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TIIE BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 1919. 12 PESEIC TO START CAMPAIGN WITH LEWIS!. VIEW Will Go After Strangler if He Beats Swede Champ; Seat Sale Started by Promoter. Seats for the wrestling match which will be staged between John Pesek, the Buffalo couny mat mar vel, and, John Freberg, the Swed ish champion, at the Auditorium, March 21, are now on sale, according to announcement by Fromoter Jack Lewis, at the Auditorium, the Mer chants hotel, Ernie Holmes' billiard parlors and Merritt's Sixteenth street drug store. The March 21 match will be a real popular priced match, Lewis ays. Seats will sell at $1 and $2. Two dollars will buy the highest priced seat in the house, even the seats in the first row ringside will go at this figure. "I thought I'd make this-a real popular priced show and make it possible for persons of more limited means to buy the best seats in the house," said Lewis. Mart Slattery, manager of John Pesek, landed in Omaha yesterday to confer with Promoter Jack Lewis over the match. Slattery is a rare example of confidence. "Johnny Pesek will ruin Freberg," scoffs Slat tery with all the personal pride of a genuine manager. "When Freberg crawls out of that ring, March 21, his children won't recognize him. Don't mistake me, I'm not saying Freberg is a mark; he's nd set-up for any man. But Pesek will beat him and he'll beat him decisively. ' He's going to win just as quick as he can; the auickef the better. And put your roll on Pesek." The farmer boy is training faith fully every day, Slattery says; Clar ence Ekland, who now holds the title of light heavyweight champion of the world, is training Pesek. "That scamp is giving John the work-out of his life, too," saidj-jlat-tery. "He chases him over the road and then takes him on the mat for a real old-fashioned gruelling. Their training matches aren't any too friendly either. Each gets mad at the other jnd away they go. It's doing Pesek a world of god. He'll be faster than ever when he steps Into the ring with Freberg." Manager Slattery says that if Pe sek beats Freberg he will immediate ly launch a campaign to wrestle Ed Lewis. ' next aae vert mHE president is again at sea. but he hasn't got a thing on the rest of ' I ' n-i .1- r , "J 1 I : T il.. us. i nis 19 uic year ur i-yctr iuiusis auu uituuic mina. it mi: locusts would only chew up the income blanks everything would be as merry as alimony bells. An income blairk is a peninsula of paper that connects the govern ment with your bankroll. You may dig little exemption canals in the peninsula, but just when you have your assessments pared down to sea level the government slips hi a kick that brings on a landslide of taxes and clogs up the works. Most of this year's blanks will be tilled out with balehooks and elec tric riveters. The stevedores and boatbuilders copped most of the finan cial velvet that the army contractors didn't nip. An army contractor is a cuckoo who sews buttons on a charlotte russe cover and calls it a shoe. When the revenue birds garnishee your kale with an income sub- poena, don't try to do a Houdini out of the net. The birds who tried that last year are now sophomores in the Atlanta jailhouse. The taxhounds are sure1 bruising bankrolls this season. Millionaires are errand boys this year. They grab your coin and run right to Uncle Sam with it. Nothing is exempt- from the income "Hit." Government grabs everything. 1 It's a good thing that the sox on the statue of Christo pher Columbus are welded on.. ' An instruction sheet goes along with each blank that is just as in structive as a Sanskrit peanut advertisement. Last year the income man only took one bite out of your bankroll. This year he stutters. As a rule the blanks are fair, but some of the assessments are a rank injustice. For instance, a wife is allowed no exemptions for a husband. If a chorus girl sues 10 birds simultaneously for breach of promise and collects a yard of plunder, the government grabs the loot. " ' A banker with busted arches has no edge on a healthy broker. They're both grab No. 258 in the tax draft. If a sapp takes the time and trouble to get smeared by a trolley car and tears off about 10 thousand smackers, along comes the revenue boys and clip him down to the cuticle or true skin. Going to ruin the indus try. Why discourage talent? - " ' Government even plasters a fine on alimony. Going to take all the romance out of marriage. If you're married and do not live witfy your mother-in-law, you have to pay 12 per cent for the privilege. You're allowed $2,000 exemption for a wife, blonde or brunette. Red heads, $5,000. This is the only spot where the gavernmcnt sympathizes with you. ' If you own a bungalow in the United States, Philippines or Porto Rico, the treasury adopts the usual percentage of your income. If you own one on Long Island, you's got to give up six skeeters out of every hundred. Owners of flivvers with a bad cough can save just enough out of the wreck to pay the tax. You've got to peddle the boat to kick in with the assessment. Government refuses to take the flivver as part payment. It will share your fun, but not your sorrows. ' v , Astigmatism, flat feet and color blindness are no outs on the income tax business. . When the revenue cutters are through snitching your ballast you'll be light enough to fly. But don't try to ease out of the epidemic by vaccinating your income blank with the germs of evasion. First thing you know you will be staked to a nice traveling scholar ship to Mr. Atlanta's jail college. Simwg i . and (f J " L:v' S77 ' W . mmmmi TOM' COMMERCE AND CENTRAL TEAMS BEAT OPPONENTS Each Has Easy Game, But Must Play University Place and Shelton in Semi Final Contests. Lincoln, Neb., March 13. (Special Telegram.) Omaha Central and Omaha Commerce higli school teams moved into the semi-finals of the Nebraska state basket ball tournament in Class A here Thurs day night by eliminating their op ponents in the second round of play. The semi-finals are to be played Fri day night. V Omaha Central won in hollow fashion from the Fremont five, 17 to 7 while the Omaha Commerce scored an easier "triumph against th State Farm Aggies by piling up 18 pointswhile the farmers failed to get a single basket from the field and escaped a whitewash by virtue of a lucky shot on a free throw by Baff. Central Plays Shelton. The Central quintet must face the Shelton five in the semi-finals while Omaha Commerce has a tough nut to crack when it faces University Place. Shelton and University Pla$e are looked upon as the pos sible dark horses of the tournament with Sheltou picked to be the more dangerous contender. The goal throwing of Mahoney for the Omaha Commerce was the feature of the play, he getting five difficult shots from the field and four thre points for a total of 14 out of the 18 points scored by his teami ' N KoAieckv was the bie noise for the Omaha Central five with three field goals and three free throws, for a total of nine of the 17 points. Deaf Team Beaten. The Nebraska .School for the Deaf of Omaha went out before the superior team play of Hardy iiv. 18 to 8. The Omaha boys fought hard but could- not locate the basket. In Class G play Thursday Ansley swamped Coleridge by a score of 60 to 6. G. Scott for Coleridge threw 14 goals, his brother, H. Scott 9 and Dobesh 7. Following are the summaries: Class A. Omaha Central (17), Fremont (7). Clements. F Davis Burnham ...F Dana Logan ....C Christiansen Konecky O Keith Swoboda Q Johnson Substitutes: Paynter for Logan. Field Goals: Clements 1, Burnham 3, Konecky 3, Davis 1, Christiansen 1. Foul goals: Konecky 1, Dana 2, Christiansen 1. Ref erees:. Schissler and Kline. Omaha Com. (18), Stats Falrra Aggie (1). Bernstein F Graff Mahoney F Kimball Snugs; C Riley Levlnson O.... Rummell LSlone O Palling Substitutes: Camero for Bernstein. Field Goals: Bernstein 1. Mahoney (, Snugg 1. Foul Goals: Mahoney 4, Graff 1. Referee: Jones. Shelton Beats Norfolk. Shelton eliminated the strong Norfolk school quintet in the Everybody likes chocolate! We all know that adding chocolate to anything as a flavoring always makes that thing still more enjoyable! The same holds true in the manufacture of smoking tobacco.. All smoking tobaccos use some flavoring. 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The Shelton five is a veteran aggre gation and has flashed a splendid brand of basket ball. Play in the second round of the tournament was limited to the class es below A. In class B, Arlington's defeat of Beatrice proved a surprise, while, Minden smothered the fast Havelock five in the last few min utes of play. Minden is generally counted as be ing a championship contender in this division although the dope sheet has been everlastingly smeared in the opening round. In Class D, Chester and Edgar had a hard fight, Chester finally nosing out a head by a score of 19 to 17. . - Following is the score of the Nor-folk-Shelton game: Norfolk (9), Shelton (17). Best F Corbutt Ballantyne F Gorin Kruech C Henninger Winters . G Oonroy Rogers O Hill Substitutes: Mi.'C'low for Winters. Field goals: Best. 1; Ballantyne, 1; Kruech, 1; Rogers, 1; Gorin, 3; Henninger, 4. Foul goals: Best, 1; Henninger, 3. Referee: Jones. Following are the scores in the other classes on thc second round of play: . Class B Sutton, 24: Oakdale, 14. Ravenna. 24; Auburn, 4. Minden, 18; Havelock, 15. Arlington, 11; Beatrice, 10. Class C Seward, 20 Sidney, IT. Class 1 Superior, 24; Tjpland, . Chester, 19: Edgar. 17. Nebraska City, 19; Wahoo. 11. Aurora. 16;Clay Center, 10. Class E 1 Oretna, 27; Franklin Academy, 1. Class F v Dreshler, 25 Dewltt, 8. Trumble, 14: Wiener, i. Louisville, 18; Greenwood, 14. Holbrook, 17; Bloomfleld, 11. Class U Waterlpo, 22 Hooker county, 7. Class H Trenton, 13; Cedar Rapids, (. Wayne, 16; Seward, 11. Palmyra, 19; Hays county, 6. Alexandria, 18; Craig, It. Following is the score of the Hardy-Nebraska School for Deaf game: Hardy (18), Nebraska School for Deaf S). O. Bixby F Koltsch C. Blxby F Turpenlng Welmer , C Cox Elan G Krohn Davidson O Neterel) Goals: Koltsch 2, G. Blxby 3, C. Blxby J, Welmer 1, Cox 1, Krohn 1. Foul Goals: Q. Blxby 2. Referee: Hawkins. Thursday Night Results. Other results of second round games Thursday night: Class c David City,, 21; Elgin. 19. Hardy, 18; Nebraska School for Deaf, 8. Dunbar, 19; Alliance, 12. Class E Elmwood, 17; Randolph, 11. PlalnVlew, 12; Glltnety-. Loup City, 23; Creighton, 13. Class 0 -J Ansley, 60; Coleridge, 8. Waverly, 18; Adams, 7. Swanton, 25; Indianola, 19. Pitcher Markle Released to Salt Lake City Team New York, March 11 Clifford Markle, pitcher, has been released to the Salt Lake City team of the Pa cific Coast league by the New York Americans it was announced today. Markle has not played with the Yan kees since 1916, but the club had re tained an option on his services. JACK JOHNSON CLAIMS HAVANA FIGHT 'FRAflUP' Negro Declares Bout Pre Arranged for Him to Flop in Tenth Round; Picture Rights His Share. , Havana, Cuba, March 13. Jack Johnson, former heavyweight cham pion, in -a signed statement given to the Associated Press last night declared that his fight with Jess Willard in this city, fonr years ago, was a pre-arranged affair and that he allowed WillaM to win. In ad dition to"$30,000, entire rights to the moving picture films in Europe ad 33 1-3 per ceht of the proceeds from their exhibition in the United States and Canada are mentioned by John son, together with the promise of aid to settle Johnson's differences with the federal authorities in Chi cago. The statement in part follows! "To arrange the match Jack Cur- ley came to London from Mew York. He asked me if I were will ing tp fight Willard and I said I would if he gave me my price I thought I could beat his man for hini. Curley said he didn't want that. I told Curley I would make the match. "When ready to leave London I wired Curley for a certain sum of money, which he readily sent Well, it went on and began to bother me and I spoke to my wife, who ad vised me not to do it, but I told her that if I were going to lose I'd send her word in time to get out. The reason I said that was because there was more money coming to me and I did not want to lose until I found out they would pay me the sum I asked for and guaranteed that they would get me out of trouble in America, the most important thing for me. "Then we figured on the best round to lose in and agreed upon the tenth. They were to give the word in the first three or four rounds if Willard could make a good showing. 4 "At the end of the tenth round Willard's showing had been so poor it was necessary to continue the fight further. The signal agreed upon was given in the twentieth round, but I considered Willard's showing so poor I was forced to wait until the 26th before carrying out the agreement. "I was1 to have all the moving pic ture rights in Europe and 33 1-3 per cent of those in America x and Canada. "When I finally received the mov ing picture film it was a blank one. I took it to the best film experts iri Europe, but it was found to be worthless. "Everybody knows how anxious I was to straighten out the litfle Chi- j caeo difference. I would have done almost anything in reason to be able to visit my mother, who was oia and feeble. "Unless Willard agrees to fight within a reasonable-time, which he should do to prove if he can that he bedt mefairly, I shall xlainvthe world's title?" Chicago, March 13. Jack Curley, promoter of the Johnson-Willard heavyweight championship battle and one of Willard's manages, to day branded Johnson's confession as a "pathetic, child-like whine com- in0 from an ignorant mind, fromj - -1- i . . i one wjiu rcanrcs ue lias gouc lu the end of his rope. "It has become so fashionable of late to make confessions 'a la Fred Fulton that Johnson had to fall in line. Willard defeated Johnson in Havana in as square and as honestly fought contest as was ever pulled off." ' . Referee Denies Johnson's Story. San Francisco, March 13. Jack Welch of San Francisco, who rcf ereed the championship boxing con test between Jack Johnson and Jess Willard, declared here today after being shown Johnson's state ment that the outcome of the affair was not prearranged; that the fight was won on its merits. Welch said, however, Johnson was in poor con dition for the bout. Welch, also said Johnson attempt ed to wager $10,000 on himself the night before the bout, but succeed ed in placing only $2,500. Rapid City High Defeated , by Lead High at Spearfish Rapid City. S. D., March 13. (Special Telegram.) Lead High school won the championship of the Black Hills, defeating Rapid City by a score of 31 to 19 in a game at Spearfish. 1 he victory places the Lead team in the position of con tender for the South Dakota state championship. Bellevue Woodmen Defeat Papillion Town, 20 to 14 The Bellevue M. W. A. basket ball team defeated the Papillion town team at Bellevue Wednesday night by a score of 20 to 14. Sim onds and Beers starred for the woodcutters, playing guard . posi tions. The M. W. A. team wants to hook a few games. Call or write Bill Trent at the Bellevue post- office to arrange dates. Ecklund and Sauers Signed for One-Fall Match in Semi-Fina Tromoter Jack Lewis, who id staging the I'esek-Freberg heavy weight wrestling match at the Au4 ditorium, Friday. March 21, an4 nounced Thursday that Claranc F.cklund, light heavyweight chann pion, would meet George Sauers ol Thency, Neb., in a one-fall finisll match in the semt-windup to tlig heavyweight match. Bellevue Tackles Doane in Return Game at Cretd A return game has been arranged, between the Doane colleee anrl HpIIi-. vuc college basket ball teams for tonight at Crete,' Neb. The Bellevua team will leave this morning for Crete. Seven players will make thej trip, Edward Simonds, ETwood Sinii Ollds. Cantain Tolles. Heers. Canin. bell, Day and CummiiiKS. all re-jr "Jars. When the teams met before. Bellevue was badly' crippled. i Sharpe to Be Yale Coach. New Haven, Conn., March 13.- The appointment of Al Sharpe, Cornell University athletic coach, to be foot ball coach at Yale, will In announced in the Yale Alumni Weekly tomorrow. Today's Calendar of Sports. Racing Winter meeting at Jefferson Park, New Orleans. Winter meeting at Havana, Cuba. Kflwlnc Annual mrrtlnir of sxeculivf hoard of Matlnnal Aumovlatton of Amatout (tinmen, at Kew York City. Banket Ball Indiana Stam lntnrhola tie tiiumaincnt. at Lafayette. Wiacuimltt State lnternrholaatlo tournament, at Xu laire. Kentucky Male interacbulaatla tournament, at Lexliifton. Roxlnr Pete Hartley a. Jolinnr Dun. dee, 10 round, at I'lttabursh. Leo Housh . dacK I llirord, six rounds, at Philadel phia, Willie Jackson vs. Joe Benjamin four rounds, at hmn Francisco. Tom Cow. ler vs. Billy Mlke. It rounds, ai Jonlin. Mo. 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