Judgments
WHILE the Hot Stove league
this winter will miss those
choice morsels of base ball
politics provided by the
-' Ftderal league the last
three winter seasons, it will find a
new subject in the world's series. The
1916 world's series didn't make much
of a hit and already murmurs have
been heard Because too much
stress has been laid upon the finan
cial gains to be made, some sugges
tions have been advanced that the
post-season event be abandoned for
'a few years.. The bugabear of com
mercialism has threatened the exis
tence of professional base ball a num
ber of times in the last few years.
The Federal league, bringing out as
it did the greediness of the players,
gave the fans a bad taste. Of course,
one cannot condemn a player for try
ing to increase the size of his pay
envelope as much as possible, but
there is no getting around the fact
that it has a tendency to injure the
sport, of the game. This fall again
the price of the world's series tickets
was increased. In addition the Spirit
or lack of spirit of the Brooklyn
players was severely criticised. Some
have openly charged that the Robins
after the first game let the series slide,
content to pick up the loser's end
and caring little about the champion
ship itself. Base ball is America's na
tional pastime. If it wasn't it would
have been run into the ground long
ago. But it needs a doctor badly and
perhaps it wouldn't be such a poor
plan to abolish the world's series for
a couple of years just to remove that
taint of commercialism.
That in International flavor will be
" added to the American league by the
removal of the Washington franchise
to Toronto is a report gaining favor.
Toronto was the only city in the In
ternational league that made money
this year and it is said base ball heads
believe it is ripe for a major league
club. Washington has never been
much of a money maker. If Toronto
made money this year, handicapped
by the European war, it ought to be
a major league town at least when
the strife is over. ,
Two years ago when the National
Association of Professional Base Ball
Leagues held its convention in Omaha
forty odd minor leagues were repre
sented. When it meets in November
in New Orleans the list will have
dwindled to less than twenty-five. It's
no wonder the little fellows are get
ting alarmed, and it ought to be a
signal for the big fellows to lend a
helping hand, although, we will have
to admit, they prooaDiy won t.
Ban Johnson is authority for the
statement that the American league
attracted 1,000,000 more fans this year
than during 1915. Of course, the tight
race had something to do with this
increase in the business, but it's just
is certain that the absence of the Feds
had its share. The magnates were
wise all right to wipe out the out
laws; 1,000,000 persons at an average
of about 60 cents a head is consider
able of a gain.
Thev are firing both Rowland and
Tinker in Chicago every thirty min
utes tnese aays. lying me unming
tinware to athletics is a popular pas
time in the Windy city. They fired
Heinie Zim for over a year and ti
nallv accomplished the feat. Now
. they're trying to fire two -at once,
' showing that ambition lies in every
human breast, providing you can call
a base ball scribe Human.
. Washington and Philadelphia, it is
said, are the only two American
league clubs which lost money this
year. But in the National league the
Giants, Phillies and Robins were the
only ones to show a profit at the
end of the year. The other clubs
were lucky if they broke even. And
in the minors, speak of it not.
- Just as trap shooting was becoming
one of the most DODular of American
sports the price of powder took flight
for those same ethereal regions oc
cupied by coal, sugar and bread and
it's getting so a guy has to ruin a
" savings account or hock his automo
bile in order to smash up a handful
of the blue rocks.
Tt.A.. mnr TIol fhaa aria tit "ra1
leader of the hitters in the National
league. And yet Mcutrty, wno turned
in a better average, played in ninety
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athlete is a slave of circumstance
these days. The four-days. Cub-Sox
series was so poorly attended the win
ners only made $suu ana ine losers
$400. , Tough lines, indeed, for four
days work.
If those university lads had suc
ceeded in bumming their way to
Portland with the Cornhusker eleven
thev would be able to boast of an
achievement that would make the
celebrated A No. 1 turn green with
envy.
.Harry Sinclair denies that he has
made any dickers tor the Brooklyn
franchise. Evidently Harry believes
that enough is a sufficiency and he
got enough acting as angel de luxe
tor the late lamented feds. ,
Jack Barry couldn't play in the
world's series 'because of a sore mitt,
but we d risk a tew spare nickels that
he didn't have, any trouble endorsing
that world's series check just the
same. '
Rube Marquard has "taken up the
stump for Wilson. , If the public has
no more respect for the Rube's words
than the Red Sox batters had for his
curves oh, well, why rub tt in?
You have got to hand it to Tex
Rickard; he's got a lot of big-city
ideas. And he generally makes, the
wise boys back up, too.
One would believe those Trinity
' and Bellevue gridiron warriors must
. have thought they were playing on a
base ball field.
The farmer might have been en
thu.astk over the snow last week
but the goHer didn't go crazy over it
It's about time for the 'rasslers"
:o start their pernicious work again
isn't it?
All right, let's have your guess
AMATEUR FOOT BALL
PLAYERSSO MODEST
Nonpareils Continue to Be Only
Band Willing to Tackle Any
body and Everybody.
OTHERS STAT m B CLASS
By FRANK QUIGLEY.
From present' indications, the Sun
day foot ball followers will have to
confine their enthusiasm mostly o
the Class B teams this season, be
cause most all of the Class A leaders
have given over, the strenuous sport.
The Nonpareils are about the only
ones left in the top classification and
they are getting lonesome.
Bluffs Lads Peevish,
Those Council Bluffs organizations
are somewhat peeved at their Omaha
neighbors because the lads on this
side of the Muddy are not favorably
inclined to display their wares in
Council Bluffs. Turn about is fair
play, but the Omaha managers won't
even concede that- it is. lhey tell
the Council Bluffs chiefs they will
play them in Omaha and will not
even listen to a proposition of
scheduling two games, one in Omaha
and the other in Council Bluffs. The
stand taken by the managers is
prompted by the players. To date
only one Omaha team, namely the
Mazdas, nas played in Council Blurts.
It is probable that a team will ke
mustered together in the north end
for the purpose of battling the Non
pareils for the championship. This
squad will be known as the Mon
mouth Parks and will consist of part
of last year's Monmouth Park team
and other stars formerly affiliated
with Class A organizations. There is
plenty ot Class A talent available
and it could be easily plastered to
gether if the proper leader was se
cured to forward auch a move.,
Games Today. .
In all probability the best bout
on the bill of fare today will be the
struggle between the Ducky Holmes
and the Dundee Woolen Mills, billed
tor Ducky Holmes park at 3.30 p.
m. Unless something happens to mar
the arrangements made between the
Miller Parks and the thirtieth street
Merchants, they will put on the pre
liminary show ,at the aforementioned
park about 1:30 p. m..
this morning the Athletics planted
themselves on a smoke machine
headed for Dunlap, la., where they
will lock horns with the fast oval
manipulators stationed there.
On the Municipal lot, Thirty-second
and Dewey avenue, a new squad known
as the Tigers will line up against the
Mohawks at 3 p. m. Although their
ability is unknown, followers of the
Tigers say they will give the Mo
hawks a warm reception.
Riverview park will be the scene
of a grand mixuD this afternoon at
3 o'clock, when the Nourse Oil gang
win cnaeaver to cnecK tne uerman
Shamrocks.
Over in Council Bluffs at Athletic
park, the C. B. Midgets and the
Mazdas will tangle; These two teams
are approximately evenly matched,
so a good (tiff argument is looked
for. . .. .. , ; c
At 1:30 p. m. on the gridiron at
Fontenelle park, the Fontenelle Re
serves and the Thirty-third and Cali
fornia Street Merchants will bump.
Although the Reserves lost last Sun
day, they are coming' back today in
a triumphant mood and endeavor to
put the kibosh on the hopes of their
opponents.
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Story of Stallings
And His Ivory Pets
Many humorous stories are told
about George Stallings and his
"boneheads." The best one was when
George was managing the Yanks,
when they played on the old hilltop
grounds. Ray DemrRitt ' was' then
with the team, and a Yank was on
third with two out. Ray turned to
the big chief for advice, and asked:
"Shall I try to Brine him in with a
long fly, Mr. Stallings?" "You bet
ter fly into the clubhouse, said the
irate George, "or I'll massacre you."
Then there is the more recent story
about an incident during the Braves'
pennant drive in 1914. "Now, if
Gowdy gets on, 'Bonehead' will bat
for the pitcher," said George. Gowdy
got on and every Boston reserve ran
out and grabbed a stick. If we recall
right, however, Stallings had particu
lar reference that, day to Josh De-
Chicago Wants to
Hold Championships
Chicago, Oct. 21. Eight cities, in
cluding Chicago, are bidding for the
Central Amateur Athletic union win
ter championship, which are to be
awarded at a special meeting here
next month.
This will be the first time in the
history of the union that so many
cities outside of Chicago haye inter
ested themselves in the events.
The only important sport of the
winter season in which Chicago ath
letic clubs will not be interested is
boxing, and the only reason for this
state of affairs is that the Illinois
law prohibits the sport for both pro
fessional and "Simon pures."
Cleveland, Detroit, Minneapolis,
Grand Rapids and Milwaukee are
after the fistic championships.
Two Soccer Frays at
Rourke Park Today
A double-header of soccer football
will be played at Rourke park this
afternoon. The first game, starting at
2 o'clock, will be between the Chechie
and Caledonian teams and the second
game will be between the Townsends
and Nonpareils. Both games are
scheduled conflicts in the Omaha dis
trict Soccer league.
Ty Cobb Has Issue to
Settle With Stallings
George Stallings will have to square
himself for that interview when he
gets back to Georgia this fall and his
old pal, 1, Cobb, shows up at the
Meadows. George came out flat
footedly and said that he had been
rooting for Carrigan's outfit all along,
and for many reasons. Wait until the
fiery Tyrus sees that and has his
THE OMAHA
Brandeis Floor Five Already
Is at Work for Coming Season
The Brandeis basket ball quintet,
which captured the championship of
Omaha last year and won its way
into a couple of rounds of the na
tional tournament at Chicago, evi
dently has aspirations to repeat this
year. Despite the fact that the floor
season does not start until December,
and real activity scarcely gets started
until January, the Brandeis five has
lined up its squad and started prac
tice for the year.
That the Omaha champs are much
stronger this year than last is the
positive assertion of J. J. Isaacson,
manager of the team. Virgil Rector,
former Omaha High school star and
later a regular on the Dartmouth
university quintet, is the inspiration
HUSKERS WILL TAKE
ON WESLEYAN CREW
Hustling Methodists to Be Op
ponents of Stewart's Army
at Lincoln Saturday.
AMES WILL FOLLOW NEXT
By JAMES E. LAWRENCE.
Lincoln, Oct. 22. (Special.) A
jaunt half way across the continent
and back is not calculated to leave a
foot ball squad in the very best of
physical trim, but Coach E. J. Stew
art will have a scrappy foe next Sat
urday when the Huskers meet Coach
Kline's Methodist eleven from Wea
leyan. The Huskers will return from the
coast Wednesday afternoon and on
fli fnllnuinor dav will olunffe into
preparation for the Wesleyan game of
Saturday, lhe weDrasKa menior is
figuring that his squad will have a
little bit more than a practice romp
against the Coyotes, who have estab
lished a supremacy among secondary
colleges of the state which has not
been questioned in the last four years.
Then Dr.' Stewart and his warriors
have their eyes turned to the Ames
game, which follows that of next Sat
urday, and which is believed will de
termine largely the Missouri valley
championship.
Ames Strong.
The Ames Aggies loom up as. the
most serious contender in questioning
the Huskers right to a sixth Missouri
valley title in as many years. Coach
Mayser did not get a good stan ai
Ames last season, but he apparently
has his squad in splendid condition
this fall and Nebraska is expecting the
Ames game to prove the most severe
test for the honors in the conference.
Rv defeatine the Kansas Jayhawk-
ers last Saturday the Aggies have won
the wholesome respect ot the husk
ers. Mayser does not have a heavy
squad this season, but the backfield
is reputed to be fast and shifty and
apparently lugs a more powerful
punch than the Huskers can boast of
just now,. .
Once the Huskers clear the Ames
hurdle Nebraskans see little in the
road to dispute the title of the Ne
braska eleven for a sixth Missouri
valley title.
Letters for Cheerera.
The Wesleyan game is the only one
on the schedule this year which does
not count towards a letter. The ath
letic board ruling provides that let
ters will be awarded for participation
in games against Missouri valley con
ference schools or elevens from uni
versities and colleges of equal rank.
Although Drake counts towards a
letter, the Methodists will put up a
harder fight.
An innovation passed by the ath
letic board this week provides for
recognition of the faithful cheer lead
ers. The board provided that all
cheer leaders miirht be presented ap
propriate letters, as distinguished from
tne award ior ainictic jjruwesa. ui-
?;anized rooting is admittedly a great
actor in the winning of games, the
board believes, and it takes this
means of recognizing the men re
sponsible for the efficiency of the
rooting squad.
Michigan Will Buck the
Runners From Syracuse
Ann Arbor, Mich., Oct. 21. For
the first time in the history of Michi
gan's athletics, the cross country team
of a rival school will appear on Ferry
Field on October 28. Michigan's op
ponents will be Syracuse university.
The event will be decided on the day
of the Syracuse-Michigan foot ball
game.
The sport here is comparatively
new, only two varsity teams having
preceded the present one. The com
petition has hitherto been confined to
the annual eastern intercollegiate
meet, in which the Wolverines fin
ished last in 1914 and tenth in 1915.
Rumor Fohl Will Lose
Job as Cleveland Boss
Chicago, Oct. 21. Reports are cur
rent that Lee Fohl is to be deposed
as manager of the Cleveland Amer
ican league club. J. G Dunn, presi
dent of the club, who maintains an of
fice in Chicago, h,as declined to dis
cuss the subject at this time.
"There are too many other things to
take up my time besides worrying
about changes in the Cleveland club,"
President Dunn said, "I haven't given
the subject of a 1917 manager much
thought."
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1917
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SUNDAY BEE: OCTOBER
for Isaacson's confidence. Rector is
the world's greatest center, according
to Isaacson, and with him in the line
up the hustling manager insists the
Brandeis team will be the fastest
floor five in the country.
Bob Koran and Warren Ritchie,
guards last year, return, and that fixes
the defensive game of the department
store crew. Leslie Burkenroad, Er
nie Adams and Hoppert are the for
wards. Adams is a new acquisition
this year. Hoppert finished the
season with the Brandeis last winter
and proved to be a sensation.
The Brandeis certainly look like
the rea! class with this improved
lineup and will undoubtedly start the
league season favorites for the local
Promoters Want to
Bring French Boxer
To United States
New York, Oct. 21. It has been
learned from an authoritative source
that a representative of "Tex" Rick
ard and "Sam" McCracken, who pro
moted the ten-round bout between
less Willard and Frank Moran at
Madison Square Garden last March,
is now on his way to France to offer
Georges Carpentier $25,000 for one
fight in this country, the only stipu
lation being that the promoters have
the right to name his opponent.
It is rumored that the promoters
are figuring on matching Carpentier
with Les Darcy, the Australian whirl
wind, if at all possible. "Sam" Mc
Cracken would not deny the report
when questioned about it.
It has also been learned that Rick
ard and McCracken are making a
determined effort to lease Madison
Square Garden for 4he purpose of
Kromoting boxing bouts there. They
ave made a substantial offer for
the lease to E. E. McCall, receiver
for the Garden. Just what the fig
ure was could not be learned. How
ever, it is said to exceed by several
thousand dollars any of the several
offers made by other promoters.
One Athlete Who Quit
Diamond and Meant It
Dan Costello, former Pittsburgh
outfielder, who quit the game when
ordered to transfer to Toronto, seems
to be in earnest about it. He has
entered the Harvard law school and
will fit himself for the legaj profes
sion.
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22, 1916.
RING RIVALS BOTH
SEEK SAME RECORD
Jack Dillon and Battling Le-
vinsky Are in Race for "In
defatigable" Honor.
SEE WHO FIOHTS THE MOST
New York. Oct. 21. Battling
Barney Levinsky and Jack Dillon,
who have already fought more bouts
than the average boxing fan can re
call, and who will probably fight as
many more before cither establishes
his undisputed supremacy over the
other, are rivals outside the ropes
as well as within. Each cherishes the
ambition to hang up a record for
"indefatigability," or something like
that. In other words, they nourish
the desire to engage in more matches
within a certain period of timethan
any other boxer the ring has ever
known. It mav be merely a vanity,
but they would rather realize it than
well, it could almost be said for
comparison, score a knockout victory
over each other.
A fight a week is the average Le
vinsky hopes to attain ere the year
1916 goes the way of the 1915 that
preceded it. Both Battling Barney
and "Man-Killing', Jack are, perhaps,
the two most active boxers in the
game today; certainly they are the two
busiest among the heavyweights. To
date, Levinsky is far in front of the
Indianapolis man. He has already
had thirty-two fights this year; about
twelve more than Dillon. Within the
next month or five weeks, Barney
is scheduled for five fistic engage
ments. After these are fought his
manager, Dan Morgan, the noted
"Mute," has other engagements in
sight, which will bring Barney's total
for the year to the desired fifty-two,
providing something unforeseen does
not intervene in the meantime to pre
vent him going through with them.
The matches Levinsky now has on
are as follows: Jim Coffey, Boston,
October 24; Jim Flynn, Kansas City,
October 29, and Jack Dillon (once
more), Boston, November 14.
During the last nine months Le
vinsky has averaged a fight about
every ten days. March was his hard
est month. In that period he fought
no less than eleven contests. The
opponents, places, and results were:
iack Driscoll, knockout, three rounds,
.ong Acre Athletic club; Jack Han
Ion, knockout, three rounds, East
New York Athletic club; Burt Kenny,
no-decision, Bridgeport; Sailor Car
To maintain merchandise standards this season has meant a
terrific battle with almost numberless difficulties which these
unusual times have thrown in our path. .
But thanks to the unwavering aid of such colleagues as
A. B. Kirschbaum Co. we have battled our way safely through.
And xmce more we fly the flag of our famous Triple Standard
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Keating, no decision, Schenectady;
Jack Geyer, no decision, Shenandoah,
Pa.; Jim Savage, no decision, Madison
Square Garden, and Jack Dillon, no
decision, Broadway Spdrting club.
In March, Levinsky had five bat
tles. He boxed Tom McMahon at
scranton, Tom Cowler at Boston,
Silas Green at Montreal, Al Reich at
Boston, and Zulu Kid at the Long
Acre club here.
Without doubt or exception, Le
vinsky is the most remarkable boxer
among present-day glovemen. He
has fought more fights than any other
battler. He has been in the ring now
about five years, and in that time
has pulled on his gloves for' no less
than 224 contests. The majority of
these were fought within the last
three and a half years, or since he
placed himself under the management
of Morgan. Their association dates
back to 1913. In that year Morgan
got Levinsky thirty-one matches. In
1914 Barney fought thirty-four times.
Last year he crawled through the
ropes for actual combat twenty-four
times.
This is a record that has never been
even approached by any other boxer.
For sustained effort, Levinsky surely
is the personification of perpetual
motion. '
Life of Umpire
Is a Tough One
Pity the poor umpire once again.
He has run afoul of trouble in the city
of Salt Lake, where the natural thirst
of the frenzied fan for umpiratical
gore has been whetted by a diabolical
conspiracy on the pant of peanut
butchers.
According to "Red" Held, the tooth
some peanut has occupied a minot
place among the wares dispensed by
the Salt Lake butcher. His most thriv
ing business has been dodging small
stones and pebbles. He sells them by
nts d
vertises them as fine ammunition for
heaving at the umps.
Everybody in Salt Lake invested in
a sack of stones, says "Red," and he
is quite certain that while he might
have missed a few baits and strikes
he never missed a pebble. ,
In all this there is one bit of con
solation for "Red." Just supposing the
butchers had been selling loaded re
volvers and dynamite bombsl
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TIGERS TAKE UP
, OPEN GAME STYLE
Princeton Will Concentrate Iti
Efforts to Working Ont Sao
ceisful Sooring Attack.
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New York, Oct. 21. Followers of
foot ball are commencing to see pos
sibilities of a Princeton team which
will take a leaf out of the book of
some of the so-called small colleges
and depend largely for attacking force
on the open game. Heretofore, Prince
ton teams, like those of the other "big
colleges," have not taken to the open
game very seriously, although they
did not hesitate to use the modern
game in the pinches. When the prac
tice for this year started Head Coach
John Rush had his men working on
the straight foot ball plays with hard
ly ever an excursion into the open
style.
Recent reports from the camp of
the Tiger, however, show that the
head coach has made some little
changes in the daily routine and has
had the men working hard on the for
ward pass. How weak the Orange and
Black was at this play was clearly
demonstrated in Worcester, when
Princeton made only one successful
forward pass against Holy Cross.
Little better could have been ex-
fiected of the team as a matter of fact,
or the men had had practically no
training for the play.'
That Princeton should prosper with
a highly developed squad of forward
passers seems certain. It will be re
membered that a couple of years ago
Washington and Jefferson, with a
team that could not have accom
plished a great deal on straight foot
ball tactics, played havoc with its op
ponents through the skillful use of the
forward pass. From -what Princeton
has shown in practice this season and
in its lone game against Holy Cross it
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mented greatly by free use of the open
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Ritchie Mitchell Out of
Game With Busted Digits
Milwaukee, Wis., Oct. 21. Ritchie,
Mitchell, a promising lightweight,
will be unable to box for at least
three weeks, because his hands were
so seriously damaged in eastern con
tests.. 1
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