The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 4, 1934, Page 8

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, 'THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1934 Detroit Banking on Rowe to Avenge First World Series Defeat HEDWICK AND DEAN DEMONS TACKLE GLENDIVE ELEVEN AT HUGHES FIELD FRIDAY STAR AS CARDINALS Untried Buckeye Team Plunges Into BLAST QUT VicTORY Bis Ten Campaign Against Hoosiers ‘Dizzy’ Limits Tigers to Eight Safe Blows; ‘Ducky’ Gets Four Bingles MISPLAYS ARE COSTLY, Haloed Bengal Infield Goes All| to Pieces; Hallahan to Pitch for Cards Detroit, Oct. 4—(?)—A beam of tix-foot-four-inch Arkansas sunshine —Lynwood (Schoolboy) Rowe—shone through the gloom of the Detroit jungle Thursday and to the dumb- founded, bewildered. and ashamed Tigers he looked as bright as a full- ‘blown noonday sun in the desert. It was Rowe, the 23-year-old rookie, the big grinning kid from the wild boar lands, to whom frantic Mickey Cochrane and the harrassed Tigers turned for the pitching strength to beat back crafty, left- handed Wild Bill Hallahan and the St. Louis Cardinals if the world se- ries is to move onto the Missouri me- tropolis Thursday night in any kind of balanced condition. s As a beam of light and hope, the echoolboy, winner of 16 straight games for the American League champions during one stretch of the past sea- son, was both an omen and a stand- ard-bearer with a double duty, for| there were rain clouds hovering over Navin field, threatening to wash out Thursday's second game and force postponement for an extra day of the second phase of the series sched- uled for St. Louis Friday. Tigers Soundly Beaten It is the fervent prayer and hope of Michigan and the midwest as well that the schoolboy gets his chance Thursday to revenge the one-sided 8-to-3 walloping J. Dizzy Dean and the hard-bitten Cardinals pinned on the home boys Wednesday, practic- ally shocking them from the start into stiff-fingered and muscle-bound ineptness, then battering them mer- tilessly around like a champion show- ing off with his punch-drunk spar- ting partners. Dean no longer is a circus charac- ter in these parts, though always a source of entertainment, and the Cardinals aren't just a bunch of Na- tional League farm boys from Mis- souri doing the best they can. They've seen J. Herman in his serious mo- ments, flinging that fireball down their heroes’ throats, allowing eight hits and three runs and grumbling afterward that he was “terrible,” that he had pitched his worst game of the year. ‘They saw Joe “Concrete” Med- wick, 22, take a toe hold and hammer their starting pitcher, “General” Alvin Crowder and his burly but in- effective relief, Firpo Marberry, for four straight hits, one of them a home run, equaling a world series tecord, Base Hits Ring Out They weren't from Missouri and they could see all too well for them- selves. In fact, the sound of base hits, 13 in all off Crowder, Marberry, and finally the Indian southpaw, Elon Hogsett, still was ringing in their ears. Certainly they couldn't play worse than they did when the haloed iron man infield of big Hank Greenberg, masterful Charlie Gehringer, Bill Rogell and Marvin Owen, cracked wide open in the first three innings ‘under the tension and the pressure. In that brief period this “death bat- talion” quartet piled up five errors, within one of the series single game record for fozzles, and sunk Crowder 80 deep that he had no chance, pos- sibly no hope, of escaping anywhere ‘but to the showers. Owen's fumble of Frankie Frisch's smash in the first inning was ex- usable, and slightly historic, in fact, nd it caused no actual damage. If Frankie's belt had come at a later point in the game he undoubtedly would have been credited with a hit. But since Guy Bush was deprived of @ no-hit game years ago on a first- inning ground ball that could have been scored either way, mid-west scorers make the hitters earn that first safety. But from there on there were no excuses. In the second inning, Geh- ringer dropped a toss from Rogell on @ force play he should have been adie to make backwards with his eyes andaged. Instead of ending the in- ning scoreless, it gave Owen a chance to pull Greenberg off first with a wide throw on the grounder of John Leon- ard “Pepper” Martin, the 1931 hero. ‘Then Jack Rothrock pumped a single | to center and two runs scored. Errors and More Errors Successive errors by Rogell and| Greenberg in the third let in another after Medwick singled for the second time and was forced by Collins. From ‘there on, though, it was strictly a case ‘of boom-boom. Medwick’s homer came in the fifth. Marberry started the sixth, but before he escaped the Cards had two more runs on a double by Dean and singles by Martin, Med- wick and Collins. Bill DeLancey’s two-base greeting to Hogsett scored the final pair. The Tigers nudged Dean's fast ball at intervals, all told collecting eight hits, but they gave him no great cause for alarm. They lost their best op- portunity in the third, when with two down, White walked and Cochrane and Gehringer singled, accounting for one run, but Big Hank Greenberg was an fasy victim on strkes. Later on Big Fhnk began connecting. He singled an‘ scored in the sixth, with the help vf Ernie Orsatti’s wild throw and Goose 4s Goslin’s single. He gave J. Dean a|* CASEY STENGEL ‘DUCKY’ MEDWICK ini Hitting Star of Opening Game Has Running Start To- ward Series Record Detroit. Oct. 4.—(7)—As an old world series hero himself and the man now best known for his part in} proving to the Giants that Brooklyn; still is in the National League, Casgy Stengel has a few kind words to say Thursday for the Cardinals in general and Joe (Ducky Wucky) Medwick in particnular. “I'm not insisting that the Card- inals ‘cut me in’ on their world serics money,” smiled the Brooklyn manager, “but my club helped them prove they are the best team in the National League and get the chance to win this world series. As for Medwick, he is liable to blow more of the Tigers down than the Deans. He's one of the greatest natural hitters I have seen in years.” Hitting star of the opening game against the Tigers, with four booming base-hits, including a homer, that tied @ world series record, Medwick looks ripe for a slugging spree that will set an all-time mark. Only two others {among the dozen who have collected four hits in a single series game— ‘Frank Frisch with the Giants of 1921 and Mel Ott of the 1933 New York club—turned the trick in the first game. Off to a Running Start ‘The 22-year-old belter from Car- teret, N. J., thus has a running start toward Babe Ruth's record of 10 hits for a four-game series or the top| figure of 12 hits for a longer struggle, jointly held by Joe Jackson, Buck Herzog and Medwick's own teammate, Pepper Martin. ‘Whether it was just a case of tem- Porary “buck fever,” brought on by an accumulation of events, the fact is no club has looked quite so bad as the current Tigers at the outset of a big- money battle since the Pittsburgh Pirates of 1927 staggered into the Na- tional League championship and-then outfumbled the New York Yankees in four consecutive world series games. Mickey Cochrane's jittery athletes may shake off the St. Louis: Blues) Thursday. They are a far better ball club than they looked against. Dean, Medwick & Co.. in the opener. They proved they had courage and re- source in the “clutches” by the way they battered their way to the top of the American League but for the time being their case is ominously parallel to the plight of the Pirates seven seasons ago. The bugaboos of 1927 were the cel2- brated home run twins, Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. Such was the growth of imagination in Pittsburgh minds that the Yankee sluggers assumed the stature of giants who habitually bashed opposing pitchers and fright- won two games in the series with the Athletics in 1931, is hot, and should be stingier with hits even than Dean was. Paul (Li'l Brother) Dean will Start the first of the three games in’ St. Louis. J. Herman will be back to! Plague the Tigers Sunday, if nothing goes radically wrong. Thursday's probable starting lineup: St. Louis (N) Detroit (A) Martin, 3b White, cf Rothrock, rf Cochrane, ¢ Frisch, 2b Gehringer, 2b Medwick, If Greenberg, 1b Collins, 1b Goslin, If DeLancey, ¢ Rogell, ss Orsatti, cf Owen, 3b Durocher, ss Fox, rf Hallahan, p °" Rowe, p Umpires: Klem (N), plate; Geisel (A) first base; Reardon (N), second) base; Owen (A), third base. Game PRAISES CARDS, Joe Medwick Joe “Ducky” Medwick was the bat- a ting star of the first world series game Wednesday, blasting out ‘four hits, including a home run, as the Cardinals downed the Tigers, 8 to 3. ened little fellow like the Wancr boys. Looks Like Pirates in 1927 When Babe and Lou finally put in an appearance and began hitting “groove balls” in practice with such force that seats were splintered in the outfield stands, the worst fears of the Pirates seemed realized. Came the opening of the series, the Bucs began kicking the ball around and it lested only until the fourth and final game was lost on a wild pitch. They were| Marked improvement, over-awed from start to finish. This year the Dean Brothers and their pitching exploits spread some- thing akin to apprehension through the jungletown. After being all set to tackle the fading Giants, Detroit sud- denly found itself obliged to face the Greatest pitching pair in baseball. Not since Ruth’s palmiest days has any individual performer so caught the Popular imagination as Dizzy Dean. His prowess had every chance to ex- pand in Tiger minds, thanks to an extraordinary buildup, and he didn't disappoint them very much. Infield Coll ‘The collapse of ceovatin infield to} same until a week from Saturday,|Jast Friday will get the starting call such an extent that Greenberg, Geh- ringer, Rogell and Owen joined in making five errors in only 21-3 in- nings gives them the dubious distinc- tion of trying to outdo the 1909 Tigers, who rolled up an all-time series rec- ord of 19 miscues in seven games. They were only one short of the single game record of six, jointly charged to the White Sox of 1906 and 1917 and the Pirates of 1909, which seem. ed to have been the great fumbling year. The explanations, none of them helpful to the present Tigers, ar2 (1) too much tension, brought on hy home-town enthusiasm; (2) addition- al strain caused by the 20-minute de- lay in starting the first game; and (3) the burden of being christened the “battalion of death.” They're sorry now that anybody brought that on up. 2 Ee SSeS | Fights Last Night | (By the Associated Press) Cincinnati—Roughhouse Glov- er, 163, Jacksonville, Fla., shaded Carl Knowles, 169, Savannah, ues Al Schwartz, 135, Cincin- nati, knocked out Bull Dor 133, Savannah, nae Jack Crawford, 155, Portsmouth, 0., drew with Red Goss 153, 8a- vannah, Ga. San Francisco—John, Henry Lewis, 178, Phoenix, i» Grew with Donald “Red” Barry, 200, Washington, D. C. (10); Ray Actis, 170, San Francisco, stop- Ped Walter Kirkwood, 173, Wash- time 1:30 p. m. (EST). OUT OUR WAY THIS CAR ANOTHER INCH, UNTIL HE SHUTS THAT Door! PEOPLE WILL THINK I'M JUST LEARNING DRIVE, salute in th» eighth with a ‘Big ington, D. C., (2). YOU SHUT THAT DOOR AND SIT K IN “THAT SEAT! 1 SHE WRECKS US, TLL BE IN IT, AND YOu MIGHT AS WELL, BECAUSE YOU CAN'T GET ALONG WITHOUT ME— SHUT THAT Door! Your Chance to See League Baseball at Home. | IN PARTICULAR McMillin Has Already Had Somewhat: Unorthodox In- diana Offense on Display~ Chicago, Oct. 4.—()—Ohio State's Buckeyes will plunge straight into their big ten football schedule Sat- urday against Ind: without 80 ae as @ warmup game under their. Both coaches, Francis Schmidt of Ohio State, and Alvin (Bo) McMillin of Indiana, wil be directing their squads for the first time in western conference championship competition. The Hoosiers already have put their somewhat unorthodox offense on dis- play, against Ohio University of Athens, O., Schmidt was right on the spot to scout the game and has a Pretty definite notion of what to ex- |pect. However, as Ohio State had not played @ game, McMillin can only guess what kind of an offense will be flung at his Hoosiers. Anticipating an serial battle, In- liana was drilled Wednesday on a forward pass defense and worked to smooth up its own tossing game, The Buckeyes have practiced all week on jdefensive measures calculated to thwart McMillan’s “five-man” back- field maneuver. Indiai surprising show of power in defeating Ohio University, 27 to 0. has made the Hoosiers about an even bet against the Bucks. Northwestern, which had expected to depend on passes against Iowa in jthe other conference game, suddenly found its running game in working order Wednesday. At the same time, the Hawkeyes’ passing games showed which promises @ great battle at Evanston. Hard work in the other camps, with the exception of Chicago, ended Wed- nesday. Purdue's regulars looked bad against Rice-style passes, and Minne- sota hurried preparation on its over- head game in preparation for Ne- braska. Illinois continued to smooth up its fancy plays. Doc Spears made more changes in the Wisconsin lineup trying to get together an effective combination for the opener against Marquette. Michigan went through another drill on defense against Michigan State forwards, and Chicago, with no Plugged along on new plays. The blocking was again © source of dis- satisfaction to Coach Elmer Layden at Notre Dame. Sioux Coaches Worry Over Tackle Problem Grand Forks, N. D., Oct. 4— you, are the key men on any football team's defense, and the exactness of that statement is causing Coach Jack West of the University of North Da- kota and his assistant, Buck Starbeck, to sprout @ few extra gray hairs. Perhaps it was the drouth or some new allotment theory, but at any rate, the shortage of tackles on the Sioux equad is taking on a devastating as- pect as the season progresses and the ‘opposition becomes keener. There are only four legitimate tackles on the entire squad, and of these only Al Sowl, 200 pound junior, has ever play- ed regularly. Bill Goethel, 200 pound senior, has been a reserve for two seasons, while Louis Chumich, 205 pounds, and Martin Gainor, 190 pounds, are sophomores who are will- ing but lack the all-important re- quisite, experience. ‘The fans who congregate daily to watch practice have noticed the “tackle crop failure” and have asked repeatedly, “Where are the tackles of ”” They have particular reference to such behemoths as Ted Meinhover, 6 feet 7 inches tall and weighing 250 pounds, who starred here for the past three years, and Milt Wick, 220 pounder. By Williams I MIGHT JUST AS wei! A GUY CAN'T LIVE HIS OWN - LIFE, SO WHUT GOOD IS IT To 4 TRWILLIAMS, 1. i. ROB. U. 8. PAT. Oy. Tackles, the football-wise will inform best advantage. MONTANA OUTFIT WON ENCOUNTERS Will Probably Not Start in Lineup (SAINTS TACKLE BEULAH Meinhover’s Charges Gained Confidence in Triumph Over Hazen Last Week Bismarck’s Demon football eleven will tackle their first out-of-state grid opponents this year When they meet the Glendive, Montana, team under the floodlights of Hughes Field at & Pp. m., Friday night. Smarting under defeats at the hands of the Montana eleven in the Past two years, the Demon squad will throw everything into the game Fri- lday in an effort to break the spell the out-of-state visitors have cast over them. Last year the Glendive team emerged with a 7 to 6 triumph after a hard fought battle and the year before the margin of one touch- down gave them a victory, 6 to 0. Glendive took it on the chin last week from a veteran Dickinson aggre- gation, the final score being 27 to 0, while Bismarck was being downed by their inter-city rivals from across the river, 7 to 6. Coach M¢Leod was dissatisfied-with LAST TWO YEARS} Bud Kanz Back in Uniform But Pane Ree a eee | Not Through Yet | o--- | Waite Hoyt Year’s the blocking and tackling in last week's game and has been stressing these two fundamentals in every practice session this week. Kans Back in Uniform Bud Kanz, captain and fullback of the Demon eleven, has been in uni- form this week but is still not recov- ered completely from the injury he received in the Jamestown game. Mc- Leod said he expected to have his star back dressed for the game Fri- day but would probably not start him against the Glendive team. It is expected that the same lineup that took the field against the Braves in the game with Glendive, though several of the positions are threat- ened by aspiring reserves, Coac! th Ted Meinhover takes his 8t. | pi Mary's charges to Beulah Friday. for . a with the high school squad The St. Mary's athletes were greatly heartened by their victory over Ha- zen last week and have gained the confidence they needed to show to the Beulah has a strong machine and will give the Saints a real test in the encounter Friday. Yale-Columbia Tilt Usual Warm-Up Games Omitted This Year; ‘Big’ Encount- ers Dot Schedule New eas Oct, 4—()—The cus- tomary cal of the regular season football program in the East, where tradition demands a few tune-up games for the big teams before the start of the serious business of the season, is broken this week when Yale and Columbia open the season against each other. : Such a contest is rare along the At- lantic cages ag this time of the year even though “big” games already have begun to dot the schedules for the rest of the nation. The only ex- Planation seems to be that it was the only available spot on the program. In contrast to this, the other con- servatives start off as usual. Har- vard and Princeton face the custom- ary curtain-raising opponents, Bates and Amherst. Penn starts against| Ursinus; Syracuse meets Clerkson; Fordham opens with Westminster and Colgate with St. Lawrence. The Western Conference opening furnishes a sharp contrast to the Eastern program with such important encounters as Indiana-Ohio State and Iowa-Northwestern to help decide championship aspirations and other major clashes including Minnesota- Nebraska, Rice-Purdue and Mar; quette-Wisconsin. In the same terri- tory there is Notre Dame's struggle with Texas. Westerners Dominate Women’s Golf Meet Philadelphia, Oct. 4—(#)—With the West dominating five of the eight quarter-final brackets in the women’s national golf championship, it ap- peared Thursday that Glenna Collett Vare alone could restore to the East the golf prestige it once enjoyed. Lined up against her were Virginia Van Wie of Chicago, the champion; Mrs. Leona Cheney of San Gabriel, Calif.; Mrs. Opal Hill of Kansas City, and, nationally speaking, two un- 20-year-old San Mrs. Burt Weil of Cincinnati, whose chief claim to fame is the Ohio state title, In support of the East's cause Glenna’ has with her Mrs. Carl H. Donner of Short Hills, N. J., who de- veloped into a championship threat by her overtime triumph over Maureen Orcutt, and Frances Williams of » Pennsylvania state titlist and former winner of the East- ern championship. American League All-Stars vs. Bismarck _ Breaks Tradition ’ Pitches. 14 Victories With Only Five Defeats for Fifth Place Club Pittsburgh, Oct. 4.—(NEA)—Before the football campaign becomes a frenzy of Red Raiders, Thundering Herds, Green Waves, Golden Ava- lanches and Crimson Tides, some- body ought to lead a cheer for Waite Hoyt, of the Pittsburgh Pirates. For Old Man Hoyt, in his 16th sum- jmer as a major league flinger, and with a fifth place outfit, has accom- lished: Fourteen victories, with only, five defeats. Two shutouts, one a one-hit per- formance against the first division Boston Braves, A triumph over Dizzy Dean in which he yielded the Cardinals six hits, a performance which snapped the St. Louis star’s victory string at 10 straight. One hundred seventy-two innings Pitched in 45 contests, 22 games of which he appeared in as a relief work- 17 or 18 then, 50 he probal 38 now. Birth statistics of ers frequently are doctored, larly when they are breaking make them appear younger. There is an interesting story be- hind Hoyt’s effectiveness this season. It goes back to @ year ago last May. As a matter of fact, it gots back a year before that, when he met a very attractive young woman aboard a as he was reporting to the ‘Brooklyn training camp in Florida. Her name was Ellen Burbank. She T|REJUVENATED RAMBLING WRECK |THREATENS SOUTH’S ELEVENS Hamas and Lasky to Battle Friday Heavyweight Contenders En- ter Elimination for Right to Meet Baer New York, Oct. 4—()—Steve Ha- mas, the former Pennsylvania col- legian, who made good along Cauli- flower row, gets his chance Friday night to prove that he is the logical man to opopse Max Baer in the lat- bi first defense of his heavyweight Hamas is billed to step ten rounds with Art Lasky of Minneapolis, out- standing Jewish heavyweight, in the opening bout of the indoor season in Madison Square Garden. Later in the winter the Garden management plans to bring the other leading heavyweights, including Max Schmeling-and Primo Carnera, both former champions, and Jack Peterson, together in a series of bouts to deter- mine an opponent for Baer. Despite the fact that he has a short end of 6 to 5 betting odds Friday Goth boys completed training Wed- Jackrabbit Backfield Star Found Ineligible Grand Forks, N. D., Oct. 4—(P)}— Biggest Comeback |ro:s'c E g re A i g F Fy 5 s i i i 3 8 : 5 2 a i i *g 2 i j i g » i H I ad 5 i if E He » g NOW, IM GONNA LET YOU ‘PUT IT IN TH’ DECK, SHUFFLE Bismarck Baseball Park ‘EM UP, AN “THEN SEE IF YOU CAN FIND IT ~TH' ACE? OF DIAMONDS /—THIS IS. MY HARDEST TRICK, NEXT JO MY HINDU TRICK OF MAKIN AN ELEPHANT VANIGH IN_A TELEPHONE BOOTH / Soe ues Sues eee ueNES SUES UL WIT OME me-Drought her! | Tulane, Tennessee Weaker Than Last Year; Watch - Mississippi Teams By HARRY MEHRE Head Coach, University of Georgia Athens, Ga. Oct. 4—With the rumblings of southern football war- feed beginning its annual cres- cel it seems & bit early to make any certain predictions concerning And oe a a yet, @ long glance throu he sports binoculars hows omting. of ®& mountain looming on the horizon —® mountain that bears the proud lettering of Georgia Tecli. This team was mighty good last year, but old man hard luck backed line with great regularity. That the team was better than its record showed needs little proving aince Georgia Tech smashed unbeat- en Duke out of the national cham- pionship picture in a manner that Proved true class. Bill Alexander may have had his team pointing for the tobacco kings, but the team led by the brilliant Shorty Roberts func- er like a Raber linta watch. iscussion Tech must inevitably bring up the subject of Duke. Duke would have gone through last season undefeated had it not been for Georgia Tech. And Duke figures to have an edge on most southern and far southern teams. si rs &@ Sensation rring the position of right tackle, Duke already has a team that would warm the heart of any coach. De- fensively, this team might not meet the standard, but its backfield can go Places. Corky Cornelius has about everything a coach or a team could desire. He can place kick in a man- ner that makes one think of Wis- consin’s Pat O'Dea, and he can run and pass in the bargain. Cornelius, who may well be an All- American romeo will be conserved an exceedingly fast blocking back named Elmer Tarrall. Tarrall is a track man, weighing 170 Pounds and he is a certain and dead- ly blocker. It may seem that undue emphasis is being placed upon these two teams while, as a matter of fact, Dixie foot- ball is stronger than ever before. it. But, to offset this, Hunk Ander- son will unquestionably have an able aggregation at North Carolina State, | American scientists are searching elm tree which can resist the Adm, sk i