Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 28, 1923, Page 6

PAGE SIX. Casper Sunday Morning Cribune SUNDAY, JANUARY 28, 1923. QUEENAN COULD NOT THINK AT TITULAR SPEED IN RING BOUT LIGHTWEIGHT CONTENDER GREAT FIGHTER BUT MIND WAS FORGED Reason That Perry Failed to Win Title Illustrated by Poker Game in Which He Displayed the Same Slow Mental Processes. BY SIDNEY SUTHERLAND boxers why This is the sixth article on great who in their divisions, and the reasons Seven men were playing dr 1914, in Tom Davis’ club in \ card rooms adjoining a la led to win the title poker one winter night in ver, B. C., in one of the ised as a gymnasium by local and iting prize fi Of he septet at the table silent. serious, intent on the run of the cards th gambler was a fat, 1 Scotchman, named Jack the best card able was a \ pot win the dea Jack CASPER HIGHS were ne each was © opened t around agar hout bi Local Quintet Wins Fast {onenea ipa ianed reache i | the second man y's rig Game On Casper Court [there was $10 In the pot, the house By One-sided Score | man having taken out 50 cents jehips for the kitty. We will now number the players. Casper high school triumphed over |The dealer was 1; under the gun the team from Worland with a Was No. 2; McGilvray was No. 3, and 117 score in the hoop game on #0 on. No. 6 was the most silent the local high school court last night. /present. Like the others, he played The game was well fought throug 1) his shirt sleeves; but his eye shade and showed creditable aggressive /¢ mmed unusual featuros, Tile nese tactics on both sides, but demon ®1d lp, covered with ancient scars Vero twisted and Btrated a margin of skill in both the battered. His hair offensive and defensive on the side/vas graying and his hands were of Casper that assured the victory |gnaried and somewhat clumsy. for the home team after the first The Big Pot Is Opened. No. 2 opened the pot with a yellow $10 chip. McGilvray glanced at isis cards, slid them under his stack, onc raised !t $10. No. 4 dropped out. No 5 stayed. No. 6 stucted his hand a long time—he did everything dellb. erately—called, ond raised $20. No. 7 stepped out; and the dealer, tossed his into the discard, it a clgar, and settled back to watch that inevitab« gambling phenomenon—the big pot of few minutes of play. Following a fairly close first 20 minutes at the end of which the score stood 14 to 19 in favor of Casper, that team went into the second half with enthusiasm, determinatidn, and a sure eye for the basket that brought howling cheers in quick succession the Lester Casper was easily prem“r basket shooter of the even! piling up 28 points, 11 of which from field goals. Harkins of Worland was his closest competitor with 13] ‘he night. There was now £95 points including four goals from the | the center of the table, the hous: field. Post and Groves each got|™9n, No. 5, having taken out $5 three field goals, all of which were | more. ‘well put. In fact, many of the poin No. 2 saw No. 6's raise, and raised made by Casper men last night came from phenomenal shots from a dis. | vray tmmediately boosted {t $100. T! tance, and with the exception of house man grunted, took out. $10 few shorter ones made by Lester | more, anc. quit. No, 6 hesitated, e= toward the latter part of the game,| usyal, and finally contented himself the local tossers seemed to find it ‘easier to siide through the »#m from “= long shot than from a close one. Worland depended largely on Lowe as center, and Harkins, left forward, to score. The Ug center started off fell and looked like a stellar player, ut was soon tied down by close guarding. The game was featured by no ‘werious casualties, no player having t deave the floor on this account, and while there was a tendency to rough eas in some instances, it was marked ‘by clean sportsmanship, The lineup with calling. No. 2 also saw McGil vray's hike, leaving three in the race and $585 in the pot “Cards?” questioned No. 1. Each drew one. No. 2 checked it, McGflvray count- ed out and moved $300 to the middle No. 6 opened hfs cards fanwise, studied at them a long time, studied his stack, and spoke for the first time in hours. “Raise it $400." No. 2 chewed hia lowed lip, took one final, hopeful, searching look at hia hand, sighed, and knocked on the Casper. F. rr. tp,| ‘ble with hia knuckles, The pot con- ; ye 25) ined $1,565. No. 5 having slipped Lester, rf ———--11 3 6 28 s20 in chips into the slot in the table ost, 3 q In front of him, Davis, If. -. o 9 ° 9 Met now pullod his cards Overbaugh, ; ; 0 | from under his stack, held them edges McGrath, rg. - 3 2} 8 | UP faces toward him, and thumbed Groves, 1g. 0 1. 0 o| the ends @ fraction if an inch apart. Brady, 1g. “o —| Then he sized up the chips before No, 6. Totals Wasa. ® “Tap you,” he sald, moving in a a an, aon: stack of browns with his thumb and 0 0 mid(le finger, meet ee ae A Little Applied Psychotogy. Lowe, c. - 3 © 4] Then quick as a flash, ignoring his atbelle gg 0 0 0] ©Pponent, he turned to No. 2, opened ae 0 0 | oUt his cards before him and whis- Hales, lg. ——. © (0 — O| Dereds layed, We canoe © 0 O| “ZL gues at that I might havo help: es —| ed these three sevens if I'd drawn Gebel om ws 56 6 37] down to them,” Retereo—Wiliam I, Rehr, Score} No. 6 heard and gritted his teeth, keoper—J. W. McIntyre. ‘Well he sald, shrugging his es shoulde: “I stayed with these aces > and kings as tong as they were worth YERO BOYS GLASS BEA it, The night’s young and there'll be other pots, That's good." 1 the lightweight championship of the Ané at that moment No, 2 under- | world, Saturday afternoon the Yebo Boy winae of the Baptist church defeated Boy Scout Troop No, 3 by a wi f a6 t the Baptist church gym Masiumn, The game was fast with Blodgett scoring the most points for the winners and Clinton Lester star ing for the losers, The \neuper Baptists Troop ‘Three | Gibson -—_____ert, ----.----Lester Blodgett io Bryan Allsmen --~ Eshelman Virgne Kelly | Dawier Davis | Red Pepper Heat | Ends Rheumatism Red Popper Rub tale frern pore, atlff, ¢ panne hurt plops that old rhgur nes ’ Whe 4 are guffering By you can hasdty , 1, just try Red Pep | per f §ou will e the quick | t relief c gs has such 5 J you apply | Rud I wil feel the | at. In threo minutes it the pore mpot through and| Pain and soreness are gone, | : Ask any good ¢ruggist for a jar| ef Rowleg Red Pepper Rub. Be sure | {4 get the genuine, with the name it himself a brown $50 chip. McGil-| Too Deliberate to Win Al Maul Kept Lost rm But ee Hitting Power Al Maul was a clever, handy hurler in the days before emery, paraffin, slippery elm, or saliva were the prin- cipal accessories of a hurler’s stock in trade. Maul pitched for many teams and had a career extending through. ut fifteen seasons. | The ‘ast four and his most succags | ful ones he got by on slow teasers. brains, and a lot of faith in his sup. port. Al had a remarkable season in | 1887. He began that season with the Nashville club of the Southern league and in the twenty-four games played » had*a batting average of .484. About sixteen big league clubs were him. Philadelphia landed him ind in the sixteen games Maul Played for the Phillies the remainder of the season he piled up a batt!, 450. One of the) greatest light- weights of his day, Perry Quee- nan, failed to reach the cham- pionship because he was always just a little be- average Leading two leagues in one -« aor the highest hind the other ; ntage in batting 4 the history her ono of hore fellow when it| “ircuits Is one of the stories to his gr children, ni came to “™think- me wore on, M 1 became a pitcher, but was a scream as n ing.” Game, skill- an. Toward the ‘fins of h's Al couldn’t hit a football with ful, and a terrific grain shovel, Yale Erecting | New Clubhouse puncher, smarter boxers made his efforts fruitless. Yale has begun the erection of a quarter-million-dollar clubhouse. It will provide 2,000 lockers. It will be of great advantage to football play ers and all the various teams using the equipment as LONG BOUT BOOMS BOX IN MEXICO CITY had only a pair of eights 1f his hand; and Perry was No his two pairs | think fast enough bad outfigured him. If Queenan had been able to thin » would have perched he couldn't his oppone' use a Old ume and the ecially middle west feme er th 900 eLtion of ing Ison 6T zenith of his ) career extended from 1896 to 1907 Record Clouded in Obscurity. Fast, a ard puncher, me as a wildcat, strong, tireless, g00d box. Perry's Known record included orles over such men as Yo Kenny, Maurice Thompson, Otto § off, Ole Oleson, Tommy White,| Olyiver Kirk, Kid Parker and: Dal Hawkins, whom he knocked out twi 1902 Queenan today 1s interested in min- ing in British Columbia; he has a fine little family, a comfortable home, anc. is doing well. Incidentally, while watking to our | hotel the next morning, McGilvray | explained why he mentioned three sevens. “I knew he had two big pairs, the | way he played them. If he'd had three's he wouldn't have held up a | kicker for a pot of that size. And if | ho'd helped he never should have hes- in {tated so long before his last raise ! The only chance I took was one in a million—that he had discarded a seven and caught one. But even in poker one has to leave something to luck!" What I had whon I Cogged it unimpprtant—but I wish I'd stuck, (The next article will tell the stor of Bud Anderson.) WALTER HAGEN 1$ TIED SAN ANTONIO, Tex, Jan. 27.— Walter Hagen, British open cham- pion, and Bill Mehlhorn, Shreveport professional, were tied tn the Te open golf championship here tonight with 279 strokes for the 72 holes, Mehlhorn missed a three foot putt on the last green, The two will play off the tle with 18 holes medal play at the Mun tomorro’ pal a A ie ih —If you are interested in Owning your own home. —If you want to have a place you can call your own. —If you want to live in the best town in Wyoming. —If you want a home you can call your own. SEE ADVERTISEMENT ON BACK OF MAIN NEWS SECTION THE MILLS CONSTRUCTION COMPANY who laid down | WITH SHREVEPRT PRO. 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The fight was a gruelling m!ll from tho start and the two fighters stood Twelve milllonaire charter members of “The Gree an exclusive Long Island golf club, will have one of the Most claborate’'y equipped links in| toe to toe for exactly two hours and | tho country, have been named as dl-| ty'rty.three minutes’ actual fighting rectors of the organization, according, ,, ne. to inoorporation papers filed in the | Over @.an0 perm eastaen county clerk's office bt cf Schiele dh ial Se ho Ist of Incorporators includes TODD 18 PROMISING Vincent Astor, ard 8, Hark 8, aeseceaneg! Cesena See ree inne! | 7M ioland VToda, = al imiamewsight Payne Whitney, all of New ° York;, ©"sl'sh boxing followers believe they Marshall Fie'd of Chicago, and Jonn | have 2 promising battler. D. Ryan of Butte, Mont ROBINSON FAST IN YOUNG. DAYS, STOLE MANY BASES Wilbert Robinson, the roly poly manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, once stole 42 bases in a season. Robbie, in his younger days, dashed around the bases faster than any oth: | er catcher in the league. In his first season os a big leaguer Robbie stole 42 bases for the Athletics in 87 games, and did it on a batting avor- age of .200, How's that for base stealing. Robinson was one of the really great catchers of the game and a catcher who wore wonderfully well. In his ly minor league days, he caught tho offerings of John kK, Tener, former governor of Pennsyl- vania, at Haverht! WIMBLEDON’S TENNIS COURT COST FORTUNE Hng‘and'’s new lawn tennis equip- ment at Wimbledon {s among tho best so far mapped out for the great sum- mer game. The center court stand cost $370,000, Masi Rowles on each package-—Ady, i ( WILLARO’S AGE AGAINST HIM Fight Followers Bothered by Years in Summing Up Fighter’s Chances. How old is Jess Willard? The rec- ord books issued at the time when Willard first made his appearance as a white hope back in 1912 have him down as 36 now. The records issued of ‘ate years make him four years older, Willard himself says he i 46, and he does not look any more than that. Willard had a year’s experlence in he ring before he madp his first ap pearance in New York in a bout with Arthur Pelky tn 1912, That would meke him 24 when New York fans tained their first sight. of h's lengthy proportions. In those da th ansas giant was a gang‘) oungster who had not obtained b full growth He was all a arms, hig. body not having kept pac with his limba. Made Debut at 23. legs Accord’ng to the record books now circulation, Willard was 283 when ho made his New York debut. If were that age he would have be developed. ard did not reach his full phys elopment until 1915, when When Wi de the title from Johnson. hé returned from Havana those who had not seen him for a year previous. ical won were sstonished the way h’s had fil'ed out. When he left New York he was as unshapely as a yearling colt. When he returned from Havana he was a perfectly pro portioned athlete. He had acquired the rounded proportions that come with maturity, Discovered Jess Fibbed. It was not until some time after he won the title that ono is alleged to have discovered that Willard was four years older than he said he was. Willard did not make ‘any strenuous effort to deny the new oge wished upon him. ‘The stories of how he, a man of 28 bad suddenly become imbued with the idea that he could win the title back for the white race and how he suc. cended made very good read'ng. They singled big Jess out as a champion among champions No one ever had won a title after starting so late in ‘ife. It ts not sur- by vrsing that WiMard did not repudiate the honors thus thrust upon h'm. It was great advertising for him, and al! showmen need advertising. | Willard always was a rather ccloriess cham pion, and the a'leged fact that he had taken up fisticuffs at an age at which many boxera think of retiring wa the most interest'ng thing about him. 220 Sount Center Street SEE OUR WINDOWS MUST BE SOLD We have a snappy line of young men’s suits, made by Kincaid- Kimball; the best lines of shoes in Casper; high grade underwear and furnishings of all kinds; and the ad man’s orders are to sell this stock at any price to move it. If our prices won’t sell the goods, they can’t be sold. Be here early Mon- day and share in these bargains. ‘SPRING JAUNTS OF MAJORS ARE PROFITABLE, NOT LIKE OLD DAYS «” WHEN IT COST MONEY TO TRAIN « BY I. E. SANBORN “ & The evolution of the major league spring training trip fur- nishes as interesting a study as its oscillation from one section of the south to another. Ten years ago the vernal jaunt in search of warm weather and physical condition was a solo affair for the majority of the teams. Now it has become a duet for most of them. Club owners and managers have! monotony of watching games bde- found {t more profitable in dollars| tween their local team and touring and in anatomical results to join| majors year after year. There w forces while in the south and travel) no interest in the result of the clash, in pairs during the. latter half of the) as the home athletes stood small training trip, Instead of playing a) chance of winning unless the majors lone hand in the effort to make the} used a lot of recruits. In the latter annual tuning up season pay for at| case the fans were cheated out of least part of ils cost. | their chance to'see the popular {dols There will be more interleague| in action. games played by major league teams With two major league teams trav- this spring than ever before, {f all! eling together and staging combats in the plans announced are consym-| different cities, the home folks are mated. Not all of them will be paired given a change of diet and a chance, off for practically the entire trip.| to see the regular teams fn action, as like the Giants and White Sox, as/a rule, They do not see the players that plan has not prove’ workable| extend themselves quite as far as if for all the alxteen teams, but there is| they were fighting for a pennant or hardly a club {n elther league which | for a first division berth, but there has not booked at least @ few games| is n lot more pep in a combat, even with one or more teams from the with noth!ng at stake, between two rival major which are conditioning !n| major league outfits than between the same secton of the south. big and litte league teams. Improves on Old System. Some of the benefits to the players So far as physical results are con-| are offset b% the constant traveling, cerned this is an improvement on the Pullmans, but the atwantages out: old system of playing - exhibition| weigh tho handicaps, judging by the games with such aggregations as| way the varlous managers are flock- could be found In the territory cov-' ing to the Idea of staging dual spring ered by the spring trip. From sucr, training trips. games the players obtained little] Starting the champlonsh'p races a more benefit than from routine lim-| week later than in recent years habs ance to bering up stunts in thelr own camps) give the players a better ct t or games between two squads of the| retain their condition after acquir- same team, The only difference was) ing tt this spring because weather the change of scenery and the avold-| conditions in the northern cities fre- ance of too great monotony | quently have been such as to set the Many leading managers are of the) athletes back quite a bit. And by giv opinion that ball players cannot work ing the climate another week in April themse:ves into good form in the) in whichgto settle down, the magnates spring except in contests that bring| have eliminated sume of that risk. out actual, sharp competition. There| ts none of that In games with class C or D league teams, no matter !f the scores are close. and some managers have advocated playing a minimum of games with minor league teams. devoting most of the spring trip to getting the men in goo¢. physical con- ltfion and leaving the rest of their tuning up to the regular champion- ship season, when one week of games| ‘Team. GQ. W. Ll. Pet ts worth more than a month of go-|Standard No. 1 6 0 1.000 ing through the motions of playing Backlogs -- - 5 1.830 minor league or independent outfits./ Standard No. 5 1 830 By hookng up on the spring trips| Methodists -- ----- 3 8 500 with major league teams from the op-| Baptists —— © 6 3-3 500 posite cireult, the players of both|American Legion --5 2 3 400 are able to get the next best thing Hiks -_ --. 5 3 3 to a championsh!p game In the way | Texas Ol -—— a8) 8 8 of keying them up to concert pitch./American Express 8 2 4 Financially it is a great ‘mprove- Kiwan's -_ — Cae nent on the old solo method. Fans Presbyterians $* 45% n_the south grew very tired of the Ohio Oil 61 5 STOCK SHOE AND CLOTHING Co. [ *