Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-14
WESTERN LEAGUE MEN HAPPY
Rourke Says Meeting Was Full Of
Good Feeling.
PUEBLO MAN FOR VICE PRESIDENT
Pa H. Director and Schedule Commit
teeman--GeOrge Clarke of Omaha
is slated as an
Umpire.
PUEBLO MAN FOR VICE PRESIDENT

I'VE had a pleasant meeting of the West
ern league elbows said Pa Rourke' re-
ferring to the annual confab in Chicago
1--WE transacted all our business in about
an hour and a half, awarded the pennant
to Ducky and quit. Everybody was happy
and all were harmonious. lsbel and Hol-
land Of wichita and Cooley of Topeka were
there and felt encouraged over the pros
pect for next year and happy that they
got into our league"
Pa brings the information that George
Clarke of Omaha probably will be one of
the Western league umpires next year. Pa
recommended him highly TO President
O'Neil and secured the presidents prom
Use to appoint him. Jack Haskell will be
pack at the head Of the staff. but that's
as much as can be said for any of the
jumps of last year. Black, OF course, fin
ished very popular and may be retained,
The other two on the staff were Brennan
and Stats Davis.
George Clark for Umpire.
Clarke is an Omaha boy and a ball
player. For several years off and on he
has reported on local newspapers and year
before last was the main catcher for the
Waterloo team that won the IOWA State
league pennant. He is a clean fellow and
a good umpire.
Charles Carlyle. a Pueblo banker, was
elected vice president of the Western
league. Rourke OF Omaha, Burke of Den
yer and Higgins of Des Moines were
elected as members of the board of d.
~rectors. Green of Lincoln, Holland of
Wichita and Rourke were selected as the
schedule committee O'Neill and Higgins
were named as the railroad committee.
The schedule committee holds it's meeting
the first week in February at Lincoln.
While in Chicago President Rourke and
James Rourke attended the meeting OF
the National association, where the at
tempt was made to lower the Western and
Souther leagues to Class b and place the
American association and Eastern league
in class IA with the National and Amer
lean leagues.
Thinks No War VIII Come.
The effort. as has been known for some
days, failed and the two e~ontending fac
lions bolted the meeting-the American as
ISOLATION and the Eastern league. The mat
ter is settled at least for a year. but what
action the American association will take
remains to be seen. President Rourke Il
inclined TO believe 1t will not carry out
its threat to invade the major league terri
tory and feels certain the Eastern league
would not join in this course.
No i'll feeling toward the Western league
is harbored by the American association,
in fact, it lis the belief of Rourke and
others that this association would rather
see the Western kept in class A IL II could
get IN class "A. Some of the American
association men have said that IL they
should cut loose and form a commission
Of their own they would be willing TO enter
into an agreement with the Western league
for each organization to keep hands off thu
others players.
The National Association OF Base Bal
Clubs agreement expires I'm 1910. Rourks
advised the rebels 10 go along peaceablS
until the expiration OF that agreement anC
do the best they oou I and II they mus
then take independent action they woulC
at least not be violating a contract in q
doing.