Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 22, 1922, Page 6

\ ARAM AT VA - FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 22, 1922 THREE MORE FAST CAMES THE OLD HOME TOWN ARRANGED FOR FIREMEN Three more fast games have been arranged. .for. the. Bemidji Firemen by Manager:-R. B.-Lycan. The St. Thomas; All-Stars vei-re QD / play here for two games, ‘l‘huxsday and Friday,Dec: 28 and-29 and 'St | Thomas xs)‘x to bring the strongésti team it. can find, "wl ch means” thit §- 5 ment made therebyi privileged to] extra Twin:City stars if ,they desj The Fijemen are.willing. to, meet.the best. % The T\v,n.figrbors AU Sms are to play here January 5. This promxs& #d~bring out ag large a crowd as any: gther game this year since Two Harboig has always been in a class by itgelf in basketball. The next-game for the Firemen will be that against Crookston at the Queen City next Wednesday. The)| * out of town members of the Bemidji team are to spend Christmas at home and will_return shortly before the Crookston: game. NOTED SKI- JUMPERS TO DEI'.'I' IN MINNEAPOLIS (By United Press) . Minneapolis, . Dec: 22.— 'The world’s: moeb_ noted. ski jumpers will participate: in‘ “the - 'National :/Ski Toumnmex\t ‘to be held: here Feb. 10- 11. §% \ On ths»fint date; Universities: of Wisconsin and Minnesota will hold 'their scheduled dual meet. i ¢ The Mumicipal Ski club of ane- ‘apolis, :th Odm -club, and the -Uni- versxty Abhlétic association :are pre- .paringthe program of the National 'Ski - toursidment.: Jumpers from a number--of -eastern and ‘mid-western ‘colleges;-are expected to participate in amateur events. Amotig the- noted : professional who . will be: here. are . Henry Hall, ‘Detroit, international champion; Ragnar Omtvedt, Chicago, national champion; Lars Hagen, Denver, and his brother, Anders of Minneapolis and Hans Hanson Minneapolis, who made a jump of 235 feet one of the longest on record, but fell on land- ing. FIREMEN'S SCHEDULE The folluwmg gamus have been scheduled - for. the .Firemén’s baskct- ball team, several of which, how. ever, are ‘only ' tentative. ~ Others will be added as they are arranged: Dec.: 27—Crookston at Crookston. . Dec. 28 'and 29-—-St. Thomas All- Stars at Bemidji. ° January 3-—LaCrosse -at Bemi January 4—LaCrosse at Bemi Jan. 5—Two Harbors All-Stars at Bemidji. January 8 and 9—Denver Tigers at Bemidji. January ll—Crookston at Crooks~ ton. January 15—Ballentines - (Minn< eapolis) at Bemidji. January 16—DBallentines eapolis) -at” Bemidji. January - 19—Crookston midji. January 29 - and .30—Norton’s Globe ! Trotters (Minneapolis) at Be- midji. ! Jan. 81——Grand Rapids midn‘ ‘;§ TODAY IN MUSIC . Sh tenng all precedent and tra- ‘ditionj at the: ' Metropolitan .Opera House, N. Y., Feodor Chaliapin, fin- ishingj his Aug aria in Verdi’s “Don Carlos?, stdpped to the footlights:and dnformed -the conductor that he would’ repeat it, which ‘he-did- This wag in:response to. overwhelming ap- plause from the crowded house, and the . big Russian basso did a ‘thing that Garuso’ would never -consent to do. Americg has felt htat: Chaliapin is a great artist, but in the eyes of (Minn- at Be- at Be- many ;by this ;act he has proved to| be . “just an opera singer.” Hig-jin- terpretation of King Prilip in- the .Vexdi .opera was magnificent, both vocally - m\d histrionically, but re- peating chief scene was like Ham- let repéating. his solologuy, or:Por- tia' her mercy ‘speech: Iz was ‘bad busmess 3 % 'mda Ruffo, renowned . bari o3 made jhis jnitial appenranc Metropolitan this season; 'singing m Verdis “Ernani’’-in which. opegs- he has achieved considerable. “success dm-ing his mterest-mg careens /Fhe opera itself- is of little value but, dike several others in' the \letropol. . dtan’s; lepert‘o)'y, it"does -provide op- or the. display of tals ents and:—-mnpemments of - various' operatic satellites® So long ‘as the pnbhc,s‘ pleused eveu-thmg “jake.” 1D YOU: KNOW THAT or:Herbert, the:composer of buth hght opera. and. serious music, is a eapab{e ‘cello player, having iplayed “solo’ ’cello. in the orchestra at: the Metropolitan Opera before 3 achlevcmg fame as a compoxei’ toured Europe.{or seven year: ing ufder his translated.) oardoldixGityanni,” and th ) . ‘the g.af.Italy decoxated him with the cross of the Ox-der of Lhe Crown £ Edi“ SJohnson; Oanidian ténor, game | i | are going to stick to them as long ‘major league strings on them. j ergreen 'rnls ’ERFWS-—— N enoLs e SoienpeRs AUNT SARAH PZABODY WAS FURIOUS vow\v WHEN STATION . AGENT DAD KEYES CLOSED UP AND TOOK, THE MALL Poucn TO THE STATION AN n ; By Gondo 'PEACE BETWEEN MINORS, MAJORS Issues Between Mnjor and Minor_Leagues Likely to Be Settled Soon BY HENRY L, FARRELL (United Press Staff Correspondent) New York, Dec. 22.—Most, if not all of the points at issue now be- tween the major and minor leagues | ought to be settled this winter. If, the major leagues hold a joint meeting in’ Chicago, the minors have agreed to hold their annual session at -the same time. Commissioner Landis said at the Louisville- meeting that he intended to alternate the annual joint mee ings of the National and American League meetings between New Yo! and Chicago, which would give it Chicago next year. * Several points are at issue now, Tthe draft of course, being of most jor leauges and the esting moment to the players and . opgmn Fmit’ to most of the little fellows. “If the major leagues would onl) come to us and talk real business in- stead of trying”to - bluff: and: 'bul us, it could all be settled,” a pro- minent American Association. .club owner. said at Louisvi “We are:firm in the stand for what we think are our rights and we as the ‘majors talk of boycott, black lists and othier silly threats. Huwcver‘ if the.ma lJols \mul(l give in a little so would- we." If Comimissioner .Landis .ever gets them in session together, it’s-a cingh-\. they will both be reasonable and| they ought to be in sessiow mext, Wh\— ter. The bigger clubs of the ‘minors do not want the option limit ifl¢reas- ed. 'They are finding fault now with the present system which they claim allows too many players *scattered thmughout the bush leagues with . “We were going along for a pen- nant into the last quarter last séa- son, when a major league club we had under option and we finish ed third instead of flrst,” a manager said, - @lilwRigpe Uther owners and managers take the stand that the majors might as well be allowed. t0 have:two hundred out under option-if they want them, because they’ll get around any limit that is placed on them:™ One ‘major league scout. “,ho doefi a-great deal of traveling,-said that the St. Louis' Cardinals, with three: minor league. farms, had access .to about 200 players—so many that the club didn’t have time to devote suf- ficient gttention to the ‘Cards, Meeting the salary question is.an- other matter in, which the minors ¢ looking to the majors: for help. Independent leagues, three or four of which are flourishing around the grabbed:- two of our best playeis that middle-west, oft‘ermg salaries that CALENDAR OF SPORTS Racing—DMeeting of Jefferson Par_ ish Fair association at New, Or. leans. Meeting of Cuban.Ameruan Jock- H ey club at Havana. i - Meeting of Tijuana Jockey Club at Tijuana. Boxing—jJoe Lynch ys. M)dget “Smith | 15 rounds at New York, Kid ‘Wiliiams vs. Battling wfim’d, { 12 rounds at- New. ork. 5 1 Floyd Johnson vs. Jack’ Herma‘n, 12 -rounds at Syracuse. Pal. Moore vs. Bud Taylor, rounds at Chicago. Kid Norfolk vs. Jim Taylor, 10 rounds at’Boston. Johnny Downes vs. Charlie. 0’Con-. nell, 10 rounds at Erie. [ BASKETBALL RULES | START PLAY When is the proper time for_ the referee to blow his whistle when he | puts the ball in play in the center? The veferee shouldn’t - blow his whistle until the ball has’ reachedits highest point, “aftér which it must ‘be tapped: by either center before it touches the ground in oxder to be 'put in ‘play. 1 CENTERS What is the. proper thing for the referee -to-do if the ball after being put r: play’in ‘the zenter (vres the floor . without eigher conter - having touched. it? The referee. shall slmply put.in it play again ‘in the same manner at, the same. place. BALL IN P..AY How.is the:ball put in ‘play after it goes-out” of hounds? That is up.to. the player, he can either throw, bounce or roll the ball | to. another -player within the court. < OPPONENT’S. BALL When- a ball: gaeg out of bounds how. does ‘the referee designate who shall put the ball in play? It xs custumary for the refelce Y lN;O_Ll) AGE; Cnn’i Ga All the <Way But | Mflkll\" Palress . Fust.as Possible: By David L. Blumenfield (Written for the. United Press) is as London, Dec. 20—London ‘can never, by any stretch of iinagination become ‘twin sister to New York in outward appearance, but just the same, London is becoming more and mose New- Yorkised—if one c¢an use such a, word. In the first place, neither London nor any. other European cities, can ever resemble the big towns of the U!\'ted States, for. the: simple reason thpt European. -towns :have- -never n’t nl'l'onl to ! ball’ take back players in the-independent-leagues. and - that the leagues themselvvs would/then be williii &9 aseéball. The people of Sweden-do not trim their churches and houses with ev- at Christmas time as that is an (mh]vm of mourning | with them. . i been laid-out, with:streets and.ave- s {criss-crossing -on. the American lan-=-they; have . simply; grown ac- rding ‘to the whims and:housi mangs- Only i the new springing up i Furope can therc be M)’ Am iean’ ¢ities. “Nietorign, struetures 4, in Lundon and{New York wete séemingly erect= ed only ‘toi’berazed: again. Today in London, just as:the brownstone homes and houseg of New York have given'plage to the steel' girded sky- scraper, so the Victorian l)uildings] Iikenesq to and the small Georgian houses are making room for similar American type buildings on a smaller ‘scalel | The new buildings are gazed at! hy} | Londoners' with awe. They w\rv' from eight to ten stories and are fit- ted with the latest in elevators and modern ~ office conveniences. Of course, London }mq not enched[ the stage where” her’ buildinigs “have § chisd any*height to' speak -of. i e;law so far will not allow m\yug struéture to rise higher than ten .or: eleven stories, which in itself for- | .| these things will Singer ‘or Equitable buildings, with their attendant restaurants, terminal barber ‘shops, fire brigades and Heaven only knows what not. Such! luxuries with which the New: Yorker® of today is almost contemilt- uously familiar, are not in London: —yet. : But the time is %xqt £ ecome a reality even in theistaid pld eapitols < Changing. Slowly London' is very much in*the' posi- tion of a man, who is-approaching middle: age and doesn’t :realize -it. Changeé ift a'subtle mahner is'altering him’ and yet. he, goes about his-every day busmess unk; ing- and unrec. London newspapers sold a: page for advertising space,rwhile the man who was far-seeing enough to prophesy that the “Times” would one - day mot- only= sell .whole’ pages for advertising space, but would de- vote oheiwhole page to pi ures,»was laugheitat. a?% i Today; of: coume, that " prophesy is_perfectly true. . Al the big Lon- don newspapers will sell a whole page for:advertisements;:the ‘Times” prints :a. pictorial ;. page .and - seyeral he ‘other dpy came: out wit! canizing “upsto date; I d what S_&nle Starts 8:A. M: Saturday;” "* December 23rd WOOLNAP DOUBLE‘_ . BLANKETS “UFull ‘ize’in’ préttychieck d "$7.50 value, ‘cut to Double harness Brand new, a sacrifice at $4850 ,{Rmslqg.b London streets: bore practically no advertising signs, boardings Hampstead to Hackney and from Bermondsey to Belsize . Park. “Keep:. 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