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2 S THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: MARCH 4. 1917. A. B. C. PIN EVENT WILL START TODAY Seven Hundred and fourteen Teams Seek Prize Money at Grand Bapids Tourney. POLITICAL POT IS BOILING Grand Rapids, Mich., March 3. Eighty leading business men of Grand Rapids faced new pins on brand new alleys in the Coliseum building in this city shortly after 8 o'clock tonight, their appearance marking the opening of the seven teenth annual tournament of the American Bowling congress. Brief speeches by George Curry, president of the Grand Kapids Bowling Asso ciation Tournament company, and by officials of the national body were made and then the business men were allowed to atta:k the ten-pin army. Conditions for a successful bowling meet were never brighter, according to the men in charge of the affair. While the tournament is second in size to those which have gone before, the difference is only 3 per cent in the prize money, a fractional falling off that will not be noticed by those who get slices of the melon that it to be cut a month hence. . A count of the entries for this tournament shows that there are 714 fives, 1,534 double and 3,099 tingles. The losses from the previous high water marks are heaviest in the five man combinations, where there are forty-two fewer clubt represented. There are thirty-two fewer doubles and seventy-nine fewef tingles, but the total loss in prize money it only $1,176. To compensate for the lost in sue the meet showt the greatest number i cities represented in the history of the competition for the national titlet. There are forty more visiting teamt than rolled at Toledo's 1916 meet and nearly every one of the traveling combinations it figured at a possible bidder for the title and capital prize. The eighty home clubt that are miss- "ing are usually figured at compli mentary entries. The four champions, whose crowns are about to topple, if the usual cus tom of congress tournament it fol lowed are Commodore Barryt of Chi cago, who upset all American Bowling congress form by repeating their vic tory of 1915 with team tcore of 2,905 at Toledo; Henry Marino and Sykea Thomas of Chicago, who won the doubles with 1,279; Sam Schliman of Toronto, who won the singles fhnmninnshin aftfr tviflff at 685 in the regular competition with Frank Shaw of Chicago and Ben Huesman of Cin cinnati and Sykes Thomas, who added to his doubles laurels by taking the all-events honors with a total of 1,919. i Records Are Large. Records set tine the American Bowling congress started Itt tourna ments tixteen yeart ago are at fol lows: t Eive-man teamt: Flor de Knitpels, St. 1'aul. 3,006, made at Toledo in 1913. HntiMeaf At anil Tonv Schwoeoreler. juauison, vv is,, 4,wt, inauc i ma burgh in 1909. Singles: Wallace H. Pierce of Pueb lo, Colo., 711, made at Peoria in 1915. All-events: Ed Herrmann of Cin cinnati, 1,972, made at Toledo in 1913. The political pot of the congress will boil next week with' the main fight centered on the choice of the next tournament city. The two moat prominent candidates thut far are Peoria and Cincinnati. Peoria held a tournament in 1915 that proved suc cessful in every way t( while it is ten years! since Cincinnati entertained the bowlert. i 1 Buffalo is a third party o the eon test, and John Smith, vice president of the congress, hat lined up all of the eastern delegates for that city. Pittsburgh and weatern Mew York! show considerable strength this year in voting power. CREIGHTON TURNS TRICMN IOWANS Blue and White Flippers Win From Drake Quintet by' 41 to 22 Count. LUTES IS THE BIO FACTOB The Creighton basket flippers kept up their string of victories at the ex pense of the Drake university team at the Creighton gym. last night by the score of 41 to 22. The big con ference team seemed unable to hit their stride, and after the first five minutes of play the "outcome was never in doubt. During this period Drake took the lead for the first and. only time of the contest. Lutes and Kearney opened the game with a field goal each, and Haw ley, the speedy Drake forward, tied up the count with two more. Lutes put Creighton back in the lead with a free throw, but Drake came back and took the lead on a beautiful shot by Eddy from the center of the floor, l'latz annexed a field goal and from then on the Blue and White squad were never headed. The game was void of thrills and was not as interesting to the follow ers of the game at the contest of the night before. The fans expected a closer contest and were somewhat disappointed at the. showing of the Drake quintet. The Creighton team did not play up to the standard set by them in previous games, and it is difficult to see how the squad they trounced last night could have handed them a 38-to-27 defeat only a few weeks ago. The Mills aggregation were going at top speed until they found themselves far in the lead, and from then on played an indifferent game. After the regulars had an nexed a comfortable margin the Blue and White second team were sent into the fray. Lutes, the big guard, playing a classy floor game and caging six field goals, was the big factor in the un doing of the Iowans, although Kear ney was close behind him with five field goals, Hawley easily carries off the Drake- honors iwith hit five field goals and his clever floor game. The game last night wound up Creighton'! schedule for the week, with victories over Wesleyan, Uran deis and Drake. Next week will see Wesleyan and Brandeis on the Creighton floor on Wednesday and Saturday, and there is a possibility that the Trinity team, who recently defeated Dubuque, will be here on Thursday. Lineup: Genh- o DRAKE. CREIOHTON. Wagner and Carey Fail to Sign Contracts Bddjr R.F. H.wl.r L.F. Smith C. ar(i R.O. Warnook (C). R.F Kurnir L..T flats U Splttler (C.) R.O. ., Lutaa .. Farrlau L.U.UO.... Bubatltutea: Creighton, Halay, Mulhulland, Vandevar, N. Kaarnay; Drake, Kelner. Field foaiat Mir. Smith (I), Hawleyv(i), Pr rlah, Spinier, Plata (I), Halay (I), c. Keer. uay t, Lulol (. Foul goale: Hawley (), Lutaa. Mulbulland, Halay. Keferae: Kearnea. Timekeeper Moakuwlta. Huorer: Welael. Time of halveat SO mlnutea; 10 minutes Intermlaalon. Six Saunders Towns - Form Base Ball League Fremont, Neb., March 3. -(Special.)- A base ball league including six towns' in Saunders county has been organized, including Wahbo, Cereaco, Yutan, Cedar Bluffs, Morse Bluff and Memphis. It is planned to play games on Sundays during the months of May, June, July and Au gust H. K. Davis of Wahoo was named president; O. O. Laudenburg- er, Morse Bluff, vice president: Lee Williams, Cedar Bluffs, secretary- treasurer. A meeting will be held on March U at Wahoo, when the sched ule for the season will be outlined. Superior wins iame. Superior, Neb., March S. (Special Tele gram.) Superior and Davenport High euhoola played a hard fought game of baeket ball laat night. Buperlor winning. 14 to la. Jkf- ' v. , . . V 1 I , ifa? , . ...iyi , . I HAKS WAGKER Pittsburgh, March 3.-Five mem bers of the Pittsburgh National league base ball club have failed so far to sign their 1917 contracts, ac cording to an announcement made by President Barney Dreyfuss. Among them are Honus Wagner, the veteran shortstop, and Max Carey, star outfielder Wagner seldom returns his contract until several days before the players depart on CAREY,, the spring training trip, so President Dreyfuss does not view his delay with concern. No player will be taken south who does not send in his contract before March 10, when the advance squad is scheduled to leave, club officials announced to day. The other players who have failed to sign contracts are Douglas Baird, third baseman, and William Fischer and Walter Schmidt, both catchers. STAGE IS ALL SET FOR CAGE TOURNEY (Continued from Flrat Page.) Fremont; O. B. Anderson, Lincoln; James 1!. Noble, Grand Island; J. W. Skeen, Chadron, and R. H. Webster, Seward, and tlie following university athletes: Harvey Nelson, Ralph Thiesen, Tlico. Riddell, Henry Camp bell, Hugo Flynn, Paul Flotow, Grove Porter, M. O. Selzcr, John Cook, Har old Corey, Ed. Hugg, Cable Jackson, Art Hiltner, Walter Campbell, John Pickett, Alfred bchun.acher, H. Werta. Ivan Mitchell, Harold Gerhart and David Ford. I In Charge of Ticket Sales and En trance Carl Ganz. In Charge of Banquet Fenner King, Lincoln Young Men't Christian association. Divide Receipts. The tame arrangements as last year will prevail for all of the earlier rounds of the tournament. All games will be played at the university, ar mory and chapel and the l-ity Young Mens Christian association lloor. The finals will be staged in the city auditorium, which will accommodate a crowd of 2,500 people. After all ex penses have been met, the receipts of the tournament will be divided among teams, according to traveling distance, and Reed believes a sufficient sum will be raised to meet most of them. Silver loving cups will be awarded the champion teams in each division. The Armstrong Clothing company of Lincoln, which always purchases a magnificent cup, will furnish the Class A cup. Chicago sporting goods firms will furnish those for Classes B and C, and Reed is informed they are ex ceptionally handsome. In addition the university gives gold basket balls, suitably engraved, to the members of each championship five, and banners to the runners-up in each division. There is also a dizzy round of en tertainment awaiting the high school athletes on their invasion of Lincoln next week. The bars have been thrown down so the fraternities may have high school visitors to the chapter houses. Special dinners and dancing parties will be given in honor ot the visitors by the Greek letter societies. The big banquet comes Friday night at the Commercial club, with a num ber of well-known university men as speakers. wiu see riusKert. The high school boys are also go ing to have an opportunity to see the Huskcr athletes in action. The annual wrestling tournament between the Aggies and Huskers comes Saturday afternoon at the university gymna sium. Iowa fell victim to both Ne braska and Ames, but the Aggie squad is the more experienced. In addition Nebraska and Ames will play two basket ball games one Fri day night and the other Saturday night The Huskers fell before the Farmers on their own floor and have a score to even here. Playing starts promptly Wednes day afternoon and an effort will be made to reach the semi-finals late Friday evening or early Saturday. University athletics have been forced into the background by the demands of the high school tourna ment upon the time of the Husker authorities. Spring track work is proceeding under favorable weather conditions, but Base Dan nas lagged. With the tournament out of the way, Coaches Stewart and Reed plan to inaugurate a busy season of work. The basket ball men will be called together and arrangements completed for the squad s practice, spring foot ball work will also occupy the at tention of Dr. Stewart, who antici pates he will have the largest squad in recent years. Stewart wants to keep his foot ball men training un til the weather becomes oo torrid and he will introduce a special course of training, which will lighten the work next ."all. SANDOW TELLS WHY LEWISDIDli'T WIN (Continued front Flrat Faga.) limit the crowd had set angered the sports and they were threatening all sorts of things. Under Jhose cir cumstances Strangler and I didn't push matters. We were content to let them go along as they were. It was a gruelling match and took much out of both men, but I honestly think Lewis could have thrown his man if ho had dared. We left the grounds,' a race track, in an auto after eight policemen had drawn their revolvers to protect us. There was a shower of bottles and stones. The match was declared a draw and the referee in sisted that we be given our share of the gate. It took us three days to get it which is a matter of history, but we finally got it. War Talk from a Distance. '"I think that Stecher hasn't been the same wrestler since that time. He hasn't beaten any good man and he refuses to listen to talk of another match with Lewis. I deposited $1,000 with a Chicago sporting writer to bind a match with Stecher or Olin, who threw Stecher off the mat recently, or Zbyszko. Lewis offers 'o throw any two of these men in one night, with no time limit, but so far noi.e of the wrestlers challenged has come through with an acceptance, though our money Is up.'" That wild western town. Wow. While the coyotes howled a dismal farewell, we presume, Deadwood Dick Stecher, when he came down from Dodge to joust with the gentlemanly and refined Mr. Lewis, donned the sheepskin chaps, his blue flannel shirt with red bandana, the nickel-plated spurs, the high Kansas City boots and the old sombrero and bridled up the bucking bronc and galloped into town waving the old sombrero, shout ing like a Comanche Indian and shooting out all the lights with a couple of hair-trigger iix-shooters. "Ten to one that he wouldn't last two hours." Whoops. Only Ten to One. After cleaning out the old faro bank run by One-Eyed Pete, we sup pose those wild and woolly western ers carried their sacks of dust right out to the ringside and some of them even stripped their precious saddles of the silver to put up some more at such reasonable odds as ten to one. "The word came to me that the crowd would kill Lewis and me both." Soft music. "After eight policemen had drawn their revolvers." Mob scene. "Stecher has not beaten any good man." Oh, no, nobody but Ailolph Ernst and Charley Peters, both a couple of dubs, especially Peters, that's why Lewis didn't want any of his game when a match was offered him here. Oh, this is a wild town, this Omaha. Red liquor runs down the car tracks, red blood down the gutter; there's a prairie dog village at Sixteenth and Farnam and w go to sleep to the music of the coyote's howl and the crack of the six-gun. Travelers not escorted by an armed guard are warned to avoid Omaha. Mr. Lewis is especially advised to avoid Omaha; we've got a chap out here now, Ples tina by name, who we'd risk een money, if not ten to one, woul : tie Mr. Lewis into knots so fast that Sandow would never be able to un tangle the snarl. LIGHT WORKOUTS FOR HARNESS NAGS (Continued from Flrat Fnge.) The Great Western circuit meeting in August should find it at its best. The famous string owned by Ed ward Peterson, president of the driv ing club and Grand and Great West ern circuits reknown, was taken to Indianapolis las week in charge of Marvin Cliilds. Ben Earl, Grand cir cuit pacing champion and futurity star, and the following harness stars will be trained at the Indianapolis plant for the season's meetings on "big time;" Baxter Lou, Rambling Jim, Mary Worthy, Ak-Sar-Ben and a 3-year-old filly by Directum Spear. All of whom were in excellent con dition when they left, Ben Earl par ticularly so. Tom De:inison -is in receipt of ad vices from New York that the horse men of the east are saying compli mentary things about Al Thomas, known throughout the country as the "king of colt men." Mr. Thomas, whose home is in Omaha, broke and trained fifty colts for the Walnut Hall stock farm of Lexington, Ky., which brought all the way from $50 to $3, 200 each at the recent five day's sale at Madison Square Gardtn. The Wal nut Hall farm is owned jy L. V. Har kins, a famous horseman of the east and south. Some of the sales reported to Mr. Dennison which would be of interest to horsemen in this part of the coun try were: Richard Bennett, a yearling by San Fran clano, eold for 18,200 to William Connor of rilaburali. Slater But, another yearling colt of Ban Franclico, Hold to Walter R. Cox of Orand circuit fame for ft, 300. Edward P., by The Northern Man, eold for J1.S7S. Tha trlitger, a bay colt by Walnut Hall, aold for 11.500 to Mr. Cox. Blanche Frisco, a l.year-old filly by San Francleco, Bold for tl.400 to Mr. Cox. Some of the older horaes sold were: Earl, Jr., a 12.year-old gray etalllon, half brother of Ben Earl, aold for 11,126. Billy Dale, S:fl:lli, raced laat year by Mr. Cox, sold for 8S0. Worthy Prlne, 2:00. a S-year-old bay stallion, sold for 1810. Axworthy, an g-year-otd bay atallton. sold for 11,300. Bond Issue, a 10-year-old stallion by The Bondsman, sold for 11.100. General Todd. 2:04, a 6-year-old, second to Ben Earl at the Columbus Orand circuit meeting last senson, sold for S3, 500. Pay Richmond, 2:01 H, a pacing gelding sold to a KanHas horseman, who will start her In the free-for-alla this year, brought 11.526. Peecadero, a 2-year-old by 8an Franclsoo, sold for (1,300. Irish Voter, by John A. McKern, sold for I1.T75. Big Olrl, t:!tM. a 4-year-old by The Northern, aold for SI, 000. Major Woolworth, a S-year-old by The Abbey, sold for S1.600. R. H. Brett. 2:034, a 7-year-old Grand circuit tar, sold for SI, 300. The average for the colts handled by Thomas, which were sold during the first day's sale, was $445. Ward May Not Race. Fred Ward, manager of the famous Hemet stock farm in California, who had Great Northern, Harry R. and other fast horses in this part of the country last year, has announced that he will race on the Great Western cir cuit if he appears at all this year. The horses in the Hemet establishment are being sold and the farm itself will be disposed of if posible. This is the wish of the heirs of the late million aire owner of the plant. Fred Douglas, who brought out Tom Smith, a 2:l trotter of consid erable fame, has arived in Omaha with a string. He will train his horses at the Benson track. CHAMBERS WINS BILLIARD TITLE Gathers in Honors After Clos est Sort of Brush With Symes. CAHN IN THIRD PLACE W. N. Chambers gathered in the state championship title and silver trophy at 18.2 balk line billiards, at the Symes parlors Friday by the narrow margin of seven points in 1,000, defeating Harry Symes, 250 to 215 for the final block of the state tourney in which Albert Cahn was a third contestant, final score for Chambers being 1,000 to 993 for Symes. Final standings of the tourney: W. N. Chambers. 1.000 to Byrnes B93, and 1,000 to Cahn's 867. Total points. 2,000; grand average 6.25, high runs 60, 47, 27. Harry Symes, 1,000 to Cahn's S7i. 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