Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 22, 1924, Page 5

TUESDAY, JULY 22, 1924. World Results throne toda seri shaping the destiny of both Washington kept within one NEW SWATTER HDS SENATORS Washington Manager to Make Stiff Fight For Pennant. By JOHN B. FOSTER. (Copyfight, 1924, Casper Tribune) NEW YORK, July 22—In secur. ing Scott from Kansas City, in an effort to fill the gap in the Washing: ton infield, Clark-Griffith lets it be known that he intends to do every- thing that is humanly possible to Dring its first championship to the national capital. This man is A .325 batter, about that. He can play right field and he has been playing it for Kansas City, and he can catch. Grit ia not so . Short of catehers that he needs one 4s urgently as he needs a day in and day out swatter in the ouafleld who can hold up his batting. Playing right field for Kansas City, Scott seemed to get along all right, although Kansas City Is not making the headway that it made Jast year and has changed managers, replacing Good with Lavan, forme! ly of St. Louis—a move which ma: do something and may not. When Scott was needed behind the bat, he went in there and did well, He always found a place somewhere in the batting order and old league players who have been with Kan sas City say he Is good enough to make the big show and will play for Washington absut as well as he has played for Kansas City. If Scott can bat as well for Wash: ington as he has been batting for Kansas City, it will raise the total of the batting figures of the Wash- ington outfield to about .325, which is quite @ lift over what they are now If Washington places Scott in right field, Sammy Rice can be shifted back to center, The sun may bother Scott and the best arrangement pos: sible will have to be made, but in any event, the Washington club is out to obtain all the batting strength it can get. This is the great season for Wash ington and the ola own has the pen: nant fever right. The Senators have done well in other years, but it never has shown such a fighting spirit be- fore and such a disposition to stick to what it has earned as it has this summer. While Washington hi been Knocked out of first place, the team has been playing champion- ship ball, as compared with the re- mainder of the league, ‘and that “ means vastly more than . holding first place for the moment, because if it is as good as It seems to be, it can get back to the top again. _————— Standings NATIONAL LEAGUE WwW. L. 30 Chicago -.. - 50 36 Pittsburgh -. - 46 38 Brooklyn + 46 41 Cincinnati «47 44 St. Louis - 37 51 ~. Philadelphia 53 Boston ..-. oF AMERICAN LEAGUE pb Ww. Clu L. Pot. New York - - 52 38 .578 Detroit ~ - 51 38 573 Washington - 50 39 .562 St. Louis - 44 48 506 Chicago ~ 43 44 404 Cleveland ~ i 48 461 Boston ~ 38 50 432 Philadelphia - 36 53 404 Oi City League. Club W. .L.* Pet Standard 8 3 .727 Elks». 7 4 636 Legion 6 5 645 ‘Texacos 6 5 B46 Glenrock -..., Fe Te ¢ 64 Lavoye .. 2 9 182 INDEPENDENT LEAGUE Club G. W. L. Pet. Fordsons ~ - 8 71 815 Merchants ~ - 7 6 1 .856 Lee Douds - -8 5 8 .635 cB & Q - 73 4 428 Telephone Co. -. -~ 8 3 5 .875 Coliseums .. 72 5 1285 Harry Yessness - 70 7 .000 _ The game of croquet which was in great vogue as an outdoor sport be foro the advent of lawn tennis, shows sighs of regaining some of its popu- larity. During the present. summer croquet clubs have been formed in many sections of the country. sot Reni ep a a Expert watch and jewelry repair ing. Casper Jeweiry Co. O-S _ By Leased Wire Three Cornered Contest in American League Tightened Up by Monday Games; Wash- ington Piles Up Great Score. ' (By The Associated Press.) New York sits less securely on its American league as a result of its first tussle with Detroit in s of four games which promises to go far toward ‘teams for the 1924 season. ‘The Tiger’s victory cut-the Yankee lead to half a game. contest of the Cobb men by defeating Chicago. The Detrofters trained their heavy artillery upon Hoyt and Bush and found their range to the extent of nine runs, while Whitehill held “murderers’ row" to seven markers. In losing a 16 to 2 decision to ‘Washington, Lyons of Chicago took more punishment than any pitcher has been faroed to undergo tn many moons, Manager Evers compelled him to go the full route and take his medicine. While Kolp mesmerized Philadel- phia, St.Louis touched up Heimach and Rommel! sufficiently to register a 4 to 2 thumph. Boston resignediy accepted its ninth straight defeat as Cleveland nosed out a 3 to 1 victory in the last inning. The Giants contifiued prodigal of thelr once seemingly fool-proof lead in the National league and reduced thelr margin over the Cubs to six games by dropping another to Cin- einflat! while Chicago was downing Boston. McGraw's men surrendered by @ sore of 8 to 7. Starting his first game for the Cubs, Milstead held the Braves to five hits, and Chicagd scored a 7 to 1 win under wraps. With Daazy Vance holding Pitts: burgh in the palm of his hand, Brooklyn was returned a 6 to 2 win nér in the fifst game of a double- header, but the Pirates turned the tables in the second to the tune of 4 to 2. Jess Haines’ showing against Pnil- adelphia would indicate that he pitched himself out, in his no hit, no run effort last Thursday. (ANKEE STARS SWEEP CLEAN Tennis Competition in Olympics Is Ended At Panis. PARIS, July 22.—(By The Asso- elated Press.)}—The chief contests for Olympi« points ended yesterday when the United States by making a clean sweep of five tennis charn- pionships, olinched first place in all around scoring. Four branches of competition, however, remain before the official closing ceremonies, July 27, and three of these, equestrian sports, yachting and weight lifting, will be resumed today. An American team is among the equestrian competitors, but the only other sport in which the United States 1 king honors, is cycling, which starts tomorrow. Sixteen events on the Olympic calendar have been completed, the United States coming out victorious in eight and piling up a total of 95 points, mare than doublé that of her nearest rival, France, which 47 points. Rese ABA « 2 abe Yesterday’s Scores NATIONAL LEAGUE Cincinnati, 8; New York 7. Philadelphia 7; St. Louls 4. Chicago 7, Boston 1. Brooklyn 6-2; Pittsburgh 2.4. AMERICAN LEAGUB ‘Washington 16, Chicago 2. Detroit 9; New York 7. St. Louts 4; Philadelphia 2. Cleveland 2; Boston 1. WESTERN LEAGUE No games scheduled. COAST LEAGUE No games scheduled. TEXAS LEAGUE Dallas 20-11; Wichita Falls (last called sixth). Fort Worth 3; San Antonio 2 (ten innings). Houston 11, Shreveport 4. Beaumont 11, Galveston 1. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION St. Paul 1, Toledo 0. Loulsville 9, Kansas City 1. Milwaukee 6; Indianapolis 5. Columbus 12, Minneapolis 5. 9-4; SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION Atlanta 6, Mobile 8. Nashville 14, Chatanooga 9. New Orleans 11, Birmingham 2. Little Rock 6, Memphis 4. potent Behera Vaanatt Southern College of Lakeland, Fia., has scheduled two football games for next season with the University of Havana. The first is to be played at Lakeland on November 29 and the second will take place in Havana on Christmas day. eee For results try a Tribune Clas- Bldg. sified Ad. © Casper Daily Cribune PAGE FIVE. mes First in News Of All Events ARDNER biti of Jack Keefe By RING L — oa i © YES, YOU Id Vy O1ON'T KNOW THIS fone re FINE Y You CauGHT you He KNOWED prrcr To A) WAITEO HIM NAPPING OFF WHAT BASE ovTt GND GOT @ BASE ON BALLS HE'S WILD FIRST BASE A WAS ON Vv is @ " ol . te k ” ‘ msi hStanl | j 3 3 eten i leet (Copyright, 1084, by The Bell Syndicate, tne: — ( BOXING LAW EPEAL iM REW irovines of the. nition. to Ket province of the commission to get S u Cc if SOCKING IT HOME J rere eam || Sport Calendar ‘ es of fights for him, By ROSS MIKE GRANT a The commission is r a fers uf miteh-maling organization, and tt Today's Calendar of Sports does enough when it regulates bouts Racing Out of the vast galaxy of Olymplo si Paavo Nurmi, the Finnish ese) em at are held and s that chanr| Meeting of Empire City Racing ‘As- sewing machine salesman from He)singsfors, shines with the greatest plons accept challenges when duly | *°clition, at Yonkers, brilllance. j By FAIR PLAY. boxing people were not very careful| transmitted to aforesaid champions.| , Meeting of Business Men's Racing A glance at his methods of training and personal characteristics is (Copyright, 1924, Casper ‘Tribune,)| “hey might wake up some morning| ‘Tex Rickard has it in hia power to| As#oclation, at Chicago. ituminating. NEW YORK, Jy 22.—1t 1s|'° find the boxing law repealed in| save the present mix-up by with-| Méeting of Kenilworth Jockey club, © Nurmi never eats red meat, his diet being made up of fish, vegetables | cnown that GoveraMe sinus looks | this state. drawing the bout from, Jersey. At| ®t Windsor, fi bs and bread. 1 . Ne Trotting a upon boxing rows with scant pa-]| Last summer an event occurred| ‘east this would adjust the New He bas (never tasted liuor of atnoked, tence. He, himself, has not the|{n official circles concerning one of| York angie. But how about the} | Meeting of Grand Circuit at Kala- He trains strenuously every day in the year, running dnywhere from é “4 ee > 4 mazoo. a five to fifteen miles dally. Slightest interest {n boxing. No|the big 1923 battles that was dis-|Jersey an One can imagine Goit 4 , one knows New York City better| tasteful to Governor Smith. what would happen to Rickard, so sot! He retires every night at 9 o'clock. than the governor and as a conve-| , fur as the Jersey interests are con-|, Scottish — amiteur championship He never uses any means of locomotion other than his pedal extreml-| (Venon nace Mri ti thee he present situation promises to| cennod, if he did anything of the| ‘urnament, at Aberdesn. by ties, using his legs where others use a street car, a horse or an atito.|% Magn scandals in the boxing|be just as nasty, though of a dif J - “ Wester amateur championship miontia: game afe very familiar to him. ferent sort, It looks, in other words, | S0rt. And he would probably think) ousnament, at Hinsdale, Il 4 He Hap deep: religious “convidtions: When the boxing commission] as though a big political battle was | *W!C® before he flouted them, renal’ 5 When preparing for a race he drinks no Nquids, Twa quarts | Meets tomorrow to take furthet{ impending and political battles just] On the other hand, his main in:] Arkansas: State championship ° of water was all the liquid he had in hts strenuous week in Paris. action In the matter of the Leonard-| how are the last thing Governor] terests are going to le in New York tournament, at Pine Bluft, He bathes only in cold: ‘water, Walker battle going to New Jerséy,| Smith.or any other prominent Demo-|in larger degree even than at pres Gymnastica He wotke every diy as a ealdsman tn addition to his training. & situation may be created that will|crat wants, especially as it would| ent, when he gets his new Elehth| Olympte gyninastic competitions, at He pays no attention to his opponents in a race, setting his pace by| call or rather Induce gubernatorial|be a battle within the Democratic| avenue arena under way. Colombes Stadium a stop wateh which he carried in his hand. action. t ranks, The whole situation is interesting Boxing Nurmi started four times at the Olymples and woh fout races. They) A very well informed politician} The boxing commission, as a mat-Jand it may be up to Governor Smith’ Lou Bogash vs. Frank Moody, 12 | varied from one to six milés in length and in the two longer races| told the writer today that it the! ter of fact, should n le it rounds, at Bridgeport, Conn. E Nurmi ran his opponents dizay. American coaches and athletes say that Nutml ts the greatest distance q rufher the world has ever produced. He has an uncanny knowledge of be pace, stamina, form and a stout heart, a combination that proved insur- ® mountable in the Paris games. The coaches claim that under ideal con- ‘ ditions he will ruin a mile in 4,06, , Abe Goldstein retained his bantamwe!ght championship the other night a in, New York by winning on points from Charley Ledoux, the 32-year-old ‘ French Veteran, but came out of the match with his reputation as a fighter seriously impaired. New York serlbes who viewed the battle declare that Goldstein lacks the grey matter that keeps chathpions at the top. Several times he had the Frenchman out on his feet, but alidwed Ledoux to hang on and stall his way through. E It is freely predicted that the fii time Goldstein takes on a real smart fighter hig Jaurel wreath will rest on the oher man's brow. Pl ecdiésavered 22 0c Wellmanis old tobacco Secret 22 Gives added richness and Dave Bancroft, the popular playing manager of the Braves, had an operation last week for What he and hia physician thought was appendi- citis, When the sawbones had finished slicing Bancroft up he found that the appendix was normal and that the severe pain he was suffering came from being hit by a batted ball. The rest while recuperating from the surgeon's knife will do Bancroft a world of good: He has been playing for several weeks with a wrenched back and 4 smashed finger and only gameness kept him in uniform day after day. Dick Rudolph, veteran pitcher and now coath of the Braves, has charge of the team in Bancroft's absence. Even the athletes are not impervious to automobile accidents. Demp- dislocated a bone In his elbow and otherwise banged himself up Sunday night when his car was forced into the ditch south of Los An- seles. Christy Mathewson, the famous old Giant pitcher, was injured a few » when ho collided with another machine near Saranac Lake, yson broke down from physical strain a few years ago while 5 wtill active ir baseball, contracted tuberculosis, lost one lung completely Fr ; and Is still living in the Adirondack’ mountains of New York to curb the disease. “ eee « F States, is to be staged at Key W. f in October in connection with the de- Sport Gossip dication of a memorial building which Is the Republic of Cuba is erecting in fo Cy L The municipal golf course in Jack-| act that it was'in Key West that the sonville, Fla., cost. $226,000, and is earning 10 per cent on the invest- ment. first war for Cuban was given birth, independence The pennant race in the Tri-State baseball league {s an exceedingly tight one, only about 100 points sep- and cool %een By coating the balls and flags with phosphorus the golf bugs of MePher- son, Kan., are able to indulge in their favorite sport on moonlight nights, arating the first and last teams. B l ee A Cuban-American sports carnival,]) BOSTON.—Pancho Villa, world ut costs (AY with baseball games, swimming races|flyweight champion, fighting at catch welghts, won over Wee Willie Woods of Scotland. and athletic contests among teams representing Cuba and the United BASEBALL QUESTION BOX If you have some question to ask about baseball— If you want a rule interpreted— If you want to ‘row anything about a play or a player— Write to John B. Foster, the man who helped make the rules under which the game is played today. If you want a per- sonal reply enclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope. Other- wise your question will be answered in this column, Address—Joln B, Foster, Special Baseball Correspondent of the Casper Tribune, 811 World Building, New York. because in foil eee packed (Copyright, 1924, QUESTION—What Is a shoestring catch? ANSWER—A shoestring catch is ® catch of a fly ball when the field- er is leaning forward full length and-manages to get the ball just be- fore it strikes the ground, Casper Tribune.) manager and what is the duty of a captain? ANSWER—Only recently a series Was published defining the dutles of captain and manager. Would glad- ly give informatipn but {t cannot be condensed to fit the space in these questions. JESTION—| ase: . : met rah erbanep tbe ruitoer's nash ria Eee Ce ramet: is on Sires old ey and tastes 4 Touacco CO- ase. Batter hits a pop fly. It frog rt & MxEs! the ball in his hand and then throws to center field and falls safe. Licc®! to first is it a double play? ANSWER—No. A runner never is out if the fielder crosses the base Runner fearing a double play goes back to first. Center fielder picks up the ball and throws the runner path only. The runner must either] out at second. -Does the batter be touched or the ball must be|credit for a hit? If not, gerne Da thrown to the base in advance of] ANSWER—The batter -does Dot the runner. : get credit for a hit because the run- ner was forced out. Batter never QUESTION hat is the duty of a’ gets credit tor a hit on a force out,