Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-21


training as an element In winning
pennants7 This question has be-
come pertinent with base ball mag
- mates. The experience of the Chi
..go Cubs has emphasized it For three
years the Cubs have trained in mud and
cold weather and yet have gone on win
ming league and worlds p~ennants. Yet
Il would be fallacious logic to argue that
because the Cubs, without perfect training,
have won other teams could win under
similar circumstances. The Cubs have
needed the systematic develop
ment which spring training Is designed TO
give less than any other team, not because
OF the Cubs incompatible superiority over
all others, but rather because the Cubs
have undergone practically no changes in
their lineup for these years. Their team
work has been developed for several years.
The Cubs experience cannot be taken as a
general argument against spring training.
Team owners probably will not give up the
practice very soon. No doubt there is a
temptation to overcapitalize the value of
this element In the years result, but It re-
mains essential to the young player and
the reorRanised team. whose inside work
has not been brought up to It's highest
possibilities. Then there is a commercial
side that must not be and is not being
overlooked. How better may a man adj
vertised his team. Comiskey says he will
not make the California trip again, but he
will 90 around the world. And Comiskey
may be taken as the type of the shrewd
business man in base ball. Printers ink
is irresistible in it's power of fascination.
President Barney Dreyfuss OF the Pitts
burg club has issued orders that no menu
- "a hfa a. rroxr ornoLo oiga raftaa dur-
ing the training period. Why Mr.. Dreyfuss
didn't extend the embargo to include the
playing season is not apparent. Certainly,
as he points out this species Of smoking
IL not beneficial to ball players and
II Il hurst them in the training sea-
son. why does IL not nurt them
all the more during the regular
playing period when the strain, the
work and worry are far greater than they
possibly can be during the ante-season
practice7 But probably Mr.. Dreyfuss means
to go after that later and is now proceed
ing on the theory that half a loaf is bet
ter than no loaf at all President Rourke
of the Omaha team and many other ball
men recognize the deleterious effects of
narcotics on their men and players must
not be surprised II the sentiment crystal
Lies some day in a general embargo
aBulHbL lu0 hdbtts ~ 10 uoHc III tuAS
case, not moral nor physical reform.
-- 20
Omaha wrestling fans--and that means
wrestling fans for miles AROUND Omaha
are to have a rare treat Friday night at
the Auditorium. They may see Frank
Gotch, the worlds champion. work his
skill on John Perrelli. The latter Is a huge
Italian with $50 victories to his credit, yet
unknown in the west. But no matter about
Perrelli's prowess. 1t is Gotch who win do
the drawing. Gotch alone would be suf-
ficient TO iii the Auditorium. The Iowa boy.
who humbled the Wanted Russian Lion, has
not been In Omaha or the west since that
eventful night in Chicago, April 3, 1908, when
he drew from George Hackenschmldt, after
over two hourse OF gruelling, a complete
surrender and acknowledgement Of SUI
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. who until that
night had been the unconquered terror of
Europe. Gotch will be In pink of condition,
as he is working out constantly with his
travelling companion. Emil Klank. 1t looks
as II be win receive a great ovation.
-
The Denver management Is to be con-
graduated on the enterprise 1t has dis
played thus far in ~reorganizing the Bears.
II is not necessary for the Denver papers
20 publish the fact that Money Bags
leDedu mas leiA iOWHs ~ ONhNCi I
make an effective bid for the pennant this
year Il will not be because the owners OF
the team have not tried faithfully to get
together a good set OF players The pur-
chase Of Charley Jones as manager Is a
stroke OF enterprise that ought to be
loudly. appiauded In Denver.
While Muggsy cGr manager Of the
Giants. says Cy Seymour will never wear
a Giant uniform again, Joe villa. press
agent OF the Highlanders, says he will;
that ne Is too valuable a man to let go,
especially since Dcnlin will not be with
the team and besides. Villa adds. Seymour
has repented OF his assault OF Latham.
-
P4ttsburR'e new grounds and grandstand
cost 100000. the Athletics only half that,
but Connie Mack has had the good sense
10 advertise his and as a result only a few
people outside Of the smoky city know
that any new park has been built there,
while the Athletics grounds have been the
subject Of talk for a year all over the
country.
TIMES and things have certainly changed.
Once the champion or American pueilists
drew the color line against the black man.
Today a former worlds champion consents
10 re-enter the ring only because the pres
ent wearer OF the belt Is black and 60 cap
the climax Jack johnson Indignantly denies
that his wife Is a white woman. Indeed,
'tempus does fugit,"
An. hah. no. no. listen to this: johnson
has the swell head and would be easy for
Ieff,s says Fitzpatrick, former manager OF
he chocolate champion OF the first clause
N Mr.. FItz's sentence there is. naturally,
no occasion for skepticism.
Hes the same old Griff. Clark Griffith
announces one week he viii be good ana
make his men be good to the umpires this
season and the first game his team plays
In the training season he goes 70 the mat
with the ump