Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 16, 1924, Page 5

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1924 be Caspet Daily Cridune PAGE FIVE. troversy of a joint session tomorrow. Magnates. CHICAGO, Dec. 16.—A calm that gave scant indication Of what was to follow prevailed today as officials of the American and National baseball leagues gathered here for In some quarters however, it was taken as the forerun- STANFORD AND NOTRE OME OF SAME COACHING NEW YORK, Dec. 16—(By The Associated Press.)—When the “four horsemen of Notre Dame," ride into the golden “west for a post reason game with the Stanford cardinals, Pasadena, Cal.,, New Year's day, it will be @ clash. of two schools hay- ing similar basic principles of coach- ing. Knute Rochne, Notre Dame men- tor, is @ product of the modern school of gridiron teachings, while his veteran opponent fs Glenn “Pop” ‘Warner, one of the pioneers of foot- ball coaching. Both are aggressive teachers, both are versatile creators of trick plays, yet both are disciples of the orthodox off-tackle play. Notre Dame is regarded as one of the greatest pleces of gridiron arch- Mecture ever assembled. It bowled ove? a field of opponents represen- ative of every section of the coun- try except the far west and the game w Year's day provides a means of my between the football as iplayed on the Atlantic seaboard and he game as developed on the Pacific cast. The Hoosiers are exceptionally ell balanced, light: but extremely Hast, they are equipped with a rare ssortment of plays, passes ‘and icks executed by men all adept in helr respective positions. The eleven Avas: wice, against . Northwestern pgainst the army—both of which ere beat by only one touch- lown. Rockne has started his second eam in practically every game and hen shifted to his first string back- ield, Stubldreher, Miller, Layden nd Crowley. This combination has wept through all opposition and has not been held to less than two touch- owns. On the coast, where condi- fon is a big factor, the alternate ar- 1afsement may prove of marked aid lo Rochne. FRED LAYMAN COACHES CASPER HIGH QUINTET Fred “Fritz Laymain, former Uni- ersity of Wyoming football and bas- etball star and a member of the ford rugby football team last year, has been engaged to coach the sper high school basketball team his season, Layman started to work ith the squad Jast night. The open- ing game of the season js due the iret week in January with Riverton pn the local court. Layman has several of last year’s eam to work with including Davis, ‘lbson, McKelvey, Overbaugh and prospects for a winning combination re fair. —_—_ oo THE “CHRISTMAS Giit Suggev- ions tn the Classified Section cu lown the high cost of Christmas. big game for the class champ! ‘TJuntors (6) ner of a likely storm that would culminate the controversy between President Ban Johnson of ore Johnson would remain as head of -he Junior circult. Johnson went to St. Louls Sunday to confer with officials there, but was expected back for the meeting. An effort at reconciliation was:e: pected to be made prior to the meet- ing. President Harry Williams of the Pacific Coast league, enroute to his home, has asked Commissioner Landis to turn over to him any evi- dence filed by Johnson in oft his oharges that gambling jeg, in the Pacific Coast League last sea- son. None has been filed so far. JUNIORS WIN FROM SENIOR ELEVEN HERE In the second game of the inter. class football series now being played at the Casper high school, the jun- fors defeated the seniors yesterday | Tilden and Anti:Tilden factions, sug: afternoon by a score of 6 to 0. The is due to be played tomorrow be+ tween the Sophs and the Juniors, the Sophs having defeated the Frosh 6 to 0 last week. Scown, Pritchard. and Holmes Scown's‘long runs, one for 80 yi a being the spectacular play of the day. This resulted in the-onty score of the game. ‘The lneups: Senior (0) Wis 222-22. 1@,2---- 2. Martin ~~ Davies ~--- Patrick ~ Holland Substitutes, Juniore—Henry, Park- er, Dismuke. Substitutes, Seniors— Marshall. Referee, Christopher. _—— MIKE COLLINS LOSES MATCH TO KREIGE Mike Colllins, Casper middleweight wrestler, writes from Sunrise, Wyo., that he lost his recent match there with Adam Kreiger, who claims the title of junior middleweight champ of the world, Kreiger won the first fall in 22 minutes with @ full body hold &nd Collins the seoond in nine minutes with @ head scissors and arm lock. Collins lost the third fall in seven minutes but claima he was injured and in no condition to continue. They are due to meet again at Scottsbluff, Neb, in the near future. <a Open evenings until Xmas. Metro- rolitan Store. VY abby Flects of cigar by Unvarying good judgment quality In Boxes of 25 or 50 p flor de, alentine your hip | covered hias he signs himself as “William T. STORM BRENS AS BIG LEAGUERG ("OU SNOW ME At-—Aar ~ BATHER FOR CHICAGO MEETING Resignation of Johnson or Landis Is Held | Possible as Culmination of Late Con- yeu ceny BE SOFT- Td ia ‘Tee : 1D . ‘= \WON h bah @N Lg fen a * REE WEERS GEHINO IN YOUR PAYMENTS PAGE OF SPORTIN tures of Jack Keefe MRS. ADAMS, im WtYH THE. OH, 4KNOW 17, MISTER Y 'Can'ry pay You Now, GUTILL SETTLE EVERY THING UP IN Two WEEGRS NEWS | First in News Of All Events TILDEN MAY WRITEANDPLAY (BASKETBALL WILL USURP PLACE HELD BY PIGSKIN STARS THIS EVENING in SETTLEMENT QF OLD DISPUTE sh By HENRY L. FARRELL (United Press Staff Correspondent) NEW YORK,-Dec. 16.—After a controversy of almost a bs which threatened the existence of organized tennis this*country, the United States Lawn Tennis association PROGRAM FOR paved the way for a settlement of the battle with William den, the world’s champion player,. here Saturday afternoon. The -éxecutive committee of the association approved of a new anwteur rule suggested by a special committee, which permits tennis players to write for news- papers under certain liberal condi- tions, The committee which included General George Wharton Pepper, Grantland Rice, Deverayx Milburn and aseceition members from the gested a new amateur rule, which the ponits involved in the Tilden controversy with the follow: ing sections: “A person may be declared inell- le by ual or sanctioning after bruary, 19! on the tennis courts in connection with - book or other writ talks, for which he is to receive any payment or compensation or— “By. writing for pay or-for @ con- Ite. Tan! ic urrent ywepaper ecenee Itro--e ner it articl Wootert ~.-.... lg...---.. Edwards Sevarice ie ch covering q tournament or a match hich he is entered as @ compct- This ‘means that Tilden can con- tinue his newspaper work as long Tilden” and not as “William T. Til- den, National and World’s Cham- pion Tennis player,” which he did for some time. It also means that Tilden cannot act in @ reporterial capacity by cov- ing a match in which he is en- tered as a competitor. The commit, tee explained that it was obvious that a player could not send a tech- nical running account of qa tourna- ment when he was playing in it. The approval of the executive.com- mittee is certain to be affirmed by the national organization at its meet- ing here in February, not only be- cause the executive committee is the teal advisor of policy but because every one geems to feel that a deli- cate “Bituation has been very well handled. Tilden is sure to approve of the new rule because he was a member of the committee which drew up the new interpretation of an amateur and {t was that the committeo had voted unanimously for it. ‘The row started last winter when the association adopted a new am- ateur rule which made ineligible any player who was in news- paper work for “‘a substantial com- pensation.” It was charged that Til- den was getting $10,000 a year from & newspaper syndicate and that his services would not have been worth ‘that sum if he were not the leading tennis player of the world. ‘Tilden took the stand that he had beén engaged in journalism before he became a tennis player and that it was his chosen profession. He re- signed from an appointment on the Davis cup team and threatened to retire from tennis. Tilden’s cause was taken up by a faction of the Westside Tennis club and @ battle of stateménts and per- sonalities ensued in which leaders of the antl-Tilden faction were acqused of making as much out of tennis in- directly as Tilden was publicly. A truce was finally arranged and ‘Tilden played in the national cham- plonship and helped defend the Davis cup. ‘The tennis club was solid in aym- pathy with Tilden and most players were ready to follow the champion in any movement that he chose to defend & The special committee was then appointed and it was rather gener- ally known that the association was ready to take back water as much ‘as it gould do gracefully. The new rule, of course, is a vic- tory for Tilden, but it is not a hu- millating defeat of the Tennis. The nection of the committee in adopting the recommendations is the act of a good sport. Other sections of the new amateur rule cover all the points of the stat- ‘utes it will succeed. The players in general are forbidden to capitalize in tennis reputation in any way. ———— Duluth has had a gala opening of {ts new {ce sports arena, recently completed at a cost of a quarter of a million dollars and sald to be one of the Kind in the United States, the use of his titles, starred for the winners yesterday, | or statement of, his reputation won newspapers, magazine articles, motion plc- tures of himself, lectures or radio Fifty Years Of Baseball Special Correspondent of the Casper Tribune. (Copyright, 1924, by tle Consolidated Press Association.) Jt ia not known to the modern M I. generation that the Ath: Ietica of Philadelphia were members of the National league in tho first year of that’ organization's exist ence, but they were. Players on the team were A. J. Reach, Alonzo Knight, W. D, pied D. of the Athletion was Al H. Wright. The Athletics of those days were not much more successful than the Philadelphias of today. For some reason the Philadelphia National league team neyer has had the best of luck even when it has had most excellent players. It has won one championship in its history and in thé year that !t won the champion- ship, the actual playing atrength of the team almost surely was not powerful as that of some of the Philadelphia teams of old. Of the original Athletica none ac- quired miére fame in baseball than A. J. Reach who is now at the head of the A, J. Reach company, of Philadelphia, one of the largest manufacturing plants in the world for athletic goods. Mr, Reach with all his yeare,is strong and vigorous and can také his round of golf with anyone who wishes a brisk er. Force and Button developed into great ball players. In their time they were known from the Atlantic to the Mississippi river, both of them as infielders who’ were very Proficient and Sutton as a hard driver when he met the ball. Reach was the first ball player whose contract was transferred from one club to another and the system of dealing in baseball contracts, which is now in vogue in organized baseball, began when he was sent to Philadelphia from Brooklyn, a move which proved in the long run to be of material advantage to him as he developed his business in that city. Davy Force was-not a ball player of great size physically and wherever baseball was taked about in those days much was made of the fact that. the ‘somewhat diminiutive Davy could field the ball across the diamond as well as if ‘were a six footer. There was a Jar notion in the old times that the great ball Players must be six feet tall or almost that at least. Fisler was the first baseman and the first of the first basemen to tract attention by his @peed. The generally accepted idea of first base was that a huge giant had to playthe time he was at Centre. it without particular attention to his agility. A very tall man, it was thought, was most necessary that he might be able to reach high to catch poor throws. Little heed wits given to the fact that he might have to stoop to get’ bad ones, (In his next article Mr. Foster will tell about the New York Mutuals, who represented the metropolis in the National leggue before the Giants.) ————— Bince early youth King George has been famed for his ability as a marksman, But, good shot though he is, the King’s favorite sport is yauhting, and can probably give points to any amateur yachtsman in his kingdom. On December 18 Ty Cobb will be- cin b's fifth year as manager of the Detroit Tigers. It was.on that date in 1920 that Ty signed the contract which made him the suc- essor of the veteran Hugh Jen- nings, By HENRY L. FARRELL, (United Press Sporta Hditor) NEWYORK, Dec. 16.—With the football season out of the way for another year, basketball jumps into first place in intercollegiate athletic elrel With an astonishi: ins crease of interest in the game it ts reasonable to assume that the popu- lar court game will share in the great public patronage that made football the ranking national sport of 1924. Stiff competition which made the football season so interesting in the various conferences is promised also for the basketball season. The championship in the eastern intercollegiate league ts looked upon as being wide open, Cornell; win- ner of the title last season, has two veterans back and a flock of fine new material. Princeton an@ Columbia have v eran teams, and Dartmouth seven players left from) last year’: quad. Yale has only threo players lett and Pennsylvania has only a few reliable veterans. Ohio State, with last season's team intact, is regarded as the fa- Yorite for the Western conference championship, with Iowa, Illinois Indiana and Wisconsin looked. upon as serious contenders. The break in relationa between California and Stanford with the University of Southern California has upset the situation on tho Pa. cific coast. Under the conditions Southern California will have to confine its competition to the Pa- cific northwest conference. Even though Southern California will not have the chance to figure in the championship of the coast’s “Big Three," the team may be! good enough to win enough games to warrant the claiming of the sec: tional championship. California won the championship last year and is looked upon as the favorite to repeat. In the confusion of a great sen- son that was marked by exciting intersectional competition and bril- lant football, many teams deserving of notice were overlooked. Thé Centre college team, one of the big heroes of a few years ago, was one of them and it seems that in discuasing the leading sectional teams that Centre has not been treated justly. George Japlin, a hustling young haoster for Centre, presents a claim for recognition which has a lot tn it for just consideration. “During the season just closed,” he writes, “only one team, West Vir- ginia, crossed Centre's goal line. In stopping Alabama, Centre checked one of the finest offenses in the country.. Alabama never got be- yond Centre’s 48-yard line and only once was it In Centre's territory. Centre used only 12 players in the game, one substitution being made in the last minute of play. “The team was brought along ginia and Auburn, and Alabama had won frown Mississippi, Georgia Tech, and Kentucky. "Chief Meyers, a Centre College alumnus, succeeded Charley Moran, who went to Bucknell,’ as the head coach. Myers was athletic ‘director and Moran’s right-hand man all It was Myers who coached Bo MoeMillin and Red Weaver in high school at Fort Worth. He is a quiet, likeabie chap, who has ® tremendous influence over his players. Harold Ofstie, a former Wisconsin end, acted as the Mon. coach. The Centre varsity squad nurfbered only 20 players. “Seven varsity players their last gama this fall. played Covington, Lyneh, Lemon, Thomasson, Kubale, Gordy and Rubarth graduate next June. During the four years they have played, Centre lost only five games to Texas Aggies, Harvard, Auburn, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. “The difficulty in obtaining play ers to take their placés can be ro- allzed When it is known that Centre has only 220 students. “The freshman rule went into ef fect three years ago and Red Rob. erts, former center and All-America end, is coach of the squad. There were 18 players working under him this fall “Herb Covington, this year's players on the team. was All-Southern end last year, is expected to was pronounced the best receiver of forward passes in the South. quarterback and Kubale, center, are All-American has been the choice for All.Southern quarterback for two seasons and he played even better this year. was the best ground gainer in tho South, a great kicker and puter and @ fin 102 and 135. in the Alabama game, one less than Alabama made in the en- tire game. material, Covington He defensive player. He gained yards against West Virginia ‘Where were several other star Lemon, who repeat this year. He “Gordy was one of the best line plunging fullbacks in the South, and a star defensive man at end. Lynch is a candidate “All Southern tackle." FRESNO CADET HITS BULLSEYE 1,095 TIMES FRESNO, Callf., Dec. 16.—Howard Burks, Fresno high schol cadet, made 1,095 consecutive bulls eyes on the 50-foot range here, Mannor Z. . Leymel, cadet commandant an- nounced today. This mark betters the best previous record of 1,028 for made in 1922, by an Qhio schol boy, Leymel said, Shooting against Burks, Milton Williams, Fresno high senior, created a new state. record by making 800 consecutive bulls ey The former record of 755 was made by True McGillivray, a Fresno student in 1922, * Burks began shooting at 7:50 a. m. and except for nine minutes for lunch, rang up bulls eyes steadily until 456 p. m. when he missed. He used a .22 calibre rifie. QUESTION ' BOX I¢ you have some question to ask about baseball, football, box- ing or any other amateur or prow fessional sport— If you want a rule interpreted— If you want to know anything about a play or player— Write to John B. Foster, baseball. + [ewrence Perry, on amateur sperts, and Fair Play on boxing and other professional sports. All are’ spe- cial correspondents 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. QUESTION—Team A calls for a punt. The team fs on its three yard ling. Punter steps one yard back and punts. Ball fs blocked by a guard of Team B and the ball goes into the bleachers and is then re- covered by the kicker’s side. What is the ruling? ANSWER—Safety against Team A under approved ground rules; B in the official rule book. QUESTION—Who was the better pitcher, Johnson or Mathewson? ANSWER—Johnson is still p'teh ing so he is not in the past tense. It is personal opinion that makes all pitchers the “best” asa rule. In his time Mathewson was as su ful for the Giants as Johnson for the Washington and success {a what counts. QUESTION—How old is Tommy Gibbons? Waa he ever defeated by Harry ureb?) When and where? ANSWER—He js thirty-five years old. Ho lost a decision (0 Greb, March 13, 1932 in Madison Squar Garden,» -“~wewys a? initial opportunity of the season to see their favorities in action when the Casper Basketball league opens tonight with a double header. The Pearl Whites take on the Te!epho: tive in the opener and the Methodi. play the Vets of Foreign wars in the second tussle. The first game starts be promptly at 7:30 and both games are played at the high school gym with one admission entitling ticket hold- ers to both games. mers as all of the teams are anxious to get going with a win. The team that gots away to a flying start in a short season league always has ar advantage and the Hence the fans are due to cee some hard fought action, league basketball star, and also a basketball play eree all the se BOXING CARDS —Polico chiefa and other officials announced today matches will be allowed in California after tomorrow night unttl the box- ing commission, last election, is appointed by Gov- ernor Richardson and issues permits for the rounds may be held, whereas under the present law, rounds. game, of which the first exhibitions have recently been given in‘ the Inited States, fs wicker ball and ts described as a combination of soccer and basket- bal. t CAGE LEAQUE ([c } BEGINS PLAY Basketball fang will be given their intments and service, is nothing quite like it. The prices are moderate hag G, E. BILLIWGsL sy Manager *MERIDAN ROAD AT BELMONT Chucage The games tonight should be hum- boys know it *Pop" Varnadore, former Midwest of note, will ret. 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