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Pe SENSATIONAL—SPORTS Phenomenal Halding heavy hitting and run plays was the order of the however, was almost discontinued it being obvious that to take two bases or more on the probable forthcom- ing base hit was better strategy for the runner than to risk being cut down on an attempt to steal. No less than 12,525 safe hits were made in 616 games of which 2,140 were two baggers, 694 for three bases and the hitherto unprecedented num- ber of 477 were home runs. They averaged a little more than twenty. to the game of which more than five were for extra bases. ‘The Detroit club led the sluggers with an average of .316 for the sea- SENGATIONAL BATTING REVEALED IN OFFICIAL LEAGUE AVERAGES Phenomenal Fielding Also Made Possible by Hard Hitting of Americans; Detroit Club Tops List of Teams for Last Season DH Batting of the most sensational character fea games last season of the American league as revealed by offi- cial averages and statistics just announced for publication, plays were a natural sequence to the ast and clever base running on hit and an ured the day. The art of base stealing, land club, was iret among the out- fielders who played regularly with an average of . Jacobson of St. Louis, with 375 putouts and seven as sists, was third in chances accepted, R. H. Veach of Detroit with 384 putouts and 21 assists was first, while the runner up was Rice of Washing- ton with 380 putouts and 18 assists. R. W. Schalk, Chicago, is again first among the catchers with S. F. O'Neill, Cleveland, second, and B. P. Gharrity, Washington, third. Schalk has now caught more than 1,000 games in nine consecutive years. HONOLULY, Dec. 27.—University of Qregon's football eleven defeated the University of Hawaii here yester- day 47 to Oregon's brilliant forward passing was the gamed principal feature, though the heavy mainlanders broke through the Hawallan's line at will and completely outclassed them in the other departments of the sport. Golf Leaders Are Invited to CHICAGO, Dec. 27.—Presidents of golf organtzations in the west who have been invited by officials of the A. to talk over rules at the/turning stone in the Ife of 8. G. A! here on January 14, plan to make it an important session, President Albert R. Gates of the Western Gold associa- U. 8. G. annual meeting of the U. tion said today. Mr, Gates declared, as the U. 8. G. A. rules were regarded as too strict, TRIBUNE'S Discuss Rules) Ninety per cent of the clubs in this section are playing under the Western arsociation’s rules, fbe Casper Daily Cridune \Ricks-‘Cummings Bout and Good Preliminaries to Round Out Ring Thriller Scheduled at the Iris Under Auspices of the Legion ; For the first time in his fighting career in Casper Harvey Perkins, heavyweight battler who meets Jim Flynn, the Pueblo fireman, as the feature event of a boxing program which will be held under the auspices of the American Legion at the Iris theater tonight, will be in first class con- dition. here has been the center of an admir For the past six weeks, Perkins,|!m€ throng for several days. Before who ts under the direction of George | be & ‘ed here he was confident that McLeod, has trained conscientiously} would have no trouble disposing for his match with Flyna, Flynn for|/°f any battler that Wyom!ng could the past several years has been tne} 0ssibly produce. He kas watched many| Perkins work here and he realizes heavyweight fighters, and without] that he has been matched against a doubt if Perkina is able to stand the|™®n who can take and exchange ter- gaff tonight he will be looked upen in| rific punches. sport circles as a comer. While Flynn has always been Jack Dempsey, the present heavy-| known as a ready mixer when in the j Weight title holder, is the only man padded arena he will possibly adopt lwho got by Flynn and broke into| tactics which will in af probability Prominence, although he went down/ permit him to taxe advantage of the to defeat at the hands of the Pueblo|old ring generalship which carried STAGE SET FOR PERKINS-LYAN BATTLE TONE CASPER HEN 1 IN BEST CONDTION OF CARE battler, pecially the penalty for out of bounds, son, followed by Cleveland with and restrictions on the putting green. | Bt. Louis, .804 and the champion New Flynn during his training seasion him so far. In addition to t e main event, there York Yankees with an even.300, The champions, jed by “Babe” Ruth, drove out 134 home runs and were first in total bases. St. Louls gathered 106 triples and Detroit 100 while the Cleveland Indians whaled 355 twodase hits. The ex-champions also coaxed 614 bases on balls from the nervous pitchers, New York be- ing awarded 588 and Detroit 582. The greatest individual record of the year, attracting more interest than anything that has heretofore oc- curred in baseball was the perform- ance of George H. Ruth who broke his own world record for home runs by making 59 s&fe blows that were good for the round trip. In three successive sear2ns Ruth has raised the record of 25 home runs made in first to 28, than to 54 and now CALIFORNIA IN HARD TRAINING Intensive Training Started by ‘Warriors Who Meet W. & J. Football Team. the PASADENA, Cal. Dec. 27.—Se- eret training of an intensive nature was in progress today to put the Un- versity of California football team in shape for its battle January 2 witn the eleven of Washington & Jeffer- son colt ‘The latter squad is due to arrive Friday. Tournament field, where the game (s to-be played, was too wet yester- day for a workout because of recent ins, co Coach Andy Smith to) hy men to another field, the locetion of which was not divulged. There for an hour the Bears indulged in thelr first practice here, consisting of rug- by football, signal practice and scrim- mage. » Harry F. Hellmann, Detroit out- fielder, beat out Manager Cobb by five points for the league feadership in batting with a record of .394. Hell- mann made 237 hits in 149 games for a total of 365 bases. Forty-three of his safeties were for two bases, 14 were triples and 19 were home runs Heilmann scored 114 runs and was re- sponsible for 120 more of the Tiger's total of 883. Hoe is credited in the R. R. F. column with.139 runs but This remarkable photograph mount went down when he waa leading Horses’ Hoofs PER GAEL< 0 ‘of @ thrilling s)!"! in a race was made at Kempton, England. Jockey Escott's the field. Neither horse nor rider was injured. That was because this man really isn't in the danger he these include his 19 homers. Hell- mann led every one in sending runs across the plate except Ruth who was |{ credited with 170, of which 59 were his own four base hows. Ruth count- ed 177 times, J. T. Tobin, St. Louis. Ddeing second with 132, Sisler third with 125 and Cobb fourth with 124. Manager Tris Speaker made 52 two- base hits, Ruth 44, HeiJ:nann and his teammate R. H. Veach «3 each and RR. Meusel, New York, 40. Howard Shanks, Washington, drove out, 19 three-baggers, Tobin and Sisler, 18 each and Cobb, Ruth and R. Meusel 16 each. As stated above Ruth es tablished a new record for home runs with 59, Meusel and K. R. Williams, &t. Louis, being tied for second place with 24 each while Clarence Walker ot PI was third with 23, Little attention was paid to stealing bases and the sacrifice was not used fs frequently as in former years for the same reason that prohibited base stealing. Sisler pilfered 35 bases, Rice 25 and Cobb 22. W. A. Wambs- ganns, Cleveland, laid down 43 sacri- fices, Owen Bush, Detroit-Washin ton, 41, McInnis, Boston, 35, and Mul- Chicago, 34, Boston Leads Fielding. Boston led the league again this geason in fielding with .975, maintain- ing the record established in 1910. A aix-year record of leadership in any single department of play is belleved to be unique. Philadelphia had the greatest num- ber of putouts, 4,200; Chicago the most assists, 2,124; Chicago was also first in double pla: 155. St. Louis had only seven passed balls and New York eight. Chicago, Washington, St. Louls and Detroit each turned one triple play. This latter feature (four triple plays in one season) ts also un- precedented and was undoubtedly made possible by the fact that never before were 20 many men on bases @s was the case this year. Prominent among the individual records is that of First Basemen Mo- Innis of Boston whose record for the year is .999, he being charged with ut one error in 152 games. No other records either in percentage chances per game were established though the scoring was ‘unusually Uberal. Indeed the hitting was ao terrific that the averages of all infielders except first basemen is Ddelow normal. For the third straight season Sec- ond Baseman James Dykes of Phila- » delphia leads in accepted chances per game for men playing his position regularly, being closely pressed for that honor by the veteran Collins of Chicago, who leads in percentage with \875.. Dykes’ record is 6.17 chances and Collins’ 6.13 per game. ‘With one exception McInnis also Jed all rivals in accepted chances at fitst base with 10.86 per game, the Jeader being Sheely of Chicago with 11.40, In ratio of assists Sheely was also first, 119 in 151 games, with George Sisler second with 108 in 138 games. 5 Howard Shanks, Washington, led the third basemen with .960 percent- age in handling 671 chances in 154 games. His record of 3.49 chances at third was also the best. In addition e a ns taton Ererett continuous ying shorts! jt Beott of 5 te le lea the shortfelders with the handsome average of .972 and accepted almost six chances pet Fame. Deis Speaker-al the Clove- i Sport Notes deccccccccccococsoes coccecccocoococs. The annual consumption balls In the United States is esti- mated at 16,416,000. — eoecccccccccacooces: Hockey is going big in Philadelphia and the Quaker City sextet looks like a winning combination. January 2 will be a the boxing game as for that date in every section. Walter Camp appears to be the only football expert Millin on a first choice All-Amert- ean eleven. No doubt » bole of will be the Pittsburgh boxer mects Cham- pion Wilson in February. Joe Stetcher and Earl Caddock will meet once again on January 9 in New York, but there will be no wrest- ling championship at stake this time. Willie Jackson wearing the same cap he has worn since he started bex- ing shows: that the New York scrap- per hasn't developed a swelled bean. Followers of Washington and Jef- ferson football declare that Californie will have to trot out the best team tn the country to defeat the Presidents, in of “Rebd™ Russell, who pitched for the White Sox a few years ago, has be- come a star hitter and gardner for the neapolls tcara of the American as- BOC BOD, of golf red-letter in bouts ‘cre billed who didn’t place Bo money placed on Harry Greb to win when @ horse will not willingly step upon any living thing in its path. So, ecoma tn ho New if Plans to Take U) Branch of Athletics Charges Are Pushed. member of the 1929 American Olym. pic team has declared that he will not even if jpuspended by the A. A. U, following the filing of desert athletics, charges of excessive expense accounts. Should Ray be suspended he stated that he would take up professional He said he had done much amateur boxing and !f forced to turn professional, would put himself under the guidance of a real manager und seck to become sparring partner for Jack Dempsey or one of the other boxing. champions. in New York last winter. t A. A, U. allows an athlete only $7 @ day. the professional boxing game by Jole Ray, and wants to be his manager, teacher and trainer. ————>_ ‘| Silver Service Is Received as Gift From Refinery Men head of the manufacturing department / of the Midwest Refining company, the employes of the refinery at Greybull presented Mr. and Mrs. Reed with a beautiful silver service containing the large tray, coffee pot, tea pot, sugar and cream set. The gift arrived here on Christmas day. 1,500 Sail for Army Service In the Pacific NEW YORK, Dec. 27.—The largest embarkation of troops in America since the war. 1,500 men, will sail from Piladelphia on January 3, for service in Hawall and the Philippines, it was announced at Governor's island. Among them will be many reenlisted tom TURNPUGILIGT all. CHICAGO, Dec. 27.—Jole Ray, fleet by runner of the Illinois athletic club and The charges against Ray resulted from his participation in three meets He wus accompanied by his wife and there was contention over her expenses as Battling Nelson, former lightweight champion said today that he was in- terested in the threatened entrance of As a token of their appreciation of the service of L. A. Reed while-at the men from the Rhine army of oceupa- { some reason the signature on the tele gram was unintelligible. Stopper im mediately communicated with The Tribune stating that he wag anxious to meet any Casper Boxer under the welterweight limit. His services will be available anytime after January 2 He meets Bud Logan in Lincoln, Neb on that date. BOXING BOUTS BEGIN AT 7:30 The first bout on tonight's athletic card at the Iris theater in which Har- vey Perkins and Jim Flynn will a) pear as tho headliner will begin at 7:30 o'clock, it was announced today, so that the program may be enjoyed by prospective attendants of the Elks’ b ‘GHILLENGER IN CASPER 1S UNKNOWN Someone in Casper challenged John- ny Stopper, the winner of the Stopper- Padgett battle, which was staged at Laramie Yefore Christmas, but for WAS STARVING TC DEATH, HE SAYS Gains Thirty-Four Pounds Taking Tanlac and Is in Splendid Health Now. “I now weigh one hundred and six ty-four pounds and feel as fine as I ever did in my life, but before I got Tanlic I only weighed one hundred and thirty and was in a mighty bad fix,” said J. B. Nelson, auctioneer, liv- ing at 614 Tenth Ave., North, Seattle, Wash. HelpYourself As a builder of strength or protection against weakness Scott’s Emulsion has stood the exacting test of time. Help your- self to renewed strength, take Scott’s Emulsion! Scott & Bowne, Bloomfield, N. J. ALSO MAKERS OF ) Ki-MOID (Tablets or Granules For INDIGESTION 20-178 Salesmanship Will Be Taught ina Night Class Opened January 3, 1922. “Three years ago,” said Mr. Nelson “when I began taking Tanlac I could scarcely eat anything. What little I did manage to eat did more harm than good, and I was starving to death for lack of nourishment. Often I got so weak and short of breath I had to stop and rest and after crying off a lot of furniture I was completely ex- hausted. I had rheumatism so bad it seemed that every bone, muscle and joint in my body hurt. I had terrible headaches and my back hurt so bad I could scarcely stoop over. “Tanlac soon made me as sound and healthy as a man could. be and I've kept in fine shape ever since. Tanlac certainly did fine work for me) and I'm now getting a bottle for my wife. She's all run down and suffering from indigestion, and I'm satisfied that in a Ittle while she will be all right.” "Tanlac is sold in Casper by the Cas- per Pharmacy and by leading drug: gists everywhere.—Adv. CHI By a competent instructor who carried a grip for many years. Learn more of HUMAN NATURE. Earn $5,000 to $20,000 per year. This will be interesting. Arrange with Mr. In- structor for text books now by calling Casper Business College Second and Durbin Sts. Phone 442-W senied prnegins ror CHLLHEST ERS [OND RAND PILLS, for £3 fs Best, Safest, Always Rellaile gears ~ SOLD BY DRUGGISTS HT > EH will be a good semiwindup number and a long list of good fighting pre- liminartes. In the stxround semi- windup Paddy Ricks and Danny Cum- mings will go through the mill for a chance to battle Eddie Anderson in a future sporting event here. “I can beat any man I never heard of before” is Flynn's theory and he admitted that he has bad @ long and wide acquaintance with fighters. Perkins ts non-commital on the out come of the Sght but says that he is in the best condition of his life and that if he fs not able to beat Flynn he will Just do bis best, “It Perkins geta by Flynn he will make plenty of money,” sai Tremendous power and ‘punching abil- y in addition to a heart and some! He has an| and @ better) chance if he lan TRIBUNE CARRIER LAID AT REST, BOYS ATTEND SERVICES IN A BODY) Funeral services for Glen Hower, | 11 years of age, son of Mrs. Alice Hower, who died Christmas morning, after an illness from pneumonia which lasted for more than @ week, were held Monday afternoon at 3 o'clock from the Shaffer and Gay chapel. The carriers of the Casper Daily Tribune attended the services in a body. Master Hower had been a carrier on the Tribune for two years. He took one of the most difficult routes, in- cluding Beech, Park and Grant streets. His efficient service in prompt deliveries won him many friends among the residents of that section of town, and his correct ac- counts made him one of the best and most reliable boys in the work. Sympathy of a host of friends is being extended to the mother. NEVER WEAKEN Ask Brennan. Ask Your Dealer Fora TRANSO CIGAR Sumatra Wrapped, Mild Havana Filler. First in News Of All Events CENTRE RUNS UP 38-T0-0 SCORE ON ARIZONA ELEVEN YESTERDAY SAN DIEGO, Cal., Dec. 27, — Centre college, winner over Univer- sity of Arizona yesterday in the “little east-west” football classic turned toward another post-season opponent today with renewed con- fidence. Yesterday's score was 38 to 0, Next Monday they are to meet the Texas Agricultural and Mechan- ical college at Dallas. Columbia Show Enjoyed by Kids The Columbia Theater gave a free matinee performance Saturday to some 1,100 children who were giver candy and presents. There was the of the reg After the night performance § evening Manager Wall gave a supper on the stage for the company and all attaches of the theater. -| effective on th y | Robinson, PREVENT THOSE FREQUENT Yesterday's contest proved the “Praying Colonels’ ” as effective on S soft muddy field as they had shown themselves under conditions better adapted for a fast game. Un- pean apers A aged eae hae attend: minium but the manage- ment was prot — Baia ig from loss by New Grain Rate Is Now Effecttve OMAHA Feductions r erstate Erain, grain p rate red by the in commission or and hay became jon Pacific system ounced by F. W freight traf manager. Other roads, he sald, are preparing to make the reductions between now and J ary 7. today, ATTACKS OF SICK HEADACHES Violent sick headaches are Nature's alarm to you of physical disorder. Most frequently they tell of auto-in- toxication. This is poisoning of the system from pent-up toxins or body poisons. Relief from the pain ts your first need, and the world's most effective pain-reliever is aspirin. Pure aspirin alone, however, often disturbs diges tion. To prevent this after-discomfort scientists have compounded this new tablet-—TINGLE'’S I.AXO ASPIRIN. A mild digestant has been added to genuine aspirin to counter act the oft- eecurring disturbances of the stom ach The laxative seeks to remedy the cause of the trouble. It effectively rida the body of waste, which is most often the cause of intense pain. This threefold attack makes TINGLE'S LAXO ASPIRIN one of the most val- uable remedies known to physician: Ask for TINGLE’S LAXO ASPIRE the improved aspirin with the three points. ® gentle laxative. absorbed easily. —It relives pain quickly. TINGLE’S LAXO ASPIRIN Ask Your Druggist for the “Three Polnt Box” Therapeutic Research Laboratories, IRIS=TONIGHT The Biggest and Best Fight Card Ever Staged in Casper. AUSPICES AMERICAN LEGION 10—Rounds—10 Jim Flynn vs. Harvey Perkins Heavyweights. 6—Rounds—6 Danny Cummings vs. Paddy Ricks Bantamweights. Winner to Fight Eddie Anderson. 4—Rounds—4 Spike Murphy vs. Jess Reed : Welterweights. 4—Rounds—4 Leo Connell vs. Paddy Tooley Lightweights. The first fight on the card will be called promptly at 7:30 P. M. in order to allow people to attend other entertainments which are booked for tonight. Admission $2, $3, $4, Plus War Tax Mammoth Buffalo Barbecue and Dance Supper Served at the Dance Free This buffalo is one of the Scotty Phillips’ herd from South Dakota. Plenty of buffalo meat for all at the ARKEON Thursday, Dec. 29---Be There Washington, D. 0.