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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: APRIL 6, 1919.
n The Omaha Sunday Bee
CLASSES 6 AND C
OF MUNY LEAGUE
READYTO START
Only Two Class A Representa
, tives at Meeting Thursday
night and Murphys Take
Class B Franchise.
While the class B and C leagues
are already well organized and
feady to start the ball rolling, no
class A organization has yet been
formed. Nothing definite was ac
complished at the meeting of
backers and class A players held in
the office of Park Commissioner
Falconer Thursday evening. Om
aha is still without a class A or
ganization, much to the disgust of
rfcmateur base ball fans.
At this writing' there are not
enough teams to make up a class
"A league. The Murphy-Di-Its and
,the Nebraska Power company , are
Jhe only two class A teams that are
organized, whereas at leait five
clubs are needed to form such a
Lleague. The managers do not seem
fto show enough enthusiasm about
a Greater Omaha league this year,
ffiot more than two players were
present at the session held Thurs
day evening. The little fellows of
;the class B and C leagues are dis
playing more pep and energy than
'the big boys,
fc ' Lack of Leaders.
15 At Thursday's meeting Jake
psaacson announced that the as
fsociation will secure the backers if
Miic players will get together and or
ganize some teams. There is an
Absolute lack of leaders among the
'ball players themselves. There are
jsnough class A players in the city
to form a strong class A organiza
tion. The situation now rests with
ic players themselves.
& The class B and C leagues held
ligiectings last week. The roster of
Officers is complete in all the leagues
jj.yh'th the exception of the Inter
city, due to the resignation of Pat
Boyle from the presidency to which,
.post he was elected a few weeks
ago.
: The City league held a meeting
'last Tuesday evening and elected
'Frank Delahanty secretary. Presi
'cient Jacobs announced that he
would have the schedule ready for
publication the latter part of next
week. This organization decided to
hold a franchise open for the
Murphy-Did-Its, . backed by that
well-known sportsman, Bert Mur-
t'thy, in case the Greater Omaha
eague proposition fell through.
I The City League.
The league is now composed of
she following, teams: Bowen Furni
tures, McCaffreys, Nebraska Storage
Batteries, Mickel Victrolas, Union
.Outfitters, and the Murphy-Did-Its.
In case a class A organization is
formed trie Murphys will drop out
of the City league and will enter
;the higher organization. The City
league will open the season April
20 and will close August 17. The
clubs will play three times around
before the season is over. The next
Regular meeting will be held April 11.
; The American league elected
-fclarence Wagner president and sec
retary. Wagner is an ex-star ball
olayer and should make good hands
down, as he is one of the most pop
ular fellows in amateur circles.
There were only five teams repre
sented at this meeting, the Nakens
mna tne spaiaings naving no repre
sentatives at this session. There are
few vacancies in this loop and
tny team desiring a franchise is
iirged to attend the next regular
'meeting, which will be held April o
Booster Schedule.
S The Booster league elected Fat
Boyle president and J. E. Hirons,
manager of the Maney Milling com
jpany, secretary. These two sturdy
jjbfficials immediately got down to
"Jvork and drew up a schedule,'
ivhich is in another column. Due
ko the withdrawal of the Trimbles
Ihere is a vacancy in this organiza
tion at present. This league is
ready to Mart the season, which
vi!l open April 20. The next meet
ing will be held April 16.
The Inter-city league granted
franchises to two new teams, the
JTownsend Gun company and the
piarley-Davidsons. An eight-club
$ecgue was decided upon, with the
treason starting April 20. ,Ed Dug
lale, manager of the Walnut Hill
Merchants, was elected secretary of
glhe organization.
Base ball will get its start this
ytftcmoon when all the clubs are
- inspected to come out for practice,
plost of the teams have been lim
bering up during the week. Prac
tice games will be seen this after
'irtoon on all the city diamonds. The
Reason is only two weeks off.
1 Exhibition Ball Gaines.
' Macon, Ga.. April 5. R. H. E.
i Detroit American 1 3 IS t
Ronton Nationals 4 11 3
Batteries: Ehmke and Atiismlth; Nehf,
'JDemare and Tragressor. i
tNew Orleans, April 6. R. H. E.
leveland Americans 6 6 1
ew Orleans Southern 15 6
Batteries: Morton and ' Nunamaker;
Phillips, Brtley and Deberry.
Tampa, Fla., April 6. R. H. E.
' New York Olants 4 7 5
-Boston Red Sox 10 11 0
Batteries: Barnes, Jones and Smith;
Caldwell, Dumont and Walters, Schang.
f Indianapolis, April 6. R. H. E.
'VL Louis Nationals 13 IB 1
Indianapolis American Assn 4 10 6
sf Batteries: May, Relnhart and Clem-
'mons: Ferrall, Crum and Henline.
Jacksonville, Fla. April 5. R. H. E.
New Vrk Americans (11 8
! Brooklyn Nationals 3 I
' Batteries: Mogrldge, Thormahlen and
ftuel; Mamaux. Marquard, Cadora and
Krueger. Wheat
, Birmingham, Ala., April t. R. H. E.
Pittsburgh Nationals 11 1
Birmingham Southern 3 7 4
Batteries: Cooper, Mayer, Evans and
Schmidt; Slapnlcka, Slgman, Roberts and
JIa worth.
t San Francisco, CaL. April S. R. H. E.
Chicago Nationals 1 6 1
San Francisco Coast League 4 7 3
-- i Batteries: Hendrlx and Kllltfer; Sea
ion, Dlmock and Brooks, McKea.
; Defeat for Coe College.
Cedar Rapids. Ia., April 5. The
University of Iowa defeated Coe
college, 5 to 2, -in a slow base ball
, same here today. The game was the
first contest of the season tor ootn
Challenger Dempsey Will Not
Outspeed Champion Willard
Titleholder's Course of Training Will Fit Him to Cope
With His Opponent's Fastest Efforts; Jess Was Not
Faster Than Johnson or Moran, But Won.
By "KID GRAVES"
As "a rule, when a fighter retires
from the ring for any length of
time, he gets fat and flabby and his
muscles soften to such an extent
that he is unable to participate in
strenuous exercises of any kind with
any degree of comfort. They are
content to lay around, taking no ex
ercise to keep the" superflous flesh
down and soon they are so large
that they don't want to work in the
gymnasium. Jim Corbett is an ex
ception to this general rule. He
does a turn with a moving picture
outfit and to keep fit for his work,
Jim has to do some light training
all the time.
It is this trend of the fighters that
leads a great number of fight fans
to figure that Jack Dempsey will be
a certain winner when he stacks up
against Jess Willard for the heavy
weight championship on July 4.
Willard has had a long layoff from
the ring and if he follows in th
footsteps of his predecessors, he
has gained so much flabby meat that
he can not get it hardened in time
for the big scrap. This opinion is
going to cost some of them a great
loss of money when the men come
together, for it is history that when
a fight fan gets an idea firmly
planted in his brain, nothing can
dislodge it .until the event he is so
positive about takes place and his
idea proven or disproven.
Willard Naturally Big.
The opinion prevails that Willard
cannot get in shape for the Demp
sey scrap, that he cannot muster
enough speed to stand the fiery
smaller man off. The constant
growth of "excess baggage" around
the champion's waist will not come
off enough to allow him to work up
speed sufficient to withstand the
speedy, vicious attacks that Demp
sey will undoubtedly essay and he
will go down under one of the fast
onslaughts. The fans that expect
to lay a little wager on the scrap
must not forget that Willard is
naturally a big man and even though
he has had no actual contests for
such a long time, he has not teen
altogether idle. He was on the road
with his circus, boxing a little and
working among his "canvasbacks"
and even at home, he has had plen
ty of outdoor exercise.
Any man, fighter or business man,
unless he is in hard training all the
time, is bound to pick up some
wejght, but he can reduce the ex
tra meat by a course of training.
Willard has picked up some weight
while not in training, but starting
some time ago in preparation for
One week from today the Omaha
baseball fans will have a chance to
look the local Western leaguers
over in a real ball game. Manager
Jackson will have his first line up
in a nine inning game against the
Armours ball club, the semi-pro
team that will play on the Rourke
park grounds when the league team
s traveling. J he game will give
ball followers a good line on the
ability of each team. They will be
able to judge as to the chances for
a pennant in Omaha and whether
they will see some good games or
not when the Rourkes are away
from home. Of course neither team
will be at the best but you can get
a little idea of what to expect when
they reach their best.
Some one asked Mart Slatlerv if
he was going to accept Steve Sav
age s cnallenge to resek tor a re
turn match with the toe hold barred
anil Mart nnswpreH "f Hon't ihink
so. That's too much like trying to
match two bulldogs for a fight and
insisting on having one dog's' teeth
drawn." He won't match John
against anyone with any noia
barred.
The New York featherweight,
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HORTS : Kid Graves -
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the coming battle for his title, he
began to reduce his heft. At this
time he is about at a normal
poundage, so that the hard gruelling
work will not,hurt him when the
real grind begins. His greatest ef
forts will be devoted to working up
his speed, from now on. Willard"
knows, just as well as any of the
fans that his opponent will set a
fast pace and he is not going to
take chances of being "snowed un
der" by a gale of fast blows in the
early part of the mill.
Hasn't Shown Speed.
It is pointed out that he didn't
show any speed when he met
Moran in the New York scrap.
It will be well to remember that he
was as fact as was necessary for
that scrap, faster than Moran when
he wanted to be and though he
didn't show any great burst of speed,
he didn't have to in order to win.
They also point to the Soldier
Kearns exhibition bout at the Platts
burg training camp, when Kearns
moved around faster than the title
holder. That was no fight and Jess
.didn't have to work fast. Two years
before the exhibition, Kearns lasted
two rounds with Willard, proving
that the champion could ' outspeed
the soldier if he wanted to.
Fast as Dempsey is, and may be,
when he meets Champion Willard,
he will find his man in front of him
as fast as he may have to be. Jess
will work according to a course of
training he has selected to fit him
for the battle, and he has not over
looked the speed essentials, either
He will not show faster than Jack,
but he will be just as fast. He was
not faster than Johnson, but just as
fast. The same with Moran. Big
Jess don't have to be faster .than
his opponents. If he is as fast as
the man against him, his superior
weight and hitting ability is enough
to win for him. Dempsey's furious
bursts of speed will be met just fast
enough' to allow the champion to es
cape punishment and all the time
Dempsey is trying to "rush" the big
fellow off his feet, Willard won't
be entirely idle.
It is my private opinion that about
the first time that Jack uncovers his
"fast, furious" attack, Jess will move
back until he thinks it about time
and then let go a crack that will
jar the challenger to his heels. After
that first wallop gets Home, the
boasted speed of Dempsey will be
his greatest asset for getting away
from the deadly Willard "maulies."
The champion may not be faster
than Jack, but he will be "fast
enough," and the championship man
tle will be undisturbed when the fuss
is over.
Frankie Brown, created quite a sen
sation not long ago by beating the
featherweight champion, Johnny
Kilbane, in a six-round bout at Phil
adelphia, flooring him once. Matt
Hinkle, the Cleveland promoter, was
after a return match between Brown
and Kilbane, but his plans may re
ceive an upset tomorrow night and
a Cleveland boy may be the cause
of it. Artie Root a clever Sixth
City kid, is billed to box Brown in
Philadelphia tomorrow night and as
he has always made good in the six
round scraps, scoring knockouts
when least expected, he may upset
all the dope and Hinkle's plans by
trimming Brown. If he does that, it
is likely that he will be selected to
meet Kilbane in a title bout in the
near future.
After they had played one 0 to 0
tie game with the coast hockey
champions in the first of a series of
three games for the hockey cham
pionship, the Ontario teamhad to
cancel the rest of the series. Every
member, of the Ontario team con
tracted the "flu" and the entire team
is in the hospital.
The Armours new uniforms, navy
Western League
JACK DEMPSEY IN
ATHLETIC SHOW
HERE APRIL 24
Challenger for Championship.
on Road With Carnival.
Stop in Omaha
for Exhibition.
Following in the footsteps of Jim
Jeffries, Jack Dempsey is touring
the country with an athletic show
known as the Jack Dempsey Ath
letic Carnival. The challenger's ag
gregation of athletes will show at
the Omaha Auditorium on April 24,
with Dempsey performing the main
"stunt" in an exhibition bout with a
sparring partner, showing the blows
he has used to score knockouts over
his former opponents and those he
expects to use in his bout with Will
ard for the championship.
The Dempsey show will present
an oddity in athletic carnivals by
showing four nationalities among
the wrestlers, having a Greek, an
Irishman, an Italian and an Amer
ican. The advance notices do not
name the individuals other than Jack
himself and we have no means of
knowing who his sparring partner
for the local exhibition will be.
There will be two wrestling bouts
on the card and with Dempsey's
exhibition will make a program well
worth seeing.
Manager Franke of the Audito
rium will have the ticket sale open
within the next few days and those
fans that want ringside seats will
probably be right on the job when
the advance sale is announced. The
prices of admission will be made
known some time during the com
ing week.
blue, trimmed and lettered in orange,
will be on exhibition in the Burgess
Nash windows next week. The team
will work out with Manager Bill
Jackson of the Omaha club at
Rourke Park this afternoon, start
ing about 2 o'clock. The entire
lineup with the exception of one or
two will be on hand for a little light
work and the rest of the week they
will be at it every day.
Showing that he knew how to be
a real good fellow, William T. Til
den of Philadelphia doubled up with
Vincent Richards, the New York
school boy, again, and won the dou
bles tennis title. This, mind you,
after Vince had trimmed Bill for
the singles title. Talk about re
turning good for evil, that's about
as good an instance as we have
heard of.
That statement issued by Gene
Melady relative to a Jim Londes
match haj stirred the local mat men
up considerably. Clarence Eklund
wants to tangle arms with the Chi
cagoan, Mart Slattery says he will
match Pesek with Londes again, and
Rudy Warner wants to know who
Londes is that he is considered such
a much. We might' get regular
match out of this thing after while.
Schedule for
"WO
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WlTMDUflyPAEft
A JOB FOR A HERO.
THE canary bird in the office of the Automatic Wart works was
whistling a few bars from "seven men sat on the dead man's chest,
yo ho, and a bottle of Beevo." The cruel war was cured on both
sides. The boss was again back on the job trying to design a synthetic
wart that couldn't be detected from the genuine.
Outside the office a long queue of two-eared citizens stretched
stylishly down the corridor. They were all heroes of the ex-kaiser's
Paris dinner trip. They were clogging the corridor in response to an ad
for a model for the Automatic Collapsible Wart, which was a combina
tion wart, collar button and hat rack. All of the applicants bore them
selves with that erect military bearing that would have distinguished
them in a crowd of orphans or a mob of mormons.
The boss was a returned hero himself and was determined that his
wart model and demonstrator would be none but another hero, f. o. b.
Europe. He had been a mounted K. P. in the first line trenches and had
thrice been cited for cooking omelets without eggs. He had never risen
from the ranks because commissions were the only things that couldn't
be won with a set of topheavy bones.
First Guy Stands Like a Broken Leg.'
The first applicant knocked knucklishy on the doorpiece and the
boss recognized his former top sarge. The sarge flushed like the sun
light striking a platter of thin army tomato soup. He saw that he was
in like a burglar. The boss was a former boot that he had squads pasted
and squads wested until his tongue hung out so far that the blackbirds
used it for a roost. "
"Well?" chirped the boss, coming to attention with both brogans on
the desk.
"I would like the job you advertised in this morning's paper."
"Sir," buzzed the boss.
"I would like the job you advertised, sir."
"You can have a job, but not that one. Your job is $18 a week and
cakes. All you do is to squads right and squads wrong around this office
and to sir me to death. Get me?"
"Yes."
"Yes what?"
"Yes, sir."
Leaves Faster Than Mushroom Arrives.
The next cuckoo was the former boob's lieutenant, who opened the
door very lieutenantishly and popped right in. The boss saluted him
with the regulation O. D. civilian's salute, right thumb along the seam of
the nose and fingers extended, but not joined.
"Go out and' come in right," the boss howled in a tone like half a
hornet's nest. "Don't you know how to pop into an orderly room?"
The loot left faster than a mushroom arrives. This time he knocked.
The boss inned him and outed him until he was dizzier than a loot gen
erally is.
"What do you want?" squawked the boss, arching his eyebrows and
looking through his former loot, which was a tough job, as loots are
pretty thick. t
"I would like that position as wart model.''
"Wart model what?"
"Wart model, sir."
"You can have a job, but not that one. You start in as bunion model
and work your way up."
"Thank you."
"Thank you what?"
"Thank you, sir."
Getting Even With the Ex-Captain.
The next fish to grab the hook, sinker and all, was the boot's ex
captain. He was the sapp who had refused the boss the furlough when
the boss's grandmother was celebrating the brass anniversary of he
golden wedding ring. When dealing out the army underwear, he had
dealt out the boss three pairs of sox with nothing missing except the feet;
an oversize, no-rim cut campaign hat that made him look like a half
chewed ice cream cone with ears, and two pairs of No. 20 trousers. The
boss's size was 40 and the cap had told him to add 'em up.
"So you want a job as wart model," said the boss, giving the cap the
vertical and horizontal once over. "Have you had any experience out
side of the army?"
"Oh, yes." '
"Oh, yes what?"
''Oh yes, sir."
"You're the lobb who staked me to a pair of boots that were eight
sizes too numerous, ain't you? When I moaned, you told me I could re
treat six or seven sizes without deserting my post. You hired some corn
fed cornet footer to snore into a bugle at 5:15 so he could wake us all up
without disturbing himself, didn't you?"
"Yes."
"Yes what?"
Yes, sir."
"That's better. The job is yours. Read these four yards of office
regulations. Celluloid collars must be shined in the rear. Any violation
of the office rules will result in 20 years at Fort Jitnesworth. Every
time I sneeze jump to attention and salute the canary bird. I have hay
fever, but the canary doesn't know it. Who are those other sapos out
side in the line?"
"r1?,1 ofse,neraIs and colonels, sir. All from your old cantonment."
Well, tell em to march away in squad formation. We don't need
those kind of models. The doorknob factory is four barracks down the
street.
HUFFMAN AUTOS
LEAD IN FIRST
NIGHT'SBOWLING
Decatur, Neb., Only Out-of-Town
Team to Roll in
Opening of State Tourney
at Omaha Alleys.
The W. L. Huffman Auto com
pany of Omaha stepped out in the
lead in the five-man events ia the
state bowling tourney now in prog
ress at the Omaha alleys, with a to
tal score of 2,505. Their nearest
competitor, the Mid-City Motor and
Supply company team, had 2,488.
The highest individual scores were
made by E. Stunz of the Mid-City
Motors, who had 546 in three games,
scoring 187, 200 and 159 in his games.
The Decatur, Neb., team was the or
phan of the night, being the only
out-of-town team rolling last night.
the 1919 Season
Their total score was 2,410, giving
them fourth place in the first night's
bowling.
The scores of the teams were as
follows:
W. L. Huffman Auto company 1,805
Mid-City Motor and Supply company 2,488
Decatur, Neb 2,410
Auto Electric Service company 2473
Kopac Prodium Hounds 2.345
Mollne-Knlghts 2,203
Tearney Has No Information
Regarding St. Joe Transfer
Chicago, April 5. President Tear
ney of the Western league had re
ceived no official information tonight
in regard to the proposed trans
fer of the St. Joseph club to Lin
coln. The proposal, he said, was
in the hands of Edward J. Hanlon,
owner of the St. Joseph franchise.
Miss Boyle Wins Plunge.
Jersey City, April 5. Miss Char
lotte Boyle, of the Woman's Swim
ming association, New Yonk, won
the national woman plunge for dis
tance event of the amateur athletic
union here tonight, going 64 feet in
1 minute. Miss Mabel Arklie of
Philadelphia was second with 58
feet and Miss Anna Wright of Phil
adelphia third with 55.
ARMOURS START
AGAINST OMAHA
CLUB NEXT WEEK
Semi-Pros, to Open Season
With Fifteen Player on the
List and Will Add Stars as
They Return rom Army.
The Armours base ball club has
a tentative lineup of 15 players to
start the season, and having made
arrangements to play in Rourke
Park when the Omaha Western
League club is traveling, they hope
to draw the fans as well as the
leaguers do on the home grounds.
A number of old Armour players
are still in the service and as they
are discharged, they will be added
to the list of players unless the new
onej prove to be better than the
old timers.
The packer team will play on the
home field at the start of the sea
son, while the Rourkes are away and
when the Omaha club returns to
their home lot, the semi-pros will
travel to Lincoln, Plattsmouth and
any other towns where they may
secure games. The first game of the
year will be with the Omaha club
next Sunday, but no further games
hrve been scheduled yetT Business
Manager Deleware says he hopes
to sign up some good attraction
for the 20th, and one for every Sun
day after that.
The following list of names are
those of the 15 players that will start
the season with the Armours: Out
fielders, Al Graves, Jim Collins, Dy
gert, Krug and Chip Bowly; Infield
ers, "Chugs" Ryan at first, Doc
Payne and Synek are second base
men, Marty Collins at short and old
reliable Wees Corcoran at the hot
corner. Harry Williams will do most
of the catching, but when needed,
"Chugs" Ryan will fill in behind the
platter. Hayes, Dyke and Potach are
the pitcher certainties and the man
agers are working hard to induce
"Old Man" Andy Gravel to stay
with them. Deleware says he can't
afford to let Andy get away for he
is one of the mainstays of the club
and lots of people go to see the
Armours play just to see the "kid"
in action. If they can keep Andy, it
will make four pitchers to open the
year with.
Another outfielder will probably
be added to the list when "Fuzzy"
Mayfield returns from the army. If
Musser returns to Omaha he will
be the second string catcher and
will make a fine mate for Williams,
behind the platter. Ecktemyer is
with the army of occupation in Ger
many and it is not likely that he
will be back in time to play ball this
year, but if the unlooked for does
occur, and Ecky does show up,
room will be made for him, for he
is considered the best first baseman
in Omaha.
With Business Manager Frank
Delaware on the job trying to book
such teams as the Colored All Stars,
the All-Nations, the Chicago Color
ed Giants and other semi-pro teams
of that calibre, it appears that Oma
ha will have some real ball games
at home, even when the Rourkes are
on foreign fields. The 1918 cham
pion Murphy Did It team may be an
earlv oooonent of the Armours and
if such a game is booked it is likelyl
that Hayes will do the heaving for
the semi-pros against his old team
mates. Amateur Base Ball,
The National Cash Registers,
champions of class B in 1918, will be
known as the Mickel Victrolas this
year. The line-up will be, Frank
Feeney, 1st base; Albion Buresh,
second base; Jess Barsballe, third
base; Carl Grimm, left field; Hiney
Ludwick, center fieldiFred Hiatt,
right field; John Hoffman and Wil
liam Goodro, .pitchers and Walter
Pates, catcher.
The peppery manager of the Oma
Printing company base ball team,
Spencer by name announces that he
is all set for the gong to sound, with
a complete line-up that will make
the pace in the City league hot all
the way. The team will practice at
Elmwood this afternoon. All play
ers are requested to be on hand.
Call Colfax 1942 and ask for
George Parrish for Saturday after
noon games with the "North Side
Pearls, representing the Pearl Me
morial church. The Pearls were
class C champions two years ago.
The Union Outfitting company
base ball team is entirely organ-
i
They ask: "Why is the Harley-Davidson so
popular?" Here is the answer: No motor vehicle
of today, no matter if it costs $5,000, has the ex
pensive design or workmanship that you find in the
wonderful Harley-Davidson Motorcycle. This,
coupled with the act that we give service no place
will equal except at the factory itself, gives you
absolute satisfaction if you ride a Harley-Davidson.
Victor H. Roos
"The Cycle Man"
Motorcycles Harley-Davidson Bicycles
. The Harley-Davidson Bicycle, Too, If Most Popular.
2701-3-5 LEAVENWORTH STREET.
PESEMRNHAM
BOUT IS LAST OF
ALL-STAR CARD
Ray Wood and Young Gotch
Will Meet in One-Fall Finish
in Semi-Windup; Will
Have Good Opener.
One of what is considered the star
wrestling shows of the season will
be staged in the Council Bluffs
auditorium next Wednesday night
with the popular -middleweight oi
Council Bluffs, Barney Burnham,
opposing Charlie Pesek of Shelton.
Neb., in the wind-up. Burnham ana
Tesek have been hurling challenges
back and forth for some time and
Promoter Al Fiori saw a chance to
put a corking good show in the
Bluffs and signed them up for the
9th. They w'fll wrestle to a finish,
best two out of three falls with
Vernon Breedlove, the featherweight '
champion, as the referee. The winner
will be the richer by $1,000, and all
the gate receipts after the expenses
have been deducted.
Charley Brother to John.
While not as famous ai John
Pesek, an older brother, Charley is
said to be just about as good.' He
will be conceding considerable
weight to Burnham, but his friends
think he will prove fast and clever
enough to'offset whatever advantage
the weight will give Burnham. Man
ager Mart Slattery thinks Charley
will have no great trouble-in beat
ing the Bluffs man, even though it
may be a long tussle. Barnes t a
clever mat man himself and Pesek
will have to be better than most of
the middles that have shown around
this section to win. He says he is
better than any seen here and his
friends are of the same opiniotvfor
they are willing to back him against
any of them at his weight and they
are willing to lose some real cash if
someone good enough to beat
Charley is found.
Star Bout in Semi
The main event should be a great
bout, but Fiori didn't stop with just
a good main event He is looking
for a preliminary bout to complete
an all-star card and he has already
signed a star bout for his semi
windup. Young Gotch, the Omaha
welterweight, said to bo about the
best man in the class around Oma-
ha, is scheduled to appear in a fin
ish match of one fall with Ray
Wood, the crack welterweight
wrestler who announced his retire
ment three years ago, and is now
making a "comeback" in the mat
arena. Wood was considered a
likely contender for titular honors
when he quit the game and should
make a sensational bout with -a man
of Gotch's caliber.
The promoter was working lat
last night in an effort to sign up a
preliminary that would balance the
card and make it a show of real
star performers. He wasn't pre
pared to say just who he has in
mind, but stated that he would have
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and it would be a one fall finish
match.
Salt Lake Club to Help
Pocatello A. C. Raise
Funds for Title Boul
Salt Lake City, Utah, April 5.
The Commercial club of Salt Lakft
today pledged $25,000 to the Poca
tello Athletic club, to be added to
the $160,000 guarantee fund which
the latter organization is offerin(f
Promoter Rickard to stage the com
ing Willard-Dempsey championship
fight at Pocatello. The Commercial
club also promised to send a repre-! ,
sentative to New York with a dele- i
gation which will go from Pocatello
about April 15, to personally lay Po-
ized for the season, and is ready for
games. Its first scheduled game is
April 20. They are- in the City
league.
The team is composed of these
players: R. Potter, first base; O.
Munn, right field; E. Nufer, pitcher;
W. Nufer, third base; F. Pascal,
second base; M. Pascal, short stop;
G. Anderson, center field; J. Custer
left field; and H. Guinott, catcher.
The Independents of the Booster
league want a pitcher and couple
of good infielders. Candidates for
the jobs mav see the manager, Pol-
sey, or Captain E. Tierney at Elm-
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