Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 11, 1924, Page 7

SUNDAY, MAY 11, 1924. | ADDITIONAL NEWS OF SPORTS FAM MAKEUP Pe Girl Champ Trains for Olympic BEING ARGUED East and West Both to Be Represented in Olympics. NEW YORK, May 10.—Predte- tions being made by prominent critics that the major portion of the American Olympic team will be com- posed of central and far western athletes are disputed by eastern of- ficials who maintain that the east will-be represented on the team as generous as it ever was. Eastern officials claim that the finest field ver turned out in their territory vill face the starter in the eastern trials at the Yankee baseball stadium on June 7, Among the sprinters entered are Loren | Muchison, Louis Clarke, Francis Hussey, Chester Bowman, Robert McAllister, Frank Conway and Alfred Leconey. Among the quarter milers are Jake Driscoll, Allen Woodring, Coard Taylor, Tom Campbell, Roy Robertson, Verne Ascher cent Lally, The mile will bring out Lioyd Hahn, Walter Higgins, Jimmy Coi nolly, Larry Shields, Newman Kirby. ‘Thes lohger distance races will. find Karle Johnson, Johnny Romig, Verne’ Booth, Jimmy Hennigan. Albert Michelsen, Roland Payne; Elmer McLane, Marvin’ Rick and several others. IOWA BALL . TOSSERS TAIMPLE MAROONS IN -CHGAEO GAME, $ TO 7 CHICAGO, May 10—A_ savag rally in the ninth Inning gave the University of Towa baseball team victory over the Chicago University here this afternoon 9 to 7. The game went into the ninth in- ning with Chicago leading two t one, Iowa batted all the way arounc for its 8 runs, Chicago tried hard to overcome the lead but cou'd only ‘e five more runs. The score— lowa. Chicago -000 100 1057 11 3 Batteries—Marshal!, Duhman and Barrett; Gubbins, J. Howell and R. Howell. Bud Taylor to Meet Ryan on Date of Race INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., May 10.— Bud Taylor, Terre Haute terrier, and Tommy Ryan, McKeesport bantam, were.signed here today by Promo- ter Steve Harter as the feature of a bexing shor ay 29, the night be- fore the Indianapolis speedway 500. mile race. Ryan haa met most of the top- notchers and promises to give the ‘Terre Haute bantam a fast time for their scheduled 10 rounds. BICYCLE RACE WILL FEATURE SCHOOL MEET A bicycle race will be one of the foatures of the grade school track meet which will be held at the high school athletic field next Friday. Sixteen hundred entrants will take part in the meet which will be the largest ever held. The entrants will be divided into five classes, and Vin & Florence Snapped in New York whe: swimming try-outs, — Chambers, all-round champion she is training for the Olympic games of Southern California, OOD DEFENSE ONE OF PRIME NEEDS OF BASEBALL--FARRELL By HENRY L. FARRELL (United Press Sports Editor) NEW YORK, May 10.—(United Press).—That old notion that an of. ‘ense is the best defense holds good n many cases In the ring, on the riditon, between the chalked lines of the tennis court and on the base- ball diamond, Early season examples in the nft- or league pennant races have gone © prove, however, that an adequate lefense is becoming a most import- int factor in baseball, Jack Dempsey, the heavyweight champidn, is the outstanding exam- Ile of a fighter whose vicious and seedy offense has covered up one of the weakest defenses a heavy- weight champion ever possessed. Dempsey, however, i rugged enough © carry out the idea of taking one o give one with less danger than a ‘ess durable fighter. Dempsey also ‘as a more powerful and more versa- tile offense than any fighter in the ring. The Cornell football team of the ‘ast three years has been another example of the value of offense. Gil Dobie sends his teams out to get the jump and keep it and they have been able to do it over three very successful geasons, although it ie argued that the Cornell teams have never had to defend themselves against 2, real formidable offerise, Through three warm campaigns nh the National League, John Mc: Graw pushed the New York Giants through a pennant with an inferior Pitching staff and a good 70 per cent of the defense in baseball is represented in the pitching. McGraw was fortunate in possess- ing, through those campaigns, an impregnable infield and a very strong outfield, but he learned that the greatest inner and outer de- fenses must fail sometimes when his pitchers could not prevent the op- posing offense from dropping them where iis defehiso could not get ther The Giant leader realized what a factor the pitching defense had be come in the modern game and last winter he spr jiles of money in gathering all the good prospects in the minor leagues. The results that he secured in the early part of the ———— AMERICAN RUGBY TEAM BITTE AT FRENGH OVER LATE CHARGES PARIS, May 10.—Members of the American Olympic rugby team were debating today whether to ajpeal to the American Olympic committee or to roli up their sleeves and do battle following another bitter at- tack on them in the Paris news: papers. Feeling of the American athletes has been heated to the boiling point by @ series of happen- ings which they construe as mean ing nothing but a deliberate purpose to discriminate against them and to make it hard for the team, lowing the refusal of the ch committee to allow them to Practice against French clubs not entered in the games and after they had been told that they could not take pictures in the vindium, the Americans were incensed when a Paris newspaper accused ‘them of having professionals on the team Fifteen of the players wore then robbed -of everything they pos- sessed In the way of valuables while they were practicing in the stadium, ‘The players, of course, did not hold ‘he French officials responsible for thereby but they feel that the proper means had not been taken to protect the dressing room while they were in the flela. . Attacks ey: n more bitter against he Americans were printed here to lay. Several newspapers. although the Americans have been playing against thelr own men in practice, criticised the Americans for the roughness of their game and pre dicted that there was going to be trouble if the Americans played the French team in the ffnal match for the championship. The newspapers recalled the fights that occurred tn the Pershing stadium during the army games in 1919 and they pre dicted the same scenes would repeated The American boys, practically all pf whom ‘are from California, protested violently against being held up as “roughnecks’ and rowdles without the slightest grounds for being judged aa such Regarding the threats made that trouble would result en y played the French team, th Amer! can boys said that if the Frer were preparing to play that w they would not be caught asleep American officials feared that some public demonstrations might be made against the team tomorrow when they meet Rumania in the second game of the series. it race from his young pitch highly satisfactory. Louis Cardinals, rs. we! The St. stretch of three years, have been a over a ‘ood example of the failure of a vowerful offense without some pitch. ing defense. In the case of the Cards, there was reprosented an in ferlority of the defense both in pitch: ZACH WHEAT BAT SENSATION Displaces Hornsby ‘in Race for National League Honors. National league this week when he Akta, Aisplaced leading batter, ‘Wheat ‘leads the league with an average of 457 while Hornsby 1s second with fourth Giants first baseman, with 400, and Frisch, Giant captain, fifth Gross with .363. £ Harry fielder, still holds the lead 492, in the He is American league with 426 Gooch, Pittsburgh jy, catcher, is third with .412; Kelly, pianes so Hellman, Detroit star out- o1, night, - he Casper Sunvap Eribune FLYERS ON| LONG HOP} Next Leg of Journey on World Flight of Americans to Take Them Over 800 Miles of Pacific Water CORDOVA, Alaska, May 10.—Three United States aviators stood on the threshhold of ‘another hemisphere j here tonight awaiting “flying weather’ for the long hop to Paramashiru in the Kurite Islands, the most hazard- cus flight of their attempt to encircle the world by air. The three airplanes reached Chicagoff on the island NEW YORK, May 10. — Zach of Attu, western most jsland of the Wheat, veteran Brooklyn outfielder, Aleutian archipelago, yesterday after furnished one of the features In the a hop from Nasan on the Island of The flight was made with. Rogers Hornsby ag the) out incident. Under the direction of Lieut Low- ell H. Smith the three flying officers and their mechanics were at work ntil late tonight turning up their that as iittle hazard as possible will attend thelr attempt to 800 miles of open Pacific ocean to their next port of call, ng up" process Is ex- smpleted” by Monday to Tire “polis' Pected to 1 according word received ake the gir. eee the soil of the United States for The ‘giants lead the Nationa! the Second time since their flight league tn team ng with .297, ana °°8* they are trailed by Brooklyn with They will, not glimpse another -287, Chicago with .285 and St. Louis American possession until they roar with .279. into the air of New England from The Browns are setting the pace in Snowy mark - Summer, the American league with a of .218, followed by the Indians and the Yanks, with with .306. — German Boxer Is Outpointed | By Frenchman PARIS, May 10.—Czirzon, a Ger man lightweight boxer, first of his race to apy in a. French ring since the war, was outpointed in a 10 round bout tonight by Bretonnel, the French champion. ‘The German was coolly received, but there was no demonstration against him. a Illinois and Ohio Tie, 6- ng and in fielding strength. The Detyoit Tigers, lust year, ané the Clevelfnd) Indians, so far this year, have learned that it is neces: sary tg get some pitching arid some defefise, even if there are nine men on ‘the field who can smack the ball, and smack it hard, once in. every three trips to the plate, -e. The Tigers last year had a weak- ness at second base and an inferior pitching staff. This year started out with a greatly strengthene? staff of pitchers and an !mproved Second baseman, and they went right to the top of the league. The Cleveland Indians can present eight .300 hitters daily in their line up. and they a good infle’d and outfield, but their pitchers were not in| the same class with those of the ‘T'gers and the Yanks, and they got away to a very bad start. The com- Petition is so close in the American League that the poor start by the Indians may the pennant In the Cincinnati! Reds ts rep: resented the best example for the defensive theory. Where the Reds have the best pitching staff in the Nat‘onal League, they have a light hitting team that lacks the offensive power of the other pennant con- ruin thelr chances for Mich COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 10.—The Greenland sometime next From the Kurite islands their -307 and the tigers route les southward through Japan by way of Tokio where a great wel- come them; thence to the ontine a and along its southern coast, working gradually, tirelessly westward. panwhile yurces of the army being thrown into Major Frederick 1 missing commander. ttle’ ed over Port Miller enroute from gnik toward Dutch Harbor. That early in the afternoon of April and that of his mechanic. ant Alvd Harvey, is but for conjecture. The search be placed in the hands of Lieut. Barle H. Tonkin, as sistant alr officer of the ?ist divis. the sear Martin, their unseen since his plane the “ wa a matte fon now enroute by airplane from San Francisco to Seattle, there to Chignik next Monday gaan for aboard the revenue cutter Bear. Lieutenant Tonkin will bring with him a “JN” type of army plane, ideally adapted for the slow cruis- ing and sustained flight which will be nece: can ry in and defile looking into every f the forbidding Ohio staté Illinolf baseball game at COUNtTyY Where Martin might have Neil Park this ufternoon ended in) a, ‘len or landed his plane. tie when called in the seventh inning on account of rain. 6 to 6 ELKS AND LEE DOUD TEAMS CLASH TODAY This afternoon at 2:30 at the high school athletic park the Elks bi ball team will play the Lee Doud team in a pre-season league’ game. Both teams will have their strong est lineups and an interesting battle should result I igan Nine Beats Purple CHICAGO, May 10.—The Untver- sity of Michigan baseball team de- tenders and they haven't the speed | feated Northwestern here this after- on the infleld that a championship] "0on, 3 to 2, team should possess, When their. pitchers are going good, the Reds win ball games, but when the work in the box is nét a'most perfect, the Reds feel the ‘ack of the punch that could get them enough runs to carry them over ight places. Where the Reds are so vitally de- pendent upon their pitchers, the Giants can move along with less brilliance in the box because their defense is otherwise almost perf=ct ind they have enough punch to get some runs for lesr capable pitchers to work on, The Giants, however, are perhaps the best qualified team in the major league to get along without a staff of allstar pitchers. They have plenty of punch and an airtight in. ner and outer defense. The Detroit Tigers and the Cley ‘and Indians have plenty of punch, but they have not an Infield to com- pare with the National League champions and their outfields are no better on the defense, Oregon ians Are Handed Beating In Track Meet EUGENE, Ore May 10.—(By United Press).—The University of Washingto defeated Bill, May: ward's Oregonians here today on the track and field by a acore of 73 2-3 to 67 1-3. Undey a warm sun the runners found their legs Umber, which re- sulted in a number of close and spectacular s Washington took the Jead early t the come of the meet was til the end s of ( om won the century 10 1-5 seconds, barely ahead of | r f Washington Egty Washington, flung the cus 182 feet 3 inches for first place, Sparrow of Oregon had little trouble in taking the pole vault at 12 foet. Arff!. Arff! The score was You've he and rd of the gnat’s spats the cat's whiskers—but now they have the elephant's antennae. you will observe or is for For the first ti from the pibture, the common, circus variety, of pa: derm broadcasting his daily howl peanuts and hay, RELIEF QUICK For INDIGESTION, Cannery boats and government vessels now stationed in the district wnere the missing plane was last seen will give what aid they can in jthe hunt. SARA ISAT RNS 57 ENA? PEACE OFFICERS HOLD MEETING (Continued From Page One) portance than the enforcement the law. Mr. Carroll reviewed the work of the association in its one year of existence, showing how vari problems had been taken up and disposed of by .the organization, Mr. Carroll mentioned that an in- vestigation had been made of the case of Sheriff Toy of Sheridan, who recently resigned when he had been charged with bribery, but that no foundation had been established on which the association could take ts- of T. McMillan, “sheriff of Big Horn county, introduced something volutionary In the meeting whi he advocated that in criminal cases the defense should have only the same amount of jury challenges as the prosecution. At present the defense has two for one of the pros- ution’s. MeM'llan stated that the present system was decidedly unfair to the prosecution and made enforcement of prohibition laws particularly hard to enforce McMillan also took occasion to score some of the jurors in the spring term of court in his county. He said that several cases had been lost because the jurors “refused to shoot square in the jury box partic: ularly on Mquor violation cases,” The idea of higher~ salaries was unanimously supported. Among those who spoke in favor of a meas- ure being presented to the legisla- ture in this regard were Sheriff Al Peyton of Converse county; Les now, deputy Sheriff at Salt Creek, A. G. Morton, sheriff of Sweetwater county and A. A. Sanders, sheriff of Carbon county. AMR SAT enviable reputation. TUTTE BE. H. Foster, prosecuting attor- ney of Natrona county, talked at some length in favor of the crea- tion of an intermediate court. He showed how difficult it was to get cent on tires anc: tub TM ADVERTISEMENTS Pe SANTA SSA You can depend on him. why it pays to read advertising and to buy advertised goods, AES AAT PAGE SEVEN. ‘The Harbor of Akutar. 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The members of the elation | peals, were guests of the Chamber of Com-| ‘Taxes killed Included the tax of merce at 4 o'clock, being takeh for}2 cents per $100 atte Head a drive around the city and {ts su-| checks not payal and, the burbs. tax on te’ephone raph mes- the propased tax on radio SENATE PASSES THE TAX BILL (Continued from Page One) and 6 per cent over that Exemptions, $1,000 fo $2,500 for married persons. Surtax—Scaling from 1 per cent on $10,000 to forty per cent; maxi mum at $500,000. Inheritance tax—Scaling from per cent on $25,000 to 36 per cent} on $5 000,000. Gifts tax—From 2 per cent on gifts of $25,000 to 36 per cent on gifts of $5,000,000. Corporation tax—Nine per cent flat tax with an additional levy scaling up to 40 per cent on undis tributed profits. Insurance compantes—Flat 12% per cent tax. 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