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he Omaha unday Bee PART riVE SPORTING PACES 1 TO 4. VOL. XXXIX NO. 30. OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 0, 1910. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS. Base Ball Strategy and Foot Ball Rules Furnish Topics for Lively Winter Sport Discussion HEAD OR SPEED, WHICHCOTJNTS? Whether to Outspeed or to Outwit Catcher is Problem Before Base Banner. REFORM RULES Another Group of High School Boys Who Know the Game TO SAVE GAME Dr. R. G. Clapp Says Foot Ball Must Be Made Safer or Colleges Will Drop IV COBB AND WAGNER DIFFER MOLLYCODDLES ARE IN POWER. r Former Gallops Around the Bases Like Deer. WAGNER MAZES USE OF WITS Never Makes Unnecessary Motions While on Bag. HANS FLOATS THROUGH SPACE Art Most Spectacular Feature American Uim, Capable of Pro dnclng More Thrill Than Any Other Department. of NEW YORK, Jan. 8. According to the catchers of the big league. It I" a question . as to which Is the greater base stealer ,' the man who can outguess a backstop or I the man that can outHpeed one. Hans Wagner of Pittsburg and Ty Coib ot De ' trolt furnish excellent examples of these : twi distinct types of base runners. They are the masters of their respective styles. More than half of the time Cobb will take ; a catcher by surprise and his speed Is so ' great that the most perfect throw In the world will not catch him. On the other hand, Wagner simply trios to outguess the catcher and he does it on nearly every trial. The big Dutchman glides along the ground like a freight train and he slides so accurately that a perfect throw will miss him 20 per cent of the time. He uses his head entirely, while Cobb depends on his wonderful speed. Cobb is of the nervous, fidgety variety of players, and he gallops away like a deer that has been Jumped from a brush pile. The young Georgian pays little attention to the catcher. He simply makes up his mind when he Is going to start, and he does not care whether the catcher knows it or not. He has absolute confidence In his 0poed and that wonderful llghtnlng llko slide that has put so many basemen out of business. ' Wagner stands on the buse and watches a catcher Intently. He waits until he . thinks the catcher Is of the opinion that he Is not going to try to steal. Then he starts. Cobb Steals Most. Cobb stole a great many more bases last easoh than did Wagner, but It was be : cause he took a great many more chances. t, tit waa aiSO in a grfni many mum "But one thing you want to bear in '" mind," aaiya Catcher Archer of Chicago, "Wagner stole the bases when they counted. Unless It was important to toe game at the time, the Dutchman would not start. Cobb will start and time Just for the pure deviltry of It. He likes to see If he can beat the catcher's throw. He figures ' that with a good start he can beat any body's throw to a base, and he is pretty nearly right. "Still," continued Archer, "I fear Wag ner on a base much more than 1 would Cobb. I know Cobb's system pretty thor oufi-hly. as I was on the Detroit team with him for a long time, though I never played gainst him. I had the time or my me, though, last year trying to handle that allow Wagner. "Wagner never makes any unnecessary motions while running the bases. He has a sort of a crouch, with hands spread away i out. and the 16wer he bends the better he i la prepared to' make a sudden dash. The eoly other man in the' league -who has the ' same motions Is Hans Lobert ot the Cin cinnati Reds. He runs bases much the am way, and is fully as fast as the greater Hans, but does not use the same Judgment. Hence his success Is not as great. "Cobb, on the other hand, the finest base stealer of the American league, is aait ferent type of base stealer. He Jumps up and down, first motioning to the initial base, and then making a feint for second. When' he really gets going he seems to go like a sprinter in a 100-yard dash, exerting every muscle, whereas Wagner almost ttlldee along, after the fashion of a quar ter-milex. "Tula art of base stealing is one of the greatest in base ball and Is, without doubt, the most spectacular feature. I be ' lieve that a fan likes to see a base well stolen about as well as anything else In the game. And the thrill which spreads over you when you do succeeed in ad vancing a sack in that manner Is even greater than in lacing out a two-bagger, For it la outguessing the other team." Tckaniah Team Has Good Record Foot Ball Boys There Went Through the Season with One Defeat, That to Bancroft Tekamah's foot ball team won all It games but one and that was lost to Bancroft by a drop kick. Because of Its record Tekamah Is claiming the champion ship of northeastern Nebraska. The team played but five games and the management writes that the reason more were not played was because no one in that vicinity cared to face sure defeat. An effort was made to have a game with Grand Island but that team refused. The results of th games played were: Tekamah va. Craig Tekamah vs. Bancroft Tekamah 0 vs. Lyons Tekamah IS vs. Oakland Tekamah S3 vs. Rambler-Omaha.. .0 Wither Defeats Teenniseh. WILBKR. Neb.. Jan. a (Hpecial.)-The Wllber High school basket ball team added another victory tn its string last night when It defeated Tecumseh by a soore-f 117 to . 041 the htMiie floor. The visitors put up a guine fight, but showed lack of exixtrlem-e. The aame was not marred by any fouling, only twelve fouls being called. The lineup: -Ternmseh. WHber. Htewart F.P Pracha Allen K.iK Luite Minei 1'uk.. t .... Benxer . Shlmenla R(i. L.O U.G. HO 1.(1 K.U Miller..., KMuait. . Balrtenion Cualoupka - . I. . ... I I ' , . " ' ' ' ' I ! I I II III! I' ! 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Hejnd Are What the changes may be that the In tercollegiate foot ball rules committee will make in the regulations for the game in 1910 there is no" easy way of determining. The rule makers will have meetings this month and probably for some time to. come in their endeavor to straighten out affairs. The game will have to be changed beW cause of the fatalities and injuries of the last season. Many of the persons who are loudest in their demands to have altera tions made, however, are those ywho can- iitsi, ur uu nui suggest just wuat tntngs Bhould be done to make the game more acceptable on the side of safety. In their attitude they answer very well the complaints made by some technical experts In the game. The experts said to the professors and college presidents: We know foot ball and you know your teaching subjects. Why not leave, us alone?" The answer to this by the faculty men Is: "Very well, you know the game and we don't. But we know that the game must be reformed. (We don't specify how It shall be done. All you have to do Is to go ahead and alter it." According to some persons, the neutral one, open field tackling and the workings of the forward pass were the things re sponsible for the gory showing of foot ball last season. - It was contended that the neutral zone, that Is compelling the play ers to line up so that they were separated by the distance of the long axis of the ball, gave the tackling side so much more ground in .w hich to get a start on offense and also made the clash of players com ing together all the more severe. They illustrated by saying that the shock of slapping one's hands together was neces sarily greater than the pressure of hands placed together and then worked against one another. They pleaded for a return to the former single line of defense. It Is argued against this that the ball Is not so well in sight as It is with the neutral lone. The of ficials, too, favor the neutral none because It gives a clearer view of the players and helps to detect offside and holding. The sharp open field tackling Is another thing much objected to. It is argued that when a player is off his guard or rather has his attention centered on catch ing a bU that la flying through the air toward him he Is Incapable of making a proper defense to a tackle that la launched at him simultaneously with his capturing of - the ball. For Instance, there have been plays in which the backfield man slightly misjudges the ball and is forced to lean back a little to g&t It at all. Measure his chances against some player. who probably outweighs blm thirty or forty pounds the not uncommon proportion of quarterback to end who Is coming down the field full tilt and who strikes blm. so overbalanced at the moment the ball nestles In his arms. It is small wonder, say the objectors ta this style ot play, that the catcher fumbles the ball. And even If he does keep a secure grip on It ha Is apt to be so daxed by the rhock of this coJMslon that he may not be himself for several plays to come, and thus lays himself open to being hurt. It Is contended by those who oppose savage open field tackling that very often these collisions have been the forerunners of. severe hurts, although the public In seeking the reason for these accidents does not look beyond the very play In which the foot ball man meeta injury. For such reasons the publie Is likely to object to certain plays, which In themselves are harmless, as being fatal, solely because they opon the way for a man being hurt when actually the damage was done many minutes before, when he was Jarred so that he never recovered his poise. Inciden tally such is another objection to the present conditions under which the for ward pass is made. The player often has to twist about in his efforts to reach the Top Row (Reading from Left to Right) Superintendent Dixon. Haswell (right end). Griffin (coach). Gill (manager). Middle RowMajors (left guard), X.atta (fullback), jwien Towl BrucV Ollnger (right fuard), Mason (left tackle), McKinnls (captain and left half). Bottom Row Altschuler (right half), Batchelor (quarterback), Bowden (right tackle), Nelson (center).. Bliss (right iFOOi BALL TllAM. ball, and when he is tackled he has no protection of any sort. It is proposed to offset the savage tack ling by borrowing something from the rules of Canadian Rugby, which permits , the catcher a sort of respite. No tackier s permitted to come within three yards of him until he has either caught or muffed the ball. With fast ends, suoh as the American game has developed, thft would leave the catcher as much at the mercy of the ends as before, but he would not be liable t- Injury. The ends, waiting as they would be together, would have the man all the surer, even if he were a clever dodger,' and he at least would not meet with such hurls. It . would not destroy the beauty of the game, It appears, and the Injuries surely would be less. As regards the forward pass, It Is be- 1 loved that this play would be better If the restrictions putting penalties on It when incompleted .were removed, and also If It were the plan to have forward passes made only behind the line of scrimmage. It would be possible, then, to make long tosses to players who would have some little protection near the line. This also would bring the secondary defense up closer. It has been pointed out that a defect of the game this season was the pounding away at the tackles, who were not supported by a secondary defense, be cause those men had to lie back and far out In order to guard against the forward pass, which could be made over the line and to any distance that appeared prac ticable. With the passes back of the line the secondary defense would be drawn In na turally, in its attempts to get the runner when the first line . had made Its try and there would be backing for the tackles, a particularly' vulnerable ' place, should the play be one through the line Instead of a forward pass. Technically it is believed that this Is one of the best working suggestions that has been made, regarding the reforming of the game and it appears in the resolutions put before the executive committee of the Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States by the authorities at West Point. Curiously enough it was brought out almost simultaneously by a sporting writer In New York and an army captain til uig weak. Whether these suggestions and some ' others that have been made will act as the cure for the dangerous features of the game is a question that will have to be argued. Some persons contend that the trouble with foot ball lies In Its character and that untl there are alterations in Its nature the game cannot be made satisfac tory. There are others who contend that the over-xealous efforts to suit the public In 1908 and to make the game very open resulted in such regulations that there was too much danger. Students of foot ball say that the history of the game always has been that the open field playing was generally the most dan gerous and that the rule makers, although they knew and felt this, determined that the game they produced in 1906 should be one that would suit the public and would conform to the expressed desire ot the people to be able to see more of the play regardless' of the consequences they knew such changes might have. It is the belief of many persons now that the proper way to alter the game ot foot ball would be to return In great measure to the old style of play, with certain restric tions about Interference, that would stop the exaggerated mass plays of some time ago, such as the guardsmen and tackles back plays. Even these heavy mass plays, many persons say, did not do the' terrific damage that was ascribed to them, but folks who couldn't see the ball and could not tell about the progress of the play ascribed all sorts ot things to the close plays that they could not analyse. "If you will believe me," said an old foot ball player recently, "the thing to do is to come back to the old game. But the minute you say 'old game' the public will jump In alarm, and there Is no man to day who has the courage to come forward and to say that fifteen or twenty years ago we did not have these terrible acci dents and we would not have them now Vf the open fluid game did not give so much opportunity for them. It probably will not be done, as I Bay, because the pub lic is afraid of the sound ot the name of the old game. "But by regulating the places of the backs on offense and prohibiting the three lContinuc4 tm becvud Nebraska for Indoor Meet Held in Omaha Athletes at Lincoln Respond Heartily and Will Give Support to New Project. LINCOLN, Jan. 8. (Special.) The first annual Missouri Valley Indoor meet to be held at the Omaha Auditorium early tn March will be strongly supported by the University of Nebraska, whose athletes and mentors will take the lead In making the event a success. This became assured today,, when the matter of the: new venture was placed be fore Athletic Director Clapp, who had been In the east for two weeks. The Corn- Tarkio's New Captain TARKIO, Mo., Jan. ,8. The basket ball "T" men of Tarklo college today elected Arthur Matthews captain for the coming basket ball season. Matthews Is a junior In the classical course In the college and has been a member of the college basket ball team for the last two years. Ho has also been a member of the base ball team for the same length of time. ARTHUR MATTHKWH. CAPTAIN AND CKNTKR TARKIO COLI-tUB BASKET LAI.L Xi'AM, mO. V J ''' j j si ' i V husker director at once fell In with the idea and said that he wanted to see the meet pulled off. Jr. Clapp's sanction of the proposed meet means that the Corn hunker Athletic board will approve the pro ject and that , the local students will take a big part in the games. ' The plan was laid before Dr. Clapp by Ben Cherrington, the originator of the Rchtme, and these men went over the de tails of the project together and formed a tentative arrangement for the meet. It was decided that the fore part of March would be the best time to hold the contest. Practically all the colleges and universi ties in the Missouri valley will be invited to attend the meet and for each class of schools there' will be special events, some free-for-alls anC some handicaps. A certain number of athletes from each of several schools will be guaranteed their expenses. Kansas, Iowa, Ames, Drake and Nebraska will be permitted to send four contestants each ' whose expenses, will be paid by the management of the games. Some of the minor schools in Iowa and Nebraska will also be . allowed expenses for a certain number of men. Dr. Clapp und Ben Cherringtbn will as sume the responsibility for the local end of the meet, while Manager Ulllan of the (Auditorium and Hugh Wallace, a former Nebraska athlete, will co-operate In hand ling the Omaha part of the games. The Omaha meet will be the second of Its kind to be established In the Missouri valley. For several winters a similar con test has been conducted at Convention hai In Kansas City, and athletes from all the Missouri valley conference schools have each year been represented there. H0PPE IS AFTER TWO TITLES Will Flay 18.1 and 18.2 and Expects to Win. NEW YORK, Jan. &. Looks as though the proverbial ton of money would come on soon in the big billiard matches that are being arranged among the leading cue experts, the latest being a match between George Sutton, holder of the 18.1 balk-line championship, and Willie Hoppe, who are to play three night, 1.500 points, In blocks of 600 points each night. In Chicago during Marcb. Hoppe, who is also to play Oro Morning- star at 18.2 balk-line In Pittsburg in Feb ruary, Is doing some hard practice and says he expects to again be a double cham pion before, the season closes, provided he can get on a match with Demarest, holder of the 18.2 emblem, which now seems quite probable, this match following that be tween Demarest and Cllne. The winner of this latter match will be Immediately chal lenged. That Hoppe has good backing for any match he may make Is gained from the statement of Charley Tennes, his Chicago backer, who said today that he would back the boy phenorn for any amount from $600 to $2,500. The match with Morningstar will be the first big betting proposition, as New York friends of Oro have invited Tennes to "show them." Des Moines After Blar Tournament. DES MOINES, la., Jan. 8. (Special.) A n International gulf championship tournament to be held In the summer of 1911 on the links of the Des Moines Golf and Country club and the Waveland course combined is the proposition which has been sub mitted by fldney A. Foster to the Greater Des Moines committee. The links offer one of the best 3b-hole courses in the United States, according to Tom Hemlelow and other authorities, and Mr. Foster's idea Is to promote one of the largest golf ing events ever held In the country. His plan Is for the event to lust two or three weeks, lie has solicited the aid of the booster commltteo of, this city to aid In the agitation for such a golfing tourna ment. Mr. Foster Is a leading member of the Golf and Country club and Is promin ent in bUHlness and political circles. He Is one ot the staunchest supporters of golf In this city and while a member nf the city park commission gave Des Moines unexcelled golfing facilities In the parks. Wrestling; Tournament at Beatrice. BEATRICE. Jan. 8.-(Siclal.)-The first of 'a series of wrestling exli'bltlons waff given last evening In the armory by the Beatrice Athletic club between Nathan Mc Intyre and Arthur Re.nson of this city, and K. J. Heller of Odell and Thomas Staf ford Doctor of Kuni-aH. Mclntyre and Ben son each secured a fall, and after twenty two - minutes of wrnstllng in the third bout the referee called It a draw by con sent of the wrestlers. Heller and Doctor Rave a fine exhibition, atid the former se cured the first fail In thirty-six minutes. When they went on for the second bout they wrestled for two hours and fifteen minutes without a fall. At the requeat of Doctor the referee gave the decision to Heller. D(K-tor claimed this was the first time he had ever been thrown. The affair closed with a banquet at Webb' restau rant. NEW BALL CHANGES GOLF Bunkers Are Good Hazard for Rubber- Cored Balls. MOST GREENS ARE TOO LARGE An Effort Is Being; Made to Brlns Golf Courses Closer Back to the Wny .Nature Built Them. NEW YORK, Jan. a Golf courses with us Americans usually either fail to come up to a high enough standard to provide a real test of championship skill or are made so extremely difficult .and almost Impossible as to be of no Interest, except to. experts willing to pitch their way be tween bottomless pits and crlbwork bunk' ers which seem as unnecessary as they are hideous to look upon. The fact that the majority of. courses are too smooth and parklike, all of which lias cost money to produce and costs . more to maintain seems to lead committees to listen to fool Ish advice regarding trapping. A few years ago they were advised to put high cop bunkers to be carried from the tee, and second oop bunkers short of the green to be pitched over on the approach. Thus equipped members were Informed that they had a golf course, though It really more closely rcr.embled a hurdle track than any thing else. Under these conditions so long as a man could slug he, could play with imparity. The turf for yards around the greens was kept closely cropped and any ball within reasonable distance of It could be rolled up with a putter Just as easily as If it had been accurately placed on the green. The Introduction of the rubber cored ball made this hurdle Jumping golf a farce, for with the lively ball nearly everybody could moke" carries heretofore almost Impossible except to the expert. Hazards which de pended upon mere distance for the deadly penalties ceased to be feared except by the duffer. Refinement In the requirements of the game to meet the new conditions came along slowly, but on lines that generally permitted the safety on the straight line and heavy penalty at the sides" for defec tive direction and about the greens. As a matter of fact, nowadays, almost anything will do until the near approach of the green is reached. Nature, left to Itself, will pro vide all the penalties that are necessary at the sides. Rough grass and bushes along the sides will as effectively hold to pena lize a bad shot as a dosen pot bunkers. It Is in respect to the near approach to the green where a course is generally put down as good or bad. Among the larger clubs the tendency is to have the greens too large; so large. In fact, that a wild shot will frequently get almost as good a reward as a good one. Rough Grass on Side. The first consideration should be to pre vent this wide possibility for equalising good and poor shots alike, by either reduc Ing the size ot the greens or making them so that they really represent two or more separate putting surfaces. This can be done by either allowing strips of rough grass to grow across In various directions, by running long mounds or If the nature of the soil will permit, sinking deep and Ir regular traps In the gree Itself. The net result of this treatment 45 that a ball must be played to a certain part of the green to be reasonably sure of going down in two putts. If It reaches another section it cannot be often played with a putter, the same as the more accurate and correct shot. Among the smaller class of clubs the put ting greens are held down to reasonable proportions, and surrounded by stubble grass, demand accuracy In order to reach the exact spot and trickle up comfortably near the pin. Where this Is not the case. and even where It Is, the Introduction of traps, on eelther side of the short approach and occasionally around the sides and back of the green will tend to Improve matters In demanding the exact spot that should be employed to get safely home. The grass off the edges of the smaller greens should be quite long, so as to call for the use of the mashle or Iron, and prevent the use of the putter Just the same as if the player had gained a position where he was entitled (Continued on Sccon Page.) Nebraska Athletio Director Discusses Result of Meeting. - EASTERN SENTIMENT IS STRONG Radicals Demand Change as Priced Retaining Sport. EAGER AFTER BASE BALL GAMES Bchednle for the Spring- Season Ttesi In Proeess of rornntlos Week's Rest for the Bas ket Ball Men. v LINCOLN, Jan. S.-peclaD-'Ther must be either radical revision of the fool ball rules or the abolition of the Amer ican game." This, In the opinion of Dr. R. G. Clapn who represented Nebraska at . the recent meeting of the national Intercollegiate con. ference In New Tork City, was the keynou of the New York gathering, and It vividly reveals the crisis to . which the great Yankee game ha now come as a result of tho many fatalities that were attributed M foot ball last fall. In the east. Dr. Clapp said, he found ai amaslng sentiment ' for 'the wholesali ' ohanglng of the rules a sentiment that if not manifest in the western states, and that Is generated from a radical and evM narrow point of view. "The great majority of the colleges, ans universities that , were represented In th national meeting and there were more that 100 are set on making the gridiron gam sate," related Nebraska's delegate, "and unless the rules' committee uses the kntfs effectively enough most of these school are going to prohibit the game being played. "In the meeting there were a few-dele-' gates who did not want to have the rule greatly changed, but the majority was so overwhelming against them that they had to submit to the weight of votes. These few delegates tried to argue that the acci dents the last . season were not due o foot ball alone, but the radical faction, ' while listening, was obdurate and said nothing would do but suoh slashing of the rules as would 'take out the dangerous plays. - ' , , Mnst Satisfy "Mollycoddles." -' "I believe and so do many of the other men who were at the meeting that much... of the cry against foot ball come from the mollycoddles," say 'Dr. Clapp, "and that there Is no need for changing the game too much in order to make It Bate; yet Is Is undeniably true that the rule must be changed in some manner to erad icate the glaring fault. "But it Is the so-called mollycoddle that the rules', committee will have to appease if foot ball is to be kept an American college sport. In talking with delegates from the various part ot the country I learned that their institutions demanded a sane game and that unless they could get It they would eradicate the sport from their list of game. "The men who do not want the gam greatly changed won a point when they had the matter of revision referred to the rales committee, but It that committee doe not make change that result In giving the colleges a safe game some of the schools will - refuse to play under the American code. . . .- Safe or No Game. 4, . "Chancellor Day of Syracuse university, think, expressed the general riDlnlon of the leading educator of th country, wHtu he said that all the college want Ameri can game for their "young men, but that they want them to bb comparatively sate to life and limb, or else they will not have them at all. They would rather do with out the gam than have their young men maimed and killed by contesting in them. "In the east this expression seemed to be more representative of the prevailing sentiment, than in the west, and I cam to the conclusion that th east wanted re form In a worse way than th west doe.v h A ... X Vl. J . I iuiio iu .-ww xora unacr tue im pression that the . eastern school would discourage the west in it demand for re vision. "It la hard to tell just what change th committee will make In the rules, ' but I believe it safe to predict that the ma play and the flying tackle formation will be abolished. I know that soma school will refuse to permit their team to play th game utiles these change are mad. I do not look for many change, but th few that are made, I expect to be very' radical one. The rule maker saw th sentiment against foot boll and they are not going to try to appease this by any halfway measure. They will make revision that will stand the criticism of the mollycod dles. Foot ball is the greatest college game, and Its strongest supporters, who are the men on the rules' committee will not do anything that would tend to discredit tb game among the radical of th couuLry," Basket Ball Men t Read. An Idle week la In store for th Cortl- husker basket ball player after their game at Lawrence with the Kansaa 8tate uni versity five tonight. No games are on tlis schedule for next week and the local bas ket shootors will have until January 21-9, ytften the Ames Aggies come to Lincoln for two games o recover from the bruise sustained on the -southern trip. Coach Hewitt has ordered that no regu lar practice work be done that week as he wants his player to spend plenty of time with their studies so they may be ready to pass the semester examinations, which are the latter part of this month. The Corn buskers have been doing a large amount of practicing since the latter part of De cember and their studies have not received all the attention that, In some cases, should have been paid to them. Hewitt would rather run the risk of having hi men go stale In training than to keep them" at constant work and thus endanger their chance at the finals. Th games at Kansas yesterday and to day tested the strength of th Cornhuskir five, and from th showing mads there a Judgment can be formed of the Nebraska player' strength. Th Jayhawktr oat