Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-12-03
CURTAIN DROPS ON
THE SANDLOT LADS
Local Foot Ball Warriors Stage
Their Last Conflicts of
n the Year Today
DUNLAP HURLS CHALLENGE
By FRANK QUIGLEY.

Today is the day the asbestos drops
on the Omaha sandlot foot ball sea-
son. Next week the Radiator league
will be in session and the various
things that happened in base ball and
foot ball this season will be nodded
out by the loquacious dudes, which
will serve to keep the interest alive
until the athletes emerge froY their
holes of seclusion once more
Foot ball germs wriggled their way
into Joe Wavrin's frame last week
and he decided to organize a team
from Creighton and Omaha univer-
sity players that would annihilate the
champion Nenpareils. Joseph AYERS
that he had able-bodied men picked
from the aforementioned knowledge
factories that would shuck the ears
of the Nonpareils, but a package of
dynamite in the shape of one Tom
mic Mills blew in and exploded inst
as Joseph was perfecting his plans,
consequently the team was so badly
shattered that Joseph waltzed out Of
the lmelight. ~
Last Sunday over at Harlan. Ia,
the Harlan foot ball warriors played
Dunlap, Ia, a tie game. After the
contest was over both managers got
together and agreed to play off the
tie this afternoon on, some neutral
field. 1t was a difficult matter to get
Harlan to agree on what town neatly
would be considered neutral, and so
the Dunlappers left the matter en-
tirely up to Harlan, and they sug-
gested Denison, la. Said town sat
isfed the Dunlap troupe and imme-
diatNy on receipt of this informa-
ton they got out posters advertising
the game. Then Harlan came along
with the cheerful news that they
would have to cancel the game. Fred
L. Mishler, manager of the Dunlap,
"a, foot ball squad, asked the writer
to issue the following challenge to
Harlan, Ia: That the Dunlap team
will play the Harlan team on next
Sunday on any neutral ground sug-
gested by Harlan, but would prefer
to play in Omaha or Council Bluffs.
Winner take all the gate receipts, and
Dunlap will also wager $500 on the
outcome of the contest. OF course
Harlan does not have to take up the
wager unless they so desire.
A post-season game will be on the
bill of fare for next Sunday unless
the c. B. Longeways get cold feet
on or before next Sunday, because
they are supposed 10 buck up against
the champion Nonpareils on that day.
The original agreement was that the
Nonpareils would play in Council
Bluffs and the Longeways would play
lin Omaha the following Sunday.
The Nonpareils kept their part OF the
verbal contract, but the Longeways
refused to play today, claiming that
after staging ,track meet last thurs
day with Persia, Ia, they have not
recuperated sufficiently to warrant
an attack on the Nonpareils, and
they will still probably be in con-
valescent condition by next Sunday,
so this proposed game may never be
played.
At Ducky Holmes pasture, located
at Thirty-first and Ames avenue, this
afternoon the Fontenelle Reserves
and the Athletics will lock horns.
Some time ago these two teams had
battle royal, but couple of dudes
with pugilistic aspirations got their
lunch hooks swinging towards the
latter part of the game and the game
broke up before either Side chalked
point. Those two teams are bitter
rivals and are approximately evenly
matched, so a torrid tangle is looked
for by the followers OF both aggre-
cations. Game called at 3 p, m.