Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 14, 1902, Page 11

THE OMAHA DAILYX BEE: SUNDAY, MBER 14, 1902 GOSSIP FROM THE GRIDIRON Fost Ball 8quads Lining Up All Over the 3 Oenntry Just New, AROSPECTS AT BIG COLLEGES FOR TEAMS Much New Mate l:frllrd the Famous Elevens Up Standard of L Yen A glance over the foot ball situation at this tme, the middle of September, dis- €loses the interesting fact that as a gen eral rule the western colleges are outdoing the eastern (n their zeal to get busy with the only strictly amateur sport known. Of the members of the Big Nine conference, all save one of the nine colleges now has its #quads at work, and most of them have been at it for two weeks. Only one of the Blg Four colleges has yet called the roll of its foot ball candidates for the first day’s practice This information is only interesting, how- ever, in showing that both as regards money and time the west can now do just as much 16r its gridiron sport as the east, and that the years will not be many more before the exclusive universities of the Big Four can vo longer bold themselves aloof as the aristocrats, the patricians, in th's game But this time has not yet o Not efen western arrogance can yet make bold to deny that Harvard and Yale and their rivals have the greatest teams in the world wnd that the real throne of the game is still with those schools. So, when the foot bAll season comes round people both east apd west first of all leok to these old leges, where there has been foot ball Hvalry for decades. major Bix Four has Begin practice, Monday of (his week marks the time for most of the rest of them, so from coaches and scouts and ménagers good outlines of the teams and thetr probable strength can'already be had Princeton Tigers have been summoned for Monday on Nassau fleld, Yale Blues, too, will mee® first on that dny, and the Har- vard men have been notified to appear at Cambridge on Beptember 32. Only (he Quaker gridiron athletes have been assem- bled as a squad, and they have been in training at Eaglesmere, near Philadelphia, for the past week. There-ure. twenty-sight men with the squad so far, and Wead Coagh Willlams, Has started the game off thus early in order to, pick material for his vacant places left from last year. These are several, there Belngtwo backs and three Tinesmen to. be wapplied sure. This large loss from last year's eleven, together with the fact that the 0} team was itself not a high grade one in ite class, would make it appear that Yale and Harvard will again be perceptibly -superior- to the Pennsylvania team. The difference does not promise to bo so0 marked. as that of last season, for wany of the mew men are glants, so speak, there being five who weigh over pounds. Part of Penn's weakness last s - ght caliber, asd to r y that will, of course, raise the standard of the team. Although bers. ot the the part of mem vet to 200 Of all the four big teams Yale's loss is much the lightest. Only three 6ld men darop out, the two ends, and Olcott at guard. Meanwhile there is now a well-defined rumor that “Dick” Sheldon, the famous guard of three years ago, will return to school this fall, and he would then play In Olcott's place, thus settling immediately that difi- culty, Sheldon has not yet verified the report. Even if he does not, it should prove comparatively easy to fill one of the five heavy line places, when there is always auch & mass of material trylng for them. It will doubtless be much more difficult to get’'a satisfactory pair of ends than a guard, But with a solid field of old backs and four-sevenths of & line Yale abould not teel badly. Princeton certainly has a big kick coming. Of lakt year's team Pell, left tackle; Mill left guard; Fischer, center; Poe, quarter- back; McCord, half back, and Shefeld, fuil back, were all graduated last June. That makes & blg hole. The backs aré fairly riddled and a big gash is cut in the line Howaver, the Tigers had a big grist of extra materisl last season, much of which ranked right up with_the first eleven. In faot, elghteen men were played egainst Yale, and of those these will return: Davis, ceptain and left end; Dana, right guard: DeWitt, right tackle; Henry, right end eman, quarterback; Foulke, 8. Mc- Clave, Stevens and Pearson, halves, and Short, substitute guard. Thus of those six vacancies there Is experienced materfal for three at the start. Freemap was regarded very nearly Poe's equal at quarter last yoar, and will probably get the place. Short cgn take Mills' guard position and amyone the halves can play McCord's place. Meanwhile the Tigers have three things x“yhlch they may be decidedly thankful t, they have secured “Garry” Cochran, the fymous captain and end of the '07 eleven. 1¢_is sald that no other Princeton captain ever wielded so powerful an influence over his men, and great things are expected from bis coaching. Second, Princeton plays every game at home, save one, that with Annap- ofls at Annapolls, on October 11. Such a schedule is certalnly advantagecus. Thrd the Yale date, the crowning game of the season, is ot untll November 15. That, 140, is at the Tigers' home, and after play- ing nive games there previously they sould know the ground. Harvard also gets bit In the lipe, and hit hird. Cutts, the famous tackle of the whole season and a member of the All America team, will be gone, as will his mato on the left side of the line, Blagden Greene at center, Lee at left guard and Captain Campbell at left end complete the hole (n the liae; Ristine, the famous right half, is gone.. His place can be fifled, and wjth the same 3d quarter, Marshall, back AN OLD ' SORE by It 28 defiant, angry and offensive as ever, to | again and the other half and full the nme,] Harvard will doubtless reproduce this sea- #on its wonderful back field of 1901. But think of a line with only two men left in 1t The entire left side is gone, and, be- sides this, the center and the right tackle There are many men wanting every vacant fob, but no world beaters as yet. Sugden seems to be the only avallable material for center, an2 Lawrence and Jones are show- ing strongest for the tackles. The conches have not yet dared to think of the empty guard and end, though out of Bowditeh, Clark, Motley and Matthews it should be casy to fill the latter Captain Kernan, the star halfback in the game with Yale last year, has taken a few of the old men to his summer home at | Kennebunk Port, Me., for this coming week, where he will get them into shape and give them nadvice for helping him break the green men. Mike Farley, end on the ‘99 squad, will help Kerman in the duties of chief coach. Coming west, attention turms first to the two teams which su conclusively demon- strated themselves the strongest last fall Wisconsin and Michigen. It seems now that each ig to recelve body blows on personnel, with the Wolverines getting a little the worst of it. Coach Yost will flnd himselt with the task of replacing Shorts and White at tackle, Wilson at guard, Snow at end and Snow also at fullback, which posi tion he playcd on offense. Thua for those four men he needs five. From meager r poris yet rec ed it seems that material of the promising sort is somewhat of a rarity. However, Yost is sald to be great pncy At in Phil King also has a nice little job laid out. He mecds a tackle to take Curtis' place, two backs to r place Larson and Cochems, and a quarter back for Marshall. give no trouble, however, as Fogg, who started in that position in '01, but was shut out early by injuries, l& now in shape sgain, aud as good at least as Marshall | Larson was the terror among halfbacks in the western gridiron world last fall, and another strong, reckless and un sioppable will not be found in a year, it is safe to predict Curtis, too, cannot be replaced, He was for four ytare greatest man as good will scason. Fear was felt about Driver, but it is now said that will be healed in time. be grown in a single Fullback his foot Neither Badgers nor Wolverines have much to feel badly about when they take a look at the Giphers. At Minnesota there will ‘be only five veterans back, nime of last year's first squad leaving the game. This fs almost the same as saying that Minnesota thust now take a year or so to bulld wp again. (Teams are strong by epurts, and the one at Mingeapolis is | ended. The Gophers bad the same men year after year from '99 on, and now they are leaving in a body. The team work developed by such men &s Knowlton, Fee, Page and Rogers is.a power that when lost takes time to regain, as it cannot be transmitted and handed down when so many leave at once. Coach Williams ap- perently realized the eritical with the Gophers, and gathered his men together for practice than any other school, getting them out In August, in fact Of the other conference colleges there is not much to be eaid. Nothing phenomenal is expected from Northwestern, Beloit or hicago this year, though the latter sehool Will probably surpass its unfortunate show- ing of Jast season. Meanwhile Illinois, so strong in ‘01, will again have a light team, but a fast one. Iowa starts this year to try and recover from its slump, but an- other season or so is necessary yet. The loss of de Williams at quarter was a blow which demoralized the Hawkeyes early in the season of '01, and their eucceeding play did them very little good In the way of development. All in all, 1llinois and Nebraska promise to be the teams to cause the trouble, out- side of the topnotchers. The Cornhuskers will certainly be a disturbing element. Their position in the transmissouri country can already hardly be doubted. It will ap- parently be the same laat year, away above all the rest. Meanwhile games with ure up with the teams of the Big Nine. Cross-country runs have been the feature ot the first week’s practice of the Univer- | sity of Nebraska foot ball squad. Training the week the men were led over hill and dale by . energetic Captain Westover. At first the runs were made short, of neces- sity, for most of the cyndidates were short- | winded and carried superfluous weight. Each day the distance was lengthened, how- ever, so that Saturday afternoon the boys ran from 8 o'clock in the afternoon till fif- tesn minutes of 6 o'clock, covering twelve miles Coach Booth arrived in Lincoln ‘Tuesday and at once assumed active charge | of the squad. Aside from the running, which is purely for condition and endur- ance, training has consisted of paesing the ball, falling on it and kicking. A few min- utes are devoted to this each night before i the run is tak This week there will be a larger proportion of actual foot ball work |on the campus and less running over the | | abandoned till the serimmage work becomes flerce ard constant. | mot even lmed up, but they will do so this | week. Not before next week will serim- | mages be commenced, the line being held | mal practiée and practice forma- tions for & time. Coach Booth is especlally proud of the cross-country ruuning. This is entirely a new feature at Nebraska, having never been done before with a foot ball squad. Booth says, however, that the exercise is one of the greatest things for preliminary traf | ing thet could be devised. It brings what every man neede most of all at the begin- ning of a season—wind. A man who can run two hours aud stand it well can endure the flercest strains and struggling of at least one fierce half of forty-five minutes. .‘ Will sour the sweetest disposition and transform the most even tempered, lovable pature into a cross-grained and irritable individual. 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Book on Blood and THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., Atlania, Gae The last position will | the | tackle in the west, and no other | situation | two weeks earlfer | Northwestern, Knox and Minnesota will be | sufficient to give It a good chance to meas- | | began last Monday and every day during | country, although that feature will not be | So far the men have | Though the university is yet to open its | classes, a horde of gridiron sspirants are out for practice already. They have re sponded better than ever before. The gen- eral experience at the umiversity has been that men will not come to Lincoln till school begins, but this year it is different. A good bunch was out for the first day and they have been coming in regularly ever since. By the end of tho present week Westover expects to have three fuil elevens out For more than two weeks the warriors of Bellevue college have been at work under Captain Cooper's direction, although col- loge does not open till next Tuesday. Some promising new material is being developed, and, with all but ope of last year's team back, Bellevue promises to put up an Al game this fall. There will be 8o sluggers or prizefighters on the team. The players are all bona fide students, who are in col- loge for work and incidentally will play a clean, hard game of foot ball. All of the ©01d line men will be back: Plato Schofleld, center; Fred Kerr, right guard; Ford Me- Whorter, right tackle; Hanstord Pope, right end; Frank Throw, left end; Alex Cooper, left tackle; Heury Stroud, left guard. These men are veterans, and with this summer's added brawn, they will undoubtedly form a “‘stone wall." With the exception of Carl Horn at fullback, the back will be in.the game as last year: Theodore Cooper (cap- tain), quarter; R. B. Cornwall, right balf, and Tom Moore, left half. Cooper is keen and quick at his post and russ his team well. Cornwall can sprint faster than ever and Moore promises to be the best kicker in the state. Among the new mef in col- lege are several players of experience, and last year's second eleven will o doubt furnish some strong candidates. The college authorities have greatly en- couraged the team by their efforts to secure a first-class physical director, and by fm. proving the athletie fleld. The field has been enlarged and made level as a floor, and s now being hardened by the dally uee of a seven-ton roller. The boys say the fleld is “peachy.” The schedule is as fol- lows: October 4, Omaha Young Men's Christian association at Bellevue: October 11, Omaha Medics at Bellevue; October 18, | Tabor college at Bellevue; October 25, Lin- coln Medics at Bellevae; November 1, Doape college at Crete; November 8, Second University of Nebraska at Bellevue: No- vember 15, Hastings college at Bellevue November 22, Oreighton university at Bell vue; November 25, Grand Istand college at Grand Island. Foot ball prospects at the Omaha High school -may be sald to be ‘not only bright but flattering and are far beyond what was expected. Coach Pearse and Captain Fair- brother had the men out last Tuesday after- noon for the first time and the showing is one of which to be proud. Besides a sturdy nucleus of seven men of last season's dtar team there is another veteran from the West Des Moines High Bchool team ot ‘01, and in acdition to that a grand bunch of new ma- terfal and old second team and substitute men. First, there is Captain Al Fairbrother, who will again play right end, where he has been for four years. Claude Robertson, the star interscholastic center.of Nebraska and Iowa last year, will o to right tackle | this season. His ability is too great to be hidden longer at center, so the mosi re- sponsible and dificult position in the rueh line goes to him. For left tackle there is Barl Sterricker; for guard or fullback, Red Thompsén; for quarter, Rolly Bhields and for halvps, Harry | Loftus and Will Coryell, last year's. star, who was injured in the game here against | the Lincoln high school late in. the season. This completes the list of Omaha High 6chool first team vetorans, but McKell, the Des Moines boy, will be started on the other end. Omaha feels especially good at getting) McKell, not only because an end i8 needed, but because he is & great punter. In fact it was his kicking that beat the Omaha boys at Des Molnes on November 10, last. Theoretically, then, there are but & center and two guards to find. In reality, Coach Pearse wants eleven good men. No one on the opening lineup can be eald to be sure of his job. Competition s keen, many new men are out and to see some of the 0l tavorites displaced would not be surpris- {ng. on with favor. Tompsett promises to be a likely halfback, Cathers is making a atrong bid for the center job. The two Putnam boys, Framk and Will, are both showing strong, Frank being a rival of Roy Cathe for center Sprague, Yoder, Van Carew and several others who are looking good Pearse, the former Nebraska 'varsity tackle who will handle the team. From the present outlook it seems that the High school will have a heavy line and light backs. The line will be a hummer, there being three men over 180, The boys think they will have & team: superior to any High echool eleven around. Manager Thompson has arranged a good schedule, with seven home dates. - The eleven will | probably use the Young Men's Christian ai sociation park out on Ames avenue for all match games. The schedule reads: Beptember Young Men's Christian a soclation at Omaha. 4 September 27, Iw it Des Moln ol at Des Moines. B etober b Counell Blufts High sehool at Omaha October 11, West Des Moines High school | at Omaha. coln. October %, Bellevue college at Omuha. November 1, Lincoln High school s, 15, York High school at York. November 27, Kansas City High school or Genoa Indlans at Omaha at Creighton university ' at It's astonishing to see the immense im- rrovement that a week's brought in the foot ball squad upon the Creighton university fleld. It's almost as §00d as witnessing a game to go up on the bleachers these chilly afterncons and watch Coach Bilick run his huskies through the various preliminary evolutions As the old favorites, ex-Captaln Weleh and Captain Joe Walker, popular Quarterback Cellahan and others, appear on the field the students give them a cheer and a glad band. 8o, also, do they applaud the b'g “‘beefers” of the new material as they exe- cute some good work | Never was a coach more enthusiastic than Al Ellick. He says that he is going to show Omaha what a real college foot ball team is, one that the oity will ‘be anxicus to support. “Even among the under graduates, who are the only omes who have reported as yet, T have sufficient material to insure the Creighton people a fast and heavy team, and with the pros- | pective additions of some of the etars from | the professional and graduate departments, 1 will have foot ball material to sell.” says |Coach Ellick Although It would be hazardous to pre- dict who will make good this seasos,’ the following men are the most hopeful candi- dates and most likely to be heard of before the season closes: [ | Wer center, James Lane, last season 2%0- | pound center, and Leelan, a new mas, who has had conslderable oot ball experience; right guard, Kane and Keanedy, both enormous beefers, with plenty of wet'on and playing experience, and both new men: left guard, Loofbarrow and Mulles both old players; tackles, Harry Welch, whose powers need no wmention; Captsin Joseph Walker, whom Coach Ellick predicts will play a fine & game as any individusl in the west this year, in small or big schools, snd Mullally, left tackle and champion player l B St. Mary's college team whes it de- ARECOGNIZED AUTHORITY 'HE LIFE WORK OF I ou JR. McGREW H / S BEEN THE TREATMENT OF DISEAS THE WEST HE 18 ACKNOWLEDGED TO BE ONE OF THE MOST R0 KILLED, AN ISTS IN“THE TREATMENT OF THIS CLASR OF DISEASES TWENTY-REVEN YEAF IN OMAHA wag never betiayed. HIM AND TRUST HIM. doing good toward his fello from his great work among |the semsod will commence, Lots of the young fellows are belng looked | Then there are Penfold, Smith, | to Coach | October 18, Lincoln High school at Lin- | practice has | VARICOCELE HOT SPRINGS TREATMEN A MEDICAL ' MEN ONLY. TROUGH- D SUCCESSIFUL SPECIAL- EXPERIENCE, 17 YEARS EXPERT Perhaps the best outward and vigible evidence of the esteem in which Dr. McGrew is held throughout the west is the fact that he has been called on several occasions to give expert medical testimony in the district conrts of the state. In each case impor- tant issues hung upon the nature of various venereal diseases and disorders of men and none other than the most reliable special- ists of unquestioned professional integrity and ability could be allowed to testify. Dr. MeGrew is a recognized authority with the bench and bar of Nebraska and his opinion in cases of this kind is never questioned. CHICAGO TRADE REVIEW 2 single out Dr. J. E. McGrew of On deserving praise. The fact that diseases of a pri : “We do not hesitate to ha, Neb., as a specialist fully te nature are his specialties, gives him a decided advantage ‘over the general practitioner, and wherever inquiry was made among leading merchants, bankers and county officials and others, the strongest preponderance of testimony showed beyond doubt that Dr. McGrew does all that he agrees to do; that every claim that he makes is lived up to fully. physician, a deep thinke the literature of his profession, and hene telligent specialist. newspaper correspondent we have thorough, a better equipped or more reliable specialist than Dr.McGrew. THOUSAND!S OF MEN throughout the west will tell you that the CONFIDENCE THEY PLACED IN DR. McGREW Dr. MeGrew is a thoroughly trained , a keen reasoner, a persistent reader of v wide-awake and in- During our twenty years of experience as a not encountered a more His sympathy is ever extended to those who seek his service or advice—hence MEN BELIEVE IN EVERY DAY brings many flattering reports of the good he iz doing or the relief he is giving. Possibly there is no man throughout the west today who eccupies a position in which there are so many opportunities for W man. men of all classes. THE DOCTOR fully and seriousl for Blooc the Blood. # comprehends the extensive responsibility arising POSITIVELY CURED IN LESS THAN FIVE DAYS Without the loss of a single hour’s time. 1 Poison and all Diseasex of All external signs of this dikeasé disappear at once tinder Dr. MeGrew's treatment, and not a spot or pimple will appear to expose the nature of your disease.- This fact alone is a priceless comfort and consolation to ome afflicted with this ailment. ANTEEB YOU A PERMANENT CURE FOR LIFE. " MANY OF THE WORST FORMS OF BLOOD DISEASES CURED IN LESS TH AN THIRTY DAYS. THE DOCTOR’S QUICK CURES AND LOW CHARGES are daily proving what a great good can be done for men ata NOMINAL EXPENSE. OFFICE OVER 2i5 SuUTH I4TH ST., BETWEEN DOUSLAS AND FARNAM STREETS, OM\HA, NEB. Box 766. Dr. MeGrew GUAR- feated Kansas university. Walker and Mul- lally are the probable tackles, while Welch will be shifted to half. The other halves are McGovern, a muscular fellow, a little slow in action, but invincible in strength, and heavy Ed Creighton. Fullbacks are priceless old Dan Butler and Terry Mustaln, while popular little Billy Gallahan, whom Notre Dame desired to secure for the eleven this year, will be in his old place at'quarter. George Lee, ex-captain of the last year's second team, will be his competitor for the position. Adding to this number sych players as ! O'Nell, O'Maliey, Burke, Dermody, Shall and Coad, & good supply of material is on hand, and the second ‘team promises to be a strong, one. In addition to daily practice between 'var- sity and scrub, an exhibition practice game will occur on September 27 with the alumni team, composed of all the old stars in the city. After that the regular schedule of and Mamager Fitzgerald bas secured a good one. PRATTLE OF THE YOUNGSTERS, Teacher—When is the proper time gather apples? Tommy—When the dog is chalned to “That boy mext door said he'd bet he could lick me with one hand tied behind his back:™ ‘Of course you took him up “Naw,'I'didn’t. He said he'd have to do the tying.” “And what,” asks the teacher, after the letters?" It wae thus that she sought to teach the young idea the value of the character “1 know. boy. “You may tell us, Johnny." “The postman.” volunteered the litile wise “My! my! my!” sald the little girl's srandmother, “you mustn't make so much fuss when you have your hair combed. Whep 1 was a little girl I had my hair combed three or four times every day.” “Yes,'” sald the child, polnting at the poor little gray knot on the back of the good old woman's head, “and see what you've got for I Representative Lamb of Virginia tells a story about a little girl and her prayers She lives in Petersburg and is just 4% vears old. Like all other good little girl she kneels every night at her mother's knee and, after reciting the Lord's prayer, ilently adds a little prayer of her own. One night her mother, rather curious, asked her daughter what ehe had told the Lord. “Mamma," sald the youngster, “I asked the Lord to please remove that mole on your face, but,”" added the little onme, “I also told the Lord that I thought the mole had come to stay.” Dr. J. L. M. Curry, special ambassador to Spain, tells the following anecdote, says Harper's Magazine: In the discharge of his duties, In promot- ing the cause of education, he has been trequently called upon to address the pupils of achools he had been visiting. On one occasion he was at & rural school and the usual address was expected at the close of .the - exereises. The children weat thfough a number of calisthenic ex- ercises, which were, probably, some- what elaborate fn homor of the di tingulshed visitor, and then came the doc- tor's speech. Thinking that it was a fa able occasion to {mpress upon his youth fal audjtors the Importance of drill and practice the doctor, after expressing the pleasure that the exerolses had given him, told the children that they had done fa better than he could have done, and them od: Can some one of you tell me why it is that T caanot do these callsthenic exercises as well as you have done the; After an instant's pause a small hand went up and, on receiving an encouraging word from the doctor, the little boy stood up and said: “'Cause you are old and stiff in the f'ints.” which was not exactly the answer either expeoted or desired. “‘comes | HARVEST FOR THE ENOCKERS Slump of the Home Team Gives the Roasters Their Chance. | MILWAUKEE LIKELY TO WIN THE PENNANT First, Four Places in the Weatern League Race Depend on the Last Three Games of the Sea- son's Sched Knockers are busy. Never siuce Hector was @ pup has the whirligig of fortune given the home roaster the opportunity he has had during the last two weeks. And how he has improved i chance! Men who boast they haven't seen a game this summer havo shaken hands | with others of the same kidney and have chortled in glee over the disaster that has {overtaken the Omaha team. Now that the {last vestige of hope for the penuant has | apparently vanistied, these birds who never |80 to’a game are in the seventh heaven of industrious bliss, telling what might have | been done. 1t Rourke had only signed Jake Beckley and Gene Demontreville, and Ed | Delehanty and Tommy Leach and Larry |Lajole and Sam Crawford and Charley | Dexter and Christie Mathewson and & few | more stars—but he didn’t and even if he 'had the home knocker would osly have | found it out by reading the paper at the cigar store or the barber shop, for he never buys a paper any more than he buys & ticket o the game. All the stored up venom of the summer is now belng turned loose on the team, and every- man from Rourke down is getting it. And the worst of the whole situation is that the season 1s now at its end, and there is no hope for anything to stop the croaking il mext spring. So we might as well make up our minds to bear it as meekly as we can, for the anvils will ring for seven moaths at e It is impossible to beat it into the heads of some folks that no team was ever or- ganized that could win all the games. And that s all the home knocker wants. Every player hes his days when he can not do his best, no matter how good his intentions, and levery team has the same cxperience. Omaha |bas as homest and capable a lot of ball players as ever wore uniforms, and if they 'do not win the champlonship of the We: | ern league, it will not be because they h | not tried. All who have attended the games | with any regularity during the season are & unit in saying that this season has wit- nessed the fastest base ball ever seen in Omaha, considered as a whole, and that ! the Omaha team has been in it all the time. Four star pitchers and the admitted premier | of catchers have done the battery work, with |a corps of fielders that have been again | and again pronounced the best in the leagu have guarded the city's name {n what has proven the hardest fought championship schedule ever played in the west.. From the drop of the hat Omaha, Kansas City and | Denver have fought, earnestly, even bit- | terly, for supremacy. Milwaukee, starting | at the very bottom, has fought Its way up, displacing St. Joseph from the: first di- | vision, and is mow making & strong bid for | first place at the finish. Hugh Dufty bas ot only played & great game of ball him- self, but has shown wonderful skill Iin bandling his team, and deserves to win the pennant for the gallant fight he bas made. | One of the remarkable things about the race s that on the last three games depends the final standing of the first four teams. - Mil- | waukee finishes with Omaha and Demver with Kensas City, and it will be impos- ible to tell the order of the first four plac: until the end of this closing ser! Such a | situation never before existed in base ball. Omaha Is to be favored with & post-sea- son series. Ace Stewart will have control of the team after the regular schedule has been played out, and has arranged fo games with the Kansas City Western, the Indianapolis American and other strong teams for exhibition games extending over the carnival week. All the Omabs players have agreed to stay over and take part In the games, except Oscar Graham, who pulled his freight for Los Angeles on Thursday night. Some mighty good ball | will be on tap down at Vinton Street park during this series, for the players are in terested in making the games a success. From Birmingham, Ala., comes word that Eddie Lawler is making a great tear at second base with the team that repre- sents that city in the Southern league. Both in the field and at the bat Eddie has made good, and is now looked on as the king pin inflelder of the league. Omaha fans who have watched his play for years on the local amateur diamond are not at all surprised at the success he has made. And best of all s the story that Lawler ie not at all chesty over his success. One day during the week over 17,000 people paid to see the Philadelphia Ath- letice beat Baltimore and on the same day 450 people paid to see Colonel Rogers' | Philadelphia team lick Pittsburg. No wonder the Philadelphia magnate talks of peace. And on the same day the Boston Americans drew 4,500 people and the Bos- toa Nationals had 150. Such facts a: these can be appreciated even by the “blg” league magnates. Some kind of a truce 1s sure to be made by the leagues this win- ter, but it will be many a long day before the National gets back the momey it h lost trying to down the American. Some of the interested fans are wonder- ing it Papa Bill is intending to found a home for aged and indigent ball players. When he went down fnto the tomb and exhumed Frank Pears he caused some spéculation, and now that he has added “Monk” Foreman to his staff the surmises have grown more numerous. If he wi only tear the cerements off “Dark Dayi Conway and add him to his staff of anti- quated and disabled pitchers, the confirma- tion needed to fix the euspicion as a fact will be furnished. Dolan and Stone did the batting for the Omaha team during the week, each getting eight hite in seven games. None of the others cut in very deep. As a matter of fact, if it hadu't been for the harvest gath- ered gn Friday, the batting averages would have looked rather sickly. In flelding the eplendid work of the team has been main- tained. The figures are FIELDING AVERAGES, Last Av. Week 1,000 Ph{‘er! Wright . Alloway .0 Gonding Peats Brown Thomas Stewart tone ... enins ... Carter Owen Graham Dolan . Bur Hickey 0. E 0 2 u Tot. 22 ] 991 585 251 23 514 302 188 206 L1 13 - | 20 2 i) 131 652 11 2 123 189 & 41 . BATTING AVERAGES Bz Players. Wright Stone . Graham Dolan Btewart Carter . Genins ... Thomas Gonding . Hickey Pears AB 14 21 198 R kibbikigY EEaERE The Principle Applied. Chicago Tribune: “The reason why I quit shaving,” sald Rivers, “‘was that I figured up one day the amount of time ‘it took. 1 used to spend a little over fifteen minutes every day of my life shaving myseif. found that this used up ten or twelve work- ing days every year, and I decided I simply couldn’t afford the time.” “Well," responded Brooks, “you spend at Jeast half an.-hour three times & day eating your meals. That makes ten and a halt hours a week. There are fifty-two weeks in & year. Ten and a half times fAfty-two is—let mp see—is 646. Allowing eight hours to & working day you spend sixty-eight days, oy over two mouths, every year a! your meals. Why don't you quit eating | 1 INCORPORATED §100,60000. EASY MONEY '“mm"w'.mgilfi tem of turf in ullt ewPlan, FREE. Wrife for it THE DOUGLASS DALY 00, | Turf Commissf !a | 1u2 Clark Street, g!‘l h OUT OF THE ORDINAR Carlos Wilson of Boston is & collestor of Napoleana. He has 5,000 portraits and | prints, 500 ‘medals and 2,000 volumes all re- lating to the famous Corsican soldier. The private steam yacht Arrow made a nautical mile on the Hudson river Satur- day im 132, This is at the rate of 39.13 nautical “miles an_ hour of 4.8 statute miles When Mrs, Luke Fish was burled at An- derson, Ind. he other day there stood be- side the grave five cets of her twin sons. | Another of her children lay at home with | & broken leg and two are dead. Mrs. Mariah Vance, a colored woman of Danvil learing to read at the ad- vanced a of 9. Mrs. Vance was a se vant in Abraham Lincoln's family and packed up the family belongings when they went to the White House in 1860, An_enterprising liquor dealer in Cairo Egypt, started a free lunch counter and has ‘made an immense hit with the inno- vatlon. With every drink, even a 3-cent lass of beer, he serves a plate loaded with read, olives, salad, beans and mussels. Prof. Wilder of Cornell university mu- seum is a collector of human brains. On the shelves of the museum are many brains of criminals, while In his private laboratory are the brains of many college professors and eminent sclentists who have willed thelr brains to his collection. Clyll war veterans from lowa who will | gurade at the national "encampment 'in ashington next October are expected to carry unique emblems of Hawkeye state prosperity. Each will have with him the argest of corn he can find, and the display can hardly fall to open the eyes of eastern observers. John D. Rockefeller bas just purchased another estate in the Adirondacks, where his holdings now amount to %,000 a¢res, the whole having cost him about $500,000. ' 1fe owns all of ham lake, a mountain re- sort of great popularity. 'His latest pur- chase was 6,00 acres, all the residents on which have been notified to leave at once. The officlal executloner of Tokio died re- cently. His death was curious in itself and, ‘consldering his profession, was little short of remarkable. He was crossing a rallwa rack near Toklo when he was run down by & fast express. The body was found by the track with the head as neatl decapltated as any which had been cut o by the officlal executioner himself, Other- wise there was not a mark on the body. Probably for the first time in history typewriters have been used aboard the King's yacht during his majesty’s recent sojourn on the water. Throughout th ter vears of the last reign it was al matter for surprise that every reply, matter how brief or how formal, recelved from the queen’s secretary was indited In ink and written by hand. advent of King Edward has also meant the advent of the typewriter in the palace. A number of Detrolt saloon keepers have evinced a desire to contribute liberaily to- ward the Christian Endeavor convention ¢xpense fund, President Mohn of the Re- tafl Liquor Dealers' assoclation sald to in interviewer e ought to be interested In every large convention that comes here, no maiter what it is. The whole city i3 benefited by such a gathering and we will et our sha of the business which It rings in. Things We Like Best Often Disagree With Us Becsuse we overeat of them, Indi. gestion follows., But there's & way te esoape such consequences. A dose of & good digestant like Kodol will relive you st once. Yowr stomsch: is simply toe weak to digest what vou eat, That's all indigestion is. Kodol digests the food without the stomach’s ald. Thus the stomach rests while the body i ened by wholesome food. ‘ m Koddl digests any kind of Strengthens and invigorates. | Kodol Mak | flofi Red Lice only by E. O. DeWirr & 00, Chicage. | A certain oure for piles and skin diseases