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District Attorney Fails to Uncover Any New Clues in Baseball Bribery Case ■ ■ « . - --------- ..— Ford Questioned Regarding Bribe Offered to Sand Others to Be Interviewed Dur ing Next Few Days— George Kelly, Couch Summoned. YORK. Jan. — The district at torney's investiga tion into the Dolan - O'Connell bribery srandai was continued to day when Horace Ford, second base man of the Phila delphia Nationals, was questioned as to his knowledge of the S500 bribe offered to Heine D. Sand, Philadel phia shortstop, by Jimmy O’Conntll, New York outfield er, in a game here near the close of last season. Ford, It was understood, told As sistant District Attorney Brothers, in charge of the probe, that Ills first knowledge of the affair came when band took him into confidence after ' the game. According .to .testimony with Commissioner Landis, Ford ad vised Sand to "use his own judge ment.” Subsequently Sand related his story to Arthur Fletcher, manager of „ the Phillies. ..The examination of Ford followed interrogation yesterday of two others figures in the srandai, Frank Frisch, captain of the Giants, and Sand. Others will he Interviewed during ‘ the next few days in an effort to un cover any basis for grand jury action and indictments. Fletcher was to have come here next Friday but his hearing has been ", postponed until Monday, Mr. Brothers ' announced. John Couch, Philadelphia pitcher, and George Kelly, Giant first baseman, will arrive here the latter part of the week in response to re * quests for their appearance. Dolan, now at his home in Oshkosh, ' Wts., and O’Connell, located in Sacra mento. Cal., who have been banished from baseball for their alleged part in the scandal, have been asked to . come here ns early as possible to go over their stories once more. Although Brothers declined to dis pense the hearings he has held so far, • it was intimated he had as ybt un covered no Information affording new , clues to a solution of the caa*. From ‘Prelim” Boy to Main-Eventer in Few Months That’s Itpcord of Benny Gershe Who Scores 13th Knockout in - IS FiRhts. Cleveland, O., Jan. 27.—From a pre liminary boy to a main bout performer in a tew months Is the remarkable rise of Benny Gershe, Cleveland southpaw featherweight, Gershe scored his 13th knockout In 16 bouts last nlRht, stopping Harry (Battling Leonard of Philadelphia in four rounds. On his first appearance here Au gust 11 last Gershe received *30 for a preliminary bout. List night, box ing his first windup on big time, he received close to $4,000. Ernie Goose-man, San Diego; Frankie Garcia, Chicago, and Johnny Andrews, Toledo, are the only boys who have stayed the limit with Gershe. He won decisions over each. Gershe got his first knowledge of the ring while loafing around Benny Leonard's training camp. Valley Tennis Association Elects Delegates to New York St. Louis, Mo., Jan. 27.—Voting to support the amateur ruling revision, the Missouri Valley Lawn Tennis as sociation at a special meeting here last night elected C. Drummond . Jones, president, and Davidson Obear, secretary, as delegates to the annual conference of the United States Lawn Tennis association February 2 at New York, It was announced. Former Omaha Trap Shooter Dies at St. Louis Word was received In Omaha this morning announcing the death of llarry M. McNamara at Ht. Louis, Mr. McNamara was well known In Omaha. He was western representa tive of the Remington Arms company in this territory for the last few years. During his residence In Omaha Mr. McNamara was connected with the Omsha Gun club and participated in many of jthe trap shoots. McGowan to Play Hockey. St. Paul, Minn., Jan. 27.—Everett McGowan, St. Paul skater, announced that h* had accepted an offer to play with tha Vancouver (B. C.\) team of the Western Canada Professional Hockey league. He will leave for Vancouver tomorrow night. The Commercial Cuba and the H.lu-.lcll Beauty Shop bowling lemne will roll a return match at tha Y. M. C. a. alleys • Saturday at I p. m. Tha Bethany Presbyterians nre ready to play any elaaa H basket bell ten in on Mondays, Wednesday and Thursdays For semes call Manager Kv-ana at Webster . list. Tha Bellevue Athletic club will play llie Thorpetan Athletic dub Friday nlgl.i The Same will he played at the Bellevue gym aslum. London. Jan. IT.—Pour ilrltlah amnteur boxers who look part In the Olympic gomes In Paris last summer will call for America Thursday for contests against Aaaorlsasa. Tho quart at comprises Harry J. Mitchell, Olympic light heavyweight ebamplon: Jank Billot. Olympic middle weight ehemploa: Patrick O'Manrahan. amthur welterweight champion of Kng lead'had dogay, a lightweight flgbttr. ART GRIGGS RETURN’S OMAHA CONTRACT UNSIGNED. □RT GRIGGS, popular manager of the Omaha Buffaloes, 1924 champions of the Western league, has returned his 1925 con tract to Owner Barney Burch un signed. , East year Origgs managed the , Buffaloes without a contrart. Before the season started Burch told Griggs to go ahead and manage the team. ' Nothing was said about a contract and everything went along smoothly. This year, however, Barney thought It best to get Art to sign on the dotted line. With Tulsa angling for a manager and several other minor league teams in the field for pilots, Burch didn't, feel quite sure hp had a manager, although Griggs last fall said he would be back In 1925. East week Burch mailed Griggs a contrart, asking Art to fill In the amount he thought his services were worth as manager of the 1925 Buffaloes, Griggs mailed the parch ment back unsigned, saying that he would rather have Burch stipulate the amount of money he would draw as manager of the Omaha team. Griggs may and may not manage the Buffaloes in the next Western league race. It all depends on what Burch offers Art and whether the latter is satisfied with the amount. If Griggs isn’t satisfied with the first offer, Barney might have to boost the salary. ACE JU DKINS TO FIGHT IN COAST TOURNAMENT. CHE Nebraska Wildcat." bet known as plain "Ace” Hud kins, champion lightweight of this state who Journeyed out to California A. W. O. L. from his manager, has entered a tournament in Los Angelos to determine the lightweight who will go to New York and compete for the title left vacant by the resignation of Be»nny Leonard According to a Los Angeles news paper. the tournament will start within three weeks. The best light weights on the coast are being signed up. Tom Kennedy, Los Angeles promoter, has signed up Hudklns and is trying to get "Spug" Meyers or Phil Salvatore as Ace's opponent. The winner will be matched with either Joe Benhamin. Pat Mills. Joe Schlocker, Joe Lyman or Jack Silver. ERNEST BEARG HAS GOOD MATERIAL AT NEBRASKA. □JEN Ernest Elmer Bearg. new head football coach at Nebras ka, starts grid work at his new post he will find a wonderful stadium and plenty of husky grldsteis. Nebraska always has football ma terial. although the material is not as good some years as it is other sea sons. Next fall, however, Bearg will find good hackfield material at his heck and call. The new coach is a hackfield mentor. CoHCh "Indian" Schulte will take care of the line. It will be Interesting to see what Brarc ran turn out in the way of hackfield* at Nebraska. A former football player himself and former assistant of Boh 7-uppke of Illinois for several years, Bearg eomes to Nebraska well reeommeiided. He has enaeheri teams at Washburn college and Topeka (Kan.) High, but when lie takes up the reins as head football coach at Nebraska it will be the first time Bearg has tackled a job at a state university or a uni versity or college the sine of the University of Nebraska. Some followers of Nebraska foot ball will expect Bearg's 1915 team to plow through the season without a defeat. These fans do not stop to take into consideration that it takes a coach a year nr two to get his sys tem of eoadliing and play installed. Bearg, as we said before, eomes to Nebraska well recommended and It is only fair to the new coach and the university that the football fans wait until a season has past, or at leust until the Huskers play one or two games, before passing judgment on Ernest Elmer Bearg. f - ., Collins Entered Big Show Under Name of Sullivan Kddie Collin*, newly appointed manager of the Chicago White Sox, entered the big *how under the cognomen “Sullivan," W'hen Collin* went to Philadelphia to talk term* with Connie Mark, in 1906, he wa* *till a student at Co lumbia. When he walked into Connie Mark’* office a arout rec ognized him, hut Mark covered the situation cleverly when he realized that Collin* had been recognized. Mack said to Collin*. "Hello, Sul livan, I want you to meet a friend of mine.” The arout decided It wa* not Collin* after all. Kddie re tained the name of Sullivan In baseball circles until he graduated from Columbia In 1907. STECHER WINS MAT CONTEST Nashville, .lull. 2fi.—Joe .Steelier, former heavyweight wrestling chant |iion of the world, won from Jim Browning of Mlasourl here tonight In one fall, lie need a hammerlock, win ning after one hour ami one and one hnlf minutes. Browning came back for the second fall but wa* forced to quit because of an Injured shoulder. Maranville Will Heat! for Camp Soon Rabbit Maranville, veteran Inflelder, who came to the Chicago Notional* In a trade with Pittsburgh, and who la captain of the Cub*, will he the first of his mates to start spring training. After a few day*’ confer ence In Chicago, ha win go to Cata lina lalanda, California, for light workout* t . -- j Indoor Sports 30Prv>"rH I CP>ulS /*& <?U'TC ] ---Tv+t f3o5S | Ffi£9L»e>',W - I AA | (SOTKE TH»T \ HArM,LruM I A5or?rOF P^1- oF ) VOU \ (r>+7 X wlr- KC . W ' 1 ,„«WK»OW qkj. ct+e^^ j u, h/m V^"-*** i 1 . , / HP.MILTOV J 5H/W ALON(r '-- K.-o VMrwH<»^ y Postpone Fistic Tourney With Notre Dame Ames, la., Jan. 27.—Although the Notre Dame boxing meet has been postponed to February 21, Iowa State's leather pushers are still work ing with vim, vigor and vitality in preparation for a possible meet with Drake Saturday. Both Kansas schools are on the schedule for the Iowa State boxers, the Aggies, February 7. here and the university. February 14. at Law rence. These meets with the Notre Dame clash and the possible mix with Drake will give the Iowa State fighters four chances to punch noses and receive the same with possible Interest. METRO GIRL FIVE WINS OPENER Coach McOahan's Metropolitan girls' basket ball team opened the season with a victory over the St. Francis academy quintet at Council Bluffs last night. The final score was 22 to 0. Captain Mary Gibson starred for the Metropolitan girls, scoring six baskets and one free throw for a total of 13 points. Margaret Jackson scored two baskets and one free Iowa Wrestling Coach Held World’s Amateur Title Five Years Iowa City, la., Jan. 27.—World championships mean little to "Mike" Howard, coach of the Iowa wrestlers, who boasts a collection of 42 loving cups and 73 medals won In competi tion on the mat. Howard has five times been the world's amateur heavyweight cham pion and twice European tltleholder. He held the world amateur title for five straight years, 1907 to 1911, sur viving the hardest tournament com petition to capture the world mat honors. He was born In Denmark and start ed out on his athletic career as a mid dle distance runner, Joining one of ■ ■ ■ the largest amateur athletic clubs in Copenhagen. He soon found his wrestling ability, however, and has been in the game for more than 20 years. Among the championships h* has won are: 1907—Amateur heavyweight champion ship of the world, Frankfurt A Main, 190* -Amateur heavyweight rhampion ■hlp of the world. Vienna. Austria 1909 Amateur heavyweight champion, ship of tiie world. Budapest. Ilungaty. 1909 Amateur heavyweight champion, ship of the world. Prague Bohemia 19in—Amateur heavyweight champion ship of the world. Dresden Germany 1910—Amateur heavyweight champion ship of Kurope. Dresden. Germans 1910—Amateur heavyweight champion ship of Kurope. Malmn. Sweden. 1911 Amateur heavyweight champion ship of the world. Vienna, Austria. Walter Johnson May Desert Senators for Time to Enter Movies 1am Angeles, Jan. 17.—Walter Johnson, pitrhlng ace of the world champion baseball rluh, may desert the Washington Americans, at least for a time, to enter the movies. Johnson has been offered a contract to perform for the camera and said today he was undecided as to whrther he would accept. lie 1s also considering an offer for a vaudeville tpur of several weeks. Johnson, It was believed, will accept both offers, providing they do not interfere with his baseball playing. Reports circulated here to the effect that Johnson may permanently retire from baseball If he is unable to purchase an interest in a Pacific Coast league baseball club, were given slight credence. I-' Cramer Brothers Cage Team to Play Cunningham Brothers at Fremont □REMONT, Jan. 57.—'The date for the basket hall contest between the t rainer brothers of Chester, . Neb., and the Cunningham brothers I of Walioo has been set for February 2. to he playe'd in the new. Midland gymnasium in Fremont. At a later elate, yet to be arranged, tlu> two teams will meet at llehrou for a sec ond battle and if necessary, a rubber will he played on some neutral court. ti. E. Waring, president of the Chester Chamber of Commerce, Is managing the Cramer brothers while the Fremont Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring the contest In Fremont. A committee has been named to han dle the arrangements for the game. Considerable interest has been aroused over the Impending contest because of the unique membership of both teams. The Cunningham*, who have not lost a game yet this season. recently issued a challenge that cov ers the United States, aimed at all brother quintets. The Cramers’ were the first to respond to the defy and as a result the game was arranged after considerable negotiations. ISoili teams are confident of being able lo uphold the family honors. The ( unninglmiit aggregation of six play ers is composed of Karl and Itohert, students al Wahoo high; Paul and Wesley, members of the Midland col lege basket hall squad; Karl and Vess, two Wahoo business men. The ( ranier brothers team also boasts of high school and college players and as a result a close struggle is expect ed. The Fremont chamber of Com merce voted to sponsor the game In response to the Increasing Interest that has keen apparent since the I Cunninghams first ‘ dared the world. throw while Miss Newton dropped in two baskets. The guarding work of the Halle) twins featured for the Metropolitan quintet on the defensive. Tli* Christ ( hild Center basket hall tram wants games For contests with this t ** a m rail or write Mr. Lindley, Christ Child Center. Omaha. Dav* Woodbury, now of Dn Molne*. hut formerly of this city, won the singles title at the Iowa ►fate bowling tournament at «>d«r Rapids with a score of *31 Captain Boh Roper say* Renault will see an eclipse Friday night. Sy sen: “Lightning never strike* in tile same place twice, because when the lightning come* hack for the second crack the place isn't there any more.” If you walk In your sleep wear pa jamas. Someone will shoot you for a K. K. K. If you wear a night gown. IK SOM E OK THK FIGHT MAN %GERS WOT LH PI r ON TIIKIK !l\rs THKIlK Will I.IIVT M so MAN! WOODPECKERS AROI Ml. POOR KISII. Married at I»ul^vllle, John Salmon and Elizabeth Hook. The prince of Wale* say* he Is coming hack to the Untied State* Another glutton foi» punishment. HORSE NAMED O'LEARY IS RUNNING IN GOOD FORM THIS WINTER. HE HAS A GREAT DISADVANTAGE OVER GOOD OL’ PAN O'LEARY, THE PE DESTRIAN. THE HORSE HAS FOUR I.EGS TO DAN'S TWO. If Paavo Nurmi Isn't careful he Will break Map o’ War'* record. Brussel*. Jan. 17.—The start of the r*cc for i ho po mil (ioriton Ileiuiott cup fur balloon* will Ink* plae* from Bru*»el» on Juno 7 next. The entrlc* will cto*e April 1. Kellom Cagers C Trim Saratoga The Kellom grade school haRket ball team won a hard fought 10 to 3 game from the Saratoga cagera Mon day in the feature game of The Oma ha Bee grade school tournament. The Saratoga riuint was unable to Rolve the Kellom defense. Many times the North Hiders would work the ball down the court, but the guards on the winning l*"am would always break tip their respective “trick" formations. Firmature. B. Rosen and Has like were the heavy scorers for the win ners. while lame, Saratoga center, topped the high scorers for the losers. Webster school hoopetera had an easy time winning from the Saunders team by a 19 to 3 score. At no time during the game were the Webster hoys In danger of being overtaken. Friedman and .Kaull starred for the winners. In a game replete wlih thrills and long range shooting the Lincoln basket hall team defeated the Ban croft hoop team by a l?0 to 10 score. Todero carried away the scoring honors for Lincoln, while Murphy v.ir- high point garnerer for the losers, In the other game Iadhrop beat Monmouth Park. 30 to 3. BENNY GERSHE KAYOES LEONARD Cleveland. O.. Jan 26.—Benny flershe, Cleveland, knocked out Harry (Battling) Leonard of Philadelphia In the fourth round of a scheduled 12 round bout here tonight. It was Gerahe 1.1th knockout In 15 pro fessional boute. Gere he weighed, 12.11-2; Leonard, 125. Kddie Anderson. Casper, Wyo„ and Jackie Nichols, Detroit, boxed a fa at eight round eemhfinal. Gopher Coach Still Considers Contract Renewal Miimeap. ’is, Minn,, Jan 16.—Will lam H. Spaulding, head football roach at lhe l idverslty of Minneso ta, today still had under consideration the renewal of lih contract at lhe liophor school. Although it was reported that Spaulding had received offers from aeveral other schools and was con sidering them, it was denied that this had anything In do with the delay in signing his new two-year contract at Minnesota, which was approved by lhe hoard of regents last week. Michigan, the I Adversity of South ern California and Washington uni versify of St. laud* were among the schools mentioned In campus gossip today as seeking the services of Spaulding. There was no confirma tion of these reports. -—- — ■ - N ROAD TO COMEBACKVILLE LONG AND FULL OF MANY PITFALLS k . t V__ By NORMAN E. BROWN. HE way back I* long. Those who have traveled It or have fallen by the roadside, foot-weary and discouraged In their efforts will tell yoti that. Thoae who are forced to trudge the road to Oomebnckvlll* early In their career* find It I* a bit *horter and smoother than those who must fight their- way back and with th* cry of age dinning In their ear*. Ed (Strangler) Lewis Is of the lat ter class. Lewis lias announced that 1" be has cut short pinna for a Euro pean trip and will enter a three months Intensive training course In preparation for matches which win fore* Wayne Munn to alve him a r a turn match for the world's h * n v y weight wrestling title. i ■ It wsa partly SP- 1-I.WI3 a- th* old *tory with J,#wt*. IJf* ha* been kind to him of late year* barring his domestic difficulties. H* won th* world's t%l» from Jo* Btecher In 1920, a y*ar after the famous proponent of the scissors hold, hsd defeated him, Rail Caddock and Wladlek Zbyszkn In a tournament. I>ewts held the title six months, only to lose It to the elder Zbysr.ko, Stanislaus. In May, 1921. Tho following March he regained the crown In a return match. Easy Money Comes. For the pnet three years Lewis had been making easy money in burn storming expeditions. Diligent train ing was slighted. Ills opponents, local celebrities, gave him little trou ble. Then came the match with Munn. Lewis knew the for mer Nebraska Star to be prac tically a novice at the game. The match win held up to Lewis ns being "ensv money." No one had tipped off the Strangler that Munn was n pliy | sleal giant tn strength as well ss build. Lewis found that Munn laughed at the skull crushing headlock, the hold which had carried Lewis to fsms. Munn had Lewis on ths defensive when h« picked the chump up snd droppe.1 him In the abyss beyond the rope*. Lewis’ friends argue that Munn should have hern disqualified. But the fact remain* that the world's heavyweight wrestling champion should not find himself in such a predicament—rules or no rule*, riser Starts \gain. Tiger Flower*, one of the outstand lug negro boxers of the day. was on the high road to fame and a till" match with llarry t'teb for the world's middleweight title'when he tackled .1 i c K It e I a n e y the other night. Now the Tiger mutt fight himself out of the fistic Jungle to the roadside again anil sjart t4>s Journey bark. Pelnney liaeke In the limelight now and Flowet* must lb e down that knockout be fore he ran rc gain ht* prestige. Ahe tloldsteln, bantamweight chain plon of the wot Id for a few short months, find* himself starting on the toad back. Basking In tha cooling breezes and sheltered shade at the top of the hill is Kddlo Cannonball Marlin. Before their recent fight Martin was but one of the “likely contenders.” Goldstein drew* the hig end of the purse for the fight, lie^ drew the applause when the min i entered the ring. The world was his —until Martin battered him down. Goldstein and Flowers have youth You may look for them back at the | brcjw of the hill soon, benefttted some and handicapped some per* ! haps by the dusty tramp. Hut as for Kew'W Fate was kind to him when It carried him to the top of the wreat ling game. Main there are who still say the road was “made” for him. tynv It will he I.ew1s. the ex cham pion. doing the same old comeback stunt.” Dorntln 11iird \X ins «t (Jolf. Ilellulr* Hi 'ilit*. Sin., Jntt- !<' Mr*. I'ort'thy t'anipbell Hur.l of Mcrlnn Pricket rluh I’hllailplphlii tin Unnnl womun uolf rhnmpton won th# nunllfylns me ltd In llie unnunl J«nu ni>- tournament for women hire to itny. Her *oore wn* S5 for the 18 hole*, three stroke* better thnn those of Mr*, r. H. Stetnon of the Hunting item Valiev club, rhllnitelphlii. *n.1 Mia* Kinni'e* lUdtleld of Milwaukee t Twenty-Six Track Records Smashed By Associated Press, Survey of the record-breaking streak that has marked the few weeks of indoor track activity so far shows that 26 world's marks have been eclipsed, against a total of 19 for the entire season of 1924, with the prospect that this figure will be more than doubled In the next two months. Paavo Nurmi has chalked up 12 marks, while his countryman, Willie Ritola. has six to his credit. Five of id tola's marks were recorded in a single race last Saturday at the Brooklyn college games, when he got some measure of revenge for the de feats he has sustained at the hands of Nurmi by displacing three of the phantom Finn's records. Ritola's achievement of smashing five records in one race has no equal, so far as a search of past perform ances reveals. Nurmi shattered three marks in a race at the Municipal A. A. games in New York recently, while in 1923. Joie Ray performed the same feat at the Wilco meet in Brooklyn. Dick Hoye ins First Game in State Cue Tournament Dick Hoye defeated l.eo Moore, 100 to 4.5, in the opening contest of the state pocket billiard tourney at the Holmes' Recreation iwrlors last night. Hove made high run of 27. Bluejays Enter Annual Indoor K. C. A. C. Meet Coach diet Wynne ^ ill Take Mile Relay Team ami Daoh Men to Kansas City for February 7 Games. O A C H CHE I \V Y N N E of the Creighton univer sity track and field teams, both indoor and out door, will hold try outs at the Creigh ton gymnasium Saturday after noon to determine the men he will take to Kansas City for the an nual K. C. A. C. Indoor games, Sat urday, Febru ary 7. Wynne ha* been holding indoor track practice daily for several week.* and has a squad of likely looking athletes trying out for the various team plates. The Creighton coach will enter^^ hi* mile relay team at Kansas City The runners who will make up the team have not been selected. Sat unlay afternoon Wynne will hold tryouts for place* on the team. Keane and Lower of football fame, will go to Kansas City, pro viding they round into a little bet ter condition. Keane, if lie goes, will be entered in the open quarter mile Jaunt, while lamer will com pete in the open 50-yard dash. Cleon Stewart will be entered in Hip open half-mile race and is ex pected to make a good showing against the cream of the Valley half-niilers. Krasne, Nolan and McKenna are making a hard fight to land the poei lion as shot putter. Wynne will hole tryouts in thi* event Saturday and the husky heaving the hall the far thest will get his transi>ortatk>n paid to Kansas City. Drake Basket Ball Coach Predicts Winner of Valley Cage Race KS MOINES. Jan. 17. —O s s I e Solem, Drake football and basket ball coach, has made a bid for fame by predicting' the order in which the basket ball team* of the Mis souri Valley con ference will finish the present cam paign. Overlooking the fact that the Jay — hawks are now grop ing tu the unfamiliar depths of third place, Solein predit :a that Kan sas will recover from the unexpected knockdown handed them by the Kan sas Aggies and will finish the season in first place. He - further predicts that the teams will finish the season in the following order; Kansas, first; Ne braska, second: Kansas \ggies, third; Washington, fourth: Okla homa, fifth; Orinuell, sixth; .Mis souri, seventh; \ines, eighth. For obvious reasons, Drake is not in rluiied in the prediction. With the end of the week. Solem will have seen every team in the conference in action with the exception of Oklahoma. Supporting his belief that Kansas will win, Solem says: "The Aggies are a clever, fast team and hare some exceptional shots, but the de^^. cUiveness of the score of the Aggie Kansas game is evidence that some thing was radically wrong with the -lays that night. "They had no doubt been over played previous to this game and wet e dead on their feet. No team in the land can take Kansas the wav the Aggies did. when they are right. This defeat will he a caution to them and will only serve to make them a better aggregation. "To our way of thinking neither the Aggies nor the Cornhuskers have the stability to defeat Kansas again, al though Nebraska will make plenty of trouble for them over at Lincoln. The floor over there is so small as to mar the effectiveness of any fast moving, clever team " Horsemen at Tia Juana Preparing Runners for First Big Stake Race Ilj T\l* EVANS. ! »1T11 »!iO F.OO in added ^k the six «MRra|v tion and starting ^ . ▼ fees, horsemen at tTio Juana are be ginning to point their runners for these de luxe even’s of the long season. Interest at this time turns to the first of the Ti;« Juana stakes, this being the speed handicap. Here will he found, ac cording to the nominations, some of America's fleetest sprinters and com petition of the keenest sort is promised in this dash of five and one half furlongs. In all. 5!4 thomuchhrcdx have been nominated for these six slakes and Included are some rf I lie la-»l runners tlie turf has had In re cent years. Treating the list of stakes ehmiiologieall). Ilie first one mines Sunday, l-'rbruary 15. this being the speed handicap. It has $5,000 added money and for it there are 84 nomination*. Out of tljig nun: her. the actual starters probably will be at least li and on this basis, it is figured that the race will he worth approximately $6,000 to the winner. The bulk of this first money mines from the $5,500 added money set aside as the winner's share and the rest is from 'the ■ nMiiination and starting fees. The . alendar of these stakes Is follows: Si ..'-a hamli.'ip, t ’■ SSS a.lde.l five an.! one half furlongs February IS. Ju'cmle ,'taKi* l.PW Rtidrd. four «nd or I ' fwilorg* March > T » JuAn.hi derby. tU oap added cite and -eighth mile*. Mareh If* t\*ffroth httmlU'*|5. added. e*i* and one fvurth mile* March T t Ju»n.\ futunt> added foe furhmn8. A|*r|| h Tia Jpacud» 119 09* added t* ■» nnirv Aortl t;. CHANGE DISTANCE OF NURMI’S RACE At the request of Paavo Xtirfni. the Morningstde Athletic club has ('hanged the distance of the special race which Is the feature event Friday night Nurmi will enter a special I'.i'OO nteter race Instead of the previously planned yard affair. In this race Nurmi will attempt to better his uvn world's outdoor record, which he fa .led to do In the Fnrdham unlvcisity gai > .. _- r- - Otiiiilta How lcr» 1 liter Inter-Stair Tixiriiuinriit Omaha will lx» represented in th* tntei (Hate bowling tournament to lx’ held at Sioux Pitv nett Saturday amt Sunday by eight team*. They are: Hoffmann Froaby Funeral Home, city champion*; AkSarBen* Badger | Modie*. (Bmrantoc Fund Ufe. H:ui*e W.mie Pipe ('leaner*, Omaha Alley* j:\nd Sanford Onto Hflln tit' ( uciT' \\ in. The Hellev ue Vthlstl, club i; -.cr.i the OmiiM Aggie* ,1,\ to J. in m uti interesting game played on the Belle uie court 1met night The work, of Breaaman featured, the Bellevue for* j ward #eorln* seven field goal* and two fiea throw*, Card*. Returning From Cainp to Split l p in Two Team* St. Louts .Ian. TS—The St. Louis Cardinals will take the southern route home from training in California and will split tip Into two teams, the first to play one or two games tn Texas league rliies and the second to step off for a brace of exhibitions at Fort Smith. Ark . If dates and railroad bookings . an be arranged. Secretary Clarence l.toyd announced tonight. Tin- fast, short passing attack of Ihe lied l*.t Athletic club live was tis» much fin- the K .1 Sokols last night and ihe athletic eluh led when the final whistle blew. 44 to 2S. l,c • and Ware, forwards, featured for tlie Red IVits. The game was {Played In Turner hail. 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