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Bringing Up VttL-VELL WELL ' IT W DINTf HOME TOWM-HOW A CaitHT in. OVJ oO Re-., Judgments WITH but a brief thirty days re maining before the umpires call time for the opening tame of the season, In big league club ore assiduously their southern training camps and the flow of slowing yarn regarding embryo Ty Oobbs and Alexander has begun to sweep over the printed page. The quota of rooklo sensations on every team Is well up to the average this spring and as a result eight pennant winning clubs nre predicted in each league. But. seri ously, which club shall rank as the favor ite as the season opens? For once the omniscient dopester who believes his reasoning will never prove fallacious, provided everything continues equal, 1 forced to admit the dope will not work out. It la pretty generally predicted the Red Sox and Phillies will not be strong enough to repeat. But what clubs will beat them out? A careful analysis leads to the belief that the pennant winners last year are inferior to every other club. But which of the other cluba are the strongest? And here the dope admits de feat. It Is Impossible to foretell which, uf the newly organised machines and svery team In the league Is newly or ganisedhas the goods. It is all specui Mon at the most and one guess 1a as good is another. Pre-battle tales from New York indi cate that Governor Whitman and hla boxing commission Intend to keep a strict ye on the Wlllard-Morah battle. The governor and his commission are hitting .800 If these yams are true, for the "W11-lard-Moran mill will bear watching. With prices ranging from IS to 128 and 11,000 persons expected to attend It will be an Injustice if the officials permit the wal lopers to get away with any film-flamming, and in this modern day of huge puraea and ' no-declslon bouts. It seems the pugilist delights In making the publlo target whenever the opportunity pre sents Itself. Unless It la properly rm . pressed upon their minds that any at tempt to avoid mixing will Incur tha dis pleasure of the ranking officials, tha champion and the contender ara very likely to make that attempt. For tha sake of the 18.000 anticipated victims It Is hoped Whitman and his commission will be able to force a little fight out of the big fellows. Submitting bids for the highly specu lative Gotch-Stecher wrestling match Is becoming a popular pastime nowadays. It would seem that half of the kerosene Vlrcuit towns of the country want the big go. which may or may not occur, and It's a pretty poor village that can't dig up a pat riot lo cKlxen or two to make a more or less flattering offer for the event. All of which goes to rrove that tha world works on the principal that It pays to advertise. It doesn't cost anything to bid for the match now. But for a guess. If the time ever comes when Qotch shall promise to meet the Nebraska phenom, nary a whisper will be heard from the Battle Creeks, Rock Islands and Buttes, and Gene Melady anJ Omaha will have a clear field. A news dispatch from 8t. Iouls eon- , veys tho startling information that the ' Kaniias Aegles won the Missouri valley conference basket ball championship by virtue of a victory over Washington uni versity. Receipt of this sensational news Inspired a loud and prolonged snicker In ; rornhueker circles, for outside the fact that Nebraska administered a duo of trimmings to the Jnyhawk farmers. Johnny Bender's crew .have a legitimate claim to the title. Either the Illustrious Johnny employs a reverse method that deflea the accepted laws of mathematics In winning titles, or somebody in St. Viuls Is violating the Harrison law. Player Dunning, wim wss claimed by Charlotte, N. c. was awarded to the Cleveland American league club, which 'n tuin has released the player to Ashe- vllle. N. C. reads an account of a na tloi.al commission declulon. Some day the national commloolor. will hand down a decision favoring a minor league club i ver a major league club, and on that day the kaiser will also sl; coffee in London : d the ciar will gargle Pilsner In Berlin. Kansaa and Missouri having already Hayed two turkey date games and the Iowa Aggies one. the Missouri valley con ference board comes to bat with an offl clal approval of Thanksgiving day foot ball. When it comes tc being alive to the times the Missouri valley board makes Walter Camp's famous record look like a Russian outpost trench after the ex plosion of a forty-two-centimeter shell Lea parcy having se; the precedent by enlisting in the aviation corps of the British army, may we expect to sea Freddie Welsh. Ted Lewis and the rest of the Illustrious British box fighters sbandon their chasa of the American dollar for the more exciting but leas re munerative pursuit of battliug the Ger mans? Tea. bo, we may not. Roger Bresnahan has been given 110.000 and, his unconditional release by Charles Weeghman to cancel hla contract with the Chicago Cubs. Verily. Bresnahan Is tha alava of circumstances. It's tough when a ball player only gets 810.000 heart balm when decorated with the tinkling tinware. 1 Father con.' ' hi. II n eTR corn USKrv fW NINETEEN KAWS ARE SIGNED Manager Lattimore Will Report March 15, and Candidates for Jobs April 1. SAVAGE MAY KEEP MONROE TOPEKA. March ll.-Owner John Sav age tonight worked out a list of pastlmers who win receive an invitation to attend training exercises at Western league park April 1. The list totaled twenty-one, with every position filled. , Of the favored score and one. nineteen hve slcned contracts. Two. Tydeman, outfielder, and Cochran, .ahortstopper, have. In base ball parlance. "Just tha same as signed." Omitted from the list were the names of Carroll, who is sus pended; I.aknff, Flshef, Rapps and Fln negan, who will he disposed of; Pproull, who does not report until June 1. and Hall and Sanders, twlrlers, to whom will be sent the heartless dictum, "you can report when you get ready to sign." Has Third Baseman. Owner Savage has discarded his plain tive wail. "All I want now- Is a third baseman," since Manager Lattimore went out into the byways and grabbed a Fed eral and Three-Eye league lnfiolder for the far corner, one Derringer by name. Manager Lattamore has Informed Owner John that ne can now cease his sorrow over the apparent hole at third base. Hera Is the bunch wh will put In two weeks' hard work in an effort to win regular Jobs with the Savage Amusement company:, . . ' Pitchers: Qrover, Dashnerv Huggins, Lambeth, West. Larson, Osborne. Catchers Srlow, Welslng, Tester. In fielder Cochran, Lattimore, Button, Mundy. Derringer, Alger, r ' Outfielders Tydeman, Trainer, Hanson, Daniels, Weldel. ' life roe Mar Ret arm. Unless present negotiations come to a head shortly, tha nam of the backstop demigod. Eddie Monroe, roust be added to this list of the picked ones, Savage aid. Savage Is- torn between a de sire, to keep Monroe in - Topeka and a chance' to sell him. for leas than his worth, in an endeavor to help . Eddie on up." . . . Manager Lattimore will arrive la To peka by March 16. ' It 1 not likely that he will announce any more additions to the Kaw staff, as tha present fruit looks ripe for the picking, on paper at least. Running down tha .list and picking out fourteen men, the legal player limit In the Western league, the lint team Just now looks like this; . . . Pitchers, Qrover, Dashner, Laraen, West, Hugglns; catchers, Snow, Ml in roe; first base, Alger; econd base, .Lattimore; third bace, Derringer; short stop, Coch ran; outfielders, Tydeman, Trainer, Dan iel. HEAD OF dSURGEITT -.AMATEUR BASE BALL BOOT. CijYTCVf c; JX3WNE3. Clayton C. Townf of Cleveland, presi dent of the National Base Ball federation. Is the man who made the break In the National Amateur association meeting which resulted In the organisation of tha insurgent federation, with himself at Its head. Townee was after Secretary Bea ton of the National association and tha only way he could get the secretary was to start an outlaw body, which he did. Townes Is working hard to enlist all of the strong amateur cities to the support of the federation so that the association will be forced upon the rocks and espe cially haa he been urgent In hla solicita tions of Omaha. But Omaha continues to hold It franchise In the National I soda Hon and 1 calmly sitting on the fence to see which, asHoclitlon or federa tion, proves to be the strongest. 'opyrlght, I'M, lntero'l News UtA 111 DON ) - - - w w Oakdale High Oakdale High school lays claim to tha fastest six In tha basket ball gam In Nebraska, when It comes to the girls' game. Many basket ball fans are prob ably ignorant of the fact that there are JESS ROLLING IN WEALTH Managers Didn't Get it All, for the Champion has $80,000 in Sev eral Chicago Banks. FIVE THOU WEEK WITH CIRCUS NEW YORK. March lLAlthough a good many people seem to think that iwillard got nothing for his fight with Johnson and that he was forced Into tha bout with Moran. because the bank roll waa weak, they will be surprised to learn that Jess is really a wealthy man. He has deposited In various Chi cago banks nearly $90,000. which Is more money than he thought was In the world. He owns two motor cars and has enough coin to protect his family no matter what happens, and that to him is his dream come true. In speaking of the pursa of $47,000, which ho will receive for tha Moran bout, this sum seems to mean lit tle to him. If you were to lay such a sum of money on the table he might conceive what a big bunch of dough it la. but just talking about it moans absolutely nothing. Through hla manager, Tom Jones, Jess has collected most of his bank roll In the last five montha. Most of the Im mense salary gotten from his circua ap pearances went into the bank. It was supposed that quite a share of this coin went to Frasee and Larry Weber, but Jones bought off those promoters for 130.000. and then had a lot left Before Wlllard left Chicago he waa more Interested in the progress mad in the erection of a new garage than any thing els. Much ha been said about his lovo of his family, and soch appears to be true. He has four children, three of them girls, the eldest of whom is years But he Is particularly crasy about his 1-year-old boy, whose name is Jess, Jr. There has boen some talk about Wlll ard having a circus contract which calls for him winning a battle before the season begins. This, Jones avers, is ab solutely untrue, and offers to show the contract to prove that there is no stipu lation about Jess' ring appearance. This circus contract for the season calls for Wlllard to receive tfi.ooo per week, and be gins April 1. ending November I. His circus work will net Jess enough money this year to retire, he says, for moat all of hla earnings travel from the pay envelope to tha savings bank. It Is figured that the big money paid by the circus people haa been responsible for the enormous purse put up for the Mo ran bout. Betting on the big bout Is still In tha talk stages, with tha odds, quoted at two to one on Wlllard. Jones said that ha would give 11.000 to $2,600 that Jess would knock Moran out In the distance, and added that he'd take that bet more than once. RAY CHAPMAN WILL WED DAUGHTER OF GAS KING No wonder Hay Chapman is satisfied to play with the Cleveland Indians and la enthusiastic even about the city and the ball club. It ia Just announced that next fall he will marry the daughter of a Cleveland gas magnate who counts his wealth by the million. J X r7 JZ -H-Ty "-?zUl THE OMAHA SUNDAY HKll: MARCH Service Nb Jle,;, fOU LT Me AN TO Ttcu Me that TOW WTTf -smOw HIN 1 f POOR N( ------ .1 c e l H Mont Mv,atJ School Girls Fast at Basket Ba 11 two styles of girls' games, both of which are officially reoognotsed. All teams in this section of the state have been play ing tha six-player game, with the best results. Oakdale girls have played eleven Iowa Basket Ball Tournament Finals Will Be at Iowa City IOWA CITT. Ia., March It. (Special.) Basket ball is to come In for consider ation at Iowa once more this year. On next Friday and Saturday the university will entertain eight high schools from every corner of the state In the annual high school tournament for the cham pionship of Iowa. The visiting team are to be taken car of at fraternity houses while In the city and will ba given the best of care and attention. Soma of the men will doubt leas have visited Iowa City before, but many will look upon the university for tha first time In their lives. Every man who comas wlU be looked upon a an ex cellent prospect for some future Hawk ey basket ball five. Tha students of the Stat university are going to show the visitors such courtesies that they will re turn after year or two to enroll In the Institution. Everything but the finals will be de cided at the tournament by Friday even ing. All eight team will get Into action Friday afternoon, so that four will be put out of the running at one shot. The aeml-flnala will be played Friday evening, from which two team must survive un defeated. This will make two games on Friday evening. The teams will then be given a rest until Saturday afternoon. The first game of the final aesslon will be between the two loser of the night before for third and fourth place, and the final attrac tion will be the fight for the state cham pionship between the two winners. Fitz Taught Champ Willard How to Hit NEW YORK, March 11. -Robert Fttz slmmons was the first man to thov Champion Willard how to punch. Fits saw Willard box the late Luther Mc. Carty in the Oardn In 1KI2. Th cham pion's blows were cf t!.e overhand variety and the ancient Cornishman waa horri fied. Hunting up Willard a few dity.i after that mill, F1U told the gigunli cowboy that he never would sneered un less he learned how to hook his blows at short range or drive them In straight from the shoulder. Fits showed how he knocked out Corbett, Sharkey, Mahr mil others with short hooks that traveled only a few Inches. Wlllard accepted the advice and soon he became a hard, ef fective hitter. THIRTY-FOUR VETERANS FOR NOTRE DAME NINE SOUTH BENT. Ind., March II. Coseh Harper, In an effort to give Notre Iame another brilliant base ball team, is swing ing the thirty-four veteran members of the squad to new positions. Hhortstop Myers this year will b on first liuse. Wolfe will go to short, Kline to third and Ppaldlng to second. The latter was unable to play last season because of the freshman rule. Rydexwski, the foot bull tackle, has Jolnsl the squad and will work In the outfield. 12, 1910. Drawn for The NUvJ C t-OOL YOU DAOCNTER 1 Mi AND Cf TAitii games this season and won all. To cinch their claim they lately defeated the last Til den girls' team on their own floor, thus beating an aggregation that has not lost a game In three years. WOMAN'S TOURNEY DELAYED Woman's National Golf Tourna ment is Poitponed Until the First Week in October. WAS CARDED FOR SEPTEMBER NEW YORK. March 11. According to news from Philadelphia It Is all settled that the United Btates Golf association will change the date of the women' na tional championship tournament to be held over the links of the Belmont Bprtng Country club. For that matter, the exact week haa been fixed, October t to I, being the time. What makes It appear as If this Infor mation comes pretty near to being right. 1 the further statement that Howard W. Perrln. first vice president of the I'nlted States Oolf association, has stated that the matter is now in tha hands of the executive committee, which Is taking a mail vote. Perrln, so it is claimed, has cast hla ballot In favor of the week In question, so the chances are an of ficial announcement from association headquarters will be forthcoming In the near future. MEYERS AND NAP RUCKER TAKE OFF SURPLUS FAT News from Hot Springs Is that Chief Jack Meyers, who has been taking th baths, haa reduced about twenty pound and that he will look like another man when he appears in a Brooklyn uniform at the opening of the season. Nap Rucker luis been boiling out with Meyer and aUo Is said to be in fine shape for real work. !' J it Joe Stecher Is Not Nebraska's Only Real Wrestling Champion Podge county is not the only county In tKe state cf NebraKa which dcman-la i f, juntry-wlde recognition becauao It is ! the blrihplnre and residence cf a world's champion w restler. Kearney county, out In tic sanohr.l.i, comes to the front with ii world's ctaripl.in wrestler, too. Tho Kearney coui.ty mull lit Owen Dolly, worlds champion lightweight. Ifclly is unollur farmer buy. He was raised on a farm utid, like .Steelier, has smuke hub I years old and hue been wrestling since ii:. Dally In the" undisputed champ of the :£ circle. Itny l'ege, his manager, bar potted with the sporting editor of Th lite the sum of li' an a forfeit that I'nlly will meet any man in tba world at IS! pnun-la rmKa.de. Any wiestler I the lightweight rlas tan get a crack at the Nebraska hoy by posting a like amount. Dally hi s been defeated but ones. John Mackle "f Boaton beat him when Pall) was suffering from an attack of the grippe. Fix weeks later Owen tilinmed Mackie for a t.vo Mi.ie bet Am iij the grapp'er Ibe Kearney county Bee by George McManus OM'NH CXX.AN lOvj AUt A flat tf Vr.- TO DINNER MR Due AN KILBANE GETS SELF IN BAD Featherweight Champ Proves to Be One of Beit Little Pro:raitina tor in Box Fijht Bvuinesi. SHOULD BE GIVEN THE CAN World's rhsmplon. Johnny Kflhane, featherwe1!it t!l bn'!rr( is at preeent under poiv.llnr indk-'nK ;r. charged wfh flitting by with a lot of good guarantees. obtalnet. on what arrears to be false pretenre. Kilhsre has befn s gned br promoters to flirlr bis rres !n varl.ws boxing bouts; !n or.ly c few Inetaare hss he de livered httr.ec'.f o. whit the rlnjslrtsr con siders an adequate equl.-alent for the sum ha Invested. In foet. Kubane hns rnmluiird himself, according to news reports In a manner that should earn him the thorough dls- pproral of ell followers nj sport. Fcemingly Kllbane haa not given the fullest measure of h!a skill In many of his contests. Long ago New Tork and riillsdelplila complained bitterly that Tie would not gle them a run for their money. Of late Kllhane has become still more arroirnnt. nt Man Pope put In a few kilowatt hours reading up on the cham pion's recent showing end found the fol lowing facta against the Cleveland scrap- ler: Suspended by the Wisconsin Boxing commission for bout with Hitch le Mitch ell.. Threatened with two-yrar suspension by the Akron (O.) Boxing commission. fltruck a ritteburgh referee In tha face for insisting that ho obey the rules In bout with Johnny Ray at Ilttsburgh. Earned the dlspleasur at Pittsburgh of Boxing Superintendent Mathews by stall ing through same bout. Will probably be refused another per mit to appear In tha Smoky City. Broke off a match for tha title with Oeorg Cheney, scheduled for March 17 at Baltimore. It's fine for Kllbane that there's no National Boxing commission. It could hardly fall to suspend him for this aeries of offenses. Magnate J. Dunn Started in Life as Farmer Boy James C. Dunn, new owner of th Cleveland American league, Is th son of a farmer near Marahalltown, la., th Place that produced Adrian C. Anaon, Chicago' grand old man of baa ball. . Dunn got his start as a contractor at l. "I was my own bondsman, timekeeper, paymaster and everything else, but tha actual digger. It was a sewer job. I made good and got bigger Jobs. "I was a base ball fan as a kid, but not much of a player. When a club was formed at Marahalltown I was mad pres ident. Ever since I've been'able to muster tha cash I've had hopes of becoming a big league owner. "I couldn't buy the White Box because they weren't for sale. The Cubs weren't either until base ball peace came. "When this chance came I was tickled. I lived In Cleveland 'two years as con tractor fur masonry on the belt Una. "I have looked the situation over. I'm confident - that the team here can be boosted Into the first division with the addition of a few players that can now be secured. "I'm sorry the Yankees got Homo Run Baker, for I would have made a rual bat tle for him. "The ntxt beat thing la to grab off all players obtainable who will strengthen the Indians. That's what we propose to do." lad haa trimmed are Jack Sloan of Dtnver, Alex ttert of Winnipeg, Walter Keegan of Rochester, Johnny bllllter of Toledo, Max Brenton of Havelotk, Ia.; Matta Matsuda, the Chicago Jap; John Mackie of Boston, Young Joidan of Lou s vllle, Ray Hardeaty of Kidney, Neb.; Hay Tolllver of fort Collins, Colo.; Mlltot Ilernden of Belllngham, Wath.; George Pallia of Cherokioe. Ok I.; Louis Zorbrs of Puluth and scores of others. Two of the shove grapplers w.ll reinem ber Pally for some time to come. They are Milton Ilernden and Louis Zjibai. Pally blew Into iielllnghani, Wash., Hern den's home town, one day and offered to grapple the Washington lad. With th odds I to 1 againnt Pally took Mr. Hern den to the neateat cleaning of hi ll'e in thirty-one minutes, ilernden was on crutches for three weeks following that match. .Dally almost broke him In two. Tho other night In Lincoln Daily put Louis Zorbas away in fourten minutes and so completely wrecked the Puluth man's physical person that he could ni longer continue the match. Pally Is the Bterher of the lightweight clttua and he's Nebraska champion No. ? 3 S . ) I -ri M AND I J I WM A, Flrit I v I L.INP CV JOLL-H? I CANT.lT J V ovecx now I ' NOuNt, you I ryik. r PI (f 7 wirb BAT GOT AS MUCH AS MORAN Frank is Not Highest Priced Chal-leng-er in History of Padded Ring- Game. NELSON BEATS HTM BY $500 Contrary to the neral belief. Frank Moran Isn't going to be the highest p-ld challeneer for a Queensberry title when he exchanges fl-tlc compliments with Jese WlUnrd in Madison Bquare Gardn. Xew York. March T: To prove tt-N nolh'ng more Is heeee- eary than to rite the famous forty-two- rennd cor.tota between Joe Osne and Bottling Nelson at Ooldfleld. Kit. Sep tember . I!!. Nelson's share of the putse hunir up that day by Tex TOckard. who now In promoting the WlllarJ-Moran bout, was IZl.onfl, which In round figure totals taui rncre thsn MerjA will reallxe out of Ms affnl with the champion In New York City, Including hla bonus Of tt.fiO for signing articles. That Nelson waa rewarded t the ex tent of tJS.om la a matter of record the rame as nana' victory in tha forty-second round was listed In the history of tha prise ring. Nelson wsa th challenger then, but because of taotle employed by liilly Nol.tn. then manager of the Durable Dane, Qans. the champion, was obliged to concede every demand made by th white man. Tor th battle, which was scheduled to be fought to a finish. Rickard fur nished a purs of $34,000 to cut ai tho ftghtera agreed. At that particular time Gan had mad a clean breast of some shady bouts he had participated In and before the publlo could forget the con-, feasion Qans was rushed into a meeting with Nelson. Joe seemed willing- to do verythlng he was capable of In his desire to snnir- himself with the public, maA. realising the conditions, Nolan. NeUon and hl crowd practically Inserted ovary clans In the articles. Besides agreeing to glvo Nolan mor than two-thirds of tha puree, under throats cf cancellation, Joe wse made to weigh three time that day with his ring toga on. Rickard know whether Moran Is tha highest priced challenger better than anybody else. If tha pure then was an imaginary on, there la lust causa to be lieve that the one he offer now also Is. But you can't get around th "dore,' however, when th question of money ii the two Instances cornea up. Jiu Jitsu Belt of Japan Captured by Bonnie Scotsman That th occidental athlete who will de vote th necessary time and attention to training can hold hla own in any form of sport the world around haa again been demonstrated. Allan Smith, a Scotch man, employed by an A-merlcan com pany In Japan, haa recently been awarded the famous "black belt" given for pro ficiency in jiu Jitsu. In order to Win this distinctive honor In th Japanee art of self-defense It Is necessary to secure 10, 040 falls. Up to a few days sgo only three foreigner had. won th black belt, although hundred had tried and failed after long sessions of training and com petition. As a means of self-defense Smith as serts that Jiu Jitsu is far superior to wrestling or sparring. He says: "A mas ter of Jiu Jitsu could have defeated Jack Johnson In his prime. My friend her," Indlcstlng his Instructor, "would hsv had no trouble In defeating Johnson." "Or Jess Wlllard V asked a visitor. Smith did not reply, but hla teacher said he was confident that at least thirty of his pupils could beat either Wlllard or Johnson. One Dance a Week for Fair Athletes at Wisconsin Uni MAPISON. Wis.. March 11. The honot system is used to enforce athlet e train ing rules laid down for girl basket ball players by the Women' Athletic associa tion of the University of Wisconsin. It one of the eighty women on the basktt ball anuad breaks a traln'ng rule the ..onor system requires her to report tha. fact. Girls in training are limited one dance a week. They are required to have eight hour sleep a ninht and may eat nothing between meals but fruit, plain Ice cream, crackers, or milk. lie crust, hot breads, tea. coffee and candy ar prohibited. I QUITS COLLEGE TO GO SOUTH WITH THE GIANTS ' Henry W seeker, one of John MeOraWs pitching recruits, is so confident he will make good that he has given UP ala studies at Dartmouth college, where bo was In his sophomore year, to go to that Marlln training camp. However, ho sor ficea no standing In atbJatlea, for ho played emi-pro ball last anilines sail thus barred himself. m , s'