Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 23, 1924, Page 10

awe een ++ eget a = = & § z = = World Results ACCUSATION 5 | MADE AGAIN BY COLLYERS EYE :$50,000 Libel Action Revives Discussion of New Scandal. CHICAGO, March 22.— (United Press) .—Profession- al gamblers tampered with the Giants-Reds baseball se- ries in Cincinnati last sum- mer in w llyer’s Pub- erated: today in > nm $50,000 bel sult filed feral court here. sioner of Baseball Landis, John Heydler, of the National League, and August Herr- mann, owner of the Cincinnati club had knowledge of the activities of the gamblers, but they were “unable or unwilling” to put a stop to them, the answer declared. Sults wese filed by Pat Duncan and Sammy Bohne, Red players, fol lowing publication of the story by “Corruption and gambling fn con- nection with the games were com- mon gossip, and known to Judge Landis, John T. Heydler and Au- gust Hermann,” the answer stated. “Professional gamblers with bf effrontery, soliciting and acc ngs wager the com- pany stated in part. “Attempts Were made to bribe several Cincin- nati players by gifts, money. and favors; that the plaintiff (Sammy Bohne) with did associate other baseball players with persons known to be gamblers by profession and did visit certain breweries’ and Cincin nati roadhouses and did accept the hospitality of such persons engaged in corrupt practices.” The article in question was print- rd after an extensive thvestigation in which Ban Johnson, president of tthe American League, participated,, the company stated. - Former Tiger — Athlete Saves Oxtord Defeat LONDON, March — (United Press.}—S. Harrison Thomson, for- mer Princeton star athlete, saved Oxford from being defeated by Cambridge today in their annual track and field meet at the Queen's club. Thomson won two events, the shot put and the 120-yard hurdles and earned two of the five and one half points with which Oxford tied Cambridge. Each team won five events and the high jump resulted In a tie. King George was among ths crowd of 5,000 which saw the ath- letes perform. pio Ne Physical disfigurements are apt to affect the nerves, especially among ‘women, says an eminent French sur- eon. hich the New York} By Leased Wire }+| THE Tene PAGE OF SPORTING NEWS Che Casper Sunday Eribune From this group of five youngsters McGraw hopes to obtain enough good material to strengthen the pitching of the spring training International 1 National tee ague champlons—thelr weakest point. . for whom Wi! ade that included Scott and Gaston. ., Shows (left to rk for $25 000; W: chita got $20,000, right) NEWCHANGES | Yanks Te Camp But Look IN bill HULES Good in Field----Foster Kickoff From Center of Field Ordered by Committee. NEW YORK, March 22.—No startling changes in the football rules were made by the rules com- mittee of the national association during a two-day session which closed today. Changes in the rules which will have the kick-off from the center of the fleld instead of the 40-yard line and the try for point after touchdown from the three-yard lne instead of the five-yard line were the most important. A rule was also passed abolishing the use of all mud or artifical kick- ing tees in the kickoff or any kick play. Se JESSUP WINS TENNIS TITLE BROOKLINE, Mass., March 22. Mrs. Marion Zinderstein Jessup of Wilmington Del., won the American Women's national indoor tennis championship here this afternoon when she defeated Miss Lillian Scharman, young Brooklyn star, 6-2 and 6-3 in the final round of the championship tournament. SECRET TRAINING WORK IS STARTED BY CARPENTIER IN PREPARATION FOR COMEBACK PARIS, March 22. heavyweight champion, ness with which he has belief that the French: more important than Arthur Townley, Francois Descamps, Carpentier's ~ Manager, insists that he has signed for two fights in the United States this summer against Gene Tunney, the American light heavyweight champion, and Tommy Gibbons, but Descamps has said so many things since the Siki affair that did not turn out as he said, that the fans are waiting until Carpentier sails before they will believe him. Descamps says they are to sall im mediately after the bout with Town- ley which {s scheduled for April 17. , Carpentier looks better now than at any time. since he was stopped by Jack Dempsey. Until very recently {t was thought that Carpentier would never return to the rin f he did any more | boxing !t would be against setups t to keep a public would be done J and Nyithernniic to ent suncement that and auto pub- he is ww that ra 1 8. t he is going 3 4 United States again. s ee & Drs. Morrison and Seibel are now © located in their new offices, Room S204. Phone Turner-Cotiman Bldg. 2927. : m | place. | f the Frenchman's moves. -—Georges Carpentier,, French is training in secret. set about his work has led to the man has something ahead of him his coming fight in Vi n. the British heavyweight. waste The serious- By JOHN B. FOSTER. (Copyright, 1924, by Casper Tribune) W ORLEANS, March 22.—The world champion Yankees are not working as hard theso days as timber hands cutting down a cypress forest. They have had it comparatively easy since they have been here. But, in their sublime way, which is Indifferent to all out- side urges, they are getting into condition exactly as they did last year—taking their time and their pleasure with the task. The Yanks bear with lofty dignity the honors, that go with their rank as champions. There was a time when they were glad .to work the front of the theater for a seat in the pit. But today, they are invited guests at the theater, sitting in boxes. The peasant of today be- comes the king of tomorrow if he is a good enough revolutionist. Manager Huggins says the prin- clpal thing about a training camp these days is to see that the play- ers do not become injured. Hug is becoming an iconoclast. With his team of precious jewels, he is much more fearsome than he was’ when he was trying to teach a bunch of rookies how. to be heroes. Then he broke in ball players. Now he fears that the ball players will break themselves. The players are urged not to be over active but to be very careful where they put thelr feet. An added year has made all of the Yankees just 265 days more brittle than they were. Nope of them shows it much, howevar. If ball players were less petted and more cussed these days, they would be less bre. ‘The worrying health officer, with his red flag, has put so many restrictions around ath- letes that the ball players. imagine themselves outdoor brick-abrac to be handled with chamois gloves and a feather duster. Of the veterans, Ruth, Meusel and Witt look well and fit. Happy too. Pipp's face is clear and ruddy. Ward is as smiling as eyer, and better for baseball than he was last year. As for Deacon Scott—time does not age him in manner, appear- ance or determination. Others talk about his Inability to get about as fast as he once did but Scott sa: “let's see anybody get me out, that’s all. Dugan ts the only infielder who may have a treacherous member of his body. His knee will slip its Fall River’ Triumphs Photo shows teamwork displayed by the Fall River Soccer Football Team when !t triumphed over the Bethlehem Steel team 2 to 0 at {Brooklyn for the eastern championship, J witnessed the game, More than 20,000 persons This photograph, Howard Ba’dwin, Yiand Dean, the Louisville star who cost $50,000; and Joe Bradshaw, Taking It Easy in taken at the Giants’ the “Iron Man" of the who went to the Giants from socket now and then, like the knee of a trick doll. But he has not reached the stage where he is to be looked upon with sympathy. Catchers and pitchers manifest no difference from their showing in 1923, Exactly the same team ‘that won the world championship in 1923 is here at New Orleans, as much‘like itself as if the pages of history had been turned back and the team were beginning lst season. That's all there is to it. Dope, fear, ar- raignment and praise—all may be scattered to the winds. The’ Yankees are as good as they were barring addition of days and they are likely to repeat last year's performance as they were at ‘the beginning of 1923. ‘There is also the chance that was present last year that some one chap may become upset, the team become nervous and fearful, and slip its cable and go crashing on the reefs. Any baseball team is likely to have that happen, espe- cially when the team is one that has attained its chief purpose in life, and knows that from April 15 to September 30, every man's hand will be raised agatnst it. But just now there is not an fota evidence to show that the Yankees are unable to make their fight for a championship. It's simply up to them to do it. If they put the Proper energy into their game, they are ready to go. If they think that because they have won the Amerl- can league championship for the third time in succession and a world series once, they are going to have an easy time winning again—then they are likely to wake up some fine day with a nightmare, Where the Yankees finish in 1924 is their fight and not their excuse. They haven't a pre-season apology to offer. They are themselves as a ball team, and they are better forti- fled with the right kind of young material than any American league team that has started a season in the last five years There is no speculation about the team. It’s there like an 18-carat diamond on the third finger. The sole question that remains for the jury of fans is what the team will do. It can’t lord it through the American league. No monocle-in- the- high-topper _supercilious- ness is going to leave the American league submissively weak as a@ whole. The Yanks haye got to put on their blue overalls and dig. If they do, the chances are that at the end of 1924 they may feel again as if they have a right to demand one more raise in the quid pro quo between them and their boss before they enter upon that state of disintegration that has hit the finest luminaries of baseball since Cap Anson had to quit through sheer force of accumulat- ing feet after 22 years of/play. Aglns Soe DODGERS TRIM INDIANS, 12-7 CLEARWATER, Fla. March 22.— (United Press}—Heavy hitting fea- tured the 12 to 7 defeat handed the Cleveland Indians here this after- noon by Wilbert Robinson's Brook- lyn Dodgers, Fournier, Zach Wheat and Nels of the Dodgers and Steph- enson, Speaker and Sewell of the Indians smacked out homers. Uhle opposed Vance on the mound. rR oo Much ado, but not so much Me- 4 Adoo.—St. Louis Times, ENGLAND WAITS FOR SPRING TO DISCUSS THE OLYMPIC GAMES By P. M. SARL. (United Press Staff Correspondent). LONDON, March 22.—Britain may do well or badly in the Olympic games this year. Doubtless she. will put her best foot foremost when jolly old July comes around. Some folk will even begin to take an in- terest in the games about the end of May. But for the moment the casual observer might well imagine that nobody cared a tinker's ‘cuss’ about the national chances in the world’s athletic championships. The English winter is a powerful factor in this apathy. Except for football and racing, sport practical- ly closes down from the end of Sep- tember until April, and climatic con- ditions, heavy tracks, ete., prevent anything serious in the way of train- ing for athletic events. Further, Britain takes the Olym- pic games perhaps more truly in the “amateur” sense than any other country in the world. The govern. ing bodies of the various sports ob- ject to anything in the way of ela- borate preparations, which might lay them, or their potential com- peitors, open to a charge of “pro- fessionalism.”" Unlike practicality every country in the world, Britain has, so far, selected no teams or individual com- petitors. Formal entries for prac- tically every event have been made by the British Olympic association , but the full British team will not be selected until much later—and then not by the British Olympic associa tion, which apparently takes no in- terest in the matter beyond organ- ization and finance. Plenty of Money. The B. O. A. merely undertook to raise funds, and act as offidtal sponsors, but the various governing bodies will select competitors for their own branch of sport. The B. 0. A. knows nothing about the com- position of teams. The funds, in response to King George's appeal for 30,000 pounds, are coming in nicely, and there will be no anxiety on this point, when the time comes to spend money. Oh, yes... The B. O. A. appointed the famous ex-champion runner, W. G. George, chief coach to supervise training for field and track events. The Amatetr Swimming association also sent some coaches around the country with a general idea of im- Proving the style of possible Olym- Pic competitors. A couple of big newspapers started eliminating com- petitions, under the charge of cap- able coaches. But as far as the headquarters of British sport is con- cerned, “It is far too early to talk about Olympic training yet.” A relatively small number of en- training, thusiasts are already in but they are more of the “hopeful” than potential class. The various as- sociations render benevolent assist- ance to anybody requiring it. The Amateur Athletic associatian an- nounces that the field and track team will not be selected until after the annual A. A. A. championships at Stamford Bridge in June. With the football season in full swing, it might have been supposed that Britain's Olympic football team would have been chosen, or in course of selection. But nothing of the kind. The most important thing is to get through the English foot- ball season. Every important club is in some sort qf competition, ‘and its members feel that success in this event is of far more importance than a mere Olympiad. Then, many players will object to ~playing at Paris so iate in the season as May— “One can't play football all the year ‘round. One has to play cricket, etc., occasionally,” they say. As regards tennis, nobody thinks of practicing tennis before May, and as for rowing, why, “We must get the Oxford and Cambridge boat race through first—and then we ought to start training for Henley.” Not Crazy About Olympic. Such is the attitude of British Sportsmen generally. In two or three months’ time there will be tre- mendous interest in Olympic pre- parations—and then, as experience has shown, it will be too late. But the Britisher refuses to “make a business” of ‘winning Olympics. There are quite a few leading sportsmen and first-class performers who are altogether opposed to Britain competing at all. So far as can be gathered by care- ful inquiry, Britain's prospects in the athletic field are not too rosy. At the Antwerp Olympiad in 1920 Britain won the 800/and 1,500 meters, the 1,600-meter relay race, the 3,000- meters steeplechase and the éug-ot- war. Only in the tugof-war is there any confidence as to success in 1924. London, at least, is satisfied that the burly City of London Police team can be safely relied upon to “pull over” and sundry. Little news of other branches of sport is available. The swimming world is at loggerheads over the re- fusal of Miss Hilda James to com- pete, owing to a disagreement with the Olympic trainer. The polo world is far more intent on plans for the international matches with Amertca at Meadowbrook next Fall, and the annua! competitions at Hurlingham, Ranelagh and Roe- hampton. Also, there is a sort of general feeling of trust that it should be fairly easy to pick a team “good enough” for Paris. Boxing and wrestling, being in- door sports, have made some pro- gress, but the big men pave not yet entered the elminating ‘competitions. Britain may do well, but the prob abilities are that she will do poorly, and the anti-Olympics section will say. “I told you so, No good com. peting against people who make a business of it.” a CUBS DEFEAT VERNON CLAN LOS ANGELES, March 22.—Bill Killefer’s Chicago Cubs had another easy time here today defeating the Vernon Tigers by a 11 to 3 score. Bill Essick used three pitchers in an effort to halt the maurading Cubs but to no avail. Elmer Jacobs started for the Chicago team and did go00d work until he was removed to allow some of the new Cub talent a workout. ‘Tomorrow’ afternoon the Cubs clash with the Los Angeles tesm in their last exhibition game here be- fore proceeding northward and then toward the east. Begin now to roll | First in News ‘OF All Ec Events SUNDAY, MARCH 23, 1924 BRAVES SHUT OUT GIANTS One-to-0 Victory . Is Hung Up by Boston In Tight Game. ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., March 22.—A shut out game, engineered by Joe Genewich and Rube Mar- quard of the Braves, was foisted om the Giants today. The Braves won by a score of 1 to 0. Jack Bentley and Hugh Mc- Quillan opposed the pitching of Gen- ewich and Marquard with a brand almost as good, but in the sixth In- ning McQuillan failed to cover first when Nixon hit to Kelly and the runner was safe. Nixon stole second, Baneroft walked and Cunningham doubled to it right, scoring Nixon, and as proved, winning the game. Score by innings. Glants . Braves .. Bentley, McQuillan and Gowdy; Genewich, Marquard and O'Neill. Umpires Klem and Delvin. Tilden Will Quit Tennis For Writing NEW YORK, March 22.—Ofti- cial announcement that he had decided to continue writing as a # profession and that he would re- tire from tennis at the end of this year was contained in a letter writ- ten by William T. Tilden, world’s singles champion, which was made public by the United States Lawn Tennis association today. — eles Low necks and short sleeves are now forbidden to the women clerks in the German Financial Depart- ment. ————————— your own cigarettes Until you roll your own from “BULL” Durham, you'll always be this side of 100% cigarette enjoyment. NOW Nothing else gives you the same real tobacco flavor and quality (an omy! 100 cigarettes_for 15 cents). 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