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Pa Rourke
COLTS TO ARRIVE
WEEK FROM TODAY
Gonding Makes Booki on Who Will
Be the First Player to
Report j
NEW GROUNDS NEARLY READY j
Locution of the Diamond to Be Some
. what Changed.
PA IS SEEKING A NEW NAME
O'ien rrize for Cognomen for the
New 'Park.
CONTEST IS ' TO START TODAY
All Aitwrri Most Be la by Nest at-
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nrrtay Rrnlnl When a Season
Ticket Will Be nii
the Wlitnrr. I
r' Colti! will be straying Into Omshs
ihe latter part of tlila seek and (inn week
from tomorrow the training season will
tart at the park grounds. It will Isrt
Just a month and an odd day. giving
thirty days ' for the Rourke to prepare
themselves for. the pennant scramble, aDd
Just thirty-two daya for the ever-on-the-job
predlcters and newspsper scribes to pick
the winning WeMern leaguer. '
The new base hall park la coming- along
In fine atyle and all that remain to be
done la to place a few more of the seats
In and finish the painting. This will be
finished this week and next Sunday the
park will be ready for the summer's ball,
lt'a not sat to venture near the smoke
house these daya unless you are fully pre
pared to enthuse over some special feature
of the park.
As to the team Tapa. Kill will atand Just
about pat. Standing pat in Pa's Ideas Is
to watch those players like hawks and If
there' a chance to better It Omaha fans
are not a little bit worried but what Mr.
Rourke will lie on the Job.
With the addition of Jack Farrell, the
Chicago amateur, to the list the Infield
looks about complete. Farrell will try out
here and If he makes good will probably
help out during the summer. Farrell Ih
rated as a third baseman, but may be
placed us a utility Infieliler. Herr Boss
Schlpka announces that ho is feeling fine
and dandy and ready to tackle that third
base.
Old-Timers Warm I p.
All the last week Behlpke, Gondlng and
Graham have been wearing down the rough
puts on the diamond with a little practice.
there 'are always a floxen or so of the other
profetmlunal ball sharks ot the city. The
funs are going out to the grounds in force
every afternoon to take a look around.
watch, the' players perform a few minutes
and go away wishing that the season was
started.
Pa has been conKidering for some time
the purchasing of a new pitcher from one
of the big leagues, but it Is unlikely that
any such deul will be completed until after
the regular season has begun. Then one
of the lads who has found the majors a
wee bit too fast for him will probably
come here to burn, things up While learning
a little more base ball.
The Rourkcs will spend their training
nays at the Omulia park. For a time
trip Into the statu and playing some of the
towns In the Nebraska State league and
the Mink league was considered, but this
has been given up. The uncertainty of
the weather and the fact that few of the
Nebraska State league squads would bq
In any shape has decided Pa that Omaha
will be fine.
The plans of, t lis new park place the
Infield out farther Into the grounds than
the old diamond and this will make It
necessary to break in the new field during
training season. It will be a little hard
to play around first, but by the time April
1 and the first exhibition game arrives
the field will be fulrly hard.
Oat Horn the Transportation.
Johnny Oondlng la In bad around the
moke house. Johnny has been guilty of
the one great offense, trying to bet on the
treat national game. Ills betting book is
on the first man into Omaha when the
transportation checks are sent out to
morrow. Johnny's bookmaklng bet Is that
friend Agnew from up In the state will be
the first man into Omaha.
What will be the name of the new Omaha
base ball park? Pa Rourke. acting for the
Omaha Base Ball club, Is offering a season
ticket to the park for the year inn for the
best name sent In to the Omaha Base Ball
lut before next Sunday.
The rules of the contest leave it open to
both men and women fans, only one name
being accepted from each person. The con
test opens this morning, and as the first
one of a similar choice of names will re
ceive the prise, the sooner the answer is
in the better.
A committee of the ball players and
members of the club will Judge the contest
and will make known the winner next
Saturday night.
IOWA WANTS TO PLAY GRINNELL
Attempt Will Be Made to Play Off
Stale Basket Bail Tie.
IOWA CUT, la.. March 11.-4 8l.c11
The basket ball team of the University of
nM cnainged Urtnnell college's team
lor another basket ball contest to deckle
the state championship of lows, the win
ning by Iowa of the game Thursday even
ing tlelng the honors. Two years ago
a mini game was played on the Orlnnell
floor, last year no third game as played;
now thla year Iowa wants the game played
on the Iowa floor to which Grlnnell enters
rtrenuous objection and demands that It
be played on neutral floor, possibly n the
gymnasium of the normal college at Cedar
Falls. Managers Kellogg and Fischer can
not come to any agreement over the mat
ter and It looks as If the championship
would remain a tie.
Hi I s ileus City Park.
Plan for Improving the Sioux City ball
para nave been made and work will beg
at once. The cost of the Improvements n
be nearly t!.lnu. the greater part of t
worg helng In doubling the capacity of t
grandstand. This will make It possible
accommodate almost J.OuO people in
giandstsnd hereafter.
Asks the
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Nebraska Athletes Think Their Pros
pects Are Bright for Winning.
DISTANCE MEN WORKING OUT
Cornhnskers Claim to Be Strong; In
Kvery Particular Except In High
Jauip Nrw Men An In.
known Qaantltle.
LINCOLN, Neb., -March 11. (Special.)
With the best' protects of . recent years,
O. F. Field, Selected at the meeting of
the Cornhusker Athletic .hoard Wednesday
as track coach, Marts the work of prepara
tion for, the big indoor meet at Omaha,
In which Nebraska carried away . first
honors last year. ;
Captain Guy Reed and several of the
veterans of the team have been training
on the cinder path for several days, and
the advent -of pleasant weather will be
followed by the call of the captain to all
candidates for the track meet. Even dur
ing the wintry days in February the long
distance runr.era worked out regularly on
the cinder path and most of the men are
In splendid condition to start the hard
training for tiie Omaha meet during the
few weeks which now remain.
Nebraska is strong In ail events, with
the exception of the. high Jump. In this
one event alone the Cornhuskers have suf
fered losses. Graham, the high Jumper,
will not be able to compete in the Inter
collegiate meets. There are four or five
men in school who give promise of de
veloping into high Jumpers, but' the ma
terial as yet Indicates that the Cornhusk
ers will be weak in this 'event, "j Among
those who will try out for the high Jump
is lilltner, the basket ball center, lllltner
has Jumped 6 feet & Inches without much
practice. Christmas Is also a good man.
and these two may be able to bolster up
the Cornhuskers for the Indoor meet. Ne
braska, however, concedes the high Jump
to Kansas and Minnesota. Both of these
schools have men who have cwared the
bar at better than feet, and the spring
training started at Minnesota . several
weeks ego. .
Four Reliable Men.
In the dashes the Cornhuskers have a
quartet of reliable men. Captain lteed,
one of the best runners ever developed at
Nebraska, can run the 100, the 230 and the
440-yard dashes If called upon to do so,
but It Is probable that he will be caved
for the 440-yard dash alon, where he has
not a peer In the Missouri valley, possibly
wetit of Chicago. It Is expected that If
Keed can be Kaved for this event alone
the Nebraska captain will run the classic
dash considerably under the 50-seconds
mark. He succeeded In making the 100
yards In 10 flat last year, the io-yard dash
in 0:i and the 440-yard nsli In slightly
over O.oO.
Art May Is expected to do fast work in
the 100 and In the 230-yard dash. May Is
not so fast on the 44V-j ai d, relying on his
speed Instead of endurance. May broke
the university Indoor record, which has
stood for years, in the 2i-yard dash In the
annual Interf raternlty meet, lowering the
record to' V08. He has a near rival In
Swanson. who Is also credited with? a
record of 0:03 In the -yaid dash. Powers
is the fourth man and he 111. push the
other three for third place on the Ne
braska team.
Powers has not had so much experience
In the dash as the other three men and
may be saved for the hurdles, where he
did excellent work last spring, but the ma
terial for the dashes is better than in re
cent years.
in the hurdles Field will have to develop
a running mate tor Powers. Powers
cleared the hurdles at cioae to the uni
versity record a.id won the events in the
meet with Kannas.
Ktsecl anlllaa Honors.
The pole vault should undoubtedly go to
Nebraska. In Lindstrum the Cornhuskers
have the best va niter ever developed.
I.liidnrum has shattered all Indoor records
during the winter and promises to clear
the bar at cloxe to U ftet. He has cleared
II feet inches with ease In practice.
Munson is still eligible for the broad Jump.
Ujii&oh holds the university record In the
broad Jimip and is in excellent coudlUoii.
Anderson, Amberson and Melik are still
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TRACK
Field Club Courts
Are to Be Covered
With Coating of Oil
Preparatipns Being Made Early for
the National Clay Court
Tournament
or, specially prepared and put on In
the same mannner as Is used in laying
oil on roadways, will be used In the
tennis courts of the Omaha Field club this
summer. The tennis committee of the
club has looked into the matter and de
clare that the courts that .have used the
John D. product In other years were In
the most perfect shape all the summer.
The clay soil of Nebraska becomes
baked and hard after a week or more of
the hot summer sun and It Is found very
hard" to keep the hard surface of the
court from cracking, or else from scuffing
Into a choking dust when the players use
the clay tennis courts. The new product
that la to be used binds the top surface
perfectly, allowing the court to be rolled
as hard as pavement and yet It will not
crack.
After several games have been played
on any tennis court there are sure to fee
a few dents from the shoes of the players.
On the ordinary unprepared surface ot a
clay court the ground must be soaked,
dragged with a mat, and rolled before
these can be gotten out. ,Witli. the oil
surface It "is only necessary to roll the
court over a few times with the heavy
roller and it is as fresh, and unmarked
aa In the morning when the playing
started. (
. The oil used has the appearance of
pure honey, but Is, of course, much less
thick ami will . run eawlly. It is sold at a
reasonable price and the saving in water
and in men's hire around the courts soon
paya for the extra cost of the fluid.
Other Improvements are being planned
by the club In preparation or the big
national tournament. Some new nets will
be bought and the tennis courts com
pletely gone over this spring to Insure
their being In the best, possible shape all
year. A green background three to four
feet high Is to be built around the bot
tom of the fence to make It easier to
see try ball when playing. A new fence
will also be built.
The tennis committee of the Field club
Is starting its season's work under the
direction of 8. 8. Caldwell, chairman. The
idea of the committee Is first to advertise
the national meet here In all the teunls
centers of the country and later start an
active campaign for a big entry list.
FRENCHMEN INTO THE AIR RACE
Two Catrles for International Meet
Next Fall.
NEW YORK, March 11 At the meeting
of the executive committee of the Aero
Club , of America It was announced that
two French entries had been received for
the international balloon race, wiiluh will
be held In this country next fall. It was
also announced that entries bearing the
foreign postmark of March 1 would be ac
cepted. Official announcement was made that
three American aviators, Earle Ovlngton
of Newton Highlands. Mass.; A. J. Hubert
of New York City, and Joseph A. Cum
mlngs of Boston had qualified before rep
resentatives of the Aero Club of France as
pilots. The trio flew Blerlot monoplanes
at Pau, In the south of France.
Aato Uoes Foster,
OMAHA, March 11. To the tSportlng Edi
tor of The Bee: Which has the fastest
record for a mile, an auto or a motorcycle?
G. P.
Answer March 14.' 1910, at Latona, Old
field made a mile In an auto in z; 3J.
May 30 on the speedway at IndlanaiHilla
Oldfield made a mile in an auto In Sj.iiS.
Professional motorcycle record (or a
mile, made by J. B. IteKosler at Spring
field, Mass.. July 31. 1J09. 4314, seconds.
American Athletes Win nt Oxford.
OXFORD. England. March ll.-The Ox
ford varsity team defeated the representa
tives of the London Athletic cioh in ih.
nual sports today, i points to J. Two
American Rhodes scholars scored. R. K
l4ing of Oklahoma won the liw-varit rtjh
In lov4 seconds and Qeorge E. Putnam of
Kansas captured the hammer throw miih
a mark ot 1&J feet Inches.
SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH
New Name for the Vinton Base Ball Park
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AND FIELD TEAM OK THE Oil AH A HIGH SCHOOL.
Glidden Tour to Be
Known This Year as
Reciprocity Run
Cars Will Leave Washington June 15
for Ottawa by Way of New
York and Boston.
WASHINGTON, March ll.-The Glidden
tour, the big annual event in the automo
bile world, this year will be known as the
reciprocity run and will extend from
Washington to Ottawa, Canada, starting
June V- The route will be through Balti
more, Wilmington, Philadelphia, Atlantic
City, New York, New Haven, Providence,
Boston, Burlington and Montreal to
Ottawa, arriving there not later than
July 1. The 'distance Is estimated at 1.0HS
miles. A pathflndlng car will leave Wash
ington, May 1.
The sweepstakes prize will be the well
known Glidden trophy, but there will be
also two handsome cups to be known as
the "President's cup," and the "Premier's
cup."
Several other trophies will be offered.
One of the features of the reciprocity
run will be the presence as observers of
United States army officers from the signal
and engineer corps.
Papke Knocks Ont Smith.
SYDNEY. N. 8. W March 11. Bill
Papke, the American middle weight,
knocked out Pave Smith, the Australian
middle weight champion. In the seventh
round today. let month Papke lost to
Smith on a foul In the tenth round..
ONE OF OMAHA 'HIGH'S BEST
LITTLE ATHLETES.
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American College
Men Are Stronger
Thanthe Asiatics
Physical Tests Prove that Rice Eaters
Cannot Compete with Occi
dental Brawn.
NSW YORK, March It Many are the
tales of the wonderful endurance and
strength of the rice eaters. We have been
told how the Japanese, Chinese and Hindu
young men are capable of standing terrific
exposure and hardship. These somewhat
common beliefs, however, have been shat-
tered rudely by Dr. D. C. Hall, physlcal-f
director of the University of Wisconsin.
For more than two years he has been com
piling comparative records. Today results
are at hand that show the American young
man as represented by the college student
to be physically superior to his cousins ot
the orient. Dr. Hall's observation are
given as follows:
"The American college man Is heavier,
stronger and taller than the Chinese.
Hindu or Japanese student. The American
averages 142 and a fraction pounds In
weight, while the native of China comes
next with an average of 124 pounds with
the Japanese In third place with an aver
age of 112 pounds. The average Hindu tips
the beam at 10H pounds. The American has
an average height of 6 feet 8 Inches, and
the Hindu comes next with an average of
5 feet 4 Inches.
"According to Dr.' Hall, the most sup
prising result of the physical comparison
of the students of different nationalities
was obtained in the strength teats. The
American is first' with 1,424 pounds, but
the Chinaman Is a close second with an
average of 1,381 pounds -to his credit, leav
lng the Japanese, the reputed Iron man
of the Russo-Japanese 'war, in third place
with an average of only 1.093 pounds. The
Hindu Is a bad fourth with only 813 pounds
as the average of the strength test, n3
Mr. Hall's explanation of the weak physi
cal makeup of the Hindu students Is the
fact that they are vegetarians and do not
exerclHe regularly enough.
"Dr. Hall also prepared a table to show
the Increase In physical vigor and endur
ance after a year's-work In the college
gymnasium, and the general improvement
is so great that enemies of military drill
at the university urge that the benefit of
a year's work In the gymnasium Is more
productive of gain In physical development
than the corresponding time spent In car
rying a musket over the. campus."
AMATEURS WILL HOLD SHOOT
National Championship to Be Held at
Travers.
NBW YORK. March 11. Under the aus
pices of the New York Athletic club the
sixth annual amateur championship of
America at clay birds will be decided at
Travers island on March 23. The condi
tions call for expert traps, sixteen-yard
rise, fifty-yard flight, 2o0 birds in strings
of twenty-five. The first prize will be a
diamond medal, and there will be other
awards up to and Inclusive of the tenth
high gun. Squads will be" made up when
the shooters arrive at Travers Island. Ties
will be shot off at twenty-five birds. Pre
liminary to the main event, and on the
day before, there will be four practice
matches at fifteen targets, followed by a
100-blrd shoot, in which there will be three
prises.
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ATLANTIC CITY HORSE SHOW
Aannal
Exhibit .and Competitions
Como la April.
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., March IX-The
thirteenth annual exhibition of the Atlan
tic City Horse Show association will be
held April 1. 10. tl and II. The prise list
will contain eighty classes, covering every
department in riding, driving, Jumping and
special events- and for each performance
an excellent program will be arranged.
One of the most popular features of the
show will be the Jumping events, and all
of the former blue ribbon winners, as well
as many new ones, will be entered for
competition. The trotting roadsters will be
much In evidence again this year. The
other classes Include horses In harness,
carriage horses and appointments, tarl
dems, four-in-hands, ponies and saddle
horses.
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HOLSTE TRAINS FINE TEAM
Hastings College Basket Ball Five
Has Good Record. .
TRIMS EVERY TEAM SAVE C0TNER
Hope expressed These Two Teams
Might Meet, Bnt Arrangements
Have Mot Bern Made Record '
Made for the Year.
HASTINGS, Neb., March ,11. (Special.)
Although training was not begun until
the latter part of January, the basket ball
team of Hastings college has made a nota-
ble record, having defeated all other col
lege teams with which it has played. The
only game It lost In the entire series was
at York early In the season, before prac
tice was well under way, but in the return
game with that five Hastings won by the
score of 24 to 6 and York threw up the
sponge when the game had five minutes
to go.
The record Is all the more remarkable
by reason of the fact that this was the
first reason In many years that Hastings
college had had a basket ball team. When
A. F. Holste, the athletic director, arrived
on January 17 he had to begin work with
unskilled men, as only one of the candi
dates for the five bad ever played In a
basket ball game. With this team and
the progress already made in the develop
ment of a base ball team Holste has dem
onstrated lils versatility as an athletio di
rector. .
Work on the Gridiron.
,It was Holste that rounded into shape
three of the best foot ball teams that ever
represented Hastings college. His success
was so marked In that branch of college
sports the Institution employed him for
athletio director and built and equipped
one ot the best gymnasiums In the state.
The basket ball team has played 'two
games each with Wesleyan, Kearney and
York, piling up a score of 187 to 138 by the
opponents. Two . games were scheduled
with Cotner, which had defeated both
Kansas and Nebraska In the Missouri con
ference, but Cotner called them off early
m the week, much to the disappointment
of the local team and its supporters. Cot
ner and Hastings are regarded as by all
odds the strongest basket ball teams In
the state, and It was the duaire of local
supporters of the game that the two
teams might meet In a final test of
strength.
Hastings college will this spring, for the
first time, have a base ball team in the
field. Practice Is already well under way.
Although most of the men are inexperi
enced, they are showing excellent form
and It Is expected that a . winning team
will be developed. Much time Is also being
given to training for track athletics. In
which Hastings college has always main
tained a good record among the other col
leges of the state.
READY FOR DAVID CITY SHOOT
Sportsmen to Attend From All Over
the State.
The David City Gun club will have one
of the blugoat shoots of the year at Its
grounds in David City March Ti and 23.
The David City sportsmen are working
hard In making arrangements for their
shoot and announce that all possible com
forts will be provided at the event for the
visiting shooters.
More than 100 extra prize money has
been provided for the shoot, both the prize
money and the entry fees being divided
up on the Jackrabblt system for half of
the shoots and on ihe 40 30-30-10 system for
the other half.
Brooklyn Takes Close Game.
HOT SPRINGS. Ark Mrh 11 II.M
hitting In the last three Inidims uvtH &
Kaine for tne Brooklvn team this fi..r-
ftioon with Ilia All-Stars. Kd Clark, of the
Kastern league pitched f.r ttie picked
team and showed excellent form until he
weakened near the end of the game. Sey
lold and Cy Young of the All-Stars and
l'aubert. Zimmerman' and Teely starred in
the batting, (score: ICIi.fcJ.
iiiooklyn 0 0 0 0 0 I I 3-4 15 t
All-iMnr 4 00O0 100O--6 I 0
Batteries: Clark and Hackett: Knetxer,
Bnrcli. barger and Ryan; Miller, Erwln
and Dargen.
lotts Score
IOWA CITY. la.
In Gallery Shoot.
March 11 (Special Tel-
egram In the eond week's nhoot for
the National galleiv championship, Iowa
shut bio out of a possible too.
COPY FIVE CENTO,
PREPARING FOR
BIG OMAHA MEET
Western Athletei Making Ready for
Entry in the Indor Compe
tions Here.
THREE SCHOOLS ARE FOREMOST
Nebraska, Kansas and Michigan to
Predominate.
JAYHAWKERS GROWING EAGER
Four Fast Relay Men for Sunflower
State.
CHAMPS FROM KANSAS CITY
Tows Doss on Kaw Plans to ftettlo
Long niralry with Chicago Hero
Military Bands to
Attend.
Track coaches all over the middle west
rre working with the athletes under their
rharge. preparing them for tho first big
competition of the 1!U season, the Omaha
Inuoor meet on April 1. Less than three
weeks before the night when the best of
the speedy runners, the heavyweight ' men,
and the Jumpers of the west will meet at
the auditorium, the second indoor meet
promises to tar eclipse the Initial contest.
The coming week will bring positive
answers from the majority of the col
leges likely to enter In the Omaha event.
The big colleges from one side to the
other of the big valley country of the
Mississippi and Missouri rivers, have been
a little uncertain about entering the Omaha
meet because of engagements with sister
cc Dirges and conference relations. This
week will bring the answers.
It Is certain that Michigan, Kansas and
Nebraska will be represented, and many
of those who watch the college track
squads of the west closely, declare that
to one of these will fall the victory of the
meet. It la certain that the proposed relay
race with these three schools entered and
any others of their class that may come In
later, will be the biggest event of that
Hnd ever held In Omaha.
Kansas Is progressing a little beyond
the mere point of friendly rivalry In this
meet and Is coming to Omaha with the In
tention of getting that meet. W. C. L na
tion, the track athletic director of Kansas,'
has written the Omaha Athletic association
that he will bring here the eight crack
men of the Jayhawker college. Four of
the Kaw squad will constitute tho relay
team, one of the best Kansas ever turned
out. The relay will be 780 yards for each
of the runners, and Kansas Is depending
much upon these four runners to uphold
the honor of the sunflower color.
The remaining four men will be entered
In the various Individual events. French,
the little high Jumper, who made the fr-at-est
height at the Omaha meet last vAt . .
six feet, will be in again. French Is also
the champion of the Chicago conference In
this event. Roberts, the man who did tho
fifty-yard dash In record time three times
successively, will run once more for Kan
sas In 1SU and C, Woodbury, who bas
done 11 feet 4 Inches In the pole vault In
Indoor work already this season, will be
entered. H. Woodbury, a 16-second man
In the 120-yard hurdles will do this stunt
here.
From Nebraska It Is not certain Just
what team will come yet, but Reed, Am
berson, Graham and Collins are sure to be
on the squad. The South Dakota squad in
also uncertain, but South aDkota will send
a strong representation.
The Kansas City Athletio club will be
on tho map for the Omaha meet. Nevlns,
the Western Athletio union champion for
the 440-yard run, will head tho team, and
three other champs, O'Donnell, champion
miler; Craig, half-mile record holder, and
Loo Talbot, record holder in weight events,
are also coming from the Kansas City
Athletic club. Kansas City offers the asso
ciation officials a proposition which may
be placed In the list of events.
The Kansas City Athletio club and tho
Chicago Athletio association have long
been rivals and Kansas City wishes to try
the two relay teams of the associations out
at Omaha,
As the measurement of tho track at the
Auditorium will be ISO yards, each of the
men In the big college and association will
have to round It six times. Each man Is
to run 780 yards, making It six times round
apiece, twenty-four rounds to tho' race,
3,120 yards.
The relay event between the smaller
colleges of Nebraska, and Iowa will not bo
quite so long, each of the men entered
running 2W yards, a 1,040-yard total run.
Bellevue college was the latest to enter
In this class.
Tarkio college will enter In the college
race, the Tarkio team which won the Mis
souri Valley championship In 1910, Tarkio
will also have entries for other events.
Lieutenant Tt. D. Smith of Fort Crook
sent word Saturday that the Fourth In
fantry band, one of the crack military
bands of the United States, would be at
the disposal of the association that even
ing. If so desired.
The Nebraska University band will also
be present. The Omaha Cadet band
be present. The - Omaha High School
Cadet band will also be in attendance.
Interest among the local athletic asso
ciations Is keen for the big event. The
Young Men's Christian association ot
Omaha is practicing hard and hopes to
take a number of the honors, if possible, to
take the high colors of the Young Men's
Christian association's entered. The Svet,
Athletio club, the German Turners and
the Tel Jed Sokol will probably be entered
for a special relay race and the Turners
ot the two latter societies will give art
exhibition while soma of the races are
being carried on.
The entry list of the Omaha meet closes
March 15. and then the list of those who
compete must be sent to the Amateur
Athletic union authorities. Between now
and the closing time of the entry list Sec
retary Cams expects to hear from many
of the colleges of the west.
Shortstop -Mrbols Critically
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MILWAI'KEU Wis., March 11-Rol,
Moha of Milwaukee was given the popular
verdict over Mike (Twin) Hulllvan of Bos
ton at the end of a un.mn.H t. ,
tonight. Moha had the better , nH s
every roiyid of the coutaac