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14 A THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: NOVEMBER 4. 1917. FORT OMAHA SOLDIERS TO BATTLE NONPAREILS THIRD TIME AT MELADY MEADOW tfo.Hoon School ftleven and Local Champions to Stage Rubber Conflict This Afternoon; Nonpareils Win First Game, 15 to 0; Soldiers Win ' Second, 13 to 0. ' YANKS SEEK WASHINGTON STARS Colonel Jake Rup pert, rumor says, has offered Clarke Griffith a small fortune for his starjbattery, Walter Johnson and Eddie Ainsmith. EYERS MAYGOTO AMERICAN LEAGUE Reports From East Indicate Trojan Will Wind Up His. Career in the Johnson Circuit. By FRANK QUIGLEY. In all probability the stands will be chucked at. Melady's Meadow, Twenty-fourth and Vinton streets this afternoon, when the soldiers from Fort Omaha and the Nonpareils, cham pions of Omaha, clash to decide the foot ball supremacy be tween 'these two fast contingents. Vtt -, tmva n ifiV f UUl LftlU I All a T MW HB own otdiers in action, know that they are well drilled and look like a university team in atcion. Well, why shouldn't they? They practice foot ball under a competent coach four hours each day and the team will tip the beams for an average of 175 pounds. Ap proximately 2,000 men are now sta tioned at Fort Omaha and it is a cinch that a team which could make a'crediable showing for most any university ought to be picked from this large congregation of men. The Nonpareils have the best ma terial available around this neck of the woods and if defeated, lack of practice will be the reason. This will te the third game between these two 'aquads. The first battle resulted in a 'victory for the Nonpareils, score, IS to 0, and the Soldiers copped the 'second game, score, 13 to 0. Harry Williams, professional base ball player of repute, and a foot ball fullback with some rep, will b seen with the Nonpareils and Marty Flana gan and Earl Hasson, formerly star half backs at, Creighton, are playing with the- Nonpareils. Undoubtedly the biggest crowd of the season will witness this stellar independent foot ball event. The contest will start at 'i3 p .m. uneup: JONPAREtLS. I Kelly C. Lynch, Romo....R.O. Flanagan, Bro..L.O. iJJewman H.T. Pnmn ........I..T. ftmlth, Koran.... R.E. Uannon, Kltny.'.&.R. Moore, Qully..Q.B. , Traeejr, Hasson.R.H.1 J'lnt. Flanagan. I. H. Wllllami F.B. SOLDIERS. C St vena R.Q. ...... Workman h.a Clayton R.T Dwyei L.T.,..., Behumacker RE.. Gilbert I, E. ........... Faulk Q.B Rawlins R.H Orlbbla J,.H..... Fabar F.B Hlatt flubw Johnion Sub...,.....'. Eraraon Parks to Play. The Monmouth Parks billed the South Omaha Midgets for this after noon at Fontenelle park, but there is nothing certain about this argument, because reports have been going the rounds that the packersville crew has aviated. At Riverview park the Shamrocks and,All-Star'a will promenade, on the green at 1 :30 p. m. These two squads are approximately evenly hooked up so an interesting bout for he win ning numbers looked, for. fact that their irrepressible leader Last Sunday by a slim margin of six points, the Dunlap foot ball ma nipulators slipped the Duck Holmes tribe a dose of defeat. The Omaha lads did their best to bring home the groceries, but were unable to cop the .bacon, possibly due largely to the fact that their irrepressible leader Billiam . Duffack was forced to decorate the bench due to injuries sustained some moofls ago. , ' Solier"! May Play. Coporal Emil Sandan was In town last week. He blew back to Camp Funston last Wednesday. His main mission here was to endeavor to ar range a game here on Turkey Day, between the Nonpareils and the cham pions of Camp Funston. He is member of. Company Cr Camp Fun ston, and to date his squad looks like the best bet. The manager, of the Nonpareils coughed up a nice propo sition for the soldiers, and a favorable answer is expected this week. . ' Handle Goaala, . . ' Trp. th Montclalraa ar atlll ea th map and doing thins to every bunch tha bump them. - ' tio tar the Mohawk's have not arv4 Up th brsnil of toot ball that they should c cording- to tbelr iwell lineup. A couple of CrIghton men an! a Lieu tenant from Fort Omaha will do1 the offi ciating at Malady's Meadow today. The soldiers only have eight apeedy back field gents. They can nee a freah dude moat' any time. , " ! At left half Faber U playing- a whirlwind or a tame for the soldiers. He la a regular cyclone oo-hls pedala. - Next .Sunday the aoldlera will probably llay ttie C. B. Longeways at Fort Omaha. At center Nelson la playing the eara off the game for the Ducky Holmes tribe. Ha ia a trend' defenalve player. Neither Grant nor Frank Golden hai aald anything about Indulging . .In the leather egg game this season. - On Sunday. November II, the champion of Council Bluffa. namely the Longeways, will bat 5jm Much speculation is being indulged in as to the future of Johnny Evers in base ball. John of Troy, who was so highly regarded three years ago that the National league paid him a big bonus to stay in its ranks and gave him a fat long-time contract be sides, is done as a player and admits it. But he wants to continue in the game as a manager and recent moves he had made indicate that he would like to transfer his services to the American league. During the world's series he was in the company of American league men at all times and he seemed much pleased when he was mentioned as a possible manager of some American league team, the Yankees and the Red Sox being speci fied by the rumor mongers. The Philljes won't retain Evers. He proved a disappointment as a player when the Quaker City club took him off the hands of the Braves last summer and Philadelphia fans never warmed up to him.. But if Evers is done as an active player, the brain and spirit that made him one of the game's' greatest are still as prime as ever and many "predictions are made that he still will be a big factor in some club s success. Stormy Career on Diamond. . Evers' career on the diamond has been a stormy one. There never was anything commonplace about Jawn. Right from the first day that he re ported to the old Cubs he was in the limelight. He was a skinny youngster at that time. He is not very stout L today, but he is fat today tompared to the Evers who reported to the late Frank Salee back in 1890. Evers was so skinny that his ap pearance in a big league camp brought forth loud laughter. Those were the days, when base ball was not so re fined as it is at present, and the vet eran players on the Chicago team, took it as a big joke that a weakling had a chance to break in on their team. But John broke in all right What he lacked in weight and physique he made up for in brains. While always successful on the diamond, Evers was unfortunate in business matters. He dropped a lot of money irT various ventures, and it is likely that when he joined the Boston duo he had very little left to 'show for his many years of labor in Chicago. Joe Tinker had-planned, to make Evera a Federal leaguer." Joe landed in soft with Charley Weefhman, and it was hi! plan to have Evers made the manager of the Brooklyn Federal league club when the Wards finally decided to break into base ball. Charley Murphy was putting the skids under Evers, as the manager of the Cubs, at that time, and it looked as if Tinker would surely coax Evers iqto the Federal league camp, as the Wards stood ready to give Johnny a fat contract But Organized Base Ball decided it could not afford to lose Evers. Jim Gaffney, who then owned the Boston Braves, saved Johnny to O. B. by ten dering him a' contract as good as the one Johnny would have been given by the Federal league and the league contributed a bonus if he would sign. That move by Gaffney upset the plans of the Feds. The Feds had planned that the Wards' team would have a big league star for manager and they believed that with Murphy tying the "can" to Evers, it would be easy to coax oven the Trojan. 4b lllllf i'." II 1 'V ( YANKS FAILED THROUGH LACK , OF DISCIPLINE Ruppert Ascribes Poor Show ing of New York Americans to Freedom Permitted Play ers by Donovan. By JACK VEIOCK. New York, Nov. 3. Colonel Jake Ruppert. president of the Yankees. stated recently that a lack of disci pline, more than anything else, hurt the chancel of the team in the year's pennant race. - , "Discipline, remarked the colonel, was what the team needed more than players, and discipline is some thing we are going to nave next sea sotvor l will know the reason why." Base ball scribes who followed the Yanks throughout the summer ex pressed the opinion on several occa sions that a lack of discipline was hurtine the chances of the -club. and. whfle they did not lay the blame en tirely at Bill Donovan's door, they left the base ball reading public with the impression that Bill could have been a whole lot better disciplinarian than he proved to be this year. It is a matter of history that a "joy club" never gets anywhere in a pennant, race. Usually the tail-end teams in a race are inclined to play slipshod base ball. They play to get the game over and hustle to th showers, and after that , the bright lights attract Ihem. That the Yanks were this kind of a team is not the point being made here, for Donovan's players really tried hard to win a first-division berth, and it would be unfair to say that they played happy-go-lucky base ball. But discipline on a base ball club does not have to do with the habits of players, off the ball field alone. There is discipline on the field to be considered as well, and tK. belief that the Yanks wert lacking.n this was strengthened when Fratik Baker was fined and suspended hte in the season for disobeyftitn oners. So Colonel Ruppert has deterr.ined to turn the old order of things ,nside out, and the Yanks will ente; their next pennant race under strict orders. Two tor One joo. Ruppert'a idea for 1918 ij to have two players for every position on his ball club, if it is possible He has faced so much hard luckn the way of injuries to players th it it is no wonder he has formed , .lis opinion, tet it can be carried out, asily enough by reducing the size ,f . the pitching staff, and this is josl what Ruppert intends to do. "Pitchers don t get enough work these days," said the colonel. "The staffs carried are too big, and I think that at the outside' six seasoned pitchers are enough for any ball cfub to keep on the roster, and at that only four of them should be worked regularly. By reducing the number of pitchers we can hold players who can be used in all the other positions, and that is the plan along which we hope to work." Ruppert indicated that the Yanks will try to purchase a' good outfielder to play the gardens with Grlhooley and Marsans. He is satisfied that the Cuban will be a strong cog in next year's team and he complimented Donovan on the deal which brought Marsans to New York in trade for Lee Magee. Keen for Gedeon. "I have great hopes for Gedeon," continued Ruppert, "and Baker at third is good for at least another year and there is no need to make a change at shortstop not with Peckinpaugh playing there. We need a good sub stitute third baseman. . . "I like Pipp at first, think he is good enough, and I am sure that if he'd fake his time at the bat he would be a .300 hitter, as you know he hits a ball as hard as anybody in base ball when he does hit it. "We are strontr back of the bat. We have Walters, a first class catcher, and Nunamaker to help him. Hannah, a catcher from Salt Lake City, of whom we have had flattering reports ,and of whom we are ejecting a -good deal, and maybe RueK It can't be told at this time whether Ruel will be kept or not. Some of our new men are too light, among them Fewster. He needs more experience1 and will be returned to the minors for another year. "We are following up every lead that may turn up an opportunity to cet olavinir strength. We have sound ed every club in our league and are ready to snap up the first chance to land material. Our league meeting may develop something, but whether it does or doesn't, remember that one thirtar we'll have next year, which has been missing, is discipline." ' Willie Hoare to Leave , Soon for Hot Springs Willie Hoare, golf professional at the Omaha Country club, is prepar ing to leave soon for Hot Springs, Ark., where Willie spends his winter months as professional at the golf club down there. Ordinarily Hoare goes to Hot Springs earlier in the fall, but he was compelled to stay, here this winter until November in order to take out his second naturalization papers. Hoare is of English birth. Manager of Townsends Calls Athletes Together ' Don Moore, manager of the Tpwn send basket ball quintet, is the early bird. Already Moore is assembling his five and holding weekly practice. He expects to have one of the fastest teams in the city. ' ' , BOXING BOUTS ADD ZIP TO LIFE IN ARMY CAMPS Lads at Camp Grant, Rock' ford. III., Enthusiastic Over Ring Sport, to Challenge Great Lakes Tars. By RINGSIDER. Chicago, Nov. 4. Although prepa ration for the big scrap overseas is the main business of the men in training at army and navy camps near Chicago, waiting for a chance to get into the fracas in France gets tiresome to many of the boys in camp, and boxing has come to the fore as the most effective means of wprking off surplus "pep." Under direction of Lewis Omer, for mer athletic director at Northwestern university, boxing shows are being held regularly at Camp Grant, Rock ford, and some hieh-cass exhibitions of mitt-Wielding are being staged. several boxers well known in the middle west are in training at Camp Grant and a lot of the lads who never hoxed before have shown ability that indicates a champion or two may nome day come out of the army. Among the sctappers in traininsr at Camp Grant is Danny Goodman, who was popular in middle west boxine f.ircles a few years ago. Goodman lias participated in several scraps at l lie camp lately and, although facing j;reen opponents, has flashed consid erable of his old-time class. "Rabbit" Hedlin, also well known as k willing little performer in the hempen square, is learning the art of kaiser fighting, too, but has found ime to step a few fast rounds in the ring. Besides the men who have achieved more or less renown as professional boxers there are a lot of youths in the camp who 'have displayed sur prising ability to pummel their op ponents with the eight-ounce gloves. To Challenge Sailors. Believing that he will be able to develop a team of boxers capable of giving any set of rivals a sound drub bing, Omer is preparing to issue a challenge to boxers of the Great Lakes naval training camp, where fack Kennedy is chaperoning a group of aspiring young scrappers. Omer expects to be able to enter men in six classes and it is not improbable that an inter-camp fistic tournament will be held in the near future. Although no attention has been given to boxing of a purely competi tive character, the second officers' reserve training camp at Fort Sher jdan likewise has devoted consider able time to the pugilistic -,'qrt. Mar tin AT Delaney, physical director, has been coaching the men of the Fort Sheridan cantonment and for a time was instructing two or three thou sand men each day. Ofhcers of the various camps are encouraging boxing as a means of teaching tbe men mental alterness, agility and- self detense. lhev de clare the movements of boxing and of bayonet fightine are greatly akin and regard boxing as an invaluable training for the soldier. Fulton Persistent. If persistency ever brings its re ward Fred Fulton, the lanky Minne sota plasterer, may some day get the chance he has been aching for of meeting Jess Willard in4 a bout for the world's heavyweight title. De spite Willard's apparent reluctance to enter the ring, tulton has not de spaired of one day getting a chance it the championship. The latest move in his campaign :o inveigle the mountainous Jess into :he ring was his defeat of Bob De vere of Kansas City, at Milwaukee n few days ago. With Devere sound ly thrashed, Fred cannot see any other contender looming over the horizon and is convinced that if Wil 'ard ever fights again he must give him a chance. Fans who saw the Fulton-Devere scrap left the arena with fingers damped down on their nostrils, but ;hey-did not blame Fulton. They de clare rred was willing to do battle to the best of his ability at all times, tnd cite the scrap as an illustration sf the old saw that it takes two to make a fight Devere, who had been regarded as i tough old trial horse for heavy weight title contenders, failed to show anything more than a clumsy air of mitts. He took Fulton pum meling for a few rounds and then lost all his taste for conflict. Fulton was "given the verdict because there was nothing else to do. Although whipping Devere was ;asy and could hardly come under the HORNSBY FIRST HOLDOUT Cardinal star already demand hug salary boost for 1918 and it is said has told Branch Rickey $10,000 is figure he is worth per annum. f I lO1 f - WR : l''H W " .',, " ' - :ategory of an elimination contest, Fulton thinks the victory was one more j link in the chain of evidence he is piling up to prove his claim to i match with Willard. Greb to Meet ' Phantom. Unless Harry Greb, the Pittsburgh ''wild man," was giving forth vapid ntterances while in Chicago recently, training for Ins bout with Len Row lands, a serious attempt ta match Greb arid Mike Gibbons in a 10-round tiout in Pittsburgh Thanksgiving day is being made. Greb declared he had received and accepted an offer and as serted he was certain Mike also would accept. If Greb and Gibbons meet it should be a battle worth going to see. The two men are boxers of a distinctly different type, yet they should put up whirlwind contest. When Greb scraps he comes at an opponent from every angle. He starts his punches from every possi ble direction and fights like no other battler in the game today. He is a freak, but he is effective, and has disposed of some of the best middle weights in the world. Gibbons, as everyone knows, is the acme of cleverness. Anyone who fights .Mike according to Hoyle has a hard time finding the chin of the elusive St. - Paul battler. Defending himself is one of the "best things Gibbons does, but he also knows how to hit, and can give an" opponent savage punishment if he desires. Whether a scrapper of Greb's style, whose punch is effective but not deadly, can baffle Gibbons and render ineffective his marvelous cleverness, is a question that only a meeting between the two can settle. Most of the fans probably would string with Gibbons in a match with Greb, but the fact remains that the Pittsburgher has been creating havoc among the middleweights and is entitled to a crack at Gibbons. Greb declares he is improving all the time and that Gibbons, is not fighting often enough to progress very much. Greb thinks he will win if he gets a chance at Michael. JCreighton Proves Too Strong for Methodist Team Continued From Page Thirteen A.) "ttWomen from Her Copyright, 1917. International Newi 8ervlr. By Tad by taking the pigskin over the enemy's last line on one; play. Campbell kicked goal. ; When the ball again came into play Houser made 10 yards through right tackle, , but the Orange backs were unable to find another hole in Creigh ton's line and Carman turned the pigskin over to Kelley on a 40-yard boot, and the diminutive Quarterback passed up three white lines on. the way back. Harmon rushed through center for five yards, and immediately after got away on his 65-yard dash straight up the side line. Campbell again hoisted the pigskin between the bars. At the opening of thee fourth spasm, Leahy started things by in tercepting a pass in the center of the field and racing through a broken field to the Orange four-yard line. The ball was given to Mullholland, who responded by placing it beneath Wesleyan's goal posts. And "Spec" Campbell easily hoisted the oval over the bars from a difficult angle. Houser fumbled . Campbell's kick, and Coyne fell on the ball. A pass from Mullholland to Leahy netted 10 yards, and Leahy kept on going for IS more. Mullholland tore around ight end for 10 yards, and on the i - T 1 lJ ' . I- next piay ieany siruggieu eigne yards through the lfne for another touchdown, with three ' Wesleyanites clinging to his stalwart frame. Campbell nonchalantly kicked goal. Lineup: CREIGHTON (34) XEB. WESLEYAN 0 Campbell . ......L.K Morgan L.T. Jones L.O. Berry 0. Little R.O. Kolda R.T. Kmery J..R.E. Kelly Q.B. Mullholland L.H. Harmon H H. Leahy F.B. L.E... Hohman Ii.T..... Shelley UQ Gentry C Warren R.O lletiltr R.T Grove RE..... Teah Q.B Houser L..H Hull R H Chamberlain F.B Carman Substitute.- Creighton, Moonan for Hnr- man, Healey for Little, Harmon for Moonan, Little for Healey, Hull for Emery, Martin for Jones, Coyne for Kolda, Morearty for Harmon, BtKflow or Berry. Berry for Leahy, Crrroll for Campbell. Nebraska- Wesieyan, Dally for Chamber lain, Johnson for Gentry, Anderson for Petater, Dobbin (for Johnson, Lang for Dobbins. Touchdowns: Harmon (2). Leahy !), Mullhollamtr Goals .after touchdowns: Campbell (4). Forward passes: Creighton, completed T out of 1ft. Nebraska Yqpleyan.' completed 4 out of .9. Officials: Johnson of Doane, referee. Mulligan of Nebraska, umpire. Lundborg of Pennsylvania,, head linesman. Tim of quarters, 19 -minutes. BALL PLAYERS GO IN FORSHOOTING Many Stars of Big League Dia mond Drop Bats For Shot, guns As the Winter Sea son Approaches. With the base ball season over and the paraphernalia stowed away for the winter the knights of the diamond show interest in other pastimes. The great majority of major league play ers devote that off season to recreation as they see it for to them base ball is work. A great many of the stan ball toss ers of the American and National leagues are excellent shots with the trapgun and devote considerable time to shooting in the field and at the traps during the five months that the -pay check doesn't flitter in with their mail. Chief Bender, whose remarkable pitching with the Phillies the last season is still the sensation wherever base ball is discussed, is one of the best trapshots in this dear old land of ours, and the Chippewl may be loca ted at the Beideman club traps in Camden, N. J., several afternoons of each week. Bender, with Harry Davis, captain of the Athletics; Christy Mathewson, manager of the Cincinnati Reds, and Otis Cfandall, now hurling in the Pacific Coast league, toured the coun try severals years ago as a trapshoot ing squad and their performances awakened the interest of other ball players to the sport. Grover Cleveland Alexander, who has turned in 30 victories in each of the last three years for the Phillies, is another who is an excellent shot, and he paired off with Bender in a number of matches last spring. Billy Killifer, Alexander's battery mate, and Oscar Dugey, who is also on the Phils' pay roll, are pretty nifty in the breaking of clay targets. Joe Bush, the veteran hurler of the Mackmen, is another, and is quite at home at the trap or in the field. He is just as good a shooter as he is a pitcher and he is a mighty good pitcher. Tris Speaker is a good shot and so is Joe Jackson; in fact all the the leading batsmen in major leagues 1 are excellent trapshots. Ty Cobb is as ardent a shooter as he is a ball player and goes at the shooting game just as strenuously as he does base ball. Tyrus, with E. S. Rogers, of Cleveland, and John Philip Sousa, jr., own 6,000 acres of well stocked hunting grounds on the Sa vannah river in Georgia, and on this private preserve the greatest stick smith of them all spends the grtater part of his vacation. On one ex cursion last winter ' Cobb and his partners bagged 350 quail, f Jack Coombs, orre of the wisest hurlers that base ball has ever known, is also an ardent shooter, and every year he gathers a bunch of ball players together for an expedi tion in Nfaine Eddie Plank, Bill Car rigan, Lew McCarthy Sherrod Smith, Herble Pennock, Izzy Hoffman, Orvy Overall, Frank Baker, Gabby Cra vath, John Henry Wagner. Walter Johnson, Ed Pfeiffer, Bob Shawkey, Wilbert Robinson, Jack Dunn, Joe j Cantillon and Billy Sullivan names that are well known to all base ball fans are devotees of the great sport of hunting. ; ATTENTION MEN! TO usT.Tl Til 111 W'. aL 1 I SBS SHIRLEY'S CLOTHES SHOP Offers for Monday and Tuesday 500 1 Trench and Pinch Back Suits and Overcoats Of the very latest models, sold all over for $20.00 OUR PRICE ' t& &I Don't Torct: to LeU Tas . Over xl CLoams shop .109 South 16th Street 1