Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 13, 1902, Page 11

. BASE BALL COSSIP OF WEEK Omahs Travels Basy at Head of the Western League, DENVER MAN'S DISGRACEFUL CONDUCT Tsn't it nice? Omaha's gait at present {s the nite, even pace set in the spring, which the other sdams found so fast. It's the same old xeam, playlng the some old ball. All the other teams Have “Strengthened” from time to time, changing positions, getting new players, releasing oid, and doing everything possible, it would seem, to hit the pac but none. landed. When the Omal téam was first named, before the season opened, The Beo pronounced it the fastest fielding team in the league. Actusl events have demonstrated the correctness of that prediction. Only two changes have been made In the working team during the sea- son. Stone succeeded Fleming in left, and Thomas had to go to first when Calhoun weut to the hospital. More of less hard Tuck, mecidents Incident to the game, has oyertaken the team, but the pla: have all stuck, and are playing just the sert of ball they promised to in the spring. Not & team {n the league has shown anything to compare with Omaba in the consistency of its work. During the one awful slump in June, the batting and flelding of Omaha was the same as it has been, and while Eollow-eyed defeat was the team’s portion day dfter day,” mone of the players lost heart, but all went Into the game with vim, 80 when the turn did come they were ready to take advantage of every chance, How well this worked is shown by the fact that the victory over Milwaukee on Friday was the sixth comsecutive win of the week, and made the record fifteen out of the “last sixteen games up to that date. Denver got the one vie- tory over the Omaha team since June 324 In that time Omaba has beaten Peorla four times, St. Joseph three, Kansas City thiree, Denver three, Colorado Springs two snd Milwaukee one. When Omaha left Milwaukee after the game of June 28, it was third in the race with a percentage of .566. Now it is leading by the widest margin of the year, and has gained nearly 100 points in percentage. Its actual percentage of victorles for the three weeks 937, which i certainly . galt, , It may b all those who have watched the affair closely will admit that good ball playing has had something to do with it. ~ Omaha hasn't won the pennant yet, and may not win it, but the patrons of the game along the Western league clircult can thank Bill Rourke for the efforts the other managers are making to strengthen their teams. It will take ® strong team to head the Rourke tamily, apd that means mighty fast ball tor the Western. Last week was a terror for the Omaha batters. ‘Eyler, Omaha’s - time tried and fire tested Loodoo, cut in Arst, and then came McClosky and Whitrid and ter them Jones and Newmeyer, hat it hadn’t been for Kenna and Fricken on iday the Omaha batting averages for the eek would have looked mighty slender. Btone was at bat twenty-five times and only got six hits. This is because the pitch- ers are a1l laying for him. But if the Omahe players didn’t pile up many hits, sone of the others did, either. Denver got at Alloway for a mice bunch, but the rest the crew held the visitors down.to very w, the Grizzly sluggers getting but six n hits and five soratches in three games. During the week the flelding of the team was of the same high order it has been The statistics are: BATTING AVERAGES. R 239 Last casERREESEAY T P EEET 1 PR L FIELDING AVERAGES. Pla; PO. A E. Tot Av. w( no-’:yl‘ 5 1 e . ‘alhoun ndi ";,E = PR Y Only twice in.Omaha's base ball history has an-umpire been assaulted on the dia- ,mond by a player, and both times the Offense has been committed by a Denver man. In 1801 George Treadway, the fa- mous “Home Run" George, struck Frank Bandle, who was acting as substitute um- pire at the old Sportsmen’s park because Bill Halligan ran outside the carriage gate, got the ball and threw it to Oy Sut- el putting. Treadway out at the plate. Monday Parke Wilson, catcher and ‘ma for Denver, so far forgot himself and his surroundings to assault Umplire Swigert, during the progress of the game And in presence of s large assemblage of ladles and gentlemen. Wilson's exhibi- ton was most disgraceful ever wit- messed on & ball field hery, and is all the ‘more inexcusable becaus is & 'veteran player and the manager of his team. He is tamiliar with the rules of playing, and knows well what his legal redress Is. Hge 18 also supposed to set an example for the players under his control. = Therefors, he ould have been the last man to bave been. gulity of the act of hoodlumjsm which bas jod his base ball career. Ome of ‘the Denver papers has accused The Hea of biased against Wilson. Nothing could be farther from the truth. ‘The Bee hds ‘Nad occasion to criticise Wilson's sctions & number of times since the playing season commenced, but has never own any prejudice against him. On the other hand, Wilson's career has hot been one to endear him to the public bera or else- where. He is well remembpered i Omaha s of the catohers for the Lincoln team 1891, when he showed the charac- teristics that have since marked his course. He was put out of the first game Denver played this year, and off the grounds, and has been in continual trouble ‘with the umpires ever since. More than that, his example has led other members of the Denver team to indulge in disgrace- ful kicking, until President Packard a mits that his' team Is & the top of the bunch as Klokers. Such conduct is not calculated to endear Parke Wilson or any one eise to Omaha. people, .. The Bee has told ouly the plain truth about thiwyaruly player, and did pot color in the least its accoupt of his rowdy cobduct éun last/Mon- ‘Whether Umpire Swigert was competent does not enter into the argument. Hi incompetency 15 o excuse for an Assault by & player. The umplire is plainly forbid- den change a decislon once made and LR of instructions to the umpires At the beginning of the season President Bexton particularly enjolned on them their duty to enforce the rules and maintain order on the grounds during the game. At the St Joseph meeting of the league on July 2 the magnates decided that new umipires should be employed and that rowdy! must o When President Packard went back to Denver from that meeting he told the papers there: “‘We are paying National league salaries and must have National league ball. Our play- ers must bebave.” Umpire Swigert began his connection with the Western league at Milwauke on July '3, and from the very start the Denver team made him a target. On July 4 he had to declars one game for- feited to Milwaukee because of Wilson's conduct, and in the second game he had to fine seven players in order to maintain peace. On July 5 the Denver team and Swigert came to Omaha, and from the first inning of the first game to the last inning of the last, the Griszlios acted more like & lot of hoodlums than any team ever n here. Again and again they gathered around ! umpire, heaping on him the vilest of abuse, obscenity and verbal filth, delaying the progress of the games and dis- gusting thousands of patrons who went to the in expectation of seeing a ball d were treated to the spectacle of salaried ball players wrang- ling like a lot of drunken fishwives. Their conduct culminated in the assault on the umplire by the manager and his arrest and removal to the city jail The Denver Times young man says it was spitework on part of the Omaha management that permitted the police to remove Parke Wil- son like “a common thu, ‘Wilson acted like a thug and was arrested like a thug and The Bee has Manager Rourke's au- thority for stating that any player who assaults an umpire on the Omaha diamond will be treated the same way. It Is base ball the Omaha people pay for, not hood- lumism. Umpires may be mobbed in Den- ver, but not in Omaha and we have to put up with the same men that go to the home of the Grizsles. And now comes the most humiliating spectacle, of the whole affalr. President Sextom, forgetting all his high sounding ingtructions to umpires and his authority as president of the league, wires to Pres!- dent Packard asking if he knows any reason why Parke Wilson should not be suspended for his conduct. Packard replies that he does- not, but says If Wilson s fined he must insist that the umpire be fined, ton. So Bexton dis s the umplire from the service of the league and allows Wilson to 80 unpunished. What a spectacle that is! ‘The very first opportunity the president of the league has to assert his authority he quits. Did Ban Johnson ask anybody's permission>when he suspended Clarke Grif- fith or when he suspended Muggsy McGraw and Joe Kelley? Or were Hart and Drey- fus consulted when Tinker and Conroy were suspended? It looks on the surface that Mr. Sexton's spinal column is made of rub- ber, and & mighty thin strip at that. His course so far has merely put & premium on umpire baiting and hoodlumism. What um- pire is safe if this is the protection he is to have from the president of the league? Of course, Denver can {1l afford to lose the service of Parke Wilson, but that is an- other reason why Wilson should have kaved himself. As it is, he should be pu ished severely, and would be if the league had a head worthy of the name. It is not impossible to eecure good um- plres Other leagues have them and the Western ought to have them. Here in Omaha is & man who has shown his fitness for the position in every way, but his serv- lces are only asked in emergencles. Buck Kelth knows the game in all its ramifica- tions, knows players and knows how to get along with them. Yet he is only allowed to act when one of Mr. Sexton's misfits falls to show up or is disqualified. Why doesn’t Sexton give Keith a place on the regular staft? Buck would be a hit with his work all around the circult. A good umpire is well worth his price to any league, and the Western ought not to let a dollars stand betweén it and a com- petent umpire. It Is not only in the Western that the umpire has his troubles. 1In the American league Bobby Carruthers we thought so much of last year is being denounced as in- he put Collins out of the ickey league Ward, our old friend “Piggy,” I8 being called all manner of names, and so It goes. But Johnson and Hickey give thelr umpires protection, and Bexton can well follow their example. Signs of the smash in the Hickey league are becoming mdre and more numefous. Crowds have not got to the paying mark in any city, save Loutsville. Columbus’ team has taken a slump, owing todissipa- and the people are dis- outfit, 8t. Paul's team in Thursday's game at Minneapolfs, which is & good indication of the feeling there. Players are deserting the teams almost dally, and It begins to 100k like the end is not far away. Foxy George beau will land on his feet all right when the smash occurs, but the rest of the magnates are hopelessly involved in the certain disaster. { Sy It cannot be sald that the Natlonal league is much the gainer by the acquisition of Of all the out-for-the- country, McGraw is at He has not shown any es- pecial managerial abllity. He was s fall- ure at St. Louls last year, and at Baltimore this year, and if he doesn't prove a gold brick for Andy Freedman it will be the most remarkable reversal of form on record. And he certainly will have to deliver the €oods nmow. He ecanumot hand the ‘“con talk” to Freedman as he did to the Rob- isons, for Andy, though he gets his mall in New. York, has to be “showed” every time. And now there ls talk of Joe Kelley going to Cincionat! to succeed Biddy McPhee, who has just been released after a connection with the Reds of over a quarter of a cen- tury. - KeMey will probably make a better manager than either McGraw or McPhee, but he will ‘mardly pull the Reds very high in the standing this year. RECRUITS FOR_FAST COMPANY Creighton University Players Find Berths with Professional Ball Teams. It is & singular fact that the universities and colleges of the country are becoming more and more an important source fro which base ball s recruit their teams. Formerly they had their lookouts stationed in the various towns and vil. lages of the country ready to gobble up sny promising young diamond celebril Now, though this fleld is not the magnates devote their to the colleges. Early in the take a look at the material t) have gathered, and the first-class student player is likely to get tempting offers even before the loague season beglus. The reason for this is obvious., Today the strong college teams are more than ever rivaling the professionals. The col- lege managers and coaches are as assidu- ous in looking for and gobbling up players a8 their league brethren, with this differ- ence, that thelr efforts are limited'to the amateur fleld. §o, in watching the col- leges league managers find their work balt This sction of signing & promising col- legian is becoming se commen that it i THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, JULY 13, 1902. now the collegiate manager's continual gndeavors to conceal or two, at least. ar, has the college fleld furnished its full quota of players. Atkins of Beloit, Lundgren of Illinols, Blewett and Drill of Georgetown and Lynch of Notre Dame are all young college men who have jumped right into the major league ranks, and so far nmome of this quintett has falled to make good. Not only the big leagues, but even the smaller state and district leagues resort to the colleges for material. An example of that is found here at Omaha. Investi- gation shows that mot ome of the clever players of this year's fast Creighton uni- versity ‘aggregation has falled to receive flattering offers of various kinds. Harry Welch, the crack south paw, has been the reciplent of the most notable of these chances. The Chattanooga Southern league team, with which Lawler, another old Creighton man, s now playing shortstop, made him a flattering offer. Randolph, Neb.,, also presented tempting terms, as 4id the Rockford team of the “Three I" league. But, fortunately for Creighton, Welch has refused these offers and will spend his summer playing with the Origi- nals and other amateur teams in this lo- cality. Bucklin, another Creighton twirler, has accepted an offer from the Sheldon Unlon Pacific league team and is now making a fine showing with that aggregation. Captain ‘BIll" O'Keefe had numerous offers from the Towa and Dakota leagie teams to play, but he has decided not to join the profes- sional ranks for another year at least, and will be seen this summer backstopping for the Originals or wearing the C. B. Havens uniform. Young Bddie Creighton, who has developed into such a fast third baseman this year, is the recipient of very pleasing offers trom three teams in Towa and Da- kota, but Creighton will confine his prowess to the Originals and Field club flelds this Lynch, who completed his under- course this year, has gone out in Wyoming to play with an amateur club team at Cheyenne. Outflelders Kehoe and Dineen are playing with their home teams in Jowa. Creighton admirers regard all this as a flattering proot of the efficiency and ealiber of Creighton’s team this year, and with the promiee of most of this material back next year, ripened by experience and practice, Crelghton's aspirations are more ambitiou than ever. PLAY GOLF IN WET WEATHER What & Country Club Enthusiast “I always thought that all thig talk about playing golf in all weathers was largely ex- aggerated poppycock,” said a prominent Country club golfer one day last week, “but 1 am a convert now to the proposition and I stand willing to belleve that the east- ern cranks take especial palns to play In rainy weather and even in the snow. Why, it's great sport, and there are many days in which you feel in just such a mood that golfing in a driving rain is far superior to playing the game on a balmy d p “It’s this flerce spell of rain we have had that has brought about my change of heart, Forty days of Pluvius’ uninterrupted reign (no pun) has simply made it a ‘case of play in thé rain or don't play at all, and I dida't care to abandon the game entirely. Last year I never thought of getting out in a shower to play golf, and, to tell the truth, I never had much chance to. But what a difference this season. All the rain seemed to come along at the beginning of the golf- ing period, just when evefyone was anxious to get onto his game again, Along in the latter days. of May the clubs opened with due eclat, and then the rains commenced early in June. After just about having an opportunity to learn the course again, we found ourselves cut out by wetnel “I stood it for the first two weeks or so and contented myself with bowling and billlards, playing golf by snatches here and there between showers. Then it was borne in upon me that I was not only losing time, but was also losing my game. There wepe & few at the club, whom the rest of us called ‘nutty,’ who had been playing every day, wet or dry. ‘They were getting good, too, and when I looked over the list of tournaments and matches scheduled for the summer it made me jealous to note the swell trophles offered, for which these busy people were getting the lead. “The beginning of the season, too, s just the time when a man really wishes to put in his hardest licks. Three hours a day then is worth half a day later, for it is, of course, the period of formation and steady- ing down, and habits acquired then are last- ing and {mportan So I fiually deserted the crowd that loafed indoors and went out in a rain storm in thé second week in June to soak myself. “It was a little sloppy, but it was golf, and all the things that have been said about the discomforts of a wetting are not true, as I found. Of course, I would not advise a man to go out in a business suit and play in the rain, for that would be disastrous, However, it is no more trouble to change from wet clothes to dry than from dry to dry, and I belleve it does a man good to get his head wet now and then, anyway. “And 1t doesn’t hurt your playing things at oll. Your clothes are some. rough stuff, anyway, flannels or homespun, with any loose shirt, and people do not expsct golfers to wear creased trousers, so you might as well have them dry out overnight as stay dry all the time. Any old hat will be all the better for a soaking, and it you are a real fiend you don't wear a headplece, anyway, As far as clubs are eoncerned, all’ those ‘'must be wiped and cleaned after a day's play In any weather, and having them wet makes this easier. old and get logged, and then you don’'t want them any ‘more. Meanwhile the course, if well clipped, affords nicer playing on a wet day than any other, for it is crisp and springy. The prongs on your shoes prevent you from slipping, no matter bow muddy it is, and a good, firm turt is not to be damaged greatly by a few foot- falls. Maybe you cannot play as good & game in the rain, but you can certainly try & whole lot harder than on a favorable day, and that means improvement. ‘Of course, one might say that all golf. ers are not working to be stars at the sport. They are in it for pleasure and healthful exercise merely. But even though for such a player the element of improve- ment would be eliminated from the advan- tages to be secured by playing in incle- ment weather there are still good reasons remaining why should brave the tem- pest. 1 belleve any one of a moderately rugged constitution will get far more physical benefit from pounding over a fow in the rain, keeping comfortably exercise, and ‘then running & the same thing in fair weather. And on the whole it is more fun, for there's nothing lke & little strife, even though it be merely battling with the elements, to stir & man up and make Bim feel fine when he is doing it and after it's done. ‘These sentiments just about explain why some people have been doing what others sitting 1n & cosy Mbrary at home call “making fools of themselves” at the golf courses the past few rainy weeks. For ontinued rain almost stopped but the professionals, Fred Bartsch and W. C. Sherwood, kept right on playing In the rain, and soon others emulatéd them. By this time the It Is Evergwhere. It you belong to the great army of suffer- ers from indigestion you can realize what a pational calamity it is that three-fourt! of the American people ranks. It is easy enough to moralize on what brought about this terrible condition,—high living, poor living, fast eating, improper eating, worry, straln and a host of other things. But the great question 1s, What are we going to do about it and how are we going to overcome its terrible effects? "t Live without Ome. ‘The whole trouble lies in the stomach, that's plain enough. But we can’t afford to , Temove the stomach and we can’t afford to let it be destroyed by disease. rtant organ of the body and we C most im couldn’t live without it. The stomach prepares the food for makin the blood that nourishes every organ an Without good, rich blood the heart becomes weak, the lungs break down, the liver becomes choked and the kidneys are strained beyond endurance. tissue of the body. ‘There is no disease, except of injury, that is not aggravated by disorders of We Must Glve It But what are we folng :'.omlc‘l;’ is ootm%l;v.e jonger digest foo bod‘i the stomach rest. do it? irectly caused or tired out and can no ‘e must not allow our es t0 become saturated with the poison- ous materials formed by the fermentation of undigested food that would be followed by serious and probably fatal results; and ‘we must not wreck the nervous system by the tortures of indigestion. ut how are we going to Digests what you Eat Dyspepsia Gure are in the sam eaun; end o skin and bones. give it a rest. It is the go, but t. the consequence EVERYTHING we eat digested. the stomach. a Rest. to do when the y a pienteous var ‘We must give these thlnfis has beer a and its sol We can stop eating. been forced to do it for awhile, and a few have deliberately tried to do it. years ago one man voluntarily went without or forty days and nights; but at the that time he was The Other Way. It 18 evident that we can't live without food and we can’t malntain good health any length of time on halt ratlons. stomach is weary and refuses to work, we must devise some plan besides starvation to There is only one other way, and that is to do the stomach’s work for it. There are a great many preparations that can be taken immediately after eating that will ald the digestion of food. them help digest starchy foods, such as bread and potatoes and cereals; others help digest albuminous and nitrogenous foods, such as eggs and meat and ¢ of these grep&rauons are good as far as they ey do not go far enough. lemands a generous and varied diet, and Partial digestion may relieve for & time, but it cannot cure dyspepsia. The Common Sense Method. To absolutely cure dyspepsia and restore the digestive organs to health ggie the etomach d)mifleu rest and give the ety of good nourish- mentand 4t the same time supply recon- structive materials to be used in repairing the worn out structures. To devise a method of accomplishing ution marks treatment of dyspepsia. Dolng Nt. Some people have B, wor A few 19 "wasd little more than How It was Accomplished, intricate ex it was foun exact proportions, n the digestion of the various classes of foods and to unite with them t oTnlo substances required to build up v ex) riments and laboratory ssible to combine, in mha digestants naturals austed tissues. When the Covon Some of odol Dy ese. Most Nature t must be thorooghly a natural result , We must speedy relief it w! magic. perplexing problem, 4 new era in the and permanent. These investigations were especially cone ducted for the purpose of devising a pre aration which by its presence in the stom: and alimentary tract, would completely re- lieve the digestive organs from work by di- gesting whatever class of foods might be Record Scems Remarkad The result has been more than it at firsé seemed possible to accomplish, The prepar ation formed on these principles, known as spepsia Cure, has been used by many thousandsof dyspeptics, and in ever: case it afforded almost instant relief, an its continued use never failed to bring abous complete recovery, even in the worst cases after everything else had failled. This record seems remarkable; but it is onl of the composition a properties of this preparation. 1t Digests what You Kat. Kopor DysrepsiA CURE dlgeuu what you eat and allows you to eat all ti some food you want. from indigestion {lolu will be su egood, whole- It you are suffering rised at the giveyou. If your case {8 of long standing it will require a reason- able time to effect a cure; for Nature cannot replace worn out tissues with new ones by But when, by the use of this prep- aration, the stomach is given absolute rest, and abundant nourishment and reconstruc- tive materials furnished, recovery is certaln “Noarly every month for years I was attacked with gastralgis, an agonizing form of indigestion. Skilled physicians failed to oure me. I com- menoced using KoporL Dyspepsia CURE and it gave instant relief. Now I have not had an attack for five months.”—J. B. “My family physician recommended me to use Konor. Dysprrsia Cure for chronic indigestion that had tortured me for oouldn’t eat anything or drink a glass of water without distress. Now I can eat and drink whatever I want.”’—Mrs. R. F. Bul “I had stomach trouble for years, often so bad I had to abandon business. I tried physicians and all kinds of medicine. . Evans, Harrisburg, Pa. énn. Formerly I ngton, Xenia, [IL I commenced usi Kopou Dyspersia CURE and received immediate relief and less than two bottles of it effected a permanent cure.’’—G. R. Colbath, Alpena, ll:h‘. Propared at the laboratory of E. 0. DEWrrr & Co., Chicago, 50 ots. and 81. a bottle. new stunt has become of so common adop- tion that the golfers never think of look- Ing at the skies before leaving the city. Many women, too, are playing in the raln. They have found that their scant, short, tight-fitting golf skirts can stand a soaking about as well as a man's trousers, and look better the next day into the bar- gain. So with a big straw hat on to keep the hair dry, the women frequently in- duige in a wet game on their own ac- count. At the present gait it will not be surprising to see both men and women playing on through the winter in the snow. COURSING MEET AT SUTTON Preparations for Dog Races Be Held There Next Octob i Those In charge of the coursing meet which is to be held at Button, Neb., in Oc- tober next, are already deep in preparations for the affair and are, doing everything possible to assure its complete success. There will be $1,000 in purses at this meet and it is anticipated that this will serve to bring out keen competition and a high class of, dogs. The date for the meet {8 October 7-11 in- clustyp, Entries close on October 1 and J. B. Scott of Button; who I8 secretary of the club, is the man with whom to correspond on any matters pertaining to entries or anytbiog abot the meet. ‘The money will be distributed in three stakes, 4n all stake, a puppy stake and » Sapling stake, for pupples whelped subse- quent to July 1, 1901, For the first entry is §5, for the second $3 and.for the third $1.50. Bach stake will carry added mone LABOR AND TRY. Kansas farmers offer as high as 250 a day and board for harvesters. . ew York's printers’ union has started a movement to erect a Labor temple. Cleveland has $2,600 toward its new Labor temple. A stock company will be formed. A French contractor is now in New York 100king over the skyscrapers there, pre- paratory to bullding a twenty-story apart- ment house in Paris on an acre-and-a- half site. Bight thousand employes of the Pittsburg Plate Glass company at Kokomo, Ind., were notified of an increase of 5 per cent Bkilled men will also be given or the least breakage of glass s in the plants of the Independent Olass company are out for the This closes the longest fire known in the window glass Industry for years About forty factories closed, with a pot capacity of about 1 Fully 2,00 men employed along the lake front in Buffalo are perfecting an organi- gation which will have for its principal object the abolition of all Bunday work. The list includes scoopers, shovelers, coal hea: Jumber shovers, treight handlers ile drivers, marine firemen, engineers and ugmen. Becretary Bramwood of the International Typographical union paid per capita tay on 42,14 members to the American Federation of Labor for the month of May this year. t number of members the A German firm has just secured a con- tract for thirty-two locomotives for an dia railroad because, as Lord George lAmilton, secretary of state for India, Bays, the price made is 20 per cent below that made by English firms, while the #00ds can be delivered in & much shorter me. The New York labor bulletin shows that the amount of idleness among the organized workers .of that state was smaller for the first three months of this year than for any 'similar period since statistics have been kept. The proportion for the quarter was 83 per cent. The average number of daye worked by men was 67.3, and the average wages a little over §184' The number of labor nizations in the state at the end of March was 1,930, an increase of fifty-nine since last September. The ageregate mem- bership ia now 219,850 an increase of only 809 since September. INCORPORATED §100,000.00. EASY MONEY §10 makes )y our sure and safe Yotem of turt investment. irely wPlan, FREE. Write for it quick. THE DOUVGLASS DALY ©O,, Commissi m 3".’.& Btreet, c"fif?kpo‘ REVIVAL OF LAWN TENNIS Great Rummer Game Takes On New Life in the West. OMAHA FIELD CLUB IN THE TOURNEYS Will Send n Representative to Chi- eago and Minneapolis and Later Hold Interstate Fixture on Its Own Courts. All during the spring and early summer the frequent oceurrence of hotly contested | tennis tournaments at the Omaha Fleld club and the constant playing of the game there has been a good indication of how actual was to be the revival of this sport here, begun last year. Now the approach of a western interstate tennis tournament to be held in Omaha in August is final proof that the reanimation of the game in Ne- braska is not only real, but is effective as well. But Omaha has:not stopped even ) there. Going one step farther, the Omaha Fleld club has chosen a player to represent it at the western championehip to be held at Chicago beginning July 17, thus proving that the local tennis spirit ls now so fully rejuvenated as to be not only receptive but aggressive as well. The tournament here will begin on Au- gust 11 It will be held on the grand clay courts of the Field club, six in all, than which no better are laid in the west. The affair will be on the regular circuit, being right in line in the series of western events |of the kind. All the cracks of the country will be in Chicago for the western cham- | plonehip tournament and from there most of them will go to Lake Minnetonka, near | Minneapolls, where the tournament for the northwestern championship opens on July 28, just a week later. From there the nat- ural course of the players will be to swing down to Omaha and take in the interstate event. Thus a great many good tennis players from other states are expected here in July and everything possible will be done for thelr entertainment. This is the first time since 1896 that Omaha has had the Inter- state tournament or any tennis affair at all of any pretensions. In those old days, be- tween 1890 and 1896, this event came to Omeha every year, and there was always great interest evinced and keen competition aroused, for tennis was them on the top of the wave. After years of decadence both the game and the champlionship contest are to be restored to Omaha, and it is hoped that the return to the old custom will meet with marked success from its earliest be- gloning. Barl Farnsworth, the 1ad whom the Field club has chosen to represent it in the gr tournament at Chicago for the western championship, is an interesting fellow and an amazing tennis player. The history of If. From he was a veritable He learned to play at his home in Grand Island when he was yet a “kid.!" ‘With other .m‘? boys he was wont to chase balls for, the, older- ones who wielded the racquets. One day he was handed a racquet by a man. who was w tardy opponent to arrive, and was told to get across the net and knock the balls back if he could. Then the man proceeded to practice on the boy the mew cut service 80 popular at that time. But Farnsworth knew the e through and through from watching it 5o long, and Instead of a back- stop’the man found he had a tennis player opposite him. Farnsworth was then 13 years old, and after it was seen that he could give a good game he was allowed to play regularly with the adults, despite his youth. He improved rapidly and the next year came to Omaha and played through two rounds of the tournament of 1896 here, in which Austin, Cullingham and Carver were promi- nent features. After that the boy went down to Lincoln, where he easily defeated & boy who had just won the junior tennis championship in that strong tennls town. From then on Farnsworth's fame grew. Each year he entered all the tournaments In easy reach and always. made good showing, though he was, of course, too young and weak to beat older, experfenced players. When he was 16 years of age he.could defeat anyone in Grand Island, and while he was attending the High school there he would come to Omaha and Lincolp each summer and play tennis persistently. During those younger days he never ac- quired speed to amount to anything, but he grew absolutely sure on both serve and return, while his speed came with years and strength. Fivally, in 1898, when Farnsworth was 16, tennis players at Lin- coln found that.he could beat them all. The next year he came to attend the State uni- versity, and since then he has been cham- plon of state and school without a doubt. Speed 1s the point In which Farnsworth now, at the age of 20, has Improved his game mostly. He plays his old, sure method, but has tripled his speed and plays everything, even the most difficult strokes, hard. This has, of course, reduced his accuracy to some extent, but that makes little difference, as.he still remains a far more careful and gertain player than most | men he meets. He always covered a lot of ground, that and his sure placing being his winning points in the s when his stroke was invincible, and he still has this wide range capaslty. Farnsworth, too, is the only Nebraska tennis player to have at his command the twist service, made so much of this season by the sporting press of the east. The large size contains 2} times the small size. Cures all stomach troubles the greatest thing ever brought out yet to decelve the recelving man. It is not & cut, nor yet a draw, but a combination downward sweep and saw motion that cau without fall a very bad and unex- pected bounce. This player is almost diminutive fia stature, being only five feet three Inchea in helght, and that fact makes his play al} the more wonderful, as he looks very young. When he was boy champion he was the standing subject of gossip at all tourna- ‘ments he entered, for to see such mall Iad playlng and defeating old and some= times very large players eeemed inex- plicable. On the occasions that he hasm played In other cities this stature and youth have always made him the faverite and the object of chief attention. When he was but 18 years of age Farns- worth accomplished the commendable feat of winning the championship of Iowa, Ne- braska and Kansas in the tri-state tourna- ment held at Sioux City, Ia. That was in 1900. The next day after his finale he went in with Tke Raymond of Lincown and won | the doubles. in 1902 Farnsworth again won |the singlés in the same event, defeating Raymond in the finals, and he and Raymond took the doubles for a second time. | “So I think I shall try hard to get back to 8loux City this year,” said Farnsworth at the Fleld club one day last week. ““You see I have to win that cup only.oncg more te own it permanently, and so with trophy for the doubles. I should be able to make it three straight in the singles and Ray- mond and I hope to do equally well in the other event. At least, I have two chances to win a permanent prize and its worth while trying.” t Chicago Farnsworth’s low, steady, pers ent style of game should make a hit and his showing: will be a creditable one it he e in form. After. that tournament he will &0 with the cracks to Minnetonka, the party takl special train from Kenwood there. ‘The ern championship is to be held at the Kenwood Country club courts under the auspices of the Natlonal Lawn Tennls as- sociation.. The Omaha Field club has just Jjoined this aesociation and will in this tournament for the first time enter & repre~ sentative. The tournament in Omaha will be under the eame ‘auspjces. The north- western champlonship mt will be held by the Lake Mipnetonka Yachting club. It will continue one full week. Farnsworth has been doing most of his preliminary work for the western chame plonship tournament at the Feld club dur- ing the last two weeks. 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