The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 4, 1929, Page 8

( BAR HOFFMAN ONLY | ~LETTERMENINSUITS | Big Ted Meinhover Will Not Be | Eligible to Play Until Next Semester SEASON WILL OPEN DEC. 13) 4. Spriggs, Dohn, Tait, Smith, Agre, Brown, Enge Lead- ing Candidates | | Athletic Director Roy D. McLeod has begun practice sessions this week with 35 candidates for the Bismarck high school basketball team having Leading the list of candidates are | Captain John O'Hare and Earl Hoff- man, both guards, the only lettermen reporting from year's team. Big ‘Ted Meinhover. letterman center last season, will not be eligible for high school competition until the second semester, and Eddie Spriggs, all-state performer last year, is not eligible to play this year. Other leading candidates come from the Imp team of last season, includ- ing Johnny Spriggs, Lester Dohn, Harold Tait. Frank Smith. Eddie Agre, Dale Brown, Russell Enge, and others. Though 35 reported for the first session Monday, Coach McLeod ex- pects to cut the squad down to 25 candidates soon. Preliminary work, according to the mentor's plans, will consist of shooting, pivoting, drib- bling, pa: arding, and other fundamentals. Practice sessions are scheduled daily until Christmas va- cation. Bismarck opens the season here Dec. 13, meeting Hebron at the high school gymnasium. Candidates for the cage team this year are eager to better the record of last year's team, which lost one game in 18 and with it the state championship in the final game of the state tournment. Shires’ First Foe * Seeking Revenge’ @an Daly, Cleveland, Hopes i Lena Couldn't Give Dec. 4.—(7)}—Dan Daly, nd, who professes to be yearn- for an cpportunity to gain revenge | ‘Lena” Blackburne, former White Sox manager, will get his chance M¢nday night. | Daly has consented to be the first ting opponent of Art Shires, the “bad | boy” of the White Sox. who decorated | Blackburne with two black eyes last | summer. “I am a close personal friend of | Blacikburne’s and I want to get a crack at this much self-advertised tough boy from Texas,” Daly said in| his successful application for the Match to Promoter Jim Mullen. attack on Blackburne, a man much older than himself who can't fight, ‘was the work of a coward. I'll prove that Shires does most of his fighting orally, and give Blackburne some re- venge.” Shires, meanwhile, is working out daily in a downtown gymnasium. His! form is far from that of a polished | boxer, but he possesses a haymaker which starts from the floor. Moorhead Basketball Quints Start Season | Moorhead, Minn.. Dec. 4—\?i—! ‘Two Moorhead basketball teams, one | pionship honors it has held for the past two years and the other runner- up in the Minnesota college confer- ence last season, will open their bas- ketball seasons Thursday. Moorhead high school, under Glenn quint. Concordia college, nosed out of the conference championship when 35 Bismarck High The Madison Square Garden corporation’s new stadium at Miami will be opened and initiated” December 7 when the University of Oregon grid w arriors invade the south to stalk the wary Florida Alligators. Crabtree, the Florida signal caller, will star for the ‘Gators and Mason, the big western fullback, will be the feature of GENE TUNNEY RETURNS HOME Cochrane Draws Denies That He Will Return to Public Life and Is Silent About Suit BIG FEET IMPRESS CHAMP Give Bad Boy the Beating | Former Boxing King Lost Nei-) Des Doines, Ia, Dec. 4—i7)—Night ther Money in Market Nor Weight While Abroad New York, Dec. 4.—(?}—Gene Tun- ney is home again, not to fight, but to live “quietly and simply.” Tunney, with his wife, the former Polly Laud- er, returned to the United States y« terday from Italy after spending 15 months abroad. It was a new Tunney who came back to the land that gave him fame and fortune. More gracious than fistie reporters had ever seen him, the retired heavyweight champion of the world submitted cheerfully to hotographers’ demands while an- ‘His | swering as best he could the hundreds of questions fired at him by report- ers. Tunney Remains Silent Concerning the suit Mrs. Katherine King Fogarty has brought against him, Tunney had nothing to say but he was ready and willing to talk about boxing. Anticipating questions as to wheth- er he would return to the ring, Tun- ney had a prepared statement for the perusal of reporters: “The echo of a rumor at home that | I am contemplating returning to the boxing game to defend the heavy- weight championship reached me in Italy. This is in no sense true for I have permanently ended my public s am. | career. My great wish now is to live | intent jon, retaining the state chart | quietly and simply. for this manner | of living brings me most happiness. Apparently the thing that caused | Tunney the most astonishment abroad was the size of Primo Car- nera's feet. Gene met Carnera, six feet 10 inch fighting carpenter from Venice, at London. “Why.” exclaimed Gene, “he has the biggest feet I've ever seen. He has ankles like an elephant. I met him in a hotel abroad and couldn't Gracious!" ne Didn't Lose pet slippers. ; Stock mar! Tunney lost neither money in the ‘ket debacle nor weight ° | abroad. He scales 192‘ pounds, just. . Dec. 4—Follow- what he weighed the night he knock- ed out Tom Heeney in his farewell an operation for appendicitis, was a striking figure in long mink coat with hat, shoes and pocketbook to match. reporters confided that Mrs. Tunney’s skirt was certainly not long but wasn't exactly short either. ql ji f i ii { THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1929 Basketball Candidates Report CIPTANOYAREAND WOOD, LONG ISLAND, BEATS HOR OREGON PREPARES FOR ATTACK ON FLORIDA fh ‘ROUSING COMEBACK IS STAGED BY HAGEN | pinon, Turns in Sparkling 64 to Take Lead }JOE KIRKWOOD IS BEATEN, i j Three Men Who Barely Qualified All Improved to Win First Round Matches By PAUL B. ZIMMERMAN Los Angeles, Dec. 4.—(#)—Horton Smith, 21-year-old pride of the Mis- Assoctated Press Photo the Oregon string. Unanimous Vote For Plate Post! Simmons, Ruth, Wilson, Foxx, | Hornsby, Traynor and i \Night Baseball ls | | Certain of Trial Des Moines President Declares Lights Are Solution to | Business End Jackson Elected | 8t. Louis, Dec. 4.—/)}—The two ma- jor leagues in baseball shared honors equally in the 1929 all-star team of the Sporting News. St. Louis baseball newspaper, named by the votes of 187, members of the Baseball Writers’ as- | | haseball is the real solution of the sociation and announced today. jchampion, Gene problem of making minor league base- | ball succeed, Lee Kaiser, president of | the Des Moines Western league club, believes. i “Schools that used to be broke now have money, particularly the small stitutions, because they adopted the |. Each league placed five men on the | team, which includes two pitchers and | one player for each of the other po-; | sitions, \ An outstanding feature was unan- imous selection by the scribes of! Mickey Cochrane of the world cham- ; pion Philadelphia Athletics for the night plan for football,” Kaiser said. } ‘ _ |“why not night baseball? It will draw | catching Position. He received all 187 land offset the use of the auto and|Votes. Three of his teammates also | \give the working man a chance to| Were chosen. 5 1 acatse | mons, Athletics left fleld: Haek Wile) Kaiser said he intended trying the | ™ons, Athletics, le: 3 il- plan out in Des Moines next sprnig. | 500, Chicago Cubs, center field; Babe PAM eA ca RRA Ruth, New York Yankees, right field; \NorthCentral Jimmy Foxx, Philadelphia Athletics, | first base; Rogers Hornsby, Chicago | Coaches Gather Cubs, second ; Pie Traynor, Pitts- burgh Pirates, third base; Travis; Jackson, New York Giant, shortstop: Mickey Cochrane, Athletics, catcher; | | Lefty Grove, Athletics, pitcher; Bur- | Will Draw Up Schedules, Dis-|!ih Grimes, Pittsburgh Pirates, cuss Regulations, and | Pick Honor Eleven H ' — | | piteher. H The team has a batting average of | | Chicago, Dec. 4.—(@)—North Cen-! {tral conference athletic coaches met , and if the pitchers excluded | the average is .346, The two pitchers won a total of 37 games while losing in their annual session today to frame | basketball and football schedules, | {agree on uniform interpretation of 13 for an average of .740 for the the cage playing code, and to name season. The Sporting News has sponsored an all-conference football team for} 1929. e { selection of the team for five years, and Hornsby is the only player to be| Members of the conference faculty | committee held long sessions all! named on all five teams. i through yesterday afternoon and far | ° ‘ Southwest-Big Ten jinto the night but refused to divulge | | help noticing those feet in the car- | any information of their proceedings. ‘Southern Circuit | Doomed to Divide Atlanta, Dec. 4.--(4)—Signs of a | wide split in the world’s largest col- ‘lege athletic conference and forma- tion of new Dixie circuits have popped up with announcements that Furman university of Greenville, 8. C., and Oglethorpe university of Atlanta will quit the Southern Inter-collegiate Athletic association. The loop has 34 members spread all over the south and some mem- bers rarely play more than two or three conference games. A desire for @ compact organization of schools in South Atlantic states was voiced by both Furman and Oglethorpe. Mercer university of Macon, Ga.. the Citadel of Charleston, 8. C., and Chattanooga university look with | favor on @ new conference. | LITTLEJOE | vs GAGN To FACE THE Mose IF YOO = ad Grid Game Okayed { |tors of the Scottish Rite hospital for souri Ozarks, today was listed among the missing as 16 survivors in the Professional Golfers’ _ association championship went into their second round of match play. The superb drives and putts ar| Craig Wood, youthful Long Island, . ¥., professional, turned the trick f eliminating one of the favorites in the first round of match play yes- ; terday, replete with outstanding per- formances, Leo Diegel, defending champion, turned in a sparkling 64 for his morn- ing 18, a new competitive course rec- ord and a good start on an advantage which enabled him to oust P. O. Hatt, ‘Wheeling, W. Va., 10 and 9. No less outstanding was the rousing comeback of Walter Hagen. Appar- ently unmindful of the troublesome qualifying round Monday which saw him stumble almost into elimination, the five-time wniner of the P. G. A. eyent ended his match with Bob Shave, Aurora, O., on the twenty- eighth green 9 and 8. Just to prove that the course, which saw him medal @ 148 on opening day, held no power over him, the great “Haig” played the first 18 in five under par, 66. But it was Wood's victory over set in a duel which went to the thirty- seventh green before a birdie 3 forced | the Joplin, Mo., professional into de- feat. Among the chosen 16, eight of whom face elimination today, was Fred Morrison, “opens weap An- les professional who fought an up- fin battle before winning 5 and 4 from Joe Kirkwood, trick shot artist from Philadelphia. A former open Sarazen, Fresh . ¥., stands in Morrison's path tods: By strange coincidence Hagen, Bill Mehihorn, New York, and Henry Cuici, Mill River, Conn.—the trio which was forced into a twilight series to earn the right to enter yesterday's play—all survived their matches. Americans and Pirates Weak Apparent Cellar Occupants as First Quarter of Season Is Finished Meadow, crippled children have aj the proposed “Dixie classic” football jgame New Year's day between teams | selected from graduating members of southwest conference and Big Ten elevens. All proceeds of the game over ex- penses will go to the hospital fund, Present. plans are t! son, coach of the Southern Methodist university eleven, runner up for the southwest crown, will coach the southwest “all stars,” while Jimmy Phelan, coach of the undefeated Pur- | due machine, will be mentor for the Ann Arbor, Mich., Dec. 4.—If Harry Kipke produces @ University of Mich- igan eleven that will win the Western conference in 1990, he must do it with the men who com- prised his squad this past season. Coach Fisher, in charge of the 1929 freshmen | f it: I | g z iy i : i i j lead in the | points over ‘ers. 4 hat Ray Morrt- { | | IDAHO PLAYS HAWAII University of Tdsho IN DEFEATING SHAVE! Leo Diegel, Defending cham-| Smith which supplied the greatest up- j ! tain to Be Open ' [GRIFFITH REMAINS SILENT! | ranged Saturday and Sites Will Be Picked Chicago, Dec. 4—()—From the few seattered and unofficial opinions of | conference authorities, Iowa's chances of gaining immediate reinstatements to good standing in the Big Ten rests solely upon the ability of its petition | to convince the faculty committee | that objectionable features of its athletic program have been elim- inated. . i ‘The petition, a lengthy document covering seven and one-half closely typewritten pages, has been mailed to the faculty committee, which is; composed of one representative from each of the 10 schools. The com- { mittee is expected to consider the {petition Friday night when it holds! jits annual meeting in conjunction | with the conference coaches and | athletic directors. tion Is Open | “The committee will consider the; petition openly and without preju- dice,” one member said. “It is need- Jess to say Iowa is wanted in the! conference but it is wanted with its good order.” » saying the decision fests solely with the | faculty committee. All athletic schedules will be ar- | ranged Saturday, Major Griffith an- nounced. The faculty committee will meet at the university club Friday night and may hold a joint session with the athletic directors or | Saturday morning. ‘The athletic fi- {rectors will meet Friday. Bas! | plonship to be revealed Saturday. Friedman’s | Brother Is Strong Cleveland, Dec. 4—(7)—A dupli- cate of the troublesome Benny Fried- man has arisen to haunt the coaches \ OWA PREPARES SEVEN-PAGE __ PETITION TO PROVE CLAIMS Start Over Again Consideration of Arguments by || Big Ten Committee Cer- | | {Amateur Athletics Union has (Athletic Schedules Will Be Arq coed far the time being to go 90 to Roy McLeod ' TON SMITH IN FIRST ROUND Jimmy Phelan to ' Lafayette, Ind., Dec. 4.—(P)—It took Sport Slants || simmy Phelan eight years‘ to develop 7 r the first Western conference cham- Starting blocks have come to stay|Plonship team at Purdue university, as a distinct advancement in track’ &nd now with the season at an end, he equipment, if the overwhelming sen- | must begin all over, timent of college coaches and officigis| “Pest” Welch and Glen Harmeson. has anything to to do with it, and it/ Purdue's star backs, and probably has. The older guard of the y J last titlt for Eb Caraway, William ‘Woerner, the end who ccored against Iowa, and Bill Mackle, the other wing man. Next year's backfield will have Aicx ; Yunevich, full, and Bill White, quar- ter, back, and in the line there will be the veterans, Van Bibber, tackle, |Butner and Stears, guards, and Mil- ler, center. two promising backs in Purvis, who as substitutes equipment. The I. A. A. F. accept the tenth-second watch until |/@” tt was too late to put Charley Pad-|Players. doek’s 100- yard record of 9 5/10 on maj '20t adope the aanine Soc | Penn State Boasts or sanction their use, in time to cer- E Il R tity the record of 9 4/10 made by/ Lewisburg, Pa., Dec. 4.—Taken from Simpson at Chicago last June. g if i not Teny Helm, the Alabama fall- conditions, back, chews tebacce and can hit ican League a thin dime at 15 paces... . would be Seuthern Califernia has 2 con- he enjoyed the tract with Notre Dame which for- the victory flag bids the Irish playing another eee bet the Trojans agreed to let the St. Louis, with its huge new arena! Irish play in Pasadena New Year's seating 21,000 and big enough to en-| Mf they desired. ... The Univer- velop Madison Square Garden so far| sity of Maryland has five basket-- as interior dimensions go, is bidding| ball centers on her football elev- strongly for a place fistic spot-| ¢® four ef them above six feet light. The failed| ome... The lateral pass is eléer in an effort amateur fistic| than the ferward pass... . Lefty plum of the 1930 National; ©’Deul helds the recerd fer trans- AAU. Which «:ere| comtimental travel... He moved awarded to Boston again. but is rap-| ‘eur times between the majors " <a kako apne = Te- pres turned to Cleveland the city had & swell snowsterm. But spit-tipped cigars re