had entered the tournament, set for

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Left Winger From Buffalo

Swap Joe Lund For MacKenzie,

{front line of

with Goalie Hec Higton in the offseason trading with St. Louis for Goalie Red Almas, Wings Lloyd Two Good Seasons . MacKenzie has had two good seasons with Houston in the United States League and was obtained by the Bisons at the start of this season's American League campaign. Ott Heller, coach of the Caps, plans to use the 5-foot 9-inch, 160pound MacKenzie on the Cliff Simpson line. He will team with Right’ Winger Pat Lundy on this threesome. «Lund was obtained by the Caps in the off-season trading with St. Louis:

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scored 85 points in 66 games with Houston last year. A previous he has tallied 61 points in 58 games and 12 more points in the playoff series between Houston and Dallas.

Lund had been a defenseman when he came here. Heller converted him to an attack line flanker, He scored 32 points with seven goals and 25 assists in 44 games for the Caps this season. The Caps, with a string of eight Seraight ws without a defeat

tie tonight.” A win would Live them that tie. A defeat would dump them into fourth place, however. Doran; Barry Sullivan, Tony Licari and Defenseman Thain Simon.

ithe minds of Boxing Coach Hugh

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Feb. 18-20 in Sacred Heart Gym,|

Indianapolis.

ANDARD ERVICE

The 28-year-old MacKenzief .

fora second-place];

‘ier, secretary-treasurer,

£4 [Football ;

Title Hopes Wins Away

Caps Pi Pick 0 Gophers and ini See.

Rise After

From Home

‘Minnesota and Illinois Top League

With Twe Victories Each on Foreign Courts

CHICAGO, Feb. 2 (UP)—The old story that a team must be away from home to win the Big Nine basketball cham -

Sports Events fa ere and There Today, Tomorrow

TODAY SCHOOL B

Lebanon a orirage. Decatur Sentral at: Lawrence Central,

STATE Tipton » st Elwood. Butler - ast. Michigan Sty Bt St. Mary's at Michigan or Bend Adams at Culver, Brasil at Terre Haute State. "COLLEGE BASKETBALL Earlham at Prankiin at DePauw.

at Bah State at Miami. PROFESSIONAL BASKETBALL Amssiation of

America Yudt at Ch timore at Tente a 7 Minnexpalis + aM ayne.

aT BASKETBALL Bush-Calishan League at Dearborn gym.

TOMORROW NIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL

LOCAL No games scheduled, STATE Hammond Tech at Gary PFrobel. COLLEGE BASKETBALL

es State’ at Notre Dame. PROFESSIONAL ) BASKETBALL of America Boston pan Co Minneapolis oN phil eiphia.

Rochester al Pro Washington at or anes.

AMATEUR BASKETBALL Bush-Callahan Callahan League at Dearbor at Dearborn orm.

Outdoor Writers Pick Bill Gordon

_Bill Gordon of the “Western! Newspaper Union, was elected president of the new Indianapolis chapter of the Outdoor Writers Association of America at a meet-| ing held last night. Marc Waggener of The Times, was named vice president and Gordon Graham, radio newscast-

Plans to make the chapter active in obtaining recognition for the Conservation Pledge on a state-wide basis were discussed.

Boston Pro Grid Team Becomes N. Y. Bulldogs

NEW YORK, Feb. 2 (UP)—The Boston" Yanks of the Nationa) who ha changed their playing site to Néw York for the 1949 season, also chi their name today to the

The Gophers, who have played more games, have a percentage advantage over Illinois. On, the Purdue ‘at Lafayette, 67 to 62, 52,

The Illini beat Indiana, 44 to 42, in a double overtime at Bloomington and edged Ohio State, 64 to 63, at Columbus, but the fast breaking Champaign quintet went down before Purdue, 55 to’ 53, at Lafayette. Purdue lost -to-Ohlo--Btate-at Columbus, - 66 to 56, and beat Northwestern in the Chicago Sta-

place in the Conference race. “. team to win or. the road, beating

Every other team ic the league is winless on a foreign court. Coaches figure that the ‘home court is worth at least eight points to a basketball team. Thus far the Big Nine race supports the theory, and probably Minnéiota and Illinois will settle the chase for the title on foreign courts the rest of the way.

advantage would seem to go to the Illini. Minnesota meets Ohio State at Columbus Butuan, And the Buckeyes, even though losing to Illinois at home, still e as one of the league's best. / Other away-from-home foes Jon the Gopher list are Mi ;, another tough ball club, and Wisconsin. Illinois Given Edge Illinois’ opponents/on the ro seem-to-he easier. The Tilintat Wisconsin Badgers lost, 62 50, at Champaign and shouldn't be too tough {in° the second’ meeting.” Later, Illinois tangl¢s with Northwest: ern in the cagd Stadium and, while the Wildcats should im= prove, they. seem to be overmatched st the Illini. The final Illinois game will be at Mic and that could result in an upset. year only one Conference finished with a winning road ntage, Michigan's champions ng four and losing two. Three teams, Indiana, Northwestern and Ohio State failed“to ig a single one of six road If either Minnesota or can come up with a four-two or five-one record away from home this year, it ought to mean a

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New ork Bulldogs

dium, 60 to 54. Purdue is in third - --Ohlo State was the only other Wisconsin, 57 to 54, at Madison, °

Each has three games more to / | play away from home, and the’

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Joe Pritchett, Sols Emmanuel Roth, ¢

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