The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 8, 1927, Page 10

| Hockey Game Is WW 4 PAGE TEN COLLEGES ARE ADOPTING ICE T HE BISMA RCK TRIBUNE ‘THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1927 | age 4 | Kipke to Coach || Former Wolverine Star to | Take Job at Michigan i State SPORT AVIDLY Thrills and Spills of Canada’s Greatest Game Take Root! With Fans WORLD'S SERIES PLAYED Old Game of Shinny Degener- ates Into Assault and Bat- tery Contest By . ASON E. TAYLOR (Associated Press Sports Writer.) Chicago, Dec, 8.—(” ‘a speed, \ spills and thrills of hockey, which | has grovn into Cancta’s greatest game in the last 40 years, are being woven into a major league sport, with American assistance. Salaries of $10,000 for a four- month season, player sales of $20,-|Harry Kipke, one of the greatest! nellec 000 and $50,000 and high-priced club! backfield stars ever turned out at he franchises already are established, and the winter ice sport is spread- ing into American colleges in tbe northern zone, one after another. In the cast Yale, ‘la ton and other colleges ij up for good. The nor‘iern “Big o” the middle west, Michi- gan, Wisconsin and Minnesota, have leyed it regularly fo: , and Notre Dame and IIlinoi: it this winter. Most Players Canadians é The National heckey league is the present major outfit in the sport. Enthesinsts assert ‘+ will only be a few years until other leagues have sprung up because of -ovula inter- est in the sport. Most of the players now are Canadians, but a crop of American puck shocters is expected to be developed in another five years. The Nationa league is divided ions, American and Can- « play each other, keep separate standings of victories tween the / blema‘ic of the world title*since pe Chicago and Detroit American half of the Canadian division with Ottawa, of Canada/s best davers cel alts vompetition showed jumped to moters. It cos-s, fo: irt~ :ce, $3°0,- 00 for refrigerating machinery and other expenses to run a first cl: rink and $700,000 for a leavue fra chise. Smith ‘ert $22,500 The ordinary player is worth $10,- 000 to $15,100 to his club as a treding or sale propo:’:ion. “Hoo- ley” (Rezinalt’ “© iith. sold by the Ottawa Senators, to the Montreal Maroons for 500 snd a $15,000 player, Punch 72,- Broadbert, <.t the record in p' yer|but he would sit day after day at- sales in the ice sport. The Montreal Canadians refused an offer of $50,- 000 for Howie Moren~ leading scorer of the league, ard Pittsburgh turned down an offe: of $20,000 for Roy Worters, considcred one of the lied goal tencers in professional ys The old game o shinny on the ice degenerates it.to something akin to assault and battery in professional hockey. Into the center zone of ice almost ar.vthing ,.oes,from a mere body check, which sends an oppo- nent scooting across t* ice on his chin, to a stick ch.':k, which hurts even through reed shin guards. average hockey sta. has a score or more scars on his body from his ice battles. A 200-pound man, turned into a catapult on skates, hurts when he hits. Dugan Punches Way to Win Over Shafer in 4-round Jabfest Two bouts bristling with action entertained members of the Catho- lie Order of Foresters Wednesday night at St. Mary’s Gym when dimmy Dugan, local middleweight easily Johnnie Shafer into in a four round set-to i submission while Matt Humel chased Jackie round fight by the bial country mile. iba of fans that he is a an left time and Ces vulnerable 5 ’s defense with which he piled while his footwork and very elusive target for Shafer's S. and waded into the Foresters cling- of their seats and Snyder from post to post to win the semi-windup Jour round fight by demonstra‘ed to the grou} comer, ing ts in and. weaving style offered opponent with enough to absor! Punishment to the delight | ! | and defeats so that the “world’s ser-| 0f Young Griffo came forward today | ies” of the ice can be played off be-, to insure proper burial for the boxer “an and Canadian|whose cleverness back in the 90’s leaders for the Stanley cup, em-[won him renown. Boston New York, Pittsburgh, to see that Griffo escaped a pauper’s prise the grave. uit, with|but had assisted in entertainments New York also represented in t!.clarranged by Father Duffy. Mont.eal and, Toronto. To supply|Griffo’s speed, which made him al- the sigs d for stars prices| most unhittable. but the gate re-}could stand on a handkerchief, re- year of American! main there and prevent anyone from -omising re-[kocking off his derby hat. He was .,_farns ~n the big iavestmeats of pro- i orld’s champions, | to catch a fly in motion between his HARRY KIPKE Michigan, isto coach the Michigan State college next season. He ha signed a three-year contra at Michigan Kip! America selection. tion he has assisted in Michigan and had much to do ¥ developing Gilbert into the be. punter in the Bi Ten. FRIENDS SAVE | YOUNG GRIFFO: Once Renowned Featherweight Fighter Escapes Potter’s Field New York, Dec. 8.—7)—Friends Rev. Duffy, noted war chaplain, ‘was among the first who volunteered Griffo was not a Catholic Many a story was told today of A favorite wager was that he so quick at moving his body and dodging that he practically always won, Another stunt would be to stand on the handkerchief, face a mirror and bet anyone to knock his hat off from behind. He watched the re- flection and always ducked in time. Dexterity with his hands was re- markable, A trick which remained with him to the end was an ability thumb and index fingers. Griffo could not read nor write, tentively scanning a magazine in a Broadway nook. Sometimes the magazine was turned upside down. Fish Size Limit Law Should Be Retained, Warden’s Test Proves Santa Fe, N. M., Dec. 8—(?)— While fisherme..c ‘er the country are arguing the poirit, E. L. Perry, New! Mexico game and fish warden, has conducted an investigation 1 deter- mine whether undersized fish live| after they are taken from the hook and thrown, back into the w..ter. size limit becwus of a convicticr tht it is useless to return under- sized fish to the water. Warden Perry’ declared tat his experiment had convinced tim that ihe s:ze lim- it law is sound and should be re- tained. He recently took 75 fish below the legal length at the state hatchery and divided them into grou;s cf 15) each, removing the hooks under dif- ferent conditions for each group. All of the fish used in the experi- ment were watched for ten days. Perry found that in a lot that was tossed over his head and cnto the| ground seven fish died. Only one fish died out of the other-four groups. French Net Stars Announce Program Paris, De. 8.—C i | ‘ tion. attract ner in an American r: ay dining car promises to be the lot of the three globe-trotting tennis stars from France—Bo: vtra, Brugnon and | Boussus. } Their amended schedule, cabled/ home from the Argentine, calls for a four-day halt in New York ending on Christmas eve. That night and the next e days they will be hurry- be 58 Pee Sorting inet to sail froy n Fra:.cisco for New Zealand before New Year's day. The twe other Frenci stars of the | tennis realm, La Coste and chet, are rem. ining at home this winter. is keeping _his tennis, but Le Cest. is taking a rest for the courts, wot mote than usual, nd playing - lf Jor recrea- is golf is nct of a nature to galleries or front page stories. ——$——— a COAT. HIGH FCOnEE in are ene , 8.—(P)— | mare! Some states have abandoned the| *, IfcLeod Is ‘iW FOOTBALL RULES HAVE SEOWN | Uncertain | ~ MUCH MERIT DURING PAST SEASON i Of Lineu | BY BRAIN BELL Asscciated Press Sports Writer 4 i a Dee. sialic aa the { ‘football hand practically played out, Veteran Bismarck Basketeers| the rulcs committee scems justified | Will Be State Title (" standing pat on the 1927 revi-, the retection for the butterfingered who .auff their punts has ded up the game. The sight of homeless ball bounding here and! bout the fiéld with every one; | ling blodk tc scores of educated toes. } sions. afr With the exception of the lateral or backward pass, the changes o: ered .last spring by the ‘powers- that-be have been given a thorough | | trial and apparently worked wel! on the whole. The lateral pass has Been lit ing teams, Coac’ Roy J. McLeod's; used, probably because it is an in- Demon basketball squad hes passed| tricate affair, if successfully op: through ten days of strenuous drill} rated, and the coaches have not ai, ¢ tically disappeared. afety Men More Daring fe in the knowledge that the! ing that can happen if they f the ballsis loss of possession, no chance for a dash for a own in the picture, the safety have become bold. Some have oo daring. Bitten with the, ing they have seized balls that Contenders | | | With the memory of an unsuccess- {ful footb. 1] season spurring them on 'to uphold the tradition that Bis- high alwa, 3 producer iight- ch actiot with a vim, and face the opening!| the time to drill the players in its ave gone over the line for game with Carson Friday night | possibilities if any. and given them the ball ¢F8 if at 8 o'clock it}. high hopes Change in the position of the goal o rd line when they ha of a victory that will fore-! posts and scoring insurance for: le chance to run it) tell a reckoning as a quint that! safety men who muff punts have had must be seriously consi most striking effect in the| ‘idered in the! the e for the championship of North! game. Dakota. Not So Many Extra Points A veteran roster greets the at-| Points after touchdown have to 17 tempts of the Demon mentor to se-| some extent gone out of style since | < lect his ‘ am, for Elmer and Ernie, the posts were placed at the end of |< z -lenry Brown, Ed! the safety zone instead of on the lattery and Ben Ja-/ goal line, the extra 10 points being ese d cagers and more than man yof the kickers can the bulk of the squad.) negotiate, under pressure. at John Lofthouse, three. Goals f, would be able to add factor in dis-| duced to a minimum, bots quarte: backs prefering to gamble wi: ae h down, when wi the count of, “1-2-8-4” on ifted before can han n remarkable. t meeting of the rules he trouble, but the ‘other in- seem destined to remain e part of the code. ere isto be any agitation for nal changes it may include a stions to eliminate John have been espe- this year. From arious ideas have as yet no generally cheme has been put for. o break the all-too-frequent docks. Billy Evans ‘Appoints anothi ing Thornberg Loom j Sonn he first water who has F} lf th s of reported crosses and P the guards t ‘s i distance has been a stum> Carl Thornberg enrollment extra is3} Earl Hoffman and Robert Paris. guards; John O'Hare and Carl Mar- tin, forwards, and: Meinho i omore center, who stards five inches, are capable re erves who —_— will give the experienced members; Minor Club Owners ‘ Threaten of the cage troupe considerable) im worry. ; to Terminate Agreement With Majors ' Manager of Cleveland New York, Dec. 8.—(?)—Selec- £ the Cleveland Americans makes |new pilots for four major league clubs next season. first Gordon Landers. Earl Benser, Ben Jacobson and Hank Brown, forwards; Ernie Benser and Ed Spriggs, cen- ters, and Fay Brown, Carl Thorn- berg and Earl Hoffman, guards, are the men who have shown early sea- year The other appointments, Dallas, Dec. 8—(AP)—Proposed revision of the major-minor league draft agreement was the outstand- the Cardinals, Jack SlattePy at the helm of the Braves, and Burt, Shot- son form. set any e yuestion remaining before the toh guiding the Phillies. Lineup Is Quandary National Professional Baseball assé-_ _ Filetcher’s appointment by Gener- Coach McLeod stated’ todav that/ ciation at the final sessions of its' al Manager Billy Evans of the In- he had not the slightest idea as to what his starting lineup would look like. The five men who will start the inaugural game will probably be picked just before the whisth blows from the men who show the best form in tonight’s practice and there is every likelihood that every mem- dians at Dallas yesterday met with the approval of Miller Huggins of the Yankees, who is attending the baseball conventionthera Fletcher was coach for the Yankees during the last campaign but his assuming the managership.of the Indians was 4 agreeable to Huggins. Perfect Eleven Gets convention here today. Discussion of the draft rules yes- terday brought threats from some minor club owners to terminate the agreement. Arguments finallly cen- tered on how long the agreement made seven years ago was intended " to run. One faction contended it ber of the squad will have the op-| was supposed to terminate this year, portunity of showing his wares. while another group quoted a eec- Carson will bring a veteran out-|tion of the pact indicating it was fit to the Capital city. They have} to remain in effect during the life of already had a preliminary game, de-| Kenesaw Mountain Landis, commis- feating the Leith basketeers by an|sioner of baseball. overwhelming margin last week and} Under the present agreement, on paper thev present the possibility} minor clubs can be forced to sell of being one of the strongest aggre-| promising players, under certain ations on the Missouri Slope. conditions, to the majors, or clubs RISKO BEATS | sencisuiosseseest PHIL SCOTT New club opponent to score, the Pratt high jschool football team is looking for new worlds to conquer. Scores ir. the various games ranged from 20-0 to 108-0. All ex- cept one of the regulars made at least one Greate 2 i Gees ing games, linemen who not previously experienced the thrill of downing the pi hind alien Several minor leagues never’ have accepted the draft pact, including the Pacific coast league, the Amer- ican association and the Interna- tional league. Due to a shortage of players, however, these circuits have been forced to accept men from the Baker Boy Forces Britisher| majors under ie erate territory were eal:ed back and given , ‘ 4 pou A e. oval. $ Throughout Fight Be- [petit toa comitten He mln ‘Only ten first cowl. were regis- sion and presentation today it tered inst *he Pratt scori1 = fore 12,000 ‘form of a resolution. chines oe i aeiong fans Teil as | Russtions, of alas, diatiation, ors the best high Cleveland, Dec. 8.—(?)—Johnnygtions and bonuses also precipitated Missouri Valley. Risko, Cleveland contender reiPiong duscussions. aa Tunney’s heavyweight crown, - | eames Billiard Star t _ today was a step nearer his objec-! 1 7 tive in the process of eliminat: '| Billy Evans Says |, Beats German Champ: for determining a challenger owing] @——+——- to his victory last night over Phil) Scott, British heavyweight cham- pion. They fought in Public Hall here before a capacity crowd of, 12.00 spectators. Risko forced all the fighting and cored two knock downs to win Patsy Haley’s detision. A left jab and a'strong push put Scott on the floor for a count of “one” in thet first round, while the Britisher took a count of nine in the seventh after a close exchange which brought an expression of pain from him and a claim of a “foul,” from his corner. Scott plans to return at once to England without engaging in any more fights, but to return to Amer- i pring for a stay of sev- he said last night. x sed disappointment at the de- ision against him, Mandan High Cage Games Are Booked Dec, 8—Carson, here. Dec. 17—Wilton, here. Dec. 21—Linton, her school team in the N = —--- ‘ Paris, Dec. 8.—()—With_1 high “The Yale-Princeton game of this run of 439, Roger <on‘’ France's year was one of the greatest I have youthful billiard champion, celebrat- ever seen,” was my greeting to ed his re-urr. to 18.2 balkline compe- Coach Tad ina Be Hale ae I vin -fter an absence of nearly a bum; into him” a e re ycer. || a Per California game at , Conti, who has arti Chicago. three world’s hilli ° chenionship , “T can get that viewpoint now,” matches in the United States, was remarked Jones, “but it didn’t strike indisposed i> 1927 and Felix Grange me that way until about the last 10 represented France at Washington minutes of play, for up to that time !ast March, when proved brent _. leasing, pen t Ec ctsaita reappearance “Princeton and Yale put two’ re- i, 2 markable teams on the field that WS against .. Schweinbok of Ger- day, Seldom, if ara Bare r seen pinnae eae int Sateen two as great lines with both elevens 5 3 posenang, a variety of stars in the 9" average of 35.06. kfield. ‘pe MEMORABLE BATTLE now. after the crack of the gun an- nounced the close of the game, but for three periods all Iscould see was the mistakes we were making and the opportunities we were passing, vp.” eee Jones’ refi the possibility of his reconsid. Jan. 14—Va_ sy City, here. ering his decision to retire as Jan.-27—Mandan, here." Jan. 20—Valley City, there. head. coach at Yale. I am in- Fe Jan. 2i—Jamestown, there. elined to think he will. continue Feb. 10—Jamest>wn, here. Jan. 27—Bismagek, there. in that capacity for another Mandan, Feb. 3—Dickinson, here. year at least. Feb. 10 Jamestown, here. ee AM Feb, 17—Bismarck, here. SIGH OPINION OF.CALDWELL' Feb. 24—Dickinson, there. Jones has a mighty high opinion Caldwell, ane was declared ineligible just prior to the Princeton same, being lost to the Blue in that important game as‘ given open ressing his freee ® aupariatives: ‘used relative to Ci it he eee GHTS Ig (By The Associated Press) Cleveland — Johnny Risko, Cleveland, defeated Phil Seott, Great Britain, (10). Lope Tenerio, Philippines, ~on 2 I Loa: Chile (7). oe aus yza, » g nick Petrone, New Y« from Willie Smith, ‘ork, won bantam weight plo 5 & Engeseth Lawyets : Office over Hoskins-Meyer’ ‘Allen oven into: Major League Sport by Americans Braves to establish. contact with it Mandan High’s Veteran Quint Inaugurates Basketball Winding up a week of intensive practice, Coach Leonard McMahan’s Mandan high basketeers swing into against the strong Carson Roughrid- Mandan high gym at 7:30 p. m., Man- ' Me poany {ene dis trict one man from the 1925 aggregation ift has had little effect.‘ are playing regularly, Coach id vhen the number outlook for this year as the loss of portunities for penalties is George Heidt and Ralr} Helbling is red the obseryance of the j keenly felt. al pass may face a fight parr will build their quint are iptail on the ground that it is Seitz, Lloyd McDonald and, sen, froi Herner, 1924 letterman. | Newcomers more than ordinary’ attention centers; Phil Helbling, Bill McDon- ald, Ralph Norman McKendry, forwards; and Edwards, gu: Various combinations have been experimented with and McMahan vouched today th. cinched a au and, as DRAFT RULES ‘4rthur Fletcher New son hes: son hes passed as there are ay num- ber of n.en who have shown worlds of power one night and have proved Edens flops’ the next until ‘the eaniay ene geet that - W35 ‘tion “ urning ment : -ndsvrings in | Fy 7 n of Arthur Fletcher as manager 3 has been identified with the Yale proves no stronger than they cid a an-/33 to 3, nounced previously, find Bill Mc-'experienced boys will ge‘ a whirl Kechnie directing the destinies of jon the hardwood. Giants Will Train at Augusta, M’Graw Says New York, Dec. 8—(?)—The spring, M: r John McGraw an-| nounced. lanage: an: was reach2d after the city council of | During that time, the Prineton foot-| the Unit \ugusta voted to install i field, clud houses and showers. For | games with Yale, and out of eight the pit four years the Giants have| with Harvard has won five and tied pitched their camp a: Sarasota Fla. | two. Burn 411 Points in Season} mie. Suzanne Lenglen, French} Kid Francis, Italian’ bantanie| - - Beulah Coal i tennis star who turned profession-| weight, has placed himself in the : Pratt, Kans., Dec. 8.—After piling al in 1926, is said to be negotiat-| first 1ank of that division by vir- Wachter Transfer Co. up 411 points in eight consecutive ing for reinstatement as an ama-| tue of-his recent 1( decision Ph 62 victories, and refusing to allow any ‘CUS over Archie Bell. > ROCKNE WANTS” MEN 10 FORM GRID BLEVEN Ridicule) Stress That Is Being Laid on Systems in rr “Football -New York, Dec. 8.—Knute Rock: famous. football coach of the Fight. ing in) Ce ore pane ridicules stress Ly i : ; ing on systems in “True, certain coaches have had much succtss with set systems, mak- ing specialists of certain ne he Be pie ine quai ack to- the ball and so on, but I havo ne time for any of them,” he says. “It's play. ers who thake or break your sched- ule. - Football is ag not unlike big league baseball. A f manager can’t win unless he has tho players. So great @ manager as Con- nie Mack finished * last for .2.2n sea- Battle | Carson’ Tonight ~ mn for the first time thir season ‘a game that is billed for the |" five men remain from | champions of 1925 and icMa- is none too cheerful about tha Selection of Leader as Yale Grid Coach Denied by Officials New Haven, Conn., Dec. 8—(?)— Selection of a football coach to suc- ceed T. A. D. Jones, whose « ntract who are aden § has expired, has not been co:..idered rthur, by:the Yale, athletic association in cond any way, it was stated with author- ity yesterday in at.swer to reports that had come here that-Ed Leader, tg coach, might become football coac It was state. that many reports of }yet I'll trim you. rospective candidates for the coach-| _ “System is nothing but a pattern. its position have come here, most of | Real Players who have the ability, them linked with names of coaches |Plus ‘guts,’ are the mai from at other universities. The novelty | which the gridiron garment is made, about Ed Leader is that he already | Material is far morc important than is at Yale. Despite this fact there | system. has been no hesitancy on the part of| “The coach cannot think for the those close to football in saying Players, Tun through a briken field ward e veterans around whom the in Morris, Rocky Jarvis, Blair rre- m last year’s team, and Al Many Good Newcomers Williams and Donald A “ “Give me the layers with th . Rockne aaupaite whysiesl and mental qualifications :nd you can have all the systems ithe world, Dietrich, George Huff and Fleck, Walton Russel! and Lafe rds. 19 wan had sition and was not ‘ikely e better part of the sea- that it as Leven almost a oll the ber piper SS. hat coac! )081- Mae titted ith the Yen | ion r the game has stared. He then becomes more or less negative. “Give me the men and I will lick all the systems in the world,” con- Keparently for the Inst 11 rently for years hee had men, for in that time his teams at Notre Dame fered only eight defeats. COACHES 36 YEARS Houston, Tex., Dec. 8.—()—With the close of the 1927 gridiron cam- paign rounding out a coach’g ca- reer of thirty-six years, John W. Heisman, athletic director and ‘ead foctball coach at Rice institute here, has a’ nouned his retire: :.t. With the exception of Alonzo A Stagg of versity of Chicago. - > mi has coached football longer than Heisman. , 3 e veterans vill probably get pet ere of the sport affected. call tonight and if Carson t was also saii that it was no in- dication of any departure from the principle in appoi: tment of Mr. Jones’ successor and there had been nc evidence ‘rom Yale alumni that they desire the board of athletic control to go outside of Ys's alumni in recomm::.ding a choice, ROPER WILL STAY Princeton, N. J. Dec. 8.—()—Bill Roper, head football coach of Prir -2- : ton, has signed a contract to keep York Natioual leagu ‘aseball|his post for two more years, the will train at Augusta, Ga., next | Prineton at ae, an- Roper has held posi- This decision| tion for nine congecutive years. ago, when they were cefeated then the younger and less have suf- Wednesda, training | ball team has won five ot of nine 20 Years Your Choice Of our entire line of fine suits and overcoats made by ; Hart Schaffner,& Marx and other first class makes at $4950 $29* ee. A guaranteed. saving to you of $7.50, $10, $15» $20 These suits and overcoats are all new.1927 guiments of latest stylés and patterns. No job lots, no old stocks, Every garment guaranteed or your money back. ' ” Boys’ and Children’s clothing at » big. saving. ___Bergeson’s