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OMAHA. BUNDAT. MARO! 15,
JUDGMENTS
SURELT ths automobile la coming Into
Its own. While it mar not ss yrt
hav demor t rated fully its adapta
bility.' it la dally proving; mora and
mort tta asefulnsss, and fully established
ths (act that Its possibilities have not
nearly bcpn reached or even anticipated.
As a pleasurs vehicle It is now supreme.
The stately, high stepping horse Is yet a
favorite and the family nag will not dis
appear for many moons, but the automobile
has hooted Itself Into first place. As a fac
tor In commerce it is making headway.
Large concerns are using the self-propelled
cars extensively la business, and engineers
are working continually on ths problems
offered, determining what is better for
practice, solving questions of economy and
efficiency In construction and operation and
generally advancing ths Industry. All these
agencies are adding to the proof of the
assertion that the "horseless" age has
dawned. Makers have multiplied, and fac
tories bars Increased, but ths demand
keeps pace with production, and the number
Of autos In the land is Increasing dally. All
mankind honors the horse, that noble brute
whose services have been of such Inesti
mable effect In advancing ths cause of
civilization. But, without detracting from
the horse, the fascination of ths auto ear
Is potent over all. Its swift, easy glide over
the good roads. Its mastery over distances.
Us efficiency under all but abnormal con
ditions has made It already the favorite,
and Its supremacy will not be gainsaid.
When the- Horse show comes In the fall,
society, pay a due deference to the beautiful
beasta who are then put on parade, but
when the Auto ahow comes In the spring,
society, without departing from Its fealty
to the Jiorse, can do homage to the exquis
itely wrought machines, all but animate
with sentient life, that are offered for Its
Inspection. Bo the coming week at the
Auditorium will be notable, for there the
Automobile, man's latest triumph over phy
sical limitations, la n dresa p inula..
Not since the day a of Billy Muldoon has
n American wrestler come forth to up
hold against all comerse the title of world's
champion, unquestioned and unquestion
able, and therefore it Is little wonder If
ths wrestling fans of the United Btates
are wrought up to a nervous pitch of ex
citement In anticipation of the meeting be
tween Frank Ootch and George Hacken
achmtdt in Chicago April V Whistler.
Lewis, McLeod. Jenkins and Burns have
come up to their senlth without keeplna
the world's title in their country, but in
Gotch Americans believe they have, the
men to wrest from the mighty German
Bwrde. known as the Russian Lion, that
litle and elnctt It for America. Of the men
oenticmed, or of any other men who could
e mentioned in this or any other age of
wrestling. In the Judgment of sages of the
Sat. Burns stands out pre-eminently aa
the most finished a,rtlst, aa Ootch put It,
"the most finished wrestler the world ever
knew." But Bums' lack of weight has
kept htm from International honors, ex
cept In the light heavyweight class. All
America, save that small portion surround
ing New York, Is today cheering Ootch on
to what It believes sure victory, a victory.
t he gets it, more celebrated and flisUn
fulshed thsn any achieved by an American
athleta since the days when the mighty
John t. BullivaW was able to stand -np In
Madison Square garden and proclaim that
he. a native of Boston, could Uck any man
on earth. Here's for Gotch.
"There's one thing certain, if the next,
world'o pennant battle Is not fought out in
Ctilcngo as It was in 100, It won't be tho
fault of V-r- Comlskcy. The Old' Roman
makes no effort at concealing his deter
hilnattoti to land the American league flag
If that be within the lino of 1308 possibili
ties." And up to date he seems to have no
!aod reason for despairing of that hope,
petrolt Is not being generally picked as
the winner this year, nor Is Philadelphia,
though the latter stll looks like a contender.
As lo the Cubs, nothing has happened
Since the close of 19fl7 to alter -the unlver
aal conviction that lt'a another euro thing
for them. McOraw, with tho plvolal aack
all but uncovered and questionable timber
for the box, has failed utterly to make
good his promises and no other team Is
materially stronger than last year.
Cf course there Isn't any serious doubt
what the decision will be In the Btahl and
Ponlln eases, but before they can play
with the New Tork Americans and Na
tionals, respectively, the formality of a
National commission ruling will be neces
sary. New York's argument la that Don
lln, who played with Chicago semi-pros
last year, signed no contract, but merely
took a year's layoff, and therefore vio
lated no breach, of agreement, and the
minority report filed by Ban Johnson In
behalf of Stahl at the time his case was np
before la relied on as clearing htm.
Those well-meaning moralists who pro
fess to see In the recent snub of the Root
ers' club an ultimate prohibition of the
pop bottle habit should remember that the
box office Is not the only source of rev
enus. Tommy Burns msy well falter In his
plans of going to Dublin on ths 17th of
Msrch with a yellow eye. If he acts on
a different Intention he'll never, get the
yellow fruit, that's a cinch.
Worshipers of Autrey will have no pa
tionoe with his recent holler of sore feet
as an excuse of getting out of that walk
from Los Angeles to Omaha.
Detroit probably took ths wis end of
f he Cobb argument at that
Ty Cofao did It all right
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iaktns Cold, most all Colds ar caused
by a check la th circulation. Induced
by elttlBaT la a draft, remaining- too
Ion. in a cold room, or standing on a
xold and often wet pavement
Humphreys' " Seven ty-ven restores
tho checked circulation, starts the
blood coursing through the veins and
stops or breaks up ths Cold or Grip.
At drug stores, 25 cents.
Humphreys Homed. Medicine Co, Cor.
WUUaut and Julia eHrects, New York,
WITH THE COLLEGE ATI1LETES
Doing's in the Field of Sport in East
and West.
BASKET BALL WHITES SPORT
A Cbolee of Those M'ke Seen te D the
Best Five Mem of the latereol
leglate flasket Ball
League,
The quality of basket ball played this
season In the Intercollegiate league made
up of Pennsylvania. Columbia, Yale,
Princeton and Cornell was poorer than In
almost any previous year. The great fault
with the game was the excessive amount
of roughing. Practically every match was
reported aa being very rough. The chief
result of this sort of play was to be seen
In the victory of the Pennsylvania team.
The lied and Blue team, made up In other
respects than one of players of little better
than mediocre abilities, was not so much
superior to the others as to have won eight
games on pure merit. The Quakers did not
hesitate to use a fair amount of the tactics
which the others employed, but where they
counted heavily was In having with them
the best man In the whole league at shoot
ing goals from the foul line. Keinath, who
made seventy-five goals from the line In
the season, was In effect the whole Penn
sylvania team. v
It was not at all the case of the preced
ing season, when the champion Yale team
owed most of Its success to the presence
of Oil Kinney. Kinney's strong point was
his shooting from the floor and he earned
his points In that way. The Yale team fed
Kinney and through his accuracy won out.
But basket ball was played differently last
season, so that tho good shooter of goals
from the floor had a chance to distinguish
himself. The games this season were
marked by several significant things. For
one Item, most of the scores were not
great This was caused by the close guard
ing almost universally practiced, guarding
that was so far illegal that It caused the
game to degenerate Into a hugging match.
Fur another thing, many of the points
made In these low score games were from
fouls, and In the case of Pennsylvania In
particular not one, but several, games re
sulted In favor of the Quakers not because
they hit the baskets more often, but solely
because Keinath was there to toss them In
after fouls were called. The second Columbia-Pennsylvania
game was won by
Keinath, who scored twelve goals from
the foul line and two goals from the floor,
making the sixteen points for his college,
while Columbia's fifteen points were ac
quired through six field goals and three
foul goals.
Keinath m Star.
However, to do Keinath Justice, his work
did not always depend i upon foul goals.
In the first game with Cornell he scored
four goals from the field and four from
fouls, making twelve of Pennsylvania's
twenty-four points. This was not so rough
a game as some others, although It was
represented that Keinath had to leave It
toward the end because of a dislocated
shoulder. That shoulder was right enough
In four days, so that Keinath was able to
play and win the second game against Co
lumbia. In . the second game that Cornell
played against Pennsylvania Keinath made
seyenteen out of twenty tries for foul goals
and scored three "baskets from the field,
thus making twenty-threo out of Pennsyl
vania's thirty-seven points. ' '
It might be carried on se thronghout the
whole season. . Until Keinath got In the
game. Just before tho western trip, tho
Pennsylvania team, although containing
some effective players, was not first class.
The difference was plain as soon as he
started playing, and Pennsylvania's record
of seventeen straight victories is due In
no little part to Keinath. That will be ad
mitted by Pennsylvania men, .and aa a
result they will be forced to admit that
there are few reasons for putting other
players that Keinath of the Pennsylvania
team on a five supposed to represent the
best players In the intercollegiate league. -
It Is a very hard task Indeed to select
such a team this season, although formerly
there were so many players whose work
stood out that at best only one place was
open to argument But when Keinath is
selected as one forward there Is distinct
reason for pausing In an attempt to name
another man. A player whose name sug
gested itself Is Klendl, the youthful Co
lumbia man, who scored many points In the
season and was second to Keinath In that
respect. It is hardly fair, however, to
make the number of points scored the only
criterion of a man's value to his team. It
Is his ability to rise to emergencies and bis
play In succeeding games that make It
worth while to have him on a team. For
that matter, If points alone were to be
considered, why not make Crosby of Cor
nell a member? He was well up In the list
although most of his points were from
fouls. It takes, tiowever, a player of hard
ihood and experience, who can make his
presence felt on a team at all times and
who would not fall down In emergencies.
Where Klendl was unfortunate was that
he played throughout the season on a team
which was much too rough. Columbia men
nay not realize It but the play of the
Columbia team did much to discredit the
game. Yale, too, was an offender this way.
Klendl's real merits did not have so much
of a chance to show as they will perhaps
another season, when he is more matured.
In the mind of the writer, the choice
for the other forward lies between Cush
man of Yale and Fltxpatiick of Pennsyl
vania. Both are good, hard players, and
by that Is meant that they play the game
for what It is worth and do not put their
energy Into slugging. It would be hard to
settle which Is the better 'pis yer by a re
course, to anything but drawing lots, but
It seems fair to give Yale the call here.
Cushmaa is named as being worthy of be
ing called the second best forward. -
As to center there can be no discussion.
When snyone Who starts to select players
for that place gets to the name of Van
Vleck of Yale he has gone far enough.
The Yale pivot man surpassed In every
way the other players who attempted to
play the place, and there appears to be no
reason to go further Into detail In explain
ing or justifying, If such were necessary,
bis selection.
The matter of the guards is ono that re
quires a little thought as far ss one place
Is concerned. For the other, Noyes, the
Tale player, appears to earn ths place, al
though some msy say that It Is putting a
premium on roughness to name him.
Noyes was an offender In several games
the tost season. However, he was the best
player of the plce pn the Yale tuara and
better than any others In the league.
It Is always bad policy to put a small
man In at guard. Melitser Cf Columbia,
regarded as worthy a place at forward
and who has been suggested as a guard,
too. Is a very fast dodging player, who
can worm In and out among the larger
man. There his abilities end. A bigger
man can block his shots for goal' by merely
standing ever htm, and as a guard he has
fairly to climb up his man to do any ef
fective blocking. These reasons operate
against hlra for either place. Kimbel la a
good guard, and It seems hard to leave off
the team a guard for that college which
bad the loast points scored against It
Cerusst appears not quite to have equaled
Kimbel.
Aa a cliCIie it mcou to be necessary to
take one of these three MeCrudden, Klrf
aber or Kimbel. The preference la f'
Kimbel, It being believed that ha wouK
be able to act not only as a good guard
but would help out the team better tha
the others In the scoring line aa well.
Rest Five In Came.
The team Is: Keinath. Pennsylvanls, an!
Cushmsn. Tale, forwsrds: Van Vleck, Tale,
center; Kimbel. Columbia, and Noyes.
Yale, guard. That only serves to emphalr
the belief that the Pennsylvania team did
not win the championship because if gpn
eral excellence of play,' but because of the
presence of Keinath on It
Going back once more to roughness.
There can be no -question that the game
will suffer In populsrity If the present
standards of play continue. There should
be a strong recommendation by the rules
committee to all officials to punish most
severely all aorta of foul and Illegal play,
and furthermore there should be a penalty
for roughness that would be more dreaded
than the presont one of giving a free trial
for goal. i
In the end that doesn't always work
well. The rough team Is willing to take
a chance In hope of making through foul
work a field goal which will more thsn
moke up for the single point earned by
the penalty goal. If Indeed It Is made. It
Is suggested by a veteran player that ths
better scheme would be to do as Is done In
hockey, to bar from the floor for a stated
period the player making the foul. That
would hurt a great deal more In the end,
because what four plnyers could do against
five would not be much.
The continued hugging and illegal cover
ing up has about killed the passing game,
which once was so pretty a feature. The
basket ball of two or three seasons ago no
longer Is played. It does not speak for
the quality of the gome that the scores
are low this season. It means solely that
there has been a deal of clinging on to
players that has stopped them from making
goals which otherwise they might have
scored. It is too bad that Columbia should
have been a great offender this year, be-
iue the best banket ball and the clean!
ed to be played at Columbia, The
Inrnlnislde Heignts mm had the repuls
ion of being rough enough when It was
creed on them, but they didn't go out en
he floor carrying the fight to their or
xnents. There is a difference between ag
rreeMvs play and rowdyism, and that line
ins to be drawn hard and fast In all
porta
HACK TO START HIS SHOW EARLY
First Exhibition o B- Glvea on Next
Moaday Klsht.
NEW YORK, March 14. George Hacken
schmldt, the champion wrestler of the
world, who Is to meet Frank Gotch of
Humboldt la.. In Chicago on Friday, April
S, will give a preliminary exhibition of his
skill on the mat at the Grand Central
Palace on next Monday evening, and on
Wednesday evening he will be seen with
his partners at the Cleremont Avenue Rink
In Brooklyn. .
Hackenschmidt after giving exhibitions
In this snd other eastern cities for one
week, will go Into active training for the
tfig match. Graeco-Roman rules are not
to govern, but the bout will be straight
ratch-as-catch-can style, with the strangle
hold barred. The purse offered Is one of
tlftOOO, 60 per cent of which will go to the
winner and 40 per cent to the loser.
Hark Arrives for Dig match.
Hackenschmidt, the Russian IJon, whose
father is German and mother Swede, hns
landed In New York for his wrestle with
Frank Ootch, the American champion for
world's honors at Chicago April S. Doubt
less from the warm reception he will get
from the home knockers In New York, he
will erroneously conclude he has America
with him as well as Europe.
Billy White Stilt at Oklahoma.
Billy White Is still at short for Oklahoma
City. Porkorney, the man who came so
near crowding Perrlng out of his regular
berth with Toledo last year, will play
second for Webb City In the Western asso
ciatlon this year. Perrlng goes to Cleve
land. That's falling apart some.
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We are tho oldest Bicycle House in Omaha, and In addition to our
Bicycles hare put In a line of
Raycycics' Thor, Excelsior and
Reading Standard Motor Cycles
These three lines are the best on the market.
"It will pay yon to Investigate) them before buying."
We have a full line of Thor parts and a competent repair man. '.
List of Second-Hand Motor Cycles
X R&cyele Motorcycle This is a 1907 model, and ridden only about
600 miles. G. & J. tires. In perfect condition in every way. Enamel
bardly marked. Price ....... 9150.00
1 Indian Motorcycle This is a 1907 model and has been thoroughly
overhauled and put in flrstclass condition. Has O. & J. tires! Price,
oaly $150.00
X Racycle Motorcycle. This is a 1907 model, and has O & J. tires. In
good condition. Price $140.00
1 Marsh-Metr Motorcycle This is a 1906 model. Has direct chain
drive. Price 9100.0Q
1 Marsh Motorcycle. O. & J. tires. 3V4 H. P. engine. In Rood con
dition. Price $100.00
1 Indian Motorcycle 1 H. P. engine and side car attachment,
Price $75.00
1 Yale Motorcycle This is a belt drive machine and in fair condition.
Price $50.00
All these machines are in shape to get on and ride without any
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OMAHA, KEB.
Omaha Auditorium, March 19, 20, & 21
The Third Annual Automobile Show will be a corfiploto exhibition of tho cars most suit
able for ose in the Central "West. Accessories of all kinds will be shown and will be cf prreat
interest to the public. Scenic entertainments are extremely interesting and alone are
worth much more than the price of admission 25c to each person in attendance.
Arrange to attend every day of the Show. If you live at a distance you are justified
in taking the time. You will not be disappointed.
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Having the advantage that comes with years of experience to
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8ECOXD HAND MACHINE These are as good as new that
will be sold at a sacrifice if taken at once.
9210 Reading Standard, just as good as new, 3 1 5 Q
Two Flescher Machines that sold at $210 each last season. These ma
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Three Indian Machines These machlnesare equipped with the Thor
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