Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-11

The Omaha team has had a week or more
of 1t and has jerked many kinks out of
its members. Some of the new men are
showing up better with each appearance.
Pendry, Smith and vasbinder are all field
ing well, and Pendry and Vasbinder are
doing some good work at the bat. but.
of course, IL would be unfair to make any
final judgments of their department in
such hot weather. when no man can do
his best. But as for pitchers, in. Johns.
Rice, LowerAthree of the new men. In
addition TO Hollenbeck and Sanders-Pa
should have a most promising staff, and
IL is not certain that young Hanson will
ran to show good material. The hole to
De filled at present Is at first base. With
Fisher. WEIGH, Belden and Vasbinder for
the outfteld. that garden ought to be taken
care OF In first-class style. As to first
base, Eberlein was engaged for it, but he
won't arrive until along in June, and Pa
doesn't want to take any chances on play
ing Graham regularly until warm weather.
But the other day Captain Franck sent
Kid LeBrand over to cover that bag. and
the way he covered It made everybodv
take nodce and caused Pa and Buck 70
stop and wonder If they had unconsciously
solved the problem there and then. BY
the middle OF June, 1t is safe to saw. the
pay roll will not be as long as at present.
but there'n be a ball team in Omaha.
That old saw that Facts are stronger
chan fiction continues to be forced onto
public attention the more the public has
brought to its mind Boston's action in dis.
posing OF Cy Young and Lou CriRer.
Criger is admitted to be the most scientific
student OF base ball there is. He knows
more about pitchers. batters and base run
ners than any other man in the business.
He knew so much that all last season he
let Ty Cobb steal but one base when he
was catching, and that was due to a
pitchers error. What Boston could posi-
bly, hope to gain by letting out this veteran
battery is beyond comprehension. But
Boston hasn't been doing much in recent
years calculated 10 gain anything.
mere are two reasons why the reported
oesl OF King for three Of my players will
ho' go through says Garry Hermann.
n is because it was never proposed and
the other is that if It was / Wound MOI,
o. X, such a swap Even the most pretu.
diced man must admit that those are fairly
good reasons,
Those Western league magnates who are
doing their spring training at home for
economical reasons might learn a lesson
from Gunthrope of Denver. He has had
his team on the road and has made more
money than any OF the rest could have
saved.
Base ball courts need not try to outla v
the spit ball. Teacher tried that and
TAILED many years ago. This spit ball is
not the new thing they try to crack il up
as being, you know.
They like Tebeau so well down in KAN
sas City they have gone to writing poetry
about him One line runs thusly: THE
awful sights OF Tebeau's bum bali tossers. "
sour youns pitchers have good and bad
points says Jimmy McAleer. In which
case James seems TO have picked his young
pitchers off the old tree OF human nature.
A ST. Louis paper says reyerses In the
south have dampened the ardor OF the
Browns admirers. What other effect does
it expect reyerses TO have on admirers
II doesn't hurt 10 mention though. the
mere fact that Comiskey has not yet
failed to hand Omaha mis- Yanigans-never
HIS real team.
Hal Chase probably is laughing al Johnny
KING Is that what you would can shoulisa
giee9
ihus Tar Pa has forgotten 70 send Slim
Hsh either a contract or transportation.
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Ice Hall vas frozen out Of Topeka