The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 30, 1917, Page 6

“All other games postponed because} BISMARCK DAILY TEIBUNS SCOOP THE CUB REPORTER "THE Boss HAs GoT- @ GARDEN PLOT THIS MORNINGS SUN Was AWFUL HOT — We HoED BEFoRE_ HE CAME Ta WORK AND SOMEWAY GAVE_ His NECK 4 TERK — Longfellow and Scoop Were Just Like Two Peas Scoop sE2 TOHIM JUST FOR. A Tosh — SWALLOW 4 SEED OF Wty) | UTIL IN aM S$ NSy Ve <Q ‘ To KID A GUY AND MAKE HIM SORE SOO ee ee eae ” NATIONAL LEAGU SSP HSO HSE TIBOEG Club— Philadelphia New York . Chicago .. St. Louis Boston Pittsburgh . St. Lou Cincinnati, 4. of rain GAMES THURSDAY. Philadelphia at Pittsburgh. St. Louis at Cincinnati. Club— R. H.W. St. Louis 7 1 Cincinnati 8 2] Batterie and Gonzale: and Wing. SPOHIHBOH GHEE O OO * AMERICAN LEAGUE. % OOOO EEE oo e Club— Pet. Boston Chicago Cleveland iNew York St. Louis . Detroit Washington Philadelphia .. GAMES TUESDAY. Chicago, 4; St. Louis, 2. Cleveland, 1; Detroit, 0. Philadelphia, 4; New York, 0; first game. Philadelphia, 4; New York, 3; sec: ond game. Boston, 2; ‘Washington, 1; first game. Boston, 9; ‘Washington, 0; second game. GAMES THURSDAY. Cleveland at Boston. : Detroit at New York. St. Louis at Chicago. Club— R.H.&,|Murphy and Monte Cross and Collins] years considered one of the best sec- St. Louis .2 5 g/and Barry. Just now he is trying to] ond e ¢ombjnations in the Ameri- Chicago . -4 8 1{/8et the same kind of a combination can league and who were in no small Batterios — Groom and Severeid; out of his two young infielders, who|degree responsible for Detroit win- Russell and Schalk. Detroit at Cleveland. Club— R.H.E. ‘Detroit oO G0 Cleveland : 18 2 Batteries--James and Stanage and Spencer; Coveleskie and O'Neill. tes New York at Philadelphia. First game— Club— RW. EB. 062 410 0 and Nunamaker; Philadelphia Batteries—Fisher Bush and Meyei New York at Philadelphia. Second game— Club— RH. EL New York ... sa 8 6 Philadelphia ....... oe ae ac} Batteries—Mobridge and Walters; Noyes and Schang. Boston at Washington. First game— hington ‘ & F 3atteries — Leonard and Thomas and Agnew: Dumont and Henry. Boston at Washington. Second game—- Club—- R. HEL Boston »9 i 0 Washington .0 6 2 Batteries—Ruth and Agnew; Har- per and Ainsmith. SPPSHS SIPS SSS H ODS “% AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. & SHSSS OAH SESH OOD Club— WwW. L, Pet. Indianapolis 29 11 ~=«CT: Louisville . 19 Columbus . 19 Minneapolis 19.486 St. Paul . 19.472 Kansas City 200 429 Toledo 2100 AIT Milwaukee 230 B78 GAMES TUESDAY. Minneapolis, 1; Kansas City, 1. Toledo, 8; Columbus, 0. Louisville, 6; Indianapolis, 1; first game. * Louisville, 1; Indianapolis, 0; sec- ond game. St. Paul-Milwaukee games postpon- ed—rain. Poowocecccccce-. By Paul Purman fans of a couple of years hence y be speaking of Grover and Witt as sack combinations in baseball. Since he has been in baseball Mack has succeeded in developing two great combinations around second _ base, alreay show signs of future brilliance, Both Witt and = Grover are very young. This year is the latter’s first break into major league circles. Witt played last year. Although they do not show the pol- ish of many older infielders in the league they do show they are develop: ing along the same lines that made the Collins-Barry combination fatal to anything hil down in their territory. Their co-operation is superb cl they think quickly, grasping situa- tions more quickly than many other shortstops and second basemen of far more experience. Mack is very confident of their abil- ity to ultimately produce the same kind of fine tight infield play that he developed in the © -Murphy, Col- line-Barry combination, “Ht takes more than meel ability to produce the pr sults around second ba said. “It takes brains ability for close co-ope con | believe T will get all three in Witt and Grover.” It is one of Mack's beliefs that a great ball club cannot be developed without a great second base combina- tion. be anical Minneapolis at St. Paul. Indianapolis at Columbus. Kansas City at Minneapolis. Club— R.H.E. Kansas City . a oan) Minneapolis . 126° S: Game called at end of ninth inning on account of darkness. Batteries — McConnell and Berry; Burke and Rondeau. Toledo at Columbus. Club— R. HE. Toledo ... o8 1302] Columbus -0 438 Batteries — 1 and Sweeney; Curtis, Brown and Coleman and Dil- hoefer. Indianapolis at Louisville. First game— Club— R.H.E. Indianapolis . -17°9 Louisville - 610 3 Batteries — \Northrup and oGssett; Maine and Clemons. “GAMES THURSDAY. Touisville at Toledo. Kansas City at Milwaukee. Indianapolis at Louisville. Second game— Club— R.U.E, Indianapolis . on a Louisville 16 1 Six innings. Batteries — Kantlener, Dale anid { If Connie Mack’s plans work out the old’ Boston. club,“Grd3¥! ‘and: Murphy jand Collins and Barry of his own clubs, Tinker and Evers of the Cubs, one of the greatest defensive keystone | Barry and Scott of the Red Sox and Maranville 4nd Evers Braves. To these might be added Schaeffer and O’Leary of Detroit, for several years in succession, ness of an infielder under the present system of averages but records show the number of 4 | bat lo: Grover and Witt Defensive Keystone Sack Combinations To''Help Connie Mack Win Flag | ooo He ‘cites Ferris'‘and’Parent of the of the 1914 ning the American league flag three It is dif cult to judge the effective- ances made by the fielders who have passed from the game and whose real work is only memory. that. came ‘to diamond. So: credited with errors on chances they went after and d and the records: show that really tight infield is often an in- field with more errors than one jnles ures not play such tight ah . The re rds uphold Mack’s conten- tion that the great ball club must have a great second base-shortstop combination, ck has been a great developer of infielders. In. addition to his short- CONNIE IS GRAY BUT HASN’T LOST BASEBALL CUNNING Connie Mack as le looks today. The old strategist is beginning to show his years. His hair is becom- ing very gray, but Mack has not lost his faculty of getting the most out of his ballplayers, even though his toams of youngsters }; > done little games since the breaking up of his club in 1914. Mack expects to build up a great team out of his pres- ent combination and hopes to. crente Schang; Davis and Kocker, another “$100,000 infield” with Witt and Grover as its nucieus, ‘ stops and second. basemen he develop- | ed two great third basemen, Lave Cross and Frank Baker and {s now making a good third sacker out of Ray Bates sent back to the minors from Cleveland as a misfit. He made two great initial sackers, Harry Davis and Stuffy McInnis. ‘ Past history has often repeated in} baseball. Do not be surprised if Mack comes , through with. another fast second base combination. INDIAN CONGRESS Cannonball, N. D., ‘May annual Catholic ‘Indian’ congress for North Dakota will bring hundreds of red converts here June 29, 30 and July. 1. fe. HERZOG PASSES UP RUTH TO GET TWOMBLY AND DERRICK Would anyone in baseball pass up a chance to buy Babe Ruth and Ernie Shore cheap? Foolish + question—well, here's a story about; Boston's prize hurlers which makes Buck ‘Herzog shed salt tears every time he thinks about it. A couple of years ago Jack Dunn, owner of the Baltimore International League club decided to break up his club and si A.Cincinnati scout heard of the deal and hurricd:to Baltimore with orders to.:buy George Twombly and see what other deals he ‘could make. AND SHORE He- had an opportunity to, -buy Twombly with Ruth or with Ruth c, but received instructions innati to let the pitchers. go.| and take an infielder named Derrick, who later figure:l in a trade with Chi- Gago for Mollwitz. Twombly later went to Voston and the Reds have; practically nothing to show for the deal. » The Red Sox have, however. Ruth and Shore were mainly re- sponsivle ‘for Eoston winning two [f "ld championships. Had Herzog taken them he probably would be still managing at Cincinnati. TOO MANY GOOD PITCHERS: 18 BILL | DONOWANS LAMENT THIS YEAR By PAUL PURMAN. sill Donovan is. responsible for a brand new alibi, an alibi so unique that if Bill hadn’t stood right up and repeated it we would have seriously doubted Bill’s being its author. “I have too many good pitchers to win as many ball games as I Ought to,” is Bill’s lament!!! Too many pitchers! (Whb ever ‘heard of that before. pees i Issa cinch that Jolh '’McGraw wouldn't say he has too many good. pitchers this year, nor Fred Mitchell, or Lee Fohl or Hughie Jennings. “T don’t get a chance to give my pitchers enough work. There’s too many of them and they're all in good shape,” Bill continusd, “but they don’t work often enough to get used to it.” ing ’em over we find that Bill kk Cullop, Slim Love, Ray Cald- well, Ray Fisher, George Mobridge, Bob Shawkey, Urban Shocker, Rus- séll, Piercey and Monroe. .'Ten of ’em; count ’em and see, and \All;good, too, There isn’t one in the outlit that Jennings or Griffith would- n't fall over himself. to get. And il’s casy to see why they don't get enough work with the bad weath- er that has caused many postponed games this year. : “But just wait until I run into a flock of dowble-headers. Then watch “ny snioke,” said Bill, ea ALEXANDER JINX FOB REDS: WINS ELEVEN-SFRAIGHT GAMES SINCE 1915 ‘The real jinx of the Cincinnati Reds has been discovered. He is Grover Cleveland Alexander, highest salaricd pitcher in baseball. Since August, 1915, Alexander has defeated the Reds in every game he started against them, 11 in all, includ- ing six shutouts. In the eleven games Cincinnati has 30.—The | Made 9 runs and 69 hits off Alexander, & while the Phils were making 59 runs jolt the Red_ pitchers. The Reds batted .191 against Alex- [ander in the.11 games and the big ! ; Nebraskan allowed them .071 earned Tuns per game. Alexander's _ seyen-year _ record vagainst ‘the Reds is 34 victories and seven defeats. ' “Following is Alexander's record of ‘L-_straight, wins over the Reds: Date Score: Ph. Cin. AB H ER BB SO 8 0 35 40 38 5] 10 3 397 920 4 May 13 0 30 8 0 0°5 June 15 14510 1 1 5 July 20 022003 July 23 13 811 8 Aug. 9 - 02200 5 Aug. 18 - 0347001 Sept. 23 3.367001 Sept. 23 3.36135 20 3 1917 May 23. .-.++++ Bd 80) “2. 1 8 1 Totals... 59 9 361 69 7 7 51 Wellesley Girls Go'ln for | _ Baseball; Wellesley college girls, who have, college championship. long ‘been noted for ‘their athletics, have taken up basehall and have class teams in college which play for the HY Many of the girls have become ex- cellent ball players and the sport is rapidly gaining in popularity. Develop Stars Mee good thing about Carl Morris. He has not yet-enlistéd, a la Jess Willard. pe hee No more drinks served~at tourna- ment games of “the three-cushion bil- Now you can sleep through a whole tourna- ment without boing bothered by the waiters. , Joe Cantillon’s Minneapolis team will not be hurt by conscription. We don’t object to the tax on poker decks, but we wish they would tax the guy who suggests Playing with the deuces wild. Cy Falkenburg made a two-base hit the other day. Cy won't be expected ~acoot years wort to get another hit until 1919. A Eoston woman golfer made a hole in. 1. Probably. admitted she played it that way, too. RECORDS OF | MACK’S AROUND SECOND BA Can He Repeat? MURPHY-CROSS. 1903 P.O. A. KE. Pet. Murphy - 344 39 938 Cross ..- 383 49 934 1904 Murphy - 387 31 956 Cross «++ 195 27 .929. 1905 Murphy 453 48 938 Cross 428 46 939 1936 Totals...... 1 2195 240 COLLINS-BARRY 1911 P.O. A. E. Pet. Collins - - 402 451 25 970 Barry .. 406 63 .916 1912 Collins - 349 48 .966 943 949 Barry 955 1914 Collins + 970 Barry O 947 “ota PING HIT PROVED HONE UN FOR LARIMORE STAR Wins Batter a Bride-Wed ‘and Living Happily Ever After . in St. Paul SORTS 285 Miss June. de.Graf of Gingston, N. Y., is the regular catcher of the junior team, and Miss Esther Dasha of}” Quincy, Mass., is one of the heaviest hitters of the same team. Stanley, N. D., May 30.—Winning the heart of his loved one with a pinch hit at the very moment the Larimore team needed it: successful in a 12cylinder courtship, arrested for speeding while trying to make the train that was to carry him to his wedding; released, married, and pre- pared to live happily ever after, ‘Ed- ward Manthey, former star of the ‘Larimore baseball team, is at home in South St. Paul with his bride, for- merly Bertha L. Zieman, a trained nurse at Plaza. Larimore was tied with Inkster in the ninth inning the day Eddie knocked his home run, two Many men “have ee toit aftet trying en