The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 29, 1937, Page 6

Strong THREE TEAMS RATE CHANCE 0 UPSET FARGO FOR CROWN Midgets Rule as Favorites; Bis- marck, Valley City, Dickin- son Rank High BANQUET PLANNED TONIGHT! State Marks in High Jump, Javelin Endangered; Meet Marks May Tumble Star athletes from 25 North Dakota high schools began Saturday morning their annual assault on existing track ond field records in the 14th running of the Capital City track meet here at Hughes Field. A strong wind blowing in from the northwest threatened to cut down on record performances as the 101 con- testants went through their prelim- inary paces, but a fast track, care- fully conditioned, bargained to some- what offset the handicap set up by the wind and dust. Fargo’s squad on the basis of its performances in the Grand Forks state meet and the May Festival at Fargo rates as the team to beat for the team title. Coach Harry Bridge- ford had 13 of his men registered for the meet, including among them sev- eral first place winners in earlier events this year and some of last year’s: luminaries. Strong bids to wrest the crown away from the Midgets are expected to come from Dickinson, Valley City and Bismarck, each of which have turned in several good performances, although several outstanding per- formers from smaller schools may break into the scoring column enough to upset the pre-meet dope bucket. Whatever track fans may predict one thing appears certain, and that appears that spectators at the meet will see performances which will take a back seat to no others run off in the state this year. Medals and trophies will be awarded to the winners in the Capital City track meet here Sat- urday at a banquet in the Grand Pacific hotel at 6 o'clock tonight. John Gray, North Dakota state treasurer, will speak at the ban- quet, which will be attended by all contestants, coaches and officials. It is being given by the Bismarck Association of Commerce. H. P. Goddard will serve as toastmaster and Henry Dueme- land will present the awards. Also ‘ing on the progran: will be the Bismarck high school boys’ quartet, Marks Expected to Fall Several existing Capital City meet. a5 well as state marks appear slated to go by the boards as the 101 ath- letes entered go through their paces. Last year the approximately 150 track &nd field stars entercd failed to break any old standards as a strong wind handicapped their efforts. They did set new marks in the high and low hurdles, however, since that was the first time those events were run at the present prescribed distances, Almost certain to go into the scrap heap if contestants run true to form are the present meet standards in the 120-yard high hurdles, the high jump, the broad jump and the javelin throw. The only state records which &Sppear endangered are the high jump and the javelin throw. Goff May Lower Time Ed Goff of Fargo has clipped a full six seconds off the Capital City mark in the high hurdles, and if he con- tinues in form should knock over the present 16.8 seconds standards. Bill ‘Spear is another champion almost certain to add his name to the honor rolls here. In the recent state meet, he flung the javelin 183 feet 5 inches for a new state record, almost exactly 10 feet better than the Capital City mark. Fred Gran, Minot, has exceeded the present high jump mark by al- most two inches, capturing the state event with a leap of 5 feet 10 inches, and Alex Horwitz of Fargo has done better in the broad jump than the ex- isting mark here, 20 feet and 9 inches. Horwitz exceeded that jump by ex- actly one foot in the Grand Forks competition. Another Capital City mark that may be spiiled ts that in the 220-yard flash, now 23.4 seconds, which Bob Peterson of Bismarck will be gunning Yor. Peterson clipped one second on _ Cee in araining the event irand Forks, wrence Tanberg, Dickinson star, may establish a new mark in the pole vault, since he has ‘everal times gone over the present Mtandard of 11 feet 7% inches, Hurdle Mark Shaky Horwitz of Fargo will also be gun- ning for a record in the 220-yard low hurdles, The mark now is 24.4 sec- onds, which Horwitz has tied in eariler meets. Apparently out of danger of being upset are the existing standards in the 100-yard dash, the 440-yard run, the half mile run, the mile run, the half mile relay and the shot put. Un- Jess earlier season performances were deceiving, these marks will be the same Monday as they were Saturday pee ee peer uopened, although may expected a proach them. me eae HELEN JACOBS LOSES Paris, May 29.—(P)—Helen Jacobs’ quest of the women’s singles crown of the French hard court tennis cham- Srp once more came to grief when the Berkeley, Calif., gir) was eliminated in the quarter-finals by Jadwiga Jedrzejowski, hard-hit- ting Polish star, 6-3, 6-4, _ THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, SATURDAY, MAY 29, 1937 Wind May Hold Down Record Performances Here Hitters 3rd Time Has Plate Mark of .428; Pasek Is Second and Zuber, Pres- nell Top Hurlers Chicago, May 29.—(#)—The Amer- ican Association batting picture may be considerably changed by next Sep- tember, but young Johnny Rizzo of Columbus already has qualified as one of the bright stars of the current campaign. The Red Bird’s outfielder led all association batsmen for a third straight week with a plate mark of .428, according to averages which in- cluded Thursday's tilts. He had hit safely in 37 straight contests, led in hits, with 62, in total bases, 101, and in triples, with nine. In second place was Catcher John- ny Pasek of St. Paul, with .383, Gil English of Kansas City held third Position with .380. . Lyn Storti, Milwaukee third sack- er, was the doubles lea with 14, and Ted Gullic, also of the Brewers, held the lead in homers, with nine. Lynn King of Columbus had pilfered 15 bases and Gullic had driven in the most runs, 42. ‘ : Among the hurlers, Bill Zuber an Forrest Pressnell of Milwaukee held the lead with five wins and no de- feats, each having participated in eight games. Max Macon of Colum- bus had won the most games, eight, but had lost two. Macon also was the strikeout “king,” having fanned 45. Minneapolis clung to the associa- tion batting lead with an average of .313. In second place, nine points back, was Columbus. The team fielding leadership again was held by the champion Milwaukee Brewers, with a mark of 980, Five points back was Toledo. Columbus led in double plays, with 49. ‘ Strasburg Will Play Grove Giants Sunday A rivalry of three year’s standing will be picked up when Strasburgs baseball team comes here Sunday to take on the Grove Giants, peniten- tiary baseball team. Strasburg, one of the strongest teams in this section of the state ac- cording to present indications, was district champion last year and won two games while dropping a like number in the state semi-pro tour- nament at Devils Lake last summer. The Grove Giants, somewhat weak- ened by the loss of several of their stars through “graduation but still strong enough to win three out of their first four games, will be seek- ing their fourth triumph. The probable starting lineup for Strasburg includes: Erck, catcher; Mastel, pitcher; Flegal, first base; Lioyd Kraft or A. Bumgartner, sec- ond base; J. Bumgartner, shortstop; C. Kraft, third base; M. Wold, left field and pitcher; P. Mastel, center field; and Klein or Bossart, right field. - Doing, duty for the Grove Giants will be: Hubbard, right field; Snyder, catcher; McKay, third base; Stoller, center field; Norris or Abbott, left field; Davidson, first base; Lemay, shortstop; Little Bear, second base; Moore, pitcher. . One Team Needed to Fill Softball League Eleven teams have signed up with the Women’s Softball league, or- ganize two weeks ago, Miss Kay Dol- wig, WPA recreational worker in charge of organization of the league, said Saturday. One more entry is wanted to round out the league, Miss Dolwig said. A schedule is to be arranged at the earliest possible date, after which league play will get under way at once. All women interested in soft- ball are urged to call Miss Dolwig at 208 between the hours of 10 a. m. and 4 p. m. Runs for Big Race; Final Tryouts Saturday Indianapolis, May 20—(#)—Sobered| Win in Finals Sunday Would by the death of two men and injury, of five others in accidents which marred a quest for new speed during preliminary test runs, drivers re- turned to the brick and asphalt track of the Indianapolis motor speedway Friday for final qualification trials. In two quick thrusts, death called @ halt in qualifying runs Friday for the 500-mile race Monday. George Warford, 42, Indianapolis race driver, and Albert Opalko, 26- year-old riding mechanic from Gary, died in the receiving ward of city hospital here shortly after they were injured in the two accidents. Otto C. Rohde, 49, of Toledo, O., vice--president and chief engineer of the Champion Spark Plug company, remained in a critical condition at the hospital early Saturday. Frank McGurk, 25, Los Angeles, and Over- ton Phillips, 30, of Middletown, N. Y., race drivers, were also at the hos- pital, both seriously hurt, while in- juries of Walter King, 27, of Bing- hamton, N. Y., and Anthony. Caccia, 30, of Bryn Mawr, Pa., were believed to be less severe. Rizzo Hit Streak Is Stopped at 36 Pitcher Walks Columbus Star. Four Times as Birds 9to7 Trounce Blues, Chicago, May 20.—(7)—Eddie Mar- shall’s American Association record of hitting safely in . 43 consecutive games stood unthreatened Saturday, but it was generally conceded that Johnny Rizzo made a game effort to topple it, Rizzo, who had hit safely in 36 straight contests, just seven short of Marshall’s mark, failed to hit Friday night as his team, Columbus. defeat- ed Kansas City 9 to 7 to go into a tle with Minneapolis for third place. ‘The young Red Bird outfielder was charged with just one official trip to the plate and scored two runs, but he could not solve the delivery of two’ Blues’ hurlers for a safe single. He walked four times. and then was tossed out by Pitcher Vance in the eighth when he attempted to beat out @ bunt. It was Columbus’ third straight win over the Blues. The scrappy Red) Birds started their climb from the second division by taking three straight from the Champion Milwau- kee Brewers early this week. ‘The Columbus-Kansas .City game was the only one scheduled. Birds Beat Blues RH Kansas City .. 000 401 200— 7 11 Columbus .... 013 022 10x— 9 19 Stine, Vance and Hartje; Cham: bers, Potter, Cooper and Crouch. Others open date. National Open Trials Listed d for Tuesday New York, May 20.—()—A field of links hopefuls will compete Tuesday in one of golf’s toughest’ tests, a gruelling effort in which not one in ten can hope for success. It is the sectional qualifying tour- nament of the national open cham- pionship and the United States Golf Association announced Saturday that the entry list had reached an all- time high of 1,404. Of these 32 have been granted exemption because of last year’s performance, and eight al- ready have made the grade by licking #2 ixals tothe eo Faeltic Onast aide ct A flock of doves, flying’ eastward near Hawkinsville, Ga., were blinded by the afternoon sun shining on a white farmhouse. They flew against the house, and seven were killed. OUT OUR WAY TO JUST LIKE TO ASK WHAT THE OPPORTUNITIES FOR ADVANCEMENT ARE HERE ~1F NOT SO GOOD, I'M GETTIN’ OUT TO TRY SOME- THING BETTER ~ THERE GOES TH’ NEXT FOREMAN SOB? WHY COULDN' 1 OF THOT OF THAT, IN ALL THESE YEARS? THEY To Meet Saturday Make Shute Both Profes- sional and Open Champ burgh, May 29.— (?)—Golf’s greatest “natural” in years brightened the professionals’ championship Sat- urday. . 5 Tony Manero, the national open titleholder, bumped into Denny Shute, defending his professionals’ associa- tion crown. s It_could~be billed as an unofficial battle for American supremacy, bring- ing together the last winners of the country’s two major its open to professional experts. Harold (Jug) McSpaden, Winches- ter, Mass., faced Ky Laffoon, Chicago, in the other 36-hole semi-final PGA contest. Tony Friday came from behind with @ rush to overhaul Harry Cooper, just as he did in winning the open last summer at Baltusrol. A victory over Shute and a triumph in the finals Sunday would make him the first man in 15 years to hold both titles. Manero’s tenure as a double winner might be as brief as a fortnight, how- ever, for he’s no better than a 30 to 1 shot to win 1937's Open starting June 10. Back in 1922 Gene Sarazen won both titles the same year. A triumph Saturday, and the cham- Ppionship Sunday means a lot to Denny, too, for he would become the first champion to repeat since Leo Diegel turned the trick in 1928-29, They’ve only met once before, and Tony won. That was in Denny’s first PGA competition, in 1929, and he was beaten 6 and 5. . While attention centered on their engagement, the best scorers in the tournament played the other match. McSpaden is one over par for the 145 holes he has played. Laffoon is 6 over for 136 holes. Manero 13 over for 139 holes and Shute 10 over for 136 holes. In the professional tournament game for only a few years, this is the first time either Jug or Ky have reached the semi-finals. Cochrane Better, Physicians State New York, May 29.—(#)—Definite impovement was noted Saturday in the condition of Mickey Cochrane, manager of the Detroit Tigers, who suffered a skull fracture when he was struck by a ball pitched by Bump, Hadley of the Yankees. In their final bulletin Friday night, Drs. Robert Emmet Walsh and Byron Stookey said, “The signs are encouraging.” ‘That hopeful statement from physicians who previously had en- deavored to avoid saying anything that might raise false hopes was re- ceived as a good sign by Cochrane's admirers. Mrs. Cochrane and Walter O. Briggs, Jr., son of the Detroit club owner, were permitted a brief chat with Cochrane Friday. They report- ed he seemed cheerful and mentally resis EES EE y Fights Last Night | Pittat -New York, outpoint tell, 191, Los Angeles, (10); Glen Lee, 150, Nebrasks, outpointed ta Jannasso, 149%, New York, 154, Denver, dropped Vernon (Bat- WANTSROM BOYS 10 WORK ONE CONTEST WITH ACME GIANTS Inman Scheduled to Pitch Against Dunseith Colored Nine in Tilt Sunday Addition of # brother-battery to the roster of the Bismarck inde- pendent baseball team brought pre- parations for the two-game series here Sunday and Monday with the Acme Giants, Dunseith colored nine, to a close Saturday. Red Haley, playing-manager of the Bismarck club, announced the acquisition of the two players, E. and W. Wanstrom, voicing the belief that their presence. in the lineup will fensive strength of the local nine considerably. The two brothers played with a team in the Dakota-Montana league last summer, Haley said. E. Wanstrom will do the pitching for the Bismarck club in Monday’s contest with his brother behind the bat. Inman is slated to work on the mound for Bismarck Sunday after- noon, with Thornburg doing the re- ceiving. Making up the Bismarck infield will be Meyer, first base; Eloffson, second base; Haley, shortstop; and Leary, third base. Goetz will patrol the left field garden, with Merrill in center field and Nichol in right field. bolster both the defensive and of-| standin; Bismarck Independents Secure Brother-Battery for Game Monday ‘Two Killed, Five Hurt As Drivers Seek Indianapolis Speed Records Rizzo Leads A. A. | Deaths mark Preliminary test] Manero and Shute SWEET SHOP AND HI-HAT WIN _/Meyer Favored to COMMERCIAL LEAGUE OPENERS) Win Checker Title Experts Look for Pingree Man p obigeaion — se i to Take Crown Nam fe 9 Games Friday Night To Lewis, Fargo Bengals Win Two, Recapture Second Place; Pirates Beat Cardinals, 10-3 of Dickinson, Dr. T. H. Lewis of | Fargo, president of the association and champion, Fred Svaren of Bismarck and J. P. Parkinson of Willow City are other strong contenders. “Everything points toward not only @ large field but a strong one,” said Dr. Lewis, who expects the event to ‘be completed by Wednesday. Few states can equal North Da- kota’s checker record—s tourney every year for 22 consecytive years (By the Associated Press) The baseball folks in Detroit and Boston should be thankful that Roxie Lawson and Footsie Marcum chose this spring to do their comebacking. If those two hurling hopefuls hadn’t started like a couple of houses , the Tigers would be out of the vision, and the Red Sox would out of the American League FRIDAY’S STARS Hank Greenberg, it homer in opener and drove in two runs with single and double in nightcap as Tigers topped Browns 6-5 and 7-2. Charley Root, Cubs—Muffled Reds with eight hits, fanning five, in 12-3 win. Zeke Bonura, White Sox—His two-bagger in tenth drove in win- ning run for 3-2 victory over In- dians, Paul Waner, Pirateo—Hit two doubles and single, driving in two z Sipe 5 g DROPS STRICT The probable lineup of the fast Dun- seith outfit was not available Satur- Cay. g Both games will start at 3 p. m. in the Bismarck ball park. Bob Pastor Hands Nestell Whipping Former College Football Star May Get Match With Schme- ling, Is Rumor Los Angeles, May 29.—(7)—A pos- sible match with Max Schmeling was the talk in the air Saturday after New York’s Bob Pastor whipped Bob Nes- tell of Los Angeles Friday night in a heavyweight fight which had nearly 30,000 screaming fight fans, includ- ing film celebrities on the edge of the Seats for 10 rounds. dames J. Johnston, Sr., matchmaker of ‘Madison’s Square Garden, whose son, James Jr., manages Pastor, de- clared the ex-New York University athlete was in line for a top match, possibly with the German. The Pastor-Nestell go started out like a cyclone and ended nearly as fast. In the first round Pastor scored @ knockdown for an 8-count. Nestell got up, swung to Pastor's jaw and the New Yorker hit the deck, sitting down. Pastor came up without taking a count, and again in the third sank Nestell for 8. From then on it was Pastor's fight, with the California Bob continually threatening, but sel- dom exploding, his terrific right punch, Pastor weighed 183%, Nestell 191. Baseball Standings } tling) Nelson, 160, Omaha, (3). THAT'S WHAT SCHOOLIN’ DOES FER YOU ~US OL’ BOYS TRIED TO DRAW ATTENTION TO OURSELVES ey HARD WORK, BUT (By The Associated Press) NATIONAL LEAGUE Ww LsPct. Pittsburgh . 10.667 New York. 13.606 St. Lonis... 14548 Chicago . 16 515 Brooklyn 15.483 Boston .. 16 448 Philadelphia . 19.406 Cincinnati 21323 AMERICAN LEAGUE Ww L Pet. New York. . it 633 Detroit .. 14 (56 ‘Cleveland 12 (586 Philadelphia 13 536 Boston . 13 (519 Chicago . 16 M67 fashington 19 424 8. Louis .. 21300 Pet. 13° 639 17 (Al 18 «(514 MAJOR LEAGUE | | LEADERS Batting—Cronin, Red Sox, 404; Lary, Indians, 400. Runs—Greenberg, Tigers, 31; Walker, 28. Hits—Walker, Tigers, 51; Bell, Browns, 50. Stolen bases—Appling, White Sox, 7; NATIONAL LEAGUE Batting—Medwick, Cardinals, 430; Hits—Medwick,. Cardinals, $2; Has- ine Dodger, and Arnovich, Phil- Home runs—Bartell, Giants, 10; Med- wick, Cardinals, 9, Pitching—Hubbell, Giants, 8-0; War- neke, Cardinals, and Bowman, Pi- rates, 5-1. . | Boston. runs, and scored two others in 10-3 win over Cardinals. Johnny Marcum, Red Sox— Blanked Senators 7-0 with six hits. GRAFT UNION LINES Move Made to Compete With Rapid Organization Work of Lewis’ ClO Lawson has won as many games as he took all last year, and has been the No, 1 flinger in the Tigers’ trek to second place. Marcum with five vic- tories to his credit, is the only Red Sox starter with a better than 500) average. Both of them were disappointing flops @ year ago. Lawson is the “workhorse” of the league, with 79 innings on the mound in nine games. He won the only game he failed to finish, and allowed only six hits in the single decision he lost. Friday, he hurled the Tigers to & 7-2 victory over the St, Louis) Browns in the nightcap of a double- header. Detroit also won the first game 6-5 on homer by Hank Green- berg to climb back into second place. Marcum has seen 62 innings of ac- tion in nine games, and has walked only 17 batters while fanning 23. He muffled the Washington Senators 7-0) with six hits Friday to put the Red Sox over the .500 mark for the first time in two weeks. Pirates Bombard Cards Otherwise, the highlight was a 14- hit bombardment the Pittsburgh Pi- tates exploded on the St, Louis Cardi- nals for a 10-3 wit, thereby stretch- ing the Bucs’ National League lead to ® game and a half over the idle Giants. The Chicago Cubs found Cincinnati pitching easy and clubbed out a 12-3 decision behind Charley’ Root’s steady tussing. The rest of the league had an open date. ‘The Chicago White Sox outlasted the Cleveland Indians and came through with a 3-2 win on Zeke Bo- ede timely two-bagger in the tenth inning. NATIONAL LEAGUE Bucs Tramp Over Cards RHE Pitteburgh .... 000 120 061-10 14 0 St. Louis ..... 000 011 010— 311 2 Luces, Hoyt and Todd; Harrell, Haines, Winford and Ogrodowski. Cubs Trounce Reds RHE +. 020 000 010-3 8 1 + 110 081 38x—12 14 0 Hallahan, Hol- Root and Jamestown, Fargo- Moorhead at Winnipeg, Eau Claire at Duluth, and Wausau at Superior. Australian Davis Cup Team Finally Named - New York, May 20—()—Austra- lia’s Davis Cup team, hoping for few more good “breaks” to offset the bad ones in the past month or 20, called Saturday on the players who won at Germantown a year ago to oppose the United States in the North American zone finals. Clifford Sproule, Aussie captain, hesitatingly named Adrian Quist, who has been ill during the past week, and the 20-year-old “veteran,” Jack Crawford, to play the opening singles |py » 68 to 15 vote Thursday, the assem< against bly killed a bill to increase the legis- lative payroll. Treat your best girl to a live lobster dinner at the Patterson. among their proper craft unions, Wisconsin Assembly © Scorns Salary Raise Grant in the big stadium of the West Side tennis club at Forest Hills. Fisherman Claims He Viewed Serpent Cincinnati Chicago .. 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