The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-01-08
- ANDY SMITH, NATIONAL KNOWN FOOTBALL COACH is DEAD
'TIRRIN,
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By vEDDER ARD


THERE are always plenty Of
rumors floating around In
the sport world. Stories
thrive and flourish in the atmos-
phere of athletics. In this State
at present Indiana University has
a splendid crop concerning a new
football coach.
Some alumnus said It would be
nice IL I. u. could obtain the
Tulane grid mentor, Shaughnessy.
The story grew by leaps and
bounds.
Maybe the southern coach will
be the next one to try his luck
at Bloomington. However, right
now, we have positive first hand
information from New Orleans
that Shaughnessy has received
just ono letter from I. U. about
six months ago. 1t was very in
formal and nothing definite was
said and no offer was made.
Since that time the Tulane
mentor has heard nothing. OF
course, q, coach who has a job
does not like to have his name
linked with another school
Shaughnessy may have TALKED
to I. u. about the job, but the
one informal letter long time
ago is the extent Of written COM
munications.
Athletic Director Clevenger may
have something to say when he
gets back from California today or
Saturday.
Meanwhile certain alumni in In
dianapolis and Chicago are busy
Ing themselves, as usual, with
plenty of talk.
HEADLINE in the
IA Basketball World reads
like this: Newcastle
Basket Team Being Painted.
But don't misunderstood. 1t is
no new stunt of camoufiage
learned in the war by which for
wards can be made invisible. IL
seems as though an artist is
putting some of the boys on
canvas.
Coach Dean of Indiana told his
basketball players that the easy
games were over, according to
report from Bloomington. The De
Paw game was so easy" that
the Crimson lost.
49,
Can this be true? Bill Johns
con, tennis star from California,
says that he probably can not
make the trip to England next
year for the Wimbledon meet, be-
cause he has to WORK. We
now think more than ever of
little Bill.
f-7N glancing over the high
IL school basketball games for
tonight, certain contests
stand out. Among the most inter
esting are Franklin at Martins
Vile, Lebanon at Frankfort, Ander-
son at Marion, Bedford at Vincen-
mes and Mitchell at Washington.
washington High School dedi-
Gates it's new gym. Mitchell in
previous game surprised by Civ
ing the "Hatchets" decisive trim
ming and so the southern Indiana
scrap takes on two-fold interest to
the fans in that section.
Frankfort will be out en- masse
TO see the champs do battle with
the club that was nosed out by
only one point by Coach Cases
boys at Lebanon. Frankfort and
Lebanon are rivals, but 1t has
been some time since Lebanon has
mustered such a formidable net ag-
gregation.
Followers OF Hoosier basketball
will watch with interest Ander-
sons showing against Marion.
With seemingly not much to, work
with Coach Stages has gradually
developed a high-powered club at
Anderson as the season has adj
vanced. Tonight will furnish
another severe test against the
classy aggregation of Coach
Thomas.
Franklin also has shown inn
provement and hopes to break the
winning streak OF, Martinsville.
The Artesianl City five is unde-
feated and lists Franklin among
it's victims.
Bedford and Vincennes are other
natural" rivals who always battle
from whistle to whistle.
EV7E notice that Red Wertz,
IWl basketball official, wore a
49, pedometer which registered
fifteen miles in basketball game.
Let's sea game lasts forty min
utes. We knew Red was speedy
but that's an average OF mile
every two minutes and forty sec
onds.
Nurnni may come back to this
country, Red. He won't have
chance. Or was it the pedometer?
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It probably won't do any harm
to make a few guesses on the
outcome of the Big Ten basket
ball games this week. Here's the
way they look: Indiana to beat
Minnesota by eight points; Pur-