Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 16, 1925, Page 8

PAGE EIGHT World Results By Leased Wire wrestlers. He regained the title he lost several years ago by con- quering Wayne (Big) Munn last night, i and in less than fourteen minutes of actual wrestling. he fainted during the intermis and second no him be» opponer h championshir ears ago and demonstrated that Munn's ¢ ength was no mate e of the master only to the rand is less shoulders « giant weste welghing about fifty pou Zbyszko wri Munn tried crotch hold when he atte ed a jiu Then, a his opportu Zbyszko gained a vody hold, lifted] Washington his opponent high in the air : St. urled him to the floor, pinning his seconds Pit After the bot c examined Mv ring from ac PLAY BEGINS IN WESTERN Ne St. April 16.— unched {ts KANSAS CITY, } The Western League tw sixth season today games scheduled for the day | Des Moines and Lincoln he lists with revamped or- and Oklahoma City with ger. Holiday Wichita by Mayor half holiday for C ades were a as proclaim: Fohle: homa City. ed in both of schedule for the opening was | Wichita; Des Moines at | Tulsa; Omaha at Oklahoma City Lincoln at St. Jospeh PAAVO NURHI 1S REINSTATED ST. LOUIS, Mo., April 16.—Paavo Nurmi, great Finnish distance s' who has been under suspension by the American Athletic Union be failure to appear ised meeting in I City Monday t, was reinstated {t was announced by Verne R. C. Lacy, president of the west trig of the A. A. U. See If you have never tried a safety try AutoStrop. n two straight falls A old earn- , that teran who | sion fever fore th American League. lL. Pet. gied away every time | Philadelphia 1,000 favorite | Cleveland y broke away | Detroit New York ~ ty | Chicago -— National League. Brooklyn 2 Cincinnati Zoston ~- Philadelpt National League. Cincinnati 4; St. Brooklyn 6; Philadelphia -4 Pitt f New York-Boston, account of rain. on| A.—The National league was cr American League. n four| Chicago Philadel! Wa innings six Q.—Who was the hardest hitter, Low)-Cleveland game postpon- | van? ed account of r Coast League. t Lake 9; Portl Los Angeles 12 Texag League. Fort Worth 8; Dallas 7. San Antonio 8; Waco 6. Wichita Falls 7; Shreveport ; Little Rock 0. American Association. Minneapolis 6; Toledo 0, Paul 10; Columbus 3. Louisville 7; Milwaukee 3. St. yracusNew Y me postpon- __ RUN To SECOND @S SOON AS HE PrrcHES — | COT THE sI@NAL FoR SHE HIT ANO QUESTION BOX If you have some question to ask about baseball, football, box ing or any other amateur or pro fessioma! sport— If you want a rule interpreted— If you want to know anything about a play or player— Write to John B. Foster, on naseball. Lawrence Perry, on amateur sports, and | Palr Play on baring and other profeesional sports. All are spe tial correspondents of the Casper Tribune, 814 World Building, New York. If you want a personal reply} enclose a stamped, eelf-addresse¢ envelope.’ Otherwise your ques don wiJl be answered in this col umn. (Copyright, 1925, Casper Tribune) .—When did the big leagues begi ganized in 1876 and the American declared itself a mi circuit in 1900, Prior to that it had been the Western league Bob Fitzsimmons or John L. Sulli- A.—It {s hard to tell since the two men were in their prime at different lopers. Q—Can a runner go as far as third base and then have a substi- tute runner finish the next vinety feet? A—Yes. A player can be substl- tuted at any time in a ball game. eee | Virginia Baseball League Gets Busy | RICHMOND, Va., April 16.—The six clubs of the Virginia baseball) league’ were ready for the opening games today of a schedule which runs through September 1 The club representing Kingston, N. C., the new comer in the circuit this Richmond, last nner, at the latter cl ames Wilson plays at and Portsmouth at A friend 1 Watch this paper for remarkable of- _ fer—a rare bargain. | Act quickly ' ‘When you see the half page ad, clip the coupon and present it at the stores listed, with only 67¢. You get a dollar article you'll want. Che Casper Daily Cribune he } t ' ¥ t Charley Long of Omaha go on the Elks all-star boxing =| THE TRIBUNE’S PAGE OF SPORTING NEWS |= 1BYS7KO HANDS MUNN DOUBLE FLOP AND REGAINS MAT TITLE Champion Proves Easy for Veteran Wrestler in Philadelphia Match; Two Falls Come In Less Than 14 Minutes. PHILADELPHIA, April 16.—Stanislaus Zbyszko, 53- year-old veteran, again rules the world as champion of in an 8-round FANT AND WET DIVIDE HONORS ON SECOND DAY INTHE MAJORS Brooklyn and Cincinnati Repeat Wednesday With Winning Games; Athletics Also Get Away With/Second Victory. W YORK, April 16 st and West shared the ma- jor league peaks today after the second day’s confjicts in both the National and American circuits. Brooklyn divided the pinnacle in the senior loop with Cincinnati, each having two consecutive victories, while Boston hung at the edge by the thread of its triumph of Tuesday as the result of an incom plete game yesterday ended by rain in the fourth with the Giants leading 2 to 0. By another display of h ting Connie Mack's Athleti ped away to the campa y bat: step: s of r second mar | 21 safet on the TICKETS ON SALE TODAY FORTHE ~- ELKS ALL-STAR BOXING CARD THURSDAY, APRIL 23 Get them at The Smokehouse, Recreation Pool Hall and the Elks Club Prices $1, given a vacation by the weather man, the American league continu- ed to produce the more prolific hit- ting. Chicago and Detroit collabor- ated in a carnival of clouting with sand the Tigers with a majorit: heir foes. game at 9 to’6 with Pitcher Robert- son remaining effective until the eventh 2, and $3 Hi But the five men they brought home were enough to de! by 5 to 3. feat the Red Sox game evened their series with the Yankees by shelling the Jones for five runs The defeat increased Babe Ruth's restlessness in the hos- Doctors said it might be sible for Ruth to return to the kee Uneup during the wee! Another superb pitching p' ance 8 ond 4 six-inning curves of Sam in the second. pital. aight victory ove Luque’s effect being hardly less brilliar game also marked the season for the National league mpion, Rogers Hornsby, serted a single and a triple. Seventeen free tickets to first base opposing pitchers in the game between Pittsbursh and Chicago, y c home runs off the bats of E Wright of the Pirates. the winning Pittsburgh club w chief offender, on balls. ch: He allowed only four hits, though, up to the ninth when Man- ager McKechnie bench him in favor of Morrison. The Broklyn batted Phila- delphia pitchers for 15 hits but had only a two-run ma 6 to 4, for in the eighth with two ¢ ied t recorded in uns ¢ the which the an extra hit or two r the box scores during off in home turned ‘in but THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1925 By HARRY GREB T0 WITH WINNER Casper fight fans will have an op- portunity of seeing a real champion in action at an early date if plans in the making materialize to match Ha ireb, of Pittsburgh, the b- ing iiddle-welght champion, of the world, with the winner of the Wet ster-Commiskey fight at the Elks’ club next Thursday, April 23. It was announced today that ne- gotlations had been opened with Greb, who is going to fight on the coast at an early date, and if it ts possible that -he can be secured for a nominal price to stop off on his y to or from the coast. Either mmiskey, Webster or Long are anxious to meet the champion, and any one of them would make a re spectable showing against the cham- pion. Tickets were placed on sale this morning for the Elks’ all-star boxing card next Thursday and from the they were grabbed up by the way fans a fighte} | toc each were taken by a local spo! man. of the Athletics agged a four- who also apacity house will greet the . One fight fan from Lavoye a biock of thirty ringside seats and two more rows of twenty seats burg and Flagstead cf Boston who a decided falling |secured his second homer of the being | season, Simmons was First in News Of All Events RING LARDNER BEMATCHED - OF HEADLINE BATTLE ON ELKS RING CARD All the fighters on the Elks’ card next Thursday are in excellent con- dition and the. followers of the fistic one of the best cards in Casper, all evenly nate nd matched with the sole object of producing real contests. The topliners are high-class boxers have been brought to Casper at ¢ expense and their standing in/ the fistic world commands the re spect and patronage of all fight-lov- Ing fans. Wagers of considerable size have the result of the El- pu Pyle contest. boys who are going to settle for once and all their claim to the local championship, and the fans are going to witness one of the best contests from a standpoint of lo- cal interest in recent years. pridinidih subbed Today’s Games ‘ational League. Pittsburgh at Chicago. St. Louis at Cincin PI delphia at Brooklyn. New York Boston. American League. Chicago at Detroit. Cleveland at St. Louis. lion It’s only because a mil- White Owls are made every day, that we can afford to put so much value in them at so small a profit,on each.