Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-23
FOOD FOR THE REAL LIVE FANS
Pa ROurke Likes the Idea of Taking
st. Joseph Into League.

Jack Holland is at work recruiting a
strong team to represent st. Joseph in the
Western league this year. He has a great
Population for gathering youngsters and
making real ball players of them.
Holland will put a good team into st.
Joe this SPRING" said Pa Rourke at the
Smoke house last evening. in chatting with
the usual bunch Of fans est. Joe is ready
for good ball and the fans demand it. That
town gave good support to its team in
19OO-O1-O2, when McKibben was at the helm,
but 1t has been without a team for six
years and is ripe for base ball. Holland is
a better manager than McKibben and a
better base ball man and should be able to
give st. Joseph a better team and thus get,
better support"
Frank Sparks of the Phillies and for
merly Of the Giants contemplates retiring
from the game. He is now in the real
estate business in, Philadelphia and is maxi
ing money. Sparks was troubled last year
with rheumatism and has been under the
care of a specialist this winter with the
hope of restoring his arm to its former ef-
feotiveness, but so far the ailment has not
been conquerer. He has been pitching in
the big leagues for ten years.
Matty Mcintyre, the Tiger outfielder, is
spending these winter mornings sitting on.
a rail at the Tampa race course, hearing
the hoofbeats of his own thoroughbred and
nervously working a stop watch, for Matty
lis now a real owner. During the fall meet
ing at Windsor the hero of Staten island
purchased a Observation-Disclosures Guinea
by name. When the ~thoroughbfeds moved
south for the winter racing Matty's nag
was among those taking the rail for Dixie.
1t isn't a slow one. this Kings Guinea.
Cy Young, veteran of all veteran twirlers,
intends to go to California to visit a brother
iivirg on the coast for several weeks.
Young plans to arrange his trip SO that he
will arrive at Hot Springs, Ark, about the
third week in February. Cy has been 60
lrg to the springs every spring OF late
years. and the baths nave done him a
world of good. He hopes to pitch in at
least thirty games next season and eX-
poets to win twenty of them. Cy will prob
ably be Joined at Hot Springs by a couple
of other Cleveland veterans, Bradley and
Joss.
There is some agitation among base ball
men favoring an increase OF batting. Ned
Hanlon, a veteran base ball rule maker,
says the pitcher should be put back a foot
and a half and advocates the abolition of
the infield sacrifice hit. Fred Lake, man.
ager of the Boston Nationals, favors the
reduction of the number Of called balls
from four to three, which, in his opinion,
would make the pitcher put the sphere over
the plato practically all the time A ma
jority of base ball men, however, insist
that the rules need no amending,
"Jiggs' Donahue, former first baseman
of the White Sox, who was with the Wash
ington Senators a part of last season and
was sold to the Minneapolis team of the
American association, is attempting to
purchase the South Side ball park at Chi
cago owned by Captain Adrian c. Arson.
He would establish a semi-pro team there.
The deal will probably hinge upon whether
Donahue can get away from the Minneap-
oils team without mourning the wrath of
the powers in organized base ball. 1t is
said that Harry Mccormick, who played
left field for the New York Giants last
year, will be a member of Callahan's
Logan Square team this year. Mccormick
formerly played with Callahan and at the
end of last season announced that he is
through with base ball as a regular bust
ness for all time. He has a position in
Chicago.
Same Crane, the old ball player OF late
years known as a base ball writer for New
York papers. who has been in Tucson,
Ariz., for his health for several months, is
so far improved that he will join the Giants
at their training camp at Marlin, Tex.
next month and travel nome with them
early in April.
Says the Sporting News, in discussing the
st. Louis Browns for 1910:
THE classy boy for speed seems to be
Fisher, the Omaha outfielder. who piled uI
l27 runs and stole lightweight asses, draw.
ing down an average with the willow OF
.2SS. He does not seem to be a particularly
) brilliant fielder, either, Newman. a first
baseman from Houston. is next best In the
matter OF stolen bases, with slxty-two In
1888 games. HIS run-getting proelivitie'
: don't appear to ~ so many. but such thing.
depend to a larg> extent on what sort Of
batters he has behind him. Gordon, with
forty-nine steals and sixty runs, and King
with forty-two and 1O7, respectively, max,
a good showing in both departments. az
well as at the bat"
Bert Kelley, who pitched for Omaha las
year, is said to have signed with Jimmy
Callahan's Logan Square semi-pros in Chi
cago. Pa Rourke is stin expecting hin
back.
Grand Circuit Racing Schedule.
DETROIT, Mich, Jan. 22.-The Grant
Circuit racing schedule has been an
o nounced. The season win open I'm Kala
. mazoo. Mich. on July %. 1t is the firs
time since the organization OF the Grani
Circuit that the season has begun outsid
this city.
b The stewards approved of the following
dates;
Kalamazoo. July 25 to 20; Detroit. Angus
1 to 5; Cleveland. August s to l2; Buffalo
August Is TO 10; New York. August % 1
%; Readville. August 20 TO September :
Hartford. September 5 to o; Syracuse, Sep
TENDER y to 16; Columbus, September 10 I
l. 80
Robert n. Newton OF Billings, Mont, wa
chosen presiding judge for the coming sea
son.