I zszzi. I The Omaha Sunday Bee I _ ____—-— VOL. 52—NO. 39. PART TWO OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 11, 1923. 1—B FIVE CENTS ^_____' _ ‘Billy’ Wells Arrives in Omaha for Ten-Round Bout With Frankie Schoell Friday English Welter Works Out With ‘Puggy’Morton ‘‘Tiny” Herman Also Train iiifr at Business Men's ‘’Gym”—Sclioell to Arrive Soon. IIf RALPH WAGNER. ITH three of the principals already on the scene of con flict and three oth ers scheduled t o breeze into Omaha Wednesday’, inter est in the coming program of fistic bouts at the Audi tnrlum March 3 6 Is starting skyward. ■'Billy" We 11s, f KriRlIsh welter, who I in e e t s Frankie Schoell in the main event, arrived in town yesterday and worked out with "Puggy" Morton m the afternoon. The English welter Is the same clever l>oxor he was when here last and appears to be in the best of condition. 'Tiny" Herman, heavyweight, gets his mail in Omaha and therefore is on the battle ground. "Tiny” works out daily and is leaving no stone un turned in his preparation for his 10 vound houf with Engberg. This fight dish will be the semi-windup to the Wells Schoell fuss. Morton In Omaha. "Puggy" Morton, Pacific coast lightweight, who meets Teddy Meyers of Buffalo in a 10-round preliminary, has been in Omaha for several days. Like Herman. Morton works out every afternoon. He too appears In condition Engberg will arrive sor.e time Wed nesday, while Schoell and Meyers will tattle into Omaha tomorrow. They will put the finishing touches to their training at the Business Men's gym nasium. The Herman Engberg bout will be sort of a revenge affair. Herman be long* to th« Jack Lewi* stable of leather pushers. so does Andy Schmader. Well, not so long ago Andy Schmader and Engberg had a few word* to say to eacli other in the ring. Englierg got soro and knocked Andy out in the first round. Inas much as Herman and Schmader be long to the same stable, the former ^•anxious to wipe out that victory ^^oiberg got over Schmader. Willard Didn't Want ’em. Herman will outweigh Engberg, but a little matter of weight doesn't stop the St. Paul light-heavyweight. Jen* Willard, and he's larger than Herman, refused to meet Engberg. Herman has won his two and only starts in an Omaha ring via knockout. If the big boy can knock out the St.. Paul scrapper he will be ripe for a main event, bout in this burg. Tickets for next Friday's show are on sale and selling like hot beans in a restaurant on a cold day. "Curley” Ulrich will do the referee ing. Matty Promises First Division Ball Club Christy Mathewson has been inter view ' at length, but the gist of what he has to say can be put In a few words. He's glad to lie back In base ball, even ns a nominal head of a club of doubtful ownership, he’d rather be a manager, but his health won't stand for It; he thinks the Bos ton Braves will bid for first division— he's positive they will get out of the cellar at any rate. Well said, Matty, eld boy, now for what's to come. Art Fletcher Pays ^ Tribute to Myers Disc ussing the trade put through whereby Hi Myers goes to the St. I-ouis Cards In swap for Jacques Fournier, Art Fletcher stated: "Well, now, maybe we can get a hit In cen terfleld over in Brooklyn. That bird must have made a life study of our hitters. Time after time drives go out there that look good for two or three bases and this Myers gets hold of them. I know he Isn’t always that way against the other clubs, but he •ure Is poison to ns. Now maybe we can beat Brooklyn.” White Sox Have 4 Holdouts. Chicago. March 10.—Intercut In the performance of Bill Kamm. the Chi cago American league clubs' $100,000 third baseman, who went through his first practice with the White Box yes terday, dwindled Into Inslgnlflanee, the attention being given the reported holdout of four of team's players, re ports reaching here today stated. Kamm disappointed no one. Two weeks preparation at Bnyes Hprlngs, Cal., had placed him In condition and he showed It. The reported holdouts were Eddie Collins, Ernie Johnson, Bib Falk and Charlie Robertson. lowans Beat Nebraskan*. Iowa entries In the Interstate bil liard tournament In progress at the Paxton billiard parlor made a clean sweep of yesterday’s games, Jim Bar ber beating Frank Riley, former Ne braska champion, and Pete Durocber winning from Ilelnle Uarsch, Omaha shark. Wins Dog Derby. Big River, Husk.—Frank Bchtoegnl won the Bnskntchewan dog derby ^,'vlng Vernoon Johnson's team over ' Oie UiOmlle course In 20 hours and 24 minutes. Lewis Wins. Fond Du laic, Wls.—Ed Rewls de •sated Elmer Banders, Wisconsin ffearywelght, hers last night THESE six boxers will provide the main attractions at the City auditorium Friday night when the Nonpareil club of Omaha stages its monthly athletic program. In the main event, “Billy Wells, English welter, meets Frankie Schoell in a 10-round event, “Tiny” Her man, late of the Pacific coast, meets Emil Eugberg 6f St. Paul in a 10-round semi-windup, while “Puggy” Morton and Teddy Meyers, the latter of Buffalo, will swap punches in a 10-round opener. Jin y 2/etmat] f JeJdy y\{eyersy Silly WellS iSpankie^i Sc/well J COMPLIMENT I OR .11 SS. A Minneapolis sport scribe, in commenting on Jess Willard's ex hibition in Minneapolis, says that the only differeneo between Houdinl and Williard is that the former fools 'em. • • • WHY GIRLS LEAVE HOME. Winton f>ix Hudson Yellow Cab i Grant Dodge Rolls Royeo l/ocotnobile Essex Apperson .Stutz Lincoln Vella Elcar Hupinobile Overland Marmon Htudehaker • • • HERE’S A GOOD ONE. A man fell downstairs and was killed, but a buttle of liquor In bis pocket remained unbroken. A neighbor discovered the body and. incidental!}', the liquor. Double funeral. • • . » The high sehool wrestler who shoveled II tons of eoal the day before ho won the Iowa stale high school title pulled a new Idea in training stunts. lint at that, it doesn't mean anything to profession al wrestlers. 0 0 0 Not until they dug Into King Thankyoumam’s tomb did we sus pect the origin of most of the wrestlers. • • • There are inns several thousand members of Ar Hole-in-One or Cuckoo rluh, ant to mention in numerable poker fans, eminently eligible to any kind of rurkno or ganization after having been in the hold throughout tfie o|»en season. fee CAN YOU BEAT IT. Jess Willard declares he's spoil ing fun a fight and anxiously wait* the time when he can step Into bal tie. He might visit lower Douglas Camp Songs No ramp i» a real ramp without -amp songs. Here are a few for the boyh in spring training: ‘'Where, tell me where, has my lleilmatin laddie gone?” "The songs my mothrr Schang to me.” ‘T’illeltte the rest of the world go by.” "On the Vcarli at Waikiki.” "Say it with Meusel, beautiful Meusel.” "Just tell thrin that you Shaw me.” "(■oodby for Kvrr*. goodby,” "Two little girls in blue, Iasi, two little girls in blue, they were Sutler, we were brothers.” "When Francis dances Wilt me.” "farcy me back to old Vlf finny.” "Keefe the home fires burning.” "When you and I were young Magee.” "The oi* I teak 'n hucket.” “She was McWeeney calico. 1 was lier little barefoot beau.” “Won’t you bring back the Old ham gold days?” "My sweetheart's the Manion the moon.” street or South Omaha. Conflict will welcome him with open arms. • • • Scientists li.it e found a human skull about :t million years old, which dates hack to about the time "Farmer" (turns broke Into the wrestling game. Garcia Shades Anderson. Ghicngo—Frankie Garcia of Mem phi*. Tenn., earned a alight shade over Kddle Andcruon of Moline, 111 , in a 10 round Imxlng bout here last night. One morning paper gave Gar cia, four round*, Andcraon two and called four even. The other morning publication called the contest a draw. Browns Sign Collegian. Nashville, Tenn.—Charles M. Km hrey, pitcher and captain of the Van derbilt university baseball team, to day signed a contract with the Ht. I-ouls Americans. lie will report June 15. To Goucli at Columbia. New York—Percy I). 1 laughter, former football coach at Harvard, hat signed u contract to conch Columbia, the New York Tribune nnya today. Scandals in Heavy and Middle Classes of Mat Game Shove These Divisions Into Background UK scandals follow ing In the wake of the heavyweight and middleweight wrestling bout* are nerving to shove those di visions Into the background In sev era! emeu, where tho lovo of wres tling la Mt111 strong. As it result there la a disposition to feature the wel terweights and ‘if creasing number of matches in l Ids division are being scheduled. Jack Keynolds bus been champion of the welter* since 1920, when lie won the title from IshiIm Nelson at Hrooklyn, N. V., hut ho has so over shadowed the del* that In many of his matches he luu hern compelled to fflvo handicaps, and na a result Inter eat languished. Within tho lost few years, however, a number of good welters have crop ped up and they promise to maks It more difficult for Iteynolds to hold hla title. Prominent among thorn seeking to unseat Iteynolda nt-e: Mae anta Klnglt, a Hindoo; Walter Kee gan, Iilrh claimant and former Ittnlor middleweight champion: Peter Zhysz ko, a Polish representative, and Thor Olson, coach of the Ohio university wrestling team. Iteynolda has participated In some 300 matches slncu winning the title without losing any of them and lias agreed to meet tho most logical con tender for Me tllln at Cleveland March *, under the auspices of the Grand Fraternity A. C. Charlie Irwin Claims Van Patrick From Irby for Sum of $2,800 ■Ate 4ITH the hope of devel "Kj ^^k opinjf a <'<>f froth H y«8j!\ ffifyw humlirnp winner • r a runner that f:n!nhea y^rSjW let the money. Char ^ • ▼ known western horseman, recently claimed Van Patrick, a , eon of General ■ Roberts, from Charlie Irby for a lump sum of 12,800, according to word received In "Omaha. Van Patrick might give the derby boys a scare should the course be sloppy on the day the 11 year-old fea ture race Is run at the Tiajuana race track. Van Patrick has shown good speed on a muddy track. Irwin became interested fn him when Van Patrick w hipped Harry 1> . the prize of the Irwin stable. In easy fashion on the Mexican oval. “Any horse capable of beating Harry D. the way Van Patrick did Is enough for me." Irwin Is quoted as saying. “I'm going to fool somebody with this horse—and this *nme!>ody is not myself. And should Tiajuana get mud for the big derby March IS. Just watch Van Tatrick. The Irwin stable Is being depleted, day by 22 anil bo gl.id ail the club members have decided to st ick The season will open April 16 and close September 6. An attempt will be made to conduct ■ tho league on a sane basis RAY C. KINGSLEY, present holder of the diamond medal, emblematic of the trap shooting champion ship of eastern Nebraska, and John Nelson of Boelus, from whom Kingsley won the medal, will meet in a spe cial match shoot at Ak-Sar-Ben field this afternoon. The diamond medal will swing in the balance during this 100-target match. cJohrc Jfe/sori - / W tftfsh Small Army of Recruits After Jobs in Majors Fi\e Weeks More Will Bring Them Against Real Tests— Large drop Made Good Last Year. By I. E. SANBORN. With all the confidence of youth a small army of ambitious baseball play ers, eager to graduate from the mi nors to the majors, is busy right now plugging through the preliminary preparations for the final “exatVis" which will decide how many of them are ready to advance to the freshmen class in the big leagues and how many may try again after another year in tho “prep" ranks Five weeks more will bring them up to the eve of tlie championship season, when the reel test for some of them will commence. And in the interval a lot of them will have con vinced their teachers that it would bo of little use to let them even try to pass tho examination for entrance into fast company. These early fail ures will be sent back shortly for more schooling or for life, depending on what amount of budding ability they can demonstrate to watchful managers during the training trip. Tho fans are divided in heart In terest between ^eagerness for new faces in the old green diamond frame and loyalty to the old ones. That is what creates so much Interest In the spring doings down south. The root ters want to know Just as soon as possible what the new crop of play ers Is going to be and the task of tell ing them is about as hazardous as that of the weather forecaster. All signs, portents and indications go wrong one way or another some times. The rookie that shines best in the preliminaries may lack the heart to make the major league grade while the less flashy prospect may develop latent qualities that will make him a winning ball player. 1922 Youngsters Make Good. Will tho rr* p of new talent be a* generous in 1923 as that of last year? That is a question often a*kel, but the answer cannot be given correctly until next fall after a season's test under big league fire There was an unusual harvest of future greats in 1922, and it is doubtful if it can be equalled this yiar. partly because con ditions will be different. Opportunity will not be as large a factor in the development of new tal ent this year as tt was last. The big leagues had not recovered In 1922 from the lean years directly follow Irg the world war. when mightier events than pennants occupied the minds and time of the youth of the land. The aging of the veterans went right along Just the same, but the development of young players was re duced to a minimum and some who had made good in tbs majors did not return to the game when they were discharged from s-rvice. That gave the recruits of last year a chance to fill regular positions in greater numbers than ever before at I proved the contention that the confi dence that goes with a regular Job helps many a rookie to make good. It is Impossible within brief space to catalog and comment on all the young players who hr. ke Into the big tent last season, and no two people i probably would agree on the exact definition of making good. But it is possible to name a score of lad* who made place* for themselves In the, ranks in 1922 and it Is douhtftil if; the coming seas n can equal that showing. National Gets Host It re alt. The National league seems to have fared better than the American In th» niatter of new blood las? year, hut that niav be |ieoaii*o it needed more of It. At that, the difference was not great numerically, and may he only apparent. Although no attempt will be made here to name all who r.irned |«rrna 1 nent big league jolm. no one can doubt that at ln and l.everette of the White Sox; I’rnlt of the Browna; Hauser of ; the Athletics, and Goaltn of Wash ington. » Some of then) like Aldridge of the I 'libs and Robertson of the White Sox 1 had been un for tryout* before but | their previous work bad not earned them a permanent place in the mi ‘or* Some of them were surprise*, notably Pllleite, who was not consid ered the equal of Sylvester Johnson when I>etroit bought the two from Portland. What surprise* ha* ll'2d In afore' After \\ ilU-Renaiilt Bout. New York—A purse of $200,000 lin* been offered |»y ,1 syndicate of Win nipeg business men for a bout bo tween Jack Renault. Canadian heavy weight, and Harry Wtlla, negi-o chal lenger of worlds Champion, Jack I'ampsey. The syndicate proposed the Pont for Winnipeg In May. Hunker Mattnen Victors. Iowa City, In,—University ef Ve brnska matrnen proved greatly su perior to the Iowa university gr.ip piers here last ntght and won, 15 to s Only one fall was tallied against I he Ituakera Bellevue l.osrs. Bellevue Vocational scluxd eager* eneounlered their third consecutive defeat when they lost to Krnle Holmes’ cage quintet on the Omaha uni floor last night. The score was it to If THE first championship basket ball rsce of the newly organ ized N9HI1 Intercollegiate con ference, of which Creighton univer sity la a member, ended, as pre dicted, in a muddle. Two teams, Creighton and Dos Moines, claim the title. Creighton played 11 conference fcams and won ail hut one game. The Blue and White lioopsters lost to the North Dakota university quintet hy the score of 23 to 1H. lies Moines university played but three conference games. The Tigers won all their gauies. (reighton claims the champion ship. So docs Deo Moines. Creigh ton played II games, lost one and the Tigers played only three and won each contest. Conference rules say that each member of the conference must play four games with conference quintet before claiming the title. lies Moines played only three, f'reighton played rules also say that the team with 11 and lost one. The conference the highest percentage wins. lies Moines, although It only played' threo games, has a perfect percent age, while Creighton has a percent age of 987. Des Moines says it tried to sched ule. a game with Creighton, but was unsuccessful. Creighton says the Tigers failed to agree on a game be tween the two teams when the roaches met at the schedule meet ing Whether tile coaches tried to ar range a game or not, the title ended in a muddle. There is no getting around the fact that ( reighton and Des Moines were two of the strong est teams in the conference, even if North Dakota did beat the Blue and White. There should lie some arrange ment among the coaches whereby a post season gan.e might be played if this one contest would clear the right of one team to the champion ship. The chances are that if Creigh ton and I K-s Moines did play, ths Blue and White would emerge vic torious Creighton had one of th-» best teams in this section of tha country this season. Fred Dawson, athletic director of Hie university of Nebraska, who witnessed the ( rcighton-Nebrasky game last Saturday, was liigli in his praise of the Blue quintet. The Husker grid coach declared that ( reighton was the h«-st basket ball team lie had seen in action this sea son. and Dawson is m mighty good judge of basket hall teams. MW PLAY HI HKLRft. CREIGHTON* and Nebraska may meet on the basket ball court again next season. Following Creighton's victory over Nebraska, the Nebraska ath letic officials talked favorably on playing another contest next sea son. • 0 • □ Pity s Poor Boxer. HEN Pancho Villa and Frankie Genaro fought for the championship in New York the other night they drew a little more than a $5S.S2T house. Not so bad. Of this amout, A ilia received $19, 954.99. Genaro got $0,319.33 and the American flyweight champion ship. • « • Rig Leaguer After < astner. □ AIT. CASTNER. Notre Dame star, will not have to look very far to find a earth with a big lea gun club. The St. Ixml* Browns. Chicago White Sox. New York Giants. De troit Tigers and Cleveland Indians are after the Notre Dame athlete. Cast tier seems to favor the Browns. Maybe that lie is » great follower of the great George Sisler. lie probably lias been influenced by the great work of flic great George sisler. sisler is a product of the college diamond. Sohlaifer'* Recent liout. F1STTC fans of this city have started yelping about ‘Kid'' Sohlaifer slipping. Sohlaifer. they say, bus lost h.s last three starts, to l>avo Shade, Krankie Sohoell and Johnny Karr. Shade, S hnell and Karr are the cream of the welterweight ranks. To lose lo any of this trio is no dis grace. Karr has not gained the reputation a« a welter fighter as oil her Shade or Sohoell. hut the Clevelander has beat and fought draw* with Jack Malone, one of the beat of the middleweight crop of today. When Sohlaifer fights boys of the Shade and Sohoell type be is step ping a little out of his path. The "K ' hasn't gone ' back.'’ He's •usl out of Ills class that s all Frank Chance Will Have Plenty < niching Material The Boston Ued Sox will have five catchers In training camp at Hot Springs AI Walters \| Dcvormer, Yal Plchlnieh, Charley Chaplin, and tile youngster, Albrecht, picked up by Coach Jimmy Burke off the St. I^ouis lots. | Packey Had Too j >Much Sense to Be a Champion Scorned Title tp Fight Often er for Ample Purses—Mc Farland One Fighter \£ho Had Everything. By SIDNEY SUTHERLAND. Jn glancing back over this series one fa. t stand* forth clearly—no mat ter how many first caliber qualifies , tions a fighter may poa-css, jf he be second rate in any particular that [mediocre strain will show in the ring, just as it does in the battle of life, j Only the fittest rules, just as the fitter survive the unfit. | I have purposely omitted the his ' lories of great boxers whose failure to scale the summit can be traced to sonic misfortune—such as Joe Shu artic, whose defective eyes stoppei^bl* ! career, or Luther McCarthy, whose death changed the map of the heavy weight division. And in retrospect It will be noted that, with one exception, each of the men included in th.s series foil short of the goal because of a different rea ; son. Now for Famous Packey. And r.ow, to bring this series to a ; close. I tell of Packey McFarland, one of the greatest boxers of all time. Too recent and too spectacular to require extender! analysis. Par-key's record ; carries ;t* own story erf extraordinary merit in the ring. Probably the handsomest entrv in modern pugilism was born in Chicag . on November 1. 1888. jn the stock yards district, where he lived, he had : to fight to exist, and he certainly existed and flourished. In 1304 w’; .find him launched on his career with six knockouts and one defeat. Thence forth his is a story of almost invari able victory. Including his last no-decls.'on con test (which he won! with Mike Git l>ons in 1315. Packey fought 120 bat tle*. won 45 of them with knockout*. 2 5 by decisions. Indulged In 38 no de cision matches, drew five times, ar.J lost only that one early battle. Possessed of “'Ktprjthing." In these 35 r.o verdict essay* the , newspaper* almost unanimous!}- gave him the decision. Among the men he stopped were Billy Flnucane, Fred Gilmore. Benny Yangrr. Steve K-t rey. Jimmy Britt. Phil Hrtrk, JaVg 1 ■ <*. lan. Mm* Bl-iom and T-• m. Ilp ""*» Ac Wont over such boxrrs Maurice Sayers. Charier Nearv Bert Keyes. Freddy Welsh. Harr Trend*!!. "Cyclone Johnny" Thomp son. "Harlem Tommy" Murphy and Tommy Kiiban^. McFarland veritably * had ever? thing If his opponents wished to box, he outboxed them: if they care: t" slur, h« slugged them dixsy: if they preferred to rough it. the "Stockyard * I ride recalled h.s early environmei.; and made them sick of the roughest going imaginable. " hr He Never Won Title. But this lightweight star never be came a champion for a very curious reason—lie had too much sense.' T"° heavy to make the poundage without a terrific strain, he was too intelligent to sacrifice h:s health and earning capacity. Since no t;tleholder except in the present era of mammoth purses ever made as much money as a first string challenger. Packey de clined to step from his own profit able status into the championship with its infrequent matches and incredible skallduffrery. Consequently he f rollicked along whipping fav orite son* in many t w: * and gathering bounteous harvest* cf coin while so amusing himself. One of the best behave,! and most gentlemanly of all the scrappers. Mc Farland save,] his money, and hi* health and his ged looks' and he was ready to quit the strenuous pastime. he married a beautiful sr.d wealthy girl In Joliet. Ill . where he now lives in a splendid residence, lie :s quite stout, quite affluent. *~J wholly contented with life ar t the four fine , h l lren who have come to bless his home. Collegian Make* Good in Baseball; Join* Rorhestfr Mike Driscoll, former r.p her and I first tuvsem.vn of ths- Washington' 1 Catholic university baseball team, who was reported as having signed with the Washington* last year, hut who later bobbed up with Toronto under the name of "Vincent." ha* been transferred to the Rochester , V cent and he u*ed It for safety's sake until he could establish himself in professional baselmU. Now he s w.' ling to come out in the open. F rctl Klobodanr. \ eleran Pitcher, Has Accitlcn. Fred Klobedan*. pitcher of olden d.»v« now employed In a cotton mi In New Bedford. Mas* . recently caught hi* left hand In a machine *rd the thumb was taken off at the palm. Abadane’s Great Horse _ A "great horra'' haa barn daflnad aa a horaa which can run tnr dt* tanca. on any aort of a track, and undar eruahin* weight, In fast tlma and defeat good horara. If Abattoir, off hta Ttajusna victoria*, d.ycan't e'.y.s ** a great hor*». ' than tha grand old dot'd mean* nothing Sinoe l'4ng Irwlnltad. Ahadana ha* participated In v\ race* Ha ha* won them all. on all tort* of track*, with many different rider* *1 \, M»|.J IlM.t • rbnmrr A—Al, I MM 4r—I IU I «• It IImii Ill* ramai-kuM# wumm* txx-vixl folion* J">Oi Mfc. RW. Martina* Oilman. »>'l*n,-a I niuirll l.emxr Or trank If- Imran Trn Itminna J r Jaana E; "*«*» Main, Taltar VaM