Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-03-29
BEHOLD, AUBREY ARRIVES
OSAKA Sleeps in PsaOs After EEoitsnsnt
Over the DISTINGUISHED Event
M'Mco TO NEBRASKA IN TEN DAYS
All But Three Members Of the
ROurke Family Are Now Here
Ready for that New
Pennant.

Audrey has arrived, Aubrey has ar
rivedr'
Omaha slept IN peace last night, but II
was peace purchased at a dear price-the
price OF long patient waiting and Of lung
power seldom ever expended in a city OF
equal size.
Aubrey has arrived"
On every lip, in every ear was that SEN
tentious proclamation fraught with such
! tremendous Significance. Mayor Jim's dog
muzzle edict wasn't circumstance. The
town rung and reverberated. Aubrey has
arrived" shouted the leather-lunged
newsboy. Aubrey has arrived" yelled
the office boy; Audrey has ar
rived" exclaimed the man Of AFFAIRS and
the demure miss gently passed 1t on,
kept up until Il sounded like one vast
choir chanting some sacred llne-"Autrey
has arrived"
But the solemnity and the sonorousness
Of the occasion was broken in a Farnam
street car when a rotund form rolled into
the pack Of excited passengers wormihg and
squlrming for a place to set a foot on the
way home.
Aubrey has arrived" blatted out wide
mouthed fan, reaching his neck halfway
along the car to impart this precious in
! formation to a friend. The rotund man
was standing between them.
"Who the h is Aubrey? Is he the
president of the United states2 What's
the matter, has this whole d. town gone
crazy? I've heard nothing for the last
half hour but this COMPOUNDED yelp about
Aubrey has arrived. Whats II all about
What II he has arrived. who cares? Dom
drive man crazy with your inferno
yelping."
Not another word was said about Mr.
Aubrey in that car. But down at PJ
Rourloe's Smoke House in the evening
many words were said. There was Aubrey
the long-legged fielder who had walkeC
from Mexico City to Omaha in ten days
dened sentinels crossed dead lines, ruI
the gauntlet OF international collectors and
the gamut of human experience in orie
to be here for the first game Saturday.
1t was one of the events OF the year
the arrival of Aubrey The TennesseeaI
was in good form, showing no effects o.
his long journey save a few stone bruises
on his feet. He says they will soon dis
appear.
IN be out at the park tomorrow after
noon." he said, land there when the goni
rings Saturday 1 am in good form ant
feel like a 2-year-old," Is
This makes Pas family nearly com
plete. Only War Sanders, Bender ant
Belden are yet to come. They will be in ii
a few days.
Pa Enthused over His Team.
st. Louis Thompson arrived wednesday
and Immediately jumped into the harness
to condition himself for the championship
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park. While ne has had little work this
spring he is in fine form. Thompson
pitched some good ball for the st. Louis
Nationals last year, winning fair proper.
ton Of his games when 1t is considered
he had a tail-end team to back him up.
Buck Franck arrived Tuesday night and
when he had had confab with Pa, who
told him to take complete charge OF the
work OF the men, he knew he was to be
! full captain of the team and that II was
up to him TO get some work out of the
new men.
Going to the park Wednesday morning.
Franck took charge Of the players and
put them through their stunts with a vim
which showed the skilled italian touch OF
a born leader. He 10 hard worker him.
self and believes in the men working hard.
"Wait till the fans get a good look at
that new inheld." said Pa to a bunch at
the Smoke House There is nothing to It.
They are certainly the goods. Never has
EOmaha had three such speedy men for
short second and third as Franeks White
and Austin. Each has a whip that is a
corker and all are fast on their feet. They
will cover the territory IS It has never
been covered before"
Pa is right, for this new trio has jumped
right into the game and when the fans see
them in action Saturday and Sunday they
will decide the same way for themselves.
without making the task too hard for
Austin. the fans will have a chance to
compare his work with that Of Perring,
and 1t is said by some who have watched