The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 17, 1928, Page 6

Pt ‘ PAGE SIX Williston, Grand For FORX-MANDAN GAME FEATURE OF FIRST DAY Third District Champs Push| Winners to Limit—Loss of Seitz Felt FARGO WINS FROM | Valley Hettinger—Williston Beats Bowbells BY J, G. MacGREGOR Three quints from the east coun-| try of North Dakota, and one west- ern representative survived the first round of the 14th annual North Dakota Interscholastic bas- ketball tournament on the gym of the State Training school at Man- dan yesterday. i Four teams lost their chances for a@ championship for another year * and entered the consolation brack- pi Heciaines billed this morning and the championskip and final consola- tion game scheduled for tonight. Williston, Grand Forks, Valley City and Fargo advanced to the semifinal bracket by victories ov Bowbells, Mandan, Hetiinger and Rolla. : “al The feature game of program was that betwo.1. F ks: present state champio Mandan, third district titleholders. Grand Forks was pushed to the limit | by the fighting Braves, who were noticeably weakened by the loss of | their star forward, Blair Svitz. The Forkers won through superior of- fensive punch. Bae | Opening the tournament, Willis-| ton smashed its way to a 17 to 12/ victory over Bowbells. The game was listless and only the brilliant all-around offensive and defensive efforts of a lad named Carney from Williston held the spectators’ atten-| n. co Forks galloped away to an early lead over Mandan which it was able to maintain to the end, despite a last quarter rally of the Braves that held the Forkers scoreless but fell short of the victory that tottercd | on the rim of the Forks hoop a Lady Luck frowned upon repeated setup shots. i Another lack-lustre contest inaug- urated the evening's bill. Valle City and Hettinger dashed aim! ly to and fro, and Hi-Liners hav the better objective eventually win- ning by a 21 to 14 count. ial City Easily Defeats) The consolation games will be| this afternoon with the semi-/ (= Bruce F THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE SATURDAY, MARCH 17 1928 ° = | | i | | | | | ts. Neate ie FORM: "MEANS AWYTHING» BY WERNER LAUFER St. Petersburg, Fla. March 17.— A first-class stock of machine guns and hand grenades will be a useful asset to the team that kee) the -|champion New York Yankees from f | adding another to their string in 1928, That is the impression one gains after watching the advance battalion pennant Fargo and Rolla flashed greatest speed of the day's play, the Rolla boys having the edge on speed with the Fargoites using their handed out by their inspiring leader, | superior shooting ability to run out! a 32 to 16 victory, the highest score that had been made in the first round. WILLISTON DE! BOWBELLS QUIN Williston and Bowbells failed to| impress in their debut in the first encounter of the first round. Willis-| ton won largel, through brilliant in-) dividual effort, Carney, Westdal and Kassis bearing the brunt of the} 17 to 12 victory that they scored | over Bowbells. | It was Red Carney who opened} the scoring. The stocky youngster tossed two setups in the opening} minutes of play. Hehring saved the Bowbellites from a ‘ the first quarter by sinkiag a gift) shot, the Eillies edging out 6 to 1. Williston maintained its margin during the duration of the uninter-; esting game, Carney continuing to! be the life of the Willies’ play while Nehring brightened the work of | Bowbells by a perfect day at the charity stripe. Lineup and summary: Williston FG FT P Weysdal, f ... 1 00 1 Hagen, f ... 2 Ol 1 Carney, ¢ ee 3 0-0 «Ff Kassis, g .. 1 O01 4 Wegley, g - 0 22 0 4} Thune, f o 00 0 Goar, g ..- yes 65 ala a Total -7 36 9 Bowbells FG FT P ¢ 22 0 0 44 «2 1 04 1 1 00 0 1 Ol 3 0 00 0 3 Gl 6 Raferee: Nichols, Minneapolis. Umpire, Dahl, Winona. MANDAN FALLS BEFORE FORK, 9-14 Mandan followers today bemoan the loss of Blair Seitz after watch- ing Grand Forks eke out a 19 to 14 ph in the feature game of Fri- ies Piss. loss of Seitz was the weak note in a fighting game that the against the state champions. Jarvis, Arthur and Russell ‘not > ape to the scoring punch that Se! would have furnished had fate not taken a hand by de- manding a wrenched ankle of the Brave on the eve of the tourna- shutout in| fi | Chene, Secord and Clinton wer of Yank athletes in spring training and taking in an earful of the talk Miller Huggin: Even the t of throwing coli ron the pilot’s enthus: m by bringing up the subject aged and withered pitching staff ‘ the sign, and i up with H gins. 'S h nock ? i Waite Ho ball? I pitching staff composed of Pip; Thomas, Moore, Johnson and Shi logic No Worries * * “MERE IS ONLY ONE SOUTHPAW \ ontHe alpen poral | wipe YANKS SHOULD 6ET LOT OF SLEEP ON THE ROAD STS EAR teeter Lou her WeNeer or LAST FALL" RIG wi the cream of Class A baseball and, pescorata to Huggins, are good bets |to work in many Yankee ball games ext summer. Pee Johnson, ha won 18 and w la iW {Pi a me league, Pipgra if his pite and world ser will be ng ny crit on, Another {man is My ‘given the piteher thi homas, who will be he a_ regular at confi 's chances ¢ om the role of re has more abili shown in m: ned Oklahoman is upe. From the unger broth 3 first prof © name Moore again art in the Yankees rm shown uiual rush In Camp of Yankees is ERE in} ‘Well-thought-of young} | much y » Nick, who is} the bunting. | he balance of the lineup, with the, | Young Pitchers Are Especially Pleasing to Eagle Eye of Miller Higgins | | \ pa: | i jexception of third base, remains as last year, with the busting twins, Ruth and Gehrig, headlining the Yankee act. Gehrig has already found his batting eye and while the Bam is usually slow in getting start- ed, no great fear is felt for the loss of power from his direction, The hot corner is hotly contested for by Joe Dugan and Gene Robert- son, former Brown and late of St. 1, with Gene having the rail po- 's legs seem to have stood all e going to stand and Miller; ins has always been an ad- mirer of Robertson. short and second well sewed up, but promise is shown by Leo ‘ocher, last year with St. Pawl. At base Lou Gehrig is looking for- rd to a good year and wants to s the fan flock with his mas- of the fielding tricks of the ack. be some enterprising recruit orm his way into that outfield uperhuman stick work in the tearly part of the campaign, but it looks very much like Ruth, Meusel and Combs when the teams get down to the serious business of winning a flag. the tough t! out- sters, the lo: ly noticeable. ‘The trio of n MeMahan used ed to run aw d the middle of had formed Captain Gor McDonald set the Bri best examples yesterday while Du at the and Lloyd standing for the victors. ald's five field goals saved day. Lineup and summary. Grand forks FG FT P DuChene, f . 2 1-3 2 Secord, f .. 0 3-6. 2 Fitzgerald, c .. 5 0-1 8 Nelson, g . 0 0-2 2 Clinton, g . 0 1-1 0 McKinnon, f 0 00 0 Lee, c 0 00 0 Total .......... 7 5-13 9 Mandan FG FT P Jarvis, f .... 0 it 1 McDonald, f . 0 35 3 Morris, ¢ . 1 oil 1 Helbling, g¢ . e224 Stephens, g . 1 1 3 Arthur, f .... 0 Ol 1 Russell, f ... 1 00 0 Total .......... 3 8-11 10 peceniesl fouls: Duchene, Rus- Referee, Dahl, Winona. Umpire—Nichols, Minneapolis. VALLEY CITY TAKES HETTINGER, 21 TO 14 What had been doped to be a clearcut victory for Valley City eces-|up in the air and Olson’ ter kept the Valle band the | lanky-center from having a mediocre; rds, that kept Hettinger within ch of the iver. ‘tenshoel, and Bergerson flying with the the behemoth § ram pplause by -h imeup and su Stenshosl, f ... Kergerson, f . Olson, ¢ . | Melay. e Mudgeit, ¢ . Total. G er a Encberg, f 5 2-4 1 Burson, f 0 00 0 | Flaten, -c o 13 0 Tanous, g 0 0-1 0 Brown, g oA se Rutledge, f... 0 0-2 0 Total........ 5 4-11 4 Technical Foul—Bergerson. Referce—Nicholas, Minneapolis. Umpire—Dahl, inena. FARGO OUTSTE! | ROLLA STARS, 32-16 | Fargo’s teamwork carried |Purple White to a clearcut victory over a group of stars from Rolla in the closing fray of the first round last night, Fargo stepping away to a 32 to 16 victory. Taylor, Lalit and LaFrance, a trio of boys with speed to burn, con- tinually harassed the near-goal ter- ritory of the Gate City quint, by spectacular dribbles but were so |rushed at the end of the dashes that the majority of their shots went wild or caromed off the edges of the backboi After a first minute 2 to 2 tie, the Kimballmen settled down to ’|long-bounce pass game that, was ef- fective in penetrating the fighting Rolla boys’ neighborhood. Hee ite bd asad = out sane ye f 2, reate! bay aA In the third quarter, Taylor broke away on three separ- ae Seer iaes Cate tem cat one argo. ut a few sec- One tates -. ed peed men Captain Joe Olson as he went under the Rolla net Ison’s setup was good in addi- Fargo hed no trouble’ in the final no tro tl Lege gee agg and Curry going to the h on four infrac- tions of the I foul rule, Gregory, ‘alitier and Captain Olson tarred for the winners while Roll the! | triumvirate was ovtstanding for the losers. The lineup and summary: EXPRESS NAILS. ‘SPUD MURPHY IS SHADED) ne, but managed to’ fight his Koenig and Lazzeri seem to have} P BLACK BOY BUT | FAILS T0 DUCK Biily Light Decisively Out- points Al Van Ryan In Vicious Battle Jack Hurley Must Be Spend- ing Sorrowful Day After isastrous Night | New York, March 17.—(AP)—In the feature event of a lightweight carnival at the Madison Square Garden last night, Bruce Flowers battcred out a 10-round victory and had Billy Petrolle, the Fargo battler, grozzy when the final gong sounded’ Although there were no knock- downs, the dusky youngster, outslug- ging Petrolle at his own game, gave the westerner a severe trouncing. Until Billy opened up and smashed his right hand to Flowers’ chin, he had the battle under fair control. Once stung, however, Flowers sailed into action like a dark storm cloud and battered the North Dakotan all over the ring. > Early in the sixth round, Petrolle nailed the negro with a left hook to the body and a right to the chin that almost sent the customers home early. Flowers teetered, badly in clear, From that round on, Flowers ham- mered Billy lustily and the more Petrolle fought back the tougher the going became. In the ninth, Flow- ers smashed the westerner for two complete turns around the ring with out a return and in the final sess gong sounded. LIGHT OUTPOINTS VETERAN AL VAN RYAN St. Paul, M —P)—Billy Light, St. Paul welterweight, deci- sively outpointed Al Van Ryan, ‘South St. Paul, in 10 vicious rounds of battling here last night, news- papermen decided. Light won all! the way. Ritchie Mack, Minneapolis, out- pointed pud” Murphy, clever Moorhead junior lightweight rounds, but his margin of vic was slight. * “Wildcat” Eddie Mason, lightweight, Sioux Falls, “ht treated an toa si ishment from the openi Van Ryan, known as a_ body! puncher, was outlought at his own game when he came in close and was shaken to his heels by terrific right crosses whenever hc st: away. Several times Light crashed his right against Van Ryan’s jinw/ without a return, and then mixed ir a variety of hoo! nd uppercuts a infighting. He tied up Van Rya ripping left until the 10th, when} ly. { Fell Out of Ring | In the seventh round Van Ryan| clambered back in at the count) of six and took a nine count on one knee. He was badly dazed when he wobbled to his corner, but recovered quickly. argo FG rr P Peterson, £ 1 4-4 1 Airhcart, f 2 1-1 2 ith 0 0-1 4 re; 4 1 Ols 4 1 Long, 0 0 Total........ i 9 Rella | FG FT P | Taylor, f .. 3 O-1 2 Olson, f 1 2-3 0 LaFrance, ce ... 1 0-1 4 | Marry, © «..... 2 0-3 4 | Jolifee, g . 0 0-1 1 | Nordmarken,c 0 0-0 0 Johnson, g.... 0 0-0 0 Total....... 7 2-9 11 Technical Foul — LaFrance, Long. Referee—Dahl, Winona. paw — Nichcls, Minneap- olis. i} Has any batter ever scored three men on a single in a world series game? * anyone ever established a time for walking from one coast to the other? Have four hits and a base on | balls been given one team in one fence =m * that hea seae H a run such a feat pos- sible? : Yes. Bob Meusel, with the Yen- kees in the 1923 classic, singled with the bases filled | "John Ennis walked from Coney Island in New York to San Francisco in May, 1910, He took 80 days and five hours to cover the 4000 miles. He Not only ‘pocoibla, Bet it has ha » p> . at Boston, in 1912, id the Braves scoreless in such a case. The first man up went out second batter s , only it off vg 44) next filling the bases. peing. in fielding the ball, was struck by the ball and called out. Houser credit for a hit on and all three scored. | the In the Mack-Murphy fight, the Moorhead battler seemed ungb'e to} solve Mack's deceptive style The! latter fought a running battle, but whenever he made a stand he crossed up Murphy effectively, and ny with rights and lefts to the Finding that he was penetrate Mack’s defensive shell ini the first two rounds, Murphy dis- carded his boxing and sought to make a fight of it, but Mack tied him up and then fought back vi- ciously to reestablish his lead. i New Champion Will Be Crowned Tonight in A. A. U. Tourney Kansas City, March 17—(AP)—A new A. A. U. basketball champion | will be crowned here tonight when two local teams, the Cook Painters and the Kansas City Athletic club, meet in the final game of the nation- al tournament in which 53 squads 8 The Hillyards of St. Joseph, Mo., chanipions for the last two years, fell before the Cooks last night, 41 to 17. The K. C. A. C. beat the Sterling Milks of Oklahoma City in the semi- finals, 28 to 15. The Hillyards and the Sterling miss meet tonight to decide third place. j Illini Armory Mecca For 870 Track Stars Urbana, Ill, March 17.— (AP) — The largest indoor relay carnival in country, attracted an entry list of 870 track athletes to the Univer- sity of Illinois armory today for a fresh attack on the records. ‘ Eighty- one schools were represented — 22 universities, 39 colleges and 20 high te ieatiy-a. lustre early a hun sprinters were entered for the 75-yard das! | Twenty teams were matched in the closing feature, the one-mile relay, and 20 sets of mile runners in the four-mile relay. The 300-yard run 1,000-yard run also ‘had tre- mendous fields, necessita to decide the finalists, - } First on the program today was! the all-around event, which ha: jdrawa a figld of 11 to unable to! Jeoate.... j wes celebrated |terday and the ve mates made it sati | ping the Red way to eltics training camp today when as-! |surances were 1 mons, sluggin pre i eG find the | fell through the ropes and out of tional league clu SORE Be | the ring after Billy had beat him | Pbili seule ean ae unmereifully about the head. He! ¥e% ag aa as fitting training camp weather as ks, Valley City, Fargo in Semifinal Cage Games lowers Batters Billy Petrolle into Submission cond ght e.imi action by the photographic pen of and conqueror of Harry W. tions to choose an opponent for Tunney when Johnny Risko, of Cleveland, romped on him almost from beginning to end of their 15-round go at New York. The left which Risko (left) used re- peatedly to such telling advantage is here caught Risko’s Most Telling Punch p CHAS. C1 Bem iosi0F* was put out in characteristic George Clark, NEA Service artist. ntti crashed lefts and rights to Petrolle’s | @ a chin without a letup. The Fargo YANKS LOSE THREE ! battler was groggy when the final St. Petersburg, Fla. — Three! in the| of what will . The ROBINS BEAT SOX | Clearwater, Fla.—Bill Doak Day} at Bradenton yes- teran's Brooklyn fact 7 to 2. ROUSH LEADS OFF | Augusta, Ga—Ed Roush is slated to lead off McGraw’s batting order rv by whip- | raveling at = in the approaching championship. | Lee eat fiuht, ‘and Healt thai Letty O'Doul will follow Roush with South St. Paul cowboy pun-| Fin ay third, Terry is down act JOY HITS PHILS | Fort Myers, Fla—Gloom gave, in the Philadelphia Ath-| eived that Al Sim- | nouns ta, ith pain: doctor could find nothing wrong, Ty |@ the latter attempted to stage a ral-| Cobb has joined the team. SHOTTON CONFIDENT Winter Haven, Fla.—Seven Na- WEATHER BOTHERS. SOX Fort Worth, Tex.— The Chicago White Sox are beginning to suspect that some place north might offer Forth Worth. Last year “a blizzard broke up a scheduled Sunday game.) Yesterday they were compelled to cancel an exhibition game with Fort | Worth on account of cold weather.. CUBS TAKE BEATIN \ Los Angeles—Two home and lots of lesser drives were wasted yesterday by the Chicago Cubs when they took a beating from Los Angeles of the Pacific coast league, 8 to 4. Cuyler and Wilson were the homerun hitters for the Cubs, and Tolson and Hannah each got one for the Angels. FREAK PLAY REGISTERED San Antonio, Tex.—Bob Fother- gill, Detroit’s left fielder, has been credited with one of the prize freak plays of the training season. During a practice game with Min- neapolis, a batter sent a liner past Fothergill, who ran it down and then w Training Camp heaved the ball to the unoccupied left field bleachers. | Undauted, \straight setbacks for the world|othergill jumped the rail, recap- champion Yankees fail to disturb | Manager Miller Huggins who does not take the exhibitions bushes as_indicatoi happen when the | Yanks took a \Cards yesterd tured the ball and heaved again. This time the ball struck a wire screen, directly in front of him, and bounded back, narrowly missing the thrower’s head. Fothergill didn’t throw the ball a third time as the batter had already scored, PIRATES SWAMPED San Francisco—The Pittsburgh Pirates were here today to continue the exhibition series with the San Francisco Seals who swamped the Buccaneers yesterday at Monterey, 11 to 7. CARDS WIN SIXTH Avon Park, Fla.—Bob O'Farrell, Cardinal catcher, appeared behind the plate yesterday for the first time in the Cardinal 8 to 3 victory over the Yankees, It was the sixth Cardinal victory in seven starts, NEVERS ALLOWS 1 HIT West Palm Beach, Fla—The Newark Internationals know what it is to be on the low end of a one- hit baseball game pitched by two St. ouis Browns hurlers here yester- Ernie Nevers and Alvin Crow- did it. The Browns won 5 to 1. BRAVES DROP TWO St. Petersburg, Fla.—Fitzberger, and Wright, infielders, have been released by the Boston Braves. SOX NOT SO GOOD Bradenton, Fla.—The Boston Red Sox aren’t quite as good as they thought they were, on the basis of yesterday’s defeat at the hands of the Brooklyn Dodgers who plied up 13 hits, REDS BEAT SENATORS Orlando, Fla. — The Cincinnati Reds will return to their training camp here after the exhibition game with the Washington Senators at Tampa today. The Reds won yes- terday’s game with the Senators to 5. INDIANS’ DOPE CHANCES Cleveland — Attempts to predict the Cleveland Indians’ prospects this year have centered on the abil- ity of Levsen and Uhle to regain their 1926 form after disastrous seasons last year. Levsen declares the soreness is gone from his should- ers and that he is ready to win a lot of ball games. SENATORS SLATE TRIO Tampa, Fla. — Marberry, Gaston and Van Alstyne were down today to face the Cincinnati Reds’ artil- lery. The Reds beat Washington yesterday 6 to 5. USTEN BAM, IWANT To PIRATES LOOK AS STRONG AS IN 1927 RACE Strong Pitching Staff and Brilliant Fielders Will Keep Bushmen in Front BY C. V. MeFARLAND (Associated Press Sports. Writer) San Francisco, March 17. #) —The Pittsburgh Pirates, winners in the National league pennant chase last year, will enter the base- ball race with a stronger team than the one which captured the flag in 1927, The Pirates left their s | training camp at Paso Robles, |a team estimated to be 20 n j Stronger than the 1927 aggregation. Barney Dreyfus, owner of the team, |has expended a considerable sum of |money for new players as reserve strength. Strong pitching may be expected jto keep Pittsburgh in the frony ranks of the National lea: Ray | Kremer, and’ the two bes jhurlers, Carmen le ers in the majors last year, will be ;on the mound. | Kremer Expects to Repeat ||. Manager Donie Bush said he be- jlieved Kremer ripe for another se1 sational year like 1926, when he w twenty victories and lost six games. Meadows, in the big leagues since | 1914, still sho his cunning at {the spring training camp. He and | Hill proved largely instrumental in winning important games last year, jand they are expected to repeat. | Burleigh Grimes appears set for 4 good season on the mound. Daw- !son and Miljus, who came to the jteam in the middle of the 1927 sea- = ||| Son, are now counted as regulars. | , New pitchers include Fred Fussell, from Wichita Falls, in the Texas league, and Ervin Brame from Jer- sey City in the International league. Fussell, a southpaw, showed a world of stuff and perfect control in train- ing. To Use Same Catchers __ The catching roster of the Pirates is the same as last year with the exception of Roy Spencer, from the American association. | Early Smith and Johhny Gooch jwho formed the working end of the staff Iast year, will again do most of the backstopping. Smith and Gooch, although aging, are depend- |able catchers, good hitters and have plenty of experience, Claude Linton of Columbia, S.C, and Ralston Hemsley, who played in the Blue Ridge league last year, will get their chances to perform behind the |plate. Pete Scott, who came tc the | Pirates as part payment in the deal \that sent Hazen Cuyler to the Chi- |cago Cubs, has done some catching and may do relief work. _ The Pirates seem certain of hav- jing one of the youngest and. ablest ‘outfield trios in baseball. The two Waner brothers—Paul and Lloyd-- showed midseason form at the spring training camp and are ex- pected to star again in the nennant dash. Adam Comorsy, who came to Pittsburgh near the end of last sea- son, hit and fielded sensationally in training, and may take the left field job away from the veteran Clyde Barnhart, who had great difficulty taking off excess poundage, Good Combination The acquisition of Ear] “Sparky” Adams from Chicago has bolstered the Pirates considerably. Glen Wright, shortstop, and Adams ap- pear to form a perfect playing com- bination. Adam. is an expert bunt- er and fast on the bases. . “Pie” Traynor, star third base- man, is in good shape. Grantham will be onabled to re- turn to his original position at first base, because of Adams’ presence on the squad. Grantham is much more at home at first base. At appears that the other clubs will have to make a real fight to keep the Pirates out of first place. Ralph Greenleaf Is Within One Notch of Pocket Billiard Win Chicago, March 17.—(AP)—Ralph Greenleaf of Philadelphia had oi his way to within one notch of the pocket billiard title again today, needing only one more victory to gain at least a tie for the title. Frank Taberski of Schenectady, the champion, was to play both Green- leaf and Erwin Rudolph of Chicago in today’s matches, needing both games to make his title secure: ee x All Girls in Race For the first time in turf his- tory a race was staged at Tijuana the other cay with none but girl jockeys riding. TELL You ABOUT MY COUSIN, LOUIE IN SIODX CITY, WHO MADE] | YOUR SIXTY CIRCUIT CLOUTS LOOK SICK>: LOVIE RAISES LSTER GING ME CASE Te BiRD... 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