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FATHER-DEAR- MOTHER HA"a
INVITED' THAT HORRID COUNT
HERE TOflKJHT top ME
Judgments
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I Iffc "TniverBity of Nebraska foot
i 'ball teanr will' Journey to Port
land, Ore., next October for a
( v grltjlron fray with the Oregon
Asgles. the -team coached by Dr. Stewart,
the new Cornhuaker director, for the last
four years. This will be the longest trip
ever tnliM by W Hunker foot ball alaven
and Nenakr-eriters the class with Notre
DameV Syracuse, Brown and one or two
other schools that are kind to the rall
roads.,The Jong Journey will be a , nice
trip Ur,thar gridiron athletes of the Ne
braskM institution and will probably act
as an Incentive for the students to work
all the harder for place on the chosen
squad. But' there Is, nevertheless, a bit
of regret, that the flfteen-hundred-mlle
Jump could tiot be made toward the land
of the. rising sun. Nebraska has nothing
to gain by a 'game with the Oregon Ag
gies atid' everything to lose. A victory will
not eiiVmtiee-Mfte' Cornhusker reputation,
but a'rftfeafwill be a bad blow to Ne
braska's record. If the Cornhuskers were
to lnadt thai-east, it would be Just the
bpposlte, everything to gain and nothing
to lose. sA victory over a big eastern
school would .mean, everything to Ne
braskat victory over the Oregon Aggies
.nothing. A defeat by a big eastern school
4 would not) lower Nebraska's standing at
ail, a defeat by the Oregon Aggies would,
lnaanyuch;as the Ions Journey Is to be
taken and foreign field is to.be in
vade Vthera la a feeling that It should
.! takci. in,, Iba other direction.
tBan Johnson, the chap who swings the
jWg club In the American league, has
Veome out with a .declaration that he
Yavors the appointment' Of a Player to
the national .commission, and even goes
srf far ss to suggest the name of Wahoo
confer tins honor upon, jonnson s aug
gsBtlolfhar "been hailed with great glee
.pvbvp!ayera nd J.he rnen' connected
prominently with base bail nave ex
pre&sed themselves as satisfied that
i'rawford fa all that Johnson says he
'Is. Granting that on the surface John
son's suggestion has every appearance
of a benefit to the organized game, the
ulayers' fraternity might do well to In
vestigate Ban's motive. The American
league executive has never in the past
.rhlhtteil slans of philanthropy and
1; silting concessions to snybody, espc
r'.allv the olayers. has never -been one
of his virtues. Perchance, Ban is sin
cere, but preparedness is the keynote
of the time. N '
i
Han Johnson has been quoted In the
news dispatches as saying that Kansas
.X'ity Is a major league city and in the
rotitse of two years will .have a place
tn a major league. Apparently the men
of the majors are preparing for the fu
lure with an eye to preventing the or
ganization of any more outlaw leagues.
The only way Kansas City can become
possessed of a major club wil be by ex
pansion of the present circuits. An ex
pansion to ten clubs will do the work.
Also this expansion will admit a second
team In Detroit, Pittsburgh and Clncin-
natl or Cleveland. This would most cer
tainly establish a blockade against raid
era, for an outlaw league could not be
started on a major league 'basis without
placing a third team in every city. Cer
tainly cities like St. Louis, Detroit. Cin
cinnati. Pittsburgh, or Boston will not
'support three teams. . ilt. Johnson, ap
parently. Is casting bis orbs well toward
he future,
t While professionalism In amateur sports
.is occupying its prominent position be
fore the spotlight why not direct a lew
of the rays of the calcium before college
ioot ball. Organized systems of defeating
the cligiUlity rules exist in many institu
tions and among the ahimnl of the Insti
tutions. Extensive and -wealthy alumni
make it a practice to Induce by various
tempting methods students of athletlo
ability to enter their Institutions. As far
as this section of the .country Is con
cerned the Missouri -valley la probably
the cleanest foot ball center In the
country in respect to observance of eligi
bility rules snd the Mlajiouri valley is not
in need of a houte cleaning. But there are
Aiher conferences and many non-confer-enrJ
schools which are sadly In need of
it rite to a superabundance of activity on
the art of alumni.
. '.1
Wfstern league fans are pretty much
Up la the air with regard to the approach
ing tVestern lag'ie campaign. There Isn't
a team in the league that is a known
nuantity. New players have augmented
every nine In the loop to such sn extent
that no kind of an estimate of the play
ins strength can be made. That the brand
of base ball exhibited will be superior to
that of last year Is evident. The entire
league will be better, that is certain. But
no seer can prophecy which city is ao
fortunate as to possess a superior club
Ths air of the uncertain should add to
the interest In the Western league race
tills ear. especially during the earlier
months, for only by seeing all of the
trains in action will the fan be able to
select his favorite.
lli int l'.i j fc'incUlr s a) he Is tlirniitch
Willi jNtf.i'alt- no mukis hl de
parture from the, Fame, this Henry Kord
ian any his pcare campaign was a sue
KLlL wiim f (V I'LL EE 1 Jjt J ?! HIM TO COMt NOW- J NOTCOMiNC 'Hl WN-ow; l-l
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SOUTH HIGH IS HUPtR
Magic City Supporters Hope to
Coach Patton Lead Quintet to
State Championship.
TEAM HAS MADE GOOD RECOIL
1
Once again 8outh High rooters are ex
pressing hopes ot a state basket bi
championship equad. For many a rece..
day Coach Patton'a fingers have Itche.
In. speculation of the prospects. Vms
ear, with every confidence In the worli
of gaining the greatly desired title, ues
tiny visited Its ever rutins; thongs on th
South High team, and a week before th
tournament took away two of tin
team's best veterans, thus blasting tht
hopes of the plucky packers. At that
they played Into the seml-ftnals and
came near defeating Mills' Central High
team, the score being t to 5.
Patton Is a Nebraska man. His recprd
on the 1907 foot ball squad In the tim-w
when weight and muscle counted more
than speed and accuracy, stands well In
his , fsvor. Pince his connection with
South High school athletic activities, ath
letics at that Institution have about dou
bled In Interest. With only S5
students In the entire school, he has pro
duced tesms that have made records for
themselves In state competition. Mills
of Omaha, Mulligan, formerly ot Lin
coln, and Thleaon of Geneva have pro
duced championship basket ball teams.
Down at Crete, Coach Pqulrcs, a new
man as far as the coaches are consid
ered, has a fast'- team and will be a
strong contender for the state- title. Bo
there the proposition Is. Patton has al
ways' produced teams that have nearly
made but not quite attained the top.
Hence his desire for the title.
Good Record This Year.
South High has made a wonderful
record thus far. Captain Nixon and .h-j
rest of the team have added up five
I vteteriow- witr--ei'l -wins In - practice
contests. Only Council Bluffs waa ablo
to put it over the packer quintet and
then, only when the South team went up
In the air. .Last Wednesday evening
Fremont defeated the Bluffs squad on
their own floor. South High defeated
Fremont by a score of 39 to 21 earlier
In the season. Coach and center Puryear
of the Bluffs team was not in the, line
up, having played four full years on the
Bluffs quintet. He Was barred from the
play for the remainder of the season.
(.'ill Place barely defeated by Beatrice by
a scoro of 28 to 21' two weeks ago. was
walked over by the South team last
week by a score of 31 to 17. When Bear
trice and South High meet next Friday
night on the Magic City floor it will
be some buttle, outside of the fact that
It is the l-enl lest of the season for the
packet quintet.
Ho It Is that Magio City rooters are
thinking of the state title. Central High
was defeated by Council Bluffs by prac
tically the .same score as the pacKer
team. Also they were played to a tie-
game by Coach Jones' Queen City ath
letes. Let Patton's quintet defeat the
Beatrice team and their honor and lead
ership will not be a thing to be proven.
Finn Buys Apples
from Orchard with
No Apples in Sight
. Mike Finn, former Southern league
magnate and manager, knows some of
the problems of salary limits. He was one
of the opponents of individual, salary
limit that was adopted by that league.
M'ike had some reasons. He had Charley
tarr as field captain for his club at
Mobile and figured that ho could not
hold him at the proposed new limit.
Finn was outspoken at the directors'
meeting against the Individual , limit
proposition, when It came up at the
time. He told why. He gave figures he
waa psying Starr and said he conld not
hold him and would not try at a lower
salary. It brought out a discussion of
club limit violations, and many a side
long glance it was that Mike got.
Some time later the late Judge Kavan
augh. a stickler for strict adherence to
the salary limit law, asked Finn what
he had done to Starr's salary to keep In
side the limit and still hold Starr. '
"Well. It's this way. Judne; Charley has
an orchard and I made him a fancy offer
for his season's apple crop and he fig
ured he could stick with me if I took his
spples off his hands."
"The Judge appeared 4o "smell a
mouse." It alarmed Finn, who was not
courting any Inquest over his salary fig
urea He could picture himself buying
apples in carload lots from Charley's
much talked of orchard. He hunted up
tarf that day.
"Stick to that apple story." cautioned
Mike, when he had told Starr the de
tails. Ills jaw dropped on Starr's re
Joinder: . . i '
"Why. Mike. I ain't got but one tree on
that farm of mine and that s a syca
more." MEMPHIS CLUB ASKS FOR
WAIVERS ON NINE PLAYERS
The Memphis club rauht the waiver
fever from Atlantic and asked for release
of claims on nine men. including- Hill
r.iilrlon, Jimmy Keeley, George S.bll,
Ted Baldwin, Charley Leonaiy, Jack
Bushelman. Oeorge Hancock, F. C.
Whteler and Theodore CoulalL
T1TK OMAHA
Copyright. Tnterna
Uor.nl News Service.
HE CWI'T
HELP tEEN'
TRlb N!
- Joe Loomirt. the lanky Chicago n. who
steps off a len-foot TTnXTw HnTTIuTuling
down the cinder path, will have an op
portunity to be revenged on Howard
Drew, the sensational colored sprinter,
at the Indoor, meet of the New York
FRENZIED FINANCE AGAIN
.. :. , . . . -..
Base Ball Magnates Too Careless
with Coin in Anticipation of
Boom in the Game.
BIO PRICES FOR ATHELETES
NEW YORK, Feb. 6. If some of the
base ball magnates and fight promoters
don't curb themselves they will run Into
bankruptcy proceedings. The magnates,
havlnK squelched the Federal league,
seem to have an Idea , that the national
game is due for such a great boom It
Is safe to spsud record-break'ng sums
for overrated players. The fight pro
moters. In their wild desire to work the
sporting public to the lmlt, are throwing
business Judgment to the wlnda They
re offering guarantees and purses which
are sure to result In heavy losses.
During the late rumpus with the Fed
eral league the magnates on both aides
of the fence were forced to pay exorbi
tant aalarles to many of their- players.
Ball clubs, which once were considered
gold mines, finished with such large
deficits that their owners either sold out
or will be ready to quit If the coming
season proves dlssstrous for them. Yet.
In spite of the top-heavy salary lists and
the financial obligations which have been
Incurred, the magnates are doing nothing
to reduce the exaggerated values of play
ers and franchises.
Since the warring leagues made peace
In December, three major league clubs
hsve changed ownership. The Cubs, sold
by James A. Hart for $106. 0X to Charles
P. Taft and C. W. Murphy a dozen years
ago, have .been turned over to Charles
Weeghman and his friends for $j0,000.
The Boston Braves, purchased by James
E. Uaffney four years ago for fiu.00,
recently were sold to Percy . Haughton
and others for IWO.000. Phil Bali and part
ners also paid i50f).0"0 for the Kt. Louis
Browns, a club that was organized by
Robert Ice Hedges nearly fifteen years
sgo with a I'O.ViO bank roll.
Here Is Rome Jem p.
Although the late Andrew Freedman
bought 61 per cent of the Uianta' stock
in IKS for H:t,tt, H. N. Hempstead re
cently offered to sell tZ per cent of the
stock to the aaffney-Davls-Slnrlalr com
bination for l,40l.0ua. Colonel Ruppert
nd Captain Huston, who secured the
Yankees a yesr ago for S400.QOO, named
fOO.COO ss tKe price of their holdings when
Sinclair asked for the figures last month.
Sinclair secured an option on' the . St.
I-ouls Cardinals the other day, but he is
not expected to close the deal, Inasmuch
as the Brlttons now demand nearly
JM.ivo for the franchise, without the bail
psrk.
On top of this romes the news that C.
W. Pomers probsbly will remain In con
trol of the Cleveland club because nobody
will fork over Sfi,Hu, The American
league, therefore, must finance Homers
with JHt.noO to tide his club over until
1H17. Of course, the Cleveland are not
worth 1X0.000. when It is figured that the
Cubs have been sold for S.V00.00O. In fact,
conservative base ball men Insist tbat the
own paid for tiie Cubs, Biavea and
Browns were ridiculously high and that
the new owners will soon realise that
frenzied finance pervades the national
past hue.
If Jo. in McGraw had been asked to pay
I'fl.iiOu for Kautf, Rariden and Fred An
derson under conditions that existed in
i'.".Z he would lave ridiculed the proposi
tion. Yet the Giants thst year made
SJCC.OW. liut aith the GiunU finishing In
SUNDAY BEK: FEBRUARY tf, 1D1G.
BY JOVE.
HOW TERftlGLC!
I
Sprinter With a Ten-Foot
Athletic club Tuesday." A Special match
race between this pair of sprinters Is on
of the features of the event. One hun
dred yards is the distance. LoomtH was
defeated at a recent meet. by Drew and
he Is out for revenge. The Chicago lad
won the national championship at lou
last place In IMS, McQraw found himself
In a tight fix when he looked around for
r.ew talent. He simply had to pay Sin
clair's price for these three men or go to
Maiiin with slim chances for a pennant
winning team. Ho the Giants put up
l-iO.Ooe for Kauff, who may not be able to
bit .300 against- National league pitchers
this year; 110,00 for Itarlden, a catcher
who waa allowed to jump the Bravesbe
cause Mtalllnrs would not grant a deiand
of tlO", and $10,000 for Anderson, a spit
ball pitcher who must be regarded as an
expetlmcnt.
Then the Yankees Jumped In and
counted out $5,UAI for Lee Megee, a
young man who has been highly praised,
but who, like Kauff, may find the pitch
ing In the American league far more
puzzling than the effectiveness of the
Fed h tillers last season. MUgee played
good ball before he deserted the Or
dinals at the end of the 114 season, but
it wasn't the kind of ball that would
warrant the payment of $,(K0 for tils
services.
If It Is true thst the Yankees paid
IK',100 for Cullop, a left-hander of rather
doubtful ability, it cannot be denied that.
Colonel Ruppert and Captain Huston are
taking big chances. A year ago Cullop,
unable to stick with the Cleveland, was
sent to the minors after all the majors
had waived. If Magee and Cullop de
liver the goods, however, the Yankee
magnates will be satisfied, believing,
meanwhile, tbat the patronage of the
fans at the box office will make up for
these expenditures. Slnclald, on the
other hand. Is running no rlsss. and la
probably wondering how lie has been
able to get away with such a bundle of
easy money. .
.In their frenzy to buy alleged star
or Inflated franchises, some of the mag
nates evidently forgot that only two
clubs can win major league pennants
next fall, together with the right to
take part In the Juicy world's series.
Fourteen clubs must be disappointed and
eight of them cannot escape the second
division. Bsse ball la so uncertain that
clubs picked to win pennants often drop
to the rear because of accidents or trou
ble In the ranka Take the Cubs for ex
ample. Weeghmsn of Chicago baa Just
delivered W0, WW Iron men to Taft and
Murphy. . Weeghman feels sure that the
Cubs, managed by Tinker, hla bosom
friend, will win the National league
championship. But outside of Weegh
msn s set In Chicago this belief is
laughed at. The merriment will con
tinue, too. as long as Tinker remains
fixed In his determination to plsrYerkes
on second base and Doolan at shortstop,
at the same time depending on MSner
Brown and Reulbach to pitch In old-time
form. Yerkes, Doolan, Brown and Raul
bach were through tn the major leagues
two years ago. If the Cubs, therefore,
do not finish on top Weeghman, It Is
predicted, will find that being a major
league magnste Isn't such a soft thing
after all.
EIGHT UMPIRES HAVE JOBS
AS FLOORWALKERS IN CHI
Bight umpires, ex-umplres or slleged-to-be
umpires hsve Jobs in one depart
ment store tn Chicago as floor walkera.
The atore management fancies that um
pires have been trained In quick action,
have fine tempers and good Judgment.
Evidently thst management hasn't seen
some of our umpires In action on the
ball field. However, that may be. hare
are the nsmts.of tbe flqor walkers: Steve
Cusack, Harry Howell, Frank Johnston.
Garnet Bush, Gus fchaffer, Guy Colgate,
Harry McCormlck and Jack McNulty.
Drawn for The Bee by George McManus
VONDER VHY THE
COUNT HW)ttT 5H0WN
up -n"troo late, rev?
HM TO COMt NOW-
ILL ewe rtiM a piece
OF My hvtso WltN
EE HIM -
Stride
yards at th last national amateur-meet.
With hla wonderful stride Loomls covered
the 100 yards tn less than thirty steps and
In less than ten seconds. Loomls, In ad
dition to being a sprinter Of extraordinary
ability, holds the championship tn th
hurdles and high and broad jumps.
CORNELL MEN START WORK
Base Ball Men Begin Practice in
Cage and Crew Candidates
Labor on Machines.
PROSPECTS FOR 'SUCCESS GOOD
NEW YORK, Feb. 6.-Cornell Is pre
paring for the spring athletic sesson. The
battery candidates will soon begin work
in the baso ball cage and In the mean
time Mia e-ntlre bsse ball squad Is holding
weekly meetings at which lr. Sharp, the
i-aoch, presides. Veteians of lust year's
team which are now in the university
are Melleti at third base; Clary, the
catcher, and Gordon. Butterby, O'Connell
and Whitney, outfielder. Bryant, an
excellent pitcher, has been graduated,
and Rognn, one of the bait university
pitchers, left college last year.
The varsity crew men are working out
mildly on the machines each day. John
Hoyle Is In charge of operations Court
ney atill being confined to his home. He
hope, however, to be able to go ont and
oversee the work of the oarsmen when
the depsrture of Ire from the inlet per
mits the randldntes to launch their shells.
Whether he will do this or not Is a ques
tion which his physicians decline to an
swer Just now.
The crew certainly should be a power
ful y outfit If veteran material means
anything. Seven members of last year's
outfit, together with six of the Junior
eight and practically all of the freshman
crew, sre available. With Courtney
rounding Into condition sufficiently good
to permit to work with the oarsmen ths
Itharans should have little concern over
the showing of the eight this season.
The Cornell sweepslngers will meet Yale
and Princeton ' on Lake Cayuga and
Harvard on the Charles before they go
to I'oughkeepile for the anual Inter
collegiate affair on the Hudson.
Somers Some Guy;
He Can Still Smile,
Though Money Gone
Charles W. Bomers, owner of the Cleve
land American league club and - several
clubs In several minor leagues, is nearly
brake. He la to lose his base ball holdings
and most of his other holdings. A com
mittee of bankers, looking sftei Homers'
creditors,' is trying to sell the. club.
"But the msn worth while is-the man
who can smile when everything goes
wrong." or something like that, wrote a
poet or poetess. And Bomers smiles. He
remains st his desk, transacting business
for the club to which he no longer holds a
clear title.
When the American league was stsrted
It begsn its life on money that Somers
furnished. Other owners made big money,
but Homers never hauled down quite
as much as some of his fellow magnatea
He really made their opportunities pos
sible, but could never reach a high state
of profit sharing himself.
Homers was a liberal Investor. He
bought ball clubs, oil lands, coal mines,
real estate and dabbled In other ven
tures. Ills ftnsrcra punched too many
pies. A few of them vanished, and Som
ers' wealth went with the failures. He
had Invested too heavily to withstand the
financial reveraes.
But Somers ran still smile. As Mr.
Tulhill would remark, "lies a pretty
game guy; you got to give him credit for
that,"
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CAN M9RAN LICK WILLARD
Wise Ones Say Pittsburgh Coal
Miner Hasn't a Chance Against
the Champion.
BUT UPSETS VERY OFTEN OCCUR
NBW YORK. Feb. S.-In between the
careless holding of wild-eyed promoters
and publicity seekers for the proposed
ten-round nn-declslon bout between Jess
Willard. the world's heavyweight cham
pion, and Frank Moran, the leading con
tender for the title, one hears the ques
tion, "Would Moran have a chance
against the champion?" freely discussed
on all sides. The answer Invariably la the
same. Few believe that the sorrel-topped
Pittsburgh fighter would ha-e a "lookln"
against the big Kansan.
In this connection a dip Into the dusty
records of psst heavyweight encounters
Is timely, snd, whllo It may not sited
any great light ss far as solving this
"mystery"' Is concerned. It affords Inter
esting, and divulges, fscts probably not
generally known, or, perhaps, forgotten.
Of course, this bout Is not to ho a cham
pionship affslr that Is, not unless Moran
knocks Willard out Inside the ten-round
limit, and past performances Indicate that
this la Improbable, for not onoe since
John L. Sullivan waa rocked to sleep by
James J. Corbett at New Orleans Sep
tember 7. 1S92, has the heavyweight title
changed hands by a knockout scored In
less than ten rounds.
H took Corbett twenty-one rounds to
hatter down the game Bulllvan, who
finally succumbed, not from any one
punch, but from the continual battering
he had received. It took Bob Fltaalmmons
fourteen rounds to flatten Jim Corbett
with hla famous solar plexus punch at
Carson City on March 17, 17. It took
James J. Jeffries eleven rounds to strip
Fltsslmmons of the title when they met
on June . 1X99, at Coney Island. Even
Jeffries, tottering as he waa when he
disputed the claim of Jack Johnson to
the heavyweight championship, stood up
before the negro for fifteen rounds In
that memorable battle at Reno on July
4, 1310. And then It took twenty-six
rounds for youth ana stamina to triumph
over age when Jess Willard ascended to
the throne over the prostrate body of
Jack Johnson at Havana on April S, last
year.
Accepting these five fights as the out
standing examples. It is found that a total
of 837 rounds of fighting have been con
sumed for the crown to change hands
five times. This inaUes an average of a
fraction more than seventeen rounds per
fight. However, what Is of more moment
than thla Is the fact that what might be
termed an "outsider" has In each Instance
plucked the rovetad title. This la of more
importance,, for the belief seems to ob
tain that even were the bout to be
twenty or more rounds Moran would not
have a chance sgalnst Willard.
Outsiders Often Wla.
When trim "Jim" Carbett. the Califor
nia bank clerk, was matched with John
L. Sullivan It was generally believed thst
Sullivan wss invincible, and that he
would decisively dispose of Corbett and
retain the championship honors. Odds of
S to 1 were liberally quoted, and much
Sullivan money went begging even at
these attractive figurea. What was the
result? The "outsider" won.
When Fltxsimmons esssyed to grab the
prise from Corbett'a grasp Corbett was
rated a 10 to favorite In the betting.
Again the "outsider" won.
And when Jeffries, with nothing but his
ability to assimilate punishment and his
Powerful punch to sipport him, came
forth to do battle with Fltzaimmons there
were compsrstlvely few who conceded
Jeffries more then a fighting chance, and
the odds were J to 1. For the third lime
the "outsider" punched his way to the
top.
Even though he had worn the cloak of
retirement for several years snd none
knew whether he waa the Jeffries of old
or a fattened replica of his former self.
Jeffries stepped into the ring to defend
the championship against "Jack' John
son liberally supported ss a 10 to fav
orite. Did the favorite win? There are
many whose purses still feel the rav
ages wrought by the ultimate outcome of
that fight.
Finally, when Willard was matched to
box Johnson for the crown, how many
wre thrie who candidly believed that
the cowboy had even the most remote
chance of lifting the championship from
Its plsee on the furrowed brow of the
nejro? They sre mlfhty few. Every
where the match wss reaarded as pretty
much of a Joke; that Willard was Just
soother lamb being offered as a sacri
fice to the champion. Willard had ac
complished nothing to warrant his be
ing supported by "fandom." Hla few ap
pearances In the ring had shown him to
be a big. powerful man with no science
and apparently no generalship. For a
wily craftsman of the Johnson type, Wil
lard seemed to be "made to order."
Johnson at first wss quoted as high as
i to 1. But when reports of las training
methods and poor condition began to link
themselves with the name of the cham
pion, those Inclined to wager became
wary and odda of S to S obtained at the
rlnKslde. And the "outsider" won.
Now it Is said Moran hasn't a chance.
Maybo he hasn't. Maybe Willard will
remove tils championship asptratlona in
short order. Maybe Willard will parade
with the champiunahip dangling from his
scalp belt for some year to come. ' But
mybe Moran will prove the exception
if they should meet In a championship
i bout.
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ADYANCE BOWLING DATES
American Bowling Congress to Opes
Day Ahead of Time on Account
of Big Entry List.
OMAHA ENTERS FOUR TEAMS
From Indications the coming sixteenth
International tournament of the Amerl-t
ran Bowling congress, to be held at To
ledo March 4 to 24. will be obliged to)
open one day earlier in order to satisfy
the demand of teams who wish Saturday
dates, but do not desire to open tha
tournament. The tournament will open!
on Friday, the Sd. with sixteen and posJ
alhly thirty-two overland teams, and this)
will leave Secretary Langtry an addi
tional Saturday for visitors.
Indications point to a huge entry and,
all the Saturday and Sunday dates havei
been taken, as well its the Friday dte,(
and there Is only one open Monday date,
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Buffalo will have fifteen teems; ntUJ
"irgh, fifteen: Wheeling, ten; Louis-
vllle. twelve; Cincinnati, twelve; Indian-!
spoils, twenty; St. Louis, sixteen; Teo
rla, fourteen; Chicago, ninety; Mllwau-J
kee, twenty-five; tirand Rapids, ten:
South Bend, sixteen Fort Wayne, ten;l
Detroit, fifty; Cleveland, fifty, and witl
a large entry from Youngstown, Kayl
City. Rockford. 111.; Akron. Tiffin and,
many other small cities, will -bring tha
total entry close to the too team mark. t
Many speoial dates have been 'picked
by different cities, and they will make
a feature of having special dsys with
full squads from cities like Milwaukee,,
Peoria, St. Louie. Cincinnati, Cleveland,!
Louisville, Wheeling, Pittsburgh, De-,
trolt, Chicago. South Bend. Indianapolis
and other cities In Ohio, Indiana andi
Michigan. This will create considerable1
enthusiasm among the bowlers of these'
clUes.
As the closing date looms up for entries i
to be In the hands of the secretary the'
Interest Is becoming red-hot. and every-1
thing will be bustle and turmoil with tha
bowlers after February . 1 in placing1
dates.
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Schedule This Week
in Billiard Tourney
The schedule of matches for ths annual
sate billiard tournament now taking place
at Byrnes billiard parlors, will be as fol
lows this week:
Monday W. N. Chambers plays Al
Calm.
Tuesday-Art Sclple plsys B, J. Wll
llama Wednesday Arthur Sturges playea W.
N. Chambers.
Thursday-R, J. Williams plays Harry
Hymes.
Friday Herb McCoy plays Arthur Stur
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