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Journal and Courier from Lafayette, Indiana • 8

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Tuesday Evening January 26 1937 GOLDEN GLOVES SHOW TONIGHT WORLD AMOUS RENAISSANCE IVE TO COME HERE SATURDAY 1 Vv 6 Jan first year of organization One too t1 views on the subject at at Terre City at Misha NOT KIDDING! Jef at contests will be (ort at at 6 925 845 2566 Totals Totals By HAM ISHER JOE PALOOKA WITH' WHAT HlC TOtta MONEY 776 2291 781 2285 734 770 Totals 783 2386 831 1 2G 1 133 153 143 of of 146 433 T48 429 160 436 do in base league and a Lafayette teach the basketball 2 3 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 6 2 1 7 1 0 2 0 7 2 1 2 1 0 134 145 243 177 is to 0 1 0 1 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 2 171 130 119 162 189 25 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 Totals Michigan Townsend Smick Barclay Thomas Gee Lane ishman Jennings Patanelli Beebe Long 438 408 172 4522 PLENTY 'JA 4 I SAID WHERE JA GIT ALL TH' DOUGH preceding rounds to assure of victory barring a knock of course OICIALS past years the officiating Mackey Cors Burkhart Burkhart Cors Spot 122 400 138 417 13 Michigan 2 0 Rrnnk Rav Brown Joe Brown The have it in the above picture Brooks wh Totals Otterbein Nichols Johnson Perkins Kellar McClintock sition The comic Bethards the little speedster Bill Yancey and big Saitch are guards Silent Johnny Holt teams up with Jenkins at forward The Rennies appeared last Satur day evening at Rensselaer win ning by a safe margin over a team which included Gip and Ginger Reeves Herm Schuessler and Leo Crowe $25000 yet to course in the Schmeling again or $600000 Totals Rpferee Liotrap umpire Holder (Otterbein) In has been unusually good at the Lafayette Golden Gloves tourna ment It is hoped that the high class judging and refereeing will continue here Last Tuesday card was handled almost perfectly and the same group of officials will be on hand tonight for the second show The list of officials follows i Referees Her man Schmitz Jimmy Sayers Ray Wood Dick Noonan Judges Dr Graves Dr A Kil lian red Holmes Stone Timekeepers Ed Schwartz Law rence Baker James Wilson Woodworth lush the famous dog star Katharine production Barretts of Wimpole is living in retirement with Miss Cornell in her Beekman Place home in New York City Available second major battle of the 1937 Golden Gloves fistiCj wards scheduledfor to nio ht at the LafaVette Armory with the opening gun being fired at 8 clock Official ie "night stated he armory would be available for amateur show thus permitting the local boxing tourney to go on as scheduled American Legion officials met laight and decided that the first $100 taken in at the gate would be used as a Golden Gloves contribution to College Basketball Notre Dame 55 Western Re serve 20 Penn State 35 Carnegie Tech 30 Michigan 32 Chicago 19 Kansas i Harry and a $60000 in Salt Lake in Buffalo with vlc be selected there Is a $2000000 offing if he can get rhare of the local gymnasium is annually the man A 1 1 1V A Being anything but an author ity on Lafayette grade school bas ketball we wish to make it clear here that the above suggestions are not ours We are not prepar ed to endorse them or any other set of plans They come unsolic ited from Mr Protzo 0 2 1 0 The Golden Glovers swarm all over the sports stage at the La fayette Armory tonight the second show of the 1937 tourney and should be even more enter taining than the opener last Tues day miss it! Texas has accepted a bequest of $3000 from a Rhode Island wo man to finance a study of Thomas Jefferson Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis of the spectacular five in basketball SAME SQUAD This team is exactly the same as the team that last year ran up a record of 121 victories against 14 defeats The tricky Jenkins captain is their leader while the giant Cooper and Smith alternate at the pivot po Maybe grade and parochial offi cials think well of ideas maybe they work out at alL be glad to air other Gates Goris Wiley Beck Gard Lewis Benedict Hill Osterling Kauffman City a sure Thomas in likely $75000 Either one or two rounds would be played under this plari with the Northern and Southern cham pions meeting1 in a three game se ries for the city titles Protzo adds that a tourney plan could also be arranged with the first four teams in each league meet ing in an eight team tournament to decide the championship their first year of organization 1925 But the brown skinned court men hold all time basketball record for consecutive victories with 88 set in 1934 35 The previ ous mark was 44 made by the Original Celtics The Rennies are noted for their terrific speed deadly rifle like shooting and' undescribable tricks and have justly earned the title At present the nine city schools are in one league with four pa rochial schools in another St James is not participating in any league She JJecr Laayette BreweryInc 796 EAGLES LAAYETTE JOURNAL 'AND COURIER MMMr ISTIC EXPERTS are still show ing their amazement over Teddy decisive trouncing of Solly Krieger last week in New York Teddy surprised however really in earnest about re gaining his middleweight title! Steve Protzo who has been con nected with local pai chial leagues in one capacity or another for years has a suggestion1 to make to the Lafayette hardwood pop ulace Steve believfes all city and parochial grade schools should work together during the basket ball season as they ball playing in one eventually deciding championship Beany Craig and Norman Cot tom a couple of ex Purdue bas keteers did themselves proud last week Gas City quintet won the county championship at Mari on while fine Alexandria five upset the dope bucket by handing Wabash high school its first defeat of the year thus spoil ing the last of the perfect records among the larger schools serious business year one school is on top then another Real rivalries spring up and the contestants learn what good clean hard competition is like 19 21 '23 26 26 29 Illlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll Grade 'school basketball in La fayette has been improving by leaps and bounds during the past few years The youngsters are attracting hundreds of new fol lowers each year and most of the games in Highland Longlois St Boniface Lincoln and other gyms around the city are played before near capacity crowds Practically every school in the city boasts a competent coach most of these mentors being former high school or college stars wno youngsters good sound just for th fun of it flood relief Although other tourney shows will start at 7 45 card will be held up 15 minutes so that mem bers of the Purdue Road School can attend GREAT SHOW PROMISED Many thought last card was about as entertaining as any sports offering could be but those in charge of the local tour ney feel sure they can promise even more thrills tonight than took place last week Several vet eran glove swingers are expected to be in the ring tonight starting their drives for Golden Gloves titles These drives often stop right there It has been proven time REALLY in earnest when we say YE TAVERN We know the excellent flavor of this champion of beers will win you on the first trial The taste test ALWAYS proves Ye superiority Order a case today SMITH i Tangier Rosedale Spencer Protzp would divide the Lafa yette schools in two groups a Northern league and a Southern league Longlois St Lawrence Linnwood Lincoln Washington Centennial and St James would form the Northern loop The Southern circuit would consist of Highland Oakland St ord Tippecanoe St Boniface and St Longlois Lincoln and St James have gymnasiums in one league and Highland St Ma St Boniface and St in the other SOMETHIN' AWUL PHONEY ABOUT" HIS WINNIN' BUI UAN'I HKWYC 1 didnt 4 (Otterbein) Delphi at Gre'encastle Shelbyville at Greenfield I Greensburg at Southport Richmond at Kokomo Marion at Jefferson (Lafayette) New Castle at Logansport North Verribn at Seymour Alexandria at Pendleton I Bicknell at Reitz (Evansville) Warsaw at Columbia City Washington (East Chicago) Roosevelt (Eist Chicago) i Nappanee at Elkhart Elwood at Lebanon South Side (ort Wayne) Huntinzton Horace Mann (Gary) at Emer son (Gary) roebel (Gary) at Jiammond Riley (South Bend) at Goshen Hammond Tech at Hammond Clark Peru at Hartford City Huntingburg at Jasper LaPorte at Michigan Linton at Princeton Central (South Bend) waka HTIntAn at Windfall SATURDAY NIGHT I Muncie at Technical (Indianapo lis) Sullivan at Bloomington Crawfordsville at Shortridge (Indianapolis) New Albany at Salem Cathedral (Indianapolis) fersonville Rushville at Richmond Princeton at Vincennes Wabash at Tipton Alexandria at Peru Berne at South Side Wflvnp) roebel1 (Gary) at Washington (East Chicago) Central (ort Wayne) at North Side (ort Wayne) Roosevelt (East Chicago) Horace Mann (Gary) Hammond at Valparaiso Kokomo at Marion LOOR CARD IS POSTPONED AH YMCA basketball cluding the city league has been postponed indefinitely It was announced last night The gymnasium facilities ae being fised to help house flood refugees from the southern part of the state WON tr ER AH THA'S rr won rn give me MY MONEY between Brown Rubber and St Boniface at 8 Bob Taylor and Bill Vaulk will be the offi cials Tickets for the tilt are priced at 40 cents each GREAT RECORD It is probably impossible to ac curately describe the colored stars who annually play practical ly every day in the week and have appealed in almost every sizeable town in the country since Totals 745 770 BENEDICTS 140 138 149 167 169 126 186 Totals Score at half Chicago 6 ree throws missed: Eggemeyer Petersen 2 Michigan Townsend Gee Personal fouls: Chicago Am undsen Petersen 3 Rossin Meyer 2 Michigan Townsend Smick '2 Barclay Gee Patanelli 2 Beebe 2 Officials: Kearns (DePaul) Wasserman (Amer Coll of Phy sical Ed) llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll a Bruceville 11 a vs armersburg vs Dugger 2 Oblong Hl 3 Putnamville 4 Plainville Second round held riday night with semi finals Saturday afternoon and the finals Saturday night A field of 105 teams from In diana and Illinois began play in the Wabash valley meet last week end HEADLINERS The schedule for the week shows that most of the games will be played riday and Saturday nights in those places where flood conditions do not interfere The headliners many subject to possible change follow: WEDNESDAY NIGHT Jefferson (Lafayette) at Delphi THURSDAY NIGHT Jeffersonville at ranklin RIDAY NIGHT Shortridge (Indianapolis) Jlushville Anderson at rankfort Noblesville at Wabash Tech (Indianapolis) at Conners ville Brazil at Cathedral (Indianapo lis) Bloomington at Columtus Washington (Indianapolis) at Manual (Indianapolis) Martinsville at Bedford New Albany at Bosse (Evans ville) Central (Evansville) at Wash ington ox Drive Planned or lood Relief A community fox drive for flood relief will be held tomorrow The participants will meet at the Pleasant Grove Grange hall six miles north of Lafayette at 9 Wednesday morning Guns will be permitted A drive spon sored by the Cairo Young group was incorporated with the flood relief drive loods Wreck Court Cards In Southern State Schools INDIANAPOLIS Jah The spectre of floods pointed an uncertain finger tonight at high school basketball schedule for this week With many roads washed out or impassable some gymnasiums flooded and a number of high school students doing relief duty with AT (INDEPENDENT) inal score: Otterbein 16 Ross Gear 15: Half score: Otterbein 10 Ross Gear 8 Ross Gear Brady Vester Mack Littleton Kiilin Shark Osterling Wallace Bennett HOW care ''hic YOU SIR CAN'T DOTKW rr MVEP THAT'S PROBUY MY Kpp ONE CENT MOvUczi 1 Journal and Courier Want Ads Bring Results Notice Boxers! The Golden Gloves fights definitely will go on tonight All boxers still eligible for com petition must report at the La fayette Armory between noon and 5 today Those who were prevented from appearing last week may weigh in and be examined today and remain eligible for competition TOURNA MENT TO GO ON AS USUAL IN ARMORY RING irst Taken in at Gate Will Be Turned Over to lood Relief American Legion Expects to Offer More Than 20 Exciting Bouts to Near Capacity Crowd Gruver Wilson Brown Boze Burks and Many Other Well Known Scrappers May Make 1937 Debuts Tickets Still 4 BUCKLE All Rubber QO Overs 1 THE RAPP CO South Side Square Brown Ready Michigan Downs Chicago 32 to 19 ANN ARBOR Mich Jan Michigan clung doggedly to Its first division perch in the western conference basketball race tonight handing Ma roons a humiliating 32 to 19 de feat before a meager crowd of 3 500 Summary: Chicago Eggemeyer itzgerald Mullins Meyer Cassels Amundsen Petersen Rossin and again that names mean very little in Golden Gloves competi tion One solid right to the jaw can wipe almost any name off the list OVER 20 IGHTS Advance dope indicates that at least 20 bouts will be on program and the may reach 27 as on opening night With interest obviously increas ing as the tourney progresses and an order for 400 seats received from Purdue Road school visitors tickets for fight will be in even greater demand than on opening night last Tuesday How ever Golden Gloves officials are experienced when it comes to handling large crowds and they feel they can promise a good view of the bouts to any person who wishes to attend GET TICKETS NOW! Ringside tickets are still avail able at the downtown ticket stands cigar stand in the Lafayette Life building Rapp and Pfrommer Bros These ducats admitting the cus tomer to either the chair sections or the balcony sell for $1 each All tickets left unsold at 5 will be taken the armory and placed on sale there General admission customers will probably start lining up early this evening for the 50 cent tickets will go on sale at the armory at 6:30 The doors will be opened at that same time Any amateur event is particu larly hard to officiate With scores of novices participating and all fights being limited to three rounds the Golden Gloves box ing tourney is no exception Close decisions come almost ry hour there can be no draws Mnany boxers get started until the final minutes and although their closing rush is impressive their foe has piled up enough points in the him out in be CIiaiMtS Ul U4C juvcm found around a Golden Gloves tournament while both or me xsrown boys are entered in the division The Brown boys Ray and Joe are no relation Ray is from La fayette and Joe hails from Otterbein Ray won the flyweight cham pionship last year but is competing as a bantamweight this year Al though pictured together "they are not particularly friendly As a mat ter of fact Joe watches Ray workout whenever possible with but one idea in to learn the best way of knocking his block off Knocking time might come tonight for the or for any of the other lads entered in the Lafayette Golden Gloves tournament The second show of the 1937 tourney is scheduled to open at the Armory at 8 tonight THREE HUNDERD AN' TEH AN' YA SPENT WHERE national guard troops or other agencies the prospects for re sumption of hardwood activities in the southern half of the state ap peared dismal CANCELLATIONS LIKELY In" many cases coaches and principals had still failed to can cel or postpone scheduled contests tonight but it appeared likely the action would come within the next few days Evansville New Alba ny Jeffersonville and many other southern Indiana cities in the dis aster area virtually have given up basketball along with other normal enterprises As far as could be learned to night the finals of the Wabash valley tournament will go ahead riday and Saturday at Terre Haute as planned Sixteen teams representing 14 sectional tournaments held last week end will clash in the Indi ana State college gym nasium The first round schedule riday 8 a Switz City vs Garfield: 9 a Ashboro vs Oaktown 10 Wiley (Terre Haute) vs Bloomiieia JJana vs vs vs LOEBS 155 132 Coffman I47 Ulrich 131 Dewey 767 Reitenieier 772 Totals 772 INTERNATIONAL Ostenhoff 718 125 102 j45 Belsland 125 202 140 477 Orlger IM 153 LOUIS WORRIES ABOUT SUPPLY OPPONENTS $500000 of Engagements Ahead Joe Prefers to Be If Any Happens to Pastor Others By PAT ROBINSON POMPTON LAKES To look at his dead pan ex pression never dream that Joe Louis had a care on earth But the fact is and he admits it worried as apprehensive as a man who sees his rich oil well run ning dry and know where to find another one And no moth er is more solicitous about her first born child than Joe is for the health and well being of his brother heavyweights You see but let Joe tell it: JOE THE ACCIDENT "I sure do worry plenty about all those said Joe today as he wound up heavy training for his fight with Bob Pastor riday night worries special! about that Mr Pastor I hopes nothing hap pens to Mr Pastor before ri day they tell me him and me is goin to draw $100 000 any accident happens to Mr Pastor or any other of them boys I wants to be the accident Mr Red Burman wor ries me some too I understands Mr Burman and me can do $60 000 in Detroit and 1 want nothing to happen to Mr Red until I meets up with him After that he can worry for hisself" $500000 AHEAD At this point Manager Julian Black cut in to say that Joe had more than $300000 worth of pros pective engagements for the next four months Besides the afore said Pastor' and Burman affairs Joe has a possible $100000 gate waiting for him in California with Maxie Rosenbloom or some other likelv candidate for the Louis an esthetic and embalming society Also a probable $50000 with Natie Brown in $50000 withMinneapolis in Chicago and tims Of gate Max if he could land Jim Braddock And Mike Jacobs has assured Joe he and Tony Galento will draw at least $200000 outdoors here this summer Team Eagles Loebs Benedict International Lesters Peerless PEERLESS 205 168 148 188 191 25 Colored Stars Will ace Ginger Peer less Crew at Armory Tickets Priced at 40 Cents Are Considered inest Quintet in Entire Country The world renowned New York Renaissance probably the greatest basketball team in the country wilb grace the Eafayette Armory Saturday evening in opposition to Ginger battling Peerless crew The game which is scheduled to begin at 9:15 will be preceded by a preliminary LESTERS Johnson 138 190 Blind 720 120 Blind 120 120 Allspaw 128 151 Blind 120 120 Spot 69 69 Independent League Scores STANDING vv 29 27 25 22 22 19 JE AT DELPHI TOMORROW OR RETURN BATTLE West Side Travels to Veed ersburg Marion at Bron Gym riday Kent land at Purdue Saturday A rocky road stretches ahead of Bronchos as they pre pare to start on their last drive before the annual mad Tomorrow they will jour ney to Delphi and on riday play host to Giants in a con ference encounter A week frona today they journey to rankfort and a week from riday tangle with Berries here This games should result in victories but the Casemen and Wellsmen next week in four days provide the nearest approach to a suicide schedule the state high school net card dan offer TWO SCARLET TILTS West Red Devils even if they get the proper practice have ho picnic ahead either Tomorrow they go to a tossup on Saturday meet Kent underdog quiniei au due Next week Attica and Brookston two of the finest the smaHer schools in this vicinity will provide the opposi tion i Coach Abe Masters yesterday afternoon sent his first two fives through a regulation game but little improvement was noted in shooting as compared to the average in the loss to Technical at Indianapolis Saturday Although the Bronchos were impressive against Delphi the ancient riv first meeting December 23 here the result may be much dif ferent on the Oracles home floor The Delphi armory has green backboards with fair lining an the floor 13 rather slick Too the Jeffs were having Some' good luck on their shooting when they scor ed their 33 21 victory A MARION The name Marion Giants is a misnomer this year as not a sin gle one of the Hookermen 13 a 6 footer The tallest boy is 5 foot 11 inches and a substitute attbat The opponents tomor row Veedersburg has been in and out all season COOK with GAS the Ideal Home uel Economical Efficient PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY INDIANA Prove English Peer Once Beat LONDON Jan Re ports that Lord Lonsdale Eng famous sporting peer de feated John Sullivan in a secret battle in New York in 1879 while Sullivan was champion of the world were confirmed today by the London News Chronicle as the earl celebrated his 80th birthday But said the paper Lord Lons dale broke bones in bis hand accomplishing the feat The king cobra of India is gen erally conceded to be the most poisonous snake in the world s5: 1 i ''i TT '(t i rr 7 rzi 1 urr rr Im urnwA I ii i i rr i ft TM JI I rfW 1 mm 180 181 171 153 180 158 133 159 203 183 155 541 867 834 809 2510 owler 146 172 Kelly 214 155 Spot 12 12 36 Totals 729 819 695 2243 Mitsui 1 0 User Laayette BreweryInc.

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