Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 17, 1902, Page 11

Y 5 | - to/ the. mountains. i fhitteen more games to play on the home I grounds, Ax i between Omaha and Denver. BASE BALL GOSSIP OF WEER Omaks 8till Leading in & Mighty Oloss Raoce for the Pennant. FINISH PROMISES TO BE VERY 'WARM Kanwas Ofty, Denver, Milwaukee St Joweph All Didders, but the Schedule Shows it Be- tween Two Tenms, Roesting high, Not so high that they cap’t be reached, but so high that there are none others be- tween them and the top. Rourke's Red Legs haven't cut so wide a swath on their farewell'{rip as they did on previous en- gagements, but the wins have come often enough to keep tho boys at the head of the procession. And maybe you think that the fight hasa’t become a mefry one. Omaha, Kansas City, Denver, St. Joseph and Mil- waukee are all possibllities. Just now the first three teams are so close together that & single blanket would cover them. It is to be one of the prettiest finishes ever watched, ‘with all the teams on edge to the very last moment. Omaha and Denver have a de- “felded advantage in a long serles of games #t hiome t6 wind up on, Denver being a.little “fhe stronger in this regard, the Grizzlles’ card calling for twenty-one stralght games on the home grounds, beginning on August %1 Omahi_ stlll has twenty-ome games ‘scheéduled tor home, but the string is broken by a series at Des Moines and a final trip Kansas City has but including today's, and will ‘be sway from home from September 1 to the “finish, winding up at Denver on September 22, Milwaukee till has thirteen games to play at home, and winds up at Omaha on September 3. St. Joseph is In the same 1f the schedule and the record of the meason @0 far is any Indication, the fight Omaha #hown up stronger on the road than Denver, but has pot been able to win so large & per- *‘etntage of games at home. However, we get one more crack at each team in the bunch on the home grounds, and it we don’t Jand thé peonarnt it will be because we can't, fot because we don't try for it. One of the really funny things of the week was the awful yell from the Denver Times young man about games being thrown, be- cause the Grizzlles got licked at Kansas City and St. Joseph. He seemed to be im- buéd with the idea that the Grizzlles ought o go right on making a Roman holiday of the other teams, just as had been done at Denver. Aside from amusing people, his yawp had no other effect than to show how little he really knows about base ball 4s a game. Nothing could be more ab- surd than to ckarge that games are thrown %o the home team metely to attract attend- ance. To start with, only one town in the eircuit patronizes base ball solely to see ‘the home team win. That ls Denver. In he other towns the people go out to see e ball, and are pleased with a good game, no matter which team wins. As an ustration of how foolish the assertion is, ha has gone twice over the eastern baif the circuit, winning a large majority of ‘the games each time and drawing tho big- gest crowds that have turnod out to see L#my of the teams, merely because the prople Xnow that when Omaha comes to town there’ll be a ball game, no matter which team wins. Denver hasn't got a ‘good road team. This has been demon- strated beyond any room for doubt. Whilo e Denver team contains a number of good dividual players, it lacks in the very es- untl-l feature of team harmony. Players not support each other as they should galn the best results, and this fault, overlooked at home, becomes glaring on road, where the inspiration of a triendly crowd is, missing. In the first series played by Denver in Omaha this season this spirit was shown, As soon as Omaha £ot a lead and the fate of the game scemed settled, the Grizzlies began to sulk and loaf, and the snap all died out of what had been @ good contest, thousands of spectators leaving disgusted. On the sec- ond visit & repetition of this performonce was had. In none of the games did the Orizzlies fight till the end. ~That they are up to thelr old tricks is apparent by the tact that three out of four games lost to Kansas City and St. Joseph weut In the ninth inning. -~ To be plain, the Griz:lis are a bunch of quitters. If they could take . B. Gray and two or three more of the phone flends who infest the Broadway And make. the patients in the County- hospital wish they were dead on days when the team is at home, could taks ‘that gravel diamond and lght atmosphere " with’ thein, and an umipire in whom they ;- have confidence (If such an wmplire cxists) ‘they might make a better showing than they are likely to under the present con- ditiobs,; But the knockers will still knoek. ‘When George Stone goes to the Boston Mcfleln league team Nebraska will have "added another to a long list of players who Bave glistened In fast company by reason of thelr unerring judgment in the fleld Stone 18 & youngster with 18 golng in with a bunch that has the name belng hard company for a begin He had a decided advantage during the ent season through belug assoclated & teami of veterans, men of estab- ed reputation as ball players, who bave . taught bim all he could learn in one season. Wth. this he will go Into faster company fuirly well “equipped, and with anything INDIVIDUALITY === That'e the Word! —— — MILWAUKEE —— mm‘dbm of brew- * “-ALT VIVIHC s BT TR OMAMA BRAN 1413 Douglas St 'rcl. 1081, EASY MONEY saie DALY 0o, ['as they ride like an even break ought to make good. Omaha people. will miss him, for he has been very popular here, but will wish him well in his new company. That the Western league pitchers have been laying for Stone is shown by the fact that he only got three hits during the last six games. This elump brings his batting average down nineteen poimts, but It 1s still high enough 16 look good. Others of the team are hitting along steadily around the season's mark. Carter is the bright and shining exception. He got through the week without securing a safety. In the flelding department of the game a very noticeable advance is made, everybody im- proving slightly and all giviog & splendid exhibition of that ability which has marked Omaha all season as the fastest flelding team in the league. Dolan and Hickey went through the week without an error, the first time this season. Dolan now has fielding average above the 90 per cent mark, and Hickey fs not far away, which records are excellent when ome condiders that neither of these players ever shirks a ball, no matter where it is golng, but are willing to take a chance on wnything. Here are the statistics up to the end of the Milwaukee serle BATTING AVERAGES, Players, AB. Btone . Graham ai:i&gfiéézzg 3 FIBLDING Avmuuu‘ Players, Alloway Calhoun Gonding Pears Brown Thomas Stewart Stone Carter . Gening Owen Graham . Dolan lllckey . pasEteEaEs Omaha closed its season at Milwaukee with the hardest fought double-he there this season. It was real for eighteen innings, and no mistake. Even the American assoclation supporters admit that the sport was the best luw-un- folks have been called vpon to witn a long time. One unfortundte f marred the proceeding. Mr. Bone, played second base with Dufty’s team when it was in Omaha last, umpired both game and took occasion to hand the Rourkes one or two little hot bunches. For ex- ample, when Genlns and Stone were both on the second bfg and Gatins touched both with the ball, Bone calied both out. One player was certalnly entitled to the base, but Bone wasn't playing any fa- vorites, and he fired Genins off the grounds for trying to explain the point. It is not likely that the result would have beén changed had the decision been fairly made, but Bone showed his willingness to oblige the home team. Genins was put out of both games fof disputing decisions, which makes one at this distance think they must have been very raw, for Genins is probably the coolest-headed and best-natured player in the whole Western league; not even excepting, that Chesterfleld of the diamond, Ace Stewart. Here's hoping that when Mils wa comes to Omaha President Sexton will have an umpire worthy of the name, for we want to win, but only by playing ball., During the week both the National and American leagues have made public pro- ceedings of recent meetings. From tho National camp comes the* anmouncement that any player not under contract to a club under the national agteement is eligl- ble to do business with a Natlonal league club, which means that contract jumping is still encouraged by the “big" lesgue rag- nates. Ban -Johnson's league announced that it has no Intention of amalgamating with the National. Magnate Bhlbe of Philadelphia, when spoken to by a Boston reporter, sald he was satisfled, that his team was drawing its share of the home patronage, and he thought he would let Colonel Rogers alone. Shibe is ‘ery modest. During the week the two Phila- delphia teams. played at home, and while the attendance at the Amer! averaged around 5,000, the crowds at the National park were in the viclnity of 400. It may be that Colonel Rogars will learn from these figures, and It he 3ets anpther chance to sign Larry Lajole, will take him on at apy figure, but the probabllities are that the doughty colonel won't do anything of the kind, and will go ahead losing money for the fun of showing his players next season that he mt pay Ban Johnson sal- arles. -—‘—-——_ MONSTER DREDGER'S WORK. the Riches Out of Oregon La One of the greatest pleces of mechanical engineering ever undertaken In eastern Ore- gon, says the San Francisco Chronicle, e the construttion of a monster dnd‘or. welghing 760 tons, for operation on the pl cer bearing bed of the John Day river n that tion. The dredger bas been in course of con- struction for a long time and will be ready for work this week. One hundred and sev- enty-five thousand feet of lumber were used in the construction of the hull alone. The cost of this mammoth dredger has been about $150,000, but so rich f& the sind at the bottom of they river that the company owning the dredger feels confident that its investment will bring sample returns. The sand ls to bé .ralded by twenty-seven buckets attached to an endless chain of 729 lnks. e buckets weigh 1,000 pounds each, and the links of the chain weikh 500 pounds each. Twelve buckets will pass a given point each minute, making & total ‘of ninety-six cuble yards of sand 1ifted in & minuf The company has figured that the cost of operation will be nearly $100 a day, but the members are cotfident that the sand at the bottom is rich and they figure that they can make a profit of $100 or more daily. Cuolera Morbus. This is an extremely dangerous disease. In almost every neighborhood some one has died from fit, and in many instances befo & physiclag could be summoned or medicine obtaiged. Mrs. B. H. Delano of Durant, Mich., te subject to severe Attacks of chol- ers morbus. During the past four years she has kept at hand a bottle of Chamber- lain's Oolic, Cholera snd Diarrhoea Rem- edy, and says it has always given her quick relief.. . During this time she has used two bottles of it. ~This remedy can be de- pended upon {u the most severe and dan- gerous cases. The safe way is to keep it at hand ready for insta Refidctions New York Press: - Phllosophy s the salve of disappointment. . Girls swim overhand almost as naturally borseback straddle. A man bets on reason and loses; & woman doesn't bet on instinet, but she wins with it. Mental sclence never cured a girl of a stiteh iz Bor side rvight after she had been [ out on & dark plassa with her best besu. A woman will try alne different cooks in & month end take it course, but whes & man by & new barber be THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, AUGUST 17, 1902 FOOT BALL FOR NEBRASKA University Will Pat Anether Btrong Team on the Gridiron. COACH BOOTH TO HAVE EXPERT HELP Lou Pal of Princeton Will Be Assistant During Training Sea- son~Thorpe Back, to Play at @ The gunouncement M Saturday's Bee of the good fortune of the Nebraska foot ball team In securing for the ing season Lou Palmer, the former Princeton end, for assistant coach, and Orlle Thorpe, Ne- braska's greatest quarterback and most fa- mous captain, to play his old position, came as the first mews concerning the 'varsity eleven for this year that has heen heard #ince the close of.ast season’s nlay. The inforniation has started the many foot ball enthusiasts in Omaha and Ne- braska a buzzing plenty, and it is time, too. With the beginning of training.only three weeks distant and the first game scarcely more than a month away, foot ball gossip 854 |18 in good order, and it is not long before the eclo of the base ball and tennls sea- sons will leave the sporting fleld, as faf as 242 | games are concerned, practically clear for the gridiron rem As it Is, things are certalnly starting off 1| very strong, for the acquisitioh of Palmer and Thorpe is doubtless the most important thing that can'happen to Nebraska this year, next to winning games. Thorpe's advent is really the more momentous of ths two, for he will fill a place that was the despair of Captain Westover and Coach Booth, the quarterback position vacated by Ralph Drain. This lad was, next to Thorpe, the bost quartér Nebraska. had ever known, and last year Phil King ranked him a8 “no better In the west.” HHe was the life of the team, belng possessed of good cheer and buoyancy of spirit and indomi- tabla merve that alone made him Invaluable. Only one other man on the team possessed all these characteristics. That was Cap- taln Westover. Of the others, some be- came downcast, hopeless; others grew sul- len; others lost their merve with injuries. To replace such a man as Drain seemed im- possible. “Of course, I knew I could not do it with any new mag,” sald Cdptain Westover, “for no matter how_strong anl clever you are, it's the experlence ihat counts. Drain’s own ecase showed this. His superiority was the result of long training. He played four years at Ne- braska, and spt till the last two did he ehine out, whife in 1901 he was the star of the west at his job, 8o you can imagine how I felt when a week ago I secured Thorpe’s promise to return to school. There 18 just the man, for he has all that experi- ence which s 80 essemtial, and is, be- sides, the best kicker and leader you could find.” That Thorpe is a grest quarterback can- When he was captaln of Nebraska in '96 he won fame for his quarterback kick, then just new, for his i ii hiis reiiable defeise aud his The 0 papers touted him big with half- as one of the best. It was his first year at quarter, too. In '95 he was end, .ll '94 sub end and sub qudrter on the team that won the Missouri-Iowa-Kans: braska champlonship. In those days Thorpe weighed only about 145 pounds stripped. By the time he be- came captain foot ball had put more body on him he weighed about 16 Now he weighs 170, but he will Keep it all under tralning. He s always In good shape, being athletic, and never dissipating, not even smoking. In appearance he is a very handsome youth, with a perfectly propor- tioned body about five feet and nine inches long. He has broad shoulders and ceptionally deep chest. . Orlie alwa the reputation of having more strength to the pound than'any man on the team. His weight now should make him irresistible, for he was always a great power, being nothing but a bundle of muscles. About his playing, it 18 necessary to add but little. He is one of th fellows who stands always perfectly erect, yet, as it turns out, is always bunched for a spring, starts ltke a flash and runs with great speed. He was always the erfvy of his team- mates because he never got hurt or marked up. He never took out time in & game. Ne- It would seem that fortunes, like mis- fortunes, never come singly. Captain West- over says that he {s now deluged with a downpour of material unheard of at Ne- braska. “A moanth ago” sald he, I was worried badly about my quarterback and three line positions. The outlook seemed very discouraging. Suddenly everything changed. I have a bunch of men now that ‘weigh figurative tons, and as a consequence the competition for all positions on the team will be botter than it ever was.' And there Captain Westover sounds the keynote of the situation. “Competition” is ‘what makes & team. The real cause for joy at the great abundance of material is not the mere fact of its avallability; it is the facf that this will result in every man working fot his job, not only till the sea- 800 begins, but all the way through. Here- tofare a shortage in material has always six yards, made by Larson at Wisconsin. In 1900 the longest was nineteen yards, made at Lawrence, Kan, by a Kaneas man while another held “Cort.” But even then he broke the runner ftrom’ behind. end than Cortelyou,” sald Westover. “C by the way, is an Omaha boy. He is an- other who has grown good by practice and hard work. At the other end Shedd will be hard pushed for his job, despite his weight, by a newcomer, who is yet old to the game. Enthusi: who remember the champion- ship team of '08, which Will Melford cap- t#ined, will recall also the keen, clever, rapid quarterback who played behind “Bill" that year. This was Ray Elliott. He was light then, but has gained weight in the two years he has been out of school. He looks ‘better than over. Ray also plays a great end, however, and with Thorpe at quarter end is where Elliott will go. He is a charger and a stubborn interference fighter, and a swift runner also. He and Thorpe can change about positions if they wish, for Orlle was a great end in '95. Ray can still play three years on the varsity if he wishes, Thorpe has one more. Elliott ‘will welgh 1656 pounds now, The backs will be “back” in an army. Pillsbury,. the 210-pound fullback, will be there; so will Beli and Bender, the two 160-pound light running halves. Then there is Benedict, a Linccln High school lad, who will try for half or quarter at 160 poynds. He is a brother of the famous place-kicking Benedict of '99, and has played great foot ball for the High school. Fennon, & 160-pound lad from David City, who has played the game, is also looking for & job behind the line. Coachers will be as thick as players this year. Besides Booth and Palmer, George Shedd, captain in '97, will be around to show the backs something, and little Ralph Drain will be there to give pointers to ends and backs. Then Westover himself will coach. He will not line up with the team. It's no use. There's nothing he can learn, and it's always In practice games that he gets hurt. Last year the scrimmages with the ecrubs used to result in injurles to him every night. Anyway, thefe's mno tackle who is going to get by John, and he “will be in the games hard as ever. Interest in the team this year will ex- ceed all bounds. Last season Lincoln waked up, as did the 'varsity itself. A fleld With a seating capacity of only 1,000 was glven 5,000 seats, and that was not enough. The business men there waked up and loosened up. They are doing so again this year. The team will have great financial backing. It will be run nearly as possible on eastern college lines. Money will not be spared. The team expects a crowd of 10,000 people to greet it in Omaha on November 1, when it plays the Haskell Indians here. The boys hope that Northwestern, Minnesota and Knox will give them another chance to line up with the boys of the Big Nine. “Of course we are looking for the Gophers,” sald Westover. “It will be a different game against them this year, all close formation. We'll have that heavy line, and we'll beat them at their own Those who know how Lou Palmer, ‘the new coach,” won his recognition at Prince- ton as a foot ball player, understand why he . All-American end for the three years that he played there, '99, '00 and '01. Palmer arrived at Princeton from Grin- nell college, I where he had been a star back. In fact, in '94 he alone won the Grinnell-Nebraska game at Lincoln by his great' running, plunging, ploughing and dodging. " The boys down at Lincoln re- member him yet. But Palmer only welghed 132 pounds, and he did not look good to the Princeton coaches, who have a penchant for beef. So day after day Lou went through ths preliminary work of passing the ball and falling on it and euch stunts, but when this was over and the lineups were called Palmer was sent to the side lines to sit with his legs kinked under him and wish somebody ‘would get killed. He wasn't given the slightest chance to try out on the scrubs. But finally his opportunity came, and his nerve took advantage of it. He saw that he was sidetracked, and determined to selze any chance, no matter how des- perate. Big “Billy" Church was the left tackle on the first feam at the time. He welghed 195 pounds, and was known in the Big Four as the meanest player allve, This particular afternoon Church . was feeling espectally ill-tempered and he was causing all kinds of trouble. The coaches had given the ball to the scrubs, so that they might run it down the fleld against the-first team and give the boys practice in detense. But “Billy” would not let the scrubs start a single play. He slmply walked through every time the ball was snapped and emashed the play before it started. His opponent in the scrub line was power- less against him. “Billy” just floundered over the opposing tackle. The coaches put in & new one. The same thing happened, Several times they changed that scrub right tackle, but Church wallowed over them all, and meanwhile play by the scrubs was paralyzed. Finally the head coach turned in desperation to the bunch of scrubs not in action. ‘Can’t I getsomeone to stop:that man?" hurt the Nebraska tdam, not because there Were not good , for there were, but be- cause there were just about a teamful of them, and they knew it, so didn't work hard: enough. No maiier whai anyone sald to them about losing their places they knew they'd keep them, for there wasn't anyone #s. & matter of fact who could com- sistently be substituted. But the following showing. for '03 does away onee and entirely with all this sure thing business. Look down this line of old men; Westover for right tackle at 185 pounds, Cortelyou for right end at 160 pounds, “Chick” Shedd for left end at 180 pounds, Rifiger for left guard at 190 pounds, Maloney and Tobin for guards at 210 and 185 pounds respectively. And those are all old men and they will all be back. Then take in this conpection these new| candidates for line positions: Patton, the Doane gollege tackle, at 190 pounds; Wilson, a tatkle from the State Normal school of Tllinols at 195; Cotton, from Syracuse, Neb., at 320 pounds; Voss, a Nebraska boy, who weighs 220 pounds and whom the Uni- Yersity of Pennsylvania is trying to get as & guard, baving seen his play at & minor col- lege in Pennsylvania last year. And last but not least, B4 Hubbard, the Lincoln High school boy, who weighs 210 pounds and who wishes to be center, a job he played sev- eral years at the preparatory school. With such & bugeh at band, what matters it that ex-Captain Brew is gone forever from his position at guard, that Koehler will no longer be on hand to play center, the place he has held for three years. For very place of the five center ones in the line there are two candidates, three for some. And hesvy men, too. A eemtral quintet welghing 1,000 pounds, or just half a tom, can be picked up with eyes closed, and it will be the first time Nebraska ever had the welght, or bad it so nloely dlstributed. That line will'be & compact, balsuced mass in its heavy bulwark portion. And the ends will not be light. Cortelyou at right is & tegjor at 160 pounds. It only takes figures 16 show what he can do. In 1901 the longest run made around him was said. “We can’t play foot ball with him ¢pming through there all the tim The bigger men ducked and didn't say a word. 'They wished none of “‘Billy” Church. “Put me in," piped up Palmer. And the coach did so. Church broke through the line mot one time more that day, try his worst. Nobody could see how the little Palmer could hold the strongest tackle playing at that time, but he did, and won recognition. Soon afterward he was a star e making, in- deed, with Arthur Poe, the greatest pair of ends that ever played the game. training table will start on September §, the same day practice com- mences. The men will be put on it as they develop. Coach Booth will arrive on Sep- tember 12. He writes that he is confident that this is to be Nebraska's big foot ball year. Palmer will f6llow west about Oc- tober 1, as he cannot be here for the first thres weeks' work. Captain Westover and Orlie Thorpe start work tomorrow, spend- ing much time on Thorpe's kicking. ‘West- over expects this to be & great feature of Ny ka's game this year. It will be the first time the 'varsity has bad a safe and strong kicker since Thorpe played in ‘98, Changes in the rules are of importance this season. The one which says that all goal kicking, after touchdowns, must be from the twenty-five-yard line in a scrimmage is especlally a radical altera- tion. Heretofore, after a touchdewn, the team was given a quiet try for goal, with a man holding the bal] for & kicker, Now the ball will be brought twenty-five yards straight out from the place it went across the goal line, the teams will line up, the team that has made the touchdown will #nap the ball back for either & placé or a drop kick, and the other team will fight to stop it, just es tn open play. Touchdowns still count 5, goals following them 1. This means that every team must have a drop kicker or a place kicker, and pref- erably both. While these tiings hate been handy heretofore, they have neyer been essential. Westover expects Thorpe to Sl this position for him. He was always A great punter, and should make a drop and place kicker. The other new rule of importance says that the teams shall change ends of the fleld after each score is made, instead of at the end of the first halt. Westover thinks this a great improvement He says that with the winds changing as they do, what is an advantage for ofe team at one end of the Qeld Las often ceased to be such by the time the other team gets that side. “In our game with the Haskell Indians last year," sald Westover, “they had a flerbe wind behind them during the first half and tcored against us twice by place kicks at impossible distances. The flerce wind simply carried the ball over. No man could bave kicked it that far with any eafety. They r/er got within fair strik- ing distazce of vur goal. But when the first half ended and we got that end, the wind had died away entirely, S0 we gainal none of that advantage.” Nebraska's schedule Is complete, save for a practice game which will probably be played between the game with Knmox on | November 15 and the Northwestern match | on Thanksgiving day. The first game ie with the Lincoln High school on Septem- ber 21. Others follows thus: September 2, Doane college, at Lineoln. October 4, University of Colorado, at Denver. O2tober 11, October 18, Minneapolls. yQctober %, University of Missourd, at St. osep November 1, Haskell Indlans, at Omaha November §, Kansas university, at Lin- coln. November 15, Knox college, at Lincoln. November 23, Northwestern university, at Lincoln, WITH THE OMAHA BOWLERS Ball Jugglers Laying Plans for the City League Tournament Next Winter, Grinnell college, at Lincoln. University of Minnesota, at ‘That the Omaha Bowling league will in- creaso the number of teams on its member- ship list next year seems now a certalnty. That the playing schedule of the league will be broken up into two separate seasons instead of one as heretofore other inno- vation which is almost equally sure oceur, Though the commencement of the active winter bowling season s still more than a month distant the large number of ath- letically inelined Omahans who devote them- selves to this game are already turning their attention to plans for Its conduct dur- Ing 1902-03. These two questions are the ones that are agitating them chiefly and are now almost the oniy toples for dlscussion among the rollers. It would seem that both plans were well advised and that each will correct a dls- comfort or rather a drawback in the game which has always been felt here. During the last two winters the great growth in popuiarity in bowling has made these little troubles especially noticeable, and to that may be assigned the movement now on foot toward eradicating them. \ In the first place, the trouble with the | number of teams in the league has been | this: @ There are three principal alleys here. Dight teams on the persgsnel means ‘that| one alley can have only #ko-teams, while the other two have three each. This is not relished by the alley baving the smaller répresentation, for the teams, although hav- ing mno immedidte connection with the alleys they hail from, choose these different playing grounds as their homes and head- quarters—in a word, they simply hafl from those' places and everybody knows it. Two propositions are now being agitated in regard to this swelling of the member- ship Iist. One s to make it nine teams, adding but one more. The other s to make it twelve. Each numbgr has sup- ports. Either will allow an equal division of the teams between three alleys. THose who want nine teams say that one extra team would be enough to accommodate the outside bowlers whom it is known ‘would like to play on a league team. The other party maintains that four additional teams will not be a bit too many. They say that last year there were twenty or thirty good bowlers who were looking for chances to get on league teams and that this year there will be more than ever extra ones. Under these circumstances it is considered very easy to get a soore of players for the four new teams who would be men sufi. clently skilled in the game (o make & good showing In the leagug race. Just now it seems more }llcly that only one team will be added, since only one is definitely talked of as regards organi; tion. At the close of last season Tracy of the National team, and a gopd bowler, too, sald that he had & notion to organize a new team this year. If he.does this he will undoubtedly be given the ninth pla It otbers should come forward with ma. terfal for good teams which they wish to organize and put in the field three more may be admitted, but at the present writing this seems unlikely. Regarding the matter of the spiit season, the feeling was very strong at the end of last winter's play. All the bowlers were keen for a shorter I that naturally sugg Twenty-elght weeks was the journey the teams went i season before the cham- pionship was lost and won. Most of ‘the bowlers, even those of the winning team, say they don't Want to do that again. Three or four months they consider ample for a bowling sason. That would end ft along in January, and, as it is & cinch the bowlers won't want to stop then, this leads to the thought of having another season from then to April, with a couple of weeks intermission. Such an arrangement would certainly ren- der competition keener and interest more untalling. In a season of seven months One or two teams are almost certaln to get away ahead of all the rest and one or two others away behind. If this occlrs at either the top or bcttom the discrepancy in the scores of standing creates a dissatisfaction among Any team can stand it to rub t the bottom for awhile, but it comes to being stuck there and held for soven wmonths that is too wauch to expect. Everybody thought lest year that the Na- tionals showed a mighty lot of pluck in banging on and playlng the season through s they did against such a hopeless sure thing. Perbaps some of the teams that were higher up in the standing column would not have displayed this stamina if they had been put to the same test, Of course, it may be sald that base ball leagues play five months and that often- times the teams are in that same fix with regards standing, but there is no real analogy between the cases. Base ball is a matter of finance. Men are pald for their work and the managers and owners sup- posedly make momey by theirs. Even th losing teams and the ones at the bottom of the column are apt to have & handsome sur- plus, and the man who s making money does not want to quit, even if hé is losing base ball. If he were losing both money and games be might then be expected to ‘With bowling it is entl: The men are in it for fun—as & recrestion and paftime. None of them make a living at it. It is merely for thelr idle hours. They don't need I} to live and they don’t want it for any other purpose than the enjoyment of the gameé. “All there is in it for them is victory, so it is easy to under- stand why they should want to quit when it is & cloch they can't wis. o0 | with the club simply resting on its oars, tions te the affiicted in order to wecure their patron wl practice prove that our met! ods ment are safe certain, What the afflicted man wants is not & temporary rellef, but & permanent ocure. The beneficial effec ment are as lasting stay cured. ‘hen once a my treat- |Iln‘l cure to patient is rescued by | Longest established, . [Eet, Soemn | and reliable Bpe s in Dis- eases of Men, as medlrll dlplvm licenses and' newspaper records show. me ‘from the rava weakness pecullar never again bothe! troul s _of dilu;‘n or 0 with his former “not treat all diweases, but I treat men—MEN ONLY—and = cure them to stay cured. Varicocele Under my treatment, which includes no cutting or pain. thia insidious dis- ease rapidly alsappears. Pain disappears aimost fnstantly. The oll of sta It blmd a driven trom, the disted veins soreness and .wellln’ %ulo Bvery indl ride, Yo'ur lnd the Dn‘lut TeaTin aind estored mannood: STRlCTURE My cure for Striot lecs and bloodiess, an | the pi cleanbes and Heals the 1 surgery in any form. 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Boon every and eymptom dis- appear comple\oy and forever. e blood, the tispue; the rikeh, the bohes and’ the mtem are Cleanged, purified and restored to per: feot heaith and the patient prepar anew for the duties and pleasures oi Tfe. | Nervo:-Sexuat Debility My cure for weak men does net stimulate temporarily, but restores treasing ly_remind one of his former folly, It stops evor!“ drain of vigor &nd bul uscular and stem, and enriche; f“ X odnnes And hoal e bigad an A v ‘(u-x ftens the frd and 0) the wasted wdtr of man‘ d. ) Reflex Diseases Many allments are peflex, originat- i | Ing from other diseases, Instanace, mfl‘ weakness, sometimes comes aricocele innumerable blood " an ul T P In treating ase of any kind I always cure the effect as well as the call it our - offices 1 or bests” we oure 'a88Y 0o Banks and Leading Business Men of This City. p. m. Sundays—10 a. m. to 1 p. m. STATE-ELECTROMEDICAL INSTITUTE 1308 Farnam St., Bet. 13th and (4th Sts., Omaha, Neb: Longest Established. Thoroughly Rellable. Authorized by the laws of the state. Prickly ash Bitters CURES SALLOW COMPLEXION. READY FOR TENNIS TOURNEY Managers of Interstate Affair Wdfin" for Monday to Start. SIX MORE GOOD PLAYERS ARE COMING Chicago Adds a Notable Pafr to the Entry List and St Louls and Kan Clity Each Send Cracks, 7 Two features of the week's developments in the interstate tennis tournament to be held at the Fleld club this week are that six more outside entries have been secured and that two of them are from Chicago. Both facts are productive of keen pleasure to the many who bave the Interest of.the tournament and its succ nly at heart.. This means almost thirty outside entries, ‘assuring one of the biggest tennis meets ever held in the west. That the lfllh‘. will eclipse anything of the kind ever known in Omaha 18 & certainty already. Meanwhile the assurance of fifteen local men in the entry 1ist will bring the total up to a nim- ber that not even the most enthusiastic pro- moter of the affair would have dared predict & month From Chicago B. M. Asheraft and R. 8. Peters are coming. These two are well known in tennis oircles. Both played in the recent champlonship affair at the Ken- wood Country club. “Ashcraft was the man who put Eerl Farnsworth of Grand Island, Nebraska's prize player, out in th cond round. Both are good players and have had much experience. T. 8. Blair of St. Louls, B, H. Graves of Lees Summit, Mo., Cv C. Oockerlll of Pittsburg, Ka nd Dr. ¥, A.. Sheldon of Kansas City aré the other new entries. The latter was in 1899 cham- plon of Kansas City and was given credit for great prowess at that time. He is sald to be in great form mgw. Concerning the other three not much is known here. Everything is now ready for thée getaway, its “preparations are complete. Today the outside,™ arrive and they will straggle in tiil the last late trains tonight. By 9:30 Monday morning all will bé primed and first round can be started Off on schedule time. The Fleld club has several ‘announce- mepts to make regarding the tournament. In the first place, it will, by the very na- gure of the club, be purely am invitation afalr. There will be no admission fee charged, but that does not mean that every- one can witness the tournament. In faet, It will prove to be & rather exclusive af- fair. Admission will be by ipvitation only All comers” who are not membeérs must bear either visiting cards or else be prop- erly introduced and registered by some member. These courtesies are already at a premivm, the bundreds of Fleld cludb members are besleged with importunities to “take me to the tenuls tournament,” or “give me & card to the club.” The club wishes to quiet all fears as to its being able to care for the spectators. The gallery will be well cared for, as there will be seats for ail. Theze will be disposed to glve & good view of t entire tennis fats. The veraundas oi ibe club houses will be the principsl places for the onlookers, but from there on out there will be sesting srranged, and those who are keoenest after the sport will be found down ‘grand challenge cup for ein —— e e | as ~close to the courts as they will be' allowed to get. The entertalnment committes 18 naw) readf ‘to anmounce its program for th week, all the more {mportant details, such’ #s the bigger soclal affairs, being "'j rapged. On Monday night the players will| be taken in a body to the AR-Sar-Ben| den and there initiated, with all due cerew money, pomp and general jolilfication. On Tuesday night a smoker will be given at the club. Wednesday night comes \the regular. club dance, which will be swelled! to an important affair by the presence of the visitors, Either Thursday oF Friday night comes the big banquet, and on Batur- ddy night 1s another dance, together with a formal presentation of the: prizes to the victors. ‘ Extreme interest {s being taken In the tournament by the men and also the wom of the club. The latter are enthusiastic as regards the entertalnment, and it Is as- sured that the society life of the week will hinge round the Fiéld club. All the pi trons and misses of the haut ton promi to be there from morning till night, and victors and vanquished will be certafll of a warm welcome after every match, the one recelving warm congragtulations, the oth sympathetic solace. A club full of women will certainly ' be an inducement’ to play tennis. All the prizes are now in Omaha, and are undergoing the last touches of engrav- ing. They were delayed a little, so will, not be finished till early this week. ' The'' concersing which 50 much has been said, is beyond expectations. The cup s an jmmense af- fair, more than a foot high, with elaborate handles of solld siiver grapevine stock, clasped at eisher end by leaves: of ‘the vine. The cup looks more than its price, $160. All the other prizes are on the same pro- portionate le of .magnificence as this. Everything Is honest, and each trophy ls & beauty. Qne change has been made, & cut glass cigar jar with silver top being ! substituted for the traveling set announced as fipst prize in the consolation singles. The price is the same, $15, Will Make . Affidavit New Lease of Life for an lowa Postmastor. Is., tion and re- ‘inally I tried had found what Postmaster R. H. Randall, Dunlsp, e: I suffered from indi; ting evils for years. Kodol, Iscon knaw I 1 had long looked for. than in years. odol gaye my lease of life, Anyone ca 7 have my fidavit to the truth of this statement. Kodol dlp::l i your food. 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