Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 11, 1922, Page 8

BASEBALL DRAFT I$ SCHEDULED FOR DISCUSSION AT CONFERENCE Majors Have Support of Landis in Proposals to Amend Rules to Bring About Better Under- standing; Larger Player Limit Seen. NEW YORK, Dec. 11.—The draft question that has been agitating baseball circles ever since five of the largest minor leagues exercised the option given them under the 1921 ma«jor-minor agreement and refused to grant the selective privilege, either to the majors or to minors of other classifi- cations, may receive fresh attention this week when major and minor leagues hold meetings in this city. ‘The ms supported their mural association. x is, propose to|awarded in different di draft status as|branch of sport, and a grand trophy tes that all minor/goes to the organization making the gated by its pro-| greatest nuniver of points. choice in the| Contestants las: year were enrolled irty basketball teams and 26 teams. One hundred men en: tered the bexing and wrestling tour- naments, 100 signed up for the swim ming tournament this fall, more than }109 entered for a handball tourna ment, 80 competed in the tennis tour- | Rament, and 160 entered the intra- | mural track meet. The development of the system has reached the point at present where peated in an effort | jerstanding with eping in force the present was made effective for til 1928. ve solution of the number of major league or a kno" to favor an enlarged |{t cannot go further until more room player limit, to afford a larger range/|is proviced. Hope of relief for the of player selection. On the other| crowded conditions ts held out by the hand several other minor leagues.|pians for the K. S A. C. memorial now affected by the draft, are be-| stadium. which will be so built that ready to join the other “hold-/the c5ace underneath the seatin outs don y the selective privi-|de-ks can utilized for bandball lege as far as they are concerned. | hycing and cocene, ase nae Exemption from the draf & running tru league so desiring,” is | — enero proided under the terms agreed upon j jointly by the r minors of January 12, 1 me t.me > a league exercising such exemption automatically forfeits right to draft players from other circuits. The five leagues that have taken | this course are the American Asso olat! International and Pacific coast the only class “AA” : y; the Western circuits at * and the Three-I league. Game Is Made Major Sport This Year at Minnesota University. league, oe ie MINNEAPOLIS, M inn., Dec. 11.- | With the announcement that T. N, EVERYBODY (N ATHLETIC. |, | NEW IDEAL 1S ATTAINED ss"Sscrcuioe SostSt ete eat y to make the sea- son one of the most | Coach Metcalf, also will be in. ge of the track squad, has vol- Junteered to take over the training of| 1 culiubists when army |the hockey squac. | vealed a startling con-| Five ‘ettermen of last year's hockey limperfection among team are back and a group of abovt| of a has been fifty other candidates are out for the| rly attained as the Kansas remaining berths. ‘Agricultural college. This} The veterans who are expected to! statement is mady on the authority sain defend Minnesota’s honor as) of statistics siven out by E. A. Knoth Puck chasers fre J. Wyatt, E. Ber- Ameri physier! education and Quist, P. Higgins, Lee Bartlet and! @irector intramural atheltics at|Paul Swanson, In addition, seven| the college here men from the second team are back Following the war a ruling was &t school, and among the likely play- adopted requiring every man and wo-| ers to round up the squad. man enrolled in K A. ©, to take) The Gopher puckmen have a stiff) a course in physical education with) Schedule ahead of them, and several a mini 1 tentative dates arranged for ducing nd sophomore !nclude: Michigan, Wisconsin, Mich- years spent ety of sport/isan Aggies and the University of gymnasium work. Completion of, Manitoba. his me va made pre the granting of a degree. The In:remural athletic system in- augurated and maintained by Knoth| e more to get everybody into] e than the required physical edue: work sketbail, basrtall, soccer, footha wrestling, | swim! , and program of associati of the school has more divisions of en who are on squad in any sport, can- with an organization 6 sport in the Intra- King Tallest, Shortest and Strongest Men in Major Leagues on Club. CHICAGO, Dec. 11.—Chicago’s N tional League Baseball club ts long on champions. It claims to have the tallest and shor‘est men in the ma- jor leagues and also the strongest player. Ernest Osborne, a pitcher, standi: 6 feet & undoubted! tion its team in one ¢ intramural the varsity not com’ team ‘in t is inches in his stocking feet, is tho tallest player in the majors. Earl Adams, who came to the Cubs from Wichita Falls, Kans., is a second baseman and meas- ures only 5 feet 4 inches. Lawrence (“Hack”) Miller, who came from the Pacific Coast league 1s said to be the strongest man in| baseball. He is the son of Sebastian Miller who for years waa known about Chicago and the middle west as the “strong man," and whose tests of strength are wel! remembered by the old timers. Hack inherited much of his parent's make-up, but he pre fers playing Lusebsll to touring the country cxhititing his strength. Howeve:, for the edification of his teammates, “Hack” has picked up a horse shoo and taking hold of one | heel of the tror shoe, straightened [it out. He also will push a nail | | through a two inch plank with his thumb. He ts a hitter of the slug- ging typs, his blows having plenty of strength behind them. — ask for Horlicks The ORIGINAL Maited Milk ! year, 12,041 safe drives of sizes being hammered out of 42,238 ‘a » which gives an average Louis leads ‘In t-am bat- Detroit in the drive for the pennant, which fell short. The champion Yankees stood fourth in team batting with 287 average George Sisler Ied the tndividuels with ..419, while tho noted Tyrus Cobb ‘The Original Food-Drink for All QuickLunchet: one Once Fountsias: RichMilk, Malted Grain ExtractinPow- OF SPORTING NEWS THESE CHiLOnens PLAYING IN SUCH A BeAuTIFUL PLAY GRounD ?P To PLAY ReQuRres STRENGTH These CHILDREN ARE Too WEAK “To PLAY -— THEY HAVE HAD NOTHING To GAT. For A Lone Time — 7g (EF, peru siecbeetls & REAL CONVERSATION OF AN ACTUAL CIRCUMSTANCE Ins GERMANY, — conrigte 1988 1 1 Tren ne. Sport Calendar| WHOLESPLE SHAKEUP IN CARDS | ISPLAHIWED BY BRANCH RICKEY ST. LOUIS, Mo., Dec. 11,—(By THE Associated Press.) — . Branch Rickey, manager of the St. Louis Cardinals, plans a **| wholesale shakeup in his team before the beginning of the ing. Meeting of Business Men's Racing association, at New Orleans. | Meeting of Cuba-American Jockey club, at Havana. | Meet'ng of Tijuana Jockey club, Tijuana. % 4 Baseball. 1923 pennant race, announcing that every member of his ‘Annut’ meeting of International | Club, with the exception of Second Baseman Rogers Hornsby, league, at New York. |“home run king”? and leading batter of the National league, Field Trials. land the catching staf?, were om the that his catching department, consist- Continental Field Trial club, at/market either for sale or trade. ing of Vernon Clemons, Eddie Ain- Badly in need of pitchers, the Smith and Harry McCurdy, was not Cardinal pilot declared his intention on the block, of buying and trading players in Rickey and Samuel Dreadon, pres!- order to build up the hurling staff, dent of the club, refuse to make any Guerrytown, Ala. Billiards. Iiiinols amateur champlonship tour- nament, at Rockford. Wrestling. which for several seasons has been predictions as regards the prospects pay! Walle’ a Stay | Bicarbr, the club's weakest point. jof the Cardinals for next year, but Kansas City. Ri * | Rickey has signed up dozen re-/are hopeful the team will equal and ets pantie, lcruit twirlers, who are to be taken better the showing of 1922. on the spring training trip to Braden-| sive he LA ASE Charley Beecher vs. Frankie Garcia, hensvs town, Fla. A number of players also! gaye $5 to $25 on a. bed spri ih yunds, at Nev x i spring an 10 rounds, at New York. iy Mandel!,| ave been recalled. ‘The new hurlers mattress. ‘Try us once. Graham- pay -ty abies tegl bs ‘\inelude: Scott, McKee, Wigg’ngton, |Shields Furniture Co., successors to rounds, at ew orkid Wagner, 10|Fersuson, Manley, Sell, Dyer, Stew. Shaffer-Gay Co. 12-10-38t ence ties Wagner, 101+ and Riviere, righthanders, and TOUDRS AD ENT ore Workmen tn arsenic mines, have ts | Ward, Batley and Lovich, lefthanders, il from smalier middle-western| take every precaution to prevent leagues. | chemeeives becoming poisoned. Thev | Batting power was given the credit work with bandages over their noses ltur carrying the Cardinals into a tle! and mouths to keep away the arsenic h Pittsburgh for third place last. ¢u Johnny Curtin vs. Pee Wee Kaiser, 10 rounds, at New York. Lou Bogash vs. Tommy Loughran, 8 rounds, at Philadelphia. Sailor Friedman vs. Pete Latzo, 8 rounds, at Philadelphia. _ By Brigg: AGAIN, FRENCH JOURNAL ASSERTS | Life, French Idol Declases in Telegram Offer- ing to Fight Again at Any Tim. PARIS, Dec. 11.—A second Carpentier-Siki fight seems to be a certainty, according to Le Journal, which points out that President Rousseau of the boxing federation is inclined to be clement toward the Senegalese. |upon my return to Paris this evening.” Carpentier tele- [graphed Le Journal from Brighton.; |Engiand, last night. “Please say} that to beat Siki would be the great 4st Joy of my life,” the telegram fail Itadded that Georges was to get the Posed fn running trunks for opinion of surgeons as to the condi- paper photographer to illust: tion of hia hands, which were injursa !¢%. Dorothy 19-y Because she dreamed of a broad. a it his bout with Silk. athlete and sophomore-at the Un ‘A report Je current that Sikt has! Y°TMty Of Washington, was called Gieappenred but neither hia friends 7 ine: caret” by the college su thorities. nor the polico seem unduly alarmed. _ CURPENTIER AND SIKITOMEET Beat Sengalese Would Be Greatest Joy of His| “I will box Siki under any condition at a date to be fixed | ened field for women .athletes and / ‘Golf Entrants Are Restricted NEW YORK, Dec. 11.—Decision to restrict competition in the women’s national ¢>lf championship to players nt of not more than has been a.mounced committee of the Golf association. Side events held at the women's national championship will be iimited to @ match against women's par, a best ball foursome and a mixed four- some. ek he oO as | DENVER, Colo., Dec. 11—Chieago | university has offered the Colorado Agricultural college football eleven @ game on Ocober 6 at Stagg field according to an announcemen: | made here today by Coach Harry Hughes of the agricultural college, im attendance at the annual sched- ule meeting of the coaches of the Rocky Mountain conference. Coach Hughes has not announced accept- | ance of the game but conference officials stated that it probably would be accepted. — 350,000 more London has nearly women than men. The newspapers suggest that he hax been spirited away from the clutches of interviewers. Siki offered today to deny in per son that he had cmmitted suicide or that he had been thrown into the Seine, as had been widely reported, Sikt was limping painfully *in hix right leg us he left his suburban home and walked to the city gate, where he entered an automobile and disappeared, He avolded any explan ation of the cause of bis limp which apparently accounted for reports that he had been thrown int the river. The Senegalese was absent yester- day and today from his habitual haunts tn the ne'ghborhood of the Avenue Orleans. His wife explained that he stayed home Sunday to play ] With his dog. |Sprint Record | Is Discussed) | 1 a LOS ANGELES, 11. — The Southern Pacific association of the Amateur Athletic union, will meet here tonight to discuss the refusal by the National A. A. U. to recogiize records made _y Charles W. PaCdock world’s sprint champion, at Santa Barbar, Cal., las: July. PORTLAND, ORE—Chares Eck- ert, right handed pitcher has been purchased from the the Pacific coast league. PRINCETON—Fifty under of Princeton _untversity gradu at Postoffice PUBLIC checks colds before they de- velop into serious aliments, It soothes tired, scratchy throats, loosens dieagreeable phicgm and soon breaks up the cold. Now—don’t let your cold Hinges on—ask your druggist for NEW DISCOVERY ~a syrup for coughs & colds MADE BY A COMPANY Ford and Chevrolet size, season. Ragged fielding and inferior = pitching were declared the main draw-| backs of the team, which during the early part of the season forged into, the league leadership. | Rickey has asserted that Hornsby, for whom sums ranging up to $300,000 haye been offered, was not for sale at any and even trading was out of the question. He declared also A Great Picture Is ‘‘Monte Cristo” Here Tomorrow Willie Jackson vs. Chubby Brown, 10 rounds, at Rochester. George Shade vs. Bob rounds, at Detroit. 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