Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 12, 1915, Page 43

THAT NEwW COOK STUFF-ITY HALF EMPTY 3INCE YESTERDAY ! Judgments HE question at issue among fol- lowers of University of Nebraska foot ball right now is the selec- tion of a mentor to assume the shoes of Jumbo Stiehm, who has resigned to take a more renumerative | position as coach at Indiana. This topic is far more vital to foot ball fans than the European war or early Christmas shopping and many are the arguments heard pro and con. Thus far the names of four coaches have been suggested as possible candidates. They are Bill Roper, for- merly at Missourl and Princeton; Bennie Owen of Oklahoma, Gil Dobie, who just resigned at Washington, and Jesse Har- per of Notre, Dame. As far as past rec- ords go, and observations of teams coached by these men in action, it ap- Ppears very probable that any one of the four would be just as successful, if, per- haps, not more so, than Stiehm. Stiehm has made an enviable record at Nebraska. It is not to be denied that Nebraska has ascended to a top-notch rank in western foot ball during the regime of Jumbo, but without in any way discrediting Stiehm's ability, there are men who are Just us good as he is and it should not be overly difficult for the Cornhusker athletic board to select one when the emergency meeting is held Monday. Of the four men suggested, Roper and Dobie have the best records, but there is prob- ably less chance to secure the services of either one of these men than Owen or Harper. Roper, it will be remembered, is the man who won the Missouri Valley champlonship for Missour! in 190. Roper won the champlonship that year from two better teams, Nebraska and Kansas. Kansas defeated the Huskers and Roper, with a very ordinary team and the odds strongly against him, won from Kansas. Hé used twenty-three meh to do it, but he aid it, and the name of Bill Roper to this day stands at the top of the Mis- sourl hall of fame. Two years later Roper took charge of the eleven at Princeton and turned out the only team in the history of the school that won from both Harvard and Yale. He is the man who made an all-American end out of Sammy White. This year Roper coached Swarthmore when he wasn't busy practicing law in Philadelphla. Whether he could be induced to abandon his law practice to come to Nebraska is doubtful, but it would be a ten-strike for the Corn- huskers if fortune should so favor them. Doble a few days ago announced his in- tention of taking up the practice of law | and he resigned the position as mentor at Washington to do so. Of course, it may be possible to bring him to Lincoln, but it seems unlikely. Jesse Harper and Bennle Owen have both made good rec- ords as coaches. Harper has turned out £€00d teams at Notre Dame ever since he has been there. And Harper's good teams have largely been the result of Harper's coaching ability. Such team- work and wonderful interference as ex- hibited by the Notre Dame eleven this year has never before been seen in Ne- braska, and good coaching alone can de- | velop even team-work and good inter- ference. Owen makes his bid for honors largely through his knowledge of the for- ward passing game. Oklahoma this year depended almost exclusively on the for- ward pass to net gains and this method was so successful that Oklahoma went through the year with a clear slate of victories. It has been said by foot ball students who saw the Soaners in action this year that they had the most won- derful system of forward passing of any team in the country, and an assertion like that is a great tribute to the ability of Bennie Owen as a coach. The Ne- braska athletic board wil] do well Mon- day to get a line on all four of these mentors suggested, for any one of them would undoubtedly be as great, if not a greater success, than the passing Jumbo. . The proposal by Jack Holland of St. Joseph that ladies’ days In the Western league be abolished is likely to inspire a howl of dieapproval from the fair fans who have been afforded the privilege of | occupying -cent seads at Rourke park without the expenditure of anything ex- cept carfare two days each week. Per- haps Holland's proposal is for the best— it is sald most cf the magnates agree it is as it is a difficult matter to pay ex- penses out of a free gate—but Jack is booked o become very unpopular among the blondes and brunettes. Tip O'Nelll, it is said, is trying to buy the Oakland Coast league club, but ean't agree on the price set by the present owners. if they'd take confederate money for it Joseph more of Honolulu has been elected captain of the Harvard eleven. Westerners never were any good as foot balil players, either. They are selling J. Franklin Baker to Comiskey again. ‘Selling Baker to Comiskey is becoming almost as popular as selling the Cubs. If Ban Johnson succeeds In selling that Cleveland franchise he will have Jim Gilmore beaten a city block The basket ball lads seem to be occu- pying all of the calelum these da. Remember. Mr. Stiehm, they haven't |elght points better than the former indiana. any Chamberiain at BY QOLLY -1 THINK ISHITTIN' UP THIS | Jess Willard doesn't care a rap about Tip would probably buy the club | L FIX HIM- RAT POISON WNOT! JESS DOESN'T LIKE T0 FIGHT 8o Says Tom Jones, and from Wil lard’s Recent Activities He Probably is Right. WILL QUIT THE RING SOON| NEW YORK, Dec. 11.—"Do you know," | said Tom Jones, the other day, “that fighting? Well, that's the truth. He only | intends to fight a few more battles and | he'll retire from the ring inside of a year. | “Jess wants to dispose of all the prom- inent contenders before he retires, though, to prove that he is a real bona fide champion. But the real truth is that | he would rather be doing something else than swapping punches in the ring. | “Willard first took up boxing when | Jack Johnson was returned winner over | Jim Jeffries. It was his ambition to re- | move the negro from the limelight and | prove the superiority of the white race that made the big cowboy take up fisti- | cuffs, “The reason that he made such rapid progress and developed from a bIg, un- ( couth heavyweight into the best the sport | has produced was because of his deter- mination to take the title away from Johnson. “If Jess liked boxing or its sidelines, such as stage and circus work, he could now be making thousands of dollars every week. Instead, he loves his family and home, and he won't be contented again until he quits the ring forever and takes up farm life, or something llke thal “Willard has been receiving all kinds of offers since he' quit the circus, It was only the other day that he was offered $5,000 a week for twelve\weeks' work on the stage, but he wouldn't even consider it. He ls now back home in Los Angeles with his family, and no offer, no matter how big, would induce him to leave there until after the new year starts. Only Wants His Price. “Willard will probably fight only three or four battles before he quits his gloves away for all time. Of course, he wants to quit with the title in his possession. This doesn't mean he is going to pick any easy marks. As long as he gets his price, which s $30,000, he will let the promoters pick his opponents.” Jones then showed the writer the con- tract for Jess' bout in March with Fred Fulton at New Orleans. Fuiton isn't named, as the contract was signed before Fulton had been secured. ™he contract calls for $32,500, $2,600 of which is for training expenses. The contract doesn't say that he can't meet anybody before then, and {f somebody steps forward with the required sum a bout between the middle of January and the New Orleans date, he will be accommodated, “What other champion ever signed to fight elght months from tle date he won the champlonship?’ continued Jones. *1 guess they have been few and far be- tween. Eleven months from the time that he beat Johnson at Havana he will be opposing Fulton in New Orleans. Some record; that! “It makes me laugh to see how some of the so-called contenders are demand- ing exorbitant sums to fight Jess. For instance, Moran has twice been offered $11,00 for his end, but has turned it down. Can you imagine a fellow who thinks he has a change to cop the title refusing such a big guarantee? | Willard Lowses Money, “I've had three champlons and all three together didn't make half what Moran is passing up when they captured the cham- plonships in their respective classes. When Wolgast beat Nelson he got $2,600, no training expenses or rallroad tickets. When Papke knocked out Ketchel he got about $1,50, Willard was over $10,000 in debt after the Johnson fight. “But the way I always figured it was this: If L had a boxer who had a chance of beating the champlon I was willing to let him fight for almost anything. 1t | he won, I knew that it would be a| harvest.” Sam McVey, who fought Langford a draw here the other night, heard about Moran's refusal to meet Willard for n $11,000 guarantee, and he said: “I tell you what I'll do. I've got about $4,000 in cash left, I won't want a cent for fighting Willard, but I will bet what money 1 have that 11l stop him inside ot slx rounds. COLLEGE BIG LEAGUERS i DO NOT RIDE GOAT NOW College youths who enter the big league ranks these days are accepted by the veterans without the necessity of sub- | mitting to “initiation” ceremonies. In the | old days the vets scoffed at college youths | professional ball players. They termed them ‘“stssies,’” ignored them, made life| miserable for them generallv, and usually | | broke the spirit of most college boys who | really had enough ability to hold down | | regular jobs if they had besn given a | little assistance by their teammates. | | ke e andhe | MILTON STOCK HAS THE | LAUGH ON JOHN M'GRAW Milton Stock, one of the players who | figured in the trade with Phiadelph'a, whereby Hans Lobert came to the Glants, had the laugh on McGraw, for he batted | ILL PUT SOME | ers, THE OMAHA Copyright, News COASTERS FAIL WITH MACK Native Son Athletes Have Never Managed to Deliver Goods with the Athletics. DALY IS SHIPPED BACK HOME Pete Daly, the outfielder from whom much was expected when he joined the Athletics a few years ago, has drifted back to the Pacific coast and will play with the Vernon club of the Pacific Coast league next year. Pete's fallure to make good with the Athletics or the New York Highlanders brings out the fact that Manager Mack never had much luck with California players, writes Willlam G. Weart. Connle has brought several promising looking outfielders from the coast only to have every one of them fall down on the job. On the other hand, California has been good to the Phillles. No state in the union is so well represented on the Quakers' pay roll as California. Gavvy Cravath, Eddle Burns and Joe Oeschger are natlve sons, while Bancroft and Becker now make thelr homes in that state in the winter. No less than four outfielders have been brought from the Golden state by Mana- ger Mack. Bill Hogan could not main- tain the reputation which had preceded him. Helne Heitmuller, who was prob- ably the largest man that ever wore a White Elephant uniform—and we are not forgetting Socks Seybold—also falled, and was sent to Baltimore, and thence back to California. After his return to h native state, Helne fell unconscious one day when he struck out. He was carried off the field and died a few days later of typhold fever. Wouldn't Take Advice. Harl Maggert next had a trial. Mag- gert was a fast, speedy player and he could hit. He looked like an {deal man for the job, but he would not listen to advice and he did not fit in well with other members of the team and was let out. Maggert was one of the few play- ers to put the ball over the right-field wall at Shibe park. Pete Daly, like Maggert, was fast and @ falr hitter, but not up to the Mack standard. He was sent to New York in change for Jimmy Walsh. The most success that Connle Mack ever had with a California was with Pitcher Harry Krause. Harry ‘had a wonderful winning streak one year, but the “south-paw’ afterwards fell down and was Jet out Wanted a Valet, One of the reasons for Pete Daly being sent back to the minors is said to have been his classy ideas. Those acquainted with the Inner doings of the Highlanders last season clalm that Pete and some of the other players of the club had an idea that they should be furnished with valets as well as numer- ous other luxuries. It is sald that every time the High- landers went to a city some of the play- Daly included, thought some one should be on hand to carry thelr grips from the car to the street. When the out- side of the station was reached, the first question they would ask was as to why taxicabs were not near at hand to take them to the hotel. Magnates are tired of players with high-faluting ideas. The limit is said to have been reached when President Hedges of the St. Louls Americans was joked about being seen carrying the sult case of one of the pitchers he feared might jump to the Federals WRESTLING I;RO;II;)TEH TO ENTER FIELD HERE According to advices from St w. 8 Joseph Harton, the man who promoted wrestling matches at HEvansville, Ind., until the Stecher-Lewis match, Is coming to Omaha to enter the promotion field here. Barton went from Evansville to St. Joseph, but found the Missouri town | too dead, 80 he decided to come up the | Philadelphian. 1 river for a trial. 1A, Service WAL - SAR ' HOwW OID YOU LIKE THAT PODDIN'? | | | SUNDAY BEE: International ALL RIGHT - B30T 1D LIKE TOASK YOU A QUESTION! DECEMBER WHAT BECAME | OF THAT SHERRY ? | | | No “Gate” Charged at First Harvard and Yale Contest Compared with the wonderful exhi- bitlon of team play given by the Harve ard eleven of 1915 against Yale, the first meeting of these two university squads would appear almost laughable if it could be staged again today. That con- test was played at New Haven on Sat- urday, November 13, 1876, on a fleld measuring 40 by 200 feet and was wit- nessed by about 1,600 spectators, which included several hundred women. The number of players on a team was op- tional with the captain, the rules simply specifying that from eleven to fifteen might be played. The game was divided Into three thirty-minute perlods and the | only scoring permitted was a goal fol- lowing touchdown, kicked over the goal bar suspended ten feet above the ground from two uprights twenty feet apart. Harvard won by four goals to nothing, the Crimson scoring two in the first half-hour and one in the remaining two periods. The ball could be kicked or carried; caught on the bound or fly and | the runner could be tackled and thrown as at present. Harvard's cheering con- tingent consisted of 150 students, who made the trip from Cambridge to wit ness the play, No adm ssion Was charged and the slze of the crowd and absence of gate re- ceipts contrasts sharply with the fact that very close \o 10,00 persons pald $20,00 to see the Harvard-Yale games of 1914 and 1915, NEW FOOT BALL CAPTAIN AT COMMERCE HIGH. VUAVH VNU™ SSIN \FEDS ARE SHOWING SPEED | Outlaws May Be on Verge of Col lapse, but They Are Putting Power in Final Kick. INVEST MILLIONS IN GOTHAM NEW YORK, Dee. 11.—The Federal league may be on the 1e ge of collapse, as certain Orzanized Base' Dall men in- | #ist, but for an orsanization that 1is fac'ng dire ruin, it certalnly is putting a lct of power in its final kick. By acquir- Ing the site boundel on t'e south .by One Hundred and Second street, on the | north by One Hundred and Foriy-fifth | etreet, on the west by Lenox avenue, and | on the east by Fifth avenue and ih» Harlem river, the Feds have ceilt the | | National and American leagues a heavy |tiow. They have not only made good their threat to transfer the Kansas City franchize to this city—glving the league more caste as A major league outfit—but they have centered the invasion in one of the most accessible locations avail- able They are now In a position to tas ‘he | Bronx, as well as Manhattan. Adacent to th: property (s a bridge ecross the Harlem river, with a strect car line that brings t'ose who live or work 11 the Bronx into touch with the ball park. The subway is within a stone's throw and the elevated only two' crosstown blocks distant. Furthermore, it is a thickly populated neighborhood, and with a por- tlon of the property available for other uses than base ball all the revenue to be derlved will not depend wsolely upon attendance at the games, The purchase of the property was a deal Involving $1,260,000. This price does not include the cost of stand construc- | tion, etc. This estimate has not yet been | announced. but the total outlay will | eastly represent an expenditure of $1,500,000 when the park is opened next April. Work on the park will be started with- |in a week, and the arrancements call | tor the completion of stands capable of seating 25,000 persons for the opening | &ame tentat'vely arranged, to be played |about the middle of Apri!. Later addi- | tional stands will be constructed that | will Increase the seating capacity to 86,000 i persons. Successor to Jim Thorpe is Found in Dear 0ld “Philly”| NEW YORK, Dec. 1l.—A successer to | Jim Thorpe, Martin Sheridan and one or two other all-around champions of note, has been discovered. He s none other than Martin J. B. McDonagh, formerly on the Johns Hopkins track team, and now a resident of Philadelphia. He may | show In these parts this winter at one |or two big indoor meets. He has been | invited to debut at a Brooklyn regiment me time next January McDonagh was a star member of Johns | Hopkins' outfit while in college, and was holder of the 220-yard low hurdles chami- plonship for years in the South Atlantic district of the American Athletic union, | He was all-around champlon track and field man of that section for five years. He holds several records in relay raeing | This year, McDonagh's first in Phil. adelphia, he won the all-around cham- plonship in the Young Men's Christian association district, comprising Trenton, Reading and other neighboring cities, rep. resenting the West Branch Young "Men's Christian association. ON DAY PUDOIN' YOU JEST | being 392 and in |be best remembered by 3-8 UBEDYT GALLIA WAS JINX FOR COBB! Washington Twirler Allowed the Georgia Peach Only One Bingle in Fourteen Times at Bat, i | MORTON AISO BOTHERFD TY | Ty Cobb, perennial batting leader of | the American league, hit forty-two | polnts better at homo last season than on tho road, his average at Navin fleld the orther six ball | orcharda .350. Wash!ngton was the only spot on the American league circuit where the Tiger dldn't turn in a .300 batting noteh, his percentage In Wilsonville being 4. In Philadelphia it was .26, in 8t. Louls 0, in Chicago, M1 in Boston .857. in Cleveland 439 and in New York .463. There is one American league pitcher who has a right to pride himself on his work against Cobb last season. This man is Bert Gallla of the Senators, who al- lowed the Georglan only one hit in fourteen times at bat—a percentage of The safety was garnered by Cobb the last time he faced Gallia, and It drove in three runs, being a double made when the bases were full, Morton of Cleveland was another pitcher who bothered Cobb considerably in 1015, Tyrus' average against the Indian star being .125. Only eleven out of seventy-one pitchera kept Cobb from making hits and seven of the men In question only pitched to him once. The eleven heroes were Wood of Boston, Johnson of Chicago, Colla- more of Cleveland, Cottrell and Russell of New York, Morisette of Philadelphia, Sisler and Koob of St. Louls and Harper, Dumont and Rice of Washington. Cobb batted 1,000 against seven hurlers, the best known of whom is Jim Shaw of Wash'ngton, lately injured in a hunt- ing accldent near Pittsburgh, and he bingled 838 against Coumbe of Cleve- land, a southpaw, who distinguished himself by stopping the White Sox last spring when they were having an ex- tended winning streak. ‘Warhop of the Yanks touched Cobh for a .6% batting mark, and Walter of Cleveland and Cole of New York for .60, two of these men being fired and the other suspended before the season closed, Ty batted at a .688 clip against Jim Scott of Chicago and at a .066 pace against Eddle Cleotte of the same team. Getting Wagner to Talk of Base Ball is Some Tough Job Hans Wagner showed up at the office of Barney Dreyfuss the other day, com- ing in from chasing the festive rabbit, and the busy scribes, alert to know what he had on his mind, proceeded to Inter- *tew him. “Will you manage the Pirates next year?' was the first question fired at the youthful shortstop. “Me manage the Pirat ? Huh! I want to kill some more game before it gets too late. Say, hunting is great this year, only it is tougher because there is no snow,” warbled Honus. “Well, Jay, you still lead ‘em all in notice t?" was asked. the rabbits are pretty plentiful and 1 have bagged my share. Bay, I Iike this hunting stuff more cvery day, he replied. “You're looking in great shape; guess you'll be hopping around that short posi- tion like & two-year-old next year?' we continued. “It's all doped out, going to be some fishing parties on the spring training trip next year,” replied Honus. Yep, it is great stuff trying to get Wi ner to talk base ball in the winter time, or any other time, Polish Merchants Are Organizing Ball Club John Badura, former ecity councilman | | of Bouth Omaha, 1s organizing the Polish | Merchants' Base Ball club and will enter | his team in one of the leagues of the | Omaha Amateur Base Ball assoclation next year. Badura has been an amateur follower for a number of years and will his connection with the old Duffys. The Polish team will hold a dance in the near future to ralse a few funds for starting the season. SYRACUSE TRIES TO PULL ALIBI FOR MONTANA WIN Syracuse has pulled the Jim' Alibi that the ‘rarified air' 'of Montans hindered its monoliths in busting up the Montans defense. The “unrarified” long runs of | Dries and Roberston also helped some. The ldea is growing that there are any- where from six to sixteen teams In the middle and far west capable of dousing Syracuse through the dew. 'COOMBS STILL WIZARD AT BAT AS WELL AS IN BOX Jack Coombs when with the Athletics was always regarded as & good hitting pitcher. Evidently he has lost nene of his cunning in that respect, for in twenty- | six games with Brookiyn last season he | Back in 1905, while our boys weré cleaning up in dear old Lunnon, McDon- agh participated in a twenty-two-mile marathon from Westminster, Md. = to Haltimore, establishing a cross-country record of 2:17, but technical diificulties évented the mark standing McDonagh 1uns everything from 200 rds to & marathon, plays foot ball, see. or, swims and jumps. He s 27 years oM, of Irish-German descent, and of & wiry | butia. hit for & mark of 7%, x ’ WHEN HOMER MEANT GLOOM Rube Oldring Laces Out Circuit Drive in World's Series, but it Brings Only Sadness. AND THERE WERE TWO ON, T0O There are a lot of heartaches among the ball tossers, some of which are when base hits have gone astray by phenome- nal catchea by opponents, for a base ball player loves his hits as he ought to love his wife and does love his pay check. There are times, though, when a player gets the hit and yet isn't happy, Report has it that Rube Oldring fis going to retire from the game. If Rube #ticks to that determination—and on one belleve that he will-he can look back on his career and easily locate the un- happlest hour of his life during the time that he wore a uniform. It was a sad day for Rube, and yet it was all brought about by his own home run hit, and that drive was made in a world's series game. Most players would look upon a home run hit in a world's series contest as the most momentous occasion in their lives. To Oldring hia four-bagger brought only a lot of gloom. It was in the fifth and what should have been the deciding game of the ‘world's series of 1911 that Oldring banged out his circuit drive. This hit should have clinched the series for the Athletics, The hit was made off Marquard. The game was played at the Polo grounds in New York. Oldring's home was then only a few miles from the Pola grounds, and there were a lot of his boyhood chums looking on, Two On at Time, In the third inning, with Lapp and Coombs on the bases, Oldring drove the ball into the left fleld bleachers, making the score 3 to 0. Late in the game Coombs incurred the injury which lald him up for many months, but he per- sisted in remaining on the rubber. In the seventh Inning New York scored a run, making the score 3 to 1. All during the game Oldring was delighted at the thought of that four-bagger and how hs would have fun all winter with his New York friends. Incidentally, Rube was dreaming of the offers he would get from vaudeville agents to go on the stage. Then came the ninth inning, and New York scored two runs and tied the count. That made Oldring’s homer fade considerably in im- portance, Glamour of Feat Lost. In the tenth inning, with Plank piteh- ing, the Giants landed another tally and won the game, 4 to 3. The injury to Coombs, the story that Larry Doyle had not actually touched the home plate in wcoring in the tenth inning and the sen- sational manner in which the Gilants had pulled the victory out of the fire took away nearly all the glamour from Oldring's feat. Instead of a home rum which would go down In base ball his- tory with Frank Baker's two feur-bag- gers In the same series, Rube's hit be- came a mere incident of the contest, There were no offers from vaudeville agents for Oldring to go on the stage. His name was not blazoneq across the pages of the newspapers as the hero of the final game of the series, and his plc- ture did not decorate the front pages, while no squad of agents asked him to sign pdpers indorsing cigarets, dyspepsia cures, chewing. gum, soft drinks, etc. When Rube trotted around the bases on that memorable hit he paw visions of fame and forturie. An holr or so later it had all slipped away llke a inirage. No wonder Oldring considers that the unhapplest hour of his life on the dia- mond. Jim Coffey Hooks * “ Typewriter on Jaw With the Old Left NEW YORK, Dec. o1 Frank Moran of quested by Jim Coffey. Yroving that the exertion of knocking out “Gunboat” Smith had not unnerved him in the least; Coffee had scarcely removed the band- ages from his fists when he proceeded to boldly tackle a typewriter. He evi- dently thought he was in the ring and that the typewrlere was an appointment instead of & friend in need. He swung with his left and hooked with his right and the typewriter has never recovered. The result was as follo belleve that 1 have convinced the ans' that 1 am & different man than when [ met Moran. I am anxious for & return match, and am prepared to offer the following inducements: 1 will guar- antee Moran §7,000 flat on his end, and I will fight on & percentage basis. I think that is a very fair offer. If Moran re- fuses to meet me I will go right along boxing all in sight in an effort to get & champlonship match with Willard." FAIRWEATHER WILL RUN FOR DES MOINES JOB ‘Tom Falrweather, secretary of the Des Moines base ball club and one of the most popular men connected with the business end of the Western league, has 1L—~The attention Pittsburgh 1s re- announced his intention of tor city commissioner of Des Moines. If Des Moines has enough base ball fans Is due to be elected.