The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-04-18
SERVICE CLUBS
HAVE DONATED
new MEET CUP
Billy Petrolle Gets Laugh Out
of Sammy Mandell-W ag-
ner Set.tO
PREPARES FOR CAMPAIGN
Speed Wallace Averaging So
Miles Per Day on Texas
Bismarck Jaunt

Entry lists for the Fifth Annual
Capital City Track and Field Meet
to be held on Hughes field in Bis
marck on May will close April %,
according to an announcement made
today by Frank H. Brown, manager.
Replacing the Bonham trophy as
the prize awarded the winning team,
the Rotary, Kiwanis and Lions clubs
OF Bismarck will be the donors of a
new cup which must be won three
times in succession to become the
permanent possession Of any high
school.
The Bismarck Rotary club will
provide cup for the highest indi-
vidual point winner in the meet and
the Lloyd F. Spetz post No. of the
American Legion is donating a cup
for the winning half-mile relay team.
George F. Shafer, attorney gen.
eral of North Dakota and nominee
for governor, will present cups and
medals to the winners at banquet
to be given in the Grand Pacific
hotel Immediately following the
meet. The banquet will start at $50.
Reservations for this banquet must
be made with Mr.. Brown. The ban
quet is given by the Bismarck Asso-
citation of Commerce.
Preliminaries will be held in the
morning beginning at $3.50 and the
finals will start at 1:30.
PETROLLE HAS LAUGH
Billy Petrolle, over in Duluth,
must have smiled grimly this MORN
ing when he read that the best
Sammy Mandell, worlds lightweight
champion, could do with Eddie kid"
Wagner in 1O-round fight in
Detroit last night was earn an tout
point" decision.
It was just three years ago that
Billy knocked out the Philadelphia
Kid. Wagner was hailed at that
time as the logical contender for the
worlds diadem. After that fight,
Wagner faded from the picture while
the name of Billy Petrolle was bally-
hooed around the fistic world.
During the past year Wagner has
been staging q comeback. He is
still one of the best lightweights in
the game but he still is not as good
as Billy Petrolle. Is it any wonder
that Bill would smile see the
Quaker City lad stay 10 rounds with
the champ?
Bill claims that he has lost his
rabbits foot. Twice in the past
month he has had scraps with Spug
Myers scheduled for Minneapolis. The
first bout went by the boards when
Myers was laid low by the flu. Tho
last time Spug is reported to have
developed anemia.
Jack Hurley, Bills manager, has
come restless and tired of waiting
for fights in the Twin Cities that
fall through at the last minute. Now
he is laying plans for that long de-
layed campaign in eastern rings.
Jack stated in the Zenith City the
other day that Detroit and Cleveland
would next see Bill in action.
WALLACE IN NEBRASKA
Irving "Speed" Wallace is eating
up the miles between Perryton,
Texas. and Bismarck, according to
word received today from his man.
Ager, H. Clay Evans.
Last night Speed rested at North
Platte. Neb. He had traversed the
states Of Oklahoma and Kansas in
little less than two weeks. That's
rambling!
Wallace is averaging over SO miles
per day and credits his stamina and
running ability to the training which
ne received from Charley Paddock
during their tour of the south the
past winter.
Blistered feet and shin splints have
troubled Wallace mostly but Evans
reported his marathoner in the best
Of health last night.
Instead Of arriving in Bismarck
on hay Is as originally contemplate
ed. the speed that Wallace is show
ing will bring him into the Capital
CifY On N. hofora MAY