Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-21
Judgments

lldut up Oh inc supreme, uul
i oftimes foolish, confidence of
the perpetual optimst or the
athletic board at the University of Ne
braska has gone completely Aooey in
the attic would be the natural ,upposi-
ton OF a gridiron fan taking a slant
at the schedule OF conflicts the Corn
husker eleven must face this fall,
Iowa, Norte Dame. Michigan, Mis-
souri,, Kansas and Syracuse in success
sion is some schedule, DO. Every one
OF these schools is certain to have a
good eleven, an eleven fully capable
OF giving the Huskers a battle no
matter how strong the latter may be.
And this far ahead three of those
schools will rank favorites over Ne
braska. From the standpoint OF sue
cess some gridiron fans might regard
the undertaking of such strenuous
schedule foolish. But, looking at it
from another angle, it may be wise
move. Nebraska's prospects for a
great foot ball eleven have never been
better. Four new backheld men will
graduate from the freshman eleven to
the varsity. They are said to be the
four best backheld men ever collected
at one time at the Husker institution.
And wealth of line material will &C
company that backheld This new
talent with the veterans from the 1916
team is expected to make the 1917
Husker machine the most potent ever
turned out at Lincoln. If ever Ne
braska had a chance to clean up on
six such teams as it will face this fall,
this is the time. 1t might be a long
time before opportunity would present
itself so squarely in front of the Husk-
ers. And if Nebraska does come out
of that campaign with flying colors its
loot ball reputation will be established
from coast to coast. And if Nebraska
does not come out of that campaign
with flying colors its standing will
not be hurt. It's a case of everything
to gain and nothing to lose, and as
Coach Mayser of Ames so patty re.
marked win or lose it's progressive"
This Darcy person seems to have
blown a shoe and skidded into the
fence on the back-steteh. When this
south sea isle lad hit our hysterieal
shores brass bands began to toot,
whistles began to blow, all the mean
descents in the welcome arches were
turned on full speed ahead, promoters
embraced him with lot of loud
OSCILLATION and the little woolly lambs
began to bleat for a chance to get
shorn. Mr.. Darcey's arrival was the
inspiration for the most frenzied en-
thusiasm and nuttiness In years. And
no more did Darcy land than he as
sumed the modest ways of the shrink
ing violet and informed the world of
his ambitions, hopes and intentions,
to-wit. Mr.. Willard was to get his
wrist slapped, Mr.. Carpenter was to
have a couple of his eyebrows trans
ferred, Mr.. Gibbons was to have his
physiognomy mistreated and lot of
other things But what Lester did was
to line himself up for little of the soft
money on the burlesque circuit. He's
been here a month and no indications
of impending hostihties are yet forth
coming. And the W. k. common peo-
pie of the east seem to be kicking
back on their generous welcome,
strange as this may seem. They can't
understand why Lester should turn
down some of the offers submitted to
him, offers which in Australia he
would have taken more chances than
moving picture daredevil to accept.
Is the east getting wise to itself?
Should Mr.. Darcy invade Nebraska,
a wild and unkempt state where New
Workers. say the sucker crop is 100
per cent perfect, he would, like Jess
Willard was, be greeted with couple
of loud outlaws, accompanied by a
small collection of filters and perhaps
as much as 20 cents in real money. A
couple of more Darcys and perhaps
the east will look at it the same
way we do.
Will the players strike? Perhaps,
but we'll venture guess that a lot
OF them will experience some I'M
easy times between this date and
April IS. The players fraternity has
called the strike for February 20. The
minor magnates at whom the frater-
nifty is aiming refuse to be annoyed at
ali BY the announcement They have
until March to send out their con-
tracts. Our guess is that they will wait
until the last hour before dropping the
envelopes containing the precious
parchments into the mail. In addi-
ton the magnates declare the strike
would give them a muchly desired op-
portunity to chop off the heads OF a
few of their veteran athletes and sign
up youngsters who have never heard
Of the players fraternity. Young ball
players cost less than veterans. The
players may strike, but if they do
they'll do as much worrying and fret
ting and probably more between now
and spring than the magnates,
There is one demand made by the
base ball players we fail to compre-
bend, or at least we fail to gather
the reason or justice in it. That is the
demand that the club owner pay the
player's expenses from his home to