Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 10, 1923, Page 11

1 et erg See: “COLLEGES WILL RECORD BREAKING SECTIONALMEETS SHOW OFF TALENT Athletes Should Be Bet- ter by Next Year. BY WALTER ECKERSALL. ‘That the universities and colleges wil furnish most material for the American team which wifl compete in the Olympic games in France next summer is shown conclusively by re gults of the sectional intercollegiates tm which world’s and national records have been broken. The redeeming feature about the record smashers is that they are in their prime and should be even better mext summer. Most of them have still another year of competition, while those who graduate have decided to cast their lots with the various ath- letie clubs In order to receive the prop- er coaching and competition to keep in trim for the world’s games. For years American athletes have deen unable to compete successfully with the Swedes, Danes, and Finns in the javelin throw. In fact, this Is about the only event in which Yankee performers have failed to show su- Premacy since the Olympic games were revived back in the late nineties. Per- #everance, however, has resulted in the development of two shaft hurlers who should score points on the other side and may smash the world’s reo- ord for the event before the teams sail for France. Angier Holds Record. Milton Angier of the University of Tilinols holds the national record in the event at 203 fect 9% inches. He _made this mark at the Drake relay games this spring. Recently he es tablished a new western conference mark of 198 feet 10% inches. In the eastern intercollegiate, held at Phila- delphia, Storrs of Yale hurled the shaft 199 feet 1 inch. Considering the fact the world’s record in the event is 204 feet 5% Inches, er Americans warrant 1 s ing on the other si Vv. Lemming of Sweden is the holder of the world’s javelin mark, which he made back in 1912, In the recent western conference games Charley Brookins of Iowa es- tablished a new world’s record of :23 1-5 for the 220 yard low hurdles, Consid- ering the fact the old record of :23 3-5 has stood since 1898, the achievement of the Hawkeye is deserving of more than passing mention, because of the many wonderful hurdlers developed in the last twenty-five years. Brookins has another year at Iowa and may im- prove to shave his own mark by the tme the Olympics are held. Better Century Mark. ‘Time made jin the 100 yard dash in the eastern intercollegiate, western conference, and Missouri Valley con- ference was better than ten seconds, ‘This is indicative of the fact America will be well fortified in the event. Lever of Pennsylvania took the cen- tury in Philadelphia \in :094-5, and ‘Wittman of Michigan ‘won the same race in the same time at the Big Ten enmes. Erwin of Kansas Aggies won the dash in the Missouri Valley in 309 9-10, E. C, Wilson of Iowa has shown tho best time in the furlong. He won his heat and final of the 220 yard dash in t western conference in :211-5, which broke the Big Ten record and tied the eastern intercollegiate mark. The event was won by Lovejoy of Cornell in :214-5 at the eastern inter- collegiate and by Erwin of Kansas Aggies in the valley meet in :21 5-10. Charley Paddock, however, did not rup in any of the sectional intercol- \ es, but from the way he per- formed on his recent trip to France he may be able to beat any of the Syers who came to the front in the sectional games. Another performance which indicates the strength of the American team ‘was that of De Hart Hubbard of Mich- igan, who broke the Big Ten record in the running broad jump with a leap of 25 feet 1% inches. This is only 1% inches shy of the world’s mark, made by E. O. Gourdin of Harvard in 1921. Hubbard is expected to shatter the world’s record before next summer and he may accomplish his desire next Sat- ‘urday, when the national collegiate gamés are held on Stagg field. New Hammep Champion. Tootell of Bowdoin should be the next world’s hammer throw c pion, In the eastern intercollegiate he tossed the ball 181 feet 6% Inches, which is not far from the record held by Pat Ryan at 189 feet 6%4 inches. Hills of Princeton is by far the best collece shot putter in tho country. He is expected to improve on his mark of 47 fe®t 8% inches, made in the east- ern intercollegiate. Like Tootell, the Tiger is being coached to smash the ‘world’s record of 51 fset, made by Ralph Rose in 1909. Brownell of Illinois cieared the har in the poie vault at 13 feet 2 inches in the western conference meet. This is higher than any college performers have éave this year, and {s only four inchae below the world’s record. Other Yauiters have come dangerously close to ¢learing thirteen feet, but the Iill- nols athlete is the only one to clear the ‘dizzy height. The above are only a few of the many promising college athletes who should make the American Olympic team, All are competitors of the type who will come through despite the caliber of the competition, and the list should be greatly increased with the holding of the same sectional inter- collegistes next spring. OLD PITCHING STAR DEAD. ‘Witilam E. Mains, old time bassbat! plarer xt year he yl Gre. club, and inter was with tho C Bailooals for two scasoas, U. S. GOLFERS INVADING ENGLAND JIM BARNES. MECHANICAL CONVENTIONS GIVE PLAYERS MORE THINGS TO THINK ABOUT. the vain hope that they may offset superior mental ability. Instead they merely give the player more things to remember, and are always less effective than a simple straightforward game. ‘The writer recently encountered two of them in a single deal, the result be- ing that he secured a game when ho deserved to have his contract defeated. The hands were as follows: 'ECHANICAL conventions are M constantly being devised with S—J. 10, 5, S—A, K, a 2. H—10, 7, 6, 4. C8. 4, 3. C—A, Q, 6, 5. D-Q, J, 8, 4. D-7, 3. 8-8, 4. 3. 2. HA, Q, 8, 5 D-A, 5. Score: North and South, 24, East and West, 0, Rubber game. North dealt and bid one @iamond. East doubled, South bid two diamonds, West 3 bo trumps, and the bidding closes, North had the initial lead. ~ THE PLAY, XN E. 8. Ww. DA pt DS HB DS 20 30 HB HK 28 Ds 7 8c 90 4c as He 48 53 8s 108 HQ 338 HA Ho The bid of two no trumps was sporty, but the score was bad, and West had great confidence in his part- ner’s double. Had north opened his hand properly, the declarer would havo been annihilated, of diamonds, although recommended by a well known authority, is a horror. It will win with one combination and lose with a surprisingly large num- ber. After the second trick north thought it was safer to continue his diamond suit as it seemed to him that west must have a powerful suit of hearts, because he had nothing what- ever in either black sult. The discard of the eight of hearts by south which the declarer knew was intended to in- afcate strength, completely finished the chances of the north and south pair. The Geclarer could now place the king of clubs absolutely in the north hand, as otherwise the original bid of one diamond would have been impossi- bie. He allowed north to hold the trick with the ten of clubs, partly be- cause he wished to secure three club tricks instead of two, but more es- pecially to give north an opportunity to respond to his partner’s call in the heart suit. To secure game with such a dis- tribution of cards was a joke made possible only by the mechanical con- ventions above mentioned. The next deal, although it also shows & game won under adverse conditions, requires better play all around. THE HANDS. 7 SJ, 10, 6. < HAL C-10, 6, 5, 2. Score, 0-0. ‘West dealt and bid no tramp, which closed the bidding. North had the original lead. 8. w, pg DK 23 4s 3c Do Ha Dy HS = HI0 Ko 70 40 90 7s 53 Qs AS Jo gc KS 83 m0 Ha HQ HE ‘West secured nine tricks. ‘The declarer had a real problem on his hands after winning the first trick. His suit was hearts, but he did not want to lead it from his own hand, nor could he afford to take either ace from the dummy. To reduce the chances of the opponents leading the spades, he led them himself. North had no good lead at trick three, but continued the diamonds in the hope that his partner might have the nine. The declarer took another round of that suit in order to get out of the way of the dummy, and also to force another discard from south. After securing a discard of one heart, the declarer was no longer afraid to lead from his own hand and could easily mark the ace of hearts as solus in the north hand. Had south been able to dfvine the declarer’s scheme of play and had discarded a high spade instead of a small one at trick eight, afterward throwing his king of spades on the declarer’s ace, he would have been able to save the game. But south was still deceived by the original spade lead of the declarer, and expected the heart to come from dummy. But the declarer cleverly could lead all his high cards in the other three suits before forcing the lead into the south hand and compel that player to lead out from his queen and ten of hearts. JAPANESE MAKING GREAT PROGRESS IN ATHLETICS ‘Western sports of all kinds are mak- ing considerable progres in Japan and thero are increasing numbers of wom- en wh? are taking part in public athletic contests, This is no longer looked upon unwomanly, but {t is now admitted on all aldes that the progress and de velopmenta of sports are necessary not merely for physical culture, but also for moral cultura, It is pointed out that, at the outbreak of the war, Hurepean nations wero able to place mon in the field with very lttle train. ing, chle‘ly because of the «physical training these men had through games, ‘The Hochi Shimbun, one of TUklo's most influential papors, thinks that by encouraging sports among the Jn- panese people the questivn of national military education, on which the au- thorities aro today focussing their at- tention, may be largely solved. The paper urges the elimination of furnishing schools with obsolete rifles and military drill and supplanting these with baseball, tennis, rowing, swimming, and boat races, “ All virtues such as endurance, re- straint, agility of action and effort,” says the paper, “can be better fostered by these athletics, . “To help theses sports, therefore, is to encourage a martial spirit among the growing generation.” ‘ EXTERMINATOR, LAME, WILL REST ON KILMER FARM Pxterminator, the thoroughbred which has won $249,475 in prize money, will rest until September, He is lame and will rest up on Wi Bharpe-Kil- mer-Remlik-Hall farm in the Udewater of Virginia, EYES OF GOLFING WORLD FOCUSSED ~ ONBRITISH OPEN BY JOE DAVIS. This week the eyes of the golfing world will be focussed on Troon, Scot- land, wherefthe British open cham- pionship will start tomorrow with the qualifying round which will last two days, to be followed Thursday and Fri- day by the championship proper at 72 holes. While the United States will not be represented by a large force it has a strong contingent headed by Walter Hagen, who won the title last year, ‘The others are Jim Barnes, Gene Sara- zen, the American open champion; Charles Hoffner, MacDonald Smith, Leo Diegel and W. C. Sherwood. Joe Kirkwood, the Australian player, who is now a resident of United States, will also play, Hagen Has Great Record. Walter Hagen is generally conceded to be the leading professional in the world. In eight years of play he has won twenty important championships, these including almost every title in the world worth competing for. At the present time he holds the British open, the north and south open, Flor- ida west coast and the San Antonio open, Gene Sarazen, although having had less experience, won the United States open last year at Chicago, and the Professional Golfers association at Pittsburgh. Jim Barnes is a veteran campaigner who has held the national open and western championships and if in form, is likely to finish well up. Smith Returns to Form. MacDonald Smith, now a resident of California, was one of the most prom- ising players a few years ago, and then dropped out of big competition for a time. Ho is reported to be back in his best form. Hoffner is a Phila- delphia homebred player of skill, while Sherwood, a former professional, who is now with a golf firm, ts combining business with pleasure, Pocket Billiard Players to Organize a League A professional league of pocket bil- Nard players on lines similar to the three-cushion tourney is proposed. Ralph Greenleaf, the undefeated cham- pion in the last three years’ champion- ship play, will enter. ‘The Old Copyreader “Many a story is hopelessly written, but the story of lite is hopelessly rotten.” TELL IT ALL, MR, WHITE, TELL TT ALL. Honry White declares that Europe's Present Gi Meuity's due theory this country Didn't see the whuie thing Chrough, Mr. White's correets he merely Errs tn holding back, you knows For Amortes's the canse of All the past nine years of wos, Tt wns not @ Serb fanatic Staged the Barajeve erimey ‘Twos, In fact, » Kansas farmer, And wo know it at the time} Gormany did not raid Bi Nor did Tirpits speed On thelr fatal destinatt ‘Twas a bunch of Yankeo dubs, We should not attempt to cover Up these truths, and blame the kaiser For things that id - GUY Lem, MAC DONALD SMITH. —N JOHNNY FARRELL. Woods and Waters 4y BOB. CKER MUSKIES AND LURES THAT GET ’EM. game of luring the big fellows has the ambition to land a forty pounder. It’s a laudable ambition, but 4f they only knew how rare these big ones are they would taper their de- sires somewhat and be content wits fish one-fourth of that size. Forty and fifty pounders don't grow in every patch of weeds nor under every log in muskle lakes. All kinds of names have been hung onto the muskie to give some idea of its marauding habits and most of them are fitting as this big fellow is a bad actor. You will hear of tigers, tiger muskies, fresh water sharks, etc. Well, they are just pet names applied to t! muskie. Nothing in the shape of food gets by him and sometimes waterfowl and young aquatic mammals are Grabbed off by this fish. Solitary in his habits and lying concealed along the shore line or in bars where water Plants and rushes are growing or be side rocks and banks in clear water lakes, the muskie shoots out like greased Ughtning for the fish that ai tempts to get by his hangout. s. * This is the secret of successful muskie fishing—a knowledge of its habits. Of course, you have heard about, perhaps you have seen the be- ginner who came up to the camp, stood on the dock the first day “just prac ticlng” and in spite of his punk cast- ing hooked and landed a muskie. Yes, it is done—occasionally—much to tho disgust of the veterans. But, the man who brings home the bacon in the long run is the chap who really ac- quires a knowledge of the habits of the fish, ‘knows where they like to hang out as well a3 how to present a lure to them. A muskie doesn't go tear- ing around a lake elther alone or in “ flocks” so it isn’t a question of just running into ‘em. An old scrapper will have his lair, his favorite loafing VERY muskie fisherman that ose out in the fascinating Spot and a more or less restricted hunt- ing ground. So it pays to look over your ground, get acquainted with the holes, bars and weedy places. In fact, some anglers figure it time well spent the first day they are in strange wa- ters just to poke around, lookin’ over the lay of the land so to speak. Then when they figure they have the “fishy” places doped ont, they get busy. : 2 Possessing some knowledge of the tiger’s habits and hangouts, tackle is the next item on the schedule. A sturdy bamboo rod or a well made steel rod is necessary and as for lures, don't insult the muskies or the waters you are fishing in by throwing around those two pound window sash weights which go under the name of muskie lures, At least consider your rods. ‘They won't stand your tossing around such heavy lures. Now there are days when apparently the muskie will take nothing but live bait. Then is when the shiner minnow, small sucker or frog is the berries. ** 2 On the other hand, you will find many fishermen who never use live bait year round, as they stick to a welghted fly, spinner and pork rind or gullet combination. Incidentally, they seem to get the fish, too, Cast- ing this fly, usually a red ibis, from deep water or the channel toward the edge of the weeds brings on the at- tack of the ‘lunge. The chaps that troll don't have much trouble stirring up excitement with a spoon as lure. The glimmer of this type of lure Is usually effective and brings out the big fellowz. There are many lures, many stunts in the muskie gama Some days it pays to try ‘em all, Tho only thing is, be sporty in your meth- ods. It takes only one hook to get and hold your fish, And the use of a de cent sized line instead of a heavy clothes line will give you more fun out of your scrap. CLAY COURTS EASIER THAN ENGLISH TURF, British lawn tennis enthusiasts have found food for thought in the growing importance of the hard court championships at St. Cloud and the inernational matches {n Paris. Not only is it believed that these tournamens on clay have served to bring European countries, especially France and Spain, into prominence as rivals to England, but it is believed that the reason young men are devel- oping into stars in these countries, whereas Albion must depend upon her older players, is becaune the turf court idea holds hard and fast among the English and that elsewhere hard courts obtain, An English expert has put himself on record as saying that the truer and quicker bound of the ball on the dirt court develops greater celerity of foot and eye and hand, and thereby gives the product of the hard court an ad- vantage over the man who has spent most of his early days on grass. Again there {s a lot of rainy weather in England, and the rain soaked grass is a9 forlorn to contemplate as it is unpleasant to play upon. ‘The trouble ts that the perfect hard court for the English climate has not yet been discovered. Were {t not for this fact the chances are that the English would have mado the change in apite of the fact that lawn tennis was invented for grass, that the court fs restful to the eye and pleasant for the feet, Any American who thinks he has a elay pit whose product is warranted to stand up under the brand of weath- er that Old England provides for her- solf in summer is in line for a for tune as an exporter, CHITTAGONG NOT FIRST HIGH PEDIGREED HORSE OWNED BY JOHN HERTZ OHN HERTZ, the Chicago taxi magnate, whose colt, Chitta- gong, was plunged on heavily to win the Kentucky Derby, and which ran a grand race, fin- ishing close up, learned about horses from experience. Before he could afford a halter he loved horses, and when he commenced to get rich he decided to buy a saddic horse. 5 He went to » Chicago dealer, who agreed to furnish horse and Pedigree. The pedigreo was long | and imposing, but after riding for a week or two John had his suspi- clons about the breeding of the horse. He took the engraved pedi- gree to a veteran horseman in the stock yards and he analyzed the pedigree and sent John the follow- ing report: His sire, Kinnicanick, was an Indian chief, who hunted around his Chicago, His first dam, Sarah Brown, was a mud scow in the Chicago river. The grandsire, Martin McBride, used to pull one of Bill Quinlan’s coal wagons, High Lonesome, the second dam, was a drink served by Dill Rath gan. Her sire, Mike McCabe, was ward boss in the old Nineteenth ward. The third dam, Fanny J., was Miles Devine's mule that pulled the milk wagon. Her sire, Chief Justice Waite, was an ex- cursion steamor on the Inke, and the fourth dam, Big Anne, was a matron at the Armory police sta- tion about 1885." John read no further. FURNISH U. S. OLYMPIC MATERIAL SALE OF YANKS GIVES JOHNSON : LEAGUE CONTROL Stepping Down of Huston Ends Long Fight. BY I. E. SANBORN. Unless something eventuates to pre- vent completing the purchase of the Boston Red Sox, the deal for which’ was closed recently, the end of this championship season will see the re- ttrement of two thirds of the American league club owners whose fight against Ban Johnson made considerable his- tory a couple or three years ago. Col. Tillinghast Huston, who has sold his interests in the New York Yan- kees to his partner, Col. Jacob Rup- pert, started the fight against the league executive to avoid losing the immediate services of Carl Mays, the grouchy submarine pitcher, whom Ban Johnson tried to punish for insubor- dination while with the Red Sox. Harry Frazee, who had long been looking for an opening to attack the head of the league, joined hands with Huston and they found an eager ally in Charlies A. Comiskey, the White Sox veteran owner, who had been conduct- ing a solo revolution against Ban Johnson for the better part cf a deo ade. Threaten to Wreck League. It will be remembered that these three went so far as to threaten to wreck the American league and join hands with the National league in the formation of a twelve-club organization unless the other five club owners, who remained loyal to Johnson, consented to the pointment of Kenesaw M. Landis as the czar of organized base ball. They carried their point and succeeded in depriving Johnson of some of the power he had wielded as a member of the national commission un- der the chairmanship of Garry Herr- mann. Within three years of that date Comiskey, tf he lives, will be the only one of the three “rebels” left in the American league and he practically re- tired on account of ill health, over a year ago. Although shorn of some of his for- mer influence in the councils of the game, because of the feeling inculcated in Commissioner Landis at the time of his appointment that he was expected to look askance at anything suggested by the American league executive or his “loyal five,” Ban Johnson appar- ently still retains the power to con- trol the affairs of his own organiza- tion. Col. Ruppert, the present sole owner of the Yankees, never was a bitter partisan in the war against Johnson, although strongly opposed to any dis- eipline of Mays by the league's head, because the New York team was in bad way for pitchers at the time. Friendly relations between Johnson and Ruppert never were completely severed during the family war. ‘With the passing of Huston and Frazee fram the councils of the league Johnson will be able to count on the support of seven clubs against one, as has been the case for years when- ever he has proposed any measure the improvement of baseball. Comis- key’s subordinates probably will con- tinue to play a harmless game of soll- taire in opposition. Probably most folks have forgotten that the domestic row in the American. league started over Carl Mays. It really started long before that, of course, In the camps of Comiskey and Frazee, but they were handicapped un- til they got the help of the powerful New York club through its half owner, Col. Huston, Mays’ Case Remembered. Mays, it will be remembered, uit the Boston Red Sox cold during a championship game in Chicago, Hi! act of insubordination went unpun- ished by the Boston club and Frazee sold him to the Yankee outfit for a goodly reward. Huston went into the courts to prevent any punishment be ing inflicted on Mays. He was suc cessful, but lived to be sorry he ever corraled the aggregation of tempera- mental stars of which the Yankees have been composed for the last two or three years. Any star player with whom other club owners or managers could not get along seemed eventually to gravitate to New York. And only last fall Huston wanted ta tle a can to Miller Huggins because he could not enforce discipline among a bunch of discontents whom older and wiser managers had tried to control and couldn't. Col. Ruppert stuck by Huggins and insisted on retaining him. It may be that, with the backing of the present sole owner, Huggins will be able to make his men play for him inatead of for themselves. Time will tell. COSTELLO-KELLY. SHOW WINNING FORM AT ROWING By reason of the form shown by Paul Costello, rowing bow oar, and Jack * Kelly, stroke oar, it is likely one of the United States Olympic rowing on- tries is assured for the events on the Seine July 10 to 14 next, Costello is the present United States sculling champion and Kelly is undefeated title holder. They won the doubles crown at Brussels in 1920. Kelly, after two years’ retirement, Is “coming Back". He will not compete*in singles, but in doubles, four and eight oared racing he plans a busy season as a member of the new Pennsylvania A. C., which ts to give Philadelphia a modern club- house for athletes. BOAT CLUB 75 YEARS OLD. Atalanta B. ©. ‘They have © fit ye cess in age. =n =