Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 12, 1925, Page 5

~ 7T OTAMTTADY 19 998 ivorld Results By Leased Wir THREE HURLERS 60 TO BROWNS IN BIG. TRADE Toledo Star Included In Deal That Brings Shocker to Yanks. By JOHN B. FOSTER. (Copyright, 925, Casper Tribune.) NEW YORK, Jan. 12.— To get Shocker away from St. Louis the New York Yankees had to provide the Browns with three specimens of pitching talent in exchange—one of whom they had to buy in order o put the trade over, It seems that the Browns were anxious to get a young hurler from Toledu by the name of Glard. Giard had been looked over by the scouts and admired by Several of them but most of ull was admired by the St. Louis hunters. The St. Louis own- however, were not in a mood to any money for him. When the Shocker affair was first breached to the Browns by the Yan- er, the former were not a bit warm about the trade, Maybe that was sim tlated froat—the premeditated bash- fulness of @ horse trader who knows what he is after and what he {s go- ing to do, but imagines that he is a good actor can keep the other fel- low from knowing it. The trade was kept simmering be- fore a “yes"’ ccud be had, until the Yanks were ready to give Bush, Gas- ton, a kid pitcher, and finally to buy Glard from Toledo for St. Loutr. Joe OBrien, of the Toledo club, knew what was going on and was in Chi- cago, where the deal was put through before the sum was up. Jimmy Burke, who managed the T.- ledo club last year, is so confident that Glard will make good that he the Yanks made a mistake in keening him and calling the Burke thinks Giard will make the best kid pitcher in the American eague if he conducts him- self properly and absorbs the few lit- tle detalle necessary to make himself a star, Giard won 20 games and lost 17 in the American assoctation in 1924 and at the finish of the season he was a much better pitcher than he’ was at he beginning. His earned run average was 3.62 which isn't bad for a kid. Shccker, according to Umpire Con- nolly, is the best pitcher in the American League and Connolly has seen them all come and co for many years in that circuit, If by any chance Shocker should not be able to go very wel In 1925 and Giard should prove to be a three- ply double-A tosser for the Browns, the Yanks may have cause to regret that they pinned their hcpes to a veteran and passed up this kid so much wanted by St. Louis and for whom, by the way, the Yanks paid s very pretty price, perhaps as much ‘as $10,000. —_—_-___—_. With a population of less than 12,000, Kinston, N. C., will have the distinction of being the smallest city in the country with a Class B base hall club. The town has been in- cluded in the Virginia league circuit for next summe not trade’ off. Plans are making in Denver to stage the annual Colorado state bowling tournament during the last week of March. Captain Quits \ Pecnuse fraternity \polities dom! pd the elect! Albert Bloodgood ently chosen captain of the Uni ity of Nebraska football tean 1928, has been forced to resian Ed Weir, All-America tackle, hi been elected to succeed himself | place of Bloodgood. Here we hav joodgood, below. Fifty Years Of Baseball JOHN B. FOSTER. The most successful manager in the National league is John J. Mc- Graw, He may bo both spoken of and written of In the present tense because he is stil! manager of the National league team » has conducted to 10 cham | Plonships. Lis first victory was in 1904. He won again in 1905. In 1911-12-13 he was ful, repeating in 1922, 1923 and 1924. In 1904 there was no world series because both McGraw, manager, and Brush, owner of the Glants, de- clined to play the Boston Amert- cans, The players of the team also voted that they would prefer not to play the Boston Americans, In 1905 the Giants won from. the Athletics. In 1911 they lost to the Athletics in the world series, and lost to Bos ton In 1912. In 1013 they lost to the Athletics again and in 1917 lost to Chicago. In 1921 and 1922 thay de- feated the New York Americans and {n 1928 lost to them. In 1924 the'r- riva's were Washington and they lost to them. As a world series manrager McGraw has had but ordl- nary success In extolling the praises of Me- Graw as manager of a team, that has made such a fine record In the National league, the fact almost tn variably {s overlooked that he made one of the most brillant campaigns in his career when he was manazer for Baltimore in earlieryears. There came o time when the Baltimore club, chagrined at the poor patron age that was accorded at home and fearing the city had lost {ts interest in baseba'l, decided to transfer most of tts players to Brooklyn, It was also decided that Hanlon, manager of the Baltimore team at that time, should go with the play- ers to Brooklyn, and assume the management of thé Brooklys. Mc- Graw elected to remain In Baltimore for reasons known to himself and when he cast his lot with the Balti- mores he was made manager. The players who were left to him na- tura'ly enough d'd not represent the the best that Baltimore had and he was compelled to do what he could to pick up others who would be of assistance to him. The team that was left behind, when Hanlon de- parted from the city of Orioles and went to Brooklyn, was not consid- ered to be,much of a prospect by the eritics of those days and they were somewhat Inclined to jeer it and belittle its chances before the season began. The budding ability of McGraw made itself manifest that year. He took Ba'timore along at a fast gait ad finished fourth and there was part of the season when he had the Brooklyn team. and other teams of the National league which aspired highly, completely at sea as to where he might finish with his so- called castoffs. It has Neen a wonderfully event- ful baseball Hfe for McGraw. He has had many successes, but all of his successes were not much better By suc | BOX | ‘n the way of accomp'ishment than that season with Baltimore, when unkown and laboring with all the severe penalties that are imposed ‘pon a young manager, who is try- ing to make his way tnto major Jeague baseball, he took the under- rated Baltimores to fourth place In the race. He deserves as much for that one good year as for any year in which he ever won a pennant. He has no immediate intention of retifing and will be at {t again in 1925 trying for another pennant. His methods of achieving success are so modern and the results which he has won for himself so recent, that comment is unnecessary as to the demonstrat- tion of his intelligent effort. No other manager in baseha'l ever has done what he has, That seems to be the most fitting pratse to be- stow upon his career. (Next Adrian C. Anson.) QUESTION If you have some question to ask about baseball, football, bax- ng or any other amateur or pro- fessional sport— If you want « rule interpreted— If you want to know anything acout a play or player— Write to John B. Foster, baseball. on @'Y HAO SY NO COMPLAINTS OF CROOK: (GEEN HERE . HAS THEY? By FRANK GETTY (United Press Staff Correspondent) NEW YORK, Jan. 12.—Tex Rick- ard is golng to promcte boxing at the Yankee Stadium this summer and the big attraction will be Jack Dempsey defending his title against Commy Gibbons of St. Pau!, who tood up to the heavywelght cham- pion for 16 rounds at Shelby a couple of years ago, Rickard, unquestionably the lead- ing promoter the boxing game has known, has been negoilating with Colonel Jacob Ruppert, cwner of the New York American league club and stadium, and wil) succeed Jimmy Johnston as matchmaker at the de- sired location. The Yankee stadium is the best in Manhattan for outdor bouts, and when the season rolls around its mammoth wiil combine with Rick- ard’s genius fcr the benefit of fol- lowerr of fistianna. Jack Dempsey and Jack Kearns his manager, both have expressed a williugnoss to give Gibbons a re- turn match. They contend that the champion was not ig condition when ae fought Tommy at Shelby, and chat another match will demonstrate conclusively that Dempsey is master of the St. Paul wizard. Another match which Rickard wi'l prcemote during the coming outdoor season, provided he can make Demp- sey and Kearns live up to promices hey finally have made him, is one between the champion and Harry Wills. This bout, which Tex is con- (ident of being able to bring about would be staged over in Jersey City. Dempsey always says he is anx- Lawrence Perry, on amateur sports, and Fair Piny on boxing and other professi.na! sports, All are spe clal correrpondents of the Casper Tribune, 814 World Building, New York. If you want a personal reply enclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope. Otherw your ques- fon will be answered in this col- umn. Quostion.—Was Gene wounded tn the war? Answer,—No,. Tunney Question.—Runner on first base, Batter hits the ball to first baso- man. He gots it and touches first base, Runner advances to second base, First baseman throws the ball to the second baseman who touches the bag but not the runner, Umpire declares runner safe, Was the umpire right? Answer,—The umpire was right becauno the first baseman by touch- ing the bag when he got the bal retired the batter and ended any forco play that might have existed. the ~ 1925 tion.—When will oa tourney be Fritish amateur golf played and where? Answer.—At Royal North Devor club at Westward Ho on May 25. lous to meet, Wills, and then Kearns pops up with sme good reason why various propositions for such a match are unsatisfactory. This time. ,t seems as though the prospects arq good for the bout being held, Boyle's Thirty Acres” should hold its capactly crewd when Jack and Harry clamber through the ropee. Asa a matter of fact, Dempsey, unless his Kelx eyes, fancy new nose and wrijer’s cramp have per- manently disabled him, should have ittle trouble with “Mistah" Wills. The black looked foolish against Bartley Madden. Of course, Madden makes a lot of them lock that way, but a good man, Jack Renault, for nstauce, war abe to s.op him. Wills ouldu't. Harry won a decision from Luis Angel Firpo, but the Argen- cine cheese had gone decidedly muldy by that tmile, as evidenced by the lac- ng he took from Charley Weinert a short time afterwards. ‘The Dempsey-Gibbong bout should be a good one with odds on the cham- pion The Dempsey that beat Firpo one summer's night In 1923 would annihilate Gibbons. Whether that Dempsey can be resurcitated from the morass of the movies {s a ques: ton. Gibobns showed well against Kid Norfolk recently, a'beit the Kid" isn't such a tough customer for a real'y good big man, On the fistic horizon at the mo- ment there ts but one other whom mpsey has exp: @he Casner Dally Tribune RICKARD WILL PUT ON STADIUM FIGHTS meet, and this figure at present has ts back to the ring and its eyes on he lives of fair and gallant Indies in sunny France. Luis Firpo, of course, {s out, as far as the forth- coming outdoor searon goes. It will take a couple of years of ballyhooing and press agentry to work him back into a position of challenger for the heavyweight title. There was some smoke, but very Uttle fire, about Jack Renau't, but it is not probable that he will meet Dempsey this year. The Gibbons bout looks to be the best bet. Dempsey fights are more dependent on locaticns than oppo- nents, anyhow, which {s why the news that Rickard has suoceeded in getting a line on the Yankee Stad- tum for 1925 {s much more import- ant than any announcement concern- ing possible matches, WALKER PLANS LONG TOUR 10 BUILD UP “REP Champ Thinks He Has Lost Prestige by Fail- ure at Knockouts. By FAIR PLAY. (Copyright, 1925, Casper Tribune) NEW YORK, Jan. 12.—Mickey Walker {s wise to the fact that his lack of ability as a consistent knocker-out has Burt his prestige a Uttle in the east. So he is going to tour the iand and run up a string of kayos. He expects to wind up in California and do a lot of fight- ing there. He will be the first champion to hit the Pacific slope as it now appears, The chances are that Walker will have to be content with sma'l money bouts of a few rounds, as the California commission is not holding out wide open arms to outside pro- moters who have announced their readiness to launch big plans. Tom McCarty, for Instance. Tom, in the old days, was the biggest pro- moter in Los Angeles, the only worth while fight impressario. He asked for a permit and told the commission he was going to bulld a $250,000 arena. And the commission was so {m- pressed by Tom's magnificent plans that they put his application for a license to conduct bouts on file and appear to have forgotten all about it In the meantime, Jack Doy'e, of sted a derire to Los Angeles, a four-round bout pro- SPORT BRIEFS Cornell's intercollegiate basket ball quintet, champions of the 193% 24 season, will open its 1928 season Saturday by meeting Pennsylvania at Philadelphia, At the time Dartmouth will entertain lumbia at Hanover, New Hampshire, The two thirde mile race at the Millrose A.A, games at Madison Square Garden, January 27, will the season's greatest array of rffld- dle distance stars in competition, Besides Panvo Nurmi, the flying Finn, there will be George Marsters, Jimmy Connolly, Lioyd Hahn, Tom Cavannaugh end Ray Wetson, When Nurm! signed for thie event he made note of tho record time and said afterward, he hoped to break ft, Douglas Fairbanks has gent @ complete equipment for his new jgome “Doug” to Syracuse univer. sity for trinl, This game waa {ntro- dueed to the Orange when It play- ed the University of Southern Call fornia, It resembles tenn{s with the exception that !t fa played with tufted corks instead of balls and the object must not touch the ground after being put into play, ‘The New York State ath'etio com: mission will ask Eddie (Cannonball) Martin, the new bantamweight champlon,,to appear at the com- mission's office Tuesday when the details of Martin's poor showing against Augie Pizano last Wedne day, will be reviewed. If the moguls nee fit t6 set down the champion, several bouts already arranged, will have to be Iabel'ed “postponed” as {t fe unlikely Martin will attempt to fight against the commission's or- ders. NEW YORK—Daszy Vance, Brooklyn pitcher recently voted the moat valuable player in the Natfonal league, is a holdout, negotiations for a Lendon fight with Louls Firpo, still were on, _ e OKLAHOMA CITY,—Wayno Munn, newly crowned heavyweight wrestling champion, will defend his ttle in @ finish matoh between Jan- uary 20 and $5 in Okishoma City, KANSAS CITY.—Strangler Low! dethroned wrest!ing champion, was able to leave a hospital, although still suffering from injuries recelv- od in his losing match Vriday night with Wayne Munn. ‘Advis of Jack Keefe Leave It to the ladies fair to introduce the THE TRIBUNE’S PAGE OF SPORTING NEWS DIO You SEE THAT BIRO BEAT IT WHEN innovations Here we have Miss Kay Clark of New York City playing a round of golf at Poland Springs Me on her skils The fad has gone over big et Poland Springs, Me and Lake Placid. New York. where there ts always plenty of snow tor ski golf Despite the rather awkward stance made necessary because of the use of skiis eome curprisingly low soores have been made. The caddy. Francie Regen is also similarly equipped and follows Miss Clark with ease moter, has his license and the as- surance to go ahead and stage all the bouts he wants. And over in Oakland, Tommy Simpson, another four-round promoter’ and ‘a square shooter from all angles, has his Ii censo with prospects that other moters will not be permitted to butt in on him. The few shows consist ing of four and ten-round bouts that haxe been held thus far have been well attended and ‘the outlook for @ sane and healthy condition tw box- ing looks good. Mickey Walker would get a good reception on the coast bet the chances are he will not make a whole lot of money. The {dea out there seems to be to develop some crack coast boys and then have the eastern topnotchers Come out and meet them, instead of importing two easterners for a bout There never is any telling what the two eastern’ fighters might cook up between them. But !t would be a cinch that nothing would be cook ed up but a real battle when the easterner met the coastal product A Jersey critic, !n handing Walker a roast, cal's att to the fact that in Jersey rings s shown poor kn it | Ward, Dave S' P Malone and Mik met hi min the ring out g mark reason, of ec is that Walker is a | puncher and {t takes n Dempsey to stow away a man with n body wallop. CUB STARS IN MANY EVENTS 12.—When CHICAGO, Jan Chicago Cubs signed Mel Baskatoo, Sask., recently, they got more than @ ball player, Kerr {s an all around athlete, rugby track man, tennis player, basket ball star, swimmer and fancy diver Hoe has passed up golf, however. In baseball he always plays outfield or first base, the] Kerr of player, Johnny Myrre, the Finn!sh athlete who holds the world’s javelin record has taken up. his residence in San Franolsco and tn future will com pete under the standard of the Olym plo Club of that city, —— Manager John J. McGraw ts busy in the preparation of an elaborate schedule of exhibition games for his team next spring. Tho progra, it ig expected, wil! tale the Giants over & wide expanse of territory after they finish their unlimbering on the aun-kissed field at Sarasota, Pia, Sa The coming annua! bench show of the Westminster Kennel Club tn Madison Square Garden wil be the last to be in the historic structure which has heen the home of the| club's exhibitions for so many years. | Sport Gossip Boston has an indoor polo league this winter, composed of six teams, The Hoboken Model Yacht Club, the first in America, was organized in 1840 Alabama and Tennessee will be the ne of many important field trials during the month of January, Judging from plans already an- nounced, the next few months will be the most active in the busy career of Willie Hoppe, the 18.2 balkline billard champion. The first race of {ce-yachts for the American championship was held over a 20-mile course on Orange lake N. J., n 1891, and was won by the Scud, of the Shrewsbury Ice Yacht Club, Judging: from the interest dis- played in the annual National Motor Boat Show now on in New York, the water sport {s booked for one of the greatest seasons in !ts history gs the coming summer. Oxford and Cambridge University oarsmen have already started their long practice season in preparation for the annual university boat races which will be held over the historic ‘Thames course in March. More than usual interest attaches to the annual midwinter meeting of he Grand Ciroult stewards In Cleve. land because of the probability of some important changes in the membership of that famous racing organization. "1d" Goodman, who was one of the best of the New Fingland light- weights in hin day, {a now holding down m position as a jail attache in Boston, at the same time keeping in touch with the ring game by ret- ereoing an occasional fight In the Hub, The success of the soccer leagues in all sections of the country during tho first half of the present cham: plonship season shows clearly that the game {« now established on a firm foundation and that the future of the sport in America ts assured, The National Collegiate Athletic Association has 230 colleges under {ts Jurisdiction, Last season, for the first time in five years, no American league club batted ,,800 ag a team, Colorado has more than 600 lakes and more than 6,000 miles of streams in which there is trout fishing, That it Is a diffioult prepoenition to make a alxclub baseball clroult HE SEEN IT WAS ME?! 1 KNOW @LL THEM CROOKS - THEY cen'r FOOL me First in News Of All Events Friend Al: Well Al I had some hard luck ) my Ist wk. as a hotel dick. It seems that I loose my wallet rub- : ber and all yesterday. 1 must of f put it down in ther wash rm. or tome place and forgot it. Any- way its went with all my money t and pitching records and clip- pings from the newspapers. Im clean as a wissle. I aint got a dime dame fortunes dawter still follows your old side kick - Jack Keefe : (Copyright. 1935. by The Bet Syndicate, Tne.) @ financial success is evidenced by the fact that practically all of the minor leagues that went through on a six-day basis last year are prepar ing to expand to eight-club circuits for the next season Denver's leading woman bowler is Mrs. Margaret Taylor, a telephone operator, who has an individual ay. erage of 173. Trinchera ranch, comprising 000 acres in Colorado, {# sald to be the largest private game park in the world. The first world’s championship skating tournament for women was held at Davos in 1905, and was won by Mrs. Syers of the Figure Skating Club, London, Coach Steve Harrick will take the wrestling squad of West Virginia University on a trip west at the end of February for a meet with Iowa State College. So popular is the game of hockey in London and its vicinity that many of the leading clubs are represented by teams in three or four different leagues. The Intercollegiate Lacrosse League plans an organized cam- paign with a view to making La- crosse one of the leading Spring ports at American colleges. The National Amateur Skat! sociation of the United States was formed in 1886 and was followed two years later by the organization of the Amateur Skating Association of Canada, & As Louis ("Kid") Kaplan, the new world’s featherweight | champion held the featherweight and junior light champlonships ef New England before he started on the trail of the world’s title. Since the Intercollegiate .aBsket- ball League was started in 1901 the most successful teams have been those of Yale and Pennsylvania which have six championships each to thelr credit ‘ Oarsmen of the U. §, §. Arizona this year won every team rowing event in the United States battle fleet, scoring ten straight victories in races against the combined com- petition of eleven other dread- naughts. Zachary Davis, a Chicago archi- tect, 1s known as America’s fore- most designer of baseball parks. A majority of the big ball parks built In recent years were constructed from plans drawn by Mr. Davis. Ski-jumping and kindred snow sports, which only a few years ago were confined to Dartmouth, Wil- Mams and the Canadian colleges, have rapidly grown in popularity as intercollegiate competitions. The Afghan hound, a breed little known to American fanciers, is be- leved to be one of the oldest breeds of coursing dogs. In their native Afghanistan they are used for cours- ing deer and antelope, end have proved themselves to be fieeter and more sure-footed than ihe grey- ound. For the thirteenth time, the In- dianapolis. Motor Speedway will stage its 600-mile international sweeptakes, May 30, on the two and one half mile brick oval which has made the Hoosier capital city fa- mous {nternationally, As in pre vious years, the race will carry the largest cash award of the season for an automobile speed contest. Grover Cleveland Alexander, main- stay of the Chicago Cubs’ pitching force, is adding to his bankroll this winter by writing {nsurance in the Windy City The recently organized Northern California Horse Show association is planning to hold {ts first exhibt tion in Oakland during the week of February 6. Marty Taylor, former well known pugilist and contender for the Amer: loan Expeditionary Force bantam welght belt, is now a prosperous hardware merchant in Brooklyn. Now that boxing is legalized in Oregon and California, it is expect- ed that Washington will be the next State to fall in line, An effort will be made to have the new legislature take action in tho matter, Hitting 1,095 consecutive bull's eyes with a .22callber rifle at o (stance of 50 fect, is the remark able reeord of a schoolboy markw man of Fresno, lit, —_— — Try a Classified Ad for results EAPULSION OF INSURGENTS BY. 6.0, P.URGED |Nicholas Longworth in } New York Address Scores Many. ; NEW YORK, Jan. 13. (United 4 Press).—Expulsions from the high: 4 er councils of the Republican party of "14 or 16 congressman" who sup- ported Senator La Follette in his tn- dependent candidacy campaign was | suggested by Representative Nich- elas Longworth Ohio, inaspeech be- fore the Ohio Society of New York , at its annual dinner here Saturday. While Longworth did not actual- ly read the congressmen frem the party he urged they be kept out of ‘key positions’? amd indicated that party discipline demands stringent - punishment for them when the Re publican caucus is aeld about March 1 Longworth scored the “bloc sys- tem” of politics, which, ho said, never will work out In the United States. If tho house follows the Republl- can leader's advice, {t was pointed out, it will be but following attacks by the Republican senate majority, which has meted out punishment to Republican senators who supported La Follette Representative Theodore Burton told the society the United States should enter the international court of justice, sponsored by the League of Natlons because it affords the best means of “realizing the su- preme aspiration of the whole world for peace.” President Coolidge and Secretary Hughes both favor participation in the court, Burton said. , Longworth’s speech was consid- { ered the high spot of the dinner. After promising that the next ses- sion of congress, with a strong Re- publican majority, will be one of 4 the most efficient {n yoars, he call- ed for rejection of the rebels. “Thess men,” Longworth said referring to the congressmen who supported La Follette, “cannot and ought not to be classed as Repub- Means during the next congress They left the Republican party de- Mberately and did everything por sible toward its undoing. Shall we take them to“our bosoms and keep them in the inner chambers of our party councils?” Touching on the general political situation, Longworth sald in his opening most important problem facing the government, is reduction of expenditures. SHOW HORSES DIE IN BLAZE ee were MORRIS, TL, Jan, 12—Ten fine show horses owned by Harry Gor- ham at Broadmoor, Ilinots, were killed by suffocation in a firg which destroyed the barn on his stock farm yonterday “Dick Muldoon,” the champion Shetland saddle pony of the country was among the animals killed, Preparations had been completed to take the animals to the Denver stock show and a further trip to the Pacific coast ' A tentative estimate of the loss was placed at $75,000, ——___ agreement British Stars Of t Golf Are Victors SAN FRANCISCO, Callf., Jan. 12. George Duncan and Abe Mitchell, famous Brit'sh professional feated Abe Espinosa ald Smith California golfers, 6 and 4, In a 36 hole exhibition mateh, played over the Lake Merced Golf ond Country Club course here yes. terday —— ee Lousville has the largest concern in the warld engage’ exclus'vely in the manufacture of baseball bate, dba ale Barly season attendance records point to a banner year for the bas- \ketball teams in the Western con ferer © universities,