The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-12-12

Is foolish. sophomore stars I'M
known to us, and sometimes prac.
tically so to the coaches, may
change the complexion Of things
entirely.
1t does not look as though Ohio
State, 1924-25 champions, can ex-
pect to repeat with five varsity
men missing. Captain Settler
and Cunningham are the only
members of the title team who
will be back. Cameron, Shaw
and Miner of the regulars are
gone.
WEALTH OF TALENT
Both Indiana and Illinois have
a wealth of material. The Illini
have practically all Of their men
back. 1. U. loses Parker, Award
and Logan. The last named will
be missed the most, but with the
veterans Kruger, SPONSOR, Beck
ner and Winston ready to go why
should Coach Dean worry?
Michigan must be considered
right up near the top. The VOL
verines only serious loss is Hag-
gerty, one of the best forwards in
the Big Ten for three years. A
flock of M men are preparing
for the hard court season under
Coach Mather's guiding hand.
Captain Doyle, center or back
guard, and Cherry, the dribbling
fool floor guard, are sure of jobs.
Besides a great array of veterans,
those two great sophomore foot
ball stars, Molenda and Ooster-
baan, will be out for positions. 1t
is said both made excellent records
in high school basketball.
SHIFTING AROUND
Purdue is shifting around
these days in an effort to find
combination. Coach Lambert
probably will get a smooth-work-
ing machine together out OF some
promising men, but right now
the BOilermakers, always danger
Gus. can not be ranked with /. u,
Illinois or Michigan.
Coach Taylor of Minnesota has
a bunch of veterans back, fnclud-
ing Captain Rasey, great for
ward. Wolden at center also is a
player of two years experience.
One can hardly leave the Gophers
out of the picture as a real threat.
! Minnesota prizes off the Western
Conference basketball lid in a game
with Wisconsin at Madison on
Jan. 5.
Coach Barry at Iowa would like
to have Santa Claus leave couple
Of forwards in his stocking to re-
place Janse and Laude, two ster-
ling snipers. The team may be
somewhat unbalanced.
BADGER CHANCES
Wisconsin doesn't seem to
have great deal this year and
Coach MeaIwelI again may find
himself down near the bottom
of the heap-sOmething strange
for him. The Badgers finished
ninth last season.
Northwestern has it's last years
players back, but that doesn't say
much, as the Purple tossers fin
ished- with an average Of 1893 in
eighth place. A couple promising
sophomores, however, have raised
the hopes of the Evanston five.
Chicago won only one game in
1924-25 and the team will be en-
tirely rebuilt by Coach Norgren.
Reports from the Maroon camp
state that the sophomore material
is the most promising in years.
Well have to wait and see. Cap
tain Alyea, center, and Abbott, for
ward, are back.
TIT might be a good thing
while looking around for
- needed reforms, If the In
diana High School Athletic Assoc
citation would take up the matter
of net teams playing two games
on consecutive nights. Some Of
the teams play on Friday and
Saturday. Even the college teams
rarely do this except on trips
From a standpoint of win or
lose. 1t is not a true test for the
team that meets a fresh opponent
which has not participated in a
contest the night before. In the
present tourney plan teams must
play several games in one day 1t
is more or less necessary evil
however, and all clubs are at the
same disadvantage.
Two games in two nights works
a needless hardship on the youth
full players. The schedules have
been cut down to twenty games
An honest effort Is being made to
do away with undue strain. Why
pile the competition all together?
There are other nights In the
week besides Friday and Saturday.
We would rather take a chance Of
a little laxity in the classroom next
day than run the chance Of burn.
ing out" the boys on the hard
wood court.
ri Al. f. w. MOORE, gradu.
Ml ate treasurer of athletics
EJ at Harvard, who caused
quite commotion by recon-
nlending that Harvard enlarge
its stadium or rebuild, made
what we would call dirty crack
at some of the collegians who
have been giving him the razz
and at the same time sponsor
ing crusade against present
day intercollegiate football.
The harassed major, at
luncheon, was reported as say
ing: 81 HAVE NOTICED THAT