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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-18
By Eddie Ash
Klein Is Honored on Ruths 'AlP Team
Babes Selections Cover 12-Year Span

INDIANAPOLIS landed one position on Babe Ruths twelve
year altme al-America baseball team and naturally
Chuck Klein received the Hoosier CALL in right field Twelve
years Klein 6 years old and at % he placed
the supetve greats of the game sharing the spotlight
along with the best ball players in history Ruth assigned
Klein right field Al Simmons selected in left and Iris
Speaker in The Babe has been making annual a
major league selections since 1922 and his atme team
his opinion Of the outstanding performers IN their
regular positions that stretch of time, % to 49,
Two of the old named have passed out of the sport
Iris Speaker and George Sister, The latter named at
first by Babe Ruth left himself of the picking
field which has been his custom his yearly selections Put
the Bambno in that outfed with Speaker and Klein, using
the Babe instead of Simmons and fences hardly would be
stout enough to withstand the battering.
n nth limited his twelveyar a" team to ten players using two
III Rs Batting the on the form En mach MACHINES As the
hyaay OF ms career IL STACKS up as non s th e. ooo
each when they figured big deals Not all fans will agree with Ruth
make the possible choice the stars of the last twelve seasons
HubbeM sOuhpaws How'd
like to
Cachercke COrane the the Athletics back
of the plate Now playing pilot at Detroit
ideal his when at
runner f pTa u 'O' WIN tic "'A' "t'' e' anu OA''
Ba-Roger Hornsby. suggers
Third position.
Short stopoe Started in the National reached
his in the Smart fielder batter
Fied-M a o fences
Center FeldTr Speaker go
in the pasture and especially marvellous i'm the middle
Eied-Chuck the
member Ruth
the majors and has been ring records
-FOUR rules changes proposed in Saturdays meeting the
Association intercollegiate Football
cal alteration proposed would alter the rule whereby forward
grounded ouchback
gested that on the first three downs the ball be regarded
incomplete but that the touchback
pass made on fourth down 1t suggested that
increased to fifteen
lar 1t pertains to pun the
10 allow
posts to the line
was urged The recommendations will
committee for consideration its
I'D CHOCOLATE the dandy little a
LAD at the outset OF his stic His advancement glove
profession was rapid and he
profits on the primrose path Now he's slipping years
The Bonoo Will be hasbeen Managers
money at the expense OF Chocolate still
nights trail The Kid has bouts
Christmas and New Years he thinks
an earlier start to the hot spo
the FarWether will Kid
collect his earnings Christmas
DAYS on the calendar for the Cuban
receive another black
P eSed IN court the other that
de1eaung JACK Sharkey wonder the we
boys and chiSers allow
s nave endeavored find cheating of
pnStated fghters but have met with
smart managers employ smart attorneys beat
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-18
Butler Track
Card Listed

Butler track athletes this winter
and next spring will compete in the
hardest schedule ever arranged for
Bulldog thinlies, Coach Herman
Phillips showed yesterday as he an
nounced the track schedule.
Ray Sears, sensational Butler
distance runner, will compete again
in the Millrose games in New York
Feb. 8. Sears last year entered the
mile race, but Phillips indicated his
star this season will run in the two
mile event.
The schedule is:
Feb. 3-Milrose games, New York.
Feb. i7-Michigan Normal. at Ypsilanti
Feb. 23-Western State, here.
March 3GMissouri Valley Conference
- March iO-central intercollegiate. al
Notre Dame.
March 24-ButIer relays.
April Central Normal. here.
April 1+Indiana State, here.
April 2l-Kansas relays at Lawrence
Kan; Hanover at Hanover.
April 2S-Drake relays at Des Moines
Ia; Earlham, here
May 5-Ball State here
May 9-Indiana Central, here.
May 12-Miami university. at Oxforl. o
May 19-Missouri Valley Conference
isite not determinedl; little state meet, a
May Estate meet, at Lafayette.
June central intercollegiate at Mil
waukee Wis.
June 2s-NationaI intercollegiate. al
Los Angeles.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-18
Fl. Wayne Is
Roller Victor

Roller polo fans saw fast match
at Tomlinson hall yesterday after
non when the FIT. Wayne skaters
nosed out the local professionals,
5 to A. Ted Lewis, veteran Indian
apolis rush, scored all points for
his team and for FIT. Wayne Thomp-
son registered three and Minor two
The visitors scored twice in the
first period and held to the lead
the entire distance A rally staged
by the Indians in the final quarter
fell short by one goal. Team work
on both sides showed marked i'm
provement.
In an amateur tilt, ROLES Print
ers downed the Gecklers, to 4
Sida, ROLES second rush, batted in
five points and Day was best for
the GecklerS with four.
The Terre Haute professionals
will oppose the indianapolis leaguers
at Tomlinson hall next Sunday. Red
Collins will captain the Terriers. He
is a former local favorite. Ben Dan
ford, another former local star
will play at half for Terre Haute
newly organized club.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-18
uto Racing Spo Barney Olded Condemns the Roaring Road

must be some sort Of morbid hoax.
There's more tenacity to life than
that, surely. But apparently there
isn't. Not on the racing lanes where
the hooking siren of speed holds
grim court.
left the track with a firm belief
that whatever the race contributed
to science it was hardly worth the
lives of three men. Or even one.
To this extent I agree with Mr..
Oldfeld, and so do, am sure, the
manufacturers and the promoters.
But as long as fast cars are built
men will drive them and there will
be fatalities.
MIR. Oldheld demands to know
what the sport of automobile racing
proves? In its present advanc !
stage it probably doesn't prove a
great deal Back in the early days
of the automobile it undoubtedly
proved considerable. For one thing,
at the risk OF great hazards, many
safety appliances were develope'
VXTHAT sport does prove any,
w thing? I doubt that Profess
sor Durant or DR.. Wells could COM
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-18

pose a monograph on, say prize
fighting that would be altogether
convincing in its possible premise
that the seventh round knockdown
at Chicago added anything of i'm
portance to the human scheme OF
things, beyond possibly the need for
more accurate mathematics.
A crowd of 10000 people will leap
up and babble incoherently until
their faces take on the blush pur-
pie of a disconsolate egg plant
when Mr.. Ruth bangs baseball
over the garden wall, and 1 will
concede readily that it is very
beautiful thing to behold, but after
all, does it affect vitality the double
standard or the gold standard?
Mr. Oldfeld should not be too
captious in his insistence that sports,
like logarithms and Lippmanns,
prove something in the scale of life
I never have thought that that was
the precise purpose of sports. To
a greater or less degree all sports
form an outlet, an escape either
for the participant or the specta-
tor. That ougIx to be enough.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-18


New York scored three spectacular
touchdowns as a result of Harry
Newman's superhuman forward
passing, but they weren't enough to
match the Bears two thrilling
touchdowns and three field goals by
Jack (Automatic) Manders.
Giants Lead, I to 6
Two placekicks by Manders,
former Minnesota star-one from
the 17-yard line in the first period,
and the other from the 40-yard line
in the second period-gave the
Bears 60 lead. In three plays the
Giants wiped out this lead, as New
man tossed to Badgro for a twenty
Vineyard gain for the touchdown.
Ken Strong kicked goal, giving the
Giants a TO lead at half time.
The Bears forged ahead once
more early in the second period, on
another field goal by Manders from
the 18-yard line, making the score
81. The Giants took the next kick
off and carried it over the goal for
another touchdown, largely on New
mans whirlwind passing. Krause
plunged over from the 1-yard line
for the score, and Strong kicked
goal, making the Giants ahead, 14-9.
67-Yard Pass Gain
A pass from George Corbett to
Carl Brumbaugh, Chicago quarter
back, gained sixty-seven yards a
few minutes later. From the six
yard line Bronko Nagurski, Bears
217-pound full back, tossed a two
handed pass to Bill Karr, Bears
end, for the score. Manders kicked
goal and the score was Bears, 16;
Giants, IA.
Again. Newman started his dizzy
passing, ana on the first play of the
final period tossed a forward to
Strong in the end zone for the third
Giant touchdown. Strong kickeo
goal and the Giants again led
81 to Is.
Wordsworth faxed a plunge into
the line, then tossed an overland
pass to Bill Hewitt, Bears end. AS
the Giants defense closed in on
Hewitt, he passed literally to Bill
Kari, other end, who ran for the
touchdown. BrumbaUgh kicked goal
making the final score Bears, %;
Giants, 81.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-18

I Tonight'S game will be the third
for Pittsburgh on its midwest
invasion. The Panthers lost to
Purdue Friday night and defeated
Northwestern the following evening.
Wabash Takes Indiana
Buffers Bulldogs recovered from
an opening defeat by downing
Franklin, "a to %, in a ragged game
Saturday night. Several Butler
Sophomores were used as coach
Paul D. (Tony) Hinkle saved his
regulars for Pittsburgh.
Wabash college scored an upset
by defeating Indiana university, &c
to %. The Crimson team was I'M
able to score from the field until the
second half. Indiana this week goes
to st. Louis for a game.
A northern Indiana college team,
Valparaiso opened its season Satur-
day night by defeating Concordia,
81 to "a. Represented by a veteran
team which last year lost only three
games, Valparaiso is expected to be
a strong contender for state honors.
In. other weekend games, Ball
State swamped Hanover, 40 to 26;
Manchester defeated Kalamazoo, %
to %, and Huntington nosed out st.
Joseph's, IS to 10.
Eleven Games Carded
Eleven games are on this weeks
state college schedule. Wittenberg
will appear in three of them in adj
dition to tonight's encounter, as it
will be entertained by De Paw to-
morrow night, Indiana State
Wednesday night and Earlham
Thursday night.
One Of the outstanding college
games in the state this week will be
the Notre Dame-Purdue encounter
at South Bend tomorrow night.
Notre Dame has a record of four
teen consecutive victories.
The weeks schedule:
MONDAY
Wittenberg at Evansville.
Pittsburgh at Butler, Indianapolis
TUESDAY
Purdue at Notre Dame.
1 Midfiten6er pg stt Pc }ou PAW
WEDNESDAY
Valparaiso at St. Joseph, Collegeville.
Wittenberg at Indiana State, Terre
Haute.
THURSDAY
Wittenberg at Earlham, Richmond.
Central Normal at Hanover.
FRIDAY
Hanover VS.. Cincinnati at Madison, Ind
Notre Dame at Bradley Poly, Peoria Ill
SATURDAY
Butler at Purdue, Lafayette.
De Paw at Evansville.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-18

Even Casanova had to admit that in
the end.
The excuse for the 500-mile race
and its macabre relatives is that
they provide a practical proving
ground for advanced theories in
higher mechanics. 1t is, in short, a
vast clinic where the surgeons Of
the trade gather to study the effects
Of their serumS on the rubber tired
guinea pigs. On these results are
based the yearly innovations in the
automobile business.
=
T SAW three men killed at Indian
= apolis last May. Death comes
swiftly at the oil stained b-.ck track,
as if to match the restless, eager
tempo of the whirring wheels. One
minute you see young men, CO =
pletely alive, shoot away from the
starting line in gargantuan belch
Of smoke, and the next you see them
completely dead.
Somehow if you are close to the
show you refuse to believe the men
are actually dead. Why, you Just
talked with them a moment ago! It
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-18
Kautskys Down
Detroit Cagers

The Detroit Champions, profess
sional basketball team, took their
first trimming of the season yester-
day in the Armory, where the
Kautsky A. G. quintet downed
them, AZ to 81.
The Champions early lead was
erased when Hank Kowalczyk went
in at center for the Kautskys, and,
with Johnny Wooden, staged drive
that put his team in the fore. The
Kautskys beat the Champions at
their own game, a fast-breaking
attack.
The Detroit team came back in
the fourth quarter to tie the score
at 28-all, after trailing through the
earlier periods, but Wooden and
Stretch Murphy began basket
bombardment that put the Kaut-
Skys well out ahead.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-18
q Wabash
W. Awards
Scarlet GridderS to Be
Honored at Roundup
of Alumni.

Robert E. Vaughan, head football
coach at Wabash college, has an
nounced that twenty-three letters
will be awarded members of this
years football squad at the first an
nual roundup dinner to be given to-
morrow night at the Athenaeum by
Indianapolis wabash alumni
Wabash has a rather unique
method of presenting awards. Not
more than two sweaters are given to
man during his college days. When
he first wins his varsity wv" he is
given a sweater and then in his
last year he is awarded a senior
sweater. The following men carried
the W. this year:
n E: Berns, indianapolis; G. V. Black
more m rG w BlooSmfleld; H 6; Clabaugh. Hub
Gerow. Munising Mich: r " 4 40t cew q; e.
H Long fndianaPols F FPsnE L RflPPi IN n
Messe, Madison; NJ NJ Milan fndianap.
OILS: D; F; Reinert, Chicago: c. b.
WNlsg Rob kSeintlaT W5,u R H. RikeT Farmland:
Danville Ill. G. NJ Snoddv. Crawfords..
vile ". M. Snyder. Chicago; G. E. Stier-
mond 1EIGaapTVh nfioo T. d 4 warner HAM
| Wheaton. Paw Paw, Mich v"
u those listed Berns, Gerow Jovce
Relnert, Stlerwalt and Blackmore won let
ters last year so will not be presented
sweaters a this time
Otner members of the squad attending
VIII be T. M. Adler. Lebanon c. NJ Bal-
qau1, Lebanon: @. NJ. Fraser. Blue Island.
IL. G. E. Home, Indianapolis: G. q. Lewis
Fremont: r. c. Meyers Chicago: r o.
nelson. Francesville: H. W Schmur Des
Elains. Ill; r. c. Spiedel. Chicago. r. D.
Icrhune. Greenwood. D. II. Visscher Chi
cago; r. A. Buyer. Monticello: F. r. Lar
/ rabee. Goshen ~ -1'
Paul Matthews, president of the
indianapolis Alumni Association.
will preside and John Ruckelshaus
will be POSTMASTER and will intro
duce President Louis B. Hopkins of
Wabash college Robert E. Vaughan
and other members of the coaching
staff are scheduled to give informa-
ton on the future of Wabash ath-
leticS. The 1884 Scarlet football
schedule follows:
! Sept.
| 29-HanOver at Charlottesville.
6-Manchester at Charlottesville.
d3-MashlngtOn University at St Louis
.V-ROse Poly at Charlottesville.
Nov.
Evansville College at Evansville.
1O-Franklin at Charlottesville
I'-De Paw at GreencastIe.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-18
Jimmy FOxx Collects Bulk
of American League Honors

statisticians today. He also led the
league in home runs, forty-eight.
and tied and smashed several other
records.
Foxx twice tied the league mark
for four extra base hits in one game:
tied the league record for three
nome runs in one game; equaled the
mark Tor four consecutive home
runs and set new figure by knock
ing IN nine runs off the pitching of
Hudlin and Bean of Cleveland on
Aug. Il.
Other batting records tied were
the six consecutive hits made by
outtelder Sam West of st. Louis:
the five runs scored in one game bv
Bob johnson, Athletics, and four
extra base hits in one game which
west accounted for against Chicago.
He1nie Manush. Washington. was
the second best batsman with an
average Of 1886. The ten LEADING
oatsmen in the league follow.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-18

mobile drivers have stepped up the
speed of the machines to point
where five miles a minute is
demonstrated reality Where once
seventy miles an hour over the
famous indianapolis Speedway was
incredible. anything short of ITO
miles an hour today is considered
dawdling.
MIR. OLDFIELD maintains that
A'A 100 miles an hour is fast
enough for anybody, much too fast
for most people, and he audibly
wonders why the manufacturers
continue to strive for even greater
speed on the racing strips &.
What does it prove? What use can
you make of it?'
Speaking for myself as one who
never fails to rap on the glass in a
taxicab when the speed exceeds thir-
ty miles an hour. grumbling at the
driver, do you think you are going
to a fire, or what?" I am inclined
to put in with Mr.. Oldfeld. There
is such a thing as too much speed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-18
BY JOE WILLIAMS
Times Special Sports Writer
Wy xT~H -


NEW YORK, Dec. 18-Mr. Bar
L ' ney Oldfeld doesn't see much
sense in automobile racing. The
old man of the gasoline pits says
if you can call hanging a sport
then it is fair enough to call auto
mobile racing a sport.
Possibly he means that if you
give some men enough rope they
will hang themselves and that if
you give some men enough motive
power they will kill themselves. A
mortuary check no doubt would
show that the gentleman is largely
correct on both counts.
Mr. Oldleld was the first man
in this country to drive an auto
mobile a mile a minute. There
probably isn't a motorist in the
country today that hasn't driven or
been driven at a speed greater than
a mile a minute. Even the light
bodied, moderate priced cars will
go that fast.
Keeping pace with modern refine
ments in motor science the auto
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-18

THE string of victories that
l. Irish Pat O'Shocker has
hung up in local rings will be in
danger tomorrow night at the
Armory when the Salt Lake City
star collides with the highly tout
ed George Cry Baby zaharias,
Colorado Greek. The nationally
prominent grapplers meet in the
main go attraction on the Her
cules A. G. card.
Zaharias, who scales 230, is
rated one of the most colorful per-
formers in the country and is
known for his rough and tumble
style. O'Shocker, who weighs 225,
also is of the aggressive type.
In supporting matches, Max
Martin, Jewish grappler from
Hartford, Conn, meets Tom Dad
Wolf Marvin, Oklahoma, and
Ed White, Alabama, opposes Milo
Steinhorn, st. Louis. All are
heavyweights.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-18
Suicide Ends Long Sports
Career of Harry Pollok

days later Mrs. Pollok remarked
He also had been in poor health
which forced his retirement recently
as promoter of the Aqua Caliente
race track.
Pollok was credited with amass-
ing a sizeable fortune by introduce
ing six-day bicycle racing in New
York many years ago. A native of
Baltimore, he entered the sports
field as a writer on New York
newspaper. He later managed
WrestlerS, including onetime heavy
weight champion Ham" jenkins
He also managed a number of prize
fighters, including Young Corbett
and Freddie Welsh. and was asso-
ciated in several sports ventures
with Jack Dempsey and Jack
kearnS. He came to the coast in
1922. 49,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-18

A ND did you happen to be on
N hand in the Thirty-fourth
street gym Saturday night when
Marion went down before an i'm
pressive Shortridge team? Or
around Sixteenth street, where
Cathedral beat down one of the
snappiest quintets in southern In
diana, taking a close decision over
ConnerSville?
Kenneth Peterman's five showed
championship form against Marion
in rough battle. Yeager of Marion
and Bryant of Shortridge left the
game with four fouls each.
The Blue Devils sniped their way
to 19-to-8 lead at half-time, and
coasted on easily 20 their final 35-
to-19 score. Merrill collected nine
points, Stephenson six and Berns
six. Summary:
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-18
Named
Head of Council

Herman Hallett of New Rich
mond today was president of the
athletic council of the Indiana High
School Athletic Association, and
Fred German of Technical high
school was a member of the group
following weekend elections.
w. S. Fellmy of Edwardsport, re-
firing president of the council, was
named to succeed himself as a
member of the council from Dis
trict V, Glass 2, and German was
named to the council as a repre-
sentative of District II, Glass S.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-18

By Times Special
SAN DIEGO, Cal, Dec. 18.-The
sports world paid tribute today to
Harry M. Pollok, 81, whose self
inflicted death ended a career that
was divided among the realms of
wrestling, boxing, bicycling and
horse racing.
According to police, he shot him
self through the head. His body was
found by a neighbor in the drive
way of Pollok's home. Some
mystery surrounded the cause of a
broken right leg but police believed
the injury was caused as he fell.
A cryptic note offered the ex-
PLANTATION: I'm beginning to get in
my own way. I'm impeding traffic. 3"
Close friends said he had been
respondent since he and his wife.
Mrs. Meta Rogers Pollok. were di-
vorced in Reno last July. A few
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-18
No Minor Job
for Mr.. Babe

By United Press
NEW YORK, Dec. 18..-Babe Ruth
is going to finish his baseball career
in the major leagues.
Speaking at a dinner given by
him to sports writer's from the big
league cities last night at the New
York Athletic Club, Ruth said:
After all, I have been playing
baseball in the big leagues for
twenty years. And one thing I want
to say and that is I am going to
finish my career in the majors"
The remark was taken to indicate
that Ruth will not accept posi-
ton as player or manager in mi
nor circuit.