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OMAHA- SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 21, 1918. 9
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FULTON'S BEST
WEAPON IS LEFT,
C0V7LER ASSERTS
But Minnesota Plasterer's De
( fense Is Weak, Declares Man
v Who Has Fough' Him
Two Times.
SNAPPIER BALL
IN WESTERN, IS
PREXIE'S UKASE
.
Pitchers Must Not Warm Up
Between Innings, Dickerson
Rules; Umpires Are
Toned Down.
JOE STECHER IS
MATCHED TO MEET
ED LEWIS AGAIN
Dodge Phenom and Strangles
Who Went to Five-Hour
Draw In Omaha, to Clash
in Gotham.
By RINGSIDER.
Chicago, April 20. Tom Cowler,
the British heavyweight, who lias
mixed it with Fred Fulton on two
occasions and who should be in a
position to "know, dropped some talk
the other day on the Minnesota mor
tar heaver that gives a pretty good
line on the fighting abilities of the
man who aspires to Jess Willard's
crown. Delving back into history,
first let it be known that Cowler
knocked Fulton down and some say
"out" in St. Louis recently. AbotfKa
ytar ago Fulton knocked Cowler out
in one round in Brooklyn.
Cowler says Fulton hasn't got much
of defense, or at least does not pay
much attention to' that part of his
boxingeducation. "That's how f. came
to hit him so hard in the first round
in St. Louis," said Cowler. "He has
a good left and uses it straight for
three or fouf leads and then hooks it
over. I watched for this in St. Louis
and when it came I ducked and sent.
my right to his chin. He went down
in his own corner. The referee
seemed as puzzled and paralyzed as
Fulton and didn't start counting until
I yelled at him. Fred was down at
least 15 seconds.
Defense Is Poor.
" "Fred has a fairly good right up
percut, but I think his left is his best
weapon. But his defense is poor and
liable to get him into a lot of trouble
with a man like Willard if Jess gets
i ' fie best of shape."
t'.'vvlrr hn a fine pair oi-hands and
attiibutca i em to the English style
of boxing. He says it makes for less
injury to the knuckles than the slap
bang, hit-or-miss style that American
fighters use. The English fighter
learns to hit with the front of his
knuckles and when he hooks with the
left or swings with the right he
doesn't hold his hand so that the force
comes on the thumb. The hand
should be turned so that the front of
the knuckles lrnd.
''Fulton makes this mistake," said
' Cowler. "He has a bad thumb and
the reason is that he does not turn
his harwd when he lands. Fred hits
properly with his left and gets a
great force behind it. There is speed
there.'W. I believe he is a game man.
The St. Louis fight certainly showed
that."
Must Be Decision.
One point that hasn't been brought
out with a great deal of force in the
pact between Willard and Fulton for
their July 4 battle is the fact that
Fulton has signed up for a fight to a
referee's decision.
This clause stands out prominently
in the first and separate agreement
that Mike Collins, Fulton's manager,
signed with Colonel J. C. Miller, pro
moter of the match, in Kansas City
at their first meeting. This clause
stipulates that noN matter what the
length of the contest or its location
geographically there must be a ref
eree's decision at the finish- whether
that finish is a knockout or if both
men are still on their feet at the end
of the announced limit.
There is nothing said about this in
the agreement signed by Fred and
Jess, but, according to Collins, this
latter document in no way invalidates
his personal agreement signed in
Kansas City with Colonel Miller.
. Willard Surprised.
Willard has asked about this part
of the agreement and seemed a little
surprised to learn of the clause in Col
lins' contract, which he never had
seen. .
"I told Miller to go ahead and do
just what he thought was for the
best for all hands," said Jess. "The
decision part of it is important, of
course, but it really makes no differ'
ence to me. I can beat him in 20
rounds and am not afraid of a ref
eree's decision. The trick will be to
get a referee with nerve and judg
ment." ,
Malone Fans Startled.
Jock Malone's sudden and unex
pected walloping at the hands of
Bryan Downey the other night is still
the talk of the town, but there are
those who still insist that Jock is a
good man and eventually" will "come
through." They say all he needs is a
little more experience with the lead
ers. The cry that he showed a streak
of yellow in his battle with Downey
is held as rank libel. It is declared by
;ome that when Malone hopped into
the ring he had a disabled hand, so
sore to the touch that he winced when
"they were bandaging it for the con
test. But Jock did not let on to any
one and went through the fighr with
his mitt aching him every minute. If
'.hat isn't gameness, what is?
Bad Match.
Jock admitted after the battle that
it was a bad match for him to take
Dn. He said he didn't realize how
good Downey really was and figured
;oo lightly on the greater experience
bf the Ohio star. But Jock is confi
dent that he can do bitter. He is a
typical American athlete. He is clean
cut, a clean living youngster, with a
clear and cool brain and the instinct
oi combat stroflg in him. He needs
experience, which will come in a little
lime.
Malone aspires to be a mechanical
ingineer. He figures tlfat in a year
or two he can accumulate enough of
the long green to give him a good
start in college, after which he will
uit the fight game.
"Give me two years more and I will
le all right in the fighting game," he
jays. "Two years up among the lead
srs of my division and I will 1iave
;nough money to start me out."
Former White Hose May
Land With Indianapolis
Billy Purtell, former infielder of the
White Sox and Red Sox, who became
a free agent with the disbanding of
the Montreal International league
club, may join the Indianapoli In
dian' t
Kansas City, Mo., April 20.
"Speed, more speed make them hus
tle," is the word that has gone out
over the Western league circuit from
President E. W. Dickerson, who in
sists that the faster and snappier the
play, the better the fans like the game
and the larger the gate receipts.
Because Western League club own
ers have the cream of a half dozen
disbanded leagues to pick players
from, President Dickerson believes
the play this season will be faster
than for several years. To increase
this anticipated speed, the league has
adopted rules that will eliminate
every delaying feature possible. Par
ticular attention has been given to
pitchers. First, the spitball and
other freak deliveries were abolished,
it being Jhe belief that these have
caused considerable delay besides
making the games dull because of
the superiority they have given pitch
ers over batsmen.
Now comes the rule that pitchers
will not be allowed pitching practice
at the beginning of each inning. In
stead of being allowed five balls to
warm up, the pitcher must start pitch
ing as soon as the batter is ready.
This, it is believed will cut several
minutes off. the time of every game.
Up to Umpires.
The burden of enforcing rules, of
course, falls upon the umpires, and
President Dickerson's mandate to
them is "make the players hustle."
Further word from the league head
quarters is that no player will be fined
for aggressive hustling, so long as it
remains scrappy play and does not
develop into rowdyism. In this re
gard Dickerson is pursuing the same
policy he used as president of the
Central league. . During the season
of 1916, not a Central league player
was fined, he says.
Not Too Much Dignified.
Mr. Dickerson contends that if
olavers are fined everv time thev
show signs of being highly interested
in their work, they will cease to be
aggressive, and the fans will lose that
part of the play which appeals
strongly to them. He insists, how
ever, that there shall be no rowdyism,
and declares he will back his umpires
to the limit. He advises them, how
ever, not to be too quick to hear
everything that is said and not to
stand too much on dignity.
"A cocky umpire with a chip on his
shoulder waiting for the least excuse
to remove aggressive players from
the game greatly lessens the enjoy
ment of those who pay the freight
in base ball," he says.
The Western league season will
open May 1 with Joplin at Topeka,
Hutchinson at Wichita, Omaha at
Sioux City and St. Joseph at Des
Moines. The opening games in the
other four cities will be played May
8, with Topeka at Joplin, Wichita at
Hutchinson, Des Moines at St. Jo
seph and Sioux City at Omaha, Cele
brations will mark the opening games
in each city.
OMAHA FIGHTER
MAKING NAME IN
LAND OF DIXIE
An Omaha boy is rapidly making
a name for himself in featherweight
ring circles. He is Young Lawler.
Lawler learned to box in Omaha.
Only a few months ago he was a
familiar figure at impromptu and sub
rosa exhibitions given around Omaha.
A few months ago he shook the dust
of Omaha from his heels and beat it
southward and now he has become
quite a favorite in the land of Dixie.
Young Lawler has had several
fights in New Orleans. His most re
cent one was a 20-round go with Kid
Koster of the Crescent City. The
referee called the bout a draw, but
the decision is reported as an unpop
ular one. It is said Lawler won eas
ily on points.
At Chattanooga last week Lawler
knocked out Joe Jackson in the sec
ond round.
In the short space of a few weeks
Young Lawler has arisen from a pre
lim fighter to a main attraction and
now whenever he fights he appears in
the main bout.
Young Lawler is not a candidate
for the featherweight title yet, but
he is working his way steadily up
ward and his many Omaha friends
believe he .will be a title contender
before many more moons.
Eastern league Seeks
To Get Rating of Class A
The national board may have to
stretch a point to give the Eastern
league the ratine nf Class A aa if
has requested. The rule of the Na
tional association is that classihca
tion shall be determined upon the
basis of the last published official cen
sus and under th last rpnsns the
league hardly reaches the population
total of one million. On estimated
present population, however, it has the
required ngures.
Millionaire Changes Mind
About Backing Ball Club
George F. Johnson, the millionaire
shoe manufacturer of Binghamton,
who -had said after last season that
he was done backing a ball club, has
come to ' the front again and will
finance a team for Binghamton in the
new International. lie has named
Charles (Chick) Hartley as manager
of the team and told him to go out
and get the best players available.
Army Loses to Toft.
TVest Point. N. T., April 20. Ths army
lost to Tutu today In a one-Bided game, 7
to i. The Cadet were unable to solve
O'Mara'e delivery except In the fourth In
ning when Foster, the aecond baseman, made
a borne run. Jones was hit freely. ,
Tale Shnta Dartmouth Out.
New Haven, Conn., April 20. Tale de
feated Dartmouth In well-played game
here today, 1 to 0,
Three Promising Rourke . Recruits
i4 AV AIT vv
Fuhr, plfcher. Corey, pitcher. Lingle, catcher.
Wieldin
By FRED S. HUNTER.
THE marquis of Queensbury may
be tlie Pooh-Bah of his own flat,
but when he ventures forth from the
precinct to take on old man Black
stone, it is time to throw up the
sponge. For instance, the little legal
joust waging fast and furious between
Jack Kearns and John, the wielder of
the tonic bottle over the services of
Jack Dempsey.
Kearns won the first round, but in
so doing Dempsey lost out on a fight
and the dollars attached thereto. Also
the knight of the clippers promises to
appeal to a more learned court and
Dempsey is slated to be cut out of
some more fights and some more
coin.
Time probably will come when
Dempsey will be permitted to fight
again, but, judging from past per
formances of our courts of law and
sometimes justice, when that time
cqmes Jack will have grandchildren.
The Great Toney.
FRED .TONEY is or war as a
great pitcher, but his days are
over. Toney was first accused of try
ing to beat the draft law. He escaped
when the jury disagreed but during the
trial the rubber-heeled sleuths dug up
Jits record, and now Fred faces a
charge of violating the Mann act.
Toney may or may not make a visit
to a federal prison, but he never will
return to be a prominent figure on the
base ball diamond. All that will be
left to Fred is his enviable record that
he is one of the few men in the world
who can open a beer bottle withjiis
teeth.
A Suggestion.
C TRING training for ball players is
all right in its way, but it strikes
us that it would be much more feasi
ble to leave the ball players at home
and take the fans south for the train
ing season. Then they could attend
the early games without fear of get
ting pneumonia, chillblains, bronchitis
and one or two other little ailments
discovered by modern medical scien
tists. Trusting Mart.
THERE is a suspicion Mart Slat
1 tery, John Pesek's manager, is a
little too trusting. , He has scheduled
Pesek to meet Hussane at Lincoln,
May 2.
Mr. Hussane, be it known, belongs
to the justly celebrated stable of J.
Curley, wrestling impresario ex
traordinary. Mr. Curley overlooks no
bets. And if Pesek beats Hussane
as he no dout will then what? Pesek
may find himself suddenly unpopular
with all the ftther wrestlers.
Curley is k foxy bird; he tries 'em
out with Hussane and when thev beat
the Balkan duke the prize-winners of i
the Curley nock promptly beat it for
cover.
Minneapolis Protests. ,
MINNEAPOLIS apparently does
not care to be a target "for the
derisive hoots of every other town
in the country.
Sweeney, Des Moines first sacker last
year, has been sent to Indianapolis.
Manlon. Topeka catcher, was badly spiked
In avame with the Camp Funston team.
Joe Rabbltt and Al Nolt, outfielders from
the Central association, have been signed
by Hutchinson.
St. Joseph has drawn a battery from the
Detroit Tigers. Brooks is the pitcher an
Clary the catcher.
Joplin has three candidates for the short
stop position, I.amb, a veteran, and Brandt
and Ryan, new men.
Frankle Thompson, late' of the Western
association, is reported to have cinched the
third base job at Joplin.
Hutchinson has taken on WId Conroy,
veteran Infielder who has been working
out with the Kansas City club.
Hal Brokaw, former Rourke, la expected
to be a regular at Joplin this year. He will
hold down a berth In the outfield.
Three local sandlot products are to get
trials with St. Joseph. They ar Sandusky
and McDonald, pitchers, and Stewart, In
fielder. Bert Daniels, the new St. Joseph mana
ger, was a foot ball (ttar at Notre Dame
and Bucknell universities. He also Is said
to be a golfer of no mean ability.
Ward Miller Rourke left fielder last year.
Is slated for tbe tinware out at Salt Lake.
Miller vas retailed from Omaha, by th
Western League News Notes
TRACK ATHLETES
BATTLE SNOW IN
DRAKE CARNIVAL
Chicago University Winner,
With Ten Points; Nebraska
Places in But One
Event.,
Des Moines, la., April 20. Heavy
snow and a wintry chill slowed up
participants in the annual Drake relay
races here today and no new records
were established. Highest point win
ners were: University Class, Chicago,
10; college, Grinnell, 10; high school,
North Des Moines, 17.
Half mile high school, flrnt lection: West
Des Moines, first. North Des Moines, sec
ond; Mason City, third. Time, 1:30.
Two-mile university: Chicago, first;
Wisconsin, second. Time, 1:27 2-6.
Half mile high school, second section:
Marshalltown, tirat; Waverly, second; Ce
dar Itaiilds, third; Boone, fourth. Time,
1:45 4-5.
One mile college: Orlnnell, first; Tank
ton, second; Simpson, third. Time, 8:44 1-6.
Two-mile high school: Kant Des Moines,
first; West Des Moines, second; Cedar Rap
Ids, third; North Dea Moines, fourth. Time,
9:06H.
Shuttle high school: North Des Molnss,
first; West Eos Moines, second; Mason
City, third; Fort Dodgs, fourth. Time,
0:48 1-5.
Four-mil untvorslty: Ames, first; Notre
Dame, second, Chlcngo, third; Nebrnska
started but failed to finish. Time, 19:29.
Medley high school: Fort Dodge, firBt;
North Des Moines, second; West Des
Moines, third; Waterloo, fourth. Time, 7:27.
One-half ml! college: Orlnnell, first;
Dubuque, second; Coe, third. Time, 1:J7 4-0.
Two-mil college: Morning Side, first;
Cornell, second; Wabash, third; Coe, fourth.
Time, 8:4 8-6. I
One mile university: Missouri, first; Chi
cago, second; Iowa, third; Ames, fourth.
Time, 8:3.
One mil high school: North Des
Moines, first; West Des Moines, second;
Sloson City, third; Marshalltown, fourth.
Time. 3:61 8-5
One-hnlf mils university: Illinois, first;
Michigan, Record; Nebraska, third; Mis
souri, fourth. Time, 1:35 8-6.
100-yard dash, feature event: Scholz,
Missouri, first; Johnson, Michigan, second;
Carroll, Illinois, third; Butler. Dubuque,
fourth. Time, 0:09 4-6.
Florida Man Assistant
To Southern League Head
George W. Krick of Jacksonville,
Fla., who was business manager ot
the Jacksonville club in the South At
lantic league when that club dis
banded, and before that had been a
ball player, manager and sporting
writer, has been named secretary of
the Texas league to assist President
Walter Morris, whose business inter
ests prevent him giving full time to
league affairs.
Eli Wants to Row Others
In Addition to Harvard
Although the only tw6 rowing
events definitely schedulttd for the
Yale eight for this season are with
Harvard, correspondence is in pro
gress with Pennsylvania, Cornell,
Princeton ana Columbia with a view
to securing other contests. It is
practically assured exents will be held
on the Housatonic May 11 and 26.
Louis Browns last fall and then shipped
to th coast league. But manager Mc
Credle at ?alt Lake has concluded Ward
does not take his Job seriously and says
he will dispose of him.
TSIoux City will not get Pitcher Jack
Kotzelnlck from the Cardinals. He has
been sent to Topeka Instead. Topeka also
gots Pitcher Olahn from the Browns.
St. Paul has finally turned Pitcher
Boardman over to Louisville. The Saints
tntondod to send him to Omaha with Ton)
Defate, but Louisville refused to waive.
John Paul Cobb, brother of the famous
Georgia Peach, has enlisted In the marine
corps. Paul played right field for the Lin
coln Western league club for several years.
St. Joseph was schedulod to play exhibi
tion game with Kansas City yesterday and
today, but Manager Hanlon called 'em off
because the boys weren't In good enough
condition.
Th Camp Dodg baa ball team which
will play th Rourke this afternoon was
quipped with un forms and bats by Tom
Falrweather, president of th Des Moines
Western league club.
Mayor Tom Falrweather of Moines re
fuses to pitch the first ball at th opening
Western league game In the Iowa capital.
Tom owns the club and Is mayor both, so
he says he will not perform. And thus is
aa ancient tradition ahattsred,
FILLY MAY NAIL
KENTUCKY DERBY
Dozen Filly Stars of Turf En
tered in Blue Grass Classic ;
v Not Single One Last
Year.
While a great deal has been written
concerning the coming classic of the
turf world, the Kentucky derby, and
all the limelight administered to the
crack colts as well as the geldings
for the event, little has been said of
the fillies named to start. Of the
70 nominations for the Kentucky
derby this list includes 12 of the
fleetest fillies raced on the American
turf during the season of 1917.
Compared with last year and previ
ous years the coming 1918 derby car
ries with it one of the largest list of
til lies ever named in the historic
event. The fillies nominated to go
include such stars of the turf as Rosie
O'Grady, Atalanta, Ocean Sweep, En
filade, Olive Wood, Viva America,
Gipsy Queen, Mary Maud, Plum, Tal
ly, Amalette and Brig of War. The
list outnumbers that of last year by
five, as just seven fillies were nomina
ted in 1917. They were Maud Bacon,
Crepuscule, Diamond, Koh-I-Noor,
Swan Song and Vague.
No Fillies in 1917.
It- might bewell for turfites ,to
know that of that number not a sin
gle filly contested in the derby in
1917, despite the fact that just two
years previous the great Regret, be
longing to Harry Payne Whitney, and
by that good sire Broomstick, shat
tered all records, being the first filly
to win the derby. Never before had
a filly accomplished the feat, it being
claimed that this race was run a bit
too early for this sex of the thorough
bred. . Despite this contention 12 really
high class fillies have been nominated
this year in an effort to duplicate
the wonderful performance of Re
gret. Among the present list of fillies
Harry Payne Whitney, the New
Yorker, has nominated the most for
midable contender among that sex
in Rosie O'Grady, one of tne last de
scendants of Hamburg. The death of
Hamburg in the early part of 1917
marked the passing of a most success
ful .sire, being by Hanover out of Lady
Reel. Happy-Go-Lucky and Corydon,
both successful racers as 2-year-olds,
are by Hamburg.
Schultz Gets Arm Fixed;
Expects to Go Big at' K. C.
Joe Schultz, late of Toronto, who
has signed wih Kansas City, says the
weak arm that cost him his place in
the big show is all right again as a
result of a visit to Bonesetter Reese
during th$ winter, and he expects to
play such ball with Kansas City that
he will be back up again before the
season closes.
Brother of John Evers
In Navy, Seriously III
Joe Evers, brother of the famous
Johnny, and himself a player of minor
league note, who recently joined the
navy and was undergoing training at
Pcnsacola, has been transferred to the
hospital at Great Lakes, suffering
severely with neuritis and it is re
ported his condition is such that he
will be discharged from the service.
Seaton and Wolter Are
Finally Placed on Coast
Pitcher Tom Seaton and Outfielder
Harry Wolter finally were placed by
the management of the Chicago Cubs,
after many reports of where they
might land. Wolter goes to Sacra
mento as originally intended, while
Seaton goes to San Francisco, in
stead of to Los Angeles, as it was
first reported.
Former Columbus Player
Gets Job as College Coach
Kemper Shelton, for several years
an outfielder with the Columbus
American association team, has been
appointed coach of the University of
West Virginia base ball squad, suc
ceeding Charley Hemphill. Shelton
played ball with this school before he
became a professional,
Joe Stecher of Dodge, Neb., and
Ed ("Strangler") Lewis of a number
of places will ctash in a wrestling
match at Madison Square Garden in
New York on April 26.
This will be the third meeting be
tween these two heavyweight bone
crushers. Both of the other matches
in which these grapplers tangled were
drawl.
Great excitement prevails in the
east oer the prospect of this match.
Stecher specializes in a scissors hold.
The Lewis specialty is a head lock.
The prospect of a match between
these one-hold specialists is highly
pleasing to Gotham mat bugs.
But Omaha, retaining tender mem
ories of a certain Fourth of July, is
quite content to let the Gothamites
have a monopoly on the entertain
ment. On the Fourth of July in ques
tion Steelier and Lewis held their
second meeting in Omaha. The first
match at Evansville, Ind., went two
hours to a draw. The Omaha event
went five hours to a draw.
Event by Courtesy.
The Omaha match is called an
event by courtesy only. For five hours
the wrestlers stood on their fact. Oc
casionally one gave the other a gentle
push or took a couple of fox-trot
steps to one side. The rest of the time
they acted like a couple of marble
statues. But the $5 patrons weren't
there to see a human statue skit;
they can see those for a dime at a
pop vaudeville house. A cushion
shower was inserted into the pro
gram to add zest and after the match
it was called on account of dark
nessa few stones were chucked In
the general direction of Mr. Lewis,
Stecher being a home boy and there
fore immune.
Just what will happen in New
York is, of course, uncertain. The
match may be a rip-roaring terror of
a go. Also it may not. But in view
of the past performances of these
two gladiators Omaha mat fans are
quite willing to forgo the opportunity
of attending.
Head-Lock Camouflage.
New York believes Lewis a great
ly superior wrestler. Omaha scoffs
at the suggestion. Omaha mat fans
believe the Lewis head lock, about
which eastern fans have been raving,
is purely camouflage. Almost every
wrestler that appeared In Omaha pos
sessed Some kind of a head lock. It
is a common hold. There is no rea
son why the Lewis head lock should
be any more deadly than any other.
In fact, Omaha fans believe thtf Lewis
head lock is the same old hold Lewis
has been using for years thesame as
every other wrestler, but that it is
being promulgated for "inside" rea
sons, said "inside" reasons having to
do with the results of certain matches
back east.
Lewis may be an Improved wrest
ler, but Omaha fans do not believe it
likely. Stecher is about the same as
he was, although there ii the bare
possibility that he has slumped a
little. Thus are the chances for an
other draw believed to be good.
And yet, it's a wrestling match, and
in a wrestling match you never can
tell things do happen.
Johnny Kilbane Placed in
Chargp of All Camp Boxing
Johnny Kilbane, featherweight box
ing champion, has been placed in gen
eral charge of boxing instruction in
military camps all over the country,
according to word received from
Camp Sherman. Kilbane has been in
structor at Camp Sherman, GalU
cothe, Ohio, the only camp in the
country where every man has been
taught how to box. The champion
will go penonally to Camps Grant
and Custer to install his system.
Mike Mowrey Signs With
. Jack Dunn at Baltimore
Jack Dunn of the new International
league club at Baltimore, announces
that he has signed Harry (Mike)
Mowrey, one-time National league
player. Now that he will have a ball
club Dunn also expects that Connie
Mack will turn back the players re
cently "sold" the Athletics.
Nunamaker Loses Out in
Appeal to Draft Board
Catcher Leslie Nunamaker of the
St. Louis Browns, who sought de
ferred draft classification on the
ground of dependent parents, was de
nied his plea and has been put in the
first call. The Browns now stand to
lose Williams, Gerber, Houck and
Nunamaker in the coming call.
Herb Moran, Former Phil,
Is Signed by Little Rock
The Little Rock club announces
that it has secured Herb Moran, for
mer National leaguer, who played
with Montreal last season. Little
Rock thus has four outfielders, Ernie,
Walker, Ham Hyatt, Kedzie Kirk
ham and Moran, and one of the quar
tet will be disposed of.
rBues Decides to Be Good
And Reports to Mobile Club
Art Bues, who at ftrtt declined to
report to the Mobile club, which
thereupon tried to make a deal for
him, without success, concluded it
might be just as well to take a chance
with Pat Flaherty, since it seemed to
be that or stay out of the game.
Boathern Association.
At Atlanta, I; Chattanooga, I.
At New Orleans, t; Mobile, 10.
At Memphis, J; Mttls Rock, I.
At Nashville Birmingham, rain.
"Tommy" Howittt Die.
Chicago, April 10. "Tommy" Mowatt. a
widely known lightweight boxer, died today.
H had bo lit (or sora Urn with tuber-
jfSulosla,
ANOTHER TRIAL
IN BJG LEAGUE
FOR OMAHA BOY
Indianapolis Obtains Gus Wil
liams From Louisville to
Send to Cardinals, Is '
Report.
.
Gus Williams, native son of Omaha
and former Rourke, may get another
chance to wield his big stick in the
majors. Gus, it is reported, is soon
to go to the St. Louis Cardials.
Williafis has just been traded from
the Louisville club of the American
association to the Indianapolis team
of the same league. Williams played
all last year with Louisville, but this
spring he was a holdout He refused
to report at Louisville and remained
in Omaha, working out with Bill
Jackson at Rourke park.
Then Louisville engineered a three
cornered deal with Indianapolis and
Milwaukee. Indianapolis traded
Duke Reilly and Cozy Dolan to
Louisville for Gus Williams and 1
Johnny Corridcn, who, by the way,
is also a former Rourke. Then Louis
ville traded Dolan to Milwaukee fot
Bob Bescher, a Milwaukee holdout.
Really Card Deal. - ; '
Now comes the report that Indian
apolis really obtained Williama fot
the purpose of sending him Jo, th
Cardinals. Indianapolis officials de
ny this, but naively admit that if the
Cardinals want Williams they would
not prevent Gus from bettering him
self. Thus it is believed the deal
will be made soon.
Wliliams is a product of the Oma
ha sandlots. Later he played in th.
outfield for the Rourkes. lie alwayi
has been a clubber. He hita the pill
a mile and he hits all the time. Hi
will bat .300 or near that mark in any
league. , ,
But Gus is not so proficient In the
field. He is a bit erratic on the de
fense. He will make one of the most
startling catches possible 'one minute,
and make a glaring error the next.
Gus played two or three seasons with
the St. Louis Browns 'and he prob
ably would be there yet had it nol
been for his erratic fielding. 1
Williams still lives in Omaha and
always passes the winter here. Harry
Wliliams, also a former major league,
and Western league, is playing sec
ond base with the Brandeis crew.
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uver me iop
vOnce more the Harley
D avid son demonstrates
that its reputation as "The
Master Motorcycle" is
based on its merits. In the
Hill -climbing Contest
staged last Sunday, at 21st
and O streets, South Side,
by the Omaha Motorcycle
Club, "Big Bill' Dristy, a
220-pound rider, on a Har-ley-Davidson
was the only
one of ten riders, using all
makes of motorcycles, to
go "OVER THE TOP."
Mr. Dristy won First
Place on both events oh a
H A R.LEY -DAVIDSON
Otto Ramer, also astride a
H A RLEY- DAVIDSON,
won Second Place in both
events. Just so did the
HARLEY-DA VIDSON
prove that it is the
MASTER OF THEM ALL
when in the gasoline t
Economy Contest held at
the Omaha Motorcycle
Club a few weeks ago the
HARLEY-DA VIDSON
then, too, took 1st and 2d
prizes in both classes by
covering 108 miles on 1
gallon of gasoline.
These facts coupled
with many others such as :
Uncle Sam is using more
H ARLEY-D AVIDSON
motorcycles than all other
makes combined, com
mercial users all over the
country have a decided
preference for the HAR-LEY-D
AVIDSON on ac
count of its economy ;
pleasure users have long
since learned that the
HARLEY-DAVIDSON ii
the machine that gives the
maximum amount of
pleasure, for with it goes
absolute satisfaction in
the way of. service, com
fort in riding, ease of
operation, power, speed,
and last, but not least,
knowledge that they
posess the very best
motorcycle that money
can buy.
Deliveries are uncertain be
cause Uncle Sam is taking 50
HARLEY - DAVIDSON motor
cycles and Side-cars every day
and HARLEY-D AVIDSON
dealers all over the U. S. are
paving unprecedented sales, and
you all know the transportation
question is serious, so we plejid
with you to get your order in
early that you will not be forced
to wait for your machine.
Come in or ask to have a
salesman call on you to show
you this wonderful machine,
VICTOR II. DOOS
"The Cycle Man"
HARLEY-DAVIDSON MOTOR
CYCLES and BICYCLES.
2701-03 Leavenworth $t.
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