Omaha daily bee., 1916-11-19
Gossip Heard on
the Sandlots

OF course and foot ball team can have
a percentage OF 1000 in the Radiator league
The Nonpareils will wade across the
creek and bump up agsiDs the C. B. Longe-
ways next Sunday.
Those Dundee Wooden Mills have changed
their appellation. Hereafter they will be
known as the Ben Kennedy Colts
Orville Crabtree, associated with the c. B.
Midgets is about as hard a pretzel. He
bumps 'em all, regardless Of size.
Louie Camera. left half for the Webster
Street Merchants, Is a terrific line plunger
and also speed demon on his pedals.
Dunlap, Ia, Is where the Monmouth Parks
will perform on Turkey day. They will re-
ceive s?5 and rations for said otfense.
Tommy Graham's Tigers went to the wall.
They were unusually fierce as long as they
stuck, but they used punk mucilase.
A team called the Young Pharmacy drop
ped into the limelight for one offense, but
was splintered after tho initial fracas.
The German shsmrocks sure have mushy
place to practice. They practice on the
pavement at Ninth and Bancroft streets.
In Harry Penny the Monmouth Parks have
a halfback that is hard to check and he
also plays a wonderful game on the defense
At left end Arthur Chapman is a marvel
for the c. B. Midgets He is speedy and
can side step and dodge like a frst-class
pug.
Since Frank Golden assumed the respon-
sibility of coaching the Fontenelle Reserves
they have climbed up the ladder at rapid
pace.
That Thiry-third and Parker street team
was swallowed I'D IN one gulp. They played
one game and then went via the the balloon
route.
Since the Nourse on team changed their
name to the Marquette Club they have failed
to register point on the debit side Of the
ledger,
Jacoberger, the new gent hitched to the
| Nonpareils, has overly made good. His
noodle plays a conspicuous part In every
tangle.
| Nonparei Reserves will demonstrate their
wares at Athletic park, Council Bluffs, at
| Q y. m
Wagner, the chief of the German Sham
rocks, is rather dubious about their squad
| since the recent accident to one of their good
| players.
Tommie Boyne. a star OF repute. is now tied
to the C. B. Midgets. He will play at left
| half and should strengthen the team con-
| sideraby.
| During scrimmage practice last week
Anton Munich OF the German Shamrocks
slipped while circling the end and broke his
| right arm.
About thirty Ave teams were organized
| this season and only eighteen are still In
| the ring. Inability TO secure capable leaders
| tells the story.
Those Monmouth Parks Reserves caught
| cold feet during the recent cold snap. and
| from present indications they VIII thaw OUT
| some time next season.
It seems as though the California street
Merchants need California weather TO put
them in condition. They have not chaiked
| up many victories this season
Several Omaha squads have already con-
summated arrangements to gobbie up
| turkey and incidentally play foot ball out
Of town on Thanksgiving day.
The Monmouth Parks could use good
lineman during their game booked with
| Dunlap for Thanksgiving day. For further
Information cali Thomas Kelly over Colfax
1886.
Madam Rumor has 1t that Wisner will
organize especially to put a crfmp In the
| Nonpareils All the foot ball bugs in this
community would welcome a match between
these two aggregations.
That famous heady leader, Thomas Moore.
will be back on the job to lead the Nom
parcels on the field today. Thomas ought
| 10 know a few things about foot ball, for
| he has played the game twenty years
| Phil Lynch, boss of the championship Nom
| pareils foreclosed mortgage on the indie
| pendence of a vision Of lovellness some time
ago. but him team mates were kept in the
dark until Phil got ready to pop. He ex-
| ploded and a real party for the team and
] their friends was the outcome