Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 2, 1915, Page 38

2—8 THE OM AHA BASE BALL BEATS CRICKET Public in Australia Abandons Lat- ter, but Takes Kindly to Former Game, COLLEGIANS ARE T0O MAKE TOUR SYDNEY, Australia, May 1L—The steady Gefection from cricket on the part of the public and the unsatisfactory showing made by the English wame both as re- gards players and finances—a correlation of facts Which is quite the most striking feature of Australion sport at presente— bas Just led to rormative measures by the New South Wales Cricket association In an effort to stem this tide of unpopu- ] larity. Whether these will regain for ¢ cricket the place it Is losing remains to be soen. At all eventa this statement by M. A. Noble, one of the greatest of Aus- traflan cricketers and an internationalist of fame, in a recent Interview in a Syd- ney newspaper under the striking title, “Is Oricket on Its Last Lega?' is sy nificant. “Burf bathing Is undoubtedly attracting many old followers of the game. The new Richemond which has come Into the fleld, base ball. if the cricketors are not care- ful, s going to have & big ‘pull’ in Satur- day afternoon sport. It seems that the Interest and enthusiasm in base ball in- crease every week. It is a quicker game, and to my mind a decided menace, to orioket. though a cricketer who Is now playing base ball told me he dces not think so. In winter the base ballers are able to secire gates worth $150 and $200 per match, a sum which eclub cricket never attracted. Nowadays the (cricket) £rounfls are thrown open to,the public, but the players have the grounds matnly to thamselves, since the public have found other forms of entertainment.” Intidentally, when Noble was playing cricket—he retired five years ago from the sport—he was also somothing of a base ball player, for in his time he and ihe other leading oricketers in the Com- monwealth played ball during the winter months—July, Augusé and September—to keep themselves In trim for oricket, and not a few of these took advantage of their return trips from matches in Eng- Jand to witness base ball games in the United States. which has beon lately projected by the base ball authorities of Leland Stanford _university. The California - vcolleglans Beem 40 have bocome imbued with the 4dea that the antipodes are for a series of games ‘‘down under” next win- ter, but the base ballists here have ad- them that until the war Is over e ‘w e BAN JOHNSON IS OPTIMISTIC Bow of Amerioan League Predicts that Publio Will Patronize FEW NO-HIT GAMES PITCHED But MoGraw Boasts Four Hurlers Who Performed that Base doclared, however, Ball Feat. Base Ball Well. kind 1s quite probable, and —_— —— e that the Americans nl'l:! HAS TWO TO HIS CREDIT | pypROTS TIGHT RACE FOR RAG NEW YORK, Mdy 1.—~When Rube Mar- President Ban Johnson of the American and especially of the fast approaching he: “Base ball, 1 THY iy league takes a hopeful view of the future, | 1, B W, Pot Omana 8 ¢ N Topeka gk | - Wichita . 8 H o Des Molnes . 9 5 k [ I 500 g 1 148 | AMER. GUE. | b Kurl = = Copyright, Great Britaln Rights Reserved. HH] : ;;fi’?i | : : i i i E 3 H H 2 ¢ ; i 3 i i 53 ¥ § it z g g i 3 J g1 i [ § : s F : 5 § : H £t 2%5 | i i I George ) Philadelphin, firvingpe] e ; Sox, ‘ot | o ! Chiet Tot ? KEEWATIN MAN MAKES PLACE IN CORNELL MEET ITHACA, N. Y, May L-—(Special Tele- gram.)—Loomis of Keewatin academy was individual point winner at the Cornell interscholastic meet, securing places in the 100-yard dash, low hurdies, broad jump, high jump and pole vault, winning third place in the meet alone, with twelve points. American Assoclation. : 1H i i EH i Hi T £ Hamiiton of the 8t. Louls Browns Ditched a no-hit game against Detrolt in 112, while George Mul the former De- troft twirler, made & no-hit game record for himselt against 8t. Louls in 1912, One of the great pitchers day game, who has never been able to pitch a no-hit gume, is Walter Johnson, the Washington speed king. It s airny. oult to understand 'why Johnson has nover boen able to get within th¥ charmed circle. He has come very close to it & number of times, but has never had quite that lttle -bit of base Wl Juek | St. Paul which helps out on such momentous oo~ caslons. In RH o [ %] kee, “Young and Wiilams, Ingersoll RHB 1 6 2 Kansas City. Rexan and i Paul, Gipe, Willlams, Eleven innings. RHE 073 7.3 Cant- rthrop RHE 1106 Battertes: Milwa Hughes: Minneapolis, and Sulltvan. fteracn, White, Flah- 'é'w”i:/u"m: Whi . t, m”w.uu Walsh, Owen, Patterson, J m&wn Patterson, Smith, Altrock, &” Altrock, PHELPS COUNTY AMATEURS FORM BASE BALL LEAGUE| .i"%ii"a HOLDREGE, Neb., May L~(Special)= | cip A meeting to complete the orgamization | Col 9 4 of an amateur base ball league consisting | ries: _ Olevaland. ' Collamore and of Eiwood, Bertrand, Loomis and Hda—}&","'m.' RO Tavin Sy | v0e rege was held here last Thursday night, ? C. A Yeoman of Elwood was elected At Louisville— Indianapolls ..... ;" Indianapolis, Mars, Gossett; Loutsville, ol Smith, Southern Associa . At New Orleans—New Orleans, 0; At- lanta, 4. At Memphis—Memphis, 1; Nashville, 9. At (‘hll“nool‘—(‘hl ancoge, 1; Littl Roek’ & Birmingham, 2. The ¥irst Christian church team de- feated the Waln College Games, Ponneylvania, T Princeton, §. Yale, €& a, 2 anes 3 = AMBERICAN LEAGUE. Detroit, 0; Chicago, 6. ’ Bt Lo 5; Clev: 3 Philadelphia, 3; New k1 ‘Washington-Boston, rain. . NATIONAL LBAGUR Clncinnati, §; St. Louls, & . §; Pittab 1 clphia, & ork, 2; Phila on, 4; Brooklyn, FEDERAL LEAGUH. Louls, 1; N « cago, 2; Buffalo, Kansas City, §; Baltimore, 4 Pittsburgh, #; Brooklyn, : AMERICAN ABSBOCIATION. Milwaukee, 7; Minneapolis, 0, I:uu City, §; Bt. Paul, 1 1 hnlnn“g. 0; Loulsville, 2. Cleveland, 7; Columbus, 6. New Bosts 8t Ch Games Today. e—Lincoln ' at Topeka, fil_| Joseph at nes, roit at Chicago, Western Denver at Wichita, Sloux City at Des Ame Leaguo—. lti' .l.pululn Cleveland, Louls, fl!m u'_unu-nu e Federal ue—St. Louls ewark, Buftfalo ulaflltu, Restore Foot Ball At New York School NEW YORK, May 1.—~By the unanimous vote of the Columbia University counocil foot ball games have been restored to the undergraduvates. The vote was taken by the same bodies which placed the ban on the gridiron sport in 1906, Work will be started immediately to arrange a schedule for the Blue and White team mnext fall. A manager will have to be elected and negotiations will be opened at once with local colleges with the hope that a game with Oolum-~ bia can be squeesed In. The task is dif- ficult, owing to the fact that the sched- ules of all of the college teams have been completed, and more or less readjust- ment will be found necessary to admit Columbia to their lsts. College students only will be permitted to play on the teams. The graduate students will. not be eligible, nor will any of the scientific students. The en- gineering schools will be placed on & graduate basis next September, gnd this sutomatically eliminates them from the squad. At San Francisco— Salt Lake City gan, J. Willlams and Hannah: San Fran- cisco, Rohrer, C. Smith and Sepulveda. At Los Angeles— RH. Oakland . 38 Venice Batteries: Oakland, Prulett and Kuhn; Venice, Johnson, Heunley and Spencer. | At Portiand— HB Los Angeles. 8 3 Portland ... 3.0 Batteries: Los A Rysn and ngeles, Bolgs; Portland, Krause and Fisher. Vetoes Hoxing BiIL, Mich. LA ratlalr Faih® lode aa 2 S !w wes Pa by thé state ture. The pro commission to regul Syracuse Wins Meet. SYRAS 3 America, today won the champlonship of 1015, by the Star Company. Harvard Men's Experience Indicate Strenuous Exercise May Cause Popular Ailment. FOOT BALL STARS SUFFERING e BOSTON, Mass, May lL—Altacks of appendicitis sustained by Harvard ath- letes during the present year are giving Harvard physiclans plenty of food for thought. The fact that all three Crimson foot ball captains of the 1914 season have had their appendixes removed since the - S0 Says Frank Erne of Little Pugilists Who Are Now in Ring. DON'T PREPARE FOR FIGHTS I’x;“:?‘llshtwmh in the H&,‘n H “u ring grace it now,” says Frank Brne. ‘T don’t like Welsh at all. I never saw Nel- son, but I'm sure that Wolgast oould have whipped him at any stage of his career. 1 didn't go to see Shugrus or OUL,—T beginning of the season leads to the be- lief that strenuous athletic exercise may have something to do with making the men pecullarly susceptible to such at. tacks. p ‘Walter H. Trumbull, ir,, acting captain of last season's foot ball team, is the third and latest foot ball man to be oper- ated on. Trumbull's.appendix was re- moved at the Peabody hospital recently following a sudden attgok. Charles B. Brickley, the Harvard captain, set the fashjon early in the year when he devel- oped a serious case during the first fort- night of foot ball in October. He was operated on and remained out of the game except for the few minutes in which he participated In his farewell contest against Yale at New Haven. N While Brickley was on the gldelines during the season, Trumbull was made acting captain, not knowing that such a position was first ald to a case of ap- pendicitis. The second foot ball captain to succumb to an attack of the abdominal Qisease was Tom Enwright, who was captain of last season's freshmen team. Enwright went under the knife almost as Soon as the season came to an end, and &s a precautionary measure he 8 now abstaining from spring foot ball practice at Harvard. Trumbull is the third man in the Ust. Morgan B, Phillips of the varsity hockey team is a fourth Harvard athlete Wwho has submitted to an operation for appendicitis since the opening of college. There are several other Harvard ath- League—Clnelnnati at Bt |letes who have been threatened with ap- pendicitls, but who have deferred sub- mitting to an operation in the hope that the attack may yleld to external treatment. Allen Wins Hurling Duel from Lafitte BROOKLYN, May L—Frank Allen and Ed Laffitte took part in a pitching duel here today, the former winning, 1 to 1 The Pittsfed runs came in the third in- ming, Jotes getting a life on Hbolt's error which was followed by a pass to Mowery and Konetchy's triple, Brooklyn counted in the fifth on Lafitte's single, and Demons double and passes to Magee “nl Delehanty. Score: Pittsburgh 208000 Brook yn 000001 Bro&lrn. i.flm 0 nm Allu‘ua l‘e‘r‘ryf MARTY O'TOOLE IS RELEASED WITH WARNING COLUMBUS, O, May 1.—In the polics court today Marty O’'Toole, pitcher for the Columbus American association team, charged with having engaged in a fight with a street ocar motorman, was al- lowed to o free with an admonition by the court. The case of the street rallway employe was dlspoged of in the same way. PARISH WINS TITLE BY DEFEATING M. E. RISLEY ATLANTIC CITY, May lL-—James J. Parrish, Jr, Natipnal Golf Links of the annual spring tournament of the Country club at Atlantic City, defeating Maurice E. Risley, star of the local field, in the final round, 4 to 3 Risley outdrove his opponent, but did not fare as well in the approaches and in | putting as the mew Yorker, llllfi-cllm. Danny Moeller's cl horse to the Washington it he show uhu-tw Clark your with ‘White because they are so poor that it would be wasting an evening. I think bows McFadden, Dal Hawkins, Lavigna or Spike Sulllvan could have cleaned them all up one by one. Y ““Why, these fellows don't prepare for a fight. You can't condition yourself in two weeks. It takes weeks to prepare and weeks to relax so that the regain its normal standard. ner, who weighed 116 pounds, could W) all this lot. Wonderful puncher, ould train down to nothing. He al- most had the upper body of a middie- welght, “Sammy Kelly, the cleverest of the clever, could have stabbed these fellows silly. What a great fight he and Gardner put up! Oscer broke two of Sammy's ribs. George Dixon was a marvel. With great head and hands he was everything that a brilllant boxer should be. He was always fighting men larger than himself. He could hit with either hand eyually well. Now they go through ten rounds of perpetual motion, slapping and cuffing, and the crowd thinks they're hitting. “They don't applaud Mike Gibbons. He is the high art of' boxing today. Gib- bons, Tommy Ryan, Kid McCoy, they showed more to the public than any three men who ever boxed. Men like Ryan and McCoy were ‘exponents of their own point of view. They were as fauch inclined to fool the public as they were their oppo- nents. Good as‘ they were, Gibbons showed me masterful boxing that hasn't been equaled in my day. Welsh fights the hard hitters without a display of generalship. Belleve me, he never en- countered a McFadden or a Fitzgerald. Gans’ Punch a Real “Gans was a master. He ocould feint you into any position he pleased, leaving you easy prey to & solid punch, hard because it was so Unexpected. He was the master hitter. You perhaps have seen an impromptu battle in & cafe. A man will be hit, sending him across the room. That man wasn't hit, he was pushed. Another man will swing and the other fellow will go flying sideways to the wall. Not a punch. He was pulled around. When Gans hit you didn't move out of your tracks. You just crumpled dead to the floor. “All things considered, Bob Fitasim- |mons was the best fighter' that ever stepped into the xing. He fought at a time when a man went a distance, having to take into consideration his powers and his opponent's powers, always flguring as he went along just how good he'd be at the end of tem, fifteen, twenty or twenty-five rounds. It took & general to plan his battle along those lines. That's what made them stand head and shoul- ders over today’s crop. d “The greatest match in the world to- day from a standpoint of high boxing art would be one between Pucky Mo~ Farland and Mlke Gibbons. Compared to some of the matches we see It would be llke comparing grand opera to & honhey-tonk comcert. It would be a treat in generalship, skill, hitting, blocking, everything that constitutes the fine art of boxing.* Geneva Wins from Osceols. GENEVA, Neb., May L—(Special)—In ! aw“m meeting at Osceola the central final aeh-l.ln! contest erday Geneva Donald won first an oore will g0~ to the state contest ‘ai Iincoln May M to represent this dist Pawnee High Wins. A " 1. L T o Y, city hy'mw" score of &% to LaFayette Wins Meet. JBATEPOCER, 2 2% Lale meet today, Experts Differ on Question Whether Ouimet Alone Should Not Have Held Scratch. TRAVERS 1S PLACED WITH HIM AUN ‘MUOA MEN o] 08| L " Which has atlsen owing t5 R rySiery attached to the presence of the name of Walter . Whigham on the handicap list of the United States Golf assoclation and the Metropolitan Golf association is not the only question of the accuracy of these lists. The golfers of Massachusetts and the Western Golf assoclation have made some sharp eriticism of the arrangement by which Travers aud Outmet are placed together at scratch and Evans is at one. The former insist the Ouimet should alone) be at scratch, while the western hald that Evans is entitled to a place at scratch. Moreover, Golf Mius- trated of London, edited by Harold H. Hilton, the former amateur champion of Great Britain ana the United States, agrees with the Massachusetts goifers that Ouimet should stand in solitary &lory at scratch. On this point Mr. Hil- said in a recent lasue: “It is rather a surprise to me that Francis Ouimet does not enjoy the dis- the amateur champlonship and put up quite a good exhibition in the open event. Mr. Travers was runnher up in the amateur and this was th'~ culy big event he took part in; but it is quite within the bounds of probability that the ‘handicappers haye been a little influenced by his yreat deeds In past years and in consequence are a little loath to play him back one until there is very evident reason for so doing." 4 Figures on Ouimet's Prowess. .One cannot form an idea of jthe way Maswachusetts golfers think “on this question of Ouimet and Travers at scratch until they arouse Statisticlan A. Linde Fowler of Boston on the subject. Then Mr. Fowler will emft words faster than a French geventy-five-millimeter gun will discharge shot. They say that even the rapidity of speech of the Rev, Dr. Philllp Brooks, the mnoted Boston afvine, who long held the record for speed in talking, werc eclipsed the other day when an unlucky Gotham golfer hap- pened to run across Mr. Fowler on Bos- ton common and congratulated him on Ouimet getting on scratoh with Travers. They say that the way Mr. Fowler poured out figures on Ouimet's 1914 per- formances made a orowd gather in the belief that he was a lightling calculator giving exhibitions of his skill. Mr. Fowler's point is that Outmet did better than Travers n the British ama- teur, being put out in the second round with his medal score of £, while Travers went out in the first round with a scors of 9. In the British open qualifying round Oulmet led all amateurs and was only 'a few strokes /behind the leading pros. Then in the French championship final Outmet beat H. J. Topping of the United States, who had defeated the man who had beaten Travers. Coming back to the United States, Mr. Fowler dwells on Ouimet's capture of the Massachusetts championship on the long and difficult Brae Burn course with all his rounds under 5, and on his tak- ing fifth place in the national open at Chicago. Then In the national amateur he was one stroke worse than the 144 of the leading score of Fewnes and Gorton in the qualifying round, while Travers was about half a dozen strokes worse, In the final he overwhelmed Travers, and when they met a few days later in the Lesley cup matches at Baltusrol Ouimet won again, although the course was new to him, while Travers knew the links “lke a book.” When it was pointed out to Mr. Fowier that Ouimet had lost in the firsk division and the beaten eight of the Greenwich tourney in the fall, he sald that that aid not count as # was only & local affalr, while the events in which Oufmet achleved succees were of national faterest. BASE BALL O mzha vs. 8$t. Joseph BROURKE PARK-May 1, 8, 3, 4 Ladies’ Monday, 34, Day Games % at 3 P, M A IO AT K g More iy < | " { {