Omaha daily bee., 1895-03-03

are fixtures for at least the present year or
as much of 1t as their hackers will have
the hardihood and nerve to withstand. 1t
is earnestly hoped that all misgivings OF
their endurance are idle, and that both
teams will demonstrate that they are made
out Of the stuff that insures the success OF
base ball leagues and associations. White
Wings Tebeau of Denver was on hand with
most seductive proposition. but 1t was un-
avaiing. He offered visiting clubs guar
antee Of 500 and a railroad rate to and
from the Rocky Mountain metropolis OF 1h
cents per mile. Denver, under the circum-
stances. would have been winning accession.
Sioux Cty's opportunities were urgent and
persistent, but the assembled moguls re-
fused to turn her picture from the wall.
Rock Island was both persuasive and bellig-
erent but finally was forced to succumb to
the puissant powers in session. New leagues
and new deals innumerable were proposed,
but nothing came of any of them, and all
that remains for us, the great body of fans.
to do, is to lend the present organization
every assistance and encouragement in our
power. With hearty cooperation all round
the Western association may be made at
least a twO-tme winner
The changes made in the playing rules
at the meeting of the National League
Wednesday have met with the almost unani-
nous endorsement of the base ball public.
The enlargement of the pitchers slab by
nearly one-haf was a well-timed but ample
concession in his favor. The big mitt was
done away with, excepting in the case of the
catcher and first baseman, and the balance
of the players hereafter will be restricted to
gloves or glove of not over two ounces in
weight This will enable patrons at the
Charles street grounds this season to dis
tingulsh such players as Hollingsworth and
Grasshopper Ulrich from the mtts they
wore. Last season about half the time
1t was difficult to tell which was the player
and which was the mitt The bunt hit must
be deliberate attempt to bat the bail
| slowly within the inield, SO that 1t cannot
! be felded by any fielder in time to retire
the batsman. Foul tips caught by the
catcher will be called strikes. The umpire
must enforce the rules as they read or
subject himself to a heavy fine. There are
| many other changes of minor character,
but on the whole the Job of remodelng the
| laws of the game was "a good one.
| or course in the fight for Big Fat Jakey
| Strauss between Lincoln and Minneapolis,
| and which was presented to the league FOR
| adjustment, Minneapolis got the verdict.
| Minneapolis, you sees, pays little more Tor
protection than Lincoln. ana consequently
| is entitled to larger dose of that article.
! If Lincoln had been in the Western league
and Minneapolis in the Western association.
| then Lincoln would have won. 1t is fool
hardy to run a selling platter up against
| thoroughbred.
If Gus Schmelz keeps on he is liable to be
run in for abuse of aged people. Why, Just
| think of it, he went into the woods the other
day and dug up no less parsonage than
| Tub Welch, cotemporare OF Rameses the
| III. After Tub had been dead for ages he
played in Omaha along with Red Leary, Dutch
Bader, Healey, Barston and other choice
| spiritr then he died again, only to be res
urrected last week by His Lambrequns
of the capital
The name of JacksonvIlle's manager is
Jack S. Ayelelott, and it would be good
thing if they could hire his brother to man
age Quincy. Mr. Ayeelott has signed quite
collection of unknowns, including one, Carl
Schwartz, Frank Coplinger, Charles knepper
and Willie Snodgrass Besides these he has
| Belt, the catcher, Handsome Bill Zeis and
Bob Johnson whoever Bob is.
Omaha did not get Fred Underwood. the
bridegroom, after all. Little Nick of the
village of Rockford caught him in steel
trap.
Manager Gatewood has at last signed Tom
Ramsey a pensioner of the war of 1872. tc
give little tone to his aggregation of young
bloods at ST.. joe There is nothing now tc
prevent the second appearance on earth o
"Clinkers' Fagin, Dad Phelan and old POI
Smith.
AL Mauch is the first Omahog to draw hi:
release. Manager McVittie has decided tina
he won't do.
; Minneapolis has seen the new moon ove
/ her right shoulder, and signed Billy Earle.
The representatives of the baseball Interests
OF the Kansas university have completed ar
rangements for series of games this sprint
: between the col'eg, te ms CT Nebraska Kansl
Omaha and Missouri university teams. low;
may come into the arrangement later, bu
has not yet signified her intention Of takin,
part in baseball games this spring.
S Jimmy Callopy the ex-Omahog, has agaii
: signed with Grand Rapids, and Rasty Wrigh
is nibbln'.
Buckerino Ebright's '95 collection in
j cudes the intellectual Mr.. Gragg, Little Hol
Z. lingsworth, Georgiana Spear, Claudlus Ferdi
n nand Fischer, Abraham Bunco Cole, Will
4 Bill Taylor, Beldan Hill, Clementine KimereI
n Ely Van Buren and Louis Meyers.
r Whoa Bill Hawes once prominent fgur
Y in the Western league, is selling headach
g pills down in New England. Wouldn't tina
n give you a pain?
a Joe Cantillion is again flirting with hi
IS imagination. He has applied to Presider
r Kent for berth on the Western association
a umpire staff.
}. Leech Maskrey, the old Des Moines playe
e wanted to open up lushing ken at Merce
l. Pa, but the authorities wouldn't give him
Y. license. They told him to saw off h
7, moustache and apply for a position in CT
"a Schmelz young blood aggregation at Wasi
q ington.
,e Charlie Hoover, the old Western leagr
J. catcher. has written from his home in Hal
ir nibal Mo-, for a place in the Omaha team
m but he won't get it..
1t Charlie Comiskey has shown himself a
subject for a guardian or commission {
"a lunacy by signing Jack McCann for st. Pau
OF Grandpa Abner Dalrymple landed
ie Evansville the other day with a cargo
as mummies and Oliver Beard at once signt
ly him for his Indiana Southern league crow
ID There Is still hope for One-Armed Daily.
9, The old Western league players who W
8, help Gus Schmelz struggle for twelfth pla
in the league race this year are Big Fo
e; Cartright, frankie Sheibert, Jack Crook
8, Parson Nicholson, Charlie Abbey and Bird
Hassamaer.
Whisperings OF tho Wheel.
k Germany has captured the ''world's' char
ponship races this year. The meeting W
. be held in Cologne.
San Francisco is to have a Chinese cyclli
e: race meet, but the prizes will not be sily
mounted washboards.
-. M, Mauriar'p .TriIhvn has nj last work