Omaha daily bee., 1907-01-27
SPORTING GOSSIP OF WEEK
Papa Bill Hears from Buck Franks in a
Roundabout Fashion.
SCORE BOARD THE GREAT PROBLEM NOW
PinOchIe Experts and Some Base BAH
Authorities Called Into COnsuIta-
ton NJ TO How IL should
BE Arranged.

Almost.
Papa Bill has heard from Buck Francks
He sent the elusive Buckerino a registered
letter containing a contract for 1907
and has received the postofice, receipt
Tor the same. That Is almost. isn't IT.?
But 1t isn't Buck that is keeping Papa Bill
awake these nights 1t is the score board
Now, to any one who has not given the
subject much thought, a score board would
seem an easy proposition But It isn't.
Just place to hang up numbers and
ciphers might be arranged easily. But that
Is not the thing your Pa wants on his
pasture next summer. He Is after a score
board that means something In addition
TO showing the number OF runs made I'm
each inning played by all the leagues I'm
the country he wants to show the local
game so that It will agree with the
score card kept by each Of the fans
This what is worrying him. Every
patron OF the grandstand at least
Keeps track OF the game on a tab as
II goes along, and out In the bleaohers
they seorn such things as pencil and paper
and keep the record Of plays In their heads,
emptying them OF everything else so as to
have room. II the paper the next morning
does not tally with their recollection. why
the paper Is wrong. That is the situation
IA Is trying to meet. He has had Brother
Dave and Jerry and Joe figuring on the
matter on n pinochle basis while Sandy
Griswold and Bull Thomas have had the
matter under thought for a number of
days. Out OF all this mental capacity Pa
hopes TO get something In the way OF a
score board that win give the sweetest and
youngest thing in the grand stand all the
information she desires about the game.
and keep the hits and errors according to
the Of he
and 20 explain to inquirefs why one man
is kept on the pay roll and another Is Let
go. This score board will be the pride of
his life when 1t Is completed. BY the way,
Pa has about completed a deal with Char
ley Murphy of Chicago whereby he will
get trio OF pitchers from the Cub stan,
and this win surely put him in right.
.
Around the circuit they are sitting up
and taking due notice Of what is going
on in the world, and the prospects are fine
for the most suspicious season in the his
tory OF the Western league. The harmony
session over at Chicago seems to have
pushed the clouds all away and now there
IS nothing TO do but await the call of time.
The list Of youngsters announced last week
by Omaha has made the local fans prick
up their ears I'm anticipation OF the call to
"Play balll' and each OF the real bugs is
waiting now as he never did before the
trial OF the kids.
Buck Francks may go to the new outlaw
league which Dugdale and Lucas are try
ing to frame up in the Pacific northwest
Just what he intends to do is not as yet
indicated. but he isn't showing any great
anxiety 10 come to Omaha TO play second
base and captain the team.
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Women lawn tennis players are display
ing interest I'm the eighth national indoor
championship tournament, for the first
time in the history OF the game a woman's
singles championship will be played. This
is a move 10 follow the English custom.
and the members OF the Seventh Regiment
Lawn Tennis club. under whose auspices
the championship win be held. are busily
engaged IN enlisting the entries OF the lead
ing women experts and Il is said that Miss
Helen Romans, the national champion. and
her partner In the holding OF the doubles
title. Miss Clover Boldt. win both compete.
Notices OF the tournament have just been
sent out and the matches for the cham
pionship titles VIII begin ond Monday. Feb
ruary Is ana continue through the week
On The courts OF the Seventh regiment ar