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‘ é e : . = > ‘ (i HOTTEST NATIONAL (Tony Brown Sends Strasburg Pug Down for Count in Fifth\YANSONEWRE LOOP SCRAMBLE IN 5; i ! By Crane ]| FAVORED T0 GRAB Billy Sunday Takes a Turn at First Love BISMARCK BATTLER Wash Tubbs ~- - Down and Out By Crane FUNDY I i HISTORY FORECAST ne AMERICAN HONORS LEADS FROM FIRST: YOU VOULD BREAK MY WECK, \ as A ——— 5 VOULD ei DOWN YOU GO, You ———— - 3 New York, Chicago, St. Louis ner Miller Huggins’ Men Have Won Championship Six Times and Pittsburgh Rated Last Eight Years : : , First Division Tony Has Cinched Position on} | EiGUTING MAD! ATHLETICS FACE SENATORS M'GRAW'S MEN GIVEN EDGE Meratsladesvebsesevis: Sond oes ae von President Herbert Hoover Will, — American Legion AND RUSHES To BATTLE Start Hostilities’ With Jack Hendricks +t ga eit : rune cooks tank % “First Throw Favored to Top Secon: OUT ALSO FUL ADMIRAL HEL — Bivikicn RAMEY KNOCKED OUT A CAPTIWE IN MYSTERIOUS By PAUL R. MICKELSON | iE : BLACK CASTLE’s FicuRES custee ann Praag oval ve By HERBERT W. BARKER Kid Schwartz, Hague, Substi- WE HAS NOTHING To LOSE, Yankee menace still casting its bulky (Associated Press Sports Writer) tuting for Jackie’ Grey, shadow across the pennant horizor New York. April 15—(2)—The Na- s and chilling interest, the American tional League starts a fight tomorrow Wins Fast Draw e tomorrow launches what that won't be declared one way oe an- : erred hed tng Koons another one-sided of for six months or so. jome ‘ m —_ e. wont be clinched defintely much bee 8 scheduled elght-round grudge battle FOOL! DOT TRAP NOW, BY JOE, I GIF SADA A his ‘Yankee mates blasted then 020 See Seaentma nice iaaredeatn inns DOOR PUTS HIM SURPRISE. SHE VILL’ BE EATING to the championship. Ameticar lost of the experts have contented baatibientiats ane Dell card OUT UF DER VAY, OUT UF MY WAND IN NO TIME, League officials and rival club owners themselves with stating that four Shieh wil ee staged in Bisinagek in . and managers, who admit they anc clubs—the New York Giants, Chicago the near qiture De CHE AWITISEN Lee / the box-office receipts are a bit weary © Cubs, St. Louis Cardinals and Pitts- a of this prolonged Yankee domination, ‘ vangelistic meet al A x. “) 1 aoe Tm catriet ie almost | Kiwanis Club of that elty and Sunday's party played each’ other, the Tex” Hall, who is co-matchmaker puis Cees Tee poate unanimously picked to take the first | Proceeds going to the Boy Scouts, and Sunday pleyed right field for his | with W. J. “Bill” Godwin, announced Philadelphia, the team that gave the four 18COs, Differences of opinion | team. With Sunday, left, is Homer Rodeheaver, slide trombone expert, and |this morning. Yankees @ scare last year; St. Louis, creep in hen an attempt is made to writer of religious songs, who caught for the Sunday team. Brown led from the opening gong, & combination of fair hitting strength Predict in what ofder they finish. ; Reerat tines Snare aigater wires and great defensive power; Washing- Giants, Cubs Lea = great ive team al Of the four, the Giants and Cubs Six Teams Might tne a tiff one i the “fith: after ter Johnson at its helm, and Detroit, have received the most pre-season uth S JAWM |itauins 2 territic beating for four with several heavy hitters and the support. John McGraw, a driving ° Sure une aro pe te the ToknveR brain of Bucky Harris, that they look leader of men, has a well - rounded ra ennant in inert age a for breakers in New York's pennant Roper ot Gients’ with’ good pitching lenge or Brown now has two kndckouts and surge. The other entries—Chicago’ and a powerful attack. Second base ame 14 Gtaw to hid chedit: iy His Drier’ but weak hitting, erratic fielding White may prove to be the Giants’ undoing ssociation ce ° prontist career. Sox, Cleveland's mysterious Indians unless Andy Reese or Andy Cohen se onors ||" c ie and Boston's mediocre team, are not comes through. . Hall and Lee Cavanagh, local wel expected to cause much trouble. With Joe McCarthy at the helm], Pree cha vuiaesiioa vuneter emi ta The. piece de resistance of tomor- and Rogers Hornsby. league batting | Louisville and Columbus Des-) New york, april 15—vp—A chal-|eree the matches, did not make the champion, at second base, the Cubs + Battle It Out f lenge by the New York Giants has|‘Tip_ an y * inagt are looking for their first pennant| tined to Battle ItOut for = — | tee, AY nt Nath ‘alacrity. by Babe Ruudiled “opponent sohucy 'SNet MN GE ee aa ee ; 4 wi ° since 1918 and ee think Cellar Post Ruth on behalf of the New York Yan-|@antcd ry was forces to cane B T en Diamond Mandan Officials Hudkins Set for ideatipon| wheter Charlie Boot, — Members of the loyal Giants’ boos- [Ct!, the six-round semiwindup after 1g crack right hander, can perform as|° Chicago, April 15.—()—Two long deraigeve ra dlneaeito Sotineaactre sustaining an inlined wrist in train- ° ° : he did in 1927. shots and six favorites make up the | manager of the Giants, at the Bilt-|"S sccording to Hall. | | es SIX es unior uel Contest “ Billy Southworth and Donie Bush.| race for the thirtieth American asso-| Tore ‘last night. Speakers insisted |.0°° teed the third oF Grove managers respectively cr the oe clation pennant race, which starts to-|tnat the Giants would win the Na- naiai ea rereant battle. Th ay —_ -~BlniAin'a\cligy eeasimaaion. sitkcas ; pite elise: postions.” Southworth has @| ‘The campaign promises to be as tis HTaninase foe tueeGaitie are heavy relents. chic Cirey, Bis-| Michigan's 1928 Champions, ita: hate in ae els > launch the Nebraska Wildcat Spots at b . 4 jubstitut lor Jackie Grey, = ce ae ta work out sete dedi tneiuapats feeien ; 4 oe later ga selapnons rnarck’ “s0spoundiee, ciI0 canna Almost Intact, Favored system in Mandan this year, Least 15 Pqunds to Call- ‘7 5 in the Hague, fought a furious four-roun was icated when the com- . tomley. Frisch, Cleert and’ Haney in| “indianapolis, silwaukee, Minneap- | Was 08 the other end with this mes-/draw with James Henn, Strasburg. to Cop Again missioners set aside a square block in fornia Opponent their infield. If this solves the prob-| olis, St. Paul, Kansas City and To-/""#° nave heard you on thé radio and : ; nee lmonde: ie hae, ere —- lem Southworth’s only worry will be| ledo stood out as pre-season title|in regatd to ‘that’ challenge — the P | td C Ar Chicago, Apfil -15.—()—After two ipevani(hi ana: Risnoecete the | NeW, York, April 15—UP)—Ace Hud- over his aging pitching staff. possibilities, while nothing but a bat-|yanks accept with pleasure” yle $ Lars Are weeks of desultory firing, hostilities Seventh and Bighth avenues south: | ing’ 1o-round scrap with Armand At Pittsburgh, Bush has Sheely,| tie for the cellar appeared in prospect # e jin the Big Ten baseball champion-|"%'rour-team lene ih beter pianshel uel Los Angeles tonight Bartell, Adams and Traynor for an|for the two other entries, Louisville Attach d a gn flared: forth with six|in the Morton county cite ee eanned | stands out as the high spot of this ye a Elks Team Tops C0 Aga retics us ne Bhlson, eincis ofcer ot Suner, | Weeks ational Boxing program the Pirates look extremely good. They] ‘Tomorrow's opening schedule: 3 p: battles this week. Ae mn, al Mor 10. 7 the Amer-|..22¢ Nebraska wildcat probably have an unquestioned batting punch| “Milwaukee at Indianapolis. - Every team in the race, except Wis-|Furness post, No. 140, of the will be outweighed by 15 pounds, for | cessful and as strong a pitching staff as there] Kansas City at Loutsville. M d: Bo 1 Columbus, Onfo, April 15 ©. consin and Minnesota, which are on| ea Legion, who will be in direct | Emanuel is ae tery ones ee oe \s in the league. Minneapolis at Columbus. andan WIEPS|c. Fyies pavethent pounders were their spring training trips, gets into|°Matse of the diamond drive. ©. tight neavyweight limit. Hudkins is A. These four, then, should fight it out] St. Paul at Toledo. ae Heunt aa fares Bonafide Oba ae | action, : Eo aaaiion te 68 blocks acquired for | not even a big middleweight, ‘ <r Columbus three automobiles and a a winter secured title to six more 3 Reds Are Stronger T Sch | front. The New Palace bowlers made Northwestern and Iowa.’The Wolver- loney of Boston in Jess McMahon's Of the remaining four members, raining 00 mnie spurt to beat the Spehn Market |“2",¥th, much of the artistic talent| ‘0s, championship team is back al.|2duare blocks in the city through Jack Hendricks’ Cincinnati Reds ap- pear much the strongest. Alt! several of his rookies have played passably well, Hendricks plans to start out with a veteran team little changed j from last year. If the Reds can es-) cape the injury jinx they may make it unpleasant for the “big four.” Until Glenn Wright can get in! the lineup, the Brookiyn Robins ma‘ find themselves hard put to keep ahead of the Phillies and Boston Braves. With Jess Petty gone, Wil- bert Robinson's pitching will not be @s strong as usual although it will be good. Burt Shotton has hopes that his Phillies will show considerable im- provement over their usual form de- spite the loss of Tommy Thevenow, injured in an auto accident. The Boston Braves will have one of the oldest infields in baseball with Sisler, Maguire, Maranville and Du- gan. Whatever the Braves gain in wisdom they seem destined to lose in agility. Krause Again Has 3-Cornered Role Battling Krause, Hazen fighter, 4s cast in the triple role of Nine to Gather Led by George Heidt, Mutt Gron- yold. Mike Geston, and Bob Renden, baseball cnthusiasts at the state training school at Mandan will get to | Work in the near future to develop what is expected to be one of the Strongest nines to represent the insti- tuition in several seasons, The team will be managed again this year by Herbert Crawford, who is eager to book games with as many teams on the Missouri Slope as is Possible. % Heidt anc Gronvold make up a veteran battery which has had great Success in the last few seasons and Geston and Renden are two classy infielders. Extensive improvement of the dia- mond at the training school also is planned, according to W. F. McClel- land, superintendent. Telephone poles on the south side of the field will be moved back and low spots in the outfield will be filled in. houg of second place. The Mandan Creamery five in’ the cellar through- out play climbed out of the lower apartment in the last week with the Lockbeam-Knoll grocers becoming its new tenant. ° - Phil Hertz displaced. James Mc- Gillic for individual honors. Hertz turned in an average of: 185-5 for 60 games. Season.records were well di- vided, . The statistics: te W. L. Pct. Ave. ‘ 876 866 886 854 819 831 Spehn..... Western Auto Mandan Creamery . 27 Lockbeam-Knoll .. 24 HAS VETERAN BACKFIELD Every regular of the 1928 backfield at the University of Pittaburgh is el- igible for football next fall. . FAVORS BASKETBALL CHANGE Coach Bohler of Washington state college favors. moving. the foul line back @ few feet in basketball. of the side shows, while the promoter strove with financial problems. Sheriff's deputies kept unwavering eyes on the Pyle impedimenta in the interests of the Chevrolet Motor Car company of New York. There was no explanation of the difficulty except Pyle’s announcement that the concern had objected to his arrangement with one of its agents to pay for the ve- hicles in weekly installments. Over- tures were opened for a settlement, said Pyle. The runners had.a 40 mile gallop to Springfield, with no attachments about them whatever but their bun- ions. Pete Gavuzzi, of Southampton, England,.was at the head of the pack. He finished first with Ed Gardner, Seattle negro, in the 54-mile run from Zanesville here yesterday and re- tained his lead in elapsed time. Gard- ner is second and John Salo, Passaic, N. J. is third, WANTS NO-HIT GAME Grover Alexander, with the st. Louis Cards, is ambitious of pitching & no-hit game before he retires. We offer you 30,000 nonpayment of taxes. Municipal ten- | night, nis courts and a wading pool for chil- dren are to'be constructed on other properties. Officers of the Mandan post meet this week to lay final plans for the league organization. Funds for spon- soring the plan were secured at the American Legion carnival. most to the man. The week's schedule: Wednesday, Northwestern at Michi- gan; Friday, Ohio State at Indiana Saturday, Northwestern at lIlinois, Towa at Michigan, Chicago at Indi- ana, and Ohio State at Purdue. ; Indiana, Purdue and Illinois have made a flying start in the campaign. Indiana defeated Ohio State, 4 to 2, in the first-game of the season April 4, while Tilinois edged out Iowa, 3 to 1, and Purdue defeated Northwest- ern, 7 to 4, Saturday. — TWO ATHLETES HONORED John Kirkpatrick and Walter Usher, captains, respectively, of the footh: and tennis teams at Lehigh this year, recently were elected to Phi Beta Kappa, national honorary scholastic fraternity. A oom “ule TESAS IEAGUB ox, former klyn player, who also was a fighter once, is now playing with Shreveport in the Texas league. HAS REGULAR JOB season, ”,,..MEN WHO WOULD DERIVE THE GREATEST PLEASURE FROM TOBACCO WITHOUT HARM TO THEIR HEALTH SHOULD SMOKE CIGARS”— says Doctor Georges L. N. Pilon Commanding* Physician: ofthe: French Army oad coliseum at New York on Friday After being a reserve infielder. with the Cincinnati Reds for the past two seasons, Clark Pittenger seems des- tined to play third base regularly this St. Louis may see a mound duel be tween Alphonse Thomas and Sam Gray of St. Louis. . One matter remained @ conjecture today and that was the weather. Throughout the east, fair weather ‘was expected for the opening day. but rain was feared in Cleveland and St. Louis:. es ——————EE———— MEN WHO SMOKE AND GUARD THEIR HEALTH, SMOKE CIGARS . “*< headline .fighter, matchmaker, and promoter a a boxing card. whicly 18 bie ei Sharkey born and in é ie aN Meo visins to be the most| Who are the leading left-handed e a “Iohalationoftobaccosmokeinto feared ‘fighter in the northwest, catchers in the American and the lungsis, I believe, the tangles with Jack Udell, Aberdeen, S.|___ National Leagues? (J. 8. M.) cause of the various evils attrib- Dak., in the 10-round big show. | Did Charley Myer and Ed Morris, of g Udell, weighing 165 pounds, will have the Boston Red Sox, receive any uted to smoking. These include ® 17-pound weight advantage over votes in the selection of the most } ‘ Certain nervous disorders, dis- Krause. The South Dakota man valuable player in the American teessing conditions of the throat claims the middleweight champion- teagie? If s0, how many? (J. 9 e | and even graver ailments.” Wild Bill Jam, Hazen, and Jackie | Is there any right field in the major ou ve ever riven ; “A cigar can be enjoyed with- , Beulah, meet in the league ball any shorter e out inhalation. Indeed, from my eight semi-windup. They are than the right field of the Phila- . pa 1 aa light heavyweights. f delphia Nationals? (D. H. K.) \ bservation, should say few Pe Other bouts on the card follow: | Was Lou Gehrig ever a pitcher? (J. ‘ cigar smokers inhale. I recom- 5. M.) 5 mend, therefore, that men who 7 Mandan, four Any question relative to sport derive the rounds at . would: e pleas- Koontz vs. Steve Dolan, ure from tobacco without harm both of Hazen. four rounds at catch- Goetz vs. Ruffie Brooks, four rounds at catch- preliminaries also at 8:15 Pp. m, and by a@ dance. cigars.” LA:PALINA is America’s Largest Selling | High Grade Cigar (OVER A MILLION A DAY). Its outstanding populerity Is the best proof OF ts unusual quality, engine proper care, use the New Mobiloil and the. 30,000 miles. In tests, the New Mobiloil has fee- - |