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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-11-14
Gilmore Is Some
Base Ball Man, is
Opinion Of Pratt

James A. Gilmore. president Of the Fed
eral league. may be good promoter and
able TO talk a man with money into be-
lieving that a clay brick is pure gold.
but he doesn't know much about ball
players nor even try TO learn. II a story
told by Derrill Pratt OF the st. Louis
Browns IL true. Shortly before the sea-
son closed Gilmore asked Pratt 10 call
and zee him, that he had an interest
ing" proposition TO make the Browns
second baseman. That Pratt turned the
proposition down and signed q new con-
tract with the Browns Is not part Of this
story.
Pratt thought he would give the Fed
eral league promoter the once over, 90
called at his offioe in New York and in
troduced himself.
Having a good year," inquired Gill;
more.
Great" replied Pratt.
What position do you playY' was the
next query shot a. Pratt by Gilmore, and
IL didn't do thing. not a single thing
but take all the wind out OF Derrilrs
sail Really and truly Pratt failed to
make" Jim. IL seemed unbelievable
that Gilmore the president OF the Fed
eral lea que, did not know that Pratt. a
man he W -sed TO sign for his league.
was a second sacker. But there he sat
waiting for DNrill's answer. That fact
could not be ignored. so Pratt replied:
why. I'm a second baseman."
whats your fielding Average7" asked
Gilmore
TO be candid. couldn't say off-hand
but ! know I'm hitting 80" replied
Pratt.
That's good. but nice fielding aver
age woulS make you all the more valua.
bic to the Federal league" said Gilmore
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-11-14

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gist's. II you need special advice,
write to 8. 8. 8. Co., Atlanta, Ca.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-11-14
Offers to Provide
Omaha With Hurler

III you would like to sign . young
pitcher that VIII make q good man for
zoo IN two months let me know by re-
turn mail. As he can be signed by other
clubs. Then 1 win tell you my reasons
fer writing TO you
This IL a letter from c. NJ. Barr OF
Huntington. W. Va. 10 the manager OF
the Omaha ball club. Mr.. Barr says he
has a great pitcher under his wing and
that he would make world heater in the
Western league. He does not reveal the
identity OF the pitcher but there Is q
suspicion his name Is Barr.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-11-14
Ida Grove High is
Looking for Game

The Ida Grove. Ia. high school foot
ball team Is after a game for Thanks
diving. This bunch Of husky Iowans de-
sire TO Try their mettle with Omaha OF
the south Side high schools. but the cap,
tain says any old team will do.
The Ida Groves claim the high school
championship for northwestern Iowa and
are ready 10 meet any high school team
They offer TO nay expenses and &
bonus for a game 10 be played Thanks
giving day al Ida Grove.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-11-14
HERE'S A PLAYER AFTER
THE MAGNATE'S HEART

If newspaper reports from Los Angeles
are eorreety then Billy Purtell of the Yer
non team is an unusual ball player. When
Vernon took PuFtellsit also took over his
Detroit contract. President MAisr In
formed the player that he must take a
cut in salary for next year. Rurtell is
quoted as saying he cannot expect Vernon
TO pay him a major league contract and
that he is willing TO Secept a reasonable
reduction Ain' pay.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-11-14

because Of summer base ball. Now SEQ
vii will have his chance and he may
bring fame to himself and Yale by break
ing through the Harvard team. Enwright
lie one OF the most promising backfield
him out of the game most OF the season
However. he is being nursed along care
fully and will probably be one Of the
starters against Yale.
According to the dope. Harvard should
beat Yale by as large a score as II did
last year. but dope" does not figure in
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-11-14

Here are shown four Of the stars OF
Yale and Harvard who wfll meet on the
field at Cambridge next Saturday
Captain Wilson and Captain Mahan
will be depended upon largely to do the
punting for their respective teams. In
this department Mahan has the edge on
Wilson. Scovil the former Dartmouth
star. has not shown up so well at Yale,
being somewhat overshadowed in field
running. his speciality. by Hairy lie Gore.
who with four other Yale athletes were
declared ineligible for college athletics
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-11-14
BANQUET FOR LUXUS TEAM
AT PAXTON HOTEL TONIGHT

The Luxus ball club. which won the
championship OF Omaha and got as far
as Cleveland in the inter-city elimination
series, will be banqueted at the Paxton
hotel tonight by the hackers OF the team
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-11-14
LINCOLN TRAP SHOOTERS
DEFY OMAHA CLUB CRACKS

Lincoln crap shooters are trying to
frame team match shoot with Omaha
blue rock pluggsrs, one shoot 70 be held
in Omaha and the other IN Lincoln. The
Omaha Gun club sharks are very agree
able when Il comes TO arranging team
matches and will probably schedule a
couple of shoots with the capital city
marksmen
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-11-14
WICHITA TRIES TO SIGN
STlEHM'S STAR ATHLETE

The management Of the Wichita West
ern league club IL trying TO induce Guy
Chamberlain. star Nebraska foot ball
player. 70 enter the professional ranks.
Chamberlain Is something Of . sOuthpAw
twirier and the Wolves are trying to sign
him for lSlG
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-11-14
BEING THE SECOND OF A SERIES
OF ARTICLES ON TOWNS AND
NEAR TOWNS WE HAVE
VISITED IN OUR

BEING THE SECOND OF A SERIES
OF ARTICLES ON TOWNS AND
NEAR TOWNS WE HAVE
VISITED IN OUR
YOUNG LIFE.
Chicago r. the wtndiest city in the
United states. More wind IL exuded by
the typewrfters of Chicago than by all
the blowing machines in Pittsburgh. Ask
Charles Comiskey or c. Webb Murphy
for confirmation Of this.
One OF the favorite pastimes in Chicago
Is 20 sell the Cubs and trade Heine Zim
to McGraw. The only trouble with these
pastimes is the fact that Murphy won't
sell the Cubs and McGraw won't have
Heinie Zim, having had experience with
Larry Mclean
Chicago is chiefly noted for the loop,
elevated railroads. Hinky Dlnk and Ring
Lardner The loop Is a place for loop
hounds to congregate and taxi drivers to
speed Pedestrians have no business in
the loop. The elevated railroads are to
make a noise so patrons Of downtown
hotels can't sleep or think Hinky Dink
is to provide a subject for refor1ners. As
far as we can discover, there is no excuse
for the existence of Ring Lardner. He
just sneaked in some way
Chicago Is a nice place to spend Sum
day. At the present writing half OF Chi
cago goes TO Milwaukee to spend the
Sabbath and the gloom along State street
can be cut with knife.
They are now getting ready to pull off
six-dsy bicycle race in Chicago. In
other words, Chicago is the biggest sucker
town in the world with the exception OF
N'Yawk ....
Next week Lawrence, Kan, will be the
subject OF our travelogue
office Conversation.
Hey, you, here's a yarn about a wres-
tier. said our boss.
The waste basket would like TO read
II, said we.
Come here and get II. said the boss.
What are you intimating by that,
said we.
Take it any way you want to, said
| the boss.
| Yes, sir. said we. thinking of Saturday
night when we visit the cashier.
This guys name is Aberg and he is a
Russian, said the boss.
Must be a speedy guy. said we. laugh
| ing 10 ourself. thinking we had put over
good one; and, then. thinking perhaps
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-11-14

cided to try again After his defeat Mo-
Allister made up his mind that he was
better fitted to be an insurance agent
than a ring star. But like all those who
have taken a whirl at the boxing game.
McAll'ster is unable TO resist the craving
to attempt comback. He hopes to got
a match with Tom Gibbons, the husky
brother OF Mike.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-11-14

the annual clash between these two col
leges. No game in the country excites
so much interest or draws such a crowd
as does the annual foot ball battle be-
tween the sons of Eli Yale and John
Harvard.
Extra stands have been erected in the
Harvard stadium, which seat about 1900
people. to accommodate the large number
of spectators. Last year the annual game
opened the Yale bowl at New Haven and
more than 10000 people turned out to see
Il.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-11-14
GOLD CUP RACES WILL
BE HELD IN DETROIT

NEW YORK. Nov. ia-The gold cup
races next year for the American speed
boat championship will be held septem-
Der. 2. 4 and al Detroit. Mich. The races
20 70 Detroit as a result OF the victory OF
the Miss Detroit IN the races on Manhas-
- bay IN August The dates were ar
hanged AZ the annual meeting OF the
American Power Boat association last
seek IN this city.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-11-14
CHANCE TO SETTLE DISPUTE
New York Boxing Commission May
Decide Whether Ertie is Ban
tam Champ or Not.
DECISIONS ON THEIR WAY

NEW YORK, Nov. l2-The question
Of whether Johnny Ertle really won the
bantam title from Kid Williams may he
decided officially by the boxing commits
sion II ne decides to box in this city,
according TO Chairman Fred Wenek. In
discussing the matter recently Commits
sioner wenck said that II any local club
billed Ertle as the bantam champion II
would be question whether It was OBJ
tanning money under false pretenses and
II would therefore be up to the commits
sion to decide a point, that has puzzled
boxing followers all oyer the country
II the commission does decide to rule
on the question It will raise still another
Issue Has the boxing commission the
necessary authority to rule on'a matter
which has hitherto been strictly gov
erned by the oueensberry code. II ring
followers IN general accept the commits
sion as an authority in this matter a
precedent will have been established
and in the future the local body will be
asked to rule on other points OF a similar
nature.
In many other ways the new commits
sion Il going 20 be run on less conserve
tive lines than the OLD one. According
to Chairman wepck It Is his idea to
make the office a rendezvous for fighters
and their managers. and win undertake
to forward their mail and help them IN
every way possible. 'E
There Is little doubt that decisions will
be tried as soon as the commission Is
complete unless Governor Whitman sends
word that he does not favor making the
cha nEe. Whether decisions win be bene-
fetal Is a matter that cannot be decided
until after they have been tried, but II Is
certain that " the experiment Is made
the offices OF the commission will be a
very busy place this winter. b.
II should not take long TO decide one
way or the other. II will either be a
great success or a grand failure. II
the scheme works we'll Il should not be
long before a complete new set OF cham
pions in the lighter classes replaces the
present crew. Probably Kilbane and
Welsh win hesitate 10 risk their, crowns
In short bouts for time. but In the end
they will be forced TO take chance, Il
will also be made easy 10 fill the va
cancies In the welterweight and middle
weight classes.
ErtIcr Has Trouble.
| Eitle seems 70 DC haNh6 ioN W
trouble locating an opponent TO his Xix
ing. When he arrived from the west re
Gently he announced that. his purpose
was 20 establish his class by taking OF
the best opponents that could be found
In Philadelphia. where the hantams arr
more popular than. in. this city. the pro
mOters took him at his word and nsmeC
half a dozen OF the leading contender
for him 20 choose from. Stranee 20 say
Ertle would have none OF them. bu
, picked out q pair OF third raters Phla
delphians. having a different idea o
what should be expected from a cham
pion. are now laughing AZ hts claims.
Bob MeAllister. the lanky Californian
, who did some fair boxing In New YOrl
/ last winter until he was knocked out b,
alike Gibbons In seven rounds. has de
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-11-14
Leavc Omnhn out.


romance ms She -.
He wore white pants.
He also wore a red and white sweater.
He carried a cane with red and white
ribbons dangling therefrom.
He danced around on the turf Of the
gridiron with reckless abandon.
He emitted sepulchre sounds from q
megaphone.
He was a regular little cut-up.
And squirrels chased him all over the
place.
And a fair maiden sitting in the tenth
row gazed upon him admiringly and
quoth to her companion, Isn't he a
darling?"
Oh, we almost forgot we haven't writ
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-11-14
Ja.per Mith Cards.

HI Jasper OF the Los Angeles club has
dinala.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-11-14
The Hypodermic Needle

the boss didn't get IL the first time. con-
tinued. probably fast on his feet II he
is a Russian
Then we ducked paste pot and retired
to our typewriter.
FIGURING THE FOOT BALL DOPE
A LA ONE WALTER CAMP OF
NEW HAVEN, CONN.,
CONN is GOOD.
woT, YES.
Cornell the best team in the east, de-
feats Michigan. the worst team In the
west
Notre Dame. a good team Of the west,
wallops the Army, good team Of the
east
The east is supreme.
Hurrah for Yale!
War prices is right We see where
French nurse sold kiss for 500.
Let This BE Your Laugh for Today.
There is legal fight being conducted
TO allow the introduction Of the Johnson
Willard fight pictures to the United
States.
Personally. we would just as soon see
moving pictures of a couple OF motor
trucks in action.
-..- Leave Omaha out.
Pittsburgh claims Frank Moran was
born in Pittsburgh.
| Cleveland claims Frank Moran was
born in Cleveland.
J All of which shows that it Is Just as
easy to pick fight in this country as
IN Europe
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-11-14

War prices is right. We see where a
French nurse sold q kiss for 500.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-11-14

oh. we almost forgot, we haven't writ
ten any verse yet
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-11-14

Personally. we would just as soon see
trucks in action.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-25

when ST. John was elected governor of
Kansas, and when the prohibitory
amendment was passed. As a boy at
school, we discussed prohibition, high
license and open saloons. l have al
ways taken the side of prohibition,
and believed in it and have favored it
from boyhood days.
Sons in SaIoonIess Towns.
ut has been pleasure for me to
raise my boys in a town without saloons
aud in a county where the Jail and
poor farm are uninhabited. After a
trial of thirty years in Kansas, prohi-
bition has more friends than ever.
notice that MIR. Bryan recently said
that it is not time for the Democratic
party to resolve in favor of prohibition
He is talking just like the Democratic
party of Kansas has always talked. /
want to say to you that every law save
one, on the statue books of Kansas in
favor of prohibition was passed by a
Republican legislature and signed by a
Republican governor. The great state
of Kansas is blessed with the strong
est and best prohibitory law in the
Union. Also, am in favor of nation
al prohibition, and will use every in
fiuence at my command to have every
state in this great Union enjoy the
same blessings that Kansas enjoys so
that the younger generation of men and
women all over our fair land may grow
into manhood and womanhood without
the debasing influence of the saloons.
1.-The newspaper boys over the Sixth
congressional district have been very
kind to me. The farmers, bankers and
business men generally are giving me
the wamest possible support, and do
not think there is any question about
my nomination, nor any doubt of the
entire success of the Republican party
in the coming campaign" Topeka
State Journal Saturday, Sept. 18th
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-25
How About Your Fall and Winter
Reading?

How About Your Fall and Winter
Readins7
You can get frst-class daily news
paper, the Topeka State Journal, 100
days by mail for s1.OO, 200 days for
$500, a whole year for S3.6O
The greatest sporting event of the
year as usual will be the series of base
ball games between the winners of the
American and National League pen
nants for the championship Of the world
early in October, every game of which
will be given in detail in the State Jour
nal.
If you want splendid markets, all the
news of the world, and excellent feat
ures of a serious and comic nature,
send in your order TO the
Topeka State Journal,
Topeka, Kansas.
Sample copy upon request.
Pratt and Lambert varnish at Win
ter's.
Suction-vacuum washers at Winters
Riverside cast ranges and Aerduct
heaters at Winters.
Stanolind gas engine oil at Winters
Buy your Mason fruit jars at Cox's.
Quart jars, so cents per dozen.
Flat-tone wall paint at Winters.
Bull Tractor Gas Engine oil for sale
by the gallon or barrel, by Bunker &
Bemis. . j12tf.
One Minute power washers at Win
ters'.
Lost--A cuff button with engraved
initials &C. r. T." Finder viii please
return to Glen TilIotson.
Special sale of Kitchen Cabinets at
Gottchalk's furniture, next week.
stiff
Victor records, 70 cents and up at
]. T. Morrison, the jewellers. s11
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-25

songs, or warbling Won't You be my
Honey Boy" Everyday 1 hear men
and women on the street, in hotels, in
railroad stations and In banks uttering
such croaks, and brays, nose screeches
and barn yard gobble that 1 feel like
| asking Roosevelt to ruge some bloated
millionaire to start graduate school,
In conversational voice culture All
voices by nature are well pitched and
If you have harsh, squeaky, squawky
voice it is because you misuse and
abuse the voice. There is no need of
one talking through his nose, emitting
harsh goose-gobble talk than there is
for walking pigeon-toed, or for one to
bite his finger nails. Any one can learn
to speak melodiously and agreeably if
he will only try.
Luck is the gambler asset. Web
ster says, Luck is that which happens
to person and which comes without
foresight, intention or expectation. -
You know things, good and bad, "do
harper" to most of US in just that way.
The one determinate thing about luck
is, that no amount of effort on our part
seems to bring the luck condition about.
When man gets leg broken by step
ping on loose board in the sidewalk,
or IS put out of business by a railroad
accident, 1t is bad luck, pure and sim
pie these were misfortunes that could
not have been foreseen nor avoided.
But when a chap gets his collar-bone
smashed in a game of football, it is
not luck, for he gets what he could
reasonably expect and what he could
have wisely avoided, unless he felt that
getting his neck broken was not a ser
ious concern to himself or society. If
a man buys farm fifty miles from the
railroad to make a living thereon, af-
forwards a railroad is built through
this country and his farm is chosen for
townsite, that is luck. But if. he had
good reason to believe a road would
pass that way and his farm would be
used as town site, that would not be
luck. But in the run of life MANY
things come to US that are neither at
tainable nor preventable by foresight
and we must take our chance with
these. But the greater number of good
things of life are the natural results of
effort, while our ills are mostly the re-
suit of badly directed effort. Weak
and "do-less' people have always
charged up their misfortunes to ''bad
luck" And they are always resting on
their oars waiting for the wind of good
luck to blow their way. One of the
poorest rules known is ''trust to luck. -
Nothing so rots human character as the
gamblers habit. The reliance on luck
is the gamblers creed. 1t says take a
chance. 1t says take from the other
fellow without giving return. A man
who trusts Sin luck" will not trust in
work. There seems to be as much bad
luck in life as good luck Therefore
the man who depends on the claw of
luck" soon finds that out and in order
to become winner will stoop. That is
the reason a successful is dishonest.
There is one thing that will beat the
''law of luck" and that is hard work
Hitch your train to the engine known
as "work and you will become win
ner.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-25
To Redeem the Sixth

The great desire of the republican
party in 1916 will be to elect a repub-
ican congress that will save the coun-
try from the iniquitous laws that are
now being imposed upon the people by
the present democratic administration.
Kansas was highly successful in the
election of its United States senator.
governor and state officers, but unfor-
tunately the congressional districts
went democratic with two exceptions
The sixth congressional district is
naturally republican and if good judg-
ment be used it is our opinion the old
sixth can be redeemed and placed back
in the republican column where it be-
longs. With due respect to the gentle
men whose names have been mentioned
as being possible aspirants for the
place, the News-Dispatch is inclined
to the belief that Otis L. Benton of
Oberlin, who is being urged by friends
to make the race would prove a win
ming candidate.
Mr.. Benton is native born Kansan
republican who has never side-step-
ped and has the reputation of one who
does things. Those asking that Mr..
Benton become candidate feel certain
of his nomination and election. He
has lived at Oberlin some thirty
years, has been successful in business
and otherwise well qualified to fitting
ly represent this district in congress.
What say the other republican papers
of the district, are you ready to make
boost for winner in Phillips.
burg News-Dispatch.. Jan. 81, 1915.
A man made the remark this week
that he could take the money paid for
the Yankee Robinson show and
the Carnival last week and pave Main
street and Pomeroy avenue from one
end to the other. We don't know
whether he could or not but it emphasi-
zes the fact that we spend vast sum
of money foolishly and then kick like
thunder over our taxes which are spent
for the public good. Times.
If ingalls,, A. B. Campbell, Lew
Hanback, and Dick Blue are able as
they wander through the Elysian
fields to take in the life, the sight of
Congressman John Connolly addressing
a reunion of old soldiers will doubtless
cause them to accept without further
argument the saying that times change
and men often change with them.
Thirty-fve years ago the mere sug-
gestion of a Democratic congressman
as the orator for q Kansas gathering
of old soldiers would have been almost
sufficient to warrant calling out the
home guards but even the Democratic
party has changed in the meantime
Beloit Gazette.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-25
Normal Notes and Comments.
Fall Gardening Calendar.

If not already On hand it's time to
obtain tulip, hyacinth, narcissus and
lily bulbs for fall setting-out. October
is the usual month for bulb planting.
Bulbous plants can be handled so as
to begin blooming in the house by
Christmas and successive bloomings
contipued until the tulips are through
in early summer.
The more tulip beds there are in Hays
next spring the more attractive to our
selves it will be and the more satisfac-
tory the town will seem to visitors and
newcomers. Make Hays a still more
attractive place IN which to live.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-25

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heals without scars or bald spots. Buy
a pint of Hnseed oil If you want a heal
ing oil, or a pound of hog lard or vase
line If salye, mix with q soc bottle
OF Farris Healing Remedy.and you have
Is ounces of the finest healer you ever
tried You can use twice a day or
oftener because you have coolies Of 1t.
Farris Healing Remedy sold sson the
Money Back Plan
G. W. Meyers, Hays,