THE BEE: OMAHA. SUNDAY. JANUARY 8. 1922.
Piais . for . Harness
Season to
de Tikis
2-C - -
Racks
la
Week
Grand Circuit
- Meeting l)tfes
" ' to Bii Afesfcned
North RanJ.H ' Traik After
Openin'gDntc 4Kf nil- '
worth May Come Into
s Circuit.; 1 , ,
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Cleveland, O., Jan. 7. The harness
liore racing season for 1922 will be
laid here next Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday, when stewards and rep
resentatives of the Grand and Lake
Krie circuit hold tlirjc .annua meet
ings and assign dafev upon which
other 'harness racing dates through'
out the country are based. .
The Grand Circuit f meeting will
onen Monday and continue Tuesday.
The flrhprliilrt Ami rulrs .rnmtnittf!
will inert Monday afternoon with the
, annual dinner to he licld ui the eve
. nmg'. J ucsday program,- '
mapped out hy Secretary Win II
Rinnan, calls for an open meeting in
the morning, to which all horse
men are invited and an executiv
mcctinsr of the stewards in the aft
crnoon at whfrh action will be taken
on rules and schedules. '
The Lake Erie official, controlling
the half-mile tracks, w.ll meet on
Wednesday. ' " - - - ' '
' Important Questions Up." '
One of the prmc'inal iiuestioh
facing the Grand Circuit stewards i
whether dates will he. assigned to the
iw ii n wui iii iiav.n ah i, iimnui, vui
across the river from Detroit. Presl
dent Samuel McBride of that track
' has signified his intention of apply
in for. membership with a view to
. holding a meeting during the two
weeks preceding the North Randall
meeting.
Under the Canadian law- it is pos
sible ofify to race throe days, a week,
and in order for a six-day meet to
be held at the kcnilworfh' track' it is
necessary to race in two. different
weeks
' ... Want Opening Date. "
However, the management of the
North' Randall track here is reticent
about" relinquishing the opening of
the Grand Circuit.'- They ndint to
the fact that they took the opening
dates several y;ars ago when no
other, track wanted them and since
then has built up its open meeting
second to none in iJie-eJjcuit, ; , . 1
If Lexington'clecideif r to -substitute
a ix-uay meeimg iur xnc wu wccm
gathering it has held or many years,
as has been reported.this must also
come before 'the stewards, such ac
tioa .by Lexington, would leave s
week open between the Lexington
and Atlanta meetings.
The addition of Kcnilworth would
give the Grand Circuit i tracks.
Present members are North Ran
dall, Toledo, Columbus, Kalamazoo,
Lexington, Atlanta, Philadelphia.
Poughkeepsie, Syracuse, Hartford
and Readvillc.
Kenilworth had been a member
until a few years ago. If dates are
received; the. $1CU00 Merchants and
Manufacturers' stake. 'one 'of ttie' out
standing features of the circuit until
racing was abandoned, at Kcnil
worth, will be reviewed, it was an
nounced by President MfBride.
Old Indian Game
Popular in East
Lacrosse Coming V Front in
T Anna nnrl R Ml nrl a f fhl.
leges Have Teams.
New York, Jan. 7. With" basket
-ball risen to the height of public
favor and soccer coming to- the fore
in tremendous leans and bounds, an
other game lacrosse possessing the
same principle or theory ot play,
now seeks recognition as one of the
leading sports of this country. That
the game has progressed extensively
in the last two years. -fannot be., de
nied. It has soread-so far and -met
with such a universal-appeal here, in
fact, as to exceed even the fondest
expectations of sponsors of the game.
The game has. been popular in
Canada since itsf inception over SO
years ago. Graduallyrit spread to
and over the northern boundary line
of the United States; until now every
important college' -in the east and
west have strong teams; to say noth
ing of a large ninber pf smaller' in
stitutions of learning. Even the high
schools have taken kindly to the an
cient Indian game, a great many
leagues having sprung up during the
past few years.
Officials of the United States In
tercollegiate Lacrosse -rleague see the
greatest boom the game" has ever
had in a- letter -, recently . received
from the secretary of athletics aV
Cambridge university .England,-- in
which he states that a mixed team
of Cambridge and Oxford college la
crosse stars are desirous of arranging
a tour of this country and Canada in
1922. It is almdst a certainty' that
the American organization will . iiw
vite the English athletes to this coun
will cost at least $20.000. - ;
Sutherland Coached ;
Lafayette's Undefeated .
1CCUII IUUIUUI iicip
Jock Sutherland did all the coach
ing of the unbeaten Lafayette college
foot ball team at Easton, Pa., except
for one assistant, Roscoe Gougler of
the 1919 Pittsburgh team, who helps
out with the line. . "Gougler does the
scouting, aided by a. couple of pro
fessors here." laughed Sutherland.
"Some day I hone to build, tip a .vet
eran scouting staff."
Though he beat 'Pittsburgh. 6 to 0,
Sutherland afterward returned to the
Smoky city university to lecture in
the dental- school after the football
season. He is a graduate of Pitt and
one of the most famous gridiron play
ers of that school... .
The big Scotchman has one of the
best elevens in the country, accord
ing to unanimous opinion in the east
Two of his greatest star are Dutch
Schwab; guard, and Gazella, back.
Two Nebraska Boys Star in Navy Bdckfield
Two Nebraska bovUcu Kochlrr Cruie, who is 22 years old. played years, lie graduated in
of Geneva and .Kdgar "Hauler" on the Hebron High school football entered Annapolis- the
I'ruUe pf Jlcbion were mighty ton and bakct ball teams for three year, .
in the ,Kir barlcM 4 during the
it-eason, Both bave bad three
jcars on the gridiron under Middy
colors and have woo letters each
year. '
KpeJiIer. a ion of B. Koehler of
tlfe ; U.' Koelilrr Grain company of
Geneva, played halfback, and Crui.e,
who was born and reared at Hebron,
performed as fullback.
Woth Ncbrakan entered the
academy in July, 1918, and the fol
lowing year won berths on the Navy
eleven.. During the lat three years
they , have performed regularly and
won letters each jear., lloth.have
participated in the last three annual
Army-Navy clashes.
' Koehler-was bom and reared In
Geneva. j. and graduated ."from the
Geneva High school In 1917. Jit
attended Nebraska university in
1917 and 1918 and made the llu'kcr
freshman team his first year. '
.
1917 and
following
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No Ball Season' ,
Too Dull for
Baker Trade
Report Says J. Franklin Wil
Go to Senators in Ex
; change for Stanley
Harris.
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Lepnard-Rickard Feud Continues
Champion Says He .Will
Never Scrap in Tex's
Playhouse Again;
By FRANK G. JMENKE. .
(Co'pyrfslif.1 j2l," W klhff Features, Sfyndl-
. , raw, inc.; . -.
Everyone around Gotham parts
seems all steamed up over the quizz:
"What s the . . real
reason for , the war
between Tex: Rfckard
and Benny ' Leon
ard?" -
W aipHc, JS The lightweight
'rrJ champion . has 4c-
ciareu . mat never
again will he fight
under the promotion
of Rickard. He has
doled out no full ex
planation for his at
titude". But this is
the reason or, rath
er, the bulk of'"' rea
son's as breathed
forth by a man who is as close to
Leonard as one is to his own B. V.
D.'s:
"Rickard gave Leonar.ci $35,000 for
one fight in the Garden last year
and $40,000 for another. Then he
began squawking, saying that Leon
ard yas-,:;ovcrpaid and that be
wouldn't "be a sucker tosjpay Leon-
Benny vJeonud,
ard any such money again. Leon
ard's answer was that inasmuch as
he had drawn $134,000 for one of
the fights and $98,000 for another,
that he figured he was entitled to
the purses he got. That retort didn't
raakq ' Rickard;. feel any too kindly
toward "Leonard and a feeling of
bitterness , started.-...
i "A little while later . two very
prominent Jewish men in Nfcw YorK,
who knew Leonard and were very
fond of him, said that Rickard had
gone to them and was knocking,
Leonard because of his avarice. They
toldBenny that Rickard said a lot
of imkind rthings about him all of
which got ' Benny a bit sorer at
Rickard.. ' ','-."
"Just about this time Bcnn, who
had studied the judging system that
prevails in the rings around New
York, declared that a champion
was something of a sap if he risked
his title in the ring with such a
set of incompetents serving as
judges. He said he would venture
his title ' against any man in the
world, but not with such judges at
work as had operated in Madison
Square garden.
"A short time later Rickard
offered Leonard a fight with Rocky
Kansas. But Leonard wouldn't
take itin New York state. Leon
ard, however, agreed to fight. Kan
sas in New Jersey under t another
promoter than Rickard. V ;
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Intersectional
Tilts for South
Southerns College Elevens to
; Figure in Several Big
: Clashes. . T ...
New York, Jan. 7. The south will
figure extensively in intersectional
football next fall. Centre is to meet
Harvard again and Georgia will .in
vade Chicago. .: Tech will meet Notre
Dame and the, Navy, while! the Uni
versity of the South tackles Penn
sylvania, Virginia also will come
r.orth, and the A. P. I. from Auburn,
Ala.,-jwill' launch 'an offensive against
West Point ;
AH in all, th's will be one of th;
most . notewortny nortn-south a'l
tiim'ns on record and in each instance
Dixie will be represented by first
Class machines.
The south, lacking the heavy en
rollment, of. the north , and nearly
always playing away from home, h,
up against heavy odds, but each
year its teams are. developing greater
speed and strength. When one re
members also that Stptember and
October in the south have few
frosty, bracing afternoons for phy
and practice and handicap grows
greater.
Co-Eds Turn to Fiction
After Strain of Exams
f South Hadley, Mass., Jan. 7. Re
action from midyear examination
sends the college girl to light fic
tion. So says Miss Bertha E. Blak
ley, librarian at Mount Holyoke col
lege, in a review of college girls'
reading tastes made public tonight.
Springtime is another period for
pleasure reading. The librarian says,
however, that since the war there
has been a tendency to more serious
books.
Penn May Send ;
Team to England
"'-
Coach Anxious to Pit His
Trade Men Against Oxford
and Cambridge.
Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 7. Every
thing points to Lawson Robertson's
taking a four-$iile relay team to Eng
land next spring to race Oxford and
Cambridge of the first .relay carnival
ever held in that country. Robert
son has not made any definite de
cision as to' the composition of the
team. as he is not obliged, to, do. so
until just before sailing. 1 - -
As the result of this, the track
men-at "Pen n, who have, reason to
believe that they can reach out to the
mile distance, are planning to try
for the team.
Robertson's leaninsr toward the
four-mile is due to the presence of
Larry Brown on his team, who will
run anchor. While Larry could be
used on most any relay, it is felt
by his coaeh that he would bt at
a better advantage over the longer
route. Robertson has several run
ners whom he hopes to develop into
first-class milers before sailing.
Lawson has handled many fine
distance men during his career as a
coach and though he has not so
stated, it is believed he regards
Brown as the 'best miler he has ever
had- under his tutelage.
"When Rickard heard about it he
was mighty mad and he told Billy
Gibson, manager of Leonard, that
Leonard never would fight in New
Jersey t hat he
would stop it.
R i c kard wanted
to bet $10,000
r l g h f"then and
there with Gibson
that Leonard nev
er vfi u 1 d" fight
Kansas in jetsey.
Then, according
to -Gibson, this
same Rickard did
go to Jersey and
try to knock
Leonard- there - to
an extent , where
the fight would be
railed off. But the TEX bickard., .
effort failed and Leonard fought
Kansas in New Jersey.
"On top of that the boxing com
mission got into effect a rule . that
the main bout 'fighters were not to
get guarantees any morethat they
have to fight for 50 per cent of the
receipts. It is the feehne "of many.
including Gibson and Leonard, that
Rickard had a lot to do with the
Creation of that rul so v, to protect
nimseit against giving big purses,
tnus making his own prohts bigger.
"Gibson and Leonard, upon learn
ing to what extremes Rickard had
gone to block the fight in New Jer
sey and to what extremes he went
to harm Leonard, otherwise, deter
mined that. Leonard never again
would fighf under the promotion of
Rickard. And that's the real story."
--Rickard, explaining the situation,
says:
"The real reason seems to be that
I insist upon Leonard fighting at 135
pounds within Madison Square garden."
By SID MERCER.
OVrlttra far lh Inleraatlonm! w
Hrrvlra.)
New York, Jan. 7. The sluggish
ness of the baseball rumor ex
change is reflected in the fact that it
now becomes necessary to trade
Frank Baker again to provide ma
tcrial for headlines. It may have
started on Broadway or in Washing
ton, but anyhow a story came drift
ing to trade llaker and Mike Mc-
lally to the Washington club tor
Stanley. Harris, place that young
man at second base and move Aaron
Ward back to third.
All that remains for the deal to
become official ia for Miller Huggins
to propose it, Clark Griffith to sec
ond it and Baker to consent to it. J.
Franklin only last spring declared
himself in no unmistakable terms
against stepping out of a champion
ship entourage- to become one of
the sights of the national capital.
It would seem that the Yankees,
with their formidable array of pitch
ers and sluggers, need no further
strengthening, yet Huggins is not
ready to stand pat on his infielJ,
Scott and Ward are fixtures, but the
latter's position is uncertain. Baker
is always an uncertain prospect, al
though he has not yet announced his
annual retirement. Pipp is not any
too secure in his position, but it is
not likely that Huggins would dis
pose of him without procuring a
first-class man in his place.
Ruth to Play With Yanks
' in Exhibition Games
New York,- Jan. 7.-Judge Landfs
has tempered! justice.' with mercy in
ruling that Babe Ruth can play with
the Yankees during, their spring
training tour. Babe will be a bigger
drawing card in the smaller cities
when - surrounded . by a competent
supporting cast than he was during
his barnstorming tour. His presence
will add. greatly to the amounts fil
tering into the Yankee coffers
through southern ticket windows.
College Student May Be
- Eastern League Umpire
.' Charles. (Pep) Fasce of Pittsfield,
.Mass., a student at Syracuse univer
sity, will applv. for a position" as um
pire in the Eastern league. Fasce
who formerly played in all branches
of sport at Pittsfield High, has um
pired various school and independent
baU games'and his work always has
been satisfactory. He has been rec
ommended to "the league. "' . I
Record Year for Baseball;
Cirjcuits, Big and Small; Landis
Irons Out Kinks in Sports
JOHN J. Mi-GRAW.
This Is the day for every good
baseball magnate to do a little re
trospectitig and turn over a new leaf.
And there is much
in the .record cf
the last 1- months
to predicate hope
for the future of
the nation's great
est amusement en
terprise. While profes
s 1 o n a 1 baseball
languished in Chi
cago lust season,
for the very good
reason that both
major leagues
were represented
there by second
division team s,
Muuwer N. Y. OianU without . CVCn a
flutter cf ncnttant hopes, the sport
prospered m other cities, financially
and artistically, not only in the big
circuits but also in the larger minor
leagues, and even in the smaller cir
cuits which were conducted on J
sane basis.
Landis Reign Efficient.
The first year of the reign of Kcnc
saw Mountain Landis as supreme
commissioner of baseball proved the
wisdom of the men who elected linn
to preside over the destiny of the
game and to iron out its wrinkles.
Comparatively few disputes have
come to the attention of the com
missioner, for the good reason that
no club owner m any league cared
to carry a case into the. supreme
court unless he had clean hands,
The comparatively few decisions
the high commissioner was obliged
to make, were accepted without any
of the' former vociferous protesta
tions by the losers under previous
government of the business of the
game.
Three Cities Get Thrills.
The pennant races in the two ma.
jor leagues were exciting to the in
habitants of three cities. New York,
Cleveland and Pittsburgh, but com
paratively tame in the other ' eight
bailiwicks included in the big cir
cuits, although the wo St. Louis
teams gave the Mound City fans
the greatest year they have enjoyed
since the establishment of the, pres
ent dual league organization.
Pittsburgh and New York hogged
all the glory in the National league,
after the contestants got straighten
ed away in the early weeks of the
race, the f irates set the pace lor
more than two-thirds of Ihe way,
and looked to.be sure winners un
til the bank roll behind the Giants
obtained new strength from the
Phillies just before the home stretch
was reached, and with that assist
ance enabled McGraw's team to
climb into the front seat on Septem
ber 11 and stay there" to the wire.
Bad Breaks Hamper Indians.
Cleveland and New, York had a
hot race all the way in the Amer
ican league, and it was not decided
until the day before the schedule
tan out. The Indians were the
pacemakers for the batter part of the
firnt half of the season mid fought
gamely in the face of serious handi
caps right up to the finish, They
were without the services of Tris
Speaker for quite a spell and were
deprived of Steve O'Neill, star
catcher, for a long time.
Nearly every one of the big cogs
in Speaker's world pennant machine
suffered injuries at one-time or an
other, and these handicaps com
pelled them to surrender to the
sliigKing rew of the Yankees, head
ed by Bambino Ruth, who hung up
a 'new world's record for home
runs, beating his own total of 54
by an additional five. . ' I
What Ruth meant to'tlie Yankees
was demonstrated in the world's se
ries, when the Yankees, after galnr
ing a commanding lead -' on the
Giants, were beaten out at the fin
ish. After the Tarzan of the dia
mond was injured, McGraw's men
won five out of eight games thoush
they had lost 'the first two in the
scries.
Boot Ball Speediest
Game, Says Stagg
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Foot ball is speedier than any other
sport, says Alonzo Stagg, coach of
the University of
Chicago foot ba'l
team and direc
tor of athletics at
that - institution
He declares that
under the right
kind of coachi'ig
a man can- be
made specdicf in
foot ball than he
can in any othci
branch of team
athletics;
Stagg says.
"Foot, ball is. a
glorious game, It
calls ; for the
highest in cour- "0LD man" stagq
age and sacrifice, " tewe"0 Coach.
for the good of the school and to
win. It is a vigorous game and in
a certain sense it is the glory of foot
ball that men will play the game in
spite of injuries that quite often do
come." . .
Ail
Billiard Game Changes
Little in Last Century
Duriug the last hundred years,
ever since the substitution of the cue
for the mace, the game of billiards
has been played much in the same
way as it is today, the chief altera
tions being made in respect to the:
size of the balls and table.. , , , : ' , :
Nebraska Mat
Teani May Have
Tough Schedule
Dr. Clapp Angling fojr Vrcst
. ling Matclirs With Chicago,
Minnesota and West
Virginia .Teams.
Lincoln, Jan. I 7. (Special.)
Wrestling at Nebraska will brgin t
grow into sonid hape and form
within a week, according to Dr, R.
G. Clapp, instnictcW in the mat spot
hi the university. The tryouts for
the team will be liefVl this week and.
posibly a week lat lr, a trial iiiatcT
will be held with slme nearby club.
, The university hn already cincheil
three meets for the season.. These
arc w ith Iowa, Ames) and Northwest
ern. An attempt Ii.m been made to
get meets with botfi Chicago and
Minnesota. Ihe Llnc.Xgo team, it is
;fearcd. will not be for mee'
with teams1 from a distance. How
ever, Dr. Clapp hold hVh hopes of
tangling with the MinncXita team.
Two other teams have Itkd w"
mcctH with the university gappler.
The University of West XVgini.i
tram will he in this section BV urn
country (hiring the first half of
ruarv. The athletic director
wired asking Dr. Clapp if the V
Virginians could extend their trip io
Ames in' February, so. as to include
Nebraska in - the trip. This woul I
necessitate that Nebraska meet the
West Virginians on cither February
8 or 14. Oklahoma has asked for a
meet also.
Dr. Clapp has not decided what
steps he will take, but is waiting for
a reply from Minnesota before goir
ahead and scheduling meets with
teams outside of the Western Inter-,
collegiate Frestling ', and Fencing
association. It is necessary, in this
association, that any team claiming
the championship of the Western
Intercollegiate, participate in at least
four meets with members of. the
association. With but three Western
Intercollegiate teams scheduled Dr.
Clapp is very anxious ;to get cither
Minnesota or some other team iii this
association, . .
Hard Rowing Schedule
Arranged for Cornell Crew
New York, Jan. 7. Cornell will
take on . this year -a rather difficult
lowing schedule, one that calls for
the most exacting type of dual races
before the . eight .is tuned up for
Foughkeepsie, .. or , whatever course
will be chosen. for the intercollegiate
tegatta.t This will be the second year
ot the John Hoyle regime, a system
that brought home two winners am!
a very game varsity third last season.
Manager Puffy of the Red Sox declares
that his team the eomlntr season will ba
Htronger than last year, but. most of tho
Boston fans . reside In Missouri' when it
romea to the Increased Btrensth of tha
Sox. ' . - .-.
Insurance of Every Ticket
For SO - cents extra insurance
against rain was available to be sold
on all tickets purchased for the "big
game" between Stanford university
and the University of California at
Palo Alta. This is the first time, it
is thought, that spectators were en
abled to .buy insurance against the
weather.
New York Pro Gives
Secret for Making
Hole in X)ne Stroke
Rugby Football Fading
in Coast High Schools
American football has been re
turned to favor in the high schools
of the San Francisco Athletic league
after several years of Rugby football.
Up to this year only Rugby was play,
ed in the league.- Recently the board
of . education decided to permit
American football and immediately
eight schools organized elevens.
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EW YORK. Jan. 7. Golfers
who have been favored in th
matter of making holesan one
frbot have often been asked by less
fortunate ones, "How do you do it?
In most cases the player gives credit
to the goddess of chance. But Tony
Natala, professional at the Lani-
downe Country club claims he ha
the receipe for making a hole in one
stroke. He was playing in a four
some recently at Philmont, and they
came to the fourth hole, something
like 190 yards.
.Tve got just the right club for a
hole in one, Tony," said one of the
players, laughing. "Make your shot
with my club."
"Sure I will,' said Tony, hitting
the ball, which rolled right into the
cup.
"That's nothing at all, nothing, 1
assure you." said Tony. "Whenever
anybody offers to lend you a strange
club with which to play a short hole
tike him up. The last time some
body did that to ir.e I made a one 1
Jut the ninth hole at Marion." j
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Prices, $1, $2, $3
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vs.
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Referee
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