Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-11-20
SPORTS OF LDN
cREIGHToN AND DoANn no MEET
Locals VIII Finish strenuous season
ThnnksRlvInn Afternoon.

Thanksgiving Afternoon.
Creignton has ono more hard game. TO
OF the season. and that comes on Thanks
giving afternoon az Vinton street park
when the strong Doane Tigers will come to
TOWlL lne tact that Bellevue won from
Boane will not detract from the game, for
iBeheV9e showed In the game with Creish-
ton few weeks ago that II had a splendid
team and only hafd hick in having Captain
BENSON footing leg crippled early ia the
conflict saved Creighton from a much
reports also show that ho Bellevue eli' center ter
tossed the ball over the head of the full.
game.
The, foot ball season IS nearing close
and the west did not make the best show
iug IN the world against the eastern con-
tingent in the games played last Saturday.
VI course Carlisle has n magnificent team
ana has made good showing in the east,
put taled to beat Harvard, and when the
lnulehs came west last Saturday they COM
plctely scalped the Gophcrs who had won
from ChlcaRo. Now, where docs the west
stand. Michigan lost to Pennsylvania, but
thot was expected, for any team Is bound
70 De badly crippled when the captain the
largest man and most reliable player. is
cially was this severe on Michigan, which
hdd more than an ordinary allowance of
green men.
President Dreyfuss is out two hats. When
lne season began he agreed to give Philippe
2 batting average Of over 800 Philippe
batted pa and Leever .2i1. Last year their
averages were .0eS and .l02.-Pittsburg Post.
None Of my family took much to base
n4lL said Connie Mack the other day.
But I've got a boy who is going 10 he a
hummer He's only IL now, but he Is com,
ing along all right. just now he is going
TO school. / want him to get an education
and then If he wants to take lip base bali
al right There's good money IN base ball.
and the fellows who are in the game at
a HafV rdfFf
Billy Lush, the former Cleveland out
29ail team for next years campaign.--In-
1t is beginning to be generally believed
Wahoo Sam Crawford will cover first base
regularly for Detroit next season.
SILK" O'Loughin OF the American league
uIlplflng stan does not agree with several
OF the decisions handed down this season,
his position in the matter. The two deci-
sions he takes exception to are the ones at
runner hit by batted ball while on the
base safe, and the ones declaring that a
substltut batter has a right to allow the
regular one TO go up after the announce
ment of the change had been made. Saws
oioughlin concerning the decisions:
II base runner is allowed TO Interfere
with the ball while on the bags. there is no
limit TO what he can do. Instances arise
fere with a fielder while on the bases and
there Is nothing to hinder him from doing
II II II is legal to have the ball touch him.
This other point I'm regard to Mathewson
batting after substitute had been an
ounCed is one which should he settled or IL
viii cause trouble some of these days
You Will remember another member of the
New York team went in TO bat for Mathew
son, and IT was SO announced by the UNI
pire. The base runner was put out before
ball had been delivered 10 the batter and
the latter retired I'm favor of Mathewson
According to my view of the case, Mathew
out of tho Whau bp
uouncement was made and the other batter
went in. ,-..-.. -....-, -n
81 hold the same is true when battery
Is announced by an umpire before the game
The rule says that the batting order as
given 10 the umpire is not subject To change
and according Ia nv way of thinking, the
announcements OF batteries and changes in
the lineup and batting order are but exs
tensions of this rlle. This. OF course. does
not bar club from sending in other men
but 1t does mean that those announced are
out OF the gapp1i II others are sent In in
their places otter, the announcement has
been Pittsburg Gazette.
Some sapietft e6SiI 10 bequeathing to tho
ignorant publidsal few choice and ''unpub-
lished' bits of,lhistory, saws John Hat
fields throw, of lS3 yards, foot and "a
inches at Union base bah grounds in Brook
Ign October Is, 1892. has never been Off
cially equaled. There arc records 10 show
however that Ed Crane in 1854, threw The
ball ls5 yards. 900 feet and one-half inch
and that Larry Twitchell beat Crane by Two
feet. Crane has Just beaten Ed william
son, the old White SoN shOrtstop. Cranes
throw was officially recorded, but Twitch-
ellis was not. AT that, the Hatfield throw
was a great one, for the ball went against
the wind across tho field, and the distance
was properly measured with a steel tape.
SHORTsTOP BILLIARD TOURNAMENT