Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 13, 1924, Page 5

he Casver Daily eribune MONDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1924- PAGE FIVE. THE TRIBUNE’S PAGE OF SPORTING NEWS HORNSBY AND RUTH TWO OF GREATEST World Results By Leased Wire First in News Of All Events YOU KNOW ME AL—Ad =a Z Z r - r a i ; Ze) @ onc Chane erancs — 2A} YOURSELF @GouTr a ( ZA OND MADAME 2 DOLLAR AND By RING LARDNEF gp WELL, THAT @IN"T MUCH 3 = FOR @ CHAIR, BUT ; WE @IN'T Gor NO eck y = y @ HALE By HENRY L. FARRELL. | the American league race as the Well Al | am writing this on the bord ofthe steamer Paris SEcE (United Press Sports Editor) | St. Louls Cards did in the National and I wished you was. along. She is a great big boat Al and oe XORK, Oct. 13—Regardiess | league. bigger then the beats that rm between Chicago and Benton the official ti hic! ve is bi te owt valuahe™ players tn the| monctary"vaiue Taha great dense| | MAME: She wad bo be as th wares i igh the major leagues, there will be plenty | ing power has at the gate, it would lake Michigan. | and Edea has got a rm. with a private bath of material for argument during| seem that the Babe is a better ball re. ealy threw with a bath then the winter season about the best| player than Hornsby., before leather and the salt water players of the season. Hornsby hits more, it ts true, but One day during the summer, John| that doesn’t mean everything. <A sticks about a wh. we be A. Heydler, president of the Na-| player might be able to hit .500 over ia gy Paris. Oh you gay Pari = 2 tional league, took occasion to ex-|a season and wouldn't be any more bY Ty press the opinion that Rogers] valuable than a Player who hit .200 Jack Keele ¥ Hornsby, the St. Louis star, was a greater ball player than the great Babe Ruth. The argument was taken up by the Ruth fans, and it is still a good subject for a debate. Some time later.a New York base- ball writer, with no purpose of stirring up a civil war in the Na- tional league, caused a civic upris- ing in St. Louis baseball when he wrote that Frankie Frisch, the Glant second baseman, was a better Player than Hornsby. The argument about the respec- tive meri and alility of Babe Ruth and Horns! has more angles and possibilities than the one about but who drove in a run every time he got a hit. Baseball games are won by runs, andthe most valuable batters are those who knock in runs. The Babe is the greatest run-getter in the ma- jor leagues, even if it is due, per- haps, to t large number of home runs that he ge! Ruth started in as a catcher. He turned to pitching, and was the best left-handed pitcher of his day. Be then played first base, and was a good first baseman. He then tried the outfield, and he is one of the best in the busine: There is no been called into this last fray in the| splendid work of the Giants, The ninth when the score was tied, Onc ntered the fray under a cloud more he had his chance for a vic-| scandal, but they carried themsely: tory, but hé also had the chance to| ‘ike gentlemen from first to last the two National league star reason to doubt but that he could go down to a third defeat. That| The Washington fans were pr Hornsby the champion batter | Play the other positions on the in- unhappy climax seemed near, in-| judiced against the Giants from ¢ for 1924 in the National league. He] field, although he might not be a deed, in the ninth when Frisch| start but from the second game was first with the fine mark of | Wizard. ry tripled with only one gone. But|that feeling entirely disappeare: 424, and established two new rec- The real value of any player is Johnson was the king of yore. He} It gave way to a new feeling 3 ords. He bettered by four points] hard to reckon. The only way to was not to be denied. respect, not a little tinged with fe: the record made by George Sisler| rate his valuation is to watth the On Thursday, Johnson, humiliated| The Giants were recognized as & in 1822 and he broke the record he| team when it is without the services and belleving he had cost his team | 4angerous crew. q had held with Hans Wagner by|of a real star. Fans who have mates their chance for victory, had| In the series the McGraw me winning the batting championship | watched the New York Yankees in told some of his closer friends that | outhit, outfielded, outscaged th: for five consecutive seasons. the last four years know what the he would never pitch again. He | Opponents, but the Senators had ti Ruth won his first American| team would be without Ruth. sald he did not believe he could face} Winning will which could not ij league batting championship withan| Frank Frisch is regarded as one the crowds. Even thelr sympathetic | denied. There was plenty of “mal average of .389. He was the cham- of the greatest and most valuable pion home-run hitter of the season.| players in the National league, but with 46 to his credit, and he was the| when he was injured and had to leading run-getter of major leagues ‘eave the lineup in the most critical with 143. part of the pennant racé, the Giants Hornsby: and Frisch were tied for| won with the regular first baseman run-scoring in the National league,}on second base and with an 18-year with 121 each. old rookie on third base. Hornsby hasn't the team with| Perhaps there are other teams him that Ruth has, but it is recall-| that could lose a star player and ed that the Babe carried the burden| keep on going. The Cleveland In- of keeping the Yankees in the pen-| qians did it in 1920, and won a pen- nant race almost alone during one-| nant with a college boy playing third of the 1924pennant race. With-| shortstop. The Giants did it this out Ruth the Yankees, in the opin-| ear, Some other team may do it fon of a number of good baseball] next year. But the loss of a atar| © * men, might have finished as low in| pitcher is harder to take. By NEA a Be -Miller Huggins says the New York , Yankees lost the American league Baseball has had its day. The season {s over. The scoreboard: will be covered until next spring. This crowd, happy as it Is, seems to realize pennant because Sam Jores fell/ that as it drifts out of Griffith Stadium in Washington as the vnadow» of evening fall over the park. The game is over. So is the world series. For away off his 1923 form. capital fans it was “The End. of a Perfect Day,” and the greatest game of the year. “Rucky” Harris and his boys have brought them their first The Brooklyn Robins finished al-| baseball championship. The world series flag is flying from thy staff in left field. The Nats are champions. 6 most byfdes'e eopiee spate the Giants In. the National league pen- - : QUESTIONS. 2:2 "22": EAPITAL WENT BASEBALL MAD Old Peck Sure Delivered ; around to win 28 gam: ! “The Same Old Double Play |), ? Se eee 5 ‘Where would the Washington PECKINPAUGH i rei, orate ||Sete ease sas] AS SENATORS AND JOHNSON IN of the Casper Tribune, 814 World || 0n hadn't been able to win 26 Lage Bui'ding, New York. games? ‘a 2 is * Both teams might hdve finished se PECKINPAUGH . If you have some question to {ithe pesnnaatvinion: 23 ray # eta o ¥ If you want a rule interpreted— || Johnson was voted the most valu- : \ ee a ‘ Kk about fdotball— . 20 ing || able player in the Amezfcan leagu Ataeiee ee Wavidc are and he didn’t get the prize because Write to Lawrence Perry, for || he is’a nice fellow. He deserved the By ROBERT T. SMALL. fifteen years an authority on the || honor and won it on merits. (Staft Correspondent of The Casper | cruising down the bay. game as writer and official. If || The slump of Kiki Cuyler, a great Tribune) Government has been out of bus!- you want a personal reply en- || young player in the allimportant |-(copyright, 1924, Casper Tribune) | ness, has been thrown out of joint: Close a stamped, self-addressed |/ series with the Giants, was one of/ WASHINGTON, Oct. 13.—Wash-| professional men have deserted thelr envelope. Otherwise your ques- || the big factors In the loss of Pitts-| ington's dream of dreams came true| offices. Ongthe last day, the situa. tion will be answered in this || burgh’s chance to win the National! a: jast—the world series won ahd|tion was remarkable. Doctors wav. column. league pennant. no one but old Walter Johnson out}ed away their patients and post- Cuyler was hitting in the Brook-| there on the. firing line when the|poned important operations. Den- QUESTION—1. Can side which|iyn series and the team looked like cup of victory at last was lifted to| tists paid no heed to the pleas of kicks off recover ball before It is/a sure winner, but cool weather in| the tips of the frayed and frazzled|persons howling with an aching touched by opponent? New York tightened up a sore] aiamond crew. . tooth; lawyers excused themselves 2. If this is possible—as it has | shoulder and he couldn't get his full! phe cup was long he'd away.|fromclionte and in the shone nan, been heretofore—could not the side| swing working. Through six long and nerye-crash-| chasers could get nowhere with the which kicks off, kick off from their) The Cincinnat! Reds had the/ ing games and then on to the sev-|sales persons who were demanding own thirty yard line, let the ball) worst luck of the season. The team/ ontn, there still was no decision|to know’ ‘the Intest word from the roll and recover same every time as | started last spring as the favorite to} when the regulation nine innings| thousands of radio sets scattered all defensive side must remain behind| win the pennant, but the loss of/haq been closed. Through three|over the city for the benefit of their own ten yards line until the/ one player after another caused the| extra frames the battle raged and| those who had not been able to maul ball is kicked? club to go to pieces. then when it seemed an elighth/ their way into the ball park, Dur: - 3. If answer to first question is game might” be necessary, there|ing the games, Washington played “no” could defensive team line up came the “breaks of the game’|in New York, hundreds of lawyers on their own twenty yard line and ‘a ‘which turned all Washington into a/and doctors and other professional receive kick-off with all men back!! Princeton Leader || raving masse of whirling dervishes. |men equipped their offices with for interference? The bedlam roared far into the| crystal sets to “listen in.” ANSER—1. A side kicking off night. Washington had seen noth- The fact that victory came after may recover ball. Of Songs Throws ing like it since those two armistice | so long a fight made it all the sweet- 2. As the riles stand in the book days in 1918. Again the cry of vic-/er in the end, The luckiest man inl] moment as the ball, speeding from the Kicking side may kick off from Arm Out of Place tory filled the air, Aguin the exult-| Washington was a cripple who man-| Bar! McNeeley's bat suddenly bound. any yard line it wishes and tho re- ant populace paraded the downtown| aged to gain place on the sidewalk {ed over Lindstrom's head at third ceiving side is restrained behind its streets. to hold high carnival. | 3t jpst outalde the stadium as the vio-} base and Slowly hopped its wa put . yard jine. But in a could not have happened anywhere] ry crowd began to pour out.|to left field where “Pep” Young had Sr peneblas ence broadcast after| Casualty of Saturday's satis In the world but in Washington.| Nickels and dimes and quarters}been placed for just such an emer the rules were printed and issued | Lehigh foo ‘ML Millard of New| ZB® pent-up, baseball, feelings of|rained upon him. in a silver storm| gency. McGraw of the master mind | the rules committee holds that if the | today. William tieut, threw his| Something like 38 years broke loose|and it required several volunteer as-| knew McNecley was a left field hit- kicking slde moves back the re-|ondon, Connecticut, threw his} an insane rush of joy. sistants to gather up the scattered|ter. He knew a strong throwing right arm out of place in. directing | “washington had put its last ounce] ones and. replace \them in the big|arm would be needed to cut ott applause would crush him, But|ter minding” in the last game when the zero hour came—when the | both sides, but for the rest of th “Big Train” went out there to warm | Series it was virtually every mat up and the 40,000 frantic fans arose | for himself and e¥ery man gave . in one great billow, Johnson waved | bis best his hand to them and a grin came back to his face. In that moment, he was reborn, ‘The old smoke re- turned. The smoke that enabled him twice to set big George Kelly down on strikes when a hit or a long fly meant defeat; the smoke that enabled him to strike out Frankie Frisch in the eleventh with the winning run on second and| gym only one out. It was the first time Frisch had ¢ver been fanned in a world series game, Havint won five Texas leagy pennants in a row and four out five southern champlonship tilts, tl Fort Worth Panthers certainly a some critters in the minor leagi menagerie. ————___ Jefferies, former worl heavyweight champion, has go into the movies, enacting the ro} of the village blacksmith in a fil Washington, fighting always from|comedy. ‘The part should con behind, has had most of the glory|natural to Jim as he learned ho of the series, but the book cannot |to swing the big hammer in his day be closed without a tribute to the!as a boilermaker. , HARRIS heard by radio on the Mayflower By NEA Alrmall Service— It made a {lfference to Washington's hopes In the sixth world series game, with old Roger Peckinpaugh back in the lineup. The crippled yeter- an started the winning rally in the fifth inning with a single. Here you see him crossing the plate with the tyiifg run after MeNeely had walked and Harris sing!ed. McNeely scored behind Peck on the same blow, register. ing the winning tally. Hank Gow Giant catcher, is waiting for the ball as Peck crosses the plate, while Umpire Klem looks on. Sénator’s Son By NEA Airmail Servico— The famous Washington double-play combination worked Just once the sixth world series game and here it is. In the fourth inning Wilso| Giant center fielder, singled with one out. Jackson, shortstop, then 1 into a double killing, Harris to Peck, to Judge. Peck is seen relaying 1) ball to first after receiving it from Harris. Wilson is shown slidi= vai to se PRINCETON, N. J., Oct. 13.—A ve 60 ae Pee pret ee aha to | the-singing of Beinn zoe of drive and pull in this world|hat which suddenly grew so heavy.|"Muddy” Ruel at the plate. Mc- teams shall still continue. series. Three timgs President Cool-| None who saw the finish of that|Graw called the play, but it came 3. The receiving side may Ine up idge had heated the home town| last game ever will forget it. Base- about iff such a way that when ss on its own twenty yard line or any- dar rooters. The only game he missed | ball veterans, grown gray in follow-| Young grabbed the ball he did not ae uke “ie twiaheat banienied. ties Bocty: Sport Calen here in the capital was ‘the one !ng the sport, stood and looked on|make a move to throw {t to the pe pard Taine, ‘seruoing™ the * kicking played on Sunday. That one he in amazement. There was a tense plate. He just raced for the Giants ie 4 bench. The game and the series waa team 1s kicking off fron tbe meal Racing. x as over. The Washington fans stood position. Ay sy Nea ahd m! Meeting of Metropolitan Jockey Buck: Trots Home A ain . | breathless for a moment and then to-line up in. this way the Mer | Club at Jamaica. V4 34 with a roar which might have reach- je side would have the advantage set Meeting of Kentucky Jockey club ee ———<—mge s jed Broadway—if anybody in the blase metropolis had, been listen- ing—they rushed upon the field. It forth in your question No. 2. at Latonia. Meeting of Maryland State Fair | association at Laurel. Was as if a great dam had burst and . Horse Show her a human flood let loose. ‘ Thirty-ninth national horse show Walter Johnson had b e opens in New York city. 01 »hnson had been perched on first. He was first to be sur. rounded, Then Harris and Me- Neeley and “Muddy”—Muddy, who had not made a hit until this last day, Muddy whose “life” had been spared when Hank Gowdy got his feet tangled with his cast-off mask and let a high foul trickle through his mitt. That was the real “break"’ Athletics. A. A. U. national pentathlon championship at Travers Island. Bench Show. Show of Bronx Kennel club, New | \ York City. Show of Augusta, club. Field Trials. Ga., Kennel {the game. “Muddy” Cloverdale ~ Annual trials of New England “Muday” wes ‘ar idiots aetie For the nianwhe likes eiap Field Trial club iat Posasasts Mass. athe a Boxing. and style, here's the sea- ‘aia’ Vinoes: He already had tasted blood tn son’s smartest mode! eo Fea pater A the game getting a single in the Dressy—Good looking— Mike McTigue vs. Jack Rocco, 10 wante pad making the tle run. He Correct. rounds, at Montreal. can rd pues ies line fouled hen i Kid Carlin vs. Pete Sarmiento, 15 ¢ ned o nat was fair, ME es MELT Ore Saunas akiNew Osean: flew’ over third bas and out to left seni beth eee uy Jack Hausner vs, Tony Vaccarelll, ee ie pee ¢ fled oatily aiew fe . ‘ New York. econd, The end was in sight. The | on a Cloverdale, sete ia seer ade Lal psenwarts; rainbow still was flashing in the a ; New ‘York. setting stn, Johnson's hot ground- | 12 rounds, ac New Yor er handcuffed Jackson at® short. A total of 126 soccer teams Then came McNeeley's bounder—a oe Made only by throughout the bi geea Wena ss By ‘NEA Airmail Service sin hit and after that the de- aerate and he mh thant Liste made by Ive enter ” 5, & 4 8 nso} igar Corporation, : ate CityHat Co. the National Challenge Cup. The Bucky” Harris, the Nats’ “boy manager,” Is seen pattering over the! From a Washington standpoint Wadsworth Jr, son of the Discrbured by Ben eR: (eae: cup, which is é¢mblematic of the| plate on the day's first home run in the fourth inning of the Inst wor'd|the finish could not have been bet. United States senator trom New ymaha.N b championship of the United States|Serles game at Washington, It was a drive into the left field stand. The| ter, It was u story book ending, | York, The junior semtor ot the Paxton and Gallagher Co, Omaha,Nebr. Football association, is now held by| Senators’ bat ‘boy js observed running up to the manager with several | Jolinson, the old master, with two | emily plays halfback on the Yate! Casper, Wyoming . the Fall River (Mass.) Football club. armlonds of congratulations from capital fans. defeats chalked against him, had! wap TT AS | .