The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 17, 1917, Page 6

SCOOP THE cuB REPNRTER I NEED MoRE— PRACTICE — MY LANDING WAS , ON TH’ BUM. BASEBALL SCORES A @ AMERICAN ASSOCIATION, ¢ Ce eo Club— Indianapolis St. Paul . Louisville Columbus Milwaukee Minneapolis Kansas City . Toledo .. . TURDAY. Minneapo! Columbus, 10. THE Louisville, Milwaukee, 5. St. Paul, 7; Toledo, 1. Indianapolis, 2; Kansas City, 1. GAMES SUNDAY. St. Paul, 3-3; Toledo, 4-1. Minneapolis, Indianapolis, Louisville, 4 : Kansas Ci ; Milwaukee, 1-10. 9999599999900 ° NATIONAL LEAGUE. ° Ce ee ee ee Club— w. L New York .... 89 49 Philadelphia 59 St. Loius .. 66 Chicago 70 Cincinnati 70 Brooklyn 71 Boston ve Pittsburgh . 92 GAMES SATURDAY. St. Louis at Chicago. Club— R.H.E St. Louis .. -14 71 Chicago . a 92 Batteries — Packard and Snyder; Hendrix and Wilson, Dilhoefer. New York at Boston. Club-- RHE New York . 510 0 Boston 163 Batterie: Rariden; Re-| gan, Allen and Tragesser. Pittsburgh at Cincinnati. Club— RE Pittsburgh 2614 4 Cincinnati . TAL Batteries — Jacobs, Grimes and Schmidt; Eller and Wingo. GAMES SUNDAY. Pittsburgh at Cincinnati. Club— RH. E. First game— Cincinnati, . 462 Pittsburgh 2841 Batteries Schneider and Smith; Steele and Wagner. Cincinnati Second game— Club— R.H.E Pittsburgh 29 1 Batteri ‘egan and Wingo; Carl- cher. St. Louis at Chicago. son and Fi Club— RAE Chicago . 03 4 St. Louis + 69 0 Batteries—Vaughn and Dilhoefer; Goodwin and Snyder. GAMES TODAY. New York at Chicago. Boston at Pittsburgh. Philadelphia at Cincinnati. A ee e AMERICAN LEAGUE, ¢ HHS HHH HO HOD Club— WwW. LL. Pet Chicago . 94 A845 Boston 3 Cleveland . Detroit New York Washington . Philadelph St. Louis ...... GAMES SATURDAY. Philadelphia at Washington. First gzine— Club— R.H. E. Philadelphia 2 Washington Batterie ley; Harper and Ainsmith. Second game— Club— RHE. Philadelphia -0 6 0! Washington . 490 Batteries — and Meyer; Johnson and Ains Boston at New York. Club— RILR Boston ... 0 New York . Batteries—Ruth and Cady; Cullop, Shocker, Monroe and Ruel. of two ball clubs there a fundamentals to be considered, the offensive and defensive st incidentally, their relative bearing 07 each other. sub-di pitching and fielding, the latter into the strength of the catching infield and outfield departments. 1]may be divided into two component parts, the batting, including the style of attack, and the base running ative batting strength of the two clubs. uy aggregations, each rankinr its league, but” each be ahead in real sv of ability to hit when hits are needed ‘1 St. Lou j Schalk; Davenport and S The first of six articles by Paul 't, an- Purman, Tribune sport expert, a alyzing ‘and comparing the White Sox and Giants as they approach the world series. —_—— By PAUL PURMAN. In sizing up the relative strength re two Inain sth, with These may be divided roughly into! ns; the defensive into the The offensive strength of a club In this article | will take up the rel- Both clubs are tremendous hitting ond in i far out tting strength of what the averages show on account to make runs. Taking them man by man, Joe Jack- son stands out, in spite of his puny year, as the most danger SERIES BATTING A Comparison of aitack than Hergeg and the brillian young Risverg, in spite of inexper ence is superior to Fletcher. At third Zimmerman is more dangerous than Weaves. McCarty fs superior to Schalk in the batting departmeni. Itut there is to be considered the g 5s method of attack and what the teams can do against the kind of pitching FELSCL which will be sent against them. Mc Graw undoubtedly will depend upon - ss ie his three southpaws, Benton, Schupp Enero sts ne erent Sallee, to stop the White Sox who egies ily, outeuces. Jacke have been rather weak against fork he bats by natural instinct and is as hand pitching this year. What the likely to hit one kind of a ball as an- Sox {car most is the sweeping cross- other fire of Sallec’s delivery. The Giants have a slugger of the} | witl write more of this in my ar- same type in Zimmerman, a power-| ticle on the pitching. . ful, dangerous, natural batter. ‘All in all in attack the White Sox ‘here is little to choose from inthave a'slight advantage, so far as the attack of the’two outfields. J theory and averages go. This advant- son outclasses Robertson. Kauff and] age is so slight, however, that the Felsch are about evenly matched and | least unlooked-for element might eas- George Rurns is a much more danger-| ily disturb it. ous man than either Leibold or; Both teams are loaded with tem- Shane Collins. porament, either fs likely to go in With the exception of the far cor-}and knock the hide off the ball or ner tue White Sox have a trifle the! just as likely to miss anything in better of the argument in the in-/sight. That’s where the question of ficld on the offensive, and the edge|world series nervousness enters in. will be greatly raised if Herzog is un-| With cold-blooded money players able to pla like the Red Sox or Athletics this cle- andil is more consistent with the|ment never entered, but with clubs ick than Holke but his shade is very like the Giants and Sox it may cut a lings is more dangerous on | big figure. slugger who is likely to hit anything any time. First game— Club— Chicago . Detroit Batter Schalk; Wa — Russell, and Stanage. Second game— Chub— Chicago. Detroit Ratterie ningham and §; RW. B.E 2 ooh 0 and Schalk; Cun- | cer. her GAMES SUNDAY St. Louis at Chicago. Club— Chicago . ‘Batterie illia ereid. | jf shman ele Football Prospects game with the Northwestern Uni- y, scheduled for November , at Evanston, IL Kansas City, Sept. 17.—-With raska pre-season favorite The uri Valley conference foot- ball situation will be pre ally’ anks | Muchanged rom eotiaures Ae ‘Ww, ‘ |son, Kansas being the only KR Ee Weske, Gs M. Sparks, W. ened team. All of the remaining pe Peach aud BoM schools in the conference have Bounfobealast VC Jost a number of men by enlist- quad and six members of the ents and by the officers’ train- ven are expeeted to ing camps, but the mumber lost; Aun Arbor, Mich. Sept. 17.— With four of last) year’s letter men around whom to build the eleven, Coach Yost of the Univers- ity of Michigan hopes to develop Nel f, Ne a fairly strong team to represent | M sand Blue on the erid- |? fall. The “four ’ve iron this players expected to be in the |... Cleveland at Detroit. jrguuran to school. F. A. Willard, by cach ool so nearly corresé Club— R. i. iI. », J. O. Goodsell and ponds that it gives each an almost Detroit. ..... Ss. are the reserves: even break Cleveland ol rr ” Ponti a . Batteries Whether ‘Brute’? Pontius, who ans, one of the heaviest Bagby and O'Neill ted the coaching staff la sof recent years inelud- No other games played. GAMES TODAY Philadelphia at Washington. Roston at New York, Cleveland at St. Louis. The world is getting better, Cleveland at St. Louis. .. Club— RH! Cleveland .. 512 0 “St. Louis .. 410 4 Batteries—Covaleskie, Wood, Mor- ton “and Q’Neil;° Davenport, Groom, Wright and Hale, Hartley. _ {Mary.’s-or Mola’s? After seeing Fred Futon fight a! New Orleans promoter re ft try to fool the publie with him. to Whose turn is it to win next, re Omecaue. will help develop this ity of Towa, Notre Is uu 5 re- Dame and Michigan, and ending ceived a military appointment in the season by playing Syracuse jthe National army, but recently University on Thanksgiving Day suffered a severe injury. Elmer a¢ Gineoln, The Cornhusker jMitchell, coach of the freshmen gehedule inelndes only two of the leleven, will, however i coaching stall this ve: and Kansas, the former playi g u! Lincoln for the first time since y 1911: Only two of Michigan's gam this fall are to be plaved awa from home. These are the contest Nebraska will return six veter- November 17 with the University ans: Captain Shaw, right tackle; of Pennsylvania, which will be Riddell, rivht end; Rhodes, left: ‘played at Philadelphia, and - the end and left guard ;~ Cook, Tal } eas ee ——— J mother veteran, reported ready J} Van Pelt will turn out for . and Me} ston the \issouri Valley teams, Missouri, DON'T MISS: TH AT MANDAN TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, And THURSDAY ‘Second Battalion and Second + Regiment Band will Be There back; Dobson, half ‘back; and Out- apalik, lineman. With — this staunch nucleus, Coach Stewart is expected to build up another ma- chine such as the school has been noted for in recent years, Iowa City, Ia., Sept. 17.—De- spite the inroads on athletes made by the war, prospects for a sue- cessful football season at the Uni versity of Iowa are declared to be promising. Coach Howard Jones is hard at work getting a line on gridiron timber available. One thing that has sent Hawk- rye hopes sky-rocketing is the promised return of Captain-eleet Davis, after reports that he would not be back to pilot the team. Davis tied the drop kicking reeord of the country last year, and fowans are expecting his trusty right toe to aid materially in landing victories this sea Then there are nade the longest rv the Towans, and Guido o don the moleskins, whil Reic 1916 end, may he back.» Elder i: gain eligible; Kelly and Hansel- nan, guards of last. on, e rood prospects, and it is likely full- Sack again. . | Greenwood, Hamilton, Brown SPORT GOSSIP ichols, freshmen last year ire within the range of first string uaterial, which includes several sther 1916 freshmen and former varsity performers of no mean Chicago, Se 7; Wilhoit, er, the 1916 batting champion, Zimmerman, Ne making a desperate drive to finish) ey, Pittsburgh : second to ‘Ty Cobb for American ale shifting of old men to/league batting honors. Averages lew positions is looked for, and}released today show the Cleveland Soach Jones is busy planning an] star back in F i attaek whieh is ex-laverage of 353, with Sisler of St. nected to shade the tacties of the}Louis, who held the spot a week shell rutted battleficlds of Europe.| ago, six points behind him. The a averages include games of Wed- nesday, | Cobb fell off twelve points in the week, getting only five hits in ° seven games, but he is safely in the lead with an average of 374. The Georgian stietched his total hase hitting to 801. His reeord includes 39 doubles, twenty-four triples, and five cireuit drives. roa: Bush, the Detroit shortstop, vf ett lianapolis may loose the read shot over the 100 mark in scoring, fice hitting as. he B out of having broneht in 101 runs, while the game, heeaus of Injuries, tle Cobb is trailing him with 94. M s mi de 87 5 fies blows, while Veach of Detroit clung to home 7° rthy of Columbus is pressing run honors with eight. Bodie of inns ith thirt -five. Philadelphia and Pipp | Kansas City regained command of New’. in t New York 297; York 296; Car- Demmitt of Columbus regained the Latting lead of the American iation with an average of irke of Louisville, the lead- era week ago, going into second place with 319. The averages in- games of Wednesday. sen, the St. Paul first base- psed the century mark in ving counted 106 times nes. He also booste:t recc rd to fifty-four. er of Kansas City drove ou {wo more home runs, bringing bis tital up to fifteen.” As the seas closes next Wednesday, Bronkia Neale of the Reds is now hitting the 300 class. Umpires probably would like to have close decision included in peace terms, see Imagine nine men trying to play the kind of baseball that Ty Cobb would recommend. eee Bernie Boland, Detroit pitcher, has set back the New York Yankees eight|York are following with seven 6 65. batting with an average’ times in a row. each, ieee ° id Roth and Chapman of Cleveland | Leading batters who have parti- cipated in half or more of their elubs games: Demmitt. Columbus 321: ke. Louisville 319; Beek- When the war is over they can bring the kaiser over and make him president of the National league. of @ are fighting it out for honors in base stealing, Roth with 45, hav- ing a lead of three. Chapman “7. ‘2 continues to show the way to sacri- ee y Kansas ¢ bs fice hitters with 64. Detroit which hennelis, at 2 Anderson, Mil- leads in team batting, has an aver- es Ne HE I au 295; age of 259. jDressen, St. Pant 204: Massey, Leading batters who have play- Bune Polis 200: Riggert, ed in half their clubs games: j Paul 289. Cobb, Detroit 874; Speake Cleveland, Sept. 17.—Herman Cleveland 353: Sisler, St. Puis De Berry, catcher with the Cleve- 347; Felsch, Chicago 314: Veach. land Americans, plans to enlist in Detroit 306; Chapman, Cleveland the navy soon after the close of 306; Lewis, Boston 305; MeInnis, the hasehall an 16 ood A scarcity of base “hits and winning Philadelphia 302: Harris, Cleve- have volunteered hefore the end tallies takes its place alongside the land 301; Bodie, Philadelphia 300; of the season. but his parents ask- shortage of beans in Boston. Jaekson, Chieago 297. ed him to hold off until he could eee ees ‘ : Jake Fournier, former White Sox’! Rousch of Cincinnati widened . ay them at their home in Sav- first baseman, is. setting the Coast the gap between himself and “1 Tenn. _ This father is in league afire with his: batting. Tfornsby, the St. Louis shortstop, ling Tiealth . oe ¢ for the batting lead in the Nation- aaa pay Te en Te tls eons al league. averages ineluding elder w: e : | games of Wednesday giving Roush Job he ‘will draw down $2,000. an average of 345—nincteen points ? ead of his rival. There were no changes among : t leaders in other offensive depart- F One thing that makes the end of the baseball scason regrettable is that a lot of bum fighters who can't get their names in print dur- ing the summer will begin to break into the sport page. Seventy million dollars is invested in trapshooting in America, and the sport is following the flag. ee @ Johnny Evers is about through. The Phils may get some good work from him, but it is doubtful. ee @ A team composed of men like Heinie Zimmerman and Johnny Evers would fill any park in the country. Cn , The Cubs have a fine young catcher th in “Pickles” Dillhoefer, who is sharing the backstopping with Art Wilson. * eee ments of the game. Carey of Barney Dreyfuss says he would like Pittsburgh added another — stolen to sell his Pirates. Connle Mack hase to his total, bringing it up! might like to sell his pennant chances. ¢4 forty-one, and Burns of New ene = : . York stretched his mark in scor- ing to 93. Cravath of Philadel- With gil that McGraw. must have taken the spirit out of Heinle Zim- merman, who has ceased to nag the I drove out another home run umpires, A jsivin him a total of 12. Deal eee of Chicago is srowing the way to Jack Barry says he was hit 23 times sacrifice hitters with 28. by pitched balls last season, but doesn’t = Cincinnati clung to team hatting \ balleve i the beanbell oes opti honors with an average of sm is admirable, anyway. adi attera AG : eee Heating, natlers, we have, pinyed vanced but probably will with the LOL pcee re Nae as is * opening of the bowling season. report to the Indians and Connie Mack games: Roush, Cincinnati 345: : made him a member of his world’s Hornsby. St. Louis 926: Groh,!_ It’s lamentable the way Walter champions. He refused to report te. Cincinnati 308; Kanff. New York Johnson has gone back. He al- the Brewers and they made him man: 307 : Burns, New York 299; Cruise, lowed Boston two hits the other [St Louis 299; Wheat, Brooklyn days Graney : stole: home --the ~ other day in Detroit. Stealing Copp s sttuff right in his own home town, The price of beer has not ad- Paddy Livingstone once refused to nd et