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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JANUARY 7. 1917.
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And now In the mo riot he's ttarrtnc.
Judgments
THE acclaim and fatuous boost
ing given Lei Darcy upon his
arrival in this country is typi
cally American. Only by hear
say do Americans know of Darcy
and his alleged prowess with the
mitts. He may be the demon fighter
he is said to be. and he may be an
A No. 1 flivver. But America has ac
cepted him with open arms and is
preparing to shower him with the
gold he is seeking. Without even
once showing the American public
his ability, or perhaps it will prove to
be lack of it, Les.is preparing to go
on the stage and his footlight con
tract is said to be about $75,000. In
what other country would a stranger
to the shores find the pickings so
easy. When an American invades a
foreign clime he faAs the cold eye
of suspicion and is put to work
packing a hod until he proves he s the
goods. But, in America they fight
to see who can pay a newcomer the
mok money. It might have sonic
educational value if Mr. Darcy should
prove to be a ring-tailed frost.
Thomas Hickey, new president of
the American association, having
made a successful transfer of the Co
lumbus franchise, is now said to be
bending efforts to make a transfe!
of the Kansas City club because
George Tebeau is said to have be
come unpopular in Kaw town. But
if Hickey moves the Kay See club
he'll be a man of achievements. Te
beau was one of Hickey's opponents
in the recent association election and
he's not sroine to do anytning to
please Hickey, only to please Tebeau,
and it Mickev makes a aeai h wm
K. that nleased Tebeau. Te
beau will be remembered by old
Western league fans as the man who
invaded this circuit on a snoesiring,
by some shrewd methods obtained
the Denevr club and began his
nrr a a tnacnate. And he's made
a lot of money, too. While in Kan
sas City Tebeau was hooked with a
long lease on a dead ball park and
his doom was heralded by his enemies.
But by hooking him with the long
lease his enemies performed a great
favor for Tebeau, for along came pro
moters of the Union depot and bought
Tebeau off for many tnousanos oi
dollars to use the location for a new
depot. Hiekey may force Tebeau out
of Kansas City, but Tebeau will be
'the gainer in the deal.
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ON SOP QUINTS
Central High Wins Eleven Out
of Fourteen Floor Frays
With Packer Rivals.
Ganzel to Buy Kansas City Club
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Elevens of the central west failed
to hold their own against eastern in
vasion of the world ot toot Dan last
fall, but any shortcomings of Mich
igan, Illinois, Indiana and Notre
Dame were more than made up for
by the sturdy warriors of Oregon
New Year's day when they cleaned
up on Bob Folwell's Pennsylvania
team. At the conclusion of the sea
son, despite Penn's defeat at the
hands of Pittsburgh, eastern foot ball
critics hailed Folwell's charges as
one of the best teams in the east, the
equal at least of Harvard and Yale
and Brown and Colgate and perhaps
the superior. It must have been
something of a shock for them to see
their pets downed by an inconsequent
al western eleven. Perhaps they'll gig
back now and say the Penn crew was
a secondary eleven in the east. No
doubt they'll have the alibis ready,
but putting them over is something
else again.
What excuse is there for the ex
istence of the orize fighter?. This
worthv never did have much of an
excuse, but it's getting smaller every
day. The professional prize fighter
has become little less tnan a proies
sional grafter. We find that Jess
Willard wants 60.000 for a fight.
Packy McFarland wants $25,000 to
tight Mike uiODons. i-es uarcy k
nlanninor an invasion of the vaude
ville theaters at a large sum per week.
Freddie Welsh refuses to risk his
championship unless the purse is well
uo in five figures. And not one of
them is worth it. . Sixty thousand
dollars for ten rounds. Ridiculous.
Sixty cents would be a better value.
"Give them credit if they get away
with it, you say. Granted. But why
let them get away with it? Is the
American public going to remain in
the sucker class toreverr
By KARL LEE.
Omaha vs. South Omaha.
Fourteen years of annual strife,
lessened by a short two year's truce,
has served to do little else than in
tensify the keen rivalry that exists be
tween the two schools. Football,
track or basket ball, it makes little
difference the nature of "the contest,
the same spirit obtains "Trample the
Packers" or "Beat Omaha."
The story of past athletics at the
schools is like a sweet but smarting
dream, famous athletes have been
born and bred in battles of yore, men
who have and are now making then
mark in the world of sporf md busi
ness today. Great teams have been
formed teams that could have trav
eled the country an open challenger
to all. Yet perhaps the greatest have
fared less in success. The peer of
Packer quintets made its bow in the
fall of 1906, captained by the diminui
tive Morris Cohn, who since attained
a great reputation at the University
of Wisconsin. All five men were three
vears in the trunks and capable of
most any kind of battle. The team met
its first, last and only defeat by a mar
gin of one lonely point in the annual
game with Omaha by a score of 35 to
34.
"" After escaping all the lurking dan
gers of two decades of professional
base ball, Hans Wagner, 42 years
young, found he couldn't hook slide
around the crafty Dan Cupid and has
at last signed up for life, as they say
it in base ball. Andn 10,000,000 fans
in the United States most of them
silently of course are wishing him
the fullest measure of matrimonial
bliss becaue if any ball player ever
deserved it old Honus, the veteran
of veterans, does.
Base ball magnates are seriously
considering, it is said, the introduc
tion of professional foot ball in major
league parks. Professional foot ball
may listen good, but it's not likely
to get any place. Foot ball is a
college sport; the taint of commer
cialism is at least hidden if not ab
sent, and the fans like, it that way.
Syracuse, Notre Dame, Michigan
Aggies, Missouri, Iowa and Kansas
some schedule the Cornhuskers will
tackle next fall. If Doc Stewart pulls
his charges through this sextette of
conflicts without tripping some place
the 1917 Huskers will go down in
history as one wonderful eleven and
we wouldn't be surprised if Walter
Camp might take cognizance of them.
Strangler Lewis, against 1 whom
many verbal and written tirades were
directed following his five-hour "push
emand pull-em" with Joe Stecher, has
become something of a popular idol
upon the Pacific coast. All of which
?;oes to show that while "you can't
ool all of the people all of the time"
it's a cinch to fool some of the peo
ple part of the time.
Packy McFarland savs he will
fight Mike Gibbons for $25,000. After
the affair Packy and Mike staged in
New York Packy will very likely get
this sum not.
Major league club owners may re
gard the abolishment of the bleachers
a good move until they find they have
abolished the, fans, too.
Central Has Edge.
In all of the fifteen games played,
South High has won but three; Cen
tral eleven. The 1913-1914 contest,
which resulted in a fight was forfeited
to Omaha by a score of 2 to 0, on the
refusal of the Packers to play after
one of their men had been struck by
an Umaha forward. Ihe famous
Southtown team of 1903-1904 led by
Ralph Towl won a return game from
the Central five by a score of 23 to 21.
Omaha stiffened and it was five years
before the packingtown lads con
trived to win again. Then in 1911
Herb Stryker led forth a whirl
wind five with the famous Johnny
Collins listed at forward and scored
a victory of 19 to 11 over the Central
aggregation. Paul Shields, with Col
lins still starring at forward, led the
Packers to another victory, 36 to 28,
a year later.
Virgil Kector, whose deeds at
Darthmouth are now on every tongue,
came to the rescue ot the umalia
ream the year following and in a last
big onslaught at the state tourna
ment of that year swamped the South
team to the tune of 22 to 8. This
game was in the third round In the
semi-finals Rector's five was defeated
by the fast Geneva quintet, which had
the services of such men as Janda,
Yates and Davis, by a score of 25 to
24. Later Geneva easily defeated
University Place, 41 to 26, for the
state championship, which shows the
comparative strength of the Central
five. The Geneva game was the
first reverse of the season.
In 1913 Gardiner, Nelson and Bur
kenroad contrived to further redeem
Omaha's badly tampered reputation
as regards the South school and the
state. The team of that year swept
through for a state championship, the
only title Central has scored since the
official organization of the state tour
nament in 1911. "Shirt" Menefee,
master basket tosser, led the
Packers that year and came mighty
near defeating the Central five on his
own floor. A small gymnasium handi
capped the oily machinery of the,
north side five and it was a lucky des
tiny that permitted "Kaiser" Platz to
maneuver the winning basket a few
seconds before the pistol was fired.
The final score was 18 to 15, but the
South team had been leading through
out. Later in the same season Cen
tral swamped its hefty challengers
40 to 12 on the "Y" court. The South
team was eliminated in the third
round of the state tourney that year.
Wind Up in Fight.
Declining athletics at the South
school served to degenerate the
sportsmanship of Packer rooters and
in the annual game of the year
following personal cheering, two
players came to blows. Coach Pat
ton refused to allow his men to en
ter play again and with the score
greatly in favor of the north side
team the game was forfeited, 2 to
0, to Central. Shortly after athletic
boards of both schools met and sev
ered all athletic relations.
The two schools were destined to
meet again in the most magnificent of
inter-school encounters. Keyed to the
highest pitch under stress of the most
strenuous tournament ever held at
Lincoln and with personal misgivings
of a decade before them, ten players
entered on what has since been
termed as the greatest basket ball
game in the history of the state. Pat
ton's auintet was badly crippled in the
absence of Louis Foley, star forward,
who was taken ill and removed to a
hospital four days before the tourna
ment began. Leach, veteran guard.
was shifted to forward and Bott. then
t substitute, was sent in at guard. The
play was terrific. A constant din filled
the air trom the great roaring host
that filled the room. The crowd had
lost no time in appreciating the treat
before them. At the last gong the
score stood 8 to 5. The Packers were
beaten!
Beal Drops Unconscious.
The mob that surged over the floor
at the close of the game was roughly
I fill uzrmmmmmmmmmmmnT!' 1 Sw is
Word comes from Chicago that
John Ganzel, first baseman of the
Yankees before the coming of Hal
Chase, later manager of the Rochester
and Brooklyn Federal clubs and re
cently appointed manager of the Kan
sas City team, is negotiating for the
purchase of the Kansas City club.
Thomas J. Hickey, who recently dis
placed Thomas Chivington as presi
dent of the American association, is
authority for the statement. Undoubt
edly this is a part, of the house-
cleaning policy of the association.
When the association recently de
posed its old president it meant to
revise its policy. The first step was
to find new owners for the Columbus
club, Joe Tinker being accepted as
the new leader. Now there is a
scheme afoot to pry George Tebeau
out of the association. Tebeau owns
the Kansas City club, and has until
recently been a dominating figure in
the association's councils, but now
Tebeau is no longer wanted. It
said that he offended his Kansas City
patrons by selling Wortman, his
crack shortstop, to the Cubs when
the Kansas City team had a chance
to win the American association pen
nant, and that this sale so shattered
Tebeau's infield that the team dropped
to fifth position. 1
pushed back. Four teammates ten
derly carried the inert form of Carl
Beal, sensational Southtown guard,
from the floor, where he had fallen
unconscious when the final gong
rang out. It was two weeks before
the star athlete regained conscious
ness and as many years before he re
gained his normal mind. During that
time he was confined to a sanitarium.
Today he walks through life as nor
mal as ever, but still vibrating with
the same indomitable spirit "Beat
Omaha."
The brilliant advances of Central
and South teams are a matter of his
tory. Three times the Packers have
fought for a championship, first in
1910 with York, losing by a margin of
one point; in 1911 with Beatrice, los
ing by a score of 19 to 17; and third,
to Omaha in 1912, losing by a score
of 22 to 8. Central has lost succes
sive championships to Lincoln inl914
and 1915 by scores of 21 to 18, and 17
to 11. The first game ended in a
tie, 18 to 18, but in the extra five
minutes the Link forwarded added up
the margin. Last year overcon
fidence lost the semi-final match to
Beatrice by a score of 17 to 7
Umahans who witnessed the game
will never be ahjr. to quite see how
defeat came.
Future years will probably enhance
the spirit of old. But it will be many
a long year before such marvelous
whirlwinds as De Young, Rector, Dick
man, Shields, Gardiner, Collins, Mene
fee, Burkenroad and Platz are pro
duced. The future is filled with
promise it repetitions are in order.
TOO MANY PORTSIDE
HITTERSIN MAJORS
Weeghman Would Pay Big
Sum for Sight-Handed
Hitting Outfielder.
CINOY IS IN THE SAME BOAT
Maturo Will Play
-Taberski for Pool
Title of Country
Frank Taberski of Schenectady. N.
Y., world's pocket billiard champion,
and James Maturo, who now calls
Kansas City his home, will meet for
the Brunswick trophy, emblematic of
the championship, at Harry Davis'
hall in Pittsburgh on Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday of this week,
playing the regulation 450 points in
block of 150 each night.
Though Taberski, following his vic
tory over Jack Layton, from whom he
annexed the title, defeated Maturo by
more than 200 points in a special
match at Kansas City, the Italian is
primed for the coming battle at Pitts
burgh and confident that he can lift
the crown from the head of the "Si
lent Pole," whose remarkable play in
defense of the title against Ralph
Grcenleaf and Ed Ralph won the ad
miration of all cue fans.
Maturo twice tried for the cham
pionship when Benny Allen held
sway, being beaten only thirteen
points by Allen in their first engage
ment, but not doing so well on the
second occasion. Maturo does not
believe Taberski as great a player as
Allen when the latter was in his
prime, while he figures that his own
game has improved. On the other
hand, while being too smart a gen
eral to underrate any opponent, Ta
berski has no fear of Maturo, so at
that rate the confidence should be
even up.
Maturo is an excellent shotmaker
and may have something on Taberski
in this particular, but the champion
is cooler, has a better head and in
the pinches should outmanage the
challenger just as he outmanaged
Layton, ureemcai and Kalph one
after another. Of course, the breaks
of the game may have something to
do with the result as for uncertainty
pocket and three-cushion billiards are
on a par.
New York, Jan. 6. There is an op
portunity for enterprising minor
league managers to make a fortune
for their clubs by developing for the
major ranks heavy hitting outfielders
who bat right-handed. The demand
for right-handed batters is great, es
pecially in the National league. Nearly
every club in the older circuit would
pay handsomely for a .300 hitter who
swings from the starboard side of the
plate. There is an abundance of left-
handed hitters, but the right-handers
are almost a scarcity.
Charles Weeghman, president of the
Chicago Cubs, would take the band
off his bank roll nd hand out many
new crisp bills for an outfielder capa
ble of hitting around the .300 mark.
He needs one badly and has in
structed "Fred" Mitchell, the new
manager of the club, to make every
effort to get one. Mitchell is aware
that his outfield does not shape up
strongly with the trio the Cubs had
last season. "Fred" Williams and
Max Flack are left-handed batters.
One of the two has to be benched.
The latter will probably adorn the
bench, as he is not the slugger that
Williams is and is not as fast in the
field.
Leslie Mann deserves to be a fix
ture in left field. He won the posi
tion last season by playing remark
able ball. His fielding was sensa
tional throughout the season and,
although a little late in starting, he
batted heavily. If the Cubs are for
tunate in getting another man of his
type they will have one of the fastest
and most dependable outfields in the
league.
Same at Cincy.
Cincinnati is in virtually the same
position. Its outfielders arc left
handed hitters and "Christy"
Mathewson realizes that to be ef
fectively powerful he must have at
least one good right-handed hitter
and has his lines out for one. He is
said to be angling for "Bill" Hinch
man of the Pirates, but it is hardlv
possible "Barney" Dreyfuss will let
him go, as he figures on olavinir him
at first base this year.
Koush is the leader of the Reds
outfielders and is a youngster des
tined to become one of the fielding
lights of the National league. He is
a lett-handed swinger, but does it so
naturally that he usually hits south
paws as well as he does right-handers.
John McGraw was unwilling to
let him go, but in order to assist the
Cincinnati team he had to do it.
New York, Philadelphia, Boston,
Pittsburgh and Brooklyn, in faot
every team in the National league
wants and would pay a big sum for a
right-handed hitting outfielder. They
all need one or more and have been
scouting the minors for a long time,
but have not been successful in get
ting them. The minor leagues are
not developing the young ball players
as they did in the past.
DARCY IS BESIEGED
WITH FIGHT OFFERS
Tex Rickard Offers Australian
$25,000 to Meet Georges
Carpentier.'
FIFTEEN TO MEET GIBBONS
New York. Jan. 6. Offers from
promoters all over the country are be
ginning to roll in upon Les Darcy, the
Australian middleweight champion.
Some of .them bjr the stamp of good
faith, while others appear to be noth
ing more than publicity "stunts" un
worthy of consideration. With his
negotiations with t'leatrical agents for
a short tour in vaudeville and dicker
ing with boxing promoters the Aus
tralian has become a very busy young
man. The job of managing him,
which has fallen to E. J. ("Tim")
O'Sullivan, his chum and companion
on the journey from the kangaroo
commonwealth, is no sinecure.
Although Darcy has a tentative
agreement with "Tex" Rickard to box
in this city no specific terms have been
offered him for a match. It is under
stood, however, that Rickard will pay
the Australian youth $25,000 for a con
test here with Georges Carpentier of
France, j
The next best offer came from D.
J. Tortorich, who says he will guar
antee Darcy $1 5.01)0, with a privilege
of one-third of the gross receipts, for
a match with "Mike' Gibbous for the
middleweight championship of the
world at New Orleans during carni
val week. Tortorich would like to
stage the bout on February 16. His
offer will stand regardless of any ten
round matches Darcy may appear in
here during January, except a bout
with Gibbons.
"I am considering the. offer from
Tortorich," declared Darcy. "I would
like to meet Gibbons very much, but
just now I am not in a position to say
whether or not I could accept the of
fer from New Orleans."
Tex Avoids Gibbons.
In view of the fact "Tex" Rick
ard has declared he would not consent
to match Gibbons with Darcy in this
city or any place else, because the
St. Paul man has been connected with
"too many suspicious affairs," Darcy
may decide to accept the New Orleans
offer. From a source close to the
Maitland hoy it was learned he was
entirely satisfied with the $15,000
guarantee.
Edward Waldron of this city went
Tortorich one better. He sent the
following telegram to Darcy:
"Will give you $75,000 for your
first three contests. Opponents to
be mutually agreed upon. Kindly
phone me for appointment for inter
view. Address, Manhattan Casino."
Waldron's offer was one of those
which Darcy didn't take seriously.
Furthermore, it is unlikely he will
consent to box in this city for any
other man than "Tex" Rickard. Al
though they have known each other
only a few days, a warm friendship
exists between Rickard and the youth
ful puRilist. Darcy has implicit faith
in "Tex" and does nothing without
first consulting him. ;
Wilde Coining Over.
"Jimmy" Wilde, the ninety-eight-pound
marvel of Great Britain, who
recently knocked out "Young Zulu
Kid" in the twelfth round of their
scheduled twenty-round battle irt
I.ondon, may come to this country if
the arrangements of certain British
boxing promoters are carried out, .
Wilde would like to meet "Kid" Wil
liams, the American bantamweight
champion; "Kewpie" Ertle, or any of
the other contenders, despite the fact
they would have an advantage in
weight.
English boxing men have been in
communication with "Tex" Rickard
concerning Wilde, and Rickard is anx
ious to have the British flyweight
champion come here. He believes a,
match between Wilde and one of the
leading American bantams would '
strike a popular chord. .. i,
White Sox Congratulate
Rowland On Apointment
Letters congratulating Clarence
Rowland on his re-appointment as;
manager of the Chicago club of the
American league have been received
by the White Sox leader from all ,
parts of the country. Every player
on the club joined Rowland's admir
ers in wishing hi msuccess and prom
ised him a winning team.
Burgess-Wash Company:
"EVERYBODY STORE"
Continuing for Monday the Sale of the
"Black" Stock
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Men's Shirts
MY! What a scramble there is in the men's shirt section
at this writing (Saturday morning) . Tcrsee the crowd
of eager buyers men and women, too you'd wonder
where they all came from. But they realize when Burgess
Nash announce a sale it is one worth attending, and so they
'came. And as the good news of thq values is spread by
those who were here Saturday more will, come Monday.
"Black's" Entire Stock of Shirts
Is Divided Into Three Groups at-
65c, 89c and $1.29
Shirts made expressly for Black by the foremost shirt makers,
including the famous Monarch and Cluett brands. Included are:
Soft Cuff Shirt White Bosom Shirtt
Negligee Shirts Full Dress Shirts
Shirts for Every Occasion
Shirts of most attractive shirtings of imported and American
made madrascotton novelties, mercerized fabrics, in an almost end
less variety of patterns all sizes, 14 to 17-inch neckbands.
BurffMt-Nuh Co. Main Floor.
Choice of Any Hat From the "Black" Stock Monday
"$1.49
THE offerings include every favored style in soft hats, such as narrow, med
ium and wide brims with pencil curl, bound or raw edge, flat, roll or turn
down brims, in cloth, velour or scratchups, etc. Black, green, gray, brown, etc.
mi . j 1.1- - 1.1 1 l l
ine sun nais are me laiesi uiucks, m uruwii aim
black all at choice for $1.49. ' v
Choice of Any Cap From the
"Black" Stock, Monday at
49c
Including blue serges, homespuns and novelties with
velvet-lined inside, ear bands or leather sweats, silk or tape
lined, large or small shapes. Burft...Na.h co.-Fourth Floor.
1
Men! Get In On This-
Overcoat
Sale
YOU really can't afford to let it slip by
unheeded. Four great groups offered
to you like this
OVERCOATS
That war to $13.65,
Reduced to
$9
75
OVERCOATS
That war to $27.50,
Reduced to
$1 Q75
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OVERCOATS
That were to $20.00,
Reduced to
$1175
OVERCOATS
That were to $40.00,
Reduced to
$9175
The Overcoats
Represent the very acme of the
tailor's art strictly hand tailor
ed throughout. Some have velvet
collars, other of self materials,
in black, prays and fancies.
The Materials
Include fancy weaves, vicunas,
cheviots, double back twills, Irish
frieze, English coverts, Shetland
kerseys, imported and domestic
homespuns.
BnrfOH-Nuh Co. Fourth Floor.
The Styles
Form fitting, line tracing Eng
lish box backs, single and double
breasted, with convertible, self
and velvet collars, plain and welt
seams, finest one-half or full
lined.
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