The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 2, 1924, Page 6

ide eal Sports| BAMBINO NOW 1$ LEADING. ALL-AROUND Rabe Ruth Is First in Several Departments of Baseball, | in A ican League i COLLINS IS STILL FAST Eddie Has Stolen 30 Bases, Leading League, Averages Issued For Week Show | Chicago, in first score, in circuit dr in t bases, first among the h rst. in the hearts Ruth, | s, who ters, baseball f is “Babe” sof home run_hitt now | promises to surpa: his record of | 4 by which he established him- est home run hitter of | all mM Tr ar he smashed out 59 four b: s, and crowned | himself champion of champions. | season, the “Bambina” fn the month of July, tied his best self as the be [previous mark for home runs ga-!| jthered in one month, when he ceracked out his thirteenth against the White Sox in Chicago. He w a double 31, the | es were jscheduled to perform in theader, at St. Louis on Ju which these ave 1, and may possibly then his record of June 1921, out 13. At the were compiled | Rut rs compared wii st mark of 3 year his remark | able record was made. | he great Yankee slugger scored (when he smashed itime these , a gain of 11 in f 259 was five points §n the past and today he is topping the | hitters with a mark of .384. Ruth| does not always get chance to ROGER PECKINPAUGH BY BILLY In Roger Peckinpa 'Peckinpaugh, Nearing End of String, Turns In Greatest Plays of His ‘cane Major Career | Louis Cardinals. THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE tases Reser oan +g est batters in the history of the game in Rogers Hornsby of the St. Hornsby is the type of batter who makes real base hits. It 1s the ex~ ception for him to get a flukey safety. There is a ring to every bull that he hits. In making a tour of the training | camps one spring I spent several tours with Hornsby, in which jae art of batttng formed part of the tcpic of conversation. Hornsby at first tried to explain his great batting by saying he was just lucky, I wouldn’t accept that one. “I tuke batting practice at. every cpportunity. Try to feel that I am jas good a hitter as the pitcher is a pitcher. In other words, have confidence in my ability. “One feature of batting Iam a “bug on. I always try to hit the |ball in batting practice that it goes through the pitcher’s box. ‘This, I believe makes for perfect timing of the ball. “That’s the big idea. Time the ball perfectly if you would be a great batter.” That was all he would say about. his hitting. “Lefty” Leifeld. assistant to Lee Fohl at Boston, is a great admirer of Hornsby. Recently he bumped’ into the St. Louis star.. The batting averages just published showed him batting better than .400. “See you are hitting them better than ever,” remarked Leifeld. “Wrong,” replied Hornsby, pitching isn’t quite so good.” BASEBALL } “the AMERICAN ee Pet. St. Paul ... Mi ui 587 Indianapolis . 3600 «420 B71 Louisville . 6 46 549 Toledo .. 0 53 ABB Kansas City . 49.52 485 Columbus 55 ABB Milwaukee 55.455 Minneapolis . 60.423 NATIONAL LEAGUE We EL New York u. Pet. 34.646} Chicago . 41 578 Pittsburg 42 553 Brooklyn 46 B31 Cincinnati Bl 95 St. Louis 56.423 Philadelphia . 57.400 Boston 60 B8l AMERICAN LEAGUE W. iL. Pet. The Secret Message By AUGUSTUS SHERWIN “Fifty against ‘the dog!” ‘shouted Matteo the marksman. “Taken,” {a a mere caretess drawl came the reply from Arvidi,” hd gamester. It was a typical Mexican come =the interior of the chtef gambling den at Truro and @ critical tage vf the game‘in progress. Marvin Howe happened to be present amid the swarthy crew—e floating quantity Im the generat stt- uation Involving warfare, anxlods to get North and out of it, and the opportunity just that day with a decidedly favorable change in for- ||% tune if he carried out secret - structions given to him. The position was this: The com- mandant of the sectional insurgents wished to send a particular mes- gage to a co-patriot ome. hundred miles away. It involved a junction of the two forces, The intermedl- ate forty leagues of ferritary, how- aver, were occupied by a dangerous enemy. The chief at Truro was .surrounded by enemies and spies. He had hired Howe to do some translation and bad confidence in him. Howe engaged | to cross the dan- ger line and deliver his. message. He was to try and find some free lance who would accompany. him and bring back a reply, while he, well rewarded, returned to *home, friends and flancee—Nellie Duryea, ,| the only Nellie in the world to bim | beyond the unsettled border line. Howe had thought of Matteo and ‘hat was why he was now an in mate of the nofsy gambling den. Howe had found him at the card table pitting his money recktessly against the most daring gambler in Truro. Howe saw his last dollar go. A handsome ring was staked, then his watch and now his most faithful friend and companion, the fog. Everybody who: knew Matteo knew also his dog. The animal was tiny, but tearless: and very in- telligent. The cards went the rounds again, Matteo lost. Howe saw a strangely desperate glint in his eye as he arose unsteadily from the table, ‘He turned slightly pale. Then he shrugged his shoulders and walked over and kissed the little dog asleep on a pile of newspapers. Straight as a soldier then, he walked from the room is “It will break his heart to lose his friend,” Howe told Arvid! quick- ly. “May I redeem him?” and he proffered fifty dollars in paper money. a New York ... 43 | .5T4 . Washington 43. 570 some of thé critics had | Detroit 44.556 hard to tell | St. Louis . 48, 505 hit the ball, as he has a record of | ington al big years‘he has in | Chicago Bl ABB; ‘drawing ree tickets to first, of jest short an infielder breaks | Cleveland 54 4601 tan average of one base on balls per | tie © goes quickl. \ Boston 5539! game. Pecki P Maurice Archdeacon of the waits lot ye FSox, said to be the fastest man in} care one of the and brilliant Despite the fact Peckinpaugh is w hasn't the slightest ost valual Ospiked shoes, has been playing reg-) shortstop in the major leagues this | suecessor. In ( ularly since his retu nd is : | playing third ba fowith Ruth in the averages, but | a sensational fielder, Peck- | Stanley Harris { thparticip 1 in only work i respect has | roan to “sueceed th simply been uncanny this y the bat his hits have in y. In the pi oFalk, anc paugh. A ven points the real trailer to) h f 379, with | land holding down | with 343. Peck Prais one of th rs value, con- | given to the int thIamieson of rm ththird place the opposit pf a wonderful pair of hands, Bluege Philadelphia 4; Cleveland 3. m Ed Collins, Captain of the by some brilliant play. If the hits | has a great future as a shortstop. 1 Washington 7; Detroit 3. 5 s leading the be Peck robs the opposition of were | would like to be starting my major| New York 3; St. Louis 2. 0 thefts, an incre: f| added to his batting average, his | league earcer with hig chance to be- TES Mach of Collins’ ceess in] rk this year would be well over | come a star,” says Peck. N ASSOCIATION ‘ ring bases lies in h udgment | 400, Bluege is doing well enough at Milwaukee 8, more than his speed, although age} During the th of July I um-| third but prefers shortstop. How- Minneapolis 6; Kansas City 7. toes not seém to have with th lowed him| pired ever pilown to any appreciable extent. — | b Other leading batters fo: hO orj ingy its s e EF as ! more Goslin, Washing-| of the / Ryton 241 Chicago .340; Cobb, Helps Winning Streak Colli Boston Spea' New York to help that Peckinpaugh. ns, ; Heilmann, | Cle ago | No player did more ng streak than e 22 games I fee conservative in j make 40 barring accidents, orries about that The A few ' the scnsat with Pc Kinpaueh at his best, ng of the brilliant Peck. | - | inpaugh merely means the arrival of | nal Bluege. that the star or aming, the club worry as to his ee Bluege, now for the Nationals, s he fias jist the he clever Peckin-% Philadelphia . 59 410° RESULTS YESTERDAY NATIONAL LEAGUE Pittsburg 1; New York 3. Chicago 0; Brooklyn 4. Cincinnati 2; Boston 3. (15,| inn- es Bluege ings). greutest fielders | Others postponed. the tribute t on his f and the possessor AMERICAN LEAGUE Boston 1; Chicago 2. Toledos 2. Louisville 3; Indianapolis 7; Columbus, 0. “DAZZY” VANCE: TIES RECORD} —— signed to arts to slip. t shortstops in Manager Harris. ears Washington, should have no position.” New York, Aug. 2—A. C. “Dazzy” ‘Vance, Brooklyn pitcher, tied the |'world’s record for consecutive strike- gestions, all he usualiy gets is: “Hit em where they aint.” If a pli Jine drive di n of | rectly at r, who make. record | the eatch without moving out of son, when he! tracks, some one invariably shouts. es batting champi. League , a lasts The great batsm: won his any of his previous records, hown a tendency to re- ubove the 400 mark. At wrihe leadership in total bases, which 29thcluding 26 doubles, 11 triples and Pe M4 p homers, run his string to 235. $f Zack Wheat, Dodger veteran fly 2a on continues to be the runner- menP of the St. Louis idol with an sigaverage of 377, and Jack Fournier, 192Wheat’s teammate, is tied for third Pi lace honors with Ed. Roush of the incinnati Reds, each with .348. Fanaa however, is ont in front the: e the circuit drive hitters with homers, Gabby Hartnett of Chi- oes being his nearest rival with o'el teml Max Carey, of the Pirates, failed am increase his base stealing record the 24/and is challenged by Clift crib(eathcote of the Cubs who has pil- willgred his 21st. base. ading batters: Becaihe. incinnati .347; Young, New York Kelley, New York .336; Frisch, York .335; Grigsby, Chicago Snyder, New York .326; Hart- Chicago .324; Blades, St. Lou- .822; Wrightstone,- Philadelphia 18, s due z : vf Billy Evans Says ' ale Soe D@“Hit ’em where they ain’t.” 2440 replied the late Ed Delahanty, 2 a now famous interview on his itting feats. ig That was the only cablaaition he ered for his remarkable success a batsman. ‘am @ Those five words have become a ‘batt classic, | i When a batter is.in a slump and to. his teammates for sug- Gigandra= {athe pictyre .of oes ears ago and expects to win it begins to cut_up, he cuts up all over. a great batter, but rather hard to execute, y mighty ng their feats of swa' Ne’ fourth consecutive cham-| «jit em where they A Vance also tied his own 1923 rionship. mn Pittaborehil| sielie lal mighty slosi ting etersiaxel equallyaeos major league record of 14 strike- yiar_e his record during|¢his stunt of hitting the ball wh wee outs for a single game. Every coy 208 1907 nd 1909, his high- Without doubt one of the great-| man -on the Chicago team except terst a e that period be-| Hollocher struck out at least once, alg" Hornsby outhit | Hartnett, Cub catcher, was three amghe veteran each of the four years | times a yictim of Vance’s fast ball. wife !ed the league, starting in 1920. os sonlis in 1920 was .370; in of, t season’ 401 and LOCALS PLAY Feast 384. If he con- LA TeCinues his present stride he will AT RICE KE He's the ‘Garena iplue - blood At any rate, he won first prize at the Royal Agri-|and the third on*June 1, the pur- me tell’ bie aoa he ‘gets ‘that way. because ‘of"his blue blood." outs by fanning seven batters in aj row in his 4 to 0 victory over €hi- | cago at Brooklyn yesterday. The! . record was established by Hod Eller en of the past of the Cincinnati Nationals in the! modest chaps ]1919 world series, with the Chicago) Americans, 1 The. Bismarck Independent base- ball team is scheduled to play | Karlsruhe’s baseball team at Rice Lake, near Douglas, Ward county, | Sunday. A big emancipation day ; jeelebration is planned, at which | between 3,000 and 5,000 people are} expected. Manager George Smith hnd his team will leave by autoj Sunday morning. Bill Manley of Wilton, who has been playing base- ball in Montana, will play in the field for Bismarck. FARGO COUNTRY CLUB PLANS TO RAISE ITS FEES, Fargo, N. D., Aug. 2.—The Fargo Country club board of trustees, at & meeting, adopted important chan- ges as affecting the membership of the club. The first step was the establish-. ment of a limit of 200 members, ef- fective immediately. ~ Beginning on Jan. 1, next, the club will impose a $100 membership fee on new members, ‘which is in addition; to the annual dues of $66, Also, the board* decided that for the balance of this season, a charge of $44 would be made, this: privilege being extended to prospective new members who are thus given an op- portunity to gome in: before the membership fee is. imposed. A change ‘in the plan of finan- cing the club goes into ‘effect’next year, under which the dues will be payable in installments of one-third each, the first installment Being due on Jan. 1; the second on April 1, again thig year.|pose being to obtain earlier collec- Horte fanciers |tion of dues to take care of early oe jon work, jhad called the attention of Matteo j lose him.” | followed. Dropping: the wrecked || “All right,” nodded the gambler and then Howe snatched up the dog and rushed after his master. Howe overtook him at the street door, “Yours,” he said, placing the Iit- tle pet in his arms. Matteo stared at Howe in a dazed, uncertain way. Then his fingers gently caressed the dog. His voice ‘broke #& he comptehended what Howe had done. * “Amigo,” he said, holding Howe's hand in a fervent grasp, “when ‘my fortune turns I shall know how to repay you.” “T can help it turn just now,” re- marked Howe significantly. He told him that he was authorized to pay royally’-for his guidance and di- tection. “I in pilot you safely,” Matteo sald—“I am your man.” The morning they left Truro Howe had noticed a man he had seen hanging around the chief's quarters dogging his’ footsteps, He to this, who had carelessly asserted that if he was one of the numerous spies In ‘action they “would ‘soon However, twice in two days af- ter they had started onthe trall they caught sight of a distant fig- ure remindful of the man they had observed at Truro. It was early in the morning that Matteo suggested a plunge into a near creek before they lit a little fire and cooked their frugal break- fast. They had disrobed and were disporting themselves in the cool, sparkling stream, when an omatous sound echoed out— Chick f Th to the consternation of Howe, turning, he saw a man, the man who had shadowed him in the city, Just rushed away with a camera, “Matteo!” shouted Howe, quick- ly—“the spy. He has Photographed the message on my back!” “So?” observed Matteo, speedily springing. ashore to where his clothe lay. It was to selze his re oo we Mee ba ee i—followed sure, steady aim. Crack !—a second sharp explosion camera and, holding his, wounded hand, the apy disappeared, “The message is written partly: in cypher,” .explained Howe, “put.that man might have been able’ o make it out after close study.” “He is doubtless one of the up- scrupulous“ crowd {mfesting the province, nang to black “gel secrets or betray his: best frien .” acceded Matteo, ug They reached: the. end of their journey in safety and: the secret message was transeriped. Matteo retuined to Truro with rich reward awaiting him. Marvin Howe crossed the border, bound for home ani! his waiting*flancee, pret- ty-Nellle Duryea. (©, 1924, Western Newsvaver Union.’ BIDS’ WANTED - Bids will be received for the new samara. pate ere pes er tl ent’'German sone tots Res kor tm ia ae Ae4 john ristlanse! jecrctary. o! 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