Nebraska Newspapers

    Players’ Union Instrumental
in Getting Pay Checks Hiked
By FRANK (i. MENKF.
This new baseball players' union al
ready has cost magnates in the Na
tional league something beyond Jlu*b
OOn. And "the end ain't yet.”
AH of which indicates that if the
organization is a "joke,” as tho mo
guls insist, these moguls can't do any
boisterous laughing about it.
Up to this hectic moment, exactly
136 players in the National league
have enrolled in the union—which is
approximately SO per rent of the ros
ter of the eight i lulls involved. And
those who are piloting the destiny of
tlie union assert that before the 1933
season gets under way the outfit will
number every National league player/
George Burns, the veteran outfield
er for the Cincinnati Reds, most likely
will be elected president. Men as con
spicuous ns Burns i t diamond affaiys
will fill the other officering positions
and make up the number of directors.
Confined In Nationals.
Nothing so far has been done to re
cruit playera of Ihe American league.
It is said by those concerned in the
union that Hie plight of iho National
league players was infinitely worse, as
regards salary, than the American
leaguers, and, therefire, it was deter
mined that tlie first movement would
he made for Hie bettei4nent of the Na
tional leaguers.
Ray Cannon, the Milwaukee attor
ney, who organized the union, enrolled
nil the members, and is the brains and
dominating spirit, was asked;
"Are you going to organize a sepa
late union among American league
players? Are you going to permit
American league players into the pres
ent union—or won't you enroll any
American leaguers at all?”
fiefs Players Increase.
Cannon grinned, winked one eye
then tho other, and then began to
wiggle his fingers in mute conversa
tion fashion—indicating Hint lie was
very dumb on the subect.
"What have you to say with refer
ence to the charges of Charles Kb
bets that the union is merely an or
ganization put together for the pur
pose of extracting tlie highest salaries
possible from the magnates?”
Cannon again resorted to finger
wiggling and chuckling and an inter
preter of sign language who stood
alongside, declared:
Cannon says that he no speeka da
Kngllsh—-not now, anyway."
But despite Cannon’s reluctance to
discourse concerning the future plans
of the union, these facts have been es
tablished:
Golf Officials
to Test Shafts
New York. Dec. 20.—Asserting its
refusal to permit, use of steel shafted
golf clubs In national championships
had been misconstrued, the executive
committee of the United States Golf
association issued a statement Tues
day explaining its attitude and an
nouncing that official tests of the new
style shafts would be authorized.
"A number of people seem to have
misconstrued the nction taken hy the
executive committee of the. United
States Golf association with regard to
the steel shaft." a statement scaid.
"We were asked to approve its use;
we felt that it was a distinct depar
ture from the accepted form and make
of golf clubs, and that no one at that
time knew enough about its possibili- (
ties to be sure that Its use was for
the best interests rtf the game.
"We, accordingly, refused to per
mit Its use In the national" champion
ships. Our feelings are still the >ame.
The executive committee itso'.f will
try out the shafts ami request that a
number of the leading amateurs do
the same and report their findings to
the committee. They also will request
that all other players who use the
shaft and who desire to, should sub
mit their views to the committee."
Basket Ball Squad
Gets No Vacation
Lincoln, Dec. 2ft.—(Special.)—There
is one group of Nebraska university
students to whom Chi istmas vacation
means little or nothing. That group
is formed by the candidates fdr posi
tions on the basket ball squad. There
w ill be no letup in practice during the
holidays. The squad will work out
each morning.
Three attempts to schedule an early
season game with a Big Ten leant,
fell through. Coach Frank tried to
hook games with Minneapolis, Wiscon
sin and Iowa. The Big Ten teams
are limited to three practice games,
and these teams are booked solid.
Nebraska opens the season January
5, with Kansas on the Jayhawkers
court.
Spalding Gun Club Endorses
Koster for Game Warden
Spalding. Neb., Deo. 20—(Special.)
—The Spalding Gun club after its
Christmas shoot held its annual elec
tion of officers. in which over GO
members participated. Tom Haynes
was elected president and treasurer,
and Dr. Dowd secretary. A resolu
tion was unanimously passed cn
dorsing George Koster as state game
warden and asking Governor-elect
Bryan for his reappointment.
Leaguers in Manila.
Manila, P. I.. Dec. 20.—The baseball
team composed of stars from the Na
tional and America leagues, arrived to
dpy from Japan, where they have just
finished playing a series of games.
The visitors will play four games
with Manila teams and sail for Hong
kong Monday.
Nebraskan to Lead Aggies.
Fargo. N. D., Dec. 20.—Ken Rum
peltes of Kearney. Neb., was elected
Oi Ptain of the North Dakota Aggies
1923 football team at the annual ban
duet here this evening. Ilumpeltea
is a tackle.
Certain bail player members of the
' union returned contracts from Nation
al league magnates which were unsat
isfactory ns regards wages. The play
er. after reacting the original offer,
1 named the lowest figure that would in
fluence him to sign on the dotted line.
And in each Instant the demand was
met.
Magnates Formed.
The salary Increases granted the
National players in eases of the origi
nal offer of tngnates approximates
more than $100,non.
Although Cannon, for reasons best
know to himself, refuses to discourse
what's what with reference to the
players’ union at this moment, lie re
cently made no secret of the program.
“The baseball club owners are or
ganized and have been organized for
many years.” declared Cannon at
the time. “They are welded together
for the purpose of getting the best
slide talent for the lowest possible
wage—which is all fair enough.
"Pondering over this, and likewise
the fact that the players weren’t or
ganized. I decided that a union or fra
ternity for them would be helpful. In
their disorganized state, without any
representative body and with each
player fighting Ids own battle, it was
a useless task for all the players to
get salaries in keeping with their
value.
Fnderpaid in Past.
“So I formed the players union, not
with the Idea of slugging any of the
magnates into excessive salary pay
ment, nor with the thought of doing
anything other than handing players
together so that they could get a
square ileal for themselves at till
times. Which likewise is fair enough,
isn’t it?
“It is true that some members of
our organization since its formation
have rejected the salary offers made
by certain magnates and have de
ntil tided more money. The very fact
that the baseball owners granted those
increases proves conclusively that the
National league players, in the main,
have been underpaid in (he past and
that the formation of a union was the
one thing needed to get a square deal
for them.
“The basic purpose of the union is
to create a concerted speaking voice
for the players and to insure for
them a square deal in salary and
other matters from the magnates.
There is nothing heinous, nothing
wrong or nothing to be disapproved in
such an organization with such a
purpose, is there?’’
(Copyright, 1922.)
“Look Out for Yale.”
Harvard Is Warned
Boston. Mass., Dec. 20.—Three hun
dred Harvard graduates paid their
tribute to the Crimson football team
at the annual “victory” dinner of Hus
ton’s Harvard club last night. Percy
Haughton, former Harvard football
mentor, and "I’ob’’ Fisher, present
head coach, pointed out that Yale
football, under Tad Jones, was annu
ally showing improvement and each
declared that the most vital conflict
in the history of the rivalry of the
Blue and the Crimson would come in
1923.
Haughton, hailed as the father of
Harvard football, declared that Yale
had failed to duplicate the personnel
of the Harvard reaching staff and had
also failed to produce the simple plays
with which Harvard has beaten Yale
repeatedly.
Head Coach Flsln r look occasion to
state that the Harvard system of
coacl •, ; would not be changed, al
though new plays might be intro
duced. He gave entire credit for the
Yale victory to the Harvard football
"family"—coaches and players and
scrubs.
Hold footballs were presented to the
men who got in*o the Yale game and
to the conches who tutored the team
to victory.
Series Money Dispensed
for Charitable Purposes
Chicago, Doc. 20.—Baseball Coin
missioner K. M. Landis today an
nounced that part of the proceeds of
the world series tio game at New
York October r., lust, had been dis
tributed to three national organiza
tions. the American Legion, Veterans
of Foreign Wars of (ho United States
and Disabled American Veterans of
the World War, each getting $20,
352.10. The remainder was dis
tributed by joint action of the two
New York clubs to New York charit
able organizations. ^
Willard Fails to
Impress Ring Fans
Portland, Ore., Dec. 20.—Jess Wil
lard, at the Milwaukee arena last
night, let two boxers, Scotty Messer
of Tillamook and Ben' Barnson of
Portland, flatten themselves out
against him, but Willard did not have
to do any ■boxing.
Barnson hit Willard repeatedly be
j low the belt, but did no damage.
The crowd gave Willard a great
ovation when'he first appeared, but
the house was half empty before the
i show was over.
t Famous No-Hit Pitcher
Turns in Shutout for McGraw
! New York, Dec. 20.—John Mont
gomery Waul, famous as a no-hit
pitcher in the ’SO, turned in a shut
out victory for John J. McGraw, man
ager of the world's champion New
York Giants, in supreme court to
day.
Acting as counsel for Mr. McGraw,
Mr. Ward moved for dismissal of a
$30,000 damage suit brought by Mrs.
Mary A. Butterfield, for injuries suf
I fered when she was run down in 1017
by MeGraw's automobile.
Justice Tierney granted tbe motion,
holding that McGraw was not re
sponsible since liis chauffeur was
violating instructions when llm ac
cident occurred.
Eastern Football
Teams on Wav West
Stop in Chicago
W arriors Heady for Battles on
Pacific Coast During Holi
days — Players in
Fine Shape.
Chicago. 3 >• e. SO.—Two big eastern
football t> ;ms on tho way to Call
j fornia for holiday games spent to
day here, departing tonight for. the
■ coast.
Tho University of West Virginia
I stpiad, 2k in number. In charge of
Coach Spears, arrived on the same
train with Coach Hugo Beszdek’a
l’enn State team, which is scheduled
to play tho University of Southern
California at Pasadena, January 1.
The West Virginia eleven will battle
Gonzuga at Los Angeles on Christmas
| 'hay.
Coach Spears said tho West Vir
ginians were In the best of shape after
the eastern season and tho players
'certainly looked it. They were as full
of play as high school youngsters.
Coach Spears said there was a dif
ference in the tactics of the three
esatern schools—Pittsburgh, West
Virginia and Penn State—which are
to play on the coast Pittsburgh will
play Stanford, December 30.
"We use a line shift and Pitts
burgh shifts only backs.” Spears said.
“Then, there is a difference in the
way we go after forward passes. The
eastern teams feel they ate fairly well
fortified against anything the far
western elevens can spring, and,, of
course, lmpe to emerge on the long
end of t he score.”
The Penn State squad, composed of
22 players, traveled in a special car,
which will be dropped off at Williams,
Ariz., Friday night. The party will
make a tour of the Grand canyon on
Saturday, arriving in Pasadena on
Sunday afternoon to prepare for the
Southern Californians on New Year's.
The mountaineers are used to both
frosty weather and to warm, and do
not believe the heat of the west will
slow them up.
“It probably will be like our early
practice weather.” Coach Spears said.
“The only thing we dread is the long
ride. 1 am sorry we did not have
an opportunity for a workout here,
for the day would have been ideal.”
St. Louis Man Pays $8.’>0
to Keep “Lost"’ Golf Halls
St. Louis. Dec. 20.--‘Retrieving lost
golf balls on the municipal links lias
been so lucrative to Matt C. Mallev
that he bid $850 for the 1923
privileges. This hid was accepted
this afternoon by the board of public
service.
Malley, who holds this year's con
cession under an informal contract
for which he paid $225, employs boys
lo search for the balls. If found im
mediately they are returned to the
owner. Many balls, however, are not
found until the owners leave the
links, and Mr. Mallby pays the boys
5 cents npieee for these, repaints
them and sells them for from 10 to
•10 cents, it was explained.
California Quarter Injured.
Los Angeles, Dee. 20.—Chit Dolley,
regular quarterback of the University
of Southern California football team,
may not be able to play in the annual
east against west contest against I’enn
State college at Pasadena! New Year's
day because of an injured knee, ac
cording to Conch Elmer C. Henderson.
Harold Galloway, second string
quarterback, probably will cull signals
for the Trojans.
Yesterday, the varsity held scrim
mage against the "rookies," who used
what were said to be Penn State for
mations and tlie varsity which, at
first, seemed to have trouble making
substantial gains, soon hit its stride
and made yardage at will,
Salvadore and Lout; in Draw.
Los Angeles, Dec. 20.—Phil Salva
dore, lightweight, of Sacramento and
Ray Long, welterweight, of Okla
homa City, Okl.. boxed a draw at
Vernon arena last night.
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National 128
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□Til the exception of Babe Ruth.
Kd Deiehantv. who reached his
greatest fame with the old
’ Phillies, could hit the ball harder than
any man who ever lived. But where
! ltuth is a left-handed hitter. Dele
hanty’s terrific clouts were slammed
against the fences from a right
i handed posture. When "Del" crashed
' a hall past an infielder everybody
! knew it was a hit.
Delehanty lias another unique dis
tinction. Jlo is the only player who
led both the National and American
leagues in batting. He topped the Na
! tior.al league sluggers In 1S99 with
an average of .408, and four years
later as a member of the Washing
ton club he led the Johnson circuit at
bat with a rating of .378.
Several other old-time players, how
ever. shared the” distinction of lead
ing two majors at bat. Ross Barnes
led the old National association in
1871, and then led the National league
in 1 876, the first year of its organiza
tion. Pete Browning topped both the
Players league and the old American
association, while Dan Broulhers
showed the way in the National
league in 1889 and again in the Amer
ican association two years later.
Delehanty has one slugging record,
which makes Babe Ruth green with
envy whenever he Stumbles across it
in the records. On July' 13. 1897. "Big
Kd” socked Bill Terry of Chicago for
four homers and a single in the same
encounter, 17 total bases in the same
game. Delehanty, however, shares lids
record with Bobbie Rowe, who also
collected four four-baggers and a
single in a nine-inning contest, Ruth's
best effort so far Is two homers and
a triple made off Dickie Kerr in 1920.
Among Delehanty's other worthy
j achievements is the major league re
cord for two-baggers, 5t> doubles
slammed against the Philadelphia
fences in 1 Sit'd. Tris Speaker tried
hard to equal this record in 1912,
when lie hit 53 two-baggers for the
Ked Sox.
Delehanly belongs to that small
and select class which has hit .400 or
more than one oecassion. tieorge
Sisler was the seventh man to get into
that class, the others Iteing Burkett,
Cobb, Anson, Rtovey, Thompson and
Delehanty. Anson, stovy and Thomp
son, however, can thank one of their
.400 averages to the freak year of
record in 1887, when bases on balls
counted as hits.
It took Delehanty quite a while to
break into t He .300 batting class. He
always could slug, but in his early
days couldn't keep them out of tHe
outfielder's hands. It wasn't until
his fifth year in the majors that Ed
hung up his first .300 average. After
that he hit over .300 for the next 12
years, or up to the time when ho fell
or leaped off a train mossing tHe
Detroit river while traveling with the
Washington club in 1003.
"Del” scored over 100 runs in 10
different seasons, seven in succession,
and cracked out over 200 hits three
times iu his career, lie was one of
the few players to close his career
With 3.000 total bases.
Delehanty broke into the National
league with tHe Phils while it was
playing Chicago on May 22, 1S88. Tills
was just exactly a month before our
subject of two days ago, Hugh
Duffy, got his big league baptism
with the Phillies as a second base
man. He failed to get a hit in three
attempts and booted two of his 11
chances.
Promising Cagers
at Chadron Normal
Chadron, Neb., Dec. 20.—Two vet
eran players and a substitute of last
year's team will form the nucleus of
the Chadron Normal school and
Teachers' college basket ball team
this season, according to Tt. R. West,
director of athletics at that institu
tion. Former Captain Trapp of Erun
ing and McKelvey of Casper, Wyo„
are out for guard and forward posi
tious, respectively, while Pate of Al
liance, former substitute and utility
player, is keeping an eye trained on
the center station.
New men of eonsideralde playing
ability front which the team will ul
timately be selected in part are Beal
of Alliance, center; O'Connor of Al
liance, center; I.ingle, Morrill, center,
Kubik. Gordon, forward; Chalfout,
Chadron, forward; Fisher, Chadron,
forward; Powers, Des Moines, la., for
ward, and Greonman, lndianola, la.,
guard.
The Chadron basket ball schedule ir
about complete. Tt is ns follows:
December 20—Chadron High school at
Chadron. ,,, ,
.Tannary 12—Spearfish Normal at ( had
January 19—South Dakota School of
Mines at Chadron.
January 25-26—Wayne Normal at Chad
ron.
February 2-3—Midland college at Chad
ron.
February 6—Wayne Normnl at Wayne.
February 7—Midland college at Fre.
mont. _ ,
February 8—Coin, r college h» Pethany.
February 9—Peru" Normal School at
Peru.
February 1«-17—Kearney Normal at
Chadron.
March 1—Kearney Normal :C Kearney.
March 8—South Dakota School of
Mines at Rapid City S. D.
March 9—Spearfiah Normal at Spear
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Bee Cage Loop
to Start Soon
Dundee clinched the championship
in (he preseason grade school basket
hall league by defeating Train in (lie
finals, 30 to 12.
Keen competition marked the play
in the early season loop and assures
keen interest and lively contests in
The Omaha lice's grade school basket
bail league, which will open the sec
ond week in January.
Approximately 35 schools are ex
pected to enter teams. Kntries will
be sent out the first of the year.
tirade school courts will be used
to stage the games and members of
tin- team winning the championship
will lie awarded gold medals.
Charley Hemphill Dies.
New York, Dec. 20.—Charley Hemp
hill, fumed several years ago as an
outfielder with baseball fans of sev
eral American league cities, is dead
at his home in this city.
Hemphill made his entrance into
the American league ns an outfielder
with St. Louis, lie previously had
been with Kansas City. From Kt.
Louis Hemphill came to the Yankees
in BIOS, with whom he played for four
years. For a time he also was with
the Boston Red Sox.
Humble Oil to Increase Stock.
Austin, Tex., Dec. 20—The Humble
Oil and Refining company of Hous
ton today was granted authority by j
the secretary of state of Texas to in
crease its capital stock from $25.coo,- ,
000 to $43,750,000, Amendments also
were approved changing the par value
of each share of t lie company from
$100 to $25.
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Valley Ruling
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May Prevent
Holiday Game
Proposed Football Game Be
tween Fx-Slars of Beatrice
and Teenniseb Schools
Gets Setback.
Lincoln, Doe. HO (Special 1—The
proposed football game between ox
high school players of Beatrice and
Teeutnseh may be the cause of disbar
ment from Missouri Valley competi
tion for athletes taking part, accord
ing to ‘‘Bill® Day of the Nebraska
coaching staff. It was planned to
play the game at Beatrice sometime
during the holidays. As soon as Day
heard of the proposed game, he cited
the Yissouri Valley ruling which will
make Ineligible all university men and
even high school players who expect
to come here.
Suelj players as Ernest and 1,. Huh
ka, "Doug'1 Meyers, “Bid” Purdy. A1
Bloodgood, t'al Mathews, King, Lay
ton, Hepperlen and Ellis were men
tioned for tin* Beatrice lineup, while
Tecumseh was planning on using
Mandary, Draff, Morrison, Ke\ nolds.
Miller. Wuttman, Blakely, Stewart
and Buckley.
The ruling which blocks the pro
posed plan is included in section five,
article four, of the Missouri Valley
conference rules.
It comes under the heading of "Out
side Competition" anil reads as fol
lows:
"A student shall be ineligible to
represent his college in athletic con
tests, who engages in contests pro
moted by representatives of any nth
letio organization not connected with
his college whether in term time or
vacation.”
"There is only one thing to do under
the circumstances and that is to call
off the game," Vouch Day said.
Coming from behind in the second
1 a!f and uncorking a brilliant at
tack that swept the Central Congrega
tional off their feet, the M. E. Wops
won a hard cage game last night in
the class A Church league. The score
was 39 to 11.
The first half ended, 8 to 4.( with
the Congregatlonals on the long end
of the score. Soon after the second
period started, Saunders flipped a
field goal and a free throw and Itaber
nut the Wops in the lead with a long
field goal.
The Unitarian:* had an easy time
winning from the Bellevue five,
smothering them with a shower of j
baskets by M» llor and Supernois. The
score was L'4 to f>.
The Wheeler M. E. five defeated the
M. E. Baracns, 17 to 6. The close j
guarding of the Whelers made it im
possible for the Baracas to score.
In the final game, the Our Saviour
Lutherans won from the McCabe M
E. quintet by a score of 4 to 3. The
Lutherans led until the final minute,
when Folsom put the McCabes in the
had with a long goal. The Saviours
came hack, however, and flipped tlie
winning tally in the closing seconds
r-f play. Both teams missed many
shots.
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Blouin Retains
\\ orld Pin Title
Chicago, Dec. 2o.—Jimmy Blouin of |
Chicago, world’s champion howler, re- j
tallied his title here yesterday when !
he defeated Jimmy Smith of Milwau
kee in the sixth block of their DO game
match, Blouin’s total points being STS
for the six blocks, while Smith was
credited with 273 27-50.
Blouin, l>y winning tlie champion-i
■‘-hip, retains permanent possession of |
tlie world's championship medal for
which the bowlers were contesting.
Blouin knocked down 12,300 pins,
while Smith was credited with 12,
277 for tlie fiO games. In yesterday's
games Blouin bowled over 2.005 ma
ples and Smith had 2,008 to ids cred
it. Blouin had an average for the
CO games of 205 and Smith 204 37-00.
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Q i .. 11 j : r hat ng ?
V. Vrs, a foul for striking a player
across the arms while about to shoot is
commonly termed barking.
! May a wall form tho boundary line
I of a court?
\. It is always advisable to have the
court lines three feet from any fixed ob
struction xvlienewr possible. Vou can have
a ground rule making a wall the boundary
line.
<V In guarding ran a player guarding
! touch In- opponent and be against him as 1
| long as lie does not have his arm around j
him?
\. \nu are net permitted to bold, g
block or push an opponent with either jour
hodv or your arms.
In amattur rules, a player drib
bles, stops, starts to dribble again, realizes
mis! die and decs not toil' ll ball on re
bound, is he charged with illegal drib
bb?
\ No. if lie docs (lot touch ball after
(Mixing it go after the end of tho drib
ble.
I q 1- a. man ever allowed to throw u
goal from out of bounds '
\ No
Mow to I’lay llaskd Mali.
The natural way an Inexperienced player
j shoot* for tiio banket, ig by tho und r
. hand me thod, the one in which the ball Ik
imply tossed up from an underhand po
I sitjnn. Kicaiisn this is the natural method,
• it ha* hern studied and improved *-«r that
I now !t is very generally u&cd for tho most
important part of scoring. viz-. Foul
shooting. First, take a position, with 1 he
f* > t spread far enough apart so that the
i.trmi can be lowered between tho knee*
when they are h.-ul. The hall is grasped
! in tho palms, finger* outspread, thumb* |
jin the lop. ball waist high, elbows and !
( mr arms close to the body. The body J
! inclined somew hat forward. The arms are j
lowered at (he a me time the knees arc ;
j bent to allow tho arm* to pass bet-.vrrn j
■ them as tin y d« seend. As the arm , arc 1
raised, the knees aro straightened and
j the ball is lifted upward and forward
• imvard tin* basket, Throughout. the ••yes
must be on the goal Shoot your fouls
I clean, don’t try to bank them The e. r
j hand shot from the foul line Is made in
1 the sain matin* r a the player make* the
•regular overhand shot during play.
Spink Suggests Funds to Care
for Unfortunate Diamond Stars
Ily XL SPINK. ^
I OFTEN drop in to see Judge
Landis, baseball’s high commis
sioner, in his beautiful office in the
Peoples Has Light building on Michi
gan boulevard.
When the judge 1s not there. 1 sit
and look out on the great lake and
on the old spot at Lake, Randolph
and Michigan boulevard where l saw
the first Chicago White Stoi kings play
their games more than 50 years ago.
And while I am thinking of the olden
days jhe judge genu tiiv drops in.
1 usually go in to < hat about every
day affairs but this time 1 came to
see him cm business.
"Judge," 1 said, "I've come in to
talk to you about that $120,000 you
got out of that tie game in New York.
1 understand you are going to dis
tribute it among the charitable or
gunizations of the country.
"Now, 1 haven't c ome here looking
for charity for myself, or for any
other of the old boys who played ball
in the olden times. But I have conn*
to suggest that at least $10,000 of that
$120,000 be used to establish a fund
which will he available in case any
old player should turn up needing a
lift.
Some Die Paupers.
"Nearly all the trades and profes
sions of this country have} their henev
olent associations to care for their
sick and needy hut when the old hall
player gets down and nut he does not
know where to turn for a friend.
"The Old Timers Baseball associa
tion of Chicago has been able t<» help
a little in burying the dead and 1 tid
ing a hand whenever it was able to do
so. It was the first to call the atten
tion of the National league to the con
dition of Cal MoVey, the famous out
fielder of the Cincinnati Reds of 18GD.
Joe Nolan of the Cincinnati Enquirer
first called the attention of the Old
Timers to the awful condition of Mr
Yey and the secretary of the Old
Timers wrote John Hcydler, president
of the National league, and asked him
to get the members of that organiza
tion to do something for the old play
Says ' duds"
cter-i
SOMETHING LIKE
HOISTING SAFES
Fans Watch Heavyweight Fights and
Hope That Hope Breaks.
ENGLISH heavyweights will
l^eep colliding with one an
other for zero reasons. Bom
bardier Wells will fight, anybody
with 10 seconds' notice, either for
promoters or referees.
Those English heavies fight
without provocation. And none
develops during fights.
Th»y have plenty id' earn as in
spectors over there. lint they
keep tight on matching ’em up.
• veil if these fights are like our
prohibition laws, designed to
amuse nothing loti children, llicy
sliil have some shreds of romance
hanging (o ’em like soup drops on
old men’s whiskers.
Win. lose or draw, their dy
nasty of champions doesn’t lose its
inherited prerogatives. They keep
on spanking away trying to dis
cover who is worse.
There is plenty of triple extract
of thrills in seeing two big beef
stews pawing at heavy jowls.
Hach one is scared of oilier play
mate’s wallop jls they shuffle
an.I with all that graceful foot
work employed by Pilgrims in
landing on Plymouth liock. Four
hundred pounds of gooseflcsh in
one ring and when (hat l\. O. pre
scription hinds, 2(!() pounds of it
sinks with all on board.
There is no sound like that of !
two centuries of meat, slapping ]
canvas. Bad whisk i, Polish pian
ist, never played harmony like that.
Bantams, feathers anti other small
weights may know more about box
ing, but they haven’t got enough
ballast to counterfeit that heavy
weight collapse.
Broadside of entire scrapped
navies of world is canary o|H-ia
compared witli terrific explosion of
heavy slapping floor with his entire
estate and fixtures.
Pow! No ring fan can lie bilked |
on that noise. You can blindfold <
him and he can still tell you if it
it is an ounce too light.
Tex Rickard should put heavy
weight fight on every Garden menu.
Funs don’t like to see them. But j
they love to hear ’em.
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'l cal lings Have Class.
Creighton lias a yearling btjiiad
belli which to he rirkminl.
The Froslm, in their first si timmage
of the season last night with the Blue I
and White varsity, not only were I
aide to flip the leather through the
hoops with regularity, hut also made
the varsity extend itself.
The caliber of tin* fri pinion team,
which is under the tutefng. of Coach
Tom Berry, erstwhile varsity star,
.had a uuestiou mark hoveling over it
until last nigh^.
The strength showed by the begin
tiers insures the Hilltop school good
teams in future years.
M.J'l. Wops W in l ilt.
Smith High 4-anw out on Mu* small
• ml of a 1M-to 14 score in itk inaugtir.il
g.mu* of the season last night against
the Council Muffs quintet cm the
I Huffman’s floor.
‘ Buster” Owens of the Iowa ns
flipped s.x goals and two l'r«throw:',
while Clark led the Houtli offensive at
tack with three goals and two penalty
tOKKC*.
South, was unable to .solve Council
Bluffs’ baffling five-man defense.
er. A little later there came a letter
from Heydler saving that the National
league ha I Noted a life pension to Me
Vty and placed the famous old timer
on the sunny side of easy street.
"Now, w ouldn't It be nice, judge, for
you. with your lag heart, to have
$i0.UOQ here for the purpose of giv •
ing one of the real old players a lilt
whenever he happened along?"
“It would ho neat." said tHe judge,
"but let me t* d you, dear boy, it
i*i too late to think of anything of that
sort now. That tie game hionev was
voted to the ehariiahle assr. i at ions
or Now York City and every dollar hn*
already been turm I over to them,
"(iive 'Km a I .id.'*
"Hut it would he a grand thing if
we were able to give any one of tho
real old professionals a lift if they
ever happened around.
"I’ve heard you say that the old
anil broken players urn a proud lot
and that none of them ever ask for a
lift. Hut you are mistaken about that.
Many demands are made by poor
players <yi the major leagues. Ihwv
many? is your question. Well, they
are more numerous than you can
imagine. In ttye last few months l
have received more than 150 applica
tions for assistance. 1 won’t say what
we have done with them," and then
the judeo switched the subject.
The maji r league clubs were never
so prosperous as they are today and
they could well afford to answer in
11 * * affirmative to 150 or 10 times
that number of requests for help pro
viding they came from deserving old
players.
It was the humble edifice which Mi
Ycy and others like him built in tho
olden times that has grown into the
great baseball structure which holds
its head so proudly in all corners of
the land today. Not one of the old
players should ever ho forgotten or
allowed t" pass away in an alms
ln use, a thing that threatened the life
of the old Ited Stocking until his oiit
friend at Cincinnati called the atten
tion of the baseball magnates to hit,
pitiful condition.
Bears Make
History on
Coast Grids
San Francisco, Cal.. Dec. 20.—New
chapters in the football history n£
the Pacific coast were written by tho
University of California eleven dur
ing the last three seasons, in which It
scored the record-breaking number
of 27 victories without one defeat.
Only one game, that against Wash
ington and Jefferson, was tied.
Tho powerful California scoring
machine, rated one of tlie strongest
in the nation, piled up 1,220 points
in its “s games during the three sea
sons and held its opponents to 81
points. Tho Bears have scored 17
points to every one scored by on
opposing team over tlie period.
California, during tho three sea*1
sons, mol the strongest teams it
could limb /Ail the Pacific coast con
ference elevens, including "Washing'
ton State, Oregon, Southern Califor
nia, Stanford and Washington were
played and defeated. Tn addition, the
Pears two y* irs ago won from Ohio
Slate, then champion of tho Big Ten,
and attempted to play Princeton,
Yale or Harvard, hut a game could
not ho arranged.
During the three years the highest
score made by California was 127
points, made against tho weaker St.
Mary college eleven. In that game
the Bears scored an average of 2.1
points a minute. Another record
score of 38-u was made by California
in 11)20 in the "big game” against its
old rival, Stanford.
Charities to Get baseball
Money before Christmas
Xew\nrk. 1 >ec. 20.—Local charities
designated by Risehnll Commissioner
Landis to ho recipients of the money
taken in at the word aeries game that
ended in a tie will receive the be
quests in time for Christmas, it was
announced by Jacob Ruppert, owner
of the New York Yankees. Checks
will be mailed not later than Friday,
he said.
Cornhusker Captain Speaks
at Nebraska City banquet
Nebraska City, Neb.. Dec. 2U.—(Spe
cia!.)---Thf annual football banquet
was held at the high school with cov
ers placed- for 250. nOhie” Hartley,
captain of the Cornht,takers, was the
speaker of the evening. Short talks
were also made by tho couch, faculty
and numb* rs of the team. The higHi
school orchestra furnished the music.
Giants Release Outfielder.
New York. Pec. 20. Davey Robert
son. utility outfielder of the New
Vork Nationals, was released uncon
ditionally.
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