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Dempsey Floors Sparring Partner FALLS, Mont., May 22.—For the first time since he e s t a b 1 Ished training quarters here to prepare for his 15-round bout with Tom my Gibbons at Shelby. July 4, Champion Jack Dempsey pulled on gloves ycster day and boxed. Dempsey slugged through six fast rounds with three sparring partners. Frank Powers, New Y<>rk middle weight, was Dempsey s first victim. Jack Kearns. D^hipaey's manager, had barely assumed his role as third man in the ring when the champion locked the New Yorker with a left body smash, Powers jumped from the canvas but was unable to retaliate tie fore Jack slammed him with another left to the jaw, flooring him. Jack Burke. Pittsburgh husky, was able to trade punches with the heavy’ King for two rounds, and George Godfrey,, colored heavyweight of Philadelphia, furnished Dempsey some fast entertainment in two cantos. Powers returned for another try at the champion and 4hey slammed each other furiously in llie final go. Demp sey was perspiring freely when he ran for the showers. Wells Works With Him. Billy Wells, British welterweight titlehol ler: Harry Drake, British heavyweight who appeared recently in the New York milk fund bouts, and Joe Benjamin, California lightweight, joined Dempsey’s camp today and will work with the champion. Babe Her man, New York bantamweight, will ^ ai'rlve within a few days and addition al heavyweights are also hurrying to Great Falls, to aid in conditioning Dempsey. Gilliams Slums C lass. Helena, Mont., May 22.—Tommy Gibbons, challenger of Jack Demp sey, heavyweight champion of the world, appeared at the Shrine arena here last night before a fair-sized crowd and gave the fight fans a line on his wares. Boxing six rounds with sparring partners in snappy fashion. Hie challenger Moil the hearty approv al of the .crowd. When he entered the ring after the preliminary events, he was given a tremendous ovation. Gibbons appeared to be in good con dition although slightly bothered by the high altitude. The challenger first took on Cyril Todd for two rounds and handled the giant easily without warming himself. Marine Henire. spent a rocky two rounds with Gibbons. Frankie Monhan of Butte worked the last two rounds with Gibbons ami drew a big hand from the crowd for his clever work. As the challenger left the ring for the showers the big crowd gave him another ovation. Giants, Yanks * Win 22 Games By Associated Press. i ‘hir ago. May 22.—What appeared as dedldedly improbable when the 16 major league baseball teams wended their ways nortli from their training camps less than two months ago, was an unqiiesjlonahle fact todav—each of the two New York teams has won 22 ami lost 8 games and is leading its cir cult with a mark of .733. It was apparent before nlav started that the world's chamnlon Giants would have but little difficulty in keeping up their chins. On tinner thf j were a trifle stronger than last yeai and their competitors hadn't improved ccosiderably. But the tcmnwaniental Yankees were supposed to be having a I"' cf trouble at this s'agi Til" Giants have lived up to ezpee tations and the Yanks haven't; the American lenguers have lived up to their potentialities. Bad weather forced postponement of the renewal of the Giants Cardinals series yesterday, but If the Giants continue mauling all but the most brilliant pitching possible as they have, the St. Louisians will benefit by anything that will keep them idle. Pittsburgh gained on them by taking advantage of the mild Quakers of Philadelphia, 5 to 3. The Yankees kept their winning streak, trampling over Chicago, 5 to 0. Waite Hoyt pitching shut out ball all the while. Detroit reversed the order for the climbing Philadelphia Athletics through the timely hitting of Ty Cobb, 5 to d. It was the first loss for the Athletics in the last seven starts. ,St. Louis resumed Its losing ways in a closely contested game with Wash ington. 3 to 2. George Connolly, the former Toron to pitcher, has been released l>v the Chicago Xox to the Galveston club of the Texa3 league. Clifford Lee of the Phillies bagged two homers, Mrs. Askelof Winner. Mrs. C. W. Askelof won the blind bogey contest, for ladles at the Happy Hollow club yesterday in which 23 feminine club swingers competed. Mrs. Askelof had a 66 less 15 for a See Page 72 May 26th Saturday Evening Post for • Greatest Announce* ment In Motor Car Design Made in Last Ten Years EDDIE’S FRIENDS_ rmiR-C turn Kiillm.>iaa(h. | I fL ™ GONNA LEAtt SHU*' I / HOW TO PLAY THIS TELL YOU HOW ’ , ' PUNO - CHOW GAME IT'S PLAYED ■ I HEAP. EVERY- EDPIE SHOWED \3ody is hoppin' me how the TO IT THEY OTHER NIGHT Play it with y' play with I THINGS LIKE THIRTY FOUR OF j dominoes an’— the whatcha I \_ call'em J 1 - / (? / THEY TELL ME THE j CHINESE LAUNDRY MEN'S ASSOCIATION HAVE BEEN PLAYIN' IT FOR 3 000 years-'.: J \ ZAT RJGHT r J ----- /say' why PONT \ YOU GUYS \ LEARN THl5 \ GAME FIRST ? Ifts-N ----- 2Li ir e • TO BE ‘SURPRISE OF THE CENTURY’ By DEAN SNYDER. HELBV. MONT., May 22.—Public opinion wanted a Dempsey GlbbOns match, ami when New York .said Gibbons was loo small, people put him on the scalps. They found that Dempsey tips the beam around ISO to 1ST for most of his fights, and that Gib bons scaled from ITS to 180. That's a difference of a few pounds. When they step into the ping at Shelby July Fourth there will -lie no perceptible contrast In size. Gibbons is an inch taller. Right now Dempsey rules an over whelming favorite. The champion al ways does. Six weeks hence you wiil see the champion whittled down to practical ly Gibbons size. Both are knockout fighters. Gib bons has kayoed 32 out of his last 36 opponents. Dempsey's knockout string runs around 50, mOst of these being consecutive. Compare the hands of the two men as a palmist would do atnj they re flect. pretty closely the men them selves. Dempsey's hands arc the big gest, but Gibbons' hands are quickest. !>• mpsey soaks his knockout hands in brine to toughen, them. Gibbons car ries a tennis ball around with him and is continually gripping it to build up supple hands. Both are body fighters. The cham pion plays for the heart. The con tender plays for nerve renters. i 'arpefilicr allowed himself to be drawn in close, where Dempsey simply murdered him. Gibbons will be sent in for a knockout, but he'll stay clear of those torturing short arnt punches. Dempsey will find in Gibbons the fastest moving target he ever aimed at. The St. I'aul man is by all odds the fastest big man of today in the ring. The Dempsey-Csrpentier fight was called the "Battle of the Century." The Dempsey-Gibbons clash may turn out to be the “Surprise of the Century." Twe Eastern Promoters in Field for Wills-Jack Bout I - VOnK. May 22.— Two bidders for a heavyweight cham pionship match be tween Jark Demp sey and Harry Wills, negro chal lenger, to take place here on or altout Labor day. were In the field tonight Hfter Pa I dy Mullins, Wills’ manager, had filed with the state ath letic commission a request for sanc tion of the match in this stale. The promoters seeking the match, which depends upon Demiisey's til umph over Tom Gibbons at Hhelbjr, Mont., July 4. are Tom O'Rourke, Polo grounds matchmaker, and Simon Flaherty, matchmaker of a Long Is land city open air arena. Despite a report from Great Falls, quoting Jack Kearns, Dempsey's manager, us indicating he was dealing with Tex Rickard, the latter refused to confirm or deny tonight that ho was interested in matching Wills with the champion. According to Flaherty, who said he had started plans to erect an arena seating from 125,000 to 150,000 at Long Island <’Jty, Mullins has tentatively accepted his terms, fie stood ready, lie said, to give Kearns a bonus of 150,000 for signing articles. Ill I ■ 11—I Hi———I Kansas Hijrh Track Team Wins Meet My Manhattan, Kan., May 22.—Running through rain and a muddy track, ath letes for Eldorado (Kan.) High school romped away with the second an nual Missouri Valley interscholas tic relay carnival at the Kansas Aggie stadium Monday. Despite had weather, three carnival records were broken. Butterfield, Eldorado, bettered the pole vault record when he cleared the bar at 11 feet 4 Inches. Kink Wilson, Kansas, broke the shotput record with a throw of 51 feet 3'; ln,ehes and a new jump rec ord of a feet 7'» inches was made by Coleman, Ellsworth, Kansas. Kansas City Manual High school w is third with 11 points; Mulvane, Kansas, fourth with 10 points; Ells worth, Kansas, fifth with 8, and To peka and Western university of Kan sas were tied for sixth place with 7 each. « The meet developed into a contest of Kansas high schools. University l'lace, Nebraska, won three points with second In the two mile relay, and Beatrice, Neb . sec ond. two points. Rain began to fall just before time for the meet to be gin and continued steadily until late afternoon. Poor timss were the re sult. Joie Ray and his teammate, Ray Watson of the Illinois Athletic club, ran a slow and muddy mile exhibition ! race In y minates and 1 seconds. Raj won hy about 25 yards. The packaqe I carry to Cuba'’ ON my visit* to the tobacco fields I always take along several boxes of La Palina cigars for my Cuban friends, for in their country there is no cigar like it. The import duty charged in Cuha, on tobacco of the quality I use as wrapper, alone is so great that it prohibits the manufacture of La Palina. The fact that they cannot buy, in Cuba, a cigar made of the fine tobaccos con tained in La Palina is not the only reason prominent Cuban tobacco men prefer it. They find in La Palina a mild, full-bodied flavor contained in no other cigar, and which is the same each year. It is gratifying to me to see that the opinion of these expert judges of tobacco quality is shared, in this country, by so many men whose only requirement of a cigar is that it shall please their taste. CONGRKSS CIGAR COMPANY Philidrlphi« / Major .10« ^•nator.2 for 26c Blunt.2 f<*r 26a Mar nod* .)|| P*rf*cto Grand*. S for 60* ALoo nm*norou» othor popular ikapoa and oxtao. I Peregoy & Moore Co. Omaha Dei Moinei Sious City Sioux Falli ITS JAVA WRAPPED g) CIGAR J Plans Complete for Dedication of Klks' Home (her Thousand Expected to March in Parade Preced ing Laying of Cor nerstone. The complete program fur Satur day's ceremonies In connection with the dedication of the Elks $800,009 j home have Peon announced by Otto I Nielson, secretary. Saturday morning will be devoted to the reception and registration of vis iting Elks, who will come from all quarters of the middlewest to partlci- ; pate In tho event. Headquarters will be at the Elks home at 315 South Fiftenth street. At noon there will be I a luncheon at Hotel Fontenelle for ! visiting Elks and the high officials who will bo in Omaha. The parade, the most pretentious that has ever been attempted In Omaha by the Omaha "Bills," will start at 2 from Sixteenth street to Capitol avenue. More than 1,000 Oma ha Elks, carrying the purple and white of the order, will be in line. Vis iting Elks, army troops and other high civic and military officials will bring the number participating in the parade to several thousands. The cornerstone of the new build ing will be laid at 3 by the grand lodge officials, assisted by Omaha Elks. This ceremony will be started by a march to be played by the massed bands of Omaha, Shenandoah and Lin coln Elk lodges. .1. E. Masters, exalted ruler, will officiate In the open ing ceremonies. F A. McCormick, chaplain, will offer a prayer which will be responded to by the Creighton Glee club. Reading of Ihe records will be done by Mr. Nielsen, and they will be depos ited In the cornerstone by Charles M. Flxa, treasurer. Following the lay ing of the stone flower girls will co\er the stone with flowers. This will be followed by a prayer by Chaplain Mc Cormick. The Crrightf.il Glee club will sing the response. The audience will j then Join In singing “America." Albert W. Jefferis, member of the Elks and former congressman, Will BRANBE1S 8TT0RE Restaurants PROGRAM Wednesday, May 23, 1923 Italian Renaissance Room 12:30 to 2:00 P. M. Arthur Randall's Royal Orchestra 1 March of the Siamese. .Linche 2 A Perfect Kiss. .Armand Beaucaire I 3 Bamhalina Vincent Youmans From “Wildflower" Herbert Stothart 4 Smilin' Through. .Arthur A. Penn 5 Lucia de Lammermoor . . . Donizetti ( By Special Request) 6 Down In Maryland. . Kolmar-Ruby 7 Stella .Harry Aksh TENTH FLOOR PHONE JACKSON 5653 FOR RESERVATIONS m NOW SHOWING a*a* aa~ r,a WILLIAM r deMlLLE Grumpy wm rVtOOOCI ROBERTS MAY McAVOT sod CONRAD NAGEL J -—-— 5th Annt v e r s a r y. “The Girl ol The Golden West” NEXT WEEK iwow | I now NOW SHOWING Lionel Barrymore •—in— “The Face in the Fog” An i iicitittR Rowan*# oi N#w >oik*« (•real White Way A Paramount Picture deliver the principal address The grand exalted ruler will officiate at the ceremonies, to be followed by a selection by the massed Kiks band. At 7 the visitors and Omaha Klka will go to the Auditorium where the Spring frolic is holding forth. Knights of Columbus Elect State Officers MpeiRl Dispatch to The Omaha Bee. Sidney, Neb., May 22.—State con vention Knights of. C'olumhus closed today after the following officers were elected for ensuing year: Francis A. Matthews of Omaha, state deputy; Dr. Ciuimmer, Lincoln, state secretary; Howard Heine, Fremont, state treas urer; .1. C. Tighe, warden; Mgr. Dunphy, Mutton, < Iiaplatn, and the following national delegates to Mon treal in August: .f. L. McIntosh. Sidney; C. C. Cnogan, Omaha: Bernard Kennedy, flier-lev; Phelan, Grand Is land; W. W. Laughlin, Hastings; W. J. McN’icholls, Lexington. and F. A. Matthews. Omaha. Kearney was selected as meeting place for next yea r. Baby Born to Girl. 10; b ather Gets Prison Term By International News Sera ire. Corpus Ohristl, Tex . May 22.—Wil lie Larue, 26, confessed father of the son born four months ago to 10-yer old Mary Cavender. ,was today sen tenced in the 28th district to serve 15 years at hard labor in the state pen itentiary! ‘ i. ii i Wins State College Typewriting Contest Kennelli Tolbert. Kenneth Tolbert of Grand Inland won the state college championship in the 15-minute typewriting contest with an average of 77 words a minute. The contest was held at Kearney last Saturday. School Planned for Beet \\ orkera Summer Ses>ion« to Be HeM When Preliminary Uurk in Fields Slackens. PpN'InI lli-pfititi to The Oraiiiut H.h, Hcottsbluff. Neb.. May 22.—Vi ft the Hcottsbluff board of education and the county school authorities -cch operating, children who labor in tbd beet fields of western Nebraska will receive the required lninimuni amount of school work Superintendent K. I.. Bouse is pre paring plans for a six weeks suns in* r school for the children, to start about the middle of July when thl preliminary work of blocking and thinning the beets is finished, and nt continue until harvesting commences. The si hool will enable children whd are helping their parents in pulling and topping the beets next fall. Tit miss the opening week- of school. an4 still start with their classes when thi field labor is finished l-ive hundred children from 8 to ’t years of age are expected to enrol in the summer school. ('lasses w I he held i© the outlying rural schools that are a part of the Scottsblufl consolidated district. t'hina acknowledges three religions -^-Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoi ism. Most Chinese profess and prac* tii* ail three. ---,-1 STARTS ALL SUNDAY NEXT WEEK 1918 OUR FIFTH ANNIVERSARY WEEK 1923 Attraction Extra-ordinary! COL HOUSE and hit Colorado Cowboy Jazz Orchestra The greatest novelty aggregation on the American stage today. Syncopating, jazz creating in vigorating, hilariating jazzitts divine. EDWIN * . f , CAREWE ^2 -A presents r,° m • n c e s-fy the west of (fhZ 49. GIRLof GOLDEN WEST \DAVID BELASCO'S/ v POWERFUL DRAMA \ V \ I / / ^ A TtritV^ Motional THctur* BUSTER KEATON “The Love Nest” He started out to Wid the navy, but they saluted him with a barrage. Keaton’s Greatest * Comedy *« Special Stage Settings—Electrical Effects—Novelty Presentation , THE GREATEST PROGRAM EVER PRESENTED IN OMAHA “ELKS” SPRING FROLIC ant! INDOOR CIRCUS b Every Night This Week HIGH CLASS ACTS All Nationally Known Professional Acts _ Free Dancing and Other Features 10c • , Auditorium Doors Open 7 P. M. I I LAST | 3_DAY_S_ I GEEQ I “WESTBOUND 1 LIMITED" 1 Mighty Drama el flli Kleth and Steel |n|j LAST TIMES FRIDAY | PEONY PARK OPEN Decoration Day and evary Tuasday. Thursday. Saturday and Sunday Mill N IN Mi ll OK III ! P, TH\ OM \ll \ III i: M \VI \l»S. * VAUDEVILLE—PHOTOPLAYS LAST THREE DAYS •-■ li^ NOW SHOWING u Prodigal Daughters” w ilk GLORIA SW ANSON THEODORE ROBERTS “DIP OF DEATH” at Krug Park Er*r» Night FREE- FREE-FREE Girl in Red and Diving Horse In !>*• tng M FmI I #a|» *’ll T«li»« Yw»r Rr««i|i" —the home of polite d«nc mg—better picnic*. S^aycTy ROB GOOD Photoplay! AT IRRESISTIBLE PRICES Rormi Talmadge oT‘i*"tS4 EXTRA 2T rN*r* Min vs Ecu HEIGHBDUHDDD THEATERS HAMILTON . . . 4iHk .ml H.m.ltn CONWAY TFARLE in “A WIDE OPEN TOWN" VICYOAl A .... 24 it. .ml Ttrd 'C*aI»M in Om*iC "THE WEB Of THF I AW* PFAR1 WHITE In PLLNDER" CRAN'D H*lh am* Binna'' JOHN GILBERT .« THE LOVE GAMBLER" PE ARl W HIT 1 in PLI NDER" - i " ..■ --4 Hr* Want AJi Produc* Result*