Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 4, 1903, Page 9

SKET BA L COMES 0N NOW o for the Real Hot Game Opened in Barnest. SCHEDULE 1S A VERY GOOD ONE L €. A, Team Has Some Important Matches on Its List Already and Wil Get Othe: W Year's day marks the beginning of basket ball season, and In college and nastum circles generally everything e way of athletic contests is now sub- Inated to that game. For some weeks the comstruction of the permanent onnel of the different teams has been process by means of elimination, and the picked lucky ones are far along ard the mastery Of thelr own chosen leacles of team play. is sport seems to be growing steadily h winter season and it has now be- o & well known gaie practically every- re in this country. The colleges have btless been most prominent in bring- it strikingly before the public notice, thé local gymnasium fn the different es have also played a big part. It only a few years ago that the word et ball aroused inquiri to its na- ire and prerogatives, but now every boy s the Fules by heart. _ Omaha is to have its good share of im- | ant basket ball games this winter. e first team of the Young Men's Chris- n assoclation has five contests arranged the home gymnasium, and will play t as many abroad. In addition to t st there are a good many minor arranged between the different ms at the association, which will also r keen sport, as the rivalry there is ke Basket ball schedules are slow in mak- g s0 that not all the dates for the ha games are yet settled. The sport not yet developed to that degree where, Aike toot ball, dates can be made a year or % two in advance and then rigidly adhered 'fo. Teams which plan trips do 8o always ore or less tenmtatively, as it is never sured until after the season has started " whether or not the journeys can be taken | with financial success. It is now almost | certain that January 20 next will open the season of the big games here with a con- fest between the association team and the JHaekell Indlans. Next will be Kansas “university on February 3, then the Uni- wersity of Nebraska and following that the Bloux City team, the Topeka, Kan., team, | the team of the Kansas City association and another game with the Lincoln asso- clation. Between these dates the local association plans to play return games with each one of thesé teams in turn, though it is not positively settled that they will visit all the places. If carried out entire, this will make a’ very full and strong schedule, and oven with a few games cut there will be much good sport left. The personnel of the local first team is almost the same as it was last year. With only one change In the lineup, grand team " work is promised. Hanson will be back at his old position of center. The Willard brothers will be playlng the two guards with their old-time reliability and steadi- mess, C. Willard on the left side and G. ‘Willard opposite him. Jardine, last year’s eaptain, will again be at left forward and it 1s sald that his game is flercer and faster than ever. Opposite him 'will be Gus Miller, the new captain, and the new member on the team. These men make wvery strong quartet and will douhtless defend the laurels of the assoclation for all there is In the gam The selection of this team was not at all arbitrary. There were fifteen candldates tor the honor and all good men. This weplth of star material gave the best sort of opportunity to choose a really strong team and the fact that so many of last year's men were picked 1s due solely to their superiority. Experionce and team work told, but each one was given a run for his place by at least two candidates. The ten left over, meanwhile, gave an opening for the formation of a second team of very high grade; so good, in fact, that 1t s mot to be called the second team. Some other mame will be chosen. It h soveral games scheduled already with teams that would hardly be strong enough to go against the first team. On the whole, the team that will repre- sent the assoolation this winter is a little head of anything the organization has been able to boast for some years and great hopes are entertained of its record to be made during the season. BOWLERS START ON SCHEDULE Play Will Be Resumed Monday After & Rest of Two Holi- Weeks. Monday night play will be resumed in the Omaha Bowling league after a respite of two weeks. The rollers are all keen for the renewal and the marked air of uneasiness and restiessness which has been prevalent around the alleys during the fortnight's surcease will then disappear. The men | whose interest centera in the chunk of lgnum vitae do not seem to relish a hait midway in the progress of the league play Sixty-three games are scheduled on the year's string for each team and of these thirty have been played. With thirty-three more to go any team In the list has a run- ning chance yet at first place. And that ie not the only desirable position, for more | reasons than the mere standing. The league has offered many good prizes this season, both for team and individual work. Here- tofore the winning team has recelved only a trophy, but now there is cash money | added, and honors of the same nature go to others of the ranking teams. The first four teams In the list when the | season closes on March 19 will get money [ prizes. To the leader goes the trophy and | $60. Becond place draws $25. The third | team gets $15 and the fourth $10. Then the | team that rolls the highest three game's total in a single night gets $10, and the team that makes the highest single game | score a night gets $10. That makes seven prizes for the teams, | and there are five Individual offerings as | well. The man with the highest average for the season gets $10, while the next best average draws §6, and to the third best aver- age goes $4. He who has rolled the highest ngle score for one game recelves $10 and | the same rum goes to the man rolling the highest total score for three games in one | night. Al this makes a nice little bunch | of prizes which add to the zest of the sport. | BOXERS START THEIR GAME Good Mateh Fixed for South Omaha and Others in Pros- 1t I8 now practically assured that about January 15 the local sports are to be treated to as flerce a mill at fisticufts as has been seen In these parts for many a day. Eddle Robinson, manager of Clar- ence English, says that the go arranged between that boy and Kid Broad of Chi- cago 18 now cinched, and that it will be pulled off in the old Red Light theater at South Omaha, the arena in which many a fight, good, bad and indifferent, has been fought in recent years. After so long a stagnant period at the boxing game this is welcome news indeed to the devotee of the rope enclosed canvas Almost any 0ld kind of 4 fight would be a joy at this time, and the prospect of such a stem winder as the coming affalr prom- Ises to be s putting the pug patrons on their toes with expectation. It will he @ man of undoubted prowess and estab- lished reputation against a youngster of unusually good heart, great strength and a flerce and conetant attack. fighting little need He has been holding his own with the best of the featherwelghts for long enough to gain name and fame. But English can stand a littla touting, and he deserves It. First, he is an Omaha boy, and only a year ago or so was a local amateur of the mat and ring. Early in the wrestling game he became a wonder at his weight, but at that he always boxed better than he wrestled. From the first Bddie Robinson, had him in charge, and since English made his first ring appear- ance in a four-round “kid” preliminary last winter thirty-one fights have followed. Not a large proportion of these were against good men, but be it said to the oredit of the young featherwelght that he bas never known defeat nor a draw, has mever been knocked down, has never, ne far as could be been dazed, and has never been made to falter or waver for a moment. After having fought and de- feated such men Dick Green, Eddie Santry, Oscar Gardner and Billy Shannon, English cannot be sald to be untried, yet In another sense all these victories came 80 easily that It cannot be said that his mettle has yet been thoroughly tested. Not even Robinson himselt will assert that cleverness is English's strong hold. Ho 1s not clever, but he fs a fighter, and is furthermore the most aggressive party in @ ring that one can Imagine. His style 18 to go after his opponent from the first gong and never stop till he has got him. He scems to mind a punch not at all, and withal has some terrible blows of his own, both while inside and at longer range. All in all, the go to come should be one interesting affair, and with the prelimin- arles planned the evening will be locally a memorable one. The men are to make 126 pounds and twenty rounds is the limit set. It is probable that both will try to cut that down all they possibly can. The referee for this fight has not yet been selected, but an endeavor will be made to secure Patsy Magner of Yankton, §.D. Magner s familiar with the game, be- he bas been actively mixed in it In his Moreover, he has demonstrated on other occasions that he knows his business as a referee, and also that he does it. Two other Omaha fighters are now lined up for matches which are to oceur in the very near future. Billy Rhodes, the popu- lar welterweight, has finally agreed in his usual reckless fashion to meet Tommy Ryan, the middlewelght, at St. Louls before Danny Daly’s n club. This looks like a long shot for Rhodes, but he has decided to go in at catch weights, as Ryan inslsted, and take his chances. These would seem to be about what a man stands with loaded dice. This mill is set for January 12. Spike Leroy, the boy who recently moved Largest Assortment - OF— Edison Columbia Phono- graphs Also Diso Machines. $5.00 to $100.00 —Cash or Payments. 14,000 Records to select from. We carry a complete stock of Edison and Columbia Machines and Records. Our facilities for showing records and filling mail orders cannot be equaled in the west, Call on us or write. Dealers wanted. Free concerts all day and evening. Also Vehicles, Automobiles and Bicycles. H. E. Fredrickson 15th and Capitol A enue. 'Phone 2161 l THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, to St. Joseph from here, has arranged to give Kid Broad a warming-up there for his fight with English here to follow. The date as now understood is January 9. The men are signed for twenty rounds. There Is no concelvable dope that would dare to prophesy that Spike will go more than two or three of these save for sufterance. This would seem to be & very unwise match for the budding and ambitious St. Joseph clud to have made. On form Spike has no show with Broad, and about one more momentary fight will end the game there. The local sports were none too well suited with the way in which Rhodes outclassed Marion Me- Intyre there on December 15, arfd they are erying for an even match now. BASE BALL IN THE WINTER TIME Conference Falls Thro Be- eause the Natlonal Fails to Make Good. Peace It's all off. Back to the woods for the gentle dove of peace, and on with the merry war of the magnates. Ban Johneon says there will be no conference at Cincinnati tomor- row and no further negotlations for peace from his end of the fight. He insisted that the Natlonal conferees come to the meeting clothed with full power to mot. This was desired by President Herrmann of the Cincinnati team, who is chairman of the National committee, but the other magnates couldn’t see it that way. 8o Mr. Johnson very naturally declines to g0 into a conference which can result in nothing. This outcome will be learned with regret by every lover of the game. AN had looked forward to Cincinnati with fond hopes of peace, and the prospect was most encouraging. While the American league had named Mr. Johnson as a committee of one with full power to act, he had asked to come with him Mes Comiskey of Chlcago, Somers of Cleveland and Killlea of Boston, making a committee of four of the brainiest men in base ball today. For the National league the committee was made up of Messrs. Herrmann of Cin- cinnati, Hart of Chicago and Robison of St. Louts, three men in whom the base ball world has confidence. It is undoubt- edly due to the influence of the Brush- Billings-Rogers faction that the meeting has fafled. Just what these men can hope to gain by a continuation of the fight I8 not easily seen. In Boston and Philadel- phia the American has the National skinned forty ways, and just as sure as the American starts in at New York the Brush-Freedman combination will be put to the bad. From a business standpoint it looks as if the National had made an- other of the blunders that has marked its every step In dealing with the American league. Ordinarily, when people can not be reached in any other way, they can be reached through the pocketbook, but in this case it is different. The National league purse has become flatter and flatter each year since the war started, and still the magnates refuse to make any move that will check the drain. In the mean- time, public sympathy is with the Ameri~ can. Mr. W. T. Van Brunt, who “strides a puny world like a colossus,” made a little ex- cursion from St. Joseph to Chicago the other day, and at once the pipe wreaths began to take the form of a Western league team on Comiskey's White Stocking park. Probably the next time Mr. Van Brunt goes to New York we will hear of the Western league invading Gotham. But right here The Bee wants to enter a pro- test against the statement that comes out every time Van Brunt's name I8 mentioned, that he “financed” the Western league last summer and made it possible to fight the American assoclation. As a matter of fact, the Western league needed no financing. Mr. Van Brunt and Mr. Burns of Colorado Springs promised that they would foot the bills i the league falled to pay out. As every team in the league except Kansas City pald out, no bills were left over to foot. And as the expenses of the league were met by the teams, there was no need of financial assistance from any source. Omaha and Denver paid the expenses of the Western league last season by their mag- nificent support. More people paid their way into one Sunday game at Omaha than went through the pay gates in any one month at St. Joseph. This talk about W. T. | Van Brunt “financing” the Western league makes the real supporters of the game tired. And then it doesn’t give Tom Burns a show, either, and that's wrong. Tom is certainly entitled to something for the talk he put up last summer. Meantime, it's up to Omaha and Denver to turn out the crowds again. Suddenly the talk about the ralds that Joe Cantillion was making on the Call- fornia league has ceased. Here's a tip on those lads: An offer from an eastern magnate is a good thing to fiaunt in the face of a coast manager once in a while. Some of these times the coast managers will get “wised up proper” and then some alleged sta: of the game in California will have to work or walk. Byron McKibben will manage Tacoma next summer. He will have Russ Hall with him. There's a mighty good pair gone from the Western. McKibben was a good manager and Hall was the only real ball player on the St. Joe team last summer. Big Bill Wilson has trapped Dave Calhoun and Buck Theil for his Peoria push, and gives it out cold that he will be in the money all the way around the course. CURLERS MAY BUILD A RINK Omaha Followers of the Roarin’ Game to Have Permanent Tee. A curling rink s planned for Omaha. The Omaha Curling club contemplates building such a place and will hold a meet- ing Monfay night at 1508 Howard street to take immediate steps in the matter if its teas[bility becomes apparent at that time. The rink will be built on some loeation close in down town, so that it will be within easy reach of the business men. The dimensions of the rinks will require & hous- ing fully 165 feet long and forty feet wide. Accommodations for equipment and playing tools and clothes would be arranged within. The Curling club has at present thirty members, all actively interested in the sport. The weather conditions here have always made the matter of good ice very uncertain, even with the coldest tempera- ture prevailing. The rink would obviate all this, offering a perfect sheet of ice as long as the cold lasted. It would also bring the game within easy distance, so that curl- ers could indulge every day instead of once a week or fortnight. They would, further- more, be protected from the weather, which is no small item. Not much difficulty is anticipated in mak- ing the necessary arrangements to defray the expenses of constructing the rink house. It 1s planned to have two rinks, each of which must be five yards by fifty. The place would be much on the same plan as a bowling alley, with ice in place of polished floors. The Curling club anticipates taking in many new members if the rink is con- structed, as athletically inclined men are certain to become interested in the g when indulgence is made so easy and ple urable. At Minneapolis and St. Paul curl- ing rinks are successfully conducted. Thus far (bis wister the curlers bave in- JANUARY 4, 1905, Established 1823 WILSON WHISKEY. THE WILSON DISTILLING CO. Baltimore, Md That’s All! dulged but four times in their favorite pi time. Thanksgiving day was the first, then early in December the second, while the| third and fourth occasions were Christmas | and New Year's days. It had been planned | to make the New Year's event a big affair, with the Troup Point medal and Forgan silver cup as trophies. The ice was too bad | to allow of any such champlonship con- tests, however, and the only curling done that day was & match between rinks skipped by R. 8. Melvin and James C. Lindsay. After a very close game Melvin won by 4 points. Most of the devotees of the game seem very enthusiastic about the covered rink proposition. One of the biggest advantage next to that of good ice all the time is that 1t will make possible curling at night. With good lighting the game is easily handled after dark, and is as pleasant sport skating by moonlight. This will glve men more time for the game, as in this busy country people do not have time enough in daylight. In discussing this point Mr. Lindsay said: “Ot course, one would mever expect to see any great proficiency at curling here. People do not have time enough. Here men | work until b o'clock every day and till 6 on Saturdays. In Scotland as soon as curl- ing begins no man will work after 2 o'clock. know an old cobbler whom I have seen leave his shop while in the midst of cob- | bling a pair of shoes for which a customer was waiting barefooted. Nor would he re- turn and complete the job till darkness stopped his game with the “stanes.” In Canada, too, more time is devoted to curl- Ing, and in some eastern cities in this coun- try, but mot out here.” SQUASH CLUB IS STILL ACTIVE Who Began the Keep it Up with Great Vim. Men rt Last winter a score or more of the young men of the upper ten organized a Squash club In Omaha, secured quarters, equip- ment, conveniences and then played the game with persistence all during the cold season. This winter finds the club experi- encing even more of a revival than the most. sanguine expected. A few short months at this fascinating indoor game was sufficlent to win permanent devotees among those Inclined to athletics of the more strenuous sort, and as a consequence the life of the sport here seems now sured. The same quarters have been retained, on the second floor of the bullding at 108 South Fourteenth street, but they have been further improved. The bullding of a new back wall, or face, is an important feature, glving & more solid playing front. The visitors' gallery has also been altered and enlarged, 80 that considerable gatherin can now be accommodated at cont perched up high above the arena out of harm's way. In membership there has been some change, which on the limited roll makes quite a difference. Some of the charter members have dropped out. The purpose of the club s not to let its mem- bership exceed twenty-five men, so there is no difficulty in keeping the lists full Two rising players are found among the new recruits. They are W. T. Burns and “Spike” Kennedy. Each has caught the ng of the play remarkably well in the short time since the season began, and either bids fair to give the older cracks & run for honors before the winter clos: The usual monthly tournaments are being adhered to again this season. One was held in November and another in December. Sam Burns won both of them, N. P. Dodge, ir., belng his opponent in the final round of the second affair. It was discovered, in both these conte: that the same players who led the game last winter were again the ones to stick up to the late rounds. It grew to be & safe bet as to what four would be ia the semi-finals. To avold this and to make competition keener it has been decided to make the tournaments handicap affairs hereafter, for a time at least. This will give the weaker players an even chance with the others, providing the handicapping 1s judicious. It will enbance the interest and make competition more arduous. In the first tournament this winter there were twelve entrieh. The second drew sixteen names. It Is expected that fully twenty will participate in the January affalr, which will begin as soon as the holidays are well or with, 'WORK 0N MISSOURL RIVER Commiesion Makes Report to Oongress on Its Final Efforts, PERMANENT CHANNEL FOR THE BIG MUDDY Much Good Has Been Accomplished Already Through the Poliey ot ot kn Adopted by Engineers, Protection The annual report of the Missouri River commission for the fiscal year ending last June has just come from the goverment printing office and is of more than passing interest from the fact that the commission says that by reason of the repeal of the law creating the commission this is the last annual report, and for this reason, probably, the commissioners give a short resume of the history of the commission from its organization, July 6, 1884, and a brief outline of the policy of the commis- slon since that time. On the latter point it says: ‘The policy may be stated, In a few words, to be a continudus, progressive control of the river, contracting It where necessary giving the channel proper direction and s curely holding it in place. * On t part of the river in the first reach, where continuous work was done, under what is called systematic improvement, the resul reached were remarkable. A continuo channel of not less than low water was obtained | about forty-five miles of river on what was orlginally one of the worst parts of the river, in the vicinity of the mouth of the Osage. In addition to this forming of & channel, much new land was formed and h_land protected from destruction by the river. To fllustrate this, it may be stated that in the distance of only eighteen miles in the vicinity of Jefferson City the area of new land formed by the rectifici tion works amounted to 5500 acres, and the area of land protected was 12,800 acres. Computing this at a fair price of 350 per acre, the sum of $916,000, or over $§60,000 per mile of river, was added to the wealth of the country as ncidental to the im- provement of navigation. mportance of the Work. There 18 hardly a doubt that equal re- sults would be obtained on the whole river, from its mouth tc Sloux City, a distance of 500 miles, under a thorough, systematic fmprovement, ‘he river flows along or through seven length of over 3,400 miles. 473,570, and on its opulation aggregutes cities and towi anis there are ove including one city of over 160,00, two of gver 100,000, one of over 0,000, four of over 30,000, 26,000, 90,000 and 16,000, respectively, three of more than 7,000 &nd less than 10,000, five of more than 2,600 and less than 6000, and twenty of more than 60 and less than 2,600. It has a volume of flow at all times sufMclent for channels of not less than five feet dept elght to ten feet at the mouth. Tt tne amount of its existing commerce is to be itsed as the measure of its worthi- ness for improvement, it might as well, as ped off | has been factlously proposed, the map of internal improvements. ita capacity for improvement bilities of its use &s a highway for cheap ortation for a very large section of country and & numerous “mullllw be considered, its worthiness high rank. Polley. Protest Axal Running through the entire report there is a protest agalnst the policy pursued by congress in the matter of the improvement of the river. In the opening paragraph the commission says: “Unfortunately for the improvement, the comml greater part of the time of Dot been permitted to carry out its policy, except with such limited amounts of the yearly appropriations as to render progress exceedingly slow.” And more than once it speaks in the same veln, particularly when it Teters to congressional action which re- quired the commission to extend specific sums from the annual appropriation for work at certain points, far removed and en- tirely disconnected from the systematic work of fhe commission referred to above. These specific expenditures, it admits, were sometimes necessary, but should haye been provided for outside of the regular appro- priation of the commission, because the scattering of the work required an addi- tional expeise in the employment of super- intendents, clerks and operation of dis- tinct plants, which extra expense has been pald from the funds otherwise available for B matic work. It closes its protest against the action of congress by saylng Congreas created the commission with the supposed purpose of making an extensive and effective improvement of the rive The commission carried out this pur- pose with seal and with fidelity to the ex- h at sioux City, and | d the pos- | tent that was possible under congressional restrictions, and & much greater develop- ment of the general improvement of the river would have been attained if the | | money ~appropriated for the river could | | have been expended for the purpose. As | | congress has not deemed It advisable to | continue the work upon a scale and in a manner to make an effective general im- provement, there is, of course, no longer necessity for the existence of the commis sion. Some Final Recommendations, The commission recommands that & pro- vision be made for the operation of a snag- boat on the river, similar to the provisions made for other rivers, not to exceed the sum of $85,000 per year, and in addition says: And _the commission desires to state that 1t makes no recommendation for any ap- propriation whatever other than for the operation of snagboat, unless it can be made in & manner to permit of its applica- tion to a thorough systematic improve- ment of the river. While If the systematic work referred to can be taken up it would recommend the appropriation of 31,000,000 & year for the work between Jefferson City and the mouth of the river until that is complete, at a cost estimated from $3,000,000 to 33,600,000, leaving the question of the de- velopment of the river above Jefferson City to future consideration. Expenditures on All Work. Accompanying the report is a atement of the disbursements of the commission from the time of its organization, showing that 1t has expended on the Missourl river since 1884, the sum of $7,168,249.53; on the Osage river, $363,082.31, and on the G conade river, $25,138.11, making a grand total of expenditures for all purposes of $7,689,637.81, and a balance on hand at the close of the year of $6,782.14. In the description of works carried on at the various points of the river it shows that of the aggregate sum mentioned $404,- 794.19 was expended at Omaba and Council Blufts, $80,496.12 at Sioux City, $67,747.10 at Nebraska City, $104,998.06 at Rulo, $633,- 569.98 at St. Joseph, while the remainder was expended at various points in the state of Missouri, $2,609,700 having been ex- pended on the systematlc development of the “first reach,” that part of the river from the mouth to Jefferson City. 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