Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-08
BASE BALL on WINTER DIAMOND
Some Dope for the Boys Waiting for
the Fifteenth II April.

1t might be noted that Jack johnson
Is the first negro ever to have the op-
pionship in the heavyweight class. : And
some folks think he hasn't much Of an
opportunity. J~effries fought Peter Jack
pion, and Corbett fought jackson. 6nt IL
was when Jim was a kid. sullivan drew
the color line.
Portland is to have two league ball
teams next season and Walter McCredie
cific Coast league and the other in the
Northwest McCredie will manage the
latter and put Pearl Casey in charge of
-Doyey of Boston says If Ebbetts of
Brooklyn gets Dshlen for manager he
unsophisticated boy had been telling
around that Dovey was going to give
Teller is going to donate the STANDARD Oil
company to charity. too.
Joe Corbett has revived his annual
Ponce de Leon gag. II Is a little early,
but Joe Is out with the announcement
season. He is in training now and his his
wing. once the pride of the Orioles, is
working fine, the press agent says, and
Jors, but prefers to stick to the PacifI1
coast. where his business interests lie.
Joe pitched for Denver last season, you
remember-in his mind-or was IL Sioux
City?
An! somebody go and tell Ducky that's
only a joke about Clifford coming back
into the league.
Gotch has got London with him at last.
That's remarkable in view of the fact
that London believed Hack. UP to the time
Gotch landed which was the first time
monkey Of the Russian Lion.
This is a season of reJuvenation. Tom
Jenkins got back in the ring Il couple of
weeks ago and a few days ago Dan
Mcleod vent to the mat again. Tom
think they can keep up with Farmer
Burns and the other kids of the present.
Norris o'Neill. willis in The Bee office
the other day, said he had a letter re-
Gently from Billy Sullivan, the premier
still over in Cork, ireland, gathering UP
that fortune of $50, 600, which he dis
covered was left to mis- wife. LAS Billy
family will be fairly well off" said the
president of the Western league.
over at Chicago when the magnates got
together a few weeks age g settle a lot
Of tangled questions they didn't settle,
mer on the Western league. Directly
President o'Neill got tired Of listening
to o You any BY Tell telling sHe story on YOU wui TIM
said O'Neill. Years ago when you were
playing with Worcester you got a repu-
~ "a bEAAA6 q AaAA bdIN aAAAA %Au a
scout came down to look you over. He
sat in the grandstand for several days.
One day a friend asked him, What's keep
ing you in town so long?' He replied, 1
want to see Murnane run bases Well
said the friend. If that's all you are wait
ing for and your time is worth anything,
you had better not stay any longer, for
the chances are Murnane won't get on
base again this season Now, you ere
just as strong, in results, with that
hammer OF yours as you were then with
your bat" -gy.
A fairly good CLUB could be formed
from ball players who-at one time or
other appeared on the stage even briefly.
Billy Hallman of Kansas City; Harry
Bay, formerly of the Maps; Mueller. who
has achieved fame as an Eastern league
pitcher and sang for two or three SEA-
sons in comic opera, are among them,
while George Upp of m IS a mem
Der of the Paul Gilmore company. Land.
the Toledo catcher. played in a farce for
a year. Then there was "Rube Wad-
dell. the star of the stain of Guilt
company; Charley Doom. the Philadelphia
catcher, and Monte Cross, manager CT the
Blues, in minstrel shows, and Dick Cooley
In vaudeville. This years crop of actors
includes Mix Donlin in a sketch with
his wife, Mabel Hite; Harry Howell do
ing a monologue stunt In vaudeville
houses in the west, and Joe Tinker, a
member of a stock company.