Omaha daily bee., 1914-11-22
LINING UP FOR BASKET BALL
Three Leagues Now Organized to
Participate in Winter Sport.
MORE ARE TO BE HEARD FROM
Mae Churches Are 60 Have Teams
Upon the Floors During
the Season About 20
Omen.

Basket ball IL 20 be the king Of in
door sports with the younger set this
winter. Though the official season does
not open for nearly a month, three
. leagues have organized with a total Of
twenty-five teams This number 10 sure
J 20 be doubled during the next few weeks
when a large number Of frce-lance
teams take up the winter sport. Many
Of these have already lined up for the
, scissor and have started playing.
: Interest in the floor game centers
! about the leagues. rhe first TO be or
4 ganlzed. the Church league is the larg-
est in point Of number, nine church
teams having entered. Emmanuel Bap-
tist, First Christian. First Methodist.
Hanscom Park Methodists, Kountze
Memorial Westminster Presbyterian.
South Omaha Baptist, st. Mary Con-
gregational and the Hanscom Park
Baptist
OF the other two leagues organized. the
Tri-City will be the strongest as to play
ers. In this organ. cation, former college
stars and ex-high school men complete
the roster Of n number Of the teams.
Coach Mills has decided to enter the
Omaha High quintet. as has also Belle
vue college. The University OF Omaha
and Creighton. decided not to take part
In any OF tho city organizations.
I Following are the Trl-City league
teams: Townsend Gun company, Coun-
Gil Bluffs Young Mems Christian associa-
ton. Swift Packing company. Walter @,
Clarks. Omaha High school. Bellevue
college and Stub Hascalr All stars. As
promoters OF the league are trying to
make II an eight-team affair, another
team will be secured to fill in. The
schedule Is being drafted for eight teams.
The third organization, known as the
Commercial league, consists of the fol-
lowing teams: First National bank.
Omaha National bank. two teams; Ne
brasla Telephone company, Council
I Bluffs Cubs, two teams; Omaha High
schools second team and employees OF
the Omaha Young Mems Christian as
/ ISOLATION.
The Com rciaI League.
| Tho Commercial league is to be made
as nearly 30 as its name suggests. 1t Is
the intention OF the organizers to have
as many commercial firms in II as pos
slble, outside teams being used merely
that the league will consist of eight
teams. Players of the Commercial teams
must DO employees OF the firms they rep
resent.
The Nebraska Telephone company
and the Omaha National bank. decided
to enter two teams each In this league.
because OF the large number OF employees
they had interested In the game.
New features enterins into the local
basket ball sport, will easily insure It's
success. Some have regular league offic-
las at every game and thus do away
with all Observation-Disclosures brought about
by incompetent arbiters.
There viii be more floors on which
TO stage the games. Last season all the
contests we're played at the Young Mems
Christian association. This brought
about the delaying OF scheduled games
whenever the Omaha High school played
an out-of-town school team here on Sat
urdays Besides tho Young Mems Chris
tan ASSOCIATION floor. arrangements
have been made with the University OF
Omaha for the use OF its floor several
nights of the week.
Another Improvement that viii be seen
Is that OF a color scheme being worked
out by Physical Director Maxwell. II
possible no two teams OF the same league
will have like uniforms. In the past,
some OF the five had suits OF such a
similar color 20 that OF their opponents.
that at times It was nearly impossible
TO distinguish them.
The schedules for the three leagues
are being arranged SO that the games
will be played Tuesday. Thursday and
Saturday eveningS 1t is possible that
the Commercial league teams Will play
their games in the afternoons.
Haskell Ball Gossip.
Erne Adams would like to connect witt
4 one OF the Tri-Clty league teams. Cal
| Walnut 13
Not much love between the Church
| League teams. Last season Hobson wal
one OF the mainstays OF the First Metho-