Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 11, 1924, Page 4

World Results By Leased Wire LEGION WINS TRIBUNE CUPIN FINALS OF ELKS TOURNAMENT Vince Crater Adjudged Best Performer in Tourna- ment—House Jammed to See New Champs Created in Fighting and Wrestling. With scores of contestants fallen by the way, the four- day first annual Elks Amateur Boxing and Wrestling tournament ended last night with the house jammed and in an uproar over the fast, furious fights that brought to light new champions and gave them names for future reference and watches for prizes. Best of all the teams entered was that of the American Legion which out of a total of 82 ¢ gathered under different colors, took 26 points and the Casper Tribune cup. The Standard Oll club was second with 18 points. Other teams placing were the Smoke House 6 points; Cas per Athletic club 14 points; Torr- ington 5 points; Burlington Athletic club 3 points. Voted to be the best all-around in the tourney, Vincent champion boxer in the 125 class, Was awarded the up. Three votes were re- Stanley Stevens, with ‘Vaughn Cadle of Torrington being given one counter. In addition to taking the cup, Crater was pre’ sented a gold watch for having placed first in his class, The initial scrap of the evening between Missou Pyle of the €. A. C. and Elmer Carey of the Legion upset a house full of earlier pre- dictions. Carey was the fighting flea of the tournament. With a quick pass at Pyle's jaw Carey would leap backward with enough speed to put him on the other side of the ring. It required four rounds to show the judges which wes thelr man. By winning this bout, Carey captured the watch for the 105, pound cla His left ear looming large and his left eye steadily bleeding, Stanley List of the Legion bored into Bill Rissler of the Smoke House, in the heavyweight layout, and won his scrap. Not only did List place first in the weight but also gathered up honors from the middleweight group. Today he has two watches. It was no easy job for Mickie Stanton of the Smoke House to tear a timeplece away from Earl Slick of the C. A.C. This windup in the 135-pound weight made up a rough display of heavy punching, Alec ter of the Standard family and Carl Runden of the Legion were both 82-pounders that could give and take with eet jaws. It looked for a time as though Foster would be declared winner the end of the bout, but the twist- ing of his right ankle prevented his getting the decision. ‘Tumult that lasted more than five minutes, broke loose at the judges’ choice in the wrestling tangle be- tween Ernest Smith of the Standard and Glen Wrenn of the Legion. Both men figured in the 146-pound class, For the greater part of the bout neither succeeded in getting the other on the mat. By striving persistently Wrenn finally brought pome quick action into the match. Emith proved the cleverer one 0 the two, though at the end of the ji-minute period Wrenn had him fastened with a body scissors. Emith was given the bout, having been on top 16 seconds longér than bis opponent. The fans had a hard time seeing it that way. Again showing himself to be a marvel at wrestling and easily the best entrant in the mat matches of the tourney, Vaughn Cadle of Tor- rington threw Teed Eschelman of the Smoke House in less than two minutes, using a deft head scissors. In none of his bouts did Cadle re- quite more than two minutes to throw his adversary, Wobbling at the finish of three rounds, Charles Sembler of the Le gion lost in the 145-pound class to Stanley Stevens of the C, A. C. SIR JIM One hundred per cent quality—same in style. That’s hat perfection! You’ll finditin the Gordon. “Sir Jim’t is a good model for the outdoor man who wears ‘em well. It's an easy, graceful style in many summery colors, Quality back of the style, too, GORDON HATS Vincent Crater of the Smoke House took his medicine and first place at the same time in his scrap with Nick List of the Legion. These 125-pounders fought a terrific bat- tle, Crater using: his well placed lifting blows to advantage. On the other hand List several times put his fists in Crater’s stomaeh and made him wince and double. Crater has the skill and training, but no stom- ach, « Again the padded mat was un- rolled. In one minute and 40 sec- onds A. H, Kirkpatrick of the Stand- ard fastened his man, John “Scotty” Kidd of the Standard, to the mat. He performed this feat with Kida holding a body scissors on him at same time. In on exhibition bout of classic wrestling Cadle of Torrington, 135 pounds, and Borsch of the Standard, 145 pounds, both winners in their respective classes, went through all the clever plays of thelr art. As far as wrestling goes, it was one of the cleanest and neatest matches ever seen in Casper. Cadle prob- ably would have been chosen winner had there been a decision, As a fade-out that happy Burling- ton representative, Sam Cooper, climbed into the ring against Stan- ley List of the Legion, though List had finished Sam in a Friday night scrap. The first round was a farce but at the aommand of Referee Leary both started the second with gusto, Sam receiving a tickler in the stomact that made him seck rest on the canvas. By refusing to fight Jackie Ben- nett in the 115-pound class, Missou Pyle forfeited the bout. It 1s prob- able that Pyle backed out of this scrap because of the judges’ decis- fon against him in the earlier bout with Carey. ‘Those awarded watches were Jackie Bennett, Carl Runden, Stan- ley Stevens, Mickey Stanton, Stan- ley List, Elmer Carey, A. H. Kirk- patrick, Borsch, Vaughn Cadle and Ernest Smith. Modals for runners- up went to Missou Pyle, Sam Coop- er, Alec Foster, Glen Wrenn, Teed Eschelman, Charles Sembler and Bill Risster. The great success of this first an. nual tournament given by the Elks for amateurs in boxing and wrestling assures full eupport for all future events of the same kind. To C. H. “Red” Row, athletic di- rector for the Elks, goes the major Portion of credit. He gave his full ‘time to the placing of entrants and to the lining up of the events. With “Red” in the lead these annual tour- nament are bound to be first attrac- tions tn thetr el Excellent work was done by Jack ‘y as referee of boxing, and C. . Storra who refereed the wrest- ling matches. Sport Calendar * Racing. Meeting of Jefferson Parish Fair association, at New Orleans. Meeting of Cuba-American Jockey club, at Havana. Meeting of Tiajuana Jockey club, at Tiajuana. Dog Race, Annual Hudson Bay Dog Derby, at The Pas, Manitoba. ‘Track. Metropolitan A. A. U. senior in- door championships, at New York. Bench Show. Opening of annual show of Cleve- land (O.) Kennel club, Opening of annual show of Fort Worth (Texas) Kennel club. Golf, Annual spring tournament Miami, Fla. Volusia championship tournament at Ormond Beach, Fla. at John B. Fi ‘asper 1 the dropping of a play WHO'S WHO IN THE Che Casper Daily Cribune Photo shows Kelly, Frisch, RIBUNE’S PAGE OF SPORTIN Jackson and Groh of the New York Giants resting before taking « turn the bat at Sarasota, Fia., training camp. oy a FIRST GAME BETWEEN BIG LEAG TEAMS WILL BE PLAYED TODAY Brooklyn and St. Louis to Meet in Florida Training Quarters—Hendricks to Be Permanent Reds Manager. CHICAGO, March 11.—The first game this year be- tween major league baseball clubs is to be played today between Brooklyn and the St. Louis Nationals at Braden- town, Fla., the Cardinals’ training quarters. Manager Rickey announced Haynes will start the game, with Vick receiving. , Cold weather has hindered the Practice of the St. Louls Americans at Mobile, Ala. With the arrival of Marty McManus and Wallie Gerber, the Srowns’ roster is com- lete, Pipabe Ruth, Bob Shawkey, Joe Bush, Deacon Scott and Wallie Schang arrived yesterday at the Yankee training quarters Orleans. Earl Combs, * ¢. 6. BEATS UTAH CHAMPS state series from Brigham Young university, Utah champions. The score was 39 to 36. Dempsey On Way to Fort Benton, Mich. ELKHART, Ind, March 11.— Jack Dempsey, world’s heavyweight champion, accompanied by his man- ager, Jack Kearns, and Floyd Fitz- simmons, fight promoter of Benton Harbor, Mich., arrived here today from New York. They went to Benton Harbor in an automobile. They made no statemen ville sl " is expected to follow them into camp today. A shivery wind from the At! influenced McGraw to order his Sen into sweaters yesterday. The workout was confined to base run- ning, bunting and other brisk exe) 5 The Pirate regulars lost another game yesterday at their training camp at Paso Robles, Calif. The tie Canadian amateur mat artists now have their eyes turned toward Montreal, where the annual tourna- ment to decide the Dominion wrest ling championships will be held the lacter part of March. YANKS LUCKY IF OFF FLAG FOR FOURTH TIME HEILMANN OF TIGERSASSERTS|) ON TENNIS MATCHES BY JOHN B. FOSTER (Copyright 1924, Casper Tribune) AUGUSTA, Ga., March 11.—Some clubs send their pitchers to Hot Springs to get ready for the base ball championship season. The Yanks send their Babe Ruth.» The Detrolt send their Harry Heilmann. eilmann arrived here from Arkan- unday, as a huge army otf 's arrived from tHe east. 'y Cobb won't let us play golf,” said Heilmann sadly, as he looked them over, “But I think I can sell them some insurance on their game. They look to me as if they needed insurance, say fifteen maximum for anyone hole. I bet I win at that You know I'm a regular insurance man now." “Will you take out a policy on a -400 batting average this year?” “Whew- That's something else. You look fit enough to make it.” “DN tell you, I have never felt better fit to start a baseball sea- son in my life, and that isn’t the old tooraloo, either,” said the Tiger slugger. “I am sound, shaped up well, eye like a telescope, arm never stronger, swing so good that I can't see a fly without wanting to take a swat at it, and appetite invigorating. That should help. But about .400. ‘There's where you n never tell. I would Uke to make it again. Who wouldn't I think I would have made it before 1923 if I hadn't been injured. I'd like to have three years of !t. It's worth something to me. The De- troit club pays mo for it, and it's worth something to the club, because the more a ball player can bat safely, the more chances he ac- complishes to help his team, That what we call a safe insurance risk. I'm getti the lingo good, don't you thin Zabe Ruth went to Hot Springs @nd come down with the flu. Heil- mann went there and came back with so much robust health that he beams with it. He radiates all over the city of Augusta—which needs radiation—because it has had a run of wet Sunday's ever since the De. troits have been here. “I understand Ruth after me for the batting champion- hip this year," said Heilmann. “I'll race him but there {s another championship I’d rather have. Those boys will be lucky devils if they get away with that pennant four years in succession. If we hadn't been crippled and carrying a crutch one third of the time they miybe would not have got it last year. If the Ath- letics had kept up their gait all sea- son I'd like to have you tell mé who would have won the championship. Of course, this is looking things over after they happen, but if they hadn't happened there wouldn't have been anythins to look over.”* Heilmann ts betng groomed to hit. That fact shines in the Detroit zenith Uke a comet. It's Detroit's policy this year to mangle the pitchers of the other teams. Who wouldn't 1s coming »ster, who writes a daily baseball dispatch for ily Tribune is god-father to hundreds of ama- teur teams scattered oyer America. He not only helped to compile the rules of the game when professional sport was in ita infancy but the has also been sought as advisor and counsellor. From big leagues to corner lots John Foster's name is known s that of a final authority. _ John B. Foster knows baseball statistics—the record, fitness and possibilities of every player of note in America. He tells his millions of readers what the shifting of play- ers means, why the umpire was right or wrong, teams’ chances are lessened or increased by the addition or why the His dispatches from the camps last year were voted by Sporting editors as containing a most complete and correct forecast of tho 1923 season, John B. Foster will write from the sonthern training camps of the big leagues during March. John B. Foster's Daily Dispatches Appear Exclusively in Che Casper Dailp Cribune THEYCARRY (FRENCH ARE RAPPED FOR RULING TAKEN Yannigans won, 12 to 5, in the fifth game, making the series three to two in their favor. August Herrmann, president of the Cincinnati Nations, on his ar. rival at Orlando, Fla, last night said Jack Hendricks was the choice of the directors and himself for manager of the team and a con- tract would be signed as soon as the treasurer arrived from Fitch- burg, where he went to attend the funeral of the late manager, Pat Moran, Hendricks announced that Jake Daubert would be retained as field captain. The Reds will play their first game Thursday, with the Indianapolis team of the American Association, at Plant City, Pla. LEADING DOG _. TEAMS RACING IN Gl DERBY La Pas Race Offers $2,500; Record May Be Broken. PRESTIGE LOST BY LUIS FIRPO Spalla Permitted to Stay Too Long by Argentinan. BY FAIRPLAY (Copyright, 1924, Casper Tribune) NEW YORK, March 11.—Erminio Spalla nearly went the route with Louls Firpo before he was knocked out Friday night. Firpo loses pres- tige in letting the Italian stay 14 rounds, altho Spalla should re- ceive credit for his ability to elude Luis as long as he did. Firpo will not come to the United States to meet more setups. It is hard to say what vill become of Spalla. shape a team to do that with Heil- mann, Cobb, Manush, Wingo and Fothergill in the outfield, and the evidence of the last two seasons sut- ficiently conclusive as to the eff cacy of the bat against the mushy pitching that has been prevalent? The Detroits have given up the mansion across the river, which lent an atmosphere of aristocracy to the team. They liked their private training table loaded down with all the delicacies of the southern pantry. But when a modern hostelry came into existence in Augusta, there was room for the team without wor- ry for the manager as to the cuisine and roll call. So now the players are at a hotel and are not ‘taking their morning grapefruit and oat- meal beneath the stern smiles of doughty, old generals looking down at them from the walls. They can. not stick their feet on the veranda ‘ail with the shades of night sur. rounding them and dream pipe dreams of ancestral hajls they have just acquired, but the hotel manager says he hasn't noticed any feeble and attenuated appetites moving imply in and out of his dining room. Cobb has his pitclers here early to get them loose and dimber. but it has not been limbering weather. It is not polar weather by any means, but the wild flowers are not out as\thyr were at this time last year, and the pitchers’ arms are as backward as the flowers. The Detroit players think they can win a championship. They have had bad luck, but they have shown enough grit to come back de spite it. “That's one of the best qualities about my team,” says Cobb. “There's more to say about {t—lots more. But that's the kind of talk a man- ager likes to hear. If I could have had two infie’ds Inst year, one as good as the other,” he added with a half sigh, “But who would have thought so “uch bad luck would hit Us all around. “It wasn't one position. It was the whole infield. 'Spose the Yanks should smash up that way. Then they'd know what trouble is.” OLYMPICS TO RELY ON VETS BY LAWRENCE PERRY (Copyright 1924, Casper Tribune) NEW YORK, March 11 — One thing that has been demonstrated by the big indoor meets thus far— notably the National indoor cham- pionships of the A. A. U., in this city last week—is that the American Olympic committee has got to rely Pretty much upon the veterans for our success at Paris this summer. Very few stars indeed have cropped up within the past two years. Outstanding performers. that 1s to say champions, can be numbered upon the fingers of one hand, not counting the thumb, and still have some fingers left over. The one blazing Nght seems to be Ralph (Bruno) Hills, of Princeton who at the national meet broke Pat Mac- donald’s sixteen pound shot record by four inche Hills’ put being 47 feet 114 hes. Otherwise, three youngsters who leaped Yorth with much promise have fallen by the wayside and it stil! remains for the Rays and Murchisons and Os- bornes to carry our banner to the fore. Sometime it will occur to the Olympic committee that it is neces- sary to function in the practical Way of encouraging the development of track specialists tn years other By HENRY L. FARRELL (United Press Sports Editor) NEW YORK, Marck 11.—In parti. cularly bad taste was the threat made by France to withdraw her tennis team from the Olymple mat- ches if the committee did not set ide its choice of an American-made ball for the competition. It would have been more gracious if the Frenchmen had disguised the real cause of their objection. They could have protested that the ball might not be as good as the ball of English make, which they seem to prefer; they might bave said that more of the nations entered In the competition were familiar with the English ball, or they might have said that France, entitled to. boost home industries, should be permit- ted to use a Frei made ball, or a ball handled by ‘French concerns, Any one of those three objections would not have sounded as petty or would have lacked the spirit of sportsmanship that was apparent in the complaint that in selecting an American made ball, the committee sought to throw an advantage to the American team. It is quite certain that the type of ball.used in the Olympic tennis matches will not have a vital effect on the play of the American team one way or another. BU) Tilden, Dick Willams, Fran- cls Hunter and other candidates for the American team have played with every type of ball and they are capable of adjusting their game to meet conditions. The same holds good for every tennis player in the European zone, as they have all had experience with the American made ball in the Davis Cup matches, Perhaps Misses Helen Wills and Lilian Scharman would experience a ttle trouble with the English made bal] but the other American girls eligible for the team would not be strange with it. What will affect the American team will be the difference of clima- tie conditions, the feel of strange clay courts and a system of play that will require them to be on the top of their game the first time they take the court: . France, the host nation. will have a tremendous advantage in being able to play under home conditions, on familiar courts and in friendly climate. If there is any etiquette in ama- teur athletics, France, as the host, should hav Suggested that the Aifferican ball be used, because it is the American team that is going to be the feature and the big drawing card of the tennis matches in Paris. It is the American team that has to spend the most money and overcome the greatest physical handicap to get to the games. ‘There crops out in this country, at_times, a tendency to scoff at the bad effect that a long trip has on) athletes. Californians think the east looks for an alibi when the east says that a football team traveling across the continent suffers a physical strain that reduces its efficiency. There are good points that can be advanced to argue’ this point either way. There is no doubt, however, that an ocean voy*ge of six, seven or eight days, under varying conditions does reduce the physical and techni- cal efficiéncy of an athlete. It has been shown time after time in the cases of American athletes going to Europe to compete and when Buropean athletes came across the Atlantic to compete in this country. The United States Lawn Tennis Association is seeking to overcome this handicap by sending the Amer!- can team to England early in June, by putting it through strenuous play in the British championships and the Wightman cup matches at Wim- bledon and by sending the team to Paris early in July. This, however, does not relieve the French committee of some re- sponsibility In acting like a gracious host. When a foreign nation has to &0 to so much trouble and encounter such a heavy expense in overcom- ing a natural handicap, the French nation should be all siderate. If the French team {s withdrawn by a display of such poor sports- manship, it will not be bad taste for the American fans to figure that Mile, Suzanne Lenglen was not per- mitted the opportunity to play Helen. Wills for the reasons, If France is getting ready for the Olympic games with the spirit that has been shown so far, both’ during the winter sports at Chamonix and in this tennis ball controversy, there are sure to be some exciting times at Paris this summer. 4 The Latin nations at Antwerp in 1920 were none too gracious toward the British and American teams, and it was only because the British and the American athletes were big enough to overlook the slights that no serious trouble resulted. Closer competition in the games next summer is bound to result in more feeling of rivalry and it would be far better for France to act a .eal host eager to make everyone feel at home, rather than to give frank demonstrations of a spirit that ‘will encourage other nations to get ready to battle. ——~—. Now in his elghticth year, Willlam Philipot, England’s okiest golf pro- fessional, declares that he is too young to think of retiring. Harry Wills has again disappeared from the public eye, chiefly as a result of the blow up of the Ra: mond _ syndicate. Paddy Mullins, ‘Wills’ manager is a fine old Irishman who knows a lot about many things but has no acquaintance with the gentle art of bunk. When he talks fight he means fight and he Is ways surprised when he finds that the party of the second part has always been saying one thing and meaning another. THE PAS MANITOBA March 11. —Ten teams composed of the pick of the dog world, start on the 200 mile non-stop The Pas dog derby today with $2,500 in cash prizes and the Walter Goyne-Grant Rice trophy ‘at stake. The race starts on the Saskatchewan river at the Hudson Bay railway bridge and the teams will travel over The Pas Lurgber Company’s trail as far as coe Eleven, where they will turn. The winding course is in excellent condition and competitors who ro- cently have gone over it are con- fident the record of twenty four hours and fifty-two minutes estab- Ushed in 1921 will be broken. Schoogel has been chosen the first driver to start on the long run, with Lavalee second and B. L. Baker of St. Paul, Minn, third. They will be followed by Russick, Pranteau, Isaac Pelly, Robert Lambert, Allan McDonald, Tom. Creighton and Sol- * They fay that a fighter deterio- ates in proportion as he falls to fight against opponents who have any sort of a chance with him. If this is true, Harry Wills was ready for tho shelf two rs ago and more. He has not fought a real op- ponent since Sweeney knows when and people are betting that he will fail to complete his negotiations with Bartley Madden. Madden {s no world beater In any respect, but he Is hard to hurt and has a habit of going the distance against fighters with reputations, thereby Injuring tho prestige of the stars. 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