Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-12
Chaff for the Sports

tommy Ming Will 10 nS WdIthiiB ny
with the Blues at Kansas City.
Gradually the auit-the-game boys are
falling over themselves to reach for the
pen and paper.
Captain Franck is due at the Smoke
house March Is. Ny, but won't that be a
day for smoke!
John T. Bush says he does not care
whether Donlin plays or not, as he does
not think he is worth 5000 to any team.
Brother Dave says this last cold snap
was a God-send to him, as it enabled him
to use up half the surplus cobs he had on
hand.
When II 10 too cold to play base ball
at Little Rock, Roger Bresnahan puts his
st. Louis Cardinals through foot ball
stunts
Christy Mathewson has left Cambridge,
where he has been coaching the Harvard
pitching staff, and has gone south to join
the Giants.
This swing-around the -circle-draw stunt
that Beell and Mahmout are pulling off
will get stale after a while. They have
wrestled draws in Chicago. Duluth and
Minneapolis.
wichita has discovered that Dick Cooley
has been at Excelsior Spring for the last
nCNhE VI h1 1870 ~
can now see himself in a single mirror.
Bader and Mattick, two Western league
players with the White Sox, showed we'll
at bat in the first few games on the Pa
cific coast. Bader won a game with a two
sacker.
Chick Fraser having signed Manager
nance is now breathing quite easily. He
has also been able to get relief from the
fao. that uyalyaru = nhfainad on SlaRa
and Hayden.
Ducky Holmes is figuring with contractors
for improvements on his park. The grand
stand will be enlarged. but not the bleech-
ers. The grandstand will be enlarged to
seat 1000 and the bleechers 800. What
would an Omaha crowd do in those
grounds1
Owen Higgins will have four s~outhVaws
on his Des Moines team this year, which
will make 1t hard for the left-handed hit
ters OF some of the other teams. Nelson
and Biersdorfer of last years team Will
return and Kirwin and Lego are the other
two. Manager Dwyer is also on the trail
OF two new players, a catcher, and Barly,
an infielder with the Ohio-Pennsylvania
leage last year, who was drafted by the
Giants.
Pueblo Chieftain: The club owners of
the Western league have at last tumbled
to the proposition that Dick Cooley of
Topeka, Is a splendid running mate for
Ducky Holmes, and then some. AS an
apostle OF base ball anarchy 1t would APP
pear that Sir Richard has Ducky out
classed. Compared with the Topeka trouble
maker, Ducky is an ordinary insurgent
and a very tame person. The magnates are
already wise. but the patrons of the game
1000 A. olra,,lf vntaf aUaft THAR turn
Cooley was one Of the big ducks in the
shively league puddle last season and could
bait umpires and get away with IL, but
things may prove a bit different In the
Western league.
Denver News: Pueblo fans smile in
diligently when the Denver team Is talked
of this year, seemingly to consider II a
cinch bet that the Grizzlies will be trailing
behind the Indians. With the exception
OF Matticks. Smith and possibly Patterson,
the Pueblo lineup will be the same as
last year. The fans who figure the Pueblo
team a distance flag fighter this year are
not following the dope very closely. With
Patterson back as name ger, the Indians
are bound to be in the fight. Spencer and
Hogriever are a pair OF outfielders hard
TO beat and there will be but two positions
uncertain as TO their strength, third base
| and center fleld. bhOulu T1itOISoh - q
held by st. Louis, second base and the
managerial roles are likely to go TO Hog
Tiever.
Secretary John ByrAs of the Dies Moines
team has this to say Of Dies Moines' pros
poets: Denver is fast getting rid OF all
OF the old players OF last years team.
Harry White is gone; Billy McDonoush will
not report, and a number of the other
men have been let go. Clyde Williams,
Chris Lindsay, Grover Gillian and others
who have been signed recently make the
Grizzlies look much stronger than last
year. II the pitching staff can be made
a little stronger Denver will be in the run
ming all Of the time. Pueblo does not look
like a good bet for the championship, but
will fight all the time. ! expect to see
| Wichita make a great start this year. And
I certainly believe that Des MOines will
make things more than Interesting for
every other club in the Western league
this season"
Omaha does not look good to Secretary
/ Byrne OF the Dss Moines club. II the fol-
lowing interview he gave out In Des MDines
Tuesday Is what he thinks OF the case.
Here II Is: "Byrne il greatly encouraged
over the outlook for this coming year. II
looks as though the race for the pennant
will be an open one and also as though