The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 25, 1928, Page 6

fer Prrcemeererveterrrit trittiriiiritsy 7) a eee i Sceetee so teees: saben SPUSESEE THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE NESDAY, JANUARY 25 1928 Tex x Rickard’s. Massive Bass Drum Booms Forth Echoing Ballyhoo RING CROESUS PONDERS OVER | BATTLE FIELD Promoter Denies Sharkey Will) Meet Tunney If He Whips John Risko JACOBS YELPS OBJECTION Governor Small of Illinois In- vites Heavyweight Argu- ment to Chicago | New York, J 25.—-@)—Tex | Rickard’s massive bass drum is| beating a loud: ballyhoo for the; next world’s heavyweight champion- | ship. i It boomed up and down the At-| lantic coast yesterday from Boston| to Miami and back again and the! world’s premier ba: still, pon-; ders over the next “battle of the} century.” | From Boston, Jess McMahon, matchmaker for Madison Square Garden and a Rickard lieutenant, announced Jack Sharkey had signed) for @ match with Johnny Risko at New York, March 12, the winner to| meet Tunney for the title. McMahon made public in Boston a telegram he said was from Rickard | in which the promoter agreed to| match Sharkey with Tunney if the! Hub fighter decisively whipped} Risko, Such news brought a cloudburst from Joc Jacobs, manager of Jack Delaney, who fights Tom Heeney on March 1. Jacobs asserted De- Janey was not to be left out in the cold and was sure of fighting Tun- ney if he knocked out Heeney. Tex Denies It Then out of Florida came from accredited to him in the McMahon telegram. Rickard insisted his elimination mated stood and counted off Delaney, Heeney, Shar- key, and Risko as the principals. Meanwhile, Chicago entered the heavyweight argument with an in-| with vitation from Governor Len Small] co-eds has been stirred by the td of Mlinois and the Illinois state/important question of whether its athletic commission to Tunney, urg-|hockey team consisting of the five] y. ing the champion to defend his title) Hanson brothers and a sixth man named Swanson shall be allowed to to Switzerland to represent the Jnited States in the Olympic games. The tiny institution had just con- cago promoter” to hold the bout. gratulated itself upon receiving a ce was not mentioned. distinction that many. a larger col- expects to have two/lege would covet when the American Olympic Committee overruled the Demapeey y and the other against the| hockey committee's selection of the vol “Hansons of Augsburg” of the bouts has been prom-| ground that they were “not repre- ised for New York. The metropolis | sentative.” eacoance Aah ate renaeone ee might earn the right to go by play- Luis Firpo at the Polo|ing a test. game against the ‘Uni- more than four years ago. versity Club of Boston or some other woe va the present, Rickard’s| prominent team found the brothers in in the Windy City. eChairman Pi Paul Preh inois. commission ca is organi: tion would “cooperate with any C ois year, one against Jack ft of Rickard’s elimination. has not had a heavyweight cham- pionship affair since Dempsey fought its on. PLAYER DEARTH "weds, Ze LAID 10 MAJORS ‘Hickey Thinks That Clubs Al- low Too Many Recruits to Mould on Bench Chicago, Jan. 25.—’?)—Baseball players of major league calibre are pitting more and more difficult to Tecate and a large part of the fault is with the big leagues themselves, | B escnney of Present tyme Canadian Ice Stars Leave For ante Halifax, N. S., Jan Jan. ing, aspirants for 192 up a promising youngster, a pitcher | ice sports were bound for Europe | today piers a rousing send-cff. i1charge of W, i hamme: one of the veterans all |Hewitt of Torsate, and P. J, Sat, over the lot. ip youngster natur- | queen, president i ally doesn’t look good under such | Olympic co1 ciation. For 35 years. Hickey has ree creating and piloting baseball re “It seems to be the “.shion,” said| » “for the majors to bri for instance, leave him on the bench for a few weeks, and en toss him into the box when the opposition is cr amtances and so he goes out shes for a few more years, half ruined. Bench Spoils Recruits tl their recruits necessarily must warm the bench, playing only a@ few times a season. and that does | of the tremendous in- | crease in good minor leagues, there | is a real Weary of first-rate ball | foapag A distressingly large peal i of those who are aay Srod don’t get a fair shake when they do! Ao to the big leagues. No ball, Iaped by. even improved or de. we waging the bench. I eset take long tc see whether a is good enough to stick in| big leagues, but it takes more | thee, two innings, once &@ month. i 4 oss that it ie Yor rs is fey oh ery | many a or a Hornsby ind rusty’ on the sant bec can a yea Bigs his | 4 oie ‘Hansons of Augsburg’ Lt eur OnE ~ AND HESA Here is the much discussed Hanson family hockey team whose selection to represent this country in the erland next month has beea very fuch on again, off again. They are, from left to right, ahs) Julius and Emil Hanson, “Moose” Swanson, goalie; Oscar and Louis serie Julius, oe , oldest, who gerves as coach, is 28, and Oscar, the youngest, is 19. Inset is “Si” Melby, athletic director Rickard a denial of the statement little Augsburg College (Minn) which the team represents, and their supporters confident they] the other Haagons, end “Moose” winter Olympics in S' By J. R. VESSELS one Press Correspondent) ugsburg sextet is not merely a eek outfit. Although repre-|have as many as 10 or 15 reserves, senting the smallest school in the|the Augsburg team has only two Minnesota conference has maintain-|and one is a substitute goal. tender. ed an excellent record. The team has played as a unit in college for two| hockey together ever since they were| all the money he needs ee Ar of the scoring done by Hansos, as the lone lof the family is Pra fensive capacity as goal tender. All of the credit for the showing] of an outsider. are ru snowy head. of the team should go to the Han- son brothers, declares M. Skordals- vold, member of the college facul- ty, who manages the team. There ‘he team needs none, Any way the college could not af- ford one. Julius Hanson, wing, and oldest of the brothers, directs the play in the capacity of captain. sports at the school, however, are under direction of athletic director. _ Joe, Emil, Oscar and Louis are Hagen Learns New Lesson in \Baseball Deal New York, Jan. 25.—It’s alw: won: good policy to stick to your three games, defeating Indiana, Illi-| racket, especially in sports. ( AP ies its 300 students . of the Tll- ri by Defeating Indiana University today remains at Western Conference |'basketball standings, the result of vieteating: Indiana, last night 28 to The Boilermakers Indiana dropped back to fourth; experience position with three wins and two, baseball is anak defeats, leaving Northwestern. and! to emphasize that Wisconsin undisputed co-holders of | bit of philosophy second place with three victories | had we not oth- and one defeat. er experiences to twiddle about in | Walter’ s. attempt International Olympic honors: League, and it is more than likely I lose part of ith 5, | ment on the Rochester “fr bea Sar Seen zers| Mullen. Matches: Bud rom here date Mang Charles I. Gorma ie 8 lot of his enthusizsm on the | world’s amateur s way and a possible great pitcher is|was a member which also versity gra h thighs majors carry so many play-|of the Canadian amaicur title. “the c ontinient | ahaa the experience of dd the Toronto uni- wi | up with the’ gambling een can | also be termed a lesson. Princeton Crew Call of Coach Logg Answered by 160 Candidates ARENA DEAN THINKS TAR Muldoon Shakes Hoary Head Pitiful Showing Against Tom Heeney Recently Attributed to Life of Ease Veteran Commissioner Pic- tures Dempsey of Today and Tiger of 1918 BY EDWARD J. NEIL (Associated Press Sports Writer) New York, Jan. 25.—(—A sort of en 4 that od oe iad « 0 jac! ey is about to as WANSONS i gripped William L. Muldoon, grand old dean of American boxing, and the man who first called Sharkey “great.” Loss of incentive is the great factor that threatens to bring it about. Two years ago, a_ splendidly muscled youngster with the Mw of a conqueror in his eyes, climbed out of comparative obscurity and into the Madigon Square Garden ring to fight Sailor Eddie Huff- man, a run ’o the mine light heat weight. When the dreary battl e was over that same youngster climbed down out of the ring and back into obscurity as far as most of the ringside observers were con- cerned. was Jack Monte of Boston, once of the U. S, Swanson is the goal While other hockey sage often Home Saps The Hansons have been playing} “A lovely home, wife old enought to lift a stick. _— the man, taken awa: “They no coach and to ba they} keenness. The urge -member | need no substitutes; ,” says Skordals-| incentive, is gone. o will he ever in a de-|vold. “They know how to coordinate | it back? That’s the na eevee And their style of play without the aid William. L. Muldoon shook his and know how to conserve ‘their| “Against Tom Heeney, energy and have never known what| was almost pitiful. Lack of substitution is.” - ing caused it. The razor edge was The Hansons range in age from} gone. Continual fighting, such as 19 to 28. Oscar, El Sapna ack craved last summer, would plays center. Joe and sie saved his making such an ass fense men, and Emil rlays opposite} of himself. aes ab the win, “ee * wwitt| ae, Reyes =e awkward- ie or more of jansons iy New lander than be graduated this spring, but there any ‘man I have ever seen in the —and play hockey. travel to San Francisco to see them meet if Jack were ‘right!?” Marvin Stevens May | ,-"°*, Become Yale Mentor Hel hen tothe besvaweight chart: — New Haven, Conn., Jan, 25—(AP) | Plonship of the world. It made his —Marvin Stevens, who is slated to succeed Tad Jones as.coach,of Yale m football if Jones persists -in his Beepdiele cee to relinquish the reins, would be pne of the ace | Sts major_college ches in the coun- 'y. He is 28, ‘or four ye Stevens, as as- sistant coach, Saar Jones’s tt: | wth hand man. He was largely respon- sible for deyeloning. race Salayel fought, sensation 0: last season. Ve ens, then called “The Kansas Cy- fighting for food clone,” played but o ¢ yeere=38 at Yale, but made a great running back. At Washington Col. lege, Kansas, which he attended fi rst, | Dem 'he won ten letters. Promotion of Stevens to the place held by Jones for the last eight years would give both Harvard and Yale coaches of the “younger. geri- ciation,” as Arnold Horween of the dren: Leaimivon also was graduated since “Gan he come back? the war. That’ tion.” And William L, h shook his snowy head. Taylor With Sangor| American Alleys, - Carpenter Lumber money and rent Chicago, Jan. 25.—()—In the bouts to.determine the logical west- ter Jim Mullen has matched Joey ’s: Plas! Ps Sangor. of Milwaukee, Bud Ts Bow! alleys Monday ni lor of Terre Haute, f keels’. Electric the bantamweight crown. The bout is in neni rere 8 in eir mat champion one. of | the worst leciees in-his career. ers, three games,’ 2,696; -one game 548. oO. Nordlund, ‘three gemes, WH one game, aah «scores: of Monday's Te Serta alliv ping Zwiek, ai ol Chaney, def Ea pipes P. IS THROUGH! be RECALLS HUFFMAN BOUT are two younger brothers coming] ring. Yet-he is really a better’ "|along who plan’ to enter Augsburg| boxer than Gene Tunney and I'd) soo sagen was He was lean and hard and The match lasted 18 ae ern contender for.the now vacant featherweight boxing title Promo- sats, American Al Alors, 0.2 teok|: ht, while bowlers standings /and individual averages will be published tomor- at Mention of Sharkey Q} *WITH SPORTS CELEBRITIES: TY COBB SAYS Now that it seems I am to pass from the picture as a bi; leaguer after 22 years of servi draw these conclusions in making a com- oe of baseball as played in 1905 and the years that foliowed with the brard of 1927, In only one re- spect do I. think 6 modern game has i. on the game of 20 years ago, batting. explaritions. he improve- ments in batting; must largely confiied to slug-| ai ging. Yct, I don't, believe the mod- ern day sluggers such as Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and men of thet stamp were so much iter than, dee Crawford, “Buck” ind | the greatest of Golf Champs Who Will Defend Title American Amateur Siasiemate American Open ....... iene Don’ Carrick Soe “se ‘Open. ‘Tommy Armour P.G.A..........Walter Hagen French” ‘Amateur...J. E. Melor 3 Na Miriam B. Horne British Ladies— Simon de Ia Chaume Canadian Ladies. .Helen Payson French Ladies— Simon de la Chaume Intercollegiate ... Watts Gunn Seniors ......... Hugh Halsey Mexican’ Amateur . National Public Linke C. Kauffman Metropolitan Amateur Driggs Metropelitan Open . seseeeg. Johnny Farrell Metropolitan ‘Women's— Maureen Oructt Western Amateur....Ben Stein Western O; ..,Walter Hagen meetin hawt Amateu.: New York State. -Arthur Yates Gold Mashie.. Sweetaer second of a series of elimination| Co. Teams, ‘Winners ees ‘The Ashley Saints: FG | Li named had the same livelv ball that is now in use, I feel any one of them might have rivaled the slugging feats of the first two. The pitching isn’t nearly so good. In the carly days of my career most clubs had at least four stars on their pein staffs; now, few clubs joast more than two outstanding hurlers. Since I have given the lively ball as my. explanation of the improve- ment in battihg, I probebly should I! also offer it as the reason for the feel this decision | calls for certain! decline in pitching, if I am to be consistent. Of one thing I am positive; there has been a marked decline in smart baseball. A one-run system re- be | quires strategy, skill on the bases, ided by effective work by the bats- ian through the medium of the bunt or hit.and run. Getting runs in clusters, the commor custom these days, largely calls for brute strength. Wet, wit! all its favlts, it’s still Dawson Wins Second Game From Napoleon Dawson, N. D., Jan. 25.—Dawson Napoleon quint by a scor> of 21-8. the ee fast and «ean, ves play the second halt about even although the local missed many easy shots. The lineup and summary: Dawson FG FT P PTSia Hoover, f .. 4011 8 Watson, f 6 141 13 Johnston, c . 0011 0 Anderson, g ......0 0-0 0 0 Dodds, g'..... ase 0 0-0 0 0 Totals ...... 10 3 2 Napoleon FG FT P PTS A Daschle, f 0110 21 10-1 0 2 2000 4 0113 1 0 of 2 0 Totals ....... Referee: Abott. Ashley Saints Again a oo Ashley,-N. D., Jan. 25.—The Ash- | wi ley Saints defeated the Wishek In- game for the ‘isitors. jineup and ee Croom menhi, enoonwe Coowomed Siecanee . DEAN OF JOCKEYS Callahan — to Premier Position When Romanelli Goes Inactive al onsoned 3 @] emery o -_* & TE! | Frank Baker. If the last four by Score of 21 to & won a second game from the fast/ A! Down ‘Wishek, 27-15) Neh -hoot we tl owancot 8 BUD TAYLOR WINS | FROM PHIL ZWICK IN FLUKE ENDING Cleveland Fighter, Resting on One Knee, Forgets to Get Up at 10 Count Milwaukee, Jan. . cae ps Merve dare his ard ht whei mag i rie Nt Kod a long oon Tayl ‘ett ia ‘Swi k i or 8] second ofa scheduled d round 10-round fight. Zwick seemed un- hurt and knelt in readiness to spring back ‘to the attack at the count of While the referee was , Zwick’ glanced toward his cornet for advice, and in so doing tiger Wa lost- track of the count. ” Pronounced he was still on his ieee though seemingly "Taylor bed’. point od i ‘aylor a int advantage in what figthing there wi = with lefts to the s to the head and ‘and bod BOSTON BRUINS HOLD ICE LEAD Scoreless Tie With Pittsburgh Sends Idle Rangers Into New York, “Jan. 25.—(?)—The Bruins were in Pilg red the Possession of first merican nes of the Na- tional Hockey league today Tesult of a scoreless tie played k. 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