The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 5, 1917, Page 6

six BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE sees LITTLE “WAC” WINS HONORS FOR ne : Proved Wizard on Floor in Shoot- ing Baskets in Last Few o Minutes of Play MANDAN LOSES GAME BY CLOSE SCORE 29-21 Dope As to ‘‘How Goes South- eastern District So Goes State’’ Might Be Upset little wi his name the the chan “Me” pre ivard with a and a Cutcheon as the upionship of the ho went to Dick by virtue which the ball dropped obe: the wicker, McCutcheon ont the contest, playing his most bril- liant ¢ during the last three min- utes when he shot three baskets: from disque of seven fiold goals are credited to tg, TU Wht “on Gi of pla the wicker but dropped clean inte hole. a minute Tate five i pep them Srodie then opened. their ed the two-point lead from their Is and closed) the Dickinson in the lead b, ).2 Peters was the he Cugini MAKES FIRST f seemed to lose th 25 feet from the goat to this nthe last 1 SCORE . *, Mandan was in dd the close of the rrent s and pring: aud Rich, going. If with a’score of 14 to score a_techn half minut: never. struck Na field bas of the features One of the game was the following of the Mandan er did M mn when. a Dick covered and under pet had it under the opposition ¢ 1 Bi Sey cree Goodwin and one by | insor with the term representing Mi nd Penni codteniter for the e of returns from the other UT VETTES + FC a fou noon the Di with one ns the style of ranchmen, for Mandan got 11 baskets. Out Sulliy; n MeCut h defeated of the southeastern district. shots by Dic ynint got seven, Richards four and nson. No soon- for the basket had the ball t control seen throw UL. ON MA Is were ca ickinson pl on we played 1} chances, Pete His work the strongest for un. Cum. two field the Dickin- of 1s ing each cheon fo going to be a strong ate honors. On th dis. her rival will he high school .team, amestown for the hor In the opinion of the different coaches who have watched the results with vareful study V CROWD A Valley ival the famous Cook of Valley in TTENDS GAME. The tournament card drew the hig- sehool was in the elimin . the tiers of and a anmber of the How slit ove s of the season at the } mn. The crowd the sev not so 1 ? when SPRING ~ SUITINGS AND _OVERCOATINGS B In the Latest Patterns Fit and Workmanship Gu MERCH, aranteed i. J. Vivian & Co. ANT TAILORS ESTABLISHED 1878 Bleck Upstairs © IRVING VIVIAN, Representative Oppesite P. O. PHONE 7418 ] game, -lup the pace. THE CUB REPORTER AT LAST- MY car / cae 'N! (DITTO! MANY TIMES f ted in the final game for the Veviet honors: Jet both te pup to action, Hes chi ! of the 1 school. ‘0 io Grand Forks te The minations w will nea the final will be 7 W MANDAN DICKINSON—2I | Cummins ect MeCuteheon | i Right “Forward. Peters Brodie Left Forward, Pronning : Richards Conter. o Sullivan i Quon Right Guard, Ford Ware VALLEY CITY COPS. HONORS FOR DISTRICT Defeats Jamestown Score of 45 to 17 Bowen Is ‘‘Star’’ JAMESTOWN PLAYED 2 (Special to the: Tribune.) Valley City, D., March Valley Civ dis ing the title. 45 to 17 score, two gam Casselton in the afternoon, The game here this yea r, despite the worn-out in, The the dest in the early part The local gym. ing fast and impartial. Line-up: Jamestown—17 ‘Valley City Bourquin .. wes : Rathman .. s haunbere C Stenshall, 1: Referee—Upshaw. Umpire—RBarker. box. Fulton. seriously than anyone else does. A roller skater skated padded cell No. 97. Jawn McGraw | about his players | now. Connie M: High by GAMES EARLIER IN DAY 5,—The tournament end- ed with the Valley .City team claim- The final game was won from the Jamestown team by a ! The losers had played earlier in the day, winning from Wahpeton in the morning and as the fastest played condition the Jamestown boys were iting team seemed to be of the but they were unable to Keep Valley boys were soon able to place them so far be- hind that there was no hope of a win. The officials of the game were the best that had ever officiated at the ‘The decisions of both ‘be- Cook, 5 Ly Bourquin, 2; Rathman, 2; Schaun- berg, 4. Free Throws—Nelson, 3; Sehaun- berg, 1 Jess Willard only wants $75,000 to Jess takes himself more 24 hours without stopping. Keeper sweep out isn’t talking much throwing games the Lots of Georges in the South NOH MEAN ey) ‘AWGE -S4 Jim Dunn Bets $20,0°) That Joe Wood’s Pitching Arm Will Be Right This Year By PAUL PURMAN. In these days of fortunes being paid for baseball players $20,000 does me | look like a big sum. But when $20,000 is gambled on a baseball player's pitching arm it is considerable money, Jim Dunn, owner of the Cleveland Indians, is the b sport in baseball. Dunn in busin: a contractor and the contractor’s game is more or less of a gamble, and Dunn has applied his practical business methods to! baseball. When Dunn announced that he had $15,000 for Joe Wood the base- world gasped, because it was the! greatest gamble that had made in the game. gamble amounts to $20,000. ever been clares, on the draw. “I feel just like I would in a | poker game when am holding four With Wood’s first year’s salary’ the ‘cards and trying to filla straight flush If I get the card they Never before had a magnate risked | can’t beat me, if I don't I'm out.” j that much coin on a player whom he did not have pretty good reason to ers, the largest sum being the $22,500 ; paid by Pittsburg for Matty O'Toole. ; But O’Toole was the sensation of the ! American association ‘and there was every reason to believe he would de- | Yelop into the greatest pitcher in the believe would be right. And Dunn, or his manager Lee Fohl | or Joe Wood himself can’t tell whe Ler Joe Wood will be the “Smoky Joe of old, or even whether his pitching arm which went back on him two sea- sons ago Will be able to stand the gaff this season. A pitcher's arm is a delicate thing. More money has been paid for pitch- | National league, If Wood is right he is one of the]. biggest assets in baseball. be able to win between 15 and 20! city captured the northeastern dis- Once out of kilter it may get good | games a year. again, or it may always retain the kinks which preclude its effectiveness. | When Dunn bought Wood's release from Boston he was after a pitcher | which would give him a chance at the! American league pennant. “But I know it's a gamble,” he de-' Wood believes he is right. “If I didn’t think so 1 wouldn't have allowed Dunn to pay $15,000 for, my release,” he declared. i Probably in May Dunn will find out ; whether he filled his straight flush} ut or whether he loses his jackpot: -- ‘No Foreign Racing Cars for U. S. Tracks This Year Followers of the automobile racing; game will have to be satisfied with | American racing cars ‘this year, or if there are any foreign cars on the; track they will be of a vintage of oth- er years, The French and Italian govern ments have refused to permit racing cars to be exported during the war! and from these countries most of the foreign racing cars have been import: | ed in the past. The names of Fiat, Peugeot, Delage, Mercedes, Nagent and Sunbeam are well known on American racing tracks, in fact, these cars have won many of the big stake races during the last few year Eddie Rickenbacker recently return-; ed. from Europe, where he attempted to purchase a pair-of racers for the 1917 campaign. In France and Italy. he was refused the promise of any cars, military au- thorities ruling that the complete out- put of all automobile factories would be needed by the armies. English ‘military -authorities told him that it might ‘be possible for him to buy two Sunbeam cars, but would not promise them, to him and he was forced ‘to return without them. | Many of the factories which in the past have built, racing cars have stop- ped building them andthe equipment is being used for military machines. Manufactur however, declare | that more racing carg will be built as | soon as peace is declared. American league pennant yet. Mack | believes in being conservative, FAULTY LOGIC, They Gall. lightweight fighters; Knockout this and that because they never knock anyone out. A college wrestler broke his ribs. Chas. F. Bleckried | Announces His Candidacy for Police Magistrate and will appreciate your. vote at approaching city “eleo- tion. Phas (Potitial navéetaiienty One ‘thing about these rasslers they ; never hurt. their, heads. ee ee ee ee or ee ee ae BASKETBALL CHAMPIONS * AND THE SCORES 5 Michigan City, 20; Grand Forks, 10, 3! * Valley City, 45; Jamestown, 17. * Dickinson, 2;«Mandan, 21. + Kenmare, 25; Minot, 22. * ba ee * * * * * * s | Sprang Biggest Surprise in Bask- MINOT HGH LOSES GAME TO-KEMMRE etball History in Northwest District PERRY AND SINCLAIR SHOOT FIVE GOALS EACH (Special ‘to the the ‘Tribune. Minot, 'N. March 3.~Kenmare sprung the biggest surprise of local basketball history by defeating Minot, 25 to 22, in the finals for the North- west district honots here, ‘Saturday night. Minot defeated Kénmare Fri- day night, 50° to 12, in the a enmare, Field Goals: clair, 5. Referee—Tierney, Fargo; Corzine, ‘Minot. The Phone 483. Lng, ORS EE Sibktie Sia REM Se Aone Here A owe nazi Sok ed Minot—O'Leary, facobson, 3; Murphy, 2. “Kenmare— A. Perry Foul Goals—Murphy, 4 out of 11; A. Perry, 5 out of 10. He should * ee nary round. The box sore: Minot. umpire, are raw and gusty. will be empty. Best Serviceand the Best Lignite ashbu vuk 4; ing overtaken. by. their: opponents. Grand Forks put up a game fight but were outplayed by . the --vistors® “in: |AGGIES “AVENGE Churchill F Left-forward Kalerstad ....0....0000005 a Griffith, TURN STUNT \ i ‘ Swanston ie a ee Bensati i ying 7 Right-guar espe a on Perfect LeWi8 '..... eee ewe recone R. ~ Team Work Wins for Farm Left-guard School DEFEAT UNIVERSITY BY SCORE OF 29 TO 24 (Special to the Tribune.) -. Fargo, N. D., March 5.—In the fast- it and most sensational game ever played on the Agricultural college floor, the University quint met. de- feat at the hands of the Aggies Sat- urday night, by a score of 2 to 24. Tonight the Aggies clash with Fargo college. ‘The game was featured by the un- usttal team’ work of the winners and the individual playing of the univers!- ty stars. Hauser for the Aggies and one of the big lights in basketball history of the: state for the last two years, played the fastest game -of his career. His unerring basket shooting was easily one of the big fedtures of the game. Haynes and Peterson were the Ag- gie guards who-held the visitors: to theiy small number ‘of ‘baskets. GRAND FORKS USES OUT 10. MHICAN CITY Churehill Proves Sensation of Game for Northeastern, Dis. .,.,triet Championship VICTORS TOOK EARLY LEAD AND HELD TO IT (Special to to The ’ Tribune) Grand Forks, March 5.—Michigan BOOKKEEPER IS uss ~ Jamestown, N..D., ND. March 5—Raising a check, from’ $5. to $95 has resulted in the disappearance from this city of V. J. Flynn, | bookkeeper \‘for: the: Wolf-Matchie Clothing company. Flynn asked his employer for five dollars, and made out the check for that amount and asked his employer to sign it: In making out the instru- ment he wrote the “five” and the “5” over far enough in the line so he could hastily inserted. the word “nine- ty” and the figure “9.” WHAT HAS BECOME THe FELLOW: WHO-USE TO-TAKE ; HIS GIRL OUT BUGGY RIDING :”): Patronize Home. Industry If you buy out of town and. I buy out of town what will: become of our:town? : SMOKE LITTLE BILLY S-oenit Cigar trict basketball title here Saturday night by defeating the Grand Forks team with a 20 to 10 score. The game was the fastest played during the tournament and was won by the Michigan boys:only:at the last min- 6.’ Michigan City by winning the ‘district title’ has’ won the right “to.|. meetthe. winners of-the other dist- ri¢ts in thé state championship tour: nameént here March 16 and 17. ‘Churchill, the Michigan City for- ward, was their star man _ while Graves and Mayer, Grand Forks + ERLENMEYER, guards, were the stellar men for the Cigar Manufacturer losers. Michigan City took an early lead 423: 3rd Bt, Bismarok, ND. dat no: time were in danger of. be- Many bins If you want the send weer orcs to nite Coal Co. MICK, Agent... #2 _ ; Office: th St.. and Broadway. mL li SP Glai ee enaetieae der ~ i ares every minute, , oon ‘ i B The lineup: ; or Michigan City— —Grand. Forks A Fowler . Graves é ® ve , * ¢ i { , { ee ° t « » | 4 } ” ” ( ( ” ” veo By i } 5 »? ’ . ‘