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Ll LET You «o OUT IF YOU PROMISE NOT TO GO NEAR DINTY. MOORES ! (me e mn e ey PURSE OFFERED 10 JESS AND MORAN | @ex Rickard Backs Plan to Bring Champion in Ring for Ten Rounds. STECHER-GOTCH NEXT NEW YORK, Jan. . 12.—Jess TWillard, world's heavyweight cham- lon, and Frank Moran today were ffered a purse of $45,000 for a en-round no-decision bout in this ty on Friday, March 3. Tex Rick- rd, promoter of the Jeffries-John- m éontest at Reno, Nev.,, July 4, 910, is the backer of the proposed Imeeting, although Sam MecCracken, & cifieus man and a personal friend wof Rickard, is named in the articles as the promoter. her Willara nor Moran have yet ed articles of agreement, al- /though both have signified their (will ess to accept the terms of- \fered. According to the contract, Willard is to receive $30,000 and " 51 per cent of the receipts of any nov{hx pictures taken, Moran is offeshd $15.000. Willard also is to ONE JUST WANT TO TAKE A THE BEE: News 5 ervice. Patent Office. R \ BE SURE TO i' you L. BE BACK IN LAN HOUR ! ) HAVE ME - PROMISE -| STROLL - Jim Cofftey Willard by more Willard I8 under- 270 pounds at when he knocked out and will be outweighed by than thirty pounds stood to weigh close to present, which will require steady traln ing to reduce. At least thirty days of this training must be done In this city, according to the contract. It was inti- mated that in case the men boxed ten rounds without appreciable advantage at the proposed match another and longer fight” will be arranged for a definite de- cision of the championship. Nothing Agreed 'T0 BE VIGILAN Addresses Special Communication to Members on Situation Result- ing from Fusion. I8 A VERY (_)OKiI.ICATED ONEE l ¢ CHICAGO, Jan. 12.-Jack IW YORK, Jan, 12~David T. Fulz, tonight that nothing had been agreed to | president of the Base Ball Players' fra- by Jesse Willard in connection with the|ternity, has addressed a special com- proposed ten-round bout between the champlon and Freank Moran at New York. Mr. McCracken had offered Willard $30.- 000 for his share, Curley said, with the date fixed at March 3. Curley sald he had communicated with Tom Jones, Willard's manager, at Ex- celsior Springs, Mo., and Jones had in- dicated that the date was too early ley sald he would see Jones Sunday and try to arrange a satisfactory agreement. munication (o the members of the or- &anization calling attention to the com- plicated contractual relations that will exint between Federal league players and magnates under the proposed peace agree- ment, Involving organized and inde- pendent base ball intereste. Mr. Fultz has outlined the situation in part as fol- lows “Although the peace agreement between organized bal] and the Federal league has not been mad ublic authoritatively, It ean; safely be smld that organized ball will not assume the long-term Mederul loague contracts, Cur- Mr. and Mrs, John F' COffe-v sue ,l“ "a\\nl Likely Respect Them. James c' McGill “It will probably respect these con tracte, but will not necessarily assume them. In other words, It an organized ball club desires the services of a player who has signed a ‘long-term contract, it will make terms with his Federal league owner and will then be obliged to assum~ thie contract in its entirety. This the player should be careful to see to, us the DENVER, Colo., Jan, 12~Two suits for damages, each for $25,000, have been filed in district court against James . Mc- Gill, owner of the Denver Western league and the Indianapolis American associa- tion base ball tesms, it was learned t @ contract, ¥ Jones Sayw Al K. The articles of agreethent . way o Chicago for t @ a bonus of $5,000 for sign- ing The fpromoters say th ave recol swordi from Jones, the plon’s mal ager, t the terms nre: factory and that they Wil obis Willard will e required upon signing to post a forfeit of 5,000 for appearance. The promoters lan to deposit the total amount of the purse in the hands of stukghalders forty-elght hours before the It 1s estimated that the aggiggate @ of the bout will be close td $65,- the receipts about $100,000 yet has been selected for the ¢although Madison Square garden, theater, ahd a structure formerly & car barn are being considered. to Rickard, all seats will be _reser and prices will probably range 10 up to §100 or more for ringside “No Interferemce Expeet 1 rference I¢ expected Ly the pro- from elther the lecal or state au- articles will be sigried as soon as placed before Willard. After slgns, Moran's signature will be ‘m‘. since ten-round no-decision K “are permitted under the New York | L WS upon a payment of 7% per cent the gross gate receipts and compliance : other minor rules and regulations 'c& for by the statutes. , who, since he promoted the lohnson contest, has. been en- in the cattle industry -In Argen- At present is fn this city on husiness ling to his South American ranches. ’ #ald today he was not going to mn- age the proposed bout, but simply w furnihing the financial backing for Mc- Cracken. “Sinée I came here this winter," Rick- ard zaid, have attended a number of sporting cvents and have noticed that there 1s unlimited gate money for any- thing'but of the ordinary in the way of #port contests. 1 told McCracken I thought & bout between Willard. ard Moran would be a big money-maker and he he would undertake to bring the amen together if 1 would supply the capl- 1al. It looked like 4 chance to make some money, so I agreed. Plans Stecher-Goteh Mateh, IIf the Willard-Moran bout is a finan- olal success, I will offer a large purse for a’champlonship wrestling match be- tween Frank Gotch and Joe Stecher, who 3 undestand 1s thought to be the best of America’s younger wrestlers.” Rickard has been noted for his propen- sities- for taking what he terms ‘gam- Blers” chances,” and he has made and Jost several larke fortunes. His offer of B 310100 for the Jeffries-Johnson bout sur passed all other bidders, and 1t was ‘thought he never would take in that Repo drew $210,755, petting him a big Mt This was the largest purse ever efed for a fight to a finish, just as r today is the largest ever of- for a ten-round contest. .‘gr- | Bhas twenty-fivo-round fight at Coney November 3, 189, S Maxitmum of Recelpts sed amolnt at the gate, yet the fight held | largest gate ever taken for a bout _ ity was $65,300 at the Jeffries- | to make profitable the pro- clubs have no right to compel him to algn o less favorable contract than the one he alveady has. Where, however, no organized alub desires to assume the con- tract Bf afy particular player, tnere win e, I my gpinion, no ebligation on’ the part of the ofganized' elib to do so. The player. in this situation will have only day. One sult was filed by John ¥, Cof- fey, former manager of the Denver team, and the second was filed by Lorean V, Cotfey, his wife. Kach complaint charge$ ucqm with Improper conduct ‘toward 1 Coffeyd™y ;i ¥ his Federal leagie owner to ook to Stewards Of Grand “In erder to preserve thelr rights all cirouit Make Dates,”"‘" #hould get the consent of thelr ederal league owners before sIgning wh an organized ball club. If they ao not do j CLE AND, O, Jan On account | this they may lose the advantage of their Lof the war Montreal has dropped out of [ Federal league contract without guining | the grand clreult, it wag learned at the ' any corresponding advantage under their annval meeting of the circuit stewards|new agreements, here yesterday. The two weeks allotted| “The situation is a very complicated | Montreal were split up between Cleve-|one and players should be careful to get !land and Columbus by tae schedule com- | competent advice before entering mnto any mittee, |new contractual relations.” After much discussjon the recommenda- wAlVERm Atlon of the rules committee that three heat racing be made mandatory through- fout the cireuit nur adopted. The plan to provide @ 5,000 trotting stake {for horses which’ have not won $2,000! ST. LOUIS, Jan. 1t—Fielder A. Jones, | Kross was approved, but the recommen- manager of the combined St. Louls ation for a $5,000 stake for pacers under | American and Federal league teams, an- L ¥imilar_conditions was rejected, {nounced here tonight that his summis- | Followihg schedule was adopted: |slon of a list of former Federal players | July 17~Cleveland. {for waiver by various American and July 24—Detroit Natlonal league clubs was not an ag- July: 31-Kalamazoo. | knowledgement that such walver Is a August T-Grand Rapids. August 14—Columbus. August 21—Cleveland pre-requisite to the disposition of Fed- eral players. August 3—New York “On the contrary,” Jones said, "I feel % e 1 ¥ Sehtember iHartford, |k State fair|confident that the St. Louls Federal (Syracuse) league players are not subject to the September 18—Columbus (two weeks). October 2-Lexington (two weeks). October 16—Atlant Amateur Billiard walver rule of Orgahized base ball. 1 { requested the American and National | 1eague clubs to waive on certain players, merely to avold possible complications, |inasmuch as the application of the walver M |rule to Federal league players has not Men Have Election it . Sy “swiea vy e ¥ i :lhnl.l commiaston.” NEW YORK, Jan. 12.—Members of the | _ | iations! ARsosiation of Amataur Biliiard | G0t W14 of & oA ¢ ippe Players selected the Arion Billlard club | Cough—1t Weakens. of the Arion soclety, New York City, as For the ase racking cough that | comes with 1a grippe, Foley's Honey and A 15.2 balk-line champlonship at the an- | Tar Compound s wonderfully healing and nual meeting today. The matches will | soothing. It eases the tightness over the {begin Monday, February 25, and con- | chest, raises the phlegm easily and helps the place for holding the National Class tipue, inclusive, to Thursday, March 9. | the racking, tearing cough that is so ex ] The officers clected for the ensulng | hausting and weakening. R. G. Collins vear follow: ! ex-postmaster, Barnegat, N. J., says: President, l.ouls Iteusche. | “Foley’s Honey and Tar Compound soon | Rame by o Waltar G Diougiass. stopped the severe la grippe cough that Treasurer, G. O. Ridolphy. | completgly exhausted me. It can't be Poggenburg, Robert Executive committee, J . P. Matthews, E. F. Reynolds, Weld and J. P. Allen DOANE TO OPEN NEW GYM b WITH GAME WITH OMAHA ™" |‘~m-7¥:. \b:l:kl'u:- Il“ :(fl:;:l'::":l:‘-::':‘\fITcH'ls EGZEM‘ |SA 4 opens the e CONSTANT BLOOD CRY gymnasium Thursday night by a game with Omaha upiversity. With a limited : squad to choose from for “(his SWM€ ppe Wlood Reaches Kvery Part of things don't look so bright as at first.| the Body Every Twelve Klein, all-state guard in high school cir Seconds. cles, may be out of the game. Belka and | bor Mickle are both out of this contest with | There are approximately 70,0000 pores bad knees, 50 that those left to pick the in the skin of a human body. These ool five from are: Captain Whitehouse, Ed-|nect with the bipod channels by means monds, Bayer, Spercer, Brown, Conrad, |of little canals. These canals are some- | Andrews and Hazlett. Coach Schissler, |times filled with polsons and the skin however, Is confident that the men will |scales and blistera, gets red and raw and do thelr best becomes like so much tissue fire Bsured. Salves do not reach the source of the | {trouble. To make the blood pure is the | WISNER ACCEPTS DEFI e R 8. 8. is the greatest blood purifier beat.” Sold everywhere.—Advertisement A “For Sale” or “Mur Tent” Ad placed /tin The Bee will accomplish its pure and a lively contest is as- The Omuhs Gun ciub's challefige to the |Mineral of any sort in Il It 1s purely Wisner Gun club for & shoot at Wisner | Vogetable next Sunday, has been accepted by the S0 great is the fame of 8. 8 5. that latter organization and the event is a |Many substitutes trail along in various §9. The Omaha aggregation will leave | Sections of the country. They all, soon at 5:0 Sunday morning in a special car. |©r or later, die & natural death, 8 S 8 The Charles E. Reese trophy, emblematic | bullds up weak and acidy blood, gives of the state club champlonship and now | Prompt relief to almost every case of in the hands of Wisner. s at stake oczema, winter tetter and other S v——— maladies. You owe yourself the duty of Soothe Your Cough and Cold. [tryjng a bottle of 8 5. 5. Take no sub- e Siao-Teby ®0es right to the | stitute. Write for our free book on skin the r diseases. Confidential letters replied to by our Medical expert. Write Swift Specific £o., Department 33, Atlanta, Ga. OMAHA, Copyright, 1915, International 3 Registered U. except where it desires | THE FEDERAL PLAYERS | skin | THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 1916 Drawn MAGGIE -~ ME AND | COULDON'T WELL -EXPLAN | | pARLIN- | wuz|[ THE pEAR HELP STOPPIN WHAT ? WHY YOU DIDNT 3|IN THE PARK JUST LOVES TO LOOK AT GET BACK HERE || WATCHIN' THE NATORE - THE FLOWERS - WITHIN AN i FLEW BY - Omaha Nationa] Bank Quintet Far Too Swift for High Schoolers. OTHER GAMES ARE ONE-SIDED The High School of Commerce basket ball five fell easy prey to the superior | team work of the Omaha National Bank quintet last evening at the Young Men's Christian association, 29 to 3. The Com- merce tossers were outclassed from the start and the contest soon resoived llsnll‘ | | | | into how large a score the Bankers would | pile up, | In the Commercial league basket hall| game between the Omaha High School Reserves and the Fairmont Creamery Company the students clearly demon-| strated their superiority over the cream merchants, winning handily, 22 to 7 The final fray in the Church league be- tween the Firat Methodists and the St Mary's Avenue Congregationalists resulted in victory for the Methodists, 15 to & While the Method! in offensive ts proved the stronger were at all Congrega- were playing, they | stages hard pressed by the | tonalists. Leake and’ Drummond the mainstays for the Congregationa while Dodds and Moore showed up'b for the Methodists. Lineups: METHODISTS— JONG'LISTS-8. | . R. . 1 Dodds . | Moore Comfort Barnaby Barnaby . Longwell F‘uh'nlllulru Orr for Dodds, Longwell | for Yeoman. ¥ goals: Dodds (2), Orr | @), Comfori, Leake, Spinning, Drum- mond. Foul goals thrown: Moore (3) Leake, Drummdnd. Pouls committed: Methodists, 9 8f. Mary's, 11. Referee Maxwell, Time of halves: 20 minutes. | FAIRMONTS-%, RESERVES—22. | | Sessions Rg, RF........... Gelsler | | Berpy .. L L.F ._Powell Anderson ..........0.| Yardley RG. RG. Smith LLGITLG.... Fullaway Substitutes Quinlan for Sessions, . Crowley for Nmith.. Reeves for Fullaway.|® train leaving at 10 o'clock I"leld goals: Anderson, Newby, Geisler, | - Smith (), 2), Fullaway (1) P goals thrown loms, Anderson, Longwell, randt, (2). | committed r nts, §; Reserves, 11.| | Referee: Maxwell. Times of halves: 20! | minutes, | . BANK-2. | i Schuhart | Larson ..\...000..C MLUSSINK | g, PASO, Tex., Jan. I2—Typhus fever oakowtz RG Bender | has broken out in J The disease, | Duteher L.C Hawkins | according to reports, has been raging for Substitutes: Ifiver for Milberg, Rohusck | some days and several deaths have oc- | for Moskowitz, Lee for Bussing, T 11 | 7 | { for ‘Morrison, 'Beek for Bender. Tjeld | CUrred: i | ®oals: Milberg, Schuhart (6), Bussing; Eight to ten deaths daily from typhus (2), Lee, Morrison, Bender (3). Foul goals | have occurred during the last few days, thrown: _Mlilberg (2), Schuhart (1), Mor g v .l rison, | Fouls committed: Commercial | Ad Mexicans dead from the disease are { School, 14; Banky, & Referee: Muxwell. | found each day huddied in the railrond { Time o alves: 20 minu { FOUR AUSTRIAN MINERS | KILLED BY SNOWSLIDE | TELLURIDE, Colo.,, Jan 12.~Four Austrian miners were killed late yester- day In a snow slide in Carbenero gulch, near the Ophir mine, according to word | recelved here today. A fifth member of the party escaped and brought the | news to the Ophir mine. The hodne-f have not been recovered. Advertiser and customer profit by the *“Classified Ad" habit. Altizer Getting Too Old, Dave Altizer, veteran of the Minneapolis Millers, announces that he does not in tend to play nits that he is too old “QLD KENTUCKY" TASTIEST | OF CHEWS | Plug is the Best Form in Which | | Tobacco Can Be Made, and “0id Kentucky” 1 is Best Plug WHOLESOME, SATISFYING ball next vear. In short he | To get the utmost of satisfying re- | freshment out of tobacco, you want a plug chew—one that gives you the gen- vine flavor of rich, ripe leaf. Then, too, the most wholesome and {healthful way to use tobacco is to| |chew it—and the best and cleanest |form of chewing tobacco is the plug { form, in which Old Kentucky is made. | HURLED BY OMAHA CLUB | because it is @ natural one. There is no | Old Kentucky is made of the choic- { est Burley leaf, in the world’s greatest | plug tobacco factory, and under the | most cleanly, sanitary conditions. | The luscious flavor of Old Kentucky is a delicious revelation to amy man | who has been chewing ordinary tobacs cos. It is supremely satisfying. | Fresh, pure, mellow, a chew of SWANS AND THE TIME JUST FULTZ TELLS MEN 'COMMERCE @ERS T0SSED | Exodus of “Bums" braska's greatest family stamped with the approval of George Ade and guages John Hell, policemen, who escorted a half hun- dred of well-dressed * women to the Unlon station, where ‘they were banished from Omaha, felt perfectly | safe In uttering the exclamation. | sloner Al Kugel got up on the side of the bed,” and it appeared after- | ward that Chief Dunn did, too. they got their heads together and a few | minutes later the police were making the rounds of the cheaper hotels for The Bee by Geofge McManus MR, JIGGS LEFT HID CANE \N DINTY] MOORED AN’ HE THOUGHT HE MIGHT WANT) IT 90 HE SENT S Follows the Police War on Outcasts Genuine Savings in Out of town, bum!" This tart phrase, gentle readers of Ne- dally, s duly other masters of the modern lan. - Suits and Overcoats Buford, Joseph So Thomas Baughman, Harry Coffey, Silas Brown and agrants’” and their Clearance Sale: Some very unusual features of our January (1)—Every high grade Suit and Overcoat in the Early Monday morning Police Commls- | house is included. Blues and blacks and “wrong Anyway, | fancy patterns in Suits, and staple silk lined Meltons and Kersey Overcoats, as well as all fancies. Not a garment reserved. (2)—Our regular merchandise is being sold with Women who have heen “beating” the'| || 5 potive. caurt” WK straw. bobas. ada by | special care as to fit and service. No charges other legal means were snaked out of for alterations. their lairs and carted off to jail perfumed lovers were next carted to the you. We know it, too. Judge Foster $35 Suit and Overcoat knows it. But somehow or ether, in spite 4 . of all we do to put you on the bum, $40 Suit and Overcoat you're out of jaill and doing the very things you should not send you out of town, have can either scrape it up or do a double forty-five in the éounty railroad tickets, depot under guard, and they were put on . Typhus Fever Breaks | oud Kudsyh-n-lde-—n‘yu:fll Their prices— So we're going to Those of you who money to buy a rallroad ticket are released now. The rest of you enough fail. Which?" all secured mamly to Sioux City. The patrol wagon hauled them to the Somehow or other, near celle and locked up. g The police lectured thus $20 Suit and Overcoat values. .. [, Now, you girls knaw you've been keep- $25 Suit and Overcoat values, ... ng these men, and you men know just b Ty what the harsh word s that describes | | $30 Suit and Overcoat values.......... This is our schedule of voeny - S18.78 .....$16.75 ’ [" 18 Soutn 16th Street, Out in Juarez City | yards and other out-of-the-way places A Mexican raflroad employe tonight re- ported nine dead in a box car camp of seventy-five. In another car today four dead were found Wr J. SWOBODA RETAIL DEALER PHONE DoucLAS 222. OMAHA NEB Cold weaher shuts the door on “life, liberty and the pur- suit of happiness.” Why puz p with it, when day after tomorrow you could be luxuriating in Florida's warmth, clad in light summer clothes and lazily watching the sailboats go by. Nothing but yox can keep you from going. A day and a half; that’s all the time it takes to reach Florida from Kansas City via Frisco Lines and Southern Railway—the direct route. The ansas( 1 orida Special leaves Kansas City at 5:55 p. m. and gets to Jacksonville 8:25 a. m. second day. 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