Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, December 17, 1911, SPORT SECTION, Image 55
1 The Omaha UNDAY PART FIVE SPORT SECTION PAGES ONE TO FOUR vor; xli-no. sc. OMAHA, Sl'NDAV MOKXIXU, DKCKMNKU 17, 1JU1. SINGLE 'COPY FIVE - CENTS. Foot Ball Season Is Over; Basket Ball Is Here and Base -Ball Coming Soon pa nnriuirv.mvpft'-l NCGREATCHANGE NEEDEIUNUULES Present Rales Should Be Given a Thorough Trial by Coaches for a Few More Years. FAULT OF TIES NOT WITH CODE X a UVUlliiJU VAX. I XAKI TRAINING PLANS Has a Scheme Worked Out by Which to Win the 19U Pennant. Creighton University Students Take Up Basket Ball EARLY TRAINING TO DO IT Bee SPORTS Will Take Entire Squad to Joplin fof a Month. MORNING PRACTICE EACH DAY Rig Game is Scheduled for Each Afternoon of Stay. 1 : 1 1 1 WARMER WlAVUf-E TO HELP Ta Sara He Hopes by the Xen Tr a la in Plan to Kqnal the Record Made by the Grlsallea l.aat Seaaon. 1'a Rourke accredits the winning of tle 1911 pennant of the Western league by Denver to the fact that they were In bet ter condition than any other team In the league. This fact was due, ha asserts, to the spring training trip made by the Urlzzlles. For the express purpose of setting Into condition early and thereby getting a good start Pa decided to make the training trip to Joplin next spring. Last year the Grizzlies, under the tutor ship of Jack Hendrlx. made a trip Into Texas, where they stayed for thirty days, and then Jumped back to Denver just a few days before the opening of the sea son. When the gong rang for play In the first Kame of the It'll season the Denver team was in a better physical shape than any other team In the league, and this condition stuck with the Grizzlies ail through the season. Very few of the Denver players were retired from the l.ume during the season because they were in perfect condition, and not a t 'hat ley Horse or a lame arm was chalked up against the team. ' Month In Joplin. ' On March l) of next year Pa Kourke in company with almost three full ball loams will board a train at the Union station bound for Joplin, Mo. The very next day the Rourkes will line up against the! St. Louis Browns in the first prac tice1 game of the season. Every morning for twenty-four ''days Pa Rourke's bunch will be seen on the field at Joplin getting into ehap6-or the 1913 season. Every afternoon a regular game will be pulled off, either with i vlf-itlng team or among themselves. At the present time the Kourke owner has signed up over twelve Karnes to be played In Joplin and tenta tive arrangements for at least ten more have been made. Pa expecta to line up every afternoon against fast major league team or an American association team. ' M' "' ' . : . . - "I believe." said Pa Kourke, "thatby making this uprlng trip I will bring my teatn back In elegant shape and ready to put up a battle' that will show that they are in the very best of physical condition. I have had but ono team In twelve years which has been In shape at the opening of the season and I intend to have one next year. In 1902 I had a team which was In good shape at the beginning of the reason and they were In the running all through the year and were beaten out by but three points Xor the pennant. it I am not badly mistaken my 1912 team will either land the coveted rag or be among the top-notchers all through the season. Three Full Teams. "I Intend to stay In Joplin for twenty four days ami -not move from that town all that time. 1 do net Intend to play Kamu.i on the way home, but to jump from Joplin to Omaha on April 12 and t then play a game' every day until the openlngt the season, which will be April 19. As the season will open in Omaha I figure that my boys will be in better condition than any other team in the league. By going to Joplin I figure that a will get a two weeks' start on the Omaha weather that will prove both profitable to me and the Omaha fans. By staying in Joplin all the while the men will get, accustomed to the weather, water and conditions, so that when we are ready to Jump to Omaha the differ ence in the climate will not be felt, at warm weather will in all proballties have set in. "I think from present indications I will take about twenty-five or thirty men with me and give them all a fair workout. I will take chargo of a certain squad of men myself and let Manager Charlie Arbogast take charge of the other squad and then pit them against each other. Of course, every man will get a chance In a regular tamo to show what stuff he has In him and I will begin the weeding out process towards the last of the stay in Joplin. By this method I will be able to get the best men out of the entire squad. and when I arrive in Omaha on April IS 1 will have a strong teum built up." Grand Island Team , Makes Good Record The Grand Island Business coliegs foot ball eleven made a very enviable record this season. Although the schedule was very hard the team succeeded In winning lour games out ol six. The basket ball team of the school has been organized and has gotten down ta hard practise. The schedule this season Includes a number of the large schools of the state. Following Is tke record of the foot ball team: Orund Inland, 0; Central City college, S, Grand Island, 6; Kearney Military academy, ID. Grand Island, f: Broken Bow High. 0. Grand Island, 12; Central Cltv college, I Grand Island. ; Kearney kfllltary, 1 Grand Island, 11; Genoa. Indians, 0. liana t'nllrae Defeats Bancroft. BLAIH. Neb., Dec. li. 3peial ) Dana college basket- bll Meam -defeated the r:rurofi taiu here Friday night. 48 to zl. Bancroft was unable to cope with the superior tin work f the collegians and was outplayed from 'atari to finish. The feature of the game was the goal throw ing of Nelson for the locals. Bancroft de feated the Dana team on November 17, after playing to a tie, which makes it tins game apiece. Dana would tike to inset Bancroft on aor Young Man' Uiirlstiau association flour la,iitUtak. . - y i r v COTTONTAILS ARE PLENTIFUL . Hunters Are Preparing for Active Season Hunting Rabbits. PARTY OF TWENTY IS FORMED Knowing: Ones Will Not Go Oat Till Snow Kites In Abundance In Meantime Thejr Are C'leaa InaT Vjf Their Gnna. Members of the Omaha Gun club are anxiously ' awaiting the first real snow fall of the season that tbey may pursue the festive cottontail, of which there are a great number this year. A party of twenty Omaha Gun club members have organized a rabbit club and will go out in quest of the game when snow covers the grdund. - From - reports being brought back by hunters there are worlds of rabbits this season to be found in large numbers on the outskirts of the city, especially artund Florence. Two Pullman porters went out for three hours Thursday and returned with seven plump rabbits. They took the car to Florence and, ' then walked about a mile up the river. Reports are to the effect that the rabbits in the lowlands and around the river bottoms near Calhoun and Blair are infected with "grubs," a small worm which gets In the back of the neck and eats the flesh. Rabbits Are Fat. The cottontails found In the hills and the cornfields are said to be better this year than ever, and the meat is both Juicy and solid. With a little snow rabbit hunting this year will be better than it has for years. A great killing Is pre dicted by "Billy", Townsend, the author ity on wild game. The real old timer and sportsman will not go out after rabbits until the ground is covered- with snow. For awhile yesterday morning the old sports, after watching the snow fall, took his gun off the antlers and began to oil and grease It. It was with a merry whistle that he worked away on the old trusty, but a few hours later when this same sportsman peeped out of the win opw bis heart suddenly dropped as he noticed the "beautiful" bad left. A custom which has been abandoned for the last three years of dragging the wil lows will probably be revived again this year. Many of the members of the gun club ore talking of bringing back old times by this stunt. Several yeans ago it was the custom of gunners to form S party and go out to Bellevue. There two wagons would be rented and bound to gether by chains. Two horses would bd hitched to the wagons and driven through the willows. The hunters would divide. Some would stand on the wagons and others would walk betide them. When the rabbits were driven out by the wagons the hunters would fire at them unci It was a very poor day that a wagon load of cottontails were not brought back to town, there to be divided. BELLEVUE BASKET BALL TEAM ELECTS CAPTAIN R. I Ohman. who has been elected h.mu. minner of the Bellevue collego athletlo for the coming year, is hard at work making out the basket ball schedule for the winter. Bellevue has Joined the City league. Including Creighton. Omaha High. South Omaha High. Omaha Young M.n'a eiirlxtlan association ar.d the Uni versity of Omaha, and will play a zeries of games In Oirah this winter. Owing to a ruling In tr.s Intercolles'.ate Association of Nebraska against ar.y athlef.c rela tions with Creighton. it Is not definitely known whether Bellevue will be allowed to belong to both leasues. The opposition of the normals at Kearney and Peru la especially striking, but the attempt is being made to settle the matter In such a way as to allow the local college to play In both leagues. Prospects for a win ning team are good, although Maxwell will be kept out of the lineup the early part of the season on account of foot ball Injuries. Holland Break Klkutv. Jack Holland, owner of tho Ht." Joseph base ball team, met with an accident while bowling In M. Joseph the other nlsht. Ha was bowling with several friends when he slipped on the polished sliey-way as he was delivering a ball and 111 an lit rlgliU -itMiw, tittiaklnai i. A o :l . - . Si t - Iff v. i St-l wo . . :( ? I. T: i f 1 I 1 1:. I f i . ... t . )( n 4 4 i f " , Left to Risht Pruoha, VVm"'-'- Wfnnn. HffrnHn. lelpli. Phlmerdn. Biilderson. ltussum. Itllsa. CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY1 FROM WHICH TH li F1VK TO RKl'UKHKNT TIIK SCHOOL WILL PR CHOHKX. SQUAD AT England Without . : Distance Runners For Olympic-Games NEW .TQltK,' bee: ;.'-Thc BUrtllng ad mission lias baep , made .by G. HJ .Lamer, the great English walker and holder 'of all kinds , of world's records and cham pionships' In the heel and toe game,' that at the present time, England has no dis tance runners capable of coping with the best American dlNfancers providing that the Yankee, runners ilun, start in their races at the Olymple-games In prims con dition.' This admission was made to Georgej Bohhag when . he. was In Toronto last summer,'; and ,'Bonijag declares that Lamer''-meant every 'Word of what he said. Lamer told Bonliag that if he could keep his form on the trip to Sweden next summer, he need not fear anyone that Kngland would send against him, and that he (Lamer) thought that Bon- hag, 'Berna and another man of like caliber could win the Olympic teum race from the Kuropeans without trouble. The "other man of like caliber" lias since come to light in the person of Louis Scott, the youngster, who halls from Jersey Jungle, and has all of the star distance men In America worrying. With Uonhug, Berna, Scolt, a couple more, Uncle Sam -will be able to -make the other nations' distance men step along In phenomenal style In the race for the team championship. . The distance for the Olympic team race will be 8.000 metres about one and seven eights mllen. There will be five men on a team, and the first three on each team to flnldh will count. " France will have one grand performer In the Olympic distances in Jean Bouln, whose recent wonderful run of eleven miles. 800 yards for one hour, was re cently reported. Finland will have a flier also In Kohlemalnen, who won the four-mile championship last summer In fast time. It looks, however, as If neither Bouln nor the Finn will be backed up by men capable of seconding their great ef forts. " Bouin, by the way, In his recent hour run, covered the first mlla In 4.38 and the first two In 9.45. These figures stamp the Frenchman as a distance marvel second only to Alf Shrubb. Bouln's countrymen expect him to wipe out nearly all of Slirubb's mcords before he quits. There Is a possibility that Bouln will turn professional before the Olympic meet next summer. Jeannelte Defeat Dewey. CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Dec. It Jorf .Teunnette of New York was given tho decision over Nat fpwey of Chattanooga hre tonieht, the fight KOlng ths full eight rounds. Jcariiieltn had the ad vantage of nesrly twentv pounds In wt.lght and the better of the bout all the way. but Lewey landed a number of tell ing blows on tlio big negro. -Photo by l ady. - - - -- - . - r: l. .... - . . . J - . . J, - ! V ? : Q ;-. ri f - , t t 1 5.1 GOOD FIYE FOR CORNHUSKERS Stiehm Confident Basket Ball Team , " Will Win Honors. TWELVE GAMES TN SEASON Conference Divided Into North and Sooth Divisions, with Three Teams In 10a oh One Men In (he t.ainr. LINCOLN, Neb.. Iec. lfi.-ISpeclal.)-Twelve basket ball games will be played by thf Cornhuskera during the coming season In the Missouri valley conference, according to the schedule announced this week. The conference Is divided Into a north and south division, as last year, wli three teama In each division. Kuch of the three teams play four games with the other two members of the division and the leaders of the two divisions then play for the championship of the confer ence. . In addition ' to the regular games scheduled, . Nebraska will play a series of four with the Jayhawkers and will also take several other outside teams on for practice work. The schedule announced is as follow: Drake at Lincoln, January 12, 13. Kansas at Lawrence, January ID, 20. Ames at Lincoln, February , 10. Drake at Des Moines, February 21, 23. Ames at Ames. February 23, 24. Kansas at Lincoln, March 1, 2. Championship In Nlsht. Coach Htlehm continues to be confident of securing a championship aggregation In basket ball and has been putting the sqtiad through elementary work all the week. Twenty-five players have reported for practice the last week, and while there are five veterans from iHst year's "five" they are by no means assured of places In the regular lineup. ' Haskell, a freshman last year, Is doing excellent work In goal shnotlng and will probably be awarded one of the forward, at east for part of the season. Beamann, Stryker, Hyde, Martin and Underwood are among the other new men who are doing good work. - At the last meeting of the conference some changes were made In the rules to eliminate some of the rough plaj'. Sttehm expressed himself as apprecia tive of the efforts of Ncbraxka alumni during the last season in assisting In the coaching of tho foot ball stjuud. Fred M. Hunter, John Westover, Tate Matters and Jim Harvey assisted In developing the team for all of the big games. I'latowskl to Unit. Catcher I'hitowskl, who played through the season with tbe Des Moines tesin last year, will quit base ball, according to a statement made iy nimeir. I luiownkl Is a graduate of Notre Damn and he has opened a law olrkf In (South Uend. I lid and. it Is said, has a hrllliunt c-hani to build up an unusually lucrative business r Omaha's Unbeaten Amateurs SHKHMAN AVKNUB MERCHANTS. k - Tm Zybscko is to Meet Ameho Petro Here on January Fifth Another wrestling match which ought to appeal to the fans of the mnt game has been arranged by Manager J. M. Glllurvof the Auditorium for January S. Stanislaus Zybscko, the Polish whirlwind. ha been matched, with Amello Petro.. a Portuguese heavyweight, In a finish bout The match was clnchc. yfsrerday after noon, i A' ' ' ' ' .Zybscko has- been trylns'to Bt on with some of thetilff mon for . a , mntoh In Qmalpa and thQ other day wired to Man ager 'Glllan to . arrange with anyone in the Country, even te Golcli. Mr. Olllan got In touch with Petrn's- manager at once and wired Herman, Zybscko's man ager, and everything has been arranged for -the finish bout. At present the pre liminaries have not been fixed, but Mr. Glllan promises some good ones. Petro Is doped ss a fast, performer, of great staying power and a wrestler who Is reckoned ,as a possible bidder for the championship,, sometime. He shows himself to be wise lo all the tricks of the game, according lo reports and promises to be a formidable openent be cause of his endurance. It Is said that he has the strength of an ox and unlike other foreigners Is not graced with an awkwardness which would make him a great object for 'the Jests of tho fans. Zybscko needs no introduction .to Omahans, having been seen here before In handicap and finish niatchee, and Is somewhat of a favorite in this neck of the woods. His work this season has been greatly in advance of that put up by him last year, , Sioux City Ball Park, is Being Enlarged No longer will the sluggers of the West ern league be able to fatten their batting averages in the "pillbox" at Sioux City. Home runs, three and two-base drives over, the fence will be a thing of the pust. The park Is to be enlarged and made Into a real bauo ball park, where every batsman who clouts thf sphere over the fence will do o only by connecting fairly. Thirty feet of the river has been filled In with sand and cinders and the fence will be moved farther out. Forty feet has be.-n acquired by the Sioux City club on the north side and the fence at the end of the field also will be moved. The grandstand will be moved back twenty rlne feet on the west side and by chang ing the diamond around the park will be one of the best In the circuit. PcriilKtent Advertising is the Road to Big Returns. V s. If Kl sJ I. CALL STEINFELT FREE AGENT National Base Ball Commission De cides Boston National Case. SUSPENSION FROM DISABILITY Claim of Third Baseman for "alary Disallowed Umpire Kaaon to lie raid for Work In Kxhl- blllon Games. ' CINCINNATI, Dee. lfl.-Tho National Base Ball commission, In a decision pro mulgated today, dismissed the claim of Third Baseman Harry Stelnfelt fur-salary from the Boston National league elub, but declared him to be a free agent. Stelnfelt protested to the commission at his suspension during the latter part of the season of 1311 by Boston for dis ability, clulniing that It wns the result of an Injury received In Its service. He also requested that he be awarded salary for that period or he declared a free gent. The Boston club contended that It was wllhln Its right in suspending the player, but on December 9 notified the commis sion that Its directors had granted him an unconditional release. The commission In another decision de cided that the -lalm of ITmpIre N. W. ISason against tho Jersey City club of the ICastern league for umpiring exhibi tion games prior to tho opening of the championship season of ll'll was Just and directed Jersey City to pay tiim &0, the amount Eason claimed was due him. The application of the Galveston club for a rehearing of the Mayes case was refused, and the claim of Player-Manager Jan es Bartlon for 1205 sulary from the Humilton club of the Ohio State league was allowed. European Driver Will Remain Here NEW YOrtK. Dec. 16.-Victor Ilemery will not return to Germany. This means that automobile racing In this country will be boomed considerably by the ap pearance of the great European driver In many events to come. Hemery, It Is understood, will associate himself with a prumlnutit motor car concern here. Tho J. I. Case company of Ilaclne, Wis., was first on the Job with an offer to Hemery. The Case company Is said to be one of thu best backed concerns building automobiles. If the plans now being discussed are carried out Hemery will be offered tlio position of racing head of tho company. Hemery' has a long list of victories to his credit. He has won more big road races than any other driver. The CBe company has already decided 'ipun the construction of two big blx cyllnder cars of iilnuty-hursepowcr, which will be entered In the 5o-mile raco at Indianapolis next spring. Should thu Uuili.e company close negotiation with Hemery lie would not only be put In charge of the building of thu cars, but prububly would drive one in the race. Kentucky Futurity Race to Be Changed LEXINGTON, Ky., Dec. 1(1 It wus scml-ofllciully announced here today that the Kentucky liorne Breeders' associa tion bus decided to change tho Kentucky futurity for 3-year-old trotters trom u three In five heat race to a two in three hrat event. The Kentucky futurity I worth SM.UU0 to the winner and Is th luht'bt siuke on the American trotting turf. SIDNEY HATCTTVETERAN ON MARATHON COURSE CHICAGO, Dec. 1(J. Sidney Hatch, the local Marathon runner, who won ths Vonkcr run Thanksgiving day, is ont of the veterans of the guiim. He has won five or six Marathons and les!des hulu a record of running PA) miles In l'j:U7 tJ. It was bis fifth attempt to win Hi Yonkers run and he was always in the first ten. Hatch undoubtedly will rep resent the I'nited States In the next Olympic games at Stockholm. Blunders of Players and Neglect of Offense by Coaches Cause. INCIDENTS IN PLAY OF NEBRASKA Michigan Contest Lost to Cornhusk ers Through Poor Pass. AMES GAME TIE BY POOR WORK Chances to M'ore Thrown Away la Play "of Many Train llurlns; l.aat Kenanit In All Parts of the t'onnlry, nv i i.i i in v.. ni.i iorr, Michigan wns hacked up to within eight yards of Its goal line and the hall was In the posse!Blonof Nebraska. Two downs remained, giving the Cornhuskera two chanres to make their distance. They had six jords to go. The first of tho two chances was imed In an attempt to negotiate a succersful forward pass. Ths ball was passed too hlg'.i, from quarter to end, and the fling was not completed. The next chance was employed for a drop kick. Tho renter made an atrocious pass and Nebraska's left half failed at goal. Michigan took the ball on thft twenty-five-yard line. l.c.a than five minutes of the game were left; the Wolverines had been paved from defeat and the most famous battle ever fought on Nebraska field closed a tie. On this same day Yale and Harvard battled to a scoreless tie. A miserable pass by the Blue center foiled a success ful try for field goal by Howe and denied the New Haven men a. victory. Other teams of the east and the west fought tie games this full. Apparently these contests resulted In even breaks, because the coaches Were not able to develop an attack that would score after tho twenty-five-yard line wus reached. - t ry . for llule Cksssra. So many scoreless and tleless games In one season has produced a hue and cry for changes In tho rules whereby there may -be more scoring and through which a stronger eleven may be sure to win. Nebraskans are certain their eleven was far; superior to the Michigan team, figures on the ground gained how the Comh imkers advanced the ball nearly three times as tar as the Ann Arbor eleven. ' Bo It Is asked, "Why - should a team that can gain so much more ground than. Its adversary be .held a tie? Surely the aulef ars at fault and should be changed." At tho present moment there are many different voices In the land talking on foot ball rulcsj some . suggest many changes and some desire no radical re viHion. It really seems, Indeed, that no great changes are necessary now. The present rules have been In force for oniv two seasons and the couches have not become familiar with them. This fact is enough to show why the tutors have not perfect scoring plays. Still, most of them have plays that will score if the players do not blunder. In Its two tie games this fall ths Cornhuskers did not win because of blunders on the part of Its own men. Kambllaa Costs Dearly. In ths Ames-Nebraska game the Corn huskers were playeoto a S to 6 tie. Dur ing the second half the Nebraska men played In Ames territory all the time. Punt after punt was missed by the Corn husker receiving backs. Ames was per mitted to score both Its goals from field through fumbling on the part of the Corn huskers. Nebraska threatened the Agglo goal several times, In the third quarter, and undoubtedly would have scored If Its men had held the ball on punts. A little questionable generalship also kept tho men from scoring when ths ball was on the Ames fifteen-yard line In possession of Nebraska In the Michigan game a blocked kick gave the. Ann Arbor tqgm its score, and a poor fkiLs from center prevented a field goal for the Corn huskers. Here, then, are two tie games which would have been won by Nebraska had its men played Just a little better ball. Yale would probably have won agulnst Harvard had its center made a good puss. Surely the rules cannot bo blamed for the loss of these games. There) were others of the same kind. Nebranka scored Its one touchdown against Michigan through a virile attack. Its offensive game was very strong. Tha Wolverines were llleially shoved all over the field. The defense of the Cornhusk era was strong, for the Wolverines could not gain against it successfully. Thero wua much scoring power In the Corn hurkcrs that day. and but for a few ques tionable plays, the score would have been favorable to Nebraska. The scoring strength of Nebraska was proved in other games of the season by the large points totalled. Mo Itadlral lhauues Needed. To one who watched the Cornhuskers In action in all their Important games and studied the plays of other western earns. It seems that there Is no need ot any radical changes in the rulea The present code can be mailo effective. When tho coaches have worked with their st ack another year or two there will be de vi loped plays that will score with cer tainly within tho 2i-yard sone. Tho de fence appears to be much stronger now 'linn the attack, but the reason for this -cats In the fact that coaches have spent more time In building up their defense, and have given too scant attention to tho attack. There Is no doubt that the forward pass will be found a more reliable play as oon as next full. It is a good scoring !evlce, and when players have become trained In catching the spheroid and ac curate in hurling It, many successful 'lings may be expected in every gams. The main fault to be found with tb college game now Is that Its rules hasj been changed too much during the last Ive years. The game needs stability far t few years. Less tampering will per mi e .he couches to become thoroughly fa .ulllar with th rules and get plays that will work. It Is far too early to teU