Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 24, 1916, Page 11

[ 1 s Xl HARVARD STAR WILL BECOME | GRID COACH. AMATEURS ADOPT NEW CONSTITUTION| Board of Directors Sits in Over a| Three-Hour Session to Remedy | Evils Uncovered Last Year. | CLASSIFICATION 18 SETTLED | After a session extending over three| hours and half, the board of directors of | the Omaha Amateur Base Ball associa- tion adopted a new constitution and by Jaws which are caleulated to remedy a | number of evils which arose last year at & meeting at the city hall Wednesday night. Many new features and clauses were drafted into the mew constitution and with ‘but a few more points to settle everything. will be ready for the opening | of the season April 16 One new featute of the constitution has to do with classification of players and eligibility to Play in city series games. | Thesa points were very vague in the old constitution and by-laws and last year resulted in a couple of scraps which al- most started a riot, This year all players must be under contract by June 15, except in cases of emergency and then the sanction of both | the league Involved and the board of di-| rectors must be obtained, In addition a| player must play in at least three games | of five innings in order to be eligible to play in the city series. Tn the matter of crassification a play-| er's oclassification is determined by the EDDIE MAMHAN Fddle Mahan, Harvard's great fullback, has accepted a position as assistant coach at the University of California. Mahan THE BEE Administration is | Now Seeking to Gag Congress on Mexico | WASHINGTON, March 8.~The dispo- | sitlon of the administration to discourage agitation of the Mexican situation in con greds was evidenced by of the foreign Senator a Chalrman Stone relations committee when | Johnson of South Dakota, read telegram from Yankton offering a company of men to the army. Senator Smoot, republican, agreed with the demo. oratic senator. He said he had recelved many similar telegrams and deemed it his ‘duty to refer them to the War de- partment | The .Introduction of communications of this kind at this time are rather il advised,” said Senator Stone. The sit- uation In Mexico, as we all know, i& acute, and whatever tends to add to the acuteness of that situation, 1 regard as something that would better be left un done.” An opportunity to consider Senator | Sherman’'a resolution directing the presi: dent to call for 80,00 volunteers for Mex- fean service was sought by Senator Ken. yon, republcan, who Inquired it Benator Sherman intended to bring it up for dis- cussion. - Senator Stone said he hor it would not be called up for general dis- | cussion and the vice president recognized | Senator Works, who made a long speech on preparedness. Senator Sherman, thus cut off from speaking on his resolution, expressed his views by Issulng a formal statement, in which he warned against the dangers of being unprepared to deal wtih a larger will work with Andy Smith, former Pur- due mentor, who has been made head | coach at the coast school Sunday league In which he plays and he| will not be permitted to play in two Sun- day leagues of different classification Thus, it 1s belleved, that no disputes over classification of players or their eli- gibility will come up when the city series is played in the fall No decision was made last night as to whioh of the rival national amateur as- soojations the Omaha association would ultimately affillate with. Omaha con- tinues to retain its franchise in the old pational assoclation, but may hurdle to the new federation in case the new or- ganization proves the strongest. Jimmy Smith and Sweets Run AWdy , From Contenders| The Sweet Shop girls had thelr arms in fine working order last night In the La dies’ Bowling league when they rolled 2,881, The closest competitor of the even ing was the Independent team which | marked 2,207, with the aid of 111 handi- cap. Scores: A. B. SWEET SHOP. 1st. H 24, Total Mort Lindsay to [ans xeen Miss 19 3] Miss 176 Ll Roll Here Sunday it . |Miss Hughes... 145 15 Jtmm amous Brookl Totals ... 80 §% &6 258 A M) f, ulBornn e A NEBRASKA CLOTHING CO. pin tumbler, who is almost unanimously | 24 34 'l‘mn]Y“ . 108 & acknowledge to be the greatest bowler Rire. Bland. "?‘ o in the country, and Mort Lindsay, an-(Miss Osborne..... o m other Brooklyn shark who is almost s |}ise Fgusman. R g00d as the peerless Emith, will ‘be in Handicap 32 o Omaha Sunday to show local maple ! - smashers the real sclentific way to spltt | the wood. Smith and Lindsay will roll Sunday|Mrs. Beeson afternoon and Sunday evening at Daa |3re. ?::tfmn Huntington's alleys In matches against |Mrs, Stanton some of the local cracks. Frank Conrad, | Mra. Hackett Ted Neale and.Al Wartchow are the |Handicap Omahans who will roll against Smith| Totals ... and Lindsay. BRANDEIS' Conrad and Neale will battle the New |yre. Thompson Yorkers in one doubles match and Con- rad and Wartchow will team for a sec- ond match. These doubles matches will Miss McGreer Miss Bauer Miss Ratber Mrs, Huff 60 138 434 | be staged in the afternoon. In the evening | e — Conrad. Neale and Wartchow will roll IO Gbi b T the Brookiyn eracks in singles events. 1ot 24w, o, Smith was scheduled to show in Omaha | Miss ‘G(miorkc 50 108 & last January, when-hé was touring the | M,u Reese R fiwipe 30 country with Alex Dunbar, but a split Davidson L1007 | between Smith and Dunbar caused can- | Handicap {C0 ' Y O | celiation of the event. Huntington and| motals .. 6T o e | Conrad saw Bmith and Lindsay in Chi-| OMAHA “TOWEL' SUPPLY CLUE. | cago when they were returning from |y, ool - 4. W Tt | Toledd and scheduled the appearance «f | \Mrs. Neale . 125 122 %1 | the .cracks here for Sunday. | Mrs. Murphy .., 14 106 a13 PR Miss Straw 013 274 Miss Berry 160 134 Rourke and Marty |z (- T Land in Beatrice For Training Stunt BEATRICE, Neb, March 25—(Special | Telegram.)—W. A. Rourke, president PETERS MILL COMPLAINT FORMALLY DISMISSED (From a Staff Correspondent,) WASHINGTON, Mareh 23.—(Spectal)— 't The Interstate Commerce commissfon to- | the Omaha Base Ball club, Marty Krug | day dismissed the complaint of the M. and Outfelder Cy Forsythe, arrived in C. Peters Mill company of Omaha the oity this afternoon and opened camp against the C. B. & Q. rallroad com- at Athletic park, where the team will pany wherein the mill company sought practice until April 14, |a tarift construction sanctioning the ap- A force of men have been at work on |plication of a mixed feed transit arrange- the park the last few weeks and Mr. /ment with the rallroad In question Rourke stated that he was more than the mill company would be whereby pleased over its appearance. The team compensated to the amount of $7,978 In | Stephen Davies of 138 North Thirty-firs | Emmet street. situation, We are thrusting c.r men into un- known danger without safeguarding them | by prompt preparation,” he said We have no assurance at this time that we have not sent our forces Into interior| Mexico to meet thelr death betore we can reach them with reinforcements. In the héuse Represeatative publican of Pennsylvania, Introduced joint resolution to appropriute a $30,000 | reward for the delivery of Villa's body to the United States military authorities No attion was taken. Midvale Plant is ‘ Losing Money On | Its Shell Contract WASHINGTON, March 23.—To support the contention of private manufacturers that a government armor plant cannot be successful, Vice President Barba of the Midvale Steel company, told the house naval committee today that his plant with all its facilities and technical equip- ment had alresdy lost $300,00 on & con tract to make armor plercing shells for the navy “AnA when we make delivery,” he sald ‘we are through for all time with mak- ing projectiles for the navy under its pres- ent specifications of testing at ten de- gree angles. Every naval officer we have talked to has said he hoped he would not be assigned to armor making, for he could not do it." Queer Names for Some Omaha Dogs George Powell of 4000 Boyd street has secured from the city clerk a licenge fov his dog, “Billy Sunday.” The dog was described by its owner as of mixed breed. The dog may now run at large for a year. D: C. Bradford of 44 South Thirty- ninth street, gave the name of his dog as “Lumber’ when taking out a' city license. Other unusual canine names reg istered by the city clerk are: ‘‘Bunker HMlL," Boston terrier,. owned by Mra avenue; '‘Pepper,” for terrier, owned by | Harley G, Moorhead; “Pickles,” rat ter- | rier, owned by W. W. M:Combs of 158 North Twentieth street; ‘Koe Koe," | Pekinese spaniel, owned by Mark Coad ot 3518 Harney street; ‘Carranza,” Boston | | bull, owned by D. W. Corson of 26 | 0’CONNOR HAS CHECK HE DOES NOT CLAIM AS HIS | T. J. O'Conner, city clerk, holds a | check for #75.17, made out in favor of | Lis name, but he does mnot claim the check, 1t was sent by the Porto Rican will begin practicing next Monday and |reparation of tariff differences. from now on the players will report at | ¢ this place instead of going to Omaha. i A light rain began falling in this sec- tion of the state this afternoon. Stecher and Beell Will Have Finish Match at Duluth | DULUTH, Minn., March 2.—Joe Stecher of Dodge, Neb,, and Fred Beell of Marsh- | field, Wis, will wrestle a finish conest | here on the night of April 4, it was announced today. ‘ Don Brown is Slated | for Gate by Yanks, BEATRICE, Neb.,, March 23 —(Special.) —Don Brown, the Beatrice State leaguer who recently left for Macon, Ga., to try out with the New York Americans, is slated for release, together with about a | dozen other young players. Brown will probably be sent back to Topeka in the Westorn league for more work before | Joining faster company. BIRD-WOMAN WILL , FLY AT SHENANDOAH SHENANDOAH, Ta., March 3.—(Spe- | clal)~A woman aviator who has been startling the world with her daring feats, Miss Katherine Stinson, has been en- £aged by the Shenandoah Fair associa- tion to give two day flights and one night flight August 16 and 17 at the fair. | For the attraction $1,50 is paid by the board. Looping the loop and flying up- side down in an aeroplane outlined against the dark sky by fireworks is the special stunt of Miss Stinson. ———— Rank Fool You occasionally see it colds do not result from cold weather. That is rank foolishness. Were it true colds would be as prevalest in midsum- mer as in midwinter. The microbe that | causes colds flourishes in damp, cold weather. To get rid of a cold take Cham- | berlain’'s Cough Remedy. It is effectual and 1s highly recommended by people who have used it for many years as oc- casion required, and know its real value, | Obtainable everywhere.—Advertisement. x Botiled especially for the ha Beverage Co. OMAHA, NEBRASKA ed that ‘Tobacco company of New York, and evi- dently is for another T. J. O'Connor. | Copyright along the floor, OMAHA, FRIDAY, MARCH §, 191¢ The Strange h 1 Case of ary pag’e By Frederick Lewis, Author of “What Happened to Mary" Pictures by Essanay 1916, by McClure Publications. | and the horror of the law left her, and | |RYNOPSI& | she drew a long hanpy breath that was | Mary Page, actress, 18 accused of the t \ murder of David Pollock and is detrnded Almost & mute paean of gladness that it by her lover, Philip Langdon. p(,“mk was she who could pay for his safety Was Intoxioated. At Mary's trial she < " mita _she had the revolver Her mald Langdon himself was equally shaken testifies that Mary threatened Pollock | by the wonderful lttle interlude that with It previously, and i\:-rr;‘l—-flépllm« come like & streak of sunshine mplicates Lahgdon How Mary " appeared from the soene of the crime is & | through the dreary gloom of the court mystery. Brandon tells of a strange hand | scene, but those about him attributed the TLher | unateadiness of his volce to excitement duges temporary insanity in Mary, 'The and only Mary guessed the real reason defense is Tepressed f'?xf."fi‘v'"f’mm“n':r { and flushed rosy under her own thoughts escribed Mary | Intoxicated father and her father's cide. Nurse Walton describes the kidnap- | that strange, Ing of Mary by Pollock, and Amy Barton | nie, telle of Marys struggles to become An print he saw on Mary's shoulder. evidence showa that horror of drink choked volce, “‘will tell the court the olrcumstances of the—the attempt upon my lite you fee PONOSTRRN S NS T WHINKY | after the opening of “The Seekers | *You say ‘Just a kidnapping’ Mr. Dan felx.” broke In the judge harshly Did (Continued Yesterday.) _[you not know that the Iaw does not con Tn an instant the proscoutor was on his | sider ‘kidnapping' a light offense? From feet, but, quick as he was, the Jul®:| “yes T know,” Danifels' vo wan was quicker. The unexpected turn hadl!y,gky and uncertain. “I knew, but—all come in the evidence, and his honot | | had was Invested In this new play, and briefly announced a thirty-minute recess. it Dave Pollock had pulled out then, I'd Had he been the stage manager, rathér |have lost it all and-—I've got a wife and than Daniels, he could not have chosen |daughter. I didn't think any harm would A more dramatic moment to bring the [come to Mr. Langdon; In fact, Mr. Pol testimony to ita temporary close. And, [lock promised it wouldn't, or I'd never While the recess was a welcome one to |have let that man Shale take the wateh- Langdon since It gave him the oppor- lmnnl place." tunity to plan his questioning along | “When was that?" definite lines, and also came as a re “During the rehearsals, as 1 sald. Dave llef to the witness himself, the mur | came to me and sald that Philip Lang the | don was butting in too mueh, that he was upsetting Miss Page and making trouble for him—that s Pollock—and he wanted him out of the way. Then he sald he had murs of disappointment throughout room almost reached open invective Every spe man and woman among the | was keyed to the higheat tension by the swiftly moving events, and 1o drop from these helghts to the flatness of mere waiting strained patience to the Ureaking point. The scraping of chairs | the shuffling of feet, the | waves of shrill whispering question and | comment—all the sounds of restless hu, manity replaced the tense silence which had gone before—and when at last the clock had ticked out its slow half hour and the balliff brought Danfels back to the witness stand there was an audible slgh of relief from the spectators that under any other circumstances would have won a laugh from Langdon tators out to the country till after the opening of the play. At first T wouldn't liaten, but ~finally=1 did. 1t sounded simple enough I was to send for Langdon late that night, supposedly to ask him something about the Page contract. In the mean- time we were to drug the watchman and let Shale—Pollock’s jackal, they call him, you know—take his place when Mr. Langdon was leaving watohman was to nab him and him out to a walting automobile and cart him off."” . ‘Were these plana carried out?” “No. That is, not the latter part. It was then that I found out about the at- tempt at murder. “WIll you tell the court in what happened on that night? Now, however, he was too intent upon the possibilities that lay behind Daniels startling statement to be even consclous of the audience that was watching with | detall just such avid curlosity the enactment of this To Te Continued Fomorrow.) drama. He was more than thankful ey the judge whose hasty recess had | : » momentarly stopped e proent tram | 950I'Z Pin Tumblers the prosecutor, and it was with a rush of relief that he saw the latter take his Leave for National seat when court reopened and reallzed that, after all, Danels' statment was to | Tourney at Toledo pase without a legal wrangle. It made his first question an easy one “Mr. Danfels, you say that you had The crack Storz bowling team of heard Mr. Pollock threaten to kill the |Omaha left last night over the Burling- defendant and himself. Will you tell the court when that threat was made and to whom " “It was made to me. on an occasion when I almost became an unwitting ac- complice in a murder, during the re- henrsals of ‘The Seekers.' “Whose murder “Mr. Langdon's A startled sob caught at Mary's throat at the words and, lifting her head, she looked at Langdon with such an expres- sfon {n her eyes that for a moment he forgot the court, the judge and the wit- ness on the stand, and knew only, with + blinding rush' of joy, that whatever | happened—she loved him. That realiza- | lon was surging through Mary herselt | at ‘the moment, and she felt aa If she were seelng him for the first time—truly and fairly. Heretofore he had always : hean “the._ protector, aiwaya the wrave| Pla0€ il Tournament and the strong, and tae thought of him | in peril, the unbelieveable horror of the | Fourth place In the State Billiard Your- idea of harm coming to him shook her | nament goes to B. A. Heiple, who last With a storm of intense emotion which | night defeated A. H.' Sturgess, 250 to 211, found expression In the sudden flame |Sciple's average in the match, which of tenderness that leapt from her eyes to | went sixty-nine Innings, was %, whila Langdon's. | his high runs were 42, 21 and 19. Sturgess The protective maternal instinct that|made an average of 3 and high runs of 1s always the real keynote of a woman's |25 12 and 12 deeper love came to the fore for the first time and was followsd by a swift flerce | Indigestion Due to Comstipation. gladness that David Pollock was de-d!‘ Take a dose Dr. King's New Life Pills Whatever the tragedy and the suffering | tonight, See how much better you feel that enmeshed her, at least Phi'lp was | in the morning. 2c. All druggists.—Ad- safe, and at the thought all the fear | vertisement. ton for Toledo where tonight they will roll In the five-man event of the Ameri- can Bowling Congress tournament. To morrow the Storz pin tumblers will roll in the singles and doubles matches. ‘The Storz will be the last Omaha team to roll in the big national event and will |be Omaha's last chance to get a slice of the prize money. The Storz is one of Omaha's best tournament teama and it s expected will make a good score fn the team event and its members should do well In the singles and doubles, The members of the team who left last night are Clyde Cochran, captain; Eph Terrell, Kenneth Sciple, Carl Cain, Jimmy Martin and George Toma Sciple Wins Fourth —— “Mr. Danfels," Langdon was asking in | actress, of sok's pursuft of her and ot Sljisien Whew !l'_\;":'"‘:".;"' “I d1dn't know It was, you know." pro dence that Danfels, Mary's manager, tested Danlels T understood it was just threatened Pollock ““f faints on the | to be a kidnap@ing—to—to get you Mr stand and again goes insane when ® | Langdon, 1 mean—out of the way il | & plan to kidnap Langdon and take him | Then | the | enrry | |Band of Villistas Under Reyes is Ready to Quit TORREON, Mexico, Maroh | tured Vililstas report that:two gan bandita are operating in the district south of Laguna, one under Losano, who killed his partner Peresz, near Mata- moros last Friday, and the other under Canuto Reyes T.ozano's band, poorly armed and short of ammunition, is said to be operating in the Puerto do los Perlcos foothills, south of Matamoroa. Reyes retreated to Slerra Prieta, almost due south of Torreon, after his last fight | A report, as yet unveriued, has come here that Reyes was arranging a sur- render to General Jose lsabel Robles. 1f he were o surrender a large body of government troops would be released for patroling the rallway and ranches. Such patrols would put a stop to the destruc I tion of cotton and products and the burn | ing of rallway bridge | The foregoing dispatch from Torreon received today makes no mention of the rison has revolted BL PAsO, Tex, March 3.—General Gavira, at Jusres today, oconfirmed the report that the bandit deader, Canuto Reyes, was parlaying with General Robles in regard to a surrender. Tne result ia not yet known to Gavira. General Robles was among the Mex- ns rounded up and put in jail as Villa suspects by the El Paso police follow- | ing the Columbus rald. He was relensed on evidence that he was a Carranzista |Harrison Gray Otis is Serjously Ill | 108 ANGELES, Cal, March 25.—Gen- ernl Harrison Gray Otls, editor of the | Loa Angeles Times, seriously i1l with pneumonia at a hospital here. Dr. J Ferbert, his attending physician, sald today “that General Otis' condition was satisfactory, but that age and impaired heart action made the oase difficult. General Otls is. 7 years old. wideapread report that the Carransa gar- | Abuse of Franking Privilege Denounced WASHINGTON, March 2.-Abuse of the congressional franking privilexe denounced In a report of the house print Ing committes, which has included a pro- vislon In the pending revision the printing laws designed to stop the prac tice. 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