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Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-27


Yale boat rowed all he could. I do not
believe there IL ever a loafer in a varsity
boat. The nefficiency. II there was any.
was in picking and placing and training
the men"
Many Successes.
Harvard in the year 1903 can count vic
tories over Yale in three Of the four major
sports, owing foot BAN and base ball. In
track, the Crimson lost a most important
meet. To have won that would have been
the browning feat Of a year certainly
which should stand out in Hsrvard-Yal
sports. Altogether. Harvard is justified In
considering it a great year for athletics at
Cambridge.
Dean Briggs issues a little note Of warn
ing in his speech when he says: I'VE
seemed to have turned a corner in Har-
ward athletics. Whether we have become
dizzy in turning 1t remains to be seen.
The great danger Is now that every one
will say, Well now Harvard is on an even
footing with Yale and we shall get our
fair share Of the victories. We are not on
an even footing with them, and shall not
be short of three years more. with Haugh-
ton in charge during the whole time The
part from ''the great danger" is a quota
ton from a letter from w. T. Reid, jr.,
the former Harvard coach, and exemplifies
what Dean Briggs thinks and what most
other folks will think is SO.
we have laid a strong foundation" IL
Dean Briggs's final word, mot the lessi
part Of which is the extension OF the var
sity coaching to the freshman team. We
nave discovered a general and he has cho.
sen a competent staff. What we need Il
years Of such generalship without a grair
of boastful self-confidence, without a par
ticle of shiftlessness. II is helpful for u;
to remember tina Yale is never invincible
it IL fatal for us to forget that Yale is al
ways formidable, that she is never heater
easily except through some accident and
that a single slip Ia the Intelligence OF
trainer. of surgeon. of captain or of coacl
may give the game to her"
1t was announced that Prof Stage foi
the first time in five years will be able
to remain all winter in Chicago to looh
after the indoor sports. He is feeling much
better than ever before and the rheuma'
tism which has bothered him before. ap.
p~arently has been pretty well eliminated
He will help In taking some Of the worf
from DR.. Raycroft.
Wisconsin is in excellent financial condi
ton now, with $1,000 in the athletic treas
ury. Two years ago the Badgers owed
$500 and It was a grave question whether
some of the university sports would b
continued. Now there is plenty Of money
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-27

Bigger, Better. B~usier-That's what ad-
vertlslns in The Bee does for your bust
mesa
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to work for the firm Of Thomas & Grant
I'm Ithaca. While with them he made a
power boat. which was sold to the Cornell
navy as a coaching launch. IL was such
a nice boat that il won Courtney over
from his deep-seated prejudice in favor
Of steam craft.
Regards 60 Camp.
At the dinner the Harvard club of Bos-
ton gave to the victorious foot ball team.
Dean Briggs paid a high compliment 10
Walter Camp Of Yale, a tribute which
naturally reflected none the less glory
upon Percy Haughton, the Crimson's head
coach. Il must be very old, gentlemen"
said Dean Briggs. for I remember dis
tinctly the last celebration Of this sort.
Then. as now, we had a team of great
power, with no stars before the game
and a whole armament after it. / be-
lieve we should then have beaten any
team that Mr.. Camp could put into the
field; but, If I am rightly informed, the
team we beat then was not Mr.. Camps;
IL was Captain Gould's. This year. / un-
derstand, the team was Mr.. Camps. and
1t is no wonder that the margin of vic
tory was small. The man who pits him
self against Mr.. Camp and wins over
comes an acknowledged foot ball genius,
who has fathered and directed the game
for twenty-five or thirty years. who has
established an almost invincible system
of coaching and whose prestige has drawn
promising players from schools and col
leges throughout the country.
This year Mr.. Haughton has pitted
himself against Mr.. Camp and won. He
many not be able to do It again, but there
is no denying that he has done it. Ever
the ewspape before the game hoisted
him suddenly to the level Of Mr.. Camp as
a foot ball expert. On the morning of the
game 1 was startled by the heading
Confidence in Both Camps Surely the
confidence in our own was not mis-.
placed"
Dean Briggs also spoke Of the salts
faction that It was to Harvard men to fee
hat they had shown they knew how t.
play foot ball, so that the contest left M
feeling that Yale, with Harvard's material
could nave won in case Harvard did not
That has been a familiar statement about
beaten Harvard teams, that the materia
was there, but the knowledge was not
People know" he continued, that Yal
is efficient In athletics; but If in the boa
race last June Yale had come out as Har
ward did and Harvard as Yale did q
Captain Richardson will forgive so wild
thought the whole country would hav
rung with the inefficlency of Harvar
and the commanding efficiency Of Yale
l myself believe that every man on tn
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-27
TICKET FOR WESTERN GOLFERS
Annual Meeting of the Associatior
Set for Chicago.

C1N " ShNCAkOs
CHICAGO. Dec 96.-The annual meeting
OF the Western Golf association viii be
held here on January IS, and, as usual.
will be preceded by a dinner open to all
golfers. The nominating committee. com
posed OF Wendell Herty, chairman; John
M. Witherspoon and Fred S. Barton, has
selected the following ticket to be voted
on at the meeting: President. r. c. Thorn
son, Chicago; vice president. Horace F.
Smith. Nashville; secretary, Trlgg walton,
Chicago; treasurer, Edward A. Engler.
Chicago; directors, John d. Cady, Rock
Island; Albert b.. Lambert, st. Louis;
Judge w. Henderson, Arlington, o.; W. L.
Yule, Kenosha, Wis, and william Donald
son. indianapolis.
The amendments TO the constitution pro-
vide among other things, that each club,
a member OF the association. shall have a
right to be represented at any OF the meet
ings by two delegates, each of whom
shall be entitled to cast one vote, or
otherwise that said club may be repre-
scented by one delegate who shall be en-
titled to cast two votes for the club. In
section 5, the proposed amendment is that
the secretary of the association shall mail
to the secretary of each club in the asso-
citation a complete report OF the business
10 come before the delegates at least thirty
days previous to the annual meeting sd
far as such business shall relate to to any
amendment of the constitution or election
Of office-bearers or directors Of the asso-
citation. Each club in the Western Colt
association is entitled to be represented at
the annual meeting by two voting dele
gates.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-27
WITH THE COLLEGE ATHLETES
Doings in the Field Of Sport in
East and West.
WISCONSIN MAKES
MONEY
John HoyIe, Corneu's New Assistsnt
Cosch-Harvard ReJoiees over
Foot BAH TrfumpB-Mich-
fgan ON the Trsek.

One Of the most interesting figures In
intercollegiate sports Is John Hoyle, re-
Gently appointed assistant coach OF tho
Cornell crews. It is not springing a man
new to the university or the regular coach.
Charles Courtney. to put Hoyle in the
place. He and Courtney have been inti-
mately associated at Cornell for more than
nine years, and every man who ever has
handled an oar in a Cornell boat In that
time knows John Hoyle. 1t lie safe to say
that every one Of them likes him, too.
BY profession John Hoyle Is a builder
Of boats. He started in the boat building
business nearly twenty years ago in Phila-
delphia, where he used to construct racing
craft for the University Of Pennsylvania
and for tho Schuylkili rowing clubs. He
did not confine himself to making the
orthodox cedar shells but made expert
mental boats as well. 1t was Hoyle who
built to the order of Pennsylvania and
Cornell in 1898 the aluminium boats that
We're TO reform the art of sheIl making,
Cornell won a race on Lake Minnetonka
in that boat, beating Pennsylvania in a
four-mile row in % minutes 80 seconds. That
may have indicated that the crew was
fast. rather than that the boat was. be-
cause after all II was found that an alumi-
mum boat, to stand all the changes in tenn
perature. would nave to be braced so stiffly
that It would be much heavier than a
cedar craft.
Courtney and Hoyle nave many tastes
IN ommon Both are keen fishermen
and both amateurs of the Gamers. 1t IL
to Hoyle that Courtney is very apt to
turn when he wants any information
about the Hudson tides, because Hoyle
has made that rather a study. He has
the fishermsn's sense of what the tides
are and should be, and his conjectures
about the likely conditions for regatta
day, although sometimes in conflict with
the expert opinion of the government ia
bles, rave never failed to be verified.
About two years ago Hoyle gave UP his
private boat building enterprise and went
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-27
GoTCH FINDS HACK SLIPPERY
Champion Unable to Corner His Rival
in London.

NhAUt InADle 10 Corner HIS RIVAL
in London.
NEW YORK, Dec. A-Frank Gotoh.
champion heavyweight wrestler of the
world, who went to England seeking a
return match with George Hackenschmidt,
Is having a lot of trouble over there. He
is not only Ill physically. but he is mad
as a hornet about the way Hack has
treated him. Gotch unburdened himself to
the editor Of the Sporting Life in this
amer
Il came here 10 get a match with Hack
enschmidt. II was no business OF mine to
challenge the Russian, as I beat him in
Chicago. l asked him to meet me at your
office. He declined, and, as a bit OF bluff.
he replied to my invitation by putting
down $500 at the Sportsman. The editor OF
that paper made two appointments for me
to meet Hackenschmidt. But the willy fox
did not respond to this. 1 was ready all
the time, but he was always shuffling.
Never a straight thing has he done all
through this controversy.
Instead Of meeting me as he was in
vited to do, he called his famous meeting
Of press men, and on them placed all the
responsibility Of arranging his matches.
But this move OF his brought ne into an
agreement which I did not want. He got
a committee appointed to manage my af-
fairs as well as his own. The impudence
OF 1t makes me angry. 1 have said that /
have always had before me a match with
Hsckenschmidt. After the Hackenschmidt-
Zbysco match and the Lemm and my own
match, / felt that should meet him again
and show the public how vile the ISLANDERS
upon me have been. But Hackensehmidt
will not meet zbysco. He defleg the board
of control, and as l only consented to
wrestle Lemm in order to get Hacken-
schmidt, I see no object In going on with
this match. Hackenschmidt has again sue
ceeded by bluff, and l suppose the Eng
hsh public win go on applauding him."
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to support a crew. Wisconsin has been
more successful with freshman boats than
with the varsity Fights. since Ed Ten
Eyck started coaching there. but probably
with the added surety about making a
trip with the crews enthusiasm will be-
worked up so that a first rate varsity
crew will be produced. There is plenty
Of veteran crew material at Wisconsin
this year.
Michigan Trock squad.
There are only four men at Michigan
now who have the M" for track team
work, but the Wolverines expect they
will have q better team for the champion
ship Of the intercollegiate Association OF
Amateur American Athletes than has ever
been sent east before. To work up these
games there will be two interolass meets
indoors as well as the scphmore-freshmah
game, followed by a meet with some
regiment team. The outdoor meet with
Ohio state will be held IN May. and out
side Of the university championships
VIII be the only work on cinders for The
men In competition. A relay team will b,
sent to the Pennsylvania carnival.
There will be two track meets for the
Syracuse team outdoors next spring. TIL,
usual games WlJn the carlisle Indians will
be held at Elmira on May 6 There will
be a meet with Colgate I'm the syracus,
stadium the week following. Syracuse ma,
send a team to the relay games. too. syria
cuse awarded the varsity letter to w. ]
stube, p. A. Ross. G.. f. Norton, H.. NJ
Htohner and E. S. Cuttings, who we're OF
the Syracuse team that finished second IL
the intercollegiate cr~oss-country run.
The Massachusetts Institute OF Tech
nology gymnastic team has elected a.
captain. Herbert S. Gott. a Junior. VIII,
comes from Cheshire, England. Colt 'haI
been on the team since he entered college
Hitherto the Massachusetts Institute o
Technology team has lone nothing but Civ,
exhibitions. This season Captain Colt ex
poets to have several dual meets. WIN
Jams. Tufts. Trinity and the Boston Youn,
Mems Christian association are on tn,
schedule. Eventually the Massachusett
Institute Of Technology may get into tn
intercollegiate league.
When Chicago opens for the next quar-
ter, Wallle Steffen, the foot bali captain
will submit plans to the student council
for a hockey team. 1t is planned to floo,
Vincent Field for the purpose. There 1
a considerable sentiment at Chicago Il
favor of forming a team.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-27
GRAND BoNsPIEL AT ST. PAUL
Carriers VIII Meet for Roaring Game
IN

ST. PAUL. Mimi, Dec. 26.-Great prep
a~rations are being made for the bonspiel
OF the American curriers' scheduled for this
city on January II to IS Sixty curling
Kinks. Canadian and United States, will be
represented. Among the Canadian Kinks
that Will be represented are: Saskatoon.
Calgary. Rainy River, Kinora, Lindsey,
Regina. Della Raine, Southampton, Toronto,
Braden. Rochon and Carson. II Is expected
that the famous Wall rink Of Milwaukee
and the MacauIey rink Of Detroit will also
eompete.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-27
A WORD from die Paner.

In the advertisement Of the Oakland
Automobile company December 6 It said
the four-eylinder car had 32-inch wheels,
when In fact the wheels are "a inches. The
Oakland people. and also the Lininger In
plenent company, who are the western
agents, want the paper to make this state
ment. as In their eyes this IL a very griev-
Gus error on the part Of the paper in not
knowing the size Of the Oakland wheels.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-19
NOT A CASE OF SUICIDE.
DR.. Rustin's Brother-in-Law Sure
Murder Was Done.

Omaha, Neb., Sept. 19.-"After in
vestigating the mysterious death of
DIR. Frederick r. Rustin, I am more
than ever convinced that DIR. Rustin
did not commit suicide" said J. H.
Mcintosh of New York, brother-in-
law of DIR. Rustin today.
do you wish the case investigat-
ed? - was asked.
1.-THE mystery of DR.. Rustin's muir
der is going to be investigated to the
very bottom. I intend to see that
done" s5e
When Mrs. Abbie B. Rice and Chas.
Edward Davis were brought before
Judge Sutton in the district court to-
day to answer certain question to be
propounded at the instance of insur-
ance companies which had policies on
the life of Frederick Rustin the case
waH continued to September 26, on
motion of counsel for the defense. In
making the motion for a continuance.
counsel stated that to require the wit
nesses to reply to questions at this
time would be prejudicial to the pre-
liminary hearing which is set for next
Thursday. The court apparently took
the same view and continued the case.
Mrs. Rice was in court for few
minutes, but was not placed on the
stand. Davis did not appear in per-
son, but was represented by counsel.
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JOLT TO MAURITANIA.
Propeller Blade Flies on and Jars the
Whole Ship.

New York, Sept. 19.-For more than
half an hour last Wednesday the great
turbine steamer Mauritania with all
her cabins filled with frightened pas
sengers rolled and pitched helplessly
in midocean with waves constantly
breaking over her decks. She had run
into the storm hours before but had
been kept under Roadway until one of
her propeller blades flew off with a
crash that alarmed nearly every one
on board. So tremendous was the
force of the blow which the loosened
propeller dealt the ship that the whole
middle section seemed to rise, the
flooring buckeled until lacks from the
carpet were hurled against the ceilings
and passengehs were thrown about the
cabins.
The engines were stopped at once
and the big ship, losing her way. be-
gan to wallow in the trough of the
seas while the passengers besieged
the captain imploring him to tell the
nature of the accident. Every effort
was made to quiet the frightened ones.
but the intense excitement did not sub
side until the steamer started once
more on her way. The compartment
adjoining the propeller shafts filed
detached propeller drove a hole in the
steamers bottom.
The severe weather continued
throughout the voyage and when
Sandy Hook at the gateway of New
York harbor- was. reached, the steamer
ran into a fog bank. which compelled
her to lie at anchor for more than 10
hours. She came today into the har-
Dor and to her dock
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-19
HIT BYSTREET CAR
Stanley Marble Former City
Railway Employe, Struck.
Broken RIB, Punctured Lung
He May Die. .

Stanley. MARBLE, of sos. North, Jack
son street, was struck by a north
bound Garfield park car just before
O'Clock this morning and is so ser
iously injured that his recovery is
doubtful. He is under the care of
DR.. G. j. Mulvane at Christ hospital.
Mr.. MARBLE, who is carpenter and
employed on the south side, crossed
the track behind a southbound street
car as he was on his way to the mar
ket to get meat~for. breakfast. He was
apparently thinking deeply on some
subject as he stepped directly in front
of a northbound car which knocked
him down. The fender picked him up
but before the car could be stopped he
was thrown from the fender to the
pavement and his skull featured.
He was carried into F. r. Converts
undertaking establishment by the crew
of the car which struck him and taken
to Christ hospital Immediately where
he has been lowering between life and
death since with barely a possibility
that he will recover After he was ia
ken to the hospital an examination
made by the physicians developed the
fact that one of his lungs was pune
tured by a fractured rib which mater
tally lessons his chance of recovery.
Motorman J. M Caldwell who was in
charge Of the car which struck Mr..
MARBLE. is sure that the victim was
struck by the side Of the car and his
skull crushed by the impact. He says:
When / first saw him he was across
the street and I rang my gong to at
tract his attention and he stopped near
one of the poles. Just then the south
bound car came between US and the
man stepped from behind it and was
almost on the track directly in front OF
my car when 1 saw him. hollered
at him and reversed my car and he
seemed to almost stop still when the
side of the car struck him and knocked
him to the pavement. He was not
dragged by the fender and don't
think that the fender touched him at
all. 1 stopped the car within length
or two of where we struck Mr.. MARBLE
and we carried him into ConwelPs I'M
dertaking establishment"
The car which so seriously injured
Mr.. MARBLE was in charge of ]. NJ.
Caldwell as motorman and c. c. Mil
lard as conductor. Both of the men
are comparatively old men in the ser
vice of the company" said Mr.. Albert
Patton, "at least they have been with
us for several years. I cannot see
where any blame can be attached to
them. 1t was another killing just as
occurred on West Tenth street a num-
Der of years ago when Harvey Worral
walked into the side of a car and was
killed"
Mr. MARBLE was in the employ of the
street car company for some time as
motorman and resigned two years
ago to accept employment as a car
penter. He was in charge of the street
car which knocked E. w. Poindexter
off of the car tracks on West Eight
avenue five or six years ago.
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parties and to the fact that Mr.. Taft
had initiated him in the matter of
talking into a photograph.
The next thing he looked for, he
said. was that the Republican party
would further infringe upon Demo-
crat methods by raising contributions
by popular subscriptions.
New London, Conn, Sept. 19.-Mr.
Bryan arrived here at 12:45 and while
the dining car was being attached to
the train was escorted by former Gov
ernor Thomas NJ. Waller to the plat
form of another car, where he spoke
for three minutes. The crowd was a
large and enthusiastic one.
Mr.. Bryan attacked Mr.. Taft for
amending the Republican platform and
for his "evasive discussions" of it. Mr..
Bryan said he stood on the Democratic
platform, and if elected, the people will
know where he stands
The train left, for the east at 12:4S.
Accompanying Mr.. Bryan from New
Haven We're Charles w Comstock,
chairman of the state central commit
tee; former Governor Waller and sew
eral others.
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HE WANTS NO FAVOR.
orviIIe Wright. VIII Not Take Money
Not Earned

Washington, Sept 19.-"There is no
doubt that the American people would
applaud a generous. rather than a
strictly technical attitude on the part
of the government toward Orville
Wright" said Secretary of War
Wright upon being asked for an ex-
preston as to- what action the gov
eminent would take in view of Thurs
days fatal accident to the Wright
brothers aeroplane at FIT. Myer. Mr..
Wright's achievements won the ad-
miration and his misfortune the
sympathy of the whole country. but
until the war department has some
recommendation to act on, I can not
say what course will be followed. 1t
may be that should payment full or
partial be adjudged an act of fairness
under the contract. the department
would be without power to make it
and an act of congress would be
necessary"
Under no circumstances would Mr..
Wright accept any money from the
government for his machine until he
had fulfilled the contract require
ments,' said Charles Flint, the Wright
Brothers business representative,
when he learned that such a
proposition was being discussed.
"Orville Wright is thinking only of
getting we'll and is not making any
plans for the future just yet.
THE Wrights have several aero
planes at Dayton, @, and am sure
that they will make an effort to full
fill their contract with the govern
ment as soon as possible. 1 presume
they could get an extension of time
If they asked for IT. If OrviIIe
Wright is not fully recovered by the
time Wilbur completes his tests in
France. 1t is possible that the elder
brother will come back to this coun-
try to make the of1iciAT trials before
the army board. l do not say that
this certainly will be done as Orville
Wright may feel a special pride in
fulfilling the contract himself"
Miss Katherine Wright, sister of
the aeroplanist, will take up her tenn
porary residence not far from the
hospital at Fl. Myer in order to be
near her brother.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-19
RANCHER BESIEGED.
Mexican WorI<lnen Attempt to En-
force Wage Increase.


FL Paso. Sept. 19.-MaTl advices to
the Herald from Torreon, Mex, today
bring news of a riot thirty kilometers
west of there at Nazareno ranch on
Wednesday, Mexican Independence
day. The ranch home of Don Jose
Farjas, a prominent Spaniard, was
attacked by his workmen, who de-
manded higher wages. A Mexican
who led the mob attacked Don Jose
with a stone, whereupon, Domingo
Saldana,a bookkeeper at the ranch,
killed the leader with a rifle.
The mob then charged the house
with stones and guns and the family
barricaded themselves and defended
the place telephoning TO Derado for
troops. Four hours later troops ar
rived on a special train and the mob
fled. Five wounded men were cap
tured and placed in jail and Don Jose
and family were given escort to Tor
reon. The ranch is still in charge of
the soldiers.