Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-24
ONEILL TAKES FIRM STAND
President of League is Not Blufed by
Dueky Holmes.
ATTITUDE IS HAILED WITH Joy
Writes Sporting Editor of The Bee to
say thai No One Man Can Dom
mate or Destroy This
League,

Ducky Holmes gets small comfort from
President O'Neill in his cry-baby protests
against what he chose to term mistreat-
ment at Pueblo. Holmes said II he couldn't
run the league as he wished he'd quit it
and then break it up. President O'Neill
says any time he gets ready to quit o. X,
but when he thinks he will break 1t up he
has another think coming.
President O'Neill has written a letter to
the sporting editor of The Bee. in which
he sets forth in emphatic terms that he
regards the league bigger than the i'm
petuous manager of Sioux City or any
other man and that he will administer the
affairs of his office with regard first and
last for the best interests Of all concerned
and not to accommodate the whims or ar
bitrary demands Of any one manager.
The firm attitude of the president will
be hailed with cordial enthusiasm and he
will be given the lasting support of every
manager, player and fan ON the circuit,
There has been no desire or attempt to
impose on Holmes and there will be no
countenancing Of impositions on or by
him. His team is the only one so far that
has profited by any impositions; it had
games presented to it by Stats Davis whose
palpable un~fairness outraged the sense OF
justice even of Sioux City fans.
Text OF O'NeiII Letter.
Here is the letter which shows that if
Mr.. d. Holmes wants to take his doll rags
and go home it will be all right with Presi-
dent O'Neill:
CHICAGO. July %, 19OS,-sporting Editor
Omaha Bee, Omaha, Neb.: Dear Sir: In
looking at your paper today l notice that
there seems to be a discrepancy between
the official statistics of this office and
those Of your paper. You have Denver win
ming forty-eight games and losing forty
two, l have Denver winning forty-eight
games and losing forty-one. You have
Pueblo winning thirty-eight and losing
forty-nine. l have Pueblo winning thirty
seven and losing forty-nine, up to and in
Guiding July 20. This little difference may
have occurred through your man giving
Denver a losing game and Pueblo a win
ming game for an exhibition game of ball
between Pueblo and Denver in Denver OH
July 8. AS this seems to be the only diff
ference between your standing and mine,
| think probably that that might be the
trouble.
OF course you understand that 1 have
a difficult time trying to get the official
scorers to send in their official scores after
each game. At the present time l nave
never received any scores from Sioux City
for July Z 8 and 9, therefore, you can
readily understand how hard it is for me
to keep absolutely correct and up to date
when l do not receive the official reports
of the games on time.
MI. BLACK, lne new umpire lildl L BON
to take Brennan's place, simply takes up
Brennan's uncompleted schedule and goes
along. In a letter from Mr.. Haskell, dated
Omaha, July 20, he states that he was to
meet Black that afternoon in Omaha and
that he would then proceed to Sioux City
and Mr.. Black would go to Lincoln and
that Davis would follow his schedule and
go to Des Moines. Now, II this official
information to me is not correct 1 do not
know what to say. At the present time.
after reading your paper, l wired to fine
onN rphnf vrag uyhnt tn raonFn fn tho Ilm-
You will notice by the schedule that there
is no game scheduled between Denver and
Lincoln for July 20; you Will also notice
that Denver and Lincoln played a game
in Lincoln July 20 and had to use two
players as umpires. This may look strange
to you, when Haskell was umpiring In
Lincoln on the 18th and Black was to take
up the umpiring in Lincoln on the Ast
The reason that this occurred was tina
neither Mr.. Green. the owner Of the Lincoln
club, nor Mr.. Burke, the owner of the
Denver club. gave me any notice that they
intended playing a game of ball on tina
open date in the city of Lincoln. Had they
notified me l could have easily had boil
Haskell and Black working there July 20
as neither one Of them had a place to worl
that day.
/ am just explaining these things to yol
TO show you that a great deal Of the stuff
that l nave to be influenced by, to a Ger
also guides the real people in base bali, tn,
man that pays his money at the gate, 4
not just what it seems, and II the clul
owners that do the most hollering woult
do less and live up TO the bylaws lai'
down in their constitution, there woul'
not be so many mix-ups in regard TO IN
proper way of giving the sport-loving publ
the best they can for the money they Civ
to the owners at the gate.
I read a report in your paper in whicl
you state certain things in regard to
club owner which thoroughly covers tn
distance in regard to the said club owner
In which you state that there are men Il
the Western league who were here lonI
before DuckY, whose voice and influenc
have counted much more for justice an
peace and who cannot quite swallow tn
Holmes dope on the Pueblo case,
Any time that any club owner wants I
quit the Western league ] will be on han
to pilot the club until such time as an
other is secured by the members of tn
Western league.
Hoping that this explanation will be o
some little benefit to you. ! am as evel