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Judgments
DALE GUAR will manage the
Topoka team again this year.
We liopo he receives the most
loyal support from Topeka fans,
especially those who have been
devoting a good deal of time In the last
few years telling various managers, with
long baso ball experience, how to run
their teams. Gear knows how, because
he has been a player and a manager In
larger towns and leagues and mado good.
Now, what he needs Is, not so much ad
x too as moral and financial backing.
Pur Instance, It would bo most helpful
to him anil his team If his advisers
would turn out and attend the games
and when things go a little awry, not
Knock, but look for a possible reason
and if falling to find a reason, be con
tent with an excuse. In time, Dale Gear
and his men will not be condemned for
trailing, but praised for leading. No team
can win games with n lack of patronage
and a surplus of knocking at home. And
that Is a truism In tho history of base
ball Now, why do wo Interject our un
snllflted counsel here? Because we have
a right to and because wc wish Topeka
well. But our right Is based on the wcll
wlshes for the entire league, which Is
affected by the fato of overy single town
and team. Topeka fans have no morn
i ights In the premises than we have, If
we are all commonly concerned In the
welfare of the Western league. Topeka
is too good a town not to do better In,
baso ball. And every friend of thlH
league Is hoping today, before tho 1913
season opens, that Topeka will see to It
that It does better than It has ever yet
done, expeclally than "it did In 1912. The
trouble, as every Intelligent critic on the
Ircult knows, was not with tho ability
of the manager or the team lost season;
Pale Gear was allvo to the Job and ho
had a team, that, even against tho odds
of dlshcartenment duo to home knocking,
was always a mos,t difficult team- to beat,
as the scores throughout tho season will
show. Wo are only hero cxprcsslnE
what Is generally felt in all the other
seven Western league towns and Topeka
should take the matter to heart. If It
ares a rap to continue on the base ball
map, which wo hope it does.
Mink league fans and team owners aro
giutlfied at tho friendly attitude of Pres
ident Kourko of Omaha, which It is a
credit to them to recognize as a worthy
asset. And the best of It is that Mr.
Hourke Is actuated by unselfishness; he.
uf course, won't throw away any advan
tage that may happen to accrue to him.
but he Is out primarily to do what ho
an to promote the success and per
manency of this smaller organization
ome have hit upon the theory thot
landing's going as manager to Beatrlco
Indicates Pa's financial association with
the league through that club. But wo are
reliably advised that such la not tho case;
that Gondlng goes to Beatrlco entirely on
his own hook, to be manager, unham
pered, of that team. And, as we havo
said before, he will make a good manager,
woum Beatrice Is fortunate to get.
Juhn U. Sullivan, when u candidate for
-ungress from a Boston district some
twenty-odd years ugo, exclaimed: "Any
man who has quieted u crowd In Mad
ihon S'fuare Garden as I have done, can
isrt a heurlng In congress or anywhere
ilte on eurtn." John did not land the
pluce, but not because people doubted
what he said on that point. Jim Flynn,
who comes to us as an umpire, while a
pugilistic stur of lesser magnitude than
.lie "Big 'Un." should, nevertheless, have
no trouble In commanding u hearing on
tho diamond of the Western league. Some
how gentlemen of his profession g't
lturlngs when others fall.
.St. Louis expects big things of Sain
Aguew this season and may get them,
for Sam was the loud noise behind the
hat last year In tho Pacific Coast league.
Uo might have done as well ile witii
Omaha, but for the fact that a lot uf
small young men on the team decided to
make him tho butt of ull their jokes,
dumpenlng all the ardor the kid had an
lending him no comfort In developing his
talent. It Is another example of what
tho right and wrong sort of treatment
imong the players may do.
Humor has it that our own whilom
Dusty Rhoaea will hurl 'em for Jock
Holland at St. Joe this year. No reason
why Dusty should not stay In the game
and, maybe. Jack Is Just the boy to
show" him how.
We would like to know whether Denver
has had any difficulty ridding Itself of
Gilmore and Cassldy. Its waivers should
get several callers. The league Is looking
'or such "castoffs."
Hunk O'Day has taken a Job In the
American Instead of the National leaguo,
urubably thinking that with Bvers oj ,
Manager It wouldn't pay not to.
St. Iyouls never was a hotbed it worn
ins rights and probably Is leas so since
, keason o( woman at the head of a
ball twam. I
We'Jl trade Bohoonover tu Denver for
c'aaaldy and GHmore
Mutt is Now Working for the
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BASE BALL FOR HIGH SGOOL
Coach Mills Planning Busy Season
for Boys on the Diamond. '
TRACK MEN ARE IN DEMAND
I'eir Stars Are Left Over from Lnat
Season nnd Many Jlfw Mrn Are
Wanted to Fill Vnrlons
Vacant Places.
Prospects for a successful baso ball
season at tho high school are very good,
considering that this is tho second year
base ball has been played In the high
school. Of those who were on last year's
team, three have graduated, leaving six
good players, who will form the nucleus
for the team.
A call for base ball candidates will bo
Issued by the athletic department Imme
diately after tho end of tho basket ball
season together with a call for track men.
Thomas K. Mills, who has coached all
athletics nt the high school for the last
year, will also coach the hose ball and
track teams. Mills Is especially good In
tho baso ball line and will put much time
and Interest In that branch of athletics
No captain was chosen at tho end of
last season, since It was doubtful whether
base ball would continue. But at the first
meeting of the team a captain will b
elected and the base ball started In earn
est. No schedule has been thought of as yot,
but as soon as the season starts a sched
ule will be arranged nnd the team will
make trips and play visiting teams.
Good Material un Ilnnd.
Tho material Which will be found at th.
call will embrace some of tho host players
at the high school, among whom are Bov
Platz. James Gardiner, Warren Fitch,
John McFarlarie, Mark Hughes and Ivcsllc
Burkenroad. Th.o pitching department will
bo the hardest to fill, but If It la posslbl;
for commercial students to Join with tha
central high players, good material may
bo found.
Letters will be given, the nine this
year and, the Interest in base ball will be
aroused si milch as possible, so there
will be a financial support for the players
who had very little backing last year and
who had to support base ball themselves
Track Athletics.
The track team has a fair outlook, al
though it Is not as good this venr as It hnx
been in the past. Now that all of the old
stars ore out of school there Is very
little material for a track team that will
bo as successful as last year's.
For the sprints, there is John Drexcl
and lialleck Rouso. who were on last
years relay team. Drexel la camaln of
the team and Is one of tho best sprinters
the high school has turned out. The onlv
possible man for the hurdles Is Bngstrom
Who was second best In the hurdles Inst
year. At the weights, there. Is Art
Kouner, who Is a young giant and who
can toss tho lead ball a considerable 61s
tance. The distances are filled at present
by the two Gordon brothers. Burns, o
freshman, Is a promising half-mller, who
has the making of a stronc- rllntnnm
runner In him.
Local and Foreign
Motorists to Meet
at Brighton Beach
NEW. YOrtK, Feb. 8.-Motor racing of
Paris, London and Berlin will probably
be seen In action against the American
stars at the Stadium-Motordrome at
"Brighton Beach next summer. Dam Mc
Ketrlck, the local boxing promoter, who
Is at present In Europe with Willie
Lewis, has been commissioned, together
with Victor Breyer, the Parisian pro
moter of sporting events, tq negotiate for
the Brighton management, with the big
men on the continent, with a view to
bringing them here thin season.
McKetrlck won given carte blanche to
deal with the stars that are drawing tho
big money at Berlin and ParlB, and also
tp try and land Ilobert Collier of London,
the winner of the Brooklands classic.
With Breyer to assist McKetrlck in choos
ing the talent the Brighton Beach man
agement Is sure to get the pick of
European stars, as Breyer conducts the
largest motorcycle and bicycle track In
Europe at Pare des Princes, Just outside
of Paris.
Motor races are one of the best sports
of the big cities In Europe, and many of
the men there will be able to hold their
own with the stars of the local field.
PA ROURKE IS ANGLING
. FOR A NEW LEFT FIELDER
Pa Rourke Is angling for a certain
young man In left field, who, If he gets
him, with Thomason and Coyle, will give
Omaha the fastest trio of outer garden
ers this league has beheld working side
by side for many a long season. Several
lines are out for this boy. so we decline
now to disclose his name, for fear the
bite which Pa has might be spoiled. No,
It Is not Oongalton, though Oonny may
come and If he does, will bring strength
with him. But our other boy Is younger
and faster.
THE OMAHA
FACILITATE GOLF ENTRIES
Series of Courses to Be Established
to Simmer Down Aspirants.
TO FIRST ESTABLISH CALIBER
Only lln,yer Who Have I'roven
Their Ability on Championship
Con rum AVI 11 He Selected
for National Tourney.
NEW YOniv, Feb. 8. When Charles B.
Macdonald, at tho recent meeting of the
United Stntes Golf association, declared
that tho time had come for the selection
of a number of courses to form a cycle
for the various championship tourna
ments of the association, ho may havo
sounded a keynote for a long step for
ward In the royal and ancient game.
That he struck a popular chord as well
was also evident from the prompt re
sponses from several golfers, notably
Fred Herreshoff.
A few years back the selection of half
a dozen courses for each of the thrco
national championships, a total of some
thing like fifteen or eighteen courses,
would havo been lmprnctlcal for the
reason that there was no system of de
termining Just what was a championship
links or of comparing one course with
another. In other words, the system of
handicapping players from all parts of
the United Stutes, based on the par of
the respective courses over which the
players compete, has made a champion
ship cycle possible.
List Counted In Cycles.
Tho expression of opinion at he United
States Golf association meeting was "that
actlvo members of tho association ought
to hold their links open ut all times for
tho national championship tournaments,
and if tho courses are considered a suf
ficient test to have them listed In ono or
another cycle. It was evident that tho
average golfer docs not relish having a
championship held over a courso that
does not measure up to the best In
every way, nor does he enthuse over n
situation whero the formal applications
received aro so few ns to make It dif
ficult to find places to hold the cham
pionship tournaments. Garden City made
no formal application for the amateur,
yet It was n popular choice when It was
learned that tho meeting could be held
there.
According to tho plan, several courses
considered of a championship caliber aro
to bo selected each year as eligible for
the amateur meeting. The names of
these clubs aro submitted to the annual
meeting nnd a choice made. There Is to
be no more formal annllcatlon whnn this
plan Is adopted. The Idea Is applicable to
me women s and the open events, dif
ferent courses being selected for each,
attention being given the
which the course Ih to be put rather than
avoiding a repetition of clubs In the lists.
Would Lensen Illfflenltr.
Through the services and knnwlrolcr nt
golf of the various subsidiary associa
tions to the United .States Onir
elation, the Immediate establishment of
sucn a rota could be made without
much dlffculty. although
probably wll not be taken until the matter
nas ueen thoroughly gone over by the
local bodies and the eenral i.rnni...
tlon This means, naturally, that Individ-
uai piayers will learn what Is to be ex
pected or them when they send In their
entries for the national amateur and
how their homo courses compare with
links of a championship caliber by tho
Iinnllrnf Inn nt ,iHirn 1 . .
- i in ,mu recognizee
system. It Indicates that tho golf course
win oc put to a test, and that It will bn
no longer possible for players with i iSr
amount of local-pride to go around boast.
ing about their home stamping grounds.
Of course, there are a irrent manv riuh.
who do not desire links of a champion-
oiup cauoer. or even links where tho
auallty of golf called for Is of the first
class. These clubs are quite content with
a moderate test of the game, frequently
with a short, easy courss for the physical
welfare of the members.
Two Tet Methods.
There are two methods by which th
United States Golf
committee Is arriving at the test of golf
courses ana the Btsjidard of play through
out the country. One Is the collection of
data of all courses by a par measurement
system, and the other Is by the eatab
llshment of a national handicap list of
Players, considered sufficiently good to
enter the national amateur champion
ship toirnamcnt.
The committee has requested every club
throughout the country to send In facts
about Its course and players which would
be a gauge to the committee In rating
players, The measurements by which
courses are estimated ought by this time
to be fixed In the minds pf club officials,
for once the par of a course Is fixed ,thf
Players using that link are handicapped
on the average of their best cores in
comparison with the par of the course.
Holes up to :25 yards In length call for a
par of 3; from tX to U5 yards, i; from
3S to 60) yards, 6, and more than 00, fi
Johnstone GeU More Poy.
t'mplre Jimmy Johnstone says he gets
more pay from President Barrow than he
did from Tom Lynch Is the National
league and he Is highly pleased over land.
I n W t It n Inl.rnallnn.l I . .. . w i t 1 1
..... ... icnua injtiiu
only regret Is parting company with Mai
I- ii inn
'lUNDAY BEE: FEBIUTAliY 9, 101.1.
Turkish Waldo
1 !
Wolgast After Dundee
Ad Wolgast, cx-champlon lightweight
boxer, who Intends making an effort to
regain his lost laurels. The Michigan
Wlldrat Is on his way to New York and
will try to secure a match with Johnny
HIGH SGH00LTEAM WINNING
Long List of Victories Being Added
To with Nearly Every Game.
RESULT OF FAITHFUL PRACTICE
Ileccrrd Achieved by the Uillutel
Come After Indefatigable Prac
tice of Different Plays Un
der Coach Miller.
By defeating the much touted South
Omaha basket ball five Friday night tha
Omaha High school basket ball quintet
added their thirteenth straight victory to
their growing string of scalps, and mado
a record which haa not been made by
any other high school basket ball team
for years. This long Hat of victories Is
one Indication as to what tho Omaha
team can do when It gets busy.
To make this most enviable record pos
sible the players have worked hard and
faithfully every night under the coaching
of Coach Mills, who haa developed a team
which Is now thoroughly capable. In both
team work and in Individual starring It
has become a team that Is hard to beat
In any game It goes into.
One feature of the game which Is being
touched upon by Coach Mills Is the per
fectlng of the long and short pass,, and
which has added1 considerably to the
value of the teams playing. Also tho art
of dribbling Is practiced by the entire
squad, and the majority of the first team
players have developed that phase of the
game to a nicety. This Is one of the
most difficult parts in the Individual ef
forts of a player and has been one of the
hardest things for the team to develop,
but It has now nearly mastered the play.
Mny Win State Laurels.
The team now has the best possible
chances for the state laurels. They have
cleaned up everything that has conio
thalr way, even taking In such teams as
Lincoln, York, South Omaha and Sioux
City. These quintets are about the strong
est in Iowa and Nebraska, and having
defeated them shows that the high school
certainly haa a team that Is not only
fast, but which can hold Its own with
the best of them,
The class basket ball Is also thrlvlmt
under the coaching of severml of the high
.school faculty, and at' present a class
tournament Js being held in which all
Drawn
I
Dundee for a ten-round fight In the big
town. Wolgast believes ho la capablo of
wresting the lightweight crown from his
conqueror, Willie ltltchlo,
four teams will play a scries of games
with each other. At tho end of tho tour
nament the cluss having tho highest per
centage will bo uwarded the high school
claim championship.
Tho seniors undor tho couching of Ilaw-
son White and Prof. AVnolery uro making-
the best showing for tha championship,
having so far defeated tho Juniors with
case, and besides that putting up better
scrimmages with nil the cither cIiishuh.
The Juniors, sophomores und freshmon
nre all under tho coaching of u class
captain, who Is assisted by a member Jf
thq faculty. Tho Juniors have elected .is
their captain Halleck Rouso, tho sopho
mqres Paul Flothow and the freshmen
Krnrst Adams.
Only two camn havo been played In
.the clrfsa tournament, with tho following
res' ul ta:
Team. P.
Seniors 1
Sophomores 1
JuplnrH '. '. 1
Frorthmen I
W.
1
. 1
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.wo
The scores were: Seniors, 11; Juniors,
1. Sophomorest K; Freahmen, 7.
Giants to Conduct
Pennant Campaign
With Spee J Program
NBW YORK. Feb. 8.-Spoed Is again
to bo tho watchword of the Giants' cam
paign for the baseball championship,
MtQruw, who has to map out tho line of
battle for the cppilng season, told some
of his associate. In tho management of
the club that he Intends to put the fast'
est men In the Une-.up that ho can pos
tribly obtain. McOra,w thinks that speed
has been one of the -chief factors In the
past successes of the (Hants, and, while
he doos not contemplate any i radical
shaking up of the team, he Is determined
to give preference to the players who dis
play the greatest fleetness, provided, of
course, that they are satisfactory In other
departments of the game
McOruw figures that one of the most
valuable assets a championship aspiring
baio ball team can possess is fast base
runners. Records show that the clubs
-that have won pennants In tho past or
which have been In' the thick of the fight
all the way consisted largely of players
who had the speed necessary for baso
stealing purposes. This clement of baan
ball is ono of MCQ raw's chief bobbles.
for The Bee by
ill
WHIST ATTENDANCE BRIGHT
Tournament of Whistcrs to Bring a
Number of Visitors.
TEAMS FROM SEVEN STATES
Twenty LoenlKle Will lie llepre
ncuted at Meetlnir by Tea inn uiul
Ktlrn Pnlr. Who Will
Content for Honors.
With Omaha selected as tho permanent
mcotlng place uf tho Central Wlilst asso
ciation, unusual Interest centers In tho
nineteenth unnual tournament to bn hold
here February 13-15, when It Is expected
that from IM to 175 of tho whistcrs nf
Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, South
Dakota, Oklahoma and Colorado will bo
In attendance.
Secretary MoNutt of the association
was hern several days last week and
before leaving for his home In Kdnn'is
City completed all the details for the
play and arranged for everything neces
sary to maka tho meet a pronounced suc
cess. All of tho games will bo played In
tho banquet hall of tho Hotel Home, thla
having been set nslda for the spccla uso
of the whlstors. Consequently, this hotel
will bo tho headquarters during the thrco
da'N of playing.
IK'iore going home. Secretary McNutt
announced that ho had heard from tho
following named clubs and that they all
would send trains und eomo of them
two teams, besides a number of pairs:
Atlantic 'Whist club, Atlantic, la-; Coun
cil Bluffs Whist club; DaRota Whist
club, Blotix Falls, 8. D.; Klk Point Wlilst
club, Klk Tolnt, fi. .; Klks "Whist club,
Bloux City, Iu.; Fort Dodgo "Vhlst club.
Fort Dodge, Ju.; Orap4 Island Whist
club, (Irand Island, Neb.'; Harlan Whist
club, Harlan, la.; Hawkeya Whist club
Sioux City, la.; Kansas City Athletlo
c(iib, Kansas City; Louisville' Whist
club, Louisville, Kan. i Omaha Whist club;
Prulrln Park Whist club, Omaha; Perry
Whist club. Perry, Io.; fled Oak Whist
club, Ited Oak, la,; St. Joseph Athletlo
club, St. Joseph Whist club, Bt'. Joseph,
AIo.; St. Mary's Whist club, St. Marys,
Kan.; Topeka Whist club, Topeka, ltyin ;
Denver Chess, Checker and Whist cluU '
Denver; Wakefield Whist club, Wake
field, Nub.; York Commercial Whist club
York, Nob.
All during tho tournament regular whist
will be played and there will be no
deviation from tho rules laid down by
the national association. No playing of
brldgo whist will bo permitted. While
Thursday, February 13, Is down for a
kind of a warming tip playing some of
tho beBt games of tha tournament nre
likely to be soon. On this dato the play
commences at 8 o clock In the evening
with pair plays. All games will bo fin
ished before; playing stops. To make tho
plays of special Interest, the contests
will bo for buttons, regarded ns trophies
to Indicate that tho wearers are whlsters
of more than ordinary ability. Tho roRti
lar tournament progrum starts Friday
afternoon, February 11, and Is as follows:
F1UDAY.
1:30 p, m. Uuslness meeting.
2 p. m. First play for nichnrds' chal
lenge trophy for teams of four: one
team from each club eligible.
Z p. m. First play for the pair contest
for tho Bt. Joseph trophy, In which uny
number of pairs from nny club may
enter.
8 n. m. Second play for the Richards'
challungo trophy.
8 p. m. Second play for the St. Joseph
trophy.
SATURDAY.
11 a. m. 'Uuslness meeting.
2 p, m. Third und final play for the
"One of the greatest me
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a world-famed maker of a
high priced car so refers to
Henry Ford whose g r e a ,t
accomplishment is the Ford
car. You'll want the me
chanically perfect Ford this
season and to avoid dis
appointment you should get
it now.
"Everybody la driving a Ford" more than
200,000 in service- New prices runubout
?526 touring car $600 town car $800
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Richards' challengo trophy.
3 P. in. Third and final play for tho St
Joseph trophy. . ,
H p. m.-Freo-for-nll pair contest for
Schnu'lier trophy, under tho Mitchell
progressive systum. Pairs may bo ar
ranged without regard to club mombor
nhlp, after which will bo the presenta
tion of trophies and buttons.
In sending out Invitations and urging a
large attendance at tho Omaha moot.
Berrelary McNutt says:
"While wo oxpect this will lo the larg
est attunded meeting wo havo had for
miino vnnrs. vet wo need your Interest
and help In getting now members, nnd
you will furthor the pleosuro of all if
you will bring the fellows wnoso ox is
In the ditch.' and who thinks ho cannot
como 'this time.' Drag him qut of his
shell, and ho will find, as wo all do, that
another 'green spot has been added to
his life by the fraternity spirit that tho
meeting with such splendid fellows be
gets. "I would like to ask him. and also put
the question to you: What Is finer than
meeting once a year as wo go down tho
highway of life, clinging In memory to
the good times wn havo had, and with
the roster of tho Central Whist associa
tion to hand, wo would say: 'Hero Is a
list of somo of my frlends-tho best peo
ple on the earth.'
"Make up your teams of fours, nnd
your pairs, and como; and If anyone
lacks a partner wo will find him one."
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