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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.
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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.
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: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
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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
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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. ;
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