3 S For every champion brilliarit in the game fjf2 Ten thousand fought and bear a loser's name. Thrt vm an ld thlt. Another old athlete, named (irob, Ww alwnjo an Intlolrnt dub. lied toll with algh W lien hlu helpmate atoori by With her hand on an Indian dab. Who looked Ilk mwticine hall, H had never bn aquar, Uan full of hot air, t And didn't mind knocking- at all, THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: DECEMBER 17. 1916, V: s Judgments OMAHA will not get one of the big Nebraska games in 1917. All efforts of Omaha alumni of the state institution failed when the Missouri Valley conference refused to revoke an existing rule which prohibits a conference eleven it om playing in any city in which one of the competing schools is not lo cated. The conference decision was 10 be expected, although several of the local alumni were enthusiastic enough to believe their efforts might succeed. The university is ready enough to Milicil any assistance it may want from Omaha and never fails to ex press its heartfelt thanks and appre ciation. Support from Omaha is al ways very gratefully received. But when it comes to giving Omaha some thing in return uothing doing. In this particular instance the alibi artists puss the buck to Kansas and Missouri, asserting these two institutions had the ruling passed and were insistent that it be retained. Nothing, of course, is said about the other tive schools in e conference which, one would pre sume, have a vote in Missouri Valley affairs. Also, there are those who have a suspicion that these Missouri Valley conference rules about which such a hullabalu is raised don't amount to any more than the paper on which they are written. Nebraska played the Oregon Aggies at Portland. The Aggie institution is not located in Portland. It has a department there. So has Omaha a department of the University of Nebraska, the college of medicine, which, it might be men tioned, is considerable deparment and which Lincoln strived mightily to get for itself. If the University of Ne braska wanted to play a game in Omaha it would do so, Missouri Val ley conference rulings to the contrary notwithstanding. Faint rumblings heard among the minors seem to indicate a mighty up ! heaval may occur in the base ball k- world if the major league magnates don't watch out. Last week the Inter national league refused flatly to pay the $9,000 claim awarded Charley Eb bets by the National commission. If the International continues to refuse to comply with the commission's rul ing it will result in loss of member ship in the organization. This means a virtual move into outlawry. The International, the American associa f tion and the Pacific Coast leagues " have combined to make demands that they be exempt from the draft ruling and that they be given representation on the governing body of the game. In order to make these changes the national agreement will have to be amended, which requires the unani mous vote of the two major leagues. Thus one club owner can block them. But the Pacific coast league is very in sistent and Uiroatens to once more re turn to a stite of outlawry. It would lie a sad blovfto Organized Base Ball if these twoChtss AA circuits, the International and the Pacific Coast, should turn outhaws, but the chances look about fifty-fifty. If the Western wasn't tangled up with its own trou bles, the Zehrung loop might be mak ing a little disturbance too. The career of another base ball great has come to a close. Nap Kucker, said by many to be the great est of all southpaw hurlers, is the man. Rucker was another of those players who was a credit to the sport in which he made his livelihood, a clean, square plaver and a true Georgian gentleman. Rucker was all the more wonderful a pitcher because he hurled for a tail end team. But he made some great records despite the fact that his crew behind him was nothing to brag about. He pitched a no-hit game against Bos- nnA qlmict rluntiratrrl the feat against Cincinnati. Once Nap fanned sixteen men in one game and in one season he scored a shutout against every team in the league. He fought all his battles in tne lace 01 aaversuy, handicapped by a weak team, but he won. Rucker is another one of base hall's children at whom base ball can ' point an unwavering finger and proud ly say "there's another of my boys. For sweet charity's sake, if present plans run true. Jess Willard and Georges Carpentier will fox trot through ten brief rounds in New York City some time this winter. The pro ceeds will go toward the Red Cross fund that is, some of the proceeds. Mr. Willard has expressed a cheerful willingness to donate his services for charity and $65,000. Mr. Carpentier will also donate his services for char ityand $20,000. The unselfish hu manitarianism, the tender benevolence, the obliging philanthropy and the sympathetic charity of these noble warriors is very commendable indeed, and very laudable. New York should be more than willing, even eager, to contribute its support at about twen-ty-fiv bucks a seat. It's all for sweet charity. The player limit ruling is coming up again before the National league. Brooklyn, New jotk ana nicagu, s said, want tne nmii cxichucu. j the player limit should bother tnese National magnates is something of a mystery. It was observed last year in the strict sense of the word, but there were only two clubs which car ried twenty-one players. The others had several more under contract and evaded the limit law by placing the additional athletes on the disability list, erasing and restoring their names as occasion made necessary. Of course, it is much better if a club ob serves all the laws and rulings, but if it doesn't what difference does it make whether the limit is twenty-one, twenty-live or thirty? Percy Haughton, the Harvard cuach, continues to refuse to number his players, asserting he takes his po sition because he wants to keep his plays under cover. Percy had help this year, Brown and Yale gave him great assistance in keeping them un der cover. Last fall Bill Carrigan announced his retirement from base ball. Now t is said he is willing to return if the new owners of the Red Sox will pay i i ii i $20,000. Which, of course, simply proves that Mr. Carrigan is a shrewd business man. It's about time for 'em to slip us Stecher and Caddock now, isn't it? MANAGER OF ALL ATHLET ICS AT BELLEVUE. Lester Stewart of Walthill, Neb., junior at Bellevue college, has been elected by the athletic board of con trol to the position of student man ager of all athletics from now to next December. Perry T. Johns, sopho more, was elected at the same time to the position of assistant to Stew art. Stewart has played halfback and end on the varsity foot ball team for two vears and was defeated for the rantainrv fnr npyl vrar hv nnlv ah I vote in the recent election. He won his letter in basket ball last season. He is also manager of the junior an nual to appear next spring. Last years he was president of the sopho more class. NATIVE SONS SEEK RACING MD0BXI1 California Wants to See Re turn of the Halcyon Days of Old on the Coast. PREPARE BILLS TO SUBMIT San Francisco, Dec. 16. California is tired of the quiet amateur sporting life and wants something more of the big events of the turf and ring. And that feeling is going to result in some fight to reinstate the sports which the lawmakers of the state and the peo ple have prohibited. Racing will have a much easier row to hoe than will the Queensberry game in its fight for a pardon. From a reliable source it has been learned that newly-elected James C. Nealon, one of the most prominent men in the Golden State Thoroughbred Breeding association, the organization which promoted running races at the exposi tion, will be sponsor for a measure that will be introduced at the next legislature if any signs of encourage ment prevail. It is said that Governor Hiram Johnson, although it was he who an nihilated the game some years ago, is inclined to lend a favorable ear to ward modified racing, with restricted betting under the pari-mutuel sys tem. It is that report which has en couraged racing people to believe that they have a chance to have their fa vorite sport returned to them. And if all continues bright it is the pur pose of the powers that be in the game to restrict the sport to ten or fifteen days in each county of the state. To see that all is run right and not in the way that resulted in the killing of the game some time back a racing commission will be asked to be named. The proposed measure to bring back racing will be put up while Hiram W. Johnson is still governor of the state. It is doubted if the laws would be proposed unless the new United States senator was in the chair, since it was his influence which put a ban on the sport. Boxing Not So Sure. But racing is looking up in Cali fornia, which is more than can be said for boxing, although champion ship bouts as prevailed in other days are sought by' many. Racing was killed by the legislature and it was the people who put the cruncher with their votes on the fight game. To re turn to boxing the people would have to be asked again il they wanted it. State assemblyman-Elect Fred C. Hawes is the man who will try to get some better boxing for his state than it has at present. It 'is his purpose to have the legislature submit to the people a bill which will permit of ten round contests, with decisions by a referee, and under the supervision of a state athletic committee. California, for years and years the place where they made champions, is longing for a sight of old days, and maybe if they persist they will get what they seek. Davy Fultz Gathers In Coin as Grid Official David Fultz, ex-balt player and present barrister and president of the Base Ball Players' fraternity, is not at all glad that the foot ball season has ended. Davy is one of the best foot ball officials in the country, and he served in virtually every big league in the country. This sideline not only did not cut in on his legal and fraternity work, but paid handsomely. Foot ball officials draw $100 a game and ex penses. Giants to Build Big Grandstand at Martin The New York National League Club is going to build a new grand stand i.t ' s -raining park in Jdarlin, in preparation for the crowds ex pected to see the exhibition games in the spring with the Detroit Tigers, ANOTHER STAR IN PUGILISTIC WORLD Eddie Wallace of Brooklyn Breaks Into Limelight in Short Time of One Week. TAKES WELSH AND DUNDEE New York, Dec. 16. Another star has arisen in the pugilistic sky, and it strikes the boxing fan that it will be many a day before it sets. Eddie Wallace, a Brooklyn boy, has flashed into greatness within seven days. A couple of weeks ago he met Freddie Welsh, the lightweight cham pion of the world, in a ten-round bout in Montreal, and when the smoke of battle cleared away there was not an expert in the Canadian city who did not declare that the American lad carried off the honors. The youth stepped into the ring with Johnny Dundee, a fighter who by many is considered a close sec ond to the champion, and expert opinion was divided at the finish as to the winner. Be that as it jnay, Wallace did so well that when the bout was over the crowd gave him one of the greatest receptions ever ac corded a fighter on leaving the ring. It was a tribute to the fighting quali ties of the Brooklynite, and many be lieve in him they have another Mc Govern. Eddie Wallace has great ftlt in his ability to land at the top of the lightweight heap, too. He's no flash in the pan. Ever since he began box ing just a short time back he has met the best. He began as a light weight, and did very well against Kid Williams, the daddy of the bantams. Then he met Johnny Kilbane, the champion featherweight, and again credited himself with a glory. Then to beat Freddie Welsh was an achievement which has buoyed his hopes to becoming the champion. Charles Harvey is handling the boy's affairs for him, and it strikes us that Charles is about to have as big attraction as he did in the days when he piloted Jim Driscoll and Owen Moran. Charley thinks so well of his boy that he is willing and anxious, for that matter, to close a championship with Champion Welsh. He has posted $1,000 to bind a match with the champion and already has interested his old friend, Jim Coff roth, owner of the Tia Juana race track in Mexico, in the proposition! to stage the battle. Harvey will everi. bet on his boy to beat Welsh, and the $1,000 he now has up may go as part of a side stake, if the champion takes the match and wants to bet. No doubt we shall see a lot of Wal lace from now on. Charley Harvey's mail will be heavy with requests for his new champion's services, but it will be three weeks before he will be able to accept any dates. The new sensation hurt his right hand in the bout with Dundee and will lay up until the injury is perfectly healed. Cubs Believe They Have the Schalk of The National Loop The "Ray Schalk of the National league" has been found, according to officials of the Chicago National league club. The youngster whom the scouts have recommended as the coming leading catcher of the Na tional league is William "Pickles" Dillhoefer. Dillhoefer was obtained from the Milwaukee club of the Na tional association by drafe. He is 21 years of age and bats and throws right-handed. He is built like his American league rival and weighs 155 pounds. His height is five feet, eight inches. He was born in Cleveland, O., , and made his residence there. "Pickles" started his base ball career with the Portsmouth (O.) club in the Ohio State league in 1914. Stories from the scouts who trailed the youngster told how his every move had been watched. It is undcr- ftfnnH that nrartirallv everv rlnh in the National and American leagues ! had a draft tor him. Recently two scouts who had been looking him over and who are well acquainted with the ability of Ray Schalk when he broke into the fast company, declared that Dillhoefer is a better prospect than was Schalk when he joined Comiskey's White Sox. Dillhoefer is known as a heady player, full of "pep," fast, and with a strong "whip." In the words of Joe Tinker and Charles Weeghman, it will take "some" catcher to deprive the youngster of a place as a regular on the catching staff for 1917. Athletes Collect Big Coin Telling College Lads How That base ball salaries are up to stay is indicated by the toppy tenders made by colleges to veteran players to act as coach. Stars of five years ago in the major league didn't draw the money players are being offered today to teach collegians how to play base ball. One big league player recently signed a five-year contract to coach a nine and the college isn't the big gest in America by any means. Ex actly $25,000 is involved, the player being guaranteed a yearly salary of $5,000. In his best playing days he never received that much money, al though he was one of the most valu able in the country. Moreover, his season is compara tively short. Starts in January and ends in latter part of June. He can draw another salary scouting for a major league outfit. When they found that they couldn't get Frank Chance, the Cubs tried to sign Fred Mitchell, scout of the Bos ton team and coach of the Harvard nine, as manager. When they found that the two positions netted Fred an income of more than $10,000 a year they were staggered. STANTON FOOT BALL TEAM Champions of northeast Nebraska, undefeated in the last foot ball season. Top row: H. Chase, sub.; Forbes, sub.; Johnson, sub.; Lehr, coach; Best, Q.; R. De Witz, H. B.; Fralton, F. B.; Perry, H. B. Second row: Burner, H. De Witx, B. Chase, Pont, Hopper, Pilger, Klopp. D. S, G. A. HAS MERRY SCRAP AHEAD OF IT Demands Will Be Made from All Sides that Francis Oui met Be Reinstated. MEANS NEW AMATEUR LAW The United States Golf association at its annual meeting next month will be attacked on all sides with de mands that the amateur status be restored to Francis Ouimet, former holder of both national golf titles. A large number of delegates, according to present indications, will present re quests to the national governing body that the suspension be lifted from the young Boston star. The move ment at the meeting will simply be the reflection of sentiment that has been general in golfing circles since last winter that Ouimet has been un fairly dealt with. The Woodland club, Ouimct's home club, will lead the fight for the former champion's reinstatement. The lining up of .the Ouimet supporters is reaching such formidable dimensions that it is rea sonably sure to expect that Ouimet will be competing in the 1917 cham pionship as an amateur. The annual meetings of the United States Golf association are generally pretty tame affairs. Routine business is quickly disposed of, courses awarded for the three national cham pionships tor the coming year and then the delegates tell cacti other stories of the nineteenth-hole variety. The coming session of the national association will be different. Most of the excitement and battling will cen ter about Ouimet. At the present time the United States Golf associa tion is deep in one of the most per plexing bunkers the royal and ancient game ever knew. It must do one of two things, tactfully lift the suspen sion of Ouimet or turn a cold shoulder to a popular movement to have the much discursed youngster restored as an amateur golfer, which, in the opin ion of hundreds of players, he never ceased to be. After disposing of Oui met's case, the association will find it necessary to formulate a new rule defining what constitutes an amateur, or, better still, what specific acts change an amateur into a professional. This is a question both the golf and the tennis associations have repeat edly tackled in the past and with scant success. Many Have Suggestions. Many delegates at the golf meeting will introduce suggestions for a new amateur rule. They have been prim ing themselves for the occasion and undoubtedly some brand new devel opments will be brought. Nearly all the dissatisfaction 'over the existing amateur rule converges on the clause directly or indirectely connected with a sporting goods house. What is wanted is a clearer interpretation of the meaning of "indirectly'' connected with a sporting goods house, a condi tion that could separate any golfer from his amateur standing. It was this clause that brought about Ouimet's suspension. Ouimet, ior two years alter his memorable victory over Vardon and Ray at Brookline in 191 J, worked for Wright & Ditson in Boston. Surely this was a very direct house, but the United States Golf association believed Oui met an amateur. But a vear aim the young former champion decided to venture in tne sporting goods busi ness for himself and the United States Golf association came down on him like a ton of brick. In the as sociation's opinion, this was an un pardonable breach of amateurism and Ouimet was disqualified from compet ing in amateur tournaments. The majority of golfers have failed to understand the justice of the as sociation's action in regard to Oui met, and the forthcoming meeting of the governing body will determine how matters tand. Pat Moran Saidjto Want Jack Miller of St. Louis Report from Philadelphia has it that Manager Pat Moran of the Phil lies will make the St. Louis Cardinals an offer for Jack Miller. It might be a good deal for the Phillies. Miller seems to need a change of scene ever so often. He slumped with the Pirates, was traded to St. Louis and played grand ball for a couple of years. Last season he fell into slumpy ways again, indicating that another shift might be needed to wake him up. Some critic rises along to re mark that no player gets along with Miller Huggins for more than so long, which may or may not be Hug gins' fault. This is the Same Snooks Who Played With Links Shortstop Marly McGaffigan of the Vernon Tigers will play in Philadel phia after all. He was drafted by the Athletics last fall, but the draft was canceled. Now he has been sold out right to the Phillies, and it is under stood Manager Moran will use him as utility infieldcr. Cash and probably a present Philly player are to be paid in exchange. Wavers Fight With Sticks and Take Bumps The first time the average sport fan sees hockey he is liable to imag- j inc that it is an excuse for a free tight. It is only when he 'perceives, the finer points that he appreciates 1 the game as the most scicntinc ot ice games. Here is what a New York tyro wrote after seeing a game: "Hockey isn't snort, it's an ex cuse. Twelve or fourteen men, old enough to know better, get into an argument some place where they won't permit hunting. "Then they get skates on, grab a stick apiece and drop a rubber disc on the ice and begin mauling each other all over the place. "The rubber disc is a stall. It's a decoy. It coaxes any backward young men present who may not understand that the battle is a public affair, open to any on the ice, to bring their heads within hitting distance. "At the same time it fools the light fans present, who prefer to be known as hockey enthusiasts. They like to believe that the players art trying to wallop the disc with their sticks, whereas they know all the time that the chief object of the game is to smash any and all unprotected heads. "Hockey was first introduced by the Amalgamated Order of Physi cians and Surgeons. They don't play it. but they sec that the rules do not abstract too much roughness from the game. .... "For a long time it was believed that the- Brotherhood of Undertakers were the originators of the game. But this has been disproved. The fatalities are comparatively few. Any player may emerge from a game without being killed, if he's lucky. So it's apparent the Brotherhood of Undertakers didn't have anything to do with introducing hockey. "But it's different with the physi cians and surgeons. They really en joy the game. They are among its most ardent supporters. Any man can support anything that helps in the yearly reckoning of profits. It has been said that some players en joy the game. But this is only true to the extent that some fighters like ATLANTA DIGS DP NEW BOY WONDER Bobby Jones and Ferry Adair Have New Rival in Tommy Presoott, 17 Years Old. PRODIGIES ALL OVER SOUTH Help! Atlanta has another boy wonder who in the recent city cham pionship there, to quote a Georgian, "hammered the wadding" out of Bobby Jones. His name is Tom Prescott, aged 17, two years older than Jones, but the same age as Perry Adair. Prescott's avoirdupois is 150 pounds, just like Bobby; he promises to be even more of a whale of youth. Tom has been playing two seasons. Adair, sr., says when Tom isn't over at Perry's domicile Percy can be found at Tom's house. Golf in At lanta is certainly a neighborhood af fair. Tom put out Bobby, but fell to Perry, who suceeded his father, twice holder of the title. As the city con test is only three years old, Adair is the only name that has gone on the cup so far. Outsiders can't be blamed for thinking that family has a chattel mortgage on the silverware. All over the south golfing prodigies are spring up like weeds. With their golfing, like watermelons, the south ern policy is to pick 'em green and let them ripen in transit. Fourteen-year-old Pollock Boyd, Chattanooga, who began three years ago with toy clubs, lives across the street from the Country club, just one drive and a putt Jack Tarrant of Sail Antonio is 15, like George Clarence Maugham is another coming Texan, almost a veteran, inasmuch as he is 18. He set the gallery a-tingle in the qualifying rounds of the western championship. New Orleans has the youngest candidate of all, Sidney Le gendre, 2 years, who made Maine re sorters hist summer straighten up and enunciate. Northwestern Kicks On Its Big Nine Schedule Chicago. III., Dec. 16. Northwest ern university, dissatisfied with its failure fo arrange a more imposing foot ball schedule in the Western conference in 1917, will attempt to arrange at least one, and possibly two, games with leading eastern uni versities next season, Fred J. Murphy, head foot ball coach, an nounced. Murphy said that North western had no intention of leaving the "Big Nine," but that the univer sity was disappointed over the con tinued coalition of the interests of Wisconsin, Chicago, Minnesota and Illinois, "at the expense of the other five universities in the conference." and Call It Hockey to light. To be a good hockey player one has to have an edge on all the time. 1 he ice that goes with the game is not served in tumblers. "It is surprising how adept the players become at cracking heads, considering the fact that they can't lind so very many persons to prac tice on. A substitute in foot ball will stand for being mauled all over the gridiron, but in hockey it's different. Substitutes don't like to have their heads cracked. The high cost of ivory may have something to do with this. "At one time or another most hock ey players miisl have been expert club swingers. No player could hit the small side of another's head with out a great deal of practice. It takes skill, real skill, to so consistently make these strokes backhanded, side handed and head on. Occasionally a player makes a mistake and be labors the disc, hut that's a sign of poor markmanship. It's more or less of an accident. "Of course, if a player feels that his stroke is off form, that his judg ment of distance is poor, he may practice hitting the disc for a while, but just as soon as he has trimmed his eye he doesn't waste any more energy on the disc. "The official scorer tallies the game by the number of goals scored. But no one pays any attention to the of ficial scorer. The lumps on the play ers' heads are counted after the game in the seclusion of the dress ing room and the team with the least lumps wins. That's the reason pros pective players with a bump of knowl edge are not permitted to play. The judges afterward may count the bump as a lump in favor of the other team. ' GEORGIA TECH IS BIG POINT SCORER Southern School Runs Up Total of 420 Points During the Year Leads All. , GEORGETOWN COMES NEXT The close of the intercollegiate foot ball season finds both the team and individual scoring honors held by a southern eleven and player. A comparison of- the records of the leading teams of the east, south and middle west shows that the Georgia Tech combination scored 420 points in nine games, with Georgetown uni versity a close second, with 412, while Left Halfback Gilroy of Georgetown leads the individual point collectors with a total of 1.39 points, and Oli phant of the Army team is second, with 112. Gilroy has scored eighteen touch downs and thirty-one goats during the &ason. Oliphant's record is a more versatile one, since he has made thirteen touchdowns, twenty-two goals and four field goals. Maul bet sch of Michigan is a close third, with twelve touchdowns, twenty-one goals and one field goal. None of these players equaled the record made by Captain Barrett of the Cor nell eleven of last year, for the latter rolled up a total of 162 points, with twenty-two touchdowns, twenty seven goals and one Held goal. Gil roy was second in 1915, with ninety six points, and Hastings of Pitts burgh third, with seventy-six. The records of the leading elevens in total points scored and the players who have collected the largest num ber of points, individually, follow: Team. Oamen. Points. Oeorgla Tech 420 Georgetown unlvrally 9 412 Pennsylvania State Id S4S Mlnneanta 7 :t4S Vanderhilt j. . fl 32S Notre Dame 9 -Ail HyracuMf 9 U7fi Plttahnrgh H 2ht Michigan ft ;:".:. Hrown 9 364 Waahington and Jinraon in 247 Army fl 26 Colgate 11 J 18 WaHhlngton and Lee 9 215 Martrnnulh 9 206 Muhlenberg 9 202 NHvy 10 199 Auburn 9 198 Louisiana 8 194 Harvard 9 IDT Yale 9 18a Utlroy. Georgetown ..,.18 31 139 Player artrt Team. T.!. O. r.O. Pta. Oliphant, Army 13 22 4 IIS Maulbelarh, Michigan .VI L'l I 96 Mcfrelght, W. and J...13 k 3 96 ('ofall. Notre Dame ...in 15 I 78 Oerriah. Dartmouth ... 9 19 1 76 Pollard, Brown 12 , . 72 MrQuHdft. Georgetown 12 .. ,i 72 .Sprafka, Minnesota ....11 66 Rafter, Hyracuaa 11 66 Darning, PlttabOTgh ..6 10 f 61 Mueller, Omell 10 A Wyman, Mlnnenota ... 10 kq HuMon, Minnesota .... 6 1H n llfsn, Pnn Htaft: 9 , . 64 Wall, (lcorgtown 9' .. .i 04 WhHan, (inorKlown ... 7 7 . , 40 Urnwn. Syracuse 7 7 .. 4 Dwllart, Ptllaliurgh ... .. 48 Ingram. Navy 8 . . 4 In- Vllalln, rtrown 4 L'3 .. 47 Maeomhrr, Illinois . . , , f, in 2 45 Spark, Michigan 7 1 1 46 'Iurl-y, W. and .1 5 14 , , 44 Purdy. Hrown 7 t , 4; Hubhell, Colgate 7 .. .. 42 Bergman. Nolr Dame. 7 .. ,. 42 McLaren. Pittsburgh ..7 .. 43 Htohha, W. and J 7 .. 42 LeUoro, Yala 7 43 HANS STARTS OUT ON SECOND CAREER Veteran Getting Ready to In augurate Another Twenty Tears in Base Ball. OWNS A GLOWING RECORD John (Hontis) Wagner, having completed twenty seasons in the hig show as a shortstop barring a year or so in the outfield will next year start all over again and get a "tryout" on first hase with the Pirates. The fact tha) Honus is about to do this stunt, and also that he is the sole re maining member of the pennant-winning Pirates, makes it seem a ripe time for a review of his work in the past. The record is such as to indi cate that the 4.t-year-old recruit first baseman should make good. Wagner participated in 123 games this year, making 124 hits and 45 runs. The Flying Dutchman had an average of .287, which is ten points better than his batting mark of 1915. His safe wallops for 1916 netted him thirty-six extra bases, for he was credited with one home run, nine triples and fifteen doubles. The famous shortstop's consistent performance for the entire twenty years is brought out by a glance at his grand totals for this length of time. He has been at bat 10,198 times and his safe swats foot up to .U69. Thus he can boast of a grand average of .3.50 in spite of the fact that his last three campaigns have found him below the coveted .300 mark. Another interesting fact ia dis closed by the records. Hans still has the distinction of having regis tered a fraction more than one hit per game for his score of yeari in the National league. He has played in 2,722 games. This means that he has placed almost five drives in safe territory in each of his four games, on an average. Percentage Not His Purpose. Thus, it is seen that base ball's grand old patriarch continues to up hold his unique record for reliability. While he is naturally proud of his dazzling diamond achievements, Wagner.plays ball for results and not for glory. He clouted in the .300 class the largest partof the present year, but late in the race a aeries of injuries got the best of hmi and he tell into a slump which took him down by 16 points below the triple century mark, at which every base man aims. Wagner played in sixty-one games: during 1897, which was his first sea-, son as a major leaguer. He made eighty-three hits and thirty-eight runs out of 241 times at bat, giving him an average of .344 as a starter. He fell back to .305 in his second year, getting 180 hits and 80 runs out of 591 times up and participating in 148 games. In 1899, which was his third and last season at Louisville, Hans hung up the batting average of .359. He took part in 144 games. The Louisville stars were trans ferred to Pittsburgh in 1900, and Wag ner continued his wonderful work with the stick, clouting the ball at .380. ' His figures in the following thirteen seasons were .352, .329, .355, .349, .363, .339, .350, .354, .339, .320, .334, .324 and .300. By this time he had rounded out seventeen consecu tive season without falling behind the .300 class. No other player in fast company ever registered such an achievement, and it is believed that this enviable record never will be equaled in the annals of modern base ball. Hans Wagner's first year outside the cherished .300 circle waf in 1914, when his figures drooped to .252. However, he made 139 safeties out of 552 times at bat. In 1915 his show ing was a trine better, for his 155 hits out of 566 times up gave him a per centage of .274. The season just ended netted him 124 hits out of 4,342 times at bat, his average being .287. Steals Over 700 Bases. During his twenty years of service under Barney Dreyfuss the Dutchman has stolen a grand total of 717 bases. His best season in the pilfering of pillows was in 1907, when he was credited with sixty-one steals. His poorest showing in this respect was made this ycir, when eleven steals were recorded by the great athlete. Prior to the season just finished his worst attempt was in 1911, when he purloined exactly twenty. The lat ter number was just two shy of the pilfering total he made in his first campaign at Louisville. Hans enjoyed his banner campaign as a run-getter in 1905, when he crossed the plate 114 times. For his twenty years in the big show he has averaged eighty-six tallies to the sea son. This is based upon the official figures of the National league for nineteen years and the unofficial aver ages for the present season. Coast Rookie Expected To Stick With Chicago Risberg, third sacker of the Vernon, Cal., base ball team, will in all prob ability be at third for the Chicago White Sox in 1917. He is a tall, fast and clever fielder, with a good wallop behind his club. Men Get Satisfaction Here We put honest, pure wool fab rics, fine durable tailoring into our clothes, and dont forget this It's the kind of style, quality and value that costs $30 to $35 elsewhere. 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