THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: OCTOBER 29, 1916.
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EMBRYO SOLDIER LADS TRAINING FOR BATTLE WITH NAVY No gridiron contest in this country has quite the zest
of the annual meeting between the elevens of the Military and Naval academies. With the victory of last year behind them,
the West Pointers feel that they will again sink the sailors. The two teams meet in New York on November 25.
HEW BANTAM STAR
BOBS UP IN GOTHAM
Joe Lynch Springs Into Fame
by Clearly Outpointing the
Champion, Johnny Ertle.
OWNS A LIGHTNING LEFT
J By RINGSIDE. .
' New York Oct. 28. The nearest
approach the "Greater City has had
to a genuine ring champion since the
days when Terry McGoyern reigned
supreme in the bantam and feather
weight divisions is embodied in -the
frail person .of one Joe Lynch. Until
a few weeks ago this spindle-legged
lad was obscured in the environment
of the West Side of this town. Ovef
' night he leaped into fame, when he
outboxed and outfought Bantam
Champion Johnny Ertle at the Pio
neer Sporting club of this city.
The remarkable part of this
achievement has never before been
revealed to the public. It is the as
tonishing fact that Lynch has been
boxing professionally slightly over a
year only a few days have passed
since' the first anniversary of his en
trance into the ranks ot the money
gatherers. As a matter of record,
Lynch never before that appeared in
. the hempen square. He absorbed all
his fistic knowledge, first hand, on the
streets of the West Side, where bare
knuckle fighting is still in vogue that
is, it is in vogue to settle sporadic
argument on the very spot they start.
Ertle Hat No Alibi.
In his ring encounters prior to the
Ertle -affair Lynch showed latent
fighting powers, but it required a
bout with the champion of the-class
to bring out all the dormant ability
in Lynch. Ertle can proffer no alibi
in fact, he hasn't offered any as vet
for his defeat, for the champion had
seen Lynch defeat Jack Sharkey, a
neighborhood rival, two weekareyi
ous, and Johnny spent all of the in
tervening time in getting ready for
Lynch. ' .
The Ertle fight, as has been said,
brought out all there is in Lynch-'
that is, on the surface it appeared to
be all there is in Lynch. Whether
he possesses any more good qualities
than these he showed against Ertle
remains to be seen in future bouts.
He displayed everything in the box
ing category that evening except, per
haps, a good (tiff right hand punch.
But Lynch's hat-rack extension left
jab more than counterbalanced what
ever deficiency he showed with his
right. . ...
Has Lightning Jab.
Lynch hat a left jab that rivals the
. snappy lightning left thrusts of Mike
Gibbons and Jack Britton. Which is
say it g a good deal for a practical
nrnnhvte in the boxing game as com
pared "with' these- two seasoned cam-
fiaigners. . Lynch whipped over that
eft jal on Ertle whenever he so de
sired. This ont blow was enough to
defeat Ertle, although Lynch tried a
bit of infighting, as well as a dash of
I uppercutting with his right. But
LyncB win nave iu cuutmc uiu
hand of his before he can seriously be
considered as the coming bantam,
weight champion.. Lynch, in addi
tion to having a retentive memory
which retains anything now an oppo
nent ran, show him a whipoer-snap-
oins left, and the customary Irish
bulldog tenacity and gamenessK has
another natural advantage over all
his bantam contemporaries. He is
without question the tallest member
of the 116-pound family. He towers
some five feet seven inches, which is
considered a sizeable height for even
the ordinary lightweight. Another
thing in favor of Lynch is that his
reach extends inches beyond that of
- any other bantam. Taking into a
final reckoning that Lynch possesses
these two natural advantages, in ad
dition to his other qualifications, he
stands fqremost as the . prospective
bantamweight champion.
Ertle has never contended that
Lvnch'a victory over him was a fluke.
That is the best thing' that can be
said in favor of the champion he has
not emitted" th customary squawk.
Lynch, however, stands ready to give
the title-holder a return match; but
Johnny must bide his time until
Lynch has cleaned up the rest of the
contenders. Lynch is seeking an un
disputed right to the championship,
and for that reason wants to clean up
' the field before tackling Ertle again,
as the latest sensation is confident he
' can knock out Ertle if they meet a
second time, -
flmflliA. and Sinn
City Play Soccer
. Game Here
Today
The Caledonians of Omaha and
the Sons of St. George of Sioux City
will clash today in a soccer battle at
Rourke park for the Jackson hotel
cup, a trophy these teams have com
peted for for three years. If the
Caledonians win they will earn. per
manent possession of the" trophy.
Scotty Nielson, one of the stars of
the Caledonian eleven, broke two
bones in his wrist last Sunday, but
- expects to play today despite the in
jury. Percy Stillman, who formerly
was a member of the Nonpareil team
of Omajji, is now playing with the
Sioux 'City crew and is coming to
Omaha determined to clean up on his
lormer runnmg mates.
Omaha May Enter in
Basket Ball League
A four-city basket ball league to
play tor the championship of thi
western division of the Amateur Ath
letic union is a plan now under way.
The cities asked to enter are St.
Louis, Louisville, Kansas City and
Omaha.
St. Louis basket ball enthusiasts
are behind the move. It is said the
mound city, Louisville and Kansas
City have already agreed to the
scheme and negotiations are now un
der way to have the champions of
Omaha play in the series.
Georges Carpentier is '
. Collecting More Honors
Georges Carpentier, the - famous
French pugilist, who is now a flying
man, has been proposed for the mili
tary medal. Carpentier already has
been decorated with the war cross-'
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FOOT BALL GAMES
GATHERTHE CASH
All Four of Big Games in the
East This Fall Will Draw
i Capacity Crowds.
MOHAN WANTS TO BATTLE
By FRANK G. MENKE.
Foot ball will pay some handsome
returns to the big colleges this year.
There is promise now of capacity
crowds at all the big games in both
east and west, '
J lie record income, no aount, win
be derived from the 1 Yale-Harvard
combat on November 25. The game
will be played in the Yale Bowl,
which has a seating capacity ot over
60,000. Requests for seats already em
brace more than iuu.uuu tickets, 10
take care of as many enthusiasts as
possible, the Yale authorities may
build 8,000 extra seats.. ; '
The Harvard Stadium will seat
about 42,000, and the big Harvard-
Princeton game there promises to lure
capacity crowd, the new stands
at Princeton will take care of over
40,000 spectators, and seat demands
for the Yale-Princeton combat al
ready exceed the supply.
Although the Army-Navy date is
the same as that of the Yale-Har
vard, it is certain that the service
schools' struggle in the Polo grounds,
New York, win attract, the limit
crowd of something like' 41,000. ' At
ti per head, this means an income of
$121000. a sum not to be sniffed at
even in these days of mushroom for
tunes. .
The stands in the west are not as
huge as they are in the east, but every
one of the big games will jam the
enclosure. It is safe to say that a
total of close to 400,000 will see the
four big games in the east and those
in the west
' Moran is Idle.
Francis Moran is noised for a
spring at the frontispiece of Carl M6r.
ris, or any other battler of the
dreadnausht class, but none of the
promoters is taking any feverish in
terest in it. Moran no longer is tne
drawing card of six or eight months
ago. That fliyver showing against
Jack Dillon sort of "cooked" him.
The Pittsburgher, however, hasn't
forgotten the lesson that fracas taught
mm. tie isn I in Binci iriiuu iiuw,
but he is in good condition; in such
shape that a tew weeks ot grueuing
will put him in tip-top shape.
And never again will Moran take any
chances of being beaten by walking
into a ring considerably overplus in
all parts of his frame. -
Heston the Wonder.
"Willie Heston was the greatest
plunging halfback of them all, de
clares f red M. waixer, who pmycu
against him in the other days when
Walker was a star in the Chicago
backfield. "No man could hit a line
harder than the Michigan wonder;
none could batter up opponents the
way the Wolverine did.
Aa long as l live, i n never ior-
get the game tnar nesion piayea
against us in iw, wnen wc uti
M ch aan. i to 0. Heston tor a num
ber of years had been tearing every
line to pieces without really exerting
himself. And then he bumped against
us. He threw himself at our line time
nrt main and almost as often we
threw him back. His failure infuri-
,H him nd he nlaved from then on
lilw he was a -fiend possessed. He
hurled his mighty body at the Maroon
Wrnui with furv and energy and ev
ery time we stopped him, it only add
ing to nis aeterminaiion iu
thrmitrh fia.
"I was playing halfback that day
and on defense was right back of the
line bolstering up our weakest side.
Tim and seam Heston smashed and
rammed into me. inai was iweive
years ago, but I still feel the bruises
that he inflicted when he crashed into
me. He naa more iircngin vni puti
fhn mv man 1 have ever seen on a
gridiron. His body, compact, almost
squatty, came line .
h. h,,rlr! it forward.' When he
crashed into a man, in that freak
bucking way he had, the chances were
that the man would flip out of his
path as does a pin on a Downng al
ley when a ball hits it.
"w won inai zanic un micij,
but when the final whistle blew I
believe that every man on our team
was battered and bruised in a doxen
different places from stopping Hes
iW, holl.lilc rushes. And Heston
the human battering ram? Well, as
far I could see he came out of the
battle unmarked, although he must
have hurled himself a hundred tiroes
against our line.
Pirate Recruit Carries
Batting Average of .500
Guy Dunlap, a recruit third base
man, who will report to Pittsburgh
National next spring, is regarded by
Manager Callahan as a real find. Dun
lap played in a trolley league with
St. James, Mo, last season and had
a batting record of 500 per cent in
fifty games. His record is filled with
extra base lut 1
Al McCoy May Not
Be Great, But He's
Got Plenty of Nerve
New .York, Oct. 28. Al McCoy,
who claims the middleweight title,
may not be regarded as a great cham
pion, but he seeems to be game
enough. If it were not for his doubt
ful claim to the honors, McCoy's
earning power would be worth men
tioning, yet he is willing to risk all
in a battle with Lcs Darcy.'
At present McCoy is negotiating
with Tom Andrews, who acts as Pro
moter Snowy Baker s representative,
for a bout with the Australian sensa
tion. The Brooklynite has named a
price which is reasonable enough if
his claim to the title is at all worthy
of consideration. - But in order to
avoid mistakes, McCoy insists that the
amount of his guarantee be posted in
a local bank before he packs his trunk
for the long trip. That is whei'e the
hitch comes in, as Baker is not in the
habit of pacing tor goods in advance.
. i For, McCoy to tackle Darcy, looks
like pugilistic suicide for the awkward
Brooklyn slugger. There is no such
thing as a no-decision bout in Aus
tralia, otherwise he would not be tak
ing such a desperate chance. It is
better than an even proposition that
he could stick the full twenty rounds,
for he is just as tough and knows as
much about the game as George
Brown, who stood off Darcy without
suffering a knockdown. Then, too,
there would always be that one chance
in a hundred of McCoy landing an
other lucky wallop, such as he slipped
to George Chip. 1
Seats for Husker x
Games Reserved ;
For Omaha Fans
Omaha foot ball fans who intend
to take in the big games at Lincoln
this year will not have to worry about
ticketsaccording to a communication
from Guy Reed, athletic director at
the university, to Stub Hascall, secre
tary of the Omaha Nebraska alumni.
Big blocks of choice seats for both
the Kansas and Notre Pame games
will be sent to Omaha for distribution
among the fans here. It is probable
about 500 seats for both games will be
allotted to Omaha.
The Burlington has already made
plans to run special trains to both of
these frames, the soecials leaving
shorfly after the noon hour and re
turning directly- after the game is
over. )
The Rock Island will run a special
train to Iowa City, where the annual
conflict with the Hawkeyes will be
staged. This train will run trom Lin
coln, but a couple of cars will be
hooked on at Omaha or the accommo
dation of local followers of the Corn
huskers who wish to journey to Iowa
City,. :
Americans Make
Fortune Racing On
The Ice in Russia
Cleveland. O.. Oct. 28. Racing on
th-ice tracks of Russia, Frank Caton
and his two sons, Will and Samuel of
Cleveland, have proven themselves
bigger money-winners than on the
Grand Circuit.
According to the elder Caton, who
has just returned here after twenty
three years in the realm of Emperor
Nicholas, he and his two sons wunin
the last three years drove horses to
victories that netted a total of 675,
000 rubles about $337,000.
Despite the war, Mr. Caton says,
the winter race meets at Petrograd
and Moscow have continued and the
sport is "going big." A,t Moscow the
total betting in a single day has gone
over a million rubles. Races start at
4 o'clock in the afternoon and con
tinue after dark until 9 o'clock under
electric, lights.
Some Athletic "Babes"
Who Live Up to Handle
When - ah athlete is nicknamed
"Babe," he is usually a big fellow.
"rWhr" White, caotain of this vear's
trnnff Syracuse eleven, and "Babe"
Ruth of the Boston Red Sox are in
stances. Gear, the New York A.
nigh jumper and weight thrower, is
called "Tiny" despite the fact he
stands 6 feet S inches, and Shorty Des
lardien'a 6 feet 5 inches of height and
brawn will not be forgotten for a long
time by athletes against whom he
clashed when on University of Chi
cago teams.
Young Dalton is Easy
Picking for Plestina
' Young Dalton, a local husky, was
easy pickings for Marin Plestina, the
big Omaha heavyweight, in a wrest
ling tilt staged before the Eagles last
week. ' Plestina dumped Dalton after
playing with him for eighteen mm
utes.
US
CENTRAL HIGH HAS
TWO TEAMS TO BEAT
Beatrice and . Lincoln Alone
Stand Between Mulligan and
Valley Championship.
SHOULD WIN BOTH GAMES
By KARL LEE.
Whits the path to a valley cham
pionship with its wreaths of glory
almost stares Coach Harold Mulligan
of Central High in the face, the cloud
of Beatrice and Lincoln rises to stand
between. The burning question is,
"Will he keep his step?" From the
standpoint of a perfectly-coached
squad the Omaha team is a winner.
Yet there is always that possibility
that some of the men may prove false
when they stack up against snch as
Rathbun and Reese have in the field.
Lincoln's game with York displayed
one outstanding failing. It is a one
man team. In Halfback Griffin, in
jured or not, the fate of the team de
pends. This towering youth of 19
years and 185 pounds is the whole
works at Lincoln. After failing to
gain a foot in two line smashes, due
to a bad "charley horse," this Griffin
at a critical moment stepped ten
yards back of the line of scrimmage
on a fake punt formation, looked for
several hair-raising moments to the
right and to 'the left, finally singled
out his man, and dropped a twenty-four-yard
pass into the waiting arms
of Lamb, end, who was at the mo
ment racing across the goal line. Lin
coln s other two touchdowns were
hung up in just the same manner.
Two Stars at Beatrice. ,
Coach Rathbun has a husky, well
rounded squad at Beatrice. Probably
but two men shine above the others,
these being Kilpatnck, tackle, and
Tones, fullback. The former is com
paratively slow and lumbering in his
weight, but is a wonder at kicking.
He can place-kick or drop-kick at al
most anv angle. His beef on the line
is one of the bulwarks that makes
Rathbun's slow, easy style of play a
success. Jones is a hard line smasher.
fast on his feet, and has a state-wide
reputation. Including two entire
back fields, the rest of the squad is
of capable quality, good for a gain at
almost any time. Supported by a
heavy line and generated by a quar
terback of three years' experience, the
team works like a machine.
Team Has the Goods.
Such is the situation that faces Mul
ligan and such it gives rise to the
question. ' The goods is in the team.
It has weight: it has speed; it has
fighting power, backed by the best
possible coaching. Mulligan has de
veloped a defense that in the games
this far has proved impenetrable.
Speed will be Central s slogan in
these two crucial games, speed backed
by machine-like line work. To let a
Griffin whirl his way past the primary
defense would be slaughter, for Reese
has developed wonderful interference,
even with his weak squad. To forget
to spread on formations with the Lin
colnites on the offensive would be
disaster. The Beatrice game will be
a battle-of one machine against an
other, the speed of the one against
the speed of the other. Let Mulligan
strip the Queen City of her wing men
and there is little chance of Central
losing the valley title.
Joe Rivers Starts
Training for Bout
Chicago, Oct. 28. Joe Rivers, the
California lightweight, has started
training here for the first twenty-
round match he has fought since Cal
ifornia was closed to the ring sport.
Rivers is to step twenty rounds
with Joe Thomas of New Orleans in
the latter city on November 14. The
match will be to a decision and the
wtitrht will be 133 pounds at 3 o clock.
which shows that Rivers still is a real
liuhtweight.
The California boxer plans to bring
his wife on to Chicago and establish
a home here.
Trinity Coach Stands
up tor His warriors
C. L. Parsons, coach of the Trinity
college foot ball team, which recently
lost a torteited game to Bellevue and
was accused of employing rough tac
tics, offers a vindication Tor his play
ers in a letter to the sporting editor of
The Bee.
Parsons writes that he cautioned
his men against any rough work and
that during the first half they re
frained. "At the end of the third
quarter," he says, "the clash came
when Captain Racely deliberately
kicked Swisher in the face. Three of
the Trinity team rushed at him, Har
rison was there first, and Racely's ac
tion seemed so open and unsports
manlike that Harrison could not re
frain from retaliation. Several other
of our men were maliciously kicked
Joe Mandot Quitting
Because an Enemy
Has Hoodooed Him
Toe Mandot is Quitting prize fight-
ine because he says an enemy has
hoodooed him. Toe was reared in
French quarters here, where there
is general Delict in tne power oi
conjuring.
"Snmfhndv Dut a hoodoo powder
or something under my doorstep,"
aid Mandot. "This must have been
just before my last fight, except
one.
"Since then l ve been no good. 1
train faithfully, but both times
the fourth round, something came
over me ana 1 couia noi raise my
arms. I will re-enter the ring if my
curser comes forwajW and withdraws
ma noouoo.
Chatter Heard Around
the Sand Lots
In all probability Curtis Pattirion will b
able to anawer the roll call of tho Ducky
Holraea crew thla afternoon.
At confer Paul Carlson In playing a whirl
wind of a same for the Dundee Woolen
Mills. He Is eepeclally good on the defense. I
With McAllister at the helm for the
Mohawks they should compile an: enviable
record. f
Last Sunday the California StAet MeY
chants showed up in a rather depleted con
dition for their contest with the Fontenelle
Reserves, but nevertheless thy but up a
stiff argumnt!
Two games have been arranged between
the Nonpareils and C. B. Longeways, one
to be played at Luxua park and the other
at Athletic park.
Ths Mazdas crossed the wave last Bun
day and trimmed the Council Bluffs Midg
ets on: their own, gridiron. j
Rrumuesen, the big noise of the C. B.
Longeways, reports that his sleepless nights
are over for a few moons because he has at
laat scheduled a few games.
It Is now a cinch that the Fontenelle will
not decorate the foot ball arena thia sea
son. .
Last Sunday the Fontenelle Reserves came
back as strong as onlona flavored with
mustard and mucllaged another game.
No kicks from the camp of, the Athletics,
so the treatment accorded them at Dunlap,
la., muat have been satisfactory..
It seems as though several Class B teams
are a wee bit scared of the Nonpareil Re
serves, for It Is tough sliding tot them to
book games. 1
The Maxdas are In the market early
for a Turkey day fame, For further In
formation call South 1110 or address w. Ma
honey, 6907 South Fifteenth. )
The Nourse OH team did not ptrove oily
enough to slip over a touchdown on the
German Shamrocks.
The clean offensive work of1 Becker
stood out conspicuously during the Nourse
OU-German Shamrock bout.
Just because the dude that legs them
for the Ducky Holmes tribe tailed to boot
the oval over the goal stick they had to
suffer the humiliation of a defeat at the
hands of the Dundee Woolen Mills.
Boone Hardy was the star that looked
particularly sweet 4or the Nourse Oil against
the German Shamrocks.
Arthur Chapman, left half for the C. B.
Midgets looked like a world beater last
Sunday. He Is a demon at picking the
weaK spots or the opposition.
Orvllle Crabtree of the Council Bluffs
Midgets, looked like a world-beater last
Sunday when he gained forty yards through
a broken field.
When those Monmouth Park Reserves and
tne Fontenelle Juniors hook ud todav
game worth walking blocks to soa will be
siagen.
MoCune and Feeney company are figuring
on organising a squad In southtown to com
pete ior ine local cnamplonehlp.
The Monmouth Park Reserves are cm
pectslly anxious to hook up with the Cal
Ifornla Street Merchants, Lamp this lyoi
California dudee, f
wonder what Valley, Neb., will do j for
ineir annual Turkey flay game, if the lion
mouth Parks do not orarantz 1
Although the Athletics were defeated at
Lruniap, ia., last Bunday they put up I
plucky fight from the gong until the as
bHtos dropped.
Bill Ma her Is back on the Job and will
supervise the work of the Athletics. For
rows can Harney 6668., or address him at
zo.'i t ass street.
Nothing much stirring from, the camp
of the C. B. Ramblers. Probably they are
not rambling in excess of the speed limit.
According to Tommte Graham hla much
ouncn anown as the Tlgera are Just about
mm hmw m ineir appeistlon signifies.
That struggle between the All-Stars and
tne nonpareils, billed for Luxus park today,
should prove a corker In drtwlnv nttint
The Monmouth Park Reserves are In the
maraei ior games with 140-pound teams.
Telephone Harry Jordan at rnlfav 2sss
Tlbke threw up the managerial reins of
ine monawas. we says managing a foot
oan learn is a tough orooos tlon.
Here of late Dugdale has been playing a
stellar game at half for the DundM WnnUn
Mills. He knows how to utilise his roof
as wen as nis unarm sticks.
'n all probability Big Chief Ryan will en
glneer affairs hereafter for the famous
v liner leatnar egg warriors.
Enjoy the autumn air on a
1917
Harley-Davidson
with the new "lVU.t.r 17"
motor, that has more pep and
ginger than you can use on the
open road. We are making im
mediate deliveries. '
Victor H. Roos
"The Cycle Man"
27th nd Leavenworth St.
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By FRED S.
FAR BE IT FROM US TO
GLOAT OVER THE
MISFORTUNES
OF OTHERS
BUT
He left old Nebraska flat on its back.
Left gloom in the Comhusker camp,
To fair Indiana he made a fast track,
And hopes of our rooters turned
damp.
The Hoosiers yelled loudly and longly
and hard.
And filled all the air with a cheer,
And forth came the. cry from every
sport bard,
"The Hoosiers will have a great
year."
But the bards now have turned to a
sadder refrain,
No longer does joy reign supreme,
For it seems that a person named
Chamberlain,
Wasx most of the "steam" in J.
Stiehm.
Northwestern having licked
Chicago, we now will not be sur
prised if Johnny Ertle should
hammer the daylights out of Jess
Willard, St.- Joseph win a pen
nant or see a rabbit spit in a
bulldog's face.
.George Sutton says there are
5,000,000 billiard players in the
United States, thus snowing Bar
num's estimate was too low.
And by the way George-how
many of the 5,000,000 are players?
John KeUey'has written a story
about base ball 50 years ago.
But John's yarn is incomplete, he
neglects to mention Hans Wag
ner or Eddie Plank.
Jim Savage wants ,to meet Jess
Willard or Sam Langford, show
ing that either Jim or his man
ager should consult an alienist
Miller Huggins has been given
permission to trade any athlete on
his club. If Miller is as good as
David Harum pe'rhaps he can
FAMOUS BIG SIX
BECOMESJUH BOG
Christy Mathewson Passes Up
Golf Game to Answer Lure
of Trap Shooting.
WAS IN OMAHA LAST TEAR
By PETER P. CARNEY.
"Christy" Mathewson, Bucknell '00,
for many years-the pitching staff of
the New York Giants, and now the
manager of base ball's Jonah team
the Cincinnati Reds is a "gun bug."
Matty gave a
lot of his spare
time to golfing
the last year or
so he was with
the Giants and
last fall he went
along on the ball
p 1 a y e r s' trap
shooting team
with Chief Ben
der, Harry Davis
and Otis Cran-
dall,, though he was a novice, and now I
he golfs no more. All the time he.
has to spare away from base ball is
given to trapshooting.
There will be no tour of the ball
player-trapshooters this fall, but if
there was Mathewson would be one
of the party. He filed his application
early. "Big Six" was a novice at the
.a.hawanH.
trapshooting game wncn uic uiV u-
gan, but ne Knew a iui uwm iv
"sport auuring, ociorc uc
through. ,
He became just as mucn a sniucm
of trapshooting as of base ball. He
became interested in the sport, then a
devotee, and then decided that he
wanted to know just how to break
em all the time. Matty talked with
the cracks that it was his pleasure to
meet and all of them supplied him
with good advice, and as he made Jhe
rounds frorn ichmondcrOmaha and
back to Boston he picked up some
thing in every city. m
"Matty" was very frank in saying
that his eyes were opened to the rea
lization of the widespread interest in
trapshooting. He never thought it was
such a good sport or that so many
people were interested in it. Since the
trapshooting trip Mathewson has in
vaded the fields, too, and with Frank
Sterens went into the North Carolina
woods for ten days last winter.
Good base ball players as a rule
make excellent trap shots! It is an
accepted fact that it requires the same
acting in unison of the eye, brain and
nerves to become a successful base
ball player that it does to become an
n.r tranOiooter. and in either sport
it requires practice to become a leader.
Got anything you'd flks to swap?
ths "Swappers' Column,'
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swap his team for some Mexican
money.
The call of the stove league clan goes
out,
To summon the fans once more,
For the winter gossip and chatter
Of the oast and the coming war.
But the call goes unheeded, unan
swered,
The stove league is finished and
done.
The league's had to give up the battle,
With coal at ten dollars a ton.
A LITTLE DITTY ENTITLED
"OH, HOW MY BANK
ACCOUNT HAS
SHRUNK."
The soldier boy in France is sad and
drear,
And these sad words he spoke and
' shed a tear,
"This trench life is not right,
And I do not like to fight,
I wish that I could get away from
here."
The base ball player also feels quite
sore, t
And these words he spoke and soundly
swore,
"This peace stuff is not right,
I'd rather they would fight,
I wish the mags would mix it up once
more." i
Les Darcy must enlist in the
Australian army, we read. Which
probably makes Mike Gibbons
and Jack Dillon real sore.
A hundred thousand people came to
see the game that day,
A hundred thousand people saw the
warriors at play,
A hundred thousand people give a
, cheer both loud and long,
A hundred thousand voices burst
gayly into song:;
"We like the game a! foot ball.
It is a grand old game,
Beside it every other sport,
To us is very 1 tame;
We like the gmne of foot ball,
We like tqsee them score,
We're the iindertakers and the
doctors;
Oh, war wish they'd play it
mojl."
Notable Base Ball
Happenings During
The Season of 1916
Foul no-hlt no-run games were pitched
In the! big leagues three In the American
and (jsie In the National. The pitchers
who tferformed these brilliant feats were
Leon a3d of the Red Sox, against St. Louis;
TrwrlW the Red Sox. against Washington;
Bush f the Athletics, against Cleveland,'
and Hughes or the uraves, againsi rma-
burgh.l
Grov&r Cleveland Alexander, the great
niihrdof the Phillies, set ud a new "white
wash" A-ecord by pitching sixteen shoutout
games. I The old mark was thirteen, neia
by Uaflbewson.
Zach Wheat of the Brooklyn Robins mads
one or snore safe hits In twenty-nine con
secutive games. In the twenty-nine games
ha pole a total of forty-five safeties.
u
fork Olaifts won twenty-six con
secutive)! games and in doing so shattered
the lonastandlng record' of twenty straight,
made bw Providence In 1884.
In loling twenty straight games the
Athletlcl tied the American league record t
for con$cuttve defeats. The Mack men also
hung ui a new mark for defeats In one
season .lith 117 games In the lost column,
agalnstVllS registered by Washington In
1904. J
Jimmy Walsh and Heldon.Wyckoff. traded
by the Athletics to the Red Sox, were ths
only pastlmers to leap from a tall-end out
fit to the. world's 4tiamptons.
The 'lnon man" stunt, or pitching and
winning (wo games In one afternoon, was
performer! by four big league twlrlers. They
were Dawn port of the Browns, pitching
against tie Yankees; Perrltt of the Giants,
against tile Phillies; Alexander of the Phil
lies, against Cincinnati, ana uemaree or.
the Phllllfs, pitching against the Pirates.
Outfielder Eddie Mensor, th former P4-
rate, playing thla year with the Spokane
Northwests league team, took part In
114 gamefl and handled 23 chances with
out an error.
Kensie Irk man, outfielder of the St.
Joseph tetslm of the Western league, made
thlrty-twol nits in tnirty-nine times ai
bat. Ty Cobb, In IS18,- set a record of
thirty-one pits In thirty-nine times up.
The St. siouls Browns won fourteen games
In a row.S the best performance In the
American league this season for consecu
tive games) won.
One of the "big thrillers" of the season
was staged- In Boston August 17, when the
White Sox took the count at the hands of
the Red Sox, b to 4, in sixteen innings.
Every club In the American league, with
the exception of the Athletics, led the raoe
for at least one day. Cleveland, New Tork,
Boston and Washington were up there most
of the time, while the others enjoyed the
privilege for shorter periods, inciuatog ties.
Walter PlPP. first baseman of the New
Tork Yanjfces, poled out eleven home runs
during The. season.
After leading the American league bats
men for nine years in succession Ty Cobb
lost the batting championship to Tris
Speaker.
On August 14 the Waco and Galveston
teams of the Texas league battled for twenty
innings, Waco putting over three runs In
the twentieth and landing the game by
a score of 4 to 1.
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