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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-02-01

zens spread finder where the sparks
are falling, ! wonder what their ideal
Of Americanism il. And. / dare say.
you realize the solennlty of the feeling
with which / come TO audiences of my
fellow citizens at this time. I cannot
indulge in thu reckless pleasure Of ex-
pressing my own private opinions and
preJudices. / speak as the trustee OF
the nation. called upon to speak its
sober judgments and not its Individual
opinions
You have laid upon me the double
obhgauon OF maintaining the honor of
The United states sud OF maintaining
the peace of the United States
rs II not conceivable that the two
might become Incompatible Is IL
not conceivable that however great
our passion for peace we would have
10 subordinate 10 20 our passion FOR
what Is richt2 is 10 not possible that
IN maintaining the integrity Of the
character OF the United States 20 may
become necessary TO see that no man
does mat integrity too great violence
Look at the part that is assigned
10 the United States. TO assert the
principles Of law, in a world in which
the principles Of law have broken
down, not the technical principles of
law, but the essential principles on
right dealing and humanity as between
nation and nation.
We may have 10 assert these prin-
ciples OF right and OF humanity al anv
time. What means are available
/ What force IS az the disposal Of the
United States 10 assert these things9
The force Of opinion Opinion. I am
sorry 10 say. my fellow citizens. did
not bring this war on and ! am afraid
+ mat opinion cannot stay its progress.
3 This war was brought on by rulors
not by peoples. and ] thank God that
there is no man in America who has
the authority 10 bring war on withou.
the consent Of the people
Opinion viii Not Stop Il.
81 admire the hopeful confidence OF
those of our fellow citizens who be
licve that American opinion can stop
IT, but being somewhat older than
some az them and having run through
"A rather wide -amut OF experience I
am prevented from sharing their hope
ful optimism
And 10 not the force OF opinion
what force has America available 20
stop the flood from OVERLOOKING our
own fair area2 We have one consider.
able arm OF force. "a very considerable
arm OF force. namely. the splendid
navy Of the United States.
81 am told by the experts 20 whose
judgment ] must defer ln these mat.
tiers. that the navy OF the United
states in respect OF its Enumerated
force ranks only fourth among -he
nayios OF the world entertain. and
/ I indulge myself with the opinion that
in quality s. ranks very much higher
than fourth place and trc United
states las never been negligent of boss
navy d. pi'c what some gentlemen
may say. leave out aU. has DO been
negligent iu recent years
eve have given to the present fleet
OF the United States such an oreaui.
zafiln as 10 never before had. am
told Boy Admiral Fletcher. and we
have made preparation Tor iIrmo
dat" war 20 Far as tho navy is con.
crrrnd
'The trouble is not with rir quality
or fhe organization ~ fho existing
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-02-01
WANTS IDENTIFICATION.

TORREON. Mexico. Jan 31.-Idcnu
hcat.on Of % body buried az san Nlirns.
AZ that Of General Benjamin Arru
media. who was reported from Wash
.urfon to have died from wounds. .-
sought by an order of Carranza Off
c.als that DO be- oNhumed
Major Urraor of General Nurea
staff. arrived hero today wIta urfh,.
information on Nr-umedos death
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-02-01
BRITISH DENY
TURKISH REPORT

LONDON. Jan 81. G:O3 p. ma
British official statement, issued to-
night. says.
The recent Turkish report that a
British column west Of Kurna (Meso-
potamiaD had been compelled 10 re-
treat with the loss OF loo dead. 100
camels and 100 tents is untrue The
only incident to which IL could refer
was a reconnaissance near Shattera.
where. attacked by hostile Arabs. a
accommodating force suffered a few
casualties and inflicted heavy loss on
the enemy"
A Turkish official statement issued
Sunday, AZ Constantinople. reported
the capture Of 1000 camels from the
British in the Mesopotamia opera
tions
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-02-01
eRANDEIs TO COMMITTEE

WASHINGTON, w. Ca. Jan. 81
The nomination OF Louis ID. Brandeis.
of Boston. for the supreme court
bench was referred for investigation
by the senate judiciary committee to-
day subcommittee consisting Of
Senators Chiffon Walsh. Fletcher
ODemocrats) and Cummins and Clark,
Republicans
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-02-01
CLOSE DETAILS OF
Big STEEL MERGER

PITTSBURGH. Pa. Jan. 3l.-Dctalls
or the independent steel merger which
will include the Cambria steel Co. the
1oungstown Sheet and Tube CO. and the
l.ackAwanna Steel Co were closed to-
DAY. according 10 private adviccs re-
ceiyed In Pittsburgh this morning.
IL was said that the I.ackawanua steel
Co. proved the stumbling block TO a
much earlier contamination OF the deal.
but that the stock Of this company goes
into the underwriting syndicate on the
basis OF $50 q share. Rumor has had Il
FOR some time that Frank A. Nanderlp.
president OF the National City Bank OF
Ncw York was at the head OF the syn
dictate that would take over the com
panies.
Ia well Informed quarters IA Pitts
burgh to-day II was said that a state
ment giving the details of the merger OF
the three big concerns would no doubt
be forthcoming in the near future.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-09-17
Pa Rourke Only Man Who Has Been
In the Western Loop Since Its Start
Only Minor League Magnate
Who Has Remained In One
Town for Seventeen
Years.

The veteran OF minor league base
bail. That is William A. Rourke, more
Familiarity known as Pa, owner of the
Omaha Base Ball club, 1915 Western
league pennant winner.
The Western league is the oldest
minor league organization in this part
of the country. 1t has been i'll exist
ence since 1900, seventeen years. And
Pa Rourke has been the Omaha fran
chise holder the entire seventeen
years. He is the only man in the
league who started with it and has
grown up with IT.
In addition, Pa Rourke is the only
minor league club owner in history
who has owned the same club for sew
enteen years. One or two minor
league magnates have owned clubs
for seventeen years, but not in the
same city. That distinction, which is
regarded by base ball men as little
short OF miracle, belongs to Pa.
Pa started in base ball in Muske-
gon, Mich, in 1888 when Muskegon
was in the old twelve-club North
western league, Class A organiza-
ton. Pa was a third baseman, and
he handled himself so we'll around
the hot corner that Columbus, in the
American association, major league
club, then, grabbed him the following
spring.
Pa played in Columbus one year
and then went to Atlanta in 1885. In
1886 he went to Duluth, and in the
following year he came to Omaha.
That was his first year in Omaha. He
liked the town so well that when he
had an opportunity TO obtain the
Western league franchise here he
snapped at it.
In 1888 Pa went to Lima, O., when
Lima was booming, due to oil strikes.
A couple OF young fellows who owned
the Lima club that year almost made
out of themselves. They
spent lots of money on their club.
paying salaries that would make
Double A owner go into mourning,
but they won pennant and, due to
the boom times, they became rich on
the investment.
Fort Worth in 1889 was Pas next
stop. In the following year he came
north again, to St. Paul He tarried
but a year in St. Paul, going to Cedar
Rapids. From Cedar Rapids he came
to Nebraska again, this time to Grand
Island. He stayed two years in
Grand Island, the first time since he
Omaha daily bee., 1916-09-17
CREIGHTON HOPES |
FOR WINNING TEAM
Likely Looking Bunch Of New
Timber Enters the School
Upon the Hill.
VETS OF LAST YEAR BACK

Despite the fact that Coach Tommy
Mills will be a bit handicapped III con-
dtioning his men and teaching them
formations, due to the late opening
of the dental and law colleges, pros
poets for brilliant foot bali season
are pretty rosy at Creighton this
year
A lot of likely looking timber 10
entering Creighton this year and sup
porters Of the blue and white antici-
pate an eleven superior 10 that of
last year.
The backfield looks mighty strong
despite the loss of Nigro, the little
quarter Captain Dutch Platz and
Marty Flanagan will be back to take
care of the half back positions and
better men than this duo could hard
ly be asked for. At full back Carl
Lutes will be back, but the man ex-
pected TO be the power in this posi-
ton 10 Walker Sleuman, who comes
from Hastings college, where he was
. star and Ali-State choice.
Mulholland. who played AZ Spo-'
kane university. will be candidate for
the quarterback position. II is said
he was something of sensation in
the west and will prove more than =
capable substitute for Nigro. Noble.
who played quarter at Beatrice High
school, also enters Creighton this fall.
Candidate for Center. \
No definite word regarding the
possible return Of Cy Kamansly from
the border has been heard, but this
is not an overly perplexing problem,
as Erickson, 100-pound center and star
of the Beatrice High school team
last year, is a candidate for Cy's Job
and probably would be able to fill it
very satisfactorily in case the militia
man does not return.
Mills has a bunch of second string
men from last year and also num-
Der OF new corners OF whom nothing
is known yet, but it's cineh some
OF them will prove varsity material
and Tommy shouldn't have great
deal of trouble developing winning
eleven.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-09-17

| quaintannes. o'u &C.
Pete Lyck, the Brandeis catcher mil,
PROBABLY drop IN with the professional liz
n ,aens season. He has couple Of Jobs under
the city league last season finished the ssai
Murphy Did It's. "' anu
according TO the dope. the Ancient ordsr
OF United Workmen will organize a league
next season rolls around.
Chicken, on third for Minneapolis, in an.
otner professional ball player OF reputa
whether or not he has played professional
Dali this year Is mystery.
The National Cash Registers wou,d ,,to
very very much to secure an out-of-town game.
Correspond with C. r. Link, caro- OF the Ma.
tional Cash Register company,
The boys that went over to Imorene In
last sunday only collected railroad faro one
way. Something must have been wrong
with the head of their machine.
III must have been u difficult task for
Miiiard Durkee to keep In seclusion, base.
aged to Keep out Of the limellght.
John Hazen IL well chsperoned when he
enters ball yard. One kid carries his
glove. another his cap, another his shoes,
another his bat and another his ankle brace,
George Graham OF the Brandeis is as crab
pie as ever The barker, manager bat boy,
tabulator and even George get under the
ropes for a call down when George Ia peey.d
Because Harry Sage local umpire OF
Iepute, made mistake during the Rambler
Luxus mix he should not be considered a
punk He Is and always will be good
umpire.
Emmett Shaffer and Cnff Bogues. star
beavers of the Dahmsn Knights. will be on
the firing line Sunday afternoon at Thirty
second and Dewey avenue against the Frank
Dewey Juniors.
Louis Devine, well known among the local
base ball and foot ball gIadintors, blew into
town last week. He Ia now true westerner
and halls from ranch somewhere in the
neighborhood Of Sheridan, Wye
Edward 1saacBon, who was peacefully sit
ting In the grandHtand last Sunday at
Luxus park was cracked on the beant with
sharp foul during the Krajicek- Trimble
battle He survived TO tell the story
Omaha daily bee., 1916-09-17
Earl Smith Will
Get Gut Of Chicago
City Series Coin

Pretty soft for that guy" is the
way Earl Smiths former teammates
the Rourkes, speak of Earl, who is
now pastiming as a member of the
Chicago Cubs.
Perhaps, you suggest, Earl is hav-
ing hard fight TO earn a job in {
Windy City. True enough. And per.
haps, you suggest, Kruger and Kill
duff are just as fortunate, they are
going to the Giants in the spring. But
here you are wrong.
For Earl is going to get a cut of
the Chicago city series coin, that is, of
course, unless the Sox cop the Ameri-
can league pennant Granted Earl's
prospects are only for the losers
share, as the Cubs generally lose, but
even the losers share will amount to
anywhere from $500 to $500 or more
if everything is favorable. And half
thousand bucks isn't to be sneezed
at these days.
Thus do the Rourkes say it's pretty
soft for Earl because he got'to go up
this fall instead of waiting until the
spring.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-09-17
OMAHA WILL MEET
CHAMPS OF THE A. A.
Plans About Completed for
Post Season Series During
Ak. Sar. Ben Week.
PLAYERS TO GET ALL COIN

Plans have been practically conf
plcted for seven-gsme post season
series between the Omaha Western
league base ball club and the pennant
winners in the American association.
Both the indianapolis and Louisville
clubs, who are battling for the asso-
citation flag, have agreed to come to
Omaha for the series.
The seven-Ramc series will be
played October 3 to 8, inclusive, and
all seven games will played in Omaha.
The dates are considered propitioLs,
because the annual Ak-Sar- Ben festi-
val will be running in Omaha at the
time. October Sd is Tuesday and
October 9Th is Sunday, on which day
the series will culminate with a
double header.
The little worlds series will be ex-
clusively handled by the players. The
arrangements of the two clubs will
not in any way participate in the
profits, should there be any. Pa
Rourke has granted the athletes the
use OF his park. He will get ten per
cent OF the gate, and will pay all the
expenses, which means all Pa will get
is debt. Pa made the players this
offer because he believes they deserve
some reward for bringing Omaha a
pennant.
Would Net Neat Sum.
The post season series, il the
weather is good, should net the play
ers snug little sum of money. The
seven games should at least draw
10000 per sons, which would mean
about 500 apiece for the players.
Omaha fans believe the Rourkes
would give the A. A. champs a good
run for their money. The Rourkc
nine is considerable outfit this year
and il wouldn't be any great surprise
If they should take the A. A. crowd
to trimming.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-09-17
remnants Just Seem to Pursue
Burg and Harry Krause Around

winning Utica club of the New York
State league. N 1918 and 1914 Burg
played with Milwaukee, which won
the American association pennant
both years. Omaha's 1916 club is the
sixth pennant-winning team he has
played on in eight years.
Krause played with the famous pen
nant-winning Philadelphia American
league teams in 1910 and 1911. In
1918 and 1914 he hurled for Portland
when that club won both Pacific
Coast league pennants those years.
Omaha in 1916 makes his fifth.
1t might also be mentioned Pa
Rourke has served on six pennant
winners. In 1885 he was with Allan
ia when that city COPIED. In 1886 he
was with Duluth and in 1888 Lima,
0, He won three pennants in Omaha,
1904, 1907 and 1916.
So it can easily be seen the lowly
Links really had no chance to win
the pennant this year.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-09-17
Floyd Smith Looks
Like Diamond in the
Rough, Says Rourke

Floyd Smith is going to make
better ball player than his brother,
Earl, declares Pa Rourke and Marty
Krug agrees with him,
Since Earl departed for the Chicago
Cubs, Floyd has been playing the left
garden for the Rourkes and he's been
doing nice job, too.
Floyd, OF course, is rookie, but Pa
says he's diamond in the rough.
Floyd takes nice cut at the ball at
the bat and when he is taught a few
of the finer points, such as how to
stand at the plate, how to step, how
to keep an eye on the pitcher and the
like, he'll do much better. He doesn't
know how to start, although he's fast
on his feet, and he doesn't know how
to throw. When he learns these
things, Pa believes he'll be some OUT
fielder.
And as Floyd is getting some
mighty good experience this fall, and
will get a lot more in the training
camp next spring, Pa believes Floyd
will enjoy as good If not a better sea-
son in 1917 as Earl did in 1916.
Young Smith is only 20 years old.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-09-17
Heard Among the Amateurs

About 200 paid to sac the two Bloomer
teams perform when last they met.
The Stars and Stripes would like to book
game with the Luxus team before the sea-
son closes.
| Regular league prices will govern at
Rourke park today on account Of the banner
attraction.
Holland Of the Ramblers says that Nor.
gard Of the HANDLERS Is the best first base
! man IN town.
SO as to keep In condition the Murphy
Did Its decided 10 hook up with the Frank
Deweys today
Some time this week the Armours will
have sumptuous feed at the expense Of
Armour Co.
Old Man Jacobs the president of the
city league. will accompany the Murphy Did
Its 10 81, Louis.
About next Sunday the amateur base ball
ista VIII be willing to resign In favor of the
leather egg game.
looking for games Call Walnut sol and
sauawk for Wilson.
Wilson Atkins was out OF town when the
1uxus made their last stand on Wednesday
for the championship,
League and Achatz will be the battery
that will deliver the goods for the Council
Bluffs linperIsls today at Corning, la.
Now the Stars and Stripes would like to
hook up with the Armours. For further In
formation call Roy Stacey at South 1888
Donovan. who has been with the Deioit,
Ia. team lately, will be seen In the Stars
and Stripes lineup against tho Ramblers,
Wonder II the Pickering playing with
Minneapolis Is the same Pick that used to
pick EN- out OF the cloudg for Pa Rourke.
Third place between the Armours and
BourgeOiB In tho Greater Omaha In Btili un-
decided. This question ought to be settled.
McGrath and Kteny were the battery for
ImoRene, Ia, last Sunday against Shenan-
doah. Ia, and they got by in elegant style
1nvincible base bail team In Omaha, 10 now
the hacker NJ the Lincoln Cleaners and
DyerE.
This morning tho directors Of the associa-
ton will entertain the Minneapolis team,
showing them the city via the Fas route
method.
Daley, who used to play with tho Town.
sends, sailed in from Wyoming last Thurs
Omaha daily bee., 1916-09-17

About the best way to win a pen
nant is to play just a little bit bet
ter base ball than anybody else in the
league. But there are those-generally
those who don't win-who attribute
winning pennant to luck.
So If you are superstitious you can
give Harry Krause and Joe Burg the
credit for bringing the 1916 pennant
to Omaha.
For, counting the 1916 pennant, Joe
Burg has been on six pennant-winning
mines since he started in base ball in
1909 and Harry Krause has been on
five. krause also started in. 1909
remnants just seem to pursue Burg
and Krause around.
Burg broke into base ball on the
Burlington team OF the Central asso-
citation in 1909. Burlington COPIED the
flag that year. In the spring Joe was
sent to Quincy OF the same league.
Quincy won the pennant that year.
In 1912 Burg played on the pennant-
Omaha daily bee., 1916-09-17
Duck Season Opens;
Hunters Gleeful

The duck season opened yesterday
and Omaha hunters are losing no
time in their pursuit of the feathery
flock
Ducks are reported to be numer-
Gus all over the state this fall. MIN
rods returning from chicken hats
came home with such glowing yarns
Of the abundance of ducks that every
hunter within hearing distance inn
mediately contracted case of the
trigger itch.
Ducks are said TO be thick in the
Wood lake district, while Hyannis re-
ports say there are more ducks there
than there has been in the last decade.
DeSota and Herman say ducks are
flying in large numbers.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-09-17

started that he remained more than
year in one place. After the two
sessions at Grand Island be returned
to Omaha again, and from Omaha
went to Cedar Rapids in 1895, and in
1896 went to Birmingham, where he
wound up his career by plotting a
shattered ball club into second place.
Thus III fourteen years Pa played
in eleven different cities. He's seen
a lot of country, has the Omaha mag
nate.
In 1897, 1893 and 1899 Pa deserted
the base ball business, but III 1900 he
came back to it by buying the Omaha
franchise in the new Western league.
Pa is known from one end of the
country to the other. There isn't a
club owner, player, scout, umpire or
base ball writer that doesn't know Pa
Rourke. He's the veteran of them
all.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-09-17
BY KARL LEE.

Looking over the complete Sched-
ules OF teams of the big Nine" inter-
scholastic foot ball conference, il is
plain to be seen that the most thrill
ing games will be played out in the
state, For once in good many years
the metropolis is left out OF the big
ticks almost entirely. Had not the
Central South High game been sched-
ulcd, local interest would probably
have slid into obscurity before many
weeks had passed
The scheduling of the Central
South High game for October J
marks an epoch i'll the progress Of
athletics and especially foot ball at
two schools. For three years but
one athletic contest has been staged
and that under enforced rulings at
the state basket ball tournament OF
1915.
Coach Mulligan and Coach Patton
are to be compllmented on the bust
ness-like manner in which they went
about patching up the affair that has
long since died away and is forgotten
Few remember the incident OF the
winter of 1913, when Mark Hughes
and Jap" Leach came to blows on
the basket ball court at the Young
Mems Christian association
The October game should be one of
the hardest fought of years. Coach
Patton has a powerful string OF men
in the big dozen of his thirty-six re-
cruits, while at Central, in handling
the sixty or more beefy recruits it
is exactly as Mulligan remarked last
week, mot one mans job, but two"
The short time that is left to the
two coaches TO form their teams will
prove all the more exciting because
Of the RATS of splendid material at
hand Never in the history of either
school has such varied and large
number of recruits turned out.
A tales of woe emanated from the
Queen City. Dispatches from the
foot ball field there are to the effect
that Beatrice will in reality have but
three veterans on the field this year,
these three being Harsch, Jones and
Fitzpatrick, brother of the famous
John Fitzpatrick Of old. Right here
it might be mentioned that Beatrice
will be minus its Kilpatricks, South
Omaha, its Nixons, and Nebraska
City its Kelloggs. For years these
three schools have maintained as
bulwark at least one member of the
three famous old families.
Director of Athletics Milton Jones
has left Beatrice, according to
another report, to take up a princi-
palship at another school. Five of
the mainstays of the last years team
are out Of the competition because
Of failure in grades. They are Bush,
Ward, Mangus, Kyle and Stevens.
Captain-elect Ernest Hubka gradu-
ated, leaving the team without a
leader.
Kearney, Alliance and Nebraska
City started the practice grill with
considerable vim last week. Coach
Crawford at Alliance will have
strong team, but will be compelled to
play teams of his own district, such
as Kimball, Sidney and Crawford.
The distance is too great from other
portions of the state to make eastern
and central state games possible.
Coach Walker marshalled his men
into the field Monday and reported
more than two full teams as a start
er. Norfolk has Sioux City, Central
High and Lincoln on the string this
year, thus insuring plenty of excite
ment at the northern town.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-09-17
Tommy Gibbons May Work
In Clash with LevinSky

Minneapolis, Sept. l6.-Local fight
promoters are making final prepare
tons for the staging Of several bouts
here, between we'll known fighters
during the coming winter season Of
the hstic sport. Among the matches
contemplated is one between Tommy
Gibbons, the St. Paul middleweight.
and Battling Levinsky, New York
light heavyweight. Negotiations al
ready are under way for the Gibbons
Levinsky fight, which may DC held
some time in October (.