Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 16, 1923, Page 7

~ BABE CAN'T MAKE HOMERS WHEN | ctab standing HURLERG WON'T PITCH TO HIM). So Says Henry Farrell, United Press Expert, in Discussion of American League Star’s Great Achievements. - BY HENRY L, FARRELL, (United Press Sports Editor). NEW YORK, Aug. 16,—(United Press).—Babe Ruth got such a bad deal this year from him something good to cut at, chance to establish a new hati Baciers, who refused to give iat he was deprived of the e-run record, No one contends that pitchers should lay them in the Babe’s groove for the mere purpose of letting him kill the bail, but it is maintained that some- thing should he done to place restric- tions on the ‘ntentional pass, Several years ago, when the fans, who paid money to ses the Babe crash ‘em, complained that the opposing pitchers were not giving him a chance to do his stuff, the layw-makers of the game sought means to curb the abuse of the intentional pass, but no remedy they have tried has been successfi.l. In a tight game it is but the part of manageriu! strategy to let a danger ous batter go down and the practice of passing a heavy hitter in a pinch was in vogue long before he Babe came into prominencs. It has be- come a custom, however, since Ruth started to change the style of play in the big § his job as manager leagues. Lee Fob! lost of the Cleveland Indians because permitted a pitcher to pitch to Ruth in @ pinch several yeare ago, and some other managerial heads might be cut off if the same thing were ¢one, now with alot at stake en one game, but when a team is hopeiessiy beaten, tt is not strategy fo pass the abe when even a clout for the four bases would not lave a yital effect on the game, Pitchers, when there {s not ‘too much at stake, should try to get the Babe, instead of taking the easy way cut of it and giving him a pass. Many pitchers, no doubt, would like to dos it. It doesn't make a game pitcher feel very courageous to admit his in: feriority_ by letting him go down on four wide ones, but most of them have to do what the bench dictates. eee Ruth has laurels enough to Ive on, and instead of decreasing his value as a player and a drawing-card, the pract'ce of making {t hard him has only served to make the ‘bigs toan ever and @ better bull player than he ever was, The Babe changed his style this season, with the result that he has a fine chance to lead the American League in batting. He still tries to knock homers, but only on the fire! two strikes. When he gets two on him he chokes his hat and tries for just @ common, ordinary hit, and he has become very successfnl at it, Figuring that he still hag two out t three chances to do his stuf? every time he is at the bat, his new sys tem is sound, practically and mathe matically. see Ruth is most sincere ‘n hie ambi- tion to become the batting champion of the league, Hoe has always taken as much pride in his ablity as an all: around player as he has tn the glory that attended him as the greatest dis- tance bitter of all times. He always Perfection Batteries AT PRICES YOU CAN’T BEAT Guaranteed Two Years Lodge Size $29.25 Others In Proportion Batteries Char; end Repa SANDS AUTO SPECIALTY CO, 430 West Yellowstone resented the inference that as soen as lie homerun hitting slumped he would be through, Fielding splendidly, hitting so well that he may finish the season as the champion batter and hame-run hitter, running the bases with the best of them, und playing bageball like it is the only thing in his life, Ruth has assumed the role this season as the greatest and most valuable player in baseball. ‘With Sister out of the game, his po- sition at the top of all of them in the American League cannot be question: ed, end there are no players in the Who can do so many the Babe can, - Last winter, at the well-remembered dinner for the sport writers when Sen- ator Jimmy Walker reminded him of he| the duty he had toward the “dirty- faced kids in the street,” Ruth - iseé that he would devote the off-sea- son to training and that the 1923 sea- son would find him in conditien to pie ball and that he would confine all js attentions on and off the diamond to _bageball. ‘His resolution, In view of -his con- the past, was accepted by in general with the attitude Ruth lived up to his promise. He is living cleanly and he is saving his money. After learning how much {t benefitted fim to keep his promise this meason, there is little doubt that Ruth will have to take a resolution this winter to be goad. ‘He has a new contract to talk over this winter and, since his reformation was sugh a vital factor tn bringing the whele Yankee ball team around to such a fine game this season, there is little doubt that Col. Jak» Ruppert will be in a mood to listen and agree if the Babe ghould ask for a raise, Ruth, playing as he has been this season, if worth eyery cent of his $50,000 contract. Ry his example, his spirit and his work on the field, he has dong more than anyona else to make the Yanks a runaway in the American Leaguy pennant race and a world’s stries jn the immence new Yankee Stadium will be worth twice hig salary to hig boss. Baseball cwes Babe Ruth « debt it can never pay. \If he did nothing else, he practically saved baseball when it ‘was on the rocks, after the 1919 scan- If there were no Ruth feats of bat- ting the following year to talk about the fans might have been talking about something else. RACING Meeting of Saratoga Racing Aseoci- ation, at Meeting of Kenilworth Jockey Club, at Windsor, Ont. TROTTING _ Meeting of Grand Circuit, at Toledo. ‘ENNIS Tl Women's national championship tournament, at New York. Finals in the Dayis Cup tie matches begin at Brookline, Mass. SWIMMING Natlenal A. A. U. championship events, at Indianepolis. GoLr Western junior championship tour- pament, at Chi 5 Towa State women’s championship tournament, at Des Moines. Majne Stnte amateur championship tournament, at Portland. Annual tournament of British Chess Federation, at Portsmouth, Eng. Annual tournament of American Chess Congress, at Lako Hopatcong, N.S. Polo > Annpal tournament of Point Judith Polo Club, Narragansett Pier. Annual tournament of Thousand Istands Polo Club, Aerntrie Bay. Annual tournament of American Roque League, at Norwich, Conn. ARCHEBY Annual tournament of National Archery Association, at Chicago. BOXING Jimmy Glabby vs. Eddie McGoorty 10 rounds, at Aurora, Til. Bobby Garcia vs. ‘Honey Boy” Fin, rounds, at Fort My: The East and the West Meet at the Kearney Military Academy A Boarding School for Boys. Operated by the Episcopal Church 1,733 at Kearney, Neb., the Midwa: Iniversities and War Dept, High School and College Pre Accredited by City. aratory. A Lower School for Fifth to Eighth Grades. Fall Term Begins September 12th Write Now to Headmaster for Information. National League. Won Lost Pet, Ginctawact uo Se ee c Pittsburgh % «46.580 Chicago 68527 Brooklyn --———--- 56. 54.508 St. Leute ---------. BB 5G .495, Phi 4elphia a7) 71 R43 WON aeyomeeniees The. 1k BON Second game— RHE. Cincinnati a: | et ee New York —nw--- 518 0 Batteries ey 4 Hargrave; Ryan, Jonnard, Barrss, Neh, Scott and Gowdy. At Brooklyn— At Boston— Chicago Boston Battertes—, ‘arrell; Marquard, Fillingim and O'Neill, Gib- son. At Philadelphia— R.H.E. Pittsburgh —-. 410 0 Philadelphia, 310 1 Batterles—Cooper end Schmidt; Behan and Henline. — At Chicago: ist game— RHE. Washington - — -~510 0 GHIGNEG | woncereg—teegeerener= 2, 6 2 Batterjes—Mogridge and Gharrity; Robertson, Thane m and Schalk. St. Louis pees Batteries—Hoyt Shocker and Severeid. At Cleveland— R. ELE. Boston 815 0 Clevelan. —-- 616 2 Batteries Ferguson, Ehmke and Devormer; Coveleskie, Morton, Bedgood, Smith and O'Neill, Myatt. At Detroit— Philadelphia -.._.. Detroit, '-—-seaieemrnapesanens Batteries—Hasty, Rommel! and Per: kins; Holloway, Johnson, Cole and Bassler. American Association. Louisville, 4; Kansas City, 1. Indianapolis, 5; Milwaukee, 2. Columbus, 4; Minneapolis, 3. St. Paul, 12; Toledo, 1. Texas League. Dallas. 8; Fort Worth, 1. Wichita Falls, 8; Shreveport, 5, San Antonio, 10; Galveston, 4. Houston, 7; Beaumont, 2. Coast League. Salt Lake, 11; Vernon, 8. Sacramento, 4; Oakland, 2. San Francisco, 3; Seattle, 0. Los Angeles, 2; Portland, 1, Western Oklahoma City, 7; nings). Wichita, 4; Omaha, 3. Des Moines, 12; St. Joseph, 1. No others played. Today’s Games National League. St. Louis at Brooklyn. Chicago at Boston. Pittsburgh at Philadelphia. Cincinnati at New York. | American League. New York at St. Louis. Philadelphia at Detroit. Washington at Chicago. Boston at Cleveland. ' SPORT BRIEFS NEW. YORK.—Luis Angel a for the heavyweight A for ¥ where he will ie See Downey in'e ten round bout Friday night. Denver, 2 @ in: MONTREAL.—Kid Roy of Quebec, featherweight, was awarded the de- cision over Jole Fox, champion featherweight boxer of England, in a ten vanne fight. NEW YORK.—Joo Tiplitz of Phila delphia knotked out Elino Flores of the Philippines, in the third round of ‘he'y weheduled ten round bout Flores claimed ® foul but the referee [aectared the knockout was fair. Che Caspw Daily Cridune ~ Miss Leta Hills, English girl, is training for an attempt to swim @cross the English Channel during August, She crossed the @ water-cycle in 1918./ BABE RUTH SMASHES OUT SOTH HOMER AS BROWNS TRIM YANKEES Cincinnati Reds Hand Giants Double Defeat in Opening New Series; Adolpho Luque Back In Game After Late Suspension. and batting averages. ¥ork Americans lost to the St. Louis Browns, & to 3. Phe Cincinnati "Nationals shocked the Giants by walking calmly away with two games, 6 to 3 and 10 to 5. fhe New York Giants ran eight g| pitchers in rapid succession over the mound, but all to no effect. The Detroit Americans, on the home grounds, beat Philadelphia, 7 to 5. The Boston Americans defeated Cleveland, 8 to 6. Despite the story told by the score, most of the heavy hitting was done by the Cleveland players. - The Chicago Americans broke even with the Washington Senators in a Chicago doubleheader, Washington taking the first 5 to 1 and Chicago the second, 4 to 8, in a pitching battle. Boston trimmed Chicago, 8 to 2, with Fillingim the winning hurler He allowed no hits in the last two innings. The Pittsburgh Nationals beat the Philadelphians, 4 to 3, in a hard fought fray. In Brooklyn, the Brooklyn WNa- tionals won the opening game of their skirmish with the St. Louis Cardinals, 7 to 1. They scored the entire seven in the first four innings. Adolpho Luque, the Cuban pitch- ing star of the Cincinnati Nationals, restored to good stending after sus- pension because of a “run in” with Casey Stengel, got revenge on the New York Nationals by trimming them for the fourth time this n 10 + 2 for 25¢.* Morart Cigar ls made by Cigar “Mew Tork channel. aa ’ CHICAGO, Aug. 16.—(By The Associated Press).—Babe Ruth took the lead yesterday in St. Louis in both home runs He pounded out one round trip, mak- ing his total for the season thirty, one ahead of “Cy” Wil- liams, and put his average up to .8941, compared with Harry Heilmann’s .8989. Despite Ruth’s fancy stick work, the New His home run with a man on base helped to turn the trick. * Manager McGraw of the world's champions rushed 17 men, including five pitchers, into the second game against the Cincinnat! Nationals in an attempt to break even, but Rixey's pitching and support were too much for the icague lesders. The Boston Nationals nosed out « victory over Chicago when Bill South- worth's triple after two were out in the ninth imning sent “Stuffy'' Mo- Innis seross the plate with the decid- ing run, Willie Hamm, star third baseman of the Chicago Americans, who has been out of the game almost a week because of an injury to his ankle, re, turned to his position and played a star game. Manager Tris Speaker collected two singles, two doubles, and a home run in five trips te the plate, but that was not enough for Cleveland to win be- cause of the effective twirling of Boston's relief pitchers, Ferguson and Ehmke, who checked promising rallies and pulled their team out on top. PaaS cece EXPERT watch anG jewelry repair ing. Casper Jewelry Co., O-S Bldg. papa is Send your automobile news “Spark Vlug’—Care Tribune. _— te “Bring your bableg to church” ts a feature of the religious revival in Belfast, DO YOU KNOW By United Press Q. Who is the world’s champion bil- lard player- D. R. W. A. The title, “world’s champion bil- Nerd player,” is generally associated with the best player at 18.2 balk line billiards, and Willie Hoope is the! champton. : @ How much ts Firpo to get for fighting Jack Dempsey? —R.. 'T. C. A. This question is being asked many times. It 1s understood that Firpo is to get a percentage of the gate receipts with the condition that tho tage does not run ayer $100,000, That would indicate that he might get $100,000, but he might draw less, eee D. V. E.—Ages of women tennis players are not given in the records. Most of them are backward about answering personal questions. —— Sam Langford Now Pressing Clothes, Report EL PASO, Texas, Aug. 16.—The hefty right hand which has landed many a hard blow on white and black skins alike, is now pressing the wrink- les from trousers and coats of whites and blacks alike. Sam Langford, veteran negro pugi- list, ig running a tailor shop here. Sam doesn't claim to be a regular tallor, but he says his left eye is still hand = strong enough to wield a sadiron. j CASPER WRESTLERS RE CHALLENGED BY QUINTET ‘OF GEARS WITH CIRCUS! Philadelphia newspapers recently published a story that the zoo in that city boasted of the only wrestling bear in captivity, but evidently th reporters and editors overlooked the Hagenbeck-Wallace circus, which car- ries | quintet of wrestling bruins, that could make things interesting for “Strangler” Lewis, Joe Stecher, Zbyazko, or any of the other top netch heavyweights. When tho Hagenback circus ap- pears here on Thursfay, August 23, Afternoon and night, circus lovers will have an opportunity to witness thrilling and ‘sensational wrestling bouts between these bears and their human trainers. Prince,” a large Russian bear, weighing in the neigh- borhood of 600 pounds ig the most versatile of these animals, and his constantly be the alert to prevent addition to their wrestling ability, the bears also disport them. and do other seemingly tricks. The bears have been trained to perfectian by Jawn Helliot, the of- ficial Hagenbeck trainer in the Unit He {s hoping for a match in Enid, Oklahoma, on Labor Day. “It I win, F might get out of the ring for good, if the pressing business gets better, sald. dthek 8. SAS WALLACE AND FARNESS WILL BE HEADLINERS ON CARD AT LAVOYE The next fight card at the Castle Creek theater in Lavoye is scheduled for the evening of Saturday, August 25, when the main scraps will have for the headliners Otto Wallace in one bout and Johnny Farness in the other. Farness has been matched to meet Bobby Arndt as the result of his three round knockout of Dynamite Beverly at Lavoye last Monday. Wallace, who knocked out Johnny Walsh of Salt Lake City in the third rdund, has net yet been matched. Walsh tg clamoring for a return match on the s:0und that he had only four days te get in condition for the last fight and was in poor shape physically to meet a fast er like Wallace, ZART RH TGAR Mild as a May Morning—and as as a May morning—and as fra- grant”. And that means just what it says. Try Mozarts for a week —and watch. 15¢ * 3 for 50c VV TEE extracedinary. success, Mozart combines the two neys. TOMD: More . y—t4. Z=-* <4-0- 49-7 mI - mM - LE Daas > = Distributed By McCord Brady Co., Omaha, Neb, Only 25 Casper Motor Bus Line Tickets On Sale at Rialto Cigar Store, So Get Them Early Round Trip $3.00 BRING YOUR LUNCH ” LEAVE RIALTO CORNER 7;30 A. M. SHARP ARRIVE IN CASPER 6:30 P. M. SHARP Westbound opponent, James Deag, is forced ta! selves on horseback, walk tight ropes! impossible) States and their teaching require! much time and patience by the noted animal instructor. + Another group of domestic animal with the Hagenbeck show are thi “Barnyard Romeos," otherwise plain common everyday pigs. Danny Byer proved that the old’ saying “pigs & pigs" is often untrue, iy wher you spend several hours a day teach ing them parlor manners, And Ryae is now said to have the best pig ac ever offered the public, Circus Day aotivities will be in augurated by the grand, Street parade of more then @ mile is length, which ia scheduled to leav the circus grounds at 11 a. m. and proceed over tha principal busines streets. SHERIFF WILL. ATTEND FIRPO BOUT, INDIANA INDIANAPGLIS, Ind., Aug. 16.— Governor McCray today ordered Sher iff George Snyder of Marion County to be present at the bout here Friday night between Luis Firpo and Joe Downey, to see that the contest does not assume the qualitles of a prize fight. SPER + 1S + THE: FUTURE - CAPITAL Letters of Credit are issued by the Citizens National for the convenience of Wyoming people who may be going where they will need considerable m oney. And Travelers’ Cheques in small denominations for sherter jour- And letters of introduction to other banks where some specia! atten- tion may be wanted. 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