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y ' 14 THE PEE: OMAHA. . WEDNESDAY. A1T.II 12. 192 Major League Baseball Season Opens Today in Four Eastern Cities Elaborate Ceremonies Will Usher in Another Pennant Chase for National and American Clubs New York, April 11. Major league baseball will make its 1922 debut in four eastern cities tomorrow afternoon provided the weather man has been properly placated in advance. In the National league the New York Giants will enter tain the Brooklyn Superbas at the Polo grounds in this city and Hoston w ill appear against the Philadelphia team on the latter's field. American league combinations which will assist in the opening are the Philadelphia Athletics and Boston Red Sox, who meet in Boston, and the New York Yankees and Wash ington Senators, who meet in the Capital city. In til four cities, elaborate cert - - nioniM have born plannrd to mark the beginning of another lung pen nant chae. and while there i little likelihood of departure from the traditional flag-bedecked suikU, Laoii roncrrt, parades of rival team ami he official throwing out of hall, the fans have shown undoubted desire to witness in person these prelim inaries and the subsequent diamond battles. Expect -Large Attendances. From all the centers of tomorrow baseball activity come iniilar talcs of unusual and urgent demand for tickets, and it is likely that, given fair weather, the opening games of the season will set new attendance records. The case of the New York Giants is an example of the interest heing shown in these initial contests. For several days past, it' has been impossible to purchase a reserved neat or box in the huge baseball amphitheater at the I'olo grounds, notwithstanding its seating capacity of more than 35.000. Hundreds of prospective coupon buyers have been turned away empty, handed within the past 24 hours and it is certain that there will be a rush for unre served seats as soon as the gates of the rrk are flung back early to morrow morning. So far as the eastern opening games are concerned, the teams ao pcar, fairly well matched in the Na tional league. Brooklyn had the edge over the Giants in last year's series, winning 12 out of 22 games played. Against the Yankees in the spring exhibition contests, the Sit pcrbas won 8 out of 14 played in the south and on the home diamond. Boston had decidedly the better or the Thillies durinar the 121 season, but Manager Wilhelm has injected new material into the Quaker team combination and should offer strong er opposition than was the case last vear. ' Ruth Out of Lineup. While the "New York Americans will be without the services of "Babe" Ruth and Bob Meusil. they should have a slight edge over Wash ington, especially as Walter John son is not likely to be on the mound in the initial contest. The Yankees took about two-thirds of the 1921 ganfes from Washington. " Boston and Philadelphia, had a nip and tuck series last season and while the Red Sox aopear stronger than the Athletics, Connie Mack's com bination may jump into a lead at the expense , of the Bostonians in the initial clash. it ' n 1 t... nanson inrows 10m Draak in 58 Minutes Nashville,' Tenn.. April 11. (Spe cial.) Charley Hanson defeated Tom Draak here last night in 58 min utes. Xne Nebraskan used a ham mertoe which injured Draak so that he could not return for the second fall. Hanson, impressed local fans as being a much improved grappler since he was last here and stayed three hours with the then Champion Zbysko. Hanson almost pinned Draak in 25 minutes with a half Nel son and a leg and arm lock. hankie S hoell Beats Jack Perry Buffalo, N. Y., April ll.-(Special Tclegram.)-Frankie Schoell, Buf falo's contender for the . welter weight championship, won the judge's decision over Jack Terry; Pittsburgh, here last night. Schoell gave Perry a boxing lesson and won practically every one of 15 rounds. Perry was" in distress several times but held on and- though badly beat en was abe to stay the limit. Billy Miske Wins , y Over Billy Shade Youngstown, O., April 11. Billy Miske, St. Paul, won a technical knockout over Billy Shade of Cali fornia in t the second round of a. scheduled 12-round bout here to night. They are, heavyweights. Zibby Throws Petroff. Port -Arthur, Tex., April -.'11.-Stanislaus Zbyszko, former heavy weight wrestling champion, defeated Joe Petroff here last night. Zbyszko wrenched PetrofTs leg with a toe hold that won the first fall in one hour and 27 minutes and the latter was unable to start the second fall. Commissioner Landis , to Root for Teams in Cellar This Year Chicago, April 11. Kencsaw M. Landis,-baseball commissioner, is go ingto root for the teams in the cel lar this season, he said tonight in a statement in which he also declared that all indications were encouraging for 1922 in both majors and minors. The statement follows. "No "One 'can tell in April what the the situation will be in August, but all indications are encouraging for 1922 in both majors and minors. Generally ... speaking, team morale is good and -what I am hoping is for you to see -the' fellows at the bottom pull up and shorten ' the distance be tween them and the top. "Therefore, I am rooting for the team in the cellar, whoever it may turn out to be. And, for all teams and all plaj-ers everywhere, my wish is that they may have JQfpcr cent of the break-" - Benny Leonard ' to Defend Title Lightweight Champ to Meet Either Dundee, White or Kansas, July 4. New York. April 11. Benny Leonard, world's lightweight boxing champion, will de fend his title at Michigan City, Ind., on July 4, Dilly Gib-, son, his manager, in no ii need last light. His opponent be either John iy Dundee, Charley White o r Rocky Kansas. Gibson declared that he had signed articles for such a bout with Floyd ritzsnnmons, pro- P(luly a moter, who will build a special arena capable of scat ing 25,0'X) persons for the event. a WW Ring Champs Are Born, Not MadeKearns Can 't Take Credit for Dempsey By FRANK G. MENKE. topjrlnht, 1922. Champions arc born not made. If you're skeptical, gaze in the general direction of one Jack Kcarns. For more than a decade he has been frivoling around with ring war riors. kcepinK ever before him the vision of a champion. Through 10 years Kearns hoped but in vain. pect after another, taught the puggcr all he knew, schooled him as best lie could but no champion or near champion resulted. At last came Jack Dempsey. Kearns is credited with having made Dempsey the fighter that he is. It's been said that he picked him up, a raw novice, tutored tutored and tutored some more and then, presto Dempsey first became a sen sation and then a champion. All of which made Kearns stand out as a great manager as a miracle worker in the handling of fighters. But beyond Dempsey, this manager has developed no one. But, whether Dempsey was a two-fisted bird before Kearns got him,. or fought with just one hand, is more Wants More Champs. After Kearns had managed Demp scy to the heights of the knuckle bruisers' world, he wasn't satisfied with just one champion. He aspired to be the boss of other divisional kings. And his leisure moments since then have 'been directed along those lines. . Everywhere he's wandered, he has looked around for 'comers." He has combed the big towns and the bushes. He has gone hundreds of miles out of his way to look at fight ers who were touted to him as won ders. Here and there he has picked up a few men who looked to him like certainties in the matter of belt winning. And yet every last one ot them have flivvered and sadly, as far as championship greatness is con cerned. Marty Farrell, a lightweight, was regarded by Kearns as a certain middleweight champion.- Marty got a few fights and showed up in fear ful manner. Then came Joe Ben jamin, hutrahed by Kearns as the one man in all the world who could whip Benny Leonard. He was giv en several tryotits against ordinary gladiators and showed up fairly well. Then he was put to the real test against Johnny Dundee and was niftily beaten. Five Fliwered. Kearns scooted out to the coast and picked up a youth named Hy mie Gold, known as Oakland Jimmy Duffy. He carted him east and in formed the "whole world that at last he had a lightweight wonder. He gave to Gold all the knowledge that he could;' tutored, trained and con ditioned him. Gold, in three fights since then, suffered two knockouts and has gone back to the old home town. .,, This same Kearns picked up Babe Golfers Debate Cause of Men's Superiority in Driving Power Chicago, April 11. The tremend ous driving ability of Miss Glenna Collett of Providence on the golf links as compared to the average woman golfer has started a discus- ! sion among golf experts as to why women cannot drive as tar as men. The forum also mulled the reason why the best female golfer could not score as low as the male champions. Some of the rumujators held that the difference was anatomical, others that it was muscular, while still oth ers declared the whole difference was mental. The anator.:sts contended that such long drivers as Miss Collett who can hit the ball 230 yards or more, as compared to 330 by Jesse Guilford, national amateur champion; Miss Marion Hollin, national woman title holder, and Miss Alexa Sterling, former champion, were just as strong muscularly as Harrison Johnston of St. Paul, who can average 300 yards, or Robert Gardner of Chicago, who outdrove Guilford in the finals last summer of the championship. Tne difference, they maintained, lay in the bone and joint structure. They cited authorities to the effect that a Omaha Opens Western League Today Pulls Wicked Trigger at Traps Pete Simpson, member of 1 the Omaha Gun club, ha earned the nickname of "Eagle Eye" Pete be cause of his ability to shatter the clay "birds" as they "flutter" from the traps. Simpson recently broke 44 out of 50 targets. Actrtuti to Replace City Officials in Diamond Ceremonies Oakland. Cal., April 11. City of ficials will give way to actrcs-.es when the 1922 Pacific Coast baseball league season is opened here today with the Oakland team playing San Francisco. Mayor John L. Davie, who ha hurled the lirt ball for several years, will step out of the box today and hand the ball to Nana Bryant, lead ing lady at a local theater. Miss Bryant will pitch to Marie Walcamp, former movie star. On the bases will be members of a vaudeville com pany. ' t Princeton Plays Ciants. New York, April 11. Princeton university's baseball team came to the polo grounds today to meet the Giants in the last game of the pre season activities of the big league champions. Yesterday's game be tween the Giants and Fordhaii was a farce. The professionals scored almost at will, the final score being 23 to 2 in their favor. He grabbed one likely looking pros or less an incident of this recital Herman, a bantam, and predicted that the kid would become a cham pion. He praised him to all the heavens. Yet, Herman, aided by all the knowledge that Kcarns can Im part, trained under the same system as -Dempsey, has been, beaten in quite a few of his starts against even the' second rate bantams in the cast. "Jim Dare y," said Kearns, dis discussing a middleweight which he picked up, "is a greater at this time in his career than Dempsey was at the same time in his career." ! ' Fighters Are Born. . How funny it sounds in the light of the present-day events I Dempsey knocked folks dead with one or two punches from the day that he don ned a boxing glove; Darcy, onjhe other hand, hasn't a sock, is what you might call uncouth in ring man ners and has nothing to recommend him except ability to take punish ment and willingness to slug. If Kcarns made Dempsey, why hasn't he been able to make another champion in five enthusiastic starts with lien who were not culls, as was Dempsey, but men ' who were presumed Mo be the greatest near champions in their respective divi sions? Isn't the answer simply this; You can't make a fistic champion; he has to be born that way and gt-ided by destiny through the years. Chuck Wiggins ' Wins Over Block Columbus. O., April II. Chuck Wiggings, Indianapolis middle weight, won a technical knockout over, Ted Block of Detroit, here to night in the-fifth round of a sched uled 10-round bo'ut. The referee stopped the fight to 'save Block from further punishment. woman's sternum and shoulder joints are so constructed as to prevent free dom and strength combinded, so Im portant to a lusty wallop with a brassie. They quoted again that the pelvis was similarly incapable of the strong pivoting, or body twist, that helps propel the ball, and added that the wirin;ss was not so great in the female ankle for the foot rock or the wrist snap. They also pointed to the straight hips of such experts as James Barnes, national open champion;- Jock Hutchison, British open champion, and Willie Hunter. British amateur title holder, and others, as proof that the straight lines of a man were more fitted for long driving than the modulated structure of women. ' j ' The psychologists based their ar-; guments more on the scores of the two sexes, as long driving does not necessarily spell victory in golf. They held that women with ages of uxorious life behind he-, had never acquired the leonine courage instilled in man as the protector of the home, and that without this courageous de termination to play boldlv and firmly under difficulties, woman could not equal man's par on a golf course. a v? 7 M fj &,iv Simpson ft Ban Johnson Will Attend Opening Game at Washington Chicago, April 11. B. B. John son, president of the American league, left here today for Wash ington, where he will attend the opening game of the season be tween the Washington Senators and the New York Yankees. Large Entry List Taris. April 11. Que thousand men and women tennis players have entered for the liastcr champion ship here. This' is the largest entry list on record in France. Among the more prominent entries arc An dre Gobert, Max Dccugis and M. Barotra for France; Eric Tcgncr for Denmark, and Signor De Morpurgo for Italy. Babe" Ruth, Sultan of Swat, Will Sit in Grandstand Today When Yanks and Senators Open Season By the Aonoclateit rrena. New York, April 11. Tomorrow George Herman-Ruth becomes a "sadder and a wiser man." The home ' run king cannot play for 38 days because he defied Kene saw Mountain Landis, high commis sioner of baseball, and went barn storming in exhibition baseball. - While hundreds of thousands ot fans in the cicht American leacue cities are marking- one day off their calendars tomorrow me misDcnaving "Babe," notwithstanding long, gruel ling training in the south, will be seated in the grandstand of the park at Washington, looking on, listen ing to the blare of the opening day ."sadder and 'wiser.'' Ruth to Loaf. For 38 days Ruth will loaf whils the public , impatiently stamps its wearied feet and Colonels ' Houston and Ruppert, owners of the' New York Yankees, pay. the heavy hitter his -regular stipend, reliably report ed to be $75,000 a year. . Babe went through all the calis thenics of training, including baseball practice, country hotels and slow trains, with his teammates, came to New York with them . and will be on hand when they open in the Only.10iV.pre Days of My losing MM BUY EASTER. HATS AND FURNISHINGS RIGHT NOW All Silk Shirts. ............... .$4.50 AU other Shirts $2.00 All fine Silk Neckwear. . . . . .$1.00 Knit Neckwear .... $1.00 and $1.45 All Silk Athletic Union Suits. . . .$5.00 All Mocha and Cape Gloves $2.95 Any Hat in the house, felt or straw, in two lots , $2.45 and $4.45 Fixtures for Sale 1417 Farnam St. New Champs Set Record Score of 2,979 P. Melchior and Son Place Second Double and Single Scheduled Today. Th Mamllnfa. Vanta Mna) TaUl Sur. Oil I'. Mrl. hntr ho .1.WJ l.orln I hmilale Itwlln kid t I nll.l hlalr N.IIoh.I Hank l.MI llu.n totila, l.lnrnlH .1.M llmuha Nalluiuil Itonk ..!.' I nltvraal Amio Top INiublra. W. OlMin.K. KmI V. Mlan-H'. lUrrua M. Hall -I'. Winn I.MS l. lark-ll. MHr I. II I'. llruH-H, AmtnukM', l.lnraln 1,111 V Tomr-4i. MrU. rhuilr I. MM V. hnranrlrr-X. Miramlrr. Llm-ola. ,l.oS II. Iluaa-C. Hnnlna I I" J I. Hammoncl-K. MMilauin. l'rmol..l.ni: H. MiMtlimaii-tV. Ilalr I.MIt W. IVpprr-K. rpiwr. imnl Uland. .I.o.ia . K- Vt hl.lnati.l, llaallnia 1 .01.1 V. Anlhonr-ll. ftinllh fn ('. "rnrh-A. ( hrllim, Llnrola. . . . I.n'i A. KnvJtj-A. Ilofman I,0U Mlnfif. W. Barron. Omaha , ? f. Klmadfnar. Wahoo V. arr, Lincoln , HI V. Vrpttrr. lirand lland.... SIM II. Krall. Orand Inland AX 4. Honlnn, Omaha ADS II. Mrt'ojr. Lincoln MS II. lna-. rnnd I. land AM Ht lKur. Lincoln A1S 4. Shfrdrndan, Lincoln bit II. Ilnrc . . .'. A",t . Fletcher SHU K. ralc Aha A. .Icnn AAS (.. .Miner. IJnriiln A- W. Ilanka. Lincoln..... &.'. ). Maurrr ASM l. Clark M H. Rice ,, MS H. Norfuard is THE team events of the seventh annual Nebraska state bowling tournament closed ,at the : Omaha alleys Monday night with the I Xoursc Oils capturing first prize 1 with a total of 2,979 sticks. The Oils rolled their high score Saturday j evening. I When the Nourse Oil continncnt of maple-pushers bowled their high game total Saturday night they not only won the championship of Corn busker land, but established a new Nebraska bowling association record. Last season the Bowen Furniture team copped the championship with a 2,755 score. The Furniture Dust ers' score was a new association record until Saturday night, when the Nourse Oils took the alleys. The Beselin Kids rolled their" way into fourth place in the standings with a 2,683 total. It was the high est game total of the evening. capital. But" other than bting "on hand" he will be of little assistance. During the period of his "jugging" Ruth will be nlissed by Washington, Boston and New York fans, particu larly by the Congressmen, as the Y'anks make two trips to the capital before Ruth's "time is up." It will be May 27 before the official family can see Kuth in Washington. - i Dons Uniform May 20. Ruth will don a. Yankee uniform May 20, at his Polo Grounds home, and be permitted to stay on the play ing field to his heart's content, and if he is in condition, Huggins will stick him into the batting order for his 1922 debut. It may be that he will not be in condition. , "That's, what is worrying me," Manager Huggins said today. , Ruth is universally acknowledged to be the greatest figure in 'baseball today. He is paid the highest salary of any athlete in the history of com petition, is the most powerful magnet at the turnstiles and, judging by the photographs of him that deck the streets, flash across the movie screen and .appear regularly in the sporting pages, he is the mosfpop ular. . . . Today's Games Western League. Omaha at Oklahoma City. De Monies at M. Jotcpli. Sioux City at TiiIm. 'Denver at Wichita. National League. Botton at I'lnl.'Jrli-liu. Brooklyn at New Yotk. riitsbnrgh at St. Louis. Chicago at Cincinnati. American League. St. Louis at Cliicaco. Detroit at Cleveland. New York at Washington, l'hiladclphia at Uontou. American Association. Milwaukee at Coluinhu. Rna City at Toledo. Minncapoli at Louioville. St. I'aul at Tndianapolii. Dempsey Leaves to "Clean Up" Europe New York. April II. Jack Demp sey, world's heavyweight champion, left today on the Aquitania to "clean up Europe." Jack said he would fight anyone who appeared willing, but that every thing was indefinite because neither he nor his manager, Jack Kcarns, had any offers for fights on foreign soil, Dempsey will tour England. France and Germany. lie may meet Bom bardier Welts or Joe Beckett in London, and it is possible he may climb into the ring with Georges Carpcnticr somewhere in France. But if he meets anyone, he said, it will be only after a challenge, and after he has had proper training. Even the length of his European trip is problematical, he said, lie may stay' six, months or a year and there is a chance he will stay longer. Ineligible Maroon Pilot : Won't Return to School Salt Lake City, April 11. Milton Romney, captain-elect of the 1922 football squad at the University of Chicago, announced last night that he will not return to that institution this fall. Romney was recently ruled ineligible because of his many scholastic credits. Patterson and Anderson Will Compete in Tourney Melbourne, Australia, April 11. (By A. P.) Gerald Patterson and j. O. Anderson, Australian tennis stars, are definitely available for competition in the Davis cup matches next September, it was announced today. The Australian team will meet the Belgian players in the first round of the preliminary matches. Griffin Defeats Californian. Phoenix, Ariz., April 11. Dick Griffin of Fort Worth, bantamweight, defeated Ad Rubidoux of Riverside, Cal., by a technical knockout in a 10 rouhd bout here last night. The referee stopped the bout just before the final gong to save the Pacific coast fighter from further punish ment. "Fragrant as a Flower" w -rr ra si.afl Msswm?sm - i r ' V Vr IVV' X 4 Five beautiful fl ,1 X AfVVir sires select the on N i tnVl XSfc K1I thsuuitsyoube: I ) ft vl- tLu m W m I Hi M c.sww VXNtCS4l II i. at Oklahoma City Denver Only New Addition to "Pa" Tearney's Circuit of Clubs for 1922 Championship Scramble By RALPH WAGNER. -Va" Tratnev't Wr'trru league ef hatrball i lull will eraik 0cti the .'-'iid annual pennant tce this if irrnuoii whrn the four northern cities tf the circuit pry off the lid in tour otitlirru citir. The Onulu continizrtit of Western i leaguers, wearing the lUmry Buret) (Uiiiicla. open at Oklahoma City. I he fame team rUhed in the open er Ul raoH, the Indians vinmnn Ironi the local. With the exception of one city, the towns will he represented in the Yrttcrit tbi. eon lat. In ti'ud of lopliit competing thi ra mii will he Denver. . ' Welcome Denver. Western league iiiosuN welcome the return of the "Mile High" citv to the fold. The firt championship pennant of the Western league was won by Denver in IWO, the first ccaion of the circuit. Onulu has been a member of the league every year oince its organiza tion. The local entrv won the cham pionthip in 1904. 17 and 1916. Last season the Buffaloes finished second. Wichita nosing the local club out of the championship after one of the most interesting pennant races ever staged in the Western circuit. Barney Burch and "Mike" Finn, chief moguls of the Omaha team, have signed up what looks to be an other hard-hitting and good fielding club for the 1922 season. The outfield with Lee. Griffin, veterans, and Fred Manush, holding down the places, appears to be the equal of any in the league as far as hitting and fielding are. concerned. Snedecor at First. At first base is Peter Snedecor, a hard-hitting and good fielding play er. Pete takes Jack Lclivrlt's place', the latter is manager of Tulsa. , Second base will be taken care of by "Whitcy" Gislason, a veteran. fee and Wilcox have been playing short during the spring training grind. Grantham is slated to hold down the third sack this season. lie is a good hitter and fielder, according to reports received from the south. For the backstop job, Manager Burch has "Cy" Linglc, veteran, and Fred Wilder of the Eastern league. The latter is said to be a hard-hitting catcher; one of the "Babe" Ruth variety. The pitching department has on its roster Harry Baumgartner and Frank Okrie, who were with the team last season, and Coffindaffer, Stokes, "Mutt" Wilson and Drug mand. , Omaha and Oklahoma City open the season in this city, Friday, April 28. Tendler Disqualified in Seventh Round New York, April 11. Lew Tend ler, Philadelphia lightweight, - was disqualified for fouling in the seventh round of his match last night with Charley Pitts of Australia. 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"We have dropped the smallest town in the loop, Jopliu," the West ern's chief executive said, "and in its place have added a t"n Liner than any of the other. Denver will add strength of the league and ! ready the owners of other clubs hae made preparation to keep pace with -the. 'mile high' city. "Denver always was a good bc- ' lll town and will put forth a res -, contender in the league this sraon. The other owners know this and all are working hard to build up clubs that will he the equal of the western club. I look for a most successful year in every respect." Tcarney and his staff of eight um pires met at the hotel today and ( went over tne rules, the arniters agreeing to interpret the code in the same manner, and Retting their final instructions from learney. The umpires were assigned as fol lows: McGloom and Brown in Okla homa City, Ormsby and Holmes at Tulsa, Douohtic and Anderson in Wichita, Burnsidc and Fitzpatrick in St. Joseph. Following the meeting the umpires left for the towns to which they were assigned and Tearney left for Wichita, where he will witness the opening game between the lsabelites and Denver. He will go to Okla homa City tomorrow and will wit ness the Sioux City-Tulsa game in Tulsa - Friday, after which - he- will return to Chicago. Greylock -A SMALL ARROW Collar FOR YOUNG MEN . ClurHPrabaJy &Co.fK.1royiT co. ' Bbtim.mr i 'i J '"