Omaha daily bee., 1905-06-25
SPORTING GOSSIP OF WEER
Omaha Doing Fairly Well in Spite OF
Hospital List
ST. JOE LAYS DOWN ON THE HOME TEAM
Missouri People Refuse TO PatrOniHe
the Game and the Club Goes
10 the had on the Money
side.

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Getting along.
Omaha's crippled team has been doing
fairly we'll in the field of late, and has won
more games than 1t has lost, which lie a
consoling feature, even IL 1t hasn't climbed
any notches in the standing table. With
Jack Thomas out and Buck Thiel nearly
out, and Johnny Gonding in need of time
to dock tor repairs, and similar things, the
gang has made 1t uncomfortable for Des
Moines, Denver and st. Joe, and will take
care OF the rest of the league in time. The
games at St. Joe have been. as always, Of
the most interesting sort. During the five
years of the leagues existence, the St. Joe
team has given Omaha the hardest possible
fight for every game, and the list of to |
scores these teams have furnished is some-
thing remarkable Glen Liebhardt got OF
with his usual finish in his undertaking. He
was not quite good enough 10 win, and just
a little too good 10 lose. His old team
mates touched him up little, but couldn't |
get him hard enough to land victory. |
That tie game will probably do him as much |
good as II he had pulled out well ahead. in |
the meantime. the citizens of st. Joe are |
laying down on the team just they have |
on everything else, and 1t begins to look |
as If it were all off with the good old town |
so far as the national game is concerned |
| This is too bad; last fall the last of the |
teams home series had to be transferred
| on account of poor attendance, but 1t was
promised that this would be remedied this
season. The figures sent out from down
| there do not indicate It. In fact 1t is quite
apparent that the people down there do not
want base ball, at least not the kind the
Western league affords.
All is not loveliness In the affairs Of the
| Pacific coast league. Tacoma is the
point of giving up the ghost Last Sun
day at the morning game the attendance
was 400 and at the afternoon game about
800 paid to see the Tigers trounce the OPP
position. Miguel Fisher has taken the mat
ter before the Tacoma Boosters club. and
| pointed out that more people will have to
pay to get into the grounds or the team
will be removed from the city. Miguel is
patriotic and has given the city of his
adoption q great ball team. but he can
not run the club on hot air and good feel
ings. Some sort of steps will be taken
to put the team on better financial basis.
The outlaw league, composed of Ogden
Salt Lake City, Boise and Spokane, has
gone to pieces. Ogden and Salt Lake City
quit and paid off their players Monday
Boise and Spokane hope to hold on till after
the Fourth OF July. Light attendance did
the business for them, too. This part of
the circuit Mike Sexton had framed up to
land Denver and Colorado Springs against.
1t was good work President Tip O'Neill
did at Colorado Springs In getting local
capital behind the team that not day
was missed in the schedule, The team has
pulled together quite we'll since the new
deal and has crawled out of last place.
With local capital enlisted and a better
feeling prevailing at home, II is not at
all impossible that the Springs will be
made q more profitable place of call than
: II has been for the last two seasons. At
any rate the new management is after
\ new players, and promises to make the
. team a first class playing organization
! President ONeill is assisting in this and
g will do all he can to make the undertaking
: a paying one. His success so far marks
: him as a man of considerable ability when
: 1t comes to a hustle. 1t must not be for
>; gotten though, that he was advised by
! some OF the other team owners early in
i the season to be prepared 20 take care OF
the Colorado Springs team at any time,
!: for Burns showed early signs of quitting.
.
And now Bill Everitt's band OF base ball
!. buccaneers have given President O'Neill
y a chance to make good again. He must
% take hold of the young men who assaulted
9 Umpire Scheuster at Sioux City and make
"a an example of them that will serve notice
10 on all other turbulent spirits that that sort
2S of thing doesn't go in the Western league
?. Scheuster has had little more than his
share OF trouble during the short time he
has been with the Western, but he has i'm
pressed all with whom he has come into
% of x.yffh n Of fatr ond
70 determination to run the game on the ieve
os and in the interests of true sport. Hi
lr efforts at quelling any inclination towards
a turbulence on the Omaha grounds mad,
is him very popular here. and while all hi
Is decisions did not meet with general ap
* proval, the frmness and deliberation will
which he pursued his course certainly ar
u upheld right. Without going into tn
. merits of the Sioux City episode It is In
e: sisted that no condition can arise on tn
i. ball field that will warrant a captain II
3 forfeiting a game, for the rules distinctly
n provide him with his recourse, and he 1
d. most positively forbidden to do that whic
will result in forfeiting a game. In othe
leagues a heavy penalty is visited on tn
or offending captain in such cases. and shoul
at be in this. And If the captain is to b
I punished for his conduct, what is to b
said of the two young men who wiltull
ur assaulted the umpire? Do they think be
is. cause ]. Muggsy McGraw got an injunctio
at or two In the east to protect himself tha
he they will be allowed to carry on in hi
rowdy style and get away with It? Thei
conduct is certainly indefensible and shoul
be met with the most severe punishment
,ht Attendance at the Western league game
'as has not been any too good so far this sea
M son and II the element of pluguglysm is
ng be injected into IT, the gate receipts wi
lar very likely fall away still further FL
HE the good of the game 1t is to be hope
that President O'Neill will take the actic
that the present instance demands.
ler Summer has had no terror for the bow
tie ers up to the present time and the conte
cry in the News handicap tournament 20
2 merrily This is the first handle,
tournament ever held in Omaha and II HI
= made decided hit as the handicappil
- was of high order. This has been der
onstrated by the way that the teams ha,
chung together and fought for the place
The second round in the tournament WI
& finished Friday night and found Da
o'Brien and Beselin still in the lead by