Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 11, 1915, Page 9

BRINGIN | SAY-OLD ToP LET'S HAVE A GAME OF POKER! NO GOLFER NOW LOOMING TO FRONT| G UP FATHER AS LONG AS T 1S A FRIENDLY THE BE Copyright, 1915, Inte: News Servic 8. Patent Of lice. WHY-ER- A CERTAMLY! GQAME AN | DEAL FIRST Just an Earfu] By Tad. When Tom Sharkey landed in Frisco fifteen or more years ago he had les® Neither Amateur Nor Open National | aough than & bum has mnbition. Jie had a few fights, but got only doughnut Champ Stands Head and Shoul- ders Above Rivals. JEROME TRAVERS ON THE SLIDE The year 1915 will go Into golfing his- tory as one in which thers has been no outstanding, compelling figures either in the ranks of amateurs or professionals, writes John G. Anderson in the New York Bun. That rarely has hhppened if at all in recent years. The reference can be.ap- plled both to Amerfcan and British golf, for across the water the royal and anclent game has been superseded so completely by the bunkers from which something other than a golf ball is “driven” that there has been no competl tion of a major order, hence nothing upon which to mold an opinion as to any one golfer's superiority over all others No lack of competition has prevented such o selection in American golfing cir- cles, but there haas been one reason or ! another why no_ong, golfor has cut for himself a niche aboye all others. Jerome D. Travers might not has ne so | had he followed up his Victory In the national open with another in the na- has suffered reverses t meetings no_ direct bearing golfer in the amateur Thurts his ease when it ‘won, the national the of fate ‘Morston the final . corded . D, ; Travers or Walter R 0 H. Egan, and one or twe other figures prominent in the - States Golf association ‘The same lles to the professional. ‘We recall (fdays of the late Wilile Anderson, when It was not a question of who might Win'the national open champlonship, but who had a chance | ¥riday the team will play the first gamn | palm away from this master nerves. We 'recalls Alex 1 : i H ¥ i i ' t of play among lessionals in this year the stand- topnotchers seems to be tem- %gisffl i i Wwas 4t his best i geds f of every twenty matches he in pri- . Who today, last £ i , Scotland, Lil Artba, however, ag home from Scot- ‘Whout the fighting doing publicity work incidentally for his money. later on he grabbed quite a rep and agreed to fight Alec Greggains, who was to stop the tar in elght rounds or blow the purse. The pair met and Greggains not only fafled to stop the chesty deck scrubber, but was lucky to stay himself. Tom drew down 1,260 iron men, and had it in silver dollars in a big sack, His seconds and trainers were delighted. Bo was Tom. They were all smiles Everybody patted Tom on the back. He dressed, grabbed the sack of silver and started up Market street with elght of his followers, Stepping Into Young Mitchell's saloon Tom was greeted with cheers. Young Mitchell mitted him, saying: “I'm glad you won, Tom. [ suppose you're starting out for a celebration, eh?" Sharkey threw the sack up on the bar, and, pushing out his chest, plyed: “Yes, we're all going to have a big time tonight, and we dropped In here first. We're all going to get a drink now, GIVE US THE DICE BOX! LaT Q:.r) vd €3 >, 00 MUGH PEP FOR STARS South Side High School Basket Ball Team Gets Away with Opponents. FINAL COUNT MADE 27 TO 14 Just & lttle too much pep met the rush | of the All-Star basket ball five, organized to defeat Coach Patton's ever ready fiippers last evening at the Bouth 8 de High school gymnasium. With the score close at but a few Intervals during the Stars" were led throughout and at the close lagged by a margin of thirteen scores. Scorg: South Side High, 27; All- Stars, . “Jap" Leach and “Cutes” McBride, two stars fresh from last year's state tiurna- ment who are now playing at the Omaha university, could do little to check ihe furious pace set by Captain Nixon and the remainder of his team. McBrida | showed some class in the first half snil garnered three baskets and one foul. The second half resulted in but two baskets for the All-Sturs, Leach and Fittle get- tng away on chance shots. “Weary" Graham, lightweight captain of next year's foot ball team, proved the point getter of the evening by tossiny the ball seven times for counters. Arthur- ton, another of Patton's reserve cards, falled to show up for the battle, Next of their schedule with bunch on thé local floor, The lineup: SOUTH HIGH the Tekamah ALL-STARS. McH Leach tes: . s O . Shainholtz, J. Shainholtz for e Roal i hulu..:ll::%norrlrb“)l'l q"’l"’ guuu. “Timekesper throws: rahamn Fouis: All-Stars, 5 Referee Patton. Dinge Sprinter is After One Loomis NEW YORK, Dee. 0.—~Howard P. Drew, the fastest amateur sprinter in the world} is coming east early, In January for tha purpose of taking a fling at the dasher who beat him in the 100-yard dash at the national championships at S8an Francisco. Drew, who Is now in the employ of a raliroad in the far west, has been granted & leave of absence for the purpose of making the trip east. Drew will come to the Atlantic coast with one desire para- mount in his mind—to run a sprint race against Joo loomis. Drew don't care & whotp how short or how long the match Is, or where it is run, so long as he can measure strides with the man who was picked by B. C. Brown as the winner of the national 100-yard champlon~ ship. The colored fiyer intends to stop over In Chicago golng and coming, so Loomis will not have the excuse that he Russe| ew York to race. The Los Angeles speed merchant is perfectly willing to hook armories If Joe cannot make the trip to Gotham. MAKE FAST SPIN T0 TEST OUT THEIR CAR Clalming to have establ'shed a new time record for an auto run between Des Molnes and Omaha, Messrs. Stephens and Anderson, Des Molnes auto dealers, arrived at the Omaha Auto club rooms at Hotel at noon. They sald the 1S7.9 miles in three || saries for WOMEN SEND MONEY 10 AID BELGIANS Appeal is Also Made by Miss Zor- baugh for Help for the War Sufferers, TELLS HOW TO SEND BOX Local women, members of the Franco- Delglan Rellef soclety, last week sent out $500 to Miss Girace Zorbaugh, general sec- retary of the British-American Young Women's Christian association at Paris, an agency most active in furnishing aid to the destitute Belgians. Miss Zorbaugh, who Is a former Council Bluffs woman, returned to this country last.summer for a visit with her parents and while here ve a talk at the home of Misy Jessle | filard, at which time the sympathies | of Omaha women were enlisted in behalf of the war sufferers. Since then varylng sums of money and A number of boxes containihg materials to furnish work for needy women have been sent out. The $00 was a Christmas offering. Community Appeal, As a suggestion in which many other communities may help to lighten the burden a little in the war-stricken coun- tries, Miss Zorbaugh makes the following | statement and app: 1 "Our assoclation took but three days after the outbreak of hostilities to start ' Its now well-organized, well-known war | reliet service, In fifteen months, thanks largely to the generous gifts of friends, we have accomplished a great amount of | €00d. For example, in well-heated, cheery work rooms we have provided 2,- 000 days' employment to war-stricken Parls women and pitiable refugees; we n, | have made 25,00 much-needed articles— Ji | mattresses for them to lie on, garments for them to wear, shirts and other neces- the janumerable wounded, layettes for poor bables, etc. We have made @hd given to needy hospitals over 65,00 bandages and 100,000 paper substi- tutes for towels and handkerchiefs which are so badly lacking, | | & The Little Appeal. ! "“This second year the people are pa- | tient and brave, but winter is on them, and, #! the cheapest coal to be had has already risen to over $2 a ton. More than ever, therefore, is there need of blal‘l:oll and warm garments. “Will you not wsk the warm-hear readera of your paper to make a hnlld‘:: offering of just ove modest box from each community? “Something like the follow suggested: Twelve wool blnrl:::u""mll: size; six wool blankets, o |I~1rvl|'l’ slze | twelve sheets: twelve pairs large lheell." assorted; twelve coarse towels, six men's | trousers, aix women's dreases, one plece warm material for shirts and children's ¥ muslin for un- five pounds wool yarn, pref- erably four-ply, for socks, ete, (freight prepaid to New Y. lows: ‘American Relief Cleari Bank Street, New York \'u;l. Hgute, ** ‘For the British-American v War Reliet Service, 2 Maurol, Paris." ork) precisely | 150 | W. C A rue Godot de Washingt_og Affairg hant marine l?lrodm.d n ore the fir Known” afier Secretaries The bill either OMAHA, TURDAY, DE rnational Registered U I'M SORRY-OLD TOPS- | TAKE THE POT -\vE WOT FOUR ACES! NEBRASKA BOARD DELAYS MEETING Committee on Athletics Will Take Steps to Find Successor to Jumbo | Stiehm on Monday. SEVERAL MENTIONED FOR JOB| LINCOLN, - Dec. 10.—(Special Tele- kram.)—The Nebraska Athletic board, facing the biggest problem in its his- tory, did not meet as scheduled today but decided to hold a conference next Monday noon to take preliminary steps in the selection of a coach to succeed Jumbo Stiehm. \ Stlehm’'s unexpected jump lagt night left the members of the board and the undergraduate body stunned today and| regret was everywhere expresed that Ne- | braska’s master conch had decided to dis- | continue his relations with the Corn- husker institution At the smme time, Chancellor Avery a story, setting forth the official attempts to retain Stiehm and giving rise to the | Inference that Jumibo had acted hastily | in dealink fith the Nebraska authorities. | Dr. Avery sald he requested Stiebm to withhold any action for twenty-four | hours untii he could find out if the neces- | sary Increase would not be voted by the | | Lincoln business men. The chancellor | sald he had every assurance that the in- crgase would be cheerfully ralsed by the Lincoln MCommercial club workers and alumni here. It was this very point which served to hasten Stiehm's decl- slon. Stiehm thought the athletic board should vote the salary without making it appear a charity proposition for Lincoln | business men. The foot ball netted a clear profit of $10,00 and the board could easily have stood the addi- | tional salary. Refuses to Ask More Time. Stiehm refused to ask for an extension of time from the Indiana authorities. At 9:30 Stiehm telephoned the chan-| cellor the decision which he and’ Mrs. | Stiehm reached, Dr. Avery said, and he | again requested the coach to ask fur; twenty-four hours additional time. The request was futile; Caustic critelsm of those faculty mem- bers who ralsed such a violent protest; agalnst paying more money to the foot| ball coach came from Lincoln business men and alumnl and undtrgrndun(el‘ alike today. | Princeton, Coach Jess Harper of Notre Dame, Gil Oklahoma, ‘were likely successor At Indiana 8 of 34500 a year, with a three-year con- those mentioned to Stiehm. celves at Nebraska. | The Nebraska university athletic board ! at a meeting held Thursday tollowing his resignation released Stiehm from his contract or “gentlemen's agreement” for one more year's service here, permitting him to take up his work at Indiana nen‘ March. He will succeed C. C. Childs, who has been coach at Indlana for two years. Consldered Five Days. It beca: known today that Coach Stiehm put the proposition of his resigna- tion up to the authorities and the athletic board five days ago, telling them he had a definite offer and asking what Ne- | braska would do to meet it. The university authorities did not feel they could meet the demand and released Stiehm with regret. Some of the older members of the faculty are drawing but $2000 or $,000 & year and there was o BENDER SUING THE FEDS FOR | MANY THOUSANDS. [ C @By Jam e S ONARLES ALBERT BENDER. Big Chief Bender, the former Athletic pltcher, released by the Federals last season, has instituted suit to collect sal- | l"'“mmnnlflfl.‘uwhh un- | | explred contract with the Baltimore club. | Hender denles that he was not in con- feason |eral Dobje and Benny Owen of_(l\'ll)’. as 'telegraph | Browns, ehm wiil receive a salary (Tigers, Slim Sallec, of the Cardinals, 'EMBER 11, 191 Drawn for The Beegy Gedrge McManus YOU SAY declded opposition from several quarters to devoting so gfatha sum as would necessary to have retained Stlehm as he ranks as a faculty member. Stiehm tonight he left Ne- braska with great but that no tangibe offer was made that would meet the one he had received and he felt com- pelled to acce “Grm Are Shocked. News of the head coach's decision cre- ated a great sensation among university circles and students and grads alike who were on the scene thought there must be some way to retain the athletc mentor who has lost but two scheduled Missouri Valley conference games during the five years he has been with Nebraska and has succeeded in having his team win the Missouri Valley title five times. Stiehm will remain here practically un- til the end of the school year, but he will have charge of spring foot ball prac- fice at Indiana in March. Even Groundkeeper Has a'Hard Winter The club ground keeper as well as the players find it a hard life. For Instance, there is Dick Shaner of the Boston Braves. Instead of being permitted to spend the winter in the cold and dreary north he has togo to Miami, Fla., where he is ordered to spend several months getting a park ready for the Stallings players in the spring. Worse and mote of it, he is ordered to stop at a ood hotel and send in his expense account ~~wularly. TELLS NAMES OF EIGHT PLAYERS FEDS SIGN UP According to a man close to the Fed- League, the eight players whom John Ganzel has secured from the ranks of Organized Ball are George Whiteman, from Montreal, who came originally from the Texas league; Charles Pick, from the Richmond Club, whom Clark Griffith let go; Olat Erickson, whom John McGraw sent to Rochester and did not reclain Joe McCarty, of Buffalo; Jimmy L Lopge, of Buffalo; Luque and Morris Rath of Toronto, and Hoelke, of Roches- ter, have be declared regret, YANKS SIGN PITGHER WHO IS SIX FEET SEVEN HIGH When the New Yorks drafted “Slim" {Love from the Los Angeles Club, of the Bill Roper, formerly at Missourl and |Pacific Coast League in September they obtained the tallest pitcher Love towers over such poles as Wellman, James and Laudermilk, of the in cap- human of the Adams, of the Cubs, and other He tract, just $1,000 a year more than he re- |is,six feef seven and a half inches tall. YOU'VE BEEN CHEATIN'! BASE BALL AND GOLF SPORTS FOR EVERS. Johnny Evers, the peppery little cap- tain of the former world's champlon Bos- ton Braves, s authority for the statement that there are only two real sports in this wide green world. They are base ball and golf. Of courfe, it would have been sensational if Johnny had said foot ball and golf, or tennis and golf, or, ™ fact, anything other than base ball and golf. Johnny says he is not alone in this belief, as fully ¥ per cent of the major league ball players turn to golf for di- version. Base ball, says Johnny, Is sport for the fans, and work for the players, but golf is rea] sport for the players. ITAFT DENIES WORKING IN INTERESTS OF ROOT, CHICAGO, Dec. 10.—Former President Taft, here today to address the Chicago | Assoclation of Commerce, denied he was | working to get the republican presidential nomination for Elihu Root. He explained | that in a previous statement he had | merely sald regarding Mr. Root's candi- dacy that he ‘“belleved him to be the | best equipped man in the country for the presjdency.” \ WHAT CARDS DEALY You! (CREIGHTON MEN CHAFE AT DELAY | Basket Ball Players Impatient at Slowness in Formation of School’s Quintet. HAVE BEEN KEEPING IN TRIM Considerable Impatience is being mani- fested by basket ball enthusiasts at Creighton over the delay in organizing a varsity team and the call for first prac- tice. The athletic board, further tham an- | nouncing that Creighton will have a team this year, has' done nothing, awaiting the return™of Coach Mills, who is at present in Chicago. Prospective varsity men, however, have been practicing, January 1 has been set as the date when the squad will assemble for tryouts. The old Creighton Law feam has also reorganized for the season and will play either under the same name as last year or as the Creighton Reserves. While the varsity has entered the fast Tri-Citd league, the Laws or Reserves will join the Commercial league again, in which they carried off second homors last year. LOSES TO WALTER CLARKS The Walter G. Clarks took the Uni- versity of Omaha basket ball team to a trimming last evening on the university |floor, %5 to %. The cclleglans “ad dif- | ficulty in locating the basker, missing a | number of easy shots. During the first | period the college plavers had an edgs |on the fray, the half ending 10 to 6. 5 Adams and Bruce were the calcium | performers. for the students, while@Robert | Weigel, Parrish and Noland showed up | best for the Clarks. The lineup: I OMAHA UNI CLARKS, Allerton L Nolan1 Ernst . Klepoer Adams Rober's | Seibert >, 8 L F.| L.F, R ‘R.G.R.G. Welg: Woosley Allerton, | Hungate for Woosley. Field goals: No- |land_(#), Klepser (i), Roberts, Parrish | (3), Welgel (2), Aliertor. (3), Ernst, Adams { (), Bruce (9. Free throw: ‘Parrish | Fouls committed: Omaha, 2; Clarks, 3. Referee, Slotky: timekeeper, Wil Twenty'minute halves. BOLLINGER CASE BEFORE ILLINCIS HEALTH BOARD CHICAGO, Dec. 10.—Investigation into the death of the defective Bollinger baby, on whom Dr. H. F. Haiselden declined to operate, is to be begun by the State Board of Health next month, according to advices recelved from Springfield to- day. The child's parents agreed to the phy- sican’s decision not to operate. Special Purchase Sale Men’s Suits and Overcoats .We have just received by express more than 300 Kensington, Kenmor and Hen- ley Suits and Overcoats, bought at manufac- turer’s close of season prices. The advantage of those prices we are passing on to our cus- tomers. We are giving just now at the be- ginning of winter, prices not usually offered before the end of January. These suits and overcoats were per- sonally selected and the quality and patterns are such as will please our most discerning customers. The lots are broken, of course. Not many of a size but plenty of all sizes. $14 $16= $18 $20 $22 The price concession was a big inducement to us. We are making it just as big an inducement to you. The suits are excellent in quality and pattern. They include plain oxfords, fancy blues and navy of the new stripes. The overcoats embrace the new loose back coat with velvet col- lar, close fitting double-breasted coats, Chesterfields and ulsters, You will find truly wondefful values. A casual glance at our windows will verify these statements. The sale starts Saturday, December 11th. It will pay a dividend on your time to inspect these garments. Shanl war e | dition, aa alleged by the owners of the | he | Fideral club, and infimates that there ‘...w' other reasons why he was let out. { ] 418 South 16th Streel aaneree, Who drew - e W /BT TS T ——