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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (April 28, 1922)
THE rEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY. APRIL 28, 1022. low Much Do You Know About Baseball? OOO' ' The Omaha Bee and the advertisers; lifted below are Interested In knowing just how much the average baseball fan actually inowa about the rulei of the game. Each advertisement on this page con tains a abort description of some of the "freak" playa that so often happen. For the most correct list of answers to these questions The Omaha Bee will give $13 In cash, $10 for the second lest Hot and ?3 for the third best. All answers must be addressed to the Baseball Contest Editor and must be filed with him before 5 p. m. Saturday, April 29th. 1 Aa an example of the little work necessary the answer to the first question is, "Tho out should not bo allowed. The runner is permitted to score because of Interference," , Get busy, Baseball Fans, and win this easy money. Remember the Western League Season opens in Omaha Friday, the 28th. All answers must be in The Bee office or bear a postmark of not later than 6 p. m., Saturday, April 29. Correct answers will appear in tho Sunday, April 30th issue of The Bee. The winners names will be printed in the Wednesday, May 3d, i?suo of The Bee. Grt your answ ers in. Neatness will bo considered. 3 Can a foul ball be an infield fly? WIRE US FOR BOXERS OR BALL PLAYERS TT& TTtl 11 rase Bau Headquarters Direct Wires on .All Sporting Events J A. 9832 CIGARS CANDY BILL1E FOX 411 So. 15th St. TICKETS FOR ALL SPORTING EVENTS 4 la a batter out who tries to bunt and misses on the third strike? -tef Omaha vs. Oklahoma City ' '. ....; j Opening Game Friday, April 28 Omaha' Battery: Okrie and Wilder. ' Western League Park Fifteenth and Vinton 8 A runner on base is hit by infield fly. Are two men out? but a fellow with a good appetite has no right to stay away from The Fontenelle Restaurants mm 5 Batted ball bounds from pitcher's bands and touches clothing of field umpire. What is ruling? . The Woodmen of the World Baseball Team Won Cham pionship Honors Last Year They will do their best to win again this year. The W. O. W. organization is backing their loam 100 per cent. The W. O. W. is a life insurance so ciety, organized in Omaha June, 1890 now thirty-two -years old. Has paid through Omaha banks to policy holders' beneficiaries on. huadr.4 pity million doll.ri cleared through Omaha banks during 1921 over thirty.fi. million, .ven hundred and twenty thousand dollar. The W. O. W. maintains full reserves against every policy iiuued. Our reserve funds are invented in American municipal bonds only. Our surplus over our reserves is in excess of eight million dollars and wo refunded to our policy holders last year two million, two bundr.d and fifty thousand dollars. Tho W. O. W. employs over four hundred and fifty people In their Omaha office. We spend a lot of money advertising and building Omaha. The W. O. W. is as strong as any life Insurance company in the United SUts. The W. O. W. ought to have tho undivided support of every citizen in Nebraska who is loyal to his State. KEEP NEBRASKA MONEY IN NEBRASKA. 1 The W. O. W. will guarantee to furnish your wife and children with baseball tickets for the balance of their lives even if you are not able to take them to tho park on account of your employment in another world, cither picking the strings on a golden harp or trying to keep the fires burning by the use of Sheridan Coal Company coal. COME SEE VS. ' We are comfortably located in our own two million dollar properties, Fourteenth and Farnam, or telephone DO uglas 4570 and ask the, beautiful young telephone operator with the musical voice to connect you with the office of W. A. Fraser, Treeident, or John T. Yates, secretary, who will tell you all you want or ought to know. Watch The Bee for the baseball schedule and attend all games where the W. O. W. Team plays. 10 What is a foul tip? 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What is the decision? . - G'inraoini it'? a Over And Watch Our Scoreboard Baseball Returns By Direct Full Leased Wire The Headquarters for Sportsmen Prize Fight Tickets and Returns of All Sporting Events .ft SPORTSMAN DO uglas 5030 318 So. 15 th St 11 Can pitcher pitch to batter when out of position. Phone AT Untie 6713 Open from 1 to 9T. M. LEARN TO BOX at the Business; Men's Gymnasium 1506 HARNEY STREET H IT Top-Notch Boxers in Training Every Afternoon, 2 to 4 P. M. GENE GANNON Boxing Instructor CHAS. D. SCHNELL, Mgr. 12 What constitutes a balk? While You Are at the Game, Have Your Wife Attend the and see i EDNA WALLACE HOPPER In Person Women, Be Young ! SEE HER NEW $50,000 FACE Listen to the; Most Talked of Woman in the World EDNA WALLACE HOPPER has recently submitted to the cutting and the making over of her features, from which she emerged as wonderfully youthful as a girl of 19. ' ' - ' - She explains through word description and motion pic tures, which were taken at the time of the operation, exactly and minutely the feat which astonished the entire Medical World. ,v . She will appear at RIALTO THEATER at every performance, beginning ; 'Sunday, April 30, in conjunction with "BOUGHT AND PAID : FOR" 6 Ball batted outside third baso is touched by third baseman, who has a foot on tho bag. Is it fair or foul? I V t Baseball Stars Know the Necessity ot Having Good Teeth Nothing: in tho human body rf fleets its condition more thsn the human tooth. Decayed, unkept teeth have almost immediate effect on the "thinking" ability of an individual. The keen, sharp, brainy man, whether he be on the baseball dia mond or in the business office, is the man who is free from teeth trouble. Ask any of the Western League stars what their opinions are about well-kept teeth. If you are having trouble, we invite you to come in, bve a thor ough examination and we will tell you exactly what you need and what tho cost will be. This service is free and without any obligation upon your part. You Above All Must Be Satisfied McKenney Dentists TEETH y 1324 Farnam Street, Corner Nth and Farnam Phone JAckson 2872 7 Player fails to touch first bas in running out a home run. Is he sent back to first or is he out? W ) NesMt Furnaces SIMPLIFIED GRATES t LARGE DOORS 3-GALLON HUMIDIFIER ' ' ' ': The Kind You've Always Wanted Thousands installed in Omaha. Sold from the Mississippi Valley to the Coast. . Built to burn your particular kind of fuel economi cally. Ask YOUR DEALER. StandardFurnace Supply Co. Omaha .- Manufacturers Sioux City' 1 Suppose the runner is blocked from the plate by the catcher and the -pitcher takes the throw in and touches him out. Isheout? Orpheum Garden Gymnasium 1415 Harney Street Health by Exercise Boxing and Training Bouts by Lead ing Boxers Every Afternoon at 2:30 Don't forget the weekly card vf training bouts staged one night each week Watch for the dates. First Show Friday Eve., April 28 JOIN THE BOXING CLUB BUD LOGAN, Boxing Instructor Monthly Membership, $1.10 ... "v.