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Omaha Amateurs Fail to Show Well as Road Teams Strangr Malady Appears to Have Attaeked Sandlotters on Trips Into Mis souri. Kansas. By “R08EY." HAT seems to be the trouble with the amateur tennis when they Journey out of town for intercity series with the eliain piuns of other cities? This ques tion seemed to lie the common sub ject about amateur circles during the last week. Out of eight teams sent on trips and 13 games play ed the Omaha sandlot pennant win i ers were returned victors in but one game, and that team was th Hirst Sunday School, which took an all star Sunday School league nine at Hastings, Neb., to a 13 to i> trimming. Outside of the Sunday school aggre gation, the C. B. & Q., which lost two i lose games to the Lincoln Sporting floods Co. at the capital city, anil Overland Tires, which held the Sioux City Stockyards, southwestern Iowa champions, to a low score at Sioux fity. the other nines put up miserable exhibitions in the other games. At St. Louis, last Saturday and Sunday, the William Stre't Merchants and Vinton Street Merchants each dropped a one-sided contest, while the Murphy-Dld-Its, Omaha amateur champions, didn’t play like them selves, and as a result dropped a pair a lop-sided games, getting shut out in the first game, 8 to 0, and taking the short end of a 13 to 3 score in t lie other mix. The fluarantee Fund Lifes, the last of the loop winners to make a trip, lost the entire number of the three-game scries at Wichita. With the exception of the last game, In which the insurance men held their opponents to a 4 to 3 score, the life protectors didn’t play up to their usual standard, Rnd the other two games of the series were lost by one-sided g cotes. The whole trouble then resolves It self to two things: Either the sand lot players were after ted with that strange malady known as ’’buck fever,” when playing i.efore strange crowds, or else the tennis failed to practice enough to keep in shape for those Intercity mixes. Fcr example, the Murphys, which is the best ama teur nine so far produced from the randlots of Omaha, made IS errors In two games at St. Louis. That num ber of misplays almost exceeded the number of errors charged to the auto crew for the entire past season. Any way, we can’t explain the sl-ange situation. Anyone who can give our leaders a plausible explanation of the mysterious conditions surrounding the amateur players when playing out of town, we certainly would appre ciate it. BAG 14 DUCKS ON PLATTE RIVER Kd Schneider of the Schneider Electrics, "Mike” Prcnderga3t, for mer Omaha Western league pitcher; Eddie Dodd and Willard Morris, took their trusty shotguns out of the attic Sunday and journeyed down to the Platte river where they bagged 14 ducks and five jack snipp. Not content with the ducks and snipe, the four hunters turned fisher men and caught six catfish averaging one to three pounds in weight. LEWIS WINS MATCH: Eos Angeles, Oct. 14.—Ed "Strati jler” Lewis, world's heavyweight wrestling champion, again success fully defended his tide against Joe "Toots” Mondt of Colorado in a fin Ish match here last night. He won the third and deciding fall with a toe hold In 4 minutes 10 seconds. MAY BE SO! New York, Oct. 14.—According to ■ n unconfirmed report In circulation today, Jack Dempsey and Walter Jobpson are planning to go into partnership in the purchase of the Salt Lake City franchise in the Pacific Coast league next season. Holmes and Kairnan to Banquet Players Ernie Holmes, hacker of the Holmes amateur baseball team, and Abe Kal man, backer of the Kalman Insur ance amateur club, will banquet their hall players at the Elks’ club rooms tomorrow evening. After the big "feed” the players will be entertained at a theater party. Auto Race Record Broken. Paris, Oct. 13.—The world's 24-hour automobile record was lowered today by a French car of 2,000 cubic cen timeters piston displacement, driven alternately by Martin, Marie and Cross on the Montlbery speedway in an official trial. The car covered 2,030.193 kilometers (approximately » 824 12 miles) and continued on to the 3.000 kilometer <1,804.15 miles) mark, which was made In 24 hours, 42 minutes, 5 3-5 seconds. STORM DELAYS SHENANDOAH North Island, San Diego, Cal., Oct. _The navy dirigible Shenandoah, delayed here since early Saturday morning for repairs, will not leave today for Camp Lewis, Wash., as scheduled because of a wdnd storm reported near Queen Charlotte sound, In the northwest. Tentative plans today are for the Shenandoah to leave tomorrow at 7 80 a. m. provided weather reporta along the path to he traversed show conditions to be Ideal. It was expect ed here today that the storm In (he northwest will have passed Inland hv )et» today and that a hop off could be made early. The < heckle* fought n Imril hiiltli- and dflfena* who p-iuhI tn thai of iIip 11 v p llnwivor. • Iip wonnnift.il i<nm Wnrk of ihr i'» IhiIooIm n'n forwwril "•>»* «.f ktpt tht rbtcklcs dowu m tin* f -«iu* culuiuUe JOE STKC'HEK STARTS WINTER SEASON AGAINST OKDE.MAN. JOE STECHER, former world’* champion heavyweight wrestler, and resident of Nebraska, Is planning on a. busy winter season. Joe writes that he experts to work his way up the ladder to another match with Champ Ed Lewis, Steelier will open liis winter mat season against Henry Ordeman III a finish bout at Wicliiia next Mon day night. Following Ihe Oede ma n bout, providing Joe wins, Iip will wrestle "Mike” Howard in a finish bout in Wichita. Kansas City and Chicago pro moters are angling for Joe's serv ices and might he satisfied. Chi cago wants another Steelier-Pat McGill bout, while Kansas City thinks two Nebraska wrestlers, "Big” Munn and Steelier would be a good match and equally as good a drawing card. Stecher says lie is in good physical condition and that his arm, which has caused him considerable trouble, is in good working order. BASEBALL PLAYERS COME 1HGII IN EXHIBITION CONTESTS. LAWYERS, physicians and the like receive good salaries for their services, but what about the baseball player? Members of the world champion Washington Senators received more than $5,000 for playing in the world's series games. That is not included in their monthly salary cheeks received during the regular playing schedule. 'Ihe New York Giants received more than 14,000 tier player as their part of tlie world series cash. Following the re»'?#iir baseball schedules conic Ihe "barnstorming” trips, and more money. "I»azzy” Vance, Brooklyn liurler and choice of numerous baseball scribes fbr the best pitcher in major league baseball this year, received souielhhig like $000 for pitching eight and oue-half innings of hall at the Omaha Western league park Sunday. Ynd Ihe funny part about the whole, tiling is that Vanre didn’t extend himself any. His hardest work was right after tlie game, when he scribbled his name on nu merous baseballs for the fans. More than $3,000 was taken in at the gate. Omaha is just one of the many cities that Vanre will visit on his “barnstorming” tour of the coun try. What he will receive for his end will mount into the four fig ures. Add what the major leaguers make from their "barnstorming” games to what they receive each month from their re pective dubs and their sal ary for the baseball season, which is six months, isn’t to lie sneezed nt. OKLAHOMA ( OA< II REALIZES AMBITION OF MANY YEARS. WHEN the 1'nlveralty of Okla homa defeated the University of Nebraska at football Katur day, 14 to 7. Bennie Owen, veteran Sooner pigskin mentor, realized a long-time ambition. * >wen has been hcml coach at Oklahoma for 20 years, but Saturday was t lie first time that his team heat live Corn huskers. Tile Sooner* not only lieal Ne braska by a touchdown and goal after touchdown, but outplayed lln Huskers throughout the game. This had never happened in any previous AIRGIL HAGGERT, well known young lawyer, is one of the Omaha gunners who makes It a point to get in a lot of shooting every year. He is an excellent shot, The Ollier day he was out shoot ing and lie came in witli six leal. his wife asked him why he didn't bring in more ducks. "There weren't any more," said Virgil, "These siv came in over the decoys so I fired five times. That killed (lie flock!” Friends are glad flint Virgil didn't operate a machine gun for (lie enemy during the war. FOREIGN TRADE MAKES BIG GAIN ’Washington, Oct. li !'»i ign trade of the United States th: >« »: shows the greatest expansion t n\ nation, compared to prewar li^ures. Secretary of Uomrnerre Hoover an nuuneed today. Hoover based his statement on He partment of (Commerce figures, show ing exports of $3,124,i40,000 and im ports of $2,004,137,000 for the nine months ending October 1. Comparative figures for 1013 show ed exports of $1,733,422,000 and im ports of $1,327,385,000. The total in crease In trade this yr.ir owr 1913 was 30 per cent, according to Hoover. LA FOLLETTE TO SPEAK IN ST. LOUIS St. lamia, Oct. 14 Crossing into , Missouri during the night, Senator Robert M. I.a Follette, independent candidate for president, arrived here , today for Ills second campaign speech west of the Mlsssslppl river. What Issues ho will si i css In his address here are not. known, hilt he I has indicated he will continue to ills cuss the problem of the American . farmer ns he did In Kansas city last '' night. contest between the two universities. One of the most remarkable fea tures about file Runners' victory was that not a substitution was made during the entire game by Oklahoma, something that very seldom happens ill a football con test. Coach Dawson of Nebraska rushed fresh gridstefs into the battle in the hopes of crushing the Oklahoma ele\ en, but Bennie Owen stood pat on hi/ starting lineup and won the game, one of the biggest upsets in the history of the Missouri valley. >-\>S E.\lIB MIE HAS GREAT EOI.COWING IN PITTSBURGH. BCD'' KNOX, former West ern league t atcher and also former all-state athlete at Dos Moines, who was a member of the Pittsburgh catching staff this pjLHt season, says that Kmll Yde. re cruit Pirate pitcher, has one of tite greatest followings In Pittsburgh of any major league player. Knox, who accompanied the lies Moines university football team to Omaha last Saturday for the Creighton game. Informed the writ er that whenever Emil was slated to hurl for the Pirates at their home lot there was always a large crowd. The Pittsburgh club played to large home crows throughout (lie season, but when Yde took his turn on the hill the crowd always was a little bit larger than other days. There is no getting round the fai t that \ ile, former Oklahoma City hurlpr. Isn’t a great hurler. Walter Johnson and "lla/.zy" Vance, ladli hurled I lie best base ball of their careers this year, but w hat about \ lie'.* Emil entered the big league and In Ids first season with a major league team blossomed Into a star. Head what frank Menke, one of the foremost baseball critics of the coun try has to say about the former Western league pitcher. Here It Is: In tills season of herculean pitching deoil*. th>» MUHMtlrn arises: "Who is the greatest moundstnan of the your?" Per ha pi* never w.m a task more dif ficult ihitn to tike one m* n and lay, "Hero he 1*." !n all hi* baseball year*. Waller John ston never bait hurled more brilliant base ball than In 1924. Anti so long a* the National league ha* lived, few pitchers have performed in more sensational fashion than Pazzy Vance. 1m the Eoieetioij to he made from that pair’ Ami if bo. what about one young ster with the strange, strange name of Yde ? All thing* considered, Isn’t he the star of the 1924 star*’ The Kid arrived in the older league this yeir. He didn't have the vital knowl edge of the weakness and the strength of the batsmen that is possessed by Johnson and Vance. He had to learn a* h- pitched his wav along and experience usually is extremely costly. Heinff young, being new. he was pot seas"Tied. He lt.*ul to overcome the some thing that is stage fright and youthful nervousness. He had to take mental hurdle* which Johnson and Van*** took lit other years and which obstacles didn't • infuse or halt them tills year as they have Yde. In f.i-i* <>f all the handicaps. Yde had | turned In 14 vl< tortus arul suffered only iwti defeats, Inclusive September 17. His n ;tai U wits .875, which put him in front of Johnson, Vance and all the others. At that moment, when the Kid was hurling for s~tJ, his team was playing at n 49" gait That put Yds 282 points beyond his team. And thni's a bet'er showing than John son "r Vance, superlative as their work has b* * n. ha vo made. \! "TlMr.JJKX I. Hair Stays Combed, Glossy Millions Use It-Few Cents Buys Jar at Drugstore Kven stubborn, unruly or sham pooed hair stays combed nil day in any style you like. "Hair-Groom” Is n dignified combing cream which gives that natural gloss and well groomed effect, to vour hair—-that final touch to good dress both In busi ness and on social occasions. "Hair Groom" is greaseless; also helps grow thick, heavy, lustrous hair. Hewaro of greasy, harmful Imitations. iw-p.'/M.-ret t Chariton High Gridsters Still in - Running for Roper Trophy Creston. la.. Oct. 14—To promot" keener competition and a cleaner sport, Roper Brothers, jewelers ot Creston. are again offering a silver fool ball trophy to any team tn south western Iowa who plays upon the Creston field and closes the season with the largest percentage. The game Saturday whrn Chari ton gave the local eleven a trounc ing seems to have eliminated Cres ton from any chance at the trophy. Chariton Is now considered one of the strongest rontendeis for the cup, however, they have the strong high schools teams from Villsca and lireenfleld to meet. It is considered as much of ail honor each year among the high schools of this vicinity to win the cup as it is to close the season without a defeat. Chariton won the cup last year, while Shenandoah was tlie winner the year before. A cup Is Riven eaeli year to place In the school building where their elevens have invaded thin field and have carried off the higli percentage. According to dopesters it appears that Charlton has an advantage at this time, though Vilisca has a won derful backfleld, while Greenfield has another "Mike" Augustine eleven and team that presents a powerful of fensive. To be reckoned with during Hie season are I,eon, Red Oak, Clar inda, Corning. Vtlllsca, Shenandoah, Greenfield. Chariton and the dope may all he supset by any of the teams going through the season w'ithout the loss of a game. ESCAPED LEPER AT WASHINGTON Washington, Oct. 14.—The flight force at police headquarters here re ceived a shock early today when Wil lard Centilever. escaped leper from the federal colony at Carrvllle, La., walked In and said he had been com missioned by the 18(1 Inmates there to come to Washington and protest against conditions In the colony. Before he was hustled off to the quarantine station here, a lonely two room structure on the river bank, Centilever, who did not explain why he put police headquarters first on his visiting list, said the inmates at Carr ville had chipped in to pay his ex-J penses. He had stopped off at a num ber of cities oil his way up, he said committee, that she might not allow he escaped. OMAHAN HONOR MAN IN NAVY Kdward C. Wilkinson, son of Mrs. J. W. Wilkinson, 2624 North Nine teenth 'street, is honor man at the United States Naval Training station at San Diego, Cal., according to naval authorities. Wilkinson enlisted two months ago. HEAVY JOLT FOR RUM VIOLATION Huntington, AV. Ara., Oct. 14.—Con vleted of having violated the \rolstead act, Don chafin of I,ogan county, West A’irginla. was sentenced today by .ludge (J. W. MeClintoek to two years In the federal prison at Atlanta. Ga., and fined J10.000. Bv 4..,OK<.i; HI.APIl'k. The double-header aoerer game at the Douglas Motor field Sunday attracted the largest, attendance of any games played thus far this season and the largest dele gallon of The Omaha Bees grade school soccer players, too. The Omaha Bee tirade School Soceer league, which ►tatted Monday. Is s_ great boost to the game in Omaha Several teams tn The Bee tournament are being coached hy men who pla> in the Omaha District Soccer lenghe The center halfback of the P. H’i. 33 is h good soccer player His pitting is ss bright as it is fascinating. Kohson of the Horska la unquestionably one of the best plsvers In the District league. Ills steady defense and dynamic offens** have a wonderful effect on the en tire team. It la to he regretted, that through some inexplicable negligence on the part of th** league officials the Clarks and Vikings were deprived of playing their scheduled game at Miller park in f*vor of some strange football teams This na'iigally provo'ifd feeling among the soc cer piayets Involved, who feel, and justly so. that they are being discriminated against What'* th* mutter with the beautiful Elmwood park? Members of the Omaha District Hor t »r leagup can boost the games to unlim ited 1 founds hy helping t lie grade school teams during the schedule of The Omaha P.e« tournament, which started yester day. The youngsters of the grade schools like to play softer, but many have no cost ho*. SIMMONS TO TOUR WEST THIS WEEK Congressman Robert Simmons is scheduled to speak in western Ne braska this week as follows: Wednesday Stapletcn, 10; Handy, t. Arnold. 30 Anselrno. evening. Thursday Comstock, 10; Sargent. 1-. Taylor. 2:10; Burwell. 4. Ord. evening. Friday-Erickson, 9 SO; Bartlett. ID Spaulding. 2:30; Greeley. 4.30; Scotia, eve Saturdnv North T<oup 9: Cotesfleli. 10; Elba 11 to; S Paul. 1 Fafwell, 3 30; A-hion Pout* 1*1 ty night_______ GERMAN BONDS PLACED ON SALE New York. Oct. 14.—Sale of bonds of the “German external loan, 1924, began at 10 thl* morning after re ceipt by J. P. Morgan A Co. of the cabled endorsement of the reparation commission. Offerings of the portion of the $110,000,000 loan allotted to other nations will be mads Immedi ately. Simultaneously with the announce ment by the Morgan syndicate that the bonds were ready, Mayor Hylan wrote his third letter to President Coolidge relative to the loan, again calling upon the president to inform the Investing public whether or not the word of the bankers was the only assurance investors had of the ulti mate collection of the moneys. As serting there w-ere hints in the state ments of the bankers Indicating that arms might be used to collect the debt If necessary. Mayor Hylan ques tioned the readiness of the allies to go to war to collect American money for American Investors and nsked if our own armed forces would be used. So great was the demand for the German bonds that several large in vestment houses were compelled to decline to take any more subset ip tions because their allotment of the loan had been sold. In the first 15 minutes of trading approximately $360,000 worth of the bonds changed hands on the New York Stock exchange at prices rang ing between 94*4 and 9274 as against the offering price of 92. Stolen Books Recovered. Twenty-four books, stolen from the Omaha public library, were recovered Monday by H. F. Keiser. book store proprietor, 221 North Sixteenth street. Kieser said he bought the books for $9 from a man who declared that he had obtained them at a “blind auc tion." __ _—— Jones Schedules More Contests Coach Ira Jones of the new Noith High school has arranged games With Nenla. la.; Thomas Jefferson High of Council Bluffs and Blattsmouth for his gridsters aside from the regular scheduled games with the aecrnd teams of Omaha high school*. The North High eleven will play Neoln on Saturday. November 1; Thomas Jefferson, November 24. and Plattsinouth. November 22. All games will be played on foreign territory. The trip to North Platte, scheduled for Turkey day. has been called off. This afternoon the North playa the Creighton Prep freshmen at North's field. Central and South High freshmen are -rheiluled to play this afternoon at Athletic palk. -—-—^ OMAHA ^ ^ To Better \ Serve Humanity You Health Depends upon the Condition of Your Spine So Investigate Chiropractic See Omaha Atlas Club An nouncement in Sunday Bee --- Running away with it! WHEN the “favorite” really hits ing pace ever since—gaining more his stride, it’s all over but the and more smokers even’ day. shouting. And in a race tor sales it’s Chesterfield has won its present the same ston* position because men know by its Months ago, Chesterfield hit its taste that here is clean-cut superior- C U , 15. *v stride. And it has set a record-break- ity of tobaccos and blend. oUCIl pOpUldlliy _ must be deserved Chesterfield v CIGARETTES ; -millions I Copyright I.ior.irr Sc My EM Touaoco Co. __ .... . _—