The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 18, 1929, Page 8

GIVENFAT CONTRACT BY VAUDEVILLE LOOP The Great One Does Not Desire to Fight Any More Un- less Insulted | CHALLENGERS ARE MANY) King Arthur’s Stage Contract Calls for $2,000 a Week, It Is Said Chicago, Dec. 18.-—(?)}—The Great | Arthur Shires is almost convinced that as a professional righter he is a} good first baseman. He may retire: from the ring. Since he dropped the decision to George Trafton after five rounds | Monday night, Shires has been doing | @ lot of sleeping and no little think- ; ing and he is about fichting and for baseball. “Maybe pr my game ting isn’t reat one who came to offer condolences and quick remedies for the marks Tr: put on his face. “I have gotten ubout all I can out of it now—a few thousand dollars and a fat two weeks deville. Unless someone gets me darn mad with his challenges, I may quit.” It is understood King Arthur's Vaudeville contract calls for a salary Of $2,000 a week. Meanwhile, Promoter Jim Mullen was being besieged with requ @ chance to meet the “Bad Boy” of the White Sox in the ring. Baseball players, footiall players and a few boxers who haven't had a fight for a decade or more wanted to fight him. Al Nesser, veteran guard on the Akron, Ohio, professional team, wants to fight Trafton for the “profession- al football championship of the world.” Chrysler Cagers Lose to Flasher | - Comet’s Machine 22 Struggle; Moorhead and Warren Stars Art Shires Deci Noted Breeder Sold for $1 Reigh Count, above, seems to be enjoying a quiet equine after W. D. Waggoner, right, Texas millionaire, offered $1,000,000 for the horse and was refused by Great Horse in 1927 2,500 little titter, John D. Hertz, left, Chicago taxi . magnate, BY WILLIAM BRAUCHER ! His Royal Highness, Reigh Count, top-sergeant of the American turf last year, must have enjoyed a great horsey chuckle the other day when he heard that W. T. Waggoner, Texas oil multimillionaire, had offered a very hot million dollars to bring His Highness to the Waggoner stables. of Willis Sharpe Kilmer of Bingham- ton, N. Y., who sold Reigh Count in 1927 for $12,500. Early one morning in 1927 Dr. Kil- mer, who is a breeder of thoroug! (Tribune Special Service) Flasher, N. D., Dec. 18.—Plasher’s Comets defeated the Bismarck Chrys- lers 24 to 22 in @ hardfought basket- bail contest here last night. Hank Brown, and Fay Moorhead and Warren, forward and f, center, did all of the scoring for Flasher, each making 12 points, while Pierce's defensive play was good. ‘The Chrysiers took an early 4 to 0 the quarter, The home boys led the visitors 16 to 16 at the half. The , score was knotted at 18 when the third period ended. e lineups: Bismarck, H. Brown, and Van Wyk, forwards; E. » center; F. Brown, 3 pry on and heard after the track. Lang Reigh Count was the better horse. That snicker was at the expense ‘With a paternal pat on the = ify » guards, Flasher, Ban- and Moorhead, forwards; War- center; Pal Moore Will | Fight Stewart | Veteran of 16 Years in Ring Is 7 Confident He Still Is Bet- 2 ter Than Youth ag SeGe i HH 4 f i ERWIN RUDOLPH, Kilmer closed the argument with the boy with the words: “Howard, my boy, that is why you exercise horses and I breed them.” That week both horses were sold. ‘W. #. Harriman paid approximately $75,000 for Sun Edwin, and got for his money a good colt. Mrs. Hertz paid $12,500 for Reigh Count and got the horse that brought an offer Of $1,000,000 the other day from the Waggoner stable. John D. Hertz, the Chicago taxi- cab king, in refusing Waggoner's of- fer, had a little fun himself. “Such an offer,” he said, “could come from only the biggest fool in the world. I never go half way. I | will be a bigger fool. Reigh Count belongs to Mrs. Hertz and myself and always will. No money can buy him. That is final.” Dr. Kilmer himself would tell you that probably both men are wrong. The history of the turf is full of the failures of champion race horses to| obtain approval beget great sons and dat this year, the two-year-old get of Man o’ War groved a dismal failure {hen put up against the test of the rac Until the $1,000,000 offer for Reigh Count, the highest bid ever recorded for a piece of horseflesh came from the Aga Klan, who in 1926 offered Sir James Rutherford, Scottish dis- tiller, $600,000 for Solario, the horse that won the Ascot that year. Sam Riddle once was offered $400,000 for Man o' War by a syndicate. CHICAGOAN, FAVORITE TO WIN CUE TITLE Ralph Greenleaf, Who Set Two New Records Monday Night, Stands in His Way 1S ELIMINATED TABERSKI Playoff Tomorrow Night Will Be Necessary Should Under- dog Win Match Detroit, Dec. 18 —()—With six vie- | tories and no defeats to his credit to- day, Erwin Wilson Foresees 6 9I@e Sunny Boy’ Siege Cub Outfielder Is Training for Temper Control, Not for Shires Fight Chicago, Dec. 18—/)—Hack Wil son, the burly Cub outfielder, is training at his wint » W. Va., tl THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1929 Armour’s, Power and Light, and Chrysiers Battle to Re- tain Leadership Guards Battle to Keep Out of Cellar Post Six teams, members of Bismarck’s commercial basketball league, will re- sume battle tonight in the second round of the loop’s schedule. Three games will be played, the first begin- ning at 7:15 o'clock at the high school gymnasium. | Tonight’s program follows: 7:15—Armour Creamery vs. North Dakota Power and Light company. 8:15—Chryslers vs. A. O. U. W. 9:15—Presbyterian vs, Company A. Either Armour's five or the Power and Light contingent tonight will be, dropped from a triple tie for the first place resulting from results last Wednesday night. The two teams, with the Chryslers, are tied at the top with one victory each. Only the milkmen played in last week's round but the other two teams won games by forfeit. The men defeated the Workmen 18 to 12. ‘The club men may prove a thorn in the side of the e: Chryslers in tonight's game, with the automo- bile men eager to maintain a winning stride ce the workers hoping to keep THREE GAMES SCHEOULED| des as a Fighter He Makes a Good Firstbaseman . BASEBALL'S BAD BOY |ARMY FOOTBALL SQUAD, 110 STRONG, LEAVES FOR PALO SIX COMMERCIAL LOOP TEAMS FIGURE IN 2D ROUND TONIGHT acre page Kayoing Giant of Chicago! Presbyterians and National) Down in Second Round With Bismarck Boxer i] { The Presbyterians and also will be striving to Ie cellar with a win. Nat! the cellar on tonight’s program. | Make Debut Here in Bos- ton Manager Says 7. The 6-foot-10 Italian, who weighs 280 pounds, will sail from England Dec. 24 and arrive in New York FpTEES. biG = Figg if 5 ae i F ? i | i i k E i E i a i is Fri Giant Italian Heavyweight Will ce i: rt i é li Hy | E i : a fl | i i i [ ij | rnd i | i 8 R g peor ever Man lemma U. S. Militi Ac: : . ary Academy Eleven oO to his credit. nicCana pet Bricteen sayin Meets Stanford at Palo the second round of what was to Alto 28 have been a six-round affair on Dec. a boxing card last night. ‘the Man Mountain, tipping the scaies West at 212, outweighed McCann by 2U The army pounds. {goes west, Lou Miske, Grand Forks, 167 Palo Alto, pounds, bowed to Babe WeUorsey, ; Squad are St. Paul, in four reunds. it was Players, DeCorsey’s fight on petnts. trip, aa Lion Reserves Play Three Quar- keep} ters as Linton Downs Rangy Five From Strasburg (Tribune Special Service) Linton, N. D., Dec. 18—Linton high | i ef 4 ge t i ALTO Bift Jones, Ending Career as Cadet Coach, Will Make ‘ Wo Predictions |west POIN RS CONFIDENT | efitbial irl a i E Hl Fé 4 : i He i i ment house when conceived the cadet: five-man defense short pass at- with a { tack. the He assembled teams, one of the than 16 years FS 3 asa fi 1 i i : Bielti AE | First Fine Victims {nee Bailey, Star Center, and Eddie Shore, * Defense, Hf rt ! « Hi i i g rr PE! Winner, Despite Uncom- 0 1 pleted Round o 0 esa’ 2 3 /CALIFORNIA YOUTH IS GOOD 2 4 — | Metnery Turns in 74, One Over © {| Par, While Clark Comes -.. anaes — —] San Gabriel, Calif., Dec. 18—(?)— eon ony, 1 3} while the late starters in the San “y! a » E ? [3 RE § i i i h iil ix F ; : i ig | E F g : | 8 a - i-7 3 z Bs 3. i i ; i’ i wl : i if 7 i i i i if partial fight game. 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