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Show THE MIDVALE JOURNAL Friday, August 16,1929 Costly Rookie Is of Big Family OFFERS $100,000 FOR GO WITH INVERSHIN Owner of Reigh Count Desires Another Chance. Dapper Little Swimmer Says She Was Forced Out. Mr. and Mrs. John D. Bertz have returned from England and their horse, Relgh Count. wii1D8r' o:t the Coronation Cup and second ln the Ascot Gold Cup, will follow shortly. They are so keen :tor another meetIng with Invershin, which beat their Idol !or the Gold Cup, that Hertz said that be would personally add $100,000 to the $100,000 which the American National Jockey ,club wiJl offer for an International race at Arllngton park Jtext year, It Sir Reid Walker will tend his champion to this country. e race would be onder the same eonditlons as the Ascot Gold Cup and at the same distance-two miles and a halt. He added: 41If the leading European owners ahow a desire to compete, Reigh Count will be trained for this one race next year. If the race does not materialize the horse, now four years old, will be retired to the stud without racing again at our home, Leona farms, Cary, Ill., and bred to 20 mares next spring. ""While we have 40 mares o:t our Dwn, we do not propose to make a Martha Norelius, New York woman swimmer, who holds most of the world records from 100 ynrds to 500 'yards, announced here recently that she has turned professional and would eompete ir the Wri~ley marathon for women at Toronto. Miss Norellus' decision, she said, was intluencecJ by the recent suspen· sion metel! out to her by the Amateur Athletic union, which set her down indefinitely along with Helen Meany, champion diver, tor unauthorized exhibitions with professionals In Flor· Ida. Miss Norelius won cham[llon· ships In the· Olympic games of 1!)24 and Hl~S. Miss Meany woL the dlv· log title In 1028. Miss Norellus is the third amateur swlm;:ning champion to turn professional within the past yea1·, following in the steps of Johnny Weissmuller, greatest of Amel'i<'an male swimmers, and Ethel Ln<'kie, Olympic 100 meters champion. Miss Norelius \Yas su,;pellliNI In· definitely on the same gt·omHl~ h,1· the A. A. A. sometime befot·e the national indoor chnmpionships at Chi· In the little Ozark community where "Chip" Cissell, the White Sox rookie shortstop, received his first lessons tn baseball, It is a tradition that there "never wa~ a Cissell who couldn't play baseball lf he tried." Perrysville, Mo., his old home town, still points with pride to a team of 25 years ago composed of all Cissells. On the team was the father of "Chip." However, It was not until Hl08 that this group made the name of Cissell feared wherever bilseball was pla~·cd in southeast Missouri and southern Illinois. With the 1008 team was Tesreau, the big Ozark bear hunter. who Inter became the nee of .John McGraw's hurling staff. Max played first base and was considered n dangerous hitter and a star at his positiou. but be Summer School for Grid · Coaches MARTHA NORELIUS HAS BECOME PRO . II Page Five refused steadfastly to join the professional ranks. Sam Cissell, "Chip's" uncle, held dm.vn an outfield berth. Another uncle, Den Cissell, a giant in stature, covere<l second and was a terrltl<' hitter. The story Is rold that once Den connected with such force that bi:t bat brol,e, the free end flying over second base. The most sensatlonnl of the Cis· sells, however, was Fred, the "onearmed marvel." Fred played short without a glove und was feared at the bat because of his timely Texas leaguers. These four Cissells were the stars ot the family. With Tcsreau the group comtituted one of the strong· est sPmipro ball teams ever •ssemhled In southwest Missouri. Left to right- \\'ard Almbert, basl<et ball conch at Purdue unh·erslty; Babe Hollingberry, football coach at Washington State college and Pop Warner, football coach at Stanford. Warner Is conducting a school for athletic coaches at Wnshington State college during the summer months and is aiding tbe development of coaches for college athletics. X IAMDNDV PI K·UPSI'\ l\lacon, Ga., boasts a $70,000 munic· !pal ball p·uk recently completed. • • • Hartford former McDonald. (Eastern) manager, is umpiring ln the Eastern league this spason. Sf • • • BASEBALL NJJI NOTES MJ • No major league pltc·her made more than one hal k last season. • • • 'fhe world series twrce has been decided In four straight games-in l!Jl4 and 1918. . .. . Ed Walsh holds the strikeout record for a world seriE:s game, killing off re In 1006. Reigh Count. Jlrivate stallion of Reigh Count. We feel that the American racing world has an interest in him with us, for which re:M>on he will be bred to some mares outside of our own. Already we have bad three requests In England to send mares to Reigh Count." • • • Ohio hnd 14.000 boys competing In the AmHlcan Legion IJaseball tournament this year. • • • Grant Gilli~;:, seeond bast>man. has been released by the Boston Red Sox on option to Columbus. A pop bottle throwP at a Toronto player hit Doll Derr In the Reading park. The uqpopular player was Joe Rabbit. Rosebud In 1915 was the only filly 4!ver to win the Kentucky derby. • • • • • • Verne (Tubby) Clo>mons, the former St. Louis Cn1·dinal cat<'her, is performing In Chicago semipro circles this season. Mort Bishop, dean of American tim· ers, has been clocking athletes for ttearly half a century. • • • • • • Burleigh Grimes' first defeat of the ye:rr was marlced by an ofT day In the field for the Pirates. They made seven errors. The f:...stest time for running a mile Is 4 minutes 12 seconds. and for walk· tng 6 minutes 28 s~conds. • • • • • • Golf Is America's ricl1est sport, It being figured the game has a total Investment of $2,000,000,000. • Mrs. Babe Ruth C!llls her husband "George," which puts her one up on everybody else. Nobody has been found who calls him "Herman." • • • The largest fight gate on record was for the Tunney-Dempsey tight at Chi· cago, which ran to $2,650,000. • • • Walter Johnson, Washington team league, will Impose any o! bls players • • • The ban on hunUng with a bow and arrow In Minnesota has been lifted by the state legislature. manager of the of the American a line ot $fl00 on who play golf. • • • • • • It Is probable that the Portland (Ore.) Pacific Coast league team, will play it:s ;:ames in the near future at the Multnomah Amatem Athletic club stadium. St. Paul In the past 20 years has turned out more great ringmen than any other city o:t Its size in the world. • • • • • • We don't know about football players in Iowa, but when corn Is 14 feet tltll It Is out of the amateur class. Fred Merkle, one-time New York Giant and Chicago club first sacker, and author of the famous "hone head play," has a residence near Daytona Bench. Fla. • • • Colored golf balls have their coun· terpart in red tennis balls, and now a yellow baseball has reached the counters. • • • The Pittsburgh Pirates, now one of the "big three" in the pennant race, have achieved a distinction few teams have ever equaled. Changing the three most important positions on the infield of players from the minors not listed in the "fancy price" class, they have worked into a winning combination. The infield two years ago consisted of Grantham, 1st; Adams, 2nd; Wright, s. s.; Traynor, 3rd. The present Infield is: Sheely, 1st; Grantham, 2nd; Bartell, s. s.; Traynor, Srd. Kent Greenfield, Boston National league ri ght-hnnder, was obtained by the Brooklyn club on waivers. New Coach at Virginia Was Great as Sprinter Archie Hahn, recently named h!'ad track conch at the Unl\·erslty of Vir· glnla, stands out as one of the greatest sprinters o:t nil time, In the opinion of Keene Fltzpatrir'k, Pl'incetQn mentor. Hahn's record of winning the Olympic 100-meter championship twice never has been equaled. He accomplished the feat at St. Louis and Athens back In 1004 and 1906. Archie recived his training In sprintIng under Fitzpatrick, who was head coach at the university o:t Michigan when the sprinter was a student there. For the last six years Hahn has sat at the feet o! his old teacher in th@ role o! assistant coach ot the Tiger track team. At Princeton Hahn has been 1n charge of the 100 an~ 220 yard dash men, broad and high jumpers. pole vaulters. discus and javelin tbrowerB, also coaching the cross-country team and conditioning the freshman foot ball squad. ~donaL • • • • • • The National open golf championship will be played at the Interlachen club, Minneapolis, next year. .. • • • Miss Luella Gear ot Bayside, L. I., owns a great dane which she employs as a "caddy" to carry her clubs. Leads in Home Runs • • • The lending steeplechase rider In the East Is not a professional but a "gentleman jockey," G. H. Bostwick. • • • Capt. Matthew Webb of England swam tte English channel in 187:l. He required 22 hours for the 39-mfle swim. • • • The Pebble Beach course at Del 1\!onte, Calif., where the national amateur will be played, measures 6,665 • • • • • • Although the Athletics' roster gives Jack Quinn's age as forty-one, this veteran pitcher played on a soldiers' team In Tampa c1urlng the Spanish war, and that was 31 yt'lflrs ago. Prince Pierre o:t Greece, grandson of the assassinated King George, Is one of the best hockey players and most popular athletes In France. J yards. AI Espinosa, who met flob Jones In the playoffs of the United States open golf championship, has three brothers and a sister, all of them golr professionals. With Outfielder Dan Taylor, obtained from the Cubs, Reading has placed him In center to relieve Rabbit Whitman, who Is moved over to right field. Joe Kelly has been benched. Despite his defeat by Max Schmel tng, Paolina Uzc.Jdun can still maintain his claim o:t neYer having been · knocl,ed off his feet for a count during his ring career. Little Rock and Nashville (Southern) claim a record for men left on bases In a game recently, 25 being left stranded.. Nashville deserted 13 prospective sco1·crs and Little Hock 12. ·Bobby Jones announces that he plans o play in both the British open and British amateur championships next year. His next big tonrna. ment will be the national amateur at Del 'l\lonte, Calif., In September. Lee Meadows, veteran pitcher who was sent to the Indianapolis club of the American association under option several weel's ago, bas been gl•.-en his unconditional release by the Pittsburgh Natioual league club. If 1\\u. Schmeling becomes heavyweight boxing champion, he will be the first In a long time without the letter "J" in his name. Going back, It was Gene James Tunney, Jnek Dempaey, Jess Willard, Jack Johnson, .Jamaa J. Jeffries. The spit ball didn't slo;v up ned Faber, Jack Quinn, Clarence Mitchell anll Burleigh Grimes, for they're still using it, 10 years after the major leagues decided It nmst go. They were exempted because, they already were using it. ... • • • Only six horses ha'l'e won more than $200,000 In the history of the American tnrf-Zev, _Man o' War, Exterminator, Sarazen, Display and Crusader. • • • . . .. ! • • • • • • • • • • • The federal penitentiary at Atlanta, Ga., has seven tennis courts, and the game is said to be one o:t the most popular outdoor sports among the prls· oners. • • • • • • • Bob Jones and the great John Ball of I!ngland are now tied for supreme honors in golfdom, both having nine major links triumphs to their credit. • • • • • • Lon Gehrig, leading borne run hitter In American league, showing bls stance and manner of holding but 1\S he stands at plate in Yanl,ee stadium. Lou Is leading Babe Ruth and other Yankee stars in home runs so far. • • • Among the growing list of colleges who ha ,.e abandoned baseball ns a varsity sport are the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Tech. .. ~ Cy Young and Kll Nichols, who were each <'redited with pitching 70 games In one season, were satisfied with salaries o! $3,000 a year. • • • The Baltimore Orioles have four of the fastest men tn baseball In Johnny Neun, Harry Layne, Berney James and George Loepp. All are new men with the club. • • • Mike Rooney, baseball star at St. Bona venture of Olean, N. Y., turned down offers from the "Y ankees in order to continue hls studv for the priesthood. He batted .500. • • • A new season's total for Ized baseball is In prospect Last year 11,730 homers corded. Tiley's going at faster clip this season. .. .. all organthis year. were rean even At the age of thirty-three Paddy Driscoll, famous Northwestern star, is still playing football, basket ball nnd baseball around Chicago. And he has no intention o:t quitting soon. • • • Ernest Quigley, big league ump!re and tne of the hest football officials in the United States, at one time or another has been an instructor of baseball, basket ball and football. ~ ~ ~ ;t the "pink" of condition, Hartnett ~ developed arm trouble which ~ has since kept him out of all .league games, with no pros,ect of any immediate relief. Sueb ~ conditions rarely happen to ball ~ players and th~ loss of his serv-:1< ices proved a hard blow to his club. His aggressiveness and "pep" are needed at this time. ~ * * = = * * ************************** Bunny Brief Is Playing Baseball in Michigan Bunney Brief, erstwhile home-run king of the American association, II back on the baseball diamond. Bunny, who quit organized ball this season and became a ''big gas and oil man" in his home city, Traverse City, Mich., is managing and playing with the Traverse City Independents this season. Brief, a 'l'eteran ot 19 years In organized ball, 14 In the American association, turned down a contract for $:-i,OOO with the Nashville of the South· ern association this season. flrief desired to get started in business and opened a gas nnd oil business and he also let it be known that he was displeased with his sale by Milwaukee to the Nashville club. Brief contends that he had been assured he would be given his unconditional release by the Brewers. Brief termed the action o! the Mil· waukee club as unsportsmanlike. New Sod on Grid Field University of Illinois The University of Illinois ,football team will have a new covering on the Memorial stadium field on which to engage opponents next fall. A new covering, costing around $3,000, has been placed and will be In excellent condition of the fall campaign which will get under way on October 5 when Kansas plays at Champaign. A thick layer o:t sand was spread over the 120 yards of playing field between the goal posts after the sod and hard, caked dirt bas been removed In order to provide a softer base, which also permits better drainage, The new sod will also afford better footing for football players than the old field. In addition to playing Kansas on the new field, Illinois will engage Bradley, 1\Ilchigan, Army and Chicago, in the order named, in the Dlinois Memorial stadium this fall. Turns Out Star • • • "Ted" Thelander, University of Wisconsin baseball pitcher for the last three years, who was graduated this year, has signed a contract with the New York National league baseball team. • • • .Tack Doyle, the Cubs' veteran scout, and a member of the famous Orioles, is a cellar smeller. Jack says the real stars generally nre found with the tallend teams, and that is where he ~C<'Uts. • • • The · University of Missouri field bouse, to he financed by receipts from athletics, has been approved and work Is about to start on its construction. It will c<..st about $~::i0,000. J. H. Patrie!,, president o! the Los An!!;eles has!'ball eluh, announces that .Tack Lelivelt, former manager of the Milwaukee <'lub of the American association, has slgnPd n one-year contract to manage th.e Angels. Athletic authorities state that In running the 1QQ.yard dal'h in 9 2-5 seconds, the present reeord, a sprinter "(ravels Rt a rate of thirty-two feet e-nch s~·ond, or about three strides to the ae•·ond. While only about ~;:; per ct>nt o! the oppo~ing pitchers who have faced the Yankees this season have been southpaws, approximately 50 per cent of the club's setbacks have been sustained at the hands of the lefties. • • • II • • • Ty Cobb was the batting champion of the Amet·ican league in 12 seasons, Bonus Wagner In the National 8 sea· sons and Ilornsby, so far, in 7 years. .. A proposed soccer league would In· elude Cleveland, Detrait, Chicago and St. Louis with two teams each. Shortstop Johnny White bas been Rent to the Des Moines club of the Western league under an optional agreement, officla1s o:t the Columbus Senators announce. • • • Ray Pepper, playing the outfield for Rochester, Is another graduate of University of Alabama. He was a football star, too. • • • Rowing Is now a major sport In 12 o( the ia rgest universities in the United States. * * ~ ~ Dig scores were not unknown In baseball before the so-called lively ball was Introduced. In 1897 Chicago beat Louisville hy a score of 36 to 7. Nearly 10,000 golfers hnve had the thrill of a hole-in-one in the last four years. ~ The record for the number of bases on balls accorded a player ln one game Is six. It has happened twice. • • • <·ago In February this year, but was reinstated in time to enter and set up seYeral more new world record"-. Although Miss Norelius has sought reinstatement by the A. A. U., that failure to consider her case in time :tor entry In the outdoor champlonshl[ls at Honolulu In August of this year Influenced her to turn profes· ~ to the spring training camp in ;!; * F-d Rommel, Lefty Gro'l"e, Rube Walberg and George Earnshaw may make hlstory this year while pitching the A's to a pennant. Martha No rei ius. * The Chicago Cubs of the Na- * * tional League are putting up a * ~ game fight for leadership in the ~ * senior circuit without the serv- * * ices of their star catcher. Going * • • • • • • • • • Bog Gardner, once amateur golf champion, has forsaken that game and now Is doubles champion at indoor tennis. .. In Great Comeback • • • 1BJm ._ "Doc" Woods, with the New York Yanl,ees, is rated by most players as the best trainer in baseball. ************************** *~ They Fight Hard *~ • • • Outfielder Southern of the Phillies has not only developed into a hard hitter but he is a star in fielding. Much Is expected of the rookie b7 Manager Bert Shottoa. |