Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 18, 1923, Page 5

mn. YANKS WIN AND GIANTS LOSE BY ONE-FUN MARGINS IN BIG GAMES Homer Smashed Out by Ruth Helps Joe Bush to! Win Over Browns; George Burns Clouts One For Reds That Breaks Tie With Giants. CHICAGO, Aug. 18.—(By The Associated Press).—Babe Ruth of the New York Americans hit his thirty-first home run of the season in St. Louis yesterday, enabling Joe Bush to defeat the Browns, 5 to 4, four times at bat. George Burns put a thrilling Ruth made three hits out of his | finish on the New York Giants | game with the Cincinnat! Reds at the SS | AS REAL ‘KING 2 If that big brute tries a haymaker he'll hit nothing but the air. He and his opponent are blindfolded. | tutor. These Tommies are members of the London Air Def BABE RUTH LIVES UP TO TITLE It's a great sport—for the spec brigades, OF SWAT;’ NOW LEADS ALL PLAYERS INBATTING CHICAGO, Aug. 18.—(By The Associated Press).—Babe | Polo Grounds when he slammed out! a homer in the eleventh inning, and ®. |the Reds won, 5 to 4. The victory Club Standing J reve the reas, wno are stepping 00 | the Giants heels, an edge of three to jone in the present series. Today the | Reds’ Cuban star, Adolfo Luque, will National pitch. Club. Won. Lost. Pet. The Detroit Americans’ pitchers New York ....... 73 41 were wild in their game with the Pittsburgh _...... 64 48 Philadelphia Athletics and the Phila- Cincinnati 65 46 ‘586 delphia team won, 7 to 6. Chicago 60 52 536 Ainsmith's double in the 12 inning Brooklyn 57 55 —-.809| in Brooklyn gave the St. Louis Na- St. Louis 56 57 —.496/tionals a bitterly contested game, § Philadelphia... 38 71 .849|to 5. The Reds had tied the scored Boston ----.-, 33 7 .800) in the eighth inning with two runs after being led all through the game. The Washington Americans won in Pet.| Chicago, 6 to 4, when Blankenship -661| faltered in the 10th inning. It was .545| the final game of the series. '805| ‘The Chicago Nationals packed eight .505| hits into the first six innings of the '473| game in Boston and drove Fillingim) Chicago --...--.. 61 58 .468| out of the box, winning 6 to 2, and! Philadelphia __--- 47 62-431; taking the fifteenth out of nineteen Boston -----..--.-- 43 62 .409| games played with Boston so far this year. Pittsburgh Nationals evened the series in Philadelphia, winning 11 to 6, in a driving game. Holke made a ‘Ruth ig now the real king of swat, having at last established jhis supremacy over all major league players in all depart- ments of batting statistics. Rogers Hornsby leads him by |ten points in batting averages, but the St. Louis slugger has |played in 25 fewer games. Ruth now holds the crown for home runs, total runs, base on balls, en runs to make his total 97, to 90 for extra base hits, and is within the|/Frisch. The latter still ts holding be ani National At New York: 11 innings— despite the pitchers’ apparent fear of \his war club, as shown by the 125 Bill Barrett, star outfielder of the) bases on balls issued to Ruth up to Reading, Pa, club, was expected tO) Ausust 12, one of the untque features report to the Chicago Americans to-| of his batting record. day and take part in the first game, Ruth has taken the batting lead against the New York Americans. | som Harry Hellmann of Detroit with .3945 to Hellmann's .3939, according homer for the losers. | i rege ee to averages including games of last Cincinnati 510 2 | Wednesday. He naded tour home runs New York -. omar TC |this week, leading “Cy” Williams of |the Philadelphia Nationals by two cir- Batteriee—Donohue and and querer Bentley, Ryan Gowdy, cuit clouts, 81 to 29, Ruth has played 107 games and averaged one run per game. His total base record of 278 is far in the lead, h's 144 hits, includ- ing 28 doubles and 8 triples besides his home runs. Tris Speaker, veteran pilot of the Cleveland Indians, scored the greatest gain this week in points for his bat- ting average, adding s‘x points and taking third place from Jamieson, Cleveland. This shoved Tv Cobb out of the select ten for the first time in @ great many years, the Detroit man- ager being tied for eleventh place with ‘Witt of New York at .338, just two points below tenth position. I COURSE POPULAR Fifty High Sch School Grads Signify Intention of ‘Taking Studies. {select ten in stolen bases. All this| his lead for total hits, with 167, total bases, with 240. The Fordham Flash by pounding out 167 hits col- lected 25 doubles, 9 trip!es and ten homers. “Cy” Willlams, Phillies’ outfielder failed to add to his 29 circult drives, but his closest rivals in the National and Hack Miller of Chicago, tied with 16. George Grantham, of the Chicago Cubs is rated as a ten second man but despite this he is being given a close race by the veteran fly chaser, Max Carey of the Pittsburgh Pirates. Max jumped into the lead for a day or two, but has been able to steal only three bases in the !ast week while the Chi- cago flash grabbed off an even half dozen and ran his string up to 33. Carey has stojen 31. “Stuffy" McInnis of Boston, by making one sacrifice during the week, has tled Pat Duncan of Cieinnati for sacrifice hit honors at 23 each. Other leading batters: league are Jack Fournter of Brooklyn || At Boston— R.H.H.| URBANA, Il., Aug. 18.—Althoush Chicago -. 6 9 1j|the University of Tlinols does not Boston .. 2 8 2]open until the middle of September, Batteries—-Keene and O’Farreli;|more than 50 high school graduates Eddie Collins, the Chicago veteran,| added four more stolen bases this week, his 35 now being more than Filingim, Barnes and O'Neill. American League. At Bt. Louts— Now York Bt Louis - Batteries— Bush and Vangilder, Shocker and Severeid. —~ 412 1 At Chicago: 10 innings—- R.H.E. Washington Chicago .------—-.~. Batteries—Johnson, Ruel; Leverette, Graham. wwnee 410 1 Blankenship and At Detroit— Philadelphia Detroit Batterles—Rommal, Harris Perkt: Francis, Basslei Western League. Bloux City, 10; Denver, 4. Omaha, 8; Des Moines, 4. Oklahoma City, 3; St. Joseph, 1. Tulsa, 6; Wichita, 3. Texas Wichita Falls, 6; Dallas, 5. Fort Worth, Shreveport, $ 4. San Antonio, 21; Galveston, 6 Beaumont, 9; Houston, 9 (9 innings, darkness.. American Association. St. Paul, 8; Toledo, 4. Columbus, 6; Minneapolis, 4. Kansas City, 3; Louisville, 0. Milwaukee, 14; Indianapolis, 7. Coast League. Salt Lake, 6; Vernon, 5. Portland, 4; Los Angeles, 2. Sacramento, 3; Oakland, 2. Seattle, 10; San Francisco, 6. Today’s Games National Bt. Louis at Brooklyn. Chicago at Boston. Pittsburgh at Philadetphia. Cincinnat! at New York. American League. New York at St. Louis. Philadelphia at Detroit. ‘Washington at Chicago. Boston at Cleveland. Hofmann; |} devoted to and/ work and a great have obtained permits to register in the four year course !n athletic coach: ing. This seems to indicate a record- ELE, | breaking class in the course which 6 13 6| Will cpen its fifth year. Approximately two hours 9 day are class work in athietic courses. The rest of the time Is occu- pled with academic work designed to till the special needs of a coach by weee--------- 6 10 3} giving him a well-rounded education. “Our coaching course requires hard dea! of outside study," says George Huff, director of aibletics, in @ letter just sent to pros- Dective students. ‘Willingness to R. LE. work, scholastic obility, hich tdea's, - 712 ©) good character and the proper atti- ~~~ 610 1} tude are fundamental and] both Pillette, Cole, Holloway and} coaching profession in after life.’ en qualifications in the university and in the Send your automobile news “Spark _Plug’—Cars Tribune. to double the nearest contender. Collins also is far in the lead in sacrifice hits with 33. Other leading batters: Detroit .343, Rogers Hornsby continues well in adding ono point last week to make his average .405. Zack Wheat, of Brooklyn who has been out of the game with an injured leg, still holds second place with .382, greatest gain of the last week, add ing ten points, which just brought him within the leading ten. Roush, Cincinnat!, dropped to eighth place, losing six points this past week. Pep Young of New York took the teammate Frankie Frisch, adding sev: —_—— SO PPP roaterdr dodo ctoupetoatoatrledteateatesteatecteatectecte z (Moose Building) A Dance Palace of Refinement BEAUTY Z ORIGINATORS OF CASPER’S ENTER TONIGHT MARIE RODERICK and DOUG ISITT Entertainers De Luxe ORIGINAL TAVERN ORCHESTRA DON ELLIS SCHOOL OF DANCING Fall Class Opens Aug. 20—Enroll Now “Where Everybody Goes” CASINO DANCE PALACE “We Make ’Em Dance” Qepererrererererordrepetrrteerredrarerdeereceanay 2 ote CONTEST [: ¢ Ki ? Jamieson, Cleveland .361; Sewell,| Cleve'and .355; Williams, St, Louis 846; Collins, Chicago .346; Manush,| the lead of national league hitters, | Barnhart of Pittsburgh made the! lead in runs scored away from his! Her First American Ficture Brooklyn .363; Frisch, New York .355; Young, New York .353; Traynor, Pitts- burgh .353. Horan of Des Moines, by cracking out fourteen hits in his last six games, has taken undisputed possession of top place among the batters of the Western league, according to av ages which Include last games. The Des Moines slugger is hitting .399, fifteen points in front of the hard hitting pitcher-slugger Emil Yde of Oklahoma City, who is batting .884 for 63 games. The long distance sluggers have stopped knocking them out of the lots, McDowell of Wichita and Davis of Tulsa remaining deadlocked with 27 | clreuit blows each. Blakesley of Wichita, in addition to running his scoring record of 104, brought his tetal base mark up to three hundred, his 166 blows including 36 doubles, 12 triples and 24 home- runs Other leading batters: Palmer, Sioux City .364; Lelivelt, Tulsa .358; Blakesley, Wichita .357; Corriden, Des Moines .353; McDowell, Wichita .350. DO YOU KNOW By United Press Q How many Jewish players are there in the major leagues? H. N. M. A. 6am Bohne, infielder for the Cincinnati Reds, is said to be the only one. . Q What are th the boxing champion: RF. J. A. Jack Dempsey is of Irish descent; Mike McTigue ts Irish born; Johnny Wilson is of Italian descent; Mickey Walker is of Irish parentage; Benny Leonard is Jewish; Johnny Dundee is an Italian; Joe Lynch is of Irish extraction, and Pancho Villa is a Filipino. nationalities of Q. What became of Man o' War? TURFER. A. Man o' War is now in the stud. ‘The first of his get are yearlings, and are being trained now and will b raced next season. SPORT BRIEFS DES MOINES.—Clayton Paige ot Fort Dodge, Iowa, retained his title as men's singles champion of the lowa State Tennis association by de- feating Ted Swensen of Cedar Rapids, 32. DES MOINES.—Miss Ruth Har. wood, Des Moines, won the Iowa women’s -golf championship by de- feating Mrs. W. F. Baker of Cedar Rapids, 6 and 5, in the final match of the tournament. mobile news ‘trihune. to Tuesday's ‘HE DOWNEY & GIVEN BEATING iCincy Battler Taken to Hospital After Bout With Luis Firpo. INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 18.—Luls Angel Firpo, sombre visaged pugtlist the jern commotion than has been visited) upon the sporting world of the im Hoosier capital in some time. Firpo was to meet Joo Downey, of Cincin- nat! fn a ten-round boxing contest. | The contest was held, but the dis-| order, financial mixups and disap-; pointment which attended it, may Place a serious obstacle in the way of holding future bouts here. | Both boxers wore sixteen ounce gloves, in compliance with the orders | of officials. Firpo, after sparring | tamely for the first three rounds! tore into his opponent. Downey| stayed the limit of ten rounds but! was given a terrific mauling. He col- lapsed after the bout and was taken to a hospital in a sem!-conscious con- dition, where it was said he was suf-| Rock Slides in Canyon Caused MONTROSE, Colo., Cloudbursts near Curreanti, Colo., In river, late Thursday serious rock slides, according to mes- sages received They were about 300 fect in length and six feet deep, according to the mossages. Tho slides tied up traffic| on the Denver and Rio Grande West-| iu" of the Argentine, came to Indian-|tween Salida and Montrose. apolis yesterday and stirred up more| point at which the slides occurred 1s! fail to come. near Curreant! Needle, widely known to tourists. pcrhcnae eS “OHICAGO—Jock Malone of St bias won from Tillie “Kid Herman Los Angeles on a foul in their sak at Aurora, Ill, in the third round. By Cloudburst, SU AS A SALT LAKE CITY.—The Salt Lake 18.—| club of the Pacific Coast league an- nounced the recall from Peoria, Threo| I league club of Inflelder Tony Laz-| zeri and Pitcher Jimmy Duchalaky at the end of the season. Aus. Black Canyon of the Gunnison caused three in Montrose today. ok NEWSBOYS. Dr. Cromer wants to see all the |newsboys in the city Tuesday morn- at ten o'clock sharp. Call at room OS building. He has some good The/ news for every one of them. Don't | railroad'’s narrow guage line be-| so4 DANCE AND SUPPER —AT— HAYGOOD’S RANCH (ALCOVA ROAD) TONIGHT SEVEY’S ORCHESTRA fering from injuries about the head.| His condition was declared by/ physicians to. beach gertow to be not serious. Sport Calendar| Meeting of onic Racing ee ciation, at Saratoga. Meeting of Kenilworth Jockey club at Windsor, Ont. Track. Central A. A. U. track and field championships, at Detroit. South Atlantic A. A. U. track and field championships, at Balttmore. Tennis. Final Davis Cup tie matches, Brookline, Mass. Maine State champtonship tourna- ment opens at Squirrel Island. Southern Michigan champtonship tournament opens at Detroit, Horse Show. Annual Greenbrier Horse Show, at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. Bench Show. Show of Rhode Island Kennel club, at Newport, R. I. 8 at wimming. Texas A. A. U. championships, at Dallas. Chess. British Chess Federation tourna- ment, at Portsmouth, England. American Chess Congress tourna- ment, at Lake Hopatcong, N. J. Annual tournament of Point Judith Polo club, Marresansest Pier. At ina FITZMAURICE fascinating love-actress as you" fashionable modern woman America by one of America’s foremost directors. 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