The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 17, 1936, Page 10

# ee. en ISS E BOAO poneeeose #8 . — Z. has PoE E fl Zisl ol s Ey HE ee | EFI: ___ THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 1936 : iCronin Fractures Thumb As Red Sox Drub Athletics, 10-4 The CHICAGO COMPLETES : CONQUEST OF DEAN Giants’ 9th-Inning Rally Pro- ; vides Third Straight Triumph t Over Dodgers "REDS SCORE FIRST VICTORY \ {Bees Bow to Phillies, 7-5; { Yanks Defeat Senators in Slugfest, 6-5 (By the Associated Press) Baseball's professional mourners, the managers, already are wailing over a dose of sickness, injuries and yform reversals, With the season but three days old, Joe Cronin, the high-priced playing y manager of the Red Sox, has a brok- jen thumb; Ben Chapman of the “Yankees is suffering from muscular pains in his side, and Dick Bartell of the Giants is in the sick bay suffer- ing from grippe. | Cronin is expected to be out of ac- ‘tion for two or more weeks with a ¢double fracture of the thumb, re- ycelved as the Red Sox drubbed the jAthletics 10-4. In the second inning, Pinky Higgins charged into second ; YESTERDAY’S STARS ‘| George Selkirk, Yankees — Led 15-hit attack on Washington ‘| pitchers with home run, triple and single. Jimmy Foxx, Red Sox—Hit first home run of season with two on against Athletics. Hank Leiber, Giants—His second double in the ninth drove in the two runs that defeated Brook- lyn 7-6. John Moore, Phillies — Found Boston pitchers for homer and three singles in five times at bat. Larry French, Cubs — Kept Cards’ ten hits well scattered to beat Paul Dean. Kiki Cuyler and Ival Goodman, Reds—Their home runs were big factor in 7-4 victory over Pirates. base and Cronin, after juggling the ball, tagged him. The manager con- tinued to play but later an X-ray re- vealed the breaks. Eric McNair was moved over to Cronin’s shortstop from Syracuse, played third. Foxx Gets First Homer Jimmy Foxx of the Red Sox, who tied Hank Greenberg for home run honors last year with 36, got his first round-tripper of the season. Paul Dean, who watched Brother Jerome’s dismal performance in the opening game, was the victim of a 5-3 defeat by the Cubs. Paul hit Jurges with a pitched ball to initiate his downfall and three hits and two more passes completed the damage. The Giants noiched their third straight win over Brooklyn 7-6. The tying and winning runs crossed the plate in the ninth inning when Jor- dan and Lindstrom of the flatbush- ers collided while attempting to catch what appeared to be an easy fly. Chapman left the fray in the/ fourth inning but the Yankees went on to defeat the Washington Senators 6-5. Five pitchers, three for the Sen- ators and two for the Yanks, yielded @ total of 29 safeties. Ten of the! ‘Yanks’ 15 hits were for extra bases, George Selkirk getting a homer, a triple and a single. Reds Win First Game i ‘The Cincinnati Reds hung up their first victory of the year as they downed the Bucs 7-4. Bud Hafey whaled out his second homer of the year in the first inning while Cuyler and Goodman of the Reds hit for ound trips. | Only 500 fans turned out to see the | Phillies down the Boston Bees, 7-5. ‘The Bees went into the eighth inning trailing 7-1, tallied three runs on a homer by Hal Lee and came back to get another in the ninth inning be- fore their rally was checked. The Tigers-Indians, Browns-White Sox games were postponed because of cold weather. NATIONAL LEAGUE Reds Beat Bucs Cincinnati — Hollingsworth held Pittsburgh to six hits and Cincinnati won 7 to 4. RHE Pittsburgh .....102 000 100-4 6 1 Cincinnati .....100 200 2ix— 712 2 ‘Weaver and Padden; Hollingsworth ‘and Lombardi. Phillies Down Bees Philadelphia —The Philies staved off a late rally and beat the Bees % to 5. . RHE Boston .........010 000 031-5 6 1 Philadelphia ...300 011 20x— 714 3 Chaplin, Osborne, Blanche and Lo- pez; Jorgens, Bowman, Johnson and Grace. Giants Win in Ninth New York—Scoring two runs in the last of the ninth, the Giants won from Brooklyn 7 to 6. RHE Brooklyn . 400 010 100— 6 13 0 New York. 020 030 002— 711 1 Brandt, Mungo and Berres; Fitz- simmons, Smith, Coffman and Man- cuso, Cubs Defeat Cards 8t. Louis—The Cubs pounded Paul Dean for a 5 to 3 decision over St. Louis. RHE Chicago -000 040 010-510 0 8t. Louis. 020 000 010-310 3 French and Hartnett; P. Dean and Davis, AMERICAN LEAGUE Red Sox Triumph Boston—With a six-run rally in the seventh, Boston defeated the Ath- letics 10 to 4. RHE Philadelphia ...001 100 020-410 4 , Boston .... 810 000 60x—10 11 3 H. Johnson, Doyle and Hayes; ‘Welch and R. Ferrell. Yanks. Cop Slugfest Washington —The Yankees won 8 slugfest from Washington, 6 to 5. RHE New York.......006 100 100-615 4 3: Ws +++ 020 200 000— 5 14 0 , . Broaca, Brown anil Dickey; Apple- fon, Bokina, Russell and Bolton. . ‘Others postponed; cold. bol 4 -PAMILY IN 6-3 WIN Newly-Crowned Bowling Kings { Ti, annexed the singles crown in gress tournament Johnny Murphy, left, of Indianapolis, won the all-events division with a total of 2006 pins and Charles Warren, right, of Springfield, the recent American Bowling Con- it at Indianapolis. Major Race to Be No Pink Tea Party Fist Fight, Fines, Protested Games Already Have En- livened Play Chicago, April 17—()—The 1936 major league baseball season, just three days old, is giving indications of growing up ito quite a big, bat- tling, rough-and-ready fellow. Two fines have been assessed, one game has been finished under pro- test, and one high-priced manager is on the shelf with a broken thumb, all of which makes it appear that the berth and Johnny Kroner, a rookle| national pastime this season will be! title. Olson for the Highwaymen and no pink tea party for any club. Dick Bartell, New York Giants shortstop, and pitcher Van Lingle Mungo of the Brooklyn Dodgers en- livened Wednesday's game by an ex- change of punches. Each was fined $25 by President Ford Frick of the National league, the smallest assess- ments for a fist fight in several years. In St. Louis Thursday, Chicago trimmed the Cardinals 5-3, but Man- ager Frankie Frisch probably still is muttering, With the sacks loaded and one out in the Cub eighth, Augie Galan popped a foul which landed just inside the third-base line. Larry French, on first, sprinted for second. While he was being run down, Stan- ley Hack scored. The umpire ruled Galan out on the infield fly rule and beating the Philadelphia Athletics. Cronin tagged Higgins so hard as he came into second that he broke the bone in his right thumb. N. D: Officially Joins National Boxing Body North Dakota officially was a mem- ber of the National Boxing association Friday,. Theodore Martell, commis- sioner of agriculture and labor, and chairman of the state athletic com- mission, announced. Under terms of the membership, Martell said, North Dakota’s orders of suspensions and revocations against fighters and wrestlers, as well as oth- er regulations imposed, will be recog- nized by commissions of 42 other member-states. The commission will meet at Fargo Probably May 1, Martell said. More than 95 per cent of motor vehicles imported by Argentina are of United States manufacture. French in the run-up, but allowed| Totals ......... 809-753-851—2413 Hack’s run to count. Frisch promptly announced the First National Bank Cards would finish under protest. Haney ..... +++ 144-213-178— 535 In Boston, the Red Sox lost the ser-| Samuelson . vices of Manager Joe Cronin for pos-| Boise .. 176-124-124— 424 sibly three weeks while his club was|Dumm: + 113-113-113— 339 Highway Department bowlers cap- tured three straight wins from the Regulatory Department team and the eT TS, Service Electric five won two out of SW Conference Track three from the First National Bank in concluding games in the Commer- cial League Wednesday night, The final games had no effect on the league leaders who settled the cham- pionship Wednesday with the Bis- jmarck Bakery trundlers winning the Haney for the First National tied for Thursday evening's high three-game total with 535. The scores: Regulatory Department see 138-124-180— 442 + 107-103-145— 355 » 177-129-174— 480 » 164-183-131— 478 » 144-144-144— 432 + 43- 43- 43— 129 Totals ‘7713726-817—2316 Highway Department Fisher Hennessy Thiegs ... Knutson . Dummy Handicap Olson .... 193-156-186— 535 Mannrow + 172-168-179— 519} Berg . + 159-142-161— 462 Rohrer . Schlosser . « 119-145-153— 417 « 166-142-172— 490 Dummy . Handicap .. » 114-114-114— 342 23- 23- 23— 69 125-728-677—2130 Service Electric Donaldson . + 172-149-152— 428 Toman + 130-150-146— 426 Kottsick . « 121-154-121— 396 Moe ... « 123-190-171— 484 Frazier + 119-157-132— 408 Totals New Yorker Annexes New York, April 17—(®)—Edward Lee of New York wore the world’s amateur three cushion billiards crown Friday, bringing the title to the Unit- ed States for the first time as the championship tournament came to its last day. Lee clinched the title Thursday night when he gave a sound |{trouncing “to Hendricks Robyns of Holland; 50 to 35, for his ‘sixth Holley Whiffs Ten as Colonels Trim Brewers, 8 to 3 Saints Take Advantage of Red Bird Misplays to Score 7-6 Victory Chicago, April 17.—(#)—The Louis- ville Colonels and St. Paul Saints topped the American Association in the number of games won Friday— largely through a break from the weather man. While Kansas City and Minneapo- lis were prevented by the cold from playing their scheduled games Thurs- day with Indianapolis and Toledo, re- spectively, Louisville was beating Mil- waukee 8-3 and St. Paul was trimming Columbus 7-6. Kansas City and Min- neapolis each have won two games and lost none. The Colonels, in taking the victory which gave them the series with the Brewers, three games to one, had fine pitching from Ed Holley, who allow- ed seven hits and fanned ten. | St. Paul took advantage of misplays |by the Red Birds to take their third j victory in four games. Two errors in the ninth, with two out, paved the |way for Larry Rosenthal's home run which drove in three runs. ASSOCIATION SUMMARY Saints Take Third Columbus — St, Payl made it three straight over Columbus by winning the final game of the series, 7 to 6. RH St. Paul.. :000 000 0443— 7 8 0 Columbus -010 040 OO1I— 6 11 4 Weinert, Trow, McLean, Fette and Fenner, Pasek; Cooper and Cher- vinko, E Holley Checks Brewers Louisville — Holley struck out ten men as Louisville defeated Milwau- kee, 8 to 3. GREAT ||. GOLF GOLF LEFT-HANDED GAME? RIGHT HAS FUNCTIONS, TOO — Top Kentucky Derby Favorite By ART KRENZ (NEA Service Golf Writer) Don’t heed the advice that golf is entirely a left-handed game. It defi- nitely is a two-handed game, and the right has its part to play in hit- ting the ball. The trouble with most golfers is that they never grasp the idea as to! just what part the two hands play— when the left dominates, and when the swing is turned over to the right. Figuring that the hands complete| half of the arc when they reach the} top of the backswing, and the other half in returning the club back to the ball, I'd say the left hand con- RH E!trols the club during three-fourths of Milwaukee -000 001 0022— 3 8 2 Louisville .. 301 000 O4x= 8 11 0 Heving, Pressnell and Brenzel; Holley and Thompson. Others postponed; cold. Meet Set for May 16 Buffalo Springs, N. D., April 17.— Bowman will be host to the South- west Conference high school track and field meeting on May 16, it was made known here Friday, simul- taneously with the announcement of the first and second all-Southwest Conference basketball teams. Buffalo Springs placed three men, Bowman and Rhame two each, and Reeder, Bucyrus and Hettinger one each on the two teams chosen.by the coaches. Brown of Hettinger and Eide of Buffalo Springs were chosen at for- wards on the first team with Pollick of Bowman, named as center and captain and Bingham and Anderson ot Rhame in the two guard positions. On the second team were Flesch of Rhame and Hubbard of Buffalo Springs, forwards; Durfee of Reeder, center and captain; and Compton of Buffalo Springs and Knutson of Bu- cyrus, guards. Honorable mention was given to Boushele of Buffalo Springs, Nichols and Page of Reeder, Dahl of Rhame and Herzig of Bowman, » 155-141-125— 421; Hight Teams Making Home Debuts Friday New York, April 17.—(P)—Anothe: set of baseball “openings” were on the program in the major leagues Fri- day, hastened by the new schedules which call for only three games in each series instead of four as in pre- vious seasons. The Detroit Tigers, St. Lous Browns, New York Yankees and Phil- adelphia Athletics, who opened the American League campaign on the road and Brooklyrt Dodgers, Pitts- burgh Pirates, Chicago Cubs and Bos- ton Bee in the National were slated to 3-Cushion Cue Title |2° their home openings with ap- {propriate ceremonies. With gova | Weather the attendance was expected to come close to the turnout of 205,- 000 that welcomed Tuesday's initial ames. Friday’s schedule calls for the Chi- cago White Sox to pl at Detroit; Cleveland at St. Louis; Boston at New York and Washington at Phila- delphia in the American League, and Philadelphia at Brooklyn, St. Louis at Pittsburgh, Cincinnati at Chicago and jeinelat victory, i EGAD, THE BRAZ NERVE OF THAT HOW THE BRAGG A <p MicHAEL HooPLE / BAH! KNAve! Y ~SPUTATTHIT'S BEYOND Ye MY COMPREHENSION YJ OUR BOARDING HOUSE |New York at Boston in the National. By Ahern EN THAT MYSTERY BY POKING WATCHING Your TONGUE PERSPIRE. is BY you can “J He way HE LNSCRAMBLE ) SLICED OFF THE ART i COULD LOOK YOU EYE TO EVE AND SPIN MIRROR AND |Z TWIN BROTHER, LZ BALONEY, SOLD ¥ ME ON THE HUNCH THAT 1F HE WASN'T YOUR, COLISIN; HE MUST BE YOUR f Sy ee a), the swing—to the top, which is one- half of the swing, and, one-half of the way back to the ball, which is another quarter. It is the last quar- ter of the swing, until the ball is struck, that the right controls. Sports Round-Up By EDDIE BRIETZ New York, April 17—(?)—Casey Stengel and Umpire “Beans” Reardon fired at each othor throughout the Giant-Dodger ser- jes... One of Stengel’s quips was: “You woulc be a fine asset to baseball if you had stayed in the movies.” . . . When Bill Terry removed Freddy Fitzsimmons from the $1 a year list, he handed Freddy @ blank contract and told him to immons fill it out for what he wan an arco Freddy did, Terry said O. K., and the| ants had ancther contented ath- ete. Tops for the fights at Ebbetts Field this summer will be $5. ... And those prices will hold for any title bouts, also. Ox Eckhardt and Danny Taylor, Dodgers outfielders, were born on the same day of the year... . This Leroy Haynes must have something, at that... . Remember Natie Brown stayed 10 rounds with Joe Louis... . Old-timers say Tommy Baxer, Dodger | colt pitcher, is a dead facial ringer! for “Smoky Joe” Wood, ex-Red Sox star and ‘now baseball coach at Yale. +». Gil Hall, one of the ranking ama- teurs, says Berkeley eBll’s tennis has improved 50 per cent over his ama- teur days... . The middle west thinks it has another fistic world-beater in Adolph Wiater, 23-year-old 200- pounder. . . . Joe Louis said Wiater gave him his hardest fight. Mike Brady cffered to commit hari- kari if Babe Didrikson out-drove him. «+. On the first tee, after the drives, | @ wag handed Mike a jackknife with the blade open. . . The Babe collected 14 smackers off another long mate driver, one buck for each hole on which she whanged a longer ball. . . ‘There were four par-three holes on the course. The rs tried to sell Joe Stripp to the Cards for $10,000... Frankie Frisch’s top was $4,000. «+. “I believe he'll be worth all of that.” Leonard Gettleson of North Branch, N, J., comes up with s6me more open- ing day records. For instance, Bill Rogell, Tiger shortstop, went through the opener without getting a chance in the field. . . . Ed Morgan of the Cardinals made his first major league homer on his first time at bat, while acting as a pinch hitter... . First time on record that ever was done in a big league opener. . . . And Bill Her-} man of the Cubs equalled the record set in 1827 by Al Tyson of the Giants, by banging out five hits. * : | Fights Last Night | eee, (By the Associated Press) Dayton, Ohio — Clarence “Red” Burman, 178, New York, knocked 7 yi Slake, 194, South Bend, ind., (2). Z CARDINAL PROSPECTS POOR Carrington, N. D., April 17.—(@)}— H. A. McLeod, athletic director at Carrington high school, views the track and field prospects in a pes- simistic light. “Prospects are poor,” he said as only two lettermen, Milton Adams and Robert Swinton, turned up in the ranks of candidates this 50 PLAYERS SEE SERVICE Winona, Minn., April 17.—(?)—Fifty owned by Joseph E. Widener. One Photo) Racing experts name Brevity as one of the outstanding contenders for the Kentucky derby. at Churchill Downs, May 2. The bay colt Is of his most important victories wae the recent winning of the Florida derby at Hialeah. (Associated Prese 32 AMATEURS FROM 15 STATES REACH AAU MITT SEMI-FINALS Hanschen and Tadora, Both of Minneapolis, Eliminated Thursday Night Cleveland, Ohio, April 17.—()— Thirty-two kids from 15 states stood on the threshold of the fistic hall of fame Friday—just a step or two away from the national A. A. U. champion- ships toward which 286 started bat- tling their way two days ago. The semifinals and finals will be staged tonight, the winners of the last round events taking the eight A. U, titles. All the entrants in to- night’s fights get a chance at Olym- pic berths. John Hanschen, Minneapolis, was knocked out by Willis H. Johnson, | Detroit, in the second round of their heavyweight quarter - final bout Thursday night. Stanley Tadora of Minneapolis, bantamweight champion of the north- west, rode home in an airplane. Tadora, fighting Jose Sill of Spart- ansburg, suffered a broken arm, above the elbow, in the first round matches when the southerner jammed his right glove into Tedora’s elbow as he start- ed a left hook. Courteous Hawaiian Grapplers in Tryouts Bethlehem, Pa. April 17.—(@)— Although they've been among the more consistent losers in the current American Olympic final wrestling try- outs, the four grapplers from Hawali are definitely courteous losers. No matter how groggy his con- queror might leave him on the can- vas, the Hawaiian gets up, rushes to a corner of the gymnasium, reaches into a large box, pulls out a green and white lei, and drapes it over the winnef’s shoulders. An embrace follows. “It’s an old Hawaiian custom,” 19- year-old Richard Noda, manager and captain of the foursome from the Pa- cific Island said Friday. The final tryouts, which started with 133 competitors, will wind up Saturday night when a team of 14 will be selected to represent Uncle Sam in Germany next summer. Caifson Johnson, University of Min- nesota grappler and Big Ten champ- jon in the 155-pound class, threw Wal- ter Jacob, Michigan State’s 158 pound N.C.A.A. champion in 5:25 minutes in a first round match Thursday night. LEAFS WIN EXHIBITION Winnipeg, April 17.—(4)—The Tor- onto Maple Leafs defeated the Chicago Blackhawks 7 to 6 in the first game of an exhibition series between the two National Hockey League clubs Thursday night. HATS for men, sold exclusively by Alex Rosen & Bro. Nationally-Known STETSON | . 8 |Don Budge Battles Surface in Finals for North-South Singles Crown Pinehurst, N. C., April 17.—(®)— The men’s singles finals of the North and South tennis championship Fri- day pitted a rising young Kansas City star, Hal Surface, against Donald Budge, Davis Cup player from Cali- fornia. In the women’s division the final- ists were Mrs. Virginia Rice Johnson of Boston and Eunice Dean of San Antonio, Texas. Semi-finals play in the men’s doubles and the final round of the women’s doubles were reached Surface, unseeded, advanced to the title round by upsetting Gene Mako, also a Davis Cup player, in the quar- ter-finals. The finalists in the women’s dou- bles were Mrs. Johnson and Miss Winthrop, and Miss Tauble and Mil- licent Hirsch, New York. GOLF HEADS CHOSEN New England, N. D., April 17.—Paul Fancher was re-elected president, E. O. Morstad, vice president, and A. O. Lona, secretary-treasurer at a recent meeting of the New England Town and Country club, Committees will be appointed soon to handle arrange- ments for the season's play. Swedish motorists are. strictly for- bidden to smoke while driving through cities or towns. FLAPPER FANNY SAYS: REG. U. 5. PAT. OFF. A bird in the hand isn’t as cagey as the two in the bush. Standings (By the Associated Press) NATIONAL LEAGUE Pet. New York . 1,000 Chicago . 667 Pittsburgh 667 Philadelphia ‘St. Louis 333 Boston .. 333 Cincinnati . Brooklyn .. Thursday's Results Cincinnati 7; Pittsburgh 4. Philadelphia 7; Boston 5. New York 7; Brooklyn 6. Chicago 5; St. Louis 3. rn ope 2 3 AMERICAN LEAGUE W. LL. Pet. Chicago re 0 1.000 Boston .. 2 0 1.000 Washington . .2 1 867 Detroit . 1 1 500 Clevelans 1 1 500 New York . 1 2 333 Philadelphia 0 2 000 St. Louis .. -o 2 000 Boston 10; Philadelphia 4, New York 6; Washington 5. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION W. LL. Pet. Minneapolis 0 1.000 Kansas City 0 1.000 St. Paul . 1 -150 Louisville if 150 Columbus . 3 250 Milwaukee 3 250 Toledo ... 2 000 Indianapolis .. 2 =.000 Thursday's Results 8&t. Paul 7; Columbus 6, Louisville 8; Milwaukee 3. Five Track Lettermen Report to Mott Coach Mott, N. D., April 17.—Five let- termen reported to the first call for track candidates at Mott high school! this week. They were Virgil Banning, Vasey, Ernie Grosz, George Hard- meyer and Emil Roesler. Banning holds the conference records in the 100, 220 and 440 yard dashes while Vasey set another mark in the jave- lin throw. The Cardinals will attempt to make a clean sweep of three con- ference titles by winning the track meet at Elgin May 8 or 9. BASEBALL MEETING CALLED Steele, N. D., April 17.—Selection of @ team manager and arrangements for the coming season will be made at @ meeting of all baseball fans here tonight. TENNIS FANS TO ORGANIZE Mott, N. D., April 17.—An organ- jization meeting of the Mott Tennis club will be held tonight. Several tournaments are under consideration .| for the coming months. In addition to a healthy principal payment record, interest payments by farmers on Federal Land Bank loans have shown steady improvement since the low point of 1933. Farmers repaid $43,000,000 to the land bank in 1935. Low heat is the rule in cooking eggs because eggs are a protein food and high temperatures harden most pro- teins. Moderate heat keeps them ten- der. SEE IT TODAY AL BARNES’ Famous Circus with Charlie Chan in an All New Thrilling Mystery at the PARAMOUNT. Candidates, Attention! ! We have petitions for nomina- tion for all city, county, state and no-party tickets. Bismarck Tribune Company 222 Fourth St. Telephone 32 OUT OUR WAY 6OSH! THIS ISA WONDERFUL COUNTRY! players saw service as Manager Dick Wade of the Diluth club in the Northern League sent his baseball candidates into intra-squad play lasting three and a half hours Thurs- day. . r} . Layh io hae Heeger? Ufone BY nea senvce, e_Y. A. REO. U. Nf \i WY Gh aun Sai z : SPAT. oF. By Williams ——— gue apes a pee