The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 2, 1934, Page 6

Cincinnati Reds Building for Future with Crop of BOBOFARRELLONE |FARLEY FEELS BAER MAY SUPPLY NEED OF COLORFUL HEAVY THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, MONDAY, APRIL 2, 1934 Young % x Players PILOT WHO SEES NO ||_ovr BoaRDINc House By Aner |IWOULD BRING GAME [Lester Stoefen Among Five Invited PENNANT FOR CLUB Men Too Young or Too Old But Manager Feels Nine Will Leave Cellar Position FACED BY MANY PROBLEMS Chick Hafey, Former Cardinal, Only Outstanding Ball Player on Roster BY BILL BRAUCHER (NEA Service Sports Editor) Tampa, Fla., April 2—A catcher named Bob O'Farrell faces the great- est problem in the major leagues this year. It is Bob's job to manage the Cincinnati Reds, chronic cellar cham- Some of O'Farrell’s men are too old. Most of the others are too young. On the whole roster, the only outstand- ing ball player (and he’s getting along in years, too) is Chick Hafey, formerly of the Cardinals, OFarrell has a pitching problem, an infield problem. an outfield puz- zie, and he isn’t quite sure about the catching, either. But O'Farrell, with a typical catcher’s temperament, faces his troubles with fortitude. “We are nowhere near a pennant,” O'Farrell broke down and admitted to me as we sat watching his athletes going about their gestures. “What we will do this year, though, !s to finish out of that cellar. And we're building for the future with these young fel- lows.” Elders Are Evident Dazzy Vance, 41-year-old flinger, Passed by. In a pepper game was none other than Sparky Adams, 36 or older. Larry Benton, a pitcher dis- missed by the Giants years ago as be- ing through, was warming up. On the premises also were such veterans as Mark Koenig, Joe Shaute, Clyde Manion, Jim Bottomley, and “Sher-|* iff” Blake, Tt was an ironic touch. It appear- ed that all the old men in the world suddenly had appeared in Reds’ uni- forms. But O'Farrell went on: “I figure a couple of trades helped our infield. We have Bottomley for first and Slade, from the Cards, for short. Tony Piet, from the Pirates, will be at second. Third base is a tossup between Les Mallon, from Tor- onto; Joe Morrissey, brought up in 1933 from St. Paul; and Sparky Adams, also from the Cards. Of course, one of the other young infield- ets may come through for us.” ‘There are so many infielders in the Reds’ camp that there isn't enough room for all their names on a roster. Most of them, of course, will be sent to farm teams. Among the number are Walter Bohl, from Rock Island; George Wise, from ‘Topeka; and Tom Robello, also from Rock Island. These three are barely 21, and are in the class that needs Hafey Outstanding Hafey happens to be the only first rate outfielder. He is the only one of the outfielding Reds who was able to hit .300 last year, his average be- ing .302, barely above the figure below which outfielders are supposed to pay their way into the park. Johnny Moore, from the Cubs; Harry Rice, from here and there; and Adam Comorosky, who hit 284 for the Pirates last year, are the others, A young Washington chat- tel named Johnny Gill, formerly of Chattanooga and Cleveland, is the rookie, and if he can hit he'll stay. Some 20 persons who answer to the charge of being pitchers are among the chorus of 50 or more Reds and |-be Reds who practically fill the little ball park here. Those figured as starters, besides the ancient Ben- ton, are Paul Derringer and Sylvester Johnson, Cardinal castoffs; Si John- Stout, Dazzy Vance, John % Kolp, Jimmy Pattison, , Al Hollingsworth, and If there are some among you don’t know you have me—I don't know them BEE age a : a i! ‘1 games while losing k last year, is one of . Hilcher, who rt the Sacramento Valley for a few years, has demonstrated what appears FAW~A THOUSAND DRATS/ BY YOUR THREAT TO WARN BOOTHBY AGAINST INVESTING ANY MONEY \N My GOLD MINE, YOU FORCED ME TO TELL HIM THAT I WOULDNT TAKE ANYBODY IN WITH ME “AND THEN BY NOAHS BEARD—~HE TELLS ME HE WAS WISHING HE COULD INVEST $500 \N IT—“THEN You JIB IN AND DISCOURAGE HIM ]~ A-AA-FEL Im beh AWAY AND YES, AND YOULL LIMP To YOUR CAVE, \F YOU DON'T HAUL Detroit and Chicago Hockey Teams To Battle for Coveted Stanley Cup MILLERS BEAT HIBBING 43 TO WIN CENTRAL Police Called in to Stop Fight in Exciting Ice Contest at Eveleth Eveleth, Minn. April 2—(#)—The Minneapolis Millers won the Central Hockey League championship here Sunday afternoon by defeating the Hibbing Miners, 4 to 3, in a torrid game played on slushy ice. The Miners rallied in tne final pe- riod to score three goals. A fight in- volving Myre of Hibbing and Oddson of Minneapolis brought spectators and Players into a free for all, and po- lice were needed to restore order in the final period. Minneapolis took an early lead by bonging in two goals in the initial period. Dahlstrom scored on a pass from Purpur with 13:25 gone of the Period, and then Shea and Adams took a break and out-distanced the Miners, and the former sent the puck into the net at 15:04. Jamestown Is Thumbs Down on Diamond Loop ‘The baseball league, proposed by Russell L. Voelz, former president of the northern baseball league, re- ceived another setback when the members of the Jamestown baseball association joined Bismarck in its an- nouncement that the Capital City club would not consider entering the league. The circuit was to have included three Canadian teams and Minot, Jamestown and Bismarck. A meeting will be held Monday night at Minot to decide what action Minot will take. Petrolle Gets Offer For Ring Appearance Fargo, N. D., April 2.—They haven't forgotten the old gentleman yet, as Jack Hurley refers to William Mitchell Petrolle—Billy to you and the Fargo Express to boxing fans throughout the world. Petrolie retired following his defeat ' ica. IN THERE. HOCKEY CROWN at the hands of Barney Ross, the world’s lightweight champion, in New York in January, but his services are still in demand. Saturday a telegram from Sidney Heller in New York came to Fargo addressed to Jack Hurley, Petrolle’s manager. It was an offer for Petrolle to fight in South America. A purse of $4,000 was guaranteed. No mention of an opponent was made. The telegram was forwarded to Hurley at Duluth, who left for there to recuperate following a major ope- ration in Rochester, Minn. What disposition Hurley will make of the matter is unknown. But it has been announced that Petrolle is de- finitely through, and in view of the fact that Hurley has an aversion for sailing the ocean the offer is expected to be spurned. University Ringmen Make Fine Showings Grand Forks, N. D., April 2—Two. University of North Dakota boxers, Ben Blanchette, heavyweight, and Kenny Brown, middleweight, made great showings in the amateur box- ing this year when each won three tournament titles, So dominating were these Sioux fighters in their respective divisions each is considered the best amateur in the northwest at his weight. At present, Kenny Brown is in St. Louis, where as a member of the Northwest Golden Gloves teani, he is competing for the national A. A. U. championship. Blanchette, too, was scheduled to participate in the meet, but he chose to remain in school. ‘The Nodak battlers paralleled each other, first winning the northwest diamond belt title, then romping to titles in their weights in the North Dakota Golden Gloves meet, and fin- ally climaxing the season with cham- pionships in the Northwest Golden Gloves tournament. Brown is a junior in liberal arts, while Blanchette is a freshman in the same school, The Mayflower carried 102 pas- sengers on its first voyage to Amer- I WOULDN'T TRUST You! A GUY WHO'S AS DUMB AS You ARE CAN DO ANYTHING. Canada Loses Chance for| Sports Trophy by Losing 3-2 to Chicago Blackhawks Chicago, April 2.—(#)—The battle for the Stanley Cup, emblem of pro- fessional hockey supremacy and Can- ada's most highly prized sports trophy, will be fought out between two American teams, Detroit and Chi- cago. 8 Canada’s last chance of getting in- to the final playoff series was blasted out of existence Sunday night when the Montreal Maroons, struggling to overcome a three-goal handicap, were conquered by Chicago's Black Hawks, 3 to 2, giving the Hawks a margin of 6 to 2 in total 5 Detroit's Red Wings conquered the Toronto Maple Leafs to win the na- tional league championship and qual- ify for the cup finals, which will be decided on a best three out of five games basis. The first two matches will be played in Detroit Tuesday and Thursday; the third in Chicago Sun- day, and the fourth, if necessery, here April 10. Should the series go the limit, the fifth match will be played in Detroit. TO MAKE SCHEDULE Duluth, April 2—()—The 120- game schedule for the Northern League will be drafted at a meeting of the sched- ule committee Monday at Eau Claire. The annual pre-season league meeting will be held in mid-April at Crooks- ton. Members of the schedule com- mittee who will attend the session Monday are Dick Wade, owner-man- ager of the Superior club; Herman White, owner, Eau Claire; Bruno Haas, owner-manager, Winnipeg, and Danny Boone, manager, Crookston. LEADERS STAND OUT Peoria, Ill, April 2.—(?)—First place berths in the American Bowling Con- gress stood like the rock of Gibraltar under the attack of the so-called “big shots” of the game this week- end. With the most feared invaders come, gone and conquered, the pres- ent leaders can heave their respec: tive sighs of relief—that is if they are 80 old-fashioned they don’t believe in dark horses, upsets and things. The German submarine Deutsch- land made the first commercial trans- lantic trip undersea. ‘|| OUT OUR WAY By Williams POOH, POOH! HOW COULD I BE PULLED IN THERE ? WHY,A FELLER COULDN’ KEEP GRINDIN' IF HE WAS EVEN HALF PULLED BACK, POSTMASTER GENERAL BELIEVES Official Recalls Ringmen of Days When He Headed N. Y. Athletic Commission IS LONESOME FOR BOXING President Roosevelt Champion of Champions for Postoffice Department Head New York, April 2—(#)—The post- master general of the United States, James A. Farley, is just a trifle home- sick for the whimsies, the multi-sided ramifications of the prize fight busi- ness, Thirteen months ago Monday he resigned his post as chairman of the New York state athletic commission, one of the most powerful of boxing’s ruling bodies, to take his place in the cabinet of President Roosevelt. “And I wouldn't have missed it for anything,” he said Monday as he leaned back at his desk at the na- tional Democratic headquarters, lock- ed his fingers behind his head, and looked back through the first year of the New Deal, into the days when Tunney and Dempsey and Rickard were kings and he ruled them all. “We had a lot of fun and a lot of laughs. Boxing was a game then, jammed with color and Great personalities. It will come back, eventually, as every thing will come back. What boxing needs most of all right now is a colorful heavyweight champicn, a fellow like Dempsey. The Leg may have found him in Max r, “I sat all alone in a hotel room in Washington when Primo Carnera and Tommy Loughran fought for the heavyweight title in Miami, listen- ing to the bout over the radio, I couldn't help thinking about nights around the ringside in New York. I get pretty lonesome for boxing. I'll never lose interest in the game. I'd Go every week if I could.” He reads the sport pages avidly, keeps in touch with all the sport writers who used to cross-examine “We'll cross that bridge when we caer Cubs, Monday set out for! come to it.” To Try for American Davis Cup Team ' Shields, Allison, Wood, Lott , Classy Splasher Sets Mark Ray Daughters has another record-breaker! The noted Wash-_ ington Athletic Club swim coach, who developed Helene Madison and Jack Medica, has trained Olive McKean, above, and what did that young lady do recently but step out and mark for the 250-yard free style event, set three years ago! jatter Helene’s She covered the distance in 3:01 at a Seattle meet. > Steals, Errors and Home Runs TO PLAY WHITE SOX | Los Angeles, Cal, April 2—P}—| him at the commission until he final- |20@rding trolley cars the Pittsburgh ly would seek safety in an expression | Pirates baseball squad, having broken Washington reporters now know well: |even in their 8-game series with the | Bernardino and a long engage- His champion of champions is|ment with the White Sox. Franklin Delano Roosevelt. “I've seen plenty of courage in the ring, men who could take it and smile, keep their tempers, their confidence unshaken, He's the king of them all. It's been the greatest honor of my life to set near him, to play even a small part in one of the most interest- ing periods in all the history of America.” Detroit Tigers Might Lose Mickey Cochrane Lakeland, Fla., April 2—(—Gor- don (Mickey) Cochrane, the catcher- manager for whom the Detroit Tigers Paid $100,000 last winter, was in a hospital Monday suffering from an attack of appendicitis, An operation, if it becomes neces- sary, will deprive the Tigers of Co- chrane for eight weeks. Dr. Grover C. Freeman, Cochrane's physician, expressed the hope Sunday peens that the operation might not GOL! GOLF SWINGS PRIMARILY ALIKE, . YET THEY DIFFER At some time or other many of our leading professional golfers, especial- ly those who grew out of the caddy ranks, and acquired their swing by imitation, have torn it down and tried MAY MAKE DEAL West Palm Beach, Fla.—Billy Evens, business manager of the So Indians, was in town junday to talk to Manager dl ers Hornsby of the St. Louis Browns, giving rise to reports that a deal between the clubs might be in the making. This brought a denial from Hornsby. CUBS START HOME Los Angeles—The Chicago Cubs packed up Monday and headed for San Antonio, Tex., the first stop on their way home. San Bernardino, Cal—Chicago's White Sox pulled into San Ber- nardino Monday to meet the Pitteburgh Pirates im the first of eleven games to be strung out on the way back to Chicago, NEED CENTER-FIELDER St. Petersburg, Fla.—With Bob Rolfe and Don Heffner safely estab- lished at shortstop and second base, Mc- | the only problem confronting Joe Carthy, manager of the New York Yankees, is to decide upon a center- fielder. Uni Bruce From the Training Camp Fronts BRAVES PLAY CARDINALS St Petersburg, Fia—The Bos- ton Braves ge te Bradenton Mon- day to visit the Cardinals—the last game the tribesmen will play in these parts this season. Sarasota, Pia—The Red Sox saved their very best ball game for their \Valedictory. They jumped out of their hitting lethargy for one inning Sun- Cay, just long enough to take the Phillies, 6 to 1. ATHLETICS PLAY DODGERS Orlando, Fla—The Philadelphia Athletics, putting Sunday's vic- tory in the April fool class, figure they will have to play better ball Monday to make it two straight over the Brooklyn Dodgers, They are not counting on three errors to help them win again as they slowly make their way northward te Shibe park and home, HAS SINUS TROUBLE New Orleans—Harley Boss, regular first baseman of the Cleveland In- dians, has been sent back to Cleve- land for treatment for a sinus con- Gition which has prevented him from getting into condition. County agricultural agents of the state are distributing 49,000 farm ac- operators in their counties. The books are designed to aid farmers in keeping the production and market- ing information required by the ad- justment contracts. swingers, college men are tak- Here are two members of the versity of Southern California team in a stirring bit of action— Aitken, No. 3 man of the Trojans, is riding off Al Franklin, beck, and taking » drive at the ball. Asked to Report to Cap- tain Williams 4 for trials but declined because of ines. Stoefen. defeated Bryan Grant, ranking No. 7, in straight sets, 7-5, 7-5, 1-5, in the final of the Biltmore invitation tennis tournament Satur- day. Lott to- getter to win the coubies fant teem = tt and Malon Courts, 6-3, 5-7, Chicagoan Leads In Cavalier Open With 135 for 36 Holes Harry Cooper Bests Runyan and Laffoon by Two Strokes Michigan Tank Team Wins College Meet handily, amassing 30 points, with Southern California its nearest competitor with 19. Yale and Washington finished in a tle for third Place, each with 15 points. Rutgera was next with 14, and then Ilinois with 10. The remainder of the field ‘was well strung out. ‘The all-around teamwork of Michi- gan, however, could not count books to farm adjustment. co- | Star Cage Quint Will Meet Globe Trotters Star cage men from State college at Fargo, from Moorhead and Con-