Omaha daily bee., 1890-01-19
What the omahas Most Need.

After careful deliberation Upon the char
acter Of the make up Of next seasons Omaha
club, another very essential element to the
success Of the team Is found wanting, and
that is q tried and experienced hand to coach
the young players, especially the pitchers.
OF course the best man for this work would
be a catcher, as 1t IS he who has most of the
coaching of the pitcher to attend to. Omaha,
however, has no back stop yet qualified for
this work. Erquarhart, Moran and Bird are
all three comparatively new players them
selves, but little acquainted with the strong
and weak points of the sluggers of the wes-
tern association. Such q man will be needed
more than ever upon the local team the COM
ing season, as two young and green pitchers,
in Bays and Mcconnell, have already
been signed, and there is no telling
how many more will be tried before the sea.
son sets in for good. Wally Andrews has
the experience to adapt him to such work,
but the difficulty with Andrews is that he Is
q little backward about going forward, is
undemonstrative, and apparently disinclined
to figure as q tutor for young bloods. And
then again, his position on first base Is such
a one that requires all his alertness and al
lows HIM but little time to caution, steady
and direct the pitcher. In this case 1t would
be a good idea for the management to en-
deavor TO sign an old and experienced catcher.
They want another catcher, anyway, and
why not make a special effort TO get one Of
this description. BILLY Holbert of the old
NiSto, WV 10 III ANCW i City VII ulocu-
gagged, would be a great man for Omaha IL
they could get him at anything like q reason
able figure. 1t is a well known fact to all
who have made the fine points Of the game o
study, that in an efficient backstop half Of
the pitchers strength lies. Holhcrt Is an
old veteran, In his day one of the best catch
ers who ever stood behind the plate, and yet
q very skillful man. He would prove atower
of strength to both Bays and Mcconnell
and lend much help to Clarke, Knell and
Tanning as we'll.
Thompson and MOrton's Gall.
st. Paul and Minneapolis have taken the
trouble to draw up q playing schedule for
the coming ball season and submitted the
same for President McCormick's revision.
The way IN which it was revised was to fire
it bodily into the waste basket, with exple-
tives more forcible than elegant. OF all the
lop sided, Jug handled documents that any
one has ever attempted to foist upon an asso-
~ciation, this st. Paul-Minneapolis produc-
ton was tho worst. IL was simply q mon
strosity. 1t provided for the opening of the
season In tho northern cities, giving ST. Paul
and Minneapolis seventeen games each upon
the home grounds in April aud the first two
weeks of May with the strong teams from
Sioux City aud Milwaukee. while Omaha
was relegated 10 Denver to inaugurate the
season, thence to Kansas City. Des Moines
aud past home on 10 Sioux City, and then
back again some time in May to open the
season in this city with Des Moines, entailing
an expensive railroad trip, and depriving
home patrons of the pleasure of seeing
any baseball in the first part of the season,
when their appittes are whetted up 10 a
razor's edge 10 indulge in the sport. Was
such stupendous gall ever heard Of beforel
Thompson and Morton should 20 of some
where and lay down and die. IL they think
10 play our able and illustrious president for
"a sucker they're going TO be badly fooled,
sure. The schedule meeting will be held
right here in Omaha, and Messrs Thompson
aud Morton can stack Fem high on it that
Omaha wall get q few Of the plums.
And the sportin< Lhfe Is Correct.
"ihe Western association is the only prom
nient bass ball organization that escaped in