The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 16, 1917, Page 6

| | | BASE BALL eae i i “SCOOP BUS SINESS or on GOING YO G4 THE CUB REPORTER eS YS SS SS Ur BUSINESS a OF MAKING 2\ NN THIS Z SPACE ee TRIBUNE ie) PITCH THAT THES ww WEDNESDAY, MAN: 16,. BOT. ‘Hop’ “Business OF || HURRIED E |, DEPARTING eoeneereeeraeeeereee NATIONAL LEAGUE. eevee eee eee eens ‘Club— ‘Chicago New York Philadelphia. St. Louis . Boston ‘Cincinnati Brooklyn b Pittsburgh . TUBSDA Piniladelphia, Brooklyn, 6 Chie: ; Boston, 1. St. Loui Chicago at Boston. St. Louis at ‘New York, ; NewYork, 4 Tomorrow's Schedule. Cincinnati at Brooklyn. Pittsburgh at ‘Philadelphia, Columbus at St. Paul. Club— R. Ee e Columbus St. Paul Batteries — Brown and goloman: aus and Land. . oe Louisville at Minneapolis. Club— 1. E. Pet. | Louisville 2 6 8 679 | Minneapolis Fey Rept -650| — Tatteries — Davis» and Koscher; Williams and Owens, Indianapolis at Milwaukee, Club— R.H.E. Indianapolis 0% Milwaukee 2.8 1 Batteries—Dawson and Grossett; Goodwin and DeBerry. Toledo at Kansas City. Club— . Toledo 14 0 Kansas City 7 2 Batteries — ulz and ‘Sweeney; Sanders, Acrutcher and Berry. RUTGERS ATHLETES 1. B. nes" fi St, Louis at New York. FS Club— RB. ‘New York 493 Batteries—Mead Snyder; 2 Pesreau and MeCarthy. Athletes) representing every branch of spartsat Rutgers college have en- c Vinaeer Hideto RB. listed in an,ambulance unit now being iktics 2 g| recruited at the college. ‘Philadelph: ‘$14 3} Eighteen men, 10. of them college 3atteries — Grini Miller anq|&thletes, have already enlisted in the Club— Cincinnati. ‘Brooklyn’ .. Batteries — Schneider, Club— Chicago Boston Batteries: ‘ler and Gowda see eee hee Club— New York Chicago . St. Louis Cleveland Boston .. Detroit .. Washington . Philadelphia . Washington, 11; Chicago, 11; New York, 7; St. Louis, Boston, 6; ‘Cleveland, 5. Boston at Cleveland. (New York"at St. Louis, Washington’ at Detroit. S * Club— Washington Detroit Batt Coveleskie and ‘Spencer, . Club— Philadelphia” Chicago .. Batteries Joinson Benz and Schalk. Club— New York St. Louis er; Hamilton and Severe! r; Mayer and Killifer. Chicago at Boston. 4. Philadelphia at Chicago. and id. Cincinnati at Brooklyn. RHE. 2s9 1 612 0 Clark and Wingo; Cheney, Marquard and Miller, ign and Wilson; Ty- aneeee AMERICAN LEAGUE, core ete eee eee eens TUESDAY'S GAMES, Detroit, 5. Philadelphia, 0. Tomorrow's Schedule. Washington at Detroit. Johnson and Ainsmith; Philadelphia at Chicago. New York at St. Louis. R.H.E. ae 14 0. 411 Batteries—Shawkey and Nunamak- Boston at Cleveland. RHE, Haley; unit, which will include 25 men when complete. The inen expect to leave for France within 30 days. The best known athlete enlisted is “Tody” Rracher, the diminutive Rutgers halfback, who starred on the football team Jast year. po Rollie’ Zeider is “faméd “as “having the only bunion in baseball. The experts are wrong. . Zeider is the . | only ballplayer with a bunion on his foot. Most of ’em have ‘em on their heads. Charley Street once caught a ball thrown from Washington monument. That’s nothing, Wallie Schange a catches Fred Falkenburg. 360 “304 Chicago university athletes should heave a sigh of relief. Football has been barred at Minnesota. Fred Welsh has made his annual announcements that he will meet two opponents for the lightweight title. Doesn't cost anything to make an- nouncements, Chicago bowlers have lost their training table. Free lunches have been abolished there. Soclety Note Spring plowing has started on many golf courses. Utah Has Girl Baseball Prodigy Staff Special. 1) Bingham, Utah, May 16.—Utah has produced another wonder---a unique figure in baseball—a girl who can pitch with either arm and hold her own against the best boy teams of the state. Miss Adah Clays is in a class by 2}herself when it comes to fooling the opposing batters, according to those who have watched her work and those who have faced her dazzling delivery. There have been mighty few players in baseball who could throw equally 4 Fs Gin 5; Well with either hand, but this little i Giecélena Utah girl who plays sand lot base- q Pethetiea—tuith, Leona ‘and Ae all all season does it and does it ee ottes Lambeth, Gould and)“ She can cut the corners and usually Neill. knows what a batter cannot hit after * AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. a eee eseceeeeeee sesh, a i Club— Ww. ol. a Indianapolis -.23 «6 a * Louisville .16 10 x ‘Colimbus +1513 a Kansas City 12011 ‘iH Milwaukee -9 14 ; Toledo .. .9 15 e ‘Minneapolis 7 14 I . St Paul ... »8 16 i Stay id TUESDAY'S GAMES. i St. Paul, 5; Columbus, 3. eeeeeeenneseeeees * Louisville, 2; Minneapolis, 1 Milwaukee, 2; Indianapolis, 0. Toledo, 6; Kansas ‘City, 1 Columbus at St, Paul. Tomorrow's Schedule. Toledo at Kansas City. Indianapolis at Milwaukee.- Louisville at Minneapolis, Pet. she has pitched to” him a couple of times. She is also a good batter and bats from either side of the plate. The team of girls on Which Miss Clays plays claims the girls’ cham- pionship of the world. © They have >|never been beaten and havea stand- ing challenge to ‘all other amateur girl teams for games. Two other girls on the team, Miss Adderly and Miss Dixon can pitch or play the infield and Miss Dixon leads the team in batting. All three girls have been offered po- sitions with traveling women’s teams but have refused, as they say they |” play baseball only as a relief from their school room duties. CAPTURE GROUND. London, May 16.—The Bri have captured most of the ground they had lost in Bullecourt and have establish: ed new posts on TiS West side of; the village, says a Bases from Reu- ter’s correspondent at British head: quarters, "REJUVENATION OF CONNIE WAGR’S ATHLETICS. GAUSES STUFFY WINNS 10 IT Hh STRIDE AS 300 SWATSHAN rower cowceccwoce ecco nscoccososcoooesesee. Walking Helps Slim Too, Says Jim Rice Flushes Muscles, Increases Appetite, Builds Up Body, Is View of Physical Advisor BY JIM RICE (Famous Coach of the Columbia Cre w and Physieal Advisor for Daily Tribane Readers.) In a recent article I had something thing to say about walking as a cure for overweight. Today I want to show you why the exercise that will make a fat man thin will put a good healthy covering on a person built like a stick of macaroni. An animated skeleton is al- ways hovering over the brink of a gencral breakdown. The rea- son is he has no reserve strength. Let him catch a cold and he is in bed a week. If he is obliged to un- dergo any. severe- physical exertion or even put in several nights overtime at the office, he is a wreck. and they cannot stand the racket. It is ‘reserve force that ‘brings vit tory to a nation at war. It is just as easy to put flesh on 2 slim man as it is to take off the fellow whosé*beam {is a8 great as his depth. He has} | four yea to do these stunts on his nerves alone | stead The skinny chab usually has the grit, at any rate, fo stick at anything he commences to do. Walking. flushes the muscles with blood. The wear and tear being greater, the eall for new materin! ‘corresponds, and more and more beart; food is eaten and assimilated. Gen. Leonard Wood Of the Unit- ed tates’ army declares the na- tion's need: today is physical training for’ all {inhabitants and indorses the artieles by Coach dim’ Ricc, physical advisor _em- ploged by The Tribune fo teach reve how to heéome physical. y tit. A few years ago at Columbia a cer- tain youth stood hardly_fiye feet five and weighed about 120 pounds. Vor he worked with "great in the gymmasium, afoot n water, and he graduated a {oot-nine man built like a Greek tud, and weighing 170 pounds—ev- cry pound a good oné, for he was one of thé best bow-oarsmen the univer- sily ever saw. i LEAGUE HEADS SHOULD NAME SCORERS FOR SQUARE DEAL It's about time for the’ national commission to take some note ofthe wholesaje bungling by official base: Ball scorers, The trouble’ with the present scor- ing system is that the scorers are ap- pointed by club owners, usually from tae ranks of the home town baseball Sas and the nual ‘result Ms that the records are bungled to'suit the vagaries. of the particulaf Seorer, re- sulting for the mast ‘part in failing to discriminate’ betweenyhits, and and giving the hon the of the doubt. ¥ Several times this year. complaints By PAUL PURMAN. There is nothing more’ discourag- ing to a ball player than to have to play with a collection of misfits, .Example-—Stuffy, McInnis, one of 'the greatest first basemen in baseball today. (McInnis has just finished a batting streak in which he secured. at least one hit in 17 cdnsecutive games, not a record, perhaps, but a very credit: able performance, ‘Last year McInnis was on the road to an achievement seldom attained by any batter—to hit .800 or more for 10 years. For seven years McInnis had swat- ter that old horsehide for more, than -300 and there seemed to be no reason why he should fall under that’ mark last year. McInnis was young, at the start of the season it seemed that he was the only man in baseball ex- cept Ty Cobb who had a fair chance of remaining in the select circle for half a score or more of consecutive years. ‘But theeconstant irritation of play- ing with a ball club that would not win ‘games, a minor league club in a major league, put the skids under McInnis and he skidded down the heap at the middle of the season ' witht the result! that!théebld ery of “gone back”. was-raised, But McInnis rallied ‘and finished with an average of .295, batting close to the'%400. mark for a couple of months to do it. Mcinnis is due for one of his big yéats. Right now he is batting around .380, higher by 40 points thar any previous effort. He is with # ball club which is going good enough to give him confidence and has thor- oughly repudiated ‘any rumors that he is going back. ——————— have been made by managers and players that hits have been credited to batsmen ‘when the opposition should have been credited with an error. This fattens batting averages and causes pitchers, in many cases, to be charged with eartied. runs which were not earned. Official scorers should be appointed by the league presidents and should’ ‘be accountable only to them. There is no reason why scorers should be under any different rulings than um- pires. In that case there would be no reasoh’for doctoring the records for the benefit of the home club bat: ters. } ‘Club owners, of cotitse, would ob- ject to have.this sinecure taken from them. It is the means in many cases of paying in a roundabout way for. publicity and the magnates like to| hold onto it, regardless of the ulti- mate effect on the records. ADVERTISEMENT. Sealed bids for furnishing the city of Bismarck with one street flusier will be received by the Board of City Commissioners of the city of —Bis- marek, North Dakota, until eight o'clock p, mn, May 28, 1917. Bidder will submit price and specifications and time of delivery and must accom- pany each bid with a certified check for five (5) per cent df the amount of the bid, payable to the order of A, W. Lucas, president of the City Commis- sion. The Board of City Commissioners reserves the right a reject any or a ete. City Auditor. | Pitchers By. Paul Purman, The fan whois apt to believe that the prevalence of low hit contests this year fs not oyt of the ordinary may be surprised to learn that already in less than a month of the 1917 season the combined batting averages of the two major league ball clubs hes shrunk nearly 10 per cent compared to the averages of all last year. a whole lot, but when it is consider- more than 300 ballplayers a different light is thrown on the situation. Batting including May 7 was a frac- tion’ over .230 for the 16 ball clubs. Last year the combined batting av- erages for the two big leagues was -249, the shrinkage this year being about 20 points. And the reason is indicatel in the low. hit games that have been pldy in both leagues, five hitless contes two of a single h seven tw games ‘and nine thr it conte: all 23 games with less than four hits per game, a pitching record for all; time for a similar length of time. Whether this is the result of smart- ; Batting Slumps 7 as Ten per cent does not seem to be; ‘Adderly and Miss Dixon, can pitch or | Pile Up Low Hit Games er pitching, or of poorer batting is a question for experts to quarre) Bhowt, Whether stricter rules should be en- forced to give the batter 2 better chance is entirely up to .the rules committee and a question which man- agers probably would never -he able to agree on. For instance a manager with a flock of great pitchers, like Jack Barry or Fielder Jones, would. undoubtedly i fight, any effort ta place a handicap on his, pitchers, while a manager with la hitting club like the Detroit Tigers or the New York Giants would he very well satisfied with anything which would add wallops to his select circle | of swattists. For several years McGraw and Jen- nings have tried to have the fout strike changed to permit but one foul strike to be called, but the opposition always been so strenuous that the ules committee has never considered the matter seriously. | Should combined batting in the big ; leagues fall to .230 for the 1917 sea- son, it is likely that John K. Tener and Ban Johnson might be induced to | take notice. FIRE BALLS 10 DESTROY. CROPS Suggested Air Raid; Be’ Made » Upon Grain of Central Powers Birmingham, “England, May 15.—A plan to destroy the German: crops by setting themi‘on fire by meansiof ‘lre- balls dropped from Entente‘airplan: is suggested by Lord Calthorpe, a former member of the Britishtarmy who has given much thought: to the food situation brought about by this war. “Lord Calthorpe married a daughter of Ogden Hofmann Burrows, of Newport, R. I._ Lord Calthorpe’s proposal, made known through letters to the news- papers in London and other cities ‘of England, has attracted a great deal of attention. While many methods for bringing Germany to terms by the starvation route have been suggested, no such theory as Lord Calthorpe's had before been broached. “In. the Rhine Valley and districts within reach of our aircraft,” he writes, ‘there are vast’tracts of land. planted’ with grain the fields: touch- ing one. another, and without fences and farm buildings ant ne the fields jare rare. m tT “A suitable fireball eoina ‘soon be devised and manufacturéd by our ex- 'perts, but it is imperative, ‘however, that the necessary. experiments and plans are made quickly, as the Ger- man harvests: are earlier than ours. There-is therefore no time:-to be lost’. Lord. Calthorpe says that, as it has become a question ‘as to which coun- try starves first, Germany or England, it is important that the Entente allies lose no time in hastening the destruc- tion of. the German crops.-~-- FRAINE IST FER NOTHING TO OO WITH TROOP MOBILIZATION Col, J. H Fraine, who arrived Tues- day afternoon from Grafton, spent some time in conference with Gover- nor Frazier, and later visited, Fort Lincoln, in company with A. H. Ohl- sen of the American Railway associa- tion, who handled the movement of the troops for the Nortnern Pacific last. year. “My visit here at this time has ab- solutely. nothing.to.do with mobiliza- tion,” said Coloner Fraine, or hedges. Sifhilar conditions ex near the Russian frontier of Germany and in the plains‘of Hungary. “Fireballs.-dropped from airplanes would, if properly constructed, des- troy thousands of acres, as the crops become much drier than in England, and with little risk to the inhabitants, otherwise non-combatants, as cottage Pidbardtidns are going forward at Fort Lincoln for the accommodation of 2,000 troops. A long extension to the railway spur is being completed, and the barracks and grounds, offi- cers’ quarters and other parts of the million dollar military plant are be- ing put in order. ‘ArobilcaitGivil War veterans i ee at St. Paul America VETERANS HONOR AMERICA DAY IN ENGLAND in England are here shown with ‘countries and wearing their medals -going to serv- ’s in London, where a celebration was held in hon. day, when the United States entered ‘the war,