Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 27, 1925, Page 5

~ wo TUESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1925 World Results By Leased Wire CINCY UNKNOWN QUANTITY; WEAK SPOTS DEVELOP Chances to Strengthen Club Passed Up By Owners CINCINNATI, Obio., Jan. 27.—(By The Associated Press}—The Cincin- nati Reds represent an_ uncertain quantity In the 1925 National League pennant dash’ but if shaky spots in the infield and pitching staff are eliminated, the club promises to be a prominent factor In the race, The winter stove league period for the Reds has been one marked with a dearth of trades which might have strengthened the team in all its positions, Furthermore, there is not mueh opportunity to pull a deal which would whet the fielding and hitting average of the team, althgugh a trade of some sort may be closed before the opening of the spring trainifig season. The club has purchased a few minor league players during the win- ter and some are possessed with ability that made other teams bid for them. The brightest star to drop into the red lineup during the off season was the youngster, Dres- sen, star outfielder from St. Paul. Rube Bressler, utility outfielder, will play first base for the Reds. Bressler who recently signed his contract containing a stipulation that he cannot be sold or traded in as an outfielder and during las sea- son substituted for Jake Daubert. when the veteran was sick. Daubert died just after the close of the sea- son. Huehy Critz, peppery second hase- man, will continue at that position, unless ovsted by recruits Pinelli, Fiery Calfforntan, will remain at third, The shortstop ‘position has several candidates, including Dre en, Bohne, last season's regular; “Chet” Fowler and Topel. Five new comers augment the uncertainty of Inst year's pitching staff. All are of more or less un- known quantity, but Manager Jack Hendricks ts hopeful of plucking one or two regulars from the group, Adolfo Luque, the Cuban veteran, had a bad season {n 1924, while Pete Donohue also was a disappointment, will come back this season. The other regulars holding over on the mound staff are Carl Mays, Eppa Rixey, Jackie May, Rube Benton and Tom Sheehan. Hargrave, Wingo and Jack Bloot, University of Michigan catcher, com- pose the receiving department. Har- grave is best. The outfield has the redoubtable Ed Roush in center field, Walker in left, Elmer Smith, former American Leaguer, and Zeltzmann, an Inter- national Leaguer, will fight it out for the berth in right. =. FIGHTS AND FIGHTERS PHILADELPHIA — Jimmy Good- rich, Buffalo lghtweight won the referee's decision over Harry Brown, Philadelphia after 10 rounds. BALTIMORE—The National Box- ing Association suspended Johnny Dundee, former world’s feather- weight champion, for his failure to meet Fred Bretonnel, French lght- welght. NEW YORK—Johnny Dundee came back to enter the lightweight elimination tourney and not to re- claim his former featherweight title, James J./ Johnston, his man- ager said. a en ee 1839, the Grand National anked as the principal steeple. that is run in England. Since has r chawe Visitors to Chicago who have stopped at the Belmont could not be persuaded to stop anywhere olse. In location, in appointments and service, there is nothing quite like it, The prices are moderate Ge] Solmonts Boon McCanman Proudent G, & BILLINGELEY Manager KIDAN ROAD AT BELMONT Checage 1 CASPER TO RAWLINS STAGE ¥ IAILY AT 9:30 A. M. Saves you approximately 12 hours’ travel between Casper and Rawlins WYOMING MOTORWAY Salt Creek Transportation Company's Office CARS LEAV ' TOWNSEND HOTEL —— BENNY GERSHE; IS SENSATION OF PRIZE RING a CLEVELAND, Ohio, Jan. 27. — From a preliminary boy to a main bout performer in a few months ts the remarkable rige of Benny Ger- shie, San Diego southpaw feather- weight. Gershe scored his thirteenth knockout in sixteen bouts, last night, stopping Harry) (Battling) Leonard of Philadelphia in four rounds, On his first appearance here Au- sust 11 last, Gershe received $30 for a preliminary bout. Last night, box- ing his first windup on big time, he received close to $4,000. Ernie Gooseman, Omaha, Frankie Garcia, Chicago, and Johnny An- drews, Toledo are the only boys who have stayed the limit with Ger- she. He won decisions over each. Gershe got his first knowledge of the ring while loafing around Benny Leonard's training camp. STATE ASHES IN ONFIGHTS New York Earrings in Four and Half Years: Total $783,086 NEW YORK, Jan. 27.—The state ot New York has realized g net profit of $783,086 from professional boxing since the present Walker law went into effect nearly four and one-half yaers ago, according to figures made public by the state athletic commis- sion, This report amounts paid on ad- mission tickets to matches, licenre fees for boxers, managers, clubs, sec- onds, referees and other ring offi- clals. Boxing paid a gross income of $1,- 021,670 but {t cost the statd $238,- 624,94 to regulate the game during that period. Balloon Race Is Scheduled For June 7 Ghde Casver Daily HE TRIBUNE’S PAGE OF SPORTING NEW Tridune PAGE FIVE. First in News Of All Events YOU KNOW ME AL---Adventures of lack Keefe EEE 0177/77} OH, SOY Y THERES DAN THE OIP TLL HAVE To keep My EYE ON HIM Y f fT ieee SINCE POSIN’as @ OUMMY THIS 1¢ THE SIRtY A CROON | SHEN JACK KEARNS DIGS UP OLD CONTRACTS IGNED BY DUFFY By FAIR PLAY, (Copyright 1925, Casper Tribune) NEW YORK, Jan. 27.— Jack Keafns must think a lot of Jimmy Duffy (Hyman Gold.) He has noti fied the boxer that ‘he intends to ex- ercise his rights in a five year con- tract that Duffy signed three years ago when Jack took him east. Since this notification came thru a firm of Oakland lawyers, it looks as tho Kearns means business. Dufty, it appears, would like to be handled by Tommy Simposn,. of Oakland, who is Dufty’s adviser. With the exception of the time Duffy went east and had ‘that bad bout with Lew ‘Tendler, he has fought almost Wntirely in Simpson's shows. Just now, Tommy needs Duffy as he seems to be the only coast boy who figures to have much of a chance against the eastern champions and near champions. If Duffy is grabbed by Kearns, PTO RUNS TONIGHT Millrose A. A. Games at New York to See BRUSSELS, Jan. 27.—The start of the race of the second .Gordon Ben- nett cup for balloons will take place from Brussels on June 7, next. The entries will close April 1. A rolld silver cup valued at 12,500 francs donated by the Aero club of Belgium, will replace the original trophy given by the late James Gor- don Bennett, which became the prop- erty of the Belgium Aeronaut, Ernest De Mupter, through his successive victories in 1922, 1923 and 1924. A cash prize of 12,500 francs will be al- lotted to the winner of the race. ——— QUESTION BOX If you have some question to ask about baseball, football, bax- ing or any other amateur or pro- fessional sport— Tf you want a rule interpreted— If you want to know anything aout a play or player— Write to John B. Foster, on baseball. Lawrence Perry, on sports, and Fair Play on boxing and other professicnal sports. Ali are -ape- {al correspondents of the Casper Tribune, 814 World Bullding, New York. If you want a personal reply enclose @ stamped, self-addresse? envelope. Otherwise your ques fon will be answered in this col. umn, amateur (Copyright, 1925, Casper Tribuhe.) Q.—Was Christopher Mathewson ever manager of a National Ifague club? A—Yes. Q—TI am training a friend for a boxing ch. He Is fleshy through hips and thighs, also through the face. What can be done? A.~For hips and thighs have him Ne on floor on right side and raise right leg twenty times. Then whirl] leg in circle twenty times, forward and backward, Then | eft side and do same help | you about the face; be naturally fat there. Q—Who hus the best record of any pitcher for actual service and success? A—Cy Cleveland. greater success pitcher and in the erentest. Cincinnati. he may Young who began with He pitched longer with than any othe many respects was FARE PHONE 144 Great Contests NEW YORK, Jan. 27.—(By The Associated Press}—America's army of athletic talent will be tossed into the Usts at the Millrose A A games here tonight to battle the trium- phant march of a forelgn invader— Paavo Nurmi, peerless Finn. A hand picked field of college and club talent will meet the endurance powers of Nurmi in a three quarter mile race, the shortest distance he has been called upon to race during his American campaign. The Millrose A A games will bring together Olympic, National and in- tercollegiate talent. The first sec- tion of the carnival will see Nurmi! facing Joie Ray, Ilinofs A ©; James J. Connolly, former Georgetown ath: lete and two intercollegiate middle- distance stars in Lloyd Hahn and Leo Larrivee, in the three quarter mile special tonight. A highly talented field of jumpers will compete in the running high jump. Topping off tonight's program will be Willle Ritola’s appearance {n the three mile run when he will be called upon to outrace a field of six opponents. YANKS STILL AFTER PLAYER WITH ORIOLES By JOE (Copyright 192: NEW YORE B. FOSTER G. Tribune) 27.—The New {t is reported, are How their pride and atempt to buy Joe Boley, shortstop of the Baltimore club. Jack Dunn, of the Orioles, came over to New York when the baseball meeting was on in Decem: ber. at the express invitation of the Yankee management, which wanted to talk about acquiring Boley. Dunn nothing publicly about it at the time and neither did the Yankee bosses. Dunn kept so much under cover while ho was here that few suspect. sd he oven was considering the sale of the man scouts regard as the king in the bushes, as quietly as he come, Dunn siipped back to Baltimore—and promptly proceeded to sign Loley up to a contract for the/ coming season That the Yankees can get Boley without paying a fancy price {s {m- probable, expecially in view of what happened !n December. That any other club can get him without pay- ing well is equally tmprebable. There are five teams that could use Boley —but four of them suffer when they think what Jack Dunn wants for him. jicnlientnted Yor results try a Tribune Classified Ad i} it will look prety much lke an act} of ingratitude on Jack's part toward Simpson who, according to Bob Shand, sporting authority and ref- eree, was pretty fine to Dempsey when the champion most needed a friend. It seems that when Jack heat Gunboat Smith, he did not have a ied manager. He came to Shand and said he was going to ask ’Simp- son to manage him, This he Is re ported to have done. Simpson de- clined and recommended Kearns, saying Jack could do more for him and carry him higher. Now will Jack have the heart to take Duffy away from the man who furnished him with the big meal ticket of all time? Yet fans who knew what sort of a heart Kearns has got figure it out for themselves In the meantime Dempsey bwes Simpson a lot too, and he has been known to return favors. That is no joke, either. SPORT BRIEFS Survey of the record breaking streak that has marked the few weeks of indoor track activity so far shows that 26 world's marks have been eolipsed, against a total of 19 for the entire season of 1923, with the prospect that this figure will be more than doubled fn the next two months. Paafo Nurmi has chalked up twelve marks in seven races while his countryman, Willie Ritola, has s'x to his credit. .Five of Ritola's marks were recorded, in a single race, last Saturday at the Brooklxm Colmes games, when he cot some masanre of revenre for the defeats he has sustsined at the hands of Normt bv disnlacine three of the phantom Finn's records. Rito'a’s achievement of smashing five records in one race has no equal, so far as a earch of past perfor- mances reveals. . Nurmi shattered three marks in a race at the Munt- cipal A A games in New York re- cently while in 1928, Jolo Ray per- formed the same feat at the Wilco meet in Brooklyn. Eddje Collins, newly appointed manager of the Chicago White Sox, nomen “Sullivan.” When Coiins went to Philadelphia to talk terms with Connie Mack, in 1906, he was still a student at Colum- bia. When he walked inte Connie Mack's office a scout recognized him but Mack covered the situation cleverly when he realized that Col- lins had been recognized. Mack said to Collins: “Hello Sullivan, you to meet a friend of mine. scout decided it wasn't Co%ti Eddie retained Sullivan in baseball circles until he graduated from Columbia in 1907, GEORGE LITTLE GOES TO WISCONSIN STATE WITH GREAT RECORD BY LAWRENCE PERRY (Copyright 1925, The Casper Tribune) NEW YORK, Jan, 27.+-Those who know George Little, of Michigan, or who have met him will be in line to congratulate Wisconsin upon ob- taining him as director of athletics at Madison. Little is a fine man who knows a great dea football and other -branches ath letics and incidentally is very well liked by the men with whom he will have to deal throughout the confers ence It is Hkely that the u sity authorities passed Dr well by for.good reasons. been mentioned prominently as the man likely to sueceed Tom Jones in the post from which he resi . but in the end it was probably de- clded that a specialist such as Dr, upstanding young bout Meanwell should not be too greatly distracted from speclalty=— which is basketball. Meanwell may, in fact, be called the Earnest Blood of Intercollegiate baskethall. For in his 12 years of coaching, 10 in the western confer- ence and two in the Missour! Valley conference, he has turned out nine championship tea orfe team that took second place and two fives that finished in third. thet and of of- Maying tl Fletcher that tattle-tale out money and t that he didn’t knowledge of the O’Con- \ , Glant first base reused by O'Con 1own that he made Sand and yet he went r igher officials.) to California after the season clos did not live up to the he-man repu-|ed and waa ready to play on tle tation he made when he was play-|samo basketball team. with the jortstop with the Giants you' r who had accused him of ctual rating of the av+|being a part {n baseball's greatest 3 not very hig It $8] crime manager ad MANY BALL PLAYERS LAKCING IN BRAINS, ARRELL DECLARES O'Connell h bear games |man, was er} nell of Navin the offer ssing | By HENRY L.- FARRELL. (United Pri Sports Editor) was not popular. r in 80 cases NEW YORKK, Jan. 27 (United| hardly more than a kid, $ reak- | = so very low. the Pressk—All through the discussions|ing into the only: t ¢ ‘ Frank Vrisch, captain of of the Dolan-O'Connell baseball}kknew. Dolan was an hand fants, a star player and a col scandal, the light-hearted manner] tl ame who was prir ate. When he was being n which major league pli look-| detective for John M examined t mmissioner Landis ed upon the case was one of its}he was not passing signals after O'Connell had re a in his} most unusual features, from the coaching line. presence that Sand The players in general sympathize] Many of the players still insist} had been approached, Vrisch said with Jimmy O'Connell and they feel| that O'Connell was made the victim| that it must have been a joke and that Commissioner Landis went to|of a practical joke and that too/that lots of Jokes and kiddings like an uncalled-for extreme when he|much serfousness was attached to a! that always happeried on a pennant barred the young Calffornia out-fsituation that had nothing of the|contending club. fielder for life because he had ad-|criminal naturo in it. Ross Young, Glant outfielder, who mitted offering a bribe to a Phila-| Ono prominent major mentioned by Ojfennell as hay delphia shortstop. Dolan’s case}manager said during the ad Knowledge of the plot, tes didn't arouse much __ sentiment’ baseball meetings that Sand was ‘ that he had heard stories of Amon the Area Sam Bohne, Cincinnati inflelder, who is now the plaintiff im a suit publication that charged ) playing crooked base signed to play on the same isco basketball team wit! an outlaw, Tak against « him w an Bar O'Connell vr having had more exzperi- n with such cases than the casual fan, it is no mystery what prompts John A. Heydler, presi- dent of the National league to say that he can't {magine the workings of some ball players’ {ntellects. - > 1 Classified ad. league | y winter I ing Ufied For results tr > Hy gl | ls "Vail “4 aul OT attr e soon teyshev yeeros DALY AMAh Ya moon iil? epg tt mt dolly he (tH eel eyacadead dion inn The most remarkable tobacco ever offered to pipe smokers — in quality, in value, in taste which just seemed to “go’with a pipe. 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