Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 15, 1921, Page 5

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, tervals for a larger’ score they bro! ‘first week in March, Coach Andy Smith ~ AY, JAN. 15, 1921 ZBYSZKO ONCE NEAR CROPER CAGERS WIN THIRD GAME. ~—-BYDEFEATING BUFFALO, 407012, Visitors Unable to Wiihstand Attack of Natrona ‘fea “and Weaken in Second Half; Close Score at End of First Lends Interest to Battle } The Natrona County High School basketball five won its third! straight victory of the season last night when it defeated the team’ from Buffalo by the decided score of 40 to 12. The weakening of the visitors in the second"half when they only added 7 points while the locals were scoring 28, gave Casper an easy victory. The first | half ended 12 to. 5. Casper was equally good on the of. fensive and defensi In addition to sending the ball thru the hoop at i up Buffalo's team work and kept t ball out of dangerous: territory. attempts from the field by the visi basket tossers were rarely su end their long pas intercepted. Casper in defeating Ruffalo, triumph-| ed over @ heavier team which had pot been defeated this season, Among the victories credited to the upstate five was one over the Stieridan squad, which is making ‘a strong bid for the north ern Wyoming championship. Quinland, Blanchard, Alsman, Lester and Kocher started the game for Cas- per last night and were aided by Groves, Eastmzn, Andrus and’ Rae be- fore the end of the contest. | Casper’s yext game will be with Lan- der, next Tuesday night on the! home loor, Reports indicate that the strong. fest competition for the state cham pionship from this part of the state will come from Fremont county. | “Sandlot” Clubs Meet. CLEVELAND, Ohio, Jan. 15.—The annual meeting of ‘the National Base- ball Federation, governing body cf “sandlot” baseball opens here today. Several questions of importance touch ing on the semi-pro and amateur baso- | hall situation throughout ‘the country ‘will come up. The federation conducts intercity games in three closses—Class A (ama- teur', Class A.A (industrial) and Class AAA (semi professional), At a meeting last March, a rule was passed to go into effect this year mak- ing ‘all players who have played pro- Tessional baseball ineligible for Class A. It isssaid this rule will come up for reconsideration with prospects of live ly debate. The question of a new. di vision to take care of thé many frater- nal leagues throughout the country will also be considered, Many delegates fre ‘said to favor change in the method of playing tie annual series of games in a district and advise paying more attention to the de- velopment of city assdciations than to intercity “contests. _Jt.19. purposed-to “make-guch city Associations strong NOW .A_ BASKETBALL CHAMP: The celebrated home run elouter as he appeared in New York in a game against the championship Celtics. —) defeated. team, Captain Majors and “Pesky” Sprott, will not return and it is believed Clarke can do Majors’ work at guard very well and Karl Deeds can play Sprott’s, half. Smith recently signed a three years’ contract. which called-foran Jnorgase ‘in me 6,000 rubles and T refused to be put | dered Aberg to meet me on the mat,| Jand though he did not want to do so salary, Y ; ii "i . Wrestled for is Life in Petrograd and Won ‘From Opponent Who Caused His Arrest to Cancel Big Debt: : + Stanislaus Zbyszko, claimant of the wrestling championship of the world, who goes to the mat-here.with Jack Taylor on January 24, once wrestled for his life and how well he succeeded may be gleaned from the fact that he is very much alive, It was shortly after he wit- nessed the fall of the Russian empire and’ the triumph of the Reds. Later he saw the founding of a republic in his native country, Poland. |This story constitutes a chapter in his a wrestler as 1 claimed to be and he wrestling |ordered my immediate release. He also ‘ordered Aberg to pay me the 6,000 ru- jbles. Aberg protested that he did not When war was declared in 1914 Zbys-|nossess that much money and gave me zko was in Petrograd and because he)1.9090 rubles in- Kerensky currency. As was a natjve of Galicia he was interned | vat my troubles were not at _an end, for life that overshadows his careér in Amerjca, jfor a time. Even with the country at|Aherg's pirelings were crowding about war wrestling was kept alive, however |the stage on which we wrestle and t and after gaining his release he was|teared they would injure me despite the permitted 10 go. from place to place to\presence of the police, So I threw the take part in’ matches, jmoney to the crowd and while they } C] “Thensveame thé revolution ‘and Ke- |Were Scrambling for it T escaped rensky was in power," he told a report-| yy, . er on his returg to America. “It Ws PEER apie rin) while he held sway that I narrowly es- |" Pat caped being killed, George Lurich and Later, when Kerensky was driven Alex Aberg, who are well known to fol-|from power by the Bolshevists, Aberg lowers of wrestling. in this country, |@nd Lurich, who were agents of the domir 1 the sport in Russia and to|Kerensky government. were placed un- oppose them in any way at that time} arrest. was dangerous. How Aberg owed 8 confiscated and Aberg w tenced to be executed, ng me, |Pair had some fr grad | Sheviki and after off when he sought to avoid pa Whereupon he informed the Pet police that I was an Austrian spy. The country was in a tumult at the time and persons denounced as spies were sum- marily dealt with by the authorities, w: Were suspicious of all foreigners. strengthen his case against m told the police that 1 was not really a! Sere prominent wrestler but merely posed as| Itt is hard to: imagine, a Koxer bur. one in order to get about the country (dened with the name of Claude, yet almost at will, but there he over-stepped|Gjaudio Saez is the moniker born by himself, for the refutation of that as-|one of the star boxers of Chil sertion enabled me to gain my liberty. tee doh oc dt “‘I may not be abte to proye to you that T am not a spy,’ I told the police, | ‘but at least I can prove to you that esrb , Manager of Champion as added Joe Renjamin, the Pacific coast lightweight, to his stable jof boxers, ho 'To SESS Sa SS There is but one name by which to call dishonesty, whethér it be of, the crude or the refined sort, Their money and roperty | ir y and property | cri state | flivver. | Promoters of Chicago's coming six t i sere OF STAN ZBYSZKU—CMimant of world’s wrestiing championsmp | who meets Jack Taylor at the Iris, January 24, sparring for advantage on mat. | PARTING NOTES) o— « day race claim that the ten-lap track, built In the Coliseum for the contest is the fastest banked bike track ever con- structed for an indoor rice. The present year will mark the 175th anniversary of the first recorded cricket match in nd Al {The movement to revive the old New Baseball League proved a ngland teams, Au According to all acconnts Babe Ruth's ngland, played by the Kent! st 4, 1746. ' Wins from Richie Mitchell by e{{ Technical Knockout When ~ Referee Stops Bout NEW YORK, Jan. 15,—Benny Leon- ard, world’s lightweight champton, suc- cessfully defended his title here laat night when he scored a technical knocit in the sixth round. The bout was stop- ped by the referee after 1 minute and $5 seconds of this round. Receipts for the bout were estimated at $175,000, every seat in °Mad! Square Garden having been sold. i greater part of this amount will be ap- plied to the work of the American com- mittee for devastated France, the bout having been promoted by Miss Ange |Morgan as a. benefit. The fighters ceived about one third of the total. Many of the elite were conspienous in the crowd which witnessed the bat- tle, <a, — “4 The ant, declared by naturalists to be the most intelligent ‘of all creatures except man, is found in all parts of the world except the polar regions. There is no real life that is not frea, and yet no man Is free until he can think and act f himsel | wonderful batting eye is on the blink— |when it comes to picking ponies. | | | Orvie Overall, one-time star twirler for the Chicago: Cubs, has purchased Jone of the finest lemon groves in Call- } fornia. | | pase | Denver's newest golf club, the Rocky | |Mountain Country Club, is to have & golf course costing a quarter of a mil+) lion dollars. - ! I am a wrestler by beating Aberg.’ “The prefect of police thereupon or- HIGH-CLASS TA he was compelled to accept my chal- lenge.) Aberg saw to it that the hall in which we met was jammed with riMans of his own choosing, but I did not allow this to disquiet’ me and 1} succeeded In throwing him after near: ly two, hours’ flerce work on thi For once in my career I was actually wrestling for my life. The showing 1 made convinced the prefect that I was tallored suit for less money? Made From Detmer All-Wool Patterns PRICES START AT $25.00 Why wear ready mades when you can have a high-class strictly hand C.'H. WHALEY, Tailor Cleaning, Pressing and Repairing Phone 4833 ILOR MADE SUITS After thoroughly subject of milk, municipalities of -Union label in every garment. 116 East Midwest Ave. Pe eceutan bon GENERATIONS] PLANTEN'S px ACK C& CF ve Rpsuies 2 BA and , AT YOUR DRUGGIS' enough financfally and in baseball abil- ity to get into intercity and! national contests in 1922. Spring Football Practice Begins . Soon on Coast BERKELEY, Calif., Jan, 15.—Spring football practice will begin at the Uni- versity of California here during the announced following the California vi¢- ‘ory over Ohio State University at Pasa- dena New Year’s day. Another “wonder team’ will be turn- ed out at California next year, it is ba- HMeved. Only two men of the 1920 un- ——— Mail Us Your . KODAK FINISHING Quick Service THE PICTURE SHOP Box 1076 Casper, Wyo, oe + RD - Seto ates) i + 7% ,* Spe xe a oe te Only the HOOVER thoroughly carpet dirt, and the 90 per cent part of the housecleaning. Therein lies the reason why the HOOVER is the largest selling cleaner in th Free demonstration at your convenience. NATRONA POWER PHONE 69 a a a a a Se LA Due to the continued mild weather we offer a Florence Oil Heaters . $6.50, $7.50 and $9.50 for those heaters which were $7.50, $8.75 and $12.50 respectively These heaters are guaranteed in every respect to give absolute satisfaction. Holmes Hardware Co. 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To remedy this situati , locally, we have secured the exclusive right to dis- tribute a series of attractively illustrated folders and booklets in which are given new and interesting facts about Our Government and how we all share We will gladly send one of this set each month, to tainer for this valuable information, we will present . &@ substantial brown and gold portfolio upon personal call at this Institution. No obligation. Citizens National Bank Oil Exchange Bldg. prohibit the sale pasteurized. nest hall in Casper. manner. Visitors to our Pasteurized | = Milk have passed laws, that practically Milk to Be Safe Must Be Pasteurized = investigating the many, of the large the United States of milk, unless it is Pasteurization has been indorsed by the U. S. department of Agricul- ture, very emphatically. Use no milk unless it is pasteurized, and is produced in a clean, sanitary We have made arrangements with the Wyoming Clinical Laboratory, . to test our milk every week. 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