The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 20, 1928, Page 10

I \ } o ‘ “| PHANTOMS SNATCH ONE-POINT VICTORY Goes After Fellows os 8 Long Hl » * FROM KAPPA SIGMA Wisconsin Coach Discards Little Ponies and Forms Team High School Club Faces Em- mons County Crew Which Won Here Last Year the Western Conference for a num. ber of years. ; his short pass style with “pony teams’ LETTERMEN WILL START ana he was one of the first coache to prove that a team giants was not essential to carry ou! @ winning system. Willis Shepard Proves tron Horse inIndependent Game Last Night in the Big Ten championship race bu' Dr. Meanwell announced at Bismarck meets Linton in their sec-| would change his system and that all ond basketball game of the season at/| s' the high school gymnasium at 8:15 o'clock tonight. varying conditions. announced his starting lineup for the Linton affair, it is assumed that Eddie Spriggs will start at center, Ben Jacobson and Gordie Landers at forwards, and Fay Brown and John O'Hare at guards. The local fans remember the Linton Bang as the outfit who pulled a sur- prise victory over the Demons in an early game here last season, and are therefore expecting to sec a closely fought game tonight. giants of the conference he has chosen are not beefy but they The players Tenhopen, center, and Johnny Doyle, team and way cver six feet. high and he ranks with “Stretch” Madison, Wis., Dec. 20.—Dr. W. E. Meanwell, Wisconsin basketball coach | has been a sort of fashion setter in He gained a wide reputation for of football | With a team of midgets Wisconsin | made a creditable showing last year | the | termination of the season that he} tems had tc ke changed to meet Instead of organizing another fast Though Coach Roy McLeod has not| Pony team for this season, the Wis-| consin coach went after big men and | his new team may be known as the are all rangy fellows. Two of the big-| gest men on the squad are Elmer guard. They are co-captains of the Tenhopen, shown in the accom-| panying pesition, is six feet six inches Murphy of Purdue as the tallest play- of Big Six-Footers t | t i Elmer Tenhopen "| er in the circuit. The Bismarck reserves will meet St. Mary's high school five in a pre- liminary game at 7:30 p. m. with the feature game following shortly after the first contest. If the Emmons county crew does not prove too strong. the following Demons should also see service to- night: Hoffman, Loehrke, Paris, Johnny Spriggs, and Hoskins. HELPS GAME IN More Than 80 Per Cent of Hockey Stars on American Professional Teams Are Ca- nadian-Born or Canadian- Trained; Yankees Are Im- proving, However. Inability to toss in free throws last night cost the Kappa Sigma fratern- ity team from the University of North Dakota a basketball victory here, ‘They were beaten by the Bismarck Phantoms, independent organization, 17 to 16, despite the fact that they made seven field goals to the Phan- toms’ six in the contest. The Urliversity boys made but two of a possible 11 free throws. The game was close throughout, with the fraternity team holding the advantage through the greater part of the game. Former Bismarck Stars The Kappa Sigma outfit was made up of five former Bismarck high school students, Willis Shepard, Duane Diehl, Jimmy Olson, Paul Hed- strom, and John Lofthouse. _Bigler was inserted in the lineup early in the first half, the only substitution the Kappa Sigs made. The University boys, who made but one substitution while the Phantoms were making eight. tired toward the! end of the game, the only man able to stand the pace on the Grand Forks crew being Willis Shepard, Nodak football captain and end during the last season. Shepard and Doc Burdick led their respective teams last night, with Shepard leading the scoring with three field goals and two free throws. Burdick made three field goals and} one free throw. The Nodak grid star proved an ‘iron horse on the floor last night, playing ® hard game punrpilehout the game and being the backbone of the Kappa! “Amateur hockey continues to hold Po Ot Olson, Latthouse, Bigler.| tavor with the Canadians while the and Hedstrom also played nice games, i cae aaes iq | Professional game, it is apparent, has but they tired more quickly than aia strong hold on America, and hockey Bea racer jofficials of the American association {point out, that the game here iz Played on a superior scale than the pro game in the Canadian cities. Duluth, Minn., Dec. 20.—(%)—The increasing interest in hockey in the United States during the past few years, advanced to such an extent that it has been acclaimed as Amer- ica’s leading winter sport, can be at- tributed materially to the national interest of the game in Canada. This conclusion is arrived at fol- lowing a survey made of the Amer- ican Hockey association, in which in the six teams of the circuit claim Canada as their birth place and the Place where they learned the fasci- nating ice game. Although some teams representing Canadian cities have not made out- standing records in league play with American teams in the past few sea- sons. hockey coaches of major leagues of this country still rely upon Amer- ica’s neighboring country to furnish players, the survey shows. Americans May Star While America basks in the sport- light of supremacy in baseball, golf and boxing, followers of the speedy jice game believe the day is not far distant when the majority of players in the various leagues of this country will be American-born. Hank Brown Helped Hank Brown gave Doc Burdick val- uable support for the Phantoms, cag- ing two shots from the field and one} One manager of an American As- free throw. The Phantoms were|sociation team, Gus Olson of the Du- guilty of 10 personal fouls while seven|luth Hornets, contributes the dearth were chalked against their opponents.|of American-born hockey material to The local crew began the scoring) the lack of suitable indoor rinks, with and held a 4 to 2 advantage at the|lack of proper material coaching a end of the first quarter. The Kappa|secondary cause. He Pointed out that Sigs left the floor at the half with a/the game cannot be Played to the 10 to 7 lead. The score at the end of|hest advantage on an outdoor rink. the third period was tied at 14. He said that the Canadian youths The summary: 'take” to hockey with the proficiency prof the American youth in baseball— more than 80 per cent of the players} CANADIAN INTEREST IN HOCKEY UNITED STATES | te remancea: @ famous grid coach, associated with the Hornets for sev- eral years. Tulsa, Okla. a new entry in the league this year, and Kansas City, both boast of entire all-Canadian teams, including the Oilers’ coach. Dick Carroll, while St. Louis, also a new team in the league this year, and | Minneapolis, each have but one ; American-born player on its roster. |The American-born St. Louis player is Iver Anderson, a goalie, while Em- mett Garrett. playing with Minneap- olis, is a St. Paul boy and learned the j®ame in that city. Anderson learned \the rudiments of the game at Duluth. Lioyr Turner and Alex Irwin, coaches jof the Minneapolis and St. Louis clubs, respectively, are Canadian- born. Saints Are Americans St. Paul has the most American- jborn players of any of the six teams 1in the circuit, five of the players hav- {ing learned the ice game in the Unit- {ed States. Four of the five, Frank (Moobe) Green, one of the league's outstanding players; George Conroy, George Nichols and Doc Romnes, are St. Paul boys; the fifth, “Red” Capen ‘of Duluth. Eddie Fitzgerald, man- jager of the Saints, also was born in the United States, while the team’s {coach Cully Wilson, is from Canada. | Practically the entire Duluth team is made up of Canadian-born play- ers, with two men, Waino Koski and Burr Williams “native sons.” Wil- |liams, however, is not playing with \Duluth at the present time, having jannounced his intention to discon- tinue hockey this season. The team’s {manager and former player on the Hornet squad, Gus Olson, was born in the United States, while Shorty |Green, coach, is a product of Cana- , dian rinks, THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE [Demon Court Gang Is Out for Revenge on Linton Here Tonight - |: SAYS MEN CAN EARN FOR GOOD PURPOSES Scores Officials for Overlook- ing Amateurs Who Are Do- nated Big Money |FOUL PLAY IS ENCOURAGED | Takes Side of College Man Who Plays Pro Simply for School Expenses By BILLY EVANS What constitutes an amateur in ‘sports? ‘ Of late, this question has been re- ceiving much serious consideration, as the result of Bill Tilden being Darred from the tennis elite because he wrote for pay something about a tennis tournament in which he participated. Tilden took issue with the tennis body over the decision reached as to his status as an amateur. He was suspended and will not be reinstated until he shows what the tennis asso- ciation considers a penitent spirit. Recently in discussing the amateur “The honest-sure-enough amateur in sport is a rare species, that is fast dying out. Really, if one hewed strict- ly to the line, it would be possible to make a case against 75 per cent of the amateurs and prove them profes- sionals. May Not Earn “Athletes, according to amateur Tules, are prevented from using their ability in their chosen sport to make money. In other words, they cannot capitalize on their athletic ability un- less they want to join the pro class. Yet, by subterfuge these same ath- letes in many ways receive handsome compensation for doing little or noth- ing at some other job as a coverup for their sport work. “The trouble with the governing bodies of most amateur sports is the fact they are too narrow minded. The tules and standards they set are so severe that a majority of the ama- teurs seek to beat them through var- ious forms of deception. In other words, the rules make cheaters out of athletes who are able to capitalize more on their ability in sports than in any other line.” The comment of the famous foot- ball coach interested me because dur- ing the past summer I have run into any number of conditions which bear out the ‘houghts expressed above. From major league baseball scouts I get the information that through- out the country there are many star college players performing on the diamond under assumed names. Many of these players represent the leading colleges of our country, both east and west. A good many of the players are poor boys who, because of: their baseball ability, are able to make good money during the summer to aid them pay their college expenses. Should Be All Right I think it is a serious mistake to say a college player cannot play ball during the summer for pay, provided J, LYMAN BINGHAM ENTERTAINS A. AU. J. Lyman Bingham, graduate man- |ager of athletics at the University of |Denver, will act as host to the hun- |dreds of athletes who will compete jin the 1929 A. A. U. track and field ;championships to be held in the new juniversity stadium. Bingham — was {President of the Denver district of ;the A. A. U. when the application ; Was made for the championships and jit was largely through his efforts jthat Denver was named for the fea- ture event of the track season. |, Not a single ; layer in the National Hockey League bears the number 13 ,that is supposed to be a token of ill j luck. em any Fo tT PE lor is it golf the American youth is i 2 1.2 1/Tegarding the national sport? Schlosser, e 0 2-2 »| Of the six coaches in the American Burdick, rg 3 1-3 2] association five are Canadian born Roberts. Ig, rf 1 0-0 2)8nd learned the game in Canadian! 0 0-0 1 Cities. The sixth, Bill Grant, secre- 0 1-2 1/tary of the league and also manager 0 0-0 0j\8Nd coach of the Kansas City Pla- 0 0-0 0|Mors. picked up his knowledge of the = <-- —jice game in Duluth, where he was Total ...... satel 5-9 10! 2 0-0 2| 0 0-0 0} 3 2-5 3 aoa aes i 9:1 9] Whitman Made Clean Sweep Bigler. 1f . =< os. in Its Conference Total ............ 7 2-11 7 — vo Walla Walla, Wash., Dec. 20.—Five pecapieat foul, Bessrom. Benser | ©oMference championships in athletics for Grey, Van Wyk for Burdick, Grey|—8ll there are to scrap for—have for Benser, Haas for Grey, Kreifels| been won by athletic teams of Whit- for Haas, Brown for Schlosser.| man College here during 1928, What Rivifele ‘Rappe Sisrna mans. {001s more, it has won these champion- | ships in the Northwest Intercollegiate Conference, without the loss of a con- test in its class. The big year opened with a clean sweep in basketball. Then followed baseball, likewise without a setback. 8 The men's ten- nis trio came through for the fourth title of the spring. To make it oa the rgeens squad has Pi through conference to a Clear title, without defeat. ANOTHER MIZELL COMING r Mizell, Georgia Tech back- ace, has a brother at- high school the football | Won Titles in Five Sports the club be is connected with is no part of organized professional ball. A great many college players are hold- ing down some job that doesn’t de- serve more than $25 per week as far as actual work is concerned and are getting three or four times that amount of money simply because they are good ball players. A number of colleges permit summer baseball but. they are greatly in the minority. These colleges are to be commended for their broad mindedness, Just to show what unpleasant sit- uations can develop from amateur de- ception I am going to cite the case of a college player only recently re- instated into the good graces of or- ganized baseball. This player, a member of one of the leading Pacific Coast colleges, started on a tour of the east in a dilapidated “flivver.” Reaching the middle west, about half way to his destination, the “flivver” showed ‘signs of needing repairs and the bank account was low. ‘Wanted to Earn, The coast star decided “he would use his baseball ability to earn some money. He signed with a team in the Mississippi Valley League under an assumed name and played long enough to get the desired money. His work impressed the manager of a team in a league of higher classifi- cation and he was bought for $1000. Shortly after the sale of the player was announced he di . A few years later, after graduating from college, this same plays WITHOUT BEING PRO HURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 19: Evans Says Amateur Officials Are Narrow Minded in Making Rules | ecFarrane —]ILLIN REPRESENTS When owners of National League clubs met recently in New York they reelected John A. Heydler president of the organization and also in- creased his salary to $25,000 a year. This new photograph of the Nation- al League head was taken at the New York meeting. JOHN LAYTON BEATS HOPPE IN FINALS OF Taberski Protests Against Greenleaf for Leaving Room Twice in Match Chicago, Dec. 20.—(#)—The first double-jointed cue championship 3 CUSHION TOURNEY | BiG TEN IN PLAYNG a Wlinois Outfit Is-Only Big Ten Outfit Encountered by Nomads on Trip Chicago, Dec. 20.—(7)—North Da- kota’s touring basketball players who will have traversed 5,500 miles when they return to Grand Forks early in January, will engage the Mlinois five tonight at Urbana in the second game against a Big Ten team on their trip, The Nqdaks have met Minnesota, another Big Ten team, and van- quished them 25 to 24. On their present trip they have lost to Chicago 36 to 39 and Chicago | Loyola 13 to 18. They defeated Illi- champions for three years, 40 to 38 in a thrilling game Tuesday night. The Nodak second team has seen stata service than the first team so far. Lee regular Dakota center. has not beer able to play, having been af- flicted with influenza, while Harold Ebarly, stellar uard, left the Chicago game with a twisted knee which may incapacitate him for the rest of the trip. Glen Jarrett, red-headed sub- stitute forward, broke his nose in the Wesleyan game. Coach Craig Ruby will send his greatest strength against the Nomads | of the North and a record crowd is | expected to witness the contest. SPORT SLANTS | By ALAN J. GOULD New York, Dec. 20—(P)—It has been demonstrated before that a good light heavyweight, or even a first class middleweight such as was Bob Fitzsimmons at one time, can clean up the heavyweight division. There is a distinct need for some such cleaning up as the campaign of tournament at which the pocket bill- jards and three cushion billiards championships of the world. were at stake, ended in excitement early to- day. Johnny Layton, the Missouri cue expert, retained the world’s title in the three-cushion tournament by winning the final match from Willie Hoppe, 50 to 23 in 22 innings. The Pocket billiards title, which also was to have been settled last night, re- mains in dispute. Frank Taberski, Schenectady, pro- tested to the National Billiards asso- ciation following his interrupted match with ‘Ralph Greenleaf, the champion charging that Greenleaf violated the rules by leaving the room twice during the playing of their match. While Layton and Hoppe were set- tling the three cushion title, the com- mittee was wrangling over the Taber- ski dispute. The final decision of the committee was that Taberski and Greenleaf should meet again tomorrow night. PURDUE MENTOR HAS BEST 10-YEAR MARK Lafayette, Ind. Dec. 20.—Over a course of 10 years, Ward “Piggy” Lambert has the best record of any basketball coach serving in the West- ern Conference. His Purdue team shared the Big Ten title last season with Indiana and with five lettermen remaining from the championship squad Purdue is rated as a strong contender this year. Since he took charge of basketball at Purdue Lambert's teams have won or shared four conference’ champion- ships and only once have fallen be- low fourth place. His teams have won 120 out of 169 games played and in Big Ten compe- tition they have won 76 out of 113 games, or more than two-thirds of their engagements. | Lambert's offensive’ system, a com- bination long pass and short pass pivot plan, developed some of the best scorers seen in the conference. He developed White, Gullion, Sprad- ling and Cummins, who led the con- ference in scoring in various cam- Paigns and there have been very few seasons when at least one Purdue player was not found on the All-Con- ference five. WILL TRY NIC#7 FOOTBALL Officials at Oklahoma A. and M. are spending $3,000 equipping the football field in order to practice and play football in the evening next fall. The 1929 national women’s golf championship will be held the Oakland Hills Country club, Birm- ingham, Mich. SOXY PHANN, The gun that wasn’t loaded Tuns to the ice thatrwasn’t thin 1929 is about to get ‘under way and it would not be surprising to see the task performed by one or the other of these light heavyweight products— | eyed and W. L. (Young) Strib~ Speed and skill have been accom- plishing as much, if not considerably more than the old-fashioned sock in this heavyweight cra, Loughran and | Stribling have both. There seems no doubt now to most critics that Stribling must be serious- ly reckoned with as a contender for Tunney’s vacated title. The Georgia acrobat has youth and unusual en- dirance in his favor. And it is sig- nificant just now that he is more willing to mix with the top-natchers | than they are with him. Loughran’s rise to the fistic heights frequently has been compared with that of Tunney and with consider- able reason. The broad-shouldered, good-looking Philadelphian is not showy but is an unusually effective FLICKERS TONIGHT nois Wesleyan, Illinois intercollegiate | ;Jack Dempsey than any other con- Pipe the Lid! ee 4 That’s What New York ||’ Did to Grid Leader of Stanford | | | | | | | ¢ ; | : | | | You've never seen “Biff? Hoffman, captain of the Stanford eleven, this way before. Notice the derby. And the skinned nose, Hoffman got the skinned nose in a football game and he bought the derby to show San Francisco what New Yorkers wear. And San Francisco, that had frowned | on derbies for many years, forgave Hoffman and other members of the team who wore derbies because of their sensational victory. | workman, fast, ring-wise and a good! body puncher of Tunney’s type. Loughran, like Tunney, has had a thorough schooling in light heavy- | weight ranks, displaying a willingness | to fight all comers. | Loughran and Stribling, filling out, and taking on weight to make the heavyweight grade, have a much bet- ter chance against such full-fledged heavies as Sharkey, Risko, Paulino and Maloney than other 175-pounders who have essayed ring adventures outside their class. Loughran and Stribling probably would be bigger stumbling blocks for tenders in sight, in the event the Mahassa Mauler tries another come- back. Dempsey would find Stribling and Loughlin as elusive and shifty as Tunney, with all the speed needed to go at least 10 rounds at a fast clip, something that Dempsey has not. demonstrated he can do in the last few years. WELL, WHO WANTS HIM Mayes McLain, Iowa fullback, barred by the Big Ten officials from further play, says he will take a try at pro football next fall. ) Feb. (COYOTE BASKETBALL SQUAD GETS LITTLE REST THIS HOLIDAY South Dakota U. Cagers Will ton College Tonight | Meet Tough Foe in Yank- | | | | Vermilion, 8. D., Dec. 20.—Christ- mas vacation means a lot of rest andy good times for most of the students at the Univertiy of South Dakota but not for the basketball squad. After the game with Yankton college to- night they will have a breathing spell just long enough to get home to hang up their stockings and then pack up again to get back by Dec. 31, for the vacation drill on the basketball court at Sioux Falls, college. Because the new gymnasium floor is not yet ready for use, Coach C. B. Hoy will again take his charges to Sioux Falls during vacation so they may get some practice on a regula- tion floor. The week's session will wind up with two games with Sioux Falls college, Jan. 4 and 5. Practice sessions during the last two weeks have been hindered by the flu epidemic which incapacitated, at various times, nearly every member of the squad. It was with difficulty that Coach Hoy found enough well men to take to LeMars for the game with Western Union Tuesday night. The season’s schedule which calls for a total of 18 games has been an- nounced by V. E. Montgomery, direc- tor of athletics. No changes are an- ticipated except in the event that the new armory is not ready for use by January 12, the game with State col- lege will be played at Brookings and the return game played here, Feb. 15, The schedule: Dec. £—Iowa at Iowa City. Dec. 10—Still at Des Moines. Dec. 18—Western Union at Le Mars, Dec. 20—Yankton at Yankton. Jan. 4—Sioux Falls College. Jan, 5—Sioux Falls College. Jan. 12—State college here. Jan. 15—University of Nebraska at Lincoln. 18—N. D. Aggies here. 25—N. D. U. at Grand Forks, 26—N. D. Aggies at Fargo. 1—Morningside here. 6—N. D. University here. 14—Still at Vermilion. 16—State college at Brookings, 19—Yankton here. 23—Morningside at Sioux City. 26—Western Union here. Jan. Jan. Jan. Feb, Feb. Feb. Feb. Feb. Feb. GRID STARS ON MAT Leo Draveling, Bruce Hulbert and Al Steinke, members of Michigan's fcatball team this fall, are candidates for the Ann Arbor wrestling team now. : IT'S HARD TO BELIEVE George le, now director of ath. leties at Wisconsin, once was dean of the American Expeditionary Forces agricultural school in France. One hundred and fifty horses have been shipped from Bowie, Md., to Cuba, for the racing season in Hae vana. : A Pleasing or MEN SPECIAL HOLIDAY WRAPPED PACKAGES. AT ALL GOOD CIGAR DEALERS Gift