• ' , ! J*5 w. \ ' _ — SPORT NEWS v WANT ADS * AMUSEMENTS ' MARKETS. VOL. 63—NO. 12. PART TWO OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 2, 1923. 1—,3 FIVE CENTS ''United States Wins Brilliant Davis Cup Match • IHMMHHIMMt • MM • NM • IMW • Construction of Strong Line Will Be Hard Task for Nebraska Grid Coaches - 5 Yankees Now Have Commanding in Davis _ Australians Gallantly Battle American Pair in Five Gripping and Whirlwind Sets at Forest Hills. Forrest Hills, N. Y., Sept. 1.—Con quering Australia today in a gruel; ling, spectacularly fought doubles match that takes rank among the most titantlc struggles in the history of international tennis, the United States gained a commanding position in its defense of the Davis cup, ti 2 to 1 lead that seemed too formidable fdr tho challengers to overcome. William T. Tilden, national chant, plon, and R. Norris Williams, team captain, were the heroes of America's thrilling triumph. Making their de but as an international combination, they vanquished the brilliant Austral ian pair, James O. Ahderson and John B. Hawkes, 17-13, 11-13, 3-6, 6-3, 6-2, in five gripping, whirlwind sets that for sheer dazzling brilliancy of stroke, execution and strategy have seldom, if ever, been equalled on the courts anywhere. Coming from behind after dropping ■ f two of the first three sets, in which the tide of battle swept back and forth in an amazing test of stamina and courage, the Americans rose to super-heights in the last two sets and crushed their rivals with a dashing, invincible attack. Gallery In Tense Uncertainty. For two hours and thirty-eight minutes, the struggle, ns It swayed from side to side, kept a gallery of nearly 10,000 In the new West Side stadium In tense uncertainty. Flash after flash of the most sensational sort of play brought spontaneous out bursts from the colorful gathering and as the American pair put their opponents to rout at the close the crowd threw restraint to the winds and cheered victors, as well as van quished, to the echo. At the finish of the match the throng that scarcely had been able to control Its enthus iasm throughout, was as limp as the quartet of players who walked from the court, weak from the reaction of their terrific fight. Australia, whose battle even in de feat today but served to emphasize the unexpectedly formidable character of its challenge to America's tennis supremacy, faces only a fighting chance for victory now In the inter national series. To lift the historic trophy, the team from “down under” must capture both of the singles matches that conclude the play on Monday. With Tilden and William M. Johnston, however, to bear the brunt of defense In the final tests, critics tonight regarded triumphs for the United States as virtually certain. Only the most spectacular of up sets, a reversal overshadowing the defeat of Little Rill Johnston by An derson in five sets yesterday could accomplish the trick for Australia. Anderson, the ace of the challenging forces, will oppose Tilden, while Haw keg will play Johnston In the concluding matches, victory in but one of which is necessary to clinch Uncle Sam's possession of the cup for another year. Established New Iteeora. Today's victory for America not only established a new mark for duration in international play. hut. In the first set. equalled the record for length made In 1914, when Mau rice McC-oughlin. the California ■ comet," turned back Norman !-• Brookes, Australian wizard. by a score of 17-15, in the first set. then sweeping on to a straight set victory In one of the high spots of Davis cup annals. That first set today was strangely reminiscent to veteran tennis follow ers of that historic battle nearly a decade ago between McLoughlin and Brookes, in both of which America X.and Australia fought for supremacy. * oddly enough the verdict both times went to this country's stars. No closer, more evenly matched struggle could be pictured than that waged In the first two sets this aft ernoon. Back and forth, Australian and Yankee fought, contesting for every point with dazzling play from both fore and back court, achieving marvelous “gets" and raking each other's ground with strokes that shot back and forth with blinding speed. Then. In the third set, the Austra lians swept to the fore as the de tendera seemed to weaken under a relentless, driving attack. But, Just ns swiftly, after a rest of several minutes, the tide swting back to America's favor. The Yankee pair, playing as if In tpired. carried all before them In .lump last two sets. The Australians !-\lled on their reserve, employed the uost 'powerful, resourceful of tactics, n ati effort to stem that crushing lssault, but all in vain. Eventually they weakened under the pace, hut It was the unswerving confidence, leadly sceuracy snd crashing power f the American’s game that gained them their triumph. In two exhibition matches after the cup contest, B. I. C. Norton, Mouth African star, defeated Manuel Alonson, Spanish Davis cup plnyer, 113, 7 5, while Vlnrent Richards, the fourth member of the American In ternatlonal team, with his Wimbledon | partner. Francis T. Hunter, van l quished the Australian reservists, ft Richard Schllslnger and Isn Mein I • nes, 6-3, 4 6, 6 2._, in th» prellmlnftrlrft of the iimh-Wllwr Fiffht—Vto McLaughlin of New York i West Side, outaluiried Charley Arthurs Ir • he four-round opener, and got the verdici of the Judjrea The pair are middle weight#. The crowd wu estimated at 12. 000 during thin serai* Illinois A. C. Is National A. A. U. Athletic Champ Three New A. A. U. Field Event Records Are Estab lished at Annual Games. Chicago, Sept. 1.—The American blue ribbon for track and field com petition passed today to the Illinois Athletic club, which led the waij throughout the 19 events in the Na tional A. A, lT., senior championships at Stagg Field, University of Chi cago, and finished with 53 points, the highest team total registered in recent years. The tri color advance began at the opening gun when Joie Ray took the pole in the mile run to the finish, and ended with the final contest of the program, the Javelin throw, in which Hoffmah established a new A. A. U. record of 194 feet, 7 Y2 inches. Second place went to the New York Athletic ciub, 1922 champions, whose standard bearers earned 37 points. The Chicago Athletic association placed third with 19 points, one mark er ahead of the Newark Athletic club. Three new A. A. U. records, all in the field events, were established. Be roy Brown, of the New York A. C., cleared the bar in the high jump at Jc feet, 5 5-8 inches, one-half an inch i above the old record established jointly in 1922 by Harold Osborne of the Illinois A. . and T>. V. Alberts. Chicago A. A. Winners of first, second and third in the discus bettered the old rerord of A. R. Pope, established in 1929 for the University of Washington. Torn Bieb was the best performer with 151 feet, 3 4 Inches, against “Gus” Pope's mark of 146 feet, 5 Inches. The third record breaking •throw was by Clarence (Rud) Houser, entered from the University of South ern California, who pressed Pope at 147 feet 8 1-5 inches. An even inch was added to the pole vault record by B. Myers, Chicago A. A., who went over the bar at 13 feet, 1 inch. Hoffman's exhibition In the Javelin event put the fourth record by the boards. His performance was 1 foot, 5 1-4 inches better than the old record made by Flint llanner, of the Olympic club, San Francisco, estab lished in 1922 at 193 feet, 2 14 Inches I Swatfest Is Attraction to Happy Hollow Golfers An Ill-hole swatfest competition was the golf program at the Happy Hollojv club yesterday when the fol lowing qualified and their scores: -Tames Burnass .*9 lass 16—73 Ralph Bussell .93 less 20—73 H A Christensen ..*3 lees 10—73 M. T. Dolphin .33 leas 10—73 ■T. T. Rertwell .66 leee 10—78 T. FT. Mansfield ..90 leas IS—76 B. C. Crook .85 less 9—76 B. C. Crook won the competition, while H. A. Christensen was second. No Word From St. Louis in Amateur Ball Games No word has been received from St. I/ouIfl accepting tho offer of the local I association to bring the sSt. TxnilSj champions to Omaha to play the lo cal champions on the third Sunday In September. The Omaha champs will go to St. Tx>ula the fourth week this month for the annual Inter city series. -- --— — « ALLSTAR WESTERN LEAGUE 1923 TEAMS (Picked by Manager*.) FIRST TEAM. Player. Town. Po*. McDowell. Wichita .lb. Bauman. Tulsa. 2b. (Sutler. Wichita . 3b. Lee. TuUa .**• Hlake*le>. Wichita .If Limb. TuUa .cf. Ilornn. De* Moines. rf. Crosby, TuUa c. ((tingling, Dee Moines .r. Koehler. Omnhu . P Specie. Omaha .p. Payne, Oklahoma City . P Maun. Wichita P lilack, TuUa . .p Seller*. Wichita - p. c.rlffin, Wichita utility SECOND TEAM. Playar. v Town. To*. Eelivelt. TuUa .lb kiugman. De* Moines .2b. W'ileus. Onmlia . • 3b. Beck, Wichita . . Bennett TuUa If. Moore. Sioux City .cf. ( orriilen, De* Moines .rf. Ouery. Sioux City . f. Diamond. Denier . c. \ de. Oklahoma C ity. P Hovllk. Wichita p. Plummer. TuUa . P Hailey. Omaha . P. Voigt, Denier P. Brown, Denier P stuart Tulsa utility HONOR ROLL (Two or more votes for either team.) I.uderuw (Oklahoma City). Mclarry (De* Moines). Tate (Oklahoma City), Kerr (Omaha). Felber (Oklahoma City). Murphy ee of Tulsa at short, Horan of Des Moines in light field and Crosby of Tulsa as catcher. Hungling of Des Moines received one more vote for the pecond first team catcher than Query of Sioux City. One of the peculiar things about the f.rst team is that there are’only two left-hand hitters among the teg ulars and two catchers. Players who received two votes for any position or positions In the 32 on the two teams are placed in the honor roll but In spite of this many sterling players do not appear on the list, the opinion of the managers as expressed in the ballots being nearly In accord. In fact the athletes draw ing positions did so by a greater mar gin of votes than at any time in the seven years that Western league man agers have been picking teams for the writer. Grotte May Suspend Hastings Manager Dick Grotte, president of the State league, will withhold action on the suspension of Manager Shaw of the Hastings club, who attacked Umpire Miner in a game played at Beatrice yesterday. Orotte will await an offi cial report from his umpire before passing judgment. Omaha Golf Cracks Play Exhibition Match Today Sam Reynold*. state champion, and Blaine Young will act as a team to play Rudy Knepper of Sioux City and Stanley Davies, Omaha Field club professional, in an exhibition match at Wayne, Neb, today. Tomorrow the same teams will play an exhibi tion at York. To Conduct a Horse Shoe Tournament at Miller Park A preliminary horseshoe contest will 1).' held at Miller park this morn ing at 10 o'clock open to all pltchera In the city, to pick the Omaha tenm to play at the state tournament at I.In coin this week. '-— Midwest Tennis Association to Be Organized Here Monday __ w ■ ■ —i.— - ■ — Organization of an Intercity tennla association, Including Des Molneg, Sioux City, Lincoln and Omaha, known na the Midwest Tennla association, will be completed Monday night, when representative!! of these four cities meet at the Omaha club. It la the plan of those In ^charge of the organization to stage a tennis tournament ra'-h year and to award suitable prizes to the winners. St. Paul. Minneapolis and Kansas t'lty may be Invited to .loin the aiaoclatlon within the next three yearr.. Monday tho first Intercity tennis tournament will lie held at the Omah i Country and Omaha Field club courts.' Players from Des Moinea, Sioux City, i Lincoln and Omaha will compete. The single* will be played at the Field club and the doubles at the Country club. A banquet will be held In the eve ning. at which time the Midwest Ten nis association will be organised. Among the players who will com pete tomorrow sre Ralph Powell of Omaha, former Nebraska state chain plon; E. R. McCormick of Sioux City, South Dakota champion and runncrnp In the Missouri Valley tourney, and I,, o. Kambor, city champion of lies Moines. Thn following players will repre sent I>ea Moines: f,. O. Katnber, Olln Sweet, .1. S Cralger and I). Craigs Sioux City will acrid E R. McCormick. Oliver amt two other players. Potter, Elliott, Mrl’roud, Seymour, Stanton, McBride, W'eaverlng, Law and Flem ing will come from I,lncoln. Omaha will be represented by Dewell, Davis, Newell, Bcrlbner, Stocking, Nichols, Koch, J. Adams, Kennedy and Offutt. Five Creighton Grid Men Have Started to Practice for Season Several letter men of the Creigh ton football team have started practice under the direction of I Captain F. liner McAleer. Each morning McAleer, lUc Mahoney, Kudy Yechout, Art fogan and Kutin don baseball uniforma and appear at tlie Held to paas and kick the bail to prepare them- j selves for tile Informal practice session tvliirh will start on September 10. . v Coach Wynne was In Onuilia last weeli and Is spending s few days at his homo In Fremont be fore starting the year's campaign. Golf Competition* in Omaha on Labor Pay All city gnlf clubs hava planned competitions which will he held I.abor day with attractive prizes for the winners of the various events The Omaha Field club will have a medal competition In the morning and another In the afternoon. At Happy Hollow an IS hole handi cap medal play, an approaching and putting contest and a driving com petition will be held. I.akoma will have a two ball mixed foursome. Omahs Country club has not an nouno-d Its holiday program. Field Club Tournament Jack W. Hughes reached ths final round of ths Omahs Field club ctinm plonshlp gnlf tournament yeslerday by defeating C. F. Orlffey, 4 np and 9 to play Jim Itlakeney went Into the semifinal round by defeating Kenny Heed, l and 7, and will plav Itlalns Young for the right to oppose Hughes for the club championship. ■ 1 ■- - * — Repin Two-Pay Shoot nt Ak-Sar-Ren Today A two day shoot will atnrt nt the Omaha Gun club nt Ak-Sar-Hen Held this morning at 9 o'clock. Today's program calls for 1R0 targets while the Monday program will Inolude 200 targets. I Medal Competition for 2 Filghts at Field Cluli An IS hole handicap medal com petition, with two flights, eight to qualify In each, was the golf pro gram at the Omaha Field club yes terday. In the first flight the fed lowing Iqualifled; -t B BUkeney .7(1 « TO Ned Reynold* .79 6 7 4 Tom Marpl .8 4 4 J. K. Wiiten .89 11 77 R. I*. Hyde .83 « 11 Cl. Military .«S 6 7 4 deck Hujrhea .8* 2 78 D. Bowie . 87 9 78 Pairings follow: PtAkeney plays Hyde Reynold* playa Flattery Murphy plsys Hushea Witten plays Bowls. Second flight qualifying score*: \V. If. Butts ...87 17 88 r. K. Oehler .9fi 7 4 T! n J Ooaasrd .93 17 7 8 If. W. Downey ...99 24 7 8 H. R. Dodson ... M 19 7o W. M. Temple . 94 22 74 R. P Meely . 93 17 74 Mont Burns 94 18 • 6 Pairing:* follow Butte plays Dodson i»eh!er plaja Tempi* 'soaaard playa M**l> Downey plays Burns First Soccer Practice of Year to Be Held Toda\ The first soccer practice of the sen son will bo held thl* morning at Muny lleaoh when the fnwnaend team of the Omaha I>tatriot Soccer league Rtarts preparing for the 1993 aohedule wljlch Rtarta next Sunday. All the Townsend players ar* urged tn meet nt Muny Beach thl» morning. They have heen requested to bring their old uniform*. New uniforms will be Issued. British Yachts Make a Clean Sweep Over Yanks Dunoon, Scotland. Sept. 1 —The Hritlsh six meter yacht* nude a clean aweep of the scrle* of race* for the Kvdyn Parkei cup today In St. Hunter* bay. All four Hritlsh entries finished ahead of the four American boats. \\ otherspoon Shoot* n 72 Willie Wotherepoon, professional at the Happy Hollow club, ramo within two stroke* of lowering the course record of 71 when he went around the 1* hole* Friday for » *core of 7i GAMES’ TODAY WESTERN LEAGUE. Omaha at !>♦** Momea. two games Wichita at Oklahoma City. St Joseph at Tulsa Sioux City at Denver STATE l.KAGt E. Katrbury at Lincoln, two games Norfolk at Grand Island, two games Hastings at Beatrice. NATIONAL LEAGUE St. i/oul* at Cincinnati. Pittsburgh at Chicago. Boston at New York Philadelphia at Brooklyn. AMERICAN LEAGUE. Detroit at 8t. I^ouls. Cleveland at Chicago New York at Washington No other games scheduled. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. Columbus at Toledo. Louisville at Indianapolis St Paul at Minneapolis Kansas City at Milwaukee King Ak Will Pull New Stunt at Race Meet * Three-Quarter Mile Harness Horse Races Will Form Part of Interesting Meeting. A novelty In harness racing will be Introduced at the Great Western circuit meeting at Ak-Sar-Ben field, beginning Tuesday, September 11, and continuing until Saturday. Five events of three-quarter mile heats, each are on the program, in connec tion with a number of the regulation mile events. Winners in the three-quarter mile events will not take records, and with purses of 1800 to $1,000 hung up In each event, Interesting racing Is a certainty. The first of these races Is sched uled for Wednesday. September 12. In the 2:14 trot, for a purse of $1,000. On Friday three events of three quarters mile each will be raced. In cluding the 2:08 pace, purse $1,000, and the 2:18 trot and the 2J8 pace, with purses of $800 each. On Saturday. September 15, the closing day of the harness races, the _ :ld pace, purse $1,000, will be raced. A total of $4,600 In purses is hung up In these events. H- rses will start at the three-quar ters mile post and race home, three heats, under the every-heat-a race system. The money will be split In three sections, to be divided 50, 25, 15 and 10 per cent at the end of each heat. Three harness and three running races are on the program for each of the four days, beginning Septem ber 11 On Saturday. Septen.'%r 15. one harness race and five running events will be raced. A otal of 153 entries have been re ceived in the eight early closing events. "The Omaha Chamber of Commerce" 2:17 trot, purse 11.000. proved the greatest attraction with 29 entries. "The Iowa" 2:17 pace, purse $1,000, was a close second with 25 entries and "The Samson" 2:05 n.ire purse $1,500, and the 2:20 trot for 3-year-olds, purse $600. attracted 19 entries each. Horses are already beginning to arrive at the Ak-Sar-Ben track and by the end of the present week the stables will t>e filled. Grand Island to Sta^c a Baseball Tournament ^ The Chamber of Commerce at Grand Island will stage a big baseball tournament on September 10. 11 and 12 and some of the best teams In the state will compete for the cash prize of $1,000 which will go to the winner with the runner-up drawing $500. There will be no entry fee but each club must post a $50 fee to guarantee Its sppearance. which fee will be re funded when the game atarts AH players eligible In the National Association of Professional Baseball clubs can compete. Seven Teams Will Make Western Conference Football Interesting Columbus, O., Sept. V—The strug gle for Western conference football honors this season will be a hotly contested one. advance Information available at Ohio slate athletic head quarters shows At least lialf a down Mg Ten tenms. In the light of this Informa tion promise to be atronger than last year. One or two are rnther dark horse entries and possibly two will be In somewhat experimental stags The others, while not given to ex travagant promises, have real hopes of a successful season from the stand point of the percentage column. Chicago, Michigan, Minnesota, II llnols. Northwestern. Purdue and Ohio stale are reckoned among the learns which have greater posslbtll tie* than a year ago. With new coaches. Indiana and Wisconsin up penr lo he experimental propositions Iowa, while expected to he strong. 1* regarded as offering a problem. The champions lost seven regulars Iasi fall and while the new material Is promising, It will have lo go some to till the shoes of the stalwarts of 1920, 1921 and 1921 In the llawkeye lineup Chicago, which loat only two reg Uluru- Strohmeler. end and occasion al quarterback, and Fletcher, tackle, according to Information at Ohio State, looms up as a strong con tender Coach Tost at Ann Arbor is sim daily fixed, having lost only three regulars. Kirk, Ooebel and t'appon, and three reserves Wolverines am credited with s wonderful crop cf new material, Wisconsin lost four high class men In Williams. Barr'. Olbson and Te hell. It Is saM to have good new material Coach Ryan, a newcomer In Rig Ten elrclra. will have to de velop a team which will meet five ponference foes At Minnesota, Coach Spaulding will he reaping the benefits of his first year at the Gopher helm His outlook is said to be bright, with the flashy halfback, Marttneau. as cap tain. Illinois, with IS letter men hack, and strong freshman material, should have a great machine, it la felt Coach Euppke lost only two regulars. Happenny and Green, last fall amt has a wealth of nsw hopefuls to work with. % Dawson Has Real Job Mapped Out for Him Human Avalanche of Last Season Shattered hy Gradu ation—Huskers Start Work SepL 15. NEBRASKA'S 1923 SCHEDULE. October 6—Illinois at Urbana. October 13—Oklahoma at Lincoln. October 20—Kansas at Lincoln (home coming) October 27—Missouri at Columbia. November 10—Notre Dame at Lin coln. November 17—Ames at Ames. November 21—Syracuse at Lincoln. November 29—Kansas Aggies at Lin coln. Special Dispatch to The Omaha Bee. INCOLN, NEB., Sept. 1.—Will Kred e until the r* pairs could be made Managers of Western League Clubs Select Star Teams