THE BEE; OMAHA, MONDAY, MARCH 15, 192Q. , iiarpa rtn mn urto run m H Al. JKAUKHttl Al aii in if ii i rn S UTMNA MLLtU Efforts to Bring Missouri Val ley Association Together ::: for This Year Prove ' Unsuccessful. y.Tht Missouri Valley high school track meet will not be held in Omaha or any other place this year. according to Coach Harold. R. Mul ligan of Central high school. Mr. Mulligan was president of the Mis souri valley association in 1917. the ' last time the meet was held. The war was the reason for the meet being indefinitely postponed. Since then there has been little action on bringing the association tp life again. s - . "It takes too much money to send ""-the track teams to the meet," said Coach Mulligan. "The schools can liot afford it. Should the meet be held, Omaha is the place to have it because it was selected by the last meeting 'of the association. There is no suitable place in Omaha for a big meet." - Little Chance for Meet - l.The meet would have, broken ud , J early as 1915 had it not been for 'strong tracks enthusiasts in Ka:nsas Uty and St. Joseph, continued Mr. Mulligan. "But these men have left school. I concluded therefore . that , there is very nttKei chance of staging mc meet, especially mis year. ..The local high schools will have to be content with the class, inter city and state meets this year. The first two will be held in Omaha. The annual state meet will be held in Lincoln May IS. -The proposed meet between" the local and Council Bluffs high schools is something new in this vicinity. This js the first time that all local , high schools will have track squads. . Cach Mulligan has much mate rial, although only two veterans are -if tt . r , , , - uiCK. nermau swoooaa, wno placed ' inthe half-mile last year in the state meet, and Howard Turner, high jumper, are expected to repeat their performances of last season. Swo boda is a good all-around track man, and will enter the low, hurdles a&d possibly, the 440-yard run. i; Turner Looks Good. Hurner will try the high hurdles .this ycari and should do something iiCthe state meet. Beryl Meston, who took first place in the state' meet, is ineligible because of studies. .Floyd Grcui, who'placed fifth in thf 100-yard dash, is back this year; "' Frank P.-hn is the only Central man that has been practicing. Dohn has twin working under Charles Mor iarty at Creighton for the past week. Swenson r.nd Holmquist are good high hurdlm. : , "iiMultigan v,il! not issue his track call until April 1. Coach Evans of Commerce has already issued tys ; call for track men. Commerce has. some good men in Slane, Snygg, Camero, Kline. Dalton and South. , 1- Kline Good Hurdler. 'Wv.. ' ' 1 14- - J ...Ml ' JVrine IS a gooa nuruier auu wnr Sttry the bruut of the work on the .. nut uita. vou'v. v r- - - - ing the 100-yard dash in 10 3-5 sec onds whea he attended Cass school. Coach Patton of South will issue hi call toon. Neiman in the sprints and Card with the weights will prob abjy be South's chief factors this year. , The Council Bluffs squad has softie good men in Mellor, Larsen, Blythe and Owen. Benson may enter the meet with only a part of a track squad. Calvert is a good man in the sprints. - i i mtrf is n snr nirr. iiij- "The interscholastic city meet will v be held May 7 or 8. The field has ' trot teen selected yet, but it will . probably be Creighton field. f . ii i ii . Plan East vs. West Women's Tennis Match 'ivln San Francisco Soon San Francisco, March 14. An cast against west women's; tennis series.in which Mrs. Harel Hitchkiss Wightman, national champion, and Miss Eleanor Goss, ranking second nationally, will represent the east, is heinc arranged for March 21 bv the California Lawn Tennis associa tion. The two eastern players have j been visiting here for several weeks j .past. V ;Miss Mary Browne of L&s Angeles, former national champion, and Miss Helen Baker, San Fran cisco star, it is considered likely, will represent the west The match will Se staged on the Berkeley Lawn Tennis club courts, acfoss the bay r. - c r irom isan x-rancisco. -Little hope is held for an inter- . sectional set of matches for men to be played on the Pacifft coast. The intention of the national association to send teams to the English cham- . plon ships and to the Olympic games ' makes such a meeting improbable, rt is said, although it may be held u Philadelphia immediately after the return from abroad of the Amer- kan teams. ..aeverai icauiug caaiciu pwjcu . -will play here when they pass through en route to Australia to ; tompete for the.. Davis cup this year, ( Dr. Sumner Hardy, president of the California association, lias been in formed. 4 .Omaha University Will Be Represented by Track Team LtTQmaha university will be repre sented by a track team this year, according to the announcement jade Wednesday evening by Man ager Paul Pressly. The first, call p candidates will be issued this morning. ... "Ernie Adams, coach of the pres et basket ball team, will have "xharge of the track team. The lo- cats will enter tne siaie tunicicii. N Several former stars on high school ""teams wliONare attending school now 'are slated tb make the team. "Chicago Second Baseman c Will Undergo Operation V Pasadena, CaL, March J4- Charles -Herzog, , second baseman of the Chicago National league ba?ball 'team, will be taken to a Los Angeles hospital Monday for an operation , and will be out of the game for at "least a month,- Manager Fred -Uitchcll announced tonight ' BRINGING UP . VE OT To -neak OCT" OR lit PI OH' Eft V HtTtLO TT1 1 WHAT lll ?.U. P PUT a ' 1 BjT I I WONDER HAVL TO CO TO THE OPERA WITH WCOE OHE?- " T5Vt COOD WINE ON s UrV P"" Mr HE THINKS 1 7 ACOeVBT-ara ' JAMCb CAME DOWN v! , tiR HOES I WOULDN'T I Hf CETTINC, I ' fWO wt tmx air ' 3-5 IX II -I INI " I .1 I I" - - . - . - Hagen Looms 51s Golfer To End England's Reign Detroit Club's Professional. May Sweep Away Great , Britain's Supremacy stood All Onslaughts Over a stretch of yars England has seen supremacy in many sports pass to the United States. We are now perched on the pinnacle of box ing, athletics 2nd tennis. ' . The despairing Briton, glancing down the short list of sports where his countrymen still hold the up per hand, picks up courage when golf is reckoned. Ahl here is a game centuries old, one that Eng land has safely defended against the world, which means mostly the U.S. A. In former years the British Isles could probably produce SO capable players to every one developed in this country. The record of inter national matches was topheavy with English victories. ' Travis Annexes One. To be sure, WalterT. Travis did manage toiannex- the English ama teur title about IS years ago, and Francis Ouimet. when only a mere youth, tnumphed over Harry Yar (ion and. Ted Ray, famous English professionals, in the American open tournament in 1913 at Brookljne, but in the opinion of our cousins across the sea these two victories were nothing but accidents. Lookine toward the future, these same foreien critics are a little bit uncertain whether the mighty Johnny Bull can retain his golf ing laurels. Alex Pirie, secretary of the American Professional Golf as sociation, thinks British superiority will be seriously rocked this year CITY LEAGUE IS COMPLETED FOR COMING SEASON Six Teams Will Open Race on j April 18 American League Will Also Open on Same Date. It wasofficially announced yester day by H. R. Sells, sales manager, that the Union Outfitting company team, last season's class B and City league pennant winers, would not be in the field the coming season. Therefore jthe franchise held by Union Outfitting company backers has been forfeited and the Paxton Vierling, last season's runner-ups in the American league, who were awarded the franchise held by the Outfitters, in case the latter team decided not to enter, have been given their franchise and the City league, which will play class A ball this year, has been completed for the season. The following six teams are in the race for the 1920 pennant: Riggs Optical company, Paxton-Vierlings, McCaffrey Motor company, Union Stock Yards, H. R. BoSvens and Ne braska Power company. , Season Opens April 18. President Jacobs of the league, yesterday announced that the open ing games on Sunday, April 18, will be as follows: Nebraska Power Co. against McCaffreys Bowens against Paxton-Vierlings, nd Union Stock Yards againsLRiggs Optical Co. Although rQ Omaha Printing Co. team withdrew from the American class B league last week in order to join the InterrCity league, Presi dent Clarence Wagner announced that the Bellevederes have been awarded ' their , franchise, thereby completing that organization. The American . league will also open its season on April 18. It is expected that before the week is over all of the leagues will have completed their organization. Meet at City Hall. -The Inter-City and Booster leagues will meet tonight at Uie city hall. .Four teams have already applied for entry in the Inter-City circuit. They are the Townsends, Omaha Printing company, Her mansky Pharmacy and the Sprague Street Merchants. Three meetings are scheduled fcr Wednesday night at the city hall. They are the Gate City class U Commercial,-Saturday afternoon organization andthe Greater Omaha class A. ; A. circuit . In the Gate City league, the McKenny Dentists, Ramblers and W. O. W.'s haveapplied , for fran chises, while in-the Greater Omaha league the Murphy-Did-Its, last season's pennant winners and west ern amat11l tifTa hnlj.ra rtiliir'a land Ernie Holmes have signified I.I " r .i ineir luiciiuons or joining, ana ine ForV Omaha soldiers, who were de nied a franchise in, both the Com mercial and City, leagues last week have been invited to join this cir cuit The Commercial league is prac tically organized, although there is still one berth open. Any team wishing to join these leagues are urged to be on deck. Italy's button factories produce about 3,000.000 gross of. buttons yearly. .1 A FATHER of Links, Which Has With for Many Years. when a powerful band of American stars starts swinging, in the Englrsh championships. ' " Pirie, who is well versed in golf ing conditions on both sides of the Atlantic, doesn't take much stock in rumors that have been drifting over the ocean that Harry Vardon, James Braid, J. H. Taylor George Duncan and Ted Ray, England's , famous group of open title holders, have slumped m their play. v May Have Slipped. . Pirie, who formerly caddied for Vardon, rathef believes the many times winner of British honors may have slipped a little, but that the others arc not far from the top of their game. Taylor especially is reearded bv Pirie as being in dan gerously good form. According to the association secretary, England won't have a just alibi if something goes wrong in the open tournament in June. Against this formidable aggrega tion America will send Walter Ha gen, who, in Pirie's estimation, is the strongest American star that ever sought foreign honors. Hagen has the shots, temperament and confidence to go like a whirlwind on the other side, and Pirie is sure he'll come near winning the English- title, which would be a feat never before achieved by an Ameri can professional. Then Hagen will be accompanied by "Long Jim' Barnes, Jock Hutchinsoni Tomlhy McNamara and possible Mike Brady and young Charlie Hoffner. BOWLERS WILL HOLD TOURNEY AT LINCOLN Chosen s Place for 1921 v Meet of State Associa- . tion at Fremont Meeting. Fremont Neb.. -March 14. (Spe cial Telegran?.) Lincoln was chos en as the place for holding the Y)i tournament of the Nebraska State Bowling association at the annual meeting here. The following officers ' were elected: President, L. R. Hammond, Fremont: vice presidents, Roy Karls and Dad Huntington, Omaha; E. E. Duncan, Lincoln; rrank bimodynes, Wahoo and Ray VanHousen, Schuy ler; secretary- treasurer, P. A. Brown, Lincoln. The entry fee for the all-events was increased from SO cents to $1 a man. A resolution of respect to the late W. S. Ri'dgell for a number of years president of the' association, was adopted. The report of the auditing com mittee showed that 25 men teams, 64 doubles, 136 singles and 84 all events were entered in the tourna ment held in Fremont last week. First prize in the team event, was $70, in the doubles $35. singles $35, and dll-events $10. First American Team , To Enter Olympiad " Before Next Friday New ''York. ' March 14. Active participation of the United States in j the seventh Olympiad, at Antwerp. Belgium, will begin with the cabling of the entry of a hockey team on or before next Friday, which will be the first formal entry by the Amer icans, This was one of many important decisions reached at the meeting of the American Olympic committee here Saturday. Quick action was necessary owing to the fact that the entries close on March 19 and the play begins April 20. Representatives of the International Skating union assured tWe committee that a seven of champion caliber was available and that a squad of fourteen or more players would be ready to sail within two weeks unless untoward conditions arose. . President Wilson .was unanimous ly elected honorary president of the committee and, Mathew . P. Halpin, of the New York- A. C. team manager, the same position he held on the American Olympic teams of 1906-08.- Dates were also selected for the sectional trial games to be held at Chicago, Philadelphia and Pasadena, on June 26 andythe final tryouts allotted to" the Harvard stadium on July 1A " Today's Calendar ot, Sports., Racings Winter meeting of Cnbm-Ameri-ran Jockey elnb at Havana. Winter meet ing of Bmlnem Men's Racine aaraclatloa at New Orleanw. ' Teantn: Women's and girls national In door ehamptoiuhlpa at w York. Automobile! Opening of shows at Little Roek. Ark., and Wllkes.Barre, Pa. Kkatlag: Eastern amateur Indoor ena -plonhlN at Brooklyn, N. -V . Boxing I Southern A. A. V. rhamploa shln at Birmingham, Ala. Jark Brlttoa against Peanl O'Krefe, 10 round at Ken oha. Wis. Willie Jarkson against Klrhle Mitchell, 1 mnniln at Milwaukee. Ooats Dolg aralat MmWoi Bost-.la wuade at Bea, IlL Se Pt CREIGHTON WILL BE REPRESENTED IN DRAKE MEET Bill Adams and Ed O'Neill to to Represent Blue and White in Annual Drake Tennis Tourney. Will Adams, city tennis champion, and Ed O'Neill, both Creighton students, wil represent Creighton in the annual Missouri Valley ' tennis tournament at Drake university, Des Moines, in May. it will be ( reighton s tirst ap- pearance . in tenuis competition in several years. , Adams was Iowa state champion in 1916 and was a member of the championship doubles team that won the city title here on two dif ferent occasions. O'Neill ranks among the best net players in the city. O Meill and Adams have played together for several years on Omaha courts and Lreightonites are ex pecting them to show some class in the Drake meet. First Squad of Rourkes Arrives at Training Camp Okmulkee, Okl., March 14. (Special Telegraph) Suushine and warm southern breezes greeted the first squad of eight Omaha players when thy arrived here in charge of P. A. Rourke and Manager Jack Lelive't. Other members of the team are due Monday and Tuesday. The series of exhibition games be gins on March 22, with Kansas City here for three games. AMCSEMHNTS. BRILLIANT MUSICAL BURLESQUE Twice Da ilywelk MatineeToday Final Performance-Friday Nite Chas H. Wal dron Presents His BOSTONIAN BURLESQUERS With FRANK FUNNY FINNEY In the Musical Chtip-Suey r- "From Here to Shanghai" Mammoth Scenic Production BEAUTY CHORUS OF BEAN EATING BOSTON GIRLS DEAR READER: Agmtn we bave from Mr. Finney's pro lific brain another new show he tume tbem out nne a arason. always good, sometimes better, often best With the help of Mill Ott. Frank will keep you laughing aplenty. It's mighty good show. OLD MAN JOHNSON. Manager Gayetr. Evening and Sun.Mat., 25, 60, 75, 91 SlVkIVIats.l5c"and25tF5'c: Chew gum if you like, but no smoking. LADIES' . 10r AT ANY WEEK TICKETS WC DAY MATINEE Baby Carriage Garage in the Lobby. 1 Matisse Dally : 2(14 Kerr Nlsht CIS r.u SCIT VlN VAUSCVILLS THE FOUR MORTONS: HOMER B. MASON AND -MARGUERITE KEELER: FL0RENZC TEMPEST; LYONS A V0SC0: RUTH BUDD: MseRAE A CLESG: PREV08T A OOUIIeT: TOPICS OF THE - DAY: KIN06RAM8. - vim llliilplllillllllllit lililllllllliliilll r r ' ' 1 -, -, 2ii Jifgs and MaggUj im Fall f Colors in Th Sunday Baa. CANDIDATES FOR MAROON TRACK . TEAM GAIN PEP Coach ArJams''Energies Cen tered on Preparing Squad for State Conference Meet. -J The closing of the basketball season last Friday night, and the sudden arrival of a balmy brand of spring weather, has put "pep" into the candidates for Coach Adams' track squad which numbers nearly 35 Maroons. y Coadi Adams' energies are centered on preparing a Maroon team for the annual state confer ence field and track meet. May 22. at Nebraska Wesleyan university. University flace, Neb. Manager of Athletics P. L. Pressly. has also announced that the university track men would probably meet Trinity college, of Iowa, and Wesleyan uni versity in dual track meet the last part of 'April or first of May.- To prepare his team for the coming meets, Coach Adams has announced that he will hold an inter-class reet some time soon. The freshman, sophomores and juniors of the arts and letters college, will enter teams, while the pre-medics and pre-lega's will do likewise. The academics will also have a team. Good Material In Sight Adams has some very good ma terial in school, and with his ability to mold together a team, the' uni versity should show some class in track this year. O'Connors of last year and Kemper and Baily, new men this year, are trade men ot no mean ability, while Wade Reeves and Ray Phelps are both good jumpers. Lorin Thompson who per formed so well m last"- year s state high school track meet, break ing one state record in tne 440 vard run. and niacin? in 4oth high jump and broad jump, isone Tf Adams oest,.Dets. ucacom ana Pressly of this year's basket five are out for the sprints. Griffiths Return From Europe With Many Scalps New York, March 14. Johnnie Griffiths, who has been in Europe since last November, returned Sun day on the French liner La France, with a record of having "cleaned up" every welterweight boxer in' France. One of his sensational bouts was with Albert Badou, champion welterweight -of France, whom he knocked out in a 20-round bout. Grif fiths seeks a bout with Jack Britton, the welterweight champion of the United States. V Glenwood Closes Season. Glenwood, la., March 14. Glen wood's basket ball season closed Friday night with two wins for the high school. Glenwood boys de feated Elliott boys, 44 to 12. Glen wood girls defeated Strahan girls, 6 to 2. Lighting Fixtures, Burgess-Gran-den. Adv. AMUSEMENTS. TWO SHOWS IN ONE BROWN'S HIGHLANDERS Artistic Sing in , Dancing and Instrumental Novelty ROTH. MITCHELL ROTH "The Wop, the Cop anJ the Nurse" "WHAT HAPPENED) TO RUTH" A Satire in One Act" NEWTON TWINS Terpsichores Marvels Photoplay Attraction Wm. rox rresents Wm. Russell in "SHOD WITH FIRE" Screen Stars At Hem rid at the Studio Pathe Weekly Mack Swain .Comedy TAHIftUT AT vniuil s g. .LAST TIME ' America's Greatest Colored Show THE SMARTER SET Presenting Their Latest Musical Creation x . MTL. r U:l J..n of Ska Tickets 25c, 50c. 75c, $1 and 1-S(f Tomorrow and Wed -Matinee .Wed. David Belaaco Presents FRANCES STARR. In Knoblock's Remarkable Play "TIGER! TIGER" Original Distinguished N. Y. Cast Nights. 50c to S3-S0. Mat.. 50c to S2. Fri. Madame Retahart Yiddish Playars jiiinlilllilliliiliiliiliiliiliiliillllillillillliliiliililliilnliiliillllliliillilliliiliiliilliliiliiliil'iffiliiliiliiliiliiliilnlnliil"!!!!"! FREE LECTURE s by . 1 ' PETER W. COLLINS of Boston National Lecturer of Knights of Columbus I BOLSHEVISIM, THE RED MENACE 1 MUNICIPAL AUDITORIUM I I Tuesday Evening. March 16, 8 o'Clock ' Admission Free Questions Answered The Public Invited ? ' Space Reserved for Veterans of the World War i 5 . -f M.llrflllllliiliililllillllll Boy Scout Drive Here For Budget o $35,000 Declared Unsuccessful The local Bo'v Scout drive for $35,000. for the 1920 bwlget, which has been boosted, by the Rotary club, has not' been successful $o far "ac cording to Executive G. M. Hoyt. Only $10,000; has been raised to date. ' , ' ' ' "We have tried the mail system this time," said Mr. Hoyt yesterday. "Starting next week we shall at tempt the personal campaign." The money is to be used for local purposes only. None of it will go to national headquarters. Camp Gif ford is the big item in the budget. The camp is the playground and also tlje .workshop of Omaha scouts. Harry. A. Abbott, manager of the American Radiator company, is chairman of the campaign. W.-E. Rhoades is treasurer. Illinois Beats University of Iowa in Track Meet Champaign, 111., March . 14. Il linois defeated the University of Iowa, in aaual indoor track meet by a score of 62 to 31. Belding'of Iowa, in the hurdles was the only first place winner. The conference indoor track one mile relay record was broken when a team composed of Spink Emery, Donohoe and Schlappriwi, of Illinois, bettered the former record of 3:29 3-5 by one second. Illinois easily won the dash es and distance runs. Nearly 3,500 students attended the meet which -was held in the armory. PHOTO-PLAYS Firm m at '4th IAttJJ TODAY: "She didn't train t h e elephant but she did. train the man SHIRLEY MASOri in the sweetest circus ' story ever told HER ELEPHANT MAN ' . x A romance of the ring Harold MGrth'i Great Story THE LUCK OF THE IRISH Now Showing "THE RIVER'S END" Starring Marjorie Daw. and Lewis Stone. "AMUSEMENTS. KSr C3 I ML (CJ LUCK.U Jl OF THE AW V I IRISH V) I I Love, Intrigue, 1 I (I I Romance and I Ik l ADVENTURE I I 1 with a Capital If V "A" ' iMMS Drawn for The Bee by McManus Copyright. 1920 Internstinniil News Prrvics Aged Woman Keeps Coffin - , And Shroud Under Bed Winston Salem, N. C, March IS. Miss Eliza Bass of Lumberton has had her coffin and burial robe sev eral years. The roffia was made to order in Lumberton. Miss Bass, who keeps the coffin under her bed, has made ; her own burial clothes, and bought her tombstoae. Despite these preparations, she is active and healthy at 35. Floating Bar Held Up Quincy, Mass., March IS. The steamship city of Miami, converted into a floating bar at the Fojc river shipyards at a cost of nearly $4000, 000, will be held up indefinitely. The vessel was to have been taken, to Providence for a trip to. Havana, but when the coast pilot arrived at Fore river he was informed that the Miami would be kept out of com mission and the crew would be dis charged PHOTO-PLAYS. "if, ii no. (3i fits fimmi d . XrtU iCtJjE- iHIli in m i SFEOjXLIOO,00099 TOD REEL COMEDY Now. Playing The Moon Jheater offers toClLlR Great Air I -with Locklear on ZsOOHl; the wing of a plane t mile above the earth. I --through the cloud . LOOD; lanes -on the trail of the men who 4 robbed tne y. S. Air Mail. , I Th sat Mtsandlns di ask sloe ihe dlseoToir of motioa I 1 ptetarss sod airplanes. There's onlr one . -thrill In is and that one lasts Staged i-n-S from,tartt flal'hl TrniUeriwch flie H nil 1 " 1'J iiJ i-l Mthpkv'sthf?Lirmt- Dog Saves Woman jf 80, Prostrate 3 Days in Woods Hopkinsville,- Ky., March IS. after lying for thrte days. and nights in 4he woods, and during one day's steady rain, Mrs. Nancy Smith 80 years old, was rescued by a dog. Mm. Smith, on her way to visit the family of J. H. Pyle, stumbled and fell. On the fourth day a farm dog owned by Mr. l'yle attracted his at tention by hist unusilal actions, and Pyle finally followed- the canine. The dog led him straight to Mrs. SnTlth. She is threatened with pneumonia as- a result of the ex posure, but it is believed she will re- One-Gallon Home StiiT ; Seized, Owner Arrested Chicago, March IS. Chicago's smallest still, just card-table size, was confiscated by. federal prohi bition agents and its owner, Robert D. Mact)onaId, a chemist, was ar rested. The federal agents received a tip that MacDonald was operating a still in hisapartment and that he was staging poker parties and sold whisky to the players. The still has less than a gallon capacity and is made of copper and nickel. The condenser is of nickel, and by an arrangement of tubes can fit into a sink v icebox. 9Ro comes io deli0At,mspre and entertain you XTh& WATCH 5l PHOTO-PI.AY8. STOPS , WEDNESDAY NIGHT 3 !H H)) Robbery ' ,1 38 you soar with the OpiDs camera man above the jaws of Death, "shooting" for your life, .from your teat as JUmD: Locklear jumps from plane to plane to foil a bandit of the skies, c 1 Jb WMWMh y.f$i