Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 17, 1910, Page 25

‘lSPORTING PAGES ONE TO FOUR. TARY FIVM THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE. PORT OMAHA, SUN VDAY MORNING, APRIL 17, 1910. SINGLE COPY . FIVE CENTS. Rourke Selects Plajzeré; Tigers and Giants Win the First Time; Snow Stop_s_f;w Games ROURKE PICKS A TEAM FOR SEASON Husky Looking Bunch is Ready to| Jump Into Fray at Sound of Gong. OMAHA'S TEAM WELL BALANCED Most of Last Year's Players Back and in Fine Sha NEW MEN LOOK LIKE STARS Corridon and Shotten Strengthen the Club, | INFIELD LOOKS TO BE STRONG All Rendy for the First Game witn Iistes’ Wichita Gang Next Friday After. noon. P2 Roiirke has announced the personnel af the Omaha team that will open the 1910 base ball season. And when the lst is carefully scrutinized it must be admitted that' the Rourkes look as strong as any club in_the Western league, Theso players will be retained: Gonding. Cadman end Agnew, catchers; Keeley, Furchrier, Patton, Sanders, Hollenbeck and Hanson, pitchers; Kane, first base; Fox, second base; Schipke, third base; Corridon, shortstop; Shotton, left fleld; King, center tield, and Welch right field. oPtts and Grahain will also be kept in the fold as uthlity men, A glance at those who will battle pen- nantward this year shows a well halanced team of heady players, good base runners and hard hitters, and a pitching staff of Wirlers that iy as strong as any on the crenit. In ‘the catching department, Gonding s the tower of strength, with Cadman next best and Acnew the recruit looming up strong as a comer. All the pitchers, Omaha fans know Gonding as a team-steadier, Agnew, who was picked | up from the tall and uncut, came on so fast in this spring’s training that Rourke could uGt let him go. He has a ®ood arm, uses lis head and s good on bases. He looks like he would be a good hitter after re- celving more instruction in the art of knocking the ball. Much Hope Placed in Farehn Of the pitchers, Furchner, the former Sloux City #tar, Is going to make some of the Western feague batters sit up and glance In his direction if hg shows the form he did before his sickness pf last summer. He looks healthy and lyl he feels fine and after some more work will evidently get into his former gait. Sanders. has only’ worked part of one exhibition #ame—against ' the Sox-—-but he certainly looked mighty good to the bugs. Keeley showed in his first workout that he can still ' sting them through and ought to £ot away with more than half his games. Holleibeck and Patton, who have had more than any of the veteran throwers, are hitting a good stride and will be in shape-to start off right when the season opens wext Friday. Hanson, the Councll Bluffs boy, 1s well liked by the fans and both Manager Fox and Pa think a great deal of hfm, He does not séem to mind fast company and works right along when in the box with the coolness of an old timer. He, throws gopd balls and has control. Jimpy Kane on firat base means that .that _corner of the dlamond will be well ‘tgken care of. He assures his friends that his eye is all right and that when he starts at the opening he will play his ugual classy game. Manager Fox at second will take care of ‘Ahat. portion of the yard in his speedy mayner, He is In fine shape and in the Ahibitlon gemes this spring has done some .A.mnl_wor: at third needs no comment. wing the same form that has hade bim & favorite in Omaha and Is ready to jump into the race for the pennant at a' fast elip. “Corridan, the little red-headed shortstop, ame from St. Louls after a tryout th Browns, is expected to do some tiond! work In the short field. He| fast on hin feet and fights the ball all the ‘time.. He s not afraid to take a chunce and covers lots of ground. He is # good thrower and does not have to set himseif before he makes a fling. Shoifen Clean Ficlder. Shotten, another St. Louls tryout, s a clean ‘fielder and a mighty good thrower. Hewings the ball into the p! on a line and with much speed.. He is speedy on the bases and knooks the ball hard. King'and Welch in the other gardens look Just as good as they did last year| and both are expected to do some hard . hitting this season. Sindelar and Bovee, the big pitchers who were tried out hero. will tumbus - this year. clally good in his work in the exhibition games and Pa wants him where he can £et his hands on him in case he needs him. Ferry and Thomas will go to Grand Island and Chittick, Tighe and Cooper will be farmed to Columbus. After the game with Sioux City today the Rourkes will go to Hutehinson, Kan., where they will play two games and then &0 to Wichita and open the season Fri- day. Jast ‘who whl 4o the pltehing in stert off, MHawkeyes ll- . lc‘r Pitche: “IOWA _ CITY, | gorn. & piicher ddavorea by Conch Oreth i yésterday's game wgainat mum:-mn s o * M ! year m. Coiveraiy od Lowh Tave b iaas (h the declaration that A Johnny | ot | theére are §ood peggers and work well with | play with Co- | Sindelar lookéd espe- the Opener is hard: to guess, but Hollenbeck and Patton have besn doing the most Wwork and it is lkely one of them will | | HH GIANTS CET INTO CONELICT New York Nationals Win Their First Game from Boston. CHRISTY MATHEWSON AT HIS BEST Pliches in Fine Form, Also Gets Two- Base Hit and Home Run— White Also in Good Trim. BOSTON, Mass., Aril 16.+-With Christy Mathewson pitching at his best, New York broke into the win column today by de- feating Boston in & light hitting game, 3 to 1. Four érrors in the first innimg by the locals gave the visitors a commanding lead. The batting of the two pitchers was a feature. Mathewson got a two-base hit and a ‘home run. The score: NEW. YORK, : ‘>| P & 0 Moran, 11, o Colling, ri’.. it 182 B ohvnasnnsy o] wooroonn=E] M| comommutnO Elasmnwes=o? Pioaiisdan e SR L nnnnsad ' s11 000000100—1 Twi hit: Mathewson, Home_ run: Mathewson. Bacrifice bit:. Colline. Stolen oy Herzog to Shean. 3 York, 2; Boston, 7. First gn Salia: Off" Mathdwion, 3. First base fow Hit by umnd il By White: 1 out: By Mathewson, §; by White, 1. ltches: By Mathewson, 1; by White, 2. | Time: 1:48. ‘mp'm Kiem and Kane. 1 LYNCH SEEf W®"00KLYN LOSE ¥l — President of Nu...ual Lemgue Sees Philadelphin Win, Five to Three. PHILADELPHTA, April 16.—By bunching | hits oft Wilhelm fn the first Inning and | Beanlon In the, seventh, Philadelphia won today's game from Brooklyn, 5 to 3. Presi- dent Lynch of the National league wit- | nessed the game. Cold, blustery weather affected the playing. Magee led with the bat with three hits. including a double and & base on balls. Score: PHILADELFHIA | Titus, e Cmenmetse O B sossueassces o e au st il ==_..-N.”..eo: srisueupe’ Totals..... 29 $2: 13 4 *Batted for Scunlon in ninth. *Batted for Moore in fifth, Broollyn 1001001 333 Philadelphy 30000029 %5 Two-base hits ransfield, M: (n FCita: | off Willielm in three lnnlll lon in three innin, 6 0“ Hon'& In five innings, 3; off Foxen in one and one-third innl 1;:off Humphries in two and two nings, 2. Sacrifice hita: Daubert, Chicago Nationals Find Pltchers Easy LEFT T0 RIGHT ~SCHIPKE, FOX ,CADMAN, W ichita Ready for the Opening Game Friday Rourke's Boys Will Be® Greéted by Largest Crowd that Ever Wit- nessed Opening Game There, WICHITA, = Kan., ~April 17.—(Special.)— When ‘Pa’ Rourke's Omaha club open! the Western league champlonship season in Wichita next.week it is quite probable that the largest crowd: that ever witnessed an opgning day game here will be at As- soclation- park. Witehita Is far more enthusiastic over the game this spring than it was last, even though that was its first in the larger eir- cult. The appearance of Frank Isbell at the head.of the club, much as Jack Hols land was liked by local fans, has aroused & new interest. In the preliminary games played thus far Isbell's work has beena, feature, not only in itself, but in the added effectiveness of the werk of the' other members of the team, especially of the in- field. The result is that the team looks better to Wichita fans than it ever did, -and they are contident at the opening of the season that their favorites will be in the tight for the bunting, whether they win it or not. On the opening day a committee of busi- ness men will turn over to Manager Isbell $4500 in cash, the’ result of a sale of §1 tickets, good for any game during the season, but advertising especlally the' open- ing game. This is & movement which was started ' since Isbell took his club on: the Oklahoma trip, and he knows nothing about it. It is the firat movement of its kind ever started in this city during the tive years it has had professional base ball Dan E. Breese, formerly president and manager of the Wichita Western assocla- tion club, and Arthur Paulline, & retired Board of Trade man, are at the head of it and have gone out personally In their au- tomobllcs to conduct the campalgn. That they have sold everyohe whom they have approached from onie to fifty tickets attest the success they are making. Today Manager Isbell finds himself with no less than ten pitchers who are fit to win & majority of their games in ti Western league. This mmay sound like byncombe, but it isn't. But two of his youngsters have becn _cut loose as not fast engugh and one more has been so0ld under an optional agreement. The . others are still on the Wichita list and have the man- &er fAuaM a8 to fch to choose. Altehsor; Ianer, ‘Shadkelford and Hass- of last s0l\on's squad are showing up better than evi'’, Jimmy Durham bas bien purchased from: [oulsville and is ready to. €0 to work now Boone, who beat the St Louls Browns ,nd Chicago White Spx, Larnigan, Lanii\y, Tretter, Ellis, all look Hke winners. (l'der, a big left-Nander, and Ruyavits, & . Louls trolley leaguer, show claks, b Lave not yet rounded Into con. ditien. Bohannon and Weller have not re- Pported, and probably will not. BURLINGTON BRINGS MEN TO BREAK SHERIDAN STRIKE Twe Carloads of Meu Imported Into Wyomin ‘own (o Cope with Bollermakers, SHERIDAN, Wyo. April 15.—(Special Telegram.)—Two cafloads of strikebreakers trom Chicago and Kansas City arrived to- night . to take the places of the bofler- makers and helpers who walked out at the Burlington shops here & few days ago, The strikers made no attempt to interview w—foore Ten to Pive, April 1. —~Chleago found three Cincinnati pitchers. easy today - end won handily, 10 to 5. Cole was wild in only.| one inning, when Cincinnatl managed to take a temporary lead. Manager Griffjth pa (Continued on Second Page.) the new arrivels and utmost order pre- valled, At the request of the raflroad of- ficials & number of special officers were sworn i who escorted the strik to the roundhouse. The bollermakers are asking an ‘increase In wages from 4 to % cents an hour and a reduction in hourw| pat from 10 fo % 4 SENATORS NOSE OUT VICTORY Washington Team Sprinp Bensation Against Philadelphians. FINAL SCORE IS FOUR TO THREE Three Stugles and a Double Bunched on Coombs in Ninth and Win- nfmg Run is Made with One Out. || WASHINGTON, April made a sensational finish agalinst the Philadelphians today, winning in the last inning, 4 to 3. Three singles and a double were bunched on Coombs in the local's last turn at the bat and, with two ‘bases on balls, the winning run'was forced over the plate with one out. McBride's error in. the sixth tied up the score for the Philadelphians and his double in the ninth did the same for the locals. The score: WASHINGTON. PHILADELPHIA B. Milan, et. 16. — Washington > w P N OHartsel, If. ... COIring, of... GColling, 2. . Burarwd 4 Cnwlags, 16 MeBride, Sureet, c. Waller, *Killifer . sooescs’ B (oeriormiiisi@anil i il onruconono? 5 ] = P s b A ES&lse in ninth. 01000000 84 0000011013 Davis, Hartsel, McBride, Murphy, Cessler,” Barry. ton, 7 Pml hig 7. First base on balls Off Walker, 1; off Coombs, 4. ‘st buse or errore: Philadeiphia, 1. Hit by W.chea ball: By Walker, 1 - Struck out: By Coombs, 6. Wild , 1; by Walker, 1. Timi Umplres: Evans and Egan. by American League Nime Trims Boston Score Four to Two. NEW YORK, April 16~New York won its first gama of the scason today, be ing Boston, 4 to 2, befors the steady pitch- ing _of Frill, a left-ander, who ,was with Newark last year. Wolter, a former Bos- ton plaver, drove in the first run for New York 4nd broke a4 fle in the seventh by hitting for the circuit. Beore: NEW YORK BOSTON. H.0.AE. b4 SMeCnnal, ] Homphill, et » | SHowoowsd PR |mewooaton l.u..e.a:o PYPRSSRASS wldowaruwal B s S S Gt oe R ¥} pron P ouiinnnd “loeso 00200011 %4 10001000 0-2 Speaker, Wagne; Sacrifice hits: , Wagner. Stolen bases Wolur. Aus- tin. 'Left on bases: Boston, 8; New York, Vg' Base on errorl Struck out: ‘y of Arelunm Base on balls: f . HIC by pitehed ball: By Hail, Aullln ts: “Off Arellanes, ¢ in three and one- third innings; off Hall, 2 In Tourt and two- thirds innings. jme : . Umplres: Connolly ‘and Dineen, Games Postponed. CHICAGO, April 16-8t. Louls-Chicago game postponed, account of rain. HAT PROBLEM "IN COURT London Magistrate ate B s that The- LONDON, April 15.~Henry Curtis Ben- | nett, & Cass Bow street magistrate, tackled the matinee hat question today and finally rendered judgment that the management of a theater had the right to efect women patrons who refused tu remove thelr “cartwheel” headgear. NEW YORK WINS ITS FIRST| Sioux City Fans® Expect to Have Wiining Team 01d and New Players Show Up Well at Practice and Patrons of Game Are Enthusiastic. SI0UX CITY, Ta., April 16.—(Special)— The Stoux Oity team has gone into its last week of prattice with the prospects very bright for starting the season with a win- ning team. The pennant is not claimed as the personal property of the locals, but it is believed that when the season closes the local team will be within at least hail- Ing distance of the coveted emblem, Man- ager Babe Towns and President Tom P. Falrweather fully appreclate the advantagé of a winning team from a commercial standpoint and they intend to have a team that will be worth the fans' while. It they dom't get away right they will strengthen up. Towne and Charles Miller, a new man from the Texas league, Who .surcly is & 8004 catcher, will do the backstopping. In this department the Packers will be equal to any team In.the league, if not superior, There are at prosent eight pitchery on the roll, including . James Freemad, 'Dal Alderman, ' Joe' Chabek, Jeft' Clarke, Kiddo Wilson of last year's -team, Sam McLean, ‘Powell Burnett and -Bruce Noel, a left-hander. Five of the men are known to Western league fans'and are in £00d_ shape. . Dal - Alderman, .a : southpaw, and Jimmy Freeman are in fine shape, and it they fall to deliver the goods this year it will be.a shock to their friends and a sore disappolntment to themselyes. Clarke, Chabek and Wilson appear to be right and Manager Towne 1ooks for a gobd year from all of them. Burnett comes from the Tekas league and looks like a fixture on the team. McLean comes from the Conneoticut | league, where last season ‘e had a very, successful season’ with Springfield: Mass Neel I8 a young man and it is thought he will be a sensation in the league. The infield looks particularly good. Stem, who played part of last year with the Bos- ton Nationals and made a: very 'good record, {s' showing' up fine on first Base and will be a tower, of, strength to- the and. and sacker, never looked better-in his life and undoubtediy: will play his usual good game at second. Manager Towne became Aoubt- ful of the coming of Truesdale to play purchased Lee Quillin from Quillin 18 ‘well known on the cireuit, having played with Lincoln in 1908, Harry, Weleh will again perform around third and is a player of known abil- ity, as well as some sticker. In Bert Nob- Jett the Packers will probably , have the best utility man in the league. The outfleld probably will be made up of Collins at left, Cy Nelghbors in center and Fenlon in right, with Albert Isbell & pos- wibility. Nelghbors ,comes from the'South- ern league and is sure of his position, as is Fenlon. Orth Collins recently was be- cured from Minneapolis and is a finished flelder and & good batter. Collins, Noel, Quilitn and Wilson all ¢ome from Minneapolis and the quartet. should make their presence felt In this league. Towne and. Fairweather are on good terms ‘with the other managers' in the league and they look for a fine year on the cireuit. When Joe Cantillon was here recently he sald he never saw the Western league looking 0 good. Hot Game on Cold Day. CRAIG, Neb, April 16.—(Special )—The Cralg High sohool defeated the Oakland High schpol at the gameé of base ball here laflyby a -cmuimc. The feature of J‘ pitehing of Hawthorne tor-Cralg, he -noflu no ;’z:. no runs and striking out twelve men. was cold aod raw, the -nu? u—ll u de- greea during the entire team. Gedrge Andreas, the veteran second, KING, PATTON, POTTS, WELCH, BEELEY, HOLLENBECK , CONDING - ST. JOE-ON BASE. BALL MAP Opening of Season is Declared Legal Half Holiday. PPN MILITARY 'AND CIVIC PARADE Fans Are Enthusinstic Over Prospects Say Dopesters Who Consigned Team to Subway Must Re- vise Estimates. ST, JOSEPH, April 16.—(Special)—If the Wenther man will just get on his good be- havior St. Joséph will Inaugurate its re- entry to the Western league on Friday in a manner that will set a precedent hard to follow. Declared & legal half holiday by Mayor “Pet” Clayton, Friday 18 to 'be given over to & pure celebration of the re- Juvenation of lggalized base ball in the metropolls of northwest Missourl. The Des Molnes ' chaipions of 1909 are carded to open the season here and while Jack Hol- land’'s Drummers may not “wipe the earth” with the visitors, local’ fans are confident that they will make such a show- ing that zealous scribes and dopesters of other Western league cities will be obliged €0 revamp. thelr forecasts «which put St. Joseph into the subway. No matter what the result of the opening game may show, when the final score is fotalled the Des’Moines players, it is be- lieved will ‘be o unit in the opinion that the infant of the league’ knows how to inaugurate its season. % Fans Are Enthusiastic. For six years St. Joseph fans have been obliged to satisty. their desire for base ball with' corner 1ot games and series by semi- protessionals, although last year Lincoln found it convenlent and was financlally Justitled ‘in’ transterring several contests which could not be played in the Nebraska city because of the “blue laws' In December Jack Hollaud = purchased the Pueblo franchise for $.000 and agreed to land it hwere if St. Joseph people would ralse 37,600 to aid him. On January 6, while the ' thermometer hovered way Below the zero mavk, loyal boosters tramped about in the eold and snow and raised $9,2%, which was later supplemented by enough to cover the '$10,000 mark and St Joseph was again on- the hass. ball map. Firs Chief “Pat” Kane will head'a pro- cosslon to League park that will be som thihg of ‘a surprise to visitors as well as home ‘folks' - ‘Bands ‘galore, the National Gudird of four ' companies, Including the hospital corps‘and its' ambulances, the po- Tice “ patrol, practically all the fraternal orders of the city, including Mofla patrol, the Shriners’ 'Arabic dArlll company and uniformed ranks of the various lodges, ase ball enthusigsts and city offizisls and cltizens “in automobliles, together with a score™or more_of floats representing the packing house, wholesale, manufacturing and’ business interests will form the page- ant. " At League, park Mayor Clayton will hesve over the first ball and President Bohniefder of the German Americaw bank, Who subscribed $10 tor season ticket No. 1, will be at the recelving end., There may be 8 few brief remarks on St. Joseph us a base ball vity and then the initial struggle of S Joseph's first season since 1904 in the Western will be en. Holland's mwen have made good Showings in the seascn of exhibition games snd have devoted every effort to a thorough training and Holland and his confidantes only give one comment: “We may not be at the top, but those who travel faster will know that ‘they've been eomewhere.” Alderman from Under Ban. T0WA CITY ]l-. Abrfl u——(vom.)—u» 'man, the star q:rr- of lowa, lu bility cl-b. as the !unmy hu nnu bans, aud he will be ‘This an- ved } be sranted his unmun e ....r..'.'.“'fl:. sheered the Student body, as thin Budlsie.jo cou on for many polats ln uu mh ml-; FIGHTS SUMMER BASE BALL RULE Cornhuskers Serve Notice on Other Teams They Will Not Pretend to Observe Dead Law. WILL NOT cn'm‘! PLAYERS Instances of Hov Raule is Evaded in " _ Eastern Schools, SOME INFORMATION FOR KANEAS Names of Jayhawker Players Not Eligible Will Be Given. CONFERENCE NEXT THURSDAY Presidents of Missouri Colleges Meet at Kan Oty to Discuss Foot Ball Matter May Come Up Then. LINCOL April 16.—(8pecial.)—Nebraska stands in the most discouraging position of being either forced to abandon the games on ‘its base ball schedule or to forsake its position on the summer base ball question and certify to the eligibility of its players, ' with full knowledge that they are profes- sionals within“the meaning of the anti- summer ball rule of the Missourl valley conference and clearly ineligible under that regulation for intercollegiate base ball con- tests, To follow the course of ocancelling all games with Missouri valley and Chicago conference teams would mean that the season of 1910 would be ruined for the Corn- huskers and that the nine would probably , dlsorganize without atempting to carry out the farce of playing secondary schools or teams from insfitutions that observe no eligibllity rules whatsoever. But to select the only other way open to the Nebraska board—that of certitying to the amateur standing of the players—would | mean that the summer base ball proposi- tion would be no nearer a solution than it was & year ago and that the Corn- husker board should have to continue to make its students glve false statements re- | gording thelr standing in athletics. This, action would be contrary to the Nebrask board's sense of equity and the mombm] of the board will not think of adopting it. I They mean to fight out the campalgn that they have inaugurated against anti-summer base ball legisiation and they mean that, this fight shall be carried on until the solus tlon to the perplexing problem is found, ®ven If the University of Nebrasks does not have a base ball organization for five years, Notice to Kansas the Start. The refusal to play Kansas under the conferynce eMgibllity rule relating to nn-l mer ball, was the opening move of the crusade by the Cornhuskers, lowa, Ames, | Drake, Missour! and ‘Minneséta are bcln(\ served with simflar notices to the ohe which was sent to Kansas: “Nebraska| belleves its base ball men are as eligible as any of past years or as any in the cone| ferences,. but it will ot certify to their eligibility under the summer ball regula- tom . This notice will undoubtedly elicit from the other schools of the conference the same tart message that . Kansas sent: “Cannot play Nebraska unless athletio board: wiil' certify to eligibility of its play-| ers.” This, indeed, §s the reply that the Cornhusker ‘board expects; it will be sur- prised stiould any other messige come, as the matter must be taken before the con- ference body in drder to permit any school to play Nebraska, without the .Corn- husker board's having slgned a statement testifying to the elgibility of its men. The refusal of the conference schools to play Nebraske will, of course, ‘cause the Cornhuskers to abandon the games already booked for the present season, The Ne- braska board has thought deeply of the consequences that will follow Its determina~ tion to fight for summer base ball, but it has been willing to go ahead and force the question to an lssue even at the cost of losing & season of base ball. For many years Nebraska and many other schools of the west have been tiréd' of the attempts to keep university and col- ' lege athletes out of semmi-professional ball during the summer months. In the east, ahd in_several other parts of the country, the schools have come to. the decision that summer base -ball among college students 18 an evil which cannot be destroyed. Try they may and draft rulgs as they please, the university - governing bodles cannot keep \young. and skilled players from earn- ing easy dollars during the summer by playing ball “Better Than Peddling.” A majority of the young men who use their skill to earn money during vacations aré forced to pAy part of their way through cojlege. They could peddle in the summer, work on a rallroad gang or farm; but such Iabor s too strenuous for the average col- lege man, and then, it is not as “honor- ble” as playing ball. So ‘those college athletes who can draw pay for their ball playing accept positions each summer with the semi-professional teams of the coun- try, ‘Most of these men draw. §ood salaries. No faculty ever is able to get any tangible evidence. that the athletes réceived money. Many subterfuges are resorted to in order to evade the penalty imposed by the sum- mer ball : regulations. Some - of ‘the ' men sell cigars’ over the counter of the popu- Jar tobaceo stand in the town on whose team they play. The hours of the base ball man in the clgar store usually average about six a week; he is on the job for an hour each evening after the game, and Auring that time he smokes more cf than he s This system is the plan of evasion followed In the weatern states. In the east, the colloge ball player is & member of & summer resort hotel team. He Is supposed to be waiting tables for his board and playing ball for exercise. The truth s, that nearly 100 per cent af the east- ern ball players never carried a napkin across thelr arm and probably would be worse than a bull in a china shop if they ensayed to drift through the swinging doors of a dining room with a tray of dishes. “The Rule is Wrong."” Buch rulings as make college athigfes re- #ort to the shifting tactics adopted by the ‘summer’”* ball players are radically wrong in spirit, for they make llars and cheats out of coliege men, This s the. view of the proposition taken Dby the Nebrasks athletic board. And to re- move the cause of the Iying and decelving among college piayers is the reaton for the