Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 1, 1891, Page 16

ACTIVETY 1NSPORTING CIRCLES | Jmaha's Kennel Olub and the New Game Law, BAT AND WITH THE THE BALL. The Fistic Arena-Spokes from the Wheel- Hoof Honts—Questions Answered and Gossippy Notes., The article in last Sunday's Bree touching upon the probable change in the circuitof the Western association, created a lively sen ion in the ball civcles of Indianapolis, To ledo and Detroit. The daily press of all three of these cities reproduced Tue Bre's article, and fotlowed ditorial exhor- tation and commient are unanimous on the head that by the inclusion of thes three cities the Western association would ouce be elevated to the importance of th Amer sociation,if not the League itsclf. In speaking of the Omata Brr's article the Toledo Bee of Tucsday hud this tosiy cdi- torially: The Omaha soheme s one that it successfully carried out will n @ one of the wost profitabie circuits in this country, With these growing, bustling cities of the -vest added to Toledo, Detroit and Inaianapolis, a circuit could be formed such as would almost certainly insure clibs i any of th cities against 10ss, Tho jumps would not b s0 long as in tho A an, and the quality of ball wonld be nearly equal to that putup in that organization. 1f Toledo was to onted 'lt' Western association at this time, there is every on to believe that it would e o wise move. There is a chance to enter and if Toledo people are awake and r desire to keep bseball goiug in this city, the can assuredly sccure a berth in the heal Westorn Now is the timo to act if anythingis tobe done in the matie W ednesday’s Bee of Toledo, in addition to acolumn article on the subject, contained the v tion in the Bee yesterday of the ehance offered to Toledo to enter the West- ern association created great excitement on the streets among the gentlemen who have s0 far upheld the national sportin this city The concensus of opinion seers to be that if there is any chance to getinto the Western 10 time should be lost A meeting of those interested wiil be held at the Press club rooms on Superior street Thursday night next. All those who desire to sec bascball i Toledo this summer will please attend and assist in pushing the pres ent scheme to a snccessful culmination. Mat tors of interest will be discussed and o full attendance is requested The Indianapolis people have also the matterup in carnest, terday said: Tk Oy Br Totedo, Tudianapolis taken The Sentinel yes- has it that Milwaukee, id Detroit in the north and east, and Minneapolis, St. Paul, Omaha and Kansas City in_ the west will make up the bali circuit ‘in the Western association. Denver will likely be dropped on account of the long jump, and there is little likelihood that Lincoln, Grand Rapids or Sioux City will receiva ainy consideration in making up the cireuit forthe commg ye This cir- cuit would be & strong oneand o money maker. Indianapolis is in line, The Detroit Free Press says proposed by itk Ovana Bix regarding De- roit’s placing aclubin the Western associa- tion s a very sensible one, anda_will be in- dorsed by nine-teuths of the baseball patrons in this city. In the Western association we would be i one class, and would hold up our end with the other elubs, Thewestern cities are all prosperous and money makers, and witha little healthy competition between the cities in the castern circuit, Doetroit ought, with more caveful wanagement than that of previous years, to make money. We lave the necleis of a strong team here now, and with but a slight expenditure could put a team In the field that would make the west- ern lads hustle. Put & good, live, proctical man at the head of the club, aund let it be con- ducted on business princinles. Let the mem- bersof the club understand that they must earn their salaries and play ball and the club will stand where it belongs at the end of the season, and tho treasury will not be empty, So from the above it 'will be seen that the ball is in motion in earnest, and that the hke- lihood of a change in this circuit is imminent an real. And whata circuit the above one would make, tobe sure! The scheme Co d Comfort for Milwaukee. Aud this is what Frank Arnold, of Colum- bus, O., has tosay about Milwaukee's New York “shake-down.” Ttislike a just reuri- bution, and the whole Western association is fe a bread grin. Still if Beertown will just wipe her nose aud promise to behave here- after all will be forg It appes v the Milwaukee club, is roaring mad becaise he had been invited to a feastand found noth- ine there to eat, Ho had been assured, so he says, by leading League and Association peo- ple that atrip to New York during tho re- cent meeting of the two organizations might, in_fact, undoubiedly would, result in letting Milwankee into the Assoclation, as it was not thought, ia candor, thut either Chicago or Boston would be made members of the Asso- ciation, and in that case Milwaukee would be let non the ground floor. But when it cometo a show-down it proved to bo a “shake-down” for Milwaukee, and now Iver- son swears by all that's good and holy that Milwankee shall have nover, no, absoluely never, grace the As tion, even though a club fails at Chicago, which 'he solemnly pre- dicts will be the 0, Now “lvey* old boy, there's no sense in getting hot about a little thing like that, for Jou must know, if you koop altly woll pisted n_ base-ball affiirs; that “throw-downs” are all the style, and it looks just now, to a man up a tree, as if you and_Milwaukeo wero in the very height of fashion, Then again, you may, when you cool off, luve to tike back your dire thireat and sit'at a cold lunch of un- palatablo crow.” A Vexod Question Settled. Oue of the best things in the new national agrecment is the way that umpires are to bo selected and managed. The different clubs haveno voice at all in the matter, The um- pires areselected by tho secretary of the na- tional board aud are under his manageme:t This will take away from Western associa- tiou umpires, as well as umpires in other organizations, the Idea_that their position is dependent upon the will of mdividuals with whom they may curry favor or whose dislike they have to foar. As long as their work is satisfactory tothe secretary they have noth- ing to foar, The west is insured an excellent corps of umpires by this scheme. Thestaff willprob- ably bo made up of castern men. The Players' league, the American associvtion and tho National league developed about fourteen pretty fair umpires last yoar, and from this list the west ought to get some first-class material Ambitious Youngsters, The following youngsters, desivous of join- ing the proposed Boys' league, have seut in their names : Chavlie Tully, Omab Frank Fauferlic, Omaha, James Lahey, Omana, William Styker, Omaba. Ed Liynam, O n Wiltiam Avnette, Omaha, John MeAuliffe,'Omaba Fd Wright, Omaha, John Flynu, Omaha, Charles Nolan, Omaha, Will I, Knowles, Omaha. Harry Martin, Sioux City, Ta, Charles Perry, Harvard, Neb, William C. Cameron, Fremont William Belden, Fourteenth Capitol avenue, eity. Charlio Caneron, Fremont, Neb, Judging from the tone of several of the lottors raceived by Tie Bex's baseball eaitor, 00d_many boys are Laboring under the ln{mu idea that thoy wero to simply write Tux Bee and thus secure a position on some boys' elub. The names sent in are simply lu\omlcd to facilitate the work of managers in getting up their teams, a sort of dire and nothing more, e Engagement of Gil Hacfield. Manager Shannon telegraphs that he has at Jastsigued Gil Hatfield of “last year's New Yorks, aud Cleveland will be reloased this 1212 South Sixth street, Neb. street and Hatfleld is o young and plays third or Forthe past threo season's he has been with the Giants, but was utilized but little owing to a surlus of first class p Howaver, so well was he thought of the New York management preferred to pay him a tandsome salary rather than lot him go. Hat- field is one of the best throwers in the coun- try, he has the agility of a cat and runs bases and lits with the very best in the profession. He will play thira for Omaha, and in con- junction_with Big Allen McCauley on first, D ony Shannon on second and Joe~ Walsh at short, will comprise one of the strongest in- fieldsin the country. Omaha ball cranks baveabundant grounds upon which to con- gratulate themsclves player of great short with equal The Gossip of the Cranks, The contracts of C. Baldwin, alias the Kid, and F'red Ely, with St. Paul, have been approved Joo Ardner, St has gone on the stage. in a Cleveland theater. Joe Walsh must train down between this and April 20 at least thirty pounds. Just now Joe is fat enough to kill Hugh o1, whose Joe's old second baseman, He's shifting see Ni Dbest days as a ball- | player are over, is now hustling for the man- agement of the team RBilly Harrington is a firm believer in the benclits of a spring tonr in the south,and will leave for the sunny_clime February 26 with his team of walrus hunters, Ralph Johnson, who also ball player in the Western association, is about 16 inflict another pedestrian -match’ on the helpless people of St. Louis, obody must think for a minute that either Cooney or Nagle are to be displaced on the Chicago team b any of the ex-Brothers, Those two boys came from Omaha, and they can't get left. Catcher Billy Earle writes that ho has not closed with the Portland, Ore,, club. but that he is open to an_engagenment. He expresses a desive to play in this city, and Shaunon has opencd negotiations with him, e Hightand bard, Jinmy Burns, our own poet, wants to get away from Kansas City so he ean captain and manage the team of his own town, Quiney, 1ll. The Cowboys, how- ever, willhardly “lev the sweet singer go; he'stoo purty. Billy Harrington, manager of the Minnies, is runninga players' burcau in the Windy City, and from the looks of things one would think that Billy was runuing it principally in the interests of the Flour City, Bill, you are too shy, altogether. President Parsons of the Lo very bitter in his denouncements of the wethods practiced by Milwaukes in her efforts to get into the “American association “Phey resorted to every disreputable scheme conceivable to get our franchise,” are his exact words. President L C. Krauthoff of the Western association is one of tholegal luminarics of the west. He was recently elected president of the Missouri bar association. He's proba- bly the youngest man ever chosen for such a position, being only thirty-two years old. New York World. “The Denver papers claimgthat Von Der Ahe is after Pitcher McNabb and Third Baseman McGlone, But Voudy is just playing ono of bis boyish pranks on the unsophisticate mountaincers. He knows they will have no use for any ball players by the time the robin arrives aud only wants to make them feel good, The Philadelphia Amevican association club is talking of appointing Pickett captain of the team. If they do, the National league club should even up with them by appointing Joe Mutyey captain of theiv team. If here Isn'ta pair of full grown chrysanthemums »u wont find them in the base ball conserva- tory, that's all, The rescrve list of Rockford, 11, Tnter-State originated as a ille club is ach elub must be in by February 9. After that the unclatmed players willbe in the hauds of the national board, which will distribute them amoug the new ssociation clubs to the best advantage and without price. The object of this is to pre- vent the outluy of large sums of money in securing material for teams when there is no necessity or reason whatever for it. The rule does not prevent a club from signing addi- tional players after the date fixed. Manager Billy Harrington of the Minne- apolis club, announced yesterday that he had signed Pitcher Bartson, who played with the ‘White Stockings last season. Harrington also has his hooks baited for Frank Dwyer and Dell Darling, and the chances are that this Chieago battery will be seen in Flour City uniforms next'summer. He has released Tuohy and Dowie, of last year's team, ana if Dwyer and Darling can be signed the Minne- apolis playing team will be complete, Dave Rowe told themup in St. other day that Lincolu would be season with one of the strongest on carth, notwithstanding his brother, Grandpa Jack, would not be in it. He also said that big offers had been made him for Hart, Roach and Flanagan. Now what do vou think of that! Bigoffer for Hart, Koach and Flanagan, when first classers ave bog- ging for places all over the country? The chances are that Dave will be rustling for some kind of a *‘sit” himself before the ides of March are here. “It do certai that way,” as the Arkansas darke, The power of the board to control, to sipoer- viseand manage the different corps of um- pires this year, will be conducive of imme- e good results, Heretofore clubs had hardly any recourse against a direlict or dis- honest umpire, only to release or thump him, but that regime is at an end. Hereafter this important ofticial will be held answerable to the same laws that governs players, he can be fined, suspended or blacklisted. My! What a dizzy old gang .of deadbeats and lushers, in the most part, comprised the Western's umpire staff last year. Think of Bauswine, Blozg, Cusick, Kim and Hender- son, don't it make your head swimi Milwaukee claims to have had numerous way-up offers for “Hoodlum" Griftith, but they wouldw't let him go for a gold mine. They did scll, or traded rather, their star twirler, Thornton, and thisis the send-off they gave hin “Thornton, whom Reach traded Vickery and Schviver for, will prove a disappointment to the Philadelphia elub, as he is not only a Jusher, but a tough on the ocder of Hoover, Tug Arandel and that stripe of ballplaye "The Milwaukee managenent did well to get vid of him. Such players dis- grace the game, He tried to clean out Cush- man's billiard hall before ho left the city, when Cushman informed him if he did not leave at once hewould call the patrol, Ho signed for #1800 for seven months with the Philadelphia club, Tuese figures are cor- rect.” Some of the hot-heads, or fat-heads would Aoubtless be a moro appropriate appellation, still insist that Milwaukee will yetbe a meni- ber of the American association” this year, 1f she does she will have to get a ver odern move on her, for after February 1 it requires the consent of every club in this association to pormit one of its members to back out of thetraces. Whileit would be both unger- ous and unwise to retuse Milwaukee to go if she does get the chance, it isn’t very prob- able that Minneapolis, Kansas City and Omaha, three cities, who have been unceas- ingly villfied by Milwaukee, would tumble over each other in giving their cousent, However, there is nothing in the Brew bluff. They admit haviog been openly snubbed i New York, but still continue to wag their tongnes. President Krouthoft says there isu't the slightest chance in the world of tha Brewers getting into the American, and Mr. Krouthoff comes pretty nearly knowing what he is talking about, Paul the in it this teams on Gossip Among the Amatours, Connors may join the Canners te: Yhe Sleepy Hollows talks of reorgan Sawver will ¢ Patterson tas six season Schuloff, Plattsmouth’s shortstop, bas been released, Minnicus will do the backstopping te Citys. Mike Tracey mail camers, Shannon will be found on Spud’s team this season 83 usual. Tom Griftin, Dennison, Ta,, wauts to join & state league team, Falls City, Neb, the coming season, Auburn, Neb., would put a teamin the pro- posed state ioague. Moriarity will cover an the Shamrock teaw. The mail carriers have organized team for this season. Lex, Blair's sure hitter, than ever this season Brady has been signed for centerfield by tho Shamrock team. Mohler pitched a great game for tie Ne- braska City team at Blair last scason. Only . yver third for the Gate Citys, different offers for the for the will do the twirling for the will organize a team for infleld posation on their will field betrer OMAHA DAILY one little puny hit that by Tew. Bert Baldwin will boa manbar of this sea son's Eden Musee club, Bailey's flelding average the Blair team was (40 Mike Schinker will be a member season's Gate City tean, Percival may possibly not be found on the Nonpariel team this season Henn will b change pitcher flelder with the Shamrocks, Fremont will likely lose the services Piteher Kimmel this scason Hart and Beymor field their positions, piteher's box, in fine style, Ben Lawson of tha Crane comp adrmired by the Blair peovle. Blaiv is still longing for Short Stop Austin, Where is et Where is het Jack Coffey will not manage the Union Pa- cificteam the coming season, O'Toole, an old Omaha pl ingg out in Los Angeles, Cal Withnell may hold down bag No, 1 for Farrish's aggregation of “‘champs.’ Perry of Howard, Neb, would rattling good man for some team Irick, the hard left-handed batter of the urocks, is out of sight in left field, O'Toole, now out in Los Angeles, may bo signed by the Plattsmouth management. Carroll, a catelier from St. Louis, now lo- catad in Omaha, is anxious to join some team Strock, the old-time catcher of the B. & M team, will be on this season's Council Bluffs team. Billy Shields will give up attempting piteh and will play an infield position season, MK can be pla; st season with of this and right of 1y team is yer, is now play- make @ to this ibben, a short stop of Hastings, Neb,, sceured by o team wanting o good v. the plucky little catcher of the Non- areils, is rather light, but he gots there Just the same, Watts, a third baseman of Neola, Ia., will most likely be on the Crane company's team this season, Joe O'Brien, who has plaved on several teams in this city, would like a trial the com- ing scason Stockham will put on his war try and pitch for the C; this seuson. Johu Connelly man at Silver for this season, The South Omaha team has a fielder named khart. He isno relative, howaver, to the aha catcher. Tew has a record of ten successive games 3 st season with the Blair team with. out a strike-out, Butler, besides being a fine fielder, can also cover fiest base in fine shape. He is great on scooping low throws. Ri who caught a few games for the Non- paviels last season, scems to havedropped out of base ball entirely Blair thinks the Nonpareils to kick. They should take Carrigan, I say now. George Conner, a good all-roand p wishes an engagement with some team, address is Riverton, ) Plattsmouth would llkn to hear from teams deswing to open the season there, dress C. A, Miller, manager. Beymer's arm is in as good shape as it ever was; at least you will think so when you run Up against him this summer, Walters, of last season’s Missouri Valley team covers lots of ground in his position, and should be in faster company. Taylor is wintering in Denver. Aspen, Col., is after him, Aspen expects to have a winning team this season as usual, G teher, is a good man that can be secured by some City league team. He was with the West Lawn team last season. Wahoo thinks of organizing an indepen: dent team this season. (Games between thei team and Fremont would draw well. Daniels of the Gate City team thinks he will be able to put up a second base this sea- son that will be the equal of any one. The Eighteenth Streot Stars will miss the services of Pitcher Grandjean this season, who has signed with the West Omahas Patterson and Walker, Plattsmouth’s star battery, are practicing inside as m sible, gt ready for the season Hummel, the first baseman of the Garnecau Snow Flake teem of 1888, has quit base for good. Frank thinks his playing days. over, Ben Nelson says the report that he would play in the Wesi Omuha team is a little pre- vious. He has not yet decided who to play with, Day is a new player secured by Carrigan for his coming ‘*Champs.” Juck is on the hustle, and is evidently going to have o good team. Ttis likely Haryy Bowles year's West Omaha team, all round play er and au exc batter. Blair hopes to meet the Nonpariels early this season for a social game. Their mutual love would make the game exceedingly serene, Jorry Mahoney, the popular thivd baseman of the Nonpareil team, does not have much to say during u game, but is a hustler and & fine player. Itis possible that For Omaha will have a team this season. 1f they do, Purcell will do the eatehing. Butler will also be & member of the team. The West Omahas will give cateher Vassar atnal. He caueht Grandjean successfully last year and should be able to hold his end up with them, The Stanton, Neb., managem: ten to Hart and Purcell this season, Lead Cit; to secure them, Baldwin can make more errors at short stop than all the players m Omaha put to- wether. As o fulure in that position Baldwin is u greut success. Van Armam has about decided to try his haud at pitehing this season. He thinks he would have better suceess in that position than at short field. Matth , third baseman of last season's Blair team will ikely be signed again for the coming season, He is weak at the bat, but fields his position nicel Russel of the Blair team is a fine short-stop and base runner and with a hittle improve. ment with the stick would be the best all- around man in that team, Sam Patterson is one of the best all round players b the state. Besides being a good pitcher, he can also cover any infield position and1s also an excellont outfielder. Barney Monaghan will be found tramping around in left field this season for the Crane company team, Burney says watch bim bring them out this summ: Plattsmouth has not yet de compose the outfield, but the ¢ assured that if the players are secu the manager is after it will be a daisy. McEl int and rane company team a rattling good fivst base- Aity, Ia, has not yet siguned re too modost lessons from His good Ad- age, « s are will beon this v is a mood lleut left-handed nt have writ- for their terms for ., would also like ided who will anks can rest d that ne, the tall pitcher of last season's West Lawns, is organizing @ team to repr sen the western part of the city, Their grounds will be out at Pickard's pe Ralph Bittinger, an old Omaha boy, now located at Chadron, Neb,, done the catehing for the team at that place last season. expect to have o team agan this summe: Vandermark, the big catcher of the son (Neb.) tealn, says their team is going 1o bea good one. They havea few men signed and would like to hear from good players, Taylor, first basemhn, wanted by Caston for his team, has several offers for the sea- son. Butif Kearncy secures Castone, Ta; lor will surely be found with that team. Koyes, a former Southern league player, is working at the Union Pacific shops in this city. He would like to join some City league tedm waating o third baseman or shortstop. Barney, tho Omaha_correspondent of the Sporting News seems to have lost bis grip, as he has sent nothing to that paper sincetho geatle roasting given to bam a few weeks ago. Bradford, Noupareils, the City league, the Nonpareil team season. The boys at Creighton colloge will havo a good team the coming season, Their last Season’s team was o good one, but will not be s marker to the one o be organized this spring. Kettle, the snap pitcher with Omaha a short time last season, and later with Ne- braska City, has drifted out to the coast, and is trying to get on with some team in ‘that country, the diminutive left fielder of the is about the smallest player in Ho is a fine fielder and led in batting the past Frank Mahouey will hold down short-stop as usual this season for the Noupareil te Frank isa great kicker for Lis tam BEE was secured ot bim, and | takes a great they éau do, Bullock, the littialaft handed pitche wwirled a few deal of pride in telling what who mes for the Lincoln Giants Inst season, is in/dSansas City. He is a comer, and Managow: Castone should secure him for his team. Manager Miller oft the Plattsmouth club wis i visitor in Omnbya this week. He seems to think the state lasue will never be organ- ized, but states thatPattsmouth will have a team in any event ’ The Plattsmouth management rather a hard time to'se for this season. 'Tire; three different places secure one of them, Captain Shannshan intends to make couple of changes in his team the coming season. He thinks his team will stand a good show to win the amateur championship this year. He is about right, “Bud" Fowler, the crack colored second baseman, wishes'to sign with the Platts- mouth team. Fowler is one of the best men in his position that can be found and would be a good acquisition to the team. Mr Crawford of Waco, Tex,, hasa_team aged which he wishes to place in Platts- mouth, Here is a chance for somo town wanting to enter the proposed state league to secure & whole team und a good one at that. Art Metz has coneluded to turn piteher this season, and with a good team back of him ho should prove a good 'un. His work 1n | nes last season_was excellent and ctice he hnd ought to be ‘‘out of are having ure suitable grounds have their eye on | il should be able to sight.” The Blair managoment, Inte the boys to good batting, have decided to place two “hit me signs_on their grounds. One will call for £10 and the other for a new suit of clothes to the player lucky enough to hit them, Powers, Plattsmouth’s played lastscason with the St. Joe (Mo.) team. That team won the ehamplonship at the baseball tournament held at Shenandoah, st soason. In him Plattsmouth secures srking good player. Hooper, centerflelder, who played games in the Commercial league last may possibly play with Carrigan’s team. is aid to bea hard lefthanded batte at one time played on the Burlington, Interstate league team, Blair is a good bull town and at many of their games with Omaha teams last season drew spectators from Arlington, Fontanelle, Herman and Tekamah, towns eighteen and twenty miles distant, With a wood team would draw well in some league. ska City team 15 after Pitcher of last year's team, alsowith the Lincoln Western issociation team, the latter part of the season and it is said that the nces for securing him_ aro good. The m this season will be a hummer, The city league season will be opened b game between the Crane_company and Wes Omabateams. O my! O my! how the fur will fly in that game.” Carrigan swears that the West Omaha's will not be in it at all, while Patterson says nothing but saws wood. Harry Gatewood has signed with ono of the strongest teams in_the inte league, Gatewood is superior to some men now play- ing in the Western association_and we hope tosee him in fuster compang still before the end of the s:son The Ladies' Ausiliary Basel of Missouri Valley gave Friday cvening, Ju: t success in over. mme in order to stimu- second baseman, a a few season, He Ho Ia., all associution a reception and ball 23, which was a 3 The dance pro- sisted of twenty-four numbers and about one hundred and fifty couple were present. The ladies eleared about $117 The differences that have existed between the West Omuha management and Home Run Butler haviog been settled, it is not at all unlikely that he will covernis old position on the team—left field—next season. Jack Cody will also be signed to help out the pitching department. It is now in order for “Jonuy™ to come in out of the wet, Jither Mr. Jaines Maher or Frank Casteter would make a good manager for the Blair team, MecClaride, formerly managerof the teum, does not desire tohold the reins any longer, and either of the above gentlemen would be a worthy successor. The vatrons of the game regret to see MeClaridgo resign, as he has worked hard and faithfully to keep up agood team, And ot aword is heard in; vegard to the proposcd state leagne. It scems to have fallen through for the present, at least. There ure a coupleof towns that have already organized their - teams, and they propose to pluy bull, league or no league. What has be- come of the gentleman from Grand Island thiat, adyoentod so strongly for o league( Wake #p, let us hear from you again, and perhaps we may raise a little entbusiasm on the subject. In a game last season at Blair between the bome team und the City Steams, one of the cranks in tho grand stand remaried as Bow- man stepped up to the plate: “Here's a fish.” 'When immediately after Bowman picked out one of Wellbaurn's beuuties and knocked it with such force that it took a board off the center tield fence, when hehad | made the circuit of the bases, the applause | I was deafening. A special earhad to be hired to carry Bowman and tis head home, Missouri Valley is in favorof a league to be composed of two or three Omaha teams, Blair, Council Bluffs, Missouri Valley and possibly Fremont. This is rather a good idea and should be acted upon. Blair willing to enter and if a team could be or- ganized in Council Blufls,alsoone in E'remont if they are willing to cnter, a good eircuit could be orgamized for Saturday and Sunday games only. It is likely that the Non pareils, ane company and \West Omabas would join, making ‘three strong teams in Omaha They to use the Nonparicl grounds, Fifteenth | and " Vinton, for the games played nere, Wo would like to hear from the piices mentioned in regard to the matter, and if agrecable a meeting can be called here and the movement gone through with, And still they come. Another league to be formed called” the Westeen Nebraskn State league, to include the following places : Wal- lace, MeCook, North Platte, Holdrege, Coz- ad, Culbertson, Broken Bow and Madrid. Wallace has already secured a full team, namely: Catehers, Cowman and . Wool: man; pitchers, Hill, W. Woolman, Kimmel and Comuings; first base, Hullinger; second base, Shaw; third base, Melutyre: shortstop, Drummond; left field, Heathi: center field, Sweet; right field, T. Drammond. Shuw is captainand mauagerof the team. He has received offers from various interstate tcams for Hill, Hullinger, Woodman and Drum. mond, but they will' all be retained and the Walldce people proposc to have the best team in the league, In o communic they suy the ¥ tion from Missourt Valle baseball association is in a flourishing condition and that they will be in | v 1t this season, and, as list, demonstrato that “they are the peopie.” They arein favor of forming a league to be composed of two or three Omaha teams, Blair, Council Bluffs, Missouri Valley, and possibly Fremont, Their players will be about the Same_as last son, with a few new ones. Beymer, Graver and Wood, and in all probability Geist, will do the battery work., Walter Cusack, McGarren, Erickson will bé with them, and 3 (Blair claims sovernl of the above players, but I do not think they have signed con- tracts s _yot.) 'This certainly looks as if Missouri Valley will have as strong a 4s can be possibly gotten together, The intending to make s fow improvements on their grounds snd ook forward 10a prosper- ous season, [ Keim, The Sporiemen The sportsmen of this locality ave highly exevcised over thorumor that o bill is be presented to the legislature now in session providing for the -prohibition of wild fowl shooting in the spring, an_ abolishment of the use of decoys iof any kind or at time, in addition to an ex- istless rigamarele of other ab surdities Therc is no daneer of the passage of such & as the Nebrasia legislature is composed of men of too much good common sense. While there is a good deal to be said in favor of a limited open season in the spring, the mere mention of a probabition of ‘decoys s laughable, However, the local sportsimen & uneasy and apprehensive and have laid their case nefore Senator Switzler, petitioning him to take au interest in the atter, and lend all possible aid toward the defeat of any such nonsensi measur The legislature has plenty B do pesides tampering just y et awhilv with the game law Are Uneasy. At Classic Germanin. menia hall, South Omaha, will scene of another fistic cvent night. That the contestants sionals is a sufiicient guaranty that the fight will be weil worth w itnessing, as it has been this class of pugilistic divertisements that have always, at least iu this viciuily, pa uned G ha the xt Friaay re not profes b SUNDAN FEBRUARY 1, the Omaha sm tio we hard serap at this hall, that of with pu » Magie They all groves fo nof the ate, ights. Taylo Patsey H ncher of no m 1891~ out satisfactorily between Barney City, SIXTEEN The mateh in question is Taylor, & husky citizen of and _ “Frisco’ McGee of are to battle toa finish with ra purse of #100 anda por Queensbury rules, at cateh r has already figured iu a a year ago of Chicago and is o ability. McGee is a no carn an vice, but estimated asa very likely man, The Om The Omaha | organization ing, and happy adva dog, | dit enthusiasn first work of the club, after will be to induce the oM on the f The pri ment in the ion, and in aha Kennel Club, Kennel club will perfeet its o week from Tuesday even anciers of fino me objectof the club is the of interests in tho betterment of his_con- the awakening of an throughbred strains, The the election of legislature atits canines are present session to put the do on o level with 011 il property, | other valuable stock,that is, to make him p liko the horse, As the law now stands theownerhas no redress atall. but that which he takes in his own hand, sgainst thieves, your valuable dog is stolen or killed o know the name of the thif or the slay can find no protection in tho law, by ddlis not property, per ar, There are poisonc rs or other miscreants. 1If d you . you ause the abnormal as itmny ap s muny fine dogs in Omabia and the Kennel club will receive most libernl enc ouragement being property fact that there are many Americ Speaking a bout in this state ¢ dogs not lls up the n citizens who have imported dogs at enormous figures. Mr, the B. for Champion Pic from Mr. Green of bestrough coat St og, Champion ohn Frag ¢ » sinooth coat Sears of Mel ot Toledo, 0., paid §,700 for St. Bernard, Wateh; Mr. E se, Mass., naid a like sum na and has now purchased Thorndale, England, the Bernard evershown, This St. Bedivere 3,500 'he rough coat St, Bernard Alton, recently imported by Mr. Moore costas much as Mr, Emmett’s dog and Sneerwell, owned by rec ently fmport of Melrose, Mass., Lady me fancier, was ch figure. ' Mr the s ed at a b Mitchell Harrison of the Chestnut Hill ken- n very vall eat Danes th while there and Charlie 15, Philadelphia, paid £1,000 for the collic dog Christopher Peoria that cost $500. somo Morrison 0 ‘and_there is a stud pug in Ioven here i Omahn 1able dogs areowned. Jack Sabin both owned not be bought for e innumerable bird dogs, t conld pointers and setters, thatsum up anywhere from £100 to 500, An Exel A.J. Clarke ha us if the chine, hounds Thursday. ber wolf on theridge just northwest of cit brought bim to_bay in a small pateh of ber in the vicinity of Horsesnoe lake. d been unable, although horsebs up with the pack, and did scene of the “corner’” until d been fighting and after ly an hour, had go A well « iting Wo't Chase. ad an exciting run with his They jumped o big tim- the hours tim- Clarke k, to keep not reach the after the dogs the big sheep thief for and several of them looked ne through a threshing ma- lirected shot from Cla hot chase of two Winchester, however, put a sudden quietus y est, newsiest and best basc country the New phlet form, ride Wilbur F S in Port insurance business. m , i safety E, Omaka and There 3r itt Pa Dy closed Peonle’s, John Oliver of the Bluffs nd h ke's pack, w he New York , has Tur Nation: to the turmoil, and skinning his big quarry, the hunter o from other packs conditioned for birthday. ranks to ounds returned to the city. ith a nunber of good hounds in this vicinity, are belng a big run on Washington's the Sporting Times, k Sporting Times,the bright- 11 journal in the thunks for acopy of ugrecment in neat pam- Ber'" al Whisperings from the Whe hey say that hat i br enator Morga nd, Ore, he mational American W heelmen Tuary 16 at Washington. and Zimmerman, tho will ride tandem this hole” Billy Townsend and Prof. Perrigo. Tt has been estimated that reyele riders in se ax: enty-five thous seventy-five miles of the city, yet vut six clubs in the city. red Wing, a claimed, ree econds n 53] weighing trifle of B. Smith wheel retains his Coombe Conradt.. Cowle ndjean.. Howard .. Heud. Henritzy Jon Jon 1) \ Lyttle olub Morris is the coming safety , hie is coming slow, Kuapy, tired of jorking beer in Portland, has floated on down to * The Holton track of their own this summer for training purposes. Frisco. cothiers will lave a private n has reached the last ditch He has gone into the life will be assembl the League of held on Feb- crack c year, and so Wi thore are 2 York city, and_over within & radius of there are New nd eyclist of Ottawa, et al, 1t yrode a_half mile on the mounted on a solid tire forty-cight_pounds. Th the ‘‘tish market.’ is still in_the lead in the high-five _tournament, average of 70 por cent. o forty-two enteries in all, with the following score: Per Cent wdollett, ... . Per Cent. 63 nasyi Livesay Matthows Morris, Mittand vorteet Rhod es 8 'O Rhodes 1. H Rathbura Siefkin, Smith 1L 1L Smivh H K Sith BB Townsend... Miscellancous Local Sports. at Killen ha anny Daly an ve not yet B Tommy White and about fixed thin cago. 1 he Goose shooting vious voints along the Platte during the week. spring season. Jack Hightower has not se any for their second rifle it Jack Prince leave Buffalo, where he g new Deny v Coli illy Gibbs, th Wack driver wrestler, bu nner. Old hunt ttention t What's the matter, Jack that one ¢ ‘The Omaha rifl of ten from the Council Bluffs shooting club Lo a friendly match on the Dunm k m unds, Lo col B pining for 1t s a not cided upon illy Weston, anoth ble nighly suc as signed the pledge and Tommy Miller has quit the ring. Jack Welek of Poy professorship of Billy Hawle; club rooms. has assumed the Atheneum I, a young Gallagher have just sful engagement atthe and d Fuller na time or the terms tteh. ed uy ow for interests of the n compan o “Kausas Demon,” used to in this city. He started out tis now figuring us a pugi- George a me Siddons have s for ting near Chi ny Daly of this city will chullenge has been quite good at va- crs are predicting an e n proper to pay Anders’ challenge: has the memory of ade youleary! men have Hi invited a team & to Cross off on a date ye be de- the Butte City Wonder, is v go at Tommy White, but t that he did not commence to pine very hard until the petof the Chicago Do Pat Allen, rd of trade w whe s weil out of the city. > was tendered _a.benefit at ‘Wells! gymnasium, Council Bluffs, last night has forwarded a challenge to Denver Ryan-MeCormick companying this challens riitied check for s the f with wit « Ji W Me: ight, bination, will visit Ox exhibition will by mer of the im Corbett, now ssrs. Rothe to th will, Ad > was Ed Rothery's mous California heavy- the Parson Davis com. abia Fob under the ma and Hawley, and probably take place at the Grand opera house J il wit renounced the rin stage lig J plut ma int nck Hanley, 1 his bit iuthe hJdoln 12, Clc He has It dramatic A. R. Elliot ns for i worle Vo b rskmen to e he an is a sche he old time Omaha pug, who Nebraska pen fort W five or six years aud polities, joited the “Under th burnsto ng combinati t has already begun to lay s fair tourney ot Chicag yeen taken to induce forelem oy and compete, Included 10 10 establish a 310,000 trophy for the world’s championship in indi- vid St B Th aki \ rule farce, suy our local shooters, bird oseph nal live vt Sicheller At is the fo > this winte 2 best thing St Joe can chiout of the he ground te: call for in has ¢ Twelve hundred peopl there rth shooting. e daft wrestling saw ‘“the Jg down several OVONITES 1RO teh Soralkichi has won of th w4, 0f Ccours do is to help Sor- the Hurlingham shooting are_a 1f you do make m v, al city at the s which live pigeon | theirvlace substituting | trap, which is vastly better. Doc MeDonough, assistant sporting editor | the O PAGES amatch, barring weight and gauge of guns make it to read also barring ground trap, in the ground scooy of the New Y Tuesday Iast ha H Cork World, called on tho writer Doc vséd to be n reporter or rald, but excused himsolf sud donly one day threo years ago and foatec enst. Lastsummer he put in his time as o syndicate writer for the busted basebal vrotherhood, aad some people are cruel enough to say that it was Doc's disquisitions that killed it. W. H. Jacobson of handsome bay mare, Happy May, day tothe Per Brothers of Wayne 1,250, Happy May comes from the trotting stock, being a_eranddaughtor sire’s side to Mappy Medium _and related on hor dam's side to Dorsey's Dust, She trotted & mile in 2 training last fall and is veally promising plece of horseflesh Ed Rothery of this city, who dronped a ty peuny through prejudice on the Non: last Satur. bes Goli 40" withou o valuable and pariel in New Orleans, blames Jack Dempsey for consenting to a match with Bob mons. The latter, he says, able to arrange & matefh itzsim amatch London Pritchard aftor their fight next liunvrllwl slican or the new Lord Lonsdale is starting from in with' either its discor tented members, would have, or will yet, he thinks, give a vig purse. J. A R. Elliott has Georgo Kleinman won 0 to. Kleinman killed thirty-sc straight at one time and tw straight another. Elliott's best twenty and sixteen, Upto the tenth pigeon Kleinman was two be he obtained a lead of five, but been beaten that Chicago again on birds nty-seven runs ind, ter the nine: fitth bird the champion was only ono be- lind, Elliott. missed ono in but Kleinman brought down every on won the match by two birds, Flliott! feat cannot bo accounted for on tho g of deterioration o on the grounds of maun's superior skill, cithe the fact that thero are a dozen trap shots in this country so evenly matehed 0s apt fo win today and morrow as the other, I would an even thmg, so far as money on the event goes, in & match between Ellioit aud Frank Parmele the fival five, and de- to lose to- plon ana demanstrate to his friends that he s as great a shot as the best of them ack Davis’ boxing school is rapidly grow- iz, and his senior_class now embraces fully thirty members. ral prominent legal luminaries are maling great headway, and while they are good nature and sweet tempered, the emplasis. ing to become f n public. very worst that good appetites. young ehters, nor would they Oh my, no, that is bad form- They simply w digestion may v CIVS an casy dubs, isu't it, Jack" I kenial heavyweignt' last night. well I should smile not. I b from threeto five fights on my hands eve nigzht, and they give me twice the troub that I | experienced in an actual fight for some time, 1 tell you there several daisies in my ass,” yet these sluggers ure all men tle mien. You'd never hear the whisper about the ring. For instance is—but come to think of it the most too handy to trifle with, liold their names, be ashamed of, through a course of the box it on healthy are And of gen- there are getting id Il with- there is nothing to are simply going best possible training wrestling, boxing and club swinging, and if the cause isu’ta worthy one there is nothe ingz in manliness whatsoever. Joe Harris, the Melbourne book-maker who lias just returned from the antipodes to *F'risco, writes Billy Hawley of this city that Jim Hall. the Australian champion middle- weight, is cager to fight Fitzsimmons. Harris ys that Huil is the greatest middle-weight the world, and can whip Fitzsimmons rthan Fitzsimnions whipped Dempsey. Hall, in the past fourteen months, has beaten fourteen men, including Starlight, the Queensland giant. Harris has cabled to Sydney tolearn it Hall can leave on the next steamer. Harrls stands ready to back him against Fitzsimmons or any other middlo- weight. ~Hall, the man referred to by Harris, itas safd, stopped the lanky Robert, n year or 50 ago, in threeand o half rounds. Heis a native'of Sydncy and was bovn in 1508, being only twenty- three years of age, or five years Fitzsimmons’ junior. He served an appren- q. ship asn_plasterer, but gave it up for the ring, in which lie has' been remarkably suc- cessful. He has whipped every midile weight of note in the colonies. His perform- ances ave: Defeated George White in sevea rounds with the bare knuckles, Jack Slavin in_ six rounds, Jack Moiloy in six rounds, Jim Nolan in eight rouuds, fought fiftee} round draw with Fo- o at Peter Boland ju_sixteen rounds, 1v' Walsh in five rounds, Bob Fitzsimmons in three aud a half rounds, Hervert Goddard twice 1 four rounds, Tut Ryan in five rounds, Dummy Mace in five rounds and “Starlight? six rounds, Hall is now on the Pacific ocean on his way to this country to ear, if possible, the title of middleweight champion of the world. While the fact that he has defeated Fitzsim- mons has been denied, il the Aust papers give him credit for the perfors aud itis no doubt correct. When he a in San Franciseo he promises to make teresting for aspiving middleweights, Questionsand Answers, Norti PLATTE Neb. Jan, 30.—To the § iditor of Tk BE: Will you mowhether Charlio Mitel ek MeCaflre fxht Miko N It so, whichwon?—I%. Wall. Ans.—Mitchell was bested by in a bout for seientific points, thiat the referec’s decision, but this many of the spectators considered unjust,but all the same MeCaffrey was the winner. — Therois a vast difference between being hested in a set-to for scientific pomts and _ being licked in an actual fieht, still if this is to decide a bet the party who wagered that MeCaffrey had de feated Mitchell, wins, McCoole and Joe Co- burn fought at Charleston, Md., May Coburn wining in sixty-seven rounds. were have fought again for 10,000 at Cold Spring, Ind., May 186¥, but Co- burn was arrested while' proceeding to the ving, together with his trai Susick, and the fight was broken up. Will you please state In Sunday morning's BEEon wht dute Jere Dunn killed Jim Elliott in Chieago? This is to declde a bet.—R. 1T Burlin on, T, Aus, —Maveh 1, wrx Cy, T in a [ it in- port- Coole, and McCaffrey s, he got, 1859, - Feb, 28.—To the Sporting Editor of Tne Bee: Will you pleass nswer, if possible, the following questions: Where Witlurd Hollund, who played short fieid Kansas City last season, I8 he in Dallus, 'l The reason I want to know Is heeau our opera troupe Is bound for Texas in a few weeks, and I have some most inportant busi- ness with Mr. Holland. Answer by mall 1f youean, snd when r company visits Omaha you shall have the bestseat in"the hous it thutis any inducement.—Huzel Holland, actiess. Ans.—It1s with reluctance that tho fair Hazel is informed that no questions v this department are auswered by mail, at least, un|~- s tho request is accompanied by no less than two cents, Young Holland 13" in Dal- las, or was, thelast time heard of. When your troupé stops here I speak for a seat on the “dog-ouse. Mind now, Hazl, don’t forgot. i for x.P ek whero within ten or Hummorless, Can_you Inform mein Sunday's T can find good rubbit shootin twenty miles of Omuhat Omaliit. Aus.—Almost ing the ridge bet shoo lake, or in crevk in lowa, ¥ Neb, Lt anywhere 1n the fields skirt- en Florence and Horse: the bottoms along Honey Jan, i Plens Junt that « and the Tothe Sporting FEdit state i Sunday’s i 1 be tade ateribbagey ards that muke it—W ofTiE the lur i one hand E. Brock. Ans.—You will_find Sunday’s query column Ashmore Samuels, South Omaba: win, ONARA, TuE e the aus in last and D To the Sporting Editor of 1 kindly infc in Sun- duy's of itk BEE Whetl i herys bettor Town as “Wick," the shoot- fror of the Cineinnatd Commercial G il Is v iselt, and how, ho ranks AT indlo of the sme eltyt Yoo will Ohlise by giving this query attention,—A Shooter. inferior Wiil ¥ Ho is, and o good one, too, but little ) Bundle, whom he bas often beaten in the days gone by SouTi OMARA, Neb., Jui ythe Sport fng Ealtorof Twe BEE: In a gane of hiel Awnd B oare playing inst O and 1) Aand B Cund D 46 A and B bid Reven and muke high, lowand fve, and ¢ wnd Tack, gume wud tive of tedmps. Who wins?— Dedal Pushier, Aus.—C and D, Norfolk, Neb., sold s for m her similarly has never been with any British middleweight, and Dompsey could have found Burke or Mareh, club which mateh were time of the hen grounds Klein- but simply from that one is be laying 'I'he trouble with Frank is there is too much of something in his neck, or he would challenge the cham- young can punch with Sullivanesque Of coursenone of thom are study- the ant the exercise job teaching these asked the ring breath a {[RHEUMATISM: n i A 1 1 t 1 t 1 ) Microhe Killer is a Road the following 1 have suffored f Beumatism; my floger joints el enlargod and quite painful. 1hove tnke of Mlerubo Killor and an entirely cured dorse it to the s FOM I 1 had suflered from 1 hood. Tt affecte bed ench spring, entl loss Mineral spring mostnoted and Jearned 8, butall falled to effect what M F 0 1 four months were groatly How i splendid yoars 1 feol that L cannot say tao much in pralso of this wondertul medi AN 1 was aficted with o and way relleved by one I, take 1 Microbe Kil n rolicyod MILLEIL St Joseph, Mo, Iy alictod with my bod. Lused took ong specitic for rheumatism, Joseph, Mo. from chila was_confined t my 1 and utterly help= Motky, 8t Joseph, Mo. Ains 1 thoarme Killer, Mo. My father i © for thouma- Usm and has b evernl ye umatlsm: 1'was ofton co many remedie hout Jug of your Mierobe Killer and 1t o1 MiS. AL EDWA DS, W aftilcted with th beon taking o, Kan Micr oba Kt € weaks ani flad mysell T8l bettor o § Bva for yenra. Peoplo by s councry tink i th medicing WL Cure i L will Sire NHOSE ARy thing: M T 0. 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