Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 13, 1923, Page 11

‘COACHES RECORD BREAKING PERFORMANCES DUE TO TRAINING Athletes Show Advantage of Expert Handling. BY WALTER ECKERSALL. University and college athletes, coaches and trainers are deserving of credit for the smashing of world’s rec- ords in track and field events held so far this year and Indications’are more marks which have stood for years will go by the boards when’ the sectional intercollegiates and the national meet ere held this month and next, Record breaking performances of . University and college relay teams particularly, merits commendation be- cause the record breakers are devel- oped in the schools by competent coaches. It is no trick to gather a quartet of well known runners under the colors of some athietic club and send them after a world’s record, - It is the coach who develops the team who is deserving of credit and for this reason a recognized set of world's intercollegiate track and field records together with relay marks should be compiled. Club Athletes Hold Records. A majority of world’s and national records in the book at the present time are held by athletes who have compet- ed for athletic clubs. Few are held by perfarmers when they were at the peak of their careers in college. The coach who can take an athlete and de- velop him into a world’s record breaker . While he is still in school should be given a world of credit. The same is true of a record smashing relay team. In the majority of cases, the col- lege athlete is at the height of his career when he graduates. Naturally he likes to follow his chosen spe- clalty and signs up’ with an athletic club, whose coach {s only too glad to enroll him. In this manner athletes fre gathered from various schools, with the result the club mentor has an all-star team, one which was de- veloped by the college coaches. Little credit is due such a mentor. All he is compelled to do is to have the athletes train properly and send them after records. They know pace and how to judge it. They know all the tricks of the racing game and upon their ebility to run true to form hinges the possibility of a rec- ord breaking performance, Hiini Team Gets Record. University of Illinois team estab- Ushed a new world’s record for the 440 yard relay at the recent Drake relay games. Coach Harry Gill's quartet composed of Sweet, Evans, Hughes, and Ayres stepped the dis- tance in 423-10. The old mark was 424-10 and was made by a picked team composed of B. D. Wefers Jr., F. K. Lovejoy, H. Ray, and Ed Farrell. The university team was developed by Harry Gill, a most competent coach. ‘The Orange and Blue mentor worked conscientiously with his runners and their record in a large measure was due to their faultless pickups. Their exchange of the batons was perfect and each succeeding runner was going at almost top speed when he crossed the line ten yards in advance of the starting point, but well within the twenty yard zone allowed for the ex- change of batons. In the same set of games, the Uni- versity of Iowa quartet, composed of Morrow, Noll, Brookins, and Wilson, won the one mile relay in 3:16 9-10, one-tenth of a second slower than the world’s record made by a picked tearm made up of Earl Eby, C. D. Rodgers, Lawrence Brown, and Robert Maxam. ‘The latter made this mark in 1921 and ran as an American Legion team. Eby, Brown, and Maxam were stars in their college days, when they ran for Pennsylvania, Hawkeyes Developed by Bresnahan. Like the Ilinois team, the Hawkeye quartet was developed in college by George Bresnahan, a capable coach who ran under the colors of the Uni- versity of Wisconsin a few years aro. According to college coaches, the Hawkeye mark is a world’s intercol- legiate record and a most meritorious performance which should be tabu- lated at least alongside the world’s mark made by a picked, quartet of stars. Penn State broke the world’s two mile relay record in the annual Penn games on Franklin field by negotiating the distance in 7:484-5. The state team was composed of Carter, Edger- ton, Enck and Helfrich. The former mark was 7:49 2-5 and was made by a team composed of Ted Meredith, J, C. Holden, EH. W. McMullen, and L. A, Browa in 1922. In the Drake relay games of 1923 the University of Illinois four mile team hung up a world’s record of 16401-5. This squad was made up of Howard Yates, B. Patterson, G. Mc- Ginnis and R. Wharton. It was a merl- torious performance, one of the most brilliant of the year. Mark Is Doomed. ‘The mark, however, appears doomed this fall when the National A. A. U. track and field champlonships will be held in Chicago, The Illinois A. C, of Chicago with three of the best mil- ers in the country competing under its colors and another ready to join when © college year ends next month, nould crack the mark, Joie Ray, the world's premier per- former over the distance, will run an- chor on the mM. y Buker of Bates college, one of the best in the east two years ago, who has been stepping miles better than 4:20, and Ray Wat- son, formerly of the Kansas Agricul- tural college, form a great trio of milers. Eagle Krogh, tho star Univer- sity of Chicago miler, will be the fourth man according to present plans, At the Drake games Ray ran a mile in 4:15, Buker was within a second behind. At a recent interscholastic meet Ray stepped the mile in 4:16. Buker was two yards back and Watson WILLIE KAMM. VALUE OF CARD COMBINATIONS MUST BE KNOWN BY SUC- CESSFUL PLAYERS, NOWING the value of card com- binations is only part of the duty of a successful player. Cajculating the effecteof your play upon the minds of your adver- sarles must be considered at all times. In many deals the psychological ele- ment is of more importance than any other, as is shown in the deal which follows: None, DJ, 9, 0, 5, 3. S—K, 10, 8, 6, 3. HA. C9, 7, 5, 4. D—-10, 8, 7. Score, 0—0. West dealt and bid one no trump. which Glosed the ‘bidding, “North had the original ad. AS West sectired ten tricks. The only certain tricks which the declarer could see when the deal opened were five in the club suit and three dia- monds, which, of course, was insufil- cient. Had he gone at.once to his club suit after winning with the ace of dia- monds, the opponents would have switched to spades as soon as the heart it was broached, ‘The only way in which the declarer could have avoided the menace of the spade suit was to make the diamonds more attractive to whichever opponent happened to hold the ace of hearts. He therefore played the queen of dia- monds on the ace, deliberately sacrific- ing a trick in the diamond suit, and led hearts instead of clubs at trick two, From the viewpoint of south at trick two, it Would appear that there was something wrong. with the club sult in the declarer’s hand, in which case west would probably be strong in spades, Also as north apparently had a very long suit of diamonds, which one mors lead would establish, south 8, Ww. D7 pa HA HT DLO DK ac ac 6c EC 70 Jo. 9c ac as J3 63 HO 1 83 uQ 1 Ds HE 1 103 Dt 1 93 ES pa did not dare switch to spades at trick three. The rest was, of course, easy for the declarer, who secured one trick more than the coveted number which meant the game, instead of being one trick short, as would have happened had he tried to ba piggish in the dia- mond suit. Tho next deal deals with the old subject of cards of exit. THE HANDS, 8-10, 4. Score, 0—0. West dealt and bid one no trump, which Glosed the bidding. North had the initial lead. 8. Ww. HA HO 68 3S Ds «DO Ds DK DA Ds As 58 93 Qs 20 6c 28 73 oc Ag jo 100 83 bing 70 HE i HQ ‘West secured seven tricks. It was better for south to allow the no trump bid to stand with every prospect of saving the gume than to double or bid spades, but in spite of the good hand held by south, the de- clarer would have achieved game ex- cept for the brilliant play of north at trick ten. ‘The play of the first two tricks ciear- ly revealed to north, the king and jack ot hearts in the west hand, therefore, the paramount duty of north was to ayold a second lead of hearts. There was no difficulty about that in the early stages of the deal as north did no leading whatever, being unable to win a trick. He still refused to win one® trick, however, by throwing his. winning club on declarer’s ace and keeping a card of exit, in order to avoid leading into the heart tenace. Declarer could have made his king of hearts and se- cured one more trick, but it would have done him no good, but he still hoped at trick eleven that north might hold the knave of clubs. about three yards back of Buker. Therefore it will be readily seen the world’s record made by the developed University of Illinois team fs in seri- ous danger by a squad composed of picked stars. Colleges and A. A. U, Tangled. Colleges and the A. A. U, are now tangled in a row over the Charley Pad- dock case. The A. A. U. could not exist if it were not for the colleges, and it fs high time officials of the universities and colleges got together, compiled a Ust of world’s intercollegiate records of their own, and let the general pub- Nc Judge which are the better perform- ances from the standpoints of develop- ment and pure amateurism, Canadians Want Lacrosse on Olympic Programs The inclusion of lacrosse, Canada’ national game, in future Olymple pro- grams will be urged by officials of the Canadian Amateur Lacrosse aasocia- tion when the Canadian Olympic com- mittee meets in Winnipeg in the near future. Tate Brady Said to. Be Greatest Soccer Fullback Secretary Thomas W. Cahill of the United States fooball association, the governing body of the soccer game, says Capt. Tate Brady of the nation- al champion Soullin team of St. Louis is the greatest fullback in the country. EVERETT SCOTT BEGINS CAREER WITH KOKOMO Everett Scott, dependable infielder of the Yanks, whose record of playing in 1,000 consecutive games in a major league, 1s one of the most remarkable achievements in baseball. He began his career in 1909 as a member of the Kokomo club of the Northern Indiana league and before the season ended shifted to the Fairmont club of the Pennsylvania - West Virginia circuit. From 1910 through 1912 he belonged to Youngstown of the Ohio-Pennsyl- vania and Central leagues. In 1918 he Joined the Red Sox, but was trans- ferred to St. Paul of the American as- sociation, In 1914 he went back to the American league with the Red Sox, with whom he remained until last year, when he went to the Yankees in a trade. Scott began hid remarkable consec- utive game record June 20, 1916. He played through a string of 103 that season. He was in 157 games in 1917, 126 in 1918, 138 in 1919, 154 in 1920, 154 in 1921 and 164 in 1922, giving him @ total of 986 to start the present sea- son. His fourteenth of the current campaign brings his record to 1,000. Scott was born in Bluffton, Ind., Nov. 19, 1892, He is five feet nine inches tall and welghs about 165 pounds, $2,000 ELSH SHINES BESIDE $100,000 KAMM To revise an old saying, “ Baseball makes strange bed fellows.” Here we have with the White Sox the great ‘Willie Kamm, acquired at an expendi- ture of $100,000, Also we have with the same crew one Roy Elsh, picked out of the minors for the nominal sum of $2,500, but despite the discrepancy in their costs the latter {s filling the bill in his chosen position as’ satisfactorily as his more costly team mate. Since coming into the big show the two fellows have shown as much dif- ference in temperament as there was difference in their purchase prices. Kamm ts a quiet fellow, possibly a bit too retiring for his own good. On the other hand, Elsh is of the rough and ready sort, not afraid to make himself heard, and willing to take a chance. Stealing Bases a Specialty. It is this kink in his nature that accounts for his persistent stealing of bases, particularly of third. He has pilfered this bag several times and onde saw an opening that started. him on a steal] for home, He made it. Elsh, so far, has shown no weak- ness that will eventually put him back on the bench. He has fielded flawless- ly In ieft fleld and the failing he was supposed to have on ground balls hasn't cropped up. On the contrary, his speed in getting over the ground and smothering a bounder has held down many a hit. In addition he has shown great throwing skill, not only for distance, but for accuracy. Kamm Not Spectacular. Kamm, although not spectacular, ia a great ball player. He fields even emingly impossible chances ‘with no apparent effort and because of this ease of action many may be inclined to overlook his real worth. Even his throwing is done without hurrying. At bat he has done all that could be expected of him and if he finishes the season under the .300 mark more than one expert will be surprised. All of which causes the quiz: Do you know that less than $35,000 was paid for the fifteen starriest stars in baseball today? Sisler, who perhaps would bring 300,000 if he were fit to play, didn't cost a dime. He was plucked from the campus of the University of Michigan. Rommell and Dugan also were gifts from institutions of higher schooling. Hornsby, Speaker, and Cobb cost a total of $1,700—and then developed to a point where their $ross value in the heydey of their careers was beyond $500,000, Greatest Cost Least. The highest price paid for a mem- ber of the all-star group was the $12,000, which Charley Comiskey filpped over to Milwaukee tn exchan; fov Schalk. It was large cash in those days of eleven years ago—but it was money well spent. Roush made a double barreled entry into the majors, costing $3,000 the first time and $7,200 upon the second advent, In 1913 Eddie was sold for $3,000 to the White Sox, They found him a bit Rreen and turned him back, ' When they recalled him {n 1914 he wouldn't report and jumped to the Feds, When the Feds went out of business Eddie Was sold to the Giants for $7,200 by the Feds. Here are fifteen men who make up the all-star team in baseball today— fifteon men who cost the mafor leagues $34,000. ‘Think of these fifteen and $34,000—~ then think of Kamm for $100,000—and then you'll concede that baseball, {n a financial way, has changed some. ENLARGE POLO GROUNDS. ‘The world's champion Giants will seat 54.500 fans in the Polo grounds towards ‘The. bleachers no ‘of June, only 5 MUST BE HALTED FOR GAME’S GOOD Campaign Started by Lan- dis Should Continue. BY I. E. SANBORN. None too soon did organized base ball launch its active campaign tn Chicago against the promoters of baseball pools, and once inaugurated it cannot be pushed too strenuously by Commissioner Landis for the good of the game. Straws in the wind which are danger signals to those con- versant with history in the world of Sport were the bill to abolish Sunday baseball in Illinois and the fate that met the attempt to legalize Sunday games in Connecticut. True enough, the movement to establish a blue Sunday in Illinois did hot get very far. It ran into a stone wall right away in the storm of pro- test that greeted the introduction of ® bill in the state legislature to abol- ish Sunday amusements, Public Opposition Too Strong. Public opposition was so strong the guy who introduced the proposed measure ducked into a cyclone cellar by begging permission to withdraw the bill pronto. ‘True enough, the Nutmeg state legislators passed: a bill making it possible for cities to le- galize Sunday baseball during certain hours, but the governor vetoed it on account of “outraged sentiment” which was so strong in Connecticut only @ few years ago that railroads were forbidden to run trains through the commonwealth during the daylight hours of Sunday. What would have happened’ in the Illinois legislature if public opinion had been less strongly in favor of baseball can only be guessed, but the craven subserviency of both state and national lawmakers to minorities Which make noise enough is well known. It is only necessary to hark back to the eighteenth amendment to prove it. Moreover the failurg to le- galize Sunday games in Connecticut was due to the governor's dread of a well organized minority. Baseball is Played and tolerated on the Sabbsth -in several cities of that state where the blue law advocates are too few to make themselves heard above a whisper. Steal Plenty Annually. It 1s easy to estrange public sent!- ment and baseball pools are bound to do that, if the greed of their crooked Promoters cannot be checked. They steal hundreds of thousands of dol- lars annually from the pockets of folks who cannot afford to lose them, taking their toll from suckers in the form of quarters and half dollars. No wise gamblers are fooled by the baseball pools, nor many of the fans who can afford to pay tribute to the lottery sharks. And when the wives and other dependents of the suckers begin to complain loudly enough inst being deprived of necessities or comforts there will be created a Public sentiment adverse to baseball. Baseball will not be in any way responsible for this adverse clamor, because it has been powerless hitherto to curb the operations of the pools. It will be blamed, however, because it is the unwilling backbone of the rob- ber syndicates which operate the lot- pressed victims of these sharks will be an attack on the revenues of pro- fessional baseball. The strongest weapon the diamond magnates can uso against the lottery which has been fastened on their sport is publicity and lots of it. If the deluded fans who buy baseball pool tickets knew about all the crooked schemes used to deprive them of even the ridiculously small chance they would have to win in a legitl- mately and honestly conducted lot- tery, there would be fewer suckers to gorge the pockets of the operators. . Law. Violation No Cure. Making baseball pools hazardous to play on account of their violation of the laws would not cure the evil It would only enhance the zest of the players, just as prohibition has made Grink attractive to many who never cared for it until it became “ forbidden fruit.” Exposing the truth about baseball pools will be much more effective, be- cause even a sucker hates to recos- nize himself as such and he could not help it if he realized the kind of game he ts up against every time ho digs up a bit of coin to buy a pool ticket. The Old Copyreader “Many a story is hopelessly written, but the story of life is hopelessly rotten.” DISILLUSION. ‘The city’s tall, imposing towers, Its narrow, yawning chasms Enchanted me—for hours and hours T'd work myself to spasms By reading of it; I would pore ‘O’er prints by men who draw It. But that was years ago, before T saw it, The Auditorium’s array Of songbirds histrionic In fancy soothed me, day by day, With arias euphonie; cir melody was never still, Imagination spurred it; Grand opera was grand, until I heard It, ‘The old, off tale of man and mi In sweetness hind no equal; I gave it falihtul accolade Until X learned the sequels Love was a thing where wi There seemed no nad But there was years be A sample. * And so it goes; for hopes we fall Played Up by youthful rumors, But, one by ene, wo find that all Are bieomer. GUY Lzm. wes ample. I got RANNEY YOUNG. RANNEY YOUNG HURLS PERFECT BALL GAME Pitching the first perfect baseball game in the history of the minor leagues goes to the credit of Ranney Young, star of tho Bloomington team of the Three Eyes league, who accom- plished this extraordinary feat at Rockford May 2. Of the twenty-seven players who faced him in the game of nino innings, not one reached first base. The records of the national game show that but three other slabmen have equaled this performance, but all have been in the major leagues, Cy Young, Charles Robertson, and Addie Joss. ‘Young is the first in the minors to attain this distinction. He is college trained, coming to Bloomington a year ago from the Millikin university at De catur, where he is coach of the base ball team. Last season when he made his pro- fessional debut, he pitched two no-hit games, but later, illness affected his work and he failed to continue his former effectiveness, After his winter's rest, he claims to have recovered his former speec and believes that he will be able to con- tinue as successfully through the en- ¢ tire season. Young is 23 years of age. STORY OF THE BLACK BASS. IGGING deep in the stories of how many of our American fishes and mammals were first found and described by scientists often brings to light some interesting stories. For instance, the Washington zodlogist who years ago ran across the first specimen of that Uttle dwarf rab- bit in the west nearly had heart failure when the cook of his camp, not know- ing that this rabbit wag so valuable, camp table, thus destroying the first specimen ever taken and recognized as & new species to science. Fortunately these little rabbits, which frequent the sagebrush country, were abundant and the next day the scientist was able to get more specimens which later formed his basis for a description of a new species, *-_ * Going back in the story of the black bass brings to light equally interesting information about. the discovery of a new species. The generic name Mi- cropterus was given to the small mouth black bass by the French ichthyologist, Lacepde, in the year 1802. A specimen ‘was sent to him in Paris, although from what part of America apparently no one knows. The interesting thing about the way the fish was named Is this. The small mouth which Lace pede received had a bum dorsal fin. Some of the posterior rays of the dor- sal were detached from the rest, thus giving the fish the appearance of pos- session a short and separate fin. It was curious and you can imagine the fish experts puzzilng over that pecul- jar dorsal fin. * * Moreover, there was no group of fishes known to them in which they could classify this fish from America, 80 it was necessary to establish a new genus to take it in. Lacepede created sone called Micropterus, which means small fin, added the specific name of doiomieu as a compliment to his friend M, Dolomieu, a Frenchman who was a mineralogist of note, and thus was the small mouth bass put on the map as “the fish with the small fin.” Inci- dentally that battered bass with a bum dorsal fin is still in pretty good condi- tion in the Museum of Natural His- tory in Paris, s & In delving into the story of the large Mouth bass you again go back to this chap Lacepede, as he was the one who the world put this fish. However, this time he had no specimen t. Only a drawing and o fon formed the basis of his ption and these came from a South Carolina who called the trout-perch.” As @ reault of fish a this handle attached to the bass by this ¢ & an, Lacepede decided to the name of salmoides, salmonitke" or tro roll Here is a case where the ve: or local namo of a@ fish had © upon the sclentific naine which it received. As is well known the big-mouth 5 is Called @ trout to this day in the southern states. This is mighty confusing sometimes, but the custom goes back many years. M’GRAW PLANS TAKING TEAM TO AUSTRALIAIN'24 May Also Visit Philippines, Japan, and Hawaii. Unless his present plans are re versed, John J. McGraw, manager of the Giants, will lead a party of major league play- ers to Australia and New Zealand next winter, or during the winter of 1924, at the lat-- est. This was re vealed today by B. J. Kortlang of Sydney, who will sail tomorrow for London and Paris on a tour of the world, Mr. Kort- lang witnessed one of the Giants’ Fames at the Polo JOHN MoGRAW. grounds this week and conferred with McGraw on the proposed tour. McGraw expressed enthusiasm over the project and stated that he is anx- ious to make the trip next winter, if possible. It is probable that the team will also play in Japan, Hawall, and the Philippines. Sydney Man Suggests Trip. Mr, Kortlang ts a close friend of Mr. McGrew and took a leading part in welcoming the leader of the Giants to Australia when the local National league club and the Chicago White Sox visited the Antipodes during the winter of 1913-14. He is president of the Baseball League of Australia, which consists of eight clubs, whieh was organized this year. Interest in bascball is grewing by leaps and bounds in Australia, accord- ing to Mr, Kortlang, and the purpose of the proposed tour is to foster this interest in America’s national game and to teach the fine points of the sport to the native players. McGraw plans to take about tweaty or thirty players on the trip. They Will be selected from various majer league clubs. The leader of the Giante has already spoken to several of hip own players concerning the tour. To Distribute Leaguera. Upon thelr arrival in Australia the Players will be distributed among vart ous native teams and these teams will meet in a series of games. The pur pose of this plan is to give the native players a thorough knowledge of in- side baseball and to raise the quality of the game to a higher plane by giv- ing the Australians ss much help as Possible in the development of base ball. Untess present plans are changed, the major leaguers themselves will ag no time play as a team, but will per- bali with the various native aggrege- ions. Plans for the trip are only tm the embryonic state at present, and name of the details has yet been worked ewt. However, McGraw has asked Mr. Kert- Jang to draw up an itinerary upon his return to Australia and to make the necessary arrangements for the trip. Will Handle Details, McGraw intends to handle the @»> tails in this country, such as the players and arranging for the Party's departure. It will be neces sary, of course, to obtain permisatem for the trip trom Commissioner Lam- dis, but no diMculty ts anticipated ia that regard. The baseball ruler heart- ily indorsed the trip of a party of major league players to the orient last winter, and it is almost certain that be will gladly sancti wt ion the proposed trip WEAK EYESIGHT CAUSE MANY TO LEAVE MAJORS Baseball, in order to retain its high standard of proficiency, must take steps to conserve capable athletes, The efforts of trainers and expert- enced handlers has increased the terme of active service of the athletes ty many years. ’ In the old days when players coa- eldered baseball more of a joy ride than @ career, when they looked upem baseball as three or four years af travel and high life and a sort of vacation before tackling serious werk, the career of a player averaged lees than two years and very few men lasted ten years. Under modern conditions, with the best care and training, with expert instructions as to keeping in shape, the average players last about five years in the big show, and men who have served twelve or more seasons are not unusual. ‘The biggest loss of players is due, not to weak arms or bad legs, in spite of what some say, but to eyes. More players are lost because thelr eyes weaken than through any other.cause, and more good youngsters are barred from the pro ranks because of some eye defect than from all other causes. The manager who can invent glasses that will not break and can be used without 'danger of sertous accident to a player will have at least a 20 per cent advantage over rival teams, For there {gy no doubt that onefourth of all veteran players would see bet- ter if they used glasses while play- ing. Playground Tennis Meet Annual Event in Frisco It is expected 2 ticipated In the ‘py’ nis competition, a yearly event in San Franciseo, A total of twenty-five courts will be used. Play will be tn four classes ang @ special class for boys and girls who bave outgrown the playground stage. Singles matches will be played.