Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 1, 1922, Page 4

= UPUREA SOT 4H ae = = JAPANESE KEEN (VER BASEBALL former Coach at Waseda Says It Will Become National Sport. ST. LOUIS, Mo, May 1—Japan rapicly adopting the American sport rbert H. National d from his sec- missi re he coached the jonary™ or says that he Nipponese are blish baseball as their nz. and are making efforts to baseball league of leading untivetsi nm are sponsoring the movement. The former Canrtinal ovtfielder be came rested in the work in 1920, wher. Prof. Isoo Abe of Waseda uni versity, known as the “Father of Baseball” in Japan, asked him to come to Tokio and assist in coaching the teams. Hunter consented and now is preparing to take a team of National Jeague stars for a tour of Japan next fall if he can obtain the eapproval of } Budge Landis. He pictures the Japanese as apt etudemts of baseball with a decire to Jearn all of its attendant “slang.” The ‘Waseds university nine, which toured America two years ago, caught many of the expressions common to the players here-and adapted them, he de elared. In Japan, he continned, baseball coathing ts done in the English lan- guace “It is very ammsing to hear the eatcher encouraging his pitcher to “knock the bird off,’ or advising one of his fellow players to ‘crown that old apple.” They have thoroughly assim diated most of the expressions used by American players. . “If baseball continne: to advance with its present stride in Japan, I believe that we will be playing an an- nnal international series before long. The Japanese boys do not sams oer major league stars fn ability, earl members of the Wastda en could make good tn the minc~ ieaguos. “Interest in baseball increases every qyear and I find that the higher class Gf people are taking to it However, hove from all classes play their own Mitfie corner lot games.” Manager Rickey of the Cardinals, has agree to give Hunter his uncon- itional release so that he may spend She summer perfecting plans for the "proposed fll tour of Japan. ope SoS Nets Club Stundings 800 Cinofinnati Boston AMERICAN LEAGUE onb— Won Lost Pet. New York woe 11 5 688 St. Louis 10 5.667 ices ig seen NS eet Cleveland -——____. 7 7 500 Washington .————- 3 2 ATL ‘Boston ------——----- 6 g 429 SEES ais 9 400 Se 4 ok E267 | Last Scores | SATURDAY FINALS. ‘National League. Cincinnati 3, Pittsburgh 7. New York 15, Boston 4. Philadelphia 2, Brooklyn 3. American League. Chicago 4, Detroit 0 hington 8, Philadelphia % Boston 5 New York 2 SUNDAY FANALS arson > League. hiladelphia 0. sepa 1 National League. New-York at Boston. Philadelphia at Broo Pittsburgh at Cin; American League. Chicago at Detroit. Washington at Philadeiphia Boston at New York. Clevetand at St. Louis > Headline: “Phillies Sure Champions of American League.” Rather star Hing at first sight, until it is discov ered that the American league men- tion is a soccer tt en YOUR | CALENDAR & RECRUIT ROBERTSON HURLS SOX TO NO-HIT, NO-RUN VICTORY IN GAME WITH DETROIT SLUGGERS NEW YORK, May 1.—Achieving the acre of the pitching art—a no-hit, no-run game, with no player reaching first} base—Charley Robertson, recruit mound star of the Chicago | White Sox, yesterday accomplished a feat that has been dup- licated only five times major league history. Two of these perfect games are within the memory of the ration of diarmond follow The other three perfect games are the lore of the ancie They | accompanied by € Boston ; oo w Ml GAMBLING. Ee «CLUB ANDED Stockton, Police Brea Up Syn e passe aes for Coast Season. rtsan’s victims. Sensational fielding. rly by Eddi ns and Me ded in keeping the pitcher's | Ca STOCKTON, C: May 1.—Twels league baseball games w raid on the Fifty Two of those arreste with gar iting a gamb accysed of violating the fifth by Guy Hoffman, who held and two the Legion to one more run. @ prehit laws. Legion in the first four The officers said the material seized | held the opposition pares poe included printed forms with names of | « cut tossing, and Greenly in the bettors, includ loc prominent | last two innings pitched ’t» a victorious business and professional men; gamb- | climax ling devices and cancelled some for as much as $1,000. checks, Allonbaugh caught for the Legion A quan. team as substitute for the rerular tity of Hquor was confiscated, The officers said that apparently as high as twenty to one was paid on bets that four teams named by the better would win. eens Tilden-Richards ‘ Win on Coast | catcher Killibrew. Sullivan and Pier —___. of being the only a in dl v gs to nd. When the at the church iding ablaze firemen delug Nothing da ided wor 1ur cle j br party found tn the army t with water. a You Can’t Help but W yo [OMIN 10c and 25c Continuous 1 to 11 P. M. TODAY Follow th -|run hitter. Willisms garnered nine ‘MILLER’S HOME RUN IN NINTH WINS FOR LEGION IN OPENER s circuit clout in the last half of the ninth won for in the first game of the season men were arrested and a quantity of | Miller's —— ¥ the es im id indi-| the American Legion, 9 to 8, cated the existence of a syndicate or-| }) . , cabin tar erekting on fie nose | Here yesterday ‘with the Smokehouse clan. as a surprise to fans, and was made possible by heavy hitting. *| John Mapel started on the mound for the Smokehouse but «|failed to show up in his old-time form and was relieved in | TONIGHT ° BIG MAY DAY DANCE AT THE CASPER’S JOY PALACE The Coolest Place in Town. OMIN(* | The ARKEON Dancing Acade THE TRIBUNE'S “PAGE OF SPORTING NINE HOMERS IN EIGHT DAYS, Williams Jumps Far Ahead of | Babe Ruth’s Record for Same Time Last Year. ST. LOUIS, Mo. May 1—Sctting a pace averaging more than ene home rum a day for eight dayx Kenneth ‘Williams, left fielder for the St. Louis ‘outfielder bas nearty doubled Ruth's, Roth last year and has only to acquire five homers a year ago Saturday. homers against the Yankees bambino ees Oe Sepa the week he fafled to get a bh when gtven the opportunit, Browns did not play Thursday, but Friday he annexed his seventh, and Saturday made his total nine. The Williams typeof home run is similar to that of Ruth, although they éo not cover the cistance attained by the bambino. Some st the drives have 1 record, the latter having hod only| three more four-tase hits to equal | Ruth's record of 12 up to May 20 1921 AN of Williams’ long drives have been made in St Louis. He started his batting spree Saturday, #>ril 22, advantage He was tied with Meusel| establishing an American leatue rec of New York with twenty-Your circuit|ord wit three home runs that day. clouts for @ position second only to! Wednesday was the only day during Williams already hos « lead of nine and has until May 20 to increase this Browns, looms still greater as a rtval to Babe Ruth, world’s champion home circuit smashes in seven games, up to Saturday. The Brownie slugger ts now eleven days ahead of the 1921 home run pro- gram of Ruth, who didn't register his ninth cireuit drive unti May 10 last year. At present, the local American The result came son divided the receiving work for the Smokehouse. Two hame runs were made by the winning team. Baldwin in the fourth inning made the circuit in short order with two on, and Miller in the last half of the ninth decided the game with a homerun. ‘The score— American Legion Smokehouso R EE. 5 5 -9 16 12 Have a Good Time. e Crowd Are the Women We Love The Women We Marry? In the dreams and throbbing h of life’s oe they are; and sometimes the dreams are borne out in reality,though often mot. 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