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First Shot at Title It Will Be Up to Bob Waterfield to Outpitch Slingin’ Sammy Baugh
By BENSON SRERE, United Press Sports Writer
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 10—The upset-mindéd Washington Redskins planned sabotage tomorrow for the Los [Angeles Rams' hopes
‘Rams Must Defeat ‘Or Tie Redskins for
or tie to clinch their first shot at the National League title. If Bob Waterfield, who piloted the Rams to a league title as a rookie four years ago when they represented Cleveland, can outpitch
NENG NDING
Slingin’ Sammy Baugh, the Rams will have the western champion-| ship. They would play the Philadelphia Eagles here Dec. 18 for the crown. If the Chicago Cardinals win their cross-town gamé with the Bears tomorrow, the Rams would) get the western crown regardless, | but that's something Waterfield and company are not counting on.
50,000 , Expected The home-town crowd, expected,
to number 50,000, has set the!
Rams up as two-touchdown favorites, but plenty of football ex-
perts were unwilling to go along/last Sunday on Paul Christman’s «
with that one-sided figuring. Included were Baugh, master-|
mind of the Redskins who piloted lost. three in their last five games|
« for a Western Division championship in a game the Rams must win
Wester (koe od eles Ghicage Cardinals
Green Bay | Eastern
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Divind
4 [Philadelphia 1" B T New York Glants Wahingion vis “3 Y. ullaogs te 3 Green Fa Agie at a esse Bears, reen Bay New rk af y " Philad ighiaBiiavire at New York ulldoss. ashington at Los Angeles & ALL- AMERIC ONFERENCE
San Francisco bers
nals) st Cleveland,
Riviera Club Girls to Meet IAC Swimme
{last-play touchdown pass. The '8kins have won two and]
them to a 38-24 victory when they including losses to the Eagles and met the Rams in a pre-season ex- Chicago Bears and wins over the
hibition, and his Harry Gilmer. Both confidently predicted they would do it again! and blast the Rams’ hopes. The Rams, after
Waterfield
understudy, Steelers and Green Bay.
Can Repeat
Waterfield, if he can engineer a victory in this one, gets a chdéhce
a sizzling to repeat his triumph of 1945,
early-season string of six vic- when he was a rookie with the, tories, went into a slump, lost to Rams, then of Cleveland, and was| the eastern champion Philadel- the major factor in their winning
They.
phid’ Eagles, salvaged ties with the Western Division title and the
unimpressively over the lowly!
most valuable
player in
31-27 heartbreaker to the Cards year $18,000-a-year contract.
Football Turns to Baseball
to reorganize into-a setup similar to-that-of- major league baseball [1A C:
. Pittsburgh and the Cardinals, won playoff crown. He was named the the competition, New York Bulldogs, and lost a'league that year and drew a three-| land also won in the midget divi-|
‘As Model for Big Leagues |
NEW YORK, Dec. 10 (UP)=-Professionat football today sought Time’
The dramatically sudden merger of the All-America Conference:
and the National Football League into a 13-team association was! Lac:
simply the first step.
And, while all but threg of the AAC teams folded in the process,
and the new National-American/ football league is headed by one commissioner, the club owners, will strive toward something very much like the National and Amer ican baseball leagues. Their association will be divia-
o leagues—the National Metealfs field dg ~ ‘the closing | 3:55.5 ed into tw agu econds gave Valparaiso Univer-| | A Yard Freestyle—Won by put Kerr,
sity a hard-earned 63-61 basket. | Hotty. * Huntington. Time.
and the American. Pick 2 Presidents _ They elected separate presi-| dents for each—Emil Fischer of
Valparaiso Nips Ball State, 63-61
Times
VALPARAISO
{ ball victory here tonight over Ball| Jim Moran,
State.
0" Dec ries
. 10 — Bo
Bob
Green Bay for the National and Valpo trailed five points with
Daniel Scherby of the Browns for the American.
[throws to tie the score and set up iaThus, Bert Bell, the aa pvt the game-winning goal by Metcalf. It was the Crusaders’ fifth
tion's commissioner, spond to A. B. Chandler, baseball's commissioner. Fischer will correspond to President Ford Frick of the Na-| tional Baseball League and Scherby to Will Harridge, presi-| dent of the American, The two leagues will not be| divided along regional lines, such|’ as the Eastern and Western divisions of the old plit up. leagues. Instead, they'll split u each of the two New Yo KE tonnen gt in a different league and the) same for the two Chicago clubs. Minor Hurdle The exact alignment has not been decided, but it will be some-| thing’ like this: | National League — Chicago, Bears, New York Bulldogs, Bal-| timore Colts, San Francisco Forty-Niners, Los Angeles Rams. and Green Bay Packers. American League -— Chicago] Cardinals, New York Giants, Washington Redskins, Phila-| delphia Eagles, Cleveland Browns, | Detroit Lions, Pittsburgh Steelers. Under the old pro football setup, the teams from separate divisions played one another regularly. Under the new set up, they probably will not, although | the two champions will meet In a football “world series.” { The new setup does present a scheduling problem in that there must be seven teams in one league and six in another. Thus, if each team played all league opponents| twice, one league's members would| have a 14-game scheduled and| the other 12 games. However, this| is a minor hurdle after the diffi-| cult task of bringing the warring | magnates together.
Rangers Win, 1-0
DETROIT, Dec. 10 (UP)—Center Edgar La Prade slapped in a third-period goal tonight which gave the New York Rangers a 1 to 0 triumph over the highriding Detroit. Red Wings.
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Valparaise (63) Ball State (81) ig 1t of fg ft pf Doshrman.t 00.1 A 7 4 4 7 2*3 Heaton t 3 3 Meloy 7 2 3 McClain.e 2 Ebel.f $ 3 1{Newton.s 4 1 Schreiber,¢ } 1 ht. 53 |Sombrose.s 4 3 n 2 6 1 ther.x 20 3 vicic.8 00 3 Totals 24 18 18 Totals 15 12 Halftime score: Ball State 33, Valpa~ |Taiso ”. Pres missed: Valparsiso—Met1 Eeireher 1. Ball Siate—Reed 3. Strateht . v ‘This Week's State,
Big 10 Cage Card
T St. Joe at Bt.
AY Pranklin at Indiana Central, 8:15 p. 'm.|
OMORROW Ambrose
Ball State at DePauw. Canterbury at Manchester,
Earlham at Rose DePaul at Indiana Notre Dame at W Drake at
University. onsi
urdus Tri-State at Lawrence Tech WEDN E
Butler at Michig
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Huntington at Concordia m™ Nana, Evansville at Eastern Kentucky Indiana State at Nevada ndiana Tech at Ohio Northern. Manchester at Western Michigan. Tri-State at Assumption.
Arkansas at Illinois. THURS
Evansville at Hanover at
Arkansas at Nenana Findlay at indiaha Tee RIDAY
A asreliead
(Ky). University, h,
Tiffin at Concordia.
Earlham Indians State vs: Prancisco St. Joe at Chicago SA TUR
Wabash at Butler, James Millikin at Western Michigan Pranklin at Hanov
ndiana Central at Notre Dime vs. cago Stad
at Oberlin. St. Mary's in San
University, AY
Ae erson, at Bail State.
ver. Huntington at Greenville. nl.
Taylo:
Northwestern in Chi-
8h Durcie Vat Oskiang City,
Purdue at Brad
ey Poly at Eureks, III
ose Wetsern Ontario raiso
Jowa State Missour! at Michig Iowa
(Canada)
Okiahoma at Hllinots at Minnesot
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at Western Reserve,
Wisconsin at Marquette,
at Valpa-
‘events, including both relays, the
Shayla Christopher, Betty Watson, Pat Moll and Ruth Abbett (left to right) are new additio swimming team ‘competing aga the IAC today.
IAC Boys Swamp SE Aeron " Swimmers
| The Riviera and I. A. C. girls swimming teams will meet at the {Riviera Club today in the opening attraction of the local indoor Times State Service HUNTINGTON, Dec. 10 —
| swim season for girls. By and juniors in each of the following capturing firsts in seven of nine
yard free style, 220 yard free style, breaststroke, 100 yard backstroke! 200 yard free style relay, 300 ygrd toward the National medley relay. |Women's Indoor Championships, Coach Charles L. (Bud) Sawin, [usually held at Daytona Beach;
Indianapolis Athletic Club's senior boys’ swimming team, swamped the local YMCA squad
The meet will start at 1:00 p. m. with separate races for seniors events: 50 yard free style, 100 10 (UP)-—The AAU convention 440 yard free style, 100 yard today nominated seven of Amer-|
rs Today
ns to the Riviera senior women's
IU Star Among 7 - Named for Awar
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, fea's
top-ranking amateur ath-|
vard, national and world's ama-
here today, 51 to 44. of Riviera, and Coach Jim Clark, |Fla., in early April. Riviera teams. teur figure skating champion; Jim
in spring training centers,
Sentor letes for the 1949 Sullivan award, Brooklyn Dodgers. Named were: Dick Button, Har-|
Detroit, Yanks, Senators, Browns, Indians
“And Reds Also Said to Seek Transactions
oo “By CARL LUNDQUIST, United Press Sports Writer NEW YORK, Dec. 10—Big deals for big leaguers was the theme’ tonight as club owhers moved in for their annual midwinter meet= Ing at which they also will make some signiticant changes in the playing rules. Stymied because no one was willing to “give up a row boat tor a battleship” in the week-long minor league sessions in Baltimore,
McKinney, Bush to Be
the club owners are likely to get| ~ together here on a more realistic) footing. As has often been the case In! the past, the minor leagues form a preliminary battleground for, sparring and, although there is| much talk, there is usually little action. Now together officlally| for the last time until they meet the! get
|elub owners probably will down to business. As it looked now, the clubs| most likely to do business with! each other were the New York,
«Glants and Pittsburgh Pirates, |
the New York Yankees and| |Washington Senators,
At Major Meetings
The Indianapolis baseball:
club isn’t overlooking any bets ' and will be well represented at” the major league sessions in New York. ’ Frank E. McKinney, president of the Pittsburgh Pirates and vice president of the In. | dianapolis Indians, and Owen J. Bush; Tribe president, will be there. Bush attended the minor league convention In Baltimore last we week,
possibly | respect ct since Steve Gromek, Ear-
{the Detroit Tigers joining the {ly Wynn and Gene Bearden, all
cornered deal,
Dec. Yanks and Senators in a three- | good hands who had disappoint the 8t. Louls ing seasons, could be trade ma~
Browns and Cleveland Indians terial.
and the Cincinnati Reds and
Names Bandied About
In addition to the deals chat-
{ter, the clubs will hold executive sessions Various combination of player, |vote on
names have been bandied about! jor-minor. league
to discuss rule changes, amendments to the ma-
agreement, and
Pittsburgh ond nvere ? Among 4 Mentioned as ; Likely to Have Trades
The meet marked the fourt straight win for IAC against n
h of the Indianapolis Athletic Club, have won four National Senior |Fuch, Yale, shot-putting and footo have been putting their teams |Women' s Outdo or Champion
as the magnates stalk around the rehash the restrictions on players
hotel lobbies and cocktail bars, paid fancy bonuses for sign or gather in smoke-filled rooms. pad Taney nig
{ball star; Doris Hart, Miami, tennis ace; Barbara Jensen, San
[a rai in the 400-ya
through stiff workouts in prepa- !ships, but have yet to ‘capture the ration for the meet. {National Indoor title. Other meets to follow during | The Town Club of Chicago, the winter and spring months will[with Olympic. star Jackie Lavine, | {br ring to Indianapolis such out- and other national stars, is ex-
defeats for the current season.
Huntington prevailed in junior however, 44 to 22]
|sion, 39 to 27.
[annexed tw Sompetition. Ba yard! the Town Club of Chicago, the competition in the winter meets.
so Kenosha (Wis.) Youth Founda:-| The compléte schedule and 440-yard freestyle He 880L "the South Bend Swim Club, Riviera:
[standing girl swimming teams as: pected to provide the stiffest
for!
| Francisco, swimmer; Allan Stack, {Yale swimmer; Joe Verdeur, Phil|agelphia, breast stroke je hampion; Fred Wilt, 5000 and {10,000 meter U. 8, running cham{pion from Indiana U. | ‘The seven named will be sub{mitted to the Sullivan tribunal at! of 600 from all over the country,
City, County H. S. Net Schedule This Week
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me: 337 en NBL bu Coach Bawin~ has -announced Bend (14 years and under) at, {nounce a winner by Jan. 1. T — > are amerack. untmeion: 3 ithe -prometion of four Junior | Riviera. John Walnes, TACT Tim 3-8..
iviera swimmers to the sentor - Jan. 28—-Riviera-Town Club-. 60-Vard Freestyts—Won {RY jawed winner last year.
Chinton_ Hare. team to “replace former stars who Kenosha Aduniors) at “Chicago. Gordon Smith Tac Time 30a rons 3p ave “grown up,” gone off {6 col=| Feb. S=Junior
4 Cro And fietd- records, Diving—Won by Bob Griffith. Hunting" tege; or left the team for other at Town Club, Chicago. 1
ab Raines, “a Ea, Futon: reasons. They are: Shayla Chris-| Feb, 12—Riviera vs. LA.C. at of Mel Patton of Los Angeles Ao -Yard Fraestyia—won by sim Moran topher, Betty Watson, Pat Moll Indianapolis Athletic Club. | seeking a new mark in the 220+ Ourroll, | Huntington. Time, 1:08.3 and Ruth Abbett.
Moran. TAC 5 Sin Richardson, Hume. These girls will see action for at Riviera. |proper wind reading at the time
ington; 3, Prank McKinney, 1.AC. Time, [the first time as seniors in the Feb. 25—Midwestern Champion-, {6f the race was given for Teje0. 230-Yard ' Breaststroke—Won by _ Bill meet today. Senior team regu- ships at Kenosha, Wis. tion of the record. {fA ronck, alipunston; % Jom Jord. {lars who will be in the swim are! Mar. S5—Riviera-Kent weky-| |Linda Woods, Sue SBhaffner, Jane Town Club at Riviera. ~~ Tech, Card Matmen Kerr Owen, Florence Redding, Alice] Mar. 12—Riviera vs. South Conway, Martha Warren and Bend (Juniors) at South Bend. Will Have Busy “Week [Sally Bowers. Mar. 18-19—Indiana State Meet | | Tech's mat team, county chamCoach Bawin has arranged aat LA.C. {plons, and Southport, runnersup, tough schedule for his girls and! Mar. 25-<Open Junior Cham-| (face a busy two-meet card this as usual will be pointing them 'pionships at Riviera. | week.
Improving Caps Challenge
Hershey at Coliseum
Successful Hone Stand Could Put
Local Team Back in Division Race The Mocolate-shirted Hershey Bars, who haven't beaten the Indianapolis Caps in three hockey games this season, return to the Blue Devils lost 27 to Colisetim here tonight for their second local appearance. ay Cards. Hershey has been hugging the cellar in the American Hockey TR. RETR League's eastern division mainly because the club hadn't won in Notre Dame Publishes Special Grid Edition
ohn Raines. 1.AC.: d Freestyle Relay—Won by
Bill Moran, Clinton re. | Time, 4:22.2. wan
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ners over Broad Ripple in their {opener, entertain - Shortridge at 7:30 p. m. Tuesday and go to Lafayeite Jeff's Friday at 3:15 p. m. Southport goes to Broad Ripple at 7:30 p. m. Re iar and to Decatur Central Thursday for another evening engagement, The {Cards have won two straint The
eight games on the road prior to last night.
“Bob” Muthtas was -the- Sullivan.
The AAU approved a-host of: rejecting. lonly one—that posted In behalf!
| Web. 18—Riviera vs. Town Club yard dash. Inability to give the, jo"
The Greenclads, 40 to 6 win|pira
NCC champions
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From this it has n learned
whom.
good reserve men from what Manager Casey Stengel calla “the hest bench in baseball” and have been trying to interest both the! Senators and Tigers in Outfielder| ™ Hohnny Lindell, Second George Stirnweiss, — Base their host of Jie = catchers, prob- final SOY Nair Bowls ‘Niarhos,
. night chance o sistently TE any $52,000 bonus player Dick Wakefield of '& who has a
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In three previous games with 'Hershey this season, Indianapolis CAP Storing | NOTR I Dec. 10--{has won one here, 4-2, and tied] (pat. Lunar %® 33 3 The Scholastic, Notre Dame's one, 4-4, and won one, 42 on Boa Wiseme . 5 i B 3 weekly news magazine, has pub\Hershey ice. | ee LB I {lished an. enlarged ‘issue devoted | After tonight's tilt, the Caps Be coo 38 1° %3 11 ito the past football season. {will be at home for three games ous Kick Ks cere 34 TF NES i 1 It contains biographies of Irish meeting Cincinnati next Thurs- pho aie ‘Glover ~ 13 & BB 3 layers and coaches, stories of all {day night; Cleveland next Bs I 4 po aouky i 1-3. e ND 1949 games, exclusive fea(day and Springfield on Christmas M ackenbush 0 8 & 14tures, many pictures and final nigh. besos 5 3 1 {iistatistics, The whole thing is The marked improvement ps BEY ose 3 3 topped off by a four-calor action i recently in the Caps’ de- Ott Heller ...... 10 | SE cover, fense and the favorable home| 1°? Sawchuk » 9 © 6 The issue is priced at 50 cents
schedule for the next two weeks {may be the springboard that will por ot a [boost them into a close race with : nts; PIM ae Md |. Louis. for. the western divi- 4 f shutouts sion lead.
‘Dewsbury on Air Al Dewsbury, a defenseman for {the Indianapolis Caps hockey| |team, will be interviewed today by| | Sportscaster Gene Kelly at 3:45 iP m. over Station WXLW, |
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OPPOSITE
Notre Dame to Receive National Grid Trophy
SOUTH BEND, Dec. 10 (UP){The Rev. J. Hugh O'Donnell Memorial Trophy, emblematic of] the national gridiron champion-| ship will be presented to Notre| Dame's football team at the ‘an-| nual banquet Monday night. | The trophy is sponsored by the Notre Dame Monogram Club and | is in its second year of existence. Last year it was presented to the University of Michigan.
Jerry Brown, 32-year-old veteran of hockey who accumulat-
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