Omaha daily bee., 1916-03-12

wv call time for the opening
games of the season, in big
league clubs are assiduousy
training for the approaching campaign at
their southern training camps and the
flow of glowing yarns regarding embryo
Ty Cobbs and Alexanders has begun TO
sweep over the printed page. The quota
of rookie sensations on every team is
we'll up to the average THE spring and
as a result eight pennant winning clubs
are predicted in each league. But, seri-
ously. which club shall rank as the favor
lite as the season opens? For once the
omniscient dopester who believes his
reasoning will never prove fallacious
provided everything continues equal, 10
forced to admit the dope will not work
out 1t is pretty generally predicted the
Red Sox and Philies will not be strong
enough to repeat. But what clubs will
beat them out? careful analysis leads
to the belief that the pennant winners
last year are inferior to every other club.
But which OF the other clubs are the
strongest? And here the dope admits de-
feat. It is impossible to foretell which
u the newly organized machines-and
every team I'm the leagues is newly or
ganized-has the goods. II is all specuia-
sion at the most and one guess is as good
IS another.
Pre-battle tales from New York indi-
cate that Governor Whitman and his
boxing commission intend to keep strict
eye on the Willard-Moran battle. The
governor and his commission are hitting
400 IL these yarns are true, for the Will
lard-Moran mill will boar watching. With
prices ranging from IS to SIS and 1900
persons expected to attend 1t will be an
injustice II the officials permit the wal
iopers to get away with sny flin-flan-
ming, and in this modern day of huge
purses and no-decision bouts. II seems
the pugilist delights in making the public
target whenever the opportunity pre-
sents itself. Unless II is properly I'M
pressed upon their minds that any at
tempt to avoid mixing will incur the dis
pleasure Of the ranking officials. the
champion and the contender are very
ifRely to make that attempt. For the
sake of the 1900 anticipated victims II
is hoped Whitman and his commission
will be able to force little fight out of
the big fellows.
Submitting bids for the highly specu-
lative Gotch-Stecher wrestling match IL
becoming a popular pastime nowadays.
II would seem that half OF the kerosene
1circuit towns OF the country want the
big go, which may or may not occur, and
it's a pretty poor village that can't dig
up patriotic citizen or two to make a
more or less flattering offer for the event.
All OF which goes to grove that the world
works the principal that IL pays to
advertise. It doesn't cost anything to
hid for the match now. But for a guess,
II the time ever comes when Gotch shall
promise to meet the Nebraska phenom.
nary whisper will be heard from the
Battle Creeks. Rock Islands and Buttes,
and Gene Melady and Omaha will have a
clear field.
news dispatch from ST. Louis con-
,veys the startling information that the
Kansas Aggies won the Missouri valley
conference basket ball championship by
virtue of victory over Washington uni
versity. Receipt of this sensational news
inspired a loud and prolonged smoker in
Cornhusker circles. for outside the fact
that Nebraska administered a duo OF
trimmings to the Jayhawk farmers.
Johnny Bender's crew have a legitimate
claim to the title Either the illustrious
Johnny employs a reverse method that
defies the accepted laws OF mathematics
in winning titles, or somebody in st.
louis is violating the Harrison law
Player Dunning, vino was claimed by
Charlotte, y. c.. was awarded to the
Cleveland American league club, which
IN turn has released the player to Ashe-
VILE, y. c.. reads an account Of ma
tionaI commission decision. Some day
the national commission will hand down
q decision favoring a minor league club
ever a major league club, and on that day
the kaiser will also sip coffee in London
nd the car will gargle Pilsner in Berlin
Kansas and Missouri having already
played two turkey date games and the
lowe Aggies one. the Missouri valley con
ference board comes TO bat with an Off
cial approval of Thanksgiving day foot
ball. When It comes &C being alive to the
times the Missouri valley board makes
Walter Camps famous record look like
a Russian outpost trench after the ex
plosion Of a forty-two-centimeter shell.
Les Darcy having Sc. the precedent by
enlisting in the aviation corps OF the
British army, may we expect TO SCI
Freddie Welsh. Ted Lewis and the res
Of the illustrious British box fighter
abandon their chase of the American
dollar for the more exciting but less re
munerative pursuit of battling the Ger
mans7 Yea, DO, we may-not.
Roger Bresnahan has been gwen 600
and his unconditional release by Charles
Weeghman TO cancel his contract witt
the Chicago Cubs. Verify. Bresnahan q
the slave Of circumstances. It's tough
when a ball player only gets $4,000 hear
balm when decorated with the tinklinl
tinware.