Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 26, 1915, Page 33

S Santa Claus Sure Was Pretty Good to O. B. B. This Season' HOLLAND REMAINS WITH THE WESTERN Joseph l(;nnte and Frank Isbell Try to Buy K. C. Club, but Dea] Falls Through. ALL UMPIRES ARE GIVEN GATE Jack Holland will not leave the West ern league to take up the business man- agement of the Kan:a American assoclation, as was at 8t Joseph a week ago has decide 3 ty an Hol'and to stick to his &t. Joseph interests, And with the announcement that 11 lland will remain at St. Joseph comes un intereat- ing yarn. Holland and Frank Isbell of the Des Moines club had fixed up a plan to buy the Kansas City franchise from Georg Tebeau. It was figured that Tebeau would willingly sell because George is not as popular as he might be among the Kay See fans and fanettes. Burnes of St. Joseph, said to be quite wealthy, was interested and a number of other St. Joseph capitalists signed up to take stock. Also Holland and Isbell began plans to | SOME relieve themselves of their holdings in the Western league. But the deal flunked two ways. Tebeau wouldn't sell at the price Holland anl 1sbell thought his franchise was worth Also Holland and Isbell couldn’t find anybody who wanted to slak any con in the Western, especlally at St. Jo. and Des Moines. Thus it is Holland will | remalin at 8t. Joseph. All Umps Are Fired. One of the complaints made against the adminlstration of Tipperary Tip O'Neill was the brand of umpires Tip | persisted in wishing on the suffering Western league fans Now Mr, O'Neii comes forth and fires all the umpires | who were with the loop at the close of | the year. It will be up to the new presi- | dent, Frank Zehrung, to select the vhaps who will work next year in this circuit and may he have better luck, or better judgment, than did his predecessor. Mr Zehrung, however, will probably have pretty nearly as tough a job with his umpires as did Prexie Tip. Zehrung, being new to the game, will very prob- ably ask the advice of varlous cluy owners when making choices and one or two of the id club owners are likely to take advantage of the new man if| they can. At that, Zehrung can't do much worse than O'Nelll did along this line. Drummers Sign Athlete. 8t. Joseph has signed a new first base- man. He answers to the name of Claude Jourdon and hails from the North Caro- | lina league. Denny Sullivan, J-ctown's new manager, dug up the youth and says he will be a find. Jourdon hit .367 which is some average In any old league, and fielded .97 in the southland loop last year. Jourdon is now playing in the Winter league at New Orleans. Denny Sullivan is also battling in the winter ioop. Two After Topeka Job. Two names are receiving frequent mention fér the managerial position at Topeka which was left vacant by the Jump.of James Jackson, firebrand, from Kawtown to Wichita. Lee Tannehill, with Omaha last year, and Tom Downey are the two. Both Tannehlll and Downey are veteran ball players and both cap- able of playing pretty good class A ball despite their years. Both are foxy play- ers, know the inside game from A to Tzard and probably would prove very capable magnates. Jimmy Viox Makes Monkey Out of Flip Cuban Outfielder Hans Wagner has a fine sense of humor and can tell a good story when he opens up. He tells this one of an incident in an exhibition game which the Pirates played | with' the Cuban ball team at Long Branch, N ¥ “The Cuban player in left fleld was fresh in the way he talked to some of us, and he made Viox particularly sore. The time came in the game when Viox had a chance to show him up, and he did. Jimtay hit a long home run in the bushes in left field, and this Cuban was so busy trying to find the ball he couldn't see what was going on. ‘lox went around the bases once and then while this Cuban was still scratch- ing in the weeds Jimmy started on around the second time. The Cuban came up out of the bushes just about the time Jimmy got past second base on his second time around. He threw the ball on a line to home plate and then tore madly in toward the diamond. The Cuban catcher was in cn ‘the joke and he took the ball and rinned it on Jimmy ten feet from the 1 late. “Then the umpire helped out by calling | Jimmy safe, The way that Cuban left fielder did rant and explode Spanish cuss words at us blg leaguers and the umpire for the rest of the game was funny, for N0 one put him wise anw just let him go | on making a fool of himself.” Mike Donovan One Pug Who Knew When to Quit the Gamei To know when to quit when quitting is 800d s a species of wisdom vouchsafed to few fighting men. One of the most il- lustrious of the champlons to retire from the ring undefeated was Mike Donovan— good old “professor Mike,” the grand old man of the squared circle. The “professor held the middleweight title from 1874 to 1852, when he voluntarily resigned his honors and be :: me boxing in structor of the New York Athletic club, a job he held untll he was pensioned last | year, Dempsey's defeat at the hands of the | old-timer—for Donovan really had the shade, although it was called a draw— was perhaps the bitterest pill the Irish battler ever had to swallow, Donovan was the only migdleweight champlon in the annals of pugiism to retire undefeated, with the exception of Jack Randall, the original “Nonpareil who fought nearly & century ago and was never licked. Bob Fitssimmons went into the heavyweight class and fought once too often Jimmy Barry, the old bantam cham. plon, went through his eareer without taking & beating. A “For Eale” ad will turn second-hand furniture into cash. L. C.| Down-and-Out | pulled orf. Charley Peters Is Willing to Tackle defeated Gus Kuvaros last Tuesday night in jig time, announces that he i# willing o enter the ring with any wrestler who has wrestled Joe Stecher or wants to wrestle Stecher. Peters' manager de clares that Peters does not claim to be able to that Bteche r, and even admits Stecher's superfority, but he asserts that Peters can defeat anybody « defeat anybody Stecher has th date and offers to place his money way. Strangler Lewls, Hussane and all the rest are invited to Wn up to that Aberg eak up. 'BOWLERS KEEP ON THROUGH HOLIDAYS Tourneys, Doubles and Merry-Go-Rounds Fill the Time. LIVEI;7 COMPETITION The boliday rush didn't stop the bowlers the local runways. Down and out tour . Anyand All of "Em | Charley Paters, the Papillion 18a%who Every Squad Eantered in Big Pull at Mixed | which T0G-0-WAR TEAMS Auditorium Next Month Will Start Work Monday Night. FIREMEN REPRESENT AMERICA All elght teams entered In the Interna tional Tug-of-War which will be staged CAN at the Omaha Auditorium January 8 to | will start active practice for Several ot the 9, inclusive, the event teams hav | tices Monday night been holding informal prac- already, but starting tomorrow {night each one of the e'ght teams will practice every night until the opening. The stage of the Auditorium has been ‘H(l‘(l up by Jack Prince, who Is pro- | moting the big pull, and an impromptu platform crected chors and me the pulling ladder, all of the pattern as the regular equipment will be used in the champlonship |metches have been installed so that the and much activity was displayed around | bY str men can get all the good possible out of the practices Firemen Represent Amerien. s been definitely decided that the It Omaha firemen shall represent America in the tug. The firemen are captained Frank Greenman and have a team | that has been pulling together for months naments, mixed doubles, merry-go-rounds | The fire laddies have been practicing and prize comtests featured the week's |Steadily ever since they organized the play team some time ago to pull the policemen On the Farnam Alleys, the largest |and they are already in first class shape. merry-go-round tournament ever staged | The knights of the nozzle, the Swedes in the city came to an end with $13.50 | A1d the Dunes are the favorites among In the pot. Seme lively competition was | the tug fans around town, although indulged in and scores were high. Scipie | Prince declares some of the other fellows and Shields won first money with 1284, |#re I'kely to upset the dope. The other Yousem and Rosenberg second with 1281; | &Nt during a practice the six men who Sciple and Shields third with 1270; ana | W/l pull on the Swede team pulled ten 126 The Huntington Alley merry-go-round drew a good patronage. Haurer and Con- rad won first place with 1282, Maurer and Huntington second with 1248, J. Jarosh and Wartchow thira with 1236, J. Jarosh and Wartchow fourth with 122 In the B class Huntington merry-go- round L. Norgaard and Kieney were first with 1106. Stine and Pfeiffer second with 109, L. Norgaard and Kieney third with 1089, L. Norgaard and E. Norgaard fourth with 1074, Prize Contest Held. On the Morrison alleys Joe Berger's Christmas prize contest developed Into a series of lively contests. Zach Chambers’ 5 total drew first prize, Jedlicka was second with 700, Wiley third with 696, Mtz fourth with 68 and Hayes fifth with The women's turkey shoot on the Hunt- ington alleys was won by Miss Sophia Rauber with a total, including a 243 single game, The Metropolitan Christmas tree tourna- ment was a huge success. Santa Claus McCabe passed out prizes to Carl Younger and Art Falconer, who hung up high scores, Merry.Go-Round. On the Brunswick alleys a holiday merry-go-round is in progress. Fitzgerald and Frikcher are high with 1,230. The pot has already assumed large proportions. It lasts until January 2. Other special holiday events will be staged during the remaining holiffay sea- son. Dad Huntington will stage a big open house event New Year's eve. Special events will be rolled by both the men and women and several special prizes will be put up, To make it good Dad has hired a five-plece orchestra to sweeten the occasion. Bowling Notes. That Luxus-Metz match night was one of the best played season, tals and the games were close. The Metz won the first by seven pins. The Luxus won the second with a two-pin lead and | the third by six pins. The Omaha league race continues to | be a good one. Four teams are bunched for the lead. The Wroth's Cafe and Storz are tied for first and the Metz and Luxus are just one game behind. Ted Neale registered ‘an_even 200 game without a double in the Booster league, Tuesday night. This is a feat not often Herb Garlow is handing out a dollar drives each day. To show their appreciation for the treatment accorded them the Women's league presented Dad Huntington with a handsome cut glassly vase. Of course, Mrs. Huntington has claimed it. Dad is sure getting popular in his old age. The Standard Ofl league has discon- tinued activities. They were a live bunch, but lacked organization and leadership. The night rolling hour also was not as popular as the matinee hour they rolled in the last four years, Just as Beau Brummel Hageman was becoming a good bowler the Standard Oil league quit busine: He will prob- ably join the Gasleague, Dad Huntington i3 waxing the floor of his_establishment. _When that orchestra he hired for New Year's eve gets started the ~whole bunch, following the usual custom, will start gliding around. Another Union Pacific league has been oreanized and will roll on Tuesday | nights on the Metropolitan alleys, re. placing the Standard Ofl league. | Omaha Uni Books | Four Floor Games Four games have already been signed up by the University of Omaha for the 1916 foot ball season. They are Cotner at Bethany, October 13, York at Omaha, October . Doane at Crete, November 3 Peru at Peru. November 17 In addition to these dates the Univer- sity of Omaha will again meet Tarkio college at Tarkio, Mo., and Grand Island college at Omaba. Two-year contracts are In order with these schools, but as yet no dates have been agreed upon for the games. Negotlations are pending with Nebraska Central college for the Turkey day game, while it is probable that the other remaining date will be filled with one of the local colleges, Joe Wachtler Signs Up with 7t_he Luxus Joe Wachtler, two years ago first base- man on the championship Vinton Street Merchant ning and last year with the Chris Lyck team, is the latest acquisition to the Luxus team, champions of Omaha last year. Wachtler will be used util- ity man by Manager Johnny Dennison. Wachtler will be called upon to relieve Dennison, who will play first himself, or substitute in the infielg or outfield. He will also be used behind the bat. Wacht- ler 1s & valuable man because he ean play most any position and he is also a relable hitter. in » Conch. veteran catcher. has me- mg M N° a3 ‘osch of the versity base ball team. o rtaay | ally looks as If he had just stepped out of Only one pin separated the to-| cash prize to the high score rolled on his | | | | | artholemew and Schoeman fourth with | Of their fellow countrymen who volun- teered to give them a little work out. Four Pulls Each Night, Four pulls will be held each of the seven nights of the blg pull. During the week each one of the elght teams will contest with every other team. The team winning the greatest number of pulls will be declared the champ'ons and will receive first money. In addition a silver cup,, denoting the tug-of-war champion- ship of the world, will be awarded the winners. This cup they will be obliged to defend against all challengers. It fs Prince’s plan to have the champlonship Scotch team of Chicago and several other outside tug-of-war squads come to Omaha for matches with the winners of | the tournament here, reen to Furnich Musle, George Green's band has been engaged to supply the music during the event. Green reports that his musicians have learned all the national airs by heart and will be Johnny-on-the-job, Prince reports that everything will be in read'ness for the grand opening Jafu- ary 3 and there will be no delay or hitch in the program. The teams entereq and their captalns are: America—Frank Greenman, Sweden—Kenneth Luridquist. Denmark—Emil Toldbod. Italy—J. M, Calbria. Bohemia—Frank Riha. Ireland—Phil Lynch. En, 5. Da. Germany—Not ehosen. Scribe Calls Dauss Beau Brummel, and Makes George Sore George Dauss of the Detrolt Tigers has A reputation as a swell dresser. Dauss blossoms out in the latest modes and usu- a bandbox., \ Another feature about Daugs is he likes to sleep late Into the morning. Hence when Dauss was with the St. Paul club some years ago he balked about the 8 o'clock rising rule laid down by Manager Mike Kelley. There waas no escape, however, so Dauss had to comply. But it jarred his spirits considerably. One trip around the circuit was en- livened by the presence of a certain St. Paul base ball writer. This youth, in search of material, would send in feature storfes about the habits and sayings of the various Saints. He wrote a long ar- ticle about Dauss and referred to him as the “Beau Brummel” of the team. A copy of the paper fell into Dauss' hands. He came to the words “Beau Brummel” and paused. Glancing up he spled Josh Clarke In the distance. “Hey, Josh, what does this mean, ‘Beau Brummel? " Clarke grinned. *“Why, kid, that is as much as to say you're a lazy guy. Tt took the seribe twenty minutes to square himself with Dauss. Tyrus R. Cobb May Be Seen in Action On Local Ball Lot Sam Crawford and the vociferous Hugh Jennings in action at Rourke park next spring. Pa Rourke will start negotiations with Frank Navin next week to see if he can not get the Detroit Tigers scheduled for a couple of exhibition games here be fore the season opens. The Tigers are coming as far north as Kansas City and Rourke may be able to induce Navin to bring his squad up here, Rourke has already suggested the move to Naviu and the Detroit head told him to remind him of it again after the major league meeling: HOCKEY GAME STILL GOES GOOD IN CANADA MONTREAL, Que, Dec. 25.—It will probably be somewhat of a revelation to people in the United States to learn that professional hockey is taken so seriously in even these war times in Canada that the Canadian Athletic club of Montreal demanded $20,000 for its hockey fran- ch'se in the National Hockey assocla: tion of Canada, which contains six clubs. TALK OF ANOTHER OUTLAW LOOP IS ALREADY STARTED Baltimore Federal league backers are up in arms. Twice robber by base ball of the big league brand of the game they are seeking revenge, and one of their threats is to play the Jim Gil- more game and promote a new inde- pendent league to compete with the strengihened American and Natlonal o ganizations. START PRACTICE A pulling rope and an- | Omaha base ball fans may have an opportunity of seeing the great Tyrus Raymond Cobb and the heavy-slugging | | | | | = OMALTA, SPORTS SECTION THE OMAH SUNDAY BE MORNING, DECEMB of ER 96, 1015, AMATEUR FOOT BALL CHAMPIONS OF OMAHA - The Nonpareils entered the sandlot gridiron field this year under the leadership of Phil Lynch and easily walked away with the city championship and held the fast Wisner team, state champions, to a 7-t0.0 score. GREIGHTON GRID MEN GET LETTER Nineteen Foot Ball Warriors of Omaha School Avurdog Sweat- ers Christmas Morning. BLUE WITH WHITE LETTERS Nineteen Creighton students were made happy upon finding in their Christ- mas stockings a heavy blue sweater, with the much coveted letter “C" fn white felt on the breast. The sweaters were the reward for services on the gridiron, be- ing presented to the nineteen lettor men by the athletic board. They are of the V-neck type, of heavy dark blue woo a white felt C adorning the breast The nineteen players to receive 'varsity | sweaters and emblems are Captain “Jack” Shannon, Captain-elect “Dutch’ | | Platz, Shorty Warren, Bill Brennan, Si Kamanski, Harvey Stapleton, Barl Wise, Charley Nigro, Roy Gray, Mary Flana gan, Carl Lutes, Patsy Flood, Cunning- ham Wilson, Russell Burford, Doty, Hale, Morgan, Stuart and Hanecy Peggy Barth Pulls | Joke on Shuster, but 'INDOOR GOLF COURSE HERE | Phil Clark, P;ofulionll at Field | Club, Will Open Indoor Links { in Omaha Next Month. | WILL HOLD WATCH CONTESTS Field club, will open an indoor golt courge at Fifteenth and Dodge a week from Monday. Omaha golf bugs who have been be- moaning the fact that they ecan't play all the year round have been clamoring for an indoor course ever since the idea was evolved and Clark has decided to glve them one. He will maintain the indoor affair for three months until the outdoor season opens once more, Three mnets for driving ‘and the like and & nipe or elghteen-hole putting | course will be Jnstalled. The Indoor golf game is said by ex- pert golfers to be a big ald in keeping up one's form during the winter months. | it also is sald to be almost as enjoy- | able and entertalning as the outdoor | game- except that the player does not | get the exercise or the fresh air. Clark and his assistant at the Field Stanley Davies, will give Instruc- tions and both say the Indoor method Is & good way to learn how to play golf and is also more pleasant, as the duf- | fer does not have to chase a siiced ball Into & creek or down a rallroad track, It Doesn't Work Out‘ The death of Peggy Barth, the young | Brooklyn recruit, while playing winter | ball in the Imperial Valley, has recalled | a prank Peggy pulled off once upon a time that turned out/ differently from | what he and his fellow players had ex- pected. It was while Peggy was with the Pasadena club of the Southern Cali- fornia league, in which he made his start, and Jack Shuster was the team angel and manager. This is the way the story | is told by Henry Chandler, who was an | umpire in the league: “Things had been breaking badly for Shuster and judging from the attendance the natives were unaware of the fact that thelr city wus represented by a ball club, The players were rebellious, too, for Shuster could, without a doubt, collect more of their dough without provocation | { than any manager I ever met, and I have known some who were strong on inflict ing fines for this, that the other thing. “The team was finishing a home stay and ufter the last game of the series all | were in the club house gathering odds | | and ends. Enter Shuster: ‘Pile all those | | uniforms in the corner, boys. W | at Long Beach tomorrow and I w | fellows to show in style down the | have them laundered ana time for the game.’ | “With that Shuster took his ¢ from the club house. As tne players be- | gan plling up thelr uniforms, Peggy | Barth, who always was pulling off some thing, said ‘Let’s run up a laundry bill }nn Shuster that will even up a little on those fines, and he started the idea by | throwing shirt, socks, suit of underwear | ete., into the pile of uniforms, The other players caught the idea and every bit of wearing apparel was piled in with the uniforms, and then the whole lot of Stuff so arranged that Shuster would not get wise if he should make an Inspection. | The players left the club house speculat- | ing on what the manager would say wWhen he got the laundry bill. ““Fhat night Shuster decided to make his exit, and he made & good one, leaving Pasadena nothing but a franchise and a bunch of unpaid, hungry ball players. He took the uniforms, too, and with them went all that had been piled In to run up a fancy laundry bill, while a dozen ball players left behind were not only broke, but without even as much as a | chauge of socks. and open it you i shed down In | arture | | | spare | the various clubs and the like, | fessional at a Sloux City club, will put in an indoor course in Sloux City, He will open on New Years day. Clark and Shearman have just returned from Chicago, where they went to get Ideas for the Innovation, | His driving isn't so spectacular as might It is Clark's plan to hold some in- door match games and tournaments to create an interest In the game among the big golfing fraternity in Omaha. He plans some matches between players of | Mike Shearman, formerly an assistant of Clark’s at the Field club and now pro- Bill Clark, professional at the Omaha | Hascall HAVING DULL TIME Holiday Season Responsible for the Postponement of League Open- ings Until January 4. The holiday season has put a damper on local basket ball for the time being. Though all the leagues are in a position to begin hostilities at any time, it was thought best to delay the official open- ing until the close of the holida; Man- agers plan to take advantake of he lull by whipping helr quintets Into condition for the officlal opeling scheduled to take Jlace January 4 Basket ball fans will be given the op- portunity of witnessing & mumber of blg kames here outside of the league con- it the plans of Jake Isaacson, manager of the Brandels quintet, mater- lalize. Isaacson Is in touch with the Illinols Atkiletic club, Ames university, Indians and Red Wing, Minn. Several other big eastern teams will be Induced to drop off here to meet the champlons. Independent teams not affillated with the Young Men's Christian association are finding It a hard proposition to or- ganize Into a league. Five of these in- dependent organizations are trylng to get together, but so far have been un- able to sccure a gymnasium on which to stage their contests, The five teams are: Athietics, McKenney Dentists, Thor- pelans, Monmouth Parks and the lLa Plasoma's. An attempt to secure the Auditorfum one night each week fell through. Lommercial Loop E The Commercial league, which has been Increased from a five to a elght league 100p, promises to hold the center of at- traction in class B circles, With the ex- Eddie Mahan Falls ™ | for Olerolf Game‘ Eddle Manan, tne Harvard foot ball captain, has forsaken (he gridiron for the midiron. He's just the other top caliber athletes iIn ouble crossing the ines the most and | es not yet play a set of clubs, but sport in which he tackling golf. Mahar superb game with his he's coming along, and the tender nursing | process arranged by his golfing friends at Harvard is beginning to show results. Mahan declares it Is much easier for hirh to find & hole line of & foot ball team than to find the hole in the putting green. That is one of the rea- sons why his score card at the end of every elghteen holes makes those 41 points that Harvard scored against Yale look insignificant, It Mahan wanted to he could make elghteen holes in 200 without deviating from his present normal form, n be expected from Mahan, for most of his punts in the season Just past went as far as the majority of his golf drives, Leo Klein is Home ‘ for the Holidays Leo Klein, the Otxiha boy, who sub- stituted on the Illinois eleven for the sensational Harold FPogue when that youth was injured, in Omaha for the holidays. Klein sustained severe in- Juries to his arm and shoulder toward the latter part of the season and fears he will be unable to play base ball in the spring. Kleln is one of the best ama- teur pitchers in Omaha and eGorge Huff, the Illinols coach, expected great things of him until he was hurt playing foot bell | Yuletide holidays. (Wise at the Coucil Bluffs Young eMn's Christian assoclation. ception of three school teams, all the players will be bona fide employes of the quintet they represent. The Comercial tossers appear more evenly matched than any of the other leagues and as a result the closest played games are looked for. Teams comprising this mont Cromery company, Omaha Na- tional Bank, Creighton Law, Omaha High school Reserves, Joe Smiths of Councll Bluffs, Townsend Recerves, M. E, Smiths and Commercial High school, Basket Ball Notes. Glen Willlams, secretary of the Church league, s sojourn.ng In Lincoln for the Paul Ohman of the Walter G, Clark temn jolned forces with the Nebraska Natlonal on their trip to the coast, Ub- man replaced Dick Ruhterford, who foun.d it impussivle to accompany the champ. The Townsend Reserves will meet Ar- lington high on December 2§ and Louls- ville on December 3l. Curt Peterson, formerly with the Omaha National bank five is now with the M. E. Smiths Coach Drummond has been utilizing the Young Men's Christian assoclatio. floor during the holidays in rounding his Commercial High tesm in form. B. A. Gantz, manager of the Clarks, can be reached at D, 136, Who will take the franchise left open by Creighton collese 15 sUll & matter of onjecture to the members of the Tri- City league. ites, Creighton fullback is mow Is now adorning a Townsend suit, The Joe Smiths of Council Bluffs, ene of the pew members in the Commercial league, can be reached by calling Robert For & eall R, me with the Kountze Memorials Kronstedt at Harney 5§78, Quinn Gets Job Again, The stockholders of the Columbus Amer- ican assoclation chib re-slecied B M. Schoenborn president and Bobby Quinn secretary and treasure Central Meet Called, loop are: Fair- | GRID GAME PAYS | AT NEBRASKA UNI Nearly Fourteen Thousand Dollars’ Clear Profit is Made During Season Just Passed. BIGGEST IN HISTORY Dec. 25.—(Special.)—Ne- catest foot ball season brought In the unrivalled totat receipts of $%.- 0794, With a net surplus of $13,001.43, ne- | cording to the report of Athletic Manager | Guy . Reed, made public today, for the | 1915 games | Breaking an records for football re- | eeipts at the Cornhusker Institution, an- i " new record was hung up In Mis- Bourl valley foot ball when Nebraska and Kansns played before a crowd at Lawrence last fall whioh swelled the cof- fers of the two Institutions $17,767, This 8 the largest erowd which ever saw two Missourl valley conference elevens | play eince the presidents of the confer- | #nce members adopted the rule some | Years ago requiring the games to ba | played ‘on the “home grounds” of th |colleges. When Jayhawker and Tigerw played at Kansas City years ago on Tur-' key day, the game netted larger receipts. | Bven Need Surprised. Even Manager Reed was surprised with. the big surplus Nebraska had on hand after all expensca had been deducted. Reed had confidently expected to clear | from 85,000 to $10,000 on the season, but | had not dared to hope for nearly $14,000, KKansas and Notre Dame werw the big |drawing cards on the Husker schedule Inst season. Kansas topped the lst with receipts of $17.767, the Cornhusker share amounting to $8,441. Notre Dame drew an 311768255 crowd to Nebraska fleld and more money could have been taken in had there been available seats. With Drake as the first opponent of | the season, the Husker finances made tremendous gain over last year right at the start, §1,011 belng realized. The Ames. game did better than last year and Towa: alno brought more money Into the coffers. of the Cornhuskers, Some Heavy Expenses. The biggest item of expenss was the" guarantee to visiting teams, $10,00.08 go-* | Ing this way. Tranaportation of the foot ball squad cost $216.02 and coaching ate’ {Up $2250. Equipment put the manage- ment to an expense of §1,10.3, and offil clals cost $1,066.85. The other items of' expense were smaller, Reed's complete and official financial” Teport on the foot ball seasom of 1915 18 LINCOLN, braska's follows: ason tickete 8 par . n tiokel 5 | rake game 0 pa b1y 4 Kansas Aggie Washburn game . Notre Dame game. e]"‘l‘ll Aggles .. esleyan university game. Kansas game oo, Towa game Total & XPENDITURES. Guarantees to visiting Transportation football ll’l Coaching Equipment Man: Ing Officlaly Scouting .. Advertising E;lnnlnx ! roan el 14 Tiend ““D D of Athletic e RS 1,011.00 27, 11,768, 3 8441 6.947. Proscia $35,007.94 mms 2,25, Total Balance In addition i the Feceipta from soasan tickets devoted to football, has 40 por cent of the total sal ol $1.910.40 on hand to meet the expenses of the remaining branches of sports at the university. He also had a balance of SLEILIS to begin the season on Bepe tember 1, 1916, Balld Cement Sta: 2 The unexpected blg balance will ene able Reed to carry out more of his plans than he anticipated. Reed fs plan- ning to use as much of the money as ©an be spared to construct permsnent cement stands. He thought at first he would only have enough funds for ons section of the grand stand, but may be able to complete the éntire stand during the spring and summer, The committes Investigating the coachs ship situation 1s still far from a re« port as when it first started its labors, the members say. Dr. R. G. Clapp, the Socretary of the athletic board, was commissioned by President Barber to at« tend the meeting of American colleges in New York city the last of Decems . ber, and will conduct investigations there. Untll Clapp returns from New York city with his report of available coaches, it s almost certaln mo action will be taken. The list of candidates continues to &row, and two applications came in this week, which are attracting considerable attention from the committee. _x Cyolist is Said to Be Worth Over ' Hundred Thousand Frank L. Kramer, the world's chame plon cyclist, has passed his thirtygifth | milestone. Kramer has spent most of his | ime stradding a pair of wheels for the last elghteen years, and, although he fs now threatening to quit the game, he s almost asigood as he ever was. The fa« big feed in his honor. - In many ways Kramer stands out as one of the greatest of living athletes. In every other domain champions have come and gone and been forgotten, but Frank seemingly goes om forever. Y Cycling Is one of the most weartag of sports, and few men last more than five or six years at it. Kramer entered the game when he was only 17, and he was amateur champion of America for twe Years before he turned professional. Hiy first year he was runner-up for the title, and ever since he has grabbed it tn spite of the stiffest opposition. He has made four trips to Europe, and on two occas sions he wag presented by the president of France with & medal emblematic of the world's cyclée champlonship. Yash year Kramer won every race in which he engaged oun the other side of the pond, and in 1913 he captured the weorld's cycling title at the Velodrome & Hived in Paris. Kramer lives a simple, but he isn't & faddist, smokes occasionally, but training. “Know th; for he declares that different system clee, te. President Mel Justice of the Central soclstion has called the annual meet! of his club owners for Jaunuary 12, | this bike uw