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THE BEE : OMAHA, SATURDAY, MARCH r, 1021. Up-to-Bate News and Gossip of Interest to Sport Fans 10 Mi. ; A. A. U. Basket Ball Meet Pairings Have Been Made Tournament to Select National Amateur Team Champions Will lie Held in Kansas City Starting March 7. Kansas City, Mo., March 4. Tairings .for the American Amateur Athletic union national basket ball tournament litre, bcRinning March 7, were, announced today. With .32 teams entered in tiRht brackets, the schedule calls for 16 games on the first two days of the tournament. The pairings include the following: First Hracket-Livcnviore Athletic club. Livcrmorc, Cal.; Spartanburg 1 .Athletic club, Spartanburg, S. C; ' Sioux Athletic club, Sioux City. la.; , Kansas City Athletic club. Second Utacket Tulsa University Athletic club, Tulsa, Okl.; OsaRe ' tAhletic club, Osage, la.; Nevada ' University Athletic club, Grano, Nev. Fifth Bracket Concordia semi nary, St. Louis; Empire Gas and ' Fuel company, Alva, Okl.; Marys ville college, Marysville, Kan.; Los Angeles Athletic club, Los Angeles. Seventh Bracket I'rovo Athletic club, Salt Lake City; Tabernacle, Kansas City; Whiting Owls, Whit ing, Ind.; Southwestern college, Win .fieldj Kan. Offers $15,000 for Match Between Hoppe And Belgian Champ ' hlrugo Trihuiie-Omnliii liec Leased Wire. New York, March 4. High . finance has entered billiards. Like all other branches of professional ' sport, 'one has tr speak in the thousands to attract even passing attention. Anything less than 10 or . 15 "grand" is now regarded as small ; change among the athletes who com pete for something more than the mere love of their specialty. But accustomed, as New York is to big figures, something of a furore was created in billiard circles yesterday, "when Charles Klein, owner of the Strand ' academy, announced he " would put up a purse of $15,000 for a world championship balk line bil liard match between Willie Hoppe and Edouard Horcmans. This tops by $5,000 the offer that was recently made by a Philadelphia - sportsman and it is-1y far the larg est sum that has ever been offered "for a billiard match. Leonard Matched for Go I March 17 With Kansas New York, March 4 Tentative arrangements ' were completed last ,night for a 15-round bout here on .'.March 17 between Benny Leonard, lightweight champion, and Rocky .'Kansas of Buffalo. ( Kansas created ' consternation 'when he knocked out Ritchie, Mit chell of Milwaukee in the first .'round, jn Buffalo. He is slated to "box i'fitchcll again in Milwaukee on "March. 9, but has attempted to post pone the bout until after he has .'met the champion.' The Wisconsin ' state boxing commission has pro tested to the New Y'ork commission, asking it to forbid the fight here unless Kansas keeps his contract to meet Mitchell on March V. White of Purdue Leads Dig len in scoring r'ChlcnKdTribun-Onialia Bee leased Wire Chicago, March 4. With the "big ten basket ball race turned upside down, with tail-end teams beating leaders, quintets -which seemed hope lessly out of the running, now chal- lenging the first division teams, the ' individual scoring column presents , another,,contradiction. Leading all "big ten" scorers for ' the first two months of the season, " January and February, is Captain Don White of Purdue, a guard. He ' si high free-thrower man with 82 '' penalty tosses and has piled tip 28 "baskets,, which gives him a total of 131 points, and with only two games left to' Ijlay in March it is reasonable to presiime that he will be at the top 'of the list when th.. season closes. ' Alexander Whipping 'Em Some Fast Ones 'at Camp tionals busy for two hours Thursday John Evers kept the pitching and , catching squads of the Chicago Na tionals busy for a two hours today k tossing and receiving. Grover ' Alexander took his turn in the prad tice, whipping over some fast ones . to Catcher KMIefer. j Elwood C. Martin, recruit from the . Pacific . Coast league was given a tryout which Evers said, was satis factory. . Base Ball Chatter Chliniro Tribnne-Omahn Ile Leaped Wire. Chicago, March 4. Eastern scribes art raving about Connie Mack's youngsters these fifty and it Is the first time In years. The other leaders have started to vlaw the upstarts with alarm after readlngr .about the great early, season form of the white elephant heavers. Miller HueglriS Is desperate for catchers now that Schun promises to stay out f the reftular lineup unless his salary demands are met. The Yankee leader's latest move Is to grab Albert De Vormer, . who barketopped for the Vernon club lest summer. TJeorge Sisler will be the last man on the Browns' list to report for spring train ing. The American league flash Is en- gaged In the printing business and Fohl gave him a week's extension to clean up hi j affairs. The Yankee owners declare Baker will ' rot do traded or sold now that they have Influenced him to return to the game. Cot Til Huston says Baker will be aeen at the hot corner when the 1921 season - opens. The Boston Braves wilt play very few . games on their return to the north this ..spring.' Only seven games have been scheduled and Fred Mitchell says this Is ; plenty to break the. monotony of the long Jumps. Oabhy Street, mice famous battery part ner of. Welter Johnson, Is assisting Andy ' Conkley fn whipping the Columbia unl .vrrstty sriuad ;nto shape. The NVw York school has turned out some great athletes in late years, one of them being Co lumbia George Smith, the Fhilly plwber. Tl linn', l,eft in KlRht; Knv llnllMlm. Ntithnn Pont, Hyron Mr.Miilion, miner Jolin, curamunuer 01 I.oer Kotv: Carl Schultzr, Vernolt urown, Howard l'erry and Artliur Silul.'tzf. Stanton, Neb., March 4. : o ci.fstciii victories over several of the strongest Quintets in this section of , the northeast Nebraska. Scottsbluff Joins Midwest Ball Loop Chcvtuue, Wvo., March 4. (Spe cial Telegram.) With an assurance of financial backing reaching as high as $60,000, there was launched in this city today the MidweSt Pro fessional Base Ball league of six clubs. Denver and Sterling of Colorado. Casper, Laramie and Greybull of Wyoming, and Scottsbluff, Neb., will make up the complete circuit. The charter members are Denver, Grey bull, Sterling and Casper, and ap plications are "in, hand to raise the club. membership to eight by adding Cheyenne and Brush, Colo. .Sidney. Neb., and Billings, Mont., are two other cities now seeking ad mittance. These will not be admit ted, as it is definitely decided to hold the league to a six-club organ ization. George Tebeau of Denver will personally back and control the team of the Colorado capital city.' He is originator of the league now formed. Of the stars already at tracted to the Midwest are Rolla Maples, St. Louis Browns; C. B. Arbogast. Minneapolis; Jack Roach, Pacific coast league; Ren Hunt, La salle and Joe Harris, first baseman of the Cleveland Americans, and Tom Downey, former manager Kansas City Blues and once third baseman tor Cincinnati. Mahoney and- Rokusek Sign With Bowen Ball Club for This Season ''Ike" Mahoney and Elmer Rokusek, star Commercial High school basket ball players and last season with the Kiggs Optical club of the Municipal Amateur base ball association, have signed with the Bowen Furniture company team. Johnny Dcnnir.on, manager of the "Bones" closed the deal with the Bookkeepers vesterdav Rokusek, who played infield and pitch for the Rigjrs last year, will be given a chance to twirl for the Fur niture dusters this summer, while Mahoney vwill be played at short stop. Track Work at Central High Will Start Soon Several of Jast year's Central High track men have started training and will be in good condition when Coach Mulligan issues his first call for cinder path work. T'wo letter men will form the nucleus for this year's team, Floyd Green and George Smith. Green is a sprinter and showed up well last year in the state meet. Smith is a long distance man, running the half mile in good time. These are the only men on whom Mulligan can depend. There are a great number of track aspirants who have signified their intentions to try out for positions on the team. Frank Dohn, captain-elect of this year's team, has left school. From the present layout, the team will be weak on weight men. . Papillion Trounces Grace Lutheran Team, 61 to 28 The Grace Lutheran basket ball quintet journeyed to Papillion last night and lost to the Papillion High school in a fast game by the score of 28 to 61. The feature ' of the Omahans play was the floor work of Montague, Welch and Peterson. Seibold and Schmidt played the best game for the winner,. Boston Red Sox Sign Star Pitcher of Yale Boston, March 4. Manager Hugh Duffy of the Boston Red Sox an nounced Thursday that he had signed frank lalcott, star pitcher of Yale university's 1918 nine. HIGHSCHL BASKETBALL I-odgcpole, 41; Rig .Springs, 21. Lodgepole, Neb.. March 4. (Special.) In a fast game of basket ball played here the local quintet defeated the Big Springs' squad by the score of 41 to 21. It was the last game oX the season for the Lodgepole team. Semi-Pro and Amatuer Anstey Town Team. 43: Litchfield, IS. Ansley. Neb., March 4. (Special.) The Ansley town basket team won over the fast Litchfield quintet here by the score of 45 to 21. At the end erf the first tialf the score was II to 1.1 in favor of the locals, but during the final period the Ansley tosscrs displayed better tenmnork and succeeded in winning by a wide margin Stanton American Legion (Special.) The Stavton post 88 of the ooTicnn nn tn, nnrri ivnnri nor. uir ' ' 'WnTIMGTME Sports, Ontaha Daily Bee: Dear Sirs There is a romance connected with the meteoric career of Gink Fowler nf Roughtown that stirs the heart li,l;c a first trip, on the English channel. Sometimes, I think there must have been a Gink Fowler. At other times, I am not so sure. L think there was a parallel case in my home town. Wahoo, Neb. The town was named after Wahoo. the Indian fighter, who roamed the vestcrn plains at a time when no man! could call his life insurance his own. Wahoo was a renowned Indian battler. He was Grand Island Beats Hastings in Legion Basket Ball Tourney Grand Island, March 4. (Special Telegram.) In the first round of the Fifth district American Legion basket ball tournament. Grand Is land defeated Hastings here Friday afternoon by the score of 27 to 22. Hastings led the score in the first half, 12 to 9, and maintained its lead until within four minutes of the close of the game when long bas kets by Boyer and John put Hast ings out of the running. Hunt of Hastings was by far the-superior player .of his team, while John and Boyer did the heavy work for Grand Island. . . ( Drake University Team Wins Valley Cage Game Des Moines, March 4. Drake uni versity defeated Washington Uni versity 27 to 17, here Thursday night in a Missouri Valley conference basket ball game. WTTHTHE t'hiciiKO Trihune-Oniuliii Uee Leased Wire. Chicago, March 4. Boh Roper. Chicago's lending heavy weight, has resumtit mim ing ;it the Arcade gym for halt a dozen matches Manager KiMie Long is lining up for him. lioper luia been idle for a week and It is the first time in four months that he has taken a full seven days' vacation. On March 9 Roper boxes Martin Uurke 15 rounds at New Orleans; March 17. 12 round jwith Andy S-hniader at l)es Moines and on Mnrch tb. he boxes Homer Smith IS at the Plonc'er S. C. New York. Ror.r then hops back to Saginaw for a 10-round go with Chuck Wiggins April 1. Jack Terry, weltorwe.ght, lias taken tip his duties of Instructing the Carlnegle college- boxers. He will work out with them and l-nd his assistance toward get ting boxing on a solid plane in the school. Verry is scheduled, to box Jack liritton in New York, March 17. Al Doty of Canton ami Hilly Ryan of Cincinnati will battle it out for 12 rounds March 17 nt Louisville, to see who will take on Jack Britton Derby day eve in the same spot. Doty has been winning In the last months and should romp homo winner. Kid Berlin, army lightweight, will get busy tomorrow night at a suburban club and will trade blow with IMnley Martin In a 10-rounder. ADVERTISEMENT "I'm Enjoying Perfect Health For Ffrst Time in My Life," Says Iowa City Woman In Remarkable Statement Endorsing Tanlac "I can truthfully say I am enjoy ing perfect health for the first time "in all my life and I am just so happy I can't say enough in praise of Tan lac," declared Mrs. Carrie Rogers, 815 Iowa Ave., Iowa City, Iowa, re cently. "As far back as I can remember,'' she said, "I have had a weak stom ach, and I certainly have had my share of suffering. No matter how cartful I was about, my diet I would bloat up awfully and suffer from heartburn rnd palpitation. My nei'-cs were shattered and nty sleep was broken and restless, Last summer PUGS Team American Legion basket ball team iesnon tossers dv vniuc ui mtn state, claim the championship of scalped three times a week for years, but his hair grew out overnight. No Indian would kill him because he made Geronimo. Sitting Bull and Rain-in-the-Face famous. You know that an Indian's rep was judged by the number of scalps, he took. Wahoo used to hire him self out as a scalp farm. For a Dint of delirium oil, he would al low Geronimo to scalp him three times each week. He also had the facility of changing the color of his hair, so thdt the other Indians would think Geronimo was scalping the entire republican, population of Ne braska. Wahoo died from having his nails manicured too closely by a girl in the Ritz-Carlton barber shop. He couldn't stand the rough ways of the time. i Yours sincerely, JOE SMOLLEN, I Address. The Farnam on nice days. GINK FOWLER didn't have Wahoo's abi'ity to grow wool overnight. But he did have a similar liability that he vsoon turned into an asset. Through some whim of the recent administration, Gink had been cursed with the power of changing color like a chameleon on a rainbow. He was actually red when he got angry, erecn when jealous, blue on a New England Sundav ?.nd invisible when scared. He won all his fights rid-'1 nig under the last named colors. He oncte fouaht a two-handed brawler named Sheepshead McKay. Shcenshead was at rough-and tumble fighter. If you'd rough him, he would tumble. But like a pack of lions m a corner, he would fight if he couldn't find a keyhole to loop through. 'The fight took place at Roughtown,- which was a neutral spot for both fighters. Gink was born there, lived there all his lite, but he was still a stranger to the decent citizens of the town. Sheeps head didn't know anybody either. They went at it sledge, and scis sors for two rounds, with Gink changing colors like the block sys tem on the Erie. First he would be radiantly pink with victory, then he would switch to a Scotch plaid of faith, hope and charity. Jn the 11th round Sheepshead caught him with a right swing that had plenty of postage on it. The Wow carried Gink two stations past his corner and out into the nickel seats. He turned invisible because he was scared. Nobody rubbed him down between rounds because his seconds didn't know he was on the chair. The referee couldn't count him dead because he couldn't find the evidence. Gink stayed, two more rounds punching Sheepshead with wce.iee board lefts and ghostly rights. He regained confidence and started to assume a pink color. After that his seconds used to fiil the water bucket with analine dyes. Gink would step out looking like ah Easter egg. He mixed up with a bird named Battling Nogg and the Egg-Nogg fight will be remembered until Europe pays AOVERTISEM EXT AS HAD Of TROUBLE I had an operation, but it left me weaker than ever. I was unable to do the housework and actually be came so weak I couldn't even walk across the room. If just seemed that my case was hopeless, for I got worse jn spite of everything I could do. "But I kept hearing people speak about Tanlac, so I made up my mind to try it, and it has been the greatest blessing of ray life. My recovery has simply been wonderful, and I will praise Tanlac to my dying day. i certainly cio tcel tnanktul to be so well and strong and I just think Tan lac is the grandest medicine on earth.'? Tanlac is sold in Omaha, at all Sherman & McConnell Drug Com pany's stores, Harvard Pharmacy and West End Pharmacy. Also in South Omaha and Benson Phar macy, Benson; George Siert, Flor ence, Neb.; Saratoga Pharmacy, 24th and Ames. North Omaha, Neb., and the leading druggist hi each city ,md town throughout the state of Ne braska. - i SH Two Case Games Tap for Local Fans Commerce Plays Benson at Creghton; Fort Dodge Meets Central at Y. M. C. A. GAMES TONIGHT. Commerce aitalnst Ilenson High at Crclsblon. Iowa Mute nxuinst Netirnnka nt l.ln- Fort Dodge against Central at Y. C. A. Nebrmikn, Yele.vn agnlnst limine Hunting! ngnlnsr Cotner at Coiner. Omaha I iiivernlty luralnut Midland M. tit at Fremont. Oklahoma against Kannn at Normiin. KiuiHUs Aggie agulnat MlHHonrl lit Co lumbia. ... , Waxhlnicton against Grinnell at (rln- ""t'relBhton agalnit Allegheny College at Menilville. I'M. . Iowa ngalndt Turdue at lifii.vette. Mlehlgnn again"! Ohio nt Colaml.itj. Minnesota against Wiaronaln at llaili soih ' Three local high school basket ball teams will get into action tonight on Omaha floors when Commerce piay Benson at Creighton and Fort Dodge, la., clashes w:th Central at the Y. M. C. A. gymnasium. h The Omaha university quintet will invade Fremont for a contest with the Midland basketeers. The game was scheduled for the Maroons' floor last Wednesday, but the two coaches .hits una hie tn ncrree iinnn an official. so the battle was postponed until tonight at f remont. Tlio TTnSvercitv nf Vpbraska will end its basket bait season tonight when the Cornhuskers play the Iowa State tossers at the jormer s gym nasium. Creighton university's team meets the Allegheny college at Meadvillc, Pa., tonight. Norman Ross Wins j National Indoor Title i Rrrinklvn. Mass. March 4. Norman Ross of the Illinois A. C, Olympic champion and holder of several swimming records, became national indoor champion at 100 vards Thursday when he won in 58 1-5 seconds at the Brooklyn public bath. Davy Jones, Urown university freshman, who tonight wore the colors of the Illinois A. C, finished only a hand or two behind Ross. Hoo'siers Lose Game Bloomington, Ind., March. s 4. Indiana university lost its second western conference game to Purdue uiversity Thursday ight, 28 to . 20. 1 Tr A PPofa Greatest In Income Greatest in Gain HALEY FISKE, 1 T . T jumps into rame With Mitts Over Night f "4 mm v 9 Rock's' Kansas of Buffalo, whose sensational knockout victory over Ritchie Mitchell in one round has put him in line for a match with leading contenders for the light weight title Attempts are now be ing made to bring Kansas and Champion Benny Leonard together. Tf Leonard refuses to meet the Buf falo Italian it is likclv he will meet Willie Jackson. Kansas meets Mitchell in a return bout 5 Wednes day. Akron Franchise Goes To ,Li : .vark Hall Club New York, March 4 President J. C. Toole of the International Base Ball league announced here Thursday that liv a majority vote of the club owners, the Akron (O.l franchise was awarded to Newark, N. J. The purchase price was $25.0011. The Newark club will be operated by Roy Mack, a son of Connie Mack. . .' , : v .:.(. 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Olin Is One of Few Wrestlers Who Has Won Over Joe Steelier When John Olni, husky Finnish wrestler, starts his finish match with Joe Steelier, Dodge, Neb., grappler at the City Auditorium next Mohdav night, local mat followers will get an opportunity to cast their glimmers on one of the hest heavy weight wrestlers in the game today. The big Finn, who tips ' the scales around the 3(1(1 mark, is one of the few "rasslers," who have succeeded in winning a bout from the former champion. Two years ag.i a Springfield, Mass., promoter succeeded in sign ing both Olin :,ntl Steelier for a finish match. AM went well until after' the first tumble and then the Xebraskau refused to return to tin squared circle to complete the match. The referee awarded the bout to Olin, but the Finn's victory didn't seem to make much of a hit with the fans throughout the country and for the last two years Olin has been trailing Steelier in hopes of meet ing the former champ on the padded surface. 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Mitchell and Kansas Box Next Wednesday Milwaukee, Wis., March 4.- That Ritchie Mitchell and Rocky Kansas will meet in a 10-round bout here next Wednesday night was definite ly announced Thursday by Tom An drews, local fight promoter, follow ing a long-distance telephone con versation with Tex Rickard in New York, and with Dan Rogers, Kan sas' manager, in Buffalo. Harry Hooper of Red Sox In Transferred to White So Boston, Mass., March 4. Transfer of Harry Hooper, captain and cracle outfielder of the Boston Americans, to the Chicago Americans, was an nounced by Manager Hugh Duffy of the local team today. In exchange Roston will receive from the White Sox John Collins and Harry F. Lie bold, outfielders. "TTr"TTTVl I the Public of Mortality and Welfare Work Vice-Presideat 2,129,326 312,89 i ) A4 4J J