Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 10, 1922, Page 5

CAL FIGHTERS ARE OPTIMISTIC Murphy Says He’ll Muss Up Dude, Latter Says Not, at Salt Creek. When Dudo Gilmore and &pike Murphy meet at Salt Creek Monday night, there is bound to be a flock cf gction, if one can beliave what the fighters say about the bout. Dude says that if Spike ever nad ® wallop 00 one ever saw him use it and Spike says that the Dude will be in retirement for a month after the bout regaining his beauty. Evidently there is hard feeling between the two local welter-weights. The fight, which is to be over the ten round route, should be a hummer In spite of what Gilmore says, Spike has a-wallop in elther hand that means curtains for an opponent when it lands; and the Dude has fought some geod men without getting mussed up. ‘The boy is clever. Ten rounds of fighting should be long enough to en. able both of the boy; to show their gpods and a knockout 3s not out of the realm of posstbility. Both are in shape. to put up a great battle. ‘The bout will be held at the Castle Creek Athletic club at south camp in Salt Creek and the sport followers of that community are expected to be out in force. There will be two prelimin- ary battles, according to Al. K_ Butler ‘the promoter. Club Standings Nationa. League. Club. Won. 33 19 26 19 a7 23 27 23 a7 26 23 24 a1 26 15 3 American Leagup. ‘Won. Lost. 33° 19 30 21 26 «35 230 (37 20 24 a4 27 21 26 21 29 Last Scores | FRIDAY FINALS. National League. St. Louts 4, Philadelphia 3. Chicago 4, New York 3. Pittsburgh 3, Boston 7. Cincinnati 1, Brooklyn 2. American League, New York 6, Chicago 10. Philadelphia 10, Detroit 3. Boston 1, St. Louis 8. Today’s Games National League. Pittsburgh at Boston. St. Louts at Philadelphia. Chicago at Brooklyn, Cincinnati at New York. American League. Philadelphia at Cleveland. Washington at Detroit, Boston at Chicago.. New York at St. Louts. —— An old custom was for unmarripi —$—$—$—_—. BATTING AVERAGES GO DOWN AS MASOR PITCHERS HIT STRIDE CHICAGO, June 10—(By warmer weather and r two in the batting averages ler, Ty Cobb, Tris Speaker, Roger Hornsby and others. ‘The youngsters who set the Ipague afire in the first weeks of the season with 450 marks now aro getting back to thelr normal averages of .275 while Sisler and the others, dropping more “owly than the flash-in-the-pan bat-/ ers, still are rapidly getting down to their usual records. Sisler still tops the American league batters today despite a drop from .25/ last week to 419 this week, the latter mark including games of last Wednes- day. Sisler cracked out nine hits in his last six games, scored six runs, and stolo five beges, and as a result con-| tinues to be the whole show, with tho exception of the home runattraction. {n front of his rivals on the paths,| his closest competitor being Kenneth Williams, who has pilfered 17 buses. The late start and, slow progress made by “Babe” Ruth, the King of Swat, to retain his honors, has-encour- aged other players to enter the com- petition in the hope of topping the “Babe.” Ken. Wiliams of St. Louis vagged another homer bringing his string to 14. Rutn has five having made one yesterday. Ed Miller of Philadelphia is trailing Wiliams with 12; Harry Heimann of Detroit and C. Walker of Philadelphia have eight a piece, while Baker of New York, Judge of Washington and Falk of Chicago, hav. entered the contest with seven ach. Other leading batters for 25 or more yames: Stephenson, Cleveland .416; bd Miller, Philadelphia .385. Witt, New York .372; Cobb, Detroit .370; Speaker, Cleveland .269; O'Neill, Cleveland .364; Schang, New York .347; Heilmann, De- troit .339. Bassler, Detroft .336; Blue, Detroit .331; McManus, St. Louis .330; Severeid, St. Louts .328. First in war, first in batting. This. 's the honor which has fallen to Hank Gowdy, of the Goston Braves, the first major league player to enlist in the war. Today, he is leading tho batters, of the National league with an aver- age of .384, Gowdy is nine points ‘head of Bigbee of Pittsburgh and Margrave of Cincinnati who are tied with .375, for the runner-up honors. Harnsby of St. Louis, and T. Griffith of BrooklyIn, areé trailing for third place honors with averages of .374 ach. Hornsby fafled to add to his home run record in his Mast five games, but is far in front with, 13. |. Max Carey of Pittsburgh continues to lose the base stealers with 10. Other leading batters for 25 or more games: + B. Griffith, Brooklyn .371; Daubert, Cincinnati .362; Kelly, New York .360; Grimes, Chicago .949. Southworth, Bos ton .341; Snyder, New York *.340; Maranville, Pittsburgh .339; Myers, Brooklyn .337; Duntan, Cincinnatt! .333; Groh, New York .33%. J. Johnston, Brooklyn .331; Bancroft, New York -330; Hollocher, Chicago .326. PARKERTON ATRLETI BROUNDS TO SEE FIRST SME SUNDAY FTERNOO The new athletic grounds at Park- | erton will be christened tomorrow aft- | ernoon with a fast ball game between jthe Big Mutidy aggregation and the | team from the gus plant at Salt Creek.’ | Quite a following is expected to follow ue € more work, the major league pitchere are hitting their stride with the result that the sluggerr are finding it harder every day to get the ball into safe territory. This is shown by the steady shrinkage during the past week THREE RIVERS With his 23 stolen bases, Sisler is far}; girls to fast on a midsummer day, lay|the Salt Creek team to Big Muddy 4 meal on the table at midnight, leave|an dthe-crowd from Glenrock and vi- the door open, and wait for their fu-|cinity is certain to be there in full ture husbands to enter and eat. $< __ Jewelry and watcn reparring vy ex- pert workmen. All work guaranteed Casper Jewelry Mfg. Co., 0.8 Bldg. 2-5-4 Jay Bruce ts the only official “State Lion Hunter” in America. Cali ‘fornia appointed him.-- He hunts ‘em in a filvver. srophite. : secent force. SPP as After lamping Johnny Weissmuller, | Chicago's wonder swimmer, it's hard to believe the White Sox hail from the same town. This is one of his The Associated Press.) —With of such hitters as George Sis- foe ae thers ie eat CLUB WARNED Eastern Canada League Offi- cials Alarmed Over Um- pire Baitinz. June 10—Residents of the FrenchCanadian villago of Three, Rivers, on the banks of the St. Lawrence are taking their base- ball too seriously. Officials of the Rastern the management of the’ club, which has heen ricently added to the circuit, that the clob must curb umpire bait. ing. Among incidents charged to bugs Were threatening to lynch one umpire; chasing another arbiter out of town wrecking « grandstand fn search for ammunition with which to bombard an umpire and beating another official @ ho had called a Montreal play- er “safo’ | Sport N. otes It looks like busy season for box- Sacramento barber the recelpts. The bigger the crowds Babe Ruth draws the louder tho rezz of Babe when he falls to hit a homer. Whatever his qualities as a boxer it can't be denied that Barbarian, the Ughtweight, packs a wicked monicker. “Dutch” Ruetber may not pitch for & pennant winner, but he is certainly pitching championship ball for Robina, Princeton, Harvard and Yale will have things their own way in next year’s intercollegiates—if the Califor- niang’ train {s delayed. Bombardier Wells, the English heavy, has displayed his old-time form in his recent fights. Displaying his form at ful! length on tho floor, National league batsmen try to get to Pitcher Stueland of the Cubs, but not in the same manner that many others try to met to “Stueland.” Harry Greb had to win the light heavyweight championship before copping the middleweight title, bo weight champion. Both the Reds and the Braves have won three straight from the world’s champion Giants, but they didn't get any world’s series money for doing it, Mike Doriras, the Untversity of Pennsylvania strong man, will make a hatless trip around the world. never wears a lid no matter what the weather conditions, According to New York gossip the Yankees are expected to cinch the pennant on the present western trip. Then again the Yanks may have to wait until they return home, and then some. Boxing commissions are a fine job when they try to compel champions to fight. It can’t be done. CLABBY AND EGAN DRAW. VANCOUVER, B. C.—Jimmy Clabby and Joe Egan of Boston, middle weights, boxed a slow 10round draw. ENGLISH BOXER WINS. TORONTO—Tommy Noble, English featherweight champion, won the judges’ decision in a 10-round contest with Jimmy Goodrich of Buffalo, N.Y. ae ES WAGNER OUTPOINTS KAPLAN. MERIDEN, Conn.—Kid Wagner of Philadelphia won a I2-round decision over Louis (Kid) Kaplan of Meriden, claimant of the New England feather- | weight title. le the Mike] eastern women's | SPORT FLASHES HOT OFF WIRE be Casper No Chance for These girl boxing Tomorrow afternoon at 3 of Casper. Russell. for local honors, for any pitcher. improvement in fielding is obvious. Sport fai row afternoon. « ‘Tenis—Manitcha open ship tournament opens at Winnipe; pionship opens at ‘Washington, D. C. intercollegiate championship closes =t Bethlehem, Pa. Track—Third annual American track and field meet at Cambridge, Mass. Yachting — International miniature sound. Golf—Metropolitan amateur cham- pionship closes at Lakewodo, N. J.; championship con- eludes at Rye, N. ¥.; Pacific North- west amateur championship closes at Victoria, B. C.; Maryland state ama- teur championship closes at Balti- more; Kansas women’s championship closes at Salina. Boxing—Harry London vs. Johnny Solsberg, 12 rounds, at Brooklyn. ees There are 843 languages and dia- lects in use among the blacks of Af- rica. SHADE BEATS SCHMADER. OMAHA—Billy Shade, Pacific coast heavyweight, won a 10-round decision over Andy Schmader of Lexington, PADGETT-LOGAN BOUT EVEN. TULSA, Okla—Cowhoy Padgett of Dolores, Colo., and Bud Lagan of Omaha, welterweights, drew at the end of 12 easy rounds. MYERS THROWS BARNES. PORTLAND, Ore—Johnny Myers, Chicago, claimant to middleweight }wrectling championship, defeated George Barnes 6f Nebraska in straight falls, Candidate For to the primary €lection in [Political Advertisement]® © I take this means to announce myself as a non- partisan candidate for election to succeed myself as District Judge of the Sixth Judicial District, subject JUDGE C. 0. BROWN. District Judge August. enthusiasts at Dover, N. J., hit as hard as they Blease. They devised protecting masks. Canadia league have notifiea | ————_—__- LEGION AND STANDARD TANGLE IN BASEBALL GAME TOMORROW basebali team and the Standard Athletic club nine will meet at the high school athletic field to decide the championship Both teams have met and conquered the best teams in the locality and the Legion team last week won a two-game series from the Thirteenth cavalry of Fort; ———————_________. The refiners wiped up the alt Creek team without much trouble ing champions—about as busy as | and defeated several other aspirants Jones, the star of the legion pitch- ing staff, is likely to be on the mound Now that New England girls have| for the ex-soldiers, whilé the refiners taken up soccer tho game should|are certain to use their pitching ace. Prove successful in the matter of gate] Each team has some heavy hitters and they are bound to make trouble The past week has been spent in steady practice and an who enjoy closely con- tested ball games, will be found in the grandstand at the athletic field tomor- Racing—Meeting of Westchester Racing association at Belmont park; meeting of Kentucky Racing associa- tion at Latonia; meeting of Montreal Jockey club at Montreal. champion- District of Colzmbia women’s cham- New Jersey men's championship opens at Montclair, N. J.; Middle Atlantic Legion track and field meet at Phil- cause he couldn’t find the middle-} adefphia; New England ¥. W. C. A. yacht races conclude on Lond Island | Daily Cribune TRIBUNE’S PAGE OF SPORTING NEWS a Knockout 6G AR MEET IS PROJECTED Monmouth, Ill., Expecting Super-Thrills in Midwest Flying Contest MONMOUTH, Ill, June 10.—Every known sir stunt {s promised at the Midwest flying meet here June 15, 16 and 17. The Monmouth ‘Aero ctub {8 one of the sponsors for the meet. Fifty aviators have already entered for the races and other contests which will be conducted under the rules of the Aero club of America and tho Federation Aeronautique Internation ale. Eighteen different types of alr- craft are represented, including the first public exhibition in America of three new types, the Bellana, Petrel and Waco. Major General Mason M. Patrick, chief of tho Air Service, United States army, members of his staff, Major Reed Landis and Former Federal Judge K. M. Landis, his father, now supreme arbiter of organized baseball, are among those who have already ac- cefited invitations and will be here. Major R. W. Schroeder, former holder of the world’s record for altl- tude flying will be the judge of the meet. Lieutenant John Macready present altitude record holder, has also written that he will attend the meet. Oothers include Major F. L. Martin, o’clock the American Legion BARNSTORMING RULE T0 BE MAINTAINED, BELIEF NEW YORK, June 10.—Retention of the “Yarn storming” rulq for the breaking of which Babe Ruth and two other players were suspended, was recommended to Commissioner Landis by seven National league clubs which ‘were represented at a meeting here. ———_—_—. DATE OF RIFLE SHOOT AT KANE 1S POSTPONED The date of the Wyqoming State Rifle shoot has been changed from June 15, 16, 17 and 18 to July 13, 14, 15 and 16. This shoot will be will be commandant of Chanute fjeld, Ran- toul, Ill, Lt. Eddie Stinson, holder of the world’s endurance yecord, and Capt. St. Clair Streett,” who com- manded the army air expedition to Alaska last year. Capt. Streett recent- ly visited the Monmouth field on a government inspection trip and de- clared it to be one of the four best aviation fields in America. An unusual list of trophies has been prepared for the different contests, Attempts will be made to heat the world’s altitude and endurance flying records as well as various speed events. BUSINESS MEN ATTENTION Freight Bills Audited Claims Adjusted to a Conclusion Railway Traffic Adjustment Company held at Kane, Wyo., and is expected to be one of the biggest ever staged in the west. % Using U.S. Federal Reserve. Combining, as this b Phone 555 Pigeons In Big AUGUSTA, Ga, June 10.—A solid carfoad of ho: leased today for a race to Baltimore. The race is under the auspices of the Monumental City Concoursy associa be mare than five thousand fliers to leave here tn the fight. —_—_ The ation is thrifty, and Bake 306," Recline Bie. First in News Of Aili Events BIEN EAGLES TITLES WON BY ABE MITCHELL GLEN EAGLES, Scotland, June 10. 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