Omaha daily bee., 1895-03-10

Mike Dwyer. Herbert Hulin and Charlie
and they will all be here to revel
in the smiles Of the queen OF the vernal sea
son.
In Just three more weeks from last night
the Omaha team will have reported, and the
weather being at all ausplcious, jump into
active preliminary practice in the field. Cap
tain Walsh has always held that there is no
drilling so effective In preparing player Tor
the championship season as actual work on
the diamond. While he is too sensible not
to acknowledge the beneficial results OF in
door gymnastics, hand ball and kindred
calisthenics, he would give more for days
good, honest work in an actual contest on the
field than for weeks devotion OF this sort
OF exercise. Joe has had a good deal OF ex-
perience under some OF the grand masters OF
base ball physical culture, and his ideas are
not founded on the lines laid down in the
books, but on a basis built from practical
trial, and there will be nothing OF the ex-
perimental In the handling Of his men. Morn
ing and afternoon, daily, whenever the
weather permits, he will have his men ar
rayed against each other In actual contest
from the date Of their arrival here until the
momentous afternoon when for the first time
they will don their bran new uniforms OF
red and white and step upon the field for the
initial struggle with Quincy for the cham
pionship flag. The opening day comes on
Thursday, May 2, but prior to this the team
will be seen in exhibition games with Kansas
City, Minneapolis, st. Joe and Lincoln, and
these games will give the fans an opportunity
to size the new men up and make their COM
parisons with the various teams which have
represented Omaha in the past. The first
regular games will probably be between two
teams made up of the men signed, filled in
with the city's best amateurs, on Saturday
and Sunday, April 6 and Z. The following
Saturday and Sunday Jimmy Mannng's vail
ant Cowboys will be here, then Minneapolis,
ST. Joe and Lincoln in rapid succession. So
April Notwithstanding 1t is not included in
the championship bill, will offer quite menu
for the hungry cranks. That the local season
is bound to be great one there
is but little doubt Already the
keenest interest is manifest and nothing
but praise is heard from those who support
the game for the management for the
energy and discretion they have used in
securing the team. Without doubt it is
stronger in every way than the team Of
1894, and Is made up of a class of players,
as a whole, vastly superior other ways than
in playing strength to the outfit which
fought, bled and died for the Gate City last
year, and while Managers McVittie and
Rowe are making no rash claims of their
capabilities for capturing the pennant, they
do assert that they will have much better
position when autumn rolls around than that
achieved by the late lamented Rourke fam
ily While 1t is incontrovertible that Omaha
is better and faster than she was last sea-
son, the same declaration holds good with
the entire association. Every team evinces
additional strength, and the supposition is
that the patrons of the game all along the
| line are to be treated to another rattling
good season of the national game.
The season will open up, to all appear
| ances with the most fiattering prospects OF
success. Experienced and capable mana
| gers are at the head of each team, and
repetition of last years thrilling and brilliant
chase for the coveted flag may be conf
IDENTIFY looked for. While better and more
scientific work will doubtless mark the play
| ing of the various teams this year, one thing
| Is certain and that is no closer or more
exciting race than that which has made
| last season memorable need be expected
| The race of 1894 was without parallel II
| the history Of the great sport In big oi
little league. With the single exception Of
the misft Yellow Boys of Quincy, every
| team in the association had a chance to VIII
the pennant up to the last week of the
contest, and every team had been at one
| time or another, at the top of the heap. L
was continuous vacillation from first tt
| last, as for months the winning or losing
of two or three successive games would ad
| vance the taienders to the leaders position
or vice versa, particularly versa. ST. Jo
cut the pace at the opening of the struggle
and maintained it just long enough to CIV
1 the other cities a robust scare, then sh
took tumble, and Lincoln Jacksonville AM
Omaha juggled first place for few week
between them. During the latter hal
Rock Island began to demonstrate alarming
power, and near the end she gained TN
front rank, and though sorely pushed, sh
maintained it to the end. Instead or goinl
to pieces in the middle of the season. ever,
club was kept intact throughout, an
every club with two exceptions, gu,
the season with balance on the righ
side of the ledger. This years circuit III
cludes all the old cities excepting Rock Is
land, who was ousted for unfathomaole rea
sons to make room for Rockford How
ever, 1t is hoped that 1t Is all tor the pes
and that the pessimists will all be force
I'D on the hind seats before the dog day
reach us. With conservative and careft
MANAGEMENT, an unswerving adherence
the salary limit, a strict enforcement OF a
: The rules of the association, and with tn
same good ball playing, even more sue
cessful season than the last one may b
before us.
President Kent has officially promulgate
the following playing roster OF each cru
: and while it does not include the full compl'
: ment of players gathered in by the respectiv
manapements it is sufficient to give u
impatient fan pretty good estimate OF u
calbre of the association ,,,..,
; Omaha-Managers, Rowe ana McVit.n
cantain. Joe Walsh; players, Pete Lohma
George Carish, Frank Donnelly, Geort
Darby, Ed Miles. Con Whalen. Joe Stage
1 I'd Hutchison, George Ulrich, Mike Dwye
Herbert Hulin and Charles Schaefer.
Lincoln-Manager and captain, Hira
:, Ebright players, Van Buren, Meyers, spec
j Hill Taylor, Kimmer, Hollingsworth. Barne
s Simons. Sullivan, Cole, Gragg and Fisher.
. st. Joe-Manager and captain, Harry Cat
y wood: players, Harry Hote, Pat Zeigle
e Arthur Creighton, c. A. Macum, Ed Logu
: w. B. Douglas, ]. Mckenzie, Burt Matur
+ George McVey, Tom Ramsey, M: Burt, Su
Lincoln, c. e. Jones and AL Beal.
Des Moines-Manager and captain wilma
S Trafiey; players, Jim Purvis, Mctarian
e Andrews, Fggemeyer, Mckibben, Holine
: Percy Griffin, Letcher, Kid Mohier' M
{ Wicker and Nicol. w.
n acksonyille-Manager and captain, Hen
!. Aydelotte; players, Caplinger, Swartz, hne
n per. Belt, Johnson, Aydeot, Hanley' M
J. ouirk, Deveney, White, Zeis.
: Quincy-Manager, G. w. Brackett, cap'a'
n Sam LaRoque; players William lines
u Mccormick Ed Hickey, j. e. McGreevy,
u ]. Rowcliffe w. II. Horne, Charles Farr
y y and Daniel Boland.
Q Peoria-Manager, Charles Flynn; capta'
o Joe Cantillion; players, Dick Collins,
Fischer Bob Emmerke, II. Clinord, Geor
Hansen, George Mutton, Tom Thomas, WI
e Brown. Frank Haller, George Flynn, Har
q I. Bennett, Tom Francis, Dave Seisier a