Omaha daily bee., 1916-11-12
SANDLOT RACES
GET INTERESTING
Nonpareils Have Edge on Class
A, but Other Divisions Are
Muddled Up.
MONMOUTH PARKS START
BY FRANK OuIGLEY.

Attention of sandlot foot ball fans
begins to center around the cham.
pionship races which are beginning tc
simmer down to few teams in each
class.
The Nonpareils are the best wager
in Class A circles. The controversy
between the Class B squads, how.
ever, is a triAe ticklish. Last Sunday
two of the main contenders, the
Ducky Holmes and Athletes, INDUCED
in knotted bout. Then the Dundee
Wooden Mills have to be trimmed and
they are starchy proposition to iron
without getting burned. At presen,
the Class c honors are muddled and
it will be "a difficult matter to untangle
them.
This week the Nonpareils will have
to work overtime in order to get into
condition to push the recently organ.
lied Monmouth Parks into the valley
of defeat. According to the Mon
mouth Parks, they are going to per-
petrate great legalized crime next
Sunday when they take the city
championship away from the Non.
parcels. Local foot ball experts are
rather dubious about the outcome and
are not making any predictions. With
one exception the teams are about
evenly hooked up, the exception being
that the Nonpareils will work to-
gether like we'll oiled machine, while
the Monmouth Parks machinery will
be trife squeaky at times.
By trimming Havelock the Nonpar-
ellis will have clear sailing to cop the
state independent foot ball champion
ship provided they slip the Monmouth
Parks defeat, because the much
feared Wisner aggregation has aban-
doned the field For several years
Wisner has compiled an enviable rec
ord and incidentally landed the state
championship, and now that the time
is ripe for this growing burg to nip
the honors, the Wisner lads quit. Just
because a few stars that used to be
the bulwark for Wisner are at present
down on the. border or some other
place, Wisner failed to gather their
cornfeds. With Wisner an occupant
of the cemetery, the competition for
the state pennant is not quite as keen.
Nonpareils Cross Waves.
Those Nonpareils have decided to
bury differences as to where they
should play the c. B. Longeways and
will cross the bridge to engage in a
conflict at Athletic park with the
Longeways today. Those Longeways
ere q beefy aggregation and the pride
of Council Bluffs, so 1t is a rock
bound cineh that the Omaha champs
will have to resort to a few of their
tricks in order to march back with the
gravy. Game at o'clock.
Dunlap, Iowa, will entertain the
Monmouth Park bunch. For three
consecutive years nary an Omaha
gang that invaded Dunlap has been
able to whip the husky warriors sta
toned there. They have a constella-
ton of stars, similar to the former
Wisner team, several of which have
acquired fame on university elevens.
Of course, the Monmouth Parks will
be up against a difficult problem to
solve, but they need the practice, and
as they were unable to secure game
in Omaha for today, they had to leave
town.
The Athletics and Nonpareil Re-
serves will hook up at Luxus park
about 3 p. m. If the Nonpareil Re-
serves cop this row they will have
a bid coming for the class B honors.
The odds are in favor OF the Ath-
letics because they out-beef the Re-
serves and are probably in just as
good condition and as we'll drilled.
Holmes Play Mazdas.
Two excellent brawls are on the
program for Ducky Holmes outdoor
garden, the first of which will be be-
tween the California Street Mer-
chants and the Monmouth Park Re-
serves and the second squabble,
Ducky Holmes against the Mazdas. |
In all probability both games will be
close affairs. An unusual amount of
interest has been manifested in the
latter mentioned quarrel by the fol- |
lowers of each band. 1t has been
whispered around that a few simo-
Icons will flip hands on the outcome.
First game, l:30; second, $50 p. m.
Fontenelle park will be the scene
of some battle at $3.50 p. M, when
the Dundee Wooden Mills will tic up
with the Fontenelle Reserves. Dur
ing the forepart of the season the
Reserves were put out of the running |
by the Ducky Holmes, but since then !
under the tutorship of Frank Golden
they have made very formidable
showing and the golden opportunity
rendered them in the shape OF the
Dundee Wooden Mills will put them
back with the rest of the heap that
are fighting for the class B cham
pionship.
As customary the German Sham
rocks will play at Riverview park.
Game called at $50 p. m. Their OPP
ponents for today will be the Mar
quette club. Both teams are claim
ing the groceries and as they are
about evenly balanced it is a difficult
matter to predict which side will lug
them homeward.
At Twenty-second and Webster
the ST. Johns and Webster
Street Merchants will collide at about
two and half strikes this afternoon.
These kids put up a stiff battle and
the comical stuff pulled off, although
performed in earnest, would back a
comedian into the river.
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