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EVENING STATE JOURNAL AND LINCOLN DAI I A' NEWS, Tl'KSDAY. A A 15, I9ta. NIN1 THE DAYS OF REAL SPORT! I A TW ALL I YoO 8ETCHA AlW'T MOW I Following The Ball Cincinnati has the reputation of having loose more great ballplayers to othei clubs than any other two teams In the major league. Three of the greatest fast adrift by the trailing Reds were Mike Donlln, Christy Mathewson and Cy Seymour. It would take all of this column to enumerate the full Cincinnati cast-off list.

The Reda, however, seem In a fair way to reverse the order of things. Dm ing the past few years they have picked up four of the greatest players In the National league from other teams. The Red retaliation began when Herrmann snared Heinie Groh from the Giants. Heinle is now regarded as one of the two best third masemen in baseball. The next star snared by Cincinnati was Hal Chase.

Hal had hopped around from the Yankees to the White Sox and thence to the Federal league. Nobody seemed to him when the outlaws died. Herrmann took -a chance, and Hal promptly led the National league in batting. Just a few years back the Dodgers of Brooklyn had a chance to secure the of Pitcher Fred Toney. Col.

Ebbets, however, would not give Fred a living wage. So the Reds grabbed him and today Toney is rated next to Alexander In the list of great National league right-handed pitchers Two years ago, Charley Herzog came to the end of his string as manager of the Reds Herrmann set about to make a tiade for the Marylander that would add to the Cincinnati playing strength and bring them a new leader as well. He started dickering- for Mathe-waon with the Giants. McGraw was willing to make the swap. Hatty was ready to try his hand at the managerial gnme.

The Reds, however, asked for a player or two. So John Joseph McGraw threw in Eddie Roush and Bill McKechnI 'to complete the deal. Roush had been bought early In the hpilng, when it looked as if Davey Robertson might not be abel to play with the Giants. McGraw knew he was a good man, but didn't know how good If he knew Rough's teal value it is hardly possible that he would have given him in even exchange for Herzog 1 Roush did not set the league on flre In 1816, altho he' outhlt Benny Kauff. Las season, however.

Edward struck his strld and led the National league in batting. So there you are. The four stars of the Cincinnati Reds are Roush. Groh, Chase and Toney. All four were lured to Red land from other teams.

Verily the worm turns It required fourteen tracks to handle tb though this was the first time the premier position had ever been awarded to a man who had ever been In the national championships In 3915 Williams took second place and I.tcLoughlln had to content himself with third. Cochran, of Chicago, has challenged Champion TVTiite Hoppe at 18.2 balkllne, and if he is compelled to deposit $1,000, according to the dope, probably figures that the publicity, even defeat, by such a remarkable man as Hoppe, Is worth the money. Hoppe Isn't particular under what conditions heplays He uiefeis of course. to have comfoitable surroundings. But If the room Is a trifle cold, he figures that it Is no coldei for him than It is for the man he is playing-.

If the cushions are too haid or the table otherwise defective, hefiijures tho same way--that the other fellow ia as much handicapped as he Is. In bnaf, Hoppe not admit that conditions can be such as to piedude him trom playing- In good form or that any situation may be conceived whereby he, providing that his hands or feet are not tied, can not show superiority over the man he plays. A dozen years ago there was a flock of blihaid marvels. Eiery years almost the title changed hands and the game for Gallia. New York.

Chicago. Cleveland and Detroit--No trader to date Rogeis Hornsby. who is very much in the limelight at present as a result of Charles AVeeghman's determined efforts to purchase him from the Cardinals. Is not awed to any extent by major league as lib batting average testifies, but he is somewhat afraid of those In the bush league. "Lead me away from those Class and pitchers who have so much speed they don't know where the ball's going-," Roarers.

"We played some exhibition games near my home in Texas last spring- and I was afraid to go to tho plate. The pitchers that throw 'em at your head without trying to ire dan- In the major league they shoot at you occasionally, but you generally know when It's coming and you're prepared to dodge In view of this It is not remarkable that Hornsby is a very much better hitter as a major leaguer than he was when in the had a new world's champmn. Then came Hoppe And Hoppe was so g-ood that nobody, from the time he defeated the French marvel. Maurice Vigneaux 3806. had ever disputed his champion ship.

The most active trading- season which the major leagues have known In many years goes merrily on, with every Indi- tliat the is not in Jr jr TM Nf 4.000 imen taking part In the Liberty Loan track and field meet at Camp Sheridan Montgomery. Oct. 4, and athletics in thaf camp is carried on in -just such a manner In other branches. For instance. Alabama being: in the sunny belt, there was baseball all fall.

A lon championship series was played 110 teams finished the season. The title was won by the 110th ammunition train. Felt banners were awarded to all regimental championship winners. Baseball has Its troubles here, too. according to the division athletic director, for he mentioned the fact that several outlaw teams were In the field, aside from the regularly sanctioned league.

Boxing shows are held as a regular part of the camp's athletic work Mandot, several years ago a famous lightweight. has been assigned to this camp as boxing instructor. A coliseum aand a Y. II building are used for moxing- bouts. The first big boxing show was held the night of Thanksgiving day, with several of the camp's best boxers taking part Mandot also was on the program for a bout.

Each regiment has a team of rross- rountry runners. The team selected from the division's athletes finished third In the road race held at Birmingham Dec. 15. Football, of course, took up a great deal of time during the fall. Auburn, Alabama university, Chillicothe.

Camp McClellan. and other teams of reputation paid the camp a visit The Norwoods of Cincin-- natl and the Cleveland American leag-ue club are among high-class baseball teams that have been in action at the camp. Private contributions, the dark Griffin Bat and Ball fund, and thf Commission on Training Camp Athletics have been good to the camp, and it is well supplied with equipment for athletics. The camp numbers among its celebrities Lieut. C.

C. Childs. a former Yale athlete. who was a member of the last Olympic team. Maurice McLoughlln, once monarch of American tennisers, is now Lieutenant MrLoughlin, attached to Uucle Sam's army somewhere in the United States.

It was in 1916 that the Calrfornia within the space of one month or from December 10 to date, no less than twenty-five major league players have been transferred from one club to another Other deals are In the works, and it will not be surprising if every club In the two big leagues will be involved in the trading; business before the players leave for the training camps. Not alone has this off season been remarkable in number of players transferred. Thousands of dollars, some real and some MPX, have flown freely in the of certain ball tossers. so much so that a deal without a $15,000 tag makes the fan wonder if all the details have been given out. Harry Frazee Is supposed to have handed over something like $60.000 in his six player deal with the Athletics, and Charley Weeghman Is said.

to have parted with fifty or more thousand dollar bills from that roll $250,000 in adding Alexander and Kllle- fer to his Chicago ensemble. A little chang-e about was mentioned in the deal which sent Tyler to the Cubs, and as much more trailed Bert Gallia to the Browns in the Washington- St -Louis swap. Happening-s at the trading post to date may be listed as follows. NATIONAL LEAGUE Chicago-- Traded Prendergast, Dilhoe- fer. Doylo and Wilson for Alexander, Killefer.

Paskert and Tylei. Pittsburgh-- Traded Mamatix. Grimes and Ward for Stengel and Cutshaw. New York-- Traded Herzog for Barnes and Doyle. Philadelphia-- Traded Alexander.

Kille- and Paskert for Prendergast, Dllhoe- 'er and Williams Boston-- Traded Barnes and Tyler for 1 Herzog and Wilson. Brooklyn-- Traded Stengel and Ctit- for Mamaiix, Grlmes'and Ward. What has become of the home run hitter? Major league records for 1917 show that but two batters were able to collect moio than ten circuit clouts during the ear. These records also show that the American league did not break into this column, the leading home run driver being Cactus Cravath and Dave Robertson, each of whom garnered tvvehe. Wally Plpp, the leading home run hitter of the American, collected but nine.

Taking the figures from 1911 to date we find that but two American league batsmen have been able to break into the ton home run class. Frank Baker did It thrloe, in 1912, 1913 and 1916. collecting ten the first year, twelve the second and ten in the third. Wally JPipp rapped out twelve In 1916. During those same years fourteen National league batsmen crossed the line, making ten or home runs for a total of thirty-one times.

Some players crossed the mark several times. Short fences In Chicago and Philadelphia figured in the big lead of the National league. It ia a standoff In- New York, since both clubs use the same park. Eugene L. Vldal of South iJakota has been elected captain of the army football team of 1918.

Cadet Vidal gained fame in eastern football circles during the season of 1918, when he played half back on the army eleven of that year. Coupled with Oliphant, Vldal's clever work with the forward pass made the pair a terror to opposition teams whenever the army launched its air line offensive. Vidal was idle last fall because of a hazing episode i In camp last summer. He did not partlcl- pata in any gridiron -work during the recent season. St.

Louis and date Cincinnati--No trades imet was relegated to third place in the of American tennis stars by the ranking committee of the United States National Lawn Tennis association, and the crown he had worn for thrpe years was awarded to another Californian. William M. Johnston, of Snn Francisco. In tho 1914 season XfcLougtilin mads an almost perfect score Against the Mars of the tennis wotM, but a In the American championships hy liich- Norris Williams, of Phlladclphln In of this deafeat tho com- mlttee gave JloLoughlin first place, 'ttl- AMERICAN LEAGUE. Boston--Traded Thomas, Gregg and for SchanfiT, Bush and Strunk Washington--Traded Gallia for Shot- on and Lavan.

Philadelphia--Traded Sohang. Bush nd for Thomas. Greg-g and opp. St. Louis--Traded Shotton and Lavan Cadet, Vldal is a member of the class of 1920 at the academy.

He is twenty- two years old and weighs 175 pounds. Before entering West Point he attended several years at the University ot South Dakota, where he played basketball, football and baseball. He is a star basket ball player and has played center on the army court team for the past two seasons. The army will lost Elmer Oliphant, all round athletic stai, when the class of 1919 graduates next August, ten months ahead of regular schedule, and the followers of army athletics have seen "OIHe" for the last time on the gridiron. Tho former Purdue star lg now playing hockey on the army seven and, is captain of the army baseball team.

0 Billiards have been changed time and again to handicap Hoppe. because, argued the manufacturers of billiard room supplies, it hurt the to have as champion a man so absolutely superior to all others But every time the gam was changed, Hoppe took up the new game and played it so much better tha somebody dropped else that it was quickl To the outsider, fellow who perche on the top rail of a fence or lolls in an easy chair on the clubhouse gallery -wrath Ing the gun bug "bint 'em," trapshoot "pull. Ing vocabulary Is limited to "dead" or "pull," "lost." But among of'clay shelters is spoken a gibberish that "by comparison make baseball's "died Itching, Scratching, Skin Diseases Thai Burn Like names of Fire Here Is a Sensible Treatment That Get Prompt Results For real, downright, harraesint, discomfort, very few disorders can approach so-called skin diseases, such as Eczema. Tetter, Bolls, scaly irritations and similar skin troubles, notwithstanding? the lavish salves, lotions, washes and ofiter treatment applied externally to the rritated parts. No one ever heard of a person bang afflicted with any form of akin diseases whose blood was In food condition.

Therefore, It is but logical to lbo ro and scaly skin, is to purify the blood and remove the tin? WfJpUoa th break thru and Dre8enCe the 8ur us irts of the country i ow were completely rid of every trace of these disorders by the uge of S. S. the vegetable, 'blood )ea direct to the supply and pur- 88 cjnter of the bl Ifles and cleanses it of every vestiw I a er a clear and that indicates per- feet health. Write today for frei Fri a our isfii; Atunu Oa A first." the simplest of sporting vernacular. For instance, the shooter might describe the resulu of five shots something after this fashion: Yee, sir: I had toed the firing line, put the Iron to my shoulder, drew a humdinger from the box and killed It The second aeucer was a laxy boy, flying straight away, but I -went to sleep and the pigeon nested in the, grass.

The next mud pie sailed to leflfr- quarter, but the old pea-shooter simply knocked the fuzz off. The fourth dickey bird was smothered aa noon as it was hatched. Then a cripple fluttered out and died. Next came a right-wheeling streaker and I pulverized it." that trapshotlng Is the humane substitute for live bird shooting probably accounts for some of the "cruel" terms that are included the language of the inanimate target game. The state university wrestling team has aranged a meet for February 9, the Amee Cyclones acting ns hosts to the Cornhuaker mat men on that date.

Later in the season Iowa university will visit the Cornhuskers The date has not been set. The Oklahoma Aggies, claiming to be champions of the southwest are urging a dual meet on the Corhuskers and arrangements may be made for a tourney to held The Oklahomuns are to take quite an extensive tour thru this section of the country. Whether the intercollegiate meut will be held this year Is uncertain Representatives of the different schools prob abi) will kettle that question bttforti long Hrooltlra Derby Mure. NEW YORK. Jan.

Brooklyn derby, long one of the greatest turf events in America, IB no more. In Its place today there Is the lawyer derby, so named out of respect to Phil and Mike Diner, brother race enthusiasts, now dead. Conditions and dlsUnce 01 the race remain the saina--for three jeur olds at a mile and a furlong. NOW UP WILLARD A OPFKH HK I I A I AK FOHU TO i lie IIf to Run IIU Mntcrli nud Shut Out Hope. NEW YORK, Jan.

15 Yankee fan, saw today remaining a faint chance tha rrril Pratt might yet come to tli Yankees from the Browns. In the dea that sent Pete Johns from Columbus to St. Louis, they believed they recognized plans to pare the way foi Print's transfer. Decision. CLEVELAND, Jan.

Matt Block. Cleveland, won the decision In a ten rounc here last night over Babe Pivato. Newcastle. Pa. Both are lightweights oaiid Dxmtn COLUMBUS.

Jan. Ted Lewis and Soldier Bartneld, fought a twelve round draw here last night. KAISER WANTS MORE BABIES to Deeply A boat the Pot are Crap. Jan. kaiser deeply concerned about the short German baby crop, according to official goi rament advices here today.

But. ac- ording to the same source he doesn't ire much about -what happens to the mother after babies get to growing: up and their dadles are fighting nt the root. It's this way: Just before the recent holidays there as a great hue and cry. kalser-lnrplred. 11 over Germany and Austria, about how cry much the fatherland was interested seeing its young folks happily married.

"But." replied the young folks, "while is possible for us to be married, how re we going to keep on being- married with nothing to eat'" This gave the kaiser's brain department experts slight pause, but in i while they came back with the announcement that "the magistracy has arranged supply double food vouchers for new- married persons. The first fortnight the honeymoon la thus to be glorified their food rations being doubled." And, one newspaper blandly added. It presumed that this measure will stimulate the Inhabitants' desire to marry" But turning rapidly to the next page that paine day's, papers, there ivas, ound this announcement: "A number of soldiers' wives receiving allowances in Bonn since the beginning the have received notification hat. under the laws of June. 1851.

anJ December, 1916, they are called upon to eport themselves for labor In nd unloading railway trucks under ppji- Ity of fines or Imprisonment or both, in he event of falling to report." This system of taking tho regi-stciotl sts of soldiers' wives who are rerr-lv- ng scant government penslonn for sonn- er government food sunnliot, has bcwti upt into effect in many places In thi- mpire. By H. C. Hamilton. NKVV YOUK, Jon.

ISy--Today It WM put eqimroly up to Jess Wlllard eithe: to talk or quit the roost. With an offer of $75.000 from Proradtei Bill Wttllnittn of Yoik. In his It Is Jean' mint 1 eltiiei to Garment to with Fied Fulton, foremost chal- longer. or Invent aomo brand new alibi If Jest fan do the Vittcr lie Is emitter to sonic nedit. but the fact of the matter IB Bill Wellnmn'8 offer Is about the thing to force the big champion Into a match.

Welliimn wants to stage his bout over the fortv-flve round route in either Reno or Carson City. Nevada. The sum of the offer will be paid forthwith Into the hands o( Jack Johnson's conqueror If he accepts. Nothing hos been about remuneration for Ferocious Fred, but Indications are he will taken are of, for Wellman has made something of a reputation In New York In the way of spending money for thing's he wants. The main drawback to the whole affair Is that wants Fred to go a little slower In his self appointed task of effacing all the promising heavyweights.

Of course, if some bloko should come along and bust Fred's streak of hick, it would be tough sledding for Wellmon'a mill and that, after all. la the big thing. Fulton has two bouts scheduled for the neaiby dates. Friday he Is billed for B. performance with Billy Miske at St.

Paul Frank Moran Is on his program 'or February 22. A defeat at the hands of either of these would necessitate a change In the of Hli Own Promoter. CHICAGO. Jan. Wlllard Is gong; to promote his next championship match all by himself, he said today.

"I'm not golne to let any of the forty- hleves' get anything out of my next fight," declared the champ. "I'll stage It myself and the public will get a better for its money than it would If a pro- esslonal promoter handled It. "I have two or three propositions under consideration and exepct to make a. de- Jsion within a fpw days. Fred Fulton will be my opponent--unless Miske or lick him.

In that case, I will pick he one of that pair who makes the best howlng." Wlllard declared he knew nothing of a reported ITS.tiOO oftijr from Wollman. of York. Promoter AMERICANS REST CEHTEE. WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY II, Jan. 15 A fftmenJ order Issued today a "bllghty" for America's It the grant of a every Midler for four months' Mnrice at the front Mven are to spent In special recreation ceatert now being established "Somewhere In France." are being built solely with the Idea furnUblng the fighting men holiday entertainment and rest -The order that the leave periods will probably be lengthened aftec the men have acquitted themselves Heroically IB future heavy fighting.

The necessity of proper conduct of the holiday crowd! emphasiied In the order and It Is aeserted that subsequent loave depends largely on strict observance of decorum. Paris la only to be visted with special permission. mounted on steel that can be pushed Into plaster or wood h- been if for In If" lectrScal worst light that Is furnished the Pullman taken ind naturally hat to be de- peqdable battery. No matter what maks of Battery you art using we can repair It and put it In shape for a good leng hard winter use--a new If you nave te have It. THE MORSERVICE STATION Phone L-Flfty-Fitty 109-115 No.

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