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THE BEE: OMAHA, 0hr How the Corns tind Bunions Ache, Eh? Flfteta block ortr tha cobbleatonaa tt torn ir.irck at that. - Now Omaha know aomething a boot "trench feet." i. Oh, Yes, Stallings Is Easy-Going Manager; Just Ask Fred Mitchell Fred Mitchell, manager of the Chi cago Cubs, delights to tell stories of his former boss, Miracle Man Stall ings of the Braves. When Mitch was Stallings' assistant in Boston he had iany a run-in with the manager, and . admits now that Stallings thinks more o: a man who will answer him back on occasion. Stallings is a firebrand in base ball; never laughs, rarely smiles, doesn't jest and roasts the daylight out of a man who makes a slip. He is also a nervous person and becomes en . raptured on the bench while he is - watching a game, and plays the whole contest over, solo, as he sits in the plavers' coop. "One day, said Mitchell, "the score was tied in the ninth inning at Bos ton and Maranville was on third with the winning run. A grounder was hit and the Rabbit started for home. was sitting next to Stallings and he was keyed up to the highest pitch. "Maranville started to slide and Stallings hunched his body over to one side. He; saw Maranville was preparing to slide in on the outside. Just then Maranville perceived' that the ball was coming in that way, so he switched over and slid in on the inside. As he did so, Stallings shifted his body over, too, and just as Mar-1 mville came into the plate he hunched down in the seat until .the back of his neck rested on the back of the bench and he struck his feet out for all the world, as though he were scoring the run, and not Maranville. Incidentally, he gave me an awful kick on the shin. "'Hey!' I yelled; 'what are you try. ing to do, bust my leg?' Stallings looked up and said, What did he call it?"' Stallings is merciless in calling down a player and criticising his work. "A fellow made a bobble once while Stallings was watching from the bench," said Mitchell. " 'Look at that boob,' said Stallings. 'What a bone headl No, he isn't a bonehead; his head is made of Krupp steel. "'He ought to be shot.' I ought to shoot him right now. If I had a gun I'd get him right from here, straight through that skull. No, I ought to be shot. Somebody ought to shoot me for putting him out there.'" Une day an outfielder made one of those fancy catches. He trot the ball in one hand in front of his face and the crowd cheered. "Look at that goof," said Stallings, "making a one-handed catch with the ball neht in his face. Now, watch him take off his hat and bow! Wait till I talk to him; I'IMjow him!" Indoor Sports o Copyright. 111. International Now Servlca : By Tad Sun Brair and Cudgel Are Favorites in Clark Handicap William Sharp Kilmer's crack 3- rear-old Sun Brair, and J. K. L. Ross i-year-old Cudgel, are among the most prominent of the entries to the Zlark handicap, the nominations vhich have been made public by the New Louisville Jockey club. There are other good performers lamed for this event to be decided it the spring meeting at Churchill Downs. Included in the number are: fefferson Livingston's Royal II. and Cotonel Vennie; A. K. Macomber's Hollister, Fell Swoop and Fruit Cake; Senator J. N. Camden's Solly Atlanta and Everest; T. C. Mc Dowell's Manager Waite, Plum and St. Augustine; J W.' May's Bay Serry Candle;. George J. Long's Dcean Sweep and Free Cutter; Ed- J D f -t ... T .!.. M rt McLean's Japhef and J. W. ard B Parish's Midway. Mr. Kilmer has al io entered his 4-year-old Tom Mc Taggart, while J. K. L. Ross also has lamed imported Valias. The stake is for 3-year-olds and up ward and is at one-mile and a six teenth. Its first running dates from the year 1915, when it was kown as the Clark stakes, being so named in honor of the late Colonel M. Lewis Clark, founder , of the Louisville Jockey club. Rowland Wonders What to , Do With Twirler Wolfgang Manager Rowland of the White Sox is still debating what to do with Mel Wolfgang, pitcher. Mel has been on the White Sox bench for three years, and has started in only a few games, having pitched one win against Walter Johnson. Rowland ihinks he is too green to depend on as a reg ular, and too good to lose, so is just hanging on to him. Detroit Has One Southpaw In Corps of Nine Hurlers The Detroit club has nine new pitchers and only one of the lot is a left-hander. He is Doty Blades, who was last season with Sherman in the Western association. The fact that he is southpaw seems to be his best j recommendation to the Tigers. , a, . , ' 0 GT fit AJEW SfcTT OF FINN IS CRAFTY GENT, BUT M'GRAW HAS SOME DOUBTS t Old Dominion League Hopes To Get Back in the Running W. B. Bradley, president of the Vir ginia league, which suspended last season after operating only 21 days, immediately upon the announcement of the decision of the International league to disband last week sent out call for a meetinsr for the purpose of reorganizing the Old Dontinion circuit. Now that Richmond is free territory the expectation, of course, is that it will want to come back to the Virginia organization.1 Clubs in the league last year were Norfolk, Newport News, Portsmouth, Peters burg,' Lynchburg, all in Virginia, and Rocky Mount, across the state line in North Carolina. Celebrate Daylight Saving By Twilight Ball League Kansas City amateurs will take ad vantage of the added hour of daylight by' organizing a twilight base ball league. Several large business houses have signified their intention of en tering teams. A "world series" finale will mark the close of the season; Spokane Loses One-Half Of Athletes to Service Ball clubs that think they -have been hard hit by the war should con sider the case of the Spokane club of the Pacific Coast International league. It is stated that exactly one half of the players who made up the Spokane tearrf last year now are in service of one sort or another. They include: Pitchers Zabloch, Bloomfield, Larkin and Webb, Third Baseman McGinnis, Second Baseman Fitzsim- mons and Catcher Schroeder, seven in all, and Spokane finished the sea son with 14 men. Veteran Sam Frock Hooks Place in Southern League The veteran Sam Frock, who has been pitching up in the New York State league, has gone south again, this time as a member of the Nash ville team. Frock had a good year in the New York State and believes he can stake an even bigger come back in the Southern. Mike Finn tells one that he calls a joke on himself, but the dent in the New York club's treasury makes it look otherwise. It concerns Pitcher Al Demaree. "I was the chief ivory hunter for the Giants. in 1911," said Mike, "and we had decided to draft a player fros, every club in the Southern associa tion. I looked over a list of the play ers on the Mobile club who were eligi ble for the draft and talked with a number of managers in the league about these players, one of whom was Demaree. When I asked them if any of the players were worth a thou sand dollars, which was the draft price on the Southern, I received a unanimous reply to the enect mat none of them was worth a hundred. So we passed up the Mobile club al together. 'Oddly enough, the following win ter I was appointed manager at Mo bile. Remembering what I had been told of the value of the players on the roster ot that club, about the first thing I did after assuming command was to ask for waivers on everybody, and I got 'em, too, on everybody but Demaree and one other player, whose name I can't recall right now. "I had never heard of Demaree and did not know a thing about him, but the fact that I couldn't get waivers on him rrfade me believe he might be a pretty good pitcher. He was. At the end of my first season I sold him to the Giants lor $7,500. If I hadn't been given a wrong steer on him the year before he would have cost the New York club only $1,000." Bowler Has 12 Strikes, But Totals Only, 290 Pins W. A. Bradshaw recently bowled 12 straight strikes at El Paso. Tex., but totaled only 290, as he "poodletr on his first ball. A Chicago friend writes to know if this ever has been equaled. 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