The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 17, 1923, Page 6

PAGE SIX JEFF SMITH When Not i ee on] “Masked Marvel” Expected Today “The Masked Ma who will wrestle Stanley Rad day night for the heavyweight cham- pionship of N ota, was ex- » here today for work » the match. He com ere ht has been mak- ing his rs for the last few weeks, The match will be called at 8:30 . m. Thursday night, opening with the preliminary boxing and wrest- ling bouts, AW Pitchers Hard To Hit Last Year, ys Babe Ruth By NEA Serv Rooton, Ma 7-Babe Ruth still retains a sense\of humor de- spite the poor season he had last sumuier, Recently, when asked what pitch- ers in the Amer League wer. hardest to hit, he replied in all ser- kid season,” concluded the in-| And still more térview with Babe. | Goethe, Byron ani for good measure! OO ——__$——______ 6) No, we are not d | Billy Evans Says |v of some e —————________e dleweight and ligh baseball managers, whether the lead. | /¢¥el® 2 er of a big league team or an ama-| yo 9" f A fee | been fo eur aggregation, meet with the’same! among the heavi obstacles, | refusal of the offi | his To get the major league viewpoint f dozen big league| Jeff posses in the origi French, Dutch and j sides being a. priz No doubt the question of preserv- ing harmony on a club will strike! guist, He is as many as the big issue. True, har-|) French novel as mony on a ball club is vital to suc-| with the cess, yet harmony isn’t the answer. | Goose,” : As his sons, we Discipline also looms up as a very) Jeff has three, means | of conditon, is This fact has been proved of gent date in major league circles. fatal While the various managers with whom I discussed the question of; South Bend, Ind the greatest task of a manager,! K, Rockne’s ‘sue touched on di lipline and harmony puilding football 1 as very nee y snone of them) fered to coaches tate either as the most vital asset! country next summ to a great ball club. /| versity of hs eee | school Mr Pitching is the greatest worry of the personal direct every major league ball club if you! mentor. are willing to take the word of the| The course will men who are directing the destines! jongth, and will | of the major league clubs. i .. | Will be taken up, w the pitching it! by Reckne and his you are to get anywhere in base-| “You must have | visions. Phough a tru division to meet him under Besides the few aforementioned,| will not latest edition of “Mother Necessary quality. Regardless of! ‘Three boys for whom he sits and the greatnass of aseball agere-| plans great things gation, lack of discipline, which also «te. NOTRE DAME COACH WILL Notre Dame es football ‘- -- PUGILISTIC HIGHBROW in Ring Books Are the Big Idea With Famous Fighter iousness: ‘All of them.” Pressed for his opinion as to the hardest pitcher to hit, Bae didn’t take long to answer. “That guy, Pruett of St. Louis, has my number. T never even m a pectable foul off him. First base and I were total straggers when he pitched for the Brow “Say, I got a sore back, swinging and missing, when he vy ¢ the pitching. If all the $s swere like him for me, I coutd stay right JEFF SMITH on the farm as far as getting base : u hits. BY BOB DORMAN, Jerome is to become a brilliant “That bird is deadly poison for me. NEA Staff Correspondent. lawyer. Byron is slated for the He has three kinds of slow balls! New York, Jan, 17.—Books—Dar-| medical profession, and Vincent is and five or six kinds of dinky curves, | win, Huxley, Emerson. to be a great architect. He gets a fellow’s nerve. More bo eats, Poe, Dumas, Bai His family and his, books. They “I made a great pitcher out of that, zac, Shakespe are his world. Jeff does not like to books Hugo, | talk about his profession.. He would Milton 4s thrown in| rather talk of his “bo: His Training Program. But he indicated that he thought a fighter should keep in the open as iscussing the hob- r, merely, the recreation which Jeff Smith takes} much as possible. -For that reason is * in his few idle moments. he + the country in his automo- Want is the most diffealt task! som Smith is a ighter, bile with his family in all kinds of that confronts the manager of a ball! He might be called che fap lyre beeeerei lay ae out a throne.” Battling for 13 years,| He believes in plenty of rest, < he has been undefeated in the mid-] plenty ef plain, wholesome food, a It is re le to suppose that all little exercise to prevent stiffngss, away from t heavyweight di- middleweight, | and in milég ed to seek work| worry. , due to the flat] Liquor and tobacco are barred by al champions in| him, as is also road work. He claim that a fighter burns up his vitality keeping ‘ i conditons. that form of violent exercise. on what is the toughest assignment} git to get back to books. He hus no trainer, and has never managers are up against in an ef-| Regular Highbrow. had a rubgin his long career. He winner, I put the! Mow any water to be put of works| on him while engaged in a bout, and , Italian, | will only také a slice of orange be- Jeff, be- | tween rounds, a lin-| Smith, despite the fact that man uch at home with] of his recent bouts have been wf his son would be| heavyweights, says he can still make the middleweight poundage without any great effort. He is y- For| willing to fight Johnny Wilson at any time and let the present ‘cheese champion” have most of the purse for. just to get a chance at the title, should si HOLD SUMMER SCHOOL method for.making winners which js pursued by the “ghting Irish” will achines will be of-| be explained in detail as will also throughout the} the plan of recruiting promising ner when the Uni-| players from campus league groups. Couches, players and other inter- ested in football will be also to en- roll for the course which is aimed \ to cover every vital phase of the be three weeks it.] game. Rockne expects to have two begin on Aug. 1.| assistants, men who learned their »» Jan, 17 ion of the famous Every branch ow the gridiron sport! football at Notre Dame, who will ex- th demonstrations] plain in detail the line and back- assistants. The| field play adopted here. ball,’ remarked one manager. “If) the pitching strength is there, you ing the try for goa can always patch up some of othe! apparent weaknesses. W out pitching, however, you are lo i ¢ so offends, Nothing is more discouraging than . to get X or seven runs, and then have the opposition get more. Waste- ing of runs and hits that should win the ordinary game is one of the most demoraliizng features*in baseball.” dribble, start ¢ se A player cannot dribble, “Pitching is the thing,” SECOND, DRIBBLE. ’ Can a player,/after completing a | sume more than ten seconds in mak- The penalty for a second dribble is 1, The referee has| giving the ball to the opposition, at he| the right to center the bill whether|a point nearest where the violation y the goal is made or not if a player| was committed. PERSONAL FOULS, What are classea py the referee as personal fouls? | A personal foul is when a player, second} in the opinion ‘of the referee, holds, cond ribble?. start a after completing one, unless] blocks, trips, charges or. pushes. a | the ball, when it was out of his pos- said an-| session, has touched another player. mesa 8 opponent, It is not necessary tl the player have the ball when an op. ponent so misuses him. The, mere act i's sufficient to be classed as*a personal four, Unnecessary rough- ness is another form of personal foul, BULLSEYES OF | | BASEBALL — | ————___“____¢@ The shortest home run I ever saw in @ major“eague ball game,. str not over 10 feet in front of the home plate. After so striking in fair terri- tory, it took a reverse English came into contact, with one‘of the players in the field, and finally gettled on foul territory close to the grand- stand. Incidentally, it.was the first home run I ever saw made by hit- ting the ball in the wrong direction. Perhaps it would be more correct to say a play in which the batsman managed to make the circuit rather than hi®a home run. : The contest was staged at Wash- ington about 15 years ago. 1 well recall the fact that Howard Wake- field was doing the catching for Washington. He shas been ‘secured in a trade with Cleveland. Likewise I well remember that Tim Hurst and myself were doing the umpiring, Tim was working the plate; I was stationed on the bases. Two runners were on the bases at the time, when the batsman hit a fly ball that for altitude records compared favorably with those now hit by Babe Ruth. A high wind was blowing, making the judging of fly balls a very diffi- cult matter. When the ball was. first hit it seemed that it would drop some place back of the pitcher’ box —a fly ball that would be handled cither by the shortstop er second baseman, f The wind got hold of the bail and blew it back in the diregtion ofthe plate, Catcher Wakefield finally. de- ciding that he would make the play. ..| He cireled under the ball but missed ‘}it entirely: It struck, perhaps, 10 feet in front of the plate and about three feet in front of Wakefield. ~ As it hit the ground it took a re- verse English and bounded back ‘at Wakefield, who tried to get the ball. He claimed he didn’t touch it, but Hurst insisted he did. - This, of course, made it a fair ball. The ball, after evading Wakefield, Tolled to the stand, Wakefield at first argued the ntter, at length with Hurst, and thed finally decided to get the ball. Two were out ‘at the time and the batter and base- runners kept going. I recall’ that when the ‘ball struck the ground the batter was well on his’ way to sec- ond, so high had it been-hit. By, the time it became apparent to the ‘Washington club that Hurst hihd ruled it a fair ball, everybody had scored. v Then the argument broke out again with Hurst playing the leading role. It certainly was the shortest circuit swat I ever saw—for length, not altitude, i Tiger Quarterback Pulls New One : Against Yale The quarterback is Bp against many a tough proposition during thé Progress of an important game. His Judgment in the selection of plays can make or unmake a coach. » Suppose you were the quarterback in, an important game,/and your team was leading 3 to 0, time was almost up, the ball was in your pos- session on your 10-yard line, it was foufth down and you had nine yards to gain, what would you do? There you have/the situatién that faced Quarterback Gorman of Prince- ton.in the, game. with. Yale. Gorman knew that time was nearly up. when’.Princoton got the ball on its 10-yard line, ‘Three plays gained only yard. No doubt your. first im- pression Would be to punt the ball, of course) ; Princeton , created ;the - impression that it intended to punt; the kicker dropped back, and ;the punt forma- tion was. pulled... Then. instead of punting, the bali was.paased: to Gor- man who dashed intg the line. He failed to make, first. down. and the ball was Yale's, but before the play- ers had gotten’ to their feet,time was up and Princeton Nad won. the game. Here is thé way Gorman reasoned it. A ‘punt. gave, Yale the opgportu- nity of runping.the ball back for a touchdown,, or placed them in a po- sition to try a, field goal, so he de- layed starting his play, and thén crashed inte the’ line instead of punt- ing, as, eyeryone expected. What do you think ?/ other leader, “and it’s another thing | to make proper use of the pitching, that you have on hand. Selection ot | Pitchers is the hardest task after| you have acquired the pitchers. One day you select a pitcher who holds the opposition to two’runs, but your team gets only one. A fine, exhibi- tion of pitching is wasted. The next | day your team gets a half dozen runs, but your pitching is unable to ghold the opposition in check. At ‘once you wish you had started the| "* pitchers the other way.” ‘ | . Know _My ‘observations agree with the | gqgovinion of the managers. Pitching | Mis, the big thing ,and proper use of | the pitching on hand is just as neces- | gary. I can well recall one major. deégue manager who started th season with what I considered the best staff in the American League, “only to have it burned out by August. Indiscriminate use of regular 'pitch- ontin relief roles caused the trouble, “By such a system, the manager stayed out in front until August. Phen his pitching wilted and he was ducky to remain in the first division. ae eae eae ar es, sir! Pitching ‘s the big idea. ‘TO FREE THROW. _ n a player ix’ making a free w for goal, is there any limit to Him? _ | Selection of Bush Over By NEA Service. Washington, Jar. 16—Report ‘has it that Roger Peckinpaugh is certgin to figure in a trade before the opey- ing of the 1923 campaign. The deal recently made, in which the Nation als secured Shortstop Gagnon from| Detroit, strengthens the belief. ‘ When Peckinpaugh was secured from New York, it was the general impression that he would not only play short but also succeed George McBride as manager of the Nation: The fact that Peckinpaugh ha at times handled the Yankees with success, made it seem aH the more certain that Peck was, due® for. a managerial berth, A 7 The appointment of Milan last year was a big surpri: He was not figured in the dope. Rumor has it, that. Park was much put out over the failure to land the job and it affected his early season play. The, selection of Bush, merely re- garded as a substitute last year, to ‘succeed Milan as leader of the Na- even a greater: Milan. i" It is certain that the passing up tend to make his enthuse over hic Mean Pagg Peck May \ Ne prise than Griffith's 1922 selection, of |. of Peck for the second time will.not |’ SUI Ce THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE. ~~ : , - a Se “Response | Time was when travelers would see auction bills- posted i fences or the sides of bartis.. But the buyer ! had to wait.days and sometimes weeks before the auc- tion toak place, had to journey long distances to the exciting affair. . ras ‘ But today the daily newspapers make rapid com- munication between buyer and seller practical. < ide aS 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. 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