Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 22, 1889, Page 9

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The November meetings of the Western association, the National league and the American association will be fraught with much that s important to the welfare and progress of the great national sport. A curi- ous concatenation of circumstances makes this mevitable, and everywhere base ball mdeuls and managers are whetting their ciumeters for some wholesale slashing. The meeting of the Western association will be held in this city on Friday, Novem- ber 15, and 18 liable to hold over a day or two on account of the bulk of business to trans- act, Thav there will be no end of surprises is likewise an undoubted fact, but to hint at their nature would probably be only to in- crease the snarl and bring no good upon any- one. Among other things that will be at- tended to is the reformation of the associa- tion, the examination of applications, the selection of new members and the acceptance of the resignation of outgoing clubs, A this early date it would be impossible to predict who will fill the yacancies that will occur at the end of the season. That Des Momes and 8t. Joo are going out there isno longer a shadow ot a doubt. Anotber matter of vital importance that will be urged upon the meeting is an abso- lute provision covering drawn and postpoued games, ‘This will be vigorously treated in the meetings ofthe two major bodies, and it is predicted here that not only the transfer- ring of games schoduled for one city to an- other will be peremptorily abolished but the doubling up of two games in an afternoon also. 1f by any arrangement two gumes are _to be played in one day, let one of them be in the morning and the other in the after- noon, These games this season have given rise to much dissatisfaction, and the suspi- cion of unfairness has been' attendant upon many of thom, Another matter that will be liberally treated upon is the umpire question, and tak- ing the general sentimont prevailing among men who make the game i business and @ study, the double umpire system will be adopted in the three associations mentioned in the opening paragraph, ‘This will be a move in the right direction, for 80 clearly has the trial of two umpires established their advantages and eficiency over one that the system is sure to be adopted. It is impossible for a single umpire 1o decide correctly of the movements of men on bases and at the bat too, and consequently many of his adjudications wust be influ- encod by the players or purely guess work, one or the other. Tumultuous and threaten Mg sceuos upon the ball field, aris- ing from errors of the umpire, have been of w0 frequent ocour- rence to justify the ignorance of any proposi- tion that will tend to ameliorate the present condition of things, The double umpire sys- tem is the happy remedy. A man to decide on balls und strikes, and one to watwch the 10 alternate every innings, is beyond @ doubt the way out of this ugly situation, Aund, moreover, it is bound to come and come ’ Smuuolhur matter calls for consideration; lnd that is & \huuifi in the position of the base bags, but whether there will be any Sotion 1o this respect remains to be seen, Bul it strikes an attontive observer of all the details of play that great many wrenched knees, Jnmod ankles and spiked feet might be sav: haviog the bases flush with the &round and the players privileged to over- run them all, the same as first, This, of course, has its weak points, but they coutd all be satisfactorily eliminated by a careful study of the situation, As to the work being cut out for the West- ern association meeting, little remains to bo said. This body, howaver, should take full cognizance of the fact that they constitute tue third base ball organization of the coun- try, and are, in consequence, entitled to_just and adequate recognition at the hands of the older bodies, Their views on the wants and necessivies of the game should be as cogent as those of the poteutates of tho league or association, and deserving of just as much cousideration, Consequently, they should not wait and depend upon the action of the two major bodies to legislate in their own, and while it is only wise counsel to advise them to adhere legally to and abide faitn- fully by the smallest requirement of the national agreement, it is urged upon them to make certuin laws and regulations of their own—to spcak up and have a_voice on base ball matte and not sit idly by and permit the thick headea Von Der Abes, the arbitrary Byrnes, the Sternes, the Sodeus, the Mutries, Days, Nimicks, Wrights and Spauldings,to map out a course of action for them from which they must not nor aare not deviate. 1t is this passive subservience which strips the Western association of its virility, its force and independence and renders iv little more than a subsidiary branch of the older bodics, nullifies its laws, and makes it insig- nificant in the eyes of those who are well aware of the rights and prerogatives to which they ere entitled. Let the November meeting of the Western association be a meeting of the Western association, and not a ratification convention of the meetings of the National league and American association, The October Shoot. The Gwin and Dunmire grand annual trap shooting tournament will be held upon their grounds across the river Tuesday, Wednes- day and Thursday, October 1,2 and 8, and promises to be @& highly successtul affair, There will be many notable shots in attendanco from all the adjoining states, as well as large delegations from the Lin- coln, Kearney, Hastings, Grand Island and Fremont gun ciubs, The management pre- dicts the largest assemblage of local sports- wen that has gotten together here for years, There will be live pigeon, blackbird and English sparrow matches, 1n'addition to arti- ficial target shoots without number, There will be no handicapping, only in special watches, no one barred and no favorites played. Messrs. Gwin & Dunmire intend to do the thing up right, They are making elaborate preparations for the oceasion and visiting sportsmen can rely upon most satis. factory arrangements us 10 accomumodation: conditions of the shoots aud all minor de- tails, The shooting grounds, which are in fine condition, are ouly five minutes' ride on the smooth-running motor from the Millard corner, and no inconvenience will be experienced in getung to and from the grounds. In fact the tournament will be conducted on a strictly first-ciass basis from the opening *'pull” to the closing erucik, A Few Oold, Hard Facts, The annual hunts of the Omaha and Le Fevre Gun clubs will both come off during he last two weeks in October, and alraady the members are getting the fever bad. Theso club hunts, however, should be deprecated by all honest and legitimate sportswen who have au interest in the pres- ervation, protection aud propagation of our game birds and animals; in sooth, they should be frowned dowu and abolished as & regular yearly practice forever. They are literally nothing more nor less thao a wonton slaughiter of game; nothing escapes that wears hair or feathers, it amounts just the same to the emulous gunner whether he bags & suow-bunting or a goose, & ground squirrel or antelope, they all contribute toward swelling his individual score, aund that is what he is after, to make the blggest record possible. Then again, 80 far as the writer has been able to judge from what he has seen of these hunts, they never fail to create a jangle within clubs and their diseordant uotes can be heard tingling throughout the long wi ter, or until the time arrives to begin talking about another hunt. And this is not all. As every member of theso two clubs well knows, there 18 nothing fair or equitable about the mode of conducting these hunts, or annual slaughtering expeditions,.which would be a more befi ting appellation. While a larger majority of the participants doubtiess re- turn an honest count, there are not a few who donot. With the latter element it is any- thing to augment his side’s score, and as a consequence they run in game killed days bofore the hunt, buy it, hire men to shoot for them, or get it in any manner possible just so it s recorded to their credit, Under these circumstances, of course, the result is no test as to the capacity of the respective sides as fleld shots, and the side actually making the best score is just as apt to have to defray the expenses of the supplementary banquet as the side that was honestly defeated. These are plain, cold facts, well known to the members of both clubs, and can give no reasonable offonse. There is no argument necessary. These annual club hunts are pernicious in all their results, and it would be wisdom on the part of cachi organization to call a halt. Milwaukee’s Aspirations. 1t is a well known fact that Milwaukee has been endeavoring to break into the American association for tho past five years, but the American association has steadily declined to allow any such occurrence, Secretary Quinn now says “Yes, sir, wo will undoubtedly have tho first chance with the Americans. ~The man- agement knows just in what consideration we hold the American association, As soon as there is an opportunity to secure a vacancy wo have the first call. 1 have attended all the moetings of the directors, and [ know their views in_regard to Milwaukee, They will recognize us as the lirst applicant. Yes, I think Milwaukee will be in the American association the coming year."” Watkins and His Gall, KAxsas City, Mo, Sopt. 20, 188 dent McCorm! . Sir: As your team will have disbanded by the 15th of October and you will be unable to play us o series at that time, I would ask that you give me the use of your park for two games between Kansas City and the St. Louis Browns on Tuesday and Wednesday, Octo- ber 22 and 23 Theso wames are Lwo of a serics of eloven games that Kausas City and St. Louis are going to play for tho o pionship of Missouri for $1,000 a side, reply at your earlicst convenience will greatly oblige. Yours respectfully, W. H. WATk1 President McCormick replied to the above informing the Kausas City manager that he could have the grounds for a reasonable com- peusation. The Doubling-Up System. This thing of doubling up games to suit this and that team manager who 15 ambitious to beat some other manuager out of a place, is becoming extremely obnoxious to honest and fair-minded base ball patrons, Whay, in Sioux City the other day they played no less than four gawes, and Sioux City won them all, That “is simply ridiculous, and all but one of the pames was very properly thrown out. Even two ¢ames of bali, especially at this time of the year is entirely too much of a good thing, and is sure to en tail more discomtort than pleasure. Even the most confirmed crank is apt to get a sur- feitand leave the park disgusted, The days are too short for two games this late in the season, and the wr 100 decidenly impreg- nauted with the nipping breath of Jack Frost. These drawoacks, however, are not the chief oues. The unfairness of the prac- tice, aud the serious trouble it is liable to en- tall upon the associations, is suficient to warrant logislation upon this head, and it is sure Lo couie at the November meelings. Doath of Jack Gorman Jack Gorman, who played first base for Omaha a portion of last season during P, 0. Connell's luy-oft, died Monday last at his bome in St. Louis of quick consumption. Juck was quite 8 well kuown bail player, a quiet, gentlemanly fellow, and the only sup- port of a widowed mother. The news of his death was received with much regret by all his old friends here. Talk About the Wheelmen. This is the time of the year when wheeling becomes a pleasure, Riders welcomed tho cool breezes of the past few days and many of the boys who didn’t care to ride during the hot summer months have been polishing up thei wheels, and promise to make a mileage record during the mouthi of October that will make the captain feel proud. The plans for the year 1500 have partly been laid out, and a team that will rival that of any of the eastern clubs will go into active training during the coming winter, Ten of the Omaha Wheel club boys will ride fifty-eight inch wheels next season, and will present as fine a body of wheelmen as there 15 in the United States. Doctor Couner and a party of friends are outin Wyoming after bear. The last re- ports say that our ex-president killed six bears before brevkfast last Thursday, and the score stands now 8 to 2 in favor of the hunters, the bears hay- ing disabled Messrs, Frank and Clark, One big 600 pound erizzly tried to make & meal out of Doc, but u dose of laugning gas made hus bearship give in that he didu't care for meat that day, and the boys hope to have his skin 1 the shape of a rug at their club room this winter, i Billy Townsend, who has been laid up with rheumatism, is up aud around again. In an- other week be will be able to compete for the Florence medal, By the way, what has become of this medal? Last yearit was worn by some of the boys, but as yet we have failed to see it this year, Why don’t these ambitious club members get up and break the record that was made before the grading had been completed. The record 58 minutes and 85 seconds ought to be beaten at least by 8 minutes, A challenge will s00a be issued from some of the Council Blulfs horsemen to race any member of the Omaha wleel club from tho motor bridge to the little bridge at Street- ville, If the wheels get beaten we will kuow the reason why. ‘The postponed mouthly mecting was held at the club room last Tuesday night with the president in the chair. The run to Waterloo last Sunday was post- poned on account of rain, but if chances are 2ood we'll eat watermelons on the Kmerson farm next week. Mittauer is riding au ordinary again. Persons is the proud possessor of a new Columbis, L. R. *“Tillie’’ Urlan is developing a wonderful speed since he hus veturned from his west- ern trip. Gastman has returned from Dakota where he covered some 500 miles a-wheel during his three weeks' vacation, Iifveen of the Omaha wheel club visited Boyd's opera house last Thursday to sce the “Hrass Monkoy. A. H. Perego, our genial will next summer be ‘sesn “White Fiyer.” Jim Drain, of the 'Lincoln Wheel club, showed what the Eagle Is capable of doing by winning the race at L\u\,ulu last week against eight other good men, The man with the cvulumelu‘ is talking avout a hill-climbing contest with a well kuown safety rider in the club, The course will be over Davenport street and the wiuner is to have U5 per cent of the gate receipts. The annual club photograph will be taken within the next two weeks, probably at Fair- mount park. The boys are expected to turn out in full uniform on inis occasion, as it will be very important to have all the active mew- bers in the picture, The Sioux City Hicycle club will have a series of races Tuesday and. Wednosday, September 24 and 25, ‘besides their graud social meet of the wheelmen of the north- west, and & number of very haudsome prizes have been offered for the different contests. Some of the Omaba boys will avail them- selves of this opportunity, to get acquainted supply agent, propelling a with the Sioux boys, and at the same time gaze on the wonder of the nineteenth cen- the corn palaco. Manager Frank Selee. Inasmuch as Manager F'rank Selee leaves Omaha this evening and will not return again until spring, a few words to his credit will not be out of place, One thing the gen- tleman has demonstrated to the satisfaction of a great majority of the lovers of the na- tional game, is that he knows how to manage a base ball team as completely us any man in the country. His success in moulding out of the present team the easy champions of the Western association this season is abun- dant evidence in substantiation of this state- ment. Ho has a policy peculiar to himself, and leniency and consideration of his men 1s its chief feature. He is undemonstrative and not given to roasting or fining players. His methods are quiet and inoffensive, and he handles his men with the perfection at- tained by the strictest disciplinarian, Every man in the Omaha team has only words of praise and esteem for Selee. They like him and are ambitious to win_his csteom In re- turc, Selee, t0o, besides being a most eflicient manager both on and off the field, is one of the best judges of a ball player in the country. He has made comparatively few errors in selecting men, and has brought out many of the stars of the day. The univer- sal desire 18 to see Krank back in Omaha next spring. The base ball public have con- fidence 1n his ability to give them as good ball as can be had in the country, and his resignation as manager would cause much regret. er, should Mr, Selee go else- where Tie Beg unites with his other hosts ot friends iu wishing him most ubundant success. Miscellaneous Local Sports. 10l Crooks loft for Columbus last cvon- ng. An interesting vacht race is booked for Lake Manawa this afternoon, John P, Clow, an old Omaha pugilist, s in Denver, dying from consumption. Nat Brown's handsome horse Ensign died at the fair ground stables Thursday last, Tom Conners, the wrestler, passed througn Omaha last evening en route to Chicago, where he goes to wrestle Adon Butler. The Omaha Schuetzenverein has changed the time for holding their grand fall shoot- ing tournament from September to October 11, 12 and 13, Jimmy Canavan has signed a contract with the New Haven polo club for the winter, He is one of Bancroft's crack team and has been for several seasons. Charlie Budd, the famous Des Moines trap shot, in a recent shooting tournament at Leadyille, made but four misses in four days' shooting, & wonderful record, indeed. Charlie and Dan Daly, the St. Louls pugs, have both been held as accessories o the murder of young Jackson, killed in a fight in Daly’s saloon last Tuesday nigit, They are already talking up in Sioux City about next season. They are going to win the pennant in '00 dead ertain, Hope springs eternal in the breast of the Corn Husker, othing additional has bean heard from m Hurst about the proposed match be. tween Jimmy Lindsay, of this city, and Jimmy McHale, of Philidelphia. It looks as if Hurst was 1o lose his $100 forfeit, and that's about all there is in it, Fishing at Cut-off lake is better than it has been for many years. Large baskets of ring chi and black bass are bing taken ay. The bass are not larce, but enolgh Lo afford splendid sport and w suerb meal. J. F. Peavey, president of the Sioux City Street Railway company, has purchased the franchise of the Sioux ity ball teaw i the Western association. The wam will be greatly improved next year, and a more con- venient location for the ball park will be chosen. Manager Jack Prince, of the Coliseum, says he will have the Omana Polo club or- Emnugu and equipped ready to take the floor y the last weelk in November. He is nego- tiating with several well kuown polo players now with the Quincy to get them all, ‘The story of Pat Killen’s fight with Joe McAuliffe, as told by Killen's manager a few days since, does mot tally with the re- ports in the Frisco papers. They all concur in the fact that Killen was never in 1t Killen was in Omal.a several days this week decorating the purlieus. This evening the Omaha ball team, to- gether with Manager Seclee, leave for St Paul, where they play three games—to-mor- row, Tues and Wednesday. Thence they g0 to Milwaukee, where they will play fonr games and disband, None of the players, except Walsh and Messitt, will return to Omaha. Manager Selee goes straight on to Boston, Secretary E, O, Brandt, of the Omaha ball club, and Ed Mullen, the official score-card man, leave for Boston to-morrow evening. On Thursduy morning next Mr, Mullen is to be marricd to Miss Jeanette Chandler, of Jau a Plains, the beautiful daughter of ex-Supreme Judge J. J. Chandler. Mr, Brandt accompanies Mullen and will ofciate as ms best man, Ira Paine, the celebrated American marks- man, unequalied with siot gun, rifle, pistol or révolver, died Tuesday morning at'a hotel at Du Bresil, in Rue Bergere. He was taken ill on Saturday with strangulation of the bowels, und expired after forty-two hours of intense suffering. ~ At the time of his death Paine was filling an engagement at the Folies Bergeres, where he had been shooting before a large audienco for three wecks, His wife and brother-in-law were with him, and at the request of the deceased his body will be embalmed and taken to America for interment at Providence, R. I. J. W. Field, says the Minneapolis Journal, has just returned from Denver, wher learned the secret of the marvelous su ot the Omaha base ball club, Some months agzo a Denver lad, named Willie Ivers, climbed to the top of the eight-story block known as the Railroad building, and fell off, Down, down he went like a bundle of old clothes thrown out of a tenement house window. Straight down tumbled Wiliie's small body until it struck a network of tele- phona wires two or three stories from the ground. Then it bounded off the wires and went thumping down upon tho back of a horse that was passing in the street, A dozen horrificd bystanders rushed out to ) up Willi's’ mangled remains. But Willie wasn't dead. He sn't even badly hurt—only somewhat bruised by his fall of eight stories. Soon after Willie's adventure the Omaha otub was i Denver, and, hearing the story, Manager Selee at once signed Willie as a mascol, Willie is still with the Omaha club, and is said to win more games than nine husky men. J. W, Field has evi- dently been played for a suckor. The Omaha team never heard of Willie, and take no stock in mascots of any doscription. ball toam and expects I Flashes From the Diamond. Ich is no longer with the Denvers, been signed by Milwaulkeo. One more short month and the world's championship series will be on, e Cleveland pitchers are already miss- ing McAleer's wonderful fielding badly. 1t is strange ern teums are wade up of eastern players. St. Paul finally acknowledees that th are several ball’ teams 1 the Western asso- ciation, Dalrymple has open Denver, and will make th permanent howe. 'om Nagle swears he will notleave the Western association, unless things are just t0 bis notion. 'he question of new grounds for Omaba will be' definitely sottled by the time the beautiful begins to fall. lverybody interested in watch ihe annaal November wore than usual curiosity The Columbus, O., team has been playing at ball of late, and with the acauisition of “rooks they will play greater ball still, Milwaukoe is talking of trading Outfielder Lowe to Chicago for Bastian. In this event Chicago would get the big end of the bar- gain, The Omaha club has spent but $200 r store in mountain city his bail will g8 with base meet for young Kuell, and yet they have the pennant winners, Darnbrough and Shores, of the Denvert both have the stuft in them for the makin, od pitchers, and their prospects for next season are exceedingly bright. There 15 a universal desire to see Irank Selee at the head of Omaha's team agai ext year, but the chances are that ho wil £o to Boston. Patsey Oliver Tebeau 18 rapidly chimbing to the frontas the League’s star third base- man. He 1s also one of the stellar Kickers of the profession, Minneapolis won the series from St. Paul by ten games to cight, and Sam Morton is almost as much_elated us he would be over the championship itself, The New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Chi- cago and Cincinnati papers are all agitating the question of the double umpire system. They all concur in its absolute nccessity, and its adoption is cevtain, yelone Jim Duryea will keep up his mus- cle cutting fire-wood on his father’s big Iowa farm this winter. Jim 18 one of the boys who takes care of himself. His big bank account is one of Jim’s collaterals, e sticks §200 1 the bank every pay day. As an illustration of the popularity of the national game, the statement is made that the attendance at gumes in the National League, American and Western associations on labor day foots up to nearly one hundred thousand pecple. Questions and Answers. Will you please publish in Sunday’s sport ing columns the percentago of tho Omaha team for the scason of 1888, and the place she held at the close of the seasoni—K. W. ‘L' ylor, B. & M. Headquarters, Ans.—Omaha played 118 games, winmng 66 and losing 52, whicih gave hera percentage of 550, They occupied fourth place at the close of the season, Will you please inform me of the number of rounds_fought by Charlie Mitchell aud John L, Sullivan 1n'the early part ol '83 at Madison Square garden{—John Borghoff, Lister Block. Ans,.—One und part of another. Sullivan was drunk, and Mitchell knocked him down in the first round. In the second John L. went at him and knocked him through the ropes, and would undoubtedly have knocked bim out of the building hadn't the police interfered and stopped the fight, How is it that you persist in calling the Omahas the champions of 18007 They are the champions now.—One of Them, Omaha, Aus,—They ure called the champions of 1800 because that1s what they will be, They bave won the championship for the coming year, The Des Moines team are the cham= pions of the present year. Will you please give me Joe Quinn and Bug Holiday's record in the Western asso- ciation for last year! aries Furrer, Des Moines. Ans.—Quinn played in 77 games, made 69 runs, 107 hits, 40 stolen bascs and an average of 816, Holliday plaved 114 games, runs 101, hits 147, stolen bases 65, average 511, Please state in Sunday's paper who ranked first in the American association as first b wan for 1585, ~ Jumbo, First National bank, Aus.—Wally Andrews, who is now with the Omahas. Last season he commenced the season with Louisville, played twenty-seven games, and had the fine percentage of 993, 0 decide an argument pleuse inform me if there is such u breed of aogs as Wire-haired Fox terriers; also, is it required of a pure Fox terri ed with vrindled ears and eyes and pure white body. 1. B., Rock Soriugs, Wyo, Ans.—Yes,the Wire-haired Fox terrier is a well known breed. No, but those marks are n o detriment ou the beuch. Will you please inform me whether the Chicagos have been abead of Philudelphia, and in third place, in the Nationul league race this season—Hase Hall, city. Aus,—They bave, for the brief period of & players Lhis seuson-—-the amoyut laid out for single day.