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Cleveland Is Dark-Horse of the American Now York. April 7.—A baseball forecaster here says that whli# ,the St. Louis Browns and the Detroit Tigers appeal to a majority of the baseball fans the most dangerous rivals of the Yankees In the coming American league race. Tris Speaker Is making unexpected progress in re constructing the Cleveland Indians. According to the latest information from Florida, the Indians are begin ning to look so formidable that close ■observers are rating them among the first division contenders. Speaker realized last season that the Cleveland team need a generous infusion of young blood. The In '"I ■ tv n the world champion ship In 1920. had slowed down as a c i too many veterans in the lineup. So Speaker started his. big shakcup last fall by deciding to re P are Stuffy Mclnnis, Larry Gardner, Joe Wood. Joe Evans. Jim Bagby. Duster Mails, Allan Sothoron and even Steve O'Neill, his star catcher, who may have to play second fiddle to the expensive Glenn Myatt this year. i Made Room for Guisto. Mclnnis was released outright to> make room for Louis Guisto or Frank Brower at first base. Guisto has : been the property of the Cleveland club for several years, and now Is believed to be thoroughly seasoned. Brower was obtained from the Wash ington club in exchange for Evans and is considered a stronger batsman than Guisto. who, however, will have first call for the time being. In Gardner’s place at third base Speaker has stationed Lutzfce, a ster ling player who batted .325 in 159 games for the Kansas City American association team last year and for whose release the Cleveland club paid $30,000. Succeeding Wood and Evans in right field is Homer Summa, a powerful hitter who averaged .362 in 156 games for the AVichita Falls team of the Texas league. Myatt, purchased from the Mil waukee club of the. Amr^rnn as sociation for $50,000. caught 111 game* and ted that circuit in batting; with a percentage of .370. These n**w regulars will be steadied by Speaker .378; Jamieson. 323; Joe Sewell, 209, and Wambskanss, 262, who helped to win the American league pennant and the world series with the Brooklyn*. Jameson in Outfield. Speaker and Jamieson as usual will play In the outfield: Sewell will cover shortstop and Wambsganss will re turn to second base. On paper the Indians look like one of the heaviest' hatting combinations in the American league. Regardless of the achieve ment. of the Yankees and Browns, Cleveland and Detroit are bound to be the bitterest of rivals this year. Led by Speaker and Cobb, respectively, the Indian* and Tigers are slowly nkv.t surely gaining strength. Cobb, since taking hold of the Detroit team, has made remarkable progress. As a manager, he compares favorably with Speaker and, being two of the greatest outfielders and batsmen ever seen in baseball, they are eager to excel as field marshals. Cobb and Speaker are natural rivals and, unless present indications are misleading, they will land their ,-espe. tive teams high In the pennant race. George Staler of the St. Louts Browns, the greatest of all players is sure to follow in the footsteps of Cobb and Speaker. Although Staler frequently has declined the manage ment of the Browns, it is only a ques tion of time before he will accept the managerijil reins. Knox County Trark and Field Meet to Be Held April 27 [ Bloomfield. Neh.. April 7.—The first annual Knox county field and track meet will he held In Bloomfield on Friday. April 27, with the majority of schools In the county represented. The final game of the baseball tourna ment will be played that day.. In the preliminary, or first round. Niobrara drew a bye. Creighton plays Verdigns. Wausa drew a bye and Bloomfield | playes Crofton. Twelve events wil be' on the card for the track and field meet: 100 yard dash: 220-yard dash, HO yard high hurdles, 220 yard low hurdles, 440-yard dash, 880-yard run, SSO-yard relay, pole vault, shot put d use us throw, running high Jump and 4% inning broad jump. Silver lovdng rups will be given the winning track team and the champion hasehall team. Medals will be given to the three atm , letea scoring tlie most points In the Md meet and a trophy to the win ning relay team,_ Tri-County Baseball League to Be Formed at Meeting Plalnvlew. Neb., April 7.—Ball play ers and fans are much Interested In the proposed Tri-county baseball league to be composed of teams with in Cedar, Knox and Pierce counties. A meeting will bo called soon at Randolph or Wausa to perfect plans. Representatives from Plalnvlew, <'olerldge. Laurel, Hartlngton, Ran dolph, Bloomfield. Wausa and Pierce have been reqneBted to be present a Bitch a meeting. Re-Elect Southern President. William Ammons was re-elected president of the Southern league of the Muny" association at a meeting held Inst night at the city hnll. Man agers or all six teams which will play in the league were present. Ammons choice was unanimous. _ The Corr Klsctrlcs, Union Stock yards, Y. M. H. A., West Side Boosters and Christ Child Centers have already Joined the league. Other teams may join the league, hut must present a written application to Jake Isaacson, muny secretary. Xsaacsorr may lie reached at the American Legion headquarters. Managers of the teams voted to (lilt the forfeit money, which wit amount to *105, on a winner take all linsls. I’lay will commence, April -2. t** Manner Liken ^ u luta Pitcher Paul Muencr objected eo much agalnel heln* emit to the Tmsi leagua that Prank I*beU of the \V Ich Ita rluh hna canceled th« deal and Muaaer will remain with Wichita the coming mssukhi. ftc way* b* 1* ln ®rP/* *hap« to glvo tlm dub th« l***1 be ever delivered. bee Wa^t AUa Produce UcaUiU. Purely Personal. Sir Patrick Moran, of Rcdland and vicinity, believes the greater consis tency of his pitching staff will more than offset the greater strength of the Giant Infield and that he has at least an even chance to top the Giants by a game or two when the last Oc tober count is completed. Sir Patrick also figures that no ball club has won a pennant three times in a roar for the last 10 years, and so force of habit is working for him. McGraw, however, is one of the few leaders who ever ran off three successive pen nants, and he also might figure on the force of habit stuff. One of the chief features of Cincinnati's strength is the all-round managerial ability of Moran, his hustling leadership and his great knack of developing and handling pitchers. Walter Koppisch of Columbia, al ready well known as a brilliant ath lete, would have been lifted to an even higher peak if Columbia's foot ball team had given him a chance to show. One of our first recollections of Koppisch happens to be from a game where he played the last two quarters with a right shoulder that he couldn’t move, the right arm dangljng In helpless fashion by his side. Tet In spite of tliin heavy handicap he played fine football and refused to ease up in any part of his play. He must be rated as one of the great all-round athletes of the collegiate realm. Miss Alcxa Stirling, three times women’s golf champion and now Metropolitan crown wearer, will face this season the hardest competition in defense of her title that any Met champion has known In a long drift of passing Junes. In addition to Miss Marlon Hollins, now back on her game. Miss Stirling may also have to face Miss fllenna Collett, the present national champion. Miss Collett is a resident of Providence, R. I., but is also a member of the Westehester Biitmore club, which may entitle her to enter. Miss Collett is uncertain what the regulations are in a case of this sort, but, if eligible for the Met district, will almost surely cast her wood and iron into the arena. Jess Willard's change against young Floyd Johnson depends fully a~ much upon his mental attitude aa It does upon his physical coridltlon. When Willard fought Moran he put cn an easy going exhibition, not tak ing the match too seriously. There was none of the Instinctive fighter's dash and determination to his attack or defense. He opened with the same attitude against Dempsey, piking along without any touch of grimness or dash to any lead or punch until he suddenly found himself sitting in the resin. If Willard can add about 07 per cent in the way of aggiessive ness to his stuff he may provide some thing closely allied to a young sen sation. But the art of arousing an easy-going citizen is one of the most difficult of all operation known to the human race. Walter Hagen, British champion, la now facing his fourth trip Into the midst of British golfing circles. Hagen worked his way down from 53th place in 1920 to first place in 1922, which shows the big value In knowing conditions and getting accustomed to strange surroundings. Jack McDermott, for example, failed to qualify at his first British on slaught, and then finishing fifth In his second counter-charge. Hagen this time has to defend a title, in place of attacking to win one, which Is a vastly different matter in golf. De fense In golf Is harder to pull off than It Is at any other sport, but If any one can achieve such a triumph Hagen seems to be the man, as there is no greater competitor in the world today, no matter what the field of play. Frank Frisch, of Fordham and the New York Giants, after a brilliant i young career is now due to reach 1 even greater heights. Frisch at last picked up enough experience to know { every' inside angle of his gsme, where I instinct and habit will come to his i rescue. He is one of the fastest men I baseball has known for many years, i the type of player that captures the I sudden fancy of the multitude, Frisch 1 lias been in the middle of the infield, where no one entry has been able to outshine the other, but •with the golden gift of youth on his side he may easily be one of the sensations of the year. __ Eligibility of Competitors at Collegiate Meet to Be Watched New Yo^.. April 1.—Coincident with the official announcement that the annual championship track and field meet of the National Collegiate Athletic association would be held at Stagg field at the University of Chi cago on June 15 and 16, it ia made known that hereafter the association will scrutinise closely the eligibility of all athletes entered in the competi tion. -The freshman rule, restriction to competition for not more than three years, and amateur and scholastic eligibility are the sole regulations governing the meet, which, begun be fore the war as more or less of an experiment, has grown since to com mendable proportion^. While officials of the association, and especially MaJ. John L. Griffith, "director-gen eral" of the western intercollegiate conference, who is chairman of the N. C. A. A. committee having charge of the championship, are of the opin ! ion that there have been no Infrac | tions of the rules in the past, yet 1 they feci that with the growth in im portance which has marked the com petition In the last two years eligi bility statements should be examined , as closely as possible. For the present the representatives of the N. C. A. A. In the district* into which the country is subdivided will certify as to the eligibility of the ath letes from their respective districts to a central committee composed of Dean S. W. Beyer of Iowa State col lege, Prof. O. I* Long of Northwest ern university and Dean A. W. Small of th* University of Chicago. Tiger Gridsters to Have Tiger Mascot Prinreto*, N. J-. April 7.—The •Tigers" are to has* a real tiger for a mascot. Word cam* by cable today that J F. Howard, a Princeton grad uate, had captured a tiger In India and was sending It to the nnirerslly toot hall team. Employes Form Team. Employes of the Omaha Underwood Typewriter agency have formed a I tiseball team and are ready to book games with Omaha and out-state teams. E. R. Ore*n, manager, an nounces. j 16™ If Farnanv vTecuit { qs J9ui ldm<| HOAAE OF THE TWO PfeNT SUIT *5 Knapp-Felt Hats 1 The choice of the fellow who wants style! They are hats that class you with the better dressed fellows. Smart in every line. Here in all shades, all shapes. Selections enough to satisfy them all. Knapp Felt Hats at $6.00 are a little the best value you'll encounter anywhere today. Why not pick yours eat Monday? Choose Stetsons, $7.00 to $10.00 Barker’s Special, $2.50 and $3.50 Bear In mind that we are headquarter* v in smart fixin’s for particular men. Barkers Furnishing Goods Shop .s^* Ground floor Entrance “Jocko” Conlon Shows Up Well at Short With Braves By THOMAS L. CIMMISKKY. By t'nivereel Service. New York, April 7.—It appears “Jocko” Conlon, star ball player of Harvard, has an excellent chance of playing short for the Boston Brave*. He has been Improving right along down at St. Petersburg. Fla., the training camp, both In fielding and hitting. Jim O’Leary and Paul Shannon, veteran Boston scribes, told us, when we were down there recently, that he reminds strongly of “Rabbit" Maran ville, when that famous shortstop came to the Braves from New Bed ford in 1912. They aver “the Rabbit” didn't look any better. If Conlon makes the grade, he Is sure to be a hit In the Hub. and very likely all around the circuit. ’’Jocko" as we watched him, seemed to know what to do with the hall when lie got it, even In the most try ing situations. Another Ane point we noted was that he did not let a bobble bother him. Manager Fred Mitchell would talk to him on the bench, giv ing advice, and he would listen, and then say: "Tes, yes, I see. Watch me. I’ll get It next time." And Invariably he would. “Jocko” is the fir»t player from Harvard to come to the big longues since the late Eddie Grtint, killed in action in France, became a third baseman of the Giants. Unless Frank Chance makes some thing out of the hodge-podge Red Sox the Braves seem sure of getting far and away the best patronage in Bos ton. Resentment against Harry Fra zec. owner of the Sox, still runs high because of his wrecking of the famous team by wholesale sale of stars to the Yankees. A “tip-off” of how the Boston papers feel about it was ■bmply mirrored by the fact all the "first string scribes,” so to speak, are with the Braves. Christy Mathew son as president of the Braves, has made a 10-strike, too, by all Indica tions. , The way the Yankees have started in whipping the Brooklyns 1* to be construed as boding ill for the Na tional leaguers in the big grind. They have made it three in a row now , and .11 moat cleanout fashion. The Brooklyn*1 have a patched up infield, with three rookie* and only one vet eran, the undaunted Jimmy Johnson. Brooklyn ha* a pitching atafT. notahly Iteulher, Grimes and Vance, a capable ‘ receiver in DeBerry and a high class outfielder, Zach Wheat. But that's( about all. Jacques Fournier, supposed to come from the Cards for Myers, wants ( $1,000 for moving expenses from Bt. I.ouis to Brooklyn and to pay for whatever loss he might sustain in sub leasing his apartment In the Mis souri metropolis. Andy High, clever, smart-hitting third baseman, wants a flat $5,000 instead of $4,000 and $1,000 if he plays in 75 games, as offered by President Ebbets. Fournier, In 1 the insurance business, recently sent a circular letter to Brooklyn players, announcing his retirement and de daring he stood ready to insure them. j He might insure them against getting f lost In the cellar this season, and then again he might not. It would be quite a risk. Will Not Open Rare Track. Windsor, Ontario, April 7.—The ; Windsor Jockey club has definitely decided not to open its park here this summer, owing to heavy taxa tion levied by the Ontario govern ment, it was announced today. McGraw and Jennings Observe Birthdays New York, April 7.—Manager John J. McGraw of the New York Giants and his first assistant, Hughls Jen- i •lings, formerly manager of the De troit Tigers, consider their bfrthdays today at Memphis, Tenn., en route home with the club. McGraw Is 50 years old, and Jen nings will be 51 tomorrow. McGraw was bom at Trugton, N. Y., In 1873, and Hughle at Scranton, ' Pa., tn 1872. The two have been associated off f and on for years, first at St. Bona-1 ventura college and later with Balti more. — - Cady a Free Lance. The Memphis club decided it could not use Korrest Cady, veteran catch er. and canceled the deal It hat made ] with the Augusta club for his serv ices. At last accounts Cady was slat ed to play independent ball in Cali fornia. _ Lewis Throws Two Foes. Springfield, Mo., April <•—Kd Strangler" Lewis, world’s champion wrestler, met George Hills and Jack Solar here last night in a handicap bout. The champion threw Solar without much trouble, but Hills came near winning the match. The two heavyweights wrestled for 73 minutes without either gaining a decision. After the referee called a halt. X^ewis appeared to have difficulty In aris ing. I,ewls came here from Kansas City by airplane. Onialia Athlete Wins Nine Letters at Kemper Academy Boonvllle, Mo.. April 7.—W. A. Coglizer, of Omaha, star end on the Kemper Military School football 11. winner of four 'K's" for his work on the gridiron, started the final stretch of his career as a prep school athlete this week when he reported to Coach Clingenpeel for the Kemper baseball team. • Coglizer has won a total of nlna "K's,” including four in football, two In basketball and three In baseball. 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