The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 17, 1928, Page 8

+ BNON PERFORMERS ITRONG AND RANGY; "EAM WORK RAGGED tbron Makes First Counter of | lame but Bismarck Takes Lead and Is Never Headed RIGGS CLASSY WORKER m Jacobson Scores Five Field joals and Two Free Throws to Lead Club Scoring Bismarck’s high school Demons red a 23 to 8 cage victory over ‘bron in their first scrimmage of 2 season here Saturday night. Coach Roy McLeod, in using 10 m, presented a team which appar- tly has not yet been able to drop ne of its football tactics. The game s rough, a typical opening game. | yhteen fouls were committed by 2.15 men on the floor during the atest. Demons Are Rangy The local boys were husky and ngy, but they showed a distinct tk of teamwork. Jacobson was the zh point man of the tilt, scoring e field goals and two free throws, lowed by Eddie Spriggs with two Id goals and one fr wiggs appeared the clas tformer but missed several » portunities because of the lack of amwork on the part of the Bi arck five. Johnny O'Hare and F own played typical opening games guards, each fouling twice and aying lax on the defensive at times. ery man on the Bismarck floor at e time or another attempted un- ecessfully to dribble through the tbron five. Metzger, Hebron center, played a 2e floor game for the greater part the contest but left the game ortly before the end with four per- aal fouls to his record. Dittus, nning guard, was the best perform- for the invading outfit. Hebron d a small and young team, but cir teamwork was better than that Bismarck. Hebron wes also apparently weak- ed. having lost to Mandan the pre- ding night 21 to 14. Dittus Opens Scoring Dittus opened the scoring with a 2e throw and Jacobson retaliated th a field goal. Bismarck was never aded after the opening minutes, ® first, second, and third quarters ding 7 to 3, 12 to 3, and 16 to 7 re- octively. Linton meets Bismarck here next vursday and Mandan there Friday next week's engagements. The summary: »bron (8) Mer, rh ..... eee. w, It .. styger,c . ttus, rs ick, Ig mG fT F era Total smarck (22) nders, rf cobsen, s offman, rf. ehrke, rf wis, Ig . Spriggs, rg oskins, rf .... | 0 1 0 0 2 0 5 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 9 Rau. Substitutions: Bismarck— Hoff- ux for Landers; Loehrke for Hoff- a; Paris for Brown; J. Spriggs for Hare; Hoskins for Loehrke; Hoff- in for E. Spriggs. Referee, Kratz, Hamline. Timers, m Wyk and Anderson, Bismarck. Time out: Hebron 2; Bismarck 1, el cooconinEs a 3RE POINTS WAY TO tESHMEN IN OPENER The Whites defeated the Greens to 8 in the game preceding the Bis- arck-Hebron mix, Agre leading the wing with nine field goals. He ded to make a point in six attempts the free throw line. glad teams were made up of m in the local high school. The summary: bs) Q 4 fc} a Total White (19) xvik, rf .. right, If . wloscess wl] cconmnn wloowsoo wlocewcy Green—Edick for mnser, Benser for Edick, Edick for anser; White—Shearn for Wright, = for Shearn, Shearn for SMARCK TRIBUNE | his followers. GEE WHILIKENS/ (LL HAVE TO GO BACK AND GET ANOTHER. BAG FULL FoR You/ & $ 4 North Dakota basketball team here 20-MINUTE PERIODS | INPRAGTICE AFFAIR iFlickertails Play Without Serv- ices of Lewy Lee, Regular Center; Smith Is Sub ;TRAVELING FOR 30 HOURS North Dakota Seconds Pick Up Flock of Points As Scrim- mage Period Ends By JACK STEWART Chicago, Dec. 17.—In an informal practice game played without an audience because of a flu edict, Chi- cago university took a 39 to 36 vic- tory from the touring University of Saturday night. North Dakota's nomads stepped off a train at 7:30 p. m., raced to the gymnasium to play an hour later. All of this followed 30 hours of riding and the boys lacked their usual snap and dash. Lee Didn't Play Vern Smith, who was substituting for Lewy Lee at center did not fill the tall Valley City boy’s shocs. He scored the first basket of the game but could not find the net thereafter. Chicago's quick breaking offense, as speedy as lightning, drove through North Dakota's defense for many close attempts. Most of these were tried from difficult angles and the Chicago boys made a smaller per- centage of their shots than did the Flickers. Three 20 minute periods were con- tested. Chicago led 20 to 10 at the The Santa Claus of Sportdom might reach into his storehouse and bring out any number of pleasing gifts for For instance, a heavyweight of championship caliber for Tex Rickard, a clean bill of health from the U. S. L. T. A. for “Big Bill” Tilden, a pennant for Connie Mack, and so on through the catalog. TOMMY LOUGHRANI PETERSON OPPONENT Chicago, Dec. 17. — (7) — Tommy Loughran, Philadelphia, the light heavyweight champion who aspires to the heavyweight crown, starts his campaign for recognition as a con- tender tonight by mixing with “Big Boy” Peterson, New Orleans and Minneapolis heavyweight, in a ten round bout at the Coliseum. Peterson, who outweighs Loughran by 15 pounds, is regarded as a “trial horse.” While he packs a good punch, he is a wide open target for a fighter of the shifty Loughran type. ‘TOMMY ARMOUR WINS CALIFORNIA TOURNEY Sacramento, Cal., Dee. 17.—Tommy Armour, Wasthington, professional and 1927 American open champion, today was richer by $750 as the result of winning the Sacramento $2,500 open tournament. He turned in a 289, one above par, for the 72 holes yesterday and showed his gallery some of the finest golf every seen here. In second place was Johnny Golden of New Jersey with 293. ‘T. Harry Cotton, London professional, played a brilliant game after a rather poor start in the opening round and like- wise encountered some tough breaks in the final eighteen holes, but ended up with 296 for third place, Golden's share of the money was $500 and Cot- ton received $350. 80 Per Cent of Ice Stars Get Start on Canadian Sextettes Duluth, Minn., Dec. 17—(?)—Eighty | Per cent of the players in the six-club American Hockey Association learned their hockey in Canada. Five of the six team coaches are from Canada. The one exception is Bill Grant, léague secretary and man- ager and coach of the Kansas City club. Tulsa, anew entry in the league, and Kansas City have all-Canadian jteams. St. Louis, another first-year team in the circuit, and Minneapo- lis each have but one American-born Player on their rosters. | OXY PHANN. Many a girl is an old maid , because she can’t laugh when the joke is pointless | Jack Hurley Announces Head- | line Bout for New Year's | Day Card in Fargo | King Tut of Minneapolis, one of the two outstanding challengers for the lightweight championship diadem worn by Sammy Mandell, will meet Russie Leroy Is Matched | Russie LeRoy of Fargo in a 10 round! contest at the Fargo auditcrium New Year's day. 1 | i to Meet Tut RAY MILLER MATCHED TO MEET TOM GROGAN ‘Detroit, Mich., Dec. 17.—()—Ray Miller, Chicago lightweight, whose senational knockout of Jimmy Mc Larnin here recently placed him at the top of the list of challengers for This announcement wes made Sat-|Sammy Mandell's world lightweight \urday by Jack Hurley, Fargo match- maker, after a lengthy long distance |telephone conversation with Leo j Leavitt, manager of his Egyptian ma- Jesty. | Hurley declared Tut as an opponent for the Dakota jblond because fans of this vicinity seem anxious to see the fighter who eliminated Billy Petrolle, temporarily, at least, from the lightweight cham- pionship running. Tut to Get Plenty | Hurley did not announce the de- {tails of the financial deal he was foreed to accept in order to get the | Minneapolis fighter to accept the en- |gagement. Leavitt's first demand was for a purse of $3,500 and expenses for three from Minneapolis and Hur- ley countered with a $1,500 offer and | three railroad tickets. | The details of the final arrange- ments were not announced but Hur- |ley did say that he reached a com- \promise with Leavitt on the purse |kut that “Tut is still getting plenty j;Of dough for this fight.” Leavitt raised a minor disturbance over the weight proposition, but finally agreed to allow LeRoy to weigh in at 138 | 138 pounds. Tut's Record Good }_ The Minneapolis lad with the |Egyptian name stands beside Joe |Glick, the Brooklyn buttonhole maker, as the outstanding lightweight chal- lenger, Tut earned this position in the last 12 months with impressive victories over Billy Petrolle, Stanis- jlaus Loayza, Sid Barbarian, Tommy |Cello, Doc Snell, Ray Miller and Tod | Morgan, the junior lightweight cham- | pion. j Ray ‘iiller is the Chicago battler who recently knocked out Jimmy Mc- Larnin, turning the trick a short time after he had been trounced by Tut. Leo Leavitt, Tut's pilot, informed Hurley that the LeRoy engagement would be the King’s last encounter until he meets Glick in Madison Square garden late in January in a final lightweight elimination. Hurley said he believes that Tut and LeRoy should offer as attractive @ contest as any offered North Da- kota fans in recent years. He point- ed out that he will exhibit many of his new fighters in the supporting cast, namely: Charley Retzlaff, the Leonard, N. D., heavyweight sensa- tion; Angelo Puglisi and Johnny Cic- cone of Duluth. These fighters will be sent against the best available tal- ent in the northwest. PENN DROPS CLOSE TILT 10 WOLVERINES i i title, has been signed to meet Tommy Grogan of Omaha here Jan. 11. Ne- gotiations with Grogan were closed Saturday, following his victory over Lew Kirsch, eastern lightweight, in that he selectea|New York Friday. ‘HUGH SCHOOLS IN 4 STATES FORM LOOP Omaha, Dec. 17.—(?)—A Missouri valley high school athletic conference appeared likely Saturday night as the result of a meeting here of repre- sentatives of six interested schools, comprising four states. At the meet- ing Omaha Central, Omaha Tcch., Lincoln, Neb., Sioux City, Iowa, Cen- tral; Sioux Falls, S. D. and St. Joseph, Mo., Central high schools were represented. While no conference was formed, it was looked forward to as a likely step, those present said. Another meeting is to be held here Dec. 29, when a constitution will be presented for ap- pounds 5 hours before the contest. | Proval. |LeRoy had previously agreed to weigh! (CANADIENS, MAROONS} PLAY SCORBLESS TE Montreal, Dec. 17.—()—The Can- adiens and Maroons Montreal's intra- ci: hockey rivals, stuck close to each other through 70 minutes of close checking hockey Saturday night that ended in a scoreless tie, Tight de- fensive play cut off the few scoring chances. PIRATES’ STRONG PLAY FAILS TO WIN CONTEST Ottawa, Dec. 17.—(#)—Outskated and outchecked by a Pirate dashing band from Pittsburgh, the Ottawa | alo. Senators had all they could do to hold the visitors to a scoreless tie in a National Hockey league game Satur- day night. Illness kept Frank Nighbor, regu- lar center, out of the game and Frank Finnigan carried on at right wing against a doctor's advice. BOSTON BRUINS FALL BEFORE TORONTO LEAFS Toronto, Dec. 17.—(®)—Thé Toronto Maple Leafs handed the Boston Bru- ins a 2 to 0 beating in a fast Ni tional Hockey league game here Sat- |urday night. The by forced absence of Lionel Hitchman, who is ill. FIGHT FEATURES GAME AT MINNEAPOLIS RINK Minneapolis, Dec. 17.—(7)—A fight, end of the first session. The score was deadlocked at 10 each when Eberly twisted his knee and had to leave the game. Chagnon and Gist then found tho hoop with several fine tosses and Chicago took a command- ing lead. Chicago added to this in the sec- ond quarter. During this period Schave took Eberly’s guard. Second Team Strong With the score 34 to 19 Letich put in his second club. Kinn, Gorder and Jarrett then started an uphill climb oe & Said but Chicago had enough left to re- tain a lead which dwindled rapidly as the game came to a close. Letich and Boyd played the best of the Dakota regulars. The remaining players were off color. Gist, Chag- non and Fish worked well for Chi- cago’s fast five. The summary: Chicago (39) FG FT PF Yates, rf .. 2 Chagiion, If Gist, c .. Fish, rg .. Crawford, 1g Cooper, c .. Chisholm, f Kahill, ¢ .. Blatberg, g¢ Totals... N. D. (36) Jarrett, g .. i} houanwoonmnds | NOKOONME Totals ............. 14 MINNEAPOLIS SIGNS PITCHER FLINT RHEM St. Louis, 17.—(?)—Charles @loonmmocrone ge! prone anoe cl] | Honor womutal Hcooomone Po 5 Dec. Flint Rhem, one of the pitching heroes of the St. Louis Cardinals in their pennant season of 1926, has been waived out of the major leagues and has been released to Minneap- olis in the American association un- der optional agreement, Vice-Presi- dent Branch Rickey announced Sat- urday night. The announcement came as @ sur- prise, as Rhem could have been claimed by any major league club for the $7,500 waiver price. “Rhem did not fit into our club,” Rickey declared. “He thought + more about doing as he pleased than he did about helping out the club. Further- more, in his infractions of club rules, he took others of the club with him. He was not the sort that fits into our passed hin Present plans and so we ng. - “The fact that the other major league clubs passed him along indi- cates that Rhem has been pretty well sized up by the managers of both President of the St. Louis Browns, said he did snot know in time or he might have given Rhem a trial. ‘Washington, 21. HUME JOINS ATHLETES MONDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1928 i Bismarck Downs Hebron 23 to 8 in Initial Scrimmage ofSeason Never Quit Trying Heavies Are Rentless; K. O. Christener Has Never ‘Die’ K.O. CHRISTNER MALONEY, Boxing bugs are talking about these gloved gladiators because they fought off reverses to climb their way upward from obscurity. HEAVYWEIGHT BOXING STARS CANNOT BE SQUELCHED; ALL KEEP PLUGGING ALONG K. O. Christener, 36 Years Old, Uses Knute Handsen as Step- ping Stone to Madison Square Garden Engagement; Maloney and Braddock Com- ing Back By JAY R. VESSELS New York, Dec. 17.—()—One thing | about modern heavyweights is that they never quit trying. K. O. Christner, at 36, kept plug- | ging along and finally landed his first engagement in Madison Square | Garden. And he used as his stepping stone Knute Hansen, heralded as the hardest hitting heavy in the land. Jimmy Maloney, knocked out in quick succession two years ago by Jack Sharkey, George Godfrey and ‘Tom Heeney, is back now doing some knocking for himself. Point victory over Johnny Risko! gained him a match in the Garden with Con O'Kelly, a clever young Irishman. The date is December 21. Jimmy Braddock, the New Jersey six-footer, was having a hard time finding worth while engagements last year and had to fill in the summer at Tom Heeney’s training camp. Now, this: Jimmy by virtue of his victory over Tuffy Griffiths is going to have something to say about who fights Tommy Loughran for the lightheavy- weight title. Braddock and Leo Lom- ski are down to decide this dispute | in the Garden ring January 18. None of these men whose tool of trade is the six-ounce glove has done anything particularly meritorious. Both Risko and Hansen were rusty from inaction and would have been annihilated by more: formidable foes. And Griffiths whipped himself by recklessly rushing in until his jaw collided with a right which Braddock, @ back-pedaler, stuck out there for somebody to run into. Perhaps the most interest is at- tached to Christner. Until he meets Jack Sharkey in the Garden, January 25, the boxing world is going to be buzzing about this big-fisted chin clubber from Akron, Ohio, who his boxing career at the age of 32. BiG TEN CAGERS GET RIGID TESTS IN WEEK Chicago, Dec. 17.—(7)—Big Ten basketball teams receive need rigid preliminary test this week when they clash with several of the fastest scor- ing combinations in the middlewest. Nine games are on the program, by Notre Dame's attempted lorthwestern and In- Bend. Pittsburgh, de- jate championship conquered by Indiana, Ohio » Pittsburgh was routed all opponents were Dlinois His recent | $s BREADON SAYS CLUBS WILL TAKE NEW PLAN St. Louis, Dec. 17.—(4)—Sam Breadon, Cardinal president, before leaving Saturday for Honolulu, said he expected the baseball world to ac- cept eventually, in modified form, the suggestion of President John Heydler of the National league to take the burden of batting, or trying to bat, off the shoulders of pitchers. “Ten men on a team,” he said, “is a radical departure from base ball as we have known it for so many years. We are not ready for that, and I don’t think we will ever depart from the basis of nine men on a side, but there is no good argument in favor of mak- ing the pitcher bat. He is a special- t. Nodaks Drop Informal Contest 39 to 36 at Chicago University [HANGING UP THE spon sock... . . ] NRAMS PLAY THREE NEW YORK OUTFITS CLUTCH TOP HOLDS IN ICE CAMPAIGNS Rangers Climax Week of Vic- “tories With Win Over Detroit; American Rise Sensational New York, Dec. 17.—()—It has ree quired an ardent hockey fan this sea- son to tell what team was at the tcp of each group of the National League but the New York clubs have simpli- fied matters by going to the front this week and staying there. The Rangers, tied with Detroit for the American group lead a week ago, climaxed a week of triumphs last night by handing the Michigan team a 3 to 0 defeat. The Ranger victory, following tri- umphs over Toronto, and Les Cana- diens earlier in the week, gave them a total of 17 points for 13 games, and @ five point lead over Detroit. The Cougars could get no better than a tie with Ottawa out of three games last week. The Boston Bruins, close on the heels of the leaders a week ago, could not score against the Americans or Toronto, and remain in third place with a 10 point total. Pittsburgh and Chicago, the tail enders, each made a Sligth gain, the Blackhawks in their “My suggestion is that the manager of a team be given the privilege of letting his pitcher bat, or of passing along his turn to the next man in the batting order. You will still have nine men on a side and certainly no one will argue that the batting of a pitcher is one of the things that draw cash customers to a ball park. “On the other hand, the presence of a pitcher in the batting order gives you a dead one, a recurring dull spot in-your ensemble ball game.” DRAKE FIVE DEFEATS MINNESOTA 32 10 21 Des Moines, Dec. 17.—()—A Drake university basketball team that dared to ‘ry for the basket whenever the opportunity afforded Saturday night showed the way throughout an inter- esting exhibition uf the cage sport to defeat a scrappy University of Min- nesota five, 32 to 21. The insistence of the Gopher five on working the ball deep under the Drake net reacte.! against them. They failed to make their shots good be- cause they persisted in trying short passes in the midst of the ever alert bulldogs. The Minnesota offense was unable to cope with the close guarding gane exhibited by the Drake five, especial- ly Monahan and Barnes, Minnesota scored only one field goal in the opening half, that being a backward by Fred Hovde. The half closed with Drake leading, 17 to 4. BISON TEAM LEAVES FOR ILLINOIS JAUNT second victory of the season on Tues- day and the Pirates going a point ahead Saturday by battling Ottawa to @ scoreless tie. Although-their present margin of leadership is but two points, the New York Americans overshadowed the Rangers by their sensational rise to the top last week. The Star Spang- led players combined scoring punch with their fine defensive game to win three straight games, winding up with a 1 to 0 victory over Chicago last night. With the five international group teams bunched only a point apart a week ago, the Americans possessed themselves of second place by trounc- ing Boston while the consistent Ma- roons took the lead by beating De- troit. Thursday night the New York- ers took the lead by sending the Ma- roons down by a 2 to.1 count, only to have them pull up on even terms Sat- urday by tieing their Montreal rivals, Les Canadiens. With two tie games during the week, Ottawa held onto third place in the group. Toronto pulled ahead of the Canadiens by defeating Boston Saturday while the Frenchmen could get only a tie. | BASKETBALL BURNSTAD, 9; LEHR, 8 Burnstad. Dec. 17.—Burnstad de- feated Lehr here 9 to 8 in a well- played basketball game. Burnstad made good use of its height advantage. Lehr was handi- capped by the low ceiling. Lehr defeated Burnstad 20 to 7 a week earlier, The summary: Lehr (8) Kranzler, f ... Bittner, f . Thiele, c . Nagel, g . E. Jenner, g . M. Jenner, g . Total Burnstad— Nickles, f .. Harth, f .. Eggen, c .. N. Burnstad, g P. Burnstad, g . Referee—Shepperd. NEW LEIPZIG STRONG New Leipzig, Dec. 17.—New Leipzig Independent cagers have won their first two starts of the season, defeat- ing ae 18 to 9, and Flasher 27 to 17. MAY GET A BETTER JOB Gordon Slade, former University of Oregon star, who played with the Mission club last summer, is due for a big league trial soon, according to Pacific coast experts, He is an ine fielder. ce A MINURE. MISSED “Chuck” Carroll, star Washington halfback and captain this year, played every minute of every con- ference game played by his team this year. NIEHOFF TO HELP McGRAW Bert Niehoff, who gained great suc cess as manager of. the Atlanta Crackers, will be an assistant to John. McGraw next summer, NOT ONE AWAY FROM HOME © Luther Roy, Birmingham picher, didn’t win a single game away from home this summer. He won 19 on the home lot. DAZZY FOOLS ’EM Dazzy Vance, Brooklyn's great speed ball pitcher, hes fanned 15 men. in one game three times during his 5 = Ki ied a And Dad eight cad fol Buy him Tom feet. 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