Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 27, 1923, Page 11

__ WESTERN STARS WILL STRUGGLE . FOR FIELD TITLES Ann Arbor to Be Scene of Annual Competition. BY WALTER ECKERSALL. yesterday together with those of the Missouri Valley conference, attention €f the college athletic world will be focused on Ann Arbor where the an- nual meet of the western conference will be held on Friday and Saturday. 4a a result of the individual events held in connection with the Kansas, Drake and Pena relay games, not to mention the large number of dual meets decided this spring, struggle for Premier honors will settle down to a Both squads are composed of per- formers of known ability. Fortunately for their respective schools they are competitive athie who will come through regardless of condition or stift- ness of the competition. Despite these peint winners, result of the mect will Ringe upon the ability of Coach Gill oe up points for second, third and place. GI aed Farrell Sticklers. Gm and Farrell have always been lees for balance in the makeups teams. They have laid just upon the value of a upon the winning of this reason they have athlete who has shown may draw easy quall- the 440 and 880 yard laced in heats in the es and hurdles which will enable te qualify for the finals and pos- score a point or two. ther team can be said to be woe- weak in any one event. Where @ will score five points as a result @ win, the other may offset the lue of the victory by winning sec- id and third places. In this battle Detween the two schools every point and fraction of a unit is going to court and the struggle for points in every event will be interesting to fol- joer: ry Owing to the importance of the Na- tional Collegiate track and field meet to be held in Chicago on June 15 and 16, only six non-conference institutions will be represented at Ann Arbor. Leading teams in the Missouri Valley . conference and those tn the south will at fig in Pl exif gan termed National Intercollegiate champions in their respective events. ‘Tyke Faverite in the 100. 100 yard-dash Tykle of Pur- ane, recently stepped the century J tm the world’s record time of :09 3-5 7 will mark a slight favorite id Evans of Illinois and of Wisconsin. This same quar- tet will contest for honors in the 220 Gash although Capt. Sweet of Tlineis may be added to the Illinois entry. Brookins and Wilson of Iowa may be among the starters in the fur- i ‘Wilson of Iowa looks like the best should Hagen of Northwesternt Rein- ke of Michigan appears to be the class ef the half milers. The Wolverine haw traveled the distance in faster time than any other conference per- fermer. He is big and strong, just the type for the event. Noll of Iowa is a strong possibility. Krogh of Chicago should make a great effort to win the mile, although there are eeveral other Big Ten milers who may give him a race. Isbell of is doped to take the two ‘ malle, although Wells of Illinois is ex- - a pected to be right on his heels at the _ finish. Crawford Consistent Hurdler. Crawford of Iowa, Johnson of Iii. nols and Towler of Minnésota aro a among the best of the high hurdlers. ‘The former has won the event con- ¢ ‘ sistently all spring around :15 2-5, , which is a better average than the ; others. Brookins of Iowa, who re- : cently shattered the world’s record for q } the 220 yard low barriers, appears to ‘h be in a class by himself in his spe 4 a ‘Van Orden of Michigan ts picked to win the shot put, although Lieb of "i Notre Dame and Schildauer of linois should be in the finals. Lieb looks Uke the best bet in the discus and Angier of Illinois a sure winner of the « Javelin. Hill of Ilinois looks like the class in the hammer throw. In the pole vault Brooker and Pros- wer of Michigan and Brownell and Collins of Illinois should battle {t out for first place. In the running high jamp McEliven, Smith and Nufer of Michigan, Wright and Smith of Ill nots, Platten and Donahue of Wiscon- sin and Dickson of Chicago have done the most consistent jumping all year and the points should be split up among them. Hubbard Sure Winner. Dehart Hubbard of Michigan should be a sure winner of the running broad jump. His marks are far better than these registered by other Big Ten per- formers this spring. If he is. not Placed in too many events, be may come Gangerously cloxe to breaking the world’s record of 25 feet, 3 in CHOOSING THE LURES TO CATCH THE FISH. 'T’S fun playing a scrappy fish on porty tackle, but it is also fun as- sembling the handsomest, flashiest, and most dazzling assortment of lures which, when not “ working,” can be enjoyed because of their brilliant colors if for no other reason. You know you hear of some fishermen who year after year use but two or three lures or patterns to catch their fish, but we'll wager that they have at home or else in their tackle box some of the “other kind” that are at least good to look at even if they never are put in the water. This business of collecting a pleasing assortment of lures of all kinds may be a sign of weakness, it may be rank extraya gance, but gosh! it sure is fun to look at'‘em and to use ‘em. Anyway, as one enthusiastic bait buyer said, “The fish provide me with lots of sport and amusement so why shouldn't I do my bit and entertain them by showing ‘em lots of color and lots of action through the use of several dozen differ- ent kinds of lures.” Fair enough and we're pretty much in his class, we'll admit. . * Just as long as fishermen fish and continue to tell the world of thelr prowess just that long will they con- tinue to buy lures and more lures. We have just been looking over some of them that will be used this season and talk about your birds of paradise and the 500 different kinds of humming birds—why, say, the colors on those birds aren't in it compared to the hues that are displayed in these lures which are stretched out before us right now. Most of them are fly rod lures. Cer- tainly the fly rod fans never had so many varied and effective trout and bass lures to select from as there are on the market today. No wonder more fellows are taking up this type of fish- ing each year so that they can use both kinds of rods during the course of the season. The fact that a pretty good rod can be secured at a reasonable price is another inducement to bait casters to take up this sport. Add the fact that casting clubs are anxious and willing to teach beginners and you have another incentive to starters in the fly casting game, * * ‘There has been produced an {ncreas- ing number of fly rod lures for bass during the last couple of years. And man, O man, but they are beauties as well as being mighty effective, too. Those feather minnows or feather orenos are good examples of this type of bass lure which we have in mind. Made in a number of handsome pat- terns they are so good looking that a fellow feels like buying ‘em by the box whether they catch fish or not. Then there are all kinds of floating bass bugs, that are right there on the fish catching business, too. Several lures offered to the fishermen today, al- though primarily designed for a fly rod, can by a simple manipulation be turned into effective balt rod lures which make them very handy for everybody. * * ‘The more you look at the marvelous assortment of lures from which fish- ermen can choose today the more you wonder that the fish stay sane or sen- sible year after year, The way the feathers and hair are dyed to make up dazzling fly combinations is enough to drive any fish color blind if not cuckoo, But they seem to like ‘em and even if they didn’t it sure is fun having these beautiful bass and trout lures aroun made by Gourdin of Harvard back Ur 1921, Iowa should take the one mile relay ‘with Illinois a strong favorite for sec- ond place honors. Trials in some events will be held on Friday and all finals on Saturday. ONE TEAM IN TITLE GAMES. Players of the New York and New Jersey Cricket nesociation are limited to one team in the champlonahip* games of the ajpan- ization. i New York and EUGENE CRIQUI. Chicago Have Championship Bouts Billed BY HUGH ‘Two important matches, almost neg- lected until within the last few days because of the matching of Jack Demp- sey and Tom Gibbons, will act as the curtain raisers of the series of cham- plonship bouts which will mark the summer and fall, probably terminating with the long deferred Dempsey-Harry Wills match. These matches, the first on May 29 between Champion Benny Leonard and Pinkie Mitchell in Chicago, the second, between Champion Johnny Kilbane and Eugene Criqui, the European cham- pion, in New York on June 2, have temporarily obscured interest in the heavies. The fact that the New York battle is an international one and brings to America for the first time one of the sensations of European boxing and a French lad who was extremely popular with the doughboys during the war fails to dim the importance of the fight between Leonard and Mitchell. ‘The entire middie west is interested in this match, which is in the nature of a bat- tle for revenge on the part of Mitchell —whose brother, Ritchie, went down twice before Leonard. Champion Gone Back. It Is Leonard's first fight since he suffered from an infection following a fight in which several of his teeth were knocked out, and the boxing ex- perts around New York have charged that the champion has gone back. The allegation that he cannot make the light weight without suffering serious handicap has been made for four years, Pinkle Mitchell {s out to avenge the defeats of his brother at the hands of Leonard, The last time they met, which was at Anne Morgan's benefit show in Madison Square Garden, Ritchie Mitchell was slaughtered in one of the most thrilling battles in ring history. Knocked down four times in the first round, seemingly helpless, he hit the champion on the chin with his left and knocked him for the count of nine, The champion was so nearly out that had Ritchie possessed any re- serve strength he would have won, but Leonard clung to him and_ stalled through the round, weathered the next, and finally came to himself and gave Mitchell a terrible beating. That night Pinkie, climbing into the ring to ald his battered brother, vowed that some day he would beat Leonard. This is his chance, Seventeen Years in Ring. Experts declare that Kilbane, after FULLERTON. nearly twelve years’ possession of the title and after seventéen years in the ring, has gone back and that, even at his best, he would have had a hard time beating the hard hitting, brilliant Parisian lad. Criqui is nearly five years the younger man. The fact that two box- ers, neither of them of championship caliber, have knocked him out, is argued in two ways, The admirers of the French champion declare that the defeats he suffered at the hands of Tommy Noble, who knocked him out in nineteen rounds, and by Pa! Moore, who finished him in fourteen rounds, did him more good than harm. They claim that, prior to these matches, he was unfamiliar with the American style of boxing, and un- trained at protecting himself against body punishment. They declare that, after those reverses, Criqui mastered the method of the Americans and that in addition to his terrific punching power he ‘has a clever defense, and that his work in in-fighting has shown, much improvement. Others argue the fact that two boys have beaten him decisively shows that the champion, with his ring technique, should hold the Frenchman safe, even allowing that he has gone back from his best form. The fact that Kilbane has done little fighting against the topnotch men of his class since winning the title, is held against him. Ho is 34 years of age now, which counts against him, al- though Criqui! is at the 30 year marlt himself. Kilbane Criticized. Kifbane, since he won the champion- ship from Abe Attell in 1912, has been charged repeatedly with dodging chal- lengers and the infrequency of his defense of the title have created crit!- cism. Although tn his fights of the last two years ho has not shown the speed and power he once possessed, his rec- ord is unmarred in his own class, and his only knockout was when he went out of his class to meet Benny Leonard and showed that a featherweight who weighs up into the lightweight class cannot defeat a lightweight who verges on the middleweight. Criqui’s record of knockouts, regard- less of the class of his victims, is im+ pressive. His battles during the war were witnessed by thousands of Amer- icans, who declare that the French boy hits harder than any American feath- erweight. The match is expected to draw one of the largest crowds that ever saw a boxing match in New York, ENGLISH CADDIES STICK TO JOBS FOR LIFETIME Caddying in England ie not a job reserved for kids only. It is a life time profession for some. George V, Rotan, the Texan, had a eaddy who had been carrying clubs for thirty-six years. There's a lesson in contentment and humility in that. An American starting out in life as a caddy wouldn't be satisfied after @ passage of thirty-six years if he didn't own a golf club factory, all the real estate adjoining the course where he began his career, and held & first mortgage on the property of the country club itself. Rotan, by the way, played great golf in the British meet and will be heard from frequently before the sea- son runs {ts course, British critics are commenting on the splendid sportsmanship displayed by the American invaders. It's a waste of spa American teams established their sportsmanship on a high plane yoars ago and there never has been any deviation from that standard. . COLORED LABORER DREAMS ZEV WON BETS; WINS $3,800 'ONAS MULFORD, colored day laborer, has been consulting fortune tellers for the greater part of his life with small re sults. He paid a dollar for the information that Zev would win the Derby at Louisville. He dreamed he saw the race and that Zev won. He wired his entire sav- Ings of $200 to a friend in Louis- ville to bet on Zev, He received a telegram that he had won $3,800, Mulford declares that after buying the home he has been paying rent on for several years he is going to Cincinnati on an excursion, his first vacation in fifteen years, Battling Nelson Wants * Job as Boxing Instructor Battling Nelson recently applied to Stanford university for a job as boxing instructor. Harry Maloney is the prea- ent instructor and {s filling the post satisfactorily, TWO CHAMPIONS AND THEIR CHALLENGERS WHO MEET THIS BENNY LEONARD. WEEK PINKIE MITCHELL, FOR PLAVERS OF WHIST -R.METCALFE ORDINARY DEALS YIELD SPLENDID RETURNS. HERE are many deals of a very ordinary type which, neverthe less, yield splendid returns for good play. The fatal one trick shy will keep a player in his rubber during the entire evening. The deal which follows should be studied very carefully: SK, Q. 9, 8, 6, 4. D-9, 3 Score, 0—0. West dealt and bid two mpades, which closed the bidding. North had the initial lead. 8s OW Ho OHS 20 wc 50 AC 7 HQ D DS eo Do as Qs Hs OHS AS 48 Dé DQ 6s D7 108 KS 70 D8 93 mio «bio 8s. West secured ten tricks. The first trick told the declarer that north and south each held exactly three hearts. The deuce could not be a sin- gleton or north would have bid hearts. Had south held but two, he would have played the higher first. Had north held two ho would have led the ace before the king. West had to lose two hearts and the ace of trumps, and might lose another trump and a diamond, Above all things it was necessary for him to secure two leads of trump from dummy and for this reason he began on blocking the heart sult-at trick one. North properly switched to clubs, al- though the lead was unfortunate and this gave the declarer an opportunity to get rid of one of his diamonds. The game would still have been lost if at trick four a diamond had been led* instead of the queen of hearts. After the fourth trick, though, it made no PLAYERS ABSTAIN FROM ARGUMENTS ABOUT RELIGION “Every now and then,” says Mana- ger Moran of the Cincinnati Nation- als, “you'll hear some one prattling about religious differences among ball- players, religious factions on this, that or the other club. ‘That's the worst nonsense in the world, In my opin- fon, baseball is the one best place for men of different creeds to learn re- spect for each other's doctrines, tol- eration, and broadmindedness. “I have never yet known a Catholio player who wasn't surrounded by a flock of friends on the club, all be- longing to different faiths. I have never known a Protestant player who didn't number the Catholic chaps among his best pals. I have never heard of @ manager who thought of picking his men by their religions, and I have never heard an angry word among baliplayers on account of relig- fous views. “There is no better melting pot for men of different nations than a ball club, and the same can be sald as to their creeds. Baseball is the best harmonizing force in the world, and if its theories, principles and true democracies could be appiled in every walk of life men would know, respect, and esteem one another far better. WOMEN CAUSE CHANGE IN TIME Muskegon women protested cold dinners and so it took only three days of twilight baseball for the Muskegon Mint league directors to decide against the late games. Muskegon games will now start at 3:30 p. m, difference what the opponents did as the declarer had the situation entirely under control. A delightful deal of Elwell's which was not included in any of his publica- tions {llustrates the importance of the dominant card. DoJ, 9, 4. 2. Wost dealt and bid’ one no trump: north, two hearts: east, two no trump, and the bid- ding closed. North had the original lead. THE PLAY, N ‘Tricks. HK After the first trick, the Jack of Hearts was the dominant card of the deal. The declarer was absolutely safe if North secured the lead, as only the Queen of Hearts could make, and should a trick be lost to South, North would make the entire heart suit and the declarer would lose his contract. Therefore the declarer finessed the Spade suit regardless of the fact that he held nine, including the Ace and King. If the Jack of Spades had won it was unnecessary to worry about that suit as the opponent held but two which must fall on the Ace and King. Tho declarer therefore switched to Clubs and took the double finesse, the game being an absolute certainty, pro- vided always that South was kept out of the lead. The outcome was re- markable and very clever. The Old Copyreader “Many a story is hopelessly written, but the story of life is hopelessly rotten.” A GREAT TOWN When T came rast just s year gene by Tt had been raining six months im Chi; After I lit It started to rain And It rained and it rained amd % rained again. And it’s elther been rain, sleet, slush, er snow, Or or fog since @ year ago, Botore I arrived soft coal was barred; As soon as I reached the burg the hard Stuff miners went on a strike, and thus I've reveled tn = bituminous muss, Phoebe and I are in » plight Since they balled up her Road to Anthracite, T once was = mild tncome tax fan: Paid one in Chi. But I bera To be a regular nut when I Got here. Pay two to live tn N. ¥, Gotham’s speed has given mie sour Stomach, neuritis, and aspect dour, Ingrown whiskers and outgrown grouch, old feet, and grip, Insomnia, sleepiness and the pip. Bat dally I see Manhattan's skyline And tackle the subway’s do-or-die Lines I'm trampled upon and gypped for food And live in a room like a filvver’s hood. I'm feoled by promises fellers break; Freer in the winter—in summer baker Writhe ‘neath the roar of hammer and blast And witness First Nights that should be Last, No matter hew enviows people talk ‘There's no place like little old New Yawk. GUY Ler, New York City, JAP PENN MAT CAPTAIN. fall will be captained by K. Naito, a Japancve tant bf a Ra pe REN pga a aT = ——————————————___. - — — EYES OF ATHLETIC WORLD FOCUSED ON BIG TEN MEET = ee EEE UN OIG TEN MELI PAUL SENTELLE SACRIFICES LIFE FOR BASEBALL Showed Great Courage. and Loyalty. - BY I. E. SANBORN. They might not play 1,000 consecu tive games, but more ball players. Would get closer to Everett Scott's reo- ord If they possessed the courage and © loyalty of the average major league - umpire, ‘ How many star athletes are there ; today who would go out and fill their _ Positions while suffering from an at: tack of appendicitis Ho severe that it Proved fatal, as Paul Sentelle of the National league did recently? j ‘There was no demand that Senteile | sacrifice his life for the good of base- ball. Undoubtedly he did not know he was risking it by sticking to his job. Certainly President Heydler would have forbidden him to do so if he had known the circumstances or foreseen the result. The point is not whether Umpire Sentelle was wise or foolish in refusing to quit when he was nigh unto death. Tho point is that he did it rather than leave his arbitrating part- ner to work alone or summon emer- gency help from league headquarters. Any of you readers who has suffered from even a mild attack of appendi- citis know what that means. And in & case like Sentello’s it meant days of acute suffering before he finally suc- cumbed. Should Not Risk Life. Nobody expects a ball player, star / or recruit, to risk his life to fill his Position or even to win a game, no matter how “crucial.” The club own- er and manager would be among th first to forbid such loyalty to one team. But how many players of this / day are there who will not make any glight ailment or disarrangement of their system an excuse for laying off? There are a few of them, and Everett Scott is one of them, or he never would have passed the ten century mark in consecutive games played. In my re- cent years of traveling with major league outfits scarcely a week. passed that some athlete did not report to the manager, or send word by the trainer. that he was wuffering from “cramps * and would be unable to play that day. By comparison with acute appendl- citis cramps resembles a pin prick. Today the average player thinks first of himself and after that of his team’s chances in a pennant campaign. If not in topnotch condition he realizes that his own individual record is likely to suffer, especially his batting aver- ese, if he is not fecling perfectly ft. To be sure, the great quantity of sur- , plus material carried by major league teams encourages the layoff habit, be eauso there always is a man on the bench to fill almost any possible va- ’ cancy. But the absence of a regular often means the difference between victory and defeat in a close battle. ven if the regular man were not at ! his best, that would not occasion 80 much nervousness on the part of his teammates as the presence of a new cor, Not #0 many years ago minor afl- ments did not furnish so many alfbis for not appearing in uniform. Less than twenty years ago Jimmy Calla- han played an entire Chicago city se rles with a broken bone in his wrist because the only available man to take his place was barred by the fact he ! was not eligible to a post season con- test. It would have been possible, o@ course, to play a pitcher in Callahans place and that {s probably what would have happened under the same cir- cumstances today. Gleason Played with Ribs Broken. Before that substitutes were even scarcer and Kid Gleason once played second base through an extra inning game with two broken ribs. At the Kid's request the physician who fixed up his slats strapped him with ad- hesive tape so that it did not hurt [much] to bat or run, and, as it was his left side that was injured, he still could throw by gritting his teeth every time. At that Gleason played against his manager's orders, for when the Kid reached the ball park a raw re- cruit was taking his place in the pre- liminary practice, ‘Without approaching the bench Glea- fon went out to second base and told the youngster to get off the diamond under threat of a beating if he didn’t. Back on the bench the recruit com: plained to the manager. “I thought you sald I was going to play second today, Why don’t you call Gleason in?” “You were out there,” replied the manager, “Why didn’t you send him in?” IRISH JOCKEY, 72, RARE SPECIMEN OF HARDIHOOD Ireland, long noted for the longevity of {ts people, has probably produced no rarer specimen of hardihood and “youth” than Harry Beasley, one of {ts leading Jockeys, who is now 72. For more than half a century Beasley has been winning some of the greatest races on the Irish turf. He attributes his long life to abstemious eating, tru» gal driaking, abstention from smoking, ten hours of sleep, and “trust in God." Timothy Healy, governor gen- eral of Ireland, placed the first bet of his life recently on a horse ridden by this veteran jockey, and won. “DUTCH” LEONARD BECOMES PILOT “Dutch” Leonard, former southpaw Pitcher for Detroit, is now the man- ager of the Fresno, Cal. independent lub. Leonard succeeded Walter Boles when the latter quit, following a“ run in” with “Dutch.” The ex-Tiger has been pitching for Fresno sinoe he quit organized base- bau. 5 PAS