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SENATORS ARE DEFEATED BY THE ATHLETICS Cardinals Get Second Win Over Pirates—Phillies Win From Braves Cold weather, accident and iliness tue interfering with the major league ball season. Already low temperatures Drought postponement of six tests. At Philadelphia yest conde, Braves’ third baseman, suf-! fractured right leg in a! nto the plate, He is likely to/ ut of the game for some time. | St. Louis the veteran umpire, | Hank O'Day, was stricken with ap- pendicitis just before the rt of the yame and sent to a hosp! have con- Harry de Contests Postponed With the Brooklyn-New York, Chi- cago-Cincinnati, ¥: s-Red | Sox, and Cleveland-Detroit games —post- poned on account of cold, the Phil- adelphia clubs claimed attention. The hl s turned on the American e champion Senators after two defeats and slugged out a 9 to 3 vic- tory, while the Phillies continued in their winning frame of mind and downed the Braves, 8 to 4. It was a day of experiments for the managers, eager for vindication of winter tri . The Braves started George Mogridge, formerly of the Senators, but he journeyed to the showers before the f inning had been complete: Washington tried Joe Bush, obtained from the Browns, and he also failed. So did Tom} Zachary, former Senator left hander, who attempted to officiate for the Browns. Joe Pi the Texas hits in 6 Baumgart "rhe Ameri pio five errors in their first defeat of the season. White Sox Win The White Sox, displaying an un- expected hitting ‘shower, trampled islers 11 to 4. The bats of Col- year-old rookie from innings aft aight conquest. into the contest in the ninth inning with three on the bases, he belted a home run. It was his sec- ond of the season, This was the se ond time in the young season that al pinch hitter had delivered a home run, Jimmy Johnston of the Braves, having shot out a long blow that was; all in vain on opening day. Vie Keen, formerly of the went to the mound for the ¢ and returned with Hornsby’s second! victory of the year over the champion! Pirates, 2t0 0. Hornsby regained the’ batting eye he had lost on Wednes- ‘day gnd hammered out a double and two singles. LEWIS USES | ‘HEADLOGK 10 | ~ DBREAT MUNN ¢ Takes Two Straight From Kansas City Man in Match at Boston Boston, April 16.—()— Ed (Strang- -lery Lewis of Chicago has demon- strated the effic: of his famous headlock once more. Jt brought him i y here last night over W: unn of Kans: ‘ity whom he in two s! i h after 59 minutes of wrestling, -came when the referee ordered Munn to break a hold. The Nebraskan step- ped back to remonstrate and ins! ly Levis had e1 don his hea and tossed his he crowd booed the decision. The second fall, however, was a clean cut win. It took only 14 min- utes and 40 seconds. Lewis lost to Munn about a year ago but claimed a foul and succeed- ed in having him restrained in court from claiming the title. | “Billy Evans Says | o—_______--__—_ FRESH ROOKIE Major league managers are often up against funny propositions in the training camps. Compelied to pass judgitent on a score’ or more minor league recruits prior to the opening of the season, they are often hard put to reach @ decision. While chatting with Manager Ed- from the the Recreatio | Boston Falls! 22! die Collins of the White Sox at Shreveport, La., and watching his rookies perform, he remarked: “That fellow is ‘either going to talk i if back to the bushes or into : azbig league berth. ° 2¢§?an’t quite make up my mind whether I should call him down, tell thim “his place, or should pat him on the back for his spirit. ‘esterday I took one of the young givers ide, believing no one could ar our conversation, and explained j him why he had made the wrong play. ‘Apparently this player has ‘rab- bit Sars.’ because had hgrdly fin- ished when he broke into the con- rsation Pabele: “a erything you ssi ne yrs ait On Why ‘even 8 2 t to be wise ‘to that! ¢ later I made some critical to anothesplayer and once ° he t-eared’ ¢ cut in with the following: it. to hint, manager, we don't y boneheads pn this ball PORT HURON TEAM REAL Chigago Cleveland || Washington Boston New York... Philadelphia | | SENSATION AT A. B.C. |! st tous: \\ N ES 107 memes 276 1014 Recreation No. 2 bowling team of Port Huron, M spilling outfits. F below their customary average when competing in a big tournament, boys shot “over their heads” to a team mark of 30) meet at Toledo. for a time looked good to give them first plac But cne of the last teams to take th through with a 3063 total, re! usual run of maple: pins in the recent A. B. C. Their effo tional championship. Castany outfit of Chicago—came the Michiganders to second. Before rolling at Toledo the highest score the Port Huron team had {Chi ever been able to hit was 2800. a match with"Joe Malcewiez. heavyweight wrestling title changes! The lo. | Baseball Brief: 226 - 180 217 201 174 998 so often it is hard to keep up with| 4g dule. | hopping from the ring in| and leaving Malcewicz to| wrestle himself, Stecher has offered at least a dozen alibis for his failure to_go on with the mate! No doubt there was promoter of the bout accus of quitting cold. nly way Stecher can clear up to consent to a match He probably won't. the ne he reason, The! techer POPULAR IDOL Babe Ruth continues to ‘be base- ball’s biggest drawin, ing t ry Yankees wend their way north. Each year the Yankees make an chedule new cities in the exhibition games and the makes the promot standing-room-only f which proves there is no inal Babe. H the home tun orgy and color than a like any one else. Other home run sluggers are mere imitators with fandom. drive by FIVE fi For several years Glenna Collett, national woman golf champion, ha held much the same place in the fem-| inine ranks as does Walter Hagen among the men. Miss Collett has been rated the class of the field among the fair sex. When so great a player as she is meets defeat in five important match- es in the short space of one month, something must be wrong with her game. Glenna Collett certainly has been a much beaten champion in the south- ern tournaments during the winter. Possibly she is overgolfed. A LITTLE STUFFI THIS WiLL BE MY GREATEST SEASON. game as the! j th circuit swat carries with The se tot ateher Wilson's ‘he Phillies uncorked a home run with the ba score and brought home a victory} Toledo .. over the homer Conn under han Ww hold tl in eh Henr; pire of Clyde Hittinger, former Cub r, who was traded to the Louis- the slaughter of the Milwaukee Brew- ers y Normal no run 27 batters faced Hay: reached first but, were ks, men. A col to detect color blindness has been in- vented. atting rampage against a hington twirlers and copped an| Kansas City usy game, the part of P ddenly ill ye: hi: NATIONAL LEAGUE Standin Philadelphia St. Louis. . Chicago New York Brooklyn .. Cincinnati .. Pitteburgh Boston . Stee eee + Games Today Pittsburgh at St. Lovisin, Chicago at Cincinnati. Brooklyn ‘at New York. Boston at Philadelphia. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION —, Minneapolis .. Indianapolis Louisville Toledo St; Paul.. Kansas City Milwaukee Columbus . Games Today Toledo at St. Paul. Columbus at Minneapolis. Louisville ‘at Milwaukee. Indianapolis at Kansag City. ete coom Yesterday’s Games | NATIONAL LEAGUE RH | Taylor; HB) aivantages gained : a gnteday ball in Keen. and Reutty"? Boston | Philadelphia ee Mogridge, Benton and J. Knight and J. Wilson. about the reductio! does it? Is it not R Vittsburgh r St. Louis . 2 Morrison and O'Farrell. ; (Others postponed, cold weather);; AMERICAN LEAGUE R H B Philadelphia 9 4 2 Wasington ... 3 6 6 Baumgartner, Pate and Perkins; Bush, Ferguson, Ogden end. Ru SS . jooch;, Ss , is different For, instead of falling all R 4 iL HE 9 al . oy 01 Schang; Blan- ‘ys kenship and Schalk. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Columbus . 5 9 16 Boston Braves suffered a| Minneapo! i418 4 HE 's yesterday when Harry| Ketchum, Sleppey, Shea and Bird third baseman, broke | Green and Krueger. q eg in trying to score on a — he pitcher in the game against R ar spike caught in | Louisville ae us 0 jin guards. Milwaukee . 1 Hooley and Devormer; Gearin, Mc- the | Cracken, Reitz, Campbell and Young. H E 10 {8 9 3 Lyons and and Only Tu —% Who holds the league ‘batting veteran Cy Williams of turned ‘the trick 1 es loaded which broke a tie al ‘Torpe, Frey, Roettger, Farquhar Braves. It was his second | St. Paul ... of the season. Canavan, Heving; ie Mack’s. Athletics, smarting | Hoffman. two straight defeats at the of the Senators, went on a trio of} Indianapolis . mnder over. the 1 0 L Hill and Florence; Evans, Mien¢ helped the Athletics} and Shinault, American league champions ae 5 WESTERN ‘LEAGUE Denver 2, St. Joseph 6. Lincoln 6, Tulse 7. Omaha 16, Wichita 10. Des Moines 5; Oklahoma City 6. Helpful Hints by | Golfing Stars en NEE ney FRANCIS OUIMET—IMPROVEMENT IN’ AVERAGE GAME It has suddenly struck the millions of American golfers with much amaze- ment that we are shooting a 600-yard longer course today some 20 strokes better than Harry Vardon and the stars around 1900 negotiated the 72-| 1, holes journey of an open. res prove all this and clearly bring to light that the winner of the big modal matches of today must be between three and four strokes, better. to the round than the victor of 20 seasons | back. : That would be a staggering handicap for one-star to yield to .an- other today. =... ‘ 4 Of course, thé first “i¢k” one gets! Great relief twirling on In the National handéré have the ficiency of those Hans ‘Wagner an The-dope shows y “Hank ay the National le sterd: veteran um- ue, was tal just before ly suffering with ap-|@ was taken to a hos- | Hal Ch tinetion of to-Jead either of In baseball the right-hand led whifts tothe te: agal ‘hast pitching for Eastern Ken- against Georgetown twirled a no hit, Only two of whom d on the Hays fanned J3 Georgetown game, winning 4 to 0. period te Amer 1 cs cight ‘right-hande: ety a lor wheel which” ¢in be used N’ DIAMOND DAZZLERS from such a statement is that the livelier ball of today more than brings! prowess of one Ty Cobb, with 12 creased yardage—about 600 to the 18- holes journcy—somewhat offsets the} ference between the two styles of | most famous ‘footballers. LEFT-HANDERS HOLD THE RDGE IN BATTING ¥ 1 aa ana ctroned, cold weather), | Honor Divided Quite Evenly, However - Hal Chase (BY BILLY EVANS) handers or left-handers? Jt it Five thought to Ty -Cobb,} io for, wine’ years in succession led) n League and immediate reply would be the left- ‘handers, of course. ‘On the other hand, ‘Hornsby ‘And recall the fact that for the past six years he has topped the National’ League batters, your ans-} wer would be right-handers. a Yet if one goes oversthe batting figures for the past 25 years he ‘will, be.rather surprised when hediscovers! the honors pretty evenly divided. have finished ahead abou 15 times to nine for the left-handers. Unique Distinction e enjoys the unique dis- being the only turn hitter turn hitter is one who Inst right-handers. turned the tfick with théhad. played for years. avast ‘Ameri . rs greater prosperity handed batters of ie National League. 0 finished n League, ops ners enjoyed by the AANNRIGHT MA, IF YA » WANNA BE.POOR ALL UR LIFES) WY DONT BLAME ME~ATS ALL! WEN YA SEE THEM OTHER FELLERS MAS, ROLLIN' IN GOLD WY DONT GIT JELLIS ATS ALL! GOLD RusHEes _ OONT COME ‘ENE DAY! TAINT AS IF FT Woz WAY, OFF IN AFRICER ER SUMPNy WY ITS ONY IN ONTARIO! WHEN YOU GET “Hoste Tewllaus j jean all be traced to the batting starts on the home field Columbia has won them al. | INTRODUCING— Dan McGugin, one of Michigan's Old-timers recall McGugin as a stellar guard.on Yost’s sensational. point-a-minute elevens of @ quarter of a century ago. Dan's coaching football at Vanderbilt. Has ‘been there for years. Several times Yost, the teacher, and Mc- i il, “have ‘matched wits iel But the Vandies have never whipped the Wol- verines. 'A scoreless tie a few years ago is the nearest they’ve come to turning the trick. Yost and McGugin, 3 tes probably know, are brothers- incla n in stroking. But! championships to his ered! a fact that the in-| campaigns. Some record. So after all there is no great dif- in 20 honors are concerned. In 25:years of play in the two big leagues 26 of the cham- pions have hit from the left side of the plate, 23 from the other side. Hal Chase hit cither way, as mention- ov It is a teresting fact that Harry Heilmann is the only right- hander to lead the American League ‘in the last 20 years. Larry Lajoie, in 1905, was the last right-hander to be infront until Heilmann copped in| 921. Heilmann has had the rather un i of leading every; during the three times that | a finished in front in| 1925, by using the pres-| batting as far as champion Place, of the old} ic Wilson, a former Iowa star, and Adrien Paulen, Dutch champio are to meet in a special quarter-mile race at the Kansas relays April 17. ics, Each won his first Wilson fell in the second, how-| ever, and Paulen was eliminated in ‘the semi-final after he had whipped jddell, ultimate winner, in his second! trial. Paulen copped the special “440” event at the Texas relays ee A close struggle should result with chances even. | | 1 tri rn Hitter BY ART CARLSON TIGER TRACK OUTLOOK — |! Last year Princeton finished sec-| ond to a great Southern California team in the eastern intercollegiates. | The Tigers counted 29. 1-2. poin placing nine men to 13 for t T jans. | edge as to major| champions, “right- sizeup, of. the writes “War Westerne “The Huskies will make ‘em all hustls at Poughkeepsie again this year. Rusty’ Callow is bent on avenging last season’s defeat, And unless your eastern shells are surprisingly strong, ki think he’ do it. And there yo are! who has This season prospects’ are not) 2 times in all, your $0 ros; Hills, shot-putting mon- arch, has graduated. And Bi high jumpe js reported i Other point-winners are mii Caleb Gates, captain and hammer- tossing champ? Steinmetz, high jumper, and Bradley, in .the pole- vault, stand out above, the other Princetonian aspirants. In a wo Keene Fitzpatrick, vet coach pears to have a tough task ahea With “Red” frosh eleven in 192 In -his prep di if you would] record of Rogers The Nut Cracker | 1 BY JOE WILLIAMS i ca Doe Snell, prizefighter, is Grange on the Illini wa Paul Cook. ‘ook starred at ‘Muskegon (Mich.) high, He was @ much-sought gridder. At INinois he came in for more publicity than ange. But Cook left Champaign the following year, enrolling at Michigan. Shortly. thereafter Cook quit Mi gan, returning last year. Now he's igible for the 1926 Michigan mach- ine. I suggest you jot down the name of Paul Cook. He may prove a fair successor to the Zuppke Zephyr. / suing a Cleveland, official for defamation of character, thus revealing for the first time in thistory that prize- fighters have. character. : “Did I ever hear of Paul Revere? Certainly, he ‘was one of the four horsemen.” League the right- call, due to the ef- two great batsmen, dd Régers Hornsby. that right-handers woe It doesn't necessarily follow that ‘all pole vaulters are queer yet there must be something significant about Whe fact that, Charlic Hoff used to take Jong walks ‘on the ice in his are feet. gas “Of course a6 kite flyers went in those days 1 suppose old Ben Frunk- lin must have licen, pretty good. The papers say Johnny Wilson is trying to stage’ @ comebsck. . . If’ that’ guy can eume back it will have ‘tobe staged. "| the major leagues. against southpaws other side of the REMEMBER John Paul Jones, Cornel reat miler? The ni ekg sete a Sone flashed across the couj evening of May 31, 1913. Owriag beter noon of that day John Paul Jones ran the mile in 4:14 2-5 in the eastern intercollegiate meet at Cambridge. It was a record-breaking performance. College cdaches don’t turn out milers ike John Paul Jones very often. fter having passed ere: in League the left- ve enjoyed even than the right-' 26 years, 17 left- in front in agaigst only \ Columbia seems to be following up ‘i F > ‘otball team_and a| “Remember Gcorge Washington sere ase aphopoal mith You bet J do; hp was the guy who a strong baseball! rowed a boat in the Delaware re- ‘the Blue and W % . mot only whipped the Bujldogs Aut shut them one ait was an Atapeeaiye i yh, jcorgetown, Navy. | bd und a ind several others. In four! tion. ° rs, ‘es Prowess These spring -foothall seasons ar not entirely. lacking in compensa- For instance nobody picks e Atherican League FOR: THIS- SPRING the new Ven Heusen STYLE SALUTES YOU PHILLIPS -JONES, N.Y. an All-America spring practice foot- ball, cleven. “And was this St. Patrick a great guy! Was he! I never saw a better snake trainer in vaudeville.” Mr. John B. Foster, the baseball expert, says six teams have a chance in the American League this son. But anyone who ever saw him play first base knows there was but one Chance. “Just ‘the same I don't think [ would have cared much for Abraham Lincoln. They tell me he always had the high hat on.” Only seven more months now un- til you sce the headline, “Landis and Johnson row over world series de- tails.” Even if the meek do inherit the earth in accordance with the an- cient prophecy, they'll still have the traffic cops to contend wiih. HEST COLDS Apply over throat and chest — cover with hot flannel cloth. icK ViIsSks Oddly snough, both competed in_ the |] 7 ymp! Ask for it by name Mandan Beverage Company Mandan, N. D. CAPITAL FUNERAL PARLORS Successors to Bowman Funeral Parlors 216 Main St. Licensed Embalmer Phone Day or Night—22W JOS. W. TSCHUMPERLIN Proprietor W, E- PERRY Bigmarck’s Exclusive Funeral Director. Parlors 210 Fifth Phone 687W