Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 7, 1923, Page 4

OF NATIONAL LEAGUE BATTERS Nineteen Hits in Last Week Boost Dodger’s Aver- age to .384 as Zack Wheat Drops Behind; Heilmann Retains Lead in American. CHICAGO, July 7.—(By The Associated Press).—An ambition, cherished in the mind of Jacques Fournier of Brooklyn, for a number of years, has been realized, The big Frenchman is the new leader among the batters of the National League, according to averages released today and which include games of last Wednesday. By cracking out 19 hits, he boosted his mark from .342 to .384, which tops the players who have partict pated in 45 or more games. In his collection of hits, Fournier made five tion to collecting four doubles, Zack home runs during the week, in addl- Wheat dropped 10 points and now is trailing Fournier with an average of +382. The spurt of Fournfer has been one of the most sensational in some time. During his march, Fournier made a record of six hits in etx times | hat bat. Immy Johnston, also of Brooklyn, has been keeping step with his team- mate and has shot forward into lfourth place, with Young of New (York. They are tied with .366, Ed Roush of Cincinnati is third rtth .374. George Grantham of the Cubs has lost none of his cunning on the base lines. He is showing the “way to base stealers with 20 thefts and js leading two base hitters with 23. “Cy” Willams of the Phillies, has recovered sufficiently to take his res- ular position and is back in his bat- ting stride. In the last week “Cy” 5 ¢racked out two home runs and now feads the major league players with 722. Other leading batters: Frisch, New York, .363; O'Farrell, Chicago, .360; Grimm, Pittsburgh, .857; Bottomley, Bt Louis, .347; Mokan, Philadelphia, .344; Southworth Boston, .343; Tray- nor, Pittsburgh, .343; Hornsby, St. Louis, .343. Harry Hellmann, of Detroit, has remained on the top of the hitters in the American league. During the last week his average dropped from 1425 to .419. However, he continues to lead. His closest rival is Charles Jamieson, of Cleveland, who is the runner-up, with .275. Babe Ruth has batted himself into a tie for third place with Eddie Collins, of the White Sox. Each has a mark of .363. Ruth bagged two more homers and ran his string to 16. Collins is blazing the trail for the base stealers with 27 thefts. Ken Williams of the St. Louis Browns smashed out a brace of four baggers and is trailing the Babe for the honors with 12. Ruth has in- creased his total base record to 163 and has added a dozen runs to his scoring record, having tallied 68 times. Other leading batters: Haney, De- troit, Witt, New York, 353; Flagstead, Boston, .838; J, Sewell, Cleveland, .333; Harris, Boston, -353. Diamond, of Denver, a week ago down in tenth place in the Western league, has launched a drive and is within striking distance of Bauman of Tulsa, who is leading with .398. Foran, of Des Moines, is the runner- up with .384 and Diamond is next with .377. Davis of Tulsa and McDowell of Wichita are tied with 18 circuit drives each. Felber, of Oklahoma City, continues out in front in base stealing with 22 thefts, while Griffin of Omaha and Smith of Wichita are each two be- hind. Other leading batters: Palmer, Sioux City, .368; Blakesley, Wichita, 366; Query, Sioux City, .865; Mc- “S Larry, Des Moines, .364; J. Griffin, —_—~—— Today’s Games National League. New York at Boston Brooklyn at Philadelphia. St. Louis at Chicago. Cincinnati at Pittsburgh. American League, Detroit at St. Louis. Chicago at. Cleveland. Boston at Washington. Philadelphia at New York. ——— COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo— The Colorado Spring polo team defeated the Fort Leavenworth team in the second game for the Broadmoor cup, 14 to 9. sae Meet me at the Smokehouse.—Adv. PrtL i site Work on the Casper Natatorium and Athletic club building to be erect #4, according to announcements by Garry Gorden, and D. W. Middleton will begin as soom as 1,000 member ships are obtained in the club, Mr Gorden said this morning. Many well known business and professional men are taking out memberships in the club, and the quota will probably be reached in a short time ‘There is a possibility that the bulla ing will be erected on a different preer lot’ than wos first anne } this is done the swimmin abe tacluded in the struo < a and ed Club Standing National League Lost Pet. 676 614 597 515 507 ABB 319 296 Club New York -. Pittsburgh Cincinnati American League Won Lost Pct. 48 22 33°82 35 34 30 35 33°36 3286 30-39 27 «38 Club New York Chicago ——..——__. Philadelphia —_____ Cleveland Detroit St. Louis .. — ‘Washington -_____ Boston ~. National League Philadelphia, 5; Pittsburgh, 2. No others. = American ‘New York, 5; St. Louis, Cleveland, 5; Boston, —_——_ American Association Kansas City, 15; Indianapolls, Milwaukee, 10; Louisville, 3, Minneapolis, 11; Toledo, 8. Columbus, 12; St. Paul, 10, Texas Leagne Dallas, 5; Fort Worth, 4, Shreveport, 11; Wichita Fats, 10. San Antonio, 4; Houston, 0. No other. estern Omaha, 5; Denver, 4. Sioux City, 6; Des Moines, 3, Wichita, 12; Tiulsa, 11, Oklahoma City, 7; St. Joseph, 3, i Sport Calendar Racing Meeting of Empire City Racing Ass'n opens at Yonkers. Meeting of Kentucky Jockey Club closes at Latonia. Meeting of Niagara Racing Ass'n. opens at Fort Erie. Golf Canadian amateur closes at Montreal. Pacifico Northwest open champion- ship closes at Seattle. Tennis Sioux Valley championship tourna ment opens at Dell Rapids, 8. Dak, Feneing American team sails for internation- al matches in Londan, Shooting championship meet opens at Bisley. Wisconsin State trapshooting tour- nament at Waupaca. Polo Annual tournament of Meadow- brook Club closes at Westbury, L. I. Annual tournament of Rockaway Hunting Club at Cedarhurst, L. 1. Baxing -- Frankie Genaro vs. Tony Norman 10 rounds, at Pittsburgh, Carl Tremaine vs. Pete Zivic, 10 rounds, at Pittsburgh. Phil Kaplan va. Jimmy Jones, 10 rounds at Pittshurgh. Bobbie Garica -vs. Cuddy DeMarco, 10 rounds, at Pittsburgh. palin, alec Meet me at the Smoketiouse—Adyv. 1,000 MEMBERS SOUGHT HERE FOR MAMMOTH ATHLETIC CLUB | ture will be 60 by 140 feet in size in- | stead of 40 by 120 feet. The purpose of the club {s to fur nigh recreation in the best way pos: sible to a8 many persons as can-con- veniently be cared for. Membership | will be of a high order, and a mem bership committee will be maintained to keep out undesirables. There will be an amusement abmmittes which will supervise and pass on all entertairiments given at the club. Members will have the privilege of eating at the club, of getting barber work, valet strvice and other con also poollveniences that men of business ¢=| sre? - English National Rifle Association |» Che Casper Daily Cribunr And Then She Took Up Golf =) jHE, WAS DETERMINED Ito (Have HER TAK uP .THe Gamaland Now SHE WSISTS On Ccan ee ites prets tesa at } {liver MN SAARY wes hb OD eps ihe g Pek GIBBONS GIVEN GREAT OVATION \\ ! p St. Paul’s Welcome to Fighter Only Knockout He Has Ever Known. ST. PAUL, July 1—"Let’s make it a knockow! was the slogan adopted for St, Paul’s welcome today to its famous fighter, Tommy Gibbons, on ‘his return from Shelby, Montana. And a knockout it was. Hundreds of Twin Cities admires of \Tommy—The man who won fame by staying the limit of 15 rounds with Jack Dempsey, world's heavyweight champion on July 4—gathered at the union depot to greet him this morn- ing. Members of athletic organizations, the American Legion and city, civic and social clubs were in the throng that met Gibbons and his family and escorted them to the Town and Coun- try club for breakfast. At the club an informal reception was held. One of the first to greet Gibbons qwas his equally famous brother, YPhantom” Mike Gibbons. The two had been on the “outs” for several wears following a personal dispute. Whey had “made up” before the Shelby bout, however. Tommy plans to take a long rest pefore resuming active training again. He may accept a vaudeville offer, however, and spend several months on the stage. Meet me at The Smoke, House.—Adv. 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ISNT HE ‘The PICTURE “oF R TOY 27 > ne Son) ANS Mail RAIN UPSETS LEAGUE SCHEDULE ONLY THREE GAMES ON FRIDAY CHICAGO, July 7—-(By The Associated Press).—Rain| all over the country yesterday permitted only three games D Of these, the heaviest in the way of ac- tion took place in St. Louis, where the New York Yankees! jopened their western invasion by trimming the Browns, 5 to 2, thereby making nine victories in a row and putting them- jin the big leagues. selves 12% games ahead of the Phila- delphia Athletics who listened to the pitter-patter of rain in Detroit. Waite Hoyt delivered for the Yankees and showed remarkable judgment in his choice of twisters. leveland, on their home grounds, defeated Boston; 5 to 3. This victory placed the Indians in a tie for second place with Philadelphia. Jamieson homer, with two on in the seventh, drove Ehmke to the showers and clinched the game for Cleveland. In Philadelp! the Phillies won from the Pirat 6 to 2. The Cin- cinnati Reds wore all set in New York to take their first crack at the Giants in the Polo Grounds. The weather man has promised them a chance today. Mokan, Henline and Sand, of the Phillies, cut off a promising Pirate rally with a snappy triple play in the fifth inning of yesterday’s game. Mokan garnered Carrie's fly to left, caught Cooper with fect peg at the plate and Henline winged Maran- ville on his way from first to second. Henline, Phillies’ catcher, collected thfee safeties in four trips to the rubber. Ken Williams, who chases the tall ones in the left garden for the Browns, smashed out his 13th homer in the first inning of yesterday's St. Louis-New York game. Ken's homer put the Browns out in front for a while but hard hitting by Witt, who got a double and a triple, and Ward, with three safties out of four times up gave the Yankees the game. YOMING LAST TIMES TODAY The Gables Co. Vaudeville In Shooting, Rope Spinning and Oriental Dancing ALSO Dorothy Dalton “The Flame of the Yukon” 10c—40c Tomorrow THE YOUNGER BROT#IERS A picture of the early days LA, when bandits roamed Wyo- [ming. . ’ bp SAY oP By Briggs Lrg OHTMYTEOODNESST WALLACE, |! {F is RIT SLY 5 [ner Paar, Bact aTMaT & Cant Pfr HAVING ‘JuSTA Pecks OF, FUN THOUGH 35 “VCAN UNDERSTAND wow DEART: _WeYANOUVE, Eu TOVE D THE GAME ez} \ Payee ! MANY ENTRIES IN YACHT RAGE Lake Erie Event to Hold Interest for Owners On Great Lakes. CLEVELAND, July 7.— Along the Great Inkes om both the Amerinn and Canadian sides, yachtsmen and skippers of every type of craft are LY Pere re) CPO UA Lula awrentnrd etl a, \Ceorrighe, A953, MY Tiftwns tas. he \" YY ens YES " wy DMS Brix Oe ‘ = GE Lake Erie, July 15:2% under the au- spices of the Interlake Yachting asso- ciation. Approximately 500 sai! and power boats of every description will gather this year for the annual speed races and parade of lake craft, according to Lee B. Keller of SanCusky, secretary of the association. Three long distance power boat races to the bay from Cleveland, De- troit and Toledo mark the opening of the regatta. All classe; of sail boats will compete in a series of three races during the week. Special sail boat races will be sailed to deter. mine the Class R champion which will compete in the Great Lakes In- ter-Associati¢ at Toronto, in Sep- tember and the Star class champion of the western Lake Erie fleet. All skippers and thelr crews appear in full yachting uniform Curing the meeting. —__——>—__—_. ST. LOUIS.—Patsy Glanagan of St. Louls, won a technical decision over Sammy Sandow of Cincinnati when the referee stopped a scheduled 10 yound bout tn the seventh round, due to Sandow breaking a wrist bone in the right wrist early in the fight. PITTSBURGH.—A milk and ice fund boxing card to be staged at Forbes field this afternoon wil} bring together in one of tho feature matches Frankie Genaro, American | flyweight champion, and Tony Nor: |man, of Pittsburgh. They will go }10 rounds, getting ready for the premier inland water event of the year—the Inte: THEODORE ROBERTS —IN— COOLING SYSTEM WITH WASHED AIR RIA STARTING SUNDAY LTO They’r that ever played in the west. e Here KANSAS CITY JAZZ ORCHESTRA On a tour to the coast, the greatest jazz orchestra Tonight is our treat. Two of the best orchestras that ever played for a dance. 14 - MUSICIANS -- 14 Arkeon Dancing Academy Wyoming’s Greatest Amusement Palace SATURDAY, JULY 7, 1923, | THE TRIBUNE’S PAGE OF SPORTING NEWS FOURNIER SLUGS WAY INTO LEAD ~TWITLIAM JOHNSTON GOPS WORLD TENNIS TITLE IN BRITISH PLAY King George and Queen Mary Look on as Califor- nian Vanquishes Francis T. Hunter in Finals Match at Wimbledon. WIMBLEDON, July 7.—(By The Associated Press).— William M. Johnston, number 2 in the American lawn tennis ranking, is the new world’s champion on grass courts. The diminutive San Franciscan defeated Fracnis T. Hunter, of New Rochelle, N. Y., ninth ranking American, in the final of the Wimbledon tournament WIMBLEDON, July 7.—(By The Associated Press.)}—Randolph Lycett and Miss Elizabeth Ryan, both of) England, won the world’s tennis title | in the mixed doubles today defeat- | ing L. S. Deane, Indian Davis cup star, and Mrs. Shepperd Baron, of | England, 6-4, 7-5. King George and Queen Mary were in the royal box as the match be-| tween William M. Johnston of San Francisco and Francis T. Hunter of | New York for the world's singles | championship étarted. The day was! bright and sunny. MICHIGAN TQ LOSE BUT) TWO ATHLETIC STARS, ANN ARBOR, July 7.—University of Michigan's track team, which this year proved the words of the college song by becoming “Champions of the West" and then went the song one better by becoming national intercol- legiate leaders, promises to turn cut as strong a cinder path aggregation in 1924 as has ben the case in the season just past. Michigun, winner of the recent Chi- cago national event by the largest margin ever registered by the suc- essful contender in that annual at- air, will lose but two of its track and veld stars by graduation this year. These are Isbell, the two-miler and Schmidt, hammer thrower. All oth- ors who mude points at the Chicago meet will be available to Coach Steve Parreil next season. Farrel cuims al- so to have a number of promising ‘reshmen to make the 1924 team even »etter than the one of this year. The college year, just closed, has been one of the most successful in an athletic way that Michigan has seen. The Maize and Blue tied with Iowa tor football honors last fall and won che Big Ten baseball title this spring. kD A SS TL Tom Kelly Named to Run Baseball Ciub For Casper Legion Tom Kelly has been appointed man- ager of the baseball team of the local Amerktin Legion, accarding to an \nnouncement this morning by C. H. Reimerth, commander of the post aere. Mr. Reimerty stated that there plenty of material in tho post if tonal today, 6-0, 6-3, 6-1. feame will just turn out. The affair of the team will be run on a strictly business basis so that when the se; fon's schedule is wound up the te: can disband again without any han; overs” ‘in the way of a déficit to be made up. The Legion has several possible op- ponents during the summer, and the quicker its team gets Mned up the sooner it can get into actual playing with some of these local and out-of. town organizations, Meet me at The Smoke House.—Adv. —__—-—__— Twentynine different nationalities are represented among the pupils at- tending one public schoo! in Vancou- yer, B. C, WILLIAM’? FOX presets’ DUSTIN FARNUM yckin the Barrier Kit Carew, a rugged robust mini of the upper far north, makes fine’ material for Dustin Farnum. 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