Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-15
IN The WORLD OF SPORT
Duck Season Opens Auspioiously and Omaha
Hunters Take an Outing,
FOOT BALL NOW THE ABSORBING TOPIC
Eastern Foot Hall Teams Arc Fast
Preparing for the Big Games
Soon to BE Played in
the various cities.
FOOT BALL NOW THE ABSORBING TOPIC

The more faithful members Ct the Omaha
Whist club have been attending weekly all
summer, and now the C ming Ct cold
weather has added several new tables 10 the
regular sessions. The attendance during the
summer has averaged gb1ut four tables caca
Wednesday and Saturday night The o.d
members keep coming back, and il the new
members are added as rapidly as they have
been lately there viii soon be in regular az
tendance as large a membership as there
was last winter. when there were always
from seven to nine tables filled. The club
is composed Of mo q the best men OF the
city and numbers in its membership law
yers, doctors merchants, .ity and unity
officials and army officers. The club has
large, beautifully furnished rooms on the
third floor Of The Boe buildins, which are
at all times kept in mest excellent order,
as is customary in that building Nothing
Is neglected which will tend to add to the
comfort of the players and visitors, who are
always welcome.
Tho following officers were elected at the
annual meeting: w. A. Redck. president;
Edgar NJ. Morsmau, vice president; II. T.
Gee, secretary and treasurer.
resolution was adopted to invite the
Coun-il. bluffs Whist club over for match
next Saturday and it Is hoped that these
contests win be continued during the win
ter, as Council Bluffs has some excellent
players. The scores will be published each
week as an indueement to all to attend reg
ularly so as to keep up the average.
The time limit of five hours and one half
for the international yacht race has caused
considerable discussion, and has been claimed
by many to be too short, it being reckoned
in some conservative yachting minds that
the time allowed for the races has been cut
down too rapidly, and has thus run in ad-
vance of yachting construction. But the
opening days contest proved that the limit
Isvery closely calculated to fit the minimum
z OF wind that will give real race. On that
day the yachts were only few minutes out
side of the time allowed, and they were al
most in drifting match, which was devoid
of interest. Had there been wind enough to
have made up the needed eight minutes or
thereabous It would have been a sailing
breeze. On the whole the time limit seems
to be fair and well calculated to do away
with drifting matches,
At. old Michigan-the alma mater of sc
many Omaha men-graduate Manager
Charles Baird, Trainer Keene Fitzpatrick
and Coaches Ferbert ard Henninger are
working with fervor and earneStness OF
purpose that would convince an unsophisti-
Gated outsider that they receive a >large
bonus for each man that turned out to be
Of varsity standard as a foot ball player
Here is a case where college spirit sticks
out prominently and everlastingly. In
addition to Ferbert and Henninger sew
eral former stars of Michigan teams have
signfied a willingness to join the coaches
at Ann Arbor after the team is practically
selected for the purpose of instilling the
fine points of the game into the new players
upon whom rests the responsibility of keep
ing the western foot ball championship al
the University of Michigan. Frank Craw.
ford and the writer have both been invited
to join this squad of coaches, and how
different it is now from the time the latter
was at Michigan. Then the Yale Coacl
which we had was the only one who wa!
looked upon as knowing anything of tht
game at all, and If any of the old players
came around they were regarded as bacl
numbers and no attention was paid to the
suggestion.
There is sure to be an argument over tn
middle western championship this fall, 70
the reason that the so-called boycott ha
gone into effect and the three other big uni
versities will not meet Chicago. Michigan
lllinoie and Wisconsin will fight it out anon
themselves, and the winner will be general
acknowledged the champion-exCept in Chi
cago papers, where they refuse to believ
that any other team than the maroon has
claim to first honors, even after Stages me
are fairly beaten. The games which Mich
gan and Chicago will play with Pennsylvani
will give n good line on the Comparativ
strength OF the two teams, but decided ad
vantage is with Stage on this basis, as hi
team will play on their own grdiron, en-
cOuraged by their loyal and enthusiast
hackers, while Michigan meets Pennsylvani
on Franklin field, Philadelphia, where tn
few maize and blue rooters will be smoth
cred by the Pennsylvania crowds yells an
cheers. Michigan will not be at her bes
for that game, but all energies are bein
bent with the intention of being prepared
put up strong fight in the east, and eve
with the team in its present unsettled col
dition the coaches predict that Pennsy wi
bc scored against
During the past week Manager Baird an
members of the athletic board at the I'm
yersty Of Michigan looked over the cand
dates for positions on the foot ball team an