Ban and Davy Make Good Records During the Stove League Season ROM SIGNS DP ' FOUR BJW PLAYERS Gets Two Pitchers, a Slagging -Outfielder and a Reliable ' Catcher. MAETY O'TOOLE TO BE BACK Four new ithletes to fill the holes left in the 1916 pennant-winning ma chine by the graduation of tight of the champs to faster company were purchased last week by Fa Rourke. In addition Pa has procured Marty O'Toole again, Columbus, who farmed him out to Omaha last year, having sold him to Kourke this time. The four new players secured by the Omaha magnate include two pitch ers, a catcher and an outhelder. Harry Benton and Wayne Barham arc the hurlers. Benton comes trom the Winnipeg club of the Northerh league and Barham from the Van couver club of the Northwestern loop. Rourke also got Hal Brokaw, the outfielder, from Winnipeg. The catcher is Larry Pratt, who comes from Columbus. Faith in Canadians. Rourke is putting a lot of faith in the twb Winnipeg recruits. Benton ranked second among the hurlers of " the Northern league for both sections of the split season, He pitched a total of ,2(W innings during the cam paign, winning seventeen and losing live games for an average of .773. He allowed 140 hits and fifty runs. He struck out 155 batsmen and gave bases on balls to forty-five. He is a big fellow who can stand a lot of work. He is said to have plenty of speed and a wide assort ment of curves and hooks. St. Paul looked him over last spring, but, hav ing a full staff of experienced hurlers, turned him back to the Canadian club. , Brokaw was the class of the league in the outfield. He led the league in fielding, hanging up an average of .991, which is considerable average. He ranked sixth among the league hitters. He made 106 hits and fifty nine runs in 113 games for an average of (303. He also stole thirty bases last year. Benton, Rourke believes, will fill the hole left by Lou North, who went to the St. Louis Cardinals, while Bro kaw is expected to prove even better than shag 1 hompson in center. Pratt Is the Goods. Larry Pratt, Pa believes, will plug up the hole in the backstopping dc partment. Pratt is a finished catcher, as a receiver he is a better man than Ernie Krueger and he's a wonder at cutting down-base stealers. He is not as strong a hitter as Krueger, but Kourke, who has seen him olav sev era) times, says he will slug the ball ; consistently even though he doesn't quite reach the .300 mark. Of Barham little is :known except that Rourke has received excellent re ports of him. He is a. youngster who went to Vancouver the latter part ot the 1915 season. He. won a majority ot his games last year and a couple ; of scouts who looked him over re- ' ported-to Rourke that he has the stuff to be a star in the Western and is purely potential big league timber. By securing the return of O'Toole Rourke does not have to worry great ly over his pitching corps. North is is the only loss and already he has signed up Benton whom he thinks will prove just as good a hurler as Lou, and Barham he believes will also make good. Rourke still has a few vacant posi tions to fill. He must get another catcher to assist Pratt, although there is. of course, the chance that Krueger . will be sent back by the Giants. He is also after a first basemen to take Ray Miller's place. This is his big task. He also wants another out fielder. Several Deals On. Pa has several deals, on and several of the big league clubs have1 promised him some of their surplus talent. Rourke is due to get' a couple ot rookies from Muggsy McGraw and will probably journev to Marlin, Tex., the Giant's training camp, after the training season starts to pick out a couple of men. After he gets a new first baseman Rourke probably will hold his infield intact, playing Ireland at second, Krug at short and Burg at thinV Pa Rourke Books Two Combats With Kansas City Club Two exhibition games to be staged at Rourke park prior to the 1917 Western league season have been ar ranged by Pa Rourke. They are with the Kansas City American associa tion club. The Kay See athletes will come to Omaha for two contests on April 7 and 8. Ganzel has assured Rourke he will send his first team up here as he cannot play in Kansas City, the Giants and Tigers meeting each other there on those dates. It is also probable the Chicago Cubs will play a pre-season -game or two in Omaha. The Cubs will come through this way from the coast and overtures have already been made for a stop in this city. One or two other exhibition games are also to be looked by the Omaha magnate. 'lorperans Too Fast for Lads of Deaf Institute The Thorpeian Athletic club bas ct ball quintet proved too fast for !'c Deaf Institute five and the former "pturcd a hard-fought combat, 22 to '0. after a remarkable display of imperative powers in the second ' !ia!f. The first half ended with the eorc 8 to 8. The Thorpeians got down l business in the final period, al lowed the deaf lads but one goal, and run their own score up to 22. Bennie Abramson, N. Lavinson and Abe Milder were the stars for the Thorpeians, while Andy was the shin ing light for the mutes. Walter Rehg is Victim Of Holdup in Wichita Walter Rehg, Providejice infielder, was held up at his home in Wichita one night recently by a couple of gunmen and robbed of a diamond scarf pin worth $300, money to the amount of $23, a gold watch and a knife. Evers Says Gaffney Is Greatest of All v Johnny Evers thinks that the greatest man who ever stepped into base ball was Jim Gaffney, formerly owner of the Braves. Gaffney is the man who paid Evers 120,000 for signing a contract with the Braves. Evers had lost all of his base ball earnings in a shoe store venture and was broke when Charles Webb Murphy dismissed him as manager of the Cubs, Through Gaffney's liberal terms, Evers was able to recoup his losses and is now on easy street. OUIMET IS STILL CLASSED AS A PRO U. S. O. A. Sustains Ruling that Will Keep Famous Star V Out of Amateur Play. PLEA FOR TRUE SPORT New York, Jan. 13. Several golf ers of national reputataion will be driven from amateur ranks by the ap plication of the new definition of am ateurs, approved early today at the annual meeting of the United States Golf association. The meeting also sustained the rule under which Fran- cis Otiimet, Paul Tewksbury and J. M fulljyan jr., of the Woodland H (Mass.) Golf club were deprived of i tneir amateur standing. A motion for a direct vote on the action of the executive committee in giving notice to the disqualified golf ers and calling on the Woodland club to withdraw their names from the handicap list of the Massachusetts Golf associataion was ruled out of or der after the vote on the main ques tion had shown that Ouimct's friends were well in the minority. After a spirited debate the dele- gates by 80 to 12 upheld a report of the executive committee sharnlv re stricting the status of an amateur. The rule, as amended and adopted, makes ineligible as an amateur the player "engaging in any business con nected with the game of golf wherein one's usefulness or profits arise be cause of skill or prominence in the game ot golf. The interpretation put upon this is that it will class as playe-s engaged "in laying out, construction or up keep of a golf course or any part thereof" commonly known as "golf architects." Old Rules Hold. "In making the latter cKange the committee does not intended to alter the intent or comprehensiveness of former ruling No. 6," the report stated. "The new. wording is used sim ply for the purpose of greater clarity and to avoid any impression that dis crimination is intended between em ployer and employe." . Ruling No. 6 had made ineligible players "accepting or holding any po sition as agent or employe that in cludes as part of its duties the han dling of golf supplies, or engaging in any business wherein one's usefulness or profits arise because of skill or prominence m the game of golf. Determined efforts were made bv the Woodland Golf club to have the delegates take some action looking to the reinstatement of Ouimct, Tewks bury and Sullivan. W. M. Noble of the Woodland club did his utmost to convince the gathering that the three players had been dealt with unjustly. Sport for Sport's Sake. ' Frank L. Woodward of Denver, re tiring president, rose to the defense of the executive committee in reply to Mr. Noble's allegation that Ouimet. Tewksbury -and Sullivan had Jjeen barred without having been given a chance and made an impassioned plea for "sport for I sport's sake and not sport for gain." Silas H. Strawn of the Old Elm club, Chicago, also defended the ex ecutive committee. "All the committee asks," he said, is that there shall be no discrimina tion between the man who sells eolf clubs and the man who lays out a goit course tor pay. Frank M. Bowers of New York de clared that the defeat of the report would be "the end' of a gentleman's sport in this country." The national amateur chamnionshiD tournament for 1917 was awarded to the Oakmont Country club, Pitts burgh; the national open champion ship to the Braeburn Country club. West Newton, Mass., and the national women's championship to the Shaw nee Country club, Shawnee-on-Dela-ware, Pa. Howard W. Perrin of the Pine Val ley Golf club of Philadelphia was elected president. Basket Ball Holds Full Sway Now at Bellevue Basket ballVoutine, with its grind of daily practice and training, has at last got under way at Bellevue. Regu lar basket ball practice has had a rather late start at the suburban col lege because of the interruptions inci dent to installing the new gymnasium equipment. The interclass tournament is at last out of the" way, with the juniorsJwinners of the banner. Tljis same junior class will probably land three out of the five varsity places on this year's five.-Captain Al len is slated for one of the forward positions, with "Chick" Evans as his probable running mate. Picotte is an other junior who looks like a varsity man. He probably will go to center. Racely of the senior class and Erwin, a sophomore, look like the selections for the guards. In addition there are Kinnier, Johns and Stewart of last year's five, who will furnish zest in the race for varsity honors. lhe freshman class at Bellevue con tains more basket ball material this year than has any entering class for years. Coach Benjamin will start his men right out on their schedule. Games with Creighton, Cbtner, Doane, Wes leyan and probably the University of Omaha are booked. Robby to Give Merkle Chance at Shortsop Manager Wilbert Robinson of the Brooklyn champions, intimates that he has plans in mind to give Fred Merkle a tryout at the short field position next spring. FOOT BALL .YIELDS CASH TOJEBRASKA Basket Ball, Track, Wrestling and Tennis Are Drains on Uni's Treasury. BUT NET PROFIT IS LARGE By JAMES E. LAWRENCE. Lincoln, Jan. 13.-j(Special.) Foot ball is the only branch of Nebraska athletics which is self-supporting, the annual report of T. A. Williams, treas urer of the University of Nebraska athletic board, isued today shows. The report covers the fiscal year un til August 31, 191b. Basket ball, track, wrestling, and tennis have all proven a heavy drain on the finances of the Cornhuskcr ath letic board and were it not for the popularity of the gridiron game there would be a big deficit at Nebraska. Williams' report shows that foot ball cleared the season with the hand some profit of $10,14328. Basket ball ate into the treasury with a deficit of $1,360.19; track entailed another loss of $1,994.70; wreslting showed a de ficit of $153.41 while tennis, cross country and skating cut in to the tune of $280.7-'. Net Profit. With deficits in all branches of ! sport but foot ball the net profit for I the year is shown to be $4,541.18. i oA;n i.H i ..... ' hi'h .., mrk wjth J8.128.S2. Treasurer Williams reports that he nad $1,813.15 left over from the ore- reeHina vesr T1,r tilt at tvt-iiiHiiiirf for the year were $34,586 .14, but added to this must be $1,000 which the Husker athletic management invested in a $1,000 farm mortgage, drawing 7 per cent interest and which is a part of the fund for a new athletic field. It was Jess Harper and his crew of foot ball players from Notre Dame which drew the largest crowd. The Notre Dame receipts were $11,708.2.1, i with Kansas $8,441.24 and Iowa $6,937, following in the order named Another $4,776 was realized from the sale of season tickets to students, which entitled the holder to admission' to athletic contests in all branches. Omahans Loyal. University of Nebraska alumni, liv ing in Omaha, contributed $928 to the school's athletic exchequer during the year, according to Williams' report. Of this amount $828 represented the sale of tickets for the Notre Dame game and $100 for the Iowa game. Noter Dame also got a nice little piece of coin for its trouble, its share of the gate amounting to $5,574.03. Iowa received $3,500, Washburn $350 and the Kansas Aggies $300. Basket ball games failed to attract any crowds last season, the bulk of the receipts coming from the 12 per cent allotment of the sale of season tickets, amounting to $573.12. Owing to the intense rivalry between Ne braska and Wesleyan in basket ball, the Wesleyan games topped the sea son, in receipts with $120 for two games, Kansas yielded $114.50, the Ames Aggies $46.50, Drake $51.50 and Tarkio $3. The Kansas track meet was prac tically the only one in this line of sport which made Nebraska any money. J he total receipts there were $142.50. tennis and wrestling were entirely dependent upon the 4 per cent sale of season tickets credited to those branches for support. It cost the Huskers $50 to send a tennis team to Kansas. Scouting Costs. Scouting cost the university a pretty penny during the year, the total bill being $535.99. Coaching amounted to $2,904.36; officials for games and expenses ate up another $1,313.42, and the remainder of the expenditures came , from transporta tion, equipment, advertising and train ing. Athletic Manager Guy E. Reed is having a world of trouble in framing the last three games of his foot ball schedule. Reed today notified the Michigan Aggies that stuff was off for the date of October 20, owing to the failure of the management to j agree to Missouri Valley conference : rules. The Michigan Aggies have a! number of four-year men on their team and Nebraska refuses' to play under those conditions, which is in violation of Missouri Valley confer-! ence rules, and which renders the school liable for a reprimand. Michigan Game, The Michigan game at Ann Arbor is still dangling in the air, but chances are excellent that the date will be closed and that the Huskers will meet the Wolverines next fall on the grid iron. With the schedule worries on his hands, Reed has delayed sending out the notices relative to the Nebraska High school basket ball tournament until next week. There are 45Q high schools in his list and he is confident 125 of them will be represented in the tournament. The early reports reaching the university authorities in dicate an unusually large number of strong teams in the smaller towns of the state, and it is certain that the Big Three Omaha, Lincoln and Bea tricewill have a run for their money this year. Reed is planning to call for entries the middle of February, and will close them the last week of that month. The tournament is to be held the second week in March and extends over lour aays. Kavanagh Plays Floor Game to Keep in Shape Marty Kavanagh, utility infielder of the Cleveland Americans, is keeping in condition this winter by playing basket ball with a Detroit five. Poor condition was responsible for his in different showing with Detroit last season, Kavanagh believes. McGraw Signs Rookie . . Boosted by Coaklev Sterling Stryker, a semi-pro pitcher from Atlantic highlands, has been recommended to the Giants by Andy Coakley and will be given a tryout by Manager McGraw. Bresnahan Drops Big Chunk On Toledo Club Roger Bresnahan is finding the life of a magnate rather expensive. The Toledo sleuth admits that he lost $10, 000 last season. Bresnahan asserts that he had a pay roll of $43,000. SPOR TS SECTION of The Omaha Sunday Bee ' I?0""15510 J 4 mi i i Hi ii i ii i ' mi The National Base Ball commission, photo graphed at the Sinton hotel, Cincinnati, immediately after the election to office of its members. Those in the picture are,, sitting, from left to right, John K. Tener, president of the National league; August SIX GRID GAMES SIGNEDBY MILLS St. Louis, North Dakota and Haskell Indians Among the Schools Scheduled. " ALL TO BE HELD IN OMAHA Negotiations for six gridiron con flicts for the Creighton foot ball eleven this coming fall have been completed, by Coach Tommy Mills. The schedule is as follows: Trinity cohere at Omaha. October 6. Dubuque'roltete at Omaha. October 20. Cotncr college at Omaha. October 21. St. Louts university at Omaha, Novem ber 3. North Dakota at Omaha. November 10. Haskell Indians at Omaha, November 17. Three other games are -yet to be arranged, the plan being to have a nine-game schedule. .Negotiations have been nracticallv- comnleted for a nlnl. uritl, Wvnminff i,n ivorcit v hilt ' the date has not been decided yet. Wyoming wants to play here Thanks giving day, but Mills is reluctant to award this date. Mills is also after a game with Nebraska Wesleyan and hopes to have South Dakota remain on the schedule. All of the 'six games so tar signed will be olaved on Creighton field. Trinity college of Sioux City will be the first opponent, followed by Du buque college, which held Creighton to a 6 to 6 tie at Dubuque last year. I St. Louis university comes to ! Omaha November 3. Creighton wal j loped St. Louis at the Mound Cttv j last year. It has been five years ' since a St. Louis eleven journeyed to ; Omaha. I ' North Dakota is a new comer to Omaha. The Flicktails had a strong team last year, eyen stronger than South Dakota, and they arc expected to make one of the most interesting conflicts of the season when they clash with Mills' warriors on No vember 10. Creighton did not play the Haskell Indians last fall, but games with the redskins were annual events in pre vious years. The Indians wanted to be placed on the blue and white schedule again and as they have al ways played good foot ball, Mills was willing to give them the November 17 date. Big Coyote Drive Today; Cold Puts Stop to Barbecue The big barbecue which was originally scheduled to be held di rectly after the coyote drive on the grounds of the Hit. or Miss club on the river bottoms, 'ust east of Cal houn, today, has been called off. The severe cold is the reason, leaders of the Hit or Miss club deciding that , zero weather is no time to hold bar becues. The coyote drive, however, will be held, no matter what .the weather conditions. Nimrods who intend to take part in the event will meet in Florence at the end of the car line at 9:30 this mornjng. The remaining distance of the voyage will be covered by automobile. Tommy Gibbons Wants to Fight Miske or Battler Tom Gibbons, brother of the more celebrated Mike, is anxious to box anybody in the middle or lightweight class, Billy Miske, Battling Levinsky, Boh Moha or Knockout Brown pre ferred. Gibbons' manager states that though Tom can make 158 pounds, he is willing to allow Miske to come into the ring at catchweights jf a match can be arranged between the men. OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 14, -1917. The Supreme Court of Base Ball OMAHA REFUSES TO LEAD OUTLAW LOOP Local Officials? Do Not Favor Starting Middle West Ama teur Association, OMAHA WOULD BE OOAT "The Omaha Amateur Base Ball as sociation will not assume the leader ship in the agitation to form a middle-west amateur base ball associa tion, The Des Moines and Lincoln ama teur' associations and a number of local sandlot enthusiasts have urged umcu ui u.c wiiiaua kuiuiuun iu start a movement for the organiza- (ion of the middle-west circuit com prised of cities between St. Louis and Duluth and west of the Missis sippi river. Tlie desire for this inde-j pendent organization is the result ot the far from satisfactory finishes of the two national organizations last year. , President Isaacson of the local as sociation, however, does not believe it would be good policy for Omaha to assume leadership in such a move ment. He has conferred with other officials of the local sandlot body and they have agreed with him. "If Omaha were to take the leader ship and form a middle-went associa tion," declared Isaacson, "I have no doubt its formation would be suc cessful. I believe we could get ten or a dozen, perhaps fifteen, cities to join. Omaha Would Be Goat. But Omaha would be the goat. The new association would encoun ter nothing but trouble during the first year of its organization at least. everybody would nave a grievance because it takes time to adjust things. And everybody would blame Omaha and insist Omaha was getting all the gravy. That's what happened to Cleveland and Indianapolis last year "In addition. I am Convinced, and the other local officials express the same sentiments, that the national association has learned its lesson the ihvver nnish last year will not occur again. President Goss of the -national association is a smart base ball man; he knows now the mis takes he made last year. And I be lieve everything will be clear sailing in the national body this year. for tnat reason I believe we would be foolish to undertake the or ganization ,of a middle-west associa tion, because we would get nothing but abuse il we should run into a few tribulations, while the national association would be running smoothly. Earl OaddoAWm Try to Throw Pesek Twice in One Hour Earl Caddock, the Anita (la.) flash, is scheduler! to undertake a tough proposition at Shelton, Neb., Thurs day night. Earl has agreed to throw John I'esck, described as the Buffalo county mat marvel, twice within ope hour for a purse of $400 and a 75-25 cut of the gate receipts. Caddock is on his way to the Pacific coast, where he is carded to clash with Ad Santel, alian Acjolph Ernst, in San Francisco. Yanks Will Keep Full v Crew of Scouts at Work Though well loaded with talent, the New York Americans will not re duce their scouting operations next year. Joe Kelley will again head the gumshoe brigade, with BDbby Gilks and George Leidy as his assistants and Duke Farrell making; occasional excursions to the minors. Hermann, chairman of the commission; Byron Ban croft Johnson, president of the American league. Standing, left to right, John E. Bruce, secretary of the commission, and Joseph Flanner, assistant secretary. CREIGHTON QUINT . ) CARDS FOUR TRIPS Mills' Men to Invade Wyoming:, Iowa, South Dakota and Kansas for Games. YORK AND WESLEYAN HERE Four trips into the land of enemy have been arranged for Creighton university basket quintet. . . N the . the ball One of the trips will carry Mills' nippers as far west as Laramie, Wyo., The University of Wyoming will be nnrnA at ,1,9 nrtint !n !ai,,i,,M out the local floor athletes will stop at r,ntral Citv and Kearnev for con flicts with the colleges at those cities, and they may play Denver at Den ver. , . A trip north , to Sioux City and Vermillion, S. D., will be made, games with Trinity college and the Univer sity of South Dakota being carded. The Creighton basketeers will also go to St. Mary's, Kan., for two games with St. Mary's college, and to Des Moines for a combat with the Drake university quintet. The long trip east which Mills had originally planned for his basket shooters has been called off. Mills planned to take his crew as far east as South Bend, Ind., and intended to remain away for at least two weeks. Inability of the athletes to remain out of school that long made it necessary j to call this trip off and substitute the ! four shorter trips, which will total as 1 much if not more mileage and will not necessitate loss of much time in the class rooms. , South Dakota and Drake are two of the big teams which will come to Omaha for games with Creighton. Drake will play here March 3. South Dakota will be here some time in February. The Creighton tosscrs have two hard games ahead of them this week. York and Nebraska Wesleyan will in vade this city to combat with Mills' cage charges. York will play Creigh ton at the Creighton gym next Fri day night, and Wesleyan will be the attraction at the same .place Saturday night. If Creighton can wallop both of these quintets it will cinch the championship of the state, Wes leyan is expected to trim Nebraska uni. , Georgetown Will Have Exendine Back Again Albert A. Exendine, that cunning Indian and great foot ball coach, has signed a contract to handle the Georgetown gridironers in 1917. Wonderful advancement has been made by the Georgetown team since "Exic" took hold of the reins. Charley Cox, graduate manaeer. and the Indian finally came to terms, and it is sMA that Exendine will re ceive a good increase inltalary. Exendine probably is the best coach that Georgetown ever had. During the last two years George town, under the tutelage of Exendine, has scored 750 points. Peoria Signs Brother Of Mike Prendergast The Peoria Three-I club has sinned as a pitcher Joe Prendergast, brother to Mike rrendergast, now a pitcher with the Chicago Cubs, who got his start with Peoria. Joe has had no professional experience. Josh Oevore Says He Is Now Positively Through Tosh Devore. once Giant star, and last season with the Topeka Western league team, announces that he has abandoned the game and will settle down on his farm in Ohio. . - WESTERN MOGULS . GATHERIN OMAHA President Zehrung Calls Spe- j cial Meeting of League for This City Tomorrow. f SWITCH T0PEKA FRANCHISE : Western league .' magnates will gather ill Omaha tomorrow to attend a "special meeting' called by President Zehrung. , - S The transfer of the Topeka fran- a ehise to Pueblo, the length of, the 1 playing season, and the salary limit are the principal topics due to come befqre the assembled magnates. There seems to be little uncer tainty about the disposal of the To peka franchise now. Pueblo business men have promised to build a plant to accommodate 5,000 persons. This promise probably means the stands will seat about 3,000. but that will suffice. ; They also say they will build the park within five minutes walking distance of the heart of the city. Aud last, but not least, these business men have promised to sell a bunch of season tickets before the drive for the H nag starts. That John ' Savage, holder of the Topeka franchise, will accept the terms offered by the Pueblo men is believed. Topeka is unquestionably a dead issue. It would be suicide to remain there. Pueblo hasn't had base ball for a number of years and is considered about ripe. In addition the steel mills there are now working night and day, the population has been increased since the Western league was last in the Colorado- city .and the town and its surrounding country is more prosperous. With Pueblo a member of the cir cuit the schedule division will prob ably be changed. Lincoln, Wichita, Pueblo and Denver will be in the western wheel and Omaha, Sioux City, Des, Moines and St. Joseph in the eastern loop. - . , That Salary Limit, v The salary limit issue is expected to recieve considerable attention. The limit last year was $2,600 and accusa tions of violations by every magnate in the league were heard on every aide.. " ; Pa Rourke has a scheme to keep the salary limit down. It also has a number -of other advantages, Kourke's plan is to pass a ruling which makes it obligatory for each club to carry at least six players who have never before played in more than fifty games in- Class A or better. This means each dub wilt carry at least six young ball players. They do not necessarily have to be recruita from the bush; they can be turned back from the larger clubs, bt tney can t have had more than fifty gamCs pre vious lexperien.ee in the- fastei com-i pany. I Might Make It Eight. ! "We might even make the "ruling eight ' young players," declared Rourke, "but six would be enough the first year. T.hil would automatically keen the aalarv limit down, ,as it is the veterans who draw the big money; and make for violations ot salary limits, v There is always somebody who will violate a stipulated salary limit, but this wsy there wM.be.noj violations and each club owner will be able to keep his pay roll within his means. j "In addition the fans like to see young ball players, but in order to win games we have in the pait had to get a lot of veterans with Only one or two youngsters, and they had to he mishtv irood ones, in order to keep in the race. With this ruling it would be an even fight What action will be taken on the length of the rlavine season is un certain. Some of the magnates tavor the long' schedule, 154 games. Others like the shorter 140-game schedule. This will ail be threshed out tomor-1 row before the schedule comimttee isj appointed. John Olin Coming West, But He Won't Visit This State John Olin, Finnish wrestling partyi who suddenly, attained prominence. when a referee awarded him de cision over joe Steeher at Spring field, Mass., is Westward, bound. Mr. Olin evidently has visions of collect ing a few western dollars, on the strength of his performance against steelier.. , - .,r . -.-.v , - Olin is scheduled to wrestle in Chi caeo some day this week. Renato Gardini. a Chicago Italian, will be hisl opponent. The Finn is also said to) have several other Chicago engage mcnts. The conaneror of Joe Stecher. a Olin s Dress agent delights to call him. may get by in tne windy Uty but there is little likelihood that he will be so careless as to venture asl far west as Omaha. Olin. it has been discovered, is managed by Lundin, the! gent who brought Harold Christensein out here to be dumped by stecher a the Tractor show, and went homcl yelling bloody murder. He didn't even! stop to take ihrtstensen nome with him. - When news of the Stecher-Olin match was heard in Omaha Marin Plestina offered to give the Finn $1,001 for a match, but the crafty Lundin couldn't see it He didn't want hit pet Finn to take any chances- with Plestina. Also there is little proba bility that Lundin would bring Olin to Nebraska because Stecher lives in Nebraska and Nebraska is somewhat different from Springfield. It might also be said Nebraska referees arc! somewhat different from Massachu-I setts referees. Olin may get a few western dollars, but he's not going to make any at-1 tempt to dram the Nebraska moneu market, not as long as Stecher and Plestina are alive and healthy, ? Sam Fitzpatrick Takes , 5 Up New Jersey Youtr, Sam Fitzpatrick, who piloted Jacll Johnson to the championship of ttwl world, is now - managing Jonnnj Howard ot Bayonne, W. I. litz Patrick desires to match Howard with LesDarcy, and believes that hirt record entitles htm to a bout with tht Australian. Howard has met Jack Dillon, Bob Moha, Gus Christy, MikJ Uibbons and Billy Miske, and fritz Patrick declares he is ready to pos $2,500 to bind a match between How ard and Darcy , -