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His race would have afoot ball crew delivering the goods.
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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: DECEMBER 3, 1916.
Judgments
ARE the minors at last going
to take matters in their own
hands and have a little to say
about how their own business
is to be run? One might in
fer from resolutions at the recent
National association meeting that
they intended to do just that little
thing In the first place the little fel
lows turned down every request or
demand Davy Fultz of the Players'
fraternity made, which is the same
as throwing., down the gauntlet to
Davy. In the second place they open
ly declared themselves as opposed toy
permitting tne national commission
to interfere in their affairs, which is
the same as slipping the majors a
mild warning. The minors have been
getting it in the neck for the last
twenty years. The last three years
they have been getting it good. The
entire profits of all the minors in the
country in the' last three years
wouldn't biuy a Week's supply of cigar
ets for a ; Mexican track layer. And
the boys who have been footing the
ills are getting somewhat pained,
won't stand for much. more and any
body who makes additional demands
on them isn't likely to be" jdyfulty re
ceived. Fultz has said he will not sub
nicy l, iv,atnvu iu. uumt wiit-i. iiivj
mit to the turn down the minors gave
him at their New Orleans meeting.
And as Fultz generally means what
he says it probably means tne flay
ers' fraternity will put up a battle, it
mav even go so far as to call the
threatened strike. But it is just as
probable that the- minors .will fight
nacK to tne umii, even closing incir
parks if they have to.
The minor leagues make up a pow
erful organization and if they ever de
cide to get together and fight shoulder
to shoulder as they should they'll be
come more of dictators instead of
subjects in the realm of professional
base ball. '
Doc Stewart, having been unfor
tunate in his first year at Nebraska,
is going to come in for a lot of criti
cism because the Cornhuskers
dropped two games this fall. But
how any person who took one slant
at that Nebraska backfield could put
the blame on Stewart is a mystery to
us. Creighton had a backfield that
had the Cornhusker chargers beat
to death. Nobodv but a miracle man
ould have made a scoring machine
out ot those liusker DacKs. next
year tour mignty gooa Dacxneia men.
Kellogg, Day, scnellenberg ana Mc
Mahon, graduate from the freshmen
to the varsity. Stewart should be
able to mold a great eleven put of
his present material and these men.
If he fails then Stewart will have to
shoulder the blame. But he shouldn't
be made to shoulder it this year, he
didn't have an even chance. Ktxt
year he'll have more than an even
chance, so let's reserve 'judgment, on
the new Cornhusker mentor for an
other twelve months, i
Some big trades are going to be
pulled off in the big leagues this year.
Miller Huggins has been given orders
to swap his entire club, Weeghman
has announced that he will get a lot
of new men for the Cubs, McGraw
is after a player or two, Brooklyn
wants a catcher and shortstop, the
White Sox want a third sacker, the
Browns need some new men, 'and so
does practically every other club with
the possible exception of the Red Sox.
We were treated to some juicy trades
and purchases last year and the-year
before, when such stars as Collins,
Speaker, McCarty, Herzog, Zimmer
man, , Doyle, Mathewson and others
changed locations, but they'll look like
btfsh league deals' in comparison to
those that are likelv to come ud this
winter.
American leaeue magnates 'arc
qsawking because they say the Na-
tu,n 1a9,a is malriner fh Ani,ipnn
' " G u i ......... a " . . . . . .
bear the brunt of all the strife that
arose from the Federal league. They
say the Nationals now want the
American league to transfer, the
Washington club to Baltimore to ap
pease tne disgruntled persons there
who are sore over the peace agree
ment. And this, they say, on top of
the fact that the American league did
not suffer from the Federals and only
made peace to help the National out.
And yet records show the American
league played to a million more fans
this year than it did last. Didn't the
death of the Feds help a little bft in
this enormous gain?
No sooner had Jumbo Stiehm hit
Nebraska to pay a Thanksgiving visit
to his wife's relatives and see the
Nebraska-Notre Dame game, than ru
more began to circulate that Stiehm
was out here after lfh old job. It is
probably only natural such rumors
would circulate. Stiehm in his now
field lost four games and only won
two, while Nebraska, his old field,
didn't have its usual success. But
there isn't much likelihood th&t the
rumors (arry any truth, we -don't
imagine liciuii uica Jai inuiai jj iu
me. back, or that Nebraska cares
particularly to nave mm Dacic.
The much dicussed strike of the
players sounds like a lot of Mexican
bunk to us. The base ball player of
the present day is much like the prize
fighter. His first interest is the coin
he gets. Shut up the parks a few
days and suspend the payment' of
salaries and hear the noise the play
ers will make. If the magnates merely
say, "let 'em strike," and then make
good, it won't be long before the
players will come to time.
The major leagues have a lot of
differences to settle this year. If they
are wise they will make their settle
ments quietly and cut out the nau
seating publicity that has attended
them in the past. Scraps between
the magnates ordinarily give the fan
a pain. And in these days of the
H. C. L. it isn't wise to give the fan,
who pays the freight, any illness.
Base ball men might just as well
begin to lay their plans for the re
distrubtion of territory. Interest in
the game will continue to lag until
some changes are made. Eventually
the redistribution must come, so why
not nowr
Well, the foot ball season's over;
brine on the basket ball and the
wrestlers. ,
MILLION-DOLLAR
BALL PARK TALKED
Owners of New York Ameri
cans Confer with Ban John
son About Plant.
OLD OPTIONS ON LAND
New York, Dec. 2. As a result of
several preliminary caucuses now be
ing held by base -ball magnates of the
American and National leagues an of
ficial anouncement is expected at the
two big meetings on December 12
that ,New York is to have another
million-dollar ball park and that the
custom of the leagues using each oth
er's parks during world's series games
will tJe abolished.
For several years the National
league owners have resented the use
of the Polo grounds by the Yanks
a,nd it is known that the Giant man
agement has hinted tliat the National
league would prefer to have the his
toric old grounds all to themselves.
Captain Huston and Colonel Rup
pert have been in the position of a
visitor who feels that he has over
stayed his time. They also have dis
covered that the close proximity and
friendliness of the two clubs have had
a dampening effect on the local riv
alry between the Yanks and Giants.
Last fall there was so little interest
displayed in a series of games be
tween the two clubs that the idea was
abandoned. -
Too Friendly.
Captain Huston declares that if the
two clubs had beer! playing on sepa
rate grounds a Giant-Yank seriej
would have drawn almost as well as
a world's series.
The Boston American league club
came in for a lot of criticism last fall
for transferring their games with
Brooklyn to Braves field in Boston
on account of its large seating capac
ity. It took away the American league
atmosphere, even if the players did
show a lot of it in their playing.
That will not occur again.
In fact it has become very evident
that the harmonious co-operation of
the two leagues (has robbed the game.
of a lot of its fire. Hereafter they will
go it alone.
Talk With Johnson.
Several weeks ago Captain Huston
and Colonel Ruppert realized that the
quicker they get a park of their Own
the better it will be for their ball club,
and they are on the job. Both of them
are now in French Lick Springs con
ferring with President Johnson on the
question of a proper location for the
big million-dollar park. The question
to be decided is whether the grounds
shall be located on Manhattan island
or in Queens. Options are held on
property at the other end of the
Queensboro bridge and on two plots
on the island. There is a chance for
them to locate at the eastern foot of
Forty-second street in the gas house
section.
. A year ago the captain and the col
onel had this matter up, but it brought
out so much publicity that they could
not keep their plans secret long
enough to make Jheir investments on
a reasonable basis. Evidently they
now have what they want and have
gone to Ban Johnson to have the mat
ter passed on by the league before the
coming meeting.
Mathewson is Not
Worrying, He Says
New York, Dec. 2. Christy Math:
ewson, - manager of the Cincinnati
Reds, dropped in-John Doyle's Forty
second street billiard parlor , to see
some of his friends who are billed to
perform in the well-known "egg" tour
nament. He wis inveigled into a
foursome, during the course of which
he discussed informally the 1917 pros
pects of the Rhinelanders.
I "I believe I will come out of the
sbuth with a pretty good pitching
staff next spring," said the man who
was the idol of New York fandom
for a decade and a half. "The veteran
pitching staff was pretty fair and some
highly recommended youngsters'are
coming up to us. There is no reason
why Toney, Schneider and Mitchell
should not be, three of the very best
boxmen in the game. Schneider has
not studied the National league bat
ters closely enough as yet. Moseley
and Knetzer lack control. Control is
something that can be mastered by
painstaking practice. -
"I'm not worrying a bit about
Cincinnati's pitching,"' Matty con
tinued. "That end of the game will
be all right. I'll have time in Shreve
port to coach some of the youngsters
enough to guarantee a pretty reliable
box department. Pitching is a very
important factor to success. I feel
that Cincinnati is. sure to improve this
last season's performances.
"The Red lineup as it finished the
season of 1916 was not a weak fielding
combination by any means. It could
stand another clouter or two and such
we may pick up from the rookies. Sev
eral of the young regulars, among
them Roush and Neale, needed last
season's experience to put them on
edge. My outfield next year "should
be strong. .
"In Chase and GrofKl have the two
best infielders of the National league
for the wings. If we have the luck to
uncover- a first-class shortstop the
Reds will have to take the dust of few
rivals."
Wealth of Fighters Bob
Up in Welter Division
New York, Dec. 2. Never was
there such a wealth of'welters. That
ill-favored class has suddenly burst
forth in splendor with ho less than a
half dozen topnotch contenders that
haven't been rivalled in. the las't fifteen
years. Look: Britton. MFarIand,
Ritchie, Ted Lewis, Badoud, Bart
field, O'Dowd, Griffiths, Gilmore, Mile
Glover. Duffy, Marty Cross (Leach
Cross' brother), and others. And only
a short time ago the welterweight di
vision was so unpopular that Packie
McFarland, who was unquestionably
the best welter in the game, refused
to claim or accept the title,
Neodl a New Tram.
AH that Coach Toit of Mli-hlran will have
to do neat year ll to develop -a new foot
ball team. . Johnny Maulbctsch, the Wolver
ine! of ll. Is through
OMAHA COMMERCIAL HIGH SCHOOL TEAM The "Bookkeepers" made good record
for themselvei as an ambitious, scrappy lot during the season. In the picture they are : Front,
Oscar Weinstein. Second row, left to right George Bernstein, E. Rokusek, Julius Gerelick,
Frank Ross, Milton Morearty, Captain Wade Reeves, Fred Morledge. Third row, left to right
Kinsley, Albert Card,' Charles Conkiser, Coach James Drummond, William Dewey, Perry
Shirley and Robert Moore.
TENNIS HAS THREE
MILLION PLAYERS r
Once Ridiculed as "Ladies'
Game," Strenuous Pastime
Wins Many Men's Favor.
CITIES BUILD . COURTS
New .York, Dec. 2. Tennis, the
same sport that was ridiculed as be
ing too much of a ladies game a few
years ago is now rapidly approaching
base ball as a national pastime. This
season, figures Fjed Alexander, the
former national champion, more than
3,000,000 men, women and children
played tennis in the United States.
The game has taken such a hold on
the sport-loving public that great
tennis centers like New York, Bos
ton, Chicago, Philadelphia, and San
Fraricisco have sprung fcip and v the
game is spreading like a prairie fire
to every section of the country.
Tennis was so popular . this year
that most of the leading cities esta
blished municipal courts, while hun
dreds Of private clubs installed light
ing systems so that their members
could olav tennis at. night.
Alexander declares that tennis has
developed quicker than any other
sport in this country, even including
base ball, tie gives three reasons
for this a wonderful form of exer
cise, cheapness and a game that re
quires but little space.
Sudden' Popularity,
, "The sudden popularity of- tennis
surprises us all," said Alexander, who
as a player and expert ranks with
the topnotchers. "Now we have vari
ous championships that attract in
terest from thousands of youths, addi
tional tournaments for even young
schoolboys and many meets for
women, whose members greatly in
creased this year. The sport is no
lohger restrteted to a fewspots like
Newport and Longwood, but is
scattered all over the land. Philadel
phia is just as keen for the game as
New York. One club at German
towp alone 'has sixty courts and
they're busy all the timei Chicago
is another city of racquet weilders,
while no one need to be told about
the tennis sentiment out in Califor
nia. .
"Yet," went pn the veteran former
champion, "the game started under
the most discouraging circumstances.
Tennis was introduced here from
England some twenty odd years ago,
and it was quickly taken1 up by so
ciety. It was ve'ry exclusive. Society
played it, and only society was invited
to the few tournaments at Newport,
Longwood and Sea Bright. The av
erage sport-goer refused to have any
thing to do with it. He poked fun
at it as being a fad and a ladies'
game. In those days it was a tame
sport, and the best players,, with thei
gentle tap-tap style, would ..only be
second or third raters now.
Was in Rut.
"The game continued in a rut for a
long while," continued Alexander.
"Finally it gradually began to attract
a few outsiders, who played the new
sport more out of curiosity than any
thing else. To their astonishment
they discovered that chasing a tennis
ball for about two hours was pretty
good exercise.,. They invited others
to take up the game, and that was the
real beginning of tennis.
"Dwight Davis in offering a cup for
international competition did a great
deal to foster the glowing game.
Then came Maurice McLoughlin,
with his new dashing way of playing
tennis. He put additional action into
the game, and that seemed to please
the younger players, the kind who
delight in taking strenuous exercise.
"McLoughlin was looked up to as
a model for hundreds of youngsters
who have been starring on the courts
the last few years. They not only
played a dashing game like Mc
Loughlin, but actually improved on
the Comet's style, a development, that
is making our leaders some of the
greatest racquet wielders in the
world." ,
Alexander explains that tennis is
really only beginning to get big.
Quincy Owner Puts His
Whole Team on the Block
Oscar Shannon, owner of the
Quincy franchise, in the "III" league,
has offered his entire team for sale.
The players include Manager John
Castle, Pitchers Higbee, Cummings,
Young, Heizer, Bierman and Kucp
per; Catchers Tyree, Linglc, Kuhn
and Boelzle, and Fielders Foley, Gol
vin, Turner, Boyle, Sherer and
Trainer.
1
Hawkeye Basket
Shooters to Have
Extensive Schedule
Iowa City, la., Dec. 2. (Special.)
Hawkeye basket tossers have come
together immediately at the close of
the foot ball season and are taking
their first workouts on the gymnasium
floor daily under the direction of
Coach M. A. Kent. About twenty men
are out for the squad, all of them
candidates who either had experience
last year or who played with the re
serves or freshmen. ,
As the saying goes each year,
"Prospects for a winning basket ball
five at Iowa City this season are very
bright." The Hawkeyes make no com
plaint of the outlook, however. Cap
tain -Bannick, without doubt the best
player in the state today, is out for
forward again and is assured of a po
sition. He has been showing up bril
liantly in the first practices. Von
Lackum and Schiff, guards last year,
are also available and can be kept off
the 'five only by the appearance of
some phenomenal opposition.
Two games with Ames, two with
Cornell and one other remain to be
arranged before the Iowa schedule is
complete. Director Kellogg, however,
announces the following gardes for the
year:
December li State Teachers at Iowa
City.
' December 19 Lombard at Iowa City.
January 8 Ohlcairo at Chicago.
January 12 Indiana at Iowa City.
January 17 Indiana at Bloomtngton.
January 20 Purdue at Lafayette,
January 24 Northweitern at Bvaneton.
-February 9 Chicago at Iowa City.
February 19 Minnesota at Iowa City.
March Minnesota at Minneapolis.
March 10 Northwestern at Iowa City.
Dobie's Eleven to
Tackle Dartmouth
In East Next Year
New York, ' Dec. 2. Dartmouth
has arranged a game with the famous
University of Washington eleven to
be played at the Polo grounds next
fall. The Washington team, which
is one of the strongest on the Pacific
coast, has not been defeated in three
years. The players are coached by
Gilmour Dobie, a capable foot ball in
structor, who sticks to the old-fashioned
game, using the forward pass
only as a bluff. The Washington
eleven has been eager to play a game
before a New York crowd for some
rime, hut it has been impossible to
carry on successful negotiations with
the big three Harvard, Yale and
Princeton. Dartmouth, however, has
come to the front with an acceptance
of the Washingtonians' sweeping chal
lenge and the New York Base Ball
club has clinched the match, which
probably will excite unusual interest.
Vean Gregg Gets ,
More Coin Than Ty
Vho is the highest paid player in
base ball? Ty Cobb, Tris Speaker?
Not on your life. It is none other
than Vean Gregg, who occasionally,
very occasionally, pitches a game for
the Boston Red Sox, champions of the
world. Gregg was wished upon the
Red Sox late in1914 by the Indians.
Then his left fin lost its wiggling
power and Vean did little else than
nurse it for the balance of the year.
In 1915, and again this season Gregg
was almost useless to his club. The
main chores he performed were those
of the relief variety. In 1915 he Worked
to a decision in only six games; this
year five. For performing in eleven
complete combats in two years, Gregg
got his regular salary, reported to be
$5,1100 a season, and two cuts of the
world's series melon. That means ap
proximately $17,000 for working about
twenty hours in two years, or $850
every six minutets If you have tears
to shed, this is not the spot.
Michigan Gridiron Star
Leans Toward Aviation
John Maulbctsch, captain of the
University of Michigan foot ball
eleven, has become all enthusiastic
aviator,. He. has made flights with
Don, McKce of Saginaw, brother of
"Red" McKec, the Detroit base ball
club's catcher, and seems anxious for
more opportunities to buck the air.
Bigbee Keeps in Shape
By Chopping Down Trees
Carson Bigbee, the rising young
Pittsburgh infielder, is working on
his father's farm out in Oregon and
writes that he intends keeping in con
dition by chopping down trees and in
dulging in other "light" exercise.
W1LLARD FLIRTING
WITH QUICK DEATH
Jess Laying Himself Open by
Taking Life Easy and Work
1 ing Very Little.
TWO FIGHTS, THREE YEARS
New York, Dec. 2. How long can
Jess Willard remain out of the ring
and still retain his reputation of be
ing invincible? During the last three
years Willard has taken part in two
bouts, one with Jack Johnson and the
other the ten-round affair with Frank
Moran. (That is not nearly enough
Work to keep a fighting man in shape
to do his best work.
It is a rule with few exceptions that
when a boxer retires for as long as a
year he loes 50 per cent of his form.
Jack Johnson was no exception to
this rule, although Johnson was a
natural boxer who needed less prac
tice than the average gloveman.
Willard is strictly a manufactured
boxer. He is not by nature a fight
ing man and it was only bv laborious
practice that he acquired whatever
amount of ability he possessed.
Willard says the boxing he does
every day during the circus season
keeps him in good shape. But the
champion's circus boxing is strictly a
joke.' He merely goes two one-minute
rounds and lets his sparring mate
do all the work at that. Gymnasium
boxing has ruined every fighter who
tried it for any length of time. It gets
him in the habit of pulling his
punches. Willard showed in his bout
with Moran that it was beginning to
get in its work. He fought Moran as
though he were boxing a sparrjng
partner instead of defending a cham
pionship. Instead of stopping his man,
Willard merely boxed defensively
when he should have been forcing
the fight. He ifollowed the tactics
learned in the gymnasium, which are
altogether different to those used in
the. ring.
Then, too, Willard is said to have
grown so fat that it is by no means
certain that he will ever enter the
ring again. However, it is becom
ing evident that he must do some
thing in the boxing; line this winter
if he hopes to continue as an attrac
tion with the circus. Of late the
spectators of his abbreviated spar
ring skits have taken to hooting at
the place where the cheering should
commence, according to reports from
the west.
There are certain signs that the
titleholder is about to indulge in a
scrap of some sort. According to the
advance work he will face either Fred
Fulton or Charley Weinert. Wcincrt
probably will get the chance if, as
seems probable,. Frank Moran flat
tens the gawky Rochester giant when
they come together in a few weeks.
Willard would no doubt prefer
Fulton, who still looks very soft, to
Weinert, who is a good boxer and
vcrv fast, even if he is not much of
a hitter. In ten rounds Wein
ert might cause the champion a great
deal of trouble. Of course Willard's
title would be safe enough if the
bout were held in a no decision cen
ter, hut it might be different if it
took place in Tia Juana, 'or some
place where the referee would be
allowed to hand down a decision.
Lawn Tennis On
Ice is Newest Fad
New York, Dec. '?. Lawn temps is
to be played at the Ice Skating Palace,
with Fred B. Alexander in charge of
the arrangements; in fact, the idea
originated with him. It is apparent
that the players of this game must
meet two big requirements. In the
first place, they must be expert skat
ers, and, in the second place, they
must be equally expert tennis players.
None but the best of skaters could
hope to play the game. It requires
more prompt and decisive action than
hockey, even. Further, it must be
apparent to even the layman that the
players must be expert at handling a
racquet, foi, unless they arc familiar
with the different strokes' and the
part the feet play in making these
strokes, they are certain to come a
cropper. Some five or six years ago
the game was tried. But only one
match was played. It caused a great
deal of interest and enthusiasm ran
high. At the time there" was much
talk about forming an ice tennis
tournament, with regularly scheduled
matches throughout the winter.
Ilaa a. Handicap.
Hilly .llHn in n iwrai iimu.-, riiu nil
that, but he's going to have a hard limn fnt-
w, !.!.. an Innv k 111. HIKIuina
lly remains In St. Taul.
GOLF ASSOCIATION
FACESBIG TASKS
Reinstatement of Outlawed
Members May Lead to Inter
esting and Warm Debates.
THOSE MUNICIPAL LINES
Boston, Mass., Dec. 2. There may
be exciting moments next January at
the meeting of the United States Golf
association delegates. The decision of
the Woodland Golf club to pursue
the course mapped out some months
ago and tight hard for the reinstate
ment of the members at present out
side the pale can mean nothing more
than a clear-cut decision which will
show to the goliers all over the coun
try the 1917 attitude of the new ex
ecutive committee.
The whole question is far bigger'
than any committee or club, and it is
to be hoped that steps will be taken
in the meanwhile to have a harmoni
ous gathering two months from now.
The question that has arisen be
tween the Woodland Golf club and
the officials of the United States Golf
association has not a few complex
elements, important to every club in
the country whose members favor the
true spirit of democracy. j
Some Suppositions.
Suppose that 100 clubs had had
their favorite members debarred by
the United Slates Golf association of
ficials and were deprived of a discus
sion of the case.
Suppose, as happened in this case,
there was a refusal on the part of the
resident executive committeeman to
meet and discuss together the merits
of the situation and that repeated ef
forts on the part of the club officials
failed to get the proper and courteous
response expected concerning the no
tification of disbarment, etc. Would
many golfers deny that a feeling of
great disloyalty would creep into the
hearts of the members of the hundred
clubs on the ground that they had hot
the right sort of treatment by the men
elected on a national ticket for that
very purpose. i
But as this happened to only one
club there has not been the same feel
ing of sympathy because of the pecu
liar circumstances of the members in
volved. The officers of the United
Slates Golf association must meet half
way every time any club, whether ac
tive or associate, for the clearing up
of any disagreement. In this case who
would say that the Woodland club
had received anywhere near a square
deal.
A Hornet'i Nest.
It is on that account and not for
the personal sympathy accorded to
Francis Ouimet and the others that
the Woodland club has it may sur
prise some of the officials to hear
heard from well over, fifty clubs in
the east tendering their belief in their
actiojn, and sympathy as well! while
only five clubs you would not fail to
guess' them without being told have
said that they believe the club was in
the wrong,
And accompanying the letter from
one of the five clubs was a statement
that' it was only the majority part of
the executive committee of the club
which favored the United States Golf
association action and that the club
members were spokenly in favor of
the Woodland club. Is it reasonable
to presume that the official action or
nonaction is right when it is so over
whelmingly vetoed by thinking men
far from the immediate scene of ac
tion who surely have not been hap
hazard in their choice.
The game of golf is too fine a sport
to be immeasureably hurt by the con
certed action of a few men who are
sincere in their beliefs that they are
managing for the best interest of the
game. That is a point worth consider
ing. To our more than 500,000 there
arc being added 30,000 or 35,000 new
golfers each year.
Municipal Links.
What will be the new order when
we have a million players or more in
the country? Have many of ybu
thought much about the new munici
pal championship won this year by
Chicago from Hartford and played on
the links of St. Louis by representa
tives of the golfers' who play 1600,000
rounds each" year? In five years more
we shall have fifty to seventy-five mu
nicipal links; in another ten years
we shall have 4UU stanaarn courses
of either nine or eighteen holes.
Is there going to be one national
organization in control of all the clubs
and their members, with the right to
make laws for the proper government
of the sport? Golf is bound to be
come the nationally played game of
the land, as base ball will always
combine the playing numbers and be
pre-eminent as a spectacle.
And now is the time when breadth
of opinion as opposed to narrow per
sonal choice, constructive legislation
as opposed to guess work in the mat
ter of new membership rules, a coun
try-wide view rather than a nine-scvcn-club
horizon is needed in Amer
ica as never before.
Fight for Favors.
If the men in authority think it is
the amateur rule alone which has
roused the golfers of the country they
arc much mistaken. For years there
has been discontent over the distribu
tion of official favors; there have been
outspoken statements that the men in
power did not have a democratic view
of the golfing situation in the United
States; there was at one time, almost
a decade ago, a serious set of differ
ences between the east and west,
which were happily blotted out for
the time being.
Differences out west seem to have
come once more to the surface in no
uncertain form and there has been a
different attitude on the part of the
officials in refusing every request for
the abolishment of the stymie, a pro
cedure ten times less important than
it may seem, involving no greater
courage than it did to keep the Schen
ectady putter and being a matter
which need not be taken up with St.
Andrews at all, statements to the
contrary notwithstanding.
Game Needs Men.
I submit that the game of golf
needs men of conviction who are wise
and prudent. 1 do not- intend this
article to take up the matter of the
amateur question, but in this connec-
HOW BARNES GAYE
U. S. ROWING START
Multi - Millionaire Enthusiast
Spends Thousands of Dollars
to Give Sport Boost.
IT GAVE HIM HIS HEALTH
New York. Dec. 2. Julius Barnes,
called "The Father of American Row
ing," has done more than any other
man to popularize the aquatic sport
in America, which has come forward
with such leaps and bounds during
the last fifteen years. And behind it
all is a pretty story one that tells
how a man, grateful for what a sport
has done for him, has spared neither
time nor money to raise U to ranking
among the major sports of America.
Twenty years or so ago Barnes,
then living in his home town of Du
luth, faced a nervous breakdown. He
was emerging from his teens, but
hard work and long hours had made
their impress upon his health. Doc
tors told him it was best that he
should go away for a long rest. But
that was just what Barnes couldn't do.
Barnes today is rated as a multi
millionaire. In the other days he was
a poop boy, working his way along
toward success, and traveling the
long, hard road. And so he could not
follow the advice of his physician, be
cause to quit work meant to abandon
his means of livelihood.
And then it was that Julius Barnes
took up rowing. In that darkest hour
he saw a ray, of light and' it directed
him to he water, to a boat and to a
pair of oars. Every evening when
his work was done he would taka
himself down to Old St. Louis bav
and row up, and down until nightfall
and beyond.
The exertion at first, tired him
very much. Bnt in a little while he
found that he could pull harder and
faster and not feel tired. Soon his
cheeks filled out and began to bloom.
His chest took on a bulge and muscles
began to develop on his arms, his legs
arM on his body., In less than a year
Julius Barnes, frail, wan and worked
out, developed into a strong, husky
youth, with clear eyes, clear skin and
superb health.
. Regalni His Health.
"It was rowing that did it for me
and nothing else," said ' Barnes,
"When I took up the sport I was in
poor condition. Within a year 1 had
regained all my lost health and
much more. And I have been a row
ing enthusiast ever since." i
A year or so after he took up row
ing Barnes joined the first crew that
ever represented Duluth. It was a
remarkable quartet one that swept'
its way to victory in almost every
contest that it entered. i
Fifteen years or so ago, when
Barnes was forced to abandon the
sport as a regular pleasure to devote
his time to his grain business in New
York and Duluth, he decided to bobst
the game whenever he could.
"Rowing probably toved my life,"
he once said. "I know what it did for
me in upbuilding health. And so I
felt that it was only right that I
should open the way for other boya
to grow strong and healthy through
its medium."
Patron of Club.
Barnes became the patron of the
Duluth Boat club. He spared nothing
to make it a success. With several
others who loved the rowing game as
he does, he helped to build the strug
gling club up to first ranking among
organizations of its kind. Its mem
bership jumped from a score or more
to something close to 1,500. And the
crews that they turn , out there in
Duluth are . the greatest in America.
A Duluth oarsman has become the
standard by which all others are
judged.. Oarsmanship has been de
veloped to its highest possible stand
ard in the Minnesota town, and dur
ing the last few years the i story of
every big amateur regatta has started
with: "Duluth again won the laurels,
scoring firsts in nearly every event,"
Duluth is a city that is filled with
husky little elfs. And each is an
oarsman. The boys there begin row
ing at an early age, and when they
are 12 or 14 they can pull a blade
with the skill and oftentimes the
power of an adult. And so.it is
with the girls. Several years ago
some of the daughters of the mem
bers of the Duluth Boat cluh begged
for a chance to row. They got it.
Duluth now has some girl rowers
who are the equal of many masculine
stars of other cities:-
"I think rowing is the greatest
sport in the world," said Barnes.
"Nothing Is better for young boys.
The combination of water, sunshine
and fresh air, together with exercise,
builds up their bodies to the highest
point of efficiency. It develops them
in every other way and makes them
manly little fellows.
"The lesson that the boys learn in
that way becomes invaluable to them
later in life. And the superb health
that rowing gives to them stands
them in good stead in later years."
tion let me proffer the following to
explain what I mean;
It took a great amount of thought
and work, so we are told, to draft
the new amateur rule which was first
brought before the delegates last
January. It was voted there to have
the committee bring in another one
and then within twenty-four hours
an altogether new ruling was present
ed. How much thought was spent
upon this in comparison to the other
which failed to satisfy? The latest
draft was not an alternative, for it
would have been presented at the
rheeting. And it would be rather un
wise to say that no time, or just twenty-four
hours, was spent on the first
rule given out. Such systems do not
bring feelings of deserved confidence
and the golfers of the country at
large recognize that fact.
Woodland will bring the .matter to
a head at the annual meeting or be
fore that time. They may not have
enough helping votes then, with only
active clubs voting, but again they
may. Time alone will tell. The apt
remark of ex-Senator Cannon that -"if
the good thing, are made as popu
lar as the bad things are powerful
then we shall have good government,'
may fit this case.
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