Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 20, 1910, Page 3

L ) e — ‘d\ ‘ ] SUNDAY Beg. | NDAY 1610 FEBRUARY %, | READER of The Bee recently asked thix column the American was so often commended to agement of the National, | The reason Is that the American conducts its affalrs in a business- ke maniier, free from petty jealousies and | puerile bickerings, while the Natlonal league | \4"'”( not. If our friend challenges our right 16 this view, perhaps he would conc | erhap: o oncede the privilege to Barney Dreyfuss, owner of the National league world champlons. Mr. | Dreyfuss, who certainly cannot be criticized | for a pro-American league prejudice, says “The Natfonal league magnates are acting like & lot of jealous chorus girls.” With- | out any desire to cast aspersions upon chorus girls, we submit that to our friend as an impartial judgment. The fact is, as every unblased man who knows anything about the situation is free to admit, that the National league is disrupted just now by two or three men—whose personal greed blinds them to the larger Interests of the | league or base ball in gencral, to say noth- Ing of the interests of their fellow mag- nates. And these men have not stopped at | the most truculent methods to promote | their avarice. Knocking, bickering and backbiting goes on in season and ouf, at meetings and away from them. Men of | large monied interests carry on like a lot | of wchool boys over a game of marbles, the American league is the product of , and our critic tells us things about the personnel of some of the magnates which we could not print. We might admit for the sake of argument that all he says Is true—which we don't belleve—stiil that | would not alter the fact that the men who | are running the American league are doing | It on & strict business basis, to the edifica- tion of the game and the admiration of the public. So long as they get such results what do the patrons of the game care whether they are as black as the ace of Spudes, or undefiled angels? Ban Johnson and Comiskey had a row once, but they confined it to personal relations and didn't let it interfers with the progress of the league, and then one day they got together like two big, brainy men and forgot that they had any differences. All this trouble over National league presidents, trouble that sent one good man to his grave and unseated another who should have been kept in office, s due to the fact that cer- tain team owners are too small to sink their own personal interests in the welfare of the league. Pulllam was hounded till e took his life, Heydler was ousted be- cause he refused toydance while an un- | scrupulous man or two fiddled, and Lynch, unless a reform is effected, will go the ame route, for no man, not even with k) nch’s strength of character, will ever be o to satisfy the demands of that league %o long @s half the magnates are deter- mined to ruld or ruin. It may be as has been sald that Murphy's elimination would solve the whole problem, but how are you #oing to eliminate Him? It is a bad thing for a man to become known as a chronic kicker. Don Despain, the young man who burst into the base ball business at Lincoln toward the close of last season, has assumed this role in the West- ern league. If he pursues it it will bring up to his ruin, but will not have much ef- fect on the league. Pursuant to his es- pousal, Despain kicked on the league schedule meoting being held in Chicago. He insisted on its going to St. Joseph. In this he simply made himself ridiculous, for his ignorance of what is best for his club and his league. At the very time when ga Western league magnates were m eting Chicago the magnates of the big leagues and the American assoclation were there in business up to thelr necks. There was the opportunity for Despain and his col- leagues to get in on the ground floor of some good deals for players, and it af- forded him the splendid privilege of rub- bing elbows with the men who are really running this business of base ball; to hear them talk, to get thelr views, to become acquainted with them. Any man just en- tering & business he knows nothing about | could scarcely ask for better advantages. | Lay these over against the benefits of meeting In St. Joseph. What have you? Absolutely nothing tangtble. The only rea. #on In the world for ever thinking of St. Joseph @s a meeting place was purely sen- Umental. It was simply an impulse of | &ood-fellowship to give St. Joseph the glad- hand and cheer it on for the fine showing | it has made In its re-entrance into the Western league. It was a good sentiment, A magnificent sentiment, but one that not even St. Joseph could serlously urge as a reason agalnst such reasons as existed for holding the meeting in Chicago. 1f Mr. Despain, In this morning of his base ball uxperience, aspires to be a brusher all his iife he has taken exactly the right tack. But if he expects to become a base ball | man he will have to broaden his views | and start out on a new line of action. Big- ger men than this one have discovered the | folly of setting themselves up as the mon- itor of the Western league. A certain sea- soned veteran who preceded Donny as owner of the Lincoln team, not so many @ cars ago, has found, even In the evening Ut his varied career, that it won't go. league the disg league Whatever the players may say of it, Western league fans will welcome the 165 game schedule adopted by the magnates. It will give them twelve more games in the weason, lengthening the playing period about a week at each end. Now that the schedule 1s disposed of, we may sit back | and walt for the sound of the gong. In\ the meantime the team owners will have | nothing to do but complete their rosters | and get ready for the try-out day to come, We observe from the schedule that Omaha | gets one game at home on the Fourth of July, playing in the morning at' Lincoln and In the afterncon at home, which will put @ rather good sized day's work up to the men of the two teams. We also get Labor day at home and Dee atlon day at Des Moines, which is all vight, since the ecoentricities of our Nebraska statut outlaw base ball on (hat day Omaha once more opens the season on forelgn ter. ritory, this time at Wichita. So far as ap- | pesrs, this elty has Lothing to complain of in the schedule, and, for that matter, no other coity has, since the schedule, nt scems, has been made out with a serious | intention and effort to do equal fustice all| round as near as possible Those prearranged plans for Jeffries oi hunt lions in Africa and sell his hot air 10 Juagasines, provided he whips Johnson, need not be mentloned too often If the promoters want to stimulate public con. | fidence In the merl of the coming fight } v The National league magnates “finally mpromised on the 1i-game schedule, but you observe that the president of the Chicago club was not among those who | yielded a point. The Ty Cobb who won u prize fight in Halimipre the other.day was not the same Ty 'whi won the pennant in the American loague last year, | | players who hope to be regular Giants this | tour victories and five defeats, incidentally | Stallings believes he will | landers NEW YORK'S BIG BALL TEANS Prospects of the Hillmen, Giants and | Brooklyns. | | WHAT GOTHAM WILL SHOW Mans Peanant Races—FPoint ra Have Lald Plans for the | Comeern- | ing the Many New Players to Be Tried. | NEW YORK, Feb. 19.~Within a week | Manager John J. MeGraw and some of the year will be hustling on a ball fleld at Marlin Springs, Tex. Before the end of the first week in March the veteran momborfl, of the team will report to the little leader, | while the Highlanders and their recruits | will be taking orders from Big Chief Stal- | lings at Athens, Ga. Then will come the | gathering of Brookiyn's players, under the | command of Manager Willlam Dahlen, at | Hot Springs, Ark., and the preparations for the two big pennant races will be WPH‘ under way. | What will the harvest be? Thousands of | base ball fans in Greater New York, eager | to hear the crack of the bat, are wondering | whether one of thess three major league teams can finleh on top. These fans are always filled with hope in the spring, and | they usually remain loyal to the end of the season, if good base ball is provided. But they must have a winner, and whicheve team makes the best bid for a championship will find plenty of money pouring through the box office windows. Both New York clubs have spent money freely for new playing talent, but the Brooklyn club has not been so lavish. President Farrell of the Americans gave Manager Stallings permission last fall to get players at any cost, with the result that $20,00 was expended in this manner. President Brush did not buy another Mar- quard for $11,000, but McGraw gathered In fifteen youngwters, for whom he pald more than $20,000. Just what will be the result of these purchases will not be known until after the spring training in the south has| been practically finished. Then Stallings and McGraw will decide whom to retain Stallings will take thirty two men to Athens, where, alded by the veteran Arthur Trwin, the club's scout, an excellent line on the new material will be obtained. Of the experienced Highlanders who will prob- ably remain with the team much can be said. Tue team appears to have been strengthened behind the bat by the addi- tion of Lou Criger, who was secured from the St. Louls Browns in exchange for Demmitt and Lake. Criger, while not a great hitter, is a star backstop of wide ex- perfence. If he enfoys the best of health it I8 belleved he will be one of the Amer- ican league's best catchers and conse- quently a tower of strength to the High- landers. He is an expert at handling young pitchers and in this respect he will be of Invaluable service. Sweeney and Klelnow, who did the bulk of the catching last year, will be retained for a time at least. Sweeney made rapld strides toward the close of last season. He developed into a steady worker and a hard hitter and is expeoted to improve. Kleinow, when feeling in the mood, always could catch great ball, but he became un- rellable in 139 and his hitting fell off to @ marked degree. Stallings has two other catchers in Mitchell of the Toronto East- ern league club and Joe Walsh of the Rocky Mount club, which played in the Eastern Carolina league. Mitchell, form- erly a Natlonal league pitcher, caught ninety-two games for Toronto with nine passed balls and an average of .M7. He stood sixth In the batting average with .2%, making 101 hits, Including twelve doubles, six three baggers and a home run. Walsh stood second In the catchers' fleld- Ing averages with .92 for fifty-seven games and made forty-one hits for a batting average of .2%0. He is said to be a | splendid all around athlete, being a star foot ball player. Stalings belleves he has a powerful staff of pitchers. He will take thirteen of them to the training camp and is pin- ning his faith to last year's experts, King, Brockett, Walter Manning, Jack Warhop, | Jos Doyle, Tom Hughes and. Jack Quinn. But he also has confidence in Big Jim Vaughn, a left hander, who heiped to win the American assoclation championship for Loulsville last fall. Vaughn has terrific speed and s & young glant, for whose ser- | vices Clark Griffith of the Cineinnati Reds made a strenuous fight, until the Natlonal commission awarded him to the Hillman. There's another promising left hander in the bunch, Frill of Newark, who won six- teen games and lost thirteen last season before he was purchased by the Hilitop club. Fisher, a right hander from the Hartford club, of the Connecticut league, comes here with a big reputation; for he led the pitchers in that circult with twenty- striking out 343 batsmen, After President Farrell had landed this man he refused an offer of $5,00 from the Boston Red Sox for his release. Still another classy boxman Is Russell Ford of the Jersey City team, regarded by many good judges as the best pitcher in the Eastern league last season. Ford is @ spit ball artist, cool headed and nervy. With a tall end team behind him he won thirteen and lost thirteen games, with 189 strikeouts to his credit. Dick Carroll from the Akron club of the Ohlo and Pennsyl- vania league, comes highly recommended, having won twenty games and lost nine, which placed him third in the pitchers percentages in that organization. Clunn halls from the Portsmouth club of the Vir- ginia State league, where he did some bril- liant work on the slab. Wolter, & Californ- 1an, was recently purchased by walver from the Boston Red Sox, with whom he did not recelve much of a chance to shine, but is well thought of by Hal Chase. Two of the Highlanders' intield positions are regarded as fixtures. Chase, the in- comparable, will cover first base, and Earl Gardner, the youngster who was & star in the Eastern league with the Jersey City team last year, will play the second bag. When Gardner jolned the Hillmen In the tall he quickly showed that he could fill the bill In every way and also did a6 well with the bat that he had an average of 39. Gardner, in the opinion of no less a person than Connfe Mack of the Philadel- phia Athletics, will be one of the game's greatest Inflelders this year, fully capable of measuring up to the standard set by such experts as Eddie Collins and Johnny Evers. He is a natural ball player, clean cut, ambitious and self-possessed, and help the High- wonderfully. While Long Jack Ki short field now ht may excel at that the trouble making Tiberfeld has been canned, he may have to show plisnomenal skill to keep the posi- tlon away from either Rouch or Foster. Roach is a finished player who attracted attention when with the Lancaster Trl. State league team last year. He took part in 116 games, making 1233 hits for an aver- age of M2, with a fieléing average of .929. Foster, a mere boy, jumped into notice With the Jersey City team. He made 1% hits in 148 games, an aversge of 242, lining out fourteen doubles, ten triples and six homers, while in flelding he tried for everything and scoepted 8 chances out of 78 Jimmy Austin, the youngster who played hustling ball at dlamond last year the third corner of the has a formidable rival In Otls Johnson, a big fellow from Port- land, Ore, in the Pacitie Coast league Johnson is described as a hard hitter and lively fielder, with skill enough to hold his own In the big leagues. He played 205 games last season, knocking out 105 Vits including forty-one two-baggers, six th begkers and thirtesn home rune for an wverage of .23 He stole forty-five bases and at the third bag he had a fielding |average ot .92, Clyde Engle, Charley Hemphill, Willle Keller and Birdle Cree are the former out- fielders, but there are two newcomers, Danfels of the Altoona Trl-State league | club, and Madden of the Utica, New York State League club, who may secure regular positions. Danlels is a student at Bucknell college, which produced the great Mathew- son. He played under the name of Avres last year and took part in fifty-two games, hitting safely sixty-three times for an | average of .33, and having a flelding aver- age of M9. Those who have seen this young man in action say he may develop into another Ty Cobb, but time and a| grueling trial alons can demonstrate this | prediction. Madden stood fifth in batting | o 1 T = in his league. He played in 134 games, | catoher . made 156 hiis, stole fifty-seven bases and wsion, pltcher bad a batting average of .316. He made| ilees ”L‘,fc",‘":r fourteén errors in the outfield and had an average of .M0. The veteran manager, Charley Dooley, who owns the Utica club, saye Madden is booked for a brilliant major | league career. The entire Highlander out- | fit, with the batting and flelding averages of 1909, is as follows: W YORK AMERICAN LEAGUE CLUB. Player. Position. Batting. Fielding. | Criger, catcher....... 986 Sweeney, catcher.... Klelnow, catcher Mitchell, catcher Walsh, catcher.... Brockett, pitcher, Manning, pitcher.. Warhop,’ pitcher Doyle, pitcher. Hughes, pitcher Vaughn, pitcher. Clunn, pitcher.. Frill, ‘pltcher. Fisher, pitcher. Carroll, pitcher Ford, pitcher.. Quinn, pitcher. . Wolter, pitcher. Ohase, 'first base......... Gardney, second base Laporte, second hase.. Austin, ‘third base. Johnson, third bas Knight, ‘shortstop. Roach, shortstop. Foster, shortstop. Engle, left fleld.. Hemphill, center 978 Keeler, right field 968 Cree, outfleld........ 949 Danfels, outfield. 049 Madden, outfield. 3 930 Manager McGraw has task before him. He has a regiment of new materlal in the south and hopes to pick up a few competent young men to fill up the gaps. Base ball men in general say the Giants need a first-class catcher, a couple of new pitchers, a first baseman and an outfielder, and nobody admits this fact more freely than the New York man- ager. He has four catohers, Schlel, Chief Myers, Wilson and Snodgrass, who were with the team last year. Schlef is the most reltable one, though he does not measure up to such backstops as Kling, Gibson, Bresnahan, Doom, Berger, Archer and others. Myers, a good hitter, s a weak thrower, a fault that Is usually costly. But in Wilson and Snodgrass McGraw thinks he may have a chance to strengthen this department in a marked degree. Mathewson, the king of pitchers, will be the Glants mainstay on the slab again, and McGraw counts on him to pitch at least forty games. The big fellow has been playing indoor base ball during the winter and will not require much strenuous work in Texas to fit himself for the coming race. Wiltse, the crack left hander, is another ace and Ames may pitch some high class ball. But Marquard, Raymond and Crandall are not reliable enough to fill MoGraw with supreme confidence. The little manager therefore has nine other pitchers to try out. Drucke and Klawitter, who were secured from the Texas league last fall and pitched some clever games for the Giants before the season closed, are highly regarded and will recelve plenty of work in the early games. George Daley, from the Springfield club of the Three-Eye league, is regarded as & possible success. He won twenty-three games, lost eleven and struck out 163 men last season, also pitching & no hit game against Rock Island. Pltcher Bell, from the same club, won nine games and lost six. Dickson, from the Birmingham club in the Southern league, won sixteen games and lost eleven. Buckingham, from the Wilson club in the East Carolina league, 1s a Colgate university boy, who had a record of elght victories and seven defeats, Parson, from Bucknell college, which pro- duced Matty, pltched for the Marion club in the Ohfo State league, winning fourteen games and losing seven. He is a six footer, has the nerve and Is well recommended. Scott, & native of Philadelphia, made his mark with the Johnstown Tri-State league club by winning twenty-two games and los- ing sixteen. Temple, who was purchased from the Norfolk club of the Virginia State league, pitched seventeen victorles and nine defeats. If Tenny comes back able to play his 0ld game the Glants and thelr followers will rejoice; but if the veteran fails Merkle will probably get a chance to become the regular first baseman. McGraw has a youngster named Spencer to try out at this bag, but his record with the Ports- mouth Ohlo State league team last year was not particularly briliant, for he hit for only .28, had a flelding percentage of 971, made ten sacrifice hits and stole elght bases in 106 games. Bridwell, however, asked McGraw to try the young man, who seemed to need experience and coaching Shaw, purchased from the St. Louis Cardinals when walvers were asked, may get & regular place in the outfield and un- der Mc(Oraw's methods he may fill the bill, But the Glants' manager has four recruits 1o subject to & test, and one of'them may afford a surprise in the person of Zacher, of the New Haven club in the Connecticut league. Zacher was in general demand last year when the New York club landed him. He played 124 games, made 151 hits, of which thirty-five were doubles, elght three- baggers and elght home runs, for an aver- age of .31, at the same time scoring sixty- three runs, making thirty-five sacrifice hits and stealing nineteen bases. He showed | brilllant work In the outfleld with only eleven errors and an average of .963, stand- ing third in the list. Good Judges say Zacher 1s one of the most promising play- THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: | under Anson, Onelda Indian from the Marion club Ohio State league, will also recelve a thorough (rial in the outfleld. e s a whirlwind on his feet and is sald to be @ corking hitter. He atood fourth in bat ting In that league last year, playing 130 ( games, in which he hammered out 140 safe drives, including twenty-one doubles six three-baggers and slx home runs. His batting average was .22, and he stole 23 bases. In outfield he made elght arrors and his avernge was .971. Willlams | Is #ix feet tall and a fine all-around ath- lete. He will find a companion in Myers the red-skinned catcher. Hersog and Devore will also receive an other chance In the outfield, while Shafer and Fletcher, the young Inflelders, who showed up well last year, will be retained | for emergenoles. McGraw, therefore, has | plenty of materfal, and if he develops a winner at the Polo grounds he will re- celve no end of pralse. His motto is hard work and plenty of it, and his players are golng to live up to it. The statistics of the Glants, old and new, are as follows NEW YORK NATIONAL LEAGUE CLUB Player and Position Batting Flvhn“2 | Schlel, cateher ... . oM 982 , catcher the Raymond, pitcher Marquard, pitcher Crandall, 'pltcher Drucke, 'pitcher . Klawitter, pitcher Bell, pltcher Buckingham, pitcher Daley, pitoher on, piteh Parson, pitcher Beott, pitcher Temple, pitcher ..... Tenney, first base ...... Merkle, first base ..... Spencer, first base Doyle, second Devlin, third ba Bridwell, shortstop Fletcher, infielder Shafer, inflelder Shaw, left field McCormick, left field Seymour, oenter fleld Murray, right fleld Collins, outfielder Herzog, outfielder .... Kommers, outflelder . Wililams, " outfielder Zacher, outfielder . De Vore, outfielder AW 4 Manager Dahlen of the Brookiyns will | make very few experiments. He has a lot i of seasoned players and belleves that suc- | cess depends chiefly on the perfection of | team play. The Brooklyns have a powerful pltching staff in Nap Rucker, the star left hander for whom President Ebbets says he would not take $25,000; Harry Melntyre, Doc Seanlon, Bell, Hunter, Wilhelm and Cy Barger, who helped to win the Eastern league pennant for Rochester last season. | Bell commands the confidence of Dahlen, who says he will be one of the National league's greatest pitchers this season. In Bergen, who csught 112 games in 1909, the Brooklyns have an able back- stop, but they also have a good man in| Erwin from Rochester, the leading catcher in the Eastern league last year. Not only a good batsman, Erwin caught elghty- seven games for the champion Rochesters, having eight passed balls and a fielding average of .90. He Is a fine thrower to bases and possesses a head fllled with base ball brains. If Tim Jordan, the big first baseman, finds that his legs bother him or he meets with an accident, Dahlen has a substitute in Daubert from the Mem- phis Southern league club. This young man led the league In batting last year with an average of .34, making elghty- nine hits for a total of 107 bases in elghty- one games. e also led the first basemen in fielding with .99, making only four er- ror It is probable that Hummel, the crack utllity player, will cover second base reg- ularly, as Dahlen has been unable to make a deal for a new man. Lennox will be at third base and he Is one of the best in the big leagues. It is just possible that Dahlen may play shortstop himself unless McMillan fmproves in his stick work, al- though the manager prefers to direct the 810 288 2 185 319 292 a1 play from the bench and the coaching lines, In the outfleld Wheat, Burch and Lum- ley look like fixtures and they appear to | be an excellent combination. Wheat, who | was purchased from the Mobile club last | fall, made an instant hit with the Brook- lyn fans by his heavy batting and general play. In fact, he was regarded as a real | tind and he is expected to be one of the | team's best men this year. This will be Dahlen's first experience as a manager. He has had wide experience as a player McGraw and Hanlon. He| Is aggressive, headstrong and believes that he must be the boss, President Ebbets has unbounded faith In his ability and has given full authority to him to handle the Brogklyns as he sees fit. The Brooklyn team's batting and flelding averages of last year follow: BROOKLYN NATIONAL LEAGUE CLUB, Player. Position. Batting. Fielding. Bergen, catcher . Wit gl Erwin, catcher . s e Rucker, pitcher . 8 945 Scanlan, pitcher 3 971 Bell, pitcher ... 166 918 Molntire, pltcher an 941 Hunter, pitcher . ‘228 ‘923 Wilhelm, pitcher 3 908 y 246 979 73 983 814 233 1280 Lennox, third base. 263 McEiveen, third 198 McMillan, shortstop 22 Lumley, outfielder . 20 Wheat, 'outflelder 04 Burch,' outfielder 271 Downey, outflelder ‘256 The key to the situation—Bee Wunt Ads. WASHINGTON ROWS BADGERS Wil Send Team to Madison During FERUARY 20, 1910. LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING Tomorrow will be your last chance to get a $30 to $40 sult for $20. We still have some very choice patterns on hand. We are anxious to close them out in order to make room for our new spring stock. Only One Day More There is no place in the city where you can get as good a suit for as little money as we are now offering. 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People who had been learned about rupture in forty years of rowing coach st Wisconson, sent a wire| NEW YORK, Feb. 19.—Battling Ison | A tiired from 20 fo 70 years experience—in the treatment and cure to Seattle not long ago agreeing to & race. | s one of the hardest problems the Queens- | "o oy 0" drusy fs the only thing of over 210,000 cases. Immediately thereafter a mass meeting | berry nuts have ever been given to solve. | 4o o gun gave an operation that This book explains why drug store was held at Washington and collecting | Every fight he puts up looks like his 1ast. | oy, ponuibly oure a ruptur bd g e gt g S o o SPRTEN begun to raise $1,800, the trip will cost. | His style of milling s anything but pleas- But operations, as you know, are more e '} "“‘l:":':“; "’_,h::'."'"hfj l': fl"("" of Qut In Seattle they are talking of trying | Ing to the eye, and is apt to decelve One | ofien fatal than successful. And oper m‘n'xl‘"lfld’n‘l;lllll ”m";”"»‘ ""ml:‘; ";“y' to work up Interest in rowing races for |Who s mot famillar with the Dane's| ations are always dangerous 4 el Loy vl g o middle western and far western crews, to | Wonderful ring achievements The surgeon's knife Kkills or. perma O by ot be held annually at some place n the| On the afternoon of Washington's mn)plnonll; weakens fully as often as it Truss with Automatic me 0 Teans. Mississippi, preferably Minneapolis | day, in Alameda, Cal., Nelson will again | cures ment. How you can try it at our risk. 4 put his title up for Inspection, and Ad | Our Free Trial Guarantee. How:. by Dt Blmnie. srsitera’ e aani it RULES FOR FRENCH RACE MEET | Wolgast will be the principal inspector We guarantee that the Cluthe Truss you by mail as well as If you came to — | Again the followers of the fistic |mlnmu‘ will keep your rupture always in place our institute x “ . of battle with | —every minute that you have it on t tells the experience of many former | Small Car Motoring Event Scheduled | will awalit the result (‘ :lhr( \llu-ln.n“'w‘ s ximun 49 Luak yoll DAY 1L 00 .mlr“(“!” he o per laneh of maay, ¢ rmer for Junc their eyes all ready to read of the ie's | No o § permission) the naimes and addresses of NEW YORK, Feb, 19, e date and rules | final downfall. Again they might be| matter how hard you wor o Atrain heatly 4,000 people who have been bene- of the “Cou des Volturettes” race, | forced to utter a cry of astonishment and "4?‘,“"“"" 3:;'.‘.'{»..5"":-‘.'(:.;.“‘,‘.‘n.. R fited and cured—some of them your France's small-car motoring event, have | exclaim, “There is no use In talking, that| ¢nfy guarantee, It Won't cost you & “"‘,‘:’.:::."‘"mm PEALLA RO 2 R e d been announced. The contest will be held | Dane can't be knocked out!” | single cent pon below—brings you this helpful cloth on June 19 over a closed cireuit. The| Nelgon hus done no active work for many | Nothing Else Like It. bound book : length of the race will be about 876 miles. | months, excepting his short bout with Lang | pon't think that the Cluthe Truss with end ;":‘rf\: |::y.‘.‘.|;|“5.l:n“|"l L):‘:’ww‘n‘.wn | Entries at single fees will close on March |jn Memphis. He has been working the | Automatic Massage Treatment I8 in any you .r.'..'.".‘.-: Tolfof and clre Without riske 31, and at double fees on May 1 theatrical game for all it is worth and has | ¥8Y &‘x:;«"m» trusses you have hereto- 1o D e Taney The rules for the coming contest haveé |had much of his time taken up in adver- This truss has no belt, no lég siraps. been altered in some respects, the mini-|iging his book. It remains to be :4-'.nlnn springs, no harness of any kind FREE COUFON mum welght now belng ®0 kilogrammes, | whether his continual sidetracking of the | Whatéver. Nothing at all uncomfortable and the engine capacity being unrestricted | peql fighting game for the lmelight article | ;prey are welf adjusting to svery mo CHAS. M. 0L as to the length of stroke, but the bore|pag interfered in any way with his ability | ment you make No ‘wtrain can force (CLUTHE RUPTURE ITUTE) being limited, as last year, to 100 mille- [ o0 o fighter ”""r"n.::mmfi’l‘y'.l I‘n_“qr-ul-.l‘nll":mmfllffrm 135 East 234 St, New York. meters for a single cylinder, elghty mille-| 1, wolgast he meets & man who threatens | give a Sandactully Dabetlsl MassRae SRR S T AR meters for a twin and sixty-five millemeters | |, 1 gve much tougher than Dick Hyland, | treatment Cure of Rupture for a four-cylinder motor. This will be|wolcolt aiready has gone one ten-round | , ThiS soothing, healing massage acts the sixth renewal of the contest It you have anything to sell or exchange || advertise it in The Bee Waat umns, - Ad eol- decision over Nelson. Returna opening, cles back into strength *luthe Truss cures, Persistept Advertising s the Road o Bilg That fs how the even after everyihing elte hes failed. on the weakened muscles at the rupture ke exercise on the arms and gradually exercises these mus- Name Street Town