Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 28, 1909, Page 25

~> F SN S |“atanted frem Sault Baint Marie, Mich., PART F.VE ORTING PAGES 1 TO 4 SP THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE. "'VOL. XXXVIII—NO. 41. OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 28, 1909. PORTS SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS, Omaha Western League Players on Deck and Busy with Practice for Opening Game of Season ROURKE FAMILY | HARD AT WORK Yoatly All the Members of the Tribe | 6w en Hand and Following | the Captain’s Lead. KING COMES HOME TO PLAY Heo'and Rice the Last to Report and | Fisher on Way. PA PLAYS GAME FOR CHARITY | Pioked Team Will Trounce Regulars| at Benefit Game. | NORTH PLATTE WANTS A DATE Exhibition Season Starts We with Two Games with Joe i " Washingto Othiers Follow Fast. T'he. tirst opportunity of the Omaha fans 1u: see: the new colts 'in action will be Wednesday afternoon when Joe Cantillon | gomes to town with the Washington Ameri- Can league leam for two games with Pa's Coits. - Cantition thinks he has a team of | wioners this year although but few Shanges kave been made in his lineup, Which. contains many former Western league favorites. Hughes and Johnson are hoth -ascheduled- to pitch in Omaha and these two alene would draw a crowd. All Cmaha ‘fans watched with interest the fast climb made by Johnson, the wonder from. the west, who went east with such 2’ magnificent .record of games won and who was looked upon to explode. He re- | tused. Tommy Hughes was in Omaha in | 1802. Ten / there s Skipper Bill Schipke, who won the title of “Slugger” Bill b the. magnificent finish he made in Omaha | thres years ago. McBride and others are | algs’ well known ‘o Omaha fans. Pe has had two disappointments at first bse, In .the first place he expected Autrg; 16 come back, because of the re- markable record-made by Hobby at Cin- cipnatl last fall. Then .he placed his re- liance on Eberiin, but that coming star has decided to remain in school until June, béfere reporting Graham was then de. cifled upen by Pa, but along comes Buck Frank and insists that Graham is entirely too. wpesdy a player to be put on first | and now they are in earch of another first baseman. Should a new guardian for the intfal sack be found it may mean that King will fight for an outfleld position that Grabam will play seeond, or it may mean that Captain Buck intends to inslst on Graham taking it easy until cer- taln his knea is well. Time will have to tell ‘what the lincup of Pa's Colts will be | ‘when the first league, game is played a ‘month herce. ‘,Thess players will be on hand ready to it up wedneaday Position. First... | Washington. | Unglaub | MeBride + Shipke Conroy ..Ganley Milan - Clymer 1.\ Secona Sghort ... Third..... Tatt ] Conter Right . i Caton Catch Pitch . Piteh, Pitch.. ‘Pitch.. Piteh, 2 Btreet Blankenship Jehnson Hurhes ... Rurns Witherup Sans OO Piteh, .., ci.. Brown 4 ‘Piteh ......... . Broadford March 31 and April 1. games called 3:0 »_m. Nearly All Are Here. King arrived Saturday afterncon ready for action and Wisher wes expected later in"the day. King says he is in fine shape and 't care whetiter they put him on mecond or first, or any other old place, just %0 they wet busy soon, as he has had a long enough rest. Captain Franck has prevalled upen Pa Rourke to send to California for a big fiwst baseman named Bath. The captain mys he has never seen him work, but he heard so muca about him that he wanted to give him a chance with the Omaha | Deaf, at Bellevue | Fort Crook. | Bellevue. | rightly handled. Moreover, definite | base ball. BELLEVUE MEN GET OUT DOORS| Tndoor bise ball work fs now a thing of | the past at Bellevue. Spring practice has now started on the diamond, the men work- ing & couple of hours each aftarnoon when the weather permits. While the squad is somewhat short in the matter of old men here, there are many newcomers of ex- | perience and promise. Altogether some twenty-five or thirty men are at work un- der Captain Cassidy, two or three for every position. Cassidy hae played two years here as shortstop, doing splendid individual play- ing as well as good team work, and should | prove an efficlent captain The pitching staff is good. It surpasses he usual staff and should go a long way toward winning a pennant this spring The schedule, as arranged by Manager ones, is as follows: April 10~Bellevue against School for the April 16—Bellevue bor. April 17— Bellevue ity April 22--Bellevue Bellevue. April 4~Bellevue League, at Omaha April 20—Bellevue against inst Tabor, at Ta- against Amity, at Am- against Creighton, at against Omaha Western Fort Crook, at May 1—Bellevue against Cotner. vue, May at Bel 8- Bellevue against Wesleyan, at May 10—Bellevue vie. May 11—Bellevue May 12-Bellevue ner against Peru, at Belle. against Doane, at Crete. against Cotner, at Cot May 13—Bellevue Weslevan May 14—Bellevue May 15—Bellevue at Nebraska City May 1—Bellevue Deaf, at Omaha May 2—Bellevue against Doane, at Belle- vue. May 20—Bellevue Vinton Strest park June 5—-Bellevue against Tabor, at o against Wesleyan, at against Peru, galnst at Peru against School for the against Crelghton Belle at v braska City, | Indications are that the season Will be successful promising indivdiuals than ever before | There are men of special abilities cnd all- around men, who can enter several events, and ther terial is at' hand for a winning team cog- nition is being given tha track men, as has not been the case before. There are but two events for which no really promising material has already ap- peared. These are the hurdles and the broad jump. Men will who can compete in these events, but have not done %o yet. In the high jump several men are being tried. These are Primrose, Bnfleld, Brandet and others. No one has Churchill and Sinsel have been spoken of as possidble competitor: In the weight events there are a score of good men— Barry, Primrose, Enfleld, Curtis, Rice, Bonderson and others. In the state meet last spring Primrose won the discus throw and he Is back In the fleld this vear with even better form, and certainly more strength. Curtis is a close second to Prim- rose. In the shot put Curtis is leading Bellevue competitors. As yet Enfield has practiced little and his strength in the shot put is not definitely known. Besides these two, Rice and Bonderson should do well. | Barry is the only one who has made an especlally good showing in the hammer throw and will probably represent Bellevue in that event. In the high jump Sinsel and Jenks are thus far leading, with Sinsel a |little ahead. Bnfleld, however, who has | both. In the sprints Racely probably has | the honors. Mohr has been a close com- | petitor always. but is not now working much for the track, being Interested In Racely now has the ribbons for second place in both the 100 and 20-yard dashes In last year's state meet. Primrose is & good 40 and 8MW-yard man. Ohman will perhaps go in for the mile. If he does he will probably win out. In the pole vault Captain Templin is proficient, as are also Sinsel and Brandt. It is likely that Brandt will be worth more to the team, however, in the runs and broad jump &nd may give his attention to them. May 7 the team will meet Doane colle; at Crete. May 2 it will compete In the state meet at Weslevan, WATER BASKET BALL NEW SPORT CHICAGO, March %.—~Water basket hall, & new form of aquatic sport, is meeting with considerable popularity in western tewm. Bath halls from Holtville, Cal., hits llwlmmm‘ circles. The game is the inv left-handed and has the reputation of Na- ing them out hard. When Captain Franck arrived in Omaha and found the first base pasition. up in the air he immediately got Pa to send transportation for Bath to have him join the squad. at onoe. / Rice, the college pitoher, who was tried out by Cincinnati last yvear, also arrived Saturday afterncon. He is a big fellow arid'looks (o the bunch as though he might be powsessed with plenty of goods. All the plavers have been working hard sinee Thursday, the last two days under the direction of Captain Franck, and before that under Gonding. The work so far has sonsisted of rumning and hatting, as the diamond is not ready tor use. A'.new practice ganme has been scheduled tor, Apiil 3 between the Rourke family and & picked team for the benefit of th Child Baving Institute funi. The directors of* this Instiiution are ruuking an effort to raise S50, ot hal® of which fs now tajsed. North Platte also wants the Rourkes to stop there for a game on the | roAd for the opening at Denver. One game | enroute is ‘already scheduled for Grand 1s- | LAST LAP OF ENDURANCE TEST Member of Signal Corps Just Fi L. Amg 1,800 Mile Walk. NE, Ala., March N.—On the last 1ap of & 1,000 mile, walk, an endurance test under the direction of the United States atmy, T. R Deckrow, a member of Com- PaDY A, Signal corps, U. 8. A, stationed At Fort Sheridan, and one of five who l bimsell inte Mobile last night. bm and four other members of the werps left Bault Saint Marle for Gulgport, Mise,'s distance of 1,80 miles, (o be cov- eved .in ninety days. “I have worn out | alght palrs of army shoes since 1 began | Ahe test,” said Deckrow, displaying a pair of ceasy walkers. I am dead tired and it was.all I could do to reach this eity. Deckrow left for Guifport today : Deckrow left Sault Seint Marie on Jan- | UlEr 1, and has five days In which (o walk tion of Walter Sullivan, the former cham- pion underwater swimmer and now in- structor at the Illinois Athletic ciub. Tt resembles basket ball in many ways. At each end of the plaving area, size of which fe optional, 18 suspended five feet above the water line an eighten-inch basket and points are scored by throwing a tightly inflated rubber ball, thirty inches in cir- cumference, inside them. A goal made from the fleld counts twe and one from & free trial. Five men constitute a team and the game is divided into two halves of elght minutes each, with five minutes' intermission between halves. The teams are lined up as in basket ball, the guards near their own goal, the for- wards beneath their opponents’ and the | centers. in the middle of the pool, where the ball is put in play. Carrying the ball on or under the water is strictly forbidden, but it may be dribbled between the arms provided the hands do not touch it. To handle it the player must stop and then it can only be held with the hands, it being & fowl to heip with any other pa of tre bedy. No tackling or ducking is allowed. One may block an opponent, but not lay hande on him. A foul of any kind Is penalized by giving & free throw to the other side from the Nfteen-foot line, hut unnecessarily rough work may be penalized by suspension from the game for a given pericd, length to sult the gravity of the offence. The lliinols Athletlc club swim- mers intend to give exhibitions of the game to arouse sufficlent same adopted interest to have (he Pers Makes Great Record. The Peru Normal basket ball team has gone through eason. The team was defeated by semi-professional team from Dallas, Ore. Games have been won from the stiffest teams in this section of the state. Among those whom the normals have defeated are Shemandoah, Wesieyan, Cotner others. By these wins the team claims thi ttle of intarcollegiate champions. won the intercollegiate pennan efforts bave been made for a the Heveral “thet LN miles to Guifport the University of Nebraska team, but with- aut puccess. for the squad contalns mors is no question but that the ma- | it | possibly develop | been tried out for the hurdles as vet, but | only lately come out, may win from them |" during thelr coming eastern trip and hope | the season with a remark- | able record, having lost but one game this | and | me with | Standing—Prof. Schever, Lee, Beck BASKE Knee ling—Galliwick. Swanson, Stevens. Young Schoolmasters Who Are Also Athletes . Reclin ing—Wrightmous, Schott. BALL TEAM OF PERU NORM AL SCHOOL. |RACING DATES ARE FIXED | American Henley to be Run On‘t Schuykill River in May. | | TWELVE EVENTS ON THE CARD| { | Only Amatenrs in Good Standing Will | be Permitted to Nace and These May Not Dowble Up in Different Events. PHILADELPHIA, March %.—The seventh | annual regatta of the American Rowing association (American Henley) will bs held on the Schuykill river here on Saturday May 22, the events being twelve in numbe as follows: First single sculss for the Farragut chal- | lenge cup. Second single sculls First double sculls for the Schuylkill | challenge cup. l First four sculls, centipedes “irst pair-oared shells four-oared shells challenge cup. Second_four-oared shelis First eight-oared shells for the Steward's challenge cup. Second eight-oared shells Junfor collegiate eight-oared the New England challenge cup. Interscholastic eight-oared shells for Franklin challenge cup Becond eight-sculls, octopedes. All races are one mile 60 yards straight | away. The ““fitst" races are open to amateurs in | good standing; all “second to amateurs in good standing, but no crew | entering a ‘segond’' race shall .onmnl‘ members (a) mjore than pe half of whom are also enterfd for the same regatta (b) more than one-half of whom for the Puritan | shells for the or| the corresponding “first” race at any pre- | vious regatta of this association. (Under | this rule a sculler may not enter in both | the single scull races at the same regatta. | Any individual may row in a second race | irrespective of his “‘senior,”” “intermediate’ | or “junfor” rating in other rowing organi- | zations. If his crew wins in a second race | of this mssociation, he .would probably bs considered & ‘“senior” oarsman, or sculler. in other regattas. Otherwise his rating 1s | not affected The interscholastic eight-oared shell ra is open to amateur crews in good standing, all of whose members are bona flde mem- ' bers of preparatory schools or schools of equivalent grade and all of whom are under the age of 21 years, ‘The junior col- | lege elght-oared shell race is open to crews from colleges or universities, none of whose members has rowed In a four-mile inter- | collegiate eight-oared race and nonme of whose members has a seat in a varsity | | elght at the date of this regatta. { Entries will be accepted only from those who take part in sport for pleasure or| recreation, and who shall not have directly or indirectly recelved any money henefit from engaging in or by reason of connec- tion with sports or athletic exercises. Any entry may be refused or returned up to the time of starting a race for any cause | deemed suffielent by the managing stew- | ards without the assignment of a reason therefor. THOUSAND-DOLLAR BOWLING BET Side Bet Throws Intereat Into Feature Bowling Event. NEW YORK, March 27.—One of the spe- | { clal features of the National Bowling tour- | nament which will be held jn Madison | | Bquare Garden from May 2 to June 12 will be a match between Jimmy Smith, cham plon of Greater New York, and Dave Woodbury, the Chicago title holder, for 31,000 a =side. Articles of agreement were signed by Presirent Cordes while the latte was on his trip west, from which he has| just returned. The match will consist of | best eight out of fifteen games, the alleys | |in the garden being brand new and giv-| ing neither contesiant any advantage over | the other. ‘ the Trinity of Cyclones. Auyrey, Austin and Ragan tainly setting a rapid pace In thelr re-| pective big league berths thus far 1t they keep up their present licks there won't |be any question of their permanency. | Ragan hus been surprising even kls Omaha | friends by his work in the training quarters of ihe Reds all are cer-| Quick Action for Your Money—You get that by using The Ree advertising columns. | GENEVA FIVE DOES GREAT WORK Basketballers Lose Bnt One Game Out of Thirteen. The Geneva basket ball team has made 1 vecord this season of which any teamr might well be proud, losing but one game of thirteen, as follows 10 39 Wilber ... Shickley .Beaver Cro Shickley “refe Geneva Geneva 318 Geneva .. 4118 Geneva ... : 2 Geneva eneva . 32 Crete L. 43 %0 Beaver Crossing A Fairmont T AR Fairmont 30 Geneva 4 34 Geneva jeneva chait | coln, but could not get a game with either. | 8¢ { A state challenge was tnen fssued and | They Wilbur was the only team to accept. The game was played on neutral ground at Crete last week and Geneva won, 34 to 3l The players on the Genéva team are: B: och, captain; Curtiss, Hill, Roscoe, E and Fellows. \MOTOR CAR ACCOMPANIES WESTON | Regal Joins the Walker a Trin to the Comst. A Regal car has made the Detroit to Utlea to accompa Payson Weston on continent un In assisting Mr. ing it possible for him unknown and at this rough and muddy roads plied with hot coffes and genlous heating arrangement time of the year, He is also sup- tea by an which the distance covered is always at hand by refering to the speedometer with which the car is equipped. ANOTHER TIRE RLURESENTED Continental Will Be Sold Hereafter by ak. has taken the agency for the Continental tire. At present the Goodyear, handied by the Powell Supply company; the Firestone, handled by the Central Tire and Rubber company, are the only tires represented here. . The Diamond people of Akron have made some effort to establish an agency In Omaha, since. the Karbach company gave A8 ) Omaha Louk in up the agency, but so far they have not | settled upon a representative. The Goodrich, the Hartford, the Mor gan & Wright tires are all sold here, but one store who has permanent active agencles are doing the b Have you the auto- mobile fever? Somewise oneswho feel the disease coming on them watch for a bargain in a car that has been used. 4 Under the ‘‘Auntomobile’’ heading on the want ad page you will find attractive offers of cars of all kinds, Take an afternoon off and see what these machines are. Among them are a number of “‘snaps’’-—probably just what you want. Of course, if saving a féw hundred means nothing to you, don’t bother about it. If you want to save money, however, investi- gate these machines. A used ma- chine is a pretty good wcheme for your first auto. Have you read the want ads—yet—today? end | Utien ‘tor | from | Edward his journey across the In this and in his former walk !tge automobile played an important part Weston, lightlng the way | | at night with powerful searchlights, mak- to maintain his | taces are open | fast schedule of four miles an hour over in- is have | attached to the exhaust pipe of the motor rowed in a crew winning the same race, or ;and an accurate record of his speed and |BOWLING FINISH 1N SICHT | Hot Fight in Commercial Ieague Keeps the Interest Going. BIRMINGHAM RANGERS LEAD ing | | Winners a1 the Pittsburg Tour Have Received Their Pay Checks and Keep Them for Souvenirs. ment Friend Aurora % Wilber | i siu ooth Omala and Lin- | the Commercial league r: As the teame round into the stretch of things look | K00d for the Birmingham Range company. | now have a nice lead over the | Brodegaards, but a loss of two out of three games the coming week will put them back to a tie, and then & post-season series will have to be rolled to decide the pennant winners. The Brodegaards certainly finished. the | season with a vigor scldom seen. Two | records were broken,. team total of 3,5%, and single game of 1,142, besides Captain Voss had to outdo all othets, and incl- dentally rolled an averag: of 500 and two- | fifth pins per man for the three games. The team rolled an average of 1% and on half pins per game per man. Friday night's game between the Mo- loneys and the Unlon Pacifics wound up the Association league race with the Mo- loney boys taking evervthing in sight excepting the three high games which the Dresher team captured in the last series. The Moloneys tried mighty hard for it in their last game and only missed by nine pins. An umfortunate error by Jim Lyons in the last frame caused their downfall. The Three-Man league has de- veloped some’ very good bowling materlal and by next season they will be fast enough for any league. Monday night the new Mid-Summer league will be started with the following teams: Cudahys, Rudi- ner, captain; Peoples Store, Bengale, cap- tain; Omaha Nationale, Fidson,, captain Signal Corps, Strider, captain: West Sides, Yonsen, captain; Paxton & Vierling, Mitch- ell. captain: Unfon Pacifics, Coleman, cap- | tain and Merchants National, Tempiin, captain All players who got in on the money in | the tournament held at Pittsburg have re- | ceived their chacks, whRe not as large as | they would like to have them, they ail seem to be proud of them. Theee got in on the money in the doubles: Neale and Hand, Huntington and Fritscher; in singles, G. O. Francisco and Dad Huntington Commercial League. Name. L Birmingham Range Co. . 2 Brodegaard Crowns A Omaha Bicycle Co Luxus Chatot ‘Shoe Co Postoffice Dreibus Candy Co, Cole-CcKenna Co. Kelley & Heyden Hussie Acorns | Individual aver 5 H P.C. 8 292 £2283823:87 BIBERE ges Av.| nner 185/ Grotte 84/ Bryan 183/ Brunke 183 Baehr Drinkwater 182 Petersen Keyt | Martin A. Johnson Balzer Cemp Fagerbarg Godeggehwager Ehom¥s C. Primeau | shuitz ca | Stapennorst Voss Foley 2 w | Suiton Gernandt Hou Wriey Weymueller Nelson Colilns cka | Solomon | Jennings Kains Nelson | Beselin H. Primesn E. Johnson Laheca Lough Name Metz Bros. | Triumphs | Chancellars | Falstaffs Jetters mods . 7. o City Sampecks Individual averages Gamen. Av. & 190w B 1T Tracy 75 186 Walens 13 14|Spragce 151 Lehmas WW. G Getf 180|Greenleat 180 Rudiger . 180! Foraytne 119 Ovrell Ohnesorg Chandier flsflti’-fi.'s';:‘ Francisco Cochran Glerde nman 0. Prancisco. Scot Caughlin her STUIIEEE 2588 (Continued on Second Page.) SPRING FOOT BALL AT IOWA CITY Will Report for Practice . Three Times a Week. IOWA CITY, la, March 27.—«Special.)~ Spring foot ball will start at versity of lowa as soon as the grounds become dry ehough next week to allow the squad to begin operations on Ilowa field Coach John G. Griffith is planning to have perhaps, on every da. Forward passing, .punting and practice at first. The foot ball players are enthu- slastic over the plans, and are arranging their studies and other athletic work so as to report regularly when the practice is started. Last week's weather aided in getting low field In shape for the athletic teams. The welght men started in early in the week to | work outside, and on Thursday Coach 'Chick’ Kirk took his base ball squad out on the diamond for the initial workout outside this year The indoor track meet yesterday between the freshmen and varsity attracted much interest among the wstydents and one of the largest crowds that ever filled the arm- attended The report made to the Board in Control {of Athletics at its meeting this week showed that the basket ball season lost | exactly $%. |AUTOS PREPARE FOR RACE EAST Race Booked for Mary- and Pemmsyivania. FALTIMORE, March 2. ~The Automobile ciub of Maryland is contemplating a one- | day road run through this state and Penn- sylvanla. It is the intention of the oome mittee in charge to hold the svent. some time in May and a tenlative route has slready been announced. According to the present . plan the contestants will leave Baltimore early in the morning. From there they will go to Ridgevilie and thenco to Frederick, a forty-eight-mile | very ordinary roads. The cars will | pass through Lewistown, Catoetin, Thur- | mont, Bmmetsburg and Getiysburg, the latter named place being eighty-one miles from the Monumental City. The roads are good as far as Emmitsburg, but the going to Gettysburg is decidedly rough. The return to Baltimore will be made by way of Littiestown, Westminster and thence ulong the valley roud, making in all a route of about 115 miles. The time allowed will probably be bee tween seven and eight hours. An interest- ing featurs will be included in the run, a then route. KETCHEL vTO m‘r JOHNSON Has Entered the Cham- »t ip Flela. NEW YORK, March 27.—~With everybody conceding that Stanley Ketchel could New Aspira the titl battering ‘ram figured prominently as possible conquerer of the black champion, Joff had the tield all to himself. He wa looked upon as the only white man with the power to bring the titie back to the | Caucaslan race. On the strength of this | he signed his present julcy vaudeville con- tract. Partly through his excellent show- ing and training and partly through, the energetic boosting done by Willus Britt, ! Ketchel has grabbed part of the limelight originally focused upon Jeff. The follow- ers of the fighting game have a native desire for action. An unnecessary amount always go to the man who is trying to give them a run. a success of the remaining weeks of his theatrical engagement, he wil do well to declare himeelf. OMAHANS TURK DOWN OUTLAWS | Locar Me ] Deserve Credit for Reject- & the Tempte: Those Omaha players who resisted the temptation of the outlaw league deserve the commendation, mot ronly of President Rourke, but of every lover and follower of organized base ball. From a monetary standpoint ‘the offers were tempting; but the men to whom they were made .conid 100k far enough into the future o determ- ine for themselves that no temporary finan- clal galn was to be welghed against the advantages offered them by standing by organized ball. The outlaw is an expedient at best. He has no standing and he has player in one of:the National assoclation leagues. Young players with as great prom- Ise as those of Omaha before whom these luring bates were set are wise indeed to stick to the old guard, but, neverthele the fact remains that these men deserve credit for having the courage to say “No' under sueh circumstances, and tfeir ex- ample should be followed by others. At least Welch and King have been so temped and have turned their backs upon the temptors. THREE POINTS FOR FIELD GOAL mittee Reduces Kieker, NEW YORK, March 20.—An important change in the foot ball rules was made by the intercollegiate foot ball rules com- mittee, which completed Its session at the Murray hotel today, in the reduction of points for a goal rom the fleld from four to three. The object of. this change, it is sald, was | to prevent two goals from the field count- ing more than & hard-won touchdown and goal. Commenting on this change, mem- bers of the committee sald it would re- duce the importance on teams of star field #oal kickers and make It harder for a mediocre team wiih a good kicker to beat a better aliround team without & star kicker. Another change of imporiance was de- signed to prevent confusion in inflicting penalties, when two penalties had been in- curred by pne Team for the same play, by siving the offended {eam the option of ying which penalty should be imposed. DaBols Defeats Richards. COZAD, Neb., March 27.—(Special)~In a wrestling match here last night between Du Bols of Denver and Rickavds of Schuy ler, Neb., Du Bols proved o be Lhe bes: man by winning two falls out of (hree. Rickards is by far the larger and stron man of the two and played a preity rough seme, but the cleverness of Du Bols was too much for bim. The next maich In Cosad will be Tuesday night, between Westerfall of Schuyler and Baln of Cozad. the Uni- | the men report three times a week and, | in starting the backs will be the program ! run over | hill climb being held at one place on the ive Jack Johnson a very strong argument for the Jeffries stock seems to have taken a sudden slump. Beforé the Montana of stalling gets on thelr nerves. They are 0 unfortunately fickle. Their sympathles Bo if Jeff expects to make | no future as compared with that of the ® FOX'S PUPILS ARE WEAK SLUGGERS Practice Game with Wesleyan Show: Up Many Poor Spots in Corn. husker Team. LACK OF BATTING ABILITY SHOWN Methodist Pitcher Hab Sport with State Sohosl Artists. SOUTHERN TRIP NEAR AT HAND Coach Will Rub Off Rough Edges Be- fore Start. OMAHA OR NOTHING FOR AGGIES Manager Eager Will L School Of Schedale Unlew Consents to Metropolis ame. Town " LINCOLN, March (Special.) — The first week of outdoor practice at the state university brought a . great improvement in the playing form of Coach “Billy'" Fox's base ball youngsters. During this period only one day produced weather that mar- red the workout and then the Cornhuskers lald off in order to give the elements full = On the whole, though, the condi tions for the diamond play have been much better than werelexpected for this month and the colleglans .intend (o make the most of them while they last Gradually during the last few days the Cornhuskers have been, getling the stiff- ness and soremess out of their legs. and ‘ms until now they are In much betier shape than they were at the same time last spring. As their muscles have ylelded to the training on the dlamend the uni- versity candidates have pushed into the work With an increased vigor and interest that gives promlse of putting them inio first-class winning form before they start on ‘thelr southern trip (nto Kansas and Missour! This week Witnessed the initial game of the #pring, a meeting taking place with the Weslevan Methodists at . University Place. While the Cornhuskers bagged the contest, they had only a small- edge on the suburbanities and were lucky to get away with the long end of the score. It was just the meeting the scarlet and cream repre- sentatives needed, for it afforded Coach Fox an opportunity of picking out tha de- fects in his aggregation. There were some there, too. 38 had been expected. and “Billy” will try to remove them before the southern journey is begun. Stick Work Is B [, The most apparent weakness in the play of the Cornhuskers was the work at the bat. About the only thing the bunch wers ible 10 hit with any certainty was the ali ar the catcher. This may have been due | to the extraordinary twirling.that was done | by Farthing, who held down the slab joh tor the Methodists. He had plenty of speed and great control and retired thirteen of the eighteen Nebraska. batters who faced him without giving them a chance to. ap- promch first sack. But even aganst Farthing * the Cornhuskers should have pegged the ball more frequently. Some of them trisd to hit bails that would not have pusaled a high school lad. They- banged at anything that looked good when it was vet several feet in frent of .the plate Practically all of the men who taced Farthing showed poor batting judgment. Coach Fox chose o work out only a few of Lis puplls against the Methodists and used only ten players during the game These were stationed Catcher, Carroll; first base, Sturtzenegger; second base, Greenslit; shortstop, Metcalte; third base, Captain Beltzer; left field, Mattison: center flald,: “Pin" Cooke;- right figld, Clarke; pitchers, Mathers and Olmétead, This will.not be the permanent. personnel of the nine, although & majority of the men who appeared in this line-up will be on the 1egular varsity. The mesting with the. Methodists, Indeed, showed Coach. Fox & few places where he probably would im- mediately have to flash the recall signal. ttison Slated for Be: Mattison, who cavorted in left garden on that day, is likely to be the first youngets to get the message of retirement unl he can show more goods than hp had on his person Tuesday. He was shy of mental action in his section of the field when a neat tly went salling his way and allowed it to drop several feet in his rear when & little better judgment would have permitted him to have bagged it. At the bat he put himself on record as a vaudeville artist and took his trio of strikes in each of tHe three times that he faced the pitcher, At the initial bag Sturtsenegger made a disappointing. showing and covered himself with & suspicion of doubt which he will have to remiove before the fans will be convinced that he s the logical man for first. Coach Fox, however, believes Tues- day was an off day for Sturtzenegger and says the youngster will get fnto the run- ning within a short time. The young sopho- more recruit has the natural agility for s first-class player and ought to .prove ‘a Tedoubtable man for the first sack befors the season is f>irly advanced. An abundance of catchers that ‘pladed Sturtzenegger-at first also switched Green- slit to second base. He performed there in {proyed style and appeared to have the £00ds to make that siztion a permanent {berth for him. His proclivity for'slugging the ball also is'a great point in favor ef keeping bhim in - the regular Cornbusker lineup. ' Though he did not - punish the | sphere to any great extent in the game with | the Methodists, he is known (o have a guod | batting eye and will get it to working be- fore many days have rolled around Metcalte Good for J. Youngster Metcalfe was allowed 10 paiwde along shoristop. eagerly waiting for a ball {10 come his way. None were ra.ted to him, | however, and he 4ld not have an oppor- |tunity to show his real caliber in the in- tield. His work in practice at Antelope tbis week has marked him as a strong ad- dition (o the nine and with an even break of luck—both in his studies and in hiy stick work—he ‘wiil probably et & contraet for the weason Captain Beltser was on the third sack Thursday and covered himsell with glory He ls playing classy ball and undoublediy is one of the strongest college plavers in the Missourl valiey this spring. He plays his position like = major leaguer and is aglle enough Lo move In the best of western Ilesgue compaoy. His pegying needs & little