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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-03
RUSSIAN LION HERE TONIGHT
Meets Jess Westergaard at Audito-
rum with a Handicap.
DIES MONIES FANS ON HAND
Followers of the Game Arc Anxious to
See HsckenschmIdt and Look for
Interesting Announcements
At Rlngaide.

Seventy-five or more wrestling fans will
be on hand from Des Moines to see the
big Observation-Disclosures match to
be held in the Auditorium this evening.
The bunch OF fans is said to be leading
citizens of Des Moines-doctors lawyers
and business men-all of whom are inter
ested in Westergaard and proud that he is
Des Moines product.
All is ready at the Auditorium for the
two wrestlers. a twenty-foot ring built
and Sandy Griswold procured TO referee
the bout. The preliminary men report that
they are all in shape for their meet. George
Miller having arrived from Kansas City
Monday night. Toliver, who will be
Miller's opponent, has been training care
fully, as he realizes he is up against some
thing strong
1t is confidently expected that several
interesting announcements will be made
from the ring before Hackenschmidt and
Westergaard get together. Jack Curey
will probably announce Hackenschmidt as
the worlds champion, now that Gotch has
retired absolutely. The possibility of
Mahmout challenging the Russian is an
other OF the announcements that many Of
the fans are expecting and worrying about.
MahmOut in the last year has had con-
siderable hard luck, due chiefly, many
think. to bad management. He had three
or four managers. each with a different
idea, and as they are all making matches
at the same time he doesn't get to wrestlc
at all. At the present time he is still in
Chicago and doing nothing but light
wrestling work to keep himself in trim.
A few early birds in the Des Mones
party who arrived Monday are declaring
that the mighty Russian will have his
hands full to put the Iowa wonder down
twice in an hour. Westergaard, they point
out. weighs 21S pounds by the statement
made by himself and that he is in the
finest condition he has ever been. When
he tackled Hackenschmidt in Chicago he
weighed 1893 pounds at the ringside, which
is fifteen pounds below his normal weight.
The injured ankle OF Westergaard is now
perfectly good, says Thorson, his manager,
and he expects his man to hold off Hack
enschmidt from even one fall in an hour.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-03
National Commission
Meeting Will Be Short
Chairman Says Entire Proceedings
Will Be Over in Ten Minutes to
Re-elect 0rricers.

CINCINNATI, O., Jan. 2-Unless some
thing unforeseen intervenes' the meeting Of
the National Base Ball commission at 10
o clolk tomorrow will break all records for
shortness of duration. Shairman August
Hermann shortly before departing for
Slaughery island, Where the meeting will
be held said:
THE entire meeting will be over in ten
minutes"
The commission will hear the report of
Chairman Herman and Secretary Bruce
Following this President Lynch of the
National league. and President johnson Of
the Aemrican league will meet and re-
elect August Hermann of Cincinnati
chairman
This will be followed by the reelection Of
Secretary Bruce.
President Herrman's report is expected
to deal with the question OF allowing play
ers to play in the winter months but no
action is expected at this time.
President Ban b. Johnson of the American
league, accompanied by Chairman Herr
mann. departed for Laurghrey island this
afternoon. while President Lynch of the
National league Secretary Johnny Heidler
and Barney Dreyfuss president of the
Pittsburg club. who constitute the National
league schedule committee, motored down
tonight President johnson will assume
the role of the entire schedule committee
Of the American league.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-03
Iowa COllegians
at Indoor Work
Track Men Busy in Preparation for
Coming Meets-Des Moines College
Adopts Conference Rules.

Basket ball and indoor track work will
begin at all the smaller Iowa colleges this
week. All the schools will have indoor track
teams this year and prepare their athletes
for the outdoor season.
Coach Chalmers at Des Moines college
has organized q new plan, starting the foot
ball class now and keeping It up during the
school year in preparation for the next
season. lie announced at the beginning Of
the basket ball season that the rules of
the Missouri valley conference would pre-
vail this season instead OF the Young
Mems Christian association rules, which
have been used heretofore. Some of the
schools of the conference named may be
played this year.
Drake university will start its basket ball
and track work this week, Coach Hackett
having put out his notices Monday night
Track work under Coach Griffith and a
foot ball class under DR.. Hobbs will be
started with the basket ball season. The
Drake men have plans for entering an in
door team and taking a few OF the honors
at the national indoor meet in Omaha in
April
At Highland park practice went on stead
ny through the ordinary vacation week,
as no vacation is, given there and a num-
Der of fast players developed.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-03
Kennedy Re-ChOsen
School Board Head
R. V. Cole Elected Vice President at
Organization Meeting-Com-
mittees Named Soon.

Alfred c. Kennedy was reelected presi-
dent OF the Board Of Education at its
reorganization meeting after four new
board members had taken their seats last
night. r. v. Cole was elected vice presi-
dent. No other business was transacted
by the board after the reorganization.
As is customary the board met first with
the retiring members in their seats. Some
ordinary claims were allowed and a hand
full Of other business was given attention.
The board then adjourned.
At Sis o'clock the board met for reorgan-
izaton, with the new members, w. T.
Bourke, George Colt, Jacob l.. Jacobson
and Milard f. Sears occupying the seats
vacated by the retiring members, Messrs.
f. b. Kennard, Paul w. Kuhns, ]. G.
Lindsay and J. H. Vance.
1t was agreed that the officers be noml-
mated by informal ballot. On the ballot
for president Mr.. Kennedy received seven
votes, MIR. Cole four and Grant w. will
Jams two. Mr.. Kennedy having received
majority of the total vote motion to
instruct Secretary Burgess to cast the en-
tire vote of the board for Mr.. Kennedy
was carried and he was unanimously
elected Similar action was taken for Mr..
Cole after the informal ballot, which re-
suited as follows: Cole, ten; s. p. Bost-
wick, one; Grant w. Williams, two.
Mr. Kennedy said he will announce his
appointments of committees within few
days
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-03
FAITH A SPUR TO SUCCESS
An Incident of the Early Days of
TeleErRphy and Enthusissm of
Theodore Vail.

The recent election Of Theodore n. Vail
as president of the Western Union Tele-
graph company was but an incident in
one OF the most active and successful of
American careers. In another sense. It
was a natural sequence in the progressive
order Of events. Mr. Vairs cousin, Alfred
Vail. was a co-worker with Morse and
won a fortune as his share in the famous
patent. While he was experimenting at
Morrstown, n. j., the lad Theodore was
making toy lines of his own and learning
the alphabet and how to send messages.
When he went west to make his fotune
he entered the regular service but pres
emily found himself in Washington at the
head of the railway mall service.
There he was found by Gardiner G. Hub
bard at the psychological moment in the
development of the telephone. The prac-
ticability of the new device had been fairly
well demonstrated. but the promoters
lacked money and the creative and execu-
tive capacity. Where to find these essen
tails was the puzzle. zone morning." says
Casson in his History of the Telephone"
THE indefatigable Hubbard solved the
problem Watson ne said. there's q
young man in Washington who can solve
this situation and l want you to run down
and see what you think of him. Watson
went, reported favorably and in a day or
so the young man deceived a letter from
Hubbard offering him the position Of gen
eral manager at a salary Of $500 year.
we rely" Hubbard said, upon your ex-
eeutlve ability your fidelity and unremit4
ting zeal. The young man replied in one
of those dignified letters more usual in the
nineteenth than in the twentieth century.
My faith in the success Of the enterprise
is such that l am willing TO trust to it,
he wrote, and l have confidence that we
shall establish the harmony and co-opera-
ton that is essential TO the success Of an
enterprise of this kind. One week later
the young man, Theodore N. Vail took
his seat as general manager in tiny Of
flee in Reade street, New York, and the
business began. "-Harper's Weekly.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-03
SUN FISH STOPS A STEAMER
story of a Deep Sea Catch that Beats
Inland Narratives "tO
Frnz8Ie."

Few maritime experiences have been re-
corded stranger than that which befel the
Fiona, a twin-screw steamer belonging to
the Colonial Sugar Refining company OF
Sydney. New South Wales. When the
Fiona was off Bird Island, about forty
miles north of Sydney Heads on its way
from the Clarence river to Sydney, little
after l D. m, all hands were alarmed by
a sudden shock, as though the steamer had
struck a solid substance or wreckage. The
result was strange and remarkable, for
the port engine was brought up "all stand
ing" The starboard engine was quickly
stopped and boat lowered and sent TO
Investigate. on getting under the steamers
counter the boats crew were astonished
to find that a huge sunfish had become
securely fixed in the bracket of the port
propeller. One blade was completely EN-
bedded In the creatures flesh, jamming the
monster firmly against the stern-post OF
the vessel. II was impossible to extricats
the fish at sea, so the boat was hoisted
on board again and the steamer proceeded
on it's passage 10 Sydney with the star
board engine only working. on reaching
Port Jackson the Fiona was anchored in
Mosman bay, where all hands were set to
work to remove the fish. After much
difficulty and with the aid OF the steamers
WINCH the sunIlSn was hOlHleu tleai anu
swung on board The Fiona then pro-
ceeded TO the sugar company's wharf. The
fish was put on the companys weigh
bridge. and found to weigh two tons four
hundredweight. The measurements were:
Length, ten feet; across the body, six
feet; across the body and fins fourteen
feet; mouth eight inches wide; dorsal fin,
four feet high and two feet six inches
across; anal fin. three feet six inches; and
the caudal or tail fin, twenty-five and one
half inches Tonga short fringe-like stump.
The jaws were comparatively very feeble,
but well adapted for masticatng it's food,
which principally consists OF minute pelagic
matter. crustacea, and small fish. The skin
in color was shagreen. and the texture
that Of the elephant The naturalist TO the
Board OF Fisheries OF New South wales.
Mr. David G. Stead, who closely examined
this specimen. stated that Il was perhaps
the largest ever killed, and certainly much
larger than anything hitherto recorded or
known of in Australian waters.-Wide
World Magazine
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-03
COOLEY TO GO ON THE STAGE
Former Owner Of the Topeka Team
Tells of the Success He Had
at the Game.

Dick Cooley former Louisville manager,
who with old Ed Delehanty, Lajoie. Flick,
Mcfarland ard Monte Cross gave the
Phlllies one Of the best teams they ever
had, is getting ready 10 produce a base
ball act in vaudeville. Cooley Is married.
and his wife, who Is a clever singer, will
be included in the act. Cooley, who, years
ago had a reputation as a pretty wild
boy, has settled down and is now busi-
nessliSe man. He sold his Topeka club
last year and says he has $25 900 TO show
for his four years in Kansas,
But l never worked so hard in all my
life as I did in Topeka" said Richard talk
ing to a friend the other day. 81 played
first base and wasn't out OF the game a
sinsle day Think OF IL, / had town OF
10000 up there bucking cities like Denver
and ST. Joseph. and when these clubs
started to put in thousands of dollars 10
strengthen their teams 1 decided It was
time for Richard to get out. Well, l sold
all my good players during midseason, get
ting about $1,000 out OF these sales. Then,
at the end of the year l sold the franchise
and now / have $500 in bank ready for
the first good opening l find to buy an
other minor league club When you have
a bank roll you can do something. and /
never felt more Independent in my life than
I do today"
There are many more players like
Cooley; I'm fact. every ambitious player
whose big league career is drawing TO a
close is beginning to branch out as a minor
league club owner. In many instances
players who were never regarded as good
business men 20 out and make good in
these minor league ventures
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-03
Pirates Will Make
Longer Spring Trip
Schedule Calls for Eight Games in
Little Rock, Memphis, Dayton,
Chattanooga and Columbus.

PlTTSBURG. Jan. 2.-rhe spring train
ing plans FOR tho Pittsburg base ball club
calls for more strenuous period Of prep
aration than has been attempted in pre-
vious seasons. The team will report at West
Baden, Ind. on March Z and the spring
schedule calls for eight practice games in
Little Rock, Memphis. Chattanooga, Co
lumbus. and Dayton. O.
The team will remain at West Baden
until March II, when II win depart for Hot
Springs. Ark. For seventeen days it will
be at It's training quarters at Wilmington
Park. on April the club will play it's an
nual game with the University Of Arksn-
sas at Little Rock
There win he one game at Memphis on
April 3. and beginning April three games
will be played at Chattanooga on the
9th and 10th there viii be games at
Columbus Spring exhibition series will
close at Dayton, April II. the day preceding
the opening Of the national league.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-03
THORSoN ToUTS JESS TO WIN
Manager of Weatergaard Says the Big
Dane IL In the Prime of
Condition.

Oscar Thorson. manager for Jess wester-
gard. who is to wrestle George Hacken-
schmidt at the Auditorium Tuesday night,
came to Omaha early Monday morning on
a delayed passenger train and in gleeful
mood.
Thorson believes that his protege will
take the rubles from the Russian when
they tangle Tuesday evening, Jess" he
said. rs in Des Hoines, training. He is in
much better condition than the last time
he met Hack, although he won then. When
he wrestled Hack. in Chicago December Z
he was sick and eight pounds under weight.
lie had lost eight pounds in his match
with DR. Roller two nights before. He
now is al his normal weight PIG pounds,
and is in fine condition. This weather
should be conducive to lively match. One
feels as II they could wrestle a bear after
being out little while in this wind. West
ergaard will come 10 Omaha Tuesday morn
ing"
Hackenschmidt did not arrive here Mon
day morning. A stack Of mail is awaiting
him at the Rome hotel.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-03
LIKES AMERICAN FIGHTERS
Mrs. Prizes of Australia Says Our Pugi-
lists Are Perfect GEN
flemeu

One Australian woman has been to look
at the exhibition OF the American boxers.
She knows athletics well and she seems
10 have taken quite a fancy to the young
men who have Travelled from the United
States to the south seas.
Her name is Mrs. Sarah +. Prizes, and In
discussing the merits Of boxers and athletes
in general Mrs. Prizes says that the Amerl-
can boxers have proved themselves TO he
perfect gentlemen in every way, and would
hardly be taken for men Of their profess
sion. RAY Bronson, billy Papke,
Jimmy Clabby and Sycamore Johnny
Thompson all come IN for compliments from
Mrs Prizes. Mrs. Prizes further states that
pattern from their American visitors. who
have set an example that viii always be
remembered by Australian people
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-03
ICY" Young to Quit
the National Game
Many Fans Will Regret the Depar-
ture of the Veteran from
the Diamond.

So "Cy' Young is to be given his uncon-
ditional release by the Cleveland club and
will go back to the farm in Tuscarawas
county, from which he came as a young
man.
II was long time ago. as ball players
go, that Young began his career on the
diamond.
There is no ball player who has been
less affected by his surroundings than
Young. He is the same simple, big-hearted.
well-balanced man that he was the first
day he started away from the farm to see
If he could earn little money IN the ma
tional pastime
Year after year he has pitched for pro-
fessional teams with nothing but com
mendation ringing in his ears, and he Is
more modest now, II anything, or II he
could be. than he was when he started
Base ball to him not only has been
means to a good livelihood, and he has
saved much trat he has earned but 1t is
an occupation so highly esteemed by him
that he frequently said he knew Of moth
ing Of which a man could be prouder than
to give his best efforts in it's behalf
Unlike some pitchers of renown, he did
not go through his long career without be-
ing a member of a championship team.
When he was with the Boston Americans
they won a pennant and when he was
with the Cleveland club he assisted in the
games of one season when Cleveland beat
Baltimore for the Temple cup.
There will be more than Ones base ball
fan" over the big circuits who will be
sorry that he is to retire. His genial face
viii be missed from st. Louis and Boston.
1t was only last summer that the fans"
Of New York showed the high honor in
which he is held when they applauded him
vigorously as he was leaving the field
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-03
VAUGHAN MURDER TRIAL
BEGINS AT LANCASTER, MO.
Prosecution Asks for Continuance Be-
cause Of Illness of PRINCIPAL
witness.

LANCASTER, Mo-, Jan. 2.-Mrs. Alma
p. Vaughn and DIR. ]. r. Hull of Monroe
City. who are accused of poisoning the
woman's husband. Prof. John T. Vaughn,
appeared, before Judge Shelton this after7
noon for trial. The prosecution filed atfi-
davlts with an application for a continu-
ance and the defense asked for dismissal
of the charges
The affidavit related to the physical con-
dition of DR. Paul Schweitzer of Columbia,
who examined the viscera of Prof. Vaughn.
DR.. e. c. Clements OF Macon testified that
because of a growth on DR.. Schweitzer's
eye, he thought the chemist would never
be able to testify. Dr. Schweitzer is the
states main witness.
Arguments on the motions probably will
take up the entire afternoon
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-03
LIFE IN FAR EAST
why America Must Play the Game Of
Diplomacy in the
Orient.

, Price Collier whose articles about Eng
land and the English from an American
Point OF View created something Of a
sensation on both sides OF the Atlantic, and
were accepted in England with surprising.
good nature and appreciation of the au
thors evident fairness. will begin new
series of articles in the January number
OF Scribners They will deal in broad
way with the great problems that confront
the west and the east, with a special view
OF what England has achieved in India.
The first paper. ION the Way to India,
summarizes with clearness the changes
that recent events have made in the rela-
tions OF all of the great nations in the
east America can no longer sit idly by
and watch the game Of diplomacy from
the vantage-point of a disinterested OBJ
server
Americans must accept the response
bilities OF the new situation whether they
like them or not. They may not shirk the
trust imposed upon them, whether for the
present or for posterity. The Washington
dictum of no entangling alliances is
thing Of the past. We cannot play the
game single-handed." The author well says
that next TO our own affairs those OF Great
Britain are of most Importance TO us. His
comments on some recent acts OF our state
department will be read with interest, espe-
ciaHy IN view Of the constant rumors OF
probable trouble with Japan.
There are some most interesting facts
given with regard TO England's national
business policy; she is taxing time and
taxing energy-the most cruel Of all forms
of taxation" In India Great Britain has
population OF SOOOOO,OOO and there lies
her greatest problem. The one insistent
and constant impression the east makes on
the western mind is that here We are
journeying through world where the best
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-03
JOHNSON PICKS OUT WINNER
Champion Jack Looks to MOnOhan as
the Next.
TALKS OF HIS HARDEST BATTLE
Seventeen Rounds Under Boiling
Texas sun without winter for "a
Purse Of Ten DoIIars-Foot
Rail RuIes Up This week.

II was the Chicago Tribune which got
Jack" johnson TO describe the hardest
fight he ever had in his life. and Johnson
dld not stipuate that the match with JEFF
fries belonged to that class. Probably 1t
didn't.
Here Is what Johnson did say:
Il have been asked TO say a few words
concerning the hardest battle OF my
career
This battle took place in Galveston in
the month Of August. 1896. between myself
and a negro fighter named John Lee.
L, will never forget that fight. II took
place in field, in the hot sun, and we
could not get any water even to rinse our
months with. For seventeen rounds we
battied in the heat when / knocked him
out. received for this fight the sum Of
SO
Some ten or twelve years ago when
was quite clever in the boxing line, l tried
TO get a manager but could not. After
became noted men from all sides tried to
get the position, Including Tom oRourke.
When l took Sam Fitzpatrick for man
ager every fighting fan in America and
other parts Of the world know that / had
beaten all the good men. So no one can
say that sam Fitzpatrick made me
champion, and furthermore Il makes no
difference how good and how shrewd a
manager may be, the fighter must have
talent and ability to becom, q champion.
"zeke Abrams has looked out for my af-
fairs In San Francisco for quite a few
years and we have always been friends
Il have made careful study of boxing
and today l do not think there is a man
in the world who knows the game and can
execute II us we'll 90 l. 1 am willing to de-
fend the championship q the world against
any man the public may select providing
my end Of the purse Is enough TO warrant
doing SO. I have also great man in
Walter. Monahan, and / believe that he is
one Of the many who will make good
hope some day sooner or later he win take
my place"
Then Mcuahan was easily outpointed in a
six round 20"
You never can be sire.
Base bail Managers.
A st. Louis Newspaper sums up the base
ball managerial situation this way:
"A manager with the personality and
the brains will win" Might add the play
ers- They are slightly essential, for person
alities will get run down at the heel and
brains win become fizzled and scrambled
IL the weather is hot enough, and the
team bad enough.