Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 August 1951 — Page 33
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THURSDAY, AUG. 30,
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30-Game NBA Home Slate
The Indianapolis Olympians will play a 30-game schedule
in the Butler Fieldhouse dur‘ing the 1951- 52 National Bas-
ketball Association season. - ~The local pro team, starting its, third year in the NBA, will open! its home stand Nov, 6 against the! New York Knickerbockers, run-| nersup to Rochester in the NBA championship play offs last spring.
Tilts In the Fieldhouse are slated on Tuesday and Kriday at 8:30 p. m. ?
: » ” SEVEN teams will meet Olymps during November, home stand ends Mar. 14 against Baltimore, Baltimore also will] provide the first game opposition on the road Nov. 3. Following a! clash with Boston Nov. 4, the]
the
- Olymps will return for their first “home tilt. Final game of the year
will be with Ft. Wayne at Summit City Mar. 18, PRE-SEASON ticket sales currently are ahead of last vear's gales, J. R. (Babe) Kimbrough, general manager. has announced. The Olymps have added twe new members from the college ranks. Bill Tosheff, clever longshot artist from Indiana Univers
the
gity, and Madison Stanford, sixfoot, eight-inch ex-Murray State College forward, have been signed.
The home schedule follows: NOVEMBER 6- New York 9 - Kort Wayne 13 - Minneapolis 16 - Tri-Cities 20 - Rochester 23 - Syracuse 80 - Boston DECEMBER 4 - Syracuse 7 - Baltimore 11 - Rochester 14 - New York 18 - Fort. Wayne 21 - Tri-Cities JANI 4 - New York 8 - Boston 11 - Minneapolis 15 - Philadelphia 22 - Rochester 25 - Fort: Wayne FEBRUARY 1 - Minneapolis 5 - Philadelphia 8 - Tri-Cities 32 - Fort Wayne 19 - Boston 22 - Tri-Cities 26 - Philadelphia MARCH 4 - Fort Wayne 7 - Syracuse 11 - Minneapolis 14 - Baltimore
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CHICAGO--Donna Knox, 17-year-old Indianapolis golfer, was eliminated in the quarter-finals of the 25th annual Western Junior Golf Invitational tournament by Arlene Brooks yesterday. She lost b and 3.
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Pirates Give Up on Petti May Make Him Outfielder
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By MILTON RICHMAN ted Press Sports Write Pan "Pettit, the $100,000 'south-
paw, has been written off as a near total loss by disappointed Pittsburgh officials, who are toying today with the idea of converting the fizzling flinger into lan outfielder. “We had high ‘hopes for the boy,” said a Pirate spokesman today. “But he just didn’t pan out. Before we signed him, we scouted him thoroughly. The reports said he
(would become a
winner majors,
regular
Pettit
read the reports.” The 21-year-old Pettit, who was
(handed a dazzling ‘$100,000 bonus
for signing with the Pirates in the winter of 1950, went to San Bernardino. Cal. for spring training with Pittsburgh last March, but was rapped hard in his few exhibition appearances, ” » y THE PIRATES gave him. all the chances in the world. chiefly because of their huge investment
lin him.
When it came Pettit,
cutting time. who had shown little more than a flashy pompadour, was one of the first to go. So off he went to Indianapdlis to pick up more experience and added confidence, but even that classification” proved too steep for him and before long he was going down another step of the baseball ladder. » ” ” THIS TIME he was ticketed for New Orleans of the Southern Association, for whom he toiled without conspicuous success during the 1950 campaign. Pettit tried to recapture
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" » » “PETTIT isn't even a worldbeater down there,’ explained)
{the Pittsburgh official with a sad|
shake of his head.
walked 19 and fanned 186.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 30 embattled Pacific Td long a bitter foe of baseball's draft law, was on the verge of becoming an after voting to ithe National Association of Professional lit was accorded Bristling with
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Baseball
Pat Stewart Seeks Tennis + iti Honors in Ohio Tourney
girls’
heard was that he was having {trouble winning with them, also, Times Seeeial Latest Charleston records TOLEDO, 0. Aug. show Pettit in six games. He Stewart. Indianapolis has completed none although he 1 h i h has a 1-2 record. In-29 innings |SiNRles champion, who he gave up 20 runs, 38 hits, the semi-finals in the
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he has power and th hit the long ball
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