Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-30

Dos Moines hit safe four times In an in
ming, and only secure one run in each.
only once this season has Omaha made
Two hits In an inning on the home grounds
without tallying a run. The nelders are
working together like a splendid machine
and they have not only team work to sup
port them, but the best Of team spirit
Every man Is In the game to win and to
help In any way he can. No such thing as
Jealousy or envy exists and each man Is on
the most friendly terms with all the rest.
And this is why Omaha has the best chance
OF any to WIN the pennant again this year
Carney at Sioux City Is calling back his
farmed-out players, and doing other stunts
| TO put his team on winning basis again,
but II is not at ali likely that they will
strike the terrific streak that took them
to the front and held them there for so
long The Sioux were then travelling too
fast, just as a good many OF the closest
watchers think Des Moines is doing now.
Denver isn't hopeless yet, by a good deal.
and the hackers OF the team in Denver
believe that the Grizzlies will win in the
end. Schaub and Bohannon are depended
on to do this, although IL is reported that
Cable is to rejoin the team. Letting Me-
1 GlNldg 30 10 SA. Joseph 0l0 not materially
weaken the Grizzlies, and did help the
Saints quite a little Pueblo has put up
a much better front since the transfer as
was to be expected and is sure to make
a much more worthy competitor, even
though IL be hopeessly out OF the pennant
| possibilities. Charlie Dexter has hardly
had time TO get his Saints lined up yet,
but he will very likely better their per-
| centage, II he does not get them higher
! up in the, standing table. He was little
| out of luck last week I'm striking Omaha
keyed up to concert pitch after the fierce
round with Des Moines, and was simply
played of his feet. He made a battle in
every game. but the gait was too hot for
him.
Politics Is again being talked The effort
of the national commission to discipline
| Howard Griffiths, who is accused Of
| treason" to organized ball. because he
dared to question the all-sufhciency of Ban
johnson, was knocked in the head because
of the fact that the minor leagues are
supposed to have Jurisdiction over their
own AFFAIRS. After finding out that he
couldn't cinch the man he was after so
hard, Ban johnson made a demand on Pat
Powers that he see to It that Grifhths be
thought ought TO happen to him. But Pat
Powers is having all the trouble he cares
to deal with In his little old Eastern league,
where the rebellion stalks abroad, morning,
noon and night. SO the Griffiths matter
will go over to the next meeting Of the
! minors and then the draft question will
be brought up again. 1t must be remem-
bered all this time that Griffths' chief Of
Tense consists in the fact that he tried to
line UP a combination of the minors In
support of a drafting rule which the great
johnson admits is just and correct, but
\ which he refused to give cognizanoe be-
cause It differed from the one he had de-
signed and which gives the big leagues
double-riveted cinch on the little fellows.
When the time comes to riddle the little
teams next fall. maybe the minors will
see the beauties OF the johnson scheme
and be ready to hang Grifiths for having
dared to work in opposition to the great
man-nit
Then the advent Of Murphy into the Chi
cago National club is the basis on which
consolidation talk is again fixed. The
twelve-club circuit is heard of openly in all
the big league towns, and is getting much
support Brooklyn is a dead one with only
one team, st. Louis is dead one with two
and so Is Boston, while Philadelphia is just
about breaking even with both teams win
ming. Chicago and New York are drawing
we'll for the double-header, hut they are
about the only towns In the country that
can support two teams properly Cleve-
land and Pittsburg are big winners, be-
cause their teams are well up in the race
Cleveland is base ball mad Just now. Gin
cinnati and Detroit are not going to pile
up any big surplus of profit, and Washing
ton is a loser since the team fell from the
top to the bottom. The twelve-club league
will very likely be double-headers in Chi
} cago, New York and Philadelphia so those
great population centers can have con-
, tinuous ball. and then Boston, Cincinnati
, Cleveland, Detroit, Pittsburg and st. Louis
; This will leave Brooklyn and Washington
to go into a new circuit'which is to be made
up Of the better towns of the eastern cir.
} cult, with probably Louisville and Column
} bus on the west. Then will come the ole
, time Western league circuit of Milwaukee
I Minneapolis, St. Paul, Indianapolis Kansa,
City, Denver, Omaha and Des Moines. This
/ is contamination to be prayed for. at any
' rate.
Charles Baird, director OF athletics a.
the University OF Michigan has this t
say OF last years foot ball team Of the
3 University OF Nebraska: Nebraska again
g produced one OF the strongest teams o.
A the middle west and demonstrated tn,
3 fact that her strength is not merely TEN
] porary. While she was unable to VIII
Q from Minnesota, as in 1902, yet she wal
D barely beaten at Minneapolis in a see-sav
. game by the score OF 1912 Also in
i splendid game she defeated Illinois 1910
4 and likewise Iowa, 17-s. 1t is safe to sa!