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HS 5 ll t HOOT THE VUHOUfc PtGC MUTT AW, R.OUL GN OUT JO06D0N'Tl SHAR.K ; ,1 1. 4 ' SOME INNER-CIRCLE TEAM Collier's Weekly Eu Another Farce Weitern Eleren from Pattenon. wo PLACE roa kecsie koix IllckUoa Bin RUhl" Kp jDtrd Captain fkak tier . a lfco4 Ckalc at Caara, aad II la Tarkl. IT ' First KIaM l'.n-'W!!a- Mlcti'mn. . f Tack1 Raitnnafhvr. Chicago. Uuard emlth. kllnnnnna. , Vntar Morrpll, Mimipaola. )uari H(xulr, ChUa. Tat kla Buaer, WbH'ntn. liiiil Capron, Mlnncaola. Jiiarprliiirk (llllrttr, Wlnoonaln. Ilulfback lioaiialri. Mlnnouia. HalfbacU r'auer. t'hlcaao. Fullback Thomaon, Mlvniian. Sorvad Klavra. Knd Oliver, Illlnnla. Tacklp Krank, ,MlnnotH. lluaid Hlionkn, NpIi-at. . OntvrRraiiKtnd. Wlmoni'.n. Suartl H. Hrlllng. Illlnl. Tackl-"onklln. Mlrhlaan. Kml Tobln, M1nii-ila. Juartrluik Moll M''oaaln. Ha'rtuok-rra'". ' --Hairbark-(avna, UlnnaaoU. "111 KullLauk vru., . K. V. Ftitlrrmin. t C.'iiU-ig.j nenipapar writer who liaa ben arlrrtlnc an all wtttarn foot ball clvven fur Coillrr'a iur Ing tha last alx or wvrn aia, la out with the latect atar choice, wfilch appiara j In Colller'a for Peopmbrr U, Ilia flrat , elaven contain only Chicago cond-renca land Michigan alayrra; InJcuJ, l'attcraon'a ,tama have never had any other than ronfervnee and fi nur coaferenca team rlayeri. To ahow how rrxtrlcted I'atteraou'a team la It la only nucoiiary to mention that tie ha left Moll, the alur Wlaconnln ! quarter off hla rirt team. IShonka of Ne braaka, in given a guard place on tha aac 'ond team. Kckemull laei the Nebraika captain at the aame noattlon. Yet Hhonka jla a tackle. loka aa (IiuukIi Pattaraon .had beuJt;33lhg kereall'a atorlea. Karaite' After Maws. , ratterson'a article. In part, follow : I "With pi actually every oolUga faculty looking fur flawa In the rule and meth .ods, foot ball In the wet In tha pait produa4 llttla that w-aa atattllng. An eioeptlon waa aupn'.ied by Ralph CktTon of ailnnaftota. This player, who received hi training at Mercerburgi academy, really furnlehed tha fireworks. In tha lineup ha figured aa a quarterback, but ha had the faculty of being abla to play any italilon. A a an open-field runner ha) waa without a pear In the west. "Oliver of Ililnul and Tobln of Minna aota are slven end position on tha sec. ond tsam, Poth Tere aepaqlalljr strong oa defense, although tlcknesi In tha early seaiun militated against Oliver's work, 'There aeu to be au abundance of good Uckle tin (he atrungor trains. There ware Hademavhi , of ' Chicago, ("onklln of Michigan, frank-of Minnesota, tluver and Robert of Wlrconslo. Vnder irdlnJT rcttimtae CoufcUn wasM tiave received first towntlcm a an alt wratem tactic, tut thg captaincy appar ent!y srelflied hravtly on hla ahoitldcr, and he CIS got play the game expected of him. On the otl'er hand, this srema to have had the opposite effect o4 Rad. tnacher of Chloaye. who turned idut to be one of tha real relation of RtarC team. Ha waa Invaluable to hla team In breaking up Interference, hlocklng Wcks, and UckMng tha runner behind tha line. By tha tame token tha other tackle posi tion gaoe to Busar of Wisconsin, who alio waa 'captain of bla team, and ha played the .better for 4t. ' "It la to be regretted that It la necee sary to leave Prank of Minnesota off the first team and relegate him to the sscond. Will Just Play at First Owner of the Bresnahans 'son was put to a test which It may or (mir not aurvlve. A a romequenue, It cannot ba said that the game In this great I central territory had a successful aeason, Judged either from the style uf play or ifrom tha material developed. Tha game, perhaps, wss good enough, but It did not 'escape criticism either from ita friends jcr Its enemlea. It waa not "advanced foot ball" In any sens uf ths word; It idid not bring out anything slantingly new nor did any Individual star set the grandstands afire. There were, uf course, aa la the cats every srason, spsums of great foot ball, , such as, for Instance, iMlnneeoia'a play again! Chicago and the chlcaao-WlsconKlii saute. These were, I however, the excrptlona to the generally erratic furin of the majority of the elev en. "In rartain poclticna there waa a la 'mentable scarcity of good men for aa isJI-western eleven, notably In tha matter 'of ends. It Is true that there wa Wells 'of Michigan, ell-America end last year, but aa the exigencies of the case put him la the back field uf Yost's team, ha wa not credited to an end pa:tloit while the reason was on. A large number of good tackle and some siar guards mtde their appearance, however, as the season" pro Igressed. There were also a number of good quarterbacki. but hardly up to tha 'standard of former years. "At the end there were several who ehowed flashes of championship form jnow and then, such as Tobln of Minne sota, Oliver of lilinule, Kesnulker of Chi jego and lioeffel of Wisconsin. In Wells .of Michigan the weMvrn territory had a igreat player. ai,J the fact that he had played halfback the greater part of tha I sear aixtuld not detract frcm tha aeleo lkju. as Wells Is a natural end rusher, lie l.as everything a good foot ta.. player ,should have speed, sue, strength, and. above all, a good head. fasres raaa)laal plaier. U aaa been eipiatned that tbs staica ! : :Mi-'' r"i" ... -v i i r , . ; f ' ?' i f 5 : ! 1. ' ' xi". t I: . -.-r -lr :' , ' K ? Mis. Helen Itublilsoii Hrition, owner uf tha M. Iouis Cardinals and the only woman baseball msgnate In history, who has Just flntshed her firet experience In attending a leaguo uieeUkaT Alp the aa- f- tional muunatrt wrre muv h , plewaed with Mrs. Urtttou. When asked how shs liked alii- a msgnata and what she thought of the meeting, she said: "Fine, 1 wouldn't have mUsed It fur anything" Hal Chase, former manHgpr f the New York .Yankees and greatest of all first basemen, who Uwluies lie will work hl, hardest for his suoce-saor, Harry TVotver- ton. Frank vu an ccillnt tacUl. but d!d nut Imw the versatility of eV.hsr I'.sdc-maclu-r ur Huscr. . Uiuwt Uest tlaards. "Guaids of f;it clan caliber were many, but none o rood as Hmlth uf llln nesota and rtcruby uf Chlcaeo. Fmlth was undoubtedly the t roi.gi st lineman in the Mrnne.iuta team. , "Hlagg. after h fling Sccuby from place to place, finally found a place rutted to his make-up. and Hcruby brcanio a star guild. He held hU own against allcomers. lie d'.d a'.l the punting and place klcklnc Tor t'hlrago. As a unter ha ranked among the best, and hi skill In kicking goal from p'aiemont mstle Mm a player to be feared. "Ehonka of Nebraska and Tsui licit in; of Illinois gel the position on the secjnd eleven. lioth were aggressive playtis r DAFFYDII COKTEST KUUrJ t Answers ii.u.-: be a:lrei:id tj "liaffvdn Hd tor" .f 'ice l.ec, anu re, u The Hee !f.cd not lutcr l.ian b p. m. 'Ihurnuay o. iaci: c... io tie coaa.dervu for prise m.trq oi It. at week, . t'untv.-xania may icbinu unc or mc:a answers for an ur all ol tuj pi ,ie. X Winners to u svltctea one by each advertiorr un Dstfyuil cojusnt page and printed in hm udvertiscinem, v. rncn wilt also announce pnse tor nt lonieat. 4 Karli La.lydiii must be written mi a separate t.nt. of taper ai.d tuust des ignate the advertiser lo.- wiioni t la in tsnced. $. inn'.ng raffer.s will be chosen for Uilr urigiuality, wit and iunnoi and preference will be Mown tr.ose pertaining to name or business of the advertiser. Winnrfs must rail in person fur pr.ifs at ad'verilser' piar of business 7. In addition to advertisers' prises The Hee tvlll award five )1 prises to the five nest best laffydll wrttera and will print tha in. together with all othera worth publishing on Paftydil Contest Page. and were In the game every minute of the play. llanley of Marquette and Hudson uf Iowa were close to the class of the others, - the latter especially on account of hla kicking. . Morrell of Minneaota. Hrsnstad of Wlaconsln, and O'Drlen of Iowa, playing center, ehowed good form. Morrell gets the place beaause he outplayed every man he met, even, though not quite as active In the open field as some of his rivals. O'Brien wound tip his foot ball career with a great record a drop kicker, but in puselng the ball, charging, and general usefulness wss nut quite up to the standard of either Morrell or Bran stad. BranatsAl played a remarkably good game all season. "Crltlca have generally divided Ibo honors of the quarter-back position be tween. Moll of Wisconsin and Capron of Minnesota. Capron waa not a good quarter back, and. while playing, tha position, his team was run by Pickering and thrn by Itoeenwald, but ha waa a grind ball p'aycr, and as he has btea i placed at end. thu eliminates hlrn. Moll j did not thow i:; s'tong tn certain vital del; rtnierts of the itanie. and In eon. 'sequence t'ua mm who touk his place In the Chicago game gvia the position hla team mate. C.llette. Ulllett was a great half back. Ha waa Just aa much at boms in tha position of quarter back, and ho la considered a better field gen eral than Moll. Thla waa clearly demon strated la tha Chicago gains when he replaced Moil. He will, without doubt, be the regular quarter back un the Wla consln eleven next year, and It la known that Coach Richards considers him on of the most valuable men on the tei.n. Moll la placed on tha second team. "There are other good quarter backs, umong these being Paine of Chicago and McMillan of Michigan. TUB HALFBACK POSITION. "Practically at try Usui bad nut or moro rtndtdstcs tor the twlfbiek position on tSt 4tiUwctTO team. There were Saner of CMcago, Craig of Michigan. Oil! of Indlaca, Hoberts of Illinois, Rosenwald and ftercn of Minnesota, osd a tramber of leeer l'ent. Among all. Rosrnwald inC fcaturr etatid out moat strongity. with Craig: and erchs next to line, Roaen wald tanrs with the beet in tha country. "Re. tier Core" not shine quite as bril liantly, brt ha was the beat ground gainer on the Chicago team. Ha waa exception ally strong in forward passes, and Coach Starr most effective tricks were built around Ifcis powerful player. "Craig- of Michigan, prtvbebly next to Capro-n ths Isstewt fnaa on the western grliiinxf, err a t& best ground taJncr for hla vecsa. la ourss-neid runalirr bo bad few Kruperlrrs. Steven ira3 smother Yshs abla ti!s iLl-aro'li'ad wurk brine: a close? second to bl mnro flesfar tn mat, Ro-vrrwald. Olfl snd Eobertt were good, twit l; not Inproro orcr last sea sun s marti as expected. TttB f ECOVD TEAM. "Fapllbttcka -v.rre ct;rcs. Witn Ptcker ng, out of fie aame. Ttiomsn or gon has the jilnce all to himself, hi rivals belnar Pierce of Chiear.-o, Murphy of Iowa, and WlnrMon of Illinois. There U uo quostlon about his oupertority to soy of these. lie a little weak a!nt rn. nell. but in ail other budm ho iiwvva,t a splendid attack and waa equally strong on cerense. Pierce was a. vsiiuihi for li'.s tram; his ortly real Weaknese m In handlms punts when nlarir t,.rv of the I'ne of defense. He was a good hue buckler and" was the man who made I'lcago s victory ever Wisconsin a Certainty." BOSTON NATIONAL LEAGUE CLUB UNDER NEW CONTROL UOSTCN. Dec. 19. The Rnstnn Mn.i league base kali team passed officially nio new r.i.ncs todiy. and during the eomlnif sesion James E. Gaffney of New York, and John M. Ward, pitcher of the New York, team twenty years ago. will direct Its affair. They hope to take the team out of hist place, the position it has occupied for several years. The reorganisation was effected through the purchase by Uarney and Ward of the stock of tha late Hepburn Russell. Ward waa elected president and Gaffney treas urer. Dr. Russell, son of the late presi dent and Fred J. Murphy of thla city wre included among the director. Prealdent Ward said after the meeting that there would be few chi.m i. .v.. "a-- ... i ii m club. ' Heller-tirar Hatch Thsradar. The Heller-Gray boxing' match will be milled Thursday night at the Lyric thea ter. Heller lived in Omaha for aeveral years before returning to Avoce, la., where, his parente Hve. .. rer this match he has been in training tor three weeka, and when he arrived in the city thla morning he looked the pink or condition. Al Uray Is little less ranuwned. H Carl Morris' sparring partner for several months and had much to do with the jc ccw of the Oklahoma "white hope." The main event will he preceded by a six-round bout between Guy Ruckles, tha local fish tor. and Walter McCarthy of Council muffs. Chief Engineer Tells of Value of Property of the Northwestern fFrotn a Staff Correspondent) LINCOLN. Dec 13. SpeclaI.-ChIef Engineer Kurd was on the stand today before the Etate Railway commission tn the bearing over the physical valuation a fthe Northwestern railroad's property. Mr. Hurd had fixed the reproduction slue at S13.19UU.zl and the . physical value at arusjK3lo. The eotntiany placed the vafcie of Its property at 'Si&T&tt& C. C. Wright and B. H. XXinham .represented be railroad ccrciMuiy and Uie nUorpey general's offioe looked after tbo tatrtaU o fJe commission and the elate. Tin drift o f Uie qeuatlmilng of the railrttad nt tornEyd was to ascettatti ta melhofia by which the appraisers had urlvd at tiieir valuations apparaattr layihit a groundwork to qeustton their a ours ay, W. Q. Ure aud H. U. Hsed t Omaha were also ou hand waiting lo tell the qouiailiMon what they know about the valuation, o me pioprvr CAcU we armed with a banOW ct documents fer refer aces purposes. Tin nwarlrtg preii ably wltl las awvtwl Uays, Edgar CliaiR-.iun. A ftortner Uftton Pa elflQ brakenian. UrnugUt suit tit federal court today cUut thw Union Pacifitt raiiioad cc.npauy for Ceuruvsn pieced at Z. lie allectis that ho W'M a brajie man in the employ of the company hnd tlial at hCappelle, Ieotmlar 4fl ht had bis foot mashed by tha ritt ftad thet tlie earapaay waa rtnnalUlei Loa It run 4 i (ftt Oheltet-i ' EZXioirFiiu.ii, fw Bwe, iik-tdpeaiai,) Frank Wbeairr, ft otrmep ih'injt fcb8ut aeven rniiea rwiaW t U'M 6lU:i gS! Ills lafC hand in a rorll eh,t WHU? a sisUnar hla risighior, c, C, iyniiu, H hll earn yesterday &iid as a result it Waa badly fnajlted Up, Me my lost Ut" hand aa the result of thv AWtdenti OrleaA Wins and ORXJIAX8, Neb.. J9. ltt,'PMal1)s'irt the two game of basket bail played here Saturday night In Orleans Higri cchdol girl defsatod te iWiSori iiiga kfchool (iris by a o?e of 11 to 10, Tlie high school beys lost to the JWth by a score of II I, Class Team Fives Select OaptaisB The senior, Junior and. sNrtm at tha Omaha High aaHel ffi Kfl e'r): thualasta of basket ball jne etkf.-;f r afternoon, elaetad oajttaina end dttnai4 hold regular practise haraafta )n tk gj-H: naslura at the sehool M4 a( ltf Touna; Men's ChrlstUq Msantattrt.k taaaii t.S'--will dirset ths pracwloe uf ti" t&em": The following were ejgptq rkptain-i Seniors, Flnley Jenkins, riefUt Jfuard; Juniors, Carl Stork, tfj mkUbniore-, Earl Clark, right fOfWaFd. fwt ins: man class organised l.t WkeHil James aardiner m eentaia, I Co a i I lag? A Botl c:h a fi aTQss Gossamers' Distrknte iaaT-a Sherman Ave. Both mones 3 It yfiO 0 &&w'lrul u 4w TmUMPH' IM THE. ART BRLWINC MORP Of IT .OLD TMlkllMV 'OT.iEK tttR BREWED IN On Art) FAVCJTE BECK IN THt.JlOrtt J