The Des Moines Register from Des Moines, Iowa • 9

Sideline Slants Franklin Moves Up. Feller Heads South. Women's Track Here. Random Sport Shots. DES MOINES, IOWA, THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 6, 1941.

Group Witt Be Named to Start Inquiry L.BY BERT McGRANE. BALLYHOO? TRACE of significance may A be attached to the fact that -m Franklin, me unsung SM 1AW I II If ill III I weignt, is mciua-ed In the top' 10 in Ring maga The Ace Signs Away Baseball Life BROWN'S ACTS 3 zine's- ranki 3 PRO OWNERS this month. He' the cent who TODAY'S THE DAY CREIGHTON HIT BY HURRICANE -TULSA BY 38-31 chilled Omaha's Carl Vinciquerra the other night. Franklin was the national Col- They're plon in 1937 and subsequently has FRANKLIN, made himself RAKE LAYDEN'S APPOINTMENT 'Railroaded Into Job By Charles Dunkley. CHICAGO, ILL.

(ff) Dissension broke out in the National football league Wednes Ball Players Begin Links Classic TO BE STUDIED BY COMMITTEE House Is Likely to Follow Suit. R) C. C. Clifton. First steps tow ard a legislative investigation of thp affairs of the Iowa High School Athletic association were taken in a meeting of the schools committee of the Iowa senate Wednesday afternoon.

i Jays Share Valley i Crest Now. I OMAHA, NEB. (P) Tulsa univprsitv's surprising bas- Rt- fin vie Talbot. Petersburg, fla. on ketball team upset Creisrhton, St.

Ceoiee Jacobus, the harried OD 0- nio-Vit ho. tournament manager, has laid down last-minute rules, including day over appointment of til mer Lavden as commissioner i a provision that hall that rolls ball that rolls no of professional football. hs far as 10 feet may be consid Three or me leagues iv ered a practice owners Alexis xnompson oi Senator Ross R. Mowry Jasper), chairman of the committee, disclosed that the committee swing, and the baseball players The loss cost the Blue-jays undisputed first place in the Missouri Valley conference race, but left them tied with Washington for the top with four victories and two defeats apiece. Tulsa, beaten by the Jays.

4.V2II. three weeks ago, took advantage had Instructed him to appoint a are ready to start Pittsburgh, Bert Bell, half owner of the Philadelphia Eagles, and Dan Topping, of the Brooklyn Dodgers charged that Layden had been "railroaded" into office subcommittee to look Into the feared and generally avoided. He knockouts over Lee Savold, Willie Reddish, Eddie Blunt and some of the boys but the Joe Lnuis fight which would have moved him up front in consideration has never been arranged. Our Tinkle George, of boxing's lip and downs, predicts that Joe successor as heavyweight rhampinit will be another Negro and that Lem Franklin will be the man. It may be that the first faint mgns of the ballyhoo is on.

We hear that Jack Hurley, who was in Vinciquerra's corner when that chap went out from one of Franklin's punches, has talked Lem's dad into selling a piece of the fighter. If the report is true, the Franklin buildup will be on almost any nimute. IN DIRECT conflict with recent opinions that Joe Louis' punch is pnne is this statement by H. G. Saisinger in the Detroit News: "Joe Louis outclasses his division by a wider margin than any other heavyweight champion In history and this unprecedented superiority is ascribed to one of two reasons: (A) Louis is the best fist fighter of all time.

(B) The heavyweight field today, and for the last 10 years, Is the weakest that boxing has known." their annual golf vendetta here to charges against George A. Brown, day. executive secretary of the associa The diamond illegally over John B. Kelly of Philadelphia, a Democratic politi heroes, past and present, are hav VALLEY STANDINGS. cal leader, and Frank McCormick, ing it out this ffjSCi: '-A year on the Jun- jimmy foxx.

gle club course, which is leased I'll. .400 Parker (rieht). the former luke nlversy athlete who won the 19 0 JS.I ro. rrrlnlilon nthhiKli'ii llrskr OUithoma A. A M.

1ul.i n.hlmrn St. l.Mlls 4 i .2 1 tion. indicated that a similar subcommittee will be appointed by the house committee and that the two subcommittees Mill report back recommendations to later meetings of the rntire committees. of the proposed investiga and run by Jimmy Foxx, well-known firstbaseman of the Boston Red Sox. Jimmv also is taking nart in the tournament, though he league's most valuable ard.

signed a two-year contract Uednes.lay w.O. which virtually ended anv pnsslhllllv of a career as a major league baseball piajer. of the riHsburgh Tirate. ho own the baseball I'arker. was confronted a slliiatlon a fter he of Parker's dec discontinue baseball.

ha, rk (No. 1 Bur short) He'd find ourselves without a shnrl.lnp.'-mRKI (1 of early Creightnn errors, gained a slight lead, then played hard- is not rated one of the top contenders, as he is greater on getting distance than direction. lo-get. tion gives support to rumors which have been aflost that the legislature may consider transferring control of athletics to the state The Tulsa defense allowed Creightnn to shoot from a distance hut ganged up under the goal to stop the short ones. Coach Jack Sterrett spread his players all over the court on attatk, drawing the Bluejays nut fatally.

Navy Goes to Sea -INCLUDING ATHLETES Aggies Fool Oklahoma U. To Win, 28-19 As usual, the boys have not picked a very tough course for their family battle. The habit of years has caused them to like the figure beside their names to look Impressive In print, so they instinctively avoid layouts likely to produce scores In the eighties. GKORC.E HAI.AS. BERT W.IU department of public Inst ruction.

The legislative move follows a chai'ce liv I. W. F.ilie of Rudd, director of athletics at the University of Minnesota. KT. 15v 1.

Chandler. (that luoun nuineiiveied the elec- Brown, tion of Have RolihiiTs of Cresro, J. FT. 2 Flpminft 2 1 0 i (I Thvnnr.r 0 1 ii ti 1 Hfimei 2 The jungle course has a liberal NORMAN, OKLA. The Oklahoma Aggies, kicked around 0 I) 1 4 1 1 1 0 1 nar of 71.

11 IS noi very i five-year term on the board in out their towels in the fall and weep over the loss ot a lew 4 lhe Auu t. i i.iU ora mm i red wit the Navy'Si NHiil that Hi own announced well, they're pikers compared with the Kdie said that Brown announced or treacherous and its only draw-j A 4 0 1 trriddcrs by the tailcnders of their own con 1 Nolan 4 0 back is exceptionally small greens. the vote was 8 to 7 for Robbina ference for a week, bounced back lnrer ru es are ruci oiu winter and spring sports niastcr-niinas Totdfn Ifi 10 Total 0 FELLER HEADS SOITII. THE BOB FELLER special, bound for Ray Doane's baseball school at Palatka, pulls out at 11:30 o'clock tonight. Six budding ball players will accompany Feller from Des Moines, with others joining the group in Chicago Friday.

In the group will be Harry Peterson of Harlan, Vernon Erickson of Wau-kon, Curtis Hanson of Bode, Bob Reedholm of Boone and Roger Teters and Arnold Reynolds of Grundy Center. After a teaching hitch at Ta-latka, Feller will proceed to Fort Myers, where he will report at the Cleveland training camp, Feb. 17. 1,1 i.j over jsupi. a.

i-. oi AI1 set for what looked like the players will be permitted to Wednesday night to defeat their Free thro ininfte'l Brown, Wentmre-land 2, Creightnn. Hetsser 2, lnicer 3, Ah Hinnhw of Kmpona, Bill Johntone of Iowa. old rivals, the University of Oklahoma Scwiners, pacesettets in the schools in the district, and two. Independence ami Iiras, did not The dissenting trio offered no objection as to the capabilities of Layden, former director of athletics and head football coach at Notre Dame, but asserted the appointment was illegal and could not be official until action could be taken to amend the constitution at the annual meeting of the league in Chicago next April.

a pretty good sports campaign, Navy's apple-cart was upset when Uncle de- EYE DES MOINES AS HOCKEY SITE! vote. He said Rohhins was an In- Big Six, 2S to 1. no ent victim in the affair. Icided suddenly that he'd like to start a few more "ad- tv A ra rnirals" up the ladder. Territorial Kiglus Are.

UhHr(i W0, What's happened would make IMayiiig without I heir scoring are, Injured Innie F.gglexton, the Aggies uncovered a new offensive star In I-roy Klnyd, who moved to forward from a guard position and scored 12 points. The victory snapped a two-game losing streak for the Agsies, the average roaih reach for the Sought by Loop. IT TAKES MORE THAN ROOTERS LOUISVILLE, KY. Mi-The University of Louisville basketball team is too much of a problem for even the co-eds. In an effort to stimulate his team, Coach John Heldman placed co-ed "girl friends" of the players behind the team Wednesday night, but despite that.

Louisville lost to Hanover ST. I1U1S, PCS Mollies smrillllK nann nii'i Roll declared the entile league was entitled to vote on the selec Wednesday was viewed ss pos-carload of towels bill nol inese sihle spot for an American Hotkey Nflyy they're staving off a knocked out of the Missouri Val tion. n.omlfllirai franchise weeping wave In the iraiiiunn oi r.onroe Halas owner of tne ni ley lead last weekend by St. Louis and Washington. Ihe line.

cago Bears, who with Bell formed to-man committee that The Iowa metropolis was one of five cities Included in teirltonal rights the association will ask i ho National leacue. The ps Ferrell. He's the MrtH to Benf. OK I. A in ft 0 1 4 1 .1 interviewed Layden, retorted: TRACK FOR WOMEN.

THE IOWA A.A.U., setting up plans for its first annual indoor track championships, offers something new. Two events for women athletes will be on the program, vlth competition In the 50-yard dash and the high jump open to the gals. All of the customary Indoor events will be open to the men. A traveling team trophy, to be won three times for permanent possession, will go to the winning tm Th. A.A.U.

emblem will "Everv voting member Knew shove the ball around with their of Hanover. S3 to 36 its tenth defeat without a advance of publication that Lay- clubs until it is sitting the way Sm.ls.r.l 1 .1 3 Tiilw 0 0 1 Frtii.r 0 0 rhi no Milhkan.K 0 1 1 1 1 1 Nfmiin 0 1 2 Rlrt, lhmin 4 ,1 1 Tlt- hud 4 Hip i 0 Mrlity I rton was to be appointed. Every Thn captain of cery sport with the exception of golf departs Friday because graduation of seniors was sleped up to February instead of June. others are Oklahoma City, Foit Ji Worth, Rhrevepnrt and Milwau-i kee. A formal application for an i- A.

H.A. franchise was.iereived step we took was legal, a ma inritv i sufficient to elect a new 4 1 1 ToHl 10 IS TnHll officer and we have a substantial majority in favor of Layden. croup of Fort Worth S.j.r. half Acer. 20, Oklhr.m 0 from they like it.

Beat We Ferrell. The object of the tournament has become to beat Wes Ferrell. The former great pitcher has won the thing three years in a row. retiring last year the Powell Crosley trophy. Now there Is a but no action was It began Wednesday, when Bas- j.j jDt niapn winners in 4, Hnhertr, i.

i.ri. Hf. taken iiumediatelv. ineywereau- i league nil i ii if re- keitwii Macn "Bell knows that his partner, Art Kooney, cast his half vote for layden. OVER THE TOP ASHLAND, ORE.

iPI The first time the new electric scoreboard in the Southern Oregon college of education gymnasium was used it proved inadequate. Its limit is 89 points. Tuesday night the college team walloped the Jacksonville Townies, 110-15. DIMAG HOLDOUT iqiiiring applications for admission hed apt. Norman W.

Ackley he accompanied by a check for (if jlpls(oWn, and Center W. Smith of Baltimore The association officials also lnBoe Play their final game. Srnnlor ltos It. Mowry. Will Apiniiiit "in mi" ee.

IK awHiutru the individual events, with second and third place winners receiving certificates. The date of the meet has been changed to Mar. 1, instead of Feh. 28 as originally announced. Entries may be filed with S.

P. Whiting. 707 Locust st or with Bill Easton, Drake university track coach. handsome new statuette wai is hi least gold plated, put up by the sporting news. Wednesday the field engaged in a warmup pro-amateur affair, but today the real shootin' will begin in the form of an IS-hole lifviiic event.

There than will It is true we were unable to inform Bell of the official vote, but that was because he was traveling en route to Florida." Nf) Raise Toe with the National; Tar boxeia meet Virginia Sat- Cage Results Sign Contract. league and voted to reduce fiom minus fapt. James V. to the waiver price and two KOMH.F.R NMKI PAN FRANCISCO. CAL on players being sent to lower mates, tint veteran Coach II.

serving Notre be two rounds of match play each Tarn VI A WASH. i.P Horace' Joe DiMaggio. Nnv ork ar.Kee., PHgue ciassm. iv.hh Insists Ix.xinK witn me Dame for seven years, resigned rm Friday and Saturday Mondav to accept the new post of 36.hole finai Sunday. RANDOM SHOTS.

JOSIE A A assistant creenkeeper at YVoodside, reports 1P41 contract. I VVKST TO! NT, N. 1 'C' A Bob at an annual salary Derrlnirer Iletter. an offer to manage Ta- for army duty Saturday. He intimated it offered no In-, breaking Columbia quimei nanoen lais, headed by Capt.

1.. Triile, of S20.000 for five years t.iw. and sister are un as re-I Armv its fifth strsirht basketnaii For the time being, at least, the coma in the Western International tn have rhatee of baseball league, Tsroma's Bell, in a statement from maintainecL that he had ported to have last year. I setback Wednesday. 33 to 21.

of Madisonville, walk llie plank. Jack Quill, said Wednesday. Derringer, the dent. Taul been delegated with Halas to in- the show. trrview three candidates ana tne Cincinnati ace, earned Ferrell two extra holes RAPS JUDGE'S DECISION- Feu Svports Spared, ('apt.

L. L. f'e Latour of New and three other trackmen first he knew of Layden's appoint iting plans for a trip to Del Rsv Beach, Fla They'll join Fomhshell Bob at Fort Myers )tr on. Bill Knipe, Kmmets-hurg. proposes a Simpson-Iowa game, declaring that he'll take Simpson.

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t. henn'H 2 MtHrv H'Mfc 4 -tlifomla I rrh-T 19. ii(tirhitinii JmmII Hntl l-nnfU s. 4hn A'. V.hM!iH Ua.hlntl'H 1rm ment was when he read it in the newspapers.

"We interviewed two men without reaching a decision." Bell s- Says landis Has GoneJaffy in last years semifinal, and he; savs he's shoot-; ing a little bet-, ter this winter. Among the I other leading; ready is filled and same probably mil' for Simnson. Says Jack (serted. "I was waiting to inter rh at I view the third when I learned that coacn An not F'errett. basketball 'are parking s' hags, along with 'six lacrosse regulars topped by leapt.

P. Seaman, Garden N. Y. I Others leaving are: Wrestling iCaptain John L. Umdieth, Whtt- tier, and five mates: ditto for 'gymnastics, captained by B.

T. of Seattle; Capt. J. 'McPherson. V'all' Jo.

Cal and three other fencers: and Swimming Cap- iles. -The only games wi exrected to win are the ones frf)m chcgo and "onicnners i flay. They don care jthat' wher Halaa iiiiie i aui n-er, who just signed for a post To which Halas replied: graduate course Uaing Hubert W. Wager of Titus- jr.su. Brooklyn, Joe; IMedwick, George Selkirk," Roy Johnnv Murphy.

Rick iville, and three tank regulars. And laMt, but not least, co-rap-' tains In Tommy Blount 'of P.ock Island, 111, and H. "Well, that's one thing Bell got right. I do live in Chicago. He knew all about the progress of negotiations.

We interviewed Layden together in Pittsburgh last week. Then we talked to Thompson and Topping by phone. others down mere. and Bill Williams, Drake coach, once were rival prep coaches in Minnesota. In five seasons at Glencoe.

Sterrett's teams von 44 out of 45 football games and one state basketball championship. IF COACH BILL EASTON finds a fourth, Drake may come lip with a speedy two-mile relay team this spring. On the 12-lap fieldhouse track Bob Bar-lou recently ran the half in 1 54. Lowell Baal did Pennsylvania State association was ordered to pay his salary from the date of suspension to the end of the season, including the playoff sen's, by Landia' ruling Wednesday. Landis warned that "in any such future tase the ilub franchise will be forfeited and the guilty club official or employe will be placed on the permanent ineligible list." W.

E. Milliken. chairman of the Beaver Falls club, and R. J. Stoops, secretary, were placed on the ineligible list for five years and President Casey was suspended for a year.

Frank Oeak, manager who assaulted Kusher. was suspended for the 191 a-aaon. Toe fight ocelli led ihlling a game with Johnstown 8t river Falls on Jun 6. 1H4II Wt re-fin ttt IV. Ill 4f, tUtHHtt 4 HOI TH, F.M-1rI(t 77.

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lnH Bhf 34. Kir 4r profpional. Aknm HrlMi est Rf-tktn Ferrell, Lloyd Brown, Heinie Man-ush, Watson Clark. Billy Sullivan, Al Simmons, Gerald Walker, Pee Wee Reese and Merv Shea. Leo Durocher, the Brooklyn manager, has been practicing hard for a couple of weeks, but came down with influenza a few days ago.

'Has to Make Goat of EBENSBt'RG. TENN. Daily, president of the Class Pennsylvania State Baseball association, expressed astonishment Wednesday night at the action of Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain LandiS in suspending four officials of the Beaver Falls club and fining it $500. The decision was made upon the appeal of an umpire, suspended by Daily in connection with a near-riot last June at Beaver Falls, Penn. "He must have gone plumb i daffv," exclaimed the teteran sportsman ho lo Is promotional director of the minor leagues.

"He rertalnly has Schoenhauin of Huntington, W. plus seven others. Yessir mate. The ha7.e ha'nf; Judge lnitis. htt nee C.wf Jjn'li' Lavden's appointment was tpal No announcement Kidman.

UeS MOineS heavy in Crabtown. srSI'KMI 1 AT IIIM.KVII. MIAMI FLA. Chaiged, A 1th failing to teglsler piopeilv. peter F.

Cene ami Trailer Simon wepende Wediic, di.v for the li ioiiiuder of mn me. Srh'Mil. 'Sift 0. hrt- utrmtn Bil 4 High I f.n.rr I'rr rnliilm 1 ft- M. Forrest Jamieson ran 1:59 1.

Snnhnmore Russ Lvster wasn was made until Layden had been ShOOt Leader 1 an offirial binding agree-, liriiidpfj in Drske's spnnt continent as Trosh. He's the fastest of the Bulldogs now. ment containing the signatures of: pT. rKTERSBCRG, FLA. -a majority of our club owners R.

Johnston, jr Hartfmd City. From New York Thompson, new Iml -bmke 14T of 150 targets at owner of the rntshingh club said 16 to bad Class A shooters Halas and Bell were spp'iinted to in thirteenth annual Sunshine interview Layden. Kelly and Mc- trapshnot. BOLT END SALE! M.I tUM 9M nothing about the trouble last year when Bill Jurges spit on t'mpire Ceo. Magerkurth in the National ler-rre "Of there is no appeal from one of his and it's okay with me.

But he and I will have plenty to talk about." Thw supnln of I nipire Blither, who was assaulted, r-rsteri st home plat as the jsme ended snd later escorted out of town, waa voided and the r.ic,c. iiF.tn on i.inf. BROOKLYN. N. Y.

U--F-I SAVE $10 TO $25 zieari, L-i-year-on but that Maormic Anderson, nuimo. i pi'cher brought up from wa approached. and J. R. Kidman, Des Moines, and.

in na Head, 21-vear-old righthanded th midrtl of last season, and 'rt'Urwr IsHRIVK MDITOKIIM TOMOHROH Mir. err TICKETS NOW 91.1 Tat Inrliirted Ai asM mii gone the limit In this ra with another one of hl smart-alerky derision. "Fvery row and then he has to make a goat of someone. You'll notic ha did absolutely il l' Y. rj CSSrS "They were given nmKe Ji rvn 'TAILORS make an ur.offinsl offer ICT enner wmi Virgil lmoiey ana 718 Locust Street utility Thirdsacker Lew Riggs.

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