Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 28, 1925, Page 8

' é t ] PAGE EIGHT World Results By Leased Wire PEARL WHITES CAPTURE BASKET TITLE BY DEFEATING PARSONS Cage Victory Nosed Out by Lone Point in Thrilling Windup of City League Season Here in Casper. in a thrilling finish the Pearl Whites last night beat the Methodists, 22 to 21, and annexed the championship of the Casper Basketball league for 1925 and with it a trip to the Rocky Mountain tournament at Denver next week. The game was fast, clean and a beautiful exhibition of the indoor sport. WALTER HAGEN WINE FORM Star Golfer Looms as Contender for 1925 Titles. YORK, NEW t in the sphere the greatest red profess! and ca links looms a 1925 als, this debonnatre consistent star of t able as ever on tt izon as he tunes his lick to championship pitch on da fairways. Hagen's name is coupled with that of the youthful southerner, Bobby Jones, at the top of the golfing bracket now, but even the brilliant Georgia cannot match the consistenc his professional ri- Year and I ad, during the past decade, Hagen's achievements have paralled the annals of the id ancient game. tted for every n crown of golf in the spectacular march, r of the American open the dashing p N. ¥. ed tt Flort- sty re and al no y from the winer a third He also captured the national fesional championship last sea- son and recently administered a crushing defeat to Cyril Walker, American of title holder, in a battle for the unofficial world’s crown. Hagen's success has been due more to his fine competitive temper- ament than to any consisten passing brilliancy in s hot-m although he has often shown an un- wizardry with his clubs. Most of his victories have been bagged through an ability to reach his greatest heights when under fire, to perform cooly at his best when the odds were heaviest. Hagen's finishes in golf have become as fa- mous as Garrison's on the turf yelrs ago. CARDS TO PLAY IN EXHIBITION AT STOCKTON ST. LOUIS, N Feb. 28.—After four days of spring training, the St. Louis Cardisals were ready to meet opposition from Sacramento, Cail- fornia, today at Stockton, California r first the Br pb a 700 ATHLETES If BIG MEET 1H ILLINOIS b. 28 With r By more than the ent- ear's Olympt ted t rel nd ter events. carnival racted entries iversities In the “Big the Missouri Valley confer- additio: t a number of rsit Fifteen athlet wil compete for around champion. | Tt was rip and tuck every minute of the ——| wa with first one team out in front and then the other. At the end of the first half the Parsons were leading by the narrow margin of 12 t o 11. Going into the last two minutes the Methodists lead by one point but an air basket by Fritz Layman, Casper high school coach and a star shooter of the Pearl Whites, gave his team victory. The margin of difference was #0 slim that neither team can be said to have anything on the other in teamwork, passing or shooting and elther would have been » fitting rep- resentative of Casper in tho tourna- ment. The Pearl Whites get the chance and they can be depended on to give a good account of them- selves, Layman and Clowry proved the scoring aces for the winners with five and four baskets respectively. J eff wus covered like a tent and could not get lobse. Sonners and Sam Neff made the Pearl Whites teamwork look better by playing a strong defensive game and not run- ning the floor as often as usual. Traylor and Pester, the Methodists scorers, each tallied three baskets with Zoble, Mullis and Mechling playing fine defense. Following the game the cup, em- blematic of the league champlonship, was presented to the Pearl Whites by E. Richard Shipp. In discussing thelr first champion- ship after the game, the players were loud in thelr praises of Dick Farrell, who has not only backed the team financialiy but gulded {t through the many stormy seas incidental to the pennant. The scores and lineups: | Pearl Whites (22) * PG FT TP Layman 5. 0 10 0) ss 0: «0h u0 (Dare Ceaser Sit32 8 Total --.- 23 Methodists (21) TP Traylor 8 Pestor 7 Zoble — 0 Mullis 2 Mechling ° Post *-. 3 Robinson 3 Total 30 BRAVES PUT THRU PACES BY MANAGER BOSTON, Feb. 28.—Manager Dave Bancroft, has arrived at St. Peters- burg, Florida, from Miam! and yes- terday personally directed the first spring workout of the Braves, ad- vices received here sald. Bancroft announced that he and Judge Fuchs, who were at Miam! to- gether, took an option on the ball grounds there and the question of the Braves training there in the future is being considered. > QUESTION BOX If you have some question to azk about baseball, football, box- ing or any other tour or pro- fessiowel sport— If you want a rule interpretea— If you want to know anything about a play or player— Write to John B. Foster, baseball. Lawrence Perry, on amateur sports, and Fatr Play on boxing and other professional sports. All are spe- 1 correspondents of the Casper Tribune, 814 World Building, New York, If you want a personal reply enclose a stamped, self-addressed umn. envelope, Otherwise your quas von will be answered in this col- ——s Q-—~If I sign with a Class © team on not make the team am I a profos- ional? A.—Not if you did not recelve salar, Q.—Please tell me a good exer- cise for developing a punch, also the wind, A.—Try the medicine bag and the wood pile. Both are good. If you can obtain a book which gives exer- cises for the medicine bag the chances are that you will get help in developing a punch and there ts nothing better for the muscles of the arm than working on the wood pile. Q.—What Is a professional? A nan who receives salary or uneration in for in a game. return and go to a training camp but do} | , Be if KVM Ars 1m GOLF By LAWRENCE PERRY. (Copyright, 1925, Casper Tribun NEW YORK,, Feb. 28.—The prac: tice of rival prize fighter managers trying to beat efich other to the wire and sending forth biased accounts of bouts {s a recognized part of the pugilistic industry. Is it possible that our professional golfers are begin- ning to take up the merry custom? It is unthinkable, yet occasionally this winter information coming over the wires from sunny Florida or equally sunny California has given birth to.a suspicion that it has not been di8reminated by disinterested chroniclers, There {s the matter of the record for the Boca. Ciega course at St. Petersburg, Fla., whence the other day came word that Walter Hagen and Joe Kirkwood, playing in a, four- some against Jack Erbeck of White Plains and A. C. Painter of Pitts burgh, broke the course record with a 69 each, while together they had a best will of 63. So far as is known, this is well below the best previous best ball rec- ord, but Leo Diegel will probably have something to say about the claims that Hagen’s 69 and Kirk- wood's 69 are a record for the Boca Clega links. GIANT ROOKIE HOLDOUT GIVEN AIR BY WY GRAW Walter McGrew Going Back to Memphis | For Season. NEW YORK, Feb. 28—Things hap- pened and things did not happen in the training camps of the Yankees and Giants yesterday. There was snow in Hot Springs when George Herman Ruth departed, there was rain In St. Petersburg, Florida, and Frank Frisch, captain and cond baseman of the :dcGraw club, with- held his contract signature for a few more hours, Walter McGraw, who failed to sign his contract, was turned back to Memphis without reporting to the Glants and McGraw that he was not in ing players let it be known who are not under cont When Charli n kees wil wo players r jon from expected M consisted of hasing. | bolling point, ts Yesterday's business more batting and fly THREE GRADE SCHOOL FIVES IN TRIPLE TIE WHEN WILLARD WINS Willard sthrew the grade chool basketball league into a triple tie yesterday afternoon by doing the unexpected and defeating Jeffe: 18 to 9, in the last regularly e * vled game of the senson. The »lay- off will be arranged for next week, Willard, Jefferson and Lnicoln com: peting. Whitmore and W. Dowler the stars for the Willard five Peck for the losers. Willard | the game completely in har times and was never thre The lineups: Willard (18) L. Dowler . Whitmore W. Dowler Davis ~ - Hubbs Riselle Scherck In the preliminary game the Wil- lard girls’ team defeated the Jeffer- son girls’ team, 2 to 1. The lineups: Willard (2) Jefferson (1) Hallowell ~ Martin ~ Chapin n, and had at all Jefferson (9) Hubbard Hinds . Ro, GEE, @eamMGONE SONES AND @ PAL. NLL HIDE TILL HE HERE COMES STARS SHOULD BE CAREFUL ABOUT CLAIMING RECORDS For the fact is that last January Diegel, teamed with Gene Sarazen, beat Hagen and Kirkwood 6 a 4 in 18 holes in the course of which Diegel turned in a 67. This to be ex- act, was on January 17. Speaking of Gene Sarazen, the fact comes to mind that the little golfer hi been shorn of titles as completely as Joie Ray was sheared of his world's records by Paavo Nur- mi. His last title went when he was beaten in the professional golfers’ tourney at French Lick last sum- mer. It now seems uncertain just what he will do this season. He seems to be in process of working over his game, doing a lot of practice and get- ting back to his own natural, if un- orthodox, style, which carried him so high. Gene's poor showing in’ 1923 {s thought to have been due to his neg- lect of practice’ and to his willing- ness to experiment with, grips, stances and swings of other great pl instead of sticking to his wn peculiar style,.which, while a tét informal, served to dominate the golf world. No athlete ever came up so swiftly and went down so suddenly as Sara- zen. He sprang into fame in the win- ter of 1920-21 and in 1923 he was hit- ting the downward grade. It remains to be seen what success Sarazen has ers, Springs. HOT SPRINGS, Ark.—Babe Ruth headed a delegation of big league players to Florida training camps after preliminary training at Hot LAKE WORTH, Fla.—Putt Moss- man, Eldora, Iowa, and Mrs. ©. A. Lanham, Bloomington, Ind., retained their national titles in the horse shoe pitching tournament. ROCHESTER, N. Y.— Wayne : Munn, world’s champion weight wrestler, easily elim!- at. McGill, of Nebra » in nated two straight fall Bobby Garcla of Camp Holabird, Maryland, « leading featherweight, will be unable to meet Babe Herman of New York, at Waterbury, Conn., next Thursday night. Garcia was hurt {n an au tomobile accident be- tween Annapolis and Baltimore Thursday night, His right arm is reported to lave been bruised sev- erely. The match probably will be set for a later date. Solly Seeman and Benny Valger, both of New York, have joined the line of lightweights awaiting the second round of the New York state athletic commission's tournament to name a champion as successor to Benny Leonard. Seeman scored a decisive victory over Frank La Fay of Troy, New York, and Valger de- feated Alex Hart of Philadelphia in Brooklyn last nigh but the New York man’s superb de- fense kept his out of troubje. At times Hart displayed some clever boxing but was inclined to indulge in unnecessary gymnastics. His body and face showed marks from Valger's jabs at the end. Cirilio Orlano has been nominated by the Cuban Boxing Commission as Cuba's entry in the lightweight elimination contest, Orlano is to be sent to New York with a request that he be given a place in the tournament, WEST PULLING FOR HURLERS Prairie Region Admits Turning Out the Best Matenal. By JOHN B. FOSTER. (Copyright, 1925, Casper Tribune.) ENROUTE TO CALIFORNIA, Feb, 28.—Out here on the line of the railroad that leads to California, the happy swatting ground of the baseball’ goliaths, everybody is pull- the corn feeders of the s and prairies to lead the way again in the major leagues. And present indications are that the west will be well represented when the 1925 pitching honors are handed ‘The Valger-Hart battle was close, in re-ascending the heights. There seems to be some confusion of opinion among big three author ities as to the precise terms of the agreement they have reached con- cerning salaries of football coaches. From Cambridge comes word that a limit of $8,000, the maximum salary paid to a professor, has been set for football coaches. Dr. Charles W. Kennedy, of Princeton, states that no definite stipulation has been made concern- ing coaches’ salaries, but that a limit has been placed upon the total ath- letic budget. Salaries may be placed at whatever figure so that the bud- get be’ not exceeded. Thur, before anyone becomes excited, it will have to be made clear:that the tets! bud- get has been subjected to « radical downward revision. — CAGE SCORES | At Laramie—Wyoming, 32; Colo- rado Aggies, 15. At Denver—Colorado College, 39; Denver University, 17. At Gunnison, Colo.—Western 5! Normai, 26 Aer Mexico, BOYS’ GRADE SCHOOL STANDING ‘Tearn Won Lost Pct. Lincoln ~. 6 3 852 Jefferson - 6 1 Willard . - 6 1 Mills -~4 Park ~. 3 Washington ~ 2 284 McKinley -1 142 Grant - -0 4 000 ‘COLLINS OFF FOR LOUISIANA CHICAGO, Feb. ns, Matiager of the ox and two players Crouse, First 28.—Eddie Coll- cago White Catcher Clyde baseman Clancy Billy Lauder, veteran coach, here today for Shreveport, Lou!s. lana, their spring training camp. When practice starts Monday 1 squad of nearly thirty men pected to be on hand. are ex- Thi re are eight recognized weight ations in boring, Are we mortal .ludgment, or does reward? tor permit sin to en 3. Who created the d him live? If the d Almighty? 5. Why the diversity i signposts? around. Johnson, Alexander and Vance all only, or immortal? | mate SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1925, come from the land of big hogs and They started early in life on ham and eggs and they have been going it ever since on that diet, which leads pigs to slaughter and baseball players to glory. There 1a scarcely a soul between Chicago and Council Bluffs who has not committed to memory all present and past history of the trio tall corn. that belongs to Iowa, Nebraska andj Kansas. When a baseb that the he e the ll fan dares to intl- raise big pitchers in prairie folk demand loudly to be shown, pointing to the records made las ason by John- son, Alexander and Vance. Alexander, it is sald, is coming bai to the season of better than he was in 1924. That broken bone last season interrupted a base- ball year that promised to be the most successful of his career. Alex- ander stands near the top of them all and his keenest regret is that his injury prevented him from pursuing throughout the season the sort of halo that was attained by Tohnson and Vance, The Cubs think part of their slump last season was attributable to Alexander's injury- There is another middie westerner who may be added to the galaxy of corn fed pitching stars this season. He is Yde the left hand kid who went through the season of 1924 almost without losinga game. Yde obtained his experience in Oklahoma, but his games brought him into the corn belt and the fans point to him as another of the pitchers who haye helped to put baseball on the map. To these pitchers who already have shown something may be added a half dozen young fellows who are First in News Of All Events THE ONLY KICK 1 Gor to make thelr bows fn the m: this season, presumably with a chance of making good. COWBOYS WIN FROM AGGIES LARAMIE, Wyo., Feb. 28.—Wys ming Univers! basketball team easily defeated the Colorado Ageirs front Fort Colins here last ngiht 32 to 15 and moved up a notch tn the standing of the intercollegiate con. ference. The Cowboys were out {n front all the way and played the Aggies off their feet, TIGERS OFF FOR SOUTH DETROIT, Mich., Feb, 28.—s! players, newspaper men and phot graphers, and a number of fo!lowers of the Detroit baseball team mado up the Bengal squad which left here today for thelr training camp at Augusta, Georgla. Others will join the squad en-route, while the west coast contingent started several days ago. SERRE ae Japan took to hockey a year or two ago, anf is already proposing to challenge Australia and New Zealand, PRLS ERO PRET oy The International Tennis Federa: tion is to hold a meeting in Paris on March 20. IS THERE A LIFE BEYOND DEATH? Does Death end all? Does man pass out at the last into the silence and darkness of eternal oblivion? Or is Death merely the Door into a larger, richer Life of reunion and love and endless achievement? Have those we have loved and lost in this life forever ceased to exist? Or shall we find them again, in the “Father’s House” in a radiant eternity? Have Reason or Logic, Science or Philosophy, Religion or Scripture anything to say that can answer these questions, or scatter the dark of the tomb? REV. A. E. COOKE will preach on the above subject in First Congregational Church (AMERICA THEATER) Sunday Morning, 11 o’Clock MRS. BERTA SMITH will sing “THE TEARLESS LAND,” written by Rey. Mr. Cooke. until the ht to its leep in Jes the soul go str; 2. Why did an omnipotent and benevolent Crea- ter the world? evil? Why does God let evil is self-created is God 4. Please interpret the lines, “Assured if | my trust betray, I shall for ever die.” meaning of “for ever die?” What is the n the teaching of the dif- ferent churches? How is the outsider to know which road to travel when there are so many Come and hear these questions of QUESTION SERVICE The Following Questions Will Be Answered by Rey. Mr. Cooke at the Evening Service 1. When we die are we 6. Under the Socia be a scavenger. 7. If for every effect there must be a cause, what about God? Must there not bale cause for Him? tieth Century? fice for man’s sin to how do you reconcile it with the Fatherhood of God? the people squarely answered in The ODD FELLOWS’ HALL at 7:30 P. M. This Church stands to help you make the most of 4 tomorrow. c t regime who would do all the dirty work? I for one would decline to Should a Christian young woman marry & man who does not go to Church? 9. Can the Christianity taught by Christ be suc- cessfully taught and practiced in this Twen- Was the death of Christ necessary as a sacri- yourself. Come worship with us satisfy justice? If so,