Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 22, 1916, Page 32

JOHNSTON BOOKED 10 DRAW THE GATE Promoting Genius of Madison Square Garden Runs Afoul of Political Juggernaut. ALL ms\urms SUCCESS By RINGSIDE. New York, Oct. 21.—They (a clique of burrowing “sportsmen") are trying ’to oust James Jay Johnston as match- maker and manager of the Show cor- poration which conducts boxing bouts in Madison Square Garden. James Jay—ip used to be Joy—is making a determined stand, but the political as- pect has crept into the controversy, and it will take a fighter possessing Johnson’s indomitable spirit to cope successfully with the obnoxious ele- ment. B Johnston presents some forceful ar- guments why he should be retained. And he backs these arguments with facts and cold figures. What he may lack in brawn Johnston more than makes up for in brain. His most con- yincing argument in_favor of his re- tention is that the Garden has never jost a penny on a boxing match since he was installed as matchmaker, This is more than can be said for Johnston's four predecessofs. These gentleman all antedated Johnston as | supervisor of Garden boxing shows since the Frawley law went into ef- " fect, but not one turned in an account that showed a profit for the Garden general management. Makes Good on Job. It was with a view of ge(tin? re- sults—in the form of huge profits— that the Garden directors secured | Johnston after his predecessors had " utterly failed. And Johnston made | good to such an extent that he at . once became the foremost promoter of boxing matches in the country, su- '~ perseding Jimmy Coffrothl in this re- spect. And for his judicious management | and money making pro es, they are h:,ying to give James Jay the | “gate.” Once the juggernaut politics ~ trails at the heels of one it is well to ~ get off the highway. 'h Appended are some statistics which seem to prove that Johnston is pe- uliarly adapted to managing the box- ing -exhibitions in the great metropo- mshitheater: \l ing the month of March, 1916, ton had a hand in staging three , and the gate receipts aggregat- 194,038.50, -The illard-Moran - which Johnston was instru- n -to the Garden, a sufficient magnes, to attract ,000 at the box office. It is quite e that “Tex" Rickard clinched the ch and was the nominal promoter, it was Johnston who induced the ner to ?c it in the Garden hus swelled t directors to the extent of the largest sum y's reptal of the Two Other Bouts. two other bouts which were ted by Johnston last March mnundu d Welsh- “matches. The former drew hvlzlhen civerf’mao predicu:“l ure for nston; while Leonard-Wels offaif showed e of $28,507. The latter sum, it be remembered, was taken in fter the Moran-Wil- e fought on March 8. furnished more proof of uz:})'flkm The total net profits e fights under his vegime ‘up to $53,231. This was after all : s ¥ _ludromu the rental of $1,000 each {ht. The $1,000 is deducted ore & G'lu starts, in order to e Garden folks of at lea: igl tireturn for opening' the doors. . Never Pulled a Frost, largest amount, of course, ac- ed from the Willard-Moran fight, le the smallest sum, $2400, was by Langford and MeVey, the colored heavyweights, And ith this meager sum of $2,400,) on was able to pay off the and place more than $1,000 in ands of the Garden offici Johnston has been directing boxing bouts in the Garden for eighteen and in all that time has never a “bloomer,” so far as ex- a profit for the Garden \is Yet this is the man they to eject, and in his place tall a man whose practical knowl- of the boxing e is confined vitnessing an occ ional boxing tion, Politics is to blame for he existing chaos in Garden affairs, d the sooner this disturbing ele- is removed from the premises sooner New York’s boxing pub- | be enabled to see some ry fireworks. For Johnston has a of attractive matches in con- w ohnston is removed by the pow- that be, he will immediately flw‘- Garden contingent by the matches he has in mind at al shop, which in size is sec- ‘only to Madison Square Garden. then we'll see if Johnston is the promoting genius he has '.?ybenenud to have shown him- sha and Sioux ~ Clash at Soccer Sunday the Clan Gord. team of Omaha will clash :w::'l: George eleven of Sioux City ha. soccer es are carded for park afternoon, The will %lc with the Town- the Caledonians will clash onpareils. The standing of ns in Omaha and District is as follows: S0P W. L Dr i |to beat Olson with a throw. hern. winter. pard “dream come #lin the fourteenth session. Tex Rickard, who staged the Moran-Willard bout, is ever on the lookout for big things. Rickard never does anything by halves, and when he decides to gut on a show he goes after the best in the market. As a feeler of the public pulse in the uportin;[ line Rickard is without a peen e let it, be known recently that he was thinking of promoting an- other bout, the principals to be Georges Carpentier, the . French heavyweight champion, and Les Darcy, who holds three or four titles WHEN A BAD ERROR 5 NOT AN ERROR Outshaw's Misoue Loses Game for Brooklyn, but His Aver- age Remains Unscathed. SORIBES! KIOK ON SCORING i By FRANK G.:MENKE, New York, Oct. 21.—When is a fatal error not an error? The answer to this question can be found in looking® back through the files to the story that tells of the second game of the recent series for the base ball championship of the d been paid off; and under | VY d rid. In the third inning of that game, George Cutshaw made an error that enabled the Sox to tie the score and eventually swish through to victory Yet Cut- shaw wasn't chatged with a foozle. Quaint, 't it? 4 Scott was on third base. Ruth hit n easy bounder to Cutshaw as Scott started for home. Cutshaw fought the ball instead of letting it come to him. And while he was foozling, Scott crossed the plate, but Cutshaw recovered the ball in time to throw out the slow-running Ruth at first, . That pllly lost the game for the Dodgers, If Cutshaw had fielded the ball cleanly, he would have nipped Scott by ten feet, because the ball e to him fast and Scott didn't have much of a lead when he started fgr the plate. If Scott hadn't scored, the in nine innings, in favor of the Dod- gers. Cutshaw made the worst error of the game, yet he wasn't charged with one because he got Ruth at first. An error “lost oTponunity." Cutshaw lost an an)ormn ty to catch Scott, and so made an error. Yet he didn't because he caught Ruth. Aren't scoring rules odd? .Scorers are Arbitrary. Some of the decisions of the official scorers in that series were weird—and a bit more. Their rulings conflicted almost always with those of veteran sport writers, yet their announcement had to be taken at their face value, because they were doing the official work., R, Th€ scorers put over a new one on the old-time writers, when they charged Olson with two errors on one handling of the ball in the third inning of the final game. Cady was on second and Hooper on first, Jan- vrin hit to Olson, who first juggled the ball, permitting Cady ‘to reach third-and-Hooper second, and then threw wild to second, permitting Cady to score, Hooper to move on to third and Janvrin to second. Usually such a play is scored merely as a single error, But the official folks pointed out that Olson first had enabled Janvrin to reach first base and both Hooper and Cady to ad- vance by fumbling, and later moved the three runners around another base each by his wild throw. Thus, two errors. But Very good, ‘Eddie. those . |scorers reversed themselves in the seventh inning of the same game. Mowrey was on first by virtue of a |in:|e. Then came Olson. He rap- ped a bounder to Scott, who fumbled it long enough to permit Mowrey to reach second and cinch first for Ol- After recovering the ball, how- ever, Scott decided he had a chance He made the throw and the ball went up against the ndstand, Mowre, to third Olson to secon: There was a case similar to Olson’s before |in the third, Scott's fumbling gave life to both Mowrey and Olson, while his wild heave advanced both runners an extra base. But the official scorers ruled that Scott should have but one ame would have ended 1 to 0,) THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: OCTOBER Rickard Would Stage Carpentier-Darcy Go LEFT:- LES DARCY. ! RIGHT:- QEQRGES CARPENTIER, down in Australia, where they haven’t been. able to find a man to beat him. Undoubtedly a bout between these two men woufd be the greatest draw- ing card that could be put up for the entertainment of the pugilistic fans. It would draw as large a crowd, if not larger, than the Johnson-Willard af- fair did in Havana. Just where Rick- ard could put on the show is a ques- aion, Darcy is not keen aout leav- ing Australia, and would have to go through a lot of governmental red tape to do so during the war, Car- [ pentier is at the French front, pilot- ing an aeroplane, but the French gov- ernment has signified its willingness +0 grant the boxer a sufficient leave of absence if he wishes to engage in a bout, Carpentier is heavier tham Darcy, but the Australian has cleaned up all the light heavies in Australia and would gladly tackle the clever Frenchman if given a chance. Darcy undoubtedly will be seen against Mike Gibbons, Jack 'Dillon or Carpentier in the near futyre. e almost the same had assessed Olson two. ve Hits on Errors. In the firs game, Chief Meyers whaled a bRl into center field. Walker lost it momentarily in the sun. Then he saw it again, set him- self for the catch, and the ball trickled right through his hands. The scorers ?nve Meyers a three-base hit on what ooked like a fearful error to ninety- five per cent of the spectators. One of the Sox smashed a ball to left, Zach. Wheat ran in for it, judged the ball perfectly, got under it and then let it go through his fnitts. The ball plunked him on the knee and bounded away, while the runner raced to second. He was credited with a ‘two-bagger, yet it looked like a bad error for Wheat to lose that ball, Twice during the last game the pitcher heaved a ball at the catcher that was a trifle wide, yet seemingly within his ‘reach. Each time the catcher did reach for those balls and was able to get both hands on them. Both times they were fumbled by him. The bulk of writers scored those plays as passed balls, which they cer- tainly seemed to be, yet the official scorers, after a heated conference lmo;q themselves, announced “a wil¢ pitch.” error, while, on play, the; Yay in Omaha for The Winter Months Omaha seems to look good to mem- bers of the Omaha base ball team, for about half of the team intends to spend the winter in Qmaha this year. here are a couple of reasons why the athletes are remaining in Omaha, one is that they like the town, and the other is that it costs money to move nowadays. Marty O'Toole has made plans to stay here this winter and Monday morning goes to work for Ernie Holmes. Cy Earl Higgins. Bobby Marshall, Cecil Thompson, Otto Merz and Lou North are still in Omaha and expect to stay. Marty Krug has gone back to his home in Cleveland, but expects to return to Omaha about January 1. Harry Krause has pulled his freight for San Francisco and the Golden Gate, while Ray Miller has gone back to breathe smoke in Pittsburgh. Joe Burg will stay in Chicago, while Kew- ie Kilduff is down in Kansas. Ernie Crueger is getting ready to hikg for his coaching job in Arizona, and Shag Thompson has already made tracks for his beloved Dixie land. Omaha Man Says Leonard Is the Coming Champion “The greatest ]i%htwei ht 1T ever saw,” is the way Carl Marfisi des- cribes Benny Leonard, the New York lad, who put the fixings to Ever Hammer at Kansas City last week. The Omaha fan went to Kansas Cit{ to see the fight and returned wit nothing but praise for Leonard. “He's the coming champ, that boy,” said Marfisi. “I've seen most of the chlmgl in my day, but none of them ever had anything on Leonard. He's fast and clever and shifty and (rc carries the punch. Mark my words, he's qoini to be the lightweight champion before long." l Dennison Making Plans, For the Luxus Banquet The annual banquet of the Luxus base ball team will be forthcoming in a few days, announces Johnny Dennison, the irrepressible pilot of the brewer aggregation. Dennison is now making arrangements for the spread and searching the city for cabaret talent. d]ohnny has not de- cided upon the date yet, but expects to in a short time. Forsythe is working for | STATE TOURNEY T0 OMAHA ONCE MORE Happy Hollow Olub Will Get the 1917 Nebraska Golf Cham- pionship Event. LINCOLN LOSES OUT.AGAIN The 1917 Nebraska state champion- ship golf tournament will be held at the Happy Hollow slub. The board of directors of the state association has not yet definitely de- cided upon the location of the 1917 tourney, but conditions haye so worked themselves out that fhe Happy Hollow club is practically assured of the event. The Lincoln Country club was to have been given an opportunity to entertain the tourney. In fact, Lin- coln was offered the event last year because of a desire to boost the golf game out in the state. But Lincoln wasn't in a position to handle it, so the Field club got it. Must Improve Course. The Lincoln Country club course is not in condition for a state tourna- ment, according to some of the direc- tors of the association, and Lincoln will not be awarded the event unless the course is improved. The capital city links were but recently construct- ed and it is only natural that they will not be of the same class as the Omaha links unless considerable money is spent on them. It is said two or three of the directors of the Lincoln club refuse to countenance further expen- ditures on the golf course, even 'in order to hold the big state tourna- ment, and this means that once more the event will be given to Omaha. As the Happy Hollow club is next in line, that club will be awarded the tournament, ' American League Clean-Up The Natlonal leaguers appear to’ have ‘been outolassed from dugout to flagpole in this yoaris post-season series with the Amer- lean~ league pastimers. Of the fourteen games played for the world's title and in the Chicago and St. Louls champlonship sorfes the representatives of the parent loague copped only two contests. Brodklyn grabbed one of the world's series with the Red Sox and the Cardinals, succeessd In downing the Browns once out of fve starts. In the Chicago serfes the Amerlcan loaguers had their National league rivals gasping for breath. The White Sox started right after the Cubs at the tap of the Kong and thereafter they never even hesitated -| competition, 22, 1916. By FRED S. ' A CONFESSION. We're not a base ball expert, We seldom cop a bet, We can’t predict the winner, Of the race next year as yet. We can’t foretell a gosh-derned thing, We're not a dopster seer, In fact, we do not even know, If there’ll be a league next year. Oh, Un‘ques’tionibly‘ We would assume that Brooklyns are howed deeply i gloom over the loss of the world's series. They only got §2,800 each for the ioser’s end. FOR IFIRMATION SEE MR. F. YOST. Tufts will never beat Harvard again. They'll never get the chance. Does anybody know how the Cards and Browns came out in the St. Louis city series? - Well, we don't care eithery We have heard z lot of stories of the little school of Tufis, 5 And we've heard that all its students were but bits of mental fluff, But we'll bet forall that's said, Ask the Tiger or the Red* That they'll say to put the accent on the “tuff.” L *Being a low-brow Red and Crim- son means the same to us and any- how it's a “Tuft” job trying to find a word to rhyme with Crimson. Pittsburgh and Dickinson. Foot ball reports seem to indi- cate thaf a U-boat has torpedoed Mr. Daniel's navy. I Au’ Revoir Woodie. Rube Marquard is going to stump for Wilson, "tls said. Now, what we want to know, is the Rube for or against the pres.? As the sixth game of the world’s ‘series was not played, Charley Ebbets had to return §$50,- 000 to the fans. Which is the reason for the storm that swept :jhis way from the east the other ay. Battling Levinsky is going to fight Willard, according to news from the east. What's the matter with Kid Williams? Jess Willard has been sued for $25,000 which should fill Tom Jones with ecstacy. We're full these days of drear and weary woe, For soon the festive bull will start to flow, For circus days are near an end, Willard shoots around the bend, For to fight a fight again, For he and Tommy need the yen, And that is why we're full of weary woe, Having earned the confidence of the American public, Bill Car- rigan now, we licar, is going to go into politics. Chicago is in the midst of a diseussion as to whether _the Cubs shall train next spring in Tampa, Fla, or Pasadena, Cal, which we take it, is an issue of such vital importance that the prosperity of the National league entjrely hinges upon it. RESTA ONGE MORE. - LEADS AUT0 RACR Italian Takes Lead for Ameri- can Ohampionship by Victory Over Johnny Aitken. EDDIE RICK HAS A CHANCE Dario Resta, the famous Italian pilot, once more leads the ‘automobile drivers of the country in the race for the championship of the United States and the trophy of $13,500 ‘cash that goes with it. Resta resumed the lead by his victory at Chicago a week ago. But the Peugeot driver holds the edge by the skin of his teeth, and he's not going to cop the title and kale without vanquishing some tough Johnny Aitken, Eddie Rickenbacher and Ralph De Palma are in hot pursuit, and it is possible for any one of the three to beat Resta out, Resta, by his victory at Chicago, now possesses a total of 3,200 points. Johnny Aitken, the Indianapolis driver, has 2,940 points. Omaha's fa- vorite son, Eddie Rickenbacher, has 2,210 points, and Ralph De Palma has 1,790, Wilbur D’Alene is fifth with 1,120, Three More Events. There are three more championship events to be held, the Harkness tro- phy race at New York next Saturday and the Vanderbilt cup and Grand Prize classics at Santa Monica in No- vember. The New York race will give 600 points, probably, to the victor, and the coast races 800 or 900 points each, so it can be seen any one of the four names has a chance to win the cher- ished title and mazuma, Next season drivers will all through the year carry the numbers on their cars corresponding to the position they earned in the championship flight this year. Four Win All Races. Resta, De Palma Aitken and Rick- enbacher have won every big race held this year. Resta won at Indian- apolis, three times at Chicago, and at Omaha. Rickenbacher won at New York and Tacoma. Aitken won at Cincinnati, Indianapofis and New York. De Palma won at Des Moines, Minneapolis and Kansas City. Resta has won every big race held on the Chicago speedway. He has been in eight events on the Maywood oval and captured every one of them. This is a record that bids well to stand untouched for years to come. Omaha Coursing Meet to Be Held First of Month The second annual Omaha coursing meet will be held -at the Douglas county fair grounds November 1, 2 J and 4. Omaha's first coursing meet, held last year, proved a success and it is planned to bringfan even superior collection of the fleet-footed pups to fntll the Tinkers had been whipped to the tune of four straight. It was the sixth con- secutive year that the White Sox defeated the Cuba’ for the Chicago city, champlon- ship. The Boston Red Sox duplieated thelr feat of 1915 by taking four out of five games trom the Natiowal leaguers in the big serles. Totals In the box scores of the five world's serfes games show that the Red Sox made 21 runs, 39 hits and 6 errors. while the Robins gathered 13 runs, 34 hits and 13 errors, The critica agres that the Robins were outplayed, but the inhabitants of Flat- bush point to those "13's” and declare it was the jinx that beat the Dodgers. The dope: World Series Won by Red Sox. First Game: R.HLE.| Second Game: R.H. Boston (A L)...6 1 Brooklyn (N L).6 1 1 LB 71 62 H.B. ). .6 10 1 ¥, Brooklyn (N L).3 § 4 Brooklyn (NI)1 38 3 Ohlcago Ttitle Won by White Sox. First Game: R.H.E.| Second Game: RH.E. Chicago (A Chicago (A L Chicago (N. L) Chicago (N L 91 .| Fourth Game: R.H.E. Chicago (A L)..6 9 1 Chicago (N L)..310 1 Won by Browns. .| Second Game: R.H.E. St. Louls (A L).4 6 3 St. Louts (N L).3 3§ 2 .| Fourth Game: R.H.E. St. Louls (A L).3 6 1 St. Louts (N L).2 71 St. Louls (A L).6 8t. Louls (N L) Third Game: 8t. Louls (N L). St. Louls (A L). . Fifth Game: St. Louis (A L).4 1! St. Louls (N L). Omaha this fall. The event will be staged under the direction of the Omaha Coursing club. Ray Virgin of Utica, Neb,, is presi- dent, A. A. Misegadis of Talmage, sec- retary, and Ed Sorenson of Bensos, treasurer. b According to Mr. Misegadis, if the November meet proves a success, the national stake &ill be brought to Omaha a year from this fall. About twenty-five kennels from all parts of the country will enter the Omaha event. £ { Gothenberg Believes It Has Another Chamberlain Gothenburg is producing a_star of unusual qualities this year, accoeding to reports. At halfback the town folk claim they have a man who has the earmarks of another Chamberlain. His name is Brestel, he weighs 189 ounds and is one of the fastest half- acks the school has ever had. The school is represented by a formidable team and has games scheduled with Norfolk, Wood River, Lexington, Broken Bow and Alliance, the latter ame to be played Thanksgiving. ohnson, the former Wesleyan star, coaches the team THREE IN FIGHT " FOR STATE TITLR Oentral of Omaha, Lincoln and Beatrice in Running for Foot Ball Championship. WILL FORM A CONFERENOE By KARL LEE. This week’s games will probably definitely map out the last lap in the race for the Nebraska stage foot ball championship. Although the scores registered thus far made by leaders assert definite standings, there is still time for an quet in the dope. While one way the fight seems to have sim- mered to a stand between Beatrice, Lincoln and Omaha, there still re- mains. North Platte and Kearney to be tested. Both, according to re- ports, have splendid teams, well bal- anced, and, although comparatively light, are equal to most any sort of battle, South High and York are out of the race entirely, so far as their| chances of gaining the title are con- cerned. It will be a merry battle be- tween these two teams, Grand Island and Norfolk for “standings in the first division. Grand Island, although possessing a fast, scrappy team, has met with hard luck in its two defeats with Lin- ¥ coln and Beatrice. In its game with York, November 30, it still has an opportunity to register for third or fourth places. The fight for the title is tied up in three games, the Central-Beatrice game, November 3; the Beatrice-Lin- coln game, November 18, and the North Platte-Lincoln game, Novem- ber 24. In ity battle with North Platte, NoVember 3, Kearney will have its only try at the title. Alliance, probably the only other possible con- tender for honors, plays North Platte, November 17. Form Conference. A “big nine” foot ball conference will be formed by a union of coaches during the state teachers’ convention, November 8, here. Superintendent of Schools J. M. Showalter of Norfolk, who is a member of the Board of Control of the State High School Athletic association, will introduce the matter at a session of the Board of Control during the teachers’ con- | vention. The plan is to make a con- ference to include the best nine foot ball teams in the state. At the pres- ent, Central, South High, Beatrice, Lincoln, North Platte, Norfolk, York, Grand Island and Kearney are the leaders. Koyen and Starkey, Nebraska Shots, Get Into Ninety Class Nebraska scattergun marksmen haven't been doing much trap shoot- ing /this year in the registered tour- naments, at least. In the trap shoot- ing records compiled by Sporting Life for the first nine months of the vear only two Nebraska amateur shots are shown to have taken part in registered shoots, totalling 2,000 targets or over. They are Al Koyen of Fremont and R. Starkey of North Platte. Three Nebraska profession- als, George Carter of Lincoln, George Maxwell of Hastings and Rush Razee of Curtis, got their names into the records. The averages of the Ne- braska shots are as follows: AMATEURS. " Targets. Broke. 2653 1959 Pot. 9176 Al Koyen, Fremont... L2890 9133 R. Starkey, North Platte..2145 PROFESSIONALS, Targets. Rush Razee, Curtis... George Maxwell, Hastl George Carter, Lincoln Broke, 2114 2063 1976 Pet. 9853 9436 9186 Ducks Get Advance Tip on ‘Approach of Rushenberg Ernie Rushenberg, who is regarded by many as the best amateur catcher in the city, went on his vacation two weeks ago. Ernie took all his hunting paraphernalia with him and planned to bring back a few ducks for the boys. Ernie returned Friday without any ducks. “Not a duck was in sight in the two weeks I was away,” de- clared Ernie;. “now that I'm back I suppose there's a million or two fly- ing” The ducks evidéntly had an advance tip on Ernie's movements. GUN CLUBS PASS UP CHANCE FOR TROPHY Only Sixty-Three Clubs Take Advantage of OfferdMade by Interstate Association. SEVEN HUNDRED FORMED By PETER P. CARNEY. At its meeting last winter the In- terstate Association for the Encour- agement of Trapshooting decided-to give trophies to the first 200 newly organized gun clubs in 1916—the onl, thing necessary on the part of the of- ficers of the new gun club_being to inform the secretary of the Interstate association of the formation of the club. More than 700 gun clubs have been formed this year and of this number only sixty-three have been wide- awake enough to get in touch with the Interstate association. Therefore the Interstate association has onl; given sixty-three trophies. The fac{ that the Interstate association would give such trophies was given due mention in all sporting publications, yet it appears that very few of the clubs know of the offer. The idea of the Interstate associa- tion was to aid the new clubs in their formation by giving them a trophy for which they could hold weekly or monthly tournaments for during the vear. The Interstate jassociation is always willing to aid the’ gun clubs and new organizations can still get in on the offer if they communicate with Secretary Shaner. The Interstate association has the trophies and will wxllingly give them to the clubs that should get them, The clubs that took advantage of the offer in September were: The Port St. Joe Gun club, Port St. Joe, Fla.; Princess Anne Trapshooting club, Princess Anne, Md.; Leominster Sportsmen’s association, Leominster, Mass,, and the Parkton Gun club, Parkton, Md. Thus far Iowa leads in the organi- zation of new gun clubs with ten; In- diana and Kansas come next, with five each; Illinois with four and California, Delaware, Maryland, Michigan, Ne- braska, New York and Ohio formed three; Viriginia, West Virginia, Penn- slyvania, formed two, and South Da- kota, Tennessee, Texas, Oklahoma, Montana, Missouri, Minnesota, Massa- chusetts, Florida, District of Colum- bna,h Colorado and Connecticut, one each. Big Nine Coaches Are Asked to Number the Men Chicago, Oct. 21.—A new appeal has been directed to coaches of: ?oot ball elevens in the “Big Nine,” to have players numbered so that spec- tators can more easily distinguish them. A. A. Stagg, coach of the Uni- versity of Chicago squad, is practi- call{ the only coach in the western conference to adopt the plan of num- bering players. Notes of Sandlot Gridirons Another new team, to be known ‘as the fl:nnnallo Juniors, has slipped under the ‘wire. For games with the German Shamrocks call Douglas 6900 and squawk for C. E. Wag- ner, Last Sunday the Thirtieth Street Mer- chants whipped the Fontenelle Juniors to the tune of 6 to 0. Next Sunday out at Fontenelle park, the jontenelle Reserves and the Npurse Oil Company will collide. 4 Ben Stietler {s now holding the managerial reins for the Nonpareil Reserves. For games call him at Tyler 333, Although a few fellows took the count during the Nonparell-Athletics battle—none were seriously injured. The Fontenelle Reserves cancelled & cone test which they had booked with the C. B. Longeways for today. Zeiger, & Class B pitcher of note, is playing excellent foot ball for the Mazdas. He is & terrifio line plunger. The Nonparell Reserves are looking for a game today. Call Harney 2360 or Tyler 333 and a match can be arranged. The colors of black and blue waved over the camp of the Thirty-third and California Street Merchants after their last battle, Bill Maher, who breke his shoulder while working for the Athletics three weeks ago, was released from the hospital last week. Hereafter Vern Landon will play at quar- terwfor the Council Bluffs Midgets and Or- ville Crabtree will be switched to a half. The Mohawks would like to secure s pair of good linemen. For further infor- mation call Leonard Tibke at Webster 5014. Gus Kimmel 1s_now-booking the games for the Ducky Holmes. You can write him at 2433 Binney, or telephone Webster 1480. 3 Don't forget the time, place and date of the battle between the All-Stars and the Nonpareils, Next Sunday,” § p. m., Luxus park. Edward ® Hubbard, formerly a Council Blutts High school star, will try out for the right end posish with the Council Bluffs Midgets. / Judging from the caliber of foot ball played by the Ducky Holmes crew last Sunday, the are eligible to play Class A foot ball. On account of & heavy, muddy field the game between the Council Bluffs Midgets and the Mohawks booked for last Sunday was cancelled. V. S. Grant Golden has again bobbed into the limelight. He is going to organize a fast squad in the north end.and go after the Class A championship. Gus Carlson, formerly of the Monmouth Parks and last season connected with the Fontenelles, Is doing great work at right half for tivs Dundee Woolen Mills. 1 At fullback, Claude Schrum is performing, like @ real veteran for the Dundee Woolen Mills. He ls & crack picking holes and solv- ing the weak spots of the opposition. Those Ducky Holmes warriors startéd out ltke & house on tiré last Sunday. If the blaze of pep lsn't extiffulshed they will make things hot for all of thelr opponents. Jude McCabe got a crack in the stomach last Sunday that knocked the wind and nearly his foot ball aspirations out of him. Jude bumped Mother Earth for the count. The management of the Athletics wants it distinctly understood that their team is Class B and shouid be recognized as such, regardiess of the fact that they played the Nonparells. Thomas Moore, wuarterback for the Non- pareils, left on & business trip for Sterling, Colo. He will return a week from today so as to be on hand when the Nonparells meet the All-Stars. ? Hereafter Tom Cronin will engineer affairs for the Thirty-third and California Street Merchants. He will replace Lambert Medin, who resigned as manager, but will still play with the team. Pete Whitehead of the Fontenelle Re- serves Is hobbling around on crutches be- cause of an injury to his hip. He will probably be able to don the spangles in & couple of weeks. Although reported that Curtls Peterson was hurt playing foot ball, this statement was erroneous. He put one of his fins on the blink, but foot ball Was not respon- sible for the Injury. Captain Davik of the Ducky Holmes orow ihrew his arm out of joint during the tussle with the Fontenelle Reserves and as & consequence will probably be on the shelt for the balance of the season. Mack Cosgrove, assoclated with the Thir- tleth Streat Merchants, saw stars, comets, Inoons, etc. last Sunday when a_ gentls warribr heeled him directly above his left light, He is still carrylng a black eye.