The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 9, 1934, Page 8

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 1934 PILOTED BROOKLYN WHEN DODGERS WON NATIONAL PENNANT Hemorrhage of the Brain Brings Death to 70-Year-Old ‘Uncle Robby’ WAS FAMOUS AS CATCHER Developed Such Stars as Dazzy Vance and Rube Marquard in Managerial Days Atlanta, Aug. 9.—(?)—That famous old Oriole, Wilbert Robinson, is dead. Death came just as Uncle Robby, one of baseball's greatest figures, wished it—quickly and with little pain. He succumbed to a hemorrhage of the brain Wednesday night at 10:30 o'clock and his last words were about the Atlanta baseball club of which he ‘was president. Robinson was 70 years old. ‘His span of life saw him as catcher and captain of the Baltimore Orioles; saw him win pennants at Brooklyn in the National League and finally saw him worry literally sick about his club here, For the last three days Robinson had felt badly. His Crackers were in a slump after playing good ball near- ly all season. He fell suddenly while emerging from his bath just before cinner Wednesday evening and broke his arm. He was taken to a hospital. At the hospital it was discovered he was suffering from a hemorrhage of the brain. The last sacrament was administered by the Rev. Edward Mc- Grath. As Robinson awaited the ambulance he said to the doctor: “This broken arm doesn’t hurt me. I'm an old Oriole. Wrap it up and let me stay here.” Was Famous Catcher Robinson was one of the few out- standing links between the older ranks of baseball and the modern game. Famous first as one of the greatest catchers in the game, when he was ‘with the champion Baltimore Orioles in the nineties, he gained later dis- tinction as pilot of the Brooklyn Na- tionals, which he took hold of in 1914 and led to pennant victories in 1916 and 1920, Known and idolized as “Uncle Bob- by” everywhere, but particularly among the fans of Flatbush, native stronghold of the Brooklyn “Trolley Dodgers,” Robinson gained recogni- tion as one of the shrewdest strate- gists and most expert handlers of pitching talent in the major leagues. His success as a manager largely was due to his uncanny ability in de- veloping young twirling prospects and tejuvenating veteran timber. To the modern fan, Dazzy Vance, tensétional strikeout king of 1924 and voted the National League's most val- uable player that season, stands out as the most notable of Robinson's products, but old-timers recall that Robinson also was responsible for de- veloping Rube Marquard, while for- mer Governor John K. Tener, of Pennsylvania, gave “Robby” credit for teaching him most of the pitching art he acquired. Vance, a castoff, came close to pitching Brooklyn's 1924 club to aj) pennant by winning 28 games. The} team finished second after a terriffic fight with Pittsburgh and New York, the latter finally winning in the last Tew days of a stirring campaign. Robinson laid the groundwork for his ability as a developer of pitching talent in the days he was rated among ‘the best backstops in the game. Much or his managerial sagacity also was derived from the time when he was with the Baltimore Orioles, National League champions of 1894, 1895 and 1896, and associated with such stars @s John McGraw, Willie Keeler, Mike Kelly and Hughy Jennings. Robin- on was one of the hardest hitters in this galaxy of stars and a mainstay dehind the bat. Started Career in 1886 * Robinson started his major league career in 1886, at the age of 19, and ‘was one of the first backstops to catch behind the plate all tne time. He broke into fast company with the old Philadelphia Athletics, then members of the old American Association, and five years later went to Baltimore, ‘where he was one of the leading spirits in lifting the Orioles from tail- fenders to champions. After nine seasons with Baltimore, Robinson was sold to St. Louis in 1900, along with McGraw and Billy Keister, but after a season in the middle west came back to Baltimore to organize a stock company and place @ team in the American League. He femained there three seasons, taking up managerial reins for the first time + fn 1903. He retired from the majors the following year and did not re- enter them again until 1911, when he Joined the New York Giants as a coach under his old associate, Mc- Graw. He remained for three years ir. that capacity, all of which the three Itignore, three with New York and two with Brooklyn. His record ®s a player, over a span of 17 years. from 1886 to 1902, inclucive, shows he compiled s batting average of .380; Scored 629 runs and rapped out 1,386 hits. It is interesting to recall that Rob- inson, .whose rotund figure was fam- Miar to modern fans, Brain Hemorrhage Ends Colorful Career | aa WILBERT ROBINSON Affectionately known in major league baseball circles as “Uncle Robby”, Wilbert Robinson, former pilot of the Brooklyn Dodgers and famous catcher for the Baltimore Orioles, died Wednesday from a brain hemorrhage. (By The Associated Press) AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Club— L Minneapolis Indianapolis Columbus . Milwaukee Louisville Toledo .. Kansas Cit: St. Paul... AMERICAN LEAGUE Club— L Detroit . 37 New York 39 Cleveland . 46 Boston 51 Washington . 55 St. Louis... 55, Philadelphia . 60 Chicago ... 69 Crandings | COUNTRY CLUB TO HOLD SECOND 18-HOLE HANDICAP TOURNAMENT Participants May Play Any Time Sunday; Prizes Will Be Given by Flights | | | With handicaps based on scores Pet. {shot in the previous similar tourna- 355 ment. Bismarck golfers will tee off in 2g) the second 18-hole, handicap event . Sunday at the Country Club course. Players will be divided into flights on the basis of their net totals and “agg. PTizes will be awarded the winners “4g3_ 20d runners-up in each division. Be- 3 sides the low net total prize in the championship flight there will also be given a prize for the low gross score. Pot Entries will be received at any time cad Sunday. tournament officials stated. ‘621 Paul Cook and Tom Lawless are the 353 members of the committee in charge 319 of the event. 471 In the first handicap tournament : he took the low net honors and Paul Cook captured the low gross prize. Forty-one golfers were entered. ‘394 349 NATIONAL LEAGUE Club— Ww oL sPet., sie 3 MAJOR LEAGU Chicago 64 41-610 St. Louis 60 44577) LEADERS Boston .. 5452509 Pittsburgh 4953 480 | Brooklyn . 44, 58, Ast)| WAY Me Associated imens) Philadelphia 43 6210 AMERICAN LEAGUE Cincinnati .. 3668 346 Hitting—Manush, Senators, 301; —* (By The Associated Press) Joe Cronin, Senators — Hit game with White Sox. winning run against Browns. to three singles. Cantwell, Flint Rhem, Checked Phillies with six hits. credit for 21st victory of year. / THIS GUN IS Yesterday’s Stars t triples, a single, drove in two runs | and scored two runs against Yankees. | Foxx, Athletics, 35. Bob Grove, Red Sox—His relief: Pitching stopped Athletics’ attack. Hal Trosky, Indians—Cracked out | two homers to drive in four runs in| Gehrig, Yankees, .370. Runs—Gehringer, Tigers, 101; Wer- |ber, Rex Sox, 97. Hits—Manush, Senators, 157; Gehr- two | inger, Tigers, 148. Home runs—Gehrig, Yankees, 36; Pitching—Gomez, | Rowe, Tigers, 15-4. Yankees, 18-3; _ NATIONAL LEAGUE Batting—P. Waner, Pirates, 91; Mickey Cochrane, Tigers—Drove in | Terry, Giants, .364. | Runs—Ott, Giants, Van Mungo, Dodgers—Held Giants | Giants, 88. | Hits—P. Waner, Pirates, 152; Terry, | Braves — | Giants, 149. Home runs—Ott, Giants, 29; Ber- Jerome Dean, Cards—Pitched effec- | ger, Braves, 25. tive relief ball against Reds to receive Pitching—J. Dean, Cardinals, 21-4; | Schumacher, Giants, 17-5. EMP IM JUST GOIN'TO SCARE =M— Do you I WORK TWELVE HOURS gs A NIGHT? REALIZE Terry, Hard Luck Jinx End 14-Game Losing Streak With Double Victory Over | Hoosiers Wednesday |. Chicago, Aug. 9.--()—St, Paul's ilosing streak of fourteen consecutive games was a thing of the past Thurs- | day. i The Saints conquered Indianapolis jin a doubleheader Wednesday, beating |the Hoosiers 6 to 5, in the twilight jgame, and then came back under the i lights to chalk up a 6 to 2 victory. Meanwhile, Minneapolis moved into first place without any opposition by walloping Louisville 8 to 2, while In. dianapolis, which had shared first place honors, was losing twice. Garland Braxton, pitching ace of the Milwaukee Brewers, registered his seventh victory in a row, and his seventeenth of the season as the Brewers knocked off Columbus 5 to 4. Kansas City and, Toledo were idle to hook up in a doubleheader to. morrow. Millers Drop Colonels Score by innings— Minneapolis . Louisville . on Starr and Hargrave; McKain Thompson. Brewers Trim Red Birds Score by innings— RHE Milwaukee .. 10 110 002— 511 4 Columbus .......100 100 101— 4 14 4 Braxton and Rensa; Teachout, Klinger and O'Dea. Saints Win Twin Bill (First Game) Score by innings— RHE St. Paul.. .010 212 000— 6 9 2 -400 000 0O1I— 5 8 1! Claset, Phelps, Trow, Hutchinosn and Fenner; Logan, Chamberlain and Sprinz, Riddle. (Second Game) Score by innings— RHE St. Paul.... -000 002 301— 6°12 1 Indianapolis -000 000 002— 2 8 2 Thomas and Guiliani; Bolen, Butz- berger and Riddle. Only games scheduled. Von Elm’s Sub-Par Golf Leads Field STRAIGHT BEATING FROM WASHINGTON Athletics Succumb to Red Sox Despite Foxx’s Homerun With Bases Loaded CUBS CUT GIANTS’ LEAD ‘Dizzy’ Dean Gets Credit for 21st Victory as Cards Beat Reds in 12th (By The Associated Press) Mickey Cochrane not only has turn- ed out to be a fine inspirational leader who has piloted the Detroit Tigers in- to the American Leagte lead, but if the occasion demands it, “Mike” can do a lot of the actual work of winning ball games. Cochrane demonstrated that Wed- nesday when he struck the blow that defeated the Browns 7 to 6 in a ten inning struggle and gave the Tigers one of the longest leads they have en= Joyed this season, 2% games over the second place Yankees. Trailing by three runs at one time, the Tigers staged one of their last- minute rallies and tied the score in the ninth by nicking Ed Wells for a pass and three singles that netted two runs. Going into the tenth at 6-6, Bill Rogell started things with a single, Hank Greenberg sacrificed and Mar- vin Owen walked. That brought Cochrane up and he smacked a base hit that brought in Rogell with the winning run. The Yankees suffered their second straight setback at the hands of Joe Cronin and his Washington club, 9 to 2. A six run spurt against Charley Ruffing in the first settled the dis- pute in short order although Russ Van Atta did some fine relief fling- ing for New York. Like Cochrane, Manager Cronin was a leading figure, hitting two triples and a single. Foxx Bags 35th Homer bagger for the Athletics in the course of their 11-9 defeat at the hands of the Red Sox. The blow, which came with the bases full, left Foxx only one behind Gehrig. It couldn’t win the game as Boston already had piled up Laffoon and Diegel Only One Stroke Behind Leader in Walter Hagen Open Rochester, N. Y., Aug. 9.—()— Twenty rounds of golf which equalled tournament a wide-open affair. George Von Elm, Detroit “business was only one of three leaders who 143 or better as the field was reduced ten leading amateurs with ties. A stroke behind Von Elm came Ky Laffoon, the Denver demon, and Leo Diegel, veteran New Yorker. Haig himself could offer only a 146 Runyan, the new P.G.A. champion, carded 148, Wild Bill Mehlhorn 147, Denny Shute 150 and Big Olin Dutra 151. —————E» | Fights Last Night | (By The Associated Press) Cincinnati—Moon Mullins, 125, Vincennes, Ind., outpointed John- ny Alba, 128, Cincinnati (10); Carl Knowles, 16812, Savannah, Ga., knocked out Snokey Maggard, 173, Dayton, Ky., (7); Bobby Mullins, 132, Vincennes, Ind., knocked out | Bobby Pratt, 136, Dayton, Ky., (4). Winona, Minn.—Jack Gibbons, 160, St. Paul, outpointed Mel Cole. man, 162, St. Paul (6); Frankie Kouba, 139, Winona, outpointed Pat Chipfone, 139, St. Paul (6); Babe Herman, 133, St. Paul, stop- Ped Lou Gans, 135, Minneapolis. kK OUT OUR WAY By Williams @ 10-1 lead. The Indians completed Hefty hitting in the Americah League by downing Chicago 11 to 4 with the aid of four homers, two of them by ‘Trosky. League widened to 2% a doubleheader with Pittsburgh. A six run rally in the third, fea- an easy 14 to 3 decision in the after- the Yankees, signed a Pirate contract |Grinesteader got a two-base hit butjrated just in time to get into the game. The third-place Cardinals cut loose suddenly. in the 12th inning to score Dizzy Dean, who went to work in the season. A\NIN AND T ARE LEAVING TOMORROW, TO VISIT MY SISTER IN CHICAGO FOR TWO WEEKS, AND TAKE IN THE FAIR I-—THE Boys LEFT THIS MORNING,TO SPEND THEIR, VACATION AT A SUMMER, RESORT UIPAT LAKE WooLsoK! THAT WILL LEAVE) YOU HERE anne TSCLTT YOU HAVE MONEY . SS (Go uP AND HIGH-NOSE M ALL, MASOR! 1094 OY MEA SERVICE. HC. 7. AES. U.S. PAT. OFF. MICKEY COCHRANE DRIVES IN WINNING RUN AGAINST BROWNS Saints Conquer {YANKS GET SECOND |OUR BoaRDING House By Aber | DIDNT MENTION ANYTHING TO ME ABOUT THEIR PLANS—~-EGAD, TLL HAVE SASON DRIVE z ME UP THEREFOR A : FEW DAYS / THEN 1 WILL GO-TO A MORE Transient Bureau Sponsors 15-Round = GIANTS HALT SENATOR RALLY; — WIN ‘LITTLE WORLD SERIES’ TILT Jimmie Foxx smashed his 35th four-| Tilsen Stars as William Moore) summary: Representatives Take Sec- ond Game Wednesday Giants Welsgerber, Scott. Hits—off Schnel- der § in 4 innings: off Jones 5 in 6 1/3 3 Off Welch 1 in 2/3 jnnings; innings; A spectacular bit of fielding by Art| off Entringer 1 in 2 innings. Struck a day of| Tilsen of the Giants ended a Senator | oui Schneider 6; by Jones 11; by rally in the seventh inning and the) welch 0; by Entringer 2. Bases on ‘William Moore representatives took balls of Schneider 3; off Entringer 2; the second game of the “Little World| of¢ Jones 9; off Welch 0. Hit Hel 5 Series,” 7 to 6, Wednesday night. nsf While the gap in the American] By virtue of their win the Giants/gerber. Umpires—Fay Brown, Jack the Wachter barns. fer, held the lead at thelitog aren ada te man” golfer, he! le lead at e ‘g]man up for the Senat ck out 36-hole mark with 71.67—138, but he| ured by, Menseer Cheriey Crimes. Entringer was held to & two base er for Chicago 7 to 4 while the |hit when Tilsen threw the ball in fast eld this year Dr. R. W. Henderson | toured the course twice without going} combination of seven-hit flinging by|{rom deep center field and on the jabove par for a round. In all there/Guy Bush and a 16-hit assault on Bill|ext play another long toss robbed} Frank Stewart's double in the ninth were a dozen players with totals of/switt and Burleigh Grimes, brought |¥. Weisgerber of a home run. jor bettered par 71 for the east course in ‘Na-|the latter club having won the |at the Oak Hill Golf club Wednesday nore (elie esnasea toy poorer of the seven-game series Monday. The had left the Rochester Centennial-|took 2 to 0 shellacking from Brook- | third contest will be played at 9:15 a Walter Hagen Testimonial open g0lflivn and the second place Cubs swept|™., Friday at the diamond south of games, it nar-|evened the count with the Senators, pitcher—Jones. Passed balls—Weis- Stewart’s Hit In Ninth Beats Amateur Fight Card Thursday Night - Bouts Will Be Held in Outdoor :- Ring Just Northeast of Memorial Building A 16-round boxing card staged by amateur fighters under the ‘sponsor- ship of the Bismarck Transient bureau will be held at 7:15 p. m., Thuraday ab the open-air ring just northeast of the World War Memorial building. Two middleweights, Brown of In Seber andetin Price of New York an Pounds, 1 will headline the pronvam ints, Thue an ean t ti ts secon: » two at 135 pounds each, will tol seg two transients are Simmon and Fal- cone. “Kid Snappy” D'Amico of Brooklyn will square off with Thompson of Sandusky, Ohio, in the third fight of the evening. D'Amico will weigh 146 Chicago Giants inning scored two runs as the com. R. Olson walked and Welch relieved | bined Bismarck and Jamestown teams to the 60 low-scoring pros and the|niece, Grimes, recently released by|Jones on the mound for the Giants. | came from behind to down the highly- colored American Giants, 5 to Olson, attempting to score, was thrown |4. at Winnipeg Wednesday night in out by Tilsen. Rosenberg walked and |the first of a four-game series. L, Glosser grounded out to Stewart t0} Thompson, colored hurler of the In contrast to the low scores, the|siy runs and beat the Reds 10 to 4.|end the game. Jimmie club, was on the mound for doncs and Welch held the Senators|the combined clubs. Harold Mass- The Braves and Phillies waged one |ers with 11 strikeouts. of the day's keenest battles. Boston} The box score: winning out 3-2 on a ninth inning| Senators— Collins|N. Schneider, p-c. McManus with the|G. Goetz, ss. bases loaded. Collins took the hill/J. Goetz, cf. after Curt Davis was spiked in the|J. Entringer, lb-p. run that came when Phil passed Marty hand in the sixth. NATIONAL LEAGUE Van Mungo Blanks Giants Score by innnings— Brooklyn . New York. Bowman and Mancuso, Denning. Braves Beat Phillies Score by innnings— Philadelphia . Boston .. C. Davis. well and Hogan, Spohrer. Cubs Take Doubleheader (First Game) Score by innnings— R Chicago ... -106 000 000— 7 Pittsburgh . J Malone, Warneke and Phelps; Hol- ley, Birkofer, Chagnon and Grace. (Second Game) Score by innnings— RHE ++-200 132 114-14 16 0 Pittsburgh . «100 001 010— 3 7 3 Bush and O'Farrell; Swift, Grimes end Padden. V. Dean Wins 2ist Score by innnings— St. Louis. ...101 701 000 006—! Cincinnati.. 000 100 030 000— (12 innings) Haines? P. Dean, J. Dean and Davis; Freitas, Brennan, Frey, and Lombardi. AMERICAN LEAGUE 1 asa oor RH E|T. Glosser, If. 000 000 101— 2 8 1)Grinesteader, rf 000 000 000— 0 3 2/Marbeck, 2b Mungo and Lopez; Fitzsimmons,|L. Volk, if. R H E|Martin, 2b 000 101 000— 2 6 1) Stewart, lb 000 002 001— 3 6 0) Piters, 3b ins and Wilson; Cant- | Skoode, ss Tilsen, E 1 1 & eeernenvee=8 F. Weisgerber, c-1b R. Olson, we 02 09 no co oo co mew ED Totals. Giants— Detroit .. Wells, Hadley and der, Marberry, ‘Hayworth, Cochrane. = 3 meonroronsoon -+-011 000 202 1— COCOK HH OME coco ommmore ay 8s - ercotonnae ecceccooere Hemsley; Crow. , Hamlin, Fischer and 7% toward winning his own tourney. Gene |ienth, was credited with his second |to six hits and the Giants garnered an|mann and Red Haley led the North Sarazen had as good 144 but Paul! victory in two days and his 2ist of the{equal number off of Entringer and|Dakota team in a brilliant field ex. Schneider. Jones led the other hurl- hibition. The Giants are members of the Na. tional Colored League, twice pennant A|winners in the last three years and first-half leaders in the current sea. America’s problem is to bring eco- to the common and atill cherish the weapons of de- ey William Allen White, fe- and Thompson 148 pounds. Wilbert Robinson, Baseball’s Famous Old Oriole, Succumbs . mr October 31. To World's Tickets on sale daily to October 15. Final Intermediate Very low fares to Chicago Exposition, which is even. NortH Coast Limitep Anette = 53.10 63.70 79.60 return limit tickets in Tourist Pull- Pullmans, plus Butte-Helena <= © © © © © © «© 22.60 30.80 Tickets on sale 1. Fair and East. and Dining