The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 31, 1929, Page 8

ANDAN'S FAVORITE (ON LOSES ONLY ONE ‘OUND INENCOUNTER' hallenges Thrown at New) Titleholder by Billy Meek | and Ted Melhoff AVANAGH SHADES CARROL ‘eek Beats Engle; Minot Fight- ; er Shows Fine Tempera- | ment by Late Rally TRIBUNE FIGHT DECISIONS Boomer Brooker, Mandan, 125 | pounds, beat Bobby Laurent, Mi- | “not, 126 pounds, 10 rounds. | Lee Cavanagh, Bismarck, | shaded Jack Carrol, Minneapolis, {5x rounds. | Billy Meck. Bismarck, beat tBattling Engle, Dawson, six trounds. Frankic Eckroth, Manda shaded Mickey McGuire, Man- ‘dan, four rounds. \ Pete Aller, Bismarck, and Sonny Schlosser, Mandan, drew, {four rounds. y, Andy Miller, Mandan, won a Tattle royal in which six com- peted. Py «By WILLIAM S. MOELLER | Following his flashy victory over} Se scrappy Bobby Laurent. Minot. | Ya 10-round skirmish at Mandan ight, Boomer Brooker, the Man- | fan sheik, today stood undisputed | ing over North Dakote’s feather-| eight. boxers. 1 Challenges to the new titleholder | tere hurled from the ring before the’ qaain bout last night by Billy Meek, dsmarck, in person, and Ted Mehl- ff, Glendive, Mont., by telegra “pproximately 200 fans watched ¢! ‘atertaining card presented by Pro- sotor W. J. “Bill” Godwin. ‘The boomer boomed to an impres- ave win, though, when all things are Snsidered, it was not comfortably fecisive for him. Bobby won only one found in the encounter, the last, “hile the Mandan favorite took five, fut his margin in four rounds were hardly more than shades despite the fact that he rained blows much more iften than his opponent. Brook: THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, SATURDAY, ‘AUGUST 31, 1929 Cees A remarkable action shot of the 100-mile-an-hour Miss Los Angeles II is pictured above. A view of the 1000- horsepower plant is shown also, with Ralph Snoddy. famous race driver, inset. in the British International Trophy races at Detroit Monday. KEATING WINS MARATHON SWIM, S Speed and Spray for Detroit Labor Day | i \ \ ' , HARD RACE WITHOUT Ernest Vierkoetter Charged Keating Had Been ‘Towed’ - in 1927 Event Norman Ross, Chicago, Weak- ens in Last Lap, but Fin- ishes in Third Toronto, Ont., Aug. 31.—(#)—Con- queror of Lake Ontario's ice waters and of 237 rivals as well, Edward F. Keating, New York, was satisfied to- Snoddy has entered his craft | content with second place and $5,000. Six Regulars Taken From the Squad Last Spring; Fergu- (Bobby Already Has Caused More Disturbance Than the Valley City, N. D. Aug. 31.—The Golden Tornado Last Fall heavy thud of the pigskin and the! flash of blue and white warriors arc soon to make their appearance on the Forward to Good Football Season son and Orness Back q er Missed Many This is why. Brooker missed too daany blows, especially when he had by 11 a stooping position. Had he jot attempted to land hi akers at. Farious times, he might have landed &) nd thereby retained points which he } tready had piled wpe ./ Despite the fapt that the fight was “hum-dinger’& and chock full | ion, it was appar- int that ‘a defensive fight— * hat is, both principals excelled in the | lefensive branch. for defensive purposes, | 3rooker’s right hand was worthless. Rarely did he swing with his right; ‘ind it was an “event” if he landed} with it. His followers argue. how- ‘over, that he had no use for his right ast night with his left in such ood | ‘orm. His followers are right. The Boomer showed last night that he yas not yet mastered the trick of sounter-punching when moving back- yobbing of his head. Time after time when he was forced to crouch be- sause of a fusillade of Brooker clouts, local grid field as Coach Harvey Smothers sends forth his annual call for football material. Jones. At least forty-four men are ex: The pected to make up the squad of the Hi-Liners this year, said the coach today, with two full teams making up each squad. Those on Squad A com- pose the lettermen of Jast year and the best. new material available this | the national amateur golf champion- year, while Squad B, coached by! ship. He seems destined to steal the Claude Miller, assistant coach, will be made up of the green stuff, he} The said. Everything points to a successful football season for the high school this fall, if comparative teams and material with this and last year's are started the season a year ago with an inexperienced team, but with this material Conch Smothers developed a machine which finished near the! The top. It was the only team which | tye it scored against Bismarck, state cham- the first amateur title tournament pions, and won more than half of the games played, defeating some of | the best teams in the state. From the strong eleven of last year. | ¢yj- five lettermen remain which will} ‘ | Bobby's best defense was the simple fe merely bobbed his head up and fown, back and forth, and from side © side as the over-eager victor swung viciously through the air in attempts +9 land slumber clouts. Damage Was Slight ‘That Bobby was not hurt as much ag it might seem was proved by his sudden attacks which drove Boomer across the ring in retreat and by his Fag of nucleus “ oe year's squad. regulars, two all-state men, were W; N th ioe" ersduation and onermee./ WACSOR, Nathan which will have to be filled by men coming up in the ranks. Ferguson, Outstanding of these are Leonard state end and guard, respectively. Orness Back and Clarence Orness, all- fine fighting in the last round, which was his by a goodly margin. Bobby's Others who graduated were Arthur Orness, » guard, ibertson, center, and Artie Metcalf, halfback. biggest fault was missing rights to Boomer’s head. This fault invariably The squad also loses Jimmy Golseth, | brought him hard lefts from the tackle, who is leaving to attend school in Iowa. " previous sporting event in the golden state’s history. The experts all admit New York ... | Brooklyn , Deberry. Mix at Burnstad Ainiacninnc ane ttsburgh Boxing Card Arranged for Sat- e. |. Herbert Em! urday, Sept. 7; Arntz and P Markam Promoters | Philadelphia — |Boston .. (Tribune Special Service) ‘Willougl Mandan Beau Brummel. Georgia Marvel Comes Through With Scintillating 67, Del Monte. Calif.. Aug. 31.—(7)— America or England, New York or California—it’s all the same to Bobby | gia Tech, seemingly bent upon caus- ing more disturbance in the Golden west than the whole Tech cleven did shin. ‘last. New Year's day on the gridiron, |Philadelphia already has stolen the rehearsals for main show that begins Monday. king and three-time open champion Suecessful Season Foreseen brought his practice week to a climax yesterday on the Pebble Beach course with a scintillating 67, beating par by five strokes and his own course record by three shots. Chicago ... taken as a criterion, The Hi-Liners| tn subduing the widely ballyhooed e terrors of this famous course, Jones shot one of the greatest rounds of his /St. Louis career. Jones Shatters Par at Pebble Beach Hiliners Looking | Five Below Par \ By ALAN J. GOULD well known alumnus of Geor- Boston Russell four-time American amateur coming of Jones, along with | Philadelphi Cincinnati ever held on the Pacific coast, has |Boston aroused greater interest than any “No knockouts were scored in the; But despite these severe losses. | Napoleon, N. Dak., Aug. 31.—A 24- card, featuring an/and Welsh. which would place any high school | round scrap though Bobby slipped to the floor twice, once each in the fifth and seventh cantos, and the Boomer team under a great handicap, Coach | cight-round headline match between Smothers is showing considerable | Al Watson, Dawson, and Soldier optimism and is of the opinion that Nathan, Lehr, will be staged at pushed him down in the tenth. The prospects are good for a win fight was clean, though each put in| nning one complaint against low blows and Referee Leo McDonald once cau- thoned the Minot boy against hitting after he had been ordered to break. Brooker won the third round by a wide margin and took shades in the first, fifth, sixth, and seventh stan- Zas. The second, fourth, cighth, and ninth were even. Lee’s Condition Counts team. He has five lettermen return- ing upon whom he will depend a lot,!ter C. Arntz, Burnstad, and Lee! on the second list! Markham, Dawson, promoters Who | ansas City last year which will look good this! made the te fall. | show here. Except for two bouts with Lee besides material Heading the lettermen and captain- | ing the team is Joe Sheehan, light- | Cavanagh, Bismarck, Watson has won ning end, from whom much will be! expected. She only other letterman| weighs 160 pounds while Nathan on the line back again in school is! hovers in the vicinity of 175 pounds. Roy Jacobson, who will hold down | Nathan has fought Tony Brown, Bis- Burnstad, Saturday, Sept. 7. This was anrounced here by Wal- | final arrangements for all of his bouts by knockout. He |r ouisville his usual berth at guard in good style. Santiago Zorilla, Los Angeles, fought to a draw (10). round new onzelits wins marck, and has won over Battling Shafer, another Bismarck man, by a Knockout. {Young Dempsey, Tappen, and weighing 135, meet in a four- semi-windup. Ed Mack, Lehr, |#"4 Peters. good his boast that he can win by a knockout. Two other preliminaries are: being | position, Keating swept into the lead ton the seventh lap, passing Norman OF THE ou CLUBS_ TOURNEY AROUSES COAST, | was in no danger. AMERICAN LEAGUE _| finishing fourth. Philadelphia... Games Yesterday R 1{ Rommel and Cochrane. Washington-New York, postponed. Others not scheduled. NATIONAL LEAGUE din, : Pittsburgh New York . 500} 435! 434) Games Yesterday 10 Hubbell and O'Farrell; vance and | during the week. Regulars follow- vis, Lerian; ‘Brandi Others not scheduled. - AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Standings Campbell and Hargrave; Middleton, Pate. Griffin and Ken- ina; Eddelman and Young. day—for he had evened an old score with Ernest Vierkoetter, German baker now living in Toronto. Victory in the fourth annual Wrig- ley 15-milc swimming marathon here yesterday netted Keating a cash award of $25,000 but he scemed to take more satisfaction out of the fact that he had forced Vierkoetter to be ‘There has been bad feeling between Keating and Vierkoetter ever since 1927 when the German charged Kea- ting had been “towed” by his escort- ing boat in the Lake George swim that year. Keating. swimming the 15 miles in 8 hours 18 minutes 13% seconds, finished about 500 yards ahead of Vierkoetter. Always in a contending Ross, Chicago, with three-quarters of that lap completed. After that he Ross, who weakened badly in the closing stages of the race, finished third to win prize money of $2,000. Isadore Sponder, 16-year-old boy from. Port Colborne, Ont., won $1,500 for Mendell Burditt, Toronto, was fifth and won $1,000. Sixth place and $500 went to Myron Cix, Venice, Calif. These were the only finishers in a HELP OF "TOW BOAT’ TEUTON PLACES SECOND: —$_$—$_— rooker Claims Featherweight Crown After Defeating Laurent ETTLES SET WITH GERMAN GOTHAM STAR GRABS |_____ Bobby, Atana Tommy | Bobby, Al and Tommy Connie Mack gave Al Simmons a few days off recently to rest up and cool his dogs. Al visited Milwaukee, where he watched Tommy Armour win the western open championship. Here are, left to right: shank, Al and Tommy just after the tournament. t Bobby Cruick- CUBS MAY BE CHAMPIONS OF LEAGUE BUT NOT OF PIRATES Saints Convinced They Should Seek Runner-Up Place Bucs Win Four Straight From League Leaders and Point Toward the Fifth field of 238. From the time the race started, shortly after 11 o'clock, until nightfall, cold water, cramps, and plain physical cxhaustion forced out competitors with monotonous regular- ity. ‘Dusty Al Cooke Is Leading Again Consistently to Displace Tony Cuccinello gain a season average of .368 and displace Tony Cuccinello of Colum- bus, who slipped back to second place 1! with 364. Cooke added six points to his mark, | while the Columbus star lost a point ing Cooke and Cuccinello were: Columbus, .352; Chapman, 8t. Paul, .342; Warner, Toledo, .340; Branom, | Louisville, 340; Seeds, Kansas City, 340; Tucker, Kansas City, .339; Rogell, St. Paul, .337. ! The whole St. Paul cast followed |Cooke’s example and added four ; points to its collective batting aver- age to lead with a mark of .305. Louisville, Kansas City, and Toledo were tied at .299 for the next place. Minneapolis, batting in seventh place, ‘had collected 116 home runs to lead St. Paul by 23. The Millers con- 459 held his position at the peak of regu- lar hurlers. Nelson had a record of 13 victories and three defeats, for an average of .813, with George Murray, another Blue hurler, second with 13 trjumphs and five reverses. John 966, were tied for second, and Columbus, 965 for third place. The Mudhens re- mained far out in front in double Runs—Chapman, 8t. Paul, 133. Hits—Cuecinello, Columbus, 188. Home Runs—Cooke, St. Paul, 28. Triples—Kuhel, Kansas City, 21. Chicago, Aug. 31—()—Dusty Al ' convincing | Cooke, St. Paul's outfielder, assaulted ‘American Association pitching with | renewed vigor last week and pounded ; his way back to the top of the bat-| ting list. According to figures which | {include Wednesday's games, Cooke | hit at a .437 clip during the week to ; Columbus picked up a point, and re- | it, Cantwell, Jones! mained in second position with .301.| was good ; oS ail zB i E GRIMES AND BLAKE CHOSEN: Boston Red Sox Trim Connie | Mack's Athletics in Only American Contest By WILLIAM J. CHIPMAN (Associated Press Sporte Writer) ‘The Cubs almost certainly will be- they never can be champions of the Pirates of 1929. The Pirates attended score of 15 to 0 for the twenfth Pittsburgh victory over Chi- cago this season and the fourth in threé days. The Cubs have won only with two more to go, one today in Pittsburgh and one on the final day of the season in Chicago. Burleigh Grimes was groomed to series which the Cubs looked upon so ve 3e Hi succeeding foes. ager of the the anti- pool ol 4 —— RICE HAS After sl, sports writing fas is 10- wards. A ‘Westwood club an- if i fe; piety pert a ryt efeat Hale i ‘Lott and Doeg Are Given Good Chance To Win in Doubles Berkeley Bell and Lewis N. White Are Opposition in Tennis Meet Finals Brookline, Mass., Aug. 31.— (4 — George M. Lott, Jr. Chicago, and John Hope Doeg, Santa Monica, Calif, were conceded an excellent Hy and Lewis N. White, the Texas champions, here today in the cham pionship, round of the 48th national doubles tournament. ‘When today’s doubles match ends, Lott has an engagement to team up with Miss Betty Nuthall, the ranking British player, in a mixed doubles final match with Mrs. B. C. Covell, and H. W. Austin, both of England, for the national championship won last year by Miss Helen Wills and Hawkes. Lott and Miss Nuthall reached the final brackett yesterday by eliminat- ing Mrs. Phoebe Watson and J. 8. Olliff of England, Mrs. Covell and Austin became finalists when they conquered Mrs. Dorothy Shepherd- Barron of England and Norman Far- quharson, South African Davis cup { Player, Stamina, Courage Bring Two Women To Western Final Kansas City's Lead Is Too Over- whelming; Senators Are Clinching Fourth By WILLIAM A. WEEKES Aug. 31. — (®) — Dutch Zwilling led his Kansas City Blues tinto Milwaukee today to open a four- {game series, the first set on their come champions of the National tinal trip around the American As- St. Paul Outfielder Whacks Pill | league within the next month, but /sociation circuit. Manager Bubbles Hargrave and the St. Paul club, just about convinced that second place is the best they can hope for, invaded i Forbes field yesterday when they took /Minneapolis for their final series ; Mr. Guy Bush and the Bruins by the ! with the sister city. ' The Blues finished their short home stay yesterday with a 4 to 1 victory over the Saints, which sent them on to the road with a lead of 1143 games over the Saints. Max | Thomas, young Blue southpaw, gave |the slugging Saints only five hits, while Archie Campbell. making his first start since being injured some meet Sheriff Fred Blake this after- ; time ago, was rapped for nine safe- noon in the final game of the current | ties. The Columbus Senators strength- lightly. Four straight Pittsburgh !ened their hold on fourth place, victories have reduced the Chicago 'g to 5 decision over Louisvil! lead only from 1414 games to 10'2. Indianapolis was but another success for the arms of beating from Toledo. Dreyfus today would give Joe Mc-|hammered Guy Williams and Ben Carthy good reason to worry. It Tincup for 17 hits. seems impossible that such a lead | eight games front the Buccaneers, |. Toledo made it four out of five blown, but the moral effect ‘from the Indians with a 7 to 4 vic- ight reverse upon the | tory, Cubs might leave them easy prey for | joe Eddieman outlasted three Min- neapolis hurlers in a slugging con- jtest and Toledo took the final clash of the series, 12 to 6. The Brewers clustered hits off Jimmy Middleton and Joe Pate in the early innings ; and built up a lead sufficient to with- stand the Millers’ closing efforts. Herman Continues Terrific Bat Pace t | Mark Still Over .400; Guy Bush Tops Sharpshooters With 18 Wins, 3 Losses Young Henry Meine, recruit right bad break when New York, Aug. 31.—(?}—Babe Her- ‘man continues at the head of John Heydler's batting class, but this week ‘with the slightly diminished mark of to figures published luding games of last Frank O’Doul of Phila- -405, according today and incl regul: 366; L. Waner, Pitts- » Philadelphia, .353; » St. Louis, and Stephenson, coraee, 340; Dewitt, St. Louis, and ; Cuyler, Chicago, .; Hornsby leads in , an in, | Frisch, runs scored with Ott of New York in runs. batted in with 124, Wilson Mrs. 0. S. Hill, Kansas City, and Mrs. Gregg Lifur, Los Angeles, Are Left By PAUL R. MICKELSON Cleveland, Ohio, Aug. 31.—()—Two courageous stalwarts of feminine golf, Mrs. O. 8. Hill, Kansas City, and Mrs. Gregg Lifur, Los Angeles, who have survived a withering gale of upsets by their stamina and brilliance, faced each other on the historic Mayfield Country club links today in the final 36-hole struggle for the western wom- en's championship. Both finalists, who have been domi- nant figures in western golf for near- ly a decade, have exhibited their championship steel all during the present championship tussle, especial- ly in yesterday's semifinal round in which Mrs. Hill ascended to par- breaking heights to turn back the rush of Peggy Wattles, Buffalo, 3 and 2, and the little Californian fought an uphill, relentless battle until she finally vanquished her home town rival, Kathleen Wright, one up. Fonseca Creeps Up On Mack’s Hitter Jimmy Foxx Leads by Only Three Points; The Athletics Lead in Team Fielding © Chicago, Aug. 31.—(*)— The lead Jimmy Foxx established during more by a/Prosperous times, over American League batsmen, has kept him at the peak for another week, but only by & three-point margin over Lew Fon- seca of Cleveland. Figures including Wednesday's game, gave the Phila- delphia first baseman an average of 374, & decline of eight points for the pars tala Fonseca a definite threat Fonseca’s average represented a boost of two points, marking him as the only member of the leading 10 to show a profit for the week. Earl Combs, New York, suffered the big- gest loss, seven points, and Babe Ruth, although he batted out three home runs to retain his lead, dropped six points. Following Foxx and Fon- seca were: Simmons, Philadelphia, -364; Manush, St. Louis, .362; Combs, pid York, .355; Lazzeri, New York, -347 and K. Williams, Boston, .343. The Yankees fell into a tie with the Tigers for the team batting leader- ship, dropping four points while De- trit was losing two, They had marks of .300 even, and the Athletics, also four points, remained in third place with .298. The Athletics continued to set the pace in scoring with @ season total of 767 runs, and | i EE Chicago and Klein are tied for home Tun leadership at 33. O'Doul hi greatest total of hits, erick of Brooklyn, the 7 f