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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: FEBRUARY 4. 1917.
Judgments
WE have just been advised that
"the public demands that
Jess Willard fight." The
demands the well-known
. public makes upon our pu
gilistic champions have always been
more or less of a mystery to us. We
have often heard that the public de
manded this and the public demanded
that, with the result that the public
got what it demanded. But strangely
tins expression of the public demand
generally comes from those most in
timately concerned in the event or
affair or whatever it may be. The
public's demand that a champion en
gage in a little fisticuffs now and then
usually occurs when the said cham
pion's side lines run out. The cir
cus season has ended for Mr. Willard.
Apparently patent medicine com
panies have quit paying him for tes
timonials. We also presume he has
been unable to break into the theat
rical business. The only thing left
for him to do to gather in the stray
jitneys floating hither and thither
among the demanding public is to
fight. So Mr. Public immediately de
mands that Jess be matched with one
of the alleged contenders. Of course,
bis demands will be granted and
shortly Mr. Willard will don the
gloves, trip gayly through tne brief
rounds and collect at the conclusion
enough coin of the realm to float the
British war loan. Not that Willard
wants the money, you understand, but
the public demands it.
Attaching the tinkling tinware to
gridiron tutors who deliver the goods
seems to he a popular pastime among
the learned professors of our ad
vanced institutions of knowledge this
winter. First Gilmour Dobie, who
led Washington through ten defeat
less seasons and set up an unparal
leled record, was given the gate be
cause he was too rough or something
like that. Now Boh Folwell, who
pulled Pennsylvania out of the mire,
is handed his walking papers. Per
haps Dobie and Folwell should have
been discharged, there may have been
excellent reasons for their dismissals.
but in this day and age results are
what countT and to the casual ob
server Dobie and Folwell certainly
got results. And one would almost
infer that the learned professors are
a little hit envious, perhaps jealous,
of the success and popularity of the
foot ball mentors and are trying to
capture a few rays from (he spot
light themselves.
The National commission, evidently
not content with the numerous ob
ligatory duties thrust upon it rfnd the
voluntary ones assumed, has decided
to go into the collection agency busi
ness. One William Starr of Altoona,
Pa., once loaned to Pitcher Wyckoff,
then of the Athletics, $10. Mr. Wyck
off paid no heed to Mr. Starr's duns
and also failed to pay any attention
when the commission asked for a
statement. So the commission has
informed Mr. Wyckoff he shall pay
his just debt to Mr. Starr or will no
longer e eligible for service with the
Bpston Americans, whose property
he now is. So if a ball player owes
you money the National commission
is recommended as an admirable col
lection agency and you won't have
to go fifty-fifty with it either.
It is said Les Darcy will receive
$30,000 for fighting Al McCoy, while
McCoy, who is the technical middle
weight chamnion of America, will
only get $10,000. Rather unusual, isn't
it, that a champion should get less
money than his opponent? But while
it may be unusual it's good business
radament. Darcy will De wortn ouy
000 for his first fight as a drawing
card whether he s worth that amount
or only 10 cents as a fighter. On the
other' hand McCoy wouldn't draw
flies on his own ability. Thus the
difference in the moneys offered Mc
Coy, a champion, and Darcy, virtually
I challenger.
Harry Frazee was for many years
a showman. Hippodroming is the
showman's middle name. And now we
read where Frazee has put the ban on
Charlie Ebbets' scheme to hippo
drome the Red Sox and Robins
throughout the entire south and west.
Ebbets figures such a stunt would
bring many coppers into the coffers
of the two clubs. It no doubt would.
But it would hurt base ball, too. And
Frazee, showman, it was who saw
the evils it would make, not Ebbets,
magnate. Perhaps if the magnates
were little better showmen base ball
would be better off.
A step in the right direction was
the granting permission by the Mis
souri Valley conference for fresh
men athletes to stage their own com
petitions. In the past the freshman
has had little to urge him into ath
letics than the hope of making a var
sity team in one of his subsequent
years. Now he will have the additional
wcentive of taking part m freshman
competition. The valley will find its
new freshman rule will greatly en
courage athletics in its institutions.
Pa Rourke has nineteen athletes
from which to select the fifteen who
will pursue the pennant for Omaha
this year. On paper Rourke's lineup
looks far better this year than it
did when the season opened last year.
But Pa had a mighty nifty ball club
last year and if this year's nine equals
it in strength Omaha will notihave
any trouble in beating the other ieven
clubs to the wiro again. And we
sincerely hope it's as good.
Now the umpires' association seeks
admittance to the American Federa
tion of Labor. His noble majesty,
the umps, must reason affiliation with
the labor organization will make him
immune from the rakings of the
bleacherite and that in the future
the ardent fan will call him "brother"
instead of ''robber."
Between the kaiser
Fultz Uncle Sam's life
roses these days.
and Dave
i no bed of
Walter Johnson and Grover Alex.
aader ought to come in handy hurling
gas bombs.
We should worry about the war as
long as they don t call on the steelier
Peters match,
Bring on that scissors against
scissors, we want to see which is the
sharpest.
STRIKE WRANGLE
MAY TOE BOOH
Big League Leaden Believe
the Player-Magnate fuss
Hay Help Game.
PUT MORE FIGHT IN MEN
By JACK VEIOCK.
New York, Feb. 2. Several major
league managers are convinced that
the wrangling of members of the
Players' fraternity with the mag
nates may be extended in another di
rection the coming season.
"Some of the players who have been
such close pals in the past will not
he quite as friendly next season,"
says Wild Bill Donovan of the Yan
kees; and Uncle Wilbert Robinson
and Johnny McGraw are also of this
opinion.
J hey believe that tne tnreatenea
strike of the fraternity will bring
about a condition which has been
needed in base ball for a number of
years less of the fraternal spirit
among nlavers on the field of play
and more rivalry, which is needed to
put ginger into the game.
Many s the time we have heard
fans remark that the players on op
posing teams are too friendly. Visit
ing each other's club houses and
benches and chatting in a confiden
tial way during the progress of a
game of ball takes something of a
spirit of competition from the pas
time, they say.
no base ball tan appreciates a game
that drags. Pepper is the thing he
wants to see. He also wants to see
the players fight for everything they
can get out of a ball game. By this
we do not mean that the base ball bug
will applaud rowdyism, for, speaking
in a general sense he will not. Of
course, there is always a sprinkling
of fans who enjoy an exhibition of
fisticuffs on the ball field, but the
percentage is so small that it is
scarcely worth mentioning.
The belief expressed by Bill Dono
van was recently recounted by Joe
Tinker, the ex-manager of the Cubs.
Joe says that members of the fra
ternity and nonmembers ot the or
ganization held each other alool. He
claims that his failure to kecD the
Cubs in the pennant race was partly
due to factions on his team. And
yet Joe believes that the wide sprink
ling of members and nonmembers
throughout the two major leagues
ought to bring about greater rivalry
in the future.
Uncle Wilbert Robinson has no pa
tience with the spirit that has invaded
the game during the last few vears.
It is his belief that a majority of the
players have unknowingly reached
the point . where they never worry
how a game of ball ends so long as
they get their pay. And Robinson was
a member of the, fighting Baltimore
Orjoles of the old days, when players
didn't get "clubby" on the ball field.
They went out there to win and they
tougnt every inch ot the way.
Advice from Jones.
Tad Jones, the miracle man of
foot ball, believes that boxing and
wrestling will help his gridiron Dlav-
ers' condition themselves for the com
ing campaign in a large way.
Jones has advised his olavers.
eighty in all, to take up both sports
during the summer months. He says
that in order to be at his best the
foot ball player must keep himself
condition first of all, and in doing so
he must map out a way whereby he
can develop speed of the eye, the
brain, the arms and the legs. He
must bring all of his muscles into
play in various ways to fit himself for
delivering his best on the foot ball
field.
Banties Make Hits.
Snowy Baker, the Australian fiieht
promoter, writes that the bantam
weights are going big in 'Kangaroo
i-ana. ' .
"The banties are all the go in Aus
tralia at present," says Baker. "They
are drawing Dig nouses, and the tight
loving public has been raking more
interest in the little fellows than ever
before.
During the last few weeks a num
ber of elimination contests among
some ot the coming bantams have
been held in Sydney and Melbourne.
At each of these bouts crowds of from
5,000 to 7,000 have been turning out.
Among the bantams who are hold
ing places in the line in Australia are
Jack Jannese, the champion, and
Vines Blackburn, Harry Holmes.
Andy McGuire, Eddie Clifford, Chick
Lloyd and Albert Locke.
Clabby Declines.
Jimmy Clabby, who is numbered
among the victims of Fred Key, the
Australian sensation of the present
day, was recently ottered a big guar
antee for a return match with the
conqueror of Milburn Saylor, hut
Jimmy declined. Liabby is tar from
being through with the boxing game,
for he has many a good battle left in
his system, but the lure of the racing
game has been keeping Clabby out of
the ring, and he is said to be making
a mint of money around Australian
tracks, where he is associated with
Eddie McGoorty in running a "book."
Demaree Haa Squawk.
When you horn in on a player's
pocketbook or interfere with his
pleasures, you immediately get
huge squawk out of him. When Dave
Fultz was preparing to hurl his defi
into the teeth of organized base ball,
he commissioned "Steamer Al" Dema
ree to act as chairman of a meeting
of Fraternity members around Chi
cago. Demaree, being a director of
the Fraternity, responded nobly and
made some statements which indi
cated he was for the Fraternity first,
last and all the time.
Then Demaree was traded to the
Cubs by the Phillies and shortly after'
ward Fultz announced that the de
parture of the Cubs from Chicago was
to be the signal for the first big gun
of the players' strike. Having become
a member of the Cubs Demaree
realized that he would be expected
to stay at home if he kept his Frater
nity vows, and he promptly yelped
his disapproval of the plan.
It was just one instance of the
divergency of opinioi. among the
players who are Frat members. You
can't find unity there.
Minnesota Co-Eds Clash
In Hockey Tournamen
Cq-eds of the University of Minne
sota will Darticioate in a hockey tour
nament at the end of the season, the
first event of this character in the
history of the university. Four teams
ot girl students, one tor each class,
will be organized.
KILBANE TANGLES
WITH MITCHELL
featherweight Champion Will
Give Ten Poundi to Light
weight Opponent.
KAYO BROWN SEEKS FIGHT
By RINGSIDE.
Chicago, Feb. J.-Ineofar as knights
of the padded mitt are concerned, In
terest this week centers in the ten
round dash between Johnny Kilbane,
cock o' the walk in the featherweight
division, and Ritchie Mitchell, the sen
sational Milwaukee lightweight,
scheduled for Cleveland. Thursday.
Originally the bout was to have been
held January 30, but Mitchell injured
his hand in training and obtained a
postponement of a week.
Mitchell already holds two popular
verdicts over Kilbane, earned at Cin
cinnati and Milwaukee, niroane, m
consenting to a weight of 1.13 pounds
at 4 o clock, is giving Mitcneu aoout
ten pounds the best of it, and this
fact alone stamps him as truly as
game a boy as ever stepped out of
his class in order to fight. Johnny
has done it before and got away with
it in bouts with Joe Mandot and
Benny Leonard, but he may tind
Mitchell a much tougher proposition.
In their previous encounter at Mil
waukee Mitchell was up against an
unknown proposition, and for six
rounds he was exceedingly careful.
Johnny Dundee had bested him a few-
weeks before and lie didn t know just
how fast to travel against a man with
Kilbanejs two-fisted reputation.
Had Kilbane Bleeding
Bv the seventh round he had gained
confidence, however, and he cut loose
with his left. Kilbane was bleeding
from the nose, mouth and one eye at
the finish. The Cincinnati match vir
tually was a repetition of the first go.
Mitchell in those days was light
enough to do 130 pounds at 3 o'clock,
and in the coming fight he will have
a greater advantage.
So it bodes ill for Kilbane. speed
and two fists notwithstanding, in his
efforts to get revenge for those two
trimmings. i
Kilbane sees visions of a fifteen
round decision affair with Welsh for
the lightweight title if he can hurdle
Mitchell this time. It promises to be
one grand picnic.
Mitchell, unless he yields to the lure
of the movies, will have two more
fights of consequence within the next
few weeks. One is a twenty-round
affair with Joe Rivers at New Or
leans on February 16 and the other is
a bout with Benny Leonard in New
York. But the movies may win. 1 he
film promoters want Ritchie to do the
hero act in a couple of thrillers. But
if he accepts they insist that he do
not fight tor. three months after the
Kilbane go.
Kayo Seeks Trouble.
Now that George (Knockout)
Brown, the demon Greek, has
squashed Bob Moha again, he is look
ing lor further trouble, and he is eye-
g Billy Miske and Battling Levin-
sky. The battler trimmed Brown last
summer, and the Greek is hankering
for revenge. The same goes for
Miske, who hung it on to Brown in
a ten-round affair after Brown had
made things more than interesting
for the St. Paul battler during the
first half.
'This Brown is one of the toughest
birds I ever tackled,'' said Miske on
the eve of the Brown-Moha go at
Racine the other night. "He had me
beat for the first five rounds, then I
caught him flush on the jaw with my
right. It was on of the big disap
pointments of my life when he didn't
go down. He staggered around a lit
tle and was dazed, so that 1 evened
up things and led from then on."
Back of it all, however, lurks the
possibility that Brown will be given
a crack at Lea Darcy. Tommy Walsh
is willing to give the Australian
$7,500 if he wiH take ot) the Greek at
Racine.
That amount may look small in
comparison to all the big offers which
Darcy is reported to have received to
meet this or that man. Put at that
it is more than Darcy ever got out
of a single go in all his life before.
It is said on pretty fair and reliable
authority that Darcy's biggest colleo
tion heretofore was 25 per cent of a
$27,000 house. That would be abont
$6,750, and it was in the first fight
he had with Brown that Darcy re
ceived it. Having beaten Brown
twice back home, Darcy may consent
to take him on here at Walsh's price.
It also should be remembered that
back in the Antipodes Darey was
compelled to travel twenty rounds to
a referee's decision to get his dough.
Here he is asked. to go only half that
distance.
Still, they learn high finance in a
hurry when they hit these shares, and
perhaps Darcy has been stung with
the bug, too.
Wetih-White Again.
Havana may be the scene of the
fifth encounter between Charlie White
and Freddie Welsh. Those two birds
have met four times for a total of
fifty rounds and the lightweight
crown still rests firmly upon the
Briton s head. White, however, be
lieves that if the distance is extended
to twenty-five rounds he may be able
to seize it. That seems to be about
as much of a marathon as Welsh
cares for, although White is trying to
gee nim io consent io maaing it a
finish affair.
Welsh recently announced he would
retire on July 7, the third anniversary
of the date on which he wrested the
scepter from Willie Ritchie. In the
meantime he says he will enter one
more distance fight. That is the bout
White wants. So does Ritchie
Mitchell.
"I'll fight Mitchell to see which one
of us gets the crack at Welsh, said
White. "I already have agreed to box
twenty-five rounds in Havana. If
Welsh is the other man I'll be glad
I've told my manager, Nate Lewis,
that if he signs Welsh I'll go fifty-
titty with him on my end ol the
pnrse."
Welsh and Harry Pqllok, who
guides his destinies, have never boast
ed of the fact that Billy Roche,
Welsh's choice for referee, slipped
the champion the decision in that
twenty-rpund fiasco at Colorado
Springs and may be easier to toll
into another njgtch with White than
is apparent just now.
Will Fred Anderson Come Back?
ti N 4 v CJe 1
Will Fred Anderson come back?
The spit hall pitcher who was a sen
sation in the Federal league made an
excellent showing as member of the
Giants' staff in the early weeks of
the 1916 campaign, but he later be
came almost useless to the club be
cause the power in his good right
arm waned surprisingly. Through the
HOLLAND PURSUES
SOP HEW TALENT
St. Joseph Magnate Needs a
First Backer and a Re
liable Catcher.
WILL TRAIN AT TULSA
St Joseph, Mo Feb. 3.-Though he
still has quite a ways to go before
he has a squad of players assembled,
Jack Holland is busily engaged in
making plans for the spring training
trip which his athletes will take, They
ill leave here Marh Ol tor luisa.
and will remain in the Oklahoma
town for about three weeks. The
Tulsa team of the Western associa
tion trains at home, so Jhat the Drum
mers will get the cbance to play sev
eral exhibition games with that club.
Returning here April 5, the Drum-,
mers will line up against the Chicago
Cubs. Then, on tlie tonowing uay.
they will play the Chicago White box
first team, and on April 7 and a they
will clash with the second team o
the White Sox. With the latter will
probably be a St. Joseph favorite,
Ted Jourdan, of last years Drum
mers. Before these teams have left
St. Joseph Holland expects that they
will leave behind them several classy
ball players to fill the holes in his
club. . , ,.
Holland nas learned mat a to
ledo and Indianapolis want the White
Sox to let them have Jourdan, but
that will make little difference should
the Sox decide to let him go, for Hol
land has first claim upon his services.
Of course, Holland would not stand
in the way of Ted s advancement n
he received a good offer from one of
the association clubs.
White Bo Promise ptihstUute,
If Jourdan Joes not return, HoBaud
will get nrsi enure" ui
first basemen recruits who are to be
with the White So. There need be
no fear, according to Holland, re
garding that position, for it will be
well taken care of, whether or not
Jourdan is again with the team.
Holland has his outfield complete,
and hi pitching staff is virtually
filled. He wants one more catcher
to aid Bud Fusner, and tnree innciu
ers. If Fautsch comes that will take
care of the shortfield, but Holland
now has only McClelland for a cer
tainty in the infield. McCabe will be
sent back to the outfield, as it was
there that ne qm nn ui
Uoii.nrf has made an effort to se
cure Pick Gossett, who wore a Drum
mer uniform several years ago, from
Indianapolis, to Po oui w .
.innnino Henartment. but Jack Hen
dricks regards Gossett as too valua
ble a man for the Indians to let him
go. Johnny White, who had a trial
two years ago, may uc ww m
He was a youth of but 17 years when
h had his trial. Sine then he has
been playing independent ball and re
ports axe that he has improved won
derfully and become a veritable Rv
Schalk behind the bat.
Contracts have been sent to the tol
Li,r mrmhen of the 1916 team:
John Williams, Rudy Sommers, lid
ward Hovlik, Charles Rorer, and
Claude Graham, pitchers; B, J. Fus-
ner, catcher; Glenn Helmar, William
McCabe, Kenzie Kirkham and Rasty
Wright, outfielders, and Harvey Mc
Clelland, infielder.
- These Draw Their Release.
Releases were sent to Roy Patter
r, otto William and Biddy Beers.
Denny Sullivan, who managed the
team a part of last season and then
acted as field captain, will be given
his release at his own request, Sul
livan expects to land the managerial
job at Fargo-Moorbead in the North
ern league, Otto William is expected
to land a job as manager 01 some
Class B league tram. Beers expects
to return to the Central league, while
Roy Patterson is through with base
Holland intends to send Claude
Graham to Beaumont, where he will
be under the tutelage of Clayton
Perry, who is now manager of that
team, and who played third base for
the Drummers a part of last season.
Perry regards Graham as a coming
pitcher. Holland will retain a string
upon him. Graham is the man who
was compelled to return to the serv
ice of the United States army after
he had shown signs of being one of
the best twirlers on the staff.
last months of the season Anderson
started but seldom, and was batted
freely every time he Btepped into
the box. Considering the hue start
he not in t ie National league, An
derson's sudden form reversal came
as a distinct surprise, particularly as
his slump lasted right up to the close
ot the season.
OLD GUARD WILL
HOLD FLOOR SWAY
Same Old Teami Expected to
Be Leaders in Basket Ball
Tourney Again.
EARLY DOPE PROVES BAD
By KARL LEE.
With the exception of perhaps three
teams, the state tournament this year
will be confined to the usual leaders.
Mid-season dope brings the assurance
that those bigger-town squads that
were thought to be slipping earlier in
the year will be up and about again
with the old-time characteristic speed
Crete and University Place are two
examples.
The fight for berths in the first di
vision of the tourney is the paramount
objective. Contests between teams of
different sections of the state are
bringing to light the keenness of the
rivalry between the teams. Geneva
and Sutton hold best claims to titular
honors in the middle south, while
Friend and Crete are close seconds,
with a good chance of developing a
winning style ot play.
Central High, Lincoln and Fremont
are leading the eastern section, with
Schulyer, North Bend and South High
strong challengers. In the far north
Norfolk holds the banner, with the
Indian five at Genoa a close second-
University Place is the dark horse
in Lancaster county and is credited
with having a better squad than the
Caoital Cltv. In the central west
Kearney, Ord, Newman Grove and
Gothenburg hold sway.
Battle of Champa,
The chamoionship battle, it is clear
at the present moment, will t a con
teat of chamnions of the various sec
turns ot tne state, nonaix is ieucr
. !lt- !- 1 I
in the porth, Crete in the south, Sut
ton in the west and Central High,
Fremont and University Place in the
central east. Developing from this
inner circle, the strongest fives te date
are: South High, Geneva, Newman
Grove, Columbus, friend, Lincoln
Kearnev. Schuyler and Ord. Hum
boldt has climbed to popularity with a
long list ot victories ana win pron-
ably be listed among first division
teams at the tonrney.
Omaha basket ball circles saw
oreat battle in the game between Cen
tral and South High Saturday night
For sixteen years the one big local
basket ball event in Omaha has been
a battle for the city floor champion
ship.
In the state several other competi
tions of like nature, and probably as
keen as regards the particular com
munity played in, are being played
off. Ord. for the first time in fifteen
years, defeated its bitter rival, Len
tral City; Crete overwhelmed Beat
rir which has for years held snprem
acy; Geneva, in turn has defeated its
rival, Crete; Arlington nas conqucrcu
Fremont in no mean terms, while
University Place is still to meet the
doughty Lincoln five.
Chicago Cubs to Play
Soldier Team in Texas
Captain Franklin R. Kenney of th
United States army, in charge of th
rrriiitinir office ill Chicago, has noti
fied the management of the Chicago
Nationals that he is making arrange
ments to have a team made up of
United States soldiers, stationed
El Paso, to play the Cubs on their
return trip trom rasaoena, ia.
Ba&kd Ball Games this Week
ti KHPAy xinirr,
riml HUiHtW vs. kseh
ant at v. . u. .
Omaha Natloaala n. Towaaaad 8m-
on.ln at V. M. O. A.
WbMkr Manotala vs. Daitaa frm
hwtrbuM at Hooth Hid.
Oreo M. K. n, Ht, tWi Imlimmu
THUH&DA.V msirr.
H. . Ti. Wmt HU
at 1.
U l A.
Jn Hmllhn vi. Omaha Blfk
rnii uiufrit.
Triailr Havtlta i. loflw Hanurlala
at Mouth Mlri.
flr.l tlhrinliaiu Wnt fUda t!aa-
sreiatloDaUntii Nth N"
HATIIHIIAV NIOI1T.
St. Marr-t Chrtatlaa vs. Vint Matka-
dltJi at V. M. v. A.
umu vi. B. I. T. a I. at C. A.
Trie Hypodermic Needle
By FRED S.
AFTER MAY 1.
The golfer gayly teed his ball,
And took his club in hand.
And set himself to smote the pill
Into another land.
He cracked the ball a mile or two.
His drive could not be beat;
nd his approach shot was a beaut.
He holed a DUtt ten feet.
He sailed around the course on high.
And made a record new,
ut this is what he sadly sang,
When he was done and through-
The old game am t the same no
more,
It ain't the same old game,
I make a record-breaking score.
And make old bogey cry for more,
But still it ain t the same.
We use the same old tools, the pills,
We use the same old lawn,
But we can't blow and brag and trade
Lies about the scores we made.
The nineteenth hole is gone.
And the Doctors.
We read where new racing
automobiles which will make 1.75
miles an hour have been built,
which should be gleeful tidings to
the undertakers.
Base hall has much to worry
il. First Dave Fultz calls a strike
and then Fred Snodgrass threat
ens to quit.
Yes It Is.
Ty Cobb's contract has another
year to run, which should he good
news not only to D. Kulti, but
to the American league pitchers.
By Staying on This Side.
Les Darcy has had hit photo
taken showing how he would re
sist an armed holdup. But how,
we inquire, would he resist a
couple of German regiments?
Willie Hoppe says hell play
any contestant for the title pro
viding he is guaranteed $5,000.
Thus does the spirit of J. Wil
lard permeate within the field of
billiards.
Ski jumping is a great Norwe
gian sport. Barney Heilly is one
of its leading exponents.
Indiana will only play three
western conference elevens in
1917. After looking over J.
Stiehm's record last year one
is tempted to venture three is
FRED CLARKE IS
WORTH MILLION
Former Manager of Pirates
Gains Fortune in Recent
Oil Strikes.
REWARD FOR INTEGRITY
rrcu iiafac, iuiiuci Min..
the Pittsburghs, is worth fl,000,000.
This was the statement made by Pres
ident Dreyfuss the other day. This
was the first insinuation that F. Clif
ford had reached the highest mark
in financial circles ever achieved by
a former ball spieler. Last summer
Cap was put down with a rating of
close onto $250,000, but the 'golden
now coming in lau uiourciiLo naa en
riched him beyond the wildcat antici
pations. Gutii' Mot a Pit ot it. neres
an example that can be cited in sup
port of the case, fredqy was a neia
man for three months last spring,
that ishe went the rounds of ranch
owners' in his near neighborhood and
took up leases for pii and gas.
Integrity is Rewarded.
Cap was a free lance, but was act-
inir under tne direction oi a aeveiop-
ing company, though bound only by
word ot moutn. uame securca op
linna in his own name. When ac
cumulated these same reserves sud
denly increased in value over night,
due to an oil strike adjacent. Clarke
could have turned the leases over to
a certain coterie of oil men and se
cured a profit of 90,000, but lie was
loyal to his sponsors. He spurned
transfer to any company other than
the one which had urged m activity
to land the agreements. This cor
poration was led by Joe Trees, an oil
baron, once famous as a tackle on a
steel city gridiron gang. Trees had
promised to drill on Clarke's own
soil. This was done, and, instead of
the usual one-eighth royalty given the
land owner m oil sharing, f. uittord,
for his honorable conduct, was al
lowed in at a quarter split. J he steel
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Good Fabric
Correct Style
Low Price
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IS
HUNTER.
Hilly Miske is the greatest hit
of the season in New York. But
Hilly is said to be a regular fight
er and may be able to live it
tiown.
Charlie Comiskey has signed
up twenty-three White Sox.
Commy seems to have over
looked the fact that Dave Fultz
haa called a strike,
A Sioux City scribe says Earl
Caddnck can throw Joe Stecher.
Well, we have heard it said that
some place somebody can be
imind who has a different opinion.
Scotty Monleith, Dundee's man
ager, says Johnny Dundee is still
laughing over the knockout Wil
lie Jackson, a pork-and-beaner,
slipped Johnny ill the first round
the other night. Which would
prove that Johnny has a keen
sense of humor and can take a
joke.
We hear the Omaha Athletic
rluh will start building May 1.
But what use, pray is an athletic
club after May 1?
1 Otto Floto says Denver and
Omaha are the only real cities
in the Western league, for which
we doff our hat to Otto, take
back all the mean things we may
have said about him and label
him as one wise gazelle.
CASET REVISED AGAIN,
The score was 4 to 2.
Mudville was gradually Retting the
daylight knocked out of it.
I WSI IIIC nuiiu uuuiia, uw "
were out
The Mudville fans were very
gloom eo gloomy one might have
thought they all lived in Cincinnati.
But suddenly three men got on
base.
And then the mighty Casey, wno
could hit .300 against Walter Johnson
and Grover Alexander, came to bat.
The Mudville tana promptly cnasca
the glooms out of the park and
brought on the joys. They thought
it was pretty soft. Casey would do
nothing lees than knock the ball into
the next county.
Two strikes were called on Casey,
but the fans didn't give this a thought.
They were confident Casey would de
liver the package.
But suddenly all was changed, The
whistle blew.
And Caaev. being, a good union ball
player, dropped his bat and walked
I off the field.
bit - pierced oil-bearing strata on
Clarke's l.itle Pirate ranch, mother
earth then gave up its hoard, of ages,
and Clarke had the delight of seeing
a dream of years fulfilled to the very
hrcdenck Clifford Uarke, late steers--man
of the Pittsburgh base ball bund,
has become a millionaire? Fanners ,
award F. C. C. the front seat among
ex-base ball tossers who become cap
italists; putting Comiskey second,
Hanlon third.
uuu mcuijco nun viaici ,
Not for St. Louis Cards
Robert Lee Hedges, far many years
president of the St. Louis Americans,
before departing for Honolulu re
cently, announced that he had with-
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Miawu n9 uifi io wuy me ai. Mwia
nationals.
Despite the fact that manv nvtirli-
cates have been formed to buy th
wanonais since ocnuyier Br it ton re
signed as president, fledges was the
only person to name a definite figure.
This was declined by Mrs. Brittoq,
president of the club. -
Do You Remember Kraft?
He's Back in Class B Now
The Wilkesharre r.lnh nf th. N
York State league has nnrrhaanl ti,.
contract of First Baseman Clarence
-raii irom tne Milwaukee associa
tion club. Kraft was with Iuttvilla
at the start of last season, but wag
traded to Milwaukee,
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STORE)
NOW OPEN
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pleasura in announcing to their
friends and customers, the open
ing pf
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In connection with Megeath
Stationery Co.,
1421 FARNAM STREET
In this new handy location we
carry a full and complete line of
all kinds of supplies for sportsmen
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In accordance with our past
policies we shall handle the very
finest and classiest athletic goods
AT REASONABLE PRICES.
We cordially Invite yon to come
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1421 Farnam St. 1408 Harnay St.