vTwo Contests" Full of Action Promised Amateur Fans at Fort Omaha Today
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C.B.& Q. to Engage
in Combat With
Lincoln Sports
Murphy-Did-Its to Meet West
L Improvers in City Series
Contest—Merchants
Nines to Play.
By HORACE L. ROSENBLUM.
WO big games are
on tap for this
afternoon at Fort
Omaha. In the
• first contest the
Lincoln Sporting
Goods Co. of Lin
coln, which rep
resents the best
of the capital
. city's amateur
nines, will clash
with tha C. B. &
Q. team, winners
of the American
league, at 1:30
o'clock. Immediately following this
game the Murphy-Did-Its, chantplons
of the Metropolitan league, will lock
horna with the West L Improver# In
a city series contest to determine the
city champions. At Fontenelle park
the William Street Merchants, win
ners of the Junior Omaha league, will
tangle with the Brown Park Mer
*** chants, champions of the Intercity
league, In the second game of a three
gams series. The Brown Parks
romped home with the first contest
last week. Should the William Street
outfit win this afternoon a third game
will be necessary and will be played
following the 1:30 game, but on the
other hand, should the Brown Parks
win, the series will be over.
Much rivalry exists between the
Lincoln team and the railroaders on
account of a double-header which the
capital city outfit won a week ago
Sunday at Lincoln by the close scores
of 5 to 4 and 3 to B. Included In the
out-of-town team's lineup are Lewel
len, pitcher, well known to football
fans ns a former halfback on the
University of Nebraska football
teams and who tried out with the
Pittsburgh Nationals; B. Lang,
pitcher for Nebraska university and
sought by several big league teams
and Western league magnates, and
Browne, coach of the Lincoln High
football teams. Johnny Braniff, port
side hurler, who held the Murphys to
six hits last Sunday, will be on the
mound for the Burlington team, while
Manager Sipe will choose his mound
artist fropi the following: Lewellen,
Lang or Noakes.
Lineups for the first game at the
fort:
C. F. A Q I.IV. SPT GOODS.
Mason .Catch. Gerlack
Jansen .t'atrh. Stpe
Rranlff .Pitch. Lewellen
Hubatka .Pitch. Lang
, . . . .Pllrh. . Voakes
Moravec First Base. Sitzman
Mahatka ..Second Base. Runyan
Grogan .Shorlstop. Hudson
Vodhaka Third Rase. Hrowne
Jordan .I,eft Field ...... Ulstrom
Shyrock Center Field. Myera
Morrison .... Right Field. Grosz
night Field. Healey
The Murphys are doped to win over
the Improvers this afternoon and
thus put themselves one notch
higher towards a city championship.
The auto crew will probably find the
Southalders a harder nut to crack
than they are reckoning on. The
Southern league champs in all of
their league games averaged better
than 1 t safe blows per game. Hikes
Wllhume, former star hurler of the
PpWen “Bones," champions of the
city in 1020. will lip on the mound for
the Improvers, while Manager Ike
Mahoney of the Murphs will send Kd
die Allen to the firing line for the
Metro champs.
Lineups:
MURPHVS IMPROVERS.
Shalberg . . Catch .. lizdura
Allen I’ll • h Wllhume
C-ulnotle ..First Bwse Zaporannwi-ki
Nick Second Rase. . Grimm
Mghnney Short stun Wall* i
Rysn Third li.-ise,. Ullci
I Yates . Left Field . . Donahue
Krug .. i'enler Field. Hans
Freilag . Right Field... ilelirk
When the William Street Mer
chants ami the Brown Parks mix
this afternoon at 1:30 at Kontenelle
park, two of the best Junior hurlers
In the city will oppose each other In
Kline, moundsman for the William
Street crew, and Nepedal of the
Brown Parks. These two pitchers
^ engaged In a hurlera' battle last Sun
day, with Nepedal the victor, allow
ing only two safe hits, and Kline
dishing out but three safe blowa. The
two teams are evsnlv molehed ami a
good game Is assured.
Lineup:
WM. STREET BROWN PARK
Doher ..... First Fees . . Iflnklz
,T i'nmlm ..Second Rare i Milt-ha
■tznileon ....Third Rene. Daeoviich
Redden .Hhorielop .. ... Pzvllko
F’erron . Left Field... . c Eeclr
Kanerek ...Center Field. l.'Oveney
Fuzz . Right Field . . h VUcha
Teezr .i'etch Veleon
Kline .. Pilch. Nepedal
CUP TEAM MINUS
COAST ENTRANTS
»w York, Auff. 16.-~William Ab
bottsaya that th* Amrrlran taam «H
#ct*d for th* Walkrr cup matchea
with a British tonm at Garden City
on September 12 and 12 la fairly ro
resent Iv* of tha country except for
the California district, where Rolfera
nr* supposed to ha a* plentfti! a**
orange tree*. It la underatood that
Hr. Pnni Hunter, leading California
amateur, was Invited to h* a member
of the international team hut that he
could not apnre the time. So on the
personal of the team- lonea, Mnra
ton, Mvana, Oulmet, Guilford. Sweet
*rr, Willing, Fownea and Harrori—
the Pacific? coaiit linn only one rep
reftentatl ve.
Bahy (iar “IV”' Leads in
Rare for Regatta Trophy
Buffalo, N. Y., Aug. 13.—Baby Gar
IV of Detroit, owned and driven by
Gar Wood, gained a commanding
lend to the race for the Fisher All!
son gold cup by winning the second
heat today In the Buffalo Launch
clubs regatta. The (ginning craft
averaged mnre than 42 miles an hour
for the 33 miles, closely approaching
Its msllmum speed for a five mile
lap yesterday.
Wllgold II. owned and driven by
Jack Williams of Buffalo, duplicated
Its winning performance In tha sec
ond heat for runabout*
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Four Leading Hitters of Metropolitan Amateur League
____✓
f
Folks, let your optics cast a glance
upon tha^our leading hitters of
the Metropolitan league which
closed Its most successful season lust
Sunday. Arthur Swartz, catcher for
the Carter T.ake team of the Metro,
loop nnd firet sacker for the Overland
Tires, champions of the Industrial
Saturday league, led the clubbers in
Omaha's fastest amateur loop with
the high average of 588. The lake
men's backatopper swatted the^apple
for 20 safe blows out of 37 limes to
bat. Quite an unusual record for an
amateur player.
Jimmy Mirasky, manager and out
fielder for the Knights of Columbus
who led the Metro circuit in hitting
last season finished second. Despite
the worry and cares attached to the
managerial duties the K. C. boss
had no trouble In snaking the apple
safely 22 times out of 47 attempts
with the stick. His average for the
season was .468
Dick Wages, shortstop for the Stand
ard Laundry, finished third In the
hitting averages with a percentage
of .367. Wages, playing his first sea
son in fast amateur company, con
nectei safe 22 times out of 80 trips
to the platter. He played three games
with the Marshalltown, la., team of
the Mississippi valley league early
this aeason and apparently made
good, but for some unknown reason
returned and finished the amateur
aeason with the Laundry team.
■'Ike" Mahoney, the leader of the
Murphy Did Ite, flniehed In fourth
place with an average of .228. The
auto mens boss who le considered
the beet all round amateur ball player
in Omaha aoaked the ball safely 20
times out of 84 efforta with the club.
In addition to finishing in fourth
place In the batting averages Ma
honey piloted hie team to first place
in the league with 18 wine and one
loss, out of 17 games played.
Catching 'Em SJO
on the
The Kinney Shoe# of the Amerirun
league will play the fast Bellevue Ath
letic club at Bellevue this afternoon.
Th# Janda Funeral Home le on the
lookout for out-of-town games Games
with the emhalmer* can b* arranged by
railing Manager John Stanesic Ht .tack
eon •’974. or write him at 1417 South
Eleventh afreet This afternoon the
func-ral men will play at Irvington.
George Bernstein, outfielder for the
Woodmen of the World otepped into the
"Bab* Ruth’ clast last Sunday when he
h.t one of Provost's shoots out of the
park.
The Omaha Ramblers, who have vic
tories against no defeats to iheir credit,
will play at Gretna thia afternoon.
The Woodmen of the World, rnnnera
UP jn the Metropolitan league, will play
at Papillion thia afternoon. The Wood
men are entered In the southwestern
Iowa tournament, which starts Friday.
Rumor h»s tt that "Ike" M thonev end
Freltag of th* Murphv Did Its will play
in th# tourney with the Fraternal*.
Much credit should be given to Mr.
Heaney, warrant officer, who bad chargv
°* the Fort Omaha ball grounds (get
Sunday Mr Heaney and his assistants
handled the large crowd in a very satis
factory manner. The grounds al.-u wen?
in splendid shape
Johnny Gragan'a fielding at shortstop
'b* •' B A Q team last Hunday w*«
of spectacular order. The Qs' shortstop
galloped nil over tietween short and sec
ond base and grabbed several sure hits
The Brotherhood of Railway Clerks, a
• *• eeml-pro team, will lock horns with
• be farter Luke dub. winners «»f the
"‘•i »>nd division of the Metropolitan league
ibis nftprnonn at Benny Simpson will
the burling for the Clerks. while
Mil nry West will be on the firing line
for ihe clubmen
John Stanesic. manager of the Jandu
Funeral Home, hatted l ot»0 in three dif
ferent a’an-ae th a season Against the
s"U*b Omaha Boosters th* emkalmera'
manager collected three saf« h is "Ut of
three time* to bat an-' poled four safe
hit# off Hinket of th* West L Improver*
out of four times to bat In another game
Frank Stavniak. former aerom# aacker
for the Murnbv Hid Its was declared to
be fife b-tf Jnfielder In the city by Mans
ger "Ike" Mahoney of the auto crew and
Henry Bresaman, president of the Met
ropolltan league, at a recent meeting of
the eligibility committee.
Al Mck. second hnseman for the Mur
phy Hid Ha. who replaced Frank Slav |
ntak at second base for the Murphys
pltyad good hall last Rundav In »hs
double-header against the Standard Laun
dry and lh# <\ B. A Q. teams.
Frank Rvnn. leading third haaemnh of
the Metropollf an league, geema to have
nverconia hi# weakness in hatting I.e*t
Sunday against the Standard Laundry he
collected three *af» blows out of four
times to bat and made good etnpa in th*»
field.
With ten execution*. every member of
th* Overland Tire*, champion* of the
Industrial league, play* with some Sun
day Metropolitan Hague taam
The Guarantee Funds, champion* of tbe
Commercial league, and th# Overland
Tires, champions of the Industrial league
who divided a double header a weak ago
las' Raturdsv. will plsy the final game
of a. three game series for the Saturday
championship next Sunday at League
park.
Johnny Gonding. Omaha's veteran semi
pro umplra. will handle the Indicator at
•* fhre*> day tournament to h* held at
Clarinda, la., starting Thursday.
Roy f.nrhbe. farmer sand lot catcher, la
performing in great style back of the
platter for Barney Burch's Buffaloes
The Janrln Funeral tenm of the South -
ern league ha-1 a good team of fielders
Herewith Is th* average of th* Infield
••r* of Ihe f inerel m*n F Bachman
first bsae, Ifift; Kralicek, second has*,
'>R2. Hfan*k»i*. manager and shortstop,
900, and Ba/.ar, third base. .k74.
The Brown Pitrk Merchant* upset the
dope last Sunday and took the first game
of »he junior Sunday amateur champion
• hip In a thrilling game from the Wll
1lam* bv I ha •'•or* of J to ? The Wll
Ham Street outfit • hamplona of the
Junior Omaha league wore doped tn
easily ha the favorite* over th# Brown
Parka
Lefty I'owcra. Omul** semi-pro pitcher.
hurling for Shenandoah against Nebraska
City last Wednesday, nllowed the Nr
hraakana hut two safe blows and whiffed9
t fi of tha t'ornhuekrr players Th* b*g
southpaw also featured with th* stick,
getting four safe hits out of four tl*p**
to bat.
Mr. Janda. haeker of the baseball tenm
hearing tha name of tha land* Funeral
Horn# was wall pleased with th# show
Inar hit team mad* In the Southern laagua
thl* season and fa making plana for
entrrlng a faat taam in tha f *!d next
aaaaon
Abe Kalman. Haeker of the KalmaJi In
auranc* taam of the Junior Omaha, w*a
ao wall pleated with the allowing hi#
t*A,n mkd# In tha Junior Oman* loop that
ha has already started plans for lining
up a fact junior loop taam for next
John Dennison, rhlef umpire af the
municipal arbltera' ataff pulled same big
laagua stuff at the fort leaf Sunday when
he used four umpire* far th* two games
Knapp and Ollligan worked tha first
gam* with Twin and Sladgs afflclgting
n th* second contest
A larger crowd Hum that which wit
nested the Murphvs win a double header
last Sunday iga n»t the Standard I.iun
dry and the U. Ft ^ g s Is expected to
ha on hand at the fort this afternoon to
aee the <*. B. 1 Q n tangle with the L.in
coln Sporting Goods in the first game
and the Murphy Did Ita battle the West E
Improver* in the second game.
Kmeraon. la., wants a game for neit
Sunday. Any amateur teem wanting to
pjlay Emerson >»n arrange s game by
calling the manager of the ball team at
Emerson.
The -lamia Funerals, which finished In
second plat** In th* Southern league, fin
ished in the following order in the hit
ting column: Maxwell. SIS: Kralicek.
.193; Bazar. 36*; J. Staneslr 361. O.
Bachman. .331; F Bachman .'94 Farris,
-60 Hartnett. 2.31, S Htanealc. 23*. 1 »e
vine, .2*<2. Goodrow. .112, t’lebotad. .151.
The amateur baseball association rinsed
a succestfui season last Sunday Nine
leagues played under the colors of the]
Municipal Baseball association Six of
these were Sunday leagues and five of
them Saturday loops A total of 1.400
player* performed with th* different
teams.
After the Mnrphr Bid It* obtained the
u«e of Ednic Dodd *e a utility man for
the city championship series Manager
Hmll Schneider refused to allow Ijia out
fielder rt> play with the Metro champs.
■mil Schneider, manager of the Schneid
er Electrics, who will represent Under
wood. Th In the southwestern Iowa tour
nament, has lined up a formidable ’rani
of amateur players to play % :th hi*
team.
Cruicksliank. Hu tch i so n
to Play Mrhlhorn, Walker
Denver, Col . Aug. 15 Hot - rt
fi'Ulckihank. New York profegatonal
who today won th# Colorado open
frolf title, and Jock Hntohlson of Chi
cagn. runner up. will meet William
Mehlhorn of St. Louie, who tied for
third place In th* Colorado touro.y
ment and Cyril Walker, national open
rhamplnp, in an exhibition hole
match here tomorrow.
Frisco Leads in
Muny Net Game
m
New York, Aug. IS.—San Francisco
is the leader In municipal tennis.
An all-year round climate gives great
er play for tennis activities than
cities In this part of the country ex
perienre. San Francisco recently had
a public park lenni* tournament with
no less tha' 1,06(1 entries. It was
municipal teni.is tournament* of this
sort which developed such great play
ers a« McDoughlln and Johnson. The
l,'. S. Ij. T. A. has done great mission
ary work for the encoursment of th*
public park game. Its Influence has
had It* effect in cities In every eornor
of the country.
New York ;s well behind other elt
ies In providing facilities for park
tennis. Conditions, however, are im
proving. and there are more people
playing tennis here now than ever
before. The second national municipal
tennis championship will be held In
Detroit early next month, and they
will play for the national Junior title
at Chicago.
\ an Ryan Outpoints Rostan.
Duluth, Minn., Aug In —Al V in
Ryan of St. Paul, 146 14 pounds,
outpointed Navy Roman of f’hlcairo,!
14# pounds, In thHr 10 round bout
here tonight.
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Sage Wins Decision.
I-os Angeles. Cal., Aug. 16.—Bob
Sage, Detroit lightweight, won an
easy decision over Walter Rooney of
Butte, Mont., In a four round bout
here tonight. Tommy’ Carter, Phoe
nix, Arlz., lightweight, easily defeated
Frankie Pitcher of Brooklyn, In four
rounds.
Spalla Kayoes Mays.
Newark, N. J., Aug. 15.—Ermlno
Spalla, heavyweight champion of Eu
rope, knocked out Fred Mays of i
Jersey City In the second round of a
scheduled 15 round contest here to
day.
Record Crowd Predicted for Bout
Between Wills, Firpo Next Month
I Nsw York, Aug. 1«.—'Ths big spec
tacle fixed for September 11 at Boyles
Thirty Acres In Jersey City, between
Luis Angel Flrpo end Harry Wills,
colored, promises to draw a record
crowd.
"I don't know where I'll put them
ail, but I'll do the heat I ran,” Raid
Tex Rickard several dayn ago upon
hie arrival in the tower of Madlaon
Square Garden, when hla eyes fell on
a stack of mail two feet high con
taining requests for tickets for the
bout.
“Everybody wants seats way down
front," continued the promoter.
“Iiook at these, real money and cer
tified checks! Isn't it wonderful, and
the fight about 30 days off! Ixxtk at
thesw—checks from Kansas City, Chi
cago, Omaha, San Francisco, Haiti
more, Philadelphia and one from
South America. Can you heal It?
"Wouldn't he a hit surprised to face
WESTERN LEAGUE.
Player and Club. G. AB. R. II. Pet.
Lellrelt, Tulsa .100 410 91 157 .383
Umli, Tulsa ...119 499 106 191 .383
Dunning. W'lta 119 512 112 193 .377
Miller, St. ,!ne 106 SWI 74 143 .376
Butler, Wichita .110 462 9? 170 .368
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Player and Ulnh. G. All. R. H. Pet.
Hornsby, St. L . 106 406 81 166 .409
Cuyler, Pitts. 78 306 63 115 .376
Wheat. Rklyn. ... 98 380 60 141 .371
Roush, Cinci. 93 367 51 130 .354
Bresalrr, Cinci... 78 240 27 80 .350
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Rulli. N. Y.114 389 114 156 .401
Falk, Chicago 97 366 61 133 .363
Collins, Chk-agn 109 414 78 144 .318
Cobb, Detroit . . .113 454 85 157 .340
Iloone, Boston 85 317 40 10* .344
Nebraska Shooters
Hold League Meet
Among the trapshooting tourneys
held preliminary to the Grand Amer
lean, scheduled for Dayton, O., Au
gust 25 30, over the new Amateur
Trapshooting association traps, was
the third 1924 contest of ths South
east Nebraska Trapshootei s’ league
at Hastings Frank Peterson, Red
Cloud, led the field with a score of
9.1 out of 100, while the doubles shoot
;ng was a win for R. K.trgo, who
smashed 10 of the 12 pairs. The
team shoot was a victory for the
Mlnden team with a total of 238 out
of 250 targets. Mind»n was repre
sentsd by l-i Johansen 1> Neville,
fid Nelson, O. Nelson and J. Johan
sen.
• sell out two or three days before
the gladiators climb through the
ropes. It is the biggest thing I have
ever handled, not excepting the C'ar
pentier-Dempaey fight. Why, the ad
vance sale right now is three times
larger than the Dempsey event.
"I have received requests for tick
ets from men high up in banking cir
cles. Only the other day I was down
town in a bank and the preaident of
It an Id, ‘Tex, 1 would like to have 50
ringside tickets.’ A prominent Italian
aaked me to give him J50.000 worth
of ticketa, and he said It didn't mat
ter where the seats were located. You
may not know it. hut Firpo draws
big among the Italians. I'll wager
that 25 per cent of the money taken
In on the Milk Fund show came from
persons who went to the Yankee
stadium to see, Krminio Rpalla. fight
Tunney.
"Great life if you don't weaken,”
Rickard smilingly concluded.
HUGE OFFERS FOR
RACERS REFUSED
New* York, Aug. 16—Two astound
ing offers were made recently for
theroughbreds in Saratoga. B. B.
Jones, the western oil magnate, who, |
with his brother, Montford Jones,
own, breeds and races a big string of !
theroughbreds under the nom de j
course of the Audley Farms stable,
proferred August Belmont $100,000 j
for the three-year-old colt Ordinance,
and Henry F. Sinclair, the oil mag
nate who races the “Million Dollar’’
Kancocas stable, told Bud Fisher he
would give him $60,000 for the two ,
year-old colt Swope. Both offer*
were refused.
At Hoiton—Peal IWrlenbwrh. 3few'
Yot ,i knoc k'd ouf Joe Kelly. Button, in
fourth round of g^heduled 10-round bout
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Ban Johnson May
Seek to Change
Baseball Rules
_*
New York, Aug. IS.—From a atata
ment recently made by Ban Johnson,
president of the American leagu*, the
conclusion may be drawn that next
winter Mr. Johnson will urge th*
American League rlub owner* to
legislate against the unwarranted usa
cf “change pitchers" and “pinch hit
ters.” It is improbable that he will in
troduce a rule limiting th* unmber
of pitchers for each team In a *tngla
game to two and permitting th* in
sertion of but one substitute bats
min.
The president of the Am*rlcarf
league is violently opposed to the
home run burlesque, and believes
that all drives into short grand stand
wings and open bleachers should
yield not more than two or three
hases. However, the club owners must
be heard before anything can be done
about the matter.
Hastings Coach Return*.
Haetings, Neb.. Aug. 15.—Coach A.
F. Holste, head coach and director of
athletics at Hastings college, will re
turn to Hastings Saturday and will
spend the temalnder of the time be
fore th* opening of school meeting
new snd old players and lining up his
men for the football eeason.
BASE BALL
DOUBLE HEADER
OMAHA vs. WICHITA
First Game at 2 P. M.
Bos Seats on Sala at Beaton’s,
15th and Farnam Until 11 A. M.
Announcement
Omaha’s Biggest and Best year-round Recre
ation Parlors are nearing completion.
Best Ventilated
Bowling and Billiard Parlors
in the United States
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GRAND OPENING SATURDAY, AUGUST 30
Omaha Recreation Parlors
Entire Third Floor Wool worth Bldg.
Sixteenth and Douglas Douglas Street Entrance
MAXWELL
Initiates a New Ofder
The public in general probably has no
adequate realization of the great advances
which have recently been made in motor
car engineering.
It is a fact that the good Maxwell, together
with the Chrysler Six, has literally accom
plished a revolution in motor car results.
If you have not familiarized vourself with
the good Maxwell since Chrysler engi
neers began their work with it, you cannot
begin to appreciate what it means to thor
ough satisfaction and economical, care
free motoring.
Its engineering design and its fine materials
are directly responsible for the statements
of owners that the good Maxwell now costs
1ms to maintain than any car they have
ever known.
When you ride in the good Maxwell, be
prepared for a quietness and a smoothness
that you probably never expected from a
four-cylinder engine.
One reason why you don’t feel any trace
of vibration when you ride behind the
Maxwell motor, is the fact that the recipro
cating parts of the engine are balanced to
the fraction of an ounce.
Another reason is a floating platform spring
mounting under the front end of the motor
— a wonderfully effective device which is
exclusive to Maxwell.
Owners will tell you that gasoline economy
generally averages 24 miles to the gallon.
With this economy is coupled performance
that would be gratifying in a car of far
greater cost and power.
You accelerate from 5 to 25 miles an hour
in eight seconds, when you drive a good
Maxwell. ,
Its engine, with displacement only a fraction
over 185 cubic inches, develops power that
will take you anywhere a car can go— and
some places where some cars cannot go.
The car is a revelation in ease of steering.
Its ease of riding is equally remarkable.
The spring suspension is one reason for
this. The noticeable absence of motor
vibration is another.
If you really want to know how far four
cylinder engineering practice has advanced
—take a ride in the good Maxwell.
Nothing else can give you a full reali
zation of the new order of things which the
good Maxwell has initiated.
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