The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 28, 1934, Page 6

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 1984 $5000 Will Be Spent to Give Bismarck Finest Ball. Park in State REVISED PARK WILL SEAT 3,000 PEOPLE; | DIAMOND IMPROVED CWA Pays Labor $2160 on Pro- ject; Committee Handles Other Expenses BUILD NEW BLEACHERS Construction, Painting, Grad- ing Grounds Included on Improvement Program Bismarck will have the finest ball park in North Dakota and one of the largest and best equipped in the northwest when the $5,000 building and improvement program here is completed this spring, according to members of the baseball committee. Committeemen are N. O. Churchill, Milton Rue, Walter Mohn, Charles F. Martin, H. W. Rosenthal and L. V. Miller, The greater part of the costs have ‘been taken care of through the civil works administration which to date has expended $2,160.75 for labor on the project. The committee expects that approximately $500 more will be available through the F. E. R. A., re- cently substituted for the C. W. A. Other expenses are handled by the committee. The revised ball park will furnish seating facilities for 3,000 people. Be- sides this, the committee has made provision for the “knot hole gang,” ‘and has erected bleachers which will be free to kids under 16 years of age for all regular scheduled games. This section will be enclosed with protec- tive screening 14 feet high. Many Im its Made ‘The improvements made include: ‘The tand has been re-in- forced entirely with new planks; new steps have been installed; new screen- ing has been put in; new front sills have been built; and the entire struc- ture has been completely painted. The park is now enclosed by a fence seven feet high. One hundred forty feet of new bleachers have been erected on the ‘west side of the park, and the 140 feet of bleachers on the south side have been reinforced. Fourteen feet of! screening will protect the spectators in both bleachers. For those who prefer watching the games from their automobiles, space has been provided. A new concession stand has re- placed the old and will be located be- neath the grandstand. A store room for the stand was also built. ‘The ticket office has been repainted and rebuilt. A wider walk with side railings has been constructed from the railroad tracks to the park, replacing the old walk. Choose Officers For Season ‘Two large dugouts have been put in. ‘The grounds have been graded, and are so leveled as to provide a good ‘watershed. Reserved seats will be constructed in front of the grandstand. A parking lot has been leased and ‘will be free to patrons. Besides the relief money for the ‘work already mentioned, the C. W. A. gtaded and improved the road leading to the park. At a meeting of the baseball com- mittee Tuesday night, the following Officers were chosen for the season. Churchill, president; Rue, vice President; Mohn, secretary; Martin, treasurer; H. W. Rosenthal, advertis- ing manager; and Miller, concessions manager. Play Wednesday May Determine Finalists New York, March 28.—(4#)—The Na- tional Hockey League playoffs which a, have seen form chucked over- board, carry on Wednesday night in @ pair of battles which may decide ee ever eventual finalists for the Stanley Ip. On the one hand, the Detroit Red five series for the National League jp and one of the berths ' BY NOAHS BEARD, ITS POSSIBLE/ ZA: Cae T™ regain To : Hal Za» YSAY HIT WAS, ea OUR BOARDING HOUSE By Ahern EGAD. “BASIL YouVE ‘READ ABOUT THAT DIAMOND THAT WAS FOUNDRECENTLY SATHE SONKHER DIAMOND, WEIGHING 726 CARATS,AND SOLD BY FARMER SONKHER FOR#350,000 ! BY SOvE! SUPPOSING, IN MY GOLD MINE, THE y, wi LITTLE PHOEBE”,I UNEARTH A NUGGET" =) OF GOLD THE SIZE OF A MEDICINE BALLS BE HEARING OF HIM STAKING A CLAIM UNDER TH THREE GOLD BALLS OF WEAKENING YET? 3-26 PROWLERS PLAY MINOT ELKS AT MANDAN WEDNESDAY NIGHT Two of Fastest Independent Quints in State to Battle for Court Honors Bismarck Prowlers will play the Minot Elks Wednesday night at the State Training School gymnasium at Mandan. The game between these fast independent quints will begin at 9:15 (Bismarck time). Although the Minot team lost out in the state tournament early in March, they have been playing a lot of ball since the meet and now claim to have five of the fastest cagers in the state. Harley Robertson, forward for the Elks, and Charles Webster, center, were placed on the first all- tournament team. Alvy Dahl, guard, received a berth on the second team. Others on the squad include “Huck” Schmidt, Don McDonnell and Raber who last year played with the House of David five. J. W. Bacon is man- ager. According to Bacon the Elks team has won games from the Straus Clo- thiers, Valley City, this year's state independent champions; the House of David quint; Armours team of Fargo; and the North Dakota State Bison. The starting lineup for the capital city five will be Garvin Croonquist, Johnny Spriggs, Arnold Schneider, George L. Hays (captain), and Frank Lee. Reserves will be Byron Benser and Jerry Griffin. Spriggs was named to a forward post on the all-tourney independent team. Croonquist is one of the fast- est men on the team, and one of the most unselfish of players besides be- ing one of the top scorers on the team. Schneider's outstanding work on offensive and defensive, rather than his ability to get the tip-off, earned him a place on the second all- tournament team. Frank Lee has probably totaled more points than any other player in North Dakota this season. Hays is valuable for his de- fensive works, and he directs the of- fense attacks. The Prowlers are undefeated this season, OUR SIDE— TH’ LINE COMES ALONG RIGHT Col. Bradley Offers List of Fast Equines New York, March 28.—(#)—Col. E. R. Bradley has come forth with a stronger array of three-year-olds than usual this year which augurs none: too well for horsemen who have de- signs on stopping his string of vic- tories at Churchill Downs in the Derby May 5. han follow in the footsteps of Be- have Yourself, Bubbling Over, Bur- goo King and Broker's Tip, the mas- ter of Idle Hour Farm offers Bazaar, an outstanding filly; Boy Valet, a successful winter campaigner; the well-bred Blue Again and Baker's Dozen which, like Broker's Tip, never won a race as a two-year-old. Bazaar and Blue Again also have been named for the Preakness. London has 4,203 acres of docks, in- cluding a water area of 722 acres. Thirty million copies of the Bible are sold annually. Steals, Errors and Home Runs From the Training Camp Fronts PLAYS WITH INDIANS New Orleans, March 28—()—Play- ing second base for the Cleveland In- dians in their 5-3 triumph over Wash- ington Tuesday, was Eddie Moore, for- mer Pirate and lately of the New Or- leans Pelicans. PLANS TO CATCH Tampa, Fla.—Ernie Lombardi seems destined to do a lot of catching for the Cincinnati Reds this season, despite what plans Manager Bob O'Farrell might have had. CLARK LITTLE HELP Miami Beach, Fla.—Bill Terry has about given up hope that William Watson Clark, veteran left-hander, will be of much assistance to the New York Giants this season. RUTH TOPS BATTERS St. Petersburg, Fla—A new “murderer's row” for the New York Yankees appears to be in the making. In the first seven exhibition games, the five top men in the batting order, Don Heffner, Bob Rolfe, Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and Ben Chapman all hit at better than a .300 clip, Ruth topped them all at .458. HARD ON CATCHERS New Orleans—The Washington Senators were forced to tackle the Cleveland Indians again Wednesday, A foul tip bruised his finger, but he'll be playing again in a few days. TIGERS BEAT PHILLIES Lakeland, Fla.—After defeating the Phillies for their first major league exhibition game victory, Detroit's Tigers moved on to Avon Park Wednesday to play Colum- bus of the American Association. ROOKIES MAY START may give Rookie Galan an opportun- ity to open the National League sea- son as the Chicago Cubs’ third base- man, BEAT HOLLYWOOD CLUB Riverside, Cal.—The Pirates of Pittsburgh tuned up for another Hollywood determined to duplicate Tuesday's triumph. SOUTHPAW WILL START Sarasota, Fla—If Bob any case, another Red Sox southpaw will be in there, for Bob Weiland is dewn to work six innings. TLL TAKE CARE OF iT! TLL STAND ON ‘WILL HEADLINE 30 ROUNDS OF BOXING ON FIGHT PROGRAM Rusty Gramling to Battle Dale Lily in Semi-Finals.of Card Here Thursday FIRST BOUT AT 8:30 P. M. Ritchie - Morsette, M'Daniels, Goetz-Grambling, Nunn-Hall Other Goes Fight fans of this territory have been anticipating the fight that will headline the card at the Patterson hall Thursday night between Mel Engle, Bismarck, and Brook- er, Mandan. Engle is entered at 131 pounds and Brooker at 138. The first bout will start at 8:30 p. m. Engle will have to rely a lot upon his punching to overcome a disadvant- before, having a long list of knock- outs to his credit. This will be the first ring engage- ment between these fighters, although both have been featured on boxing programs here a number of times. Promoter Isham Hall will have Rusty Gramling, 138 pounds, Bis- marck, pitted against Dale Lily, 145 pounds, Beulah in the semi-final go. Gramling has done a lot of fighting in Texas and accumulated a fine list of wins, His aggressive scrapping has made him a popular attraction for bouts here. Lily is not so well known in Bis- marck, but he made quite a sensation never|by gaining an edge over George Brooker on a card in his home town recently. Gramling has had more ex- perience, but Lily out-weighs him by quite a bit. The above fights will go for six rounds, the remainder for four. Hall believes that the match be- tween Tuffy Ritchie, 128 pounds, Steele, and Bud Morsette, 140 pounds, Ft. Lincoln, will see lots of leather- pushing. Both of these men are will- ing to exchange punches, and they so, Hall declares. Tuttle, and Bat McDaniels, 149 pounds, Wilton, should make an in- Pressier - will have plenty of opportunity to do Power House Pressler, 150 pounds, —Cryoy MEL ENGLE AND GEORGE BROOKER SET FOR RING BATTLE Casey Stengel Announces Starting Lineup for Dodgers’ First Contest Manager Optimistic Over Club’s Prospects in Spite of Weak Batters By BILL BRAUCHER (NEA Service Sports Editor) Orlando, Fia., March 28.—The one- time dear and delightful Dodgers, who became very dour last year, and dear and delightful again under a new manager—Casey Stengel, of the old school. But, dear and delightful though they may be, with splashes of color restored to a club that once was the major league's most erratic though most entertaining, the Dodgers still are more or less “problem children.” “To understand more fully what the Brooklyn ball ‘club lacks, look at this lneup and batting order which Casey will send to the diamond for the sea- son's opener April In all that group there are only two ‘men who proved last year they could hit National League pitching respect- ably—Lopez, whose average was .301, and Frederick with 308. Casey must depend on Koenecke, expatriated Giant, who hit .333 last year in the International League, as his clean- up hitter. Casey, of course, will give you an argument. When reminded by the writer that his batting array did not offer much of @ threat to people who earn their living by pitching, he re- “There are two or three guys there who will hit 20 points better than \atrant ied tiheon ination ana diiemae| theig own worth and each states that ‘his opponent is in for a terrific beat- Bat Krause undertook to train Otto Goets, 140 pounds, who will teresting match. Both battlers admit Shipley will announce the bouts, they did last year. Tae Stripp. His mark last year was 277. You know he can hit better than that. Just a bad year. “Cuccinello is better than a .252 hitter, too, but that’s all he hit last year. Koenecke looks great this year. I think that $75,000 price tag was too much of a load for him to carry when he came up to the Giants. After a season at Buffalo, he’s a different man. Talks of Rookie Prospects “And say, did you see some of the young fellows who came up to the club last August? Well, for one there's Frey, shortstop we recalled from Nashville. He hit over 300 in the last month of the season. “Bert Delmas, another shortstop and second basemen, looks awful good out there to me. “Talk to Joe Tinker (the old Cub business man) about this Jack Mc- Carthy. He's a first baseman from the semi-pros in Chicago. Tinker says he never saw a better ball player around that bag. Just like Hal Chase.” Casey admitted his pitching staff, with only one flinger who won more than he lost last year—Mungo—was not as good as it might be, but: “We've got some young pitchers coming up this year to help Mungo, Beck, Leslie Munns, a right-hander from St. Paul. He win (McGraw dialect) 19 games for St. Paul. Big fellow, 6 feet 4, and looks like he wins for us. “Then there's a couple of left- handers. This Phil Page, who used to be with the Tigers and was with Se- attle last year, looks like a mighty good pitcher who has been handled wrong. “They say he was the bird they would stack up against the best pitchers in the league last year, and that sounds pretty good to Casey. The other fellow, Perkins, from Jersey City and Buffalo, is just about ripe.” Won't Discuss Hack ‘The subject of Hack Wilson, former hero of the Mudville nine, was intro- duced, but Casey did not care to dis- cuss the pudgy outfielder, who fell down so badly in 1933, “Tl tell you some more about that later,” said Stengel. The new manager of the Dodgers does have what looks to be a tough year ahead, running a ball club with which he had nothing to do in the ‘k, | making. He was called in just before the spring training season opened, signed up, handed the'club which Max Carey ee failed to handle, and told to go He is going shead so far very well shortstop, who now is an Orlando] Stop} Benge, and Carroll. One is}. indeed, if hustle means anything. The club that Ay ise apart by dissen- sion under Carey is working as & unit for the popular Casey. Granberg Beats Deck On Fargo Fight Card in 18:36, he tossed himself from the ring in an effort to make a flying tackle, incapacitated himself and was unable to return for the final fall. with a sharp right hook after one minute and 31 seconds, but Gabrisch was up and wobbly. again just at the bell and had to be ausisted to his corner. He was unable to come up for the second. Johnny Deotis of Minneapolis out- (petra Johnny Baker of Grand Forks in six rounds at 133 pounds. Baker won only one round, the fourth, while the third was even. Baker's unortho- dox style proved costly to him as he missed repeatedly and Deotis landed solidly to the head and body, shaking up Baker several times. as 142, Elroy Bushaw of Grand Forks won all the way from Bob Sullivan of Fargo in four rounds at 135 pounds. t Fights Last Night ] Jacksonville, Fla.—Petey are” ron, rad Birmingham, outpointed Schneider, 129, Jacksonville, Tenorio, ‘York, out (10); Terry land, Cal., outpointed Jimmy Fow- sate 136, Atlanta, (8). Los Angeles—Barney Ross, 139%, Chicago, outpointed Pacho, 139%, California, (10). Colorado Springs, Colo—! Joe Gans, Los Angeles, outpoint~ oay! Neiheisel, Boulder, Colo., perennial human urge to + e+ eH HS the one and only miAm! BEACH apringline pics Prepare for a long summer's business . . . obey that “get away from it all” for a gay Springtime interlude and some healthful recreation. 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