Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 24, 1910, Page 31

» . ) » v THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: APRIL 'l‘ln‘,’())MMlA SuNDAY Ber [ MAHA, SUNDAY, APRIL 24 190 \ 4 il Y et |JUDGMENTS OHN KLING has shown himself lack- ing in the qualities of a good sport. He 1s a poor loser, very poor loser. More than this, he has proved his lack of good faith, Kling, after mak- Y& o contract to play with Chicago, at a fixed malary, jumped It when he saw a chance to increase his Income, Without prec- e of procedure in law to justify ita wtdon, the National Commission, despite anything It may say, reinstated Kiing, be- cpuse of his prominence as & player, | though his offense was a high crime in base | hall. Ome would think a man fedeemed | from such outlawry would hail his ransom with satisfaction and apparently Kling did. He, made a big show of his appreciation pfcer po happy In my lite,” he said when twi¥ Commission passed on his case, levy- & @ fine of §10. “The Commission's authority Is supreme; we must abide by what it says. I'll pay the fine and return to the game happy and contented.” But time passes_and he falls to return. Charley Murphy, obeying a natural prudence in| things financial, and deferring to the de-| cree of the Commission, refused to pay| Kiing's tine. The next we hear Is that Kiing | {8 soing Inté a combine to form a rival| league, & elear bluff. But what changed his tune? Kling must take the base ball worid | rnrihmch of dupes, not to think he fully | expM il Murphy to pay his fine and that| ™ oply bluffing in all that nice show | of contrition. The fact ia Kling was not in| g00d faith. He has not appreciated the con- spicuous’ exception the Natlonal Commis- sfon made In his case, but if the Commis- | sion does not appreciate it before the effect | passes we miss our guess. We beleve it to have been the most serfous error that could | have been made to refnstate Kling. He has | laughed at base ball law and made a mon- Key of Jts highest tribunal. And why not? Why should any ball player respect its authority when it is thrown to the winds in | such manner? Garry Herrman says he s sick of the whole Kling case, but it would have been Whtter had his nausea come on before he voted with Mr. Lynch and against Ban Johnson to throw down the bars and allow this rebel to rejoin the army he had | betrayed. - Presidént Lynch of the National league tarts out by making a very strong bid for deserved unpopularity with a foolish order prohibiting newspaper correspond- 7" ents from taking “action” photographs of yers on the dlamond. He gives as his éxcuse that It Interferés with the game. Interferes, indeed! Then we suppose that President Lynch, to ba consistent, will fol- low thig with a ruling that no spectators shall be'allowed on the inside of the fences, for certainly they Interfere with the play. 1t Is possible that in the cqurse of a season or two a photographer may interfere with the handling of a foul ball; he could no do more than that. But we say possible, not probable. Certainly it occurs all to rarely to call for a ruling on the subject. But about the overflow crowds. They are fre- quent and invarlably they not only inter- fere with the play, but often influence the result of a game, at the same time de- stroying its real interest to the fan. But overflow crowds mean dollars at the box office and that is what it takes to pay the salary of President Lynch and others. He would be illogical to put.a bau on the overflow erowd, then. President Lynch has really made a show of himself. Take publicity that the newspaper reporter and photographer glve to baseball away T trom the game and what would you have left? President Lynch would not even have a job left. He'll simply have to make another ruling, that's all.' Omaha went along in the preliminary skirmishes losing abou: every game, so that when at Wichita i won the opening contest of the season home fans naturdlly felt that the pre-season losses indicated nothing, as Indeed, they did. Of course, winning the first game at Wichita may in- dicate nothing, but it is just as well to have won it—it counts one game in the finals. But that isn't the point—we be- lieve Omaha has & gool ball team this vear and we should not- be surprised to | the victory ours. Certalnly President | ind ;wrn has labored hard for two years to build up & winning team, ‘He has bought men with real money, men whom ather teams wanted and we hope he will #et the prise, but it is & fight this year. Several Western league teams look mighty strong. It s {mpossible at this time to predict the Outcome. May the best team win, Comiskey came out flat-footed with his answer to that time-honored question, “Who s the greatest ball player of all time?" ““Ty Cobb,” he shouted, clear and plain, Well, with all the Old Roman's ght to an expert opinion on the subject ~andyhle opinion must and will have welghtythere will be some to ditfer with him. But who can know as well as this man who came up through the ranks of ase ball, attaining the top rounds of Breatness as a player himself and later 4s & manager and owner. Many believe Comiskey the greatest figure that ever loomed upon’ the base ball horizon. At ANy rate, we must respect his view. President O'Neill showed the proper spirit in going to St. Joseph for the dpening, but he did not see a ball game. But we can all overiook that fact in view of the splendid browd that filed the park and made §ood ball impossiblo. Come again. Qla St. Joe b#s had the right sort of ' sawakening. Not a man in the regular line-up of Minneapolls but has been in the major leagues, and most of them were former White Sox. Of these are Altrock, Cravath, Patterson, Gill, Ferrls, Owens (cateher), Altiger, TIMING AUTOMOBILE RACE Invention of an Instrument that Makes a Printed Record. HOW THE DEVISE OPERATES Personal Eles the Record Made by Racing Ma- chines—Records Fractl: of Secomds. Even the casual reader bas no doubt ob- served that automobile records are now expressed in hundredths of a second, whercas but a few months ago It was im- possible to obtain any greater precision than fifths of a second, all of which in- dicates that the use of the time-honored split-second stop-watch has been outgrown in automobile races. When one stops to think about it, it is really absurd to try to time an automobile traveling anywhere from a mile to two miles and over per minute with an indicator that crawls at a snail's pace around a dial but an Inch and a quarter in diameter. In the recent race at Ormond, for Instance, where the mile record was reduced to .83 seconds by Barney Oldfield, he was traveling nearly 200 feet each second, which is equivalent to the length of an ordinary New York City block. When automobiles were first used for racing purposes they were timed by hand with stop-watches. But, wherever an operator s depended upon to snap a stop- watch, inaccuracies are apt to creep in, due to the fact that one person is quicker of perception than another. The timer must wee the start of the race, and as soon as this impression s recelved must Start his watch; then at the close of the race the same operation must be undergone to stop the watch. The time required for this mental and physical operation vartes in dif- ferent persons, and is known as the per- sonal element. Not only does it vary with different times, depending upon his mental and physical condition. For this reason, even In the timing of foot races it was long ago found necessary to have three timers and to take the time of the middie watch, for the instruments of thé three timers varied as much as three-fifths of a second. Stop Watches Too Slow. Early in the history of automobile racing an effort was made to eliminate the per- sonal element by having stop-watches snapped automatically by the cars them- selves making or breaking an electrical contact when they crosséd the starting and finishing tapes. But, as we have just pointed out, even with the personal ele- ment eliminated, stop-watches are entirely too slow to record the time of so rapidly moving an object as a racing automobile. The experiment of using a chronograph was tried In several of the races last year, but, as this dld not prove very satistactory, Mr. C. H. Warner of the Warner Instru- ment company determined to make a spe- clal instrument particularly adapted for this purpose. This instrument was first used at Atlanta last December, and has just beem emplayed for timing the Ormond and Day- tona races. It works with the utmost pre- | cision, is entirely automatic, and makes @& | printed recoed of the race reading to hun- | dredths of & second. The necessity of such | great refinement of timing will be appreci- ated when one considers that the ““Lightning Bens" during its record mile run was trav- | eling at the rate of 218 inches at every | hundredth of a second before or at the moment that the catch Is withdrawn by the chronometer. In this way a very aceurate check Is kept on the thning of the motor, which can be regulated to within 1-1,000 of a second of the speed of the chronometer. In order to avold a false start due to & person’'s walking against or tripplag over the tape lines, the timing Instrument is eut out of eircuit with the starting lines Mr. Warner's instrument consists of four|Until just befofe an gutomobile is about to type wheels, one of which indicates hours, [touch them. An assistant gives a sigaal to the next minutes, the third seconds and [the operator of the Instrument at the proper the last one hundredths of a second. The|!ime, and he throws in & switch just in wheels are operated after the manner of | time to catch the record of the automobile. an odometer instrument. Over the wheels At the same time the assistant calls out the runs a strip of paper, and above that a |Pumber of the automobile, which the oper- typewiter ribbon, and & record s made by |tor enters on the slip o paper alongside & hammer actuated by an electro-magnet, of the registered time. Whe (he . GAr which strikes the ribbon And paper against | Feaches a distant wire, the fact ia communi- the type wheels. In the eireult of the mag- | CAted to the operator's assistant by tele- net which operates the hammer is a relay |Phone. It will be observed that no personatl switch controlled by an electro-magnet in | lement whatever enters into the recording a eiroult that is normally closed, This|Of the time made by the machines, and closed circuit 18 connected wih the start- that everything is automatic except the. ing and finishing tapes, o with tapes at |TéFulation of the speed of the motor and other points where It 18 desirable to record | the entering of the automobile numbers the time. The tape consists of a wir“)np]\n!\u‘ the records they have made.—Sel- stretched across the course at a height [entfic American of a few inches from the und, and this R 1, T . o 5 SEEKING FEDERAL AUTO LAW wire is connected to a switch ingeniously constructed to be opened by the shock | o L T L an Gives Practienl Effect to Agitation. rather than an Increase of tension when | A committee from the Chicago Motor the wire Is struck by the wheels of an :‘u'l"m“m'f “"':‘ iy _"w";" 'f".']“""('v““ club, headed by President David Beecroft, nstrument prits A record. The WD |g.iretary Harry T. Clinton and ex-Presi- dent F. C. Donald, went to Washington wheels are frictionally mounted on a driv- ing shaft, which Is rotated by an electric |\, 4 yeqx (o present to Congressman James R. Mann a petition signed by several thou- motor. At the start of the race they are held stationary, and are not released untll| .,y opjcaga motorists urging favorable action at the earllest possible date upon the starting wire Is depressed, when th: print zero and they begin their revolutions. | iy, gegeral registration automobile bill, The hundredths wheel makes & revolution | cor e e T . of the Interstate and Forelgn Commerce commit- every two seconds. tee, which has charge of this automobile bill. His congressional district is In Chi- cago and the members of the Chicago Motor club, Chicago Automobile elub, Chi- cago Automobile Dealers' assoclation and other leading motorists who have been thoroughly aroused over the necessity of having the Dbill orought before congress for action at the present session, have adopted this means to show their repre- sentative how strongly they regard the im- portance of this bill. Charles Thaddeus Terry, chairman of the legislative board of the American Automo- bile assoclation, has been in receipt of many letters during the last two weeks from leading motorists in many parts of the country stating that both personally and through their clabs urgent appeals are being made to their congressmen for favor- able action on the bill. Among these are George J. Schieicher of Cuero, Tex., and T. A. Westmyer, secretary of the West Virginia State Automoblle assoclation, who in a conference with Willlam P. Hubbard of Wheellng, and a member of the Inter- state and Forclgn Commerce committee, told the- latter that if a motorist from Pittsburg, Pa., wished to go to Cambridge, 0., over the national highway he would have to pass through sixteen miles of the State of West Virginla, and, according to the state’s law, would be compelled to pay a license of §10; then, when he reaches Ohlo he will be held up again and have to pay the Ohlo license of $5, notwithstanding the fact that the motorist is a resident of Chronometer Chedks. Obviously, the most important part of the instrument 1s the regulation of the electric | motor which drives the type wheels. It is impossible to construct a notor ko porfect or a storage battery that will discharge o | uniformly that there will not be the slight- est vibration In the rotation of the driving shatt. However, the instrument 13 so ar- ranged that at the end of every second its speed is automatically checked up with an accurate chronometer. At one end of the driving shaft is a double-armed lever, and in the path of this arm s a small catch corinected with the armature of an electro- magnet. The chronometer acts through a relay circult to energize this magnet every second, thus moving the catch onut of the path of each arm of the lever. The motor is regulated to turn the shaft cver so lightly faster than one turn in two seconds, s0 that each arm strikes the catcn just an instant before it Is witadrawn. Secured to the base of the Instrumant at ono side is a little “telitale” indicator, form'ng (he ar- mature of an electro-magnet. The circult of the magnot is closed whenever the arm and eatch eontact, thus giving the “telltale” a slight throb every second. The operator of the Instrument watches Lhis ‘‘telitale,” one hand on the governor of ths elsctric motor, and if the ‘“telitale” indicator ‘In- gers too long at each contact of the arm and cateh he slows up the motor a trifle, whereas if the “telitale” falls to register a contact he speeds up the motor slightly, 50 that the arm will strike the catcn just Pennsylvania holding & lcense in that state. “He gave me to understand,” Sec- retary Westmyer adds, that he was In tavor of the bill" P. M., Milner, president of the Motor | League of Loulsiana states that he has re- celved assurances from the senators and representatives of that state that they will support the measure. Constitutionally, he belleves the bill is without flaw, and as an attorney of the United States supreme court he has given his opinion to that ef- fect to the members of the committee. Others Wwho are taking an energetio part in this campaign for automobile registra- tlon uniformity are: Frank C, Battey and Arthur W. Solomon of the SEavannah Auto- mobile club; (George B. Ellis of the Auto- mobile Club of Southern California, Los Angeles; William J. Murray, president of Automobile club of St. Paul, and W. R. B. Whittler of Chattanooga, Georgia. AUTO Cmu"fl' ON THE COAST San Franciseo, Los Angeles and Other Westesn Clties Included. LOS ANGELES, Cal, April 2.—Automo- bile racing enthusiasts on the Pacific coast are clated over the fact that the coast Is to have a new racing circuit which will include this city, San Francisco and other centers, thus placing the auto racing' game on & sounder basis hereabouts. The an- nouncement that the new circult s to be formed was made shortly after the closing of the meeting of the néw board motor- | drome at Playa del Rey by A. 8. M. Butler, | chalrman of the American Automobile as- soclation contest board. Mr. Butler will visit a number of coast cities, winding up his trip at Portiand, Ore. Mr. Butler said that his intentlons were to organize a circult, making the coast a prominent section In natural auto- mobile affairs. “1 must state that I am very well satis- fled with the enthusiasm displayed over the game in this part of the country,” said | Mr. Butler. “I can very well see that It is| progressing rapidly. We have accomplished | much in this city and hope to do more. My sole purpose in going north and visit- Ing other coast cities is simply to plan for the organizing of a racing clroult, a plan which ¥ hope will give California the best racing possible. “Already I have my plans formed, and all that is necessary now is to get right down to real hard work and make the thing & reality. I have the assurances of the manufacturers, the dealers, the racers and others to co-operate with the national board. Harmony prevalls,-and I am sure that we will be suscessful in our attempt to glve Callfornians even better auto rac- ing than they now. enjoy. “According tp our plans, we are going to send the promlaent racers from the east during the winter months, when the racing in the emst is at practical standstil. I| think that in time we will have the country so well covered that there will be con-| tinual racing In every part of the United| States. This is not my final trip here. ! Next winter I shall make another one, and | by that time we hope to have all our plans realized. I like this new motordrome very much, It is a world beater, and I am quite sure that it has opened the eyes of the eastern racing followe: | THAT THAT THAT how to LI Awthur sho'- did have one ‘time ‘n Omaha. He admits it himself. But there Were rather green eyes cast at him Friday Hlght. when he broke Into soclety. _ Noise ia all right, but the Jeftries fol- ?-an will be content it they get a little ption on-July ¢ ‘Camplon” Jack Johnson, at any rate, the only man who has any vald a rolar- ¥y right <. 8kipper BUL teil fnto the two-bagger gait aud Just got out in that first game. .‘E\hl Authey Is having lots of fun whaling the ball up at St. Paul. K Jimmy Austin is starting out hitting bet- ter than he closed last season. In logking up the standing of Washing. look down as usual. 3 ——— Juhwmwurln yet before he v @ . ‘ ¥ luuw winter at that. oA R. R. KIMBALL A Little Good Common Sense Will help youlselect the right automobile. Now that alleged factories are springing up over night and ‘‘dealers” on every block, all of them with the “only” car, the buyer WHO HAS SENSE should use it. . Common Sense Will Tell You a company who were building FINE MACHINERY 25 years before the day of automobiles should build a better automo- bile than a plow or farm wagon factory who have just plunged into the auto business. a company who BUILT (not assembled) 2,000 automobiles in 1903 (and every one of them still doing good service)—who have built an increasing number each year, reaching 10,000 in 1909-—would seem to be a better basis than a concern who started in 1909 and claim they will turn out 15,000 or 25,000 in 1910, or than any concern who has just started. a company offering their FIFTH MODEL 4-cylinder car, brought out in five consecutive years, building several thousand of each model, each improved by the experience of the preceding, should be more likely to have a car free of faults than any company producing their first or second 4- cylinder car. THAT the company who could win in the ‘‘Dewar’’ trophy on a standardization test must haye a wonder- fully perfect organization. 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