The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 3, 1937, Page 10

John M’Carthy Clouts Two ae . Chicago Homers As Giants Stretch Margin to One Full Game Dodgers Dump Cubs 4-3; Feller Fans 12 Yanks as Tribe Triumphs 4-2 By SID FEDER (Associated Press Sports Writer) Social note: Lady Luck is that way sbout Bill Terry again. The romance that waxed warm Just about this time last season, and then cooled off for much of the early part of the current campaign, is blooming again. Everything is breaking right for The Colonel from Memphis and his New York Giants. His pitchers have started to click again, his attack is timely if not murderous, and his nearest rivals for the National league pennant are falling apart with all the consistency of a layer cake hit with a sledge hammer. And now, as though that weren't enough, the weakest weapon in his offense, Young Johnny McCarthy, is beginning to find the range, and his perennial feudists, the Flatbush Frolics from Brooklyn, are doing their Jevel best to kick the Giants up- stairs, —————————EEE THURSDAY'S STARS Bill Werber, Athletics—His dou- ble with bases loaded drove in three runs to whip Browns, 5-3. Max Butcher, Dodgers — Singled in 11th to send winning run across for 4-3 win over Cubs after pitch- ing hitless ball in 2-inning relief trick. Hank Greenberg, Tigers — Hit two homers, one in tenth to beat Senators 9-8; drove in four runs. Woody Jensen, Pirates—Hit five- for-five, including two doubles and a triple, and drove in two runs in 11-8 win over Phillies. Bob Feller, Indians—Fanned 12 and beat Yankees 4-2 with 5 hits. Jchnny McCarthy, Giants — Hit two homers and single, driving in three runs, in 5-4 win over Cardi- nals. Thorton Lee, Boze Berger and Luke Appling, White Sox—Lee beat Red Sox 4-2 with four hits, aided by Berger’s two homers, in double header opener; Appling hit double, two singles, driving in four runs, in 10-8 nightcap victory. Charlie Grimm Cubs Will Come Home New York, Sept. 3.—(#)—Schoolboy Rowe and Daffy Dean, both nursing ailing arms, are barnstorming around Texas ... They do three and four in- ning turns against each other in semi- pro and East Texas league games... jimmy Braddock and Joe Gould have gone into business—the B. and G. Trucking company (no charge for the ad, boys) .. . Gould came down from the country Tuesday with a pocket full of G notes and bought five trucks ... Bill Terry appears on Giant letterheads as “general manager.” The West Side Casino down at = Long Branch is tossing a testi- monial dinner for Tommy Farr Tuesday night. . Ernie Dusek, the burper, is credit- ed with having the most power- | ful neck muscles of any grappler since the days of | old Farmer Burns . .. The Farmer Dusek an iron rod on his Adam’s apple while lying prone on the floor and invite his admirers to Stand on each end of the bar . . With the start of football practice, it is the open season for plain and fancy moaning. ‘When Mike Jacobs starts his “car- used to balance! Stili Believes With Bacon —Says Eddie Brietz. ===! nival of champions” Sept. 23, each working newspaperman will be handed a box of food and a container of beer as he enters the stadium ... Reason, with four title bouts of 15 rounds each, plus a couple of prelims, the scribes |and fans will be on the job from 7:30 juntil well after midnight if all bouts go the limit It's going to be pretty tough dictating a blow-by-blow ac- count with your mouth full of ham and rye. . Texas fans say those who think Duke and Pitt are going to play the outstanding game of the season had better not bet on it until after Ohio |State and Texas Christian collide ... Sam Snead, the golf crack, caddied jfor Helen Hicks when she played in jher first national tournament down in West Virginia some years back |Ehe other day Sammy gave Hele: jfew lessons on how to improve her jstance ... Charlie Grimm still insists jhis Cubs will bring home the bunting. Joe DiMaggio is finding the going jtough in the western badlands this jtrip .. . So far his average is around |244 . . . On the May trip he hit for 270; in June at a .377 clip while in the last swing he exploded to the tune ot 450... John Henry Lewis may go to Los Angeles to fight Alberto Lovell under the Joe Levy banner... One lew York paper hears the agreement. {between the three big league clubs here banning broadcasting of games soon may be dissolved ... Jimmy Braddock is guest star at Barney Ross’ Ferndalz training camp. Women Swimmers Open Meet Today Nearly 100 Expected to Com- pete in AAU Senior Cham- pionship Events San Francisco, Sept. 3.—(#)—Hard | : iy the Pacific ocean in the world’s What with this and that, the Terry Terriers were a full game in front in the National League pen- nant parade Friday. Their 5-4 win over the Cardinals Thursday, cou- pled with the Dodgers’ 4-3 deci- sion over the second-place Cubs, left the championship chase in this form: To Pct Play Giants .. 608 = 34 Cubs ... 49 «598 32 Only a few days ago, the experts were referring to McCarthy as the minor league” member of the Giants’ cast, He was given a chance at first base earlier in the year, was benched in favor of the ailing but heavier- hitting Sambo Leslie, but had to be recalled several days ago when Leslie returned to the hospital list. And Johnny is marching home with his bat. Smacks Two Homers He was the No. 1 walloper Thurs- day in the 10-inning win over the (Cards. He whacked two homers to make up for a fielding collapse on the part of the New Yorkers and kept the Giants in the game long enough for Mel Otts 30th round-tripper and a trio of assorted blows in the extra frame to pull the Giants in. Meantime, the Yankees and their slump ran into young Bob Feller and the alleged murderers’ row took a terrific kicking around. Young Bob, looking a lot like a pitcher, fanned @ dozen and allowed five hits as he hurled the tribe to a 4-2 win despite Joe DiMaggio’s 39th homer. Hank Greenberg poked two homers and the Tigers topped the Senators, 9-8 in ten innings to cut the Yanks’ lead to ten games. The White Sox socked the Red Sox twice, 4-2 and 16-8 ,and the Athletics trimmed the Browns, 5-3, on Bill Werber's double with the bases loaded. The Pirates’ five-run rally in the ninth beat the Phillies, 11-8. The Bees and Reds were idle. NATIONAL LEAGUE Giants Beat Cards RHE St. Louis .... 010 000 0201-4 8 1 New York .. 000 002 0102-516 4 Johnson, Weiland and Owen; Gum- bert, Smith, Coffman and Danning. Bruins Drop One RHE 010 110 000 00— 3 8 1 Brooklyn ... 100 000 020 0I— 413 0 Lee and Hartnett; Hamlin, Lind- sey, Butcher and Phelps. Bucs Tramp Phillies RHE Pittsburgh .... 110 310 005—11 15 2 Philadelphia ...010 300 031— 8 12 2 ‘Blanton, Brown, Swift, Brandt and Padden; Jorgens, Johnson, Passeau, Lamaster, Kelleher and Grace. AMERICAN LEAGUE Feller Stops Yankees 000 000 020— 2 sere+ OO1 101 O1x— 4 Seond game: RHE Boston .. O01 010 114— 8 14 3 seoneee 223 100 02x—10 16 2 , Olson, Thomas, Walberg and Berg, Desautels; Erown and Shes, ‘Tigers Nese Out Nats 4 largest outdoor pool, America’s best feminine swimmers and divers open a four-day attack on national records Friday. It's the senior women’s AAU champ- ionships, which this year brings out rearly 100 skilled mermaids, includ- ing several Olympic and American titlists, Opening events are the ten-foot board diving, 100 meters and one mile free style races. Favorite in the springboard event te ttle 14-year-old Marjorie Gestring of Los Angeles, last year’s Olympic games champion, who expected most serious competition from defending titlist Claudia Eckert of Chicago. Other contenders include Arlite Smith of Chicago; Ruth Nurmi, Los Angeles; Helen Crlenkovich, San Trancisco; Mary Hoegar, Miami; and Jean Smith, Kansas City. Fourteen swimmers were entered in the 100-meter free style race, in Which Toni Redfern, Virginia scnool- girl, is defending champion. Miss Redfern’s most feared rivals were Helena Tomska of Detroit; Olive McKean Mucha, Seattle, twice win- ner of the title; Elizabeth Ryan of Guldahl, Mangrum Top Field in Hershey Open Hershey, Pa., Sept. 3—(4)—Ralph Guldahl, of Chicago, National Open golf champion, and Ray Mangrum, of 7s Dayton, Ohio, awoke in this model communi- ty near Harris- burg Friday, con- fident of setting E a new record for 5 the 72-hole $5,000 = Hershey open. Each turned in a sizzling six- under-par 67° in the first round Thursday to equal the course rec- Mangrum ord. All they have to do to equal the 72-hole record of 286 made by Ky Laffoon, of Denver, Colo., three years ago, is shoot par 78 for the remaining three rounds Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Best Athletic Age Is 25-29, Findings Show THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1987 _° Speed King of Land and Sea > gsi ii = The stage was all set or go here—with the Alps as a majestic backdrop—for Sir Malcolm Campbell, al- ready the automobile speed king, to break the world speedboat recore and he did. The British speed demon, sitting in the cockpit of his powerful Bluebird while mechanics help him tune it up, knifed through the waters of Lake Maggiore at Locarno, Switzerland, at an average of 202.575 kilometers (125.798 miles) per hour for two runs. In one run Campbell, who has done 301.13 miles in an auto, covered the measured mile at a gait of 203.99 kilometers (126.677 miles). The old speedboat record of 124.86 was set by Gar Wood in 1932 with his Miss America X. , a 2 | MAJOR LEAGUE | | LEADERS | (By the Associated Press) NATIONAL LEAGUE Batting—Medwick, Cardinals 392; P. Waner, Pirates .375. Cubs 91. Hits—Medwick, 193; P. Waner, Pirates 184. Home Runs—Ott, Giants 30; Med- wick, Cardinals 28. Pitching—Root, Cubs 12-4; Hubbell, Giants 17-6, Cardinals AMERICAN LEAGUE Batting — Gehringer, Tigers Gehrig, Yankees .368. Runs—DiMaggio, Yankees 123; Green- berg, Tigers 118. Hits — DiMaggio, 115; Walker, Tigers 173. Home Runs—DiMaggio, Yankees 39; Foxx, Red Sox 33. Pitching—Ruffing, Yankees and Law- son, Tigers 17-4, M’Master Opens 6th Year as Rugby Coach Rugby, N. D., Sept. 8.—(#)—Rugby high school football men will begin the 1937 training season next Monday at the call of Coach A. D. MacMaster who is beginning his sixth year as mentor, The squad will be hampered some- what the first week until school opens’ Sept. 13, according to MacMaster who 384; Yankees Minneapolis, Sept. 8.—(#)—The age of greatest athletic prowess is 25 to 29, except in golf and bowling, when at is 30 to 34. This was the finding from a study of 11 leading sports reported to the American Psychological association here Friday by Prof. Harvey C. Leh- man, of Ohio university. The best single year for béseball, New York; and Virginia Hopkins of Miami, The. mile swim was considered a wide-open affair, with Janet Hughes of Seattle; Floria Gallen of New York; Pern Strum and Florence Chadwick, both of Los Angeles; and Ruth Hoer- fee of Miami among leading competi- Ors. Critics Would Replace Mako on Doubles Team Forest Hills, Sept. 3.—(#)—There's a strong campaign afoot already to get husky Gene Mako off the Ameri- can Davis cup doubles team and break in 2 new partner for Don Budge before Germany comes hunting for the cup next summer. The tennis fathers have not been content with -Mako's play for some ime, The straight-set trouncing admin- istered him and Budge by the great German pair, Gottfried von Cramm and Renner Henkel, in the national Coubles championships last Monday has the wolves in full cry again. A partial poll of those with feelings in the matter favored the veteran John Van Ryn to team with Budge next time, Schmeling, Baer Will Meet in Ring Oct. 29 New York, Sept. 3.—()—Contracts were formally signed Thursday for a l5-round heavyweight bout between een J. Bresdock and Max Baer, former champions, in Madison malar Garten) Oct, 29. e Jacobs, whose 20th cent: sporting club will promote the fight, said it would be the first in a tourna- ment from which an opponent for Champion Joe Louis will be selected. ——— MISSOULA TEAM LOSES Minneapolis, Sept. 3.—()—The Jer- seys, Minneapolis city softball champ- ions Thursday night trounced the U. &, Forest service team of Missoula, ae Hee a wore of 14-2. Three Jer- ers fanned 13 of thi state champions. ee ————————— Poffenberger, Wade, Coffman, Gill and York. A’s Triumph RH ++» 011 030 000— 5 HE Washington . 100 331 000 0— 813 0 Detroit ...... 010 310 121 1— 9 14 0 » Weaver and R. Ferrell; E 71 010 100 010— 3 12 0 Kelly and Hayes; Walkup, Hennes- sey and Huffman. he said, was the age of 28. But the overage was 25 to 29. In prize fight- ing, the best age was 25 to 29. > | Fights Last Night | ———$—_————— (By the Associated Press) New York — Frankie Wallace, 137, Cleveland, outpointed George Zengaras, 13213, New York (10); Tommy Rawson, 135%, Arling- ton, Mass. outpointed Frankie Hye Covelli, 12914, Los Angeles, ). Sioux City, lowa — Verne Pat- terson, 146, Chicago, outpointed Les Morris, 145, Milwaukee, (8). said success for the season will depend largely upon finding replacements for Paul, Monger, Schall, Leistikow, Welch and Carter. His teams will play Leeds, Botti- neau, Carrington, Harvey, Cando, Minot Model, and Fessenden, 12 Matches Scheduled Friday at Camp Perry Camp Perry, Ohio, Sept. 3—(@)— Twelve. matches—four each over the 80 calibre rifle, small bore and pistol Tanges—drew marksmen entered in the National rifle and pistol matches to the firing lines Friday. Sergeant Clarence J. Anderson, U. §. Marine Corps, Washington, D. C., emerged victor in the featured Presi- dent's match with 147 out of a pos- sible 150. V. F. Hamer, Woodstock, Minn., who placed seventh, was the only civilian wo ini among the first ten in the match, Runs—Medwick, Cardinals 96; Galan, Moran Approves Plan to Award Title Winners With Signed Certificates ginning with Gloves boxing champions will be awarded certificates along with their ted, white, and blue victory belts, James Moran, Minot, secretary of the North Dakota state athletic commis- sion announced Friday. The certificates, carrying each win- ner’s name, age, weight and the tour- nament date, signed by commission Officials and bearing the state seal, are intended to provide an official permanent record of the champion’s accomplishment, according to Moran, They are also intended to remove any temptation to sell or trade the belts, Moran said. At least one such instance has come to the attention of the commission, he declared. Moran at the same time gave the commission's official approval to Bis- marck as the site for the 1937 tourna- ment, date of which has already been set at Nov. 18 and 19. Formerly held in mid-winter, the tournament has been shoved ahead to November to take advantage of less hazardous road conditions and mild- er weather, according to Moran. Moran said he hoped that the 1937 tournament “will produce the greatest and best array of amateur boxers that the public has witnessed.” “I urge each community,” he said, “to foster amateur boxing among its younger boys as a means of develop- ing the spirit of sportsmanship and fair play which is conducive to their | hi success in any and all vocations they pursue in earning a livelihood.” The tournament will be held in the World War Memorial building, site of the two previous state meets. Bob Millar Is Named ° To AC Coaching Staff Fargo, N; D., Sept. 3.—(#)—Bob Mil- lar, formerly of Warren, Minn., has been added to the varsity football coaching staff of North Dakota Agri- cultural college, Casey Finnigan, Bison athletic director, announced. Millar, now a Fargo resident, who was graduated from N. D. A. C. last June Played three years of varsity football at guard and tackle. Last year his lay for N. D. A.C. brought him men- ion as one of the outstanding tackles in the North Central conference. Golden Gloves Tournament .to Be Held in Bismarck November 18-19 County Horseshoe Tourney Planned|:*2 First Annual Burleigh Tourna- ment Will Be Held Here Sunday, Sept. 12 Burleigh county's first annual horseshoe tournament will be held Sunday, Sept, 12, Lyman Morley, pres- ident of the Bismarck horseshoe league, announced Friday. The Bis- marck league is sponsoring the event. Qualifying rounds will be played during the morning beginning at 8 o'clock, on the courts south of the city ball park, Morley said, Each’ player will toss 100 shoes and all will be placed in flights for the finals accord- ing to the number of ringezs they throw. All games will be singles, Mor- ley said. The recreational department of the Burleigh county WPA office is aiding in making arrangements for the tour- nament. Entries may be made by writ- ing to Jalmer Swenson, senior recrea- tional leader, or to Morley. Scientists Will Play at Three Homecomings Wahpeton, N. D., Sept. 3—()}—It’s going to be the biggest homecoming hapa Wahpeton’s Scientists ever Take it from Earl Buto, coach of the State Intercollegiate conference’s| defending football champions who lists three homecoming games for the State School of Science. It starts with Mayville’s homecom- ing celebration Oct. 9 when Wahpeton will furnish opposition for the Comets. ‘Wahpeton will clash with Valley City ‘Teachers Oct, 15 in its own homecom- ing, and then go to Jamestown Oct. 23, for the third homecoming cele- bration. WIDSETH JOINS GIANTS Orangeburg, N. Y., Sept. 3.—(®)— Oppressive heat is keeping the New York football Giants from the com- pletion of their daily training sched- ule for the game with the eastern col- lege all stars Wednesday night at the Polo Grounds, Ed Widseth, Minnesota tackle, was to join the Giants Friday. Champion Leaves Marks on Challenger’s Face Qualifying Rounds in City Golf Tourney to Get Under Way Today Hurls No-Hit Game But Loses Anyway McMullen, hander, ‘Thursday night when he pitched &@ no-hit game, but lost to Or- lando Gulls, 3-0. In the eighth, an error and a walk put two men on with one away. A hard hit ball eluded the shortstop, rolled into the outfield, and one man scored. Brewers Trip Kels 7-3 as Columbus, Toledo Lose Tilts Indians Tramp Mudhens 4-3 Louisville Whips Leading Red Birds 5-0 Chicago, Sept. 3 —(7)— Columbus, ‘Toledo Minneapolis are playing the leading roles, but lower standing clubs ¢ a bow for helping to make ’s American Associa- battle one of the most interest- seasons, leaders all tasted defeat night, Columbus taking whipping from Louisville, To- second place Mudhens bowing to Indianapolis, 4-3, and the third- Minneapolis Millers accepting & 7-3 defeat from the 1936 champions, Milwaukee. The Brewers scored six runs in the third two innings in defeating Min- neapolis. Bill Zuber went the route for the winners, giving up nine safe- ties as Milwaukee was getting eight. The Kansas City-St. Paul battle ended with an 8-7 victory for the Saints. 3 Brews Dump Millers RH +++ 150 000 OO1I— 7 8 000 001 200— 3 9 Zuber and Helf; Bakel Pettit and Peacock. Colonels Beat Columbus E 1 4 rT, RH + 010 010 100— 3 10 000 000 Slx— 4 8 Nelson and Reiber; Logan, Johnson and Riddle. Blues Lose to Saints RHE Kansas City .. 400 102 000— 716 2 St. Paul .. 302 000 2iIx— 811 1 Nusser, Kileinhans and Hartje; Chelini and Fenner. WINS SWIM - Toronto, Sept. 3—(?)—Mrs. Lenore Kight Wingard won the women’s professional three-mile swim here Thursday and first money of $750. Cubs, Back to Wall, Begin Home Stand. —————____—_§_§|_______— a Chicago, Sept. 3—(7)—It was Home Sweet Home for the weary Cubs Friday. Their home “den” — Wrigley Field — never looked better to them. Possessors of a comfort- able four game National League lead Aug. 15 when they sailed into enemy territory, the Cubs return in second place, a full game back of the New York Giants. In a home stand they see their one big chance to still take the pennant away from the Terrymen. First Rounds for Bismarcl Championship Scheduled to Go 18 Holes Golfers ambitious to annex the Bis- marck city championship will have more than a week in which to qualify. for the championship round, Tomi O'Leary, pro at the municipal golf course said Friday in announcing plans for the Qualifying Players will be placed in flights for the final rounds which will be over 36 holes, O'Leary said. Players turning in the best scores will be placed in the championship flight of eight, with the ane to be ‘grouped in other Last year Tom Lawless won the title with Neil Oroonquist, youthful sharp-shooter who has been touring the summer circuit in Minnesota this year runner-up, When the final rounds will be played will be announced later, O'Leary said. { Baseball Standings | o—____________¢ (By the Associated Press) AMERICAN ASSOCIATION we 81 Pet. 578 sn 585 528 468 : 450 4 432 57 An NATIONAL LEAGU! w New York . Chicago . Coburn Jones, # regular infielder with the Pittsburgh Pirates until ill- ness closed his major league career several years ago, coached the Den- ver team which won the 1937 Colorado American legion junior baseball championship. A team of youngsters, also coached by Jones, won the state midget title. —The an- Saratoga Springs, N. Y. nual yearling sales at Saratoga Springs in August recall many “bar- gains” purchased here. One of the i ” was Maedic, bought from the consignment of Thomas Piatt for $1,550. Maedic won $51,675 as a 2- year-old. Oh, Oh! That Lucky Rooney's Back Playing the Bobtails New York, Sept. 3—(?)—The bookies at Aqueduct very nearly fainted in a body Wednesday when the word got around that Mr. Art Rooney, the man who comes from Pittsburgh with s pocketful of cash and hunches, was coming out to the track to watch the gee-gees scampering “I sort of like it out here,” he said: “Why didn’t you tell me about this horse race stuff be- fore?” That was just about the time Wrenace, running in a crowded “fleld, was bringing the bacon home for Mr. Rooney, who had put $40,000 down at 2 to 1 after getting one of his most remark- able hunches. »They say he came away from Aqueduct with $100,- 000 more than when he arrived Monday. And Monday night he made a little bet that Tommy Farr would stand up 15 rounds with Joe Louis. Small money—$400 for Mr. Roone: y= His winning streak started the closing day at Empire when he took $25,000 from the bookies. Later at Saratoga they say he clipped the boys for $108,000. The next week, the story goes, he made off with fifty grand. His third day upstate was not so ‘ good—$1,000 profits. And at Aqueduct they were screaming. ON SALE AT YOUR DEALER OR PHONE DISTRIBUTORS: New Super Service Station Corner 7th and Thayer