Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 1, 1924, Page 5

World Results By Leased Wire BROOKLYN EXPECTED T0 TRAD ~ DUTCH REUTHER TO PITTSBURGH Big Southpaw Has Been Fliver in Two Years He Has Been on Mound for Robins—Was Star With Cincinnati in 1919, BY JOHN B. FOSTER (Copyright 1924, Casper Tribune) SW YORK, Dec. 1—It now ‘seems pretty certain that Dutch Reuther,’ the Brooklyn southpaw pitcher, who has been a dismal fail- Ure for the lagt two years, is to be of and there is great cur- fosity as to where he may land. Reuther would land with the New York Giants if he-had his say about, it. But -he will not land with the Giants if President Ebbets of the Reuther seems to have all the requisites of a good left-handed pitcher, but he does not put them te account as he should. Last year he maintained that he had some- thing the matter with his arm, al- though some of his team mates thought it was something else than arm trouble holding him back. Had he come through in 1924 perhaps Brooklyn would have won the pen- nant. The race was so close that " “s~ games would have turned “DUTCH REUTHER Brooklyn club can help it. Ebbetts has said that under no condition would he ever help the New York Giants to a player and that doubt Yess goe# double for Reuther, who made something of a spectacle two years ago by stopping off at the Giants’ training camp at San An- tonio and hanging around as if he expected to foin or hoped to get a chance to play with the New York club. Nothing Reuther could have done would have spiked so effectively any chance he might have had of getting on the Giant payroll. In the light of his record the last two years it would be difficult to convince the public there was not some sort of arrangement between him and the Gionts whereby he was to be taken an as soon as he could stall his way out ‘of Brooklyn's clutches, Reuther never has met expecta- tions since he pitched for Cincinnati in 1919, when he did his share to win the pennant for the Reds and played the best ball of his fareer. But even then he was a troublesome young man to handle and he has never made the life of managers a thing of joy. SPORTS QUESTION BOX If you have some question to ask about baseball, football, box- ing or any cther amateur or pro- fessional sport— If you want a rule interpreted— Ig you want to know anything about a play or player— Write to John ~B, Foster, on baseball. Lawrence Perry, on amateur sports, and Fair Play on boxing and other professicna! sports. All are spe- cial correrpondents of the Casper Tribune, 814 World Building, New York. If you want a personal reply enclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope. Otherwise your ques- tion will be answered in this col- umn. , A Q—In what year did Walter John- son begin to pitch for Washington? A.—Johnson went to Washington in 1907 and pitched 14 games in his first year. Of these he won five and lost nine and the critics thought he’might become a fair pitcher if he learned better. control of the ball. The next year he won 14 games and. lost 14 and some critics said he Would never do. . Q.—Have Gene Tunney and Tomfiy Gibbons ever met? A—Not in the ring, But they have kgen introduced and have con- versed pleasantly, S—In football game toward the end. of the season a member of team: A made a touchdown, There were no stands and after the play had ‘ceased, that is the score had been made, a spectator ran up to the back and congratulated him.’ The referee refused to allow the score and penalized the scoring team fif- teen yards. Was this a correct *he trick. If Pittsburgh could obtain the services of Reuther for next year and if Reuther could bring himself to pitch: good baseball for them, the pirates might win their long-sought pennant. But as was the case in Brooklyn, it would all depend on how well Reuther worked for the team that had his services. . If he is as determined ever that he will play for the Giants, he prob- ably will not give much to any other manager than McGraw. But if he does not, there should be some way to bring him to reason. ‘With Reuthe> going right and with Yde showing even three-fourths of his 1924 form, the Pirates would be a terror to all the Nat'onal League outfits. Between them, they ‘should account for 40 victories and the other pitchers on the Pittsburgh team, the Pirates would appear as the season began, a stiffer proposi- tion than they have been for the last four yeai A dicker between Brooklyn and Pittsburgh that would give the Brooklyn team something as good in exeHange as Ruether would help both teams and seem likely to be in the pennant fight in 1925, decision? A.—Rule XXII, sections 1 and 2, say there shall be a 15-yard penalty for a spectator coming on field measured from spot of foul. Q—Team A is on the offense. Fourth down. The quarter fumbles the ball and recovers it. Does team A get first down? 5 A.—No, the ball goes to’ opponent as on fourth down unless tho ball has come into possession of a mem- ber of the defending team, who in turn fumbles it. (Note: This play is widely inter- preted by officials in such way that if the fumbled ball is even touched by an opponent and then recovered by the side that fumbled, the fumbling side retains it with first down. The writer as an official and in this department has inter- preted the rule in this way, It is erroneous under Rule 19, sections 1, 2 and 2A.) 4 Q.—Has Davidgon ever defeated Georgia Tech? A.—WNo, but Tech has had two close ‘games with Davidson, 3 to 0 In 1906 and 9 to 7 in 1916. Q.—What is greatest distance a team can be penalized and for what offense? A.—Half distance to goal line, for Miegal' return to game of a player. For player striking, kneeing, etc. YACHT RAGE TO TAHITI Is, NOW PLANNED LOS ANGELES; Calif., Dec. 1.— The longest yacht race ever held by American yachtsmen, from San rancisco to Los Angeles to Tahiti, will be started on June 10, next, according to am announcement made by Admiral\ Albert Serland of the Pacific Coast, Yachting association on his return from San Francisco, Four year Francisco Corinthians, have already entered for the 3,700 mile race and additional entries are expected from clubs in all sections of the American scdboard, fli Look HE TRIBUNE’S PAGE OF SPORTING YOU KNOW AL-~Adventures of Jack QN QPARTMENT 1F YOULL Loon the end of the wk. Wear paying $6.00 per day Al for-a little dinky rm. which suppose is more then you make in a wk. and that dont include meals. It is costing us about $25.00 per day to-live.as Edna eats like a horse and I aint making noth- ing per day so where wear going to bead. in at isa misery to me. Jack Keefe” JOHNSON LEAVES AT APPROPRIATE TIME By HENRY L. FARRELL (United Press Spurts Editor) NEW YORK, Dec. 1,—Practical business judgment and a lot of good common sense prompted Walter Johnson, one of the most popular players that ever played baseball? to get out of the major leagues with -+nis head high and the cheers ringing in his ears, It is ~ much more pleasing spec- tacle to see the grand veteran walk- ing cut the front door ag a star pitcher than to wait for that inevit- able exit out of the back te into the minors as a has-been. Johnson leaves the major leagues as a major league pitcher. He has been around for near'y twenty years in the American lgague, but a smart head and a stout arm would have prolonged his career for several more years if he had elected to remain and go the way of those who stick at the game too long. Johnson knew that the day must come when he would get a call to the office and hear the old, old story from Clarke Griffit! "You've been @ great pitcher, Walter, but you know you're through now. We must have some youth on our club, Where dq you want to go? Maybe I can find a minor league manager’s job for you.” No one wil: have to find a place for Walter Johnson. He found it himself, and in buying the Oakland club of the Pacific Coast league, the veteran landed a place where he will be happy, and where he should pros- per. He can pitch for a long time in she Pacific Coast league and he can continue as a manager when that great arm goes back on him: He wi.) be an attraction on the ccast and shat means businers. There are no other pitchers on the coast who are major league pitchers and there is no more popwar achiete in the world than Walter Johnson. His decision to get out of the ma- jor leagues when his glory had not been tarnished recalls a conyersa- ton after he had lost his second start in the world’s reries and after he had almost been written out of the big leagues by the experts. “I'm not through,” he said. ‘I've got a lot more pitching in me. I don’t say that {t's major league pitching, but it’s good enough for the minor leagues and that’s where I may be next year. I know that the time would come when I would be doing most of my work on the bench. That time is not coming. I'm going to beat It. ’m getting to the age where I should get settled some p'ace: per- manently. I want to get a perma- nent residence where I can be with my family more regularly and where I can give my children an education. They can't get good schooling travel- ing around from place to place. “I love the Pacific coast and I would be happy living there and my family would be happy. I have rome money saved and I'm going to buy a Pacific Coast League c’ub, if I can swing @ deal. I'll be something on the coast, You writers have sald so many nice things about me that I can’t help but know I am an attrac- tion. I want to get into the minor Jeagues as a major leaguer not as a has-been or a cast-off from the big Walter Johnson will be missed in the major leagues. No player ever served ro long or go honorably with one club. No great player ever had to wait so long for wor'd’s series glory and no baseball hero ever had to go through the trials to make good in a world’s series that John- aon did. He walked off the field after the final game in Washington as the Johnson of ten years ago..In the last innings of that memgrable game he was the great Johnron at his greatest. George Kelly, tha Giant first baseman, said that Johnson threw six balls at him so fast he couldn’t see them and he struck out twice. Johnson fanned Frank Frisch and he never struck out before in a world's series. Johnson walked off the field with his head high, smiling at the ova- tion from 30,000 baseball maniacs. Those cheers must be ringing still in his ears and they will be ringing to the end of his career. There will be no pat on the back and no sorrow- ful consolation, ‘a too bad, Wal- ter, but you know’ how it is, They all have to go.” Paddock, King of all the , is wetting up in the world The California flarh ig not through 4s a sprinter, but he is being pushe¢ into bigger fields. He attended th recent annual meeting of the Nat- fonal A, A. U, as a delegate from ‘ thé Southern California assocaition and was handed a lot of posies by Willam Prout, the retiring presi- dent. Prout congratulated the south- ern California body for sending an athlete and he praised Paddock for the interest he was taking in ath- letics by extending his field to the executive end of the business. He suggested, with a lot of truth that amateur athletics would be encour- aged more if other athletes took the same interest that Paddock does, The popular young Californian is also making a fine name as a lec- turer and he fg doing a lot for the promition of clean athletics by trav- eing around the country and boost- ing the game, That Charlie has made good in his profession is shown by extracts from a letter sent to the manager of the bureau with which Paddock is associated by John 8. Moore of Dayton, head of the civic committee for entertainment, ‘On behalf of a long suffering pub- the letter reads “who have been enduring dry speeches for years, I want you to find some more men like Charlie Paddock. He is the best interpreter of the philorophy and spirit of athletics that we have in America. He spoke to 1,500 men here last Sunday for an hour and they never batted an eye. We have nad all the ig lecturers in Dayton, out in our opinion Paddock makes the best and most helpful address to young men. We want him back next year and he wil have an audience of 2,500, I would ke to contribute to the purchase of tablet or the planting of a tree to the man who FOOTBALL ON COAST DRAUS HUGE CROWDS 90,000 Were Present at California-Stanford Game Last Week. rel SAN FRANCISCO, Callf., Dec. 1.— (By The Associated Press.)\—The constantly growing interest in co}- lege football was manifested in’ the far west this geason by increased attendance everywhere and by sev- eral unprecedented crowds. It is roughly estimated that more than 300,000 fans saw games in the terri- tory from 1@ Rocky Mountains westward. * The greatest singlo attraction proved to be the coast conference title game between Stanford and California, old time rivals. A throng estimated at 90,000 overflowed the California stadium at Berkeley. The stadium had beeh fitted to seat 76,000 and something like 15,000 more had been alloted places on the hillside overlooking the gridiron. There had been no general sale of tickets; students and alumni had dis- posed of them all. The throng was overwhelmMfigly partisan, and both factions could find comfort in the result—a 20 to 20 tle. The California-Southern Cal{for- nia game drew 60,00( to Berkeley. California officials predict that the new year’s day game between Cali- fornia and Pennsylvania will fill the stadium again. The coliseum at Los Angeles en- tertained 120,000 during the season. The largest single attendance was 30,000 for the Southern California: Idaho game. A large crowd is ex- pected, however, for the meeting be- tween Southern California and Syra- cuse next Saturday. A gato of more than 60,000 fg anticipated. The Washington stadium at Seattle attracted 80,000. More than 35,000 of them came to the Wash- ington-California gam > ROAM ASS SERS PARIS.—‘“Tell me what they are wearing,” exclaimed the newest American arrival today. “Straight lines,” was the answer, ‘Perhaps a flared hem or a border of shaded feathers, but the straight silhouette always. After=that, let your letter of credit be your guide.” TTR) By. NEA Service. SEATTLE, Wash., Dec. 1—Real color has been added to football in the Pacific northwest. A football team, composed entire- ly of Japanese is the new yellow note. And a colored grid star is its coach. Although averaging little more than 140 pounds, the Nippon Athle- First in News Of All Events lay GOW To Loow FOR NO ip ogeda eee a VLU WAIT TILL D eopy Comes @nD OFFERS ME tic club of Seattle has gone thus far in the football season without losing a game, meeting the strong- est independent ¢levens ir the state. The Japanese display wonderful football sense. They have perféct- ed the forward pass to an amazing degree. Their coach, Ham Greene, former negro star at University of Washington, has evolved awift mov- ing end plays that gain yardage. He [ote ‘ In defense work, too, the Nip-| ponese are adept tacklers and their line holds well. Their games at- tract good attendances. Considering the brand of baseball developed in Japan, it ts possoble that football, crossing the Pacific, may give stiff opposition by Jap- anes universities to American” col- lege elevens touring the Orient. 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF LEAGUE WILL BE REACHED IN FEBRUARY By JOHN B. FOSTER, (Special Correspondent of the Cas- per Tribune) (Copyright, 1924, by the Consolidat- ed, Presa Association) The fiftieth anniversary of the National league will “be celebrated in 1925. The league was organized in the city of New York, February 2, 1876, and since that time has been a foremost influence’ in sport and especially in baseball throughout the United States. There had been an organization in baseball prior to the birth of the National league but it had not been successful larzely because the play~ ers had too much voice in the con- duct of the cirouit and because the tendency of that timz was to asso- ciate baseba!l too closely with gam- bling and popls, The touch of the speculator was still felt in the first year of Na- tional league history but by the dp- termined effort of men, who proved to be mightier than the crooks, baseball eventually was free from its contamination with gambling. From thdt period it began to ascend in the scale of social recognition. Fondness for the game always had been in evidence but there was an important and better element of tho pppulation of cities where the attempt was made to foster baseball in a business way which would not patronize the contests because of the low order of humanity that had game, and because of the associa- tion of players, with men who were known not to be honorable in their dealings. The position which professional basebdll occupies at the — present time in the athletic life of the Unit- ed States is largely due to the stub: born fight waged by William A. Hulbert of Chicago, as an owner and executive and Albert G. Spald- ing of Chicago as a player and later as an owner. Both of these men were ruthlessly savage in their at- tack upon gamblers, upon betting, and upon every source of petty dis- honesty that was attached to base- ball or had anything in common with it, and it was because of their backbone and their persistent re- fusal to concede a point to players, even when the organization, of pro- fessional baseball was threatened, that they eventually won the fight because they commanded _ respect for their stand and also conserva- tive and substantial support. The National league, in its time, as been through many athletic wars but has survived all of them to celebrate its fiftieth anniversary. clubs, eight clubs, and twelve clubs but its greatest success has been with cight clubs. Of the cities which originally made up the cir- cult only two—Chicago and Boston —have remained throughout and of the men who started the National league and who helped to make it famous, strong and powerful, there is not one in its organization. To the old time baseball critics a'most as much eredit must. be given for building up the league, as to its backers, because these writ- ers, who began with baseball and who knew baseball, almost to 2 man were sturdy fighters against the crooks, against that kind of base- ball that was distasteful and against the lowering of the standard of the league. No force has done so much to make baseball what it is as the legitimate criticism of the press, (In his next article, Mr, Foster will tell about “The First National League Meeting.”) GRID SEASON ” NEARS CLOSE NEW YORK, Dec. 1.—(By The As. sociated Press}—Football has enter- tained more than 10,000,000 persons throughout the United Stat fall, and overflowing colle It was never so near exhaustion as it was in 1889 but even ,then the for@eful presence of Spalding as- sisted in bringing it through a per- fod which nearly swallowed all its resources and left it impoverished and just a trifle stronger than the rival which had brought it so low. teo much in common with the The league has comprised six Helped Chicago Win Title ©v.D Chieago has just been crowned champions of the Western Conference, outdistancing Illinois, eatly season favorite for the honor dividual factor in Chicago's success The biggest in- was “Five Yards" McCarthy. #0- called because of his ability to furnish five yards whenever @ first down was needed. It was McCarthy tle Illinols 21-21 in a 5 aes . he ever saw great line plunging that enabled Chicago to game characterized by Walter Camp as the greatest in the west. os augur well for the game's future. With sectional championships set- tled to the extent possible under necessarily brief schedules, Call- fornia, the five year undefeated eleven of the Pacific coast will meet Pennsylvania, at Berkeley New Year's day and at the same time undefeated Notre Dame will play un- defeated Stanford. These engagements cannot how- ever, be considered American cham- pionships for such a title could only result from a series in which three eastern teams, as many from the midd‘ewest, the southern champions and at least two coast elevens partic- ipated. But they will produce an in- teresting comparison of football as played on the nation’s two coast lines. The eastern season ended in a triple tie, Pennsylvania, Yale and Dartmouht coming through without defeat, although all participated in. dead locks. Yale captured the ‘big three’’ honors by defeating Prince- ton and Harv —<——__—— SIX-DAY BIKE RACE STARTED NEW YORK, Dec. 1.—The 15 teams which started at midnight in the annual, six day Licycle cham- pionship races in Madison Square Garden were bunched at § a. m. to day having traveled 153 miles. The record for eight hours is 189 miles and nine laps. WILLS? GHANCES GROWING. SLIM FOR TITLE BOUT Dempsey Considering Trip to Europe for Battle. . * BY FAIR PLAY (Copyright 1924, Casper Tribune) NEW YORK, Dec. 1.—Any glim- mering hopes that logical contender Wills may have been nursing for a crack at Jack Dempsey's title have been pushed farther {nto the dim hereafter. The champion and Jack Kearns, his manager, before hopping off for the golden west where they plan to spend the Christ- mas holidays, let fall some talk about a European trip which, if it comes off, will remove them from challenge hurling distance of the Brown Panther for a long time to come. Dempsey, it seems, was so pleased with ‘the reception he got on his last visit to Europe that he thinks a bout between himself and some good second rater would go big on the continent, It is even reported that he has commissioned a Briton to look around for a likely prospect for him to operate upon. Georges Carpentier has been con- sidered in that connection, but {t is oubtful if he would consent to have himself battered to pieces by the champion again, even if the crowds were willing to pay for it. Ermino Spalla is gesticulating wildly across the pond, urging Jack to come on over and mix with him. And even poor old Joe Beckett has been spoken of as a sacrificial offer- ing. Just now the big but clumsy Span- jard, Paolin, looks like the best bet on the other side, but In his present state of fistic education he would be no mateh for the champion. And besides, Paolin is, thinking of com- ing to America for a little scien- tific “building up.” He could not become a new Firpo, even under Tex Rickard’s expert manipulation, if Jack plastered him over there. CADETS PRAYED. DURING GAMES WEST POINT, N. ¥., Deo. 1. — The West Point football team prayed before every game played in the past season, Captain Edward Garbisch sserted in hig last speech to the team. He attributed the team’s vic- torles to the prayers. Standing on top of the stage coach from which captains of army elevens have traditionally made their last speeches to the teams, Captain Gar- bisch said yesterday: “Before every game this year, whether the game seemed, to be a hard one or an easy one, every man of the squad prayed. We did not pray for victory only that we might acquit ourse!ves like men. And after the game Saturday every man on the eleven tore off his headgear and thanked God fervently for the vic- tory.” ‘The man who beat the navy by his four drep gicks Saturday was wild- ly cheered by the 1,200 cadets who had gathered to welcome home the players. WYOMING MAP AND BLUE PRINT CO. Geologists, Petroleum Engineers Drafting, Blueprinting, Maps, Photocopying All work confidential TURKEY SHOOT - at SHOGREN’S - GALLERY 112 Nérth Center St.