The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 6, 1924, Page 6

‘AGE SIX Sports TOSENATORS | IN BIG FIGHT, ave Five Hitters in the 300) Class, Baseball Averages | This Week Show IS LIPPING * Chicago, Sept. 6.—Washington’s Mant fight to conquer the Yan- ‘es in the race for the American ague championship is an interest- z tale of figures reflected in the ting averages today. (Comparison of the Yanks and nators reveal five Washington ayers hitting in the t 300 ass, while the Yankees can boast ly of four, including Ernie John- n, a utility player, who has only rticipated in 56 games. Outfielder »slin leads the Senators in batting th an average of , followed by ce with . Judge is hitting 7, Leibold .304, and Matthews | Me The Yanke have their mighty ath as their batting mainstay, The abe, however, has shown a Geuubans) to slip, the latest averages, in- uding games of Wednesday, giv- g him an average of .386, com- wred with a week ago. Johnson is bat- 318, and Dugan an staled 42 homers ag .358, Meusel ven .300. Washington has almost reached e 200 mark in sacrifice hits and these Stanley Harris, the boy anager, himself is credited with! Srty-one. Harris also is tied with} s teammate Sam Rice, for the hon-| - of running next to Eddie Collins * the White Sox in stealing bases. hey have 19 apiece, compared with » for Collins. The Washington am reached the 100 mark in thefts, pared with 58 for the Yanks. He has | i Johnson Leads Walter Johnson, pitching ace of! 1e Senators, is the outstanding | itcher of the league. He is en- nying a percer of .750, the | Sunt for him being eighteen vic-| yries and six defeats. | In team batting, the Yankees ex- all, They have gathered 1,312 hits or a total of 1,919 bases, compared ‘ith 1,283 hits for the § ors for 3192 bases. The Washington play- ts have scored 616 runs, compared ith 685 for the Yankees. In sac-| ifice hitting, however, the Senators ‘ave scored 196, compared with 163 or their opponents. i In individual batting, Jamieson of! ‘leveland remains next to Rut “ith a mark of Falk of Ch ago follows with with Eddie jollins, White Sox captain, fourth vith 347, : Other leading batters: Speaker, fleveland, .346; Cobb, Detroit .34 soone, 340; Myatt, Cleve- and 3 sler, Detroit 337; goals Was jn the National league, the sensa- gional batting of Rogers Hornsby vershadows the performance of thers. The St. Louis star, when yorced out of the game due to an in- ured back, was hitting .432 and go- ng a terrifi He had a Mulated a total’of 202 hits for 336 ases, including 23 home runs. His getirement enabled Fournier of grooklyn to gain slightly in home ‘un honors, for Fournier increased is total to twenty-six. Cuyler-of Pittsburgh with ag av- rage of .381, continues to rank sec- ‘nd to Hornsby. Wheat of Brooklyn 3 third with .376, followed by youngs of New York and Bressler of jincinnati with .341 each. Carey of the Pirates is in no dan- ser of losing the base stealing hon- ws. He's leading with 37. F Other leading batters: Roush, Cincinnati, .340;' Fournier, Brook- €yn .338; Kelly, New York 328; Mrisch, New York High, Brook- yn, .322, ad f Billy Evans Says | * = “e “Too bad Walter Johnson has never aad the opportunity to pitch in a orld series.” R, For years that has been the sad lament of baseball fans and experts the country over. Now that the Washington club is trongly in the running for the American League pennant, what about the world series chances of Walter Johnson. » Ever since his entry into the Amer- Yrean League, Johnson nas been noted for his terrific speed. “You can’t hit what you can’t see,” has for years been the theory of American League batters in ex- Gplaining their inability to hit John- ison’s fast one. f During the first two years of his career he attained fame as a big Neaguer without the aid of a curve all. Opposing batters knew they uld always look for a fast one, yet und him the most difficult pitcher the league to hit. Later Johnson acquired a good ‘eurve, now has a deceptive change lof pace, but he still tells you that the fast one is,his one best bet. This, win. in the big show. + Without 2 doubt Johnson’s fast ball is just a little swifter than that of lany pitcher I have ever umpired for. * Johnson can still pump the fast fone through with as much stuff as ‘ever, but he only bears down occa- ‘sionally. He is now content to win twith the least possible strain on his arm. During the first twelve years of his major league career, I bel eve | ITTING AID | even after 18 years of campaigning). EEA SE THE BISMARCK CAN SHE REPEAT GOLF WIN? EDITH CUMMINGS Upsetting the dope in spectacular style, Edith Cummings came out of} the west to win the women’s national golf tournament last year. | Will this young Chic an repeat this y at Providence, R. 1.2 The] oddy are against her. No woman champion has repeated in four seasons, | “ LUIS FIRPO ENIGMA OF PRIZE RING: Johnson could have won a world s ies single handed. A team looking at Johnson's great | speed for the first time during that period of greatness, would have found him almost unhittable. | The lively ball was not in use at that time. This feature must be giv- en consideration when di Johnson's chances in a world series. | Speed is made to order for the lively ball, if the batsman can proper- ly time the fast one. While speed, well controlled, is still a pitcher's) of , it is not as dominant it was with the old style| Training, Firpo Has Battled Way Through WAVES OF nd the change of p s most necessary. Johnson hot both and would in no w CRITICISM at speed would be s during the fi career. Conditions about a change, the lively w hidden behind an ir His ¢ on the use he makes crutable mask, | of a tremen- brought ball and short fence the| Violating orthodox methods of Still, if Washington wins po] ; : training, ignoring. ring American League pennant, count on technique and scorning scientic boxing, Fir- j Walter Johnson to supply some n I | Mord series thrills, with hiv pitch-|P% once a stevedore on the docks at vance , Buenos Aires, employed the elemen- Pre seveeliun uatwelunateeal tal equipment of a fighting heart, rugged body and a powerful fight tle his. way through ticism and knock the modern heavyweight in the majors, most of the time mith an also-ran club, that forced him to continually extend himself to win. SYKESTON TO PLAY AT PEN champions a year ago, A rugged body motivated by a single-track mind, a stubborn. will jand fearless courage, earned for With a picked team of star ball|Firpo the name of “Wild Bull of tossers from the tri-county league,| the Pani during his rise to fame Sykeston has made the promise of | which tutes one of the pi returning home with a victory over|turesque romances of the prize! the Grove Sluggers here Sunday af-| ring. ternoon, So this promises to be a] Born October 29, 1895 in Argen- good game, us the Grove line upwill| tina, of an Italian father and a be back to its great strength for!) Spanish mother, Luis grew up as a this game, with Harry Jackson play-| bootblack, ‘an odd job man and grad- ing his regular game at short. Game| uated to the manly occupation of called at 1 o'clock, |stevedore. Labor was irksome—ob- | eee servers claim that Luis still shirks Men’s fur felt hats cleaned | Ae Hee wore darks (te teRiniS, and reblocked. City Cleaners after he witnessed his first prize and Dyers. Phone 770. Firpo entered the ring and fight, JACK DOES SOME INTRODUCING Jack Dempsey bashfully may deny he is engaged —but, he can’t get away with it among the home folks in Salt Lake City. For the heavy- weight champion and movie actor, with the remade nose, brought Estelle Taylor, also of’the movies, up,with him- when he dropped in for a little visit. His mother, Mrs. Célia Dempsey, met them at the i depot. And after a while, Jack dropped around to see “Pa” Dempsey and the new stepmother, and duly- introduced Estelle to-them, also. | seven | When | from Argentina. j was knocked down twice and hurled AMATEURS END Violating Orthodox Methods je {the regular season’s schedule with a oa yeberenats| = the Hardwares team leading, the ceppey Pees | New York, Luis Angel |Rosen team and Transportation team lla 5 1 ais ills at|tied for second place and the Lahr However, fans and critics in dis-| Firpo, who meets Harry Wills at " a cussing Johnson in relation to a) Boyle’s Thirty sAcr eptember 11, eoeet eine fourtl in the orld cust always had in mind his| yomains the enigma of the prize{ ‘The final starding BrThe desire was to see what John-| "ine Blthough he is a veteran of 32 L. Pet. on would be able to do with his fast | battles during the five years of his | Hardwares . +8 4 660 b The display of speed was re-[eareer, ; y REeenR 22s a BS sande Shaconielg Aa hen the giant Argentine enters é ett) as Johnson's punch in a world en THe aoa ase Ce) eae tee ees to challenge Jack Dempsey for the] The officers of the Commercial I do not believe that heavyweight aansto hip of the! League feel it had a good season, ld, his course of action will be} and will develop greatly next year. nees of victory will rest up- | dous right hand and powerful body. | i Dempsey—out of a ring} two months | by Angel Rodriguez, now retired. The setback only angered the fu- ture Wild Bull who bowled over a score of amateurs before his first professional fight in September, | 1919, with an American, William Daly. Firpo won by a knockout in rounds and had added 11! other knockout victims to his record when he first came to this country in 1922. Firpo was met by no hands or/ public acclaim when he first arrived { here. Landing unostentatiously, he | trained in cellars, fought off hunger | but never thought of abandoning the career which he had _ chosen. an opening came he knocked out Sailor Maxted, Italian Jack Her- man and Joe McCann before re- turning to Argentina, where he won his first big purse in beating Jim Tracy, an Australian, Since that time Firpo has been in the public eye. He came to this country early in 1923 and knocked out Bill Brennan, Jack McAuliffe and halted a come-back by Jess Wil- lard. Before each fight his equip- ment was ridiculed, and it was free- ly predicted that Dempsey would |! easily conquer the crude workman But the champion out of the ring before he beat the Wild Bull to the canvas for the sev- enth time to win by a knockout in two rounds in the most spectacular prize fight in history. Firpo grew in business sagacity as he advanced in power. He man- ages his own affairs, combs the country in barnstorming flurries and his financial bouts with Tex Rickard and other promoters have attracted almost as much attention as his fights in the ring. In the midst of negotiations for a return match with Dempsey, the “Wild Bull” suddenly announced that he was through with prize fighting; but when Rickard offer- ed more attractive inducements, he changed his decision. In his own country he has been regarded as a national hero because of the atten- tion he attracted to the South Au erican continent. He is now im cated with immigration authorities here in a legal battle which has a woman in the background. Firpo won 24 of his 32 battles by knockouts, and seven by decisions. His knockout by Dempsey was the only reverse of his professional ca- reer. The coming bout with Wills is considered by the impatient “Wild Bull” as a mere preliminary to another championship affair with Dempsey SEASON HERE Rosen Team Wins Last Com- mercial League Game The Alex Rosen and Brother team in the Commercial League closed over the Transportation The season ended with victory team, 7 to 4. Locals Play Washburn Here The Bismarck Independents will play the Washburn baseball team Sunday afternoon at the local ball | park at 3 o'clock in the last game of \the season. he Washburn. team |won from the locals several weeks |ago and lost to the prison team by | close score. “Chuck” Morrison, | athletic director of the Bismarck high’ school, will play with the lo- cals, Sorlien will oppose Tauer on the mound. The Nut Cracker | eae i i} Another way to earn a reputa- tion for originality is to refrain |from plastering the windshield with bathing girl stickers { Walter Johnson got stagefright {in a Washington theater the other night. . . Only the grandstanders jare at home in the spotlight. It will be nice if the world series’ lis in, Washington provided Secre- ‘tary Fall and Mr. Daugherty have |nothing to do with the distribution lof the tickets. i i | Despite the fact that Johnny Weis- {muller is not a society boy you'll notice he’s always in the swim. It may be true that Hornsby is |greater than Ruth but you can't | prove it at the turnstiles. | Everett Scott keeps on adding te his remarkable record. . . Like a Ford fender he never seems to wear | out. tee | No one probably will ever be able \to expfain satisfactorily just what jit is'that inspires a man to become ‘a college cheer leader. | Unlike many sons of famous fa- | thers, the young colts of Man o’ War i seem intent on making good them- | selves. tee | Who can remember the good old days when John J. McGrew w: known ‘to the world ‘as the mapaton mind of basebalt?, 3 Before it is teo late ‘some.’ one should tell: the Prince’ of Wales about the new A. A. U. rule keeping ball-room dancers three inche TRIBUNE was knocked out in the first round |Chicago murder trial if they had let him hold it in the Garden. Georges Carpentier is writing a song. GIANTS, ROBINS: New York Team Takes Double Header From Philadelphia Chicago, Sept. 6.—The New York | Giants kept ahead of the fast-going Brooklyn Robins by taking two games from Philadelphia yesterday, while the Robins were taking their 14th straight victory from Boston. Home runs marked the New York- Phillies contest. Four circuit drives, thrée of them in one inning, were made off Baldwin, New York pitcher, in the first game. Kelly hit a home| run with the bases full and Travis Jackson did the same thing. The scores were 6 to 5 and 15 to 3. Ehr- hardt, recruit pitcher from Florida, hurled Brook! to a 4 to 0 victory over Boston. Cincinnati took a game from Chicago, 3 to 1, Donahue out- pitching the veteran Alexander. In the Americans, Detroit took two games from Cleveland, 7 to 3 and 20 to 1. The second game established | a scoring mark in the American League. Twenty runs is the largest total any team has registered in the League this season. The nearest ap- proach was on August 30 when iladelphta defeated Boston, 18 to ey ———_ | *——BASEBALL | ° = e American Association Ww. L Indianapolis .......80 60 St. Paul 60 Louisville 65 Milwaukee 7 Toledo 74 Minneapolis 76 Columbus B Kansas Cit: 80 National League New York Brooklyn Pittsburgh St., Louis ... Philadelphia Boston ..... American League ’ W. Washington New York . Detroit St. Louis Cleveland Boston Philadelphia Chicago 8 NE 2 6: 13 447 "3 7 2s S s Results Yesterday National League Chicago 1; Brooklyn 4; ‘on 0. New York 6-15; Philadelphia 5-3. Others not scheduled. American League St. Louis 1; Chicago 4. Cleveland 3-1; Detroit 7-20. Others not scheduled. American Association Milwaukee 2; St. Paul 5. Indianapolis 5; Toledo 3. Louisville 8; Columbus 3. Kansas City 2-4; Minneapolis 6-14. NOTICE The North Dakota State Board of Nurse Examiners wilt hold an ex- amination at Grand Forks, North Dakota, Octobere7th and 8th, 1924. For further information write to Ethel Stanford, 703 4th St. S., Fargo, N. D. LAND’S SAKE! If It Ain’t Old Clark Griffith as He Looked ’Way Back in 1900 _CLARK GRIFFITH This picture was taken +24 ‘years ago. It presents Clark Griffith .as he looked in the role of manager of the New York Yankees, except the apart. We still think Tex Rickard could have made a better show of that, team was called the Highlanders then. Griffith is now part owner of the Washington team, which is making a spectacular bid for the American Lea- gue championship. | We suppose ‘he'll call it “I Got Mine, Boys!” | BOTH VICTORS ; turned. Guess work, Here are the girls you saw on the front page, in the same order, picked the most beautiful? A lot defiends on where you sit, you know. left to right. Reindeer To Provide Major Nome, Alaska, Sept. eS ageeezavel earvines The herds have increased preparations have place Alas! fall on a pay with fox-raising, min- ing, fishing and shcep-raising in the territory, according to Carl J. Lo- 's reindeer industry this | Pleted. men, president of a trading corpor- Mr, Lomen explained that despite the fact that many natives are very wealthy on paper, due to their large reindeer herds, they are nearly This people Industry | me.—Mark 7:6. been made to|to a point where they must be de- The one sure way, without waste, is to cultivate a taste for rein-| dupes he deer meat, not only throughout = Alaska, but in the United States and| Variometer shafts in foreign countries. hypocrites; A Thought | eS should be of | brass or copper, not of iron or stecl. pure and simple, trying to pick the fairest of these beach charmerg when their backs are Try it, anyway, and sec if your judgment still holds. WHAT D’YOU THINK OF YOUR PICK NOW? 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