Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 March 1950 — Page 24

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

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FRIDAY, MAR. I, 1050

Than Tie as Result

— Of Win Over Nuggets |

Groza Paces Attack With 36 Points; Owensboro, Ky., Site of Next Contest

Times State Service VINCENNES, Mar. 17—The Indianapolis Olympians wore a satisfied look today. They can do no ‘worse than a first-place tie in the National Basketball Association's Western Division. The Olymps made sure of that last night when they defeated ‘the Denver Nuggets, 111-89, to go one full game ahead of ‘AnderSon. A win for the Olymps tomorrow night in. Owensboro, Ky... where they again meet Denver, or an Anderson loss to Syrécuse, 35-35 tie. The tie was s short- Hved will give the Western title to In- for Walther came through with dianapolis. The Olymps now two lang shots and the Olymps hold a one-game lead over the went ahead to stay. Packers. Toomay carried the load for More than 4000 fans saw Alex Denver with 21 points. The other

Olympian attack. The Nuggets or more points, Bob Brown got - made it close for two quarters but 19; Dillard Crocker caged 17; could not cope with Groza, Wah-| Floyd Volker canned 14, and Ken Wah Jones, Bruce Hale and Paul Sailors hooked 16 before going Walther in the second half. Jones! out on fouls,

put in 22 points before fouling out | Indianapolis (du) Denver v9) late in the second half. Jones jones! E] % Py lors.{ .~n put in 22 points before fouling out Holland. ! g ‘Browns 1 © | L00may, late in the game. Hale and Wal- eard.e 3 3 Crocker g i t r contributed 16 and 15 points, Schaeticr.r g 3 1) Bune | pectively. Hewkinay' 0 3 Anoraes : Beard Benched Early Haner.e 3 3 3 Ralph Beard, usually a thorn in *"*0¢ 10 = = = the opposition’s side, could not Totals 43 35 30! Totals give the Olymps too much help. vep "8. Ssore--Lalatiapolis . 84, Dat. The flery’ guard was saddled ge BL 2 ON co ed on Ot:

with five personal fouls early in % Toomay 3, Volker. J. Brown. Darden 3. the first half and was benched. Beard picked up his sixth foul with two minutes of the fourth quarter gone. Denver's best nid came in the second quarter when sharp shooting by. Jack Toomay forged a » » -

Fro Basketball

By United Press EASTERN PIVISION

Kingan's Rejoin Amateur Group

The Indiamapolis Amateur Baseball Association will pack a lot of

{ Feb. ing back after a year's layoff, The association learned this last 4 31] night at a meeting in the Central] 428 Y. M. C. A. Always a power in! pet, Amateur baseball and a perennial

Syracuse ew York ... ‘ashington . .. Baltimore Philadelphia ...... Boston

CENTRAL PIVISION

Minneapolis sl 14 181 city title contender in the MuEt Nayne i a 91 'nicipal League, the meat packers St. Louis 41 37 play in the city loop this camWESTERN. omg 5 {paign. All Kingan players are. Prnsrous. a I ‘503 employed at the plant. aaidon evened 38 S81 Three new teams have applied {neborean 1 3 367 for admission to the association. Denver ... 81 a7 They are Richardson Co., Bridge-|

fen Brass and Socony Vacuum. | | TABA's rules committee this! {year will consist- of Bob Elliot, |O. P. Smith, George Shaner and {Charles Thorne. Joe Boughton, {Ben Lady, Luke Allison and Ossie Veweight will hs will handle le eligibility, 4

Irish Grid Gridders

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SOUTH BEND, Ind., Mar. 17 | (UP) — Notre Dame's football {hopefuls trotted out today for the t [traditional St. Patrick's Day open-| {Ing practice session and Coach Frank Leahy turned his critical eye on over 100 candidates.

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Groza. score 36 points to pace the four Denver starters each hit 14!

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Tribe Defeat Brings Heavy Batting Drill

Held to 3 Blows In 3-2 Loss to Pels; Face Tulsa Series ~~ By PHIL JOHNSON Times Staff Writer NEW ORLEANS; Mar. 17—A full day of the most rugged work yet: inthe Indianapolis Indians spring training camp was dealt out for the Tribe today after their ‘3-2 edging yesterday by the New Orleans Pelicans, Extra work was in Bob Ganss,

is nearly--two weeks . training, having just reported yes-. terday morning. He was delayed by the birth of a daughter last Friday in Cleveland.

ting his charges ready for tomorrow’s exhibition tilt against Tulsa here.

Hitting Lack

[Tribe Has Speedster

store for| the Indians’ chief! | catcher at the present time. Ganssy |

Al Lopez, Tribe pilot, was get-

la tt Wins Easily in

Buckshot pil ies on

selections include two Midweste West Coast player. - Bob -Cousy of_Holy Cross and Schnittker are the forwards; Sherman White of Long Island University is at cen{ter, and Paul Unruh of Bradley {and Bid Sharman, Southern Cali fornia, are the Rehfeldt was pute at second team guard with Chet Giermak of un and Mary. Other =

“Selected for Spot in | selections NCAA District 4

Butler's one-man sang.

Ralph, (Buckshot) . O'Brien, been, placed at guard on Collier's first

string NCAA District 4 All-Star team. Buckshot's mates on the! {mythical team are Ohio State's Dick Schnittker and Minnesota's

| It wasn't the Indian pitching ‘that caused yesterday's loss as’

34 31 3 much as it was the lack of hitting. |

5] The Tribe got only three hits off | a trio of Pel hurlers, two righthanders and a southpaw. Lenny Yochim (5-10, Pelicans); fs the lefty who did sandwich duty yesterday ‘between the two Pelican right-handers. He did. the Indians up well. Nary a hit did |he yield and he walked only four. | sinker were doing the business for Yochim. (His brother pitched for Columbus last year).

Batting Emphasized :

| ‘Heavy batting practice was set for this morning to offset the lack of hitting yesterday. With a predominantly lefthanded batting lineup, the Tribe .may prove to be an easy mark for jsouthpaw pitchers. The Tribe will meet Tulsa's Oilers, Texas League champs, tomor-. irow and.Sunday afternoons and on Tuesday will journey to Baton Rouge, La., for a tussle with Nashville's Vols, the Southern Association champiohs. INDIANAPOLIS (2) New Orleans 0

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ALS ATEAR ITE TITRE: HOUSE er,

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"City College of New York 63. D ot { Bradley A hn's (Ky. 2 sne 53

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[in the first five minutes of play Mansan. land 37 to 30 late in the first 11, half, Milan- points by Gene Melchiorre and Struck two field goals by Fred SchlichtHitt Elkins Man to cut the Redmen's margin to-one point at the intermission.”

John MeKoown i is one ol the mosh speedy base runners in the

Indianapolis Indians’ spring camp. He is maiing a final lunge for | first base as Al Grunwald holds down the sack.

Bradley Favored Over CCNY for NIT Crown

| Whitey Skbog, forwards; Wisconsin’s . —Rehfeldt, cent Notre Dame's guard,

Br, and Kevin: O'Shea, and Paul Arizin, Villanova, for-

and Don Lofgran, San

m teamers are John Piich, Wyoming, —

| |quarter-final NAIB tournaments

played Indiana State's second-

Uuarter-finals Touted as NAIB Title Contender After Defeating Ohio Team

stamped: last’ night as it won easily its

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leashed an all-round attack which 2

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£ ‘Berger Paces Scoring ol

through the first half, trailing 'S 29-23 at intermission, but the = Ohio team could not cope with'S the smooth second-half drive of = the veterans of Terre Haute. Dick Schenk led the Ohio = = scorers with nine points. A surprising second-half spurtls

NEW YORK, Mar. 17 (UP)—Bradley's poised, powerful Braves and the Beavers from City College of New York, will meet in the

| A crazy-like curve and a tricky finals of the National Invitation Tournament tomorrow night and first quarter-final ~game— “last

the survivor will inherit an opportunity to become the nation’s undisputed basketball champion. For, by winning the NIT, the unseeded Beavers, who defeated in the semi-

into the, lead permanently with an| {uninterrupted 10-point spree. CCNY, after a tight. opening 10 minutes, pulled away to a 19 to| {12 lead in the 13th minute and led 26 to 19 at half time.

After the Beavers had opened a 32 to 23 gap in the first two minutes of the second half, the third-seeded Dukes made their last big threat. A seven-point tear, in which Charlie Cooper| scored four points and Ed Dahler| three, pulled Duquesne to within two points of the Beavers. a.in the NCAA tourney. | But at that point, the Beavers The betting was that Bradley, turned on a powerful spurt in which looked far more impressive which they outscored Duquesne 15 in its semifinal triumph last night to 3 within less than five minutes than did CCNY, had the better of play and never were threatened] chance to make it. {after that.

to represent District 2 in the NCAA tournament and a chance; to win an unprecedented “grand | slam.” ; Top-seeded Bradley, which knocked off dogged St. John's, 83 to 72, in the semifinals before’ a crowd of 18,000 at Madison Square Garden, faced a similar] opportunity. The Braves will leave immediately after tomorrow night" s final for Kansas City, Mo., where they will meet Kansas for

Game and Classy The Braves from Peoria, Ill, led by their brilliant six-foot, two-| inch guard, Bill Mann, showed 5 Plenty of gameness and class in % beating St. John's. City College, | {though still a threat, appeared to have cooled off somewhat from ® the amazing pace it set in eliminating defending champion San Francisco and second-seeded Ken-

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Jack O’Brien, ‘of Death Valley, Cal, and Buddy Rogers, the “Atomic Blond” from Camden, {N. J., will clash in a rematch to |head pro grappling action in the | Armory ring Tuesday night. Matchmaker Billy Thom resigned the pair after O'Brien won here last week. Two other bouts are to be added to complete a Ihree-event program.’

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