Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 26, 1915, Page 37

PUG WANTS 10 BE LAWYER| Eddie Wallace, Who Fights at Any | 01d Weight, Has Ambition to Be an Attorney. in Summer By RINGSIDE. NEW YORK, Dee. %.—The millennium In the boxing game has arrived. It has been precipitated by Eddle Wallace, nee | Able Kawallick, who, despite the latter hame, is champlon featherweight v\f: Brooklyn. Wallace has upset all ring traditions and precedents by using the fighting game as a means of attaining bis life's ambition. Wallace would be- tome a member of this nation’s judiciary, and if persistency I8 rewsrded little Eddie | will realize his dream. Wallace Is & ring oddity in many waye. @e is the first of the boxing clan to choose the law as a means of livelihood when his fighting days are o'er, He s/ also the first to box two champions in New York, at Saranac Lal will meet Anderson, the world’s title, kept in condi a bieycle. held his own with several o different Alvislons 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 ineomes are varied, but at present boxing brings him the greatest revenue. We are picking on Wallace because he §s such an unusual young man—for a fighter, In the preceding paragraph we enumerated a few of the things that have made Fim unusual. Now, t) elaborate on his achievements. Last February—February 2, to be pre- ciso—Wallace fought, Kid Willlams, world's featherwelght champion, a hard ten-round draw. Wallace was compelled to make welght—120 pounds ringside—a | low weight for him. He entered the ring | in a weakened condftion; yet matched the Then Battles Feather Champ. Just four weeks later Wallace entered the same ring, but this time his opponent ‘was Johnny Kilbane, champion feather- of the world. Wallace also rmade for Kilbane—12% pounds ringside. his normal poundage, and he gave the fight of his young life. Re- in ‘reviewing his ring career, Kil- bane declared that Eddie Wallace gave bim the hardest battle he ever experi- enced. Quite a compliment from a cham- i i i Two weeks after the Kilbane affalr, ‘Wallave offered to fight Freddy Welsh, the world's lghtwelght champlon. But Freddy pleaded a previous engagement, and the mateh is still pending. Welsh has virtually promised Wallace n date, and negotiations will be closed as soon &8s Welsh returns to New York Never Has Been Floored, Wallace confesses to several slight re- verses in the ring. He admits being beaten by Kilbane, and one or two others. has never been floored: and this few boxers can boast of these is a philosophical lad, and 18 not turned by his success in He devotes all his spare time law books, and in a year or to take an examination for the bar, Xpreaston H g i sE¢ ki i | | of Wallace's st the punch, maybe of the decision.” to talk his way to ring; he employs his “na. his time for the Welsh he s cager for a re- Kilbane. Bddle 1s con- their last result the chance. When he last fought ‘el*ht boss Wallace was still for Wililams. and Welsh—thess are the two I8 after. He feels he has the bantamwelght class, no effort to fight in that Wallace has outboxed a of Mghtwelght contenders, among o and Johnny Dundee. has no terrors for Wallace, so opponents scale anywhere i ! H : ,n ;5 4 | 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, 2%.—What a vast dif- ference there is in the gameness, the fighting epirit and the capacity for suf- fering between the professional base ball player and the college foot ball player. Whenever a base ball player contracts @ slight headache, or a brulsed nose, or & skinned shin, he rushes off to the doo- tor's office, qummons 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 Have Doctor, During the Pittsburgh-Washington and Jefferson game in 1913 Peck, who then was playing In the halfback position, was injured. He was in terrible pain for many hours after the accident, but he refused to let the doctor examine the leg, fearing that the Injury 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 Saturday until the end of the season, but he was handicapped in his speed by a decided limp in his right leg. ‘When the Pittsburgh gridiron warriors assembled for training in 1514 Coach Joe Duff decided that Peck wouldn't do as & halfback. His leg continued to pain him and he had to humot it. He tried to walk without a ltmp so that the coaches would glve him a job on the eleven—but Duff noticed the limp. - ¢ H s ?. s | | Eg! : % H | i it H E i i H gt Jtmmy Johnston, Square Garden, 1ads & proposition, and is walt- answer. after syl} it it i i : for hm Will Have Sti ; Advantage at The&osier Uni pald a school. Stiehm will to Bloomipgton at the conclusion of and will have most opportune history of athletics here. A me and money tics than ever @ large foot ball him which has been thor- In the rudiments of the €. C. Chiids. Dreyfuss Knows All ' ew York telling Barvey which the St. at the Polo 1n the oldem days. “We played to . he, “and that & record at that time." Peck s a flery, fearless player and one whose aggressivencss helped greatly in keeping up the spirits of his felows, Duft didn't want to lose him so he tried him out at center where speed is mot 80 essential as it is in the backfield. Peck made good immediately at that position, and, despite the handicap of an ailing leg, he ranked as the greatest all-around center In the country at the end of the 1914 season. Broken Leg No Mandicap. ‘When the 1815 season began Peck was back at center for Pittsburgh, and it was h's brill'ant playing that aided the Pitt eleven in winning its elght straight vie- torles. The lmp still remained with Peck; the pain in his leg oftentimes was the coaches and his teammates to go to & doctor and have it examined. “What'll I do that for?" he asked. “Maybe there really is something wrong Wwith it and then I can't play any more." In the Carnegle game this year Peck £0t In & scrimmage and when the players untangled themwelves Peck lay at the bottom of the m—uml«‘onuloul and with his leg dou! up under him, Pospition s Called, ! The medical gent monkeyed with the leg, his face took on pustled and then with ‘extraordinary £ iz his leg in that 1818 between the shintone and the ankle, welded together the however, had and for two HHHF themselves lnto the Clesh of the points of the broken parts had THE Champ Ice Skater Rides Bicycle to Keep in Condition Bobby McLean on Skates and on His Bicycle——fiobor( MeLean, better known as ‘‘Bobby,’’ the American cham- pion ice skater, who will defend his title this winter in ke, Boston and Cleveland, and Norwggian champion, of the tion this last summer by riding No ordinary road riding suited McLean. He purchased a racing bicycle, and did a lot of work on the track of the Velodrome in Chicago, his home town. He f the professionals on the track, Peck thm “Pock'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 #0 theyl could place his leg in & cast and knit the bone properly. Peck told the doctors to go to Chicago or Switserland or some other forelgn country, wrapped around his leg about 100 yards of bandage, @ot into the game the next Saturda: played out the season and won for him- self the captaincy of the 1916 Pittsburgh elovei and the honor ‘of All-American center. And now, if the doetors wil] assure him positively that they will liberaté him within & week, Peck may agreeto go to the hospital and have ;mended the leg that he broke pore 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 Bagland 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 Lynn, and ask that he be forgiven. Pleper told him he was safe, since h had not played a game with the outlaws. leg, causing excruciating agony at 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 1s veally proud Little wus sald of it at the time, but he was that day presented with the. big- gest palr of scissors in the world. They were galvanized iron sclssors, designed by Colonel James . 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 sclssors do: They ‘wil crush the breath out of any husky bloke when Joe Stecher applies them to his short ribs. Joe applied them October § to the short ribs of a lot of his friends and visitors at Dodge just after the diamond belt and the scissors had been presented. The boys had a lot of fun with the old scissors, which were presonted as sym- boligal of the famous scissors hold with which Joe Stecher has crushed his way to the summit of wrestling popularity. Who, but Colonel James C, ElLiott would have thought of such a thing as present- Ing glant scissors to a wrestler when others had gouged deep into thelr pock- ets to make a fund for a diamond belt? But Colonel Elliott always was original. He knew everybody was golng over to hear the dlamond beit speech. He him- @elf was Invited to be one of the speakers. What did Colonel Jim do? Did he get an encyclopedia and study up om diamands, learn their geological age, mythological significance, magnitude of chemical composition, and le orl- ;I:. in order to make a learned speech? 0. o Dig he read the records of the Spar- OMAHA SUNDAY B¥E: DECEMBER Our Travelogue No. 8, Cincinnatl, O, is in one the Burope and Oscar II, of base ball Cincinnati ‘ |is the Europe of base ball, because there s always & fight on between the board | of directors and the manager of the | team, whoever he happens to be. And like the European nations, they never know what they are fighting about, they are merely fighting. It is the Oscar |11 of base ball because the magnates pull off thelr peace stuff there Cincinnati Is on the Ohio river. The river s almost as belligerent as the Cin- cinnati board of directors and occasion- | ally wipes out a portion of the village. | However, nobody cares particularly. Also the Ohlo river is some river, when It comes to color. People talk about the muddy Miesouri, but the Ohlo river is | about halt water and balt ink. The | water which runs through Cincinnati's | water mains comes from the Ohlo river. | For fear of hurting the river's feelings | nobody disturbs the water en route from | the river to the mains and that is why | Cincinnat! 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 t>quare is so called, because in the m.ddle of it is a fountain. It would be a very beautiful fountaln it somebody would glve It a bath. The fountain's valet, however, probably is neglectful in this respect, because he would have to |tmport the water bocause Cincinnati water would only make it look worse. | As a matier of fact the whole town wouldn't suffer from fumigation, or a | little street cleaning. Cincinnati 1s noted for two great | dustres, breweres and distilleries, It the United States goes dry by 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 Union—or Central, we've forgotten which {1t le—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., is a lalapalooza. From Indian- {apolis to Cincinnati there isn't 200 yards | of straight tratk on the line. Half the time you meet yourself coming back | when taking & curve and the other half The Hypodermic Needle | By FRED 5. 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'il probably gargle your neighbor's coffee in your own ear and he'll catch one of your lamb chops in his eye. Among the other distinguished 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 SUNG BY ONE BARNEY DREYFUSS. I ean stand for almost anything at all, Nutty, foolish, buggy, any kind of | But I make fhis one brief claim, That it is a bloomin’ shame, To ecall me the Henry Ford of old base ball, AFTER LAMPING THAT WHICH THE BASK BALL GU AND WHAT HAFPEN BOARD THE O We never siw a gentle dove of peace, We never hope to sce one, Bu 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 malls, We take It that the perpetrator either has little use for the wrestling traternity or lost betting against the sclssors. 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 rit me In my last resting place. The following note is appended, crooked, just out of shape.” he money Here ‘tis; “Nok Headline in the meal ticket: Ton of Turks Carried by Parcel Post.”” Which is cven better than J, Stecher can do. As you may know, December 25 is the Cay and date of Christmas. Therefore this is finis. EXPEC’I‘ BIG VYEAR IN STATE | Secondary Colleges of Nebraska | | Lining Up for Most Successful | Season in History. | WESLEYAN TACKLES BIG JOB The greatest basket ball season in hls-} |tory is what the Nebraska colleges are | confidently anticipating. In practically every secondary schoul [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 practically every in- stance the school will have several fast NEW RIVAL FOR J. WILLARD Australian Promoter Begins Boom Bob Devore of Missouri for Heavyweight Crown. HAS KNOCKED OUT FIFTEEN George Lawrence, the Australian pro- moter, is working up quite & 'boom for Bob Devere, a young heavywelght, who was born fn 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 Missouri, and to 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 Sallor Grande, who only a few weeks ago at Philadelphia gave Jack Dilion the fight of his ‘life. y Knockeq Owut Grande. In this, his first fight, Devere knocked put the hard hitting sallor, 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 club’s matchmaker re- matched the pair, and’ this - time the ‘big. boy . was. again returped the win- ner, on points, He then started to train 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 from 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 Wiseons The Coyotes will play two gamés with Nebraska university. Last vear Kline tackled the Huskers In & pair of con- fliicts and split fifty-fifty with the uni- Mr. Lawrence, i speaking of his | versity boys. In additional Wesleyan charge, says' Bob {s only a boy, and | will take & trip north and east. On this he does not Inténd: to hurry.him too|trip the Burgess-Nash five of Omaha will fast, although Sam McVey, Who is tutor- | pe met, as also will the University of ing him in his race for the heavywelght | wisconsin and a number of schools about crown, feels sure’that Devere can now | yesleyan's size. defeat Willard, who .is hiding behind i the much -abused’ shield ot drawing the Johnson at Wesleyn with Jim Flynn, who the first few days at training querters, beat him up pretty badly, but before the week had passed the Pueblo fireman gave him the gate from training quarters, for knocking him out in one of thelr workouts. Since then he has met nineteen men of the second class of heavies in the west, which includes a fifteen-round bout with Dick Gilbert. Jack Grant he knocked out in four rognda; 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 Morris in an elght- rqund bout in Morris' home town, in his fourth match. & - Tutored by Sam MeVey. Raymond Johnson is captain of the color. line when MoVey's name ‘la men-| v SVD. Firia vear. It s his fourth ey i year on the team. Johnson ls & star of first magnitude and his mates are equally as good, Doane is another state school which expects to have & big year in basket ball Want Moline Man. The Portiand Coast.] deal on to purchase Third White from the Moline club, This team is coached by P. J. Schissler, & Nebraska man, and is captained by Lloyd Whitehouse, who played under Schissler at. Hastings and followed his coach to Doane. Angeles Sign Rookle. ‘The Los Angeles Coast e club has leagu signed a you itcher named Smith fr«'u’l‘n Canunni:lf &L |tan wthietes in Plutaych's Lives, or bt |mpaster ’ . Leoagu ter yet in Homer's songs, that his ora-, Yes, and be delivered that speech with | wation W"M‘Nfih l(,*m;» % T o eees B oo (e | ey it havéctarizd himm Amtricaw Aaa: Hongeut dpis 13 haw the Dodge glant, like the warriors | when he stumped ugainst free siiver in ' nternational. Smith, Roch. Mont.108 1 of old. fairly slashed Nis way through 1596 And he made a hit. When the New York State, Wagner, Ut.ca 1 all opoosttion? |speaking, was over the diamond beit, Southern, Worthern, Moblle iy No, Colonel Jimi did not. like & nice costly cellulojd valentine, was | Poxan. James. Waco. . kTl ‘Away with (that stuff,” said Colomel | chucked away in a bottoms drawer or a | Western, Smith, Omaba Jim to himself. “There’ll be plenty of |safety vault, but the old clumsy scissors Xlrl n‘l:;‘flam. R::ly M that guff from the. other speakers.” amused the crowds all after noon, and ao“““l,, Atiantie. Ho he sat down and desigued the scis- |the Stecher boys have had mwuch fun ”onl‘or:::.. I;mmo sors. He. ordered it” made. He. wrote with it sinee ntes e, L speech of mw- fitting this cluméy | The cut shows Joe “working out” with | hree-l. O'Brien Dayenport Largest Pair of Scissors in the World Given to Joe Stecher by West Point Man Has Four Veterans, Grand Island has four of last year's veterans out for the team this year and has a number of new men who are prom- Ismg. Robert Taft is captain of the team. Barl 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 jobas. 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 | good temmns. | This Outfielder Did Not Make Error | In Hundred Games‘ | According to the officlal fielding aver- | ages of more than twenty of the lsndln(j 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 185, figures in 108 games with a perfect aver- age, having 217 putouts, twelve assists and ho error: His nearest competitor for first place honors was Eddington of the Central league, who fielded .99 in 123 games, The leading outfielders in the associa- tions which-have published their averages | to date are as follows Player. Club. Games. 105 lmflc Coast, Kane, Vernon. | Didn't Make Good At Creighton, but He's Bear at Depauw The return of Alexander Jamieson, erstwhile foot ball scrub at Creighton, | 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 impos= sible to convince the blue and white coaches of his ability on the gridiron, and this year left che school to con= tinue his law studies at De Pauw uni- versity in Chicago. It took “Jamie" just one game to make good DePauw, 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. “Jamie" is regarded as one who ever hit the ago school. Kitty Loop to Return? Dr. Frank C. Bassett, a former dent and always booster of the league, resi- itty comes to bat with a statement that the league will be reorganized for next year, Biggest Sport Event of the Year International Tug-of-War At the AUDITORIUM (Omaha.) January 3 to 9, Inclusive ke's Old XXX WHISKEY your erder to Dept. B DISTILLERIES SALES CO,