The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-07-15

Fans Conversations Indicate
Something Will Hopper
at Aug. S Series
By WIN. M. BRAUCHER
A couple OF weeks ago Boss Joe Nc
Carthy Of the Cubs denoted Rogers
Hornsby from fourth place in the bat
ting order and installed Lewis Robert
Hack" Wilson to the cleanup role.
It begins to become fairly evident
that Hack is going to be q cleanup
man in every sense of the word. Also
1t begins to look as II baseball were
going to be put back on the you-bust-
me-and-I1l- bust-you basis Of the old
glorious and CORY days.
Mccarthy must have e plainly
that Hack had gone into the cleanup
business in a large way when the hui
man fireplug walked over to the Reds
bench in Cubs park and placed q ST.
lencing paw upon the person Of Ray
Kolp. Ray had been Grating about
Hack in this way and that.
He Bats 1000
That night. as both clubs were 1eav-
Ing Chicago. Kolp went TO hts berth 20
minutes before train time. but Pete
Donohue fingered on the platform to
say q few words to Mr.. Wilson. and
got knocked stiff. Twice at bat in the
cleanup role. Hack Is batting 1000.
Manager Jack Hendricks Of the
Reds was not slow to take q cue from
Hacks leads. and deposes and says
that when the Cubs come to Cincy
Aug. S for q dcubleheader there may
be quite q little confusion and alarm.
That wouldn't be q bit strange for
Reds field, since every time J. J. Nc
Graw used to stick his dome out Of
the dugout there several years ago
1854 bottles would be flung at the
skull that houses baseballS master
mind.
Maybe baseball needs . coupe OF
invitational free-for-alls. like they
used to have in other days in st.
Louis, Cincy and New York. When
ever New York came to Cincinnati ex-
cursion trains from many miles would
haul the angry customers to Redland.
Part of these would be McGraw par
tisanS, the others Reds. Finally the
railroads cut out this monkey bust
ness. because Wiedeman's at 5 cents
q bottle and hard feelings ruined
most of the coaches when the fans
would start debating McGraw's merits
and dement's on the way home.
Other Combinations
Hack Wilson looks promising enough
to join the Herzog : Cobb koenig :
Crimes Snyder-Pipp school Of base
ball batters. Olden legends name
many more. but these gentlemen bear
regulations Of more recent date.
Cobb and Herzog got mixed up dur
ing an exhibition series between the
Tigers and Giants. Tyrus had q bad
way of throwing up a leg when slid
ing into a close one. He came In that
way at Herzog, and Buck cast asper-
sions at his folks.
That night Cobb went to Herzog's
room-and got licked. But Cobb was
not one to quit q proposition before
giving it q fair trial, 50 he went TO
HEROES room the second highland
lost the decision again. Did he desist?
Not Cobb! For the third time he went
to HEROES ROOM. and this time ne
won the decision. Some say that Her
O got tired of seeing him come IN
and decided to get it over with by
accepting the inevitable.
Birly Grimes Is one OF the same
school. When Hornsby w~iSecracked
about his pitching ability Burleisn
swarmed ali over the Rajah, and won
q popular decision.
Babe Gets Busted
Babe Ruth has been the victim Of
several Of the bust-you fellers. Both
Wally Pipp and Mark Koenig got
away with decisions over the Bam-
bino after Ruth had spoken out Of
turn. Many Of the victims OF the
bust-you club have been. Jockeys" the
bows who ride the opposing players
from the bench. Leo "Mouthy" Du-
rocher was playing q star jockey role
in St. Louis during the world series
OF 1928 when Jack Onslow took UNI
bragg and q poke at Leo that busted
up the show.
but people who undertake to ride
Hack wilson must like their riding
rough. Hack isn't the warlike type.
but he doesn't have to be. One g0od
healthy look at him is enough. MI.
wilson derived his nickname because
hes built like q cab. although when
he hits. according to Observers, the
effect is more like q street car.
When Hack first came to the Giants
in 1924 he used to entertain the boys
before the game by driving tenpenny
natls into the Polo grounds fence with
his fists. Bernie Nets tried to copy
the trick and spent . couple Of weeks
on the hospital list Is . reward.
Dad . Cleanup Man, Too
wilson weighs about 205 pounds and
has Z barrel for q chest. . couple 9
I-beams for shoulders. and wagon
wheels for legs. He was born IA l-
wood City, Pa, In 1900. and his father
was . cleanup man. after . fashion.
tc,. doing the hammer job IN . steel
mill.
Hack spent his youth pieing typ in
. printers shop In Eddystone. Pa. ana
pushing around engines In the Bald-
win locomotive works. He soon BE-
came good enough to take . hammer
Job in the mills, and caught baseball
for the Chester A. G.
His catching for the Chester A. 9.
got Hack . Job with Martinsburg. w.
Va, entry In the Blue Ridge league.
He was sold to Portsmouth IN the vir-
ginia league. and then Nc0raw got
him.
After John ]. tried and failed to
correct Hacks stance ct the plate he
sold him to Toledo. One Of John Us
pleasant diversions these days. BY the
way, Is picking up the morning paper
md reading the headline. Hack VII
sons Homer Wins for Cubs Again."
The Cubs got Douncer Wilson BY
draft n 1874.