THE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 5, 1916.
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Sturdy Wrestlers Grapple in
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Joe Stecher, . Pride of Dodge,
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STECHER WRESTLES;
STRANGLER STALLS
Two Big Grapplera Go Over
four Houri in Effort to
Get rail.
GREAT CROWD TO WITNESS
0oatlnne4 troaa tmgm U
Stecher droDDed to his kneea tin,- the
mt and gave Lewis the chance to
get behind Outiide of these gifts of
Stecher, neither wrestler got behind
for the firit four hours of tmseling.
They heid hauled and arm pulled, but
to no avail. Lewis wii nm mtmno
enough to keep Stecher at bit arnn'
lengtn, to mat the Dodge county
lad wat not able to twint hchinrf ,
to Jjab Lewis' legs for an advantage.
nc crowa was gooa nitured all
the war throush and cheered tn th.
echo every move that looked at all
as though it might turn to the ad
vantage ot eitner wrestler. The mul.
titude, and there were 10,000 of both
sexes in this multitude, waa. all keyed
up for some real sport and while
some of the wrestline fan dis
appointed, there were some who got
mto cujuxmini out oi everything.
They sang when the band played and
they drank all the soda pop they
could get their hands on; they ate all
the sandwiches the concessionaire
could get hold of and they yelled for
Stecher.
The preliminaries nroved nnlta In.
teresting. In the first Owen Daily of
Nebraska threw C E. Seelev. in.
structor at the Omaha Young Men's
Christian association in fmir min,
ana mree seconds, and ten minutes
ana eignt seconds. -..
The match between ChrUt Tn.
dan of Nebraska and Kid Ross of In
diana went to a thirty-minute draw.
Villagers Fire
Revolutionary Cannon
Hughes Sleeps On
BridKehamoton. N. Y Ti,1 ' 1'
Charles E. Huihes motnreri to t'h
neighboring village of East Hamp
ton today to review the Fourth n
July preparedness parade and see a
baseball game. He did not expect
in mane a apeecn. iomght Mr.
Hughes will attend a Fourth of Tnlv
celebration here.
Enthusiasts marched un the rnaH tn
the nominee's home about 1 o'clock
this morning and fired the village can
non, a weapon that has had no active
service since the revolutionary war.
The roar awakened the village, but
the nominee, fatigued by a long day's
work, apparently slept through it.
Parker Sticks to the
Middle of the Road
New Orleons. La.. lulv 4. In a
telegram sent today to the third con.
gressional committee of the progres
sive party in Louisiana, John M. Par
ker, the progressive vice presidential
nominee, urged the progressives to
continue the tight against the demo
crats and to stand by their convic
tions "unterrified by desertion and
fearless of any opposition."
"We should demand immediate
resignation of those endorsing other
parties," he said, "should strictly ad
here to our principles and ask the
support and co-operation of all parties
working for national good and human
welfare. We are not seeking to get
into the bandwagon. Our principles
are either right or wrong, and as long
as we firmly, believe we are right, let
us continue the fight."
Asked if this telegram indicated he
would not support either the republic
an or democratic nominees for presi
dent but would insist on the progres
tives keeping a ticket in the field, Mr.
Parker said "he presumed it did."
Motorcycle Rider Badly
Hurt on Dodge City Track
Dodge City,' Kari., July 4. Paul
Gott of Peoria, III., was severely in
jured this afternoon when he fell
from his motorcycle in the fourteenth
mile of the third annual 300-mile
motorcycle race.
Gott was going at a high speed
when he lost control of his machine
and rolled off the track. He was in
jured internally. ,
Officials of the Dodge City Motor
cycle Speedway association, under
whose direction the race, was Ijeld, de
clared a new dirt track record for
100 miles was set by Floyd Clymer
of Greeley, Colo., who rode the first
third of the race in 1 hour, 12 min
utes and 45 seconds! The previous
record wafc 1 minute and 33 seconds
slower.
Medicine Bow Forest
. , Damaged by Fierce Fire
Laramie. Wyo.. July 4. Fanned by
a high wind, a forest fire near Fdx
Park, in the Medicine Bow National
forest;' is reported to' be. spreading
rapidly and threatening destruction of
considerable valuable timber. v
Labor Chiefs of United States
And Mexico Ask for Peace
Washington, July 4. An appeal to
the ; governments and the people of
the United States and Mexico to do
everything possible to avoid war, was
issued here tonight by a loint com
mittee of officials of organized labor
in the two countries. It is suggested
that a commission of Mexicans, and
Americans be appointed to adjust ex
isting differences, which are. declared
due to "misunderstanding growing out
of inadquate or incorrect ' informa
tion." -
German Spies Aboard British
Troop Ship Leaving Halifax
New York, July 4-Passengers ar
riving here today on the steamer Flor
izel from Halifax. N. S.. declared that
on June 30, two German spies, carry
ing explosives, were discovered on .the
British troopship Olympic as it was
about to leave Halifax for England
with nearly 6,000 Canadian troops
aboard. The two men were brought
ashore and put in jaiL . , . , i
INDIANS LOSE ONE
AND WIN SECOND
After Letting: Tigers Wallop
Them Two to Six, Come Back
, With Six to Three Win.
SENATORS WIN AND LOSE
Cleveland, Ohio, July 4. Cleveland
after losing the. morning game 2 to 6
evened up with; Detroit today by win
ning the, afternoon, 6 to 3. Detroit
led in the afternoon game until the
last half of hte seventh when two
doubles, two singles, an intentional
pass to Speaker and a sacrifice fly
netted tour runs, teen ot the Ueve
land players made one hit. none get
ting any more. Wambsganss played
a brilliant came at second.
In the morning game Boland held
ueveiana to tnree nits ana struck out
ten men, the locals getting their runs
in ' the fifth on Smith's home run,
Gandil's single which got away from
Veach and went for three bases, and
an infield out. Score first game:
CLEVELAND. DETROIT. '
AS H OJLB. AB.H.OJLB.
Ortntr.M 4 0 10 ivlttlb 4 10 10
Chap'sn,M 1 0 I I OBuih.M j 1 1 M
9pMkar,o( till SK'lmaa.af 0 10 0 0
SmUh.rf 4 10 0 lCrtwrd.rt 4 110 0
OuiSlf.lk 4 10 1 0V.ioh.lif j 1 I 1
lli.lt 4 10
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iMb ill
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Bub,p 10 1
Coumb,p ISO
BW
Bvani
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lBurni.ll 4 10 10
OTounf.lb S 1 1 1 0
0Stma.,o s Oil 0 0
0Bol&n2.D 0 1 B 0
oumtn.D l o 0 i o i
Hot 0 0 0 0 0 TateK..SS10ITU.l
Totala.. so s trio"!
I DmtUd tor Beebfl IB ttw fifth.
Oatralt S 0 0 1 I S 0,0
CMveltno) .... 0 0 0 S 1.0 0 0
Tw bus htni Vltt, Crawford. Thru
Duo Alto: Bmh. Homo cuno: . Smith,
stolon moo: Bvano. Doublo cl&yi: Chan.
maa, Howard and Oaacll; Tounc. Buab and
Bursa; Bvana, Oandll, Chapman, CTNall and
inapmaft. . uaae on balla: OR Booba 1
Boland 4. Mlta and aarnod runa off Booba
0 htta and 4 runa In 0 lnnlnsa; off Co umbo
i nit no runa in 4 inninsal on Boland l run.
Struck out by Baebo I; Coumbo Si Boland
10, umplroa: uniu and Dtnaan.
CLEVELAND. ' DETROIT.
AB.H.O.A.H. AB.H.O.A.B.
Or.nejr.lf 0 110 OVItt.Sb 0 1 1 S 0
W b's'a.lb 4 1 I S 0Buah.aa I I I I I
Sp'kor.cf 3 1 0 0 0H'lman,e( 4 0 10 0
QandlUb S 1 II 1 OCr'ford.rf 4 0 4 0 0
Ch'p'n.aa I 1 I i 0Vaach,lt 4 110 0
aTana,as i a i otjurna.in 11 l a
O'Nalll.o 114 1 OTouna.Ib 4 19 10
C'v'kla,p 4 111 OStanasa.0 4 14 10
Jamaa.D s l o I l
Totals 00 S IT It lC'n h'm.p 0 0 0 0 0
'Kavan'h 110 0 0
. Totala IB 11 14 H 1
'Batted for cnnnlnaham In ninth.
Datrolt .. 0 0 0 0 I 1 0 0 01
Clavaland ...10001040 a0
Two-baaa hlta: Oandll, oranay, Chapman,
Touns- Thraa.baae hlta: Burna. Stolen
baae: Speaker. Double playa: Wambasanaa
to Oandll; Burna to Touns. Baaea on balla:
Off Covoleaklo, 2; off Jamoa, 4. Hlta and
earned runa: Off Jamoa, 0 hlta, S runa In
five lnnlnsa; off Cunntneham, no hlta, no
runa In ono Inning; off Covoleaklo, 1 run.
Struck out; By Covaleakle, I. by Jamoa, 1;
by Cunningham, I. Umpires: Dlneen and
Chill.
Philadelphia, July I. Hard hlttlnt by
Beaton and poor fleldlns by Philadelphia
Save the vlaltora an . oaay victory thla
momma. 11 to I. Hoonor and Hoblltaol
were the atar bateman for Boa ton, the
former making a triple and two atnslee and
tna latter setting throe singles, aoore:
BOSTON. PHILADELPHIA.
AB.H.O.A.B. - AB.H.O.A.E.
Hoopor.rf 1110 OWIttaa S 0 I I 1
Berry.Sb. (IIS OKlng.cf 41100
Lewla.lf 4 110 0Schang.lt 4 10 0 0
HoblH.lb 5 S I 0 IJTe.2b-lb 4 I II 4 1
Qalner.lt 0 0 0 0 OWalah.rf 4 0 10 0
waiker.cf s l I o opiok.so 4 110 1
Qard'r.Sb 1114 OHcEL.lb 0 0 10 1
McN'ly.lb 0 0 0 0 OLawry.lb 4 1111
Scotl.se 4 111 IMeyer.o I 1 I S 0
Thomaa.o 4 17 1 0Haa'lbr.,p I 0 0 I 0
Leonard.p 12 10 0
s xotaia. .as o 81 it 7
Totala.. 41 11 17 10 0
Boaton I 0 I 0 0 0 0 1 011
Philadelphia ,0 0 0 0 0 1 1 01
Two-baae hlta: King, Schang. Three-baae
hlta: Hooper. Schang. Home run: Lajole.
Stolen baaea: Gardner, Scott, Walker. Sac
rifice files; Thornaa, Oardner. Double playa:
Bcott,. Barry and Hoblltael; Witt, Lawry
and LaJoi; Lawry and Lajole. Plrat on or
rora: Boaton, 4. Baaea on balla: Leonard,
1: Haseelbacher, I. Hlta and earned rune:
Off Leonard, 8 hlta.' I runa In nine tnntnga;
off Haseelbacher, 10 hlta, 7 runa In nine..
Struck oul: By Leonard, 7: Haaaelbacher,
1. Umplron: Hllderbrand and O'Loughlfn.
BOSTON. PHILADELPHIA.
AB.H.O.A.E. AB.H.O.A.E.
Hopper.rf 4 0 10 OWalah.rf 4 0 0 1 0
Brrny.ab 4 113 OKIng.aa 4 0 3 1 I
Lewla.lt 4 0 8 0 OStrunk.lb 4 112 0 1
H'b's'Ub 8 1 18 0 Ogchang.cf 4 10 3 0
Walker.cf 118 0 OLajole.lb I 1 I 5 0
Q'dner.Sb 4 111 OPIck.lb S 0 I I 0
Scott.sa .18 11 OL'nnlng.lf 10 10 0
Thomas.c 4 1 t'l OMeyer.o I 0 8 3 0
Ha,ya.p 4 10 1 lBuah.p 8 0 0 3 0
Totola II 0 27 8 1 Totals II 8 37 10 4
Boston O S 0 1 0 3 0 0 06
Philadelphia .0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 02
Two-base hit: Bcott. Home run: Schang.
Double playa: Pick. Lajole; Strunk (unas
sisted). Baaea on balla: Off Bueh, 8. Earned
runs: Off Maya, 8; off Bush, 8. Struck out:
By Maya, 4; by Bueh, I. Umpire! : O'Lough
lln and Hlldebrand.
" . Yanks and Senators Divide.
Washington. July 4. New Tork and
Washington divided honora In two games
here today. In the forenoon game Shawkey
and Harper pitched a- tight duel until the
ninth, when he latter weakened and New
Tork acored the' only run of the game.
Washington won In the afternoon. 0 to 4.
driving Kieher from the box In the third
inning after he had akklwed eight hlta and
six runa. Horn runa by HcBrlde and
Baker featured the afternoon. McBrlde
scqred two men ahead of him. Baker'a
hit hit the top of the right field fence
and bounded over. Score first game:
WASHINGTON. NEW TOniC
AB.H.O.A.E. AB.H.O.A.E.
Moeller.rf 4 0 2 1 OBaum'n.rf 4 12 0 0
Foster.2b 4 0 13 Alllirh.lf 1 7 a a a
kMllRn.cf' 8 1 4 0 OPVp'li.sa 4 14 4 0
Hfcanke.Sb 2 0 0 1 OPIpp.lb 8 1 II 0 0
Judge.lb 8 10 0 ORaker.Sb 4 3 2 1 0
Jam"aon,lf 3 13 0 OMagee.cf 4 0 0 0 0
Henry.c 3 1 0 1 0Uedeon,2b 1 0 8 4 0
MrB'dcsa 8 0 Sj I ONun'ker.o 3 113 0
Harper,p 8 0 0 0 OSh'wkey.p 3 0 0 4 0
Stole aocond and acored on Eddie Collins'
olngle for the winning run.
The' vlaltora won the first game when
Weaver's wild throw to third, allowed Aue.
tin to score In the ninth Inning. Score
first game:
ST. LOUIS. CHICAOO.
AB.H.O.A.E. AB.H.O.A.E.
Shotton.lf 110 0 OFelsch.cf (0100
Austin. lb 4 3 0 ( OW'v'r.l-as ( 2 2 4 0
Hlller.rf 0 10 1 0B.CTa.2b 4 1110
Slsler.lb I Oil 1 0Jkson.lt (21(0
PratMb I I I I OJ Cllns.rf 13 10 0
Mr'ns.cf 0 0 8 0 OFrn'r.lb 10 13 10
Lavan.ee ( 0 2 0 IMrhalk.c 40 11 I t
STver'd.o 1113 1 Wright. sa 2 0 2 1 3
H'm'ton.s 8 0 11 O-Noss 1 0 0 0 0
'Hartley 1 0 0 0 ovir'te ih a a a A A
Oroom.p 1 0 0 0 0WIII mo.p 2 0 0 0 0
tool OCIeotte.p 10010
Rueaall.B I 1 1 I 1
Totals 47 Willi 4
Totala 42 11 30 12 2
Two out when winning run aeored.
Batted for Hamilton In seventh.
Batted for Wright In twelfth.
St. Louis OOOOIOSIItOO 00
Chicago 4 00000002000 1
Thtws baae nils: Pratt, I; Shotton, 1
Auetia. , Stolen bases: Weaver, I. Double
piaye: Hamilton and Meier: Austin,
Pratt and Staler; Clootte, Fournlar and
Schalk; Pratt and Lavan. Baaea on balla:
Off Hamilton, I: off Williams. I; off Cl
ootte, I; off Plank, 1. Hlta and earned
runa: Off Hamilton, I hlta and 1 run In
tlx Innings: oft Oroom, 1 hits and 1 run
In 4 and one-third Innings; oft Plank, 4
hlta and 1 run In two and one-third In
nings; oft Wtlllame, 0 hlta and 4 runa In
seven and one-third Innlnge; off Clootte, 1
hit and I runa In ona and one-third In
ning; off Ruaaell, no hlta and no runs In
four and one-third lnnlnsa. Struck out: By
wuiiama, ioj by Hamilton, si by oroom 0;
by Clootte, li by Ruaaell. l. Umplroa:
atvana ana rtaiiin.
T. LOUIS. CHICAOO.
AB.H.O.A-E. AB K.O A.S1
Bhotten.lf 4 1 2 0 0Pelnh.of 4 0 110
Aueun.so I 0 I tw-rlb-aa 4 0 0 0
Mlller.rf 4 0 1 0 0E. Col'.lb 4 1110
t l 18 o ojacK.oon.ir 4 0 3 0 0
Slsler.lb
tratt.lb 4 118 0E.Col'a.tk 4 1110
110 0 0
Mara'na.ef 11(0 OPour'r.lb
.e- 110 10
Willi
L.2b 1 0 0 0 0
p i s s i o
Lavan,aa 10 11 OSchalk.er 111
'WM a i a v ewrlgnta
auuu, p s u o s ev. Hoi.
Totals.. 7I7 81 i"I ,"M",P
Totala.. 20 4 IT t 1
St. Louis 0 0 0 I 0 S 1 S 11
t;nioago t o t s s 0 1 0 0 1
Two-baaa hits ! flevoreld. flhflttan. Phrao.
base hlta: Jackaon. Slater. Schalk. Austin.
Stolen baaee: Schalk. Austin. Sacrifice kit:
Wright. Double playa: Koob to Lavan to
rratt Bcott to a. vo ina to rovrnlor.
on balla: Off Koob. : off Soett. 1. Hlta
and earned runa. Off Koof, S and 1 la nine
inninga; off Scott, 7 and 1 In nine lnnlnsa
Struck out: Koof, 1; Soott, 4. Umplraal
nallan ana avane.
HAL H'KINNEY WINS
AT BEATRICE RACES
Famous Pacing Stallion Bests
Colombia Fire in Straight
Heats in Free-for-All,
STATE MASK FOB A THIRD
'Totals. .3 7 4 27,10 0 Totals . 1 7 27 18 0
Wa:,hlngton , . ...0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
New Tork ...0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11
Two base hlta: Baker. Three baae hit:
Judge: Stolen baae: Henry. Double playa:
Moeller and Judge; Poeter; McBrlde and
Judge. Baaea on balls: Off Harper 2;
off 8hawkey 2. Earned rune: Off Harper
1. Struck out: By Harper, 4; by Shawkey,
S. ITmplree: Owens and ponnolly. Score
second game:
NEW TURK. ' WASHINGTON.
AB.H.O.A.E. AFLHrtAnj
Hartael.rf (010 OMoeller.rf ( 2 2 0 0
Hlgh.lf (110 0Pcster,2b 4 10 2 0
P'k'p'h.as 4 111 OMilan.cf 4 14 0 0
ripp.io , o i i vnnanKa.SD 4 14 2 1
Baker.Sh 4 10 1 OJnriva.lh a 1 11 A i
Magee.cf fill OJam'aon.lf 2 0 0 0 0
Oedeon,2b 112 1 OHenry.o 4 2 I 00
Nun'ker,o 0 0 2 0 lMcB'de.aa 4 10 4 0
Waltars.o I ( l'Oaallla.p 2 10 2 0
risner,p t e e l 0
RusselCp 1 0 0 0 0 Totals.. 22 1117 11 2
Tuaiawau i e t o o
Totals.. 84II410T
New York 0 0 0 1 0 1 8 0 04
Washington 1 0200040 I
Batted for Hueaell In ninth.
Two baeo hlta; Moeller, Pecklnpaugh.
Thret baeo hlta: Shanks, High. Homo
rune: McBrlde. Baker. Stolon baaee:
Miller, Judge. Double playa; Oedeon and
Plpp. . Baaea on balls: Off Plahor, 4; off
Oallla, I: off Ruaaell, 1. Hits and earned
runet Off Platter 0 htta and I runa In two
and two-thlrda lnnlnsa; Off Raaaell, 4 hlta
and no runs In five and one-third Innlnge;
off Oallla, 4 runa. Btruok out: By Oallla,
I; by Plahor, 11 by Russell, I. Umpires:
Owens1 anal Oonnally. ,
, Dirldo Doable Hoaotar. .
Chleage. Jaly 4. Chicago and St. Louis
broke, oven today when the former won
the afternoon game 7 to 0 In thirteen
lnnlnsa. wbila the latter took the morn
ing game 3 to 1.
B. Mia piayeq an upnui same tn me
afternoon contest after the looals had
taken a tour run lead, and want ahead In
the nl4J). Jackaon'a triple, and Serereld'a
error following Weaver's single enabled
Chifiago to Us ttw count. Weaver s single,
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3 3
Beatrice, Neb., July 4. (Special
Telegram.) Horse races, hose races,
water fights and fireworks made up
(he celebration of the nation's birth
day here today. The horse races was
the big attraction, over 2,500 people
witnessing the best program seen
here in years. , , .
The matched race betwrrn Hal
McKinney and Columbia Fire, won in
straight heats by the former,' was a
half-mile track record-breaker in Ne
braska for a third heat, the timo hi. no-
2my4.
Tom Dennison expects to take hii
horse to Omaha tomorrow and will
their take him eist. orobablv to Pe-
oorii, 111,, to give him a three weeks'
workout on a mile track. He contem
plates entering the famoas. pacing
stallion in the big noise.
ine results:
1:17 trot. nursjA isoo-
oreac Northern
Luana
Charley Bower
AMIS LMU ,
Sparta Quean
Pronto J
Timothy Hall
Tima: 3:18, 1.1114. J:17
Hatch.! mre. curse 1300 : Mul Mrtwi.
ney won three itralsht heata with Colum
bia Flra. Time: 3:09, 2:0914, t;08U.
i:2i pace, puree 1500:
Bob FltMlmmona. ir 1 11
Frank Hollo way Ill
Fred ,HU1 s
Tanner Miliar 4 j I
MUs Imbro r l b
Ida Won '( 1 I
Time; 3:I4t4. 3:li, t:lt,
2:14 Bane, nurae 1 500;
Moien zrdo j )
Symbol tte 4
Bvelyn Patchen .j j
4ime: aiiWH. 3:1b.
Hughes Begins to
"Study Carefully
Campaign Details
Bridgeliainton,' N. Y., July 4.
v.naries c. nugnes today began a
careful detailed study of all phases
of the approaching campaign a task
which will engross his entire atten
tion during the rest of his stay here.
For 'more than a month he expects
to do little else than study and equip
himself to discuss in detail all issues
of the campaign.
Hundreds of documents, letters, re
ports, newspaper clippings and sug
gestions have been arranged for his
attention and lie in a Ijattcry of letter
files in his library. The nominee ex
pects to read them all.
Rain caused Mr. Hughes to spend
almost all his time in his library to
day. The Fourth will be observed quietly
at home by the nominee. Early
Wednesday he will go to New York
for a two days' stay.
Railroad Men Make
Clear Their Demands
Spokane, Wash., Jur 4. Officials
of four principal railway employes'
brotherhoods made public today reso
lutions adopted at a mass meeting
last night, which declared that the
managers of the railroads of the
United States had misrepresented the
men before the public at recent con
ferences at New York Citv. Sneak
ers at the meeting declared that their
chief demand was an eight-hour day
and not an increase of wages. Reso
lutions were also adopted condemn
ing newspspers, which the men claim
have misrepresented them in the con
troversy. The employes declared
their patriotism to the United
States, and nledored the organizations
of workers to man all trains that may
oe necessary in tne event ot war.
The meeting was attended bv mem
bers of the Brotherhood of Railway
Trainmen, Order of Railway Conduct
ors, Brotherhood ot Locomotive En
gineers, Brotherhood of Firemen and
Enginemen and unorganized switchmen,
DE PALMA VICTOR
ON TWIHCITY WAY
Wins 150-Mile Automobile
Derby at Average Speed of
Over Ninety-One Miles.
JOHNNY AITKEN SECOND
Fort Snelling, Minn., July 4. Ralph
de Palma today won the' 150-mile
Automobile Derby at the Twin' City
Motor Speedway here, covering the
distance in one hour, 38 minutes 49
and 24-100 seconds and average speed
of 91.08 miles an hour.
Johnny Aitkenlndianopolis, finish'
ed second, nearlv a Ian behind De Pal.
ma and J. C Christians, Brutels, Bel-
Siumji Tom Milton, St, Paul and Ed
ie O'Donnell, Chicago, finished in
the order named. Earlv in the race
both Aitken and Christaens pressed
de Palma hard for first place and later
the lead aee-sawed between de Palma
and Aitken for early JO miles.
Foster at Dm Moines.
De Palma made better time at the
Des Moines, Is., June 24, when his
average was yi.tw miles per hour.
The start of the race was delaved
two hours while speedway promoters,
drivers ana ocncisis ot tne American
automobile association held several
hurried conferences regarding prise
money.
At the hour set for the race the
drivers announced they would not
start until the $20,000 prise fund had
been placed with Association officials
or other adequate guarantee provided.
tr:H.ii.. eonno u . i .
check for $12,000 given and an order
lor speedway bonds to the extent
of $100,000 issued as a guarantee for
tne check.
Oat Receipt 8mall.
A review of Minnesota National
Guardsmen was held prior to the race
and promoters had agreed to con
tribute ten per cent of the gross gate
receipts to tne state brigade fund. No
provision for this was made at the
conference regarding distribution of
tunds ana it was later announced py
State Auditor Preuss and other offi
cials that hte matter would be placed
before the state attorney general
The gate receipts were said to be
small.
Because of the late hour of starting
it was necessary to abandon the twen
ty mile, fifty mile and ten mile races
included in otday's cards.
Southwest Iowa
, Tennis Play Soon
Entrv blanks for the Southwestern
Inwa Lawn Tennis association's Fifth
annual tournament, to be held on the
courts of the Council Bluks Rowing
association at Lake Manawa, were
mailed vesterdav to 3b0 tennis play
ers in sixty towns of Southwestern
Iowa. .. .
Harry Van Brunt, of Council Bluns
will be referee.
This vear s tournament, by begin
ning Monday instead of Tuesday, by
having beautiful cups for prizes in
stead of tennis material, and by hav
ing a straight entrance fee of $1.50 t
player for the singles and $1 a
player for the doubles, differs from
those of former years. The Boat
club has put up three large cups to
be presented to the winners of the
championships, in addition to. the re
gular tournament cups.
Window Display
Proves an Enigma
To Curious Omaha
An enigmatic problem that puzzled
hundreds of curious Omahans pre
sented itself in the window of the
Merritt drug store on Sixteenth, be
tween Farnam and Harney streets,
vesterdav.
A small bottle of Fermilac, strung
by a couple of wires, poured a con
tinuous stream of the liquid into a
small tumbler all day long. But the
little bottle never emptied and the
tumbler never became quite full. And
st ill the stream flowed on.
One passerby took one look and
declared it wasn't possible. Another
said the stream was made of tissue
naner keot in motion by an air cur
rent. But this solution wasn't satis
factory because it didn't account for
the foam on the glass.
Divers other opinions were ex
pressed, but none of them satisfied.
The Merritts certainly had Omaha
guessing yesterday.
19 Latin-American
Countries Pledged
To Resist Yankees
Mexico City, July 4. An open let
ter was published today signed by
S. Cosme Zafra, in which an agree
ment was cited which was said to
have been entered into by nineteen
Latin-American countries to resist
aggression by the United States. This
agreement is said to have been signed
by the representatives ot tne nineteen
countries at Saragossa, Spain, on No
vember 19, 1908. According to Zafra's
letter the signers swore by the image
of the "Virgin of the Pillar" to act
unitedly in the case of any single
country or group of Latin-American
republics being threatened by the
United Mates.
Two Holdups and a
Robbery Are Reported
L. S. Mistachkin, 2542 Davenport,
waa walking through the Central
High school grounds Monday night
about H o clock, in company with his
wife and sister when the trio wss held
up and Mistachkin robbed of a bill
roll containing $13.80.
Thomas Christensen, 1328 Avenue
F, was strongarmed by two negroes
and robbed of $50 on Tenth street be
tween Dodge and Douglas Monday
night. .
Morton Mints, Harlan, la., reports
the loss of $45, stolen from his room
at the Ivy lodging house, 1315 Doug
las street.
Read Bee Want Ada for profit Use
them foe results. ,
Ed Lewis, Toughest Match
Champion Ever Met
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