Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 23, 1916, Page 43

HA-HA-HA JAY- | GET RENO RUTH /N THERE AAS SHES DAFFY TD SEE ME™ IMITATE A CORLY WOLF = I'" GONNA S(ARE HER TD DENTH - SORE - You Kuow ™E CURW WOLE 1 veny Fond OF WiLD SWEET FOTADES WHEN Vou BTE HER. GO STRAIGHT AHEAD ROMMY fwE ST ALl AlonE RIGHT STEALGHT AHEPD- (WL BE IV THERE IMA MINVTE Neeky A ‘\?&!‘tg THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: APRIL 23, 1916 SILK HAT HARRY - == - AMATEURS PLAN BUSY DAY Gov. Whitman to Be Asked to Probe Two Leagues Will Paste Pill Far First Time This After- noon, HOT CONTESTS ARE IN SIGHT | By FRANK QUIGLEY. For #ome moons to come wmateur base | poll will rolgn supremo in and around | these jungles, The curtain raised last Kunday and the big show rolleq nfrmm] the boards on scheduled time and the | entertalnment. Wil continue until the cal- | endar deslgnates unpleasant atrfospheric | conditions, _Apparently everyone directly connected ~ with the Omaha Amateir | Baseball assoclution wns well pleased with the brand of base ball dished out by the lecal exponents of the game, and the nttondance soared wkyward with what the predictions of acres called for, last Bunday the barkers found thems- ! selves up against a starchy proposition, endeavoring to make decisions that would | win the approval of all concerned. They found out that such a thing could not happen on this universe. An angel here from heaven on & visit could not umplire & game of base ball without incurring | the enmity of a few. Decisions of judg- ment stand regardiess of *how radical | thoy may uppear to the player or spec- tator, but In case of an error relative 1o | the interpretation of the rules, the gams can be played under protest and ad- | Justed later by the leagus involved, and | If It falls to geliver justice another ro- ourse Is left—the board of directors of the Omaha Amateur Baseball assoclution, Six leagues ontered the arena last Sun- duy and simultancously started to plow their way to the hall of fame, baseball- ically speaking. Unexpected victorles were roglstered, consequently some of the boys were a ftrifle off color last week, but the majority of the local pill shooters aro brosd-minded enough to know that | a defeat now and then is relished by the | best of men. compared the whe- Two Premiers Today. Two leagues, the American and City, and o palr of teams, the Te-Be-Ce's and Twenty-fourth and Lake Merchants, will make thelr debut this afternoon. The American league will blow the whistie with elght clubs, They will line up as follows: B, O. Merchants againnst the Omaha Printing company, Chris Lycks against Omaha Blcycle Indlans, J. D, Crews against Dundes Woolen Mills, Mer- | chants’ Hotel against Townsends. Dur-| ing their preliminary arguments all of these teams have showed real class, so the above contests should be tough de- bates. The City league will waltz under the| ropes with seven aggregations, six of | which will perform today. Did Its will take its Sunday off today. Herowith the six teams that will wranglo |, o5 CRE 0, L TRUETO0 & e | dispensed all moneys tody: Hollys against Walter G. Clarks, | oyy oo 0 FLETE0E BPIRRECEE B @d | Fourth—The Show corporation w ’\ml“n gt t’m'm"" against Mickel| 4 “won k. chatrman of the Boxing com- | Kranted the license to hold the fight by fotrolas, La Sfesta against Beselna. | oo o i€ BRERE o e e held the Hoxing commission. It was supposed For years this league has been recog- |~ ° M € . * 1o hold a three-year lease on Madison nized as the leader in class B circles and | 1 18 freely admitted tho Tight was ano 0" coqen at an annual rentsl.of evasion of the law. Money was requested according to the dope kreat gobs of fans | TVASTR OF the AW, Money ws Heauested| gy iy will be on deck today to witness mo“,"‘;fl . "’"{'If' s b > "“}"" o+ R WL ieth--Wenck refterated his former strength of the varlous congregations, | MRS - OTHS ' statement that Curley came to him with Huck Cnae e leader of the Te-Be New Facts Hrought Out. o money offer from Rickard. He sald v, tho lead ! Co's, backed by Tracey Brow, will in ail| IMrst—Tex Rickard sald Jack Curley, \he distrusted ®urley and requested James probability produce a lineup that will|one of Willard's managers, ame to him | J. Johu n to “set himd (Wenck) right™ \ke the Class A follows sit up and|for money to “satisfy certain influences [with Rickard blink. The Twenty-fourth and Lake Mer« | downtown.” (The office of the State Box ixth-Rickard says the money Wwas hants i3 a new tribe and its strength | In§ commission is at No, 41 Broadw olicited, Wenck says It was not {Il be demonstrated today ) - —— | . Arandeis-Gas ( pany ) M — : F ‘S' l (‘1' T o y 1 Jor nQ out at Rourke park the Omaha cas|2OLT18E6 18 Lar [RIsler uives L1p mpany bunch of the Greater Omaha f B 3 L g} w n . @ oy eus will try 1t luek nainet o v | 11010 B1ng Liottery, on Shorter Way lein tribe, looal semi-p hamplons of Z h " h H i l 1 . Tiay wit provaniy tir for mo| @6 Li0a8t in St. Louis to the Hospita randels and Bhaffer for the Oas com X any. (lame called at threo bells. here have been quits a numicr fhere 18 ons player on the Rrowns, 1 magnates of the Hooster league g s Hrowns married since that \dentally, w 15 & warm supporter Ar Bly declded that the tussel| o0 wae instituted It won't the central pewers {n the present war loh was lefy finished by the WA he name of the player L the recent southern tour he spent Al Caslh Re ors and Boston peat the following r which J \ £ his tin Ing Mp newspapers wsh on last Wur hould be fintahed. | (' Conpar tells of one of the A A v the leading cities and poring ovesr ' 1l ). when the Boaston N ' who got tied 1 i them Vash orew deolded to akidd ) the Iarger town he waa always to have " L ng to pla nno! Yed found standing fror £ some news w « f the National | y tor & r of . t the war enough s . w .t ' " 4 v and one diapatoh N \ n one inning. At g ' ) showed 1} ana had made & e o put on A ‘ o A gty . " . ? yoars t N . t the other players ved ¢ with great enjoyment FAIR ST. LOUIS SWIMMERS : 1| Ona wore siand \ 1o cond g ot plating thelr YO ENTER CHAMPIONSHIPS ] b ol sl s o i " i | Pulien paper balle ) AnEer happensd " ¢ ' Map and ask aler I b 4 Inform - . » h . st Wy e . . o reapanded Mo that man aver (hare? " . . : sler ing s toammate v . Wialer " sland JOHNNY EVERS QETS Whd e e chenrs MICHIGAN PIGSKIN ARTISTS START SPRING TRAINING Bribe Charge In Willard-Moran Fight Top, Left to Right: Tex Rickard and Fred A. Wenck. Bot- made PINCHED IN CAPITAL NEW YORK, April 2 man probably will be asked to probe n.-‘ium or $1,000 at the first request as im- | activity of the Btate Boxing commission | mediate action was deemed necessary s & result of alleged ‘ regarding [ The Murph¥ | \oran bout fn Madison Bquare garden.|with the staging of the fight; that he Outstanding in the recent the dlsclosures M'CABE AND ANDERSON SENT BACK BY RED SOX Alaclosures Willard 18 Governor Whit- Just | tom, Left to Right: Jack Curley and James J. Johnston: - Second—Curley, eald Rickard, wanted Rickard admitted the Show cor- had nothing whatever to do Third poration the |and no one else handled all detalls and Stiehm to Referee High Track Meet 'WILL NOT NUMBER PLAYERS |Harvard and Yale Do Not Care to Have Their Foot Ball Players Wear Numerals. SYSTEM FAI!TAT CAMBRIDGE NEW YORK, April 2.~The system of numbering foot ball players will nevor be adopted by Harvard or Yale, it wan learned the othor duy, and the rules com mitte will refuse to take ‘further notioe | of the plan, Tt appears that during the | recant meeting of the rule makers in this | pity the Harvard managers produced proof that ot | numbers to identify the players had been conclusive the wenring a partial fallure In the Cambridge stadium | The Marvard managers, 1t seon, took moying pletures of weveral games In which the opponents of the Crimson oloven were numernls on thelr backs The films showed that not more than a quarter of the varlous plays were made clear by this method and that when the sridiron was muddy the numbers could not be Mstingulshed at all. The Harvard | managers also howed that they had a system at Cambridge which was more | satisfuctory than the wearing of num- bors, They fllustrated the working of woore board patented by Arthur A. lrwin which years, Irwin's bomrd, according to the Har vard men, showed all the plays in the stadfum Iast fall In conjunction with a | has been in use for twenty-two | r and reproved him sternly “Weren't you ashamed,” he demanded of all the players were printed the boara provided the' necessary Information. Tho | oase was so well argued by the Harvard men that the rule makers decided to take no notion, Incidentally A, A. Btagg, fool ball coach at Chicago university, has do- clded to adopt the Irwin system next gall ale may follow suit, | New Coach Says Purdue Grid Men | Are Too Ladylike LAPAYETTE, Ind, April Too | Iadylfke,” 1s the criticiam of the Purdue | foot ball squad, undergoing spring train- | ng, hy Clero O'Donnell, the new conch who arrived recently from the east. Hi methods of conching are sntirely differ-| ent from any seen hero and are proving | popular with the players and the student | body in general ) [ Coach O'Donnell is paylng eapecial at tentlon to the manner in which the nu-n’ run and the Purdue players are becoming | familiar with the low, crouching position, | which has been dubbed “the duck wad- dle.” The new coach plans to return to bis home in Kverett, Mass., where he Iy under contract to comch base ball this #pring. ..0 probably will not return until tall, FORMER WESTERN UMP JOINS THE BENEDICTS Announcement 2, has been made of the marriage of M, 2, Sigler, former Western leagus umpire, and Miss Pearl Miller former Kansas City newspaper woman SANDLOT GAMES TODAY GREATER OMAHA LEAGUE Luxus against Burkoss-Nush at Luxus park, 5.8 p. m To-Ho-Co's aguinst Armours, Armour park, m Y p oky Holmes againmt | Burgoss-Naah Ducky Holmes park, 180 p | NATIONAL LEAGUE | Ramblors agninst I a Lake Merchants, Fort Ona P Polish Merohania againgt Prank De |orm, Thirty-first and Toyd, 5.3 p. m | CITY LBAGUK | Mollys against Walter G, Clarks, ¥ Omaha, 1 & p. m Mrowh Fark Merchants against Mick Victrolas, Thirty-mcond and Dewey ve nue, 4.8 p. .m L Hlosta . . moad, Pontes AMERICA L'y t Omaha Omaha Kleyols 1 Lok hark " Tewe Agalnw \ Mils, ThIrty aevenih I Ay ) Morchania M agnin Town . Miller park, 8 BOUTH K X . o LEAW " ' Atk 1 Ny BOOKTER | » vadimnan againm o weel dia Frim \ . . ' V » o w 1 Betd Wl Wash saninm & . | Midgeia 'y - [wus, L8 o | ,‘ ™ A Misasurl Avenue Ms s o | Thisteanth Miies M ‘ arh s yelaa mouth A Masehanin 4ot & ' "y b o aEninat Homes ' ark, 4 % | Rookie Admits He Was Ashamed, but for Another Reason Joo (Corbett, brother of Jim Corbatt, who used to play In the Facifie league and who was with the Bt. Louls Cur Ainale during the World's falr of 1904 wan n quiet, retiving sort of fellow, yet he had a fund of dry humor that waa cqually as amusing ns the professional joken that Jim used to crack when the Intter wan, on the vaudeville stage Joe in back In the game again, after an abeence of some years, and one of hin ancedotes will be recalled with in torest. It seams that when he waa play- Ing on the const a theatrical show ap- peared at & Ban Pranciaco theater where the Jokon were trifle broad, to say the onnt Toe stutes that he and the manager of the team happened to stroll in, and, In the courne of a program that would have done the rawost of burlesque troupes full justice, they happened to notice one of the junior members of the team mitting | woll down to the front with a young girl The young player happened to be from one of the backwoods sections up in Ore gon or Washington, and the manager neowled whon saw him bringing o young woman there who obviously was girl of some clann Joe says the mannger rounded up the he n card on which the names and numbers | of the abashed player, “to sit there with | that young, innocent girl, listening to Jokes 1ike that? “I was” ndmitted the recruit, “You wee, I'm from the country, and ain't up to date; 1 had to get her to explain every one of them to me," CHICAGO FANS WILL MAKE INVASION ON CLEVELAND CHICAGO, April 2.~When the Chicago White Sox battle Cleveland at Cleveland Aprll 2, they will have n large delegn- tlon of “fans’ from their home pity with them, A special train has been enguged and several hundred reservations already have been made, The crowd, which will be hended by Owrter Charles Comisk of the White Sox, is going to the Ohlo city for two reasons, Wirst to root for the White Hox, and second, to honor the new (Mleveland owners, most of whom are Chlcagoans, HAUGHTON WILL BE HIS OWN SECRETARY Nothing has hesn done by the Boston club, President Haughton says, on the matter of appointing & traveling secre tary, and it {a doubtful if one will be appointed, Secretary Hapgood will take one, or possibly two, of the long trips with the team, and President Haughton smnys that he wants to learn the entire business end of the base ball business and that also will make one of the fong trips and possibly twa of the shorter the capacity of business man ngor. MISSOURI TRACK TEAM WOULD BATTLE ILLINOIS in COLUMBIA, Mo, April 2.-Athletic Director Rrewer of the University of Missourl in trying to arrange for & track | maat between Misacuri and Tilinols, to be held In Urbana, May ¢ Members of the Missouri team believe they have an even chanoe to win from feel there is more sat Tiinols or some weaker school Inols and they detoat by Iafaetion in than in An ey vietory ov DISQUALIFIED ELI STAR TO JOIN GIANTS IN JUNE Mo Way, the young plicher, whe wis Msqualified from playing this seanon, wi in sithet the (Hants o Pirates after his gradustion in June, Wy han AN offer of saveral yoars' standing from Mansy Iraw and now Jimmy Onliahan sino antered the Mats st Yala the Y v \ . NOTRE DAME STAR SIGNS WITH PITTSBURGH CLUB GRIF SAYS HIS HURLING CORPS BEST IN LEAGUE PIRATES SEND ALTENBERG TO THE WHEELING TEAM » M e N haeling " \ avr Altond 3—8 Drawn for The Bee by Tad 'Correct Answer to - This Simple Query is Lead-Pipe Cinch Along the line of unconsciola repartes an anecdote in told on Miller Huggine | that seems to be enjoyed particularly by the married men of the Rritton delegn tlon, Ineldentally, marriage was not the leading tople under discussion, but just happened to erop out in the conversas tion, | The real remson and occasion for the [yarn {8 that Hugging felt called upon to | glve mome fatherly advice to one of his reorults whose table and street manners neaded a trifle of improvement, The recruit was a well-meaning boy, and Huggins talked to him in most paternal style ‘Ot course,’ mald Hugging, “when you | may you'd just like a knifeul or two of peas, you mean & spooniul or forkful; most people use those articles, and it | nysht be n good thing It you ate your | | peas with something besides a knife after | thin," “But what's the use of using one thing more than another?’ demanded the new | member. | “There’'s naq special use,”” explained Huggine patiently, “but it's just the cus | tom of the thing; like your walking | | around the hote! lobby fully dressed ex- | |cept for a colinr, T dare may, you're people wear collars nowadays; 1t's just | a eustom.” | "Custom, eh?' ropeated the recruft, | | willing enouigh to learn, but still a trifle | perplexed. “HBure” sald Hugine encouragingly, “it ain't that it makes much difference, | but people do thowe things, Just like | that wedding party we saw this after | noon. Did you noties how the bride and all the bridesmalds were dressed? That's Just a custom; you see a wedding day is | mupposed to be one of the brightast and happlest in a woman's life, and that's why the girls always wear white The recruft brooded a moment | “Say,”” he Inquired thoughtfully, “why | 4o the men at & wedding always wear | black?” | ST. LOUIS SHORTSTOP ? POSITION IS IN DOUBT Miller Huggine, manager of the Bi, Louls Natlonals, apparently 1s about rendy to flip up & coin to decide whether Rogers Hornsby or Roy Corhan shall guard the shortstop position Hornaby worked in the spring series | | ngainat elder Jones' Americans and Dbatted better than 500, Tn the first few | [3 % of the season he has proved to be |an efficlent run-getter, Huggins credits | Wi somewhat erratie flelding to over-| | zenlousness, which he belteven will wear | off am the season advances. | | Roy Corhan's arm 18 rounding Into shape rapidly, He probably will ho ready to take his place at shortstop within @ tow days. Consldering Hornaby's knack | of gottng on the bases and putting over | runs Huggine expects to find a place for him. It Corhan takes the Infleld posi tlon, Huggins con, # using Hornsby {r the outfield when his team it fucing & left-handed pitcher BIG EASTERN YACHT CLUBS ‘ EFFECT AN AFFILIATION DIETROIT, April 2% ~Pawer hoat ra Ing probably will recelve wdded impetus In this section at least, as three inter yaoht clubs have affiliated with the an Powsrboat association. The ! n Detroit, Cloveland and Sar dusky and " woted hat other yaehting organtsations will fall in line “BIG BAN" 10 THE RESCUR American League Prexy Inaugar- ates Polioy of “Help the Weaker Clubs.” WOULD BE BENEFIT, 10 ALL NEW YORK, April 22 ~Two prominent base ball denls consummated furnish conclusive proof that Ban Johnson has Instituted a new policy in the Ameroan lengue, The slogan of the organization now s, “help the weaker clubs” It i A policy destined to prove of great financial benefit to the eight “clubm, In- dividally and collectively. It is a poliey which should have been enforoed somse years ago, especially in this clearing house for base ball currency. The denls referred to are thoss where- by Frank Baker was cached in & Yan- kee uniform and “Tris” Bpeaxer beoamse the property of the (leveland Indians, When the Yankees were negotiating for the purchase of Haker's releass from the Philadelphin ‘Athletics there wers other elub owners in the league who watehed the progress of the negotiations with covetous eyes. To even the fur« thest removed outsider 1t was Apparent that o restraining power held thess owners in check, Otherwise they would been in the bidding, and the prics of Buker's roloase would heen sent soaring hoyond all imits of reason and fairness. By holding them back and leaving the ruit when they got back to the hotel "m"”""uh‘, enough without 1t, but most | f1¢1d to the Yankees, the New York elub wns enabled to procure Baker's releass for a price greatly under what might have been pald had “Connie’ Mack besn pormitted to auction the player's reloass to the highest bidder. Cleveland's Conp Wxplained, This new pollcy also explaine how Cleveland was able to pluck one of base ball's most lusclous pemches. The Yan- kees were keen on the trall of Speaker, |and clamoring nolsily in the dust the New York club raised in its efforts to land the player wers nt least four other olube, the lesves of thelr cheok books waving temptingly in the face of Joseph 1. Lannin, president of the Red Sox. But “Blg Ban" warned them all back, and, unhampered, James Dunn, new president of the Cleveland club, was permitted to earry on negotiations for the acquisition of Bpenker. Tt was explained that the fans of Oleve- 1and . had virtually decided to boyocoit , the club when Joo Jackson was sold td the White Box Inst season and ft was Im- perative that the Indlans procure another star to take the place left vacant by Jackson's tranafer to the clan Comiskey. This new pollcy iy founded upon the basio principle that it ls more effective financially to have base ball strength distributed in as many teams In the league as possible rather than that one or two or three should stand out as vir- tual Gibraltars among sand dumes, If four of five clubs can be fortiffed with base ball strength it means that all the olubs fn the league will benefit ma- terfally na regards the eapturing of the clusive dollar, The few remaining weak clubs—or ocomparativety weak olubs~ naturally share in the patronage that 1o n winning club's, It 1s not syndicate base it 1s far removed from wich 1, In faot, condition that would prove the ruinath of the national aport. Clubs holding play- ers are not forced to dispose offany of thelr holdings. Nor in limiting thily fleld of bidders is any one club enabled o purchinge & player's releass for a prine below the player's real value, The poliey affords olubs bank rolls not as heavy aa some others with an opportunity te bolster up depleted ranks and ameume & position other than that of & poor also ran AW & result the game benafits for the fans in the smaller citles are thus ene lube represening them that in the simply whonse are hied to have AL least have & flghting ohanes amplonship meleg The Indian Motocycle Is the Best Motorcycle Omaha Bicycle Co. Retallers of Powerplus and Comfortplus Motoayales, 1916 Three-Speed Models as low as $150.00 INDIAN BIOYOLES - The best buy of any bloyole bully, K25.00 TO S40.00,