THE BEE: OMAHA. TUESDAY. MARCH 22. 1921.
IS
Up'to -
Will Decide
Champs of Bee
Cage Tournev
Both Teams Practicing Hard!
for Final Game 'Scheduled
at
uoon.
The Omaha Daily Hoe annual pub
i',.lic grade school basket ball tourna
Jment will end Friday, March;
-when Dundee and Saratoga schools
J- -lash in the final game at the Y. M.
C. A. at in the afternoon.
Captains of ..both quintets expect
2' their 'fives W win the city champ
ionship, ind the entire enrollment of
students of Dundee and Saratoga
hols will .jam the "V" to witness
.the struggle.
' . Dundee's first and second squads
are practicing every day after school
, in the school gymnasium. Manuel
Kobertson, star forward and captain
of the suburbanites cannot predict
a sure victory, ?ut Ins team will cer
tainly go into the scrap and fight un-
til, the final whistle. Dundee will
use the same lineup it used in the j
game against Lincoln, which netted ;
it an 18 to i victory over the strong
South Omaha tram.
'-..'The Ames Avenue school will;
- enter the game as favorites, as the I
guarding of Captain Ellis and Mur- I
phy' held Garfield to one lone field
goal in the last game, and Saratoga
won. 14 to 3. The Saratoga boys arc ;
hanking their hope on the hoop-
shooting of Krepla. Mason and Lllis
Robertson of Dundee expects his
forwards to break through the de-
fense of Saratoga because his team
Saratoga because his team
) has been especially proficient in
j passing and working the ball down
j the floor during the present season,
Saratoga demonstrated that good ;
guarding does not hinder its tor-i
wards, and Ellis expects to repeat his i r-p i 11711 T
DunwurSip hKl ulsa Will Have '
squad s tancy passing work.
Fans who witnessed the semi-1
finals declared that these schools !
have five's equal to most class C in- .
dependent teams in the city. At any
rate the coming games will be firs;
class exhibitions of basketball.
The probable lineups:
'. Pumlpt) Paratoen
Ttnr.rtmn (o) rf Kr'pln.
Trout If Dual
Rlrmch p Mason
T'my rg Ellis )
Thomas U Murphy
Wncntr nub miner
Foster : : , .sub
Grand Island Wins
From Gothenburg in ;
State Tournament
f Grand
Island. Neb.. March 21.
Telegram.) Hall county
1 Special
post, American Legion basket ball
team, defeated Gothenburg this af
ternoon in the first game of the
tate tournament, .14 to 16. Boyer,'
playing forward for Grand Island
tfd in the scoring with seven goials,
nr.d six free throw's. The lineup
follows- ' '.
(iranct Island
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Jensen
Kraxbergfr
, . W. Clark
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field grmli:
Grand Island
Voyer. 7: John. 1
SmJUi
4; Cozier,
Sothenburf Kxin. 2; Jensen. 2: Krax
erKr, 1: Beath. 1. Fre thrown: Grand
Island Boyer, 6. CJothenburg Kaln, 4.
In a game to determine the cham
pionship of the Third congressional
district and also to determine which
team should represent the district
ui the state tournament. Central
City post defeated Clear-Water 31
to 22. . .
Carpentier Says His
Bout With Dempsey
' Will Not Last Long
Xew- York itairch. , 2 1 (Special)
"My tout with Dempsey will not
last more thaii. eight rounds," re
marked' Georges. Carpentier- to' corre
spanderits in his. Parisian honje.
Georges is right, absolutely, say our
iistic experts. The match may not
even go as far as the third or fourth
round. Indeed, there is a sizable
chance it may end witli a blast 'in
the first. i,
Roth Carpentier and Dempsey
'strike bjows with bludgeon effect.
The first to drive home his best will
win. Just as Dempsey slew Willard
with that heart-crushintr smash at
Toledo, so either the American or'"' Vrbany,
the Frenchman may sustain the
tteath blow in the first round of their
coming battle.
Floating Golf Ball
Rejected by Experts
New York, March 21. (Special.)
Henry K, Ilsley, an authority on
golf, says that the new golf ball is
the, best that can be made.
How serious a situation in' Ameri
can golf might have been precipitated
had the delegates from the United
Statesh Golf association to the meet
ing with the committee from the
Royal and Ancient club at St. An
drews accepted the proposals of the
latter and adopted the floating ball
as the standard tor tournament play
in this country was explained by a
New York manufacturer in the
course of a conversation on the new
ball and the controversy which is
now being waged on both sides of
the Atlantic. He stated that if the
floating ball had been accepted as
th standard the proposed revolt of
the Western Golf assocition would
have been entirely successful, as the
average American golfer would not
use the floater.
Base: Ball Scandal Probe
. . Resumed by Grand Jury
Chicago; March 2t. Grand jury
investigation of the 1919 world series
. base ball scandal, started last week,
was resumed today when Assistant
.State's Attorney G. E. Gorman,
finished reading the minutes of the
5'ast grand jury investigation of the
'Matter.
Date News and
Played in Semi:Finals of Cage Tourney
gaqfielo"
DUNDEE ' SAPATOQA
First Row, Dundee-
Russell Daty,
, f d Emanue, Kobertson. right
, , ,-,-,
forward and captain; Carl keinsch,
torwaru ana captain; can Ke.nsc.i,
center; Grenville I nomas, right
'guard and John Trout, left forward.
j Second Row, Saratoga Paul Ellus,
left guard; Carl Krepla
right for-
Strong Ball Club
Oilers Need Catcher, Out
fielder and First Sacker Be
fore Season Starts.
.Tulsa, Okl., March 21. (Special.) ;
When Manager Jimmy Burke
called the first day's training here !
last Monday, of the Tulsa Western i
league club candidates, lie had a club, I
which, with the strengthening of ;
three or lour positions wnl be a
v i lati 1 1 iiiruaui tt wiiiinviLi 4 111. mini
tion of one catcher and ot a first
basemau and outfielder, with the de
velopment of a winning pitching staff
must be made before the Oilers can
be figured strong enough to repeat
their pennant victory of last season.
Seven veterans of last season, in
cluding ; Manager-Outfielder Burke,
form the nucleus of this year's club.
They are; Pitchers Adams. Jelsnu
and Wcher. Catcher Querry; intielcl
en Wuffli, Outfielders Burke and
Davis. r
Adams and Weber, both big right
hander, are figured as practical rer
tainties for, the pitching staff. Each
was a winner last season, Adams in
( articular, while Weber is considered
a splendid prospect. Jclsma
showed well in the "few games in
which 'he worked. Holtzhauser has
been an Oiler for two seasons, though
he hurjed for the Okmulgee West
ern association club in the 1920 cam
paign. He is believed ripe now for
class A ball and Durke will five him
every opportunity to show. Haugh
land and Kerr, the latter a brother
of Dick Kerr, White Sox star, are
two of the best of the new pros
pects. Gardner, who warmed the
Oiler bench last fall, may also come
through. Little is known of the
other liurlers,
Ray Querry caught (rood hall Inst year
and was especially dangerous at bat. He.
reported in 1520 to the Oilers suffering
from malaria and unable to cet into con
dition, was sent to thn Okmulgee club.
He was recalled in mid-season.
Add a clasay first baseman and th
Oiler Infield will b" second to none in
the league. Johnny Wuffli at second
Lose: Is one of the best In the league at
that position. Frank Thompson, recently
purchased trom the St. Louis Brown and
a member in 1919 of the .loplin Western
league club, has few equals and no su
periors, as a hot corner guardian- in the
minors. McCilnnis, a star last fc.-asnn wlih
the Little Hock, Southern association
ciub. comes to tha Oilers ia the ft. Louiu
Browns.
Managerial worries should not handicap
the hrllllnnt Burke's, work in the outfield,
at hat or on baaes and the veteran Yank
lavfs should have one or two good sea
scr.s of Western league base ball before
ho retires to the farm. Yank is slow
on the paths and in the field, hut there
ure te" better :nrieui-rs ttian the "pride,
rind fewer more daneerous
men1 at the bat than h-1 is. K
Irwin, a highly touted outft'-lder who
piled up an imposing buttlnc average
last summer and Bennett, purchased by
the Oilers from the Kprinsrfieid club of
! the w extern assoc. ation and prohahiy the
) eiessiest outfielder in that circuit and
they had several should be of sufficient
clas to merit a1 berth as the third out
fielder Pitchers Karl Adams. Toledo, o., rlcht
hand; Albert Holtzhauser, .Mokune, Mo.,
right hand: Ruddy Weber, fovert. Mi-It,
right hand; Andy Jelsma. Juthri' okl.,
right hand: O. C. Haughlnmi. Tacoma,
Wash., right hand; 1. Crmlner. Granite
City, 111 , right hand: A. Harris. t'olumbK.
Miss., left hand; F. Carroll. Cleveland.
a. right hand: Geortre Adair, StillweM,
right hand: Kay I. Isle. St. Joseph.
Mo., left hand; A. Kerr, ilaris, Tex., ils'ht
hand. .
Catchers Rav Querrv. Penison. Tex.: C
W. Hinckle. Salt Lake City. rt. ; E. Par
nell. Williamston, Kan.; Walter Froma,
Kansas City. Mo.
Infielders Louis Uraun, Lebanon. 111.,
first base; Johnny Wuffli, Cleveland. O.,
second base: - Frank Thompson. Joplin.
Mo., third base; Ceorge McCinnls. Little
Hock. Ark., shortstop; Olson. Savon
burg. Mo., shortstop; X. Taught, Hurk
burnett. Tex., shortstop; O. Peppe, St.
Loula, Mo., shortstop.
Outfielders Jimmy B'ti-ke, Tulsa: Ya-.tlc
Mavis. Neosho. Mo.: L. '.ivln. Manango. X.
P.: H. Hennoit. Springfield. Mo.; Kdwartt
Plvis, Cleveland, O.; Red Lawrence, Enid,
Okl.
Important Boxing
Bouts This Week
Chicago Trlbune-Omaba Re LenM-tJ H ire.
Tuesday Night At Xew York
Tom Gibbons against Faul Sampson
. Wednesday Night At New York
Harvey Bright against Frank
Enule (IS).
Thursday. Night At New York
Pete Herman against Willie Adams
(10).
Saturday Niglit At New York
Fhil Franchina against Frankie Ge
naro (12), Jack Reeves aeainst
Tchnny Smith (12). Irish l'addy
'Flynn against Phil Bloom (15).
ward; Frank Eitner, center; James
' Mason,' right guard;
, , , , .
left forward; 1 aul
Elmer Murphy,
. . '
lett torwarci; i am ueuei, ten ror-
ward.- Third Row, Lincoln Sam
Servia. right guard; Bennie Montello,
left forward; Raymond Klaffke,
center; George Nussrallah, captain
' 1H I TT T
irake Horse Kace
Betting Exchange
Outfit Captured
Complete Check in Havana
Fails to Find Branch Office
of Organization in '
Cuba.
Havana, . March 21. Reports' of
the discovery of a complete wire
tapping outfit at Daytona, Fla., yes-
torday morning and the confiscation
of pool room paraphernalia, includ
ing a blackboard, showing the
name, "International Turf Exchang?,
branches in America. Canada i-.nd
Cuba," aroused great interest in this
city-.
An investigation here, however,
has developed that there is no branch
in this city of what is known as ihc
"International Turf Exchange." Sev
eral "wire tapping" schemes have
been carried out in. this city during
the past, it is . stated-by the police,
and several confiding1 persons have
been victimized for sums reported up
into the thousands. -
Race news from this city is dissim
ulated to points in the United States
in such a manner, it is declared, that
there is no opportunity for genuine
wire 'tapping. . A combination tele
graph and telephone circuit is used
to transmit results direct from the
track to the local office of a cable
company, whence ib is transmitted
over a submarine 'fable direct to
Xew York for distribution.
Exhibitioh'iGames
Loa Angeles, Cal., March 20.
R. IT. E.
Chicatro Nationals 3 0
Los Angeles, Pacific. Coast league 3 7 1
Batteries: Alexander. Cheevesi and
O'Farrell; Lyons, Thomas, and Stanage.
Pomona, Cal., March 20.
R. H. E.
Chicago Vatlonal (second, team) 7 11 1
Seattle, Pacific Coast league ...15 15 0
Batteries: York, Freeman, Weaver and
Oomes; Sehoor, Swart. Francis and
Spencer; Tobln.
Orange, Tex., March JO.
T5. TT. E.
Philadelphia Nationals 4 11 1
St. Iouis Americans 5 8 3
Batteries: Moore, Perry and Perkins;
Walker. Riviere and (.'lemons, Dllhoefer.
Hot Springs, Ark.. March 10.
R. H. t.
Boston Americans 2 9 2
Pittsburgh Nationals 15 2
Batteries: Jones, Bush, Meltslta and
Ruel; tjlazner. Yellowhorse. Harrison and
Wilson, Iltggins.
San Antonio, Tex.. March 20.
R. 11. E.
Detroit Americans 20 20 0
San Antonio. Texas league 0 3 4
Batteries: Leonard. Khmke. Stewart
and Manlon; Baldridge, SSlmmatore, Coch
ran and White.
Bogalusa, La,, March 2u.
R.
...7
St
Louis Americans
New Orleans, Southern league 2
Batteries: Coulbert. Higglns, Goldsmith
and Smith, Deberry ; Shocker and Sever
eld. Oklahoma City, Oil!.. March 20
R. H. K.
Oklahoma City. Western league ...2 ." o
Minneapolis. American Association 1 12 1
Bati'vies: Kamsey. Harle and Longe;
Parker, Schaucr. Luschen and Shestak.
Fort Worth. Tex.. March 20.
R. TT E.
Cincinnati Nationals 7 14' 1
Chlcapo Americans 4 12 5
Batteries: Fisher, Brenton and Wlugo;
Kerr, Hodge and Schalk, Lees.
Houston, Tex., March 20.
P.. H. K.
Petro'.t Americans 4 4 1
Houston. Texas league 0 8 tS
Batteries: Dauss. Cole. Hol.lngs and
Bks1t. Woodall; Hsrefoot, Nichols and
Griffith.
Beaumonth, Tex., March 20.
Boston Nationals 3 10
t..
Beaumont. Texas league 7 0
Batteries: Oeschfrer. Scott and O'Neill,
Gibsoji; Bailey, Meine and Kelly.
Pallas, Tex., March 20.
R. H. B.
Cleveland Americans ..3 4 0
New Tork Nationals 2 1
Batteries: Coveleskle. Bagby, Oden
wahl and O'Neill. Nunamaker; Uj an, Nehf,
Barns and E. Smith. Snyder.
New Orleans, La., March 20.
R. IT. E.
New Tork Americans H 10 It
Brooklyn Nationals ,.,...... 11 1
Batteries: Mays. Pierce .and Schang,
Hoffman; I'fcffer. PhUlips and Krutgcr.
Pr. Emanue! Lasker and Jose R, Car
Manca will rest tonight, preparatory to r
smnlng tomorrow night the third game,
of their world championship chess tourna
ment at Havana, which was adjourned
at tho !d move this morning. Experts
who analysed th positions of the pi'-ces
n the board this morning after th" two
eiasl-r players had sdloured. declared
their belief that the came would result
In a draw as did the -first two games of
the tournanieent, ,
' .... vv .a"-, -.
G.
ossip
I and right forward and Paul Gibilid-
l0. r,Sht guard, lop Kow, liartieia
Bvron Bernard, right guard; Thco-
.- AnthonVi Mt Kuard; Fred
Wakefield, right forward; Irvin
Dvorak, center and captain; Harvey
Bank, left guard and James Tomsa-
; sck, left forward.
Ask Congress to
Aid Young America
Seventy Per Cent of Those
Who Use Sporting Goods
, Under 18 Years of Age.
. i
Members of the incoming congress
wiU be asked to right the wrong
inadvertently done to "Young Amer
ica'' when the 65th Congress im
posed a 10 per cent tax on athletic
equipment. This tax is manifestly
unfair to the thousands of boys and
girls of the United States who are
deprived of their play because of the
extra tax which is levied against
sporting goods by a congress intent
on taxing professional athletics.
If the lawntakers had taxed
those they had in mind every
thing would be fine, but they
did not. They hit the youth of
America, the boy and girl, the
future nation builders; This tax
on sporting equipment has prac
tically eliminated the younger
folks from sports of all kinds.
Seventy per cent of the sport
ing goods sold in the United
States goes to boys and girls
under the age of 18 years.
This drastic tax greatly retards the
sports from progressing that were
found indispensable in upbuilding
our fighting forces, both from the
standpoint of morale and physical
development. Millions of dollars
was spent by the Government be
fore and during, the war to provide
the necessary athletic equipment for
the soldiers, sailors and marines, and
we were told by those who followed
the war closely that athletic sports
proved a great factor in the winning
of the war.
If this is a fact, why shouldn't
athletic sports be encouraged
today instead of being penalized.
The leaders of tomorrow are the
players of today. "Young Amer
ica" is the hope of this coun
try. Tlie younger generation
should be given a chance to play
and this they find impossible
with the 10 per cent war tax,
on the articles they need for
physical recreation.
The Press of the United States en
lightened the last congress about the
tax. Thousands of editorials vere
published about the unjust measure,
petitions signed by more than 300.
000 boys and girts were presented to
congress, and while many of the in
dividual members expressed the wish
that something should be done
nothing' was done. The boys and
girls want something done and they
arc going to ask the congress now
about to convene to do something,
'Strangler" Lewis
To MeetCaddock
Des Moines, March 21. Ed
(Strangler) Lewis, world's heavy-'
weight wrestling champion and Earl
Caddock of Walnut, la., former
heavyweight champion have been
matched to meet here. on the night
of April 12. the match to go two
falls out of three, according to Oscar
Thorson, local promoter.
Sport Brevities
Some of the hest hand hall plavers of
the country are among the M contestants
for the A. A. V. title, play for which
began ot the Detroit Athletic club today.
Kntrics represent clubs in St. Batil, Du
luth. I.os Angeles. Cleveland, Milwaukee,
Chicago, N'ew Yort and Detroit.
Carl Tremalne of Cleveland and Young
Montreal of Providence, R. I meet to
night at Toledo in a 12-round, no decision
boxing bout. They are to weigh 118
pounds nt 2 o'clock.
Alfred Ooullet, six -dar bike rider who
conducted 'outluw" races st New York
and in Chicago, has been placed in gnnd
standing by the Cycle Racing association,
It was announced today.
The New Tork American league team,
which won all five of its exhibition game
on a week's tour through Ixulslaua, re
turned today to the Shreveport training
camp,
Edouard Tloremans, the Belgian billiard
champion, arrived Jn New York today from
the west to bruin his 4,f'0-poliit balk line
match with Jake Schnef-r, who defeated
him In their last meeting.
The Scottish professional soccer team
will play four games In the I'nlted Stales
during Its forthcoming tour. th Dominion
football associations secretary announced
today. The dates of. the team's Ameri
can appearance are ,1uly fi. 9.- 13 snd
10. Opponents were not named.
of Interest to
Wizard at Picking Winners Says
New York Giauts Will Win Race
"Walking Johnnie" Thompson, Famous Oracle of
Texas, Makes His Annual Prediction Yanks or
Cleveland Will Win American League Pennant.
International Nervier.
Orange, Tex., March 21. The
New York Giants will win the
1921 pennant in the National
league and the New York Yank-,
ees or the Cleveland Indians in
the American league.
Such is the prediction an
nounced today by "Walking John
nie" Thompson, Texas base ball'
oracle, maker of freak wagers and
said by Connie Mack to be the
greatest wizard the game has ever
known.
By KENT WATSON.
International News Merilce Stuff
f'orrespnudrnt.
Orange, Tex., March 21. A cot
fin, a tombstone, two sets of false
teeth, an assortment of crutches and
walking canes, shoes, sox and hats,
several dozen corn-cob pipes, inanv
humidors of smoking tobacco all
won from his townsmen constitute
a portion of the property of "Walk
ng Johnnie" Tfionipson, 84-year-olJ
base half oracre.
"Walking Johnnie-' Thompson,
professional base ball gambler, by an.
uncanny knowledge of base ball, has
during the past eight years preyed
upon the "bad judgment" of his au
ditors, now humbled into admitting
that Thompson knows base ball bet
ter than any other living man.
As a tribute to his knowledge of
the game and the ability of major
ieagtie teams, certain Orange citizens
have relinquished all claim to the
houseboat in which Thompson lives
a rambling shack moored to the
banks of the Sabine river in the rear
of a livery stable, where "Walking
Johnnie" details his views to local
citizens. Citizens who during the
past eight years have pitted their
judgment against that of Thompson
also have deeded to the oracle 10
acres of land, tax free insofar as the
present holder is concerned, until the
former owners have passed out.
Meal Ticket for Life.
The fi res in "Walking Johnnie's"
cookstove long since have been ex
tinguished. He is honor guest with
a lifetime meal ticket at a local
restaurant. And even in the winter
he eats a plate of iere cream every
day having won such a confection
for each day during the remainder
of his lifetime from a local confec
tioner. v"
The tombstone numbered: among
his possessions was won from, a lo
cal undertaker who disbelieved
Thompson when the oracle an
ncf.inced ?nd backed his judgment
that the Boston f5 raves would win
a world's championship from the
Philadelphia Athletics. The same
undertaker didn't believe, the season
following, that the Boston Ameri
cans would win the championship
flag from the Philadelphia Nation
als. .Subsequently he signed an
agreement to embalm and bury
"Walking 'Johnnie" without cost.
Wins Cemetery Lot.
In 1916, when the Boston Ameri
cans won the right to play, off the
series with the Brooklyn Nationals,
"Walking Johnnie," figuring that his
days on earth were numbered, de
cided to win a plot in the local
cemetery. A groceryman believed
that the Brooklyn team would win.
After the series he deeded to Thomp
son a plot where the marvel will be
buried,
Feebleness of the veteran dope
ster, who admits that he has never
witnessed a major league base ball
game, requires a 'couple of walking"
canes, crutches at times. Druggists
and furniture dealers have lost a
supply of both these articles to the
silver-haired wizard. ' . ,
Inspired, Says Mack.
Connie Mack admits that Johnnie
Thompson is "an inspired follower
of base ball." There is a something
about the old man, he says, that gives
him the power to work a jinx on
teams, playing thousands of miles
away, against whom he has placed
freak wagers. Thompson removed
the hoodoo from Athletic players'.
Mack has declared, when they
triumphed over the New York
Giants in 191.1
"He's the world's greatest uiascot,"
declared .viae recently, wiiue neie tu
pilot his team in a prc-scason game
against Branch Rickey's St. Louis
Cardinals. , "His knowledge of the
game is uncanny. Hfs power to rc
vicY the merits of base ball organiza
tiqns seems inspired. . While many
Orange citizens are prone to scoff at
what he says, my knowledge1 cjf base
ball although his predictions snmtr
times are1 not as I would like them
to be cornpels me to pay grave ho
mage "to his apparent wizardry."
Ask base ball's most ardent student
who had the highest batting average
for the American league in 1919 and
Johnnie Thompson will tell you,
without referring to any sort of a
record book, that Murphy, of Chica
go, had the -highest average, .489.
having played in onlv 30 games. And
he'll tell you Ty Cobb 'batted .384 in
1919. Ask Johnnie Thompson who
was. the best fielding shortstop in the
American league in 1919 and he'll
tell you quickly that Scott ot Chica
go, was, first, with a percentage ot
.976. ,
Ask him anything about base ball
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as far back as the game dates and
he'll answer correctly, for his mem
ory, by actual repeated tests, is as
long as the life of the game as un
erring as any official record book
that you may choose to refer n.
Johnnie Thouvpson keeps no sort of
documentary records. He remembers,
he lives, dreams and thrives on base
ball. He knows little else.
"Walking Johnnie"' assumed his
queer noin de plume because for a
long period of years after the intro
duction of automotive power the
queer old wizard of fandom declined
to ride in a motor. He preferred to
walk.
He declines to talk of his life prior
to the beginning of the civil war, of
which he is a veteran. Johnnie
Thompson discarded a drum in the
battle of Gettysburg, he declares, md
.-.houklcrcd a musket. A weather
worn discharge records the fact that
he came out of that historic battle
with an honorable rrcord and two
wounds. He served through the
civil war with the olst New York
I Volunteers.
Here in his home town, where lie
i has resided for 25 years, the tt-.nc
has come when Thompson's momen
tary riclies are somewhat depleted.
' Abovcboard respect for base ball
, makes it almost impossible for the
'aged veteran to win money from his"
I wagerings.
"If I can get the chief of police to
pit his base ball judgment against
mine at the end of this season," says
Thompson, "I'll soon be wearing a
badge."
New York Golfer Wins
Annual Blethering Contest
Del -Monte, Cal., March 21.
George A. Harris of New York City,,
won the third annual Blethering goli
contest here Sunday, eliminating nine
others in competition over nine
holes. At the finish, Harris dis
proved the charge that he had'
stuffed his ears with cotton to with
stand the noise.
A1 I.HTIMEMKNT
MRS, M. MANATT
GAINS 15 POUNDS
TAKING TANLAC
Iowa Woman Says the Master
Medicine Has Overcome
Her Troubles Feels
Just Fine.
"I've gained fifteen pounds in
ivcighl by taking Tanlac and am now
feeling just as well as I ever did in
my life,", said Mrs. Mary Manatt,
705 North Fourth St. Marshalltown,
la., recently.
"I've alwavs enjoyed good health.
I but a short while before I began tlk-
ing Tanlac I was feeling all out of
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food did not digest properly, Tor
after eating I suffered from gas on
stomach and a distressed feeling for
hours. I couldn't sleep only in cats
naps, and mornings I got up feeling
tired and with a bad taste in my
mouth.
'"Well. I was getting worse every
day, and I decided I was going to
get riiiht down in bed if I didn't get
something to help me. Hearing so
much about -Tanlac. I started taking
it. and nqw I'm . feeling fine once
more. I have a perfectly, splendid
appetite and everything' I eat agrees
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has made me feel well and strong
agein, and I'm glad to praise it to
others."
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Xew York, March 21. Tonight
will' be Ireland's night in Mad
isan Square Garden. Every true
son of the Isle is bound to flock
to the famous old structure, where
Tex Ri;kard ha arranged a great
boxing tournament, the proceeds of
which will- go to the Irish relief
fund, for the alleviation of suffering
in the revolt-ridden country.
The principal ?ttraction will be
a 15-round bout between Willie Jack
son, the thumping kid from the
Bronx, and Rocky Kansas, a broad
shouldered boxer from Buffalo, who
recently knocked out Richie Mit
chell of Milwaukee, in one round.
Neither of these two boxers is Irish,
but their sympathies are with the
cause and both will fight all the
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pionship aspirations and so has Jack
son. It ought to be omt scrap.
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Dear Folks
have never publicly) sponsored an athletic
event in Omaha, although I have promoted a num
ber of them.
But this time I desire to call the attention oj
m) friends to nhat I believe will be the greatest mat
"contest that has been held in the country in year.
The match for light heavyweight honors which
will take place at the Omaha Auditorium Wednes
day evening, March 23. Pat McCill, the Wisner
wizard and Joe Stangle of Carroll, la., the con
testants. f Right here 1 wish to say that I know positively
that this contest is going to be for supremcty.
I will stand behind my statement that 1 be
lieve it will furnish the wrestling fans of Omaha and
' the surrounding country thrills that have never been
surpassed on the wrestling mat.
In this declaration 1 am backed by the leading
sporting men of the middle-west. Men such as Cent
Melady of Qmaha.
Not because I am promoter of this contest do
I send this message to the public inHhis form, but
because I want my friends to. know that I believe
that McCill and Stangle are going to put a real
whirlwind tangle across.
And dont overlook the fact that in addition
to the big feature, Cus KalUo and Jack McGill
are matched for a preliminary. With the interests
of the lovers of clean sport at heart, I call attention
to this card at the
Municipal Auditorium,
Wednesday Eve. , Mch. 23
Your friend,
ERNIE HOLMES.
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Boston, March JI. Johnny Wil
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tured a bone in his left hand in hi
bout with O'Dowd at New York
Thursday night and as a result hi-,
match with Jack Britlon. scheduled
for March J8, will be postponed.
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