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BASE BALL, GOLF, BOXING, WRESTLING, SHOOTING, TENNIS
OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 4, 1920.
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All the Latest Sport News
All the Time
INDOOR SEASON
PAVES WAY TO
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Records Established In Winter
' Sports This Season Indicate
United States Will Have
. Strong Team. ,
- V WALTER ECKERSALL. .
"f'tii indoor athletic season, which
vi brought tff a successful close
vvirh the Central A. A. U. track and
field championships, showed beyond
doubt that America will be repre
sented by the strongest team which
ever tv.6k part in the Olympic
games.
In practically every meet of note
records were either broken or tied.
The central west enjoyed its
greatest incboor year of recent sea
sons. ii Start Outdoor Work.
With the indoor season now a
matter of history, coaches, trainers'
and athletes, have turned their at
tention to' outdoor competition,
which will be officially opened by
the annual Pennsylvania relay carni
val at Philadelphia on April 30 and
May 1. In some cases the athletes
already have started to train out of
doors and others will follow as soon
as the coaches deem Lt advisable. In
UIC IIICCllllllllC, UICV dlt IVtt HI anut
f)y light indoor workouts.
The Penn relays always have been
i magnet for college teams from all
sections of the country. Because
of the expected heavy entry, the
event has been spread over two
days this year, and already the
cream of the college athletic world
has been nominated. Reports have
it that Leland Stanford and the Uni
versity of California will be repre
sented. Ames, winner of the four
mile relay at Illinois, will certainly
send its quartet.
Olympic Tryouts as Goal. '
Following this event, the college
teams will be pointed to the inter
collegiates. The eastern meet will
be held at Cambridge on the last
Saturday in May, while the western
:onference will be decided at Ann
Arbor on the first, Saturday in June.
The athletes then will keep in shape
to win places on the American
Olympic team, trials for which will
be held in three sections of the coun
try on June 26.
While the college performers will
have the advantage of competition,
'the club and unattached performers
will train for the Olympic tryouts,
as no sectional A. A. U. champion
ships will be held this year. Open
meets, however, will be held in all
parts of the country. These are ex
pected to give me ciud men tne
needed workouts for' the great ef
fort in the Olympic trials.
Few Prize-Winning
Scores Bowled in
Peoria Meet Friday
Teoria, April 3. Anderson of
the Vermont team, Chicago, had a
1,301 score and an excellent chance
to know the lead in the ail-events in
the American bowling congress,
when be finished his team and
doubles games Friday. Then be dis
covered he had overlooked the in
dividuals it filing his entry list. Of
ficials refused to allow him to go on
in the singles. , He had scored 679
in the team play and 622 , in the
doubles and needed 615 in the in
dividuals to take first place.
Few prize winning scores were
made .Friday and changes of im
portance failed to come in any of the
classes. ,
Rourkes Ready for
Minneapolis Team;
Two Games Booked
N
Okmulgee, Okl.. April 3. (Spe
cial Telegram.) Manager Jack Leli
velt's Omaha team is ready for the
Minneapolis Millers, who will play
the Rourkes here Saturday and Sun
day. . f ,
The Omaha lineup for Saturday's
contest will be:
Glslason. 2b; W. Weldell. 3b; Welch, rf;
Tee, If: Lellvelt, lb; J. Weldell or Mason,
cf: MaulMn. a; Hale, Brown or Llngle, c;
Kopp and Schatrman, p.
DOPE INDICATES
DEMPSEY ABLE TO
BEAT FRENCHMAN
Physique and Punching Vigor
Favor Champion One
Solid Punch Will Finish
Carpentier.
By RAY PEARSON.
In the game of fisticuffs the scales
ind tape line do not always decide
the victor. When Dempsey and
Willard met last July 4 in Toledo,
Willard had every physical advant
age as far as the scales and tape
line could tell, but Dempsey more
than offset those .advantages with
his speed, his vigor and his ability
to punch. . ' ,, '
Nevertheless figures on fighters
can always be depended on to some
extent. From tire following table
Dempsev will have biff advantages:
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23 In Tlilpli . . 32, In.
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The thing tbat will count is the
force behind the punch, and any
one who knows anything about this
boxing game will readily agree that
Dempsey has it all over the French
man in this respect.. As one fellow
who is a pretty close student of
the game, remarked in a conversa
tion in which the relative merits
of these two heavyweights was be
ing discussed:
"Dempsey is inorc than twice as
good in hitting as Carpentier. He
has that shade because he can knock
out opponents equally' as easily with
one hand as with the other, while
Carpentier only is able to score
knockouts with his right hand.
Dempsey also has the big edge in
punching power, for he has demon
strated it by liis- one-round knock
outs, while few of the Frenchman's
victories have been gained in a
round."
One Punch to Finish Georges.
That certainly looks like the logi
cal way to reason things out, but
the gent who "released" the above
continued a bit farther with:
"Carpentier will last just as lonj;
as he isn't hit by the champion.
When Dempsey lands one solid
smash, whether it is on the chin or
in the midsection, the fight will be
over."
Those who are willing to believe
that Carpentier has a chance to de
feat Dempsey,-have reached their
opinion simply because of one
thing, and that is- the element of
cleverness. They seem to be under
the impression that the 'Frenchman
is far more clever than Salt Lake
Jack, and that he will be able to
outpoint the titleholder, and pos
sibly open him up for a shot at the
jaw with his knockout right hand,
the one that spilled Joe Beckett,
champion of England.
Jack l)empsey Set to Drive Home a
Fast Right on Georges Carpentier
Matty Mclntyre, Ex-Manager
Of Antelopes, Dies in Detroit
Detroit, April 3. Matthew M.
Mclntyre, a left fielder with the De
troit Americans from 1905 to 1910,
died here Saturday of influenza. He
was 40 years old. Mclntyre also
played with the Chicago White Sox
and after leaving the majors
managed clubs in the estern and
Southern league.
Coach Metzger Signs.
Columbia, S. C. April 3. Sol.
Metzger, former University of Penn
sylvania and Washington and Jef
ferson foot ball coach, has signed a
five-year contract to coach foot ball
at the University of South Carolina.
Metzger, who now is director of
- physical training at Union college
will begin his work here next fall.
Launch Lipton's Ship
Southhampton. April 3. Sir
Thomas Lipton's 23-meter Sham
rock III, which will be used in the
tuning up races with Shamrock IV,
the American, cup challenger, off
Sandy Hook this spring, war,
launched here Saturday. The Sham
rock III' will sail for America on
April 7 without escort.
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CARPENTIER
Photo- AH, PRE9. .
This trick of the camera shows
Jack Dempsey and Georges Carpen
tier together in the same riiif
California Women Tennis
Players Will Show In East
New York, April 5. California
women tennis players who recently
defeated the eastern representatives
in an inter-scctional series, will play
a return scries in the east this sum
mer, according to information re
ceived by the United States Lawn
Tennis association. The match will
be contested about the same time
as the woTnen's national tournament.
William Tilden Wins
Indoor Tennis Title
New York, April 3. William T.
Tilden II, of Philadelphia, won the
national indoor singles tennis cham
pionship h:rc Saturday. The winner
proved entirely too fast for the
young title holder, Vincent Rich
ards of Yonkers, in the final match
of the tournament, beating him in
three straight sets, 10-8; 6-3; 6-1.
Hardy and Voshell in Finals.-
Xew York, Aoril 3. Samuel
Hardy, former Ca'ifnrninn, and S.
Howard Voshell, New York, won
their places in the final round of the
national indoor tennis championship
doubles at tiie Seventh Regiment
armory Friday.
Omaha Pin Tumblers Starting for Peoria to Compete
in Annual Tournament of American Bowling Congress
Sheriff After Caddock
Earl Caddock is being hunted by
a sheriff.
Charley Peters, minion of the law-t
in Sarpy county, is hot on the trail
of the Iowa wrestler. .
Peters wants o wrestle the Anita
boy to a finish match, and says he
feels he can throw him. Caddock
is booked to wrestle Yussiff Hus
sane in Sioux City April 7 and
Wladek Zbvszio in Des Moines
April 12. "
"It'll be right in Caddock's way to
meet me in Omaha after the Des
Moities bout," argues Sheriff Peters,
"l am readv to meet him on any
dale," ...
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MEMPHIS, Tenn., April 3. Last week we had the last gasp of
March, that nimble collection of weather hasp without which no
chronological menu would be complete. Figuring on the dish
that the official weather guesser is handing out here, the present ten?e of
Spring is "soun," nast tense "soupier" and future tense "soupiest. There
will probably be no game in Jackson, Tenn., today either, as when she
starts in to rain down hereabouts, she throws the key away.
From now on McGraw will make the boys wear their spiked shoes in
the lobbies. Otherwise, it looks as if they will forget how to use them.
There was Fungo practise called for in the good pullman ark
"Penzance," the only sleeping booth which was designed by Gilbert
(music by Sullivan). Fortunately, May Irwin came to the rescue, wjth a
invitation to her show. Manager McGraw aceepted on behalf of the visit
ing firemen.
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There was no out. The innocent must suffer with guilty. The tame
wildcat was taken along to lead the cheering. Mac wants to keep a
lamp on the wild tamecat, as it has been busting loose and scattering bell
hops along the route like an advance man scatters handbills. The two-
way cat has gained fifteen pounds since leaving San Antonio. All off col
ored bellhops have no use for either a wild tamecat or a tame wildcat.
Both animals being held greatly in respect by the darker sex. It is now
suffering from ptomaine poisoning caused by scratching an umpire.
Bill Klem and Dick Nallin are off the trained maltese for keens.
Klem was getting set to bivouac in his upper berth last night when the
vegetarian cannibal cat scratched a foul line down his skullpiece. Bill
threw a natural that you could have heard in Siam. He now goes to
sleep with his chest protector inside his pajamas and his wire mask over
his noodle. Bill prefers to use a comb in parting what little hair he has
left. By sewing walnut shells on the republican democrat cat's feet it is
possible to protect both the umpires and the cat.
Sport Sparks
Likely as not Manager McGraw
will want to recall the National
league entries for a second start, in
case the Giants get away badly, s
Friberg. understudy for Buck
Ferzog, is playing second for the
Cubs. 'And they say that "Fry" sel
dom scrambles the hot ones that
come his way.
'Evidently the New York scribes
who wrote a column on Babe Ruth's
home run in practice are taking no
chances on Babe's hitting this sea
son. Just as Gothamites had figured
out a grand clean-up of the base
ball season with their million-dollar
bevy of stars, Brooklyn flashes Mo
hart, the sensational young twirler
who bids fair to monopolize Great
er New York's limelight.
Dempsey Case Postponed.
San Francisco, Cal., April 3. The
cases of Jack Dempsey, heavyweight
champion of the world, and his man
ager, Jack Kearns, indicted by a fed
eral Grand jury in connection with
Dempsey s alleged evasion of the
selective draft were called in the
Urited State? district court Satur
day and went over for two weeks, at
which time, it was announced, the
cases would be set for trial. Neither
Dempsey nor Kearns appeared in
court.
Rooney Gets K. 0. '
Bisbee. Ariz.. April 3. "Speedy"
Sparks of Tqlsa, Okl., 'knocked oijt
Jack Rooney of Los Angeles in the
fourth round of their scheduled 10
round bout here Friday night.
With the Pugs
Eddie Stanton, manager of WilKo
Green, haa been swamped with offers for
his protege's service. Stanton will prob
ably close with the Springfield, III., club
for a match with Willie O'Donnell, the
Cleveland flash, April 15.
Mickey Sheridan has taken under his
management a bantamweight who looks
like a promising lad in his division. Sher
idan fa after a match for his boy against
Sammy Butts, Jimmy Kelly, or any one
of the bantams around Chicago.
$20,000 Purse for Stecher
Lewis Match Is Proposed
New York, April 3. Offer of a
$20,000 purse to have "Strangler"
L?wis wrestle Joe Steelier to a fin
ish at the Chicago Coliseum on
April 26 came today to Billy San
dow, Lewis' manager, from Joe Cof
fey, the Chicago promoter. San
dow will accept the offer only, it
was intimated, if a purse of equal
size is not offered for a match in
New York, where he prefers to
have it stageii.
Richards and Tilden Meet
For Indoor Tennis Title
New York, April 3. Vincent
Richards. 1919 indoor tennis cham
pion, and William T. Tilden II, run
ner up, we're opponents aaain in the
final of the national indoor tourna
ment at the Seventh regiment ar
uiory here today. In the final of the
doubles Richards and Tilden. title
holders, - faced Samuel Hardv,
former Califcrnian, and S. Howard
Voshell of New York.
The Pittsburgh A. A. hockey team
i ti A .t,. All i
.vi nil, iJUflUJJl MdgCU
great contests in the hockey elimina
tion series for the selection of a
team for the Olympic games at Ant
werp. ,
Exhibition Games
Oklahoma City, April 3 R.H.E.
-Minneapolis American Assn 17 16 0
Ulilalioma City, Western 2 8
Uatterles Robertson, Whitehouse and
Mayer; Malono, Ramsey and Sloore, Clan-
ton.
Houston. April 3 R.H.E
t-nlcago Americans 12 IB 0
Houston, Texas League 6 12 5
Jiatterles Clcotte anil Schalk, Lynn"!
riunun, jiuscr: ana iiarnins.
Durham. X. C. April 3. Boston Na
tionals-Detrolt Americans called off ac
count wei 'grounds.
George Wilson, the llKht heavyweight,
who has 4een helping Sam Langford in
his training bouts has received an offer
to meet John Lester Johnson before the
arena A. C. Detroit club.
Babe Ashcr of St. Louis and Stanley
Everett of Pekin, 111., fought 10 fast
rounds to ft iraw at Pekin. Everett
dropped AsherHo hi knees with a hard
right in the fourth round, but the latter'
big rally in the closing sessions evened
it up.
Iort Worth, Tex., April 3. , R.H.E.
Fort Worth, Texas League 16 1
Pittsburgh XntiotiAlR in i
Batteries Anpleton and Mooru; Cooper,
i-onuer ana iarKe.
Nashville, Tenn., April 3. R.H.E.
Xew York Nationals 6 10 J!
.xjosion Americans 5 6
Butteries Douglas and Smith, Henton,
anyuer; iiusseii ana Levine, lloyt, linger.
Kid Henry of Newark, X. .T , defeated
Tatsy McMahon of Indianapolis In a 10
round bout at Hot Springs.
Birmingham, Ala., April 3. R.H.E.
Philadelphia Xat'onals 3 1) 1
Birmingham Southern 0 6 1
lifitteries Causey, Meadows, Rlxey and
Tragesser; Signmn, Collins and Peters,
uooci:.
I
Sun Francisco, April 3. R.H.E
Chicago XationalT 1 2 J
San Francisco Pacific . 2 4
jsaueries uenurix. carter ana U'Far
rell; Scotland Anfinson.
"Wichita. Kan . Ai.ril .1 T IT FT
! Kansas City Am. Asn. .' S
I Wichita Western League 10 11 0
I Batteries:, Hi-nr.ing, Beedle and
Sweeney, Brock; Miller, Maun and Tar-
i yan.
Girl and Horse Will Fly to
Santa Barbara Horse Show
Los Angeles, Cal., April 3. (Spe
cial Telegram.) Ever hear the fable
of Pegasus, the winged horse? A
Los Angele girl has decided to take
it from legendry and enact it in real
life. -
On April 7, the opening day of
the famous Ambassador horse show
at SanJU Barbara, Miss Janie Mc
Pherson, and her pet horse. Mer
cury, will fly in an airplant from
Los Angeles to Santa Barbara to
exhibit Mercury in the big show.
The trip will be noted officially by
the Aero Club of America.
Lieut. David Thompson, U. S. A.,
will pilot the plane.
For the flight Mercury is being
outfitted in equine aviation togs. He
will wear rubber hoofs, slipped over
his own; a hood to keep him from
nervousness if he should see the
earth slipping by; a harness strait
jacket to keep him in place, and he
will stand during the flight upon a
rubber pad. "
Preparations for the landing now
are in progress at Santa Barbara at
the Ambassador hotel ground,
where the unique ' affair will be
watched by an invited concourse of
leaders in American society, many
of whom have entered horses in the
show.
TWO DECISIONS
ON BALL HITTING
UrlP OR RUNNER
Base Ball Rule Makers Sim
plified Matters a Great
Deal, ut Not
Entirely.. .
By I. E. SANBORN.
'hie base ball rulemakers devoted
a lot of care and time to revising
the plaving rules during the winter.
The "result was a vat improve
ment inthe playing code, with all
the time and thought given to it, for
obscure points, that bave wrecked
many a semi-pro or sand lot game
in the past have been made clearer.
Yet the rulemaners, oeiore me
season is many days old, will find
there still are technical conflicts in
the npw code. ' These presumably
will not seriously bother the major
league umpires, although they may
lead to an argument or two, but the
embryonic arbitrator will still have
his few troubles.
Runner Not Out If Hitt
One of the changes in the rules
absolves a base-runner from being
declared out if he is hit by a batted
ball which goes through an infielder
without being touched by an op
posing player. The old rule was
that such base-runner was out un
less the ball had been actually
touched by an infielder. But it was
an injustice to punish a' runner for
being hit by a batted ball which
he expected an infielder to touch,
if the fielder -missed his chance and
the ball then hit the runner. ,a
The change is a just one, but the
rulemakers added it to section 8 of
rule 56, and then overlooked sec
tion 12 of the same rule. According
to section 12, the ruifncr still is out
if a fair hit ball strikes him before
being "touched" bv an infielder. The
two sections conflict and the bush
league player or umpire-who Is not
intimately acquainted with the whole
of the rules may get into trouble.
Needs Definite Interpretation.
In a similar connection there is
chance for an argument even in the
major leagues, unless the umpires
receive a definite interpretation in
advance of the season. According
to the first section of rule 54, as
devised, a batted ball remains in
play if it hits an umpire af,ter pass
ing a fielder or has been touched
by a fielder. ' '
The intent of this revision obvious
ly was to do away with the previous
injustice of robbing a runner of the
chance to advance on a grounder
and the ball accidentally hit the
umpire, as sometimes happened.
The rule worked just the other
way in one of the Cubs' exhibition
games in California almost before
the ink on the printed rules of 1920
was dry. One umpire was working
directly behind the pitcher with the
bases full of Cubs in the first half
of the ninth inning. The score was
tied and one out. Paskert sloughed
a sizzler past the pitcher so fast
that the slabman didn't even reach
for it.
Costs Victory for Cubs.1
It was a sure hit over second
base, good for a couple of .runs, but
the umoire couldn't dodge the drive.
The ball bit him and dribbled back
to the pitcher, who picked it til
and made a double play by way of
the- plate. Tb.it game went 15, fi
nings and ended in a tie when
obviously it was intended that Pask
.rt should not have' been robbed -of
his hit or the Cubs of at least one
run by such an accident. -
But the pitcher is a "fielder."
technically speaking; so the tall
grass umpire was richt in his deci
sion, according to the letter of the
rule.
And rule 56 .still says the ball is
not in play if it hits an umpire, be
fore "touching" a fielder, making
another conflict that will puzzlevthe
amateur, arbiter.
Unknown Springs Up.
Jim Iliggins, the Scottish miner
who recently won the British ban
tamweight championship from Har
old Jones at the National Sporting
club and captured the Lonsdale belt
emblematic of the title, was picked
for the bout at the last minute. Hig
gins was practically unknown, the
London Sporting club officials hav
ing heard .of .him for the first time
only three weeks prior to the bout
in which he won the title. He had
been boxing professionally for only
a year when he became. the cham
pion. - '' '
Yale Oarsmen Win. '
Philadelphia, April 3. Yale de
feated Pennsylvania in both the
senior and junior varsity eight
cared shell races over the Henjey
course on the Schuylkill river Satur
day. Both races were close.
Additional Sports on
Page 4-C
Five team of Omaha bowlers left Friday night for Peoria, 111., to take part in the annual American Bowling CongreS. At Burlington station,
Omaha, they were joined by a team of Fremont bowlers on their way to the big show.
The six teams posed for picture, just before they scrambled onto the train. ...
In the group are:
Front rowj left-to right, Jack Welch, "Fitzy" Figenschuh, "Dad" Huntington, Henry Fritschv, Herman I.ui.:!;. - ti::'
Second row, Jim London, Al Krug, Dan Butler, Jim' Blakeney, Mrs. Jack Welch, Andrew Murphy, Anton JeHlkke, Roy Your., Charles Doug
las (Fremont), Tony Francl.
Back row. Bill Gibson, George Zimmerman, Frank Middaugh (Fremont), Frank Taylor (Fremont), Barney Shaw, Lucien Hammond (Fre
mont), Bill Wright (Fremont), Roy Karls (in the light coat), Fred Struve (Fremont), Hugh Brannion. Louie Coupal, Jim Regan and "Bake"
Swoboda.
'Sprague Tire & Rubber Co..
V Free Service at Our Mill
' 18th and Cuming Streets
Wcmaintain a free service station and there is no charge for inflating or
changing your tires, no matter what the make.
Our service department will call anywhere within the city limits from
7 a. m. to 6 p. m. and change your tires or tubes for 50 cents. From 6 p. m.
to 11 p. m. the charge is $1.00. NO SERVICE CHARGES MADE ON REPAIR
WORK OR FOR DELIVERING NEW TUBES OR CASINGS.
We have the most up-to-date repair , The logical place to have your repair work
shop in the city. Only the highest grade done is at our rubber mill. Prices are '
ir materials is used on oil our repair jobs: reasonable.
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