The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 7, 1929, Page 8

‘Sportin POWER IN GOTHAM SPORTS CENTER WAS DREAMER, GAMBLER Almost All of Rickard’s Dreams Came True in Connection With Fights DEMPSEY IS HEARTBROKEN Spectacular Events of Fight, Crowds, Took All of His Interest New York, Jan. 7.—(7)—A dreamer whose dreams came true, yet a man of action with the born spirit of a gambler, passes on with the death of George Lewis (Tex) Rickard. The most dominating as well as most daring individual promoter in the history of professional sports leaves behind him, at the age of 59, after over 22 years’ connection with boxing, an unparalleled record of achievement and success. Rickard entered boxing when it was generally taboo, an outlaw sport, for the most part, harried by the law. Yet even then, in 1906, his flair for the spectacular prompted him to offer a purse of $31,000 for the famous Gans-Nelson fight at Goldfield, Nev. He leaves the sport on a big busi- ness scale, a hobby of society and fashion, in an era of million-dollar purses for its heavyweight principals and of costly, almost luxurious, arenas for its setting. Rickard always more interested in the spectacular side of his ventures, in the size of his crowds and magni- tude of the undertaking than in the actual fights themselves. He pos- sessed an uncanny ability to antici- pate popular interest in his mate! making, especially among the heavy- weights. He was a past master at what it now recognized as the art of the ballyhoo. But it was the arena and its human inpouring that chiefly interested the promoter. Got Biggest Thrill Rickard got his biggest thrill out of the crowd of around 130,000 that paid nearly $2,000,000 to see the first Dempsey-Tunney fight in the rain at Philadelphia. “T shall never forget that sight,” he said often. “As I looked back from the ringside over those thousands, tens of thousands, it sent the chills up and down my back.” The chief reason Rickard took the second Dempsey-Tunney fight to Sol- ‘dier, field, Chicago, for the greatest of all heavyweight extravaganzas, was his desire to attract the biggest crowd in history. He succeeded, and the - mark of nearly barely co ae ae ” from some Af spectators Poin indefinitely. From the time he came to New York until the new Madison Square Garden was completed and opened in 1925 Rickard envisioned this modern sports palace as a monument to his achievement. the big men of Wall street supported him and that important people in all walks of life came to boxing matches as he raised the standards of their promotion. He often spoke of this as one of his outstanding achievements. “Seats for All” His slogan. when he first undertook to promote the game on a big scale in New York, was “A seat for every customer, and every customer in his own seat.”” One of his greatest disappointments was in the famous Dempsey-Firpo fight in 1923 at the Polo Grounds, where thousands who held ringside + seats failed to see much, if anything, ; of the brief ring action because of ) the confusion and sloping character _ of the baseball field. Rickard returned _ thousands of dollars to dissatisfied + patrons as a result of this, and did it } Without. hesitation. * _ Boyle's Thirty Acres, the famous Jersey City bowl erected for the + Dempsey-Carpentier fight in 1921. was Rickard’s own model. From a spec- tator’s viewpoint it was as near per- fect as eny. This fight was in many respects Rickard’s most successful plece of promotion. He’ induced the principals to sign for a $500,000 purse, an unheard-of amount, but the gate receipts from 90,000 spectators ex- ceeded $1,700,000. Carpentier was . “bulit up” as a real contender, when as patents, ot fact he was not a match for the smashing Dempsey. Rickard al himself wes so fearful of | ~ the possible outcome that he went to ’s dressing room before the and pleaded with Jack “not to Frenchman match hit; the that the record-breaking crowd d get something of o run for its was afraid Dempsey would kill er if he hit him too hard,” admitted later. | — | | ! Rickard was intensely proud that | too hard,” and to ‘the fight go a few rounds at least Eight years ago when she won the Olympic fancy diving championship at Antwerp, Miss Aileen Riggin was so tiny she had to stand on a box to be decorated by King Albert. Now she is—well, she is bigger than she was then. Miss Riggin is still one of the world's greatest swimmers, and she returned recently from a tour of Europe. She is shown in the picture above on board the ship which brought her back. CANADIENS, MAROONS TIE Montreal, Jan. 7.—()—L*s Cana- diens and the Maroons, local National Hockey league entrants, battldd Sat- urday night to their second successive scoreless deadlock -before a capacity crowd of 13,000. Eighteen minor p2n- alties were meted out and Pete Lepine was fined $15 for some remarks to Referee Romeril in the first period. BADGERS, WOLV AND PURDUE Indiana and Chicago Are Only Two Teams in Big Ten Not Playing in First Night; Michi- University of North Dakota Will Have Played 17 Prac- tice Contests Flickers Favored to Win Title Again but Long Trip May Weaken Them Grand Forks, N. D., Jan. 7—When the globe trotting North Dakota basketball squad takes the floor here Jan. 12 against Morningside in its first North Central conference game, the Flickertails will through almost an ordinary season's schedule. | An even dozen contests will have | been played during the 6,000-mile jaunt when the Nodaks get back from the Pacific coast. One with Minne- | sota and four practice games at home will make a total of 17 games pre- ceding a loop program of 10 tilts. | The opening game with Morning- side will also probably tell whether North Dakota can retain the cham- pionship won last year. *Letich’s No- daks, intact from last year, were big favorites to repeat before the season opened, but whether they can perform up to expectations depends on their condition when they return home. Continual travel and a string of hard gates is expected to tire the Flickertails and they will have to be j at their best to get by the tough op- Position they are bound to meet. Letich and his Larnst-rmers are not before they play Morningside, hence North Dakota's chances in the opener are not the best, but if they are good enough to defeat Morningside at that time they should revive in sufficient time to beat South Dakota university here Jan. 25, which will be the second loop contest. But at that, the fans here are look- ing for some classy exhibitions of basketball when the veterans outfit returns. They have not seen their team perform except in opening prac- tice games. COYOTES TAKE SECOND CONTEST OF CAMPAIGN Stoux Falls, Jan. 7.—(#)—The Uni- versity of South Dakota basketball team took its second game from Sioux Falls college here Saturday night, 21) to 17. They won the first game last night, 25 to 16. ERINES, IOWA, WIN IN OPENERS middle of the second period, when the score was 29 to 17. with 11 points. The summary: Towa gan Shows Une xpected mrvoaeatt eae Strength in Purple, Win. = | Plunkitt, fl ooo ‘ Nelson, f . 2 5 0 ‘ Wilcox, ¢ 2 4 4 Minneapolis, Jan. 7.—(@)—Wiscon- sin’s tall, rangy basketball team | Leeka. ¢ oe eee opened its Western conference season | Geneva, bade 0 0 2 Saturday night with a 29 to 21 victory David. Es 0 0 over Minnesota, before 6,500 fans. Kin Hg : 0 4 vo The Badger outtit utiized its height pA: oe © the bet advantage and reinforced Paty per es that stature with a tricky style of lia) Nn Res eee a. combination play which functioned Ohio State just as well in long range passing as FG FT PI it did in the short fashion of playing. | pyans, ait ela Coach Walter Meanwell’s quint took | Schuler, f Oo ry a the lead immediately at the start of | pawin, ¢ cor 4 the contest and, emcept for a brief | ritte), ¢ Sb 7 3 moment when the Gophers tied the) van Eeyde, c . oher' 1 a count at 2 points each, headed the | mester, EE Diese aee 3 ® home team throughout the game, tak- hearted 1 . : ine an 18 to 13 lead at the half time, | rarkins, 0 A n ie summary: = Fe aa Cox, .. 0 4 oO ores PPE | totale Gistaris 800) SET Foster, f . 1 2 1| Referce: Allison, Carleton. Tenhopen, eles . 4 2 4 Umpire: Ketchell, Minneapolis. | Matthusen, f . . 2 0 ye Kowalsyek, ¢ 2) 21g | PURDUE OPENS WITH Doyle, g .... 1 0 1| WIN OVER ILLINOIS Ellerman, g .......... 1 0 1| LaFayette, Ind. Jan. 7—(4)—Purdue e — — =—J/opened the Big Ten conference bas- Totals... 5.06540 se AD 5 Sebel age pee Saturday night by lefeating the unbeaten University of Minnesota Illinois team, 33 to 24. : FG FT PP | poeetriisen, firiiee, 2 1 0| CHICAGO BREAKS JINX aa i + 0 1 3) BY DEFEATING BUTLER ss ne, cee 0 1) Chicago, Jan. 7.—(#)—For the first Nena. sos 2 1 21 time in seven years of competition, One 1 & + 0 © 1)the University of Chicago defeated praineee, g. 3 2 4| Butler college at basketball Saturday Bene 0 0 3 |night. ‘The score was 24 to 21. It 18 + © 0 0} was Butler's first defeat of the season, Totals . i con Butler led, 17: to 15, at the half, Referee: r, Chicago. Umpire: Cleery, Notre Dame. MICHIGAN IMPRESSIVE IN DEFEATING PURPUE | Purple and allowed Sl acwvwes al nowow Ann Arbor, Mich., Jan. 7.—(7)— Michigan made an impressive start-in the Big Ten basketball race by de- feating Northwestern, 32 to 20, here Saturday. night. A fine defense and brilliant basket shooting by Danny Rose broke down the teamwork of the Michigan to forge ahead to a substantial win in the closing period of the game. The $31 ascocseses ——— ‘ Basketball Score | oo Marquette 31; Beloit 27. Army 33; Princeton 25. “Michigan e Innesota 21. Towa University 34; Ohio State 26. ‘Kansas 26; California 23. - - Chicago 24; Butler 21. Purdue 33; Illinois 24. Augsburg 38; MacAlester 22. Notre Dame 49; Detroit 14. Toronto 17. Ripon 38; Hamline 34. lege 17. Nebraska 48; Colorado college 26. | oe Bison Pucksters Op have played} due to return home until the day! Twogood was the star of the game | Michigan Pennsylvania 35; Yale 19. FG FI PF| Duquesne 38, u . Truskowski, £. Arkansas 39; Southern Methodist'17. | Taising contests, n Season With 2 to 1 pponent FNDURANCE TELLS | He Golfee Good. | Charlie Chung, Los Angeles, claims he is the only Chinese professional golfer in the world and the only member of his race who ever was a good golf player. He finished a good eighth in the recent Hawaiian Open Championship, and Willie Hunter was one of his victims in the tournament. ST, MARY'S CAGERS TAKE DECISIVE WIN FROM FLASHER FIVE Final Score Is 23 to 7; For- tune and Goetz Lead Saint Scorers St. Mary's high school basketeers scored a decisive victory over the Flasher five at Flasher Saturday eve- ning, the final count being 23 to 7. The two teams had each won a contest of two playcd before the Sat- urday night affair. The game was closely contested during the first half, the count at the end of the period being tied at 6-all. The Saints played a clever floor and passing game the second half and outscored their opponents 12 to 0 in the third quarter. Flasher played without the serv- ices of Moorhead, star forward. For- tune and M. Goetz, Saint forward and guard, led the scoring with four and three goals. L. Westrum, Flasher for- ward, played a nice game. The summary: St. Mary's (23) FG FI . PF M Balzer, f vega 1-300 1 T. Beer, f 0 0-0 60 H. Fortune, 4 0-2 O B. Steiner, f 0 0-0 O J. McDonald, 1 1-1 0 L. Boespflug, ¢ Zz 1-1 0 M. Goetz, g .... 3 0-0 2 C. Finlayson, g 0 60-0060 Totals.......60005 10 3-7 2 Flasher (7) FG FI PF L. Westrum, f ........ 2 O-1 1 H. Rodenbough, f 1 00 0 ‘Stone, f 0 00 0 S. Goodreaux, c 0 0-0 1 E. Westrum, g .. i) 1-1 1 L. Banning, g .. 0 0-0 3 Hans0, & .....ss+e0006 O 0-0 0 Totals........ soos 3 18, 6 Referee: Pierce. ACTION IS PROMISED INBIG {0 CAGE RACE Chicago, Jan. 7.—()—With Purdue, Towa, Wisconsin and Michigan tied at the pinnacle with one victory each, the Big Ten basketball championship race breaks into a gallop this week with a nine game program. 2 Every team will get into action at least once. Indiana and Chicago, the only teams which did not get into the championship race Saturday night, jump into the thick of action with two battles each. Michigan's performers have prob- ably the hardest program of the week, invading Wisconsin and Iowa, two strong contenders for the cham- pionship. ‘The Wolverines appear to have played all their poor basketball in their first practice game and are very much in the race as evidence by their 32 to 20 victory over Northwest- ern Saturda: invades Northwestern a Ohio State St. Bonaventure 36; University of | Consin at Chicago; Indiana at Minne- sota; Michigan at Iowa, and Illinois at Ohio State. As a resuit of Saturday night’s lid Wiscorisin y was the only undefeated Big Ten ‘team. South Dakota 21; Sioux Falls col-| The Badgers won their four practice season games and made it five straight by defeating Minnesota, 29 Tow State Teachers | to ane Minneapolis. | WINNING TALE IN OVERTIME FRAGAS Minneapolis Soldiers Use 14 Men but Cannot Cope With Aggie Strength | M’ROBERTS 1S GOOD GOALIE Horace McGrath and McDowell!’ | Play Nice Forward Game for Dakotans Min®apolis, Jan. 7.—Bison “puck chasers from the North Dakota Agri- cultural college. scored a 2 to 1. vic-|" tory over the soldier sextet from Fort Snelling here Saturday night in a thrilling encounter which was settled only after two overtime periods had been played. Condition was a vital factor in the outcome, The Bison had more and they won as a consequence. Snell- ing used 14. men, just twice the num- ber sent in by the Bison coach. Lieutenant Muscatelle, captain of West Point's 1928 sextet, was the stellar performer for the: Snelling combine, his clever exhibition giv- ing the Bison no end of trouble. Bison Score The Bison scored in the first pe- riod. McDowell driving the imple- ment by the Snelling goalie after a pass from Horace McGrath. The Bison had an edge in this period. The soldiers came back in the sec- ond period and gave the Bison de- fense a terrible pounding, although they were unable to score until late in the period when Nelson shot the puck by McRoberts after a wild scramble in front of the net. The play seesawed in the third period, with the Bison having a big edge in the final three minutes. Mc- Grath stick hendled his way for a shot, pulled the goalie out of position, passed to McDowell, but the puck bounced after a clever feint and Mc- Dowell’s attempt from 1§ feet in front of the net was wild. The two teams battled on even terms in the first overtime period. The play was-rough. Johnson Tallies Johnny Johnson, Bison captain, skated through the crowd three min- utes before ‘the close of the period and scored on a beautiful shot. The Bison played defensive hockey for the remainder of the contest. Roy Landblom played effectively on the defense for the Bison, and Mc- Dowell, Johnson and McGrath. were brilliant in the front line. MANAGER ONLY MAN WHO KNOWS YANKS’ NEW THIRDBASEMAN But Miller Huggins Is Worrying More About Golf Now Than Baseball New York, Jan. 7.—(4)—Miller Hug- gins, mite manager of the world champion New York Yankees, may know who will play third base for him next season—no one else does, Huggins apparently is more interes! at the moment on keeping a golf ball on the confines of St. Petersburg greens. Joe Dugan, who has played third base for the Yankees in five world series, will not be among those pres- ent when “Hug” calls the roll at St. Pete. To replace “Jumping Joe” on the face of available returns, the lit- tle strategist has Gene , Robertson, who played 70 games at the position last year, Mark Koenig, if another s EE a oH é : Eye BE Two Andys With New York Giants Will Have to Show pated in in a few practice rounds before the big money tournament gets under way. Nearly a hundred others, in- cluding Walter Hagen, peer of pro- fessionals, and Leo Diegel, national |Feb. 2, inclusive, and will be limited professional king and winner of the |to six days'in addition to date of sale. Andy" Revsce ‘When the New York Giants assemble in spring training there will be waged a keen battle for the second base between Andy Cohen and Andy Reese, two comparative newcomers to big league company. Cohen, in his first year up, played satisft ities and spirit pleased the New York leader. As a result, the position that he must be shown which is the better GOLFERS TREK 10 LOS ANGELES FOR OPEN TOURNAMENT Diegel Wins at San Diego; Golden Takes Money at La Jolla Affair Chula Vista, Calif., Jan. 7—(P)— by The west’s golfing trail, trod by some 200 of the country’s professionals and amateurs, turned north today, after circling over the La Jolla and Chula Vista courses in this section, leading the knickered forces to the greatest test of all—the $10,000 Los Angeles open. .Being played over the Riviera coun- try club course, just, a stone’s’ throw from the Pacific ocean near Santa Monica, Calif., the Los Angeles event, starting Wednesday as the climax of a series of tournaments on the coast, will draw. a prime field of entries. many of those who partici- the La Jolla and San Diego Will Battle for Job McGraw Which Is Better Man Andy Cohen factory ball for McGraw in 1928, but Reese's possibil- McGraw is in than before he assigns either to the job regularly. \ $2,500 San Diego open here yesterday, will be entered. The San Diego open closed in a eavy down} pour, by chilling gusts of wind that blew away the chances of many of the leaders, but Diegel never faltered. He came home with 171-69-71-71—282 on the par 72 course. He received $750. One stroke. behind Diegel was Smith the 21-year-old marvel, who earned a place.in the United States Ryder cup team with his marvelous showing in the tournament. Smith’s four trips over the rolling Chula Vista layout were 71-66-72-74—283, giving him $450 as second prize money. Henry Culci, Bridgeport, Conn., held down third place and $300 with 10-69-73-773—264. He was followed MONDAY, JANUARY 7, orld Loses Greatest Promote: in Death of Rickard Win Over Fort Snelling; 25 DIAMOND STARS . ORDERED 10 MEET... ANY ANKEES’CANP Huggins’ Group Will.Include 15°‘; Pitchers and Eight Good «::' infielders 13 The old players or regulars. reach the Florida city until March ‘ st but the new pitchers, infielders and! outfielde:s and. all the catchers, oll!” and new, will reach 8t. Pete February" 25. Herb Pennock, kept out of thes? last world’s series by @ sore left arm, ' and Wilcy Moore, forced into tem~''* porary retirement by a lame right’ ’’ arm before the close of the 1928 sea | son, may go to St. Petersburg aboitt’ Feb. 15 to determine if a winter's has revived their salary arms. 15 Are Pitchers Fifteen pitchers wil in revie before Manager Miller’ Huggins when the party is complete. Six are new: comers. Waite Hoyt, George Pipgras, Herb Pennock, Henry Johnson, Tom , Myles’ Thomas, Al Shealy, Fred Heimach and Wilcy Moore are the holdovers. ars The half dozen-up from the minors: include Ed Wells, with Birminghany in the Southern association last year. but boasting previous major league? experience with Detroit and Wash« ington; Lee Raig, a left hander, and« Fay Thomas, right hander, both from; Oklahema City; Gordon Rhodes, Hol«r , Roy Sherid, recalled from> Montreal, and Floyd Van Pelt, who was with Montgomery. Bennie Bengough, John Grabows! and Billy Dickey, who have been on? the catching staff, will be joined by: Arndt Jorgens, from Oklahoma City. ‘Eight Are Infielders Eight infielders have been ordered inosa, Chicago, who was an outstanding figure in the two qualify- ing rounds, landed in fifth place with 206, in a tle with Johnny Golden of Paterson, N. J., who won the $2,500 La Jolla open. Reduced Rail Rates Offered to Bowling Affair at Winnipeg North Dakota and Minnesots bowl- ers may travel to Winnipeg at fare and one-half rail rates to enter or watch the Winnipeg Bowling associa- tion’s annual tournament Jan. 25 to Feb, 2, according to E. E.-Nelson, pas- senger traffic manager of the North Pacific Railway company, Tickets will be on sale Jan. 20 to Robertson... infielders who played.,,. more or less regularly last year, with. Combs, Bob Meusel, Ced- . Ben Pascal make tht , forces in this department, but t fellows will have their fling— ,.. Byrd, farmed to Albany last year, Elias Funk, who was with St. . Paul, and A. Outen, who is entering. professional baseball from the campus. of North Carolina State college. es my straight victories when the Tulsa Oil-.., ers humbled them here Saturday night, 3 to 2, in an overtime contest _ in the American Hockey association. 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