The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-02-15
GOTHAM FANS
WILL FOLLOW
ANDY COHEN
Bean Town Boys Avidly Watch
Rogers Hornsby For Signs
of Club REGENERATION
BROTHER SETS APPEAR
Jack Dempsey Has Bought
Treadmill For Indoor Train.
ing-HOw Come, Fans?
BROTHER SETS APPEAR

\ASSOclated I'reSS sports EditOr)
New York. Feb. 15.--tP-The
baseball birds are fitting south
ward. Intimate details of their
profess already arc icing dis
pat lied by the energetic correspond
The holdouts who were so
III ~ eoe.:shant few weeks age arc fall
OH WlSint0 line. The magnates talk of
aims it's ling the amteur ga &c for boys
hiding trghout the country. Through
o.eos =, its the delightful air of antic-
5000 I'm and preparation always as
narm. ned with the coming of another
neither it,ll CAMPAIGN and. the mag
rE.- ERE will be no little concern in
mere news that comes back from the
one Of ting camps scattered from
,erred. ida to California about the
Io,,ts airing or aspiring athletes, de-
l e! ing on their age. ability or pre-
Ill DO. condition Of scrvituGc.
.ao' II u They Want to Know
l0n 8DGotham fans will want to know
I'LL whether the Jewish hope, Of the
- Giants, Andy Cohen, will tit into
the somewhat ample niche vacated
by Rogers Hornsby. or whether
eran from San Francisco, swings
means enough club to break into the
regular outfield Gordon.
Likewise It will be Of interest to
Boston whether Hornsby puts his
expected new dash and punch into
the Braves or whether his conversa-
tion is rs disconcert;ng to the new
club manager, Jack Slattery, as it
seem to have been to John McGraw
How the st. Louis Browns will as
sort their new talent in the rebuild
ING process, what the Senator'S will
do with two such first bascmel as
Sisler and Judge around, how Iris
Speaker will fit INTO Connie Mack's
machine, whether Sparkey Adams
fills the long-felt Pirate need for n
Ter fares under Chicago Cub leader
ship. are only few Of the salient
features of the spring training pro-
gram.
Tanks Sign Wilcy's Brother
Since the Pittsburg' Pirates OBJ
tanned Lloyd Waner at bargain
rates, chiefly on brother Pauls rec
ommendation, m.ior league teams
have been scanni.g the family con-
nections of other stars.
This research. seems to have led to
the Yankees signing Nick Moore, on
the advice Of his older brother Wiley,
whose good right arm had as much
to do with the Hugmen's victory last
year as any other factor.
Nick is also a right-handed pitch
err. He has been working in semi
pro circles of Texas and Oklahoma.
where the Waners got their start
along the road to fame.
The story of Wilcy's acquisition
by the Yankees is historic piece Of
baseball lore. He won something
like 80 games in 1925 in the sally"
league but was supposed to be a bit
old for the majors. The scouts
passed him up but not Ed Barrow,
the eagle-eyed business mentor Of
the Yanks.
ANY man who can " 80 games
in any league is worth a try-out,"
said Barrow. Wiley got his trial
and led the American league pitch
ers for 1927. So Barrows pro-
nouncement has become baseball
policy.
Dempsey Has Treadmill
The secret is now out. Jack
Dempsey, the New York Sun dis
covers, has bought machine of the
treadmill type for indoor exercise
that will take the place of road
work. What, the experts immedi-
. ately rise to inquire, is the necessity
Of Dcmpsey's going in for life on the
treadmil If he hasn't some fighting
plans in view?