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TIIE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, JANUARY 10, 1904. 13 ORGANIZING TIIE GOLFERS Unittf Bute Coif Anocittion it Beschint Out for Member, BENEFITS THAT COME FROM JOINING )f mberahlp Drlne Borne Frlvllires Bad Advantage, lid OraaUa tlea Help the Gam la Maajr Ways. An appeal -for more member has Just een made by the L'nlted Btates Oolf sa- aoolatlon. The eflort to enlarge tt mem bership la something new for the national association. Hitherto, the national body has acted the part of a dignified arbiter at the ime, membership being; considered In the light of a privilege for those cluba mho wished to Join. No attempt was ever made. It la said, to be exclusive, any regu larly organized club being eligible upon It slmplo statement of its golf conditions and payment of the prescribed dues. For associate cluba these are $100 and HO for Jl'ed clubs. The latter fee was reduced to Its present amount from $26 at the meeting last year. All voting power and the general government of the association la vested In the associate clubs, and of these there are now twenty-nine mem bers. It la from these clubs that the choice la made for the big annual cham pionship tournaments, so, unless a club ia an associate member. It will never stand a chance of selection for one of the coveted contesta of the year, no mat ter how good lta course may be. The allied membership conslsta of 218 clubs from all parts of the country. These cluba may be represented by ona delegate at the annual meeting, and may discuss questions, but have no vote. A strong effort has been made In the past to re duce the fee of the associate cluba to t&O and it la possible that this matter will be brought up again at the coming annual meeting which la to be held In New York City on February 1L The officers of tho association have Issued a circular calling for new members aa allied clubs. The ad vantage of Joining the national body are clearly set forth and It Is believed by many leading golfera that this plan is but the first effort toward dividing the country Into a large number of sectional associa tions. , These associations. In turn, are to be used aa a mean to make the annual cham pionship a thoroughly representative con test of the best golfers In the country. There are already a number of minor as sociations, that. In a quiet way, have been helpful In 'the national amateur cham pionship In keeping the fact to the front that only the best men should enter, be cause their performances nturally reflect upon the golf members of the association from which they come. In the absence of any definite rules toward restricting con testants in this, the big event of the year, the amaller associations hare accom plished a great deal of good, In a quiet way In limiting the entries. Such Is the "glad hand" that the United States Golf association, or parent organization. Is now handing out to the "minor" organizations, and It sounds very well. In support of this principle, the United States Oolf association authorities argue that many sections of the country have no state or local association, and the ten dency has been to bring the entry Hat of the amateur championship up to unwieldy figures, making the first day, at least, un comfortable for both players and officers. An Idea advanced by many players of ability Is to have the country divided Into a dozen or more districts, In each of which shall annually be held a seventy-two hole medal play competition, and the leaders In these contests will be the ones selected to represent their district In the national amateur championship. The number of golfers to be selected from the respective districts would probably occasion some fine discussions, but It would be proportioned to the number of associations, and such as to Insure greater convenience to the big tour nament of the year. The United State Oolf association en tourages the formation of sectional as sociations, not only for the social and golf benefit, which. It Is argued, come thereby to the player In the respective localities, but as a means of assisting In solving the problem of the amateur championship. With the constant growth In golf interest, as shown by the new clubs being formed every year, bringing out a large number of new players. It seems evident that the national championship will. In the near future, attract a field which It will be Im possible to handle within a reasonable time, and to the satisfaction of the com petitors and the golf committee, sectional associations can be of great aid In this matter, end some Important developments In this direction may be forthcoming at the annual meeting. Fortunately for golfers In this section of the country, they already have their "sec tional" organisation In the Transmlsslsslppl Oolf association, and Its officers and sup porters, who are numerous, will do a wise thing if nothing Is permitted to disturb Its entity and Individuality. This should be maintained at all hazards, but on the other hand It mny remain Intact and at the same time meet the proposed requirements of the United States Oolf association. The Trans misslsslppl Oolf association has not reached its present growth and prestige without undergoing some hardships and many moments when there was doubt as to Its continuity. Now that the embryonic stage has passed, and golf organizations are springing up all over the west, everything which can possibly be done to foster the growth of the association Itself and create an Interest In western golf, should be done, and no outside Influences will be permitted to alter Its true mission. The Interesting news comes from Canada that a team of American women players will visit that country next season, playing the Canadian women on their own links. President A. W. Austin of the Lambton Oolf club, near Toronto, made that state ment at a recent meeting of his club. Miss Rhona Adair, the English and Scotch champion, had recently played at the club, and she gave him assurances that the American women were earnestly consider ing such a step. It is probably occasioned by a desire to play a return match. with the Canadian women players In acknowledg ment of their kindness In sending so many players to Philadelphia to take part In the tourney given In honor of Miss Adair's visit to this country. A team match be tween the Canadian and American women was the closing feature of that event, and while the United States team won It was by a close margin. Harry B. Morrill has been presented with his badge as champion of the Omaha Field club for the year IMS. It la silver and beautifully mounted. SHOTGUN EXPERTS COMING Omaha Shooters Will Eatertala St Joseph aad Kansas City Teams. Omaha sportsmen sre looking forward with much interest to the big shoot which Is scheduled to be held in this rltv h. ruary 3 to 6. Inclusive. This Is the second midwinter Interstate shoot between Omaha, St Joseph and Kansas City. The first was held at Bt. Joseph two weeks ago and the Kansas City sportsmen carried off first honors with the Omaha team second. The local sportsmen think they will win In the shoot which Is to be held here. They had very little show at the St. Joseph shoot, they say, for the reason that the birds were too slow for them. The locals have been used to fast birds and a ff trap, and when they commenced shooting at the alow birds which were furnished at St. Joseph they missed with alarming fre quency, One of the best shooters on the local team missed the first four birds. This will be; remedied when the next shoot Is held here, as the locals will be on their own grounds and will be able to regulate the traps and birds to their own satisfac tion and In a manner to which they are accustomed. , The Kansas City team put up a good fight at the St. Joseph meet and the locals give them credit for so doing. The first three men on their team got 24 out of a possible 25, the next got 23 and the fifth member got 22, and that was first-class shooting, as they got 117 birds out of a possible 126. The sura of 1219 In cash has been added to the purse originally announced for this shoot, which therefore makes it one of the Y7- Colds Cough, Constipation and All Form of Lung and Stomach Trouble CURED by U Especially BeneflelsJ In the Illness at Children. READ WHAT PARENTS SAY It builds np their system, enriches their blood, strengthens the weak or-g-ans of the throat and lungs, which are often the cause of croupy, weak and puny children. 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The first event on February I will be the twelve-target affair for amateurs, followed by an amateur event of nine tar get on the next day. Then on February S the five-man team race will be pulled off, with fifty targets to the man. On the 4th the twenty-flve-llve bird open handicap, the handicap ranging from twenty-seven to thlrtv-three yards, will be pulled 'off. On February S the five-man team race, with twenty-five live birds to the man, will con clude the contest. It Is expected that this contest will attract to this city the leading sportsmen of the west Each of the com peting teams la fixing up the best team It can get together. Everything seems to In dicate that some tall hustling will have to be done In order to keep the Kansas City delegation from walking away with all the victories. Three shoots were originally planned for and the Kansas City team has already won the first. The second shoot Is to be held here and the third In Kansas City, and the Kansas City boys will surely win on their own grounds unless th predic tions which have been made by Omaha sportsmen fall to prove true. The men from the Kaw have been noted for years for their marksmanship and they have never permitted their reputation to be downed, for In every event of this kind which haa been contested In the west the Kansaa City team has pulled together like one man and walked away with a goodly portion of the laurels. WEEK WITH LOCAL BOWLERS Omaha Follower of the Game Are Malting Some Good Score at Present. . Last week was a lively one with the Omaha bowlers. Both the leagues resumed operations and the alleys were lively with Individual contests. While no world's records have been broken by any of the home performers, some scores were made that would look creditable opposite any body's name, while the team work In the races was very good. Here Is the standing of flfty-flve men who took part In the Omaha Bowling league game up to Janu ary 9 and it shows that the Individuals are putting up pretty good "ball"' for amateurs: Rank and Name. Oamaa. Pin. Average 1 Sprague 3 t-Keed. H. D 29 S Baldwin S 4 Frltscher S3 5 Francisco 30 ft Brutike 33 7 Welty 83 8 Emery S3 Wig man 27 10 Chandler ii la formed of keeping constantly In good condition and the spectacle, of a good ath letlo contest haa stimulated many a slug gish or Indifferent student on the seats to an Interest In gymnastics, physical condi tion and outdoor lite. J. Obedleni-e. One reason whv athletics mean so much In American colleges, espe pwlally In schools where there Is no mili tary training. Is that many a youth In dulged at home and under the spur of no keen necessity at school gets from athletic his sole taste of that stern discipline with out which he cannot be a full grown man. He may shirk his studies and no dis grace is Imputed to him; his foot bull he cannot shirk or he Is branded by his mate a a "quitter." Ho may get more or les culture and In formation for hi studies, but a a rule very little backbone. From hard training for the nine the eight or the eleven he gets the stuff and substance which counts in the making of character as class room work almost never does. He learns to obey orders; to see better men supplant him for the general good. To subordinate Indlvidunl Impulses, selfish desires and personal credit to tenm work. He learns the power of combination, and It is the normal effect of certain ath letic sports not only to develop these quali ties among the contestants, but to furnish Impressive examples of them to the specta tors. S. Resourcefulness and Control All ath letic sports foster quickness In appre hension, in initiative; coolness and Self-reliance, patience, grit and courage, while In a supreme degree eelf-cnntrol and fnlr ness are required. It Is quite safe to say that all these qualities are observed and en couraged more and more generally despite occasional lamentable lapses. 4. Healthful Rally l'olnt for Student Spirit Athletics afford an outlet for super abundant energy and one which Is only rarely carried to excess. This distinctly reduces the tendency to college interest and disorder. It Is a good thing for the ntudent body, nay, for the whole college community, to he stirred now and then to the very depths of Its soul, to get outside of Itself and Its normal routine, to learn to be Interested In and to care very much for something out side of Itself, to have Its spirit of loyalty sharply aroused, and for all these pur poses healthful, normal athletics properly controlled and administered furnish by far the most available and successful Instrument, Department LmmMMlh Gin 11 Huntington S3 12 Marble S3 13 Denman S3 14 Schneider. F. W.. 21 15 Potter 80 16 Hodges S3 17. Zimmerman S3 18 Norton 27 19 Zarp S3 20 Weber 24 21 Encell 21 23 Hughes S3 23 Forscutt 24 24 Lehman 27 25 Hunter IS 2-GJerde 83 27 Fried hof 27 28..Grlfflths M 29 Schneider, L. J... S3 SO Conrad 15 81 Jones 24 82 Christie 13 53 Beselln ... 27 54 Neale SO 35 Beagele ........... 18 36 Clarkson 27 37 Norene 24 SH Reynolds SO 89 Sherwood 15 40 Ollchiist 80 41 Mockett 13 42 Ranks SO 43 Clay 27 44 Tracy 27 45 Selleck 18 48 Greenleaf 24 47 Carter 48 Ahmansoo 27 49 Yoder 50 Smead 12 61 Fowler 13 62 French 18 63 Sheldon 18 M Reed. A. C 15 55 Murphy 68 66u9 668 6175 66U0 6158 61 .S3 6091 4!A0 697fi 6971 6971 6923 870 68 6894 5819 4763 6816 4193 8664 6744 4172 4691 2699 6691 4656 6171 66S3 257S 4093 2048 4684 6084 8018 4514 416 6009 2604 S0O7 2002 4985 4473 4471 2990 SS91 971 4327 1446 i9n 20R4 2K31 28i 2293 901 1-3 19i 191 189 1-3 167 4-33 186 20-30 1.N6 20-31 186 15-U 184 19-33 181 3-27 181 2-33 180 81-33 180 81-33 179 16-33 179 U-21 178 18-S0 178 20-3J 17 11-3.1 176 11-27 176 8-33 174 16-24 174 10-21 174 2-33 H3 30-24 173 20-27 173 4-15 173 15-31 172 12-27 172 11-S) 172 7-83 171 8-13 170 13-24 170 8-12 169 18-37 169 14-S) 1(7 12-18 167 7-27 167 8-24 166 29-30 166 14-15 166 27-80 166 10-12 166 5-31 168 17-27 165 16-27 164 8-18 162 161 160 160 158 168 167 156 153 11-15 150 1-6 8-24 6-6 7-27 6-9 6-12 6-18 WYER WRITES ON FOOT BALL Librarian at ralverslty ( Nebraska 6lve Teacher m Paper ea the Game. A paper en college athletics in general and foot ball In particular was presented at the recent meeting of the Nebraska State Teachers' association In Lincoln by Libra rian J. I. Wyr of the State university. The paper purports to set forth the good and the evils which have grown out of the gam of foot hall. It had been argued by pre vious speakers that "the evils of Intercol legiate athletics outweigh the benefits." Mr. Wyer said he could find nothing; In the arguments or In wide reading, supplemented by personal experience, which would war rant such a verdict. That the game I at tended with serious evil I held to be true by Mr. Wyer, for he says: It la undoubtedly true that from the tandpoint of uninfluenced amateur playing without direct or Indirect consideration nine-tenth of the teams of the larger schools In the west are thoroughly shame lessly rotten. Money Is raised among students, among Interested bualness men, among alumni, even from member of the faculty to secure and hold certain men on the college team. There ia a constant, unseemly, often un scrupulous scramble among athletic man agers for prospective students of athletic promise and the country is literally ran sacked from Maine to California In search of material which Is secured by Induce ments, hlntina- at material benefits varying from offers of fake business positions to free tuition, room ana Doara. Competent critics seem to agree In de nouncing the outalde coach whose high alary and spectacular reputation depend upon the success of his team, as perhaps the most corrupting Influence In present day college athletic. The temptation to use a part of his salary In securing players for the team la often too great to be re sisted. . , Such point aa thee are a few of th many factor contributing to create what I have termed professionalism. It I rarely ao bald and apparent as to be possible of proof; in fact, many college openly boaat of this feature of it. No extended argu ment Is needed to Indicate the bad effect of such practices on team spirit, on tandards of honesty both among th playera and the Urge tudent body, knowing to such trans actions. The second group of objections to foot ball may be called disproportionate at tention. . The Inordinate foot ball Insanity which seises upon university communities for three months In the fall, which results In uch Intense rivalry, which frequently see whole college communities, president, fac ulty and all. following th team from point to point, shouting themselves hoarse cheering their champion on to victory In spectacular contest which In their appoint ments, atmosphere and behavior too often resemble gladiatorial combat. On the other hand the evidence of mu tual good will, the reciprocal cheering, th hearty, cordial treatment of opponent which marked ail th game played on the campus of th University of Nebraska this year and the generous hospitality and courteous attention bestowed upon 500 Ne braska visitor to Kanas at a recent gam between Kansas and Nebraska offer strong testimony on the other aide. Let m present th benefit of Intercol legiate athletic under specific head. 1. Promotion of bodily development and vigor sine college athletics became nopular it I scarcely too much to say that the tvpe of college student ha changed. That It has rome to be recognised that good phv lcal condition la Imperative for the beat mental work. In addition to the moderation, personal cleanllnea and general hyglenlo regimen prescribed among the player themselves by formal Lraiolag during toe seasoa the habit ATHLETICS AT CREIGHTON Alamnl Association Asks to Be Given Representation on the Gov erning Board. The Crelgtton Alumni association has asked that one of Its member be named for the athletic board, which Is under the control of the president and faculty. It is urged, that the alumni of the Institution should have something to say on athletic matters, and to that end a letter has been addressed to the president of the univer sity asking that the alumni association be permitted to name one of Its most in fluential members for the athletic board. Announcement is also made in this con nection that Crelghton Is making prepara tions for a vigorous foot ball campaign next season and to that end the question of a coach and athletic manager are now vital topics for discussion. The friends of the Institution think the day Is not far dis tant when It will be the second largest university in the west, and one of the things which will conduce to Its growth. It Is argued,. Is the maintenance of a healthy athletic spirit and the ability to get to gether victorious teams In base ball, foot ball and other sports. Just now, therefore, attention is directed to the task of getting a suitable manager. Then comes the question of a coach for the font ball team. Some have said that a coach should be engaged who could com bine with this position the work which de volves upon a manager. A man Is being looked for who has knowledge of how to draw up contracts and do the training and get the team on a first-class basis. Some have urged that the best that money can procure should be contracted for, but those opposing; this say that It Is unwise to get into an athletic debt, for the history of other Institutions has shown how hard it Is to . lift such a burden, once It Is acquired. OCT OK THE ORDINARY, A gay young Lothario of 7S In Washing ton lately eloped with a giddy damsel of 63. W. 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