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Omaha daily bee., 1916-12-17
NATIVE SONS SEEK
RAGING AND OBXING
California Wants to See Re-
turn of the Halcyon Days Of
Old on the Coast.
PREPARE BILLS TO SUBMIT

San Francisco, Dec. l6.-California
is tired of the quiet amateur sporting
life and wants something more of the
big events of the turf and ring. And
that feeling is going to result in some
fight to reinstate the sports which the
lawmakers of the state and the peo-
pie have prohibited.
Racing will have a much easier row
to hoe than will the Queensberry
game in its fight for a pardon. From
reliable source it has been learned
that newly-elected James c. Nealon,
one of the most prominent men in the
Golden State Thoroughbred Breeding
association, the organization which
promoted running races at the exposi-
ton, will be sponsor for a measure
that will be introduced at the next
legislature if any signs of encourage
ment prevail.
1t is said that Governor Hiram
Johnson, although it was he who an
initiated the game some years ago,
is inclined to lend favorable ear to-
ward modified racing, with restricted
betting under the pari-mutuel sys-
tenn. 1t is that report which has en-
couraged racing people to believe that
they have a chance to have their ia
vorte sport returned to them. And
if all continues bright it is the pur-
pose of the powers that be in the
game to restrict the sport to ten or
fifteen days in each county of the
state. To see that all is run right and
not in the way that resulted in the
killing of the game some time back a
racing commission will be asked to be
named.
The proposed measure to bring
back racing will be put up while
Hiram w. Johnson is still governor
of the state. 1t is doubted if the
laws would be proposed unless the
new United States senator was in the
chair, since it was his influence which
put ban on the sport.
Boxing Not So Sure.
But racing is looking up in Cali
fornia, which is more than can be
said for boxing, although champion
ship bouts as prevailed in other days
are sought by many. Racing was
killed by the legislature and it was
the people who put the cruncher with
their votes on the fight game. To re-
turn to boxing the people would have
to be asked again il they wanted it.
State assemblyman-Elect Fred C.
Halves is the man who will try to get
some better boxing for his state than
it has at present. 1t is his purpose
to have the legislature submit to the
people bill which will permit of ten
round contests, with decisions by a
referee, and under the supervision of
a state athletic committee.
California, for years and years the
place where they made champions, is
longing for a sight of old days, and
maybe if they persist they will get
what they seek
Omaha daily bee., 1916-12-17
ATLANTA DIGS UP
NEW BOY WONDER
Bobby Jones and Perry Adair
Have New Rival in Tommy
Prescott, II Years Old.
PRODIGIES ALL OVER SOUTH

Help Atlanta has another boy
wonder who in the recent city cham
pionship there, to quote Georgian,
hammered the wadding" out Of
Bobby Jones. His name is Tom
Prescott, aged II, two years older
than Jones. but the same age as
Perry Adair.
Prescott's avoirdupois is $50
pounds, just like Bobby; he promises
to be even more OF whale OF youth.
Tom has been playing two seasons,
Adair, sr., says when Tom isn't over
at Perry's domicile Percy can be
found at Toms house Golf in At
lanta is certainly a neighborhood al
fair. Tom put out Bobby, but fell to
Perry, who succeeded his father, twice
holder of the title. As the city con-
test is only three years old, Adair is
the only name that has gone on the
cup so far. Outsiders cant be blamed
for thinking that family has chattel
mortgage on the silverware.
All over the south golfng prodigies
are spring up like weeds. With their
golhng, like watermelons, the south
ern policy is TO pick EN- green and
let them ripen in transit Fourteen
year-old Pollock Boyd, Chattanooga,
who began three years ago with toy
clubs, lives across the street from
the Country club, just one drive and
putt. Jack Tarrant of San Antonio
is IS, like George Clarence Mangham
is another coming Texan, almost a
veteran, inasmuch as he is 10,
He set the gallery a-tingle in the
qualifying rounds Of the western
championship. New Orleans has the
youngest candidate of all. Sidney Le-
gendre, 2 years, who made Maine re-
sorters last summer stralghten up
and enunciatc.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-12-17

The first time the average sport
fan sees hockey he is liable to imag-
inc that it is an excuse for free
fight II is only when he pcrceivcs
the finer points that he appreciates
the game as the most scientific OF ice
games.
Here is what a New York tyro
wrote after seeing a game:
Hockey isn't sport, it's an en-
cuse. Twelve or fourteen men, old
enough to know better, get into an
argument some place where they
won't permit fighting.
Then they get skates on, grab a
stick apiece and drop rubber disc
on the ice and begin hauling each
other all over the place.
The rubber disc is a stall. It's a
decoy. 1t coaxes any backward young
men present who may not understand
that the battle is a public affair, open
to any on the ice, to bring their heads
within hitting distance
AT the same time it fools the fight
fans present, who prefer to be known
as hockey enthusiasts, They like to
believe that the players are trying to
wallop the disc with their sticks.
whereas they know all the time that
the chief object of the game is to
smash any and all unprotected heads
Hockey was first introduced by
the Amalgamated Order of Physi-
clans and Surgeons. They don't play
it, but they see that the rules do not
abstract too much roughness from
the game. =,
For a long time it was believed
that the. Brotherhood of Undertakers
we're the originators of the game.
But this has been disproved. The
fatalities are comparatively few. Any
player may emerge from game
without being killed, il he's lucky.
So it's apparent the Brotherhood OF
Undertakers didn't have anything to
do with introducing hockey,
But it's different with the physi-
clans and surgeons. They really en-
Joy the game. They are among its
most ardent supporters. Any man
can support anything that helps in
the yearly reckoning of profits. 1t
has been said that some players en-
JOY the game. But this is only true
to the extent that some fighters like
Omaha daily bee., 1916-12-17
Cubs Believe They
Have the Schalk of
The National Loop

The Ray Schalk of the National
league" has been found, according to
officials OF the Chicago National
league club. The youngster whom
the scouts have recommended as the
coming leading catcher OF the Ma
tional league is William pickles"
Dillhoefer. Dillhoefer was obtained
from the Milwaukee club of the Ma
tional association by drafe. He is 81
years of age and bats and throws
right-handed. He is built like his
American league rival and weighs l55
pounds. His height is FIVE feet eight
inches. He was born in Cleveland,
o., and made his residence there.
pickles" started his base ball career
with the Portsmouth (O.) club in the
Ohio State league in 1914
Stories from the scouts who trailed
the youngster told how his every
move had been watched 1t is under
stood that practically every club in
the National and American leagues
had a draft for him.
Recently two scouts who had been
looking him over and who are well
acquainted with the ability of Ray
Schalk when he broke into the fast
company, declared that Dilhoefer is
a better prospect than was Schalk
when he joined Comiskey's White
Sox.
Dillhoefer is known as a heady
player, full of pep" fast, and with
a strong whip" In the words of Joe
Tinker and Charles Weeghman, it will
take some" catcher to deprive the
youngster of place as a regular on
the catching staff for 1917.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-12-17
GEORGIA TECH Is
Big POINT SCORER
Southern School Runs Up Total
of 400 Points During the
Year-Leads ALI.
GEORGETOWN COMES NEXT

The close of the intercollegiate
foot ball season finds both the team
and individual scoring honors held
by southern eleven and player. A
comparison of, the records of the
leading teams of the east, south and
middle west shows that the Georgia
Tech combination scored 420 points
in nine games, with Georgetown uni
versity close second, with Az, while
Left Halfback Gilroy of Georgetown
leads the individual point collectors
with a total of l39 points, and Oil
plant OF the Army team is second,
with III.
Gilroy has scored eighteen touch
downs and thrty-one goals during
the season. ELEPHANTS record is a
more versatile one, since he has made
thirteen touchdowns, twenty-five
goals and four field goals. Maui
betsch of Michigan is close third,
with twelve touchdowns, twenty-one
goals and one field goal. None Of
these players equalcd the record
made by Captain Barrett of the Cor
nell eleven of last year. for the latter
rolled up a total of lo2 points, with
twenty-five touchdowns, twenty
seven goals and one field goal. Gil
roy was second in 1915, with ninety
six points, and Hastings of Pitts
burgh third, with scventy-sx.
The records of the leading elevens
in total points scored and the players
who have collected the largest num-
Der of points, individually, follow:
Omaha daily bee., 1916-12-17
ANOTHER STAR IN
PUGILISTIC WORLD
Eddie Wallace Of Brooklyn
Breaks Into Limelght in
Short Time of One Week.
TAKES WELSH AND DUNDEE

New York, Dec. l6.-Another star
has arisen in the pugilistic sky, and
it strikes the boxing fan that it will
be many day before it sets
Eddie Wallace, Brooklyn boy, has
flashed into greatness within seven
days. A couple OF weeks ago he met
Freddie Welsh, the lightweight cham
pion of the world, in ten-round bout
in Montreal, and when the smoke of
battle cleared away there was not an
expert in the Canadian city who did
not declare that the American lad
carried off the honors.
The youth stepped into the ring
with Johnny Dundee. fighter who
by many is considered close sec
ond to the champion, and expert
opinion was divided at the finish as
to the winner. Be that as it may
Wallace did so we'll that when the
bout was over the crowd gave him
one of the greatest receptions ever &C
corded a fighter on leaving the ring
1t was tribute to the fighting quail
ties of the Brooklynite, and many be-
lieve in him they have another Nc
Govern.
Eddie Wallace has great faith in
his ability to land at the top of the
lightweight heap, too. He's no fash
in the pan. Ever since he began box
ing just a short time back he has
met the best. He began as light
weight, and did very we'll against Kid
Williams, the daddy of the bantams
Then he met Johnny kilbane, the
champion featherweight, and again
credited himself with a glory. Then
to beat Freddie Welsh was an
achievement which has buoyed his
hopes to becoming the champion,
Charles Harvey is handling the
boys affairs for him, and it strikes
us that Charles is about to have as
big attraction as he did in the days
when he piloted Jim Driscoll and
Owen Moran Charley thinks so well
of his boy that he is willing and
anxious, for that matter, to close a
championship with Champion Welsh.
He has posted $1,000 to bind match
with the champion and already has
interested his old friend, Jim Coff-
roth, owner of the Tia Juana race
track in Mexico, in the proposition
to stage the battle. Harvey will even
bet on his boy to beat Welsh, and
the $1,000 he now has up may go as
part Of a side stake, if the champion
takes the match and wants to bet.
No doubt we shall see lot of Wal
lace from now on. Charley Harvey's
mail will be heavy with requests for
his new champions services, but it
will be three weeks before he will be
able to accept any dates. The new
sensation hurt his right hand in the
bout with Dundee and will lay up
until the injury is perfectly healed
Omaha daily bee., 1916-12-17
PLAYERS Fight With Sticks and
Take Bumps and Call 1t Hockey

to fight. To be a good hockey player
one has to have an edge on all the
time, The ice that goes with the
game is not served in tumblcrs.
1T is surprising how adept the
players become at cracking heads,
considering the fact that they can't
hnd SO very many persons to prac-
ticc on. A substitute in foot ball will
stand for being mauled all over the
gridiron, but in hockey it's different.
Substitutes don't like to have their
heads cracked The high cost of
ivory may have something to do with
this.
AT one time or another most hook
cy players must have been expert
club swingers, No player could hit
the small side of another's head with
out great deal of practice. 1t takes
skill, real skill, to so consistently
make these strokes backhanded, side
handed and head on. Occasionally
a player makes a mistake and be-
labors the disc, but that's sign of
poor Workmanship. It's more or
less Of an accident.
"Of course, if a player feels that
his stroke is off form, that his judg-
ment of distance is poor, he may
practice hitting the disc for a while,
but just as soon as he has trimmed
his eye he doesn't waste any more
energy on the disc,
"The official scorer TALES the game
by the number of goals scored. But
no one pays any attention to the Of
fetal scorer. The Jumps on the play.
ers' heads are counted after the
game in the seclusion of the dress
ing room and the team with the least
Jumps wins, That's the reason pros
pective players with a bump of knowl-
edge are not permitted to play. The
judges afterward may count the bump
as lump in favor of the other team
Omaha daily bee., 1916-12-17
Pat Moran Said to Want
Jack Miller of st. Louis

Report from Philadelphia has it
that Manager Pat Moran of the Phil
lies will make the St Louis Cardinals
an offer for Jack Miller 1t might be
good deal for the Philies. Miller
seems to need change of scene ever
so often. He slumped with the
Pirates, was traded to St. Louis and
played grand ball for a couple of
years. Last season he fell into slumpy
ways again, indicating that another
shift might be needed to wake him
up. Some critic rises along to re-
mark that no player gets along with
Miller Higgins for more than so
long, which may or may not be Hug
gins fault.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-12-17
This is the Same Shocks
Who PLAYED With Links

Shortstop Marty McGaffigan OF the
Vernon Tigers will play in Philadel-
phia after all, He was drafted by the
Athletics last fall, but the draft was
cancelled. Now he has been sold out
right to the Phillies. and it is UNDER
stood Manager Moran will use him as
utility inheldcr. Cash and probably
present Philly player are to be paid in
exchange.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-12-17
Davy FuItz Gathers In
Coin as Grid Official

David Fultz, ex-ball player and
present barrister and president of the
Base Ball Players fraternity, is not
at all glad that the foot bali season
has ended.
Davy is one OF the best foot ball
officials in the country, and he served
in virtually every big league in the
country. This sideline not only did
not cut in on his legal and fraternity
work, but paid handsomely. Foot ball
officials draw 500 a game and ex-
benses.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-12-17
Giants to Build Big
GrandStand at Marlin

The New York National League
club is going to build a new grand
stand at 5 raining park in Marlin,
in preparation for the crowds ex-
pected to see the exhibition games in
the spring with the Detroit Tigers.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-12-17
Coast Rookie Expected
To Stick With CHICAGO

Risberg, third sacker of the Vernon,
Cal, base ball team, will in all prob
ability be at third for the Chicago
White Sox in 1917. He is a tall, fast
and clever fielder, with a good wallop
behind his club.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-12-17

Lester Stewart of Walthill, Neb.,
junior at Bellevue college, has been
elected by the athletic board of con-
troll to the position of student man
ager of all athletics from now to next
December Perry 7. Johns, sopho-
more, was elected at the same time
to the position of assistant to Stew
art.
Stewart has played halfback and
end on the varsity foot ball team for
two years and was defeated for the
captaincy for next year by only one
vote i'll the recent election. He won
his letter in basket ball last season.
He is also manager of the junior an
nual to appear next spring. Last
years he was president of the sopho-
more class.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-12-17

It's about time for EN- to slip US
Stecher and Caddock now, isn't it?
Omaha daily bee., 1916-12-17

Another old athlete. named Grub,
Was always an indOlent dub,
He'd toll with q sigh
When his helpmate stood by
with her hand on an Indian club.
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are attempting to save the foot, hav-
ing set the ends of the bones togeth-
er and sewed up the wound. 1t is
thought, however, that an amputation
will prove necessary.
The Steele County Tribune of Sher-
brokke tells pathetic story of the
death of Buster. Doe, a pampered pup
who kicked the bucket by eating too
many of the neighbors' chickens.
Farmers of Braddock and vicinity
have subscribed $4,000 stock of a
new state bank which opens for bust
ness at Braddock with r. E. Mccain
of Mott as cashier of the new institu-
ton.
Transportation Agent McGillis re-
ports that the state has been saved
1,516y85 in the transportation of
persons to the state institutions the
past year, made possible through the
excellent cooperation of the county
sheriffs.
Appraised of the fact that he had
been made heir to $4,000 estate left
by an uncle in New York city Jack
Burke of Pueblo, Colo, painter, who
has been employed at New Rockford,
laid down his brushes and is bound for
New York city to claim the estate.
Burke obtains almost the entire estate
by terms of the will.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dan Hawkins of San
ish were called to Bismarck last Sat-
urday by word that Jack Carter, Mrs.
Hawkins brother was not expected to
to live. They went overland Saturday
afternoon with Fred Hannah, return
ing next evening. They left Mr.. Car
ter much improved in health.
Early Sunday morning a fire of in
cendiary origin completely destroyed
the National elevator at Neche. There
was about $4,000 bushels of grain in
the elevator. Just what the loss will
amount to they have not yet learned,
but with the present prices Of
grain it will be considerable on the
contents, besides the loss Of the build
ing. 1t is probable that the loss is
well covered by insurance. It is re-
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BRIEF STATE NEWS

The Northern Pacific railway has
agreed to furnish lights, wiring and
fixtures if the city Of Jamestown will
pay for the current to light the Second
Avenue subway.
William Ryan of Bathgate when ac-
costed by armed robbers while driving
near the outskirts Of that place, APP
piled his whip vigorously on the high
waymen and escaped.
Michael Lux, blacksmith at Crazy,
will be laid up for some weeks with in
juries sustained when a horse which
he was shoeing kicked him across the
shop, landing him on his head.
Alex Mckenzie (himself) makes a
visit to the Standing Rock Indian res
ervation at Fort Yates and as result
there cannot be found newspaper in
the state which would attach some
political move to his presence in the
state
The editor of the Regent Times lost
his bunch of keys and in giving a de-
scription of them tell of lady's but
tonhook being on the key ring, but
says nary word Of the opener
WHICH Is CdIileu ny dll SOOu SuiCO1s
and many preachers in this state.
The first report Of an accident in
the hunting fields comes from Bis
marck where John F. Spies, travel
ing man, was shot and seriously injur.
ed by farmer who fired a .38 calibel
rifle, the bullet striking Spies in the
head near the brain. The farmer is
under arrest at Bismarck.
Citizens of Buford discovered bur.
glars at work in the store Of the Blu.
ford Mercantile Co., Sunday night anc
the place was surrounded by an arm.
ed posse. The yeggs finally yielded tt
the command to come out but attempt.
ed to escape by running. Members Of
the posse fired with shot guns and the
men were so well peppered that they
surrendered. Sheriff Erickson was
summoned and brought the prisoners
to the county Jail at Williston that
evening. County Attorney Owens flee
a charge of burglary in the third de
gree to which the defendants, who give
the names Of Harry Shaffer and Jack
Lester, pleaded guilty. Sentence has
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ported that the St. Anthony & Dakota
elevator was discovered on fire at the
same time but the flames were ex-
tinguished.
A "Jack the pepper" was grabbed
at Wahpeton, bringing joy to the
heart of many of the ladies who have
been subjected to much annoyance dur
ing the past month.
William Skinner, transient labor
err, working on the Kidd farm near the
town of Bantry, Skinned" his boss
larceny. This is no "kid" either.
The Nonpartisan league approves
the nomination of Porter j. McCumber
for reelection as United States SEN
ator on the republican ticket. The
expose of the John Burke political ma
chine should aid McCumber in his
race.
Thomas Rowan is postmasted at
Sherwood now. He received his COM
mission from the department Tuesday
and Wednesday j. J. Langeness, who
has been in charge of the office since
in the spring, turned the books, rec
ords, etc., over to him. An inspector
who was here short time ago found
everything so satisfactory that the
cutoff was made without his return
ing.
A year ago O. w. Brink, st. Hill
aire farmer, lost all of his hogs except
his two brood sows from cholera.
These two sows produced filters of 20
pigs, which Brink fattened on clover,
milk and small grain and sold August
20 in St. Paul for $S16.2O. Expert hog
men say they were the best finished
porkers ever shown in that market and
sold for $1,000 hundred. Brink, by
the way, is not worrying over the poor
wheat crop.
O. R. Beitz, who has had charge of
the Irwin Cafe at Kenmare for the past
two months, left the city Wednesday
evening for parts unknown, leaving
list of creditors behind him who are
anxiously agaiting word of his where
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not yet been passed. Shaffer has been
in that vicinity for a number of years
and is said to have been at one time
an employee of "Step' Davis at Coney
Island, New York.
The Darlington Record man takes
out his old gasoline engine and in
stalls bran new motor, and now he
wants to exchange the old gas buzzer
for BRAN new mich COW.
With the Nonpartisan league at the
helm Of the state central republican
committee there should be no trouble
in putting over" the whole republican
ticket from top to bottom.
Some Of North Dakota's best sports
men will endeavor to have a closed
season for period of three years on
the festive prairie chicken, fearing
that the birds will soon become extinct
unless they are protected for a few
years.
The leading democrats of North Da-
kota are at last forced to admit that
under Honest John Burke a most DOW
erful political machine was formulated
and judging from the recent disturb
ance at the meeting of the State Cen
trial committee, this same machine is
working overtime. The machinists as
we'll as the more conservative demo-
Gratis find themselves in a sorry plight.
A. C.Dayton Of Glenburn killed a
steer with stone one day last week.
when the animal charged his new Ford
in which he was helping round up some
stock. The enraged animal was top
pied over by collision with the car, and
or, regaining it's feet put pony to
rout 1t then again turned it's at
tention to the car and it was then that
Dayton met it square between the eyes
with the stone
The six-year-old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Shihovec, residing south
west of Mott, practically had a foot
cut off by the sickle of mower, driv.
en- by an older brother. The young
ster got in front of the mower while
the team was standing still. The driv-
er failed to notice his little brothers
whereabouts until he had started the
team, and then it was too late. Both
bones of the ankle were cut through
and the foot barely hung by few
tendons and strips Of flesh. Physicians
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FOR SALE-Hotel and restaurant in
good live mining town on trunk line
railway, good business the year
round. Will sell at sacrifice. Good
reason for selling. Would consider a
proposition to sell furniture and fix
lures and lease building at reason
able rental. Address j. F., care of
Independent. 8-14-t4*