The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 20, 1927, Page 6

PAGE SI SIX 2 'STAR PLAYERS “ARE PREPARED |. ' FOR BIG EVENT! Quits Bananas“ FRISCH MAKES |Dempsey Fighter Also Sandlotter , Pitch for Washington Signs to Preliminary Work Over Course Nearly Completed by Most Entrants MANY SEEKING New York Yankees CROWN Von Elm and Jones Still Re- main Favorites to Cop Tourney Laurels Minneapolis, Aug. 20.—, (AP) — Amateur = golfdom’s| most imposing array of e) i perts—the est field inj seven years—will contest for the national amateur cham-| pionship here next week over} the picturesque Minikahda ~eourse. Nearly 75 per cent of the 168 entrieg, were on hand to- day 9 depp pletc the prelim- {WECO TO BROADCAST TOURNAMENT GAMES __, Minneapoli Yesults of al amat here next week will h ‘from the Minikahda CO, the Twin Cities station. During the qualifying rounds ches, results radio and early round m. t cH the sem Thales will bas of be no more selling and on Saturday the finals will Joe! Freschi’s life. if the be broadcast, hole by hole, with makes yood as a hurler for the New ggeasional interruptions for gov- raek < Yonke 1d ernment market reports. sandlot hurler of 1 with the Yankees. y style of delivery n the trial. ed for a free inary work of getting the “feel” of the fairways and greens in practice rounds over {cently announced by the asso ion, Elm, the defending champion, | (ii). will go beyond this list for the and a list of challengers top-|cight to be seeded: a 5 vice] ‘The third round of match play on ~ped by Bobby Jones, tw lee], will be tok 36 laen aart- champion, the field _ gives The remaining rounds promise of one of the hardest Bias for 6 holes, the semi- . ‘, ; 74 inals starting a 7 m. Friday ae this classic has ever and the finals at the same hour Sat- een. urday. Only Sweetser Is Missing From the list of amateur the sualifying rounds start MINUS ASSIST RARE THING Monday at 8:30 a. m., and one titleholder antedating that Only Seven Made in A. L.. His-| tery; Cooney and Neun period also will compete. Do It This Year Twenty-four players with major championships to their dit are entered and 28 others have s cked away in their b to 170 are expected to s er <, Besides Von Elm, the former am :teur champions who will seek to r gain the crown, and the y of As are in order, Jones, Von Elm, Sweet- the difficult course. al Ouimet, W: tts Ginnigt ‘Atlanta, e0r' ‘on Held, Guilford, Johnston and peeeeee by, aeorme acKenzie,” If nece! the offi-| | 100TH RUN AS | “ALEX? CLIMB ie Flinger ih ‘Top’ Five Now; Only Haines and Root ‘Lead Him GEHRIG LE ADS RUTH Batting Average 20 Points Ahead of Bambino; Rus- | sell Tops A. A. (Py The perfect {ball pla; in the opinion of Manag- Donie Bush of the Pittsburgh tes is Lloyd: Waner, and brother Lloyd, emulating Brother Paul, | climbed toda uy in the list of leading hitters of the Nat al League, | Lloy entrance gave the Pirates half of the first ten hitters in the: cireuit, with the “three musketes of the Pirates still perched secure on top. Lloyd was the first National League hitter to reach the centu mark in runs reaching 100 on We nesday. 1 Frankie Frisch is m threat at third p! ng only two points behind Clyde Barnhart, the | lowest of the Pittsburgh trio Alex Doing Well The hero of last fall’s world’s 5 ing another was sold down the river by the Cubs to the Cardinals for the wa is demonstrating that h landing the world’s champion flag for St. Louis were not the final flash of form. Big Pete” as his comrades of the Cubs d_to call him, is within the first five fiingers of the National League, in averages compiled today including Wednes- day's games, Alex has won 16 and lost 7 this year for the Cards, and only two pitchers top him in victories. Old Jessie Haines of the Cards, with 19 wins is one of these and Charley Root of the Cubs is the other with Cy Williams’ home run bat has been idle at the 23 mark for a fort- night, and meanwhile Rogers Horns- | by and Hack Wilson have climbed up to 20. sch, while waiting for one of the three leading Pirate clouters to slide down the ladder past him, was active as usual on the paths, add- g two more stolen bases to his 4 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Amateur Golfers! All Set’ for Tournament at Minikahda Waner Now Among Nationa?’ éad for SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 1927 “Ss +" 2 oe Gisdineas: ate. CUBS, DODGERS Management of Los: Angelés' Hotel Proves It BREAK RVEN IN. vi the Association in victories with Frank Emmer, the Millers’ heavy clouting short fielder, failed to hit any out of the park, Hauser of Kan- sas City doing the major share of the home run hitting this week with three. This puts into a tie with Earl Smith at 17, runners up to Emmer’s 20. Dewitt Lebourveau ed off one stolen base to make his total 20, but remained in 20th place among, the hitters with only a one point gain in percentage. llan of the Saints with 27, as.far in the lead in the cir- cuit in hase stealing. Leading batters of the American string to reach 33. Leading National League hitters : P. Waner, Pittsburgh, 384; is, Pittsburgh, .378; Barnha' sburgh, Fri ; Stephenson, Chi Hornsby New York, .343; Pittsburgh, .339; Trayner, Pittsburgh, 31; Hend Brooklyn, .328, Heilmann Leads Field The three time batting champion of the American League, Harry Heil- mann of Detroit, seems on his way ‘to a fourth title. He is tied today for second place in the batting stand- ings in games including Wednesday, Association are: Russell, Indianap. lis, .391; Orwoll, Milwaukee, . 387; Grimes, Toledo 385; Kirkham, ‘Col- umbus, .371; Veach, Toledo, ".369; ;| Hauser, Kansas City, .366; Riconda, Milwaukee, .360; Duncan Minnéapo- lis, 358; J. Kelly, Toledo, 268; Le- bourv ety; ated, OR Toledo, TURTLE LAKE IS ‘SET TO G0’ with Columbia Lou Gehrig. Al Sim- mons of the Athletics still tops these two by fifteen points but Al has not their reign, are: William C. Fownes, dr., Oakmont, 1910; Francis Ouimet, Woodland, 1914; Robert A. Gardner, Hinsdale, 1915; ‘Charles Evans, water, 1916 and 1920; 8. Ds ‘Herron, Oakmont, 1919; J ford, Woodland, 192 “ston, Pine Valley, 1 ine i924" and 1925, Hee Jimmy Johnston Is ‘Worthy’ 28 There are many other worthy foe-| >) men, too, and not the least of them is Harrison R. (Jimmy) Johnston of Minikahda, is unques- rarest fielding ct that the National been in operation over being formed in 1876, and! ican League has been in, since 1900, a mere matter of| only seven unassisted triple by infielders haye been m e majors, | Ball, shortstop for the Cleve- nd club, made the first unassisted; le play in 1900. on of the During its 34 prior to that me, no National League infielder had ever retired 1 three men unassisted on the same! Despite the League h 50 ye: tri Ameri years in of a Leagt ‘teur titleholder. eague.| Because of his familiarity with the course-snd his brilliant play for two days in the national open this year, Johnston is grouped by man: Von Elm and Bobby Jones in Alicuae ing next week's tourney, but they do not monopolize the speculations. Proves Popular 1 Ball started the vogue, Once N. it became popular nd now seven One of the best practice rounds.| players are entitled to a rating in for o 4 Se was turned in yester-® major ue’s Hall of Fame _be- adie Held of. St. Louis, who] cause th Me'oneUndér par with 71. It wa: Bday spurte that Held ShiSsippi_in 1923. In'’the practice play, Jones and Von Elm have been at opposite end: of the scale, gor the Atlantan, until yesterday, turned in cards that sup- his~assertion that he was if off his game, while Von Elm, ” in earlier rounds, kept on: friendly | burgh, and Cooney with Philadelphia. terms with par. The other two triple play heroes Jones Ransd to find little cheer have passed to the minors. Bill in a par 33 for the out-; Wambsganns, the only pl: ever going nine and a later 34 for the |to have turned the trick in a world same holes for the only 18-hole round | series, is-now with Kansas City. he completed, brought his‘total to 73,| This hapnened in the 1920 clash bi nd this, he held, was}tween /leveland and Broaltlyn, Wamby playing second base for the former. Neal Ball recently resigned as manager of an Easterns League team. No third baseman in the majors has made a triple play. It has thriee performed by “shottstops and \ewice yy first. and ‘second: basemen, Recently the ¢=‘nle play unassisted course includes only three] germ became contagious, In’ 1023, ws Of more than 500: yards—the te. 07, ze Burns and Ernie Padgett mere ane act. an et fiveteame through with only. a ee ree ste. ‘i 300, {2PaCe Of time between the two plays. jaand: one between 200 and 300. lThis year but a few days separated pause. the others ara }such plays by Coofey then with the to 400 yards and five Chieago Cubs, and Neun of Detroit. ‘paras, all but one par four. Right om 18 holes of qualify- play Monday ae another 18 on the 32 1 oe aol ag tify phespien nshi it, wi et reania pla, have made triple plays unassisted, It is a very interesting fact that all seven players who have _ per- forthed such an extraordinary are still connected with baseball. Five are still in the majors, two of em, Burns and Padgett, are on the same club, Cleveland, Neun ith Detroit, Wrieht with : Course Favorab fany point 10 the length of tl goutse as an advantage for iron ma: such as Von Elm and unfa‘ to those who place thei igh! in’ wooden clubs, a rent in which Jones excels. jigns Must For an infielder to make a triple play anal nted it is almost necessary out. pone wl be be ‘taken | 2 though th, sor who a was founded ‘as far beck play-§ 1876. ‘The: hit ang run Da is more modern se deeents er than It_was the 10th] - played for a month now. Swinging from the heels, to keep ahead of Babe Ruth in the home run race, Gehrig has dropped to .379 now, while Ruth is just twenty points lower. The Babe tied up the home run race Wednesday at 38, making his second homer in the Chicago ' White Sox ser While the other batters are suc- cumbing to pbeinkaak stake batting average, Tris Speaker is standing like a stone wall and the leaders have slid past him, all except three that Tris ranks fourth with his Johnny Neun, the Detroit first ker, gained one stolen base on isler this week, and is but nd Sisler’s mark of 23 now. Whispering Bill Barrett of the Sox also picked off a couple and now has 20. Like the Pirate trio holding the batting honors of the National League, the Yankees have a pitching trio atop the list of the junior ci cuit. Hoyt, Reuther and Pipgras lead the league in that order, and Hoyt is within one victory now of Ted Ly- ons’ mark of 18. ‘Another heavy hitting record, the two base hit mark, seems safe this year as George Burns, the title hold- er, has only 44 this year toward his h total of 64. Summons Leads A. L. Leading. American League batters ares Simmons, Philadelphia, 204; Gehrig, New York, 379; Heilmann, Detroit, .379; Speaker, Washington, 263; Ruth, New York,’.359; Schang, St. Louis, 859; Fothergill, Detroit, 53; Goslin, Washington, 348; Meu- sel, New York, .348; New York, .346. Tn the shuffling which rearranged the ten leading batters of the Amer- idan Association, Reb Russell bobbed | gen, up on top today, for the second time this season. Ossie Orwoll, -workin; beat the Hens in a critical 5 his best work on the mound and slumped just enough with the hickory to drop to second place, and none too far ahead of Grimes of Toledo at that. ‘ Takes Drop Earl Smith's bid for a place among]; the leaders fell short, and the Min- neapolis fly chaser dropped back from 11th to 15th, in averages com- id today including Wednesday’s He got but six hits in seven and the first ten remained though there were con- ing of chairs among faem. Pavone, the Association’s leading twirler, di game this week, 0 0 s| but his score.of 10 ine and th to keep him in rwoll next, Ossie | bai he hill. So did City, who defeats was eno’ first place, with Northerners. Coming. Here Sunday to Play Bismarck; Game Starts at 3 Some of the star players of the northeast Slope will be here Sunday when Turtle Lake comes south to lay the Bismarck team on the local diamond, The game is due to start at 3 o'clock sha’ Turtle Lake, which has won nearly all its games this season, has added | several new men to its lineup. Either | Jack Gesellchen or a new recruit, who has just rounded out a season with the Martin team, will do the twirling. Several other new men are to be placed in’ strategie positions, thus strengthening the lineup. Turtle Lake is to play the out- standing Omemeé-Gardena team next, Sunday and therein lies the reason why the'nine is rot taking part in the Slope baseball tournament here next week. The game with Omemee- Gardena was booked before the tournament plans were panounced and as a result Turtle Lake, thou wanting to enter, was unable to rH 80. Charley Boardman : is to do . the pitching for. Bismarck Sunday sand | }, will be ‘in there with his usual ‘ar- ray of baffling curv and dro) Nelson will.do the receiving and this Gg recruit can be.counted oi to do his share, not only ‘behind the: bat but also with it. Eddie ‘Tobin will. be’ at. first’ and Babe Mohn at second. Shorty Ful- ler will hold down the third ack. Long John Sagehorn will ‘be in his customary place. as shortstop and Jones, ¢ Faneiure and Kelly Simonson. probably’ will be in the outer gar. Since two. teams have pliyed twice and each have won one game, there is everyreason why tomorrow's game will be a real event. It should Prove éne of the best games rad the Stars “Are Primed for Washburn Nine: * What is likely to prove one of the most interesting games of the season is to: be: played Sunday, afternoon ghens the} he mond.’ The game will start Since. it is,s@ near. spe end ason ‘for the ee ill _be-out to portunities GREETING A GUEST. ‘Simmons. May | Righthanded: ‘Clubber . Looks Good to Upset Dope, De- spite: Peculiar Batting. Stance; Hitting Average Rises Every Year as Ath- letic Star Gains Experience New York, Aug. 20—(7—It be- jgins to look as if the League may produce another cham: Randed clubbers this Sieuapee of the Athletics is the fel- low in question. ‘ince 1905, when Larry Lajeie| ¢, of the old Cleveland Naps topped the field, Harry . Heilmann. stands as the only right-handed hitter to win, the junior loop batting. crown. Heilmann led the pack i and 1925, | gaining the year king” el his eyery-other-season sucet larry, accordingly, is due thie campaign, and has been gaining rapidly~of late.on the lead- ers after a poor start. Southpaws Rule Many Years From 1908 4 to 1920 inclusive, left- handéd: batters ruled the American George Stone of the “0 :be followed y Ty..Copb in |. » Cobb, stepped through nine consecutive cam- paigns as the clouting ‘czar. In 1916 Tris Speaker the | Cobbian dynasty, but only for ingle year. Ried pack ‘ata eae regain jason. Al Browns. .started arch. and in 19283-Babe the way. Last 6 on ush was champ. : . Simmons got. off: to @ good start this season oe has hit close to the 400 ‘mark ri » Injuries put im out of the ee for a while dur- | | ing the latter part of gsly. A) greatest juntas anpears to ve Le Lou jehrig, the junior. member of the home ‘tun firm Bg Ruth and Gehrig. Ipaet, Dope s gel Ruan a tiegtt his way to eer swatting ‘toga, he will m.many of the experts a x when At deliective ra, For when ueke in wi the o Athletes was the sub- spe ont erable comment ‘af baseball's most ed Tite arching but eee ee ete foot being placed aw a pl fe itd put, it froi the plate. Mire seemed to Be totally somes out to slap by hitting . fig Ast a American || ion batter out of its crop. of, right-|. Clout His Way to Championship. of Batters season. The next campaien’ Al col- lected 253 safeties,» epee 386.) Last gear che: etted Gate. he batted 3: WOMEN STARS Boxer Becomes Real Artist at Juggling Figures Since Leaving Kearns _— KNOWS HIS: BUSINESS Says He’s Going to Make Im- prevements When Bout With Tunney Is Done etetee: BY DAN THOMAS Los Angelés, Calif, Aug. 20.— (NEA)—It doesn't seem quite right to describe Mr. William Harrison “Jaek” Dempsey with anything ex- cept, fighting words ‘these days—but that’s just what is going to happen [in this*story. When he gets out of fighting togs and into street clothes, th same Dempsey quite the busiest busi- ness man in Los Angeles. In fact, <—-t4——— | during h ort sojourn here after| he had administered a-sleeping pow- der to Jack Sharkey of Boston, Dempsgy in’t have. five minutes that he really could have called, his own, Can Juggle Figures Jack has become a’ real artist at juggling figures since he and “Doc” Kearns chose different highways. Besides being kept pretty busy on financial arrangements for his com- ing scrap with the world’s champion, Gene Tunney, Jack had to put his Barbara hotel back .on its feet again. a is more than ; ness enterprise to Jack— treasured pet. The writer sometime: GETTING READY will Meet: sig htfaeks, and Field Tourney at Eureka, Cal., September 3 Eureka, Cal., Aug. 20.—()—Ameri- ca's best’ women athletes meet here Sept. 3 in the national track and field championships for women. Fifty contestants are training for the classic. Chief interest .centers around a trio that has dominated meets the past two years, Helen Filkey of: Chicago, Lillian Copeland of Pasa- dena, and Elta Cartwright of Eureka.! Is 60 Yard Hi mp Miss Filkey, one of four who wil represent the Illinois | Women's Athletic club, is . 60-yard hurdle champion. Two years’ ago at Pasa- fena she captured. three national} titles—hurdles, broad “jump, and 50-| yard dash. Miss Copeland, one of he heav- fest and most co! mt point win- ners in the country. will defend three national titles, the shot put, discus throw and javelin throw, ' Miss Cartwright. 50-yard. dash title holder, is expected to make a strong bid for the broad jump, an event in which she has 4n unofficial mark of 17 feet, 7 inches. Other national champions. invited are Frances Keddie, San Francisco, 220-yard’ dash; Rosa Grosse, Torgn. to, Can. 100-yard dash; Catherine laguire, St. Louis, high jump; Nellie Pode, as, Chisago” ‘broad- jump. The places ing entry list also in- cludes Viv: Hartwick of San Fran- cisco, -world’s record holder in the baseball throw. and Ann ‘Harrington of San Francisco, former national champion in. the same event;, Mar- garet Jenkins, of. Santa Clara; who recently tied the American mark in je javelin; Elizabeth Nelson: of ; Joint bolder. of the 220- ‘ard dash record; Elizabeth : oer of ‘ied York, former broad ji jynip chasm jion, and Alta Huber of Eureka, ‘and ze] -Kitk of Newark, N. J, both hurdlers. ’ The Pasadena ‘Athletic club as two Arse believes _that Dempsey cares more for the Barbara than he does for the leather mitts. When he arrived here from New York, Jack"stopped at the 2-GAME SERIES Pittsburgh Pummels Giants, 9-3; Boston Takes Cards Into Camp LOU GETS 39TH HOMER Leads Ruth by One in Race; Brewers Down Louisville by 7 to 5 (By The Associated Press) The National circuit sagged yes- y under four double-head the Chicago Cubs dashi equal break in Brooklyn: while every- thing was even-stephen) with, the Pirates and Giants. welliiascwith the Cards and’ the Braves. Gh go’s‘hold’ 6n first place continued ut five game: Blake handcuffed the Robins with five hits as his mates whitewashed Brooklyn for their 12th shutout, 3 to 0. In the sucpeeding fracas, ‘however, McWeeny eased the Bruins down with five safeties for a 6 to 1 verdict. Pittsburgh Pummels Giants Hue pummeled the Giants, 9 to 3, holding an ®run carnival in the seventh inning to wipe away the efforts of Rogers Hornsby's 21st homer and one by Terry. The New Yorkers went back for the nightcap, Grimes limiting the Buccaneers to five hits, two of which were mam- moth pokes by Paul Waner and Smith.” The score was.6.to 2. me the Cubs, the Pirates split Jevenly in the four-game. tilt and tetked to Brooklyn where they hoped to make a noticeable advance before running the Bancroftian gauntlet at Boston. Kent Greenfield handed out only a pair of singles. as Boston took the world's champions into camp in the first’ part of a twin program by 6 to 1, but behind pitcher Sherdel, the Cards copped the afterpiece by the same score. Phillies Drop Two Cincinnati bumped the Phillies off twice by five to three, in 10 innings and 1 to 0, Red-Lucas holding Phil- adelphia to five hits in the shutout. Blankenship staved off a squelch- ing for the White Sox by defeating the Yanks in the fourth and final arty of the series, 3 to 2. Lou Geh- rig broke loose with home run N 39, in the ninth his first in 10 day: giving him a jump of one on Babe Rube Walberg came through with a single in the eighth inning to e in two runners for a five to three Philadelphia triumph over the Indians, making it four out of five for the ‘Athiptics. Walberg fanned seven batters. Wingard checked the with six hits while St. Louis its third straight 6 to 1. — Browns’ hurler poled for the circuit with one on in the sixth. A double victory over the Red Sox 5 to 2 and 14 to 7, pushed the Ben- gals to within one game of the sec- fond place Washingtonia: It also Rave the Detroiters nine in a row. red: hose worked a triple play inthe eighth inning of eer aed game when Fothergill lined té Myer who tossed to Regan, doubling Heil- mann at second, and on a relay to Senators @way with an- Soca Se Sa CR Aa ATES CESS ry hotel! to see how: things were going’ even before he dashed home, to his. sick wife, Estelle Taylot Jack spent most of hisitime around Todt, Manush was caught off first. Homers Settle A. A. Arguments” Home’ runs settled two American Mekpeistianl arguments. With two on, two out and two runs the hotel when he ‘wasn’t. training. And he certainty.jurned things up- side down. “That's the way things mlways: go here when J am away,” Jack told me. “These fellows think ‘that as long, as the place shows ‘a profit nothing else matters. If they: had. their way we! would be in the red in short order: When I come back after the canes fight, I'm going to let about half the employes. go and get hel Perhaps. that- will improve coi tions. It costs money’ to fire people, eal h, becaysc..it takes time to break in new ones: -to . fill their place: ie Dace apes: Anythi When hotel, he ete doing almost anything from. laying bell-hop- to instructing ‘thocclef ‘Now to ren kitchen. 1 4 ened to go,into the kitchen with Spek. one day when he found some ‘dirt on the stove, Hé immediately-hit the Pobaty b tigu jor moments a8 Pine oe poor chef wai ingit ts a tase bi inp: c f aud ™ Dempsey _remi through hii Sonat wll atobe uieker™ thi » and foug as Toy om thleemofe, it: to make money,” That's Tack allover. : He is the T have ever known and, family, but whether he’s fighting or rennin the’ hotel, he is doing it te make mapey. gmail a ca hae Maas STABS FOR LOUIS’ RS Johnny Riffe. kactigh ky star, is ‘going great.in the. outfield . Pe are arten FOR AapINS ) Brookdr layer, is. ies or seat bitter on the won the meet‘for the pai it will. be. hi the ‘tadium, ‘whi erable af circles visitng” jvas- around - the| The behind in tne last half of the ninth a pinch hitter, Gearin of Milwaukee, sent the home fans into a frenzy j when he smacked a homer, enabling the Brewers to down Louisville for the‘ second time in the series, 7 to 5. ‘The other circuit drive, made by Ray es of Toledo off Shealy, 4 Gt. Paul, beat the ‘Saints with t ‘ido men on as Grimes shity-iele—frewmer. The best:the Saints cou! me te to -jpollect ‘two runs from hits ithe final score was of Toledo. Kansps City, by divi header/ with’ indianapol: ledo was winning, dropped behind a halt e in the race tor first place. ipdligne took the opener, 9 to 5, e Blues snatched the nigh’ cap, 9 to.6. Davi to four bingtes in the last game. “Minnéapolis scored’ ‘eal easy win pver Columbus, 10 to 3. ee Press) ee Philadel. ayers, Boston ig Toronto, de- fin Burke, New Orleans a, Billy ‘Petzolle, out Johnny ely Soran’ (6). ‘Al Van Ryan, St. Paul, d Joe Kelly, Lana ew York — V: York, ‘defeated Panche ines San Antonio — ) — Johnny. | Ae defeated Marelal: mea Sct be A eo Associat a defeated « ne, New ncio, Phil- | San Diego—Sol “New nny a held Indianapolis: *