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REPORT LINCOLN CLUB SOLD
George Lowrey, Commission Man,
i Said to Be Purchaser.
'DISTEICT COUET MUST CONSENT
C'rrm Will Prnbattlr Aicrro to
Amr Arrmngrmrnt that Will Give
Them Their Money nraaala
Wanted Bl Soaa.
LINCOIJV, Pec. 2S.-Speclal Tle-rtm-Jt
was reported tonight on em
ingly gooil authority that OcorKO W.
lowrey had bouttht tha IJncoln bae ball
club of Donald eDflpain.
Tha affair a of tha club hava been In
tang-led condition for noma tlma and
Saturday were atlU mora corapllcatad by
an action by one of 'the creditor, B. L.
Truman, for a receiver and to rentraln
Ieepaln from dlnpoalnir of tha club or
any of Ita property. Tha court Iviiued a
temporary rentralnlna; order, and any
ale at prexent must be with tha conaent
of tha cout an 1 agreeable to tha credi
tors, unleaa tha reatralnlnK order la dis
solved. Tlve creditor would doubtle conaent
to any aala agreement which would en
able them to get their nioner. It waa
currently reported that Dph1q was of
fered recently $18,100 for tha franchise
and property of tha dub but at that
tlma tha owner atuck for $20,000. Tha
consideration In tha present proposed
aala la not made public
Jowrey, tha prospective, purchaser, Is
a IJncoln merchant.
Irish, Gentleman
WA U Hill WKf
JUAJUSZ, Pec . The threatanlr.g
weather that prevailed at J u area today
did not keep tha Chrtalmaa attendance
down and some fine racing was aeen.
Tha surpruie of the afternoon waa tha
brilliant performance of Irish Gentleman,
winner of tha Navadad handicap, at one
J mile. The colt waa admirably rlddeft by
I Jockey Hoffman. ,
day that Jockeys A. Walsh and Wrlopen
had been named off tha turf for at
tempted fraud. ' They were Included In
the fraud that resulted In Jockey Kaward
being ruled off tha turf.
The horses owned by George Bu?4r,
hlch included Rey HWfloo and Ameri
cua, hava been transferred to John Lowe
and will be allowed to start.
Harry Qoetz Saves
s Self from Knockout
MI1AVAUKEE, Deo. . Ous Christie
of Milwaukee, had Uttla trouble la out
pointing Harry Ooeta of Chicago, In a
ten-round bout here this afternoon.
. Qoeta manged to hold his own In tha
I opening round, hut after that It was all
' Christie and in tha last five rounds, tha
j Chicago boy, by dint of great hugging
J managed to save himself from a knock
out. ' In tha aemlwtndup, Toiuif Krauaa of
Milwaukee and Chris Zander of Chicago
I fought six found dr w.
jUyick and Buckles
i . ' Matched for Bout
! , Guy Buckles, tha local veteran ot the
j prlxa ring, Jiaa been matched to mix
with Bill Uvlck. tha South Omaha
crapper. The data and place for the
bout has not been fixed as yet. but as
Vvlck Is to go away February I It
will doubtlessly be held within tha next
threo weeks. Hugo Peters, the mi who
reforwed the Heller-dray farce, Is pro-
(noting the affair.
I ST. LOUIS SOCCER MEN
DEFEAT CHAMP TEAM
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t Soccer foot ball players today laid claim
to the championship of the Lnited States,
aa tha result of the game this afternoon.
In which the lnnUfalls of St. Louis de
feated the Tacony team 0f Philadelphia,
4 to L Experta declared today's contest
,waa the fastest ever played here.
The phlladelphlans. ho. It la claimed
lost only four ' games lu three seasons.
went Into the conteit slightly fatigued.
as the result of the strenuous tie battle
on a muddy field yesterday with the St.
Louie, local .championships. The visitors'
one point waa due to excitement of the
part of the local 'backs, one of whom
sent tha ball through his own goal.
SEWARD BASKET BALL
, TEAM DEFEATS YORK
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fEWARI), Keb. Dec. 55. (Special
Eeward Young Men's Christian associa
tion defeated York here last night In a
weil played game rf banket bail by the
cor of U to 1& York did not give the
(ante to Seward. Cox of York made 13
out of York's M points. Lineup;
Seward. York.
Hand B F. R r. Tranger
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Muiiion -.CO Ul4
J. faorry L.(l l..O Xavl'i,n
Oaks K. RU. Miller
J. Htrrt bub.tlub. Wlelmn
Itefereee: Matlll and Roberta. I'm.
Ilrea; ftnbena and klutlll. J-lnld a-ials:
r--ard i York T. re Throws; Jiaud.
University Lads
Round Into Shape
For Basket Ball
ThouRh Conch Miller of the t'nlverslty
of Omaha has not picked the mei who
will repreesnt the school In basket ball
this winter he Is rapidly developing a
number of men, who will make a strong
bid for the championship . of , the state.
The first game of the season will be
with Coiner hnlverHlty at Bethany Jan
uary C To neat ' them Omaha has a
mighty tough proposition, for Cotner la
one of the strongest- jeama In the west
Last season the enristhtns lost but two
games out ot fifteen iayed. . One of
these was to Highland Tark college of
Des Moines and the other to the local
university. Both games were close and
were not decided until the final whistle
waa blown. In the first game tha score
was 15 to 14 and In the latted Id to IS.
Both of these games wers played on the
opponent's floor and Cotner had beaten
both teams earlier In the season on their
own floor. 1
Among tha teams over which the
Bcthanlta ware victorious are: The
University of Nebraska, University of
Kanohs, University of South Dakota and
the Lincoln Young Men's Christian as
sociation. In losing to the Omaha boys
Cotner lost Its first game In two years
to a Nebraska team. Squires, Brltt, Mo
CullougH and Ogden ot last year's team
are still In school and will put up a game
that will dassle most of their opponents.
At tha University ot Omaha of last
year's squad there are: Jerome at cen
ter, rarlsh and Salisbury at guards,
With neither of last season's forwards In
tha gam tha problem which Miller has
had to faoe has been-to develop a pair
of good goal tossers. '
The first squad from which "dus'
Miller will select the. team la composed
of Parish, Jerome, Salisbury, Dow, Rolo
mon. Joregenson. Mortensen, l'ereival.
Paisley. Robert ' Btrehlow, Peter Btreh-
low, Parsons and Bennett,
Warning; to Cottontails.
P1ERRR. Dec. 2.-.Brteelal The ral.
dents of Okobojo will hold their annual
rabbit hunt on Friday, the th of thla
niontn, at wmcii the losing side Is to
provide the winners with a supper. This
year they bar "cotton-tail" rabbits from
their scores, nothlna counting hut t
nimble Jack rabbit, or coyotes and wolves,
All who are to take a part are notified
that It will be up to them 'to secure
hunters' licenses, as the state game de
partment horns that any hunting of what
ever character without a license 1 is lh
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the bL Iouls Cardinals, who demands a
public apology from Charles Webb Mur
phy, president ot the Chicago 'Cubs, be
raUKe of the alleged Insult and libel.
Ireanahan refused to waive on Vic
flrr when Murphy wanted to dispose ot
tha young first baaeman, and the Chicago
TIIK TKK: (WAKA. TUESDAY. DECEMnER
Into Grouch on Christmas k ..
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SKATES AND SLEDS ARE OUT
Christmas Revelers Will, Find
Winter Spots Attractive,
ICE FIELDS ARE LIKE GLASS
Hills Are fa Perfect Condition for
Sledding N amber of Coast
ing Parties Have Been
. .. Ora-anlsed. . .
Skating and coasting will be two of the
most Important outdoor attractions today.
The Ice. on Carter lake In' Ideal and
many skaters enjoyed themselves there
yesterday. Hanscom and Miller park
were -also crowded -with lovers of the
winter sport and . aa mese parka are
lighted up at night, skating there can be
much, more enjoyed. The two lagoona In
Kotintxa park are frosen over and were
crowded with many skaters yesterday
afternoon and evening.
Christmas coasting parties will also be
numerous, especially this owenlng, and (he
time-worn bob sled and the big, long
"traveler" will come Into their own again,
The 'Parker street hill Is one of the most
favorite meccas of coasting adherenta.
The long hill going down Grand avenue
from the Twentieth street boulevard to
the Rest Omaha bottoms is also one ot
the favorite haunts for the coasters. On
account of Its steepness and the swift'
ness with which the sleds go down this
hill the youngsters In the north part of
the city have dubbed It the "cut."
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Picked Teams Play '
a-Scoreless Game
Sunday , the Defenders cancelled their
game scheduled with the Shamrocks. In
order, not to disappoint a large crowd of
foot ball devotees, Qulgley picked a team
and called them the North Btars, and he
got Byerly to pick a team from the south
end of the town' and called them the
South Btars. The final score was 0 to 0.
Following is the lineup:
NORTH STARS. . ' SOUTH STARS.
Crohah 0.
C" KMIoll
R. O. Thompson
U O. ......... RoenwlU
n. T Thurtxr
U T . .......... Plckirlns
H. ToDiofclnt
U B Koran
U. B Byrly
Taylor ...R. (.
MoTKivera , U O.
fhnl.ky R. T.
Mttr U T.
Malnltls R. K
Thiir U B
Ranohnws Q. B
Sandas .R. M. B.
tllnaas .........L. H. B
Qulgler T. B.
H. H. B. ........... f'oly
U H. Ooldn
V. R Stroud
Referees:' Dally, ex-Iowa. Umpire: Bid
Foley of St. Mary's. Field Judge: Ranch
man, -Omaha High school.
Key to the Situation Bee Advertising.
magnate,. among -other things. Is said to
nave acrusea noger oi playing petty
tricks, saying that Breanahan didn't want
Baler for the Cardfaiala, but Intended to
turn blm over to Toronto. It Is not Im
probable tbst a merry row may develop
out of the demand of Hresuahau for a
apoiogy wnicn nas been forwarded to
President' Lynch of the National 1 segue.
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Jack Johnson as ha looked upon his ar
rival in New . York from Kurope last
Thursday. t The big fellow caused a. de
cided shock In1 the heavyweight division
With the Bowlers
Tha first half of a series of ten games
were rolled on tha Metropolitan alleys
Sunday at If p. in. Huntington ' and
Blakney defeated Zorp and Angelsberg
by fifty-eight pins. Blakney shot 244
and 236 games and averaged 200 for his
five games. Angelsberg shot a 214
game and averaged 186; Zarp, 201 and
averaged 18C; Dad Huntington high game
of 164 and averaged 1S2. Thursday at
p. m. the last ot 4ha . series will
be rolled on the Association alleys. Fol
lowing are tha scores:
Angelsberg 214 IS ISO 119.1 13 931'
ita im vj 2i 174 m
Totals ,
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244
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Hlokney ..
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402 1.S1J
Totals M
Xti 3T.4 381
St. Taal lllgn Five Wins.
ST. PAUL. Neb.. Dec. 25 -The Bt. Paul
High school, team defeated the Hastings
High school team here tonight In a bas
ket ball game. Score 31 to i, In favor of
BU Paul.
PERSONAL PARAGRAPH-
Joseph Newman of Cleveland Is spend
ing the holidays with his sun, U. M. New
man.
Dr. K. O. Dennison and family of Sheri
dan. Wyo , are spending Christmas with
Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Powell.
Ray P. Morris, representative of the
dtudebaker corporation at Des Moines,
la., spent Christmas In Omaha with his
parents. Mr. Morris prior to going to
Des Moines was affiliated with the Btude
buker concern here.
Mrs. Dextsr L. Thomas has returned
from Spokane, Wash., where she has
been visiting her son, Uuy, lor two
months. .
Mrs. Mortimer J. Brown of Niagara
Falla. N. Y.. la a guest of her parents.
Mr. and Mrs. Osorge O. Wallace, tor the
holiday aeason. tfince returning from
China, a year and a half ago, Dr. Crown
spent some months In special work in
chemlntry In Cornell, taking hla doctor
degree at that university In June. He is
now research chemist for the Niagara
Electro Chemical company.
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Maslaga of aa Ola Sport.
Borne of us expect opportunity to bust
In with a Jimmy!
We've seen many an "outclassed" man
win on hla nerval
The profit that we gather by experi
ence may be only paper profit but It's
the solid asset!
Our Idea of malt extract Is tha silly
teara we eh.-d when we reach the fool
stage of self-sympathy!
The man who "cau take a drink or let
It alone" usually sports those Lambrequin
efteuts at the bottom of his paatakKma!
JVeW Tarn World.
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by announcing . that he had not. retired
and i that: he could make-himself fit for
a strenuous. ring ' battle, .with . a, few
weeks' training.
DOCTORING fTHE MAN OF IRON
Some Pconllarltlee of . Bismarck
Noted by the Chancellor's
Physician.' ,
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Dr.'1 Schweninger, who, was Bismarck's
physician tor eighteen years, remarked In
the 'course of a recent address in Vienna
that he saw the . chancellor -weep three
times; when the old emperor died, when
his wife died, and when he was dismissed
from' office.' This last "affected him so
deeply that t feel Inclined to assert that
had it not' come,, he would perhaps be
still living." The doctor had tried to
convince. the young emperor that the al
legations, made' as to.Cismarck's incom
petence because of his addiction, to alcohol
and morphine were untrue. The chan
cellor 'did, not' habitually use - morphine,
and his not being an "Alkohollker" was
attested by the. steadiness of his hand.
"He could shoot a bird on the wing, and,
like Tell, he could have hit the apple on
hla son's head,'' during the last years of
his life. Dr. Schwenninger , gave an in
teresting account of how he came to be
Bismarck's physician. It was through the
chancellor's son, to whom a friend had
recommended the doctor. Count Wilhelm
Ulumarck weighed 236 pounds when he
was taken In hand. Ten months later he
weighed 176 pounds, and looked so changed
that the . doctor did not recognise him.
Then came the prince's turn. Dr. Schwen
inger denies that Bismarck did not want
to answer his questions, whereupon be
had said to him: "Then you had better
get a veterinarian." He did have an
even harder time than ho had had with
the son to persuade the prince to obey
him absolutely, which was the condition
of his remaining with him. -Once, when
Blamatck.had drunk, without permission,
six glasses jf buttermilk, the doctor
packed his trunk' and was on the point of
leaving when a sudden attack ot Internal
trouble induced him to remain. On an
other oocaslon, a conference of ministers
had to be postpoded because the doctor
would not allow the chancellor to be
awakened;, his message to the statssmen
was: "The prince's health . Is moro im
portant than all ministers and all poli
tics." New York Post.
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OLD DOBBIN CHEWS ITS QUID
Kansns Ping Gets the Habit from
Master and Prefers Fine.
cat.
"Whoa! Whoa, there! Stop that horse!"
shrieked a man at Eighth and Grand
avenue, Kansas City, as the animal was
deliberately following another man upon
the sidewalk. The second man had In
his hand a small package, and when he
turned at the sound of the alarm It waa
seen that the horse was Intent on getting
to the package.
"Oh. now, don't get nervous, Kit," he
said, soothingly, to Jim animal. ''I'll give
you a chew."
Then the man opened a package of fine
cut tobacco, took an ordinary "chew"
for himself and divided the remaining
part of a newly opened sack with the
horse. The animal took the large quid
and actually seemed to smile as It
munched away on It rythmically as would
a cow on her cud.
The owner of the horse, William Mc
carty, a claim agent for tlie Illinois Cen
tral railroad, explained that Kit was very
fond of her "chew," and whenever he
took one where Kit could see him she
would follow him even up a pair of steps
and Into a house but that she, too, was
supplied.
"She don't seem to want tobacco unless
she catches sight of some one In the act
of taking a chew, and then she will have
hers, no matter who the man may be who
exposed the weed," he explained.
"What got your horse Into the habit;
how waa It acquired?" asked a dignified
appearing man who waa in the little
coterie which was watching "Kit" enjoy
her wad in fine-cut.
"I did it," replied MeCarty. "I begun
by nipping off a little every time I took a
chew In the animal's presence and hand
ing it to her, as she always was curiously
nosing about tq see what I had. It was
not long until she would take a chew of
tobacco in preference to a lump of sugar."
"Does the animal expectorate?" asked
the dignified person in all seriousness.
"Well, not so as to be noticed," replied
her ownesr "The horse swallows the
Juice from the tobacco, and finally the
quid Itself. And I am here to tell you
that I have found the tobacco far more
healthy for a horse once In a while than
sugar every day, as Is given to trick
horses." Arthur McKnlght. an old race horse
man and- official starter at most of the
big race tracks in the country, chanced
to be present when the tobacco chewing
horse was under discussion.
"I was born and reared down here In
the West bottoms," said McKnlght, "and
I recall Old Tim, a tobacco chewing fire
horse that used to be on the truck in
engine house No. 1 down on Union ave
nue. Chief Hale will remember Tim.
Why, he was so vicious after a chew, If
he saw any one with a plug he would al
most break his chain to get tj you. And
If you took a chew and passed him un
noticed Tim would reward you with a
kick. Yes. Tim was a confirmed chewer,
and I have known of several good race
horses which had the habit. They are
Just llke human beings; when they get
the desire for nicotine it sticks to them."
"How dreadful," sighed the ministerial-
looking spectator. "It is a pity that
human beings could not keep their In
jurious habits without tempting Innocent
domestlo animals."
'Tobacco at Intervals is good for a
horse," replied McKnlght. "It prevents
many of the ailments from which they
suffer." Kansas City Journal.
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HOT BATTLE WITH A BEAR
Forest Ranger, After Killing a Cab,
Has to Aecoant to Its
Mother.
When Forest Ranger Samuel Lebo ot
Lucullus, McIIenry township, , Philadel
phia, heard his dog barking over against
the ridge the other afternoon, and he
flung his rifle across his shoulder and
started down the fire lane In the direction
of the baying, he didn't have any Idea
of the excitement that was In store for
him. He had seen bear tracks at a spring
over that way several days before, but
the season for gunning Bruin not yet
having come In he paid no particular at
tention to this, as bear tracks in that
section of McHenry township are almost
as common as sheep tracks. would be up
In Tioga county. ,
The other day when his dog hit the'
trail and began to bay its ocliofriff
chorus along the chestnut ridge, how
ever, Lebo scooted He reached a point
where the fire lane Intersects an old road
Just In time to see two cubs making for
the thick alders near the spring. One
shot and the little fellow in the rear went
down among the leaves with a squeal.
The forward bear succeeded in getting
out of sight before he could shoot again.
Lebo waa bending over the fallen
youngster when he heard something snap
ping twigs back of, him. He turned Just
In time to find himself confronted by an
old she bear, which in her first attack
knocked his rifle from his hands and
went after him In hammer-and-tongs
style. Lebo's dog was upon the bear In
an instant, and thus afforded Lebo a
temporary advantage while tha bear
turned Its attention to lt canlns tor
mentpr; but not long enough for him to
recover his gun, which, though It lay
within sight, had been flung at least ten
feet away. Before managing to reach the
spot where the gun lay Lebo had been
landed several blows and cuffs that made
his ears ring. The bear seemed to Rnow
the meaning of the gun and appeared to
be determined to keep the man from
getting hold of it.
Between the bothersome dog and his
own agility, however, Lebo finally suc
seeded In getting far enough out of the
bear's reach to lay hold ot his rifle. A
shot at short range sent the bear to Its
knees, but It made a desperate attempt
to renew the fight, this time striking the
dog a blow that killed It on the spot But
Its wound prevented the bear from re
newing the attack, and a second shot fin
ished it.
Lebo would have stopped to take ac
count of hla hurts Just then if something
else hadn't happened. As he turned to
ward the dead cub he beheld the second
cub nosing around its dead relative. It
was unlucky mourning tor the second cub,
for in another lnstand It, too, lay dead
on the ground.
Lebo found that his coat was torn In
several places and there waa a pretty
bad gash on one side of his neck, where
the bear's claw had "swiped" him. but
aside from that he had come out of the
battle unscratcbed. The loss of his bear
dog was the severest ot alL Philadelphia
Record.
Flippancies.
Odd "that It Is the story without any
point that bores us.
Sometimes when a man buys that
woolly underwear he gets fleeced.
Borne women would consider the best
man living a "dead one.''
No matter how entertaining ho may
be the dentist Is an awful bora.
We are all looking for a good opening,
but we don't want to get in a hole.
Boston Transcript.
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