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Then wee aa aid rawer aaned Bala
Wae eeMeai elewed dowa to a walk.
All apccds he weald try. , .
Bat he tmTeled, la "hirh"
Whea kta wife toek a, aettoo te talk.
A soldier is a man who fights and does not fear the fray;
A fighter is a man who comes to soldier on Broadway.
There wae a yean beak elerk u i
Whe boarht a ! aateawbUe.
The daj the hank failed
That eld aato eatled
Aad IU ewaer aat rl(ht at the wheel.
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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JANUARY 14. 1917.
V
A
Judgments j
A
FTER struggling manfully for
several weeks, the National ,
commission 'finally adopted j
the new contract. 1 he docu-,
ments were drawn up by eminent le-. :
gal lights; the National league dc-j
layed the proceedings by asking a
change, and a lot of discussions of j
radical departures which, it was said, i
would prove winter-league sensations, i
were hurled about. Now that the con
tract has been adopted, we find little
in the way of those radical departures. !
The option clause and the ten-day no- j
tice of release, which were parts of
the contract used three years ago, are
contained in the riew contract, and the
disability clause has been entirely
eliminated. These are the changes.
and they are not new ones, except the
disability clause, which was seldom
used anyway. Those reports that the
new contracts differed greatly from
the papers signed by player and mag
nate in previous years, and that a
"joker" had been found, proved to be
some of that old bunk so cheaply and
promiscuously peddled in these ad
vanced days of several a minute.
May Be Declared Pro for Capitalizing Fame
The reform suggestions of C. Her
cules Ebhets may not appeal partic
ularly to a large number of magnates,
but they may have to ptit one of his
plans in force one of these days.
Minor leagues have been protesting
ardently of late against the wholesale
drafting by major league clubs in
which an entire club is drafted, thus
giving the big fellow his choice of any
player on the minor league club. This,
the minors declare, is an injustice.
Ebbets' suggested draft reform pro
vides for draft of players by name
onlv. It also provides those clubs low
est in the league standing have firt"
choice in the draft. The Ebbets plan I
aids the weaker major league clubs,
which are the ones that should be
helped, afod it is more satisfactory to
the minors. And the principle of the
draft to make sure a player be given
an opportunity to reach the top oi his
profession would not be injured. It's
one Ebbets scheme that holds water
at least.
That the National board, the arbi
tration body of the minor leagues, is
lated for the discard and a new ju
dicial committee closely collateral
with the National commission will
takes its place is the belief of many
of the base ball prophets. Since Al
Tearney, the Moses of the minors,
started his agitation for reform the
National commission has been lend
ing something of a sympathetic ear.
And the belief is' that the commission
has sufficiently seen the light to pay
a little attention to the bushers in the
future. The present system is unsat
isfactory, that is certain. The aboli
tion of the National board for a new
organization which would sit in coun
cil on grave matters with the com
mission probably would be a gre.-.t
improvement. It. might not be the
solution to the problem of ruling the
minors, but it would be better than
the present system.
PLTATN ft
Jfani i ...... s ' x V"-"lfi1
New York, Jan. 13. These sure
are troublous times for the amateurs.
The tennis and golf associations have
all sorts of knotty problems to solve.
Now come the American Athletic
Union with the information that it
is on, the trail of several star ath
letes for capitalizing their athletic
fame. Piatt Adams of the New York
Athletic club, and Edward L. Ernes
of the Bronx Church House, both
crack standing high jumpers, are
mentioned as two of the leaders who
may be barred from competition be-
DARCY'S FAREWELL
BLOW TO AUSTRALIA
....
All Fight Fans of ' Antipodes
Have Now is Broken-Down .
Bunch of Heavies.
medial. In the first place the bat
ter is more than likely to accept the
base. Such an Occasion arises only
in a pinch and the batter would much
prefer to accept the frefc transporta
tion than take a chance on wallop
ing the ball, for, if he should fail to
connect, upon his head all the abuse
would fall. The intentional pass may
not be a good thing, but the only
way to eliminate it is to penalize the
hurler. It's more hitting that is the
crying need and elimination of the in
tentional pass will, not aid it.
Makinsr the olea of "snort
sport's sake," the United States Golf
association has put up the amateur
bars. "Sport for sport's sake" is a
beautiful ideal, but it doesn't extend
very far in any branch of sport ex
cept in interscholastic and intercol
legiate circles. Base ball players,
professional and sandlotters alike,
play not only for love of the game,
but) for what; there is in it. Trap
shoots are in ninety-nine cases out of
100 money events. Golfers, in order
to arouse sufficient enthusiasm, have
to wager a ball a hole or something
like that. It's the same way with
swimming, tennis, running and auc
tion bridge. Whether the golf asso
ciation's ruling proves to be an in
justice to a few individuals or wheth
er it will really be a boon for "sport
for sport's sake" remains to be seen.
The new owners of the Boston Red
Sox, in company with Jack Barry, the
newly appointed manager, are likely
to encounter a few hazards when they
attempt to coax the world champion
athletes into signing 117 contracts.
With three of four exceptions, all of
the champs will draw new contracts
this spring, and a champion athlete is
likely to have some exalted ideas of
his own worth. Unless Frazee and his
partners buy one of the United States
mints and turn its entlire output over
to the team, it may take some time to
get those precious signatures along
that well known dotted line.
Another scheme to fake away the JJQ GETS KNOCKED COLD
advantage the pitcher has over the ' ' ,
, batter is suggested by Jack Doyle, j ' '
veteran player and now an umpire New York, Jan. U The departure
in the Pacific Coast league. He sug- of Les Darcy from Australia has rob
gests the batter be given the option j bed tne boxing game on the island
of taking an intentional base on balls, . f what cass contained
or remaining at ne piaw. "y'"iand the fans haTt been forced t0 turn
suggestion doesnt strike us as re-1. .. som,wh., battered favor
ites in search of entertainment. There
is plenty of activity among the ring
men on the other side of the world,
but the sport furnished is decidedly
mediocre. With Darcy, the biggest
drawing card produced in Australia
in many a day, gone, Bill Squires,
Bill Lang and other old timers, pugil
istically dead this good while, have
been dug up out of retirement and
again put on exhibition.
Unfortunately for Lang, he selected
Tom McMahon, the Pittsburgh bear
cat, for his opponent in his first at
fpmnf tn romp hark. Instead nf ft
,or, ! come-back he received a set-back, as
the American polished him off in five
rounds. (This failed to cbnvince the
one-time idol of the antipodes that he
is through, and he has announced his
intention of sticking to the game,
which proves that at least he is persistent.
While Darcy was not recognized as
a heavyweight in his native land, it
was conceded that he could beat any
of his countrymen in the heavier class.
Now that he is among the missing in
Australia, the heavies are to fight it
out among themselves for possession
of the belt offered by Hugh D. Mc
intosh) who, though he has severed
his connection with boxing, is still an
ardent admirer of the manly art. The
belt has had the effect of luring Jiill
Squires out of retirement, Squires
has spent the last few years on his
farm at Tamworth and reports that he
is in excellent shape. He is quoted
as saying: "I believe that I could turn
around and lick myself as I was six
or seven years ago," which is a novel
way of describing one's prowess. If
he can't do even better than that, Bill
had better go back to the farm.
Like Darcy, Squires has announced
his intention of joining the colors as
soon as he has put a few more fights
under his belt, and has already sold
his farm.
Dime Makes Hit.
Jimmy Dime; who recently returned
to this country with the stable of
boxers he took to Australia, made a
fine impression over there and it was
cause of violating the amateur code.
Adams, it is said, is about to feel
the official ax because he sells sport
ing goods in Newark. Ernes is in
bad because he sells medals and other
jewelry given as prizes at various
athletic meets, which is considered
a violation of the rules. Ernes is in
business with Harry Smith, who, with
Abel Kiviat, was declared a pro two
years ago. Both Adams and Ernes de
clare that they are doing nothing
contrary to the amateur code and they
will make a strong fight against be
ing declared pros. '
DMPSFINDJOBS
IN WINTER TIME
Bill Dineen Is Trying to Raise
Enough Honey to Buy the
Syracuse Franchise.
O'LOUGHUN IS WARD BOSS
The new owners of the Boston Red
Sox made a judicious move when
they appointed Black Jack Barry
manager of the club. Frazee and his
partners got off on the wrong foot in
beantown, which is a very touchy
village and easily peeved, when they
appointed a Chicago man secretary
instead of the popular Eddie Riley,
and when they failed to sign Bill Car
rigan up again. But Barry is popu
lar in Boston, as popular even as
Carrigan, and the beantown fans will
stand behind their champions be
cause of their liking for Black Jack.
As the contracts are being circu
lated by the magnates, Davy Fultz
comes to bat with the assertion that
the players have assured him they do
not intend to sign . up. In other
words, Davy intimates a strike is
bout to occur.
with regret that the promoters wit
nessed his leave-taking. It seems that
a number of American managers got
into disrepute in the antipodes because
of the tactics they used, and Dime
did much to correct the impression
that all managers in this country are
of the same type.
Sid Godfrey is the latest boxer to
spring into popularity in Australia.
This boy, who is a contender for the
featherweight title, has been coming
along nicely and recently stopped
Patsy Brahnigan in seventeen rounds.
Old Nick Maddox Now
Street Car Conductor
Pitcher Nicholas Maddox, who
was one of the heroes of the Pittsburgh-Detroit
world's series of 1909.
is now a street ' car conductor in
Govans, Md.
Fans often inquire, "What becomes
of the umpire during the winter sea
son?" for the arbiter invariably drops
out of sight as soon as the campaign
closes, and nothing is heard from him
until he bobs up serenely the follow
ing spring.
American league umps save their
money, and as a rule take things easy
from November until April.
. Tommy Connolly, dubbed by Bos
ton scribes "the Sage of Natick," be
cause most of the folks of that tight
little Massachusetts town regard Tom
my as the real wise man of the vil
lage, owns 'considerable real estate
and spends his time looking over his
interests. Connolly is a family man
and loves his home. He can always
be seen with one' of his half dozen
kiddies promenading the main street
of Natick, hobnobbing with the post
master or talking base ball with the
president of the bank.
Frank "Silk" O'Loughlin, claims
Rochester, N. Y as his home. He
sells life insurance policies during the
winter, but so far as known has not
written any policies for ball players.
juk. is aitto a politician ana one 01
the leaders in his ward.
Billy Evans sticks right close to
his home in East Cleveland. He writes
base ball yams for a syndicate, col
lecting the material during the play
ing season.
Dineen Saving Money.
Bill Dineen is an equal partner in
an engineering concern in Syracuse,
N. Y. Bill invested his money in the
company some years ago, and the
business turned out to be a profitable
one all he has to do is to sit back
and wait for the dividends to come in.
At present Dineen is active in try
ing to organize a base ball company
with sufficient capital to place Syra
cuse in the International league, as
the city is said to be ripe for faster
company. It the scheme goes through
Big Bill will probably resign asum
pire and be president of the club, also
its manager.
Ollie Chill goes every winter to
Florida, where he owns a crab and
oyster business.
Dick Nallin lives in Frederick, Md.,
me nine town maae lamous in song
ana story by Barhara rrietchie and
the burial place of Francis Scott Key,
author of "The Star Spangled Ban
ner." Brick Owens winters in Kansas
City, but spends much of his time in
Chicago. He usually grabs himself
a political job of some sort for a
month or so in the fall.
Big League Hurlers :
Hope to Be Engineers
Two National league pitchers have
returned to Rose Polytechnic insti
tute at Terre Haute, Ind., for fur
ther education as scientific engineers
Art Nehf of the Boston Braves and
Lester Blackman formerly with the
St. Louis Cardinals. Nehf, whose
home is in Terre Haute, was gradu
ated from the institute in 1914 as an
electrical engineer. Recently he took
a wife and now he is taking a post
graduate course.
TWO HEW MANAGERS
IN MAJOR LEAGUES
Jack Barry and Fred Mitchell
Are Only New Leaders Ap
pointed This Year.
JACK ONLY PLATING BOSS
NATIONAL I.CAdtr.
Breeklra WUbert RoMaeea.
rhlrwro Frrd Mitchell.
Near Vera 4nha J. Mrtlraw. '
Plttaburah Janim J. Callahan. I
Phlledrlphla Patrlrk 1. Siena.
SI. 1 .011 1ft Miller Hntdaa.
Beaten Ueonre HtalUaaii.
Cincinnati hrlety Mathewean. '
AMKRICAN LKAI1CK.
Ronton John J. (Jack) Berry.
Chicago Clarence H. Rowland.
- New York William A. Donovan.
Detroit Huith Jennlng.
Wanhlmrton Clark Urirfltti.
Cleveland Lee Fohl.
Philadelphia Cetinle Mack.
W. Louie Fielder Joaee.
"Among the major league club man
agers signed up for the coming season
are two brand new pilots Jack Barry
of the Red Sox and Fred Mitchell of
the Cubs. Barry, who succeeds Bill
Carrigan as leader of the world's
champions, will be the only playing
manager in the American league, and
most likely the only pilot performing
regularly in the entire big show.
As a player Barry ranks with the
topnotcliers of the game and has the
distinction of being the only pastimer
who has taken part in six world's
championship scries, four with the
Athletics and two as a member of
the Red Sox. He starred in the short
field for the Athletic for seven years
and then moved over to second base.
After joining the Red Sox he dis
played the same brand of brilliant
playing that had won distinction for!
him in Philadelphia.
Barry will be , 30 years old next
April. His first base ball experience
was gained as a member of the Holy
Cross college team. After leaving
college in 1908 he joined the Athletics,
and with Eddie Collins formed one of
the great keystone combinations.
Barry is married and makes his home
at Worcester, Mass.
Mitchell is Veteran.
Fred Mitchell, the new manager of
the Chicago Cubs,' is a veteran pas
timer and coach. He began his base
ball career as a pitcher for the St.
John (N. B.) team seventeen years
ago. He played with the ;Boston
Americans during 1901 and part of
1902 and finished the latter season
with the Athletics. He was with the
Philadelphia Nationals in 1903 and
1904 and with Brooklyn in 1905. The
next season he went lo Toronto and
remained there four years. While a
member of the' Maple Leafs Mitchell
gave up pitching and became a
catcher.. As a catcher he returned
j to the big show in 1910, with the New
I York Americans. Latrr he retumed
' to the International league for a sea
I son and then became assistant to
Manager George Stallings of the
Braves. Last spring he coached the
Harvard base ball squad and turned
out one of the best Crimson teams in
history. Meanwhile his reputation as
a pilot had been considerably boosted
by the successful manner in which he
handled the Braves during the absence
of Manager Stallings. ,
Lives in Boston.
Mitchell was born at Cambridge,
Mass., in 1879, and with the exception
of two years spent at Concord, N. H.,
he has always made his home in Bos
ton, or its vicinity.
The veteran major league managers
for the coming season include Con
nie Mack of the Athletics, John Mc
Graw of the Giants, Clark Griffith of
Washington and George Stallings of
the Braves. All four have been lead
ing big league outfits for many years.
Hughey Jennings can also be reck
oned as something of a veteran, since
it is now ten years since he first took
charge of the Detroit Tigers. Next
in lines comes Miller Huggins, who
has bossed the St. Louis Cardinals
since 1913. Wilbert Robinson took
charge of the Brooklyn team in 1914
and Bill Donovan became pilot of the
New York Y'ankees the same year.
Pat Moran of the Phillies, Clarence
Rowland of the White Sox and Lee
Fohl of Cleveland will start , their
third year as major league managers
next April. Christy Mathewson, pilot
of the Cincinnati Reds; Jimmy Calla
han,. leader of the Pittsburgh Pirates,
and Fielder Jones of the St. Louis
Browns took charge of their respec
tive teams last season and may be
classed as new managers, although
Callahan and Jones had some previous
managerial experience, both having
taken a turn at piloting the White Sox
some years ago. (
Detroit Sends Walker "
, Back to Central Loop
Outfielder Walker, drafted by the
Detroit Tigers, has been released to
the Springfield Central league club
under an optional agreement.
HUGE ENTRY LIST
FOR AJ.C. EVENT
Eight Hundred Five-Man
Teams Expected to Com
pete at Grand Rapids.
HUNDRED FROM CHICAGO
A
Grand Rapids, Mich., Jan. 13.
Eight hundred five-man teams will
bowl for the national titles in this
city next month if plans laid by the
American Bowling congress mature.
The estimate is the first authentic
one issued and is based on the fact
that Toledo handled 756 clubs a year
before prosperity had really struck
into the country.
The national officials are claiming
only 700, asserting that Toledo's won
derful home entry of 224 fives last
year will exceed Grand Rapids' local
representation by nearly 100 clubs,
leaving a deficit of that size to be
made up by visiting cities. Chicago
alone is expected to pick up half of
the loss from the home town's entry,
while Detroit will aid a long way ill
meeting the rest of the difference.
Chicago's largest delegation to an
outside city was that in 1915, when
113 clubs sailed to Peoria and back.
There were eighty-seven clubs at To
ledo from Chicago and the number
ought to almost double this time. Re
cent entries in the city tournament in
Chicago, when 400 clubs signed for
the combat, shows the enormous
number of teams in action in that city
and half of them are able and anx
ious to make the trip to the national
meet . -
The largest league in ill Chicago,
the Windy City, has arranged to send
its full strength of twenty teams to
the Furniture City, with a lot of Its
smaller clubs also hooked. The south
and north isides of the city are also
lined up strong for the Michigan tour
nament and several special trains will
be made up for the invasion. Mil
waukee will also send a record entry
and it would not surprise the fans to
see its record of thirty-six teams in
1912, when the big meet was held in
Chicago, knocked to flinders,
Little Towns Join In.
Another straw showing the way the
wind is blowing is the announcement
from Aurora .that five clubs are al
ready signed from that city for Grand
Rapids. Big entries are certain from
the towns that are understood to be
in the race for the 1918 tournament,
Peoria alone being sure of nearly
twenty clubs, while Columbus, South
Bend and Buffalo, all of them cities
that will be in the field for the Ameri
can Bowling congress gathering either
next year or the years toDine, will
be on hand with good-sized represen
tations. . -
Cleveland is expected to show one
of the greatest outside entries, as the
old battle between the dodo experts
and the straight ball shooters has
been forgotten, and the entire town
has rallied under the banner of Prrsi
dent William Agnew of the American
Bowling congress, who is a Cleve
land roan. Cincinnati is also hitting
on all twelve cylinders after having
passed through a long lull in a bowl
ing way.
Four More Week.
Only fqur more weeks are left for
bowlers to send in their entries and
the early birds have been busy get
ting the choice dates. The entry list
will close on February 15, with Sec
retary Abe Langtry, 175 Second
street, Milwaukee, Wis., but he has al
ready started filling out the schedule.
There are still plenty of weeVend
dates left in his big books, but they
are going rapidly and another week i
will probably see them completely j
filled up. 1
Secretary Lee Bierce, the Grand i
Rapids man who is handling the busi-1
ness end of the big meet for Grand j
Rapids, has lined up 100 of the home !
clubs promised at Toledo last year j
when he waa given the meet and the '
remaining twenty are slowly showing
up, Bierce claims the Grand Rapids I
accommodations will surpass those of i
any former cities, even including the
famous palm garden, which has been I
the leading social feature of former i
meets. . .
, (
Cleveland Will Give
, Altrock Job Any Time;
President Dunn of the Cleveland ;
club likes his laugh aa well as any-
body else, so he told Nick Altrock:
that a post awaited him on the Cleve'
land team, in case Clark Griffith was
getting tired of his comedy. r
Bonesetter Reese May
Jump to Battlefields!
Peace in Europe will be a blow to
Bonesetter Reese, who has been con
sidering jumping from Organized1
Base Ball to the battlefields on the'
continent.
"TELEPHONE 2020 DOUGLAS"
If You Didn't Get
Here Yesterday
Diandeis Stores
Be Sure to Come Here
Tomorrow
Came Here on Saturday
But the' crowds that thronged
the -Men's Building were so great
that at first glance you would have
thought they were all here.
Our Purchase of the
Entire Stock of Pease
Bros. Co.'s Clothing
enabled us to offer values as good
as anything ever announced by this
store and that is saying a lot, for a
year ago we established a record
never equaled hereabouts.
Looks Now, As Though We Would Hang Up a New Record in the Selling of
if ii4h; n r - nr n tj n i
0 Kjivwmy ovjuie many uays nave rassea.
The Pease Brothers' Company Stock
Was 90 of the Celebrated HIRSCH-WICKWIRE Make
Known all over the country for its sterling goodness the variety of fabrics, weaves and pat
terns is so great, that no matter what color you want no matter what style of coat you want
no matter what weight or weave you want IT IS HERE.- NOW LOOK AT THE PRICES.
You Missed the First Day, Don't Miss the Second.
Be on Hand Monday Morning at 8:30.
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