The Courier-Journal from Louisville, Kentucky • Page 13

i Wttfiff Sports, Radio, Financial and Classified Ads Section 2 22 Pages LOUISVILLE, THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 30, 1937. Kentucky Repulses Pittsburgh 40-29 In Sugar Bowl Battle Ralph Kimmel Has Snared 7 Louisville Bascballcrs for Baltimore Club H. A. Rallies To Turn Back Fine Defense GivesU.K.28-13 Lead At Half Horton Smith, Dodson Tie For First In Holly wood Meet 18-Hole Play-off Billed Today; Metz Finishes 3d and Wood Places 4th Speed 33-29 Count Knotted 27-27 At End of 3d Period Opper, Hagan Stand Out In Wildcat Victory Irr a thrilling, roughly-played Hollywood, Dec. 29 Blond Horton Smith and wisecracking Leonard Dodson came out of a mad scramble down the home stretch tied at 278 today for first place in the $4,000 Hollywood Beach Hotel Open Golf Tournament.

battle. Y. M. H. A.

opened its New Orleans, Dec. 29 OP) A fast and straight-shooting Kentucky basketball team that ex Major Falls Cities Basketball League race last night at the H. A. gymnasium by rallying in th3 hibited an air-tight defense de 72 and a 280 total. Metz collected third prize, $400.

Craig Wood finished 4th at 281 and earned $350. Wood, tied for the lead last night, shot a 72 and a 71 today. Paul Runyan, finishing with a 68, tied with Tommy Armour, Ralph Guldahl, National Open champion, and Frank Moore of Mamaroneck, N. YM at 282 for 5th place and each earned $237.50. Herman Barron of White Plains, N.

and Johnny Revolta, winner of the recent $10,000 Miami Biltmore Open, earned $145 feated Pittsburgh 40-29 in the 4th They will play another 18-hole quarter to break away from round tomorrow for first prize of annual Suear Bowl basketball Speed. Community Center, game here tonight. Kentucky started fast and at $750, the loser taking the $550 2d money. In addition they will split half of the gallery receipts. Smith, trailing Dodson by 2 strokes starting the final round.

Iff Jk A 1 fK i I nil A ii the half led Pittsburgh 28-13, mainly because of close def en-five work, but shortly after the start of the 2d half, Pittsburgh, led bv Edward Spotovich and dropped a 7-foot putt on the last green for a 3-under-par 67 to each for finishing at 283. force the playoff. Dodson scored khoots Closing 67, Robert Johnson, brought the score up to 31-29, and it seemed for a moment as though they a closing aiier nis morning ti had sent hirri ahead of Smith. Dick Metz Third. Dick Metz, the 54-hole leader by one stroke, dropped back to 3d place in the afternoon with a would overtake the Kentuckians Joe Hagan.

Kentucky forward and win 33-29. The loss was the 2d in 3 loop battles for Speed, which previously had defeated Y. M. C. A.

and had lost in a battle quite similar to last night's to the Naiional Guards Sunday. 32-23. Y. M. H.

A. got off in front and led 10-7 at the end of the first quarter and 18-13 at the half. The score was tied 27-27 going into the last period. Simon Puts If. A.

Ahead. A free throw by Simon, a substitute, put H. A. on top 28-27 and another free toss by Davis increased the margin to 2 points. A free toss bv Raney made the count 29-28.

Walker's crip put H. A. on top 31-28. Hendricks whittled the lead to 31-28 with a gratis flip and as the game ended Davis cripped to give H. A.

its 4-point margin. Inability to shoot free throws was costly to Speed. The Cement- then stepped into the picture, and started tossing them in from all angles to increase his team's lead Felix Serafin of Scranton, shot himself into the money with a closing 67 for a 285 total, where he collected $97.50 along with Stanley Home of Ottawa, Bill Heinlein of Indianapolis and E. J. Harrison of Little Rock, Ark.

Seven others tied at 286. the last money figure, and pocketed $45 71 each. They were Bruce Coltart of Haddonfield, N. Jimmy Hines, Denny Shute, P. G.

A. champion; Ray Mandrum of Dayton. Ohio; Ben Loving of Saranac, N. Bobby Cruickshank and Wiffy Cox. Bob Servis of Dayton, Ohio; Carl Christiansen of Miami and Charles Mayo, of New York, tied at 297 in the Amateur ranks and will play off tomorrow morning for the top prize.

Indiana Nips U.S.CBy 42-39 Marmn Purdue Conquers U. C. L. A. By 63-39 ers made only 5 free throws of 15 Picture by Derncai.

Fred Inert. and with the score tied 27-27 Hendricks failed on 4 in a row. H. A. made 7 of 13.

H. A. made 13 field goals to 12 for Speed. The game, especially the to a safe margin. Leads Only Once.

Pittsburgh led only once during the game, and that was immediately after it dropped in the first field goal. Kentucky came right back, and ran the score up to 10-2 before the Easterners could tally again. Pittsburgh frequently worked the ball past midfloor in the first half but found their clockwise nd counter-clockwise attack effectively bottled up, principally by a never-tiring dynamo, Bernard Opper, guard. Thompson Leads Scorers. The night's high scorer was Homer Thompson, Kentucky center.

His mate, Fred Curtis, posted 10 counters. Hagan, Kentucky, and Robert Johnson, and Garcia, both of Pitt, got 9 each. Pittsburgh played in the Sugar Dirk West. Ralph Kimmel. Roy Bruner.

Los Angeles, Dec. 29 OP) Indi ana University made it 2 straight Bears Stress Direction9 In over Los Angeles teams tonight California Bears Hand Ohio State First Loss, 34-27 heatedly fought last period, kept the 400 or more fans in an uproar. In a prelim, the H. A. Seconds defeated the Speed Seconds 27-21.

The line-up: when it beat the University of Southern California Trojans in a SALS Speed (29 Pos. 33) Y. M. H. H.

Bowl Drill nip-and-tuck basketball game, 42-39. The Hoosiers beat the University of California at Los Angeles last night. Columbus, Ohio, Dec. 29 W) Hendricks (91 F. Murr i8t Popp (4i C.

Raney (5) C. Beyl (21 G. (8 1 Morsev Persky 19) Spann 4t Walker 8 Strull In the 2H eamp of th dntihlp Ogden and Crouse Say Dick West Is to Become Catcher Because of His Ability to Pound That Apple The Baltimore baseball club of the International League really The traveling California Golden Bears administered Ohio State its first basketball defeat of the sea Substitutes: H. A. M.

Morcuelan. Bowl game several years ago but Bill, the Boilermakers of Purdue thumped University of California Kentucky had never appeared in Moreuelan. Simon ll). Davis (3). Speed Bottorff.

Cain ll. Former Wrong-Way Run Not Forgotten son here tonight by a 34-27 score at Los Angeles 63-39. should be known as the Baltimore-Louisville club for 7 of the players owned by Baltimore are Louisville lads. There aren't that many in a bitterly fought sectional the game before. The teams met only once before, at Lexington, in 1936, when Kentucky won, Indiana found the Trojans a The standing: Team.

Won. Lost. Pet. l.ooo Guards 2 35-17. Pasadena, Dec.

29 OP) tougher foe than the Bruins, but the visitors usually held a short lead. Ohio State, paced by Jimmy Hull, ran up an 8-point lead in Beech moni 1 1.000 Kentucky was presented the Y. M. H. 1 2 1 1.000 the first 10 minutes but California Baltimore boys owned by the Orioles, nor are there that many Louisville boys owned by the Colonels.

The gentleman who has endeared Louisville boys to the hearts of Baltimore officials is Ralph Kimmel, baseball coach of du Pont Manual, who is Baltimore's representative in this area. 2 More and They Will have a Team. Sugar Bowl Trophy and Hagan, Andres, the Indianans sharp- California's Golden Bears held their first drill in the Rose Bowl today, and paid marked attention C. C. Speed Edentide 1 0 the Kentucky forward who led .333 .000 .000 .000 shooting guard, was the margin of victory, as 10 of his 12 points V.

M. C. A. his team in the spirited 2d-half Stansanco rally, was given the basketball to the location and direction of the goal posts. used for the game.

The individ were scored from long range when the tight Trojan defense massed out beyond the foul line. The score: Far be it from anyone mind Guards Top C.C.C The National Guards of New ual players got medals. OUR ENTIRE STOCK OF IMPORTED ENCLISH Overcoats $45 COATS $38.50 $60 COATS $42.50 $65 COATS $48.50 $75 COATS $56.50 $85 COATS $68.50 Medium and heavy weights. Genuine imported Harris Tweeds. Shetlands.

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Ltd. to deliberately revive an unhappy incident, but the last time California appeared in the Bowl one of Albany last night replaced Cath Ind. (42) fR.ft pts S. C. (39) fg.ft.pt.

found its scoring range, quickly knotted the count, and forged into a 15-11 lead at the half. Lanky Chct Carlisle aided the visitors 'In increasing the margin in the 2d half but the sharpshoot-ing Hull lied it up for the Bucks with 15 minutes to play. However, Ohio from then on was no match for the hard-driving Golden Bears. Budjic Wins Johnson i ..2 0 12 olic Community Center at the top of the Major Falls Cities Basket 2 12 The players he has sent there are Dick West, Roy Bruner, Fred Isert, Eddie Taylor, Johnny Friedli, Milton Gray and Dixie Howell. jack Ogen, business manager, and Buck Crouse, manager, say they are going to make a catcher of West because of his" ability to hit the ball.

Dick pitched and played the outfield for Americus, this year. Isert, a southpaw, had an exceptional season with Thomasville, Ga. He won 20 games and lost only 7. Bowl Ratings of Litkenhous, and How Pullman Berths 1 1 East, West Squads Ease 0 i ball League ladder by making a Piatt 2 Birr 5 K'fman B-c 3 Andres 5 Dorsey I 0 Doley 0 the Bears made a nevcr-to-be-forgotten run in the wronj direction, setting the stage for a Georgia Tech victory. a mm .6 4 4 Vaughn 4 0 10 Anderson 0 1 7 Remen 2 12 Dornsicf 2 0 Sears 3 0 OGdrich f-c 1 Garvin 1 4 2 2 0 2 whirlwind invasion of the C.

C. C's floor and toppling the previously undefeated leaders by 27-19. That was 8 years ago. The The victory was the Guards 2d Ul 111 IT ren Bowl has been enlarged. The springy turf has been planted and in as many games, and the Cath olics had trounced Edentide and Fomiveness replanted.

But the positions of the goal posts have not been changed. One will be the right Arc Assigned Professional Baseball Players "A Reader," L. N. R. R.

Irvine, writes: This year the babies' shoes as well as the winter meat have been made a reality through faith in the Litkenhous ratings as published in your pages. the Y. M. C. A.

The Guards beat Speed in their loop opener Sun Totals 17 8 42! Totals 17 5 33 Half Time Score Indiana 20. Southern California 13. Personal fouls: Indiana Johnson 1. Piatt 2, Birr 4. Huffman 4.

Andres 1, Doley 1. Southern California Ruh 1. VatiKhn 1. Anderson 1. Dornsicf 2, Scars 2.

Goodrich 2. McCarvln 3. Free throws missed: Indiana Birr 5. Huffman 2. Dorsey 1.

Southern California Ruh 1. Anderson 2, Dornsief 6, Sears 1. Goodrich 1. McGarvin 1. Officials Russ Cripe.

Wabash, and C7 From Aussies Coast Coaolios Sing Gloomy Songs day. The Catholics surpassed the xou can imagine how embarrassed I am now when things that might be good are offered me and I don't know what to do because I have Guards at the free throw line, goal, the other the wrong. Coach Stub Allison wanted that distinctly understood today. Workout Trivate. Alert guards stationed at the outside gates saw to it that the cashing in on 7.

of 11 attempts. with Ike Reynolds flipping Gerald Ayres. Iowa State. used the ratings to. start November fires.

What I need right now are the latest ratings on the "bowl" contestants and I shall thank you to jot them down for me or quote them Trounces Crawford IiiExhi Rue to Umpire in your column. Chicago, Dec. 29 OP) Pres. Will There is another thing I have- 1 1 workout was private, and similar sentries patrolcd the Bowl's nates when Alabama added another drill to its busy schedule. through without a miss.

The Guards made only 5 of 12, missing 6 straight tries in the 2d quarter before Hollenbach finally made one. Line-up: Harridge of the American League often wondered about and oni naa DUl caicners, were always Sydney, Australia, Dec. 29 given lowers. SAtRTMAKERS (INS) Bv defeating Jack craw- which you might enlighten me through your experience in trav Knothole observers at the Bama announced the addition today of Joseph W. Rue to the circuit's staff of umpires for 1938.

camp are confident of one thing ford. Australia's tennis idol, in an exhibition match, Donald Budge of California today Von forgive eling with baseball clubs. What MEMS FURNISMNG9 AMD MATS 523 FOURTH ST SPEED BLDG. 1) C. C.

C. 0) Turner (2t Tomlin I7t Masterson The new American League ar The Dixie eleven hopes to counter California's crushing power drives Guards (27) Pos. Scott (3 F. Hollen'ch i5 Hubbard (2 Davis (5 Groh 18) biter is 39, a native of Danville, and makes his home in Kan (0i Philips with a passing attack. The Cnm San Francisco, Dec.

29 Football practice eased off today In the camps of the East and West squads while rival coaches cast about for any stray psychological advantage prior to the New Year's Day All-Star classic. Coaches Orin Hollingbery and "Biff" Jones voiced the joint opinion: "Those Eastern boys are so big and rugged they should be permitted to have only 5 players in the line and 2 in the backfield. They should be odds-on favorites to win. If they let us have the ball enough we might be able to use all our plays." Lightning Fast. For the Eastern side.

Coach Andy Kerr expressed belief "the West will put a lightning-fast (HI Reynolds ness from disappointed Australian tennis fans who resented his recent poor showing against Baron Gottfried von Cramm of Germany. son Tide picked up 517 yards via sas City. is the system, or is there a system, by which pullman space is assigned to players? My observation in dealing with the traveling public has been that eah person wants, and thinks he should have, a lower berth near the middle of the airways in the season just Today's match between Budge closed, and 8 of the throws 5 by "Sleepy Joe" Kilgrow and 3 and Crawford was arranged to ap by little Herky Moseley paid off Joe also gave a lower to the pitcher who was to work the next day and to the pitcher, or pitchers, who had worked that afternoon. Majors Use 2 Pullmans. The major teams travel in 2 pullmans and iese have plenty of lower berths to accommodate the more deserving gladiators.

Big Jim Weaver, the Ken-tuckian, is so leggy that he granted 2 berths in which to stretch his 6 feet 6 inches, the partition between the 2 berths being removed. 1,000,000 to 1 Substitutes: Guards Tresser I4. C. C. Jenkins, Yenowine, Stewart 2, Eur-ton.

SpatiR. Officials Koster and Christmas. Chicago Campaigns for Louis-Schmeling Fight Chicago. Dec. 29 OP) Chairman Joseph E.

Triner of the the car. in touchdowns. Weak On Defense. pease fans who were displeased when the German defeated Budge in straight sets. When the matter was taken before the Australian Lawn Tennis Association, Tender Sensibilities.

California, with Vic Bottari pitching most of the time, ran up Budge expressed sincere regrets something like 571 yards through Illinois State Athletic Commission calied his forces together today to start campaigning to bring the air, but was not as strong on that he "did not take the match against von Cramm as seriously combination against us. If we're pass defense as it was against next Junes heavyweight cham Knowing something of the tender sensibilities of ball players I can imagine a secretary's predicament when he tries to reconcile the players' opinion of their rights with the space at hand. A few remarks by you on this topic would be relished. not on our toes they'll probably pass us right out of the stadium. running plays.

Fully advised of pionship fight between Joe Louis the danger of Bama aerial either team should be a pre- and Max Schmeling to Chicago, as the occasion demanded. To "make amends," Budge fulfilled his promise to play better, and trounced Crawford, 7-5, 6-1, 6-1. An overflow crowd of 12.000 John O'Dea, Louisville, writes: game favorite. The husky Eastern squad im In Tuesday Whatnot you won Barlund Upsets Lovcll dered what would happen to pressed observers with its power New York, Dec. 29 iJP) Gunnar Allen Sheik (white-haired dyed charges.

Cecil Isbell, left half watched the match in the White City Stadium. Assured by his Barlund of Finland scored a stun black) Mattingly if he would win thrusts, the Bears have practiced long hours to meet the challenge, It will be up to Terry Schwartz and Willard Dolman, the Bears' hefty wingmen, to lead the charge in the event Alabama gets in a spot for Sandy Sanford to try one of his famous boots for a field goal. back from Purdue, and Corby Davis, fullback from Indiana, ning ring upset at the Hippodrome a few nickels at Tropical Park tonight by handing Alberto San As a suggestion, why not sell performance that he was on his toes and doing his best, the fans gave the American player an ova were big factors in behind-the line maneuvers. tiage Lovell, Argentina heavy weight, a thorough whipping to tion. One slightly sour note cropped win a 10-round decision.

Lovell him some advertising space and let him have a new experience of paying for something? Free pass from L. AN. to Florida. Free notice In society col weighed 18612; Barlund 200. up in the Western tune-up.

Dwight Sloan, pass throwing star from Arkansas, developed a lame arm. The injury was said to be Iron Hills Captures Santa Anita Feature Predicts Bad Weather Los Angeles, Dec. 29 W) Cold minor. stormy weather generally and Los Angeles, Dec. 29 OP) Iron Hills romped in to win the $10,000 umns.

Free notice In Whatnot. Free ticket to racetrack. We all love news that is sports, probably rain is the forecast of Daniel Ballmer, amateur scientist, for New Year's Day and the Rose Bowl football game at Pasadena. but if it is a question of popcorn or Mattingly, let's have popcorn U. of L.

Cagers To 'Resume Prep At 10 A.M. Today The former Cozab, opti a million to 1. cian made this forecast late in December, 1936, and is sticking P. S. He is on vacation and added California Breeders Championship Stakes today before at Santa Anita, staging a stretch drive to win from Rolling Ball by a length and a quarter in the mile event.

Leaving the favorite, Bing Crosby's High Strike, to finish 4th, Claudian placed 3d in the race for California-bred is being, paid every day. to it. RM Label 90 Proof Black Label 100 Proof If he still Is pUyinr those tips A check-up of Ballmer.s 1937 forecast against U. S. Weather Bureau reports showed he had on mu-SMmBEm The University of Louisville cage squad will resume practice at 10 a.m.

this morning at the Belknap Campus gymnasium after in The Times, he is having no vacation, and, if he still is he must be getting paid oftener been pretty successful. than every day. Dr. Litkenhous has just returned from a Christmas vacation and when I told him who wanted his extra special bowl ratings he said, "Why, sure, I'll be glad to figure them out for that railroader." And here they are: Rose Bowl: Alabama, 93.3; California. 87.2.

Sugar Bowl: L. S. 92.7; Santa Clara, 81.9. Cotton Bowl: Rice, 82.1: Colorado, 74.6. Sun Bowl: West Virginia, 74.9; Texas Tech.

68.5. Orange Bowl: Auburn, 86; Michigan State, 71. The assignment of pullman space isn't as much of a problem as it might seem. Veteran players usually keep their same berth from year to year and the youngsters are happy to obtain whatever berth is available. Draw for Spaces.

After the start home from training camps, managers usually ask their vets and young regulars what space they prefer and if these can be granted without a conflict they are. If not, straws are drawn for the more desired berths. After the drawing, these berths are retained throughout the campaign. Some managers assign berths to players according to the batting order, and this is not a bad system as it tends to obviate a misunderstanding to who follows whom at bat. McCarthy In Lower 1.

During the years that Joe McCarthy had the Colonels, he always slept in Lower 1 and followed the battlng-order system for the other chaps. His top 2 catchers, and often he Puckster Fractures Skull Sioux City, Iowa, Dec. 29 (U.R John Povlsen, 19, surfcred a fractured skull today when he fell while playing hockey on the Floyd River. He is in Lutheran Hospital. THE high moments of an exciting sport are pleasurably relived over T.W." the rare Kentucky whiskey that makes every event a well-remembered occasion.

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