The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-02-08

peated complaint has been sounded SO
often that it has blunted the con-
sciences of many official tabkeepers,
and the good batters on the home
team get hits where none are de-
served. This game has resolved it.
self into padding of the average of
certain players by certain loyal OF
cial scorers in certain cities until the
inflated value of an average ceases to
tons were placed on this system.
New York is not free from this evil,
but there is no such padding of the
averages there as in some other cities.
The ball player can tell you. He
knows. Il can't get any base hits in
Chicago" says one, or Il made three
rank errors in Cincinnati and every
one of 'em went as base hit for the
other fellow Perhaps Hans Wag-
ner would have led the league this
season without any padding of his .av-
erage, but ball players. do not believe
he outranked Steinfeldt and Lumley
SO many points. AS matter OF
fact, Pittsburg is one of the towns
ed, for the simple reason that every
thing is scored hit. Wagner has
been handed many credits that he did
not deserve this season by the home
scorers. Steinfeldt and Lumley suf-
fered because they had to earn most
Of their hits to get them. Nearly all
scorers are more lenient than they
should be, but the Pittsburg thing is
overworked. It is a notorious fact that
the most inexcusable errors are set
down as base hits when the batter
happens to be Wagner or some Of the
other good hitters Of the team. When
the race for honors is close, as it was
last season, then the scorers stretch
their imaginations still further until
the system becomes a farce.
Much is heard of doped horses on a
race track The manner in which
these horses are doped is explained
by a prominent veterinarian. No one
is likely to be caught in the act of
doping race horse, because the dose
given is SO small it can be admins
tered with little danger of detection
long before the race. If horse Is to
race at three o'clock he gets two
grain powder on his togue in dark
ened stall at one o'clock. The drug
takes effect in about 80 minutes and
the animal breaks out into sweat.
He is rubbed down, cooled. out and
done up as if he had come in from
morning work. Every effort is made
to keep him quiet until post time, but;
he very often breaks out again, and is
again cooled out. The doped horse,
never takes any warming up work,
and this facts affords the best means
I know of for finding him out. He is
moved slowly to the starting point,
great care being taken to prevent him
is dropped. Then kick and dig to
the work, and in an instant the full
force of the dope il felt, stimulating
the animal to run the race of his life.
Announcement is made that Mead
Of the late Col. James E. Pep
per, near Lexington, KY, will be
sold in February and the entire stud
disposed of. Over 200 head of stock
including AZ brood mares and thor
oughbred stations, will be sold.
Next year will be Cy Young's eigh-
teenth in baseball.
Nate s. Wilbur, known in baseball
circles throughout Ahe country, has re-
signed as secretary of the Louisville
Baseball club. He has not severed
service with the national game, how
ever, and will form connection with
one Of the big league clubs for the
coming season.