The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 28, 1928, Page 6

ana maar GRAND FORKS, | YANKTON AND SPUDS ENTER se | . North ‘Dakota Champions; Should Repeat Great Show- ¢ ing of Last Year COYOTE ENTRANT STRO} Mocrhead Is Most Powerful Minnesota Contender Sent to Chicago in Years BY J. G. MacGREGOR Basketball prestige of the north- west will be well represented in the national basketball tournament inj Chicago next week. | Grand Forks, North Dakota title- | holder for the second consecutive year; Yankton, champion of South| Dakota; Moorhead, winner of the | Minnesota honors; all have entered | the nation’s greatest cage pot- pourri. Grand Forks and Yankton are no strangers in the national event. Moorhead is the newcomer. The northwest is proud of its en- tries. The northwest points with pride to its entrants of other years. And the northwest can be proud of its representatives this year. | This year more than in any other. the eyes of the basketball experts of the nation will’ be upon the north- N west entrants for obvious reasons. In the past five national tourneys, a northwest entrant has won the na- tional title once, has been runner- up once, and has reached the quar-| ter-finals on the other three occa- 4 i in 4 its second! 1 honors. Last year the Flickertails found themselves in the quarter finals only to be eliminated by Batesville, Arkansas, the Razorbacks playing! oh for the national title in the end. ' The situation this year somewhat | yesembles the situation in the year | when Fargo fought Fitchburg for the union supremacy. In that year the fans will remember, the experts ronounced the state finalists in| jandan rather mediocre. hey | hhave done the same this year. Yet} Fi upset the fondest hopes of} Norn Dakota and the northwest by going to the finals. : Grand Forks defeated Valley City this os oa to win its second con- secutive championship and observa-| tions to date show little faith in the a th of the Forkers. However, The Tribune wants to reiterate its pre-state-tourney prediction that the Forkers have a better club in 1928 than it had in 1927. This year it is a machine. Last year it had two stars. Unless the calibre of the aational meet is on a higher planc Shan it was last , Grand Forks roel Lady ten arte her, should in go to the top. Yankton Is Favorite Yankton will stand out as one of the favorites of the tournament, Ed L, Shave, St. Paul sports editor,! says. ‘The South Dakota team has had several tries at the title and ‘won it one year. That was when C. W. Letich, now coach the University of North Dakota, was the Coyotes. From South Dakota comes the news that this year’s Yankton guint is the strongest that has ever there. Huron was the Sodak aml lor last year and was eliminated in the semifinals by the iteaville club, the same five which ousted Grand Forks in the pre- vious round. And they say that Yankton is much stronger than Huron was. Minnesota’s champions have nev-| er been as impressive in national Ply as those from the Dakotas. lowever, Moorhead is pronounced one of the outstanding Minnesota High school entries of all time. puds Finally Win After five tries at the state| championship, Moorhead _ finally! Batarday by, “Gecssely” Sofeating | y. cis ly eating | pie of Minneay ae Now ite may sen innesota into) the limelight. Going ‘way back in national cage tory, we find the first national entsant from North Dakota at Evanston, Illinois, in 912. In that x, Fargo High met Evanston th for the national championship Jos ie Syed Point with three men in and two banished from game in the third quarter be- cause of personal fouls. Fargo fin- fished that memorable struggle with men in the lineup and yet only lost by one point! ! m two other occasions, in 1913) 1914, Fargo sent teams to a na-, mal meet. They didn’t do quite as the first team but they to the quarter and semi- ft £8 rd ‘32 H i Re F a ae Z i i He i | ats i ale ie i s i E @¢ ip} an injured ankle he ONLY Two 1927 CAGE CHAMPS -_ {HE BISMARCK TRIBUNE REPEAT *_ * * Mentana State and ‘Arkansas Retain Their Titles While Pittsburgh Is Given Myth- ical Eastern Championship on Basis of Winning 21 Games Which Included Five Big Ten Quints McCracken—Indiang Basketball Champions of 1928 Eastern Intercollegiat Eastern Sectional... Purd Schasf— TEX RICKARD MAY USE BOYLES 30 Gotham Commission May Force Him to Old Site BY ALAN J. GOULD Associated Press Sports Editor New York, March 28.—(#)—The campaign to make New York safe from the devastating influence of a heavyweight championship fight seems likely to be successful again. The struggle between the ‘boxing commission, on the one hand, and Tex Rickard and the heavyweight champion, on the other, faces an- ether deadlock, seemingly designed to force the promoter to other fields. | da: The only difference between the present dispute and those of the previous few years is that the 1928 tistic follies are being staged earlier than usual. In the past they have been reserved for summer view. The probability is that. Rickard, although ostensibly planning to hold the big title fight or fights in New York this year by leasing the two ball parks, all along has had an eye peeled to windward. f Back to Boyle's Chicago and Philadelphia, as well as Baltimore and Windsor, Canada, have made overtures for a cham- Pionship fight but New Jersey, site of Rickard’s first “battle of the century” in 1921, looms as the like- ly battleground if Tunney is to de- fend his crown anywhere outside ‘of Gotham, Jersey boxing laws have been porn this year to provide for 15- round bouts to a decision, the same as in New York. Boyle’s thirty acres, the once historic wooden Saucer across the river, is no more but Rickard is understood to have discussed plans for erecting a big concrete Arena in Jersey. Thus, he figures, a threat of taking his “big money shots” outside New York might help produce a more compromising attitude by the Metro- litan boxing authorities. So far, jowever, such threats haven’t made headway against the three Moguls who sit in state in the Flatiron ra What to Do? As Manager Bucky Harris rests up his ‘ag ila to do, if an: joe Judge, now t class first ons the W: ing, :G (By The Associated Press) _ CUYLER HITS AGAIN Los Angeles—The Chicago Cubs yesterday whip; the Hollywood Stars, 7 to 5. ler, got four hits in five times up. ROBINS IN MIAMI Miami, Fla.—The Robins fluttered into town today to open a four-game tilt with the Braves. SHOTTON MAKES CLAIM Winter Haven, Fla.— Homeward bound Manager Shotton of the Phil- lies made one claim for his team to- y. “We have the champion. double play combinstion in baseball,” he , “with Thompson at second and ind at short.” iz MACK LECTURES Fort Mpers, Fla.— Connie Mack ‘dropped his silent role yesterday | long enough to give his players a ‘lecture that brought results, for the Athletics went into the last pre-sea- son game and stopped the Boston | Braves, 11 to 2. WHITE SOX COLD Shreveport, La—The White Sox with 10 games :behind them, half of | which were lost to the Texas Leag- ‘uers, looked as if they might start will tackle Shreveport again today. BROWNS AT MEMPHIS Memphis, Tenn.—The St. Louis Browns, were here today for two ern league, after the 18 to 7 victor: over Birmingham, yesterday. J COVELES: JOINS YANKS St. Petersbi Fla. — Stanley Coveleskie, veteran of 13 major league campaigns, looks like an ad- dition to the Yankees’ pitching staff. Manager Huggins observed his 48th birthday yesterdey watching Covey’s hi our innings. Covey al- lowed only three hits but after he left the sane: the Redlegs ‘anks and whacked out a 6 to 4 decision. may be making| Coveleakie, who is receiving a try-| signed as a scout. the major league season cold. They | Pi re games with the Chicks of the South-' famous spitball blank the Reds|Bi ‘Thompson* —Montana State out, was the hero cf Tris Speaker’s Cleveland Indians in 1920 when his three victories gave the tribe the verdict in .the world series with Brooklyn. Coveleskie had his best season in 1925 with the Wa:hington iy when he won 20 games and lost 5. GIANTS JINX SOX Augusta, Ga.—The Red Sox seem definitely jinxed by the New York Giants. y handed the McGraw crew yesterday‘s encounter on the proverbial platter in a ten inning session in which all but the first of the New York four runs were scored on. errors. The Sox made twice as many errors as runs. BRAVES MEET DODGERS Miami, Fla—A_ chastened squad of Braves cam? here today for an encounter with the Brooklyn ‘Dodg- jers after losing, 11 to 2 to Connie |Mack’s boys at Fort Myers, yester- day. The gamc saw aid warrior jaere Farrell retired at least once iby Lefty Groves, the Philede:phia hurling ace. PIRATES LOSE, 6-5 e Oakland, Calif.—After burning a large quantity of gasoline in drying ball park, the home team prone’ to apply-the torch to the Pittsburgh s yesterday and defeated the Bugs, six to five. PECK GROCMS TOSSERS Cleveland — Confident that the Cleveland Indians’ moundsmen have roe ue shape, Marsett Pak ; npal grooming ie, udlin to work the first three ,@ames of the season’s opening se-' ‘ries at Chicago in the order named. MAYS IS SICK St.Petersburg, Fla.—Pitcher Carl ethdh of plomhioe ‘pontogs when al of pois Ww Birmingham Ala, lace night Clee, ence Rowland, released a ‘an Amer- ican league umpire, has conferred with President C. J. McDiarmid and Manager Jack Hendricks 0” the Reds ard it was understood he would be up the diamond of the Oakland base- |" JACK WEST IS APPROVED BY STATE BOARD Conditional Acceptance of New Nodak Athletic Director Is Granted Approval of the selection of C. A. West as athletic director at the university of North Dakota has been voted by the state board of ad- ministration upon condition that West’s appointment be approved by the university athletic board it was announced today. West who now is at South Dakota State College, Brookings, 8. D., will succeed Paul J. Davis who recently resigned after a dispute with President Thomas F. Kane which was carried to the board of administration before it was settled. The contract with West was said at the board of administration of- | fices to have been entered into by President Kane wjthout consulta- that reason the athletic board’s consent was made a condition ef the West’s contract it was said calls for $6,000 a year of which $4,600 is to be paid from the college treasury and $1,400 by the athletic board. So far as is known here, it was said by a board of administration member, President Kane did not gonsult the athletic board before appointing West and the athletic board has not yet voted its approval of his action. © fi BARBUTI AFTER NEW RECORD IN QUARTER MILE Syracuse, N. Y., March 28.— Perhaps Ray Barbuti will do something this year that has been expected for several sea- sons—break the record of Ted Meredith in the quarter-mile. The Syracuse star is regarded by track experts as the one quarter-miler of today who has the speed and strength needed to crack the 47 2-5 seconds rec+ ord made by Meredith. Barbuti looks to'be there this year. He ran consistently last season around in the 440 and won éeveral important meets. He is a cai ite for this year’s Olym; team and has iittle fear that he _ won't make it. And if he' does—well, he may crack Meredith's record at Amsterdam, Oldest Pitcher With Reds Adolfo Luque, the Cuban hurler, is the oldest pitcher with the Cin- cinnati Reds. He-{s 87 years, old, Newt Moore Farmed Out The Yankees’ brother act was divided recently‘when the New York club farmed Newt Moore, brother of Wilcey Moore, out to the Selma, Ala., team for seasoning. Will Have Two Leaders Notre Dame will pull the: unusual next year with co-captains. in basketball. They are Frank Crowe and Joe Jachym. tion with the athletic board. For | spore of the West appointment. ! High School Handball Tourney Under Way Fifty Bismarck High handball artists are batting away for the eliminated Loehrke and Davis, 21-2 and 21-8, tnd Kiesel drew into the Denies Tunney Fight, , Nathan and eka thi singles and doubles championship of | Rol the Demon domain this week. The oie ale oe Bes the loul tourney have al been played and the third round will be completed tonight. eisenberger and Carufel defeat- ed Skaff and Enge, 21-13; and 21- 11 and drew a bye in the third round, third round by default. Spriggs and Agre finally trimmed Helgeson and Landers, 21-14 and 21-18. 3. Nicola game and 5 The singles tourney has complet- round by PAGESIX ’ ae WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 1998 | Northwest Quints Will Be Favored in National Basketball Tourney’ } ited osx! hn “11 Pr and Mayo def Ki 23-21 ‘snd 21-1 er and were and Smith triumphed over and Rubin in the ool, ar match of the meet, 21-15, 5: ed the first round. The matches are being played i the high school Hank Brown and Thornberg easily Six feet tall. gymnasium \begin- ning each afterndon at.3:45, One of the Tallest Hurlers Eppa Rixey, Cincinnati hurler, is one of the tallest men in the big leagues. He is five inches more than i Jack Flatly Dempsex \ But Shows Curjosity | Los Atigeles, March 28—(— | Sack Dempsey, former — world’s heavyweight. champion! today flatly | denied that he was to meet Gene | Tunney next,July or August some- \ where in New Jersey. “Nothing to it at all,” was the ex . *¢ ae terse reply when he was '* asked if a copyrighted story in the Newark Ledger was correct. in its assertion that the “off again-on again” title bout was “on” once »~ -Distributors Fargp Mercantile Co. . ° A man maycount himself fortunate he enjoys the devotion of a faithful ie aa a i to include a , fragrant cigar such as Webster. more, Be; a slight curiosity as to - get it aid,” Dempsey showed | little interest in the story. . U _ONE OUT OF EVERY FOUR SMOKERS