Omaha daily bee., 1910-09-04
ROUREL FAMILY HOME AGAIN
Omaha Team Gets Back from It's Most
Successful Trip.
PLAYERS ALL IN GOOD CONDITION
Ready for a stirring session with the
LincoInites, with Des MOInes
and Topeka Co Follow
Later.

All the hullabaloo that was kicked UP
down around the depot Friday was not
on account OF the arrival in the city o.
Theodore Roosevelt. most of II ives because
Pa Rourke and his team came home from
their most successful trip of the season.
The welcome extended the Rourke family
on this occasion just goes TO show that we
like EN- little bit better when they are
winning. When they were losing game after
game as fast as they could be played, we
liked them, but we wanted TO spank them.
Now It is different When team can go
into Denver and grab off two games out
Of four with the Grizzlies braced as they
are for a terrific finish fight for the rag
and then go down to Wichita and repeat the
trick in the face Of Isbeils home faction,
il is a sign that the team is going some.
Pas boys surely made a good showing on
this expedition, and, by the way, they have
put away sixteen out oi the last twenty
two games they have played, which is a
pretty fair clip for a middle division
bunch.
Team In Good Condition.
Just now things are In the best
condition for base ball they have been all
season. The pitchers are working well,
and the team is putting up a grand game
behind them Batting like fiends, fielding
like phenoms and running bases like wild
men, they are simply showing class of the
kind that delights the fan, Skipper BIZ
is marching around as proud as peacock
because the showing the bunch has made,
and he promises that the next few games
at home will be of the sort that will be
long kept in mind
First of all comes Lincoln, and the
Rourke family feels that it simply must
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even with the Despair crowd for the rough
handling the last time they met. Saturday,
Sunday and two games on Labor Day
take up the four with Lincoln! Then comes
Des Moines for four, and after that Topeka
for a series transferred from the Kansas
capital. If possible, postponed game with
Topeka will be played off, making a
double header for Sunday This series will
go a long way toward helping Omaha up
another notch in the standing, for while
II is being played, Wichita Is to have
trouble of its own.
Draft Not 81 Surprise.
The drafting OF schoonover and Riggert
was not a surprise to Pa, for he knew that
Boston was after Riggert and Brooklyn
after Schoonover but the lot decided that
Riggert must go. 1t will be tough to lose
him, and yet the big leagues are clamoring
for more power in the matter of draft
in order that they may control every
player of promise in the whole country.
The talk of reform in the draft law at
the coming session of the National as
ISOLATION will probably take turn a little
different from what the magnates think
for men who have their money invested in
Glass A teams are getting a little sore on
the way the big fellows are closing in on
all the available material 1t is not the
desire to prevent any young player from
getting his chance to enter fast company,
but It is to break up the practice of allow
ing the big leagues to control all the good
players and prevent such deals as we have
suffered in days gone by. A few seasons
ago we saw Schipke taken away in the
prime of his usefulness by Washington and
sent back to play at Des Moines. This sea-
son we have the spectacle of Red Fisher
being grabbed by St. Louis and sent back
to play with Denver Other cases might
be noted, but these will do to illustrate the
point.