Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 16, 1915, Page 7

J | 'BRINGING UP FATHER ROURKE REJOICES THAT WAR IS OVER Omaha Club Owmer Predicts that Halcyon Days of Old in Base Ball Will Return Again, ALL DEPENDS ON PLAYERS “That is certainly sweet music for the ear of the minor league owner,” declared Pa Rourke, owner of the Omaha West- ern league club, when the news that peace in baseball was assurred was broken to him. ‘“The haleyon days of old,” rejoiced Rourke “will return again. With two major leagues, no outlaws, no contract jumpers, everything happy and peaceful within Organized base ball, the fans will come back and the professional game resume its place as the national pastime in America. ‘“The base ball wer has unquestionably been the cause of the last two poor sea- #ons. It is the players which put the life into the fans. When the players exhibit ginger and pep on the diamond the fan comes to see the games, gets excited, takes an active iInterést and everything is rosy. “But during the last two years the players have played when they wanted to and loafsd when they wanted to and mostly they loafed. They fussed and fumed about salaries and most of the base ball business consisted of scrapping over finances instead of over pennants. When a club owner of- fered a player a contract he could reas- onably stand, the player laugher, de- manded more money, got it and then played indifferent base balul. Expects Better Year Here. “But it will be different now. The player will have to hustle. He'll play real ' ball or he'll lose his job. The result will be the game will once more have its attractions for the fans and will prosper. I expect the Western to have fifty per cemt better season next year now that peace has been declared.” Rourke opines that there will be some neat salary cutting in the majors be- fore the season opens in April. ‘““The big boys are tired of paying railroad president salaries to temperamental’ stars,”” said Pa. “and you won't hear many more yarns about $15,000 and $15,000 salaries from now on.” Athletes Wil} Be FPunished. That many of the players who bolted from Organized base ball and leaped to the Feds will not be allowed to re- enter the majors is Rourke's belief. He ventures the opinion that those who had big loep jobs before the Feds ap- peared will be forced back into the minors. “Of course the big stars who broke reserve clause contracts three years ago probably will get back,” he said. “The penalty for such offense is suspension for three years and the three years is up for several of them. They will not suffer. But some of the other fellows who broke: contracts which is a five-year offense will be penalized. Others who broke contracts and signed long-term high-calaried contracts with the Feds will be allowed to return to the majors Upon agreement to pass up their demand on the contract obligations. Of course all players in the Feds will re- vert to the Organized ball clubs which previously controlled their services. “All in all it is mighty pleasant news, and you'll find every minor league own- er tickled to death.” To Start Play in Tri-City Basket Ball League Soon The Tri-City Basket Ball league will start soon after the first of the year and the first game of the regular high school schedule will be with Counecll Bluffs High, January S, After two weeksof practice the coach has a line on his material, but has not picked a first squad. A hard practice of from an hour to an hour and a half each day and the squad is kept on the jump during this whole period. Fuzzy” MacFarland and John Crowley of the basket ball squad have challenged Coach Mulligan and Fred Spinning of the faculty for a hand ball game to decide the championship of the school The coach is just learning the game, but he ts will- i"% to take a chance. Operati(;n on Joe Tinker Successful CHICAGO, De¢. 15.—Joe Tinker, man- ager of the Chicago Federal league chame- plons, submitted to an operation today for stone in the kidney. Intermittently through the base ball season Tinker suffered intense internal pain and was repeatedly advised that an operation was necessary, The visit to the hospital was delayed because the manager was determined to direct his club’s fight for the pennant tecently it was believed that inflam- mation had set In and today the Incision was made by Dr. M. L. Harris, The re- port from the hospital was that Tinker was resting well after the operation. THE BEE: opyright, 1 OMAHA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 915, Internations we Service BOT- HERMAN. THINK OF THE CMILD! = o an By Tad Someon sald some years ago that one way to get along in the world was to keep your ears open and your moth shut? Ever hear of Heer Plaacke, the Holland champlon? Oh, yes, he met Kid McCoy in Philly about twelve years ago. awful hullabaloo over the big cheese, and the affair drew quite a crowd. This guy Plaake, you know, weighed as much as a dreadnought and was the Woolworth bullding of the hopes for size. He had McCoy worried by the stories of his fights, but the Kid sald nothing, but sawed wood, and on the night of the fight sawed more. He looked at the big #lob in the other corner and figured out how to lick him. They fought the first round, and al- though the Kid did belt the gigantic gorgongola hard and often he falled to drop him, and tired quite some from his efforts. . He came up for the second round still tired, but hopeful. Plaacke, who looked like nothing na Plaacke, who looked like nothing human, put up his dukes and faced the Kid. Mec- Coy suddenly dropped his hands, and pointing to Plaacke's corner, said: “‘Say, that second of yours wants to speak to you." The big boob turned, and as he did so McCoy unbuttoned a right that started from the Dutehman's chin. Half an hour later, when he woke up in the dressing room, Flaacke asked “Say, vot did dot feller vont me for? fiixili\llll'fli”fi'flu.\.um.m.” I Earful There was an i floor and ended against the LINCOLN MEN BUY | CLUB FROM JONES Stock Company .Formed to Take Over Western League Club at Once. STONE HEAD, HOLMES MANAGER LINCOLN, Deec. 15.—(Special Telegram.) ~A group of Lincoln business men to- night bought the Lincoln club of the Western league from Hugh L. Jones for $12,500. The deal has been pending for some months, pending a canvass of the business men to secure stock subscrip- tions. George Stone, formerly a member of the St. Louis Brown, will Iikely become head of the new organization. Articles of incorporation are to be filed tomorrow with the secretary of state, with the following incorporators: C. §. Sherman, Frank , Richards, Ed Young, ir., leo Soukup, John G. Burket and J. W. Holmes. Willlam (““Ducky”’) Holmes, manager of the Lincoln club five years ago, will again assume the management, and will begin at once to rebulld the club. An additional $2,600 stock subscription has been secured to provide funds for work- ing capital and to buy new players. ‘The temporary board of directors elected yesterday is George R. Stone, Johm G. Burket, Frank J. Richards, Ed Young, Jr., and Frank Eager. The annual meeting will February. be held in Feds Are Fined. Arthur Wilson, catcher of the Chicago d his guest, Grovor Hartley of . Louls Feds, were fined racing (n an automobile at Decat 0 for M LN Lear Wi Wed, Pitcher Lear of Cincinnati states that when the next season s over he wiil wed Miss Hinson of Alexandria, Tex Clitf Holds Job. | Clitton D. Blankenship will be manager of the Sait Lake club in 1i6. RE-ELECTED PRESIDENT OF THE OMAHA AUTO CLUB. 3. E.GEORGE ). B. George was r-elected president of the Omaha Auto club by the directors at noon. Other officers chosen were: Ran dall K. Brown, first vice president: (. L Gould, second vice president; Clark Pow ell, secretary: Gould Dietz, treasurer; P, A. Wells, counsel WILLARD AGREES 10 FIGHT FULTON Champion is to Get Thirty-Two Thousand Five Hundred Dollars, Win, Lose or Draw. NEW ORLEANS IS THE PLACE CHICAGO, Dec. 1b.—Articles ot vgreement binding Jess Willard, the world’s heavyweight champlon pugil- irt, to a match March 4 at New Or- leans with Fred Fulton of Rochester, Minn., for the world's champlonship, were signed here today. Under the articles of agreement Wil- lard is to recelve $32500 wi lose or draw, and Fulton is to get 500, with & provision that in lleu of the Jump sum he can elect to take 15 per cent of the profits if the receipts amount to more than 360,00 and 10 per cent of the mov- ing picture rights. The agreement makes the fight a twenty-round match, to be fought before the new West Side Athletic club of New Orleans. Thé agreement was signed by Tom Jories for Jess Willard, Mike Collins for Fulton and Thomas 8. Andrews of Mijl- waukee for the athletic club, The referee will be chosen later. Sex In Vaudeville. Jim Scott Buck Weaver of White Sox are in vaudeville, the game, SREAY HEAVENS WHAT HAY WE DONE? 2t il ———— ! NOTRE DAME WILL | PLAY NEBRASKA, Huskers and Indiana Catholic Foot Ball Teams Will Meet at Lin- coln Thanksgiving Day. CONTRACT FOR ONE YEAR ONLY LINCOLN, Neb., Dec. 16.—(Spe- cial Telegram.)—Notre Dame and Nebraska will meet agein in 1916 on the gridiron and for the first time in five years the Cornhuskers will); ylay a Thanksgiving day game. M oger Guy E. Reed announced this morning that he had entered into a contract with Coach Jesse Harper of OONT Dame Wit THAT LAY .you o0 - AND you tevrem SIVE wER SOME Com om 1. SOAR YE AgiN? L) G0YOTES T0 PLAY quintet and the Burgess-Nash Omaha in this city January 22 was closed 1915, 14 Drawn for The Bee by GewomrAgé'McManus WHAT o YOU NEAN = YOUVE SPoiep THE Besy SCENE 1N L — HERB IN JANUARY Burgess-Nash Basket Ball Team of Omaha Closes Contract for Game with South Dakota. OBIE MYER ELECTED CAPTAIN A contract for a game between the University of South Dakota basket ball team of yesterday. Negotiations between the locals and the Coyotes were started some time ago and the deal was Ponlum.lod' yeaterday. The ‘Coyotes are sald to have a orack- ing good floor quintet this year and the locals believe they will show Omaha fol- Notre Dame, which®*would bring the | lowers of the basketeering sport a good Catholics to Lincoln again next year on Turkey day. The Huskers were quick to grab the opportunity for a Thanksglving day battle, the most profitable financially of any of the season. Harper held out for a two-year con- tract, the 1917 game to be played in South Bend, but Reed said he did not care to bind Nebraska's new coach by any such arrangement and Harper readily con- sented to a yearly contract. The Notre Dame game last year was the most thrilling of the season and Reed counts himself fortunate in mecuring the atrong Catholic school for the Turkey day bill. Six other games, it was announced, have been arranged with the following teams: Drake university, Kansas Agricultural college, Towa State Agricultural college (Ames), Kansas university, Nebraska Wesleyan univeraity and lowa university, all to be played at Lincoln except the lowa game. The dates were not made | public. SCORES IN WEEKLY WHIST | MATCH AT PRAIRIE PARK At the Prairie Park Whist club's play Monday evening the most noticeable fea- tures were the marked improvement in teamwork of Abbott and Cowdry and the bad slump of Buck and Shawcross. Score follows EAST AND WEST WINNE Cook and McCann... ..plus 10 Abbott and Cowdrey plus § Bruce and Manning ‘plus 3 Barton and Reynolds ‘plus 1 LOSERS., * Penniston and Gallup. Haynes and Wood Eilster and Wilderma . NORTH AND SOUTH PLAYERS, WINNERS, Ellls and Martin . Dreyfuss and Reismann.. Conley and Lew L Langfellner and Raw Chambers and Stebbin: Nelson and Minor. Buck and Shawer minus minus. inus .minus 1 Ewing Raises Herrles. Cal Ewing owns a ranch in northern Callfornia near Shasta Spring . going in strong for strawberry culture. Forda Motor League. CROWN GAS H 3 5 untington 192 24 GARAGE DEPT. 1st. 3d. 2a.Tot. | Yousen® ...165 188 2 1st. 2d. 3d.Tot. X:I;“m ,:dfl 116 133 a7 e = Wells 14 88 113 36 ore ... 007 14 116 37 Tol %% | s 125 128 158 415 | Hageman .14} i 113 400 i T g 2w | Rundlott /11133 111 179 42| .. . 1st. 2d. 34. Tot. | Hamilton .18 14 172 49| Totals.....465 374 342 1 152 156 46 | Brodahl .....103 163 113 719 Bocster Leagne. Ke! 5 523 | Handicap ... 5 53 189 LEISEYS S | Foe | lst. 2 Goff | Totals ... 714 6§ 749 2190 | Bartholmew.1h Wartchow ACCOUNTING DEPT. | F. Jarosh... 178 23 167 8 Ist. 2d. 3d.Tot. | Maurer 1id 178 188 618| Totals : Davidson 126 118 138 382 | Conrad 208 1s2 191 )| MIDLAND > Kobba ul 19 17 42 Frit ™ 183 162 Gig| NDAND O ! ] Shafer 172 171 48| Handicap 6 6 6 18 Wolfe W 123 1m | iorenn Swoboda ...167 104 218 Totals .86 550 | | eyl COREY & M'KENZIE Totals ...647 1st. 2d. 3d.Tot. | STOCK DEPT. Doherty 16 189 165 52 H Iat. 2d. 30.Tot, | A. Bowers...168 Shaw 149 13¢ 137 412 | Bland 1 Totals Foster 153 97 157 407 | Zimmerman 1% Carter Brown 90 147 151 388 | Zarm ... 168 2 648 Dukes 135 161 11 467 5 = Reere 10 161 160 463 Totals .86 9 : | CLARA BE Totals .18 18 Carpenter | SALES D) Cain 1 Jotes | Tat. 2. 1d.Tot. | Martin"1: 181 Bogers . Hutching ...181 100 14 e g4 ke mith B 118 17 J. Jarosh....193 Dimmick Hart 143 13 Neale 1 Totals | rped e Totals .. 877 BOWL 3 i POWELL 8UP Totals | L Standard O L . PERFECTIONS | Loiiatram 1t 2d. 3d.Tot Loyering Bressman ...1% 100 1% 30| T : Johanson .10 w4 143 377| Handlcap otals:, .. $ Haarman .. 209 120 171 560 et — CLUB - : otals . ..878 Totals..... .48 315 438 1237 PALOA :}‘:‘“n nd ICA 8t. 2d. 3d. T vy ey iat Amaden 178 180 1 | Ysitner Baum 13 Stoemer .15 14 R R Johnson ... 14 Holiday 15 | Faapnss " Kline 169 Kent 1m Totals o e 94 Schoenman 17 » ; it Totals......448 % Handicap i o POLARINES — — Hie s 15 ¢ ist. 24, 30.Tor.| Totals.... T8 840 w49 Hackaer 13 14 Alleman .....128 18 14 41;| OMAHA V. & STORAG B 5 jchenk ..., 13 13 150 4.4 st 18 14 2% short . 181 13 164 47 | Ham'strom 213 19 137 2 - - Lyons 164 p Totals..... 46 %6 467 137 | Howell 153 218 l W1 6 1 here on the above of January ary. | Charley Peters is (‘B dence PLAYERS, S, A either Martenson or Kuvaros, and s | some of the best of them, alwa exhibition, The Burgess-Nash tem of Omaha has now closed contracts for four big games Thanksgiving foot ball was abollshed | 1 Omaha with outside teams. They are among Missourl Valley conference | he All-Stars, whoe will pl at the schools five yeurs ago, but re-estab-| young Men's Christian association Tues- lished last season carly to permit Kan-| guy next; the University of 4Nebraska, shs and Missouri to play a Turkey day [ which will play here January 2, the University of South Dakota, which plays date, and Nebraska which play here the middie or the first week in Febru- This is a pretty tasty schedule of Lig games for Omaha, Oble Myeh, star forward on the Bur- svss-Nash team, was elected captain of the squad at an election held Tues- day evening. Oble ig one of the best basket shooters in Omaha and it is upon his ability to flip the goals that the Burgess-Nash team largely depends for victories. Oble is a blg, rangy chap, plays & fast game on the floor and shoots accurately from all purts of the floor ahd from all ungles ; Wesyleyan, Willing to Tackle Martenson or Greek Charley Peters, the Papillion grappler, ventures the opinlon that Joe Stecher i not the only Nebraska wrestler who can dump one Paul Martenson of Chicago, the man who wrestled Stecher for the fourth time at Sioux City the other night. Peters has deposited the sum of $100 with the sport'ng editor of The Bee as e of good faith, and he challenges the Greek, ack at Stecher, Kuvaros was matched to wreatle Stecher at 8t Joseph last week, but Stecher had the grip and called the match off. The $100 posted with The Bee is a for- telt for a side bet of from 3100 to 3600 with either one of the wrestlers men- tioned above, Mr, Peters says he prefers to wrestle In Omaha' Peters started wrestling here several years ago and beat all ers In the preliminaries when matches were staged at the Auditorium with Gotch and Beell and Burng and other as the principals. who wants & Since that time he has been in other parts of the country and has wrestled siving a good account of himself. lHe wrestled a half-hour draw with KErnst severa) months ago. Peters the man who posted $10 & short time ago for a match with Strangler Lewls, but the Strangler did not mee fit to take him on. Dewitt Defeats Weston, BEATRICE, Neb., Dec. 15.~(Special. )= The DeWitt basket ball team won a close and exciting game Tuceday evening »m Western. by the e of 17 to 13 e — e | i THE BEER YOU LIKE is all good, as good as the best, none better. Save cou- pons and get free premium. Send for catalog. 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