Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-03
SPORTING GOSSIP OF WEEK
Papa Bill Solves bis soOre Board Problem
BY Leading Trumps.
BUCK FRANCIS TO PLAY IN OMAHA
Charley COmiskes Agrees TO Bring
his Champions Here TO play
an Exhibition Game
Early In April.
Not yet; but soon.

having solved the score board PROPOSE
uon' Papa Bill Is now at work on another
thing' What you hadn't heard about the
score board? Well, when you go out Ia
Ninton park next summer you will see the
most wonderful device that ever sur
mounted scafolding. and it is all due to
Pas own pefsistency. His special commit
tee on score board brought in two reports,
one based on the irregularlty Of NEEDING
der desc" and forty trumps at one and
the same time, and the other devoted to a
olsouisition on whether it is good form TO
break possible double run to hold flush
IN four-handed game Pa considered
Doth OF these and then. relying on the
tlne-tried and fire-tested proposition that
IL IL always good billiards to smoke and
put the low man up against It. he took up
the score board problem himself He was
somewhat interrupted in his work by the
receipt Of the signed contract from Buck
Francks, but after thinking it over he de-
cided that he would add just one more lit
tie feature. and now he considers the score
board perfect It will be an inexhaustible
mine Of Information. even to the extent OF
telling what goes on in Butch Presses
head when he thinks he's thinking
.
Next to storing away the Buck Francks
contract the main event OF the week at
the smokehouse was the receipt of a letter
from Commy that he will be over here In
the early days OF April with his champions
TO try one short sweet Friday afternoon
game with Pas boys. This will be on
April s, and Pas boys will be ready to
welcome the conquerors of the Cubs with
bats and mitts and all that sort of thing
AS at present scheduled the season will
open In Omaha with games with the Orig
malls on March 80 and 81. These games
are traditional. and the season would not
be the season IL It were started otherwise.
The next play will be with the White Sox
on the following Friday. and then comes
st. Paul on Saturday and Sunday. April
and Z. Wichita is scheduled for the l3th
and 14th. also Saturday and Sunday, and
then comes the Creightons on April Is.
These games are all that have been ar
ranged for so far, but others will be worked
In, so that the preseason work of the
Rourke family will partake much of the
nature Of the real thing, and each OF the
new members of the flock will get a full
chance to show what he can do. Pa is
building much hopes on the lineup OF his
team since he has Francks secure. He has
another first baseman I'm sight and II he
lands will be strictly in 1t as far as his
fielding forces go. He is not yet ready to
uncover his pitching stan, but expects to
present Warheld Sanders, Harry McNeeley.
Dodge. Koukalik and at least four others
for the inspection of the fans at the be-
ginning of the season. Out of this lot he
will get at least four winners. 1t isn't
guess work with Pa any longer; he has
the goods and proposes to show them to
Omaha and the western circuit during the
coming summer.
A joyous outburst is heard from all sides
concerning the coming season. Not
league in the land but is busy, and not
manager but is hustling to get together
a team that viii be a credit to him. Never
has there been such demand for players.
With the weak teams in the big leagues
strengthening, and the minor leaguers try
ing 10 replace the men taken higher up,
the ball player is surely having his share
of the wave OF prosperity Only one false
note is sounded and that is on the part Of
the promoters of the new outlaw league
in the northwest Just how formidable
this organization will be can not now be
told but Il will be more Of a menace TO
the western teams than to any other. 1t
Is to be regretted that no arrangement
could be made that would bring the Lucas
Dugdalo organization into the pale OF
organized ball. II may be done yet, but
this can not be foretold, either. Around
the Western league circuit the activity is
intense. Out at Denver the merry sound
of the hammer is ringing out a duet Car
penters are busy mailing up the new grand
stand for Cousin George. and the home
roasters are working overtime knocking
his team. The Mig Perrine case is being
cited again. Just TO show how consistent
the Denver knocker Is: When Perrine was
nrst sent to Denver he was hailed as a
Kansas City cast-off but when he made
good ne was looked on as hero. Wonder
those people wouldn't wait 20 see what
sort Of a bunch Cousin George hands them
before they holler 30.
%
Omaha followers Of the foot ball games
were delighted last week with the news
that Michigan had formed an alliance with
Chicago Wisconsin and Minnesota for four
years of foot ball in the west. II has al
ways seemed that Michigan was a western
college and naturally belonged TO the west
and the idea of that great school striving
80 seek alliances in the east did not meet
with the heartiest approval Of all the
alumni These colleges have agreed TO
settle all differences at once and unite In q
closer alliance, thus clearing the atmos-
phere which has been elouded for some
time. Not only have they drawn up a set
OF INtQlQllous WHICH Will DC a Bulut 10
other colleges. but they have arranged a
schedule for the next four years Chicago
will play Michigan next fall. Wisconsin will
come back into the fold again. and Min
nesota. more than anxious to gain prestige.
will play both the Msroons and the Bad
gers. Michigan is saved TO the west by the
new arrangements. Everything which that
university desired is given the Ann Arbor
institution In the new order of things.
The Dietz Athletic club will give a smoker
and entertainment tomorrow evening at the
present club room. at Twenty-fourth and
Parker streets. At this smoker the plans
for the Improvements Of the park for this
summer and the building Of the new club
house VIII be d'seussd d. Enough money
is In sight fer the building OF the club
house thanks 10 the generosity OF c. N.
Dietz and the hustling OF the members and
the only question to be decided Is In the
matter OF how substantial a building Is TO
be built in view Of the fac: that the present
lease runs but two more years and there
is no encouragement given by the owners
that Il will be renewed at that time. This
club row numbers nearly 100 members, all
active young men who take an Interest