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Getting Right Up to the Time When Bragging Wont Help Any OURKES START WORK THIS WEEK CENTRAL HIGH STAR QUITS THE CINDER PATH GAME. SIXTY-EIGHT MEN ON ROLUF HONOR Officials at State Interscholaitic Basket Ball Tournament Choose List of Star Players. SPORTS SECTION of The Omaha GREAT AUTO RACE YEAR 1SJXPECTED Many New Cars in the Game and Most Successful Season in His k tory is Predicted. Pa Rourke and Marty Krug Will Open Training Camp for Their Athletes at Beatrice Friday. . t I t n ; I: .V 1 r ! i OTHER WESTERN LOOP GOSSIP i i Tomorrow transportation to all mem- ! bers of the Rourke family will be sent out with orders to report at Hentrlce not later than March 27. Rourke will open camp at Beatrice Friday or Saturday, a It la probable several of the athletics will arrive a day or two ahead of time and Rourke and Krug plan to be there to greet them. All but two of the Rourkes have Reent In their signed contracts, and the two who have not signed have expressed satisfac tion at the terms offered: Cecil Thomp son, southpaw hurler, and Cy Forsythe are the two unsigned men. Rourke received a letter from Thomp son Inst week. The southpaw runs a confectionery store In Terry, X. T., and he said that two members of the firm died recently. On this account he may be a little late In reporting. He said he was satisfied with his contract, though, and would be here before the season opens. Forsythe was In Omaha a short while alto and told Manager Marty Krug at the time that he was not holding out, but would sign tip. Plar Soccer Foot Hall. Rourke and Krug have all the luggage packed up, including the new and old uni formsthe old ones -to practice in and all of the necessary paraphernalia. Among other things Rourke was packing in the trunks were a couple of soccer foot balls. "For what, for what?" queried an In quisitive newspaper person, "Is this a foot ball team or a base ball team you're running?" "Oh, we let 'em kick the" soccer balls around the first two or three days," ex plained Rourke, "it's good for the legs, gives 'em speed end wind and it's good light training to start on. We won't let them cut loose with much base ball for two or three days." Kiwi Slam Ex-Feds. Pown Topeka way there ts a little ap prehension over a couple of ex-Fed ath- letes John Savage has signed up. The ex-Feds are Joe Agler and Cliff Darln- ,er, a couple of nifty Infleldtng gents. Savage thought Agler a free agent and Agler had the same view on the sub ject. By the pence rgreement, however, Agler reverts to the International league from which he hurdled and has been awarded to Rlchmon 1. Whether Ravage will get this crack flrst-sacker seems to be pretty much up in the air. Agler wants to play In the Western and he In sists he .Is a free agent. V Darlnger Is a third-sacker who leaped from the Freeport club. and appeNrs on that club's reserve list. Darlnger is also of the opinion he is a free agent. If Topeka is able to land both Agler and Darlnger as free agents Savage will have made a tenstrike, for they both would be mighty swell ball players In the K Western. f Rapps la Released. Topeka will be minus one of Its draw ing cards this year. Roaring Bill Rapps, human windbag and comedian extraor dinary, ha been given his unconditional release. Roaring Bill was always popu lar In Omaha because of his pep and ginger on the field and his comedy. Roar ing Bill could always draw a laugh and thereby liven up a game that otherwise would be a dry affair. This is one city that will miss him. Jackson on Job. Jimmy Jacksoni who will pilot the Wichita club tills year, has already started to make yules for his athletes to observe. Jimmy lias darted out by an nouncing the following ten command ments: 1. Thou shall have no other boss before me. 2. Thou shalt not cea6e to be a gentle man both on the field and off: for the prcxy will not hold him on the payroll tliat shows himself ;o be a roughneck. 3. Remember the holidays and play ex ceptionally good games then. 4. Hot.r 1hy manager and tny captain, that thy days may be long upon the bounty of the Wichita base ball team. fi. Thou shalt not kill the umpire; leave him to mc. . Thou shalt not steal, except bases. 7. Thou shalt not benr false witness when the pitcher slips one over on you. . Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's (Continued on Page Three, Column Four.) Railroads in Need of Automobile Cars for Shipments West The Omaha railroads have discovered that they are woefully short the regu lation automobile cars, designed fir bringing automobiles from the factorl-s. It is asserted that If they could be e, ct.-ed within the next ten days. 2.WX) cars could bo loaded with automobiles to ba shipped west from the factories. A few days ago the Union Pacific gath ered up a couple of trains of Its auto mobile cars and sent them down into the automobile factory districts to be loaded for Union Pacific territory. Now word comes back that but few of the cars ever rrived at destination. En route they were picked up by roads that needed them bodily.' They were leaded wl'h automobl'cs and diverted north and south. NOT SO MANY MILLIONS IN 0. B. AS IN THE FEDS Charley "Weeghman, president o the. Cubs, was talking with a number of Chi cago newspaper men after attending his first National league meeting at New York. "Well, how did you like It?" he was inked. "Great!" replied the new leader. "It was lust like a Federal league meeting f x :ept I didn't hear the word 'million' used o often." HIGH SCHOOL COACH TO - BE MENTOR AT PURDUE LAFAYETI. Ind.. March 18.-prtng foot baJI practice will begin at Purdue March 27, a call having been issued by Captain Hake following the announce ment that Cleo A. O'Donnoll had been appointed coach. O'Donnell Is due here April 3. Purdue foot fall followers are xpecttng great things from the coach, ho made the Kverett (Mass.) High hod team famous. He learned his foot hall at Hiton Latin anl Holy Cross. Ilrlalc Hrrgrr fcolil. The Nashville club rt-rt U'r sale of lie teleian pitcher. Heiiiie Herder, to iiilveton of l he Texas league K : v Hi :i ' V ; J u miiiii ii n iii &r a IrCruck Neville!.! LAW VIOLATED BY NEBRASKAHUNTERS District Attorney Allen Says Many Violations of Migratory Bird Act Are Being; Reported. KEEPS RECORD OF ALL CASES Are wild birds the property of the sev eral states In which they happen to be, or are they the property of the United States of America? Are they engaged in Interstate commerce when they fly from on state to another? These are questions at Issue In a case now In the supreme court to test the constitutionality of the migratory bird act passed by congress. T. S. Alien, United States district at torney, is receiving many Inquiries from hunters about this law. The hunteis want to know whether the district at torney's office here is going to enforce it and punish violators. "Many violations are being reported, ' said Mr. Allen, "and we are keeping a careful record, of these violations, to gether with the names o fthe violator. If the supreme court holds that the 'law; ts constitutional, the Department of Jus tice will, in all probability, order prose cutions. The safest course for the hunt ers Is to consider the law good and not violate It until the supreme court has decided about it, "The government contends that con gress has a right to protect these birds ho matter whether they are the property of the several states or of the United States as a whole. "If they are the property of the United States, then tho right to pass the mi gratory bird law Is self-evident. If they belong to the several states, they would be protected by the government as in terstate commerce. " Frank Moran's Auto Hit by Street Car NEW YORK. March IS.-Frank Moran. challenger of Jess Willard for the heavy weight championship, had a narrow es cape from Injury today when a trolley car collided with the automobile he was Driving. The accident occurred on Third avenue, in the Bronx. The car crashed Into Moran's machine from behind. Mo ran Jumped and escaped Injury. FAIRMONT DELICIAS TO PLAY IN SOUTHERN LOOP The Fairmont Creamery company will put a base ball team In tho field this year. This team will be known as the Fairmont Delicias and will have a fran chise in tho Southern league, which will be organized at a meeting Wednesday night. Manager Jerry Kulhanek will not announce his lineup until Wednesday night, but It Is known ho has signed Kuk Dvorak and Crop Podruzek, who plaed with the Prexels and Kohouts last year. and several other South Side cracks. PLAYERS GLAD TO SEE FOHL STICK AS MANAGER American league players are glad that 1a- Folil will be allowed to pilot the Infiana for another season. Fohl ts popu lar with the players throughout the cir cuit, aud they are convinced that he will make good if the new owners give htm the material, or allow him a free hund to go out and get It. TRAINLOAD OF BUTCKS COMES TO OMAHA THIS WEEK H. II 8idles. president of the Nebraska Bulck Auto company, has returned from the Huick factory, where he made ar rangements with the Northwestern Rail way company to handle a fifty-carload train order of liulck cars, to h deliv ered into this territory, this tralnload to leave the factory this week. KITTY LEAGuTwiLL BE BACK IN FIELD THIS YEAR The organization of the K.-I.-T. Haae Pall league for 191 la certain, with Owensboro, Hopklnsville and Paducah, Ky., and Cairo, HI., as members and Kowllng Green and Henderson. Ky.. and Clarksville, Tttin., as possibilities. I aiilrn u Back. The fhkt man to to from Manager T'onovan squad of Mixty was Outfielder ten l.ayd n, who was transferred to Toronto. Matty In l.rnl fthapr. Christy MathWMon declares liin sho.ilder is net hurting linn and that he feels sure of laK'iig a grand conn back. I ATHLETICS BOOM AT THE UNI lly J IMF K. HWRF.XCK. LINCOLN, March R tFpei lal.)-ilty-elght of the i:) high school athletes, who participated in the Nebras a Mate High school basket ball tournament here last week, the largest ever held In the I'nlted States, have been picked by officials for the roll-of-honor. which takes the place of the All-State teams, which previous to this year had been picked at the con clusion of the championship scries. Of these sixty-eight honor basket ball players, thirty-three were members of Class A teams, twenty-two belonged to Class R and thirteen to Class C. ' Ouy E. Reed, manager of athletics at the University of Nebraska, who had direct charge of the tournament, waa responsible for the honor roll. lie felt the All-State teams did not afford the players Just recognition on account of thb limited number wnich could be chosen. Dick Rutherford, George Rncely rind Ed Hug?, captain of the IDlfi Dusker basket ball team, all or whom officiated In games throughout the tournament and who had an opportunity to witness all of the games, made up the honor roll lists. They took In consideration the work of each man before finally pushing upon his name. Beatrice Gets Fonr Men. Bentrlco leads all of tho teams, with four merr on the roll-of-honor In the Class A 'division, of which t lie Queen City boys were champions. Omaha got three men, Lincoln but one, I'nlversity Place three, Crete two, Columbus two and Geneva two. In Class R, Mlndcn ted with three rep rescntatlvcs, and In Class C Humboldt led with two. Following are the selections for the honor roll: CLASS A DlVISIOV. (11 raynter. Omaha; (21 Patty. Omaha: (3) Maxwell. Omaha; (4) Ward, lleatrice; (til Shelienberg. Hentrlce; ) Furrough, Beatrice; (7) Hubka, Beatrice; S Cvprea aon. Lincoln; () C. Frundell, Crete; (10) I-es Frundell, Crete; (11) Grieve, Central City; (K Corr. South Side: 1 131 Minn. South Side; (11) Schick, Hastings; 15) Amos. University Place; (lfi Payne, Unl veisity Place: 17 Marsh. Unlverslt Place; (18 Howarth. West Point: (lit) Hoot, School of Agriculture: cmi Mliul, Fairmont: (211 C. Nelson. Gothenburg: (2Ji Iirion, Cothenburc; (J.t) Gillen. Sew ard; (24i Zlllig. Seward: I2f.) Halley, He bron: uVi) C. Newman. Columbus: (27) R. Newmon, Columbus; (2M It. Hcnnlnger. Shelton: C2! C.lllsple. iiseeole; (3) C.er hart, Newman drove; (31) Holiecek, Wll-her- (32) Martin, (Seneva; (33) Aahton, tieneva. CLAPS R PI VIRION. ' (l) Anderson, Mlnden: (2) Carman, Mln rien: 3) Thompson, Mlnden; (4 Hollsteln, Stanton; (5) Hallou. Schuyler: (fi Fassett. Arlington: (7) Johnson. Arlington; (8) Hurner, Stanton: (9 Straver. Bethanv; (10) Carson. Fullerfon: (11) T.. Smith Grand Island: (12) V. Smith, Grand Isl and: (13) Klilam. Fremont; (14) Weber, Friend; (i: Hartley, Harvard; (1i Hinds, Kenesaw: (17) Mnngan. Kimball; (IS) Nay. Ord; (19) Kennedy. Rroken Row; (20) Closman. Sidney: (21) Snvder, Elm wood; (22) Miller. Falls Cltv. OLASC DIVISION. (1 Ppnveck. Ravenna: (2) W. Plllard. Temnle High: (3 Dorland. Humboldt; (4) Rohle. Humboldt: (5) Morris, Talmaae; (fi) Hummel, Wahoo; (7) Verlln. In rManMa; (S) Powell, Tllden; (9) Mockcl strcm, Wausa; (10) White, Genoa: (11) Peba. Dunbar:' (12) Holmes, Dunbar; (13) Lacejr, Osmond. . - ' AthlrHrs Take ftparr. Athletics at the university took a spurt during the week and preparation Is being made to take full advantage of the spring weather during the coming week. The track on the athletic field has been repaired and a new surface of cin ders put In for the sprinters. The tarack squad will commence outdoor training in earnest Monday, when tho track will be ready for use. The university tennis courts have been put into condition and Manager Reed had a force of men busy all week put ting the base hall diamond In shape for the opening of the Interdeparttnent games. The Huskers expect to cut a more prominent figure in tennis this spring with a large squad of availahles from which to pick teams. Tournaments will be scheduled with at least three Mis souri Valley schools. , Foot Ball Tirtdir. Assistant Coach "Dick" Rutherford wilt get the foot ball men together next Tues day for the first meeting of spring prac tice. Rutherford has outlined a stiff course for the gridiron followers during the spring session, and expects to do more than merely condition the men. He Says that he has assurance that fifty men will take part in the spring prac tice. Manager Reed announced he had de cided to enter a team In the Woung Men's Christian association Indoor meet In Omaha. He has not picked the men he well send to the metropolis, but will take along a big squad to represent the Husk ers In the big meet. Reed says that his track prospects are Improving each day and he expects the Huskers to have the best squad the school has had In years. GOLF TEAMTfTlIJNOIS ENTERS EASTERN TOURNEY URBANA. III., March IS. University of Illinois golf players will enter the eastern Intercollegiate neet as well as the con ference tournanent, according to George Huff, who is organizing the squad. John Simpson, vinner of last year's Indi vidual honors In the west, has been elected captain. WASHINGTON CLUB HAS TWO BOWLING QUINTETS When the big Atlantic Coast Rowling cliampioiiHhlii Is decided in Washington, D. C. In April, the Washington Amer ican league club will have two teams, one captained by Shortstop George Mc Pride and the other by Walter Johnson, the famous pitcher. CHICK DAVIES LEAVES BASE BALL ON ITS BACK Charles ("Chick") Davies, pitcher and outfielder of the Athleties for the past two seasons, announced tuat he had given up professional La ho ball permanently and would devote his tim to business affair. BILL CLARK. OLD-TIME PRIZE FIGHTER, IS DEAD ST. I.OUIS, March !. mil Clark, once a well known prize flyhter, died here to day, aged Ci. In h!a youth he wad noted in F.ngland as a bantam weight. To ring 1 follow en be was known as the "Belfast Chicken." unday BEATRICE HIGH SCHOOL BASKET BALL TEAM, CHAMPIONS OF NEBRASKA, winners of the state tournament at Lincoln. Top row, left to right: A. P. Hillyer (princi pal), J. 0. Schmidt (treasurer), E. Hubka, H. Ward, H. Cosford, M. F. Jones (coach). Bottom row: E. Smith, F. Stoll, E. Burroughs (captain), E. Schellenberg, C. Stevens. ( - tmS' mi M n fLVC" i i i. "Y" GYM CRACKS T0 HAYE OWN TOURNEY Seven Associations of State Entered in Gymnastic Tourney to Be Held as Part of Indoor Meet. WILL BE MADE ANNUAL EVENT A new annual competlon will be Inaugu rated at the big Indoor sjlhletlc and gym nastic meet which will be held at the Auditorium the night of March 31 under the auspices of the Omaha Young Men's Christian association. This new compeitton will be an annual gymnastic tournament for Young Men's Christ Ian associations of Nebraska. In the past the Young Men's Christian association athletes competed In the regu lar gymnastic division of the Indoor meet and that was practically the only com petition they took part In. But this year the "Y" lads will have an event all of their own. Thirty-one entries for this event hare been received. Three-man team from the associations of Omaha, Lincoln, Hastings, Columbus, Grand Island, York, Fremont and Seward are entered and It Is prob able one or two more team will enter be fore the lists close. This gymnastic event will be held every year from now on. It may be held at tho subsequent Indoor meets In Omaha or It may be transferred to some of the other associations of the state as a dis tinct event. I nlversllles K.nfrrd. K u tries In other division of the big tournament March 31 are rolling In fast. Kansas and Nebraska universities will both be represented and a number of the smaller colleges of Iowa and Nebraska, including Drake, Tarklo, Wcsleyan, Doane, Hastings, Kellevue and Omaha university, will be entered. An invitation has been extended to many high schools of the state to enter teams and it is probable that a number will accept It is expected that the Bea trice relay team, which won the state championship, willbe entered for a tilt with the other lnterscholastlc teams. Tamers Are omlna". Omaha turners will not have the gym nastic division of the tourney all their own way this year. Turners from Platta niouth and Fremont are coining for tho event and will give the local cracks a run for honors. Monday evening a meeting of the big boosters' committee will be held at the Young Men's Christian association. This committee ts composed of men who will conduct the sale of tickets for the event snd they will start work Immediately. As an Incentive for the ticket saleamen, a canoe and a Young Men's Christian Asso ciation park membership will he awarded the man who sells the most tickets to the meet. HANS LOBERT IS SHOWING HIS OLD-TIME SPEED AGAIN Reports from Marlln are particularly enthusiastic, about Hans Iibert. who Is aid to have waked up and is showing some of his old-time form. McOraw says Hans looks great and that he Is no longer worried about thiid base for the (Hants. Uiu Hamilton Weds. NF.W YORK. March 17.-Tbe engage ment was announced today of Mi-h II. leu Morgan Hamilton, riimuliter of Mr. anl Mis. William pierson Hamilton, and grariddaUKliter of the late J. P. Morgan, to Arthur Woods, police coinmUHloiier vt New York Clly. OMAHA, SUNDAY MOUXIX0, MARCH V:-' t ' BLUFFS GET THIRD PLACE Sensational Work by Puryear Ena bles Council Bluffs Five to Trim Sioux City. CEDAR RAPIDS WINS HONORS IOWA CITY. Ia.. March 1H. (Special Telegram.) Cedar Rapids displaced Fort Dodge for first place this afternoon and Council Bluffs outfought Sioux City for third place In the finals of the state cham pionship high school basket ball tourna ment. Both games were won by, the same score, U to 14. In both halves--of the championship game the Cedar Rapids five tossed In a counter Just a second before tho revolver hot ended the periods and this helped materially to give tho new slate cham pions the big margin c t points over Fort (Dodge. The final game of the tournament waa close from first to last, though Cedar Rapids had the lead every moment. Stellar work by H. Xremers featured the last encounter. The Cedar Raaplds guard held his men down to one basket and registered four himself, all of them pretty hots from the middle of the floor or be yond. Individually there waa little to choose between the two teams, but. col lectively. Cedar Rapids put up the best game. The victory of Council Bluff over Sioux City was a featureless contest for the most part. Puryear for Council Bluff put up a great game at center and counted for times from the field while holding the clever Mcnefee to on baskets. Lineup: CO. RLUFFfl SIOUX CITY. It K Fletcher I..F Itrson C Menefee Il( Ktogal l.; Montgomery Sl-eppard R.FV Mahonev N 11' Puryear C. Brewlck Rl. Inwery I.U. t.oals from rlelil: Mahoney Ml. Pur year 4, I .arson (41, Illegal ill. Fletcher. Ixiwery. Ooals from fouls: Puryear, t out of eleven; I.arstm, none out of five. Substitute: Morrison for Ixiwery. Ref eree: Hchroeder. I'mpire: Kellogg. Timer: Kent. Time of halves: 20 min utes. Leaders in Bowling Tourney Are Saved TOkKliO, o.. March H.-Spares In thu wrong place aaved the leaders in both the doubles and singles from beging de feated today in the American Bowling congress tournament, new second pluce holders showing up In the two-man event In Mattle Faets and Charley Hlldehrandt of Chicago, with 1.273, and a new sixth place In the singles In 8. Ardollnl of New Haven, with GCU. Two brilliant attacks failed in the singles, Ardollnl, one of the New Haven stars, shooting 66H, with spares In the fourth and ninth frames of his last game, which was all strikes otherwise, holding lilm down to sixth place. HURLER SUES YANKEES FCR SALARY HE DIDN'T GET Milton Baker, a New York pitcher, who waa signed to a Now York contract by Frank Fsrrell, and whom the new own era refused work last season, last week filed suit against the New York American League club for salary for 1HIS. Hilled by Dirt hilar. KAI.T UK'K CITY. March 17. Vincent Winter. 17 lean of a, naa instantly killed and two other stud- nts of the twit ter lny Saints' uutvertotv were Intuied by a fall of earth and sand here toila). Bee 19, 1M. s ' t v. GOTCH COMING TO ' OMAHAJS REPORT Retired Champion Will Stop Off Here on Way to Humboldt for Conference. SAID TO BE IN GREAT SHAPE That Frank Clotch. retired wrestling champion of the world, has finally de cided he will be able to stage a success ful come-back and that hi condition will warrant an encounter vlth' the sensa tional Joe Ptecher and that he la coming to Omaha the latter part of this month or the first of April for a conference rel ative to the staging of the world's cham pionship event In Omaha on Iahor day, la a report that reached Omaha from the Paclflo coast yesterday. It Is said that Qotch will leave Cali fornia shortly for his home at Humbolt, la., where ha Intends to stay a while be fore he Joins the circus with which ha la to appear this aummer. He will Join the show troupa In April. On his way noma to Humbolt, It Is aald, Gotch In tends to atop off In Omaha for a confer ence concerning the now evident event- There la no longer any question but what the match. If held, will be held In Omaha. There Is, of course, a chance that arrangement satisfactory to both Gotch and Stecher cannot be made, but this chance is small In the light of re rent happenings. Roth Stecher and Gotch have decided It will be much more sat isfactory to accept a percentage of the receipts than a guarantee such as Bat tle Creek. Mich.; Butte, Bloux City and several other cities are reported to have offered. The biggest offer so far was made by Hioux City, a sum of 160,000. This figure. It la believed, would be small Indeed compared to what would be taken In at Omaha, which Is the logical location for the event, due to the cloee proximity of both Dodge and Humbolt, the respective homes of Stecher and Oo!ch. With Omaha practically settled as the place for the event (Jene Melady will In all probability be the man to promote the affair. That Gotch is In great condition is evi denced by a letter received from him by "Farmer" Burns the other day. Gotch wrote the Farmer that he waa In splen did shape, as good as ever before In his life and would be ready to do battle with anybody with but little mora traln nltr. University of Utah Team Wins the Title CHICAGO, March " IS. -The National Amateur Athletic union basket ball cham pionship was won here tonight by the I'nlversity of rtah team, which defeated the Illinois Athletic club, in to 27. Klaats Beat M'aro. MARI.IN, Tex., March lS.-Tlie New .ih .suiloiiaia today defeated Waco, pennant winner of the Texas league, by the. score of 7 to . Doyle, Merkle and Fletcher distinguished themselves by sturdy hitting, I'oyle's record for the day Including a home run. Tie for First llai-. CHICAGO. March 1.-The Vnivemity of v hleugo anil Northwestern univeraity tUxl for firm place In the Big Nine con ference swim tonight. Kach scored 44 ikiiiiis Illinois whs next with 12 and l-connln lust with & MERCER WILL BE BACK IN GAME The greatest season In the history of tho exciting and thrilling sport la pre dicted by speed enthusiasts for the auto mobile racing game this year. Investigation of the plans of owners of the Iron chariots for the approaddnj season indicates that more fast machlnea will circle the speedways of the country than ever before. Several new make of machines will be In the field this year and a numler of the old stand-bys have built new machines. The first man to announce his plans for the year Is Fred Deusenberg, who hal three cars entered at Omaha last year. Deusenberg has built three naw m. chines. They are all alxteen-valv lobs. and the dope reads that all of thete car will hit the track at a clip of 110 to 113 miles an hour if the pilot chooses to open up. The Deusenberg machlnea last year were eight-valve Jobs and they we.-a capable of a 100-mlle clip. All Ynaac Pilots. Kddle O'Donnell, Pete Henderson and Wilbur D'Alene will drive the Deusen berg mounts. All of these pilots are youngsters. O'Donnell drove his first race at Elgin In 1914. Previous t that time he was mechanician to Edd'.a Rlck enbacher. O'Donnell Is a wizard at the wheel, however, and makes a capable captain for the Deusenberg trio. Ist year Eddie won second place In the Omaha race, as he did at Sioux City. He was third at Minneapolis, third a. New Y'ork. fifth at Indianapolis, third at Des Moines and first at Galeshurg. Henderson drove his first race at Des Moines last August. He acted as O'Don nell's mechanician In the Omaha race. D'Alene Is a Callfnrnlan, who drove In outlaw races last year and was Just re Instated by the American Automobile as sociation. Mercer Retarna. Joyous news to the speed enthusiasts is tho Information that the Mercer people will have a team on the speedways this year. Iist year there were no Mercer machines of KM) cubic Inches or less, a qualification demanded by all of tin speedway except those on the coast. Guy Rucksteli and Joe Thomas n" been working on the Mercers, and as Merrer has always turned out some of the fastest of all speed chariots, some ex citement can be expected when these ma chines go on tho track. Kddle Pullen, (Continued on Page Four, Column Four.i Muggsy McGraw Says No More Red N Men for His Crew NEW YORK. March l.-John McGraw la through with the Indians, red, white or blue. Not even another Pockalexls could get a contract with the New York club, said John Foster, for his experience with original Americana has convinced the manager of the Giants that the tempera mental Indiana are a liability. Jim Thorpe's contract with tho clnb hag an other season to run, and when that ex pires It looks like the curtains for tha red men as far as M oO raw's team la con cerned. The subject of Indians came up when Foster was asked what the New York club proposed to do with Jim Blue Jacket, tha pitcher, whose unconditional release by the Brooklyn Federals will send him back to the Giants. The Giants bought Blue Jacket from the Bloomtngton club of the Three-I league and Instead of reporting to McGraw. Jim hopped to the Brook feds. The New York club refused to pay Rloomlngton, but the National commis sion decided In favor of the minor leaguers. This decision will make tha Indian revert to the Giants by the terms of the peace agreement. Blue Jacket has asked to be taken back, but he has been offered no contract by the New York club. He spends his time repairing wagons for Oeorge Ward of tha ex-Brooklyn Feds. As a Federal leaguer Blue Jacket waa mora or less of a bloomer. Miner Brown once aald that tha redskin had tha maklnga of a. great hurler ha had all tha stuff In tha world, but tried to put It over every lime and did not use his head. Prof its on the Cubs Nearly a Thousand Per Cent at One Time CTNCINNATT, O.. March Jg.-Charlesi P. Tart. In his answer filed today In court to tha suit of Charles PchmaJstlg for 155, tw5, alleged to ba dua from Taft as the proceeds from the sale of100 shares of tho Chicago National - league club stock that was owned by Sch mail tig, revealed some of the profits of tha Chi csgo club. Mr. Taft saya that during tha period of seven years from 1907 to 191J, In clusive, the dividends upon tha capital stock of the club totalled 810 per cent. Un 1913 the disputes and controversies be tween officials of the National league and President Charles W. Murphy and the starting of the Federal league in 1914 reduced the earnings of tho Chicago Na tionals so that a dividend of only 10 per cent was declared In 1914 and only per cent for the year 1915. Taft admits that Pchmalatlg owned tha 100 shares of stock referred to In tha suit, but declares that there Is due BchmaJstlg only $8,253 of the SoOO.000 paid for tha clu by Charles Weeghman of Chicago. Bchmalstlg was formerly employed by Taft In his office In thla city. Cedar Rapids to Play Fort Dodge in Finals IOWA CITY. Ia.. March lS.-(Spedal Telegram.) Cedar Rapids and Fort Dodga ' by virtue of victories over Kioug City and Council Bluffs remain undefeated In the state high school basket ball champion ship tournament at the state university. Sioux City and Cauar Rapida In tha first game this evening put up tho hottest game of tha tournament, with accurate long shots piling up the score. Cedar Rapids took an easy lead. 21 to i, in tha first half and threatened to turn tha game Into a walkaway until the Sioux City five cams back in the second half and played their opponents to a standstill, winning the half, n to 5. but losing the game, 2" to 16. . Yu 11 got Cedar Rapids only basket In the second period, wh:e Fl ux City counted five times from lie f oor.
