The Omaha Sunday Be PART THREE AUTOMOBILE AND SPORT NEWS PART THREE FINANCIAL NEWS AND WANT ADS VOL. XLIX NO. 52. OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 13, 1920. PPTPtt tfTVrc f!F.MTS oi T8iii omaha and corN SEVERAL SNAPPY GAMES BOOKED BY AMATEURS TODAY Rings Opticals Mix With League Leaders Good Contest Scheduled for Riverview Park. Today's amateur program should be of first-class variety, as consider able interest is being centered and plenty of rivalry exists between the members of the variou teams. Contests are on tan in all leagues In the City, class A league, the banner circuit of the association, a lively session is promised between the Drive-It-Yourself Co., undefeat ed leaders, and the Riggs Optical Co. Sel Smith, considered one of the best hurlers in class A circles, will De on tne mound tor the fin-Lizzies, while Rokusek cr Baumgardner will hurl for the Optical Co. The Ne braska Power Co.-Paxton-Vierling mix will also prove excitine. The Paulson Fords-Federal Re serve Bank and the Beddeos-Colum-- bian Optical Co. clashes in the Amer ican league are expected to be the thriller events in that circuit. Roth ?.he Fords and Beddoes are in a tie for first honors, while their oppo nents have strengthened their line up considerably and are out to pull the topnotchers down. Ritz or Mancuso will heave for the Fords, while Lenihan will pitch for the Reserve Banks. Good Game at Riverview. Riverview park has been set asidj; as the battle ground for the Town fend Gun Company-Maney Milling Company clash and the followers , of the Booster league, no doubt, will see a real scrap, as these two teams are evenly matched. The Millers are leading the circuit, with the Gunners but a few points be hind, and a victory for the latter will put them in a tie. The Hard ing Creamery Company-Phillip De partment Store contest should be a snappy affair, as both aggregations are making a strong bid for the pen nant. " First place in the Gate City league 1 at stake in the game with the Mc Kenney Dentists and Ramblers. The Dental lads are leading by a aingle game over their opponents, although they have not lost a game this season. Curley Rand, the "old war horse," is slated to do the mound work for the McKenneys, while it is still uncertain who will heave for the Ramblers, but from information they will send in a "dark horse." Tangle for Cellar Position. The cellar position in the same circuit will be fought out between the Shamrocks and Woodmen of I the World teams, at Thirty-first and Ames avenue. The North Omaha league, the new class C league, will clash in a double-header at Carter lake. Weather conditions permitting, record crowds should attend today's games. Bat Levinsky Mixes Brains With Punches When in the Ring When Georges Carpentier meets Battling Levinsky some time during July he will face a real scrapper. Barney Williams, better known in ringdom as Battling Levinsky, is a mild-mannered, pleasant sort of a chap, who possesses considerable in telligence, fie demonstrates tnai not only in the ring but outside, but because he adopted the profes sion of swatting other fellows on the chin doesn't mean that he is less human than those who earn their living at less precarious professions. Perhaps as good an example as any other mental attitude of Levin sky while working at his chosen oc cupation may be gained from a bit of conversation between Levinsky and Tony Melichar, who fought at Kenosha a few days ago. Bat, it winner in nearly avery round came to the middfe of the ring to shake hands with Melichar for the tenth j f , j . ri i ana iinai rouna, wiin a smne auurn ing his face. I - No Feeling Against Opponent ; There isn't any hard feeling, is there?" spoke Levinsky softly. "No, none at all," answered Meli char. "It's all in the game." A few seconds later Levinsky sat on the canvas to which he had been knocked by a left hand jolt by Men char. Levinsky didn't take the count, but got up and dealt retaliaton to . t : ..i.-.i . c-u: - j ...... . . . . Levinsky incidentally is not with out honor. In the sixth round he let a right haymaker fly at Melichar's head. Tony was out of range, and the blow shot through the atmos phere at lightning speed, but missed by more than a foot. Missing his target that far amused Levinsky, who dropped his hands to his side, grunt ed zowie," and had a good laugh at his own expense. Melichar had to laugh, too,- Make Friends Swapping Punches. "Friendly enemies" of the ring, Levinsky and Melichar didn't close their acquaintance with the punching in the ring. Mooching along to the railway station after the fight, I saw a couple of big fellows standing on the platform, one with a puffed face, the other not looking as if he had been in a scrap. They were Meli char and Levinsky. Levinsky, the veteran of the ring, was giving Tony a bit of advice, which Melichar is sure to heed, and which may help him move upward in this pugilistic business. Upton's Skipper Has Sailed in 1,000 Races " Williaa P. Burton, the British amateur yachtsman whi will sail the Shamrock IV. in its endeayors to lift the America's tup in Sir Thomas Lipton's fourth trial, has participated in over 1,000 racas dur ing hit career, BASE BALL DIRECTORY Games Today. Western League. Omtht at Joplln (two gamei). Sioux City at Oklahoma , City (two games). Dei Moines at Tulsa (two games). St. Joseph at Wichita (two games). National League. Chicago, Boston. Pittsburgh. Philadel phia, no games scheduled. St. louts at New York. Cincinnati at Brooklyn. American League. Washington at Chicago. Philadelphia at Detroit. New York at Cleveland. Boston at St. Louis. Western League. At Joplln R. H. E. Omaha 1SS110SO B 10 11 0 Joplln 101102000 5 10 1 Batteries. Kopp and Lingle; Berger and Snyder. At Wichita K. H. E. St. Joseph OJ011010 06 8 2 Wichita 02100011 16 IS 2 Batteries: Rose and MenoskyBowman and Yaryan. At Tulsa R. H. E. re Moines OOOS0002 06 Tulsa 1 4 0 0 0 0 2 0 7 7 2 0 liatterles. Men and Banner; Smlthson and Dobbins. At Oklahoma City Sioux City 1 1 0 S 0 0 0 0 Oklahoma City 1 UU111 liatterles Hnsmusscn and Dorman; Whitney and Breen. National League. At Boston R. II- E. Chicago 0 4 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 8 13 0 Boston 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 7 1 liatterles: Alexander and U'FarreM; Mcquillan and O'Neill. At Philadelphia R. H. E. Pittsburgh ....0 0022000 2 6 12 0 miladelpilta . .0 2001000 1 4 12 I liatterles: Carlson and Schmidt; ltixey ana wheat. At St. Louis R. H. E. St. Louis 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 10 3 New York 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0 At Brooklyn R. H. E. 0 04 1 Cincinnati . ..0 0 0 0 3 1 0 Brooklyn 00001002 0 3 6 i American League, v At CYAcHin B M V. Washington 20003021 0 8 IS 1 Chicago 2 0200201 2 11 0 Batteries Jameson, 1'lcinlck; llklnson, Schalk. At Detroit Tt H w Philadelphia ...'.0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 03 8 2 Detroit 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 x 4 8 1 Batteries: Nay lor and Perkins; Dauss and Alnamlth. At Cleveland R. H. E. New York 0 0020200 0 4 7 0 Cleveland 10210001 x 5 10 2 Battrles: Quinn and Hannah: Caldwell and O'Neill. At St. Louls- R. H. E. Boston 2000,00002 4 11 2 St Lo.uls li 10 12 8 0 1 x 16 22 Batteries: Jones, Schang; Sot heron, Severeld. American Associiation. At Toledo R. H. E. .. 11 0 ,.282 St. Paul Toledo New York Flans Stadium A New York firm of architects are at work on plans for the $1,000,000 luce stadium of Grecian pattern to be erected in Pelham Bay park. The board of estimate must approve the project, which is to be a memorial for Isaac L. Rice. The section of the park is to be known as the Rice Memorial Play field. It is to be ready next year. Team Has 59 Racquets The four crack : tennis players composing the American Davis cup team, National Champion William M. Johnston, William T. Tilden II, Richard Norris Williams II, and Charles S. Garland, took with them 59 racquets. Tilden has 20, Williams 15 and Johnston and Garland 12 each. Cup Boat Has Speedometer Shamrock' IV has among its equipment a Swedish marine speed ometer. This device records on deck the speed at which the yacht is traveling, one end of the' device extends through the bottpm of the hull and the pressure of the water against the extended part records the speed. To Hold Service Golf Meet. A new idea in golf will be launched by the Storm King Golf club of Cornwall-on-the-Hudson, N. Y. It will be known as a "service tournament" and will be open only to officers of the United States military acadamy at West Point, to club members now or recently in the service and to former service men of neighboring clubs, who may be invited by Storm King. The tour ney will be held either in July or September. , 400 Per Cent Dividend. St. Louis, June 12. The Ralstona Purina company, manufacturers sof breakfast foods and feeds for cattle, horses, hogs and poultry, has de clared a 400 per cent stock dividend on its capitalization of $1,000,000, it was announced today. Bee Want Ads Produce Results. Don't Miss This FREE DEMONSTRATION On the Care of Tires l All this week a Goodyear tire expert will be in our store to give a demonstration on tire conservation. He comes here to help you get more mileage from your tire- . Illustrated lectures, informal discussions and actual demonstrations of the use of tire savers will go on throughout the week. You can drop in any time and hear him. He will show you how a tire is made, why it is made that way, why tires wear out prematurely; he will tell you about the different tire abuses and how to '' avoid them. There are many other points that will be touched upon during the week. Proper loads for passenger cars and trucks, proper inflation of tires, how to care for tread cuts, faulty wheel alignment, and how to treat a stone bruise will be described. A half hour spent with this man will save you many hours and many dollars in the future. Don't fail to attend this free demonstration. ' TROUP AUTO SUPPLY CO., 2027-2029 Farnam St BOXER THINKS HE HAS WAY TO BEAT SOU'PAW Lew Tendler and Johnny Wil son Cause of Worry Supreme to Certain Ringsters. By RAY PEARSON. Everybody who knows anything about the game of pugilism knows that these sou'paw boxers', especial ly when they happen to have class, as in the casie of Johnny Panica, which is the honest to goodness name of Johnny Wilson, middle weight champion, and Lew Tendler, the Philadelphia lightweight, are mighty tough fellows to handle. It isn't because they wallop harder or possess Greater skill, .but because they don't do things in .the stereo typed way. They re an awkward class, any right manded scrapper will say. Having watched this Tendler per son engage in a ten rounded with Pinkie Mitchell and beat him by a margin that could not be disputed, and also having watched Richie Mitchell, Pinkie's brother, scrap tht Philadelphia sou'paw more than ever convinces us that sou'paws are tough uns. Here's a Question. Having come to this conclusion, the writer has quizzed several box ers, the principal question asked te ing: ' "What's the best system to use against a left handed boxer and how is a right handed miller to beat a sou'paw?" Now, as a rule, boxers don't do any considerable amount of study ing out these things Mnless they happen to be matched to scrap one of the fellows who jab with the right hand, but as these matches come so rarely because sou'paws seldom get very far in the glove game, we found little success in get ting a solution to the problem. Most of those with whom we talked didn't know of any way to beat classy left hander and simply shook their heads, indicating the question was a bit too deep for them. Solution Offered. But ' we did manage to find one fellow and a lightweight, too, who offered something in the way of a solution. He didn't care to have hi name mentioned, but the way he vould beat a sou'paw is interesting. Perhaps his system may be O. K.; perhaps no good at all, but at any rate there seems to he some logic in the way he has figured it out. Here's the way he puts it: "I've never had a battle with a sou'paw opponent, but it seems to me a right-hander should be able to find a way to beat these awkward fellows who jab with the rip-lit hand and cross or hook with the left. Now I think that the thing to do when meeting this type is to let him jab with his right, I mean not to try to stop him trom landing his jab, for jabs don't ' do any damage. It's pretty nearly a cinch that after he has found that he can plant his right where and when he wants to he will quickly follow the ricrht with his left cross or hook. Then its the time for the right-handed fellow to bring into play the stuff that does the work. Make Sou'paw Miss. "He should take the jab, but al ways keep his eyes watching for the left, and when it comes over make the sou'paw miss with it. Then after missing the sou'paw would h;ive shot all he had and the chances are he would be off his bal ance, which would give a quick and alert right-handed person the chance to speed in with a hard wol lop." "But what if the sou'paw didn't miss?" we timidly' asked. "Oh, he might not always miss, but some time he's going to, and that's the time to send over the stuff that makes the birdies sing," was our informant's reply. Leo Flynn, the New York man ager of scrappers, who has Bill Brennan and several others under his wing, also has in his stable a young fellow who Flynn says is the eighth wo'hder of the boxing world. Flynn doesn't mention his name, but admits he knows nothing about the art of glove-wielding. Doe Everything Wrong. "But this fellow certainly can fight," says Flynn. "He does every thing just as it shouldn't be done in Omaha Boy Gets Chance at A. E. F. Champion This Week Yankee Sullivan, Clever Bantamweight, to Meet Babe Asher at Scotts bluff, Neb. Roger "Yankee" Sulivan. Omaha bantamweight, will get a chance to show his mettle when he meet; Johnny "Babe" Asher next Wednes day afternoon in Scottsbluff, Neb., before a stock growers' convention. Asher is the bantamweight cham pion of the American expeditionary forces, and known as one of the toughest bantams in the ring. He is credited with an eight-round draw with Frankie Mason, Ameri can flyweight champion, an eight round victory over Patsy Wallace, who made Jimmy Wilde take the count of four and decisions over Lew Edwards, Zulu Kid, Bobby Hughes, Joe Leonard, Tommy En right, Harry Coulon and other not ed members of the 120-pound class. Sullivan, as a lieutenant at Camp Syracuse, N. Y., was boxing instruc tor for the camp. Although he is but 23 years of age. he has scored , knockouts over Charlie Parker of Jersey City, Kid Rose of Lusk, Wyo., Young Birchfield of Wheat land, Wyo.; Danny Boyce of Den ver, Peanuts Rinker. former Eng lish featherwieght champion, and other fast bantams and feather weights. He is also credited with a 15-round draw with Benny Chavez. The bout with Asher is to take place at 4 in the afternon Wednes day. Both scrappers have posted forfeits that they will weigh 118 pounds or less at 3, Tuesday after noon. Asher and his manager, Sammy Eckert, will arrive in Omaha from St. Louis today on their way to Scottsbluff. Sullivan will leave Oma ha Monday for the scene, of the conflict. Tommy Mills, coach at Creighton, will referee the fight. Marin Plestina Request to Giant Polander to Meet Chicagoan Labor Day in New York Plestina's Howl for Matches With Lead ers of Wrestling World Is Heard Farmer Burns To Train Zibby. New York, June 12. Stanislaus Zbyszko and Marin Plestina will meet in New York Labor diy to de cide which is entitled to be declared the heavyweight champion by the International Sporting cluh. if Joe Stetcher refuses to ' answer the challenge of the dub. Neither Jack Herman, ma-.ager of Zbyszko, nor J. C. Marsh, manager of Plestina, have signed articles of agreement, but both have Sii!mitted the terms for . match. Herman wants a $15,000 guarantee, but is ex pected to shave it to $10,000. Zbyszko will take a rest im mediately after closing his exhibi tions in the east this week and will then begin training for the match. the ring, but the funny part of it is he is so awkward that none of the fellows he meets can solve him. He beats all of them, and even the spec tators can't figure how he does it. Why, he's such a riddle that he can't ven clirrib through the ropes with out getting tangled in the hemp and requiring someone to help extricate him. When he's boxing he never does anything twice the same way and never does anything right, but he just keeps on winning. "A ringsider once asked me why T didn't take this chap and teach him how to box. For the love of Mike, if I did that everybody in the world would lick him. No, I'm going to let this bird go along in his own way." ' An effort is being made to organ ize the 12,000 girl telephone oper ators in New York City. 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His assertions that the leaders of the game had com bined in a trust and had ruled him out because he was too clever a mat artist for them were scattered all over the country. Jack Herman's assent to a match between Stanislaus Zbyszco and the Chicagoan has thrown a bigger, better opportunity into the path of the Chicagoan. If he beats the giant Polander the wrestling world will not have to await the decision of the International Sporti'.g club. New York to Have Five Months of Horse Racing New York can guarantee more than five months continuous horse racing between the spring and fall campaigns in Maryland, where, with the exception of Saratoga, there will be no railway shipping whatever. It is a great advantage, as, with the exception of Saratoga and the Em pire City events at Yonkers, horses may be campaigned at all the metro politan tracks while remaining at their winter stables, a fact which eliminates transportation entirely and simplifies the stabling problem. 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This was a rather broad statement, but it was not made carelessly by any means. And when one figures that, in ad dition to the brilliant track and field stars now wearing the colors of our many colleges and universities, we have a host of amateur athletic club stars of the caliber of Joie Ray, Lo ren Murohison, Mart McGrath, Pat Kyan and a host of others it is easy to see why the members of the Olympic committee arc wearing sat- sfied smiles. , Stars Crop Out. When the country's greatest track and field stars of both collegiate and athletic club connection come to gether in the sectional trials for the Olympic team at Philadelphia, Chi cago and Pasadena June 26 and luly 3 it is safe to predict that the greatest contests for honors ever ieen on the cinder path or in the field will be staged. Our newest crop of sprinters, such as Kirksey of Leland Stanford: Pad dock of California, Scholz of Mis souri, LeConeym of Lafavette, Wells of Stanford, Gourdin of Harvard. OeWitt of Rutgers, and a number of others, will fairly hum up the track in the 100 and 220 dash events -leainst the best men. now affiliated with the country's great athletic elubs; men of the calibre of Willie iayes of Boston, and Hank Wil liams of Spokane. R. E. Brown, win ner of the 100 and 220 dashes in the lecent intercollegiate games, will not be enabled to compete in the Olympic tryouts because of going to England with the liger team tor the meet with Oxford and Cambridge. In the middle distance events Joie Ray is expected to stand out primi- lently in the hnal trials at Cam bridge. But despite the apparent 'dge held by Ray over a field of bril liant collegiate rivals, he will find opposition stiff enough' to spur him nn to new records, with such per formers as Earl Eby Maxam and Gustafson of Pennsylvania, Driscoll i if Roston, Mayer of Cornell, Spoot f California, and many others. Thompson Ineligible. The college men have an apparent i:dge in the hurdles, both high and :ow. It is to be regretted, however, that Earl Thompson, the brilliant Canadian lad, who carried the colors PERFORMANCE SECURITY MOTOR CO. CHAS. R. GARDNER, Mgr. 2204 Farnam Street OMAHA VELIE Where the Amateur Leaguers Play Today City Clan A I.mu-. Thlrty-swond nil Dwey Av. Stroud & Co. Hgalust ttuwrn Furniture Co., i.iO p. m. ' nivervlow Tark Nelirankti Power Co. against Vaxton-VlfrllnK Co., 5:30 p. m. FontenKlte Park HlKRa Optical Co. against Prlve-lt-Voursi-lf Co.. 3:30 p. m. American Clana B league. Elmwooil Park. Kant J. B. Roota against Kany Furniture Co.. 3:S0 p. m. Fontenelle Park Taulaon't Forrta agatimt Federal ltenerve Bank, 1:30 p. in. Miller Park Columbian Optical Co. against Beddeoa, 3:30 p. m. Hoonter Class B League. Thirty-second and Dewey Avenue Big "H" Hardware agulnst Omaha Printing Co., 1:30 p. m. Riverview Park Townsend Gun Co. against Maney Milling Co., 1:30 p. in. Elmwood. Park, West Leavenworth Morchanta against Sprague Street Mer chants. 1:30 p m : Phillip Department Store against Harding Creamery Co., 3:30 P' '"' Gate City Class C league. Thirty-first and Ames Avenue Sham rocks against Woodman of the World, 3:30 P' Elmwood Park. East Vachal Tharmacy against Brodegaard Crowns, 1:30 p. m. Miller Park McKenney Dentists against Ramblers, 1:30 p. m. . of Dartmouth to victory and estab lished a new world's record of 14 2-5 seconds in the high hurdles at the intercollegiates, cannot compete with the American team. However, in Smith of Cornell, Erdman of Prince ton, Johnson of Michigan, Kelly of New York Sylvester of Missouri, Wells of Leland Stanford, Watt of Cornell, Ellis of Syracuse, and a number of other stars, our timber toppers will surely be able to do something in the point-winning line when thev Eet to Antwerp, though they will probably find Thompson, wearing Canada's colors, just as swift as ever in straddling the wood. The lone-distance races, with such runners are Faller of Dorchester, Mass.; Pores of New York; Sim mons of Syracuse; Dresser, former Cornell and ex-collegiate champion; H. H. Brown of Williams; Mac Mahon of M. I. T., and Romig of Penn State, not to mention a host of western distance men, will de velop some great competition in the trials at Cambridge. That America will be strong in both the weights and jumps is a cer tainty. Smart of Chicago; Landers of Penn; Gourdin of Harvard; Tem pleton'of Leland Stanford; Mer chant of California, and Way of Penn State, will be strong con tenders in the broad jump. In the high jump Landon of Yale; Temple ton and Ramsey of Cornell; Murphy of the Multnomah A. C; Richards of Utah; Whalen of Boston; Larsen of Utah, and Lathrop of Cornell, will probably be jumping like grey hounds within a few more weeks; and Landon, who cleared six feet four inches for a new collegiate rec ord at Philadelphia in the recent games, is expected to better that mark. Landers of Penn; Harwood of Harvard; Jordan of Dartmouth; Frank Foss of Chicago; Peterson of California and many others will compete in the pole vault this month. That new -American rec ords will be made when the final games are staged at Cambridge is predicted by a majority of the ath letic sharps. Contribute $4000 for Golf. Vancouver, B. C, June 12. This city recently voted to contribute $4,000 to the Vancouver Country club in order that the Burquitlam golf course may be in condition for the Pacific northwest championship to be held July 5 to 12. The club has spent $15,000 on the course. A New York woman is said to earn more than $5,000 a year design ing favors and bonbon boxes. T 7EL1E charm and beauty and snap have y won for Model 48 a national reputation as the Authoritative Style. The season has shown again, as in other years, that Veiie Style is matched by Velie performance. 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Gibbons is a counterpart of his brother Michael, only bigger of bone and proportionately better set up And he is a "boxin' fool," accordins to a score or more of America's best performers in the class that does anywhere from 160 to 170 ring side. "But Gibbons is a middleweight and has no business in the heavy weight division," you are apt to ex claim. Forget it. Gibbons was a middle weight about two years ago when he cold make 158 to 160 pounds as easily as Jimmy Wilde, who has his full growth, can make 107. Today Gibbons is a strapping, clean-limbed, hard-muscled 170-pounder. He is as heavy as Georges Carpentier and those who know him best doubt very much whether the famous Georges could show him anything in the line of fistic science. Tommy Gibbons has all the science, footwork and ring general ship that won his brother Mike recognition as one of the greatest boxers the game has ever known. With these assets as a ringster he has more weight and a much stouter punch. Like Michael, the young Gibbons is a. modest, retiring and gentleman ly chap. There isn't a boastful bone in his body and he doesn't like to make claims for himself. When Georges Carpentier came to the United States he had hopes that he might get an opportunity to meet him. Nothing would suit him better. "But I guess I'll have to wait a while before I can get into the ring with Georges," said Gibbons recent ly, "and meanwhile I'm going to England to meet all the good fight ers they have over there if I can get matches ,with them. Later, when I come back to the states, it is my intention to .challenge Jack Dempsey, for I am going to jump right into the heavyweight class as soon as I land in England. I hope to get on with Joe Beckett and Bombardier Wells. I'll take on anybody they've got." Gibbons, you see, isn't boastful. He merely has confidence in his ability and he isn't afraid of ;( ; man living. Gibbons and Eddie Kane, his genial manager, have taken the long way around in start ing their campaign for a battle with Dempsey, in which, according to our opinion, they have shown ex cellent judgment, for the reason that if Tommy succeeds in beating a number of English heavyweights he will have won his spurs as a heavyweight fighter before he tosses his hat into the ring on this side of the pond.