Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 24, 1924, Page 5

~ WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1924" —_—--—— we 2 Che Casper Daily-Eridune ee ey PAGE FIVE. IRTING NEWS Firstin News | | Of ‘All Events By RING LARDNER é wey GE t24 SHWE THINKS Z YOUVE GOT // ONE ——————— = World Reaults MISSOURI AND. (GENE TUNNEY. lI. OF S. 6. ON | AND GIBBONS Loox ¥ Y THS 1S FROM mary CRAVEN. She's Gor HER SHE MIGHT OT teasY HAVE SENT me @ LITTLE QANDKER CHIEF WY. @ postr ae CHRISTMAS ft geNy HER @ Per OF STOCRINGS.T . by The Batt Syndicate, Ine) \ | x NEW YORK, Dec. 24.— Gene Weather Man. Promises | "is": smmvion tne beon awerdsi bout with Tommy Gibbons, St. Cool and Clear Day. Khocked out Kid Norfolk of Balti. , A ‘ more, Md. é At Los os Angeles. +] - Mike McTigtte is understodd to be : - Mnsisting om at outdoor bout this 4. yeti ei the, weather fou | tO meet the winner of the ‘Tunney. | aera hg ioe ne ie Gibbons ‘battle, if such a match is Christmas day, promised ~ ideal | “FFanged. oe | weather conditions for the day of CEPR NS I between the: University of Migsouri | : . and‘the University of Southern Calt- z P: a fornia. \ { 7 = Such weather will be, thankfully | | ts Ml, Zz ©. L. Brewer, director of 'T rfl —__—_—— - - - leties, when he “arrived vith’ t | team yesterds ; | i “Hot dawg!" exclaimed the ath- } { ry : GOOD OF THE §=©WORLD’S FINEST IN GAME, CHICAGOMAGNATESAYS =BOXING ART; CLAIM fleeing in New York on | ‘December 29. Will Hold. Interest. By LAWRE? PERRY | (Copyright 1924, Casper Tribune) { Paul heavyweight, who recently LOS ANGELES, Ca Calif., Dec. summer with Tunney’ and expects the interseetional football contest ‘BaD COACHES received by the Missour! team, 3} letic director in commenting oh the cool weather which greeted the Mis- sourians. “This is just the weather we want. Practically all ohn games were played on days just Hike this. We hope it stays cold.” | Coach Gwynn Henry: took his squad to the Coliseum yesterday af- ternoon for a light workout, the first since leaving Columbia, Mo. Permanent toads are a good investment —not an expense The session started with the usual preliminary warming up exercises followed . by placement” kicking, signal drill and light, scrimmage. ‘Today was a day'of rest for the ‘Trojans, final practice having been held yesterday. Both coaches declared their play~ ers in fine condition with the excep- tion of Henry LeFebvre, star Trojan pack, Who was injured séveral weeks. ago-and has been‘unable to practice. ; It. 4s doubtful whether he sill play in the Missouri game. SPORT BRIEFS BOSTON—Jim Maloney, Boston heavyweight, was awarded: a° decis- fon on a foul over Sully Montgom- ery, of Firth Worth, Texas, former Centre college football star, in the third round of a scheduled ten round bout. NEW YORK—Eddie (Cannonball) Mani, of Brooklyn, recentty crown: ed world’s bantam champion, will risk his title for the first time against Tommy Murray, of Phila- éelphis, January 12, Saturday, October 17, 1925, will produce the most attractive display of gridiron delicacies ever before scheduled for a single autumn ‘af: NEW. YORK, Dec, 24.—When the members.of the Association of Foot- ball Coaches hold their meeting here On’ December 29 there is every pro- bability that ‘a great deal will be said about the forward pegs. And unquestionably there will be a wide variety of opinion, so wide a variety indeed that it is likely the fotball rules committee when it meets in February, wil] have to deperid upon fig own! judgment as to whether or not_the.aerial heave should he ‘re- | strited in some way. Coaches of the: smaller elevens who have.dopended largely upon the overkead’ toss to. mako trouble for the big fellows will ‘undoubted! tight jootly and nail forsit and will find “edme in the coaches of th Dig fellows who’ have the-knack of | tate ra teaching a team “how to get the bes results dut of forward passng or else are looking fotward to the ser- vices of some good passers next fal! AM inal, a merry war seems brooding over this branch of ‘foot ba!l offense. As Paayo Nurmi, the famoys, Fin: | © nish runner, continues to practice | oh the indoor tracks of New York | City, itbeconies increasingly évident that so’ far’ as form is concerned, ae in adapting ‘aimeelt to thesboard footing, | “His style of. running. {n which hardly ‘any, effort is manifest bas | impressed’ all observers greatly) mel | he-himself appears doubtful that he will make as good a showing as By JOHN B. FOSTER (Copyright 1924, Casper Tribyne) NEW YORK, De. 24.— back to the days when pl: fighters on the fisld and sprit and’ away froni tHis intermin? able talk of money, money, money Let ug get of “It. rere prere|}/on my. grounds. men ‘of | ie it the game of. increasing pricen and they took the demorratic spirit er But they ‘coul@ not dor It rules there ie “Mt has always ruled, the xne ve thepedpie. Jt was the boys iH und ine Who) medé baseball and and we shall again have baseball. of | !t’s to the spirit of them that T’ruv the kind that make. basebail the } my ball elup. ——e By HENRY L. FARRELL (United “Press =) NEW -YORK, Dec. 24.4United Press:}—Tom Gibbons, an’ outstand: ing challenger forthe world’s heavy: welght championship at the age of thirty-five, is one of the most extra- ordinary characters“in, the history | of. sport. Sraridest. sport the world“has eves} known.” Just at the agse_where the ordinary The ‘speaker is Chs 4. Com= \ | hoxer’ ts all through, Gibbons, the | iskey, of Chicago, the “Old Roman,” Yi Ae he eat han ts fust whose power asa fostor in the game | Deginning to find pimself-> rose with the clipping of the wings | Gibbons far years Has-been accent of Han Johnson, president of tke j cated THB Tidaae: Bonet tn aha woria. and ‘technically“at thirty-five thar he waé at thirty and there {su son. ‘Gibbons takes care of ‘himself | and he studies’ his profession /like @& surgeon keeps up on sur; y. Me knew? for.‘instance that a lack of | weight handicapped him gn toe Demp@ey ‘fight and he | has been bullding himself up. Ho adfaitted after the Norfolk Might that he had, in the | been making himself lieavier list year “with” another Dempsey match in mind and that ho found it too difficult to make 175 pounds for Norfolk. the ‘light heavyweight mitt “T don't want to fight st} again | —and No Place to Go! We find ourselves, almost without | fF.” { ofethe ny League. sebuil lias got away he dpclared éarnestly.- tried to drive me away from the Dién’t (fight them when they \ wanted to put the prices of baseball {up’and up? Didn't [ tell them that | baseball was the game of the boy and laboring “man-<the 2 With smal] neans? ch man's game, tov, but essentially the poorer man’s ueans, because it is the only out; door yecreation that he can afford. “They. beat me on {t. ‘They made | FFitty-¥e Years: 4 same The Of Baseball i 1 if he wants} | If you have |bonie sonie » question to ask about’ baseball, football, box- ing. or any other amateur or pro- fessional sport— If baa Want_a rule interpreted— jdt i Want ¢0 know. anything aoout ig play or player— : Write’ to» John. Bb, Poster, baseball. A Lawrence. Perry, on amateur sports; and Fair Pisy’ on bozing and other | protessicnal, sports..All are spe- fal correspondents or the Cuspen | Yone $14 World Building, New TH. tt Jeu Want w#. personal reply idee a stamped, self-addressed’ j envelé: Obherwise ‘your ques: | fon will be answered in this jco!- u on be Some ‘of his admirers .go.farther and claim that no boxer ever ved who had perfected the ‘defensive’ sktl! that Gibbons has ‘developed. In his memorable contest| with Jack Demp- sey in Shelby, when-he held off the world’s chimpion and survived fif- téen rounds without a mark from a feir punch, le. proved himself the hardest man inthe world to lut. The very perfection of that do- fense, however, resulted in the only | defect in his ‘fighting equipment that j evttiés could find. | aggressive offense: and that epirit He lacked’ the which is-classed in ring parlance ae | “cavagery,” they_said. | Some of those who, were’ familiar with his private fe and his moral lRelbe nr said. that he. was. made to be & priest Instead of a pugilistic ‘The theory that @ perfect offense ig the best defense has been pri d realizing it, a nation on’ wheels. We drive or ride. in 16,000,000 motor vehicles. We pack the paved highways coming in and out of town. We over-run even so-called remote regions. And we. are } pounding to‘pieces all but permanent vniess itis for the championship,” | he sald after the fight. | Gibbons keeps himself in shape by living right and by spending all the time he ean find in the open air hunting and fishing. He lives away from the disturbing life of a boxer in a dig city His diversion is that | of a husbe and a father who} thinks more of ‘his family than any- thing else in the world. When he went to Shelby to train} roads. for the Dempsey Nght he took the {| whole family with him. When he| Next -year 4,000,000 new cars‘ will be: on the ‘road. Compared to this in- ” eréase; the ‘mileage of new pernanent roads will be insignificant. We don't want to be a nation on wheels, with no place:to go. came to’New York he brought Mrs. Gibbofs and three of the youngér | boys with him. Wheh asked Why he wanted to bring infant twins and a three-year- old boy ‘from Bt. Paul just to be around himeforra week he anewe with typleal Gibbons remark is w the real tip-off on him 1 | ternoon. The foremost contest “in-| greater experience would enable him By JOHN B. FOSTER. aE: _ Bi rag, FN ny’ f ly that “Well; they're here,” 1 aid. “I clude Notre Dame's meeting -with| to make indoors. His future here de-| The “only Del” was born in (love Raigicils Rete hee thee ze peaeess cgi ad aad tise ig g| Won't. aee much of them because I'm | The answer is, build more, and where the Army st New York and Pennssl-| pends on what he does on Jan-liang and he picked up his ‘baseball | he ninth:iuning with the score tied, | !@gative factor in his fights. ~Demp-|UP early and. to bed early and the | necessary, wider concrete roads —and Vanth's (game ‘with Yale at New | uary 6: in Cleveland. " He. played’ on’ the old} Batter is given. a base on balln| ‘ey wlways will, take one to give|bables will be slecplng most of the} Hart building them. now Haven. Other games echeduléed 1n- river bed, shich waa the: site where | Which eptities the runner on third /one: Jt 18 a hazardoun, chance ay | time, but nevertheless THEY'RE | : r ng ow. clude: -Princeton-Navy at-Annapells | the grea sand 1 |to cross ithe «plate but the batter, | Dempsey has learned’ tn “severs! ex-| HERE. Not:in’a long ime} at al 5 and Columbia-Ohio state at Colum- bus. after receiving the fourth ball.; runs | perionces: but with the exception of Gibbons fight, the champion’s ere many All of the D, ser | ‘FAST CAGERS ters. of “Cleveland | made-good, and of | Baseball fans in the south next | spring will have a hard time choos- ing between the two banner attrac- tions of the major league exhibition | tourists. The Washington Senators | will travel with the New York Giants in an echo of the world's: se- ries but the tour of the rival second place clubs, Brooklyn and the New York Yankees wil boast two great sa nah toad Vance and. Babe Manager John McGraw, of the’ Giants must / keep both .eyes on Frank — Walker, outfielder from Rocky Mount, North Carolina, this season, for Walker is an oddity among baseball players. a business man. As boss of the Rocky Mount club, -he sold himself to the Giants for $10,000. 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De'ehanty might have played the infield {f he had peer a more ‘accur- ate thrower, at short distances. “He tried hig hand at first occasjonally but his real forte In baseball was in the outfield and it was there that he aaa his greatest success. He could hi but behind. that bat he war bothered by. erratic throwing. “He [tried to get the ball away from bim too fast and hurried himself out jof aecuracy*. Asia batter Delehanty was one of the best who has lived. There are triends ‘of Dejichanty, who have in- sisted that-be was the best and they had plenty of argument to help them out in their contention. He ‘could pinch -hit anywhere ahd he was ‘ns ikely to strike out in’ a pinclr-as anything else, yet that was. where he was strong because the pitchers in trying to work him, would either send him to first or get in the hole and have to serve a fairly good ball and then Delehanty would cut-loase. Delehanty played ball, around Cleveland and then drifted’ down to Mansfield, Ohio” While with that club he received an.- offer. from Wheeling, W. Va. He was’ short of funda, which habit clung, to him a greater part of this life, wnd #0 he started out for Wheeling, which was further along the B. & O;’than Mans: ‘eld, with a good pair of shoes and ~« lot of determination. . He caught enough rides (to make the walking easy and had not been in Wheeling a week before he was the sensation of that part of the world. Philadelphia heard of tlm’ andi ob- tained his release from the’ Wheel: ‘ng chib fer the huge sum of. St; 900, That 'price waa the highest’ at the time it was offered that’over aa ‘een advanced for a ball p'ayer, Delehanty. went to Philadelphia under thé-guldance of Harry Wright, who brought out all the gdod points in a wonderful player, and his rec. ord from 1892 to 1903, inclusive, w me of the best’ of which base evervhas heard. Mis battthg ‘ay we in-that time was :de7. a total of 2467 hits. Nor does that vecord include the season of 1890 when.he 4 ind went with the Cleve’and/élib of he Brotherhood league: Going back ‘o the -home towh nearly spoiled wim ag 2 ball player because he had oo many friends. His last year in baseball was with ‘Washington. He had fallen off in Satting but he was etill able td bit “he ball better than (In hig-next article Mr, discuss the great Hans \Vagster.) to the club house and fails (0 touch first base. ANSWER—The tunner on must be given his run. The ter must be presumedsto be on first Both. players -are. automatic, aceord- ing to the rules. It is true ‘the rules say that all bases must be} touched to make a run valid. What should be done? |t third | t-}° has always finished on the floor, n the. other hand, there is no the edsy teach of mer 1 se within ship. Whtll his recent fight against Kid 1:| Norfolk in Madison Square Garden, is -also: true- that the rules say as! Gibbons always had waited .for his move ard-take: the’ next base when | opponent to give him) an - opening Peremptorialy that the runners must a bage on” balls is given with the bases filled and they say the batter who becomes a runner ‘4s’ ‘on, first. Umpires recognize that the ‘bases should: be run out and that: a bat- ter should. not cut for tlie ctub house but because of the bate on} sixth round, |for on accurate ‘shot: /inatead of pounding the opening Nimself. , His fight with ‘Norfolk was a revélation to the Gibbons fans.*\He started on the offense and semained*the aggres- sor until Norfolk was being dragged to his corner by thé:referee in the He beat down the de: balls arbitrary decision the umpires | fense of Norfolk and crashed through have surrendered’ ¢o the inevitable land allow the run. | bods lof the savage scowl on his face’that his to find vital spots on the and head: ‘There"was néthing oty.where a perfect defense and «| | negligible offense won a champion. | QUESTION—Was Jim Corbett, Dempsey wears in the ring but there heavyweight champion of the world was a Uetermined look in his eyes some’ years ago, an IrishCatholic? | ai/d is jaw was'set\as only a Celt ANSWER-- Yes. BOUT DECISION IS CRITICIZED By FAIR PLAY. (Copyright, 1924, Casper Tribune.) NEW YORK, Wec. 24.—They're still talking about the decision that Eddie Cannonball Martin recei over Abe Goldstein in Friday night fifteen round battle welght championship. When all is said and done, it seems ridiculous that a champion should lose Nis title in a fight in which opinion us to the outcome { pretty even! divided and where good judges thought the former title holder should have received at least | @ draw. It is no wonder that champions go for the bantam } ditions been so favorable for carrying on such public works as permanent highway building. Your highway authorities are ready. to carry on their share of this great public work. But they must. have. your support. 2 Tell them you are ready to.invest in more Concrete Highways, now. 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Ti, ts Rr | seen NO PRELIMINARY WORK agalnst bempsey | Norfotts, can get. #He won the fight by smash |ing a right hand through to the body and hooking a left to the head when- Norfolk's “hands dropped -to protect his stomach. He switched the left ‘to the, body and the Pett to. the head. ‘There were’ séated in’ the press | i ‘py atleast a’ dozenwriters who had the Some, of them: came’ back ao Shelby with a poor opinion’ of. Gib- bons and with) stories ready to print that “Mt wes a. “carry” and that Dempsey. did not win by a knockout only because he didn't want to win that, way ‘for’ business reasons. The very writers who had; scoffed at the demands of Gibbons for a return fight were the loudest in their’praise of’ the Gibbons who dis- played such artistry in. his victory over Norfolk. “There is the real Gibbons,’ it was “eaid in the press pit-after the fight. | “There 1s Gib- bons as the fighter and not as the master boxer.” It was generally agréed that Gib- boris .was fifty’ -pér cent better against Norfolk than he was against Dempsey and one: of the closest friends of Dempsey’s said that if Gibbons ha@ fought aggressively as he did against that there’ might have been 2 different’ result in” Shelby. Tirie duite podsible, however, that Tom: only found»tiimself in the | Dempsey fight and. that he learned | there for’ the first time that he actually 8, good as Dempsey inly 1s no | hogeter and he thas maintained sert- }ously since the Shelly ‘right’ that he can beat Dempsey if they meet again, It-is quite certain also that he ‘in not looking for a. big ‘loser’s jend like Renault and some of the other nobles who ure howling for s | th the champion. Must be u reason wh re tproved pbs OFFICES IN-29 CITIES about the ‘country taking thelr > "Dempiey-Gibbons fight. | referees with them, or else declin ing to risk: thetr titles. On the other hand, you will hear it eald that any champion who 1s a feal. champion ought not to fear his ability. to make his superiority clear over any opponent. That was a good argument in the old days when champs were champs. But in these days a world’s cham: planships may be wor after 15) rounds of powder-puff hitting, just | as Martin won"and so it is no won der these modern title holders are | leary of almost any good boy, they | @re asked to meet | Martin will proba! lose his title soon. As the writer pointed out some. time ago, lie is muscle bound | and fs not a knockout hitter. Gold: | stein wants a return match and if he gets one, it will be an even bet that he turns the tables on his conqueror. pene a MASKED MARVEL TAKES) CUE MATCH HERE FROM FRANK ARGHER, CASPER! THE NICOLAYSEN LUMBER CO. Everything in Building Material RIG TIMBERS A SPECIALTY FARM MACHINERY, WAGONS Distributors. of KONSET Three-Day Cementing Process for ae Weils. Phone 2300 and 62 Wyo. 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