The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 5, 1918, Page 6

SIX BSS ARCK MORNING. TRIBU. RECRUIT BRINGS IN LONE SCORE Washington Goes to Defeat; Close Win for Yankees Against Boston Philadelphia, Pa., May 4.—Davidson, recruit from Brown University, broke up a runless pitchers’ battle between Johnson and Perry today by beating out an infield hit in the eleventh in- ning, Philadelphia winning 1 to 0. The play at first was close and while Judge turned toward umpire Connelly, Burns dashed home from third with the only ‘rin of the game. Yankees Vietors By Bunching Hits, 5-4 New York,'N. Y., May 4—New York again def¢ated Boston here today, 5 to 4, The Yankees bunched hits off Ruth early. in the game and took ad- vantage of his poor fielding in the third, when the pitcher's two errors aided the Yankees in scoring two runs. Ruth hit a home run, with Scott on ‘pase in the seventh and his double in the ninth scored Agnew. Eighth Inning Rally Gives St. Louis Game} "St. Louis, Mo. May 4--St. Louis ral- lied in the eighth after Cleveland had ixth taken the lead from them in the and won 4 to 3. In this inning Sish singled, took second on Morton's wild throw, was sacrificed to third and scored on a single by Demmitt. DETROIT VICTORIOUS OVER CHICAGO 2-1 Detroit, May 4.—A long drive into right field by Heilmann with the bases filled in th eleventh inning gave Detroit a 2 to 1 victory, over Chicago this afternoon. Detroit tied’ the game in the sixth when Bush, who had forced Dregsen at second, scored on Cobb’s two-base hit. GRENADE TOSS OUSTS HAMMER THROW IN MEETS Lansing, Mich., May 4.—Exit the hammer-throw from field meets; en- ter the “grenade toss.” The Michigan Agriculture college is taking the lead in introducing this sport which Coach Chester L. Brewer proclaims to be not only of keen in- terest as.a sport but also as valu- able training in an art that is taking an important part in winning battles in France. In field meets here this spring, grenade throwing will be list- ed as a regular event, replacing the hammer-throw. Candidates for the grenade teams are now being trained by Coach Brew- er, who introduced the sport in south- ern training camps last summer. The squads are organized into two class es. One of these is taught accurac; in dropping bombs on a given spot the width of a trench, and the other ig. trained to hit a mark, such as an obstruction, which might be desirable to, remove in attacking. The distances used are 60 and 75 yards. All throwing is of the stiffarm, ov- erhand kind used by military experts. The missiles are the usual Mills gren- ades, minus their “teeth. ST. LOUIS NATIONALS NOT TO LEAVE OLD HOLE St. Louis, Mo., May 4.—Rumors that the St. Louis Nationals intended to move to the old Federal League park which is more commodious than Card- imal Field, were dissipated by a state- ment from President Branch Rickey that the club would not desert its old home. e I spent $4,800 for improvements there last season,” he explained, “ana almost the same amount this season. 7 am willing to spend as much more ag wo need but until after the war the Cardinals will bée found at their old quarters. Later we intend to - ‘build a field that will not be surpassed in the United States,” “Rickey also declared that tthe $50,- 000 payment due. this, month on: the |: ‘balance of the purchase price of. the Cardinals will be met promptly. Pres- ent stockholders of the clu) are known to. be conducting a vigorous selling campaign bnt the extent of their sales are not known, according to Rickey. THOUSANDS OF LITTLE FOLK TO BUY STICKERS Sioux City, S. D. May 4.—Thou- sands of boys and girls in South Da- Kota enthusiastically are preparing to buy thrift stamps this spring and sum- mer, as th¢ result, of a ruthless cam- qaign on_an ally of the kaiser. "A state law has been passed which permits a bounty of 10 cents on every’ gopher killed “in South Dakota. A iumber of counties in the gopher belt fiave issued bounty orders. As there “are thousands of the animals, of the “pocket” variety, the lawmakers real- ized that their act means no incon- Sgiderable outlay. But each gopher oe more than its weight in gold. ® Reports coming to Sioux Falls from ¥arious parts of the state, indicate fhat the slaughter will commence soon. BONDS FOR BREWERS. Milwaukee, Wis. May 4.—Mem- Bers of the Milwaukee club of the ‘American association will be present- @d with $100 Liberty bonds if they fucceed in winning the pennant this geason. A. F. Timme, president of the club, in making the announce- Ment, said he would give the piayers $50 bonds if they finished either sec- gnd or third. If the club wins tthe flag & will cost Timme $1,600 as he will . Bave to reward sixteen regulars. ON 1918 GOPHER TEAM = Minneapolis, Minn., May 4.—D. H. Bessessen, crack University of Minne- ta swimmer, has been elected cap- win of the 198 Gopher swimming feam. He has been a consistent point winner on this year’s team, which has #nade an excellent showing. PITTSBURGH OX TOP AFTER TEN INNINGS, 5 10 4 Four Run: Lead Vainly_ Over- come by St. Louis; Chic- cago’s Eighth Straight Fittsburgh, Pa., May 4.—St. Louis lost to Pittsburgh here today in ten innings, 5 to 4. The heme team scored four runs in the opening inning but. St. Louis by scoring one in the third and three in the fifth tied the game. A triple by Caton, followed by. Mollwitz’s single in the tenth, bronght in the winning run for Pitts- burgh, Philadelphia Shut Out By Brooklyn Brooklyn, :N, Y.,. May 4.—Brooklyn shut out Philadelphia 3 to 0, today winning the fifth of its last six games. Grimes allowed Philadelphia three hits in the first three innings, but. for the rest of the game the visitors could not connect with hik curves: Prendergast allowed ‘no hits for three innings and then was. touched for 9 triple, a double and two singles ‘Righth Straight, Won, mn By Chicago, Score 1-0 Ghicago, May 4.—Chicago made it eight straight today by,shutting out Cincinnati 1°-to- 0 in a pitching duel between Tyler and Eller, i “Rowdy” Elliott, catcher of the lo- cals, who has enlisted in the navy, was presented with a writ watch by ‘his teammates. Slab Work of Herzog Chalks Up Victory Boston, Mass., May 4.—Tesreau*held Boston hitless today until Wilson trip- led with none out in the, last of the ninth, Herzog’s single scored Wilson with one out. Sallee then replaced Tesreau and retired pinch hittersRehg and Kelley, New York winning 4 to 1. The visitors hit’ Hearn hard and often. eee eee AMERICAN LEAGUE | oe _$____________* Standing of the Clubs. Ww — L R Roston .. 12 5 706 Cleveland . 9 5 648 Chicago -. . 6 5 sow vork . ray 38 ‘Washington 25 9 ‘bhiladeiphia 6 8 St. Loui: 6 9 Detroit 4 6 Today's. Games. Cleveland at St. Louis. Chicago at Detroit. —— nt”) i NATIONAL LEAGUE i % 2 Woo New York .. 4 1 Chicago ., 19 3 ‘Philadelphia 8 5 Cincinnati .. eee St. Louis: . oe Be SER Brooklyn. - ae BOD Boston ...- 3° 12 Today’s Games. St. Louis at Chicago. Pittsburgh at Cincinnati. LARRY LAJOIE NEVER HAS SEEN ORLD SERIES Indianapolis, May 4.—Twenty years in the major league and never saw 'a world’s series! Larry Lajoie, the new manager of the Indianapolis, club of the American association, is the guilty party. “Tcame mighty close to playing in a world’s series, once, and. that 1s the closest. | ever came to seeing one,” Lajote said, “In 1908, when T was managing the, Cleveland clyb, we, lost the championship by half a game. I almost saw a world’s series’ then, but didn’t,” . Asked .if he didn’t care to witness thé sweepstakes of the baseball sea- son, Lajoie said that he was ready to go home and rest after the close of each season, and for that, reason pass- ed up the “big sliow” every year. SSOCIATION IN ST. LOUIS St. Louis, Mo. May. 4.—The. first annual convention of the Mississippi Valley Waterways association, which was organized in. this city last year, will be held in St. Louis May 14 and 15, according to an announcement by James, B., Smith, president of the or- ganization. Letters have been sent to all mem- bers of the Association, notifying them to be present. The necessity of co- operation by all the members is out- lined in the summons. Methods of re- lieving the freight congestion of the railroads. will be one of the topics discussed, 5 Invitations have been sent to gov- ernors, mayors, commercial and busi- ness organizations and, state officials of all the states in, the Mississippi valley. Many of .these officials have voiced their intentions of being pres- ent. = Ch TO WEAR SOLID. WHITE Louisville, Ky., May 4,—When the American association seasou opens here on May 8, members of the Louis- ville club will take the field wearing solid white uniforms. The uniform will not bear any letters or mark of distinction. The idea is that the faces of the Louisville players are so famil- iar throughout the circuit that noth- ing is needed to identify them. COLLEGE BASEBALL. At lowa City. lowa, 0; Mlinois, .3 At La Fayette, Ind. Wisconsin, 9; Purdue, 8. At Cambridge. Boston Navy Yard 12; Harvard 0. At Annapol's. Navy 12; West Virginia University ; At Westpoint. Army 9; Catholic University 4 At Princeton. Yale 4; Princeton 3. BY PAUL PURMAN The time-honored sport of Japan is not, is supposed by most Americans jiu-jitsu, nor is it. hari-kari. ling is the oldest sport in the members of the profes clung to old traditions even so far wearing top-knots, which most Jap ese have discarded. an and ion have SIMPSON MANTLE FAKES ON SCHOLZ New Champion Has Arisen to Carry Missouri Colors When Robert Simpson finistéd his athletic career at the “U” of Missouri last year, a career that saw him a world’s champion, in the _ hurdle: there was speculation as tc who wo be elected to carry the Gold ani Bla of the schoo] to further victories. It was taken, for granted, of course, that some athletic star would appear; that the succession of champions produced at the Missouri college wowd not be broken after ten years of uninterrupt- ed supremacy. Bermond, Talbott, Thatcher, Nicholson and Simpson each in turn had been more than state and Missouri Valley cofiference cham- pions, .Now comes Jackson Volney Scholz, slender of build and 21, who appears to he destined to uphold the prestige established by his predecessors, Sev- eral weeks ago at Des Moines he flashed the 100 yards in :09 4- i. ics asserted he was ~ jided by a healthy wind, so by way of proof he went tc Philadelphia a few days later and a: the athletic carnival held ‘by the Unt- versity of Pennsylvania he broke the tape first in the 100-yard dash, show- ing his heels to the “bést collegiate runners‘in the country. His ‘time was ten seconds flat and the feat estab- lished his place in_ the ‘athletic world. + Schalz, when a boy of. fourteen os Angeles, began to show evidenc= of being a sprinter, as numerots med: als, will, testify. Later he came to. St. Louls and entered Soldan high school. ord for the 160-yard, dash when he wor the tinals in the interscholastic meet in 10 1-5 seconds. : When he entered the University ot Missouri three years ago Coach Henry F, Schulte took Schqlz, who up to this time had been’ winning races because of his native fleetness, and’ taught ‘him the élementary principles of “form.” He. stripped down the lad as one might an automobilg.and after finding nical misdemeanor, proceeded to teach him. how to start and’ how ‘to stride to obtain, best results... > contributing Scholz’ success is Robert The Eosworth, Mo., champion took. a liking to the youngster and taught him everything he knew. The two room- ed together, trained together and it was not long until Scholz agsimilated the ideas of training that had work ed out: so successfully with Simpson, and when the latter left. school to go to an army camp, Scholz: was pre-, pared to shoulder the responsibility of being the school’s best athlete. Scholz is now 21.years of age anc i stherefore eligible for army service. He already has applied for the naval reserve branch of: aviation, although if he desired he could claim an e:- emption as he is a junior in the school, of. agriculture. If he continues his factor to more records. At least stich are the assertions of track experts. Coach Schulte says he expects Scholz to do :09 2-5 in the 100 yards on a dry track this summer., Martin. Delane coach of the Chicago Athletic ass: ciation, after watching the. sprinter perform at Des Moines, is said to “This performance merely substantiates. my opinion he will be the greatest colegiate runner in the country this year.” Coach Schulte says he has entered his star in three more meets this year. He will run in the Missoun- Kansas dual meet, the Missouri Val- ley conference meet.at Columbia and the Western conference meet at Chi- cago June 8. FLEET OF WHEELS TO CRUISE MIDDLE WEST Great Lakes, IIL, May 4.—A fleet on wheels will cruise the middle west, re: cruiting men-and sending them direct to Great Lakes for training. Lieuten: a-t John Ronan, ordnance officer, is pieparing the fleet for action. It is athletic career he’ probably will smasi:| THEY'RE FORGETTING WRESTLING. ] Wrest- the Japanese \college teams for the , s move of the Japs to.change their na-j But even the ‘Japanese wrestlers |reds of thosands of natives. a rdestroyer,‘a submarine and a sudmar In 1915 he set a new high school rec}, him guilty of practically every tecn-|- i Simpson. |; AND IN JAPAN .... WRESTLERS SUNDAY, MAY 5,~1918. Left, Takano, Yama, famous Japaaesé wrestler, playing first base. Right, Bantai Zan, another wrestler, pitch ing-. cin the. center is shown a typical £ scene at a Japanese wrestling match. have been, umable to withstand the, lure of baseball and they have formed’ a number of ball clubs which vie with championship. of the island kingdom. : In Japan this is regarded as the first tional sport from wrestling to base- ball and it'is' meeting favor with hund- DARA ee expected the vessels wil be placed i commission within the next twe wedks. The fleet will be composed of three vessels.: mounted on as many flat | cars. There will be a torpedo boa: } ine chaser. of the Eagle type All, the vessels, will mount guns. The submarine will carry torpedoes also. | Crews for the ships. jill be picked | from Great Lakes blueiackets and & | detachment of the Great Lak will accompany the fléét. Painted. canvas will be along the sides. at the botte els to give the exne: going effect. When the fle tion it wil have the appearance of bounding over the itldwy deep. Two standard coaches, one to: be used hy the examining physicians and the other for mess purp: will be carriel with the fleet! Recruits im mediately upon ‘application wil be giv- en thetr physical examination. As the flect moves into a port the eannon will roar and. the band play Then the active work of recruiting will be begun. Plans for tho movements .of the fleet include a cruise‘over every trac- { One of the really famous team: x | colts entered for the derby, and he has | having won at his was with) Azra in 1892. the Tokio wrestlers’ nine, every mi ber of which is as well known in Jap- an as Strangler Lewis or Earl Cad- dock are in America, Cne member of, the nine has declared that next to being the champion wrestler of Japan rhe would rather he the best baseball player in Nippon, which is some state- map, coming from a Japanese wrest- LONG AGAIN SEEKING DERBY; NEVER QUITS Louisville, K: Tay 4.—There is no| patron of the turf who has so consis ently and so continuously sought after the Kentucky derby as George J. Long of Louisville. For 26 years, just three years short}! of the whole length of his career asj) a turfman, Leng has had one or more the somewhat unicue distinction: of rst attempt. That He had to which he did wait 14 years to repez in 1906 with Huon. If 14 yea Mr. Long's regular established interval, he is due to win in 1920. Cf course, lie has a chance to break into-the winning class be- fore that, and there are good judges who esteem his chances this year with | Freecutter. Long shares with Dwyer brothers the first position among Kentucky derby winners, both having two brack- ets to their credit. He has also run second twice, with Sir Cleges and} Plutus qnd third once with Sigurd, In almost every instance his entries have been of his own breeding. tion line and, railroad in the middic west AR RR ee In addition to winning twice the LEONARD OUTGROWS DIVISION Champion Can’t Make Weight . LEWTENDLER NEXT CHAMPION? TUL BRING Lew (son THE RIGHT 1 CHAMPIONSHIP i, ‘BY PAUL PURMAN. When is a, champion boxer not a champion? When he can’t’ come close to making the recognized weight in his division. There's the question and the answer |; rand it all-hinges around the champion- ship of Benny Leonard, champion light weight of the-world.- + reas The time will soon come when Ben- ny will have to renounce the claims to the lightweight title, not because he isn’t a great’ fighter, not becatise he isn’t popular, but because a few month in army camps has piled weight on the |. Fast-sider ntil now, instead of being a lightweight, he is a heavy welter- weight. , / Benny; hasn't boxed, much lately. Recently. in a.six-round bout at Phila- delphia he went into the ring -at catch weights. perts at ringside estimated all the way from 145 to 152 pounds. 3 ye One thing was certain. Renny show- ed the minute he dropped his bathrobe that he isno longer a lightweight and that he can no longer make !25 pounds ringside, 3,0'clock or anv other time. Benny isn't fat; he’s just big. Sooner or later he w'll be forc- ed to renounce his title in favor of some other qood boy who can mceke weight, ‘All. this sounds strange when it is considered that Benny won his title at 135 pounds and even made 133 pounds for Johnny Kilbane. But Benny,is young and is of the type that take on height and weight at 21, and 22.. Right now Leonard ROADTOTHE Licht wecdT TENDLEF2 1S AN ~ Be NewsiE This brings' up>the question of Ben- ny’s successor,,and the most promis- ing candidate for the honors right now is Lew Tendler, the Philadelphia southpaw. 4 Tendler is one of the toughest boys in the division. He boxes with. his right hand and foot extended, which jis puzzling- to boxers not used to this style of fighting. In action he appears awkward, but he gets around the ring with surp- prising agility. He hits quickly and would have a hard time making the welterweight limit of 142 ringside. his blows carry a world of power. That Tendler has become a great HAVE TAKEN UP BASEBALL RRR RRR eee lis gratifying to a host, of admirers. Bigs « Ss ler, and goes to show how strong the great American game is going there. The have a besball league of college teams in Japan, including Waseda Un- iversity, Keiwo University and Kyoto University. The two first mentioned have toured the United States and| have given some good American clubs | a race for their money. rich classic, with golts bred by him- self, Mr. Long would have added an- other victory to his credit had he re- tained Manuel, which won in. 1889. Long bred this colt, but sold him as a two year old, little thinking that he would prove a derby winner. This year Freecutter, a son of Free Lance and Cutter, will uphold the stable’s tradition. The colt has been working in a most satisfactory “man- ner and is showing improvement that Freecutter’s chief victory as a two- year-old was in the Cincinnati trophy in which he led home a fine band of youngster: St. Louis, Mo., May 4.—Coach Ruth- erford, after looking over the, material that has come out for practice be- lieves that prospects for a well bal- anced track and field team at Wash- ington university are promising, Fif- teen candidates are engaging in daily workouts. Dick Kramer, a former St. Louis high school athlete, is showing woll in the weight events and Harold ‘vey, a newcomer, is said to be eptionally fast in the sprints. Ruth- announced that Washington-unt- y will be represented by a sinall squad at the Missouri Valley confer- ence. lightweight is more or less accidental. A few years ago he was a newsbay around Philadelphia. Now and then he would get into one of the numerous six-round bouts featured in that city. He liked boxing and boxed a little at a newsboys’ club and one nightilled in for a preliminary bboy who didn’t show up. His showing was so good that he-got on in other preliminaries and.soon became a favorite in Phila- delphia and was given a trial in main shows. Right now Tendler is among the top- ~| sota. MARIA SANFORD _ SLEEPS IN DAY COACHES AT 80 Reproached for Economy, Grand Old Woman Points Out Sammy’s Sacrifices: , Minnerpolis, May .4.—One. of the most striking examples of, patrjotism and ecoonmy brought out by the war has been given by Maria Sanford, pro- fessor emeritus of,.the, University of Minnesota and generally, refes.ed to nesota’s grand. old, woman,” who js touring the no thyest giving patriotic Jectur Professor Sanford, vo is 81 years old, has been denying eself sleeping car .gccommodations while teayeling. in. Minnesota, North Dakota and, Montang in the interest of the government. * Numerous, complaints have, heen re- ceived at Headquarters of the Minne- sota War Sayings committee question- ing,..the propriety. of,, allowing, the woman of four score years. to sleep in day coaches, ..An’ investigation. dis- closed. that, Professor Sanford, had Leen sleeping in day, coaches since last~ Septeinber, i a When officially reproached for. her conduct, Professor Sanford , impa- tiently retorted that as long as men were sleeping in muddy trenches, go- ing hungry and getting killed for, her in France, she was not going to spend $2 of the government’s money nightly for a bed. MASS ATHLETICS: MEETING FAVOR May 25. Selected as-Daie. for First Meet at illint Urbana, 1, May 4.—So much favor- able comment has come from other western conference universities re- garding mass athletics, the project of Coaches Robert C. Zuppke and Harry of the University of Illinois, that ‘May 25 has been selected as the date for the first meet. A team of 300, men {8 to répresent each school in the contest, which con- sists of four events, bomb’ throwing, high jumping, broad jumping and the 100-yard dash, Members of all classes from freshmen to graduates are eligi- ble, regardless of their scholastic de- ficiencies. Membership on a varsity squad is the only bar to participation. Each team will perform on its own athletic field, May 25, and wire its scores to each of its rivals. .Thus, while each team is going through its paces, a giant scoreboard in the cen- ter of the field will tell of the work of its opponents, . 5 Every one of the. 003 contestants will compete in all four of the events: He will try to throw a 30-ounce hand grenade 75 feet into a fenced, off area six feet wide and 12 feet in length. This area will be fenéed in by a-six inch board and divided into three sec- tions—bullseye, which counts’ five points; middle ring, ‘counting' thtee points and outer circle, which is worth one score. The grenade must fall into the ring, not roll or bounce in. The total score for the 300 trials will con- stitute the team’s score in the event. In the running high jump,- one. trial is given each man, who.is entitled to name.the height at which he will try to cross the bar. The total num- ber of: feet leaped will make up the team total. _In,the same manner, the tolal distance jumped in. the ‘broad jump is recorded, while the 10-yard dash is run against time, theiteam with the lowest record for theSotal 30,000 yards wins... , : Already four conference schools, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Ohio State and lowa State. university, have promised to enter the meet. Ames, Nebraska and Missouri have requested admis- sign and Camp Dodge, Ja.,.and Camp Sevier, Tenn., haye written to Coach Zuppke regarding the, possibility of staging. a dual mect between the sol- diers and collegians. |, 4 Such a; meet,,will.probably be ar- ranged unless the schools close earlier than usual. FY ;. Preparations for. orggnizing a team at Iinois.are under way. the candi- dates being diyided into 30 teams. The preparatory. training suggested {s sim- ple, three days of each week being all that is required for, practice. Then the contestants, arrayed in “old duds” and tennis shoes run the 100 yards, throw the bomb. two or three. times and practice the “take off” for the jumps. ty yagi Tinatinted approval of the plan been given by Dr. Cooke, director of athletics at the University of Minne- “1 think it is.an excellent, plan,” he wrote in a letter.to Mr. Zuppke. “tt seems to e the best. possible solu: tion of the problem of athletics for everybody.” 2 i According to the Illinois coaches the project will be enlarged to:;permit the competition of teams. from 600 to 1,000 men, as soon as its success has become assured. |ONE-ARMED HITTER HAS PERFECT SCORE St. Paul, Minn., May 4.-Five hits in five times yp isthe hone. of. every ball player and few two handed hit- ters come. through with the perfect score during, a season, .but, \William (“Otto”) Schfraneki, one armed cen- ter fielder of,.the, Hamline university team, has. alraedy accomplished the 1,000 batting average feat this. year. Schfranski was born with one arm. Yfis left arm did not grow below the elbow. When a youngster he started plaing ball, with the other boys and soon became a “regular.” This spring when Coach Baird of Hamline called for players Schfranski reported and when the first scheduled game was played had won a regular position in centerfield. ‘A strong throwing arm offsets what- ever delay may be occasioned by Schfranski’s style of taking the ball, He wears a glove and after catching the ball, tosses it.into the air, while slipping off the glove under his left arm, Catching the toss, the-ball is sent away propelled hy a powerfnl throwing arm. He takes hard hit balls as easily as the high ones, i _At the plate Schfranski chokes. the bat slightly more than the average player, balancing it with his .stub arm when he begins his swing, which is completed with his right arm, He uses a slight crouch and pulls his drives into leftfield. He was born at notchers in his class. Clayton, Minn, 3