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s TIIK OMAHA SUNDAY HKK: PIX'T'MHKU 10. 1011. And Now Mutt is Sorry He Appealed His Case By "Bud" Fisher Ycmttea . .VSflfv '. W tST! V V fio 3 ' V JU " C0REoNV0a I r.C X-? PRISONS P-W , Ts -iJ MVV)' ' V, 1 " -. ' ' I I.J "r"tlT rm.Oa. :.5 .11 r3 15 Judgments SANBORN of the Chicago Tribune taken a fall out of the move In the National league to revive the at tempt at secreting Instead of (Un closing real base ball news In The winter time, Imposing a fine upon the magnate violating the rule. . That la a nice thing for a man whole business de fends upon aufferance and newspaper boosting to think of doing. As Panborn suggests, It might be welt for the news papers to take them at their word Just for a while and See how soon the rule would stand. Cut down the "dope" to "news" and toe what a howl goes up from these magnates. Base ball is a great game, but It has become a great business largely because of the great publicity It has received. Limit the publication of a news Item to as few words as R would take to tell It and cut out tho boosting end the gossip and the human Interest Muff and see where these chesty mag nates got off. They would be running down to the newspaper offices and wait ing hat In hand for an opportunity to shove their news Into hands of the sport ing editors. . They don't want publicity, oh no, not any more than they can get; that all. It comes In nice grace for some of those National leagucis. who, like. Mr. Murphy, for Instance, have been lifted out of Impecunious stations .in life to high seats of financial ease by the pub licity that has been given their "secrets." And the funny thing Is about Mr. Mur phy, that he went from the sporting editor's staff of a dally newspaper to the lofty position h? now holds in the world of frenzied finance, thanks to the philan thropic interest another man took In him. f-'o the newspapers arc not to have the news during tho winter months, but shall open their columns to everything agoing In the Bummer because they must. A fine come-off. Well, now, Sanborn Is right when n says, "Take 'em at their word." Make It a game of freese-out; they'll holler. " RAMBLERS MEET MERCHANTS j Double-Header Foot Ball Game at Fort Omaha This Afternoon. SOLDIERS BA1ILE SHAMROCKS All-Star City Team In Selected, with Shamrocks in the l.iueaip Two Snperlora and Four Parks Selected. Comiskey, reports have i it, refuses to , waive on George Stovall and let Cleve land shove him down to Toledo as man- , ager. We can see where Commy Is wise, lie has nobody for first base as good as Htovall arid could use the ex-Nap very nicely. Stovall is tho victim of a, very , ciueer combination of circumstances. He went In as manager of Cleveland last i reason af !cr several men had failed In that Rapacity and ehoved the team Into third place, making It promising as a contender for 1912. His reward Is his discharge and the worst of It is that from the time he took hold of the man agement his successor, Harry Davis, had been employed. It muet Insplra a lot of ambition In a man to get tills kind of a deal. It l much the same sort of a deal ns Danny Shay was handed by Tabeau at Kansas City. Shay made a team out of the Blues and got tired for hie trouble. But that la as much as could be expected from Tebau. Charley Carr assumes a big Job as Danny's successor, for the fans of Kansas City are Shay fans, not Ta iwan. All that Carr will be asked to da U to Improve on what Shay did. Can he? Oh, it ts a treat thing to have these Te beaus In the game. The South Omaha Hamblrrs and the Sherman Avenue Merchants will meet at Fort Omaha this afternoon, as will also the Eoldlera and the Shamrocks. The first game will be for the rhamrlonchtp of 145-pound teams. The first game will commence promtly at 2 p. ni.. and Immediately after this argument the big fellows will promenade on the gridiron. The following officials have been secured: Wright, referee: Golden, umpire; Jack KitEgera!d, field Judge, and Sexton, hud linesman. With these men running the game everything will be run off smothly. Following la the Unup for the second game: ' shamrocks. Soldier. Fitch '....CIO Zarjowikl Klly K.O.II..U Olbhoni Oohtn L.U.IK.0 lUlnlln Knnelly K.TIL.T JKr Rltrbt L..T. iK.T htrnd TtinniM It K. IL K.-. O'Nell Tinner L K iR K Clfrovt Qully Q B.iy B Tonikliti FIn R.H.B.lK.H.B VIlHf Cllhf.l L.H U.lI. H B Groll TuttU IT.B.IF.B Cannon Brother Daily of the Monmouth Parks Is still nurMng o pair of cracked ribs he received during the Monmouth Park-Valley contest. Lou Devlne, manager of the Monmouth Park foot ball team, offered to donate fifty rocks to the Missouri Valley crew if they would play them In Omahi This season the Shamrocks have made wonderful record. , They have nt one game, and that one when they v.' ere In a sadly depleted condition. Now Valley (Neb.) wants to play Mis souri Valley for the championship of the Missouri valley. They'd better beat the Monmouth Parks of Omaha first. Herewith Is an "all star" Omaha eleven picked from the three best Omaha tearrs, the Shamrocks, Superiors and llonmouih Parks. The "all star" Omaha team: Nam. Wtight. PMltloa TMm. rlton IW. ...C Monmouth Parki. Andrvws 174 R .0 . . . Buperlora. Hitch! I0 L.O. ..Shamrocka. Golden 1R0....TI.T. ..Monmouth Parki. Callahan 1U. .. L.T. ..Shamrocks. Qulaley 1M..1.K.E. Manaier. . .pnamrorta. Dally 1C0....L.K. ..Monmouth Pirkl. Wright HO. ...yB... Monmouth Parka. Wllllama 1V ... R. H. . .Superior!. Fltlaerald ...1I0....L.H. t'aptaln. ..Bhamrorka. Tuttla . . . . t. . . 132. . . . y.B. . .Shamrocka. Total waliht..l.S3!. Young Teachers Who Play Foot Ball Charlie Webfoot Murphy paddled on down to Boston during the week, ac companied by the rumor that he went to buv the BoKton .Nationals. The report euya that the late Mr. Russell, owner of the team, made the dying request that the framhlso be retained by his family and heirs. Lt it be retained or held by anyone but Murphy, for the chief reason 1 1 1 a i iui i iic v" . - club to get hold of another would be syndicate base bull, a thing that In time would prove disastrous. The belief has never uulte downed that Murpny ana Charley Taft own Philadelphia. Now their uower tliould be curbed. It wouia uet ter for base ball if Murrhy owned noth ing. There are so niuny rumors of relations between President Fogel and Managar Dooln of Philadelphia that one finds it hard to know Just what to believe. One report Is that' Fogel Is done with Dooin, another that he baa urged Bed to sign a three-year contract. Insisting that he U the only real manager on earth. One thlna- anuears to an outsider that Fogel would be very foolish tj let Dooln dj anything else than manage hi team, for Dooln is doin' is that line what more thau any other manager has dons of late. Trsele Alderman sands word that h will return to pitch for Topeka In the am-lner. Evidently . selling tombstones at Lyons, Neb., dots not quite ratlsfy his nervous temperament. There Is this about It. Teasie Is a corkfns good pitcher when he ha control, though It remain to be seen whether being out a season helped him or not. And ro all that talk of Duckv Holmes r.av1ng paddled bask Into this circuit ts nothtr.K. according to Tom r aJrweatner. Tom aays he sUll own the Bloux City tm ml hi no notion of letting go, Good for Tom. Pa Rourke may have a lot of secrets, hut ha knows they are secrets. What's the use of spoiling a good secret by making it gosalpT There Is plenty of time to arrange the new batting order. Muggiy McUraw was fined In Cuba for Jumping onto a native. Mns:' needn't Ham the, poor Cuban for what the Ath letics did . Barrett May Manage Des Moines Team DENVER. Dec. 9. It Is reported here that "Jimmy" Barrett, who last season managed the Milwaukee American asso ciation base ball team, will manage the Des Moines Western league team in 1913 if he gets his release from Charlea Comiskey, owner of the Chicago Amer icans. Letters received here say that Tom O'Brien, the star Denver pitcher, who was sold to the Boston American team, says he Is holding out for more money and has announced that he will not play next year unless his salary Is sub stantially Increased. V:: ... 4 f ' i V - t T..IV, sir'i' T' 1 ivi; w t- , ' TALK BASKETBALL LEAGUE Amateurs Considering the Forma tion of Local Organization. TO - PLAY FOR NINE WEEKS It Is Not Orrl.led Whether There Will lie ta lx OP Klaht-Clab League Meeting Set fop This Week. HUfH'l- Men's Houth assocl- Top Row Charles Wsreham, fullback; .lPHse Bandoiph. right guurd; Clurk Cameron, cenler; Walter May, fullback; Rav' Campbell, left end; U. J. Van Burn, coach. Middle Hnw ltwrencn Drown, right end; JliCl'U twt U jlwht haJf-. back; Carrlg, uarterback ; Kdward Kchott, left halfback; Milton Dosset, left end. I-ower R(iwMrtrrWiVint"rr Wc' William Btrkelbuck, right guard; Kuhuci'.I Burford, center; Cuptain Will Randolph, left uuarU; Robert Randolph, left X &C k 1 6 K1CARNEY STATE NORMAL FOOT BALL SQUAD. Kearney Normals Make Good Record KEARNEY, Nob., Dec. 8. (Speclal.)- The Kearney Normal School foot ball team has closed the most successful sea son In lis history. By the loss of the Thanksgiving game at Peru, 6 to 3, they lost their first Intercollegiate contest and also tho state championship. Some exceptional men have been en listed in the Kearney lineup and Coach CT. J. Van Buren has put them In ex cellent (Condition. Carrlg at quarter has kicked five field goals In as many games. Burford at center and Dryden and Ran dolph In the tackle positions have been the backbone of the team. Most of the men will be back next year and another successful season Is looked forward to by tha coach and the stu dents. Following Is the record of the team for the ceason In its Intercollegiate games: Hastings, 0; Kearney, 9. Grand Island. ; Kearney, 9. Nebraska Central college, 0; Kearney, 18. Cotner University, 10; Kearney, V. Peru, C; Kearney, 3. Comfort the Bl Feature. Charlea T, Jeffery, president of the Thomas B. Jeffery company, makers of Rambler motor cars, waa aeked: "Now that the mechanism of the motor car has become so standardised, what Is the most important thing demanded by motor car owners?" Mr. Jeffery said: "Comfort Is the thing demanded by the motor car buyer of today." INTEREST INJpr YEAR RUN Young: Men's Christian Association, High School and Others Enter.' GOLD MEDALS FOR SPEEDY MEN Organisation Having Hest Team to Itepelve Prlac and Stars of Have to Be Honored Coarse Is Three Miles. Plays Through Every Game Wayne Selby, Omaha High's little , quarterback, made a novel. If not a sub stantial record this season by . playing through every game. This record is an Interesting one and wlU go down In the anna'.a of the' gridiron rport at the high school as a rare occurrence. Usually the pilot man la Injured or is replaced by someone else during' the neason. But Belby has played the quarter position in every game, nine In all. This means that he has been the flcid gen eral for thirty-six quarters. Alllowlng KVk minute as an average quarter. Belby has piloted the team for 400 minutes or .'.'.tr.'O seconds. Allowing that ninety plays are used by one team In an ordinary game, Helby cal.ed ulf U ilays thla season. When one considers that each play must fol low the other In logical succession and that a bad break or a costly fumble means a probable score for the opposite side, eclby'a record of holding his own in every game Is all the more a re markable one. Thla was his first year aa a regular and although inexperienced and at the same time the lightest man on the team, he waa able to make a good showing. He starred In field gen eralship especially la the Sioux city game on October li, and bis ability to uu the riglit p. ay at tho right time was '.arcely responsible for Omaha's victory Selby w.ll be back azaln next year and oa accou.U of his showing this season has ea-ned hlmitif a place on lb 1312 eleven. He is the son ct W. Selby, Hog Davenport ttreet. r'J. i'x " ( - ' Jf T Considerable Interest is being taken by local pport followers in the New Year's cross country run which will be given under the auspices of the Omaha Young Men's Christian association. The run will begin at 11 o'clock In the morning and will start and end at the association building. The course extends over the Omaha business district and covers about three miles. The manage ment expects to have several automo biles conduct the officials around the courre and to pick up any runnora who drop out of the race from exhaustion. A handsome silver loving cup will be given the organisation having five men who flnUh the run with the lowest score and Individual medals also will be awarded. The winner of the run will receive a solid gold medal, the second to finish will be given a gold filled medal, and the third, one of sterjjg silver. To the next seven men, bronze medals will be awarded. Ai Limit Seventeen. No person under 17 years of ago will be allowed to run and each contestant must present himself at the asHOdatlon building fur medical examination before 10 o'clock the morning of the run. Only amateur entries will be accepted. Entries will close on Saturday, December 30. Entries already haVe begun 10 pour In and It Is etpttth.cH Bt least qhe hundred contestants .' will.' make the run. The Omaha Young Men's Christian associa tion bus entered the following: Frank O'Connor, Harry Haukett; Fred Heming way, II. C, a4, iKred Oearhardt, W. J. ProvaHnlh,-i,r'NiEp:hetr, Dwlght Bow ers, Ray Talbot, and R. V. McDermand. The Karacal clous of the linmanueal Baptist church will enter Luclan Lehr, Byron Eaton, (Jus Bwanson, Leonard Everett and R. W. Ogden. Other Baraca cliioses in the city are also planning to enter teams. The cross country aquad of the Omaha high school expects to enter a fast team. The following will be the high school entries: Lynn Bockett, captain of the squad, Halleck Rouse, Charlea Robel, Coleman Gordon, John Lewis and Flntey Jenkins, William C. Bryant of 62 North Forty first avenue, will run unattached. Sev eral other local amateurs are planning to enter. Entry blanks may be obtained at the association building or at the Bee office. CALEDONIANS TO MEET SWEDES AT MILLER PARK The Caledonians atid Swedish soccer teams are scheduled to clatih at Miller jurk this afternoon at 3 o'clock. Con siderable Interest centers on this game, since soccer Is returning to favor In Omaha and because the teams are well matched. Omaha Uni Coach a Winner ' An amateur basket ball league to em brace six of the best known athlelio clubs In Omaha, Poulh Omaha and Council Bluffs Is being formed, and a series of eighteen games to cover a period of nine weeks beginning the first week In Janu ary la und or way. The teams which will comprise this league are the Shamrocks, th(V Diets club, the Monmouth Parks, Omaha Young Men'a Christian atloir, Council Bluffs Young ChrlNtlHn association and the Omaha, Young Men'a Christian atlon. There Is still some doubt about tho Omaha and Council Bluffs Young Men'a Christian association teama Joining the league, but there are at least four other clubs which devlre to get Into the lengtie at the present who are now being consid ered. It may be possible that an eight team league will be the result of the num ber of dubs who wish to put teams In the field and enter the league. It In un derstood that the Shamrocks have al ready deckled upon a team which will represent them In the league. The Diets club will In all probability complete the roster of their team within the next few 'lays. The Monmouth Parks clalni to iliaeh several old-timers and sharps, who fcr' anxious to get Into action, and from all reports thin club ought to put a it earn out, which will put up a atruggle with thebest. These representatives will hold a meeting the latter part of thla week and elect officers for the league. Heveral merchants In 'the city have -offered to contribute to a fundto run the league on a high class basis. ' Old-timers at basket ball have been seen on the subject and have promised to put forth their com bined efforts In making the organization a permunent one. , i ... Professionals llarred. There will be no restrict Ions as to who shall play on the. various teams aside from the profexslonal viewpoint. The teams are to be compoaed ) of amateur talent only and there will be no protest mado against high school and college players, providing that they have nut en gaged In professional playing In any line of sport. It la the Intention of the found era of the ' league to have nothing hut amateur teams in the league. Intercol legiate rules will be observed In all games. A regular body of referees will be ap pointed whose duty It will be to referee all games. The officials will have a regular schedule to fulfill similar to that of the umpiring system used in base ball. The officials will be selected by the cap tains of the various teams who will meet Immediately after the captains have been chosen In all clubs. There are In the city of Omaha material for some whirlwind basket ball teams and It Is believed that tho various clubs will scour the city lu the hopes of getting lines on some cracks. The league will open with the first week !n January and run fur nlno weeks, two games being played ench week, pro viding the league Is tnmposed of but six teams. Should It be decided upon at the meeting this week to have an eight-team league It Is probable that the season will cover about ten weeks. The secretaries of each club have been, requested to bring In at tho meeting this week the names of the playera from whom they will pick a team. Each team will have sU regular players with two reserves. Central Leading in Racing Tests of City Schools " Running tests held In the gra-H school last week proved the most popular and ennlcut to pass of any of the testa yet held. R. !. Cams, superintendent of athletics, la well pleased with the show- T In made by the youngsters. .". Central leads all other schools In re- -.; suits already In with a total of 115 lads - who have passed the tests. Tark and; i Saratoga are tied with 1 each. The re-' ' suits from Lothrop and Kellom. the other.-; leading schools, are not In. '- The tests last week were conducted by:.-; J. T. Maxwell, n. L. Welker and Russell Flower of the Young Mens Christian.; association, and Oeorge Sutherland and'- James Richardson of the Board of Educa," f tlon. ' --5 To paaa the lest In the first class thvi boy had to epiint SOO yards in 28 second : or better. Very few boys were able to' -3 negotiate this run In the required time' : except at the Central school, where flve.'.;j broke the tape on time. The require--;; ments In the other two elasHes were marts' "J on a forty-yard siirint. In the seconif a clnss the required time was 8V second 4' and a large number were successful lit::J making the distance In this time. The"';; third class called for the forty yards In f " 2 seconds. rS Following are the remilts by schools oCt J the toats already tabulated.: First... pllx Second.'.. Third Total Entered I ....... Total Passed Central R M no 1J0 Park 4 4 T7 UB enttrira 3 20 M 114 r'ranklln 1 10 77 104 Majion 1 IK M SI Castellar 0 7 f6 75 Windsor 3 4 7 Walnut Hill 0 12 . 42 Mi Paclflo 2 H .12 48 E, Kosewater... I . 3 . Ui . 43 U..t Si ! 10 f 1 ! M 2 4T ' A. W. (Gus) Miller, who has been en gaged to coach the lnxkot ball tram at the University' of Omaha, la one of the best known, and reeogntred as one of the best basket bull coaches In this part of the country. Iist year Miller coached the squad, and thounh it was the first team put out by tho Institution. It was a winner, having as food a claim to the state championship as any other collete five. Prior to this time ho coached the team at the Young Men's Christian asso ciation, and was the flrnt coach that Mornlngslde collctte ever had. Every team that he has handled has made an enviable record. Uu Is perhaps the oldest exponent of the floor gamo In Omaha Ho was a member of the first bafket bail team representing Omaha. He played rit'iit foiward on this team for several years until ho moved to Sioux City. Hore In organized, and wus csptaln of t ie Sioux City (Hants, a team that for a nur.Voer of years was one of the best known quin tets In the United Statea. During ths World'a fair at St. Ixuls the Olants en tered a tourney at that city and woa second place In the content for the cham pionship of the United States. Miller took active c'.ians of the work Tuosdav, whea be called all candidates for the team together. Aboui. twentv Imjvb responded and a far,- more indicated that they will come out for practice nx; week. Of last year's teim the only ones In rchool are Jerome, who p'.aved center, and Parlsii and Ha'.lsbury. guards. The others are all new men. To stimulate an (merest In the game the different classes are playing a series of k 4- RECTOR WILL NOT BE ABLE TO PLAY WITH H. S. FIVES 1 T3 Virgil Rector, Omaha High school'! starj alt round athlete, will not be able to play basket ball this season on account of- parental objections and It will be hard to. - find another forward who can fill hi place. Rector. Would have Jseen kept ou of the;, game nevertheless, as he Is still suffer ing from the effects of a badly sprained ankle, which was Injured In scrimmage praotlce during the foot ball season. Al though his ankle waa still weak Rector played In the Wendell Phillips game on Thanksgiving day with his tight foot and ' ankle swathed In bandages. He waa not handicapped In the kicking department, however, as he boots with his left foot.' Persistent Advertising ts the Road to", Big Returns. v. Wroth CATZSS TO AI.X. TAITSB. He serves Freali Fish, Lobsters. Shrimp, Oysterk atid othef Sea Foods In every style. liU Chinese, Mexican and Ital ian Dishes, served In the second floor dining room, offer a rarlety from which you can always choosa what suits your tuato. 1418 X-AKHAK BT. OL'S MILLER. games. Mouduy the Juniors play the Sophomores, and on Thursday the Fresh men play the winners. Omaha will have a hard schedule this season, meeting some of the bent teams In this lection. 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