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| FRIDAY, MAR. 11, 1940

’ The Ameri Le in hispory is still ki are in it up to their necks despite some serious injuries, The Caps are tied for the Western it an are 4 Division lead with Cleveland

four points In front of Pittsburgh. Indianapolis put on a Frank]

aps Salva Gordon Haidy Hero Of ‘Merriwell’ Finish Before 4434

Division Race Shaping Up as Hottest Stretch Drive in Recent Campaigns By BILL EGGERT

Hockey League's most hectic cham race cking around today and the SRAplonebie Caps

one whisker ahead of third-place St. Louis and

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Merriwell touch last night to gain|toward Wilson and scored at

a 4-4 tie here with New Haven!

before a noisy but skimpy crowd of 4434 fans. Protests Game

: Elmer Quandt at HI ghland 8637 General Manager Dick Miller or LI nooln : ah $11 price New Haven defenseman . pur- tag includes round trip train fare, reserved seat for the game and |transportation from the St. Louis cage and was not penalized. The; Union Station to the Arena and

protested the game, charging

posely fell upon the puck in the third period near the Ramblers’

protest probably will be torgot-| ten, The Caps were lucky to tle.

What's more important pleted the season's series between] cision from League ahaa the two clubs leaving Indianapolis Maurice Podoloff on the Pitts- in front with thiree victories, one burgh protest of a 4-2 loss here|J°feat and two ties.

Feb. 13,

Binge uly three teanis ” from, Bevibis kB “ove eac lon can qualify for the pegoisk W A ebstor Er Jovwasan path, ted Ei EE stretch drive between Indianapo-|™ghiom'® Mes lis, Cleveland, St. Louis and Pitts- a3. Simpuce, -Brugstoen. faidy, Melons, “burgh will provide one of Bre Ren Con Prelit: hockey's unforgetables, Glsude, Bloomer, Lancieu, Hyrmak. Additional * troubles, however, SCORE BY PERIODS:

have been heaped upon the Caps. | Ho NAPOLI

Goalie Terry Sawchuk was resi ported in fair condition today at!

General Hospital after a serious! pa

game injury last night. Ross In the Nets

and had four stitches taken tO) osmpbell

sew up a head gash. The 19-year-|

old goalie was playing With an! (7.

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| (highsticking). ; | (Brown, He was felled by a line drive poieoisns shot late in the second period Woit

9:55. \ Cap fans planning to attend the t. Louis gi

The tie with New Haven com-

Indianapolis (4) o New Haven (4)

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Scoring summary: Pirst period: INDIANAPOLIS (1), Simp(Nicholson) 6:33; New Haven (2) avies (Bloomer) 12:13. Pendities, Glover

period: New Haven (3), White] ehster) ‘§:02; New Haven (4), (Watson). 16:55; New Haven (5) (Roazini) 18:55, Penalties, {ripping}, Lamirande (holding), odolsky ' (elbowing)

Second

interference), Third period: INDIARAPOLIS (8)

' Sump 56; INDIANAPOL

aggravated groin injury. He will LIS (8), Haidy (Simpson. Bruneteau). Pen-|

remain in the hospital today ‘and sticking).

probably will make the trip to St. Louis for tomorrow night's game there. Trainer Ross (The Voice) Wilson replaced Bawchuk, Wilson was scored upon once and made

two saves in 22 minutes of play- | INDIANAPO ls 13 04 31 158 Ing time. Other bad news is that|g* 9nd Rp Kenny MacKenzie, a wing, prob- Pittsburgh .... 10 5 313 103) ably will be out for another weelk [Buffalo ....... 61 20 24 8 66 214 187| because of a broken thumb. Fer- : Ea wren, Pts G OG hand Gauthier, hurt in practice frovidence ... 82 42 16 8 % 331 20 last week, is out for the remain- springfield ~~. 63 19°35 § 47 ne 254 der of the season. ALGER EEE The Caps looked like a frantic Washington wif 0 3 4.20 in 3 chorus line trying to get in step RESULTS LAST NIGHT: » during last night's first two pe- INDIANAPOLIS 4, New Haven 4 (tle). riods as New Haven supplied the TONIGHT'S better scoring punch and "went Ceo - Washiugn. into a 4-1 lead. Pp Scoring’ But there was no dilly : ap “A Mm in the final period that was vic Bot TH capped by Gordon Haldy's tying|haewsy 00 88 2 3 2 i goal with two seconds to play. Rodolaky ..orerees 88 nn 2s x Third for Woit "ID: Morrison | Nn 6 Center Cliff Simpson - -hadigin POOR. . +0 +0 +004 abe 4. 12 notched his second goal of the posse : a nh Re evening at §8. Defenseman Benny Helier +50 6 320 22 13 ~Wolt popped in his third goal|}i<iolon eu 3 n8 of the season at 5:03 immediately | Woit «6 3 11 4 % after a faceoff near the New| Melo «98° 4 1 N38 Haven cage Dav & 5 : : 3 rage. : 0 & The Caps kept pressing the SOAS RORY 80 game and with seven to play, sawehuke ......... 195 3.008 2 Coach Ott Heller yanked Wil- WHMB* ..ovpneeris 1 } 10 0

son off the ice for an extra wing. A faceoff, again near the New Haven cage, lent a helping hand to the situation and Haidy sent the little frozen disc sliding into the nets on the first pass fol-

Ken Davies’ first period goal and Bob White's tally at 8:02 in the second period got the Ramblers started. ‘Then Davies hoisted a piteh show sending the puck in a high arc toward Sawchuk. The puck landed in front of Sawchuk and bounced in the cage at 16:55,

On The Ice . AMERICAN HOCKEY LEAGUES STANDINGS

| Providence,

(holding), Brown (high-|

Officials: - Bernie LeMaitre, Patsy Calghen.

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Down The Stretch

Saturday, Mar. 13-New Cleveland, Pittsburgh at INDIANAPOLIS a Lous | ¥, Mar. 13-80 Louis at { Hershey at Indianapolis, Pictebureh "si

Tuesday, Mar. 16—Hershey at Bt. Louis Wednesday, Mar. 16—Buffalo a Cleveand. erste} hat Pittsburgh, arsday, Mar. 17-B - LL uffslo at INDIAN

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Both Teams Accorded Chance to Upset Traditional Downstate Tourney Rivals

By JIMMIE ANGELOPOLOUS A little guy that wasn't supposed to win and another one . Dewsbury (holding). ¢pat proved he can, will move into the fast company of two others who have regular winning hahjfs fn the semifinals of the 39th state Woit (D. Morrison) 5:03: INDIANAPO. Prep net tournament at Butler Fieldhouse tomorrow, Attica, which has won 27 games, more than any other team In |ortengive average is 55.8, 17 {the state, will clash with Lewrenceburg, one of the behemoths of points better than its defensive

Southern Indiana basketball, the first game at 1 p. m. Summitville, mislabeled, the “surprise” winnér of the local regional last week, will clash with Madison's well regarded Cubs, the team with the best tournament sweet sixteen who are battling at four different centers tomorrow. The winners tangle in the nightcap at 8:15 for the 14th

{semifinal championship in history

and the right to represent this sector in Hooslerdom’s Big Four here next Saturday. A capacity crowd of 15,000 is ‘expected tomorrow at the local center while a combined attendance of some 40,000 will view the proceedings at all four semifinal sites that include Bloomington, Lafayette and Muncie, Locally, all the spice and drama of a three-ring hardwood eircus can be packed in the Butler presentation. Summitville and-At-tica;, both regarded as “underdogs,” are going against a pair of clubs whose records are gnarled almost completely with notches of victory, some of them among the state's elite, Tigers Won 23, Lost Two Lawrénceburg has won 23 and lost two and Madison has triJyshad in 22 of 25 contests. n took the Southeastern Indiana Conference title away

‘from Lawrenceburg with a 41 to

33 victory in the final game of the year, after Lawrenceburg] stole it from the Cubs last year. Few hardwood rivalries are so bitterly contested througout the state-each-year-as-the-Madison-Lawrenceburg series. And all the elements of revenge between the

their ramifications crop out in the afternoon encounters against théir “lesser lights.”

offensive average among the

two die-hard rivals.could have!

in Attica, composed almost en- mark, while Summitville carries

tirely of seniors, has lost only five of its 32 games and was a|

52 to 43 loser to Monroe City in| the finals of the Wabash Valley

Greencastle and Leyden, Ill, early in the year but lost only to Crawfordsville by two points near the end of the season. Summitville, after -having emerged victorious in the -Anderson sectional, waded through last week's local regional with a 49 to 42 triumph over Tech and an easy, 61 to 41 conquest of Fort. ville. The Goblins snuffed out a belated rally by an off-color T aggregation that missed 16 of 26 free throws, hit only .216 from

sluggish offensive attack Tech's titular hopes, Stone Leads Goblins

punctured

prepsters appearing in the Fieldhouse this year, is capable of

Summitville, Affica Pitted Against Pair

tit = {Of State Cage Giants in Local Semifinal

game {games to head all 16 teams in

| Summitville’s Jim Stone, easily lone of the smoothest playing|afternoon game last season.

with a knack for snaring rebounds,and Ted Server, a ballhandler of no little repute. The ‘Cubs have a 66 point-a-average in five tourney

the semifinal tourneys and are

tied with Lawrenceburg with a 32.8 defensive average. Attica's

a 56.2 mark on offense and a

|41.7 total on defense. Lawrence case was different from the §2.5

burg’s offense has averaged 57.8 points in tourney play.

Cubs, Tigers, May Clash

barriers, the “rubber” tilt between the two schools would make it a classic,

The Cubs have been the only

of the last three years in regular season play, accounting for| three of the six games lost by] Lawrenceburg in the last three years. Anderson and Shelbyville

regular play this year. Coach Ray Eddy’s greatest of-| fensive machine is coming to the

by Anderson, 30 to 38, in the

Indians also tripped Lawrence-| burg, 44 to 43, in the semifinal

spearheading the Goblins against Madison in what looms as a natural in race-horse basketball, Stone's rebounding, drive and feeder plays to Speedy Wayne Irwin and Carl Baker can cause enough trouble to oust the Cubs in the second afternoon tilt. Madison's chief stock-in-trade will be Dee Monroe, who has hit 467 points in 25 games; Spence Schaitter, 6-4, 195-pound center

Broadway Wise Guys Back Wildcats With Even Money

NEW YORK, Mar. 11 (UP)—The wizened odds-makers along

Broadway paid their respects to

team today by establishing the top-seeded Wildcats from the bluegrass country even money favorites to win the National Invitation

Tournament. Never in the recollection of main stem had a team been made such a one-sided favorite to win

“the tourney, which opens at Madi-

son Square Garden on Saturday. te. the enlargement. of this year's field from eight to 12 teams. Behind - Kentucky, which has won 29 games and lost only one this season, came second-seeded 8t. Louis. University, which handed the Wildcats thelr lone setback. The Billikens, victorious in 20 out of 23 games to date, were rated at 2 to 1. . : Bills Rout Missouri The Bills closed their regular season last night by routing Missourl, 54 to 37. . Third-seeded Utah (24-7) was made a 3-to-1 choice to win the

12th annual N. T. T. meet and|

fourth-seeded Western Kentucky

the mighty Kentucky basketball

the oldest bookmaker along the

came Bradley University (25-8) and San Francisco at 6 to 1 each: Bowling Green of

of “CHIcgo (22-8) “at 10 to 1. Given Little Chance The four New York City entries were — given little chance of! winning the tournament. Manhattan (18-7), City College (17-7), St. John's of Brooklyn (15-8) and New. York University (12-7) each quoted at 15 to 1. According to the odds-makers, four of the “outlanders” should eliminate the four metropolitan teams in the preliminary battles on Saturday and thus join the four seeded entries in the quarter. finals Monday, Bradley was favored over NYU

Ohio (21-6) at 8 to 1, and Loyolal

Sports Evers

AY * BROFESSIONAL BASKETBALL Association of America Philadelphia at Boston HOCKEY Buffalo at Washington, 1 AMATEUR BASKETBALL City Independent Tourney at Dearborn Gym, 7:15 p. m! "TOMORROW WICH SCHOOL BASKETBALL rr ANAI RE. Attica va. Lawrenceburg. 1 p. m., broads cast, L w, Madson va. Summiyeille, In & m, y n ame 1 an $ MW. PROFESSIONAL BASKETBALL

Association of America INDIANAPOLIS

pongo. Bos at Baltimore, Philadelphia at Providence, Mt. Wayne at Washington, New York at Chicago Bt. Louis at Rochester. HOCKEY INDIANAPOLIS at Bt. Louis. - Providence at Sptinefield, Pittsburgh at fladelphis. Buffalo at Hershey aven at Slardland. WRESTLY

and San Francisco ruled the

(25-3) rated 7 to 2, After the four seeded teams

cholce to defeat Manhattan on Saturday afternoon, with Loyola favored to turn back CCNY and Bowling Green given the nod over

JOSEPH HERKUS*

‘Glad he switched to

~ Calvert Reserve years ago

- “because Calvert always

t milder, mellower!” of Philadelphia, Penna. : ; -

st John's Saturday night,

| wn, ND End | - CHICAGO, Mar, 11 (UP)~The Chicago Bears announced that George Benigni, 215-pound

{end from Georgetown and Notre

Dame, has signed a 1949 con-

{ [tract Benigni, 22-year-old, played| 1 |high school football in Chicago

|and freshman football at Notre

{for the past two years, He was the eighth rookie to sign a Bear

Indiana A. cliam sh pool, 1:30 and University,

TRACK Hlinols “Tech Relays at Ohleago.

wr Bears Sign Benigni, + { Ex-Geo

TT I Te or

Here and There | Today, Tomorrow:

vs, Minneapolis at

LING Indiana A. A U, urney at YMCA, Wi a, A1°8. m.;} ings, a W begin 1] dn Bam

Indiannpols Athlete. lub

Indians YMCA championships at Purdue

championship game.

Jerry Gordon, who leads the team with 315 points in 25 games; John | Brunner and William Jones will| stage an encore at. the Field-| house tomorrow,

{On Suspension

. |The attorney for suspended base-

Should Madison and Lawrence- .o.ue burg overcome their first round ,.

son to the next,

Moral A. C. ‘Advances

team to defeat the Tigers in each |n

The |

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Court Order

_ Injunction Against Organized Baseball

To Be Asked Monday NEW YORK, Mar. 11 (UP)—

ball player Danny Gardella was) working today on papers which | he sald he will’ file Monday in Federal Court asking that Gardella’s five-year suspension from baseball be lifted immediately. Attorney Frederic A. Johnson said he will ask a federal judge on Monday to sign a “mandatory

baseball to show cause within one week why Gardella's suspension should not be lifted. : + Johnson sald that the injunction would be similar to the “show cause” order nbtained last Tuesday by suspended St. Louis Cardinal pitchers Max Lanier and Fred Martin, who, like Gardella, have been set dowh for five years for “jumping” to the Mexican League in 1046, Baseball must answer Lanfer and “Martin in court next Tuesday.

ing on the mandatory injunction would have the effect of restoring Gardella to active status in baseball and also give him a chance to play with independent teams: Gardella, a war-time outfielder with the New York Giants, now 1s a $36-per-week orderly in the Mt. Vernon, N. Y., hospital. Johnson said the effect of the injunction would be only temp orary, however, pending the outcome of Gardella’s $300,000 damage suit which is awaiting trial in Federal Court. . Johnson sald that Gardella's

imillion damage suit brought by Lanier and Martin, in that Gar. della “was not.-a contract-jumper” but merely violated baseball's reclause which-binds a player the same team from one sea-

Cage Tournament

Moral A. C. advanced to the rd round of the City Inde-

pendent basketball tourney at tof 7) played Dearborn gym last night, downng Northwestern Pal Club, 53

Gardella Seeks Among Sw

injunction” instructing ps on ' foreign courts they

turned out for basketball last fall.

Johnson said a favorable rul-

¢ ‘a

eet Sixteen,

Jefferson Overcame

Some Observers Feel * By KURT FREUD

has licked the

Of the 16 teams battling for a berth on the 30th annual Indiana high school basketball tourney, Jefferson

Greatest Handicap

Giant Killers’

Have Stuff to Throttle New Castle

Press

greatest handicap, The Red Devils of Randolph County, the third “People’s Choice” team ‘in the semi-finals, were the “glant killers”

in the Hartford’

City sectional and the Huntington regional. They did it the hard way. | ‘ Back home at little Deerfield they don't even have a school gym. Coach Bob Reid took his boys to nearby Saratoga for their home games during the past season. Despite all the traveling and

compiled a respectable record, winning 17 games while - losing seven before tourney time. + + Only 850 Pupils There are only 50 pupils in the school, nearly half of whom

In the tourney, the Red Devils showed they could hit and run with the best of them. They beat their oppodition by an average of more than 10 points per game. A tall trio, Jim Harris, Merrill Whitenack and Dick Sipe, is the backbone of the club that meets New Castle in the second arternoon game at Muncie Saturday. That's a large-size assignment, but some observers feel that Jefferson “can do it" New Castle may be a year “early.” Coach Chuck Stuckey starts an all-junior outfit, led by |sharp-shooters Jackie Wright and Jerry Ellis. The Trojans broke even in 20 regular season games, including competition in the tough North Céntral Conference, but edged favorite Muncie Central In last week's regionals, 30 to 28. Won In 1932

New Castle is the only former state champ in the Muncie semifinals, having gone all the way in 1932. Should New Castle trim Jefferson, Auburn was given at least a 50-50 chance. to stop the Trojans.) Auburn's northeastern conference champs, beaten only twice in 26 games, looked rugged in the Ft. Wayne regionals. With big Jim BSchooley leading the way, Auburn ed as good as—Iif not better than.coach, Keith Showalter’s 1045 outfit which went to the semi-finals before being ousted by Muncie Central,

this

ceived

‘blasted Marion, 57 to 36, and then edged favored Wabash, 55 to 53, for their meal ticket to Muncie

week.

Pitcher Hurt In Florida Crash

, Fla, Mar, 11 (UP)~—Art “Hard-Luck” Houtte« man, 21-year-old Detroit Tiger baseball pitcher, lay in eriticalk condition in Lakeland Hospital

when collided with & truck at a downs’ town intersection. Y Three Florida Southern College students riding with Houtteman. were not seriously They’ were Knowles Jeanette Bradley. The driver of the grapefruit truck involved in last night's collision was held by police for questioning. The six-foot, one-inch Houtteman ghinéd the “Hard-Luck” nickname last season when, con-

promising pitchers, he lost 16 out of 18 games by close

e margins on errors and other flukes beyond his control.

Boxing Tourney Ducats Ready

Tickets for the Indiana AAU.

represent the state In the Na-'

in the National Guard Armory. will be sold at

Schooley, standing six-foot-four,

to 34

In final first round action McQuayNorris, 27 to 22, and Speer Hard-| “Sweet Sixteen.”

Bendix Flyers tripped ware beat Oil, 55 to 47 Ton

Conservatory.

Champion Favored

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla, Mar. 11 The loss by the Tigers mhrked|(UP)—Defending champion Polly| the third straight year in which Riley of Ft. Worth, Tex, was Lawrenceburg has been denied/favored to retain her Florida East the fruits of victory in the semi Coast women's golf tournament final tournaments: Four of thejtitle today in an 18-hole final with regulars, Willlam Tonne, Capt. Pat Devany of Grosse Isle, Mich.

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: ws ight's ahsdule: 3 10e or opponent Saturday, doesn't have|the Wo! s. By-Products; 8:15,1a playmakc= of Schooley’s calibre, |b: Fieldhouse for the second straight Texaco vs. Van Camp; 9:15, Ken-| although the ’Kats Ag a well the American Leg year, after having been defeated nington Post vs. Indianapolis balanced team.

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