Omaha daily bee., 1906-02-08
sportinr Brcvitie,.

Bug Holiday has quit umpiring and is
now looking for an engagement as man
ager Of some minor league team.
Cantillon has already announced he will
have a winner at Milwaukee. Pa Rourke
will soon be able to make the same an
nOuncement.
kean are rival candidates for the position
OF manager of the Akron team In the Ohio
and Pennsylvania league.
With the exception OF Chicago, most of
the colleges which are against the game
of foot ball are those which have won
few games in the last few years.
Western league fans may thank their
stars that Hogrlever, the premier Crouch
and KICKER. will not be in this circuit this
year. He has gone back to indianapolis.
Spring athletics probably will suffer along
lshed. the gridiron sport was used to
furnish funds for track events and rowing.
None OF the old boys is kicking against
the game OF foot ball as II is played. Any
OF the old players who INDUCED in the
game for two or three years are for it at
all times.
Skaters who must skate are now forced
to go to the lakes for the lumbermen have
taken possession Of the Auditorium until
Friday night, or afternoon. rather. when
the sport will be resumed.
Few residents OF Omaha or any OF the
country to the south know much concern
ing sport which is most popular in the
northern states and Canada. This Is
skirunning, one of the most exciting and
dangerous sports known, IhlS country Is
indebted to foreigners for this sport, It
having been introduced by Scandinavians.
particularly Norwegians. who still remain
It's most numerous devotees. The feats OF
sliding and jumping that are performed on
the slender skis are wonderful in the ex-
treme and the daring involved in indul-
gence of the sport appears but Just this
side Of foolhardy, but so proficient do its
devotees become that comparatively few
serious accidents ever happen.
Connie Mack denies that Washington
traded Tom Hughes for Lave Cross. He
says There seems to be an impression
that / must get a star player for Cross.
Tom Hughes Is a great pitcher and I would
but Washington could not afford to let
Hughes go. We are all trying TO help
Washington along, and II ] were to take
Hughes away from the club 1t would GER
tainly weaken them for next season. At
present ] have no more deals on and the
way IL looks now no more deals will be
added to the Athletic club before the open
ing of the eason. I am perfectly satisfied
many shortstops and third basemen on my
staff that It will take about all my time to
weed them OUT
A fan writes the Post: ct see in a New
York paper that Washington has twenty
nine players for next season." and wants
to know who they are. II is suggested that
the fan write to the New York paper. which
seems to know more about the matter than
the owners of the club. However, when
the club goes to Charlottesville Il will have
the following players: PItchers-Patten,
Hughes, Wolfe, sudhoff Kitson. Falken-
berg, Smith; Hardy, Mccoy. Starkell and
possibly Hildebrand: catchers - Kittredge
and Heyden and possibly youngster:
Stahl. Mil. Schally. Cassidy and Cross in
the infield; Hickman, Stanley. Jones and
Anderson In the outfeld. Henllne of Bloom
with the club hut no one expects him TO
make a place on the club.