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SPORTS SPOR THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 4, 1937. A with 1st ssociation eats Indians rosters JBB Sale of Taylor and Salty Parker Is Only Action of Tribe Bosses at A. A. Meeting Van Mungo Swap Appears All Ready With Giants and Cubs Having Best Bait to Offer Nation's College Grid Teams Sing 1937 Swan Song Today Rice-Southern Methodist' get-to gether at Dallas. The Southwest NEW YORK, December 4 (A.P) They sang college football's swan song for 1937 today.

The East and Mid-West put the spason in mothballs a week ago. Conference championship, and Colorado's opposition in the New Year's day cotton bowl battle, depend on The South. Southwest and far West, Kansas City at Haines City, Fla, Toledo at Alexandria, La. Milwaukee at Jlotspring-s, Ark. St.

Paul at Marshall, Tex. President Trautman said he is working on his umpire staff and at least three new faces would be on the staff. He would not give their names as he has not yet signed them. He intimated that one of them would be from the American League if the arrangements could be made. sladium, St.

Paul will open at LouisvillP, Milwaukee at Toledo and Kansas City at Columbus, according to somj advance dope from President Trautman. All the clubs have made arrangement for their spring training. The following is the schedule with five of the teams training at Florida resorts: Indianapolis at Bartow, Fla. Louisville at Arcadia, Fla. Columbus at Winterhaven, Fla, Minneapolis at Daytona, Fla.

this frame. A victory for Rice would give the Owls both the title and the post-season opportunity. If S. M. U.

taking advantage of continued "playable" weather, entertained By PAUL MICKELSON CHICAGO, December 4 (A.P.) There was plenty of smoke and a lot of fire in the baseball trading business today as the shopping center shifted from the minor league meeting in Milwaukee to the major league arena in Chicago. Though the American League turned all the at Milwaukee, indications todar were that the long-awaited swap of Brooklyn's Van Mungo was all but ready for official announcement. And when the eccentric Brooklyn fire-baller is traded to any one of four clubs in the market the National League is expected to do a land office business. The best guess and much of this player 'dealinar is guessing today was that the New York Giants or Chicago Cubs would get Mungo, because those two clubs seemed to have what the undermanned Dodgers needed to rebuild their funny ball club. The Giants opened up a bit last night by selling Southpaw Pitcher Al Smith to the St.

Louis Cardinals and getting Catcher Tom Padden, former Pittsburgh Pirate, from the Cards. Padden will go to the Jersey City farm. Dark horse cf the player mart was 1 Pittsburgh. When the disappointing 1937 season closed, Mana- comes through, the double-honor some nine games of more than ordinary importance today and then falls to Texas Christian's Horned Frogs, already finished with regular folowed suit. "although a couple of season campaigning.

games still remain. Topping the list today was the Intersectionally, four tilts were on the program. The East sent two out fits to the wars in Manhattan's trip per Fie.Trn.ynor paid his club reartv shoot the works with almost every player on the club. far, no one ha3 had a prep out cf Pie. but he may swing a big deal around Paul Waner and Arky Vaughan any day now.

The Boston Bees also were doing a bit cf fin gumshoeing and important deal may be pulled by shrewd Bob Quinn. The American League, apparently, was just beginning to trade. Manager Jimmy Dykes, of tha White Sox, certainly must do some more shopping now because he has wound up with almost an entire lineup of right-handed hitters, of the surest routes to second division in baseball. The" Boston Red Sox, it i3 known, want to get a deal for Jimmy Poxx; Cleveland wants a catcher and is fairly certain of landin Rollie Hemsley from the St. Louis Browns; the Yankees, thouzh sitting tight, would spend a pretty penny for a good pitcher, while the other clubs are after what they can pet without too much of sacrifice.

Detroit, apparently, is well now that it obtained Pitchrr Vernon Kennedy from the White Sax. Winter Baseball Mart Brings Out Prexies Meets His Old Boss By RAY C. THOMPSON The News Sports Editor CHICAGO, December 4. The 1,500 or more attending the convention of minor leagues at Milwaukee this week, almost moved here in a body and unlike the Milwaukee meeting the baseball men scattered here to various hotels, instead of being housed in one building. The Tribe's governing body, including Norman A.

Perry, club owner, and his new employes, Leo Miller, general manager, and Hay Sehalk, team manager, stopped at the Palmer house in spite of the fact that the American Association meeting scheduled for today -was at the Morrison hotel. The American League and the National League club owners and managers will hold their annual meetings. Monday and Tuesday. The majority of the major leaders were at Milwaukee, and deals started there will be resumed in this city. The Indiana barely escaped a complete flop in their efforts to buy new players at Milwaukee and they are hoping to do some business with the majov clubs, by remaining -over for next week's meetings.

If they fail it will mean another poor 4 8-N wno pot Marvin Owen and Gerald 1 I- 'ssisi Walker. Actually, the major lea true meetings open Monday. Both lcaucj will hold separate sessions on Monday and Tuesday and joint meetings on Wednesday. Proposals to increase the player limit frcm twenty-three to twenty-five, to mak the ball less lively and discussions of night baseball compose the principal business on the agenda. 4 A to the Southwest to take on Tulsa and Duquesne'a invasion of Dixie fof a clash with Mississippi State." The Texas Aggies opposed San Francisco on the Pacific coast, and Oregon journeyed South and East to tangle with Arizona.

Manhattan ended a highly successful season, despite poor showings against Villanova and Kentucky. Dequesne's night riders hoped to make the Maroon their first away-from-home daytime victim of the year. The Southeastern Conference finished up with a pair of tilts featuring Florida-Kentucky at Gainesville, and Tennessee-Mississippi at State College, Miss. Neither of these games, however, had any bearin? on the conference title vrace, dominated so completely by Alabama's all-conquering Crimson tide. The Pacific Coast Conference had as its finale a heavily-favored Southern California combination opposing U.

C. L. A. Miami had a late look at night football last night, as South Carolina's Gamecocks ndsed out the University of Miami eleven, 3 to 0. on the strength of Tom Lonchare's third-quarter field goal.

Babe Zaharias Matched With Big Boy Davis Although not listed as the feature attraction, a match between Babe Zaharias, 236, Greek grappler from Colorado, and Big Boy Davis, 237,. Columbus, is expected to provide extra "fireworks'' on the Armory mat bill Tuesday night. They ciash in the semi-windup. Davis, when aroused, can "turn on the heat," and he is expected to resort to that type of performance when he faces Zaharias. The top tussle Is listed as a "test" for the popular Young Gotch, 219, Iowa, who has gone undefeated in supporting bouts.

He opposes the experienced Irish Dan O'Connor, 222, Boston. 'I season at Perry stadium. They can only hope that some of the Tribe rookies optioned to smaller leagues last spring will have learned enough baseball after a season's play to break into the Indian ranks. About fifteen are subject to SOS call of the Indians. The Indians will shew little change from the team that finished in sixth position last sea-on.

Two will be missing, Danny Taylor, outfielder, who was sold to Minneapolis, and Salty Parker, shortstop, who was sold to the Tulsa Clab in the Texas League. The only addition to the Tribe to date is a semi-pro player who lives in Milwaukee and who is Taking in the baseball meetings at Milwaukee and Chicago, where both major and minor league clubs have been swapping players for several days, were the league leaders shown here, left to right: Will Harridge, American League president; Ford Prick, boss of the National League, and George Trautman, head of American Association. Net Notes Several fast tilts are booked for tomorrow afternoon and night en the Dearborn gym court, with play starting at noon. Sunday's complete schedule follows: 12:00 Masonic Home All Star in. Chain Catic.

1:00 Omar Bakery i. Westinnhouw Electric. 1:50 Mt. Jackson vs. Inritunapotis Pnarmics.

2:40 Mar.ott Shoes ts. P. R. Slallorr Company. 3:30 Little Nick Beer vs.

Inland Container Company. 4 20Schwitzr-Cummin vs. Kdm-burt Merchants 5:10 Ohio Clenrs vs. Woodstock A.C. 6-00 Manuf aehjrtnar Comnj vs.

Dearborn Lions. North gid Keif Dfviisi vij. Stdp Boys Ciut). 7 40 Rockwood Buddies Riveriiff Olympics. 8:30 3.

J. Canninu vs Butter Crust Pie Company. Brchob's Market meets Craw-fordsville Sunday at 3 o'clock in School Na 9, Bluff road and Haunt avenua. This is a Bush-Feezle slate league game. Brehob's Market squad is composed of former South port High Schol players, and is coached by, Ray Scott, assistant conch at.

Technical High School and former coach of the Huntingburg Hunters, runners-up in the Indiana high school net championship last March. St. Joseph's Juniors stretch their winning streak to five straight when they defeated the Irvington Braves, 23 to 18. Juniors want games with teams willing to share expenses. Write Leo Donahue, 30i Summit street.

4 WEST VIRGINIA CHOSEN FOR SUN BOWL BATTLE mil MORGANTOWN, W. 4 (A.P.) A part-time student of shouldered the task of West Virginia University's teams back to national prom- GRINNELL DROPS OUT KANSAS CITY, December 4 (A.P.)- After nineteen years of brave effort, little Gnnnell (Iowa) College decided to quit trying to keep up with the Joneses" and resigned from the Missouri Valley Athletic Conference. Grinnell claims to have had the first collegiate football team west of the Mississippi. Its resignation is effective June 1, 1933. Unence, turned out a bowl team said be a pitcher.

All thre Oder clubs in the association were more successful in their deals at Milwaukee and improvement may be looked for in all the clubs except the Indians, unless the unexpected happens between now and next spring. The association club owners and George M. Trautman, president of the association, planned a meeting here today, at which they will discuss the 1933 schedule, the play-off scries at the end of the season and a number of other matters. The schedule will open April 16 and like last season's program some of the clubs may postpone their opening day from Friday to enable the teams to open on Sunday. Minne- SPORTS MIRROR By the Associated Press Today a Year Yale placed iwn men, Larry Kelley and Clint Frank, on Aociated Tress all-American football team; Ed Brandt, Brooklyn southpaw, traded to Pirates for Ralph Birkofer and Harry Lavagetto.

Three Years Ago Official American League averages showed Lou Gehriff, with 165 runs batted in, led league for fifth time and tied Babe Ruth's record. Five Years Ago Joe McCluskey won national A. A. U. cross-country championship.

A year ago Charley (Jrimm and Frankie Frisch got together during the winter baseball meeting and arranged a deal whereby Lon Warneke was sent, from the Chicago Cubs to the St. Louis Cardinals. Neither Grimm nor Frisch was able to swing any deals during the early days ojf this year's meetings, but Warneke was on hand to get first hand news about any. trades concerning himself. The lanky pitcher is shown here with his old boss, Grimm (left).

the Sun bowl in his first season. One of the youngest mentors in major college ranks, Marshall (Little Sleepy) Glenn 'took over the mountaineer fortunes after teams coached by All-America Ira Rat) Rodgers, Yale's Earl (Greasy) Neale and Charles (Trusty) Tallman had failed to bring back the "golden era" of Dr. Clarence Spears' fa- HAVE HAWAII GRID DATE DENVER, December 4 (A.P.) Denver University football players are lined up for the longest trip taken by any team in the United States this season. They play University of Hawaii at Honolulu December 18. BARNEY ROSS TO WED CHICAGO.

December 4 (A.P.) Friends of Barney Ross said today the world's welterweight' boxing champion will be married tomorrow to Miss Pearl Siegel, of New Jersey. epolis will open the season at Perry mous outfits. I'il 51 7773 TU L-J lull Xj? SI 111 By F. Fox, Jr 1 i -r I O1 I Ti I -Ml a star amateur boxer, a colored boy who is six feet tall and weighs, strange as it may seem, 118 Bob McCalip, all-city fullback on The News's team and captain-elect of the Washington High School team is an A-plus pupil Jeffersonville will open its elegant new fieldhouse December 11 and the Anderson Indians will be the opposing guests Highland is the main dining room, confining its food operations to the grill room and getting all set to flood the tennis courts for ice skating It might be possible to move the. annual Indiana- Purdue game to Indianapolis because the Big Ten would have nothing to say about that as long as both teams were in agreement For the time being, however, we'll still take the Nebraska-Indiana game here In 1939 and spend the immediate future in building up the Butler-Purdue game in the bowl next September A former star of the game says pro hockey is on the skids because it is all rough stuff and no brains Dick Collins, of Spalding's, has ordered hundreds of these fashionable flat (or oval) golf bags and only one round one.

He rZZ i) (A It 'V it- Jilted i i 1 i i i Sure I'll Tell Her. Which End of the Bench Will You Be On? for eleven of Yale's twenty touch-clowns and indirectly responsible for nine others Dick Hyland, Stanford halfback of ten years ago, in his "Diary of a Line Smasher," said playing in the Rose bowl prevented the football boys from earning extra money during the holidays and also de-I prived them of a vacation. The Pittsburgh boys of 1937 must have read Hyland's book The Butler Drift of 1938 would like to have Pigskin refer to a Big Four in Indiana football instead of a Big Three, but the Wabash result would hardly indicate that Butler is in the Big Four Whenever you hear of a football coach being fired, nine cases in ten, it Is due to diminishing gate receipts. And Michigan owes $1,100,000 on its athletic plnt Donie Bush is looking for left-handed pitchers for his Minneapolis team Bo McMillin's second-place vote for Wolf, of Ohio State, as a Big Ten center, pushed Wolf into the first team in place of Bo's elegant George Miller George Tunney says the nation needs a triple threat back field to conquer the depression Business, Labor and Government For the last three or four days we havebeen telling people that the count in last year's Rose Bowl was three touchdowns to one for Pitt but we're sorry-Washington didn't score The score in Tournament of Roses games is even the West has won nine, lost nine and tied three, exclusive of service games in 1917, 18 and '19 Fordham, the Forgotten men of 1937 Bruce Dudley says that Wade Killefer received $12,000 a year for managing the Indians and will receive $17,500 at Hollywood Charlie Kurtsinger recently purchased a 311-acre farm in Harrison county, Indiana, and as he was about to write a check for $13,000 for the land another gentleman stepped up and offered him $15,000 Charlie kept on writing Everett Dean Bays the fans will like basketball without the center jump Detroit has knows the oval ones will sell and he is hoping the rounfi one won't he wants it himself I don't like to start any more arguments than those in operation right now, but when I see the boys who selected football specialists of 1937 for Sports Illustrated I'd like to have a word with them. I would like to ask them why they named Charles Brock, of Nebraska, as.

offensive center. If they had just said defensive center we might have agreed but not on offensive George Miller was that as definitely as Frank was All-America's All-American halfback Notre Dame's freshman team, including sixty players, was small- er in size and class than the ordinary first year team at South Bend but there were three or oui fine individuals Jimmy Carson and Johnny O'Connor are the two Indianapolis boys on the Notre Dame official basketball roster which Includes twenty-three men Whether you like it or not you will have to admit that Dr. E. E. Litkenhous, who picks football results by Calculus, must have something on the bail.

"When the old veteran pickers can r.vcrage only 76 per cent, and the Doctor docs 90 per it's time to lift the hat to science They say Gil Dobie's through ct Boston College but he still has 1S38 contract Wisconsin's basketball varsity defeated the Freshman team. 34 to 15 Clem Crowe and Bob Wilke did nice job at Xavier this year finishing off with a victory over Toledo Yale has had eighty-eight Ail-American men Notre Dame played to 460,000 fans this year Gordon Spear, will be the Deadeye Dick of the Minnesota basketball team this winter The Western Conference may decide today that a Rose Bowl trip for a Big Ten team would be a pretty good idea and then again it may not Who said DeCorrevont had a manager? Wonder what all those football announcers will do with their Saturday afternoons from now on? Indianahad team football when Wally Mid- 1 i No, No! Throw That Pete.Vaughan Eliminating the center jump in basketball is like taking the piano out of a jazz orchestra The stat record for-consecutive high school basketball victories belongs to Vmcennes with thirty-eight in a row Waterloo High School of Ohio, did sixty-nine straight a couple of years ago Passaic tops ail with 139 in a or was it 133 at any rate Hacken-sack was the team that finally upset Coach Blood's boys Archie Chadd, basketball coach of Anderson's state high school champions, was in the press box at the Notre Dame-Southern Cal game, probably getting away from basketball after that Marion mix-up Indiana and Notre Dame in the Butler Bowl in 1941 and Nebraska and Indiana there even sooner would be all right with thousands of Indianapolis football fans Tonelli, who lost that touchdown race in the Southern Cal game, is a track man, and Script Away and Get on the Phone Owen Hansen, who caught him, is a shot putter Recently Perry Lewis, of Philadelphia's Enquirer, was searching through the record books for top prices in mutuels. He found that Wishing Ring had paid $1,185.50 for a $2 ticket at Latonia in 1912 T. S. Duke, of Philadelphia, objected saying Wishing Ring had paid 900 to t.

Mr. Duke, a resident cf Kentucky at the time, had seen the race. Again Mr. Lewis went to the record book and found his original figures correct. But Mr.

Duke wrote to Latonia and produced conclusive evidence that Wishing Ring paid $1,885.50 to win, $544.60 to place and $172.60 to show What most of the folks in Indianapolis would like to know is how that swell ice skating show got in and out of town without very many customers getting a look at it but it's coming back, so don't worry Clint Frank was directly responsible- i- i y-AfavdS, youngster who travels like lightning on ice, has taken his skates and headed for Oslo, Norway, to compete in the world speed skating championships there next month Football coaches sometimes use strange strategy. A coach who knew he had a punk team said he thought he would win 'cm all he lost 'cm all Rni also his job Another coach in the Middle West used the same kind of strategy but with greater success. He had only one possible right end for his team and he wasn't so hot. He had the boys elect him captain and as the season started the coach announced that all he knew about his team was that nobody would gain around his right end and nobody tried The weather may be a fc tor if Bernie Bierman is induced to desert Minneapolis and the Gophers for a job farther West Squash racquet sales have doubled In Indianapolis since last year dlesworth was working in Bloom-ington There is a possibility that a 150-pound football league may be organized in 1939 and if the hopes of many are realized the league will be composed of six Hooker trams you can guess the names of 'cm If Indiana plays big game In Butler stadium something will ue done about temporary seats on the west side of the gridiron Chuck Gchringcr said Ty Cobb deserves some credit for his (Gehringer's) hitting ability Because Bill Ingram was throwing passes to officials the Navy discarded white jerseys early in the season Billy Winn, one of the nation's leading all around race drivers dirt, brick, board In day or night is back In Detroit after completing another successful tour of the dirt tracks He had only one accident and he said that did not shake his nerves any so hell keep on racing Leo Frelsinger, the Chicago Tiiiiinri ii i i l. i I i.