Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 20, 1924, Page 5

By Leased Wire EDDIE MARTIN CAPTURES BANTI GROWN IN BOUT WITH GOLDSTEIN Defensive Tactics Employed by Champion in Gotham Fight Give Martin Decision by Scoring on Infighting. T . NEW YORK, Dec. 20.—(By .The Associated Press.) — he world awoke today to find a new champion and the shoes of “Terrible Terry’ McGovern of Brooklyn were filled once again. . Eddie (Cannon Ball) Martin, intensely nervous, yet plunging into battle with an attack that knew no quarter, stood forth as the world's greatest bantamweight boxer by his victory over Abe Goldstein of New York last night, : BEB NOT OUT FOR FIGHT Aa MMDDLEWEIGHT Meanwhile Angling Is - Onto Get Him BY FAIR PLAY (Copyright 1924, Casper Tribune) NEW YORK, Dec. 20.--Promoters who have been angling for a mid- dleweight battle, Greb versus Flow- ers, reports that the champion hag not_shown any great eagerness to do battle, not indoors anyvny, ‘What will happen when it comes to outdoor projects remains to be seen, But the dope is that Greb has reached a stage where he does not feel himself strong at the middle- weight limit. ‘When he met Flowers in Ohio last year he was pretty well down to the limit ef his class and he did not stand the pace any too well. Those who saw the fight, indeed, that Harry got a pretty goo Pasting #rom t Atlante nog. Tt is true he did not know much about Flowers when the two met and held him perhaps a little cheaply, but evidently he feels he knows a lot about him now and is keeping pretty a@Met when the siren voices of prv moters sound in his ears. While Flowers was in these parts all the middleweights, Berlehbach ineluded, kept pretty quiet, in fact were not in evidence at all. Au except Frankie Schoell, that it, Frankie was located and has signed to meet Flowers next month, Those who are interested in seeing Flowers up against a real test will have that oportunity when these two meet, for the Buffalo middleweight is a tough guy for any of thom to tackle, bar none. Plowers, by the way, is no chicken. He had a long grilling as a novice and learned more than once what it is to be knocked out, But now when he is nearing 30 he has de- veloped not only a rugged punch but a. atyle of milling that bothers-every opponent. It looks as though Tiger had taken a leaf from the book of a dodging halfback, for as he rushes he reverses himself and very often punches from one direction while moving in snothay. BOXFIGHTER To EXONERATED .MILES CITY, Mont,, Dec. 20.—A goroner’s jury empanelied by County Coroner J, E, Graves exonerated Charles Coltrin “Kentucky Coke, local boxer of all blaine: in connec: tion with the death of Jack “Young” Tait, of Forsyth who died during a boxing exhibition ‘staged here on ‘Thursday evening at a local athletic club, The verdict of the jury is as follows: “That we, the jury are of the opinion that Jack Tait met his death as the result of an unavoid- able accident in a boxing exhibition with Coke Coltrin and no blame whatever can be placed on Coltrin who was boxing with the deceased." The event was the first of th preliminaries staged in the athletic exhibition here when after about thirty seconds of boxing and during an exchange of blows, Young Tait stepped back from contact with hi openent and within a few seconds fell backward upon the canvas. Coltrin, who was taken into cus- tody by Sheriff Farnum last night pending an investigation of the af- fair was released MeGovern became champion 1899, before Martia was born. Martin, whose real name is Mar- tino, was born 21 years ago Brooklyn of ‘Ttallan Parents. started his career as an amateur and the only two reverses he has ev known were suffertd in hig first bouts. Since becoming a pro- fessional he has participated in two draw matches but never has guffer- ed defeat, He won 22 by knockout: Goldstein lost his belt by taking the defensive after the first three rounds” and acquiescing to the in- fighting methods that Martin em, ployed. bi —+—— BAN JOHNSON REFUSES TO ANSWER QUERY ON POSSIBLE RESIGNATION CHICAGO, Dec, 20,—Ban Johnson, president of the American league, has returned from the seclusion into which he retired while his club owners stripped him of part of hit power and rebuked him for his con troversy with Commissioner Landis. “Any chance of resigning as American league head?" he was asked. “I won't answer that one way or another,” he replied. “In 1 won't even admit I'm Ban John- son." Fifty Years, Of Baseball There is no ball player, past or present, who was known as well as “Cap” Anson, and who is known by reputation, even to this day, as well as he was, Even Babe Ruth, with the modern popularity which has at- tached to the mighty mauler of home runs, haa not the fame that attaches to this wonderful product of Marshalltown, Iowa, the greatest hall player in some respects that the National league or any league ever produced. Anson was the best batter who ever lived with no apology to any- one. There have been plenty of great batters but never one who bateed for twenty-one years as he aid. During part of this time he led his league. His best batting average was 421 in 1887 and he might have made it higher that year if his impatience had not got the better of him. He would not wait to receive a base on balls. In 1887 a base on balls was scored as a base ft. Anson began to play ball at Rock- ford, Tll., on the same team that made Albert G. Spalding famous and he went to Chicago when Spalding went there.’ He played third base at first, a fact little known to those who have associated him always with first base. Had Anson been a faster runner hia batting average annually would have increased in proportion to his ability to run better. It is safe to say that he would have gained from ten to fifteen points each season had his speed been accelerated. This would have given him a record even passing than that which He was not a great fielder and he was not a fast runner. He was slow on his feet, not the best ‘cateher of low thrown balls at first base— he detested having them thrown around his ankles—and he played first base with a much smaller mitt than is now employed by players who cannot touch him in the pri mary details of the game. eter . He stuck to the through thick and thin, offered large sums of money to go to other clubs and other org@niza- tions. He steadfastly refused Assist: ance of ‘all kinds. after he had fin- ished his baseball career became A city official of importance in Ch{- cago, later lost what little he had, fought his\ way bravely to the end and died respected and honored by those who knew him not only as the shining light of the National league but as @ man of atrictest moral obli- tion to the fonal game. (In his next article Mr. Fostep will discuss William B, “Ruck” Bwing, another of the National league's fit- ent yer COMING THE ; ED MARVEL WHO IS HE? YOU KNOW AL — Adventiaes of fick Keele ay WELL, IF IT ANT CLO SOE WHELON ¥ WHAT ARE YoU DOIN’ BiG THREE HAS NEW QUESTION Policy of Using Only Grads as Coaches is Attacked By LAWRENCE PERRY. (Copyright, 1924, Casper Tribune) NEW YORK, Dec. 20.—With Har- vard in the throes of indecision re- yarding her football coaching and Princeton likely to lose Roper, an teresting question has arisen in che big three. It relates to the time-honored pol- .cy of haying none but graduates as ooacher, There is vo vital reasen why Yale, Harvard and Princeton should adhere to this policy, no rea- son, that is to say, aside from tra- dition, But tradition & mighty thing @mong this group and natuy- ally s0, shince it extends back into che very roots of intercollegiate sport. Nonetheless, that did not prevent Princeton's football authorities from discural with Knute Rockne last year the possibility of coming to Old Nassau. The matter never got be- yond a tentative stage because of the tact-that Rockne finally deemed it advisable to.sign a Jong term con- tract with Notre Dame, while on the other hand it seems that the Prince- ton crowd had reason to believe that her two associates would not view with equanimity a departure from sradition so radical. Sentiment seems to have changed among large groups of Yale and Har- vard aluinni. In spite of thi fact that Perey Wendell, Harvard's suc- cessful coach at Williams, has been boked for Lehigh, it is understood if Harvard wants him to come to Harvard, he will be able to respond. But today there seems to have been no clear call for Wendell from Har- yard, His name has been mentioned, but sa, tao, have the names of sey- eral prominent outside coaches been mentioned, And at Yale, at least among an important group of p’ay- ers, the idea obtains that if the foot- ball prestige of the big three is to be maintained, there must not be too slavish a regard for tradition. Their idea is that if a Rockne or a Dobie or some other alumnus of another institution can make more out of a aquad of football players than can a graduate, it is foolish not to en- gage that man. SPORT BRIEFS How Stanley Harrts was picked up by Washington from the minors, adds another.link to the pinch hit- ting reputation of the brilltant young second baseman and manager of the world’s champion Senators. Harris was playing with the But- falo club of the International league in 1919 when Clark Griffith, Wash- ingtoz president, and Joe Engle, the elub's scout, in the stand With big league eyes on him and his future possibly at stake, Harris pla; ed ene of the greatest games of his life in the field and banged out six hits in as\many times at bat that afternoon. Griffith lost no time in signing Harris and he joined the Senators before the elose of that season. | Harris vouches for this story. el Ferrero, Argentine heavy- it and saprring partner of Luis , sails for the south today, last Firpo has bardo has returned Luis Vincentini is on his » leaving Americans to fight is themselves until the warm weather returns, Babe Herman of New York and Hilly DeFoe of St. Paul, alternates in the contests for the featherweight title have been matched as a semi- final in the championship bout be- tween Louis (Kid) Kaplan of Meri, den, Conn., and Danny Kramer, of Philadelphia the night of January MARANVILLE HEADS CUBS CHICAGO, Dec. 20.—Walter Rab- bit” Maranville, star second base- man and shortstop, was named cap tain of the Chicago Nationals, when he called upon President Veeck and signed his contraclh THE TRIBUNE'S CONTI BREAKS CUE RECORDS PARIS, Dec.” 20.—Roger Conti, French billiardist, broke two world’s records for 18.2 balls liné champion ship play last night with a high run of 472, clicking off 500 points in three innings for an average of 166 2-8, The former high run rec ord of $84 was made by Welker Coekran in 1921 at Chicago, while Sutton’s high average of 100 made against Willle Hoppe stood for 0 years, In the two matohes he has played thus far for the European cham pionshtp, Conti has scored 1,000 points in nine innings for an un- precedented average of 111, with two unfinished runs. JOE JACKSON IS FREED OF LATE CHARGE MILWAUKEB, Wis., Dee. 20.—A perjury charge lodged against Joe Jackson, former White Sox baseball player, by Judge John J. Gregory as a result of testimony Jackson gave in his civil action for back salary against Charles A. Comiskey, owner of the. Chicago club of the American League last spring, has been nolled in municipal court by District Attorney Eugene Wengert. A new action citing a similar charge will be brought against Jack: son, Wengert announced. The dis: missal of the original action was asked, he said, because of objection taken by Jackson that the was not given a preliminary hearing, It wi on this ground that the filed 4 plea in abatement. SPORTS QUESTION BOX It you have some question to ask about baseball, football, hox- ing or any ether amateur or pro- 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. Lawrence Perry, sports, and” Fair Play on boxing and other professional sports. All are sper elal correspondents of the Casper ‘Tribune, 814 World Building, New York. z If yeu want“a personal reply enclose a stamped, self-addressed enyelope. Otherwise your ques: tion will be answered in this cel: umm on on amateur QUESTION—Batter hits the bi to right field, The hall hits the chalk line and rolls into foul terri tory, Is that a fair hit? ANSW -Yes. It is best to rule a fair hit where the ball hits the chalk. If an attempt is bes 3 to rule on the fact that the chal line has an edge which may be over the fou} line it provokes an endless argument that 15 useless in view of the fact that no Mne is exact to a fraction of an Inch, QUESTION—Team A has fourth down, eight yards to go. A punts and B blocks it, But A recoyers ball. but does not gain the elght yards which formerly yere Necessary for first down, Is it first down or does B get the ball? ANSWER—First down for Team A. QUESTION—Can a base be stolen ‘on a foul tip and can the runner be put out? ANSWER—A base may be stolen on a foul tip because # foul tip js a strike.’ It is always possible to steal a base on a strike. If the ball {s thrown by the eatehed to the baseman when @ foul tip is made ‘the runner may be put out sxactly as the catcher had caught a pitched ball for a strike. THERE'S REAL Christmas shop ing service awaiting you under » Gift Suggestions” in to sified Section. AGE OF SPORTING NEWS VSOST POT OVER @ GIG DESL DOWN ON WALL STREET, Fliers Peak a WELL, THEN, YOU'RE BUST THE Gor WE BEEN WANTIN’ To SEE J You CAN DIG DOWN AND HELP ME OUT N Given t Home Life in Japan By LOWELL THOMAS. (Copyright, By the Chicago Tribune Newspapers Syndicate and the Mc- Clure Newspapers Syndicate) “Although we waited for hours on the shore of Lake Toshimoye hoping that the fog would lift, we were disap- pointed. As the day progressed we found it a blessing in disguise. Indeed, had it not been for the fog, we never would have got our most intimate glimpse of Japanese vil- lage life,” says Les Arnold. “At 10 o'cloek on the mornin, Mal g0 we Jeft our planes and up hope of flying on south until the morrow, So we started out to ex plore the streets of Yanketo, near where the American and Japanese destroyers rode at anchor in Hito: Kappu bay. What pleasant con- trast this village was to the miser able huddles of huts in the Aleutian islands! . ‘We had heard that many Japan ese were discarding their picturesque customs and costumes and adopting those of Eurepe and America. But up here on this island we were see- ing Japan just as it. was barely three-quarters of a century ago, when the famous American naviga: Commodore Mathew Galbraith landed at a little fishing vil lage called Yekohama’ and astounded the ‘semi-barbarous inhabitants by showing them telegraphic instru ments. a toy train, and many othe: Inventions of the west that they liad nev seen before. Up to that time foreigners had not been allowel to enter Japan, but, thanks tothe dip- lomacy of Compiodore Perry, the mikado Jet down the bate and Japan soon became anything but a hermit kingdom, Fascinated by Village. “We were fascinated with the vil ge of Yanketo, with its tiny houses nat looked like egg shells. Here for the first time it ka, Alaska, we saw m sure, they were squatty, ones, sort of flat on top, like see on old Japanese prints and J anose fans, _ Here, too, for the first time since Seattle we saw horses, shaggy haired little animals ‘not much bigger than a Shetland pony. “Of course, we saw little of the home life of the people while mak: ing our 2,000-mile flight through the Japanese empire. However, we were strolling down the street in Yan- keto when a Japanese gentleman with much smilling and bowing in dicated that he wanted us to follow him. He Jed us across a little gar- den and at the door of a house which proved to be the home of our new acquaintance we were met by a petite maiden who got down on the porch and bumped her dainty head several times hefore us. Puzzled and a little embarassed, we took off our shoes. About all we knew of the customs of Japan was that boots, shoes, galoshes, and other {ootgear must always be left on the Loutside. 3 ‘ Room Minus Furniture. 4ghuffiing along in our wooly fly- {ng #0x,, we entered a room as inno- cent of furniture as Erik's head was of hair before he started on ‘this fight. ‘The maid brought in a small iron Debt Owed to Ban Johnson Not Forgotten By JOHN &. FOSTER. Copyright, 1924, Casper Tribune CHICAGO, Dee. 20.—Convinced that i was the only way to save baseball from a disastrous Internal war, the American league has clip ped the wings of its stormy petre! Ban Johnson. But it has not for gotten the debt of gratitude it owe the pugnacious leader of the junior Dig league circuit. The very resolu tion regarding him as @ factor in Inter-league affairs wan s0 worded ag to make sure that no-one forgot that Ban Johnson was the man who had made the American league one of the leading athletlc organizations of the United Stute: There was mu hat was dis heartening and more that was path etic in Wednesday's negotiations that brought about the downfall of “Rig Ban. And Johnson was not placed on the skids until every ef fort had been made to suve him, stove that stood on three legs, hib- ichi, T believe they call it, We all sat around on. cushions while the lady of the house, who had also come in with another bumping of the héad to the floor ceremony, deft- ly arranged a tiny pile of ch PAGE FIVE, First in News Of All Events By RING LARDNER @ WUNORED Y WHY, @LL | MADE was £89 NET After the match was over the nese officers and wrestlers came on ard one of the American destroy ers, where coffee and cake were served. That night Commander Me: Claran regaled us with blood curd- ling tales of how the Chinese do away with prisoners and crimina by burying them up to their chins and leaving them. So when we turned into our bunks It was to dream of Japanese wrestlers, smok- ing volcanoes, Chinese executions, and maidens in dainty kimonos bumping thelr heads before us Next Day Foggy. “Next was foggy also and we were unable to hop off for Mi nato until 5:80 the following morn- ing. On this trip we flew over more islands, smoking volcanoes, and above a cloud bank-that cut us off from the world beneath for a dis- tance of eighty miles, Perhaps the most interesting feature of this flight was seeing the villagers rush ing out of their huts and running down to the shore to wateh us, Oo casionally we passed a village near the base of a mountain, and there the inhabitants would be right up on the tiptop of the peak, where they could see us from the best point of vantage. Every one along the day GLENROCK FVE VICTOR AGAIN ‘The Glenrock Semdacs won their eighth straight basketball gante this season last night by defeating the Pearl Whites of the Casper Basket Ball league by a score of 43 to The game was played at Glenroc nd despite inclement weather a big rd turned out. The game was the closest of the for the Semdacs and they were forced at top speéd"to keep out in front. Harold Thornton and Bud Morgan starred for the winners and Sam Neff and Fritz Layman for the losers. The Semdacs will play the Pearl Whites a return game at the high school symnastum here the night of January 2. This should be one of the best attractions of the year in local hoop circles, In the preliminary game ‘last night the Glenrock high school team defeated the Telephones of the Cas- per Basketball league, 17 to 12. it would burn better. The amount of heat that little charcoal gave out w surprising As we smiled one to ver and attempted in vain to carry on a conversation by means of gestures alone, our hostess brew. 1 tea. aver the chareoal fire in ss kettle. Then the maid in sinuated herself softly through one the panels with a tray of wee cups. - Thus far the only thing regard ing our world flight that General atrick and Lieutenants Streett and Brown had overlooked was to give us a course in Japanese etiquette, So how should we know that we were sing rude when we failed to show our appreciation of the tea by sip ping 4¢ noisily like you occasionally hear someone playing a. noodle soup obligato in a Los Angeles cafeteria. Knew Only ike.” “Much as we enjoyed this little surprise party, and much as we ap: preciated this really rare privilege of entering a Japanese home, the affair had its painful moments be cause our hosts spoke no English and the only word of Japanese that we knew was sake. Moreover, we now realized that had made a faux paus in failing to whistle our tea ax our host did, As a matter of fact, Jack did turn away for @ moment and try it. But instead he laughed and blew the wrong way. with the result that he blew tea all over me, Worst of all, however, was our embarrsasment in not be ing make our feet incon spleuous by sitting on them after the. fashion of our honorable host At last we were reluctantly obliged to take our leave, and with much bowing on both aides we be took ourselves. to the wrestling matches that had been specially ar ranged for us by the crews of the two Japanese destroyers. These |bouts were better than a elrous. The contestants stripped and wore nothing but-a breech cloth, We were much impressed by the superb physieal condition of thebe men Altnough a cold afternoon, and al though we wore our heavy flying clothes, they were without protec tion and seemed to need none Teams of Wrestlers. “There were twa teams made up of five wrestler 1 to be to push each other out a cirele or throw him out. Ont two men oceupied the ring at a time When one lost, then another wres tler from his side stepped in, and the mateh continued until all of the wrestlers on one side were defeated Before each’ combat the two men would sprinkle salt in front of each other and mutter a few magic words of gibberish, This was supposed to drive off the devils that the other man had helping him. Then. they would slap their knees, grunt a bit hop at each other like gam cks. > we to each The idea and route seemed to know we were com: ing “In spite of the fact that we had repeatedly sent wires requesting that no reception be arra 1 for us at Minato, a very a e one had been prepared. There must have been 20,000 or $0,000 people on the beach, ‘and there were huge ‘wel. come’ signs, reception tents had been erected, and a luncheon pre- pared, Giant firecrackers and sky rockets were touched off as we tax- ied to our moorings. Eyen the gov- ernor of the island was there all set to make a speech, “It was here that for the first time by Lieut. Nutt, the adyance agent for this second division of the flight. Cuff knew just what we wanted and the moment we arrived he put out from the shore with three sampans load ed with gasoline, oil and water, and on each sampan he had an Ameri can interpreter. We wero trying to reach Tokio that day and decided not to go ashore despite the fact that it was sure to appear discourte ous. So we gaye Cliff the thankless job of presenting our compliments and regrets to the governor and re- were met cut we RIG TIMBERS Phone 2300 and 62 ception committee, much as he would rather have been shot than do tht “Without even stopping for tunch we taxied away from the hospitable shore at Minato, eager to got on to Tokio. At last we were flying over Hondo, the main island of the Jap- anese empire. The air was balmy, and we were thrilled with the thought that this flight would bring us to the heart of the lotus land of the mikado, to the land of cherry blossoms, chrseanthemums, Shinto and Buddhist priests, geisha girls, and of far famed Fujlyama.” meee ERE and THERE DO IT NOW Phone 2702 and make appointment for your Xmas photograph: Credeil Studio, 131 8. Center St., downstairs, ae Bk dd hk ‘Tribune Wantads bring resutts. 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