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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-18

the English magistrate would fine the
traveller.
Your ticket on the Peninsular q Oriental
boats stIpulates that you have paid passage
and stewards fees. but the tipping nui-
sance goes on just the same. Every pas
senger grumbles and would prefer diff
ferent system. The man who serves our
meals expects a tip although you certainly
paid the steamship company for your
meals. The man who makes UP your bed
expects a tip; the man VINO admits you to
a bathroom expects tip, as does the man
who moves your chair on deck. The head
walter and the steward also expect tips.
The barber who shaves you will not name
a price: you may give him what you like,
he says but whatever you give him. he is
not satisfied.
II the Peninsular q Oriental company
would establish a tip schedule. that pas
sengers might know the usual and correct
thing, II would be better, but there is no
such thing, and every traveller is rendered
uncomfortable by having a lot OF discon-
tented servants standing about looking
growls. You hear a great deal about the
low prices at which servants work In the
Orient. 1t seems to be a fiction ! GER
tainly pay two or three prices for every
thing. II you have 'rickshaw man to
haul you a few blocks, no matter what
you pay him you have a row with him.
I recently paid 'rickshaw man exactly
double the legal schedule and he promptly
demanded more
1T is not only the extortion, 1t is the an
noyance. No traveller cares TO fight his
way through foreign countries. And that
is what it amounts to. The natives poster
you to patronize them. and when you dc
patronize them you are in trouble The
grumbling is becoming so pronounced that
It may finally result In travel falling of
II this may be hoped for, then let the ex-
tortion and annoyance continue. for any.
thing that will keep travellers at home will
prove a genuine blessing"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-18
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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-18
One Comfort Left

The retired merchant was looking over
his old ledgers.
What satisfaction does that afford your
asked the caller.
"A heap" he answered. when some
body calls me an old skinfiint and miser
IL does me good 10 look at the unpaid ac-
counts OF my forty years In business and
reflect that I've given away in my time,
without counting interest, s27.Asl.Ss." -
Chicago Tribune.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-18
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kidneys. 1t is purely vegetable and each
element in 1t was chosen for its direct and
beneficial action on the kidneys. Fifty
thousand people, representing every section
OF the United States publicly recommend
from this city.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-18

Elaborate plans have been made by the
Athletic association OF the University OF
Pennsylvania for the twelfth annual inter
collegiate and interscholastic relay race
meeting, which will be held at Franklin
field on Saturday, May Is. The event will
be open to all the colleges and universities
of the United States and Canada To de-
termine the college championship OF Amer
lea there will be three races. One will be
for mile, each man to run quarter OF a
mile. The second race will be for four
miles, each contestant TO run mile while
the third race viii be of two miles, each
man to run a half mile. Pennsylvania will
have entries in each race, and II Is ex-
pected that Columbia, Harvard Yale.
Princeton, Cornell, Chicago, Michigan and
Wisconsin will be represented. A number
OF scratch events, open only to college
men. graduate or undergraduates, in which
the first prize will be q gold watch, have
been placed on the program. They are a
1O0-yard dash, 120-yard hurdle. high Jump,
broad jump, shot put, hammer throw. dis
Gus and pole vault.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-18

and some outside matches may be arranged
when the association gets settled in the
new building. Some of the apparatus has
been taken from the gymnasium already
and by week from tomorrow all will be
on the move to the new quarters in the
new Omaha Commercial college building.
The association will have the whole top
floor OF this building, which will give more
gymnasium room than at present. Plenty
Of locker room will also be provided, SO
the association will be just as well pro-
vided for, II not better. than in the old
building. which was becoming little
rickety. The baths will also be ample at
the new quarters and the association will
not suffer in the least in the athletic de-
partment by having to move In the tenn
porary quarters.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-18


The strongest argument that those In
favor of sculling advance is that the ten
dency will be to produce an equal develop
ment OF each side OF the body and do away
with the lop-sidedness that comes from con-
tinual pulling on zone side of the boat.
Both arms do an equal amount of work.
and the legs and body can be used to much
greater advantage in scullifg. Besides the
assertion is made that It is a more natural
and scientific way of rowing. When the
question first arose it was naturally sup
posed that the division of opinion among
the coaches would be between those who
had formerly been single scullers and those
who were members of crews. Courtney,
Dempsey and Ten Eyck were adopts In a
single, while the others handled sweeps.
Ellis Ward, however, favors sculling, while
Courtney is satisfied with the sweeps Good
win rowed with the Columbia crew that
won at Henley in 1873 and Ward was one Of
the noted four-oared crew of brothers that
swept al before them in the '7os.
The faculty athletic committee of Leland
Stanford university in its report TO Presi-
dent Jordan touches on the question Of
summer base ball players. follows
This committee has as yet had very lit
tie difficulty with the question OF the sum
rner hotel ball player. which has been such
a menace to college base ball in the east;
but in the town and commercial mines, as
they exist on the coast there exist in all
probability factors of still greater danger
to amateur base ball. Teams of this class
play fer gate receipts, which mainly go
toward compensating the semi-professional
and poorer professional players comprising
the nucleus of these mines"
Hand ball is being played at the Young
Mems Christian association this winter, al
though not as many tournaments have
been arranged as were last winter. The
game is most popular with those who in
dulge in It and furnishes plenty Of ex-
ercise as all of a mans muscles must be
keyed up for a jump In any direction II he
plays the game as II should be played
Many good players have been developed
at the Young Mems Christian association
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-18

was to make the trainer a member Of the
-acuity. bat the senate was not prepared to
% as far as that
Such an impression was made upon the
followers Of foot ball at Columbia uni
versity by the exhibition of Rugby given
by the New Zealanders at Washington
park that 1t is considered very probable
that the American game, which has grown
into disfavor at Manhattan's big institu-
tons Of learning will be supplanted by the
game the antipodeans know 50 well how TO
play One OF those most enthusiastic in his
advocacy Of the foreign style of foot ball is
Dr. George l. Meylan, the director Of the
Columbian gymnasium. He likens Rugby
to American basket ball, with tacklng
added and recommends It because all the
players are allowed to carry the ball. Dam
ger, he says, is minimized by the absence
OF the American style OF scrimmage. Dr.
Meylan feels very confident that, once in
PRODUCED Rugby will prove acceptable and
even more popular with the public at large,
as, with the bail constantly in sight. every
spectator can follow the plays In fact
he believes that II Columbia were to take
IL up, which he deems not at all irnprob-
able. as well as several other Of the dis
satisfied universities. the regular college
foot ball would have a most dangerous
rival DR.. Meylan thus sums up the stua-
ton from his viewpoint: The game the
New zealanders showed us eliminates all
dirty play and the opportunities for it as
well. There is no brutality in It. either.
feel that it is a real sport, such as Amer
leans of the proper constitutions can en-
joy and undoubtedly would. There is a
smaller tendency to specialization and TO
professionalism involved In the playing of
the Rugby game, too"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-18

sculler, he has no objections to the meth
DDS now employed at Poughkeepsie other
THAI the length Of the race. He has al
ways maintained that a four-mile race is
too much of a strain on the immature oars
men who race in their intercollegiate re-
gatta, and his greatest desire is to see the
distance of the course shortened to three
miles.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-18

The Omaha Field club has leased again
for the coming summer the west FORTY
acres, which will insure a good field Cor
the Transmississippi golf tournament
which will be held in June at the Field
club The directors held back before in
Wiling the association TO hold the meet at
the Field club, as 1t was the desire Of
many to hold the meet next year, when
the new grounds will be in shape. The
greens on the new course are ell in place
and will be nursed so that play may be
started as soon as possible. The old course
has many natural hazards ana is a hard
course for man to play on the first few
times over, and this fact may give the
local men good opportunity to get in en-
the prizes. The founders of the South
Omaha Country club maintain that It is
not their wish to infringe TO any extent
on the two established clubs, but simply
to provide for place for the people Of
South Omaha which is nearer to home
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-18

The Omaha Rod and Gun club will hold
a meeting in week 20 elect officers for the
coming year and to devise plans to raise
the balance Of the money needed to build
club house. Considerable enthusiasm
was worked up last year and had the
spring been more dry so that the building
could have been started, there is little
doubt but the money would have been
raised at that time. The interest which
Fish Commissioner O'Brien has taken in
Cut of lake has encouraged the promoters
of the enterprise and they will work fast
when a start is once made 10 complete
the building for the summers use. The
CORTLAND Beach company has gieen the
ground and will grant free use of its
grounds to the members Of the club. as
well as plenty of room for the tying OF
boats. and the street railway company
will also offer every encouragement to the
enterprise.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-18

Danny Shay will appear in a st. Louis
uniform this season. 1t will be recalled
that Danny made this crack last year, but
when the salary raise came he packed
I'D and left for the east. II will not be
thus this time avow those who are in a po-
sition to know. Danny is building UP a
handsome business at Stockton, Cal, which
he can't afford to leave to play base ball.
He is at the head OF one of the largest
cigar stores in the town and making money
hand over fist His contract with st. Louis
is satisfactory, and but for his business
he would go back. Danny will be able
to play with Stockton, the team plays
most Of its games home and this would
not interfere with his trade
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-18

soon as the ball rested in his hands. Last
year he was Of with the crack Of the bat.
and generally was waiting when the ball
came down This gave him chance TO
work in some fine throws during the sum
mer. With this Improvement in his held-
ing. he did not show up 80 well at the bat,
but several things combined to bring this
about one thing he did not get SUFFICIENT
credit for his ability to sacrifice. He has
got the bunt down to a point where he is
nearly as sure as Nick Carter, the &C
knowledged king Of the Western league,
and the peer OF any player in the country
at the art Of bunting Welsh worried many
a pitcher during the season. and every rea-
son exists to think that he will show UP
in fine form both In the field and at the bat
next summer.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-18

The request for two years time in which
TO clear up foot ball seems a little queer
to a man up a tree and seems to be an ad-
mission OF impotency on the part of the
college authorities. Foot ball has grown
more and more popular as the years have
sped and II continued for two years, even
with all itr faults, II could be remedied and
no one VIC lid complain II a few expert
ments were made in the matter of rule
changes. Surely no college president and
faculty will admit that they cannot control
foot ball, for they have positive control
over the men who compose the teams and
can lay down the rules they wish as to
who are legible to play on the college team.
II they have professionals on the team
they have the authority to put them on.
No doubt exists 10 the power Of the au-
thorities TO regulate the game, so why do
they not regulate II instead OF trying to
wipe IT of the list of college sports as the
action OF the Chicago university is apt to
do? All that is necessary is for the facul-
ties to step forward and declare themselves
and show they have the nerve to regulate
the game as II should be played Michigan
has stood pat and retained Yost and should
be commended for the nerve which 1t
shows in the face of all opposition. This
decision of Michigan is leader for others
TO follow and II is a safe prediction that
when the smoke is cleared away the Big
Nine will be found playing on the same old
gridirons.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-18

Tip" ONeill has reached San Francisco
and has recovered his voice. Here is one
utterance from the president Of the West
ern league: 1T seems to be the prevailing
idea that the Glass A leagues rather got it
in the neck, but l want to say that while
they lost some fights they were unimport-
ant compared TO the ones they won. For
what purpose did the Glass A leagues form
an association? Wasn't II 10 have a one
man draft and make the big leagues pay
more for their players? Didn't the big
leagues yield eventually to their demands?
Would they have done so had not the
Glass A banded themselves together? Do
you suppose the major leagues would have
voluntarily given us a one-man draft? 1
hardly think so. Glass A leagues forced
them TO do so, and they also made them
pay the Glass B, c and D leagues more for
their players, and yet these little leagues
stand in with the big leagues on most
every proposition. Instead OF helping US
as they should be. these small leagues OPP
pose u.s.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-18


Basket ball does not hold the interest n,
the players as It should and the schedule
Is not adhered to very strictly. The games
are postponed on the slightest PROPAGATION
and the interest is allowed TO drag. The
Crescents postponed their game last week
because they wished to go TO Sioux City
ana the high school team played Lincoln
Friday so postponed the game for last
night because Of the game the night be-
fore Basket ball is a splendid winter in
door game and deserves TO be ENCOURAGED
~ VIII never draw crowds as the outdoor
games DO but II furnishes the best kind
OF exercise for the players and adds the
interest OF a good contest 20 regular ex-
ereise Enough OF the older and stronger
players are distributed around through al,
the teams, so that no team has a walk
away, College teams all over the country
are playing match games and eonsiderah he
interest Is worked up over the matches
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-18


II Is expected that race for octopedes
eight men rowing SOULS instead of sweens.
VIII be held in the annual regatta of the
intercollegiate Rowing association at
Foughkeepsie next summer The only re-
cent race OF that character was between
the New York Athletic club and the Phila
delphia crew at the national regatta last
year, and II was a great success from
spectacular point Of view. The suggestion
has met with favor at Syracuse, Pennsyl-
Vania and Georgetown, while Columbia
Cornell and Wisconsin are not inclined 10
approve OF the plan. James Ten Eyck has
Always been in favor Of sculling, ana has
declared that that form of rowing a. more
natural and more beneficial than sweep
rowing. That Ellis Ward OF Pennsylvania
Is hearty advocate Of the innovation is
shown by the fact that in the recent prae-
ice OF the Pennsylvania crews he boated
an octopede which rowedAn the boat used
by the Ah-Philadelphia crew against All
New York last summer Pat Dempsey.
Georgetown's coach, has not lost his love
for sculling since the time when he was
clever sculler and would be only too glad
to develop scullers instead OF sweep oars
men Columbia's rowing instructor, Jasper
T. Goodwin, Is decidedly against the pro-
posed change. as he says that he can see
no advantages In soulling. either for the
men themselves or for the racing. Al
though Charles f. Courtney. probably the
best coach Of them all II an old single
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-18

The faculty council Of the University OF
Minnesota has decided unanimously TO
adopt every recommendation of the Big
Nine conference. This was in the way of
a surprise and was also not according to
the wishes OF a majority of the students
One measure was adopted to apply 20 Mn
nesota alone, which was the management
of finances by the faculty members, and
adding 20 the number of. members on the
athletic committee. The surprise was more
because Of the great interest which Presi-
dent Northrop and many Of the faculty
members have taken in the game. II was
announced that the faculty considered the
only course TO pursue was 10 adopt the
measures or abolish foot bah for two years
This win cause trouble with other confer
enoe colleges with which Minnesota will
compete unless uniform rules are adopted.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-18

In hooting with the rest at the "oficial''
averages sent out by Tip o'Neil the Des
Moines Register-Leader asks in scorn,
who is BasseyT' After the base bail
editor Of that journal of progress and
Iowa politics has seen Rourke's little
wonder perform once he will never ask that
question again. Bassey is the boy wonder
and no mistake. He is built just like Buck
Thiel only on a smaller model. His legs are
long enough to reach the ground,
but don't stick up in the air
any higher than just below his
waist line. This makes him about tall
enough to look over the back of a Muscovy
duck. When Pop Eyler first saw Bassey
at the bat. he thought somebody was kid
ding him, but changed his mind when
Bassey landed one of his choicest against
the center field fence and logged to third
on II. The fact that he played fifteen
games without an error mustn't be taken
as indicating that he can't cover the field
for he simply went after everything that
was hit to the left side of the diamond
and never missed connection. He is sim
ply the biggest little surprise sprung in
base ball since that Sunday afternoon In
the far away days of 1884, when Hugh
Nichol caught nine flies, made three assists
and five hits out of five times up just to
show the St. Louis people that some ball
players didn't have to be as big as MIL
ligan or Robinson in order TO get the
goods. Bassey is all right
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-18

Yost viii coach the University OF Michi-
gan foot ball team next fall, the senate of
the university having decided to ignore the
recommendation of the recent western col
leges conference that professional coaches
rot members Of the faculty be abolished
The decision was practically unanimous
The proposal OF the University of Chicago
that foot ball be suspended for two years
was also defeated. and, while IL was de-
cided 10 adopt the recommendation re-
garding a three-years' eligibility rule the
regulation will not be retroactive at Michi-
gan, which will permit Curtis, Garrels, Bar
low and Schultz TO play another year.
These men have played three years on the
team and would be barred out by the rule
These two recommendations were not dis
cussed TO any great extent, the sentiment
In their favor being decisive. On the ques-
ton OF abolition OF the training table there
was a strong fight, but the opposition 10 the
action Of the conference was not as strong
as IN the two other matters. and IL was
finally decided 10 abolish the training tA-
bles and 70 endorse the other reoommenda-
lions Of the conference. The action of the
senate was not unexpected as IL was
known at the university that the faculty
was not In accord with the conference and
thought that the measures taken were too
strong. The fact that Yosts contract has
-four more years 10 run was also used as an
argument for his retention The alternative
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-18


Bowling still continues to be a strong
magnet which hold the interest Of the old
time bowlers, although new recruits are
not added as the managers would wish.
The addition Of the billiard tables to the
association alleys has proved strong card
FOR the members and the 1--WE tables are
almost constantly in use during the after
noon ana evening. The league race stan
continues to be the leading feature OF the
winter sport and outside teams are not
coming very fast although Sioux City
came 10 town long enough TO be trimmed
last week. Western Iowa and Nebrask
has many good alleys, and these have good
players, who should organize and come
to the city for match game. Manager
Marble would be glad to play a match
with outside teams at any time. The
games could be scheduled so that the
Omaha boys could go for a return game.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-18

Rourke has a string OF pitchers that looks
good. Eddie Quick hopes 10 lead the list
next summer. He has signed with the un-
Outstanding tina. he Is expected to work
and has promised 20 shelve the indiffer-
enoe he occasionally showed last summer
Next comes McNeeley, whose prowess has
been tested on OmRha's field in other days
He is a good man for many reasons, par
ticularly because he can I'LL in on the field
as well as in the box. Kelley. Welch, Kou-
kalik. Corns. Huesser, Sanders, Bemis and
Fort make UP the nine men under con-
tract, and with the claim on Hall Rourke
has a string OF ten boxmen. any five Of
which would look good on a team. If he
Is not disappointed in the condition OF the
men when they report next month for
spring practice, he will be a proud man
AS 10 the rest OF the team he is pleased
His in and outhelds are now strong. on
paper at least. and with ordinary good
luck viii be found averaging up with any
team that ever wore an Omaha uniform
Rourke Il especially hopeful for Harry
Welsh for the coming season Last year
Welsh showed great improvement IN his
fielding over that Of the year before. He
had succeeded in mastering the main part
OF his lesson. for he was a much more nm
ished performer than during his FIRST sea-
son out In 1904 Harry had 70 stop to see
where the ball was going. with the result
that he made most OF his catches on the
run. and was seldom set for the throw as