THE OMAHA, SUNDAY BEE: MARCH 4, 1017.
Judgments
NE of the most significant
U things about base ball this
year i the tendency of the
minor leagues to pass veteran
rules and issue the call to
youth. The Western league now has
a law which compels each team in the
league to carry among its htteen play.
ers six who have never played in
Class A or better. Many other leagues
nave tollowei this suit. The Na.
tional commission has fought these
rulings on the grounds that they are
discriminating legislation, but the
movement persists. The commission
is right after a fashion, for these
new rulings do discriminate against
the veteran. But the laws are also
protective. Minor leagues all over
the country have found it imperative
to reduce salary limits as far as pos
sible. It is the veteran who draws
larger remuneration for his services
and keeps these salary limits up. Thus
the veteran rule is a part of a re
trenchment policy, in addition the
minor leagues have reached the point
where to exist they must make sales
to the big league clubs and to do this
' they must develop the young players.
So while the veteran rule, it must be
admitted, does discriminate against
the older player, it is a protective
measure which must be followed out
if base ball is to continue as ihe na
tional pastime.
The inevitable has happei.ed to Mr.
Lester Darcy. The governor of New
York has so ordered that Mr. Darcy
shall not pluck any of the soft money
the Broadway suckere stani'. ready to
pass out in abundant quantities. The
governor apparently has gone into the
guardian angel business and his first
act was to build a fence around Darcy.
The Australian has made pretty much
of a mess of things since he landed
on this shore. He was giveojt brass
band ovation when he arrived and
he promptly started to capitalize it.
But he went too far, got himself in
bad with scribes and public alike and
it looks like the trenches will be his
only place of refuge before long, be
cause it would not be surpiising if
Wisconsin annd the other states
should follow New York's example
and put up the bars. Other boxers,
their managers and promoters might
do well to take heed of the New York
governor's action in this case and be
forewarned or some more of our
pugilistic persons are likely to have
to go back to the old job of piloting a
truck.
Base ball players may never again
receive the enormous salaries of the
last three years, but the diamond
athlete of the future will have no
just cause to harbor grievances over
the small stipend he receives. Major
league salaries are still pretty liberal.
Any number of player will receive
' $3,U00, $4,000 and even $5,000 a year,
while great stars will surpass these
amounts considerably. And $3,000 is
a tolerable good salary, a lot of
learned university professors earn
less, and how many young fellows,
between 21 and 28 years of age say,
get that sum for a full year's toil at
eight or ine hours a day instead of
six months at two or three hours a
day? Base ball in the future may not
be the gold mine it has been the last
- three years, but it will continue to
afford a pretty good livelihood for a
lot of our bright young men.
Is Joe Stecher the only wrestler in
the world now? One might believe so
judging from the way Nebraskans
turn out to see the Dodge lad in
action and turn up their noses when
some other bonecrusher is display
ing his prowess. Last week Jack
Taylor and Charlie Cutler wrestled
in Lincoln. The business was less
than $700. If Stecher had taken part
in the program the attendance prob
ably wuuld have been ten times as
much. And yet when wrestling fans
go to see Stecher they are confident
it is only a question of how long
it will take Joe to win and they ex
pect to see a one-sided match while
if Stecher isn't taking part there is
generally some doubt as to who will
win. The wrestling fan is a queer
bird and it's a wise man who under
stands him thoroughly.
Another remedial base ball plan
has been given the light of publicity.
It is a scheme whereby the club own
er who risks his money be first given
a profit of 10 per cent on an appraised
investment, expenses paid and a cut
of the remaining coin be made be
tween the players in proportion to
the effectiveness of services rendered.
It's a nice scheme, it probably could
be made to work out,-but the players
remuneration, but the players re
muneration would be uncertain. It
the club diun't make money neither
would he, and we haven't heard of
any of the suffering athletes who com
plain of the tmallness of the pay,
clamoring for the introduction of this
system.
Now comes forth a new bugbear
t., give the poor, worried magnates
some more sleepless nights. Just be
fore he signed a Philly contract Gro
ver Alexander was offered $1,000 a
week by a circus man. First it was the
Federal league, then the players fra
ternity. Now it will be, "Come across
or I'll sign up with Pinkum & Ptink
man's Great Consolidated." It'a a
gay life.
There's always a way to get around
a rule or a law. The American league
has found another way to escape the
pla. er limit by one man, President
Johnson having ruled a manager may
wear a uniform and coach without
being counted as a player. This
should be joyful news to John Mc
Graw, who is in the other league,
where this hasn't been discovered yeL
Jess Willard, it Is said, is about
to branch out as a bona fide promoter
of boxing contests and information
has been eased to the daily press that
he has offered $30,000 for a Darcy
Gibbons go. Evidently Jess is look
, ing for a still easier way to gather
in the coin than by galloph g around
the- arena unde; a circus tent.
Can you imagine the brand of howl
that would lustily emit from the
throats of those athletes who received
$2,000 and $3,000 cuts if those said
cuts had come a couple of years ago?
Wow.
As we submerge to press the where
abouts of James Archer are still un
known,, ,
.Who's the athlete holding out on
W. Rourke? Tbree guesses.
Denver Pin
Two former Omaha maple crash
ers are members of the "American
Greeter's" bowling team from Denver,
which arrived at the Fontenelle hotel
last night, to play two match games
in Omaha today and Monday on the
Omaha alleys before going to Grand
Rapids to compete in the American
Bowling congress.
CONTRACTS GO ODT
TO AMATEURS SOON
Board of Directors of Sandlot
Association Decides March
14 as the Day.
MANY LEAGUES TO MEET
By FRANK QUIGtEY.
Last week when the heads of the
Omaha Amateur Base Ball associa
tion congregated, it was unanimously
agreed to give out contracts to the
various teams, March 14. Some of
the leagues are already organized and
are now waiting for the contracts, but
it was deemed advisable by the board
not to issue the contracts until
organization in all the leagues was
near completion. An organization
committee of three, namely, William
Blozies, Bernard liegeman and the
writer was appointed by the presi
dent. It is a mortal cinch that the sec
tional championship series of the Na
tional Amateur Base Ball association
will be jerked off without a hitch this
year because an easterner who is the
owner of more than a million of Uncle
Sam's silver boys has personally
guaranteed the expenses of all the
contesting teams. His name is Coff-
man and he is heavny interested in a
laige merchandise house located in
Pittsburgh. Of course the champion
ship contests will have to be held at
Pittsburgh.
At the meeting of the Greater
Omaha league two committees were
appointed by President Isaacson, one
to revise the constitution, and the
other to investigate applicants desir
ing a franchise in Omaha s chief
leaeue. The matter of the eligibility
of Harry Williams, professional,
player of note, was brought up for
discussion.
If the expectation . of Charles
(Butch) Fries do not take a trip to
dreamland, the visions of loveliness
with base ball aspirations scattered
throughout Omaha will organize sev
eral teams and form a Saturday
league.
Next Wednesday, the American
league will hold another meeting and
endeavor to fill the gaps left open by
the departure of a couple of squads
that have abandoned the field. This
league 'could use two more teams, so
any managei desiring a franchise is
urgently requested to attend this
meeting. The following teams are
now associated with the American
league1 Townsends, O. B. Indians,
Chris Lycks, National Cash Registers,
J. D. Crews and Onuha Printing Co.
The following teams compose the
Metropoliton league: Modern Wood
men, Stags, Woodmen of the World,
Grann Exchange, Western Union and
Fretag's Pharmacy. Walter Nelsen
was re-elected president of this league
and Victor Lund was elected secre
tary. Inter-City is Short.
Next Tuesday, the magnates of the
Inter-City league will elect officers.
They need a pair of squads. These
Western League Base Ball Playing Schedule
AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT
DENVER. WICHITA. JOPLIM. UT. JOSEPH, LINCOLN. OMAHA. SIOUX CITY. DES MOINES.
. JuneliSS May 17 HUSO June 4 iTl 7 MnySlOU May IS IS 14 IS May 1 2 3 4 May667 8
DENVER July23 (4) (4) July 5 ft 7 JulySSS Julyl41S16 July 17 IS H July 20 21 22 July H 12 13
Aus. 1SSS Am. 1188 86 Au. 211 al 28 Au. 7 8 9 10 Aug. 11 IS 13 Aug. 14 16 18 Alls. 17 18 M
May 29 (30) (SO) 31 June 4 I ft 7 May 17 IS 19 20 May (67 8 May 9 10 11 May 12 18 14 IS May 11 1 14
WICHITA June 29 30, July! July 88 9 July 5 6 7 July 17 18 19 July 20 31 2S July 11 12 13 July 14 IB l
Sept. 2 (3) 3) Au. 20 21 83 Au. 23 24 21 All. 17 IS 19 Au. 7 S 8 10 Aw. 11 18 13 Au. 14 IS 19
May 26 28 81 21 May 81 88 28 24 May 29 (80) (80) 31 Mar 11 IS 14 IS May 1 2 8 4 May B S 7 8 May 9 10 11
JOPLIN.. ....... June2 27 28 June 2J 24 25 June 29 30, July 1 July 11 12 13 Julyl41Si July 17 18 19 July 20 81 28
Aug. 80 21 31 Aug. 27 21 89 , Sept. 2 (3) (31 Aug. 11 11 13 Aug. 14 16 H Aug. 17 18 18 Aug. 7 8 9 10
May 22 23 24 May 28 28 7 38 June 1 2 8 S May 1 2 3 4 May57 8 May 9 10 11 May 13 18 14 IB
ST. JOSEPH.... June 23 2484 25 Juns2 27 29 July 2 8 (4) (4) July 20 21 22 July 11 12 13 July It 15 H Julyl7ll9
Aug. 28 29 29 Aug. 30 31, Sept 1 Aug. 16 2 Aug. 14 16 111 Aug. 17 18 IS Aug. 7 t 9 10 Aug. 11 1! 13
April 24 26 28 April 27 28 ! April 18 19 30 April 21 21 23 ' May 17 18 19 20 May 29 (30) (80) 31 JunI2
LINCOLN....... June! 10 11 June 12 13 14 II ' June 1 17 11 June 19 20 21 July 8 (4) (4) June 29 30, July 1 July 89 1
July 81, Aug. 1 Aug. 14 July 23 34 26 8S July 27 it it 30 Aug. 33 34 26 Aug. 20 31 31 Aug. 16 16 27
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April 18 19 20 April 81 11 83 April 24 26 28 April 27 28 1 May 86 36 27 31 May 22 28 24 May 29 (30) (80) 81
OMAHA., June 16 11 18 June 19 20 81 June I 91011 Juno 12 13 14 June 26 27 28 June 1 281 June 29 30, July 1
July 83 34 36 2 July 27 28 10 30 July 31, Aug. 1 1 - Aug. i 4 5 Sept. 1 3 1 July 1,6 6 Aug. 20 21 81 ,
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April 27 28 81 April 18 19 20 April 2111 23 April 24 26 28 ' Jun 4 6 8 7 My " ,. Mr " " '
SIOUX CITY. ... June 19 20 21 June 6 9 10 11 July 12 13 14 IB Junel171l July 7 S 9 . Ji 51 5! is JulyS(4)(4
July 27 2S230 July 31, Aug. 11 Aug. 340 July 23 24 26 26 Aug. 26 30 31 U'.',,;,;i Aug. 28 24 26
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April 21 11 33 April 34 26 20 J April 27 28 20 April 18 19 20 May 21 22 2S 24 .Tune 4 8 8 7 May 26 28 27 21
DES MOINES,, . juns i is 14 lg June U 17 18 June 19 20 21 June 9 9 10 11 June 23 14 14 26 July 7 0 9 June 36 17 38
Aug. 141 July 23 24 26 28 July 27 28 20 30 July 31. Aug. 1 2 Sept. (.1) 3) Aug. 21 80 31 Hept. 1 3 8
Sunday
la black fact type. Holiday games la parentheses.
Tumblers Here
V ' '4
The two former Omahans are G.
O. Francisco and L. O. Gjerde, both
of whom were prominent figures in
local bowling circles several years
ago.
In the photograph are standing,
left to right: B. E. Morita, H. Pol
lok; sitting left to right: Robert
Smith, Lester Palmer, V. S. Warriner,
G. O. Francisco.
teams have been granted franchises:
Albright Ramblers, Montclairs, Tiny
Tots and South Omaha Tigers.
One more team is needed to com
plete the Southern leapue. Already
the following teams have signed up:
Albright Merchants, McCarthys,
Krajiceks, North Omaha Boosters.
Beddeos, South Omaha Merchants
and Corr Electric;. Officers will be
elected at the next meeting which
will be held Wednesday.
Eight teams have joined the
Booster league, namety, Trimble
Brothers Skookums, Omaha Baum
Iron Co., Tradesman, Dresher Broth
ers, Sample-Hart Motor Co., Mazdas,
Dahlman Knights and Graham Ice
Cream Co. Vemo McLean was elected
president of this league and Milton
Holland will hold down the secretary
posish. Each team will bi required
to put up a forfeit of $5 per team and
the jack will be divided up as follows:
Sixty per cent to the winner of the
rag and 40 per cent to the runnerups.
They will play a three-game series
and the bell will ring on Sunday,
A,.ril 15.
Sandlot Gossip.
Ths Young" Men's Hebrew association will
organize a league composed of four teamfl,
which will perambulate on the green every
Sunday morning. Thli league will not ho
connected with the Omaha Amateur Baa
Ball association. Ai a conaoquence no eligi
bility rules will govern it.
Bo far Marty Flanagan, the Crelghton
plgakln star, has not promised to play with
any base ball team.
Coke Carnioily, a Class A player of merit,
has decided to play Class B baas ball thla
season.
Prefke Is on the sick list. Varicose veins
Is the cauee fit hla trouble. He was recently
operated on and la gradually recovering.
This season John Andrews will scout
around for the pleasure class.
Probably Bllliam Dolson will gather some
kind of a bunch together befora many
moons roll by.
It Is about time for Roy Stacey of th'j
Stare and Stripes to commenoe barking.
Albert Storm, a leader of base ball society
in Council Bluffs, has decided not to re
enlist this term.
Some time ago Patrick McAndrews had
some Junk up his sleeve with reference to
organizing a Class A team. To data his
hand remains unemployed.
Although ha la the big gun of a pair
of pool halla and a food parlor, Frank
Woodruff says he will find time to linger
around the shortstop poalHh for the
Brandels.
Horace Erlckson, star performer behind
the hickory, Is still getting his squares In
Omaha. Class A managors please notice.
No charge for this tip.
It Is a rock-bound double-barreled cinch
that Cecil Lehr will not pilot a team thla
season.
Bernard Hegeman Is now a wreath of
smiles. You would swear he had the ace
of joy coppered, but It Is only a fourteen
pound baby boy that accounts for the
smilo.
In about a month Buck Casey, the cheese
of the Te-Be-Ces, will transport himself to
Washington, where he Intends to spend a
few years and a few bones.
James P. Mullen is going to stags a come
back and display his wares this summer.
This season Joseph Moran will be at the
helm for the Murphy Did Its. Under his
supervision the blacksmiths ought to ham
mer out another pennant.
Next Wednesday night the bosses of the
National league will assemble at tlM city
hall. Class A generals take notice.
Those Trimble Brothers have decided to
stay with the Class C warrlora because
they have dropped their franchise In the
City league.
The Corona club welcomed the oppor
tunity to join the City league. This club
contains a bunch of members of . the ginger
sort.
Frank Suchy Is still waiting for the
directors to go on record regarding a Sat
urday Class A league before ho gets busy.
Carl Bachman has decided to throw up
the managerial duties of the South Side
Merchants. Somo fast Class B teams should
put In a bid for his services.
This season the National Cash Registers
will ring Into Class B. They were formerly
connected with the Booster league.
OMAHA FIVES LOOK
LIKE CONTENDERS
South High, However, is Ex
pected to Have Trouble
With University Place.
SEVEN TEAMS HAVE EDGE
By KARL LEE.
A gamble of seven characterizes the
seventh annual fight for the Nebraska
basket ball championship. Seven
teams playing in seven crucial games
occupy the central light. Of ihe
seven, Fremont, Central High, Lin
coln, South High, Sutton, University
Place and Schuyler, the two Omahas
are prominent. The local fives will
decide the gamble one way or another.
South High and University Place
meet in the first important battle of
the tournament. The Methodists
have beafen the Packers decisively in
midseason. Paper odds are with
them. The South crew, however,
plays a 100 per cent better ball
now than then and is confident of
coming away victor. Omaha rooters
are with them in this.
Past leaders of the season feature
in the six other crucial games. The
second round is expecting to see Lin
coln, South High, Geneva, Harvard,
Omaha, Fremont and Friend lined up
against their respective byes, namely,
Arlington, W'ahoo, Schuyler, Norfolk,
Osceola, Columbus and Stanton. The
Fremont-Columbus, Sutton-I lebron
games, occurring in this round, are
expected to be closely played games.
Generally Fremont and Sutton arc
considered the better of the four and
will probably face the third round un
blemished. The third round sees the livening
up of corhpetition. Unless South High
meets defeat in it first game against
University Place it will meet another
quintet that has tasted of Packing
town victory during the season Lin
coln. Sutton will meet a formidable
enemy in the form of the Schuyler
demons, which will be some battle.
Omaha should easily defeat Harvard
or Norfolk, inevitably meeting cither
team, and Fremont is not expected
to have any trouble walking on the
Friend five.
Fast Semi-Finals.
Granting that South High con
tinues in the light of victory and that
Sutton does away with Schuyler in
the third round, the semi-finals will
see two of the fastest and prettiest
games of the tourney. Central High
and Fremont, early season rivals, by
comparative scores, will meet in what
is expected to be one of the fastest
games of the tourney and Sutton
and South High will mix in what can
be predicted as a real Central-South
game. Fremont has a team built
much the same as Mulligan's five,
well-rounded, long-winded and
rangy. Spasmodic play features the
attack of both teams, while forward
guarding and floor play is their chief
asset in a lull.
All in all the tourney will be a
whip from the start. There are few
teams entered, but they confidently
expect to make one big leap for the
title. The fact that the Armory
floor, comparatively as large as the
average "Y" court in the state is used,
and that ten-minute halves are to be
played in all rounds but the finals
will prove a big asset to many of the
smaller towns.
Plestina-Taylor
Match Called Off
For Time at Least
The Martin Plestina-Jack Taylor
match, scheduled for Omaha the first
part of this month, has been called off.
The articles for this match called
for the bout on any day between
March 5 and March 16. After the
documents were signed, it was found
impossible to get a hall for the event
within this time limit. And as other
engagements interfere with later
dates, the match has been called off
for a period at least. Plestina and
Taylor, however, expect to clash be
fore the summer is over as there is a
keen rivalry between the two men.
Taylor's next match will be with
Big Bill Hokuff, the husky Omaha
Bohemian, Hokuff and Taylor clash
at Kearney Thursday night.
Taylor also received an offer to
meet Stecher on the Pacific coast, but
could not make the engagement, ow
ing to previous contracts.
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Southwest lovty Floor
Tournament at Bluffs
The annual Southwestern Iowa
basket ball tournament will be held
in Council Bluffs Friday and Satur
day this week. About twenty teams
from towns in southwestern Iowa will
compete in this tournament for the
privilege of playing in the state tourn
ament, which will be held at Dcs
Moines later in the month.
The IiVpodermicNeedle
By FRED S.
AMBITION.
He'd saved his nickels and his dimes,
Until he had a pile,
And joined the ranka of millionaires,
Above the rank and file.
He was rated high in Bradstrcct's,
Owned a yacht and motor car.
Built a mansion worth a fortune,
Made a name known wide and far.
But he kept on toiling, slaving,
Never was content to rest.
But pursued each fleeting dollar,
Till he had it in hii nest,
"It ia my life's ambition,"
He said, "to vet in sight
Enough, to make an offer.
For a Darcy-Gibbons fight."
Charley Henog, says an item,
has taken up the sport of avia
tion. Well, an undertaker might
consider it sport.
But then probably Charley
figures even aviation is a good
risk after managing the Keds.
WHEN WE CAN'T SEE IT.
We are eager, oh, so eager,
To ee the coming day.
When our champion of champions,
In his calm and artful way,
Will massage the tinted features,
Of some gentle mate at play.
We are eager, oh, so eager.
To tee J. Willard fight,
To shoot his vicious uppercut.
Under Freddie Fulton's right,
Yes, we're eager if he does it,
In the middle of the night.
LES DARCY POLLS
ONE REGULAR BONE
Failure to Get Himself a Man
ager Putting Australian
Into Disrepute.
MAKING MUDDLE OF THINGS
By RINGSIDE.
Chicago, March 3. Unless Lester
Darcy, Australia's champion, gets hep
to himself his American invasion is
likely to prove a fiasco instead! of a
trip which would pour golden shekels
into Ms coffers.
Darcv has made a good impression
personally everywhere he has been,
but the muddle into which his affairs
have been permitted to fall because
of his lack of a competent manager,
rapidly is putting him into disrepute.
When Darcy landed in the United
Stales he was armed to the teeth with
advice against the American manager,
he was loaded with cautions tnat ne
must expect to be skinned out of his
eye teeth if he hired someone to han
dle his affairs, and in his kid inex
perience he decided he would handle
his own affairs like he always had
done back home. Whether he knew
it or not, "Snowy" Baker really was
Ins manager in Australia at tnat.
Darcv was his one big drawing card,
and when Darcy made money, so did
Baker. Baker saw to it that Darcy
made good matches, that he continued
a favorite, and that he won.
With the Baker influence lacking
when he reached this country, Darcy
was at sea, but he didn't realize it.
He couldn't see that with an honest
American manager, one who knew the
ins and outs of the game here, he
would realize his ambitions and rake
in the coin and perhaps a title.
As a result, Darcy has blundered in
so many instances, as witness the mix
up in Wisconsin, where he narrowly
escaped being barred, although he
never had shown in this country, and
in New York, where Al McCoy's
standing was in doubt when Darcy
signed to meet him. With a good man
ager at. the helm, these things could
not have happened.
When the ttme comes tor Jjarcy to
prepare himself for a clash with the
phantom-like Mike Gibbons, of St.
Paul, he will have reason to congrat
ulate himself that he has the services
of Fred Gilmore to fall back upon.
Gilmore was connected with Gibbons
for some time, knows his style and
ring tactics and a lot of inside facts
about him, and should prove invalu
able to Darcy. As a clever exponent
of boxing, Gilmore has few equals in
this country, and had he displayed the
nerve of some of those who now lay
claim to championship class he would
have proved himself a second Mike
Gibbons or Packcy McFarland.
Mike Has Kick Too.
Darcy will need clever boxing if he
hopes to get close enough to Gibbons
to put over the sleep producing
punch. Which does not mean that
Gibbons is a boxer pure and simple,
despite popular impression. His rec
ord is liberally sprinkled with K. O.
Season of 1914
HUNTER.
Mr. Willard, we see. has signed
his 1917 contract with a circus.
Fair enough, bring on the mon
keys and the fellow clowi.s.
Ask Tom Jones.
A New York scribe rises to in
quire if the proposed Willard
Fulton afLir is to be a sport or
financial event. We'll g'.ve htm
just one guess.
Since Alien, may we inquire,
has it come to pass that there is
sonic question whether a cham
pionship boxing bout is a sport
or financial event?
The fight promoter giggled as he beat
it on l is way,
"I love the dear old public, it is always
blythe and gay,
I have put on many matches and I've
put on many fights,
And I've always earned a living, for
the public always bites."
ON WITH TH3 STRIKE.
The athlete dropped a sad and mourn
ful tear,
And soliloquized on how life is so
drear,
"I have dug down in my jeans,
For my last set up of beans,
Qone once more those winter days so
bright and cheer."
For the athlete had to make report
that day.
At the training camp in sou'hland far
away.
And at the break of nearinn dawn,
Those winter days would ah be gone,
And he'd have to feed on ceam puffs
au parfait.
marks twenty-three, to be exact
since he got into the imelight in l'JOS.
Whether the Gibhous-Darcy fight
takes places in Milwaukee under the
chapcronage of Frank Mulkem or not,
that promoter is going ahead with his
plans as if he were certain rf the go.
lie is circulating among the fight
fans of Chicago and surrounding ter
ritory cards which contain pledges to
purchase so many tickets to the con
est, payable ten days in advance of
the bout. And Mulkern is taking no
chances he has a place for a witness
to sign, too.
Now and Then.
Bat Nelson played a week's theatri-,
cal engagement here recently, and the
stage from which he did his little
monologue and told of his experi
ences in the ring was the same 'on
which he got his first' start in the
pugilistic game. It was at the old
Casino theater.
"I'll never forget that match," (aid
Nelson, who was in a reminiscent
mood, while waiting for hie cue to
go on. "Joe Hedmark was the guy
I was fighting, and I never saw so
many gloves all at one time in my
life. The bat'le went six rounds, but
this Hedmark person had me sixed
up to a i.icety, and he knocked me
down seventeen times in 'he eighteen'
minutes of fight. He hal a punch
all right, but he couldn't put me out.
Say, but I watS one happy guy when I
stuck it out with him, and it con
vinced me that 1 could stand tlje pun
ishment and not get hurt."
The battle hapnened just seventeen
years ago, and Nelson was fighting
for the price of a square meal.
Kilbans is Good.
Keep your eye on Johnnie Kilbine,
for he is going to be the next light
weight champion of the world, or
Billy Roche, noted New York referee,
has missed his guess, and ho is not
in the habit of doing that.
"Kilbane can lick any of them that
will stick around in the legitimate
lightweight ranks," said Roche, who
paused here on his way west the
other day. "I don't know of a boy
in the country who can come into the
ring at 133 pounds and beat Kilbane.
The weight would be easy for Kil
bane, who can still make 122 if he Is
called upon to defend his feather
weight title. There isn't a soul in
that class who can make him extend
himself.
"Back in New York they seem to
be afraid of him. Jimmy Dunn ran
around until his tongue was out try
ing to get some of the lightweight
contenders or perhaps I should sav
pretenders to hook up with Johnnie,
and they all turned him down flat.
Kilbane against any of the crop ol
lightweight would 'lraw a big house,
too, but somehow they all want to
pass him up. It wouldn't be a man's
size job to guess why, cither."
Dunn Has Scheme.
Should Kid Wolfe of Cleveland
ever cop the bantamweight crown,
just put it down that chalk marks
on a gymnasium floor had consider
able to do with it. For that is the
method Jiiimiie Dunn is using to
develop the kid in his campaign for
Pete Herman's title.
Dunn himself was no slouch when
it came to cleverness in the ring be
fore he abandoned the mitts for a
managerial job, and he it was who
taught Johnnie Kilbane much of his
generalship. He used the chalk mark
stuff on the present featherweight
champion, too.
Duiyi has figured out to a nicety
just where a boxer should have his
feet planted for any and every occa
sion that may present itself in a fight,
where he should move them to side
step, or feint, or retreat, and by mak
ing crosses with chalk on the floor he
is endeavoring to pass on this knowl
edge to Wolfe.
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Old Place.
TO SELL NO MORE STARS
By JACK VEIOCK.
New York, March 3. Connie Mack
is determined to win back his choice
scat in the baseball spotlight. He will
not be contented until the name of
McGillicuddy becomes a household
byword once again, and although it
may take him several seasons to re
gain his once enviable position ill the
ranks of baseball pilots, he will keep
on hammering away until his desire
is gratified.
When Mack broke up his famous
championship machine he was none
too liberal in giving reasons for his
action. It lie wanted to wreck a win
ning club it was his right to do so.
and he did not feel that the baseball
world needed to know every detail
about it.
Since that time the busy scribes
have made discoveries or at least they
thought so, and it is generally agreed
that the Athletics were broken up be
cause of two things. One was the
half-hearted way in which Philadel
phia fans supported the Mackmen,
even when they were "two-to-one
shots" against any club in cither big
league. Another was a lack of com
plete harmony in the club. And Mack
determined that managerial discipline
and routine should be upheld.
Mack has never been kiiown to
spend a fortune for a ball player. Like.
wise ne is not numbered among the
most liberal managers in the way of
paying big salaries. And it has often
hcen said that certain members of his
one-time world beaters wanted to get
away. Mack knew this and acted ac
cordingly. But now Mack is looking ahead to
ward better things for the Athletics.
He is satisfied he has the nucleus for
another championship club and he is
through selling star players.
At the recent American league
meeting one of the club ownen ap
proached Mack with an offer for
Pitcher Lester Bush.
"How much will you take for
Bush?" the prospective purchaser in
quired. And Mack answered in posi
tive tones: ,
Through Seeling Stars.
"I wouldn't sell him for $500,000.
I am through selling my star players
and I am going to hold on to all
of them, even though they should
continue to hold out until after the
season opens.
"I got $50,000 for Eddie Collins.
I got another big wad of money for
Frank Baker, Jack Berry and Eddie
Murphy. But base ball conditions
were different two years ago."
Asked what he thought, of the
chances of the Athletics in this
year's pennant chaBe, Mack said thai
he could make no predictions.
"We have bought lome promising
young players from the minor
leagues," laid Mack, "and I believe
they will fill the bill. If not we
will go after others. That is all I
can say."'
And Mack's determination to build
up instead of tearing down is a source
of satisfaction to his American league
colleagues, for the Athletics were,
poor drawing cards, both at home and
on the road last season, and rival
club owners, while, they naturally
look to their own interests first, want
to see the Athletics capable of giving
a good account of themselves,
Americans to Front.
A glimpse through the records of
open golt championships for a num
ber of years back" holds much of in
terest for the ardent follower of the
old Scotch game.
And it may be of more than ordi
nary interest to recall that it is just
ten years since home-bred golfers be
gan to show to advantage in compe
tition against the foreign-born atars
who invaded this country to carry oft
laurels.
It was in 1907 that the American
golfer first came Into prominence in
such competition!, though in the open
tournament that year no American
got into the prize money.
From 1907 up to 1912 home-born
golferi gradually came into their
own, winning a share of tHe honors
here and there. But in 1912 four of
the first eight to finish were Ameri
cans, and the first two of the first
four were pointed to proudly as home
products. Thii tournament was held
in Buffalo.
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