Omaha daily bee., 1889-06-09

his legs at Cedar Rapids and was sent home
to recuperate. He'll be all o. X. by the 10th.
The Omahas play in St. Paul this after
noon.
The Garneaus and the Suow Flakes play
at Manawa park this afternoon.
The scores of amateur games, If sent IN
to the base ball editor of The BEE, will be
promptly published.
Per order of President Nick Young, of the
National league, hereafter when only one
umpire is engaged in game, he must stand
in his old position behind the batter.
The new Western league is now about or.
ganized with clubs located in Wichita and
Hutchinson in Kansas and Lincoln, Beatrice,
Hastings and Grand Island in Nebraska.
Sandy McDermott, the umpire, receives
only the most fattering encomiums from the
press everywhere he officiates. He will be
in the National league in another season.
Mark that.
Under the new rules the uncertainty of
the game was never so strikingly Illustrated.
Teams with as big a margin as a lead OF SIX
or seven runs in the early part OF the game
have been beaten out when victory seemed
absolute. At Minneapolis, week ago, the
home team had lead OF l0 to In the hfth
inning, but Des Moines went in and made q
in The sixth and in the seventh and won the
game.
Brooklyn's new and clever catcher, Char
ley Reynolds, is known in the west as 1.-THE
pedagogue," because during the winter he is
school teacher. He is twenty-four years of
age weighs 175 pounds, and is five feet nine
inches in height. Reynolds professional
career commenced in 'S6, when he was with
the Leavenworths. In 'S7 he commenced
the season with the Kansas City club and
'SS found him in the ranks of the Blues
Menges' Kansas City Cowboys of the west
ern brand''-and his release was purchased
with that of Long and others.
Miscellaneous Sports.
r A grand cooking main between Omaha
and Chicago Is on the taps for the near fu-
ture.
The Chicago Sporting journal Is one of
the newsiest and brightest sporting sheets
in the country.
A cooking main. dog fight an aglove
scrap constitutes the bin Of fare fer South
Omaha to-day
The sack race at the Coliseum this eve
ming will furnish any amount of sport.
Knapp is selling first in the pools.
George Kendall and Ed. Young, local
athletes, are in st. Louis in attendance at the
spring trial trials of the Amateur Athletic
club of that city.
win go over to Chicago on the 24th to wit
ness the American derby, which will be run
on the day following.
There will be an interesting cooking main,
consisting OF seven battles for S25 battle
and 5000, on the main, north of the village of
Florence, this afternoon.
Miss Lottie Stanley, of New York, and
Miss Lily Williams, Of this city, are matched
for a l00.mile race at the Lake Manawa ball
park next Sunday afternoon.
Shock offers to give Mardis 100 mile han
dicap in a twelve hour a day, six-day race,
out the dago says he can give Shock that
much OF a handicap in three hour day
race.
The programme arranged for the Coliseum
this evening is particularly interesting one,
and large crowd should attest their appre-
citation Of Manager Princes generosity and
enterprise by going out to see the sport.
The proceeds, II will be remembered, 90 to
the Johnstown sufferers.
Frank Parmelee is in Cincinnati, in attend
ance at the first annual tournament of the
American Shooting association, which begins
there on Tuesday next G.. W. Budd, of Des
Moines, aud j. II. Stice, of Jacksonville, ILL.,,
accompanied the Omaha shot. The tourna-
ment viii be conducted under the new
graduation or classification rules, and Par
melee Budd and Stice are entered in class
A, which will contain none but the crack
professionals. The trio will be heard from.
Questions ana Answers.
Who stole the twelve bases Omaha is cred
tied with IN the first two games Of the last