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T11H OMAITA SUNDAY 1?EE: DfXT.MDKU 27, 1014. 3-3 Bringing Up Father Copyright. teie. International News bervtoe. Drawn for The Bee by George McManus POP. RoP-THB CRZKT LECTURER VlH rt VOOUO V ( TgLU YOVJ Of I OONT TVMNK, C0UL.O irHteapwi MAM OF HI .1 1,.. POCTlC ND ARTISTIC T(JRC I KNOW XXJ have TAveter J exTgNbweuv- j mmL. n. r "7 TO HCRR I J HWTM.KJ -J Dot tr, A.ui ycxif? tkwclino RtAUTVF)UNAPLB-TME VOtlOCP- CAPTVJRtOVOUR HtART - THC OLD TCTWM nr r T oh: prop tell ut AtVXJT THt OROri.l 6PCHT Nv SRLHOOO DAY 5 THERE ALL THt PLACES TOO VlTCO WHICH OO TOU HOLD DARC5T AHO UOr-44 TO RETVJRH TO COMB TCLL, U - WHAT r ) ii,M 1,11 r i i f TLj 111 111 I 7 MOORE'5 sr PLACE -I I geJ Igsaie Mil Judgments WHILE the Western league alary limit has been reduced. In Una with the practice in some other minor leagues, that af fords no excuse for poorer teams than some of the brethren have had for the last two or three year. Already wo hear of plans for Increasing: strength In Denver, Lincoln and Btoux City. McGUl Is quoted as saying that he Is determined to restore the flat; to the Colorado olty and Is scout ins; around for the strongest team he can got. He expects to have Jack Coffey hack as short and as manager, Pitts burgh, as might be expected, having de cided not to deter Jack. Coffey la a good player and a good fighter and this must be said In justice to htm, that he was averse to going to Pittsburgh In the first place, expressing a preference for the managerial berth at Denver. Lincoln has laid hands on Matty Mclntyre to guide Its ship for 1915 and If experience and skill count for aught, Lincoln should have no complaint to make of Its new manager. Sioux City wisely retains old Josh Clarke at the helm and Joeh Is beating around for the best bunch of players he can get. President Rourke, we take It, will do his best to pull Omaha oat of the rut in 1915. The task, he as well as his critics realties. Is a big one, nailing for almost a brand new team. Wast has been done tn this direction we nannot say at present, except that Mr. Hourke Is said to be diligently on the lookout for the right material. If Tipple does not return to us and there is small chance of it we are left with the neces sity of setting aa entirely new staff of pitcher-... Krueger and Seabaugh . were behind the bat when the season closed, Krueger filling in at right field with a faithful effort at doing his best The team's success, of course, demands a new catcher. With Schllebner sold to Pittsburgh a secret that finally leaked out first Is vacated and so, we might say. is every other infield position. Marty Krur, Joe Bell and Artie Thompson are on hand for the outfield, albeit Krug may be returned to second base. Chase and Wallace, both of whom have had chances and failed, are still retained as first and second basemen, but fans hop Krug, Joe Bell and Artie Thomason ars class for those positions. While Comtskey upset precedents in go ing to the minors class B at that for his new manager, let no one suppose that the Old Roman acted entirely on impulse or without knowing his man. lie has been watching Clarence II. Rowland pro duce winning teams and major league ttars or several seasons. Ills employ ment of him to lead the Whlto Sox, therefore, seems to bo the result of long, deliberation and by no means a plumes j In the dark Just for luck. Ilowlani is I 34 years of age, a very heady, likewise handsome, man, who has turned into fast company such men as Vln Cumpbell, Veach, Doylo and others. Comlskey fig ures that a man .who can mould the 1 corner lot boys Into major league ma-1 terlal ought to be able to handle that material after it is rounded off Into fln Itihed form. The novelty of putting a class B man over such stars as Eddie Collins and a few others Commy will have in 1915 loses none of Its attraction, however, because the new manager Is a ' live one. There is this to it, South Side j lans will' be the first to discover the worth of Rowland and if he makes good with them, the rest Is safe, for Comlskey is deterring to those loyal old supporters, who have followed him through so many i losing battles, in disposing of Callahan and Kid Oleason and overturning almost his entire team. Batting averages In the Western league go to show the uniformly inferior class of pitching more than the natural hitting for 1914, we believe. Thirty men closed the season bitting .300 and more. Thirty others batted from to .. That Is a larger percentage than any other league can muster. The team averages run from .203 by Lincoln, last, up to .293 by Denver, first. The Idea of a team aver aging virtually .300 at the bat Is amaz ing. Omaha came in fourth with a bat ting average of .273. The luague. Indeed, had some hard and consistent hitters, but In had on ths whole the weakest line of pitching we have known for fifteen years. This Is not our observation alone. It is the view of all who gave close attention to the progress of events last season. Omaha, to be sure, contributed Its share and more to the sum total, or rather, the net remainder, of poor pitch ing and yet it was not a vast amount worse than the rest of them, with one or two exceptions. Somebody suggested that the distance of the bleachers from the diamond is a big factor In the diminished crowds at tending Rourke park for the last few seasons. Possibly, but we will lay to this, that live, winning home team could be spied with the naked eye at a much, greater distance and would be without much thought of the proximity of seats and players. Boston's hopes for continued supremacy est. Just now, on Johnny lovers' recov try. To which end E tailings and all are pulling for Johnny to act on bis phy- HAWAIIANS PLAY BASE BALL Honolulu Boasts of Having a Doten Regular Teams. TAKE INTEREST IN THE GAME Fond of the "port and Play It Islanders of Every Nationality Are with All the Avidity of Rea-nlar Americans. SAN FRANCISCO, CaT., Deo. 3.-As an American possession. It Is natural that the Hawilans should have taken most kindly of all the Antipodean countries to our national game base ball. They seem to have taken It with their Americanism, play It ' cleverly and have developed an army of "fans" which would do any American possession credit. Honolulu, the capital city of the group of islands, has a docen regular teams, half of which can play as good stiff game of the beet amateur variety. The mixed nationality of the inhabitants finds a genial blend In the delights of the game, and members of the English, German and French col onies alike play base ball with all the avidity of the born American. The true enthusiasts at the sport, outside the A merioan-bom contingent are the Chinese. They are an athletlo-lovlng lot ar.d play the game with much skill and thorough understanding of its fine points. . This the University of .California team found when they made a visit to the liawllan Islands aa the prise for winning the amateur championship of the Pacific coast. In the city of Honolulu alone they played with eight different clubs, which were considered by the athletic critics and authorities of the island competent to meet them, winning six of the nine games In which they participated. Their most .successful opponents were the team of the Chinese Athletic union, made up en tirely of full-blooded Chinese. Many See First Game. Fifty-five hundred pecple saw the first game betwen the Chinese team of the boys from the Berkeley Institution, whloh the Chinese players won by a score of 6 to 4 Lai Tan, leader of the Chinese team, who plays at shortstop, worked his players so well that they seemed the strongest in both attack and defense. So elated were the Hawaiian over this victory that at a second game played, a week later, over 7,000 people were on the grounds to watch the game, which went to ten Innings. With ths score 6 to 5 at the end of the; ninth, the Callfornians went to the bat, and by heavy bitting and clever base running, put two runs to their credit and apparently had the game "clncled." But) the Celestials bad plenty of sand, for they came back at the Berkeley boys, and four players In a row, all under 20 years of age, piled up a slashing single, a three bagger, a bunt and a two-bagger, and before the aldo was out had scored the three runs necessary to win, by a score of 8 to 7. The Chinese spectators came to the game prepared to see their fellow-countrymen win, and the successful tean, when the winning run was scored, was greeted with a salvo of 20.000 firecrackers, as well as the cheers and other characteristic demonstrations of a true base ball "fan." Captain Lai Tan of the victorious team Is known In Honolulu as the "speed demon," and holds the Hawaiian record of 10 1-6 seconds In the 100-yard run, and the broad Jump record for the islands of twenty-three feet. In the two games ! against the University of California he had twenty-four chances for put-outs and assists playing at shortstop and at the second bag, and accepted overy one of 1 them. He visited this country both In 1913 and 1913, playing third, base on the Hono lulu Chinese team whloh toured the country. Federals Make High Offer to Cleveland Joe Jackson Star 4$7t f . , , ; r V : . i I f r 1 ' '-y I N. . T QREENVITXE, N. C, Dec 18. Since 1 offer of 150,000 for three years, which hs i contract with Cleveland does not expire the Federal league scouts made Joe Jaok- 1 refused, the bid has been raised. Jackson I until October, 1811 son, the Cleveland base ball star, an Is considering. lUs present threeyear I FORD C0UPELET AND SEDAN CARS ARE IN GOOD DEMAND That the new Ford coupelet and sedan will give a considerable boost to the Ford production toward the coveted 80O,0f mark. Is evidenced by the way in which automobile buyers all over the country , are taking to them. The orders already ' placed prove the theory of the Ford sales department that there exists a large de mand for cars of this type. Cars which possess all the ease and luxury of the expensive kind and at the same time the , dependability and economy of the Ford, j A large number of both ths sedan and , coupelet have been sold to Omaha pur chasers and It la expected that ths local Ford average, which Is unusually high, will be maintained by these new cars In comparison with any of the larger cities : of the country. slcian's orders to spend the remainder of the winter., when he Is able to travel. In a mild climate. Bvers Is more than ever the "keystone" man of the team. The Federals, however, will gala pres tige, with the publlo In proportion as they refrain from the praeUoes they oon tfemn in Organised base bell. tp to last accounts Walter Johnson still bad his John Hancock on both con tracts, waiting for the Judge's decision. Up to last accounts. "Wild" Bill Dono van was managing the reincarnated Highlanders. Don't know who is by now. MAY ABOLISMODTHERN TRIP Major Leajuei Are Retrenching Against Unnecessary Expense. SPRINQ TEADHNQ AT HOME Man-nates Think that ThU Branch of Exercise Can Be Accom plished afach Cheaper In the North. NEW YORK, Dec. -Southern training trips for ball clubs In class AA leagues and below are likely to be unusual oc curences In the future. Instead of being the regular thing. A few years back some club owners In the minor leagues decided that these southern Jaunts were somewhat of a necessity in order that the players might be In the best possible condition to "get the Jump" on opposing clubs. It was not lon before other club owners decided to adopt similar tactics and soon every club In the leading minor leagues was going through majors. Now the policy of retrenchment Is here strong and the training trip Is likely to be dis pensed with In the future. One prominent club owner In the minor leagues aired his views on southern train ing trips for minor leaguers as followsi fin the old days thsy were glad to re port at the home grounds few days before the season opened and gradually condition themselves for the early games. And in those days they got Into condition, tc?, though It wss not condition of the midsummer brand. it served the pur pose and no club had any great advant age over another. But it Is a different matter today. "Take my own rase, for example. I took a ball club down south last spring and we lived tn what might be called luxury when compared with the condi tions of a few years back In our own league. Of eourse, a minor league team has no great drawing power in the south when all the big leaguers can be bad for exhibition games, so there was practically nothing coming In, Hotel and traveling expenses were just as heavy, but these players seemed to be dlsretlsfled all ths time. The food did not please them, and the fact that the expense bill was running up Into the thousands seemed to be for gotten. "To make a long story short, we came back to open the playing season snd 1 guess we had one player who oould be called In shape,' according to the mean ing of the term for ball players. I know that we did not have more than one player. Well, it cost us Just (6.009 for the jaunt which several of the players treated as a Joy ride. When I come to think It over I regard that trip as a waste of SS.OOO. In the major leagues the practice Is all right, because there Is often the opportunity to get the money back In exhibition games, whloh Is not possible for minor leaguers. Then, .gain, a major league olub can easily make up the deficit for a trip such as ours, while minor league clubs cannot toss away such sums of money. Unless conditions change somewhat there will be several class AA and A clubs training next spring tn their own ball yards. A club could have trained In Canada and oouie borne almost as fit as toy team was a year ago." Archer to Feds la According to Jimmy Archer's frWnds, lis was anxious to loin tha Feda. avn rv- Ing so far as to have lawyers look over Ma ( nluago contract. His contract with the Cut s has another year to run, and he was tuld that it was blndlnsr. Tha KW1- erai league agents, however, signed hiut to a neutral league con tract for lia. Majors in Federal League Improve in Batting Averages A comparison of the averages for U14 and UlS show that most of the major league players who Jumped to the Fed eral league last wlntsr or spring Im proved their hitting tn the Independent league over the figures earned while with the Organised Ball ler-gues. This Is not true of all the players, several of whom entered a slump soon after Joining the Federals. The following averages for 1911 as compared with the asms players' hitting in the big league In 191S, toll ths talc: Player. Chase Yerkes .... Craudall Lapoite Murphy Oakaa Mullln Hoflman Wilson Zlna lder Tinker Engle . . . . ........ Doolan Rarlden Br id wall Knabe . . i . . divwa ..... Iolan ...., Ilendrlx .......... ,Huggs .....a....... haalon PaUenberg Camnil .......... Ford ..... -i Groom Averages. Federal. National. .864 .Hi .213 ill .811 .311 ,D6 at .2t3 .. .10 .246 .284 .254 .tu .32 .. .ta .. ,2U .. .mo .10 .. .ltf .. .1 .tot I '.in .m .w !si7 '.ai .iM .240 .363 .4 Jtt ITS .264 .itM ."iis Amer. .M .27 !o .323 .'tie 4Mt "I" e RACER'S L1FE INTERESTING Motorcycle Speed Boys Get Much En Joymrat from Game. CHAPPIE HAS EXPERIENCES ometiaaea lie Lealcrd Into the Very Jaws ef Death and Keoaned These by the Narroweet of Margins, NOW YORK, Dec S3. Like many ether popular sports, motorcycle racing devel ops many Interesting situations and anec dotes that never reach the knowledge and ears of the general public, says Arthur Chappie. During my experience of eight years in the racing game throughout the United States many Utile Incldeuts have occurred which would bring both tears and laughter to those of a sentimental nature. The first thought of the averago spec tator at a motorcycle race meet Is the dangerous character of the profession, and upon second thought one wonders why on earth the riders earn their living trying to end their existence. I am quail- 1 fled to give some Inside Information on the dangers that confront a motorcycle speed merchants In nine cases out of ten a rider's first smashup Isn't very serious, and this leads him to ths belief that the risk of fatal Injury is greatly magni fied. High Speed an Advantaa-e. Another element not apparent to the spectator la ths fact that tha high speed attained In racing is to a great extent an advantage In case of a bad fall. For Instance, the velocity at the time of the fall will carry the rider through the air In a gliding motion, and. providing, of course, that there ate no obstructions, he hardly Is able to tell the exact moment he strikes. I have had some ' vary bad falls, In which I have piled up on top of three other riders and their machines, but the only injuries received were a collection of silvers from the track and burns from the hot motors. To the spectator it looked as If we ware all dead In a mass of jumbled machinery and fire, but I can honestly tell you that ws were all busy trying to keep the motors from beating us to the running board of ths track. There Is very little time to shut off the motor In case of a fall, and the whirling rear wheel Is a bad thing to try and hang on to. Thero wore several InteroKting Incl- dents connected with the recent 300-mile road raoe at Savannah. One of them In particular was very amusing. During ths latter part of the event, after a num ber of serious accidents had put many of the riders out of the race. It was sud denly discovered that No 23 was missing, and had not passed the timers' stand for soma time. Telephone mesnages around the course failed to reveal the, whereabouts of No. 23, and there were Im mediate rumors that ho had either hit a tree and was, pemAps, lying at the roadside unconscious, or had run off one of the numerous curves along the Tybea snd perhaps had landed In the liver and drowned. After a long search by couriers on motorcycles No. S3 was discovered In one 3f the many colored settlements that lined the course, eating a gonulne south ern dinner that ths old colored "mammy" had cooked for him. After nearly four hours of constant racing at high speel ISO. n had acquired an appetite that all the prise money In the race could not satisfy. Accident Oat of Ordinary. Aa a contrast to the disappearance of No. 13 the accident to Oray Sloop, who started as No. 17, Is rather out of ths ordinary. In starting the race the rid ers, owing to the large field, were lined up five abreast and were sent off at In tervals of one minute between each five. The writer's number was 18, and he was, therefore, placed tn the same squad with Gray Woo p. During tho few moments' interval, while waiting for tho starting gun. Gray reached over an! grasped my hand and wished me the best of luck. After the crack of the starter's gun I saw no more of Gray Sloop, and many times during the long race I wondered In what position he was riding. At the supply pits tor oil and gasoline the attendants carefully kept the news of accidents away from the riders, so it was not un til the racs was over that I saw Oray bloop. No, 17. had given his last good wishes to No. 18, for on the second lap of the race he met his death. EXPECTING NEW CHAMPM Outlook In Boxing Circles Is for a New Middleweight Star. LIBERAL OFFERS ARE MADE Promoters at It aw Orleans Are sta tejadlnsT omo Catchy Parses ta) the BoxinsT KleBBent of the Country T. NEW YORK, Dec 3. It appears W-',; tain that 1914 will not sen a middleweight champion, but there la every reason to believe that one will be elected early next year. Just at present Mike Olbbors and Jimmy CI a Shy are marking time, waiting for the holiday season to press before getting together. Word comes from New Orleans) that this match la a fixture for that city. The newly organised Arena AUiletlo olub 'with a large capital stock snd financed by some of the leading business men of toe city will stage the bout some time next February. The new club, built for the express purpose of holding chacnploMhtpi fights, will seat 10,000 persons. It was erected at a cost of 333,000 and within fif teen' minutes' rid of the) heart of the city. Jules Gerseon. a bis; wholesale mer chant, Is president of tho olubi J. B. Pearce, who owns a string of theaterot Is vice president; Domtntck Tortorloh. prom inent promoter, la socretaryv "d - M. Mlchaslla, a well known sporting man, treasurer. It Is said that the olub. In order to fores a U Tom MoCarey, woo threatens to break Into the gam at New Orleans, has made a liberal offer to the fighters and that they have practically accepted. New York wUl have reason to regret missing the big middleweight event If It proves to be as good as It looks on paper. However, It is perhaps better for boxing In general if It goes to the Crescent city, where twenty rounds and decisions are permitted. If held tn New York It would mean that the boxers were out for the money only, and no definite result oould be obtained here. In that ease both men might be afraid to take chances and the result would be most disappointing. 'But with a decision at stake there will be no reason for stalling; 413 .13 rhroala Constipation Makes life miserable; Dr. King's New Life PiUs regulate your bowels and re lieve the engorged liver. SBo. All drug gists Advertisement. enil-Pro to Sox. Second Raj-eman Charley Magnus of tli Cincinnati wiammlia uun Slnt contract for 114 by ths Chit " c-i. un me extract came an order from Charlie Comlskey to report rabruarv 1 In tlm. u u their training trip to California. Magnus huuiy mirm uuuid ne is hesitat ing about giving up a good Job in Cin cinnati. He ta a fast youngster and will haV Vsh ga. ft nth lOlhllfi f mnba. U l . decide, to join Se jtoi, " " Hersoa- Picks Load Dads. The first thing Charley Hersog did after signing to manage the Reda rt'aJn was to order a set of the handsomest sweaters ever saen In baas bail. With their Dow risgna- the Reds promise to cause a sartorial sensation when they show up In the soriug. Speaking of sar torial novelUss. the Olants have deddad to abandon their mackmawa next year and wear a coat sty la of sweater that la to be black trimmed la bright red. Only Fifteen of Nationals in .300 Class of Hitters NEW YORK, Dsn. M. A comparison of ths official batting averages of the National league for the seasons of ISIS and 1914 develops some Interesting and puaallng features. Notwithstanding this Increase tn the total number of batters enrolled In the records, but fffttn of the 1914 hitters hammered their way Into the .duo or better ranks, whUe In. 130 J the select list Included twenty-three names. Cravath of the Philadelphia olub bit .341 tn 1913, and .389 In U14. Vloux of Pittsburgh dropped from .317 to Zimmerman of Chicago, from .338 to .286; Lobert of Philadelphia, from -300 to .373. and Wagner of Pittsburgh, from .309 to .26. This was ths first time since 1S97 that Wagner dropped below .800, but this was not surprising In the ease of Honus, for, like other batting heroes of the past, Wagner was at last forced to bow to the all-powerful arm of Paths Time. For the period from 1897 to 1813, Inclusive, Wagner had a grade average of .841. His highest mark was .880, mad tn 1900, and his lowest, .300, made in 1JJJL Another peculiar feature ta that three of the four players who figured In the .300 or better class for both seasons In creased the averages, while all around Ihem the heavy hitters were dropplxm below their last year's performance. Jake Daubert, the champion batter ef the league for 1913 and 1914, fell from .SCO to .320, but ho was the exception to the general rule of the quartet Beala Becker raised his 1913 average of .US to .326; Zach Wheat gained eighteen points by batting .319 in place of .301, and Sher wood Magee moved up from .80S to .814. Weddlna- OUt Comes Late. Mr. and Mrs. Jo Wood were surprised at Parker's Olen. Pa. by the arrival at the home of the Rod Sox pitcher of a solid sliver tea service, a belated wedding present from Trts Peaker of Hubbard City Tx., and of center field. Fenway park, llostun. Speaker was with the around-the-world tourists last winter when his pal of the Red Sox was married In the big box which contained the col onial service was a little nuts to the ef. feot that "late is better than never." The service is the work of a Boston silversmith. Dreyfass Is Stnhboam. When told Mr a Chicago scribe that President Dreyfuss of the Pittsburgh Na tional league club denied that Konetchy had jumped. President Ollmoro took out Konuy s contract and permitted the scribe to look over the s rnatura Koney him self wrote to Pittsburgh scribes stating that he had Jumped, yet Dreyfuss Imimi that hs has not. Bachy to Brookfede. A New Orleans d'spatch said: "From an authoritative Federal league source It was learned today that Pitcher baa-by of the Pelicans will sign a two yamrs' contract with the Brooklyn Feds within the next few days. A acout left Brooklyn laat night to vl.lt Bagby la Geo-gla, r-A secure his signature t a tifntri.i .'