Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 2, 1924, Page 6

use and chi Bld Mo Dai « 4 y I r i « € 1 { t I PAGE SIX BASIN CHAMPIONS PROMISE REA > BATTLEIN TITLE GAME FRID “Beat Casper” Is Worland Cry in Preparation For Football Game to Decide the State Championship; Team Is Lighter. ig Horn basin football enthusiasts and the Worland eRe, Pose in particular have insisted all fall that the brand of football played in the basin was the best in the state. Worland high school’s team will be here Friday to attempt to prove it in the game that will decide the undisputed state championship for 1924. BIG ARENAS FOR RING BOUTS NAY BE BUILT SOON Movie Magnate Behind One Big Project at Los Angeles. BY FAIR PLAY (Copyright 1924, Casper Tribune) NEW YORK, Dec. 2.—East and ‘West are vieing with each other these days in big talk about the gigantic boxing arenas. From the coast comes a story of how a movie magnate is all ready to build & great stadium in his personal movie city near Los Angeles and turn it over to Jack Kearns, Demp sey’s manager, to use in a series of big bouts scheduled for Callfor- nia now that boxing once more has been legalized there. But his plans are no more preten- tious than those being circulated by Charley Henderson, of Nostrand, A. C. fame who ts talking big talk about a 110,000 stadium over in Queensboro. Offhand, it looks as though the California project had the biggest chance of coming into being, if either can be said to have a chance,. The location of which Henderson speaks 18 within a half mile of the present Queensboro stadium and the state boxing commission has a little rule which prohibits boxing clubs from encroaching on each other's territory. It is barely possible, of course, that Henderson has reached some sort of agreement with Simon Flaherty, of, the Queensboro club. ‘That club is living on rented prop- erty—without even so much as a yearly lease, so far as the public has learned. F Both of the proposed arenas look pretty much like pipe dreams. The present tendency of the title holders to do all their appearing on the stage instead of in the ring and the numerous ballyhooed~ “big” fights which have flivvered of late, can scarcely be said to have built up a public appetite for boxing which would warrant large expenditures for arenas. THREE TIED IN BIKE RACE NEW YORK, Dec. 2.—Three teams were tied for first place at 8 o'clock this morning in the six- day bicycle race. There were Mi Namara and Van Kempen,’ Wal- thour and Georgett! and Egg and Girardengo with 569 miles and two laps each. Most of the riders were weary to- day from the pace set last night. Two teams were two laps behind and eight teams were one lap be- hind. The Washakie Warriors are champs of the northern country and they expect to take Casper to a cleaning that will establish their superiority over central and south- ern high school football. Coach Kelly has a team averaging five pounds lighter to the man than Casper but the yisitors make up in fight and speed what they lack in avirdupols. They are not unaccus. tomed to being outweighted and never mind giving away anything up to 15 pounds to the man. Casper fans will remember years ago that Worland came with a mediocre team and one Don Harkins, the quarterback. This year Harkin has three backs in Wes Johnsen, Phil Hillsberry and Eldred Cottrell, that are running interfer- ence for him and he has been the shining satellite of the whole basin. In every game but one he has gotten away for several long runs and his gains constitute. about half what the whole team makes. In addition to+Harkins the team has In Ralph Cottrell, and end who is considered by critics the best In the state. The line from tackle to tackle is fast and a fighting quintet that has given trouble to every eleven it has faced this fall. Worland fans are confident of vic- tory and will send a large number of supporters with the team néxt Friday. It is also reported that Worland backers will have from $3,000 to $5,000 in cash which they hope to bet on their team. two here star, NEW YORK T GET CLASSIC NEXT SEASON By JOHN B. FOSTER (Copyright 1924, Casper Tribune) NEW YORK, Dec. 2.—The Army will have the selection of the site for the next year's Army-Navy foot ball game and it is not very likely that Baltimore wil) be chosen. In fact, New York is almost certain to be selected. This, however, {s no reflection on the way Baltimore handled this sea- son's classic on Saturday. Rather it will represent a wish to move the game up to the larger metropolis again, in view of the fact that the middies took it as far south as Balti more. Baltimore handled Saturda kame very well in all the details re. garding its stadium and its seating facilities, Never has the contest been played on a more roomy field, In: deed, ifanything, {twas too roomy. asthe spectators were too far from the plays. There was a fine view of the contest from all seats, however, and the pitch of the stadium at Bal timore is tip-top for observation pur poses. In the matter of transportation facilities, Baltimore can not compare with New York:and for that matter is not so well equipped as Philadel- phia, There was little gouging in the southern city on a large scale, altho in some of the hotels there was a dsposition to be autocratic. eg ee For five consecutive years the football championship of the Pacific Coast Intercollegiate Conference has ‘unsurpassed Va dness and sweetness 10c - 2 for 25e ~ 15c Slor de a lentine Unvarying High Quality Since 1848 YOU KNOW ME. AL---Adventures of Jack Keefe: pers dont you tackle the ‘I would think it over and way to do is buy a seat on the stock'ex- change and go at it right. I am going down and them ‘éver and if I like the to it. Youcan bet they w: over on me Alas I aint n big money is conserned and dost ners with Morgan hey Al. Jack: Keefe a bbl. of ‘money Fe aay a seat and look ee hear about me going in part- e says the only So tomorrow game I will go t nothing be sup- THE TRIBUNE’S PAGE OF SPO First in Of All Events | (Guess GOPHERS’ DEFEAT IN TURKEY DAY GRID BATTLE COMPLETED UPSETS OF TH E LAST SEASON By LAWRENCE PERRY. (Copyright, 1924, Casper Tribune) BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Dec, 2 When Vanderbilt went to Minnesota and defeated the Gophers by a re- sounding score, she established an iconoclastic tendency as regards Dixie which, on Thursday showed reactions on more than one south- ern gridiron. This makes the coun- try unanimous in the matter of gridiron upsets, with the exception of the Far W Alabama 33, Georgi'0; Sewanee 16, Vanderbilt, 0, These were results calculated to make a football pub- lic, already more than a bit unset- tled as to the significance of ad- ance form, throw up {ts hands de- spairingly and consign the gridiron game to that category of chance- taking diversions which includes roulette, poker and tight rope walk- ing by amateurs. Something of the nature of the surprise which Alabama furnished even her own warm edmirers will be appreciated when it was stated that, in defeat against Centre, the Tuscaloosa outfit looked as inept and spiritless as Georgia looked Thursday against Alabama, And by the same token, the bewilder- ment in which the game left the thousands who came from Georgia ‘o see thelr team take the surgo out of the Criinson tide will also be srasped. The writer saw Georgia p'ay a superb game against Yale early in ‘October. It hardly seemed to be the same eleven which went down to defeat on Thanksgiving day by score growing and growing while the sun, glowing full red and sinis- ‘er in the pall of smoke from the steel mills, sank behind the sills vnd blue mist invested the cleat- torn gridiron, Alabama has always had ft In her to play real’ football, according to those who have fol'owed the eleven closely. Once or twice this season, notably against Kentucky, she had risen to heights. The heights which "Bama attained against the Bulldogs of Athens make Athens’ most celebrated po- montory, Red Mountain, look like a hole in the ground. Chiefly her suc: cess lay in the fact that the team as SPORTS QUESTION BOX If you have some question to ask about baseball, football, box- ng or any other amateur or pro- fessional sport— If you want a rule interpretea— If you want to know anything about a play or player— Write to John B. Foster, on aseball, sawrence Perry, on amateur on boxing and other sports. All are gpe- cial correspondents of the Casper | | Tribune, 814 World Bullding, New York. If you want a personal reply enclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope. Otherwise “your, quos- Uon will be answered in this col- umn, Spores een Q—Which American golfer holds the record in the number of amateur championships won? A.—J. D. Travers. He won in 1907 and 1908 and in 1912 and 1913. Q.—Has Jack Dempsey ever par- ticipated in a finish fight with skin tight gloves or bare knuckles? A.—Not in the ring. He may have outside. en was football short- to 30 minutes in each yhen were four periods Q—1) W ened from 4 | halt? A.—(1) In 1906. (2) In 1910. Q.—Please tell tho birthplace of Grogg who is coming back to the American ue as 2 pitcher for the Washignton team in 1925, A.—Greggs was born in. Chehalis, Washington, and one of the few ball players in the majors who was born in that state, a whole got the jump on Georgia throughout the entire game not only on attack but on defense, Alubama's forwards synchonized their original, plans with the snap- ping of the ball, wether she snapped it or Georgia did, as perfectly as could have been done. The Alabama backs were taking out the Georgia ends and the ‘Bama ends were sniping off the Athens tackles before the spectators were aware that the play had started; or at least, it seemed so. Practically speaking Georgia had no ends all day and there was not a position on the line fn which Alabama did not excel her guest by a very apprecl- able margin. jeorgia seemed to have no com- prehensive idea what to do about the Alabama backfield maneuvers and when Georgia did show some di- agnostic skill, the tacklers were en- giilfed or swept aside by blockers and interferers, The writer is always loath to add to the weight of gloom which a beaten team carries and more of- ten thay not fs inclined to discuss a game from the standpoint of the vanquished but, quite frankly, there is nothing to be said of the game which the Bulldogs played against Alabama, aside, of course, from that undying quality of fight which the men of Athens displayed. Georgia Tech won her annual classic over Auburn and thus gave Atlanta and contiguous parts that admixture of pleasure and annoy which goes to make Ife the adven- ture that it is. TONY FUENTE GOES EAST T0 MEET WEINERT LOS ANGELES, Calif., Dec. 2.— Tony Fuente, Meexican heavyweight boxer, was scheduled to leave hero tonight for Newark, New Jersey, where he will meet Charlie Weinert in a bout December 15. It was necessary for the fighter to secure permission of the district attorney here to make the trip as he is at liberty on his own recognizance pending trial on a charge of violat- Ing the California antti-prize fight law In a bout here November 17 with Fred Fulton of Minnesota, in which Fuente “knocked out” Fulton in the first thirty seconds of the fight. LEAGUE HELD By JOHN B. FOSTER. (Special Correspondent of the Cas- per Tribune) (Copyright, 1924, by the Consolidat- ed Press Association) * Tho first meeting to organize the National League of Professional Baseball clubs was not held in New York City as many believe. The birth place of the league 1s credit- ed to New York because the perma- nent organization s formed in New York. Those who were responsible for the organization of the league first met in Louisville in January, 1876. At that meeting there were present W. A. Hu'bert, A. G. Spalding ana Louis Meacham, representing Chi. cago; Charles A. Fowle of St. Low Charles B, Chase of Louisville and Joun A. Joyce of Cincinatl. These men were the founde tional league. Meacham’. after- ward beéame the editor of the Na- tional Ww League Base Ball Guide. There have been three editors of this publication which is published by the American Sports Publishing company and has contained the of- ficial rules since {t was started, The first two editors were Meacham, who has passed on and Henry Chad- wick, “Father of Baseball," who has also passed on. John B. Foster, the present editor, has conducted It for 17 years, GRADE obnOOL TITLE (a WON BY ELK ELEVEN Football Play in the Grade Schools Is WORLAND, Dec, 2.—Worlund having won the high school football championship of the Big Horn Basin in its game against Thermopolis here Thanksgiving day recalls to mikd that Worland has been the most: outstanding school in the state in producing championship machines Brought to End. Elk school won its first grade school football championship yester- day Afternoon by defeating Hast Casper, 18 to 6, in the final game of the season's schedule. The game was exceptiona'ly clean and no pen- alties were enforced. Walter and Lloyd Dowler starred for the winners, Lloyd recovering a fumble and sprinting 35 yards for the touchdown that virtually de- cided the game. Rissler and Ander- son also played well for the Elk team while Peck and Scherck did most of the work for the losers. The Mneup: East (6}— Shikany Sanders Hurst —Elk (18) Dowler Johnson Hubbs Sulivan Ig --=--.-- Marsh K. Rissler Scherck Pack H. Rissler Clark -. . Anderson Lawson Ihb --. Whitmore MISSOURI WILL PLAY U.OFS. 6. LOS ANGELES, Calif., Dec. 2.— The announcement yesterday of an intersectional football game here Christmas day between the Univer- sity of Missouri, champions of the Missiouri valey conference, and the University of Southern California, assured Southern California grid fol- ‘lowers an opportunity to witness in action one of the best football ele- vens of the midwest. Negotiations for the Yuletide con- test -were initiated by the Migsouri alumni association here, and the formal invitation, expected to arrive from Missouri today, will in effect be an invitation to U. 8. C. to play @ game in its own backyard, since the Los Angeles Coliseum, w! the game is to take place, is extensively used by U. 8S. C. throughout the Egyptians cut their granite monu- ments with copper chisels. FIRST MEETING OF NATIONAL — IN LOUISVILLE ~ THJANUARY FIFTY YEARS AGO At the Louisville meeting a Special committee was appointed of W. A. Hulbert and Chas A. Fowle to continue the process of organiza- tion and the committee announced the first meeting of the league to be held in the Grand Central hotel, New York city, at noon on the sec- ond day of February, 1876, A letter’ was sent to the Boston and Hartford clubs, the Athletics of Philadelphia and the Mutuals of New York. These clubs with. the first four represented at Louisville Were the nucleus of the oldest or- ganization in what has come to known as organized baseball. Until the American League challenged it the National was also the most pow. erful baseball organization. It My- ed down many fights that were dl- rected ngainst it by rival leagues and associations. While New York ts to be accepted as the place of permanent ‘organiza- tion of the National league, where its first president and other officials were elected, there is no doubt that Louisville shares some of the honor of being connected with the start of this powerful athletic association. Prior to the meeting at Louisville the first thought of the league un. questionably originated in Chicago, (In his next article, Mr. Foster will tell about the actual organiza. tion of the National league in New York on February 2, 1876.) which upset dopsters predictions. Developing from a half dozen youngsters in a log farm house in 1906 to a multitude of huskies who crowd the capacity of a $100,000 structure, the school has had a spirit that has made its teams into ma- chines instead of groups of individ- ual stars. In 1920, H. T. Emmett led the warrior squad to the state basket ball meet at Laramie and conquered all contenders and won the cham- pionship. No dopster had hinted at Worland’s possibilities and the managers of the tournament, de- siring to save time had doped out the team that should win and had sent the cup to be engraved. The teams considered a: contenders went down to defeat as fast as they met the Warriors to the shame -of the prophets. The same lads came home and changed into track togs and took the Big Horn basin track champion- ship in spite of the fact that only Worland folks thought 4t was pos- sible. The following year the War- UPSETTING THE DOPE BUCKET IS MADE HABIT BY WORLAND; GRID VICTORY OUTSTANDING riors again triumphed at Laramie and the track title was retained at the Big Horn basin at Basin. In the meantime, canning and poultry club banners were hung on the walls of the assembly hall and Laura Bragg sang her way to two victories at Laramie during the high school week contests at tho university. The last new achievment is another demonstration that dopsters must consider Worland in any pre- dictions. The home folks have been insisting for months that the War- riors were the champs of the season but those who make predictions paid little attention. While the schedule was yet incomplete in the Big Horn basin it was taken for granted that another school would win and a post season game was arranged to decide the state championship yet the Warriors forced a rearrange- ment with the result that on next Friday Coach Dean Morgan's men will be faced by Conch Kelly's gang in the championship contest. “No- where fn the state can be found 9 town and school that back its teams ke Worland and Washakie county backs the Warriors. At Friday's game the Casper eleven will meet the hardest tackling and most skill- ful blocking aggregation that has crossed its path this season with the result that any score made against the Warriors will be small, DAZZY VANCE GETS PALM FOR ABILITY IN NATIONAL RANKS By HENRY L. FARRELL (United Press Sports Editor.) NEW YORK, Dec, 2.—Setection of Dazzy Vance by the committee of eight baseball writers named to pick the most valuable player in the Na- tional league was a choice almost as popular as the nomination of Walter | Johnson for the same honor in the American league. It is coincidental and unusual that the two players selected for the best tribute that baseball can pay to a player were pitchers. While Johnson's choice was unanimous, there was a lot of sentiment behind the ballots, although no one will at- tempt to insinuate that his honor was not earned on the field. Vance's nomination was not unanimous, but it was by a margin wide enough to make it convincing. ‘Vance doserved the honor because it was his brilliant work in the box that, brought a very ordinary club up from an assigned position in the second division to second place in one of the hottest pennant races of years. The first ten players turned in by the committee were Vance, 74 points; Rogers Hornsby, Frank Frisch, 43; Zach Wheat, 40; Ross Young, 35; George Kelly, 34; Walter Maran- ville, 33; Hazen Cuyler, 25; Jack Fournier, 21, and Eddie Roush, 12. The committee of writers which made the selection was Fred Lieb, New York, chairman; Thomas Ric Brooklyn; Jack Ryder, Cincinnat Irving Vaughn, Chicago; William Brandt, Philadelphia; Edward Bal- inger, Pittsburgh, and Sid Keener, St. Louis. y From the voting of the committtee it was possible to get what possibly ls the best qualified opinion on an all-National league team. The play- ers who recelyed the most votes for the various positions were: First base, Kelly, Giants: second base, Hornsby, Cards; shrortstop, Maranyille, Pirates; third base, Frisch, Giants; left field, Wheat, Robins; center field, R % right field, Young, Giants; utility, Reds; catch, Hartnett, Cubs; pitchers, Vance and Grimes, Robins; Rixey, Reds; Yde,. Pirates, and Alexander, Cubs, I¢ was interesting to note that Brooklyn got the most votes with 153 for seven players. New York got 115 votes for four players. Pitts- burgh 73 votes for five players and St. Louls got 66 votes for two players. The Hornsby-Frisch controversy which caused so much steam to be let off last summer in New York and St. Louls, has been settled in favor of the St. Louis second base- man, if the committee's vote is ac- cepted as being the most competent available. Hornsby had a rather comfortable majority of 62 to 43 over the Giant second baseman. It is quite possible that Frisch would have received more votes if he had not been injured and out of the game when the Giants were making their hardest fight for the National league pennant. The club did just about as well without Frisch in that crisis as/it did when he was playing and, of course, that might have been taken to indicate that Frisch was not the most valu- able player to his club in the league. The Cards hardly could get along without Hornsby, as it has been shown several times when he was on the bench that he was the big- gest part of the team. .Brooklyn might have been in the cellar if Dazzy Vance didn’t win twenty-eight games for the club. In the voting Vance recelyed six first places, one second and one sixth, Hornsby received two firsis, three seconds, one third and one fourth. Vance and Frisch were on every ballot; Wheat and Hornsby were on seven; Young, Maranville and Cuy- ler on six; Kelly on five and Fournier on four. Frisch got three first Places and finished third. This is the first year that the Na- tional league has recognized a player voted the most valuable to his team in the league, The American league has been doing it, with success, for three years. George Sisler won’ the contest the first year. Babe Ruth was the next on the honor roll and then Walter Johnson. It was feared at first that bad feeling would be caused among the ball players and that dissatisfaction might result on some of the clubs where there were more than one star player, The Giants, for instance, had three atar players this year in the running for the prize. Frisch, Young and Kelly all recetved a number of votes and Travis Jackson received one. The contest hardly will cause any bad feelings among the Giant Play: ers, however, as John McGraw is not backward about giving his opinion on the ability and value of his players. The ballots marked by the com- mittee indicated that while there are number of fine young ball players, the real star players are rhostly veterans, in experience if not in years. Kiki Cuyler, the sensational young Pirate outfielder, was the only youngster in the first ten while there were in that group such veterans as Wheat, Maranville, Fournier and Roush, Glenn Wright, the fine young Pitts. burgh shortstop, finished eleventh in the, contest, and Jackson, the Giant youngster, was farther down TWO GRANGES FOR NEXT YEAR Brothers of Illinois Star To Be Out For Varsity Team. CHICAGO, Dec. 2—(By The As- sociated Press)—A pair of “Red Granges,” as halfbacks on the 1925 University of Illinois football team is a possibility. Garland Grange, younger br¢ther of the famous Harold, the most sat- isfactory producer of football tirills the nation has known fof year: will be eligible for the varsity ele ven next year. Young Grange, or “Pinkey,” as he is Know to distinguish; him from the original “Red,” played halfback on the all freshman team during this season and did a great deal of sing for the yearlings. The younger Grange stands five feet, 11 inches, is 18 years old and weighs 165 pounds. While he did not make a particu- lar outstanding showing against the varsity this year, Young Grange was handicapped because of illness. He was 20 pounds underweight most of the season. —_— SPORT BRIEFS LOS ANGELES.—An_intersec- tional football game between the University of Missouri and Univer- sity of Southern California at Los Angeles on Christmas day was an- nounced. MONTREAL.—A near rict oc- when Clovis Durand, Cana- dian flyweight champion, was award- ed a technical knockout over Schwartz of New York, in «® seventh round of a scheduled 10 round bout, BUFFALO, N. Y.,—Jimmy Slat- tery, Buffalo mfddleweight, won a decision over Vic McLoughlin, New York, in six round: Rockne And Stuhldreher Honor Guests NEW YORK, Dec. 2. — Knute Rockne, referred to as “the Henry Ford’ of football” and Harry Stuhl- dreher, his “chief engineer” left for South Bend, Indiana, today with the plaudits of Notre Dame alumni ring- ing in their ears. The coach and the quarterback were the guests last night at a dinner given by Angus McDonald, controller of the Union Pacific -roalroad, a Notre Dame alumnus and a football player a quarter of a century ago. * Mr. McDonald, referred to Roi as the “Henry Ford of football,” ex- DPlained that the coach had more than 400 students playing football on the various teams and varsity squads out of a total student body of 2,000. Rockne said he never had a team In which the spirit of co-operation and teamplay was as well developed Sport Gossip Dave Shade, who !s generally rec- ognized as the strongest contender for Mickey Walker's welterweight title, will be seen in action in New York on the night of December 3, when he ts scheduled to engage in a 12-reund contest with Morrie Schlaiffer, the Omaha battler. In these days when 12 and 15 round championship battles by the principals a fortune, {t is inte esting to recall that in 1887 Jake Kilrain and Jem Smith battled 106 rounds in a contest for the ‘world’ champfonship.” Darkness ended the fighting and the bout was called a draw. The two gladiators, who in this one contest had fought the equivalent of ten of the average title bouts of these times, were re- warded with the magnificent sum of $2600 each. —<—$— the list. Practically all of the play- ers who received votes were vetera: such as Jimmy Johnston, Cy Wil- Itms and Max Carey,