Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-20

are willing 70 allow. Then, when Il comes
to getting a player from the big league
back into the minor, well. the experience OF
81. Joe with Philadelphia will do for a
sample. Bill Douglas was a good old time
Philadelphia player. but when the Quakers
we're reorganizec Bill quit the game and
retired to his Missouri estate. He was not
formally released. but Philadelphia had no
need OF his services, and so for some years
he was not disturbed in his retirement
Last spring Percy Chamberlain dug him up
TO manage the st. Joe team. Bill went to
work, and for several weeks headed the
Saints on their race for the cellar cham
pionship. He was then transferred to
Kansas City, with the object Of making II
certain that the No. Tebeau team finished
absolutely last in the American race. Then
along comes Philadelphia and files a claim
against the St Joe club for $500 for the
services OF Bill Douglas. Just think OF t.
The big leagues will allow a minor league
club $3.50 for a crack young player and
charge $500 for the services Of a player who
has been chased out of base ball so long
ago that most people have forgotten him.
That's protection that protects, all right.
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The college teams will soon be making
arrangements for the fall preliminary prac-
tice, which is still continued although so
much was said against It at one time. Ar
guments we're that II looked too much like
professionalism TO take q foot ball squai
TO some summer resort and put the boys
through their preliminary sprouts. The nd
ysntages to be gained by the players and
the team as & whole were so great that
they outweighed any arguments against the
practice, so it is still in vogue. Foot ball
is a very rough game, and one should not
play It unless he has been especially con-
ditioned to Withstand the hard knocks in
cident TO the game. Foot ball is not game
to be played by clerks who have been con-
fined to their desks all week and then wish
to go out for a little Saturday afternoon
recreation. 1t is entirely too rough for
such and It is those kind Of players who
are continually getting hurt and putting
the game into bad repute by reason of their
injuries. Foot ball IL essentially the game
OF all games for which a man must prepare
himself by a hard course of training before
he can expect to play with advantage to
his college and safety to himself When a
player has conditioned himself, he can then
play with slight chances OF injury. The
records show that seldom is a man serl-
ously injured in the games between the
larger colleges, which have competent
coaches and in which no one is permitted
to play who is not physically fit. So It is
that the preliminary practice is eminently
proper for the conditioning Of these men
who must go through the two months of
hard knocks.
Monday will see the opening Of the Middle
West tennis tournament at the Omaha
Field club courts for the middle west cham
pionshlps. These tournaments have come
| to be fixtures at the Field club and this,
the fifth annual meet, promises to surpass
all previous efforts in the number Of con-
testants and in the size and value of the
prizes offered. Entries have come from
all the leading towns in the west and the
! tournament will, indeed, be representative
| OF the middle west. Arthur Snow, winner
Of the western championship in 1903 and
also winner OF the northwestern in 1901
! and the holder OF many Of the Chicago
championships has entered. His pc -tner In
the doubles will be Charles c. Peters, who
| has also string of championship medals
= to dangle from his chest when he chooses
| to wear them. e. NJ Ashcroft is another
! Chicago expert who is coming. Vernon and
| Sheldon will journey from Kansas City,
where they recently won the Missouri state
! championship. Ike and Donald Raymond
| of Lincoln will be on hand ana W. p.
!, Hayes recent winner Of the Iowa state
| tourney, anu y. -. NOuutNt pol lhSIb
will be on hand TO contest with those from
| the other states Colorado and the west
will also be represented. C. e. Fennisy,
| DR.. Graham and his brother, ]. w. Gra-
| ham, all from Denver, will come, and G. p.
Dodge OF Colorado Springs, one time a
winner on the eastern courts, will be pres
emit. Samuel b. Neel of Encampment. who
at one time, with his brother, held the
double championship OF the west is talking
of entering. From Sioux City will come
Ernest Baker and w. s. Gilman, a strong
team who will bring with them many Of
the crack players Of that thriving town.
| w. E Blatherwick, the runner-up at the
Worlds fair tournament at st. Louis last
year, will be on hand and bring many OF
his compatrlots from South Dakota, The
entry list is large and the play is sure to be
fast.
A new contract has been submitted by
the managers of the Minnesota foot ball
team to Nebraska to 'supplant the con-
tract now in effect. Minnesota serves no
tice that It rejects the clause present
rules" injected by Secretary Clapp of the
Nebraska board. The phrase in question
would permit Nebraska to use freshmen
players in the 1906 game, whereas, Mime
sofa being a member of the big Nine" Is
not peIullllGu " play AANShAASh NhASA tue
new rules. In spite of the fact that Ne
braska was barred from participation in
the conference which adopted the rules, the
individual members seem to think that
Nebraska should comply with the intent
OF the rules OF the big Nine"
The substitute contract submitted by DR.
Williams, coach of the Minnesota team, wa,
not accompanied by any ultlmatum say.
ing that the game was or II Nebraska die
not submit TO the rule Of the Big Nine.
Although DR.. Williams was said to have
made that statement he sent no such Yort
10 Lincoln and either he changed his minC
or his advisory board sidetracked the ulti
matum. Although the fact that freshmen
we're not TO be permitted to play hal
worked TO some extent against Nebraska II
the matter Of securing new players, there 4
no reason for this, for the same rule ap
, plies to all Of the larger colleges. Fresh
, men rarely make varsity team in thet
, first year at the university any way, ant
they will still be permitted to enjoy all o
the advantages OF a thorough coach AM
the higher class OF training that the uni
, versity offers. Nebraska Is we'll eduippe,
for her foot ball team and at no school II
canufry rould a freshman haya hatfa