3 S 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. 'J 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. Not Every Pease Pease Pease Pease Pease Pease Pease Full Pease Pease Pease The Suits Bros.' $50 Suits . Bros.' $45 Suits . Bros $40 Suits . Bros.' $35 Suits . Bros.' $30 Suits . Bros.' $25 Suits . Bros.' $20 Suits . Dress and Tuxedo Suits Bros.'' $40 Suits . . . '$20.00 Bros.' $35 Suits . . . $17.50 Bros.' $30 Suits . . . $15.00 $25.00 $22.50 $20.00 $17.50 $15.00 $12.50 $10.00 Second Fleer Mea't Building. The Overcoats Pease Bros $50 Overcoats . Pease Bros.' $45 Overcoats . Pease Bros $40 Overcoats , Pease Bros $35 Overcoats . Pease Bros.' $30 Overcoats . 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