The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 21, 1917, Page 6

SCOOP THE CUB REPORTER a? SQUADRON OF AIR YOU SAY-ELIAS THAT A TRAMP STEAMER HAS LANDED A ‘YOU SAN THEY ARE NOT HYDRO PLONE NOW to SATUEDAY, APRIL, 21, ,1917. Hop CURTAINLY DEY AINT HIDE-0- PLANES BECUZ ” SHIPS BUT er Donovan, said to ‘be in the lineup of Milwaukee in the American asso- ciation, Gervais to Be at Warren. “Lefty” Gervais, last year a pitcher for Winnipeg, has accepted the man- agerial job at Warren, and Jack Brau- tigan, 1916 manager at Superior, will handle the Minot . Some of the players from the Du- luth and Superior clubs of a year ago jare expected to join the present four Northern camps, particularly Minot land Warren, A number of thom al- re reported to havo entered the s mi-professional field. MAY 10 OATE FOR RORTHEA LEAGUE OPEN Duluth and Superior Withdraw From League---Minot and War- ren Are Given Berths | i ES BASEBALL SCORES foe ee Oe we > HIBBARD OF FARGO SUCCEEDS BURMEISTER re) NATIONAL LEAGUE. cae Re OR Calls Issued for All Teams to Re-! a es port for Training on April eet: Chicago Cincinnati 9 5 and 27 i ! With a new | Philadelphia two new , Pittsburgh t which com: ! Brooklyn only four clubs for the first} aes the history of the organiza- Games Friday. » Northern teague will for Brooklyn Philadelphia 4, n its 1917 activities on May 1 Cincinnati 6, a schedule of 207 games, ; Pittsburgh 6. covering 111 dates and running; Boston 4; New York 2 (4 in- through September 3, according to an | nings.) announcement here today by Presi- ces deat M. L. Hibbard of this city. sc Games jcuneay Two Teams Withdraw, Chicago at Cincinnati, Months of negotiations, following} Pittsburgh at St. Louts. aH withdrawal from the 1916 organiza-| No other games scheduled. tion of Duluth, Minn, and Superior, Wis., have resulted in the formation] (, Boston at New York, PAE of a circuit. including clubs repre- enrs gee senting Winnipeg, Man., Fargo-Moor- Newavank. ee 8 Ra head, Minot, N. .D. and Warren, Minn, Minot receives the franchise relin- quished by ‘Superior last fall and tem- porarily held early this year by Thief River Falls, Minn., while Warren fills Batteries—Ragan and Gowdy; Tes- «deam, Smith and McCarty, Rariden. Fourteen innings. Brooklyn. at Philadelphia. feats of tha Spre season Was ac- complishéd, ‘Recently? by Ray Bates; jthird baseman -of~the ~ Philadelphia Athletics, when--te*drove in five runs in one inning. | driving in three runs off Jameson, the | Washington southpaw. {trip to.the plate in the same inning he doubled, scoring two men. trips to the plate in the game Bates made two triples, single. two years ago and was then sent to the berth vacated by Duluth. The - i coming season will mark the first Club— he ee taste of organized baseball for tae Lee tag ny 4 3 > tg, town supporting the new mem- Batteries —’ Cheney and. Miller; ‘The schedule as announced today | Alexander and Killifer. by President Hibbard, calls for seven- s ay ty-two home games for the Fargo-Moor- “ Chicago at Leesa fe head team, sixty-nine for Winnipeg, OWbe- 1 my 0 thirty-seven for Minot and twenty.| Chicago gray nine for Warren. Nine double-head-| Pittsburgh : oe ers are scheduled, Batteries—Demaree, Douglas and Start Training Wednesday, Elliott; Grims and Fischer, Calls have been issued for all the er ae . teams to report for training between Cincinnati at St. boule Hoe : April 25 and 27. All excepting Win-| Club— foray nipeg will train at home. The Cana- Cinginnat eee g - ci is expect to limber up in Wiscon Batteries chneider, Ring and “Prospects for the season are very | Wingo; Watson and Snyder. good.” declared Mr. ‘Hibbard, who a succeeds John Burmeister of Minne- 7 ee: CRican Mencues aca apolis as hd&d of the league after a aloes ara arnt season as resident secretary of tae es local club. “We shall have a strong team at each place and the race should prove close with the number of clubs so few. The fact that there are only four teams will mean the places may be shifted easily.” One Pennant Offered. Contrary to the policy of the league last year, only one pennant will be ed the coming season. In 1916, en one flag was awarded for each half, Winnipeg off the onors of the mid-summer windup and Fargo- Moorhead won the second lap. The: two older clubs are viewing their 191% outlook with considerable speculation, owing to the entrance of two nm members whose strength is practical- ly an unknown quantity. The Team Managers, Each of the hold-over aggregations will enter the race with a new man- ager and minus five veterans. Wi nipeg’s activities will be directed by Club— Chicago ... Boston .... ‘New York . St. Louis ..... Cleveland . Philadelphia .... Washington Detroit Games Friday. Detroit 7; Cleveland 4. Philadelpiia 6; Washington 4, innings.) St.. Louis 2; Chicago 5. New York-Boston game postponed. (Rain.) (3 Games Sunday, Detroit at Cleveland. St. Louis at Chicago, No other games scheduled. Detroit at Cleveland. Charles F. Moll, manager the past} (yyp— RAL E. two years of tue St. Boniface team.) potroit 5 4 10. 3 formerly of the Northern league.| Cleveland ‘ F441 Denny Sullivan, a veteran of the game through fifteen years’ experi- ence, a part of that time with the Boston Red Sox and the Minneapolis club of the American association, will Manage the Fargo-Moorhead team, succeeding the late Robert A. Um- glaub, who was killed last November while at work in railroad shops at Baltimore, Md. Sullivan managed tue Ft. William Northern league team in ‘Batteries i) Spencer; Stanage, Morton and Oneill. Philadelphia at Washington. Club— R, Philadelphia Washington ... . Batteries—J. Jolson and Schang; Gallia, Ayres and Henry, Ainsmith. St. Louis at Chicago. 1913 and Jast year had charge of st. iia Joe in the Western league. ate ata ~ ; HE. The quintet of players lost locally! Chicago .... : this. season includes: Elis, rightfield- 0 has been drafted by the Pitts- Nationals; Herbert Rook, pitch- er, now with Chatanooga in the South+ Grn associaté Ralph: Bell, pitcher, who rejected an offer from the Des Moines club of tae Westetn giie in favor of a position on a fessional team at Hibbing, ian.; Gus Smith, catcher, of Balti- ot reutrning, and Joe Weidell,| Kansas City , who has decided to con-| Louisville . to be. Batteries—Sothoron and ida; Cycotte and Schalk. soe ee wt eee hese ens * AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. * ee Geeta seeeeness Club— Indianapoits Milwaukee Ly Semmes Bie of Come wrsrear ye poned, |Indianapolis H Columbus ing match. Dan probably will cele-|teY, + seconded by — Commissioner . - % Bertsch: brate his 100th birthday by walking RESOLUTION. ee mee a The City Auditor is hereby | in- Our pacifist congressmen have! strncted 10 end the following com- amateur -and professtonal Coast Leaguer Scores Five Men in One Inning coceooes weececcoccee: SUNAAN AAA AAII BRERRARREIS IRE LLL, ASSAD ASA AA AA Yi GAB 3 % ATL. a a RAY BATES One of thesmast remarkable batting | With the bases filled Bates tripied club, He went’ to Toledo when the. Cleveland franchise was taken there and Jast:year played with the Ver- non club onthe coast, where he bat- ted .285 in more than 200 games. When at Cleveland it was feared that that Bates»was flat-footed, but if he was he hag*partially overcome this handicap, cal On his next In five double and a a Bates was with the Cleveland club PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF CiTyY COMMISSIONERS APRIL 16, 1917. Minneapolis-Milwaukee game _post- (Rain.) Games Sunday. Louisville.at Toledo. Kansas City at Milwaukee, St. Paul at Minneapolis. Indianapolis at Columbus. Te Boar.of City Commissioners met tx regular session. bs /=Present: Commissioners Battey, Bertsch, Best,.Kirk, President Lucas. Minutes of:meeting held April 9th were read and approved. Commissioner Best’ introduced a resolution for the,purcaase of a suit- Ljable tractor for use on the . city and Coleman; |streets. The resolution was laid over for one week. A resolution for opening up Rosser street ‘west was laid over for one week, also the report of the City At- torney on the Painted Woods road.. Dr, B. B. Strauss was authorized to purchase a ped and bedding for use of one patient at the City Hos- , on motion of Commissioner Indianapolis at Columbus, Club— RW, 2 2% Batteries—Kahler Roggei and Gossett. Best. The following resolution was adopt- Dan O'Leary is looking for an op- ed on motion of Commissioner : Bat- ponent with $500 for a 50-mile walk- missed their callings. They should | munication ¥ Control and In _ connec! the strect car.line tre City Commission offers the following proposition: If the State will put in new ties in the First district (placing them in conjun with the contractor and the State furnishing the .abor) the City will pay the cost of laying the ties in concrete, and will also pay for the paving covering the space outside of the rails, the Sure to Be 4 : '!the space between the rails. ese ‘Having understood that Duffy Lew-jties to be obtained ready for placing is had gone back, we note with some | within 39 days. surprise that he is still pulling them, ‘Tye same. proposition ‘applies to off the left field fence and puttins ihe territory covered by District No. them over the right field wall. 2, except that you will have until The bean bail still retains its popu-, August 1 to get the ties ready. —~ larity with the Red Sox pitchers. | The proposition is made on the Stranger Than Fiction. basis and understanding that the Johnny Evers went through half 4 Governor and Board of Control agree to recommend to the next Legislature an appropriation to reimburse the City for a sum amounting to at least half the actual cost: of tie paving. This proposition is made with the hope that you will<recommend to tie next Legislature an appropriation for new rails of th8 proper style and size for said car line, and also a sufficient sum to pay for putting on top or paying coat petween ‘ For your information, will Bay that - | District No. 1, hereinbefore referred ifference between ‘ an|to—as applied to the-gar liné—covers golfer| Main street from to Fitth and seems to be whether he lives west of; Fourth from Main to Thayéf, cover- Boston or not, ing a total of three blocks. to th would expect anything else of them. dozen cxhibition games without fight- ing af umpire. The main di asks your prompt action in order that Dear Sir: this date, wherein you request us to co-operate wi whom your City contracted (0 pave certain streets on ated, under a franchise which pro- advise you that there are no funds under our control with which we can] do any of the paving, the last .Legi work. {ue contract for paving on the streets ond District comprises Fourth street from Thayer street to the boulevard. If this proposition does not meet with your favorable consideration, the City Commission asks waether you are willing to rebuild said car line with new ties within a length of time to be set by you, within six months. If not, and if our first proposition herein set forth does not meet with your favorable consideration, the City Commission asks that the State re- move the rails and ties from Main|t street and on Fourth street from Main street to Thayer street, ana paving may not be delayed. tl We would appreciate a prompt de- cision, The following communication from the State Board of Coatrol was read} Marquard April 15, 1915. Ames, how-}ed runs than any ‘pitcher..'In the: ae before the roll call’on tae preceding; ever, lost his game in the thirteenth | league. i ‘ i resolution: inning. Cicotte pitched his game Ap- American league records have April 10, 1917. R. H. Thistlethwaite, City Auditor. We have your communication of, ¢, i the contractor, with Commissioners have which the Capitol street car is oper- vides that the State suall do a cer- tain amount of paving. This is to | lative Assembly having ‘refused make an appropriation RM elo: ‘SR AO A We would therefore. req Honorable Commissign to. not Board. in detail as to what you desire us to do under these conditions in co-operating with the parties having where the State is operating tie car line, and’ we will be glad to do any- thing we'have authority to do which will expédife the work of paving.’ Yours ‘very truly, BOARD OF CONTROL Of STATE INSTITUTIONS, , . RS. Lewis, Chairman. On motion of Commissioner: Battey the City Attorney was, djrected.tg at- tena all commission meptijgs Jhere- after. ont ; Commissioner Best Fepoi ed. on the matter of ‘bids for’ ''stYéet’ sprin- kling:and offered a bid by Matt Cloot- en to furnish the city two teams and two men by the day for $10.00 per diem; and two men and two teams by the month at $240.00 per month. + On motion of Commissioner Bertsca seconded by Commissioner Battey the bid of C. C. Wachter, previously of- fered, was accepted for one team at $100.00 per month and another when ing pitched the earliest hitless game, nine innings of a hurled by Red Ames for New York, April 15, 1909, and a contest won by ril 14. pitched in the two major leagues, 41 in the National and 21 in the Ameri- April. American league, was the first pitcher to hurl a swatless contest in April, turning the trick against Detroit Apri 19, 1900, pitcher got away without a hit was ‘Ames’ game, 1910 ‘Addie Jonés: pitched b hit game against. Chicago. ‘on April :20, and April 15, Marquard. ,pitched’, a against Brooklyn. baseball that .the older pitchers: are not so effective in the carly spring as they are later in:the:summer. missioner Battey, seconded by Com. missioner Bertsch: e April 1917, making the State of: North Dakota: a proposition on- the street car line; and in accordance therewith the State must either .acept the offer made by the City to-pay tor the. pav- ing, or. remove the ‘car line. . any event, whether the State accepts or rejects. the offer of the City, it will be necessary-te-remove. the pres- ent ties and rails in Paving District. No. 1, to-expedite the work, said ties and rails to bereplaced under the terms of the City’s offer when the paving is laid. the State of North Dakota, through Cicotte, Veteran White Sox Player, Sets Early Mark for Hitless Game Seem ae acne na bs Wed of this. Cicotte is one of the oldest pitchers in the American Icague in point of service, This is his eleventh year in the leagne. Eddie Cicotte is one of the hardest i pitchers ‘in the American league to } score against. With the exception of ( 119, when he had. ‘a~bad year, Ci- cotte has allowed’ probably less earn- © scarce. enough at ‘No-hit- games ched early in the he best, but one 1 To Cieottc gocs the honor of hay- he earliest heretofore having been 13-inning game shown the effectiveness” of pitchers; { only since 1918, and in that time Ci- cotte has allowed 2.11 earned runs per game. In 1916 he allowed 1,78 runs per fl game, being second in effectiveness to Babe Ruth, who allowed 1.75 runs per game. In 1915 Cicotte had a bad year, allowing 3.02 runs per game. In 1914 he allowed 2.04 runs each taine innings, and in 1913 was second to Walter Johnson in’ Johnson’s great- est year, That year Cicotte allowed 1.61 runs’ per game’and Johnson 1.09, a feat which has been ‘eclipsed only onée in 1916, when Fred Schupp set- a record of .90. Cicotte’s effectiveness ig due prim- ariiy to his knuckle ‘ball, a delivery which he inyented and perfected and which other pitchers have never been | able to use effectively.: Cicotte says he uses the knuckle ball about half, the time. H Only 62 hitless games have been an. Of the 62 only five occurred in Amole of the Buffalo team, in the att The next April game in which a Iready spoken of. In first no- his‘ was] 1915, Rube no-hit game 4 i There is a popular superstition in Cicotte’s feat is a,direct refutation —_— its Board of Control, be raeuested to remdve' tae ties and rails of the street: car line’ on Main street and. on Fourth street between Main and Thayer streets, and that. work be done on same not later than Thurs- day morning, April 19,1917." er Commissioner Best voted nay on adoption of foregoing resolution, all otaer commissioners voting aye. Commissioner Battey was excused. ( The.'pid of Mike Wildes of 14 cents } per lineal foot of parking for care of i poulevarding in Improvement District No. 1, was pcecegted and contract directed to be drawn. On motion the Board adjourned. Attest: R. H. THISTLETHWAITE, City Auditor. RESOLUTION. ; “Resolved, whereas a resolution lias been adopted this 16th. day of And, in “Therefore, Be It’ Resolved, that needed, Commissioner Best voting nay, all other commissioners voting aye on roll call. Commissioner Best stated that ho had been informed that the contrac- tors having the contract for remodel- ing the City Hospital, had exposed a bed and other {guatare and bedding to tne eleménts ft the loss of the city. President Lucas stated that the bond of sald contractors and the un- paid remainder of their contract prico would protect the city. The petition of E, A. Hughes and R. Il. Treacy to have alley in Block 60, Original Plat, graded, was grantea, cost of such grading to be borne by tho petitioners, there being no alley platted in that ‘block. ‘The following bills were directed to be paid, funds permitting: Pat Kelly 1st estimate on river road grading ly $14.80, firemen $40.50, B. K. Skeeis $21.16, Timmer Hardware Co, $4.20, French & Welch $13.14, H. A. Thomp- son $12.01, Grambs & Peet Uo, $50.83, 4. Martineson $7.08, W. vu. Telephone Co. $2.22, Otto Dirlam $211.35, that portion of the Dirlam bill relating to expense incurred on Broadway motor lift being directed to be re-billed to the Haggart Construction Company of Fargo, N. D. A bill from Burleigh County for 25 per cent of the cost incurred by coun- ty in payment of Mothers’ Pensions was referred to the City Attorney for his opinion of the city’s liability. W. S. Casselman appeared before the Board and asked that the car line be extended east on Main street to Seventh street. An ordinance relating to the remov- al of garbage by the city was offered by Commissioner Battey and read the first time, and re-referred back to Commissioner Battey. The offer of Burleigh County for the City’s interest in the City Barn of $250.00 was laid over. The following resolution was udopt- ed, being introduced by Commisson- er Battey: . _RBSOLUTION. Resolved that elective and appoin- tive officials of the vity shall furnish bonds required by law at their own expeuse, except the City Treasurer. for whom the City shall pay for a fidelity bond. Commissioner Best moved that all members of the present board of City Commissioners do refund premiums on their official bonds previously paid by the City. A substitute motion of Commissioner Battey thet the period on which refund shall bo made be extended, was withdrawn. Tho motion of Commissioner Best] Was not put. Tue following resolu- tion was adopted on motion of Com- SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD BOY KILLS SWEETHEART, 23. the ‘Halle Volksville;.‘‘a\‘sixteen-year- old boy named ~Henning, guilty to the murder. of his heart, a girl of 23, whom lie had ‘te- ceived and abandoned after a promise of marriage. in the neighboring. town of Goerbitz, and Henning Jay in, wait for her to pass by at 5 o'clock in the morning on the roa dto ‘her work. sprang from his ‘hiding place and dealt the girl several frightful blows with i club. Hie victim ae oat rasthenic pacifist, whose tirades, sav- ground, unconscious, but as she sti i treason, ‘form the most ‘breather, Henning anally strangled | Or ng-otehieh tebasoi Tor pe her ‘with her own handkerchief. in order to save both himself and tie girl the worry of feeding and rearing What Is Going on in Germany - As Told by the Newspapers We Get From the Teutonic Empires : ~~ and’ Neutral Nations ise TF of a possible child in the present dis- tressful times. ‘The court, finding extenuating. cir- cumstances in the fact that the girl being so greatly the boy’s senior, had done wrong in leading him into temp- tation, sentenced Henning to impris- onment, for. fi J. / PACIFIST WAR’ PLAY. PRESENTED IN BERLIN “The-Fathor” is the name of a pa- cifist war play presented under the auspices of a private ‘art society” in Berlin, according to the Keuzzcltung, ich says: fat : ne hero is so upset by: loss of his son in the war. that he becomes a neu- ‘At the Hale penal court,” reports pleadea weet- aC The girl was employed ‘When he saw her approaching he effective part-of the play; Their pur- iport is that ‘not the ‘enemy, but we, ourselves, are responsible for the war, as ‘we implant in our children from youth a love of war games, and therefore of militarism.’ To make the sensation complete, one of the audi- encé, suffering from the same neuras- thenic conditions, addressee the pub \ lic in a. similar fit of pacifism.” The Kreuzzeitung asks indignantly whether “art” is to be allowed to serve the purpose of seditious propa- ganda. fl THREE BOYS TURN TO CRIME; BLAME WAR. “Three boys cf about 16 named Zo- hel, Bark and Falcke, were sentenced by the Berlin penal court to three months’ imprisonment each for sys- tematic thefts,” reports the Berlin posts. f Night: after night for a month they \ broke into the Stettiner ratlway sta- tion and stole hundreds of boxes of f jcigars and sigarettes, bottles of } j champagne and ‘port, tins of salmon. { chocolates, cheese, bu#er,. meat and sausages. “They were caught in an empty house in the Hallegasse, where, by the light of candies stuck in bottles, they were indulging in: an unspeak- able carouse with four girls. “Don’t you understand, said Zo bel to the police wlio arrested the is nothing for us boys and girls to do but enjoy ourselves? ” “By way of defense the prisoner \ declated that he had acted as he did ad <