Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 13, 1915, Page 41

m OMAHA. SUNDAY BEE: JUM 13, 1915, Brin_ging Up~ WELL-MAGGIE -|F YOU WON'T LET ME GO OUT-KIN | HAVE A FRIEND OR TWO CALL ON ME ! l Judgments ‘ | A ROURKE is having more than his share of trouble in trying !o‘ locate a couple of serviceable, pitchers. He has ransacked the | country from coast to coast, and | from Canada to Mexico, in hopes of get- !ting hold of a twirler who can pitch nine | innings without blowing up.. Hardly a day passes but we are informed of a | couple of new names on the Rourke | roster, followed by the announcement that a couple more have disappeared. | Blodgett and Johnson are still showing something like class, but none of the others are up to the mark. Hallman has shown signs of having a good heart, and it he has something to go with his courage, he may do. Clossman is a dis- appolntment so far, and as for the others, they simply do not count, With the team batting and flelding as it is, winning games is easy when a rellable pitcher goes into the box. Pa is not through vet, and his activity shows that he at least does not expect the league to blow up at once. Something of a shock was given the fans during the week and a very un- pleasant one, too. when the announce- ment came out from Chicago that Christy Mathewson was slipping. The story had it that he was in much the same fix that big E4 Walsh found himself, a nervous trouble having developed that gave him excruclating pains across the shoulders ‘whenever he undertook any violent exer- tion. This caused much gloom, but the answer came on Friday, when the Old Master went into the box at St. Louis ~and won his game with quite a margin. Mathewson is not only a fixture, but is | pugilistic stuff in a calm ané dlspaseion- | have apologized to each other and proin- | Father WITH THE OMAHA AMATEURS‘ Leaders Tumble in Several Lengnen,' Including Armours, Who Give Way to Luxus, BAKER SIGNS WITH STORZ By FRANK QUIGLEY. Judging the situation relative to the ate manner, the writer {s unable to con- celve whero anything radically wrong really happened. A few of the boys being strained to their highest pitch on account of being defeated and then to help matters along the fans coughed up a few sarcastic remarks, consequently the re. sistible powers of the local ball tossers were smashed to smithereens and a few blows were landed. Since then the boys fsed with all the sincerity in the world to do all In their power to avold these tangles hereafter. Base ball squabbles never amount to much because they are pulled off on the spur of the moment and are mended nearly as fast. Small tangles eventually grow the same as other things that start on a small scale so it would be a good idea to obliterate them on the jump off. Lenders Lowe Grl After the shuffle last Sunday a few of the leaders were found among the miss- ing. In the Greater Omaha league the Armours were shoved out of first place and the Luxus tribe are wearing the crown. How long they will be the king pins 1s a conundrum difficult to solve bec: the present writing all of the class teams are dishing up a relizhable article of base ball. The Trimble Bros, got it Into their also an ornament to the game of base ball, and no man ever connected with it ‘would be followed into retirement by the honest affection and admiration of more devotees of the sport than he. Tyrus Cobb has very early annexed the pinnacle of fame for 1915. He is leading in all departments of the game, and is so far ahead that it isn't lkely he will be overtaken. Second place may be fought for by the rest, but there's only one first, and that Georgia peach. It will be noted in this connectlon thut Tyrus is now giving his entire attention to base ball. He hasn't staged any fights on or off the dlamond, hasn't committed any sort of act 1o achieve notoriety outside of his ball playing, and is depending for his press agent stuff on his abllity as an athlete solely. And this course is winning for Tyrus more sincere attention that he ever had in all his life. If 1 per cent of the talk that is heard is finally backed up by the coin, the wrestling natch here on July § will see the biggest bit of betting ever noted in this country at a similar event. Several tons of money is already baled up in “he Fikhorn country, ready for shipment here, to accommodate anything the Chi- cago crowd may bring over with them. Jim Flynn {sn't much of a white hope any more, but he did some little service by ‘placing his tvory-top in the way of Jim Coffee's mits on Decoration day. It is now admitted that Coffee was not the man to whip Jess Willard. As a matter of fact, that dope was simply the New York wish that a champlon might come | out of Gotham. It isn’t likely the war had anything to do with it, but Krueger simply could't abide the thought of a Frenchman holding fivgt place in the Western league batting lst, so he just slammed out a fine little bineh of drives, and is now perched on the top rung. What's more, he's iikely [and Giants are far faster than last year plenty of ability in practice, but was & to stay there, too. Jack Hendricks got an indefinite sus- pension over at Indlanapolis for rudely barking at an nmpire. If Jack had been strung U everytime he did that when In the Western, he'd only have been on the grounds about three times during the | season. That three-hands-round trade of men between St. Joe, Wichita and St. Louls didn’t strengthen the St. Joe pennant prospects to any great extent, but there's never any telling what Jack Holland will de. They're slamming the college bred ball player now hecause he is looking out for a It plece of the price; but who was it gave him the notion of the com- mercial side of the game? Don't overlook the fact that the team will be at home on Tuesday afternoon; %0 out and show the hoys tifey are wtill in right with the home folks. Larry McLean has proved that base is taken by thel think tanks that they should hold down the fort and be the main springs of the Inter-City league, consequently they whipped their noble opponents, namely the Brown Parks Juniors during an eleven-inning battle last Sunday and waltzed up a notch. They are now tled up for first place with the South Omaha Midgets. Plan a Banguet, At the meeting Wednesday Louis Cook sald it was imperative that the man- agers should take more interest in the affalrs of the assoclation. He also told of his plan which was recently ap- proved by the board of directors whereby financial ald could be secured that would easlly put the assoclation on a firm and sound basis financially. Sald plan s to dispose of tickets to different fans llnd| especlally the business men of the city, | which entitle purchaser to witness all the elimination and champlonship Contenul staged towards the termination of the season. It is hoped to procure enough money through this method to defray the | expenses of the different teams that come to Omaha and the ones from here that will Journey elsewhere to participate | in the championship series of the different { classes in the National Association of | Amateurs. After these games are his- tory, it emough money is available, it is the wishes of the directors to have a {big banquet at the Auditorlum for all | vicinity, Big Battle Today. 4Ho is fast on his the ball tossers in Greater Omaha and | cormlm_ International News WELL -BY GOLLY-\VE GOT TO HAVE SOME ONE TO TALK TO! WHEN | GIT THIS LEAKIN' 400D 1.L GO DOWN STAIRSY AN WAIT FER RESULTS! uu\fllhilmflm‘,;.," 1 = ol Juire will alternate with Joe Adams on |hn firing line (m the Anclent Order of nited Workm: Next Sunday lhr Council Bluffs Im- perials will sall up to Pender, Neb.,, and endeavor to whip the village ball tos- scrs stationed there. Silk Hat MNarry Smith is a fine brand of base ball for the Luxus troupe. good with the stick. Oodles of enmity exists between the Omaha and Lincoln crews of the Bur- lington, Ao & warm contest is anticipated when they bump today. On bag three, Baudo, Is playing classy base bail for the Midland Glass and Paint squad. With men on the paths he is a rellable gent with the pole. On the slab IHeo Carter is slinging them like a regular wiz for the Stara and Stripes. It s a difficult matter to ring hits oft of his shoots. Last week a new téam was organized to be known as the Thirtieth Street Merchants. Grant Golden is at the helm for the conglomeration of stars. Approximately fifty rooters, the ma- fority of them belonging to the fairer sex, will journey to Lincoln, Neb,, today with the Burlington Red Soc Next Sunday the Stars and S buck up agalnst the village base ball manipulators at Missouri Valley. This team Is now traveling at a merry clip. At last Harry J. Dalley decided to come out of his hole of seclusion and decorate the scenery. He is a humdinger in the inner works. Call him at Web- #ter 3214. In the center have a dandy WHAT BASE BALL CLUBS COST | Jack Holland, owner of St. Joseph Team, Gives Detailed Expendi- tures of Western League Club. MUST SELL PLAYERS T0 WIN Jack Holland, owner of the St. Joseph base ball club, has prepared some Inter- esting figures regarding the expense of running & base ball club in the Western league. Jack has been calling for more help from the St. Joe fans and at the re- quest of the St. Joe Booster club he prepared the statement which was audi- ted by a committes of twelve business men and declared oorrect. The situation in St. Joseph is much the same as in other cities and the ex- pense is practically the same all over the league. Holland's report as concerns the expense of running the team is as follows: “For some reason, when things are golng bad, there are always a few people who take it upon themselves to tell the public why We are not a success, and for the Information of those who do take it upon themselves by giving advice and telling of the fortunes to be made In base ball, I hereby tender to you and your organization a statement, in order to enlighten you to what It really costs to run a base ball club in the Western league: Training season expense, getting clubs here and hotels. RET Western league dues and N assoclation dues ‘e Blll cl\lb sal four and one- mon\hl. lorms, bats, balls, ense and hotels, dur- pril 23 to September 6. 6,000 Plrk rent, office OIM- park hall). insurance .. 4,300 Miscellaneo: utting out his season He is especially ripes will atch, the Brown Parks ly catcher in Donahue. s and pulls masy ml‘! of the clouds that sall out tagged rits. Another Stors man to hook on with the Woodmen of the World team is Samuel Feltman. He used to pull them out of the sky in the left pasture for the Storz. Danny Donahue will be a candidate for class “A" circles next season if he ki up his present gait. Dan makes ap- proximately fifteen tickle the atmcsphere every game. TWO ginks lland Harry Wiillams are in the Itm: il’hL Onie s hittirg the P“ over the .500 mark for the Dundees and the other is assoclated with the Tcwnsends. It is a shame that Charles Anger, as- soclated with the Brown Park Mer- chants threw out his arm; as a_conse- Quence he will be on the shelf for the balance of the season. Recently Saup has been performing be- hind the bat |n a faultless manner for the Anclent Order of United Workmen. Saup s a versatile player and can hold down most any position. 7 his season L. P. Reger is not me dling ‘Illh base ball. He has turned over the Ancient Order of United Workmen ‘cam to Frank Weleh and all Reger does is to tee that the bills are patd. Hugh Thurtle, the backstopper for the Brown Park Merchants, is conceded the {top notcher of the City league. He Is a heavy and timely whucker and watches the bags like a Pinkerton. Across the waves the Joe Bmiths will entertaln the National Bloomer Girls this afternoon. According to the man- nger of the visions of loveliness, this feam is composed mostly of girls. You will look a long while before you find o ‘more enthusiastic manager . th Tames Milota of the Brown Park Mer- chants. He is always ready to xo out of his way to extend a favor to any of h's players. Today the gates of the new Chrin pll’k will be thrown open. two excellent dl games will be played every Sunday after- neon. A qua of mixes are booled at Clris Lyck D‘rk for today. .Worse Than Busher, He Gets a Good Job |*f + . §30,000 “In order to wmu this expense, we have to draw at least 80,000 people at home and 60,00 people on-the road. “Figuring on our drawing 80,000 people at home, they will average us, net, about 30 cents aplece. ““The visiting club shares 50 per cent of the general admission, which is 25 cents. They get 12 cents for every person that goes in the bleacher and grand stand gates. “You will notice by these figures that the business is figured very close. That is why we have to sell ball players in order to make profits, and T am sure that any fair-minded person will agree that it would be an Injustice to keep a young man down in his profession.” Amateur Games Today | LUXUS PARK. l_'Arlmnlr- ainst Tuxus. Alamitos against Chris NORTH DIAMOND. .: James Corr Electrics against ich four 3:30 p. m.: ltrollc inst Krljlnk- CARTBR LAKE CL 2p m: Bourgo #llnlt A. 0. U. W. South Omaha Merchants IMI. ol‘nl‘ndl against Dlack's | The big game in the Greater Omaha | league today will be the battle royal for sapremacy between the Armours and | Luxus at Twenty-fourth and Vinton streets. At Thirty-second and Dewey the Hollys and Browa Park Merchants will put on a double-header. These contests will be | worth walking blocks to see and country | blocks at that. | Today's games are classed among the banner attractions offered the fans and | should be hotly contested. Both the Storz when they met in their annual games and | broke even, eath team winning two games. In last Sunday's game at Carroll, Ta., | the Giants' star boxman let the home | team down with three hits, scoring ! 3 to 0 victory. ‘ sand Lot Gossip. The Omaha Indians are looking for a speedy outfielder. If you don't contain the ginger, keep still. Call Douglas 512, Schultze of the Dundee Woolen Mills | 1s doing nicely on the slab. He Is a diffi- cult problem to land safely on his twist-| ers. Now that the Trimble Brothers, are on the top roost of the Inter-City league, it | will take a stick of dynamite to jar them | loose. | The Brown Park Juniors were only able to land seven smashes off of Kid Carter's shoots during eleven innings last Sunday. For the Council Blufts Imperials. League rand work on the mound. He led unless he whiffs u dozen Tom Noone was recently placed in charge of the Chris Lycks by their backer, Chris Lyck. He is reorganizing this band. E. J. Brown s the assistant manager | ball and booze will mix—and that the mixture is dangeriusly explosive. my s Crowing. Joe Birmingham is crowing these days because be claimed that Joe Jackson would never make a first baseman. Jack- #on has 3 sore arm and cannot play, and the Indlans are derived of a great hitter. MeLean Turned Dowa. Larcy Mclean's efforts to break into iHe Federal league after being suspended the Bt Louul of the Hayden Brothers congregation. He also umpires nearly every Sunday ' morning. | Shertzer, catcher for the Stars:and | Stripes, was released by Manager Stacey | and Devine will do l.hell’ backstopping hereafter. McGutre, !nrmarlr the Stors lnuw. s Saturda; the World uum Bunday, June %, the Omaha Indians are looking for a game. Pickett at Do 128, or address him at 2411 Blondo street. Madam Rumor has It that Pete Mc- the chief slinger of now performing on Woodmen of the | | monager of a club in the Nebraska State | Pe 1 | fake. ' as follows: | telegraph 10 to pay for his release, to- Ring W. Lardner, who scribbles the tales of the busher and conducts a col- Lmn on the Chicago Tribune, breaks {forth with the following yarn of a Ne- braska State league athlete: Not far from hege there was a little bit of & base ball league; Class Y it would ;have been if it had had any classification at all. Among the players trying for a Job with one of Its clubs was a catcher so chesty that he had to have his protector made to order, The youngster showed Kilpatricks against King- | Peck Co. | | THIRTY-SECOND AND DEWEY AVE. Brown Park Merchants and Hollys will ph\a & double-header, starting at [ %3 Bur- | A . Hlyden Bros. against |len Nash € H.ILLER PARK. .:” Willlams Pharmacy against | A;Ilu glu\ll m.: Trimble Bros. against Vin- ton b | RIVERVIEW PARK | 1:30 p. m,; Soulh Omaha Midgets againsi | Gentleman' 1 | » against St, Fran- | Drexel S8hoe Co. against Nup- horrible frost in a game. The manager decided to release him unconditionally, |and expressed this intention to some of the other players. “Let's have some fun with him first,” lA.\d one. And so lhoy faked a telegram from the Murphy-Did-Its against | '“k:kel \'lclrolu m.: Fontenelles against Brown- WEST DIAMOND. 1:0 p. m.: B Preds against North Twcnl) “fourth Street Merchants. | 2 p. m.: G. A. Neleons against Thor- | EL\IWOQD PARK, EAST DIAMOND. 1:30 m. West leavenworth Mer- ity against ¥Ford Motor Co. 0 p. m.: Kennedy & Beseliis against Nourse M1 Co, WEST DIAMOND, 1 3 p. m. Omaha Printing Co. agalnst &m;he-u lmpru\emen; Club, 3 5 Better tell them," advised the man- d p. m.: Beacon Press against Ne- o braska Auto School, er, “that we will release you for $100, NORTH DIAMOND | It looks like a good chance for you." Walter G. Clarks against The recruit wired the Nebraska club league: “Buy your release for $100 and come at once for $150 per month salary.” The youth showed the telegram to the | manager, who, of course, knew it was a 3% p.m Spring Lake Parks against | Brown Park Junicrs, LAKESIDE PARK 3:90 p. 1. Crews against Twenty- f()lll’(n l'"n»\ Mcrchants. THITY-FIRST AND BOYD p. m Tradesmen John Deere Ilow Co. at Malvern, la Where no time is specified game will | commence at or ahout 3 o'clock Stors ‘VDE)‘ENDENT GIAMFS inst Chicago Leland Glants at Rourke ‘bark - Council Bluffs Imperials at Persia, I | Joo Smiths ageinst Natlonal Bloomer Girls, Athleilc park, Council Biutts. Stars wnd Btripes at Treynor, la. Omaha. Indians uc ‘an get my release for W00 and will | work with you for $10 per month. Wire raflroad fare and $100 for release."’ And that night the youth received by Merchants Hotel against gether with sufficient funds for his trans- portation; also a telegram accepting his terms Whereupon he handed over the $100 to nu Y league manager, who wes so shocked that he forgot himself and handed back 835 of it to the kid &8 a pres- ent. The players who had framed tho first telegram did not recelve & split of the remaining #%5. The young catcher went to the Nebraska State league and is now In his third successful seascs there. y Brewing park, Twenty-sixth Burlingtou Red Sox of Omaha against aurllnuun tenm of Lincoln at Lincoln. ohnut Colts against Athleties at Third 'Allnlelh _?. nol Moores at White to Meet Charley White may Imm July 5 at Canton ferchants sgainst Sam G Need Regulars. first and Ames avenue. Secretary Shettaline of the Phillies says that as oon as the Philies get all of thelr reg. in the pame the Cubs will have no nce to keep up with them. fiithe, meet Johnny Grif- 3-8 Drawn for The Bee by George McManus OMAHA SPEEDWAY FINISHED MONDAY (Continued from Page One.) at the southeast curve and will conduot the spectators’ cars right underneath the track. It will be finished soon. Officials of the Illinols Central rallroad, which has & track right past the main entrance to the speedway, on the south #de, made arrangements last week for ex- tensive changes in thelr track and grad- ing of their right-of-way, to facilitate the railroad traffio to the speed attraction. They plan to have frequent spocial trains to the gate at a nominal fare. Thelr grading and construction work will be- gin shortly, so as to be finished in time to permit direct shipment of the racing cars to the grounds, as well as to be in readiness to handle the crowds for the elimination races and the maln event at holidag time. Track to the Gates, Btreet car services to the speedway will | also be well handled, according to ar- rangements made by officlals of the trac- tion company. It plans & one-minute service over its to the speedway, with a spur track and Y to expedite the traffic right to one of the gates. A large storeroom on auto row is now being used as an office for the advance wsale of tickets and the sending of thou- mands of prospectuses and reservation charts to speed fans throughout the mid- dle wi Twenty girls have been at work there for some time, under the di- rection of Manager Charlie Franke, fold- ing and malling literature, filling ticket orders and doing stenographic work, so the monster enterprise is being heralded far and wide and the result has been a deluge of ticket orders from early birds who want to see the classic race from the cholcest seats. Seats for Thousands. As an Indication of the ties, the andstand and | significant. Carter Lake club line | BY GoLLY -7 DOES ME COOD TO SEE YOU -HOW ARE YOU AND HOW 'S BEVERY THING IN THE OLO WARD * I TEEETFEAOEE e A i mmlhl IH' There will be elght stands facing the stretch near the finish, each having tWelve rows of 130 seats, or 140 | seats per stand, making & total of 11620 | seats In all. Every one will be marked and reserved, and the price of a seat in- cludes gate admission, there being no extras, as at most big speed events throughout the country. Bach of the elght stands will alko have twenty-five boxes in front, each box seating six people, thereby providing for 1,20 box seat reservations. The entire &pace inside the track will also be used In parking autos at reasonable prices, while plenty of free parking space ls provided just outside the ates. Fastest Speed Kings Coming. “That we will have record breaking speed is guaranteed,” says ¥ J. Me- Shane, jr., director of contest: not only by our having the world's fastest track, but also the world's greatest drivers. I expect that by the time the elimination contests begin, we will have at least forty of the best drivers entered. “Under the rules, only seventeen can start, so all but that number of the drivers will be eliminated by the speed trials’ on Saturday and Sunday, July 3 and 4 The fact that such drivers as Ralph De Palma, world's record holder and winner of the recent 500-mile race at Indlanapolls, are coming to Omaha for the race, and the added attraction of a $15,000 gurse insures as fine a bunch of entries as could be wished.™ McShane is gratified by the news from Galesburg that Eddie O'Donnell and Tom Alley were placed first and second in the blg race there Wedneaday. Both are signed up for the world's classic 300-mile race at the Omaha Auto Epeedway July 6, which s a further promise of plenty of speed. James Cards a Fight, Harry James signed articles calling for n ten-round go between Johnny Ritchie, bantam, and Eddje Evers of Rock Island. 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