Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-13
BALL WORLD Is BUSY
r1E.sE Get Out q Way fu ths
Players AZ Lar
'NuE wErxER's LIMP IN COURT
Uncer1sin s~uuthpn- Hitched fer the
Tine Being ThrouEh an order
R~estraininE Hin fron Play
fBE NJ Kansas City.

Tvo thinE happened last week that
ought 70 excite our passing wonder. BTrun
McKibbsn team defeated Charley Combs
Esys bunch q Champions IN q vsry neat
game AZ St Joseph. and ths purse proud
and hEuEhty American association was
coupeIlsd 20 take uEcial curuizEncs q
The sriEtsnes a. the Western isarus After
calmly Ignoring the Western for months
and refusing 70 even pooh-pooh itE IL
pressed intsurionH. ne American has gone
into courts 70 secure rs rights that b.. In
case The American las any rights the
Western o. anyone else Is bound 10 re-
EpscI jake Wetnsr. the lsft-hEnded
e~iEaruaEsr from Ottunva. Ia In JUS new
restrained frUn pitching iur Jimmy Mzn-
ning's Kansas City tenn Al the instance q
Dale Gear who rlstus wsinsr BY virtue
q 3 contract and q reservation II is NOT
YET clear II Wsinsr actually signed q oon-
tract with the American team. but n he
h1d. the best thing the Western can Do 10
20 tie a can 70 him. ant that as quickly
~ possible. As has been sale befu-e tn
tbs column. a contract Jumper is q No
bsneti TO any team A player who viii
dtEreEBrd his contract with one team viii
MOI respect II with smother. and cunss-
qusutly is % little service to either. A
manager WIN viii induce a DlEysr 10 break
q contract Ia no better than the player.
and ought 70 be 50 regarded. The s~sDcri-y
Of the contract k the life o. the Enme
and unless the managers respect II they
VIII fnd Il di1cuit 70 get the players 10
hold It IN reverence. An excellent AZ
ample Of the Inconsistency q the mana
gsriAl attitude OF this monentous point Is
afforded in the instance Of Napoleon La
Jois. When this h~ard-hittlnE French Ca
madam Jumped from the National to he
American n was hailed as q great stroke
q policy on the part Of the Ban johnson
ties. When the National tried to tsmuf
Napoleon ID come back. the Johnsouites
sent ~ q howl that WIS heard from Hs-
boksn 10 Pasadena. Just why II was riEht
Tor the American people 10 approach La
Jois one season and wrong for the Ma
uonRl TO seek TO DO business with him The
neTf ts too profound a proposition IN base
ball ethics for the average individual TO
get back 10 the case Of Jake wstmsr.
here's hoping that Il he did 5uup 4 con
tract with the Dale Gear team the court
viii send him back 70 GsEr. and that Gear
VII nave the nerve to put hin On the
bench and keep HIN there
As to the McKfbbsn performance. much
might be said and al IN praise Of the St
Joseph team Comisksy'E crowd had
been doing things to he Gear outfit. and
waE having a real merry time when Il en-
oouptsred the Train Robbers And here
the twice-in-a-ruw camps surely eDcoEs-
tered the real Thing II couldnT be laid
70 not trying. for they had the mighty Pat
tsrson. their boy wonder in the box. and
when they found he wouldn't 90 they put
II GArvtn. and SLID they lost the game
Little eurly-headsd MAupin. who was al
Ways 30 easy for Omaha. and Bones Par
VII did the work for the Train Robbers, and
oid Il well. Bill Rourks said last night
that Van Bruat had been going about bare
headed these cold April days. fnr the reason
that 10 hat tA-st Joseph Is hhg enough for
his head. Well. wen attend 10 that In good
season. Omaha has the specific for presi-
Dental msghcsphRliR this season and il
prepared 10 administer Il IN doses to suit
cases n least onos 4 day during the entire
season