Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 27, 1924, Page 5

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1924 World Results * By Leased Wire WHLKER HARD AT TRAINING Sparring Partners Jersey Declare He Has Punch. KNOW ME AL--Advéentutes of HAVEN'T Q@NY OF ('Y LEFT, WWE GoT FIFTY- TWo DOLLARS Fifty Years Of Baseball By JOHN B. FOSTER. ‘King Kel" to his cronies was the best ball player who ever lived. To the colder blooded analysts of the National pastime he was one of the greatest but not the best. Kelly was the player who was transferred to Boston from Chicago for the sum of $10,000 and from that time on was popularly known as the “$10,000 beauty.” Clarkson was also transferred for the same amount but Clarkson nev- er was so widely known as a “$1 Occasionally some one would remind him of the fact that valued highly on the hoof s never permitted to forget it. “Kell” had the rare knack of “sassing” the crowd in a good na- tured manner. He never felt that he was thoroughly at home until he had an audience listening to him in- stead of spectators watching him. Kelly was not a high class fielder. He was a good fielder. He caught and played the outfield and he caught better than he played the outfield. Hits over his head bother- ed him. He could throw well al though he could not compare with Ewing os a thrower. Kelly’s arm was not as strong as that of Ewing. As a batter Kelly was one of the best. He could h{t to both fields, a fine accomplishment for a right hand batter which the modern ball Player knows too little about. Asa base runner, despite the fact that THAT HUNDRED | DOLL@RS HAVE) Wwe Gor LEFT a in By FAIR PLAY. NEW YORK, Dec. 27.—Mickey Waiker, hard at work in the little gymnasium he has built at his sum- mer home at Rumson, N. J, is going faster just now than ever before in his life and his sparring partners say he is hitting harder. All this activity, of course, is preliminary to knocking: Mike McTigue off his world's light heav “+ throne when the two mee’ “rk on January 7. The bout will with no decision « paper, or popular a er's favor would be | ly priced by the young man of Kereighead he knows’ ho has got to put Mike to sleep, or score a technical knockout before he can wear the crown of- ficially. Mickey thinks he can do this. He thinks he can wear McTigue down and finally get him in_ condition where fighting is the last thing he wishes to do, ounds, 4 news- in Walk: —_—_— TENNIS ADJUSTMENT | FAIR, SAYS FARRELL By HENRY L. FARRELL. (United Press Sports Editor) NEW YORK, Dec. 27. (United were called in to pass, judgment on the disagreements of baseball? This special committee called in to Che Casper Daily Cribune THE TRIBUNE’S PAGE OF SPORTING iY MYSELF @ CHRIST= oo RE SENT. YET OND vy Wilt PAGE FIVE First in News Of All Events y RING LARDNER PROGEBLY TARE ~YRAT'S LEFT. YOU REST ON ase MAS PRESENT] + tL less and gone home. But the French general was still there, patiently sticking it out, ahd despite the t that his followers had de herted him he made us a neat speech of welcome and invited us to attend a formal reception and ball to be held ashore in our honor that night “When we had so much trouble getting off the water the day we left Japan for our hop across the Yellow at the fascinating city of Hong: kong, and then left the Ladrones for Haiphong, in French Indo China. Fortunately it was a clear day. We Fliers Smell 208: been told that from there we might e be able to see the largest city in all China. Sure enough eigitty miles to the northwest, in the delta of the gray Pearl river, we could see a sploteh that we were sure was old Canton, city of Silks, sedan chairs governor Mickey has been making a lot of friends lately, is becoming one of the most popular champions in the ring, and there are many who think he can paste McTigue good and proper. But getting right down to cases there is no good reason for confi- dence that Walker can harm the champion very much. SPORT BRIEFS BUFFALO, N._ Y.—Frankle Schoell, Buffalo middleweight, and Tiger Flowers, Atlanta, Ga., negro, fought a six round draw. ATLANTA, Ga.—Mike McTigue, world's light heavyweight champion, won a technical knockout over Jimmy King of New Orleans in the fourth round. he was tall and heavy and that he was not fast as scores of his rivals, he was surpassed by none. He nev- er slid into © base twice the same way. A baseman who tried to touch him usually found nothing to touch but his feet. He twisted and turned his body, as he aimed for the bag, and as all basemen knew that he Would come feet foremost they were on the defensive before he started. He could dodge with the agility of boy inspite of his avordupois. got a lot of reputation out phrase “Slide, Kelly, slide,” and liked to hear the fans sing it to him, He was not malicious with his spikes but he would not keep them out of the way and the baseman was forced to guard himself against them. One of the plays that made Kelly famous was in the post season series between Boston and Cleveland in 1892. The first game went eleven innings and neither team seored. INDIANA, Pa.—Dr. H. H. Gessler, ing for only a run in the last in- league baseball star a decade ning, Burkett was on third base. The batter hit to Herman Long, the Boston shortstop, Long was slow in getting the ball to Tucker at first base and the batter was safe, with Burkett tearing for home with the winning run. Kelly would not trust his glove to make the catch of Tucker‘s throw but threw it to one side with Burkett dashing for the plate. The were with the runner, who was fast, and who had the advantage of tl throw first going to first base, Kel- ly never gave Burkett a chance to get in. He stepped in front of home plate caught the ball with his bare hand, held Burkett pinned by his legs and all in one sweeping motion of catch and touch retired the run- ner who would have won the first game and perhaps changed all the history of the series. Cleveland fans roared but Kelly got the ball and saved the day for Boston. That was typical of his way of playing baséball. (in his next article Mr. Foster dis- cusses the grand little ball player who invented the phrase “Hit ‘em where they ain't"—‘Wee Willie” Keeler.) FOOTBALL COSTS MOST PEA MAN TO OUTFIT AT OW0, TENNIS LOW COLUMBUS, Ohio, Dec. 27.—Per man football cost the most ‘and tennis the least to outfit in athletic togs at Ohio State university, accord- ing to a survey just completed at “ —_ ‘Abrahams and Eric Liddell, Olympic champions and Britain's most famous sprinters, may appear in competition next spring at the Pennsylvania relay carnival. Abra- hams, the Cambridge all-around star, won the Olympic 100 metre dash, beating four American athletes while Liddell captured the 400 metre run at Paris in world's record time. —_—_— According to unofficial estimates, $10,000,000 was distributed in 1924 among turfmen in the form of stakes, and purses for thoroughbred racing in Canada and the United States. Of this sum it is estimated that close to $2,000,000 each was dis- tributed In New York and Maryland, with that figure exceeded in Ken- tucky, historic stronghold of the sport. Catwda is credited with hav- ing disbursed $1,000,000. Under present rules, if a penalty is inflicted against a defending foot- ball team, the offensive team is given the number of yards called for by the penalty and a first down at the point where the ball rests. A new suggestion fs to give the of- fensive team the yardage without the first down unless the ball ad- vances beyond a point which would automatically give the offensive team a first down. Although official announcement regarding the Giants’ journey abroad after the 1925 playing season closes have not yet been made, it is under- stood that plans call for the charter- ing of a ship for the baseball party which will be led by Manager John McGraw, -After a series of games in England, tho itinerary turns to South America with visits scheduled With two out and Cieveland fight- | 54m odds | ties as Senator George Whi Press)——Common sense and good sportsmanship brought about the settlement of the extended contro: versy between William T. Tilden and the United States Lawn Tennis association and it offered a good ex- ample that might be followed in the adjustment of difficulties that may arise in other sports. Tilden contended that he was right In refusing to accept the opinion of the association in declaring that he was a professional for making money as a newspaper writer. The association claimed it was right in forming the opinion that writing for newspapers constituted a violation of the amateur rule. From a strictly neutral stand- point, both sides were right and the two factions were sincere enous! to hold out until it seemed that the eontinuation of a controversy, which the public cohsidered as rath- er trivial, would result in unlimited © to an organization and a that had been built up in the United States by years of untiring effort. The association then made a wise move by suggesting that a commit: tee of three “outsiders” be called in to decide which faction was right and Tilden’s defenders agreed to it. The same wisdom behind the idea was carried out in selecting as the committee of outsiders in the jury box such nationally known authori- ton Pep: per, Grantland Rice and Devereux Milburn. 2 How long would some of the foolish quarrels of organized baseball la if a committee of such authorities QUESTION BOX If you have some question to ask about baseball, football, box- ing or any other amateur or pro- fessional sport— If you want a rule interpreted— I¢ 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 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—Runners are on sec- ond and third in_the eighth inping. consider cided that Tilden was right. ise with an entirely whi contention regarding The new amateur ri and it was accepte genius of Senator Pi tice of the other side’ of contention. continue to write, but not be disputed by as it was his claim newspaperman before he was thi It he was enough to -have “his name sign above stories before he was the champiorr player champion, the use of necessary now and as is neither a jocke: the case with tives of the two tennis factions de- and that the association was partly They suggested a comprom- of the amateur rule that would sup- port the main points of the asso- clation’s stand for clean tennis and h would also support Tilden's personal liberties of a player. rule in language that was a defeat for neither faction, and was only a sportsmanlike deference to the jus- Tilden, as a result of the rule, can any of his titles under his name and he cannot actually cover any tourna- in which he is entered as a That, section of the rule prohibit- ing Tilden from signing himself with any or all of his titles could few readers of sport pages or maga- zines who do not know that Tilden representa- partially right new definition the indfyidual ‘ule was drawn 4d. The legal epper put the ‘s main points he cannot use the champion, that he was a his titles is not there are very nor the Nght heavyweight boxing champion. The section which. prohibits him from actually covering tennis tour- naments in which he is playing in a tourn ph be 1 opin ecessary to wri ion of the play. is very fair, as it is obvious when he cannot see as many of the matches ed in the tournament as would is entered also ament that he ite an expert eryone who has been around the press boxes at the big tennis tournaments knows that Tilden goes for who is another of the Both take their work and there is no reason to doubt thelr word when they say fession. eee Tilden, there is no a fine living out of his writing. is said that his revenue ran between $15,000 and $25,000 this earning capacity proportion, but there oth morg money out of and brokerage busin: writes his own stories and the same young Vincent R in journalism as their accepted pro- those who are puritanical about the apitalization of an amateur’s name, ficials of the’ association hards, player-writer: very seriously that they are doubt, makes It Inst’ ye To is all out of are some of- and some ¢ players who are making much the insurance ess than they would be earning if they didn’t have some tennis prominent connection reputation or some with the game. (Copyright, By the Chi go Tribune Amoy, we flew so low,” says J actually smell China! people living in China. that many or more on our 595 mile hop from the mouth of the Yangtze to Amony island. It was the most densely populated region we had ever seen, Why the moment we had passed one village we were above another. The streets were swarming with peiple, and the country roads almost as bad, while children, chickens and pigs filled the yards, And far out into Formosa strait the water was dotted with sampans and junks. “When ever we got tired of look: Ing down at villages and rice fi we would take a swing out to 8 and play leap frog with the junks for a while, Smitty and Les would pick out a junk, Leigh and Hank would take another. Eri and 1 would spot a third. Then all three planes would dive toward them, full tilt, If those Chinese sailors had pig- tails I'll bet they stood right up on end. But just before swooping into them we would shogt over the tops of their masts and in two minutes be miles away. It wa fun for us, and I haven't any doubt but that it helped somewhat to break the mon. otony of life on board the junk. If we woke up any oplum smokers I" wager a German mark to a Chinese tael with a hole in it thi they thought they were seeing thin, In Picturesque Amoy Harbor, | “At 5:30 in the afternoon we came down right in front of the andard Oli company pier in the picturesque harbor of Amoy, with pagodas and temples all around ‘us. While we were mooring a sampan came along- side and I heard a yoice shout, ‘Hel- lo Tennessee,’ The visitor turned out to be a fellow southerner who used to live a few miles from my home town. We worked on the planes until jong after dark and then spent the night on board the destroyer Prebel as the guests of Commander Glass- ford. ‘Although we didn't go into the city y came to us. Next morn ing, Sunday, May 8, when we were called at daybreak, we saw thous ands and thousands o° little Chin boats crowged around the pl More kept coming from shore we couldn't see the water. W ried out, got up on the pontoons. for an hour went tnrough or east was something novel to us. we doubt but what there were four hundred millions of It seemed as though we passed Their Landing By LOWELL THOMAS Newspaper Syndicate and the Mc- Clure Newspaper Syndicate.) “In. cruising down the China coast from Shanghai to ack Harding, “that we could And this pungent odor of the far Nor at that moment did tory of Amoy and its marauding in- habitants. It seems that the captain had deserted from the rest of the Chinese fleet and anchored here two years before. ‘Training his guns on the city and sending word to the in- habitants that henceforth they were to pay tribute to him, he and his men even went ashore and drove off the local military detachment. Since that day he has never lifted his an chor. Today he is the ruler of all the territory within range of his guns. “We had only 310 miles to make on our flight on down the China coast to Hongkong, so it was not until 10 o'clock that we got under way. But we would have said fare- weil to Amoy shortly after sunrise if it hadn’t been for the thousands of sampans around us. “On our way to Hongkong we flew over ‘hills: said to’ be inhabited by ab- origines belonging to a race utterly different to the Chinese, strange peo: le who worship a dog as the ances: tor from which they sprang. So, un like many of the other inhabitants of China, they do not fricasee their © dogs. They worship them in “For ten miles we skimmed over the water of a narrow inlet between two ranges of high hills. We kept ust over the tops of the hundreds t in and out. All ured us that we were ar famed British city ‘of Hongkong. At 1:82 we arrived over the harbor and the weather cleared enough for us to see some- thing of this city, which ts reputed to be the most beautiful in the far east. It was indeed a marvelous sight, The harbor which covers over fiftepn square miles and is al most surrounded by high hills, was filled with warships, Pacific line freighters, and tramps from every corner of the globe,.as well as na- tive craft of every description. 80 far as the amount of tonnage enter. this traffic a nearing the ing and leaving its waters is com cerned it is one of the six greatest ports in the world, and has been built up by the Britis? who have owned the island ever since the treaty of Nanking, In 1841.° When they took if over it was deserted. 2 city is built up the mountain side on terraces. These make it all the more impressive as you enter streets like narrow canyone, and the birthplace of most of China's revo lutions.” “On our way from Hongkong to Hiaphong, the most interesting part of the flight, says Commander Smith “was a seventy mile hop across a peninsula. Of «course, cruising over such a wide strip of land with pontoons on your ship is a rather unhealthy game, because 1f you have to make a forced landing you are sure to crack up. But in calling atention to this particular part of the fl’ght I am not referring to haz- ards. We were too busy looking over the fuselage at the fascinating pageant of oriental life underneath us to remember whether we were flying with pontoons or wheels. This little peninsula was the most dense- ly populated region we: had seen, and no one but a person who has sea we had lightened our loads by throwing overboard every unnetes- sary thing, including all our clothes except these in which we flew, This meant that we couldn't attend func- tions unless we could borrow clothes, But by now we had the borrowing business down to a fine art. As soon as we would board a destroyer at the end of a day's flight, we would size up the officers. Then without their, being aware of our evil designs, each of us would pick out an officer about our own size whom we would later on relieve of a pair of white trousers, socks, shoes, white shirt, tie and sun helmet, This would enable us to mount our await ing rickshaws and sally forth to the evening's festivities as _snappily groomed as the most debonair cake ¢aters of the China coast. Competition on Jump. visited China can appreciate what this means. Planes Frighten Natives “Evidently the natives of Luichow peninsula had never seen airplanes before. We flew only about 500 feet off the ground so that we could see the sights. As we came roaring into view we could see Chinese run- ning in every direction, When we would catch up with them they would swing off either to the left or to the right. They must have thought we were flying dragons sent to gobble them up. After crossing the peninsula we passed thousands of natives wading about in the water with hand nets. When they saw us they dropped their nets and struck out for shore as hard as they could 50. “In leaving Hongkong we had flown out of one of the scenic har- “At the reception in Haiphong that night our French hosts told us that they had just received a ra dio mesage with the news that two of our competitors, the Portuges: world flyers, had arrived in Ran- goon, Burma, The last we heard of them they had crashed in India. But the British royal air force had sup- plied them with a new De Haviland two seater in which they had been fortunate enough to at least get past Akyab, the hoodoo town on the Bay of Benga! where so many air men had crashed. McLaren, the British flyer, was still at Akyab, awaiting the arrival of the Amert- can detroyer bringing his Vickers- Amphibian around from Japan. “This news of the progress of the Portugese was just like a tonic to us. So excusing ourselves from the * J reception we hurried back to the de era Of the World. But Halphong | stroyer, got a good night's sleep and eed tay £2. be nearly as impres-| were up at dawn the next morning vse 5 - ayrnnteat eon o a le] hoping to reach Salgon, or at least ands, some of them mere needles 808 get half way down the coast of of rock Then we passed over high French Indo-China that day. “Our Libertys seemed to be hum- ming a song of joy and contentment as we warmed them up to the ac- companiment of the temple bells of Haiphong, and little did we dream that before night we would be trand- ed on a lagoon in the heart of the ‘Tonkin jungle. $5.00 Reward Five dollars rewatd will be paid to the party furnishing the Casper cliffs and small lagoons with attrac tive looking bungalows dotted her and there. Any one of the lagoons would have made an excellent place to moor the planes. At 6:40, just as the sun went down behind the palms, we reached the delta of the Red rivers which flows down into French Indo-China from the mountains of Yunnan, a rugged province of China which extends west to Burma and the Himalayas. Insist on Entertaining. at Haiphong we again moored the planes near the Standard Oil pier. ‘The French officials want.| Daily Tribune information leading ed us to come at once aboard a de- | Lt? the capture of the person who is " ees frnudulently collecting subscriptions stro: é é ce a . troyer and attend a reception. and] from ‘Tribune subscribers, Patrot couldn't understand why we should|of the paper should not’ pay an have to remain and work on ourjone thelr subscription excépt th cruisers When they had a tea party|carrier who delivers the paper or all arranged for us. Becoming im. thorized collector from the = If you are not sure you are paying the right collector, ask him to show his credentials, If he can- not do so please cal} the Tribune, patient, most of the ladies and gen- tlemen got into launches and came over and watched us, It was dark before we had finished servicing up the ships and when w: climbed aboard the destroyer nearly all.of at Rio De Janeiro, Buenos Aires and Montevideo. Ohio State. Cost per man for grid- iron clothes was $44.15 and for tennis only $3. Next to football, in costliness, ranked baseball, the equipment cost- ing $31 per man. Cost to outfit men in other branches of sport was bas- ketball, -8.90; track and cross coun- try, $16.75; gymnastics and fencing, $15; wrestling, $12; rifle team, $10, and golf, $5. One hand is out. Batter lifts a fly which is dropped by the second base- man. Field umpire not knowing the proper definition of an infield cals infield fly. Two are now supposed to be out. Next batter hits the ball and {s thrown out at first base. Team leaves the field and the batting side takes the field. Protest ‘on the decision is made and after ten minutes the umpire rules the *lrunners back to second and third aro _ and calls the man safe at first. He also rules two out calling the bat- ter who was thrown out at first the second ont. Is he right? ANSWER—No. The play begins trom. the point where he made an ESTRIDGE IS COUNTED OUT NEW YORK, Dec. 27.—Larry Estridge of Harlem, although knocked out by Paul Berlenbach in the second round at Madison Square Garden last night, retained his championship. He is still the title holder among the negro middle weights. Andrew O. McGarrett is either a champion or a first class contender at his own game. This year he plodded 1,500 miles to push a golf ball into a cup 5,400 times, using 27,640 strokes, an average of 92.1 to an eighteen hole round. He is 60 years old. Seta Le the most nerve wracking experiences of the trip. There were 80 many sam pans that the occupants could hard. ly control them, and it was all we could do to push them off and keep them from drifting into us and dam- aging the planes. Some of the sam pans had sails and the wind kept blowing them toward us. The launch from the Prebel tried to protect us but the officer in charge of it got disguested and decided the only way to drive them off would be to a few. So he backed off a the harbor. - Landing Hard to Locate is was the only place where d been any siip regarding the advance arrangements. Some- how the letter explaining where we were to moor had gotten lost in the mail. So we flew around the harbor several times looking for our yellow bouys. Not finding them, we flew down close to an American destroyer and they waved us over to the op: posite side of the bay where we fin the guests had given us up as hope- THE NICOLAYSEN LUMBER CO. Everything in Building Material RIG TIMBERS A SPECIALTY Telephone 15 | a pored Im a little cove near and then shot her full speed ahead | r uy eat ndard. O'] dock, All that F. RM MA a oi er nates fe cevaity | ee stanenra O38 dock, Al hat ay CHINERY, WAGONS : gave the Chinese the thrill of thelr) i. repairing all three propellors J infield fly. incorrect decielon in calling an in- field fly on « hit that was not an If the decision is re- versed as was the case the play atarts from the point where cue, T ond baseman muffed the puts three players on the ba: the next batter regularly up. lives. Some of the sampans capsized throwing the occupants over into) other boats or into the water. Then he would back off and crash into the midst of them again. The momentum of the Jaunch was so great that it piled sampans right up on top of each other. Something had to done | to provént the planes from being | crushed by those thousands of boats. | | and helping Smith and Arnold doc tor up the pontoon that had troubled them in Japan. It was now leaking badly, The Standard Oi! people gave us invaluable help and because most of us were unable to go ashore and see the sights of Hongkong they sent Junch out to us and also sent out Chinese merchants with beads Distributors of KONSET = Three-Day Cementing Process for Oil Weils. Phone 2300 and 62 Casper, Wyo. fice and Yard—First and Center Sts. JOIN THE AMERICAN LEGION NOW 4 2 QUESTION—Did Tiger Flowers and Harry Greb ever meet in a bout? ANSWER—Yes, last August at Fremont, Ohio. Newspaper decis- fon equally divide: < QUESTION—A’s ball on five yard line and A's coach sends in a sub. But before sub gets to official A back fumbles and B team payer pickes up ball and runs. He would have had a touchdown except that the Incoming sub of A team tackled him. If the sub had not tackled the runner the B team player would haye made a touchdown. Is the CHICAGO.--The Methodiet year book for 1925 announced there are 4,711,994 Methodist NEW YORK,.—Universal Pictures will market $3,000,000 of its pre- ferred stock in Wail Street. PORTLAND, Ore,—Wheat prices reached the §2 mark for the first ume since the World wa NEW YORK—The hand painted evening slippers are fast outdl cing the brocade footwear, These GE Bix SHERIDAN ROAD AT hscage only penalty allowable the one for | new slippers have an extremely high ry Chicas ~ 18 yards pe of twelve men| counter fecoraed with «a single { being on the field? painted blossom, The toe ts simt- x a 'ANBWER—No, the referee has|larly adorned, They ara mady with ae discretion to allow the touchdown, ' ous single center #irap, ++ ¥y, pearls and silks for us to look over 1 It lookell as ‘though we might Pe | 11, case we wanted to send any sou squeezed just as steamers are crush ed by ice in the Arctic. And the Next morning the sun was blaz course our friend took who was com:| ig hot. Wotwere drawing nearer |)" draatic enough. Therforee with which § was no mistaking that. Our Stan-| bs 4 he rammed Pioep mtecky Lave | dard O'1 friends sent into the city | CHICAGO & NORTHWESTERN a pans was suc ha he pl and had a merchant bring out a Ww. “ re , ime. It eastbound D - many as twenty up at a ti It} boatload of sun helmets, from which|} No, 603 ___ 10pm wasn't long until he had cleared] we could select more appropriate |! No, 613 _.. b £5 a space. From then on, thanks to| headgear, ‘Les’ and ‘Hank’ and I Departs the launch, the Chines boatmen, with | woro them from then on, because 6:00 p.m thelr wives, children, chickens, and pigs, kept at a respectful distance. Hop for Hongkong. “Not far from where we were moored there was an antiquated Chi- nese destroger brilsting with guns. The story we heard about her was right in keeping with the lurjd his in the rear cockpits there was no shade, The plilate were protected xomewhat by the upper wing. Off for Indo-China “We had holsted the Chicago out J of the watep the previous day, and nftey launching It taxled across the