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MID CITY DOWNS CORNHUSKERS IN OPENER " —— - - - ****** By EDWARD LANE SFCRTS WRITER A i HLETIC staff increased AT MID CITY * * * £ * Mid City Athletic program which has been progres sing with such speed, givys promise oT greater things, with the addition 01 three new members to its present staff. * * * * Stephen Taylor, popular all around athlete, has be^n retained as director of grade and junior athletics. He will be in charge of hiking and archery, besides officiat ing a: the Did City indoor league games. * * * * .Alarjorn* Bolden will have charge of tap and acro batic dancing and junior tennis. * * * * Charles Johnson, recently of Berkley Calif., and winer of an open tennis championship will conduct classes 1 elementory tennis. He will also teach sketching, poster maning and handicraft. * * * * Persons interested in these classes should call Mrs Singleton at the Mid City Center. * * * * * ATHLETICS IN MID CITY CENTER ***** Athletics spirit will be as high as ever during the spring and summer at the Mid Cinty Center The FERA pro grams have increased the directors from three to seven. ***** Marty Thomas will be director of the gym with Taylor and T. Dixoh as assistants. Mrs. Clarence Singleton will direct the girl s athletics with Miss Rae Lefe Jones, and Miss Marjorie Bold(en as her assistants. Two more, that are not available to the press, will be chosen. Work on the Mid City Playground will begin at once. v ***** ° POPULAR ATHLETICS JOIN C. C. C. ***** Sport Fans will miss several popular athletics as the season progresses—reasons—the wide open places call. What the fans will do without them is unknown, such as the dashing Emmet James, Mose Ware, and the flashy Rudy Gerron, to say nothing of Horn and Hampton. These Stellar High Lights in Negro Athletics have deserted the.sports to chop trees, dig ditches, aid to fight mosquitoes in the far regions of Minnesota’s big forest and Great Lakes regions. The boys left Monday at 9 o’clock. They have been rejgistered for 6 months. ***** ATHLETICS SHINE AT CENTRAL ***** The track Athletes of the Omaha High Schools have been showing great promise in that sport. Central High will have the pleasure of having Walter Rhoadejs, holder of the Century and 220 yard dash records in Minneapolis, galloping down the cinders for them this year. He will probably be a new anchor man on the relays also. * * * * Eddie Wiggins is running the low hurdles and is a member of the relay team. John Elliot is getting lots of distance out of the discus and the shot put up near the record. Earl Anderson is learning the Eastern and Wes tern styles of high jumping, and is getting up in the air. George Sleed was shadowed in one of the races last week by Ed. Riggs. Herbeprt Gorner is throwing the Javelin shot and the discus so well that he has John numbling unheard of things tp himself. AMAZE A MINUTE SCIENTIFACTS BY ARNOLD 1*—- ' ' ■ ■■ - —-77=.-- - - Giving great weight III . TO SMALL MATTER/ SCIENTIST* HAVE COMPUTED THAT THE j MATERIAL COMPOSING CERTAIN STARS IS 40,000 TIMES HEAVIER THAN WATER. A j MERE CUBIC INCH WOULD WEIGH V4 TONS.! -A 1.II p-OUR FOR PuSi./ Successive explosions op orwna | RY FLOOR POST FROM GRAIN ELEVATORS I HAVE BEEN USEP BY U.S. GOVERNMENT WORK a_ HEAT WITHOUT LIMIT There is no known top to Temperature, the heat op some STARS BEING ESTIMATED AT • • • 72,000,000 °P. But there is a Of white bottom, at-459*p, at WHICH A SUBSTANCE IS DEVOID OP fu-flttL_~~ TENNIS CLASS AT MID CITY THIRTY IN TENNIS CLASS — • 1 hirty have already registered for tennis at the Mid City Community Center. The class will be instructed on the fundamentals of tennis,includ ing proper form, correct grip and the right stance. This will b? a part of | the Physical Educational class at the ; Center under the well known Marty Thomas. J. Harvey Kerns, executive of the Center found his business problems too heavy to carry the classe so he | turned them over to "homas. 1 he classes meet on Tuesdays and Saturdays at 4:00 p. m. in the aud itorium. Those wishing to register call Mrs. Singleton at the Mid City Center. HIT the DEPRESSION ON THE CHIN One reason why revival of the con struction industry is regaded as be ing so vitally important to recovery y most authorities is that the bulk of the employment it would povide is where it is most needed—among skill ed and unskilled laborers. In 1930, 2,500,000 persns were me plyed by the building industry. A but 1,000,000 more were employed in construction work in othea inrustr ies, bringing the total to 3,600.000. Manageial, professional and office workers constituted less than 12 per cent of these . The ratio was 7 and 8 wage earners tol “white collar” em ploye. Again, it is reliably estimated that for every worker actually employed on a building jou, anther worker is employed behind the line in industries supplying necessary fluqqlies. The upshot is that, in normal times, more than ten per cent of all the workers of the country are directly or indir ectly dependent for their livelihood upon the building industry. The terrific dirop in <(,nstru(Jtion work that came with the depression was as a result, very possibly the largest single factor in causing unemployment Today American industry is expand ing as rapidly as it can. And the individua should follow that lead, by building and repairing his own pro perty now, while prices are still down. A national /movement among home owners to renovate their property would be a blow directly to the dre pression’s chin. FACTS CONCENING THE ST. LAWERENCE An authentic Canadian voice has been raised to join the chorus of American vioces that are opposing the proposed St. Lawerence seaway —which would be constructed jointly by Canada and the United States. The voice is that of the Montreal Gazette, and it is worth listening to. Its objections are strictly practical. They are: 1. That the argument that the sea way willsave American farmers suf ficient sums to make it possible to sell wheat in Europe is fallacious, inasmuch as other countries, notably Australia and the Argentine, can supply Europe with all the wheat it can use at much lower prices, ir respective of transpotation costs. 2. That competent engineers have determined that the taxpayers must pay eleven cents for every four cents paid by shippers, if the desired rate level is established. 3. That it would actually be cheap er to build another railroad from Mis sissippi River to the Atlantic Coast than to construct the proposed sea way, which will require $25,000,000 to $50,000,000 annually to pay inter est on investment and maintenance. 4. That the seaway connot pay for iteslf, as rates high enough to pro vide return on investment would be well above these charged by railroads serving the same area. m 5. That if the seaways charges lower than the rail rates, it will lose money, and must be subsidized by the taxpayers while robbing the rail roads of their business. These arguments connot be obscur ed by political appeals to spesd bill Ameriean and Canadian citizen should think them over. Read The Guide WILSON ALL-STAB BIG SUKE-UP BY THOMAS TRACK CARNIVAL GOES WAY OF CAGE MEET Chicago, April 17—The University of Chicago’s national interscholastic track and field games, which brought into prominence Glenn Cunningham, Clarence “Bud” Hauser, F. Morgan aylor, Eddie Tolan and a host of other stars, has gone the way A. A. Stagg’s equally famous prep basket ball classic—out of existence. Opposition by the National Federa tion of State High School Athletic associations, which was responsible the death of the basketball tourna ment several years ago, caused the event to be dropped after 29 years Thomas N. Metcalf, successor to Stagg as the university’s athletic di rector. said last week. I CENTRAL HIGH WINS MEET Coach “Papa” Schmidts Central High tracksters, figured as one of the tough squads in inter-city com petion this season, swamped North and South in their first meet of the year. Tuesday afternoon ,73 to 38 to 35 re spectly. “Big John of Central proved the ability he has when got the two best marks of the day in winning thte discus throw at 117feet and heaved the shot 45 feet 8 inches. Walter Rhoades, also of Central, won both the 100 and the 220 yard dashes. Ed Wiggins won the 110 yard low hurdles The summary: 60—yard high hurdles—Won by Brown, South; second, Stevens, North third, Rosenbaum, Central. Time-— :08.6. 100-yard dash—Won by Rhodes, Central; second, Wiggins, Central; third Flesher, North. Time—:10.9. Mile run—Won by Meissner, South; second, Larsen, Central; third, Jur gens, Central. Time—5:08.8. 220-yard dash—Won by Rhodes, Central; second, Fleshner, North; third. Lane, North. Time—:24.3. Discus throw—Won by Elliot, Cen tral; second. Zerschling, South; third, Stevens, North. Distance—117 feet 6 inches. 440-yard dash—Won by Rosenbaum, Central; second, Rodwell, Central; third Raines, North. Time:57-8. 110-yard low hurdles—Won by Wig gins, Central; second, Brown, South; third, Rosenbaum, Central. Time— :13.7. Shot put—Won by Elliot, Central; second, Crabtree, Central; third, See 8 nches. High jump—Won by Brown, North; Berger, South and Elliot, Central tied for second and third. Height— 5 feet 8 inches. 880-yard run—Won by Hall, North; second, Larsen, Central; third Meis sner. South. Tme—2:17. 1 Broad jump—Won by Brown. South; second, Rosenbaum, Central; third! Baer, Central. Distance—19 feet 1 inch. Pole vault—Won by John, North; second. Sullivan, South; third, Baer, Central. Height—10 feet. 880-yard relay—Won by Central (Wiggins, Payne, Rosenbaum, Rhodes) second, North; third. South. Time— 1:39.8 Javeln throw—Won by Lundeen North; second. Garner, Central; third, Clark, Central. Distance—139 feet 1 inch. TENNIS CLUB TO MEET The tennis club under the spon sership of Martin Thomas, will meet at the Mid-City Center Center on Tuesday at 4 o’clock. All those who are intrested are welcome. WANTS NOMINATION F°R CITY COUNCIL Indianapolis—(CNS)—E- L- John son, an attorney of this city, is a can didate in the Democratic primary for city-councilman- He is a graduate of Tuskegee Institute and Howard University FR^M JENSEN STABLES Billy Love B?,ly Love, 137, popular Omaha boxer from the Jensen Brother’s Stables, has been a fighter around and about Omaha for a number of years Love has had approximately one hundred and fifty fights and has won the large majority of them- He is the Colored lightweight champion of Nebraska and one of the leading colored fjighters in his weight in the country. Billy Love has been fighting and , working hard to help take care of his widowed mother, and he does a fine jcb of it. The out-of-town fighters who come to Omaha, Jensen’s Gym is a fine place to stop and get the proper care that you need. THE DIXIE KID DIES, PENNILESS, UNKNOWN Los Angeles. Cal.. April 17—A broken, white haired Negro* Arron L. Brown by name- died last week. Friday when his friends sought dona tions to save the body from the pot ter’s field his identy was learned. He was the Dixie Kid, welterweight boxing champoin of the world from 1904 to 1908. Born in Fulton- Missouri, in 1883 Dixie Kid won the title at the age of 21. beating Joe Walcot on a foul, in 1911 he knocked out Georges Carpen tier. On a European tour he be came such that a jury of Parisian sportsmen once reversed a referee’s decision against him. SPORTS All managers of the different sports teams who are interested in having the news of their teams pub lished shoud call Edward Lane at The Omaha Guide Office—WE- 1750 or bring the news into the office at 2418 Grant St. CECIL GOLDMAN AND HIMMELSTEIN TO PILOT TEAM Dissatisfied with the showing the Wilson All-Stars (now the Omaha Merchants), Junior Athletic Cham pions, have been showing in pre-season diamond ball, Coach Thomas, startled the players by making a sudden chang in the line-up. Cecil Godman, outstanding out fielder, will lead the team besides tak ing charge of the outfield. Manuel Ifimmelstein, defensive third baseman of the first class, will carry the bur dens of the infield on his shoulders. Juliu Smogey has been added to the infield in order to give speed to the defense and power to the offense.o Wolfe, leading pitcher, who has been having trouble finding the plate, is b:ing sent to the second sack, Sherman from second to first. Bill Carey, the best all round athlete on the team will pitch. Marty Thomas explained that the change was to balance the otherwise weak pitching staff and with Carey improving fast in form a much more balanced team is expected. The outfield will remain the same. Falk, the regular catcher has given way to Roland Lewis, whose im proved hitting warrants him the posi tion. MID CITY TO HOLD SPRING TOURNAMENT Paddle wielders of the genus ping pong are going great at the Mid City Center. Eighteen have registered for the spring tournament. There should be a great race with such veterans as Steve Taylor and Claude McKinney. Taylor with a terriffic serve and smashing angle drive holds the spot light in pre tournament dope. He will, however, receive lots of tough competition out of Foxx, Kemp and the present junior champ, Lewis. Entries will cclose at 8 p. m. Sat. ———. MID Cl MtfINS OPEN R 11- 0 Thomas Gets First Shut Out Of The Year. Manager Steven Taylor and his Mid City diiimnod bailers opened the Senior Diamond ball League Tuseday by shutting out the Comhusker Buf tet 11 to 0 at 20th and burdette Sts. The Mid City nine showed power at the bat and mid season form in feild ing. The Cornhuskers opened their fust half of the inning with Carey, 1 hor...pson and Fidman and retired in the same order. Bolden lead off man tor the Citymen, singled, Mckinney swung at the air, striking out next; Stewart doubled and Marty Thomas Singled to drive in two runs and to ci me home himself on Merriwhether.s long fly to right field. From the first inning scoring the Cornhuskers and the Mid Citymen played errorless ball with Thomas en ding in a pitching duel which lasted to the last half of the sixth inning. Th/ ’ as Out Of Hole The Comhuskers threatened in their half of the fourth inning, with the score 3 to 2 against them, Thompson, „ Fidman, and Benders each singled to load the bases and with a scare in sight the Orang jersey pitcher opened up with a dazzling mixture of smoke and curves that sent B. Carey, Boomy and riddle down for three straight strike outs. Frampton, Stewart and Abrams combined to score 7 more runs in the sixth and seventh innings. As the Citymen coasted to 11 too 0 victory The Citymen showed excellent form for early season games. The battery of Thomas and Taylor worked in mid season form. Manager Taylor will permanently take charge of the catching assign ments and his ability to call them right in the pinches " played a big part in the shutout victory. Besiding pitching a shutout, Thomas hit a homerun in the sevenfti inning. 7 ennis Club to Re Open; have Team The Tennis Club will re-open soon at the courts at 24th and Maple Sts. The club plans to enter its teams in most of the important meets of the the year. The team will probably consist of James Lee, Charles Dic kerson, Burns Scott, Milton Wilson. Herbert McCaw and Edward Lane.. If any ohter players who believe that they can make the team will be able to do so by being able to de feat one of these six players. It is also hoped that Mr. Kerns will drve the team to its meets again this year. _ __ Families m Two Homes Hear prowlers Trying To Break in. Which one can call help quickly and easily? 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