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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
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HANGING F60T Mil RULES
'assing Conjectures About What Will
Be Done.
SUGGESTIONS FOR THE CHANGES
Hard Tak
to Make the Game Safe
Question, but There
Things that Can
Be Altered.
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
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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.
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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

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