Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-27


So Il WIN be seen BY examining the con-
ditions with a little care that about the
only real accomplishment Of Mr.. johnson,
aside from fixing himself, Charlie Comiskey
and Connie Mack, has been 70 put base ball
on the blink IN St. Louis. Boston and
Brooklyn, to let Detroit in for much good
money. and TO get lot Of bad feeling
stirred up that will not be quieted for many
seasons. II isn't a scarcity Of players that
Is hurting the game just now, but
plethora Of magnates.
Howard Grifiths got an Injunction 20
prevent Pat Powers from undertaking 70
I'LL any alleged vacancy on the national
commission, due TO the Cincinnati action
that declared Grifflths out Of the game.
This will force Powers to come into court
and make a showing II will also be val
liable in determining II a man is traitor
to the game just because he doesn't
sneeze when Ban Johnson takes snuff.
Grimths will probably not plead guilty TO
all the Johnsonites have charged against
him. for a man couldn't be foolish enough
20 do everything they accuse Grihiths of
and keep out OF the nut factory. But he
won't deny that he tried to line up the
class teams I'm n protective organization,
and that he succeeded In getting In all but
the Southern Kavanaugh turning states
evidence for the loyal" purpose Of keeping
in with Ban Johnson. The Johnsonites
now announce that they are going 20 get"
Tebeau and stalilngs, as we'll as Grifiths.
Protection Is TO be withdrawn from the
Glass A leagues, and whole lot OF things
are going to happen 20 them. But Mr. John
son has tacitly admitted that he will adhere
to the one-man draft rule. and that is what
the Glass A men were fighting for so II
looks like the talk Of expulsion and the like
were just nice little blum on the part Of
somebody TO let himself down easily. And,
II the minors will only stick together, even
with the detection of Powers and Kava-
naugh. who seem TO mortally dread doing
anything distasteful TO johnson, they will
get a whole lot more from the majors. The
minors might as we'll disband their organi-
cation II they are going to allow the majors
to dictate terms to them. The reserve rule
needs some more attention, and the minors
ought to go into convention in November
well prepared 70 demand such modification
OF this rule as will secure TO a team the
return OF any player drafted without wait
ing for the whole bunch OF major league
managers to waive claim. II this point is
settled, and little flrmness on part of the
minors will settle II, the greatest cause OF
friction will be done away with and the
owners of the smaller teams will begin to
enjoy some Of the fruits of their own en-
terprise. II will also help the players in
ways that are too obvious to need discus
sion.
Next month the college foot ball season
will begin with a match between Lebanon
and the Pennsylvania State College in the
east, and with the Alumni against Purdue
in the west. and from that time on the
matches will come thick and fast, the
schedule being longer than IN any previous
year. Yale and Pennsylvania on account
of their record last year are likely to divide
interest though Harvard will come in for a
good deal of watching on account OF the
employment of w. T. Reid as coach. The
rest of the colleges and universities have
| made arrangements to make things In
teresting, securing additional coaches. and
planning for a lot OF hard work.
The coaches of some Of the universities
are already working over diagrams with
ways to beat the rules, and which they VIII
find easier than ever. In view of the aston
ishing definition OF the line of the scrim'
mage in this years rules, by which a
player may be four or five feet back OF
the line and yet be in It by having his
closer than ever before, and the loss In
the play of his year may be made up fol
| when II is found that the committee made
the game closer instead OF more open, the
| foot ball players themselves may rise IT
! their wrath next year and depose these
| kings of the gridiron. The full schedule
| for the season follows:
September l6-Lebanon at Pennsylvania
! State College; Alumni at Purdue' ,,,,,
SATURDAY, sePtemoer Sg'.Wi Hslsa. az VII
Jams Agricultural at Holy Cross; Allbrigh
! at Lehigh; Butler at Purdue; Macomb Nor
NV wednesday, September 27.-vilIo Nova a
! Princeton Hamilton at Cornell; Norwich
at Dartmouth; Hobart at Syracuse; Mary
at Amherst; Randolph Macon at Virginia
| Saturday, September 3O.-Lehtgh at Penn
sylyanta; Williams at H da trinity , "a a
| ton; Union at Columbia; Colgate at Cor
nell; Tufts at West Point; Rochester a
a ayISSi slate ' at Brown; Maryland Xs
| ricultural at Gettysburg; Boston College a
Holy Cross; MASSACHUSETTS, State at Dart
vania State; Western Maryland at Dickin
son; st. Johns at Virginia; Connection
State at Wesleyan; Ohio Wesleyan a
| Knox at Illinois; Northwestern at wiscon
| sin; Monmouth at Iowa; Butler at Indiana
"Wednesday, October 4-Bowdoin at Har
ward: Wesleyan at YALE Seton Hall a
Columbia Hobart at Cornell; Vermont a
Dartmouth; Medico Chi at Dehigh; Gettys
burg at Pennsylvania Susquehanna a
Carlisle; Massachusetts, State at Brown
St. Lawrence at Colgate; Kalamazoo a
Michigan; Marquette at Wisconsin, Angus
Saturday, October 7.-syracuse at Yale
Williams at Union; Swarthmore at Penn
sylvania: Lehigh at Pennsylvania; Colgat
at West Point; Carlisle at Pennsylvani
State; Virginia Military Institute at An
napolis; Rutgers at Trinity; Worceste
Wesleyan at Columbia Mlddlesbury a
Vermont Holy Cross at Dartmouth
Georgetown at Princeton: Wesleyan a
Cornell; Haverford at Dickinson; Case a
Michigan South Dakota at Nebraska Ill
nois Wesleyan at Knox; Iowa at Chicag 20
Lawrence at Wisconsin; Kentucky State a
Indiana; Northwestern Academy at LAX
Forest; North Dakota at Minnesota
Wednesday, October u.-Massachusett
Agricultural at Williams; Lehigh at Prince
ton: Springfield Training School at Yale
Franklin and Marshall at Pennsylvania
st. Johns at Annapolis; Colby at Brown
Bates at Harvard; Chicago Physicians an
Surgeons at Wisconsin; Ohio Northern a
Michigan.
Saturday, October 14-vermont at We,
leyan; Syracuse at Hamilton; Columbia q
, | Swarthmore: Williams at Columbia; Il
high at Haverford; New York Universit
at Trinity; HOLY Cross at Yale: Virgini
! | Polytechnic at West Point: North Caroiin
at Pennsylvania: Carlisle at Virgins
! Dickinson at Annapolis; Maine at Brown
Springfield Training School at Harva RI
) gettysburg at Pennsylvania state; Middl,