Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 20, 1924, Page 11

‘Revival of the Elks’ an- nual boxing and wrestling tournament as an annua! institution is announced by C. H. (Red) Roe, in charge of. arrangements, with this year's athletic carnival set for March 6, 7 and 8. State champton- #iiips in all classes will be awarded ‘as well as a state club prize in the farm of a loving cup posted by the ‘Casper Tribune to the amateur ath- ‘etic club of any one town that piles for club com- Petition will give the tournament prestige as an annual athletic ‘event. It is planned that prospective ts in every town orgunize ives into an athletic club for lpation. It will then be pos- le. for them to interest some or- ‘Sanization in financing their ap. ‘pearance here, The Cheyenne Elks stage a tournament of the same ina within a short time and-an ef- rt will be made to bring the win- hers of all classes to Casper.. Glen: xock amatours have already signi- fie@ their intention of organizing, and notices will be sent cut to the woper authoritigs in all towns @ such athletes hold sway. {Competition by. individual ema- 4 will not be barrec, however, numerous entries are expected various séctions, A loving cup it be given the all around cham- Moh of the carnival and gold Watches will be given the winners in ach-event with medals for the run- nersup. Rules governing the tournament will follow those used’ by the Den- ver Athletic club “in staging its an- --nual.Colorado tournament. Particl- will be lmited strictly to ours. Athletic activities of the Casper Elks hold interest for a wide circle “of fans here and the gymnasium ex- hibition by juveniles scheduled to be held two weeks hence will at- tract unusual attention. The boys ,who will participate are regular members of gymnasium classes con- ducted by the Elks. A variety of events will be featured. Three years ago the Casper Elks astaged their first amateur tourna- “ment with signal success, the en- tertainment provided and the sports: manship displayed having marked the event as valuable from the standpoint of physical training. eee HUSKERS ARE PICKED FOR WRESTLING M WITH NORTHWES LINCOLN, Neb. Janv 19—A wrestling team composed mostly of first year men will represent Ne- braska against Northwestern at Evanston, Ill, January 25, Coach Claude Swindell announced today. Probable Husker wrestlers are: R. ©. Blore, John Kellogg, and Joy Ber: fuist, Lincoln; Dafe Skinner and R. R. Robertson, Broken Bow; Theo dore Uhlir, Walnut and C. BE. ‘Thomas, Shubert. Thomas and Kellogg are the only Veterans. Tooo Much Monkey Business In Santa Ana Shown In Suit Jan. 19.— —There has been a jot of monkey business going on in Santa Ana, so much in fact that it led to a law suit. James Prentice recently sold four monkeys to Charles C. Trash on “pproval. When Trash found that he couldn't approve, because he had other things to do besides keoping the monkoys in their cage, he dé- cided to return them to Prentice. Then the fun began. He wag un- pble to get all of the simians to- Bether at the same time. That they were all well and in Boot health was certain because Rumerous reports came to him of the unexpected appearance of the monkeys at many different places. me pair visited the county court eure, and climbed all over the building. One was captured in the whether the ‘get together, and ‘nother qu€stion whether they can + kept-in a family union. } es Pec Ea Si OS RO ER By JOHN B. FOSTER. Copyright, 1924, The Casper Tribune NEW YORK, Jan. 8.—College ot: ficials are lining up back of the minor leagues in their opposition to the rule adopted by the major leagues at Chicago authorizing each club of the latter organizations to include in its lst of players five “futures,” who were to be college men deemed good enough to tle up by agreement, but who would be permitted to continue their studies until graduation, The objection of the minor leagues to the plan was registered sharply and promptly as soon as the scheme Was trotted forth at Chicago. Their contention was that it would in- crease the total of ball players under major league domination and make it impossible for the minors to do much with college players. As a rule the minors do not make much success with college men because they cannot offer adequate induce- ments. From the standpoint of resisting encroachment upon their range for ecuring players, the minors were quite right in their opposition. The field is narrow enough, and the right of the majors to add some 90 more players to their holdings would permit them just about to clean up the colleges. ‘The purpose of the proposed “fu- tures” seems to be just now dawn- ing on the colleges, but now college authorities who aro trying.to main- tain the amateur standard are tauohing severe criticism against the plan. They contend that pro- tessional baseball can get along very well and that it is too big, and takes too much money from the NORTH CASPER RECORD CLEAN Both Boys and Girls - Teams Start Out With th Wins. North. and “Central | Dboys lead the grade school basketbal] league at the end of the week, while the Bast Casper and North Casper girls stand at the head of the percentage col- suffered a defeat. in "The standing for the boys and girls teams to date follow Boys Woon Loet Pet. North 1,000 1,000 Girls Scores for t East 10, West 0. North 15, Park 0) Bast 14, Park 2. ‘West 10, Central 8: Boys scores: West 4, East 3. North 12, Park 10, Central 8, Mills 3. Park 9, East 4. Central 6; West 4, 361-POUNDER SEEKS FIGHT WITH CHAMP BUENOS AIRBS, (By Mail to the Camacho, the Bolivian skyscrader and hope for the heavyweight boxing cham- pionship of the world is at present United Press.)—Manuel leading the life of a prince, install- ed in the best apartments procur- able in the Torina hotel at La Paz, accompanied by his lame. He does not find his new mode of living at all agreeable and is sorry to haye abandoned his old home in the backwoods where mote (cooked corn) and lagua (a mixture of flour, water and salt) were his principal foods and not the dishes that are now served to him, He weights 361 pounds and is seven feet high, Hfts weights of over 490 pounds as easily as if they wore only e'ghty and can carry a pack weighing over 650 pounds. He has two brothers, thirteen and fourteen, each of whom top six foot four inches in height. He has already learned to speak several words of English, dance the fox trot and has acquired the rudi- ments of boxing. His manager intends to take him on a tour of the Argentine, after which ho wiil leave for the United States where manager will, be found for him io train and teach him boxing, after which he will challerige Dempsey for his tle, COLLEGES BACK UP MINOR LEAGUES IN FIGHT ON NEW RUL umn, none of the four teams having Great interest is manager and the Bolivian sportsman, Miguel Se- Public, to indulge in the practice of going to the colleges and by making cash offers inducing college men to tle themselves up to pro- fessional baseball at the end of their college courses. One case is cited of a major league club that had a prominent college halfback under salary for three years. The player) took part both in college baseball and foot- ball, despite the fact that he pete bound by contract to become fessional when he quit pe ag ‘t indeed his contract didn't make him one the minute he signed it. This is not a isolated instance. Many ball players in college have been signed to contracts in April of their senior year, with tho stipula- tion that the fact should not be made public until after graduation, so that they might retain thoir amateur standing. They used money advanced them as professionals to Pay their college bills. They were professionals, but they “got away with it.” There are some ball play- rs now in the majors who did this before they went from college to professional baseball. It is held that the task of at: tempting to maintain tho -amateur standing in college is difficult enough without having the major league clubs snooping around and, by getting players in their junior year to sign agreements to play pro- fessional ball, enter them on some sort of a “future Met by which they cannot be claimed by any other club in organized baseball, It is certain that players would not agree to-pledge their services unless there was an exchange of financial value, and a “future” player there- fore unquestionably would become &@ professional as soon as he signed @ contract. Franklin Hangs Basket Defeat: On Notre Dame SOUTH BEND, Inc., Jan. 19. Franklin college defeated Notre Dame by the score of 19 to 12 ina fast basketball game here tonight. + CITY LEAGUE GAMES AGAIN DURING WEEK Games in the Casper basketball letague this week will be played at the Baptist gymnasium on Tuesday] part night and at the High School gym- nasium On Wednesday night. On Tuesday the Texas five will meet the Midwest and the Polar. ines will play the postoffice. Wod. nesday will seo the two undefeated fives in action, the Methodists Against the Legien, and the Red Crowns against the Smoke Hou Pearl White aggregation. Annapolis Beats Lafayette Five ANNAPOLIS, Md., Jan. 19.—Ex- hibiting generaliy bettér team work, Annapol's mid-shipmen mastered the Lafayette college basketball quintet here today, 47 to 23, Heroes of the Sudbury, Mess,—Sergeant Samuel of the World ¥ rT, is shown above shakin, fio, partly Malis in layers for Him. Mai es with $50,000 for Dean. This young will be seen next paid that Manager 3 Miller Huggins inager John J. Se sed is Loy ee was byw te) posi | most effective pitcher in the American Association last “HURRAH SHOTS’ OF SEASONS GOLF PLAY FULL OF THRILLS By FAIR PLAY. Copyright, 1924, by The Casper Tribune. NEW YORK, Jan. 19.—The sea- son of 1923 was not without {ts un- usual golf shots. There was the usual crop of hole-in-one shots, but more interesting and more bizarre were the hurrah shots. For instance, why should a man brag about holing in one when he can swat a ball that 4yill- travel on @ line and land in the straw lid of a friend without even giving the friend a headache? That happened in Atlanta. A fine player whipped & beautiful brassie down the course to where his friend was standing and lodged it in said friend's Leg- horn hat as neatly as an egg is laid in a Leghorn's nest. The man who found his hat thus converted into a nest for a fying golf ball was content when he was Presented with a new hat, but an- nounced that when he strolled on the golf course in the future he would wear a rubber helmet so that if hit by a rubber core it would ‘be a case of Greek meeting Greek. A man in Westchester county, part of which has the plight of be- ing attached to Greater New York for life, hit a mighty brassie on one of the courses in which the county abounds, and sliced into the kitchen of a farm house on the other side of the road, The ball landed in « raspberry pie just_ removed from the oven. Juice and raspberries @plashed high in the Kitchen and the excellent house- wife—splendid cook—who had just stepped to the table to place an- other pie by the side of the first one, found her face suddeniy filled with more raspberries than a guy gets who tries to start a Lady Liz without gas. She was blinded with raspberries sail stewed up, as it were. She gasped, stumbled away from the table to find the water basin, and fell over the dog. ‘The dog, yelping dismally, ran into the gas stove and Woodfill, greatest individual hands with Babe Ruth, hero great- est individual hero of the 1923 baseball battle. Wintering at his farm near Sudbury, the Bambino wag host the army alti: lengthy service, to Sergeant Woodfili who recently quit Battle Meet | under f gas set knocked a crippled behind the stove ,and the neighbors leg out from The stove fell down, the fire to the towels hanging turned in a fire alarm, The firemen extinguished the blaze without much damage disappeared. to the kitchen, and the pie: But members of Volunteer Hose No. Seven, Pride of Oak Ridge, trundled thetr cart back to the box. hose holtise with their lips Atrociously suggestive of tho lip- stick a flapper carries in her vanity A man playing near Hohokus, N. J., hit a long tron shot that carried far up a knoll and smote a woodchuck in the ribs. Where the “ohuck’s came from was a mystery. But as the ball reached Location A on the topography of the country, the woodchuck ulso arrived at A. Ball and chuck collided, and the latter turned a somersault. Then, assuming his first position, though #® bit groggy, he looked around to seo what had hit him. His eye caught the ball and apparently tak- ing it for an egg hoe grabbed it in| his with it. other cackle. gE Los Press.)—Charles P. Price, known throughout tho northwest as ‘Kid" Price, veteran trapper, pros- mouth and staggered —, Jim Elijott, while playing in ‘New Rochelle, hit a hen that had been traveling across hens looked around to see weat had hap- pened, spied the ball, and began to his the course with and rooster. She The rovster Mapped wings and crowed proudly. ——_———— VAST RICHES IN CANADIAN NORTHWEST ANGELES, Cal.— (United better pector and placer miner, is winter- “The Canadian states, only a when a The frontier the big ing in Los Angeles Pointers. on Price, who is 74, on claims at the head of the Colum- bla river, bects to return there next year. been scratched “There is just as much wealth there as there ever was in tho western The trouble ig that there is | “Kia” eontly where they were showing a his gun,” ed it up, then brought it down be- fore firing. io get a few advanced civilization, has been working near Golden, and he ex- mineral resourées of the northwest have barely over,” he said. short time in the summer Prospector can work.” took im a movie re- film. “It wag all right, except the way Man of the piece handled | he remarked. “He point- Why, he'd have been keléd haifa dozen, iimes if he had done that in a re: battle.” Hoosiers Drop Game to C. U. Chicago Chicago CHICAGO, Jan. 19.—Univeraity of basketeers defeated In- diana university by thé score of 29) to 24 here tonight. and Barnes led the Maroon attack. Captain Dixon| led at the half, 17 to 10. po ctar-Se sacs Abate Rawlins Defeats Laramie High Five LARAMIE, Wy Rawlins 29 to 14 night, quintet overwhelmed Laramie high, high in @ game played here last | | making of a line of golf balls, the | —Henri Hebrans, champion of Bel- {beat him in a 15-round affair; but Referees Even Counted Out In Algeria Rings PARIS, (By Mail to United Press)—Here’s ono for the book. In a fight at Oran, Algeria, Bat tlmg Ferrand, former champion of Spain, was getting the worst of a@ fistic argument with Kid Francis of Marseilles. In the seventh round, Referee Gilotte warned Ferrand for re- peated holding. The Spaniard got madder than a bull in a Commu- nist flag store. He landed a crushing haymaker on the ref- eree's chin, sending the official down for the count of 27. The refree staggered to his feet and butted the Spaniard twice on. the jaw with his head, knocking the battler cold. Then the ref- eree wobble¢ over to kid Francis ra‘sed his glove in token of vic- tory and then collapsed. By this time all the cash cus- tomers were howling and fighting each other. It took 40 seconds to restere order. CASPER LOSES TO GLENROCK “Skinny” Thorton Is| Star of Visiting Team in Game. Glenrock walked on Casper at the local high school gymnasium last night when a hoop contest which was featured by fouls on the part of the home team ended 22 to 11 in favor of the visitors. “Skinny” Thorton of Glenrock was the star man for that aggregation, and piled up goal after goal to his credit. Kel- First in News Of All Events ONLY FIVE MAJOR LEAGUE auRS HAND CONTRACTS 10 THEIR MEN Bobby Veach First of Annual Holdouts to Let Out Squawk for More Money; Progress In Signing Players Is Slow. BY HENRY L. FARRELL ) ° se aetla H aN (United Press Staff Correspondent) NEW YORK, Jan. 19.—Reading signs that are reliable as the coat on the fur bearing animals and as trustworthy as the din of the ducks, it is spring. Approach of spring on t) going to be a very, very late he sport calendar is always marked by the shrill squawks of the holdout birds and«ap to the present time there has been only one feeble chirp. Bobby Veach who wants $3,000 for moving from Detroit ty Boston {n accordance with a deal made last week for his transfer, is the only the ball players. who has one of made an open howl for money, Veach has been in rather tary circumstances not because he the only player with his hands t but because only five of the ma. league club owners have mailed out new contracts to their hired help. ‘The New York Giants, the Cleve- land Indians, the Detrolt Tigers, the Cincinnati Reds and the Philadel- phia Phillies are the only clubs that have decided to bear early what their athletes think they are worth. Eddie Roush, who is just a natural holdout, has had several confer- ences with the owners of the Cin- cinnat! Reds and it Is probable that the star outfielder can be prevailed on to be reasonable with the prom- ise of world series money at the end of the season. The Reds have no reason to believe that they can- not win the pennant next season. The poor Phils, of course, will have no trouble in signing their players as the Phi! players are so soll ley and Davis did the best work for Casper. At the end of the first half the game was tied 5 to 5, the visitors not yet having gained the conf dence that they displayed later. Fitteen fouls were called on the local men. The local lineup included Davis rf, Gibson if, Overbaugh c, McKel- vey rg,.and Kelly Ig. Purdue Beats Gopher Cagers MINNEAPOLIS, Min Jan, 19.— The Purdue Boilermakers triumph- ed over the Minnesota basketball team here tonight, to the tune of 37 to 27. At the end of the first half the score stood Purdue 19, Min- nesota BOXERS HEAD 15 100 HARD, SAYS FRENCHMAN PARIS, Jan, 19.—{United Press.) gium, is the jinx of the Duropean featherweight division. A fight against Hebrans means a broken hand, boxer’s believe. “You lose if you win,” French fighters declare. “You get the de- cision and a busted hand, which means loss of future bouts and effectiveness.” They point out two outstanding eases as reasons for their unwilling- ness to meet the Belgian battler, with his uncanny knack of taking punehes on the top of the head fracturing his rivals’ bread-winning knuckles. Eugene Criqui was put on’ the shelf for six months when he smashed his left hand on Hebrans’ cranium. Into . Criqul’s place epped young Edouard Mascart the “Mauler,”- sensation of the French boxing world. He aiso met Hebrans, broke his right hand. Now the featherweights are side- stepping a bout with Hebrans. ———$_< Goodyear to Put Out Golf Balls AKRON, Ohio, Jan. nouncement has just been that the Goodyear Tire & Rubber company, one of the largest manu- facturers of tires in the world, hus installed a new department for the first of which “Dollar.” To avail itself of the benefit of English experience, last year Good year went to England, studied the art of golf ball manufacture as Practiced there, and got together and brought back to this country the best organization of personnel and equipment to be obtained. At the head of this personnel is John Harvey, a native of Edinburgh, and recognized in Britain as the leading authority on the design and manu facture of golf balls. “Jock"’ Harvey ig accredited with having des and directed the manufactur several of the most successful b brought out during the is the Goodyear ;ships may jounce glad they are in the major leagues that they are not too eager to be pa‘d for it. The Giants have done quite well in signing the members of a cham Pionship team. Manager McGraw seared most of them stiff during the fall when he threatened to trade off the whole team with the excep- tion of Frisch, Young and Jackson Frisch has signed a new contract for $18500 and Young and Jackson are so far away from the club of- fice that they haven't had time to get their ‘answers back. Both were given big raises. Dutch Reuther abandoned the regular holdouts by telling Squire EXbbetts, the Brooklyn boss, that he was satisfied with the new contract and that Ebbetts could consider him as signed. The two St. Loufs clubs have been concerned as much with un signed athletes as they were with Rogers Hornsby and Urban Shock- er, seems certain now that Hornsby has made peace with the Cards and will play again with them and George Sisler succeeded in getting Shocker off his peeve so he dropped his caso against th: Browns. The Yankees no doubt will have some discussion with the players, not because the owner of the club is tight but because it is the cus- tom for the players on world’s ser- les teams to do a little holding out. —_—. BIGGER AND HEAVIER GLOVES ARE DEMANDED | BY BOXERS OF GERMANY By Gus M. ¢ M,. OEHM. (Cnited Press Stafe Correspondent) BERLIN, Jan. 19. (United Press. rman fight fans demand elim- C inatiott of @yur-ounce gloves and hard bandages from the boxing game. Through -these regulations stun | continue, pressure is being brought to increase- the weight to five ounces and do away with hard wrappings. The four-ounce glove is charact- ized os “dangerous” to the sport, by the Berliner Zeitung. It is point ed out that the Inst séssion of the International Boxing Union decid- ed that the European fly, bantam, feather and lightweight champion- be decided oniy with five gloves, and the higher weights only with six-ouncers. The move in many states in the United States ‘to increase the size of the gloves js also urged as a good example for Germany France too, has joined the move- Advocates here quote the following tram the “Boxsport,” printed in Paris: “The executive committee is here- by’ requested to study the question of ‘the weight of boxing gloves, which, according to genera! belief are, in the majority of fights, much too light. The congress of the In- ternational Foxing union ts re quested to enlarge the size of the gloves. At the same time it is urg- ed that all sport material factories begin making only five, six and ht-ounce gloves.” an boxing cl es a'so favor e. The Box!ng Union has ruled that hard ban® years, balls which equally as popular in the Unit ted | States as abroad. ages from -lon fights @re to be eliminated except championship and elimina- AAGENTINE T0 ENTER GIMES May Send Athletes Contest Olympic Honors. to By GEORGE W. HAYWARD (United Press Staff Correspondent) BUENOS AIR (By Mail to United Press.)—Athletics have been developed to such an extent in the Argentine during the last few years that it is quite possible that Argen- 5 tina will be represented for the fi time in the next Olympic games. The success obtained by the polo team which visited England and the <! United States and also the tennis samy teams which participated in the play for the Davis Cup and the suc- = cess of local football teams agairist teams from Europe and Great Britain, has all greatly increased the desire of the Argentine to take part in an international athletic meeting. Athletics of all sorts have re ceived in the Argentine during the last few years an impluse that might well be considered marvellous Records are dally made, and broken. Several world’s records in swim. ming and weight lifting are at prea- ent held by the Argentine, as also the majority of South American records in all sorts of athletics. Argentine’s participation in next year’s Olympic games would not meet with very great success, but the repubile's representatives would at least. show up well and would gain much by their experience. ‘The president of the Argentine is ing the formation of an ion committee which would charge of selecting the dif. ferent athletes and also the best methods for their training which would be carried out by special pro- fessional trainers. CHAMP TROTTER SLIPS TIME OFF OWN RECORD PINEHURST, N. C., Jan. 19.— Carmelito Hale, who recently esta. blished what was claimed to he « World's record of 2:11% for # mile track at this season, today trotted the distance in 2:09. The mare was driven by Howard \Knowlton, widely known grand cfr- cuit driver, She is owned by D. H. Hope, of | Relelats N.C. N.C. DENVER. BANKS OUAENGTHENED OY MERGERS DENV R, Colo., Jan. 19.—Fcllow- ing three bank mergers effective in Denver Monday morning. and ‘tlie two bank failures of last summer fave fewer banks will handle the business of this city. Following in r succession came announcement yesterday af. ternoon and to of the merging of the Denver National and Hamil- ton National banks, the Home Say- ings and Merehants banks and the American Bank and and Union State. The taken over by the American Bank and Trust company, whereas the former two were regular mergers. Under the mergers banking is be- lieved to haye been put on its st footing in years in Col- strong: orado. FORMER U. S. EDITOR DEAD nLONDO, Ja. 19%—C mer Grasty, f editor of the Balti more Sun and for years a apecial writer for the New York Times, both in the United States. and abroad, died hare today.