The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 10, 1929, Page 8

CHAMPION FAVORED *erant excels in drives, but Kauffmann ‘Al Simmons Climbs - As Foxx Descends: - a mark of .378, nine points behind the . leader. > mons and Manush were: > ning or losing. He remained in the ./@ 307 clip, and regained " ® point and remained third with an ” average of .302. TO RETAIN HONORS | | AGAINST TOLEDOAN Contenders for National Crown | Tied Score in Medal Play Round | MILTON SONCRANT FIGHTS | Kauffmann Steady and Cool | While Challenger Is Bril- liant, Erratic Forest Park, St. Louis, Aug. 10.—7) Milton Soncrant. who quit. teaching | and playing golf to carn his living | carrying mail in ‘Toledo, today was the last obstacle between Carl Kauff- mann of Pittsburgh and his third successive national public links cham- Ppionship. The two, who tied for med- | alist honors in the 36-home qualifying | round and who have conquered the} largest field in the history of the tournament. faced cach other today n the final 36-hole round for the title. Kauffmann, who during his seven; vears of competition in the champion ship event has been semifinalist twice, finalist. once, and champion twice, | naturally was a one-sided favorite. | He has been playing the best golf of his career, while Soncrant has been | . shooting both mediccre and brilliant | golf. i Soncrant’s choice, however, lay in his dogged fighting ability. | Starting his victorious march to the finals, Soncrant climinaied A. J. Pardee of New Haven, Conn.. 7 and | 6, then polished off Joe Mcrola, New | York city, 1 up, crushed Frank Con- nelly, Detroit municipal champion, 5 . and defeated Wes Casper of sville, former Kentucky amateur | champion, 1 up. on the twenty-fir: hole in yesterday's 18-hole semi | Kauffmann’s path to the finals was | easier. He successively defeated H. Al- | beck of Chicago, 5 and 3. John Con-! way, Detroit, 6 and 5, Johnny Boyd. Philadelphia, 3 and 2. and John Hornsby, municipal champion of Wichita, 5 and 3, in the semifinals. Champion and challenge? play a similar game. one that is character- dzed by steadiness and safety. Son- has shown better ability in the im- portant department of pitching to the pin. Up Batting Ladder, Athletics Lead Batting and) Fielding Average; Dis- place Yankees Chicago, Aug. 10. — (>) — Jimmy) Foxx's batting average suffered! slightly last week, but not enough to| break his lease on the American} League leadership. Figures released today and including Wednesday's games, give the Philadelphia first baseman a mark of .387, a loss of three points. A new threat to Foxx's reign ap- peared in the person of his teammate Al Simmons. The Athletic outfielder added 16 points to his average to pass Heinie Manush of St. Louis, with Manush dropped five points to .368. The name of George Herman Ruth occupied a familiar position in the list of statistics—at the top of the home run column. The Babe cracked out four homers during the week to steal the lead from Lou Gehrig, with a total of 28. Following Foxx, Sim- Fonseca, Cleveland, .367; Lazzeri, New York, .363; Combs, New York, .361; Heil- mann, Detroit, .351; K. Williams, Boston, .350. Grove Keeps Lead Bob Grove, the Athletics’ southpaw ace, had passed a profitless week, en- gaging in three games without win- lead, however, with a record of 17 vic- tories and two defeats. George Earn- shaw, Connie Mack’s best righthand- er, won two games for a mark of 18 victories and five defeats. Rube ‘Walberg’s work for the weck pro- duced one defeat, leaving his record at 16 won and six lost. Tom Zach- ary of New York, won his only start and brought his string to seven straight wigs. The Athletics continued to bat at the team sloughing picked up leadership, the Yankees one point to 30. Detroit A’s Lead Fielding Philadelphia's fielding rate was sufficient to keep the leadership an- other week. The A’s lost one point | boss, * + to give them a mark of .975, while St. | don ~ Louis and New York remained in sec- ‘ond and third places, with averages of 973, and .972, respectively. ; Graw told a friend. | players depend on the motions of that | nen Ae ne THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE SATURDAY, AUGUST Mail Carrier and Clerk Are Pla 10, 1929 ying for Public Links Championship PP TAL IE Le NT eT TE ee Connie’s Famous Scorecard | Connie Mack * * * CONNIE MACK’S MOTIONS FROM | BENCH ARE OFTEN MISLEADING don't tell you, and you go wrong, hi don’t give you no hell when you get | t Gand Old Man of Philadelphia! o the bench. Uses Complicated Sig- Po ERR ee Oe nal System > Goes to Yanks J a Asheville, N. C., Aug. 10.—(AP) | WON'T REVEAL ANY SECRET) iandca'‘yvechon nt anette | Players Say He Shows Confi- dence in Them by Let- ting Them Act By HENRY L. FARRELL Philadelphia, Aug. 10.—John Mc- Graw, according to a baseball legend, orders every ball thrown by a Giant Pitcher by a complicated system of signals. He also uses the signal sys- tem. the story goes, to move his in- fielders and outfielders from spot to pot It was the sluggishness of Frankie Frisch in catching these signals that caused McGraw to release a player who was considered to be one of the best second basemen in bascbail. McGraw hasn't had a good second baseman since Frisch was sent down! the baseball river to St. Louis. But McGraw sticks to his principle. “He missed too many signals and he was the captain of the team,” Mc- Mack in the Dugout It is also a baseball legend that Connie Mack. the grand old man of! the Philadelphia Athletics, flags his of the most familiar pictures of the “old man” shows him standing on the steps of the dugout with a score- card in his hand flagging his men on the field. It has been accepted as a fact years ago that the Philadelphia scorecard in the waving hands of the old master. “Is it true, Mr. Mack, that you di- rect the pitching and the positions of asked him. Connie Plays the: Fox ‘The genial Connie beamed one of those wide smiles characteristic of | him. And wouldn't reply. “I would not tell you any of his se- | crets,” one of his men said. “I am not saying that he docs or doesn’t. I will admit that at times when we have a young outfielder or a rookie infielder it does no harm to wave a scorecard one way or the other to get him into! a better position. But I will leave it! to your own judgment if it is neces- | sary to order every ball pitched by! such pitchers as Grove, Walberg, | Earnshaw, Rommel. and Quinn. i “That reminds me of the old story,” he went on, “of the manager who sent up a pinch hitter with the in- structions, ‘Hit a home run.’ “There are times, of course, when a situation arises demanding a message from the bench. We have a way of) sending those messages. I will ask you to recall, though, that we have two of the greatest catchers in baseball.” Catchers Never Look That much is admitted, and in the many games we have watched we never have scen Mickey Cochrane or} Cy Perkins or Jimmy Foxx, when he was catching, look around to the bench, like a Giant catcher does, for | the word. | The scorecard-waving that Mack. does, according to his men, is in large | part a decoy. | “We do get a lot of signals from the one of them said. “But they come always from that score-| leaders were: Runs batted in » Phil . haf) r-¥ é i z E g if cot . some of his signals to be misicading. |Move On to Boston' the players with that scorecard?” we | ° |League must perforce remain very | pounded out a 7 to 1 victory over Cin- | first few innings, the Browns coast- | { | with that famous scorecard are apt * * * Tourists to the New York Yankees, | following as it does the news of | Harry Smythe's sale to the Phil-| lies, gives Hall) F. Corpening,| new owner of the} Asheville club, a} splendid record as | a business man.| Allen goes to the Yankees at the| end of the pres- ent season for a sale price of John Allen 37,500. At the time of his purchase Al-/ len had won 15 games and lost 7. His great speed made him effective against South Atlantic hitters. Al- len also is a noteworthy hitter boast- ing a batting average of .340 at the Johnny Nee authorized the pur- chase after watching Allen allow) six hits in a recent game against; Spartanburg, at the same time get- ting two singles and a double him-! self and driving in three runs. Cubs Smack Phils; Giants Pound Out Victory Over Redlegs; Pirates Make Even Dozen (By The Associated Press) The pennant hopes of the second and third place teams in the National slim while the Cubs are winning four out of five games as they are doing now. The Piratesdid a neat job yesterday, winning their 12th game in succession from the St. Louis Cardinals, 7 to 6, but the Cubs stopped off in Philadel- phia long enough to smack the Phil- lies by a 12 to 6 count, then moved on for a series against the Boston Braves. Meanwhile the Giants, trailing along a bad third in the standing, cinnatt. The American League went through a day of almost complete inaction as most of the teams were on the way to new scenes of activity. The St. Louis Browns and Chicago White Sox staged the only battle of the day in the younger league and it was not much in the way of a scrap after the ing in to a 9 to 4 victor; oe ee JUST A SMART ATHLETE “Bo” Orlovich, track star at Illinois, was recently elected to Phi Beta Kappa at that institution. ; tional trophy. | Babe lifted his mark from .407 to .413 time the deal was completed. Scout] last DEFEAT AMERICA’S BEST DOUBLES PAIR 7a ' Helen Wills and Edith Cross Win | coy STARS | Only Five Games in Cup Match j YANKEE GIRLS WIN SINGLES ; Helen Jacobs’ Triumph Over | Betty Nuthall High Point =| of Contests | Forest Hills, N. ¥., Aug 10.—um— | | Reputations in tennis mean little— | frequently nothing at all in a close | match—but that of the British for | | supremacy in doubles play and of the | American court stars in the singles have been upheld in no uncertain fashion. America’s two Helens, Miss Wills and Miss Jacobs, ran into a few sur- prises in their singles matches, but | each came through to victory to give the United States the lead in the two-day compctition for the interna- | y. The only surprise in the doubles was the ease with which | the stellar British couple, Mrs. Pegey | Saunders Mitchell and Mrs. Phoebe Watson, conquered the best combina- tion America has produced, Helen | Wills and Edith Cross. The California pair, winners of the Easthampton: title carlier this week, vere able to win but five games from heir overseas rivals in the final match of the day, which reduced the American margin to 2-1. The high spot of the first day's | play came in the second singles match which brought a triumph to | Helen Jacobs only after the bitterest lof struggles with England's youthful | star, Betty Nuthall. | Babe Herman Lifts; Batting Average as. O’Doul Slips Down: Hornsby Leads Scorers; Guy Bush Is Supreme; Cubs Best Fielders New York, Aug. 10.—-(AP)—Sail- | ing along at an ever increasing clip, ; Babe Herman of Brooklyn holds the | lead in the National league batting race by a wide margin. The Brooklyn for an eight point increase in the av- lerages released today, which include Wednesday's games. Frank! O'Doul, the Philadelphia slugger, still holds sccond place among the/| regulars but fell off five points to an! average of 380. Bill Terry of the} New York Giants holds third place, | three points further back. Honors this weck are quite thor- oughly spread out among the bat- ting leaders. Terry comes closer than anyone else to making a double kill- | ing. Along with his third place in the averages, he holds the top of the hit; collectors, having banged out 163 safe blows. Herman is running hima close second with 161. Hornsby Leading Scorer Rogers Hornsby, the keystone sack- er and leading slugger of the Chicags | Cubs, heads the scoring list. His to- tal of 102 runs puts him five up on Mel Ott of the Giants and Taylor Douthit of the Cardinals. Ott still holds the edge in runs batted in, hav ing brought home 111 counters. Hack Wilson of the Cubs is his nearest rival with 108. Frederick of Brooklyn tops the list of two base hits with 37 while Lloyd Waner, Pittsburgh’s _ little poison, still heads the list of triples with 15, Chuck Klein of the Phillies still holds his home run lead with a} total of 33. i After the first three among the regular batters of the cire Hornsby, Chicago, .363; Klein, Phila. delphia, .359; Hafey, St. Louis, 359; Traynor, Pittsburgh, .358; L. Waner, | Pittsburgh, .356; Douthit, St. Louis, .353; and Stephenson, Chicago, .350. Grimes Chases Bush No pitcher in the circuit has risen yet to challenge the supremacy o: Guy Bush of the Cubs. The Chicago ace now has 15 wins to his credit and only one defeat. Hi: erage is 938. Burleigh Grimes of Pittsburgh holds second place with an 889 mark, gained through 16 victories and two de- feats. Hal Carlson of the Cubs had won five games and lost two for a -778 mark while Sylvester Johnson of St. Louis has won 10 and lost three games to stand at .769. The Pirates rose to the top of the club batting list last week, despite several defeats, slamming the ball A lot of people are good because nobody ever cared to tempt them. ‘| for an aggregate average of .305. The Cubs and the Phillies, formerly sec- ond and first on the list, are tied one joint behind. The Giants hold the urth post with a .300 mark. Chicago still retains the club field- ing average of .975 for first place in that respect. The Giants and the ; Mullen; Burwell and Sprinz. OF THE CLUBS. AMERICAN LEAGUE Standings Won Lost Pct. Philadelphia ....... 77 30 720 New York 64 38 627 St. Louis . 56 30 528 Cleveland 55 50 524 Detroit ....... . 51 54 486 Washington .. + 42 60 412 Chicago .. 64 386 Boston . 2 301 Games Yesterday R E St. Louis . . © 10 0 Chicago .. 4 12 2 Collins, Crowder and Change; Ly- ns, McKain and Berg, Crouse. Others not scheduled. NATIONAL LEAGUE Standings Won Lost Pet. cago... - 68 32 680 Pittsburgh .. « 62 39 614 New York a7 557 St. Louis 52, 505, Brooklyn 59 427 Cincinnati 69 AT Boston... 61 413 Philadelphia 62 392 Games Yesterday R H E Cincinnati 1 4 3 New York 0 ‘ et 15. Kolp and Sukeforth; Fitz- May, simmons and Hogan. O no UM Se St. Louis ... 6 10 0 Pittsburgh 7 1¢ 1 Mitchell, Frankhouse, Johnson and Wilson; Swetonic, French and Hems- ley. R H E Chicago .... 12 13 1 Philadelphia + 6 9 0 Bush and Taylor; Elliott, Koupal, Smythe, Collins, Benge and Lerian. Others not scheduled. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION ‘ Standings Won Lost Pet. BRUSHING UP SPORTS ..... By Laufer br EN Cialis HE KEPT OTHERS FROM COPPING “CROWN! By WERNER LAUFER Dave Shade, veteran of nearly 200 fights, is past his peak as fighting goes. He is already of the class of fighting troopers fast approaching the “trial-horse” stage. But just a few years ago Dave,j after fighting his way through the welterweight ranks, fell short of win- ning the championship, when a ref- eree, influenced by Champion Mickey Walker's desperate last round rally, gave the decision against the Cali- Kansas City 74 37 ~—-.667 | fornia challenger and saved Walker's St. Paul . + 69 43 .616icrown. After Dave had handed Minneapolis 64 46 582 | Mickey one of the worst lickings of Indianapolis 52 60464 his life. Louisville » 50 61 450 He Squelches Comers Columbus + 49 63 438] Since then Dave has never quite Milwaukee . » 44 67 .396:reached his peak again. But he has Toledo ... + 41 66’ .383/been ashes in the beer of more than one fighter who .counted his cham- pion chickens before they were H E| hatched. St. Paul .... 6 14 3) The most recent case of Dave ex- Louisville ll 16 0) ploding the rice pudding was when Betts, Zumbro and Hargrave; Moss, | Deberry and Thompson. Minneapolis Indianapolis. Buckeye, Du: R H E Kansas City 10 16 1 Columbus pai 6 3 Warmouth, Nelson and Angley; Jablonowski, Wykoff—and Devine. Others not scheduled. Fargo Boys Snare Red River Honors San Francisco and Fargo Girls Defeat Kenefick Sisters of lowa Fargo, N. Dak., Aug. 10.—()—Phil Wooledge and Norman Christianson, Fargo, have won the junior doubles title of the Red River Valley open tennis tournament. The two Fargo entries yesterday defeated Hal Wooledge, Fargo, and Reed Wooledge, Minot, for the title. The women’s doubles honors went to Marion Hunt, San Francisco, north- west women’s champion, and Georg- ina Brindle, Fargo, who teamed up to climinate the Kenefick sisters, Thelma and Ruth, Eagle Grove, Iowa. The scores were 6-0, 4-6, and 6-1. Hal Wooledge, Fargo, was eliminat- eq from the men’s singles by Jimmy Young, Minneapolis, who advanced f|to finals today: Young and Trafford Jayne, Minne- apolis, paired up to enter the doubles finals by upsetting Johnson and Ped- erson, Ada., Minn., in the penultimate round. + Jayne defaulted his singles match with Phillip Brewster, Kansas City, jafter the latter refused to accept a point which would have given him the second set He previously had won the opener, 6-0. Helen Gruchella, 17, North Dakota women’s champion, will meet Miss Hunt for the women's and girls’ titles today while Jayne and Young face Leonard and Jonathan Blaisdell, Mi- not, for the doubles title. Phil and Hal Wooledge, Fargo, will compete \for honors in the junior singles. Reds follow at one point intervals while: Pittsburgh still holds fourth with its 970 mark. (INCLUDING GAMES OF AUG. 9) (By The Associated Press) National League Batting—Herman, Robins, .413, Runs—Hornsby, Cubs, 105. Homers—Klein, Philadelphia, 33. Stolen. bases—Cuyler, Cubs, 29. i Fisshing Fem, Cubs, won 16, lost 1, merican League Batting—Foxx, Athletics, .387. Ru ringer, Tigers, 98, Homers—Ruth, Yanks, 28. Stolen bases—Gehringer, Tigers, 1i. | pitching—Grove, Athletics, ime Menai Has 37 Years | Baseball Bed Toman, vars ae the ree Eye League, is rout 27 years of baseball, a record rere ly equaled. He commenced his dia- mond career in 1832 ‘and played t Angeles and other ifornia cities. Twen'y years » he retired become umpire and has not missed @ season tince, em- ployed by nearly every circuit of ire helped to organize le hel of; sociation of Profesfonal Players of ..merica of which Frank Isbell is president. It is a strictly charitable bod; for the purpose of aiding the un- fortunate players of the game. Automobile racing has grown so/e earoese in seluren Of 97 pet enor over the 1927 figures. ly and was founded | has. of seni t. Not omy is Fort Worth, but io he whipped Rene DeVos in a torrid 10-rounder. DeVos had so originally been called the uncrowned king of the middleweights. They said he was the hardest hitter in his division. True, he had lost to Ace Hudkins, but illness and poor condition had kept him from demonstrating his greatness. The boxing commissions were considering him as heir to Mickey Walker's pawned crown jewels. He took on the slipping Shade for the exercise but Dave fooled him. Dave ducked and bobbed in to de- cision, Slaps Slattery Silly A few years ago out of Buffalo skyrocketed Jimmy Slattery. He was on his way to the light heavyweight title and nothing could stop him. Critics called him the class of his generation. He had everything, in- cluding patent leather hair and a ca- pacity for night life. He was matched with Shade. It looked bad for the lantern - jawed Dave, but when the fight came off Dave knocked him dead in the third round. Others have been sidetracked earlier in their climbs by Dave Shade. Others, too, have beaten him. But never a guy tagged as an uncrowned champion. Moral: If you're managing an un- crowned champion, steer clear of Dave Shade. ‘Bill Tilden Is Not Yet Ready to Quit Courts for Pencil Plays 139 Games in 12 Sets, Then Recommends More Tennis to Youth Southampton, N. Y., Aug. 10.—(#)— Big Bill Tilden is not yet ready to retire from an active life on the courts and give sage advice to the youth of the country. In a solid eight hours on the turf courts of the Meadow club, Tilden played a total of four matches com- prising no less than 12 sets and 139 games here. Big Bill does not go so far as to recommend as heavy a program as for every aspiring young tennis in the land, but he thinks that jore tennis is played in this , the sooner the United States going to get back the Davis cup.” On the subject of the famous in- Tilden declined “one of the very good doubles team of this generation” and to announce that Junior Coen, the Kansas City youngster, will be heard from in the national. championship before many seasons. As for himself, Big ‘Bill made it clear that while he does not expect to engage in any more Davis cup ten- nis largely for the reason that he thinks he “ would not be able to make the team” he has no thought of giving up “tennis for fun.” Duke’s Stadium Has Scouts’ Box Durham, N. C., Aug. 6.—(?)—Scouts will have every opportunity to con- centrate on games played in the new lief that commercialism of the itiment throughout the state, fans and play. ers regretted the nity es a meee . He was Fort Worth, Tex., Aug. 6.—(AP)— the As-| The of Texas fans to Worth pilot overturns a popular be- baseball passing of the vet an to ride” him, .they pbeestiyee Tost colorful fig- ure. He brought six straight pen- ‘nants to Fort Worth. STOPPING BLUE RUSH TO CHAMPIONSHIP IS NOW TOLEDO'S TASK Kansas City Regains Five-Game Margin by Victory as Saints Lose INDIANS WALLOP MILLERS Lynn Nelson, Former Fargoan, Saves Game for League Leaders Chicago, Aug. 10.—()—It was the Toledo Mudhens’ turn today, and for the next three days, to attempt to do something seriously damaging to the Kansas City Blues’ rush toward the American association championship. The Blues today were to open a four-game series with the lowly Hens, after managing to gain an edge of one game in its series at Columbus. The Blues’ 10 to 1 victory over the Sen- ators yesterday raised their lead over St. Paul to five and one-half games, as the Saints dropped a slugging con- test to Louisville 11 to 6. Kansas City wrecked a close ball game in the sixth inning by jumping onto Pete Jablonowski and Richard Wykoff for eight hits and eight runs, Warmouth worked well for Kansas City until the seventh, when he be- came wild, giving way to Lynn Nelson, Outfielder Marty Callaghan of Co- lumbus was fired from the game in ie i for protesting a called third strike. Louisville took the final game of the series from St. Paul, largely by reason of bunched hits in the seventh and eighth innings which produced a total of eight runs. Both Moss and Betts, the starting hurlers, were hit hard and were replaced by Sumbro and De- berry, respectively. Dusty Cooke, lead- ing batsman of the league, noticed his twenty-fifth home run of the season. | Another hard-hitting contest re- | sulted in a 10 to 6 win for Indianap- olis over Minneapolis. The Indians thumped Garland Buc! , George Dumont and Joe Pate for 14 hits, seven of them in the fourth, when they scored six runs. 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