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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 21, 1917)
3 S When Julius Caesar fought in Gaul he had no manager at all. Tbre wm aa .d nmner named Iter (Ok, hrk f thU iplrittd lyl Wb rta to gti wl, Oot fhilbUlmi lntd And ru off th ppcmtto way! Ther wh an old walked nanatl Ilrady Who walked to th haak trery day. Me novrr navfd tin. No h nrvrr went la Next door wan a loYelr afe. P When Julius finished trimming Gaul he had the gall to keep it all. THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JANUARY 21, 1917. Judgments THAT either Coach Stewart is made up of the supreme, but oftimes foolish, confidence of the perpetual optimist or the athletic board at the University of Ne braska has gone completely Hooey in the attic would be the natural lupposi lion of a gridiron fan taking a slant at the schedule of conflicts the Corn husker eleven must face this fall. Iowa, Norte Dame. Michigan, Mis souri, Kansas and Syracuse in succes sion is some schedule, bo. Every one of these schools is certain to, have a good eleven, an eleven fully capable of giving the Huskers a battle no matter how strong the latter may be. And this far ahead three of those schools will rank favorites over Ne braska. From the standpoint of suc cess some gridiron fans might regard the undertaking of such a strenuous schedule foolish. But, looking at it from another angle, it may be a wise move. Nebraska's prospects for a great foot ball eleven have never been better. Four new backfield men will graduate from the freshman eleven to the varsity. They are said to be the four best backfield men ever collected at one time at the Husker institution. And a wealth of line material will ac company that backfield. This new talent with the veterans from the 1916 team is expected to make the 1917 Husker machine the most potent ever turned out at Lincoln. If ever Ne braska had a chance to clean up on six such teams as it will face this fall, this is the time. It might be a long time before opportunity would present itself so squarely in front of the Husk ers. And if Nebraska does come out of that campaign with flying colors its foot ball reputation will be established from coast to coast. And if Nebraska does not come out of that campaign with flvinar colors its standing will not be hurt It's a case of everything to gain and nothing to lose, and as Coach Mayser ot Ames so patiy re marked "win or lose it's progressive." This Darcy person seems to have blown a shoe "and skidded into the fence on the back-stretch. When this south tea isle lid hit our hysterical shores brass bands began to toot. whistles began to blow, all the toon- descents in the welcome arcnes were turned on full speed ahead, promoters embraced him with a lot of load osculation and the little woolly lambs ' began to bleat for a chance to get shorn. Mr. Darcey's arrival was the inspiration for the most frenzied en thusiasm and nuttiness in years. And no more did Darcy land than he as sumed the modest ways of the shrink ing violet and informed the world of his ambitions, hopes and intentions, to-wit: Mr. Willard was to get his wrist slapped, Mr. Carpentier was to have a couple of his eyebrows trans ferred, Mr. Gibbons was to hare his physiognomy mistreated and a lot of other things But what Leater did was to line himself up for a little of the soft money on the burlesque circuit. He's been here a month and no indications of impending hostilities are yet forth coming. And the w. 1c common peo ple of the east seem to be kicking back on their generous welcome, strange as this may seem. They can't understand why Lester should turn down some of the offers submitted to him, offers which in Australia he would have taken more chances than a moving picture dare-devil to accept Is the east getting wise to itself? Should Mr. Darcy invade Nebraska, a wild and unkempt state where New Yorkers say the sucker crop is 100 per cent perfect, he would, like Jess Willard was, be greeted with a couple of loud guffaws, accompanied - by a small collection of titters and perhaps as much as 20 cents in real money. A couple of more Darcys and perhaps the east will look at it the same way we do. Will the players strike? Perhaps, but well venture a guess that a lot of them will experience some un easy times between this date and April IS. The players' fraternity has called the strike for February 20. The minor magnates at whom the frater nity is aiming refuse to be annoyed at aU by the announcement They have until March to send out their con tracts. Our guess is that they will wait until the last hour before dropping the envelopes containing the precious parchments into the mail. In addi tion the magnates declare the strike would give them a muchly desired op- gortunity to chop off the heads of a nr of their veteran athletes and sign up youngsters who have never heard of the players' fraternity. Young ball players cost less than veterans. The players may strike, but if they do theyll do as much worrying and fret ting and probably more between now and spring than the magnates. There is one demand made by the base ball players we fail to compre hend, or at least we fail to gather the reason or justice in it. That is the demand that the club owner pay the player's expenses from his home to the training camp. If you lived in Omaha and were offered a job by a Chicago firm, would that firm pay your expenses to the Windy City? Nit. Then why, pray, should Pa Rourkc, for instance, pay the expenses of Harry Krause, for instance, from San Francisco to Omaha? The mag nates have always done this little thing, but we never could quite un derstand why they have. A leather medal for Kid Williams, lads. The kid has sprung a new one. The day after his bout with Fete Herman, Williams startled the pu gilistic world with the assertion that he was robbed by the referee. Many an alibi has been given prominence in the public prints, but the Williams alibi is an innovation, we have never before heard of a fighter who said the referee was wrong. It is refreshing indeed to find the dull and dreary winter season enlivened by the spring ing of a new one. Sam Crawford, who, by the way, is vice president of the fraternity, ad mits he doesn't quite understand what all the strike talk is about. And , that's about the way with the rest of the athletes. TWO BELLE VUE BASKET BALL LEADERS Janus Allan, former Auburn star, captains th Bellevue five. Lester Stewart, from Walthill, was elected leader of the reserves. I w if II Mil" x-jt V ,, 1 ' ' 'J "w r :'iif I v J) ZS.STBK sSTSKAXT PENN RELAY MEET TO BREAK RECORD Promises to Be Even Bigger and Better This Tear Than Last. BERR7 IS AGAIN ENTERED The University of Pennsylvania's twenty-third annual relay race car nival, to be held on Franklin Field on the last Friday and Saturday of April, promises this year to be even bigger and better than ever. The invitations have just been sent out to the col leges, many of which already have these great games on their schedules. Pannsylvania's famous races are ev erywhere regarded as the greatest set of sports held annually in the world. No other set either of scholastic or collegiate sports compares with them. Last year Pennsylvania made a new world s record for the spring medley relay championship, while Yale and Cornell equaled the world's records in the two-mile and the four-mile re lay, respectively. As Yale and Cor nell ran on a track measured twelve inches from the pole, while the old records were made on a track meas ured eighteen inches out, both Yale and Cornell actually ran faster than the teams that hold the records with them. Simpson of Missouri made a new world's record of fifteen seconds on grass in the high hurdles. Oler of Yale and Richards of Cornell tied in the high jump at six feet three inches. Mucks of Wisconsin put the shot forty-eight feet one and a half inches. All of the other events were up to a very high standard, while the times for the college and school class relay races were faster than ever be fore in the history of the games. Native Sons Enter. Everything points to a wonderful meet on April 27 and 28. The Uni versity of Southern California has already sent word that it will be represented, while more western insti tutions than ever before will be on hand. Harvard has another fast one mile relay team, while many other col leges are getting their men in shape, hoping to carry off one or other of the relay classics of the year. Berry, Penn's great all around athlete, will again be in the pentathlon event with several other aspirants for all-around honors. Two More Towns Want On the Grand Circuit Peoria and Jacksonville, Fla., are making strong bids for admittance to the Grand circuit which will hold its annual meeting in Atlanta, Ga., Jan uary 22 and 23. There is a strong possibility, it is said, that both cities will be taken into the organization. Rumors have been current that H. K. Devereux of Cleveland, who has guided the destinies of the Grand cir cuit for several years, will decline to accept the renomination. Horsemen believe there will be a storm of pro tests if he declines the presidency and that pressure will be brought in an attempt to get him to reconsider. Mr. Devereux for years has been one of the biggest figures in the horse world. Besides voting on the applications of Peoria and Jacksonville, the Grand circuit will adopt a 1917 schedule and map out other plans for the coming season at the Atlanta meeting. $18 ,703 Extra Velvet for Barry No player has earned so much world's series pelf as Jack Barry, the former Athletic star, who was appointed manager of the Red Sox. In eight seasons in profes sional base ball Barry has shared in six October bonuses, the total amounting to $18,703.04. Here they are: 1910 Athletics, $2,062.29 1911 Athletics, 3,654.58 1913 Athletics, 3,264.36' 1914 Athletics, 2,031.65 1915 Boston, 3,779.90 1916 Boston, 3,910.26 Total 118,703.04 500-MILE DOG RACE; WIMPM. PAUL Ten Esquimau Teami to Com pete in Longest Dog Derby Ever Held. OVER OLD PEMBINA TRAIL Prizes for Red River Dog Derby Fleet Mm as nub end Mb power rifle. Nrabnd Mil USD cwh aad aatomatle ahotfan. Third rilll SIWI caeh ud fill ('north Prlae SIR oaeti ud S tlotea mink end bmm ttane. Fifth rriie SSO wuh end pelr anew NhoM. The prllM are hulls' up hy the St. IHul Outdoor Knorta farnlval. th eon toetante bolnir taaad.en trapper end fishermen from the far north. thk rvntiiw. 8am Ktetannaoa, Olmlll, Multohe, (eooaln of AreUr Ktplerar StefennMnl e teem of hoektea. (unnee Kultoreon, Aroee, Mnnltoee, team of mixed breed hoke. T. H. Thoritareon, tilmlll, Manitoba, tenm of mixed huaklea. Sum rhriettanaon, Hlverton, Manitoba, teiun of husky-hound breed. . Aeurnlaon, Hlverton, Manitoba, team of pure white huaklea. John lafeld, (ilmlll, Manitoba, team of potted huaklea. "Fatty" Hanson, Selkirk. Manitoba, , m . fcnkv mlaed breed. inroat, nwimo, v, ..i.-.- . Bealdee the elirht foreroint team there will be two team entered from The Pa In the Hndaan Bar riletrtet. Tbeae aoea took part In u Bar Sweepstake event. St. Paul, Minn., Jan. 20. Louis W. Hill, railway magnate, has opened another chapter in his diversified ac tivities. As president of the St. Paul Outdoor Sports carnival this most versatile son of the late James J. Hill will stage the greatest endurance dog run undertaken by man and beast. He has sent into the Hudson bay and Lake Winnipeg districts and se cured dog teams of the Husky and St. Bernard and Hound Husky cross breeds to take part in the first annual Red River International derby, which promises to become a classic. Mr. Hill's chief object is to show to the world the great utility of these dog trains which furnish such a neces sary means of transportation to the trapper and fishermen in the frozen north. Besides there is a touch of sentiment in his undertaking since the course over which these dogs will travel from Winnipeg to St. Paul, a distance of 500 miles, is the old Pem bina trail over which his father, the late James J. Hill, traveled on dog sledges many times in the early days before he built his Great Northern railway. January 24, shortly after noon, ten of these Canadian dog trains hitched to "carryalls" (toboggan-like sleds) will start from the Winnipeg Free Press office, near the site of Old Fort Gary, to the St Paul Outdoor Sports carnival, which will be in full swing that week. Icelanders and Cree Indians will pit their own endurance and that of their dogs against each other in this event The dogs entered in the com petition will be those regularly used in the midwinter fishing and trapping industries of Lake Winnipeg and the Hudson bay districts. Longest of All. There are two other annual dog en durance races run on the North American continent, and both of these will be eclipsed in one respect by the Red River derby, which will be over a longer course. The Alaska race is a stop event, the same as the Red River International derby is to be. The course of the Alaska sweep stakes, from Nome to Candle and back again, is 412 miles. The record for that race is seventy-two hours of actual traveling. The Hudson Bav sweepstakes, a 150-mile non-stop race, was run this year in twenty-two hours. The course is from The Pas to Beaver Landing and back again. The Pembina Trail, Winnipeg to St. Paul, over which the Red River Dog derby is to be run, is a straishtawav course close to 500 miles. Dog train runners ngure this race will be run in about eighty-six hours. Six to a Team. Each ot the dog trains entered in the endurance run will consist of at least six animals, one man going with each team. They will go-as-they-please, stopping to rest and feed their dogs and themselves wherever they choose, starting out with at least two days' food for themselves, their supplies of provender will be shipped on to them to be picked up at various points along the route. These picturesque Icelander and In dian dog runners each carry a kettle. i ney stop by the trailside at inter vals of about three hours to make tea for themselves and rest their dogs during these .twenty-minute stops. The dogs are fed frozen fish. The whitefish, being oiliest is their best morsel. Bread, tea and fried fish furnishes an energizing diet for the sturdy dog runner. He is a durable running machine, the best American college athlete can readily admire, for it is not unusual for these Ice lander and Indian dog train men to run thirty or forty miles of their days' journey behind their sledges. For example, Captain Baldwin Ander son, who has one of his dog teams entered in the Red River derby, al though 50 years old, finds it no hard task to "step" forty miles in a day Denina nis team wnen bringing a load of fish from the middle of frozen Lake Winnipeg to the fishing station, whence the product is carried the rest of the journey to the railway by horse freighters. The dogs selected for the Red River derby are the hardiest of the entire "population of 1,000" now registered in the Canadian northwest. They are all brothers, sisters and cousins to the 100 dogs taken from the Lake Winnipeg and Hudson bay districts by Sir Ernest Shakelton, noted Eng lish explorer, on his trip to the south pole two years ago. They are of the Husky breed. The Husky dog is bred from a timber wolf and a Scotch Col lie. A few of the entries arc cross bred with St Bernard and hounds. YOUNG MEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION BASKET BALL SQUAD Reading left to right: Levinson, Sherman, Cohn, Kaiman, Davidson, Braun, Copeland and Levy. l a A ISP r.r rj resrifc vsr vjlj-; w-'M OMAHA COPPERS TO POLL DENVER TEAM Sergeant Samuelson to Pilot Strong Men West for Clash Next Saturday Night. LOOKS FOR EASY VICTORY Sergeant Samuelton's trained troupe of massive, monstrous and mammoth mastadons will invade the mile high and also arid city of Den ver this coming Saturday. The sergeant's trained troupe, be it known, is the Omaha police de partment tug-of-war team. Samuelson is the captain. Charlie Van Dusen is the manager. The Omaha coppers are booked to clash with the holdup chasers of Den ver in a finish pull for the champion ship of Omaha, Denver, Stockholm and Dublin. The event is to be the feature of stock show week in the Colorado capitol and, according to re ports received from the place by Van Dusen, the town is almost as agog with enthusiasm to use an old bromide as it used to be in the good old days before the joy juice was banished from the state. Samuelson insists that his trained troupe composes the greatest tug-of-war team in the world. He declares his proteges are the last word in tugging. He will even confess they are better tuggers than burglar-nippers, booster catchers yegg grabbers or vag pinchers, all of which is some confession and shows that Samuel son has a lot of confidence in his men. Van Dusen is equally as generous in his praise. . Van gets as eloquent as a Daniel Webster, Henry Clay and Abraham Lincoln rolled into one when reciting the wondrous feats of achievement of these sturdy and stal wart coppers. Predict Easy Victory. The Denver tug-of-war team has not lost a match this year. They have pulled every thing in sight in the Rocky mountain country. But the Omaha strongmen refuse to be intimidated or discouraged by these reports; they insist the Denver gang will look like a deuce spot after about five minutes of pulling. Samuelson says his men will yank the Denver ites clear out of the state and Van Dusen's only fear is that the rope will break first. The pull was scheduled about six weeks ago. The Omaha coppers have been religiously saving up their nickels and dimes and they are look ing forward to their return to Omaha with half the wealth of Denver in their jeans. The beat-pounders who will make the trip to Denver are Sergeant Sam uelson, Charley Van Dusen, John Graham, Charlie Jensen, Morris An derson, Robert Hiller, Frank Mc Cabe, Pete Jolly and Ole Knutson. Tennis Heads Will Encourage Play in The Doubles Ranks Comoetition in doubles in tennis is to be encouraged the coming season, according to Ralph Holterhoff of Cincinnati, a member ot the executive committee of the United States Lawn Tennis association. 'The executive committee will recommend to the national meeting in New York, February 9, that an open tournament for the national championship be held in the fall along the same lines as the singles championship," Mr. Holterhoff said. While the committee went on rec ord as opposed to the present doubles system, it does not want the doubles abandoned. 'The committee also will recom mend a rule that the champions of the previous season play through the tournament The present rule requir ing at least one member of a team playing in sectional doubles to be a resident of that section, probably will be abolished." Minnesota Foot Ball ' Nets a Nifty Profit Foot ball receipts at the University of Minnesota in 1916 totaled $79.- 648.98, the board ot athletic control announced. Receipts from the Wis consin game were $31,793.50, breaking the Minnesota record tor a single game. cS Crawford Doesn't Strike Talk Samuel E. Crawford, the Tigers' slugging right fielder, does not seem to be at all worried over the prospect of spending his summer picketing the ball park, or bouncing his trusty ash off the skulls of strike breakers. Wahoo Sam always has been al lied with the conservative, steady ele ment of base ball, and even though President David L. Fultz of the Base Ball Players' fraternity calls out the athletes on strike, the big felrow will look before he leaps. Incidentally Sam is one of the vice presidents of the organization that is threatening to make trouble because all the minor leaguers can't have lower berths or something like that. Vice President Crawford was asked Saturday whether he would lay down his bat and glove when the order came to jump the reservation. He said that he didn't know whether he would or not. He admitted that he did not have a very clear idea of the issues involved in the controversy be tween his fraternity and the govern ing bodies of organized base ball and that he wouldn't do anything rash until he got posted on them. "The argument is sonething about the failure of the minor league clubs to pay traveling expenses to players who report at the spring training camps," said Sam. "There are some other things, too, but 1 don't know just what." Will Not Commit Himself. He was asked whether he felt strongly enough about the wrongs of Bellevue Reserve Five Is Likely to Burns Up New Loop Despite predictions of dopesters to the contrary, the Bellevue 'College Reserve team seems likely to burn up the newly-formed Inter-City league. Wednesday evening the col legians defeated the University of Omaha Reserves, by the score of 41 to 4. Thursday evening they ran up a score of 43 to 7 against the Coun cil , Bluffs High School Reserves, thereby making a total of eighty-four points in two games against their opponent's seven. The real test of the Bellevue team wilt come, of course, when it meets teams like Creighton High . and Omaha Central High Reserves. That Creighton High is to be reckoned with was demonstrated by the victory over the School for the Deaf Tuesday evening. Lester Stewart, junior, is captain of the Bellevue Reserves. Perry Johns is another star. Jim Daught erly, playing at guard, made twelve baskets in the two games1 last week. Harold Shaimholtz, of South High fame, made ten. George Primrose, elongated center, scored five goals Thursday evening. Coach Benjamin predicts that after another week's practice the Reserves will be more than a match for the 'varsity five. The Reserves have two games this week. They play the Deaf Institute at the Institute gym Tuesday even ing and South High Reserves at South High Wednesday evening. The Bellevue college 'varsity has two games booked for this week. The team will make a two-day trip at the week-end, playing Cotner at Bethany Friday evening and Doane at Crete Saturday evening. Benjamin has been giving the varsity a good deal of fast practice and expects his squad to make a good showing against the' state teams. Jennnigs Says Morey Will Make Good Umps Hugh Jennings has joined with Billy Evans, the umpire, and other base ball notables in predicting that George Moriarity will make good as an umpire in the American league. Jennings points out that four of the chief qualities ot an umpire are fear lessness, keen eyesight, good judg ment and ability to cover ground. These, he claims, are the very quali ties which helped Moriarity to make good in the American league. Mori arity, they say, never was a star as an inhelder, but his nerve, Ins brain and his base running enabled him to hold his job even when he was not in the best of health. (5 w4 Know What is About, Anyhow the minor leaguers to skip pay-days all season in their behalf. "Well. I'm a member of the fratcr nity, you know, and so are they," was his reply. "I suppose that it will all simmer down, but if the worst comes to the worst, I don't know what l will no. Sain, by the way, will serve the last year of a three-season contract in 1917. so he can t set into anv arou ments with the ball club over the question of signing. If he strikes at all, it wilt be because he wants to be loyal to his pledges and not because he has any personal grievances. The Wahoo slugger takes exception to statements that President rultz has not been able to bring about any vital reforms in base ball govern ment. "If you could talk to Fultz you would find out that he had done a great many things for the players," he said. (No doubt about that, Sam. Dave wouldn't give himself any the worst of it), "One thing that he has done is to secure a change in that clause of the contract which concerns injured players. It is no longer pos sible for a club to turn a man adrift without pay when he is hurt When asked to give one instance of this cruelty having been practiced. bam admitted that he couldn t recall any. "But it was there in the contract and the magnates could do it if they wanted to until fultz got alter them and made them fix up this clause," he insisted. Army Schedules Game With Penn; FirstSince 1901 West Point, k Y Jan. 20. The army's foot ball schedule for 1917, consisting of nine games, has been announced here. For the first time in fifteen years the University of Penn sylvania will come here for a game with the cadets. In fact, Penn and the 'Army have met only once before on the gridiron, in 1901, when the Quakers were beaten by a score of 24 to 0. Arrangements have been made with the authorities here to permit the army team to go away for one game each year in addition to the big bat tle with the navy in New York. This means that the cadets will have a heavier schedule in the years to come. Penn's visit here next fall will be followed- by a trip to Philadelphia in 1918 by the army eleven for a return game. Just how long this agreement with Penn will run has not been decided, but it is known that the army is anxious to arrange a similar home-and-home series with Harvard or Yale. Efforts were made by the athletic authorities here to arrange games with Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cor nell, Dartmouth, Syracuse and Col gale next fall, but without success. If the cadets do land a home-and-home contest with one of the big eastern universities each year, it is unlikely that the Notre Dame con test will be a feature of the soldiers' program after next fall. Two big eastern games before tackling the navy is about all the army wants. The University of West Virginia and llowdoin are newcomers on the schedule next fall. The schedule follows; September 29, Holy Cross; October 6, University of Pennsylvania; Oc tober 13, University of West Vir ginia; October 20, Springfield Young Men's Christian Association college; October 27, Villanova; November 3, Notre Dame university; November 10, University of Maine; November 17, Bowtloin; November 24, navy at New York. 4 Vic Saier Says His Eyes Have Regained Full Power Vic Saier, first baseman of the Chi cago Nationals, whose sight was thought to be failing him, has assured President Weeghman of the Chicago club that his eyes have regained their normal strength after a winter's rest Saier is a movie fan and the theory was that he had damaged his eyes watching the flickering light on the screen and sitting up late reading. He avoided any strain whatever dur ing" the winter months and now be lieves he is as good as ever. TEXAS IS FAVORITE OF BIGLOOP CLUBS Five of Sixteen Major League Teams Will Train in Lone Star State. CUBS MAKE LONGEST TEIP NATIONAL LEAGUE. Chicago, Panadftna, Cat. DrAnklyn, Hot Nprtns. Ark. Nw York. Marlln. Tai. rtttabiirnh, Columhua, (la. Philadelphia. 81. Petersburg, Fla. Roaton. Miami, Pla. Ht. Mule, Nan Antonio, Tel. Cincinnati. Shreveport, La. AMKRKAN 1.EAOVJE. Ronton. Hot Hprlnira. Ark. ritrol(, Wajiaharhle. Tel. Now York, Macon. Cla. Chicago, Mineral Hprlnfl, Tex. Cleveland. New Orleana. Waehlnston. AuRuata. Ua. 81. l.oula, Palestine, Tex. Philadelphia, Jacksonville, Fla. Spring training plans have now been perfected by all the major league clubs and within another six weeks the fans will be reading daily accounts of the diamond doings of their fav orites. Texas is to entertain the largest number of the big leaguers this spring. Five teams the Giants, Tigers, White Sox, Browns and Cardinals have picked training spots in the Lone Star slate. Of the other major league outfits the Braves, Phillies and Athletics will train in Florida; the Yankees, Sena tors and Pirates in Georgia; the Red Sox and Robins in Arkansas; the In dians and Reds in Louisiana, and the Cubs in California, ( The trip of the Cubs to Pasadena will be the longest to be taken by any of the big league teams for the workout season. Elaborate prepara tions are being made for the long tour. Led by their new manager, ; Fred Mitchell, the squad will leave Chicago in a special train the latter Part of next month and go direct to asadena. The Cubs will be the third team to visit California in recent years, the White Sox and Red Sox having previously made the Pacific coast trip. Novelty Tours, The New York Giants and the De troit Tigers, and the Boston Braves and New York Yankees, are planning to introduce a novelty in their spring training tours. The Giants and Ti gers will make the homeward trip to gether and will play exhibition games enroute. The same plan of doubling up in a series of matinee perform' ancts on the way north will be fol lowed by the Braves and Yankees. Before tackling the Yanks the Braves probably wit play a series of three games in Havana. i The Washington Senators and Cm nati Reds will form another combi nation to engage in a series of pre season interleague battles. The Senators and Reds will clash in one game at Cairo, III., two in Louisville and three In Cincinnati. i The world's - champion Red Soc will get into condition at Hot Springs, Ark., where they have done their spring training for several years. The appearance of the Sox at the Arkansas resort wilt mark the debut of Jack Barrv as a big league manager. Jack will be in charge df thirty-eight pastimers and all he will have to do will be to pick another world-beating team to continue the good work of his predecessor, "Uncle Bill" Carrigan. That's considerable job for a brand new pilot, but the Boston owners and fans alike believe that Jack will come through right side up. Champs May Clash. The Brooklyn Robins, opponents of the Red Sox' in the last world's series, will also train at Hot Springs. There is some talk of the Sox and Robins crossing bats at the Springs, but an early season series between champions is considered poor busi ness policy. , ' For the first time in many year the Pittsburgh Pirates are to pass up Hot Springs as a training1 camp. Manager Callahan will take the Buc caneers to Columbus, Ga., in the hope that a change in training camps will bring a change in luck for his team. The Cleveland Indians will again do their spring training at New Or leans, the Fohlies doubtless figuring that they can repeat last season's fine start after working out in the Louis iana city. Should the Indians make good this season, it would shatter the generally accepted notion among big league managers that large cities make poor training camps. i Considerable interest will center in the spring performances of the Ath letics at Jacksonville. Connie Mack will have a small army of young tossers to try out and his followers have a hunch that the veteran pilot is all set for a "come-back." Nemo Leibold to Be Given Chance Of Gaining Berth Nemo Leibold, who Went to the Chicago White Sox two years ago from Cleveland, is being touted as the Sox regular rightfielder for next season. Claim is made that Shano Collins is slipping, and that Eddie Murphy is a wretched fielder. Manager Rowland is authority for the statement that Liebold never has been given the chance his past per formances would warrant, but that considerable attention would be paid to the little fellow next spring. Heilbronner Wants to Bring Fort Wayne Back Evansville, Ind., Jan. 20. Rumors that Fort Wayne may attempt to get -into the Central league again by ob taining the Wheeling franchise are being circulated here. Louis Heil bronner, former president of the league and who guided the destinies of the Fort Wayne team when it was " in the league, is said to have a de sire to return to the sport. Accord- ' ing to report the fate of Terre Haute's franchise remains doubtful. The lo cal situation also has not been de termined definitely. - , - is a t f Id jv in le l S t