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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 4, 1923)
Search for New Players Will Be ** Hot This Winter Every Big Team Needs New Material With Very Few New Men Available. New York, Nov. 3.—While Miller J- Huggins, the happily placed man ager of the world champion Yanks, Is taking his ease and comfort this winter, Beven rival leaders will be dashing hither and yon in search of new material to strengthen their sev eral clubs. All require strengthening if they are to make a real fight of the American league campaign next year instead of a walkover for the Yankees. AVhere to get the required new ma terial is a problem the rival leaders will have to solve for themselves. According to the scouts, the really good players in the minors this year could have been counted on the fin gers o£ any normal human's two hands. Not. in many years, say the nimble ivory hunters, has there been such a dearth of promising material in the bushes as there was during the season just closed. This means, of course, that there will be correspondingly few additions to the major league clubs from this source next spring, ami these few, it now seems likely, of little or no “class.'' Shortstop Wright of Kansas City, destined for the Pittsburgh Pirates, is said to be a star in the making, and two or three others are named iy the scouts as "ready." Most of the others, however, are said to be at least one year “away," and this probably means that the dubs which need strengthening will have to mend their fences with play ers now in the league. Activities Promised. This, in turn, indicates a winter of unusual activity in the baseball marts of trade and frequent exchanges of players. The Yankees are the only club In the league which can afford to stand pat on Its pitching staff, and most other clubs require a lot of bolstering In other departments as well. The Tigers, for instance, need a second baseman and possibly a short stop In addition to at least two pitch ers, and the Cleveland Indians, also lacking pitchers, could use a first baseman and second baseman to ad vantage. The St. Louis Browns need first and third basemen and a hard hit ting center fielder, as well as a couple of pitchers, and the Washing ton Senators must have outfielders and a pitcher or two if they are to figure as pennant contenders. Pale Hose Need Pitcher*. Pitchers are the greatest need of the Whit* Sox, who might have given the Yankees a battle this year if their hurlers had delivered up to Gleason's Expectations. Connie Mack's Athletics need at least two outfielders who can hit and a couple of steady pitchers, while the Boston Bed Sox need rebuilding from the ground up in practically every department. £ "I am in thorough accord with President Johnson of the American league in his decision to bar boxing bouts and rodeo shows from our ball parks," says Col. Jacob Buppert, owner of the Yankees. "4’ve bad my fill of such exhibitions in the Yankee stadium this year and I heartily In dorse Mr. Johnson's new policy. Box ing and baseball do not mix. They are widely different, particularly In patronage and prices. One detracts from the public’s Interest In the other. I built the Yankee stadium for the playing of American league games and that will be my sole pur pose hereafter. Johnson Misunderstood. "Mr. Johnson, by the way, has been misunderstood in many ways. I am convinced that he Is fair and impartial In his dealings with each American league owner and that whatever he does always is for the brat Interests of our organization. He is a big man in baseball, ever on the alert to safeguard the sport." Action has not yet been taken, hut undoubtedly will he taken at the annual league meeting In December, according to Business Manager Ed ward G. Barrow of the Yankees. "We knew such a move was com lng," said Barrow. "It was discussed with us recently, and we offered no objections.” Similar action is not contemplated by the National league, so far as could be learned. ^ Olympiad Will Be Gerat Event New York. Nov. 3.— A prediction that the Parle Olympiad next year will prove the greatest set of Inter national games In history was made Friday by Col. A. O. Mills, who re turned on the steamship President Jlardlng after tr*P ot *«veral months abroad as official envoy of the American Athletic union. Colonel Mills represented the A. A. IT. at the congress of the International Ama teur Athletic federation In Paris, and was elected vice president of the lat ter body. Jess U 'illord Is So Out of Mind That He Comes and Goes Unnoticed Not long ago a sports editor In !»s Angeles received a query about Jess fvIIlard, former heavyweight cham pion of the world. The person want ed to know what Willard's address was and how 1-est to get n message to him. The sports editor had not. I bought of Willard for months, but offered to find out Willard's whereabouts and pass on the Information, He called Willard's home nnd nsk<-d Mrs. Wil lard where Jess could be located. Mis. \\Tillard answered In some sur prise that Jess was In fans Angeles iml had been there for more than six weeks. Jess Willard had returned home, had gone to his business every day and bad walked about the streets of the city every day for six weeks, and not a sports writer or a tight fan bad noticed him sufficiently to think the matter worth recording. It sure Is tough to bu a baa been. The Crack Central City Football Team --— This is the fast squad from the Central City High school. So far this season they have met with extraordinary success in their contests with other high schools in the state. The team lineup,,as It appears in the picture, is: Greene, left end; Page, left tackle; Smith, left guard; ltenton, center; Rose, right guard; Hosier, right tackle; Riunage, right end; Gould, quarter back; Mohr, left half back; McHargue, captain and right half back, and Parker, full hack. Jimy Dunn and His Gang May Travel to • Coast Hunting Bouts Jimmy Dunn and his fistic clan may mosey out to the Pacific coast ere long. A Los Angeles promoter Wednesday wired Dunn for his terms for a bout between Marty Burke, who recently knocked out Bob Martin, and Jim Delaney. The date of the proposed match was October 29 and Dunn, fearing Burke would not have time to condition himself after the. long cross country journey, asked for a postponement. He also asked for terms for his other stars, Carl Tremaine, Charlie O'Connell, John ny Karr, A1 Corbett and Bryan Downey. Yankees Are Most Valuable Team Cost $400,000 Originally, Now Worth Over $10,000,000. New York. Nov. 3.—Charley Mur phy, former owner of the Chicago Cubs, used to boast that he stretched a shoestring into $1,000,000 . Charley bought the Chicago Nationals In 1900, and they made him $1,000,000 In eight years. llowever. If Murphy did well with the Cubs, consider what Jacob Rup pert has done with the Yankees. Nine years ago Ruppert and Huston bought an American League franchise in New York for $400,000, each of the partners putting up a little over $200,000. The Yanks then were a homeless franchise, and title to the club took over players who would not be re membered today. Today that same Yankess team is the most valuable baseball property in America. After winning the world's series, Ruppert placed a $10,000,000 value on his club. Yankees Worth 510,000,000. “If any one wants to buy the Yan kees now, they can pay me $10,000, 000,” said Ruppert. "We are a $10,000,000 property. The real estate on which we have built our stadium already has doubled in value, and our stadium also has gone up consider ably in value. According to a competent building engineer, if any one wanted to dupli cate Yankee stadium today the cost would be 40 to 50 per cent higher than it stood Ruppert and Huston. He said that the Colonels let out the contract for their plant while steel was at its lowest point since before the war and that since then steel and all other build.ng material again have taken a big jump. No Interest Ever Taken Out. However, not only has the stadium gone up in value, but the team has been developed Into the greatest money maker in the history of the game. Despite its had defeat in the world's series of 1922, the Yanks out drew every other club by a big mar gin last season. Now that they are world's champions, they are expected to do still better. Ruppert, however, said that he never had taken a nickel dividend out of the club and everything taken out of it has been put back. But as a result he has turned his original $200,000 investment Into a $10,000,000 property. Heilmann Knows When He Is Lucky Detroit, Mirth, Nov. 3.-—Harry Heilmann was recently asked why he did not go after a large total of home runs. Suggesting the matter to Hell mann, a friend said: "When you go to bat take a full swing at the first one and maybe the second one. If you hit the ball you are certain to get a home run." To this Heilmann replied: ' There is only one man in baseball who is paid for hitting home runs. What good would It do mo unless I could hit 60 in one year, which I could not. If I took a full swing at the first good one or at the first and second, I would kill tny batting form, throw myself out of stride and then I could not'hlt at all. There Is only one tiling for me to do and that Is to get hits. That is the'best policy. Too many of tho hoys nre trying to get home-runs.” Eii fit if ill 11 nvr a Mote Waterproof Rare Track for Thoroughbreds After a sudden storm halted racing on the new CTanwood track recently, Frank 7). Woodland, proprietor, an nounced that ho had let a. con tract to .7. S. Coates, famous track build er of New York, for the building of a course that would he free from the Interference of storms. The track will he the first of Its kind In tho country and will he so constructed that the heaviest of rains will have no effect upon It. The first strata will he of crushed rock. On top of that will he placed a thick layer of cinders and this layer will he covered with several Inches of gravel. With such a course there will be no such thing ns Inclement weather in tho racing game. Thu track will always b« fast. Football Play h Changing for Better in Opinion of Expert Much More Handling of Pigskin by Younger Generation Than by Men of Older School, Says Herbert Reed. x New York, Nov. 3.—Herbert Reed, a well-known football expert, says that brilliant football Is in prospect during the remainder of the season, despite the fact that there is every evidence of growing power on the de fense, especially In the big games, for the reason that the generation of youngsters that have been working with great freedom under the modern rules has disposed of the "hall fear” that once beset thp old-timers, and they handle the pigskin with ever In creasing dexterity. There are more fumbles, to be sure, but not too many when the amount of ball handling, the complicated passing from the cen ter, and great number of individual duties loaded upon the players are taken into consideration. It may be, of course, that some of the October scores will be large, but as the season moves along the de fense, more widely understood now than in recent years, is cerfain to brace materially. Among the leaders In the east, at least, and probably in the west, there is less disparity in the coaching methods than there used to be, which means that there will be in evidence so many checks and balances that greatly one sided scores 'seem out of the question. Scoring Opportunities Few. This does not mean that there will not be long runs and deep passes In plenty, but the probability is that In the big games the scoring opportu nities will run about 6 to 4, 5 to 3, or perhaps even 4 to 4 or 5 to 3, ac cording to the generalship, and the team that wins will be the one that converts the greater number of these opportunities. No good team in its Mg game should be cut down to fewer than three openings at the very least, and most good teams will make more than that. Then follows the general ship, on which the victory will de pend. The proper type for football these days is a combination of fast athlete and actor. Deception has come Into the game to such an extent that of fensive players who, with a hop or a step, or perhaps even the turning of the head, can pull a defensive player or two out of position, are worth all the human battering rams in col lege It is a tribute to the way the modern game has been built up In the schools that all the colleges have these men. Speed Is Essential. Speed Is essential. There is, of course, afways need of power, for fundamentally, of course, football is a power game and when the neces sity passes football will pass as a distinctive game. Hut what Is needed today* is power plus speed and .brains. For In the strictest sense football Is no longer football, but handball. And the headwork applies to the line as well ns to the backs and ends and the field general. The old-timer should be a little lenient with missed tackles. The backs came up so fast for so great a distance to meet their man on the scrimmage line that they are apt to shoot past him, and, again, there is the vital necessity of watching the ball. The tackling will be fierce, of course, in the important games—in deed, all but savage—but It never will be ns deadly under the modern conditions as It was in the old game. There Is nothing that suits the pass ing game better than the "blind tack ier." These youngsters are perform ing so many duties that the old timer was spared that he might as well forget some of his spontaneous criti cism and look for the good things that are done under a far greater mental strain than ever was under gone by the players in the old game. Triple Threat Man King. The usual standard plays In at tack, of course, again will be In evi dence, and when executed with pre cision they will he just as effective as ever. The shifts also remain, but It is doubtful if so many freak shifts, such as were shown by Centre col lege last season, will be seen. There probably will be better plays built for use on the short Fide of the un balanced line, a maneuver that is still in its Infancy. There Is still plenty of room for better devised re verse plays from the formation that employs the deployed end. This de ployed end probably will be found in action on practically every team in the 'fcounU'y, for he is a menace to the tackle, and the defense against the maneuver i, s not yet been stand ardized, although mime coach«! have worked It up very well Indeed. The triple threat man is still the kingpin of the attack, for in the pass !ng game fully 90 per cent of its ef fectiveness depends on the passer, and if the passer Is also a kicker and a runner he is a great demoralizer of the defense. On the receiving end there probably will be further de velopment of the crossed-over player, for It is possible in this way to throw two or three eligible* Into the terri tory of a single wing back, at least one of them coming from the side. The flat p*ss has been gaining some what In popularity, and should he more effective than last season, while certain teams, notably Prince ton. undoubtedly will still set a great deal of store by the pass in depth. Hut the defense against the pass Is improving and there should be many sudden changes in the tide of t attle duo to Interception. The com plicated signal system has gone Into the discard, along with the dr.dto and oth-r extinct species, and there Is more common sense and less mysteri ous football on tap than ever before. Don’t disappoint the kiddles. Head to them the Purges* Bedtime stories in The Evening Bee. At Last We Have Indian Football Eleven to PI a v y Jiin Thorpe Has Organized a Team of Fiillblood Indians for Pro. Football. Not so many years ago the Car lisle Indians were known to every fan who then followed football. As ri team they were a sensation equal to that of the present Notre Dame team. That was In the days of Jim Thorpe. Cnder the direction of Cllen Warner the Indians used to trim some of the best college teams in the country and tremendous crowds would turn out wherever they played. The days of the Carlisle Indian school football team have passed, but now comes their star of stars, Jim Thorpe, with a collection of stars, and near stars, organized into a fast professional team. Every man who plays on Jim's team wore the colors of the Carlisle school at one time or another. Thorpe, of course, is the most fa mous member of the team. P.ut there are others who are pretty well known. Towahawk, full blooded Wyandotte; Red Fox, a Cherokee; Eagle Feather, .Monican—proor positive tnat James Fenimore Cooper did not know what he was talking about when he said that the last of the Mohican tribe fell with Unoa—Arrow Head. Wyandotte; Little Twig. Mohawk; Powell, Chero kee; Harrell, Chippewa; Nawosha, a Fac and Fox, tribesmen of Thorpe, make up the regular team. Every one of the men will be remembered by those who followed the path of the school in the days of its glory. Running Deer, Buffalo, Big Bear and Lou Boutwell, all Chippewas, fornj the list of substitutes. Thorpe is said to be playing the best game of his career in company with this aggregation. Red Sox May Win With Lee Fohl and His Cash New York. Nov. 4.—It is thought that Lee Fohl will be able to accom plish something in the way of build ins trp the Boston Red Sox on ac count of his financial standing. It takes money now adays to build up a baseball club. The Red Sox, as they etand, are a wreck. That Frank Chance could fin ish no better than last with them Is proof of that. Fohl, having a bank roll stands at least an even chance of succeeding. It all depends on his luck In getting the players he needs. There will bo no such thing ss OUlck success for the new regime In Boston. The Yankees are far too well fortified for any team to enter tain any serious pennant hopes, hut Fohl might make third or fourth place, such Is the condition of the rest of the league. In the minor leagues Lee Fohl had the honor of playing with the only small circuit combination to win four straight pennants until the coming of the Fort Worth and Baltimore combination*. That was down In Akron/O., then In the Ohlo-Pennayl vania league, a Class C organisation. Fohl caught for the team for four years and managed It in the last two seasons of its reign as cham pion. May Shake Up Yanks Pitching Staff New York. Nov. 3.—Beyond an at tempt to land a left-hand pitcher and an outfielder who bats right-handed. Miller Huggins declared that he in tended to stand pat on the Yankees lineup for next season. In a state ment made public today. He de clined to say whether another at tet^ipt would be made to obtain Jake May, left hander, of the Vernon club of the Pacific Coast league. It is understood that Huggins is angling for Benny Karr, pitcher and pinch hitter of the Atlanta club. He is also said to he in the market for George Dumont, a pitcher of the same team. now costs ^400 less ~ new low" pr'“*2785 Phaeton, f. o. h. factory No one who appreciates quality has ever been able to disregard the Marmon. No one who appreciates value can ignore its new low price Hayward Motors AT. 1422 2416-20 Farnam Omaha Speaker Can Hide Tris Speaker, manager of tin Cleveland Americans, demon strated that lie could be a cowboy as well as the leader of a baseball team at a Texas state fair re cently. Strolling nonchalantly into the arena of the “Wild West” sec tion of the fair Tris announced his Intention of taking a ride. A nice wild pony was picked out for the “Indian" and all tlie “cow punchers” stood around to laugh. Tris had the laugh, though, lie rode the plunging eayuse and the others' laughs turned into cheers. Football Is Not an Eleven-Man Came It Is a Combination of Sever al Formations of Many Players, New Yoik, Nov. 3.—Andy Smith, former coach of the University of Pennsylvania grid warriors, and for the last few years mentor of the University of California eleven, says that u football team is no longer made up of just 11 men as prescribed by the rules, but rather it is composed of 15 or 16 players welded into a se ries of combinations, ail of which are workable. Smith has several of theso combinations ready for the Pacific coast title games that ate now ap proaching. The Golden Pears, as the University of California team is called, while forced to undergo some great changes on account of the loss of some of its stars of Inst season, is being pointed toward the conference championship. Opposed to the Bears id Leland Stan ford, a good combination which is using some of Glenn Warner’s plays, although the latter will not assume the coaching burden until next spring. The University of Washington, anoth er formidable outfit, will dispute the Bears, as will the eleven from south ern California. Smith and his men are not over confident nor are they unaware that their chance of winning the title are excellent. The preliminary games so far this season have shown that Smith has whipped together a smooth working machine with several spe cialty combinations that are good at old-fashioned football or playing the aerial game. Blewitt Plays Anywhere. One of Smith's finds this year is Bill Blewitt, a sophomore, who is looming up as the original "five threat" player of the Pacific coast. That is. Blewitt Is the triple-threat men two'threats better. When Blewitt was placed at half back against Olympic club a couple weeks ago, due to injuries of the famous coast veterans, Spaulding and Dunn. Andy Smith prohabiy found the man who will lead the Beats to a championship, for he displayed an excellent knowledge of five distinct j football arts, punting, passing, buck ing, running and dropkicklng. He showed that he can do all of them well, which is a rare g ft among foot ball players. On the defr-nsi- he showed up well. being cool under fire In tight place* and a sure tackier. Coast critics believe that the Bears have the most versatile six-man hack field In the country. In Blowitt, Bunn. Spaulding, Bixon and Nichols. Three of these men can run, buck and pass: three can punt, and three can drop kick. Smith has shifted Bode King back to quarter, where h<‘ will di rect the plays In the conference strug gles. I.ine a Stone Wall. The first-string California line has shown Itself to be a stone wall from tackle to tackle. Morrell Is at cen ter; Beam and Ncwmeyer, guards: Perry and Carey, tackles. Me'.l is ■ ■ W - a-* being used at left end and Thatcher at right. Football at I .eland Stanford univer sity Is undergoing the same rebuild ing as at Columbia university In this city. The grid game was abolished a generation ago at the California institution and it Is Just now strug gling to get bark on Its feet. Next year Glenn Warner Is to take charge of the football activities, but en thusiasm even this year Is pretty high. Stanford is hungry for a gridiron winner and there are hopeful slgnl that within a year or two the 1 .eland lads will make their presence felt In conference circles. FOR THE FINEST CLIMATE! FOR THE “LI VEST" RESORT ! FOR THE MOST BEAUTIFUL TROPICAL SCENERY! 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