Omaha daily bee., 1916-06-11
Judgments

49, UESDAY, Wednesday and
HN Thursday this week Omaha
will entertain the annual
i Western Handicap Trap
Shooting tournament >1This
will be the first of a number of big
sporting events which will be held in
Omaha during the summer months.
The Western Handicap is the second
largest trap shooting tournament
held. The Grand American alone
surpasses it. 1t is probable several
hundred blue rock shooters will come
to Omaha for the event. Its impor-
tance to Omaha is as great as that
of big convention. To the Omaha
Gun club must go the credit for
bringing this event to Omaha. The
local club made its fight all alone.
Single-handed Ray Kingsley de-
scended on the Interstate association
at the Grand American at Chicago
last year and made the fight for the
local club. He won. And by that
victory Omaha once more resumes
its place at the top Of the trap shoot
ing ladder. In 1911 and in 1912 the
Western Handicap was held in
Omaha. Omaha held the center of
the stage then. Then the old Omaha
Gun club faded from view. Trap
shooting became stagnant in Omaha:
But two years ago an ardent band of
local marksmen organized the new
Omaha Gun club and in these short
two years have worked wonders.
Omaha has come into its own again,
and we'll have to admit its hats off
to the Omaha Gun club"
Western league magnates would
would like to know where some of the
scouts are this year. There hasn't
been a scout in Western league ter
ritory yet this year and the moguls
who possess likely looking talent are
worrying. The absence of the scouts
shows that major league clubs are
adopting considerably different tao
tics this year. They are scout
ing the colleges. In the past
the ivory hunters passed up the
colleges without as much as a
glance. College athletes were scorned.
Then along came on Connie Mack.
Connie signed number of collegians.
Eddie Collins and Jack Berry are a
couple. Those collegians proved
stars of first magnitude at the jump.
Now every manager in the league di-
rects his scouts to scour the colleges
before assailing the bushes and that's
why our Western league talent is be-
Ing overlooked thus far this season.
The annual Nebraska state golf
tournament promises to be truly
statewide event this year. Last week
Secretary Shafer announced that eigh-
teen golf links in Nebraska now hold
franchises in the state association. A
couple of years ago the state tourney
was practically an Omaha event. With
not over half dozen exceptions, all
of the golfers participating were
Omahans. Even last year Lincoln
was the only other city in the state
to have noticeable representation. But
this year it is expected nearly every
one Of the eighteen clubs in the as
sociation will be represented. It is
we'll. Probably the Omaha contin-
gent will have things pretty much
their own way in the capture Of
trophies, but the increase in the en-
thusiasm in the state bids we'll to
predict Omaha won't always reign su-
preme, and that's what makes state
tournament.
Lee Fohl, who is leading the Cleve-
land Indians in their wonderful
flight toward the pennant, is upsetting
considerable Of the managerial dope.
Fohl admits he hasn't laid down a
bunch of rules for his athletes to OBJ
serve and even admits he has no dis
like to cigarettes. Lee says as long
as a player plays ball and hustles he
can smoke as many cigarettes as he
desires. On the other hand Clarke
Griffith and a number of other man
ayers have placed an absolute ban
on cigarettes. Which is right1
John L. Sullivan, who, it will be
rendered, insisted Frank Moran had
all the best Of Willard in the recent
heavyweight scrap, has come forth
with an assertion that Oran Kilpat-
rick, Harvard's strong man, would be
able to lick Jess Willard if he would
only turn professional. Mr.. Kilpat-
rick, as can be seen by his name, is
Irish. There aren't any Irish pro-
fessional heavyweights who can stand
up to Mr.. Willard and this short
coming on the part Of the descend
ents OF Erin is evidently causing John
some discontinue.
A year ago critics were wont to at
tribute the failures of the Braves to
the propensities of Johnny Evers to
get kicked out of the game. 1t was
said that with Evers in the game
every day Stallings would have beaten
Moran in the pennant flight This
year John has been tame and tran
quill athlete; he hasn't had fight with |
and ump yet. And now those same
critics explain the failures of the
Braves as the result of lack of pep |
and fighting spirit on the part Of ]. |
Eyers. Can you beat it1 ]