The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 3, 1936, Page 14

Sy pmenaganasteee a an “ASTD ye SOUR NAT SRR CRI Ht HIGH COMMISSIONER UNHURRIED BY MANY QUERIES ABOUT ACE} i ‘Wise Baseball Men Say Dizzy| Dean Will Remain With Cardinals LEIBER ON AUCTION BLOCK Reds Purchase Gelbert and/ Davis; Ethan Allen Sold to Browns Montreal, Dec. tells the story of the minor league ‘baseball Montreal. Here it is: Kenesaw M. Landis... the commis- sioner of organized baseball was due to arrive Thursday, while scores of reporters were ready to pounce on him with: “How about Bob Feller?” He'll tell them nothing until he's ready. Feller... the 17-year-old schoolboy pitcher picked up by the Cleveland |~ Indians, Des Moines, th eclub near- est his home, claims the Indians vio- lated the contract rules. Commissioner Landis must rule him either the property of the Indians, a {free agent, or property of Des Moines. Dean... “Dizzy,” the pitcher, for ‘whom Cincinnati has offered $200,000 but the St. Louis Cardinals want players besides. Ricky as Auctioneer Ricky ... Branch Rickey 1s the St. Louis auctioneer in the reported Dean deal. The smarter baseball men, are offering even money Diz will stay with} Bt. Louis. Terry ... Bill Terry, manager of the champion New York Giants, who arrived two days late. Sell or trade outfielder Hank Leiber. Mates .. . Mickey Cochrane of De- troit and Jimmy Dykes of Chicago used to be partners on the Philadel- phia Athletics. Now they are rival managers, trying to outfox each other, with no progress, Newspapermen ... Hardy fellows,) who hide behind the potted palms in the Mount Royal hotel lobby and try to get stories. The best informed re- porter of them all is Lou McKenna of St. Paul. Lou is general manager of the St. Paul American Association club as well. McKenna Gagged {But the American Association club Owners have gagged him under threat of fining him $100 for any informa- tion he gives out ahead of George ‘Trautman, president of the league. Cincinnati purchased Infielder Charley Gelbert and Catcher Virgil Davis from the St. Louis Cardinals in @ straight cash transaction. The Chicago Cubs sold the veteran outfielder, Ethan Allen, to the St. Louls Browns after getting waivers on him in the National League. Cetchor John Peacock, lost to the Reds when Commissioner Kenesaw M. Landis declared him a frce agent, was bought by the Boston Red Sox. No Price was announced. . Hopes Fading Warren Giles, general manager of the Reds, Wednesday said his hopes of landing Dizzy Dean were fading. “It gets more hopeless every min- mate,” said Giles. “We want him badly but we can’t give a whole ball club away for him. This is a funny busi- mess. Money isn’t much good here.” Branch Rickey, trading boss of the ©ards, meanwhile went around shout- ing for players, Like an auctioneer, he was saying: “How many players for Dean?” Bakery, Tribune Bowlers in Wins Annex Two Out of Three Games in Matches With Black- stone, Riggs Winning two games out of three, the Bismarck Tribune and Bismarck Bakery bowling teams scored victor- ies in Commercial League matches “Wednesday night. Paced by Gordon MacGregor with a 504 three-game total, the Tribune trundlers won two out of three from} the Blackstone club. Herman An- derson of the Blackstone five rolled) @ 227 in the third game for the eve- ning’s high single score, Frank Patera rolled a 542 three- game total, the evening's top score, to lead the Bakery team to two wins over Riggs Place. The scores: Bismarck Bakery ++ 191-163-128— 482| 124-121-128— 373 195-165-155— 515 202-135-146— 483 169-184-169— 542 881-768-726 —2305 Riggs’ Place 19- 19- 19— 57 168-178-146— 490 131-110-112— 353 120-168-220— 508 ++ 145-141-140— 426 ++ 145-128-144— 417 Totals ......+6 gare Date dste) 781-2251 Blackstone Club 3.—()—The cast] convention in session at THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1936 F our Huskie Aces Cain Named Frem West's | Rose Bowl Team Coast football team. New Year's day the first eleven—Max Starcevich,| guard; Charles Bond, tackle; Cain. Dick Bassi, guard, University of Santa Clara. Gonzaga contributed its great halfback, George Karamatic, Ed Goddard. of Stanford and Gene Hibbs of South- berth. Center was won by Bob Her- in a runaway race, Augustana Denied Conference Considers Eligibili- ty of Junior College * Graduates Chicago, Dec. 3.—(?)—Augustana college of Sioux Falls, S. D., failed Wednesday to gain membei pb in ference, which tabled the petition un- til the group's spring meeting. Action on Augustana’s application, presented by Prof. Hugo A. Carlson, was put over until spring to provide time for thorough consideration of the advisability of increasing the north central conference's membership from seven to eight. Augustana would not have become active in conference athletic affairs until 1938 even if it had been voted membership Wednesday. It will be eligible for 1938 competition if ad- mitted in the spring. After tabling the Augustana peti- tion, the conference began discussion on the eligibility for athletic compe- tition of junior college graduates who. transfer to North Central schools. New Salem Tackles New Salem, Dec. 3.—Victorious in their opening basketball encounter with Richardton, Coach M. J. Ber- dahl's quint was was pointing this week to its game with Taylor at Tay- lor Friday night. Two lettermen from last year— Wilkens and Kirchmeier—are avail- able this season and Berdahl is grooming a host of sophomore ma- terial to fill in the gaps left by grad- uation, Likely candidates for the first five are Temple, Vollrath, Schneider, Strayton and Arndt in addition to the two veteran guards. The schedule: Dec. 4—Taylor, there. Dec. 9—Almont, there. Dec, 16—Glen Ullin, here, Dec, 18—Mandan, there. Jan, 5—Hazen, here. Jan, 8—Hebron, here. Jan. 16—Dickinson, there. Jan. 19—Almont, here. Jan, 22—Rithardton, there. Jan, 29—Taylor, here. Feb, 5—Hebron, there. Feb. 19—Almont, here. Feb, 23—Mandan, here. Feb. 26—Beulah, here. Pecos _4—Hazen, there. ++ 128-145-150— 376 147-123-137— 407 131-168-174— 473 185-202-149— 536 ++ 140-146-227— 513 Totals ........ 731-784-786—2305 B simcarkTcFAtheMU-15 Tribune 164-187-103— 454 136-155-114— 405 147-142-139— 428 147-188-169— 504 145-162-127— 434 B4- H4- 34— 102 ight j Fights Last (By the Associated Press) New York—Gunnar Barlund, 19514, Finland, knocked out Frankie Connelly, 22814, Boston, (9); Nathan Mann, 184, New Haven, Conn., outpointed Steve Dudas, 190!;, Edgewater, N. J., (10). Pitteburgh—Fritzle Zivic, 146%, linaky, 141s, Chtenge, Conn, 158, Pittsburgh, out Jimmy Brown, 1 ©., (9). San Francisce—Sunny Jim Vey, 183, Pittsburgh, 7rrapeea ada tas | Make All-Pacific Starcevich, Bond, Hail Bond, Haines andj that each was beaten once, many San Francisco, Dec. 3.—(,—Fleet-| footed ba: id men, each a triple- j threat, ti heir places behind a/ fast, rug hard-charging line inj} the Associated Press 1936 All-Pacitic University of Washington, cham- pion of the Pacific Coast conference and the far west's Rose Bowl defender placed four men on and} halfbacks Byron Haines and Jimmy} represents the and Washington State college its all around quarterback star, End positions went to Jack Clark ern California. Del Bjork, University of Oregon, took over the other tackle wig of the University of California NCIC Membership ' the north central intercollegiate con- | U, 4s, Taylor Quint Friday; lhas had a squad of candidates work- Four Pigskin Pilots iron coaches are going to be looki left, bringing on Tennessee with a ing Yale the championship Big T! Santa * & * se ® TOP COACHI Bernie Moore's Ability as Mentor | New York, Dec. 3.—Despite the fact | coaches and critics agree that the ae football teams that played most consistently up to the very limit of | their ability in 1936 were Yale and | Minnesota. Those best acquainted with the situ- ation at Yale say that seldom in football history has a club duplicated the Elis’ record when the material {with which it was done is taken into consideration. The Blue has been} termed fortunate, but an analysis |shows that few of its touchdowns | were made in a lucky manner. The secret of Yale’s success was {team morale, which was built by two outstanding leaders and personalities, Larry Kelly ad Clinton Frank, They | were spark plugs in every sense of the} word, besides being players of extra- ordinary ability. Pond Is Credited Yale's achievements of 1936 reflect | very favorably on the coaches, Ducky Pond and Greasy Neale. Consistency is the real test of a} great team and that is the reason Minnesota still generally is recog- nized as the nation’s No. 1 team. The wonder of it is how Bernie Bierman | kept the Giants of the North keyed! up as long as he did. Lynn Waldorf turned in a remark- able job with what he had at North- western. Frank Thomas and his star back, Joe Riley, kept a collection of Alabama sophomores going. Maj. Neyland brought Tennessee back a six-day bike rider. First-Year Coaches Click Buck Shaw performed wonders! with an inexperienced Santa Clara Squad, and Red Dawson made Tulane a power when the job was expected to take two or three years. Both are i first-year mentors. Ranking Minnesota at the top well may be disputed by followers of Loui- siana State. As Morgan Blake of Atlanta points out, the story of the success of L. 8. . 4s, in the main, the story of about |25 great football players on one squad. It was a team that could substitute at | any time in the backfield and in the line without apparently lessening in the slightest degree the power, ver- satality, and pressure. Tinsley Is Exception Blake makes only one exception. That is in the case of Gaynell Tins- ley. He undoubtedly is the finest all- round player in the south, “Stop,” says Blake. “Make it the nation. Tinsley is the perfect player. With his physical aspects of speed and strength, he is as smart and cagey as Jerry Dalrymple, the old Tulane captain and All-America end.” As to the other L, 8. U. players, they all maintained such a high standard of excellence that it is dif- ficult to pick any as superior to the others. Perhaps Leisk, guard, was the star from tackle to tackle. L. S. U. employed but little razzle- dazzle and deception in its attack, Moore Stands on Own Feet The Tigers’ running attack was based on fine blocking and sheer pow- er. In other words, when the boys of the bayous started to play off left tackle, it was 99 times out of 100 a play off left tackle. When a reverse Started, a reverse it was. There was nothing bewildering about L. 8. U.’s passing attack, but it usually rang tae bell. Louisiana State was coached by Bernie Moore, who succeeded Maj. Biff Jones after that famous mentor | had his argument with the late Huey Long. Moore this season took his place among the more famous coaches for the first time. He must have something to do what he did with Louisiana State—even when you take the fine Tiger material into considera- tion. With all the bowls seeking attrac- tions, it really is too bad that Louisi- ana State can’t be matched with Min- nesota. There is one that really would bowl ‘em over. Wilton Quint to Play 10 Games This Season Wilton, Dec. 3.—Wilton’s high School basketball team opens a 10- game schedule against Turtle Lake here Friday night. Coach Hanson likt ing for several weeks and views the 1936-37 season with optimism. The schedule. Dec. 4—Turtle Lake, here. Dec, 11—Underwood, there. Dec. 15—Mercer, here, Jan. 8—Turtle Lake, there. Jan. 12—Mercer, there. Jan, 22—Underwood, here, L. S. U. Eleven Great Tribute to | * | Sports Round-Up | from their holiday junket to the Ha- Sure of Jobs in ’37 Due to the preponderance of football upsets this year, a lot of grid- ing for new jobs, due to an unsuc- cessful season—but these four won't. They turned in seasons among the best in the nation—Lowell (Red) Dawson, left, giving Tulane a fine club in his first year as head man; Maj. Bob Neyland, upper rush after returning to that school from army duty this year; Raymond (Ducky) Pond, upper right, giv- ‘hree team, and Buck Shaw, right, turning out an undefeated and untied squad in his first year at Clara. ee * *# # * POND, BIERMAN CONTRIBUTED NG JOBS OF 1936 ' Older Men to Get Basketball Chance Men a little too old to cavort around on a basketball floor with all of their old speed and zip will get a “break” this week with the organization of a men’s basketball class under WPA re- creational authorities, The class will hold its first meeting at 7 p. m., Friday at the Wachter school. Thereafter it will meet regularly on Friday nights at the same time. Sponsors of the program are particularly anxious that men at- tend the class that are really in- terested in playing the game but do not consider themselves cap- able of keeping up with the young- er men enrolled in the City League. o> By EDDIE BRIETZ New York, Dec. 3—(#}—When Au- burn gridders return to the campus vana festival, they will have covered) 11,000 miles and} visited three coun- tries during the season, .. . They # went to Canada on the trip to De- 4 troit, stopped off in Mexico on the way home from the Santa Clara 4 game, and now ? are packing up to go to Cuba, for a ; New Year's Day game, there... . Said Giant Prexy Horace Stoneham before taking off. for Montreal Greenberg Wednesday: “I'll bet right now Dizzy Dean has already been traded.” ., He didn’t mean to the Giants, either... . The last two captains of Michigan State's freshman football teams have come from Whiting, Ind. Mickey Cochrane says he's serious about playing Hank Greenberg in the Tiger outfield and using Rudy York at first base....A traffic judge here soaked old Jack Jolmson 25 bucks for speeding. . Brooklyn fans are burning because Ford Frick says he can’t at- Tait in Revainped | N. D. Mill Lineup Witasek, Hendrickson and Northwestern Star Added to Squad This Season J. W. Bacon's 1936-37 Dakota Mill- ers, built around three veterans from last year and four other lum- inaries of the Northwest's hard courts, give promise of being the strongest basketball quint assembled in the State since the Bismarck Phantoms of 1935, Added to the state mill team’s ros- ter this year are Elmer Johnson, for- mer Northwestern university cager who won all-Big Ten honors at center. some years ago; Herman Witasek of Lankin, all-North Central conference forward on North Dakota university's Sioux; Duke Hendrickson, Valley City State Teachers college star, and Al Rindy of Grand Forks, Holdovers from last season include Chuck Webster, rangy guard or cen- ter; Harold Tait, forward on the state championship Phantom team of 1935, jand Windy Burchard of Grand Forks. Both Tait, whose home is here, and Webster are former University play- ers. Bacon plans to play an,,80-game schedule during the season with the | team that averages six feet two and one-half inches in height. Games have already been scheduled in six states and the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Ontario, NAGURSKI TO MARRY Internationa) Falls, Minn., Dec. 3.— (®)~Bronko Nagurski, star college; and professional football player, is to idays to a high school sweetheart, Miss Announcement of the approaching wedding was made by Miss Kane's mother, Mrs. W. V. Kane. Smoke causes London to miss 300 hours of sunshine annually. be married during the Christmas hol- | Eileen Kane of International Falls.| College Football ‘Take’ Increases Games of 50 Major Col- leges, Survey Shows New York, Dec. 3—(#}—Reflecting ! | full quota of competitive thrills, the | college football campaign for 1936 en- Joyed @ substantial increase in at- tendance and “gate receipts.” An Associated Press survey covering more than 50 representative colleges Thursday indicated attendance rose 15 per cent over 1935, and receipts soared in about the same proportion. This, following a 10 per cent in- crease in 1935 over 1934, continued the upward swing since the “depression low” in 1932, Figuring home attendance only, the survey showed that 4,829,000 fans had witnessed 217 games playe dby major schools in the East, Midwest, South, Southwest and Far West. This com- pared with 4,056,000 at 210 games a year ago. Buckeyes Are Tops Individually, Ohio State's Buckeyes, whose championship hopes nationally were ruined by Pitt, Notre Dame and Northwestern by a total margin of 11 points, was tops in home attendance with nearly 283,00. California drew 251,000 at seven home games and Navy 246,000, about 3,000 more than Princeton which ranked second in the East. | Minnesota, with another powerful array, drew more than 244,000 to five home games, well above the figures for 1935 when the Gophers were in the midst of the long winning streak that Northwestern finally ruined in the mud at Evanston this year. The most serious losses were suf- fered by Michigan, Indiana and Iowa, schedules, bad weather or- poor teams. The attendance figures for 1936 compared with 1935, figuring home games only: (Number of home games jin bracket): East 1936 1935 Harvard 7) 147,000 (7) 155,000 Dartmouth (5) 45,000 (5) 40,000 Pitt (6) 184,000 (6) 165,000 Fordham (7) 221,000 (8) 153,000 Yale (6) 166,000 (6) 146,000 Princeton (6) 243,000 (7) 231,000 Navy (6) 246,274 (6) 183,167 Temple (8) 174,000 (8) 156,000 Midwest Notre Dame (5) 194,000 (4) 155,000 Indiana (3) 27,275 (3) 48,000 Purdue (3) 71,000 (3) 49,700 Wisconsin (5) 95,586 (5) 79,414 Marquette (5) 124,000 (4) 47,000 Minnesota (5) 244,700 (5) 214,729 1 Ohio State (5) 282,575 (5) 252,000 Michigan State (4) 51,000 (-) ——— Nebraska, (5) 149,291 (5) 131,073 Michigan (5) 171,000 (5) 186,000 Towa (4) 64,000 (5) 116,000 Southeest So. Methodist (6) 94,000 (5) 59,000 Rice (7) 87,000 (5) 55,000 Tex. Christian (4) 36,496 (5) 68,542 Texas A. é& M. (3) ‘20,000 (3) 45,000 | Arkansas (3) 13,200 (3) 12,000 Texas (4) 74,000 (5) 58,000 Far West Washington (6) 155,000 (5) 105,000 ;8t. Mary's (6) 172,000 7) 159,000 California (7) 251,000 (7) 279,000 Santa Clara (8) 245,000 (9) 245,000 Stanford (4) 79,700 (5) 121,500 South N. Carolina (4) 63,017 (4) 40,190 Vanderbilt (6) 57,732 (6) 43,843 Tennessee (5) 54,866 (5) 49,314 Over 1935 Figure 4,829,000 Fans Attended Home jeasier money conditions as well as a| either because of less attractive home | | CTE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1936 es i; Decision on Bob Feller’s Contract Rests With Landis | McKenn | Squeeze Cheats Opponent Ou Victory, By WM. E. McKEENEY (Secretary, Bridge League) Perhaps Fate dealt the cards. Any-| how, the hand was one of those played in the recent Metropolitan jmixed pair championship events con- ducted by the American Bridge | League. Whether it was e subtle com- pliment to the ladies who made up half of the mixed pairs, it was, at all events, a most unusual deal in which three perfectly good kings held by the | | than deuces and treys and had to bow to the power of a long suit and! the strength of her card-board ma- ty. It might be said that in New York, at least, it has become the custom in mixed pair events for the men to sit North and East and the ladies West) and South, so in almost every in- Stance it was a man who held the Today’s Contract Problem West is playing the contract at four spades, redoubled, after North, third hand, opened with a no trump bid. Can you pice ture the East and West distri- bution that would permit them to make five-odd against North’s strong holding? (Blind) 994 @ 1098765 498763 N. & S. vul. Opener—@ K. Solution in next issue. three worthless kings and a woman sat South, and thus had the pleasure of putting the men in their place. East's overcall was not good, but it made little difference. The double was bad, although tempting when Flyers Win Eighth, Turn Back Millers Minneapolis, Dec. 3.—(7)}—A goal by Mitchell 20 seconds after the over- time period started gave St. Louis a 2 to 1 win over Minneapolis for its) eighth consecutive American Hockey ey on Bridge East player were of no more value, KINGS PROVE WORTHLESS t of Single Possible Finesse in Grand Slam Contract holding kings over the obviously | ianed aces in the three plain suits. But there surely was a hint of danger SOLUTION OF PREVIOUS T PROBLEM i @AQ1095432 v5 @Q4 $32 Duplicate—N. & S. vul. North East 1v Pass Double South West Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass Ta Pass 3 when South made the four-spade bid |over North's opening club. Most women, at the bridge table at jleast, are true born observatives, and | when they bid like that they have | plenty in their suit, and a long suit can play havoc with high cards, as |every bridge player knows. The opening lead of the jack of ‘diamonds was won with the ace. Three rounds of trumps followed. Then South led her singleton heart, went right up with the ace, and then played the queen of hearts. East cov- ered th ruffled. Three more rounds of spades were | played. East played without difficulty one heart and one diamond. But on the third spade he was squeezed. Dummy had left the jack, seven of hearts and the ace, queen of clubs. East could not defend all three suits, so on the third spade he gave up the diamond king. South cashed the queen and the last trump, and then won the last two tricks with the ace of clubs and the jack of hearts in dummy. (Copyright, 1936, NEA Service, Inc.) association victory. The Flyers trailed 1-0 until less than. four minutes of play remained in the third period. Then Mulvihill counted on a pass from Palangio. Swenson and Palangio assisted on the winning goal. Lepsi scored the Minneapolis goal in the first period, with assists going | to Hergesheimer and Blake, tend a dinner for Casey Stengel Fri- day night ... That pass interference business is like the golf stymie— There's no answer. . . The’ blonde, Norman Hill from Frisco has replaced Reggie McNamara as the tron man of the sixday bike business. ... Al Schracht, the baseball comedian, has gone under the wing of Christy Walsh, manager of Babe Ruth and other sports celebs... . Schracht is going to be booked for a tour of the minors. Granville, on the shelf with a “fired” ankle, will return to racing next season. . . . Danno O'Mahoney, who was tops, is working the small wrestling clubs around town. ... Lou Little, Columbia coach, is in a hos- pital for an’ operation on his ailing hip . . he's been almost living on se- catives for more than a year... , De- troit is willing to listen to offers for Al Simmons and Goose Goslin. . . . Cincinnati Reds are cheered by news Bill Myers, flashy shortstop jinxed by} injuries most of last season, is okey doke again. Leaving ‘his own team, Frank Murray, Marquette coach, ranks the first ten Catholic school elevens as follows: Santa Clara, Fordham, Notre Dame, Duquesne, Holy Cross, Villan- ova, 8t. Mary's of California, Detroit, Boston College, Manhattan... . Strange sounds: Franco Georgetti, once a prime favorite, getting the bronx cheer at the six-day bike race. ... It hurt Franco so much he quit the race... . 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