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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 12, 1909)
(taisfa's "FORCED OUT!" That's the Idea. This spcll nulling has bwn in force some weeks now scores of vehicles have been sold but there Is ALWAYS that exasperating "remainder" to contend with. There are Just enough vehicles left here to Interfere with a contemplated remodeling of space therefore a determined "FORCING OUT" until EVERY vehicle has been disposed of. Even the sensational prices quoted here during the past few weeks will be UNDERMINED from now on the figures NOW attached to high grade vehicles will make history. No matter HOW well supplied yon are with vehicles; no matter HOW low a price you know of elsewhere, would you give DRUMMOND an opportunity to quote some "Forcing Out" prices? Would you at least look over some of the RAREST values ever shown In an Omaha carriage house. TIKLT CARU&OEI Finely built; two-seated styles, sacri ficed now at low $115 TVO-R1TEO TBAPH or Sur reys, a line of $250 styles are now going at, each, $145 DELITIRT WAGON Fancy top style, worth all of $160, Is to go now, at, $i08 only 18th and Harney iUlullil lJu in jniiiauuuiiu Nebraska Will Have Hard Fight for Championship. SEVEN KANSAS VETERANS BACK Eligibility ConmlttM ' Find Only Three Delinquents, and Two of These Will Work Off Shackea In Time to Train. Minnesota Is not the only hard game Nebraska will have on Its schedule this fall. There are at least three others Kansas, Iowa and Denver but of this trio and In fact of the entire schedule of eight games there Is one which the Cornhuskers have set their heart on winning above all others. ' It Is the annual battle with the Sterlings from the University of Kansas, the greatest rival Nebraska has and the one that causes it the most worry. The game with the Jayhawkers Is sched aled for November 6 at Lincoln, that da'.e being one week after the Iowa game Is booked for Lincoln. This game, always the most Important on the Nebraska sched ule, is this season ranked as the premier battle of the Missouri valley, for it again ts .likely to decide the champlonshlp-of the "Big Seven," which is now held by the Jayhawkers, who last season won the cru cial contest of the year from Coach Colo's men at Lincoln, 20 to 0, and in doing so threw the Cornhuskers out of what seemed certain hold on the pennant and gave themselves clear sailing tor the title. The defeat last year was so unexpected nd an crushing that the Cornhusker season this fall will be considered a failure If the Kansas game is lost, no matter what the outcome of the other Important games on the schedule may be. We Mast Heat Kansas." With the Cornhuskers this year the word Is, "We must beat Kansas." In past years it has been the cry in games against Kan aaa, Colorado and Minnesota, but never has It meant so much as this year, when the Cornhuskers are still smarting under the bitter sting of last fall's crushing set hark. Among all the candidates for the eleven and among the students there is i unanimous feeling that Nebraska's repu tation in western foot ball can be kept upon the high plane it has run on ; for many years only by winning the cham pionship of the valley and relegating Kan sas back to second place. All this can be accomplished by defeating the Jayhawkers this fall. But It Is going to be no easy Job for "King" Cole's men to do this. Kansas is likely to have a machine fully as power ful aa the 1UI steam roller. While the Pnmhiiilmi are trying to figure out a strong machine, the Jayhawkers are ready to begin practice with the most encourag ing bunch of player they have had In several seasons. The Kansas scholarship committee, which has-been looking over a list of foot ball men eligible to play this fall, has found that out of fifty of the moat promising men only three are ineligible. Two of these are Stevenson, the big fullback, and Caldwell, the heavy tackle. Report from Kansas, however, says that these much needed players will be able ..to get the faculty shackles worked off before the first game and be ready to go against all opponents. Oscar Pahlene, who played a great game at fullback against Nebraska last fall. Is thought to be hopelessly back in his 1 Stud lee. so Coach Kennedy is not figuring on his work, even Veteran "K Men. Hut 3lveuwa and Caldwell eligible. feafell Sue IFdHFeei. Buy Vehicles Now TOP BUGGIES Hand made rub ber tired, full leather top. $226 kind, will go on sale $145 TAJTHOPE Cut under Stanhope that brings $165 usually . may be had now $95 SEX.XTXBT W A. GO If Drummond saves you $76 on this open plat form gear, 2-horse de livery wagon Coach Kennedy will have seven "K" men of last season to start training with to morrow afternoon. The other five men are Carlson, the powerful Swede center; Fleas ant, Johnson, Bond and H. Wood, all fast players. These seven veterans will form an excellent nucleus for a strong eleven. Pleasant seems certain of an end post; Caldwell can take the other wing, if he likes, but if he is more valuable at some other position, the speedy Spear will be given the end station. The "Terrible Swede," Carlson, haa the center job clinched. In him Coach Kennedy has one of the best rushes in the west and a man .who will be a powerful factor In the game with Nebraska. Jay Bond, who last season played a whirlwind game at half, in the Nebraska game, ripping up the Cornhuskers' de fense for great gains. Is a fixture for half again this fall. But the rest of the back field ts in doubt yet, excepting quarter, where that lengthy Johnson, who made two spectacular runs In the Nebraska game. Is likely to play again. Flak, who was a strong competitor of Bond's last year, will be good material for a half. In the line Reed, the great guard, will be absent, but Coach Kennedy has three 200-pound boys to fill It. TheBe are David son, Maxwell and Smith. They all appear to be first-class players, and Coach Ken nedy is not worrying about their work. Ford Will Try for Half. Among the other material Frank Ford, who played sub-end last season, will make a hard fight for a halfback position. He tried out for the varsity last fall and did not make It as a regular member, al though he showed remarkable ability. He has had a great deal of foot ball experience and should be a valuable man for Ken nedy. Harold Lee of Wichita and Bower, a Columbia (Mo).) youngster, are two prom ising players who will try for backfleld posts. They both have great foot ball ability. jonn Lovett ol Ottawa is considered a mighty good man for' fullback and will be a strong candidate for that Job. As substitute for" Johnson at quarter, Kennedy will have Pete Hill, a freshman of lsst year, who la rated as a fast quar ter. . Many of the randldates have returned to Lawrence and will be ready to start train lng Monday afternoon. Nebraska's practice season will not open until a week from Tuesday, that being the day set by Coach "King" Cole for all can dldates to be on hand. This week will wit ness the assembling of the players at Lin coin to be ready for the first afternoon's work. BURNS AN ATHLETIC MANAGES Goes to Sidney to Make Matches for Australian C'lnb. NEW YORK, Sept. 11. Tommy Burns, who now weighs 216 pounds, has been ap pointed manager of the Australian. Ath letic company, limited, Sydney, New South Wales, and will shortly open negotiations with the leading American fighters for their appearance in Australia. This company, which is backed by ten leading spirting men and bookmakers of Sydney, haa. leased a large building capable of seating 10,0a) persons, and at the end of the year will open with a championship fight between Australian' fighters and the champion' of American in whatever class the Australian boxer to be decided on Is. Burns la full of talk over bis latest business move. He thinks that there is more money In Sydney for good fights than there is In America. The syndicate which engaged Tommy la a strong one financially, and he is going to receive J2S.0U), and a guarantee of It, too, for his year's work. Therefore, the states are not -likely to see one of Johnson's vlo- tlms for some time. Burns is not troubling over Stanley Keuhel or Sam Lacgford. ' Dc It UiGk ' nrrc omatia BBSS" VdMek COVCOBD BUGGIES (No top) Side sprlnif style, rubber tires, the $1G5 kind, Q SPRING BTTGOT Open end spring buggies that were mark. en $125, now at only. , $73 BEXiXTSBT WAGON Fancy top wuq wooa panel siues. Keai $145 value, at, only ' $93 18th and Harney GOSSIP OF MANY GRIDIRONS Coaches Writing Candidates to Hurry to Early Practice. MICHIGAN MEETS MINNESOTA Upsets Calculations of the Dopeatera by Arranging a Game with a Team tn the Big Nine for This Fall. NEW YORK, Sept. 11 It is Just about this time of the year that promising un dergraduate material and veteran players of varsity foot ball elevens are receiving letters from the team managers requesting them to report for early practice. The month of September is always the scene of most pronounced activity among the coaches who direct the affairs of our col lege gridiron combinations. The most promising material must have as thorough a trial as possible before the candidates turn out In large numbers, and when it is usually the case that the physical condi tion of many veterans demand all the work possible before the regular autumn campaign on the chalk-barred field. Wlille the pigskin will not be sent sailing away from the klckoff by the big uni versity players for a week or so. never theless other teams will be in the field before that time. The Carlisle Indians, as is always their wont, trot out on the llme llned turf In less than two weeks. Other smaller combinations will line up for ac tual play about that time; so It may readily be seen why foot ball coaches are among the busiest personages In the world these days. The days of secret pre-season prac tice are a thing of the past. However, groups of players of different colleges have been together for the last few weeks, at seashore resorts, letting out the kinks in their arms by forward and other types of passing. As a matter of fact, the early season "feel" of the pigskin does much to ward bringing the men up to their game in short order. While many players have to be worked very hard In the earlier weeks of training to reduce the embonpoint garnered in an easy summer's existence, others of the moleskin band will be exempted from considerable of the early season hard ships, for manual work during the sum mer months has kept them In condition Harvesting In the wheat fields, various kinds of engineering work and lifeguard duty are among the favorite forms of sum mer employment for foot ball men whose hearts and souls are tied up In the king of autumn sports. Up at New Haven thirty foot balls were given to sons of Ell Yale so that they could work out during the vacation weeks. ( No Ronnd Robin Scheme. Although there is no intercollegiate asso ciation with a round robin scheme, the chances for a determination of the inter collegiate championship are much better this year than last. Lat year the honor of being first lay between Harvard and Pennsylvania, but as they did not play each other and met but one common op ponent, the Indians, In preliminary games, the issue had to be fought out verbally. Had Cornell played Harvard last fall, as It will do this year, there would undoubt edly have been something tangible with which to settle the controversy. This year Harvard plays Yale, Dartmouth and Cor nell; Yale meets Princeton and Harvard, Princeton plays Dartmouth, and Pennsyl vania meets Cornell. This schedule surely ought to leave soma team with the cham pionship proved. In the middle west the old confederate combination, the "Big Nine," has nut been fully restored and will not be until the University of Michigan returns to the fold. ill kttnpay bee: SErTHNrBER 12, 1900. BLOCK SIGNAL PROTECTION. n U 93 llhil HO ; in!q TO . Hi City Ticket Office, 1324 PHONES BELL DO UG. This Michigan shows no disposition to do. although the Wolverines have stolen a march on the rulers of tho conference by arranging a game with the Univrslty of Minnesota. The rulers of the conference thought a few years ago that they had completely ostracised Michigan from the west when the Michigan delegates refused to swallow some of the foolish legislation worked out by the conference professors during those days of hysteria four years ago. But this year Michigan has secured a game with Minnesota. Otherwise the conference colleges still consist of Chicago, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, Purdue, Iowa and Northwestern. There have been several efforts on the part of Nebraska to take the place vacated by Minnesota. But Nebraska Is not yet ready to subscribe to all the eligibility requirements In the con ference code and be still a free lance in western foot ball. There will be even more Intersectional foot ball than there was last year. The University of Pennsylvania and Michigan meet (or the fourth "time, while Chicago adj.Ctyrnell play their second annual game, tht:41me at Ithaca. Michigan and Syra cuse' also play again, their game taking place at Ann Arbor. Another unusual in tersectional game scheduled is that be-' tween Illinois and Syracuse In the latter's stadium. On the- Pacific coast 'American college Rugby is confined almost entirely to Oregon and Washington, with a few teams In the states adjoining them on the east. The elimination of the game at Leland Stan ford and the University of California has almost killed Rugby foot ball in this coast state. Its place has been taken by asso ciation foot ball. HARD WORK AHEAD OF KANSAS Season's Program Will Be Itreasosi for the Jayhawkers. 1WRENCE, Kan., Sept. 11. (Special.) On Wednesday, September 16, Coach "Bert" Kennedy of the Kansas university foot ball team will put his team of grid iron warriors Into preliminary practice for a heavy season's work. The coach realizes that all the Missouri Valley conference schools are laying especially for Kansas this year and 1st recognises it will be dif ficult to repeat the ever-vtctorlous per formance of last year. Of the fifteen "K" men of last year only seven are out for the team this year. These are Captain Pleasant, end; Caldwell, tackle; Carlson, center; Wood, guard; Johnson, quarter; Bond, half, and Stephen son, fullback. Over fifty men. Including many of last year's freshmen team, are out for the vacancies on the eleven, and pros pects are bright for a strong team.' The hardest games on the Kansas sched ule this year are the contests with Ne braska and - Missouri. The Cornhuskers. after their unexpected defeat at the hands of the Jayhawkers, are out for sweet re venge, and Coaches Kennedy and Mos.e will keep something in reserve to turn loose on ' the Nebraskans. Kansas has been fortunate in winning on the home grounds of the Nebraska team, and the contest between the two rivals is scheduled for Lincoln again this year. The Kansas university team plays nine games this fall, the majority of which will be Btaged in Lawrence. The revised sched ule is as follows: Kansas Normals in Lawrence, Septem ber 25. St. Mary's college In Lawrence. Octo ber !. Oklahoma university In Lawrence, Octo ber 9. Kansas Aggies In Manhattan, October 16. Washington university of tit. Louis in Lawrence. October 23- Washburn college in Topeka. October 30. Nebraska university in Lincoln, Novem ber . Iowa university In Lawrence, Novem ber 30. 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With one col lege already having started Its early foot ball season practice, the other Institutions are now beginning to size up their prob able material and their chances to turn out good teams for the approaching sea son. The George Washington university has started work and from now on all the other colleges will begin to make pre liminary preparations. Although Princeton's four-score or more of foot ball candidates will not begin to arrive at Jungletown for two weeks or so, they may be seen In sundry places from one coast to the other already Indulg ing In a bit of foot ball training. The new rule of the faculty permitting foot ball practice to start only when col lege opens will compel the men to put In some fast work. That date September 22 Is a bit late to begin to get a squad of foot ball men Into condition, but proper physical attention will remedy that diffi culty. The Tigers experienced many more early season Injuries last year than ever before and the main cause of it was the late start. Phil King. '03; Howard Henry, '04, and Walter Booth, '02, are to advise, as well as supervise, the goings on at University Field. Jim McCormick will be In chargo aa field coach and It Is expected that the system will prove a successful one. The players who will be eligible are as yet uncertain, examinations being a wide river to cross for some of the men. Four men went the sheepskin circuit last spring Eddie Dillon, a quarterback and captain; Tlbbott, the all-American halfback; Booth, a tackle, and Dowd, an end. None of the losses, except perhaps that of Tlbbott, will be severely felt, as a host of good men are available. Many End Men. About twenty-two men were given a try at the end of last Beaaon and most of them will be on hand again. The freshman team will contribute King, a nephew of the famous Phil King, and Sawyer. Both youngsters are fast. Welch, a veteran end, will doubtless occupy one end. Meigs, Rhelnsteln. J. B. Waller, Dale, Bredemus and, perhaps, Bauman, who played tackle, will be some of the most likely ends. Captain Slegling will be one tackle and It Is likely that McCrohan will be the other, his ability as a backfleld man having fallen somewhat short of the mark because of his excessive weight Bamman and MacGregor are both fast tackles, tall and rangy. The center trio of the Tiger team will hardly be changed. MacFadyn at center and P. E. Waller and Buckingham for guards again, with Clark MacGregor Winants. Carroll and McCormick for sub stitutes will be the lineup. Dawson, last season's fullback, will be used at quarter back, with , Bergin. Bard and Chrystie as substitutes. The back field will have a number of stars, if the eligibility ban doesn't step in. Eddie Hart, the star captain of the fresh man eleven, whose fame dates back fu Exeter, if eligible, will be a powerful ground gainer. Read and Cunningham. UlJ Farnam St., Omaha, Ueb. 1828 AND INO. A-3231 veteran backs, wlU be assisted by White,' McCormick and De Vito .of the freshman team, as well as Bard, Ballin and Felgen spann. Penney Prospects Bright. Field Coach Andy Smith has issued a call for all candidates for the University of Pennsylvania foot ball team to report for practice on Franklin field on September IS, Just ten days before the opening game of the season with Gettysburg. Not since 1902 have the Pennsylvania prospects been so much up In the air as they are this year. With seven of the strongest mem bers of last year's team missing, this year's success depends almost entirely on new men. The most discouraging feature Is the back field. Hollenbeck, Manler, Keinath and Means will all be missing. To start a team on a season with an entirely new back field is a tremendous handicap one that the Red and Blue team has not had to face since 1900. In 1901 they had Davidson as a veteran. In 1902 Bill Gar diner, Howard and Dale; In 1903, Bennett, while Smith was a man of such well known ability that he might also he counted a tried man; In 1904, Smith and Reynolds; In 1906, Folwell, Greene, Sheble and Stevenson; In 1908, Folwell, Greene and Hollenback; in 1907, Folwell, Greene and Hollenback, and in 1908, Hollenback and Keinath. Each year the'y had men of tried ability as a nucleus. This year they have only Qaptaln Miller, and he was but a sub stitute last year. To add to the uncer tainty of the outlook, one of the most promising candidates, Harcourt, will surely not be back In the university, while Rams dell may also be missing, and Hutchinson is In such precarious scholastic standing that he cannot be counted on with any degree of certainty. Marks a Fast Man. Marks will surely be tsken from center and played In the back field, probably at fullback, where he always played before coming to Pennsylvania. Marks is a re markably fast man, capable of running 100 yards In ten and one-fifth seconds, and seems sure to make good. If Ramsdell returns and it seems about an even bet whether he will or not he will likely play front halfback and he used to crash Into the line, where his weight and strength will count. For the other halfback Hut chinson is probably the best man. He displayed great ability running with the ball on last year's freshman team, and Is an expert with the forward pass, which he has been practicing steadily all sum mer. With Captain Miller at quarterback, this would make a back field brilliant in individual play, but no two of whom have ever played together before, and therefore uncertain as to Its team work, the feature on which all backfields must stand or fall. It would be one of the fastest back fields that ever played foot ball. Kamsdell and Marks are both sprinters of exceptional speed, while Hutchinson Is close after them and Miller by no means slow. But If Ramsdell does not return, or Hut chinson does not get off his condition or falls to show the form expected of him, for he Is still an untried man, or If Injury robs the team of one or more of this back fleld, where will Pennsylvania be then? Sommer and Young, last year's substitutes, are fair players, but hardly of the class for a tip-top varsity backfleld. Heilman and Van Housen of last year's freshmen are also wanting In ability. The loss or any one of these men would damage this back field tremendously. There Is none in prospect who. on past form, seems capable of taking their places. Short on Kicker. In this tentative back field there is no kicker. Marks and Ramsdell have both been coached, but neither haa the aballty. In these days of new foot ball any team without a capable kicker la greatly handi 8 - i m m m OUSTLESS ROADBED PERFECT TRUCK capped. In the university are two broth ers, Aleo and Ed Thayer, who can kick better than any Pennsylvania man since Marshall Reynolds. Ed Thayer played on lost year's freshman team, but be seems too young, light and Inexperienced for a varsity man. Alec haa not played foot ball since coming to Pennsylvania, Cornell's foot ball practice will begin at Percy Flehs. on September 20, and the first game will be played on October t. A greater effort than ever "before has been made by the field committee to pro vide for the presence during the season of a numerous staff of graduate coaches. It is expected to have Daniel A. Reed, '98, at Percy Field through the season. Reed was one of the strongest of Cornell guards and he has been one of the most effective of Cornell's line coaches since his gradu ation. The permanent coaching staff this season will Include P.' E. Larkln, G. H. Walder and B. J. O'Rourke. Larkln will, as last year, give special Instruction to the ends. Walder, captain of last year's eleven and all-American fullback, will have charge of the backs. O'Rourke, with his experience at tackle, will round out the staff. IOWA PRACTICE BEGINS EARLY Twenty-Five Members of Foot Ball Boaad to Report In Week. IOWA CITY, la., Sept. 11. Speclal.) Twenty-five members of the foot ball squad have written Coach Griffith that he may expect them here by the end of next week to report for practice. The official curtain will not rise on the athletic field until the Monday fol.wing, but the assurances are very gratefully received, as the feeling is growing stronger that Iowa must do the unusual this year In the production of a team to meet Minnesota October I. There Is considerable speculation as to what style of play will be adopted by the Iowa coaoh this fall. Upon this point he Is decidedly reticent. The open game has not been mastered by the Hawkeyes, who tried it with only Intermittent success under Catltn'a Instructions last falL Griffith has never coached this style of play and his own foot ball achievements were made with a team remarkable for gaining ground on straight foot ball. Hyland, end. Is a very clever receiver of a forward pass and should some of the others develop the other part of the combination the Hawkeyes might make this a strong feature. The line Is likely to be of Just an average sixe. The end positions will be held by the veteran Hyland and a mate to be chosen . from a likely group in which appears Al derman, captain of the freshman track team last spring and all-round champion weiKht man. Captain Gross will be as sisted at tackle by Hull and Slaughter, both from the freshmen team. One of the guard positions is likely to go to Haxard, two years on the regular team, and a quar tet of freshmen will contest for the other one. Comly, lsst year's center, will be back. Comly is not a hjtavy center, but be is quick and stout and he will harmonise well with the rest of this year's line. Steve O'Brien is another candidate who Is rounder and more on the usual order as regards build for the center position. Johnson, who haa playtd this same position some in the past. Is also to be back. Quarterback Stewart Is likely to get the bulk of the generalship, but Duyer, sub last year; Fee, regular half, and Collins, all offer opportunities to shift the responsibil ity. The prime feature about the problem of the Hawkeyes is to develop a team from material lacking, perhaps, in Individual stars, but comprising men of experience and hardened to the game. Can the new coach do llT Is the question at Iowa thls fall. The alumni believe he can and a re newal of real Iowa spirit In the (men and the rooters Is seen plainly la the early dawn of the season. Si r fi v
