Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 26, 1915, Page 34

THE 1915, 26, OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: Copyright, 1915, International . News Service. HISTORY OF THE CASE TO SHOW HIS APPRECIATION ARTHUR CHAUEFEUR YOU MAY DRIVE FIRST " KEEPER HOWS SHE DOING 7+ CUBS ANNOUNCED Team Wil] Leave Chicago March 10 and Start Practice Three Days Later at Tampa. WEEGHMAN DEAL MAY FAIL — - CHICAGO, Dec. %.—~The spring train- team will leave here March 10 and three days later will begin On the 0th they games will be plav- it ; 2, Cleveland at Orleans; 4, Mon- . Ark; 67, Tattle Memphis; 1011, Louls- ts Taft's Return, recelpt of a telegram today, Charles he might wait until Mr. before meet~ for the pur- wasn't a chance | deal to tall through. of friends, 1s on Texas. sald today he did | suit | - Organized Base 2 5 : i : : I i2 ] i leagus e Ball, which was | before Judge Landls last win- withdrawn within a week i ! ! 1 | A H y side-stepped a . |{One of them has ever seen a real golf lothers are skinned and sande | broken-down WISH ‘TO PURCHASE A MILLION TO TirranyS SPARKLE FOUNDRY LAUNDERED A 53 v!mmR.T'NDRWEMAlu LLARS WORTH 10’ BRIGHT ROCKS. THEN TO THE SETTLEMENT HOUSE TO ATTYEND TO ME CHARITIES , THEN LET ME DOWN AT THE DUTCHESS OF DIAMONTIRES THEN O “ME BARONESS DE BUSHWAS AN’ THEN TO CHIN LEES CHEWEY CHOP SueY JOINT AN’ THEN — * Not One of Them Ever Saw Real Game Played. FORD CAR SERVES AS HAZARD A unique golf club was discovered re- cently, in the southwest country, some- where In Texas. The organization boasts | ANDREWS MAKES STATEMENT of a membership numbering twenty-five, and yet with but a single exception not shot. The course is a little grove of trees, bounded by a private hedge, and on the two acres these men have “latd them out” a nine-hole approaching course. The one man who had seen goif played is a diminutive Englishman, who once course, near Liverpool, but his knowledge of the game Is extremely limited, Not only have these men never seen golf played, but their only coneeption has been gleaned from a very dilapldated book of rules, Place Many Husards. Originally, the littie club tn the grove | pitched quolts, but after several of their number became so much better than the rest, this anclent form of amusement ‘Was bereft of much interest and, in some unexplained way, they took up golf, as- suming that all would start equal, new | sest would be given to their sport. \ Then the little man from Hoylake was called in to construct a course for them, and although the cups which he made were well made, unfortunately he neg- lected to make them. alike in sise. Som of ihem barely will permit & ball to fall | TRAINING TRIP OF |HERE IS SOME GOLF COURSE\BURNS WANTS T0 Twenty-Five Members of Club and witnessed some play over the Hoylake |fieq Tom Andrews, his local reprerenin- | Both men have posted with ms 182,600 each.' in, while others are so magnificent In thelr proportions that they always offer & haven to wayward shots. Some of the greens are covered with The first hole extends for maybe five over fifteen feet mcross and this is the | easiest one by far of any, Having learned of the necessity for hasards they have | picked an aged and weather beaten water wagon across the line of play, and the player either selects to loft over this relic or take a chance of playing be- tween or through the wheels. Ford Serves an Hasard. On one hole, where it is necessary to loft abruptly over the tops of trees, a Ford automobile, which | long ago sung its swan song, serves a @ hesard close by the edge of the green, | and before the weli-thumbed rule book | Wwas acquired, the unfortunate player who chanceq to find a resting place in he could, The champlon of the “Catapult” oclub, for 80 It Is called, Is & southpaw, who rojoices In the possession of but one €lub, & nmiblick, and yet he has played the elght holes in twenty-six strokes. d4core has been given for the full nine while | Bon Vernon, New York. feet through an avenue of trees not S°° “ lins it lub, near Pittsburgh. Certalnly 1t will ‘occur 1o you that no ' geres ¥ THAT SAME Day' ME MIES ROCKANROCKS A NECKLACE CALL BOUT OFF Promoter Says New Orieans News- papers Are Not Lending Support to Bout. MILWAUKEE, Wis, Dec, 2.—Assert- Ing that New Orleans newspapers are not lending thelr support to the proposed twentv-round bout between Champion Jews Willard and Fred Fulton, Rothester, Minn., to be staged next March for the | heavywelght champlonship of the world, Tommy Burns, the promoter, today noti- tive, that he desireq to call tho bout off. | Andrews told Burns suca a move would be a serious mistake, 1 Would Take Over Project. ‘ Andrews also sald that if the New Or leans prcmoter declded not to stags the match he (Andrews) would gladiy take | over the project by offering tho boxera | a purse of $25,000 for a ten-round tout during the first week In February. “It would be a serious mistake for Burns to drop the project,” said An- drews tonight. “Fulton s the best heavy- welght challenger today. The proposed substitution of Frank Moran for Fulton | would be a poor one. Lforan has refused to meet Fulton. “The bout was made In gcod falth. | forfeits of | Money Not Pusted., The promoters have as yet falled to post thelr money of similar amount with “I am certain that Tom Jones, Wil- Jard's manager, and Mike Colling, mana- for Fulton, will not stand for &ny canceligtion or substitution. “It would be an injustice to M'ke Col- | to call the match off, for Coliins | refused offers amounting to 310,000 | to have Fulton meet Jin Cotfay and cther | boxers since signing up witn Willard.” | Collegiate Grolf Tournament Will | Be at Pittsburgh NEW YORK, Dec. 2.—The Interna-! tional Golf assoclation has just decided | on a move that is the biggest thing In | the automobile had to play out as beat | the history of the sport so far as the | | rah-rah boys are concerned. Davidson | Herron, secretary, announces that next! year the champloushlp tournament, | which has been an eastern affair exclu-| sively, will be held at the Oakmont Coun- The exact dates have not been set, but they will| probably be about the usual time, the| holes of the ““Catapulters,”” but jnasmuch on the turf, it was bullt with only an |extra teeing ground, and the last shot must be played through the open door- iwly leading to a wineroom. No scores are registered on this last ninth hole, but he who 1s not able to play for the door- way s not admitted. At present the “Catapult” club is awaiting the opening world of golf will hear of them in & big- ger way later on. i glant. vaudeville | enter ac- | The cham- | when the weather is inclement, #0Ing o be | city the Inter-Club Base Ball league,|in Hoboken, has met him | composed of teams from knows just Knickerbocker, innesots man | Union, University clubs and the Officers fest than | club of the Twelfth infantry, National fornfa.” displayed Guard, play every Saturday aftermnoon | her on a small enclosed lot| was rematched to fight Whitey Allan at enue and on stormy Satur-|the Fairmont, days games are contested in the Twelfth! ' INDOOR BALL POPULAR AMONG NEW YORK CLUBS NEW YORK, Dec. %.—Indoor hase ball leve that | will be more popular this winter than the fight | ever before. Regiments, clubs and asso- dlflnl’fllllonl of various sorts are taking up earnival, lay guests in | throughout the winter. the sport and forming leagues for p! It Is quite likely that the term ‘“‘indpor” will soon dropped for some more of an pastime, the players going indoo the Calum. Racquet and Tennls, |on Fifth & DRAWINGS MADE FOR THE today for the First National Indoor Lawn Tentis champlon- as there was no room for another hole | of a public golf cousse, which the eity | chusetts); Baltusrol, Ekwanok, Hunting. 18 erecting close by, and possibly the |ton Valley and Greenwich, be | only | In this| Well, this is Joe Jeannetic talking over | INDOOR TENNIS TOURNEY second or third week in September. Just how radical a move this decision ! is may be realised by the naming of | the courses on which the nineteen inter-| collegiate champlonships have been held: Garden City (four times); Ardsley (three | times), and the following once aplec Atlantic City, Myopia, Nassau, Burn, Apawamis, Basex Country (Massa- It will be no hard task for the western | colleges to send teams to Pittsburgh, and | & number of them Mmost surely will be | |repr--emm at Oakmont in September. This year the University of Illinols sent "n team all the way east to play at | Greenwich and so took the first step in | making the tournament a national event. !Bill Sloane Beats It for H_O_me, Pronto “Hello, 1s this Dan McKetrick's office? I just rang you up, Dan, to have you tell Harry Poliok when he comes back from Canada that BIll Sloane has taken it on the lam for Cali- ‘You don't mean it, Joe Why, he It can't be true Well, it am, Dan. He just packed his luggage and rowed a Loat out of | here. thase all” What seemed to be the trouble?” “He sald the attitude affected him." | “You mean the ltitude, Joe | “No; I mean what I sald—attitude, He didn't say whether it was the attitude of the public or the one that Whitey |Allan assumes in the ring. Anyhow, at- titude is the thing that made him law. |He's gome fo' sure. Tell Podok. Ald'r | they breaking bad for ‘at boy™ Plays Busket Ball, forme: fil‘N‘ s maniging & team New Staff of Umps. E. W, Dickerson the Cen- announces new staff of N9 61T WAS A HAPPY WASHLADY AND ! |foot ball Brae | ES COUA SHT OR CHRUS' Harry Tollefsen: Upon these three young men will Kear- ney State Normal school rest its chances for victory in the fleld of athletics this winter and next fall. Leslie .Jdch is the newly elected captain of the Kearney basket ball five and Willlam Randolph has been chosen to lead the Kurney‘ warriors on the gridiron next | fall, Harry Tollefsen, who has been such a success as coach at the Normal school, will continue to direct the for- tunes of the teams. Randolph, who plays left tackle on the varsity squad, comes of a real foot ball family. His brothers, Robert and Jesse, are former Kearney grid stars and this fall Robert was & member of the Northwestern uni- versity team. Jesse entered Northwest- HER A FINE CLOTHES WRINGER TMAS . MISS ROCKANROCKS DIS 1S A CRISMUS AL Leslre Rich ern this fall and is eligible and expected to make the varsity next year. Rich I8 one of the best basket ball men in the state and he and Tollefsen can be depended upon to turn out a fast quin- tet this winter. Kearney plays con- ference basket ball games with Peru, Grand Tsland, Hastings, Cotner and pos- sibly Omaha university this year. The foot ball schedule Captain Randolph is up against next year is as follows: Oct, 20.—Nebraska Central college at Kelrna*, Oct. #1.—Cotner university at Bethany. . 8—York college at Kearney. v. 10.~Grand Island at Kearney. . 18.~Wyoming university at Lara- v, M.—Peru at Kearney. . 30.—Hastings at Hastings. Sportsmen’s Club Samples One of Peters’ Milk-Fed Turkeys Herman B. Peters, former proprietor of the Merchants hotel, entertained the members of the Sportsmen's club at a big Christmas dinner last evening, the big milk-fed turkey coming from his farm at Creighton and the squabs from his Grand lsland farm. The dinner was |served in the dining room of the Mer- chants hotel and the decorations were in conformity with the yuletide season. A huge semi-circle of holly extended the entire length of the table and carried the electric lights which were also in seasonable colors. In a neat speech Mr. Pete: complimented the Sportame: club on its many fine dinners (which are usually game bagged by members of the club) and said that this Christmas dinner was not a regular one, but that he ex- pected to bag some game soon for a regular dinner. J. EVERS GETS GOLF “BUG" | Bcrappy Keystone King Says Base Bal] and Golf Are Only Two Games in World. GAME IS GOOD FOR PITCHERS ‘There are only two sports on the face | ot this fair, green earth, according to | Johnny Evers, second baseman extraordi- | nary. These are base ball and golf. But the tribute to golf is significant, coming as It does from such a base | ball enthubiast. Not long ago the cap- tain of the Boston Braves was confined to a hospital with ‘*‘cha horse” in the foot—or was it merely a sore foot, | made sorer through his indulgence in the royal and ancient game? In any event the glowing tribute to golf came| {in the course of an interview in which | | he declared that if more pitchers would | play the links game they would rarely be troubled with glass arms and the like Good tor Pitchers. | *1 believe that it is & good thing for I pitchers to play golf, except, of course, the day after they have worked on the dlamond,” Evers is quoted as saying. “You know, Mathewson is & fiend for golf, and 1 have heard that he arises as early a8 5:3 a. m. to get out on the links, even on the days when he is achel- {uled to pitch. He will play elghteen | holes and be back in the city in thme for luncheon." | But why the statement that there are only two games on earth? Evers, pinned down to the question by his interviewer, “The base ball plays typifies the na- for the entertainment and enjoyment of thousand of people. If his heart and his head arc on the game he I3 getting a lot of enjoyment out of it himself, but primarily he s getting a living out of it. 1t is his work, the day of labor, if he is wise, which will make him comforta- ble in days to come. | Player Needa Diversion, ““There are scores of ways that a base ball player finds diversion when he 1s | off the ball rield You nat, al- | though he gets pleasure out of his work, | he requires play aside from that, fust | 28 any worker in any fleld of endeavor. | “‘About 25 per cent of the major league | ball players today turn to golf for a di- | version. The number is growing every season. | used to look upon solf as an | old woman's game, but I get more satis. faction sending away a good tee shot than hitting the horsehide where ‘they ain't" " FEAR HORSEFLESH WILL | REACH THE GERMANS | (Correspondence of the Assoclated Press.) | LONDON, Nov. ®.—Fear that horse- flesh shipped to Rotterdam might find | its way as food into Germany resulted in & 150 fine belng imposed on & horseflesh dealer at Hull this week. The defendant had done husiness With a horse butcher in Rotterdam for six years. But he had exacted no bond from the Rotterdam man to make sure that the meat would not reach Germany. For this lack of precaution he was fined. The butcher testified that the war had made no dif- ference in the price of horse meat in Holland, and he was pald according to the condition in which the meat arrived. His last shipment consisted of twelve “un:"‘"lum He Is out there working | carcasses. GE FRUM MR, BT TREMAINE 5 Big Dutchman Would Make a Good Mode] for Recruits to Big Loop to Pattern After. DOES NOT CHASE EASY MONEY Volumes have been written around the name of Hans Wagner by enthusiastic base ball scribes, and yet it is doubtful if full justice has ever been done to the subject. Players have come and play- ers have gone, others will come and they, too, will depart from the lime- light, but it is doubtful if the national pastime will ever produce another character so picturesque, 80 interesting as the Flying Dutchman of the Pitts- burgh Buccaneers. Honors galore have come to the big Teuton, and he has worn them all grace- fully. He is the same Honus today that | he was when he first broke into the big league—quiet, unassuming, detesting the fawning adulation of the base ball “bugs™ and thinking only of how he can best serve the man who pays his salary. There is certainly a big lesson for other athletes in the career of the first citizen of Carnegle, Pa., and an example in his life which y man might well emulate. The official fielding averages of the National league, recently issued, brought out the fact that Wagner led the short- stops of the parent organization during the campalgn of 1915. It is true that the old boy didn’'t accept as many chances as some of the younger men filling the position, but his percentage of chances per game was great enough to show that he was on the job all the time. He took part in 131 games, had 298 put- outs, 306 assists and thirty-elght errors, a total of 781 chances, and an average of M8, Davy Bancroft, the young sensa- tion with the Phillles, was classed as one of the niftiest short flelders in the league last season, and yet In 153 con- tests Bancroft handled only 892 chances, practically the same aervage of chances per game as Wagner had. In the averages Honus ranked higher than Charley Herzog of the Reds; Walter Maranville of the Boston Braves and others who were classed as great work- ers in their own department. However, the cold figures fail to come anywhere near showing the real value of Wagner to the Pittsburgh team. It is doubtful if there is another player In base ball today upon whom his team's chances for victory depend so largely as do Pittsburgh's upon Wagner. Team is Built Around Him. For years Fred Clarke bullt his defense and much of his offense about the big it has become an axior: with local fans that the Pirates go as goes That is, Honus exerts such an Influence upon his mates that they are German. ‘Wagner. only mormal when he is among them. Eliminate him from the lineup and the whole outfit mcts Iltke a flock of los! #heep, not knowing where to go. During the last two years Wagner's bat- That 1s, he has not| been able to break Into the select circles of .300 hitters, but no pitcher in the league will be willing even today to admit that | ting has fallen off. Wagner is an easy batsman to dispose of. Indeed, during the last season, casions when runners were on bases. However, there's no getting away from the fact that slowly but surely Wagner's lamps are becoming dim. He does not show the old-time ferocity at the bat, and | does not take the chances against oppos- ing twirlers that he did when a younger man. On the other hand, old Father Time has| apparently been unable as yet to slow Waguer up in his flelding. He still covers a lot of ground, and handles with appar- ent ease chances which would make an ordinary shortstop look like a dub. Honus s 42, and off the ball field he looks his age. He is a grizzied veteran, with more than a tinge of gray in his hair, and weatherbeaten lines in his face, but on the field he is the same old flery performer, forgetting everything but the game of the day, and never thinking that he was intentionally passed on a number of oc- conversation might help him to last a lit- tle longer than otherwise in the agort he has loved and served so faithfully and well. Game 1s His First Love. Wagner has always given all that he possessed to base ball. The game has been no side issue, mo second consideration with him. He has never tried to cash his reputation as a dlamond star in other lines of work or play. He has made blg money, but he has made it all in his profession, and has given a dollar’'s worth of effort for every dollar he has recelved. He could have added thousands of dol- lars to his Income had he been willing to accept offers which were made to him by those who were eager.io jsade upon his prowess. A big clothing firm in Pittsburgh a few years ago approached Wagner with a proposition to pose as head of its men's furnishings department during the winter months. “I'm no clothing man,” was Honus' re- ply. *1 know absolutely mothing about the business. I'm a base ball man. “You don't have to know anything about the clothing business to fill this po- sition.”” he was told. *“All we want is for you to allow us to use your name in our wdvertisements, and for you to stand about in the store a few hours each day.” “Nothing doing,” was Wagner's laconic comeback. ‘“That would be taking money under false pretenses.” The big Dutchman has had vaudeville offers galore, and has turned them all down. One manager offered him a huge sum to go upon the vaudeville stage with Larry Lajole and Ty Cobb. Wagner's part in the skit was to swing a few times at a ball at each performance. He would not have been required to speak & word. It was “easy money,” and Lajole and Cobb were both eager to get the coln. Lajole was so deeply Interested that he | made a special trip to Carnegle to try to get Wagner's consent, but Honus refused point blank, and said he desired no work of that sort, because he knew he couldn't earn what was pald him. Thas has been his policy through life. He has not hunted the limelight, and has not sought the honors which have come to him. He has devoted himself whole- heartedly and entirely to base ball, not | striving for any personal records, but do- ing his best always for the club. Jimmy Jerpe, a Pittsburgh scribe, point- ed out last week that the records had never done Wagner justice, inasmuch as, when he was in his prime and playing a class of base ball which no one in the world could approach, he was always list- ed fourth or fifth among the shortstopa, with a quartet of “record” players ahead of him. It is & fact that Wagner's willingness to accept everything that comes his way has season after season militated against his piling up a peeriess record. But this fact has not lowered him one whit in the eyes of his admirers, who know him for the manner of man he is, and appreciate the fact that never in his life did he idestep & ball hit in his general direc- tion. Wagner isn't going to last forever in base ball of course. But he still looks to have & season or two of major league work in his worn out old system. And of action a million fans will say, “There when he departs forever from the scene goes the greatest player the game ever knew.” And the estimate will be just what it should be. PIONEER OF RED OAK, IA.. DIES OF HEART FAILURE Mrs. F. E. Miller, 3317 Hamilton street, has been called to Red Oak, Ia., by the death of her mother, Mrs. J. T. Austin, | who succumbea to heart fallure at the 1 of 78 years. She would have been 79 |years old on New Years day. | Mre. Austin was a resident of Montgom- ery county, lowa, for forty years. With her husband, who died two years ago, she celebrated her golden wedding anniver- sary five years ago. Funeral services will be from the Lutheran church in Red i Oak. Iowa Concern HAVING IOWA AND NEBRASEKA AGENCY FOR Standard Touring Car selling for less than $500, fully equipped. Has repre- sentative in Omaha desires to get in touch with dis- tributor, now established in Omaha, to share expense and profits on Nebraska agency deal. OCar will be shown at New York and Chicago Shows, TELEPHONE HARNEY 3038, SUNDAY. ! ~