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llTE OMAHA 3U&D 3 S 5J Bringing Up Father Copyright. la International New Service. Drawn for The Bee by George McManus VHAT?fOOVANT To LEAVE PARit,? VHv BEC INNING TO UKR 1 wont VAMT LEAVE : 1 URE DO- THlNqt, A2 VEl V I AHJ AH AMERICAN ceuEve-CHEER r." on OH! I ouvr cahb out of the hotel TCR,fione air- , JM SKlKOPPAta? 1 J iO UCHC0ei Jtorvh J 'MJrK INEVE.RVE2 H HERaotFOfgj I LtAVRITTo ME OLD PAU ""teU HAVEH'T -atCM PARI-, J ' TICKETS- bsTsbTsbbbbA. bsbTsbb I bbbsbT l I ONC OP THE FAHCY CVAUA NOV IVLTAteu tOO TO AHoTHEtJl Ji i6M HI Judgments RUMOR says A Knew, Baumgard ner ami Lcvcrehz of the SL l-ouls Browns will follow George Stovall to the Kansas City Fed eral league team; that all but Lcverens have already signed contracts to play there with their former .Brown leader. Agnew admits his part 'of : It. Stovall, iib readers of The Bee. know, spent some days In Omaha for the purpose. It Is be lieved, of getting Gus Williams', name to a contract, andr as Wlllum and Agnew are close friends, both having played on tho Omaha team before Joining St. Louis, It would not be strange If Sam were In fluenced by Gus. U this Is all true. It means that Stovall, let out of the majors, Is going to worry them all he con and I beginning to reap a little grm 'satisfac tion along that line. But aside from that It shows tho strides the new outlaw league Is making. II It should succeed In landing Joo Tinker as manager of Its Chicago team, t would plume- Itself again very gloriously. For our part, we stick to the belief that such a churning up as the success, even temporarily, of the Federal leaguei would give, would bo a mighty good thing for the two majors, especially the National. The old parent league, though, has alceody betrayed a recognition of tho handwriting on the 'wall, hunco the employment of Governor Teher ai president. But as someone nan suggested, the acquisition of a little moro playing strength Is -also needed In the National to overcome the prowess of American' league competition. The triumph of tho tatter's teams over their Nntlqnal competitors cannot go on In definitely without, entailing Injurious result, of a. .serious. -character. Yet, of coume, the. Federal league's aggrandize ment is not calculated -to help at this point to help tho National.. Events may yet result, in ho overthrow, of the .out law enterprise, but the) fact .that It has Wn'thpred. tho atOrm of twor seasons en- titles It to moro substantial considera tion than It receives from, the biased exponents Of tho other 'two organiza tions. They predicted its collapse In the middle of the first season, then ihe second aftd it has not collapsed yet. ,We wish to lay tho unnlon Of praise to tho placid soul of "William Aloysius Itourko for his re-cngagement of Mister Jawn Gohdlng, who caUght tho first forty seasons of Omaha's membership In the Western league It was our hunch that Bill needed John badly last season to(tan and euro some of those raw hides hoootchod in from the farm and we still think the results would have been dif ferent had hd dono so. Now, anybody who' wots of Oondlng's skill and genius asla' developer of pitchers will admit his 1 need to the Omaha team. Look at the youngsters he has helped to season And seid on their way to fame Miner Brown, Frank Owen, Jack Pfeister, Pat Hasan, Charley Brown; McCloskey, Llebhardt, Dusty Rhodes. Hall and a whole lot more whoso name we can't ge(4n this sheet jof paper. .Training catchers and coathlnr, even If he does noth(ng more, -will rnako dondlng worth a big sum to us: Jf he had been 'sta tioned on the third base line last season wo;, would have won many, a game wo lost on bone-headed, coaching. jmmy McAleer'a displacements pres ident of tho Boston" Americans puts an other available manager on the, market "'"Will ,ho draw a efcntence to Cincinnati? Mc&leer's. downfall Is' directly due to the humiliation of Manager Stnlil last cea soq, - which aroused Ban Johnson and otaers, Including part owners of tho team. Mc'Aleer, before leaving on tho world's tour, consented to tho, resale of his' stock to the Taylors, whlcli carried with It the loss of his $10,00) salary as president. Somehow a fan who likes fair play will hardly bo disposed to grieve over the result., McAleer, un doubtedly, did Staht a bad Job end has got about what moat folks think he had coming It may be now that the for mer's world champion will get bacK to something like their old form in 1914. with the Taylors again In control. The Sporting News, loyal always to the powers that be, says Cincinnati stock holder have a perfect right to fire a manager and run their team a they wish. Sure, they have. If Herrmann and his associates desire, no one can stop thern from killing the game Jn their town. cither. If they wan to butt In on a manager who knows his business, they can- go on for another decade finishing in '.the cellar most of tho time. Tinker dldLwhat any real man would have done, threw up the Job when he found that he was not to be permitted to oxerclso the simple function of manager. That la what every other manager who Is worth while will do and until Cincinnati oh ansres It policy It will not change Its standing in pie Hit of clubs very materially. President Rourke. we are told, has lifted five new men for his 1311 roster, whoso names will listen good to the pop ulaee hereabout. Let u hops so. Wo are 'prepared to hear the vary best new that Pa can brim; us and the btat man he can land will be none too good, a fact -which, be it knowjj. your Pa ap preciate "as keenly, wa trow, a anybody. "BIG STEYE'VNOW PASSED UP Protege of McQraw is Crossed Off Possible List, y LUCK IS KIND OF AGAINST HIM Cilnnt STredr Oct Into the "Wrong; rinop nt fhc "Wrong Time nail " "Will iiaTe to Go Back to Minor I.ens;nes, Yankton College Champions of Dakota NBW YORK, Dec .-"Blg Stove'' Jacobsen, tho giant Swede, who threat ened for two years to break Into the National league undor tho tutelage of John J. -McQraw, has finally been passed up for good by the Now York club. "Jako" has been captured by Colonel Harry McCormick of pinch hit ting fame, and will play tho outfield for the Chattanooga team next season. Having twice claimed Jacobsen under optional agreement with tho Mobile club. Now York can exercise no further restraint over him. "Jake' goea away this time with no big league strings at tached to his future. If he Is admttted to tho big tent again It will be through his minor league record. Those who know tho big athlete are hoping that some of tho good fortune of basa ball may bo his, but It Is very doubtful whether Jacobsen will over bo a hoad Ilncr In his profession. Tho career of this huge Scandinavian aptly Illustrates the part that luck play in maxing a big leaguer. Had "Jako" broken In with a club that needed out fleldera 1)0 rrilght have grasped his op portunity and made good. But It wa hi misfortune to moko two trial to crash Into tho New York outfield nt ttmo when experienced talent wa plentl- JUL FOOT BATTj TEAM OF YANKTON COLLEGE WHICH 1IA8 NOTABLM RJSCOHD. Promfftlncr YonnsjMter. Jacobsen waa a "promising youngster" in 1912, He stood six feet five Inches In hi baso ball shoe and could wallop tho ball. And ho was fast for a man of hi proportion. However, h,e did not know much about base running and there were outfielders who could excel" him at going, back after long flies. With Murray, Snodgrass, Burns, De vorc, Becker and McCormick ahead of him In managerial estimation, Jacobsen could not havo broken ipto McQraw' outfield that year wth a stick of dyna mite. Ho wo sent to Mobile for further development. The big Swede was a sensation In the Southern league. Until nearly the end of the season he. led In batting, and acme of .his home run established records for distance. In the opening game of the season at Mobile ho drove a ball over tho center field fence something that had never been dono before, and hasn't been done since. His batting helped his club to finish a good second. Back to tho Giant came "Jako" in tho fall, McGraw having exercised his option. Once moro he visited Marlln with hopes Of being among tho chosen when the championship season started. HI pros pects were brighter than on his previous trip, becauso Bepk? had moved on and iJevoro was beginning to fade. Two accidents hero Intervened to put "Jako" on the shelf for good, a far a tho Qlants are concerned. One wa a sprained ankle and the other, a youth yarned Claude Cooper. Jabobsen acquired the sprain by slipping on a muddy field as he chased a fly. This crippled him before he had been In camp ten days, and by the time ho had passed the crutch and cane tag the training day were over. What Jacobsen might have accom plished If he had been able t9 participate In the dally practice is a speculative matter. He thinks he would have com pelled McGraw to keep him a an extra outfielder and pinch hitter. 1 Bccent athletic "victories at Yankton giro especial emphasis to the spirit of thanksgiving and rejoicing nt tho col lege. Since the 26m victory by Coach Kerr's men over tho State College team from Brookings In a fast game played qn tho Yankton gridiron a week ago, other victories of the "Yellow and Whlto" dur ing tho year havo been recalled. Tho state championship In basket ball, in baso ball, In track ovent and in tennis, Including practically all Intercollegiate sports, is hold by"?ankt6n In tho record of tho last year; and to these aro added tho Dakota championship In foot ball, for Brookings defeated tho champion team of North Dakota. These victories were the occasion of a banquet given tho Yankton team Monday night of last week by tho Yankton Com mercial club. This notable gathering of 100 men, presided over by Mr. W. C, Lusk of tho Press and Dakotan, who, together with if few other things, planned the event in honor of the team and the vic tories they had won. Mayor Whlto and other representatives -of the city, Presi dent Olof Nelson and other member of tho club, Coach ICerr and other on be half of the college, Dr. F. V. Steven and others from the town, responded to toasts, and all the speeches were of a high Drder. A telegram of appreciation and congratulation from Vice President Warren was read. Perhaps the most tell ing speech of the evening waa made by Mr. Edward F. Trefx, traveling secretary of tho Chamber of Commerce, V. S. A. This speaker drow on hi own experience a a Princeton foot ball man and em phasized the fact that the very qualities necessary to win the game were present In the building of great cities and In the many thing that great leader ac complish everywhere In the world today. The banquet Wa In every way a success and the college men have fhe utmost ap preciation p tho splendid entertainment given them hnd the honor conferred. Hecent year have wttnossed great Im provement In the spirit of college, sports manship and athletic attainment. Yank ton has shared that progressive spirit Coach Kerr has ably seconded" tho effort made by Coach Bush i during the two years previous to bring up the standard In sport of every kind. -Fair play and clean ball! tho generous treatment of victors has been tho Increasing aim, and tho men have learned to become good losers If need be, and a growing publlo opinion In favor of thes things ha been a great help, and a fine spirit of sport- marfehlp ha doveloped, equally manifest In tho presence of victory or In tho face of defeat. The head tnd heart qualities necessary In a good coach are bound to tell In time on the men of the team. And so it come about that tho victories of the score board Indlcats moral victories a well. Such a spirit as this greatly Increase tha loyalty of student and graduate for, tha homo college and greatly augmorita the possibilities of further vic tories In tho same and In other line. Big League Managers for 1914 2TATIOHAX.. ASDBXXOAX. Hw York , .John ltearaw Hew York, rrank Cnamoa Brooklyn..,., WUbert XoWasoa Boston BUI Oarrtgan Bpatoii... Oeorga B. StaUUx Washington Clark Orlfflth ThUaaelpMa, t.OhatlU Booln OPbilaaslpaU Coasts Mack nttsbnrgh TMl Clark CUvsland Jos Birmingham Cincinnati . , Joo Tinker Detroit , Xughty Joaalmrs St. Xrfmls ....milsr Hmjrgtns Bt, lonls Branch Rickey O100 Johnny livers Ciloago Jimmy CaUaliaa Several Managers Want Joe Tinker Who will get Joe Tinker? The que tlon remains an Interesting one. Fred Clarke says he will answer Jt this week ! if ho has his way with the fates. The Pittsburgh manager wants htm. "What about Wagner?" he was asked. And re plied. "We haven't got Tinker yet" Of course, llonus, as all men and things material, will In time pass his zenith, If he hasn't already and pass his stage of value to a leading team. In view of which Tinker Is a handy man to huvn around. Handy anyway. How about Wagner at first and Joe at short. If tho old fellow I slowing up? Or Joe at third? And Tinker say he would enjoy a berth on the Pirate ship. Why not? Tinker, Murphy told us last season, wa going back, but he is not yet lost In tho distance. The vista of apace I not such as to conceal or obscure him from a keen, penetrating vision. He wa able to bat at about .316 last season, run the gamut of a Cincinnati manager Job and do . fine work at short Any man who can do that la still visible to tho naked eye. Of course, Charles Webb Murphy' Idea of going back leaving thp Cubs. New Marion Models Seat' Three Persons Tho new roadster model, which show strongly tho present day tendency of automnblte Inanufacturers to make car as "roomy and comfortable as possible, are announced as the latest addition to the Marion line for 1014. While the new car are listed a of two-passenger capacity, It 1 noticeable that the scat and cushion are not divided Into two sections as has heretofore been the general practice In roadster, thuu with the -wide bpdy, facilitating the car riage of three passengers side by side. The body Is also extremely long from cushion to dash, affording an exceptional amount of leg room. FRIENDS THINK CHICAGO HAS NOTHING ON POWELL Cos Half a Thousand. Sylvester Fiannagan, who led the Three-I leacue in battinr last season, haa tren sold to the Atlanta club of ino tobtbern league for $000. While In Chicago recently J T Stewart. Id, and 8 Burn, Jr., had the rather un usual pleasure Of seeing the organization known a tho Flfty-yjven club. The re quirements for membership aro fifty-seven year' single blessedness and an entirely batd head. Messrs Burns and fitowart saw. the club, tho full membership of fifty-seven, at the LaSalle theater. It oc cupied the first three row and Uie chorus girls could scarcely refrain from screaming with detlght when the curtain went up. It was a grand spectacle and ono not soon to be forgotten. Such a collection of Ivory dome can be seen only wjjen tho Fifty-seven club meets. Burns and Ktewart looked the assortment oor v;ry carefully and were unanimous In their opinion that not a single member of the Fifty-seven club had anything on Omaha's favorite, Clnrko Powell. AtnlllllK After ll-r"K. il now -iooks an n ine noni wnero (,e Boston Braves will land Tin bo Marnuard of the O'ant for loft Tylor will ki through. ftalllnK Buys he will not let McGraw have Tyler unless he Manure lilm Charly Ilencog goes to the Bravyj a a third satker, Charley Is willing tn bo traded. Motor Companies Having Difficulty With Oar Shortage "Our old friend. General Car Rhoriaca. Is with us again and we are finding our work cut out for us'ln providing suffi cient transportation for our output of 200 cars por day," said John N. Willy, presi dent of tho Willys-Overland company of Toledo, O., In a recent Interview. "Though wo havo been very busy getting a sufficient supply of cars for ouf busi ness, we havo never yet delayW a ship ment from the Overland factory, and railroad officials havo promised to take core of us through these busiest months of our manufacturing year. "Transportation facilities are a mighty Important Item to us, for Just now we are producing 100 Overland a day and havo no I lace around tho plant for stor ing the cars In case the railroads should fall down on us. However, we are keep ing our storage tracks at the factory fairly full of freight cars and can soe no Immediate danger of' being left In the lurch." Biggest Automobile in the World JtL ijBssdssBBsH 2bbbbbbbbbbbcW MBB?sVyyf wasi i 1 v-bbssbbbbbbUbbbbsbbbbbbbsV.9bbbssCau J. t OAR TUB MAXWBLL AfTOMOBILE COMPANY DOIULE-PAOE AD TODAY IB FEATl'niNG IN A Hupmobile Maintains Mechanical Expert "As a part of the Ifupmobllo service," said C. D. Hastings, general manager of tho Hupp Motor Car company, "wa maln tain a corps of mechanical experts who aro continually on the road visiting deal, ers to keep in touch with Hupmobile owners and Initiating our dealers Into tho Improvements and refinements that are going Into the car from time to time. "These men are also supposed t be on call for emergencies with which the deal- era' service 1 unable to cope. "Up to this time we have delivered all told 33,000 car, and have hardly enough calls from owner to keep this force busy." SOCCER ATTRACTING MANY Qame is Finding Its Way Into theJ Hearts of Lots of Fans. ORGANIZATION 18 LIKELY- ISffort Wilt rtr Mnilo to firing All of the Vnrlon Independent Ilodlps Under Oiii Con trnlllnK llenl. figure than any Kissel car has heretofore boen sold and also a new "six," which will lt for considerably less than 12,000. Detail of theso mode) aro. not ready. but officers of tho company declare that nq sacrifice or Jtunel quality will bo ma do to meet the reduced prjeta. Firestone Company . Enlarges Building The Firestone Tire and BubW company of Akron, O., ha Just, had two nddN tlonal wing built to the factory, which wH Increase the dally - output of tho factory about W pr cent. Like the tut of tho building, the two wing are of "steel and concrete and aro absolutely, fireproof. The entire plant of tho FlrestoKf !lire and Rubber com pany moved Into Its present quarters two year ago and an addition was necessary before tho factory was a year old. Ho foro that wo finished the wings now under course of construction were begun and the offices of tho rompnny now take up tho entire top floor More space I now needed and when the additions are completed the entire floor will be given over to the offices. v Hacraiurutn on Market, The b'acrnmento club I for sale, ac cording to a statement given out by Jack AtWIn thA nwimr It will Iia nil fnr mjitn at the conclusion of the season and goes to the hlKlvest Dinner AtKin is anxious to go to Knrope end before he leave he wants to dispose of his ball holding. Jo tin urn Slay KtawtU-r lUcord. Tiaan ball Dlayera and managers believe that Walter Johnson will vet a record that the Washington etar will pan the j a raft ... 1,600 mark when the 1914 campaign closes. J Miller .., NHW York, Dec. 6,-An Increasing In terest In soccer foot boll and a movement, now on foot to tolldlfy the various Inde pendent orgnpltatlonn and bring them under ono controlling body, promise to shortly give this sport a boom nnd develop It to n standard It desorves. Tho t'. 8. A. Foot Ball association, headed by Dr aus It. Manning, Is now endeavoring to establish co-operation among tho soccc clubs that aro now going It alone. It lias boon a rather, strange condition that thla country, oxcolllng m almost every other branch of sport, as demon strated at tho last Olympic game, has never been much Interested In soccer This lack of Iptorest Is duo chiefly to. tho fact that no co-operative organisa tion hn ever been effected In the port and It ha never been developed to a point where the publlo could bo moMo to toko a cone ml Interest In It. As a gam, t I acktiowleged to be on a par with omo' of the best of American port. ' Tho necessity for forming a supreme governing orgnnUatlon for soccer has been felt more and more important In. tho J oat row years. It Is due largely to the energy of Dr. Manning that It has attained Its present footing. Dr. Man ning says: "Born not In a moment of temporary ntJiiilAm; but hn "a - logical product and sequence of thoughts and efforts which had been ahaplng them selves gradually Into facta, tho U. S, A. Foot Bull association hn assumed Its place among tho different other brgonlca tlona In this country, which take upon themselves In their aphero of action thn burden of controlling tho various sports and games tn a national and International sense,!' it "It I to those cluss and minor leagues which aro painfully groping and strug gling through the lack of co-operation that thla organisation I holding out a helping hand. Let all soccer bodies har monise, lnk all petty Jealousle and the. vim and persistency which have always characterised all other branches of Amer ican spert will show themselves In soccer," KISSEL KAR COMPANY PLANS TWO ENTIRELY NEW MODELS Coincident with tho annual Inventory and plant renovations of tho Kissel Mo tor Car company, during whloh both the Hartford and Milwaukee plant are closed for from two to three weeks, In terestlng new manufacturing plans are disclosed. The announcement states that early In January two entirely new Kissel car model will be offered. These will con sist of a four-cylinder car at a lower Drives His Franklin Through Heavy Snow Making; a demonstration through five ftet of snow was the recent stunt of IS. B. Nelson of Iihpomlng, Mich., the dis tributer of Franklin motor cars. Mr. Nclaon received hi nix-thirty demonstrator at, tho time the big snqw, storm sWcp, over parts of the northern sta.teslaf( .week. Jlo.wa unabashed, bjr tho snowstorm and demonstrated his car1 through five feet of snow, plowing Jt u without any trouble everywhere. lo made one run up a heavy grade on Etrawberry hill without a stop, The sight of Mr. Nelson making this demonstration was so unusual, even In this Lake Ruperlor country, that amateur photographer by the score took picture of hi car. CRETE BEATS SEWARD BY A DECISIVE SCORE cntJTR, Neh.. Dec. J.-(Hpeclat Tele gram.) The' Crete: high school basket, ball texun won fc decisive victory "from the Reward high. V to 7. Wray played the best game for Bcnard, Crete had" great team work and . was able to scoto when near the goal, Wallace Andrews scoring K points for Crete. Robert MIckt showed hls.uui form at guard and. C. Fundell la) played a game, scoring seven points, as well a covering much foor space. The' -lineup: Howard. Position. 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