The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1935-04-30
(By tho Associated Press)

Shorter baseball temperS, coincid-
Ing with rising mercury in the ther-
mometers, can be credited with an
assist on the major leagues first full
grown riot" Of the year.
The widest game of the young
season, the Chicago Cubs 1911 VIC
tory over the Pittsburgh Pirates,
provided the setting for Mondays
Donnybrook In which mississippi
Guy" Bush, former Cub, played the
leading fisticuffing role.
The trouble started in the fifth
inning when Harry Lavagetto. young
Pirate infielder, doubled to score
Manager Pie Traynor with the run
that gave the Corsairs q 60 lead. As
I.avagetto slid into second, he got
himself tangled up in Bill urges
spikes. He leaped to his feet with
fists flying.
That brought on a small-sized bat
tle-royal. Players from both teams
surged onto the playing field. In
the forefront was Bush. now wearing
a Pirate uniform. After short YER
bal exchange with Roy Joiner, Cub
pitcher, Bush rushed his man and
floored him with . couple OF rights.
Joiner wound up with a bloody nose
and q six-inch scratch on the left
side Of his jaw.
Four Are Banished
They started leading Bush away
from there when Manager Charley
Grimm Of the Cubs decided to take q
hand but before any further damage
could be done, the umpires and
cooler-headed players stepped between
The prospective battlers and the fight
was over. urges, Joiner, Lavagetto
md Bush all were banished.
All this apparently aroused the
Cubs from their lethargy for IN the
eighth they sent Il men to bat
against Waite Hoyt, Johnny Salve-
son and Bill Swift and scored 10 runs.
for q 1873 lead. The Pirates came
back with two runs In the ninth but
Traynor famed with the tieing and
winning runs on base to end the game.
The contest, marked by six home
runs and parade Of 10 pitchers
lasted two hours and II minutes.
The National League program
otherwise was quiet with Paul Dean
pitching six-hit ball to give the St.
Louis Cardinals q To victory over
the Cincinnati Reds and the Boston
Braves handing the Phillies their
eighth successive defeat, Us.
A three-game American League
program was marked by two shut
outs with Vernon Nefty)) Gomez OF
the New York Yankees and Tommy
Bridges Of the champion Detroit
Tigers In the starring roles.
Tigers Hammer Browns
Bridges kept seven Brown hits well
spaced as Detroit, showing rather
convincing evidence OF . return to
last years form, hammered out an
1910 triumph. The Tigers got only four
hits off Buck Newsom In the first
seven frames but made them good
for six runs, then laced Jimmy
walkup and Bob Weiland for II more
In the last two innings, nine Of them
In the eighth.
Comes held the Washington Sen
ators to four hits as the Yankees
won 90. Bill Dickey's double and
Earle Combs single accounted for the
first tally off Bob Burke in the fourth.
The second came on singles by Red
Role and George selkirk and q long
ny by Lou Gehrig.
The Philadelphia Athletics tenth
defeat In Il starts was q 1913 beat
lng BY the Boston Red Sox In II
innings. The Red Sox trailed by
three runs going into the eighth but
Wally Moses muff Of Q line drive
permitted two runs to score and
another came across when Roy john
Don doubled. Bing Miller. . pinch
hitter, drove In the winning runs with
. single with the bases loaded In the
18th.