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SPORT SECTION THE LINCOLN SUNDAV STAR Best CLASSIFIED A DVERTISINQ TWENTY-EIGHTH YEAR. LINCOLN, APRIL fi, 1930. SECTION EIGHT PAGES Biblemen Clash In Final Game of Sfaring Grid Campaign Tearn Charges to Two Touchdoivns Young and Frahm Drive With Ball On Scoring Plays; Final Workouts On Book for This Week. RY GREGG McBRIDE. Veteran Cornhuaker fotHball campaiirners enjoyed a big afternoon as the defeated the 12-0, in the final game of the spring football training season Saturday afternoon at University of Nebraska.

The scarlet-jer- seyed team was well supplied with seasoned material and the whip-hand throughout the major portion of the contest, Y'oung plunging across for the first touchdown in the opening quarter and Harold Frahm plowing over for the second score shortly before the gama ended. The final contest between the, IS the most pol- STRENUOUS TASK AHEAD OF YANKS Lincoln Gymnasts, Champions of Their State. picked teaitw was the most polished exhibition of the spring scries of workouts, the two teams giving evidence of beneficial spring training and displaying fairly smooth working offenses which functioned suitable style in spite of a stiff which blew all lor aerial play. i Young the bright spot' Atlanta Bobbv Predictfi In the Saturday exhibition. The Norfolk redhead was the spark plug of the attack during nearly three periods of play, the lad who led the Big Six scoring last fall breaking loose for several runs of 20 and 25 yards each.

Young Goes Early in the fray, when a veak kick in the wind gave the a opportunity. Young sidestepped and whirled his way 15 yards to the 2-yard line. On the next play he was across with the touchdown. Young was on the llnes, Frahm stepjied into the picture and led the attack Once during the third quarter he got away lor a 90-vard run which set up the lns for the final touchdown. Soon is 15-yard smash brought the ball the 5 yard line and ha drove over the goal on the fourth play.

Manley Back 50 Yards. Fiahm and Young, however, were not the only backfield performers to turn in dazr-lmg Manley Holdregc athlete who a.sphes io the job of barking signals iTcxt iall grabbed a kirkoff and Viked back .50 yards to give the their big moment of the af- 1 tw Team's Quarterbaok. Chris Mathis tCuntluued.on COACHES ACT TO halt STALUNG British Hard to Beat This Year. By TOBE EDWARDS. ATLANTA, April N.

-Surprised in his law office bo- Huskers Arrange Fancy Cage Slate Home Games With Pitt and Butler Give Nebraska Attractive Schedule of Basket Bouts Next Season. BY GRKGG McBRlHK. The most attractive home schedule in Gornbusker history will be served University of Nebraska basketball fans during the lOliO-'dl season, according to schedule announced Saturdav by Atldetic Director Herbert D. Gish. The cage card will bring to Lincoln, in addition to the live Big Six conference opponents, three crack basketball teams Pittsburgh, Butler and Brigham Young university.

The Pitt Panthers have long been an outstanding team in eastern basketball circles. Last season the tornhuskeis dropped a thriller to the Panther quintet on the Pittsburgh Pitt will return the engagement, performing at tlie university coliseum, Dec. 10. hind a stack of work, which accumulated while he was winning the Southeastern open tourney at Augusta thus week. Bobby Jones, the premier golfer, hazarded the opinion today that the American Walker cup team will find the Brit- Lsh much harder this year.

The fact that the Walker cup matches will be held in England incan.s that the Americam will have to play harder and better than last year, when the British were defeated by one-half point, according to the national open champion. Going Over Early. lOTFrrQW, left to Sutherland, Jack Minor, Charles Millar. Kenneth Mallette, Gerald Gordon. Harold to right, Ed Blgnell, Jack Green, Lewis Mackey, BUI Cotter, Director O.

B. Anderson, Floyd Morey, Harry Kuklln, Ed Reynolds. HUSKER ROOKIES FILE STRONG BID matches are to be played, has tough courses," Jonea said, "and we are I going over quite early to practice I before the time of the matches. I think we will find a tough outfit in the 1930 edition of the Walker cup players." never tell about a golf match," Jones continued, "but the British team is hard to beat in America and much harder to over there, and all I can say is that I expect them to be much harder this year than ever before." Booked to Sail April 30. Jones will sail for England on the Mauretania, leaving New York April 30, and will be accompanied by Tom Paine, southern official of i the U.

Golf association. After Basket Mentors Propose Important Changes or Jones I participate in any oth- in the KUieS. tourneys than the British cham- OHICAGO. April 5 --(UP)-Stall- pionships." ing in basketball games whs dealt a 1 Tl blow by college coaches nil iccuons of the country, mcct-i ijtdtv IHKH LlUal ing iicac today. Tlie coaches, believing that storing la the btickbone of basketball intere.st, did not confine themselves to one rule, btit worked in almost number of high school track every angle pos.siblr to prevent tlie, field meets have received the stnlliug of play official sanction of the Nebraska rules to combat the typj' Bchool Athletic a.ssociation of offense whicli witliholds the ball to announcemetit from Hum play were adopted by Saturday.

The list: eoai ht at annual mceling. ------------The changes are a.s follows Jump Iletalned. 1 That the center Jump shall be tip-off plays, neither Jumper may bat the ball more tlian tConttnued on Page Four CINDERS SEASON SOON UNDER WAY Opening Event of Spring On This Card At Hastings. Tire track in Nebraska high school circles will be officially 'The Sandwich club, where the ojicned this week with three relay events on the getaway card for the 1930 The events, which will blast open the are the Hastings relays, ScotLsbluff relays and the annual home course relays. TlTc Hastings carnival, booked for next Saturday.

Includes college and high school events. Last year the relays got a bad weather break, but, with more suitable temperatures due this year. Director T. L. Young of Hastings college anticipates some fast marks in all events.

Many Entries At Hastings. Tlie Hastings college entry list includes a uiajor portion of the two conference.s, with entries received from Dakota and Kansas teams and expected from Missouri and Iowa. Early high school entries received include Hastings, Tobias. Franklin. Sanctions Meets Walch This Bou.

April li Loup Viiliy mfet Aoiil Trl-County mfK Albion, April Burwell. April iW CornliuakFr meet at Liiu'Un: Southeaitern at IVni InviltUon 'iiippi at StaplPton April aoaihAin AaaoctaUon meal sv Clay enter April Raundera county at Wahoo. Play day for at Peru. Itwl- tMloa siaet at Cratalord: Thajer county meet et De.vile.* May 2 Weatern ronference meet ai Rceitfbluft. CuMer county meet at Brokan Boutliwcalern conference meet at MaCook May M-l-N-K meet Pern, east meet at Wayne, Beaard rouniy meet at Seward, May Pawnee county meet at pawnee May 7- Little Blue conference meet at Bnrt meet at Tekamah.

Pate not Island invitation meet Ktarnev, Friend and Deshler, La.st year 400 athletes made the trek to Hastings for the annual carnival. The Scottsbluff relays. also for Saturday, will draw from four states, Nebraska. Colorado. and South Dakota having forwarded early rosters.

The bulk of the competition will be drawn from the Western Nebraska conference. Home Course Relays. The home course relay program sfKinsored by Coach Henry F. Schulte of the University of Ne- bra.ska starts Monday and continuas until April 18. The winning team U1 make the trip to the Drake relay carnival with paid from Lincoln to De.s Moines.

Events on the program include 440-yards, mile and two- mile distance.s, Scottsbluff track- sters made the Das Moines trip la.st season and have indicted they are in with another strong quartet this year. Coach Ted Bluffs speedsters cleaned up in the Port Gollins Indoor relay meet held two weeks ago. OMES a choru.s of to the motion that John Public likes nothing better than to be bunked. Feed him straight goods in sport promotion and give the box office the icy stare, but let the ballyhoo experts blast their line of hooey and what then do in beating it in the direction of the pay window Is nothing short of a riot. Nobody is better acquainted with the peculiarities of the cash customers than is the mogul of big league baseball.

The mere fact that Jake Ruppert and Babe Ruth came to terms weeks and weeks ago, whereby the Big Bam was to have a hoist in pay, was not deemed worthy of truthful publicity. Instead, Jake and Babe, witi Ed Barrow sitting in tire, racket, worked the old army game of spoofing the public. Jake and Babe were portrayed as being locked in a violent dispute, after which the Bam. in mock dLsgust, hied himself to sunny Florida, vowing he never, no jievw, would go down on the line unles.s U.ncle Jake came across with that 85 grand. GRIDIRON GAMES ON LINCOLN BOOK Seven Contests For 1930 Season Already On Schedule.

Lincoln Hi Grid Slate. Sept. 3IL Crete at Crete, Oct. at Lincoln. Oct Joseph Central at Lincoln.

Oct. Lincoln at Council Oct. Central at Omaha. Oct. Tech at Lincoln.

Nov. Nov. Island at Grand Inland 31 Open. Several new opponents will be seen on the 1930 football curd at Lincoln high, along with traditional rivals, according to the present bookings. Seven games already are on the slate, with two more possibilities.

The 1930 season will mark the opening conference gridiron scramble, each conference member tackling the oher four teams once apiece. Nov. 8 and Nov. 22 are open dates at present, but Coach W. H.

Browne is dickering for homc-and-home contracts "Ith two schools. Sabetha. Kansas, and Moline, Illinois to complete the card. Providing these arrangements go through, Lincoln will play Moline Illinois in 1930. Ed Weir To Run At Burwell Meet BIJRWEI.L.

April Weir, member of the University of Nebraska coaching staff, ex- ('ornhuaker all-American tackle, and holder of the Kansas relay high hurdles record, will have an opportunity to test his hurdle here this month. Weir is scheduled to run an exhibition flight of high hurdles as a feature of the annual Wranglers relays to be held at the rodeo grounds, Friday, April 18. Accompanying here for the meet and to attend a dinner the evening liefore the track meet will be Athletic Director Herbert D. Gish. Head Football Coach Dana X.

Bible and Gregg McBride of The l.tncolii Star. LISKA ON SLAB; SENATORS WIN Butler Here Feb. 2. The speedy Butler five will on coli.seum maples during Pcbru- arv. a tentative date having been booked for Feb.

2. Butler likewise will be plaving a return cngage- the Hoosier live having downed the Coruhusker.s in a holi- i dav tilt at Indianapohs. I 1 'Flw Brigham Young five of the andldalcs Rocky Mountain conit'rence is cli.splay its cage wares here Al Nebraska U. Look i Monday. Jan 5 Brlgliam Young is IXI ixxuiu.

Montana State Good to Coach. 1 in the Rocky Mountain circuit the jmst sea.son.. Coach Romney of Peveval promi.sing young.sters are y. U. is the mentor that started the giving the veterans a hard run for i Montana State wonder team" on positions on the Corn- record, husker baseball varsity this year, Game At Vermillion, according to Rhodes, According to the present schedule head baseball coach of the zebras-.

hoopsters will ka nine. the season away from home. Rhodes, who is enthusiastic over the Univcrsitv of Soutli the outlook for the 1930 an- at Vermillion. 12 or 13. ticipates the present edition of the signing of the Butler.

Brigham Cornhuskers will have more hitting yonng. Pitt and South Dakota strength thwi last season, with jvist leaves four dates open on the as much fortification in the pitch- According to Gish, ing department. The Nebraskans Nebraska five will play at least celebrated their return to the dia- home game witn a non! mond sport last spring by winning opponent, the other three I the Big Six conference baseball played during a holiday title. While Rhodes Ls making no planned for Christmas vaca- predictions, he indicates the Corn- I husker squad will be in the thick Black Plans Spring Drills, of the title fight again this season. i Kyidpnce that Coach Charley Newcomers Look (iood.

Black plans to get a rolling start Newcomers to the varsity squad (miriinuert Page Four.) giving the regulars a hard argu-1 ment include Simmon.s, an infielder; Connors, College View youngster who can work behind the bat or at second; C. W. Hoffman of Snyder and "Cy" Yordy of Lincoln, catch- i ers; Fairchild, a promising hurler; and Davbon of Lincoln, third base- i man. Anothpf indication the yoimgster.s are filing a serious bid for places on the first string varsity wa.s TIGER DIRECTOR GIVES WARNING Baseball Rowdies Must Subside Or Missouri Will Drop Saturday in the 7-6 victory turned in by the Yannigans at the exiveiise Dwiffht Ritehes His Regulars, ArmatLs and Bltt- I iiLiiVN hillock for the Gllih fn Virforv' At Yannigans, while Pickett, Farley V.1UII lu itiurv Condon tolled for the regulars. Birminirham Kotab Icd the hitting with three in four trlp.s to the plate, py paseball fans will not be heard wm BIRMINGHAM, April Witte collected two triples in as University of Mi.ssouri basehall while the Jayhawker outfit ACill ap- Ad Liska hurling the many credited times at bat.

Score: games if recbmmendutions of Ches- COLUMBIA. April 5 (Special "kill the bum. some and otlier phra.se.s which are nationally used near on the local oval. wlUt pro- full route, the Washington Senators cppdlnes reversed in 1931. downed the Birmingham Barons in ceedlngs reversea exhibition game here this 7 to Crete high, formerly an annua Baron.s went after Krgulars.

to open the Red and Black season i gcore by Innings: at Crete, Sept, 26. The last time i wash. ...23000000 these two rivals engaged in pigskin ijirm 9 A 8 arranged in their previous (Continued on Page Four.) 0 .1 0 0 0 0 0 0 4-5 12 4 Battene.s—IJ.ska and Caldwell, Blue and Yaryan. CllKYKNNK COUNTY BASEBALL LEAGUE POTTER. April ba.se- baU league called the Cheyenne TITLES DECIDED IN MAT CIRCLES Finalii in A.A.U.

Tourney Staged Saturday In New York. BY DIXON STEWART. NEW YORK. April county loop has been to i Bebber, captain of the A i collw wrest- and Potter team, tonight defeated his George Coulter l.s manager of the sophomore teammate, Leroy Mc- chig, William Gooding Ls president national A. A U.

and Herbert Stevens has been championahlp. The bout went to the limit 12 minutes. Van Bebber the de- ctfion Zeigmont IjCtowt, of New York Athletic club, furnished the first major upset of the national A A. wrestling tournament when he won the 135-pound champton- ship tinals by throwing John V.k#*»« Eareckion of Baltimore C. aSoire iMniC oatn delendmg tltleholder, in I minute.

Hnmp-Kound 20 seconds Letowt swarmed over un isoara nome nounu titleholder from the start and. Sbndav after one minute of wrestling, se- irain icured a cradle hold with which he MIAMI BEACH. April won the match. c. J.

Barberka of the James J. Reed of N. A Mayo clinic, Roche.ster. an- former Lehigh university captain, nounceU here tonight that Knute eastern intercollegiate champion RoA'kne, football mentor of Notre and an alternate on the 1928 (Dlym- Dame, will leave with him Sunday team, won the 126-pound cham- night by train for a final physical pionshlp. defeating his teammate.

Jake ultimately appeared on the I scene at the spring camp and, following a few more of flub dub. the mighty Bam capitulated and otherwl.se consented to take $80,000 of money in I payment for his efforts to swat homers during the 1930 campaign. The Ruppert-Ruth method of putting things over on a gullible public was merely a leaf borrowed from the book scribbled by cunning impre.sarios in other lines of money- getting. The same public has been biting hard at fake exhibitions staged by members of the heavyweight wrestling trust and also paving car loads of good cash to the managers of the gigantic Venetian, Primo Camera, who i had a real fight since he planted (Continued on Page Four.) Breaks American Slwtput Record I IX)S ANGELES. April 5 I (I.

N. Brix, I.cs Angeles Athletic club athlete, today broke the American record i In the shotput with a prodigious I heave of 52 feet four ifiches 1 while competing against the University of Southern Calli fornia. I The old mark was held by Johnny Kuck, who tossed the 16-pound weight inches during the 1928 Olympic games at Amsterdam, Holland. This new mark Is assured of recognition. since a number of A.

A. U. officials witnessed the feat. Yanks Win From Steers. DALLAS.

April Tlie New York Yankeer defeated the Dalla.s Steers here thi.s afternoon in a tightly contested game, 4 to 2. Waite Hoyt hurled the full nine innings for the Yanks and turned in a creditable performance, allowing but eight hits. Dave Dan forth worked for the Steers and was also nicked for eight hits. Score by innings: N. 0 0 0 0 I 1 I 8 1 Dal.

1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0 Batterie.s—Hoyt and Dickey; Danforth and Robertson. AB 11 PO A T. Williams. R8. 3 0I031 Ma.ser 3b 3 23 32 I Ullstrom, lb.

21 08 ft 0 cf 21 a 1 0ft Patton 2 1I1ft ft Row, 21 1 0 ft 0 Picketi, 2 0 0 01 0 Simons, 20........................ 3 0 1 ft 0 3 Hoflman, 2 0 0 ftft Condon, 0 ft 0 ft ftft Farley, 0 0 0 00 0 Totals 20 8 815 5 3 4 2 1 12 1 Pranklurt, lb. 41 2 4 0 0 Kotab, rf. 40 3 ft ft 0 Davey, 2 0 0 a I inch, 3b. 3 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 I ft 2 Yordy, 31 0 5ft lien.pry.

If 1 2 1 0 00 1 Datfrr, 3 0 0 0 0 0 Bittner I1I 0I 0 27 "7 9 15 8 2 ter Brewer, director of athletics, He has informed baseball are I members of the Tiger i squad that they are not to di.spute an decision, explaining (hat it done in other "In football, basketball or any other collegiate sport the players never argue with the officials or cause trouble in any way," Brewer said when Mls.souri players ta.ke the plaving field they are to un- der.stand that they are to aeccpt the decisions of the umpire a.s final" ilea 'fo Speetalors. A plea "for spectator; to keep up the standards of sjKirt inan- shlp has been i.s.sued by the Mis- athletic director. "If ba.seball continues as mu of our fine eollege simrts, we must recognize that it must be on the same plane of eomjietitlon and a.s we have in other IN CINDER SPORT college sjxirt.s If Tiger players and Knertator.s do not ob.servf these DEWITT, April 5-Wllh be no more DEWITT HI BUSY Travelers Sox. LITTLE ROCK. Ark April N.

S. utter (Continued on Page Five.) i hosen secretary-treasurer. Lodgepoie Champion of out for the squad. Coach Nocrrllnger l.s preparing the Dewitt high track team for the season. The veterans Mudrow and Schaaf l.sing candidate.s include Steele, standards, tliere ba.seball at the University of Missouri." he said, t.r 11 I "Heretofore, college ba.seball has are Weibel.

closely imitated the actions and Other prom- attitudes of profes.slonal baseball or rv. boxing Fighting, and Peter.son and Lake The shcedule; crabbing have been prevalent and April meet at Lin- have continually the coin. umpire and opjKi.sing players. All of May meet profe.ssionallsm must Iw done ROCKNE READY RETURN NORTH Vw aki i.ilikU' eii ol S. prang Ulta spoit prominence by lead- checkup at Rochester before returning to South Bend April 24.

cold is better and hts condition is generally good." Dr Barberka told the United Press in making the announcemejit. "He ts weii able to stand the trip north by train Nothing To Justify Arthur Bartels, on a decision in the final bout Kafp Wins Urown. Ob walk Kapp, winner of the Olympic J47-pound championship in 1928 as a representative of Esthonia. added the national A A title to his list by deteating Anders Swanson, West Side in nothing mg the ntt tlie oiientiig dav of my being Dr Barberka said. N.

Y. A. was favored with two tne golf chain- been a friend of the Rocknes unpopular decisions in the prelim-. tourney at Puieiiurst, C. (Continued on Page Four.) Continued On Page Five.) Tlie Lodprepole high school basketball squad won the Cheyenne Six thi- Lodgepole district title and fmi.shed in a tie for the championship of the South Iwague.

The squad: I Lower Smith, O. Smith, Captain Bale Bills Quinn. Upper H. J. West, Kreider.

White. C. Wise. Crose, V. Wise, hanipionship, Platte Valley at Beatrice.

May 3 M-I-N-K meet at Peru. May cliampiou.shlps at Lincoln. NoerrlinRcr Joins Fremont High Staff DEWITT. April Coach Noerrhnger mentor of Dewitt high for the pa.st two years, be in charge of athletic.s in the Fremont Junior high next! year. 1 GLENNA PUSHED TO KEEP CROWN Mins (olletl Gompclled To Shoot 77 to Heat Reading Girl.

PINFHURST. N. Apill 5 (UP' Arneru woman golf champion Glenna Collett sueceshfully I defended her North and South title here Uxiav by deleating the youthful Reading. Edith Quier. one up in 18 holes.

Her victory however, only after the kind of which placed her two in the ruck as early as the fourth, and whiih later wiied out her thtee- liole lead on three ive The match wa leatured in un orthodox manner by an automobile wreck at the second hole I he gallery was starlliid to see a car on a (Continued on Page Four) away with. Baseball mu.st adopt tho standards of and ethics that prevail other colleg(3 Athlete Takes Bride. William Wetn.ore, bocially kw nen' Hatvard "lUor and hi-fgcv and ha i inarm at York I- i iJeerv 'I romani an 1 a Ini'i on v.iii„il both well I- J.i le..

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