Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-22
DovEY SAYS LUCK COUNTS BIG
Boston Man Thinks IL IL Potent
I'm a Base Ball
Game.

in base ball than the average spectator APP
preciates,' said President George B. Dovey
OF tire Boston Nationals, recently.
II never think of the potent factor luck
in base ball without smiling to myself at
how near we came to losing Bates. our
home-run hitter. a young man who. in my
mind. is going to equal George Stone with
a little experience.
Fred Tenney tells me Bates was the
biggest frost he had with him on the
training trip last spring. He couldn't hit
anything, maintained Fred, and as a
fielder was a joke
There was a little fellow named Goode
with the team, and the way he hit the
ball caused him to be dubbed the hitting
kid The fences were never far enough
out for him.
We'll, the team went to Brooklyn and
Bates was taken along. Goode. Of course,
was to play the field, and Tenney expected
him TO break up the game his first out.
''Goode got so nervous the morning of
the inaugural game that he couldn't play.
Tenney waited until the last moment for
him. but finally had to Pc. another player
in his place.
1.-THE first ball pitched the youngster met
on the end of his bat. It went clean over
the fence and through the window Of a
five-story apartment house across from the
park.
1.-THE youngster that hit that ball was
Bates, and you bet Goode never got
chance to get his job back.
But doesn't that show you how luck
enters into the game? If Goode had not
been seized with stage fright Bates would
never have got the chance to show what
he could do He would have been released
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of again"
The Omaha Rod and Gun club has begun
the work of putting in a sand beach in
which will insure a good bathing place for
the coming summer. This, together with
the many other improvements planned, will
ton spots around Omaha. The sand Is
shoveled on to the ice with wagons and
left to await the thaw, when It will settle
annual election OF officers and will be ready
to begin operations for the year
/ Cornell college. Iowa, with strong claims
TO the base ball championship of the Iowa
college world In 1906 Is laying plans for
capturing the championship in 1907 despite
the fact that only four regular members
OF the 1906 team are in school this year.
/ The managers OF the Methodist team and
the followers of the sport there point to
the fact that the battery. Fact and Rose
berry. considered to be one of the strong
est In the state, FIRST baSeman DoVendorf
and Outhelder Counen. who played in 1904
will be supported by a lot OF classy ma
terial which has entered the school this
year.
so strong is the belief that Cornell will
! humble the larger state schools on the dia-
mond this year that Manager DuBridge
has arranged the longest and hardest base
ball schedule that any Cornell team has
played through in several sea sons.
Among the new men mentioned as promi-
: nent candidates for positions In the inheld
are chinn, McNanue. Holt and Pemberton.
Likely candidates for the outfield are Hunt.
Christy, Smith and Cole. Craft. formerly
an outhelder on the Lenox college team.
and Bird, an old Cornell man, who has
returned for another years work. viii also
J compete for positions.
4 Lane, who worked all last season as
utility man. has a good chance to play
regularly this year. Whitney Is a new
pitcher. who comes with a good record
and Gardner and West are trying out for
backstop.
! Following are the comparative measure
I ments OF Shorty" Gamble and s. II. Gray.
/ who meet In a handicap wrestling match
| at Osthon hall Friday night:
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