Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 October 1950 — Page 14
‘Drop From
Tt
Cadets Receive 21
> Ohio State Ranks 5 © By LEO H. PETERSEN,
NEW YORK, Oct. 24 Army held ite ran the nation’s No. 1 football team today, but the undefeated
cadets from West Point were
perfect record clubs, Southern Methodist and Oklahoma. "4 For the third successive week, Army topped the United Press football ratings, receiving 21 first place ballots and a
total of 314 points from the
35 outstanding coaches whose se-
form the ratings, That was four first place votes | and one one point less than last week 50 Army's margin over the field was narrowed to 31 points over both Southern Methodist and Oklahoma, who tied for second! on a point basis with 283 each. The Mustangs were accorded sece ond place, howéver, for they received nine first place votes to only three for the Sooners. Last week Oklahoma was second with 279 points followed by Southern Methodist with 249. Irish Drop Out The big feature of the arth © weekly ratings for the 1950 season was
pre-season ratings and also the first two weekly ratings. They - dropped to ninth after being beaten by Purdue, to 10th after barely nosing out Tulane and then faded out of the picture compietely when they lost to Indiana, 20 to 7 Saturday. California with 204 points was rated behind the Big Three with Ohio State, Keatucky, Texas, Tennessee, Illinois and Cornell rounding out the top 10 in that order. whennessee, Illinois and Cornell were newcomers to the select group, taking the places of Notre Dame, Stanford and Washing-|
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Tn, : : Tennessee, 12th last week, ~4Jumped to eighth place with 66 points; Illinois advanced from
23d to ninth with 45 points and {'ate, 13:
Cornell moved up from 13th to! Third Io Gataia
10th with 43 points.
Stanford, beaten by ULCA,
Once-Mighty irish
Fail to Get Single om
Ratings,
First-Place Votes; th; Hoosiers 16h. wi
United Press Spo
being challenged by two other
|dropped from sixth Place 0 al three-way tie for
‘dropped from ninth piace to 20th In addition to Army, t er teams, California, Ee - and Texas retained the same positions as last week. Kentucky {received a total of 197 points and Texas 120, In all, 33 teams received votes, including all 10 of the major un-| beaten and unfied teams left in| {the country. Only six of the per fect record elevens—Army, South-| ern Methodist, Oklahoma Cali! fornia, Kentucky and Cornell— [ere placed in the. top 10, how-!
“of the other four, Northwestern, was rated 14th with 18 points; {Princeton 15th with 14;
23d place with four -~sints. The ratings are compiled on the basis of 10 points for a first B
8G on down to one point for a 10th place ballot.
jr —~Cornen Cansesres haves
Second and IR 18; Prine
«. 48
ania. 22 gach: Northwestern, elon, a5 Indiana, 13; Michig uc CLA.
ming (1) 11;
and Clemson, 8 e
Others—Maryland, Navy ha Stanford,
‘Nation's Grid
By DICK DUNKEL
Honor Race
Olympians.
Tections are compiled weekly to {Washington defeated vy =a Play of Lo Locals Faces Purdue Saturday -
Shows Marked . Improvement
4 Rookies Shake Off
Fright and Bag 25 Of Total
By FRANK A ANDERSON
KOKOMO, | oct 2 24 Nhe Indian-| Wyo- apolis Olympians’ Exhibition Speand cia] makes a pit stop here tonight to check on Piston displacement
gain. The special, piloted by Barker’
ucket Brigade, sounded good in| place vote, nine for 1 second and South Bend last night,
a few laps around the John Ad{ams gym floor and displaced the
The complete ratings (first Ft. Wayne Pistons, 91-82. The place votes in parentheses): [win gave the Olymps a 2-0 edge TEAM POINTS over the upstate National Bas1—Army (21) ....ivveee +.314 |ketball Association entry In 2—Southern Methodist (9)..283 | warm-up play. 3—Oklahoma (3) «.vvvvese 288 | The Olymps passed faster than 4—California ...... sesi++.204 Einstein did In physics courses. 5—Ohlo State (1) .......197 [Their play was a marked im6—Kentueky ..............170 [provement over previous feeble T==TEXBE ...0vsvernnssss 120 [efforts against NBA opposition. | B=Tennessee ...svvsseesss 86 Frosh in Charge | Illinois ...c.ivsss00iv.0 45 | The Bucket Brigade's freshman{
class had charge of the program. Texas A&M, 20. Michigan| Playing more than half the game the team’s four rookies, Bob Lao:| voy, Sonny Allen, Leon Blevins ach:/2nd Chuck Mrazovich, shook off
year fright to bag 25 points, Duke.| of the total. Lavoy was the cheer-! i m ors p 1/leader with 18. And the game also witnessed Leo Barnhorst's first points as an Olympian. Barney, the ex-Chicago|
Stag,
(Kansas and Mimi, ge North Carolina, | first ate, Purdue an e, ac Stanford Displaced | tate and Nebraska. 2
loosened up to throw in
{three fielders and a dazzling d
head f tball h. And Stu #§ Boiling Down to 6 Teams [oii om Sis ib head, ootoah conn Ana st in
It’s still a wide open race for top national honors in this college he'll ive up to what the Olymps ¢ the November stretch nears, it looks more expect of him, football sstacn, but ag the {| But it wasn’t all freshman tal-
and more like a six-team affair.
. Bouthern Methodist, Army, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Kentucky ent. Alex Groza,
A
Ralph Beard and ¢ither offensively or defensive
isplace’ Pistons, 91 To 82
Here's one of te e prebloms Julie Weisslein,
Times State Service l LAFAYETTE, Oct. 24 -— 01d! {Man Injury and Uncle Sam are o-|Dothering Stu Holcomb, Purdue's!
leight points, an indication that{Saturday's homecoming game
with U.C.L.A. Lost for a week or 10 days is End Darrel Brewster, who fits
Be t and California are the half-dozen contenders who. are threatening| Wah-Wah Jones chipped in with ewster pulled a knee ligament to jlam the door on the rest according to the Power Index. 15.
¥ Pe held on to the No. 1 spot
SBrthe sessed week ta hTaielg New Teams Join Grid Honor Roll
swamping Rice, 42-21, last Bat-
da, trday. Mustangs’ figure of 113.4 theans that they have shown, rough correlation, that they| wave been about 113 points stronger, per game, than the nation’s weakest team. The rating 's ‘calculated from two factors: (1) average scoring margin, and ©) average rating of opposition. Army Is Second
Wwalloping Harvard, 498-0.
Cadets’
Central, Gary Roosevelt and West | . Second, again, is Army, ad-y.¢avette joined the United vancing to a rating of 108.9 after| Press The school football honor roll today, opponents have had al). wyshawaka's Maroons re-|
Maroons Remain : Club to Beat
By KURT FREUDENTHAL United Press Sports Writer Three new teams—South Bend
“Big Ten” Indiana high
ma
mugh lower average rating iat | mained the club to beat for the the
thase of Southern Methodis That, statistically speaking, is|
“the ‘main difference between the |wakans invade highly favored
twa, In other words, the West Pointers may be just as goo but; they haven't been -given as much opportunity to prove it. » Ohio State, beaten only by SMU, bounced all the way from sighth to third, reaching a Power Index of 108.3 on its 48-0 rout of Minnesota. No. 4 Okiahoma (107.7) also continued to climb when its 58-0 ficking of Kansas State was added to the record. | Kentucky Slips No. 5 Kentucky - (106.8) slippe back from. third last week, after| defeating Villanova 34-7.
4. Goshen Friday, and they can wrap up the Eastern Division championship of the Northern Conference by defeating rugged South Bend Central next week,
from the elite.
{mained 4 waka. East Chicago Washington, | Gary Emerson and Ft, Wayne| The {Central Catholic moved up in the |
{mythical state crown. thr
Coach Gene Dykstra’s Misha-
14 and 13 points, respectively, Fred Schaus led the Pistons wi
Pistons in Front
Nothing much hap-
scorer got |
Fourth quarter got a bit nasty. The Pistons, who act like they | own. all small courts, tried to
ke elbow room only to crack ir funny bone with Olymp free ows going down the drain. Fouls Supreme
Jim Crowe and Corby Davis, two South Bend high coaches, called the game. They got boos, but still proved they're not bad enough to get jobs as {NBA officials. If they had called
school
South Bend Riley, after two [Sieryihing the two teams would
rocked from the undefeated ranks |
Lafayette Jeff's second only to Misha-
tbacks; New Castle, Still be playing. convincing se TL Wakes owl ub miloms by West Lafayette's Red Devils, [Veteran and a rookie. The veter-
ian, Leo (Crystal) Klier, ex-Notre and Hammond Tech. were toppled {Dame star is up on waivers due|the board of directors. O'Malley
Broneos. Yel {to run. out today. The rookie, Jim | will make the formal anncunce|Riffey; a Hoosier who played at!ment today after a final meeting (Tulane, was in Chicago drilling With Mrs, Smith, (with the College All-Stars for Fri{day night's game with the Minne|apolis Lakers of the NBA.
in the Iowa game. Trainer Pinky | worries. with Newell 16, followed by aged Curly Arm-/nNews. strong and Larry Foust with 12 Mo Sam, in the person of must be each.
8. Marine Corps Reserve, has dispatched active duty orders
The Pistons got three points out|t0 Russell Addison a reserve cenin front late in the first period, but the 8-11 count soon moved to 14-13 in the Olymps’ favor. The Bucket Brigade held on 20-19 at! the post. pened in the second period, although the official {chummy with the buttons and had | the half at 47-41 Olymps Instead of the rightful 46-40.
Branch’s Future With
To Be Settled Before Oct. 28 Meeting
2 of Present Stockholders To Buy Rickey’
Purdue s Boilermakers will f.ce in their Weiwion, lod Saturday with UCLA. He is 190-pound
ing quarterback with the visiting Uclans,
Two Gridders
ter from Alliance, O. Addison, {who is due to report in Phila'delphia Oct. 31, indicated he {would withdraw from school to-| |day. Brewster's job may go to Roland Bland, a senior reserve, for Bob Bringer, junior substitute. |Addison’s place will be taken by
in| Norman Banas, Whiting sopholy. more now with the “B” team.
Meanwhile, Holcomb had other He told his squad yes-
gave Holcomb the bad terday that blocking and plugholes in pass defense
ging up smoothed out. He'll also emphasize Improvement in the
running attack between now and 11.
[Lafayette High School
Saturday.
s Holdings
Dodgers Unlikely
By FRED DOWN, United Press Sports DR te
NEW YORK, Oct. 24—Two of the
Brooklyn Dodgers will buy. up Branch Rickey’s stock: today but! Rickey's’ future as a club employee
The announcement that Vice
Zeckendorf, was- late today, | a source within the organization said. Rickey’'s status, however, may not be known until Oct. 28— the date his contract as president and general manager expires. O'Malley informed Rickey yesterday that he and Mrs. Smith would purchase the stock after a routine stockholders’ meeting at which Rickey was re-elected to
regarding Rickey’s future with
| It was learned that no decision
Joe ° Pazandak,
ing ladder, while Hammond and East! vuerane a1) | PisToNS » i mrt rt Se ea 0 ry Tag Bout Tops. a uiter from the “Big Ten,” skidded to ninth £3 i rpenter, A M tC d! *N fon. California (104.0) . ad- , tenth place, respectively. ne] i ° LE 15 ti rmory. a ar * out from ninth last week aft- The week's U. P. “Big Ten": ; g 3iEiuen | An Australian tag-team gladb fe anced Bears had annexed their 3 Mataserte Jet. (8.00 © 4 3 HG e, carded for two falls out of three. Sth ictory, 27-0 over Oregon 3. Hast hicago Washington (8-01. oF i hE : 2 90-minute time Himit wil tate. 3 Pr. Wayne © Central Catholte (1-0). | vs 33 hen | neadiine gn o Bate. § South Bend Central 5-1-1). | * 3 & 3Oldham, g tion, in| «= Completing the Top ten this 7 ary’ Rosey welt pz | oa = oiithe ry ring tonight. : meek are Tlinois, 102.9; Rice 102.6; § West Lafayette (6 title a i, ros rary pits “Whipper BI”! “TICLA, 101.4 and Texas, 100.9. 16, East Chie fosievlt Noli throws int |{Watson, of Canada, and Bobby Rank and Power Index of cur- tle. “Indiana; Tech. to &i. es! Lavoy, Walther ECaraante 3 Bruns, -Chicago’s wrestling attor-| ¥gent n tional and sectional lead- Hammond ad Teoh. Bicknel. Vincennes. Hag is 2. Armstrong 2, Post ney, - against Ray Ecuert, St. rs follow: hi Hh eH "ove ane corte Dave, Louis, and Rowdy Rick Raines, E07 aamionaL Louisville Whips =e te Corn Davie Louls, an Y Methodist ............ : Kon 5 nty Ex “Pay, Dalla
: Southern my-
MIDWEST * Ohio State .. Oklahoma
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.. 102.9 . a higan .... Michiga 9 01 Kansas
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. 1! Anderson, 71 to 66
8 Louisville club of the new Na14 tional 108.3 League could make its critics eatin 1077 some of their words today.
Times State Serv MARTINSVILLE, Bet, 24—The)
Professional = Basketbail |
‘Boost Next Season
ARCADE, N. Y., Oct. 24 (UP)
—Jim Konstanty, whose great re-
lief hurling was a major factor
the Philadelphia’ Phillies’ drive National League pennant,
Last night “the Kentuckians, | expects to get his reward in a fat.
ightly regarded by the experts,’ ter
g i 932 polished’ off Anderson, 71 to 66. Bee 2 313 Odie Spears, a refugee from the pia honor last night, Konstanty!,
T defunct Chicago Stags of the said he expects to get a “substan-| us NBA, was Louisville's. top man.) yay» ot Spears led both teams with 22|
4 8 . 088 Stanford. ..... 100.4 points. Milo Komenich was high) ne Epos $58 for Anderson with 11. I! 958 Col Pye i Louisville held a 31-30 lead at rene. 148 3 halftime, avis 94.2 3 Oreeon' Stat State 83.4
Hlini's Vohaska Rea Ready | % CHAMPAIGN, 1.
ficiently from a broken finger 7; return to his “against 2 lini expect a f 70,000 on hand for the game.
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Basketball Ee
"24! tourney “%LUP)—Captain Bill Vohaska of| Sheil OF RI dilinois is expected to recover [41 A gmerican'
Heston &
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be i hr . day’s conference ence game at
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py check next season. t a testimonial dinner held in
salary boost when contract
{time rolls around next year.
Gridders Warned
BLOOMINGTON, Oct. 2¢ oP) . —Coach” Clyde his Indiana varsity not to
og victory aco| Dame. The team is expected to
Smith has cau-
erboard” after its 20-to-7 over Suce.uighty “Notre
at full “strength for SaturLliinois.
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the New Zealand heavyweight
present stockholders in the
remained a dark secret. President Walter O'Malley and|
Mrs. John L. Smith, widow of the late penicillin king, had bought Rickey's stock and so “frozen out” Pe
New York Realtor William
the Dodgers can be made unt Ohio fo Use Bruney
the board of directors meets. | “The stockholders are power-|
less to decide about dad,” Branch Rickey Jr. explained.
“Only the| board of directors can do that. 1 meeting would” Be held sometime before Oct. 28 but said they could not. say exactly when it would be.
Dodges Questions Rickey doaged point-blank; questions about his future yester- | day—always keeping the thought | that he would be “available” if the Dodgers wanted him. i At various times of an hourlong conference he said: “I don’t know if I'll be here lafter Oct. 28. . I would con-| sider a job outside of baseball. . I would accept a job as headmaster of a boy's school or as president of a university. . .. 1 {have been here eight years and will be 69 years old on Dec. 20. How would you feel about pulling lout? I would be terribly disap‘pointed if nobody wanted me.” It was understood that Rickey had received an offer to be presi-
Minneapolis, dent of DePauw University at : {will face newcomer Pat O'Connor, Greencastle, Ind.
ing bout. It's for one fall or 30minutes and will start the action lat 8:30 p. m.
Fight Results
By United Press MIAMI Fla. — od 007 usb ogi
i od Sof Montreal
York. fo, Ne York 8
champion, in the special support-j|
S'TH YP. M.
75¢ to $1.15
Ban by TRA
Racing Association.
{| racing track to fire Robert McCullough,
High School southpaw hurler, has \with the
'Mo., next summer, He graduated
‘Solunar Tables
Sportsman's Park to Ignore
Chicago Track
Suspended for
‘Questionable’ Acts CHICAGO, Oct. 24
nounced today it will “continue suspended from the Thoroughbred |
The TRA announced the suspension yesterday “due to questionable activities of officers and employees.” This apparently was the result of recent crime investigations. * The track auditor, Hugo Bennett, testified before the Kefauver
#| Committee that he loaned $80,000{Charley (Choo Choo) Justice.
to Capone syndicate kingpin Paul Ricca. Before that, the state commission ordered the
an employee identified as a friend of the late Al Capone. Spencer Drayton, executive secretary, refused to confirm or deny these facts were behind the suspension. His only comment at his New York office was that the suspen-
and will continue “pending fur ther investigation and a hearing to be held at a later Aate.” The suspension carries no “teeth” unless the various Jockey and trainer associatians decide to {ban the track. There was no immediate indication they would do |so. The TRA originally was formed to guide racetrack policy during the war, and it since has! blossomed into a policing agency with no powers except to report irregularities to the tracks. William Johnston, president of the National Jockey Club (which operated Sportsman’s Park), said he has received “no official notification” of the suspension. He said the track will continue to operate. Its present meeting ends Nov.
Hurler Signed by Cubs LAFAYETTE, Ind, Oct. 24 (UP)—Bob Lowery, 18, Lafayette
signed a pro baseball contract Chicago Cubs, it was learned today. Lowery will report to the Cubs’ 'spring trainihg camp and pitch {for their farm team in Carthage,
{from Lafayette Jefferson High {School in 1949.
COLUMBUS, 0. Oct. 24 (UP) D —Spunky left halfback Fred Bruney of Ohio State will be vo
(UP) Sportsman's Park racetrack an-io. "eter two victories over the
as usual” even though it has been!
sion was effective Smmedintely ta
his
Today’s Sport Pardons Pro Gridders Answer
Soft, Tough Charges
‘Choo Choo’ Says They Aren't Easy; ‘Deliberately Rough’ Not True, Says Official
By OSCAR FRALEY, United Press Sports Writer NEW YORK, Oct. 2¢—Professional football surged forward today with a hand-made reply for elbow-mad Mickey McBride, millionaire owner of the Cleveland Browns, and hermit Earl Blaik, Army's disdainful football coach. Stout Steve Owen came up with an answer for McBride, who charged the Chicago Cardinals with “deliberate rough stuff.” Stevie,
{ Browns, owns as much of them|the worst defeat it ever suffered), las McBride, explained that projand such as Columbia, to be footballers are sustaining more stomped on next. injuries now because “there are; As for McBride, his beef de-
are hitting harder.” lend Len Ford's facial contact As’ for Blalk, who from hiSiwitn the elbow of Pat Harder, West Point hideout asserted that chicago Cardinal fullback. Ford {the pros are tackling thespians/ was nounced from the game and and inferior to college teams, the gs oq $50, rescinded after it was rebuttal came from. a pretty fair, ...4 ne had paid with a'broken country college player named nose and missing teeth. But Owen denies the “dirty Pros ‘Really Tough’ football” charges and is supported Justice formerly murdered -oth- by Carl Rebele, a former Penn ler ecollegians a a wil 0 oe ep Stater now a pro official. from North Carolina. There is en tagged it when he said small doubt that he could have)... were more injuries because made just about any college team
‘there are more good players and Blaik has ever coached. But, after 4 his first venture with the pros, cy Are hitting harder,” Rebele
Justice admitted: |asserted. “Proof is the - larger
number of train camp injuries “I took more punishment m5 year. ing P injurte
those few plays than I did all last| year at North Carolina. The pros’ is hard and jarring. Butler Fighter “| They're really tough.” : Blatk, it is suspicioned, woke ON Pro Slate slightingly of the pros to help al A Butler University student and
pal who was writing a magazine icle, Even in the unnecessary cossary op Anderson belter will mix it
up in a supporting bout on Friseclusion which he seeks to pre- , card pare his monsters for such mighty| Say nights pro aght at the opponents as Colgate, Penn State, Y Fosm. - Harvard and New Mexico, Blaik|;,. Saterday Cun 3 Than of ou should have known better than Berry of Anderson in a four-found to describe Je pro game -as mak. middleweight bout. Fosman’s lattype of theatricals aimed at mak- op * ogrort ‘was. holding: Rusty Ing a fast buck. {Cleek of New Castle to a draw. Even Army officers, it is "U"The bout with Fosman will be mored without being branded un
“iBerry's fifth -pro fight, He 1s a the! saiq| Patriotic, have no Aversi sion to the oer Golden Gloves champion.
Army seeking| joe Sgro and Andy (Candy) more than character when it, derson will battle > the rnd Sends its robust young men into welterweight title in the 10-round Yankee Stadium for their best soqiure ball game. : ‘Probably Out of Touch’ Blaik probably is out of touch. He doesn’t even have time to ap-! pear during the season at the! New York Football Writers’ weekly luncheon. busy readying his, young glants/ for such as Co (28 to 0); Penn State (41 to 7), Michigan (27 to 6); Harvard, (49 to 0 for
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weighs less than 160 pounds, has; {proved ‘himself “the toughest 159 , pounds I éver saw,” Fesler said.
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