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o — GRANTS TWISTERS | 7 B BAFFLE ROURKES IN NEW YORK thpaw on Des Moines Team ot Scores 2 to 1 Victory Over Omaha. \ [ILDUFF M4KES ONLY RUN By ¥, 8, HUNTE ! PEs MOIN la., April (Special ] ogram.) <A lank outhpaw by the e of Girant, who hails from the coal i Bining rogions of High Eridge near hore / y Bpped one over on the demon Rourk s today anid achieved fame by dofeat Mr, Harty Krause, once of the Aths s, 10 @ swell pitchers’ battle, Tho | Ial score was 2 to'l ’ EBouthpaw Grant (s possessed of A 2t |4 eeping curve ball which had th ¥ Wl ha athletes completely baffled. In JoE GEDEON. last five frames Omaha made DUt| \when Joe Gedeon came to the New ¥ o bingle otf of the coal miner rookle| york Yankees from the Pacific Const he lone Jiourke tally was made In|jeieia Lo was heralded s wonder 6 fourth round Kilduff got on | gineo the boginning of the senson he ha# irst by virtue of walX and WHhen [ jived up to his peputation, both at the arry Krause laced a two-base DbIOW |pue ang jy the field. He has popularized bto the center garden, Pete set hi8|yinue with (he New York fans, who Wings and safled all the way home ha become staunch rooters for the ihat, iRt Te dr s, Rouvkes;. a1 ?“‘”""” Jag ough an attempt to rally 'was made In fhe olghth, After Marty Krug was r fller got a walk, But Krnle Kruege ho was called to pinch hit for Mar } thall, popped out and Krause could not IN LTIMATE ROUND { ome through a, second Des Molnes hecond spasm made | time ‘ ity two runs fn the Jones led off with a one- | | base knock and was sacriticed to sec- | Mike Doolan, ‘Batting for Mulligan, | 4 nd by Hartford ; »I woldt m]-lm-‘ lu“' Drives in annmg Run in 4 firive to center und Tex scored. Kwoldt | 5 fook sccond on Krug's throw-in and the Ninth, crossed the pan on Breen's singla. | Krause settled down after this period | EIGHT TO SEVEN IS THE SCORE gand did not allow any more runs, | Rourkes Held Helpless. CHICAGO, April 22.-~Mike Doolan, bat Cyrus raythe and riarry Krause | g 1nnt were the only Rourklets who could soly ting for Mulligan, drove in the winning rant's southpaw slants, run in the and the little pitcher both netted The tango kia them Cin vietory which Chicago scored over selven two safe sawats The rest of the |einnati today, 8 to 7. A belated rally Tourkes were helpless, Smith being the | after home runs by Flack and Saler had only other one to garner a hit | given the Cubs a good lead, gave the ‘Pa’’ Rourke announced today that he | visitors seven runm In the last three in yad signed Joe Burg, who was With|pinee This gave them the lead, but Milwaukee the last two years. Burk 8|gingles by Fick, Saler and Zimmerman, % an Infleider who can play any posttion, | willtams' sacrifice and Doolan’s bunt re He will fill the third station with the |4 eved the victory for the Cubs, Score Rourkes and Al Boucher, it is expected, | CIROINURRRT du1cAc0 ® will get the gate. Burg is a good flelder, ABH.O.A K ABH.OA ¥ Killiter, ¢f..4 3 3 0 OMann, M 50200 f 0 hard hitter and a good base runnor. | filier. cf.. 4 3 4 ¢ Onans. 1.8 2200 } Mo has & lot of fight and comes woll|Clase 1h.6 4 & 1 oWilliame e 1 0 4 10 recommended, Rourke expects to aes | (riffith, if. 4 L4 3 Zmrman, 9bh 4§ % 0 him one of the best third sackers in the | Beail, 1t 5 1 0 0 0Mulliean, we. § 0 § % 1 1 | Louden, #b.. 5 2 1 1 1fnoher 1510 vy | Clarke, ¢,...4 1'2 0 OYerkes, 3b...4 3 2 2 1 Burg for Third, Wingo, o....1 0 1 0 0Beaton, v...3 1 0 8 0 Burg reports to the club In Omaha and 1004 900 fs expected to arrive about Wednesday. | N e R S 11000 He s at presont In Oakland, Cal. t e e T Tt was dlscovered today that n second | Jotelr.. 3 f6est :\.h,’,,,,l; i e Frnle Krueger fs stopping at the hotel | wpitiad for Dite in seventh, here. Frnle recelved a postcard signed, | *Batted for Seaton in eighth, “Your loving sister.”” Trnfo has no sis-| *Batted for Mulligan in ninth. ter, 80 he concluded there is not only (jln"'!nmm TR g 2 3 & 8w | another Ernfe Kruegef in the world but | Chicago L s o M Two-base hits: Ierzog, Kilger (2), also in Deés Moines Chase, Louden (). Home runs’ Flack, The attendance at the game this after- | Safer. Stolen bases: Zimmerman, Saler, noon was paor, owing to the Drake relay | Mann. Double play: Yerkes to Mulligan 7 Heore: to Suier. First base on errors: Cincin- games, ' Bcore natl, 2; Chicago, 1. Bases on balls: Off The score: Dale; 4; off aton, 4; off Lavender, 1, OMAHA. Hits and earncd runs: Off Dale, 9 hith, 6 AB. R H. 0. A I|funa in aix innings: off Mitehefl, 5 hits, Smith, If., w8 0 1 .4 0 0|2 runs in three lunings; off Beaton, 11 Krug, ef.: 0 @ 2 0 1|hits, 6 runs In elght Innings; off Laven- IForsythe, rf 0 1 2 0 0|der, 2 hits, £ runk fn one inning. Struck Miller, 1b, 0 0 10 0 0|out: By Heaton,-4; by Lavender, 1. Um Marshall, o 2 0 0 1 0 0fpires; O'Duy and Eason tKrueger, Ciipriiel (00 1 0 0 e . Rriest, 8. viovoucian 8 00 288 : Houcher, b, v T e W h Wl f m Kilduff,’ ss. AR s T L O 1ches n iro e o 22 22l The Denver Bears TotalNiiiei, vesilli 10 408 W8 DES MOINPS iy AB, R, H, 0, A, ®.| DENVER, Col, April 22.=A rally by Hahn, rf 80071 .00 0lDenver in the ninth inning falled ‘to Meloan, If. v N PO e R “ st 'q yon, § to 3 s pwmgpl 1470 @ 1 o ‘g|stave oft deteat Wichita won Jones, ib..... 4 1 1 18 0 1|The score Hartford, a8 31 0 Fhul AANE DENVER. 3 Iwoldt, 3b... 8.3} 8.0 AB, R. H. 0, A. B, ] Breen, ¢ .3 0 2 8 0 O]|Miiler, rf R R Kramer, '8 0 0 4 1 1[Kellher, s SN R S Grant, p.. 13 0 0 1 8 0]Qakes, F L e (R R 3 1 0 1] 0 Totals Loter L e Wy ¢ 153 ¢ 1 *Batted for Marshall in eighth 43 = e | Omaha 00010000 0-1|gtecs P ety i | 0 Des Moines 02000000 3| 3tevens 30010 %0 Two-base hits: Krause, Hartford. | pencer $ 3. 1% % 0 Struck out: By Krause, 1; by Grant, 3. | sShestak AR U e S Bases on balla: Off Krause, 2; off Grant, = g Mays: Krause to Kilduff to| Totals TS R U Miller Kramer to Hartford to Jones, WICHITA Grant to Jones. WIId piteh: Grant. Left AB, R 1L 0. A, on b aha, §; Des Moines, b.|Tobin, 1f Lo 34 8 Time: 140. Umplres: Andrews and|Fox { T b1 0.8 Mullen of - Sl G 0 - 1b 4 1 1 0 2 4 Britton, 2b 4 2 1 2 0 3 H th Sph & Heltling, b L ¢ 0 Llnks 1t e ere Litschio, s 6 o 0 0 3 2 : % s | Gray, o ol T R A Just a Little Harder @ 5 O T : : Totals s 8 0N 0 . Than Sioux and Win | etz i siiige ' s, Irenver 0000000 :¢ 0 i NCOLN, Net Apri Lincoln | Stolen bases: Kellher, Jackson i -8 X tay, 4 1044 Abatein, Heitling, Jackson n A [ arder | hases hit: Tobiy s ' and " b fault Rpor n bal ff Pate fr 'hi I play: Dyer to Shields t H BOR M \ el Jap Military e, ¢ | Experts to Visit finsimg : Theater of War ~‘ . A NORTH PLATTE TEAM - SIGNS FOURTEEN PLAYERS ninth Inning of a hard-fought | OFF DRAKE MEET| Sprinters Prove Too for Mid-West Athletes. Wisconsin Speedy NEBRASKA DOES NOT COMPETE | . By ¥, 8 HUN DS MOINES, April (Special Tele gram.)—Tho University of Wisconsiu not captured the sixth annual Drake relu games here today vy winning the first place in three out of the four ovents, but also shattered the world's record for the half-mile relay The Hadger tewm clipped off the 850 yards fn 1:28, The thrmer record, held by Chicago, wis 1:20%, made at St Louls Wisconsin's athletes had an easy time capturing the'mect. Tommy Jones' orack four-mile tewm, Merrill, Henish, Schardt and Harvey, htarted the Bodger rush by winnjng the four-mile relay In cnsy fashion, T also tablisfed w new Drake relay record for this distance by apturing ‘the artot of miles In 15:08%, Morrill got away to a flying start and ave his teammates n good lead, which | they casily held Michigan finished second, 00 yards be- hind Harvey, Wisconsin's last man. Chis wko finlshed thivd Work of Stlehm, Indiana was the particulnr viotim in the four-m Both Wisconsin and Michigan | the Hooslers, and Wallagce, the anehor man, quit in dig gust before the 1 vas over, Thia hows the kind of school Stelhin jumped Nebragka for | Wisconsin followed up the advantage earned In the four-y by prancing [home a victor in the half-mile, The Diinols team gave the Bedgers o hurd | flght for the race and Peterson, Casey, | 8mith and Cartor, the Wisconsin team, were forced to establish the new world's record to win tro Dame was third in the race Hadgers Upset All Dope, The final race on the program, the {one-mile raco, was the third Wisconsin victory, The Budkers upset the dope In this event as Chicago was expectod {to cop It In eany fash But the 1gern were too fast printed the distance in 8 . cutting the Drake stadium record two seconds Dismont made a great finish for Chic ago and | managed to beat Missouri"out of sevor place, but he could not eatch up with | Smith, who wna runuing last for Wia consin, | Purdue won the only university division. mile event other first In the This two Purdue had no opposition In | this race, and won handily In the slow was the | time of 8:010s | Fastest Sprinters Compete, The prettiest race of the afternoon was # he wpeclal invitation 220-yard dash, Seven | of the fastest wprinters in the country | Barker of Northwestern, Carter of Wi consin, Pershing of Chicago, Hopman of llinols, oyt of Grinnell, Shearer of Drake and Emith of Michigan tovk part in this race. Charles Hoyt, a cadaverous corn-fed Hawkeye, who 18 learning the arts and ! | #clences at Grinnell college of this state Jogged home u victor, with Hopman of | Ililinols wecond and Shearer of Drake third, Hoyt knockedsoff the dash in | 213gmeconds, and vy mih 4n the race covergd the distance In 2% seconds or betler. Hoyt's time s the best ever made in the widdle mest. Minnesotn Wi The. mile college race " Enaily, went to Hamlin college. The Minnesota crew scrambled the distance In 3:31% for an easy victory, | with Cornell second and Coe third, Morningside repeated it In the two-mile college event, Cornell was & punk second and South Dakota Wesloyan trafled for third position, Morn |ingside's time was 8§ 16%. | The one-mile college relay Was a pippin |of & race, which was captured by Grin | nell in a wonderful finish by Hoyt, the | man who won the 220 dash. Hamlin was leading when the fourth and final lap started, with Floyt carrying the butch for Grinnell and Cummings for Hamlin, Hoyt | victory of 1916 | | Two Lightweights In Running for Welsh's Title OMAHA, CHARLEY WHITE AND SUNDAY plcked up the lost distance and twenty yards from the finish line passed Cum- | G mings and won the event ’ 1 erscholantle Events, Interapersed between the university ana| It begins to look as If there are two ollege relay ere a number of inter- [Ughtweights who will do a great deal scholastic events. The first high school toward bringing the class back to the event, was a half mile relay, which was pre-eminence it enjoyed in the good old won by Fort Dodge, with Bast Des Moines i and West Des Molne third The two. Sawg .ot Joo Gans Bautling A mile high school relay was won by Mar-| WOIKASL et al. Everybody has heen shallte with Fort Dodge econd and somewhat disgusted with ti nogen Indianola third hile the mile was rop of lightweights - s " won b Fast 1 Moir with Corydon grabbed the tase titl o . . i Anisgdl folans Al long and tir 1 of round / e 4 Ao Wit 24 The Now that Henr l# rd v York Ens + . & \ Vest Des | NS deve L ® A ’t W MAne " h ) I nd and s 3 g Nor f M third & Nobata too good for Fred We A " » ey » owton me t nd e : v nd ] " 2 thir Wehst made Teonny . . : . . . . i e Whit f r ach | Chicag .5 s o h [ N ] ¥ ’ \J ar Porto Rico Sugar . ¢ Crop Greatest in History of Island LEE 216G ZAG TIRES MAKE CHAINS UNNECES 4 hive ) : P ard and White should Le matched for a twenty-round battle with Welsh bound by a hard and fast agreement to 7y t the winner over the same distance, Smith foth TLeonard ‘\H{ White are punchers the old chool Hoth have wscored ckouts galore and impressed the fan the fdea that possibly either of them | A long ntest might be able to hang or tha O n the man from Wale L not find out which s the helter an elween th two flghting He rew It . match that belng d and & fat purs \hy t ha TED CATHER SOLD TO " NTREAL BY VERNON BENNY “Well, an Even Break is as Much as Anyone Qught to Look For " BADGERS CARRY SPORTS SECTION of THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE @ ROURKES T0 OPEN AT HOME TUESDAY After Day of Rest Monday, Omaha Club Will Start Campaign on Home Lot, | LINKS WILL BE ATTRACTION woather man, who has muiderable number of graclously grants us the cuther, Waostern in Omaha Tues. In r n. Also on that afternoon O will make ita bid for the Arthur T Capper cup, MORNING, APRIL 1916, The three-ring clrcus stunts which gen- srally mark opening day have been sery ed on the Omaha program this on There Il be no parade and there von't be any royal rootors. A few simple e only ha been scheduled fayor Dahlman |s expected to hurl the ! | 1 been dolng this it nber of years now 1 ranl A the best pitehing " roin it Puirbrother's band wvill « penss w few har 101 bef I imbat starts, ™ Rota s bought a bloek of 4,000 Lieke f the opening game and distributed the smong the school ehi) Aren of th nd the employes of the t Hotarians will prob tinkling cow bells to I race they attend the tals Muyor Dahlman has issued a procia natio g fans t m out for the | Hopes for n ( Fa Ro « hoping for o ) crowd I oper In the flrst wee there s n 1l mpetition among the Ithos o the o for the larg opening day rowd, Arthur Cappe governor of Kan ha fered o silver trophy eup for 0 it (| the nrgest altend " Or 1 Ix the ranking city of the ongle figurin tne populution of Omn nd priximate territory, even i Denver Thus If Omaha s as d w tnse ball town as the othe | ] K league Omaha should walk of box parties are carded for game, Alrendy many of the heen wold to large parties The boxe will Te decorated and every thiv t e an auspicious oponing. Large blocks of sent have y been re i large parties, Seats are on le ut Darkalow Bros, Bixteenth and Farnam strecta, | Play Lowly Links, n will oppose the Rourkes Tues th the Links this year are a f old Omaha favorites Artie | Phomason and Hickory Johnson. Both {whil work in the Tuesday fray, { Duéky Holmes 1 sembled a good {cluby this year. %o has Pa Rourke. And { merely from the andpoint of compet) tive hase ball the opening game should be well orth attending { The Rourh leuve , Den Mofnes for | Omaha tonight, Tomorrow is a day of ent, fm Monday 18 not « good opening ALl clubs in the league luy off to- MOrrow In addition to Omaka sk and Wiehita will inay il Hioux City, Te urate pliy at home Tuesday, Dos Mofnes will be the tirnetion at Sloux City, while Denver | y at Topeka and 8t. Joseph at I Wichita ashington Victor Over Highlanders In Eleven Frames WASHINGTON April 22 -New York | bent Washington, # t today In & thrill | tng eleven-Inning g The visltors got iquA five hits off Havper, but all of them W me. | figured in the scoring, Iigh's alngle | Cook's sacrifice and Gedeon's safety put [aver the first run ‘in the fourth, The locals tied the ore in the #ixth on e ¥ | Fosters tripte and Rondenu’s double. The il LR T Yankees went hitleas from the fourth 14 LEONARD. | the eloventh, when Nunamaker singled [ Maisel got a Texas leaguer and both the ten-round lmit, Kvery one of the | yuoreq when Bauman hitting for High kood lightwelghts has tried It and overy | g, o o bagger. For Washington Mor. Do has falled, ‘White had Shres ceaoki |y -hsgy S Henry got a sigle M 6 &nd ousH'C UNEIR Se« PU 16 0 McHride sacrificed and Morgan scored There was & suspicion created in.at lsast | o, 0" spupims ™ hitting for Matin tWo of thews. baitiss that I8 the mitaies knocked n rounder to Peckinpadgh had gone on twent rounds White - might have landed pare Leonard had his chances in ten ror¥ I RO WASRING PO the other night | New e didn't [ on ki Welsh dow Nobody else | 1! V8 43100 A formed that 1 } everal ‘0 R ; s, DUt tha IEERE oMcBride, .4 34 30 t 1} st ' » . + OHarpe [0 ‘ LE R ¥ n olght ‘ oy 00N b \ 1 ! > Totals 1 B ) r Harper in eleventh, 2 It'm e n eloventl Y Y 10000008 . » W N 0000 1LOODON LS Mosller, Rondeau 5 1 wn. Threo-base hit: Foster War Proves Hard w, ok, 1 Washington ¢ " 1 I 1 Nunam to Diamond Trade ; w Yori 4 e in the Netherland: GONDING TO UMPIRE BIG LOCAL GAME TODAY wmi pra n ARy gl tor Johnny f the Vimertean A nauetn e 111 ! el TN nun 4 1 i\ “d avi Wik, Lagaier tn Ablnnaie wity ol s algn Wi erm agus . Baly Twe Saued P T vl LYY ny fleld