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The Bee's Special Sunday Spor t Page OJ he Omaha Sunday All the Latest Sport News All the Time THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: FEBRUARY 23, 1919. 9 A Bee TEARNEY CHOSEN AS PRESIDENT OF VE ST E RNJ.E AGUE John Savage of Joplin Club Withdraws and Election Is Unanimous; Schedule Committee Selected. Special to The Bee. St. Joseph, Mo., Feb. 22. A politi cal fight between the W. A. Rourkc faction of the Western league and the Jack Holland followers brought about no decision early in the day in the battle for the presidency of the league, but later during the ses sion the Ronrke satclites scored, and A. R. Teamey of Chicago was elected to succeed E. W. Dickerson, who is in France. The Holland faction had called their candidate, John Savage, for mer owner of the Joplin club, to this cityin expectation of winning the election, but when Savage with drew, the magnates made Tearncy's election unanimous. Savage was the only other candidate for the place. A schedule committee, composed of E. J. llanlon, Jack Holland and Frank Isbell, has been named, but cannot act until the magnates take action on the opening game and the number of games to be played. Friction between the magnates. from the northern towns and those from he Southern towns early in the Meeting prevented the naming of an opening date. The Southern league towns favor April 23 and the North ern league towns favor May 1. A schedule of 140 games will pass as soon as an opening date is de cided upon. E. j. Hanlon took up with Mayor Whitsell of St. Joseph today the matter of buying the St. Joseph base ball franchise and he has given the business interests here a week in which to raise $14, 000, with which to buy the club. He has received an offer from Lin coln, but will wait until Saturday before giving a final answer on the Lincoln ofTer. Today's session was slow in get ting under way and the magnates will hold sessions all day tomor row in order to complete the busi ness which must come before it at this session. Teamey Accepts Office. Chicago. Feb. 22; Al R. Tear tiey, for nine years president of the Three I League of Base Call clubs, in a telephone conversation with leaders of the Western league to night accepted their offer of the presidency of that organization. Mr. Teamey has long been recog nized as a leading representative of the minor organizations. Stecher Meets Zbyszko at " Sioux City Tomorrow Night Joe Stecher beat Jack Bucksen of Chicago in two falls at St. Louis Friday night, and Saturday left for Sioux City where he takes on Wla dek Zbyssko in a finish match. If Stecher wins and Earl Caddock really intends to retire from the wrestling game, Joe will claim the championship and prepare to de fend it against all comers. With Caddock retired the winner of a Stecher-Zbyszko match would be the logical champion and prob ably be recognized as such. In that event it is likely that the winner of tomorrow night's match in Sioux City will be called upon to wrestle Pesek at an early date for the cham pionship. The Sioux Ctiy promotors are ex pecting a delegation of Omaha fans to witness the match and Gene Mc Jfiiiy will probably head one party to go over. Melady's interest is man ifest because of his being the mana ger of Earl Caddock. If Caddock retires Gene will want to see the crowning of a new champion and if Earl remaim in the game Gene will want to see the .probable opponent of his champion. Detroit to Have Large Squad to Open Season By International News Service. Detroit Feb. 22. Manager Hugh Jennings of the Detroit Tigers, an nounces that the club has sent out contracts to 50 players, the reserve list being unusually heavy this year. J.nnings intimated that a large number of these players would be disposed of before he sets out for the Tigers' training camp at Macon, Ga., next month. The Detroit club was heavily represented in the army and navy last summer, and some of the players still are in the service. The club also holds title to a num ber of young players who have not yet proven their worth as major leaguers, Jennings has started to cut down his squad, the first release be ing that of the veteran catcher, Hack Spencer, who was let out un conditionally after Eddie Ainsmith returned his signed contract to President Frank Navin, of the Ti ters. Detroit Pair Wins Doubles Hand Ball Championship Detroit, Feb. 22. William Micus nd, Michael Maurer of Detroit, won tiie national doubles hand ball rhampionship tonight, defeating Packman, singles champion, and Groden, the former champion, both of New York in straight games, 21-18 and 21-9. Harvard Hockey Team . Scores Another Victory New York, Feb. 22. Harvard's undefeated hockey team defeated Princeton, 7 goals to 2, in Brooklyn tonight. Benson Juniors Win. The Benson Juniors basket ball team won its sixth consecutive vic tory last evening, playing the Com merce freshman off their feet. The final score was 38 to 6. Chalbcrt of the Bensons featured the game, scoring eight of the Benson's 18 field goals. INDOOR SPORTS j ,AB n CH.c T.UCHQ, IjvS Jy " lLP ks- he putt th-et ot-p mmWJJA r-r . . orOTV NJ AT- S1 cCRjk, Pfl TUE" CFFICS" ; ) PESEK TO SEE SIOUX CITY MAT eouT monday Winner Over Steve Savage Has Notion He Will Challenge Winner of Stecher-Zyb Go. Wearing a smile like unto the storied Erin that could not be ef faced, John Pesek, conquerer of Steve Savage, announced that lie would leave Sunday morning for Sioux Citv. Ia.. to "take in" the Stecher-Zbyszko match to be held in that city Monday evening and probably challenge the winner. Pes ek will be accompanied by his man ager, Mart Slatterly, and his wrest ling mate, Clarence ixklund. Before leaving the arena Friday night, Ecklund made the announce ment that he would like to wrestle Joe Stangl, the winner of the semi- windup match at the Auditorium, and will wager $200 on the side. hailing to land a match with stangl Ecklund will take on any light heavyweight wrestler in the coun try. Former Omahan Writing Trapshooting Page for New York Sporting Sheet The New York Telegraph has added another page to its Sunday sport news, making trapshooting a feature, in charge of Lt. Tracy H. Lewis, a former Omaha club mem ber. Lieutenant Lewis was instruc tor of the Lewis machine gun com pany in Omaha. Taking up his res idence in New York, he shortly be came indentified with trapshooting in that state and now furnishes the trapshooters with news of their sport. Known in Omaha as Lieutenant Lewis, he is now known as Captain Lewis, as the governor of New York has appointed him captain in the New York State Guards. Cap tain Lewis' residence is now in Longneck, N. Y. University Freshmen Team to Play Local Stars Th freshman team of the Uni versity of Nebraska, composed of former Umaha Lentrai mgn -ana Lincoln High stars, will play the Omaha National Bank five on the "Y" tloor Saturday night. Without exeception every member of both teams has a stellar reputa tion back of him. Floyd Paynter, Bob Russell and Austin Smith, former Central Higlv champions, with Jungmeyer and Munn, six-foot-civcre frnm Lincoln Hich's 1918 quintet will engage the Omaha five. Budd bmith and cypreanson, Lin coln's famous "Cyp," are also on the freshman squad. Costello and Exter will be on the sidelines. K. Klepser, Hird Stryker, Warren Ritchie, Bob Koran, Virgil Rector, formerly of Dartmouth, Barrett, a member of the Mare Island team; Dickman of Great Lakes fame, Mor rison and Hawkins compose the 'ocal squad. Horse Show Dates Fixed. New York, Feb. 22. Tiif Na tional Horse Show association an nounced today that its 34th annual exhibition will be here at Madison Square Garden November 17 to 21. Spiff y Sports Piaylns a bne-!ded m on th "T floor Ust nifeht, -Commerce hiRh' basket Hull team trfunSed the Crl(hton high five, 59 to C Weakened by the absence of four of their first team players the plsv era of the CretRhton high fiva had no chance at the honors. Following Friday's victory over Belle vue. Doane College quintet annihilated the University of Omaha's basket tens ers last niKht on the university's foor, fO to S. Omaha's only score cane hen Phelps, on a toss-up after a held ball, threw a freak goal. Superior guarding- ar.a shooting were the deciding fnctors. Goals were made by Andrews, (12). Dredla, (10), Johnston, ti) and Brown, 11)., r Schuyler. Neb.'. fast little flippers add ed two more victories to their string this week defeating David City, 40 to 14. there Friday nlsht and Fremont. U to 14. Saturday night. The Fremont ettme was close throughout with the score, to S t the end of the first .tialf. tieorge ,rarrlsi of Omaha refcrecd Coprrtght, 191, Internatlnn'l Champion Billiard Player to Entertain at Omaha A. C. Upper World's champion billiardist, Willie Hoppe, executing a difficult shot. Lower Hoppe's $50,000 left hand guiding his cue for a master strike. . . f , - t ; & - . rv.v.:..-.:. j- - I - i , ". j . y: - ' I -: 1 !:: : : i i- j V. f i ' ' ! U PS , :":'A't:' J r it,: laillpr ; I ' ' ! 4 1 '"i..',,.n ' g wmt P if Mil l-Sffifc " 1 v Willie Hoppe, Present Champion, to Play Exhibition Majch Game Against Former Champion, George Sutton. Both Master Cue Artists. Arrangements have been made for Willie Hoppe to stop off in Omaha for a day during his touf of the country and play a match game with the former champion, George Sutton, on March 1. In fact, Hoppe and Sutton will play two games, one at 3 p. m. and the other at 8 p. m. The games will be played at the New Omaha Athletic club. The O. A. C. harbors a number of billiard enthusiasts and it is expected that quite a number of them will be present to witness the exhibition. The exhibition will be one between two masters of the art, Sutton hav ing been one of the greatest play ers of the game ever known and who would probably be the champion if it wasn't for Hoppe. The latter is considered the greatest player of billiards in the world, and his man ager, R. B. Benjamin, declares Wil lie is improving daily. There is no athlete in the world that takes better care of himself than does Willie Hoppe. He trains only on the billiard tables with a course of calisthenics before going to bed to keep down any excess weight, goes to bed early and rises early, and then plays about eight hours of billiards every day. Hoppe likes golf and base ball, but cannot indulge in either game, for he finds that handling a golf club or base ball bat is entirely different from handling a billiard cue and destroys the deliberate touch necessary to a successful billiard player. Hoppe has had his hands insured for $50, 000 apiece and never takes a chance Drawn for Nw Pervlcg of having to collect the insurance. He takes better care of his hands than most people do of their bodies. The result and reason for all this care of hands may be seen at the Omaha Athletic club when Willie plays Sutton next Saturday after noon and evening. Texas Oil Man Wires Lauding Boxing Bill Boxing fans from far off Texas are interested in the passage of the Melady boxing bill. Gene Melady received a telegram this' morning from Tommy Cannon, of Wichita Falls, Tex., a prominent Lone Star State sportsman and wealthy oil magnate. The telegram was as fol lows: "Gene Melady, Notice -Kan sas City Post article about your box ing bill. If they entrust boxing to 100 per cent square promoters like yourself they will have some classy boxing sport in Nebraska that will be a credit to the state." The Nebraska legislature will havfc to pass the Melady bill in its pres ent form pretty soon or there won't be any Melady bill lett. It tiarney Green and a few others that would like to, get to making amendments to the Dresent measure, they will ruin the chances for the passage of the bill. The army and navy officials at Washington have issued a statement commending boxing throughout the United States. Our soldier and sailor boys are going to demand some such sport when they get back home. f n i The Bee by Tad LINCOLN FIVE BEATS CENTRAL IN FASTBATTLE Team from Capital Outclasses Local Quintet; Victory Prac tically Assures State Championship Title. Lincoln, 26 1 Central High, 10. Playing a wonderful game and completely outclassing their op ponents Lincoln High's basket ball team smothered Central High, 26 to 10, in a one sided game played on the Creighton floor last night. Spapers, Lincoln's lanky right for ward, was the star of the fray, shoot ing five field goals with ease and scoring on four out of six fouls. The Lincolnites, towering above the locals, had things their own way during most of the game despite the fine team work exhibited by Coach Mulligan's men. Central Weakens. The Purple and White flippers played a neat game, and during the first few minutes of play seemed easy victors, playing rings around their opponents. When Shapers, for only the second time during the game, got a chance at the basket he registered the initial counters. Cen tral's defense seemed to weaken, then, allowing several scores. Konecky, Burnham and Clements made Central's only score during the first period within a few minutes. Hopes of the Central supporters fell when the Lincolnites initiated a drive on the basket concludng it when the half ended, 14 to 6, in their favor. Second Half Slow. The second half was unexciting save for the few times when a score appeared possible. Lincoln kept the ball down on its end of the floor most of the period and made several pretty baskets trom dilhcult angles. Possibility of victory disappeared when Captain Art Logan sprained his knee. Despite his injury, he played until the final whistle blew. The victory practically assures Lincoln the state title. Lineup and summaries: OMAHA. LINCOLN. FO.FT.P. FG.FT.P. Burnham. rf 1 0 2Shapers, rf 6 4 14 Clements, If 1 0 2Sougey, If 1 1 0 Logan, c (C) I V zuooason, e Konecky, rg 1 2 4Smith, rg Swoboda, lg Mangold, rf 0 0 OLewellyn, Ig 2 0 0 OWyncoop, lg Holland, It 2 4 3 10 Totals 11 Totals 4 26 Fouls Lincoln: Shapers (J), Smith, Wyncoop CD, Omaha: Logan (2), Kon eckv, Swoboda. Officials Verne Moore, referee; Gene Rusnum, scorer; Patty, timekeeper. Time of Halves Twenty minutes. Basket Ball Results, Princeton, N. J., Feb. 22. Yale defeated Princeton, 20 to IS, in an intercollegiate league basket ball game here today. St. Louis, Feb. 22. The Kansas university basket ball five this afternoon defeated Washington university quintet, 39 to 19. Philadelphia, Feb. 22. Pennsyl vania defeated Cornell, 39 to 24 in an intercollegiate basket ball game tonight. Evanston, 111., Feb. 22. Western Conference Basket Ball: North western, 32; Wisconsin, 23. Cedar Rapids. Ia., Cedar Rapids High school, 54; West Waterloo high, 13. Bloomington, Ind., Feb. 22. Western Conference; Minnesota, 20; Indiana, 14. Lafayette, Ind., Feb. 22. West ern Conference; Illinois, 24; Pur due, 17. Ann Arbor, Feb. 22. Western Conference; Chicago, 25; Michigan, 22. Grinnell, Ia., Feb. 22. Superior team work gave Grinnell college a 25 to 20 victory over Iowa State of Ames in a Missouri Valley confer ence basket' ball game here tonight. Ann Arbor, Mich., Feb. 22. Chi cago defeated Michigan, 25 to 22 in a western conference basket ball game here tonight. Great Lakes Swimmers Win. Detroit, Feb. 22. Great Lakes naval training station swimmers carried off the honors in the Central A. A. U. swimming championship meet here tonight, winning three ot the four events for men, and one new association record went to a sailor entry i PitnrTiN NEXT Woody is now popping along on the nimble ocean. He is gyrating back to pipe if the Willard-Dempsey articles contain his fourteen points. Between the peace conference and the heavyweight championship, Woody is busier than a farmhand on market day. Soon as he scampers down tha gangplank of the George Washington, the prexy will clatter on board the Weehawken ferry scow to lamp the official documents. Then he will ramble back to Europe and grab the international situation by the ears. If the job gets busier Woodrow will have to skip stop like a Farnam and Harney street motorman. When interviewed by our phoneless wire, the president had nothing to say, and didn't say it. That's where ho dif fers from Bill Bryan like a barroom tenor and Jennie Lind. Get this right. One sapp up in Meriden, Conn., buzzed his girl that she had a voice like Jennie Lind and she knocked him for a row of Hottentot vil lages and suburbs. She thought he meant a cantaloupe. Jennie was a singer. Anyway, the president had nothing to say and didn't say it. When Bill has nothing to say he always says it. He is an orator. An orator is a bird who talks all day Tuesday just because it's Tuesday. Bill was going to bust out into vaudeville, but the orchestra pulled a no-beer-no-work strike just in time. Although the president didn't spill any gossip about the big shindig, we could pipe from the way that he had his high hat polished th;it he figured Jack to knock Jess flat ter than an Omaha order trf wheat cakes. On the other mitt, the democratic manner in which Woody hung over the rail on the third day out convinced us that if Willard ever stretches a knuckle octave on Dempsey's profile the world is going to look very horizontal to Jack for about ten seconds. He will be wearing the water bucket for a hat and powdering his nose with the sponge, Clemenceau, Balfour, Lloyd George and the other outfielders on Woody's team were too busy winding up the political barbed wire to chirp much about the two-man war on the Weehawken ferry. Clemenceau is a good judge of fighters, having managed a couple of million during the recent tournament He is much opposed to no-decision fights. If Yanks fight in America like they did in Europe, Clemenceau dopes that the boys in the $5 and $10 trenches will get an eyeful. He doesn't buzz whether he means fighting or resin. That's what makes him a statesman. The Chink envoy to the convention hasn't anything to warble, either in Chinese or Weehawken. His papers were swiped while coming through Japan. He doesn't know who to suspect. A few years ago he would have blamed Doc Cook. This Weehawken ferry business has the slant-eyed diplomat more puzzled than a visitor looking for oysters in an Omaha oyster stew. He ain't sure whether it is a naval skirmish or a land riot. Balfour thinks that Willard will hang Dempsey over the hawsers like the week's wash. Don't know how Balfy gets that way. You can't blame it on the hot sun in the winter time. When surrounded in Holland, the kaiser was boring holes in his wooden shoes to let his corns out Refused to hoot anything about the big scuffle unless he got a medal for it. The old boy ain't himself since they shook him loose from his 600 uniforms. He wanted to know what the Mongolian envoy meant by going to Paris via Japan. Savs that ain't no way to get to Paris. Kaiser ought to of not getting to Paree. Prominent Bullshevists are knocked coo-coo by the Willard-Dempsey thing. The fact that each man has an equal chance is what makes them goaty. They don't do things that way in Bullrussia. Until the president decides what twig he is going to light on for the summer, dope on the big tussle is going to get all wet. The prexy is going to touch second in Washington and then gallop to third base in Europe. Dempsey and Willard will start training in their limousines so as to be in shape when the referee calls 'em to the center of the purse for their twenty-round auditing of the gate receipts. Ring experts here figure that Woody won't sprain his chance of a third crack at free White House coal by not being present when Jess and Jack try to knock each other absent. "LITTLE NAP'S" POWER MAY SOOf RIVAL CZAR BAN J. J. McGraw Has Only Self to Thank for His Continued Success- in Base Ball Affairs. By JACK VEIOCK. New York, Feb. 15. John Joseph McGraw is getting to be a regular power in base ball. After years of hard plugging, from the time he broke in with the Olean, N. Y., Independents until the present day, McGraw has never once let the fires of his ambition to be one of base ball's biggest men die down. And his constant plug ging and initiative have won results. Back in the days jf his green youth when he first donned base ball spikes, McGraw was glad to get a few dollars a game for play ing ball once or twice a week. Today, as vice president and man ager, as well as part owner, of the New York Giants, he is drawing down an annual stipend that flirts around $40,000, and all the while he is laying lines to make himself more powerful and more successful in the National league. Charles Stoneman, the new presi dent and principal stockholder in the Giants, is a -ersonal pal of McGraw's. And it was through McGraw and Stoneman that George Washington Grant became the own er of the Boston Braves. The wags say that Grant is merely a figure head, representing Stoneman inter ests, but this has 'een denied. Be that as it may, the McGraw machine in the National league is getting up speed, and some of these days Ban Johnson, now admitted to be the unquestioned czar of the na tional pastime, will find himself con fronted by Little Napoleon of the Giants, with all kinds of power to fight for base ball legislation and base ball reforms. McGraw has himself alone to thank for the position he occupies in base ball, though it is something of a cinch that he must have some sort of lucky star or something, be cause his rise has been so rapid and he has been the one chosen above many others guiding spirit of the most powerful ball club in either big league. After the present year it will not be surprising to see McGraw step down and out as a manager, though he will, of course, continue to di rect the affairs of ..he Giants from the business helm. If he can win one more pennant with his Polo Grounders he will be content to let his managerial record stand. Name Game Agent. DeWitt, Neb.,, Feb. 22. (Special) Saline county 'will have a special game commissioner to safeguard (hicks ana geese trom trie spring nuniers. - aTiiE - ME know. He is an authority on ways Trap Gun Load Change Urged by Association Economic Measure as Scattergun experts who have lind a favorite load with which they de molish the elusive blue rock will grieve to hear that in the near fu ture the American Trapshooting association will urge the adoption of a standard load to be used by all shooters in registered tournaments. This will consist of three drams of powder and an ounce and an eighth of shot instead of the customarv ounce and a quarter. Economy is orimarilv the obieet of this standardization, to eliminate tne necessity ot making several dif ferent varieties of shells and also equalize conditions for all. The re duction in the amount of shot used will be recommended since it will be cheaper and cause less recoil than the heavier load, thereby mak ing conditions easier for the novice. While there will necessarily be considerable opposition to this de parture by persons who have be come accustomed to certain loads it is thought that on the whole, trap shooters will recognize that there is no reason why there should not be a uniform load just as there is a standard golf ball or base ball. South Omaha Basket Ball Team Defeated at Fremont Fremont, Neb., Feb. 22. (Special Telegram.) The Fremont high school basket ball team continued its winning streak by defeating the South Omaha five here last night, 30 to 20. Captain Keith of the Fre mont team was forced to retire when he suffered a fracture of his collar-bone. The team lineup niont: Davis and Dana, forwards; Christiansen, center; Keith, Johnson and Thompson, guards. South Oma ha: Nienian and Volz, forwards; lledgren, center; Banner and Hod gren, guards. Klepfer of Omaha refereed. Holke Traded to Braves. Boston, Feb. 22. George W. Grant, owner of the Boston Na tional League Base Ball club, an nounced tonight that he had obtain ed First Baseman Holke from the Cincinnati club, giving in exchange James Smith, a utility infielder, and a cash consideration. moitc eoustis scs WllHiipMwOflkccMileh OMAHA PRINTING COMPANY WWW (6tT COMMERCIAL PRINTERS -LITHOGRAPHERS - STEEL DIE EMBOSSE ioosc tXAr VILLARDJOVlll, ST BE III OLD TIME COIJDITIOtl Carrying Excess Weight Will Mean Loss of Circus Own er's Drawing Power and Championship. By KID GRAVES. The eyes of the entire sporting world are upon Tex Rickard, whils he is hunting for a site for his now famous heavyweight championshii battle, between Jess Willard, the champion, and Jack Dempsey, the challenger. The announcement of the location for staging the affair will be the signal for all the work! to wager on their judgment of the two men. While Willard will have ths backing of a great host of admirer?, the majority of fans will favor Dempsey, figuring his strength and speed, together with his active pug ilistic life recently, will more than offset the tremendous advantage in height, weight and reach that Will ard will have. Whether or not these advantages will enable the champ ion to win, can only be told when the men meet, next July 4. Will ard's immediate friends say that the public idea of Jess's idle life is a mistaken one, claiming that the big fellow has been doing light train ing at his private gymnasium in his home and that he has. not allowed himself to become so fat that he cannot get into fighting condition again. , What Is Willard'a Best? It has been said that Dempsey could whip Willard, even if the champion were at his best, but when you stop to coSsider that Willard's best has never b?n shown, this as sertion is rather hard to believe. Big Jess has never been extended since he won the championship and even in the bout in Havana, when he won the title, he wasn't forced to extend himself. He simply took all that the "Big Smoke" could hand out and grinned, contenting himself with just wearing Johnson out with con tinual jabbing. Before his bout with Johnson, Jess never reached his best. It took the coaching and teaching he received in training for this bout to bring him up to his best and then he didn't have to exert himself. Bout on the Level. The Havana bout was strictly on the level. You can take that from those that were there and saw the scrap. Matt Hinkle, the famous CJev-.eJ?,nd referee. Tom Andrews, the Milwaukee sport writer, and Bob Edgren, of the New York World, all agreed with me that it was- ab solutely on the square. Jess won without being hurt, taking no chances at all during the bout, lay ing back for fear that Johnson might have something that might end it, playing safe and wearing his man down until he got the signal from his corner to try to finish it. When the signal passed, Willard reached out with his wonderful reach, as though to gauge the distance, and Johnson was in such an exhausted condition that the blow, light as it was, was enough to finish the bout. Like Kick of a Mule. When I say the blow was light, I don't mean that it had no force at all, for Willard was a man that could not hit lightly if he wanted to. His light blow is like the kick of a mule, so it is no wonder that Johnson fell over and was counted out. Jess has stated numerous times that he was afraid to hit hard for fear that he would kill Johnson and for the same reason, Frank Moran lasted his ten rounds with the champion at Madi son Square Garden, March 25, 1916. It has always been the advice of old time followers of the boxing game to string along with the champion until he is beaten and it may not be bad advice in this case. This is my prediction, if Willard can get in as good condition as he was when he met Johnson or Moran, h-. will win. If he cannot get in as good shape as he was for either of those bouts, Dempsey will be the champ ion. The result of the bout depends entirely on the condition of the champion when he enters the ring. . Keep Coin in Pocket. While not a betting man myself, I can advise those that want to wager on the result of the bout, that their money will be safer in their pockets than placed on either man at this early date. Willard may be in bet ter shape than is generally thought and it is certain that he has time enough to get in good condition for the Independence day scrap if h;; chooses. Whether he will or can get "right" is yet to be seen. With all due respect for Dempsey's fight ing ability and an earnest desire to see him win, at this time, I can only string along with the champion. New League Formed. A new bowling league has been formed to roll on the Garden bowl ing alleys every Friday evening. The league season will cover a period of 12 weeks. The new or ganization will be known as the Boosters' league and will be com posed of four or five-man teams, Kohler's Autos, Omaha Hay com. pany, Looney's Express and Har. mony cafeteria. nm tracts tr mctai SAtrf Vrnci Ftunnni g: F fcll. oryiccs
