Omaha daily bee., 1906-05-27
SPORTING GOSSIP OF WEEK
Bow in Western League Good Thing for
the Game.
RowDY BALL WILL NOT Be TOLERATED
some Facts About Western League
that CantiIIon and His supporters
Had Better Take Into
Consideration.

that CantiIIon and His supporters
Had Better Take Into
Consideration.
TIE Fan.
There was fan, base ball fan;
Like other fans was he;
Upon the bleachers he would sit
And frolic In his glee.
He told the people all around:
''The game L came TO see
i want to see the best team win
' II makes no odds to me"
The home team made a pair Of runs
When first they came to bat;
This fan he shrieked, he jumped, he yelled,
He wildly swung his hat;
He asked his neighbor sitting near
Just what he thought of that.
The batter was retired on Strikes
And down the rooter sat.
The game was nearly over, and
The home team led by two;
The other fellows came TO bat,
And how the hOrsehide few.
They tied the score and then they made
The home team came to bat again
One, two, three-Out. Shidoo!
The fan went out with downcast head,
He fumed, he writhed, he swore:
He cussed the Fates that let him live,
His hair he wildly tore.
He said the team was on the bum,
He knew II long before
You bet," he cried in accents wild,
III go there neVermore."
Next day the fan was in his seat,
Because he was a fan;
The home team wiped them on the map,
Then home the rooter ran.
There's nothing like our boys" he said
To every child and man;
I'LL bet ''V'' we can"
VAN ARsDALE.
Events OF the week In Omaha were such
as should result in lasting good for the
Western league. The revolt against the
rowdy methods Of the Des Moines team
means, II It means anything, that base ball
throughout the Western league circuit is
going to be a sport and not wrangle.
Last season the several cities put up with
the Cantillon methods in hope that shame
might lead him TO change his ways. He
was put Off the grounds again and again
during the season, was warned by the mag
mates Of the league and was scolded and
abused through the papers, but all, APP
parently, to no purpose He began his old
tactics as soon as the playing season was
commenced this year and started to win
games by the most unfair and indecent
methods. In Pueblo he wrangled with Um-
pire Fuller and made the usual spectacle
OF himself; In Denver he mixed up with
"slats" Davis and was put off the grounds
in Sioux City he encountered Keefe, and
similar scenes followed. II was here that
Hogriever, abetted by Cantillon and Doyle
assaulted Manager Carney Of the Sioux City
team in the rotunda Of the Garretson hotel,
and the whole team was elected from the
hotel. while several Of it's members were
taken to the police court, but Carney
.,,would not appear against them. At Lin
- with Umpire Fuller again, Cantillon
mes had trouble on the field and
,onduct Of the Des Moines play
the lincoln patrons of the
ching Omaha, where the un-
lion had a special grudge
Ag simply outdid anything
...4 or attempted before. Led by the
-.4sr owner of tie team, the rowdies
simply exhausted themselves. It Is no
wonder that Mr.. Roprke demanded a spe-
cial meeting of the league to take action in
1.-THE matter, Omaha people viii not patron
We games which are married by such pro-
ceedings as those OF last Tuesday, and
Rourke knows It. Cantlllon knows It, too,
ana he sought TO hurt Rourke in his own
town. This 10 part of the Ineanness Of the
man. But he can rest assured Of one
thing: The gates of the Omaha grounds
win be closed to Western league teams II
Cantillon is to run the leaglhe.
Another thing Cantillon and his followers
may as we'll keep in mind: They talk OF
taking the Omaha franchise away from
=. '-te. If they do It will vbe to take the
KoS'A- -. .Eagaates, town. Any time they
team away lro',, =. o Sin say good
bye to them without a teaI1 49,. -,
years Of its existence OmahV ,.a.,,o ~,
loyal supporter Of the Westel II ar o~o,,,ds
other town has turned out 60 a,Iad az,
through good and bad, that 61nds 90 do,
seats at vinton park. Thous bear snen,
lars OF good Omaha money haNSt tho i.as,,a
to see the game and TO suppo H. 80. 49,
For the last two seasons OmaN -. .ho -,
the only town that could take i -. -
pense OF the dying st. JOSEPH ,t.h ~, A.
keep the league alive to the NJ rIhro,
surfing the salaries of the playf -. .,. a.,
Yeas ago. when President Sex ,ot,s,,,,,,
season short, he did 1t withouN -. o,..ai,,
Rourke and in spite Of the fact tlNL. s,o,,,a.
was sending good crowds 70 see a,ants 4,
Any time the Western league -.
commit suicide in the surest an - 80,
way let It withdraw the franc -, =,
Omaha Mike Cantillon doesn't o,,,,S,
OF the history OF the league or he 49, -,
be so brash. maybe. But he - 40
would, at that. for his actions TO-
guided by Judgment or haven't ba o,a
he became connected with the lesFs
80 far as President Norris ON .r 49,
cerned readers OF The Bee may rS -
he was dubbed a joke in this del
shortly after he was elected last u. O..
was then a makeshift, apparently, 1TaIs.a,
the convenience Of Cantillon and | -.
Cantilion got all the better Of III ~.
for he is a little closer TO o'Neil TIN, a.
beau can get. AS far as the AFFAIRS o1 -
league are concerned o'Neil knows ~
as much as II he were not Connected ~,
the organization. When Percy Chs ~,
lain got into trouble in 81. Joseg -
summer ONei showed his unfitnf -
Rourke went to the front and str, s.'.-,',
out the matters and Eot the teap -. -
again. o'Neil took, publicly, an -,
for this. Again when Tommy B0
down at Colorado Springs oNS az
caught asleep at the switch. and only =
fnct that Rourke and Cantillon ham
TO be playing in Colorado at thu time (
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