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BALLOON MEN PLAN
CLASSY FOOT BALL
GAMES FOR OMAHA
.
Stars of First Magnitude Are Included in Lineup of
Khaki Eleven Gathered From North and South,
East and West; Nebraska Boys Will Make
Team
Fort Omaha Balloon School Foot Ball Players
bervice elevens promise to furnisliv
the class ot Missouri V alley foot
.ball this year. In this respect Omaha
is extremely fortunate and indica
tions point to a scries of extremely
last games to beplayed in this city.
, Fort Omaha has 'a wealth, of ma
terial from wihch to pick a team ami
will be coached by players knowing
tvery detail of foot ball as taught
by the leading university coaches
not only of the cast but of the entire
United States.
i Lieut. J. t. McKay, formerly a
University of Pittsburgh player and
later coach of the same team, wil!
be head coach of the army team, lie
will be assisted by Capt. F. DeP.
Townsend. for two years a member
of the kYilliama team and for three
years a tackle on the Harvard
eleven. While a member of the Har
vard team be was picked as an A 1 1 -.American
tackle.
Practice Starts Late.
T KnlL- in;l iii'jruT 1, ill Cllc,
I assist in whipping the squad 'into
I sliape for the stiff games which
I have beeti scheduled. Firlk jumped
into a. fame as a . teammate of the
famous Dobbic, tiow head coach at
Annapolis Navel academy, while
playing on the undefeated Universi
ty, of Washington team. Me wil!
liave charge of coaching the ends.
Spang is another Harvard man hav
ing played two years on the varsity
team He later coached the fresh
man team of his Alma Mater with
success!
The late start secured by the fly
ing soldiers may prove somewnat
of a handicap to them in the early
games, but they arc working daily
tv i,1itn t in chnns nc rramrl.
jty as possible. I'ark commissioner
alias donated the use of Miller Park
to the boys in khaki for practice
purposes, as suitable grounds could
not -be found on the military re
lerevc. No team has been picked from
N-t- lntn anitart (Iiaf tiirllf,l nnf fnr
I practice, and it is not probable that
I a definite team will be selected un-
til just before the Creighton game
I next Saturday. In addition to the
I coaches, who-will play if necessary,
I the balloon , boys have a palaxy of
'.stars from which tn pick the team,
i Nebraskans Will Play.
. ... r e -TT..:...
i sergeant iuoore, lormcr uuivci
Wr'rv nf Nrhraska nlaver. is nractic-
aliy sure of a bertk on the army
team. Tracy, who appeared 1 in a
suit of Creighton moleskins, is an
other likely candidate for the
eleven. Revnolds of the University
of California, is a western star who
11 is showing class in the early play-
Hms. while the ca.t is represented
iby Dressen from the University of
j&eorgia. Deeds and Whistler, ex
Imembers of the fast Haskell ln-
Idian team, have a number of wily
Jiricks which they expect to prove
troublesome to their opponents.
J King, a former captain of the Uni
Ivcrsity of Virginia team, will prove
lone of the bulwarks about which
the armv team wUl be constructed,
j With the exception of the game
j Saturday .which will be played on
;thc Creighton campus, all games
scheduled for Omaha, will be
olaved at Rourke pa"rk.
), An extrmcly stiff schedule lias
been arranged and the ballponists
WUl De lOrcCQ III Wil tuijr
ergy to . win. 1 he schedule as ar
ranged, will Include the following
teams: I v
Otolwr iC Crpl3hton on Crelenton
lfilll. i
November : V. S. isaval Kcservcs i
WESTERN LOOP
CLAIM PLAYERS
FOR NEXT YEAR
Nine Minor League Organiza
tions Reserve Players as
Basis for Teams
Next Season.
The Western league was num
bered among the nine minor league
organizations that made claims of
reservation of players for next year.
J ne international league was the
only organization to complete the
schedule, but the others played fin
ished more than half of the season,
which entitles them to recognition.
The men -reserved by Western
league teams were:
ft. Joseph (la.ipar, Curtis. F.luejarkpt,
Mueller. C'oomv, UruUaker. Watson, Klrk
ham. Honpwltz. Murphy, rsailinnt. Gen
ner (puspemlfd), (Itlmore (suspended 1,
Hchardt (suspended), tirover (suspended),
.McLaughlin (pusptnili'd). V. S. jerviec
Rraunlgan Crosby. Connolly. Klrby, Ka-
der. Ross, Luschcn, Thlcman, Sutherland,
Inman.
Dea Moines John V. Coffey, William
Hunter, R. Murphy, Jt. F. Green, William
l.wellyn, l.ee jiresaen. A. II. Phillips.
Kred Delbum, W. F. Corey, Ed Wright,
Mosc Yellowliorse, A. r. Lynch, Glen
Trainer, Jl. I.. Hnabrook, V. J. Kerwin,
H. rt. mianley (suspended), Paul Meloan
(sMspended), Dan Moeller (suspended),
I. arry Spahr (suspended). V. S. Service
A. I,. Ewaldt, Paul Jlusser, Bruce Hart
ford, O. C H logins, George Payne, V. J.
Cass.
Wichltn Everett Taryan, Al Wallln,
Georpft Carey, Joe Pernor. C. A. Marr,
P.oy O. Wolfe, P. M. Coy, Clyde MeHride,
K. K. Ciley. lien Jlarris, W. U. ones. E.
C. Ilovllk, Harry Williams (suspended),
H. Martini (suspended), GeorRe T'oblilns
(suspended). E. W. Baker- (suspended!.
William Conroy (suspended ). E. .1. Black
Suspended). U. S. Service William l'ov
C. V. Goodwin. I. M. Davis, Louis Kolls
Georife Lyons, R. E. Clemmons. Elmer
Miller, Hoy Washburn, Arthur Oiler
man. Joplln Collins. Monroe. Purpr. Lamb,
Front row standing (reading from left to right): Knox, Anderson, Lieutenant Falk, coach; Lieutenant Spang, coach; King, Philpot, Smith,
Froelich. Second row: Capps, Marshall, Tracy, Kohontik, Evans, Walton, Littleton, Gordon, Third row (seated): Watkins, Hughes, Noe,
Reynolds, Eudaly.
Hitting the
High Spots on
The Sporting Trail
Doughboys "Skin the Snake" in London
Omaha.
November Camp Funaton at Kansas
City. '
November "is Camp Orant at Omaha.
lianapolls.
November ti Fort Harrison at Indian-
ipolll
- November US Fort Itlley
(imtatlve.)
November Sn-
at Omaha
ramp Podca at'omaha.
A. C. Members Anxious for
Horan. Llndamore Burwell, Marel, I cy ll,
Kline. Brandt, Thompson.
Hutchinson John Nee, 0. J, Manton
Georee Block. B. W. ' Cleveland. John
Wuffli. Albert Noll. Tank Davis, Ned
Petllgrcw. C. E. Koche, Art Haueer,
Benny Meyers. Jesse Haines, S. T,. talla-
hiirv. A. Sparks. JIth Lambreehf. Lona
Javnes. John Klnu, Leon E. Webb, Rich
ard Cantwcll, Vernon Mans?r, Floyd
Kemp.
, Hious City W. V. Rohrer, Sap C'Con
nor. Mack Allison, Arthur Fletcher, A.
Hlnkley, Tony Smith. Cotton Jones. Ed
Keiclile. eharlcs Stewart. R. A. Sbers
(suspended). Elmer Johnson (suspended),
Dick Payless (suspended), Paul Elffert
(suspended). Pulled States Service P.
A. Lyck, Carl East. Howard Gregory, El
mer Lober7
Omaha r. W. Mason, Edwin Llngle,
Oscar Fuhr, Charles Kopp, Brooks Hale,
Otto Merz, Pete McGiiire, James It. Ad
dis, A. E. Janske. W. R. Jackson, Dave
Williams. Otur Nye. Marty Krus:, Harry
Ponlca, Phil Cooney, J. A. Thompson. J.
W. Holderman. Al Bashang, C. II. Calla
han. Marty O'Toole.
Oklahoma City Glenn Meadows. John
Tabor, Frank Newman, Walter Briebeck,
Elmer Benson, Stewart Dilts, Joe Rob
inson, Joe Agler, .1. O'Connor, Jack Ban
ner, K. Sommer, Frank Goalby, J. Dau
bert, Albert North. Wells Tedeschi, P.
OVoitnor. United State Service George
Sheppard, Robert Wright, Frank Graham.
R. B. McCollough, John Williams, Ray
Falk, Ben Smith. H. McClellan, Albert
Sprltzter, Art flhay, Frank O'Brien, Harry
Hartzell, Cecily Hammond.
Otto Merz, Former Omaha
v Player, Building Ships
Otto Merz, former Omaha pitcher,
who is now working in the shipyards
at Duluth, Minn., writes to friends
in Omaha, telling some interesting
news of the shipyards team on which
he played this season.
One' other Omaha player, C, If.
Callahan, also played on the same
team. Merz writes that in the
(ramps nr tne cnammonKnin in s
Opening Of NeW Club HOUSSj fall, which bis team won, he pitched
iuur Kdiiio auu nun nitk ji uiviii,
During the other games of the seJ
ries he played outfield, but says tliat
he batted about .400 Their season
closed three weeks ago.
Members of the New Athletic club
ire beginning to practice up on all
kinds of athletic stunts, in anticipa
tion of the opening up of their new
club rooms. As surely as you slip
up on one of them, unawares, you
will find him going through the
gyrations of the high dive or turn
s' a handspring or some otner
acrobatic feat. They are just like
a s'hool boy when the hrst warm
days of spring arrive. They can
scarcely vVa't for the time when they
can go "swimmin'."
But t won't T3e long. The me
chanical work is practically all done
and the men out of the building.
Only a fw odd jobs, such as the
completion of the elevator cages and
placing of some of the fixtures re
main. Just now they are busy un
packing the elegant electric fixtures
and putting them iu place. The
kitchen furniture, including the large
modern bakery, is all installed and
1 ready for use.
-.The decorators will begin to ply
their art upon the walls on Monday
ii3f Tuesdav. and as soon as thev are
front' of the way the curtains and
1 jdraperies will be put in place. Then
will come the big opening event, and
he who trusses it will miss one of the
big events of the season. Have you
Secured your membership card? If
not do ncjut it oft. "Procrastina
tion is the thief of time" and time
is the essential element in being sure
j to, obtain one. .
Fet Ball Bcratta,
. ' A I CJavetand Cleveland Naval Reserve!.
St; Western Reserve, t.
f At Easton. Pa, Ursinlus, LaFayette,
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At Hanover. N. U. Dartmouth, Zt; Sot-
At Philadelphia University of Penn-
;h-,nl. t"; Battleship Mlnaeaola, .
At Washlrurlon Washington and Jef
Jeracn, J: Camp Sherman, .
: ' At Minneapolis Minnesota, ,0; Sol
tram Ueciis&lcs gcboo f.
Exhibition Golf Matches
Net LaVge Sum for Red Cross
Chicago, Oct. 19. Exhibition
matches in aid of the Red Cross un
der tha auspices of the Western Golf
association have netted $303,775 this
season, according to the report of
President Charles F. Thompson,
made public today.
President Thompson said that 82
games were played and that the
expense had been confined to a
minimum, only traveling and hotel
bills being taken from the receipts.
A match at Lake Shore Country
club here which netted $30,100, cost
the Red Cross fund only 2.30,
By A. K. DONOVAN.
Last Monday was the birthday
anniversary of the American league
as a full-rledged major league cir
cuit. The magnates of Ban' John
son's infant organization held a
meeting October 14, 1900 in Chicago
and decided to expand by placing
clubs in the big eastern cities.
Johnson, the shoestring magnate,
launched his ambitious scheme to
change the Western league to a
major organization in 1000 and the
name decided upon still remains.
The first year the league, of near
niaior proportions, fell short of the
ambitions of Ban aiid his fellow)
conspirators and at the memorable
meeting new cards were dealt and
the affairs of the league settled.
Mack to Philadelphia.
Connie Mack's new hand called
for the disposal -.of the Milwaukee
club and in its place he was award
ed a franchise in Philadelphia. Jim
Manning drew the Senators in
Washington. When it became evi
dent that the National league con
sidered a war in progress Indianap
olis, Minneapolis and Kansas City
were dropped to make room for
eastern cities. The Buffalo team was
also transferred, finding a home in
Boston.
The war raged merrily through
the season of 1901, much to the dis
gust of the fans and the financial
profit of the, players. Several jump
ed back and forth between the two
organizations several times during
the playing season.
. Invade New York.
At the close of the season it was
evident that Milwaukee could not
support a team during war times
such as were in progress and a sec
ond team was placed in St. Louis.
Baltimore was also proving a los
ing proposition and Ban settled a
personal grudge when the team was
transferred and became the New
York Yankees. McGraw and John
son had fought constantly and final
ly Jawn jumped to the Giants and
took several players with him. With
this addition the "leaguewas,TTrm
posed of the same clubs as it is to
day.
The league really dates still farther
back, to 1879, when the Northwest
ern league was launched. At that
tinie the circuit included Omaha,
Dubuque and Rockford teams.
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A big demonstration of Amcr- More than 100 American soldiers! of "skinning the snake," a form
ican games was held recently in elected from the training camps in , ,
Hyde Park, London, under the aus- England took part. The photo of exercise whlch IS V"Y popular
pices of the American Y. M. C. A. shows the Yanks playing the game with the boys over there.
3Y JOHN H KEARNE5
former University Coach
Dies in Ottawa, Canada
Ottawa. Ont.. Oct. 19. Tack
"Cabby" Grimes, who coached the
Lehigh University lacrosse team to
the American championship in 1917
died at his home here Thursday af
teif a brief illness. Grimes, who was
42 years old. was famous in his
younger days as a lacrosse player,
starring for several seasons with
Orangeville1 and the Toronto- Te
cumsehs. New Foot BallF ieWs for
Great Lakes Naval Station
Great Lakes, 111., Oct. 19. Four
new foot ball fields, 160 feet iu
width and 300 feet long, will be built
at -the Great Lakes naval training
station to accommodate the needs
of he regimentil loot ball league, 'and receive the homage due,
Boy! Page Willie Hoppe.
Charlie Ellis, Milwaukee billiard
star, finds that his cue training has
proved beneficial in the army. He
states that "eye accuracy" has won
him a sharpshoc,' medal and he is
soon to be transferred to ajnachine
gun 'company as the result of his
newly acquired expert marksman
ship. The draft board may reverse
their recent decision on Hoppe
now. With his skill on the green
tables, he should be able to pick
the medals from the Clown
Quince's uniform "somewhere in
Germany (not the firing line.)
Dad Is From Old Eli.
Doc Williams, veteran coach of
Minnesota athletic teams, is like
the waiter in the restaurant who
went out for his meals. He has
enrolled his son in Yale university
this year.
Yeomanettes Pull for Cook
In Goat Island Battle
Lee Gong, a Chinese cook for the
yeomanettes at the Goat Island
naval station, San Francisco, beat
Joe Sanchez, an enlisted man, in one
of the grudge fights that are
staged there publicly before, all
of the station's people, that is a
few days ago. There is only one
round to one of these bouts, the men
going until there is a knockout, or
one of the pair quits.
In this fight there was 17 minutes
of action that is said to have been
all that the most hardened gore
lover could ask, the Chinese win
ning. All of the yeomanettes were
at the ringside, coaching and cheer
ing the cook. As a result of his
victory the girls gave Gong the next
day to Kile, insisting on cooking the
meals' and cleaning up the kitchen,
so that he could parade the yard
Corey ResistsTemptation.
Clarence E. Corey of Corey &
McKcnzie, who lost his automobile
temporarily to a would-be auto
bandit, last week,, had a near set
tlement with the company vith
whom the machine was insured.
His car had been "gone long
enough for him to bid it a fond fare
well and try to find surcease of sor
row in the insurance money that
was due him so . he notified the
agents of his loss and they promised
a prompt adjustment.
Bright and early Monday morning
he was notified by the- police the
car had been recovered and to come
and get it. Before, he could get
ready to go to the station twcA
surancc adjusters appeared with
check for $985 to pay the loss on
the machine.
With an air of contrition Clarence
waved the check away, saying to the
bearers, who were strangers to him:
"Remove the temptation, gentlemen.
My conscience has gotten the better
of me and I have cold teet. .In my
present state of mind I cannot rob
an insurance company.
The men were mystified, but made
their get away before Clarence
could change his mind or explain
the situation.
It is possible they feel that one of
Omaha's good business men con
spired against their company, but
suddenly discovered he had a real
conscien.ee and quit.
'Take Away de Othah Snakes'
"Colored troops at Camp Dodge,
when they are at drill are a joy to
see," says Lee Smith, formerly of
The Bee advertising department,
and now in Uncle Sam's service.
"The boys are snappy and when
they march to the music of the regi
mental band it is just one big cake
walk they sure have a sense of
music in their feet.
"There is a patch of drill ground
a: the cantonment which is cover
ed with a tropical growth of weeds.
It is a veritable jungle and is iairly
alive with little garter and big bull
snakes.
-"One day recently a battalion of
the colored boys, full of pep, and
marching like one huge machine, so
fine was their rythym, were taken
into the xatch for a drill.
"All wreut well until some of them
discovered a wriggling, squirming
army of reptiles fleeing from the
ttniopian advance, pig sergeant
major was th- first-to identify the
crawling creatures as snakes.
He at once lost all sense ot
authority ynd jumped up into the
air with a yell. - Other colored sold
iers (ollowed suit and foe a moment
panic and a disgraceful defeat from
the tail of the enemy threatened.
"The sergeant major, as soon as
he alighted on his feet regained his
poise, and with his eyes almost pro
truding from his head he shouted
the order.
"To de rear! March!"
a ever was an order more will
ingly or promptly obeyed.
"Bring on youh kaiser, but tak
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away uc oinan snaKesi yenea tne
men in their precipitate retreat."
Army Red Tape. 1
"Army red tape," said a man
posted in military affairs, "can be
tied into the hardest knots in the
world, and once red tape is tied it
is a tedious task to take out , the
binding knots.
"A short time ago,a general sur
vey of military material was made
by the purchase, storage and traffic
division of the general staff and mil
lions of dollars worth of unused,
and. in some cases, worthless mater
ial has been found.
"It is a well known fact that there
are 5,000 buffalo skin coats held in
Omaha that would be grateful to
the Yanks in Siberia and Russia just
'now.
"When the government was ap
pealing to private owners of, field
glasses in the country to turn in
all such instruments to equip offi
cers in the army and navy who were
short of glasses there were hundredsH
of the finiest kind of instruments in
the army depot here.
"The survey made by the general
staff showed there were 500 pairs
of field glasses valued at $37,000 in
the supply depot here and other
emergency supplies to the value of
$75,000 were also found in the same
depot and released to be shipped
immediately overseas."
.
One on "Cap". Hayes.
When it comts to mental deduc
tion, Sherlock Holmes has nothing
on "Cap" Hays of the Omahn de
tective force.
A few days ago a man came from
town about 150 miles outin' the
state and told a detailed story of
how his car had been stolen from
him by a couple of neighbors.
The out-of-town man said the
neighbors had taken the car to Kan
sas City where they loaded it with
.booze,, ran the car and the cargo
back to the home; town, and then
being fearful of the car being found
in their possession had run it to
Omaha and placed it in storage in
a garage, with a white painted front,
located in the southeastern part of
the city. .
On the strength of the fellow's
Lcircumstantial story and its wealth
ct dctaiV'and the confidence tne
man had that he could locate the
garage and car, "Cap" Hays was de
tailed to assist him.
The two spent several hours on
the job and could not locate a gar
age in the city, answering the
description given by the man, who
persisted in giving minute detail.
Finally "Cap" became impatient
and exclaimed:
"Say, friend, you got your hunch
from a fortune teller, -didn't you?"
"Why, how did you find out,"
asked the countryman in amaze
ment. "I sure did, and she charged
mc $10 for giving me a straight
tip."
It is needless to say the two men
never found the car or the garage,
although the countryman still sus
pects his neighbors.
Another Mother-in-Law Story
Thousands of persons in Omaha
know Mickey Mullen, erstwhile
purveyor of liquid cheer, and who
now keeps himself occupied dishing
out soft drinks at the old stand on
North Sixteenth street.
Thousands, too, are familiar with
his pet expression: "That's good!
That's good."
Mickey says it rather absent
mindedly, and thereby hangs a tale.
One of the habitues of Mickey s
place failed to show up at his favcur-
te resort for several weeks and
Mickey missed him. On the return
of the habitue Mickey asked:
Where have you v been for the
past three weeks?"
"Back at my old home at Peru,
III.," was the answer.
"That's good! That's goodl" ob
served Mickey, "and what were you
doing there?"
"Burying ni; mother-in-law,"
came the sad reply. N
"That's goodl That's good!" ex
claimed Mickey, with a faraway
look in his eye, and he never saw
the shocked expression on the face
of his friend as the latter went out
the door.
Former Rowing Instructor
Now Training Soldiers
Jim Rice, former Detroit Boat
club instructor, who resigned as
coach of the Columbia University
crews last June, has been promis
ed an appointment as a physical in
structor with the students' army
training corps.
"Rowing is done until the end of
the war," he said "and I want to
get into- the work of teaching the
soldiers how to keep their bodies
in condition."
Rice spent the summer at Lonely
Lake, half mile from Saratoga" Lake.
He rowed daily against Jim Riley,
the old amateur champion, and is
nara as a rock;
i f . rt fx 2?c& wlv famish 1
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CENTRAL HIGH
BALL SCHEDULE
WRECKED BY FLU
Post Season Games Are Pos
sible Unless Ban on Meet
ings Is Rescinded by
Health Commissioner.
LONDON TIMES
TELLS OF YANK
GAMESJN PARK
American Games Amuse Lor
doners Who Are Initiated
to "Down in Front;"
Play Base Ball.
It is hoped that several of the
games which appeared on the Cen
tral High foot ball schedule and
which were cancelled on account of
the closing order may be played
later in the season. It is the plan of
the Central High officials to rear
range these games providing the
weather permits. By playing its
full schedule of games the Omaha
boys see the possibility of retaining
the state championship which they
won last year. Post season games
may be played.
York High, by its defeat of South
Omaha Saturday by a 7 to 0 score,
looms up as a most likely contender
for state honors. York has no
game scheduled with Omaha this
year, but both York and Omaha are
to play Beatrice, and should the for
mer lose, and Omaha win the Be
atrice and Lincoln games they
would have a good claim to the
state championship, in spile of the
fact that they lost to bouth High
early in the season.
It is not thought probable that
the game scheduled for this week
with the North Des Moines High
team will be played even though the
Omaha school is open, as the closing
order is even more stringent in Dcs
Moines, ad a state-wide quarentinc
has just been imposed on Iowa,
Sioux City Next Game.
The cancellation of the game with
North Des Moines High is a great
disappointment to the Omaha stu
dents. The game was to have been
played in Omaha, and as the Des
Moines school triumphed over all
opponents last year, and have most
of their 1917 players on the team
this year, there wasa great deal of
speculation as to the relative merits
of their team compared with the
.Missouri Valley cnampions repre
sented by the Omaha team. How
ever, the Omaha team has played
only one game this year which
would prove a serious handicap in
a contest with a team of the North
Des Moines caliber.
Omaha at Sioux City is the next
possible game on the Omaha sched
ule. The postponement of so many of
the home games "Tias proven quite
a strain on the athletic treasury at
Central High, but according to best
information, this will not (interfere
in the least with the bringing of the
St. Joseph team here for the
Tfaansgiving day game.
Muny Athletic Park ,
Planned by Towl for -South
Side Contests
A South Side "dump" is about to
be converted into an athletic park
with a stadium for the use of the
public. City Commissioner Towl
will introduce an ordinance at the
city council meeting next Tuesday
providing for tins work. I he
"dump is the tract between L and
M streets-; between Twentieth and
Twenty-third streets
It contains ravines 60 feet deep.
Most of the property is delinquent
m taxation and can be secured at
trifltn? cost. A road has been con
structed to the bottom of the ra
vines and city rubbish is now, being
dumped there. When the ravines
are nearly filled the tract will be
graded off level and then the sta
dium will be constructed.
"There is as fine a natural amphi
theater there as I ever saw." said
Commissioner Towl. "We will con
struct an ideal athletic field at small
cost because of Jts natural adapta
tion to this purpose. It is of no
value for building purposes.
"At present the South Side boys
must go to Luxus park, Twenty
fourth and Vinton streets for their
games. Besides they have to pay
for using this park. The new ath
letic park which we propose to de-,
velop is only half a block from the!
public library, a block and a half
from the post office, and two blocks
from the high school."
Even the stadium, up-to-date in
every respect, will cost only a lit
tle, because of the slope of the
hills which 7oVm a natural amphi
theater. An almost unlimited num
ber of people will be able to see
games and athletic stunts here.
Loss of Fingers Bars
Crowley From Foot Ball
Denver, Colo., Oct. 19. Clifford
Crowley, for three years All-Northwestern
interscholastic tackle, is
barred from playing foot ball in the
Rockv Mountain conference this sea
son through the loss" of three fingers.
Several years ago the explosion
of a dynamite cap tore the fingers
from Crowley's left hand and be
cause of this he was unable to en
ter the students' army training
corps when he enrolled at Colora
do Agricultural college this fall. As
the freshmen rule was susiended
only for members of the corps, he
can- t play this season.
Crowley formerly captained the
Butte, Mont., high school team. He
is also a crack basket ball forward.
Former National League
Pitcher Is Now a Banker
Joe Corbet, former well known
National and Coast league pitcher,
and brother of the former heavy
weight boxing champion, is now a
member of thestaff of the Bank of
Italy in San Francisco and is learn
ing the banking business. He re
signed his job in the county clerk's
office to take up his new line of
work.
Joe's brother, Jim, was a clerk in
a bank when he decided to take up
boxing, so Joe is picking up where
Jim left off yeas ago. Dr. A. H.
Gianinni, president of the Bank of
Italy, was Joe's catcher when they
. ler students at U Mary's,
The following account of in
American athletic meet in Hyde
park, London, was printed in tho
London Times on September 23:
"Several thousands of people
gathered on Saturday afternoon
round that part of Hyde park which
has been devotedo American base
ball. But other American games
and not base ball were the chief at
traction. They were those which
have been adopted, adapted, or in
vented for the amusement of the
men fn rest and other camps. A
hundred selected American soldiers,
including 20 negroes, came to dem
onstrate them to a British audience.
"When base ball was first played
in the park it was considered an in
novation worthy of emphatic re
mark. It was a mere nothing, how
ever, compared with the sight of big
Americans (some of them very big
indeed) behaving more like school
boys than school boys themselves.
Most human boys assume with long
trousers an air of dignity and de
corum for which they keep some re
gaid even in their play; whereas the
United States soldier possesses a
beautiful faculty for letting his fun
defy his years. The negroes, too,
with their wide grins, delighted
chuckles, and gurgling incantations,
helped manfully to make the whole
assembly, performer- and spectators
alike, realize that, after all, folks are
only as old as they feel.
Negroes Box Blindfolded.
"The negroes passed from boxing
blindfolded to chasing toy balloons;
and it would be hard to say which
was the more diverting to look on.
"Perhaps the boxing, since that
had a comical climax. After the box
ers had been thinned out and the
ring was held by one huge fellow
alone, hts-white comrades baited him
as bullfighters the bull. They tapped
him on the shoulder, trailed their
greatcoats against his knees and
elbows; anything to make him sup
pose his rivals were stjll before or
behind his blinded eyes. Finally one
ingenious tormentor placed a box
ing glove on the end of a long stick
and gently tapped the pugilist in the
fare with it. But the glove . must
have left empty, for the black man at
last realized that, like Don Quixote,
he was sparring at fictitious foes.
But he may not have read "Don
Quixote."
"The white- Americans played a
larger variety of games than can be
easily remembered. They ran races
I . !.,. ,1 I. ,
eiuwinen wun one anoiner mucii icss
comfortably than the Siamese twins.
They gave capital imitations of the
classic military tortoise, only, in
stead of bearing shields on their
shoulders, they pushed a foot ball
down the long line of their extend
ed legs. They reminded one of the
fate of the two blackguards in
"Huckleberry Finn" by riding on a
rail. Thev ran relay races with
mutually clasped hands. Thcy play,
etka composite leapfrog by piling
more on the frog's back than he
could bear, and laughed with delight
as both came to the ground to
gether. And they did other intricate
feats, rollicking and un-Parklike.
The U. S. Officer's Way.
"Tjie sole trouble of the spectator
was to persuade men inside; the
square to sit or crouch down, in or
der that the view might not be ob
structed. This led to another dem
onstrationof the American way
with such people. It was an Amer
ican officer, on a seat, who appeal
ed to an English officer, standing
uo. to "have a heart" for those be
hind him, and, who, when .his cry
was unheeded or unheard, shouted.
4.t?i. v.-..,. jn,. i1
which, of course, there was no r .
sisting.
"The gamts over, the game began. '
Two. teams met in-an exhibition
match at base ball; and, to every
body's surprise, these teams were
not American, but English: sol- ,
diers from Knightsbridge Barracks,
who had been instructed in the art
and science of base ball by a mem
ber of the American Y. M. C. A.
In blue and red. they looked the
parts they were playing: and they
played admirably, considering that
they never even saw base ball be
fore last Tulv. Their batting seem
ed especially good; the fielding not
so good; ana tne pitcning, mougii
adequate, as critics say, was possi
bly undeserving of more tljan $10,-.,
000 a year. No man on the ground
was better pleased than the Ameri
can instructor, who considers that
his pupils have made wonderful
progress in a short time. An
American sailor umpired; and an
other American sailor, with two
wounded Canadian soldiers in the
highest spirits, did alt that was nec
essary in the way of advice and -"rooting"
for both sides impartial-
'J"An unrehearsed incident of the
day, which might have had serious "
results, was the behaviour of a pony
during an exhibition of roughriding.
The animal got out of control, and
dashed at the onlookers seated
d the enclosure. Jumping right
over the chairs, it got among the
people standing behind and scatter
H them in all directions. A sol
dier was knocked down and badly
bruised, and a boy was slightly in
jured." f
Former Chicago' American
Catcher Killed in-France
Ashtabula, O., Oct. 12. John "
Cooper, former catcher for the Chi-
cago Americans and the Cleveland
Federal league teams, was accidentia
killed in France September 2. accord- ;
ing to word received here from his -brother.
Cooper played witlv Duluth and '
Rockford, (111.) in 1909 and in 1910
was with the Canadian league. He
was drafted at the close of the 1910
i-t . . .. . ,
season oy nicago., m one lime h
was a member of the St. JoBeDh.1-
and Dubuque, la., teams,