Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 15, 1925, Page 7

ADDITIONAL NEWS OF SPORTS | TEARS LEAGUE WANES AINAY FOR BIG YEAR Fort Worth Is Going After Flag Again In Earnest. By JOHN B. FOSTER. Copyright, 1925, Casper Tribune) FORT WORTH, as, March 14, Enroute from California to the Southern Training Camps) — The s League is knee deep in pre- paration for the struggle of 1925 and all the clubs in this circuit per- is going at job more ; more earnestly than Fort Worth—winner of two titles in the Texas League last season and victor as well in the Dixie series, Perhaps the principal reason for the Fort Worth players’ success les in thelr modesty and their earnestness. Jake Atz, the Fort Worth manager and Paul LaGraye, the progressive young owner, never talk much about baseball, Action is their watchword. And it is a watchword that Dallas, Shreveport, Beaumont and the rest of the clubs in the league will do well to consider. The Fort W loaded for bear. Last summer y or rth battery is being when things were going well for the Fort Worth club and it looked as if they were headed for the pennant, the league held a meeting and decided to divide the stason. The decision had no effect whatever on Fort Worth—save that it gave that club the chance to win two abbreviated “seasons.” After that, Fort Worth mixed up-in the Dixie series with the customary re- sults and all tk winter the fans of this part of the United States have n huckling to themselves. And are entitled to thelr chuckles, for Fort Worth is « game city and i as a game baseball club. The club has been hard alt by losing some of its players, among them Kraft, who won the home run nplonship of the minors last sea- Kraft retired and is run- an automobile agency. But if Kraft and the oth 10 have gone, they are ng anything about it, They Ught and sawing RELAY RACE BROKEN IN CALIFORNIA GEL Cal,, March 14,— ss.)}—A new world record for the 660 yard medley relay race was established here this afternoon by Charles Paddock, Loren Murchi- son, Murray Schultz and Eddie Pol- lock. With Schultz and Pollock run- ning 110 yards each and Paddock and Murchison crvering the 220 yard stretches they made the dls- tance in one minute four and one. tenth seconds. ‘The old record was One minute and seven seconds. The rel: whs an exh{bition event of the Un of Southern Call- fornla-Por ck meet which was won by of 79% to 60 2-5, LOS A (United Pr ersity na tr a ; Diving Queen A new American y diving queen was crowned whe Helen Meany of New York triumphed in the various ~B events at Tampa, Fla cently She pplants Miss Fletcher as indoor champion ad 1925. | “Old Jehn’”’ Scott Trying ‘“Come-Back”’ Toledo, EVANSTON, Ill., March championship of the Bi oints. iWon Michigan scored a total o: in the heetic mile relay by placing her team fourth, while Wisconsin suffered a tough break and finish- ed fifth, Wisconsin's quartet of middle-dis. tance runners were going in fine shape, holding segond place when the wand was passed to Kennedy, Badger anchor man. Kennedy let loose with a burst of speed and was swinging {nto the lead, which would have won the meet for Wisconsin, but he stumbled and fell and before he colud recover, he was in a poor fifth position, Michigan winning the meet by getting fourth place. Two Big Ten indoor records were broken in tonight's meet and two others were tied. Phelps, Hawkeye distance runner, gave a marvelous exhibition in the By HENRY L. FARNELL. (United Press Staff Correspondent) NEW YORK, March 14.—Benny Leonard, who retired recently as the world’s lightweight champion, has not changed his mind and will never enter the professional ring again, it was learned here today. Since Leonard renounced a title that was estimated ‘atively as being worth $100,0 ar, With the statement that furt tion would en¢ c health, the b | he would chang | trom and from box: mother's hin & promoters that the action again this summer, When Tex Rickard announced he had contracted for the boxing privi- But a double “comeback or any other sport is a feat extraordinar: well at the Giants’ camp at Sarasota, Fla. the club is willlng to gamble a few pennies that “Old John” plays an im: portant part in the coming National League pennant race. veloped a lame arm with the Cincinnat! Reds three y: to New York and an arm specialist patched him up, Series in 1922 he held the Yankees to four hit: condition the following year and last year Manager McGraw sent him to er compet!-| the ring, it was re former champion might be seen in| in baseball Scott has been pitching so that every regular member of Seott de- ars ago, but he went In the World's but he failed to keep in MICHIGAN CARRIES OFF HONORS INBIG TEN COLLEGIATE MEET Wisconsin Defeated by Totals Featuring Evanston Event; Two Records Are Broken. Two Points in Close 14.—(United Press.)—In a thrilling finish, Michigan won the indoor track and field Ten conference of the middle west tonight, nosing out Wisconsin, the nearest competitor, by 22 points, capturing the meet twommile race, lapping Bourke of Chicago, who finished second and broke the record last year. Phelps’ time was 9 minutes 32 3.5"seconds as against 9 minutes, 41 seconds by Bourke last year. Reinke of Michigan was respons- ible for the other new record, step- ping the half mile in one minute, 56 3-5 seconds, surpassing the old mark by one full sécond. Hubbard of Michigan, tied the conference record in the 50-yard dash at 5 2-5 seconds and Guthrie of Ohio State, equaled the record in the 60-yard high hurdles by doing the event in 7 3.5 seconds. The teams finished as follows: “Michigan, 29; Wisconsin, 20; Chi- cago, 18; Illinois, Ohio State, |Peatl Whites and the Che Casper Sunday Cribune Carpentier At Last Wins But | Gets No Purse CASPER CAGERS OFF TO PLAY IN TITLE. TOURNEY th hi Py Methodists Leave For Denver. all Today and tomorrow will seé aj great exodus of local basketball players, with the Pearl Whites and | Methodists, winners and runners-up in the Casper Basketball league leaving for Denver to take part in the Rocky Mountain amateur tour- ney. |, The Pearl White squad, six play-| a; ers and Dick Farrell, , backer and | re manager of the team leave by auto-| mobile at 6 o'clock this morning. Y include George Layman, Sam and Jack Neff, George Sonnors and George Sulli n. Orion Neff, Haynes and Stubbs, who have been subbing on the team this year, could not get away and the Pearl Whites will be handicapped in the number of play- er The Methodists, under Coach Os. borne, will also drive. One carload is leaving today and the other Mon- day morning. The players who will represent the Parsons include Tray- lor, Pester, Mullis, Mechling, Zoble, Byram, Post and Hathaway, Both teams will find the going rough and strenuous as the class of | the Rocky Mountuin region fs enter- ed in the tournament. Four unl- versity teams who played in the con- ference this winter are entered un der other names, and all thd strong, amateur teams in and around Den- ver will compete, First round drawings will be made Monday and the opening games of the tournament will be played Tues. day, be w 8q —_os—___ GIANTS TRIM ~ PHILLIES, 4-1 SARA SOTA, Fla., March 14. (United Press)—Extra base hits fig ured prominently in the victory re gained by the Glants over the Phil lies today by a scors of 4 to 1. Triples by Billy Southworth, Hack Wilson and Bill Terry and a double by Travis Jackson were all turned into runs. Cy Williams collected the three hits that fell to the Phillies, Jack Bentley, who started for the Giants, struck out all three men in the first inning. Asean LES YANKEES LOSE TO YANNIGANS 17; Towa, 9; Northwestern, 64%. BENNY. LEONARD WILL STAND PAT ON DETERMINATION NOT TO ENTER THE RING AGAIN lege in the Yankee stadium, he men- tioned a contest between Leonard and Mickey Walker, the world's welter weight champion, as one of the attractions considered’on a ten- tative program. ‘en though Leonard has Insisted time that he was asked that he was serious {n his intention to retire and that he could not be tempted by price to’ return to ported that he was felt that i eve’ ar nee t a dut This | him we } tight altered his plans and that be announce tomorrow nig had given up professions: forever. By LAWRENCE PBRRY. (Copyright, 1925, Casper Tribune) NEW YORK, March 14—The American Polo aseociatoin ix going to try a nervy finan periment this summer. They are going to tm- port a British polo team, fit It out with horre cars and pullmans and send it barnstorining throughout the country. Earl Hopp! who has been play- English polo the last few years, will get the team together and it will arrive here early in July, Beginning at Philadelphia the Britishers will work westward, ‘ playing ut Cleveland, Detroit, Cin- cinnati, Chicago, Denver and per- haps on to the west coast. The team will meet loca! outfits and thus will be organized on a 16 goal basis, It. being decided that a higher goal team would be too for- nidable to give American fours that Ill be mét a sporting ct tory. It jm not at ali certain that this venture will prove profitab! ul of a al BRITISH POLO TEAM WILL BE IMPORTED FOR 1925 SEASON though the polo ar thinic that {t will. This greatest of all games i, how- over, & Class game and knowledge of it Js very strictly ‘confined to the horsemen, are lots throughout the west, public, attracted by thrilling sport, that stiles click to the tune of big money Philadelphia will iere | ably the best untry. That it is New York {s to be shown anytime when the crowds that go to Meadowbrook for any other than international games. are compared with Philadelphia gather- ings. or horsemen but ft is the prospects of akes the turn Unquestionably, pay well polo city in the ¢ far better than So man; a baby found of a emall town persons wished to adopt in the public square in Italy, that the chief of police decided raffle the ehild. The baby was won by a childiess couple, who had It baptized Victory. 4 the | ST, PETERSBURG, Fla. March 14. (United Press)—Heavy hitting by Gehring, Paschal and Wanninger gave the Yankee recruits an 11-to.3 vietory over the regulars in a prac: tice gume today. It was the fifth game won by the second team. Babe Ruth indugled in bating prac- tice but was not able to play. Shawkey, Beall and Schwartz pitched for the recruits and Hoy aud Jones pitched for the veterans OGDEN WINS CAGE TITLE AT BOULDER fe fo th w (United hoo! four sta Pocatello, place, winning four one The championship was determined | | in an invitational meet cc niversity of Col m: took games and losing of do, California U. Captures Flag tr re CORVALLIS, Ore., Mar (United Press)—University of fornia tonight won the Pacific basketball champic ting t Age conference by defe 83 to 1 OAKLAND WIKS FROM CARDS OAKLAND, Cal uM. (United Press)—The Oakland team of the Pacific Coast league today de teated the St. Louis Cards 8 to 2 in ning innings The scor | Louls | Oakland . Batteries—Frankliouse 4 Holm; Boehler, De kor, t inj ha st In Bo for Le the LeMa By MINOT (Unitea PAR Tha district. Maw fo cer “Pre on en Boyle's ard’s best pri Press $, March 14. Staft tier wins er almost fc fashionable of the Champs I For Geor inpromptu fight and s nical kockout in the first rourd. jer, genuine popular favorite Paris revue stage, did not appear in as a boxing hero and din ur tool hed Che & ie bu a. ent ttle r at Thirt succe his the petite and pert who has of late won fam aller’s leading lad agent cup gossip spo! t on the ultra-fa taurant cro expected nd it anc 1 nged in the 80 tea ys ling place Chamr t vas V, other stuff to plained Harr Corres ing ees and a nights. . playin he! tn hi Ds Elyse of yondent) (United Press). familiar; & 1 through place Etolle ged tech- ac! Ha, w Va 1 s Ch Ip is h d that is rig Tex Rick hand, the Amerlean bar ¢ ht pach f Champs Elys: Th so were two har upstanding men got ed discussion, which resu LARAMIE, an quad BU tance Welsmuller’s failed 200-ys by cd (United et mio high tonight state tournament Wyoming. the locals opponents, BORG CRACKS) TANK RECORD Wyo. eme schoo! as March 8 a a outplayed their FALO, in in ra ON? ed Press), tional 240 his att fr March 1 Arne Borg, the Swedish ed a new world’s record in free styl win miner, vant by coverin, Weismuller. time was caught by six watche 45 record sty I ape Ont —Two were set by He wes ul igh 4 inches (Continued From re t he date of the the proprietor, Arth jump 1 of 2:4 fi 8 reported that both | wa LARAMIEHIGH TRIUHPHS IN CAGE TOURNEY h ey the breaking Johnpy Se mpt to lower record now rg 9, new contestants in the A, A. U, athletic carnival here tonight, us J, B, Pearman of the New York A. C. set a new mark for 4,000 me- ters walk. minutes and 51 1 Harold Osborne, standir ed a new indoor world rec timed seconds, linois Page C ur On the night of December ‘ormer TI I nin y After wary At the trial yesterd: fied for the prose his part that together ot roc lett They were and brought back to ( bat eral court 12 a days after the re name of Chief of Officer Ray Peoria str ber Dixte Po 1d) rs walt office t a t won he searched the all the stolen ¢ town and in the LeMasters and hi in ex arreste a w er charge on Feb. tic robb ut! > Ber! we use LeMast start t Kewan » He da ee one nery. the VILLAGE IS UNDERMINED. BY OCEAN: GIBRALTAR, Spain, Mar an, s ave along ¢ sm | been flooded, tho vi the hi ro! unde t tala ve (United Prees nd Terr! he ined ay ta y tunnel, Extensive village north of Gibraltar had agera fleeing to eral huts | to Few vee at een 24 and several been done. Roa propert are fishing east of he refuge ¥ in dam, ndat ve been ra ports nad th uF 1 Alg A left port anish » new A. establish- rd of five re New Records Set at Cincy March wor in c LE MASTERS FOUND GUILTY rebbery from ylord @ woman by mond Ye t t to the for 4 n 4 all vill 1 ‘ ge A In t ters are ashore the tes th competent 14,— basketball from amplons The lighter Laramie five administered a drubbing to Worland, | 7 to 12, in @ fast game in which heavier (Unit- | ¢ sensa- establish- Sev- ANGELES, Mareh 14. (Unit ess).—Grand jury action to} ent the trial of Harold “Sonny” | Willis, aged 15, for the murder of Dr. Benjamin B. Baldwin was taken tonight by the district attorney. Juvenile court Judge Warry Archbald ruled today that “Sonny must face preliminary hearing on March charged with the crime for Which his mother, Mrs, Margaret Willis, was convicted and sentenced to ife imprisonment. Keyes declared tonight ‘that lad’s recent “confession” that and not his mother, is the real slay- the physician, ls “plain per and hinted he would the but an ar tor ith A, is the | he| * this and T a taught tha Jury Attor ende he comy boy, replied to Ke declar prevent convictir Tam ¢ nocent surrendere grand jury to intervene if the case is not dismissed. “The deolsion the contrary me on of Judge d| to notwitl ref a futile attempt to fasten the crim of a guilty mother on the head ot an innocent child,” asserted prosecutor “Mrs. Willis has been | eonvieted of Dr an t cou pt tried and dwin'’s murder en upheld by atice desp attorne convict ‘eet me has | and cespite forts of thwart done “T am n put n attempt to en pe the penalty crime that th d to cope with ef to the eriminal justice 4 3 child’s y to co that t into. uth 1 ble the mother to of the law juries are impan- such situations as o h ele for | the | hall a the of CITY, Mo., March 14.— story of a home loving father, who was subject to brooding spells because he was unable te do mor for his four children, was sobbed out by a half hysterical mother here tonight, when told her husband was not expected to live. He is suffe ing from self inflicted wounds, afte running amuck and killing his four children with a hatchet. M. L. Gibson, 34, in a temporary fit of insanity, caused by financl: ficult according to his wif . Stella Gibson, entered the bed- rooms of their children early this morning and slew the four children While they lay sleeping. est child was 20 months old. this morning at time,” Mrs, Gibson sald tween moments of hysteria. “I fol lowed about ten minutes later. While preparing breakfast, I attracted by screams of my bable I started up the stairs and met Ly coming down, With a wild look in his ard dis : rose the hela | cord | usual The young- the be- nn he swung a hatchet covered with blood times. I calle seemed to gain fe moment ar me, going outside t to the room where been asleep The mother chair, and the rest of left for a coroner's jur He str ntrol then vestigation, ‘The children were bec Hazel sister, Marjor deep ga necks, Helen, t died enroute to a also was t The fighting lit a state of cor the | t n to the at me . | Ka was secured. Mrs. Gibs se he could not pr children the way he wo quickly summoned and mad SUNDAY, MARCH 15, 1925 FIGHT AGAINST BRINGING BOY TO TRIAL FOR MURDER WILL BE CARRIED TO GRAND JURY wi WIFE SOBS OUT AR ALIBIFOR FATHER WHO SLEW CHILDREN WITH AXE AND TRIED SUICIDE hin: and in thelr her found with heads trag ne three | \d| whose anc » baby of the family, on, the ofl, alleged by the government to have taken place on the same day, Sinclair and Prairie compan- id that lo did not hear of this until September, 1924, when ad of it in the Paris edition tf a New York newspaper. h sales contracts. and the covering which testified - were in- ment exhibits, 1 of Humphreys dence duplicating t adding some de- aphreys testified that he ar of the re-sale of the oll en months after the sign- itracts, On cross ex: {fied that he had identity of any r with the Contl- ing Company other than contract had jeu | ‘Thom | troduced The ins t Fr ent was evid tention of the ternoon that the epared to proceed supporting its con- collusion and fraud” in tlon of the Teapot lease nce to which ed were held imissible, the san’ room where her own life three of het chil- Ap. M Eva Ma: 49, committed suicide to- woman had turned on the n & range In the apartment her life in precisely the me manner as had Mrs, Mabel Ward whose three children died | with her, Silvers’ to nelghbors, Mra. act was caused by her husband's threates to leave her. ——_>_—____ NEWS BRIEFS With the United Press.) LONDON.—King George has ap appointment of the Earl high commissioner of nurch of Scotland, succeeding Jimmie own, -aboriie §=ominer, appointment by the labor overnment last year caused a sen- sation because previous only noble- men had been considered eligible for » which was| that offi e an in-| | BERLIN.—Frau sometimes called many’s Lady Astor,” quit the Folks party, to expel her for oppo 1 Minister Stresemann ¥ presidential candidacy ,}0f Otto Gessler, minister of defense. Von Okelmb, | which sough ing Forel arding Sald's Kurdish ensive, have oceu- { Vart!, according legraph dispatch usband | avide for 1 like, spells | the i. 1d 17 (Continued Irom Pago One) witness on this phase of testimony There followed yesterday an ef. fort to connect Sinclatr with the de funct Continental Trading of Toronto, alleged to have been med to purchase oll for the Sin ude Oll Purchasing company Gas company . Which was to have Humphreys, of This atter the ‘amination of Mr admitted the lair to b interests Cha ates in| rel on the from Colorado and met with a mony on cross ¢ Humphrey, wh under cor 2 pipeline seryin The The come setback tion of United examin’ former A.! uments b: defendant, John nd Owen and ohe for the nment, con wh tf ind he said, had longer ago than: th: ules of had 4 idence under a Kenned, for th. evidence ng bank records, 1 to mak s repu argumer length I tar ge and | erts’ argume the| ‘a plen for ¢ Judge Ker announcing that ould reserve his decision on the udmisslbiiity the evidence Monday ing, commented "The court regrets that the tion of e hich seems so tant to } 2 should revol © question befor art has ody, of until her iden ath sid a ras the narrow question be examination company | que | | tied that feity’ in Humphre sale by t Humphreys third of of sur had be ference vdditior | Harry in befe which to hi I the Prairie O11 w Stewart the § diana Dar | | Mexta-Te | was $1 t Thorr | a the second contract the Hump? } een rey 4 th the c ralrle comy TEAPOT SIMMERS PENDING VITAL DECISION BY JUDGE KENNEDY ast which was nelatr and ‘Actress Cuts HARTFORD, Conn., March 14.~ (United Press.)-—With thousands of | eager ctators, including Gov rnor ull and many other state officials jamming the jarmory here tonight to see Paavo urmi run at the benefit meet, for the Weaver high school, promoters Jof the affair read a message at the uinute saying Nurmi. was {ll fever and could not appear. huge crowd was disappointed d its dl Willie Ritola took Nurmi’s place| Jin the 3,5 race and also ran 000 metr specialty, Mead re s «| Wrist, Is Weak From Bleeding ,» March 14. — Brent, fila a weakened con om loss of blood, re 8)—Evel as UL in t fre rrowl wh Ct d escaped bleed if n sbe cut heigl nob in hell treatment off ar’s life. tonight «6 but would by ties for sey + EDUCATOR’S SON MISSING March 14.—(Unite a saying h tng suicide becaus himself a fatlur: Patterson, Jr., son « Jenn of the college ¢ the University « been missing for tt , It became know note usidered <a W neering at to Ellwoc daughter, second wife, saying he inten Hendrick ried. out the Patterson was not to > such a intentions He Grace, Patera 1 en: {e convince threat tt ons note Fishing Season Opens April 2 See Chappy for your Fishing Tackle a} A new complete line 251 SOUTH CENTER Phone 256