The. . Omaha ' Sunday Bee
PART TiVZ
SPORTING
PACES 1 TO i
SPOBTS
VOL. XXXVIII NO. 40. OMAHA, .SUNDAY MORXIN'U, M'AKCII 21, 1D09. SIKGLK COPY yiVE CENTS. ;
Rourke Family Hears the Call to Action and Will Soon Cavort Merrily Around Pa's BalF Lot
PA SENDS KOlt HIS
FAMILY Ob' 1!0YS
TRAINING TABLE
MAY CAUSE SPLIT
Five Young Men Who Have Attained Eminence in Basket Ball
Tresident Ronrke Will Assemble
Omaha Team Thursday and
Begin Spring; Practice.
Nebraska Athletio Board .Will Not
Wait for Conference
Action.
SPECIAL GRUB FOR TRACK MEN
SUM HALL MAY NOT COME
Long Pitcher Want to Stay in the
Mountain Region.
BUNS ACROSS ONE NEW WONDER
Final Vote to Repeal Rule Too Late
for Sprint; Training-.
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Fa Gets Vasbrudert, Highly Touted
Youth from Eait.
NO CHANCE TO RECOVER CHICK
Aafrey "d Bitn, Tmn, Will Be
Kept y Griffith for Mia Cin
cinnati Champions of
'" national Ut(.
Rnmt of Pa's Colt are now on their way
to Omaha, and one by one and In bundle
they will soon be dropping" Into the Smoke
House to report. Transportation has been
ent to all the team, with orders to report
March 25, and all are expected to be on
hand at that time, with the possible ex
ception of 811m Hall, who may be traded,
aa he wanta to remain Irt the mountains.
Hall haa not been well for two yeara and
thinks a change will do him good.
Pa Rourke also haa sent transportation
to two new men who want a chance to try
for the Omaha team. Both of these have
good records and they must think they can
make food or they would not take a
chance on coming o far away from home,
with no advance money to lure them on
nd m prospecta of anything If they do
not make good. One of these la Vssbruders
of Brookvtlle, Pa., recommended by Or.
Ale Whltehltl, pitcher on the Omaha team
In 104. and the other Is J. E. Smith, an
Inflelder who was recommended by How
ard Wakefield, former catcher for Pes
Moines and Toledo.
Hera is what Pr. Whiten 111 haa to say of
Vasbruderat
Brookvllle. Pa., March 18. 1909.-W. A.
Hours, Esq., Omaha, Neb.: My Dear Slr
lrtclesed find Vaabrudera' algned contract.
He has played second base and the out
field. Ha says he would rather play second
base. Where I saw him work was in the
outfield. If he bits the bait like I saw him
hit last year some of those pitchers will
wish he had stayed In Pennsylvania. Vas
bruders does not drlng a drop and you
depend, on him always. Very truly yours,
ALEX WHITEHALL.
If Chaae to Get Chick.'
The real truth, of the matter is that Pa
had high hopes of getting Autrey back tttls
year, but the letter" from Clask Griffith,
manager of the Cincinnati Reds put all
hope aside Griffith told Pa 'not- td Atpect
Chick, aa ha was making goo. Kvery writer
with the team is boosting him.. Pa relied
a good deal on tbe fact that Hoblltxell
made good last year and probably would
be given another chance, but Chlo is also
making good and Griffith expects to keep
him.
This Is what Jack Ryder, sporting editor
of the Cincinnati Enquirer writes to. his
paper concerning Autrey:
"Chick" Autrey Is a finished first base,
man, so far as playing the bag goes. He
shifts his feet from one side of the bag to
the other as well aa any first baseman in
the business. Hobby Is also going some this
spring and It will be a battle royal between
these lads for the final call. Autrey has
the advantage of being left handed, which
helps him In throwing "to second, but
Hobby has a little on Chick In speed on his
feet. Go it. boys.
Pat Ragan Is also making good with the
Reds and Jack Ryder wires his rn
concerning him: "I don't see how they
can keep Ragan off the regular staff."
The line up of the Omaha team looks
pretty good to most of the fans, but of
course, ths real merit ef the team will
depend In large measure how some of thess
new players show up and whether they will
come up to the advance notices which hare
been sent out concerning them. The Omaha
team, fighting at all time last year at or
near tho top of the list, has lost Ragsn,
Autrey and Austin, three of Its mainstays
and it Is up to Pa to fimWmen to replace
them. Pa thinks he has the material In
sight.
Llaeaai for the start.
The lineup of the Rourkes at the start
of the season will be: .
First Bflse Graham, Eberleln, Clair.
Second Base King.
Third Base Pendry. '
, Shortstop Franck. V
I.aft Field Fisher.
Center FleJd-Wekh.
Rlirht Field Summa, Belden.
Olohers Onndtng. Jm Rrsnd. Cad man.
Pitchers Hall. Sanders. . I wer. Rice.
Hanson. Johns. Hollenfceck, Rluman and
Kellv Weinti.
Utility Men Vasbruders. Smith. .
All of the exhibition games of the Rourke
family will be played at Vinton Street
park asccept two at TJncoln. April 19 and
K). and a game at Grand Island April J7,
. with the Grand .Island team, when the
ftourkss are enrouta to the mountains for
the opening of the league season. Brother
lira wanted Pa to stop off for a game
ind It was put on the schedule. The ex
Mhltlon games, as now arranged, are:
Washington March 31. April 1.
Ie-Gla-AndreBn April $, 4.
Minneapolis April a, T. ft.
White Sox April 10. 11.
Oelghton April 16.
, Lincoln April 17. 11
At IJnroln April 19. 20. '
Bellevue April 24.
Green's Indians April K.
At Grand Island April 27.
Papa BUI haa consented to play a game
during the exhibition eerie for the benefit
of . the Childs Saving institute and the
data may be April It. with Lincoln.
FIRST CAR IN AUTO TROPHY RACE
rathanaVr l.eatea Mew Yerk tm Make
Trls Over KsMltta Coarse.
NEW YORK. March W.-The car which
will act as pathfinder for, the International
Transcontinental Automobile contest for
iha M. Robert Guggenheim trophy from
this city to tho AUak-Yukon-Pactflc ex
position, on June 1, started for Seattle
from ttie city hall at noon today. The
Pathfinder Is the car which won the New
York-to-Pirls race last year, and George
Miller, wh4 acted aa mechanician In that
area I, wUI drive the car to SeatUo.
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R. P. WUson.
BALL SEASON OPENS AT YORK
Baslaess College nasi Hraderaoa Qalt
Erti la Foarteeath.
YORK. Nob., March 30.-Speclal.)-The
first base ball game of the season at York
was played yesterday afternoon between
Henderson and the York Business college
before a small crowd. The weather was
too raw for a large attendance, but one
df the best games ever witnessed In this
city was played. After fourteen Innings of
fast ball at all times the two teams quit
by agreement, score 3 to 8. Bloom, the
Henderson ' pitcher,' was at his best and
pitched the entire game with only five
clean hits. M. Hockenbarry pitched tiie
4ast nine Innings for, the Business College
and struck out twenty-one men In succes
sion. The score:
HENPRRSON.
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YORK BUSINESS COLLEGE.
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Carlsun. 2b.
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Totals
Umpire: Eokles.
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Hcnrer: SchnKxrn
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AUBURN TO HAVE RACE MEET
Nine Fonr Hundred-Dollar . Pnraea
llaaar I n for July. .
Auburn has taken the lend of tho other
towns of t'.ie circuit of the Nebraska Speed
association by deriding In liana; up Jinfl
purses In trotting and pacing events. The
date of the meetlnc Is July 5. 6 and T and
the entries to all harness races close June
26. Records made . in l'.Hfl are not consid
ered as a barto entries in any event
Barton C. Howe is secretary of the Auburn
Summer Rsce Meeting association and wlH
receive all entries and give any Inform
tlon desired The program:
Trotting class. $400; t 20 class. 140:
l it clasa. $; 2:30 class, 64no; S-vear-old
and under, fino.
Pacing-Free fer all. HV; 2:1! class, ttnrt;
2:1 class. 2:20 clas. 40rt: 2:30 clnss,
f't 3-year-old and under. ftTK).
Running Race Ore-hslf mile and re
pent. IWO; flve-elghths-mlle dash, 3100; one
mile dash, 1"0.
Geler Goes Tnp-Uu.
ST. PACT Minn.. March 2H. "Phtr'
Geler. outfielder for the St. Paul AmeVlian
association base hall club, today announced
that he had secured Ms release and had
signed a contract with Topeka. Kan.
The automobile
Season will soon be
here. Do you wajit
to get one at a low
price?
A good many people of
means use a car one year and
then sell it, others dispose of
them for one reason or an
other. By watching the ad
vertisements under the head
ing "Automobiles," on the
want-ad page, you can pick up 1
a snap most any day.
If you have the automobile
fever keep your eye on thisy
colunin.
Have you read tbt want ads yet
todajrt
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Cherrington.
MIXUP OVER THE AMES DATE
Trouble Supposed to Hare Been Set
tied Breaki Out Again.
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TWO SCHOOLS MAY NOT, MEET
Nebraska Haa Only One Other" Date,
October Thirty, at Omaha, -aad
This Haa Bees Offered1 to
the lows School.
LINCOLN," Neb.,' . Marobi 20,-t-tfllK'ClaU
New complications have Just arisen inline
athletic relations between Nebraska and
Ames, which may keep the two schools
from meeting on the gridiron next fall.
Ames brought on the trouble this time by
refusing to play the Cornhuskers on No
vember 13, after once agreeing to that'
date. Manager Eager of Nebraska received
word yesterday from Prof. Byerts of he
Aggie school stating that lit could not com-
plete arrangements for holding the contest
v. ..
To say that action on the part of -Ames
has made the Nebraska management mad
Is to put it mildly, for the change of tho
da(e for the Ames game will necessitate a
shifting of all the games on the Comhusker
schedule. Manager Eager has offered to
play the Aggies on October 30 in Omaha
and unless they agree to taht date they
w ill be left off the 8tate university's scheu
ule for 1909. The Nebraska manager is
much put out with the way the Iowa
state college athctlc mentors have been
acting and he Is not going to have any
juore quibbling with them. He said this
morning Nhat he had telegraphed Prof.
Byerts, offering to play In Omaha on the
last Saturday In October. Unless that date
and place Is agreed to by the Aggie man
ager the two schools will not meet this
coming season.
The trouble over setttling upon a date
for their annual gamo dates back two
months, when Nebraska and Ames first
began negotiating for a meeting next fall.
At that time Manager Eager thought the
Aggie's wanted to play on November 13
and he held that day open for them and
scheduled the other contests that are to
fill out the Cornhuskers' list of . major
games. November waa given to Kansas
for a game In Lincoln. About three weeks
ago, after Ames had completed all of Us
schedule with the exception of booking
the annual game with Nebraska, Prof.
Byerts wrote Manager Eager, saying that
the Aggies would meet the Cornhuskers in
Ames on November 6. Ilavlnk Kansas
booked, for that day Nebraska could not
accept thy date proposed by rPof. Byerts.
Iowa Glscs Back.
Ames wis st t en keeping that day, though,
and but for the Intervention of Iowa, the
two schools probably would have decided
at that time not to play next fall. The
University of Iowa had a game scheduled
with Ames for November 13 and offered
to switch it to a week earlier, November IS,
in order to allow Nebraska and the Agglei
to get together on that date. This satisfied
the managers at Amea and Nobraska and
November 13 was settled upom-
But since that time, Iowa, which had a
tentative agreement to play Pruke on No
vember 6, did some backsliding and told
the Aggie school that the original date for
lis game would be kept. This then forced
Ames to play Iowa on November .13 or
cancel the game. Prof. Byerts decided that
Instead of muking any trouble for tho I'nl
verity til Iowa that he would give Nebraslt.t
the worst end of the deal and try to make
Manager Eager accept November (. The
Comhusker manager, however, will not ask
Kansas to change Its date from November
6. for he knows tbe Jayhawkers could not
do so even if they desired.
If Amea will play Nebraska on October
30 in Omaha, the schedule of big gmiei for
the Cornhuskers will be completed. Iowa
will be played' in Lincoln October I and
Minnesota will be met a eek later, either
In Oraana or Minneapolis. October 23 wlllj
be an open date. Then the Ames game will
cocie to Omaha' on October SO and on No
vember Kansas will coma to Lincoln.
Penver university wUI be played In Penver
on November JU, the Saturday before that
being kept open ia order to give ths Cqrn
buslarra a rest, fesi ftd
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Leo Wilson.
OMAHA T. M. C. A. TIGERS.
AMATEUR BOXERS AT BOSTON
tThaaspfaaahlpa Decided at Mechanic
Hall April 18 ad IS.
NEW'YORK, March ID. The annual ama
teur boxing championships of ' the United
States are to be held under the management
of the Boston Athletic association by the
Amateur Athletic union in Mechanics hall,
Boston,, on the nights of April 12 and 13.
The tournament promises to be one of the
greatest of Its kind ever held in this coun
try, as the best smateur boxers of America
are to strive for championship honors, and
solid gold championship medals will be
awarded the victors In each class. .Only
bona fide amateurs, registered by the ama
teur athletlo associations affiliated with, the
Amateur Athletlo union of the t'hlted Stales
may compete. The. boxing rulea of the lat
ter organization are to govern the contests.
Entries will ' be received lb the following
classes: Bamtamwelght, 106 pounds and Un
der; feather weight. 115 pounds and under;
special. weight, 126 pounds and under; light
weight, IX pounds and under; middleweight,
158 poundH and under; , heavyweight, 168
pounds and over.'. Contestants will weigh" in
each night In Mechanics hall. between 6 and
'j . . . ,,, . .
,.30 o'clock. -No contestant will be permitted
to weigh in later than T o'clock on the night
of contest. . j .
Bartow S. .Weeks, chairman of the cham
pionship commltteo'of the Amateur Athletic
union, has accepted the oi'fer of the Clare
mont Athletic .club of this city to hld tho
national wrestling cha'.nplonshlps for 1909
under their auspices. These championships
will be held about. April 10. The weights
are as follows: Bantam, . 105 pounds and
under; feather. 115 pounds and under; light,
135 pounds and under; welter, 145. pounds
and under; middle, 158 pounds! and under,
and- heavyweight . . .
Champion of the World
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sVJg FRANK OOTC3T
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Harris.
COTCH HAS BIG WEEK'S WORK
Champion Must Tackle Two Giants
in Two Nights.
COMES TO OMAHA ON FRIDAY
Champion of the World Will Appear
Here for the First Time Since
Hla Triumph Over the
Rasiiaa Lion.
Frank -Ootcn although cBamplon of the
world, ha cut out a big Job for himself
this week. He meets Raoul de Rouen, the
French giant, Thursday night' at Kansas
City and John Parrelll, champion of Italy,
In Omaha Friday night. The Frenchman
will follow his Kansas City meeting with
Ootch by a match . Friday night at Pes
Moines with Jess Westergaard. The match
is to do to a finish, as Westergaard refused
to wrestle any more handicap affairs.
Omaha followers of the wrestling game
who enjoy the 'sport will havo the best
match of the three Gotch Is to wrestle
this spring before taking up his work of
managing the Humboldt base ball team.
Ha wrestles the Frenchman, the Italian
and the Turk, and the wise boys say the
Italian is tho biggest and roughest and
most skilled In the wrestling game of the
three. '
The title of champion will not win tho j
match for Frank: Ootch Friday night at
tho Auditorium, but he will have to use
all his skill, cunning and strength. Skill
and cunning ho learned from his old In
structor, Farmer Burns, and strength he
has gained from years of wrestling and
training and from taking care of his physi
cal condition. That is the reason he is
champion.
. Gotch says he intends to keep In tho best
of condition as long as he is in tho wrest
ling game, and that may hot be long.
He had said he was going to retire when
some responsible parties In Australia of
fered him $12,500 and all his expenses for a
match In January with Hackenschmldt, the
Russian lion, whom Gotch made cry at
Chicago April 3.
Tho preliminary Friday night, also will
be between big men. Manager Gillan has
secured Charles A. Jensen, the big police
man, and jBck Emerrlnger. Jensen weighs
30 and Emmerringer 220 pounds.
To accommodate the targe crowd which
Is sure to be present Manager Gillan haa
built several largo strong sections of ele
vated seats from which spectators may
have sj good view of ths mat. The extra
seats will accommodate more than l.ono.
Several rows of chairs will be placed
around the arena. -The box office sale of
seats will open Tuesday morning.
The fact that this may be Golrh's last
appearance in Omaha as a wrestler has
whetted the desire of fans to see this
match. He has never before wrestled here
as world's champion, and this has been a
contributing factor to the large patronage.
Gotch is bolng trained for all these'
matches by Emtl Klank. The Turk will be
trained by Fred Boell and John L Bulli
van's protege. Cutler, whom Gotch nearly
broke In two. .
ANSON ARRANGES EASTERN TRIP
Will Take His Ball Tcasa East -for
. Exhibition Games.
CHICAGO. March 20. "Pop" Anaon an
nounces he has been successful In blocking
out the eastern trip which he proposes to
give his b4ise tall team this spring.
The games lefinitcly scheduled include
two in Philadelphia, oi. April T and 8, when
the Colts will play the Phillies and Ath
letics, on the National league grounds there;
one game in New York with, the Giants,
on April 13, and a game In Newark with
the Eastern League team, on April 12 or 14.
The veteran plans, however, to book
games enough to keep his team busy the
greater part of the month of April In the
eaat. He is after games in Boston, Wash
ington and Baltimore, .and expects to 'get
dates with New England league teams sfter
the major league season topens on April 14.
The Bahanl Plata
destroys fewer lives than stomach, liver
and kidney diseases, for which Electrlo BIN
ters Is tbs guaranteed remedy. 50c For
sals by Beaton Drug Co.
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Cohn.
PRIZES ARE AWARDED BOWLERS
' aansBBM
List of First Fifteen Winners In Each
of Foar Classes.
Highest Scores to Date.
Five-Man Team ,
Llpmans, Chicago 2.MI
Two-Man Tram
Schwoegler Bros., Milwaukee ,...1.304
Individual - N
F. Bruggemann, Sioux City Wl
Larry Sutton, Rochester, N. T 81
PITTSBURG, Pa., March 20.-(Speeial Tel
egramsThe Brewed Malts was the only
five-men team from the wide prairies of the
west to run Into the prise list of the Amer
ican Bowling congress tournament, which
wound up "Its fives events tonight, the
Brewers putting np a 2,738 score, which
landed them $75 for nineteenth place.
Frank Bruggemann, the base ball catcher
of Sioux. City, who Is tied with Larry Sut
ton for the lead In the Individual cham
pionship, arrived here for the second time
and will nieet Sutton on -the tournament
alleys tomorrow night. The match has
been widely advertised and an Immense
crowd is expected out for the single game,
which one man has traveled close to 1.000
miles to roll. Sutton has not reached Pitts
burg yet. hit Is expected in the mo'rning.
Awards of Prises.
The first fifteen prise winners In the three
classes, five-men, two-men and individual,
and the complete list for honojs In all
events during the tournament, which con
cludes a three weeks' meeting in this city
tomorrow evening, and to'be officially an
nounced then, are given below.
First honor In the five-men class is cap
tured by the Llpmnn team from Chicago,
with a world's record score pt 2,962. Their
prixe is $7(10. Al and Tony Schwoegler of
Madison, Wis.. areIrat In the double class
with a world's record score of 1,304. Their
prixe is $430. First place In tho individual
class Is undecided. F. Bruggeman of Sioux
City, la., and Larry Sutton of Rochester,
N. T., are tied for this honor with a score
of 691. This is eight points less than the
record made at Cincinnati, O., last year.
The tie will be rolled off tomorrow even
ing. In the all-events honor roll, J. Bluln
If Chicago Is first with a score of 1,85.
His- prise is $160.
Following is the tabulation:
All-Event Class.
There are sixteen prises to be awarded
in the all-event Hat. with a Lotal cash
amount of $40. They are:
, , , , Score. Ami
J. Blouln, Chicago X.S65 $lft.00
E. Peterson. Chicago 1.R74 linoft
C. Hlnderer, St. Paul, Minn 1,8.19 9O.O0
f Hartsch. t lilcaao Hm snivt
C. B. Trucks. Philadelphia 1.818 70.00
Al Sehwoegler. Madison, Wis.... 1,813 60.io
Tony Schwoegler, Madison. Wis. L810 saoj
r: firuggemann, Bloux city. Ia.. 1.808 40.09
M. E. Kaetx, Chirugo ,, 1,805 85.00
II. Steinmuller, Chicago 1,801 80.00
1'. Klelmspehn. Philadelphia.... 1.793 2S.0O
C. Sandborn. St. Paul 1.7W ST.On
1,7W
1.7X9
1.7h9
1.789
1,785
L. Sutton, Rochester, N. T 1.7x9 Kins
H. Steers, C'htcaKO 1.7s9 18 00
J. Hlrsch, Plttsbuig 1,789 M.6
J. Shaw, Chicago L7b5 15.00
FlveMea Event Class.
In the five-men event there are seventy-
six prizes ranging from $700 to A, the total
amount being $7,422. The first fifteen are:
Score. Amt.
Llpmans, Chicago 2.962 $7U0.u0
Brunswick, New York i.MD 86.00
Interstate, Brooklyn 2.844
Puffy. St. Louis 2.843
Melrose, Chicago 2.8M
B. M. No. 1, Chicago 2.87
Howard Majors, Chicago 2.821
Plmlings. l'litsburg 2.8o7
Buseh & Levin. Cleveland 2.7H7
Klondike, Toledo 2.74
Imperial, New, York , 2.7S3
Weinachts No. 5. lumbus. O.. 2.79
660.00
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800.00
'JoO.OO
225.00
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170 00
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Algonquin, Philadelphia 2.7MS
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Olenwood. Chicago 2.764
Musee, Wheeling. W. V 2.747
Thero are 309 prizes in the individual con
test, ranging from $300 to $6, with a total
amount of $8,582. F.' Bruggemann of Bloux
City, Ia., and Larry Sutton of Rochester,
N. Y., are tied for first place with a score
of 691 snd will roll for the first prise of
$300 Saturday night. The loser will get
the second prize, $235. The scores of ths
other men among the fifteen leaders are!
Peterson, Chicago 72 $135 00
J. A. Reeder Cleveland SH5 185.00
Henry Hoyer, Sioux City, Ia.. bi3 lt!6.00
Fred Ebeit. Milwaukee M 140.00
James Blouin, Chicago V.l 125. 0i
John Hlrach. Pittsburg , ltf.00
M. Tlser. Rochester, N. Y.. 841 102.60
Frank Fox. Indianapolis.... 84 12 M
Out Steele, Chicago...., 646 102 60
C. Sand horn, Chicago 7 tO.04
Harry Steers, Chicago COT $6.00
J. Kosendahi, Chicago tsj to on
W. K. Cooper, Indianapolis., at) 76 00
M. Ltuscker, Chicago m 71 .00
KANSAS MAY FOLLOW EXAMPLE
Jayhawkers Known to Be Against
Limitation.
FOX TEACHES MEN TO BTJNl
Base Ball Coach Hopes to Hats ftfljaad
Oat door This Week -Foot Ball
Coarh Matter aim la
the Air. '
LINCOLN, Neb., March 2rt.-tSpeiial.)
Will Nebraska appear to be waving a
torch of defiance in the face of a majority
of the schools composing the Missouri val
ley conference when It next week votes to
establish a training table for the Com
husker athletes? Will such a step he likely
to bring down upon the local state Institu
tion a severe reprimand from that majority
for violation of the recently adopted con
ference rule prohibiting the maintenance
of a training table by any member of the
"Big Seven?"
These are pertinent questions which have
been raised in connection with the ap
pointment of a committee by the Comhus
ker athletic board to investigate the prop
osition of feeding the cinder-path athletes
at a special tablo this spring and follow
ing the announcement that enough of the
Nebraska athletic mentors are In favor
of the track men's training table to as sure
its receiving the sanction of the board
at a special meeting called for next week.
.That the Nebraska board will be setting
a precedent by making such a move, which
will probably be followed by one or two
other schools, and that Its action will un
doubtedly havo an Important hearing on
the training table question when It comes
up for final vote before the conference
are undeniable points that have been
brought out In the dls usslnn. But Just
what the Comhusker board itself will be
come embroiled In by keeping a table can
only be conjectured after the recent legis
lation against the foot ball training table
is recalled and the attitude of esoh school
in the conference on that ruling is looked
into.
Limited Table Abolished.
Until this year tho Missouri valley con
ference has had a rule which permitted
any school In that organisation to keep a
training table for Its athletlo teams pro
viding the coat to the manigement of any
school was not to exceed lion. At a meet
ing of the representatives of the seven In
stitutions oomposlng thin body In Kansas
City In February this ruling was repealed
by a vote of six to one. Kansas being the
only dissenting member. Since that time,
though, the athletlo boards of Nebraska
and Missouri have declared In favor of the
training table and will be allied with Kan
sas to fight to keep It in the "Big Seven."
According to the regulations of the "Big
Seven." If any school, through Its athletic
board or representative, rejects a measure .
passed by the conference within sixty days
after the adoption of It, such a measure
shall be reconsidered at the next session of
the schools. In the case of the training
-tablo rule ' Kansas has already compiled
with the regulations of the conference snd
rejected that measure. Nebraska and Mis
souri have voted to do the same. Now the
question comes up as to whether Nebrsska
In taking the proposed action In establish
ing a training table for the track athletes
Will, be breaking a rule of the conference
Will the Cornhuskers be either legally or
morally right in doing so?
From a standpoint of legality nn answer
must hinge upon the dr.uht as to whether
the conference action aguinst the training
table has become a role of that body he
fore It has been rpconsldered nfter having
been rejected by one or more of the
schools. If, when St was adopted. It be
came a law binding on all the conference
schools until It jihonld be repealed at an
other session, then Nebrsska Is establish
ing a training table will be violating a rule
Of the "BIr Seven" and can be subjected
to censure by that organisation. On the
other hand, as the majority nf tho Ne
braska athletic board In k at the sltus
tlon, the training table rule, since It has
been disapproved by the athletic mentors
at three schools. Is not a law of the "Big
Seven" until the final voto has ben taken
on It. This view of the situation leaves
the old rule, permitting a training table,
in force, snd gives tho Cornhuskers a right
o run a table If they like.
Minority Oppose Table.
But, looking at the preposition from tha
the other side, one or two men on the
Comhusker board of control who do not
favor the training table declare that, since
the vote for doing away with It at tha
Kansas City meeting wss six to one, Ne
braska is mnrarly bound to observe the
wishes of that majority until further ac
tion has been Uken. Leaving out tha
legal question, they assert, no school has
a right to take any action that would
have been disapproved by the Kansas City
meeting. These Cornhuskers are (rf the
opinion, too. thst Nebraska is legally bound
to observe the rule against the training
table until it has been acted upon at tho
next session of the contercnee.
In answering thejr critics the majority
members of the Nebraska board make a
good defense. The fact that action of tiie
"Big Seven" against the training labia has
been disapproved by three of the confer
ence schools gives Nebraska, cr any other
member, a right to retain the custom, for
the trio of schools will 'be enough to re
ject the measure at the next conference
meeting. A two-thirds being required to
make a rule binding on the seven mem
bers of the conference. With Kansas, Mis
souri and Nebraska favoring the training
table, a reconsideration of the hneasur
passed at Kansas City will result In its
being defeated. Ames. Iowa, Washing-
pton and Lrak will still be In favor of
abolishing the table, but tlw Cornhuskers
do not think that those four schools should
have their own way when tha three) other
conference universities are wanting some
thing sis.
If the measure abolishing ths training
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