Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 9, 1925, Page 5

FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 1925 World Results By Leased Wire biG MUNN CAPTURES WRESTLING GROWN BY DEFEATING ED LEWIS “Strangler” and His Deadlocks Go Down to Defeat in Match at Kansas City; : Former Champ in Hospital KANSAS CITY , Jan. 9.—( By The Associated Press) — Wayne (Big) Munn, erstwhile: University of Nebraska football player, who tried boxing, but couldn’t stand up against the punches and whose knowledge of the technic of grappling is that of a novice, is the new wearer of the vorld’s heavyweight wrestling belt today. prodigous bulk and strength last night threw off the fearful head- locks of the veteran Ed (Strangler) Lewis and crushed him into sub- mission. Lewis is in a hospital, suffering probable injuries to his back, a new experience for the “Strangler” who, in hs long mat career, has seriously hurt many opponents with his fa- mous headlock NURM MIS! DECIDE PLANS Crowds of Many Cities Anxious to See Finn Race. By LAWRENCE PERRY. (Copyright, 1925, Casper Tribune) NEW YORK, Jan. 9.—Paavo Nur- mi is expected to decide soon upon his future plans. If he leaves these United Staies without giving track fans of ovher cities and other Fec- tions of the country a view in action of the greatest distance runner the world has seen since times were first recorded, it will prove he 1s a im-,| pervious to emotion inwardly as out- wardly he would appear to be. But it is greatly to be doub.ed that even this stoical young Finn could have fai.ed deep down in him to have been moved by the spontaneous of acclaim that marked his victory over the former worlds indoor cham. pion in the mile event in the Garden Tuesday night. It began when the | mand, Finn went afver Jole Ray immediate- ly the mark had been passed on the next to the last lap. Winging into the lead. before the first. turn had been reached. Nurmi increased his advantage foot by foot over the de sperately running Chicagoan until at the finish he had left the former champion at .east ten yards astern. He had to break the worlds record to do this, but the world’s record was what he was after and from the easy stride and the apparent lack of physical effort one wonders what he will do to the indoor miie when he has grown more accustomed to the board track conditions and the In- door atmosphere. SALARIES FOR GRID COACHES OUT OF LINE CHICAGO, Jan. 9—Coaches should not receive salaries greatly in ex cess of teachers of similar grade all athletic funds should pass thro the col’ege treasury; student gamb Ying should be repressed, and the migrant and freshmen rules enforc ed, the Association of Americar Co! leges by its commission on athtetics Munn, by his A giant in statue and strength, Munn, despite his meager wrestling strategy, clearly demonstrated his power over the title holder in the pinion of mat authorities, although a foul, which resulted in a protest t Lewis’ manager, marred the victor he climax came after two utes of wrestling for the second fall, when Munn, twisting free from 4 headlock, lifted Lewis high in the air with a body and crotch hold, ap- parntly the only weapon at his com- and walking to the ropes, turled the “Strangler” outside onto he uncovered floor of the platform. Lewis’ 228 pounds hit the platform with a thud and the titleholder rol ed down to the floor, Chaos ensured. “Billy Sandou manager of Lewis lost his coolness and sprang -nto the ring. cr: Foul." The crowd stormed at the plat form but a large detail of police held back the frenzied fans. Munn started through after his ‘opponent and Sandow, dancing about wildly, threatened Munn and Referee Walter Bates. Then Referee Bates announced the fall was awarded to Lewis on a foul. Bates gave Lewis 15 minutes in which to return to the ring and an- nounced the match would be award: ed to the challenger if Lewis did not appear. Sandow annonuced Lewis would continue only under protest. In a Imp condit on, Lewis was borne to his dressing room with a squad of policeman accompanying, while the crowd booed the decision and called for the referee to award the championship to Munn. he alloted 15 minutes passed while physicians worked on Lewis and some semblance of order was restored. Ir. another five minutes Lew s came to the ring, bandaged. The mutch was over after a few seconds after the men _ clinched Lewis offered little opposition. Munn clamped body and crotch hold and hurled his man to the mat. Lewis lay prone anda new champion had been crowneg It took just 50 sec- onds for the deciding fall. Lewis was lifted high over the head of the young giant three times during the match, and dashed to the floor, Munn ganed the first fall In that manner fn 21 minutes with the tcdy and cretch hold, Lewis ‘ay scarmied and it was five minutes before he could be assisted to his feet The “‘Strangler's” famed headlock, which has crushed many opponents into qub.nission and some times un consciousness, went. for naught ainst the tremendous strength of the youth. By plant ng his feet frim- ly and heaving his powerful trunk a , the giant threw off his tor- ng: the ropes new champion, a towering figure of six fect, six inches, who weighs 260 pounds, played in the line of the University of Nebraska football team in 1923 and after leav- ing school essayed a box’ng career. He met several fighters of no great ability and after being stretched out for the count a few times, put away the gloves. Munn tookgsip professional wrest Ing only last spring and immediate. lv showed his prowess. He met he third raters and then began ‘limbing upward, meeting Wallac Dugid and ‘Toots’ Mondt and los'ng a fall . WATCH FOR SUNDAY ANNOUNCEMENT WITH NEW BEAUTY AND PERMANENT PERFORMANCE ANEW PAIGE A NEW JEWETT PREPARE FOR PROGRESS FEAR NO FOLLIES SEE OUR WINDOWS JANUARY 11 THE LEE DOUD MOTOR CO. 424 W. Yellowstone Phone 1700 PARDON ME iP, BUTI HAVE some 17 STUFF FOR THAY OLD OF YOURS =SSSss5 @he Casver Daily Trihune LEADING PITCHERS OF NATIONAL LEAGUE By JOHN B, FOSTER. There came to the Cleyeland club many years ago 4 stalwart alx foot er of Ohio who had been raised down in the Tuscarawas valley of that state, a valley of fertility in the soil and rich resources hidden in che hills, He was the pitcher of greatest endurance that the Na- tional league ever Sad and there are some who think he was the great- est pitcher all things taken into con- sideration, who ever threw a ball. He ptched more games and won more games in his time, which was a long time, than any pitcher of his organization and only the other day in a game in Cleveland he pitched © his ol} partner, Charley Zimmer, who caught him in years gone by, and the team against which Young played could do little wth him. He 1s retired now and farming again in the Tuscarawas valley as hs father did before him. He is re- spected of his neighbors and has eld office. He is such a lover of the open and of nature that he would listen to nothing but a return to the old home and the old blue sky when he had finished with his ball career. » pitched 22 years for the major leagues with various clubs. He won more than 600 games and he lost a ittle more than 800. He pitched three no-hit games in his time. One was against Cincinnat! when he was with the National league, another against the Athletics and the third against the New York Americans. A great many ghost stories have been wrtten about Young. It {s re- counted that he reported to his first sIub in overalls, He didn't do any- hing of the kind. Young was not a fool nora simpleton. He was very ‘lever, and a keen observer, and he had not been in the Nationa! league a month before he had taken the measure of most of it. He was very fond of the owners of the Cleveland club with which he first signed and especially of George W. Howe who s a father to more than one ball yer. For years he went by the nick- name of “Cy.” It happened to have been given him by. the writer and had nothing to do w'th his rural hoyhdod or was it suggestive of his appearance. It referred to his speed, the description of which’ was given as cyclonic. He became “Cy” from that time on. In his first game which was against Anson and Chicago, Young presented a queer appearance be- cause there was no uniform big enough for him In the club lockers. QUESTION BOX If you have some question to about baseball, football, box: ng or any other amateur or pro- ssional sport— if you want a rule interpreted— If you want to know anything out a play or player— Write to John B. Foster, baseball. Lawrence Perry, on amateur sports, and Fair Play on boxing and other professicnal sports. All are spe- al correspondents of the Casper Tribune, 814 World Building, New York If you want a personal reply nelose a stamped, self-addressed velope. Otherwise your ques- n will be answered in this col- mn. ask QUESTION—To settle an argu- nent did George Gipp, the late Notre Dame footba‘l star ever play foot- sail on a high school team, or did he ‘carn his football at Notre Dame | under Knute Rockne? ANSWER—He learned his foot- all under Rockne. He came to Notre Dame from a high school in Michigan h a@ reputation as a baseball player and was not inter- ested in football, QUESTION—DIid Dutch Leonard every play with Detroit prior to this yea ANSWER—Leonard played with Detroit ‘in 1919, 1920 and 1921, QUESTION—Has Jack Dempsey got Indian bicod In him? ANSWER—He claims Scotch, Irish blood, tors were in this dred years befo fs of Mormon stock, to have but his ances- country a hun born, He He had on a short sleeved jersey knickerbockers that were short and dangerously tight, and he was so cramped that it 1s a wonder that he was able to pitch, Anson, usually decorous, saw this long sinewy farmer on his way to the pitcher's plat and for once the ‘Grand Old Man” thought fit to play the part of the buffoon. It took much to excite him to that condition but Anse got out on the line and proceeded to make a profound ass of himself. Young struck him out. Anson shut up. The Chicagos lost the game and that night Anson of- fered the Cleveland club $1,000 for the player, @ sum which was consid- ered prodigious in those days, when a dollar would buy a plenic lunch for a Sunday school class of twenty. Young was one of the finest char. acters who ever broke into baseball. (In his next article Mr. Foster will write about one of the greatest pit- chers that*ever lived—Christy Mat- hewson.) ge SPORT BRIEFS (By The Associated Press). Paavo Nurmi increased to thirteen the total world's records to his cred- it when he outfooted Jole Ray and Willie Ritola at the Finnish-Ameri- can games. He holds more worlds marks for international'y recognized distances than any other competitor. His outdoor records are for 1,500, 2,- 000, 3,000, 5,000 and 10,000 meters, and one,’ three, four, five and six miles. His new indoor marks, the first he has ever hung up, are for 1,500 and 5,000 meters and one mile. Nurmi's only rival in this respect, record books show, is G. E. Larner former British walker, who estab- lished 10 world’s records, from 1904 to 1908 that stil! are standards. Charlie Hoff, Norwegian pole vaulter, who holds the world’s reo- ord, will be unable to compete in the Millrose games at New York tho lat- ter part of this month. Hoff, a newspaper man, was unable to, ob- tain permissfon from his athletic or- ganization to cross the Atlantic. Tommy O'Brien, Milwaukee light- welght, reported concerned about the title held by Benny Leonard, will meet Jack Bernstein tn New York tonight, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.—Tom- my Gibbons, St. Paul ilght heavy- weight defeated Jack Burke, Pitts- burgh, In the sixth .round of a scheduled 10 round bout. NEW YORK—Jones W. Merzer- eau, New York, now vice president was nominated to succeed George W. Wightman, Boston as president of the U. S. Lawn Tennis Associa- tion. NEW YORK—Bobby Carcia, Bal- timore Nghtweight, knocked out Joe Glick of Brooklyn, in the fifth round of a scheduled ten round bout. LONDON—Luis Angel Firpo, Ar- gentine heavyweight, confirmed in person his acceptance of the nation- al sporting club's offer for him to meet Tommy Gibbons, St. Paul light heavyweight. Robert L. Matthews, coach of the University of Idaho elevens for the last three years, who yesterday agreed to remain at Idaho another year at an announced salary, faces a task of bullding an entire new team next season, Only three of 12 letter men on the 1924 team will re- turn to the University. The Whitman College basketball team leaves Spokane today for Mis- soula where it meets the University of Montana Saturday night in Mon- tana’s first northwest conference game. Wh'tman lost its third con- ference game last night to Gonzag: 46 to 82. Washington state College and Gonzaga University basketball teams will meet at Pullman tonight in the first game of the season between the two teams. The Cougars have one northwest conference victory to their credit while- Gonzaga has won one game and lost one. , pate wae >t ett Aa Birthday eards for every member 9 fthe family at Hoffth Beck- Mager Bldg. ALL YOu WANT GY THE QUART Charging Bull, better known Levi, famous athlete of Haskell School for Indians, has signed a con: tract to play with the New York Americans Levi gained his greatest fame on the gridiron. GIABONS-FIRPO FIGHT 1S OFE Eddie Kane Surprised At Small Offer for Gibbons Share. By FAIR PLAY. (Copyright, 1925, Casper Tribune) NEW YORK, Jan. 9.—The talked- of Gibbons-Firpo fight in London has fallen through even before it got to the stage where it amounted to any- -hing. There has been no offictal an- nouncement to this effect but the words of Eddie Kane, Tommy's man- ager, that the stands aghast at the smallness of the bid for the services of his heavyweight leaves nothing mcre to be said. It often happens that when the inoffictal publicity hound takes his pen in hand, he can spot the regu- r publicity man three draws to a hand and beat him to a pat stand. Out in Newark, fired by the pros yectlve battle between Mickey Wal- er and Mike McTigue, an enthus- asiic son of the ould sod who holds Imself as a bit of historian, traces back the ancestry of the two Mikes and succeeded in making of this bat Ue not a. contest between two pugs but a battle between the blood of Brian Boru and Roderick O'Connor, the last of the Irish kings. McTigue, sings the chronicler, comes from the County Clare, home of the famous Daloashil, one of Ire- land's mightiest warricrs and while Michael is no blood kin to that fa- mous old bird, he is descended from od Brian Boru, who the Danes out of Ireland, mind ye And Walker's mother is from Con naught, a descendant of the afore said O'Connor. No one had any idea that the best blood In Ireland, was engaged in this fistic combat. drove QOUBLENEADER First in News Of All Events THAT'S THE EVIDENCE < OFFICER. HE'S © BOOTLE GGER ding Club for Martin and Frank man, and Tom Philadelphia for catcher was sold Philadelphia club for a cash five players, the third Baseman Ri Hasty, Pitchers; Row- outfielder Shir- iortstop John Jones was pur- 1b; Portland from Brooklyn tcher Bill Crosby from Tulsa, AVS RED PEPPER HEAT STOPS. PAIN IN FEW MINUTES lumhago, neuritis, sore muscle: 1g joints, Whe: » you can hardly MANY PLAYERS ©" R= ‘othing has such concentrated, enetrating heat as red peppers, and hen heat peneterates right down to pain and ngestion, relief comes at once CLUB TO MOVE Just as soon as you apply Red ’epper Rub you feel the tingling eat. In three minutes the sore spot os im warmed through and through and t is gone Red Pepper Rub, made red peppers, costs little at uny Get o jar at once. Be to get the genuine, with the Rowles on every package.— PEARL WHITES : PLAY TONIGHT AT GYMRASIUM The Pearl Whites of usketball league take on the Mi k tonight gym. The gan promptly at 8 o'clock The Midwest ex-college sta and as this is their in Casper a large croy 1 to turn for the game. and including Burn’ | siderat on PLAY TO TOP Major Leagues to Elim- inate Many During Coming Season. catcher the Casper By JOHN B. FOSTER. yright, 1925, Casper Tribune) NEW YORK, Jan. 9.—The playing of numerous doubleheaders !s to be eliminated by the major leagues as much as possible from now on. The irguments of finance and of extra drain on players, long advanced, found extra forces in the season of 1924; The majors wirhed to shorten the season {n 1 Trying to bring it to a close by October 1, they had to stick In a lot of double headers and hey found it did not pay them. On top of the artificial double headers were a number of natural ones, caus ¢d by postponements and between chem all, when it came down to the inal days of the pennant hunt, the sontending clubs found it an almost superhuman task to keep their pltch-| gan DIEGO, Calif. Jan. 9.—Dut.|'% ng corps in order, while other play-|¢y Lewis, manager of the land wle rs were pretty well fagged by ex GE the Pardepr Odea ra work. who arrived here yes Another argument against double} New York on the Mat neaders is that teams which were] pupiic the names of not going so well toward the e eras wh6 will figure Tif \ season are likey to play 1 tween the Portland «clvh hus giving advanta, a of other minor leagues which happen to have doubleheaders | ‘rhe announcement, he scheduled with them. a conference 1 w To put an end to that condition as| Commissioner K. M. Landi well as to avoid the extra strain and| heads of major and mino. leagues inancial loss, the major league clubs] Lewis said that Portland has sold are seeking to avoid double headers | Ouitfielder Ike Wolfer wherever pogeible, One factor that lub; Shortstop may help in this direction Is the new cher Wray Qu rule to be tried in 1925 by the Nat- Peter Hu fonal league which provides that ; Outfielder J louble headers may be played on the} sey City; Outfielder first home series if it is thought ad-] to San Antonio and visable to do so, That was the cus rd Lennon to Willi tom at one time. 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