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Th Jifcntern Indian High School A fhletic Xesocia tlon is dead. Lonar live the Xorthero Indiana Htea Behool Athletic Association. In other words the fans may grrteve nd rejoice. Let the obsequies be brief. In the Interim It might be vrell to explain Just ho 'the X. I. H. S. A. A. Is about to pass away and then come 'tack ayain bearinj- the name but a different mean ins. The reorgajiisafiion of the state hisrh school athletics has been completed and a "board of control appointed with full power to legislate and administer. This board, of which Frank D. M&E1roy of Hammond is one of five members, has more power than the Duma and the Cxar combined. The new board goes Into office Jannary 1 and Mr. McElroy who with Sirs. McElroy is -goins to spend the holidays at Indianapolis will be right on the jort to take care of the interests or his end of the state. The program of the board includes the plan to divide the state into sections for all branches of athletic competition. It is Mr. Mcelroy's intention to have the Xtirthern
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Indiana Athletic Association automatically become one of these districts without adding or detracting a city or county to or .from its territory an! giving it power for legislation in local affairs. Th.e sectional baj-ketbail tourney would hereafter be confined to the territory of the Northern Indiana Association which includes the cities of Hammond. Whiting. East Chicago, Gary. Michigan City. Valparaiso, LaForte. South Benl and others in the district who compete annually in football, basketball, tirrk and baseball but have never been thoroughly organized in all of these j-ports. The new p-lan will create a state baseball and track tournament to be held at Purdue University in " May. There will be sectional basketball anl track meets in the spring. East Chicago is bidding for the sectional basketball tourney and' the sectional tracks meet will probably be at Gary, May 23. The state basebsJl tourney occurs at Purdue, May IS and 19, and the state track meet at that school. May 12.
E COLLEGE AT WHITING TONIGHT
f Special to Tins Tluxs.) tWHITlXG, IXD.. Dec 22. Th. Whiting Owls basketball team will play the IIopo College team tonight at the Whiting High school auditorium. Much Interest is centered in this game because Of the fact .that the Hope team is to play the Illinois Athletic Clu'b on Saturday evening. Hope College teams have always been of champioD ship calibre' and axe at present the holders of the intercol
legiate championship of the state of Michigan. Last year they won twice
from the famous Grand Rapids T. M. C.
A. team and they also walked away
from the Michigan Aggies. This .leason they have been going better than erer.
Manager Griffith of the Owls is nit nader estimating the Hope game and
has had the bora cut every evening
this week. New plays have been
plana ed a-nd worked oyer and practised. After the practise last evening Captain Exton called the boys togethei
tad talked to them relative to the game tonight. The boys realise that
they are up Against a tough proposition and jSi Manager Griffith and Captain ESton are leaving no ston .inturned to get everything in fir--t-clas shaipe. The Hope Collg team arrived in torm this morning and was out for practise at the auditorium. They a, re husky bunch. Manager "William H. 'Pea Haken of the Hope team said that ha expects to clean up on both the Owls Club and the I. A. C. and from the looks of things he is justified in saytcg gyj The taa of this region will flock to thia "game because it is one in which the 'fane know there will be a lot of nrooaititm. The Owls Cltjb team beiause of its strength has been having some difficulty in securing teams to give them a contest. The Hope era le tonight, however, is one that th faaa are waiting for.
weight, here Monday night exonerated Eratton.
The jury
DARGY DUE TO ARRIVE AT NEW YORK TUESDAY
YORK. Dec. 22. Unless storms and shipwrecks intervene to delay his boat. Les Darcy will plant his feet in New York next Tuesday. , Although Tex Rickard would not confirm this report, he let it be known that he was certain of the Australian fighter's arrival next week. rU-ekard has been in wireless combunication with Darcy several times. He knows the boat on which Darcy is a passenger or sailor, and says that when the proper time comes he will let the public in on his secret.
MHOEOPS
EREHART SAYS COMMITTEE WAS UNFAIR IN CASE Half Back Denied Letter Asserts Time as Active Indiana Athlete Expired.
BLOOMXNGTOX. IND., Dec. 22. Something of a sensation was caused in athletic circles of Indiana University yesterday when news of the action of the athletic board in refusing to grant letters to Archie Erehart and Walter Hes because of professionalism in playing in a game at Lafayette Dec. i between Pine Village and Hammond, was given out. It was not generally known anion the students that cither of the two football stars had played in the Lafayette contest- Archie Erehart. half back and star athlete, prepared the following signed statement concerning his act in playing with pine Village: -By virtue of the act(of the athletic committee I am denied my letter in
football for the reason that I partici
pated in professional football subsequent to the Purdue game. I wish to set myself right before the student body and will state the facts. "I entered college at the beginning of the winter term. January, 1913. and participated in freshman baseball that year and freshman football the following fall, 1913. "Beginning with the winter term of 1914 my eligibility for varsity athletics began and continued until Thanksgiving. 1916. My time for intercollegiate athletics was up after the Purdue game, Nov. 25. 1916. It was at a later date that I played professional football. "I have given to Indiana University oil that I possessed athletically for my allotted time. I contend that if the members of the athletic committee feei that I am deserving of a letter for the work I did on the team this fall, their action is uhjut in penalizing me for something that happened after my period of eligibility had ended."
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CORNELL-HAMBURG
FREE BOXER IN DEATH CASE DSK"ER. COLO.. Dec. 21. Death from cerebral hemorrhage was the verdict of the coroner's jury investigating the death of oung Joe Rivers ol Albuquerque, following his fight with
it 1!ratt on. 1'aellic coast upnv
SCHOOL SUDDENLY
CHAMPA1GX. ILL.. Dec. 22. Bait Macomber of Oak Park, captain of the 1&16 Illinois football eleven, almost universal choice for the All-Western, has quit school five months before he was due to graduate. Dean Clark announced this yesterday, Macornber's reputation in football circles is an enviable one. He s touted for the Ail-American, an honor which he won last year. His jump nto professional football the day after the Illini wound up their season may have had smoothing to do with his departing from the university.
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VICTORYFOR GOLF CKXCAQO. Hot, 30. Oolf, according to a decision by Judge Jesse A. Bald win In the circuit court yester. day, la a "beneficial recreation" rather than an amusement." The decision from Mary A. Condon, an executrix of the estate of John Condon, owner of the old X tar. lew. race track, from paying an annual amusement license fee of $750 a year for the public golf Unka which now adorn the former racing park.
IN FINAL PRATICE
CHICAGO. Dec. 22. Cornell-Hamburg football players will take their last workout this afternoon before their indoor game with the Pullman Tornadoes at Dexter Park pavilion Sunday arternoon. Manager Finn announced last -night thAt the Pressler brothers would appear in the lineup for the Cornell-Hamburg. It had been reported that they would not play, fearing they would be incapacitated for basketball. Society will lend its presence to the game, several millionaire packers who are football enthusiasts having reserved boxes. The advance ticket sale has exeeded the expectations of the promoters, practically assuring the establishment of indoor football as a Winter sport.
GAMBLERS GET THE "DOPE" FROM THOSE ON INSIDE KAXSAS CITY. 510.. Dec! 22. Th? system Kansas City gamblers use in attempting to "beat" baseball is entirely "within the law," according to an expose made by a former bookmaker. The entire system is based on information received from persona connected with a ball club as to pitching selections . Having that much of an erdse the knowledge of when a good pitcher is going to face a weak one
the sramblers find it easy to get four
It was only the lack of an organisation through which to work that defeated the plan of fans as endorsed by Thb TiMiS sporting department to girt a substantial testimonial to Frank Blocker, the All-American football player who captained the Clabby A. C. through its first and successful professional season. This same missing factor will handicap the team when it is put on the field next season unless in the meantime something is started. Ft. Wayne has its Friars Club. Cincinnati the Celts Club and Whiting has gained tame through the famous Owls Clob which plays a great game of basketball every winter against the best teams in the country. Are there five hundred football fans and city boosters in Hammond who would pay five dollars each for membership in a club to support the Blocker football eleven? We think there are, ia view of the fact that the followers of the sport in Hammond sent
out three special trains on long trips this fall to see the team play. Twenty-five hundred dollars would be sufficient to provide guarantees for such men as Blocker. Talbot. Helvie, Bissmejer, Erehart. Foster. Green. Kohl, Ttuffner, Hess. Plum. Sellegar. Palmer, Finn, Ambrose, Young and the other men needed to put out a state champion club. Most of this talk of sev
enty-five and a hundred dollar a game guarantees is bunk. Twenty dollars a game and expenses will hire most any star and twenty-five gets a corking good man. It would not be the object of the club W make money. It need have no club rooms but each member should take pride in wearing a button showing him to be in good standing as a booster and supporter of his home town eleven. The writer isn't rolling in wealth but his five dollars are ready any timo for such a cause. With . capital of twenty-flve hun.dred dollars the team could open at hne with the Com ell-Ham burgs and the following Sunday bring Racine. Only one trip would be made in all probability and that to Davenport where everyone . wants to go. The Celts. North Ends, Wabash A. A., Taylorville and Detroit Hiralds would draw between fifteen and twenty-five hiindred- people at each game and with bleachers on each side the field the dollar seats would sell readily. The Fort Wayne Friars and Pine Village wo-uld bring out record attendances. With an average of fair weather, proper advertising, elimination of cpen betting, enforcement of order on the sidelines and an even break in IuqU there should be a nice balance In the treasury at tha end of the yeaT to start the following season on.
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Hippo Spencer is Golf Enthusiast, j Guess who's playing golf? "Tub". Spencer, the bathrobe salesman, i was seen pounding the little pellet j around the links at Sao Francisco the other day under the guidance of "Dr." Loweniberg. trainer of t
"Kero-seen," the only hyphenated j j police dog in rapticity. Ldwenberg has' taught "Kero-seen" to moo just j j like a cow and the canine is able to j earn it? own living as a caddy! j "Kero-seen." on account of its i sleuth hound nature, is abie to find j the golf ball, no matter how far into the ground "Tub" may drive j ! it. ifpencer says golf is a great j j conditioner for baseball. He catches , i for Detroit. ;
BIKE RIDERS ARE BEHIND RECORD ,XE,w TORK. Dec. J2. The aix-day bicycle grind continues with the teams closely bunched, but the riders are falling farther behind the records made at Chicago in 1M6 with the passing of every hour. At 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon the leading teams had covered 1,636 miles and 4 laps. Grenda was setting the pace and the teams were 108 miles behind the record.
to five odds on a 1 to 2 proposition. The gambler declared that an estimate of between ' $10,00') and $15,000 a day bet on baseball games here during the season is not far from the accurate figures.
JOHNNY RITCHIE TO BOX HALEY C1XC1NNATI. O.. Dec. L'i. Johnny Ritchie, Chicago bantamweight,, scored another victory and won himself a match with Joe Haley for New Tear's Day. Johnny defeated Johnny Sandow in ten rounds. The Chicagoan had the shade in five rounds, two were Sandow's, the rest even. Both lads stood toe to toe and slugged.
FIGHT DECISIONS
Decteloas of flght representative Wednesday werei At Ciiietnnntl Billie Weeks beat Sailor Klnert 10. At I.eckport. X. Y. Jimmy Daffy beat Johnny tutl; 410). At Detroit Benny MeA'rtI knocked out Bobby Bums (101. At Poughkeepsle Charlie Weinert topped Jack Kendall (2. At Greenneld, M-Mel Coognu beat Billy Gilmer At Hbiuh City Hay Moore beat Mike Orrlson 412 1.
NOTES OF THE GOLFERS The Eimoor Country club has made application for the western junior championship, and, being the only applicant, is sure to get it. Over the remodeled course the young players will get a good test of their ability. On the official notice of the United States Golf association the Mayfield Country clu'b is named as a bidder- for the national amateirr championship. The Cleveland organization did not appear in the list published in the press three days ago. The other clubs are Flossmoor, Glen View, Kent Country, and Oakmont.
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Fight Decisions.
The decinlon of fight represeatatiree last nlacht were: ' At Cincinnati BilUe Yek beat Sailor ELnert 10. At Lockport, Ai. Y. Jimmy DotTy beat Johnny LuntUs (10). At Detroit Benny McNeil keecked out Bobby Burns (IDi.
Christmas List Look it ever, aa it will help make your Xmu shopping easy, we nave an unusually large and fresh stock of Sporting Gx.oda at the lowest possible price. LADIES AND GIRLS
Fountain Pens, $1.50410.00. Written guarantee with every pen. Pennant and Pillow Top?, 25c to $3.00. Fancy Decks Playing Cards, Flashlights. 75c and $1.C0.
Tennis' Rackets and Nets. Peart Handled Pen KniTes, $1.60. Vacuum Bottles. Stereoscope and Views. 35c up.
Roller and Ice Skates.
MEN AND ROYS.
Air Rifles, 50c up. 22-Rifles. $2.00 up. Shotguns -r- Automatic. Puiup, Double and Single Barrels. Hunting Coats. Caps and Vests. 1-lb. and M-lb. Jars of Tobacco, 90c and 60c. Cigars packed in boxes of 12, 25, 50 and 100. Pipes Largest assortment in the city. 25o to $10.00. Flashlights, 50c to $3.50. Dog Collars and Harness. Footballs, $1.00 up. Punching Bags, $1.50 up. Boxing Gloves, per set. $2.00 up. Santa Claue Face?, 6c to 5Cc.
Balls Basket. Assooiatioa. Indoor " Baseball, Tennis, etc. Pocket Books and Purses, 25c up. Auto Goggles, 25c up. Revolvers. $2.60 up. Fishing Rods Large variety to choose from. Tinker Toys. 50c per set. Submarine and Battleship Top, 75c Safety Razors in neat Xmas Boxes, $1.00. Razor Strops, Brushes, etc. Baseball Gloves. Vacuum Bottle Lunch Kits, $2.25. Ice and Roller Skate?. Games Chess. Checkers, Cards, Dominoes, etc.
Beautifully colored and finished Xmas and New Years Cards. 1o each. WE GIVE OUR PERSONAL GUARANTEE WITH EACH ARTICLE SOLD.
BASKETBALL GAME The Calumet High school plays East Chicago at basketball this evening in th MeKinley gymnasium. The Kast Chicago high school -rill be the on!y achool team in the Lake County Association to continue playing through the holidays. A week from tonight East Chicago plays Rochester at Rochester and the following evening Xappanee at Xappanee.
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