The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-01-06

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ZEN DAVIS probaply IS celes
* brating today along with
Butler. If not, why not?
One Of that towns illustrious sons
delivered Tuesday night. Wake
field is the young gentleman's
name and he plays on the Butler
basketball team,
For some time he has been
threatening to make himself
1 known in the dizzy whirl of col
lege basketball in this State. 1t
begins to look as though the youth
has finally arrived"
Anyway that's the way it APP
peared last night against Frank
lin. Something got into that
Ben Davis lad. He fought like
a wild cat in red hot cage on
the defense and his long beau
tifulIy arched shots we're a pic
ture of grace and skill-except
to the visiting team.
Just what got into you, young
man? Fans have been expecting
( something like your performance
against Franklin for some time,
but you always just fell short.
Maybe those long ones were just
{ luck-but the proper form was
there. And there was no doubt you
put up a battle. At times you
were too anxious and fouled. Per-
haps you have at last got the con-
A fidence you lacked.
But don't get ''puffed up"
now and quit for the rest of the
season. A good basketball player
is that way every game. What
ever happened to you the other
night--make it permanent. Then
Ben Davis can celebrate with
Butler after each game.
FT77 HOSE who heard Blythe
Hendricks announce the
@ Butler Franklin basketball
game Tuesday night from Mer-
chants Heat and Light Company
station WFBM, for The Indianapo-
lis Times were loud in their praises
of the way the game was handled.
Congratulations We're heard on
every side.
Hendricks followed the game so
closely that as he announced a
basket made the cheers of the
crowd could be heard. Basketball
is fast game, but The Times
man on the microphone was just
as fast. He told of every shot
taken whether made or not and
also described the passes.
The comment today was, ut was
just like being there"
Attention, radio bugs. If you
want to tune in on the fastest
sport in the category, better get
WY, 1852 meters, Thursday
right and hear the B0ston-New
York hockey game at Madison
Square Garden broadcast. The
! contest starts at 1880 lndianap-
oils time,
~
MI Doc Meanwell are leading
J the Big Ten in the basket
ball race until next Mon
day, anyway. The Badgers beat
Minnesota in the first game on the
Western Conference schedule,
Tuesday night.
Indiana u. invades the Wis
consin camp next week. The Grim
son team has a task ahead.
BY the way, how did you like
that first guess on the Big Ten
net contests? Wisconsin to win
by ten points. The score was
Wisconsin, So; Minnesota, "a. We
weren't figuring on that extra
goal. Maybe the scorers were
wrong.
Say, what does this Notre
Dame basketball team mean?
Don't they win enough football
games without cutting in ON the
hardwood sportg Something
should be done about this.
&&*
E@7HEY want to see Red
~ Grange out on the Pacific
L-@--l Coast. There doesn't seem
to be any doubt about it. Los
Angeles has gone crazy about the
Jan, 16 game. Wilson, the great
Washington u. backfield star, will
play against the former Illinois
flash.
A press dispatch states that a
ticket sale at a Los Angeles sport
ing goods store brought a milling
throng two blocks long. Regular
customers who wanted sporting
goods could not get into the store
and the management threw up it's
hands in despair.
The doors were closed and police
were needed to dispense the crowd.
Some Of this may be bit ex-
aggerated. But if it is a pub
lefty yarn, it's darn good one
and won't do any harm this far
away. We are unable I'd, get away
to investigate it.
A press dispatch says that
Jack Sherry, wrestling "cham-
pion Of the South used his
new 'leg-breaker'' in Texas
bout. Wonder il this is any
thing like Jack Reynolds ''Ieg-
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