The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 3, 1936, Page 6

Rookies Give REGULARS REFUSED TO GIVE RECRUITS BATTING PRACTICE Greatest Shortstop of All Time Recounts Early History of Majors FISTS DECIDED MANY TILTS Honus’ First Job Was to Lug Beer for Veterans During Practice Editor's Note: This is the first of a series of articles by Honus Wagner, famous old-time Pitts- burgh Pirate star, on the differ- ence between baseball today and during his time. By HONUS WAGNER A rookie breaking into major league baseball today lives the life of | 2! Reilly compared to the youngsters of the ’90s. It was on a hot mid-June day in 1897 that I arrived in Louisville, Ky., from Paterson, N. J., for my big league tryout with the Colonels. I got to the park just in time to see about 15 players leaving. The club must be going on a road trip, I thought. But imagine my amazement when the groundkeeper, who was the first person I met, told me that the club had just released all those players! “You'd better be ready to leave, too,” he told me. In those days the veteran player: looked down on a rookie as though he were a worm. During practice I tried to take my turn at the plate, but one of the players threatened to hit me on the head with a bat. A rookie get batting practice? I should say not, not if the veterans had any- thing to say about it! After two or three days, however, Fred Clarke, who managed that tough gang, insisted I get my turn. My first job at Louisville was to carry in beer for the other players at lunch time. And how they could drink it! Clarke ordered morning practice, and the boys usually re- mained in the park and sent out for lunch. The rookies always were dis- patched for large buckets of beer. Hard to Beat Umps On that 1897 Louisville club were Bad Bill Wilson, Perry Werden, Red Ehret, Dummy Hoy, Billy Clingman, Charlie Dexter, Pete Dowling, Bill McGee, and Bert Cunningham. The National was a 12-club league in those days and frequently we made road trips that called for 33 games in @ stretch, three in each rival city. ‘Those trips were plenty tough, espe- cially when you consider that every home town official and ere far more ra- Honus Wagner old-timers extend teach a few tricks to a kid. But they didn’t do in the days when I started; man for himself, I said the umpires were home town ‘They always leaned toward club, and any time there @ close decision, you could be the visiting club would get none best of it. recall one game in particular that old Louisville club engaged in g 8848 i playing Cleveland, with Cy pit We. went into the cif! coaching at third base. Ruse Rattles Infield, Wins ith mound, the Fe Eigle and we won the game. 28 i toward our clubhouse, i Hi i E they couldn't get in. ee buses. with rotten tomatoes, fruit, SEETES gE _Berwanger Seeks Decathlon Fame Chicago’s One-Man Football Team Takes Two Firsts in Dual Track Meet ~ New York, March 3.—(#)—John Ja- cob Berwanger, the University of Chi- cago’s one-man backfield, also may turn out to be a one-man track team. my big league career. We inning one run behind and I on second and third, our batter sent up a weak pop fly toward I yelled for Young to ball and the shortstop and man, who were running it, thought they were receiving instructions from a mate and stopped tracks. Cy didn’t make the the ball fell safely, two runs leveland players were furious. charged the umpire, who for cover. We heard ‘em to we had run as soon as the game ‘They wanted to fight it out it Clarke ordered the doors trips we went to the ball Many times I have rocks, Yes, sir, the fans eir baseball seriously in those THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, TUESDAY, MARCH 3, 1936 n No Consideration \"4 \ Rowing y Scores F. W. Woolworth trundlers won three straight from the Gamble-Rob- inson team to increase their lead in the City League Monday night and enabled the O. H. Will crew to move into third place on the basis of two out of three wins over Klein’s Tog-| gery. Frank Hummel of the O. H. Will five blasted the uprights for counts of 212-179-180—571 for three game honors. The scores: Wills 212-179-180— 571 162-204-203— 569 164-211-171— 546 176-169-211— 566 211-155-161— 527 925-928-926—2779 Oy 165-204-179— 548 162-178-152— 492 160-142-198— 500 152-162-170— 484 160-168-188— 516 48- 48- 48— 144 845-900-933—2678 Gamble-Robinson 115-130-212— 457 140-140-140— 420 145-161-132— 438 Dettman Dummy Baily ... HOUSE OF DAVID WILL TEST PHANTOMS HERE WEDNESDAY Bearded Stars Return Here After Successful Tour of Pacific Northwest Swinging back after a highly suc- cessful tour of the Pacific Northwest. George Johnson’s Original House of David quint returns here Wednesday night for the fourth game with the Bismarck Phantoms. In three previous games, the beard- ed stars won two and lost one to the defending state independent cham- pions. Since that early-season series, they have played in all of the prin- (cipal cities between here and the Pa- cific coast and have run up a formid- able list of victories. Members of the touring quint are “Red” Johnston, and Jerry Martin, forwards; “Slim” Curtiss, center; and Charles Kebza and Henry Beelman, guards. It was Johnston who potted fiela goals from all over the floor to give the Benton Harbor colony five a nar- row victory in the first meeting of the two teams this year. Before coming here the House of David will play at Watford City, Minot and Devils Lake in North Da- kota. Efforts are being made to ar- range a second game at Mandan Thursday night, but all arrangements are not complete. Through drills this week, the Phan- toms are attempting to recover the offensive spark missing in Saturday night’s rubber game with the strong Dakota Millers. Youngstrom Erickson .. Handicap 133-136-166— 435 147-153-177— 477 98- 48- 48— 144 128-768-875—2371 Woolworth ++ 160-160-176— 496 144-188-158— 490 161-192-175— 528 157-116-183— 456 192-179-193— 564 }-885—2534 With The Majors (By the Associated Press) Neibauer . Walker . Olson Totals.. 814-1 Dickey Comes to Terms St. Petersburg, Fla.—Things are rosy in the Yankee camp. Bill Dickey, the holdout catcher, has come to terms with the boss and Joe Dimag- gio, the much-heralded rookie, is showing plenty of class. Dimaggio' stood up at the plate in a hitting drill Monday and whaled the horse- hide for long rides, three of which would have cleared most of the fences in the American League. Pensacola, Fla.—Sam Leslie, former- ly of the Dodgers, went to work with a@ zest after signing on the dotted line for the Giants. He lost six pounds in a brisk workout. Joe Moore and Hank Leiber are still on the holdout list but although Moore was expected to come to terms shortly, Leiber still was showing no signs of weakening. Dodger Rookie Improves Clearwater, Fla.—Walter Milles, the young Dodger catcher, is doing all right for himself, if you take the word of Casey Stengel. Casey says he’s @ great place hitter and a fighter and that if he continues to improve as he has in the past, he will be a fine young fellow to have around. He plays @ hot game of Kelly pool, too. Bues Plan to Start San Antonio, Tex.—If it’s fair the Pirates plan to start their outdoor training Tuesday. If it rains they will work inside again. At any rate Pie ‘Traynor says his batterymen have got to get plenty busy. Sox to Test Rookie Outfield Pasadena, Fla.—Jimmy Dykes plans to start the exhibition season with an all-rookie White Sox outfield, in an effort to learn as much as possible about them without delay. Mike Kree- vich and George Stumpf, both from Kansas City, will be in left and cen- ter, with Malin McCulloch from Dallas in right. Cubs Pitchers Slated Avalon—Two recruits will oppose 3 pair of sophomore pitchers in the Cubs’ first intra-club game Wednes- day. Charlie Grimm has picked Johnny Hutchings and Clyde Shoun, rookies, to pitch for the regulars against Roy Henshaw and Fabian | Kowalik. Trosky Recovers Form New Orleans—Hal Trosky, Indians’ first baseman, has convinced his mates that he is regaining his old batting power. Smashing drives indi- cate he is out of the slump tha: pulled his batting average from .330 to 271 and home runs from 35 to 26 last season. Roy Hughes, infielder, was due to arrive Tuesday. Cards Drill on Sliding Bradenton, Fla.—Frank Frisch said it would be the sliding pits for the 8t. Louis Cardinals Tuesday, with Pepper Martin in charge. Pepper, an artist at hitting the dirt, promised to set an example that would give the lads plenty of exercise. Sports Round-Up By EDDIE BRIETZ Bradenton, Fla., Mar. 3.—(#)—The Cardinals miss Dizzy Dean at that. . +. The park where the club works out is a good country half mile from the hotel. . . Skipper Frank provides no trans- portation, so the boys hoof the dis- tance twice each day.... Last year, Dizzy operated a ball players taxi at 10 cents a head. ... When Jimmy Foxx reported to the Red Sox he saw almost every- one he ever knew on the Athletics except Connie Mack and his score card... . Bing Miller, Johnny Mar- cum, Mose Grove and Rube Walberg all were in the crowd. ... With Rog- ers Cramer and Eric McNair due this week. . . . It will be homecoming day in Philly when the Sox hit town. Madison Square Garden is ad- vertising Isidor Gastanaga as “the man Joe Louis refused to meet.” .. . That won't help the gate... . Patty Berg, the golfer, goes to church every day... . Gabby Hartnett says his greatest feat in sports was winning 55,000 marbles in his grade school days. Dizzy ‘Dean Every day after the Cards leave the field, Sam Breadon and a couple of St. Louis cronies don uniforms and work out a few kinks... . Scout Clyde Wares is in charge of their drilling. «. . On their first day in camp the Red Sox had to compete with Babe Didrikson, who is packing them in on an exhibition tour. . . The last time she was in Sarasota she twirled for the Cardinals against the Sox. . . Babe is going to let George Jacobs polish up her driving this summer. ... Vincent Richards has a daughter they say will become a tennis sensa- tion, Ed Ray writes in the Tamps Times that the day when the Philadelphia fans enjoyed the Power of the Athletics and laugh- ed at the antics of the Phillies has changed and that it will be the other way sround this year. Duke, South Carolina and Ciemson will do a little watchful waiting be- fore bolting the Southern conference. «+. You see, while the Graham anti- subsidization plan is now a confer- ence rule it hasn’t been enforced yet. «++ Two of the Cardinals’ four catech- ers are products of North Carolina sand lots. ... Pepper Martin can get dirtier quicker than any other player in baseball. . .. Also, he can get down to first quicker than most any of the others. has given him permission to elsewhere for a job. look Phils Arrive at Camp Winter Haven, Fla.—Arriving Phil- lies—24 of them—had their first workouts on schedule for Tuesday. Additional players due in included Outfielder Lou Chiozza, Pitcher Sy! Johnson and Third Baseman Johnny Vergez. Reds Slate Exhibitions Santo Domingo—The Cincinnati Reds were due by small boat to play exhibitions here Tuesday and Wed- nesday, and will fly Miami-ward Thursday for games three following The broad-shouldered boy from Dubuque, ambitious to make the United States Olympic team as a decathlon performer, already is dem- onstrating all-around ability. Ber- ‘wanger helped the Maroon take Pur- ue’s measure in a dual meet by win- ning the 70-yard low hurdles in :07.9, taking the shotput with a toss of 44 feet, 7 inches and finishing third in the 60-yard dash, timed at :06.5. ‘Taken separately these perform- ances are not startling. However, when it comes to spreading activity over @ ten-event program, the indi- vidual is not expected to act like a combina‘ tion of Jesse Owens, Percy|In 1924, Osborn set new world and Beard, Gene Venzke and Jack Tor- | Olympic records in the high jump at 6 feet, 6 inches, besides capturing the pions | Olympic decathlon with a world rec- have also been specialists, Harold|ord total at Paris. His Olympic high Few great all-around cham; Pleases Browns Rookie West Palm Beach, Fla—A big rookie from Dora, Ala., had the regu- lars talking him over from the side- lines in the St. Louis Browns’ camp Tuesday. He, winding up and whipping from the mound in midseason fashion. Paul Andrews, Mack My Release Warstler Fort Myers, Fla.—Connie Mack of the Athletics, has told Second Sacke: Hal Warstler he isn’t worth any more money this season than in 1935 and Osborn is the best-known exception. | Jump record still stands. was the bail days with the Philadelphia Athletics. Rookies will stay another week in San Juan. Tigers Seek New Hurler Lakeland, Fla.—There will be 16 pitchers working at the Tiger camp here when Schoolboy Rowe reports the latter part of the week. Manager Mickey Cochrane plans to pick one new starting hurler, releasing a vet- eran, Chad Kimsey, an Oklahoman who won 18 for Montreal last year, may be the choice. AMATEURS SPLIT BOUTS Minneapolis, March 3.—(#)—North- west Golden Gloves were all even Tuesday with a Chicago-Milwaukee aggregation of amateur boxers, each sepals five bouts in a meet Monday ight. PURDUE MAY STILL TIE UP RAGE WITH WIN OVER MICHIGAN Wolverines Trounce Illini, 35-| 22; Wildcats Trounce Badgers, 49-26 THE STANDINGS Indiana .. Purdue Michigan Illinois Northwestern .. Ohio State Towa .... Wisconsin Minnesota . Chicago . L 414 Chicago, March 3.—(4)—Indiana’s Hoosiers turned in Tuesday to cele- brate an honor that has visited Bloomington all too seldom, a Big Ten basketball title. The Hoosiers were, not celebrating an undisputed championship, for their favorite rival, Purdue, can and probably will cut in for a share Sat- urday night in its final game, In- diana completed its best season since 1928 by conquering Ohio State, 40 to 34, Monday night, closing the season with 11 victories and one defeat, the single setback administered by Ohio State. Indiana has shared in a Big Ten title on only two previous occasions. The Hoosiers tied with Purdue, Ohio State, and Michigan in 1926, and di- vided honors with Purdue in 1928. There was an outside chance In- diana might wind up with a clear championship claim, Purdue closes its season at Michigan Saturday night, needing a victory to tie the Hoosiers. Michigan took over temporary pos- session of third place Monday night by defeating Illinois, 35 to 22, at Ann Arbor. A Purdue victory Saturday, however, would leave the Illini and Wolverines tied. Northwestern, which crushed Wisconsin, 49 to 26, could tie for third place by defeating Chicago in their season final. Towa closed its season by conquer- ing Chicago, 47 to 39, at Chicago, in spite of a 19-point scoring rampage by Bill Haarlow, maroon ace. Purdue's Bob Kessler had a lead of eight points over Chicago's Bill Haar- low in their Big Ten individual scor- ing duel Tuesday but the modern rec- ord of 167 set by Joe Reiff of North- western in 1933 seemed reasonably safe. Haarlow pitched in 19 points against Towa, running his total to 138. Kess- ler had 146 and both had a game to play. Freddie Miller Beats Sharron in Title Go Coral Gables, Fla, March 3.—()— Freddie Miller still had his oft-de- fended featherweight title today, but there were those who thought it right- fully belonged to Petey Sharron. Referee Leo Shea raised the little i 10 1 1 4 5 5 i ar, 7 8 9 1 in 90s, Wagner Recalls } Hoosiers Clinch Share of Big Ten Cage Title by Trimming Buckeyes, 40-34 Ward Quint Holds Tournament Lead Capitol Theatre Eliminates Company A by- Scoring 28-25 Triumph : Montgomery War cagers held their lead in the City League double-eli- mination basketball tournament here Monday night when they defeated the Capital Commercial College quint in a close battle, 22-20. It was the first defeat for the Com- mercial College five who last week downed the Capital Theatre club. The Capital Theatre team remained in triumph over Company A Monday night, which eliminated the twice- beaten soldiers from the tournament. Morlan, Cummins, Leir and Heiser shared scoring honors in the Mont- gomery Ward victory. The lead changed hands several times before the Ward quint finally emerged ahead. Swenson, Bailey and Torkelson were the best performers for the Commer- cial College. the running, however, with a 28-25 | Carleton Wrestlers Again Defeat Nodaks Grand Forks, N. D., Mar. 3.—(?)— Carleton college wrestlers returned home Tuesday with a second straight victory over the University of North Dakota, winning five of seven matches in a team meet Monday night for a 19-10 score. Ken Walker, Nodak northwest A. A. 'U. champion, and John Goodman, both turned ‘in victories for the iSoux, the former downing Dick Webber in 8 minutes 55 seconds, and the latter throwing Knoble in 3 minutes 18 sec- onds in @ 155-pound tussle. In other matches, all won by Carle- ton, Russel Van Hook, 126, tossed Dale Faringer in a minute 34 seconds; Jack Boyd threw Jack West in five minutes 22 seconds; Lawrence Schill- ing, 118, defeated Erl Nelson; Jack Caton, 175, defeated Leland Croze, and big Bill Rande#i defeated Nat Put- chat in a heavyweight bout. The last three bouts were won on time ad- vantage. Hank Leiber Ignores Giants’ $10,000 Offer Led by Ed Heer and Tod Potter with nine and eight points, respective- ly, the Capitol Theatre eliminated the soldiers despite the valiant work of Becker who counted seven field goals for the losers. Wednesday night Klein’s’.Toggery and the Knights of Columbus play their first-round games in the other bracket. The Paramount Theatre withdrew from the tournament after a dispute over the eligibility of sev- eral players. Summaries of Monday night's games: fg ft pf M. Ward fg ft p 0 0 Morlan, f 2 Cum'ins, f 3 Leir, ¢ Kunz, ¢ Heiser, ccc Bailey, f Teman’n, Huber, c¢ Grem, & Torke’n, & Swenson Gramm Totals Cc. Theatre Wenaas, f Heer, ft Lanster, c 3 Tolsh'y, & 0 Gorman, ¢ 0 T, Potter 4 O'Neil Totals ft 3 3 2 Fs 3 Totals nl estore! 4 3 - 1 0 | oesconsnee wo| won or! crocons’ By . Co. A Werre, f Becker, 1 D: eS Drenner, c Potter, & Brown, & crosuces & =~ Bl Hoc antt «| conoot | 2 al peconh Totals | ws | Hoooonet P| 1 cy — LE ih) Wee | Fights Last Night | oO (By the Associated Press) New York — Tony Canzoneri, 135%, world lightweight cham- pion, knocked out Steve Halaiki, 138%, Auburn, N. Y., (2), non-title. Coral Gables, Fla. — Freddie Miller, 125, world featherweight champion, outpointed Petey Sar- ron, 125, Birmingham, Ala., (15), retained title. Chicago — Everett (Young) Rightmire, 127, Sioux City, Iowa, outpointed Frankie Wolfram, 127%4, Winnipeg, Man., (10). ks Buffalo, N. Y.—Johnny Erjavec, 181, Duluth, outpointed Louis, Le Page, 187, Quebec, (4). SKATING STAR HURT Bever Dam, Wis. March 3.—(?)— Madeline Horn, Wisconsin skating star, said Tuesday an injury will keep her from further competition this season. Miss Horn injured a bone in her right leg when she struck a steel Cincinnati fighter’s right hand here Monday night after 15 rounds of fast, rough fighting in which Sharron, former Birmingham newsboy, suffer- ed heavy penalties for hitting low. Both fighters weighed 125 pounds. ALEX MORRISON SETS OUT Prince Albert in his pipe. It gli post while rounding a curve in an in- door meet at St. Paul. In Colonial days, clam juice was given to fever patients instead of wa- ter. Tucson, Ariz. March Henry (Hank) Leiber, youthful hold- out of the New York Giants, was back on the campus of his alma mater ‘Tuesday showing the baseball candi- dates how they do it in the major leagues. He took up his duties as coach at the University of Arizona. Disregarding the Giants’ offer of $10,000 Leiber made good his threat to accept the appointment as coach. As to his hold-out stand, he dis- Prowlers Trounce New Salem, 57-20 High-Scoring Independents to Clash With Shamrocks at Mandan Tonight Paced by Neil Croonquist and Frank Lee, the Prowlers, recently organized independent quint, breezed to an easy 57-20 triumph over the New Salem Independents at New Salem Monday night. The Prowlers got off to a slow start and at the end of the first quarter New Salem was leading 9-5, but mid- way in the second period Croonquist and Lee began hitting the hoop and the half ended with the Prowlers out in front 17-14. Croonquist collected 18 points on eight field goals and a brace of free throws while Lee caged six from the floor for 12. Ollie Sorsdahl and Tommy Lee each added four field goals in the one-sided victory, scored without the services of Jake Stocker, veteran center, and Eddie Spriggs, 3.—()—| Suard. Tonight the Prowlers will. clash with the Mandan Shainrocks at the state training school gymnasium. The summary: N. Salem fg ft p! Backsen, f 2 Just, f Kiusm’n, c Berdahl, g R. Just, ¢ Kreldt,' Wolf, « Totals Prowlers fe f Croonq't, f 8 Sorsd'l, cf Sch’artz, c P' err erry 2 0 3 1 1 1 0 loom a] Hoonents | comomrone ” missed it by saying: “I’m here to stay.” » i Referee, Darum. Johnny Allen Seeks Revenge on Yankees New Orleans, March 3.—()— Johnny Allen, who got his first big league chance by making it “cool” for a New York Yankee: scout, is out to make it “hot” for the entire Yankee squad, including Manager Joe Mc- Carthy, next summer. " Johnny ‘figures the Yankees didn’t give him a “fair’shake.” Now he wants revenge. His greatest desire next to helping Cleveland win the pennant ts to blast the flag hopes of his former mates, “I’m not a kicker because I'm tick- led to get a chance to play for Ojeve- land under my old friend, Steve O'Neill,” he said, “but I feel that, didn’t gét a fair shake with the Yarl- kees. x ie Allen was. a clerk in a tavern at Sanford, N. 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