The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 12, 1926, Page 12

“FRIDAY, NOVEMPER 12, » the light | mot say whether it improved our pitel ing or whether it cut our hit. ti it it did eliminate & terrible lot wrangling between rival -+ ‘RIE BISMARCK TRIBUNE apology was more than sufficient. 1 Poppa a nice velvet plush cushi reading tamp and a reserved section. The Pirates lost championship last . Tunney _w amplonshi tin m: combat. PALL PLAYER ly Evans, Who Broke Into lajors at Same Time, Dis- cusses Star’s Career test pla all s through as a big leaguer, tem: at least. He ndered Rignation as ma of the club of the Ame League, place immedintely. . ade my n American me time Cobb in as a raw recruit. He w sh busher” in those days like p BRE. At least s the light ich the rs regarded * newcomer who tried to make 24 in the major: the close of last season, the only player in active the several hundred who ma personnel of the league, when | broke in. He has seen them come 4 the scores. So have I. None other Like Cobb There never has been and p ver will be another “Tyrus Raymond Cobb. b eversthing, didn't have x that He could do single wea nd age ttain chieved by some nding stars. How is bound to make the popula he other outs’ the fighter ies and C ~ the fighter. He never Off the fie! er, Cobb was quite a di from thi y ve no ground or asked no qu in the heat of the s. He been more or less the Dr. Jeykll f baseball lott pac: n argument that Cobb and | had over my calling him ce play. It hap. Chicago about 15 discussion waxed warm and p 1 challenges flew thick and fast. Detroit eventu Hin extra inning: room the Detroit pla winced Cobb of phe decision. He later light. won the game Hic tie: dvonine finally con as T was getting ready to dressing room, knock on the door and [ sald, “come It was Cobb. od Ready to Apologize tells me Lt was all Wrong in my argumeni this afternoon and I am about ready to agree with So Lam down here to apologize erything off. “However, Apology isn’t ac- centahle, then I am down here to tight.” T hastened to assure Cobb that the there was ness of niy eth T have seen Cobb do everything that it is possible for one player to do on the ball field., There is nothing that Cobb hasn't attempted and succeed- ed in, T have seen him reach first and, in quick succession, steal second, third and home. | I have seen him score from first on a me 1 er to the out- | field, th y of his maneu- ver causing everybody ball ina faulty m to nceomplish tie sible doubles, triple: 1h im them we STARTED RING CAREER IN 1915 Best in a Pin seen him win seor ron en Cobb do e thing on field but steai » when ! home, he Cobh) in 0 much of him. at a month old UNORTHODOX FIGHTER AND WINDMILL SWINGER 5 (one , PR) 7 Be Y in ance pace eis usy Day ng room. after to Hilde Re the LD TWo ee: ATTHE CBE TIME sion last in the Coast had ampired in that or previous season. " ad that Cobh t player by would have be » tried In the passing of Har thodox style, he was a great fighter, retire for slip. It . f carry or the bril n his for anny Heavyweight Title holder |< iile recor of perianetke! Pays Remarkable Tribute i to Dead Fighter the remar greatest ball playe know, Cobb T have scen players ¢ ers go, but only one Ce So le a Fone hampion of the In salvaging the Ger ‘or! ii to his home fro shin, Hindenburg, jtled in Se Flow | pateh up weighs |he tri | to conta sef 0 LONG FILLER - IMPORTED SUMATRA WRAPPER CUARANTEES OY © LORILL ARG. CO. mancas Saeage © tee he hh it to hit. Unquestionably anley Ketchel, and the tragic result h nded the ce wy, MAN DECISK OvEeR } GENE Tonner i caree} deeply | pecennergerte in the ring. at the game i ; : But there was much more to} Asheville, N. C., not fighter, aj him than clownish gestures and 3] reb the fight game lost it; most colorful figure. Despite a decidedly unor- he was the best middleweight since the death of ind there was nothing wrong entric | with his footwork, “Ot course Greb had certain marked v who won his fights! taeular acrobaties, had and euffin: I ever saw. > ou great fij He had a fine di eis ter. | Mercantile Co. = Distri * speed and| was areal fig! ing Tare courag Tunney ¢i ca es eredit 40 Greb for his s the greatest] own gradual development into a heav: He} weight champion. ox ax well ax anybody when! Greb five times. Once Greb beat him.| pit He was a hard hitter when| That was, incidentally, the only time! in his life he was whipped. ens batters, the opposing pitcher, and the umpires, “Not once all aéason 1 were my umpires foreed to halt a ‘game and ine spect a ball. No charges were flung at a rival pitcher by the batsman, ac- cusing him of cheating or using any- thing illegal. ‘ oe | orfsiae evangenst, told Pop) Delayed the Game | off his toupee, Btald. his “Before we passed the resin ruie, | games often were held up several times in an afternoon. The batter, missing 2 pitched ball, would get the umpire to look at the bath. ‘linen those disgusting rows would take place. They didn’t help baseball; they took up time and delayed the game. “We had none of that last year. For thatgvery reason use of resin helped our league. It speeded up the game by eliminating useless delay and ar- guments. We are perfectly satisfied | with the resin ruling and we're only sorry we did not adopt it a long while | is | ago. Heydler then was asked whether the ball in use during the 1926 playing season was livelier or deader than the one in use during the two or three previous years, Now Mave Best Balt } He was prompt to reply: “We have! the best ball now I think we ever had. # course, perhaps it isn’t quite at lively as some of.them we've used in other seasons, Rut it’s lively | enor en men like Fournier, Ruth, Meusel or Hornsby get hold of that ball, it'll go; they gct some terrific drives out of it. But I'm satisfied | | that the ball of 1926 is the hest ball! ‘we've ever had in my years of con-| | learned, among other things, the val of sharp-shooting, for it was nec sary to be 2 sharpshooter to cate! Greb. He was always on the go, side. ing, retrenting, advancing, al- ih ‘ chting Greb, I gained confidence I could see myself improve ight to fight. The first time him he whipped me, The next time we fought 1 whipped him. When we matched again I whipped him even worse, The last time we fought was at St. Paul. I could have knocked him out that night. When the fight ended Greb said to me, ‘I've fought you for the last time, Gene. You are too tough. Go and get Dempsey.’ Greb was the first fighter of consequence who admitted I was ready for Demp- sey.” ) Tunney says courngeous figh| jever saw. | “I think everyone who saw the fight [at Philadelphia wil admit that I | made Dempsey back up more than ‘once. Well, I fought Greb five times and I never made him back up a , Single time, I knocked him back with | punches frequently, but not once did je ever back away.” Tunney thinks the quality that made Greb_an extraordinary fighter was his native enthusiasm for the game. “You don’t find that in many fight- ers, but Greb had it to a marked degree, That's one,reason why he preferred to fight himself into con- | dition insiend of training on the road land in the gymnasiums. It was more stun.” In the Passing of Harry Greb the fight game Jost its most colorful fizure.| : Bey ne one ery ai ee seeeien | Leaguc Mend wav aeted If femme | fi *' | growth or the increase in , larity | ce the denth of Stanley Ketebel. of golf was eating into baseball's phd ularity. He scoffed at the question. There's only one American gam: he said. “That's baseball. Golf, foo! ball, tennis—those - ure apace sports, brought in from foreign coun- tries and changed a bit, perhaps. They'll never do any damage. ed game replacing baseball as the | WAP E outstanding sport of them all. Our! j attendance records will back me up| this, When the Fey claney, of foot. | ball, tennis and gol: ‘ows, so does | | the popularity of baseball. ———____..__.¢ wah Phe Nut Cracker Na- “Baseball is Americ: own game,{ born at Cooperstown, N. Y., and rnii 1 nal League is entirely satisfied with obtained during the 1926 base-| Donie Bush has been named man- er-lager of the Pittsburgh Pirates. We dected to Poppn sitting on and making nasty ¢racks domes. ee a Asa dircet and comic: Signor Carey was exiled to. listening to Gol Back in the old days, Bryan was just beginning and denied the nightig. pri | dy and ent Greb was the most ter he ever met, or aw never would amdunt ankles. mattress in a flop house. Yes, Sir! we Are good for # “BIRD” ofa SHIRT Invest- igate Nobody should be afraid of an import President Heydler Comments on Much Discussed Issue He was ed right here in our own countr cals an orthodox ¢ from the use of resin its pitchers. John Heydier, haven't heard yet whether he signed ident of the senior cireuit, during} 9 non-mutiny clause or not. sit to this city, outlined results i AH 1 from use of resin by his} Mr, Rush will have to be mighty | jcareful where Poppa Clarke sits on the vpndeye bench next summer. . . “I can-| It might be advisable for him to ret Pee Behind all this! resu background and aj ball Tunney fought! obtained hers, esin helped the National League it was! wonderfully,” said Heydler. As fine a nickel cigar as any man ever touched .a match to... the kind like father used to smoke in preference to all others back in the good old days when silver dollars seemed as big as manhole covers. A quality smoke from tip to ash—fine long filler domestic tobacco — imported Sumatra wrapper. butors ~ F. ee: summer beeause some of the bo; ‘ob- the beneh about the misplaced concrete in their athletic Acting as spokeman for the con- | seientious objectors, Max Carey, the ee to dust eard, try a new lumbago eure and pipe down. ‘al rewatd, Brookiyn, placed on a milk and ‘porridge diet vilege of when Bill to break into the headlines and folks were be- gianine to think that young Marry to much, Poppa Clarke used to be the queén’s Once you've slept in the presidential suite it’s hard to get used to n cotton SSS TWO ““GREENBACKS”