Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-11-18

to pay within thirty days after receiving
challenge. Players who subsequently
compete in worlds championship matches
or tournaments will forfeit all further
rights to play for the new championship
trophy Though none Of the PROBABLE en-
rants is regarded as OF world champion
snip caliber the 1872 tournament to be held
In New York city this month will furnish
some spectacular exhibitions. Some Of the
men entered are capable Of very fancy and
high-class billiards. Charles Peterson Of
St Louis won many admirers here when
he practiced last winter with Willie Hoppe.
Harry Cline is clever and Gallagher and
Mclaughlin are both veterans who can
still hold their own in the billiard game.
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Il treat him as 1 would be treated my
self" That's how Connie Mack declares he
has tanned RUDE waddell. the most &C.
centric ball player in the world And"
continues Mr.. McGillcuddy, Il do not have
the trouble with Waddell that some people
think have. l find Rube a very willing
fellow. and one who does not need the
humoring that the ordinary follower Of
base ball thinks he does. RUDE Of course,
is a peculiar fellow. He has his whims,
Just as other players, but waddell is all in
the open and does his peculiar stunts in
consider that this big fellow is pampeI ed
and spoiled by the fans and newspapers in
every city in the circuit 1t will not be hard
for you to see how it happens that he Is
spoiled. But Waddell is far easier to get
along with than some other players. When
he wants TO do something he goes and does
It, and offers no explanation either before
or after the act. l would rather have
player OF the Waddell type than one who
sulks. Now there is one good feature In
the Rube's makeup, he never sulks, and
he does not instul trouble in the ranks as
some other star players do"
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There is every prospect now that inter
collegiate cross-country running is to be
given a big boost this fall, for with the
establishment of the new six-mlle course
at Princeton over which the intercollegiate
championship is to be run on November
| %, the college men believe that an ideal
meet is to be held and those who have had
! a chance to go over the course predict that
new records will be marked up. Seven
teams representing as many colleges will
enter the race, Princeton, Yale Harvard
Columbia, Cornell Pennsylvania and the
Massachusetts Institute OF Technology, and
though. of course, the Princeton runners
will have something over their competitors
/ in the matter Of practice, the others, with
( the exception of Cornell. feel fairly conf
dent OF making a good showing. Strenuous
preparations for the contest are going on at
the seven seats Of learning and the new
men that have reported have swung into
line most pleasantly.
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Jake Schaefer stated IN an interview that
ne had a challenge prepared for Willie
Hoppe, holder Of the Isl balk-line world
championship emblem, and that 1t would
be in the hands Of the Bruswick-B Bake
Collender company soon. This insures a
contest for Hoppe early in January. j
have intended a challenge for some time,
said Schaefer. but thought Slosson was
ready to do the same thing. Having waited
some time. however, for slosson, l have
decided to act. 1t is probable, however
that my challenge may be withheld few
days for the reason that Hoppe will play
Sutton for the 1872 emblem about December
Is, and wish to date my def so far ahead
that Willie may have some time TO prac
tice the Isl game, for, according to tht
rules governing the emblem, he must play
within sixty days from the date of thu
challenge"
When the National league directors NEE
in New York December II the old question
a change in the pitching distance is OF
program. The pitching distance ques
ton, however. has been a disturbing ele
ment in base ball for the last twenty years
but as yet no one has solved the problem
In fact, many experts deny that it is
problem. They believe that the present dis
lance of sixty feet and a fraction is thu
ideal distance. The sole object in fxint
the pitching distance is to increase bat
ting as much as possible, but every chang,
has worked the other way. Batting hai
steadily declined despite the numerous ef
forts to rearrange the base ball rules
About eighteen years ago there was grea
hullabaloo over the subject OF batting. ant
the pitcher, who then pitched at distanc
of fifty feet from the home plate wa
moved back. A few years later he wa
again moved back, but all the time tn
batting kept on declining while the pitche
steadily gained the upper hand. Joe Nc
Ginnity, who probably has given as mucl
thought TO the art of pitching as an,
man living, maintains that rule maker
have been working on the wrong theor,
since the foundation OF our national game
1.-THE idea Of moving the pitcher back L
! give the batter an advantage was CHROME
Gus in the first place" says the Iron Man
"As an evidence of this, the minute the,
! moved us back the more effective we be
come II they should move the ptche
back to second base he would be harder d
hit than ever, provided his arm held GU
long enough to get the ball over the plate
A logical answer to this is that the pitche
should have been kept closer. Just VIII
this fact should maintain is hard to ex
plain, but in my opinion the long dstanc
gives the pitcher a better chance TO breal