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OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 26, 1911.
SINGLE COPY. FIVE CENTS.
Big Amateur Indoor Athletic Meet Saturday Night; Rourkes in Traing a Week
ROD EKE SQUAD
LOOKING GOOD
TIGER STARS MAY
NOT PLAY HERE
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I Athletes Who Will Take Part in the Great Omaha Meet J
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Missouri University Managers Decline
Invitation to Big Indoor Testivi
' ties This Week.
SAY EXPOSE IS TOO GREAT
Omaha Promoters A?ree to Pay Part
if They Will Come.
LOCALS EXPECT REPLY SOON
mis Wanted to Furnish Competi
tion for Michigan Lads.
INDIVIDUAL
CHAMPIONS ENTER
n
Aumi the Cracks Who Will Be Seen
atardey light at the Andltorlom
Are Ralph Cralar, Joe Homer,
Menaal and Roberta.
The University of Missouri, ons of the
most prominent of the universities and col
leges, expected to be represented In Omaha
Faturday In the second Omaha Indoor meet,
) mar not send a team, according to advices
received from the Missouri authorities yes-
1 terday.
' The reason given is that the cost of send-
k Ins; a team as far as Omaha would be too
I great. The Omaha Athletic association
met the situation by offering- to pay the
Tiger team's expenses In part In order that
jr the other colleges might not bo dlsap-
poinjen. j reply m exi'rciru buimi.
Preparations for the big track event have
progressed satisfactorily. Competition will
bring to this city the best of the many
speedy runners and of the amateur field
athletes of the west. The placing of the
Western Amateur Athletic championship In
conjunction with the Omaha meet, make
the Omaha event all the more Important as
any records made will be placed with the
Amateur Athletic union as national ama
teur records.
The construction of the track In the
Auditorium will begin Tuesday, the track to
'ie ISO feet inside length and sixteen feet
J wide. It will bw built of wood and the
f curves will be banked two feet on the
outside edge. Inside the track will be space
j, for the dashes and the field events. The
rirty-yard dash and hurdle races win be
held as the first events and the field evants
there later.
Many Individual "tare Knter.
There will be a long list of Individual
track stars present when the gong rings.
Ralph Craig, the champion 120-yard runner
nf the western college conference, with a
record of -.21)4 will be here as a member of
the Michigan team. Joe Homer, esteemed
as the best all-round Intercollegiate athlete
of the country, will also be here with the
Wolverines. Horner holds the records In
shotput, st feet S Inches; high Jump, 6 feet
Inches forty-yard hurdles, :0Mfc; pole
vault. 10 feet Inches; thirty-five yard
dash, KX. t
Menaul, a ICS-pound crack of Chicago,
who hurls the shot 46 feet and has a high
Jump record of S feet 1(JS4 Inches, Is en
tered. Frenoh, who has a mark of ( feet
H Inch In the high Jump, Is entered from
X ansae, as la Roberts, the man who won
the fifty-yard dash here last year.
N Davenport, the best runner ever turned
X out by Coach A A. Stag of Chicago, will
be here, to run under the Maroon colors.
i Vtfe n" reoord ot 'or 440 yards.
Ksvaaaa City Cornea la Force.
Kansas City will be represented la
strength. The Kansas City Athletic club
will have a relay team entered and some
of the members will enter the Individual
events. The Kansas City Toung Men's
Christian association's strong track squad
will enter. Koenlgsdorf, who won the 100
and 23-yard dashes In the Missouri valley
Interscholaatlo meet last year, will com
pete; also Dan 8. 8tolphet, who holds the
world's Amateur Athletlcunlon record for
one mile, 4 minutes K seconds. Kanalser,
winner of weight events at the national
Toung Men's Christian association meet
last year, and Mayberry, who won second
In the Omsjia meet last year, will be here.
It has been decided that the high school
relay race shall be 260 yards for each of
the four man. Omaha, Sioux City and York
High schools will meet In one event and
Bouth Omaha and Council Bluffs in an
other. The grade school event will be 200
jards for each man unless a change Is
made. Preliminaries for the grade school
event will be held at 7 3 p. m. Saturday
and the final race will be held later In the
evening.
The I'nlverslty of Nebraska expects to
send a strong delegation on the night of the
meet and the I'nlverslty of Michigan
alumni, of whom there are many in Omaha,
will be present to root for their athletes.
Omaha High school, with Its military cadet
band, will occupy the west end of the '.uilld
Ing and the I'nlted States Fourth Infantry
band will be placed at the east end.
Taraers to Give Exhibition.
During the mile run the Tel Jed Bokol,
the society of Bohemian turners, will put
on a turning exhibition In the field part
of the floor. The Omaha Tel Jed Sokol la
one of the best turner teams snd puts on a
lively and Interesting exhibition of gym
nastics. The Omaha Athletic association Is plan
ning a series of signs lit by electricity by
which spectators may know which event
Is being run off and the results. Other ar
rangoenta for the quick handling of the
vents and the announcement of the re
ulta to the watchers are under way.
The Omaha Young Men's Christian asso
ciation la training a squad hard now In
preparation for the big event. Ritchie. R.
Wilson, Harris, Golden. Hugh Wallace and
I Wilson are all trying out for the "Y"
team and the local association should, make
a good representation.
UOLF HKSILTS AT PIEHIHST
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PlMh'tirKAT. N. C, March 36,-Miss
Jouise Klkins ef the Oakmont club. Pitts
burg, was the winner of the championship
title in the women's event In the I'nlted
North and Bouth Amateur Golf champion
ship today, derating Mrs. William P. West
of the Huntingdon Valley club. Philadel
phia, two up and one to play.
The contest was brilliant. Miss El kins
maintaining a slight lead throughout with
the climax on the short seventeenth hole.
shera Mrs. West rlmr
win with a nine-foot
immed the cup tor a
putt which would
have squared the match. Miss Barbara C.
Lewis of the Philadelphia Cricket club won
to prwaldenl s or second division, cup.
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AMATEUR MANAGERS -BUSY
All Are Looking for Games for the
Early Season.
STOBZ
TRIUMPHS
tart the Season with Practice with
the Diets Team and Them Take
on the Western I.eaatae
Aqd,
Next Sunday all the amateur crews of
Omaha, Bouth Omaha and Council Bluffs
will be ready for the season's battles.
Warm, sunny days, coupled with Invigorat
ing atmosphere, gives the old amateur vets
the fever. The amateur veterans will have
to hustle soma In order to keep the young
sters from grabbing up their bertha.
The Btors Trlumps had their Initial' work
out last Sunday In a practloe game with
the Diets club. The Beverage Kids won the
Combat. From the present Indications It
looks as though the rest of the local squads
will have to put on extra steam to trounce
the happy water family this season, be
cause all of them, from the twtrlers up, are
pernicious men with the ash furniture.
Today the Triumphs will meet Fa Rourke's
pennant chasers on the local league ball
lot and they will do their mightiest to bag
the winning pearly.
Next Saturday, April fool's day, the Diets
club team and the aggregation from the
Nebraska School for the Deaf will meet for
the first real Saturday contest ot the sea
son at the Diets club park, which Is
located at Fourteenth vand Boyd streets.
The Diets bunch will have all Its regulars
In the field and the deaf lads will be well
fortified, consequently a close Interesting
battle Is anticipated.
Int lactates Reerissli,
The Council Bluffs Invlnclbles have re
organised for the season, and Martin Peter
son will do the managerial stunt. He has
mustered together a galaxy of stars that
ought to shine real bright. rtllowing Is the
lineup: Kranlnger, catcher; Hanson and
Hombach, pitchers; Smith, first base; Kyle,
second base; Phillips, third base; Robinson,
shortstop; Boyne. Scanlon and Peterson
outfielders. Three of the above mentioned
belong to the pay-wagon army, namely,
Hanson, Kyle and Kranlnger. The latter
two belong to Auburn, Neb., of the Mink
league, and Hanson Is a state leaguer.
Manager Prlckett of the Rangers an
nounces his tribe as fulows: Nyslrom.
catcher; Uarosh, pitcher; Howley, first
base; Blgler. second base; Jenkins, short
stop; Lisy, third base; Kaee, Langer and
Pickett, gardeners. The above look appe
tising on paper and If they do the things
that their chief. Mr. Pickett, predicts, they
will be among the head-liners this summer,
t rclshtoa Oatlook Bright.
The outlook for a very prosperous season
at Crelghton university is very encourag
ing. For a couple of years the school on
California street has been a dead ons as
far as the national pastime Is concerned.
but this year things are rounding in shape
for a great year on the diamond. The last
team anyway connected with Crelghton
was a bunch called the Crelghton Annex,
which consisted of boys that lived In the
beanery. They plajed about ten games
last season, winning eight About thirty
candidates for positions on the Crelghton
university crew will be In action next week,
when the right for steady positions will
open la earnest. Homhach, a lad from
Council Bluffs, well known In local cir
cles, will endeavor to cop a berth oa the
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NEW YORK, March 26. Lawn tennis
players of. this country see In the drawings
foY the international challenge matches
fon, the Dwlght F. Davis cup next summer
the certainty that the preliminary ties and
the all Important challenge match will
be decided In the antipodes. The unex
pected entry ef South Africa gave a new
twist . to. the affair. It is the first time
that the players of Bouth Africa have ever
sought the world-famous tennis trophy,
and by so doing they have created a stir
not only In this country, but also In Eng
land. At the time that Anthony F. Wilding and
Norman E. t Brockes .captured the trophy
front Its British Isles'holdlng on the courts
at Wimbledon In 1907, it became known
that none of the European nations would
seek It In so far away a quarter of the
globe. France, Germany, Belgium and
other nations that had previously competed
while It was held wlthlu eauy distance.
iimi no cnaiienges mignt be ex
pected from them until It was returned to
European or American holding once more.
This led to England and the United States
challenging In 18u8. But the British Isles
defaulted and Frederick B. Alexander and
Beals C. Wright Journeyed to Australia, to
meet defeat by a narrow margin. The fol
lowing year he British Isles arranged to
challenge by playing the ties here. John C.
Parke, Charles Dixon and W. C. Crawley
came to this country and were defeated
on the courts ef the German town Cricket
club, Philadelphia, by William A. Larned,
William J. Clothier, Harold E. Hackett
and Raymond D. Little, as the representa
tives of the United States. Then, by a
strange arrangement, Maurice F. Mc
Loughlln and, Melville E. Long, two young
Callfornlans, were 'sent to Australia, to be
overwhelmingly beaten. Last year both
ths British Itles and the Americans chal
lenged, only to default.
Bead Formal Challenge.
Spurred oo by the harsh criticism that
was meted out to them, ths British Isles
and the United States both went through
the formality of Issuing challenge at
their annual meetings this year." The rules
which surround the cup cause It to be ob
ligatory for the challenges to be made on
or before March 1 of each year. Then along
came the South African challenge &ni
the plans of this country and th British
Isles experienced a couslderabl upset.
J his was because negotiations had been
going forward between the English national
"a iui one nana ana Uie united
States National Lawn Tsnnls association
on the other to toss up as to whether the
ties of 1911 would be Played here or In
England and to alternate thereafter. Jven
such sn arrangement miaht hava mm
through. Perhaps the Australians had
some knowledge of this when they slipped
In the Joker on the draw of the challenging
nations giving the bye to the British Isles
and placing the United Stales In opposi
tion to South Africa for the first match.
It is a condition which Is creating some
heavy thinking In this country at the pres
ent moment.
'This country Is committed to send a
team to Australia, this year," said an offi
cer today. "That was the wish of the dele
gates assembled at the annual meeting
which was held in the Waldorf-Astoria
early In February. The motion of Dr. P.
B. Hawk was Intentionally worded: "The
best team that this country could find
available. This was allowed to go through
because It was known that the arrange
ments with England would be successfully
consummated. It Is pretty certain that the
players of this country will Insist upon
the challenge of this country being made
good and the long trip seems to be ths
prospect."
Where ts Play Tlee.
It was pointed out that there was the
bare chance of some other arangement.
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Buffalo Will Stay
in the Grand Circuit; ,
Racing to Continue
Action of Columbus in Withdrawing
Has Not Destroyed Integrity
of Association.
CLEVELAND, March 25. President H.
K. Devereaux of the Grand circuit today
received word that Buffalo has decided to
remain with the organization and that
Goshen, N. Y., which has races scheduled
after Buffalo, will give a series of $1,000
events. He says this action Insures the
Integrity of the circuit, notwithstanding'
the action of Columbus In withdrawing.
This year's circuit, consisting of eleven
weeks of racing, will start cn July 11, at
Indianapolis, ' three weeks earlier than
usual.
CARDINALS WIN FROM BROWNS
National Leagne Team Takes the First
Game of Sprlnv Series.
ST. LOUIS, March 25.-The 6t. Louis
National league base ball team won the
first game ot the spring series from . the
local American league ciup today by a
score of 10 to t. The Nationals used their
regular lineup. The. players wore crepe
in memory of Stanley Roblson, owner
of ths Nationals, who died yesterday. Score:
R.H.E.
National 1 1 0 0 0 6 0 2-10 7 2
Browns 1000000 124
Batteries: Steele and Rrranahan: Lake
and Clarke. Umpires; JVer and Dlneen.
BASER GETS H0KS RUN AGAIN
Philadelphia Americans Scoop the
Charleston Team Three to Nothlas;.
CHARLESTON, B. C, March 25. Baker
of the Philadelphia Americana got bis
fifth home run of ths series here In the
game this afternoon. The visitors won,
2 to a Philadelphia will depart tomorrow
for Columbia for a series of games.
Giants Leave Marlln.
MA RUN-, March 26 The New York Na
tionals left Marlln today. Matthewson and
one squad left at noon for Lallan; thirty
more, consisting of the regulars and one
lecrult team, left for Waco and Fort
Worth and the remainder left tonight for
San Antonio.
St. Joseph Defeau St. Peal.
ST. JOSEPH. Mo., March 26. The
pitching of Kaufman and Johnson of the
huaiie toani held I lie tit. Paul American
association team down to one run today
while the loeala piled up nine.
Harvard Better at tower.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass . March JS. Harvard
defeated the I'nlverslty ff Pennsylvania at
soccer foot ball today, 4 to 1. This was
the first contest of the kind between the
two universities.
Brooklyn's Hits Timely.
ATLANTA, (la., March Si. Timely hit
ting by the Brooklyn Nationals gave them
the game from the Atlanta Southern
leag-ue team Uas aUeruwa by a sora of
1 1 a.
IHAEH. C&XRCB" Jli&souri
Omaha Lass Names
New Base Ball Park
for - Omaha Fandom
Hiss Enid Valentine Suggests "Rourke
Park" and Wins a Season
Pass.
Rourke Park has been chosen as the
name of Omaha's new base ball pavilion.
MiBS Enid Valentine, daughter of C. C.
Valentine, who lives at the Winona apart
ments, won the season ticket for the new
name.
A committee of base ball player of the
Omaha squad voted on the name Satur
day and chose Rourke Park from the
hundreds of suggestions offered. Here Is
Miss Valentine's letter: .
"Omaha Base Bail Club:
As the name Rourke is inseparable from
base ball in this community, I suggest as
the name of the new park, "Rourke Park.
- "ENID VALENTIN Ev"
Miss Valentine and her father are en-
thuslaetlo fans, so the season ticket will
go to a live booster.
Morris High School
Leads in Rifle Shoot
Scores Nine Victories in Interscholas
tio League Culver Academy
Second.
WASHINGTON, March 28. The Mor
ris High school of New York City leads
the Interscholaatlo rifle shooting league
with nine victories. Ths Culver; Military
academy, Culver, Ind., stands second with
eight victories and one defeat. Results
this week:
St. John's Military academy, Lelafleld,
Wis., defeated McKiuley Manual Training
school, Washington, I). C, kit to S.it.
Culver Military academy, culver, ina.,
defeated Martat college, Atlanta, Oa., 1(04
to s34.
Central High school, Philadelphia, de
feated Kentucky Military Institute, Kau
Gallle, r'ia.. 12 1 to 803.
Deerlng High school, Portland, Me., de
feated Henry Hlllman academy, Wilkes
barre Pa, t2i to lib.
Dewitt Clinton High school. New York
City, defeated Harvard school, Los An
geles, Hi to HO.
Morris High school, New York City, de
feated Salt Lake City, Utah, High school,
11 to fcgl.
OKden. Utah. High school defeated St.
Matthew's school, Burlington, Cal., by de
fault, bOt to 0.
polytechnic Preparatory school, Brook
lyn, defeated Portland High school, Port
land, Me., 862 to k3s.
Polytechnic Institute, Baltimore, Md ,
defeated Wextern High school, Washing
ton. l. C, ku6 to 803.
Philadelphia Mtluu Attala.
CHARLKHTON, S. C. March 25-ln a
game featured by the terrific hitting nl
the Philadelphia Americanx, the cham
pions today won the second game of the
series, from the ( riarleston team, 14 to 1
baker of Philadelphia got two hums runs
and a auubla la, tore times up.
IRA 2f.BAVEmaKr
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DOG SHOW IS A GREAT SUCCESS
Quantity and -Quality of Dogs Far
Above Competition.
OMAHA -DOGS WIN MANY PRIZES
Local Dosrs of All Classes Win In Com
petition with sv Bis; Field of Don
from All Over the
Country.
Omaha's first annual dog show closed
been a most successful affair, both as to
to quantity and quality of the dogs shown
With nearly 3&0 of the finest dogs from all
over the western country the Judges had
a hard task laid out for them to pick the
winners.
Pussy shared the honors with the dogs
and from their position on the stage of
the Auditorium commanded a world of at
tentlon from the feminine visitors, who, as
a rule, are great lovers of cats.
Captain W'hltestone, owned by W. A
Pixley of Omaha, was adjudged to be ths
best dog at the show and carried hi
honors well. By winning two points at
the Omaha show he was made a champion
and thus the fame of Omaha in the dag
world has spread all over, the country.
Iowa Uni Takes ,
Shooting League Lead
Agricultural College is Highest with
Ten Victories at End of
Tenth Week.
WASHINGTON, March 26.-The Manna
chusetts Agricultural college and ths Uni
versity of Iowa teams lead the Inter
collegiate Rifle Shooting league with ten
victories each at the end of the tenth
week. Columbia, Cornell and Washington
State college each have seven victories and
three defeats.
The scores this week were:
Iowa defeated Cornell, 1.877 to 1.797.
Massachusetts Agricultural defeated Mis
souri. 1,876 to 1.687.
Minnesota defeated Alisons, 1,730 to l,6fS.
Iiartmouth defeated Purdue, l,7t5 to 1.737.
North Georgia Agricultural defeated
Princeton, 1,707 to l.bM.
Washington State, New Hampshire col
lege and Rhode Island State all won their
tntciiea by default against California.
Louisiana State and Columbia, respectively.
REDS WIN BY BETTER HITTING
Louisville American In Trimmed
by Hcore of Sic to Koar.
LOUISVILLK, Ky. March 26 By bet
ter hitting and superior base running ths
Cincinnati Nationals defeated, ths Louis
ville team of the American ' association
here today by ths score of ( to 4.
Phillies Are Defeated.
RALLIGH, N. C. March 25 Ths Phila
delphia Nationals were defeated here this
afternoon by the Agricultural Mscli-
Pitchers Are Especially the Pride of
the Head of the Bau Ball
Family.
ALL ARE NOW WORKING HARD
Daily Practice is Taking Out Some of
' the Kinks.
JIM KANE IS BIO AND STRONG
Skipper Bill is Back to His Old Pity
ing Form. x
YOUNGSTERS ARE. LOOKING GOOD
ome Will Be Kept and Some Will
Bo Farmed ' Oat for Another
Tear's Work Smaller
Teams.
Training season a week gone and the
Rourke's are looking better to the fans
every day. Pa's squad shows all the marks
of a championship pennant winning team.
It Is stronger In every way than the Rourks
lineup of 1910 and the pitching staff la 100
per cent better.
The squad hss already been divided Into
the regulars and the youngsters by Captain
Schlpke. Cp to date the regulars hava
taken the honors from the kids, their hit-
ng power combines with a little mors
competent base running bringing In mora
runs that the youngster with their speed
were able to score.
The first squad starts off with big Jimmy
Kane, on first base. Jimmy weigns ivi
pounds, but Is In the finest of condition.
having been playing basket ball In Pitts
burg all winter. He has been breaking
Into base ball slowly, not wanting to get
all stiffened up, for ff ane believes an ounce
of prevention worth several pounds of rub
bing. In spite of his taking It easy Its
easy to see, that Kane Is going to be ons
of the stars for the Rourkes this summer,
both In hitting and fielding.
Johnny Grinding will hed the catcher
again this year, the same cheerful Johnny
as heretofore. Johnny declares he never
felt better than now and he will start
the season In grand form.
Second base Is covered this year. George
Graham, the most popular youngster of
the squad. Is on the Job again, and seems
to have come back to make up for the two
years lost on account of a broken leg. The
11a la all right, both the doctor and George
declare It, and Graham Is breaking into his
old form quickly. t
Kaeaves Is Past.
Joe Kneaves, Is on shortstop, and It will
be a fast player who beats him out of that
position. Joe Is as good if not betten on
short than Red Corrtdon, who held It part
of last year, and Is as good a batter and
base runner. I
Captain' BUI Schlpke Is doing ths honors
for the third sack, and 061ng them well up
to date. His rheumatism hasn't bothered
all spring and It begins to. look as If tfte
skipper had. conquered It for food. .
Ollle Pickering seems to have' grabbed
left field. Ollle swore that he would quit
has ball If he had to play another sun
field, so he was tried out for left and
seems to just fit there. And when It comes
to batting, Ollie's knowledge of, getting
away on a base steal and slldlnfc puts him
a base or two ahead of any youngster.
Clay Schoonover Is the fans' . choice for
center garden spot. Clay Is right on the
Job, fielding- the same as last summer and
his batting has the pitchers nervous al
ready. , . ,
Goat" Anderson, . another of the nsw
men, . looks better to Pa , eveny day he
works. Anderson fields ths balls. In rood
style in left field and Is picking up dally
In his batting. Last ( year while, with Ro
chester Anderson hurt his shoulder, thus
breaking down a fairly .good batting aver
age. The shoulder la better now ana wnen
Anderson makes a hit that put him on
first it's a fast catcher, and a fast second
baseman that can get his "goat." .
Pitchers' Look Good.'
All ths old pitchers are back and sura ef
their Jobs again this season, if tttey ksep
up ths way they have started. Rhodes,
Keeley, Fentress are 'all ' twirling' In fine
shape, and Danny Dreamer Durbln Is ths
terror of the batsmen.. Hall, the new, man,
works well, and Patton Is coming along
better than last season.. Patton was sick
a part of ths winter and lost some tweniy
pounds, but ha has, gained fifteen of It
back already and Omaha food ' seems 1to
sgree with him. ' '
Reilley and Bindelar, two of: ths young
ster twtrlers, are putting in' the, licks wU,
but their Jobs are still uncertain. , Reilley .
seems to have speed and a few curves, but
he Is working ths stiffness out of an In
jured back right now and can't put In ths
licks. Bindelar Is going .better than, last '
spring, but may need mora developing be
fore fit for a class A league.
Joe Lota, the Omaha amateur. Is in' fins
shape and will stick hsre for the summer.
Lots Is practicing hard and Improving his
batting his ambition is to be a great hitter
rather than a treat pitcher. ,
Bam Agnew end Ed Jokert' are having a,
merry tussle for the odd catcher's position,
and both ot them are so good that Fa
may decide to keep them- both. Troy Ag
new promises to become a better bass ball
playsr than 8am, his styls of playing being
easy and fres and his batting good. Troy
has been covering first base for ths Yaal
gans and tagging them all' out. It is
doubtful, howsver. If he will stick hers.
Jack Farrell and Ward, the two lads who
are trying for Infield positions, are show
ing up well, but both of them will not stay
with ths Omahak. Farrell- la ths smallest
man on the team, fast on his feet -and
handles ths ball well. He has been playing
second and covering himself with glory on
the Yanlgan nlns. Ward has been trying
third bass and gets along famously, except
when It comes to batting, 1 where he has
had a little hard luck In matching, up,
against ths best of the Rourks pitchers.
Bert King at latest telegraphic reports
Is still Holdout King, but he prbbably will
make soms kind of a settlement with -Pa
soon.
Cleaslde Wlas Steepleraavae. .
LONDON, March . The'Orand National
ateeDchase handicap of S.U)0 sovereigns for
e-year-olds and up, was won today by Glen-
side, an oulsiaer against wnom tns betting
was 20 to 1. Rathnally was second and
Shady Girl third. Twenty-six horses
started.
Defeat far l.larela Htsh.
SIOUX CITY. la.. March 26,-Bloui City
High school defeated Lincoln. High school
ftal
set ball uere-lonigbt. 66' to ZV
aunai cwiivgo it a,
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