Omaha daily bee., 1905-04-23

gratifying 10 both Coach Kennedy and
Captain Whittier. As the weather has been
favorable recently all the crews have been
able to get out into open water In the har-
Dor. and work now consists of rowing short
stretches under immediate coaching from
the launch, followed by a two-mile race be-
tween the university and college elghts.
At present the squad is divided into two
eight and four-oared crews, as follows:
Varsity Eight-Whitney. stroke; Morse,
number Z. Whittier g. Chase, 5, Scott, 4;
kineon, 3; DAILY, q Weeks, bow; krutt-
Collegiate -Bouiton, stroke: Low. Z; Hop
pin 6; Bloomer, s. Bouscaren, 4; Williams
3. Ortmayer, 2; Blair, bow; Hustled, coxs-
vain
-Four oar Crew-DeFrees, stroke; Gregory,
3; Harris . Atkins, bow.
The Vanderbilt cup automobile road race
will take place this year some time be-
tween August 10 and October 10, on a date
to be set later. Announcement of the course
will be made at least thirty days before the
race, although 1t is generally understood
that If at all possible the Nassau county
road will again be the scene Of the great
international contest.
careful study of the agreement drawn
| up to cover the worlds championship series
next fall has convinced a number of the
| players that there is going to be little
| financial return for the American and Ma
tional league team players that will bat
| tie for the title next October. One man,
in discussing the arrangement, said re-
| Gently: "As 1t is now. the most that one
can expect is about $7O0 for each player of
| the winning team and about 500 for the
| losers When the commission drew up that
system of dividing the receipts of the first
Ira1,
owners. Just think, only 40 per cent Of the
| gross o. the first four games goes to the
players 70 per cent of that TO go to the
winner and Is per cent TO the loser. Any
| way that you may wish to figure 1t out,
! the most that a player can get is 500. What
the National commission should have done
! was to have accepted the proposition OF
each league taking 5000 out Of the league
fund, making a purse of $4,000 for the two
teams TO battle for. That would have
made it an object for the players to play
| fast ball all season Another plan that
would have brought out the best in the
| players would have been for the clubs tc
offer 5000 for division among the team
winning the pennant and 5000 for the play
ers who won the worlds championship
There will be no more betting at th'
| base pail games at Exposition park, IltlS
burg. Barney Dreyfus, the president o
the Pittsburg club, is responsible for th
edict having been issued, and when th
season opens there the glad cry i'll tn
granstand of "Betcher to / he won
reach first" will be missing for the frs
time in history. There isn't race tract
within 100 miles of Pittsburg but oh, tn
joy there was for the sporting fraternit,
to go to the ball field and watch the play
as they were made and get separated from
their money. In the private boxes tn
milllonaires wrote checks for hundreds
which they rsSed on a single swat; il
the grandstand, though, Bill Schneider ant
Shad Civilian and that bunch used t
clean up enough in one inning-maybe-t T.
buy drinks for everybody in town. on
in the bleachers they bet everything from
81 to a bottle of pop, and II the loser o
the bet was dissatisfied. the man on tn
field who executed the play got the po
bottle. 1t is even said the players mad
quiet little bets among themselves, bu
| this is denied by Jack Taylor, as we'll a
by others. But the betting is to be stopped
2 Barney Dreyfus sent on the word from He