f 11 THE BEE; OMAHA. SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, VJSJ. Id 3 vu 91 -Round Fight Between Danny Daley, Omahan, and Tom White Is Longest Lightweight Battle VER hear of that 91-round prize fight that was staged in South Omaha more than a quarter of a century ago? Probably not, but it waa a real fight one of those blood -shedding, go-to-it and may the best man win, scraps. In fact, it might have been one of those dime novel stories. True, neither man won, but it wasn't through the lack of hard battling. 1 he battlers in that historic struggle of the ring were Danny iley of Omaha and Tommy White of Chicago. Both were lightweights, and the scrappiest pair of haulers that ever pulled a mined shoe across the floor. It wai natural for those boys to light, and both loved to mix it. Bartender Became "Bookies." From the first moment it became known that these two crafty masters of tne ritiR tactics were to meet, in terest became intense. Betting was heavy, and wagers tin the two men were laid in every Omaha and South Omaha saloon for those were the days before pro hibition was even a dream. The nijfht of the fifiht Decem ber 6. 18W found fans crowded into a South' Omaha hall like sardines in a can. At 9 p. ni. the two gladiators squared off, , The fight was on. There was no "feeling out." Blows were ixchangcd with lightning rapidity. Both men reeled time and again from the impact of the terrific punches. Stopped at 5 a. m. Round one. Round two. Round New Tennii Champion. rQn - Reduce Purses in Harness Races Northwest Racing Association at Annual Meeting Decides to Cut. Prizes. Sioux City, la., Jan. 6. Purses in the speed departments will ""'be re duced 20 per cent for the 1922 exhi bitions of the Interstate Livestock fair here, the Iowa State fair at Des Moines and the South Dakota State, fair at Huron. A like reduction prob ably will be made in other depart ments of these fairs. This action was announced at the annual meeting of the Northwest Racing association, held here. For the county fairs a speed purse minimum of $250 was adopted by the association. Circuit classes that were adopted and are obligatory in the soeed department are as three. And neither man appeared to have an advantage. They fought on. Round 10. Round 11. And then it was round 20, then 30, but still they stuck to their work with dogged de termination. . For a round or so the tide of bat tle would seem to swing one way or the other, but a well directed punch would overcome this momentary ad vantage. Madly they fought on, both anxious to get in a blow which would put out the other once and for all. Finally the 80th round was reached. It was nearly 5 in the morning-. Fans who had stuck through the memorable combat begged for a knockout ior it was time for many to go to work. Both Exhausted. By this time each .of the gladiators was so weak a hard push would have sent the other over. But they didn't have strength for even a hard push. They fought through 11 more rounds until the 91st was reached, when it was stopped. So it remained for the stove league to award a decision in the longest fight ever staged in the lightweight division. ' Daley and White received $100. Only one combat, which went 107 rounds between two heavyweights, ever eclipsed this long record. v Dalcv has since left Omaha and now is living in Chicago. So far as is known, his opponent in this scrap has taken the everlasting kayo. J 0s M Some Fans Assert Tommy Gibbons Is False Alarm, While Others Declare He Is Wonder of Ring Opening Games in National League Are Scheduled at Meeting follows: ,2:17 and 2:12 pac The 2:25, 2:18 races, and 2:25, inp. ' , , ;" . W. G. Smith of Rock Rapids, la., was elected president of the associa tion, and Roy Wilkinson of AHa, la., was made secretary-treasurer. Presidents Leave for East Saturday San Francisco, Jan. 6. The 19 members of the Washington and Jefferson college football team, ac companied by Coach Earl Neale and some 20 others, spent today in San Francisco and were' prepared to de part for the east tomorrow morn ing. They arrived here last night front Pasadena, where, on January 2, the team! played a scoreless con test with the University of Call , fornia. . "We think we won a victory, and the higher they speak of California the better we're bound to feel," said Neale." ; , ' ; Arrests Wont Stop New Orleans Racing New Orleans, La., Jan. 6. Racing wijl continue at Ihe fair grounds track, officials of the Business Men's Racing association, announced yesterday, denying reports that be cause of .the technical arrest Wed nesday night of 47 bookmakers and four cashiers, the winter racing meet would be canceled. Laytoji Defeats Kieckhefer. Milwaukee, Wis., Jan. 6. John nie Layton, world's three-cushion billiard championr defeated Augie Kieckhefer, 65 to 53, in the second block of, their series here last night. Layton now leads, 120 to 113. Invited to Compete in France. Philadelphia, Jan. 6. The Uni ver.iitv of Pennsylvania has received an invitation to compete in , the French reunion games in France in April. ' Bee Van Ads are-the best busi ness boosters. s Chicago, Jan.' 6. The National, league baseball schedule for 1922' will open on Wednesday, April 12, with the following games, it was announced by President John A. Heydler here today: Brooklyn at New York, Boston at Philadelphia. Chicago at Cincinnati. Pittsburgh at St Louis. The season will close on Sunday, October 1. The schedule for the National and American leagues were drawn up during - a conference which ended last night at. French Lick Springs. President Heydler and Barney Dreyfuis represented the National league, and President B. B. Johnson represented the Amer ican league. :.:.v . Ira Dern Defeats Tom Ray in Finish Match at Ogden Ogden, Utah, Jan. 6. Ira Dern of Salt Lake, claimant of the world's middleweight wrestling champion ship, last night defeated Tom Ray of Omaha in straight falls. He obtained the rst fall in 43 minutes with an English barlock and the second i.V 15 minutes with a reverse body. Dern weighed 159 12'. pounds "and Ray 159. v Glen Killinger Signs up With Yankees New York, Jan. 6. Glenn Killing er, Fenn btate baseball and football player, signed a 1922 contract today with the- New York club of the American league. Edgar F. Dawson of Fordbam Prep, New York, who won the junior national indoor tennis singles cham pionship in New York, defeating: Morton Bernstein after a hard-fought match of 6-3, 6-4, 2-6, 8-10, 6-4. Daw son, teamed with Jerry Lang of Columbia university, later in the day won the doubles championship title.. Hutchison and Traub Tie for Lead British Open Champ and Cali f ornian Turn in Low Golf Scores. , Basket Ball Facts You Should Know , Br EO -THORP. O;. May player, plsyinn under the amateur rule, aj'ernats hamla in drib- valine ths bslIVlthout Twiating the Q. Aesordinsr to the rules, must play er, wear numbers T . Tk amatear mire make It eam aalsorj or tmrmbm ! wear smmbers at " least ate Inrhe hUt. o urofewJwwl toawM wmt them, ajtkoacfc it is not aajiawT anerilm t tNHr nlcn. Q. Is time taken out when a double .foul has been callet A. Tea. thaw at then aVbrri sat hy iha nrfere aaal it oe aat fceeia, a-ai MS b KM the ball ip la h renter, aftor ba4k tea am haTa ha1 a free tkraw. Q. Why re (lass blackboards osed en Mme court ? A. 8 tha soe4a4n at a swm seated MM b Sarfcaoards will snt lar tkeir Tiear af tfca (asaa Marke4 la a ay ray. Q If the ball strikes the eIf of a aarkboard and then bounds iota the court. Is It ta pisyT . lea. ajreverllac ta the asaatear rale tkw aasttrc karkbasrd la la lessnMta. la the gaase all kails stayhx lasiac A ay ssaliaa eaaeeralaai haaltet ball ilas arUl br sn.ay.ee ed tlnaa;lt tM eal- If addressed t- Kd Tbara. ear at EdMsr, this aaper. San Francisco, Jan. 6. Jock Hutchison of Chicago, British 'open golf champion, and h. Traub of ban Francisco, r. were tied for first place with a score of 153 at the end of the lirst 36 holes in the northern Califor nia ' open golf championship tour ney at the San Francisco Golf and Country club to day. John Black, northern. Califor nia open golf title- x!Z3!Zhtx!?g!P holder, was next f with 154. Bert Wild and Dave Trufcjli tied for third place with 159. Jini Barnes of Pelham, N. Y-'the United States open golf champion, and Harold Sampson of San Fran cisco, tied for' fourth place with 161. MacDonald Smith, former Metro politan champion of. New York, scored 165. Umpire Hank O'Day Will Not Retire, Says John Heydler Chicago, Jan. 6. Umpire Hank O'Day, the veteran of the National league staff, . has no desire to retire at this time, 'so far as President John Heydler knows. President Heydler today denied that O'Day has asked ior his release or that he had received any word indicating that he wished to wind up his baseball career offi ciating in the Pacific Coast league. "I don't think O'Day wants to quit yet," President Heydler said. "He was a little discouraged last season because of illness, but he has re covered. He is one of the- best offi cials in our organization and 1 am confident be will be with, us three or f , ... lour years more. Stephens Wins From . i Harry Shepherd in State Billiard Meet Ralph Stephens defeated " Harry Shepherd, 125 .to - 93, s in,. the ' stats championship pocket billiard tourna ment at the Academy billiard parlor last night. Shepherd's high' run was 28 and Stephens' was 27' and 42 for out. . Hines and Usher 'meet in the one game carded .for ' tomorrow night. By Usher defeating ;'.Hmes,' and Harsch beating'Stephens in" the game Monday night, there will be a three cornered . tie for the ' championship. However, if Usher loses to; Hines, the :natch between Stephens and Harsch Monday- night rwill deefde the state title. ... V . Batting Stars Meet ;" H in Exhibition Tilt St. Louis, 'Jan. 6, Two- of the iity hockey team ahowthst th Tier ; greatest stars in baseball are to en- mAr-A than kftN :L .W-l . . . gage m a contest Jor-. liattmg honors at Xew Orleans Afarclr 18 and 19. when Babe Ruth, home .tun king of the New York Yankees, and Rogers Hornsby of the St. Louis Nationals, champion batter of the major leagues last year, meet in a two game spring exhibition series be tween the two teams. .. (Copyrl.hl, lM. by Klnc restart n ' dlrate. !no.) N one fide of the . atreet ' they'll tell you : "Tom Gibbons is a false alarm." If you cross over you'll hear them shouting: "Tom Gibbons is a wonder and he'll whip Dcmpsey if the champion ever gives lum a chance. No fighter In modern times lias excited quite so much speculation as ha rhe tensational nrrlnrmcr from 1 St. Paul. Some men who have seen him in action claim that his style in fighting makes him a per fect setup (or Dempsey: others in sist that this very same style of ring warfare is the style that will baffle Dcmpsey. and enable Tomasco to bump the champ into Kingdom Come. Those not enthused over Gib bons assert: Won't Fight Good Men? "What if Gibbons did knock out 19 men in a row? Look over the gang that he has knocked out and you will see that there aren't but two or three that couldn't be knocked overboard by a first-class middleweight. He won't fight a good man and he has been trying to make a reputation for himself by knocking over the soft one3." The faction favorable to Gibbons insists: "Any man who can knock out 19 foeman in a row is a wonder, no matter who they are. Dempsey couldn't do it, Jeffries, .Johnson, Corbett, Sullivan and Willard couldn't do it. It doesn't make anv difference whether the man you face is a sort one or not. lhe trick of knocking him out cannot be accom plished unless you have a real marksmanship, real speed, and ter rific punching power. Atl the Bunk. "But all this stuff about Gibbon knocking only very soit -ones is bunk. Tom put to sleep, four men that never had been knocked out in their lives. They were Dan O'Dowd, Tony Melchoir, Hugh Walker, and Paul Sampson. he far-famed hit ter, Bill Brennan, got a." crack at O'Dowd and not only couldn'Lput him awav. but O'Dowd actiullv Iimi Brennan. Paul .Sampson has taken on the toughest men in the game and no one ever, stopped him until Gibbons turned - the - trick. Hugh Walker, was going along great and assembling a knockout record him self until he met Gibbons find was punched asleep. ' Gibbons' string of knockouts ended with 19, because he took on Bartley Madden in Grand Rapids. He doled out an unmcrpiful beating to Madden, but couldn't stop the big Irishman. Thereupon, the Gib bons scoffers rose up and ejaculated: "That just shows up Gibbons. Madden is just a bum and yet Gibbons couldn't put .him away." Tommy Talks. . Gibbons says: ' '. ' "Gosh. I don't know who is richt Maybe I'm what my spoofers sav and maybe I'm not. But if some body will please page Mr. Dempsey and toss us into the same ring, I'll try to furnish the answer and halt all further arguments." : ' . Intercollegiate Mat Champ to Coach at Princeton Princeton. N. T - Jan. 6. "Chuck" Carpenter of Augusta. Ga.. captain of the Princeton .wrestling team last winter and intercollegiate champion in the unlimited class, has arrived here to toach the Tiger freshmen grappler. Champ on Blades. f siaaaaaaaa, I4aaad1siuHBaHl X ; VSrjBM AjsssyBaaasasssss- First Golf Professional in America Received $4.85 a Week-Also Attended Links , : u By FRANK 0. MENKE. 1 tCapyrliht, JHJ, byiKInf features BynUlrV, luc ) Golf, as it used to be conducted, and as it is conducted now what a radical difference. - . . Jot so long ago records were uncovered which history of the Royal Montreal Golf club, which can 1873. It was that body which was first to put golf op Ill 1VIII rflllltllM. . . Along in 1881 the club hired W. 1. Davis of HoylAe to serve it in i professional capacity.The story of Davi. who was the fcrst "pro" in the North American history of the link tame, should intenVt the "pros" ol today because ot tne contrast nciwccn ineir positions an iruibraced the early e into existence in an organized basis MFVITCI6TIIE next eat LEAD, KINDLY PIPE. TTSUAL December crime festi- II val at holiday prices.. Citizen is just as safe on streets as lollypop in day nursery.. It's harvest time in underworld. Peace is scarcer than red Fords. Arms conference may clip France down to 90,000 tons of periscopes, limit Japan to one -war at a time. but you never see any peace dele gates out at night. x Brooklyn man spanked with span ner wrench by highway clerks. They got $3.in dimes and buttons. Shoot ing is very good this season. Bronx weekend party 6f homicidal sports men succeeded m bagging 200-pound waiter who measured six feet from tip to tip. They collected both tips. Getting so that ; avenue poachers don't care whether they get money or not. They whang you with lead pipe just for fun. . ' Between bootleggers and lead- pipers, you never know where your- next headache is coming trom. Sport Brevities Home rarinit on Ice Is a popular pastime at several isew England points this winter, Billy Olover, the oWtlms Boston welter weight, is now boxlni instructor at West Point. - Cleveland will repeat its 115.000 pure ot last year for the record trotter at the North Randall track. Boxers of $Iew York. Philadelphia, Boa ton snd Pittsburgh will atase -the inter city bouts In New ork, January lS-Xt. The several Interactional games added, to the thrills as well as the length of the past foot baU season. Outfielder George Burns, who roes to the Cincinnati RedSk has been a popular member of the Giants for Id years. According to Chicago base batl dope the Cubs passed up Heinle Groh, claiming he was not worth ths money asked by Cin cinnati. Stanislaus Zbysiko, world's champion wrestler, wfio has lost but ona" match in l.too contests, plans to retire after one mors year. Benny Myers, formerly of ths Brooklyn Superbas. and Charles Stls hava formed n new baseball circuit known as ths Ureal Western league. Recent gsme of the Princeton univer- csn mora than hold their own with the best of the collet, teams. From all accounts Mite Gibbons wtll bi the next veteran of the ring to retire. The greet St. Panl boxer plans to engage in five mora bouts and then hang up h;j padded raits. ... Manager Charley Harvey announces that Ned ntavorald. ths clover Australian llf htwelghU has returned to America snd will start another boxing campaign within a short time. The new minor league role against players receiving a part of t heir pur chase money didn't atop Pitcher ' Dave taaforta from demanding a sliro of the money paid Columbus by ths Browns for! his release. ' Hoy Thames, the Phillies" old oatfieMer. returns to the National league as caaeh of the St. Ijio i Cardinals, after bring out ? the i-au for I years. Of lst Thomas has been cosehing college tram?. Will Revise Ring Sport in Indianapolis Indianapolis. Ind.-Jan. 6. Ap pointment of a boxing commission as the first step toward revising the rin.e sport in Indianapolis was an rounced vesterdar bv Mayor Shank. Am .j uj L. and Flippers Overwhelm . Wayne Normals, 63 to 18 .. Fremont, Neb.,' Jan. 6. (Special.) Midland ran' away from Wayne cagers here last night, copping the long end of a 63 to 18 verdict. ;- 1 At no time during the conflict was the outcome in doubt. Dana, Wilch and Horn were the stars of the game, Dana making eight goals and Horn and Wilch seven each.. Lundberg, sent in to substitute for 'Elliott, played a nifty cage game and added eight points to his team's score. -. The lineup and summary: . '' ' "" Kansas Aggies Trim .Grinnell Basketeers 'Manhattan, Kan., Jan. 6. The Kansas Aggies defeated the Grinneil cc.llege basket ball team from Grin nell, la.,' here last night, 23 to 13, in the first Missouri valley conference game for either team this season. No reason is known for ; crime tide except that boys need money to celebrate holidays. So why play duets on your police whistles? You wouldn't spoil a speed. boy's holiday, would you? J, . .' , Chicago. Jan. 6. Oscar Mathiesen of Norway, international professional speed ice skating' champion, will sail for America next week to com pete in a series ( races, it was an. nounced here today. Expect Large Crowd at Fight Judging from the number of tick ets that have already been sold for the big all-star boxing program scheduled for the Auditorium next Monday evening, one of the largest crowds that has ever trickled into the old shed will be on hand to witness the affairs of fisticuffs. The ducats are on sate at the fol lowing places: Barkalow, Sportsman, Dinby and Baseball, cigar , stores, Elks' club rooms, Merrit's drug store, Stock exchange, Murray's, Twenty fourth and N streets, and the City Auditorium.' I Davis was paid $4.85 a week.""Ai a further inducement to get him from England the club agreed that he was to be permitted to keep for himself all that he could earn in the making and repairing of clubs and ballswIIe was permitted to charge 60 cents for a club head, 50 cents for a shaft, 12 cents each for attaching new horns, new leads, splicing, glueing, etc. The maximum charge permitted for mak ing up a ball was 8 cents. . . .. "It is also aereed." read the . con tract, "that Davis shall be permitted to charge all beginners 25 cents for a round of nine holes of teaching, but one-third of the amount is ! to . be turned back into the club treasury." Professionals nowadays get from' $1 to $25 an hour for their teaching and charge prices that are from 100 to 1,000 per cent higher for materials and for their work than Davis was permitted to assess 31 years ago. Davis was vested with other duties beyond the simple ones of teaching beginners and repairing the paraphernalia oi the regular play-v ers. The club records embraced a letter to Davis which said: "It was supposed that as soon as the green .was put into your care you would take some interest and pride in having it as. perfect as pos sible. I instanced to you that Tom Morris and David Park both person ally did af St. Andrews and Mussel burgh the same kind of work wc expected from you here'. You re-, hi. lit I toy lake lia'I n. but that he nig the mannm iiderstand mat a VI yours ncre plied that Morris charge of that grt paid a man (or di work. , You imict his position there are very different. llAhad a club of 500 members to atu-niX to. with a crern made for '20 year Our club of 25 niciiibcXs requires compared- to the other crolv little time, and one . principal olcct we had iii ' getting you here waNk'tlnt our new and rough green nn'glXt be inadi' .as like t he lonc-maric ltpciJK can be done. , r If you take every attcrncon , wheelbarrow and spade, or the small lawn mower, and take the green from hole to hole, removing all the gras that can be cut, you would soon have , the, green in a very, different state ; from what it is." ; ' ' Despite the fact' that Davis had to ' serve in the role of gardener as well as "pro," all for $4.85 weekly, he lin-l gered on the job from 1881 unti 1894. . 1' , The average club golfer present days Who pays out between $500 and $1,000 for the joys which the game gives him, probably will be a bit amazed, to leant- that 30 years ago members of the Royal Montreaf club were able to play their game all season long, keep with them a gen erous supply of balls, constantly re establish their golfing kit and still get by with-an annual cost .-that rare-; ly exceeded $14. , Yanks Release Three Players to Coast New York, Jan. 6. The New York club of the American league today released Nelson Hawks, outfielder; Ray French, shortstop, and Jesse Doyle, pitcher, to the Vernon chib of the Pacific Coast league, in pay ment for Catcher Al Devormor, who was obtained from that club last spring. French played with Vernon last season under an optional agree ment, while Doyle was farmed out to the Atlanta and'Joplin clubs. ', Roscoe Hall, Lightweight Champ of Iowa, Good Student in History Des Moines, la., Jan. 6. At least one of. Iowa's pugilists has more, confidence in his brain than in his fists. ' Roscoe Hall, who at 19 holds the state championship in the light weight class, has declared that he will stick to his studies at North High school, where he is a sophomore, until he graduates, rather than accept offers from fight promoters. ..;''-;. Hall is not a one-sport athlete, however, and has won his letter at swimming, although his fight managers made him stop because they be-r lieved that the swimming developed pulling power rather than striking; power. ; " ' i . :- ; Hall is rated as an excellent student in history, literature and rhetorici but has a difficult session with algebra and geometry. Tijuana Results First Ra.ce, I Furlonite The Cigarette, il (Huntamer). Ill, 16.80. 14.20, won: Lady Faust, 11S (Fator). 537.40. SI 5.40. second; Stllpo, 110 (Wilson). t.40, third. Tims: 1:0. Daisy N. Miss Dunbar, Heads I -Win and Alajab, ran. Second. ( Furlongs Hattis Will no. 101 - (Williams), $3.40. II. 12.(0. won. Canvasba. 11 (Durgan), 18.6 4.4o. second Squash, lot (Wilson), $2.10. thlr.l. Time: 1:0. Dollis Hart. Moorewood. Bit of Blarney, Rosie Bogon and Csndcgray, ran. Third. $ Furlongs Plantsgenct, 1"S (Huntamer). $t.S0. $4.40. $2.60, won: Cafeteria, 107 (Noble), $4. $2.60. seronil; Tillotson. IIS (Parke). $J.0. third. Time: 1:14 1-$. Ermltsna, Hug Me and Klleii Smyth, ran. Fourth. Mils and a Sixteenth A-Jdry K. 11$ (Martlnes), $6.10. $4.20. 13. won; Rhymer. 11$ (Duggan), $3.$0. $3.20. sec ond: Mountain Olrl, 107 (Huntamer). $2.10, third. ) Tims: l:6TS-5. Flash ol Steel. tehra snd Generar Byng. ran. Fifth. $ Furlongs, Handles? Forb"- 10T (T. Murray). $7.10. $3.10. $2.M, wen: Huron, lot (Williams). $.0. $:. second; Motor Cop. 1$: (Mnlcsher). $;.20. third. Time: 1:1! J-. Rapid Stride. Vet eran. Woodls Montgomery, Carrie Moors an t Redan, ran. Sixth. Mils and J Tsrds Commsnrter. Ill (Martinez). . $3.S. out. won; Sal- george, 110 (Huntsmer). JJ i. out. sec ond. Termak. 1)0 (Williams), out, third. Time: 1:54 1. White Hsven also ran. Srenth. Ferlongs Bslsy. 101 iCni-r-sal. tc. SJ 6. $;.. .won: tTaga. Ill 'Fator). f-.'.t. II to. second: Ind'an Brigade. 1"S (Xoble). SI, third. Time: 1:.'! Lad Josephine. Rill Spirits. Petisr. It. rmdall. Hlckorrsut, Uw IrUh sni (JeUntaUoua, ran Hot Dough nuts made while you wait, dozen, 20 f?p ) I2Vj lr- Basement 1 JsaaSgataSlyj,,,,' C B?'" Bssememt cleIeanoImIe Hart Schaftner & Marx Overcoats Matured in Saturday's Clearance Two Tremendous Lots- The Seasons Newest Styles and Fabrics Our stocks are larger at this'1 ..cason of the year than they ever .vere before quick, decisive ac tion is necessary to convert them into cash so, starting Saturday, note the radical Clearance Sale prices! . 0 w 1 Hart,, Schaffner & Marx Overcoats $25.00 Hart Schaffner & Marx Overcoats Worth Regularly $40.00 and ?45.00 This sale will move lhe overcoats in a hurry you ought to get yours while selections are good and the style and fabric range is so eonipletc. $35.00 Worth Regularly $50.00 and $65.00 We are giving you exceptional values in the finest over coats that are made such remarkable reductions have never been made before. 1 i. i J of the .1 ! II II I i r