Omaha daily bee., 1906-06-03
SPORTING GOSSIP OF WEEK
Race IN Western Going Ahead Very Much
the Game
DIES MONIES STILL HOLDS FIRST PLACE
Favor OF the Umpires Has Been Mighty
Factor in Keeping the Cam
tiIIon crowd at Top
of Heap.

Just the same.
The last week has put no change on the
aspect Of the Western league pennant race.
Des Moines still leads, with Omaha second.
and the others strung out Lincoln IL
making a showing that justifes the prom
Uses made for Holmes before the season
opened. and 1t Is admitted on all sides now
that Ducly is 20 be reckoned with all the
way. He has a fast bunch OF ball players.
with a good pitching stan even though he
is at present crippled in this direction by
the loss of Jones. VINO suffered a broken
arm at Sioux City, the result OF a lit:le
horse play at the hotel. Tebeau and Selse
are for strengthening Denver and Pueblo,
the two manifestly weak teams OF the
league, and promise TO become factors in
the race What Des Moines will do II a
new set Of umpires il provided IL a guess,
but II is reasonably certain that II will
not maintain the lead now creditedsto the
Champions. Last season on the Des Moines
grounds, and so far this season. the team
dt beat Des Moines has had TO beat ten
n and Mike CantiIlon. This Is very hard
do and the result has been an unde
we'd lead for the Iowa outfit. But a
..tw deal on umpires. with two more men
IKE Stats Davis. and the rowdies may have
10 play for their points, and not depend
on a weak or crooked umpire TO give them
the best Of II going both ways. AT present
the Des Molnes management Is not salts
fed with an even break. 1t wants at least
seven out OF nine decisions. and all the
close ones.
Sometimes the expected happens. When
Rourke left Omaha for Des Moines he eK-
pected to lose all the games played there.
and he wasn't disappointed. Umpire Fuller
was on deck. and this made II absolutely
sure that Omaha would fall by the way
side. The Des Moines papers ascribe the
victories of their team to daring base
running" 1t doesn't call for much courage
to run bases when you know the umpire
IL going TO call you safe. no matter what
happens Persons who saw the decision
when Carter was fined and put out Of the
game say that Fuller turned his back on
the plate while the play was being made,
and called the runner safe although II was
a forced run, and Gondlng had the ball
ten feet ahead OF the runner. Such work
as this is what has made the trouble IN
the league. The demand for competent
umpires has even reached the ears OF
Joke oNen and he talks of firing Stats
Davis the only real umpire on his star.
Out at Denver Keefe is telling the papers
that Mike Cantillon and his lambs were
80 well behaved in Omaha that he only
asked policeman to stand in front of the
bench to keep them quiet. Otherwise they
were not in the least disorderly. He had
: ssaeFed Doyle TO the bench he says, and
then some policemen insisted on standing
there, and then Secretary Mike objected,
and Keefe told the police to so away. No
rude or offensive language was used. and
everything was conducted with Chester
fieldian politeness This would be a good
story TO tell in towns where the Can
tillon crowd is not known. but the Western
league cities are well enough acquainted
with the tactics of the rowdles to know
that the umpire's yarn is without a scln-
tilla OF fact I'm it beyojd his admission
that he called a policeman to make Doyle
20 TO the bench.
This brings the discussion around 10 the
dispatch suspending Doyle. On the evon.
ing OF the explosion in Omaha a message
was sent out from Chicago over the Asso-
ciated Press wires, saying Doyle had beer
indefinitely suspended by President O'Neil
The next day Doyle himself said he had
been suspended. At Denver Umpire Keef,
handed to Joke O'Neil a telegram sen
him from Chicago, instructing him tina
Doyle had been suspended. Now. O'Nei
says mas mao no report OF lne case
that he sent no message suspending Doyle
or otherwise referring to the matter. anC
pointing out that the initials signed I,
the message are not his initials. All o
this brings something to light that ough
20 be more fully explained. The common
belief is that Cantilon sent a wire to tn
O'Neil secretary In Chicago. asking him 4
suspend Doyle. and that the action was Ii
accordance with the wishes OF Mike. b,
the way, o'Nell says his office in Chicag
is In Charley Comiskey's office. Does thi
give you any idea as TO why Comiskey go
schipke from Cleveland, turned him owe
70 Joe Cantillon for Milwaukee, an
Brother Joe passed him along to Brothe
Mixer And Joke Omen was In California
all the time.
The open championship golf competition
open to all amateurs and professionals 4
the Western Golf association, will be he'll
June q ana q on the links OF the Home
wood Country club under the rules OF tn
United States Golf association. The frs
prize will be $50. second 800 third 81,
fourth $50 and fifth SIS. A gold medal, EN-
blematic OF the western open championship
will be awarded to the player making tn
lowest score Another prize OF $50 will b
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