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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-10
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RI a r . AT
PRACTICE
Shortridge Drills for Regional
1000 Tickets for Mum
Gle Tournament.

Coach Burton is drilling the Short
ridge High School, basketball team
hard these day. for the regional
tourney at Muncie next Saturday.
Peacock and Sutton are the two
new men added to the squad to
make up the ten allowed to play
in the regional meet.
The north siders believe the sum
mitville contest Saturday morning
at 10 o'clock is the toughest battle,
but have plenty Of confidence they
can take this game. II victorious
over Summitville the winner Of the
Sheridan Noblesville game will be
played at 1880.
Regional tickets sold fast at Short
ridge Tuesday The local school has
been allowed 1000 tickets. The Ball
gym at Muncie will seat $500.
Special cars will be run TO Muncie
for the Shortridge fans.
The Unexpectedly fine showing of
the Blue and White in the local sec
tional has raised interest to a high
pitch at Shortridge and basketball is
the main topic of conversation these
days. Coach and players are heroes.
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1.-TWO CINCY YOUTHS TO MAKE TRAINING TRIP WITH TRBESMEN
Babe Ruth Whifs
Ozone Twice
RAJ Times SDecidI

BIZ Times Special
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla, March
10.-Playing their first exhibition
game Of the season, the New York
Yanks made a poor showing and
were beaten here Tuesday by the
Boston Braves, to l.
Babe Ruth, whose appearance in
the lineup helped to draw a large
crowd. famed twice, grounded out
once, and flied out to left.
Benton, Cooney and Wertz, the
last named a youngster who showed
great promise. pitched for Boston.
Pipgras. Braxton and Beall pitched
for the Yankees and Collins was be-
hind the plate.
Bob Meusel, who has been I'll in
California. has Joined the Yankee
squad, the last player to report.
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208 Athletes in Conference
Meet at Purdue.
By Times Special

Bu Times Special
LAFAYETTE, Ind, March 10
Two hundred and eight athletes, q
record number, have been entered in
the annual Western Conference
wrestling, gymnastics and fencing
meet at Purdue University Friday
and Saturday. The individual cham
pionships in the seven weights Of
wrestling have attracted the largest
number of entrants, 112. Gymnastics
ranks next with siXty-four men and
thirty-four are entered in fencing.
Every Big Ten school will be rep
resented in wrestling. Eight teams,
Chicago, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois,
Minnesota, Ohio State, Northwestern
and Purdue will have gymnastic
teams here, and seven schools. in
Guiding Iowa, Wisconsin, Ohio State,
Illinois, Purdue, Northwestern and
Chicago will be represented by fenc-
ing squads.
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Comello and Hunter are only OF
medium height, but have splendid
records in Saturday and Sunday
baseball for hitting, fielding and
running bases. The latter is said to
be the more promising as league
talent. Both bat right handed.
Dugan Recommends Them
Johnny Dugan, king of Cincinnati
sandlotters, recommended Comello
and Hunter to Bush, and It will be
recalled that 1t was this same Du-
gan who recommended Hodapp to
the Indians.
In a wire to The Times today,
Dugan expressed the opinion Co
mello and Hunter are more finished
players than was Hodapp when
Johnny broke into fast company and
predicted both would make good If
given the same attention as Hodapp.
In the national sandlot tourna-
ment held in Cleveland in 1924 Co
mello was selected as the best in
fielder Of the many candidates who
competed in that event.
Infielders and outfielders on the
Tribe roster will depart for the Hot
Springs camp Sunday afternoon and
hold their first drill Monday. Some
of the batterymen already are there.
First Casually
Manager Bush was disturbed today
by news from the Arkansas resort
that Catcher Ainsmith had dislo-
Gated a shoulder while exercising in
the outfield and probably would be
on the shelf two weeks. Florence is
the only other catcher on the squad
and the Indians viii be handicapped
during the early part of their train
ing If Ainsmith is out Of action two
weeks.
The situation may force Bush to
put lines out for another backstop to
help out during the training grind
and the early part Of the season.
However, Jim Pierce, club train
er, is able to do some catching and
probably will be pressed into serv-
Ice behind the bat at Hot Springs
until Ainsmith gets back in harness.
Pierce wired owner Smith today and
Informed him that no bones were
broken in Ainsmith's injured Shout
der. The veteran player fell while
chasing fly ball.
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SHORTRIDGE RIFLE WIN
North Side SharpshOOters Beat Man
ual and Tech Scores.

The Shortridge High School X. 0.
#. C. rife team defeated Tech and
Manual teams in the 9th Corps Area
match. The winners scored 1924
out Of a possible 5000. This was
1856 points ahead Of Tech and 2l5
better than Manual.
Three Shortrldge sharpshooters
were leaders. Socks, Westmoreland
and Fox ranked first, second and
third. respectively among the indl-
viduals.
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BY Henry l.. Farrell
nited Press staff CorresDOHd ent


CLEARWATER, Fla, March 10
There are no bands OF welcome for
any one who comes to the Brooklyn
spring training ball park with words
of sympathy.
Wilbert Robinson. president Of
the club. has been telling the critics
that their talk OF Brooklyn being
out of the race Is not balanced by
the hustle his boys are displaying.
The Brooklyn players are not
youngsters. hut their hustle is the
first thing observed at their training
camp.
Robinson is particularly fond Of
his pitching staff. He thinks it is
the strongest and best balanced
corps he ever has gathered. and it
will be recalled that he always has
had strong pitching.
Dazzy Vance, Burleigh Grimes.
Tiny Osborne. Jess Petty. Harry
Courtney and Rube Ehrhardt. re-
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M | X e N Elk T
Delaney May Find McTigue
Hard to Handle.
BIZ Times Special

BIZ Times Special
NEW YORK, March 10.-Bearing
no marks from his Monday bout
with Joe Lehman, in which he
stopped the veteran Buckeye in the
tenth round, Jack Delaney, Bridge
port light heavyweight, has begun
training for his fight next Monday
night with Mike McTigue.
The winner of the Delaney-Mc
Tigue bout is to have first shot at
Champion Paul Berlenbach. While
the Bridgeport boxer will enter the
ring a favorite over the aging Irish
man, many believe McTisue Is much
too clever for Delaney. Mike might
outpoint Jack.
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ROBINSON BELIEVES HIS
PITCHING WILL DOT
Brooklyn Manager Thinks Strong Staff Gives Club OPP
/pOrtunity to MngIe Somewhere lin Race

main from last season and Jess
Barnes. Doug McWeeney. George
Boehler and Bob McGraw are new
corners to Brooklyn.
The obstinacy of Milton Stock in
holding out for more pay has made
indefinite plans for the infield. Jack
Fourier. of course, will play first
base. and Robby would like to have
Stock for duty at second. with
Rabbit Meanwhile at short and
Johnny Butler, a high priced rookie
from the American Association. at
third.
Whitley Witt. a former Yankee
centerfelder, Zach Wheat. captain
Of the team and Dick Cox. will be
used as regulars in the outfleld
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RACES AHEAD
Cold Fails to Stop Helen in
Nice Tourney.

BIZ United Press
NICE, France, March 10.-Helen
Wills. although still suffering from
a cold, raced through two matches
in the Nice singles today with the
loss Of but a single game.
The American champion defeated
Helen Shirley. 60. Go, and routed
Sallie Maynard with almost equal
dispatch, winning 60. 81.
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|. u. MI EETING
No Decision Announced as to
New Coach.

BIZ Times Special
BLOOMINGTON, Ind, March 10.
A meeting was held Tuesday night
at Athletic Director Clevenger's Of
fee, In which there was a discus
sion Of the grid coaching vacancy at
Indiana University. 1t was an
nounced that no decision as to a
new coach was reached.
Pat Page, former Butler athletic
director. was in Bloomington Tues
day and attended the Wisconsin,. U.
basketball game.
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HANDBALL AT |. A. C.
Three Exhibition Matches Mt Local
Gym Thursday Night.

Thursday evening at 8 o'clock,
three exhibition matches of hand
ball will be staged at the Indiana
polls Athletic Club courts, Line-ups
for the matches are:
Court No. Bob Collier and John Hen
nessey vs.. Krutsch and Thompson.
Court No. 3-Iacl, Fehsenfeld and Fred
GTumme vs.. Ryland Pratt and C. Fred
Davis
Court No. Al Beeney and Harry Age
ter va. D. T. Smith and Paul Hawkins.
The I. A. G. handball committee
also Is arranging a doubles tourna.
ment to take place early in April.
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STARTS OUT STRONG
BIZ United Press

ID HIIfu IFt0F
NEW HAVEN. Conn. March 10.
Erich Rademaker. Germany's
champion breast stroke swimmer,
shattered one world record and three
American marks in his debut in this
country. The Yale relay team es-
tablished four worlds records.
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Comello, Shortstop, and Hunter, Third
Baseman, Added to Roster of Bush
men-Catcher Ainsmith Injured.
By Eddie Ash

Two Cincinnati youths Of the XII. o. Sunday
zation will taken Hot Springs for tryous with the
Indians Manager Ownie announced today. They
Shorstop Joe Comeo and Third Baseman Eddie Hunter the
former 81 and the latter 20.
Bush landed the rockies the he obtained
Johnny Hodapp whom he developed and sold to the Cleveland
Americans for a big
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CIR MI SON
8 n a r Z. s
TOP RUNG
Indiana Victory Over Wis
ConSin Results in Three
Way Big Ten Tie.
gg Times SpeciaI

BB Times Special
BLOOMINGTON, Ind, March 10,
Wisconsin tried in vain Tuesday
night to throw Indiana University
out Of the running for n first place
tie in the Big Ten basketball race,
I In fact the Badgers tried TO toss the
Crimson players clear out OF tho
AVN, and at times succeeded ia
"rooting" them up into the bleach.
ers,. but /. u. was determined, and
as the Horatio Alger books say,
perse verance wins.
Indiana today Is perched at the
top along with Purdue and Michigan
as a res UT Of a 35 TO 20 victory over
Doc Meanwell's rough, but not quite
ready, crew.
tNne Game Left
Only one lyame remains In West.
ern Conference basketball. Iowa "a
at Minnesota on Saturday night. A
IIawkeye win would put them up
with the other three clubs at the
top with a standing OF eight won and
four lost.
1t is rather doubtful, however, n
Iowa can beat tho Gophers who
have been travelling fast the latter
part OF the season.
Wisconsin never sdyiously threat.
cned the Hoosiers on tuesday night.
The Crimsons We're OUT TO WIN ana
they showed il in every move. There
was no let-down.
The score at the half was ~ 70 s
in favor OF Indiana, due TO Mne shoot
ing by Kruger. Beckner and spoons
Ter. The second half was almost a
repetition of the first.
An Alteration
Beckner and Merkel left the game
shortly before the close after an al
tercation beneath the /. L. basket,
1t was the last game for Winston
and Sponsler, and both turned in
great performances.
BeclSner led the scoring for the
winners. with six field goals and ono
free throw. Kruger got four from
the field, Sponsler three and slbley
/ two.
Bchr, Hotchkiss and Powers Get
| two field goals each and Merket
added one for Wisconsin.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-10
SCHAEFER LOSES BLOCK
Hagenlacher Steps Out Against
Balkline Billiard Champ,

BIZ United Press
PHILADELPHIA, March 10
Jake Schaefer, 1879 balkline billiard
champion, was decisively defeated,
500 to IT, in the first block Of the
match by which Erich Hagenlacher
Of Germany hopes to gain the title.
The German got his 500 points in
five innings.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-10
F0UR-BALL GOLF FINALS
Mehlhorn and Smith Meet Sarazen
and DiegeI at Miami.
Bu Times Special

BIZ Times Special
MIAMI, March 10.--"Wiid Bill"
Mehlhorn and Macdonald Smith
were to meet Gene Sarazen and Leo
Diegel in the finals Of the inter
national four-ball golf tournament
at the Miami Country Club.
Mehlhorn and Smith eliminated
Johnny Farrell and Tommy Ker-
rigan from competition, Z and 6,
Tuesday. and Diegel and Sarazen,
look the. measure Of H. Hampton
and G. Hackney, and 3.
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ROZELIE BEATS SAILOR

Harry Qxi6 Rozelle, local we'ter
pugilist who recently joined the
Navy for another stretch, won on
points over Dan Carnahan. u. s. >.
Nevada. in an eight-round bout at
Great Lakes naval station. Two
I1nockdowns were scored by Rozelle.
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CUE CHAMP

BIZ United Press
CHICAGO, March 10-Paul Meh:
Ian of Champaign won the Illinois
State amateur three-cushion billiard
championship by defeating r. Robin
son. Peoria, so to 46, in eight! six
innings
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TAYLOR BEATS BROWN
Hoosier Bantam Outpoints European
Champ In Ten Rounds.

Bu Times Special
LOS ANGELES, March 10.-John-
ny Brown, bantam champ of
Europe, was outpointed by Bud
Taylor, Terre Haute. Ind, in ten
rounds here Tuesday night.
It was Taylor's fight all the way.
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ANOTHER RECORD

BIZ United Press
CHICAGO, March 10.-The Chi
cago Athletic Clubs relay swimming
team shattered the worlds 200-yard
record by covering the distance i'll
1885 $40.
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PERFETTI is WINNER

Bu Times NpccldT
ST. LOUIS, March Johnny
Russo, Michigan flyweight. was o1t.
boxed by Lew Perfettl, New York,
here Tuesday in ten rounds.
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Amateur Sports

1ai Baptst sym sSmlh next week 20 XII
which have Ven eatered or ytsh to enter are
! $40 y. m. today and ask for Buck
Q-hara-sans, Who's Who, Prospects. Morris
wood M. g.. Commodore. Memorial Whirl-
winds. Acme Juniors and others in the TO-
number
. The 15Spoqna ma la30T +. a aeas ssns
3 epsniqss;a ThSrs VII 'S + az lnpofssSs
t list gym na at oelock ana ND al msnaeers
are requested to be present Drawings q. for or
r. j. stehlin. 0is olive St.
vii meet in The the anal game Of the cspitai
City basketball tourney tonight at Haw :
thorne gym, 24O4 w Ohio St. at Q o'clock.
Holiday Hot Shots and East Side Comets,
girls teams.
team will play. the Indianapolis Light and
Heat al the Hawthorne Community Club
aT ~ night The sars t5 hare nnIs
defeats. The Shoe Market is requested to
get in touch with manager OF Messengers.
College Cubs A. G. baseball team will
be represented by a strong baseball team
this season ard wants games with State
clubs. Greenfield. Cambridge City. Green
wood and SwayZee take notice Address
Carl Ltch. 903 N Hamilton Ave.
The Postal Telegraph basketball team
desires a game with fast city team.
playing in tho 14-to-17 -year-old class. for
Thursday night. Call Main 5000 after
D. M, and ask for Bill.
The UNIVERSAL A. G. ibasseball team is
Park Some good outfeders are needed.
Tryouts IRE aslSed to call Stewart 27S5.
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Big Ten Basketball

Final Game-Saturday
Iowa at Minnesota.
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IW the top. Indiana and Pur-
due are sharing with Mich
igan the first place berth in the
Western Conference basketball
race. The hopes of the Hoosier
State have been realized and the
two Big Ten net representatives
are sitting pretty.
We wish Iowa plenty of hard
luck at Minnesota in the final
game, Saturday. Three teams are
enough in a tie for the lead.
Threes a crowd and four Is a
mob. The Hawks have a chance to
horn in on the honors If they
can beat the Gophers. Coach
Sam Barry of Iowa is a good guy,
but do your stuff Minnesota, do
your stuff.
No one would suspect L. e.
and Purdue Of any Damon and
Pythias stuff, but they surely
hang close together. To bring
up a rather unpleasant subject,
in football they were tied for
last place in the Conference.
Now they are tied for first.
In basketball this year each won
it's home game from the other
fifty-fifty. In football last season
there was no chance for such
reciprocation as only one game
was played. The solution was a
tie-and that's what it was, 0 to 0.
And what about this Michigan
basketball team perched right
alongside the Hoosiers? From all
accounts it is just as well that
lrdue or Indiana did not have
70 play the Wolverines at Ann
Arbor the latter part of the sea-
son.
(Now, don't get excited, Purdue
and I. U. supporters. We said 1t
was just as well they didn't play.
We didn't say Michigan would
have won. But there's no use
hunting trouble, is there?)
At the close, according to Of
ficials who worked the games,
Michigan had the most powerful
offensive drive of any Big Ten
team. The Michiganders showed
it by piling up two of the high
est scores of the year against
Ohio State and Northwestern.
The Western Conference race
this year was a hectic affair. We
wonder if coaches and players do
not have nightmares occasionally
in which they see the ball hanging
on the edge of the iron ring and
then dropping outside. Close ones
don't count!
Those one-pOint games that were
lost-think of the difference they
would have made in the standing.
Fate does take a hand in the des-
TIMES Of man.
We told Indiana fans about the
Illinois high school basketball
tourney so they wouldn't get too
proud of the Hoosier classic. Now
we want to mention a little affair
put on in Iowa. Just els teams
started competition last week at
thirty-two centers.
In Iowa the schools are divided
into two classes, A and B. All
hools with an enrolment Of less
IAN 100 are put in class B.
The thirty-two winners in each
class meet in eight district
Journeys this week, four for each
class. Play is Thursday, Friday
and Saturday.
The four class A winners go to
Ottumwa for the finals and the
Glass B winners go to Ames. You
see they play basketball in quaint
ity in other State besides Indiana.
Loyal Hoosiers will insist, how
ever, that Indiana still is ahead,
both in quantity and quality.
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DITHMER IS CAPTAIN
Indianapolis Youth to Lead Purdue
Swimmers Next Season,

BIZ Times Special
LAFAYETTE, Ind, March TO-
John Dithmer OF Indianapolis has
been elected captain of the Purdue
swimming team for next season. II.
j. Stoever OF Evansville will lead
the water polo team. Both men are
sophomores who have been main
stays. Dithmer Is undefeated in the
100-yard free-style event,
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TN0 light now in Indiana one
would think that there was
- only one sport in the Uni
verse-and that, basketball. In
reality there are several others,
even here in the Capital Of Basket
ball. We can imagine smiles of
Indulgence when we mention
handball.
One could think Of things of
more Importance than striking a
ball against a wall, but one also
could think of other ways of
spending time than attempting to
toss a ball through hoop, or
watching the performance.
Right now there seems to be a
revival Of interest here in hand
ball. At the Indianapolis Athletic
Club two more courts are to be
added. The game is played at
other gyms, including the Hoosier
A. c. and Y. M. c. A.
Handball is not a game to be
despised. 1t takes much pains
taking effort to master. 1t is
Ot only good for the athlete
aas&yhO is in condition, but it is
good for anyone who wants to
get physically fit.
Mental and physical coordina-
ton is required to the highest de-
gree. Baseball players and boxers
play handball to get in trim. Hand
ball calls into play all Of the
muscles and establishes muscular
and mental reflexes Of the utmost
value.
Handball even teaches its
moral lesson. 1t teaches the
player to go after every ball.
After a while the player is reach
ing and returning shots which
looked impossible at first. The
habit of going after the seeming
~ impossible is not a bad trait
to cultivate.
A good eye. a fighting heart,
alertness and mental tuning-up
what more could one ask Of a
game?
If you have never played hand
ball or witnessed the sport, get
acquainted with the game. Hand
ball enthusiasts here are trying to
stimulate interest so that some
inter-city games can be held.
IRIS. MALAPROP is back
INII in the city after a winter
IL i'll the South. We probably
viii see quite a bit of the old lady
now and get some interesting in
formation. She picked up a bit of
live stuff for us the first day in
Indianapolis.
~ Her pleasant voice was on the
4 lephone this morning with adj
~Nice for us to attend the Circle as
there was a sport film there In
her exact words, 81 pursued a
movie review of the Sea Beast
which said something about 100
leagues at sea. I referred that it
was speaking of water polo
leagues. / saw them play the
game in Florida"
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TINE of the eight-round bouts
~ OF the double semi-wind-up
U on the National A. c. ring
card at Tomlinson Hall Monday
night will bring together Larry
Pruitt and Royal Cox. two Of this
city's most promising young pugs,
in a battle that should settle a
long-standing argument between
supporters Of the boys. Pruitt rep
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The Postal Telegraph basketball team
desires a game, with p fast city team
PLAYING in tho 14,to;1 7,year-o,d class, fcI
D. M, and ask for Bill.
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The Universal A. C. baseball team is
to open its season April II at Garfield
Park. Some good outfleders are needed.
Tryouts IRE aslSed to call Stewart 27S5.
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.TIRRIN'
= the DOPE
uTUITNHUWTIUWlIHllHIlImHNIlHNHHHnHaHHTHNlnHIMIIR
By VEDDER GARD

there they are, up at
|WI the top. Indiana and Pur-
due are sharing with Mich