The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 12, 1928, Page 6

PAGE SIX Nearly 200,000 Fans See Eight Games on Diamond Op 7 | | SLUGGERS ARE MEEK; HURLING ACES ARE BAD Yankees Did Not Look Punch) Drunk’ Against Athletics, Winning 8 to 3 ~ABE AND BUSTER FAIL sremer, Pirate Pitching Ace, Knocked From Box as Cards Win, 14-7 (By The Associated Press) Beset by weather more suitable for the gridiron than the diamond, 14 teams yesterday began their an- nual bid for major league baseball honors. Two others, Washington and Boston, clashed in what was just a ball game. They had stolen @ march on the field by makin; their opening gestures pennantwa: on. cheep A Nearly 200,000 persons knocked off work to see the eight games. Opening day in 1927 saw 227,660 fans in attendance although only seven games were played. The first general engagement brought with it a series of sur- 3 recruits basked in the lime- ight; sluggers were meek before hing skill; such hurling aces as tty, Kremer, Root, Grove and Lyons all had nothing to show for their first day’s work but a “one” in the lost column. Pennock Wins Opener Wild and unsteady, Grove, the speedball expert, lasted only three innings against the New York Yankees who mowed down Conn Mack’s athletics at Philadelphia, 8 to 3. The world champions were beaten consistently during the spring training season but they jowed no signs of being “punch drunk” yesterday. Grove, Shores Powers were reached for 10 safeties, while Herb Pennock south- pawed his way over the route for the Yankees, giving up seven scat- tered hits. One of these, and two walks, went to Ty Cobb but that other veteran, Tris Speaker, went hitle Babe Ruth hit no more runs, but a triple and a pair of passes enabled him to score thrice. The Pittsburgh Pirates, defend- ng their National league crown, ran into an avalanche of hits at St. Louis and bowed to the Cardinals, 14 to 7. Ray Kremer, Pirate ace, was knocked out of the box. Frisch and Bottomley got six of Cardinals’ 16 safeties, each poling out a home Although hit hard, Jess es went the full distance for « Louis. Giants Beat Braves ‘ed by Andy Cohen, young Jew- star, John McGraw’s New York ents vanquished the Boston “zves at the polo grounds, 5 to 2. ‘hen, playing in the spot graced t year by Rogers Hornsby, ac- unted for four of the Giants’ runs id starred afield. Larry Benton chary of hits and might have. had a shutout but for the fact that grooved one for Bob Smith, Braves’ pitcher, who propelled it in- to the bleachers with one man on Jimmy Ring outpitched Jess Petty to give the Phillies a 4 to 3 decision over Brooklyn at Ebbets field. Petty retired in the seventh to give Rube Bressler a chance to double with three men on base, scoring two runs. Harvey Hend- rick accounted for the other dodger tally with a home run. Two re- fruits, Kelley and Whitney, starred & “eg plate and in the field for the s. A home run by Freddy Maguire, Rookie second baseman, saved the Chicago Cubs from a shutout at the hands of Cincinnati Reds at Cin- cinnati. The Reds hit Charlie Root epportunely to win, 5 to 1. Adolf Luque, giving the Cubs only seven throughout. Cincinnati” got only { incinnati got only five off Root but they came after Cub errors and that hurt. White Sox Lose ‘With George Uhle sho: a re- turn to form, the Cleveland Indians da Ted pens and Seetgs Con- nall¥ for 13 hits and beat Chi- ite Sox at Chicago, 8 to 2. ys pee Bie batsmen under cont roug! Forty thousand, the largest crowd of the day, saw the revamped St. Louis Browns beat Detroit at Tiger- 4 to 1. Each team got but six hits but Detroit’s two errors Were more costly than the Browns’ At Boston, the Washington Sena- tors avenged their first game de- at the hands of the Red Sox eee out an 8 to 4 vic- tory over Bill Carrigan’s charges. Four Red Sox hurlers paraded to was 01 x it spot f7om a hub viewpoint. yal a home run and two doubles. Payne and Gavuzzi Lead Pyle Runners - by 20 Hour Average Okle., April 12.—() ting two laps of the THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE. | Packey McFarland Seeks Race Track Laurels in Derby Chicago, April 12—(AP)— Packey McFarland, once the un- crowned lightweight champion of the world, is seeking laurels on the race iri He has en- tered Rumpelstilt, a horse im- ported from Germany last year, in the Kentucky derby. The former fighter is now de- voting most of his time to his stable of 20 horses. CIRCUIT CLOUTERS FALL BY WAYSIDE Six Homers Made Yesterday, But None Went to Credit of Crack Quartet New York, April 12.—()—The big leagues’ annual home run race is under way again with the four leading sluggers of a year ago left at the post. Six circuit drives figured in the box scores of the eight games yes- terday but none of them went to the credit of the two etd long dis- tance wallopers in each league last year—Babe Ruth and Buster Gehrig in the American and Cy Williams and Hack Wilson in the National. Cy, however, can’t be blamed for he didn’t get into the Phillies, open- ing day lineup. National league batsmen account- ed for five of the half-dozen home tuns. These went to Frankie Frisch and Jim Bottomley of the St. Louis Cardinals, Freddy Maguire, Chicago Cubs’ recruit infielder, Harvey Hendrick of the Brooklyn Robins and Bob Smith, Boston Braves’ pitcher. Ken Williams, long a power at the plate, saved the American League from complete humiliation by trotting all the way around the bases after getting hold of the “right” one, served up by Marberry of the Washington Senators. Maroons and Rangers Play Tonight; Game May. Decide Ice Title Montreal, April 12.—()—Deter- mined to clinch the victory without further ado, the Montreal Maroons meet the New York Rangers to- night in what may be the deciding game of the Stanley cup series. Vic- tory in tonight’s game will give the Maroons possession of the trophy. The Rangers, handicapped by the loss of their goalie, Lorne Chabot, will be fighting all the harder to tie up the series and force a fifth game to decide the issue. In addition to losing Chabot, the Rangers have an- other handicap in a “Charley Horse” which Bill Cook, star right wing, re- ceived during Tuesday’s fray. One substitute player from each team, Paul ees ed of the Rang- ers and Joe Lamb of the Maroons, will be missing as a result of their battle on the ice Tuesday. Both re- ceived match penalties, which auto- matically bars them from participa- tion in the next ~ame. Ray Keech Fails to Lower World’s Auto Speed Mark on Sand ytona Beach, Fla., April 12.— Da: (AP)—Ray Kech, veteran racing iver, this morning made an unsuc- cessful attempt to lower the world’s automobile speed record, his two runs on the beach at 155 and 144 miles an hour respectively falling short of the present mark of 206.9 set a few weeks ago by Major Mal- colm Campbell of London. Keech announced he would post- pone further efforts until tomor- row on account of the roughness of the beach. lindored Tripler’ Special owned by eylinde ‘iplex Special owned by J. M. White of Philadelphia. HTS IG (By The Associated Press) New York—Jack Smith, New York, and Pietro Corri, Italy, drew, (10). East St. Louis, I1l—Chuck Wiggins, Indianapolis, knocked a Soldier Buck, Louisville, Kansas City—Battling Levin- sky, Philadelphia, and T Roebuck, Kansas City, pd (10). Sid Terris, Chapel Hill, . Cc, ically knocked out Jack Caywood, Omaha, (5). Cincinnati—Harry McCarthy, ci ,,, won from Kid Woods, Indianapolis, (10). Ray Hehn, Indianapolis, defeated Moan Bauger, Chicago, (6). Whitey Clark, Cincinnati, out- eguned Sammy Tasco, Detroit, Paris—Spider Pladner, Euro- pean bantamweight champion, won by technical knockout over Giovanni Sili, Italy, (6). Pe oa com. b Knockat. out George Genes, Philadelphia, (3). drew, (4). , joe Gordon, St. Paul, stopped am, Francisc, @). Sabin Carr's remarkable perform- ance in setting a new world’s record of 14 feet 1 inch for the pole vault and Lloyd Hahn’s sensational half- mile in 1:51 2-5 were two of the outstanding features of an interest- ing season of winter sports. When Carr, the Yale star, cleared 14 feet with the pole in the inter- collegiate championships last May, it was thought that the roof had been reached. But he added an inch to his record in the indoor champion- ships with such ease that Lawson Robertson, head coach of the Amer- ican Olympic team, thinks he can do 14 feet 6 inches. Making his record under strict regulations in an official champion- ship meet, Carr was more fortunate than Hahn was when he clipped three and one-fifth seconds off the world’s indoor half-mile mark. There was no regulation guard rail on the inside of the track when Hahn ran and the time could not be accepted officially. As Hahn figured in the most im- pressive running performance of the season he also was the principal figure in the biggest surprise when he was beaten by Ray Conger in a 1,000-yard race in Kansas City in the record time of 2:11. Hahn had won 31 straight races since 1926 and al- though he protested violently that Conger fouled him, the defeat will stand on the records. The poor form shown by Charley Borah, the great California and the fine performances of Charley Paddock, Jimmy Quinn of Holy Cross and Claude Bracey of Rice Institute, were noteworthy incidents in the performance of the sprinters. While Borah failed to win an im- portant race, Paddock staged a bril- liant comeback as the starter of his drive for a place on his third Olym- pic team. Quinn equaled the world’s record of six and one-fifth seconds for 60 yards in the New York A. C. games and Bracey did a remarkable nine and one-half seconds in the 100- yard race at the Texas relay games. This is traveling, even if Bracey did have the wind with him. The surprising comeback of Cor- nell in winning the eastern indoor JACK DEMPSEY, WHO ONCE RODE RODS INTO NEW YORK, RETURNS ON VELVET TO SCENE OF EARLY FISTIC TRIUMPH Prince of Manassa Believes Time Has Come to’Quit For Good Before Thudding| Gloves Strip Him of Both Health and Reason—Fought 18 Years New York, Apel 12.) Jack Dempsey, once a lean, hungry youth who rode into New York on brake- beams to fight for bean money, was back in town today, a wealthy, weil fed business man with his fistic future behind him. His arrival was a far cry to the day in 1916 when the bronzed youngster from the mining camps of Colorado rode into the Metropolis in search of fame. If there was a dining car on that train, it was in the caboose and there was no place there for a Dempsey to work out i kinks that came of “riding the rods.” Dempsey then would fight any- one—and he did. His sweeping EXTRA ! ** & fists, the lure of his ring personal- ity and ferocity, and the courage that pulled him back to score a knockout after Luis Firpo ham- mered him out of the ring, made Jack the greatest Seawing card in the history of sport. ith him came million dollar crowds, then $2,000,000, and finally a gate of close to $3,000,000 for his last stand against Gene Tunney in Chicago last Se anes ean ‘ ow, Dempsey, sf possessing the major part of the $2,500,000 his ‘anite fists have earned, believes that the time has come to get the game for good, before the thudding gloves of a Tunney or the punches of a younger man strip him of both health and reason. Ring history is full of examples of men who stayed beyond their time, for just one more big purse—and en their days cutting paper dolls in a psycopathic ward. mpsey’s career now has stretched taccueh eighteen years— 4 e decla: “EP voulde'e fight again for $50, ‘wouldn’ again for 000,000, I have all the money 1 need. I can walk around, I know what time it is—and I want to stay that way.” EXTRA ! xe oe Our Own Riding School—‘How to Fall Off a Horse’-—By the Prince of Wales, in That Pride Goeth Which Is Demonstrated Before a Tumble ES Here are some free lessons in how to fall off a horse in princely fash- ion, His nimble highness, David Windsor, in an informal pose just after getting the jump on Miss Muffit. As the picture shows, tie prince is the] leading the royal nag. Informal America: Sea-ling a Brodie and that the horse is trying to somersault on the royal anatomy. P. 8—Big Bill Thompson Chicago cherub under similar circumstances. tiwer for the prince. ns will say that Wales is do- likes this, but what wuold bappen a Fee cheers and 3, REVIEWING THE SPORTS WINTER Sabin Carr’s Remarkable Vault to a New World’s Record and Lloyd Hahn’s Sensational Half-mile Were Two of the Outstanding Performances of the Past Winter championship and the victory of Illi- nois in the western conference were ipteresting climaxes of the college Cornell came almost from nowhere and won with the help of stars in the field events. Macdonald Smith, through three important events, and Johnny Farrell, in takin; event in Florida, were the outstand- ing golfers of the winter. turned in a sensational 63 final round to win $5,000 first money in the La Gorce open. critics said it was a blind man’s course, but it nevertheless was the) tl best score of the season. There were a number of fine bas- ketball teams but Pittsburgh played| a longer and perhaps harder sched- ule than any of the other high-rank- ing colleges and has at least a fair claim to the national title among the colleges. The New York Celtics won the professional championship with- out much trouble. ‘Yale, for the fourth consecutive ship and increased its string to 30 straight victories since 1925. Navy, with the second best record, was de- feated only twice in that time. The Navy won the intercollegiate boxing championship with the points won in two interesting matches. Early in the season the Navy and | Penn State teams engaged in a tie mect after Jack Renard and Hubert two Navy stars, the Navy men were |the same Penn State opponents and |they staged a comeback and beat Grant, the big N. Y. U. football guard, won the most important in- dividual title in the heavyweight He was a substitute on the New York team for “T, N. T.” Lass- man, the 1927 champion and an All- American tackle on the Lassman broke his ankle during the football season and did not go out Lehigh won the intercollegiate wrestling championship with Cornell second and Penn State third. swimming and water polo champion- The Story of Tom Heeney CHAPTER III Charley Harvey, Looking For a ‘Break,’ Saw in Smiling Tom Heeney a Wraith From the Ring Fates and Promptly Took Another Chance SPORTS FANS: the third of six articles by Henry L. Farrell, Every Break Against Him , For twenty years went against Harvey. He was flat broke more than he ossession of dough. His fighters ad bad luck and he had bad luck. Three years ago he was almost broken into bits in an automobile smeshup in Chicago, but he fought ‘is wey back on his feet. He limped back again, looking for Heeney arrived on the scene from England. It was the dead of a cold winter and he didn’t have even an overcoat. He had his record with im, but it was no‘ enough to con- vince the other managers who would buy a million-dollar fighter for a dime and turn him over to some bum of an assistant handler. Rated a Horrible Bum He had beaten a lot of Archie Johnny _Brickhouses, id Podunks in New Zealand and Australia, but he was just after losing to Phil Scott in London and Scott was rated as a horrible bum by the New York managers. Heeney told Harvey all he want- ed was enough money to get back to New Zealand and the shoeing-smith trade and he would fight anyone to get that dough. He didn’t have any ambition to be a He was disgusted, ke and Sisccuraged and he Harvey knew the so1 had been through it out of it and back in it again. But he still had his great faith in the comir.g of a good break and he took Heeney, who fights Gene Tu: eny for the heavyweight chai nels. in July, ager, Sriny hee ally received a “break.” cee _ BY HENRY L. FARRELL — When Firpo came to the United States, without money and among strange people with whom he couldn’t even converse, he had the luck to stumble into the company of one of the best advisors in the country, Jimmy De Forest, but he is cards, He didn’t didn’t play hi: stick with’ De When Tom Heeney, almost un- country he placed himself under the direction of an- other old-timer, the most beloved man in a business where honor is not always a Lond and where square- ‘ing is taken sometimes only as the virtue of a sucker. had an advanta; le could speak He had an Irish name and the Celtic traits of a most personality. Fi: imself understoo couldn’t make himself belie ° cept by old Charley Harvey. So he stuck with Harvey and found him- self over countless obstacles ‘ight championship, because his name hasn’t the big dough for years, been rated with spectacular rs like Leo Flynn and Jim- » but Flynn and John- heavyweight prospects as as Heeney and they never led of their own efforts into the heavyweight championship ring. Importer of Fighters Charley Harvey, he of the wal- itachi ha Tried to Steal Then began that bitter keep up courage while the pro- laughed at them. yet, for Harvey to impress them that he wasn’t an object of char- athy and that he had a He finally got and then the nice business tried to steal Heeney away from him when it became apparent that there was some money in Heeney even ‘* he never t ever sent out of Et Harvey was prosperous then it ac.or Moran the 5 and he doesn’t regret it. th "established ‘i RROW: wins was 60 es in fight ‘and ’ tle 4 Nats Depend on Wells Because he won 18 games while BILLINGS DUE FOR STARDOM, SAYS LEIFIELD New York, April 12.—One of the most promising young pitchers in the big leagues to- day is Haskell Billings, just a few months off the Brown aetty “Le! fty” Leifield, who is one oO Detroit coaches, says Billings will become a star in & short time, perhaps this year, but _next season surcly. “That boy can pitch,” he tells the world. “He has everythin; but experience with him, an he’s going to get that from the very start this season. I look for him to become one of the greatest right handers in the game.” PENNANT WINNERS PICKED BY BAUER Local Sports -Doper Thinks Chicago Cubs and Ath-- letics Are the Champs Art Bauer, clerk at the Bismarck hotel, and one of the most rabid baseball fans in North Dakota, has made his annual selection of the fin. ish of the major league baseball teams for The Bismarck Tribune. Bauer, on the basis of past selec- tions, can take rank with any of the professional or amateur prognosti- cators of the United States who are predicting at this time just where the Giants or the Yankees are go- ing to be when World’s Series time rolls around next fall. In the National league. Art has selected Joe McCarthy’s Chicago Cubs to beat out the St. Louis Cards rad Donie Bush’s Pittsburgh Pi- rates. And Art also thinks that the Pirates will tag the Cards home dur- ing the coming season. Picks Mack’s Gang In picking the Philadelphia Ath- letics to win the American league pennant, Art sticks to his last year’s selection. He ranks the Yankees second and the Tigers third. i “Kiki Cuyler is going to furnish the much needed punch iu the Cubs’ machine,” says Art. “Last year Mc. Carthy whipped his boys into the leadership but they cou'dn’t keep in the front because they didn’t have a Cuyler. Now they have one. “The Athletics were good last An They will be better this year. ‘hey wor enough games last year to take the ordinary championship and they beat the Yanks. Any team that ends the season with the aver- ages compiled by the Athletics is some team.” Bauer's selections follov.: NATIONAL LEAGUE Chicago, St. Louis. Pittsburgh New York Boston Cincinnati. Brooklyn. Philadelphia. AMERICAN LEAGUE Philadelphia. New York Detroit. Washington. Chicago, Cleveland. Boston St. Louis. THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1928 ening Day WALLACE HAS STARTED RUN 10 BISMARCK Paddock’s North Dakota Run- ning Manager Believed to Have Left Texas While no definite information has been received, it is believed that Irving “Speed” Wallace has started his solo marathon from Perryton, Texas to Bismarck, N. D. Information received the latter art of last week indicated that ‘allace would leave the Texas city on Monday this week. Originally the start had been scheduled for last Friday but a heavy snowstorm completely blocked Texas ‘roads and pa a footrace of any kind impos- sible. Perryton, Texas, is located in Ochiltree county, northeast of Amarillo, in the extreme northeast section of the panhandle. Wallace will follow the Great Plains high- way to Bismarck in making his run, traversing the states of Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota and North Dakota. Wallace went directly to Perry- ton to begin trining for his long grind from Houston, Texas, where he left Charley Paddock after the world’s fastest human had equalled his own world’s record for the 100 yard dash in the Rice relays. Paddock Will Coach Paddock will accompany Wallace on most of the long run. The race will be made under Charley’s per- sonal observation and advice. H. Clay Evas, Tampico, Mexico, ; Newspaperman and trainer of ath- letes, has been engaged by Wallace to handle all arrangements from Perryton to Bismarck. Wallace claims a world’s record | of 13 seconds for rounding the bases of a baseball diamond. This feat he accomplished in California a number of years ago. Joe Guyon, famous Carlisle Indian athlete, now a member of the Louisville Colonels in the American Association, also lays claim to this record, having rounded the paths of the Moorhead, Minn., diamond in 13 seconds about. five years ago. Reason For Race According to Wallace, there are three reasons why he is making the run, First he wants to make the American Olympic team that will compete for the world’s track and field championships in Amsterdam thig summer; second he wants to better the average running time of Charles C. Pyle’s hoofers in the Los Angeles-to-New York derby; third he wants to challenge the winner of the Pyle marathon to a race from the Canadian border to Mexico, Wallace expects to average 35 miles per day and to cover the whole distance from Texas to North Dakota in less than 40 days, Ty Cobb Establishes Three Diamond Marks in Game With Yanks Philadelphia, April 12—%)—Ty Cobb's single in the first inning of the game at Philadelphia was his 4,078th safety from major league pitching. He went to bat three times during the game and_.-ran his total appearances at bat to 11,079 in 2,989 games. All these are new records. HENRY \ smoke—and what a smoke it is! GEORGE