The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 4, 1929, Page 8

| SHYSHE'S WILLING TO FIGHT AND WIL SBE RICKARD TODAY * Says He's Not Certain He Wants to Box Again; Jack Is Florida-Bound | aaa | PICKS GODFREY AS BEST| Mauler Also Says He Will Not Referee First Tourney Match at Miami Macon, Ga., Jan. 4.—(*)—En route to Miami, Florida, to talk it over with ‘Tex Rickard, Jack Dempsey is issuing ® one man consensus of the heavy- weight situation, and as interpreted * by his interviewers along the line, it Tuns something like this: “The winner of the _ Stribling- Sharkey fight at Miami Beach Feb- Tuary 27, will be the next champion of the world. “I am willing to meet the winner of the Stribling-Sharkey fight, but I will have no announcements to make until I see Rickard. “I’m not sure yet that I want to box again. “I will not referee the Miami Beach fight. “I believe George Godfrey, the ne- Gro, is the best among the crop of heavyweights just at present.” These contributions to fight Bally- hoo left the scribes in cities through which the former champion has Passed in the last 24 hours dazed and somewhat groggy. The gong will ring on the next round of the scribbler’s battle with Dempsey at Miami Beach tonight and it appears that Dempsey’s mighty right has been bolstered with rhetoric that will carry a knockout punch. BADGERS T0 TEST MINNESOTA CAGERS scare Forrest C. (Phog) Allen, a basketball a ee (By The Associated Press) Terre Haute—Sammy Price, Benton Harbor, Mich. stopped Tut Seymour, Beloxi, Mo., (4). TAIL-END HOCKEY CLUBS ARE CLOSE vasesy Minneapolis, Jan. 4—()}—Just how may be rated in early sea- son doping of the Big Ten race will be determiried when the Gophers en- counter the Badgers at the field house here Saturday night. % ‘The entry of Coach Dave MacMil- ~ lan’s men into the Western confezence © scramble is one of. three circuit race openings for Minnesota quints this ~ ‘week-end. & In Wisconsin on a two-game trip, { Hamline launches its Midwest cam- * paign at Lawrence and Ripon tonight and tomorrow. The third team enter- ing conference play is Augsburg, isi which meets Macalester Saturday in Sapte cae @ state college game which will re-! New York, Jan. 4.—(P)—Kipling’s eo and what | description of “somewhere east of The Gophers, given confidence b: ; Suez" might well be applied to the three practice game victories after ational Hockey League, for the best nd the worst teams in it often are Four games. last | Coach Meanwell's Wisconsinites | M8h* brought contenders for the top | come after three straight wins over | Tankings against those in the lower non-conference rivals, and with the! portions of the standing and only Teputation of being an aggregation | one brought a victory for the favor- capable of going far during the sea- | ite. son. | The New York rangers, leaders of ‘The Badgers will be playing their | the American group, played a 2 to 2 first Big Ten game, as will Ohio at | tie with the Pittsburgh Pirates, hold- Iowa, Northwestern at Michigan. and | ers of fourth place in the division. at Purdue. Chicago and In-; The Ottawa Senators, tail enders not enter conference play | of tho International group who have not won a game for nearly a month, also battled to a tie, holding Les Can- adiens of Montreal to a one-all score. The flying Frenchmen lost ground in the group race through the deadlock, for Toronto, which was tied with them for third place, went ahead with a victory over Chicago. 5 Fy week. Opening its season in the Mid-west Hamline holds first place in the te conference by virtue of two vic- EF. i Augsburg encountered a-Mac team which has played two conference Macs playing at home Explains Basketball Coach of University of Kansas Basketball Teams to Write for Tribune star of 20 years ago, one of the first coaches in the country, and now president of the National Basketball Coaches association, again will write for The Tribune on the game ne| Went to the middle west for beatings helped popularize. KANSAS MENTOR DESCRIBES GAME TO TRIBUNE READER Forrest C. (Phog) Allen, Presi- Coaches Association, Will Write Basketball Story for This Paper Each Tuesday. Forrest C. (Phog) Allen, president of the National Basketball Coaches association and director of athletics at the University of Kansas, whose special articles will appear in The Bismarck Tribune each ‘Tuesday, has one of the most remarkable records in the history of basketball. During the twenty years of his coaching experience, 14 of his teams have won championships. The Uni- versity of Kansas, under his leader- ship, captured the Missouri Valley title six consecutive times and has an- other strong team on the courts this season. Basketball was a family game with Allen in his youth. He and his four brothers composed an amateur team which gained wide fame. At twenty years of age Allen was a member of the Kansas City Athletic club, which won the first world’s championship in basketball. Shortly after -the team won the world’s title, it played the famous All-Allen Five, the Kansas City club permitting “Phog” to play with his brothers. This was a costly conces- sion, for the All-Allen quintet was vic- torious. a Eastern Intercollegiate Cage Conference ALL OF OUTFITS IN BiG SIX LOOP HAVE Beatable but Loop Seems Well-Balanced PENN WON LAST SEASON Conference Race Opens Tomor- row Night; Finish Forecast to Be Close By F. G. VOSSBURGH New York, Jan. 4—(/)—If being kicked around and otherwise abused in early season games serves to arouse the fighting spirit in a team as some Goueties have maintained. the nine- Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League will produce one of the niér- riest mixups in: history when it be- gins tomorrow. Without a single exception all .of- the members of the “Big ‘Six” of the east have .been. tassed, for losses in December games. Dartmouth bowed to such little giants as Providence end St. Thomas .of. Scranton; Yale to Fordham and the same redoubtable Providence team; Cornell to Roches- ter and Pinceton to Dickinson, while Columbia lost to the Army and New York University, and Pennsylvania at the hands of Indiana, Ohio State and Michigan. Can Be Beaten With it ‘readily apparent that all six of the teams can be beaten and that the loop is pretty well balanced this season, -there appears little chance that the feat of winning all ten league games, which has been.ac- complished by Penn in 1919-20, will {be duplicated. On the contrary, the dent of National Basketball liminary dope would tend to fore- east another close finish ending in one of the thrilling playoff games which have marked the last two years. Princeton was the party of the sec- ond part in both of those argu: ments, losing to Penn last year and to Dartmouth the year before. With four’ of ‘last season's regulars, including Captain Mike Mines and Eddie Witt- mer, back, Princeton appears to have about as good a chance for the title any of the six, although the Tiger 'dked none too good in its defeat by little Dickinson early in the season. Pennsylvania, which has formed a habit of winning rather more than its share of these titles, also has a good chance now that the team has under- gone a testing at the hands of the best in the mid-west. Always Colorful Race Always a colorful race, the league tussle this season will feature some players of more than ordinary skill who have proved their mettle in other years. Probably the best known are the captains—Joey Schaaf of Penn, high scorer of the league last year, who has been shifted from guard to forward for the coming campaign; Mike Miles of Princeton, fullback on the Tiger eleven this fall and a great guard on the court; Fodder of Yale, a forward ordinarily but a, center on oc- sedis hienirroei tenet ainda th acheter in itl nti iain telat BISMARCK TRIBUNE: empsey Picks Stribling-Sharkey Winner As Next LOST OPENING SETS Every Member Team Appears | " Saves Pittsburgh Roy Worters Goes to New York; Appeases Gotham Fans After Grimes Trade teenth armual : title: ohaso . of .the). “| their first: service last year: Captain Burleigh Grimes, obtained from: New York, saved Pittsburgh from a disa- strous season. Roy Worters, hockey star, late of Pittsburgh, has been a big factor in the New York Americans’ success. _ PITTSBURGH TAKES GRIMES;. . NEW YORK TAKES WORTERS New York Loses in Baseball but. Makes Up for It in Hockey Trade; Worters Goes Like House on Fire in Internation- al Hockey Competition. of a-club that for a time-had little else to offer as.a winning team. Now Worters has joined the New York Americans of the National Hockey league and already has helped what was one of the weakest clubs in the league last year to the top position in the International group. The Giants exchanged Grimes for Vic Aldridge. At the time it looked like a trade of one good pitcher for another good pitcher. But Aldridge Proved to be a total loss and was dropped to the minors before the sea- son was two-thirds over. Meanwhile Grimes became a one- ;Mman ball club, He won 25 games, tying with Larry Benton for the aeseve: lead in the number of victor- ies. New York, Jan. 4.—Trading Bur- leigh Grimes to Pittsburgh in a deal that apparently cost the Giants the: 1928 pennant grieved local baseball ! fans as a unit. ‘ But those of the diamond. follow- ers who also like their hockey: may not ‘feel so hurt now since Pittsburgh reciprocated a bit in parting with Roy Worters, ace of big league goalies. With the Giants up there fighting Grimes went out to Pittsburgh and/for the pennant throughout most of proceeded to. make a pennant threat | the’season, the difference in pitching casion; Layton of Cornell and Spaeth |’ of Dartmouth, guards, and Magurk of Columbia, forward. Getting under ‘way tomorrow with the Yale-Penn game at the Palestra Allen was one of the outstanding | in Philadelphia, the season will ex- stars of the country while at the Uni- | tend through March 11. with each versity of Kansas and during his last | team playing ten games. Princeton year there became basketball coach of | opens against Yale at New Haven the Baker university. He was one of | Jan..9; Dartmouth opens at Pennsyl- games. The Saturday, defeated St. Mary's and lost Hamlin e. Practice games are booked for sev- RAIN HALTS PLAY SL CII cet ee ct MMR ee A pair of penalties proved costly to the Montreal Maroons, depriving them of a chance of tie for first place in the International division. Eddie Shore of Boston took advantage of the absence of two Maroon players to score the only goal of the game. Boston remains in third place in the American group. They now are only fous Points behind Detroit in second Place. Toronto, the only one of the con- tenders to win, climbed back into a tie with the Maroons by handing sucess its third straight defeat, GOLFERS GATHER AT SAN DG OURS San Diego, Cal., Jan. 4.—(P)—The knickered brigade, marching over the west’s golf the first college basketball coaches. When Allen graduated, he immedi- ately signed as coach of basketball at Kansas University and in 1909 led his alma mater to two Missouri Valley championships. He-also coached the Haskell Indian Five in 1909. While director of athletics at ‘Watrensburg, Mo., Normal from 1912 to 1919 his basketball teams won the champion- ship each year. He also won four football and three baseball titles. Af- ter 1919 he returned to the University of Kansas as basketball coach and di- rector of athletics. sik BASKETBALL STEELE INDEPENDENTS STRONG Steele, Jan. 4.—The Steele Inde- Pendents, having won two out of their first three contests this season, are vag an apparently strong aggrega- mn. Steele lost its first game to the Na- La | Poleon Independents by @ 15 to 25 aes a8 i score, but came back to defeat Tuttle 24 to 21 there and Tuttle 52 to 21 here in a second contest. - STANTON 16; GOLDEN VALLEY 7 Stanton, Jan. 4.—Displaying a tight defense, Stanton high school defeated 55 Mpteleeraglen ya Golden Valley had few shots at the hoop. vania and Cornell-at Princeton, both Jan. 12; while Columbia plays its first game when it.entertains Princeton at home Jan. 16. PAT DALY QUITS BOXING CIRCLES Cincinnati, Jan. 4.—(#)—Presenting his ‘son Patrick with a check: for $10,- champion, and G ins compere toh at the Bos a mat i= ton’ Garden tonight. Lewis, who tipped the scales at-235 pounds, had over to become > amba: Har-rumph! .. By jove, No! Magicians Will Play Kenmare on Second Game of Road Trip Tomorrow Night; Valley City Journeys to Aberdeen; Williston Will Be Busy. Minot’s which portant the North je «season tonight will give idea of the strength morrow night. . Three Magicians Back Minot has three veterans who saw Al Lonberg, forward; Dick Vander- sluis, guard, and Willard Geist, center. World Champion Promises. Many Mixuo: MINOT TESTS STRENGTH OF __;- BOWBELLS OUTFIT TONIGHT Among the Magic City’s most promis- ing candidates are: Eddie Olson, Dean Piper and Clem Senechal, forwards; . | Glen Iverson, center and Frank Mur- phy, Kenneth Veth, Arnold Samuel- son and Kenneth Bach, guards. Clairs Dunnell and Roy Premeau, forwards, will be eligible at the end of the first semester. Minot has defeated Towner 22 to 16, Drake -29 to 14, and its alumni ag- gregation 23 to 21. H Valley City plays its second game with a team outside of North Dakota strength reflected in the Grimes- Aldridge deal meant more than the difference between the runnerup Gi- ants and the championship Cardinals. They still will be hollering about that unfortunate transaction long after the current hockey season has closed, but if the Americans nail up the International Group flag Pitts- burgh would be entitled to some grati- tude for having “contributed” the key man of the local team’s defense. It still would be somewhat of a contribution even though Worters cost $20,000, for hockey in the Na- tional league is a big money propo- sition, and men of Worters’ calibre are scarce at much more than that fig- ure, CLL y 0 Mbe Lp - eC’. des cae a prices ui there is nothing in the 7 '™ rumor that I intend'to desert my life-long compatriot to Mesopotamia. me each oa, i -) od Drops Opener : Nelson’s Grafton warriors will entertain Park River Tuesday night in their second high School game of: the season. The “Bub” » Fargo, Hillsboro, Granville, Columbus, Cros- by, St. Thomas, Milton, Ellendale and Bowman. Games this week: me at Alexander. Fs Upham at Towner. Hebron at New Salem. Saturday Minot at Kenmare. Wildrose at Williston. Tuesday : Park River at Grafton. Thursday Williston at Plentywood, Mont. MISSOURI, INDIANA IN FEATURE GAME: Chicago, Jan. 4—(P)—Basketball aa", played in the Big Ten and the Big Six, evita class ae siden Missouri” Missouri’s fast scoring and igh” defense organization is a strong favorite to win the Big Six cage crown for the second straight year, while the Hoosiers, co-champions -of the Big Ten last year with Purdu are recognized latter circuit. Tonight's game rings down the pree.; liminary season for all teams excent,, Chicago, which tackles Butler row night, when four big ten games are listed in the inaugural of mg ct tomors;, championship chase. These four g: bring together Wisconsin at Minnez,; sota; Ohio State at Iowa; Northwests ern at Michigan, and Illinois at Purs, due, 1 toed