The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-23

Off the
Blackboard

BY NORMAN e. ISAACS
Piueh-Hitting During Illness OF
VEIN B0XELLs

TWO fellows sat behind me at
Il a recent Butler basketball game
while Tony Hinkle's Bulldogs were
warming up.
See that big fellow just shoot
ing?" said gentleman No. l, that's
Tackett, the most finished basket
ball player in the country"
why. he looks like big farmer"
said gentleman No. 2.
And that's just what Marshall
Tackett does look like. A big, lanky
fellow, hair tousled and his uni
form rumpled. But when that game
starts, Marshall Tackett Is king Of
al he surveys.
Then he is a star Of stars-swift,
powerful and clever
His teammates call him "Mys~
FERROUS"
To me he is the last word in
basketball players. Maybe that's
because I hate grandstanding, and
Tackett never knows that there Is
q person watching him when he is
playing basketball.
4 II
Tonight Buffers game with the West
ern State Teachers OF Kalamazoo shares
the indianapolis spotlight with the open
ing Of the City Series at Techs giant
gym. You can't 20 very far wrong at
either place.
Charlie over on the city desk. doesn't
think I'm giving Manuals captain. Nate
. a fine forward" Charlie saw him in
the extrs-time Cathedral game and he
thinks Nate is red hot" He is3. too. Hes
ing around. but how he can shootl Char
les right. He's great ball player.
n
GONE one wanted to know if I
- really meant everything I said
about Bullet. If Shortridge had
another Bullet, Coach Ken Peter
man wouldn't have to worry much
about any one in the state. Heck
man is a beautiful forward. They
could use few more like him, too.
n Il II
And II Eddie" Of S. VI. s. will sign
his full name sometime Til be more in
terested in what he has to say. No,
he didn't get violent. He Just wanted 70
H.
ShortridKe is going to take the Green,
too. Your letter, Eddie, is about the five
thousandth 1 have received in my time
that has been anonymous. 1t would bore
you bit, too, wouldn't 1t Ed?
n
a; Q. Inman, an old Manual boy. wants
70 know II | was kidding about Manual.
Ct o'clock tonight. and if the boys vim
= az dovy
afternoon. If they get by that one they've
got g few hours rest before they play in
ridge haven't a thing to do until / O'clock
SATURDAY afternoon BY that time Manual
Is lust recuperating. And then Tech or
While Manual is playing its second game.
Don't you see that the draw doesn't
really give the lads 9 chance to show their
somebody had TO get that tough break If
they DO come through on top Of all that,
I'm for 'em.
YOUNG JOE FORD, who starred
Il at Cathedral and then went to
Notre Dame, is dead. Young Joe
was a fine boy and fine athlete.
Perhaps I could best explain my
feelings by telling his brother
John, now at Cathedral, that he
coud do no better than to try to
be the kind Of a true-blue sports
man his brother was.
Wabash and De PAW staged another
Of their thrillers Thursday night. De
Paw won out in the last thirty seconds,
10 to 10. The Scarlet and the Old Gold
clash again at Charlottesville on Feb. %.
you never have seen a wabash-De
Paw basketball game you might try that
one. But If your heart is weak don't
try IT. Dutch" EEgert just told me
their rivalry dates back farther than
the Tennessee feuds.
And never loss to any investor.