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Expand Scope Of Athletics — At Kirshbaum

Program Open To All Youths

Of Whatever Faith (Continued From Page 87) by Art Jacobs, are held Monday at 8p. m. Sy ys and girls, young men and women all are eligible for these classes. Only requirement is a pair of gym shoes. The center furnishes all the other equipment, A large softball and baseball program are being planned for the spring ‘and summer. There will be teams for all age groups,

starting ‘at age 9, and there will’

be several leagues formed. » ~ os - ¥T IS EXPECTED there will be at least two boys’ baseball teams, six high school softball teams and eight men’s softball teams

the Kirshbaum Center. Two other sports, new to the center's program, being contem-

plated for the spring and sum-| mer, are golf and tennis. The! golf lessons will be given by Mil- | ton Sternberger while a tennis instructor is yet to be named. Women’s gym classes, in which | the fair sex are taught the gentle

art of self-defense via “Judo,”|

are held every Tuesday morning at 9:30. Plans are also being] made for a businessmen’s gym

class to be held at 5:30 or 6 two|

afternoons a week. This latter class probably will get underway early next fall. oe es = = AND THERE IS another sport that will join the long roster of athletic activity at the center next fall. It is football. Up to the present the center hasn't had football teams mainly

because of lack of equipment. But}

if present plans go through, youths of all ages will be togged| out for the gridiron and teams and leagues will be organized.

All of-the sports activity at the.

center is under the direction of one man, Earl Montgomery, who has been at the center for the past three and one half yegrs. ” - -

“MONTY” has been connected with swimming and allied sports} for 15 years. He taught swimming at the Miami Biltmore Hotel in Florida and while there trained several swimmers who ultimately made the U. 8. Olympic teams.

Joe Sgro, Indiana's welterweight champion, tops off hours | of running in Garfield Park by skipping over posts. Watching are Trainer Norb Updike (left) and Manager Tom Benedict.

Part of Sgro's afternoon Leeper's Gym. :

gymwork includes body exercises at

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AHL Governors Study

His most famous pupil was Marcia Wayne. Monty came to Indianapolis to take charge of the Broadmoor Country Club pool. He was a member of the Army amphibious corps for two, and one half years,

Rockets to Meet Caps

Plans for League Playoff

League Bosses Ponder $75,000 Divvy;

By BILL EGGERT

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All of Monty's assistants in the huge sports program are volunteers. Some of them are young men who have grown up in the center, » »

~ BOYS LIKE BOB PARKER, who coaches the swimming team, Bill Karandos, Norman Whinns, Cecil Abbott, Orvil Gaines, Wayne Reynolds, Morty Tavel and Hymie Caldwin, all of whom coach the various basketball, | softball and baseball teams. | The other instructors, also vol-| unteers, are men or women, well-| versed in their chosen field of sport, who offer their spare time to aid the youth of the community. - ' : These instructors and their sport are: Amos Nahmias, basketball; Herbert Backer, swimming; Morris Olshan, baseball; Art Jacobs, fencing; Willie Levanthal, wrestling; Manuel Greenspan, boxing; Joe Eckman, badminton; Rabbi Fruchter, men’s gym classes; Norman Brody, handball; Howard Bauman, volleyball; Milton Sternberger, golf and Mrs. Clara Larner, women’s and girls’ activities. » ” ” FUNDS FOR THE daily expenses of the center are supplied by the Community Chest. The maintenance of the building is undertaken by the Jewish Federation who purchased the old

building in 1925 with funds from|mine a finalist to meet the first-

the Kirshbaum estate. These funds originally were intended to endow an old folks’ home, but the heirs agreed to use| the money to build a center instead. The federation committee, origfinally headed by Leonard Strauss, set up the original policy and program of the center and it was the federation that built the new gymnasium that has been added] on the rear of the old bulldng.| - ” ” THIS GROUP. AT PRESENT, has plans to raise $250,000 with which to further improve the

down by Eastern clubs who com-|

Here Tonight

While the Indianapolis Capitals still ride atop the American face. a)

Hockey League's Western Division, the loop’s Board of Governors is planning the post-season playoff plan and how to divvy $75,000. a chubby baby in her arms, leans] - The Caps return to thé Coliseum tonight to meet Philadelphia on the ring canvas and looks up which hasn't won a game from the local Blueshirts this season. At affectionately at - the well-built!

An attractive young girl, with

the same time the Rockets will attempt to snap the Caps’ streak of figure.

not being beaten in the last 11 —

conjunction with the dedication of the new Cincinnati Gardens where Montreal of the National League and Tulsa, a farm club from the United States League, | will play an exhibition game] Tuesday night. Cincinnati wlil be] represented in the American League next season as a Montreal farm team. - . AHL governors may retain the league's present -- playoff - system whereby the first two teams in each division play the best four-

Netherland: Plaza will be held in } |

the winner of inter-division series between second and third-place teams, Two new plans are:

ONE: Select the six top teams participating on the basis of points and regardless of division. TWO: Have four teams in each division compete, The first-place teams would meet the fourthplace clubs from the opposite division, second-place teams would battle third-place teams and the latter two winners would play a two-out-of-three - series to deter-

place division winner. Last year Cleveland skated away with the Calder Cup cham-| pionship and $28,000 of the $74. 600 playoff money. Other ri winners were Buffalo, $18,600; Providence, $12,000; -New Haven, | $0000; Pittsburgh $4000\" dnd] Hérshey $3000. I. The first plan, although much| desired by the Western Division governors, 1s certain to be turned!

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Division have accumulated more

facilities of the center. All of the people of the or-| ganization have banded together) under the Kirshbaum banner, with one pufpose in view: f “To ‘help the youth of the|

community keep physically and|for more representation this sea- J: mentally alert.” |son, asserting they should not be

Tri-State Gets Revenge; Trips Lewis, 62-53

ANGOLA, Ind, Feb. 19—Tri- Bob Dillinger, third baseman of

State gained revenge over Lewis in’ a college hardwoodgame to-

NEXT OPPONENT Tri-State at Benton Harbor, Feb. 26.

night by winning, 62-53, to re--yenge an lier defeat at the hands of Ss. Bob Hemrick, one of the state's leading collegiate scorers, faittened his total for the year, too. He dumped seven field and two foul-line shots for 16 points.

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points than second-place Hershey. has in the Eastern Division. In such a playoff only Pré¥idence would be represented by the Eastern Division.

Western clubs are clamoring

sidelined for weaker clubs.

Browns Sign Dillinger ST. LOUIS, Feb. 19 (UP)—|

the St. Louls Browns, has signed |a contract for a very substantial increase in salary, Bill DeWitt, club president, announced today. | [son, Jed the league in stolen bases | {for the pecond straight “year (with 28, .

out-of-seven games and await/ord for the Indiana pool with a i, aach ‘fight.

All five teams in the Western |

{ Dillinger, who hit. 321 last. sea | ee

{Indiana’s welterweight champion baby and decided to help him be-

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2 a 8 ; BLOOMINGTON, Ind. Feb. 19 AFTER EACH of Joe's matches, |

{and one of the state's most prom- come a good fighter.”

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Photos by Lloyd B. Walton, Times Staff Photographer ‘Accent is placed on timing as Sgro batters the small punching bag. This-alse-and shoulder muscles. Later he.throws rights and lefts into a heavy bag. Joe has

The end of a hard day . . . Sgro gets a rubdown An hour of relaxation with a from his co-manager, Tom Benedict, Pious, Hard-Slugging, Family Man Joe Tries'to Set Example for State Youth ~~ By JIM HEYROCK A short, round little man with bushy gray hair grunts and Tech High School where he played smashed the fiel mar! {stoops to get between the rubber-covered ropes. He throws his arms quarterback on the football team. the shot put Peldhouse the Xn |around the sweat-swathed body of the young fighter and plants a He served 55 months in the Army. ‘ solid fatherly kiss on his wet cheék. } { A priest, his chest expanded and his hands clasped behind! him, stands at the ringside, a broad smile of satisfaction on his he won the Novice Championship|the Braves, winning all 12 events {in the Times-Legion Golden Gloves Tournament in 1939 and the folJoe Murello and Tom Benedict, lowing year won the Open’ lightIndianapolis men who are taking. {their first fling at fight managing. gimmons. . “We're not in this thing to] games here. Hm (fight arena? {make money.” explains Benedict. The governors’ meeting at the {J Wimmers i | Maybe. But Joseph Paul Sgro, “We've known Joe since he was a tne state welterweight title, Sgro » (has lost-only three fights in his |career. They pay their fighter a weekly lary, but, as Benedict puts it, g eir contract is not binding,

the morning run and a ern managers have been after {Joe's contract but-have-failed to

{obtain it. Sgro, 25 years old, attended CT0f 8nd won three events, andithe leader a sixteenth away from

weight title.

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old Rockport Ou To Take $100,000

ARCADIA, Cal, Feb. 19 (UP)

Wilson Is Back

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Cage Star to Play

St. Joe Tomorrow

Netw {lite was breathed into the Anderson College basketball team today with the announcement that Jumpin’ Johnny Wil-| son will be in the lineup Monday| against. St. Joseph's College. | Wilson, who has been absent from the last four games since, chipping his right elbow in a!

game with Assumption. College, |was allowed-to-return-to. practice | {today by St. Vincent's Hospital (physicians, Although he was cautioned this morning not to use the arm ex-. cessively there appears a posst- |

AR bility he may be able to shoot his

{missed, Anderson College was

Way to another scoring record. | After hearing the doctor's’ ver- |

Lidict this morning. John immedi-!|

ately returned to Anderson to; begin workouts this afternoon. Coach - Frank - Heddon sald -he twould not be able to use Wilson the whole game, but that his presence on the bench alone would be a boon to the squad. Of the four games. Wilson has

able to win only one, against Earlham. Anderson has three games remaining ‘in. the season, St. Joseph's, James Millikin and Franklin, or In those three games Wilson will be out to better his one game record of 49 points set the night he was injured.

Irish Track Team Downs Bradley

SOUTH BEND, Feb, 19 (UP)—

stretéh and pulled past for a length and a quarter vice

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truns Olympia

Coast Classic —Clifford Moers’ game colt, Old

Rockport, ridden by brilliant apprentice Jockey Gordon Glisson, ran down favored Olympia in the stretch today to win the $100,000 Banta Anita Derby, richest winter race for 3-year-olds. ne : The 18-year-old apprentice kept the son of Carrier Pigeon : close to the sizzling pace set by Olympia and, saving ground on the -

ap. in the leader

inside, closed the

tory. Admiral Lea was third and Stone Age was fourth in a photo finish. For a time it appeared nothing : the speedy Olympia pened up a five-length lead on the backstretch. But Glis-

son methodically set his sights - on the leader and closed gradual«

ly in the stretch drive, . Old Rockport closed at better than 30 to 1 in the betting and paid $68.10, 17.70, 9.30. Olympia, part of the Hooper entry, pald §3.00 and 2.60 and Admiral Lea paid $5.10 to show. . The race was run in the comparatively average time of 1:50-1/5 but the fractions were better as Olympia ran the six furlongs in 17310-4.5-and the mile

in 1:37-1/5. It was the first time a

any of the colts had run a mile

and an eighth anc the time was

nearly two seconds off the track record of 1:48-3/5. At the start, despite a valiant effort by So La Ci and Admiral Lea to beat Olympia to the front,

the Fred W. Hooper colt got the

lead and smartly drew ahead of the field of 14 colts. :

turn, Olympia was out in front by a length and a half and he increased it to two and a half lengths at thé head of the backstretch. Behind him were Admiral

Old Rockport, Jockey Willie Garner, trying for a WAY. »

riding, clung to second place. It was then

As the pack cut around the first - =

” . PRIOR TO going into service,

his teammate John Helwig the wire. His

Hack Sun overwhelmed Bradiey,| forward as they flashed under

The Irish completely outclassed

—Indiana University’s swimming nq professional ranks, “Papa-/can make Joe a champion, we'll cause of finances.

five starts by edging Cincinnati's to

fonhece, 44 to 40, here this after Holy Rosary, also is fast | m- * : ing an ardent Sgro fan. The Rev. Roy Stickney, of Cincinnatl, griniom Knapp gives communion broke the 100-yard free-style rec- ;, ya young. welterweight prior

time of 53.1 seconds, bettering) Anq as fans, Joe's wife, Ida, the old mark by one-tenth of ai3nq 2.year-old daughter, Diane, second. It was the first Indiana gre jeaders. pool record to topple here since| ggro, like one of his favorite 1937. |ring personalities, Tony Zale, forThe Hoosiers’ 400-yard free- mer middleweight champion of style relay team of Dick Brunoeh- the world, is trying to set an exler,” Jay Shivers, Doug Rauschgmple for the youth of Indiana and Bob White broke the meet’s with clean living, a modest man-36-all deadlock with the final ner and hard training. He trains Indiana victory, in 3:49.3. daily and hopes to begin his Indiana’s freshman 400 - yard climb to the top Mar. 14 when he free-style team -of Bill Nesbitt, battles in Cincinnati. Bill Schadburne, Larry Meyer, Joe had a warm up for his campaign Friday night when he won-a decisive victory over Jackie, Cleveland, in the

and Sam Seki broke the varsity record with a 3:44.6 in an exhibition swim. The varsity time| Keough of is 3:49.3.

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(team scored, its second victory in sito” Frank Sgro is always there let him go” he explains. plant that kiss or Joe's cheek. | But they won't let Joe fall into k The pastor of Joe's church, the wrong- hands.

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Joe wants to be a champion Notre Dame indoor and gym recBut his ambition doesn’'tiords set by Smith in 1947. FlemFor years he has/ing also won the high jump at “It anybody wants Joe's con- nursed a secret ambition that hesix feet. and he has had 90 in the amateur|tract and can prove to us they has been unable to pursue be-| Helwig, a Los Angeles junior,

on the program.

Fleming, from Providence, R. I, won ‘the 60-yard highs in 07.4 seconds, but in his trial heat was timed in :07.3 tying’ the Notre] Dame indoor and Notre Dame

week ago by Fleming himself, In the 60-yard lows, Fleming won in :06.9, again tying the

threw the fron ball 53 feet 3%

He wants to be 1 singer. Who inches, breaking the former gymnows? Indianapolis may have nasium mark of Ed Quirk, of | Several east- a Sinatra—welterweight class. .

Missouri, set In 1948,

ign 1949 Contracts BOSTON, Feb. 19 (UP)—Third baseman Bob Ellott, Pitcher Bill Voliselle and Reserve Catcher Bill Salkeld have signed their 1949 contracts; the Boston Braves announced “tonight.

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