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Omaha daily bee., 1903-03-22
HIGH SCHOOL STARS CONTEST
Glasses Prepare for AnpuaI COmpeti-
ton and for Closing Basket
Rail emeH

The classes Of the high school are busy
preparing themselves for the contest that
they are to have next Friday evening al
Germsnia hall. In connection with the
class contests which are multifold in form
there will be a basket ball contest between
the nrst team OF the high school and that
~ Sioux City High school.
More interest centers around his game
than the other contests. rs Il is the las;
one Of the year ana Sioux City already
has a closely played one to it's credit. The
Omaha daily bee., 1903-03-22
HUNTERS AFTER WATER FOWL
High Water Prevents Big Bags, but
the Birds Are Here I'm
Huge FlOcks.

All week long the hunters have been
slipping away from their homes and wives
on the excuse that they needed a few days
vacation and have been lying out along the
banks of the rivers and on the sand bars
of the Platte waiting for, the ducks they
never shot But they have all come back
with fabulous tales OF the ducks they killed
and ate and Of those that fell out of the
reach Of their dogs, but those they brought
home for the family and friends have been
very, very few. The trouble has not been
that the ducks were few or that they were
such poor shots that they couldn't hit them
when they had the opportunity, but the
rivers are too high and only a few of the
lakes have opened up. The waters on the
rivers. which are all opened up, are too
extensive to give the hunters an oppor-
tunity to reach the ducks. Within a week
or ten days, when the high water has sub
sided somewhat, the bags that the sports
men will bring back will be marvellous, for
all Of the early reports Of ducks and geese
a~-plenty on Nebraska streams were not
overrated. according to all Of the Omaha
men who have been out after them. With
the lakes open and the rivers low, they will
not be dificult to get al, and several hun
dred local hunters are preparing for out
ings Of a week or ten days out on the west
ern ranches Of the Platte, the Loup and
the Elkhorn and up in the sand hills.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-03-22

People are beginning to realize that the
team is a permanent fixture Papa Bill
said the other day, and they give proof
OF their belief by taking season tickets
without a great deal Of persuasion. Last
year tickets for the season weren't going
like hot cakes at this time of the year.
That isn't saying that they are doing so
now, but still the bleacheTs and grand
stands won't be empty many games unless
the people don't want to use their ickets.
The games that l had hoped to have with
Comiskey's Chicago American league team
on April Is and 10 have fallen through, as
the team will play in Chicago those dates,
but we will play against st. Joseph instead
and they will be good and interesting
games. And then / have added a game
with Bellevue college for April Is. An Of
these three games will be played on the
home grounds"
Omaha daily bee., 1903-03-22

A few weeks ago the base ball magnates
OF the Field club held their ante-season
meeting and elected officers for the teams.
VIII Tippery was made manager for both
teams, Harry Knox captain of the first
team and Gail Martin captain of the sec
ond. The season will commence on April
IL, the Omaha Field club playing Creighton
college. The grounds this year, under the
superb care OF Groundkeeper Gibson, will
be, as before. the best and fastest in the
state. Besides this a large and capacious
grandstand is being erected for the con-
v~enience of the spectators, and II is safe
to say that there is not a more complete
base ball grounds in Nebraska than belongs
to the Field club. The first team his year
will be composed chiefly OF the pick OF the
Young hloods of last years team, strength
ened by the addition OF many local stars
who have Joined the club. There is no
doubt that the Omaha Field club base
ball team this year will be one of the fast
est amateur teams in this neck Of the
woods. To prove this fact there will prob
ably be a match with the University OF
Nebraska in the middle OF April. The
second team, under the leadership Of Gall
Martin, will probably give the first team
a good rub for honors. 1t is composed OF
lhe younger MEMBERS OF the cluD ana VIII
play an interesting schedule with teams
Of about the High school caliber. Their
first game will be with the Omaha High
school on April IL. Manager Tippery
hereby issues a wide-open challenge to the
world for base ball games and wishes all
communications addressed to him. care OF
the Aetna Insurance company, New York
Life building. Omaha.
Omaha will have between twenty and
thirty other amateur and semi amateur
teams on the diamond this summer and
many Of them promise to put up an eX-
cellent article Of ball. The Field club Is
planning to put one of the best teams
it has ever had on the field and the Orig.
inals are planning to play with all OF
their old players hat they have had for
the last five years and then some. Beside,
this there are the Red Colts, c.. n. Dietz
team, the Wholesale grocers, the retail
clerks and many other organizations that
are buying uniforms and getting ready for
the fray, so that Omaha will always have
a game going on somewhere.
Questions and
Sporting Editor OF The Bee; Kindly
Omaha daily bee., 1903-03-22

The boys who wish to enter for places
on the track team have registered and
forty names have been handed in. The few
days Of fair weather were utilized for out
door practice, and the prospect for a win
ming track team is gratifying. Most OF
last years men are back in their places,
and there are a number Of valuable ac-
QUESTIONS from the crack team of the Lin
coin High school of last year. Benedict,
though a freshman in school, is a pheuom.
on the athletic field. He will do the pole
vault stunt. Johnson, the colored boy,
and Lehman are also out, Captain Tobin
Of the track team will work with the shot
and hammer, as will also Borge. Graves,
Hinkle and Martin. With so competent a
trainer as DIR, Clapp, there seems to be no
reason why Nebraska should not carry off
its share Of the honors. II the team does
not meet with success ii will certainly not
be the fault OF the coacher or captain, as
they are doing everything they can TO
bring track athletics up to as high a
standard as foot ball. The schedule for the
track team has not been completed yet.
Manager Walters stated Friday that meets
with South Dakota at Sioux City, with
Kansas university at Lawrence and the
state meet at Crete have been cinched.
Several other deals are in the air, but in
any event, the trip will be well worth
While for the men to try for. The Sioux
City meet will be held on Decoration day.
Fifteen men, including the coach and man
ager, will be taken on the trip.
The athletic board held it's regular meet
ing last Monday! Members OF the basket
ball team were given jerseys bearing the
IN" in recognition OF the good work they
did in the past season. The second base
ball team was given the privilege to use
the field on three school days to make
Friday games possible. The new sup
plies for the base ball team have arrived
and a good supply OF balls aud bats are on
hand. The team is now we'll equipped
and is confident Of doing good work when
IL is turned loose.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-03-22

varieties Of speed he is one Of the best
ever, they all declare. When he is at home,
up In Humphrey. the folks all call him Joe
Galaski, but the name IL pretty hard to say,
II was only last Thursday that he was
added TO the list Of trial trips that team is
using in making its number Trsnsports-
tion was sent right out TO him and he will
Join the team on April I.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-03-22

Omaha sportsmen are not the only ones
hat are expecting to do some hunting this
spring, either. One local wholesale house
that sells most of its goods to state people
has sold: two carloads of shells for spring
and would like to have more to sell. They
don't have a decoy duck in the house and
declare that a folding decoy can't be bought
in Omaha from a singIe dealer. "Isthink,"
one OF the firm said, that there must be
more decoys than ducks on Nebraska
streams and lakes. But l know that isn't
true, for l was out three days last week
and saw lots of ducks, but only got close
enough TO FIVE to shoot them"
Omaha daily bee., 1903-03-22
ATHLETICS AT THE UNIVERSITY
Base ball and Track Events Occupy
the Attention O the Muscu-
lar Student.

Devotees OF the national game were given
an opportunity to see the first large prsc-
-tice last Tuesday at the University Of Ne
braska. Eddie Gordon had the gang at
work on the field then. about forty strong.
The weather made things a little slow last
week and some unpleasant things were said
in the locker room Thursday about the
Weather bureau. The date which was
open, May Z. has been taken by Lombard
university Of Galesburg, Ill. This will
make two games at that city. the other be-
ing with Knox college on May 6. Last year
the men were out two weeks earlier than
this. Nevertheless inside practices has been
more effective than formerly and this will
in a measure offset the hardness of begin
ming outdoor work this year. Last Tues
day, from 2 to 8 o'clock, the old gridiron
presented a busy scene. The battery candt-
dates were given a chance to show what
they could do and the helders were kept
on the jump for flies. Batting was prac-
ticed and Coach Gordon expressed himself
as very much encouraged by the skill with
which some Of the new men welded the
club. Wednesday afternoon the. men were
out in force again. In point OF the number
Of old university men, the team will not be
strong. There we're but three men who had
made the team before on the field at first
practice. The strength Of the team is not
to be judged by this alone. TIT new ma
terial is not so green as 1t might be. Most
of the candidates have played before on the
second team or high school teams, or some
other. The new men showed up very well
last Wednesday and showed the effects Of
the cage work they have been doing under
the direction of a competent coach. Cap
tain Townsend says that by the middle Of
next week a squad of twenty-five. will be
picked and from these positions on the frs
and second teams will be filled. InielC
practice will begin next week and things
will be put in shape for team work.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-03-22

=The Geneva Gun club will give an open
tournament and trap shoot at Geneva on
March % and 26 and a party of Omaha men,
among whom are w. b.. Townsend, Charles
A.. Lewis and Henry Mcdonald, are pre-
pairing to be ia attendance for the purpose
Of carrying away a few Of the honors.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-03-22

Manager Bell now has the fnal schedule
made out. Nebraska will this year meet
twenty-six teams in regular games, besides
the practice game which will be played.
On the home grounds twelve regular games
will be played, the first Of which will be
the games with the Omaha league team On
April 13-14. The trip which has been
planned will go through five states. Iowa,
Illinois, Indiana, Missouri and Kansas.
The trip will consume fifteen days. Twelve
men will be taken, viz, the team, two subs
and the manager. Practice games on the
home grounds will be played with the
farmers and merchants team Of Lincoln,
Doane college. Young Mems Christian as
sociation, Wesleyan university and the Lin
coin High school. The field is being PUT
in shape, as the bleachers which were
erected for foot ball would be in the way.
The fence about the field has been removed
and the ground will be put in its best shape
possible.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-03-22

The School for the Deaf closed it's basket
ball season three weeks ago and elected
P. E. Seely manager of the base ball team
for this year. Suits have just been re-
ceived by the team and they have started
in practicing. Prospects for a better team
than last year are very good. A few games
have been scheduled, but the manager is
trying to fill dates still for April 4, May 2,
8, 16 and June 6.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-03-22

A new man came out last week to put in
his bid for first base. 1t is Moore, who
played first on the Grinnell team last year.
Wilson also has a desire to loaf on first.
For second base no one has shown up to
declares his intentions as yet and perhaps
Captain Townsend will occupy this place
IL he is not used in the pitchers box. For
the position of shortstop Johnson, formerly
of the Fremont team, and Steen are putting
in some pretty good ticks. Ramsey is also
showing good form at picking up grinders"
On third, or rather around third base, Hood
covers a great amount of space for so small
a man, but when the ball comes his way
he is Johnny on the spot There is a
good crowd Of outhelders. Jim Bell, Skinner
or Gore would do well in ANY OF the field
positions, and Johnson, Huffman and Moore
have showed up we'll also. The@results of
Coach Gordon's work are quite apparent.
He has Frightened prospects, Tor a winning
team considerably. He feels confident Of
a successful season and imparts confidence
in the men under him.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-03-22
A Thorough Cleansing Of the System
Now Is the Surest Protection Against
Spring and Sumner Sickness.

No good house keeper ever neglects Spring cleaning.
With plenty of soap and water, hard s%crubbing and seour-
musty odor5, germs and microbes, and the dust and dirt
that have accumulated during the long winter months, and
everything about the place is fresh'ned up and given an
air of newness and neatness that sua,. ests health and COM
fort. But when the house has been put n order, and the
Omaha daily bee., 1903-03-22
AMONG THE BUSY AMATEURS
Omaha is to See Unwonted Activity
on Part of tho Ball Players
This season.

The gentle breezes Of a few springlike
days have started the base ball fever ago.
ing in the hearts Of the students and col
legians In Omaha. Preparations made
earlier for the season bore fruit with the
FIRST of the spring days and the High
school lads, the Creighton college boys and
those of the Omaha NEEDLES and the School
for the Deaf we're out trying their mettle.
With the exception Of the boys at Creigh-
ton this outdoor work was the first that
has been done for the season. The Creigh-
ton boys have had the use of their cage and
have profted by It immensely and are way
ahead Of the others in preparation.
At the High school they are working on
dope mostly as yet, as there are a good
many new men who are trying for the team
and no one knows what their coming may
mean to the team. Things look bright, far
brighter than they ever we're last season,
for that team didn't make good, al
though 1t did get more than half Of the
games it played. The team has been placed
under the management Of Miles Greenleaf,
who will incidentally do a few of the
t%wirling stunts. The outlook for the man
agement is very good, as the team will
have no expenses which cannot be met at
the beginning, with the exception Of the
suits, and these will be furnished by the
athletic association. Claude Robertson Of
last years team is captain and will play
on the initial bag without a doubt. Besides
Greenleaf for the twirling there will be
Lowell. At the backstop both Fairbrother
and Burnett are making a try for the work
I and it will probably be divided between
them during the season. At third Spike
Kennard, one of the fastest kid players in
the city, will put up his sign. while a large
number are out after second and shortstop.
Among the most promising OF the candi-
dates for these places are Yoder, Deviation
and Kroh, with a place almost certain for
Yoder. He is only a freshman, but plays
good. heady ball and is pretty good with
the stick. Where the real trouble lies in
getting a team is in the gardens, where
there are no good men showing up. 1t is
hoped that with a few days outdoor prac-
tice there will be q showing OF some men
for these positions. The season for the
teams opens with a game with the Field
club second team ,on- April IL While the
schedule will not be completed for some
days. 1t Is certain that 1t will include games
with Lincoln, Sioux City, Des Moines,
Bellevue, Creighton, Lemars, Tabor and the
second University Of Nebraska teams. Cot
ner may be played on April 20 at Omaha.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-03-22

Another one. and a humdinger, according
TO all OF the talk OF those who think they
know, Is this new slab contortionist Papa
Bill has picked for a trial rip with the
boys. As a real vender OF GU Ses with ali
Omaha daily bee., 1903-03-22

Questions and nswer
Sporting Editor OF The Bee: Kindly
Omaha daily bee., 1903-03-22

The failure OF the Hickey-Sexton erraud
10 the Pacific coast has been discounted
and no one seem sto care to talk about IL,
II is admitted out there that one side or
the other win go broke on railroad fares
early in the season, and everybody appears
willing to wait and see.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-03-22

President Hickey gave out his stan Of
umpires for the season last week. The
chief point In favor Of them seems to be
that no one knows them. Denver gives
them enthusiastic endorsement. but Just
wait till the Denver team loses a game on
the home grounds.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-26

URING the last three weeks the
air Of seriousness and solemnity
- that perVades the city hall has
~ frequently been broken by bursts
- OF melody in sweet childish
treble, singing. "Oh, this is the house that
Jack built-that Jack built-that Jack
built" "old King Cole was a merry oil
soul" "sing a song of sixpence," or "Peas
porridge hot, peas pOrridge cold" accom-
panied by a clapping Of hands or a shufi ng
of feet that has made the astonished hear
ers forget the perplexities of municipal
Affairs and taken them back through the
years to a time when Old King Cole was in
deed the ~jolliest old soul in the world;
when the old woman who lived in the shce
was the only one who had a real problem
to deal with, and when all Of those quaint,
delightful people Who were her associates
between the covers Of that first and dearest
of all books. were their companions, too,
and served to entertain and Please as moth
ing else ever could or ever has since.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-26

Is as hard to forget as the words that are
set TO 1t, and the children of Mother Goose
each contribute their own enter aiming
FRANKS to the plot, those included being:
Jack, Old King Cole, Queen of Hearts,
Knave Of Hearts. three Humpty Dumptys,
Three Crows, Three Blind Mice, the Farm
er's Wife, Little 30 Peep, Little Boy Blue,
Tom Tucker. Simple Simon, Jack Horner,
Old Mother Hubbard. Jack Spra;t and his
wife, Jack and Jill, the little man With the
little gun, the crooked man, the oil woman
who lived in the shoe, her children, Littls
Miss Mufett, Little Polly Flinders, Mary
Quite Contrary, Little Red R,d.nghocd.
Bobby shafto, Daffy Down Oily, Man All
Tattered and Torn, Maiden Al For'orn,
Priest All Shaver and Shorn. Lite Man All
Dressed in Leather, Maid in tbs Garden,
Peter Pumpkineater and his wife. fairies.
sweet peas. grassblades, b,sukbirds, stars,
clouds. the man in the mnon and the at
tendants Of the king and queen.
The curtain rises on . The House That
Jack Built" in a clearing 81 the forest,
the abode OF Mother Goose and her son
Jack. a band Of fairies, grass blades and
sweet peas discover the queer little house
just as the good mother comes ont and bldg
Jack go hunt for the golden eggs laid by
her famous goose. Tho little strangers
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-26

Considering that nearly 200 children have
had part In it. it would be almost super
fuous to explain hat the occasion for all
OF this is the rehearsal of The House
that Jack Built Mrs. Jessie Gaynor's
charming juvenile operetta, which is to be
given by the school children on Friday and
Saturday evenings and Saturday afternoon,
May 1 and 2. at the Boyd theater, fer the
benefit Of the Teachers Annuity and Aid
association. And it may be added right
here that unless the parents and music
lovers of Omaha are less appre ,iative than
the patrons Of other cities have been, these
three performances will not .sufRce to sat
isfy, for extra performances have been the
rule. Indeed, THE Hcu-e tina Jack Built
is all that has been said Of it. and a great
deal more, too. for who can adequately de-
scribe an excursion back to childhood to
see the nursery rhymes Illuminated by the
bright faces and enthusiasm OF our own
little brothers and sisters and sons and
daughters. The music is Of the sort that
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-26

hide while she awaits his return with the
eggs, which she names Humpty Dumptys,
and carefully locks in the house, hanging
the key outside as she unfolds to Jack a
plan for a wonderful party to which all of
her children are to be invited, and then
dispatches him with the Invitations while
Ene goes TO market to buy the goodies. 1t
happens that the BLACK Birds" have also
overheard the plan, and, being angry hat
they are not to be inyited-doubtless be-
cause OF their bad reputation since the incl
dent in the garden-determine to spoil the
party by stealing the key. The arrival Of
the Knave OF Hearts enables them to ac-
complish their purpose, for this light fin
gered fellow easily steals the key and
hides Il.
Mother Goose scarcely gets home and
discovers her loss before the guests begin
TO arrive, and she is compelled TO tell
them her troubles, also TO receive and en-
tcrtaln them out OF doors. This does not
prove half bad after all. and q gay feto
follows. each guest OF prominence being
received with u chorus, and the curtain
goes down on a gay scene of merrymaking.
The secoud act represents the evening Of
the ssmo day and the guests weary with
all OF 'heir ~frolics. are resting on the grass
~(ccatiDue6 on Page Fourteen.)
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1903-12-05
The Aneors School.

THE HERALD ~ i'll receipt of the follow
ing, which touches timely topic:
Angorn, Colo, Nov, :Oth, 1909.
To the Editor of THE HERALD;
DEAR sIR-I noticed In your issue of Nov
ember 18th "a School Needed" and would
like to say TINT this is the second time we
OF precinct No. & have tried to get u school,
but there are some mossbacks who think
We are too smart, us 1t Is; and guess they
nre right.
started n petition three weeks before the
last election, thinking we could have vote
on the school question at time of election,
but am sorry to say 1t took three weeks to
go eight miles, At the present time 1t is at
Yellow Creek and II nothing happens before
spring land the petition Is not worn OUT we
Will have 1t on the desk before tho county
school superintendent.
We have seventeen children in the pre-
cinct Of school age md most of us want the
school at one house.
Hoping we may get our school established
before spring, am very respectfully,
J. u. LEWIS.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1903-12-05
A Timely Suggestion.

This is the season of the year when
the prudent and careful housewife re-
plenishes her supply of Chamber
iain's Cough REMEDY. 1t is certain
to be needed before the winter is over,
and results are much more prompt
and satisfactory when 1t is kept at
hand and given as soon as the cold Is
contracted and before it has become
settled in the system. In almost
every instance II severe cold may be
warded off by taking this remedy
fraeley as soon as the first indication
of the cold appears. There is no dam
ger in giving it to children for it con-
tains no harmful substance. 1t is
pleasant to take-both adults and
children like it. Buy it and you will
get the best. 1t always cures. For
sale by all druggists.