THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY.' DECEMBER 16, 1919.
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$1 50,000 PURSE
"OFFERED FOR
DEM FIGHT
American Syndicate In Lon
don Cables Offer Proposal
' to Stage Bout In Persh
ing Stadium.
By FORBES W. FAIRBAIRN.
ttalrenal Berries Staff CorrMpoodent.
Bpaelal Cable Dlnpatrh.
London, Dec. IS. An American
syndicate in London has just of
fered Jack Dampsey $150,000 and
one-third of the gate receipts for a
championship match with Georges
Carpentier. This is the biggest and
the best offer made so far in the
frenzied finance to match the two.
The. fight , re to be staged in the
Pershing stadium in Paris.
This offer was made to Nate
Lewis by J. H. Booker this after
noon. Booker is a partner of VV.
F. Mitchell, who controls the
largest dance hall syndicate in
Europe, and is associated with
American millionaires. He will de
posit $50,000 in New York City as
evidetfee of good faith.
"This looks like the best offer,"
Lewis said to Universal Service to
day. "Dempsey wants $200,000 cash.
He will not fight for less. Pershing
tlrllnn, ,.,,'11 1 fl fifift .1.. T
wi'ouiii vy ii oval Ah
is good for a million-dollar house.
"Without charging exorbitant
prices, this should bring Dempsey
i.earer $300,000. The American
Members of the syndicate are now
on their way to California to see
Jack Kearns.'
"Booker is sure he can get the
stadium. Carpentier is willing and
available. And Paris will draw the
biggest house in the world. I
would like to ask Universal Service
to see Kearns in Los Angeles and
ask his opinion of the offer and
nave him cable me care of the Lon
don office of Universal Service."
Lewis is awaiting word from
Paris regarding the offer made to
Dempsey by the French syndicate
ieaded by Baron Rothschild. Lewis,
vho is acting as agent for Kearns
'Tic, is suuugiy in invur ui uic
".ooker offer.
Commerce Grid Squad
Answers to Practice
Call Over 20 Strong
Over 20 candidates for the High
School of Commerce basket ball
team answered Coach Drummond's
call for players. The "Y" gymna
sium was the icene of practice.
"Ike" Mahoney, an all-state man
last year, shot several difficult bas
kets which surprised many of the
onlookers; "Duke" Levinson, an
other all-state man last year, dis
played excellent work on the floor.
Among the other candidates that an
swered the first call were Lewis
Camero, last year's captain; Frank
Roktisek, Charles Hathoot, Russell
Snygg and James Slane, all of
whom are veterans.
Practice will be held today at the
Y. M. C. A. gymnasium. The first
game on the business lads' schedule
is with South Omaha hieh on Janu
ary 23. The team will be picked out
by that date and will be in good
Sihape is the belief of Coach Drum
mond. Irish Question Not to Come
Up In Parliament Right Now
.London, Dec. IS. Premier Lloyd
George announced in the House of
Commons this afternoon that no
Irish bill would be introduced at
this session j of Parliament. He
promised a statement on Monday
next giving an outline of the meas:
tire.
Nebraska Cement Plant '
May Enlarge Buildings
Superior, Neb., Dec. 15. ((Special
Telegram.)--TheN Nebraska cement
plant has bought part of the farm of
C. L. Meyer. It is reported some
new houses for its employes will be
built the coming year, or the size of
the plant will be doubled to supply
the cement demand.
With the Bowlers
WESTEBX CNIOX LEAGCE.
Construction. Plant.
Tolliv.r 483 Wtt
Kughar 463 Hall
Lanyon 450 Taylor
Horton 333' I.anyon M
Saunders ...... 445Ambrosa
Handicap 321
Total 220tl
Traffic
Tellery USUI
Undbrrft 439
Hataht 498
Carson 410,
Tots! 2ml
I
m
423
420
490
bit
Total 2J87
C'fty BuD't.
Horton 423
Nearness
Bnjamin
Schelberg
Nelson, . . .
Handicap
443
358
465
(55
S8
Auditors.
Haebech
Jlaln ...
Stewart
orwal
ABkelot
Total
Commercial, Ladles. I
. 435
. 38U
. 4061
. 4M!
.30391
Total ........2276
(ieneral Mar.
Frank SIC
Blancher 433
Pietsel 39$
Morrison 434
West 41
Total 2240
Traffic, Ladles.
Clocks . . .
Ostler ...
Judge ....
Schellberg
Larger . . .
. Handicap -
3271
240!
2241
193!
192
27
Carson . . .
Miller ....
Yelvlngton
Rarhwesln
Tillery . . ,
330
351
26
241
166
Total 1203
All Stars, Ladles.
Bradley
Frerlqot
West ..
l.ang .
AsKelor
Total 1453
Plant, Ladies.
... tt
... 202
3151 Kiss 220
186! Taylor 272
219l Wardell 106
1621 blander
Handican 98!
Total 11?8 Total ISIS
VMON PACIFIC LEAGUE.
M Inert. Accounts.
.Ashton 468
Wenke 459
J. Kelny 441
T.. Kelny 490
. Kent 637
Totals 2395
SuDt. Trans.
Hlnrlchs .J 445
Pickett 467
Stlna 40
Stafford 445
Million ....
Handicap . .
Neb. Division.
Holbroi.k 469
McWIIliams .... 408
Hartung 462
LiUgren 499
McQuads 485
Handicap 96
Totals ... 2419
Valuation Dept.
Hall 490
Oellus 316
Barnes 387
Dana 385
61-9! Wright 461
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Omaha University
Basket Ball Coach
In First Call for Men
Coach Ernie Adams of the Oma
ha university called his candidates
for the basket ball team together
last night for the first time this year.
Over 25 candidates answered Coach
Adams' first call.
With a team composed of former
high school and several college
stars Coach Adams is confident that
the Omaha university will make a
good showing this year.
The first game on the university
schedule is with Wayne, January 9,
at Wayne. Coach Adams will take 12
men on the trips instead of the
usual seven, he told the candidates
yesterday.
SECOND BIG ICE
CARNIVAL SET
FOR SATURDAY
Officials Expect Greater
Crowd of Entries Than Took
Part in the Events at
Riverview Park.
The second big ice carnival under
the auspices of the Y. M. C. A. and
the recreation director of Omaha
will be staged at Hanscom park next
Saturday at 3:30. Hanscom park has
been selected for the reason that a
host of fast and clever skaters are
Residents of that neighborhood and
often use that park for their skating
parties.
Recreation Director Isaacson de
clares that there will be no delay in
starting things Saturday, as the ex
perience gained in the opening last
week has been valuable to the com
mittee. It is expected that a greater num
ber of entries will be received for
this carnival than took part last
week, a number of the skaters from
the Hanscom park section declaring
they will enter the tourneys. A great
number of them were at Riverside
park and witnessed the first carnival
and were judging their probable op
ponents in the final, tournament. ,
A number of new skating features
will be added to these carnivals as
they are brought to the attention of
the directors, Isaacson for the city
and Weston for the Y. M. C A. The
ski-ing entertainment by the "Y"
Ski club was an added attraction last
week and Isaacson states that he
will have an added attraction for this
Saturday's event, but he is not cer
tain just what that feature will be.
When he makes his-selection, the
newspapers will be apprised o it.
Harvard's Grid Team '
Starts Its Work for
New Year's Day Game
Cambridge, Mass., Dec. 15. Har
vard's foot ball team began today a
week of intensive training prepara
tory to leaving next Saturday (for
its New Year's day game with the
University of Oregon team at Pasa
dena, Cal. Practice, Which stopped
prior to the Yale game on Novem
ber 22. was resumed in a light form
last Thursday, after final acceptance
of the western challenge, but con
siderable information concerning the
Oregonian's style of play, which was
received today, made it possible for
Coach Robert T. Fisher to prepare
defenses for the best rival forma
tions expected.
Naval Academy Schedule
For 1920 Season Completed
Annapolis, Dec. 15. The foot ball
schedule for 1920 of the naval acad
emy team has been completed with
the exception of only one date.
Princeton will be played at Prince
ton and the military academy prob
ably at New York, all other games
being played at Annapolis. The
schedule follows:
October 2, North Carolina; Octo
ber 9, open; October 16, Bucknell;
October 23. Princeton; October 30,
Western Reserve; November 6,
Georgetown; November 13. Univer
sity of South Carolina; November
27, U. S. military acedemy,
Leonard and Dundee to Meet
For Twenty Rounds Jan. 16
New Haven, Dec. 15. Benny
Leonard, New York, lightweight
champion, and Johnny Dundee, New
York, will box 20 rounds to a de
cision here on the nt'Rht of January
16. Forfeits of $3,500 each were
posted in New York Monday.
STATE COLLEGE
DIFFICULTIES
ARE IRONED OUT
Association Holds 13-Hour
Meeting, During Which
Rules Are Made and
Defined.
By KARL LEE.
. Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 15. (Special.)
The enormous difficulties con
fronting the Nebraska State Collegi
ate association which, during the
foot ball season just closed, serious
ly hampering the working capac
ity of the organization, were more
or less successfully ironed out at
a meeting of the state conference
here Saturday. The meeting lasted
more than 13 hours or in the words
of President Rouse of Peru Normal,
a "full working day." Several
amendments to the association con
stitution were discussed, amended
and passed, which explicitly define
eligibility rules, regulations govern
ing awards of season titles and other
executive matters.
President C. J. Clark of Wesleyan
University presided. Officers for
the ensuing year were elected as
follows:' President, C. J. Shirk,
Wesleyan; vice president, D. G. Bur
rage. Doane College; secretary, M.
S. Pate, Kearney Normal. Those
present were: C. j. Shirk, Wesleyan;
Dean' Ashcraft, York; C L. Cline,
Midland; Frank Weyer, Hastings;
President Rouse, Peru; M. S. Pate,
Kearney Normal; D. G. Burrange,
Doane College and J. A. Moss.
Cotner.
Wayne was admitted to the con
ference. Open war on alleged professional
ism seemed to be the keynote of
the conference. Alleged violation of
eligibility rules by certain York
College players, winners of the state
foot ball championship for the sea
son just closed, was given an air
ing and on motion of Professor
Shirk of Wesleyan University, a
"championship committee" was ap
pointed to investigate the award of
the championship to York.
The committee consists of:-C. L.
Gine, Midland, chairman; M. S.
Pate. Kearney Normal President
Rouse, Per Normal.
Boycott Against York.
Evidence on either side, York and
Wesleyan being antagonists, will be
heard by this committee. It also
developed that Cotner and Hastings
Colleges, with Wesleyan, had broken
off relations with York and insti
tuted a "boycott" against that in
stitution in the scheduling of ath
letic contests in the future. No ef
fort was made to patch up the "boy
cott." However, York was tenta
tively awarded foot ball honors.
Other business transacted during
the day was as follows:
Chadron Normal and Dana college
placed on list of outside colleges
with which conference members may
play.
University Place chosen as place
for 1920 state track meet. The con
ference also voted to "pool" ex
penses incurred at meet, each college
to stand the cost on even terms.
Championship awards were made
as follows: Basket ball, 1918 and
1919, Doane college: track. 1918,
Hastings; foot ball, 1919, York.
Attacks Publicity.
An open attack on the value of
newspaper publicity was made by
Delegare Pate of Kearney Normal
and Delegate Weyer of Hastings.
Newspaper men were present and
voiced a protest. The sports editor
of a Lincoln, newspaper stated that
had not the conference, engaged in a
"row" the newspaper publicity would
not have been received. The matter
sifted as so much "grand standing."
Coaches of most conference col
leges were present and drafted a
1919-1920 basket ball schedule. York,
however, having been boycotted, will
appear in competition with but a
very few of the conference colleges.
The conference now includes 10 state
colleges, namely: York, Wesleyan,
Peru, Hastings, Cotner, Kearney
Normal, Grand Island, Nebraska
Central, Wayne and Midland.
. Dr. Slidler Speaks.
Dr. George P. Slidler, representing
the York Rotary club, which two
weeks ago issued a circular letter to
Rotary clubs of the state protesting
the "boycott" of York college, spoke
in behalf of the club's action. Dr.
Slidler is a former Michigan and
Chicago graduate who was closely
associated with athletics of the two
decades past.
Mitchell Outboxes Paulson.
Milwaukee, Dec. 15. Pinkey
Mitchell, weighing 1361-2 pounds,
outboxed Mike Paulson, Minneapo
lis welterweight, 143 pounds, in
every period of a ten-round no-decision
bout Monday night) sporting
writers agreed.
Totals ...203S
tar Records,
Total 2317
Iiv. Enrlnnn.
Hoffman 35Purhou S4T
Bowk's 432Reffr 434
Trynbea 405iRatohford 488
Willsey 403lMcAulI(f 460
TUlson 463 -Shaw 40S
I Handicap 1
Tolala 2038
A Dial. Shops.
I,und 4:7
Lanadon 4o0
Storr.
Bauer
Han.en
Handicap . .
Totals 2330
Passenger Ace'ts.
Hollo 480
Slovak 414
470:srhmldt 463
4S0;Wls 471
480 W'anka s, 433
Totals 23681
Totals u.....231f
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. WALKING THROUGH THE NIGHT.
BEFORE the 18th amendment, there were two classes of citizens who
ambled through the night Somnambulists and rumnambulists.
5C '
VWf f Ura,
The boys with the ginsomnia are gone with last year's crop of sweet
azeleas and the sleep walking excursionists have the field to 'emselves.
The knobs on saloon doors are losing their polish and glister like an
oyster in the hot sun. The hinges on the swinging doors are as rusty as
a Bryan presidential boom.
The spiders have chased all the flies off the free lunch. The beevo
barnacles are clinging to the keel of the cash register, where once the beer
dewed fingers of the spigot qhauffeur played 'Coming Thro' the Rye on
a Commutation Ticket," and where, occasionally, those same foam
spangled dime grabbers skipped a note. Very occasionally. No more does
the boniface speed the exiting guest on his way with the" Milwaukee
blessing,1 "Pabst Vobiscum."
The old barkeep's apron is hanging on the doorbell and those who
pass may read the omen in its darksome hues. Booze is gone with yes
terday and those who thought that Omar Khayyam wrote the Third Testa
ment. ' ,
Carrying the banner is a lost art along with hiccoughs and delirium
tremens. The sundodgers, with their healthy faces tanned by the moon
and exposure to the bright lights, now walk around with bent skulls and
bowed thirsts. There's quite' a difference between bending the neck and
bending the elbows.
Yet, once annually, the banner packers returneth to the old nest like
the murderer to the scene of the crime. That's when the six-day race
pops up at the garden each December. Then the color bearers rush to the
trophy room and throw the banner to the damp breeze. There, is an
armistice on prohibition and a moratorium on right living.
Every souse is earning a letter trimmed with black. Stuff the bar de
tail is handing out makes your tonsils plink, plank, plunkf like ukulele
strings. That's official. Only mistake the bar squad makes is in ringing
the cash register instead of an "ambulance gong.
Elaborate New Year's
Day Program Being
Arranged al Local "Y"
Open house will be observed
at the Y. M. C. A. again on New
Year's day and an elaborate athletic
program has been arranged by the
physical department, according to
N. J. Weston, physical director.
In the morning it is planned to
hold the junior athletic meet, open
to all members in the junior di
vision, which promises to surpass
that of former years, and the after
noon will be turned over to the boys
for an athletic carnival.
Promptly at 7 in the evening
gymnastic exhibition and swimming
meet will be on the program for the
men's classes, and the evening will
be wound up with a couple of basket
ball contests between the leading
teams of the various leagues. A
volley ball contest will also.be held
in the evening;.
"The public is cordially invited to
attend all of these events," said
Weston, "and we expect to have a
record crowd, as this will no doubt
be the best program the 'Y' has had
in many years."
The athletic committee is arrang
ing the various programs, which will
be ready for publication some time
this week.
Cubs to Start for Training,
Ground on February 28
Chicago,' Dec. 15. The Chicago
National league base ball club will
leave for Pasadena, Cal., to begin
its spring training season, Febru
ary 28. This is the earliest date the
team has left on its spring training
trip in four years.
The early get-away is made possi
ble by the rule recently adopted by
the National league allowing teams
six weeks' training.
With the Bowlers.
With the lifting of the ban created
by the fuel administration, due to
the shortage of coal, Omaha bowlers
are again flocking to the alleys and
renewing their activities, which were
so suddenly cut off by the closing Of
lhe bowling alley houses. Leagues
have been inactive for even a linger
time than the duration of the closing
edict, due to the Middle West bowl
ing tournament, which was held here
for two weeks prior to the shutdown.
During this time practically all the
leagues discontinued their schedules,
lt has been over a month since the
leagues in the Omaha alleys have
met and three weeks since those on
the Farnam alleys were lined up on
their schedule. The long interrup
tion will not cause many chances in
the league schedules, but will makei
;heir termination next spring later
than the time the season's bowling
usually winds up. ,
Inquiries of several of the officers
of various leagues reveals that there
will be no delay in getting back on
the schedules. Leagues will com
mence operating this week on their
regular nights and schedules will be
continued from where they were cut
off. The Greater Omaha league
schedule will be taken up on the
Omaha alleys, where they "still have
games to play , before; switching to
the Farnam alleys. The Women's
Metropolitan league, which alter
nates with the Greater Omaha, will
continue on the Farnam runways,
ther leagues operating on one set
of alleys will report this week on
their regular scheduled night. With
to long a layoff the local bowlers
are naturally anxious to ,get back
into the harness and continue their
already successful season.
The local pin knights were com
pletely lost without their favorite
pastime during the time that Mr.
Garfield and associates had them
lined up in a frosty stove league
fighting over former pin battles, and
burning up the wood which they
tailed to do in past seasons' tourna
ments. All declared they were in
favor of strikes, but not the kind
the miners staged.
When they get back in the run
ways they will be rolling under
vastly improved conditions. The
Omaha alleys are practically the
same at new, being placed in this
condition for the big tournament,
and the Farnam and Harney alley
equipment has been completely
overhauled and repaired during the
layoff.
Another event which was called
off by the closing laws is the dance,
which the local women bowlers were
to have held December 8. This will
be held Wednesday evening, Janu
ary 7, at the Castle hotel.
Bryan Wood and John Fyfe
Wrestle Another 1-Hour Draw
Beatrice, Neb., Dec. 15. (Special.).
John Fyfe of Diller, Neb., and
Bryan Wood of this city wrestled
one hour to a draw Saturday eve
ning at the Lyric theater before a
fair-sized crowd of fans. Fyfe, who
was discharged from the navy last
fall, and who was wrestling instruc
tor in the service for a short time,
weighed in at 130 pounds and Wood
at 133 pounds.
Dundee Wins.
Philadelphia, Dec. 15. Johnny
Dundee of New York outboxed Pal
Moran of New Orleans in a six
round bout Monday night. Up to the
hst round, when Dundee landed sev
eral hard blows, the fight was slow.
Children Make Money.
Milbank, S. D., Dec. 15. Special)
Two hundred and sixteen children
of Grant county through garden,
canning, poultry and pig clubs,
made a profit of $12,815.68 front
their summer's work. Th;s is an
average of $60 per member.
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