Omaha daily bee., 1896-02-09

Rockford, where business Is so thriving tha
all you have TO do TO get the price OF bee
and three squares is to take a pick dnt
shovel and 90 out and work a week for IT
| All that these mighty financiers put up !:
the hundred dollar William On the lst G
April, which all the other clubs likewise do.
! In 1894 Colonel Ost, who Is q No. 1C
wad in IL gun, would not stand to lose
| $50, which was the most he could possibly
have been out, by finishing the season.
Five OF the good fellows of Quincy agreed ia
carry the club through and each one stood
to lose thirty simoeons IL there was no
money taken in at the gate, but Ost wanted
a ctnch, so he went to the president of the
association at that time another No. 1 pill
yclept Dave Rowe, and had him promise to
refund the money in case he lost his $50.
Rowes refundng anything Is good, yet he
promised his pal that 1t should be done.
So much for history.
Now these same people want Rock Island
to take Burlington's place, but after the
treatment the latter received in '9i, when
they were kicked bodily into the street
without even as much as kiss Of the hand,
1t isn't likely they will clamor over each
others heads to get back. No. MIR. Thomas
Jefferson Hickey will evidently learn before
he Is many years older that 1t is always
better to play fair with old soldiers.
Within a short time the National league
schedule VIII be made public. 1t was thought
that at the meeting of the National Board
or Arbitration some idea of how the holiday
'plums" would be divided would be di-
vulged, but the base ball solons ambled out
Of town without giving up the desired in
formation. II President Young follows up
his original ideas the Giants will have
Pittsburgs gang of Pirates on one of the
holidays Since 1892 all the other west
gate receipts on holiday. Chicago and
Cincinnati have had two whacks, while
Connie Mack's hustlers have never ap-
peared In Gotham on any of the three big
days. This year. however Mr.. Young will
undoubtedly give the Smoky City crowd a
chance.-New York World.
Pitcher McMahon's condition is Just now
the subject for great deal of discussion
For him now, therefore, to announce that
he is disabled appears to make his retire
ment certainty. But for all that, haiti
moreans-Manager Hanlon in the number
are inclined to suspect that there Is pick
aninny In the woodpile, and that McMahon
is slyly playing for his release in order to
play elsewhere, says the Washington Post.
AT last true line has been found on
Snapper Kennedy's playing ability, says the
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. The batting
ana fielding averages of the Western asyocia-
tion have just bsen completed by EXPIRE .ident
Kent. They were published in a recent isaue
OF the st. Louis Sporting News Kennedy,
while he led his team, the Linc1lns, in bat
ting, Is twenty-eighth in the leagues list.
Among the outfelders he stands eleventh in
helding His batting average for the season
is .3l5. He took part in 113 games and made
l41 base hits. No record is given of stolen
bases, but that Kennedy must have done
good work In getting around the circuit Is
attested by the fact that he has 116 runs
to his credit only three men in the league
Joe Werner, Katz and Kng-having the best
nj ma totli T.,
the field he has lit put-outs and 81 assists,
with only IL errors. Altogether he has
pretty fair minor league record and his
form Is enough to warrant Captain Ewing in
giving him a trial.
For the benefit ct my old Cincinnati friends
will say that President Kent's averages
are not worth the paper they were written
upon. In letter to me, asking for missing
scores, he said he had not received more
than one-half the games from any city in
the association, and from one city, Peoria. he
had not received single return. And Il en-
as to Snapper Kennedy. l am still willing
and anxious to bet $4,000, more or less, that
Kennedy won't last through a half dozen
games with any club in the National league
At his very best he is but an Indifferent
minor league player and he gets The rame
Snapper from his ludlcious throwing form. He
snaps the ball only, and couldn't get in a
long hit in week in time to put the batter
the ball in by relays. Wait until you see
Snapper, Mr.. Weldon, Mr.. Davis, Mr.. zubler
and Mr.. Milford, and your beautiful dreams
will fade like so much dishwater in an ash
pile Now, mind you, l am not writing
this to injure or belittle Snapper any, but
only in response to the delirious CUFF with
which you fellows have been stuffing the
Cincinnati public about a man you never
saw nor know anything about. Snapper is
all right in his place. and that is in a corn
field or very minor league.
Charles Hoyt says that 1t cost him SO. 900
before he found out that the public did not
care a shoestring for Anson as an actor
The University Of Pennsylvania may be
able to get together fair base ball team,
the fact that all but two of
last years stars have been barred by the
faculty.
Jack Glasscock IS looking for Job as first
baseman. He believes that his days as a
shortstop are over. I could have told Old
Oyster Can that two years ago.
In speaking Of Connaughton, thelNew York |
Herald says that he is weak on fly balls |
and cannot play while facing the sun.
The Cleveland and Pttsburg teams will |
play a series Of games for a silver cup at |
Hot Springs In March.
John Foster of the Cleveland Leader says
there are twenty-five reasons why the |
Spiders should win the pennant next year.
and they are all signed-the reasons-but
three.
What will Boston do without Nash's brain?
Is question that Is asked Maybe Selee
and Duffy can fill the vacancy.
Eleven Of the men on the Cleveland roll |
reside In Ohio. The old Buckeye state has
he right atmosphere to breed winners.
Manager Hanlon thinko Detroit is better
base ball city than Cleveland. Hanlon
played in the Michigan city eight years ago.
Walter Wilmot does not fear that Won
Ter Abe will compel him to go to St Louis |
Wilmot says that Chris will not pay his fine.
Cantain BlakelY Is the only memher Of the