Omaha daily bee., 1898-03-06

sttSCIl " cOHslueTeu. we get tWO ShiHtS al
home on Labor day with Kansas City and the
long standing rivalry between the two cities
ineures a good crowd at each game. The
team also gets fair proportion OF the Sat
urday and Sunday games at home playing
eleven Saturdays and ten Sundays on the
home grounds. The club opens the season
at home with four games with st. Paul.
Then Minneapolis comes for four games and
Omaha goes to Minneapolis for a return Sc
ries. This is followed by four games with
Kansas City at Omaha and this Is the cnly
series that will be played in Omaha during
May During the month the team travels
clear around the ckrcuit playing a series In
every city in the league.
Then the fans will get nearly a month
OF solid ball playing for the club will not
leave Omaha until nearly the end Of June.
1t will play four games each at home with
Detroit Columbus. indianapolis and Mil
waukee and three each with Minneapolis and
st. Paul. June 81 the club goes to Minneap-
oils for three games followed by three at
st. Paul. July we play Kansas City at
Omaha, then go to Kansas City for three
games and back to Omaha for two more.
This seems to be going . good ways to allow
Kansas City to play at home on the Fourth,
but We have to stand 1t. Then the club goes
east to play two games at Indianapolis and
three each at Milwaukee, Columbus and De-
troit. The remainder of the month Is oc-
cupled by home games with indianapolis,
Milwaukee and Columbus. We begin August
City for a series and return to meet Minneap-
oils in Omaha. Then st. Paul comes and the
club goes for another swing around the cir
Gle coming home Labor day. Then we have
the advantage of finishing the season at
home, playing fifteen games with Kansas
City, Columbus, Detroit, Indianapolis and
Milwaukee.
| Jack Hascal has begun divorce proceed
| ings against the superfluous flesh that he has
| accumulated during the winter and will be
In Ar.sf nln chnyn 70 off of nj fhr
| ing game OF the season. Jack thinks pretty
| we'll Of the crowd OF ball players Manager
| O'Brien will bring to Omaha, sud declares
| that the Omaha people will have chance
| to see as fast ball as there is in the country
| this year lie rs especially pleased to see
Omaha get McCauley and Tucker and he says
| that there is no reason why the team should
not be right I'm the race 1t Is hard hitting
| aggregation and under fuckers experienced
| leadership he expects to see several of the
| players do much better work than they did
laot year. He received a letter the other day
| from Eustace. who is down at Hot Springs
| getting into shape Eusace writes that he
! is In perfect condition. and If he succeeds
I in staying so he ought to fill the bill with
| some to spare. He Is a hard hitter and is
capable OF playing great ball when he is in
| condition. Hascall is inclined to consider
| Mckinney, the third baseman who WEE in
herited from Grand Rapids with the fran
| chtse, as conner. He says he can hit and
|
who will get better all the time with the
| right sort of handling.
| 1t would be serious misfortune II 1t
| should turn out that Omaha should be un-
| able to retain Tucker. 1t Is pretty certain
| in the light Of President Sodens assertion
| that Boston has never waived its claim to
| the ex-senator that the National league can
retain him If it wants to. And the demand
for his services seems to be pretty brisk,
considering the fact that none of the big
clubs wanted him when he was on the mar
ket They seem to have suddenly discovered
| that Tommy is very desirable article and
both ST. Louis and Chicago are making
desperate effort to lf'd him.
The anxiety of Manager Burns to secure
| Tucker is explained by the fact that the
Chicago team is in very bad way for a sat
isfactory field captain. Either Decker or
Everitt is considered capable Of playing first
base, but neither Of them have the capacity
for heady management on the field that is
one of fuckers strongest points. 1t is prob
ably true, however, that the National League
will bo less likely to draft Tucker from
Omaha than II he belonged to an older club.
1t Is tho unwritten rule OF base ball that a
new club shall not be weakened unless 1t is
absolutely necessary. 1t is difficult matter
at the best to organize new team that Will
keep its end up and failure to do so hits
the treasury of every CLUB in the league.
O. strong argument to bring to bear to re-
tain Tucker and it is to be hoped that moth
ing will prevent him from managing the
| Omaha team.
With Hemming Fisher and Hagerman
Omaha will have a trio OF pitchers that ought
to serve the purpose. The two National
! league men are known to constitute first
class material and Hagerman is as likely
, to turn out well. He has good curves and
an excellent command Of the ball together
with a plentiful supply OF cerebral matter.
He uses his head all the time and last year
, he won games in which he had almost no
, | support at all. During the latter part OF
the season the Grand Rapies club was largely
, filled up with amateurs to play the season
out and the situation was enough to discour-
age any pitcher. But Hagerman kept plug
ging them over. and in spite Of the lack OF
| support hc succeeded in WANING number OF
, games in which the team had no apparent
: charce on earth. With frst-class team
behind him and the coaching of such old
, heads as MoCaaley and Tucker he is likely
, to surprise his friends this year.
Diamond Dust.
The Chicagos are about to discard the
) white stockings that have given the team
its name President Hart does not like them
, after they get dirty, and a new color will
| be provided.
The prospects are now that Des Moines
l will have no ball team at all. A few weeks
ago Manager ,Frick was posing az sure
? enough Western league magnate and since
that ambition has fallen through he threat
ems TO either sell the franchise or take i,
to Sioux City.
Jimmy Manning has signed Outfelder Fris-
bee. who was with Quincy last year.
The management OF the Springfield, Mass.
club has lost $4,000 in the last Ave years
. They still hold on.
Columbus has purchased doggy" Miller
from Minneapolis and will trade him to ST
Paul for Shortstop Hulin.
Washington will contribute Manager
. Schmelz and three players to the Western
league this sDring-O'Bren to Kansas City
e Tucker to Omaha and Reilly with Mime
t apolis. All OF them are strong additions tc
h the circuit.
n James A. Hart suggests that as Nick
$ Young has received about 800 application:
a from would-5e umpres he would do wei
a to raise regiment, with Tim Hurst a.
r colonel and send it to Cuba. Hart says thai
t most of the umpires would be perfectly al
: home in fight.
r Opinions on the "bunt sacrifice" secured
o from nearly all National league magnate:
I forecast a vote as follows: For the bunt-
i Boston. New York. Philadelphia, Baltimore
4 Cleveland and Cincinnati. Against-Brook
9 lyn. Pittsburg, st. Louis, Louisville ant
e Washington. 10 opinion to express-Chi