Omaha daily bee., 1904-11-27


feet the player will be subject to secondary
draft by the double A class teams, and the
little fellow further down the line will
simply be left where he was before the
association provided a means of protection
by national agreement. The money in
volved in the new rule doesn't amount to
enough to be worthy of consideration, for
ordinarily the big leagues paid far In eX-
cess of the draft price for players that
made good. The danger Is in the possi-'
bility of abrogating the entire drafting
rule, and thus throwing open the way to
renewal of former abuses. among them the
practice of farming players. Such course
might suit George Tebau and the little
coterie of wreckers who are associated
with him, but It will spell ruin for the
many minor leagues of the country.
The Sporting News Of st. Louis is expos
ing each week some new angle OF the New
York deal whereby Tebesu put himself AT
the head OF the affairs Of minor base hall
In its latest number the Sporting News
publishes some letters that are Of great
interest to the Western league patrons In
these 1t shows how Tebeau deliberately
blocked the plan adopted at St. Louis last
season to arbitrate the differences between
the American association and the Western
league with regard to Kansas CITY and
Milwaukee. 1t was a deliberate violation
OF an agreement, but this didn't amount to
anything with Tebeau. One of his assist
ants in the deal was Griffiths, the protege
of Pat Powers, who IS now on the national
commission with Tebeau, and is retained
as the associations lawyer at a fee OF $500
Anyone who has watched the progress Of
events will have little difficulty in believ-
ing that Tebeau and Griffiths will geu along
together very we'll and It is not likely that
Bert will bring IN many minority reports.
The dongs of the national commission are
certain to be harmonious, but It is a grave
question If the minor leagues will gain any
thing under the new order
d
Uncle Adrian c. Anson admits that he
made an offer to buy the Washington
franchise in the American league and that
he is anxious to get back into base BALL
II there is a man in the country who could
make a club go in Washington 1t is Big
Anse.
It is announced that Joe Cantillon has
secured Herman Long to manage his Des
Molnes team and play second base. Can
tillon might as well understand right at
the start that absentee ownership isn't
any more popular in the Western than is
syndicate ball. He will know this before
the coming season is ended, and then
there'l be a lot of knocking against Des
Moines for not being a good ball town
because the people will not put money into
the pocket Of an owner who intends TO
spend his time looking after another team
in another association. If Cantillon wants
to be magnate, why doesn't he come out
and be one, instead Of trying to be one by
proxy? Des Moines is a good ball town,
and Cantillon a good manager but the
two must be worked together and not at
long range to succeed And Herman Long
was once a corking good short STOP but
he doesn't belong in the Western league
class any more. He was all in for the big
league some time ago, and last summer he
was all In for the tail-enders in the Amer
can association. This isn't going to get
him anything in the Des Moines team.
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Up at Sioux City the men who own the
team are waiting to see whether Tebeau is
going to run the league or not. II he does
II is very much like cinch that a lot of
missionary work will have to be done to
keep the Sioux in line. This just shows
how popular Brother George is around the
circuit. He spent few hours in Denver
the other day looking over his interests"
there. He told News reporter that Colo
RADIO Springs and Denver are anchored In
the Western, but didn't give much infor-
nation as to what other towns were. He
did say that he had no candidate for presi-
dent to succeed Mike Sexton, but that is
not in line with information that comes
from other sources. Last season Tebeau
wanted Otto Floto of the Denver Post to
be president, and It is understood now that
he has renewed his promise to Floto
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When the league meets in Omaha in jan
uary 1t Is likely that the Tebeau combina-
tion will hear something. The team owners
who are not in on the deal propose to make
their case plain, and II they can control
the league, will give the public the best of
evidence that Tebeauism is dead in the
Western. A movement is on foot to reor-
ganize st. Joseph and put the team there
in such condition that a repetition of last
seasons fiasco will not be possible. In case
this goes through the Western circuit for
1905 will be the same as it was in 1904.
.
Thursday afternoons game of indoor
foot ball at the Auditorium Is believed to
be but a starter of what is in store for
the patrons of sport in Omaha this winter.
Another indoor game is to be given some
evening this week and other events of
greater importance are on the tapis for
the coming weeks and months.
Manager Gillian of the Auditorium is
now considering the matter OF having a
season of roller skating in the Auditorium
at comparatively early date, The board
of directors is considering the wisdom of
covering the present flooring with maple
or taking chances on the flooring now in
the Auditorium. which surface would stand
the skating from sixty to ninety days be-
fore wearing to such condition as to
jeopardize the safety of the skater. At
any rate II is believed there will be roller
skating at the Auditorium and II Is an
nounced that 1t will compare with any to
be found in the eastern cities when It is
lnaugurated Manager Gillian now has sew
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