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THE OMAHA DAILY SUNDAY, MATtCIt S. 1003. 1 1 ATHLETICS AT UNIVERSITY Base Ball Squad is Working Oat in Fin Sbapfl How. COACH GORDON PLEASED WITH MATERIAL Has riratr nf ritcfcers aad f atrhrrs tader War aad Will Rrla ta Darelap Ratters , at Oaac. Baas ball occupies ths center of the stage ta university athletics Just now. The Townaend crowd are an hard at work In the cane under the personal supervision of Coach Eddie Gordon; the throwers are get tins, their arms Into tip top shape for the tossing and the schedule for the season, with the exception of one date. Is com plete. The beat work so far thla year baa been developed thla week and some of the candidates are showing np In star form. Every afternoon Eddie Gordon goes into the cage with the twlrlors, 4two at time, and a catcher, and gives tbem Instruction In the art of putting the leather across tie plate.. The first week's training consisted merely of the right way of throwing and the delivery; the last week has been spent In a slow ball and the next six days will be devoted to apeed, after which curvea them selves will be put Into the list, "It Is pos sible," said Oordon Friday afternoon as ho stepped out of the cage, dressed In his Qmsha. uniform, "that we will get out of doors next week. We are .developing the pitchers first, so that tbey (nay be used on the diamond to bring out the good parta of the rest of the team. We are anxious to g''t at the batting, for that ia always the weak point of a college club. The tossers will begin to throw to batters at once, and thus, both.' the stickers and the arm men Will get simultaneous practice." Several men among the candidates for the box aa showing up especially well. Longs naecVer ia one of the best and has the ad vantage of pretty good experience at tysjioo... Ling Is a little fellow who comes frnt pitching stock, his fsther before him bavin been good with the sphere. He has onlghty good form to Overcome his sire with. Chase is a great big man with a su nerlor motion who promises to make good. Gore shows up pretty well, and Morrison Is another. Sampson Is a husky one with a good arm, but poor form. He la sort of a diamond In the rough and haa good mate' Hal In him to be brought out. The back atop stunt Is still performed in a nice way by the trio, Bender, Whltcomb and Wilson. Bender will likely be held' at the plate on account of hla old head at the business. Wbltcomb Is from Friend, a little fellow who throws well, and uses his eye all the while. Wilson haa a good arm and bas dona well at first baae. . V . As to the candldatea for the field posi tions, tbere'is little definite aa yet, because ot the lack of actual work. Townsend hopes, however, that at least five old men 'ill be in the game Jlmmie Bell, Hood, Shelmer. Prnder and himself. .With this bunch and the new stock that la at hand in the way of Mlckle. Wright, Stein, a pair of Johnsons and Ramsey, there is no reason why the team need lack for victories. The Brst squad will be mads up of about twenty follows and the scrubs will play around in the mornings and until 8 o'clock every aft ernoon. A man will be pushed up as fast as he shows good stuff to be developed, . The schedule Is complete with the excep tion of a date for May 7. Thla was to have gone to Belolt, but haa been cut out be cause the foreigners had too many heavy games right around that day. The trip will consist of a two weeks' Jaunt and, aa given out by Manager Clark Bell, is: Highland Park at Da Molnea, May 2; Iowa City, May 4: Decorah (Luther college). May 6; Knox college, May 6; May 7 open; Notre Dame, Uy 8; Purdue, May 9; Illinois university, Muy 11; Wsahlngton college, St. Louis, May 1Z; Kansas university. May 13 and 14; Washburn college. May 15; St. Mary'a and Muabattan, May 16. The home games will be Omaha, April 13 and 14; Indians early part ot April; Kansas, April 17 and 18; Waahburn, May 1; Colorado, April 18; High land Park. April 20; Knox. April 22; South Dakota, , April . 27, and possibly Cretghton "I Grow Hair In One tlight." Fa'msn. Doctor-Chemist Hat Discovered Secret Compound That Grows Hair on Aay Bald Head. Hit Startling- Announcement, Accompanied by Absolute Proof of Wonderful Cures Causes Doctors to Marvel and ' Stand Dumbfounded. The Discoverer Beads Free Trial Pack, aaea to All Who Write. f I r half rutnturu Biwnt In tVi Uh. oratory, crowned with high honors for his many world-famous discoveries, the cele brated physician-chemist at the head of the Discoverer of This Magic Compound That Grows Hair. In a Slug! Night. great Allrnhelm Medical Dispensary has juai made ine slanting announcement that lit haa produced a compound that grows hair on any baid bead. Tha doctor makes ine claim that alter experiments, taking years to complete, he has at laat reached the goal of his ambition. To the doctor all heads are alike. There are none whlrh cannot be cured by thla lemarkable rrmrdy. The record of the cures already made ia truly marvelous and were It not for the high standing of the great physician and the convincing testimony of thousands of Hltsens all over the country it would seem too miraculous to be true. There can be no doubt of tha doctor's earnestness in making his claims, nor can his cures be disputed. lie does not ask any man, woman or child to take his or anyone else a word for it, but he stands ready and willing to send frua trial pack agee of this great hair restorative to any one who writes to him tot it, enclosing a !-tent stamp to prepay postage. In a single night It haa started hair to grow ing on. heads bald for years. It has stopped fulling hair in one hour. It never falls, no matter wh.it the condition, age or sex. Old men and young men, women and chil dren all have prutlted by the free use of this great new discovery. If you are Laid, If your hair Is railing out, or If your hair, eyebrows or eyelashes are thin or short, wrlle tha Altenhelm Medical Dtapenaary, hvS) Fuao Building. Cincinnati. Ohio, en closing a J-cent stamp to prepay postage for a frea package, and in a short time you will be entirely ilur. and Manhattan. This is about as good a trip as has been given for several years, and there Is something worth working for In It. "And we'll do something," said Old Jack, "for they're as One a bunch o' arms as I ever laid me eyes on." The end ot the basket ball season came to Captain Hewitt's men last night Ira their game at Minneapolis against the Gophers. The sport nearly died a week ago, but train ing has been kept up for this trip and ended with the two foreign games, one Friday night having been played against the Min nesota agrlculturlsta. Hlltner, Elliott, Ben edict, Hoar, Ferguson and Hewitt are the men who went. They hardly hoped to win when they left Thursday noon, for the northerners make much of thla sport and train hard for It, while at Lincoln the team haa been new and had little training. But they made a creditable showing, neverthe less, all things considered, and Dr. Clapp may feel proud of the aeason's work. The better part of the schedule for the winter haa been won by the Nebraska boys, and there Is confidence In university athletic circles that they will be better another year. Benedict bas been a great long distance goal thrower and did wonders with the Gophers the same as he did in the fall with the plg skin. Hewitt has had a good head, Fergu son has tossed accurately, Elliott has been actlvo on hla feet and Hlltner and Hoar have both played hard In track work the week has been spent training Indoors for Individual events. Par ticularly the pole vault, long distance run ning - and jumping have been given thj prominent place. Dr. Clapp haa divided the candldatea into squsds and more systematic work la possible. At the pole vault a new man Lehmer has been coming up, and Bill" Johnson, the colored boy, and Bene dict-are still at the top. For running, States, Corr, Flansburg and Kanzler have all been training and show up well. Leon ard and Benedict have both been Jumping some and promise to do more of It- Bene dict Is the best all around athlete in the school and Is good at pretty nearly every thing going. Burg and Manning have not yet gone Into training, but are needed in the business. Several meets are in view. One Is as sured at Sioux City against South Dakota; another Is booked for Kansas, at Lawrence, and a third at Crete in the way ot a state tournament. It is also possible that a meet with Minnesota may be held in Lincoln, which would be a great event in the history of the school, aa the men from Minneapolis psy all aorta of attention to this type of athlelica. HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETES BUSY Preparations for the Class Contest sit Germaala Hall Mow Occnpy Mac- Attention. Youthful muscle and agility will bo put to the test on the night of Friday, March 27, when the Bfth annual athletic carnival of the Omaha High school will be held at Oermanla hall on Harney street. Aa usual thla will bo an Interclasa contest, fresh men, sophomores, lunlors and seniors vis ing for the supremacy. But an important foreign feature haa been secured tor this carnival, the return basket ball gams with the Sioux City High school team. This will be the biggest event of the evening. although ita result can in no way count In the final standing of the contesting claaaes. There are many different events planned for the carnival. Beaidea that basket ball game there will be an lnterclass bsskst ball tournament, a girls' basket ball game between freshmen and sophomores and ath- letlo contests as follows: High dive, wrest ling, hand walking, relay race, tug-of-war. Each event will be participated In by rep resentatives from each of the four classes. First place In any event will count 5 points. second place 3 and third place 1 point. At the end the totals will bo figured, and the class with the highest number ot points takea the pain.. . ... During the week lust past each class haa been busy selecting; its representatives for the different contests. This waa done not by selection nor election, but by comoe tUlon. At the Young Men's Christian asso ciation gymnasium the athletes of the dif ferent classes have atriven tor a place, and the various teams are now made up. Each claaa has selected a leader, they be ing: Seniors, Hugh Wallace; juniors, Dick Hunter; sophomores, Clarence Walsh; freshmen, Thompson. The evening will open with the first half ot the Omaha-Sioux City basket ball game. A few weeks age the Omaha boys went to Sioux City and were, vanquished by thia team, 21 to 19, an exceedingly cloae score. They row all manner ot revenge this time. The personnels of both teams will be just as it wss at that laat encounter and the Omaha team the aame as when it met the Lincoln High schools boys a week ago. The lineup will be: OMAHA. Laubay R. F. Cherrlngton ....I. F. Meyer C. Patterson R. Q. Walsh O. SIOUX CITY. L. U Taylor K. u Hunt C Robertson L. F Anderson K. F Miller Second on the card will bo the high dive. Thla atunt consists of diving over a bar without touching It onto a mat on the floor on the opposite stde. Ths game la to clear the bar as high as possible The diver goes head foremost and Ughta on his hsnds on ths mat. In thla contest Hugh Wallace will represent ths seniors, Harry Counsemsn tha juniors, Robert SwiUler the sophO' mores and Cyrua Bowman the freshmen. Next will .come the aecond half of the Omaha-Sioux City game, and following that will bs the wrestling matches. In this Fslrbrother will represent ths seniors, Put nam ths junldrs, Grossman tbs sophomores and Tompsett .ths freshmen. Thers will be two rounds. . First freshman and sopho more will meet and junior and senior. Thea the winners ot those two bouts will wrestle for first place. Thla will prove a highly exciting event. .. Following this will be tbs interclasa bas ket ball tournament. A freshmsn team will play a sophomore team, a junior team the aeniora. Then the winners will meet for first honors. The gsmes will be made J of very brief duration. The different teams are: Seniors, Laubsu, Wallace, Kelley, Devalon and French; juniors, Durkee, Meyer, Cherrlngton, Thomas and Thomp son; sophomores, Walsh, Patterson, Cooper, Lindsay and Goodman; freshmen, McAvln. Wilson, Bowman, Burnett and Percaplle. Next in order will be the hand walking contest, a race of fifty feet, with the con testants on their hands. The different boys have been practicing hard for thla, and some ot them csn msks remarkable speed considering the mesne ot locomotion. Ernest Kelley will repreaent the seniors In this event, Harry Counsemsn tbs juniors, Dick Patterson the sophomores and Cyrus Bowmsn the freshmen. Then comes ths girls' basket ball game, of brief halves, and next Is ths relsy rsce, with a team entered from each class. There will be four men to a team, and each man will run three laps. Ths racs will be agalnat time. The teams will be: Seniors French, Devslon, Fslrbrother, Msllscs. Juniors Chambers, ' Counsemsn. Sophomores Walsh, Cooper. Freshmen Burnett, Tomcsett. Putnam, Hunter, Patterson, Lindsay, Wilson. McAvln, The final event of tha carnival will be a tug of war, with four men en each claas team. Ia this freshmen will tug agalnat sophowerss aad Juniors against aeniora for the first round, and winners will then meet winners. The teams will be: Seniors Kelley, Robertson, Fslrbrother, Harris. Juniors Chambers, Putnam, Conrad, Cherrlngton. Sophomores Wsleh, Patterson, Swltzler, Peterson. Freshmen Rogers, Tompsett, Bowmsn, Burnett. The game with the Sioux City team on carnival night will not close the season for the Omaha High school team. The boya go to Lincoln on March 13 for a re turn game with the High school there, and play Bellevue hers on March 20. Then there remain two games with Fremont and Coun. Vll Bluffs, the dates not being determined yet. BASE BALL NSPRING TIME Manager Roarke Inbnrdens Himself la Reaard to a Very Apaareat Injustice. "Right now, before the season begins," ssld Msnager William Rourke ot the Omaha base ball team yesterday, "I want to aay a word In regsrd to my losing Brown, Owen snd Stone at the close of last sesson. At that time there were a great many people who accused me of sell ing those players to the big league teams that took place. In fact, almost everybody Interested in base ball made that assertion. And I still hear people saying ths same thing. This hss been a sore point with me for a long time, and I want to answer it now and say a word In my own defense. "In ths first plsce, I did not sell' a single one of them. They were simply tsken away from me, bought over my head. I raised their salaries more than I could afford in order to hold them, but I could not compete with the prices the big teams offered them. No man In hia senses would expect me to enter into a salary contest with one of those teams and win out. I offered Stone 32,000 to stay. Boston took him for 12,800. I offered Owen 31,800. Chicago White Stockings took him for 12,700. I offered Brown 31.800. St. Louis National league team took him for (3,000, the highest salary of the bunch. "No one on the outside, even one keenly Interested in base ball and In the Omaha team, could have been as sore about this as I wss. I speat tlms snd money de veloping these players, and then didn't get a 6-cent piece for them, not even so much as a 'By your leave.' It waa simply a rank outrage that the big leagues perpetrated on ths smaller ones. There waa do use ssylng a word. They'd simply Klve you tho laugh. It was simply a case of hog. When that national agreement was abrogated the big leaguea jumped in head over heels and gobbled up summarily ail our players that they wanted. Now that they've got them all, they want peace again. There are sev eral phases to that peace proposition and I've just exposed one ot them to you. "In the meantime, while these big league teams take away my playera without giving me a cent or a chance, what do I do? , I pay cash money for almost every man on my team. I bought Ace Stewart from Man ning, Genlns from Cleveland, Brown from Terre Haute, Fleming from Hartford, Wright from Rock Island, Oondlng from Kansas City. And that Isn't all of them. Almost every man on my team cost me money. But I suppose there Is no use drawing the comparison snd howling about the Injustice of It. We've got peace again now. I merely wanted to make it atrong that I didn't sell these men, that they were taken away from me and that I offered all I could afford, and more, to try and keep them. "My tesm remains the same. I still have the two trades, tor. pitchers in view,, but haven't either fixed np yet. I expect to trade Alloway for Shafstal with Peoria all right, although I understand now that Al loway refuses to go to Peoria. He'll prob ably change hla mind. Shafstal is the big, rangy fellow who pitched all aeason with Peoria last year. He is a right-hander and a fine fielding pitcher aa well as being a good hitting fellow tor a box man. Then I still expect to bring to a head my trade of Whistler for Hopkins, or possibly tor Bruner, with Montgomery, Ala. All this will mean eight pitchers for me to go on. and I certainly ought to get a bunch of good ones out of that. "I started work on my grounds last Thursday, and they will be done In ample time. I'll build fifty feet of new grand- atand, and also stesdy the old portion of the stsnd by putting stone foundations under all the main posts. This will be quite a Job, ss all the posts must be Jacked up to get the foundation in under. There are thirty-two of them to bo so based, eight new ones. "President Sexton now wsnts to do away with the spring meeting ot the Western league. He wired me , asking me what I thought about cutting it out. You aee, there'a really nothing to do but adopt a achedule and a ball. Meanwhile Sexton and Htckey are fixing up their two sched ules so ss not to conflict. Our meeting Is cslled tor Denver. Of course there Is some little expense to all of us In having tbs meeting, especially away out there. But still I don't see how ws csn do without It, just on account of that schedule. I never saw one adopted by-mall successfully yet So I told 8exton that It waa my opinion ws ought to have the meeting, but that it should be in one of the river towns. There's no sense in taking us all away out there. The real right way to do would be to have both leagues meet together to adopt ached ules, ss the American and National leagues did." WIPING OUT THE FUR ANIMALS Trappers Hava Well Mh Exterml nated Ike Creitaree on Which Tbey Depend. "If trsppers keep on at the gait they are going in Nebraska," said a well known dealer in hides and furs yesterday, "there will not be a fur-bearing animal left ia the atate in a comparatively few years from now. You would be surprised to know how msny trsppers thers sre In Nebraska. One would think there wouldn't be anything for them to do, and there isn't much soy more, but thers wss a day when there was a good deal of fur to be had In this state, snd there is still a whole army of trappers. They send us in their furs from all parts ot the state, but tbey aren't sending as many varletiea nor aa many ot any variety now as they once did. Beaver ana otter, in fact, are prac tically gone now. A fur from one such animal brings from $10 to 12, but the trsppers cannot find them any more, haven't seen twenty beaver furs from Ne braska thla sesson. Smaller furs are still rsther plenty, but even the polecats sre growing scsntler. Ws do not have half the number of them now we did four yeara ago Tbey are worth from II to $1.50. There are atlll a great number of muskrat aklns coming in. I do not suppose we shsll ever see the end of them. The bring from IS to 20 cents. "One fur in which there is lots of traffic from Nebraska, and tbs only one. It seems, they cannot exterminate or even lessen, is that of tbs coyote, or prairie wolf. It Is not tbs trsppers only who hsndle this fur. Of It alone It may be ssld that every body takea a ahot at It. Farmers, ranchers hunters, all go tor the coyote. The skins bring from $1 to 3 each. . "There la a great demand for coyots furs fox expert, because they stake ouch excel lent fox skins when dyed!. Most of them go scross the wster from this rountry snd sfter a lirrte session with Lelpslc dyes ttfey come back very respectable looking red or blue fox furs. The big old gray wolf, is pretty scarce In Nebraska now. His hide Is much more valuable, but we don't get many of them any more. 'Speaking of foxes, a very remarkable fox Incident csme to my notice lsst week. A man brought me In three red foxes, nnd he got them within ten miles of Omaha, nesr Bellevue. Thst Is most vnusual. Ws don't see red foxes anywhere around this state any more. This man said there were two dens of them In the brush slong the river down there, about a dozen foxes In all, and that he would land the rest If he could." Lsst Wednesday the river broke up and the huntsmen are going about behind broad smiles. They will shortly now go out sfter the straight flying water fowl. Shells sra being losded by the thousand snd guns made ready. Dick Kimball went out to his ranch Tuesdsy and nearly went gun mad when he saw three big Canada geese. And they are everywhere. They will not, ap parently, stick to the river this spring. They are being sighted elear out In the west part of the state, and around Grand Island, and In Iowa. Beyond a doubt there are a lot ot water fowl flying this sesson. This is the season of the round-up of the festive coyote.. There Is one scheduled for McCook on March 15 and another at West Point soon. Often hunters participate In these for the mere Joy ot tho shooting. Last week Harry Townsend went up 10 Clarkson and chased wolves a while on horseback. It wss snowy and he couldn't make time on their trails, but he saw plenty of them close to the railroad and had flying shots with a long range revolver. GIRLS TO PLAY BASKET BALL College Carnival Fixed t'p for Lin coln, Where Several Teams Will Meet. Nebraska girls Intend to monopolize the end of next week for a few basket ball stunts of their own. On March 10 there will be a memorable Intercol legiate girls' carnival In the armory of the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. The flrBt girls' team of that Institution will meet the Haskell Indian girls' team. This will be the first time that the red girls have ever met white in basket ball or any other contest, although their broth ers hava been mixing it for several sea sons. The second game will be between tho first girls' team ot Kansas university and the second girls' team of the University ot Nebraska. Both contests will be played the same night. The Nebraskans always put up a atrong girls' team and they stand to win both games. The next night, Saturday, March 21, there will be some doings in Omaha. The Bellevue first girls' team will come In to play the Young Women's Christian asso ciation second team that night. A cork ing contest Is promised. OUT OF THE! ORDINARY. Herbert Buenrer has for years turned out an average of 430 words of revised manu script per day. The city or New x orK nas a considerable amount of property which it rents to pri vate tenants, but It is also a tenant under 4i3 leases which cost annually for rent 1817,000. A writer In Charities places the number of crippled children who applied for relief at the New York hospitals during the visit of Dr. Lorens at 8.000. nearly all of whom were sent away because of the inadequacy ot the hospitals for their care. P. S. Devlne of St. Louta owns a sundial made by Thnrau Jefferson. The authen ticity of the reltc Is attested by documents duly sworn to. In order to tell the correct time the dial must be set by the north star. Buffalo physicians. In an operation the other day, took out of tha patient's stomach nearly too tacks, Knire Dlades ana nails. That stomach must have been used to hard wear. An Insurance company In New York hae Just paid 1100,000 tor a five-foot strip of land. In order to keep the windows of Its building from being closed ud by another structure. The Dhrsse "free as air" la not of universal application. Lawrence McAlnln of Philadelphia has lust celebrated his 100th birthday. He was born In Ireland and laid the first rail on the Madison A Indianapolis railroad. He haa had seventeen children. He lost track of four of them two sons and two daugh ters several yeara ago, but thinks they are now living in uanaaa. A curious recognition of the right of women to hold public office has, with little gallantry, been made in Pike county, Penn sylvania. Porter township hae so few voters that Mrs. Sarah Miller was rjlaced on the democratic ticket for school director. there belnr no other available candidate. one democrat being the nominee for three local omcea. . Congressman Heatwole of Minnesota la a continual cause of envy among colleagues whose digestion Is not of pristine vigor. The Minnesota man attacks and assimilates all sorts of incongruous feeds. The other afternoon his luncheon in the house res taurant consisted ot a milk punch a chicken sandwich, an oyster stew, a piece of custard pie and two cups of coffee. In compliance with appeals from many patriotic cltlsens of Hartford, Conn., Philip Hansllng, jr., superintendent of streets, consented to forego his determination to cut down "the Washington elm," opposite the Wadsworth atheneum on Main street, that city. He trimmed the overhanging limbs, which might fall during a gale and do injury to persons or property, and gave the chance to the old tree to add a few years to its history. There Is u tablet on the trunk of the tree placed there by the Daughters of the American Revolution in memory of the time when Wasnlngton visited Hartford and stopped beneath the tree. THE VALUE OF CHARCOAL few People Know How I'aefnl It Is la Preserving Health til Beanty. Nearly everybody knows that charcoal la the safes and moat efficient dislnfeotant and purifier In nature, but few realise Its valus when tsken into the human system for tbs same cleansing purpose. Charcoal is a remedy that tha more yosj take of it the better; It is not a drug at all, but simply absorbs tbs gases and Impuri ties alwaya present In ths stomach and in testlnes and carries tbem out ot the system. Charooal sweetens ths breath after smok ing and drinking or after eating onions and ether odorous vegetables. Charcoal effectually clears and improves the complexion, it whitens ths teeth and further acta as a natural and eminently ssfs cathartic. It abaorba ths Injurious gases which col lect In ths stomach and bowels; It disin fects the mouth and throat from the po'aon ot catarrh. All druggists sell charcoal In one form or another, but probably ths best charcoal and the most for tbs money Is Stuart's Ab sorbent Losenges; they ars compesed of the finest powdered willow chsreoal and other harmless sntlaeptlca in tablet form, or, rather, in the form of large, pleasant tast ing losenges, the charcoal being mixed with honey. The dally use ot these lozenges will soon tell la a much improved condition ot ths general health, better complexion, aweeter breath and purer blood, and the b;auty ct it la, that no possible harm csn result from their continued us, but, on the contrary, great benefit. A Buffalo physlclsn, in speaking of ths benefits of charcoal, aaya: "I advlss Btusrt's Absorbent Losenges to all patients suffering from gas In the stomach and bow sis, aad to clear the complexion and purify the breath, mouth and throat; I rlso be lieve the liver Is greatly benefited by ths dally use of them; they cost but twenty-five eeata a box at drug stores, and although In some sease a patent preparation, yet I be lieve I get more and better charcoal In Btaart's Absorbent Losenges than ta any ot Oo ttker tasyvev- tablets. " Jl ill. Every atom of the body is dependent upon the blood for its existence. The bones would decay, muscles shrink and the skin become parched and shriveled but for the nutriment they draw from the blood, and so long as it remains uncont animated and pure we are fortified against disease and health is assured. 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