Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 3, 1923, Page 13

NATIONAL MEET WILL DECIDE INDIVIDUAL SUPREMACY NO TROPHY FOR TEAM SCORING MOST POINTS Purpose Is to Determine Collegiate Champions. BY WALTER ECKERSALL. As a result of the sectional intercol lJegiate track and field meets, the last of which was held yesterday at Ann Arbor, winners of the various events will meet in Chicago June 15 and 16 in the National collegiate games on Stagg field to determine national in- tercollegiate individual supremacy. Unitke sectional conference meets, there will be no trophy for the team mcoring the highest number of points, ‘The sole purpos» of the national colle- giate gaines ts to determine the best collegiate performers in the country in their respective events. For years the eastern intercollegiate has been looked upon as the banner set of col- Jece games in the country, ‘With the coming of the national in- tercollegiate, however, the eastern meet has lost a lot of its importance with the result most of its best per- formers will be seen in action on Stagg field on June 15 and 16. The east can mo longer boast of track and field su- premacy. In the last three years, Unt versity of California, coached by Wal- ter Christie, has won the eastern meet, an accomplishment of which the Bears might well feel proud. Eastern Athletes Will Be Busy. Porformances registered tn the east- ern intercollegiate held at Philadelphia were no better than those made in other parts of the country and plainly indicate the far east may experience some trouble in winning its share of the contests. While it is true Califor nia won but one first in the far east, Coach Christie had enough team bal- ance to score heavily in the field events by winning second, third and fourth places. Whether his performers are strong enough to win their quota of first places in the national remains to be seen, as the Bears will receive stiff competition from athletes in the west- ern and Missouri Valley conferences. + In the eastern meet the 100 yard dash was won by Lever of Pennsylva- nia in :09 8-10. Erwin of Kansas Ag- gies took the same event in the Mis- sour! Valley games in :09 9-10. Tyle of Purdue, Ayres and Evans of IIli- nois and Spetz of Wisconsin are ex- pected to better this time. The furlong ‘went to Lovejoy of Cornell in the east- ern set of games in :21 4-5 and Erwin of Kansas Aggies took the race in the valley meet in :21 5-10. This time nhouid be bettered by Evans and Ayres of Illinois and Tyle of Purdue. Syracuse Has Star. ‘The quarter mile went to Woodring ef Syracuse in the eastern event in ™8 2-5 and to Bier of Washington tn the Missouri Valley in :49 8-10. Wilson of Iowa and Sweet of Illinois have made better time on several occasions this year. Reinke of Michigan is ex- pected to come close to the time of 135 8-10 made by Hellfrich of Penn State in the eastern meet and 1:56 6-10 made by Gardener of Nebraska in the Valley meet held at Ames. Kirby of Cornell should take the mile if he attends the Chicago meet. He won the event in the east in 4:17 4-5, which is better than any college miler in the middle west can do. Booth of Johns Hopkins won the two mile run at Philadelphia in 9:35 8-10, which should be bettered by Isbell of Michi- gan. There is little to choose between | the high hurdles of the various sec- tions. None have topped the 120 yard ' barriers in better than. :15 1-5 and this event is anybody's race. Brookins of Iowa should take the 220 yard low hurdles as his time is much better than that made by eastern and Missouri Valley conference hurd- lers. The Hawkeye !s credited with 23 for the event which is a world's record if accepted. Taylor of Prince- ton took the event in the east in + 3288-10 and Riley of Kansas Aggies was winner in the Missourl Valley con- ference in :24 2-10. Hills of Princeton Favorite. Hills of Princeton should take the shot put !f he comes to Chicago, His mark of 47 feet, 8% inches is much better than any other college man in the country has done. The same is true of Tootell of Bowdoin in the ham- mér who has a mark of 181 feet, 6% inches. Lich of Notre Dame and Platt of the University of Washington have better marks than those established in either the eastern or Missour! Valley meets. Both will be at the Chicago games. ‘The javelin throw should result In an interesting contest between Angier of IUlinols and Storrs of Yale if the latter competes. Storrs threw the spear 199 feet, 1 inch in the eastern meet while Angier holds the national record of over 200 feet in the event, ‘The pole vault will result in some {n- teresting competition and some vaulter should do better than 13 feet. Norris ef California and Owen of Pennsyl- ‘vania tied in the eastern meet at 12 Yeet, 9 inches. Rogers of Kansas did 12 feet, 6% inches to win the event in the valley meet. Brooker and Prosser of Michigan and Collins and Brownell of Illinois are capable of clearing these heights. Hubbard Choice fi Broad Jump, 4 Comins of Yale did 24 feet 4 inches ‘in the broad jump at Philadelphia, Hubbard of Michigan has the best chance to beat the Blue athlete if tho latter competes. The running high jump will bring about some stiff com: petition between Brown of Dartmouth, Poor of Kansas, Muller of California, McEllven of Michigan, Smith of Illi- nois and Donahue and Platten of Wis consin, All ure capable of doing 6 feet, 3 inches and better, Tf a majority of the winners of the yarious events {a the sectional inter- eoliegiatos coine to Chivago on June YS and i¢, tho &: meet in the history cf colleyinte track and field athletics should result, ee eee ee Gibbons makes Clifford miss a straight left to the face and whips over a right cross to the jaw. FOR PLAYERS OF WHIST by A.R. METCALF E WHIST LEAGUES MEET AT FRENCH LICK SPRINGS TOMORROW. JHE joint annual meeting of th American Whist league and the ‘Woman's Whist league will open tomorrow, June 4, at the French Lick Springs hotel, and will continue throughout the week. All the trophy contests of both leagues will be played, together with open games morning, afternoon, and evening. H. A. Mouat of Chicago is chairman of the tourna- ment committee. The following unique deal was played in Lake Forest during the last _ BQ. 8. 6. HO 10, 9, 7, 5. cy. D9, 8, 4, 2. Score: 0—0. East dealt and bid one no trump, south Passed, west bid two spades, and the bid- ding closed. North had the initial lead. ‘THE PLAY. Da HK 8C 1 2101 Wai’ secured "aight "tHicka, The no trump declaration was sound, although in two suits east had no pro- tection whatever; but it is not neces- sary to play a timid game if one is assured that his partner will take him out of a no trump declaration when holding a worthless hand. The west hand seemed to be nothing but a joke at one glance, but was really a good fighting hand, and the declarer played it perfectly, It was absolutely neces- wary to try to drop the high trumps together, despite the pitiful weakness of the west hand. But the declarer was positive that north could not hold more than four hearts, because he did not bid in that suit. It was necessary, therefore, to refuse to ruff the third round of hearts in order to get the last heart out of the north hand. It was also necessary for the declarer to lead his last trump at trick seven. Had east not bid no trump originally, north and south would easily have made game at hearts. WALTER SCHANG IS “IRON MAN” OF BASEBALL WORLD “Sandow” Schang, they call him— with the accent on the “ sand.” Meaning Walter, who catches for the Yankees. That's just one of the names. Inelegant but expressive ball- players refer to him as a tough bird, a fighting freak and as having “more nerve than a burglar.” Sometimes he's called worse than that, especially when he blocks off an ambitious base runner at the plate. Schang does that. He's not afraid of shoots, slams, or spikes. ‘That's the reason why hescaught two games on the last western trip of the Yankees with a cracked rib and the muscles torn from several others. ‘Two assistant catchers were shot from under Miller Huggins, and Schang had to get in the game, Nothing at all in Schang’s life, says Ed Barrow, who used to be his man- ager in Boston. It seems that Walter got a bad break on the wrist one day, and they looked about for another catcher. None was in sight. “Go ahead and catch,” said Barrow, “you can do it. We'll have an X-ray taken tonight and see what's the mat+ ter. : So Schang caught. That night they took the X-ray. It showed no brealr then, but it did show one, knit and healed, of three months before, ‘The “Iron Man" had been catching three months, day in and day out, with a broken arm. Sculling Champion to Wear Colors of New Penn A. C. Jack Kelly, former United States sculling and present Olympic champion, will Wear the colors of the Penn A. C., the new organization, which plans a modern building and clubhouse for the Quaker city. penmermer MEAN LREART: Wik Gibbons steps outside Clifford’s straight left to the face and shoots right uppercut to the chin. Gibbons evades straight right to face by Clifford and hooks his left to Clifford's liver. s left to the face. Gibbons steps inside of Clifford's left lead to the head and drives a right to the heart. Tommy Gibbons Tells How He Expects to Win Championship from Jack Dempsey I Have been asked to tell my plan of battle and discuss my chances in my fight with Jack Dempsey for the world's heavyweight championship at Shelby, Mont., July 4, but before plung- ing into detail on the contest itself I wish to make this polnt clear: I am - Boing into the ring determined to win the championship, not merely to ob- tain the loser’s share of the purse, Dempsey {s a great fighter and a great champion. J will concede that, but he is only human, Likewise, he can be knocked out. The ring has yet to produce a fighter who could not be knocked out if hit on the right spot, Carpentier Had Dempsey Groggy. I know Dempsey can be hurt be- cause I saw Georges Carpentler have him groggy in the second round of their fight at Jersey City. ‘The champion denied that the punch dazed him, but I knew! better, and so did every spectator at the ringside. I was sitting where I could watch Jack's face, and immediately after the punch landed his eyes took on a glassy stare, his knees buckled under him, and he staggered forward in a desperate at- temnt to clinch. Right there the Frenchman lost his opportunity to win the title because he didn't know what to do in a critical moment. Instead of tipping back Dempsey’s head with a straight left and measuring him for a right cross, he threw two wild right handers at Jack's Jaw and the champion, through more luck than skill, barely managed to evade the blows, slipped inside and clinched with Georges until his brain had cleared. Dempsey Best in Clinches. T discovered this fact at Jersey City; Dempsey inflicts most of his punish- ment at.close quarters. He is a great infighter, but is just an ordinary per- SUZANNE LENGLEN IS PASSWORD AT ST.CLOUD GATE “Your card, please,” said the offi- celal on duty at the gate leading to the players’ and press stand at the tennis courts as a dark, alert young woman walked in a sprightly manner past the Cerberus during last week's inter- national hard court tennis champton- ships at St. Cloud. “Why, I am Mlle. Lenglen,” ex- claimed the young woman, “You myst be triplets, then,” re- torted the official. “You are the third young woman who has saying she was Mile. Lenglen No. 3, however, t ppened to be the real one, and Suzanne ap- peared greatly vex “I suppose I will have to ewry my birth certificate around with me herp- after,” Suzanne remarked to « friend as she took her seat in the press stand, BY TOMMY GIBBONS. former at long range boxing. Carpen- ter fought Dempsey wrong. To date, Dempsey has forced his op- ponents to fight him his way. I will box him my way and will make every effort to break up his attack. Jack makes his rivals lead and then beats them to the punch with counterblows. I expect to spoil his offense by feinting. Missing Heavy Blows Weakening. Dempsey puts every ounce of his Weight and strength back of each wal- lop. Every blow is ticketed for a knockout with him. It is more weak. ening to miss a punch than to land it. I will endeavor to make Jack miss as many punches as possible. I do not intend to rush into Dempsey and fight him toe to toe in the early rounds. That would be the height of folly. I will do my share of milling, but I may elect to permit Dempsey to force the pace, Wide Open for Straight Left. Dempsey carries his hands rather low and, unless I am greatly mistaken, it should not be very difficult for me to keep him at bay by jabbing and hooking him with my left. Dempsey’s long layoff has not done him any good. It must be remembered that he has not had a fight in two years, <A boxer loses his “eye” after such a long period of inactivity. He may get into excellent condition fol- lowing a long course of training and may look good and feel good, but he will discover in actual combat that fighting in the ring with a determined rival and boxing with mediocre spar ring partners are two vastly different things. All I have to do {s sufMicient training to hold my edge, whereas Dempsey will have to undergo a gruelling grind to get into condition. He will have to do in six weeks’ time what I have spread over a period of two years. Where Dempsey will rob himself of much of his vitality by heavy training, I will be able to nurse my strength and stamina, I have weighed about 172 pounds for most of my fights during the past year, but I expect to weigh 178 pounds when I enter the ring. Dempsey’s Body Target. When the boxer has been out of tho ring as long as Dempsey, it is a safo guess that body blows will bother him considerably. One solid punch over the liver, in the pit of the stomach, or over the heart causes more damage than a dozen blows to the face. A fighter can shake off the effects of a punch to the Jaw, but a vicious blow to the body par- alyzes the legs and takes the gimp out of him generally. I have crippled most of my opponents with left hooks over the liver. This is a most effective punch and prepares many of my knockout victims for the finishing blow, usually a left hook or aright uppercut to the jaw. These are the blows with which I hope to conquer Dempsey. Gets Plenty of Sleep. Now, just a few words about my training methods and diet. When Iam training for a fight I usually retire be- tween 10 and 11 p. m., read for an hour or 80, and arise between 8 and 9 a. m. I believe in plenty of rest. For break- fast I have prunes or grapefruit, soft boiled eggs, dry toast and milk. An hour or so later I go on the road for a five mile jaunt. I usually walk two blocks and sprint one. After a shower bath and rubdown I partake of a Nght luncheon of practically the same kind of foods I have for breakfast. I start my gymnasium work at 3 p. m. and go at top speed for from forty to fifty minutes. Then I rest until dinner time, which fs never later than 6:30 p. m. This consists of broiled steak or lamb chops, rare, vegetables in season, usually as- paragus and head lettuce, botlea or baked potatoes, milk, and a dessert of custard, baked apple, or prunes, I never drink tea or coffee. I expect to have six sparring part- ners. I will use Jack Clifford of St. Paul, Joo Burek of Detrolt, Mich.; Harry Foley of Hot Springs, and Char- ley Herman of Butte for the heavy work, and Jimmy Delaney and Jock Malone of St. Paul for speed, COMMEMORATE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF BIG RACE ON UNION COURSE in America” was com memorated in the church- yard of St, Paul's chapel in New York recently when a group of turfmen, including Au- gust Belmont, laid roses over the gravestone of Samuel Purdy. One hundred years ago Purdy, an amateur jockey who was a con- tractor and a member of the board of aldermen, rode Eclipse to vic- tory over Sir Henry at the Union course on Long island in a match for $20,000 a side. The services were arranged by Harry Worces- ter Smith, well known sportsman of Worcester, Mass., and were also attended by Mrs, mes Teackle, -granddaughter of Purdy, and Piatt, his great-great-grand- KILBANE PINCHED FOR CLIMBING TREES IN PARK Johnny Kilbane, featherweight cham- pion, was arrested and then released as he took his morning’s exercise in Central park. While the silver champion climbed trees for the of photographers, two officers arrested him. Kilbane’s plea¥ and his efforts at identification were answered, “Tell it to the judge." To Johnny it looked as if he would be dragged into court until the photographers, having ob- tained all the pictures they needed, ef- fected his release, New Cinder Track at . * Syracuse for Rainy Days Now York State Fair grounds at Syr- acuse, where the Grand Circult stars perform, will add a cinder track Inside the regulation mile course for rainy day racing. . Gibbons beats Clifford to the punch with a straight ANOTHER CANOE TRIP WITH FISHING ON THE SIDE. HEN you stop to figure out the popularity of canoeing you realize that this sport is really one that has been sort of “bred in the race.” It tormerly was the only means of travel and com- municiation here in the middle west and in the days of the French explor- ers the canoe was worth its weight in gold. Many a river In this country that isa favorite today for the canoeist was first explored by men in a crude yet beautiful canoe. So in looking over the history of the use of this type of water- craft you find plenty of romance sur- rounding it. There was romance and thrills a-plenty in the old daye when traveling In a canoe. But you can still find “them things” today if you want to hit the flowing road in some parts of this country. * 8 ‘Wisconsin, famous for the canoe his- tory It has made, is rich in water routes over which you can wield your paddle. You can reach them elther by automobile or railroad. One of the old favorites 1s a ficat down the Wis- consin river from Conover. If you want a comparatively easy jaunt with minimum amount of portaging this is the route you'd better try. You can ship your canoe to Conover and there buy your grub. Putting in at this town you can float and paddle over a mighty pretty stretch of water which offers good fishing. It is not a case of loafing along on sluggish water, either, If you like to get a kick out of canoe- ing by shooting rapids you will have an opportunity for a little of this ex- citement on this trip as there are a couple of swift stretches that will make you keep your eye on the ball, * * However, tf you know anything about canoeing you can embark on this trip without a guide as the Wisconsin river between Conover and Rhine- lander is not a stretch that has a lot of rapids demanding expert guiding and handling of a canoe. This trip can take most any amount of time you choose, If you are a real water dog and like to loaf along fishing nearly every likely looking spot better plan on taking a couple of weeks for this jaunt. Anyway, who wants to hurry on a canse trip? When you have to wield a paddle if you were goin’ to a fire it's more Work than fun, Noth- ing like having lots of time for a water trip. Then when you hit a particularly inviting spot for camping and the fishing is good—why, you can take it easy, g0 fishin’ and let the water in the river roll by. * * A different type of canoe trip, one which consists mostly of paddling over placid Jakes and with more portaging, is that jaunt from the Lac du Flam- beau to Horsehead lake. You can ship your ship to the Lac du Flambeau sta- tion, get a haul from there to the lake of that name and you are ready to start. Or you can ship your canoe to ‘Winegar and finish up at the Flam- beau [see map in the automobile sec- tion of today’s Tribune]. This route between Lac du Flambeau and Horse head lake is a dandy, takes you through part of an Indian reservation, means traversing nineteen lakes and offers corking fine fishing. = You pass through some pretty wild stretches, too. But to make the entire Jaunt means five portages. Not many, to be sure, but one of them [Swamp lake to Trout river) is a pretty long one. But there are many variations in routes in this section so that you can canoe without many portages. For instance, you can start at Horsehead instead of in Lac du Flambeau and work down through Armour, Little Crab, Crab, and Round lakes, then through Rice creek on into Island lake. {For this jaunt ship your canoe to Winegar, Wisconsin.] Here you are in the Manitowish waters and through this connected chain of lakes you can get all the cruising and fishing you want without a long portage such as must be made from Swamp lake to the Trout river. THREE MINISTERS TO SEE GIBBONS FIGHT DEMPSEY. Three ministers, members of the Methodist Episcopal church in Mon- tana, will attend the championship fight between Jack Dempsey and Tom Gibbons at Shelby, July 4. The min- isters will be there as an official com- mittee of the chureh. It was naid that the committee of pastors “ proposes to seo exactly what happens at this prize fight.” SLUGGER BETTER ATTRACTIONTHAN ATWIRLING ACE Home Run Hitters in the Game the Most. BY I. E. SANBORN. At the gate the home run hero fs a” better drawing card than the star pitcher, regarding them as individuals, in spite of the decrease in the crop of four baggers this year. The slugger is in there every day, unless hurt, and liable to poke one over the fence any inning, while the hurler works only every fourth or fifth day and cannot be doped out as a sure starter !n advance of any contest. Con- sequently the bugs who go to a ball Kaine to see some one personage per- form are lured by the regular guy. The pitcher still remains the back- bone of the team, however, regarding him Individually or collectively. Games are won by runs, not by base hits or even by bome runs, except occasional- ly. And the pitcher who can keep the other fellows from making too many runs is a greater asset in a pennant race than the slugger, unless he be an exceptional batsman who can make his hits where they mean runs, That makes the pitcher, collectively speaking, the best drawing card at the gate because no team can stay in the first division without a strong, depend- able slab staff and fewer folks will turn out to see a tall end team which con- tains a Babe Ruth than a leading club without an individual star, if such a team can be put together, Good Twirlers Continue to Win.” So the competent hurler goes merrily along in spite of all efforts to reduce his power to determine the possession of pennants; in spite of the elimina- tion of fancy deliveries, the introduc- tion of liveller spheres—and every- thing. Since the peak of the slugging era was passed the slabmen have been regaining gradually their supremacy during the last two seasons, Another decade without changing existing conditions in the game Will almost surely produce a return of the airtight combats which once enabled @ team of hitless wonders to annex a league championship and world’s pen- nant. That was the Fielder Jones out- fit of White Sox whose ability to achieve tallies without swats led to coining the jocose formula for their “batting rally" which consisted of a base on balls, a stolen base, an infleld out and a long fly. Pitching supremacy depends less on the invention of freak shoots or what is under the cover of the ball than on what {s beneath the skin of the slab artist. A stout heart backed by baseball brains are better assets for @ hurler than a wide assortment of mechanical goods. No Freak Delivery for Aces. ‘Take a couple of aces from the two majors for illustration—AlJexander and Johnson. Neither of them ever monkeyed with freak stuff. I doubt if either of them ever threw a spitter in a championship game, although both may have fooled around with it out of curlosity. Some have attributed Johnson's great success to his tremendous speed. There have been slabmen who never got beyond the spring training trip of @ major league who could throw a ball as fast as Johnson or Alexander can. But it didn’t look as fast to the bats- man. ‘That covers the whole territory in the slabbing domain—the ability to put @ fast ball or a slow one where you ‘want to and the courage to do it. The latter 1s more inrportaw’ than the former, for many a pitcher has pos- sessed almost perfect control yet lacked the nerve to put one over in a Pinch. Roger Bresnahan, once a fight- ing backstop, always contended that lack of control in a pitcher of any ex- perlence was merely lack of nerve. Heart and Brain Win. Ago does not send the pitcher with @ heart and a brain to the scrap heap as early as the others, Alexander, al- though on the down grade fn years, set up a mark to shoot at when he started this season with a string of consecu- tive innings without passing a bats- man, either on four balls or by hitting him. That string was fifty-one innings long when this was written. Possibly some joy killing statistician will dig up @ prehistoric performance that beat anything Alex has or will do, But it won't dim Alexander's luminosity. The Old Copyreader “Many a story is hopelessly written, but the story of life is hopelessly rotten.” THE WONDERS OF RADIO, For thirty years I've had @ croach Against the politician When he unwinds his windy splurge Of mental tnanition. ; I've always loathed the leetarer— The propaganda boomer Who revels in one half of one Per cont of lore and humor, I reldom Mked statistics of ‘The market, and 1 Regarded bed Bewilderingly clever. ‘The gentle [often] sex Inspires Within me tender pas: But I can get alo: Without their Paris fashions. I think that saxophone a erimes The fiddler I could murder; . ed to slay the eonce Whenever I have heard her; ‘The one thing in a band that eer Could snare me is the drummer; And opera, grand opera— * ‘There's no amusement ‘bummer, queen Until the tast tow years, of course, I've managed to stay happy By simply laying off of (hese i My household is adorning I hear the whole mess all day long And dream of it till mornin GUY Len Fevervartve