Omaha daily bee., 1916-10-01
CLASS A GRID LADS
SLOW TO ORGANIZE
Only One Team, the Champion
Nonpareils, Are Ready for
Current Season.
CLASS B CREWS TOO FAST
BY FRANK OUIGLEY

From present indications this
leather egg season will be corker
with the local Sunday exponents. Al
though to date there is scarcity Of
Class A organizations. the field is
bubbling over with Class B and c
teams. Approximately twenty-five
teams in Omaha and Council Bluffs
are organized and ready to stand the
wallops. cuffs and bumps inflicted on
the gridiron. Only one Class A con-
gregation has been mustered to-
gether, namely, the Nonpareils,
which contains the cream of the local
available talent. 1t is possible that
two more speed machines will enter
the arena, because two leaders of
note have the matter under advise
ment, and if proper backing can be
secured they will answer the roll call
by next Sunday. However, the Class
A team is not dependent on them for
their schedule, because there are
plenty of out-of-town teams that are
especially anxious to hook up with
any fast team from Omaha.
According to the dope the Colum-
bians, 1914 champions, and Monmouth
Parks, runners-up for the last ten
years, have visited the cemetery.
Since last season some of the play
ers have left town, others decided
that foot ball is rough on the COM
plexion, and the balance have joined
other tribes. At that, at least
enough Of their players could be suf-
ficiently convinced that foot ball is a
grand old game to formulate a good
Class A herd
Should Be Class A.
In the opinion of the writer, the
Fontenelles, c. B. Longeways and
Athletics should be recognized as
Class A contingents, but they want to
bounce backward into Class B. The
Nonpareils could be called Class AA.
These three teams are too fast to
bump against the. players generally
known as Class B and they should
not acknowledge the supremacy of
the Nonpareils until the latter hand
out few packages of Missouri stuff.
On paper the Nonpareil tribe looks
unusually sugary, but foot ball play
ers are only human. and although the
monickers of the Nonpareils loom up
like a lighthouse during a fog, they
have all been under fire for some
time and who knows but some of
them are ripe to burn out. They
can't shine forever, because even the
stars take the toboggan ride some
day. The Nonpareils should not
waltz away with the championship
unmolested. If you leather egg
manipulators cannot do anything else
purchase sack of lemons and turn
them over to the Nonpareils.
Games Today.
Over at Athletic park, Council
Bluffs, this afternoon at p. M, the
Mazdas will collide with the c. B.
Longeways. This contest will be a
live wire affair, with a shade in favor
of the Council Bluffs warriors. A
practice game will be rolled on the
boards at Luxus park this afternoon
at 2:30, between the Nonpareils and
the Nonpareil Reserves. The Re-
serves are a Class B team, but they
will undoubtedly give their older and
more experienced opponents tough
battle. At Fontenelle park at $3.50
D. m, the Fontenelle Reserves will
do battle with the Dundee Woolen
Mills. This game will simply be a
practice argument, during which both
squads will ascertain the ability OF
their new candidates.