Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-06
TIM OMAHA SUNDAY BEE
OMAHA. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER s 1905.
~HE western league remnant ia atm

I'll I've NANAAaEH III EhEulO cut
IN on them when there was apparently little
or TO excuse for IL. Laurels are GOOD things.
but they have their season Just like ducks.
The DISAPPOINTMENT Of the Western league
has been the career OF Lincoln. At the
outset OF the season that team presented
a formidable aspect and It looks even
stronger today than II did then. but the
management lie not getting the benefit OF its
investment because harmony has deserted
the rank7. When that old boy goes every
thing else is in peril. Lincoln has been very
Easy meat for Sioux City on the latter's
grounds all season. At times is has really
; been disgusting the way the Greenbackers
have dropped games TO Duck'y tribe. It
has certainly been the means OF giving
Holmes more footing against Omaha
Omaha should yet win the flag. though.
1t has a small margin over the Sioux, and
has Denver. Des Moines and Sioux City
to finish up the season with. Denver starts
in today for four games; Dss Moines comes
then for four games and then Omaha goes
to Sioux City for five. Had Omaha played
its usually good game last Sunday against
Des Moanes and Thursday and Friday
against Pueblo II might think OF taking
things easy now. but the only thing before
It At present is the hardest sort of work.
Sioux City has a distinct advantage in
those windup games on the home grounds.
which are miniature grounds at best.
Barney Drefus probably will sell Lefty
Leifield to some brush league. why? Be-
cause the fans Of that town. through one
Of the papers, have read Lefty out OF the
business as a pitcher. This paper invites
Mr.. Clarke not to work Lefty at home.
but IL he must use him. use him on the
road. Such piffle as this is what empha-
sizes that inexplainable trait Of human
character most comm in the base ball
fan. Every fan thinks his home team
should be the pennaEt winner. forgetting
that some team must take the tail-end place
and some others fill in between. The UNI
reasonableness Of the fan is one OF the
funniest things In the world, anyway II
the home team is winning the fan that is
hard to please says he WORT go out to see
the game because it's a cinch the home
team will win and there's no interest In
seeing "A one-sided game. II the home team
is losing this fan decides he won't go Out
to see the game because it's a cinch tn,
home team viii get beat and what's the
fun Of seeing the home team lose? There
are too many just fans as this. They are
not rea fans, though. They give neither
their moral nor financial support 70 tins
game. They sit around in their favoritt
lounging place and humble their plants
about "the Holsters and a lot Of othel
pet names. The real fan wants to see thu
home team win. of course. He is the fel
low who goes out to the park and Shove b,
his presence and his lungs that he want
TO see It win and who. when It does lose
takes ii as a matter of course. knowing
that what makes and keeps alive the great
q est Of all games is the very fact that th'
tailender can beat the leader.
With Aubrey off first base, Austin Of
third and Ragan out Of the box next yea
Omaha win have three holes extremely diff
fioult 10 fill. Graham will cover first anC
cover IL magnificently II he Is fully re
covered, as he probably will be, from HI
injury. A third baseman and two or tire,
pitchers are yet to be secured. One thin
President Rourke will keep in mind in get
ting his pitchers is that he has severa
now whose chief fault is wildness. Blu
these places Will be filled. The task vii
be no greater than that which arose whel
Mordecsi Brown and owen and Pfeiste
left ire team. And some thought we wer
ruined when little Schipke left us and agail
when Perring went up higher. No man 1
indispensable. though such men as thos
who have gone and those who are goinl
FIJI big places and leave big gaps when the.
90. Austin will make the third sensa
tionsl third baseman to go from Omaha I
faster company and he is the fastest o
any.
The Cubs are doing some tall recruiting
They made a good investment in gettin
Coskley and probably added another stronu
man to their box list in Hagerman Of To
peka. In buying Hayden. indianapolis
right fielder, it is evident they are iookin
out for the other departments as vel
The general belief is that Lundgren wi
not be a Cub next year. II one or two o
the stars were winked out the team woul
be better off.
President nreyfus of Pittsburg made I'll
statement after the Giants dropped thos
three games at Chicago, that they were ou
OF the race, because their pitchers woul
not go the route. The Giants answere
him By pulling five games out OF Bosto
and continuing their winning streak &
PHILADELPHIA. Wish we could have you
faith. barney. but truly. it looks like a IA
season for Giants.
Il was too bad that Mordecai Brow
couldn't have got away with that gam
At Pittsburg Friday. That was the secon
fine this season the Pirates have won
game with Brown in the box. Both time
II was done with one run. and the fir
time with one hit when Brown went
20 relieve another man.
The umpire is the Ishmael Of base ball
the hand Of every man is against him. l
this connection a subscriber asks why
It that so many men aspire TO be umpire
Many men do not, Out Of some 10000
men only a handful are umpires.
n the Browns do not continue to maI
life q burden for the Tigers many GOO
Judges win be fooled. There's a bunch
s-rappers In st. Louis anxious to win n
A. L. flag and II win take some tall figh
ing 70 head them off.
The feverish utterance OF a certain bell
.coss gent in Sioux City 20 the contral
Notwithstanding. the promise is made I
Pueblo that that city will be found in Il
Western league next year, Your NOV
Ducky.