The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 7, 1921, Page 9

PAGE TEN HORNSBY DROPS AGAINST SOME FINE PITGHING St. Louis Star Drops Twelve ; Points But Still Leads Batters ‘HEILMAN IS SLUGGING Chicago, July 7.—Rogers Hornsby, | the St. Louis star slugger, who is topping the batters of the National | League, went up against some stiff | pitching the past week when the Car- H dinals battled with Eastern invaders, | and dropped twelve points off his bat- ting average, according to figures | published today which include the games of last Wednesday. ‘He was} then hitting .407. Hornsby has pass the century | mark for hits, the first member of | the Heydler circuit to do this so far this season, ‘He has cracked out | 105 for a total of 162 bases, which | puts him far in front of his rivals. | ‘Mis bits include sixteen doubles, ten | triples and seven homers. ‘Pep Young of New York, who was in sixth position among the batters | who have participated in 40 or more { “games, has advanced to second place | with an average of 367, while Mc: | Henry, the Cardinal outfielder, though | dropping 21 points, remains third | with .361. When George Kelly of New ,York | banged out a homer during the week, he raised his total to ten, just one | behind ‘Meusel of Philadelphia, who | tailed to add to his string of eleven. | ‘Max Carey, the fleet footed Pitts- | burgh outfielder, and Frank Frisch of New York are running neck and neck | for stolen base honors. Each added | four to his string and again they are ; lied with 17 each. H ding batters: Roush, Cin- Meusel, Philadelphia, + hicago, .354; Mann, S ‘ournier, St. Louis, .353; Pittsburgh, .351; Cut | e Maranville, shaw, Pittsburgh, 247. Babe Ruth, home run king, has re- | covered from his set back last week | at the hands of Dick Kerr of the | White Sox. He drove out four cir- | cuit hits the past week and brought | his total up to 28, including games | of last Wednesday. However, Ruth | did not fare so well as regards aver: ages, his batting figures showing a drop of six points, to 365. ! Cracks Doubles \ Ruth has made 89 hits for a tota] | . of 207 bases, and-also leads in runs scored, having registered 73 times for the New York club. He has crack- ed out twenty doubles and seven tri- | les. Ht Harry Heilman, the Detroit slug- | ger, who is leading the men who / have played in 40 or more games, got back into his stride and has been hit- ting the ball with some regularity. + Heilman has boosted his average to 418; Tris Speaker, pilot of the Cleve- land world’s champions, also made up some of the ground he lost a couple of weeks ago and is the runner-up to. Heilman with an average of: .408. Ty Cobb, the Detroit leader, suffered a'loss of eight points during the past week, but continued in third place with .388. George Sisler, the St. Louis star, stuck to fourth place de- spite a drop of 12 points. He. is hit- ting .365. ‘Sisler pilfered another base during the week and continues to set the pace in the American league with 15 thefts, with Joe Judge and S. Harris of Washington tied for second place with 13 each. Other leading batters: ‘Veach, Detroit, .363; Severeid, St. ‘Louis, .358; Williams, St. Louis, .355; E, Collins Chicago, .353; Tobin, St. Louis .350; .R. Jones, Detroit, .348; Gharrity, Washington, .346, Russell Goes Well . Reb Russell, the former White Sox pitcher who is working in the outfield for Minneapolis in the American As- sociation, is making a strong bid for batting honors in President Hickey's Circuit, with an average of .379. Rus- sell has moved into a tie with Kirke of Louisville for seecond place among { players who have participated in 40; or more games. Butler of Kansas City continues at the head of the regulars with an average of .401, while Gainer who was the runner-up a week ago, now stands five points behind Russell and Kirke with 374. Russell also continues to run a neck and neck race with Bunny Brief of Kansas City for home run honors. | Each cracked out his thirteenth homer the past week. Baird of Indianapalis | annexed four stolen bases to his string and is showing the way to the base stealers with 26 thefts. Other leading batters : Brief, Kansas City, 365; Baird, In- 357; Gearin, Milwaukee, .; Good, Kansas City, .355; Thorpe, Toledo, -354; Haas, St. Paul, 352; Ellis, Louis- ville, .350, Y.W.C. A. SAFEGUARDS GIRLS Offers Protection Without Profit te } Girlg in All Localities. Fatgo—Dvue to the recent tragedy in which Miss Marie Wick, 18, of Grygia, Minu., was asgaulted and murdered at the Prescott hotel in Fargo, N. D., on tne aight of June 6, the Board of Directors of the Young Women’s Chris- tian Association feels the necessity of Giving widespread publicity tu the fact that the Young Women’s Christian seociation ts an institution organized primarily to give protection to women and girls, The Y, W. C.-A. is not a money- making inetitation. veither does it com- THE WIFE OF A CABINET OFFICER . MRS. JAMES J. DAVIS HANGS OUT THE CLOTHES, _* * se & * #8 . | country, dianapolis, -360; Duncan, St. Paul, ; SOCIETY HOLDS NO By R. J. Gibho ‘ | Moéseheart, Ill, July. 7.—Mrs. Jim ! Davis, wife of the Secretary of Labor, is entitled to a high place in Washing- ton society. But she prefers the so- ciety of four-year-old Jimmy, Jr., and his baby sister, Jane. In Washington political circles, she would rank among the first ladies of the land. But she’d rather rank as | THE first: lady among the 1,100 or- phans who are-quartered in the home ‘established here by Moose lodge mem- bers, . largely. throngh. the efforts of her husband,. who organized the Moose. I found, Mrs. Davis busy hanging clothes in the back yard of her home. Acclothespin was in her mouth. She wore a gingham dress, The baby played around her feet. Jimmy, with the tell-tale traces of bread and jam still on his cheeks, was begging for more, ‘ 6 But on her face was a smile that betokened real happiness. She welcomed me_ heartily, and }laughed when I expressed my sur- LURE \ ‘FOR MRS. JIM DAVIS prise at finding. her still at home, in- stead of enjoying prestige at the cap- ita. é “But thig is, such fun," she ex- claimed,” as ‘she flung .a ‘snow-white piece acfoks the line. “See how nice and white they are. That’s surely a pleasure. “te “Yd rather—far. rather—be a.good wife and an-ideal mother} administer- | ing the duties of my home, than to lead the finest society cotillion in the land. ‘ “It's the little things—things Mike Jimmy’s mania for bread and straw- berry jam—that makes life really worth while.” ern Mrs. Davis met her husband twelve yeas ago. She was his stenographer in Pittsburg, where Davis, a steel worker, was trying to organize the Loyal Order of Moose, ,Before that, she has-been a teache! ; “I was tired of teaching and he agreed to give me a trial for ,two weeks hs his stenographer and ‘gecre- tary,” she says. And then she,émiles. “You see I'm still on the joi#~for six, | years later I married him.’ BY E, M. THIERRY, New -York,. July 7.—“Pil. land a thousand more building-grafters in jail ‘as-soon as I return from Europe!” i That's the promise of Samuel Un- | termyer, special counsel for the Lock- i wood Investigating committee, who has ; taken “time out” for a short vacation | overseas. Untermyer is devoting his life, mainly, to two things—cleaning up the ‘national building graft, and growing beautiful flowers. He always wears {a home-grown orchid in his button- Vhole. The graft pot he has left boiling in New York has already put 46 build: ing grafters behind the bars. And any others who venture out of hiding cr temporary good behavior, in the de- lusion that Untermyer is loafing on the job, while vacating, will draw his ire via cable, he says. He is the sort. of man who takes his work with him wherever he goes. ; In Europe, followed by a half dozen secretaries, armed with documents and | cable blanks,-he plans to freshen him- self physically for the big fight which | has only begun. | Untermyer's: chief work has been in | New York and Buffalo, but he has re- | vealed the inner workings of a ring [that is national—strangling building the land penalty of high imposing UNTERMYER PAVING WAY TO JAIL FO 1000 GRAFTERS d * THE. BISMARCK TRIBUNB compensation. He has given up his own legal work—and he is among the half dozen highest paid lawyers in New York—to cure the building sore, His inquiry, thus far, has brought nearly 600 indictments against indi- viduals and. firms, sent Robert P. | Brindell, building trades “czar,” to Sing sing, Jailed many more, collected | $167,500 in fines, and smashed a dozen buifding materia) combines. And all this didn’t “just happen.” He studied | hig fleld for 15 years before Le struck —and then he got results. Nearly 500 witnesses have heen exam* ined-in New York and Buifalo and 10,- 000 pages of testimony have been taken. Governors of states all over the and prosecuting attorneya have asked for transcripts of testi- | mony, Everywhere Untermyer fg re- garded as the one man who can dig out the rotten core of building ills and successfully. solve the housing problem. ey The federal government recently took action afd indictments, national | in’scope, are expected. A Congres- | sional appropriation of a quarter mil- | lign dollars w | for the country-wide wholesale clean- | up, ‘directed dt 20 national combines [eeiitalize at $2,000,000,000. And this. man who “treats ; tough”—what does he look like? Small and thin! Sparse gray hair, | brushed straight back from a high | brow. Bristling mustache that turns 'up at the ends. Snapping eyes, Dap- } per and Matty of dress. { - Very hyman and easy going, in pri- | vate lifef'1s Untermyer—but a scrap- | per, all around, when be gets “in the i ring.” i 1 ‘em “Pennsylvania consumes almost two- | thirds of the country's production of DAVIS CUP || | COVETED | TRINKET ~ $e BY DEAN SYNDER, Worldwide interest in tennis is due to one little insignificant piece, of: sil- verware, the coveted Davis cup. Literally the competition is around the world. , A few years ago tennis was just a friendly game between mixed sets: who enjoyed each other's company, Today the stars travel thousands of mileg trying to win the-famous trophy for their country, This year no less than a dozen na- tons will send players to the United States seeking the cup. Greater than a baseball pennant, and of interest to more people than a boxing title, the Davis cup trinket has become a romantic trophy sought by practically every nation under the probably he required |; sua. — CINDERELLA HORSE. Playfellow, full brothe* of the il- lustrious Man o’ War, hay turned out to be the Cinderella of the running tracks. i P Bought by Sam Hildreth a few weeks ago for a sum over $100,000, jn good faith that the horse was sound, Play- fellow is now called in turf vernacular a “wind sucker.” J. F. Fitzsimmons claims that’ when he sold the colt to Hildreth the ani- mal was sound and not bothered with bis wind. v : | The courts will have .to decide whether Hildreth gets hack, his hun- dred ‘thousand or not. We aren't in- | natural gas. terested in the litigation: The Time-Saver ‘club. THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1921 But how !t would hurt Man o’ War's pride if he could be made to ufder- stand that his little brother was !n trouble. ¢ There are tragedies’ in the horse world just as in our own. LIKE TRE BROOK. Out of the Pacific coast Wahoo Sam Crawford, once a super star of Hughie Jennings’ old miracle Detroit team, is getting his base hits for the Los-An- geles club. | CLUB CENTER ' ‘ Wahoo Sam is getting old. Eacn year he plans to retire from baseball. As regularly as the leaves come in spring’ and disappear in falt he’ an- nounces his finis._ But he is still at it. He loves to hit. He always did. And he always could. As long as Sam can crack out hase hits he’s going to bein uniform. Baseball is a hard racket to quit as long as your batting eye connects, “TRY” SPIRIT. 1 The remantled White Sox craft .is carrying a pitcher who hasn't created much of astir in the news yet. | Kid Gleason thinks he will before he hangs up his baseball spikes. © The pitcher in question is Dominick Mulrennan. 9 Washington is to become’a center for the women’s clubs of the country under the direction of Mrs. C. C. Cal- houn, wealthy capital society woman. Mrs, Calhoun is president of the Wo- man’s National Foundation, a new $3,- 000,000 organization grip on the club all count in the win- This fellow Was more “try” in him] ning or losing of championships. than most regulars on a bangup ball When Miss Cecil Lietch successfully i defended her English championship ‘this year at Turnberry, England, it was Miss Joyce Wethered who los: through a body fault. She kept mistiming all her long shots. Observers noted her mistake. She was turning her right shoulder and body too soon as the beginning of the down stroke. As a result: she was driving the ball too far to the right and losing from 20 to 30 yards. When jtold of her fault by a Scot- tish profssional her game braced. “Mulrennan started his haseball ca- reer while he was a.high schooler at Woburn, Mass. He neglected algebra and Latin to dream about becoming a big leaguer. : DELICATE GAME. Golf is a delicate game when analyz- ed. eo ty The turning of the body, the swing- ing of the club a trifle late, the posi- tion of the shoulders, the feet and. the _ The Effort-Saver J Minutes, money and motion are ‘running a race to” see which is the most valuable. Mr. Common People, multiplied by many millions, is on the lookout for ways to save all three. Read the advertising columns of your daily news: ‘paper. Here are the country’s advertised prod- - ucts—worthy goods—up for inspection. You may, depend upon them as good goods; for, if they didn’t “pass muster” they would not continue to enjoy popularity. The public would ‘not buy - them and the newspapers would not take their advertising, even if they had the money to spend for it. Ste Se Choosing merchandise through newspaper ad- vertising is buying reduced to an efficiency basis. : When you go to, your merchant or ’phone for goods to be delivered there need be no delay or indecision as in the olden days. You buy with your mind made up as to the worth of goods that face the spotlight of public scrutiny and are not found faulty. ; ‘ / | i | Bete with hotels, but its sole ubjeet for | exteti He has made many enemie.-—but. he ng ie to wake lite safer and | seems to chrive on them. Figurative- ee Gila, Young women trav- jy, he sits at Graystone, his home on ing alone or going to a city to find | the road to Sing Sing, and watches the (employment are urged to seek out the | procession going to jail. ©. A. im that city and make it! Two powerful forces are now lined aquarters. |up with the Nemesis of- building The Young Women’s Christian Asso- | grafters. Untermyer has the lon stands for service to women, | Operation.of Attorney General Daugh- end Is‘ever ready to help them in any | erty and has succeeded in getting the fray possible. | American Federation of Labor to con- —— |demn the offending .memberg of the The inventor of mutes’ sign talk | Building Trades Council. was ‘L’Abbe De L'Epee, of France, That he has the support of union la- born 200 years. ago. bor is demonsyyated by the fact that cO- | UNTERMYER, he has been selected as arbitrator for} the building trades in Westchester, | Erie and Rochester counties. | Yes, it’s an expensive crusade,”| ys Untermyer, “but it won't take! long— ‘be a year.” | " That’s another thing he isn’t prone| to talk about—the fact that he has) paid out thousands of dollars from his own pocket in prosecution of the “ring.” He refuses to take a penny By cia a ae