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JACK DEMPSEY
SEEKING BOUT
,: WITH WILLARD
j-Offers Share of Gate Receipts
to War Funds for Willard
Bout After Win Over
Fulton."
ByRINGSIDER.
Chicago, Aug. 11. And now comes
Jack Dempsey, flushed with the joy
of a twenty-three second or rather
"first victory over frea ruiton,
'. looking for something a little longer.
-He wants a bout with Jess Willard.
5rtnntinns heine to take away that
' championship as a heavyweight that
' Jess is carrying so happily. ,
And because he knows that the only
' heavyweight fight America is inter
ested in at the present moment is that
) world championship scrap ' oyer
r there," Jack has made a proposition
which he hopes will overcome the
" difficulties he has pledged his end
of the gate receipts to any war cnar
? ity that may be decided upon.
Even so, those who have been
watching the writing on the wall
i!that writing which is .so, kaleidoscop
! ically changing things m base ball,
, boxing and other sports-admit that
it is practically an assured thing that
the Willard-Dempsey fight will never
be until the referee calls a knockout
blow in favor of democracy in tne
- democracy-autocracy fight now on.
And at that, if the Willard-Demp-
sey engagement is brought about
' through the intervention of some
- army camp which induces. Jess to
- train and scrap to add a few thou
sands to war aias, win oc
enemy" sort of a thing-at least, as far
as the "champ" is concerned. He has
' - that tnr Demnsev he
," lei u oc ' . w ' .
has the highest admiration: that he
believes mm u. L
ed the ruiton acicai iu
happened.
? Not a "False Alarm."
.; , And surely the world will have to
' admit that all the rumor about Demp
iSey being a. "false alarm" is rumor.
. and nothing else, and that here is a
, lad who may well make a record be
. fore he gets through And even mi
J enemies are on his rn.rat.on list . as
the result of the speed and alacrity
with which he brought the constella
tion of heaven before Fulton s unsus
nertine vision in that memorable en-
1 counter in Harrison, N. J. ,
., Dempsey, tl.en, is the kind of a
chap America-, g'ove fans fall for-a
clean-cut. sure hu.fr. with a hit that
savs: "There's the floor." and dds,
aTan afterthought, ';Now you're
: there, stay ihere."An unsifally, they
l Tnere are those who believe that
,Jess. while a good fellow and all
.thatis using the war and the difij
- culties he has encountered because ot
it as a blind behind which to hide his
: perfect willingrtesi not to figh
,gain. If thate so, and Willard w 11
not fight. .Tall, Dempsey is pretty
. near outbf the fighting f game too,
for these' only MiSKe mi, nu
himK we believe, would admit what
the answer would be in the event
Dempsey took him on.
; So, if this is an obituary, or a sal
utation, let us concede that Dempsey
is a 1919 hundred horse-power fighting
machine, who hits to win and wins
only to hit again. He s a battler
from the start of the gong, with no
"make believe" or feinting m his sys
tem, who likes the game for the fight
there is in it and the victory, too for
him.
Greb Has Wish.
n,rr CreU of Pittsburgh and the
United States navy, has had his wish,
.,, hone it oroves tip m results
las he predicted. He has whipped the
iartnv. in the oerson of , Eddie Mc-
Goorty, and the result is, he says,
I he'll make a better recruiting man.
"It's this way," he said recently,
I "Every time I win a fight it makes me
& mr.tr, nnnular. and the more popular
5 I am the more persons there are who
? want to be in the organization to
I which I belonsr. Hence I go out for
I alt the knockouts I can get; because
i the more men we onnR "
I navy, the better for the 'Big Knock.
t r.ni tWu tn rome across the pond.
Here's hoping his well-deserved
I victory pver McGoorty, who, for his
1 part, put up a good though losing bat-
tic. DruiB9 in rccruua uy ow.
! Leaoue'Maqnates Panned
bv Former Club Owner
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I New York, Aug.. 11. "The major
l"SV IH.gn.iv. v -O
rhildrpn." said a former club owner
5 yesterday. "They are howling 'about
3V. . . t til 1.- 1 .t. ...
closing upuneir oau parss wutn mcj
I should be 'trvine to find ways and
I tnrmi to oeroetuate the game. Sec
? retary Baker liasn't ordered them to
bar their gates on September 1. He
if lx simolv exempted' certain players
I from the 'work or fight' order, until
that day when the local draft boards
I will assume control of the situation.
! Mr. Baker is in favor of keeping the
game alive and probably expects the
i magnates to alter conditions so that
; the teams can remain in action until
the first day of October, it tne mag
nates are sensible they will engage
other players who are not in the draft
ages and will earnestly try to save
j the pastime, which the public will pat-
ronize as soon as the Atmosphere is
i clear. The idea of winding up any
business because skilled employes are
I taken away is decidedly poor policy.
,i Base ball can be rebuilt"
! Municipal Golf Players Are
- to Organize an Association
s Omaha will organize an association
of players who disport themselves on
t the municipal golf ' links. This or
t ganization will be similar to ones now
j organized in other cities that main
t tain municipal golf courses. A meet-
ing of representatives from - each
j course will meet at the city hall Tues
X day evening to perfect the organiza
j tton. ' 'if : ; ',. '" ' -
j All golfers Interested in, the wel
fare of the municipal Jinks will be
? welcomed to the meeting. The asso-
ciation will have for its aims the bet-
lerment : of playing conditions and
j the, upkeep- of the public courses.
" Officers will be elected at the Tues
""day meeting, which will start a 8:30
o'clock in the council chamber, r
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E. L Potter Goes to France
as " Y" Athletic Director
Another Omaha man has entered
the service of the Y. M. C. A fr
service with Uncle Sam's fighters in
France. He is E. L. Potter ofy the
Potter Printing company.
Mr. Potter goes to Chicago August
20 to begin one month' intensive
training to qualify for physical recrea
tion secretary's work. Then he sails
for France to take up his duties.
At 48 years, Mr. Potter passed a
rigid physical examination , which
many young men of half his age can
not pass. When a young man phy
sicians declared Mr. Potter a hopeless
case physically and warned him to
give up his favorite sport ad past
time, bicycle riding. Potter refused
to credit the doctors' alarm and con
tinued his riding. He has since that
time ridden a bicycle more miles than
any man in Omaha. And he is as
nearly the perfect speciman physical
lyas hts examination sfows as anv
man of his age can possibly be.
Mr. Potter is a familiar figure at
the Omaha Y. M. C. A. where he al
ways has taken an active interest in '
the work. He is a volley ball and
hand ball player of note and he takes
part in nearly all of the activities in
the "Y" gymnasium.
SUB CHASERS TO
PLAY ARMOURS
FOR RED CROSS
Battle Royal Will Take Place
at Rourke Park Today and
Receipts Go to War
' Fund.
The game at Rourke park this aft
i ternoon between the navy team and
the Armours promises to be a hum
mer. Both teams will trot out their
best, and the speed which they have
shown in previous contests gives
promise of a game worth seeing.
A percentage of the proceeds Sun
day will go to the Red Cross, which
has done many gracious things which
the navy boys desire to acknowledge
in this way. The lineup for the game
follows:
Navy. Third Coran
Ny Catch William
Lyck , Short M. Collins
Wahl , First.. ............ Ryan
Rlddell Right J. Collin
8tvni...,,,..,.,8acond Gilliam
Hannl tan .Center. ........... Oranm
May .......Left .L. Grave.
Sullivan.... Pitch Oravaa
Frtyntk..... Pitch BtlUmook
Towl fitch League
Prayer Paralyzes Don
Bush and Tigers Lose
Game In Indianapolis
Donie Bush, the Detroit shortstoo.
was playing in an exhibition game
against an Indianapolis colored team.
One old darkey was sitting in the
bleachers watching his brethren per-
orm. Also, he had wagered all his
spare change arJ all he could borrow
on them.
The teams were olavine the ninth
inning ana tne colored lads were one
run behind- They also had a than
on third with two out and their heavi
est hitter at bat. The batter popped
a foul.
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Bush, scamoerins over, neared the
ball and just as he was about to make
the catch the old darkey dropped on
his knees and howled:
"Oh, Gawd I Paralyze dat manl"
Bash .heard him. started to lautrh
and dropped the ball. The batter
slammed the next pitch for a home
run, winning the. game.
There is one colored gentleman in
Indianapolis who is far from being
in. need of words from Billy Sunday
on tne power ot prayer.
Funston Foot Ball Team
Wants Game with Omahans
" The 41st infantry comes forth with
a challenge to foot ballists that
should provoke a match with some of
the Nebraska teams. Manager White
Lundgren has issued a sleeping chal
lenge to any high school, college or
semi-professional team for a game,
either in Omaha or at Camp Funston,
for the last week in September.
' The soldier boys have a team quali
fied to back up the challenge of the
manager and the team that accepts
their challenge should prepare for a
titanic struKule.
The lineup of the khaki team will
include several Hascall Indians, Uni
versity of Illinois and Wisconsin
players, as well as players from the
professional clubs of Chicago. The
Chicago players are from such well
known teams as the Tornadoes and
Standards.
Team "managers desiring dates with
the runston team are asked to com
municate with White Lunderen.
headquarters company, 41st infantry,
Lamp funston, Kan.
Benny Kauff, Soldier,
Livens Up Army Routine
Benny Kauff, . who was recently
drafted from the Giants for the na
tional army, is just now the most am
bitious rookie in the 20th company,
Third training battalion, 158 Depot
brigade, at Camp Sherman, Ohio. Get
ting inoculations and drilling have
been taking up much of Benny's time,
but with these handicaps overcome he
is going to organize a base ball team
in his company which will be the best
in the camp or Benny will know the
reason why. - j
Also Benny is making arrange
ments so that every man in the 12th
company is going to have a cigar
after ' eaeh noon and evening meal.
The little Giant slugger expects to
get these smokes by playing . ball
games. .
V New Banning Star.
New York athletic sharps have
picked Alan Mercer, a one-armed
schoolboy runner, as a. coming star
on the cinder patfr. Mercer recently
won the three-quarters ot a mile run
at the New York A. C. meet, defeat-
ing a cinssy ncia. ,
The Omaha Sunday Bee
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The New .Turk fire department hoait
the flneat handball court In the coup try,
located on Blackwell'i Island. It la built
of wood taken from the cablm of the
German iteamahtp Vaterland. The wood
waa aecured when the ihlp wai dismantled
of Itf llnery to be used ai an American
traniport.
Tommy Murpby li campaigning t horsei
on the Orai.d Circuit this year. Twenty
trottere and nine pacer, are Included In
hli airing.
Soldlen In eaitern training camp, have
Invented a new .port which la becoming
extremely popular. A "chariot" race with
100 men on each team have contested tn
everal camp.. The chariot Is a toboggan,
upon which ride, the lightweight member
of the team pulled by the balance of the
quad. It le .aid to be an Interesting and
amusing contest.
Alex Wlckham of Australia, high diving
champion of the world, recently crowned
hla career by a plunge of 20S feet. He
lost cunecicusnesi about SO feet from the
mater and landed In a semi-prone condi
tion, but was uninjured.
A new record wa.S made In e. cross
country run last Friday when teams cap
tained by Crown Prince Rupprecht and
General Hals; met on the field of Mont
dldler. Hnlg's Australian nushwackers and
Canadian Indians were distanced In the
first 11 miles and called for horses and
motors to finish.
"HI say, the bloody, blooming blighters
are some sp-inters," an English Tommy Is
said to have shouted to colonialists as he
passed In a high-powered motor.
Of the 131 players of the major leagues,
only 56 are not subject to the "work or
fight" order.
The annual Horse Show at Newport.
August 28-30, Is attracting considerable
attention among lovers of horse flesh, and
already the horse and carriage Is becoming
popular at that summer resort
"I told you o" was frequently heard
among Omaha sports when Fred Fulton
was removed from the list of contenders
for the heavyweight elt via the K. O.
When he recently appeared In Omaha wear
ing a can he Immediately lost cast with
the sporting fraternly.
"Rabbit" Washes Suit
In Hotel Bath Tub and
"Stows His Lob Scouse"
Walter Maranville, when not in
base ball uniform, is compelled by
Navy regulations to wear the white
duck uniform of the sailor. The Rab
bit was asked how he kept his uni
form clean and he gave the answer
without blinking an eye. "I wash it
in the bath tub of my room at the ho
tel every night"
Gunner s Mate Maranville was be
ing interviewed by a scribe in Chicago
as to his experiences in the navy. He
had about hnlshed telling all he
thought he was permitted to tell when
he looked at his watch. Blawst me,
said the Rabbit, "but it's time to pipe
mess gear and stow a- bunch of lob
scouse in my midriff" and he hurried
off to lunch.
The Rabbit has been across to the
other side as convoy to transports
twice and says it's great life and that
he thinks it would do some ball play
ers who kick on pullman berths and
$5 a day hotels good if they would
take a swing at it.
Yes, Same Old Ray Keating;
And He's to Try Comeback
Ray Keating, who was hailed as a
wonder when he came to New York
from Bridgeport under the Wolverton
regime, is to try a comeback with
the Yanks. Keating is said to be de
termined to make good on his new
appearance in the big league.
He has been attending strictly to
business and is prepared to give a
good account of himself. Keating
came to the Yankees originally from
Lawrence, Mass., and at the outset
of his major league career gave
promise of a brilliant future. He fal
tered in his good work, however, and
was sent to the American association.
Keating formerly relied on the spit
ball exclusively, but when that de
livery was barred from the American
association he had to rely on his nat
ural ability. Since dropping the
spitball Keating has been pitching
good ball..
Walter Halke Figures He Got
Worst of Work or Fight Order
Now that Secretary Baker has
granted exemption to players under
the "work or fight" order until Sep
tember 1, Walter Holke, who got his
orders before Baker loosened up,
figures he got the worst of it and
doubtless wishes he were back with
the Giants drawing down that $667 a
month. He is now working far the
Bethlehem Steel Company at $300 a
month, pretty good pay for a plate
setter at that
McGraw Sends Walje- Hoyt
Back Again to Minor League
It's back to the minors again for
Walter Hoyt John McGraw having
sent the kid phenom to Newark in
the International. All he did in his
latest stay with the Giants was to
pitch a part of a game.
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OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST
PESEK TO MEET
VLADEK ZBYSZKO
AT LINCOLN FAIR
Jack Curley Waxes Indignant
When Shelton Wizard Inti
. mates Zibby's Pedal Ex
, tremities Are Chilly.
Lincoln, Neb.. Aug. 10. (Special
Telegram).-Intimations that Wladek
. Zbyszko, heavyweight wrestler from
Poland and aspirant to the world's
championship, has been avoiding a
mat session with John' Pesek, the
i Shelton, Neb., phenom, have stirred
the ire of Jack Curley, business man-
'ager for the athlete from across the
big pond. Ray Page. Lincoln promo-
tor of wrestling contests, is in re
ceiot of the following message from
Manager Curley, who holds out inx
flew Xork:
"Have just finished reading a copy
of a Chicago newspaper in which the
claim was made that Wladek Zbyszko
has been side-stepping a wrestling
match with John Pesek. That is
quite ridiculous. Please pass jthe word
to the newspapers ot Nebraska, ft
sek's home state, that I will be
pleased to bring Zbyszko to Nebraska
for a mat-dusting at resek s expense.
You have my o. k. to an arrangement
for a match between Pesek and
Zbyszko during state fair week in
Lincoln. Get busy and wire me if you
can get Pesek signed to a contract. I
will sign for Zbyszko and he will
come to Nebraska for the special pur
pose of taking the conceit out of these
fellows who claim so much or this
latest Nebraska wonder."
For State Fair.
As a result of the Curley wire,
Promoter Page is now negotiating
with the Nebraska state fair board for
the use of the big livestock pavilion,
which has a seating capacity of 7,000,
for a Pesek-Zbyszko match on
Wednesday night, September 4. Once
the pavilion is cinched, Page will
undertake to close up with Pesek.
Meantime, Manager Mart Slattery, on
behalf of Pesek, has announced that
the Shelton grappler is ready for any
heavyweight in the world, so it looks
like a state fair match.
At the rate the heavyweights have
been going to war, most of the top
notch bone-crushers will soon be
wearing khaki or navy blue. Cham
pion Caddock, after nearly a year of
training at Camp Dodge, is on the
way to France. Joe Stecher and
Strangler Lewis have enlisted in the
navy, and Pesek will be transferred
to class 1-A after he has gathered his
1918 corn crop, which means that he
will be in the army some time in No
vember. Zbyszko, now a naturalized
American citizen, served two months
at a Massachusetts army camp and
then was discharged because of de
fective hearing. As matters now stand,
a Pesek-Zbyszko match probably
would be the last important heavy
weight bout until after the war.
Brottem Picked as Star in
Defunct Southern Circuit
International News Service.
Birmingham, Ala., July 27. A local
scribe has picked the best players
recently employed in a defunct South
ern association. The leading out
fielders were Southworth, now with
the Pirates; Compton and Flagstead.
Grimm, who has been snapped up by
the Cardinals, was the leading first
baseman. The veteran Bob Fisher,
also with the Cards, was the star sec
ond baseman. Art Bues, once with
the Giants, excelled at third base,
while George Distel, last year with
Richmond, was the premier short
stop. Brottem and Haworth were at
the head of the catching brigade,
while the leading pitchers included
Cy Barger, an old timer; Slapnicka.
who is with the Pirates; Hank Rob
inson, now a member of the Yan
kees; Dick Robertson of the Brook
lyns and Joe Bennett, who has se
cured a berth in the American asso
ciation. Dodger Slugger Who
Has Hit Safely in 21
Straight Games
Zach Wheat, slugging outfielder of
the Brooklyn National League club,
has carried his hitting streak to
twenty-one, consecutive games. This
equals the American league season
record held by Eddie Foster, of Wash
ington, but Tails short of the National
league . mark by two games, Ross
Young, of the Giants, having batted
safely in twenty-three straight games.
Wheat is also pushing Heinie Groh
for the lead in batting, and if he con
tinues his heavy sttckwork to the
end of the season he will no doubt
grab off the batting crown of the
National league.
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CHAMP WRESTLERS IN SERVICE Earl Caddock and Joe
Stecher, the two greatest wrestlers in the world today and
both in the service of Uncle Sam. Caddock is now a lieuten
ant in the army and Stecher has just joined the navy.
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KENTUCKY MEET
TO OFFER GREAT
HARNESS RACE?
Array of Bluebloods to Start in,
Futurity to Determine
Best Three-Year-'
Old.
Lexington, Ky., Aug. The Ken
tucky Trotting Breeders' association
will offer about $90,000 in purses and
stakes at its meeting here September
30 to October 12. The biggest of all
the events is the Kentucky Futurity
purse of $14,000. This race usually is
taken as a final decision, its winner
being without question the best 3-year-old
of the season.
All indications point to one of the
best meetings in the history of the
association. Boxes have been engaged
by trotting enthusiasts from 18 states
and Canada.
Among the probable starters in the
Kentucky Futurity are Nella Dillon,
June, Chestnut Peter, Dr. El
more, Echo Direct, Ruth Mainsheet,
Miriam Guy, Selka, Jennifer, Ramco,
David Guy, Peter Vonia, Sunny
Smiles and Mtkum.
In reply to many inquiries as to
whether the annual fall trotting meet
ing would be held, owing to the delay
on the part of the Kentucky Racing
commission in granting fall dates to
the running meetings in Kentucky,
President Tipton of the Kentucky
Horse Breeders' association said:
"The dates have been fixed by the
Grand Circuit and the annual meeting
will be held as usual."
The principal events to be contested
for follow:
September SO The Walnut Hall Cup (3-year-olds)
$8,000) the Futurity (2-year-olds)
15,000.
October 1 The Kentucky Futurity (3-year-olds)
114,000. .
October 2 The Phoenix Hotel Prize (free-for-all
pacing) 13.000.
October S The Transylvania, $5,000
October 4 The Bluegrass (pacing) $2,000;
The Lexington (2-year-olds) $2,000.
October 6 The Kentireky (3-year-olds)
$2,000; The Breeders' stakes (2-year-olds)
OcTober 7 The Castleton (free-for-all
trotters) $2,000.
October 8 The Cumberland (pacing)
$2,000; The Pinner stakes 13-year-olds)
,5CtetJober 9 The Ashland, $2,000. y
October 10 The Pacing Futurity (3-year,
olds) $3,000.
Clarke to Catch After
Killifer Goes in Draft
v. International News Service.
New York, Aug. 10. Fred Mitchell,
the Cubs' manager, admits that he
expects to lose Catcher Killifer be
fore the end of the month. Killifer
is in Class 1-A, and Mitchell already
has engaged the veteran Tom Clarke
to fjll his place. Clarke is a citizen
of the Bronx and for many years
caught for the Cincinnati Reds.
TiTattv involved him in a trade with
the Yankees several weeks ago, but
after' reporting to Huggins, Clarke
finally was turned back. In signing
Clarke, Mitchell has obtained the
best available catcher of experience
in the market. Clarke probably will
heh4he Cubs, but he is far from be
ing another Killifer.
Catcher Johnny Brock, Who
Goes to Navy, Is Engaged
Catcher Johnny Brock of, the St.
Louis Cardinals, before departing for
service in the Navy, announced his
engagement in St. Louis to Miss Lo
retta Johnson of that city. The wed
ding is to be celebrated when Johnny
comes marching hdme with his sailor
swagger and his skin all reddened
by the rough sea water, granting of
course that Uncle Sam ever sends
the Great Lakes recruits to sea.
Seeks Army Service .
Bill Conghlin, former third base
man of the Detroit Tigers and later a
minor league manager and player,
has applied to the Knights of Colum
bus for work in the athletic depart
ment of that organization and Uppes
to be sent to France to helo boost
j base ball over there
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GOLF FANS DROP
FREAK SCHEMES
TO SETTER GAM
Game Needs No Innovations
and Seldom Do Any of the
Numerous Inventions
Meet With Favor.
With 1,000,000 golfers in the
United States, little wonder that the
inventive mind occasionally offers
suggestions which threaten to send
the ancient game and its traditions
a-glimmering.
Inventions rarely receive encour
agement, for "golf is golf," and
meant to be played as "she is writ;"
and for that reason the iconoclasts
seldom make more than a momen
tary flash ere fading away to utter
and lasting oblivion.
For instance, one is at a loss to
know why anyone could suggest the
substitution -oT yellow for white
paint on a golf ball. It has been
claimed that under certain conditions
white is hard on the eyes; that on a
very bright day a more neutral color
would be serviceable. Yet golfers
have played for a good many years,
and the sun has shone as brightly
in the past as it does at present. It
would be hard to get a better con
trast than the white ball on the green,
turf.
So far as the trade goes, there have
been comparatively few recommen
dations to change the color of the
ball, though recently a man who is
a frequenter to the Lido links left
an order with a prominent local
sporting goods house, calling for a
dozen of one of the latest makes of
rubber cores to be painted red. His
reason was that when his shots went
wandering among the glistening
white shells, the caddie had trouble
in locating the sphere. Consequent
ly, he figured it out that a red object
would be much easier to distinguish.
Occasionally some one comes
along with a new idea in the form of
a club, but these innovations rarely
prove practicable. Not long since a
man had a new-fangled putter, with
a head of abnormal size, and a mir
ror attachment on the shaft. He
thought he had something that was
likely to revolutionize the short game,
but received no encouragement from
! the manufacturer to whom he showed
the club.
After all, the same old saying, "It's
the man behind the club," continues
to apply. '
Former Omaha Players Now
Playing With Shipyards
Tony DeFate, former Omaha sec
tr.erly of Omaha and Joplin, who
merly of Omaha and Joplin, wha
went to St. Paul with the disbanding
of the Western league; arc now play
ing in the Lake Ship-building league.
Both are members of Hans Wagner's
Riverside , team in, Duluth.
Freddie Thomas," former Omaha
shortstop, who piayed the earliest
part of the season with the Boston
Red Sox, is now playing with the
Great Lakes naval team.
Ben Dyer, who was sold by Denver
to the Detroit Tigers, is also a mem
ber of the Bluejacket team at the
Chicago training station.
Meeting of. Mermaids.
1 'Tis said that a swimming meet to
be held in New Ybrk this summer will
bring together the largest number of
mermaids that has ever been assem
bled at one aquatic carnival in
America. . " -.. "
improve Race Track.
More than $100,000 has been spent
on , improvements at the Saratoga
Springs race track since the meet of
1917.
McGoorty is Licked.
Eddie McGoorty, the Oshkosh bat
tler wouldn't stay retired, and in con
sequence he was handed a beautiful
lacing by Harry Greb
BARNES QUITS
RED CROSS PLAY
FOR SRQAOMOOrt
Western Open Champion Rest
ing from Patriotic Cam
paign as Professional
on Colorado Club.
Big Jim Barnes, who gave a goli
ball a longer ride than any other fol
lower of Scotia's fascinating pastime,
has no ear for a challenge these days.
After seven months of strenuous com
petition, including tournament play on
the southern courses and Ked Cross
matches olaved throughout the east
and middle wes he is now at Colo
rado Springs, nursing badly calloused
hands and giving overstrained nerves
a vacation.
Barnes is not loafing, however. He
has taken up his duties as playing
professional and instructor at the
Broadmoor course, formally opened
this month and the feature attraction
of the new Broadmoor hotel. The
giant Cornishman, who knows all the
shots in the bag and a few more for
good measure, is now content to play
a' few practice rounds every week on
a course that is a splendid test of his
uncanny prowess with wood and
iron.
Western Open Champion.
Barnes comes to the Broadmoor
Country club with the title of west
ern open champion, which he won in
the 1917 classic, played on thWest
moreland course at Evanston, 111. His
score of Zo3 for the 72 holes is the
lowest ever made in a title tourna-"
ment played over a course of cham
pionship length 6,000 yards or more.
This was the second time that
Barnes captured the western open,
winning this event with a score of
293 in 1914, when the event was staged
at the Interlachen Country club of
f InnA'inAlie '
According to the leading critics.
Barnes is one of the three premier
professional golfers of America, the
other members of the honorary trium
virate being Jack Hutchinson of Glen-
view and Walter Hagen of Oakland
Hills. 1 hey are given this high rank
ing primarily because of their con
sistent play.
Wonderful Driver.
While Barnes is internationally
famous as a powerful driver, some
times making shots off the tee that
travel 350 yards, he also plays a won
derfully effective short game. His
towering height is a tremendous asset
in his work with the wooden clubs,
while his timing and snap are perfect.
He combines, however, accuracy with
great distance two requisites of par
scores or better.
Barnes' driving power and accuracy
with the irons was very clearly
demonstrated in his wonderful first
round in the 1917 western open cham
pionship. He brought in a card of 67
and was off the course only three
times in the 18 holes.
Wins Western Title. x
At the second hole, 404 yards; he
was in trouble at the right of the
green, but got a four notwithstanding.
At the 17th, after a drive of 325
yards, he sliced his mashie shot into a
trap but scored a five. His two at
the fourth was obtained by holing a
chip shot, and at the eighth, his tee
shot reached the green and he holed
the six-foot putt, demonstrating he
was strong in all departments of the
game.
Barnes' score for the four rounds
was 283, five strokes less than the pat
of the course. Hagen and Hutchinsor
pushed him closely with 285 and 28(
respectively, but Barnes played botf
steadily and brilliantly all through anc
was decidedly the favorite for the
title, though the field was the larges'.
and finest in the history of the west
ern championship, due possibly to tlu
fact that the national championshif
had been canceled by the U. S. G. A
so the western for 1917 represents the
greatest golfing event in the United
States for, the year.
Red Sox Have Edge Over
Indians to Cop Bunting
By International News Service.
Boston, Mass., Aug. 10. TJlu
Cleveland Indians are close enough
to the Red Sox to take the lead with-
in a few days, but as the race shapes
up today- the Red Sos should win.
They are leading Fohl's club by more '
than four games, and that is quite an
advantage in . itself, as the Indians
must play considerably better than
the Red Sox for some time in order
to make it an even race. The Red
Sox have in Mays and Bush two
pitchers who will do as well as Co
ve'leskie and. Bagby, the Cleveland
stars, and Sam Jones should win as
many games as Morton. Having Babe
Ruth in the games gives the Red Sox
a tremendous advantage, as he is a
much harder, hitter than Cleveland's
star, Tris Speaker. The Indians are
faster on the bases, but are not so
dangerous on the attack, and, with
Hooper going at his present clip, the
Boston outfield appears a far more
formidable aggregation than is Cleve
land's, with Speaker as the star.
Tommy Ryan Makes Debut
at Funston with Good Card
Camp Funston, Kan., Aug. 10.
Tommie Ryan, camp boxing instruc
tor, made his debut in camp with one
of the most extensive boxing bouts
ever held at Funston. It was held
at the all-Kansas building and theri
was a large crowd of soldiers present
In two bouts the men were well
matched and they mixed things right
merrily. Each was a three-round
bout. RyarTacted as referee.
i Ferdie is Slipping
Along about this time last season
Pitcher Schupp, of the Giants, was
burning up the National league with
his balling shoots. Maybe the poor
quality of matches sold nowadays
has prevented Ferdie from starting
any conflagration on the old circuit
this season.
Skeeters Go Down.
Jersey City is still in. the New In
ternational league, according to the
leagiie standing, but the fight waged
upon "skeeters" this year has just
about put the pesky critters out of
business.