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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-15

stoykbridse Mass. OF those not selected
two are from Chicago three from Boston,
SIS from New York and vicinity and the
remainder from Pittsburs, Philadelphia
and Florida
or the western players Evans is a student
at Northwestern university. Gardner. r.
hunter and LeGg are at Yale and Seckel
Is an undergraduate al Princeton with
the exception of Chandler Egan. not one
OF the western players is over &. OF the
eastern players Travis, Douglas and Ward
are In middle life. OF the twenty men
Travis has been national champion three
times. Egan twice. Byers, Douglas and
Gardner once. Douglas has been national
runner-up twice Byers twice. Sawyer
Behr and ERan once each. Travis is the
only American to win the British amateur
championship and Evans the only Ameri-
can amateur to win an open championship
in this country, In brief their records
follow:
William G. Fownes, Jr.-National amateur
champion. winner OF Pennsylvania state
and western Pennsylvania championships.
second in Pennsylvania open, winner OF
Oakmont and Allegheny Country club
Journeys.
Charles Evans Jr-Winner of western
opon, western Junior. westward no, Lake
Geneva, Onwentsia; runner UP, western
amateur; meGaiist, westward no, western
Junior, Edgewater, tied with Paul Hunter.
Onwentsia emi-finalist national.
Walter j. Travis Winner OF Atlantic
CITY. Lakewood ttwicel Apawamis Lynne
wood hall, Garden City. Tuxedo Nassau.
north and south; runner-up. ksseX county,
Glen View; medalist; Apawamis, Atlantic
city, Lakewood. Garden city Esse (
CoGnty Tuxedo, Nassau north and south.
Warren X Wood national,
western amateur, 1900; Socialist western
amateur 1902.
Frederick Herreshoff- Winner metropoli-
tan. tkwanoi,, runner-up, Lakewood (;
. medalist, national; Tunner-up national
1894
Mason Phelps-winner western amateur,
1908
ID. r. Winner western amateur.
1906. runner-up western amateur, 1904
Robert A. GaTdner-Winner OF Glen
View; medallst, Lake Geneva; national
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Jap Base Ball Team
is to Tour America
Writes TO Cornell for a Game Some
Time During May-Has a
Strong Team.

ITHACA y. r., Jan. 1.-THE Cornell
Athletic association has received com
municstion from the manager Of the base
ball team Of the University Of IIeio Japan.
relative to scheduling a game with the
Cornell base ball team some time in MAY.
This japanese team is contemplating a
tour Of the United states next spring.
planning a series Of games with various
American colleges from coast 10 coast.
The Eeio team. according To- the man
agcr is one Of the strongest teams. anna
teur or professional. in Japan. The man
ager rs specially anxious 90 make it known
hiatt this is not the same team which was
beaten 10y the University of Chicago aggre-
cation when the westcrners Visited Japan
recently The Eeio team did not meet
ChicaUo. Tho question ~ scheduling this
same viii be taken uu b. tine athletic
council al lts neat meeting.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-15
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away from the ball parks, while waitins
for the worlds and post-season series TO
begin.
According to the new plan the leagues
would finish their respective seasons early
in August, which is too early in the year
for a base ball fan to lose his enthusiasm
regardless Of how far ahead or behind any
team might be,
Then would come the interlesEue series.
and in all probability from four 20 six
teams would be in the running an the way.
This series would incidentally decide not
only the worlds championship. but all the
city and state championships as we'll thus
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-15

personal appeal for my own case"
Warren *. Wood, 1910 runner-up, has
this to say: On account of the many in
innate and dear friends I have among
amateur players I should prefer not to
submit a list. II Is next to impossible for
a man In the west to judge Of the ability
Of the eastern players, when the only OPP
portunity of judging their ability is the
record they made in the various tourna-
ments as you hear Of or happen to partici-
pate in"
Later on both Mr. Wood and Mason
Phelps, western amateur champion. sub
mtted lists. Mr. Phelps selection is sub
mitted alphabeticaiiy and not in the order
which he really regards the plaNers.
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sPRINTERs PLAN WORLD TOUR
CartneII, Coach Of North Carolina, 20
Take Team Abroad.

PHILADELPHIA, Jaa. H.-N. }. Cart
NELL, the former Pennsylvania Splinter. who
has been coaching the University Of North
Carolina track team. plans to take a trip
around the world starting next summer.
tie has been i'm correspondence with several
foreign promoters and intends 10 run in
England. South Africa and Australia,
Match races are proposed with r.. T.. Wal
ksg i'm the Trau-yaal and Charles T.. Hol-
ra.- Australia. 'rrtucll Walker and
Holea. claim the slr.nung championship.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-15
SKI EXPERTS PRACTICE HARD
FUND of Thousand Dollars IN for the
ChnmpinRship.

CHIPPEWA FALLS. Wis Jan. IA
Active preparations are under way for the
national ski tournament to he held in tins
city on January Is and 29 \ fund OF 81 .ON
has been raised toward tho financing Of
the meet and no effort will he spared to
make the tournament a success
The skis have already begun practice
work 10y jumping from the slide and taking
long cross country runs. Anders IIaugen
OF Beresford, =. d., the national ski cham
pion, il here with his brother. Lars. and
their presence has given the sport an added
impetus
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aA~
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When 1t comes down TO the last five
he says, there are about ten men from
whom / could find It hard to choose, and
think five that | will not put in would be
just as good as the ones l do"
II. Chandler Egan, national champion 1904,
1906 national runner-up. 1909, in declining
TO pick the team, gave as his reasons: II
confess that IL is a great temptation to
give ones opinion of the twenty best
amateurs in the country in the face OF such
ranking lists as I have seen so far, How
ever. as I have so far refrained, l hardly
feel that ] can consistently give such a
list for publication. II is difficult for any
one man to have clear and complete idea
of the merit of golfers beyond his own
immediate territory. because. in my mind,
it is unfair to judge the seasons play by
one tournament. This has seemed to be
the error of one man in particular for the
national tourney at Brookline seems to
have had a large influence in the placing
Of the men. There is a tremendous differ
ence between two lists, one OF the twenty
best players and another OF twenty men
who made the best showing the last sea-
son. Do not take this little outburst TO be
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-15

r. Hunter. Egan.
Phelps. Sawyer.
Wood Behr
These names are not in the order OF their
standing.
Crafts w. Higgins editor The Golfers
Magazine, says that he has carefully
avoided all personal favoritism and sec
tionsl pride. He gives first place to
Evans and omits Egan and Travers from
the rating, His list follows;
Evans. ByeTs.
Phelps SeCke
FowneA Whittemors.
Sawyer, Wilder
Wood. Gardner.
Travis. Douglas,
Herreshoff Legg
Anderson. r. Hunter,
Tuckerman. Weber.
p. Hunter. Behr.
OF Travis he says: Walter ]. Travis
won more tournaments in the past year
than anyone else, but in the few events In
which he ran against very high class fields
Travis was beaten, and he should go down
the list bit" w. II. EVANS,
Golf Editor Philadelphia Ledger.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-15

the season; he warned all the fellows
against overconfidence, but l guess none
OF en- believed there was any danger until
Il was too late 90 do anything"
This bit Of history taken care Of Wagner
was impor,uncd to discuss the probabilities
OF the future.
You are going to play ball next season,
aren't YOU was asked
Yes, I guess am was the reply. 81
am not ready to cult vet and don't know
that ! would want to PLAY with any other
team than Pittsburg A Few weeks ago !
Noticed that some Of the papers had me
on the market; but all the time | knew
there was nothing in these reports. Ike
the PittsbUrg management, and as long as
Mr.. Drcymss and Cap Clark want me 10
play bail for them I guess III do II.
"s,iI you never can tell when something
is Eong TO happen. You know ] can't go
on pluyinE ban forever. I must quit some
time, and the dime TO quit Is when YOU
find YOU are going back.
YOU know. ne said, this base bal
same Is a mighty uncertain thiuE J have
been given credit for daing things any
uan could have done has he been as ircky
as Z was. Take the matter OF hitting, FOR
instance, Some mon hit better than others
but they are tho lucky ones. know of
times when Z would have given fngvJ
10 have been able TO produce hlr and
easy out Then, there are times when d
hit wasn't needed, when , have slamu 90
the hail TO The furthermost corner Of an,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-15
HANS WAGNER MAKES TALK
Famous Ball Player Consents to First
Interview.
INTENDS TO KEEP IN THE GAME
PIttsburE Man Explains How His
Team Missed TAtr Of WINDING
Peunant last NcRr-SRys His
success IL Due TO Luck,

PITTsRU re. Pa. Jan. lt-For the first
time IN his career as a bah PLAYER Hans
WaEncr has been interviewed and has coH-
scented to- say something about base bail,
Btlug satisfied then that his talk Won
rot be m'sconstrucd. the man who made
Carnegie famous hn7srdod the opinion that
the Pittshurg club would be = contender
TO- the National hague peuaU0t next sea-
son
.lt is no secret" said IIonus chat las
,cal's failure was surprise and a sore
disappointment to every one OK me- We
were All dead certain that ChcaE
wouldn't have look-iu, and We scare. iy
gave New YORK a thought Wcek after
week passed and things hogan TO break
had FOR u.s. rHo pitchers were going bad
and tho rest az MS weren't PLAY ms as We
should hsvc PLAYED.
"Sun, as . have said. Uc didn't for "a
minute imagine We were going 10 bc
headed: when matters looked blacklist for
ms an Of tho fellows we're confident trat
We would finish strong and shove Chicago
down a peg.
This YOU SEE. was oVerCoufidenCe. We
never thought but We were going ,o land
the peunaut The race had been an easy
one In 1902. and neither Chicago nor Ncw
York looked any better last year. SO,
MRtn we NAhAAfN NhNr We AHAA SUN anu
imagined that We were going 10 have an
easy time OF lt-at least not a very hard
time"
AZ this point Wagner referred to the
showing Of the PLAYERS during the training
trip-at West BADEN and Hot Springs III
recalled that an 81 the pitchers had beer
going we'll. that Miller aud himself wer,
kiIuug the hall and that tive general pros
pect was good.
Had Lets OF WarninE.
When we came hack NORTH said JOIN
Hury. "thc weather was cold aud had
and zap. clarke warned us 10 be on an
lump all the time and TO not take anl
cEauuls Cap kept this up all through
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-15


L., tLo t.He. asked Ha.n.er u repre-
aantat,,c go.Ie.a TO Submit lists 81 the
twenty bes, amateur players in ms coun-
u.s.. The men chosen and me u4nver OF
woes received follow:
&aino and Address. Votes.
" .n.a4I g.. ro"ues. .e.. PlttaOlrg ........ "A
tEeues evans. a.. Cli-agD ............... IL
\,otJei -. Ila,-s, Ne" 1Ors .............. u
Warren ~. W ouC. Chicago ..............,. "a
eu r4crrcshU-l, Me-. 4Jrk .......,...... ~
Aleg51 IHc.ps thi. ago .................,. IS
II. T., SAW er. Chicago Observation-Disclosures. ~
I.obert a. q gardner. chicago .............. -
John q. Anderson. Boston ................ =
rat Hunter. Nhtvasu Observation-Disclosures. -
Lien ". To- crs. FIJLs brig .................. -
linutay ). douglas. &eW AOrh......,... ~
!. N,. Nnittcmore, Boston ............... -
Albert SeCHCI, tEIvagd Observation-Disclosures. }
I.oOeu r.. Hunter, Chicago .,.............. -
h. Chandler LgRH. chicago .,....,.,..... ip
hetry &. 4-eE7. Ni.nncap u,S .............. .,
Onn NJ Ward, New NuIl, ................ =
W. Il. FuCkeTInau, Boston ................
Harold Weber, Ioleup ......................
Others who were considered and tn
numDer OF votes. were: Max behr Ne.
.e.sey, o. Gardner White, New York. q.
-. 1IGvers, Montclair. &; George or
m.sJon, rittsburg, q; =. GilDert 5oS,un, 20
LIls knowles, EIorlda, 3; A. O. Lockwood.
l. Os.on, =; Is, r.. EDWARDS Chicago, - Gh
Dc.t Tiffany, New York, q H. y. MacFar-
Lana, Fuuaueiphis, 2; Archie keiu, New
4O-E, 2; X. =. Merriinan, Waterbury. /; T..
Al. sherman, thea, 1; Norman McBetn,
P.ttsD-rS, /; ". T.. Egan. Chicago. i;
4. NJ. SIaflin, Boston, l.
1t will be noted that the locality rattle
than the club is given in each case.
IN the selection OF Messrs. FuwneS.
Evans and Wood all three left out their
own names but in the final listing the
writer mas included them. As there seems
- be some question among those VINO
chose tho teams as TO who should rightly
he regarded as The best man. the choice
being between Fownes Evans and Travis
the writer has taken the liberty of placing
them In the order given. FoNnes' w.n-
niug OF the championship as well as has
golIing record OF other years entities him
10 iirst honors, The marvellous play OF
Evans, including as it does an open cham
pionship runner-dp in the western anna
teur championship and the semi-finals in
the national tourney and victories in four
other tournaments, would entitle him to
besond honois travis in wa, has the
most wonderful record OF the year. includ-
ms as it does tine winning OF nine big
TOURNEY ., runner-up I'm two aud medallst
IN eight Unfortunately for the past two
years he mas not been a serious contender
FOR national honors, being eliminated In
1919 m the third round by Gardner, after
having bcatcn HerreshUff and Fownes,
and being put out OF last year, event in
t4c second round by Anderson.
AS VIII be noted, the west has eleven.
nne from Chicago ana one each from
minneapolis and Toledo or the nine east
ern payers four are from the Metropolitan
district, two are from Pittsburg and three
from Boston. although ruckerman is also
claimed By Washington as well as by
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-15

Hitting is very largely luck So is field
ms one man has more natural ability
than another, aud one man has more luck
than another. / have been one OF the
lucky ones"
When the subject 81 the coming season
was preached, Honus evinced desire TO
perform one OF his side-steppiug stunts.
81 don't like TO talk about these things"
he said, but I believe the Pittsburg CLUB
is going to be strong next season. In fact.
Il our pitchers are going right We should
Doe vcrS strong. Chicago surely doesn Z
look any better than IL was ia 1910; ana,
while New Nors has improved some
what and has some likely Young fellows .
believe that Pittsburg will Doe better than
either team.
! See where Jack Miller has joined the
volunteer fire department az (earno
! Well take il from me- he o make a good
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-15
P.4. G4RDNER % Clamp

Copyright 1911 10y William II. Evans)
st the close Of the soi:iEg season OF
IT,, Us t.ite. asked na.nsci u repre-
lsEtati,c EO4e.a TO SLOAit ls;s 81 the
twenty hes, amateur players in ms con-
U.s.. The men chosen and ,he ulInyer OF
woes re. elycd follow:
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En-. BZERS 90 Clamp

champion 1909.
john G. Anderson-Wiu OF Woodland
second In Massachusetts open.
Pau Hunter-Medullst Glen View. On
Eben NJ. Byers- MeGallst western Penn
sylvania Allegheny; national craHg.on
1907: national runner-up. 1909. 1909.
Findlay s. Douglas-RUnner-g tuxedo;
national rurner-up. 1883, 1909; rational
champion 1898
Pail W. Wnittemore Erookline- W. aler
OF Essex county. Brookline; seni-c-~-,.st
ebert seckel-IntercolIeg.at chs -aYion
1870 r; ruaner-up, western amateur. 1863.
II. Chandler Egan-Nauoral cEc1,1ion
amateur cham pion. 1902 12li r90j 1907; run
ner-up. western amateur 1908.
Robert L. Hunter-intercolleg,at cham
Harry G. g-Transmississlopi cham
pion; medalist western amateg'
John NJ. WTd-Winner of Shin0ecock;
w. r. TCcEerman-R unner-up, north and
south.
The selections follow
Charles Evens. Jr.-Western open cham
piun and western junior champion. 1910.
western amateur champion, l9no.
Travis. +. hunter
. Fownes. TuCkerman.
1 Evans Legs.
| Wood Knowles
SAWYER Edwards
Phelps Ward.
/ HeTeshOff. tgau.
| r. Hunter. SecEel
] Anderson. Nhttemore,
/ Gardner. BNerg
Inasmuch as MI Evans left his name
out he has been bracketed with Fownes
and Travis as the three best golfers in the
country. lie says: Il have left out Chan
| Egan. because | would have to put him
lower than he deserved. since | would
Judge him on his play this year
Two other national champions write as
follows: Walter J. Travis, NO thank
you, l am not looking Tor trouble This
is due to the fact that he is the editor OF
the American Golfer Robert Gardner, ma
tional champion, 1909, says: II should like
very much to oblige YOU with a rating. but
| hardly consider myself capable OF drawing
one up as know very little about the east.
ern golfers. However, | think Evans is
easily first with Mason Phelps near him
About the rest do not know"
William c. Fownes. national cham ion
/ "a
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-15

In making this selection Mr. FOwne5
writes: These | consider the twenty best
golfers OF the country and the manner I'm
which ! would rate them. know so little
of Travers' game at present that have
put him rather low in the list"
Jerome d. Travers, national champion
1907. 1908:
llerleshon Sawyer
Egan. WoOd
lraveTs. Edwards.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-15

sawyer. LeEg
herreShuff, sber.
bG.d.t,. AsTruGn.
Anugi son. u,. dCaad.
larry G. Legg, tgansmississippi cham
pion. las this TO say. II think there is no
doubt about the ranking Of the RS. five
men, and after that It is very dif.-ca.t to
place Them in tleit proper rosi.lcns Such
experts as Travers and Egaa are not
placed because they have not c-m2eIed
this season. To my mind there is enc man
far above the Other golfers Of tue season
and that is chick Evans. He haa D.cyed
continually mougaUu. the season AID has
lost but three matches. His bess vo-- was
shown in the westsIn open, VIII re he made
a clean sweep. AZ the western ana eur
his putting vas the only weak pert Of his
game, but even then ne made Phelps play
llllee bette" than par to win. lie mas, an
ideal disposition, loves the game and
whether >ictorious or vanquished he Is
always the same smiling, suSbg-=t, low
able chick" His selection follows:
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-15

IT am naturally partial to the western
men" he says, as all Of them have made
indelible records indisputable in their de-
gree Of achievement. I have greater re-
spect for the ability OF Chick Evans game
than OF any Of those mentioned. It was
by a fluke that he failed TO win the ma
tional at Brooklne, as l can testify as
carried his clubs around the circuit"
Max II. Behr, New Jersey champion, run
ner-up national championship, 1903;
Travis Byers
Evans. Tiffany.
Herreshoff EERn.
Fownes Whittemore.
Travers. Douglas.
Phelps. Reid
Seckel. OrTniston
p. Hunter. Wilder.
r. Hunter. White.
Wood. Gardner.
Arthur PottOw, publisher golf;
Fownee Whittemore
Evans. Anderson.
Herreshoff. Douglas
Travers Lockwood,
Travis ByerB
Seckel. TuckermRn.
Gardner p. Hunter
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-15

0NV'7VIV -V'IIVBItVVV
pion, says: II have always claimed that
# is impossible to give a numerical rating,
as there is no such thing as best, second
CT third / have therefore put the various
players in classes respective to their merit
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-15

Mr. Wood modestly left his own name
out, but the writer has taken the liberty OF
putting it in where It properly belongs:
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1911-10-07
Red Cross Christina. seals.

The National Association for the
Study and Prevention of tuberculosis
will this year for the first time be ma
tonal agent for the American Red
Cross in handling the sale of Red
Cross seals. A new national Office has
been opened in Washington. and an
initial order has been placed for
50,000.000 seals. although It Is expect
Cd that double that number will be
sold. The charge to local agents for
the seals will be 12h per cent of the
gross proceeds, the national agent fur
nishing the seals and advertising ma
terial. and taking back all unsold seals
at the end of the season. Postmaster
General Hitchcock has approved Of
the design Of the seal. Owing to the
fact that many people last year used
Red Cross seals for postage. the post
office department has given orders
that letters or packages bearing seals
on the face win not be carried
through the mails.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1911-10-07
He Believed Tin Was Of Greatest I'm
portance to This Country In the
Way Of Its Possible Devei-
opment.

IT sometimes think that the great
est schoolmaster. both for an Ameri-
can business man and for member
of congress, is a tariff bill when II Is
under consideration. either by the
ways and means committee Of the
house Of representatives. or by the
house itself in committee OF the
whole"
1t was in 1882 that this statement
was made to me by William Mckin-
ley. who at that time had been for six
years a member Of congress and had
already become prominent because Of
his mastery from the protectionist
point OF view of all questions relating
to the tariff. A tariff commission had
been appointed In 1882 whose duty 1t
was to report to congress a revision
OF the tariff. It was while MIR. Nc
Kinley was discussing some Of the diff
ficulties that this commission would
be compelled to meet and overcome
that he made the remark to me which
IL quoted above.
1T Is impossible for any man faith
fully to follow the hearings before the
ways and means committee. or to
serve upon that committee. without
learning more of the material re-
sources of the United States. whether
they are developed or latent. or what
The possibilities of development are.
than could be learned by him in any