Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 26, 1915, Page 36

Badie Wallace, Who Fights at Any 01d Weight, Has Ambition to Be an Attorney. OFFERS T0 BATTLE WELSH By RINGSIDE. NEW YORK, Dec. %.—The millennium In the boxing game has arrived. It has been precipitated by Eddie Wallace, nee Able Kawallick, who, despite the latter mame, is champlon featherweight of Brooklyn. Wallace has upset all ring traditions and precedents by using the fighting game as a means of attaining Bie life's ambition. Wallace would be- tome A member of this nation's judiciary, and if persistency 18 rewsrded little Eddie will realize his dream. Wallace Is a ring oddity in many waye #e is the first of the boxing clan to chooso the law as a means of liveiihood when his fighting days are o'er. He is also the first to box two champlons in different divisions within the space of a month. Besides being a boxer and an embryo lawyer, Wallace is a business man, He has invested a good deal of his ring earnings in a laundry route. His fnoomes are varied, but at present boxing brings him the greatest revenue We are picking on Whilace because he fs such an unusual young man—for a fighter. In the preceding paragraph we enumerated a few of the things that have made Him unusual. Now, t) elaborate on his achievements. Last February—February 2, to be pre- clse—Wallace ~fought, Kid Williams, world's featherwelght champlon, a hard ten-round draw. Wallace was compelled to make welght—12% pounds ringside—a | low weight for him. In & weakened condition; yet matched the champlon in skill and punching power throughout the ten rounds. Then Battles Feather Champ. Just four weeks later Wallace entered the same ring, but this time his opponent Johnny Kilbane, champlon feather- the world. Wallace also made Kilbane—135 pounds ringside. mormal poundage, and he gave the fight of his young life. Re- in veviewing his ring career, Kil- declared that Eddle Wallace gave the hardest battle he ever experi- Quite & compliment from a cham. UL ggs ‘Two weeks. after the Kilbane affair, ‘Wallace offered to fight Freddy Welsh, the world's lightweight champlon. But Freddy pleaded a previous engagement, and the muteh is stlll pending. Welsh has virtually promised Wallace a date, and negotiations will be closed as soon #s Welsh returns to New York. Never Has Been Floored, Wallace confesses to meveral slight re- verses in the ring. Je admits being by Kilbane, and one or two others. he hias never been floored; and this Tecord few boxers can boast of these 48 a philosophical lad, and not turned by his succeas in He devotes all his spare time delving Into law books, and in a year or take an examination for the bar, expression of Wallace's fs: them to the punch, maybe to talk his way to battle with Kilbane. Wddie s con- reverse their last result if given chance. When he last fought the feather~ei~ht boss Wallace was atill ‘weakened condition from making low He feels he has from the bantamwelght class, make no effort to fight in that again. of Wallace has outboxed a Mehtwelght contenders, among Bloom and Johnny Dundee. no terrors for Wallace, so opponents scale anywhere 13 pounds, MHams-Ertie Again, { in & match to settle the bantam- championship. Jtmmy Johnston, of Muadison Square Garden, Iads & proposition, and is walt- ! f ¢ £ s i H winning Willams on a ‘:l!vnmm-n- H : i i &8 he wishes to i il ! 4 | I Will Have Advantage at ¢ £ TheEosier Uni [ ? : : § Hooster school. to Bloomington Ea § : z 3 i i at the ! i cast. more i £ g H i H 4 i I 1 rudiments of th W €. C. Childs. ws All | 7 i 3 PUG WANTS 70 BE LAWYER| He entered the ring | he employs his time for the Welsh is eager for a re- “Kid" Willlams and Johnny “Kewple" Hrtle are soon to come to- over Willlams and thus bantamweight mew foot ball coach, Ewald & former Wisconsin star, will highest salary ever pald a Stiehm will at the conclusion of Nebraska and will have most opportune of athletics here. A more than $200,000 time and money letics than ever large foot ball h has been thor- New York telling Barney ‘ in Summer THE Champ Ice Skater Rides Bicycle to Keep in Condition Bobby McLean on Skates and on His BiCyCIG-—-pobor( MelLean, better known as ‘‘Bobby,”’ the American cham- pion ice skater, who will defend his title this winter in | will meet Anderson, the New York, at Saranac Lake, Boston and Cleveland, and Norwegian champion, of the world’s title, kept in condition this last summer by riding a bicycle. No ordinary road riding suited MeLean, He purchased a racing bicycle, and did a lot of work on the track of the Velodrome in Chicago, his home town. He | PECK SHOWS MEDICOS UP Grid Star Breaks Leg in 1913 and Doesn't Find it Out Until Late This Fall, PLAYS DESPITE BAD INJURY By FRANK G, MENKE, NEW YORK, Dec., 25.—What a vast dif- ference there is In the gameness, the fighting epirit and the capacity tor suf- fering between the professional base ball player and the college foot ball player. Whenever a base ball player contracts a slight headache, or a brulsed nose, or & skinned shin, he rushes off to the doc- tor's office, gummons a flock of medical gents and nurses, and then decides to take about four weeks' layoff until the ache or abrasion has diseappeared. But whenever the foot ball player is in- Jured—well, read the case of Bob Peck, the brilllant All-American center of the University of Pittsburgh eleven. Refuses to Huve Dootor. During the Pittsburgh-Washington and Jefferson game in 1913 Peck, who then since was playing in the halfback position, s willing even _._'r"""_ Tor | W8 injured. He was in terrible pain for many hours after the aoccident, but he refused to let the doctor examine the leg, fearing that the Imjury really was serious and that the doctor would order him to the hospital, Peck insisted upon playing In the game the following Saturday and played every younger | Saturday until the end of the season, but unds, and his |he was yweight cham- handicapped In his speed by a decided limp in his right jeg. ‘When the Pittsburgh gridiron warriors assembled for training in 1914 Coach Joe Duff decided that Peck wouldn't do as & halfback. Hiw leg continued to pain him and he had to humot it. He tried to walk without a limp so that the coaches would give him & job on the eleven—but Duff noticed the limp. Peck Is a flery, fearloss player and one whose aggressiveness helped greatly in keeping up the spirite of his feMows. Duft didn't want to lose him so he tried him out at center where speed s not 80 essential as it is in the backfield. Peck made good immediately at that position, and, despite the handicap of an alling leg, he ranked as the greatest all-around center in the country at the end of the 1914 season. Broken Les No Handicap. When the 1915 season began Peck was back at center for Pittsburgh, and it was h's brillant playing that aided the Pitt eleven In winning its elght straight vie- torles. The lmp still remeined with Peck: the pain In his leg oftentimes was agonizing. But he ignored the advice of the coaches and his teammates to go to a doctor and have it examined “What'll T do that for?” he asked “Maybe there really is something wrong with it and then I can't play any more.” In the Carnegle game this year Peck which the st |¥°t In & scrimmage and when the players St the Polo |Untangled themeelves Peck lay at the bottom of the semi-consclous and he, “and that with his leg doul up under him. Position is Called. “We | He was carried off the field and despite Pecl's protests a doctor was called to ‘examine the leg. The medical gent monkeyed with the leg, his face took on & pustled expression, and then with some comment about “extraordinary case” he called In another physician. And this was what they found: Peck had broken his leg in that 1818 mme, between the shintone and the ankle, and nature in time welded together the The bone, however, had ragged way and for two & lone | years the points of the broken parts had themsglves Lato the flesh of been jabbing . held his own with several of the professionals on the track, Peck's leg, causing excruclating agony at times. “Peck’'s leg was not.really broken In the 1915 Carnegle game,” declared the doe- tors. ““The mishap in that game merely dislocated the knit that followed the fracture of two years ago."” The doctors ordered Peck to the hospital 80 they could place his leg In a cast and knit the bone properly. FPeck told the dootors to go to Chicago or Switzerland or some other forelgn country, wrapped around his leg about 100 yards of bandage, ®ot Into the game the next Saturday, played out the season and won for him- self the captaincy of the 1916 Pittsburgh eleven and the honor ‘of All-American center. And now, if the doetors wil| assure him positively that they will liberate him within & week, Pock may agree to go to the hospital and have .mended the -leg that he broke gore than two years ago. HERE’S THE CASE OF LAST GENT TO JUMP TO THE FEDS Irving Porter, a young outfielder with the Lynn team of the New Hngland league, may -be noted in history as the last jumper to the Feds, He agreed to flop just before the New York meet- ing and. when the storm broke. he hast- ened to find his matager, Lou Pleper of Lyon, and ask that he be: forgiven. Pleper told him he was safe, sincé he had not played a geme with the outlaw: OMAHA SUNDAY B¥E: DECEMBER NEW RIVAL FOR J. WILLARD Australian Promoter Begins Boom Bob Devore of Missouri for Heavyweight Crown. HAS KNOCKED OUT FIFTEEN to George Lawrence, the Australian pro- moter, is working up quite & 'boom for Bob Devere, a young heavywelght, who was born in County Mayo, Ireland, twenly years ago. Devere stands six feet . high, and welghs 1% pounds. He was brought up on a farm In the state of Missourl, and has been boxing a little more than a year, during which time he has made & wonderful record for a youngster who never saw a boxing glove ‘until he was put in the ring at Kansas City with Sailor Grande, who only few weeks ago at Philadelphia gave Jack Dillon the fight of his ‘life. Knockeq Out Grande. In this, his ‘first fight, Devere knocked put the hard hitting salior, who at that time in the middle west was con- sidered about the best young heavy- welght in the country. After knocking out Grande, the clul matchmaker re- matohed the palr, and’ this . time the || ‘blg. boy was. again returned the win- /| ner, on points. He then started to train 1915 26, badly, but before the week had passed out in one of thelr workouts. west, which includes a fifteen-round bout with Dick Gilbert. Jack Grant he knocked out in four ragnds; Jack Law- yer he stopped in one round; Jack Lester was beaten in ten rounds, while . he knocked out twelve other big fellows in' quick order. His only defeat was at the hands of Carl Morrs in an elght- rqund bout in Morris' bome town, in his fourth match. # Tutored by Sam MeVey. Mr. Lawrence, in speaking of his charge, says' Bob I8 only & boy, and he does not Inténd - to hurry.him too fast, although Sam McVey, who s tutor- ing him in his race for the heavywelght crown, feels sure that Devere can now defeat Willard, who .is hiding ‘behind the much ‘abused shield ot drawing.the color. line when MoVey's name is men- tioned. Want Moline Man. ‘The Portland Coast. I ue cl deal on lo'purch-u ‘;glrd White from ‘the Mbline club, Angeles Slgn Hookle. The Los Angeles Coast league club has ub has a Baseman pigned & young tcher named Smith from Centennial, (fll. By A. EDWIN. LONG, Joe Stecher is proud of the diamond belt presented to him September 5 by his ‘friends. But that is not the only trophy presented him that day of which he is really proud Little was sald of it at the time, but he was that day presented with the. big- gest pair of wolssors in the world. They were galvanlzed iron sclasors, designed by Colonel Jumes C. Hillott of Weat Point, Neb.. and manufactured by the Nelburg Manufacturing company of West Point. Oh, no, sure thing, they won't cut the tail off & shirt, nor will they snip bute tons off ovepalls. They aren't' sharp: They weren't made to be sharp. But this the scissors do: They will crush the breath out of any husky blok when Joe Stecher applies them to hia short riba, Joe applied them October 9 to the short ribs of & 1ot of his griends and visitors at Dodge just after the diamond belt and the sclasors had been presented. The boys had & lot of fun with the old sclssors, which were presented as sym- bolical of the famous scissors hold with which Joe Stecher has crushed his way to the summit of wrestiing popularity. Who, but Colonel James C, ElLiott would have thought of such a thing as present- |ing glant scissors to a wrestler when | others dad gouged decp into thelr poeck- ets to make a fund for a diamond belt? But Calonel Elliott always was original. He knew everybody was golng over to hear the dlamond belt spesch. He hini- #elf was invited to be one of the speakers. ‘What did Colonel Jim do? Did he get an encyclopedia and study up on diamands, learn their geological age, mythological orl- €in, in order to make a learned speech? Ne. ) Dig he read the records of the Spar- tan wthictes o Plutaych's Lives, or bete Given to Joe | speaking was over Largest Pair of Scissors in the World Stecher by West Point Man Yes, and he delivered that speech with all the pomp that characlerized him when he stumped ugainst free silver in When the the diamond belt, like & nice costly cellulojd valentine, was | Way in a bottom drawer or a | *“There'll be plenty of |safety vault, but the old clumsy scissors amused the crowds all after hoon, and the Stecher boys have had muech fun this clumsy | The cut shows Joe “working out” with | ter yet in Homer's songs, that his ora-, tory might fairly pop with asccounts of how the Dodge glant, like the warviors | of old. fairly slashed Nis way through |1396 And he made a hit all opposition? No, Colenel Jim did not. “Away With ‘that stuff,” said Colomel | chucked Jim to bimselr. ll: SUIf from the- other speakers.” be sat down and desigued the scis- sors. He. ordered it” made. He. wrote s with it since: apeech of presentation fitf of dull cutlery. i® with Jim Flynn, who the first few days at training quarters, beat him up pretty the Pueblo fireman gave him the gate from training quarters, for knocking him Since then he has met nineteen men of the second class of heavies in the Canadian, Shaughnessy, Ottawa. .10 Bouth Alhnnc‘“finll, Augusta 90 Ohilo State, Nutter, Charleston. .. 108 | Interstate, ' B; Hornell. 2 Three-1, O'Brien, Davenport.......12%8 Northern, Krokaw, Virginia. ... 12 Pacitic Coast, Kane, Vernon w Our Travelogue No. 8. Cincinnati, O., is in one the EurnN! {and Osear II, of base ball. Cincinnati| is the Europe of base ball, because there Is always & fight on between the board | of directors and the manager of the | team, whoever he happens to be. And like the Buropean nations, they never know what they are fighting about, they are merely fighting. It is the Oscar I of base ball because the magnates pull off thelr peace stuff there. Cincinnati is on the Ohio river. The | river 1s almost as belligerent as the Cin- | cinnati board of directors and occasion- | ally wipes out a portion of the village. | However, nobody cares particularly. Allo‘ the Ohlo river is some river, when It comes to color. People talk about the | muddy Missourd, but the Ohlo river is | about half water and balf ink. The | water which runs through Cincinnati's | water mains comes from the Ohlo river. For fear of hurting the river's feelings | body disturbs the water en route from he river to the mains and that is why Cincinnatl people who believe in sanita tion never drink water except on Sunday when they can't get anything else. Cincionati has a Fountain Square. Fountain lsquare is so called, because in the m.ddle ef it is a fountain. It would | be & very beautitul fountain it somebody would glve It a bath. The fountain's valet, however, probably is neglectful in this respect, because he would have to |import the water bicause Cincinnati | water would only make it look worse | As a matier of fact the whole town wouldn't suffer from fumigation, or a little sireet cleaning. Cincinnati s noted | dustr.es, breweres and distilleries. It | the United States goes dry by 1,20, as | certain advocates of prohibition preaict, | we wave old Cincy a fond adieu, They have a couple of swell rallroad stations in Cincy. The C. H, & D., and Unlon—or Central, we've forgotten which {1t ts—are models of depot architecture | They are almost as good as the Cleve- land depot which is golng some. And speaking of rallroads, the C. H. |& D, 1s a lalapalooza. From Indian- {apolis to Cincinnatl there isn't 200 yards {of stralght track on the line. Half the time you meet yourself coming back | when taking & curve and the other half for two great In- The Hypodermic Needle By FRED §. HUNTER you are being thrown from one side of the car to the other by the pitch of the track on the said curves. And If you try to eat in the dining car wou'll probably gargle your neighbor's coffee in your own ear and he'll catch one of Yyour lamb chops in his eye Among the other dlistinguished citizens of these United States who had sense enough to blow Cincinnati at an early age are Sandy Gerard Vassar Griswold and Albert Dreyfoos AS BUNG BY ( BARNEY DREY 8 I ean » anything at all, Nutty, foolish, buggy, any kind of eall But I make (his one br That it is a bloomin’ shame, To eall me the Henry Ford of old base ball, AFTER LAMPING THAT WHICH y BASE BALL GUYS DID AND WHA BO. ED ON RD THE OSCAR I1 POEM" THUSLY AND AS FOLLOWS We never s1w a gentle dove of peace, We never hope to sce one, Bw lamping scenes or r cent date, W.'d ratuer see than be une. We received the following via John C. Wharton's persopally conducted system of mails. We take it that the perpetrator either has little use for the wrestling fraternity or lost money betting against the sclssors. trere ‘tis; we'll print anything The Wrestler's Dying Wish. Oh, bury me not on the lone prairie Make my coffin of the cottonwood tree, For the world knows it warps, Forty ways from the ace, And I'want it to fit me In my last resting place The following note is appended, “Not crooked, just out of shape.” Headline in the meal ticket: Ton of Turks Carried by Parcel P Which is oven better than J, Stecher can do. As you may know, December 25 is the Cay and date of Christmas. Therefors this is finis. KEXPECT BIG YEAR IN STATE %Se.condu’y Colleges of Nebraska | Lining Up for Most Successful { Season in History. WESLEYAN TACKLES BIG JOB The greatest basket ball season in his- | |tory is what the Nebraska colleges are confidently anticipating. | In practically every secondary school {in the state an abundance of material |to make up fast quintets is reported. | Where the crack veterans of last year | have graduated from school it seems to be a fact that in practcally every in- stance the school will have several fast high school players with which to fill the breach. Thus it is almost all of the secondary colleges are predicting a most successful year, Nebraska Wesleyan will attract the most interest trom floor fans this sea- |son. This school has had wonderful | teams during the last few years and expects to have another great five this year. Coach Kline will have his hands full this season, however. For Kline is up against a scheduls which will probably prove to be the hardest any school the | size of Wesleyan ever undertook. | Play ia Wiseon The Coyotes will play two gamés with Nebraska university. Last year Kline tackled the Huskers In a pair of con- flicts and split fifty-fitty with the uni- | versity boys. In additional Wesleyan will take ‘& trip north and east. On this | trip the Burgess-Nash five of Omaha will be met, as also will the University of Wisconsin and a number of schools about siz Raymond Johnson is captain of the Wesleyan five this year. It is his fourth year on the team. Johnson is a star of first magnitude and his mates are equally as good. |" Doane is another state sehool which expects to have a big year in basket ball This team is coached by P. J. Schissler, a Nebraska man, and is captained by Lloyd Whitehouse, who played under Schissler at. Hastings and followed his coach to Doane. Has Four Veterans, Grand Island has four of last vea veterans out for the team this year and bas a number of new men who are prom- Ismg. Robert Taft is captain of the team. Earl Hawkins, former Nebraska cap- tain, is coaching York college and ex- pects to make a good showing. He has five letter men and Charles Cox of York and Jacob Glur of Columbus, two high school wonders of last year, after jobs. Hawkins should make them all hustle for honors this year. Gilford Sanders is cap- | tain of the York five. Kearney Normal, of which Leslic Rich is captain, also entertains charnpionship | hopes, while Omaha university, Bellevue, Peru, Hastings and Cotner expect to have g00d teamns. This Outfielder | Did Not Make Error | In Hundred Games | According to the officlal fielding avers ages of more than twenty of the leading | major and minor leagues Fred Smith, of the International league, was the most consistent outfielder of the last season. Sm'th, who played left field for the Rochester and Montreal clubs during 1915, figures in 108 games with a perfect aver- age, having 217 putouts, twelve assists and nho errors. | His nearest competitor for first place | honors was Eddington of the Central | league, who fielded .90 in 123 games. The leading outfielders in the associa- tions which have published their averases | to date are as follows Nl Wilson, 8t Louls American, High, New York | | G American’ Ass'n., Rondeau, M| nternational Bmith, Roch. lsz How York Btate, Wagner, Ut.ca Southern, Northern, Mobile. ... Central, Bddington, Grand Rapils 3]! Texas, James, Waoco Western, Smith, Omaba.... 138 Virg nia, Gray, Rocky Mount......1% Didn't Make Good At Creighton, but He's Bear at Depauw Alexander The return of Jamieson, erstwhile foot ball scrub at Crelghton, to spend the Christmas holidays at home, has disciosed the fact that Alex has developed into a regular 'varsity player. Like so many would-be stars at Creighton, Jamieson found it imposs sible to convince the blue and whita coaches of his abllity on the gridiron, and this year left che school to cone tinue his law studies at De Pauw uni versity in Chicago. It took “Jamie" just one game to make good at DcPauw, and before the season’s finish his spec- tacular playing had won for him the appellation “Demon” Jamieson. Alex started the season at end, wag then shifted to tackle, and on accoung of terrific tackling and smashing up of interference was placed in the backfield, where he starred as fullback the rest of the season. “Jamle" is regarded as one of the best players who ever hit the line for the Chicago school. Kitty Loop to Return? Frank C. Bassett, a former presi- e and always booster of the Kitty Iu'uch comes to bat with a statement that the league will be reorganized for next year, Dr. d Biggest Sport Event of the Year International Tug-of-War Staged by Jack Prince, who pro. moted first tug-of-war ever 4 in Omahs, twenty-five years ago. Teams representing Sweden, Denmark, Germany , Bng. land, Italy, Bohemia, and America are L. At the AUDITORIUM (Omaha.) ary 3 to 9, Inclusive A Gallon Jug of Parke’s Old XXX WHISKEY Wemake this offer to ad 10,000 new customers ‘o ‘g list, this month, Send your erder to Dept. DISTILLERIES SALES CO, ansas