Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 20, 1910, Page 25

{9 |ISPORTING!/ VOL. XXXIX—NO. 40. THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE. [S$PORTS| OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, MARCIIL 20, 1910. Sporting WEEK AND PA WILL START UP Next Sunday Omaha Squad Will Meet Storz Triumphs at Vinton Street Park. FIRST GAME OF THE BSEASON| Boys Are Rounding To and Report- ing in Condition. GRAHAM'S RECOVERY BRINGS JOY His Knee is Good and Fans Count on Great Things. FOX COMES TODAY FOR WOEK Manager Will Start In with All the Material He Can——St. Kicks on Lett Louis One week from today s the time set for the first public appearance of the Rourke family for the season of 1910. On that date the members of the family who are on hand will engage In friendly combat with the Stors Triumphs, considered one of the ‘strongest of the local amateur teams, For some years it has been a custom of the Rourkes to open the season With the Lee-Glass-Andreesen Originais, but this year this crack organization of semi-pros may not be reorganized and the field will be left clear for the others, Pa Rourke has about filled his principal dates for exhibition games and the lineup looks like this: fumphs. Nori s and S-Lincoln Western League eam. April 6 and 7—-Minneapolis American sociation team. April 9 and 10-Chicago American’ league second team. = “April 16 and 17—8oux City Western league team. George Graham has put new life into the fans by returning from Youngstown, O., with the announcement that the bonme ex- pert has told him he will be able to play ball again this seasn. Graham Is one of the most brilliant players who ever donned an Omaha uniform and it is a real pleasure to see him in action. With Graham in the game the fans became accustomed to look for something sensational. He either pulls down some high one that looks impossible or makes a running stop of a hot grounder, or scoots to a position back of shortstop and nalls one which looks like a safe Texas leaguer, or dogs something entirely unex- pected. With the stick Graham is fair and will be well up toward the top. Graham has been practioing ddlly since Mis return and has been picking up the fast grounders as though he never had & bum kne Kane Will Be on First. Jnm Kane wiil be on hand to play the initial sack, accordirg to the latest ad- vices. He has written to Pa that his eye is doing nicely, but that he thoinks it might be better fo. It It he does not try to report for a couple of weeks. Kane was recognized at the close of last scason as the best first baseman in the lcague, with all due respects to what Des Moines, or Denver, or Lincoln or any other team had. He was just as good a fleld- ing baseman and a better hitter than any of them. Captain Fox, who will arrive today, will hold down second, unless he is crowded out of his job by the sensational Graham. Fox has a clear head and cost Pa Rourke more real money than was ever paid for & player In the Western league. It came to a pinch during the middle of the sea- son when thd Omaha team needed a cap- tain-manager and Fox was selected. He cost $1,600 in cash. Barnuey Dreyfus has wired Pa Rourke that he will do the right thing by him if Blaine Durbin fails to report. This means that Barney will either refund to the Omaha team the $760 paid for Durbin or he will give another pitcher In his stead. Pa is In need of one or two good right- handed pitchers. H. now has the promise of one from the St. Louls Browns and also one from Pittsburg. One of these ought to come across with a good pitcher, as both are very well supplied with extra men this spring. Corridon a Live Wire. St. Louls papers are putting forth a yelp because the Browns have agreed to let Corridon come to Omaha. He Is a fast infielder, who has been showing up ex- ceptionally well this spring. It seems as ~though they had become reconclied to the fact that he is to come to Omaba and will leave the Browns In & week or so when they reach Kansas City on their training trt Slugger Bill Schipke will be the reliance at third and Pa is not counting on trying anyone else for that place, as the old re- | liable writes that a winter at hunting and trapping In the Ozarks has completely cured his lame knee and that he will be on deck with his hair in & braid. He has- learned from experience of former years that Pa Rourke pays for a halr eut of all his players when they first report in the spring and consequently the Skipper, who s & frugal youth, has been letting his ‘grow in anticipation of that event. During the exhibition games Pa pays all the ex- penses of the ball players, as their ries do not begin until the season opens, and consequently he has quite a barber bill to settle by the time the season opens. Good Trio in Outficld. For outfield positions Pa has a strong lneup in Welch, King and Schottin with several others trying for the position who might be able to give the older hands a run for their money before the season is very far advanced. Two new sets of sults arrived at the Smoke House last week, with fifteen suits of each kind, This means that Pa will carry fifteen players, & regular team, six pitchers and Graham as utility man. Bome of the best of the recrults may be tept for n While after the season opens © be a safeguard against early season sccidents. t SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS. {News of the World Carefully Prepared and "Concise;l&“ledA for Readers of The Bee TUG-OF-WAR TEAM AT PRACTICE. One of the Features of the Coming Indoor Athletic Meet at the Omaha Auditorium PRACTICE FOR OMAHA MEET Towa, Drake and Grinnell Will Send Teams to Gate City April 1. AMES MAY BE REPRESENTED State College Athletes Not in Best Form Because of Lack of Op- portunities for Indoor Work, IOWA CITY, Ia., March 19.—(Special.)— Between the winter season of basket ball track events, the athletes in the state are busily preparing for the spring season, and the only contest of intercst during the lull will be the Omaha mect scheduled for Aprfl 1. Drake and Towa will be represented at this meet, both Track Coach Jerry Delaney of the Hawkeyes and John L. Griffith of didates in competition. Whether Ames will send a large team has not been determined by Trainer Jack Watson, as he prefers to walt for the weather developments In the next few days before deciding on the per- sonnel or size of the squad he will send. As he is handicapped by the lack gymnasiuim facilitfés he will depend on the weathet man for the opportunities to train his candidates. Grinnell will be strongly represented ,by four of thelr stars, who will mot be eligible for later meets. These cracks, making thelr last appearance for the scarlet and black, arc doped ‘to e considerable figure in the big indoor meet, though they have not been training so consistently as the other track men out at Grinnell. So preparation for the first annual indoor event at Omaha holds the boards of the leading institutions and the fine weather of the last week has given the trainers and coaches the long desired opportunity to let thelr squads. work outdoors. According to present indications the Omaha event a week from next Friday will see a fast ag- gregation of stars Tepresenting the Iowa schools. During the last few days Track Coach Jerry Delaney has had his men on the cinder track on Jowa fleld. It is in the best of condition since the park was bullt and the “Sphinx” has not been slow In taking advantage of the weather man's co- operation. Trial heats have been run and Delaney admits he is happy over some of the records clipped off by his pupils. Not only in the varsity squad have the results been satisfactory, but also in the fresh- men track men, and the freshmen are get- ting more anxious every day that a meet be scheduled with Minnesota here for May 21. Coach Ted Green ‘started the base ball fans busily on their wey of doping the seasons prospects’ by calling out the eligi- ble material Tuesday. The men were taken out on Iowa fleld, where “fungo hitting" kept the prospective outficlders scurrying around over the rough ground. The serles with Davenport opens on April 6. SERVES NO PRACTICAL G0OD Barmey Oldfield's Wonderful Speed with Racer. Barney Oldfield is credited with driving a 200-horsepower machine over a measured mile, on the beach at Ormond, Fia., is 28 seconds, which Is a new record. It is a feat that will please the manufacturers of the motor car he used, and it wili attract much attention; but what's the use? ‘Why should any one want to ride in an automobile at the rate of 120 miles an hour, anywhere, under any circumstances? What advantage is there is possessing a machine capable of such speed? What can be galned? No one ought to be allowed to ride at agy such pace on any highway. It is & waste of power and money to have such excessively developed engines. What {s wanted in the automobile, for sane use, is durabllity, rellability, safety, comfort, ease of handling and repairing and keeping in order, silence, beauty, power on hills and bad roads and smooth- ness of operation under all circumstances. Speed is supplied in abundance, In most motor vehicles. It is more often excessive than deficlent. Two-mlle-a-minute rec- ords have no practical value.—~Cleveland Leader. WRITES HE MAY COME Teils Pa He Probably Return April 1. Pa Rourke has recelved word from Bert Keeloy say! that he m( play in Omaha this year probably will be here about April 1. ecley has been In & quandary as to whether a an _offer from Jimmy Callahan to play in the semi-pro league in Chicago. He says that he himself would sooner stay in organized ball and return to Omaha. but that his wife wants to re- main in Chicago. KEBLEY Dewey W Moter Raece. PALM BEACH, Fla, March 19.—~The longest endurance race for mator boats on record and carrying the Palm Beach prize of 2,000 in gold, was won Friday by . The distance was 108% nautl- uired ‘twenty-three laps course. The Dewey's for one lap of the race FOX COMES READY FOR PLAY Manager Wires He'll Be Here Sunday to Begin Tral Captain Billle Fox of 1t Omaha tea: has wired that he will l‘rc!: in Omaha Funday morning and will meet any of earl Fox s been. working wil winter. and he is & man who does ot take on flesh ecasily, he says he is in fine condition and ready for the season 1o open. and the spring contests in base ball and ! the Christians wishing to try out his can-| t| et | April 3, and according to the present out- Two Players Out of Base Ball Fold Due to Decision Monte Phyle and Thomas Sheehan, Placed on Ineligible List, Will Stay There. CINCINNATI, March 19.—The National Base Ball commission today refused to re. open the cases of Monte Phyle and Thomas P. Shehan, former major league players, who were placed on the eligible list re- cently bécause of their playing in an “out- law” league in California. The commission allowed the claim of | President Charles Comiskey of the Chlcago | American league club against Martin Walsh, a brother of the noted pitcher. Comiskey claimed that Walsh owed him $250, Fred Schwartz, who claimed salary was due him from the Des Moines club, West- ern league, lost his case. RELAY CARNIVAL AT PENNSY| Indications for a Big Turnout from Maxy Colleges. PHILADELPHIA, . March 19.—Pennsyl- vania’s .athletic management 1s now mak- ing arrangements for the sixteenth arnual relay carnival, to be held on Franklin field, look, all previous meets will be outdone by this one. From assurances already re- ceived, practically every big university east of the Mississippl, and possibly one or two beyond that line, will send their best athletes, The eastern teams, which are virtually sure to be on hand, Include Yale, Columbla, Princeton, Cornell, Dart- mouth and probably Harvard, while from the west will come Michigan, Chicago, Ili- | nols, Wisconsin and several others. These big teams would be enough to insure the complete success of the meet, but in addi- tion there will be hundreds of athletes on hand from every school and college of importance In the country, The entries have now reached the stage where the management has been unable to add further events. In order to ac- commodate the new entrants, they have been put in events which are already we!l tilled. In no other way would it be possi- ble to complete all the events in a single afternoon. The management has several times considered the matter of holding some of the scholastic events in the morn- Ing or on the previous day, but this sug- gestion has not met with approval. As usual, there will be three champlon- Ship relays, one mile, two miles and four miles, and they carry with them the inter- colleglate champlonship of America. It is the general bellef that the University of Michigan will make. herolc efforts to win back its laurels in the four-mile event. When Pennsylvania won this race in such sensational fashion last year it was the first time that Michigan had ever been beaten at four miles. As the Wolverines have lost Hull, the star of their 109 team, and Pennsylvania is stronger than last year, there does not seem to be much hope for the westerners. It s expected there will be a great fight In the one-mile race and that thiy event will draw more entries than any of the others. It is expected that Princeton, with the best lot of quarter-milers In its re- cent history, will concentrate its best_ef- forts here, and if Harvard sends down a team it will probably do likewise, for the Crimson is stronger in this event than in | any of the others. Both Michigan and Chicago are likely to prove strong con- tenders here. Last year Chicago won the event, beating Michigan in almost theslast stride. Michigan s sure to be stronger this year, while Chicago always concen- trates its strength in this event. In the two miles Yale and Pennsylvania will probably be the strongest contenders, though there will be other starters to be determined later. Yale won the event last year in almost. record-breaking time. The speclal events will be the same as a year 4go, namely, 100-yard dash, 120-yard hurdles broad jump, high jump, hammer throw, shot put, pole vault and discus throw, BIG TRACK MEET AT KANSAS OITY College Athletes from veral States Will Compete Tonigl KANSAS CITY, March 19.—A track meet with some of the best athletes in the cen- tral states will be held here in Convention hall tonight. Over 30 men are entered. The fifty-yard dash Includes such entries as Farline of St. Louls, Kuhns, the Chi- cago record holder; Haddock and Roberts of Kansac unlversity and Douglas of Mis- sourl. In the hurdles there are these entries: McDonald, the Nebraska conference win- ner, ‘“Todd’ oodbury, the Kansas fresh- man star; Herzog of Missourl and Winters of K, ‘Burke of Nebraska is entered in the - ard d together with Degenhart of Thicago ana Hersog of Missouss Rapid City A DEADWOOD, 8. D., Mareh 18.—(Special Telegram.)—By @ total vote of 78, Rapid City today &dopted the Des Moines commis- sion plan of government with & majority of forty-five, the advocates showing unsus- pected strength. This is the first town in western South Dakota to adopt the plas ‘ HERMAN ASKS RETURN MATCH Manager of Zbyszko Anxious to Pit Pole Against Westergaard. SURE HE CAN GET TWO FALLS If He Does Not He Will Forfeit Zbyszko's Side of the Money to Any Charitable Or- sanization BUFFALO. N. Y., March 17.—To the Sporting Editor of The Bee, Dear Sir: I am informed that the.opinion prevalls in your city since the wrestling contest be- tween Zbyszko and Westergaard that the latter had all the best of the match up to the time he was Injured, and the concensus of opinfon seems to be that the Des Molnes man would have won had it not been for the accident when the men fell out of the ring. It this is the opinion of a majority of the spectators who witnessed that contest, I would like to have you announce through the veluable columns of your paper that I am prepared to match Zbyszko agalnst Westergaard in a finish match, the contest to be held eitber on a mat placed upon the floor or in a properly constructed ring, where an accident like the former one is impossible, Under these conditions T will sign articles on behalf of Zbyszko, and if he does not gain’ two falls’ from Westergaard, I am willing to donate his end of the purse to any charitable organization you may sug- gest. I am doing this solely to’ establish Zbyszko's right as the most worthy op- ponent for Gotch. I fully realize that in Westergaard he Is meeting one of the star heavyweights of America, but if my man cannot win from him decisively there is no use In his clamoring for a chance at the world's champlonship title. Zbyszko wrestles Dr. Rollgr In Kansas City on the 224 of this month, and meets Mahmout, the Turk, in & finish contest at the Coliseum, Chicago, on March %. Yours very truly, J. H. HERMAN, Manager for Zbyszko. Whatever Zbyszko is able to do, the fact remains that Jess Westergaard had all the better of the match at the Auditorium and, in the opinion of the majority of specta- tors, would have won had he not sprained his ankle in what looked like a foul on the part of Zbyszko. Before the match Zbyszko was looked upon as a sure and comparatively easy winner, but Westergaard displayed such amazing skill and strength against the mighty Pole, keeping him constantly on the defensive, that local fans will have to “be shown" now. JACK PRINCE ON- THE COAST Has Great Planked Dish Nearly Ready for Racing. NEW YORK, March 19.—Reports from California state 'that automobile folks thereabouts are well pleased with the an- nourcement that many star drivers have signed entry blanks for the opening meet of the new board motordrome at Playa del Ray, near Los Angeles. Although the “great planked dish” opening is three weeks off, being on the schedule for April 8, motor car enthuslasts of the far coast are already speculating on what the meeting will bring forth. The signed entries of George Robertson, Ralph de Palma, Frank Lescault and Caleb Bragg, as well as the tentative entry of Edward Hearne, the Chicago amateur, have boomed the races to no small extent. President Frank A. Garbutt of the Mo- tordrome company has stated that such a constant stream of aytomobile inspection parties has been coming frdm Los Angeles and other polnts to Playa del Rey, where the new board track is located, that he has been obliged to close up entrances to the saucer entirely. Motorists are indeed curlous to see the new course, and while they will be most welcome to try It with touring cars or speed thachines, when com- pleted, the management has lald down a cast-fron rule to bar all cars from the | “Great Planked Dish™ until the three sub- ways are bullt and certaln improvements |recommended by Chairman Butler of the contest board of the Amateur Athletlc union and the management itself are fin- ished. Jack Prince, the designer and bullder, is elated because surveyors who measured the track for the Amateur Athletic assocfallon found the distance around to be 5233145 feet long the black line three feet from the | bottom of the track, only thres and a frac- tion feet off mathematically. This is most remarkable, as Prince made all his me: urements when the ground was covered with weeds and when there was no land mark except the rod stuck in the center. Sox No. 2 Defeat 'Frisco. SAN FRANCISCO," March 19.—The Chi- cago Americans No. 2 defeated the San Francisco Coast league team today, 1 to 0. It was a piichers' battle throughout. Score R.H.E ié3 043 Batterles: White, Young and Payne; Ames, Griffin and Willlams. Jemkinstown Wins Steeplechase. LIVERPOOL. March 19.—The Grand Na- Siena, Tor Best-oids And uiwasda, "coday or Beyear-ol upwi ¥ Jas ~von by Jenkinstown. Foxhall Keene's Foestrion mas smecs the Rhodes Scholars | Are Well in Lead in Oxford Meet oI, McDonaninl 120-Yard Hurdles and George E. Putnam Hammer Throw. LONDON, March 19.—M. T. McDonald, ar American Rhodes scholar at Lincoln col- lege, Oxford, university, won the 120-yard hurdles at the annual Oxford-Cambridge inter-varsity sports at Queen's club today. His time was 16 seconds. George L. Putnam of Ottawa, Kan., an- other Rhodes scholar, won the hammer throwing event for Oxford, with 148 feet § inches. | Cambridge won the meet, 7 to 3. {VAST SUMS ARE HUNG UP FOR COLT RACES THIS YEAR rly Every Grand Circuit Meet Has Important Colt Futurity on the Card. NEW YORK, March 19.—Every Grand clr- cuit meeting of the coming’ season, with two exceptions, will have at least one im- portant: colt Futurity, and when the racing season closes, 1910 will be the greatest in turt history for the amount of money hung up In eolt stakes. As far as the grand cir- cult proper s concerned, the amount to be contested for by 2 and 3-year-olds will be Increased from $2,500 to the magnificent sum of §76,000, or. 47,600 more than we had In 199. This increase is due to the four new Futurities which will be raced this year, and added to this the $21,000 Ken- tucky classics and the $7,600 of the West- ern Horseman, nearly $115,000 will be the re- ward to high-class trotting and pacing youngsters, The first important Futurity race of the season will take place during the De- trolt meeting, on the second week of the circult, with the $15,000 Chicago Horseman's | suaranteed stake as the feature. This stake was for mares bred in 1906, or for foals of 197, and as it is only for 3-year- olds, the event will take place for the first |time. It is guaranteed for $15,000, but as all entrance fees payable from now up to the night before the race will be added to the guaranteed sum, it is expected to be worth fully $20,000, 1f not more. The Champlonship Stallion stake to be glven under the auspices of the American Assoclation of Trotting Horse Breeders, another new addition to futurities, is al- ready conceded as part of the program at the North Rendall meeting.. While the total actual value of this stake will not be known until the night before the race, yet it 18 fully belleved to be worth §15,00. The Matron stake of the same assoclation 1s also new and will be raced at some big track down the line between Cleveland and Columbus meetings. Its final value s estimated at $10,000. At Readville will be raced the Horse Breeders' Futurity, the first of the fixture events. It fs worth $12500 for 3-year-old trotters and pacers and 2-year-old trotters, The state fair meeting at Syracuse will have this year's fourth new colt stake, namely the Horse World's guaranteed stake of §7,000, and as all entry fees from now up to the time of the race are added to the guaranteed amount, its value to winners Is estimated at $10,000, 1f not more. | Unless some unexpected changes are made over the schedule of last year, Co- lumbus will again have two {mportant Futurity races—the Horse Review and Stock Farm—worth together about $20,000, while Lexington will have its classic $21,000 Futurity. The Western Horseman's stake of §7,600 will, no doubt, be made a fixture of the Indlana State fair racing card at Indian- apolls, and while it will be raced outside of the Grand Circuit, yet the majority of competitors will come from the ranks of other Futuritl stakes, and this, too, should be counted among the year's important colt purses. Taking all Futurities, old and new, at thelr fair estimated value, it is shown that from Detroit down to Lexington the total amount to be awarded to youngsters ex- clustvely will be nearly $115,000, Kearney O KEARNEY, Neb., March 19.—(Special)— Articles of incorporation were flled with the county clerk of Buffalo county for the Kearney Base Ball and Athletic assocla- tion. The business of the corporation will be to maintain a base ball team, to conduct games of base ball, to buy and sell base ball players' contracts, to promote other athletic amusements, to own, buy &nd sell real estate and personal property as may | be necessary to carry out the purpose of | the corporation. The capital stock is to be 5,000, of which $2,500 has been paid in. Th Incorporators are A. L. Nichols, W Kibler, A. C. Lund, R. D. Garrison. The advertising committee of the Commereial club has suggested that the new base ball team be named the “Capitalists,” and | the management of the team has agreed | to that name. | “Mike” Donlin Out of Gam BOSTON. March 19.—'‘Mike' Donlin_will not play base ball with the New York Nationals, nor with any other team, the Eresident Brush querled “will you play ball, finally, l“lDu'n.l‘:n.:::l'.r‘d from Hoston by wire, CREWS LINE UP FOR RACE Boat Houses Are Opened and Shells Put in Commission to Compete. MORE NAVIES BEING FORMED Many Colleges Which Are Not En- tered for This Seawon Prepare for Water Events in the Fatare; NEW YORK, March 19.—All-American college crews which will compete at Pough- keepsie and New London are now rowing on the water. From Puget sound to the Charles river the boat houses have been opened and the shells put into commission. The prospects for successful seasons are reported to be bright at most of the in- stitutions and the sport is gaining in popu- larity. Institutions which are net repre- sented on. the water are beginning to con- template the formation of navies. Minne- sota, Missouri and Chicago unlversity stu- Gents are agitating a movement to establish varsity crews. Stanford university is con- tinuing rowing by means of clubs and se- curing as many candidates for positions in the shells as turned out when rowing a varsity sport at the university. 'The co-eds at Washington uriversity have or- ganized a crew. In the cast, Princeton will meet Annapolis in the first intercol- leglate contest {n ‘Which the Orange and Black has entered a crew for years. The Harvard boat has recently heen sub- fect to a change in the position of §troke. Newman, who rowed in that place during the early spring practice, has been changed to the second crew on acccunt of back work and Cutter has been shifted to stroke. Aecording to reports, the Crimson varsity is rounding Into good early season form and the only changes which may bs mads in its present seating are apt to occur in the bow. Yale has Harvard's weakness in the bow of its varsity shell, but the followers of rowing in that institution belleve that the prospects of a winning_crew are much brighter this season than they. were u year at this time. The Blue crews reached the water a bit sooner than the average squad. When the first call for candidates was issued at the University of Pennsylvanis Coach Gray was amazed at the number of his recrults. His squad was almost un- wleldly and reached an unprecendented size for Pennsylvania. The men began work this week and several prellininary regattas have been scheduled for thelr practice, Coach Rice of Columbia s in & pecullar sltuation with the Light Blue and White candidates. He belleves that he has the material for a good elght-oared boat and a fair four, but the squad is so small that he has no reserves. Rowing at Columbla has been in & precarious position several times during the past few years, and this sea- son the directors of the rowing club ser- lously contemplated the abolition of the sport. As it is now, It one of Coach Rice's g0od men is incapacited he has no suitable substitute. Short of Men. At Syracuse, Coach Ten Eyck had a hard time securing enough men to make serious competition for the crews. Since the Orange has been represented at Poughkeepsle it has had several remarkable successes and there was plenty of rowing enthusiasm at the Salt City college. Ten Eyck's exper- lence this year was a surprise to many oarsmen. He resorted to mass meetings to arouse sweepswinging spirit. His crews are now on Onondago lake, and the work has settled into the steady grind, prepar- ing for Poughkeepsie. For a time the Cornell oarsmen were afrald that thelr spring practice would be seriously retarded by the severe winter of northern. New York, which locked the Cayuga Like Inlet with ten iInches of foe when the crews should have left the ma- chines. A sudden warm spell broke up the ice and the subsequent flood drove the cakes onto the lake a little over a week ago. Coach Cortney immediately hoisted the flag on the boat house, and now he has, including nine coxswains, 101 candidates put in boats with smooth water and compara- tively warm weather. Three of the crews are in shells. That rowing is on no decline at Ithaca was shown by the number of under graduates who have lined the water front during the last few practices. There are more spectators watching the crews this season than have turned out for years at Cornell. Courtney has seven varsity and four treshman combinations at work. Little can be learned of the coach's opinion of Cornell's prospects, for, like Ten Eyck of Syracuse, Courtney 15 secretive and will not talk untll after the Poughkeepsie races. The United States Naval academy crows have been on the Severn for some time, and the middies will soon have real con- tests to face In dual meets. Harvard rows at Annapolis on April 21. After that Prince- ton, Columbla, Georgetown and Syracuse take the wrip in the order named. A good many candldates have turned out for Coach Dempsey at Georgetown and he has four varsity boats and a problem be- fore him in choosing one of three likely candidates for the stroke's seat. George- town has some interesting contests sched- uled before the big regatta In the Hudson, ) 'WEEDING 0UT VARSITY SQUAD Coach Carroll Announces Candidates for Base Ball Team Will Be Re- duced to Twenty This Week. PRACTICE GAMES EACH DAY | Contests Between Freshmen and Vars- ity Nines Show Up Weak Points, LAST YEAR MEN IN THE FRONT Six “N” Holders Will Probably Make Places on Team. CLARK FIXTURE AT FIRST BASE Veteran of Two Seasons is Expected to Hold Down Initial Bag—Met~ calfe Will Again Star at Short. LINCOLN, March 18.—(Spactal.)—Coach “Bobby" Carroll announced this afternoon that he would start the weeding out pro- cess next week among the candidates for the Nebraska base ball teams. He will reduce the size of the varsity squad to twenty players and will bring the fresh- man numbers down to about elghteen as- pirants, As the entire base ball squad is just now, it I8 altogether too large an agsregation to permit the head coach to get the best re- sults from the strongest players. Coach Carroll for the last three weeks has been forced to permit all men who have ap- peared in uniform to work out In the practice games, and because of this he has not been able to devote attention to the best material on the squad. By the middle of next week the Nebraska coach will have decided upon the list of men who shall be permitted to remain on the varsity, He will then separate the fortunate lot of aspiring “N" winners and begin giving them instructions and pointers on the game that will be calcu- lated to hurry them into excellent form for the first game of the season. With the unwieldy mass of candidates that has been cavorting on the new dlamond for the last three weeks, Coach Carroll has had little ciiance to give the leading men Individual attention, but he has cured a good idea of just what players are fit to be considered of varsity caliber, and he will be in a position to out down the size of his squad without leaving off any players who might prove valuable men to the team if they were allowed to stay with the select few for several weeks longer. Can Almost Pick Team. The warm weather during the first half of the present month gave all the Corn- husker base ball players an early start in their outdoor training and for over two weeks now the varsity and feshmen can- didates have had a daily game on the new fleld. The practice in these contests has served to “show up” the men who have no chance of getting on the ‘team, and at the same time it has given the men who have watched the squad an idea of just what the composition of the team may be for this spring. It is practicaly certain that all of last s “N'" players who are on the sjuad ‘make” places on the team. Of thess veterans there are six, two being pitchers. Then there is one letter man of two years, and he is sure of getting his old position again. In all, there are two pitchers and five other players who will be sure of positions. This allotment will leave but four flelding places and two or three po- sitions on the twirling staff yet to be tilled. Captain Greenslit, Jess Clark, Sturtes- negger, Metcalfe, Sleughter, Mathers and Olmstead are the veterans who will be their old places. Adams, the pit- was' on the varsity in 1904, will also get a place on the staff of slab ar- tists, 1f he has lost none of his effective Ditching strength. Among the other candi- dates who may be considered as possibili- tles for the varsity are Patterson, Rat- cliffe, Bliss, Farley, Balderson, Wood, Lofgren, Watters, Phelman, Cumings, Kessler, Decatur, Storms, Hyde, Frank and Carr. It is not certaln yet whether Captain | Greenslit will be assigned permanently to the backstopping task. Coach Carroil has been trylng Patterson and Ratcliffe as catchers, and has not come to & decision about their qualifications for that place. Ratcliffe has not proved to be rellable in stopping the ball and In pegging to the sccond sack. His hitting has been excel- lent, and if Coach Carroll cannot use him back of the bal he may decided to send him to the fleld. Patterson 1s proving a success in catching behind the plate and is easily .the equal of any man on the squad so far as back- stopping. s concerned. His pegging has not been tested this spring, as his throw- ing arm has been sore for two or three weeks. He has had instructions not to try any hard throws. In case, when his arm gets well and he can direct accurate throws to second, he will probably be used as substitute catcher. Just now, Greenslit is slated to do the backstopping. Clark Fixture at First. At the Initial bag Jess Clark, a veteran of two seasons, is the title holder, and nobody ‘has any llens on his job. He is playing fast ball this spring—faster than at any time before. His training In the Lincoln Sunday School league last summer put the finishing touches on his work. He is batting at & .300 rate and should be one of the leading stickers of the nine, Second base is one of the open places. Watters, Cummings and Phelman the strongest competitors for this job. Watters is rather an erratic player, but during the past week he has been doing some crack- ling g0od ‘work on the.second sack. He has been tlelding well and slugging the ball for three or four hits In each game. If he continues his steady playing he will be en- titled to & claim on the second ba Cummings has not proved as strong & tielder as Watters, but he bats fully a well. He shows signs of improving in his work on the'bag and may yet become & valuable man to the team. The next thres weeks will serve to bring out any latent skill he may possess. Phelman is & fast fielder and gets around tihe bases better than the average Corn- husker, His batting has not been up to | expectations as yet. He will make stitg