Omaha daily bee., 1916-01-09

Americans and swedss tied after
twenty minutes.
Germans beat Bohemians by eight and
q half inches in twenty minutes.
coJcn-EnRnsh beat Irish BY four
inches in twenty minutes.
Danes pulled italians out Of bounds
Give feet) in twenty-one ana three
Paxton gallagher "Truok nEanipula.
tors" beat "Ink-8plashers" by two feet
in twenty minutes.
Although declared a tie after twenty
minutes OF close work. the contest be
tween the American and Swedish teams
in Friday evenings program of the inter-
national tug-o' war at the Auditorium
was by far the most exciting Of any OF
the pulls
The German Bohemian and British
Irish pulls were hard fought and were
won by only small margins by the first
named of each pair. The Danes. favorites
throughout the week, easily ran away
with tho Italians In a hurry.
BY way of advertisement, team of Pax
ton-Gallagher office men and truckers
staged a freak pull, which was won by
the latter amid lots OF hilarity and
numerous blistered hands.
Btg rONyd Lively.
There was much enthusiasm through
out the evening, the big crowd indulging
in lively demonstrations at every oppor-
tunity. The biggest fuss was created by
Referee Bert lie Bron's decision OF a tie
between the firemen. wearing the Ameri-
can colors, and the Swedish sextet, who
claimed to have won their pull by a frac-
ton OF an inch The crowd demanded
that the award be made to the Americans.
however, and a wrangle ensued
During most OF the strenuous twenty
minute tussle Captain Kenneth Lund-
quist's Swedes held an advantage of about
en- inch, which was reduced TO practically
nothing when the ending gun was fired.
Captain Hartry of the Americans sprang
TO the center OF the platform and seizlng
Old Glory waved It VIGOROUSLY. while
the crowd rose and cheered and whistled.
II was commonly assumed that the fire
laddies would get the decision.
Pull Declared Tie.
After Jack Prince, promoter OF the
event, had Gained the spectators and an
nounced that the referee called the pull
a tie, a typical anti-umpire base ball
demonstration took place. much TO the
embarrassment of lie, Bron and Prince.
The latter tried to plead for chance"
and fair play" from the crowd. which
only hollered the louder. One man in the
gallery passed personality TO Prince
and was called 'hoodlum" by the pro-
moter. He finally retired 20 avoid a pro-
longed argument with spectators. who
seemed anxious to kid" the management
for being unable to judge q microscopic
fraction of an inch In favor OF one or the
other OF the two teams engaged.
Captain Hartry of the Americans chaI
a. 1T.
ana 1t will be pulled privately next week.
when Lundauist promises to snow the
firemen a warm time. Assistant Chief
Dineen was a prominent rooter for the
Americans.
Germans Hold Firm.
After Captain Pete Loch's Germans had
held the greater part OF a foot advantage
over Frank Riha's Bohemians for almost
twenty minutes. and the end of the con-
test approached, some wag in the gallery
shouted. Its tie" and the crowd
started TO kid the referee again. In spite
OF many valiant spurts, the Bohemians
were unable TO overcome the German
advantage
As usual, the Irish did ell the fighting
I'm their pull. but were not husky enough
10 win back a slight edge gained by
ter how hard Phil Lynch and his boys
of the "ould Sod" tugged. 1t was closC
from start TO finish. with the Britons
simply laying back and playing waiting
game.
Italy Too Light.
Previous performances by the Italiar
team having proved disappointing. be
cause OF their lack OF training Captain
ID -.
last night against the powerful Danes
who have been pulling IN tugs-of-war fo
years. But II was the same old story
Emil Tolbad's Denmark huskies simpl,
pulling the Italians off their feet II
2i% seconds.
The Pagoma men furnished a younl
circus. The anchor man for the pen
pushers had probably never seen a tag
of-war before, and sat down on his sad
die, instead OF putting II around his waist
One OF the men on the truckers team
also provided comedy by getting his leg
and arms badly tangled up with the rop
at the start.
Although the Truck NJ anipulators wer
ahead all through the tWenty-minute pull
II wasn't q walk-away for them. nor
picnic for the soft Ink-Splashers. The
VIII certainly be sore and stiff today. an
" any Of them can hold pen In hi
fingers, 1t will be q wonder. Twent
minutes OF tug-of-war Is harder than
fun regular days work. the participant
all agree. and when rosin. water an
friction mix on coarse rope. skin
sure TO blister and peel off.
When the office men were about all il
tho band struck up the old tune. "Nobod
Knows" and the crowd sang ''Nobod
Knocks How Tired They Are" Roy Kin
eaptained the office men and Arthu
Bixten led the truckmen. A bunch q
fire station habitues challenged the wiz
ners.
TOnights Program.
Tonights added freak attraction will /
pull between the Union Pacific baggag,
men and freight truckers The teams wi
be made up as follows: Baggagemel
Ljpinsld and L. Lipinski. Vance. Brocl
muller. Pierce. Rothry and Senift. ear
tain. Freighters Norman. Greigger. Wa
Ter. Donohue. Antiswold. Haller an
Byers. captain
She regular pulls for tonight viii [
between the American and Italian. Swes
fish and Danish. Scotch English and n,
hemian. Irish and German teams.
The Danes and Germans are expects
TO win their respective pulls. which wi
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