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WHY CAN’T SOME ARRANGEMENT BE MADE BETWEEN STATE HIGHSTO BATTLE FOR CHAMPIONSHIP'l’HE QUESTION IS ASKED A THOUSAND TIMES A DAY “WHO WILL HE STATE HIGH SCHOOL CHAM-PION?” NOHODY IS ABLE TO ANSWER FOR THE SIMPLE REASON THAT THE WAY THINGS ARE ARRANGED NOW EVERYBODY HAS A RIGHT TO ' CLAIM ANYTHING THEY MAY PLEASE. TINY SUGGESTS A WAY OUT AND ONE THAT WILL SATISFY THE GENERAL RUN OF FOOTBALL FANS AND AT THE SAME TIME CREATE COMPETITION WITH GOOD FINANCIAL RETURNS TO ATHLETICS.BY TINYWhut is flic Jouu stafe JiigU acliool tfi;iiupilt;mshfp?How do you ilelrniiiue flic low.* state high school championship?Why arc flu* rules not made by ih« authorities In jkiwcr so that the liijsh school teams iimlrfisled during the season may be able tn flay post s*.«huii games iu decide a real chanip:ou?It Is possible 10 make up a dozen different combinations uith “ifs” this. ifs that and ifo* the otherShould East High win from West High, and i-hould North High win from Mason City, and I might go on Indefinitely, who is to he responsible m naming the champ?Ymi may say read the reiirds. ;nnl ihe team with the least number of points scored it be given the title. Yon may want to leave it to the sport writers of the state ft's a cinch they do not want to create any haVd team.Games at Finish Wliyr r.ot make • airangcmrnts tv)th . the authorities in charge ofCADDOCK - HUSSANE MATCH OFF; FORMER IS IN THE HOSPITALBOWLING IS AN ItTli* wrestling male}) between Karl Caddock and Yus^if llussanc which whs scheduled for the night of Nov. Jl at {lie Coliseum, liaa been called off because C:uUlotk was forced to undergo an opeiailoiv Sunday and b- now In the Mayq Hospital at Hockes-icr.Oscar Thorson, promoting the iwui. receive I word from Gene Me lady, ditduck's manager. Sunday, and hniHf.iJjlcly started negotiations with several other wrestlers to fill Caddock's place for the night of Nov. ?|.CaddocK's Illness will not cancel his match wiih Dr. Roller which la advertised foi Chicago, but it may he necessary to call off his burn-st.MJWinff trip which be had planned with Hie Gibbons' brothers to raise F?3,000 for the now gym at Camp Dodge.Doctors in attendance have assured Caddock that the trouble will r.ot be permanent nor will it interfere with Ids reporting to the army as per Ills plans.feeling by deciding against their localathletics in the different' boards of education to stage at the finish Of the season, a game in Dos oiMnes between the tsvo teams or possibly games between the three teams or more, who have gone thru the entire season without defeat?• »'hy not call a mccOrg of alj the coaches of the high schools who have a look-fn for the honors, and let them formnhtle a set of rules or plans to handle the present tin-satisfactory conditions?The cry today in the organizing of the national army is that our young men have not. received the proper amount of athletic instructs on. not alone in boxing and the indoor sports, but especially in the games to be played on the field, including baseball, football, etc.. If the heads of the educational institutions of the cities of America would rake into consideration their youths* bodies a little btt moreand not dwell so much On the Greek and Latin, and cot put so mar.y restrictions. especially on inler-atliSelics, we would have s. much healthier present and coming generation.hands, illegally n motion; hands on hip. off side; one aim aloft, refusal oi penalty; arms extended sidewise, incompltted forward pass; arms folded on breast, interlocked interference; both arms aloft, gcorv; military Kiluie. Jcoie ball, foul.Eddie Kane says that Welker Cochrane, the brilliant young western billiard player, who hopes to grasp WiUfe Hoppe's world's champ title, will never be good enough.Eddie, now assistant to Johi. L. Griffith, director of athletics at Camp Dodge, also Mike Gibbons* manager, held the latter position with Hoppe for several years, when the little billiard player was in the heighrh o? bfs glory.Eddie ought to know, hut we all come to grief some day.. The smaller minor leagues clubs* heads are assembled in Louisville today, and we are liable to hear something from our friend. Presy Dickerson. He certainly cap make the fur fly when he atito out, so %you can bet Des Moines will not -,. / We'left out of the figuring when Proxy gets busy.Dickerson’s idea is to drop one or two. posibly three or four, clubs that were in the 'Western League this year, ana for the season of 131S take in towns that are better paying baseball centers., Dickerson has another plan w hich will help baseball—the bacri - of many trick pitched balls, which ^ie claims takes a certain amount of interest away from t$e gain? for the fans, who would rather see the hit-and-run slugging matches of old than to see the game depending on the pitcher's ability.That's only human nature! and especially applies to the American baseball lover.Wonder why Coach Hobbs didn’t play Howard Drew in .the game Saturday afternoon agelnst Washington University. The fast littlp back might have changed the aspect of thins?- Thanks to Drew's generosity, I was able to keep a closer fine of the game with the information which he gave the sport writers on the movements of the ball, as to who was carrying it. etc.Goldie Greenwald, world’s great est woman bowler.I haven't h^ard yec how the 35’nd Regiment caine out with their big boxing carnival at the Coliseum Saturday night, but hupe the boya did well, as the receipts were to go to the athletic fund and their own mess fund.PACKEY M’FARLANO ACCEPTS PROPOSITION MADE BY GIBBONS“Alphalxjlical Woof’ went to Kansas City Saturday night, also secured Itself’ a new boudoir. Won der if this means the charm trial. You know they always say the third time is the charm. Also got Itself n Hock! Ob. you Camp Riley fHere’s somethin* I would like to suggest for the East-West game, and I only hope that those in charge will at least consider the proposition. John Griffith for ref cree- he may not want to take it, but Insist; Walsh for umpire and J. Wyatt for head linesman. I'll leave. It to anybody If that isn't a pretty good combination. One of the high school football coaches, I understand, still insists and has a question in his mind as to whether the bail didn't go over the goal line. Wonder why Ids* little captain anil quarterback didn’t make a squeal at the time of the play in question?A boxing bout between Packey McFarland and Champion Mike Gibbon* Is almost1 assured. -In a telegram received here today by the News, McFarland announced his willingness to meet Gibbous.Packey stipulates that two four round bouts must be scheduled, one at Camp McArthur, at Waco,' Tex., and the other at Camp Dodge here.The proceeds of the bouts will he evenly divided between the athletic funds of the two camps.WEST, LEAGUE PRES, NEARLY KILLS OWNERSAUbo \\'v won't have many more football games this year, the plan which originated with Frank E. Birch of St. Louis, of using a code of signals that will considerably Increase the Imaginative tendencies of many ambitious foolball critics na to why penalties arc* Imposed dmins a game, s a mighty gnod scheme.Penalties arc common in the average football contest. buL the writer or spectator who is away of: on the side, lines or In the press boxes, has no way of telling why the offending tram |5 punished. rBtrrh. who is a referee on the Dig Ten” circuit, rmmshcs alt uiq scribes who cover the games in which he officiates, with cards on which his code is printed. When a tram Is guilty of an offeree, hj signals from behind the eleven which Is penalized./ Here are his signals:Grasping of wrist, bolding: Sf,ak-Wortl comes from the Chamber of Commerce of Cincinnati that th-s Garry Hermann five-man bowling team will be pxesent at Che Midwest Bowling Tournament, captained by William Barron, loco! manager in Cincinnati for the Brunswick - Balkc - Callender Company. The mam Is given Its Yiame Garry Herman, well known in baseball, and president of the Clncinnaii Bowling Company thatis handling tho A. B. C. Tournament this year.A challenge has hcoci sent out to the Cincinnati team by the Morri-son Taxi team, to bowl a match half hero in Dos Moines during the tournament and the other half in Cincinnati during the A. B. C-. for a purso of $500.LOUISVILLE. Ky.. Nov. 12--The vanguard of delegates hero forin£ of fist, unnecessary roughness:crossed legs, tripping; shifting ofNO ESSEX-CLARINDA FOATBAIL GAME FRIDAYCLARINDA, la., Nov. 12—The town of Essex is in a small uproar and the Clorlnda-tssox football came, scheduled for Friday at Essex. was canceled by the Essex superintendent because several Essex High School pupils played hookey” and at tended the Clarirxda-Bedford game at Clarinda. .Monday. The superintendent expelled the guiltv students.Famous CigarAdvances Pricethe National Association convention started the ball roiling here Sunday, when the Western League held an executive session at the Louisville Hotel, when the western boys convened at II o’clock. The big drive gat utider way, so from now unti? Thursday nlcht there will be action and plenty 0f it fur the baseball fans and owaera all over the country.Nothing was done at the Western League meeting rrgardfng the muchly Inlkel ol r/di“tijctms of the svholc minor circuit body, the ordinary routine stuff was indulged In during the three hours that the league was iu session.All There 1‘resident Dickerson found his full quota of club presidents in attendance when the opening shot was fired. They arc as follows: John Holland. St. Joseph; Hugh Jones. Denver; Frank Irbcll Wichita; John Savage. Joplin; William Holmes. Lincoln; Tom Folrweather. Dos Moines: E. .1. Scanlon, Sioux City ar.d W. A. Rotirkc. Omaha.In the league meeting, which was Die most bai-monrot™ in the hJstoryof the Western league, according President Dkker«on. it wastoIOWA FALLS ALSO WANT GAME WITH CHAMP CONTENDERiowa falls, Nov. 12-r-Runinngtrue to form, the Iowa Falls High School team maintained Its invin-clbtu record Saturday, by defeating the Stale Training School at Efdora by a score of 7 to 0.. Iowa Falls has not been defeated this season and an effort is being made to secure a game next Saturday with'Cherokee widch has a like record In the western part of the state. The Ida Grove game was cartcelled when Cherokee defeated lhat team. Saturday- In the Eldora game, neither team scored-virtil the middle of the last quarter, when Pickens of Iowa Falls went over the Kldora goal after recovering the ball on a blocked piiriLAL TIMME GETS STUDIOUS OVER NEW BASEBALL LEAGUEvY(San Felice Cigar Now 6cThe high standard of quality of the Kan Felice cigar will be mala-tained. During the past year the increases In taxation, taw material and wages have been so great that It is Impos$ible to continue to sell San Felice cigars at the old price.It ts necessary that we advancetho price of San Felice cigars lo Sc. To our many tricr.fls who smoke the San Felice cigar because of its high quality, wc ask a continuance of your patronage. Kan Fell. *. cigars now fic. The Iciscl*Wemmcr Co., Lima. Ohio.■* Tr \tv. . \A'GRA INS—PROVISIONS—STOCKSHARPER SONSMembers Chicago Board of Trade,305-7 FLEMING BLDG., DES MOINES U. CORRESPONDENT^4 v WARELEIANDMember* New York Stock Eichamw, Chicago Board of Trade and other exchanges. Direct private wires. Curreapondence solicited.agreed that no sentiment for or against the proposed redistxicting of mir.or leagues be expressed, and therefore it can bo seen that tho Westerners atd silling Ktill in the boat Mailing for the ldg blowoff.What action they will Uke then remains to he rcen. No doiiht they formed Ihclr plans here today, but these will be kept secret umu some one else shows down In the remaking of the minor map.There was a mild sensation tn the meeting when President Dickerson reported a ?um nl money in the treasury. A larger amount than hns nestled (hero In five years. This was almost an unheard of proceeding and the magnates immediately formed a resolution of a vote of thank9. which passed unanimously.No league Aclion While no league action was taken regarding the rcdlslricllon of minor leagues, most of the Western league mar,nates represented themselves as heartily in favor of it. Hanlon, Tj*bcil. Holmos. Falrvvealhor. Rourke and nthera stated that somethin* inusl be done to save the xninor leagues during the wartime, and that they were of the opinion that red/strictlon 0f Che leagues would be handed them In the event such a thing transpired, but they were willing to have. It done to benefit the game nnd put all of the leagues on a mtre sound basis.By bnlced Prrx«.MILWAUKEE, Wk. Nov. 12-Kturtent3 of mathematics will find an interesting scxn’:ra at Iwzuls-vi'tc when President Al Timmc of . She Brewers gets .the floor at the baseball convention.The veteran pilot will invade the JCMiim with volumes of statistics 10 show* tlvnl launching of a r-r.w baseball circuit, I. c., the Union league, will bo impiaclicable, Im powible and ImpovcrLshing.lie declares such a league could not pay and is prepared to proveit with figures. ’ /Likewise he Is preparing, to show that such a teaguc would tend to kill the American Association off. gradually, if not immediately.Vteaofbu:eleserofnENGIE WRESTLES BEANDUBUQUE, Nov. 12—lt;Spl-J— Arran gemvnla have Just been completed for a wrestling match between Hetnle Engel, DuVuque'3 middleweight champln, anxl Alee Dean, the Greek demon’ of Moline. III. The balOo will be staged at Ccrmanla hall Were next Thurs-dv evening \jndc7 the :tuspicc3 of the Dubuque Athletic Club.BOB WAITHOUR ARRIVESDILLON READY FOR MISKENEW TORN. Nov. 12—Jack Dillon of Indianapolis la in. town todayNEW YORK. Nov. 12—Bobby WaitImul. bicycle racer, is due In New York today to begin limb*Ting bp for the six-day grind beginning l-.oro Dec. 2. WaUhour has been racing In Europe.S. S. STARS TIE HAWKEYEThe South Side Stars and the ITawkoycs, a Fairgrounds. Aggrega tlon. battled to a 6 to 6 tic at tho West High Stadium Sunday afternoon.to poilah off: hla training for the punch lest with Billy Miskc of St. Laul tomorrow night. Tho light heavyweight title will b* at stake when they meet.coatDT!HitcUiDla11.vB\vstpiP«foelllitdsI*tVitohlt;(oaibilaPi(h
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Des Moines Daily News
Des Moines, Iowa, US
Mon, Nov 12, 1917
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