The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 7, 1928, Page 10

aR EET BOOT PY ATR PES TID f uy VICTORY WOULD . ASSUREELEVEN CLAIM 10 TITLE But Coach Roy McLeod Is Worrying to No Little Ex- tent Over Game is A vt ny MANDAN HAS IMPROVED; Mentor McMahan Plans to) Win; Valley City Travels to Meet Fargo a Bismarck, with its back to the wall, will attempt to win its eighth succes: game this season and maintain its undefeated record for a clear claim to the unofficial state high school football championship 2 when it meets the improved Mandan eleven here Saturday. Valley City, showing unexpected strength in its game with Bis- marck last week, travels to Fargo th: same day with a resolution to down the Midgets. Four other games in the state will find eight teams celebrating 13> Armistice Day Monday. when Breck- Z enridge, Minn., over to ¢ Wahpeton, Ellendale visits Lidger- = wood, Oakes travels to La Moure, and Marmarth plays at Bowman. All teams in the state will have finished their regular scheduled games for the season after the week- end games. The Bismarck Demon eleven is being fed “raw meat” this week in anticipation of the toughest game of the season, that against the feared Mandan Braves. Brave stock took a high leap on the markets last week-end when the Morton county boys laced Minot to the im- athe melody of 26 to 0, while Bismarck could not produce a win- ning counter against Valley City un- & til the final quarter. WZ Mandan’s rise has been meteoric, 3 though the boys from west of the “ Missouri have not played many hard i weak spots in spite of fighting ‘@ hearts when they lost to Bismarck 1} 12 to 0 earlier in the season. i But things are changed today. ‘2 Mandan proved its ability to run a roughshod over a strong team, when it trounced the Magician machine in last week's tilt. 4 | And Bismarck fans raised their 4 hands in “holy horror” when they hi learned of Mandan’s latest show- £ ing. ug Demons Respect Braves 4; _ The Capital City has always had FY a wholesome respect for the rivals a4 * * reve viet it oecal g = - Pa games. The Braves displayed many across the river, and now, with the last game of the season looming, Mandan looks more formidable. The Braves have a couple of classy ends ; in Stephens and Fleck. In the } backfield, McDonald, quarterback, ; 2nd Helbling, fullback, are much better than mediocre. Coach Leon- ‘| ard McMahon’s team is working as a unit at this stage of the game, and if they can beat Bismarck, their Season will have been successful in Spite of two previous beatings. Without O'Hare, crashing fullback Pillar of strength in spite 2 injured leg, the Demons might have lost to Valley City last week. A hard season, probably the j hardest season ai; team has com- ‘ pleted in the state this year, has left Bismarck a shadow of what it ‘was at the beginning of the season. Overconfidence has crept into its lair. The team was lax in all phases of the game against the Hiliners. The backfield lacked drive, the ends played loosely, the line was more or less indifferent, and every member of the team was guilty of at least one error in judgment. With chance for its first claim to the championship, Bismarck will have to rut forth its best efforts to keep \ its record clear. Ei % | Bismarck’s record so far follows: -. Demons 90, Linton 0; Demons 12, » Mandan 0; Demons 7, Fargo 0; De- é mons 13, Minot 0; Demons 51, Mo- | © bridge, Dak.. 6; Demons 26, imestown 0; and Demons 13, Valley ity 6. + Mandan has lost to Bismarck 12 to ; © and Jamestown 18 to 12. The » Braves have defeated Washburn 41 { to 0; Dickinson 39 to 6; Linton 63 to © 0; and Minot 26 to 0. i Valley After Fargo Valley City would rather beat Fargo than win the state football championship, it is said. The Hi. ; liners stand with a good chance to realize an ambition of many years’ standing this week-end. The Valley boys have a heavy outfit, and Far- fo has Been demor: alized by a series aggravating se: Se Wes Howland Bennie Mellon, Walter Folendorf, and Junie Wilson are continuing to play hard games for the Midgets, but the team has been of late. lost to Bismarck; Aberdeen, 25 to 19; Moorhead, Minn., f x Falls, S. Dak., 31 to 6; and played a 0 to 0 tie with Grand (Forks. . Breckenridge, after beating the ‘Wops 7 to 6 eartier in the season, a sore ae. oe over the Though Williston aad Bismarck fans are i t ih i | Bismarck Ha SISMARCK TRIBUNE Fargo this| ¢; ‘capt. PUND CENTER CAPT. ARMISTEAD MESSINGER ARMY END “GEORGIA TECH _. VANDERBILT “BACK ” fornia and Washington, and Stanford and Santa Clara. Titans of the gridiron, clashing Saturday, November 10, will have several draw decisons of 1927 to spur them on. ant games are those between Vanderbilt and Georgia Tech, Towa and Ohio State and Army and Notre Dame. rominently in the 1923 campaigns of these six teams, ‘Other outstanding games of the day will bring to Michigan and Navy, Carnegie Tech and Georgetown, Georgia and Florida, ARMY_¥s NOTRE_DAM Among the more import- Above are stellar players figuring gether Pennsylvania and Harvai Southern Methodists and Texas Aggies, Nebraska and Oklahoma, Cali- NODAKS MEET HASKELL, COLGATE NEXT YEAR; CONSIDER S. West Has Sent Home-and- Hame Contract to University of Texas; Has Offers from Southern Methodist Univer- sity, Oregon, and Hawaii Grand Forks, N. D., Nov. 7.— North Dakota university will have its greatest football schedule in his- tory next season, according to the Program outlined by Coach C. A. West. Aside from the North Central con- ference games, West plans one big contest at home and another on foreign turf. The feature attraction for Memorial stadium, brings ‘the Haskell Indians of Lawrence, Kan.,| here October 25. Coach West has sufficient offers on hand for a big outside game, including those from oe university and Methodist, while Colgate has been signed to take the Flickertails east. Texas university also wants the Flickertails next season. submitted a home-and-honie series contract to the Texas school. Two conference games have been ar- ranged for Grand Forks. South Da- kota university will come here Octo- ber 12 and the North Dakota Ag- gies play here October 26. FLASHER WINS FROM CARSON Morton County City Makes Claim for Championship of Southern District (Special to The Tribune) Carson, N. D., Nov. 7.—Flasher yesterday made its claim to the un- official championship of the Mis- souri Slope district much greater by whirping the local boys here 26 to 0. Morehead, fullback, D. Westrum, quarterback, and Al Westrum and Banning, halves, each scored a touch- down in the first half, when all scor- ing was done. Morehead and D. Westrum received passes for extra Points, two kicks failing. The Flasher backfield averages 127 pounds, relying on its speed for success, . Flasher substituted a new ¢eam in the second half, and the game was played on even terms for the re- nae of te game. lasher this season has defeated Mott, Elgin, New Leipzig, and Car- son. The Morton county eleven will meet Regent next week-end in the last scheduled game of the season. BRITISH GOLFER STAYS HERE Phil Perkins, British amateur champion, has decided definitely to live in the United States. He has bosiness connections in New York i It has been found that the smoke | of a cigarette will aid in keeping wasps at bay. Southern| West has} | declared incorrect. M. U., TEXAS, OREGON PUBLIC WANTS DEMPSEY BACK Favorite Heavyweight Cham- pion in Great Demand; Is Encouraging New York, Nov. 7.—(#) — Once more there are signs and portents that widespread public demand will bring Jack Dempsey out of fistic retirement and into the ring again. Despite vigorous assertions by the one-time Manassa Mauler that his fight days are over, day by day the evidence piles up that Dempsey soon will don the gloves and battle once more for the fame and wealth the ring has already given him. These constantly recurring re- ports of another Dempsey comeback gathered more credence among close followers of the ring when the for- mer heavyweight champion entered training at a local gymnasium. Bag punching and calisthenics made up Dempsey’s_ initial workout. He now yeighs about 205 pounds, about ten peunds above his’ normal fight- ing weight. Direct questions as to whether this training program was the first step of another comeback campaign brought forth from the smiling! Dempsey only a denial. “I find out I have to work out at | regular intervals to feel like my- self,” said the former champion. “I haven’t been feeling as I feel I should for the past few weeks and I just thought I’d start working again. I’m retired and I intend to stay retired, reports to the contrary notwithstanding.” But fistic followers took all this with the proverbial grain of salt. It jWas pointed out that Tex Rickard recently said that reports that Dempsey would come back were true. Close followers of boxing under- stood that Rickard had offered Dempsey $500,000 for one fight, but that Dempsey had countered with a demand for $1,000,000. This, of course, was considered prohibitive but most experts took it that all that remained was for Dempsey and Rickard to reach a compromise on a sum which they believed would aggregate around $750,000. McCormack Selling Has Two-Year-Olds Dublin, Nov. 7,—(AP)—The sale by John McCormick, the tenor, of a number of his two-year-olds, includ- ing Star Eagle and Vatsaksi, has given the impression that he intends to reduce the number of his animals in training. This, however, is authoritatively He has not dis- posed of any of his fillies and he purposes buying additional fillies and will require the best of these for brood mares after-their merits have been tested on the race course. INJURIES HOLD GRID FESTIVAL BEFORE GAMES juries, Now ‘Iron Team’; Others Are Crippled Chicago, Nov. 7.— (AP) —It’s a changing world even when it comes to footbal injuries. Northwestern, which from almost the beginning of football, has suf- fered the most from injuries on the gridiron and whose players used to be referred to as “weak sisters,” now is the “iron team” today of the Big Ten conference and probably of all American football. Today while every team in the western conference had at least one star on the injured list, the Wild- cats were well, happy and confident. Because of the confidence inspired in its triumph over Minnesota, Northwestern is filled with high jhopes of defeating Purdue at Evans- ton Saturday. Coach Burt Ingwersen is very much dissatisfied with his Iowa team, which clashes with Ohio State in the most important game of the conference Saturday, and if the var- sity doesn’t improve, he threatens to make plenty of substitutions. Ohio State’s chances for victory have been dimmed by the injury of its mighty center, Barrett, who is out of the Iowa game. ering Wisconsin. Chicago, mean- while, is worrying over Wisconsin’s passing game, which seems to im- prove daily. So serious and numerous are the injuries at Minnesota that Coach Clarence Spears is afraid to push his varsity through a very hard scrimmage in preparation for In- diana. Michigan is still searching for a scoring punch and devoting consid- erable time to forward passes to ob- tain it for the Navy game. Illinois, which meets Butler in a non-conference game Saturday, is taking training lightly, with the second stringers doing most of it. Football Taking Hold on Russians Moscow, Nov. 7.—(AP)—Associ- ation football, known only to the big city sportsmen in Russia before the war, is conquering the country now. Every large factory has its own team, and most government depart- ments as well. There are city teams and provin- cial teams and even in the mud of the villages soccer is played. ' Moscow is building a new steel and concrete stadium with accommo- dations for 50,000 spectators. In- side the horseshoe stadium, in ad- dition to the football grounds, is a running track, basket courts, and iplenty of provision for field sports. The British parliament held that country to be in a state of war with Germany until August 31, 1921, aT ee eee he Nase Rs aaNet eR eh Needs | When the Navy Beat Dreaded Pennsylvania | y Northwestern, With No In-| Chicago’s spinner plays are both-| GOPHER DEFEATS SHOW RIVALRIES IN LOOP CONTEST Minneapolis, Nov. 7.—The re- markable even matching of Western Conference teams during the present season, in which Minnesota has lost games 6 to 7 and 9 to 10, is indicated by a glance at the results, Saturday after Saturday. Michigan beat Illi- nois by 3 to 0, Illinois beat North- western by 6 to 0, Indiana beat Michigan by 6 to 0, and Purdue and Wisconsin played a tie at 19 to 19. So far as anyone. can tell, just two plays, among the thousands that are executed in the course of a sea- son, stand between Minnesota and the top rating which some reputable sports writers predicted for her when the season began. One of these was a cut back off tackle by the agile Mr. Pape of Iowa, and the other, the recovery of a bouncing fumble by Calderwood of Northwest- ern. Each touchdown resulted in a victory, although there is no denyi1 that the Purple team clearly earn the field goal which later established their scoring supremacy. Such results as these, and plays like these, are what make football the noble game it is. Both teams usually have a fighting chance, from start to finish, and the unexpected may happen at any moment. The unexpected does happep, with fre- juency. i Minnesota is offering no alibis for its two spatenenice aetna All who follow football closely know exactl what happened, and how hard both teams fought in each contest. At the same time, it is true that Minne- sota has been hounded by injuries - more this year than in any season since 1923... Such damages as those sustained by Nagurski, Duke John- son, Bob Tanner, Leroy Timm and Phil Gross not only slow down a team when the injured man is in the lineup, but lessen its effective- ness through the use of substitu- tions. No matter how capable a substitute may be, his lack of con- stant practice in team play with his fellows reduces his usefulness, Min- nesota substitutes go through drill each day, of course, with the second or third squad. But even this is less effective than playing beside the man with whom one must work when finally injected into.a game. Indiana will bring an srcanlonall, good team to Memorial Stadium this Saturday. It is a team with a heavy line and backs who are both fast and heavy. The Gophers are not due to “breeze” through this contest. In fact they stand relative to Indiana about where they stood relative to Northwestern when they took the field last week. On statistics they have the edge, but other conditions may enter in to govern. It is Min- nesota’s fifth conference game in a row, * an "Did you know that—{ oe Harvard is going to beat Yale. -..+ Paul, Pretn was given a,tes- timonial dinner when he was elected president of the Nation- al Boxing association... . And they gave him a clock,... He was on the Chi commission. that staged the long count. . . . Lord Derby, who has the big race named after him, won 300 grand with his this year... . COYOTES PROVE LAST OBSTACLE TOTAKING FLAG Montgomery’s South Dakotans Have Won Over Flickers in Last 2 Years HAVE STRONG DEFENSE North Dakota Can Take First Loop Title by Flattening Opponents Grand Forks, N. D., Nov. 7.— “West fears South Dakota.” North Dakota’s doughty football mentor has copied Alonzo Stage’s famous expression this week as he Prepares his Nodak gridiron men for their crucial test of the 1928 season—the North Central Confer- ence championship battle at Vermil- ion, Saturday. South Dakota, although defeated by Morningside, Iowa, Duke, and South Dakota State, indicated last Saturday in its 19-0 reverse at Iowa, that no ordinary football team could score on its tough defense. In the first and third quarters the Coyotes held the Hawkeyes from crossing their goal line. Having lost all its important en- gagements, Coach West feels that South Dakota will enter Saturday’s ame ready to give everything it has nowing that there will be nothing to lose and everything to gain by defeating North Dakota. South Da- kota defeated the Nodaks last year 6-0 at Grand Forks, and the year before ‘took a 7-0 victory from the Flickertails at Vermilion. Coach West points out that as long as he can remember South Dal has ps its best ball against North om ‘ota, while Ba Dakota has Pl some of its rest against tl yyotes. as gi the Co; Mr. West does not mention all this discouraging data with the idea of Ub caren his men that South Dakota is goi Rather, he does not want them to take the game too lightly. Inasmuch as North Da- kota has won from Morningside and South Dakota State, which in turn have defeated South Dakota, he feels that there might be some reason for the Nodaks to count the victory al- ready won. 4 North Dakota had a welcome rest last week-end with an open date. Coach West took advantage of the holiday to get all his cripples in to win. shape, and barring possible injaries Kn this week he will present his strong- est front of the season at Vermilion Saturday. Mike Knauf, the Moor- head kicker, will be ready to step in the game at halfback following a Fal weeks’ layoff. with an injured leg. Only one change has been made in the lineup which has started most of the early games. This finds Paul Boyd taking over the duties of left ifback in place of Glen Jarrett. Jarrett, the second high scorer of the North Central Conference, will be held on the bench ready to enter the game as a pinch runner. Als Dakota will leave for Satur- y's engagement stoppi practice on Morning- side’s field at Sioux City, Friday SHOWERS GIVEN RECOVERY HOPE St. Paul Boxer Received Con: cussion of the Brain in Cal- lahan Fight Chicago, Nov. 7.— (P) — Billy showers, middleweight boxer of St. Paul, sustained a severe concussion of the brain in his battle with Shuffle Callahan at the White City arena Monday night, but he has an excellent chanace of recovery, said Dr. L. G. Smith, attending physician. X-ray examinations rev: no fractures. Showers was resting comfortably at the hospital, where he was rushed unconscious after he was technically knocked out in the sixth round of 2 viciously fought battle. Dr. Small | th said Showers would probably be able to leave the hospital within two or | the three days, HARRIERS ENTER TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1928 Us In the efforts being made to land Blue Howell on as many mythical elevens as possible this year, the — of Clair Sloane in the Ne- raska backfield is often overlooked. However, Nebraska officials and op- ponents will tell you that Mr. Sloane is one of the reasons Blue Howell is so good. His blocking is responsible for many of Howell’s long runs and he also can pack that ball for some gains when he is given the chance. NORTH DAKOTA IS READY FOR FIRST MONTANA TRIP Grand Forks, N. D., Nov. 7—When North Dakota plays Mt. St. Charles, “The Notre Dame of the North- west,” at Great Falls, Mont., Novem- ber 17, it will mark the Nedaks’ first invasion of Montana on a gridiron venture. The University, records show, has Played only one previous game against a Montana institution. That was in 1915, when North Da- kota tied the University of Montana 10-10 in a contest at Grand Forks. Later that year Montana tied the famous Syracuse eleven which stopped off at Missoula for a game on its way to the west coast. Coach Jack West believes there is little way to compare Mt. St. Charles and North Dakota. The Helena team is coached in the best approved Notre Dame tactics by Wilbur Eaton, former all-western end under ute Rockne. Eaton, according to reports which have reached:Grand Forks, has a well balanced eleven of scrappy Irishmen who are particularly versa- tile in the use of the forward pass. In 1927 the Saints defeated Gonzago and tied Washington State. This fall the Helena boys lost to Gon: 18 to 12, but a 52-0 win over the Montana School of Mines can per- haps be taken to mean that St. is as strong as last year. If Mt. St. Charles is as adept with the use of the would seem to s! Falls can expect a wide on Nove 29 With Kahl, 192- + tossing the oval, North Dakota has scored at least one touchdown in each of its five victories this year by overhead means of attack. Schave, Jarrett and Boyd, other backs, can also hurl the football around and when all these Nodaks get into ac- tion the aerial defense must be ready for a busy afternoon. RABBITS POINT TOWARD BISON Brookings, S. D., Nov. 7.—With i e safely tucked away in the win column, Coach Cy Kasper started in tonight preparing’ his charges for the final home of the season with the North O- ta ‘a Saturday. a light drill, consisting of senile and limbering up exercises, was doled out tonight to the regulars who went thro the Bluejay bat- throughs tcrimmsge senitat tes a im frosh with the emulating ie Bison. The first string varsity looked on and took mental notes on open battle MEET BY ROUNDS) ssc.‘ cs Brookings, S. D., Nov. 7.—Entries coming in fast for the North. Cross Country a j of, i a! ef: i ig ; t i a F eege 5 Es iJ i = & Le é z 5 eS | of Colorado has a s Back Against Wall When It Meets Mandan Here —— ‘West Fears South Dakota’ as Nodaks Travel to Vermilion | Meet Mr. Sloane Saturday [WESTERN COAST FOOTBALL SETS EAST EXAMPLES Southern Football Has Re- | ceived National Recognition Only Recently By BOB MATHERNE It has been demonstrated in recent {years that football of the middle west and Pacific coast compares fa- jvorably in every respect with foot- ball as played in the east. That j wasn’t always the case. Only in recent years has southern football received much of a nod in national attention. Two excursions to the Pacific coast demonstrated that Alabama had a nice football team, and the efforts of Georgia Tech, Georgia, Tulane, Vanderbilt, jand other strong southern teams in | intersectional contests convinced the {skeptics that southern football as layed by the leading teams wasn’t - behind the football of other sections. Demonstration of the football of another section was made in Califor- nia last December when a trio of Texas players took the play away from eastern and western stars in @ post-season game. To enhance the yee gained from that, Southern lethodist visited West Point this year and held the powerful Army team to a 14-13 score. Missouri Valley football teams, mainly Nebraska and Missouri, have also shown in recent years that they get together teams as powerful as those of other sections. Well, What About the Rockies? That leaves the Rocky Mountain teams out of the discussion so far, but we can’t do that. They play footfall out there, too, you know, and it seems that they’re coming along rapidly to the point where their teams will be able to hold their own against the best of any section. One of the prominent coaches of that section is William T. (“Bully”) Vandegraaf. He is at Colorado col- lege, and his team is one of the best in that section. Mr. Vandegraaf knows his football, not only in the Rocky Mountains but in the south and in the east. They still tell you in the south that no punter like “Bully” Vandegraaf, when he was in Alabama before the war, has been seen since. You can also learn from easterners that he was quite a foot- ball player at West Point and also a star for one of the service teams early in the war. Anyway, Vandegraaf is not in the army now. He is trying his best to win the Rocky Mountain champion- ship this year, after barely missing out last year. And it is from him that we learn about Rocky Mountain football. Tune in on Vandegraaf’s little talk: “It’s a little hard to compare the elevens of this section with those of other sections, but I do not think there is a great deal of difference. Our schools, as a general rule, are much smaller. “I feel quite sure that the teams out here are not as strong in gen- eral as those of other major confer- ences, but the difference is not great and some of our teams could compete =: an equal basis with the best of 7m. Teams Are Playing a Smart Game “Football in the conference, as 2 whole, is showing steady improve- ment. The teams. this year seem r in the average than teams of last year, and I feel quite sure they are playing smarter- football. “A few comparative scores bring this out. Montana State beat Idaho and lost to Nebraska. We (Colorado Springs) won from Montana State by a 32-14 score, while Nebraska beat them 24-6, practically the same difference in points, “The conference seems to be shy of outstanding linesmen, and it doesn’t seem. as if very,many are de- serving of national mention. But we have some backs who are mighty “Earl Clark, of my team, is an ex- cellent back. He received mention for All-America last year, and de- served it fully. He is considered by all experts as the best back in this section, and is about as valuable a man as we can find anywhere. He is an excellent ball-toter, an unusu- ally good passer, a fair punter and drop-kicker, and an excellent de- fensive back. Were he on an eastern team he undoubtedly would have a the] national reputation. “Vandeberg, on our team, is al- Most as good a man, though not as sensational a player. He excels at running interference. Buck Smith great reputation. He deserves it, as he is one of the hardest driving backs I have seen. at Brigham Young and Smart of Utah Aggies are also excellent men. Carr of Colorado Mines has the misfortune of being with a weak team, but he is good.” seattle CADDY KNOWS HOW TO DO IT Fred Butler, ‘a Hagerstown, Md., caddy, recently made three hole-ine one shots in two weeks. “One was luck,” he said >, “but the other two were good shots.” eee _—_ I eravel Ease, I travel West TOM MOORE ARS