The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 27, 1929, Page 8

8 , Cubs Retain One-Gam CARD QUT RSES LEO DIEG + ANOTHER NOTCH BY » WALLOPING GIANTS » Pittsburgh, Minus Paul Waner and Grantham, Rallies to Trim Boston Nine MACKS AND YANKS BOTH WIN Leu Gehrig Hits. 24th Homer, Dickey Gets Two; Jackie May Pitches Well By HERBERT W. BARKER (Associated Press Sports Writer) Dome Buch, fiery little leader of * the Pittsburgh Pirates, is having a lot ef luck these days. but it’s all bad Notwithstanding the loss of two of their most effective batters, Paul Waner and Grantham, the Pirates * yallied in the ninth to nose out the Braves in a knock-down-and-drag-out * battle 9 to 8. “The Cubs maintained their one- game lead over Pittsburgh by trounc- ing the Philites 13 to 10 in a game in which 35 safe hits were scored, 17 for the Phillies and 18 for the Cubs. The St. Louis C: downed the * New York Gia their fourth * straight victory. and advanced to within two games and a half of third place. * — Jakie May Iet the Bros * down with six hits trotted off with a 4 n Dodgers Cincinnati ph. * In the Ame @ Phila- deiphia Aihle: heip 10'.- game lead over tho by down- * tng Chicago 3 to 1 The Yankees pc * and Lefty Stew nded Sammy Gray of the Browns for out. Lou Gehrig y h homer, and Bill Dickey drove out two. + Walter Miller was too much for Senator batsmen, and Cleveland beat * Washington 4 to 2. Detroit beat the Boston Red Sox 4 to 1 * Jimmy Foxx Back "In Hitting Lead Babe Ruth, Despite His Injuries, i Is Pressing Gehrig in ’ Home Runs Chicago. July 27.—(7)—Jimmy Foxx, Philadelphia Athletics’ youthful first “baseman, has regained the peak in the American league batting race, after yielding the top position to Heinic | Manush of the St. Louis Browns last ‘ week. Connie Mack's all-around hand | dropped two points from his mark of a week ago, unofficial figures includ- ing Wednesday's games reveal, but Nis average of .388 left him five points in front of the Brownie slug- r othe Pitching last week again was a little better than the batting in the junior major circuit, only two players in the first ten improving their marks. Bing Miller, Philadelphia out- fielder, added 12 points to his aver- age, and Harry Heilman of Detroit picked up three points. Following Foxx and Manush were: Simmons, Philadelphia, .362; Fothergill, Detroit, .360; Lazzeri, New York, .357; Miller, | Dramatic athletic action, characterized by all the grace of dancers holding the recent meet between the Princeton-Cornell and Oxford-Cambridge joint track teams at Travers Island, New York. To the left is L. H. Levy of Cornell, winner of the shot put event with a mark of 41 feet 2 3-4 inches. Next in line is J. F. Anderson of Cornell, and if you didn’t know he was one dandy shot pi a radiator-cap representation of the winged something or other. At the right is Caleb F. Gates of Oxford, former Princeton star, in an instant of grace of Pavlowa herself. These Chaps Might Be Aesthetic Dancers, But the Fact Is They Are Shot Putters classical Dusty Cooke Gains FANS DESIRE COOL DAY FOR GRAY-TURTLE LAKE CONTEST To Retain Pinnacle: Lynn Nelson, Fargoan Hurling for Kansas City, Still Is | Leading Pitchers \ Chicago, July 27.—()—A falling off in the clubbing activities of his near- | est rivals and a four-point gain in his own average, strengthened the | jhold of Dusty Cooke. St. Paul out- | fielder. on the American Association batting leadership during the last week. Unofficial averages including iWednesday’s game released today, | reveal Cooke had an average of .372. | |. Marty Callaghan and Tony Cucci- | {nello, of Columbus, found Kansas City pitching « little better than they | faced during the previous week, and | lost 10 and three points, respectively. Averages of other members of the} first ten, behind Cooke were: Cucci- | nello, Columbus. .360; Callaghan, | “Columbus, .355; Tucker, Kansas City, | -346: Branom, Louisville, .343; Rogell, | St. Paul, 341; Simons, Louisville. .336; | Sprinz, Indianapolis, .336; Earl Smith, Minneapoll:, .335; Seeds, Kansas Ci teas 5. Columbus Leads Hitters Columbus retained the team bat- | ting lead but had only a point ad-| vantage over St. Paul. The Senators Host three points during the visit to ia, 383; Fonseca, Cleve- St. Paul. In spite of its recent slump, , lagite Hovian’ Detroit, 353; Minneapolis still was the leading | Cochrane, Philadelphia, 348; Wil- Scoring club, with a total of 623 runs, | liams, Boston, .347. Gehrig Still Leads Home run leaders of the league failed to improve notably during the week. Lou Gehrig of the Yankees | added one to remain in the lead with 23 circuit smashes. but was threat- ened by Babe Ruth, who in spite of | injuries had collected 22, and Al Sim- mons, who also had 22. Foxx boosted his total to 20. ‘The collective batting efforts of the Detroit Tigers slipped three points, | and the Athletics climbed into a tie for first place at .305. The Yankees | picked up one point and were second | with .303. The Athletics displaced De- troit as the league's leading scoring erganization, with a total of 582 runs, and had held all opposition to 359 successful assaults on its plate. Philadelphia also maintained its fielding pace, handling the ball for a mark of .976 since the beginning of the season. St. Louis was second with 973, and the Yankees third, one pojnt behind the Browns. Cleveland, fielding in sixth position, was the first team to cross the 100 mark in double | plays, having completed 107 double Athletic Pitchers Win Pitching supremacy was largely a Philadelphia affair. Bob Grove won| game during the week to lead the pitchers working in turn with a rec- ord of 16 victories and two defeats. George w, another hurler, turned in the best mark of the week, three wins bringing his record to 15 triumphs and four de- Rube Walberg won a pair and | tad mark of 14 victories and five | Josses. Old Tom Zachary of New York | remained as the only undefeated hyrler, his record being five straight “Other leaders: Runs batted in— Simmons, Philadelphia, 93. Triples— Miller, Philadelphia, 12. Doubles— Gehtinger, Detroit, and Cissell, Chi- cago, 14 each. Triple plays—New York, Chicago and Detroit, 1 each. Strike- onts—Grove, Philadelphia, 120. Team home runs—New York, 8. ee Bhar Falls, July 21.—()—Walter i American » won the South Da-) patting—roxx, Athletics, .390. kota golf ._defeating| Runs—Gehringer, Tigers, 88 Jack Rube Jr. 4 and 2 Friday. BE i hvgs Stolen bases— , Indians, 15, SEBALL Mack: while Kansas City had held oppon-| ents to the lowest number, 390. The! Millers, although hitting but .288 and | ranking sixth. were far in front in| home runs. They had 89 to 70 for St. Paul, the runnerup. | Lynn Nelson, of Kansas City, re- ceived credit for one victory during.) the week and had a season record of 12 victories and two defeats, to re-| tain his position as leader of pitchers working in turn. Americus Polli, St. Paul's ace, had the biggest collection of victorics, having triumphed 14! times, but had dropped five decisions. | Archie Campbell. of St. Paul, kept! his record unblemished by defeat and; |added a victory to bring his string t2| seven, Fielding Is Unchanged | | The fielding leadership remained | ijunchanged. Kansas City continued | |to field for an average of .969, and| |Columbus remained in second posi-! jtion with .968, the same figure as a week ago. Toledo completed vight: |double plays during the week and was | ithe first team to go above 100, the} |Mudhens’ record being 107. Other leaders were: Runs batted in—Chapman, | Paul, 76. Home runs—Chapman, St. Paul, 19. | Triples—Keuhl, Kansas City, 14, Doubles—Cuccinello, Columbus. 30. | Stolen bases—Foss, Columbus, 21. P Total bases—Chapman, St. Paul,! 124. |. Triple play—St. Paul. Strikeouts — Brillheart, olis, 83. &t. ~ (INCLUDING GAMES OF JULY 26) (By The Associated Press) National Batting—Herman, Robins, 392. | Runs—Ott, Giants, 91. Stolen bases—Cuyler, Cubs, 26. Pitching—Bush, Cubs, won 13, lost | Minneap-/ & Petrolle Easy Goodrich Boss Former Lightweight Champion Fails to Win Round From the Fargo Express Duluth, July 27. the fight from the first round, Bil- ly Petrolle, “The Fargo Express,” last night easily defeated Jimmy Goodrich, Buffalo, former light- weight champion. Petrolie, outweighed by seven! pounds, was the aggressor through- out the 10 rounds of the feature bout of a 34-round show that drew a crowd of more than 3,000, News- paper writers gave Petrolle cight rounds, with the other two even. verrolle weighed 137 and Goodrich Charlie Retzlaff, youthful head of the lakes heavyweight, knocked out Grant Shade, Des Moines, Iowa, in the third round of their scheduled six-round semi-windup. Louie Gallop, Duluth, beat Babe | Herman, Moorhead; Mel Coleman, St. Paul, won from Chet McIntyre, Superior, and Billy Norton, Duluth, | | knocked out Everett Kennard, Moor- head, in the second round in other fights on the card, THE RULE Is! By GEORGE SARGENT Golf Professional The Situatior In playing a certain hole A drives his ball into a spot marked “Ground Under Repair.” The ball cannot be found in this torn-up spot. Does the usual lost-ball rule apply? Or does the “ground-under-repair” rule pre- vail, permitting A to drop a ball with- out penalty? The Rule Is: Where a ball lands in a ground un- der repair the player may lift his ball and drop it without penalty. If, how- -2, he 1s unable to find his ball it ,| must be treated as lost, and the usual penalty taken. | AP)—Forcing , forth in an aesthetic festival on the lawn, is shown in these pictures from Next is R. M. N. Tisdall of Cambridge performing his act with all the | ter you might think he was Posture, \O’Doul Regains | Strokes and Bill Mehlhorn was only THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, SATURDAY, JULY 27, 1929 e Lead by Beating Phils in Batting Spree EL TAKES EARLY LEAD IN QUEST FOR CANADIAN OPEN DEFENDING CHAMP IS FAVORED 10 SNATCH oO One-Legged, But He'll Be in Marathon HONOR FOURTH TIME) | i ° 1 | ' | oe Lone Pro From. Mexico Begins Crucial Third Round With a Count of 137 ARMOUR, MEHLHORN CLOSE Jim Barnes, Who Set Early Pace, and Billy Burke Com- plete the First Five By BRIAN BELL (Associated Press Sports Writer) Kanawaki, Que., July 27.—(#)—If Leo Diegel can finish a golf task as he started it he will find fame in plenty awaiting him. The defending champion, who has won the Cana- dian open crown three times, can make it four by a snappy finish in the final 36 holes today. Starting the crucial third round, the lone pro from Mexico was a stroke in front of the field with a count of 137 for the first 36 holes. There were 79 others playing the final day but only a score or so were conceded a chance to overhaul the flying Leo. Tommy Armour, the Black Scot, with 138, stood by to pick up stray two back with 140, Jim Barnes, who set the early pace, slipped in the sec- ond round but was close enough to be dangerous witht a count of 141 as was Billy Burke, credited with 142. | Swatting Title, Weather This Morning Melvin Ott Wears Only Double | Crown, Leading Scorers and in Score Hits | coo Gives Promise of Ideal Base- ball Day Tomorrow New York, July 27.—(”)— Frank |LOVE AND VIESTENZ PITCH ©'Dou! of Philadelphia has moved up to head the National league batters, ss - |displacing the former leader, Bahe Oppressive Heat During Last terman of Brooklyn by the margin! q | of a single point. O’Doul has a batting ; Week Makes Practice onthe mark of .307 in the averages issued | Diamond Near Drudgery i today and including games of last Wednesday, while Herman is hitting at a .396 clip. Bismarck’s baseball fans are pray-| Melvin Ott, the young Giant, wears {ing for cooler weather tomorrow for the only double crown, heading the the Bismarck Gray-Turtle Lake game | scorers with 88 runs and ‘eading 11] at 3 p. m. at the city athletic field. runs batted in with 96. Bill Terry, his Oppressive heat has made practice teammate, has collected 143 hits to the last week almost drudgery but lead the league in that department. cooler weather today gave promise of ' Johnny Frederick of Brooklyn is cn | @ good baseball day tomorrow. top in hitting doubles with 30, while | |, Doc Love is the slated hurler for Lloyd Waner of Pittsburgh has the the Grays tomorrow and hopes to get most triples, 14. jback into his winning stride. He Klein Has 29 | Pitched a losing game against.Minot | Cluck Klein, the Philadelphia slug- | | at the. Ward county city last weck. ger, is far ahead in the home run| Duckie Guidas will carry the catch- race with 29 four-base clouts. His/ ing burden with Eddie Tobin at first | nearest rival is Ott, who has hit for | | base, Louis Lenaburg at second, John | the circuit 26 times. Sagehorn at shortstop, and Floyd Ful-| Following the two leaders in bat- ler at third. Babe Mohn. Punt John- ting averages are these regulat son, and Dutch Nagel will post them-|Terry, New York, .370; Klein, Pitts- | selves in the gardens. burgh, .369; Hafey, St. Louis. .356; L. Viestenz and Schweitzer will pitch | Waner, Pittsburgh. .354; Hendrick, and catch respectively for the visitors. | Brooklyn, .348; and Dressler, Brook- The remainder of the lineup will be | lyn, 344. « i Though he has only one leg, Max Kuhlka of Waukesha, Wis., has en- tered the Wrigley swimming carnival at Toronto Aug. 23 to 29. Kuhika is | one of Wisconsin's most powerful; swimmers and will compete in the 15-mile event in the cold waters of Lake Ontario at Toronto. He is shown. MILLERS APPEAR RECOVERED FROM DISHEARTENING SLUMP Minneapolis Club Takes Thira Straight From Toledo Mud- hens by 19 to 10 BLUES, SAINTS VICTORIOUS Milwaukee Outhits Indianapolis but Five Costly Errors Bring a Defeat By WILLIAM A. WEEKES Chicago, July 27.—()—The batting punch of the Minneapolis Millers ap- Pears to have returned. After going into a slump which dropped them from the position of Kansas City’s chief threat, to third place, the Mill- ers have recovered enough to hand Toledo three straight beatings. Minneapolis yesterday exhibited a sample of its batting power by ham- mering out 20 hits off three Mudhen pitchers to take a 19 to 10 decision. Kansas City held its lead over 8t. Paul, trimming Louisville, 9 to 4, while the Saints were defeating Col- umbus, 6 to 2. The fact that Milwaukee was able to outhit Indianapolis by a 14 to 12 margin“failed to overcome the handi- cap of five Brewer errors, and the Indians copped, 12 to 8. Indianapolis scored five times in the first inning, five of the runs being the result of Brewer misplays. kins and Griffin got home runs for Milwaukee, those by Lebourveau and | Griffin coming consecutively in the |third inning. the whole game for Indianapolis, Baseball Heads Lebourveau, Jen- Ken Penner pitched Have Objections Atlanta, July 27.—(AP) hy He \e| ures of three minor leagues a mourned that departed brother, John |@. Public, the man with the 75-cent Diece. lige of sorrow here recently. They Al Gardner, president of the Wi- above diving and swimming. ieee a club, represented the xa e. “Cap” William Neal Carroll and ‘Phillips; M. and Berry, A. Gaston. Gaston;umphs yesterday, put the United of the Louisville club presented the ° | Sorrows of the American Association Philadelphia 6 25 «734 Y Am can and R. J. Spi ung . J. Spiller of Atlanta wept for Sabie isaie 56 oH oe 0 eri s ire Salads copsnie be 5 2 +599 i¢ mourners advanced a number en tee oe SS Beat French Pair of points. The important ones were: sshoperan ie 1, Baseball salaries are too high. stl ington . Se CREAR RRER Teaco 2. The ball is too lively. a ae 6s 293|¥an Ryn and Allison Triumph | 3. Baseball must do something to Over Cochet and-Borotra lay woes erie Oe fe-saei Games Yesterday A ‘ ice 4 ‘ ge! - * = in Straight Sets ting harder and it now is necessary Sinica 4 4 e for ouinnh clubs to develop their - tenes — own materia! New York . Bats 6 ari i Gray, Stewart and Shang; Well) (By THOMAS T. TOPPING) __|jaqre™ yalaries. Spiller, told the and Dickey. Bees pee Seueend paying out in salaries every louie they ; Sees Rican am of Joba Sn Aa aa oe “Cap” Neal "said conditions in the Chicago .... mer Allison checked the rush of the ‘ati Philadelphia. Bane and| fench today and won the, doubles American Association were equally Zyons and Berg; Ehmke and! match of the Davis Cup challenge = A rcs |round from Henri Cochet and Jean| ag pin ieee clubs are paying men pels | Borotra in straight sets, 6-1, 8-6, 6-4. | 35, ees Beasts i said, and agreed this was preposter- R HE || The victory for the youthful Amer- | ous,’ There are numerous galaries of laseeccdt 4 11 Ojican collegians over the French pair,|$759 and $800 per month sa |Boston .. 1 7 2) which had scored two singles tri- : Li : ) It was the unanimous opinion that the winter meeting of the minor leagues will be almost as interesting as the next series between the Cin- cinnati Reds and the Chicago Cubs. States back in the running in the bat- tle for the famous tennis trophy. made up of Vonderheide, first base; Dalven, second base; Lindquist, short- Hack Wilson compiled the longest hitting streak of the year before he R H E| However, with a lead of 2-1, France Cleveland .. 4 9 0!nceded to win only one of the two re- Washington . 1| maining singles contests tomorrow to 2 7 Miller and L. Sewell; Jones, Had- | successfully defend the cup. stop. and Kusler, third base. Out- | fielders will be W. Maxwell, B. Max- ;Well, Lynch, Peters and Hendricks, in the National league pitching staffs , =o If: aa gee oe eee ae | rs Flay Go with but one defeat for an average | Paris, July 27.—(/)—European ten- | | Brooklyn-Chicago game last Monday. |The Cub slugger hit safely in 27 games. Guy Bush of Chicago held his lead of .889, gained from 16 victories and burgh held second place with a mark | Boston was stopped by Dazzy Vance in the |ley, Liska and Ruel. NATIONAL LEAGUE Standings Chicago .. followed their capture of the Wim- Pittsburgh bledon championship and defeat of New York . the Germans in the inter-zone finale .| in doubles play. Their triumph today Dickinson Nine To Meet Wibaux (Tribune Special Service) ,_ Dickinson, N. D., July 27.—Dick- inson Cowboys are preparing for a tussle with the Wibaux, Mont., baseball nine at Palm Beach park, near here, Sunday afternoon. The game is scheduled for 2:30. The The victory for the young America team—Allison is only 24 and Van Ryn 23—was the climax of one of the greatest winning streaks ever scored at Berlin. This is the first year either has participated in Davis Cup com- petition. of 929. Burleigh Grimes of Pitts- | nis stars revert to the mashic, niblick | two defeats. Henry Meine of Pitts- TURTLE LAKE BISMARCK GRAYS and driver when wielding a racquet | becomes too strenuous for their aging jarms. ; Andre Gobert, once supreme in | French tennis, reached the semifinals in the French amateur golf cham- Pionships at Chantilly recently. | __Jean Washer of Belgium, the sturdy | Southpaw, finalist against Tilden and | Johnston at Saint Cloud. whose fore- {hand drive streaked like lightning |@cross the courts, now hits the pill | Just as hard from the tee. burgh lost his nominal lead when he took his second defeat with five victories. Phillies Have Lead + The Phillies increased their margin in team batting by two points last week mercly by holding their aggre- gate average at the .309 mark. Their rivals, the Pirates and the Giants, slipped to .305 and .300. The slip cost the Giants third place on the |list, as the Cubs lost less ground and But he | remained at .302. The Giants are on | also hits them to all points on the top in team fielding with .974, with compass. int below them and He succumbed in the third round. |the So ee ee eek \Grimes’ Reversal ——— snr’ rimes hever i “a> =6|t. Fights Last Night | Of Form Striking * . orm (By The Associated Press) 2 piped Duluth, Minn.—Billy Petrol- New York, July 27.—(AP)—The| te, Fargo, D., _outpointed jStrange case of Burleigh Grimes,| Jimmy Goodrich, Buffalo, (10); ;now pitching the greatest ball of jhis long career for the Pittsburgh | Pirates, after being traded by the} Robins and Giants for unexplained | reasol lay be traced back to his a major leaguer. _ Burleigh, after a period of season- jing in the south, broke into the big show with the Pirates late in 1916, remaining with the Bucs in 1917! before being traded to Brooklyn.| In less than two seasons with the Pirates, Grimes won five and lost 19 games. It has taken a long time for Bur- digh to begin “getting out of the red,” so far as his record as a Pi- rate goes, but once started he has made a rapid job of it. In a season and a half, he now has won more than 40 games as against only some 15 defeats. Charlie Retzlaff, Superior, Wis., knocked out Grant Shade, Des Moines, Ia., (3). ‘ Hartford, Conn.—Bat Bat- talino, Hartford, Conn., out- pointed Al Brown, Panama, (10 .. Erie, Pa.—Phil Zwick, Cleve- land, stonped Dandy Allen, Philadelphia, (6). Cleveland, stop nny |. stein, Erie, Pa., (8); Joe Good- man, Cleveland, and Maxie Strub, Erie, Pa., drew, (8). Atlantic City—Benny Bas: Philadelphia, outpointed Calvin Reed, New York, (8). Hollywood, Cal. —Everett Strong, Omaha. won decision over Homer Sheridan, Sioux City, Ia., (10; Famed Bicycle Rider Is Dead A.A. ‘Rainmaker’ Hansen, Hold- | May and Gooch. Te aon er of Two Records, Suc- jag ig Poids cumbs to Iliness mer, Bwetonic, Petty and Hargreaves. R H | Minneapolis, July 27.—(7)—“Rain- 3 ww 1|maker” Hansen, of Minneapolis, na- St. Louis .. i 4 8 3| tionally known bicycle rider of a quarter of a century ago, died at a hospital last night after an illness of two years. ‘Walker, Genewich and Hogan; Mitchell and Wilson. 4 ton and Kenna. | Harriss and Hargrave. eens 8 14 Penner and Sprinz; Strelecki, Tem: ple, Gearin and Young. _R Toledo « 10 00 p.m. Cowboys have been romping over their opponents this season and will attempt to repeat game. in Sunday's The Junior Cowboys will journey to Hebron Sunday afternoon for a return game with the Farmers Val- ley nine of that town, boys captured the long end of an 8 to 6 score in a game with the He- bron nine here earlier in the sea- son, Bobby Jones Has The local Chance at Marks R oH E| Hansen established two amateur Iphia 10 17 1|Tecords which still stand. They are| In the 1929 national amateur cham- | Bpiiade ies 13 18 — 2/the 1,000 mile road record of 92 hours,| plonship at Pebble Beach in Septem- ‘Willoughby, McGraw, Dailey, mui-|32 minutes, and the 24-hour dirt | ber, Bobby Jones will have a chance ott and Levain, Davis; Neht’ Jon.|ttack mark of 376 miles. to equal one national record and es- nard, Carlson, Cvengros, Bush and! 1m 1889, Hansen rode from Minne-| tablish @ new one. A victory would ‘ ‘Taylor. “s apolis to Chicago and return over| put him in the same class as Chick sds 800 miles of rollgn Resid 35, less Sinn Frans Wie won Been. soe open and AMERICAN ASSOCIATION =| {Wo weeks. using a “high wheeler.” ong aig 2 tandings Later he made the round trip in a victory for Jones ae seven days. , would make him winner of the ama- |. & widow and a daughter survive. teat no geller as scompliahe. s er ers, Minneapolis ......... 19 20 1| Travers Egan, staged 24 Blankenship, Doyle, Wingard and| amateur title twice in a row, but that McCurdy; Middleton, Buckeye, Ben-|is the Jones himself R H E| George Von Columbus » 2 0 © St. Paul . we 6 10 1 TRAFFIC LAWS Kemner, Myers and Shinault;} Columbus, O—Ohio State univers Sunday, July 28 City Athletic Field = Senay, daly 28 iy Silt