Omaha Buffaloes Will Iron Kinks Out of Their Arms at Corsicana, Tex.
Burch Selects
Training ('amp
for 1923 Grind
Bosa Konetchy Will Start
Rounding Men Into Con
dition Late in
March.
THE Omaha Western league Buf
faloes will do all of their spring
training at Corsicana, Tex., ac
cording to word received last night
from Barney Burch, owner of the club.
Burch, who is spending the winter
at his home in Ban Antonio. Tex.,
yesterday completed arrangements
with the Corsicana Chamber of Com
merce whereby the Buffaloes will be
able to Iron the kinks out of their
arms at the Corsicana hall park start
ing March 5.
The herd will start tho spring train
ing *-ind March 5 and finish about
April 1 when the Buffaloes will start
playing exhibition games in the south
in preparation for the opening of the
Western league season which will
probably swing open April 12.
Burch expects to arrive In Omaha
about the middle of next, month. The
owner of the Omaha club will remain
in our village until the spring train
ing season starts.
Ed Konetchy, new manager of the
'^felloes, will he on deck nt Corsi
cana to greet the old and new mem
bers of the herd.
Omaha Vofieyers to
Compete in Meets
Omaha Y. M. <?. A. will be rep
resented by three teams in the state,
interstate and midwestern champion
ship volley ball tournament next
year.
Funds to finance the teams was
jQhtained yesterday.
• Horner Hawthorne will captain the
firs' team- Jomes Stine, the second,
and Dean Smith, the third.
'lire in.erstate tourney will be held
at Omaha January 6, with teams from
York, Lincoln, Fremont, Sioux City,
Council Bluffs and the Omaha Ath
letic cdub competing.
The state tournament will be held
at Lincoln February S. Three cham
pion -hips, A, B and C are to be de
cided.
Tu' midwestern meet will bo staged
the middle of March at Omaha.
Composing Omaha's first team will
be Dodds, Halsey, Beranek, liongi
Wilson and Hawthorne. The second
and third teama will he chosen from
the following players: Stine. Klttell,
Matthews, Weeks, Holiolm, H. Smith,
Fauz, Ablen, Malashock, Forgy,
Pcc-on. D. Smith and Wliigan.
Competition with outside teams was
opened yesterday when the first team
went to Lincoln to compete in a
triangular meet with Lincoln and
York as the other contestants.
A business men's tourney will com
mence next week? with games on Mon
day, Wednesday and Friday noons.
Nittany Lions Face Hard
Grid Program Next Season
State College. Pa., Dec. 29—The
Pennsylvania State college 1923 foot
hall schedule, announced tonight,
comprises nine games and ia eoiiHld
•red one of the hardest ever arranged
for the Nittany Lions. It includes
contests with the University of West
Virginia in New York city. North
Carolina and Georgia Tech, all new
comers. The other opponents were
played this fall.
Seattle, Wash., Dec. 29. — In the
moat combative hockey game seen
here this season, Vancouver last
night defeated Seattle, 4 goals to 3, in
the Pacific Coast association.
ftal/fects
Q. Must the backboard bo 4 feet above
tho basket?
No. The Hngi shall he rigidly at
tached to the backboards at a point 1
fo«»t from tlio bottom and feet from
* £.• w supported by a horizontal arm
which, If cxlc mled, would pass though
the center of rings.
Q. Who represents the team In a
game, the manager, captain or coach?
A. Tho captain shall he the represen
ttv© of Ills tram, and shall direct und
control Its play.
Q Can a player be taken out of game
by a coach during the first half and re
enter the gamo during second half?
A. Yes. Except for disqualification lie
may re-enter game once at any time.
How many officials ore thTo in a
basket ball game?
A. lit anviteur game, six—referee, um
pire, two tlnieker ?er* and two scorers.
In pnwr*sionul (nine, fit e—-referee, two
timekeepers, two scorer*.
Q How long can an Injured player
have for a ‘time out?"
A. In pro rule*, the gutue shall not
he delayed for nny cause whatever for
more than 2 minute*. In amateur rule*,
referee decide*.
How to Play Basket Ball.
Dodging A dodge may be simple n
sidestep to the right or left of a charging
o » \ »aln It may be tho dodging,
while dribbling, of u guard trying to
block. i-at&t, it may be done in milking
u pass, by feinting to one aide, swinging
the arms and body over, and passing to
the other. The first occurs when a
player finds tho guard dushlng upon him.
He then makes a long sidestep to the
right or the left, keeping the other foot
in poslt'on and holding the body and ball
away until hi* opponent passes him. He
then shoots or passes.
In using the second dodge, the player
dribbling down the floor passes his op.
ponent to the left by planting his left
foot down and crossing the right leg
over and ahead of it.
The third type of dodge is made In
connection with a feint to throw the ball
in one direction and actually throwing it
another.
WTfflTOE
PUGSt
Joe Burman. Chicago bantamweight.
‘ a ! draw with Tommy
Murray of Philadelphia last Saturday
night at the Dexter park pavilion, la
.o v *.* . nis bout with Carl
'1 remain* of Cleveland, scheduled for
Philadelphia next week. Burman hurt
his right hand in the fourth round of
the Murray bout.
a.... ..
Harold Smith, stockyards pride, has
K»e* offered a 10-round match with Karl
’» Arthur at Sioux City. la., January 10,
Ths promoter* have asked Buck Mont
b'H.in.j xur Uia best terms,
Micky Korkins. «Miio welterweight, who
makes his home here, is matched to box
Johnny Bauch 12 rounds at Louisville. New
Tear's day. Forkins is training daily at
the Arcade,
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Former Giant Second Baseman to Manage Denver Western League Club
Landis May Bar
J
Rube Benton From
National League
Baseball Commissioner Inves
tigating Pitcher's Record in
Connection With 1919
World Series Scandal.
Chicago, Dec. 29.—(By A. P.)_
Pitcher Kube ’ Benton, recently pur
chased by the Cincinnati Nationals
from St. Paul, will be barred from
baseball if investigation reveals he
was involved in the crooked world
series of 1919, Commissioner Landis
announced tonight. Commissioner
Landis Is investigating reports that
Benton won a large sum of money
betting on a tip that Cincinnati
would win the series.
Benton called on the commissioner
Thursday to inquire into his status
and was told there was nothing In
the commissioner's records at this
time to prevent him from playing In '
organized baseball.
The commissioner, however, hud
started investigation of renorts that
Benton had knowledge of the “fixing”
of the 1919 world series and when
informed that President Heydler of
the National league had taken steps
to bar Bonton as an undesirable, the
commissioner said he would continue
his Inquiry and probably have a full
report ready before the 1923 season
opens.
Would Bar Benton.
New York, Dec. 29.—Expressing
the opinion that Rube Benton, former
New York and Cincinnati pitcher, now
with St. Paul, is an undesirable
player, John A. Heydler. president of
the National league, today indicated
that Benton would not be permitted
to reenter the league with the Cln
cinnati club. '
‘‘As far as I know the deal with
the St. Paul club of the American
association has not been closed,”
President Heydler said, “and I feel
confident that it tvill not he con
summated with -the Cincinnat club as
it does not favor Benton’s return to
the National league."
President Heydler added that the
National league reserved the right to
decide what players were considered
desirable, but refused to reveal de
tails of the basis for opposition to
Benton's return.
CJeneral belief prevailed, however,
that objections were based on the
pitcher's alleged disregard of training
rules when in the National league
before, connection of Ills name with
the 1919 world series scandal, and
charges which ho failed to substan
tiate, that while with the Giants in
1919 he was offered a bribe by Buck
Herzog to "throw” a game at the
Polo grounds.
Educator Sees Disaster
Ahead of Football
San Francisco. Cal., Dec. 29.—The
modern trend of American college
sports has been too much toward the
public spectacle, according to Ray
Lyman Wilbur, president of Stanford
university, who warned colleges no;
to turn amateur sports into vaude
ville stunts. President Wilbur spoke
at a gridiron banquet last night,
which was attended by the football
players and coaches of the university
of Pittsburgh and the University of
Stanford.
"T,hH greatest problem facing inter
collegiate athletics," said Mr. Wilbur,
"and especially American football, is
whether it can withstand the ad
versities of prosperity. We have seen
sport after sport pass from the ama
teur to the professional stage, with
the consequent gambling, sharp prac
tice and general cupidity.”
Lewis to Wrestle Tafala.
Los Angeles, Cal., Dec. 29.—Ed
"Strangler" Lewis, world's heavy
weight wrestling champion, will de
fend his title against Demetrius
Tafala, claimant to the Greek title,
in tlie Hollywood American Legion
stadium, January 10, it was an
nounced last night by Amberto Ro
vere, promoter.
Chance a “Bust” as Leader of
Yanks—Doesn’t Deserve Title
as “Peerless Leader”— Menke
By FRANK G. MENKK.
OW if you have any tears
to shed, let ’em fall
upon the s i 1 v e ri n g
dome of Frank Chance.
For there is the man
who now is to be test
ed as to his greatness
as a baseball leader—
without a seeming
em uny cnancc for success.
Through more than 15 years Chance
has been termed the ’’peerless leader."
And though Just so long a stretch of
time, while his admirers termed him
a truly great, there were others who
maintained that he Is Infinitely lack
ing in real leadership ability and that
what transpired while he was at the
helm of the Chicago Cubs was hot
of liis making.
“The worst dub in the world could
have managed the Cubs of 1908, 1907
and 1908 Into championships," declare
the critics of Chance. “When he as
sumed management of the club bo
fell heir to one of the greatest col
lection of ball players that ever fought
under one standard. This gathering
of such wonderful talent was due to
Tilden to Play in
Chicago Friday
Chicago, Pec. 29.—William T. Til
den, national tennis champion, in a
series of matches here January 5 and
6, will make his first public oppear
nnco since he underwent an operation
that cost him part of a finger on his
serving hand, it was announced to
day. The play is expected to indicate
whether the champion can continue
his prenomonal stride which has kept
him at the top in national and inter
national championships.
Vincent Richards, joint holder with
Tilden of the national doubles title;
Sam Hardy, former Chicagoan, and
S Howard Voshell, the Brooklyn left
hander, will make up the party which,
with Tilden, will engage in indoor
exhibitions. The contests will he un
der tlie auspices of the West Lawn
Tennis association and the Chicago
Tennis association.
Illini Plays Huskers
in Opening Game
Urbana, 111., Dec. 29.—Next sea
son's football games for the Univer
sity of Illinois will begin on October
6, when the Illinois eleven will play
Nebraska here. The following games
will follow, on consecutive week-ends:
Butler at Urbana, Iowa at Iowa City,
Northwestern at Evanston, Chicago
at Urbana and Wisconsin at Urbana.
After an open week Illinois will meet
Ohio State at Columbus.
Athletic Federation to Test
Fitness of American Youths
New York, Dec. 29.—The National
Amateur Athletic federation today de
cided on standard tests to decide the
fitness of 88,000,000 youths In the
country. A commission was ap
pointed to draw up rules.
The federation also adopted a point
system applicable to boys and men
from 12 to 24 years old. All between
these ages will be given the test.
Welcome Scott High Eleven.
Portland. Ore., Dec. 29.—A score
of automobile loads of Corvallis
citizens were here today to welcome
to the state the Scott High school
football team of Toledo, O., which Is
to meet the Corvallis High school
eleven at Corvallis, New Years day.
After breakfast at a hotel, a parade
through the city was planned.
Schick Sold to New Orleans.
Salt Lake City, Dec. 29.—Maury
Schick, outfielder of the Salt Lake
City Pacific Coast league has been
sold to New Orleans of the Southern
association. Schick came to Salt
I.ake last season by purchase from
the San Francisco efub.
Frank Selee. wlio preceded Chance
and who had spent several years In
building it np to pennant height!.
Selee Deserves Credit.
“Unfortunately for Selee he was
deposed just at a time when success
was to crown his efforts. And to
Chance came the fruits of victory
and the glory of triumph. They have
given Chance credit for what the
CuhS performed, but it wasn't Chance
who did it. It was Selee who. first of
all, welded together the Cub machine
and it was the machine itself, smooth
running, tremendously powerful and
wit han irresistible force which team
rolled the opposition.”
Chance retired from management
of the Cubs’on 1912. A year later he
took the helm of the New York
Yankees. Great things wore, expected
from him by the club owners—and
by the admirers of Chance. They in
sisted that he would prove to the
world there and then that he was a
genius in the matter of club leader
ship.
But Clianco was a “bust.” The
Yankees could do no better than a
terrible seventh in the race of 1913
and in midseason of 1914 were flound
ering around so badly that C'hanco
quit in disgust. He declared that he
did not have decent material to work
with and that his efforts to build up a
ball club were severely handicapped
by criticism of an unwind and un
warranted nature from many sources.
Chance In Get Clianee.
So that made things about 60-60 in
relation to Frank Chance, lie was
a wonder man with the Cubs—took
rank among the greatest team pilots
of all time. He was a fearful flivver
at the helm of the Yankees, which
failure might have been due to his
lack of natural leadership ability—or
it might have been due to many other
causes beyond his control.
Chance faded from the big league
picture after 1914 and has been out
of baseball for eight years. Through
all that onrush of time there has
been within him the ambition to get
one more chance ns a team leader so
that he could demonstrate to the
skeptics that, given a fair break, he
could lift even a mediocre outfit to
lofty heights in the baseball world.
The opportunity has come to
Chance—but what a terrible oppor
tunity it is. He is to manage the
Boston Red Sox In 1923. No more
hopeless task ever confronted any
learn leader. It's 1,000 to 1 against
Chance winning a pennant and it’s
100 to 1 that his team will do any
thing beyond the pathetic.
If, by some seeming miracle, the
Red Sox should put on a spurt in
1923, upset the dope bucket, and he
come either a menace or a factor in
tho pennant race, then Frank Chance
surely will have earned a. claim not
merely os a “peerless leader" but as a
superman of baseball.
Stiff Job Ahead.
For he is hacked up now with a
club, owned by a min whose prime
purpose In baseball seems to be to
dispose of every good player that he
gets on the auction block. This Hai ry
Frazee, through sales covering a
period of years, has so completely
wrecked and demoralized a once great
baseball club, that it is practically an
untruth to refer to It as “a big
league outfit,”
Frank Chance slides into Boston In
1923, possessed of a most terrible out
look. He goes there to head an ag
gregation of misfits and baseball riff
raff. And he goes with the full
knowledge that if he should develop
any player to a point of stardom,
there Is the likelihood that he will
wake tip some morning to find that
the owner lias sold him to the high
est bidder.
It is really too bad for Frank
Chance, who for years has nursed the
hope of redeeming himself for the
Yankee failure, and proving his
greatness as a leader, that he should
bo sentenced to serve as manager of
a team where the chances of success
aro so remote that they aren't dis
cernible by the naked eye or even
Imaginable by all encompassing
brains.
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N. A. A. F. Plans to
Widen Activities
During Next Year
-
Steps Designed to Create Phy
sical Preparedness Among
Youth of Nation Out
lined at New York.
New York. Dec. 2D.—Adoption of ;
a program of nation-wide recreational
and athletic activities, designed to
create physical preparedness among
38,000,000 boys and girls and young
men and women, and creation of
machinery to carry out these plans,
were outstanding results of the first
annual meeting of the National Ama
teur Athletic Federation of America.
The federation’s program wili bg
initiated in 1923 through channels
which Include nearly a score of na
tional organizations affiliated with it
as constituent members, besides state
and regional brandies, now in process
of formation, and nine permanent
commissions to be appointed by the
federation.
Work designed to raise physical
standards and promote ninSs athletics
will be dope in play grounds, schools,
colleges and industrial centers,
through co-operation of local or
ganizations affiliated with the N. A.
A. F. movement.
Other purposes, provided by the
federation's constitution, include
fostering Interest in America’s par
ticipation in tlio Oylmpic games and
promotion, either by the N. A. A, F.
as a whole or through constitutional
members of sectional and national
athletic championships.
While officers of the federal Ion
emphasized that plans to further the
field of athletic control were not de
signed to conflict in any way with
the Jurisdiction of existing organiza
tions, observers attached significance
to the fact that the Amateur Athletic J
union and the Intercollegiate A. A.
A. A., two of the major national
sport governing bodies, are not now
members of the N. A. A. P.
Bat Nelson One
Pug Who Saved
“The Rife of Bat Nelson,” former
lightweight champion, who met them
nil and retained hia title until Ad
Wolgast won the crown, falls to re
veal tho money-saving capabilities of
the former slugging and punishment
absorbing Dane, although it relates
his life's ring career authentically.
Nelson recently returned from the
east, where lie was awarded $J,009
damages, following his arrest on a
chargo of shoplifting, which he
proved to be untrue. Knroute home
he learned that the price of a sleep
ing car berth would he $9. Rather
than spend that amount, “Bat” says
he sat up all night and when he
finally dozed off to sleep all the win
dows in the coach were opened, cans
lng him to tnke a cold which pre
vented his talking for several days.
“That $9 cost me $900,” he said,
“and you can believe me, hereafter
when I want a sleeper I’ll pay the
price, because I have got to have my
volco in my business."
Schulte Holds Down
Coaching
Lincoln, Dec. 29. — Henry F.
(Indian) Schulte holds down two
coaching jobs at the University of
Nebraska, head track coach and as
sistant football coach. He has brought
two Missouri Valley championships
to Nebraska and materially aided in
producing the champions of the val
ley conference in football.
Under Coach Yost of Michigan.
Coach Schulte obtained much know
ledge In line football. While a stu
dent at Michigan university ha play
ad the game and was given all-Ameri
can mention.
Brussels,-—The Belgian senate ratified
the general far eastern treaty and the
Chinese tariff treaty negotiated during
the Washington conference.
■ - ■ ■ ■ — ■ ■ ■ ■ - — ■ ■■ •
Billy Sunday Wasn’t a Heavy
Hitter but a “Bear” on Bases
Year Club l eague ti. A.It. K. *1. T.H. S B. Pet.
IMS Chicago National . 14 .'*« 5 13 18 .2S2
1884 Chicago National . 48 17« 2ft SO 8ft .221
188ft Chicago National .42 172 84 *4 ft4 .255
1884 CItlrago National . 2ft HU 14 2ft SO in .242
1887 t liicago National . 48 220 41 70 100 H4 .SftO
1888 Pittsburgh National .110 MM 48 1 17 140 71 .288
1880 Pittsburgh National . 80 821 42 77 107 47 .280
1800 Pitts. & Pliila. National. 114 470 87 127 lftO 04 .245
8 years total 487 2028 3441 521 480 2ft* .2.57
In the year* 1*48, 1884, and 1*85 tho official records did not curry stolen bu*rs.
Bv FREDERICK (■. 1,1 Ht.
Speed was the greatest individual
asset of Billy Sunday. Satan's and
Iwoze's relentles foe. when William,
the convincing evangelist, drew semi
monthly pay envelopes front sundry
National league clubs.
The flight of time very often puts
luster to a player's record with It
originally does not possess. Perhaps
the picturesque Billy has received
greater credit as a player than he
deserves. Truly his life-time hatting
average of .2.^7 would not entitle hint
to a place among the supermen of
swat In this series hut for the man
ner in which he has been swatting
Satan.
But Billy rehearsed his present slide
across the platform In real National
league competition. Bike Marry Bay
and Jack Thoney, some of the great
speed boys after him, he never was
much of a batsman. But once he
got on the bases, he ran ns though
Satan and all the Imps of the under
world were on his trait.
Sunday a Pilferer.
Stolen base records were not kept
In Sunday's early years In the Na
tional league, but his stolen base
average for tho last five years of his
eight seasons In the National league
furnish a pretty good idea on how ho
could flit around the base-paths. He
stile 258 bases in 388 games, an
average of .665 per game.
Sunday showed a burst of speed
with the Pirates and Phillies in his
last season as a professional ball
player, stealing 96 bases in 116 games.
And he did it on a hatting average
of .265. Ty Cobb stole 98 bases in
1915, but he did it in 156 games and
on a batting average of .370.
Incidentally. 1890, Sunday's last
year in the National league, was his
best. He did hit .359 in 48 games for
the White Stockings in 1887, hut
Billy hit over his head that year, as
it was his only batting average bet
ter than .265.
I once asked John K, Tener, a
teammate of Sunday's in Chicago,
what kind of a laillplayot* Billy was.
Not a Great Player.
"Sunday was a good ballplayer,
but not a great one,” replied the for
mer governor. “He never played reg
ularly on the old Chicago White
Stockings because he couldn't hit con
sistently when playing every day. but
he was a mighty Useful fellow to have
silting on the bench and always dan
gerous on the bases.
Just the same, Sunday had one of
his red letter days against Toner
while playing with the Pirates in
1889, slamming the Keystone state's
ex-governor for n lionier and a single
in the same contest.
Billy also made a monkey out of
Connie Mack in one game In 1889,
while the illustrious Connie waa
catching for Washington. Mr. Mack
had much difficulty in keeping the
future evangelist from stealing the
Washington ball park right from
under his feet that afternoon. As ft
was, Sunday got away with four
stolen bases.
Was Lead Off Man.
Twice during the season of 1890
Sunday scored four runs * game,
the drat Quartet on Pitcher Tony Mu!
lane on September 2, and four more
on the great John Clarkson, 10 days
later.
Sunday engaged in his first major
league contest In Chicago on May
22, 1883, the White Stockings playing
Boston. Billy led off for Anson's
team, but failed to make a hit off
Jim Whitney, the Boston pitcher
Chicago won the game by a score of
♦ to 3.
Some of the greatest players of that
generation or any other took part In
that game. The grent Mtko Kelley
and George Gore were Sunday's fel
low outfielders; the men who manned
the infield wero Anson, Burns, Pfef
fer and Williamson, while Corcoran
New Year’s
Eve
It looks like a big occasion at
flOTEL PO^TENELLE
Supper starting at ten
Dancing and Entertainment
to Usher in the New Year
Souvenirs Noisy Things
Augmented ^ Dancing
Orchestras +d Floors
GREENWICH VILLAGE
SPECIALTIES
Five Dollars per Person
Early Reservations Are Advisable
and Flint were the Chicago battery. ,
Boston that day had such celebrated
names as Ilornung, Whitney, Wise.
Sutton, Morrill, Burdock. Brown and
Hines in its lineup.
Copyright, 1822.
Miss America I.
Wins First Heat
Los Angeles, Dee. 29.—Miss Amer
ica I, piloted by Garfield A. Wood of
Dotroit, today won the first heat of
it three-day speed bout contest Vicing
held in Los Angeles harbor under the
auspices of the California Yacht club
and the Los Angeles Athletic Club
Motor ltoat Itueing association.
The Miss America I completed the
10, three-mile laps of the triangular
course in 34 minutes 41 2-5 seconds.
The Miss Detroit VI, also owned by
Wood and piloted by Charles F. Chap
man, was second; time 35 minutes 45
seconds. Frank Garbutt piloted the
Mystery Into third place; time 36
minutes and 34 seconds, and William
CuVibln finished fourth In the Hurri
cane II, In 39 minutes and 35 seconds.
20 Apply for
Blue Coach Job
A football coach to succeed "Mac”
Baldrlge may be named In the next
two weeks, Athletic Director Scha
binger announced this morning.
There arc 110 applicants for tho posi
tion. including some "very well known
coaches,” he said.
The identity of the candidates will
not be revealed because of their con
nections at other schools. The ma
jority have requested that their names
not be published.
Wops to Moot Chicago.
The next big game pn the “Y”
calendar will be held Saturday night
When the First M. E. Wops, 1021
Church league champs, stack up
against the Y. M. C. A. college of
Chicago.
The Y. M. C. A. college holds vic
tories over Chicago university, North
western college, Buffalo Germans and
other big eastern teams.
The Beddeos will play the First M.
E. Baraeas in the curtain raiser,
starting at 8 p. m.
William Gilbert
to Take Charge
of Bears Soon
T
Siiinino of Former New ^ ork
National Player Probably
Makes Western Club a
Farm for Giants.
Denver, Colo., Dec. 29.—William
Gilbert, second baseman for the New
York Giaiita when they won the
world's championship in 1905. ami
manager last year of the Waterbary
team in the Kastcrn league, lias
signed to inanagu tho Denver Western
league baseball team for 1923, It was
announced here today.
Gilbert will arrive here in Jaiib
ary, starting at once to prepare the
local rlul> for next season.
After leaving the New Y'ork team,
Gilbert played in St. Louis and later
managed minor league clubs.
In baseball circles it was pointed
out that the deal for Gilbert's ser
vices probably moans.that Denver will
be a farm for the New Y'ork Nation
als. .
Gilbert la said to have the assurance
from Manager McGraw of New Y'ork
of a sufficient number of players to
Insure the Denver eltib a good chance
for tho Western league pennant In
1923.
Panthers Tackle
Stanford Todav
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Stanford University, Cal.. Dec. 29.—
Sixty-three football players. 25 repre
senting the University of Pittsburgh
and 38 from Stanford university, are
awaiting the beginning of the game
between the universities in the stn
dlum here tomorrow.
The visiting players tn their pran
lice have confined their plays niostlt
on old-style football, avoiding oper
field movements. They planned t<
rest today. leaving the slightly wet
playing field to the local players.
Captain Tommy Pol if-ran of thr
Pitt squad, it was said, probably wil
watch the game from the side lines
as Ills broken arm is not considered
to he wholly lienied.
Art Wilcox, the regular Stanford
halfback, probably will not be in the
game because of an injury earlier in
the season.
Spectators will have ngire than the
ordinary interest in th* game this
year for Glenn Wametj. Pitt coach,
is to take charge of Sfnnford's foot
ball in 1924.
Chicago—Winnlfred Madon Muck. con
sreaawoman from Illinois, announced alia
would bo a candidate fqr re-election to
flit the vacancy crealeff by the recent
death of James R M&rtn. repreaentatlve
from the Eighth Illlnode dlatrtct.
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