The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 3, 1931, Page 6

neces eeie SI Striblin CHAMP DEPENDS ON _THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, FRIDAY, JULY 3, 1981 g Is 3 to2 and 7 to 5 Favorite to 15 NAMED MEMBERS OF BISM AGGRESSIVENESS IN HEAVYWEIGHT BOUT Jarring Right Hand, One Which’ Is Damaging When It Lands, Will Aid Max AMERICAN IS BETTER BOXER Disappointing Crowd of Under 50,000 and Gate of Under $400,000 Expected Cleveland, — () — Max Schmeling, world’s heavyweight champion, will defend his title to- night aaginst the challenge of that strong, wiry, young Georgian, W. L. (Young) Stribling, with the prospect of an attendance of 40,000 to 50,000, with receipts of $300,000 to $400,000. The powerful German lad. who somewhat resembles Jack Dempsey in facial features and ring characteris- | tics, will battle Stribling 15 rounds or | less for the title. It will be the Ger-! Max Is Bigger | Cleveland, Ohio, July 3.—()-- This is how Young Stribling and Max Schmeling compare physi- cally for the world’s heavyweight championship fight tonight: KA DOODLE DOO 3 OUR BOARDING HOUSE ~~ ONE HEAD CACKLES LIKE HEN ~~AND TH A MOST AMAZIAS al GREAT CAESAR!. OTHER ONE CROWS LIKE A ROOSTER! EGAD —IT IS INDEED. By Ahern ig Ry OH GERTIE, C'MERE ! ~Goaary HOOPLE HAS THAT A YA FREAK CHicKEN Ee OUT IN “TH? YARD! <P ~~ OUR LANDLORD OUGHT To CUT —qH? RENT, FOR HAVING LWE NexT ff Door “fo “THIS Fs G Cideinad ae. CROW-CACKLE ABOUT 29-3 rs Maintain Pace in Junior Loop Stribling Schmeling 26 Age 5 6 ft. %\ inchHeight 6 ft. 1 inch 186'2 poundsWeight 189 pounds 74 inches Reach 75 inches 16'2 inches Neck — 172 inches 38% inches Chest no.42 inches || 42%, inches Chest ex:45%i inches || aS 33 inches Waist 33 inches j 14%, inches Biceps 15 inches iS t 13%2 inches Forearm 1212 inches |/ ena (0) 7% inches Wrist 7% inches || 22 inches Thigh 23 inches 141-3 inchesCalf 15 inches | i Giidires. Arkle 9% inches || Leaders Wallop Tigers, 35 to 5, | While Yankees Win from | \ man’s first defense of his crown since | Indians, 26 to 9 he won it on a foul in four rounds} from Jack Sharkey a year ago. { } Stribling, the challenger, remained; _ Trouncing the Tigers 35 to 5 Thurs- | #3 to 2 and 7 to 5 favorite with very | day, the Yankees continued their hot | little betting chiefly because there/Pace at the top of the Little Four | was very little Schmeling money in| league, one of the two junior baseball ; eight. | organizations in Bismarck. | Schmeling and Stribling will step| The Yankees, in second place, kept | into the ring as well-matched phy-| Pace with the leaders by defeating the sically as any two heavyweights who | last place Indians 26 to 9. | ever fought. There will be less than} The standihgs Friday morning| three pounds between them inj were: weight. They will have practically; Won Lost —-Pet.! the same reach and the same height. ! Senators +. 10 1 .909! Both finished their training strong} Yankees in 2 3 ‘ and in perfect condition. Stribling | Tigers 3 7 300} outmatches the champion almost in| Indians 1 10 091 everything except aggressiveness. | The Senators outhit the Tigers 13! Schmeling will depend upon two | to 3, the Senators making only eight} things for victory—an aggressive at-/errors while the losers were guilty of| tack and a jarring right hand, aj 11 misplays. punch that is damaging when it! Twelve Indian errors helped the} jands. The German has trained him-| Yanks to their victory, the victors! self to fight the only way he knows—; outhitting their opponents only seven | to crowd in and punch at close ~ange.! to five. i If he elects to remain away from! | Stribling, and attempts to out-box/ Ru ro E] Stribling Rated i | Cleveland, July 3—(?)—Sa- lient facts and figures of the world’s heavyweight champion- ship fight between Max Schmel ing and Young Stribling tonight Principals — Max Schmeling, Berlin, Germany, heavyweight champion vs. W. L. (Young) Stribling, Macon, Ga. Place—Cleveland’s new $3,000,- 000 municipal stadium. Time—Between 10:00 and 10:15 p. m., eastern standard time. Distance—Fifteen rounds or less. receipts—$300,000 to 0 mA, | Probable | Tigers Probable attendance—40,000 to || , Indians (*) 4 60,000, depending upon weather , ne conditions. 3 Referee—George Blake, Los || /Sunit2 3 Hae Angeles, Calif. Judges 2 be means Carr, ve ei bat ed by boxing commission on the otson, Lao a 0 night of the fight. ae apeoeions at Probable weather — Thunder- |) J. Rurckhardt ay re ae 4 showers threatened; in event of || Welch, rt . -1 0900 the rain, bout will take place Sat- Totals 30 9 5 14a} urday, weather permitting. Broadcasting — Over National Broadcasting company’s net- works, with Graham McNamee Yankees (26) Aller, ¢ . Beall, p Tavis, 3b - Andrews, 1b and Floyd Gibbons announcing. AS ct 9 9 Fighters’ share—Schmeling 40 || Woisgucbe: eee per cent of the net receipts; a 36 000 0 Stribling 124 per cent. Schmidt, ss\ 11) Betting—Stribling 7 to 5 favor- ite. Probable weights — Schmeling 189 pounds; Stribling 186. Totals .. 504 2280x—26 7 7 Stolen " hases: Aller, |. Allerdings, Burckhardt; home runs: Allerdings; hits off Rurekhardt 3 in 3 innings; ‘off Beall 5 in 6 in- nings; off Bower 4 in innings: struck out by Rurckhardt 1; by Reali 1; by Bowers ases on’ balls off Beall 3: off Burck : off Bowers 3; umpires: Bolton and Welch. i him, he may be outclassed, but by 4 charging in and forcing the issue, he hopes to keep Stribling so busy on the defensive the Georgian will have little opportunity to start an offen- sive. Stribling possesses greater speed and superior boxing skill than the German; far greater experience in ring craft and cunning. He is a bet- ter left-hand hitter right to the head or the body and has a right-hand that also carries dynamite. But the Georgian ing displayed at times a fain fighting heart, and there is no way of judging his mental attitude for to- night's engagement. Stribling has yet to prove that he can come with the pressure of a cham- at stake. that tonight will be his last big shot | unless he wins, and that his whole ring future depends on the outcome. Amid a perfect bedlam of com- mands by photographers to “face this way,” “face that way,” “smile | arid shake hands,” Schmeling and| Stribling weighed in Thursday night in the studio of WTAM, Cleveland broadcasting station, with the pro-| ceedings going to listeners throughou' the nation over an NBS network. The | weights were officially announced as! 186% pounds for Stribling, mn He must realize |Schmeling scaling 189. Auto Ra pee Three Tied for. $itwo games with Indianapolis. ce i Runner-Up Posi | In A. A. League Brews, Millers, and Colonels Deadlocked; Columbus and Toledo Tied Also Chicago, July 3.—(@)—A three-way tie for second place, a game and a half back of the leading Sain:s, and a two-way tie for fifth was the gnarled situation presented oy the American Association Friday. Milwaukee, Minneapolis, and wouis- ville, desperately trying to untrack themselves before the hustling Co- lumbus and Toledo teams catch up with them, stayed close to St. Paul as a result of Thursday's 10-inning slugfest in which the Kansas City cellar club defeated the Jeague lead-; ers 13 to 11. j Other games did even less to| straighten out the: tangled standings. | Minneapolis climbed from fourth place into a tie for second by defeat-| ing Milwaukee 6 to 3. Columbus won another from Louisville, 7 to 3. keep- ing the Colonels in the tie for second, | sand allowing the Red Birds to share | fifth place with Toledo, which split | Indianapolis won the first game! from Toledo, 8 to 2, getting 13 hits for Bill Burwell off Connally. The} Hens made six errors in the second game but won 5 to 4. ! Scores by innings: Bayne and Padden; , Prudhomme, Murphy and Renton Rallies to Win Louisville OL OL O10—4 1 Columbus 1100 200 04x 0 Penner and ‘Thompson; Chapman, Gudat and Hinkle. Hens and indians Indainapolis 021 O13 100—§ Toledo .........100 190 000-2 | Rurwell and Angley; Connally Devormer. Indianapolis 109 102 000-4 11 2 Toledo 010 000 22x--5 12 1 Hall, Cyengros and Riddle; F Rabb and Kies YEST@RDAY’S ST Ss (By The Associated Press) Alvin Crowder, Senators—Went in as relief pitcher, held Browns to six hits in 6 2/3 innings as Scnators; Pounded out to win 13 to 5. | Earl Averill, Indians—Drove in five | runs with pair of homers. | Alphonse Thomas, White Sox—Held Red Sox to three singles, beat them 2-0. t Lyn Lary, Yankees—Drove in three | runs against Tigers with double and/ three singles. | . Frank Hogan, Giants—Homer with two on beat Cardinals, 3-2. Kiki Cuyler, Cubs—Single in 11th beat Phillies, 2-1. | Heinie Meine, Pirates — Blanked | Braves with five hits. CRACK RIFLE SHOT Alfred Stobe, cadet at Oklahoma A. and M. college, scored 386 out of a Possible 400 targets from tour posi- tions. snaps, FQ TS Last iGHT a2) polis, won on foul Ferry, Anderson, cCaZO—Willie Oxter, Boston, (pointed Hankon Hausen, «s) 2 zo & : nn Camp, Ke- draw (8). Louls—Davey Abad, St, r jed Johnny Datto, EASILY REMOVABLE If you make your slip covers with even your sofa cushion slip with them too, you can remove wash them and have them An old Malayan proverb is: “The CREAM OF BIG FOUR TO REPRESENT CITY IN STEELE TOURNEY Nine Cubs, Three Robins, Two Athletics, and One Giant Win Positions | HERSCHLEB TO BE MANAGER|to Benefit Game Against Mandan Here Next Wednesday Eve- ning Is Planned Fifteen Bismarck boys, cream of the Big Four League, have been se- lected as members of the team to represent the Capital City in the dis- {rich tournament of the American Legion junior baseball program at |Stecle July 18 and 19. | Nine Cubs, three Robins, two Ath- jletics, and one Giant have been {chosen for the nine, according to {Harry Herschleb, who will manage the team in the absence of M. H, An- derson, who has been in charge of Big Four and Little Four league play this summer. i The boys selected are Bill Owens, pitcher and outfielder; Frank Lee, pitcher and outfielder; Alvin Dutt, {Pitcher and outfielder; Bob Finnegan, first baseman; Louis Ahlen, second jbaseman; Carvel Johnson, shortstop; Melvin Thoreson, third baseman; | Tom Lee, utility infielder; Ernie Bob- jzien, utility infielder; Carl Svaren, jcatcher; Harlan Hugelman, outfield- ,¢er; Neil Croonquist, outfielder; Ray {Longmuir, outfielder; Orland John- {son, outfielder; and Myron Benser, {second baseman. To finance their trip to Steele, the Bismarck junior team will stage a ; benefit game at the city athletic field at 7 o'clock next Wednesday evening, ‘playing the Mandan juniors. Fi- ‘nancial proceeds from the game will go into the Capital City club's ex- ‘pense fund. Baseball suits, furnished by mem- bers of the local post of the American Legion for the junior team, are on the way to Bismarck now, according |to Herschleb. | Other practice games and an in- jtense training program are planned lfor the team before it goes to the | Steele tournament. ‘ | More than 100 boys have been par- |ticipating in the play of the two jun- Hor leagues here this year. | : HIGH RUN IN BILLIARDS | What is believed to be the longest r back on again in double quick time! run ever made in straight rail bil- and no trouble, | Mards was made by Charles C. Peter- son of St. Louis, who clicked the | ivories for 2843 successive points. His|N quickest pace of an elephant is the previous world record was 1000 made slowest pace of a man.” | in New York several years ago. ARCK’S JUNIOR Defeat Schmeling Tonight BASEBALL TEAM [Bismarck Nine Will Battle Minot Here Washington, Macks Lose; Giants, Robins, Cubs, Pirates Cop By HUGH S. FULLERTON, JR. (Associated Press Sports Writer) At home or away, intersectional games in the American League seem bring about the same results for all the clubs except the St. Louis 'Browns. A complete round of games with the eastern clubs of the circuit Playing the west, which wound up Thursday, brought just one big change in the standing. The Browns, who started their campaign at Sportsman's Park Place, finished it Thursday a good fifth in the standings while the Chi- jcago White Sox dropped from fifth to leighth in the same time. St. Louis {won 13 games and lost five while the 112 defeats. ‘ Washington, trouncing the Browns |13 to 5 in the final game Thursday, came home all square for the tour with eight victories and as many de- ‘feats. The league leading Philadelphia Athletics finished with nine games |Won and seven lost after absorbing a 12 to 4 beating from Cleveland Thursday. The New York Yankees, aided by Babe Ruth’s 19th home run, jfinished their tour wth a 13 to 1 tri- jumph over Detroit. The Yanks won ;10 games and lost eight. | Tommy Thomas pitched Chicago to j@ final victory over Boston, holding the Red Sox to three hits while the Pale Hose won 2 to 0. ; In the National League, where a jdouble-header today between: St. intersectional campaign, the Brook- lyn Robins, outit 10-5 by Cincinnati ; Thursday, defeated the Reds 4 to 3. The victory gave Brooklyn a record {of 13 victories in 17 games against {the western invaders. Frank Hogan’s home run and some expert fielding behind Fred Fitzsim- mons enabled the Giants to reduce the St. Louis lead to one and one-half games with a 3 to 2 victory. | ‘The Chicago Cubs held their place jthree games behind the Giants by pulling out an 1l-inning game with ithe Phillies by a 2 to 1 count. in the best mound performance of the! jmany good ones in the National League Thursday as he limited the Boston Braves to five hits to gain a 1 to 0 decision. Scores by innings: AMERICAN LEAGU Indians Beat Cham; Philadelphia 040 000 000- Cleveland 002 007 30x: Walberg, nshaw, Krause, Mc- Donald and Cochrane,’ Heving, ‘Almi- sano; Hudlin and Sewell. Yanks Overwhelm Tigers 010 160 032—13 18 1 -+.000 100 000— 1 8 3 Dickey; Uhle, Hoyt and Grabowski. Yanks Win as|¥ against the eastern invaders in last 5 | White Sox had only five victories to| Louis and Philadelphia winds up the|} Heinie Meine of Pittsburgh turned | BROWNS GO UP LEAGUE LADDER DURING INTERSECTIONAL PLAY Senators Ment, Browns | Washington ...000 3 fas tn 100 000 Burke, Crowder, and § Stewart, Stiles, ‘ell. Chisox Blank Rokox ‘000-000 000-0 8 1 Boston Chicago"... 100 100 O0x—2 10 1 Kline ‘and’ Berry; Thomas and Grube. NATIONAL Giants Noxe St. Louis . 1 New York 1 Hallahan, Derringer Fitzsimmons and Hogan, Cubs Win Close One Chicago .100 000-000 O12 10 1 Philadelphia .000 910 900 00-1 7 3 Smith and Hemsley; Benge and Me- Curdy. Pirates and Blank Braves Pittsburgt 909 109 0001 7 0 600 000 000-9 5 Meine “and” Philips; and Spohrer, Cronin. Robins Win Final Cincinnati . 910 2 Brooklyn Cunningham AMERIC. Philadelphia Washington New York Cleveland St. Louis . Boston . Detroit Chicago New York Chicago pI Pittsburgh . |Cincinnati ¢ | AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Won Lost |St. Paul .. | Milwaukee | Louisville | Minneapolis Toledo... Columbus | Indianapolis Kansas City THURSDAY'S RESULTS American League Cleveland 12: Philadelphia 4, New York t-1, Washington 3 St. Louis 5, | Chicago 2; Boston National League | New York 3; St. Louis 2. | Chicago 2; Philadelphia 1. Pittsburgh 1; Boston 0. | Brooklyn 4; Cincinnati 3. | American Association Kansas City 13 Paul 11, | Minneapolis 6; Milwaukee Columbus 7; Louisville 3, Indianapolis 8, 4; Toledo 2, 5. | BAER STARTED AT BOTTOM | Max Baer, young California heavy- | Weight of great prospect, was a day laborer at $4 per day in a San Fran- cisco factory only two years ago. He has drawn purses of several thou- | sands of dollars in his recent fights. Automobile Pilots Who Will Perform Here Saturday Here are some of the automobile Frank Johnson, Stanton, Middle row—G, White, Oscar Tingelstad, Frazee, Minn. pilots who will take part in the races to be held here Saturday. Readi N. D.; George Guttu, Grand Forks; Bob Wallace, MIN s—Fair Grounds OT vs. BISMARCK Sat., July 4, 6:30 p. m.---San., July 5, 3:00 p. ing from Indianapolis and Gene Mandeloff, st. Huron, 8. D.; Bob Seltzer, Minneapolis and Jimmy Belch, Kansas City. Bottom row—Sig Haugdahi, Daytona Beach, Fla.; Arch Powell, Daytona Beach; Shano Fitzgerald, Chicago; —Jul left to right they are: Top row— Jack Kmecik, Grand Forks and AT THE | Ra ae Bismarck Municipal Ball Par Magicians Will Play Capital City Club Saturday Night, . Sunday Afternoon Bismarck’s baseball team is in good Steondition for its holiday twin bill with the Minot nine, it was _an- nounced Friday morning by Fred Thimmesch, manager of the local Elks-sponsored club. p The Capital City outfit will battle the Magicians on the Bismarck ath- letic field at 6:30 p.m. Saturday and 3 p. m, Sunday. ‘Thimmesch has not announced his starting lineup but it is probable that he will use the performers he has been using the last few weeks. He has made no announcements on his pitchers, though it is certain that {Lefty Klein will hurl one of the gam (By The Axsocinted Press) Cineluding Games of July 2 NATIONAL LEAGUE Batting—Klein, Phillies, .373; Davis, Phillie: Phillies, 101 Cubs, 95, -Klein, Phillies, 215 Terry, —Comorsky, Pirates, suyler, Cubs ‘on 6, lost n 8, lost 2. AMER’ B Batting—Ruth, 97; Mor-- gan, Indians, 8 Ruth, ‘Simmons, Athletics, 103; Aves ans, 102, Home Runs—Ruth and Gehrig, Yankees, 19, jogstolem Bases—Chapman, Yankees, 2 Johnson, Tigers, 21, Pitching—Grove, Athietics, won 15, lost 2; Mahaffey, Athletics, Marberry, Senators, won tl. / WORLD CHAMPIONS TO TAKE PART IN RACES HERE JULY 4 Sig Haugdahl and Elfrieda Mais Head Performers in Auto- | mobile Speed Contests Led by two world champions, a jdozen speedway and dirt track stars jWill invade Bismarck Saturday for jthe Bismarck Fair association's jfourth annual Fourth-of-July auta jTacing ecard. Headlining the list of invaders wili be Sig Haugdahl, present dirt track champion of the world and famed as the first man ever to drive an auto- goals faster than three miles a min- ute. Elfrida Mais, recognized woman's world champion and holder of ail world records for women, will com- Pete in special match pista races and open Among those whose signed blanks have already been realy Shano Fitzgerald, Irish Free State champion; Bob Wallace of Indianap- olis; Gene Mandeloff, Chicago; Bob Seitzer of St. Paul; Kaye Larson, Sioux Falls; Arch Powell, Daytona Beach, Florida, and other noted driv- ers. Sanction for the Bismarck speed events has been given by the Inter= national Motor Contest association, according to Mrs. C, K. Bryan, secre- tary of the fair association, and Pena ill he. i Amanied here toward ie rack champi the world. ene Prt’ fohuen, Johnson Special, Pe apeelaiad. O. M. T. Special, mee Guttu, Northland Ltd., Grand Jack _Kmecik, Dakc Grand Forks, Nia Benin. ate White, Fronty Ford, Huron, "Bob Seitzer, Front Minneapolis, Bene, Sotetal Jimmy Belch, Ra, ee JO Special, Kansas Sig Haugdahl, Mitter- aos a ler-8, Daytona Arch Powell, Be: fh Frontenac, Daytona Shano Fitzgerald, Chicago. Chevy Special, Jene Mandeloff, Rajo, St. Louis, Elfrida Mais, Franty, Tadisnapotis, Bob Wallace, Ford, Indianapolis, A special added attraction will be motorcycle races and stunts by local riders. The riders entered are Dutch eet fa uemeven Alex Neibauer, e' oe waite and Clayton The program follows: Event No, 1—1; ied introduction cars and Event No. 2— Olt Derby. First Heat, Sinclair Event No. 3—Secon 3 son Hotel Derby. Bends Satan Event No. 4—Record Trials, Event No, 5—Match race, Event No. 6—Conolation race, Event No, 7—] riding. ‘Motorcycle and stunt Event No. 8—Final Tribune Derby, 4th heat, Bismarck Admiss Sponsored by BF OB. 0), Blamareg wt ria + ys