Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 12, 1909, Page 29

PART FVE SPORTING PAGES 1 TO 4 THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE. VOL. XXXIX--NO. : PORT — MAHA, SUNDAY MORNIN DECEMB? SINGLE OPY FIVE CENTS. Foot Ball Coaches Suggest Changes in Rules; N INJURIES COME | WITH FOOT BALL| Western Coaches Say Some !nl Mast Foliow Aay Play of the Game. REVISION WILL DO MUCE 60D | Variance of Opinion as to Severity of | Consest. | WHAT SOME OF MEN BEELIEVE Oze wouid deveiop ute e othar wouid probibit mass which haif & dosen men heip with the bail. Dan Dougherty Clicags smiversity. but zow ccach at Gr taks at open piay i tde casse o tjuries and would allow the cuicher of the Serward pass o get the ball Before Ze s & tackied. Coack C. 8. Simmons. & former Coigate piayer. but 2ow coach of e lowa Teachers' coilege team. doesn’t thims | s partcuiarty daagersus | HH P il T "] H LRERE feEg I ! L r!ih ¢ H i §f : | | } | | 1k lt! i ! i !z I I E ! | 5 [y Ip : Fe f 4 i i l I | i | i b i ! ¥ | il Ei z 5 | | | E ] [ f i i hi § | [ E i !ir' i ] { (1) ‘. | 1 ! E 1L 4 | I § " i l ¢ gz feERL 1it i!! {; i i il 41 } il i i | if 10 l 441 ] FHTE Ei;ii§; ational League Presidency Now a Live Issue Champion Amateur Foot Ball Eleven of Omaha 'WARD THINK JOB IS CINCHED 4 Frieads of New York Lawyer Think He Wiil Be Elected President of National League. FIVE OUT OF EIGET WOIES This Prediction is Made by President of Brookiya Clab. . LOOES KIXKE A DEADLOCK } P NEW YORK Dec IL—For the meeting of the Comey Island Jockey probabiiity de foilowsd By t3e Other asso- Adutons whem Ner stake Soemen s are made pubiic. All of the stakes are guaranteed, mather ‘han added moDey. BT figures are such that they cazmot fadl to rum over the value of the same evemts Bat wers decided B The exceptions ta the rule of & gem- eral advacce ars in the Tiflal and Mer-| maid Iz former seasens Rese wert stakes i » i R gl - e Sames from ihe ¥ N zight on sasemer: aleys Rosche 2ad high sing'e game wnlh 5 of 3. Mondsy twa & m, betwesn the S Yousem's Colts. Scors }Ognt Between Rugby Foot Ball at New York Two Canadisn Teams Play Exhibition fore American Ashletic Aathorities. Game uccessor af tae as sow played acives dscide satled for at ™. ieading profes- csid andoust hasd he best abroad Om an mmediazsly after Two dri- Alsc Smith In the Apawamis, Vardon sad the golf played by Ales as fime as po —Uasuceessfn! m Beavywegh: champioasap Bim Jeffries and Meintoss, e A N '’x OBrten o make a Asstralia and fight Temmy BSums twenty-reand Bout, for whick be o be Suaranteed QLGN for bis end or take en Burns as the last ane, for SN T S King who looks after Mo Intash s nterests I i3 COUNLTY, Was a3~ orined by _ite latter o make s offer % OrBrien” King i» confident he wil get Swcuring we Jnek e T Jack - FOR CLA LiS. Md Dec IL—The foot ball caval and mliary acade- SPRINTING Offer of $199 for Gain of Lap Causes The fatigue of ooe iap of evem serma, but ® of Lawresce whose weakemed ksees farced Bim to guit under doctors rders. and an sccident i Pye, who Sroke boze n a spill, compelled & re- slignment. Haistead and Hebir, inp mpesed by che rules. Az effer of SI8 1o the team gaining a p befors midnight put new Hfe Ints the rd Anderson and Tangei, in & vain distance onm the leaders, cost the Georget Brots- same leam played a presty Vason! came ost to Bis trick the Geerget brothers lowt asother 3p. and at 1 Oxfard Wise frem Cambridge. LONDON, Dec 1 -Oxford had matters all s own way in the aznual i Tty mateh o Queens ciub oday defest- 196 Cambrides by four goas and fre " ene wry Dwnsd Herrng Eicomsbury Pu. 4 Bhedes schoiar TIROMIOn LNl arely, was among e | fort forwwres. '(OURTESIES OF THE ROAD Some Pert Remarks Corcerning What All Drivers Should Know. ALWAYS B£ A REAL GENTLENAN | Gme Shouid Have an Eve to the Wei- | tare and Safety of Others While Driviag am Aztamebile sm the Highway. Much has deen said of late especial | sinee automobiles have come intc vogue. as © the rules of the road The guestion relly s, what are the ruies of the rosd or rather what are the courtesies of the road The foilowing from of New Tork may answe mocted questons | “W=at are the courtesies of the road? | “No seed 1 inquirs what the courtesies of the ciub. Every cme kmows the cour- tesies of the Bome But how many know courtesies of the road™ Astomobiles are more or less familtar ~ad e sesicusress | of poiice zas forcibiz impressed upon some |of them the laws of e road: dut few | comparaz: w and practics the | courtestes of the road | Yet an sgpreciation sad exchange of | eourtesips on pubilc highways = more | essemtiai w aa amicabie spderstanding among all ciasses of road users ihas mers observamce of ruies that are backed by iaw. Astomobilists who comply With such ruies simpiy because they are law sod meu =n deferemce 1o the safety and eomfor: s osthers are far from possessing Qe true spirit of road courtesy Every driver is aware that when he ex- ceeds speed limits, he is Hable to arrest: i be sees a policeman Be siackens his speed to avoid arrest; but should the pres- ence of an officer of the iaw be Becessary s enforee ordinary courtesy in the use of thoroughfares that belomg 1o Al citiens in common? Az sutomobflist. first of ail, ought to be | = gentiemaz. But is it the act of a gemtie- man o dash promiscuously through crowded sreets, frightening women and chiliren, aad placing everyome along his course in peril of greater or less degres? Nor is It the act of & gestieman to drive a car madly past ancther in ihe road and thes sicw down In fromt so thar the gecupasts of the latter sither must swallow the dust stirred up by the former or siow dows to the Difsance Yer this i 2o un- B0t Decessary to call & poiiceman 1o make him behave lke & gememan The ex- ampie of his clutmates wili effect the de- sired result, or af must, & hist will Sring bim senges. No more should Lumitacag “heid-op stalie be zecessary Bow B act A gemtiemanly deference o and capvenience of other drivers of automobiles, o drivers of borses, and % pedescetans—wouid bring about & mutual understanding that scon would x e antiparhy toward sutemo- | bilists as & class that s sull prevalenm: in | mazy parts of e commery the of & country cem- ™ temch sstemobilists ‘he comfort June ¥ on ihe New Charies river busin, under ihe munagement of the over the wordd Wmeufing Eyck of Syracuse. N. Y., Peter Conley of Boston, James Butier of Buston, Jerry Casey of Buston, Harry Vedl of St Johm, road zsers—ta | This is President Heydler's Estimate of the Sitaatiom. ANERICAY LEAGUE WEDNESDAY President Giv Jehasen Says He wWIn Out Names of the Mem Whe Tried to Bribe CUmptres. NEW YORK, Deec e alection of J e o the Natooal Peased brighter todar. er's friends were keep him im the position confidence of winning ow Ward i et energetucally backed aries W. Murphy. president of the B —-The M Ward make the annsal Decting of Tuestay one of the mosi Ingeresting in re- cent years. The American ieague is o mest Bere oa Wednesday and the two isatons will conmdering ruka Ne ampires acd mss- 13e on the first bailot. He demies that sbed t3 comsum- maie the recest smie of the Phiadeipnia Natleoais and sars so far as he knows tie Sew owmess of the Phiadeiphia club have not pledged themseives w vote for either of the presidentia. candidates—Heydier or Ward “The siection for president will be a hard Propesition asd it looks to me now ke a deadiock.” was the way President Heydier o0 o fite American league, who returmed u win produce it The man samed was mersly & scapegoat for others™ TUmpires Klem asd Jobmstone were the men sid to have been approached before the cructal game st determined the Na- tonal league championship. Durlight Bewiiag Tosimament. DETROIT, Mich., Dec. 1L—For the first time in the history of the American Bowiing consTess dayight bowing wil be & feature of the tournament, which will be heid at Wayme gardens from February % o Mares 5 imeigsive Twenty reguia- ton alleys Wil be instalied six of these 10 e utilized for practice and match games, asd the remaining fourteen will be used exclusively for roiling off the annual wurney. Fyom present indications there toursament officia’s that Chicass sicne will Be representad by ffty teams JESTIT COLLEGES TAKE ACTION Eastern Institutions Wl Abelieh Foot Ball f it fs Not Refermed. WASHINGTON, Dee 11 —Foot i te mads iems roigh nd aise B st be purged of aint of professionaliem, big eusiern Jesult college con- C be played by Thim, in fact. was the asnouncement made ioday by (he members of ile commitise ou athecies of the culleges The eommit- tee is composed of Dr. joseph K. Hicume, presmident of Georgewws umiversay D a Fordham Marphy ~ i3-day race All other temms tropped oat WHITE SLAVE LL FAVORED OTTUMWA—Mrs. Minerva Wakefleid was Surned 1o deats B a fire which hadly dam- ber tome. Her clothing cacght fire Prove o Ge facai burns when he A quantity of gaeclise on & (oe he was starting under & Beitie gut of doors. The explosion which fallowed tirew Tames aff er him. which aimost cocreiy Lurned Sis claning off efufe Lelp arTived NORTHWOOD — Nub