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THE OMAHA SUNDAY "BEE: -SEPTEMBER 26," 1920.
Indiana - Iowa
: Game Will Open
Big Ten Season
Eastern Varsity Teams
Open Foot Ball Season
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By WALTER ECKERSALL.
After nearly a month pf prepVa
r-. iion, which included the weeding out
process, teaching of "fundamentals
and basic attacks, leading teams in
the country will go into action hex
Saturday in contests which wil' niar
the opening of the 1920 foot bai sea
son. .
Some scniads which 'have impor
tant early season struggles have been
j at work longer than others. Sonic
' have been carried along by a quicker
process of development in the hope
that tHe opening battles can be won
hereby insuring a succevit'l season
v Thelevens have been puNo the test
, i;i scrimmge while some engaged in
their initial contests yesterday.
. . In the central west interest will
center around the result of the Iowa
Indiana game at Blooaiington. This
is by far the most important early
season contest played by two Big
Ten elevens in years. Its importance
Is due to. the fact thaKeach instuu
Mion is represented by a strong eleven
, , and nothing but a bitterly fought
contest will result.
Hoosiers Are Formidable,
It will "be remembered Indiana de-
" feated Syracuse last yea. i to 0, in
r one of the biz upsets ot ine sea.m
Coach Stiehm has practically the
same eleven back 'in college this
r j car. With a year's experience and
, the confidence gained in that battle
with the New York eleven, the
Hoosiers will make a great' effort
- tn Hpfeat the Hawkeves.
Last year Iowa was rated oneof
the best teams in the conterence. it
was beaten, by Illinois through the
t 1 -successful execution of the onside
' kick, and it lost to Chicago in a
grar-battle, tim being called when
"""'Iowa, had the ball on the Maroon
one-vard line. It. won its other
games' decisively and was dubbed
the hard luck eleveiv of the Big Ten.
Howard Jones, the Hawkeye men
, . tor. has miost of last years team
tack. including the Devine brothers,
Slater, and Cant Kelly. Since the
conference practice season opened
on September IS, Coach Jones has
been driving the squad at top speed,
' as he knows onv too well the canoer
, of the team his men will meet next
Saturday.
Gophers Meet SouthDakota.
Minnesota, which is ! certain to
make a strong bid fot conference
honors, will take on bduth Dakota
at Minneapolis in its opening strug
gle. It will be recalled the Gophers
were oneyof the most powerful elevf
,ens in the west at the close of last
.season, and a large number of that
team is back colleg. Minnesota
has a nice schedule, its only hard
game away from home being with
Illinois at.Urbana on October -30.
Wisconsin and Michigan will be met
' , on Northrup field.
' "- Wisconsin, which should be a con
tender for Big ten " honors, will
swing into action by meeting Law
rence at Madison. Coach Richards,
t like a number of other conference
mentors, has enough veterans back
to form the nucleus of, a strong
team, one which will be hard to
1 . beat if the team plays up to form.
Northwestern will face Knox at
Evanston in Its first clash. The
A Galesburg eleven is Reported strong
er than usual this year and may give
' the" Purple X harder game than is
x usually expected. Coach McDeavitt,
however, will uje only simple plays,
as he intends to save his best 'forma
tions for the Minnesota game , one
-'". week later.
Ohio State' and Wesleyan.
Ohio State, runner up1 in the con
ference race last year, will meet Ohio
Wesleyan " at Columbus in a game
which will furnish a line on the 1920
strength of the Buckeyes. Coach
v , WilGe has a umber of last year's men
k ' bafk in harness and another strong
--team should be developed.
' ' Coach Scanlon of Purdue will send
his warriors against De Pauw in the
tpening encounter. The Boilermaker
J. aach "has been experimenting with a
-, "salUi ofmaterial, one of the largest
f quads which ever turned out for
; tooT ball at Lay(ayette. Like other
Big Ten Institutions, he is fortified
:, . with several veterans.
. Notre Dame, which won al! its
' games last year, will .open with
, Kalama2oo at South Bend. .Coach
Rockne has enough old men for an
other strong team and should have
; f s a successful season. Nebraska, which
' . i will meet Rutgers and Penn State
; . 'V' later in the season, will open with
I ; the other members of the Missouri
valley conference will play their
'opening games.
Opening In East, -In
the cast Yale will open its sea
son by meeting Carnegie Tech,
w'hich is being coached by Wallie
Steffen, former University of Chi
cago player. Harvard will clash with
f Maine at Cambridge, Princeton will
play the strong Swarthmore eTsven
on the former's gridiron, Cornell's
opponent will be Rochester at Ithaca,
and Pennsylvania will clash with
Bucknell at Philadelphia. The Army
f and Navy elevens also will go into
action, the former meeting Union .at
. West Point and "the latter North
Carolina State at Annapolis.
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At the left, Jack Dempsey, world's champion heavyweight pugilist In the center, Man o' Wart whom tori critics are now inclined to call the Horse ot the Century, in the
photograph, Frank Loftus, personal caretaker, is shown removing the bandages which Man o' War wears when not racing. On one ankle is shown one of the boots worn when Mao
o War-is exercising or taxing a worzout. At tne ngnt, ttaoe Aura, rne greatest oome run outer or ail time
add that no tighter ever possessed
By RAY PEARSON.
Were there ever any to equal
these:
Jack Dempsey. worlfs heavy
weight champion.
Babe "Ruth, worlds champion
hohe run hitter. '
Man o' War. wold's fastest race
horse.
The year 1920 will go down in his
tory as the greatest for achievement
in three lines of athketic endeavor
pugilism, base ball and horse racing.
Wever before, as far as we can re
member, have three champions stood
out so pronouncedly as Jack Demp
sey, "Babe Ruth and Man a' War.
Dempsey is the superman of the
glove sport, Ruth the superbatsman
ofbas ball, Man o' War the super
Morse of the turf. i
Dempsey in Lone Class.
Take the case of this man Demp
sey, who rules the gugilistic throne.
What a wonder he really is! He
has rivals, to be sure, ' but thos"!
rivals of necessity must' be rivals!
simply for commercial purposes, not
from, physical prowess, for they are
utterly lacking in ring skill to com
bat successfully against a man of
the Dempsey type..
There is in view nothing of great
import iiv the way of mashes ex
cept a bout with Georges Carpen
tier of France, who holds the title
of European champion. Perhaps
there are , some who really believe
that Carpentier might be the man
to show the world that 'Dmpsey
isn't a superman of fistina. But we
who know Dempsey would feel the
necessity of a mental examination
were we to pick Carpentier iy beat
.the jrorld's champion.
But why is this Dempsey such a
wonderful fighter? That's easy. He
carries knockout wallops in . both
hands, is fast, and Is. eleven Lodk
back over the others of the past and
the others of.the present and see
how they can be compared with this
estimate of Dempsey, and you have
the answer. And don't forget to
a better fighting head and more vie
ioushess than this "fighting devil"
of the ring.
Ruth Breaks All Records
Let's hop to Babe Ruth. This chap
they call Bambino and various other
names is, like Dempsey, tmr greatest
in his line. Any major league bats
man who can crack out half a hun
dredjiome runs in a season certainly
achieves a position that entitles him
to a place in the championship ranks.
Such batting as Babe Ruth has done
this season never before has been ac
complished. Perhaps it never will
be accomplished again if Babe Ruth.
does not do it.
This man of the mighty wallop,
who, pounds the ball over fences and
Into bleachers for circuit drives, has
no real competitor. The great bats
men of olher yearsand still wonder
ful batsmen Tyrus Cobb, Joe Jack
son, Happy Felsch, George Sister,
Rogers Hornsby, Tris Speaker, and
others who ordinarily sparkle in the
limelight of. fame are woefully
dimmed because Babe Ruth is hit
ting home runs as no man in base
ball ever hit them before. They are
all great players, but Ruth is greater
than all of them when it comes to
laying the willow on the pill. v
Ona might try to compare batting
stars f the past with Ruth, but
what's the use when tft records
show the number of homers that
Babe has clouted in a singte season?
Lajoie was a great batsmen in his
day, so were Ed DelehantyXap An
son, Honus Wagner, and several
others who shone in different years.
They were great men 'at the plate,
but they didn't compare with Ruth,
evidence that is substantiated by the
records and, Mil yards that re
loaded 4o caRayty, not to see the
ball game so much as to see Babe
smash one over the fence.
There is still a chance for the old
time fans to tell of a player who
did one thing that Babe Ruth has not
been able to do. That concerns Ed
Long Fights Puzzle Fans;
Wellmg-Dimdee Mill Tame
New Yorkers Must Be Educated All Over Again
uoinamues usea w oeeing onorjt ruuts -
V" Fighters Take It Easier in 15-Round
; Tilts Until the Closing bounds.
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Boxing Commissioner Bugy.
Boston, Sept. 25. The boxing
commission's office in the state
house is a hive of industry with
scores of applications being made
for licenses by tbe various classes
of participants in the boxing game.
A line of would-be applicants made
application in person while many
others sent in their requests by
mail. V
The commission !s bending its ef
fortstoward enabling promoters to
put on the bouts scheduled in the
near future. f,t
. Clevenger Assumes Duties.
Columbia, Mo., Sept. 25. Z. G.
Clevenger, director of athletics "of
the University of Missouri, has ar
rived in Columbia and assumed his
v. ! new duties. He is mjdpiled whether
lie will coach anv fport thiv year.
It is likley that he will coach the
r basket ball squad. Clevenger arrived
with the dope that the game with
Ames would be the toughest of the
ffnr. Kansas Aggies, his former
squad, will also show up good this
f jear, according to Clevengf
New York will have7 to throw
away its bM school books and be
ducated all over again, ine tight
fans have been watching the six and
eight rounders over in Jersey. They,
piped a 15-rounder in , Madison
Square , Garden and dulu t know
what it was all about.
They figured that Marathoners
should burn up the leather like
printers. Fifteen rounds is a long
jump. J,he list of killcdr wounded
and missing snows that vveiung and
Dundee" didn't try any too hard, at
that. The dope figured for 'em to
stall around for five or six rounds
and then step on the gas.
As it waSr-ne bojs ielt each, other
out for 15. rounds and -the fight
stopged without having started.
coys iaKe ineir ume.
There isn't any fighter who ever
combed his hair on the right side
who could kfeep pegging away for
15 rounds without folding iip like a
violin stand. It's all right. for the
bur iiWsix rounders to bounce
around Uke a totmado on wheels in
huckleberry ftme, but the long dis
tance boy have to go at it . flat-
footed. There are going to be a lot
of sour fans if they' keep on expect
ing hair, teCth and toenails to fill
he air in the first tew rounds.
' wver in rniuy me six-ruuuucrs
fight visitors dizzy. Out in Cali
fornia the fourrounders nail away
like drummers in a jazz band.
Round Hogan could flatten any-
body on the coast in four rounds.
He came east where the son rises.
After the first fight it didn tj rise on
One-Round Hogan -any more. He
went; back ' where it sets land no
man's hand is lifted against ' his
neighbor in , anger. le couldn't
stick in the eight-round jersey
game. ' .
Take Your Lunch to a Long Battle.
The way to enjoy a- 13-rcninder is
to go in the tight mood and take
your lunch along., The boys may
fiddle-dee-dee for six or 11 rounds,
but you can enjoy yourself orf your
picnic sandwiches. If nothing hap
pens in 15 rounds, you ve had a
meal anyway, and in pleasant com
pany. Too many picnics have been
ruined by quarrels. - . -
The star bout for the opening of
New York boxing wasn't on the
right side of the fan's ledger. Wel
ling and Dundee seemed afraid to
open' up.. Especially Welling, who
has a right mitt that ain't afraid to
look any man in the face. ,
But until the bugs forget the fast
and furious six-round' things, it isn't
likely that even a- good 15-rounder
will please 'em if both boys are on
their own feet at the finish. ..It's ja'
different kind? of a, fight
California will never turn out any
more Corbetts, Abe Attels or Jim
my Britts. They have "the four
rund game out there. The fight
ers kill emselves trying to please,
ine dues, wno noiier emseive cur v
One-lif one punch doesn't make the other
tighter bounce, more .than eight
times. i
TbeSporUngferId?
Answer to Yesterday'! Question.
1. Ruethar played part ot the season ot
KIT with the Chi-ao Cuhs.
2. Boston pnld a reported price of !,700
forNEsbe Huth. ' -
t. Walter Johnson won SI rahies tn
1913, his best season In the majors.
4. Carey stela 18 bines In 1919, as hs.
played lrriess than half the games.
t. Oreb Is S feet 8 Inches tall.-v
C. Derapaey and B.-llton won boxing
championships In 191.
7. A match Is halved In golf when each
side wins the same number of holes;
I. The Cleveland naval reserve eleven
defeated the Untvjsity of Pittsburgh.
. Lawn tennis was originated In 1874.
10. H. F. Lawford, an early English
player, made famous ths Lawford stroke.
New Questions. -
1. Who has boxed longer, Johnny Kit
bane or JwrK Btitton?
2. How fall is Jeas WlllardT
3. Is the 100-meter run the same as the
100-yard runT
4. What Is a four-ball match In golf?
5. When did Ted Ray win the British
open golf title?
e What world's record did Frank
Loom Is set tn the 1911 Olympiad?
7. Where did Cleveland get Bay Chap
man? 8. When did Garry Herrmann resign
from the national commission?
. When did the Whit Sox cinch the
pennant tn lt? , i
10. When did th Bed cinch the pen
nant In 1919? ,
Wins $162,465.
Man o' War's total winnings foot
up $162,465. Only Domino, with
$193,550; Sysonby, with $184,438,- and
Colin, with $180,92, lead him among
American horses.
French Pilot In Race for
Bennett Cup Forced Down
Etampes,' France, Sept "75. -Sadi
LeCointe, famous , Iyench aviato,
flying a Nieuport, yesterday; morn
ing, while onan elimination flight
by which three French airplanes in
the James Gordon Bennett interna
tional aviation cup race Monday are
to be chosen, was compelled to
alight when something went wrong
with his machine. Yesterday after
noon, however, he succeeded in Com
pleting the 60-mile trial in 21 min
utes and 28 seconds, the best time
of the trials.
Three other, French aviators com
pleted the trial. Kirsch, who flew a
Nieuport, finished in 22 minutes and
18 seconds. ' .
The race itself next Tuesday will
be over a course of 300 kilometers,
bt the elimination course yesterday
was only 100 kilometers.
AlPof yesterday's contesants used
300-horsepower Hispano motors iu.
-Uieir, machines. 1
Marylebone Cricketers of
England Tour Australia
Thp Marvlebone cricket team of
ft'.ngland will tour Australia, playing
the first match at erth uct. a, witn
a match against Western Australia
and concluding at Adelaide March
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Legalize Boxing in Boston
After Period of 24 Years
Boston ,enioys legalized prize
fights after a 24 years' ban.
Reit Wins Chess Meet.
Richard Reit, the Czecho-Slovakia
representative, won the recent mter
national -chess masters tourney at
Gothenburg, Sweden, with nine and
one-half games wen and three and
one-half lost. Fourteen masters
competed.
Delehanty, who, when playing with
the Phillies at the west side park in
Chicago knocked out four home
runs in a single game. It was a
wonderful ..fceat. and, regardless of
the Jact that we have l Rutf), it, may
never be broken. But Delehantv did
not hit homers with the regularity
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or KUin, a man wno ciouiea nan a
hundred in a season.
As for Man o' War. he stands
head and shoulders above these other
race nags of today. When other
horses startagainst him it isn't be
cause they' have a chance to win.
i because nobody at the race
track would care to watch one horse,
, -, if .,e is a champion, circle the
track alone. Upset, On Watch,
John Grier, Donaconna, and Dom
inique are good horses, but, like the
men that are compared with Demp
sey and Ruth, they, are forced to
second place Because of the greater
greatness. So they are started
against Man o War, vno runs away
from them and breaks records nearly
every time he starts. On no less
than five occasions Man o' War has
shattered American records this year.
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Championship of Class
x B Amateur Base Ball
To Be at Stake Today
Championship of Class B amateur
base ball will be mt stake today,
when the Paulson? Fords, - champions-of
the American league, and
Sunday Class B winners, dash in a
double-header at Luxus park with
the Pearl Memorials,) Church league
pennant winners And Saturday
CIassB champs.- 1 1
The first same of the double-
header will start at 1:30 and . the
main event at 3:30. )
Jerald Fratt wilN heave one of
the, contests for the church cham
pions while Ritz and Skup'ski will
hurl for the Paulson's.- - j
If a third game i necessary, in i
case of an even break today, the !
game will be played as a prelimin-!
ary to the Bowen Furniture Co.-St. J
Louis .champions next Sunday I at
Kourke park. 1 he St. Louis champs
win also play here on Saturday.
Denver Lightweight Is
After Champion Leonard
Denver, Sept. 25. Harry Schu-
man, DcnveV lightweight, wants to
substitute tor Lddie ritzsimmons,
the New York lightweight, who re
cently decided that he needed more
ring experience before tackling the
champion, Benny Leonard.
Jack Kanner, boxing -promoter
and manager, who counts Schuman
as the best bet of his "stable" of
boxers, wired Tex Rickard, Ne-w
"Xork promoter, immediately upon
receipt of word here that Fitzsim
mons had talcen a "run-out powder."
that ha- was srreparecL- to --match
Schuman vagjn st Leonard in a
championship bout in Madison
Squaret Garden under any condi
tions 'that the champion might
name. , .
t. Schuman was formerly the light
weight champion of the United
States navy, in which v he served
during the World war. He has been
polishing off many of the top-notch-era,
of the lightweight division iit
bouts on the Pacific coast and
throughout the Rocky mountain re
gion during the past months, and
Manager Kanner declares thafhe is
the logical contender forthampion
Leonard's crown.
Harvard, Penn, Syracuse
Open Foot Ball Season
New York, Sept. 25. The playing
of Harvard,' Pennsylvania, Syracuse
and West Vifcinia foot ball teams in
the opening jRimes of the season-this
afternoon will furnish the chief in
terest for the followers of the inter
collegiate sport While none of
these leading exponents of the grid
iron sport has an opponent con
sidered dangejous enough to cause
fear of "defeat, in one dr more cases
the , visiting team is expected to
severely test the early season form
of! the home eleven.
Gotham Women's Swimming
Assn. on . Co-operative Plan
The Women's Swimming -association
pf New. York City is run. on the
co-operative plan. No one is paid
for their services and the instructors
are volunteers. -
Lee Leads Base
Stealers; East 1
Heads Hitters
Official Averages for Season
Show Lee and East Head
Lists Sisler Tops the
- American League.
Chicago, Sept. 5j5. As the major
league clubs swing into the final
two weeks of the penqant race,
George .Sisler, star first baseman
with St. Louis, seems certain of
carrying off the 1920 batting cham
pionship of the American league.
bisler, according to figures com-
nilH tod.iv. is (hnivinv th wav with
an average of .405, with Tris Speak
er of Cleveland six points behind
lim. Joe Jackson of Chicago is in
third place with 381 and EddieNCol
lius, captain of the Chicago club,
fourth with .317. The averages in
clude games of Wednesday.
"Babe" Ruth, the home run mon
arch, who went home-runless for a
week, failed to shake; off his batting
slump, but managed to cling to
iourth place, in the list of 'leaders
with an average of '.367, although
he made only one hit in six games.
Rice of Washington is in no daiw
ger of being deposed as the leading
base stealer.
Other leading batters: Jacobson,
St Louis, .346; Rice, Washington,
.341; Judge. W'ashington, 340: Tobin,
St. Louis, .338; Weaver, Chicago,
.337; Felsch, Chicago, .334; Meuscl,
New York, .333; Cobb, Detroit, .327.
Ihe scramble for the battin
championship of the National league
has developed into a ticht- race be.
tween Roger Hornsby of bt. Loui
and Nicholson of Pittsnurgli,-with
Hornsby topping the league with
.365. Nicholson, who led the race
a week ago, is a point behind tne
St. Louis slugger. Young of New
York is third with .352 and Roush
of Cincinnati, fourth with .340.
Cy Williams of Philadelphia, the
leading home run getter of the
league, connected with another fou.r
base drive, bringing his total up to
15. In base stealing Max Carey of
Pittsburgh continues' to show the
way with a total of 48. Other leading
batters:
J. Smith, St. Louis, .329; Wrheat,
Brooklyn, .325; Williams, Philadtl
phia, .3r9; Scott, St. Louis, .318; Hol
locher, Chicago, .318; Konetcby,
Brooklyn, .313; Fournier, St Louis,
.309. -
Final averages of the VVestern
league show' Carl East of the
Wichita club as 11 the 1920 batting
champion. In 93 games East polled
123 hits' for an average of .377. Yar
yan, a teammate, finished in second
place with ,357. Yaryan also was
the leading home run hitter, having
bagged 41. Lee of Omaha out
distanced the league in" base stealing,
finishing the season with 39. Other
leading batters:
Tierney, Tulsa, .335; Bogart, Jop
lin, .332; Beck, Wichita, .332; Walk
er, St. Joseph, .331; Lindimore, Okla
homa City, .330; Pitt, Oklahoma
City. .326: Platte. Omaha. .314:
'Moeller, Pes Moines .311.
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Lincoln, Star of Missouri
Freshmen Team, Injured
Columbia, Mo., Sept 25 Allan
Lincoln, speedy 200-pound back,
who naade a sensational start on
the University of MissuH freshman
loot ball squad last year, broke the
small bones in his right hand yes
terday when he attempted to stiff
armsa freshman tackier and fell'
.The injury of Lincoln is the second
accounted against the freshjna.
Lincolnxis expected to fill the regu
lar position as tun back asvsoool
as he returns to practice.
Frequent board talks have - kept
the players busy durinz snare hhiira.
Following is the lincwffon the "first
squad used in practice:. Bunker,
center; Andrews ' and Springgate,
guards; irayis ana a turner, tackles;
Goepel and Hill,ends; Fullbrighr,
Lincoln, Hardin and Captain Lewis,
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Plan to Start 12 Balloons
In BcThis Afternoon
Birmington, Ala, Sept 25. Ef
forts were being made here today to
get a dozen balloons in readinexs far
the start late this afternoon of the
uii- wiu ucicrminc me inreei
entries of the United States in the
international Gordon Bennett trophy
race, whicl will start, from here also
on October -23.
Twelve balloons will be . manned
by civilians, three by army pilots
and one by a crew from the navy.
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