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.
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