Omaha daily bee., 1919-05-03
Sport Shorts
By KID GRAVES.

The odd war horse" of Omaha
amateur base ball, Andy Graves, has
been asked to head team in the
proposed Nebraska-Iowa League.
Andy says he wouldn't mind nlanag-
ing a good team, but hes afraid all
the good players have been grabbed
by the semi-pro Armours and the
class A amateurs.
The New England featherweight
boxer, Al Shubert, through his man
ager Leonard NOVEL; of Bedford,
Mass, has posted forfeit of $500
to bind match with featherweight
champion Johnny Kilbane or
frankie Brown OF, New York, who
defeated Kilbane in a six-round no.
decision bout at Philadelphia re-
Gently.
Tuesday night, down in Ell Paso,
Tex, Johnny Sudenberg of Omaha
hung knockout on Kid Gleason in
the first round of scheduled Is
round scrap. Gleason was pretty
we'll thought Of in Texas and the re-
suit of Sudenberg's knockout over
the Corpus Christi scrapper may
land him some matches with some
of the better class middleweights.
The giant Pole, Wladek Zbyszko,
since his second victory over Ed
(Strangler) Lewis in Chicago Mon
day night is claiming the heavy
weight wrestling championship, de-
spite the fact that Earl Caddock is
the undisputed champion. Cham
pion Caddock is expected home soon
after the inter-allied sporting events
in France and it is likely that he
will take all that egoism out Of
Wladek when he gets back. Earl
is back in form again, having re-
covered from a sickness that caused
him to forego the wrestling game
for a time He is entered in the
wrestling events in the great Euro
pean athletic show and his soldier
friends expect him to have little
trouble in winning his bouts. In the
meantime, libby is billed to meet
John Pesek out in the state and it
may be that he will have the Shelton
farmer to meet instead of the Pole
when Earl returns to the land Of
liberty.
The managers of the Armour
semi-pro base ball club have notified
the teams in the Western league
that when they are i'll Omaha en-
route to Sioux City Or to change
trains OH the way to any other city
in the Western league that they
can arrange a twilight practice
game with the semi-pro team on
Rourke park, any afternoon. Pa
Rourke is with the boys in this
plan and has caused the managers
of each club in the league to be
notified of the matter. Teams land
ing in Omaha for a few hours when
the Omaha club is on the road may
fix up an afternoon date or the
twilight plan may be tried when
the Rourkes are playing at home.
There is going to be real wrest-
ling show i'll the Council Bluffs
auditorium Tuesday night Vernon
Breedlove, featherweight champion
of the world, will meet Harry
Shoafstall, the lightweight cham
pion OF the south, in a return match
to finish, best two out of three
falls. Verne beat him once, but the
referee was little hasty in calling
the second fall and the southerner
thought he had chance to get away
and perhaps win, SO asked for re-
turn match. His request was grant
ed and they meet under the direc-
ton of Al Fiori at the Bluffs show
house, Tuesday night. Young Gotch
and Denny Moore, rival Omaha
welterweights, are billed for the
semi-windup in finish match, best
two out of three falls. A prelimi-
nary of the same sort has been ar
ranged, so that the entire card will
be one of finish matches, each bout
going two out of three falls.