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Occidental May Play Creighton Here November 7 1IE Occidental college »of the southern ~ California Inter collegiate confer ence and Creigh ton uuivrmity of Omaha may meet on the gridiron in this city next November 7, it became known yesterday. Athletic Direc tor Kchairnger of Creighton, when told t hat a dis patch from I.OS Angeles carried the information that Occidental college was seriously con sidering an invitation from Creighton to play in Omaha next fall, said tiiat lie had been corresponding with the atliletie officials at Occidental for some time and that prospects look bright for a big intcrsertioiial foot ball game here November 7. Occidental college is ranked tail'd in the southern California intercol legiate conference, California untver sltjr and Iceland Stanford outranking the Occidental institution. The proposed game with Occidental college is just one of the big games Athletic Director Sehnbinger Is lining up for next season. With one of the best football roaches in the country at the head of the Bluejay football squad and prospects bright for a strong team, the Creighton athletic director is rapidly lining up a good schedule of games. The new Creighton stadium is ex , pecteil to he completed by next foot balj season. New Cage Meet for Histfi Teams c Omaha's High soHnnl athletic coaches at a .meeting held Wednesday abolished the lnterclags basket ball tournament which has been a fixture among the high school hoopsters in years past and in its place has grown a basket hall tournament which "ill lie known as the annual interschool reserve toui'ney. According to the plan of the coaches for the new tournament, each school will select as many teams as possible from basket hall players wlto are not members of (lie school's first team. These teams will compete in a school tourna ment, tlie winner to represent the school in competition with the win ners of the tournaments at the other high schools. The final win ner will be known as the champion reserve tournament train o( Oma ha's high schools. It is tlie |dan of the roaches to decide tlie champion by the "round robin" method of playing. Tlie teams will be limited to eight play ers, and each player, in order to lie eligible for the final series must have played in four of Ills school's intra-mural games. The lntta-muri}l journamant ai the t0 high schools will start next, w-nek. The i-ity chnniplonshtp series will start February 16. ISAAC ANDREWS LEADS MARKSMEN Pinehurit, N. C., Jan. 7.—Isanc Andrews of Spartanburg, S. wa* leading marksman competing in the lb-yard target champion event today at the end of the first half of the 160 targets event. He broke 78 out of u possible 80 targets. Frank Troeh, Pacific coast cham pion, who is leading in the high nvemge to-race on all targets broken during the tournament, broke 77 and tied with four otReis for second p!a_ce. Police Athletic Association Elects New Officers The Omaha Police Athletic associa tion elected Inspector Jack Pzsannw sky president at the annual meeting, with Sergeant John Holden, vic« president and Sergeant George Allen, secretary and treasurer. The three officers 1ogo!h"r with rapt. George Armstrong, Sergeant Charles Paynf and F. Target-Id, makeup the new board of directors. Sergeant Payne is president of the baseball team. Jot Wavrin is manager and Captain Arm strong is field captain. Payton. (»., .Inn. 8—The proposed flglu between • llarrv <»reb end Jnhnny Klesch the . tiy'ter of Cleveland for champion ship honors here January II'. was callei nff on receipt ,»f Word that Klesch .* Ill and will le nnnl'!- u frplil for a month — R#rf«I«*n Studio ARE YOU NERVOUS: |)o You Have Headache, llacliachel Hear \\ lint Mrs. linn Us Has In Say. J)es Moines, Iowa. "I was all run down in health. 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Miss Hurley has had much success on trotting tracks and intends to race more often in the future. ^ Walter Johnson Still Searching for Interest in Coast League Club Los Angccs, Gal., Jan. 8.—Walter Johnson is still seeking a controlling interest In a Pacific Coast league franchise. This was the announce ment of the famous Washington American league pitcher on his ar rival in I -os Angeles today. Walter would not comment on the report that he had a certified check for $385,00ft In his possession. Imediately after arriving here Johnson began inquiring for Wade Killifer, who is part owner of the Seattle club. This led to (lie re port that Johnson might try to purchase an interest in the Puget Sound clnb. He will investigate the Vernon situation thoroughly, Johnson said. Johnson, while here will also eon START BASEBALL PRACTICE AT IOWA Iowa City, la., Jan. 7.—Otto N.l Vogel, newly appointed baseball; coach, has reported for duty and will call out diamond candidates tonight for the first time. The nine this sea son is captained by Wilbur E. Scan1 tlebury, veteran shortstop. Vogel will hold spring practice in the new armory until the weather permits outdoor drill. tfix of the 10 letter men from last year have returned. “Hub’* Marshall, hurling ace for two seasons will be back again for mound duty. Captain Scantlebury will again be at short, King at second, and Baud© at first. Eddie Flinn and Mort Barrett are the two outfielders who return. Those lost are ex-Captnin Nicks, third base man; Ching Duhm, pitcher, who turned pi4»fess onal; Basil Barrett, catching ace, and Frank Poepsel, atari outfielder. MISSOURI CAGERS LEAVE FOR AMES Columbia. Mo., Jan. 7.—Eleven] member* of the basket ball squad of] the 1’niveralty of Missouri, acconv 1 anied by Director of Athletics C. L. Brewer and Coach George A. Bond, left here this afternoon «*n route to Ames, la., where the Tigers play their firat conference game of the season Thursday night. On this trip, the Missourians also meet Drake at Dps Moines Friday and Grinnell at Grinnell Saturday, St. Paul Hockey Sextet VI ins. Kveleth, Minn., Jan. 7.—The St Paul Hockey sextet defeated the Kveleth team by a J to 0 score in a t'nited States Anlatcur Hockey asso ciation game here tonight. 'With the' KNIGHTtf of the GLOVES Ogden. I l«h. .Ian. S.— Nobe Orvuntoi. jl'.-nvri, Colo., featherweight boxer, won from Lew Paluzo, of Salt Lake, on » ler hncal knockout In the sevenih round of their *< heduled 10-round bout here. I’sluso we* knocked down In the sixth and th* bell aaved him from taking the count. He tvrnt unabb* to atnrt the sev enth. They fought at 1?.0 pound*. Palur.o wan a contender in the recent world'* fejt herwe ight championship elimination tournament in New York. XS innlpeg, >lan., .Inn. H,—.lurk Keddick, Canadian middleweight champion, gained a newspaper decision over Johnny I’apko of Cleveland in a 10-round bout here. At Newark, V .1.—Mickey Walker, Kllx abeth N. J . welterweight champion, won unofficial derision from Mike McTIgue. N.-w Y u lt, light-heavy w eight champion, 12 rounds. Hobby Harrett. I'hilMdelpbla, slopped Jack Kanpaport, Newark, eight rounds, Harry Marton*. J.-reny City, out pointer! ‘ h»r!ey Arthurs. Newark. 10 rounds. for with Del Howard, part owner of the Oakland club. John soil is ex pected to try to convince Howard that his partner, J. Cal Kwing, was all wrong when he recently refused to sell the Oaks for $385,1100. Johnson sahl that unless he ob tained a controlling Interest In a const league franchise he would be unable to get away from Washing ton. Bolth Beats O’Dowd. Dayton. O., Jan. 7.—Frankie Bobb. local featherweight, spotted Mickey O'Dowd, Muncte, Ind., eight pounds and defeated him in every round here tonight. Johnny Klnnard and Hope Mullen, of Muncle, fought an eight round draw. BOILERMAKERS PLAY HAWKEYES Iowa City, la., Jan. 7.—Piggy Ham hert's speedy Boliprmakers invade Iowa City for the second Big Ten game of the >ear Friday night with the sole Intention of getting revenge for two defeats sustained at the hands of the Hawks on tlie basket ball court last year. That Piggy would not mind win ning from Iowa Is attested by the fact that be came here in person Monday night to watch the Hawks trample on the Gophers. He was duly hn pressed. LANDIS NOT READY TO REVEAL SCANDAL Chicago, Jan. 7.—Kenrsaw Moun tain Landis, baseball commissioner, today said that he had not set any particular time for revealing to the public the confessions of Jimmy O'Connell and Cosy Dolan, of the New York Giants, expelled from or* gnized baseball as a result of the baseball scandal preliminary to the world's series. He said he would make the con fession public when he believed their publication would be helpful to base ball. BLUEJAY CAGERS LEAVE TONIGHT Coach Schabinger of the Creigh ton university basket bail team and his hoopstars leave Omaha at 6 o'clock tonight en route to Milwaukee where on Saturday the Bluejays meet the Marquette university quin tet in the annual game between the two institutions. The Creighton coach and his men will arrive in Milwaukee Friday noon and will take a long workout in the afternoon and evening. Minneapoli* Train Win*. Cleveland, Jan. 7.—Minneapolis e\ene.l the aetle* with Cleveland t" night. In a T'nlted State* Hooker league game which It won, 1 to LAST I DAY I | TOMORROWj % Moving Gate Latest Innovation at Race Tracks Meets With Success San Diego, Cal., Jan. 8.—Starter Marshall Cassidy * moving gate, lat est innovation at race tracks, was tried in the first race at Tla Juana yesterday and had what horsemen called complete success. Starter Cas sidy sent away 1.1 3-year-olds in per fect alignment. The experiment was watched with much Interest by race goers. The gate or webbing, is attached to posts on two automobile trucks, mov ing slowly up to the starting post for a distance of about 100 feet. In the experiment the harrier wit* sprung when the horses were about 25 feet from tile post. The trucks were inside the track with the horses. It is planned to grade approaches so that the trucks can run outside, giv ing room for large fields of horses in side. Starter Cassidy who is a son of the famous “Mars” Cassidy, veteran starter, believes that with the mov ing: g:ate he ran send away fields without tedious delays, which are many times prejudicial to the chances of heavily weighted or nervous horses. FINALS IN CURLING TOURNEY SUNDAY Finals In the l.ions' cup curling competition will be held at Miller park Sunday morning at 9 o'clock. The Alisa Craigs are scheduled to play the Heathers and the Balmorals meet the Bobby Burns in the morning competitions. In the afternoon, start ing at t o'clock the winners of the morning games play for the l.ions’ cup. Fremont Gagers Have Hard Game Fremont, Neb., Jan. 7.—With a vic tory over Schuyler high as a curtain raiser for the season. Coach Jimmie Johnston s squad of cage stars are tackling two of the toughest teams on the Fremont slate when they play York and Hastings on, their home courts on Thursday and Friday nights of this week. Capt. Merle Bunn, center and for ward of the Fremont squad, Is ineli gible this semester and will lie unable lo make the trip. Gray, Kindler, Whitfield, last year's regulars, are back In uniforms and ready to go. Chambers and Bcckley have formed ono guard combination with Thlelen and Clark another. Thlelen is the tiny substitute who went into the Fremont Creighton I’rep game in the waning minutes of the contest last year and shot two baskets, giving Fremont an unexpected victory. Richards and Mallory Ranking Net Players New York, Jan. 7—Vincent Rich srds, Olympic tennis champion and Mrs. Molla B. Mallory, former na tlonal titlthoider. head the men's and women's ranking list in the metro politan district for 1924. Br. George King is runner-up to Richards and Miss Kleannr Goss is next to Mrs. Mallory in the list made public today by the Metropolitan I-awn Tennis as soclatlon. Marquette Loses to DePauw Five Milwaukee. AVis., Jan. 7.—Inability to win the hoop at opportune me ments cost the Marquette university basket ball five a Rome here tonight, and the De Pauw university quintet playing a smooth, fast brand of the cageing sport defeated the Hilltop pers, 26 to 16. De Pauw got an early lead, but the game was a see saw af fair in its early stages and several tfme$ Marquette drew close, only to lose out when they failed on close shots at the basket. Johnnie Ward, 125-pound De Pauw forward, and Hlrt featured for the Hoosiers, while Rob Demeling was the Marquette star. KANSAS CAGESTERS LEAVE FOR GAMES Lawrence, Kan., Jan. 7.—Twelve members of the University of Kansas basket ball team in charge of Coach F. C. Allen left here tonight for Iowa where the Jayhawkers will engage in their first games of the Missouri val ley conference season. Kansas meets Grinnell tomorrow night. Ante* on Friday and Drake on, Saturday. y/estern Football Same as Eastern Brand, Says Camp New Haven, Conn., Jan. 8.—Foot ball aa played In (he eaal, middle west and on the Pacific coast Is all practically the same today, according to Walter Camp, well known author tty on the came. In an Interview pul) llshed in the Yale New*. The Inter sectional matches account for this condition, he says. Mr. Camp commends the playing of the Yale team of this year, declar ing that It was "marked by a gradual co-ordination into team play and ef fectiveness without stars, which to my mind I* the highest credit to the coach and coaching staff. "Notre Dame was like Yale,” he is quoted ns saying, "a well co-ordi nated team and dependent upon team play more than upon stars.” Mr. Camp is quoted as favoring the change in rules proposed by Head Coach T. A. I). Jones of Yale which would not permit a player to return to the game. ^ MANY APPLY FOR JOBS AS UMPIRES Dos Angeles, aJn. 7.—More than 400 application* for umpire's iKisitions In the Pacific Coast Baseball league have been received to date, It was an nounced here today by Harry A. Wil liams, league president. Two contracts already have been filled and umpires to fill the seven vacancies will he chosen from the long list In the hands of the league president. Princeton. 57; Pennsylvania Mill , tary college, 10. Depanw, 26; Marquette university, 16. Navy, 39; Gettysburg. 16. North Dakota Aggies, 36; Butte "V“. 18. St. Johns college, 25; Army, It. TO HOLD AMATEUR SKATE RACES SOON Saranac Lake. N. 5'.. .Ian. 7.—The International outdoor amateur speed ekatliiE championship races will he held at Saranac Lake, February 4, 5 and 8. and the American diamond trophy races will he held aj Lake Placid. February 12, 13 and 14. it was announced here today by Charles H. Goldsmith, secretary of the Interna tional Skating union. A' Iowa Billiard — ‘I Player WiA Two Dm Moines pocket billiard player* advanced a notch higher In the standings of the annual Inter state pocket billiard tournament the Paxton parlors yesterday whewi Walt Wilson and Jimmy Barber won their respective matches. In the afternoon's match Wilson, who hails from Des Moines, defeated B. Htoneman of Independence, la., 125 to 97, while In the evening Bar ber. also of lies Moines, defeated W. Everett of Omaha. 125 to 43. Barber Is present inter tate champion. Barber easily outplayed Everett, completing h'.s match In 22 innings. Malt lake » lt>. Jan. "I’lnk” fiard ner New Y.irk middleweight wrestler, de tested lr» Pern "f Halt l-«ke City here liardner won the firm fall with a toe hold In seven minuter Pern took the second fall In St minutes with a veverse body hold and then after 31 minute* of m*t work Pern wa* thrown to the canvas with rueh force that he waa unable to ro n 11 n up I — Vaudeville—Photoplay* [EEHH3 5 7 Days, Starting | SATURDAY S The most talked about ~ spectacle in raudeville, 1 “The City of | Yesterday” ~ A huge mechanical *tage pro duction *howing the de*truc “ tion of Tokio by fire and earth ; quake. A matterpieca of art I" and beauty. I CHARLES! I ALDRICH 5 The one and original character change comedian in an extraor S dinary performance. IISHRHIER and- " ] FITZSIMMONS, H “The Newsdealer” 1 1 BARRY & ROLLO I GOLD & EDWARDS I BORDNER & BOYER | ARTHUR NAYS P fJFjUjfiW* | f A iirr.n rom.nc. ~ 1 of the bright lights = and dark shadows | of Paris |niiimiiiimiiuiiiiiiiimimiiiiiiimmii> NEIGHBORHOOD THEATER5 GRAND.lath and Binney Roy Stew«'t and Hfs»l» l evs in ''Sundown'' j LOTHROP.i!4th and I nthm? Rathaia IlFdlnrd. I'ronk Keenan And | Rntioit Freier in ''Women Who Give* HAMII TON ... 4 H Hamilton i Silvia Rroomri in ' l . 'nmin on the fury.” Alto "Into the Net” BOUI F.VARD .YYH and I e*\enwnrth Glenn Hunter ami Vloh Ihns in "Met ton of the Mn\ in” i-< r Extra Feature TONIGHT at 8>30 Tommy Roulette and His Omahans 8 Snappy Syncopatora I--I I Amateurs I In Addition ____* mm ~ —J 7 Days, Starting Tomorrow Empress Players offer a musi cal comedy version of the famous novel— “Lena Rivers” A love romance bubbling over I with drama and laughtar. ! Helen Chadwick [ I In a fascinatiny screen Vesture, I “Her Own Free Will” | | Also another “Co-Getter** story | !_ g:*1*— NOW PI.AVIMi—B:?B I lie it imotiiR Hinging ( ontfillfnng MISS FRANKIE HEATH JARLETON A HARRIS & BALLEW 8RIFFIN PAUL DECKER & CO^ EVELYR LES ’HILLIPS & CO. 6LADD0NS HUCHIE CLARK & CO. THE DRAMA OF THRILLS CATA"prHf ANARY THRU.LSI CHILISI LAUGHS 1 Ev'ngi, BOa to *2; Mai., BOr, $ I. |l SO |'/l, ■ _ . —.—r . Dmahn’i I tin ( anlai Mat and Nit. I ndaa THE SHOW WITH A KICK. FRANK HUNTER^ BEST SHOW IN TOWN (OIUMniA nURITSK And AH«vr CCC CADAUI You’ll A i Thing*. 1 I ind Out (• i'i<in«how r i (till* and Hi# Reality (horn* L»tlirt* arc Rat gain Mai.. 7ilft VVU l)a> * Bun. Mat. \n l Waakt MITiKB Ok it.* BETTY COMPSON ‘The Garden of Weeds' A rich man'a playground where Broadway beautica came to bloom, but aoon faded. 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