Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 22, 1923, Page 7

AMATEURS TO HANDLE GRAND AMERICAN HANDICAP FIRST TIME IN HISTORY OF TRAP SHOOT CLASSIC To Be Held at the South ‘Shore Country Club. BY WALTER ECKERSALL. ‘The Grand American handicap, blue ribbon event of the trap shooting world, will be conducted by the Ama- teur Trapshooting association at the South Shore Country club, Chicago, from Aug. 20 to Aug. 25, inclusive. It will be the twenty-fourth renewal of the clay target event and the first time it will be conducted by amateurs. In the past, the tourney always has been handled by professionals and there has been trouble between the pros and amateurs. Hardly a tourney has been held that dissension of some sort has not developed and as a result the progress of the great sport has been retarded. Because of this continued ‘watched with intense interest by every oné connected with the clay: bird sport. Winners in Olympics. Although contestants will compete for the various North American cham- pionships, the event will have a de- elded bearing on the makeup of the teem which will represent the United States in the Olympic games in France mext year. As the 1924 Grand Ameri- oan will not be held until after the Otympiads are decided, the shots who the best showings in this year’s classic will merit the consideration of thease intrusted to select the Ameri- I One very important and attractive of the 1923 Grand American p is that it was specially de- signed to take care of shooters of all degrees of skill. With the contestants competing in classes on two of the days and participating in distance handi- caps on two others, it will be readily seen that on four of the six days of shooting contestants will virtually aeasure akill with men of their own ul i $2,500 In Prize Money, ‘The prize money in both the North American singles championship and the North American class champion- ship, amounting to $1,500 and $1,000, respectively, will be donated to the five classes and the number of en- trants in each class will determine the amount of prize money the high guns will receive. ' In addition to the many new fea- tures, the Grand American Handicap will attract the largest entry and is classic event of the tourney. Each will shoot at 100 targets distances ranging from sixteen ity-three yards. In the past the it has generally been won by a horse who stood on the sixteen mark. This year’s winner may be exception. Shoot Over Lake. ning day's event will be the igan introductory of 200 sin- targets, 16 yards rise. This event fakes the place of the 18 yards cham- Hi ip which has been discarded and contestants an opportunity to become acquainted with the surround- ‘The targets will be thrown out over the water of Lake Michigan and there will be no trees, fences, hay stacks or other objects to furnish alibis for contestants who fail to perform up to expectations, ‘On the second day, the North Ameri- ean doubles championship and the ju- nior singles title will be determined. In the former race, contestants will shoot at 100 double targets. Competi- tion in the junior championship is open te shooters under 18 years of a; Shoots for Singles Title, The North American championships at single targets will be held on the third day. This will consist of 200 targets, 16 yards rise. The women’s national championship will take place on the same day; the fair sex will shoot at the same number of targets and un- der the same conditions as the men’s single target championship. The five man team championship will also be held on the third day. ‘The east versus west team shoot will be among the features of the fourth @ay, although class champions will be determined at the same time. The team race will be a ten man affair with teams from each side of the Mis- éissippi river. Shooters in Ontario, Quebec and the maritime ‘provinces ‘will shoot on the east team, while the remainder of the Canadians will be eligible for tho west squad. Grand American Final Event. The preliminary handicap or warm- up event for the Grand American will be held on tho fifth day, Contestants ‘will shoot from the same distances they have been allotted for the Grand American, which will be held on the sixth day, According to officials of the A. T. A, a record entry is ex- pected because of the natural location of Chicago and the beautiful facilities afforded by the South Shore Country club for the classic event of the trap shooting world, Entries for the Grand American handicap close on Aug. 11 with Secre- tery Starr Matthews, 230 East Ohio street, Chicago, Ill. Western Horseshoe Men Plan Title Tournament Extensive preparations are being made at Santa Monica, Cal., for the annual horseshoe pitchers’ state cham- Plonship, which will be held at the sea- eide city early in September. Arrange- ments are being made to provide com- petition for all types of players, cash prizes belng offered for winners. Nine events are carded, ranging all the way from competition for 70 year 14 “boys” to the unlimited cham- plonship games. li i mh ? 3 F : L it TENNIS. ACES OF THE PACIFIC TO CLASH MASANOSUKE FUKUDA, Japan. (Pacific and Atlantic Photo.] WILDERNESS LAKES. EARLY every fisherman has 4 hankerin’ to fish new lakes and when lakes are set back in the wilderness with no boats deco- rating the shore Ine the appeal is especially strong. At least, that’s the way it is with us, and recently we have been plowin’ through the brush to wet @ line and take on a few fish that do not seem to be acquainted with all the latest lures. In the Wisconsin-Michigan boundary Ine country west of State Line, Wis., there are plenty of little lakes, set down in the heart of deep forests, where a fellow can fish. A number of them are unnamed and do not ap- pear on the maps, It's a regular cir cus for us to put a canoe on a little truck, ride a few miles on the high- way, then duck into the timber with the canoe and launch it on some little body of water that just seems to be waiting for some one to appreciate it. However, some of these boatless and practically unfished lakes are right close to the road. We were on one the other day when the cars were spinning by, but we'll wager no one ever thinks of the fine bass in that lake, And it is full of bass, as well as a variety of pan fishes." We saw school after school of bluegills in the clear water and a few found their way to the frying pan, As far as we can learn, this body of water which wo fished hasn't a name, even though it is pretty enough and has fish enough to deserve one. West of State Line along the road that serves one or two resorts in this section there are a number of these small lakes which rarely see a canoe or a boat, And talk about a beauti- ful drive! Why, from the railroad sta- tion it’s a wilderness ride for a fare- theewell, twisting and turning through the forest, and then as you round a curve in the road you:come upon one of these little takes with pines crowd- ing to the edge of the water. Yes, sir, even if a fellow didn’t get a fis! the ride in here would be worth the trouble. It 1s always interesting to see what lures the fish in these small lakes will take, Sometimes they will hit any- thing. Then again live bait ts the only thing. Yesterday a couple of fellows made a killing on big mouth bass by using worms and “canned” minnows, half still fishing and halt trolling with them. They got a fine string of big mouth bass from a lake that covered just about three acres, One of the string weighed better than three pounds, Live frogs are the berries sometimes. On Anderson lake, which Is a deep body of water, live frogs seem to be the best lure going to get the big bass. But, as a rule, if you have a variety of weighted files and a bottle of pork strips you can hook all the fish you want. Last week the boundary line-country was simply flooded by heavy rains, which brought the trout streams way up and temporarily put the kibosh on that sport. But the bass fishermen didn’t seem to mind it much, They Would go out after the rain and more than wallop the fish. Anyway, a rainy day in camp is desirable every once in a while. Gives a fellow time to do a little tinkering with his tackle, work he wouldn't do when the sun {s shin- ing and the lake is inviting for a canoe trip, MICHIGAN LOSES TWO TRACK MEN University of Michigan's track team, which this year proved the words of the college song by becoming “ cham: plons of the west” and‘then went the song one better by becoming na- tional intercollegiate leaders, promises to turn out as strong a cinder path aggregation in 1924 as it had in the weason just past. Michigan lost but two of its track _ and field stars by graduation this year, ‘These are Isbell,.the two miler, and Schmidt, hammer thrower. All others who made points at the Chicago meet will be available to Coach Steve Far- rell next season. Farrell claims also to have a number of promising fresh- men to make the 1924 team even bet- ter than the one of this year. CHANEY IS K. Os KING. in the ring bekouts in hig ZENZO SHIMIZU, Japan. UTRIBUNE Photo.) (HE tennis teams of Australia and Japan are scheduled to fight it out on the turf courts of the South Side club of Chicago on Friday, Satur- day and Sunday, Aug. 10, 11 and 12, for the American zone champion- ship in the annual international team competition for the Davis cup. ‘The qualtfication for the matching of these two teams is that Japan defeat the Canadians at Montreal, and Australia win from Hawall at East Orange, N. J., in the next week, but neither Canada nor Hawaii have any tennia talent capable of providing such an upset as yictory over the strong Pacific ocean rivals, Shimizu and Fukuda of the Japanese team are well matched in tennis ability, and should provide bitter competition for the players from kangaroo land, who possess in Jimmy Anderson one of the greatest players ever produced in that nation of such exceptional masters as Wilding, Brookes, and Patterson. Pukuda is making his first appearance on American courts this season. Shimizu has been a shining light'in American tournament play for several seasons. Anderson is one of the five players in the world with wins credited against William T. Tilden, I., of Philadelphia, Strangely enough, it was on the hard courts of the same South Side Tennis club, Chicago, where he will lead his team against the. Nipponese, that Anderson beat Tilden in the autumn of 1920, YANK MERMAIDS TRAIN FOR OLYMPIC GAMES » America’s representation at the next Olympic games at Paris in 1924 will consist of 350 athletes in every form of sport competition. All but about a score of this huge number will be male heroes of cinder path and field, the shooting range, the courts, the links, etc. The only feminine members of the party will be the girls who are adept in swimming and diving. At the last Olympics American mer- maids made virtually a clean sweep of the events in the water and off the springboard, Uncle Sam is intent on maintaining this supremacy, in the only form of competition for which women are eligible at the internation- al classic, and with that end in view preparations are already under way to assemble a formidable array of girl swimmers and divers for the Paris car- nival. ‘The greatest progress toward Olym- pic is being made by the women and men that compete regularly at the weekly meets in Madison Square Gar- den pool, and it is expected that of the score of fair natators who will rep- resent the United States at Paris, half the number will be chosen from among the many girls who are now appear- ing in the meets at the Garden. Heading the list of potential Olym- pic team representatives from among the Garden competitors is Miss Helen Wainwright, a point winner for this country at the last Olympics, Since that event Miss Wainwright has de- veloped into the premier all-round water woman this country, has ever produced. Other eligibles that have scored in the Garden meets are Miss Elizabeth Becker, the national outdoor diving champion; Miss Florence Briscoe, na- tional junior springboard queen; Miss Louise-Davidson, the Metropolitan ti- tleholder; Miss Alma Mann, the Pana- ma Canal Zone champion; Miss Anna Baum, the Connecticut all-round champion; Miss Helen Briscoe, Amer- fcan Interscholastic titleholder; Miss Dorothy Hucknall, the Atlantic City swimming and diving star, and a host of other speedy and graceful mermaids. 20,000 Gotham Athletes Perform in Single Day New York City athletes turned out 20000 strong on fifty athletic fields and in seven municipal swimming pools, while 50,000 women and girls took part in festivals and games on 100 other centers as part of the recent Independ day sports program, It required 2,000 officials to conduct the meets and 3,000 & silver and bi medals were distributed to winners JEWISH PROFESSOR RECOMMENDS GOLF AS CHARACTER BUILDER recommended by Prof. Mor- decai Kaplan of the Jewish Theological seminary. “In order to teach human beings to do right you must first place them in a situation where there is the temptation not to do right,” he tolé the Jewish Teachers’ asso- ciation conference. If there is a game that tends to make an expert liar, it is golf. If there were no opportunity to falsify one’s scorecard, there like- wise would be no chance to create the will to tell the truth.” Gz as a character builder is MEREDITH DENIES HE IS TRYING TO STAGE COMEBACK “Ted" Meredith, world’s record holder for the quarter and half mile runs and winner of the 800 meter champlonship at the Stockholm Olym- pics in 1912, says there is no truth in the report that he has started training with the idea of trying for a place on the American Olympic team of next year. ‘The former University of Pennsyl- vania star has not run a race since the Antwerp Olympics three years ago. He was seen working out on the Uni- Versity of Pennsylvania track recently and the rumor was immediately circu- lated that he was going to attempt a “ comeback.” When Hugh Hirshon, chairman of the Wilco A. A. games committee, heard the report, he communicated with the former Olymple champion and 4 him to compete at the Wilco s in the Yankee stadium on invit m {rman Hirshon received a reply from Meredith “in which ‘he ‘says he will not try and “come back,” and that the running that he has been doing of late has betn indudged in merély to keep his weight down, BALL STUDENTS FORM LEAGUE Students In the baseball course at the University of Michigan summer school for coaches have organized a four team league, playing ‘a schedule ght games throughout the A great amount of rivalry d between the four teams, € Iso et thelr practice JAMES 0. ANDERSON, Australia. (TRIBUNE Photo.) The Old Copyreader “Many a story is hopelessly written, but the story of life is hopelessly rotten.” RIGHTO! The English are a chummy crew, They get together day and night; ‘Thelr social life is never throughs ‘Thelr gatherings are endless, quite, I don’t see how they can collect So often; I'll confess it’s got My goat complete. But I suspect ‘The liquor helps an awful lot. ‘They take » couple hours off For lunch and then gang up for tea; At each dinner each top-hatted toff Dates up a midnight supper spree; They talk and talk and eat and eat And bandy epigram and mot, And doubtless in these efforts neat ‘The liquor helps an awful lot, T call to mind In times gone by Whene’er I banquetied en masse ‘The jests seemed keen, the humor dry When magnums lent the palate class And thus I figure is the way ‘The Britons stand their bally rot; For when » party gets passe ‘The Cquor helps an awful let. When relish droeps and gusto wanes There's nothing like another shot; ‘When ennui rules and boredom reigns The Nquor helps an awful lof, GUY LER FIRPO A DRUG CLERK ~ BEFORE ENTERING RING An enthusiastic doctor of pharmacy invites attention to the fact that Luis Angel Firpo, who recently knocked out the aged Jess Willard, is a phar- macist and that before he felt the call of the roped arena and the cash regis- ter he used to pound pills. The pharmacists naturally are very much excited over the chances of Sefior Luis Angel Firpo and should he ever win the heavyweight cham- plonship the drug clerks all over the world will be expanding their chests. Firpo is the first pugilist of any note that the profession of pharmacy has produced. There was a great poet once who came from that profession, But naturally the modern pharma- cists are not wildly excited over a poet, though his name will be in the li- braries long /after the name of Luis Angel Firpo will occupy just a little space in the record book. Poets and Boxers. The time was when the poets and the gladiators were equally badly paid, but this defect has been remedied in the case of the gladiators. Also in the matter of public approbation the giadi- ators now have all the better of it, The fact that Rudyard Kipling was staging a come back would not get anything near the space and consid- eration as the fact that Jess Willard, after being beaten by Dempsey, was at work trying to bring about a return match. Civilization certainly is giving the cauliflower ear its due, hence the pride in the profession of the caull- flower ear. What They Did. Somehow the manly art does not care from what trade or profession it draws its recruits. Robert Fitzsim- mons was a blacksmith. James J, Jeffries a boilermaker. These trades were quite well calculated to pro- ght champions. But then James Corbett, who was a bank clerk, a member of a real white collar profession. Willie Ritchie, who once was light- weight chi plon, drove a coal wa in San Francisco, Battling Ne worked In a foundry for a br Ad Wolgast once was a Stanley Ketchel, the greatest of the modern middleweights at least, was a waiter and learned to fight in the places where he carried the tray, for these were places where the walters had to double as bouncers. Dempsey Was Miner. Jack Dempsey, the current heavy- weight champion, was a coal miner, but aid not work long at that confining trade. Subsequently he became an itinerate laborer and very recently a coal baron, Tom Sharkey was an able seaman before he became a very able mauler. Leach Cross in real life was Dr. Lew Wallach, dentist, but four more profitable to knock o' than to pull them out FOR PLAYERS » OF WHIST by A.R.METCALFE NUMERICAL STRENGTH COUNTS, PROMINENT writer on bridge has stated that a bid should not be made cn a suit headed by the king, and containing no other honor. Too many rules are a nuisance, and a player should be able to bid on any suit possessing the necessary nu- merical strength, provided in the entire hand there is sufficient high card strength. In the deal which is iMustrated be. low, failure to bid a spade would have been a bridge crime, and the method of winning the game which the de- clarer employed is unique. THE HANDS, st, 9. H—Q, 9, 6, 5, 4, 2, OAT, 6. DA, K. 7, 2. ‘THE BIDDING. Score: North and south, 19; east and west, 0, East dealt and ‘bid one heart, south passed, west bid one spade, and the bidding elosed. North's initial Jead. THB PLAY, ‘Tricks. Ww. 1 Dé Da ac 50 8c Ke AS 28 38 KS Dy ac pa 100 108 DS = DLO 43 HA 48 HS D8 Do Ho Qs Do HS red 5S HK B7 8S. West secured ten tricks, North and south could have won two tricks in diamonds, and one in each of the black suits, thereby saving the game, After winning tHe second trick, however, south was as reluctant to establish a diamond in dummy as his partner had been. It seemed also to the south player that there would be time enough to make the ace of diamonds after getting in with the queen of spades, and there was some hope that north might be able to ruff the second round of clubs, The declarer perceived his opportu- nity after winning at trick three, pro- viding his opponent holding three trumps also had the remaining clubs. Taking two rounds of trumps, dis- carding both the queen and jack of diamonds in dummy, the establishing of diamonds in his own hand by using the remaining trump in dummy, made a very easy game. The declarer had not failed to notice at trick one that there were exactly three diamonds held by each of his opponents. ‘The next deal is a far more compil- cated one, requiring play of the high- est order, Score, 0-0. bid ne trump, which closed the bidding. North’ initial’ lead. Tricks. 8. y. 1 iS Hy Ona 48 38 Ds «HQ D7 OHA ps =H DI DA 30.0 AC 108 78 3: West secured nine tricks. In the original play of this deal, south led a diamond. At trick two north won the trick and returned a diamond, which gave the declarer « very easy game, Some of Tau Tam UNE readers protested against the dia- mond play, saying that south could have saved the game by leading a spade up to the king in dummy at trick two, and then play his game along those lines. At trick one, the declarer knew that south held but one heart and would be obliged to switch to diamonds or spades if allowed to hold the first trick, Had the declarer won the first trick, thrown dummy in the lead with a club and then finessed dia- monds, north would haye had no pos- sible lead except the queen of spades after winning with the king of dia- monds, After winning with the king of spades in dummy the declarer could mark south with the last three good spades and probably four cards each in the club and diamonds sults, as a spade bid would have been probable had south held five originally. West, therefore, placed out his three remain- ing hearts in order to force discards from the south hand, It was imposal- ble for south to throw away any sult except diamonds, and at trick six the reasoning of the declarer was as fol- lows: South was absolutely holding four clubs, headed with the knave. His other four cards were either four spades or three spades and one dia- mond. ‘Therefore the declarer must lead the ace of diamonds at trick six in order to leave south no card of exit. Had south id no diamonds, he would have been ed to discard a spade on this trick. The declarer then played his ace of clubs in order not to block the dummy, then threw the lead to south with a spade, compelling the latter to give dummy three tricks in the club suit, Howard, Princeton Grid Star, Hurt in Smashup Albert Howard of Ha rill, Mass., Princeton football pla. , Was injured recently in an automobile accident, in which his machine twice turned turtle, It was sideswipéd by another car, He was cut and bruised about his face and head. His fat i, Howard, Srecen Presented Bengal tiger as a mascot of the success of the c gridiron last fall. CHESS CHAMP 14 YEARS. MICKEY DEVINE APT TO BE IN BAD WITH LANDIS Newark Manager Has Talked Too Much. BY I. E. SANBORN. Unless Kenesaw M. Landis, over- lord of professional baseball, 1s off watch, one Mickey Devine, who has been managing the Newark team of the International league, is likely to learn the folly of talking too much. In fact, he may ascertain from the high commissioner that baseball does not need him any more, Not being in the big league lime light, it may be necessary to introduce Mr. Devine to the more remote por- tions of baseballdom and to outline the situation in which that gent has placed himself. Mr. Devine Bragged. ‘When Devine heard recently that the folks who own or control the Newark club desired to tie the ean to him and appoint a new manager, he bragged openly that if the Newark club fired him he would board a train for Chicago to call on Commissioner Landis and tell the judge something he ought to know about the intornal affairs of that club. The price of keeping his mouth shut was to be retained as manager or given a chance at a major league sal- ary. The nature of the beans Devine threatened to spill was not disclosed, but for some seasons there have been strong suspicions that the relations be- tween the Newark and Baltimore clubs of the International league were too intimate to stand a third degree invest!- gation and a fearless application of the rules against syndicate baseball. Nothing to prove these suspicions haa been uncovered and they have been righteously denied by Jack Dunn and the ostensible owners of the Newark outfit, In Bad Either Way. It may be Devine'’s threat had noth- ing to do with these suspected affilia- tlons and he has other/interesting in- formation up his sleeve. He went no farther than to say he could tell Landis something he ought to know, and his threat apparently had weight enough with his employers to delay the affixing of the tinware to his managerial per- son. Now, {f Commissioner Landis is not off watch he is quite likely to send a peremptory order to Mickey Devine to take a train for Chicago and tell just what it is “that the judge ought to know.” In which case Mr. Devine is in bad either way from the jack. If he spills information to prove that things are not as they ought to be in the Newark club ownership or in its relations with the Baltimore club, the high commissioner is likely to ask De- vine some embarrassing questions as to why he has been a silent partner to such conditions, waiting until he could use the threat of exposure to benefit himself. That savors of blackmail, you know. May Get Fired Anyway. If Devine welches and declares he was only fooling, having no incrimi- nating information to give, the high commissioner is lable to hand him a blue envelope informing him that pro- fessional baseballvcan get along with- out his services indefinitely. For tho published threats of the Newark man- ager have done baseball much harm, whether they are groundless or true. The bird that fouls its own nest is not allowed to flock with the more re- spectable clans of the feathered tribe. Probably if he gets in a jam Mickey Devine will fall back on the good old overworked alibi and claim he never said any of the things attributed to him by the newspapers, but that the scribes imagined the yarn and wrote it just to get him in bad. That sort of thing has been done to the hard ‘working scribes by others much higher up in the diamond world than Mickey Devine. And they have been allowed to get away with it. But Landis Knows. Commissioner Landis has had @ &reat many years of close association with newspaper men. He knows how unlikely it is that any one employed by a reputable paper ever has or ever will write a yarn that had no founda- tion. He is not lkely to let Devine get away with it. And while the high commissioner is about it, if syndicate baseball is such @ heinous offense that it can be used by a man like Devine to hold his job, how about that tangle in the Pacific Coast league? The courts which re fused to give a club's representatives a right to recognition in the directors’ meetings of the league must have had some evidence to indipate President McCarthy was right in barring that club's delegates. Also how about the chain store syn- dicate operated by the St. Louis Na- tional league club, according to com mon report? Syracuse and Fort Smith apparently belong to the Cardinal chain, judging by the orders Mike Doolan received from Branch Rickey recently, FORMER GIANT ON TEXAS NINE “Flying Bob” Bescher, who once upon a@ time skipped about in center field for the world’s champion Giants, is still shagging flies in the outfeld. Bob is leadoff man for the league lead- ing Wichita Falls team of the Texas league. A number of other former big leaguers still in the ring are: Wea Tommy McMillan, shortstop, Rock; “ Hank” Robinson, pitch- er, Little Rock; George McQuillan, er, Nashville;,Otto Miller, catcher, Pote Kilduff, second baser Francisco; Lee King, outtle bas: