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THE BEE: OMAHA. THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 1920.
PAID PLAYERS iThese Rourkes Helped Trim Kansas
HURT AMATEUR
BASE BALL HERE
Threaten to Disrupt Organiza
. tions of Sand Lotters
Out-of-Town Teams Buy
Players' Services.
- i
Amateur base ball in Omaha faces
a serious crisis. Out-of-town teams
1 in the middle of the season often
want players for a single game or a
single series or lor week-end ball
and for the services of such players
will pay from $10 to $150 a day.
When an amateur base ball player
hears an offer of real money from
neighboring town he often forget
, his amateur standing, withdraws
T from the team he is lined up with
and takes up the offer.
.The' nine he left has to struggle
through the remainder of the season
'' without him.
f Can't Apply Rule. "
The local amateur association has
, ruled that any amateur accepting
,f such an offer and throwing his team
down in midseason is subject to sus-
pension from amateur base ball for
! two years. But the ruling cannot
be applied, according to officials of
the' association, because it affects
i . too many players.
Although the Greater Omaha
league was reorganized for the sca
' son with four teams last week, last
night's meeting in the citv hall found
one of the four teams withdrawn and
another wavering.
-Ernie H6lme, backer of the
Holmes White Sox last year, has
refused to put a team in the field
this season as many of his players
will not sign season contracts. The
players can hear the call of out-of-
town teams already and refuse lo tie
themselves up with an amateur team
. when they can sell their services.
, The Cudahy team is wavering and
t ft is doubtful whether the Murphy
i Did-Its, last season's champions and
western amateur champs, would
enter, according to Secretary Fred
f C, Eckardt, as the Murphys have
made other plans for the season.
Other Leagues Start.
9 Eight teams, Ramblers, Vachal
Pharmacy, Bearcats, Woodmen of
' the World. McKcnney Dentists. M.
C. Peters Milling company. Brode
s gard Crowns and United States
Rubber coninanv. were granted
franchises in the Gate City class C
league, which will open its season
e..J.... AM 10 Will..- NpI.
fill .llllllldV. nUUl I L. uailM i.v.
son was elected president of the
league. -
Secretary Isaacson announced
that four teams, Omaha National
j. Banks, United States National
Banks, Packers' National and Mer-
chants' National, have joined the
T 1 . ' 1An.v..A -i ii A turn trinrp 1 1 'J . r
X(tllKCia league ouu ..
promised to fall in line this week.
The league will either play Satur-.
g day afternoon ball or Sunday .morn
ing. The Omaha Boy Scouts will
also form a league and the Anieri
f can Legion league will get under
way some time this week.
1 Lincoln Amateurs Organize
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K has been organized in the citv and
representatives of seven teams have.
f ArrtA iVieir cnnnnrl to nut teams
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in inc league ior me tunnuK smun.
P. A. Barrows, lieutenant governor,
will sponsor the state house team.
City Blues Three Games Straight
f ill- , a m "
us m .
Here are five of Pa Rourkes ath
letes who have just wpn every game
ofa three-game series with the
Kansas City Blues in the Rourke
training camp at Okmulgee, Okl.
Walter Nufer is an Omaha boy.
He played with an amateur nine
here last summer. Nufer, Weidell
brothers, Joe in center field and Bill
at third base; Welch, an outfielder
and Floyd Brown, a catcher, are all
showing exceptional form accord
ing to word from Okmulgee.
"Carpentier Wouldn't Last
Two Rounds With Dempsey "
-BILLY ROCHE
Veteran Fight Fan Thinks Frenchman Not in Class
With Champion Suggests That Carpentier Be
Matched With Fast Middleweight or Light Heavyweight.
"Carpentier wouldn't last two
rounds with Jack Dempsey, de
clares Billy Roche, veteran fight fan
and promoter of boxing bouts for
the A. E. F. in France and Ge rmany.
"Thex Frenchman is an admirable
fellow and a deservably popular
boxer of no little ability, bur he
isn't in Dcmpsey's class." declared
Roche Wednesday when interviewed
in New York. "He is inferior to the
champion in every physical way.
Dempsey would dispose of him as
easily as he has beaten any of the
other heavyweights.
"Carpentier should be matched
Vjth one of our light heavyweights
or middle weights, with a man who
can't slug like Dempsey can, a man
who would box rather than depend
on his rugged superiority and rush
him."
Roche said he had seen both
Carpentier and Dempsey in action
frequently. During the war he was
sent to France by the Knights of
Columbus to promote boxing bouts
for the A. E. F. and there he saw
the French idol in action several
times.
"There's only one thing to be said
about the present European crop of
boxers they're a poor lot. And as
I see it, Georges Carpentier is an
outstanding star among them. I'm
not trying to take anything from
Georges. But he isn't in the same
class with Jack Dempsey.
"Carprntier really belongs in the
light-heavyweight class. It is true
that he knows a lot about the Amer
ican style of boxing, for he got his
dearest lessons from Americans. But
I can't see where he has a chance
against that rugged fellow from Salt
Lake.
"1 expect to see this atrmy heavy
weight championship settled be
yond question before many months
have passed. There is a movement
on foot to match all of the A. E.
F. heavyweights in a scries of elim
ination contests.
New York Legalizes Boxing.
Albany, N. Y., March 24. The
senate, by a vote of 30 to 19, late
today adopted the Walker bill, de
signed to legalize boxing in the
state under the auspices of the army,
navy and civilian board of boxing
control.
Now Comes
With Its
ipringtime
Severe Tax
Upon the Human System
That general run
down condition,
known as 'Spring
Fever' is now
: abroad in the
land. .
Pour ra. T"1 P arp fortunate
fvvi"v . ....
' enough to escape the deoili
tating, dragging down condi
n tion that Always comes with
' the changing seasons, and es
; pecially when nature is under-
going the transition from win-';-
ter into springtime.
T Juit now there ! univer-
i al readjuitment of every
T element in nature. Plant and
S i animal life alike merge into
S the re-awakening that conies
T with the budding of spring-
f 'S time. 4"
Naturally, such a decided
change means a severe tax
upon the elements involved.
In plant life it means that all
the energy stored away for
winter sustenance has been
consumed, and the plant or
tree must gather new forces
to feed and develop it and give
it strength and nourishment
to enter upon the long, dry,
heated term.
Similarly, the human body
has just passed through the
severest season of the entire
year, and has been subject to
the' hardships of the winter
season with all of its various
attacks of sickness and dis
ease. And even though, you
may have escaped the prevail
ing dangers and come through
the winter without having
succumbed to illness, still
your system has been severe
ly taxed, and all the stored up
energy has been consumed in
warding off disease.
....
The human system is now
endeavoring to throw off the
accumulated impurities, and
your run-down condition is a
mute appeal to nature for
help in preparing for ths
changing season.
As springtime approaches,
you begin to notice a loss of
energy, you become easily
tired out and fatigued, your
appetite fails, and that worn
out, good-for-nothing, run
down feeling seems to have
complete possession of your
body. Your poor, tired out
body has fallen a victim te
what is commonly called
"spring fever," and a feeling
of complete lassitude per
vades the entire system.
Just as plant life throws off
the accumulations of the win
ter season, so does the human
system find it necessary to get
rid of the impurities that have
crept in. and made the blood
supply sluggish and interfered
with the vigor and strength
and energy that is so badly
needed to enter upon the new
season.
The most important part of
the human system is the blood
supply. It is absolutely nec
essary that the ever-flowing
stream of life-giving fluid be
kept pure and rich and that no
impurities be permitted to
creep in to maJte it sluggish
and impair' ramr general
health.
You should! take the first
indication of "spring fever" as
an unfailing warning that
your blood needs a thorough
cleansing and toning up. Im
purities that have been accu
mulating throughout the win
ter season should be elimi
nated, "and the system put in
the best possible- condition to
withstand the dangers of
summer sickness.
Of course, you do not feel
like placing yourself under a
doctor's care, and there is
really no necessity for doing
so. Your system simply needs
a good toning up, and for this
purpose there is nothing
equal to S. S. S., the fine old
blood purifier and tonic that
has been in successful use for
more than half a century.
S. S. S. is nature's own rem
edy, being made from roots
and herbs of recognized me
dicinal value, gathered direct
from the forests. It acts di
rectly upon the blood, prompt
ly cleansing it of all impuri
ties, improving the appetite,
and giving new strength and
vigor to the entire system.
S. S. S. gives prompt relief i
from so-called spring fever,
and a few bottles taken right
now will put your system in
perfect shape for the chang
ing season.
You can obtain this fine old
remedy at any drug store.
Your druggist will tell you
that it is one of the most reli
able remedies on his shelves.
For free expert medical ad
vice regarding your own case
you are invited to write to
Chief Medical Adviser, 176
Swift-Laboratory, Atlanta, Ga.
"TWO AND THREE"
PUTTING THE NEXT ONE OVER
By BUGS BAER.
Like a leader without an orchestra.
Like a porcupine without its quills.
Like a whale without the ocean.
Like unto jlack Sennctt without
his bathing girls, as a turtle minus
its shell, and a pinochle club with no
playing cards.
Like Bevo without the raisin.
Like a hornet with no stinger.
Like a guy in the automat without
a nickel.
A walking delegate a without a
strike, and John D. minus all his oil.
Like a ptecher without his good
old Bible.
Like a truck farmer in the Canni
bal Islands, similar to a mail order
house during a letter carriers' strike,
and bearing close resemblance to a
baby without its mother.
Like a vaudeville show without
its Swiss bell ringers, its flying
armadillos, its eight xylophone
players, and its tramp juggler.
Like a hen without claws trying
to scratch up a concrete.sidewalk to
get a worm that ain't there.
Like Judy without Punch.
Like Boston without its beans.
Like Liberty without a torch.
Like a cootie without a war.
Like a Barnum and Bailey without
a circus.
Like a llaig and Maig label with
out the contents.'
Like a constabulc without his
badge.
Like a red ant with no picnic.
Like the glass slippers without
Cinderella.
Like the League of Nations with
out the nations.
Like the sun without its heat.
Like Uncle Tom with no cabin.
Like the wildcat without its claws
boiler tactory without a
Like a
hammer.
Aiicl like an engagement
without its diamond.
ring
THAT'S HOW THE RED SOX
ARE WITHOUT BABE RUTH.
Exhibition Games.
l.os Anuples. March S4. R. H. E.
Chtoauo Nationals 4 10 0
Los Angeles Pacific Coast 3 6 3
BaUerlps: Alexander, Hendrix and
O'Farrell; Schultz, Thomas and La pan.
Waco, Tex.. March 24. It. Tf. E.
Chicago Americana 14 IB 0
Baylor University 0 3 4
Batteries: Heath, Marquis and Lynn;
Lane, Dawson, Lyons and Weathers,
Long.
Tampa. Fla.. March 24. R. H. E.
Cincinnati Nationals 3 10 0
Washington Americans 6 6 S
Batteries: Ring, Oerner and Allen;
Erlckson, Shaw and riclnioli.
OkmulfreeJ Okl., March 24. R. IL E.
K. C. Am. Association 4 8 0
Omaha Western 9 lj J
Batteries- Evans. Horstman and Brcck;
Smith, Robinson and Hale.
With the Bowlers.
SW JFT CO. LEAGl'E.
Prides. I FramitimV
i.m i ma
.131 124 113
Hump'y 1 fi9 162 175 Roff
Finch ..12? 120 miKaspar
Kiefer ..127 lii:l mi.Nielson
Johnston 181 132 J91Hoffer
Callius .170 ISO lC3Ulasnlck
IHandlcap
.173 142 154
.125 170 109
.157 157 154
18 18 18
Total .801 77
eillver lf.
Robson .134 197
Neptns'y 144 135
Pirdue .204 135
B. Irlne.130 130
Grimin .203 207
309J
Total .762 772 768
I Empire.
182iKoctch'r 123 143 110
J99IBInmer .130 109 130
177Oulles ..130 130 130
130!Kapar ..125 150 106
2231 Heinz . .124 205 193
Handicap 28 28 28
Total .824 8G7
Gem.
Boatin'n 139 142
A. Mehl.15.1 181
Hender'n 146 218
Prey ...183 182
Stouffer 175 190
Total .796 913
AI.A311TO
801 Total .670 771 696
I nrookfielrf
178IRoben
168Hehn .
160) rasper
1781-Wllson
1831 Pearson
.182 141 148
.145 182 159
.143 145 158
.142 147 138
.162 221 167
AMI'
ant.
Flam
Gustof'n 145 174
Hlef ...152 136
Younc .124 150
Beckm'n 155 131
Petcra .169 123
857 Total .774 836 770
DAIRY LEA4.1 E.
I Sales.
104lPtmin ... 93 165 112
1491 Knaeffel 105 1 17 93
142
129!
148
Rasmes'n 106 1 17 93
Krenzer 123 124 105
Liartlctt 169 135 139
Total .745 664 673
eiupply.
IVeimlg'r 168 143 1671
ntcn ..147 177 161 Howitn
Rueler .146 188 209!lluehler
Kuhrey 181 138 159IKeman
Noland .190 16& 172ILuhrey
-1
Total .652 692 694
Offlee.
Poncelow 170 187 120
.104 161 131
.114 138 168
.150 155 160
.126 1D 115
Total .832 754 8881 Total .664 797 694
Today's Calendar of Sports.
Karlnr Winter meetlnr nt Cuba-Ameri
can Jockey rltih, at Havana.
Ilakethtill I'nlversltr nf Pennsylvania
arniitsa I nlrerslly of Chicago, at Phila
delphia, 4iolf .fnifeil .North and Booth women'
rhnmiilnnnhip. at Plneliurst, X. C.
W rent line Southern A. A. V, champion
shin", at Mew Orleans.
Ilniing -Pinkey Mitchell against Joe
Welling, 10 round, at Kenosha, Wis.
Dr. Scoor, Dentist st Nat BX
Bldg. Adv. V
PHILLIES ARE
NO JOKE SAYS
CRUSINBERRY
Jesse Tannehill, Wise Old Slab
Artist, Is Teaching Pitch
ing Staff Tricks of
The Trade.
By JAMES CRUSINBERRY.
' Birmingham, Ala.. March 24. Ex
pecting to find a badly wrecked ball
team, one is somewhat surprised
upon coming to Birmingham, the
training camp of the Phillies, and
discovering that Gavvy Cravath not
only has assembled quite a formid
able outfit, but has things hum
ming briskly and harmoniously. The
Phillies may not look like pros
pective champions, but they aren't
a joke.
"Better than I expected," said the
famous slugger manager, when
asked how things looked. "I was a
bit scared about our ' chances to
make much of a showing until I got
this gang down here on the field,
but now I think I really may have
a team that will suprise a few peo
ple this summer."
The situation on the Phillies is
just this:
It is a pretty fair hitting ball club,
one that can produce enough runs to
win a lot of games providing the de
fense is good.
The club boasts a set of infielders
and outfielders capable of doing
good defense work.
. Cravath has a pitching staff that
is doubtful, but at the same time
one which lias four or five men of
experience who- might happen to
have, a good year. If four of them
should have a good season, the Phil
lies sure would be a surprise.
That Manager Cravath is making
pood as a leader seems quite evi
dent. He realized at once that only
good pitching could make his club
look like it belonged in the majors,
so he went after that end of the
game right from the start. He hired
Jess Tannehill, old time southpaw
pitcher, who in his day was rated
one of the wisest of slab artists.
Cravath simply turned the pitch
ing staff over to Jess and told him
to get busy with it. And Jess has
been busy. He's going into the de
tails and rudiments of pitching. He
takes a squad of three and works
sometimes an hour or two with them
and a catcher on nothing but signs.
He believes many a ball game has
been lost because of a misunder
standing between the pitcher and
catcher. He drills them on signs
and switching of signs until thy
have mastered it.
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TRACK TALKS
By Coach Henry F. Schulte
University of Nebraska
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THE 880-YARD RUN
COMPETITION.
ttway or just as you approach a
curve. Passing on the curve is rare
In order to run the race properly
it is necessary to know yourself. By
proper training first and then later
by try-outs you must discover just
how you can make the best time.
Some 880 men find that they can do
best running the first quarter fairly
fast; others, that they can make the
best time by running the first 440
rather slowly and coming faster in
the latter half of the race.
The event, however, is not a race
ugainst time. In competition the ob
ject of all runs is to beat the other
fellow. To do this you should know
pomething of its possibilities. You
'hould know how he runs his race,
where he leads out or sprints,
whether be has a poor sprint or a
'ong or short sprint, and whether
he is really game.
Bluff a Little.
If he has a habit of sprinting his
'irst quarter, you may have to let
him take a gradual lead in that part
of the race. If he has a poor sprint.
.ill you need do is to stay at his
heels until the home stretch is
reached. Against a chap'who has a
r.hort sprint you may have to lead
out along about 220 yards from the
tape, while against the man with the
long sprint you may have to match
him with an equally sharp sprint at
the very finish for victory. If vour
opponent lacks gameness, a little
bluff when the race begins to tell on
you both may take the heart out of
him and make it easier for you at
the finish.
Since the race is usually on a
quarter-mile track, there are a num
ber of places in the race where you
can take the lead. It is best to take
the lead either as you hit a straight-!
ly advisable. Each foot that you
run wide gives your opponent a big
handicap. If you try to pass Jinn
as you enter a straight-away you
may let yonrselt in tor a long
stamina-trying sprint; while if you
try just as you come to th curve
ivou may be forced fo check back.
A sharp, quick, and unexpected try,
however, will often succeed.
What Is Confidence?
The footraccr holds that it is best
to let the other fellow make ihe
pace if he will go fast enough to
suit you; and further that if you
make a try to pass him it is well
to fight it out right then to set
who is the bettef man. To drop
back after a try, not only means
a loss of position already gained,
but it means that you have added
a bit to your opponent's assurance
his faith in himself. If the othei
fellow believes in himself strong.y
enough he is a hard man to beat.
(Right here it might be well to
consider what assurance or oelicf
in self really means.) True con
fidence, like the quiet stream, urns
deep. The chap who always tells
you how good he is and what he is
going t do, is usually talking to
bolster up his own courage. He is
afraid, and the sound of his own
voice gives him a spurious cou'age.
His very boasting or prophesying
causes a flaw in his confidence.
When lie gets in a tight place and
the ever-present fear of defeat
strikes at him, he will recall his
boasting and recognize that ' c has
talked too. much. On the other
hand, if the chap who even' before
the race lacks assurance, silently ad
mits his fear he will have no weak
ening regrets in the race.
Western Union Pin
Tumblers to Compete
For Carlton Trophy
Employes of the Western Union
Telegraph company all over the
country will compete in bowling
Monday night for the championship
and the company and the Carlton
trophy.
All matches will be handled by
telegraph. Omaha will be head
quarters of the central division re
ceiving "results from Minnesota, the
Dakotas, Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri
and Kansas. Omaha will be repre
sented by two teams in the central
division.
The results of contestants will be
reported over a special wire.
Carpentier in First
Bout Tonight; Opposes
Major Drexel Biddle
. New York, March 24. Georges
Carpentier, champion heavyweight
boxer of Europe, is reported to have
agreed to stage an exhibition bout
here Thursday night in which Major
A. J. Drexel Biddle of Philadelphia
will be his opponent. Major Biddle
is the chairman of the army, navy
and civilian board of control and
president of the International Sport
ing club of New York, and a heavy
weight boxer.
OMAHA TEAM IS
VICTOR IN THIRD
GAME WITH K, 0,
Clean Up Final Game of Series
With Kansas City Team
St. Louis Americans
Are Next.
Okmulgee, Okl. March 24.
(Special Telegram.) Pa Kourke's
Omaha Western leaguers made it
three straight .from Kansas City
Blues here Wednesday by trimming
the Missourians 9 to 4 in the final
contest.
The St. Louis Americans will
play here Thursday and Friday.
Smith and Robinson of the
Rourkes held the visitors down- to
eight hits, while Omaha pounded
Evans and Horstman for 13.
Three Teams Roll Into A. B. C.
Money; Rank Below First Ten
Peoria, 111., March 24. Three teams
rolled into the prize-winning class
in the five-men events' at the Amer
ican Bowling congress Wednesday
night. Academy of Kenosha with
,82.?. was high: Cabanue's of St.
Louis hit for 2,815, and McCarron
Regulars, Kenosha, scored 2,810.
None of the marks will carry the
teams to a ' place among the 10
caders.
Stecher Dumps Popoff.
Cleveland, ()., March 24. Toe
Stecher, world's champion heavy
weight wrestler, won from Ivan
ropoff, Russian wres'tlcr, in straight
falls here Wednesday night. Steelier
took the first in 48 minutes, 30 sec
onds with a body scissors ami arm
lock. He took the second in II
nrinutes and 10 seconds with a head
scissors.
Ohe Shirt With
Comfort Points
ertg comfort" in
Continuous facing
on cuffs prevents
tearing
There's real work-
mtnihip, u J1 tl
SecwelcSlurfe
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