Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 10, 1925, Page 5

SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1925 World Results By Leased Wire REUTHER GOES TOWASHINGTON Former Star Pitcher Has Another Chance to Make Good By JOHN B. FOSTER. (Copyright, 1925, Casper Tribune) NEW YORK, Jan. 10.— Ruether, the left hand pitcher of the Brook- lyn club has been bowed out of the National league into the American. re is nothing unusual about Ruether going from Brooklyn to Washington. Players have been tranéferred from one league to the other ever since there have been dual leagues, But there is a story in the transfer of Ruether, This player had a gnawing ambi- tion to become a member of the Giants. Furthermore he thought he was on the high road to become a member of that team. He had a taste of championship with the Cincin- nati Reds, whom he helped to flag in 1919 and when Cincinnati dropped him because he could not get along well in the atmosphere of Cincin- nati, he bragged that he would some day pitch the Giants to a pennant. Circumstances so shaped themselv: that the landed, not in Gotham but across the river !n Brooklyn, Tor one season he made a good showing with the Robins, but the Giant bug tayed with him and one spring he caused a lot of annoyance by stop- ning off at the Giants’ training camp at San Antonio and intimating that he expected to do his conditioning there instead of with the Brooklyns. Eventually, he was persuaded that the best thing he could do was grab the next train for the Brooklyn camp in Florida. But he went with bitter: ness gnawing at his vitals. Ruether’s faliure again: New York embittered the Brooklyn man- agement more than anything else that happened during his career as a Robin. Waivers were asked on him. The Giants, like a'l the other National league clubs, passed him up. Washington saved him from the minors by putting in a claim for ‘him. And now he is again 2 member of a championship team, with a chance to make good. ANDERSON IS FIGHT LOSER MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Jan. 10.— Eddie Anderson, Casper, ‘Wyo., featherweight, was outpointed here last. night by Pete Sarmiento tn a 10 round bout. The Fillipino’s heavier punching wes a handicap for Anderson and]. tho latter had difficulty solving Sarmiento's defense. Sarmiento weighed 122 pounds and Anderson 120. - Jim Crowley Is Improving In Frisco Hispital SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 10.—Jim Crowley, one of the backfield stars of the Notre Dame university foot- ball eleven, who has been ill in a San Francisco hospital since last Saturday, will probably be able to return to South Bend, Indiana, some time next week, according to Dr. John Gallwey, the attending phy sician,. Crowley's condition 1s satis: factory, although he is recovering his strength slowely, Dr. Gallwey re- ported today. The Notre Dame player suffered a collapse following the game with Stanford university SPORT BRIEFS NEW YORK—Harold Smith, Chi- cago bantamwelght —outpointed Jackie Snyder of New York, in 10 rounds, SAN FRANCISCO—‘Bermondsey” Billy Wells, British welterweight, won a decision in eight rounds over Chick Roach, San Francisco. Traditional college rivals will bat- tle it out for indoor running honors at the Millrose A. A, carnival in Madison Square Garden, January 27 and 28. In two of the intercol- legiate features, Rutgers will race LaFayette, while Syracuse will op- pose its upstate rival, Colgate. ee iees The New York State Amateur Boxing Champions crowned at this week's tournament at Madison Square Garden, include Tommy Lawn, 1385 pound title holder, ‘who is a choir singer; Harry Traub, young artists who topped the fly- weight division, and Tony Canzor- eri, high school youth who proved the best of the bantams, Like most of the truly greats in their respective divisions, Paavo Nurmi, Finland's crack middle di: tance star, has no regard for the accepted fundamentals in training. Between races at Madison Square Garden Tuesday night, Nurmi munched an apple, while Ray, Wat son, Hahn, Booth and other Amert- can stars looked on in awe. But Nurmi only smiled munched away and thén stepped out and broke an- other world’s record. In 1882, W. 0. George of England stepped a mile in 4:21 8-5. This was the first world’s record for that dis- tance and it stood for 13 years. In 1895 Tom Connef, Irish middle dis- tance star, chopped six full seconds from the mark. In 1911 John Paul Jones, Cornell University’s great miler, ran the distance in 4:15 3-5. Two years later he clipped another second Off his former mark. In 1915 Norman Tabor established the mark of 4:12 3-5, which stood until Paavo Nurmi, the peerless Finn, at- tacked at the 1924 Olympic’ games, Narmi negotiated the distance in 4:10 2-5. 5 Eddie (Cannonball) Martin, cham- pion of bantamweight boxers, may lose a trip to California where hé ex- pected to appear under the new 12 round law as a result of his failure to put forth his best fight Tuesday. Martin and his opponent, Augie Pi- sano were ordered out of the ring after three rounds of pushing and mauling. The title was not at stake. GREB WINS ON POINTS DETROIT, Mich., Jan. 10.—Bob Sage “Battling Barrister,” was no mateh for Harry Greb, middleweight champion, when the two met in a local arena last night, the cham- pion piling up a lead on points that was well represented in the referce’s decision. The Pittsburgher won. ae HAYDEN WINS DENVER BOUT DENVER, Colo., Jan. 10.—Speed- ball Hayden, Casper colored middle- weight, won a four round decision oyer Charley Long of Omaha here last night in a fast bout. Eddie Mack of Alamosa beat Don “Terror” Long, the fighting Denver dentist; Kid Belt of Canon City, Colo., knocked out Kid Worley, Om- aha featherweight, in the first round and Jimmy Moore, Omaha light: weight, won from Ace Riddlé of In- dianapolis. Watch for Tomorrow’s 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 @be Casver Daily Cribune LEADING PITCHERS OF NATIONAL LEAGUE By JOHN B. FOSTER. Pennsylvania contributed one of the five great pitchers of the Na- tional league to that organization, Every baseball fan knows him from the Atlantic ocean to the Pacific as “Matty.” His name ts Christopher Mathewson and he was born at Factoryville, Pa. He was the king of strategists and he had command of a curve ball, which he developed himself, and which came to be known as the fadeaway, which was the undoing of the National league batters until his arm finally capitulated under the strain and he had to retire as a pitcher to become manager. He is now president of the Boston Ni tlonal league baseball club. Mathewson was not a pitcher of extreme speed all of his life, al though when he first began to pitch for New York, he had quite as much speed as any pitcher who has been connected with the na- tional game, There have been those who have asserted that he did not have speed. That is a mistake. He had it and plenty of it. A good memory, long association With one crganization, a manager who had a memory as good as his own, were all contributory forces to the assisting of Mathewson's de: velopment. He djd not play base: ball on Sunday when he first began which attracted a great deal of sen- timental attention to him, although he did play Sunday ball later and played other games on Sunday when he felt so inclined. His greatest and best single feat in his baseball life was his part in the world series of 1905 when he pitched to the Athletics in three games without a run being scored against him, a marvelous bit of work assisted by some of the ablest fielding that the world ‘series ever has sé¢en, and by @ catcher who was in his prime and who, at that time, was the best catcher fn base ball and who could have been rated with the best catchers of any year. He Roger Bresnahan. Theré has been no pitcher who could pitch the fadeaway except Mathewson. When some enthus! tic writer, carried away by the ex- cess of Imagination and the fact that he has seen a good curve pit cher, says a man has been found who can duplicate the fadeaway, has been only one pitcher who ever take it with a pound of salt. There has been only one pitcher who ever appeared to have acquired the fade QUESTION BOX If you have some question to ask about baseball, football, box- ing or any other amateur’ or pro- fessional aport— If you want a rule interpretea— I¢ you want to know anything about a play or player— Write to John B. Fomter, baseball. Lawrence Perry, 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 « personal reply enclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope. Otherwise your que: ton will be answered in this col- umn, on on amateur Question.—In addition to Strunk and Oldring what was the name of the third regular outfieider of the Philadelphia Athletics when they had their pennant winning team? Answer,—Walsh and Murphy were both outfielders for the Ath. letice in conjunction with Oldring and Strunk. se Question —What sports did Nor- way win in the Olympic games? Answer—Yachting and winter sports, Question.—What is the height and weight of Ruel of Washington, Schang of the Yankees, Gowdy of the Giants and Schalk of the Chi- cagoes. Which of them has the best peg? Answer.-Ruel fs 5 feet, 9% in ches and weighs 160 pounds. Schang is 5 feet, 9% inches and weighs 186 pounds. Gowdy is 6 feet, 2 inches and weighs 178 pounds. Schalk is 5 feet, 7 inches and weighs 154 pounds. Ruel is the best thrower, away and he did not last Jong in baseball because of an injury. He was Louls Drucke, tall Texan, who was with the Giants some sea- sons ago. 2 The fadeaway requires not only physical ability but art and exact knowledge of how to handle the ball and needs a wrist that is madé of steel. Mathewson remained during his long pitching career with one ¢lub, That helped to develop him and de- velop his popularity because fate had sent him to New York which idolized him for the reason that he became a great pitcher under the noses of the New York baseball fans where they could watch his career and marvel over it. He did come within an ace of jumping to the Athletics in troublous times of war, showing that like all ball players, city sentiment had little effect upon him. He was looking for the best terms that he could get for his work. Thanks to good advice he did not go to Philadelphia and it unquestionably was the best thing that ever happened to him. Mathewson did not have the en- durance of some pitchers, His en: ergies had to be conserved yet he could pitch twice in a series and @id so, He was not a hard pitcher to hit, except when he used the fade- Away, but he was the hardest of all modern pitchers to hit safely. He mado the batter hit at ‘good- a balls and that was one of his greatest successes. (In his next article, Mr. Foster will take up the great managers of the National league—the first, John J. MeGraw. WHY 1S NURMI WONDER MAN? Walter Camp Points Out Combination of Factors By WALTER CAMP. Copyright, 1925, per Tribune. NEW YORK, Jan. 10,—The mar- velows showing made by Paavo Nur- mi, in his first appearance on the American track, when he shattered three world records, has stirred the experts anew to an effort to deter- mine just what qualities the flying Finn possesses that entitle him to the appelation ‘Paavo the Perfect.” Ever since his performance at the Olympic games, explanations have been forthcoming to account for his speed and stamina, His ability has been traced to a diet of dried fish and black bread; to his method of dry rubbing and massage and to va- rious phases of his life and training. Since he has been here, the ideas of diet, rubbing and so on, have given place to the atudy of form and he has been likened to some half dor- en of our American stars. His arm action and his method of planting the foot have proven particularly interesting to the critics. The writer, after seeing him in action at the Madison Square Gar- den against “America’s best, ts in- clined to think that all the critics are right—in part. When «a man reaches the height of perfection at- tained by Nurmi, t 1s because of no less than a half dozen superlative points, each contributing its share Nurm! comes of a sturdy, fighting hard working, patient-people. Ho has lived simply and not been cod dd. Me has,had to work without adventitious alds and has become master of himself. Without ques- tion, his heart muscles and his nery- ous item are in admirable condl- tion. As to his form, his arm action, his shoulder motion and foot bal- ance, they are all particularly adapt ed to the conservation of energy and his trunk muscles steady him beau- tifully on his stride and prevent any wobbling, even toward the end of a hard struggle. If ono were forced to state the best ene of Nurmi’s characteristics, especially, the choice would fall on the steadiness of his torso at any pace and at any time in a race. That body held steady and strong, the arms keeping perfect time with the leg motion and no swaying or wast ed effort, is the supreme mark of the greatest of running wonders. FOURAGRSEMEN BEING WATCHED Notre Dame Stars Are Likely to Stay With Gudiron By LAWRENCE PERRY (Copyright, 1925, Casper Tribune) NEW YORK, Jan, 10.—What is to become of the Four Horsemen? Rockne s: the boys may tell their plans shortly. But the talk is that big business is reaching out in competition with football and that the quartet may take charge of an automobile agency in New York. But if they do this. the chances are that all will coach in instl- tutions in proximity to New York, just as Haughton did and Roper ts doing, with respect to Boston and Philade!phia. Walsh and Stuhidreher will prob- ably do their coaching as a pair. In this connection there is gossip wing- ing about. In other words, watch Harvard. There will be no professional foot ball for any one of the famous backs. That game is too small for them. If they stay with football, it will be in coaching berths. But as said probably in conjunction with busi- ness. Sport Gossip The year 1924 goes on record ans a year singularly barren of champion: ship pugilistic events. The Westminster Kennel club of New York, premier organiatizon of its kind in America, is now in its firtioth year. The first national tournament at 18.2 balkline billiards was played in New York in 1896 and was won by Frank C. Ives. However ancient their most of our popular game; back only to the athletic rev the nineteenth century. Ten world’s records are held by Paavo Nurmi, the great Finnish runner, who made his American debut at the games of the Finnish- American A. C. in New York on the night of January 6, origins, date 1 of The first curling club in America was formed at Montreal in 1807. The club was organized by some natives of Scotland, who wished to introduce their favorite winter sport on the St. Lawrence. famous Stanley Cup, em blematic of the Canadian amateur hockey championship, offered in 1898 by Lord Stanley, then gov- ernor-general of the Dominion, and was won in that year by the Mon- treal A. A. A. The ‘The pole vault and a two-mile steeplechase without water jump will be new events on the program of the A. A. U. national junior track and field championships, which aré to be held in Madison Square Garden on January 15 About this time, as well be re called by the older generation of fight fans, Champion Benny Leon ard was wont to come out with a New Year's resolution that he would give every worthy lghtwelght a chance at the crown. Evidently “them days is gone forever In the present era of big ‘gates’ and purses, billiards cannot be said to have kept pace with other pro fessional sports, Purses as large us those received by any of the tournament winners of today were pulled down fifty years or more ago by Sexton, Vaux, McDevitt, the Dion brothers, and other cue stars of their day. Few seasons have been as pro- ductive of individual stars as was the football campaign of 1924, Al most every prominent college ‘eleven boasted at least one player of out standing ability. In many instances it was the work of these players that enabled their teams to make creditable showings on the gridiron But many of these will be lost b. Rraduation, and coaches everywhere will face the dificult problem of trying to fill their shoes next fall MR. KEEFE, WE CERTAINLY RE PROUD TO HAVE SUCH & BRAVE EFICER IN OUR EMPLOY PAGE FIVE. First in News Of All Events By RING LARD India Is Left Behind by the World Fliers By LOWELL THOMAS. (Copyright, By the Chicago Tribune Newspapers Syndicate and the Me: Clure Newspapers Syndicate) Upon arrival at Karachi, the seaport at the mouth of the Indus, the world fliers had to remain long enough to install new engines and overhaul their planes before venturing across the wild mountains of Baluchistan and the Persian and Arabign desert. Instead of stopping at a hotel British officials took them to their bungalows. Several stayed with the Engiish commissioner of Sind who {s the chief civilian administra- tor of all the Vast desert region in western India just north of the Arabian sea. Several were the guests of the collector who is the ebief financial head of the local gov- ernment. But “L Arnold hap- pened to draw the honor of stop: ping at the home of Major General Cook, one of the highest ranking officers in the Indian army. Of courso “Les” was still a shavetail lieutenant and the incongruity of being waited upon for tivo days by @ major general was a novel and &ralifying experience “That first afternoon when we ar: rived in Karachi, I mean tho after noon of July Fourth,” says Les Arnold, “we were all much reliey- ed to get down out of the air—es- pecially Erik and Jack whose en- gine had been disintegrating and flying to bits during that last hour on our way down from Multan. “We stayed out at the field and worked on the planes un! dark, and I was so smeared from head to foot with pil and grease that when General Cook's ‘Rolls Royce,’ complete with chauffeur and footman, took me to his big white mansion I felt like the rugged urchin in the story books who dreams that he is a prince or a millionaire. Good British Repair Shops. “Karachi is the repair depot for the royal air force in India. There are big shops for the overhauling of motors, the rebuilding of wings, and the setting up of plane In fact, it im one of the finest estab- lishments of {ts kind in the world. The shops are all housed in well equipped, attractive stucco and con- crete buildings and there are many officers and enlisted men of the R. A. F. im Karachi, They insisted on plating the entire depot at our dis- posal. Although we accepted the ai sistance of a number of expert me- chanics who proved to be unusually competent and careful workmen, we aid our own changing of motors and inspection. “Saturday evening, July 5, the royal air force entertained us at din ner and Commander Hicks, head of the R. A. F. at Karachi, made a witty speech in which he said he had seen all of the expeditions at tempting to circle the world and that all of them had passed this way. He went on to mention sev- eral British, a couple of French ex- peditions, an elaborate Italian at tempt in the course of which five or six planes were smashed, and a Portugese expedition. He said they had all passed through Karachi, flying from west to east. Then he added that Americans had the repu tation of always doing things differ. ent from anyone else, and here they were doing it again in trying to fly around the globe from the opposite direction. But he sald they were delighter to see this, if only for the sake of variety. Then he added that we had already flown farther than y other competitors and that the thers had all crashed before cov ering the mileage we had made be tween Los-Angeles and Karachi Make Early Morning Hop. Jonday morning we left for 3 o'clock. Gen, Cook even up at that unearthly hour to have breakfaat with me and escort me to the field. At 6:30, shortly after eun rise, we taxied across the airdome cireled around ov this rapidly growing seaport, which, as a result of the vast irrigation projects of British India, is one of the principal grain ports of the world, and then wo headed west toward Persia and Bagdad the outskirts of Karach! we pond in which sa kept by the Hin we a sed a great eovill with its sanitation and modern medical methods, the east is wlll the east, 'I are still millions calls flew cred crocodiles are low over doos, and leper ny ish have 1 | in India who live on the verge of starvation. There are tens of mil- Hons who do not know whether America fs the name of one of their thirty million gods and who do not even know there is difference be- Americans and Britishers. There are hundreds of millions who believe in reincarnation and think that in our various lives we are {n turn cows, vultures, crocodiles, mosquitoes, and hooded cobras. India is still a land of mystery, romance and startling contrast, The British have done much despite the fact that in this one country they are ruling one-fifth of the entire population of the world around which we were flying. We do not envy them their task. Surely it must be a thankless one, Although we were glad to have visited Hindu: stan, we were gladder still to leave. Frying Pan Into Fire, “But as we turned and took our last look at India, before flying on across the Kir Thar mountains to Baluchistan, our thoughts and our sympathies were with our Royal Air Force friends and our other hosts whom we were leaving behind in that fascinating and mysterious but torrid land. “But we soon discovered that in leaving Indit we were merely flying out of the frying pan Into the fire. Of all the countries wo passed over, Baluchistan turned out to be the drearieat, the deadiiest, the most in- hospitable, and the hottest. It in a desert land bounded by India on the east, by Persia on the west, by the little known country of Afghanistan on the north, and the Arabian sea on the th. It is a count The f\ \iai< © UP HERE COMES THE GOSS can be classified only with the inner- most part of the Sahara desert, and the unexplored Roba-el:Khali or great emptiness of southern Arabia. Although it has belonged at various times to the old Babylonian empire of Nebuchadnezzar, to the Pergian empire of Darius, and to the rulers of Afghanistan, today, like so much of the rest of this planet, it {s under the control of the British. Over Desolate Country, “Baluchistan ts certainly the land that God forgot. For hours and hours on end we flew without seeing a bit of cactus, over jagged wtooth mountains 5,000 feet high. Or we would look down on a desolate region made up of great gashes in the crust of the earth. As we flew over this part of our route we felt as though we were clroumnavigating some other planet; tome lost world where. human be- ings no longer live, @ planet aa with- ered and full of cracks and craters as the moon, “All of the airmen who have made long flights from Burope to Japan, and from England to India and Aus- tralia, have passed this way, Bir Ross Smith, who was the first to reach India through the alr from the west, came this way. Then he afterwards flew over Baluchistan in the dual engined Vickers Vimy in which he won the $50,000 award for being the first to fly half way around the world from England to Australia, But the most daring flight of them all was made a few months after Ross Smith passed this way. It was the flight of Lieuts, Ray Parer and John MelIntosh, who staggered half way around the globe from England to Australia, in « second-hand DH-9. They flew across the Mediterranean and even across the South seas from Singapore to the Dutch Bast Indies, and on to Port Darwin without pontoons, Their wheezy old bus caught on fire onte, As they flew over Mount Vesuvius they were nearly jerked into ‘the crater. For 450 miles we flew atress Ba- luchistan, over a region where a foreed landing would have meant « fatal crash. At last we could tell from our maps that we had crossed into Persia, and in less than an hour we descended at the little sea port of Shahbar, on the Gulf ef Oman, merely to refuel and take right off that same day for Bandar Abbas and the Iand of dates, camels and Persian rugs. _—_————_ The University of Pennsylvetia baseball team has scheduled tweaty: eight games for next isno Stay for a > a we Stay fon iy wie “a in the service at the Belment. fer comfort luxurious which it is famous as a resi dence hotel is hospitably avail able to the transient. 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