THE BKE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 1, Bringing Up Father CorrdiM. 11. Internstlonal . Kews KrWia Drawn for The Bee by George McManus " an W T 1 w mj 1 -i . . . 1 7 ' i I I , I I I Y" 1 I MUT C,n TO THAT EVCti IP tAACtE , Mf?Jk- fU &YLlV N GAUL TOMK,T- SHOULD reMe- I I rflMFRiruY U . WON' V - J P v-7 ciSthK: LJ zbc rfHr 4 - OT i I Hoosn: jjl "U( . V kmt TV Z- u y-P-r ft- IaW pA, . mil ' I " ) ' PLENTY OF SPORTS THIS HEWYEAR DAY cururi ionrnament Between oi , Einki of Scots for Keanetfy Cap'".'' Carded for. Miller1. Park,-; . BIO CAKNTVAL. AT ARMORY honors hy donating Yale today, three jamM tu one. Columbia han won trn chamionshlps; Harvard, nlnn; Yale, twos and rlricnton, one; Tale and Harvard tieln In I' Koala and tVrwrttlasr Bunts PrwaranH tWhlla Y" Maa List ' of Swlmprtnna Athltl .. KreaU rkrdld. ,'".- : -t ,;,-!, . . Omaha Bportemva arUl.ijna; in the New Tear today with' a ipodiy lint of attrao tlona for the PrV enthusiast, of thla -lty. Three big events ..will occur today an dtohlght. ... '.. At Wilier rrk. si . rftiha' of. Scottish iirlii s will mrmpete for a cup presented by John L. Kennedy. The doings trill atari at 9 o'clock thla morning and It will . probably ba afternoon before the tourney la finally divided. Open nous will e In vo-ua at th Young Men's Christian association tonight,1 and a pro gram of water events, boxing, gymnas tics and the like has been arranged. An athletic carnival U the word from the Armory; where boilng. . and wrestling bouts will be In order. In addition skating Is good at tlansoom parlf, Allllcr park and even on Cejrter lakn. .At the, Omaha Gun club and the Carter l.aki Cun club the trap shooters will b out teatlng their skill breaking the blue Carllaar Run, Fopalar. The curling events at Miller park pronv- )ne to be an lntereatlng attraction. ' Curl ing Is an Ice game. While practically for eign te many Omahans, ft finds popular favor anions: the Scotsmen and la auffl. cienuy fast and exciting even to arouse cheer from good American. The first rlnkt to battle at th Scotch gamo are the ' Gordon and Caledonia rinks. Following the Balmorals and the Heather will combat and then the This ties and Clue BU rinka. After this first round, two rinks from the three aurvlvora via play and one will draw a bye to context the winner of the second round. The final game -will be for the honor of presenting the cup to the Clan Gordon Athletic association. Rootlac Draws frvftdi Cui'llng nuticlvee have been played for the pant two wrcWe at Miller park, and the rail of "soup her up" and "nlie's on the pat lid" and "that was a brw atane' and '. a,hun laid doon yn" have attract ed many. The Competing Tlnk and their skips are; J TUl.-ZlbKH. BALMORALS. H H. l"dU (skip) . Robert Melvm takip) .i. w. .nuir. aim. Meivln. Tom Leurhars. . Alec MoKee. l-'harlrs Johnaon. Kerry Kennndri.' ULCK HKUA llohert Gait (skip) !eu. Anderson taklp)J. M;TaKKrU Jl. tl. M'atson. W. H. CIhi. Alec. -Pick, James aV taon. J toward Heme W. J. HtWov-i'kip, l-lcr 1'Vdvn. ' V. J. liil.ip. Jr. AriJi. w .JJirUip, ... Ariaory Card tio4 Oae. 1 5e athletic carnival at the armory tills evening promises to be a corker. J!n:mr i'rrrpl, an Omaha youth, who has earned quite a reputation as a pugilist. -VIII- box Tommy Garrison, an ambitious yoth who has io concern for lreel reputation, jsck Touiver win wreeni with Young Ootrh and ed Whorton will I attle Dutch ledor, The latter xul. while a preliminary In announced aa a tilfty card. Vhortou is a Company' C man and Leel-r a Com. Iny H man. The rivalry between the to la very great as a result and In eager to uptioid the reputation -of bU vompanv. i In addition to the above bouts, another tHixtng exhiMtion or two la rarded, as 1s another wrestling m-tch. These latter evrnte. the managemeni declares, will be (.!! wortb wlille. The piogroin will start Yeadell Wll Kela, Imiriutur lrake at the Young Men's hruti-in aSMKlaticm lias framed a aerie i( athletlu events which should be In tetrsliiLg. Ollroy P. Wendell, formerly swimming Instructor at the Central Young Men's Christian association in 'Iii.oko. is featured In the swlrumlng vrnis. Wendell will, among other stunts, 1,1 e an exhibition of the pror method ft life vit'g. He will give a pi actual demonstration: a youth will bet hrown Into tl.e tank and WnnUi'll will show Just how eusy it Is to save a drowning rx-rson In a sctmtlfic and vstemntic mttiinrr. .VintV race In ths water wtU he on the program and a number if gyiiKiaetlc t vtiiii have been scheduled for tne g)'n- CALKnos'iAs-a.' Thos. M-Ulrum-BkU. Jainr-S lijwie, W.- H. Adams. W. H. Uunu. Auto Dealers Organize for ; Mutual Help TJnlfrm prk-ss and a smasnlng crusade agalriKt tho,' "cut 'rate" automobile man were 4wo; of 'the; pians of sixty automo bile dealeta In a meeting at the Henshew hotel lat' night, "following the forihatlon of a' temporary organisation. i The 'dcalirca will attempt to get to gether' and MiahUaln a standard of prices that will Insure, profits. TVs' are on the road to bankruptcy If we don t - stop reducing prices," said Chairman. L. W. Prenlf of the nieetlug. Several differed, as to this prediction, and bo .told Mr. rronlca, 1ut almost unanl- nously It wss agreed that prices ought to be made standard. Another meeting will be . held on the evening of January 12. when a permanent organisation will be effected, arrange ments made to employ a salaried secre tary, and .other routine matters dii posed of. Omaha, South Omaha and Council Bluffs wecr represented at the meeting. A banc ue t was served. All tinea of Industry relating to the automobile trafflo will oa represented la the organisation. . ' Temporary off loera ' . were elected . as follows: President I. W. Prenloa. Searetry Honry Nygaard. Treaaurer II. O, MonlKomery. Hoard of Dlrertora 11. B. Noyes. R. M. Halnee, V. K. Kink. VV. C. Marsh, Ed ward Douglas, Mr. Conn., Albert lilckler, DEAL FOR YANKEES FI11ISHEDUT LAST Colonel Jacob . Euppert and T. L Huston Formally Buy New York. American Club. PEICE NOT MADE PUBtTC Transfer f Player front Other Teams and Chalee f DesSTsa , ; for Manager Part f the Program. the deal for the transfer of the slock was made. It Is understood, however, that the transfer of several players from other clubs to the Nsw York Yankees Is In volved. t , NEW YORK. Dee. tl President B. 8. Johnson announced this afternoon that Colonel Jacob Ztuppert and T, I Ifuston had formally purchased the New York American league as ball club. The term were rot announced. YVlld" Bill Donovan I to be the new manager of the dub, . The new officers-of the club will be president, Jaoob Ruppnrf; secretary and Neither the new owner nor Frank J. FarreU, tha former executive, would an nounce In detail the terms under which Jess WestergaanT to Wrestle Gonnors . Here on Januay'8 Charlie Frank, manager of the Krug theater, has announced that the 1915 wrestling season .In Omaha 'will be In augurated the evening of January , when Jack Connor, the Irish giant from Vancouver, wOl battle With Jess Wester gtard of Deg Moines. The match will take p!ao at the Krug- theater. . Perritt hfirwasient. VENTURA, CaL, Dee II. Walter r. ("Poll") Terrltt pltoh for the toe An geles team of tbe Pacific Coast league of base ball clubs, wit held blameless here today by a coroner1 Jury for the killing of Herbert Lar.hrop, a guide. Perritt shot LAtbrop, thinking blm a mountain lion. Brltem Win In Tnls. NSW TORK. Dec. JL Walter Kndolln, former squaah tennis champion of Eng land, today won the profeaalonal title in that sport by defeating Stephen J. Feron, the American champion. In tbe third end last match of their aerlee hers. The smres m today s games, jieyel at the Princeton club, were 10-lft. lfr-U, l-7, U-S. Wichita President . Son of a Minister A. ' M, Ebriatit, newly elected president of the Wichita club, Is en old-timer In the Western league, and la welt refnenv be red. by old Omaha fans. He played n the Colorado Bprlng and Bt." Joseph club In thl circuit around 189. Ebrlght ha still another distinction worthy of mention. He I the aon of a former min ister of the Trinity Methodist church In Wichita. But Ebrlght Is said to be a typical minister's son, and should make an active and snappy president for the faltering Wichita club. MME. GERYILLE-REACHE REPORTED CRITICALLY ILL NEW YORK, Dee. 81. Madame Ger- ville-Reach, formerly leading contralto of the Manhattan opera house and the wife of Dr. George O. Rarabaud, was re ported today to be seriously flL It was said that an operation of blood transfu sion had been performed last night In hopes of savins, her Ufa Madame Ger-Vllle-Reache, since tbe cloee of the Man hattan opera house, ha been active In concert work In New. York and other cities of the United State and Canada General Blanco is Made Prisoner " . by Order of Villa WASHINGTON. Dec. 31. General Luclo Blanco, who remained In military com mand of Mexico City for some tlmu after the withdrawal of the Villa and Zapata forces, ha been Imprisoned by1 Villa, ac cording to a dtapatch today to the Car ran a, agency, her from Vera Crux. The message, dated yesterday, eays: "Advice from Mexico City received by the war department from secret service men say General Luclo Blanco ha been made prisoner hy Villa and that Blanco's staff offloer have been scattered among Villa regiment against their will. The state of Vera Crua today became denuded of rebel VlllsJata and JSapatlstfta. when General Sauvlrran, operating under com mand of Villa, with 600 soldiers, surren dered hla fore end himself to General Obregon tn Jaltlpan, and offered his word to the first cptef. Switzerland Puts War Tax on Liquors, Checks and Tickets EKRNE, Switzerland. Dec. 3l Y"la " Paris) The heavy military expense thrust upon Switzerland, by it being obliged to support an armed neutrality was almost the sole subject considered today by thej Swiss Parliament. At the eenclusion of the sitting a recess was taken until March next. The Swl treasury it wa announced must provide for' a deficit ol 43,000,000 francs. Taxes were doubled upon alcohol and were Increased upon checks,, postal orders, telephones; state railway tickets and' freight shipments. Proposals to establish, a state tobacco monopoly and direct tAxes upon property for war purposes were deferred until ' March.' The government proposed an In crease In the charge' for carrying news papers by post, but owing to the united opposition or tne press or tne country the government withdrew the" bill. Commercial depression exists "through out Bwitxerland partly because the whole system of hotel nd other com-enlcnces for tourists is idle. There gre 'no wlntei sports this year and no prospects of en tertaining rich' travelers by the. hundred thousand next season; ' " If. PoHen and V.. K. Htirklor. Membership Committee It, B. Ie. Oounotl ilufft L W. Runhtng, South Omeha: Jack True, J. C. llulley and G. w. Beck with, Omaha. Fairbury Willuy Superior Franchise In the State League FATRBmY. Neb., Dec. tt. (pedal.)-. Fairbury fan last night decided to enter the Nebraska 8tat League in 1215. a iff Crooks, president of the Cpmmerctal club, presided at the meeting, and reports from ITealdent a J. Miles of Hastings of the State league were read. ; Fairbury ap pointed a committee comprising John Heasty, S. ,M. Bailey, D. E. Bone, Dr, Potter and - W. Crawford to solicit the necessary funds to buy the. franchise from Superior. According to President Mile of Hast Ins, th Superior franchise is for sale, and the Fairbury far expect to raise SQOO at one to gain a berth tn the State league. The Fairbury Base Ball aasoolatlon feel that It will be a comparatively easy mat tax to do this, aa Ihera are a tars num ber of enthuslaatto fan here and Fair bury ha Sunday base ball, Fairbury, played Independent base ball thl year gnd had one of the beat teams In'' the southern part of the state, out classing the fast team of Urunlng, Destv ler and Narka. Kan:, and winning the tournament her the last of 'August. pgWyaeVaasaaj1 MW fommyfym M VW VV"tVf V J I yUfTi v.''l rlt'fiX I hut 'Ki rwn -HX-:-yi 'II' i V' V I'VU'-A'.'i' ' I hut ' '''i ;j-h' It, .i .... .---tA :1A & s.llt 1 AX.'.-' -' .G'V".l: A Hi'.' ' j ? 'A v - if.-, - 1 III- W"W 1 ' ' - i ! STEVENS AND SWANS0N TIED IN CAPITOL POOL TOURNEY r. xr. i p.t fwanaon 6 4 1 0 Hiavfni , 6 4 1 ." Hhrpard 4 1 I ,V Owttiis 4 8 1 .? llniath I.. & 8 t '.ei Mooney T X I .M l'ixon ..'..... T 2 .l Miattor 7 ' 1 ,1U Iast night' gam went to Hlevena lio to U. as llarach was not playing hi usual game while Stevens played steadily. Stevens and Bwanson are now tied for first place. Hcore by Innings: Hlevcn . 3 33 14 14 S 1 IS 8 6 1! 4 M0 liarsch .11 1 0 ft 11 b 1 tV i H 64 ' .--mlc'ic: Kteven: 4: Harech, 1. Drad balle. i. I.rltnt! Jesse hevnold. 'lo- Uignt hheard an Harsch Piny. law gyarWViMrVV asa sfr s MtjWW COLUMBIA WINS ANOTHER TITLE IN CHESS PLAY NW YORK!, Dei-. n.-Colnmbia wen si.t.tl.rr IntenxlUtilate clj-t chaniplort- i i,. today, ti.hVy difeulii.g it)-vrd ti... gtiriirs to one. In the final found of tne iwnt.v-tl.l"d annual tHirnaincut. a. i . :i tnd.di (UH the sinU:ag.vf tl: ! a follow: Columbia, 1; X'rince i i:, llirMrl, i: Vi.U (lt )r pi. i;. 'riu et n gained second CHARLIE WHITE WILL MEET FREDDIE WELSH AJ CHICAOJi Dec Sl.-OhaiU WhIU of J I Chicago and Freddie Welsh, lightweight i champion, have beeu matched to fight ten round In New York on January 1 according to word received here tonight from White's manager. The message aald ti fta'hter are to weigh In at 13 pound at S o'clock on th day of the fight 5th Semi-Annual Glearance Sale of IVIens Clothing and Furnishings Starts Saturday Morning, Jan. 2 CONTINUES FOR 7 DAYS ONLY rplIRaale embraces our fine Kensington suits and overcoats in a great variety J-. of styles, fabrics and patterns. In Furnishings we include alt shirts (except Manhattans), heavy winter underwear in both union and two-piece suits,, winter .caps, lined gloves and mittens, sweaters, neckwear, suit cases and bags and out ing flannel night robes and pajamas. We offer all velour hats at practically half price and all soft hats (except Stetsons) at a uniform discount of 20.- Daring this tab we offer 2C0 dozen Rtdman (E. & IK.) CoUotm at ICc each House Cleaning in Suits and Overcoats 17 OR to tt eonjplats cleans. c ot broken llaoa ol Men 'a Clothing w offer our regular gtock Of Kensington 8uita and OTArooals at nricea that will anrteaJ to everr disc rn In a: buvar. Ton vlll bo able to select blues, blacks and fancy patterns la suits and practically avery style ot overcoats' In black and Oxford dress coats, long cist ere, short double-breasted Xonn fitting a-id the popular loose back coats with or without velvet collars. The prices we make coupled with the sterling qualities shown cannot halp but hold our own customers and draw many new ones. 169 Suits and Overcoats selling regularly at $20, now $13.50 237 Suits and Overcoats selling regularly at $25, now $16.50 189 Suits and Overcoats' selling regularly at $30, now $20.00 123 Suits and Overcoats selling regularly at $35, now $23.50 Remtmber thi$ taU lattt jatt 7 day; beginning Saturday, Jan. 2. . . . J I ' ; . .; . , . '.A Men's Furnishings and Hats Liberally Discounted , L-imm 'i I'll 1 1 1 . . . 1 T TT is unusual for us to offer such liberal dis- buuuw ii du many ui uut oiaiiuait uxivao of men's furnishings. We -are doing it to clean our shelves of the broken lots remaining from the season's business even, at a considerable loss. Much of this merchandise has not been sold before at such low prices. Heavy Winter Union Suits Coopers & Lewis discounted . 33. Men's Shawl Collars tad Shaker Knit Sweaters, Spaulding and Bradley, discounted. . . . 33 TOniCIlT-TOrilGIiT Guards Athletic Carnival Jlnmlt Crexel vs.Tcm3i!i CtirUct J. ex TOtirm ra, TOuna ci v sr. wnajorrxoni aJkJsrrjrrrzoaT !PIi t et-iiar laiMKanuuit a n(nt( f(ttHlMi. S ai4ig k-Tatlrarhwrlvs. X- WtaSV o-bt?v a! c a-g v tnimT 5 w i i iicia do Hiadr. .res I Z-O-Alll 111 17 r i W$m4w All wool and fur lined Gloves Mittens, discounted 33 Heavy 2-piece Underwear (Wilson Bros.) discounted 331 All Bath Robes and House Coats, discounted . . . 25 S All the soft and stiff cuff ($1.50 Shirts $1.15 T'T Sp2rZ $2.00 Shirts: $1.38. - J 1' - tuck bosom prices are: $2.50 Shirts $1.88 All car 50e cecLvear remain! Eg from tLr- bolkiij Mrliin, 35J each; 3 for $1.00. We make the unusual offer during this sale of all our Red mac collar stock in the new shapes at 10 each. WE have a number of genuine imported., velour hats in blacks, browns and grays in tne best shapes that we will . sell at practically price. They cannot ' be duplicated aa no more importations are(v beiner made on account ot the ' war and the domebtio Velour is far inferior in appearance . and wearing qualities. .We offer all felt hats (ex cept Stetsons) at a discount . of 1-5. We do not reserve a single hat. Your unrestrict ed choice at this uniform discount. $10.00 Genuine Austrian JE Q C Velour H&U for pO.jD $7.50 Genuine Austrian- Q OP Velours Hats for ...... yOtOu $5.00 Genuine Austrian r $5.00 Uenuine Austrian f0 ?Ef Velour Hats. . . . pZ.OD a tf rvi rr , r . .. . . . jmi ru nan except orerson $) in sfora reduced 20 percent.. v. our ' i