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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.
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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. Total
points, 1,903, grand average IM, high runs,
, 40, 37.
Albert Cahn, total polnta 1,746, grand
average 4.66 high runs 43, St, S3.
Give your Want Ad a chance to
make good, Run it in The Bee.
John Olio
The Man With a
Decision Over
Joe Stecher
Meets
John Friburg
Chicago Heavyweight
Thursday
March 8th
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