Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-03-17

openinr game will be played In April with
the team of the Townsend Gun company.
The Invincibles base ball team held its
annual meeting Friday and elected the FOL
lowing officers for the coming season. n
kIanda, president, Dan tous' wee pIt9l-
dent; NJ. Bartos, secretary; j. DwOr9k,
treasurer; Leo Soukup, manager Ed
Boesch assistant manager. The lnvlncl-
ming seventeen out Of twenty-four games
played, and also defeated some OF the
fastest teams in the city, The following
son: ~ Kronda, v Kroupa, I'D Loesch,
j. Dobbins, George Probst, M. Bartos' Joe
Kucera, +. PospisheL J. Dworak' W. Nc
Cune, b. Carey and Roy Bolmer. Manager
Soukup says, with this bunch he has one
Of the fastest teams in the city.
The Coronas have reorganlzed for the
coming season and are ready to meet any
team in Iowa or Nebraska. The lineup
will be the strongest that has worn the
green" uniform for years. Besides six OF
the old men, who viii again be In the game
are four new men, Webb, the star pitcher
Of last years Sterling team; Babe Coe
OF the Hanscom Parks, McLain from the
Starlights, and Staley late OF the PACING
squadron team. The lineup VIII be;
G9tSher M9krg pitchers BogStts ns end
Ferster third base McLain; short stop,
Staley; outhelders, Bando, Reinschreiber
address Neil Smith, manager, 1888 South
Twenty-eighth street. Omaha. Phone,
Harney-l566.
Jimmy Parr lie a good wrestler-that
everybody knows who has seen him on the
mat, but everybody can't say as much for
physical nerve. OF certain sort Of nerve
ne has plenty. He has refused to meet
Beel in Omaha unless he could dictate the
terms, which wouldn't leave anything for
Beei one Of the best men on the mat,
passed through Omaha Saturday morning
for Denver and met at the train DX
Peter Loeb, Farmer Burns and other local
men. A match was arranged for next Fri
throw Emil Klank, the 2O0-pounder of
Omaha and Peter Loeb four times in one
hour. Klank is in good trim and is
conner youngster. while Loeb in his day,
did some good work. He believes he can
do better now because he Is heavier,
weighing 100. Farmer Burns will train him
for a week and he expects to go on the
mat at It's. Pete wresued the Farmer In
match once for twenty-five minutes and
again for eighteen and klank got one fan
out OF three from the Farmer at Hastings
during the week.
inches and weighs los pounds, has met and
defeated many of the foremost wresuers
of the country. He won the ohamplonship
last November from Frank Gotch at New
Orleans. but lost It in a return match three
weeks later at Kansas City. He has de-
feated such we'll known mat artists as
"Amerious," Hjalmar Lundln, the Swedish
champion; Harvey Parker of Baltimore, Ed
Atherton, Max Wiley, Harry Conckle, Gene
Tremblay and George Piening, the cham
pion of America at the Graeco-Roman style,
At the age Of IS years, Beel won from Ed
Adamson for a side bet of 5000 which Is
the largest wager ever wrestled for.
"Gotch gave me an awful towsling," said
Farmer Burns Saturday. He is so big and
strong that 1t makes a hard tussle for
man who goes against him. am not
ashamed to be thrown by Gotch, for |
consider him the best man in this II not
any other country I think a great deal
of him, but If I were wrestling with my
brother / would do all I could to win and
that's what l did with him"
Three motor boats were sold at the
automobile show, which will add to the
rapidly increasing fleet Of water craft
which is to be at Cut-On lake this sum
mer. The exhibit at the show seemed to