The Lincoln Star from Lincoln, Nebraska • 13

TAR -LINCOLN SUNDAY EDITION SPORTING SECTION ,1. NEBRASKA'S BEST NEWSPAPER FOUR PAGES LINCOLN. NEB- SrXDAV, JANCARY FOURTEENTH YEAR. DISCOVERED AT LAST-NINE BROTHERS MAKE UP BASEBALL TEAM JUMBO ROW WITH Thirty Federals Back In Ranks of Organized Ball BULLDOGS HANDED SECOND DRUBBING BREAKS OUT ANEW Huskers Won Another Game Of Basketball By Decisive Score Of 44 to 16. Documents and, Records Missing From Stiehm's Office At State University.

New'' York, Jan. 22, With the sale of Nick Cullop and Oedeon to the Tanks yesterday, the number of former Federals who have found berths in the major leagues was lucreuaed to thirty. Ho however, but six of the sixteen major leugue ciubs have signed former outlaws. Of the thirty players signed almost two dozen got back into B. ranks through the Chicago Cubs and the St Louis Browns.

There is much speculation in baseball circles as to the fate of the 122 Feds who were unconditionally released a few days ago. 0 Thiesen Led In the Point-Mak Ex-Coach Accused Of Destroying Or Appropriating the Lost Property. ing By Compiling a Total Of Ten Baskets. CHANCE MUCH I The Nebraska Cornhuskers moved ft -U. 4 imt'kftt 'i' 4,11 ih up Into a tie with the Missouri Tigers for first honors In the Missouri valley I AN 10 OR conference backetball race by trounc ing the Drake Bulldogs 44 to It last night at the Nebraska gym.

The athle-tes from Des Moines were as decisively outplayed as on the previous evening, when they were, defeated 41 to 13. Bout With Champion Willard Only Scheduled to Go Ten Rounds. to: 2 p4 While out-speeded and out-passed' by the Cornhuskers, the Bulldogs guarded well enough to have given the, Nebraska quintet a tighter argument 1 than the score Indicates. An almost total lark of accuracy on the part of the Bulldogs In hurling baskets from the floor was largely responsible for th Drake defeat. Frequently the Bulldog tossers missed the backboard In their efforts to shoot the ball through the three, of them farmers, They run farm left them by their father, who was a pioneer farmer In Iowa, Home of the boys are members of a college team In the Humboldt families who comprise a nine, the Por.

lien Brothers, are not In any way a make-believe team, for they have cleaned up everything In their section of the nilddlo west In the amateur Harry Sorltcn, the oldost, Is the vice president of a bank. Jle Is thirty-! two yeurs old. Tho youngest la fifteen and still In school. Three of the Horllens are cashlersY In bunks, and While they did not get Into tho world's series, the HoiUen Brothers baseball team, of Boda, gained possibly as much notoriety as the Red Sox While there have been other whole III ll.LES.DUn TO STATES Iron hoop. The Cornhuskers, on thrt other hand, displayed an accuracy th.it was almost uncanny In locating thn basket Thelsen was In exceptional form and compiled ten boskets from the floor for twenty points nearly half the total credited to the Nebraska quintet.

The Huskers lost no time in piling; up a comfortable lead. A half dosen baskets were tossed by the Nebraakann hefoie the Bulldogs, on a successful toss by Smith, broke Into the point column. Superior speed, passing; and basket-shooting enabled the Huskers to annex a lead of 28 to I at the end of the first half. The Bulldogs flashed some Improvement In the final half, but thn Huskers pulled away and won with almost ridiculous ease. J.

Gardiner's guarding was one of the featuf-es of Nebraska's play, while Captain Wnrnnck persisted In making trouble for the Cornhuskers by Tils close guarding. The a -ore and lineup: Nebraska. F. T. Fls.

rts. Thelsen. 10 0 2 20 Rutherford. 1 0 .0 2, Campbell, 2 0 4 Nelson, 2 0' 0 4 1 0 12 Rlddcll, 0 0 10 J. Gardiner, 3 0 2 0 Hugg (C), 1 0 1 C.

Oardlner, 2 0 1 4 HIS Oil YEAH 10 SLIHB THE.GLDDM Baseball is Bound to Enjoy a "Come Back" During the Season of 1916. In keeping with their 'safety first" policies to avoid all chances of losing their titles In decision contests. Some of the other ranking fighters who did not trust themselves In de-ceslon contests during 19 15 were Mike Clhbons, Willie Ritchie and Young Shugrue. As was the case in 1914, Battling Levlnsky was the chief offender in 1915. He fought 28 battles In the twelve -month, only, three of which were decisive contests one win, one defeat and one draw.

Jack Dillon, the "man killer," had 24 fights, winning four decision, drawing In one bout; the others were no-declslon. Eddie Wallace, who fought Kllbune and Williams In one month, hud 20 fights, sixteen no-declsion and four which resulted In his favor, Ted-Kid Lewis, the Hrlton, won eight decisions and lost one In 21 bouts; the others were without a referee's award. Australian Government Says Nay to Trip in a Most Emphatic Manner. ures. How many thousands there are miiBt be left to the statisticians to say.

All Sport Makes "Fans" Figures on these and other sports, showing their enormous growth In popularity, are supposed to be equivalent to the handwriting on the wall for baseball, according to the men who deal out the selfsame figures, There's no need to go Into the thing In great detail. Your fane the great majority of fans attend games an average of about twice a week during the season. On other days almost every one of you Invests some time in actual in some sort of be it billiards, golf, yachting, tennis or what not. Practically every baseball fan Is Interested directly In some other sport. Tuklng purt in sports points out tho pleasure to be derived from the spirit of competition.

A man Interested In acting sports also is Interested In seeing sports acted. Thus, we believe, the more recruits tennis, golf, et al get the more baseball fans there will be, for baseball is by all odds the bost summer Bport for the spectator. Men who originally were not concerned at all over what, occurred In any sport are brought out of their shells by golf, tennis and other exercises. Having got the new spirit they take a fling at watching sport too. Again, what is the best sport to watch? Anfiffigc baseball.

BIG SEASmTFOR Promoters Jealous and Probably Will Force Famous Mitt Expert to Go to War. Growth of. Interest in Other Sports Really Boost for National Game. New York, 22. The proposed bout between Willarti and Frank Moran Is of unusual Interest in that It brings to bear upon the heavyweight title several angles which are unusual in ring contests whorelu this title has been Involved.

Under the laws of the state of New York the boxers will meet In what is termed a ten-round sparring exhibition without decision' and if both men are on their feet at the expiration of thirty minutes of boxing future ring records will curry the bout as a no-declslon contest. Consequently the only way in which the heavyweight championship could pass from Willard, the- holder, to Moran would be for the latter to knock out his opponent, or win dn a foul deliberate that there could he no question as 'to its intent It tan be seen, therefore, that the 'chief interest lit the' contest hinges' on th' probability of either Willard or Moran knocking out his opponent and thus demonstrating decisive Since the days when heavyweights first donned gloves and fought under Queensberry rules the ring records that knockouts In bouts In which champions have participated have averaged well over ten rounds, notwithstanding that the list includes such powerful hitters as Jeffries. Fitz-slmmons, Sharkey, Johnson and Sullivan. Going back to the year 1892 when Corbett won from Sullivan In twenty-one rounds, the tables show that seven heavyweight title, holders fought eighteen battles In which the championship was at stake. 8aventen Rounds Per Fight.

The contests included those in which the battles terminated In a knockout or a referee's decision. All told 242 rounds were fought and the average rounds to a knockout was approximately 18 1-2. In this list of ring battles are Included several In which poor opponents were quickly, disposed of, such as the Jtftries-Munroe and Burns-Squires bouts. When the list is pruned to those which the title actually passed, the overage is still higher. From the time Corbett disposed of Sullivan until Willard punched Johnson into the ex-championship class, seven title holders rose and: fell and the total number of rounds necessary In the change of championships was 118, which gives an average of very close to seventeen rounds per title battle.

From theoe figures it will be seen that the chances of a knockout in the ten-round bout between Willard and Moran are against such a feat. The records of the boxers themselves when taken in connection with the performances of the prospective opponent would appear to be against the scoring of a knockout inside ten rounds. Moran has fought forty-two bouts, winning nineteen, or about 45 per cent by knockouts and the average duration of bouts ending in a knockout was five rounds. Willard has engaged in thirty battles, eighteen of which he won by the K. O.

route, giving him an average of about 60 per cent. The average of rounds to knockouts in the championship's case Is six and two-thirds for these eighteen bouts. That either Willard or Moran can fight up to these averages when faced by an opponent of the calibre that he will be called upon to meet In this contest Is most Unlikely. 44 11 KAUFF FIGHTING Fls. PIS.

1 4 1 1 2 F. T. 0 4 0 0 0 Total 22 Drske. Irwin, 2 Smith, 2 Brashears, 1 Warnock (C), g. 0 King, g.

I Totals 1 CLAIM 3 1 3 It Referee G. L. Rathbun, physical di Declares He Is a Free Agent and Federal Magnate Has No String On Him. The turmoil and trouble involving i hp athletic authorities of the UntveK sity of Nebraska and Jumbo Stlehm, ormer director of athletics, which recently calmed down when Stiehm resigned and the university regents affirmed the settlement which provided that the ex-dlrector was to draw pay until next August, has broken out In a new, spot. Stiehm now Is charged by the athletic authorities with having destroyed or appropriated the major portion of the records In his department, which he did not finally vacate until last Thursday afternoon.

In consequence, caustic criticism is beln hurled at Stiehm's head in official circles at the university and the athletic authorities yesterday were considering a resort to legal proceedings. The storm clouds began to loom up again Thursday afternoon when Athletic Manager Guy K. Reed visited the ex-director's office In the gymnasium liulld.iug.und found Stiehm finishing up the Job of fastening the lid on two boxes of athletic department documents. Manager Reed protested but the. ex-dlrector summoned a dray and had the boxes carted to his residence.

A subsequent investigation by the manager disclosed that the large filing ase had, been almost entirely stripped of its contents. Correspondence on various athletic topics, records of ath- letes notes and data dealing with op-' ponents compiled by football scouts representing the Cornhusker Institution and documents of various sorts were missing, Even certain football contracts and blanks for placing orders for athletic material were not in the filing case, In fact, nothing was left but tew contracts and two basketball scoring1 bdoks. Proceeding with his the manager ascertained that StieHm, had previously ordered the Janitor to destroy a waste basket Jammed full of documents, the exact nature of which the Janitor did not know, although the order to burn was faithfully carried Into effect. Chancellor Sends Not. The disappearance of the contents ot the filing case was reported to higher authorities at the university and the following day Chancellor Avery sent a note to Stiehm calling on the ex-dlrec-tojcte retun the two box loads of materia! to the athletic department Stiehm's response was to return a few contracts, one of which covered the agreement for the football game with Iowa next fall, and a number of letters which dealt largely with the Clint Ross case of two years ago and the order blanks.

The documents returned could have been carried in one hand. DIs-sathsfled with Stiehm's Ideas of restitution. Dr. Clapp, physical director at the university and Manager Reed yesterday arranged over the telephone to visit the ex-director's home the agreement, as stated by Dr. Clapp and Manager Reed being that Stiehm was to jiermit them to examine the documents at his residence and re-claim anything which was clearly the property of the Arriving at the Stiehm residence on Sheridan boulevard, the agents for the athletic department asked for the restitution of the scouting data, which Stiehm sorted out and offered to return.

Then the physical dlreteor and the manager requested the privilege to examine any other athletic department documents which might be in his possession. The former director curtly refused and the Interview ended when Stiehm gave his visitors notice that they could have Just three minutes to vacate and get off the premises. Salary Warrants May Not Issue. Returning to the university Dr. Clapp reported the situation to Chancellor Avery who advised that the physical director consult legal counsel and map out a plan of No statement was forthcoming last night, however, as to the line of procedure to which the university authorities may resort Meanwhile, the intimation emanated from the administrative department of the university that steps might be taken to stop the issue of the warrants to cover that portion of the salary which the university had planned to pay.

This would amount to about $1,000. Notice has been filed at the office of the university treasurer that the warrants have, been assigned to the First National bank, although It was stated yesterday that the university authorities still reserved the right to refuse to Issue the warrants In question, regardless of the assignment An effort was made by the sports editor of The Star to secure Stiehm's version of the disappearance and appropriation of the athletic department records and documents. He was summoned by telephone, but refused to discuss the situation. To acquaintances, the ex-dlrector is said to have declared that he took only his personal property from the university athletic department. The records In question were compiled almost by Stiehm in his capacity as athletic director, for which he has drawn salary during the past ftVe years.

Although Stiehm's resignation was accepted and approved by the athletic board at a special meeting of the athletic board two weeks ago last night, he was permitted to retain the key to his office and have access until last Thursday, when the stripping of the filing caBe was completed and the two box loads t.t documents were carted to his home. Uses His Nose to Make String of Billiards BASEBALL TI rector Beatrice Y. M. C. A.

Lincoln Wins From Btatrle. The Lincoln high school basket ball team scored Its second victory of the season Saturday night, winning1 from the ancient rivals, the Beatrice Mgo school Ave, at the city Y. M. C. A.

The final count stood 2 to 13. Although the red and black flippers won by a big margin In the end. It was not vntll toward the close of the conflict that the local tossers annexed a safe lead. The Gage county youths tied the count enr In the game. 6 to 5, and a basket by Cosford put the Blue river battlers in the lead.

Then the Lincoln team soon came Into Its own end changed the tide, leading at the end of the first period. 17 to 9. This Is Johnson's Prediction Callahan Is Dickering For Players. New York, Jan. 22.

Benny Kauff, Ty Cobb of the Federal league, is not going to play with the New York Ulants and let Federal magnate Harry Hlnclulr cash In on his reputation and ability, even if he has to fight Sinclair In court, he declared here today. "If a man I never saw tan sell my services for 135,000," argued Benny, "and base that sale on a contract which was repudiated after I had signed it in good faith, why should he not pay me something? I was a free agent under baseball law when the deal was put through and why should I not have some say In disposing of my services. The Federal leugue has ceased to exist. I never signed a contract for Mr. Sinclair.

He never consulted me as to my wishes. Yet he Is allowed to sell for as much as the contract I get will net me In six years. I can't see the Justice of that I'd like to play with the Olants, but not that way." Chicago, Jan. 22. President Ban Johnson, of the American league predicted a big year for organized baseball tonight.

"It will be the most prosperous year we've had," he eaid. "All the difficulties are smoothed out now. The pennant races will be hotter than ever Fielder Jones will have a contender in his reorganized Browns, Infielder Joe Schultz, formerly of Brooklyn and last year with the Cubs, was the property of Barney Dreyfuss' Pittsburgh Pirates tonight. He wus sold to Dreyfuss by Tinker today. Schultz had a 'bad arm lust season, but Is getting Into good shnpe again.

Manager Callahnn, of the Pirates, 1r anxibus to annex one of the Cuhs sup. ply of pitchers, but has not reached an agreement with Joe Tinker on which one he wants. Tinker also had aid today for Infielder Peter Knisely, but Is holding out for a better price. Tabernacle Five Take Rough One From Christians Attendance at St. Paul Battle Is Given Doubt BY "RINGSIDE." New York, Jan.

22, There is no gainsaying that Les Darcy Lester D'Arccy he whs christened Is one of the greatest fighters of the present generation. To this must be supplemented the fact that the Australian Is not coming to America to fight or for any other purpose, for that matter. The Antipodean authorities slmplj will not permjt their idol to haul In American dollars while there Is a war going on. Several months ago report Vas current that Los Darcy was contemplating a trip to tho (States. He was coming for the avowed purpose of cleaning ot our middleweight class.

At the time this column slated positively that Darcy would not come to America for at least another yar. Later developments have substantiated this statement. It Is stated that tT5e Australian government Is seriously considering sending Darcy to the first line of battle into the trenches. This may be so, but we are quite rertuln that should this come to pass it would be at the instigation of others besides government officials. Professional Jealousy Is keeping Darcy in Australia against his wishes.

The lad he Is but twenty is keen for a tour of the States, and he looked upon such a sojourn as the realization of his boyhood dreams. But greedy, avaricious promoters are thwarting Darcy's plans, and Americans may never be afforded the chance to see the newest pugilistic phenom In action. Made. Ui of the Harpoon. The subject of a trip to the United States was first broached to Darcy by an American handler of boxers.

This man has a wide acquaintance with the sporting element in this country, and promised Durcy a hearty ireception here. But Australian promoters could not see an American "stealing" their most formidable lighter and greatest drawing card. The critics deplored Darcy's proposed depurture from Australia. Some tossed the harpoon Into him for trying to leave his native land after what it had done for him: others mentioned American enterprise as outwitting trusting Australians. Darcy Ignored these thrusts until someone Intimated that Les was going to America to escape military service.

This was flaunting an untruth and Darcy was riled. It soon got to the authorities, through an undercurrent and they requested Mr. Darcy to stay. Les Importuned the officials to let him go to America for six months, so that he could clean up' our middleweight crop. He promised to return when the half year was up.

But the authorities were adamant and Darcy must stay nt home until the war Is over at least. A resume of the fight records -for 1815 clinch the fact that Darcy Is among the world's greatest fighters. Les engaged In thirteen battles during the year Just ended and all went to a decision. Darcy gained he award In twelve of the thirteen bouts. He lost the one bout to Jeff Smith on points early in the year.

Darcy afterwards woi from Smith in two rounds, Decision In Every Fight. As a matter of fact, Darcy was the only fighter to participate exclusively in decision houts during the year. Charley White, the Chicago lightweight, was a principal in eleven decisive bouts, winning ten and drawing one, but he also took part In seven no-derlsinn contests. These are the only two top-notch fighters tit figure In two-figure decision bouts during 191G. On the other hand consider the 1915 records of Freddy Welsk and Johnny Killiswe, lightweight mid featherweight champion respectively.

Welsh was a party to nineteen bouts during the year, and every one was a no-decislon a fair. Kllbane had fifteen fights, and every one at these was one of those no-declsion things. Fine pair of champions, eh? Well, it's Just By "MONTY." New York, Jan. 2. The wall has been put forward by a number of gloomy personages that baseball will not regain Its old popularity this year and that the prosperous days of 1910, lll and 1912 will return.

They hold, rprofess.to ths opinion, Ue-, spite the fact that peace will; rule over the troubled waters as result "of the permanent pact entered Into by tho parties to' the recent disastrous baseball war. Their favorite argument is the, fact that the number of active participants In sports other than baseball has Increased tremendously within the last few years. "These men are taking part In sport now instead cf Just looking at it so they no longer are fans," chants the mourners' chorus. Pretty tough on the old game, to think that it will cease to be America's national pastime because of that sort of reason, because of a general awakening and advance of sporting activity. There are plenty of level minded people who would be glad of a chance to wage open debate against those who advance the morose thoughts.

Certainly It Is no unanimous Idea that baseball will suffer because of the enhanced hold these other sports have on the men who like exercise. We really believe their gain will prove in the end to be baseball's gain too. Statistics cranks can show you columns of figures as long as your arm to prove their assertions that so many thousands or hundreds of thousands of Americans are active participants in this or that form of sport, competitive and otherwise. We will not attempt to deny that their tables, totals and sums are correct. Suppose they are? What of It? Plenty of Room for All.

There Is the tennis enthusiast more power to him. There is the golf bug-long may he buzz. There Is the trap-shooter, the track athlete the swimmer, the horse race enthusiast, the yachtsman, the auto tourist If some loyal follower of some, royal summer sport has been overlooked, may Tie not take slight. Good luck to them all. Each one of these spirited creatures Is represented by at least three or four de-clalmers who can weave In words of Webster, Lincoln, Washington, Clay they wouldn't quote a foreigner with cold numbers In such a way as to Indicate that his particular sport has gained more recruits of recent years, proportionately, than any of the other or than all the others put together.

Lawn tennis now has a greater number of disciples in this country than ever before In Its history. In any city of the land a man may take a street car or automobile ride and count a tennis court, or group of courts, every mile or so. Where there is room the enthusiast has his court right In the backyard. In other cases severe 1 band together and have a court built on the vacant lot on the corner. The public tennis court also has become an Nearly ever large city has dozens of them, some privately owned but rented out by the hour, day, week, month or season to all comers at so much per.

There Is not the slightest doubt that tennis now, can boast of ten times as many devotees as It had back in 1900. The case of golf Is practically the same. Perhaps golf has gained even more new recruits In nfteen years. Within an hour's ride of the exact center of New York City there are no less than 117 recognized' golf courses, covering Lord only knows how many square miles. Philadelphia and environs lays claim to something like twenty links, Chicago and Boston are about as well fixed and cities like St.

Louis," Buffalo and Indlannpolls, St. Paul and Minneapolis, Kansas City, Denver, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Cleveland and Detroit are within striking distance of anywhere from three to a dozen courses apiece. Several hundred golfers take turns going over each of these ias St Paul, Jan. 22. Reports are current that the Minnesota state boxing commission may investigate the alleged discrepancy between the reported attendance and the actual at-, tendance at the Gibbons-Aheam fight this week.

1 The boxing club reported the official attendance to be 6,357. state auditor claims there were 8,000 seats In the auditorium where the fight was staged and that hundreds were turned away. Kid McCoy Takes Joy Trip Because He Helped Win Bet The scoring was not as frequent after the Intermission. During the second half, the champions registered but twelve points, while the visitors were held to two lone field goals. "Pits" Schmidt played his last game In a red and black uniform on the local floor Saturday night.

Schmidt la a mid-season graduate and will last appear In the lineup with the Lincolnites next Saturday at St Joseph. Schmidt played a good floor game and. stationed at guaftl, managed to sneak up and drop the sphere for two counters. Hank Albrecht was much in evidence with his crack goal-shootlngr, five field goals being registered by the diminutive forward. Captain Burroughs was the star for the invaders.

He played a good floor game, being in evidence in every play. The Lincoln team would flash a bit of team work occasionally but there was not much consistency la-tWef de' partment. There was a noticeable lm-" provement in the passing of the ball. Long shots for the basket were attempted by both teams, Brian being the most successful long distance shooter. The lengthy center was also the big point-getter of the Lincoln flvo, caging three field goals and Ave foul goals.

The lineup: Lincoln, Field goals Foul goals Albrecht, rf. .6 fl Bright, If 0 0 Brian, 3 Schroeder, rg 0 Schmidt, lg 2 0 Neal, 1 0 Smith, 0 0 Cypreanson, 1 Curtis, 0 0 Bowers, 0 0 Andrew, 0 North, 0 0 Beatrice. Field goals Foul goals Cosford, rf 2 0 Smith, If 1 0 Wardk 0 1 1 Burroughs, rg 1 0 Kyle, lg 0 0 Schellenberg, 1 0 Stevens, 0 0 Referee Beck, Wesleyan. Scorer Becker. Time Cox.

Time of halves twenty minutes. St. Paul, Jan. 22. "I never imagined Mike could be so rough," what what Mrs.

Mike Gibbons said tonight after seeing the first run of the movie Bhowing her husband administering the knock that brought slumber to Young Ahearn. "I must get after Mike and keep him from being so rough with the gentlemen In the ring," Mrs. Mike continued. New York, Jan. 22.

Kid McCoy of Kokomo (Norman Selby) sailed with his family today for Havana, $500 of easy money In his Jeans, his family and himself In a suite de luxe. The kid appeared as-a masked maivel boxer the Harlem club and because no one, recognized him, a certain broker won JS00 from a certain lawyer and another broker. The broker bet he could put a well known fighter In the ring, masked and no ose would recognize him. He was so tickled over winning the $500 he gave it to McCoy. Yanks Have Spent $45,000 for Players The Tabernacle qulntt defeated the First Christian five in a fast game of busketball on the Tabernacle floor Saturday night by a neore of 28 to It.

The game was characterized from the start by rough play. Three mow were replaced i the First Christian team. Garrison at.d KVU starred for the Tabernacles, while Heck and Overmann cornered most of 1I13 spectacular plays for the First Christians. The lineup: Tabernucle. Pos.

First Christian. Bronson If Trnccy Munson if Claar Fetjs McCrory Garrison Van Petten Wilson Beck Substitutes Shercr, overman, Ra- Goals Bronson, Wilson, Garrison. 3: Feti, Munson, Beck, Overman, lj sherer.i 2, Fouls thrown J. Fouls called Munson, Feta, Garrison, 1. Officials Selfert, referee; Earl, time keeper; Buff In, score keeper.

California Springs a Hurdling Marvel 1' Long Beach, Jan. Another sensational hurdler has been unearthed In California. The new wonder Is B. Thompson, of this place. At a track and field meet held at Fresno, Cal Thompson flew over the 120-yard high sticks In 15 1-2 seconds.

Thompson showed that his work over the high timbers was no fluke, for he won the low hurdles lh 23 4-5 seconds, and the time Is. only a fifth of a second alowef. than the world's record, held Jointly by Alvth Kraeni-loln and J. -T. Wendell.

ILLINOIS FjVE WINS. Urbana, 111., Jan. 21 Illinois de-feucd Wisconsin, 27 ot 20 at basket ball tonight, 1 Date for Big Bout In Ring Undecided New York, Jan. 22. Forty-five thousand perfectly good dollars already have been expended by the Yankees' team owners in their to assemble a pennant winning team this year.

The purchase of Cullop, Gedeon and Schaeffer from Harry Sinclair stood Colonel Ruppcrt and Captain Houston $20,000. The purchase of Gedeon is believed to indicate that the Yankees have given up hope of getting "Home Run" Baker for a while, Chicago, Jan. 22. Tex Rickurd's anxiety to promote the Wiilard-Moran batle has prevented Tom Jones and Jack Curley from setting an exact dale for the bout, Jones Intimated tonight. Rlckard, said Jones, seems to dominate Frank Moran's end of the proposition.

Moran has until Fchruury 1 to sign the articles that Willard already has accepted for the scrap in New York. Jones declared tonight that the scrap will take place on a date between April 10 and 22, providing Moran sign. Tile big Kansan arrived this afternoon from Kansas City and will resume his training at O'Connell's gym Monday. 1 Professor Lewis, hailing from New York, who plays billiards with his nose and fingers, as well as a cue, is billed to give an exhibition of his. skill in manipulating the ivories Monday night at 7:30 at the Orpheum billiard par- tors and (it p.

m. at the Elks' club. The professor invites the (rack players of Lincoln to take a whirl at his ttame and also promises to reel off a run of 200 points in ten minutes. That "nose" stuff 'makes an interesting noise; It the professor's exhibition wcitif- serlng, ST. PAUL WINS AND LOSES.

(Special to The Star.) St, Paul, Jan. 22. Two teams representing the Nebraska Central college, of Central City, pluyed the two teams representing the St. Paul normal and business college, in this city, last evening, and won and lost a game. The girls from Central City 'Won PURPLE WHIPS MAROONS.

Chicago, Jan. Northwestern TTnl. verslty defeated Chicago, 28 to 18 at basketball in a hot game at the Midway gymnasium, tonignt. Clark, center, and Parker, forward, for, the Maroons, were put out of lie game for personal fouls. their game by a scora of 12 to g.

Th IS. local boy won by a score of 24 tc 24 to.