Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 3, 1916, Page 41

L ) A e 4y o “";‘/f'ear four mighty good backfield men, 1 Kellogg, Day, A IA A T HE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: DECEMBER 3, 1916. A fullback whose folks were exclusive Thought foot ball was rather conducive To health and long life, Till he got in the atrife 7And found the plebelans abusive, 5 Tl?e noble red man never knew, when roaming in the woods, | His race would have o foot ball crew delivering the goods. Was And Another young fullback named Keith unwilling to get underneath. He hated to mar His face with a soar, the girls thought he had such white teeth! Judgments RE the minors at last going to take matters in their own hands and have a little to say about how their own business is to be run? One might in- fer from résolutions at the recent National association meeting that they intended to do just_that little thing, In the first place the little fel- lows turned down every request or demand Davy Fultz of the Players’ fraternity made, which is the same as throwing down the gauntlet to Davy. In the second place they open- ly declared themselves as opposed to, permitting the National Commission to interfere in their affairs, which is the same as slipping the majors a mild warning. The minors have been getting it in the neck for the last twenty years. The last three years they have been getting it good. entire profits of all the minors in the country in the' last three years wouldn't bty a week’s supply of cigar- ets for a Mexican track layer. And the boys who have been footing the ills are getting somewhat pained, hey’'ve reached the point where they won't stand for much more and any- body who makes additional demands on them isn’t likely to be joyfully re- ceived. Fultz has said he will not sub- | mit to the turn down the minors gave him at their New Orleans meeting. And as Fultz generally means what he says it probably means the Play- cers’ fraternity will put up a battle, it may even go so far as to call the threatened strike. But it is just as probable that the' minors .will fight back to the limit, even closing their | parks if they have to. The minor leagues make up a pow- erful organization and if they ever de- cidé to get together and fight shoulder to shoulder as they should they’ll be- come mare of dictators instead of subjects in the realm of professional base ball. * Doc Stewart, having been unfor- tunate in his first year at Nebraska, is going to come in for a lot of criti- cism because the Cornhuskers dropped two games this fall. But how any person who took one slant at that Nebraska backfield could put the blame on Stewart is a mystery to us. Creighton had a backfield that had the Cornhusker chargers beat to death. Nobody but a miracle man ould have made a scoring machine ut of those Husker backs. Next chellenberg and Mc- Mahon, graduate from the freshmen to the varsity. Stgwart should be able to mold a great eleven out of his present material and these men. 1f he fails then Stewart will havelto shoulder the blame. But he shouldn’t be made to shoulder it this year, he didn’t have an even chance. Next year he'll have more than an even chance, so let's reserve ‘judgment, on the new Cornhusker mentor for an- other twelve months. Some big trades are going to be pulled off in the big leagues this year. Miller Huggins has been given orders to swap his entire club, Weeghman has announced that he will get a lot of new men for the Cubs, McGraw is after a player or two, Brooklyn wants a catcher and /shortstop,” the White Sox want a third sacker, the Browns need some new men, and so does practically every other club with the posible exception of the Red Sox. We were treated to some juicy trades and purchases last year and the-year before, when such stars as Collins, Speaker, McCarty, Herzog, Zimmer- man, Doyle, Mathewson and others changed locations, but they’ll look like bush league deals in comparison to those that are likely to come up this winter, American league magnates are quawking because they say the Na- tional league is making the American bear the brunt of all the strife that arose from the Federal league. They say the Nationals now want the American league to transfer the Washington club to Baltimore to ap- pease the disgruntled .persons there who are sore over the peace agree- ment. And this, they say, on top of the fact that the American league did not suffer from the Federals and only made peace to help the National out. And yet records show the American league played to a million more fans this year than it did last. Didn’t the death of the Feds help a little bit in this enormous gain? No sooner had Jumbo Stiehm hit Nebraska to pay a Thanksgiving visit to his wife's relatives and see the Nebraska-Notre Dame game, than ru- more began to circylate that Stichm was out%lcrc after old job. It is probably only natural such rumors would circulate. Stiehm in his now field lost four games and only weon two, while Nebraska, his old field, didn’t “have its usual success, But there isn’t much likelihood that the rumors ¢arry any truth, we .don’t imagine Stiehm cares particularly to oo vomwesyme_back, or that Nebraska cares particularly to have him back. The much dicussed strike of the players sounds like a lot of Mexican bunk to us. The base ball player of the present day is much like the prize fighter. His first/interest is the coin he gets. Shut up the parks a few days and suspend the payment of salaries and hear the noise the pl:{- crs will make, If the magnates merely say, “let 'em strike,” and then make good, it won’t be long before the players will come to time. The major leagues have a lot of differences to settle this year. If they are wise they will make their settle- ments quietly and cut out the nau- seating publicity that has attended them in the past. Scraps between the magnates ordinarily give the fan a pain. And in these days of the H. C. L. it isn't wise to give the fan, who pays the freight, any illness. Base ball men might just as well begin to lay their plans for the re- distrubtion of territory. Interest in the game will continue to lag until some changes are made. Eventually the redistrbution must come, so why not now? Well, the foot ball season's over; bring on the basket ball and the wrestlers. The | MILLION-DOLLAR BALL PARK TALKED Owners of New York Ameri- cans Confer with Ban John- son About Plant. HOLD OPTIONS ON LAND —_— | | New York, Dec. 2—As a result of | several preliminary caucuses now be- | ing held by base ball magnates of the! American and National leagues an of- | | ficial anouncement is expected at the| | two big meectings on December 12| that New York is to have another | million-dollar ball park and that the | custom of the leagues using each oth- | er’s parks during world's series games | will e abolished. | For several years the National| | league owners have resented the v | of the Polo grounds by the Yanks' and it is known that the Giant man- | agement has hinted that the National | league would prefer to have the his- | toric old grounds all to themselves. | Captain Huston and Colonel Rup- | pert have been in the position of a | visitor who feels that he has over- | stayed his time. They also have dis- covered that the close proximity and | | friendliness of the two clubs have had | | a dampening effect on the local riv- | alry between the Yanks and Giants. | | Last fall there was so little interest displayed in a series of games be-| | tween the two clubs that the idea was | abandoned. ®| Too Friendly. Captain Huston declares that if the | two clubs had beert playing on sepa- rate grounds a Giant-Yank serief | would have drawn almost as well as| a world's series. | The Boston American league club came in for a lot of criticism last fall for transferring their games with Brooklyn to Braves field in Boston on account of its large seating capac- ity. It took away the American league atmosphere, even if the players did show a lat of it in their playing. That will not gecur again. In fact it has become very evident | that the harmonpious co-operation of the two leagues has robbed the game of a lot of its fire. Hereafter they will go it alone. Talk With Johnson. Several weeks ago Captain Huston and Colonel Ruppert realized that the quicker they get a park of their own the better it will be for their ball club, and they are on the job. Both of them are now in French Lick Springs con- ferring with President Johnson on the question of a proper location for the big million-dofiar park. The question to be decided is whether the grounds shall be locatéd o Manhattan island or in Queens. Options are held on property at the other end of the Queensboro bridge and on two plots on the island. There is a chance for them to locate at the eastern foot of Forty-second street—in the gas house section. A year ago the captain and the col- onel had this matter up, but it brought out so much publicity that they could not keep their plans secret long enough to make their investments on a reasonable basis. Evidently they now have what they want and have gone to Ban Johnson to have the mat- ter passed on by the league before the coming meeting. Mathewson is Not « Worrying, He Says New York, Dec. 2—Christy Math- ewson, - manager of the Cincinnati Reds, dropped in-John Doyle's Forty- second street billiard parlor. to see some of his friends who are billed to perform in the well-known “egg” tour- nament. He wds inveigled into a foursome, during the course of which he discussed informally the 1917 pros- ' pec{s of the Rhinelanders. “I believe I will come out of the south with a pretty good pitching staff next spring,” said the man who was the idol of New York fandom | for a decade and a half. “The veteran pitching staff was pretty fair and some highly recommended youngsters¥are coming up to us. There is no reason why Toney, Schneider and Mitchell should not be three of the very best boxmen in the game. Schneider has not studied the National league bat- ters closely enough as yet. Moseley and Knetzer lack control. Control is something that can be mastered by painstaking practice. = “I'm not worrying a bit about Cincinnati’s pitching,”* Matty con- tinued, “That end of the game will be all right. I'll have time in Shreve- port to coach some of the youngsters enough to guarantee a pretty reliable box department. Pitching is a very important factor to success. 1 feel that Cincinnati is sure to improve this last season’s performances. “The Red lineup as it finished the season of 1916 was not a weak fielding combination by any means. It could stand another clouter or two and such we may pick up from the rookies. Sev- eral of the young regulars, among them Roush and Neale, needed last season’s experience to put them on edge. My outfield next year sshould be strong. “In Chase and GrohI have the two best infielders of the National league for the wings. If we have the luck to uncover- a first- class shortstop the Reds will have to take the dust of few rivals.” Wealth of Fighters Bob Up in Welter Division New York, Dec. 2—Never was there such a wealth of “welters. That ill-favored class has suddenly burst forth in splendor with ho less than a half dozen topnotch contenders that haven't been rivalled in.the last fifteen years. Look: Britton. MdFarland, Ritchie, Ted Lewis, Badoud, Bart- field, O'Dowd, Griffiths, Gilmore, Mile Glover, Duffy, Marty Cross (Leach Cross’ brother), and others. And only a short time ago the welterweight di- vision was so unpopular that Packie McFarland, who was unquestionably the best welter in the game, refused to claim or accept the title, Needs New Team. All that Coach Yost of Michigan will have to do next year s to develop-a new foot ball team. - Johnny Maulbetsch, the Wolver- ines of 1916, is through TR Shirley and Robert Moore. - NNIS HAS THREE MILLION PLAYERS' ® Once Ridiculed as ‘Ladies’ Game,” Strenuous Pastime Wins Many Men's Favor. CITIES BUILD, COURTS New yYork, Dec. 2.—Tennis, the same sport that was ridiculed as be- ing too much of a ladies’ game a few years ago is now rapidly approaching base ball as a national pastime. This season, figurts Fged Alexander, the former national champion, more than 3,000,000 men, women and children played tennis in the United States. The game has taken such a hold on the sport-loving public that great tennis_centers like New York, Bos- ton, Chicago, Philadelphia, and San Fraricisco have sprung %up and.the game is spreading like a prairic fire to every sectioff’ of the country, Tennis was so popular this year that most of the leading cities esta- blished municipal courts, while hun- dreds of private clubs installed light- ing systems so that their members could play tennis at«night. Alexander declares that tennis has developed quicker than any other sport in this country, even including base ball. He gives three reasons for this—a -wonderful form of exer- cise, chcaFness and a game that re- quires but little space. Sudden Popularity, “The sudden” popularity of tennis surprises us all,” said Alexander, who as a player and expert ranks with the topnotchers. “Now we have vari- ous championships that attract in- terest from thousands of youths, addi- tional tournaments for even young schoolboys and many meets for women, whose members greatly in- creased this year. The sport 1s no longer restricted to a few -spots like Newport and Longwood, but is scattered all over the land. Philadel- glhi. is just as keén for the game as ew York. One club at German- towp alone "has sixty courts and they're busy all the time:. Chicago is another city of racquet weilders, {while no one needd to be told about the tennis sentiment out in Califor- nia, “Yet,” went on the veteran former champion, “the game started under the most discouraging circumstances. Tennis was introduced here from England some twenty odd years ago, and it Was quickly taken up by so- ciety. It was very exclusive. Society played it, and only society was invited to the few tournaments at Newport, Longwood and Sea Bright. The av- erage sport-goer refused to have any- thing to do with it. He poked fun at it as being a fad and a ladies’ game. In those days it was a tame sport, and the best players, with the gentle tap-tap style, would .only be second or third raters now. Was in Rut. “The game continued in a rut for a long while,” con{inued Alexander. “Finally it gradually began to attract a few outsiders, who played the new sport more out of curiosity than any- thing else. To their astonishment they discovered that chasing a tennis ball for about two hours was pretty good exercisc., They invited others to take up the game, and that was the real beginning of tennis. “Dwight Davis in offering a cup for international competitign did a great deal to foster the ggowing game. Then came Maurice McLoughlin, with his new dashing way of playing tennis. He put additional action into the game, and that seemed to please the younger players, the kind who delight in taking strenuou$ exercise. “McLoughlin was looked up to as a model for hundreds of youngsters who have been starring on the courts the last few years. They not only ilayed .a dashing game like Mec- oughlin, but actually improved on ghc orpet‘s style, a development that is making our leaders some of the greatest racquet wielders in the world.” ' Alexander explains that tennis is really only begihning to get big. Quincy Owner Puts His Whole Team or the Block Oscar Shannon, ‘owner of the Quincy franchise, in the “111"” league, has offered his entire team for sale The players include Manager John Castle, Pitchers Higbee, Cummings, Young, Heizer, Bierman and Kuep- per; Catchers Tyree, Lingle, Kuhn and Boelzle, and Fielders Foley, Gol vin, Turner, Boyle, Sherer and Trainer. 1 ‘Hawke OMAHA COMMERCIAL HIGH SCHOOL TEAM—The “Bookkeepers” made a good record for themselves as an ambitious, scrappy lot during the season. In the picture they are: Front, Oscar Weinstein. Second row, left to right—George Bernstein, E. Rokusek, Julius Gerelick, Frank Ross, Milton Morearty, Captain Wade Reeves, Fred Morledge. Third row, left to right —Kinsley, Albert Card, Charles Conkiser, Coach James Drummond, William Dewey, Perry Vye‘B'a;sket hooters to Have Extengile_ Schedule Towa City, Ia., Dec. 2—(Special.)— Hawkeye basket tossers have come together immediately at the close of the foot ball season and are taking their first workouts on the gymnasium floor daily under the direction of Coach M. A. Kent. About twenty men are out for the squad, all of them candidates who either had experience last year or who played with the re- serves or freshmen. As the saying goes each year, “Prospects for a winning basket ball five at lowa City this season are very bright.” The Hawkeyes make no com- plaint of the outlook, however. Cap-| tain -Bannick, without doubt the best player in the state today, is out for | forward again and is assured of a po- sition. He has been showing up bril- liantly in the first practices, Von Lackum and Schiff, guards last year, are also available and can be kept off thefive only by the appearance of some phenomenal opposition. Two games with Ames, two with Cornell and one other remain to be arranged before the Iowa schedule is complete. Director Kellogg, however, announces the following games for the year: December city. * December 19—Lombard at lowa City. January 6—Chicago at Chicago. January 12—Indiana at Towa City. January 17—Indlana at Bloomington. Junuary 20—Purdue at Lafayette, January 24—Northwestern at Evanston. February hicago at Towa City February 19—Minnesota at lowa City March 3—Minnesota at Minneapolis, March 10—Northwestern at Iowa City. 15-—State Teachers at Iowa Dobie's Eleven to Tackle Dartmouth In East Next Year New York, Dec. 2—Dartmouth has arranged a game with the famous University of Washington ¢leven to be played at the Polo grounds next fall. The Washington team, which is one of the strongest on the Pacific coast, has not been defeated in three years. The players are coached by Gilmour Dobie, a capable foot ball in- structor, who sticks to the old-fash- ioned game, using the forward pass only as a bluff. The Washington eleven has been cager to play a game | before a New York crowd for some time, but it has been impossible to carry on successful negotiations with the big Princeton. Dartmouth, however, has come to the front with an acceptance of the Washingtonians’ sweeping chal- lenge and the New York Easc Ball club has clinched the match, which prqhably will excite unusual interest, Vean Gregg Gets More Cflill Than Ty Who is the highest paid player in base ball? Ty Cobb, Tris Speaker? Not on your life. It is none other than Vean Gregg, who occasionally, very occasionally, pitches a game for the Boston Red Sox, champions of the world. Gregg was wished upon the Red Sox late in“1914 by the Indians. Then his left fin lost its wiggling power and Vean did little else than nurse it for the balance of the year. In 1915, and again this season Gregg was almost useless to his club. The main chores he performed were those of the relief variety. In 1915 he worked to a decision in only six games; this year five. For performing in eleven complete combats in two years, Gregg got his regular salary, reported to be $5,000 a season, and two cuts of the world's series melon. That means ap- proximately $17,000 for working about twenty hours in two ycars, or $850 every six minutets 1f you have tears to shed, this is not the spot. Michigan Gridiron Star Leans Toward Aviation Maulbetsch, captain of the University of Michigan foot ball eleven, has become afi enthusiastic aviator, He has made flights with Don. McKee of Saginaw, brother of “Red” McKee, the Detroit base ball club’s catcher, and seems anxious for more opportunitics to buck the air, Bighee Keeps in Shape By Chopping Down Trees Carson Bigbee, the rising young Pittsburgh infielder, is working on his father's farm out in Oregon and writes that he intends keeping in con- dition by chopping down trees and in- dulging in other “light” exercise. John three—Harvard, Yale and| WILLARD FLIRTING - WITH QUICK DEATH Taking Life Easy and Work- ing Very Little. TWO FIGHTS, THREE YEARS 2 New York, Dec. 2—How long can Jess Willard remain out of the ring and still retain his reputation of be- ing invincible? During the last three years Willard has taken part in two bouts, one with Jack Johnson and the Moran. ;That is not nearly enough |to do his best work. It is a rule with few exceptions that when a boxer retires for as long as a | year he lases 50 per cent of his form. Jack Johnson was no exception to this rule, although Johnson was a natural boxer who needed less prac- tice than the average gloveman, Willard is strictly a manufactured boxer. He is not by nature a fight- ing man and it was only by laborious practice that he acquired whatever amount of ability he possessed. Willard says the boxing he does |every day during the circus season keeps him in good shape. But the champion's circus boxing ig strictly a joke. He merely goes two one-min- ute rounds and lets his sparring mate | do all the work at that. Gymnasium boxing has ruined every fighter who tried it for any length of time. It gets him in the habit of pulling his punches. Willard showed in his bout with Moran that it was beginning to get in its work. He fought Moran as partner instead of defending a cham- pionship. Instead of stopping his man. Willard merely boxed defensively when he should have been forcing the fight. He (followed the tactics learned in the gymnasium, which are altogether different to those used in the ring. Then, too, Willard is said to have grown so fat that it is by no means certain that he will ever cnter the | ring again. However, it is becom- ing «evident that he must do some- thing in the boxing line this winter if he hopes to continue as an attrac- tion with the circus. Of late the ring skits have taken to hooting at the place where the cheering should commence, according to reports from the west. i There are certain signs that the titleholder is about to indulge in a scrap of some sort. According to the advance work he will face either Fred Fulton or Charley Weinert. Weinert probably will get the chance if, as seems probable, Frank Moran flat- tens the gawky Rochester giant when they come together in a few weeks. Willard would no doubt prefer | Fulton, who still looks very soft, to | Weinert, who is a good boxer and verv fast, even if he is not much of a hitter. In ten rounds Wein- ert might cause the champion a great deal of trouble. Of course Willard's title would be safe enough if the bout were held in a no decision cen- | ter, but it might be different if it |took place in Tia Juana, ‘or some place where the referee would be allowed to hand down a decision | = ‘Lawn Tennis On Ice is Newest Fad New York, Dec. 2-~Lawn tennis is to be played at the Ice Skating Palace, with Fred B. Alexander in charge of the arrangements; in fact, the idea originated with him. It is apparent that the players of this game must meet two big requirements. In the first place, they must be expert skat ers, and, in the second place, they must be equally expert tennis players. None but the best of skaters could hope to play the game. It requires more prompt and decisive action than hockey, even. Further, it must be apparent to even the layman that the players must be expert at handling a racquet, for, unless they are familiar with the different strokes” and the part the feet play in making these strokes, they are certain to come a cropper. Some five or six years ago the game was tried. But pnly onc match was played. It caused a great deal of interest and enthusiasm ran high. At the time therd was much talk about forming an ice i tournament, with regularly scheduled matches throughout the winter. Hos a Handicap. Ailly Miske o a sweet battler and all that, but he's going to have a hard time got ting publicity so long as the Gibbon fam- ily remains in St. Paul. Jess Laying Himself Open by | other the ten-round affair with Frank work to keep a fighting man in shape | though he were boxing a sparring | spectators of his abbreviated spar-| tennis | | GOLF ASSOGIATION Reinstatement of Outlawed Members May Lead to Inter- esting and Warm Debates. | THOSE MUNICIPAL LINKS Boston, M Dec. 2—~There may | be exciting moments next January at | the meeting of the United States Golf | ‘assofm(iou delegates. The decision of | the Woodland Golf club to pursue 1lhc course mapped out some nmmh\} | ago and fight hard for the reinstate-| ment of the members at present out- side the pale can mean nothing more than a clear-cut decision which will | show to the goliers all over the coun-| try the 1917 attitude of the new e ecutive committee, | The whole question is far bigger ! than any committee or club, and it is | to be hoped that steps will be taken in the meanwhile to have a harmoni. | ous gathering two months from now. | I'he question that has arisen be- | tween Woodland Golf club and | | the officials of the United States Golf | | association has not a few complex | elements, important to every club in| | the country whose members favor the | true spirit of democracy. | Some Suppositions. | Suppose that 100 clubs had had| their favorite members debarred by the United States Golf association of- | ficials and were deprived of a discus- | sion of the casc. Suppose, as happened in this case, there was a refusal on the part of the resident executive committeeman to| meet and discuss together the merits | of the situation and that repeated ef- forts on the part of the club officials failed to get the proper and courteous | response expected concerning the no- tification of disbarment, etc. Would many golfers deny that a feeling of great disloyalty would creep into the | hearts of the members of the hundred clubs on the ground that they had not | | the right sort of treatment by the men clected on a national ticket for that| very purpose. But as this happened to only one club there has not been the same feel- | ing of sympathy because of the pecu- liar circumstances of the members in- volved, The officers of the United| States Golf association must meet half | way every time any club, whether ac- tive or associate, for the clearing up | of any disagreement. In this case who | would say that the Woodland club | had received anywhere near a square | deal A Hornet's Nest, It is on that account and not for the personal sympathy accorded to Francis Ouimet and the others that the Woodland club has—it may sur- | prise some of the officials to hear— heard from well over fifty clubs in the east tendering their belief in their actiop, and sympathy as well; while, only five clubs—you would not fail to guess’ them without being told—have said that they belicve the club was in the wrong. And accompanying the letter from one of the five clubs was a statement that it was only the majority part of the executive committee of the club which favored the United States Golf association action and that the club members were spokenly in favor of the Woodland club. Is it reasonable to presume that the official action or nonaction is right when it is so over- whelmingly vetoed by thinking men/ far from the immediate scene of ac- tion who surely have not been hap- hazard in their choice. The game of golf is too fine a sport to be immeasureably hurt by the con- certed action of a few men who are sincere in their beliefs that they are managing for the best interest of the game. That is a point worth consider- ing. To our more than 500,000 there arc being added 30,000 or 35,000 new | golfers cach ycar. | Municipal Links. | What will be the new order when | we have a million players or more in | the country? Have many of ybu thought ntuch about the new munici- | pal championship won this year by | Chicago from Hartford and played on | the links of St. Louis by representa- | tives of the golfers who play 600,000 | rounds each' year? In five years more | we shall have fifty to seventy-five mu- nicipal links; in another ten years | we shall have 400 standard courses | of either nine or eighteen holes. | 1s there going to be one national | organization in control of all the clubs l'and their members, with the right to | make laws for the proper government lof the sport? Golf is bound to be- | come the nationally played game of | the land, as base ball will always icnmhinc the playing numbers and be pre-eminent as a spectacle. | And now is the time when breadth | of opinion as opposed to narrow per- I sonal choice, constructive legislation | as opposed to guess work in the mat- ter of new membership rules, a coun-| try-wide view rather than a nine-| }s(‘v(‘n»cluh horizon is needed in Amer- ica as never before, | Fight for Favors. | If the men in authority think it is [ the amateur rule alone which has roused the golfers of the country they are much mistaken. For years there has been discontent over the distribu- tion of official favors; there have been outspoken statements that the men in power did not have a democratic view | of the golfing situation in the United States; there was at one time, almost a decade ago, a serious set of differ- ences between the cast and west, { which were happily blotted out for the time being. Differences out west scem to have come once more to the surface in no uncertain form and there has been a different attitude on the part of the | officials in refusing every request for the abolishment of the stymie, a pro- | cedure ten times less important than | it may seem, involving no greater | courage than it did to keep the Schen- | ectady putter and being a matter | which need not be taken up with St. | Andrews at all, statements to the contrary notwithstanding. Game Needs Men. I submit that the game of golf nceds men of conviction who are wise |and prudent. 1 do not intend this | article to take up the matter of the {amateur question, but in this connec- ’ | a poor boy, working his wa; HOW BARNES GAVE FACES BIG TASKS U. 5. ROWING START Multi - Millionaire Enthusiast Spends Thousands of Dollars to Give Sport Boost, IT GAVE HIM HIS HEALTH New York, Dec. 2—Julius Barnes, called “The Father of American Row- ing,” has done more than any other man to popularize the aquatic sport in America, which has come forward with such leaps and bounds during the last fifteen years. And behind it all is a pretty story—one that tells how a man, grateful for what a sport has done for him, has spared neither | time nor money to raise it to ranking among the major sports of America. Twenty years or so ago Barnes, then living in his home town of Du- luth, faced a nervous breakdown. He was emerging from his teens, but hard work and long hours had made their impress upon his health. Doc- tors told him it was best that he should go away for a long rest. But that was just what Barnes couldn't do. Barnes today is rated as a multi- millionaire. In the other days he was along toward success, and traveling the long, hard road. And so he could not follow the advice of his physician, be- cause to quit work meant to abandon his means of livelihood. And then it was that Julius Barnes took up rowing. In that darkest hour he saw a ray, of light and'it diregted him to the water, to a boat and to a pair of oars. Every evening when his work was done he would take himself down to Old St. Louis ba and row up, and down until nightfall —and beyond. The exertion at first, tired him very much, But in a little while he found that he could pull harder and faster—and not feel tired. Soon his cheeks filled out and began to bloom. His chest took on a bulge and muscles began to develop on his arms, his legs ard on his body. In less than a year Julius Barnes, frail, wan and worked out, developed into a strong, husky youth, with clear eyes, clear skin and superb health. Regains His Health, “It was rowing that did it for me— and nothing else,” said Barnes, “When I took up the sport I was in poor condition. Within a year I had regained all my lost health—and much more, And I have been a row=« ing enthusiast ever since.” A year or so after he took up row- ing Barnes joined the first crew that ever represented Duluth. It was a 'y remarkable quartet—one that swept its way to victory in almost every contest that it entered. Fifteen years or so ago, when Barnes was forced to abandon the sport as a regular pleasure to devote his time to his grain business in New York and Duluth, he decided to bobst the game whenever he could. “Rowing probably .daved my life,” he once said. “I know what it did for me in upbuilding health. And so I felt that it was only right that I should open the way for other boys to grow strong and healthy through its medium.” Patron of Club Barnes became the patron of the Duluth Boat club. Hc spared nothing to make it a success. With several others who loved the rowing game as he does, he helped to build the strug- gling club up to first ranking among organizations of itg kind. Its mem-/ bership jumped from a score or more to something close to 1,500. And the crews that they tyrn out there in Duluth are the gréatest in America. A Duluth oarsman has become the standard by which all others are judged.. Oarsmanship has been de- veloped to its highest possible stand- ard in the Minnesota town, and dur- ing the last few years the story of every big amateur regatta has started with: “Duluth again won the laurels, scoring firsts in nearly every event.” Duluth is a city that is filled with husky little elfs. And each is an oarsman. The boys there begin row- ing at an early age, and when they are 12 or 14 they can pull a blade with the skill—and oftentimes the power—of an adult. And so it is with the girls. Several years ago some of the daughters of the mem- bers of the Duluth Boat club_begged for a chance to row. They got it. Duluth now has some girl rowers who are the equal of many masculine stars of other cities: “I think rowing is the greatest sport in the world,” said Barnes. “Nothing is better for young boys. The combination of water, sunshine and fresh air, together with exercise, builds up their bodies to the highest point of efficiency. It develops them in every other way and makes them manly little fellows. “The lesson that the boys learn in that way becomes invaluable to them later in life. And the superb health that rowing gives to them stands them in good stead in later years.” tion let me proffer the following to explain what I mean: t took a great amount of thought and work, so we are told, to draft the new amateur rule which was first brought before the delegates last January. It was voted there to have the committee bring in another one and then within twenty-four hours an altogether new ruling was present- ed. How much thought was spent upon this in comparison to the other which failed to satisfy? The latest draft was not an alternative, for it would have been presented at the meeting. And it would be rather un- wise to say that no time, or just twen- ty-four hours, was spent on the first rule given out. Such systems do not bring feelings of deserved confidence and the golfers of the country at large recognize that fact. Woodland will bring the matter to a head at the annual meeting or be- fore that time. They may not have enough helping votes then, with only active clubs voting, but again they may. Time alone will tell. The apt remark of ex-Senator Cannon that “if the good thing. are made as popu- lar as the bad things are powerful then we shall have good government,” may fit this case. sl ¢! fiol iw