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Judgments
FRANK CHANCE coincide with the
opinion expressed bjr Connie Mack
that the Athletic may fey their
defeat by Boston more to their
own carelessness , than anything
else, although Chanoe does not minimise
Boston's victory or right to It. But un
doubtedly eocksureness, the Indifference
that cotnes of too many trj'imph. flo
ured vitally in the downfall of the treat
Philadelphia machine, exactly as It did
with the once mighty Cubs. Vh Ath
letics had beaten both Cubs and Giants In
world contests, had come peltmeU through
another season in the Amei lean league,
winning by very little effort; naturally
they felt It a bit of presumption for the
Boston outfit, only a little while ago,.,.,, ,n(1 th , - ... - .,
starea at as an oaany in mm dim hu
world, to essay to beat them. In the
meantime, with the Athletics careless,
Boston Was screwed up to the very high
est notdh of efficiency, taking advantage
of everything. , And, besides. - Boston had
ban merit, else it nevr would have won
the old league flag. It had the vigor and
speed and daring of youth, coupled with
the wit and .experience and judgment of
two of the aagest, craftiest old heads in
the buslneua, those of Stalling and Evert.
What is strange, after all. In Ks winning?
It was ft foregone conclusion that Roger
Bresnahan would one day be the manager
of the Chicago Cubs. Frank Chance co
incides with this view. He so expressed
himself to the writer while In Omaha
nroute west. And at that. Roger ought
to make 'em go. He will not be whip
sawed by a woman, anyway, nor worse,
will he have Bister Murphy to harrass
him, as Chanoe had. In spite of which
Chance made the Cubs world-beaters.
Bresnahan Is big, brainy and sttu ft great
catcher and if given ample leeway ought
to bring the Cuba back te -their former
plaoo. No doubt Johnny Ever could
have done the same thing If allowed a
free hand. The ownership, at least the
control, has changed since Elvers left and
maybe Roger will have ft better chance.
The controlling power the presidency Is
also said to be again in process of ft
change. But poor old . Hank CDay, the
sporadic manager of misfits, he must hit
hack, w suppose, to the Indicator onoe
more. In. the line of umpiring. Hank
never had ft superior.
Her you axe funny, funny, funny the
Sox beat the Cubs again! Now, to stop
further inquiry as to how they stand on
all the series they have played, let us
ay the Sox are ahead. In the city scries
of 1903 each team won seven games and
the rubber was never played. In 1906 the
Cubs won four of the five games; In the
world's series of 1M the Sox won four.
Cubs two; In the city series of 1900, Cubs
won four, Sox one; 1911, Sox four. Cubs
0 (a la Boston and Athletics); W3. Box
four, Cub three; 1OTJ, Sox four. Cubs two;
3911. Sox four, Cubs three. Totals: Sox.
29; Cubs, 25. And at that, what does It
prove? Most of this tjme the Cubs have
been admittedly the better team. Much
the same may be said of the Cardinals
and Browns. Thts year the Cardinals fin-
HUSKERS READY FOR AGGIES i
Coach Steiiim it Looking; for a Battle
Royal Saturday.
BIO ATTENDANCE EXPECTED
Alanaat Have Reserved Big Bloc In
f Beats Boath Omaha, Stoek-
to Oe to the Game
with a. Band.
By JAM El E. LAWRENCE,
LINCOLN, Oct. 17. (Special.) Ne
braska's most formidable opponent of the
year, the Michigan Aggies, title claim- J
ants of the Western conference honors
last fall, are to be met Saturday on Ne
braska field. A crowd equally as large
as that attending the Michigan game two
years ago, the Minnesota game last sea
ts
expected to be in Lincoln Saturday, ac
cording to the advance reservations which
Manager Guy E. Reed has received.
The Cornhusker foot ball team Is far
behind the form at this season of the
game than it was last year. That Corn
husker squad is somewhat of a pussle to
Nebraska followers, for it has everything
apparently and yet is not making the
progress it should.
In spite of the pleadings of Coach
BUehm there Is ft decided lack of team
work. The blame has been laid heretofore
at the quarterback situation, Towle's dis
qualification leaving a big hole In the
Cornhusker lineup. Potter's return to the
game has fortified that position some
what, and it is not altogether Impossible
that there is another reason back of the
poor early season showing of the Husk
era. Thoaft-ht Places Cinched.
Stiehra himself admits that the vet
erans were "sweet" on themselves. Ne
braska had oleaned up four Missouri Val
ley championships with ease and capped
the climax With an all victorious season
last- year. "Boms of the' old standbys
evidently -thought they . had their places
cinched without so much as ft struggle.
Stlehm is very likely to spring a few sur
prises. In .this) direction and some of the
more Indifferent members of the squad
are likely to find themselves released to
the second string.
' BUehm - realises that Nebraska has a
herculean task cut out for It Saturday
and unless the , Cornhusker play much
better ball than tbey have In the last
two weeks the Michigan Aggies will pile
up ft terrific score.
The practice all week has been loos
and slipshod until Stlehm has nearly ex
hausted his patience and soms startling
shifts. In the lineup would not be a sur
prise to those who ha'v) been following
the squad. John Westover, Jim Harvey,
Fred Hunter and ft score of others will
be oa hand all week, ironing out the
kinks In the Cornhusker line. ;
Team Werk Latching;
Nebraska Is suffering from an over
dose of Individual play Just now, with
five or six recognised stars on the team,
and Stlehm will have to eliminate this
before the Cornhusker machine works
smoothly.
Reed' advance sale of seats for the
Michigan Aggie gam is exceeding ex
pectations. Twenty-five hundred reserved
lent shape. Reed says, and should be
able to give Nebraska higher honors In
cross-country work than It has secured
In recent years. The preliminaries for
the cross-country team are still two weeks
off, and the squad will continue Its work
without Interruption until the team Is
finally chosen.
The annual Olympics the scrap be
tween the freshmen and sophomore
classes of the 'university will be staged
on the athletlo field next Saturday. The
Innocents, who have charge of the Olym
pics, have made some change In the
progress and will tend to equalise the
greater numbers of the freshmen.
OUT ON LOCAL GRIDIRONS
Many Garnet of Foot Ball Scheduled
to Be Played Today in Omaha.
COLUMBIANS MEET ATHLETICS
Foateaellee and Thirtieth Btrort
Merchants Dowa for m Game
Oat at the Chrla Lyck
. Park.
Ished third In the National league, the. ! ,eaU hav lra be . while big
Browns fifth barely flfth-ln the Amer
ican, yet the Browns beat the Cardinals.
It is good sport, of course, but ft post
season or a pre-eeasoa series never de
termined anything In Itself as to the su
periority of the team.
Comlskey. Is quoted a saying that the
"White Box fans deserve winning team
for their unswerving loyalty to several
losers, and he ill! give It to them. Well,
w believe 'that settles it But Com'skey
ha not been lying down. He paid enor
mous suras for Larry Chappclle and
BUckburne and landed other gilt-edged
prospects only to find, as many another
owner has found, that all la not goM that
glitters. With the ciaff of pitchers he"
had this season anyone would have given
lils team ft first division berth. Yet, If
the Old Roman has set hi head on a
winner, w are betting he will have ou.
And If ever a set of fan deserved It
his do.
What Is In store for the Western league,
yes for Omaha In 1916T And the echo
answers, "what?" We give It up. No
guessing goes with your truly. We sub
stitute all guesues with hopes. Even a
dying man hopes. The first hope is that,
come what may, some how or other, by
mhore magical mysterious maneuvering
of the cards, Omaha will land In faster
company with ft ball team. Neither Is
impossible. - the latter ought to come,
league or whatnot, must come.
Guess we'd better leave it to Denver to
win eur Western league pennants after
this. Denver always -copped the lnter
league erteii with the A. A. champion.
Eloux City even fell before Kansas City,
which finished sixth In the A. A. The
Eloux fens are hollering their heads off
to the effect that the players "laid
down" to Increase gat receipts. Oh, well!
But It doe seem a if the Sioux should
sav taken the aerie.
Omaha naturally feels the Inspiration
' that comes from the hibernating of our
eur hUl-bUly pal. Chick Autrey. W may
have bee a hit tardy In saying so, but
weuna is powerful glad La have you all
with vs. ao w la, Cfcicaea. Backs rou
all don't doubt It. da you?
out-of-town delegation are coming In for
the game.
Reed expect that Omaha will send down
ft delegation of fuUy 300, while the South
Omaha Stock exchange has taken a
block of ISO seats. The South Omaha
booster will bring ft band along with
them. The republican state committee has
arranged to have all of the republican
state candidate attend the game In a
body.
Beatrice will send up a big delegation
of 117, Including the members of the high
school foot ball team; Osceola has re
served ft block of thirty seats; Aurora,
twenty;- York, twenty; Kearney, twenty.
Including the members of the foot ball
team; Hastings, twsnty; Norfolk, fifteen.
and Weeleyan a big delegation.
The Michigan Aggie will not be en
tirely lacking for support from the aid
tines. There are about fifty graduates
of the school now living In the state, and
Reed has reserved ft special section for
them. Dean Burnett of the Agricultural
school la himself ft Michigan man, and
he will undertake to sea that the section
ia well cared for.
Aggies Av Teteima.
Reports which Reed has received Indi
cate that - the Aggie are In excellent
shape for the game. The team, which
was one of the greatest In the country
last season, is practically a veteran or
ganisation, and "has been piling up huge
core aga'nst all early season opponents.
Julian, captain and fullback, waa Walter
Camp' choice for ail-American honors
In the selection last season. There are
many coming Just to see Julian In action.
He Is ft most aggressive line plunger and
la said to be marvel In advancing the
ball.
The Aggie will arrive In Lincoln Fri
day morning and hav ft short workout
Friday afternoon.
ateaaera la than.
Loaca jteea reports insl hi cross
country squad la. making excellent prog
ress. Captain Goetse has entirely recov
ered from the threatened attack of heart
trouble, which earn close to forcing hlra
to withdraw altogether. Ooetse, Spohn.
Ralph Anderson, ft brother of "Louie"
Anderson, Nebraska' representative to
the Olympic games; Releae. Kublk. Krats
and Bicker are mA showing up la excei-
By FRANK Ul'lGLRY
Foot ball In Omaha Is now firmly
planted and the fans are turning out to
see the local talent There are several
good games In Omaha every Sunday, con
sequently the foot ball devotees can pick
the teams they wish to see work.
Two good games are scheduled for
Rourke park this afternoon, the first Be
tween the Columbian Reserves and the
South Omaha Shamrocks and the second
between the Columbians and the Cali
fornia Athjetlc.
At Lyek Park.
At Chris Lyck park this afternoon the
Thirtieth B treat Merchant will play the
Fontenelle. It appears that the Fonte
nelles are the beat bet In this race, but
Manager Sain Slotaky of the Merchant
saya-A. ia going to make hi men deliver
the goods thla afternoon.
To date the Fontenelle have played
three games and have showed up In
mediocre style, while the Merchant have
put- up ft fair article of foot ball. Both
team are approximately evenly matched,
so a tough battle Is looked for. AX Platte
mouth the Athletics will meet the Platts
mouth team. In avoirdupois the Platta
mouth men have the advantage, but the
Omaha congregation intends to offset this
deficiency with speed.
So far the Athletics have shown up
rather strong, winning one game and the
other resulting in a draw.
Two games will be played at Thirty
second street and Dewey avenue, the first
between the Athletlo Reserves and the
Masda Tigers. The second will be be
tween the Clifton Hill Merchants and the
Montclalrs. Both of these team hove
been traveling at a merry clip.
Notes of the Gridiron.
' The Spaldlngs still insist that they
are a class A organisation.
Kinky Walwoith is holding one of the
halt backs and Owen Frank the other for
Wiener.
Under the supervision of Frank Greene
the Athletics should climb rather high
this season.
Harry Cross will act as head linesman
during the Columbian-California Athletics
game today. '
Jack Fitzgerald, the pug and erstwhile
foot balltst. Is snowing up strong with
the Columbiana. 1
At Wlsner last Sunday the Crelghton
Reserves and a few of the first, team
were beaten 40 to 0.
Haasen. formerly a star at Crelghton
university. Is now holding down fullback
for the Monmouth Parks.
Carpenter O'Nell Is working at quarter
for the Monmouth Parks. He will be re-'
membered as a former Crelghton star.
Last Sunday the Monmouth Parks
nearly ruined the Spaldlngs "vhen they
cleaned them up to the tune of 41 to 0.
Things look rather formidable for BI11
lam Lindmler, leader of the Monmouth
Parks, to distinguish himself this year.
Frank Howe, formerly a member of
the hlKh school championship siuad. Is
now associated with the California Ath
lutlc. For year Frank Golden was ft star
with the Omaha High school and now he
la still a star, but he is associated with
the Monmouth Parks.
Woodbine, la., has decided to enter the
foot ball arena. It will have a fast team
and Is ready to book games with Omaha
teams to be played at Woodbine.
The Columbiana have successfully anni
hilated the Fontenelle' aspirations for
the championship and the Monmouth
Parks have eliminated the bpaldlngs.
Now the Clifton Hill Merchants have
decided to play foot ball on Sunday, be
cause It waa a matte of Impossibility
for them to get enough games on Saturday.
CORNELL ON FULL STOMACH
Tab lea rraarhlaei for Sal.
The Topeka franchise it oii more for
sale. Dick Oooley is canned, as he should
be. Dick made a monkey of himself and
team on this last round and injured the
game wherever he went He was once ft
great ball player, but never had the first
Instinct of ft manager. Bo far as the
Topeka franchise I concerned, we hope
if the town remain on thla circuit. It
land In good bands.
Haaeety tm Baa Ball Pravad A gal a.
The Integrity of base ball 1 again vin
dicated in the fact that only four of the
possible seven game of the world series
were played. The question I not to be
raised, only to shut the tnouth of the
croakers.
Weald Be I'm air.
Nick Altrock ha an Idea, that he want
ta he an umpire and baa asked President
lie Johnson te give him trial season.
lAk the others .who have asked him for
work. President Johnson told Kick to try
ft year in Lh miaar first.
Won from Pennsylvania
Breaking Training1
After
COACH SHABPE TOOK CHANCE
Wanted Met ta Forget the Coming;
Fight, (iarged Thesm aad
teat These Oat tor ft
Mill Lark.
NEW YORK. Oct 17.-Hre I a story
that Is going Its rounds among foot ball
coaches that throw an Interesting side
light upon the . memorable victory that
Cornell scored over Pennsylvania last
year. It reveals one. of the most re
markable chances ever taken 'by a foot
ball coach and one that was taken
against the adivlrs of one of the best
conditioners of athletes that the coun
try has ever known:
Dr. At Sharpe, the old Yale fullback,
who is coach of the bane ball, foot ball
and basket ball teams at Cornell, Is the
man who pulled the unexpected. Usually
the greatest care Is taken of a foot ball
team prior to a big game. Certain diet
ing Is adhered to and early hours pre
vail, but the t be'oro Thanksgiving
last fall Dr. Sharp astounded the fool
ball men i u.i.na mem to break train
ing. Sharpe gathered his men about htm
on the Wednesday before the game after
the last practice at Atlantic City and
said: "Now, boys, I want you to go
back to the hotel and eat anything you
like, and eat plenty of It"
This remark caused considerable com
ment and the. player believed that thla
waa Sarcasm on the part of Sharpe.
because It was rumored that one Cor
nell athlete the previous year had put
himself out of the running by an eat
ing exhibition every meal.
"Tonight I want you all to go to ft
show," added Sharpe, "and I don't care
what time any of you got Into bed. In
fact If I see ft man come Into this hotel
before 11:30 he'll hear from me, and he
won't enjoy what ha hears. Some of
you fellows who don't care particularly
for the show can get up a regular bowl-1
Ing match or ft pool tournament If
any of you feel that you would like
ft little ice cream. Just go ahead and eat
If '
Thengat Coach Crasy. 1
Thla took the starch completely out of
the boys. They had visions of ft scan
dal. Sharpe would lose his Job and there
would, be trouble In every way. They
figured that If the coach, who was draw
ing down big money and fighting for a
reputation, did not want to win, they
were helpless. They wished foot hall was
over and Immediately forgot all about
if.' This htm Just the condition that
Sharpe wanted to bring about and he
sat In the hotel lobby and watched his
men rolling In around twelve. The later
his stars stayed out the more Sharpe
smiled. Moaklev also was In the lobby,
but made no bones about the fact that
he thought Hharpe waa plumb crazy. '
Orders had been left at the desk that
none of the team waa to be disturbed
on any condition until hs awoke natur
ally. The result was that the majority
of the boys did not get downstairs th
day of the game until : instead of 7,
as Is customary. Sharpe sent each man
Into the dining room to eat a big and
hearty breakfast another unheard of
thing. So bewildered were the players
at this sort of training Juct before a big
game that they had taken their minds
off foot ball. At 11 o'clock the team was
hustled oft to Phlllie and Immediately
to Franklin field.
Make Up Minds ta Win.
Just ft few minute before the game
Sharpe called his men about him and
told them that his actions had seemed
strange, but that he was positive that
Cornell would win and that he wanted
every man to fight to the finish. Al is
a second Mike Murphy for arousing
fighting spirit and In ft few minutes he
told them things that had them fighting
mad. They mad up their minds that
they would win, and they did.
The first person to shake Al Sharpe
by the hand after the game was Jack
Moakley, who love Cornell a a mother
love a child. Sharp wa then asked
to explain his peculiar actions, and this
Is th way Al put It:
"Cornell gridiron warrior had been
coming down to Frankl'n field too many
year with nothing but past reverses on
their minds. It took m only one year
up there to find out that the night prior
to the game and the morning of the
game all the men talked about was the
way Penn had pulled off lucky victories
In the past. Orada would come around
to find out what the team' chances
were and would then recall some other
year when thing looked bright, but
something went wrong.
Forget Foot Ball.
"The men talked foot ball, dreamed It
and worried so that they could do noth
ing but lay in bed from I o'clock, the
usual retiring time, until th wee hour
of th morning. They wok tired out
mentally and . physically.
"I mad up my mind that I would not
hav the am condition another year,
so I did all In my power to get the men
disgusted with everything and to forget
foot ball. Th lat hours did net hurt
them, bee us they went to bed tired
end slept without th usual worry. Th
big breakfast was disss ted long before
th battle. I waa more afraid of th
mental than th physical ability of my
men, and when I saw them In the dress
ing room before the game I felt In my
heart that Cornell wan to win because
the men were abolutely In perfect trim,
mentally and physlcnlly, while the other
fellow did the worrying, I guens."
Maxwell Company
' to Boost Business
at Omaha Agency
C R, Newby, a pec 11 factory repre
sentative of the Maxwvll Motor Car com
pany of Detroit paid Omaha a visit laM
Wednesday In the Intorest of the com
pany. He Is looking over the conditions
In this territory and waa pleased with the
outlook.
The Maxwell company Is contemplating
putting In and carrying a full stock of
Maxwell parts and of nlno eslnbllalilng
tin assembling plant and service station,
in Omaha, which will give employment to
a large force of men. He has visited sev
eral branch agencies on the way from
Detroit. He came from Sioux City, and
was accompanied here by C. I. Collins,
district sales agent for the Max well com
pany In Sioux City, and K. V. Myler of
Sioux Falls, 8. D. Mr. Newby reports
that the automobile business conditions
In general ore very good all over the
country. While here lh-y were the guests
of O. H. Chiles, the local Maxwell agent.
FORWARD PASSIS EXPLAINED
Unlet of 1914 Have Nothing to Say
of Ball Crossing the Line.
STAETING POINT STIPULATED
Hat Nothing I Bald Ahoat Where
: Ball la to Go After Btartlnar
froaa Five Yards Behind
t Scrimmage Line.
NEW YORK, Oct. 17.-What Is a for
ward pass? The average foot ball fol
lower will say it Is a pass ever a linn of
scrimmage from a point five yards back
of the line. The foot ball rules of 1914,
however, have nothing to say about the
ball having to cross the line of scrim
mage. There Is the stipulation that It
must be thrown from a point five yards
behind the line of scrimmage, but nothing
Is said about where It ia to go. Again,
there Is a ml which hold that the ball
may be thrown In any direction except
toward an opponent' goal. What are
coaches and players going to make of
such a contradiction?
The assumption, of course. Is that th
stipulation regarding the ball crossing the
line of scrimmage waa omitted from the
rules through oversight, but It Is not rea
sonable to suppose that a team coached
to take advantage of this apparent plec
of carelessness could b held to an un
written rule. Thla fact was recognised
In a reoent game between Rutgers and
Troy Poly tech nla, where agreement was
made between the two captains that a
forward pass, to be legal, munt cross the
line. The defect has not generally been
detected, and to avoid unpleasant com
pilations contending teams had better
make such an agreement as was made at
Rutgers. There is, It is true, a slight
chance that one captain might not rgree;
If so, what power would the referee have
to bring about such agreement? In a
condensed version of the rule for the
use of officials It Is set forth that the
ball must cross the line of players, but
In the final analysis the authority Is the
regular rule book, and not the published
digest of the rule, which, by the way. Is
not official.
Kf.w Oat-of-Bonade Rale.
There la another Interesting official
rule. It holds that ft ball passed from
the center which goes out of bound on
I the first second or third 'downs shall be
long to the side which first recovers it
j By virtue of this rule it is conceivable
MANY SCHOOLBOY MARKSMEN
Over 15,000 Record for Last School
and College Tear,
NEVER ANT SEBI0U! ACCIDENTS
Nat One Lad go Far InJared oa Rifle
Range War Department
Furnishes Powderlra
Target Gaai.
that a team might be so coached as to
obtain possession of the ball throughout
th greater part of th game. All that
th center would have o do on the third
down would be to toss the ball out of
bounds and have the men so disponed
as to make Its recovery practically cer
tain. Naturally the aldo recovering the
ball would be entitled to first down. If
this be set down aa quibbling, it may be
slated that two or three well known
coaches have serloualy discussed the ad
visability of taking advantage of thla In
some such way when th team ar lined
up away from the cent-r of the field.
With Increasing attention being paid to
the art of passing the ball, what ex
traordinary things will eventually result?
This thought arise from ft half hour re
cently spent catching short spiral thrown
by Bob Loree of the Yale, 1911. team.
Lores had a certain overhand snap of
the wrist In delivering the oval which
reused the ball to shoot sharply down
and Inward Just befjre It came to the
receiver arms. Once In ft whlls the pig
skin described ft palpable out curve, but
the thrower could not account for it
Foster Sanford. who was near by, was
skeptical at first about th hoots and
curve of th ball, but after standing
behind th thrower for five or ten mln
utr. admitted that th direction of the
ball wa changed.
"But you can't Interest me," he said,
"until you hav mad th ball eurv at
right ftngle about ft post" ,
B Want
Booster.
Ad Are th Beat Bualnea
Over 1S.00O college and school boy
marksmen Is the record for tho school
year ending June SO, 1914. Through the
combined efforts of the National Rifle
Association of America and the National
Hoard for the promotion of Rifle Prac
tice rapid stride are being made looking
to the Introduction of rifle shooting a
one of the recognised sports In th schools
and colleges throughout the country and
the movement has been still further stim
ulated by ft recent act of congress au
thorising the free Issue of rifles and
ammunition to such clubs and to cadet
corps.
Thla work was begun several years ago
by the National Rifle association, backed
by the War department, with a result
that at the present time there are forty
two colleges and universities and eighty
eight private and pnbllo preparatory
schools having rifle clubs. National
championships are now being carried on
In both rlansea of Institutions. Among
the college theie are competitions, both
Indoor and outdoor, representing the In
tercolleRlate championship, and among
the schools the government ha presented
trophies representing the public high
school shooting championship and the
military school championship of the coun
try. The Indoor competitions for both
colleges and school are now being or
ganised for the Indoor1 season. Theso
matches are shot on indoor ranges with
,22-caliber rifles.
Letters for Team Men.
' A an evldeifoe of the fact that the ath
letlo authorities of ft great many college
and universities, well as schools, are
recognising marksmanship as ft part of
their athletlo curriculum, many of them
are giving th college or school letter to
those student who maka th rifle toams.
A feature of this work which Is worthy
of mention I th fact that there hav
been no serious accidents of any kind on
rifle rangea since the work waa Intro
duced, ft claim that could hardly hold
good In connection with other prominent
school sports such aft foot ball and baa
ball. To overcome the erroneous impres
sion In the mind of members of school
board that rifle shooting Is dangeroua,
th War department 1ms offered to sev
eral cities sub-target gun machine or
Installation In .their- high .schools. This
Is an apparatus which , teaches rtfl.
hooting without i th 'uae of powder and
ball -and ia v mechanical contrivanc
which simulates actual rifle . firing . and
whfch haa.been used, with, great suocest
on our war ahjp and In army barracks.-,
I'se Machine ia New York. ;
There Is one of these machines, in
every high chool in Or"r y
where there ar over T,(X school boy,
between th ages of 10 anu is 4un.i.r
annually as Junior marksmen under the
schoolboy course a proved by the War
department.
After years of opposition the Boy Scouts
of America are recognising the value of
teaching marksmanship a ft character
builder and have authorised the Issue of
merit badge for marksmanship. This
work Is carried on in oo-operatlon with
the National Rifle Association of Amer
ica, who supplies instructors and super
visors The value to the nation of the
training of the youth of the land In the
mechanism and us of th firearm 1 in
estimable. A large standing army will
not b a great necessity If cltlsen ar
trained in tb first requisite of, ft de
fender of hi country. Therefore, th
promotion of rifle shooting not only trains
th eye end the nerv and builds up the
physical standard of our young man, but
also at the same time adds a valuable as
set to th defensive strength of the
country. , ,
en route. Including the Arkansas, Clnnar
roa and two smaller one.
Mr. Ilrown says that their motor was
not touched during the whole trip, and
that they averaged about twenty mllee
to a gallon of gasoline. He was orcom- '
panled on the trip by hi wife and Son.
and In addition to the passenger the car
carried about '0 pound o( baggage,
The car used on this trip had already
been run tio.ooo miles, but an examination
made at the local Kord branch upon Its
arrival here showed It to be In excellent ,
shape and with a few minor adjustments
ready for another trip of the same kind.
Practice by Harvard ,
and Dartmouth' is On :
Behind Closed Doors
NEW YORK. Oct. 17. Harvard nnd
a.'anmoum are noioing pracuca ueiiinu
closed gates now, snd Princeton's gates '
are closed during tho period of r?-1
limit. ary Instruction, with, however, a
scrimmage al the end of the day's Work
which Is open to the student body. What
ever may be . aald for or . against Die
policy of closed practice, the fact remalni
that so long as scouts exists, some care,
must be exercised In proventlng them ,
from learning signals, and, thla ran be
done only by having the team run
through the piny In secret. It 1 not
difficult matter for ft bright fellow to'
estch the various key letter ami action
numerals after an afternoon of Intent1
listening, and once these are In his posses
sion the Working out of the complete codo'
I simple. Cnse hav frequently oc-'
curred when even In the heat of a birr'
game some player has caught on to th
signals of the opposing eleven, anil has!
called the play Immediately they Were '
given by th quarterback. Thi occurred,
in a Princeton-Cornell game In the early,
1SO0'. Player dlfrer a to the valu of
possessing another team' signal; ome.
maintain that trying to remember twoi
codes their own and their opponent's
result too often In blunder of various
sorts; and In deterioration In the' matter1
of actual play. At all events, when many1
teama are taking up th open gsme nd
devising all sorts of Intricate pluys.
there does nsem w n t nn j
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Advertisement
Offered Thirteenth Athlete for One
When Pitcher Woodmen of Buffalo whs
member of the Pall River team of th
New Kngland leasrue last year th Lowell
tnansynment offered rive outfielders, four
InftrMers. two second-string pitchers and
w0 utility catchers In trade for Wood
men. This made thirteen nlvers offered
In trade for one. which Is undoubtedly the
most remarkable trade ever attempted 1n
professional bsse ball. More remarkable
than all, the offer was refused.
FORD MAKES RECORD TRIP
FROM NEW. MEXICO HERE
W. 8. Brown of Dexter, N. M., arrived
In Omaha Saturday morning after driv
ing ft model "TV five-passenger Ford 1.M0
miles over roads which would be almost
Impassable for ft mul team. let ftlon
motor car.
In speaking of the trip Mr. Brown says
that If anyone had told him beforehand
that any oar would stand the strain to
which his Ford was subjected on this
trip, he would not hav believed It, and
if he had known tho condition to be en
countered he certainly would never hav
started. The road were very bad. prao
tlcaily the entire 1,180 miles from Dexter
to Omaha, and for day after day they
plowed through mud, nub deep. In one
place the road wa hardly more, than a
cove path and they covered ftfty-four
mile without ejlng a algn of human
habitation.
In another section, which had been vis
ited th night before by cloudburst,
they were compelled to go through mile
after mile of knee-deep gumbo. At this
point, another car, which had been trav
eling with them, was forced to glr up,
and th road were so bad that they were
only able to cover this day about fifty
inlka and most of thla with th car run
ning la low fear. Four river were forded
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