The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 16, 1923, Page 6

SAY ‘MASKED ~ MARVEL’ DODGE OF WRESTLER Radgers’ Carap en Declare Disguise Used to Test 1 Man’s Ability The appearance of “The Masked who will meet Stanle, Rad- or the heavyweight wrestli of North Dakota, at Patterson night, 1s © wrestling title eI” Lives up to the bout on—unle: Radgers n the bout. 1 ent believe a wrestler of promirsnee in Northwest whom “The Cali- forma Lion” has ¢! lenged, but w thus far has faile to sign articles arck wrestler, Joe Moug of Medina, who he hook- ed to fight Russie Leroy at James town Jan. 24, is working out at the local. gym and will be a regular member in the future, He will meet Buck Garrison in an exhibition bout the night of the big wrestling match. middleweight champion will attempt to demon- strate that skill alone triumpas over weight q lsworth with a curta ts are on sale at the MeKe: hotel and the Capital Pool Hall. DOHERTY AND KRAUSE BATTLE ser. TO GOOD DRAW: Beulah, N. D., Jan, 16—Bat Krause and Eddie Donerty boxed 10 rounds to a dra jah Saturday night before the b crowd of real fight ven to a bout on the h in many a day. It was from start to finish. In the opinion of some fight fans, the match was even except in the fourth, seventh and tenth rounds in whica they were inclined to give Doherty the best of it, but not enough to make the verdict other taan a draw. Doherty had his famous left hook working to perfection. Krause show- ed more boxing skill than he aas for for many a da The boys weighed in at 140 pounds at 3 p. m, Howard Page of Leeds, a protege of Doherty, and “Peanuts” boxed a six-round draw. Both are ghts. “Peanuts” is anxious to ake on other lightweights. Beulah will have a card next month, and are trying to match Krause and Silver Perry of Montana or Eddie Dohert: Crack Twirler Is Protege of - Manager Huggins By NEA Service. k New York, Jan. 16.—Pitcher Jake May, who is to be a member of the New York Yankees the coming sea- is a protege of Manager Miller May got his first big league trial with Huggins, then handling the St. Louis C The following year Huggins shift- ed to the American League, taking charge of the Yankees. May had a rather erratic with the Cardi- nals after Huggins departed, and was finally sent back to the minors—all the major league clubs waiving. Huggins, however, never lost sight of May. It was on h ice that Vernon in the Coast League bought May from Beaumont in the Texas circuit. Now he is back with Hug- gins as a Yankee, The official averages of the Coast League explain why Huggins thinks so well ‘of In games won he led the league with 35 victories and nine defeats, for a percentage allowed an average of only May 1.84 runs per game, which is prob- ably a record for 1922. Incidentally, he led the league in strikeouts with 238. ‘ Despite the fact that he was out for three weeks with an injured shoulder, May was the iron man ot the league, working 362 innings, « oi aay ——* ys Billy Evans Sa: -——_________—_e The untimely death of Berny Kirk, star end of the University of Michi- gan football team, came as a great shock to every lover of the game. eka It was the irony of fate, that Kirk, .who not once during his entire foot- ball career asked for time out be- causé of any injury, should ‘die as the result of an automobile accident. Kirk was unquestionably the best end the west, if not the country, has: produced in years! As a de- fensive player he was without a peef. He also was very proficient in handling the forward pass, Kirk starred in every game that Michigan’ played ‘during the 1922 “season. No one player meant more to the success of Yost’s great eleven then Kizk. Wvery critic in the west selected Kirk on either the Ten” or middle west all-star babe “great majority of the critics o Patent placed him on their All- Arérica clevens, ; bs ae mtimely death of Kirk recalls ‘season was stricken with pnet ania pee Mnd, just Bt % Sip whee) light- | and Perry Bliven, “pig| Kirk ran 80 yards through the entire Four or five years ago, Harold “Muddy” Ruel was the most talked about catcher in the League. Ruel was then a member of the} New York Yankees, a very flashy | performer, and picked by the critics | as the coming star of the major league catchers. ° A second Ray Schalk, was the comparison often made by thé base- ball experts in discussing the future of Rue Pra youngste ecu American | didn’t go to the head of the On the con he went | recruit who} still good. In the win-| ter tim 1 of idling his hours,, Ruel attended the law school of Washington University at Louist of the experts predict have a profession to fall bi when I am through with as Ruel’s explanation of was studying law. Ruel certainly had the right dope. While a very capable performer, he never quite reached the heights at-| tained by Ray everal times injuries andicapped him getting into his k on| ball,” why he was, Ruel, still a you! least 10 years m fore him if he « er, has at baseball be res to stick. In all O’DOUL SEEKS CHANCESTO MAKE GOOD AS PITCHER Cal, Jan. 16, “Lefty” O’Doul, recently traded by | the New York Americans to the Bos- | ton Red Sox, doesn’t take kindly to the reports that he is to play the outfield. O'Doul is a southpaweof no m ability. In his last year on the cous he won something like 25 games. | When he returned to the Yankees he | was counted on as a regular, Fail-| ling to show well in his first few | he was relegated to the and seldom got a chance to ything other than pinch hit, hortly after the O’Doul deal was | | made, Frank Chance, new manager of the Red Sox, announced that he \intended to make an outfielder out | regularly | jof “Lefty” and use him |because of his speed and hitting. | “I want a change to pi for Boston. I feel that I can deliver in| the majors if given a real poet | |ty. I never got in in New York. The | first thing I am going to tell Chance} |when I see him is that I want to ‘pitch for Boston, not play the out- field. “If after being given a change on! I will be more than willing to take ‘ood, a whirl at the outfield.” the rubber and failing to make g. ‘CATCHER MUDDY RUEL IS A FULL-FLEDGED LAWYER | Long Runs Produce Big, Thrill; Here Are Some When “Chuck” Palmer, North- western halfback, picked up a Minne- sota fumble behind his ov: goal-and sprinted 102 yards for a tofchdown in the recent game with Minnesota, he not only saved his team from defeat but incidentally made football history, The game ended a 7 to 7 tie, For Palmer's dash ranks: as the longest ever turned in on a recov- ered fumble in intercolegiate play. It was also one of the longest can- vters of any kind yet made during a college battle on the gridiron, / In fact, only four times has Pah, mer's feat been surpassed in the his- tory of the game. And one of these was hung up when the actual play- ing field was 110 yards in length and the 10-yard end zones were not in vogue. if To McCaa of Lafayette goes the honor of putting on the longest sprint, for in 1909 he romped 110 yards through the ertire Swarthmore eleven for a touchdown. Obviously this gallop can never be beaten. McCaa’s run was all the more unique in that it was made from serimm: a Gray of Oberlin comes next, ro- “MUDDY” REUL ability Ruel will quit the game passes out of the majors. And he will have a profession to fall batk on. Only recently he bar examination. in turning a Cornell punt 109 yards for is almost a full-fledged tally in 1908, In 1912 Erehagt of | Indiana got past the whole Iowa ~ ————— aggregation for 108 yards and a touchdown, while in 1904 Eckersally Universi star, ried a W back 106 yards for a s These are the best bits of ball toting in the game’s history with Palmer's {sensational dash ranking next in line. k in 1903 Charles Dillon of the Carl Inditns also made a sprint of 1 rds in the game with Har- vard. However, it was on a rather technical play, though without a ‘doubt it was the oddest piece of work jever pulled:on a football field. The |Redskin star grabbed a’ Crimson | kickoff and dashed down the side- | lines, unmolested, to the goal line, 105 yards away. The ball had been svereted Jersey, and, |ner was way past mid-field ére the |ruse was detected. Incidentally the | trick won the game for Carlisle. | There have been many famous | runs up to and around 100 yards, but those mentioned above stand out as| j the feuture sprints thus far. | Hank O’Day, Veteran Umpire, Pays High Tribute to “LEFTY O'DOUL Willie Keeler’s Eye By NEA Service. Chicago, Jan. 16—Hank O'Day, { | By NEA Service. New York, Jan. 16.—Will Babe | rath do a comeback in 1923, thrill ; the fans with his terrific wallops and win back his fast-waning prestige. If you would believe a half dozen of the star pitchers, who dropped | | around at the recent meeting of the major leagues, Ruth has seen his | | best days slugger. | “Never again will Ruth be. as | troublesome as. in 1921, when he| j made those 59 home runs,” remarked | |one prominent big league twirler. “In-those d: Ruth -was feared | | by every pitcher in the American | | League, while those in the National | were thankful he wasn’t in that or-| | ®aniaztion. Ruth was a big threat! in those but that big bat of his |no longer carries the base-hit dyna | mite with which is was once loaded. | “Ruth has lost confidence in jability to hit, and without it he jonly an ordinary batsman.” | There you have the opinion of one | of the best pitchers in the American | League. | “Ruth lacked- co-ordination in his |hitting last summer,” remarked an- j other pitcher. He was out of tune jall summer. The eye, the brain and the arms were not acting in unison. | Co-ordination is more or less a gift, jand-they say once lost, it is about | l ‘Ruth Will Never Again Pack His Old-Time | Wallop, Say Pitchers | veteran umpire of the major leagues, who has been looking over the big stars for nearly two-score -regards Willie Keeler, who died New Years Day, ag the most dif- ficult batsman to fool that he ha» |ever umpired for. “Keeler certainly was a wonder,” | said O'Day in discussing Keeler. “I jdon't believe I ever saw him offer fat a bad ball. “When Keller was at the bat, um- piring was a cinch. It was almost safe to call anything a ball that Keeler failed to offer at. “Keeler was a wonderful. bunter jand no better place-hitter ever faced \a pitcher. Slight of stature, Keeler | never hit a hard ball. Opposing in- \fields and outfields played him per- fectly, yet so uncanny was Keller's judgment in hitting the ball that he could invariably outguess the op- position. { “I have often heard Keeler shout to the opposing third baseman. to get ready, that he was going to |bunt. Then he would proceed to do that very thing, and in a majority of, the cases would beat the play. “Keeler used a short bat ana | gripped it almost in the center when |he faced the pitcher. His holding of the bat was in some ways as freak- lish as the style of Heinle Groh, “l’ve seen thom all, Wagner, Cobb, Ruth and the rest of the great hit- ters, but never have I seen a batter with so keen an eye as Keeler.” BABE RUTH the hardest thing in the world to regain, Truly, Babe Ruth days ahead. has strenuous | Jimmy Dunn Rates Al Corbett As The Coming | i Bantamweight Champion |. Ask Jimmy Dunn, famous Cleve- land maker of champions, who will |be the next bantamweight title hold- | jer and he will reply: | “Cayl Tremaine if Joe Lynch ever |} gets into the same ring with him.” | is another youngster who is pressing | | Tremaine hard for the bantamweight | honors—Al Corbett. ‘ |, A finer looking boy than Corbett |never donned a glove, He looks far more like a high school athlete than |a boxer who ranks among the best | bantams in the country. } Corbett is a clever boy, yet packs | |a punch, a8 proved by his record, which shows 18 knockouts in his last | 84 fight ee | Dunn‘ is“Btinging Corbett along slowly, due to the fact that the more experienced Tremaine represents the Dunn stable at thé same weight. “Corbett has the makings of a champign,” is the way Dunn rates the youngster, he was the most-talke in the football world, i about player Kirk contributed one of the fea- ture plays of the year in the game with Tilinois. Receiving the kickoff, Tilinois team for a touchdown. It was the play that took much of the steam out of IHinois. eee ps Kirk, like Gipp, died at the height of his stardom. Both has finished ithe greatest spa in their football career, when ieee in the case of Gipp, and an ac nt jto Kirk, took them awa: se ie It is a rather strange coinciden: , Dome 4 ! |. In Dunn’s stable of. boxers there | || Stop that cough now with this simple treatment that heads of See) GRADUATION DAY SE UneE Te =—__' _|Carl Kinneberg got something: be- isidesa claens the day he eee which Cipp from ota Business College, Dame , football té hich nee starved. The death of Kink, marks Fargo, N. D, He was sent direct the passing of that once-famous for. |to the First National Bank of New ward },a8%. gombinatio: ipp to! Rockford. Ethel Satrang, another Kirk, For be it known that Kirk! D, B. C. student, was placed ‘im- that Kirk was a member of the Notre (THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE SO of Football’s Best i= TUATHA MT TUESDAY, JANUARY 16 = ) ‘ = = = = = = / = vd @ 4 h % a t Time was when travelers would see auction bills = posted on fences or the sides of barns. But the buyer = . : . = had to wait days and sometimes weeks before the auc- = if i = tion took place, had to journey long distances to the = exciting affair. K = But today the daily newspapers make rapid com- = munication between buyer and seller practical. = Testimony to the effectiveness of Tribune classified ; = advertising might be corroborated by hundreds of ex- = periences. The newspaper today not only makes the = ‘world a great whispering gallery but it has established = a quick and easy market for the sale of goods. Its effec- = tiveness has been demonstrated. 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