The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 1, 1929, Page 8

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1929 i | THAT PITCHING AND IS ALMOST CERTAIN) ~~ Picking ‘Winner Between Ath-; letics and Cubs Is Tough Job, Evans Says _ TY COBB FAILED IN SERIES Babe Ruth and Rogers Hornsby| Are Two Other Men Below Form in the Series Editor's Note: Stars frequently do not rin true to form in a world series. That is why expert opinion cften fails, writes Billy Evans, former famous umpire. This is the fourth of a scrics of | n ies, written Bis- | marck Tribu: By BILL | H Doping the world series is a rather tough assignment if ene happens to be er, his eo do Tun true to fo: Pitching p part in the en ries, Ticht bs Tans, by ‘the c safe in firuri Series, can so. will decide the i: ae “It If he wants to mate hi even more alo he s atet he can add pitching | ally does. | 5 conclusions first lines, * Outside of p of the game, critic to m statements. p not be given too great consideration, for, as I have said, players, stars in Particular, seldom run true to form. Over the long route of 154 games, One's deductions as to the possibili- ties of the various big Iengue stars! ‘will usually prove quite accurate. The season's play is a true test and class) will invariably assert itself. A short series is not a true test, cither of! . team or individual. Failure of the! stars upsets predictions. Take Ty Cobb, for instance, man generally considered the greeat- | est player of all time. Having een | Cobb perform in hundreds of games. | I feel that I am well qualified to say that he didn’t have a weakness. There wasn't a thing a star ball player is supposed to do that Cobb couldn't do! well. His reeords are conciusive. Yet, in not one of the three world series in which Cobb took part did he come even close to playing up to the, Standard of which he was capable. xk * Then there is Rogers Hornsby. certainly rar 5 one of the 10 hitters of all time. In doping ~ 1926 clash between the Yankees and Cardinals, the critics stressed the fact that on the way Hornsby played in the ficld and at the bat, would Jargely depend the chances of the Cardinals. Hornsby batted about 100 mal, yet the National y ried off the world’s title. The piichine of Grover Cleve- Tand Alexander determined the win- ner. Ruth, the gicatest slugger of all time. could me uit a single and couble in fiv s in the series of 1922. He v ble slump, was Stopped completely at the bat and the entire team seemed to fold up! with him, Ruth wa sorry picture that fall and the Yan a really great team. even mor * He best the; of consideration. In 1924, Johnson, after waiting for 18 years to! get his chance in the big series. ! Sermer destined to go down into the records as a failure, after suffering defeats in his first two starts. only to! emcrec hero, because Dame For- | tune picked an eleventh-hour spot for him to do his stuff, enabiing him to win the game that meant the wade championship for Washington. When the experts consider the! pitehing staff of the Athletics, Grove, | Walberg and Earnshaw are generally | referred to as the pitching hope of} the Mackmen. Yet it is very possible | ne or more of the trio may disap-| point and that Eddie Rommel, the! - veteran Jack Quinn, or the rookie} _ Shores may surprise by hogging the| spotlight. ‘On the other hand, the big three of the Cubs’ pitching staff, Malone, and Root, are generally regard- the pitchers who will make the t trouble for the Athletics, yet it be other members of the staff ‘will stop the American League ¢ pions, Doping the series on past perform- @hees docsn't mean a great deal. The “uncertainty of the game upsets the best of done. After all, it is that very that makes the game so popu- ‘You never can tell. NEXT: Neither team fs great. at pase i tse B to perish near “ Salt take ectaee bs been r- rf frighten the fowls ‘oUt of the | well as strong phy: of Waiter Johnson is also)! i j Averages, is ; Points over the aggregate mark of Star Players Failing to Come Through Makes Predictin g¢ Difficult { BADGERS PREPARE TO EVEN UP SCORE WITH EASTERN TEAMS ‘GIANTS MAY PASS PIRATES BREAKS WILL COUNT (——Frere's What Nodaks Face & | | ners University of North Dakota's football dians at Grand Forks Friday night. Above are William “Lone Star” Haskell Institute at Lawrence, Kas. is coaching the Haskell team. of the greatest Indian athletes of all t ical and menial adversary Here on the athletic warpath is keeping up the old Dietz, Dietz, 2 Below, in his tribal costume, is John Levi, one ye eleven faces a greasy spiritual foe as y when it meets the Haskell In- three Indians whose prowess ‘adition of Thorpe and Guyon. and Captain Louis Weller of star at Carlisle 20 years ago, left, ime. Levi, who was a star performer for Haskell for four years, has been creating no little concern among the Pitchers of the Western League where multe regularly. Levi pl his bat has been ringing home runs | lays with the Topeka team. During his last years at Haskell Levi made Walter Camp's All-America team. we QUTFIELDER TRIO SUPPLIES BIG PUNCH IN CUBS’ ATTACK Riggs inn a Kiki Cuyler and Hack Wilson Have .354 Bat Average SIMMONS A GREAT FIELDER Cub Gardeners Account for 678 Runs; Athletics Figure in 621 Scores (Note: This is second of a series of stories comparing Ath- leties and Cubs in various de- partments of play_as they shape up for the world’s series.) By ALAN GOULD (Associated Press Sports Writer) New York, Oct. 1,—(AP)—It, n't take more than a quick} ig punch” of the Cub attack | possessed by the outfield trio! of Riggs Stephenson, Kiki Cuyler und Hack Wilson. No one member of the Chicago east has a thing on the very ful Mr. Aloysius Harry Simmo the Athleti who happens to be just about the best all-around fielder in bascball but collec! the Cubs have a distinet. edge on their rivals on attack. On defense | there is little, if anything to choose, with Simmons and Cuyler ranking. the best of the balihawks Not since the palmy days of Cobb, Crawford and Veach, the great De- troit trio, has there been any harder outfield group than this Cuyler, Wil- son, Stephenson combination. Their batting figure, collectively. ! {on the basis of the latest unoffi 354, a margin of 18) :336 for Simmons, Mule Haas, and Bing Miller of the A's. The big three of the Cubs has accounted for 678 of the 952 runs scored by the team, either by crossing the plate personally or driving mates over. Their rivals have figured in 621 of the 882 runs tallicd by the A’s, Among a number of vital factors in the Cub rise, few more con- ithe fleet Cuyler, the league ig ba stealer, who has cnjoycd his great- est a around year s e Pirates win the peanant in 1925, The development ot Haas and the steedy work of the veteran Miller contributed much to the triumph of | his ance at the figures to realize that/ 1), ' they | Bismarck fighter has the A’s, The former’s batting fell off toward the close of the season, Ae whe paeoskinen 3 beg build- ing up ir ive les @ young centerfielder hit at a sensational Promoters Said Delaying Fight To Save Boomer Now it's Isham Hall’s turn to be-| come indign Billy + manager is bitterly disappointed Mandan moters, as Isham p pro: y state PEE ENE ship bout. Isham said he cuse B: pomer of walking out of the manage & good jud champion, Promoter fieht for Oc porarily, saying find a suitable 1 promoters are us- ment ir behalf of the, stho scheduled — the! dropped plans tem- that they could not place in either Bis-{ k or Mandan in which to stage | the Here ix what Isham has to say: “It is a funny thing that Brooke anagers and Promoters can't fit narck Meek and the champion. First, they could not get us to agree to terms, said. Meek and I told them that money was ject for us and that they should pay Brooker first and then, if any mon- ey was left, to pay Billy, “We would not accuse Brooker him- self of getting cold feet but will say it looks like his manager and pro | moters are using good judgment for him. Brooker might not. look so sweet in there with a little two hended fighter like Mcek. If Boomer j is state champ why dosn't his pro moter stage a match with a boy 10 12 pounds lighter? Of course Billy should not fight in the same county with Brooker, and Boomer's | manager will see to that. And an- other thing, Boomer will come near- | er Meek’s weight than any one the met. Meek ha: knocked out at) of his opponents. All have been heavier than the Boomer. Meek is not bragging about putting anyone down for a nine count be- cause when he puts them down they always take 10, How many knock- outs has the Boomer ? If any, they ere technical.” (INCLUDING GAMES OF SEPT. (By the Apacaied Press) Batting—O’' Doe Phillies. 395. Runs—Hornsb: eb, C 151, a eoseee Hants; Klein, Phil- net the whole ob-| | BEATCOLGATE: ALE | WON CONTEST N99 Glens Thistlethwaite Tu Turns Over | Eight Men to B Squad; Team Almost Named ! | ‘MICHIGAN TEAMS CLASH, WMinois and Purdue Meet Kan- sas and Kansas Ags; Go- phers Will Face Coe Chicago, Oct 4 -- For the first ! | WISCONSIN HOPES 10 ‘Jackie Grey sted ppear on va A | Tony Brown Show Jackie Grey, {and Tory Brown fight for the heavy- iweight ¢ mraereneli of North kota, Oct. Bibinotee Fred J. Smith announe- ca this morning that signed to fight Gerald “ son in a_six-round special iwhich will be preliminary to heavyweight feature. Albertson another capital city clouter. Grey, who heretofore has Bismarck feather- | ‘weight, will jump into a capital city | \boxing’ ring the night Jack MeCann grey has * Albert: | event | the | is] taken hic boxing apparently without great | = = interest, has agreed to train con j fully and to be in the best possible | ition the night of the fight. He! ‘ueaes PHILLIES FIGHTING | IN IN SECOND. PLACE SCUFFLE' Bismarck Featherweight Will Be St, taut awe howe ti Mathe-| | Feature on Jack McCann- | matical Chance of Equal- ing Cleveland Mark j time in 30 years, an eastern football |has been working steadily this week |C®mpaign. squad will invade Madison, Wis., urday. Colgate University will repre- | sent the east. and the game also will | mark the first visit of a team from {that cection on a Big Ten field this season. | The last eastern opponent to meet | the Badgers at home was Yale, which {scored a one touchdown victory in | 1899. Coach Glenn Thistlethwaite, of the 1929 Wisconsin machine, is work- ing his squad at top speed to prepare a team which will even the score with the east. He turned cight men over to the B squad yesterday and started concentrating on the men who will compose his squad for the rest of the season Coach Harry Kipke, of Michigan, also divided his talent, saving 35 of the 43 men who got into last week's dou@cheader, for his varsity squad. The list includes 15 sophomores, about, the same number of first year men as were on the 1925 team w . Yost described as Michigan's great- est. The Wolverines will tackle Mich- igan State Saturday. Indiana being drilled on defen- sive tactics and blocking for its home- coming contest Saturday with Notre Dame. Coach Pat. Page told his men yesterday that poor blocking by the backs was largely responsible for the ; defeat of the reserves by Ohio Uni- | versity. and a long drill on that phase ; | of the game followed. Towa. Ohio State, and Northwestern all were sent through scrimmage ses- sions terday. Coach Hanley at | Northwestern was disappointed in the | work of his linemen last week against ; ithe freshmen and gave most of his time to them. Towa, with a 46 to 0 victory as a} starter, was given a number of new; | plays and immediately tried them out in scrimmage. Ohio State showed; considerable power against the re-! serves, scoring 28 points and holding | the subs scoreless. Another scrim- | mage was on the Buckeye program ; today, in preparing for the opening ; game of the scason Saiurday with Wittenbere. Tliinois and Purdue will tackle op- ‘ ponents from Kansas. the Illini niect- ing the University of Kansas. while Purciue will open up with the Kansas ! Aggies. Tlinois and Kansas have | exchanged information on plays to| be used in the game at Urbana. Min- | nesota has Coe for its initial oppon- ent. and Dr. Spears still is experi- | menting with backfield FE | | and ends. lines waved th: if ative « field. F quarter afer M. {hing seored two points on © nel's 8 : Superintend: arth and Gul- EST Oo 1.-—FKlgin and xeoreless tie in HM contest here. Rent 46 vards to and completed one again of 15 yards, pted no passer. 30 sards, in the contest ott umpire, tone Hilt ny were Figin was penalized 3 1. Members ‘ot Rarer, quay- Bradshaw and Kronberger, i Borg, full; Rogers and Cof- fing. ends: Oison and Taraon, tackles; Hayes and Woodruff, it and isles, center. Rogers end, while loose for a 40 { ent jaunt of the game. Regent i Anderson and Logetand. rdia and Augsburg per- ectively. Rege { 1 | i ‘arson; Oc Sher at Regent; Nov. gin. BOWMAN 15, R Bowman, N. D., Oct first attempt at football, school's eleven — swep' vl crafty machine off its feet to seore two touchdowns in the second halt | the count at 13 all. Bowman # 13 to 0 advantage at the end of the first half. Reeder was well on its way to a third counter when the ame was ended by the starter’s gun. Victor Hilden did some excellent run- ning and F. Wanek, Daeh and Alfred Setness played well for the Reeder team. Bowman, a well coached team, had" no outstanding performers. Coaches of the two teams, Henry Zahn of Bowman and .koppenhaver ot Reeder, were teammates at Janie: town college. Kenneth L. Dale, Ma: marth, was referee. Dailas, acted ‘as umpire, while man, was head line Unesman. ACH 96, | Snurie Lp eo vated tint downe to tix tor POPE, Stolen nea ty il Cubs, 40. ach high school eridders. det stad Root, Cubs, tied ere to 0. Beac! Pitehing—Bush, won ie aid America Batting—Fonseca, India, 73, Homers—Ruth, Yanks, 46.” ‘i Stolen hringer, Tigers, 26 itching —G A aot iat rove, sn lf 4 yards to 18 for the “loners Bei id never was within striki tance Ce fe Bo al. Guny fie! nan, ist) ‘hile pucneendin rl Davis, asa ea ler and Henry lor iy victors. pias: irvin LD Toblan, ke ial referes: Caled hap hate head : Sat-}and reports that getting into condi- | ion will be easy. Smith Dome pavilion, midw: s staging a card at the/can take second place away from | y between Bis- | ‘marek and Mandan, Thursday night, | tle for the top of the second division | (Oct, 17. “Playing Footbal C. W. Leifur, Coach and Prin- cipal, Gets Youths in Shape for ne School Twenty-two cager junior high school youths are practising football four nights a week under the tutelage | of Coach C. W. Leifur, who also is | principal. The youths will play a few games {apiece left. Cleveland fans expect to with the high school freshmen but | have little trouble in clinching third their principal object in working out Place in the Americar, League. AMERICAN LEAGUE \Detroit Also Has Chance of i Standings ae ‘ ‘ i fon Lost Passing Washington Dur | Phitadetphia ; 102 46.689 ing Closing Week 'New York ..... 8 6479 Cleveland . 80 68 4 cla aia St. Louis .. 176 72514] By HUGH S. MERTON. Jr. Washington ....... 71 79 .473/ (Associated Press Sports Weiter) i netroit n 81 460 Dog fights for positions down the |Chicago 92 378 ine in the two major league stand- | Boston 96.368 ings featured the closing week of the | — Games Yesterday In the National League, there is the No games. | possibility that New York's Giants| seme aged NATIONAL LEAGUE Pittsburgh with a strong finish. Bat- | Standings Won Lost Pet. lis going on between Philadelphia and | Chicago 95 51 651 Brooklyn. The only other question| Pittsburgh . 86 A left for the older circuit is whether |New York .. 66 the champion Cubs can run their to- St. Louis . 73 jtal of victories up to 100 games before Philadelp! al the end. | Brooklyn 81 The American League has only one | Cincinnati 84 real change among the possibilities. Boston 97 i is to get accustomed to the game so) that they will not be new to it when |a tie. Washington in fifth place and De-; jtroit in sixth may reverse their posi- | tions before Sunday night. A mathe-/| {matical possibility remains that St. | ‘Louis may ggin a tie for third with | o '|Do You Know That—| j Cleveland. The Giant-Pirate squabble also is nearer the realm of pure mathematics than of probability. Pittsburgh has a three-game edge with as many to go.‘ The Giants have five to play. Brooklyn and Philadelphia are tied , for fifth place with three games! i St. Louis has to capture all games to gain Detroit's schedule calls for they report to the high school squad | four-game series with the lowly later. White Sox, already beaten in 11 of Practices are held at the eal py 18 encounters this year. No Moore school. Those who have drawn uniforms: Everett Herbert, Jack Harris, Edwin DeLancy, Lynn Nicola, Oliver Sors- games were scheduled yesterday. BANTAMS, LOOK OUT! These bantam weight backs would dahl, Donald Tidball. Donald Bow-|do well not to collide headon with | man, Delbert Perry, Lester Porter, Al- bert Brauer, John Wallace, John Cameron, Neil Croonquist. Carl Detroit University’s center. He weighs | 268 pounds and has sufficient founda- ' tion to make it hard for a small fel- | Thomas, Thomas Dohn, Paul Whittey, | low to upset him. He wears size 14/ | Hans Thoresen, Floyd Boutrous, Cur- | shoes. His name is Merrill Lardner. tis Wedge. Francis Register, William | Owens, and Junior Neff. CRICKET WIDESPREAD BASEBALL MOST POPULAR Baseball. with 30 per cent of the! {male students participating, is the Cricket, known strictly as an Eng- | most popular sport at the University lish game, the West Indies. may be seen in Cairo. | of Oregon. ; Hongkong. Cape Town, Bombay, and | headed varsity sports with football | Track, with 63 entrants. next, 52 signing up for the game. | Games Yesterday No Blithe When Connie Mack was catch- ing for Pittsburgh years ago, he had a trick of tipping up the hitter bat at crucial mo- ments. . . . Joe McCarthy was a student at Niagara Uni- versity once and says he can remember going to classes in penmanship. . . . Jimmy Burke, who is now head coach for the Cubs, fired Mr. MeCar- thy when Jimmy was managing the Indianapolis team. . . . Joe was second baseman then. . . This big Campolo guy from the Argentine is supposed to be a cowboy . - Some Broadway wisecracker says he would like to see hi Tilden reiterates he is through with international tennis, but says the national championships are another question. . . . Roger Cramer, pitcher, outfield- er and swatsman, has been bought from the Blue Ridge League by Connie Mack... . It's said he's another Ruth. .J| Beating From Jack B (McGraw Retiring With a Fortune Detroit Florist Takes a Terrific of England New York, Oct. 1—(4—Phil Mc- Graw, the Detroit florist. has retired from the ring. The veteran lightweight announcea he was through with the cauliflower industry last night after he had -taken \® terrific beating from Jack (Kid) Berg of England, in a 10 round bout at the St. Nicholas arena. McGraw said he had amassed » \fortune of more than $100,000 in the |ring and felt that the time had come ‘for him to = up his gloves forever. 3 Fights Last Night i (By the Associated Press) New York—Jack Kid Berg. | England, outpointed Phil Mc- Graw, Detroit, (10). | Philadelphia—Matt Adgic, Phit- adelphia, knocked out Tony Ma- rullo, New Orleans, Andy Divodi, New York, out; Billy Alger, Phoenix, Ariz., (10). Wichita, Kans.—George Man- ley, Denver, outpointed Murray Gitlitz, New Haven, Conn, (10 Buffalo, N. ¥.—Jimmy Slattery. Buffalo, outpointed Len Bracy, Flint Mich., (6). ‘Toronto—Jack | Purvis, Indtan- apolis, stopped Red Sragan, Torento, (4). Francisco— Joe Glick, Brooklyn, outpointed Franti Stetson, San Francisco, Lancgster, Pa.—Jack Salinger, Harrisburg, stopped Red Hancock, Columbus, Ohio, (4). Pa—Henry Young Firpo, Cleveland, outpeinted Tony Tozzo, Buffate (10). Newcastle, Pa.—Fay Kosky, Chicago, o tpointes Witte Michele, Pe ypc Mordy, aguetes Micnte Farr, Cleveland, (6). 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