Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 2, 1915, Page 39

e mfinging Up OH: MR JIGGS - TERRIBL Y “WORRIED TONIGHT ~ Judgments UITE the most important plece of business before the Omaha fans at this moment is to go tog the polls on Tuesday and vote for Sunday base ball. The majority in favor of this propo- eition should be made so overwhelming that no question can ever be raised as to the purpose of the people. No ques- tion exists as to the sentiment of the publie In favor of the game, but this sentiment must be registered so emphat- ically as to carry ennvm%nn with it to even those who are constitutionally op- posed to base ball or any other form of public amusement on Sunday. No one questions the value of base ball as a sport, and not many are locally op- posed to the game being played on Sun- day. ‘The importance of voting.is to get the supporters of the proposition on record. Its moral value will be immense, Next to voting on Sunday base dall, the local contingent is most concerned with the fact that the Rourke family has shown quite a burst of speed for opening the season. It is too eurly yet 10 buy the flag for 1016, but the start is surely encouraging. It has been a long, long time since Omaha stood out so far in advance of the others, and it 1is surely comforting to 100k at the stand- ing table these mornings, So far as the affair.-has proceeded, the indications are all in favor of the proposition that Pa has @ winning combination. Ifis team ‘it balance and steadiness, tand enough | of ambitious youngsters to give.it “pep” {and -Krug has shown himself to be an aggressive leader, fighting, for every point, and gi! that means the team that beats Omaha st any-stage bf the wfllkm‘lhm'-l‘:.l i This coming to life of has Omaha ‘on the map again as a good town, and the public is ing way to Rourke park agais, much as yore, The crowds have not yet thelr old-time proportion, but this come If the Rourke family is true its start, H 1hi H _ All' slong the' line start has been full of surprises; the standing table is just abput upside down from what it was last sea- i son, showing the effect of the “home town” start on some of the teams. A couple of weeks more will be needed to determine the relative strength of the or- and it may be longer than that before the pemnant winner will ap- pear, but it doesn't look as If the league were golng to be strung out behind Den- ver or Sloux City this season. ‘Western leaguo in Jimmy Kane had a really sad time in Omaha durikg the week; he didn't get a hit in four games, although he swatted the ball hard enough, and he was given a lot of bother chasing after nasty little bunts on which the Rourke players de- lighted to feed him. Jimmy ix waiting until he gets back home, where he can knock ‘em into the old Mizzoo. Benny Kauff clalmed a great deal of public attention during the week by his foolish jump from the Brooklyn Federals to the. New York Natiohals, thereby ehowing how little he knows about base ball strategy and how little regard he has for a signed contract. Beony will have & lot of idie time in which to rumi- nate over the folly of his course. He is not the first player who has listened to the siren song of John MoGraw, only to find out that “Muggsy” was kiddlg him. ‘That Johnson boy may be a wild man, all right, but he sure can pitch, and so can Blodgett, and Crabb, and Closman and Willis. If you don't belleve it, ask Josh Clarke; he knows. Manager Krug makes ‘em hustle, too, and keeps the game on the move all the time, which is also an evidence of his abllity as a leader. Benny Kauff yumped once too oftem, and 1s now singing something about & long, long way from home, and no pay day in sight. 0. B. B. and the Feds can agree on at least on thing, and that is when a player 1s not to be trusted. If we'd had that boy Krueger soon enough last season quite another story would have been told. And don't over- look Kafors, either, when you are mak- ing up your list of hustling backetops. Good oM “Bunk” Congalton may be missed, but what's the matter with Huelsman? He's certainly fences, and Brother Dave s figuring on having them moved back about a mile. Grover Cleveland Alexander is keepng the mame of Nebraska before the Phila- delphia public most acoeptably. Fred Glade, who is & prosperous mil- ler nowadays, watched Omaha put it all over Sloux City on opening day, and gave it his unbiased opinion that the Rourkes carried on ilke a regular ball team. testing the | THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: MAY 2, 1915, W Father '™ M TR 3-8 ' Copyright, 1916, News Service. N SON JUST CAME BACK FROM COLLEGE AND RAN AWAYAN' 0T IS JESS AS GOOD AS FITZ? Comparative Ability of the Present Champ and Those of 0ld is Debatable Issue. MUST DEPEND ON FUTURE SKILL NEW YORK, May lL—Whether Jess ‘Willard could have held his own had he flourished in the days when Corbett, Fitzsimmons and Jeffries were disputing the title is a question that cannot be an- swered off-hand. The fistlc world as yet has not decided just how to place the conqueror of Johnson, whose victory has | 80 completely upset all white hope prece- | dent. Judgment will be withheld until he | defends the Honors a few times and gives a better line on his ability. Of course, the old-time warrlors them- selves are not disposed to take Willard | into the fold and accept him as their | equal. For so many years they have been held up as the greatest ever, it is only natural that they should be chary of their praise for the new champion, who threatens to put an end to the myth that they were superior metal to the men of today. Thus Corbett and Jeffries, while they picked Willard to beat Johnson, did 80, with many qualifying remarks tend- ing to show that even if he should win he could not be classed as their equal. MARRIED Fitzsimmons, for his part, was frankly anti-Willard. He declared that the big Kansan and all his tribe were a lot of Joke fighters and ridiculed the idea that Willard could beat the man who had taken all Johnson had to offer and then came through and won llke a thorough- bred, old ‘Fitz would mot relent. Al- though he congratulated Willard when they met in public, Fitz could not refrain from remarking to his friends, “Give me & few months to train and I could MNck that big stiff.” As & matter of fact, there is no reason to think that Willard could not have held his own with any of the old-timers. That Jetfries was the of the old sét is generally Mmlmm Willard loses nothing by comparifon with the *“cham- plon of all champlons.” Never Been Hurt, At one time the bollermaker's most famous assets were his great size and his ability to withstand punishment. Wil- lard is not only bigger in every way that | counts for most in thoe ring, but he never hag been hurt. Jeffries, in his fights with Fitssimmons, was cut to pleces. In hitting ability also Willard has the edge. Jeffriés fought In an awkward crouch and was unable to put his full strength behind his blows. Tom Sharkey, & much smaller man, fought Jeffries forty-five rounds in all. In not one of those rounds dld the rushing sailor take a back step. He literally hurled him- solf on Jeff's big fists, thereby increas- ing the force of the impact, 'yet Jeff eould not put him away. What Willard would have done to Sharkey had he been in Jeff's place can easily be tmagined by those who have seen, the blg Kansan land one of his ter- rible uppercuts. Move than once this blow has lifted a 200-pound opponent high in the air to come down on his shoulder blades, Much has been sald of Sharkey's toughness, but he could not have taken one of those blows without going down. 8o far as boxing skill is concerned Wil- lard shows up at last equally as well. In | | the whole history of the ring there is no | Instance of a champlon being make to look so foolish as Corbett made Jeffries appear for twenty-two rounds of “thelr Coney Island battle. Corbett was a mere gymnasium athlete, unable to withstand rough usage. He was long past his best days and could be stopped with a com- paratively light blow. It is impossible to tmagine him keeping away from Wil- lard’s long range jabs, stralght rights and uppercuts for that length of time. Might Have Pussled Fits. It Willard had met Fitzsimmons he might not have been able to win after taking as much punishment as Jeffries did. On the other hand Fitz would not have been able to land on Willard with the same freedom with which he bat- tered Jeffries around the ring. Fitz de- | veloped the science of hitting to a greater extent than any other has been able to approach, but Willard's long arms and {great height constitute a defence that might have puzsled the cunning black- smith. However, the Cornishman's left shift to the body would have been bad medicine for the long-geared Willard, { who is not protected by the crouch that saved Jeffries. That body blow might have beaten Willard. But aside from Fitzsimmons none of |that famous troop of ring men can be | tigured to have anything on Willard, The | rushing Sharkey, with his lack of d fence, would have been an easy mark | for Willard's uppercut; McCoy and | Choynski were too light, while Ruhlin | was merely & good second rater. Takes Fall Out of Grif. Flelder Jones never overlooks an op- g;m-lu to take & fall out of Clark Affith for having induced Walter John- son to return to the fold Gus Yelle Bounced. In the New England league the Fiteif- FEDS T0 INVADE NEW YORK Pat Powers Declares Franchise Will Be Given Gotham for 1916 Season, DO NOT WANT PEACE WITH 0. B, NEW YORK, May 1.—"New York will positively be inecluded in the Federal league mext spring or the following spring,” said Pat Powers, president of the Newark Federal league olub, this week “Right now the New York club is just as well orgunized as any club in the country,” continued Powers. “““The only thing necessary is to build a park. When the names of the men behind the New York Federal league club are announced they will astound the National and Amer- fcan league magnates; as well as the fans the country over,” added Pat, “And, by the 'way, we are not looking for peace. The only way that It will ever come about is for the two major leagues to recognize us as & major league. I can say for a sure thing that this is the only way the base ball war will end. “There have been lots of stories printed to the effect that as soon as the majors decide to take care of Weeghman, the Wards and other Federal league powers, that peace will be brought about, but that is absurd. “The Federal league magnates in about every instance own their parks outright The men are so tied up financially and with contracts that they would forfeit everything they own In connection with the league should they accept any terms other than the taking of the Federal league Into the organized base ball fola as a third major league. “I \have found all the Federal mag- mates men who place the desire to have a winner above the commercial side of the game."” 0ld Yank Uniforms Sent to Sing Sing Members f the newly orgarized base heir 10 a lot of the old uniforme of the Yankees, the New York American league club and players in the “outlaw league” at the state prison will wear them in thelr games ihis summer. Base ball is one of the means adopted by Thomas Mott Os- | borae, warden of Hing Sing. to tmprove the physical condition of the prisoners. One of the prison players wrote to the owners of the Yankees, asking for the 0ld uniforms, with the result that enough burg club has released Catcher Gus Yelle and Outfielders O'Connell and Vance. wore given to equip-twenty-elght players with everything from capa to shoes Keating to Buffalo, The Buffala olub has secured Shortstop Walter iCeating from the Chicago Na- tional club International York American league base ball club, and by his side ||| /‘Bn.be" Shiels, the brand new mascot of the team. ball clubs In Sing Sing prison have fallen | HE NEVER EVEN TOLDO ME I THING ABOUT BILL DONOVAN, MANAGER, AND ‘‘BABE’’ SHIELS, : MASCOT—*‘Wild Bill"’ Donovan, rejuvenator of the New Drawn for The - Ol ER SEE THE LIKE 2 Q' THAT ? CORNELL IN ITS NEW PARK, Man Who Hits the Sign Is to Win . Overland Machine When the curtain was ralsed on the 1916 National league base ball season, at the | Polo_grounds In New York, ball fans and players were treated to a new one, Out in left fiold there flares a forty-foot slkn proclalming that the first New York player who hits it with a fly ball s to be presented with a new Overland car. The Overland dealer in the metropolis is the man whe hit on this plan to stimu- late the New York players in thelr swat- feste. “Hit ‘er out” will be changed from now on to “HIL that sign, kid," by the rooters. The distance of the sign from the home plate is 34 feet, and there ia every like- lihood of one of New York's hitters pull- Ing down the Overland car which is of- fered. Before deciding on this move, Mr. Silver wrote the hase ball writers on the W York dallies asking thetr advice on the matter, and they am of the opinfon that the offer is a good sporting Propo- | sition. As one of the men puts It:- “It might be pulled right off the reel, and again It may drag along for quite a period.” MUCH COIN IN TENNIS BANK And Association is Trying to Figure Track Activities Are Transferred| and Foot Ball Baggage to Be | Moved Next Fall, EXAMINATION OF CREW MEN ITHACA, N. Y,, May 1.~Now that all | the track activities at Cornell university have been transferred to the new alumni fleld environment, Cornellians are look- |Ing to the future. Next fall the foot ball equad will move bag and baggage from the old field, and this will leave only the base ball outfit down In the hollow, where the frogs ralse thelr June chorus. | But the base ball men already have the Bacon Practice hall for indoor work on inclement days, and share with the rest the conveniences, such as showers, dress- ing rooms and the like of the Schoell- | kopf Memorial. The alumni fleld project | was launched nearly thirteen years ago, and it will be completed when the bass | ball playground has been completed. | Says the Cornell Alumn! News “The larger part of Alumni field— | thirty-four of the fifty-seven acres—is to be unfenced and open for the general uso of the students, and it has been put to such uee now for several years. At least a part of that area, namely, the student playground of about eight mcres, must, by“the terms of the university's grant of land to the fleld committee, be open and ungeserved. - Recently the athletic man- agement has lald out a diamond on the Some Way to Spend the Thirty playground for the freshman team and bas published a notice to the effect that Thousand Surplus. other students must not use that dia- Sopaiah the grant under which the Athletic as- sociation enjoys its present use of its own section of the fleld. It is under- NEW YORK, May 1.—~Responsibility and L A CLUBS SAVE $100,000 Reduction of Player and Salary Limits and Incidentals Will Do the Work. WAS FORCED ON THE OWNERS One hundred thousand dollars in round figures is the amount which will be saved by American assoclation clubs this sea- son by the lower player limit and other economies which the magnates have ef- fected. This is an average of $12500 per club, aithough the mathematics prac- tically will not work out to an equal divi- sfon. In arriving at this estimate first con- sider the number of players to be carried, Of course, there are not four less stars carried. In fact, it is the recruits or young fellows who have not yet shown AA class, but might be nursed along for the future, that get the blue envelope. Estimate the salary of these men at $250 per month. Four times that amount would be $1,000 per club or $5,000 for the five months' season. The average mile- ago is 10000 miles to a club, which at 3 cents a mile would make 20 more per man. There weuld be at least eighty days on the road at an average of $2 per day, or 240, making a total and mileage 3449, which, multiplied by four, gives $1,760 |saving in traveling evpenses. This mark. To get at the other #6600 per club is not B0 easmy. Suvings effected have been in | places where the club owners sre not so willing to discuss the dollar mark. Sal- | aries have boen pared all along the line. | Office and park expensed~Tave been re- duced wherever possible. Players have not been bought so lavishly and when bought venernlly as lower prices. The estimate of 5,600 per club ls considered | conservative. | Missouri Wins | Track Meet from Ka:nsa,s Aggies OCOLUMBIA. Mo, May L—Missouri uni- {versity won the track meet with the Kansas Stato Agricultural college here today, 1 to % In the running broad jump, Simpeon of Missourl Lroke the Miseouri Valley con- ference record, making 2 feet, 1 inch Tn_the polé vault Powell of Missour! tied the conference record of 18 feet Col Strolls Often. Eddle Collins so far this season has averaged more than one base on balls to the game, and If the pitchers don't gt them over better for him he is likely to {break all pass records. 4 reduced by rule from {wenty to sixteon. | totals 36,78 per club, with incidental ex-| penses of only $240 to reach the $7,000 tho poswession, or at least the custody, of money has awnkened the officials of tho United Statos National Lawn Tennis aspoclation to a new sense of thelr duties. The transition from s treasury, ably directed by Richard Stevens, of a few hundred dollars, which paid the cost of postage, the slight expe: of ‘meet- ings and made up negligible deficlencles in the expenditures of Davis Cup teams, to @ tuly sum of approximately $%0,000, stood, however, to be merely a tem- porary, arrangement pending the com- pletion of the varsity base ball fielg. It is simflar to the taclt permission given to the foot ball squad to use the play- ground for practice in the fall and to ‘-muac other students, Nevertheless, the fact should be borne in mind that varsity managers. when their teams are enjoying the facllities to be provided for them In thelr own section of the (ield, | hay been rather sudden. In fact, It may will have po right to make regulations by gaid to be a matter of two years. regarding the use of the student play-| Rignt at this time there ia not an offl- ground. ’ lcor of the national governing body, from Cornell is earnestly committed to & Robert D, Wrean on through the Ist, policy of determining whether or not| who does not fully realise that it is not university rowing is harmful to boys wWho ' part of the work of the assoclation to indulge in it. As ‘s consequence, the!,ils up funds In a treasury. crews this season will be watched closely | ‘Jiver since the Davis Cup matches last by Dr. 8. A. Munford, officlal medlcdl,‘u.u.l on the courts of the West Side examiner of the university. It has always | Tenniw club at Forest Hills, Long Island, been contended at Ithaca that the four-| when It was evident that the thousands mile race dld not injure men who hadof dollars taken in at the gate would been properly trained, and as proof of more than fill the coffers of the national thiy fact It was pointed out that there | lLody, the question has been repeatedly 18 no #ingle case on record of a Cornell asked: What good use cen be made of oarsman suffering from overstrain in|tho money? later years. Cornell, however, is anxious to get records bearing on this question, | been a uniformity of opinion that it %0 Dr. Munford plans to make a series should be spent wisily for the greatest of thorough examinations of all of the guod for the greatest number of players men in the first three varsity and two!throughout the country. Wrenti, Ray- freshman! elghts. Any man showing l(‘m')nd D. Little, George T. Adee and trace of defect will be barred from row- | others gave voice to the opinfon that the ing. Special study will be made of the|large fund actually belonged to the play- effect of rowing on the heart, lungs, kid-| ers of the country, and that its use neys and other organs, and the records must refloct something of national fm- | mude from week to week will be com-|portance In the broadening Influences of |pared. No effort will be made to take!the zame, | X-ray pictures of the hearts, as has been| Ono of the first undertakings arranged | done at Harvard, because of the expense, | for was to prepare for the d fbhut t ‘ornell authorities are confident | the expenses of a team of four easterm | that their tests will be entirely satisfacs| Players who will invado the conrts of | tory. California Juring the month of July. That idea met with unqualified endorse- | ment, ax it is nearly ten years since play- |George McBride and |5 e i o e 52 | mude the trip to the Pacific coast Crawford Have Real was a falr exchange of courtesies, of the exeacutlve committes there has it and [ths west &t once was duly appreclative. It found ready response In the east, as Big I‘eague Records] R, Norris Willlams, 2d, the national { champlon, heads the team, and it Is ex- Years ago there was a wonderful ball | pected that George M. Church of Prince- player who was always injured ab the tun and the national intercollegiate critical stages of a pennant race and it Is | champion will be ons of the four men |estimated that injuries, which kept this ' who will make the important journey. | player out of the gume for weeks and!| The second plan which the National as- even months, had deprived his club of ' sociation 1s to put in operation, however, |three pennants. Funs und scribes ad-!is even more important than the first, { mitted his worth as a player, but came to It Is to subsidize the clubs that will con- |the conclusion that he was not of such | sent to hold junfor tournaments cr cham- great value o the club becauso he was |ships. ‘This plan presented to the minds out of the game so much. Figuring on |[uf the executives a method of inspiring this basis, which is undoubtedly correct, |tournaments for the boys especially, as George McEride 1g the most valuable man | the recommendations of the committes that can be found anywhere. In elght | that clubs, as far as possible, inauguras years of major league playing McBride | junior tournaments in comnection with |hes mised but six days' play and but|the regular tournament fixtures, did not neven games all told, a double-header be- | Moet with any overwhelming rasponse. ing playod on ome occasion. This is |n-?1’h~ majority of the clubs realized that deed a remarkable record and Is of great | the regulation tournament was difficult importan® whan one considers that Mc. | €noUgh to manage and were not inclined | Pride has wiways been considersd the |10 add to the Lurden by taking un a lot keynote to the Washington Infield and |of schoolboye, its headlost and steadiest performer. In | ‘:\l'":lal»ulh-- v::‘v has :;fll been d;";l.“l: this respect Sam Crawford is also a re- | pon, its cperation was explaine markable character. We have not looked \: Iln:lvume‘d“'omrm:mml frnmulhn 80 far back In Sam's past, but find that | National assoclation to the club holding he has missed only one game in four full | the junior tournement. An entry lst of seasons, and has not miseed any since the |More than fifty players is to entitle the middle of June, 1911 club to an additional subsidy; snd the emount s to he Increased on a graded Big Crowd at New Orleans. scale of entry list in such a way as to ow ()rluml lao: the b?.lm n‘,’r attend- | substantially assist the clubs that give on opening day, when 10610 paid |up time and courts to establishing tourna- wpectators witnessed (he opening of 'the | menta for boys. Among thore who have : learned of the plan as proposed, it hes met with hearty endorsement, for it has become & national question, so far as lawn tennls Is concerned, as to & suce ceesful method of bringing the juniors into the game. - Kissinger is Delayed. Rube Kissinger, the veteran spit-ball artist, has reported for the season at New Orleans after being kept at home for somne weeks because of the llness of his Bee by (:J.e-orgé Méfims mond. That In technically a violation ot | SEVERAY, PLANS ARE ON FOOT | netions declared out, in writing to In the several delfberations | O YEP: ON THE BOWERY WUNSY - |N A HOUK - SHOP! STATE FAIR RACE PROGRAM Purses in Early Closing Events Range from Four Hundred to Thousand Dollars. OTHER CLASSES CLOSE AUG. 23 (FFrom a Staff Correspondent.) LINCOLN, May 2-=(8pecial)—Entries for the speed program for the 1915 sfate falr will close June 1 and there are’fa~ dications that the list of entrles will exe cend those of previous years. The early closing entries show purses running from $400, to $1,000. The program as prepared Dbelng as follows: ENTRY FEE 1 PER CENT WITH NOMINATIONS, 2-year-old trot, half mile heats, Sep- tember 6.... lt"uu--old trot (f 25 or colts eligible to ber 9. B clare) Boptomber 5. ot ot class om| ATt "‘\':m Cornhuakers’ Burse, 2 ;: 2% pace, September 7. 2:16 pace, September 6. r-all pace, 'iaw mber Condittonn. . Hntry fee to early olosing 1 per cent, cash to accompany nomination June 1, 1416, when horses must be named: Nomi- secretary prior to August 23, will be only for amount pald in, otherwise L per cent penalty will attach to mm starting. The assoclation right to declare off any having twelve entries. Entry fee to races 3 per cent. Money divided and 10 per cent. An additional 7 of early closing and § per cent in olasses deducted from money [e] f entrance fee refunded to finlshing the race inside the flag: and outside the money. The right s reserved to postpone any race or races for cause, to change the order of the program, ot to pay moneys as the horses shall rank in races started and unfinished at the close of the day, September J. Stall rent free to starters. Racing to start at 1 o'clock, Rulea of the American Trotting assocl- ation to govern, Running. S-year-old, Nebraska bred one-half furlongs), Nabraska derby (one & teenth miles), Three-fourth mile 3 h, Septem Five-e mile ptember i § mi| Sl Bk B (four and mber ... One-hal and ber 7., One mile dasi Beptember 9. «half mile consolation dash orses that )&vo won money) Septs (tor Entrance in the Nebraska bred 3-year old race, fonls of 1812 ewned in Nebraske and registered with the Jockey club, and entry to derby must Be made August 23, and all others entering by 6 o'clock the night before the race, No entry fee for running ra: No tickets of admission given where no entry fee is pald. All running races will be governed by the new American racing rules except where otherwise provided. Jockey llcense ex- | cepted. Five entries required to fill and | four to start. Five per cent of purse | deducted from money winners. Money divided 60, % and 15 per cent. iWork Begins on Big Track at New York Work ha¢ been started on the monster motordrome and sports amphitheater which has been proposed and discussed | for New York for the last five years. This | puroject, which is expected to rival the i Brookland track of England and the In- dlanapolis Auto Speedway, will be located | on the grounds of the old Coney Island [Jockey club. A two-mile track capable of permitting auto speeding in excess of 100 miles per hour and a series of stands to accommodate about 200,000 spectators will be in readiness for the first meet in The 1915 Harley-Davidson its ‘98 refinements offy ort, power, d with comf: wpeed an action than any other moforcyelo made. Remember, it is the motorcygle th has & shock-absorber that is M to sny welght rider. . Come In and get a demonstration, VICTOR H. ROOS “The Motorcycle Man," s s ow