Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 2, 1925, Page 5

MONDAY, MARCH 2, 1925 World Results By Leased Wire JIMMY SLATTERY IS CLASS OF MIDDLES, SO FARRELL SAYS By HENRY L. FARRELL. (United Press Sports Editor) NEW YORK, March 2.—Jimmy Slattery, a handsome Irish boy from Buffalo, is being pickec now as a coming heavyweight champion. Jack Dempsey has seen him in action sev- eral times and he expressed the opinion not long ago that he thought Slattery was almost sure to be cham. plon some d So far Slattery has shown great promise every time he was tested. He has beaten Young Stribling and he has won two decisions from Jack Delaney, who was generally accept- ed as the class of the middlewelghts after he had knocked out Paul Ber- VS ienbach and Tiger Flowers * Being only 20 years of age, Slat- tery {s not permitted to box more than six rounds, the limit set by the boxing commission for boys who are not old enough to yote. There {s some doubt being ex- pressed that Slattery will be as good when he goes over a longer distance. His big asset is terrific speed, antl some smart critics believe that he will not be able to hold a fast_pace for the 10, 12 or 15-round route. ‘There is no doubt that Slattery ts the class of the youngsters growing into the heavyweight division. Glv- ing him two or three more years of experience with a reasonable allow- ance for an increase in weight and strength, and he will be a sure championship possibility. That is— if he takes care of himself. He has one great affliction—fast driving, and his friends fear that he will be injured badly some time if he can’t get accustomed to driving his car less than 60 miles an hour. “There is a royal chance awaiting some young heavyweight. If Jack Dempsey doesn't rétire, he can't go on forever. A life of ease and luxury has taken a lot out of Dempsey, be- cause it {s only natural that it should. Dempsey became a fighter by fighting and he always did his best work In the ring after a period of activity. Dempsey never would have beaten Hornsby Is Good For Many Years Under Big Tops By JOHD TER. (Copyright, 1925, Casper Tribune) STOCKTON, Cal., Mareh 2.—Rog- ers Hornsby told the writer Satur day that he hoped, under ordinary circumstances, to be good for many Myears more of baseball. And he certain- ly looked the part my as he appeared on @ the Stockton base- ball djJamond. His eye is clear, he is but three pounds overweight and his general condl- tion is far better than it was last spring. Given five more years of play, R. Hornsby. Hornsby thinks he may be given the opportunity to equal some of the recorés made by the great players since baseball started In 1876. ee The Kitty League, which had a hard struggle to pull through last year, {s not likely to gg to bat this season. —— lordon Here's the hat you can dent and snap as you like—it’s the FWISTER. It comes in the smart colors. All the spring Gordons are well worth your notice. The new spring styles are so well chosen, so cleverly designed, so widely assorted—every man is sure of a fitting style. The price fits your idea of values. GORDON HATS Hay Grain Salt / Cotton Cake Chicken Feeds Choice Alfalfa and Wheat Grass Hay Carload Our Specialty Casper Warehouse Co. Phone 27 268 INDUSTRIAL AVE Set Be Firpo if he didn't have the Gibbons fight under his belt. When he was training in Great Falls for the Shel by fight, he said he knew that he couldn't stay out of the ring for a year without gettiig off his game. He had a terrific) time to get into shape for Gibbons, and he sald he would never attempt it again. Of course, an offer of a million or two may influence him to-go through the e&ame ordeal of training again. There are three prospects to suc- ceed Dempsey: Tom Gibbons, Harry Wills and Jack Renault. If he re- tires, the title will be vacant until a claimant is recognized, and if the fights in defense of his champion: ship, he will be in danger of being Knocked out. A numbér of smart critics have said recently that they would put a lot of money on Gibbons to win if they meet again. Dan Morgan, manager of Jack Britton, said recently that he would take the short end on Gibbons any time they met. “Jimmy Dougherty, who refereed tus Dempsey-Gibbons fight in Shel- by, told me that if the bout had been a ten-round affair, he would have been forced to give the decision to Gibbons on points and if they meet again Gibbons is a bet to knock him out,” Morgan said. This was a surprising statement, as Dougherty was Dempsey's: hand- picked referee and he had always been a most intimate friend of the4 champion and Kearns. Gibbons and Wills and Renault are al} older than Dempsey, and it is probable that none cf them would hold the title as long as Dempsey, unless the youngsters coming up should all be busts. Gibbons doesn’t figure on fighting more than two or three years more and Wills couldn't last that long !f he wanted to. His hands have gone to pieces and he never can have them ‘ixed. Some good jobs on broken hands have been done by Dr. W. E. Fralick, but the hands of the negro contender were ruined beyond repair before he started to work on them. Unless he changed his habits, the championship would ruin Jack Re- nault, if he did win it. The little properly that has come to him al- ready went to his head and he start- ed watching the sun come up over the Roaring Forties. He made sev- eral bad fights recently and has been avoiding offers with even poor second-raters. Some youngster is coming along to take the place of Wills, Renault and Gibbons and will eventually be- come the heavywelght champion. Maybe it will be Slattery. He ‘cer. tainly looke like the pick of the bunch at this time. BROWNS READY FOR WORKOUTS 8T. -LOUIS, Mo., March 2.—Man- ager George Sisler is not laying down any hard and fast rules for the St, Louis Browns in camp at Tarpon Springs, Fla., but announces that he will make every effort to have the players hew to the line more closely than at Moble in 1924. There are no changes in the train- ing schedule. Sisley says there ts nothing new to be introduced in basebal& that in his opinoin it is merely a matter of perfecting old plays. It is Sisler’s aim to build up hie ball club simply by hard prac- tice on the plays he deems best, Quickly discovering here that his vision has improved, Sisler has wax- ed happy, returning to the unbur- dened mood of the care free, If there is a mental strain, he conteals it well, his manager, Jack —_—__—_ QUESTION BOX If you have some question to ask about baseball, football, box- ing or any other amateur or pro- fessiowal sport— If you want a rule interpreted— If you want to know anything acout @ play or player— Write to John B. Foster, on naseball. Lawrence Perry, on amateur ports, and =” Pair Play on boxing and other professions! sports. All are spe- cia} correspondents of the Casper Tribune, 814 World Building, New York. If you want 4 personal reply enclose a stamped, self-addressed umn. envelope. Otherwise your ques jon will be answere@ in this col Question—How many fights has Jack Dempsey won since 1918? How many lost? Answer,—-Twenty seven. seven: teen by knockouts. Lost to Willie Meehan tn 1918, Wills has won 64 and lost on @ foul to Bill Tate in 1922. Question—How did Jamieson rank in fielding and base running Inst year? Answer.—Hie fielding average was 974 and he was about eighth in the league. He stole 21 bases. Question. —Just ‘read Harry Greb was about to be married. I thought he fad a wife whom he married In Pittsburgh about five years ago. Answer.—That {6 right. His wife died last year jn Saranac Lake, N. YY / | iF | SHAT NEW SPARRIN’ PARTNER | Lor RINGER, I'M SURE HE'S FROM HAMBONE SONES Che Casper Daily Crifune BRANCH RICKEY’S CARDINALS SHOULD MAKE BETTER RECORD THAN THEY DID LAST SEASON BY JOHN B. FOSTER (Copyright 1925, The Casper Tribune) Stockton, Callf., March, 2,—Branch Rickey’s St. Louis Cardinals, first of the major leaguers to start train- ing, shouldn't do better this year than they did last year. Rickey has a strong batting team, according to early indications. It is a team that promises to _make up by its stick work something of what it may be shown to be lacking in the field. Thb two big Berthas of Rickey’s attack, of course, are Hornsby and Bottomley. These two may make BRANCH RICKEY the best batting pair that the Na- tional League has seen in three years. Hornsby, in particular, has the stuff in him to be the greatest bat- ter the National League has had since Hans Wagner's day. He ts of the right physique and disposi- tion, He hasn't Wagner's careless, indifferens style. He is a player whose whole sole seems to be wrapped up in the idea that he may make for himself a reputation which will stand for all time along with thoee other great stars from Anson on. Fhe writer had a long talk with Hornsby today and Hornsby de- clared simply but with conviction that he believed he had a chance, barring broken bones, to rank among the great players, “It's hard to say what will happen ayer,” said Hornaby “I have often thought In the last few years what I might be if I were among those great ball players who have made National League history what it is. Somehow it has éccurred to me that there is more to this game of baseball than I thought when I first began to play. I suppose all young players feel the way I did at the start. But now I know there is more to it than just playing the game the way a kid would play it You are playing for the champion: > of the big leagues and has an { t and that se to make ac » perhaps not quite as good r, but still to tread closely upon his heels. “YT have signed a contract with the St. Louls ball club for three years. I am at ease in my mind You don't have to wait to know that Resinol Ointment is going to overcome your skin trouble. It gives such quick relief from the itching and burning and, so generally succeeds in clearing away the eruption that, with Resinol Soap, it is the standard skin treatment in thousands of homes, Resinol products sold by all druggists, and like any player. who feels that his future is estab'ished, I am not worrying about the future, except that I may do my best.’ “How about hitting right field?” “Seems to me that if a man has the worry off his head, he can place the ball, I suppose I am nat- urally a free swing hitter. but I think now that I am in a position to try to place the ball, that I cap hit. just as hard to right field an any batter who ever lived. This ig not a boast—just my idea of what I can do,” Whereupon the great Rogers walked up to the plate and hit a Une drive to right field which chased all Rickey’s impromptu right field. ers so far back to the fence that they lost the ball. Rickey came out here not to di velop as a show man but becau @ personal friend of his persuaded him that Stockton was a good place to train. He hasn't lost much, If anything, by doing it. He is just as well off, so far as the sun Is con- cerned, ax he was in Bradentown, Fla., a year ago. The temperature ig about the same and he is training on a@ ball field whose fences are as far back as the deep center field {n Florida, PLAYERS REST OVER SUNDAY NEW YORK, March 2.—Sunday was a day of rest in the southern training camps, gne of the last vaca- tions that professional baseball play, ers will enjoy until after the neat world series, There was a general inpouring of veterans and recruits at the camp of the Yankees, Glants and Dodgers jp Florida, 14 appearing at the Hug: ging center of activities in St. Peters. burg, seven wanderipg into the Giants’ gathering at Sarasota, and 21 preparing to start strenuous work at Clearwater, temporary home of Brooklyn's hope. Babe Ruth headed a emall ball club into St. Petersburg from Hot Springe. Manager McGraw of the Giants saw Hugh MoQuillan, Bill Southworth, Hack Wilson and Fred Lindstrom, among others, for the first time in several days. The Dodgers will start training in earnest at Clearwater today with Manager Wilbert Robinson directing matters. OLD TIMER NOW DOCTOR WORCESTER, Mass (United Press).—Dr former star pitcher with the Boston | Braves and other clube, is now a« practicing physician here and {= do» ing very well. He is not acti interested any more in the game Harris Pleased Over Prospects WASHINGTON, March %.-—Man- ager Bucky Harris of the wo: champion Senators, enroute today from Hot Springs, Ark., to the train- ing camp at Tampa, Fis., with a dozen of his charges who have been sojourning at the Arkansas resort, was reported to be highly pleased | with their condition. The veterans will reach Tampa in time to go on the fleld Tuesday for « real workout. At the Florida camp, the younger members of the squad, under Pres. dent Griffith's eye, have been coming | along rapidly under favorable Weather conditions oo SPORT BRIEFS] OTTAWA.—Hans Hansen of the Minneapolis Ski club, won the oast- ern provincial ek! jump champion. ship with a jump of 88 feet. Pat Carney, CULVER CITY, Calif.—Tommy Milton won the 260 mile automobile race. PAGE FIVE First in News Of All Events ditcomsecssidh (LL BE OVER IN @ FEW MINUTES, \\ BiG FE LLA— EXCUSE ME FOR THE DELAY, SACK. NOW LETS GET SUHAEFER AND: HOPPE GUTEOR es bring together Hoppe ar Pair Meet Tomorrow in Play That Should De- termine Championship | MPHIS, Tenn-, Marc , Wyo., CHICAGO, March 3.— Willle oe Hoppe, veteran champion and young Jake Schaefer, his most dangerous opponent, find themselves dividing s appearances in the remaining four games cf the international tourna- ment. here for the world’s champion- ship at 18.2 balk line billiards. The Prince This afternoon Schaefer gets an most enthy d here of the ¢ being be deserved 'HE magic carpet of the Thief of Bagdad! The greater magic of Douglas Fairbanks, whose very mame packs theatres to the doors! Mr. Fairbanks has won success in many roles, Chesterfieldin but Copyright 1925, Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co. ntinue his record: Upon the result possibly will ~Tomonow in ROSS MEETS DIXIE CHAP featherwet, d to meet ir The , the x round and two four round bouts. ee one of sin | Speaker Is Ready Por rise Wortoué TOLDOUT FEVER vecacess {ITO CHIGAGD ch 2.—Upon finish to Catalina Island, Nationals found serene as had ple of hurdles it fever. CHICAGO, Ma g th ng trek Chicago eight, amc and Watt L . who we } Bedge I f injurte: to balk, and another rookie, s found not ready to sign @ con- feat tatemen | George land, peaker ha r y gotten | w her Nn shail, T Cubs seasoning. sicago White Box will inau- one-week out @ day pro- t Shreveport, La., today, Man- ‘ollins decided on from 11 a. m. |uut | 2 months games and losing fou Istead, last year with has been released Los Angeles for to rest | SPORT jetty FILL Tanner, ntl: the t Town Plate Japan Douglas Fairbanks in his greatest screen classig “The Thief of Bagdad’* Such popularity- must one. Yet both have achieved their immense popularity by the simple process of deserving it. Downright better taste—that’s the “magic” of Chesterfield! What else couldaccount for such popularity? Chesterfield CIGARETTES Thay ~ Gopy- More and more smo) } every day /