Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 19, 1916, Page 35

\ There was a young halfback at Penn, Who neglected to shave now and then. It gave him the blues, When the boys callad him Hughes, So he often stayed home in his den. Judgments QES of the minor league magnates were given an- other exhaustive airing at the national association convention in New Orleans last week and a lot of doctors were on hand to prescribe remedies for the ailing patient. For half a dozen years now the little fellows have tried to rea- son out ways and means to resusci-| tate the corpse, but have never been | able to hit the nail on the head. Some | of the magnates (Pa Rourke of Oma-, ha is one of them) have the right| idea on the only way to bring minor league base ball back jntn favor, hu_r the other moguls weigh too much | above the neck and can't see it. Ifi minor league base ball is ever to| regain its old popularity the prun-| ing knife must be taken to the major| league discard. Look over the ranks | of the Western league this year and | you will see that every team in the league was composed largely of play-| ers who had either outlived their use-| fulness in the big show or were sent| back farming out and thercfore l\ad; no allegiance to the club on which | they played. Only a few were young | fellows, striving to succeed, on their | toes all the time, and playing the| game for all its was worth. There| is no getting around it, those major | league discards lack ambition, thcy; may play better ball than the voung- | ster, but it doesn't carry the appeal | to the fan. If is a lot easier for a minor league manager to catch a bunch of former major leaguers on the rebound and such a club will gen-| erally be able to wallop one made up | of promising youngsters. And_that is why the minor magnates persist in accepting the major league returns. One mogul will do it and the remain- ing seven have to do it for protec- tion. It's a short-sighted policy, though, and some of the magnates| are at last beginning to see it. When they all see and devote a little time and attention to building up teams of new blood they'll not only find their expenses smaller and their chances to make profits by sales bet-: ter, but that they will take in more money at the gate, for the fan will take a lively interest in an ambitious youngster who has never before been known out of his own county before he will in the greatest star in the | world if that star has begun to fade. Each succeeding league meeting sees another effort made to “eliminate the rowdyism” from base ball. Of course base ball should be kept clean and riots and near-riots and fights and the like are to be discouraged, but isn't there such a thing as too chh reform? It has been our observation that the average fan enjoys ?hcr a fashion a little fuss on the field. 1t| gives him a chance to bark at the bel- ligerents or' the umpire and he has a good time. And while we cheerfully admit it is right and proper to take steps to prevent fighting on the ball field it would seem that some of the leagues are so overdoing it that a base half game will shortly become a sort of pink-tea affair in which an athlete who comes on the field with his hair mussed will get a slap on the wrist. Once more has old man Warner,, who doesn’t have to take his hat off | to a coach any place in the country, shown the eastern coaches that beei isn't a necessity for a first class foot| ball eleven. Warner’s eleven, Pitts- burgh, looks like the class of the east this year, and it is one of the lightest aggregations_of them all Pltt;burgh went up against.Syracuse, which has a 200-pound center, two 250-pound guards, two mountain-like t_ackles and half a dozen other blacksmiths. Obse- quies were held over Pittsburgh the night before the game. But ‘Warner pitted his speed against that beef and won in a walk. It'll be a long time before they count ten over old man Warner. A number of the big league mpn- agers seem to have had a hunch when they perused the records and ob- served how many hurlers pitched two games in a single afternoon this year. As a result we already hear announce- ments that several of the clubs in- tend to cut down their hurling corps, | figuring that four, fi_ve or six goo pitchers who are going fairly good are sufficient. For some reason or other the impression that a club need- ed a regiment of pitchers became pre- valent and practically every team in the big show had more pitchers than it could possibly use. Now that the managers seem to have seen the light, they will save money and get better results. Keen rivalry is the making of any sport. No better proof of that than the Omaha-Lincoln foot ball game can be obtained. Any foot ball fan who braved the cold and snow and ice to see that game will admit that he | never saw a more interesting contest. | It was a good, fast, clean game. The players had their hearts in it and they played real foot ball. Nebraska and Notre Dame may play a far superior | game. The competing players may| be more proficient. But the rivalry will not be a bit more intense and, as a result, the game won’t be a bit more interesting to watch. It's the rivalry and heart of the competitors that makes a sport, not the profi- ciency. | Foot ball coaches in the east, it is said, have come to the conclusion that the direct pass from the center to the man who is to carry the ball is a bad method and are eliminating such plays from their attack in favor of the pass by the way of the quarterback. Pgr- haps the castern coaches are quite correct in their observations, but we cannot help but remember that a youth named Chamberlain always car- ried the ball after direct passes and proved to be quite successful at it. The $900,000 suit of the backers of the Baltimore Feds against organized base ball will be tried the first of the year, it is said. The Baltimore men declare they were double-crossed in the peace negotiations. Their allega- tion may be true, but we would like to see them collect the $900,000. No, it is not likely Ban Johnson will suggest Dave Fultz as a possible successor to Garry Herrmann. ' i | chalked up against them. @) NONPAREILS FIGHT FOR TITLE TODAY Monmouth Parks Will Make Bid for City Championship at Luxus Park. CLASS B SCRAPS CARDED By FRANK QUIGLEY. Luxus park at Twenty-fourth and Vinton streets is where the Class A championship will be decided this aft- ernoon. It will be a battle royal for supremacy between the Nonpariels and Monmouth Parks. The fair ones can glide through the gate free, as no admission will be charged to women. Both teams have a large bunch of followers and if climatic conditions prove favorable today, a large crowd will be on deck, because this Nonpariel-Monmouth Park con- | test will be the biggest attraction in Class A foot ball circles this season. The Nonpariels are the cream of the town, but according to the Mon- mouth Parks, they will be whipped cream before the illuminating moon glides in this evening. This battle will determine whether or fot the Nonpariels, the present champions, will retain the city honors for another season. So far the Nonpariels have a clean slate, as not a point has been In \wighl,l speed and ability these two teams are approximately even, but the cham- pions will have a slight advantage in team work. For years the Mon- | mouth Parks put up a stiff battle for the championship, but failed to draw the lucky number. Regardless of which team wins, this game will be strongly contested until the last flicker of hope dies. Harry Williams, coach of the Nonpariels, and Albert Newton will officiate. Game called at 3 p. m. The lineup: NONPARIELS. |MONMOUTH PARKS. c.jc. Blackman . Murphy Nodstrom . Lindemier Rosso autier-Hart Schuelsky Newman Pearson MeCormick Foran .. Johnson Firbush . . Aligood Moore .. Quigley Klieny-Tracey Penny Jacoberger ... H. .. Oney Sandou-Hassen ..F.B.| . Kelly Interest In Local interest in Sunday foot ball now centers on which of the Class B teams will escape with the pen- nant. Only three teams still remain in the ring, namely, Athletics, Ben Kennedy Colts and German Sham- rocks. These three teams have not lost a game, while the balance have been eliminated. Today the Ducky Holmes team will wander over to Harlan, Ia., and en-| deavor to hang another scalp on their belt. Harlan has a fast congre- gation, so the Ducks will have their paws full. The Ben Kennedy Colts and the Nonpariel Reserves will hook up at Ducky Holmes park, at 3:30 p. m. Both teams are in good condition and an excellent quarrel is looked for. The Colts say there is nothing to it but the roses for them, but the Re- serves say all the Colts will get will be the thorns. According to the line of gibberish being circulated by the Fontenelle Reserves they are going to do some alterating on the Class B champion- ship by cutting down the Athletics’ chances when they collide today at the trouble station located in Fon- tenelle park. Game called at 3 p. m. Quite a few troubles are of the imaginary order, but the trouble the Fontenelle Juniors will have, accord- ing to the Council Bluffs Midgets, to score against them, willgbe a real reality. This contest is the only event booked for Athletic park, Council Bluffs, today. Game will ring in at 3p.m If something unexpected does not turn up to upset the plans of the Thirtieth Street Merchants, they will play the bags the preliminary con- test at Ducky Holmes park. This de- bate will commence about 1:30 p. m. Kirkpatrick Better Than Jess Willard, Says John Sullivan| John L. Sullivan declares that Oren Gould Kirkpatric!", jr., Harvard strong man and boxer, can beat Jess | Willard and win the boxing cham-| pionship of the world. There is only one thing that pre-| vents a new title holder being an-| nounced, and that is the permission of the young man’s father for him to| enter the ring for the encounter, he asserts. | “Kirkpatrick would fight,” said John L., “but his father objects. His | family is well-to-do and does not| want him to enter the ring. I am sure he could defeat Willard, because he fights, and knows how, in a fight- ing way that seems natural to him. He can become champion. He can make the ringside at 210.” Kirkpatrick won the heavyweight championship of Harvard last Febru- ary, beating J. L. Bigelow in a little over one round. Kirkpatrick grad- uated from Harvard last June and is working for his father in San An- tonio, Tex. Frank Gilhooley Will Be Able to Play Again Frank Gilhooley, the New York's efficient right fielder, who broke his ankle last summer, visited a doctor in Cleveland to have the latter look over the convalescing leg. The phy- sician reported that the fracture in the lower end of the fibula was in good condition, that the normal mo- tions of the ankle joint are not in- terfered with, and that he thought some slight stiffness around the ankle joint would clear up with proper evercise so that Gilhooley would be O. K. for base ball practice in Feb- ruary. Yanks Turn Cliff Markle Back to the Toronto Club Pitcher Cliif Markle has been turned back to the Toronto club by THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: honors in the National league. LEW 215 CARTY. MACKS ONLY TEAM THAT LOST MONEY Ban Johnson Insists Every Other Club in American League Netted a Profit. EVEN WASHINGTON CLEARS New York, Nov. 18.—President Ban Johnson says that every club in the American league, except the Athletics, made money this year. He denie$ em- phatically the report that the Wash- ington club finishing a trifie behind. Johnson declares that, while he has not seen the books of cach club, he believes that the Chicago White Sox drew the largest crowds of the year at home and abroad. He places the Detroit Tigers second, and the Red Sox third, with Cleveland, St. Louis and New York making about an equal showing. An idea of the business done by the American lcague as a whole is obtained from the unofficial attendance figures of the world's champion Red Sox. It had been esti- mated -that 560,000 persons attended the games of the Red Sox in Boston, while ‘on the road the total turnstile count was about 610,000. Johnson in- sists that the total attendance figures for the whole circuit exceeds the rec- ord by more than 1,000,000 admis- sions, which would seem to indicate remarkable prosperity. Although official figures are not available, it is believed that ihe Yan- kees’ business at the Polo grounds and abroad has been underestimated. The Yankees' financial burden was greater than any other club in the American league, yet Colonel Ruppert and Captain Huston admit that they made money. Close observers of the business end of the sport seem to think that the Yankees' profits amounted to about $60,000, yet the club was obligated to the extent of more than four times that amount when the recent season opened, not including the $400,000 paid for the franchise and players two years ago. Roughly calculating the attendance : figures, therefore, it is safe to say that the Yankees played to more than 800,000 admissions, a new record for the Ameridan league in New York. Colonel Ruppert and Captain Huston will%begin next season with expenses materially reduced. The salary list will be smaller, due to the fact that several long term contracts held by | worthless players have expired. Sev-| eral new men were drafted in Sep- tember, but the outlay was compara- tively small, ! Cleveland Battery Men To Go Southward Early Battery men of the Cleveland American league club will be sent to the spring training camp at New Or- leans at least ten days in advance of the other players, according to plans announced by Manager Lee Fohl, “We got the jump on the other clubs last spring because our pitchers | were ready, and barring accidents, I propoge to have them in as good shape next April,” Fohl explained. Eleven pitchers and three catchers | will form the advance squad of the club, which is to report about Feb- ruary 20. The men are: Morton, Coveleski, Beebe, Boehling, Coumbe, Gould, Lambeth, Smith, Pettit, Klep- fer and Penner; O'Neill Daly and De Berry, catchers. Penn Eleven May P_|ay On Coast on New Year’s Pennsylvania's foot ball team, aug- CHASE AND M'CARTY TIE FOR BATTING LEAD—Hal Chase, first baseman of the Cincinnati Reds, and Lew Mc- Carty, the backstop of the Giants, are tied for the batting a batting average of .351; Chase, .339, and McCarty, .339. Miller Huggins, manager of the Cardinals, is fourth on the list, with a batting average of .333. The official figures give Holke BY A LARGE IDEA Famous Promoter Would Or- ganize New York Club Like London Organization. TO RENT MADISON GARDEN New York, Nov. 18—A boxing club operated along the lines of the Na- tional Sporting club of London is Rickard's idea of what New York needs in order to put the sport on the plane it should be. The prince of promoters at present is negotiating for a five years' lease on Madison Square Garden and expects to close the deal wtihin a few days. As soon as the stockholders get together and vote on the matter, Receiver McCall will issue the necessary documents. Rickard hinted that he might even go a step further and buy the Garden outright. “I believe New York ought to have this fine big arena for public gatherings of all kinds,” he said. “For a long time I have had the idea in my head to get a number of wealthy men together and buy the property. All but the main hall could be sold again in.small lots. The arena itself would be a paying proposition if managed properly, but the rest of it is merely going to waste. “I think that a club run along the lines of the National Sporting club of London would be a big success. Boxing could be made immensely pop- uldr if it were handled by responsible persons. There always is a big de- mand for the right kind of matches, but the respectable crowd will not at- tend bouts at the smaller clubs be- cause of the surroundings. Promoters Dictate. “Over in London they have the right idea. The National Sporting club controls the sport and the box- ers and their managers are not al- lowed to dictate. The men back of that organization have the good of | the sport at heart, and they pay the | fighters just what they are worth. There is no attempt to misrepresent | the ability of the boxers. There is no sidestepping dangerous oppo- nents, but every champion is com- | pelled to meet the most formidable contenders at stated intervals. There |is no reason why New York Yannot have the same kind of a club.” Whether Rickard is able to put his | idea into force or not, his advent as | | promoter of boxing at the Garden | will be the biggest boost the game | has had since the Frawley law creaf ing a commission to supervise the' sport went into force. No man ever connected with boxing has had the support of the public to the extent that Rickard has. Every match with which he has been connected was the biggest of its kind possible and was honestly contested, despite the ex- tremely large sums involved. He is the biggest man the game has seen and he comes at a time when a big man is needed more than ever before. ‘Cubans Make Good At American Game Cuba is much pleased with the rec- ord that has been made this year in | American base ball circles by Cubans | who have been playing in the major ‘and minor leagues. Nearly all have given a good ac- count of themselves and give promise | of still greater things in the future. | There have been fourteen playing in | the various leagues and as it is known mented by the addition of Berry, the | that Manager McGraw and other big college pentathlon champion, who | league representatives are coming to mll be used at halfback because of | Cuba this winter it is expected they his punting and drop kicking ability, | will secure new recruits. Already one may go to Pasadena for a game next | new player has been signed up for the New Year's day. | coming season. ST He is Pedro Dibut, a right-handed pitcher who made a wonderful record this summer in the amateur cham- pionship. He has signed with the Miluwaukee club of the American as- sociation. Detroit May Have Boxing On Program This Winter Detroit may have a boxing club this winter, Efforts are being made to obtain official sanction for a series of shows. Governor Ferris blocked | two or three attempts to remove the | pugilistic lid in Detroit in the last D retired from the ring for threo monihs Coffey Retires. Jim Coffey, the New York heavywelght the New York Americans. |in order to be right next time he boxes. It two years. | can’t be done in three months. NOVEMBER 19, 1916. The football hero doesn’t care to read of ancient Rome--- With football signals in the air he mustn’t clog his dome WELSH ONLY WANTS PURSE OF $50,000 Lightweight Ohampion is Will- ing to Meet Dundee—if He Gets His Price. SOME BUSINESS MAN, BOYS New York, Nov. 18 Welsh demands $50,000 w draw, for a championship bout with “Johnny” Dundee. This became known when “Scotty” Monteith, man- ager for Dundee, offered Welsh $18,000 guarantee with the privilege Freddy" of taking S0 per cent of the gate re- | ceipts for a twenty-round bout with the lightweight championship at stake, he smiled and murmured some- thing about not wishing to be an-| noyed by $18,000 propositions, for a title bout with Dundee. It seems that Dundee, in his de- sire to entice Welsh into the ring with | him, was willing to do all the gam- bling. Together with his manager he has a contract with the Louisiana Auditorium company, headed by Dominich Tortorich, which entitled Dundee to the use of the arena in New Orleans on any of the three days mentioned, the Auditorium com- pany to rent the place for a battle . lose or | Spit Ball May Be Tabooed by Major LooPE_This Year | The winter of 1916 may see the | end of the spit ball. ! Rumors in base ball circles indi- | cate magnates of the major leagues will place a ban on the moistened de- livery similar to that which put the emery ball out of business two years lago and resulted in the retirement | from big league circles of two great | | pitchers, Russell Ford and Cy Falk-| | enberg. { | The spit ball has developed some | great pitchers, The success of Ed.| | Walsh was due to use of the wet sphere, which shot with lightning | speed from a side-arm delivery, broke | in bewildering fashion and nm(lr’ Walsh leading pitcher of the Ameri- | can league for the year in which he | earned the title of “Iron Man.” | Jack Chesbro, who holds a record | of nineteen consecutive victories, | made with the New York Yankees| |in 1904, depended on the spitter. | Jeff Tesreau of the Giants used the | spit ball a lot, but depended a great | deal upon bluffing a spitter when he | | was really throwing a fast ball. | Bugs aymond, once invincible | | Giant pitcher, was a spit ball artist, was Claude Hendrix, or several years coaches and man- | A handsome young halfback named Sloan, Had & head as unylelding as stone. His poor little brain Used to ‘But never could bust through the bone. e In vain HUSKERS TAKE ON HAWKEYES NEXT Annual Gridiron Battle to Be Staged Next Saturday at Iowa City. IOWA IS STRONG THIS VEAR Jowa. 22 10 18 [ Year. 1891 1892 1898 ... 1804 .. 1895 . 1808 *1806 3 SuvcanaaZasass 1809 1908 1904 1908 .. 1913 1914 1915 Gumes won by Nebraska . Games won by Towan Tie games played .. Total score by Nebrasl Total score by lowa *Post aeason gume. By JAMES E. LAWRENCE. Lincoln, Nov. 18.—(Special.)—Dr. Stewart’s 1916 Huskers will meet their only Big Nine conference op- ponent next Saturday when Nebraska lines up against the University of Elea with Welsh on a 10 per cent basis. | agers have discouraged use of the|Jowa at Towa City. When pressed for his terms after refusing the $18,000 proposition, with its accompanying privilege of 50 per cent of the gate and the additional privilege of naming “Billy" Roche or any one else to referee the bout, Welsh's manager thought deeply for a_few moments and 'then in a de- cidedly matter-of-fact way remarked that it would take §. win, lose or draw to persuade “Freddy” to tempt fate by climbing into the same ring with Dundee for a championship bout. That he thought deeply is apparent by the size of the guarantee he de- manded. No one could ask for that much money without thinking deeply. Furthermore, it is convincing proof of just how greatly the lightweight champion respects Dundee and his grasshopping tactics, It seems as if Welsh is perfectly willing to meet any other boxer extant for a com-{ But paratively reasonable sum. when it comes to Dundee—well, “Freddy” pauses to weigh his crown in one hand and his chances in the other, and then decides that it's quite a gamble, and as such he should be liberally rewarded for his temerity. Is a Business Man. Before anything else “Frcddf" a business man. Then he is weight champion of the world. Welsh doesn’t care any more for the light- weight championship or public opin- ion than he does for both of his legs and an arm thrown in for good measure. “Freddy” has been offered any num- ber of ten-round, no decision bouts with Dundee, but he has side-stepped them all just as adroitly as he side- steps when hard pressed in the ring. Dundee's .aggressive style of fighting is not at all to Welsh’s liking. The champion prefers the White type— the type that is not aggressive. Welsh does not like to have his opponent keep crowding him. He likes plenty of resting space between rallies. Some of those who were at the ringside when White had his oppor- tunity to strip Welsh of his laurels at Denver assert that had White been more aggressive he could have de- feated the champion and defeated him decisively. They assert that the howl! raised against referee Roche in that contest was decidedly unfair and uncalled for. They dcc{’are a draw was the only fair decision. It is apparent that Welsh is de- termined to go/ on reaping a fen- round harvest on the strength of the one championship fight he has en- gaged in since annexing the title as long as he possibly can. He will not risk his title again until compelled to do so. Fancy Records Set Up by Toe Experts In Foo@gll Games Since the foot ball rules have heen revised, doing away with mass plays, etc., the kicking game has bounded to the fore. A glance at the marks which serve as targets for the boys to boot at may interest. The greatest and longest of all kicks was that famous boot by Haxall of Princeton against Yale, way back in 1882, This giant of the gridiron toed the ball over the bar from a point placement just sixty-five yards away. This has never been equaled. Last year, however, a young chap from Dakota-Wesleyan, Mark Payne by name, drop-kicked a goal from a distance of sixty-three yards, break- ing the sixty-two-yard record of the famous Pat O'Dea of Wisconsin, made in 1898, This feat of foot is the best performance made in many years. Mark Payne's kick will be long re- membered and possibly never equaled. Another great kicker of recent times is C. Parker of Dubuque. Although he holds no records, he kicked six goals last year, two of fifty yards and four of forty-seven yards. Alfred Griggs, a California school- boy, broke all records when he hoisted fifteen over the bar from placement in one game out west. The intercollegiate record for a single game is held by E. C. Robert- son of Purdue. Robertson, against Rose Poly, in 1900, kicked seven. Walter Eckersall, the best of them all at the field-game goal, kicked five goals in one game on two occasions; once against Illinois in 1905, and once against Nebraska in 1906, Brickley of Harvard kicked five goals against Yale five years ago, is Frank Chance Will Stick To the Los Angeles Club Frank Chance has announced that he will next season continue as man- ager of the Los Angeles club. This is the first definite statement of in- tentions which he has made since it became known some time ago that he had received a number of big league offers, and is regarded as final, ight- | spitter. Base Dball statistics have | proved that the spit ball pitcher as a| general rule does not last long. | Another argument against the spit- | ball is that the man using it is likely to be erratic and, unless is a won-* der like 1id Walsh, could not control | | the break of the curve, | The origin of the spit ball is clouded. | Although the (|ism\'rrlv is commonly accredited to Elmer Stricklett about | twelve years ago, Cap Anson and some of the old-timers declare the moistened ball was used by Bobby! Matthews as long ago as1871 and that a pitcher named Conway used the spit ball in the carly '80s. In modern base ball, howevet, Chesbro was the pioneer with the damp one. Barring the spit ball from base ball problbly will affect few pitchers, The number of men using this ball has diminished, until there are only a few now active in the big sticks. Three Midgets Are Among Greatest of Grid Stars Today It may be only a coincidence or it may be a matter of considerable significance as indicating a radical change in foot ball fashions that three of the most spectacular gridiron ?erformcrs of the year are men who all far short of every backfield weight standard. These three—Casey of Harvard, Driscoll of Nortwestern, and Cannell of Dartmouth—weigh not more than 425 pounds in the aggregate, but for all their lack of beef and brawn have won high ranking as stars of the first magnitude. Though slight al- most to a point of frailness, they are all hard and aggressive players and seemlnzlf' invulnerable to injuries. Driscoll, a 140-pounder, won his place in the sun when he rifpcd the supposedly husky Chicago line into shreds a few weeks ago and almost single-handed won orthwestern's only victory over the Maroons in fifteen years. Casey, scaling around 150, established himself as a worthy successor to Ned Mahan against Cor- nell, and Cannell, who tips the beam at only 133, compelled recognition as Dartmouth's greatest quarterback in several years while directing the Green's play against Princeton, Cannell is not much bigger than a half pint of peanuts, but this did not prevent him from smashing through the Tiger line for long and consist- ent gains. Moreover, he handled twenty punts without missing one, |th9m?h many of them were difficult spirals, which had to be taken on the run. Playing the open field alone, he was absolutely without protection against the husky Princeton ends, but this did not seem to worry him to any great exten Six-Day Bike Race To Be Held in New York in _Decembem New York, Nov. 18—The New York six-day bicycle race will be held this year at Madison Square Garden from midnight on Sunday, December 17, to Saturday night, December 23.| It will be run by the Cycle Racing as- sociation of New York, of which Ing- lis M. Uppercu is president. It will be the twenty-fourth annual race, and | will probably have more teams en- | tered than ever started before in a i six-day grind. | On the Saturday night previous to | the starting of the race a card of | | sprint races will be held, in which all | the star professional and amateur | riders in this country will compete. Frank Kramer, the East Orange speed marvel, who for sixteen years has held the national title, will be a starter, as wlll John Stackle, the Newark boy, who is the national ama- teur title-holder. Alfred Goullet, looked upon as the greatest six.day bicycle rider in the world, will compete this year, with Al- fred Grenda as his partner. Goullet did not ride last year. Grenda won the race with Freddy Hill as his partner. Bob Spears and Reggie Mc- Namara, who finished second last season, will again be teamed up this year. Roster of Browns Méy Be Reduced Before Spring Only six of the forty-seven players on the reserve list of the St. Louis Browns are under control for next year. According to Fielder Jones, not more than thirty of the forty-seven will be invited to the spring party of the Browns. The possessors of contracts are Severeid, Sisler, Shotton, Austin, Pratt and Johnson. All the others must come to terms dictated by the owners. The club hopes to reduce the Stewart is expecting |I|e'lown game to prove one of the hardest hurdles he will have to clear in rounding out another victorious season, for the Hawkeyes have demonstrated they are to be rated scarcely below the best of the Big Nine conference elevens. The Nebraska mentor hied over to Evanston last Saturday and 'saw the Hawkeye team in action against Northwestern, which is one of the leaders for conference honors this year. He thoroughly believes that Howard Jones has worked marvels with practically an entirely new eleven and the Towa machine is one of the most formidable to be found in the west. Record Favors Huskers. The record of sixteen years gives Nebraska a big edge over her neigh- boring rival, the Huskers having trudged off with ten victories to only four for the Hawkeyes. Three of the games have resulted in tie scores and with the exception of 1915, when Stiehm's greatest eleven smothered Towa under an avalanche of touch- downs, none have shown an over- whelmingly superior eleven, History has taught Huskers to ex- pect an cxceedingly hard battle from the Hawkeyes and Stewart is prepared to renew the prediction that the scar- let and cream squad will have to play foot ball every minute of the game if it expects to win, Nebraska will find one new man in the lineup from that which faced the Northwestern squad. Coach Jones has advanced Reid, a newcomer, to a wing position, with Captain Laun on the other side. - Reid got into the Northwestern game for a few minutes and gave such a rattling fine exhibi- tion of foot ball that he won his spurs right off the reel. In weight the Nebraska line will find itself at a disadvantage, while the Nebraska backfield will have to con- cede several pounds to Iowa. Nebras- ka will have the edge in experience and speed, although Captain Laun is fully as fast as any man on the Husker squad. Dr. Stewart will put in another Nl{ week of scrimmage and signal drill, i in shaping his squad The coach is fac- ing quite a task in keeping his men from' going stale with three of the hardest games of the season in ‘less than three weeks. Provided the Husk- ers pull out of the Jdyhawker ?ne without having to uncover their hand too much the week will be devoted to polishing off the formations to be used Iflinlt Iowa. If Nebraska is compelled to spill everything it has, then Stewart faces the task next week of developing an entirely new attack. Although definite steps have not been taken, quite a number of Husker rooters will accompany the squad to Iowa City and if enough signify their intention of making the trip Man- ager Reed will try to arrange special train accommodations, There will be a big bunch of Lincoln business men going along in addition to the stu- ents. Fulton Intends to Prove He is Lad to Fight Jess Willard New York, Nov. 18—"Fred” Ful- Iton, the “Rochester giant,” intends to prove to a doubting’ world before many months have passed that he would be able to make a creditable showing against Jess Willard or an; other heavyweight. Although Ful- ton has been held cheaply in some quarters because of his lack of real experience the attentuated heavy- weight has shown such great improve- ment since he last appeared in this city that many critics, especially those in the middle west, now rate him as being one of the most promising con- tenders for the heavyweight title, With arrangements under way for a bout between Fulton and Frank Moran at St. Paul speculation is rife among ring “fans” as to what chance Fulton would stand with the Pitts- burgh man. The impression is gen- eral that Fulton would more than hold his own, for he has a destroying left hand punch against which Moran would find it difficult to set up a de- fense. Fulton furthermore has im- proved vastly in ring generalship, has taken on weight and has been thor- oughly “seasoned.” Cubs Will Ride to Coast On Classy Special Train The announcement that the Cubs would leave Chicago on a special train February 20 for their spring training in Pasadena and arrive Feb- ruary 23 was made in a telegram to the Pasadena commissioners by Wil- fiam Wrigley, multi-millionaire chew- ing gum manufacturer, who is one of the principal stockholders in the payroll from $110,000 to $85,000. club, e e