Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-08

times es much as wichita and several
other towns on the circuit that beat It,
why not drop this alleged title and pick
up the Bald Eagles7 Just stop and con-
template the force OF such q name, to say
nothing OF it's fitness. Then there is the
Wichita newspaper-the Eagie-which might
become a champion Of this title, with its
eminent contemporary as the Beacon
light Try IT.
These are busy days for Manager Jack
Holland. From now until the season
opens there will be a hundred and one
things to be done before the Drummers
will be ready to make their initial bow
20 the Western league.
That st. Joseph will be represented by
q team that will play ball from the start
Is a foregone conclusion. Manager Jack
has signed up some twenty-five players,
from whom he will pick the
Active work will begin on the green
diamond about March "a, at which time
the players have been notified to report.
During the first two weeks in April
the team will be busy getting into form
and Arrangements are being made for
several exhibition games with Hannibal
and Quincy teams. Holland hopes to
take the team for a weeks outing. lie
does not expect to put on any of the ex-
hibition games in st. Joseph.
The equipment Of the local club will be
brand new throughout. The Drummers
will appear in fine new suits, which are
to be ordered as soon as possible. The
ball park is to be made over, to suit the
demand for room. Everything Will be put
In s%hipshape In ample time for the OPEN
FMS games.-St. Joseph News-Press.
J~At'slua -
Harry NcCbasna, 49,. - t.,u, L.. c..
urday bail in Dinkville, rather than report
to st. Joseph. Well, at that st. Joseph
probably would not abandon its Intention
Of getting into the game again. Nc
CEesney Is one of those crusts who fails in
fast company and gets too swelled up to
play In minor company, where he belongs.
There are a dozen and more men in this
Western. league, who can play large ring
around this same Harry, so If he will only
come back and try to. content himself, the
boys will endeavor to make the pace fast
enough to keep him interested.
Babe Towne. who viii manage Sioux
City. announces that he has bought Fenlon
from Louisville and that the big fielder
who has played with Omaha, Lincoln and
Topeka, will resume his rounds Of the
Western league towns by playing with
ONS 1Ao oCaoOhs
The Denver Times has dealt a fearful
swat to "Ducky" Holmes. 1t says Dan
Despair, the young man now acting as
owner OF the Lincoln team, can 20
d. 'Ducky" one better as a trouble maker
for the league. The Times says Donnie Is
threatening all sorts of trouble for the
magnates at their meeting this month
over the umpire question Which leads
some men who know Donnie to remark.
'Oh, pshaw."
Owner Dick Cooley of the Topeka club
thinks that the schedule difficulties which
have arisen because OF the fact that there
Will be only one far western club in the
league this year may be met successfully |
by the schedule makers when they meet
next month.
I'm forming a schedule said Cooley
yesterday. "An Of the clubs are paired
off. In the past Pueblo and Denver were
paired together. This year 1t is likely Dem
Yer will be paired with Wichita, Topeka
with st. Joseph, Lincoln with Omaha ana
Des Moines with Sioux City. Last year
Topeka and Wichita were paired"
The last bunch Of 1910 contracts, so far
as players already in sight, are concerned,
was deposited In the Topeka postofflce by
Manager Cooley yesterday, So far Cooley
has received no reply from the ''phenom"
college southpaw twirler to whom a con-
tract was mailed a week ago and is begin
ming to feel slightly worried for fear that
this man has slipped through his fingers.
III / don't land him" Cooley said yester-
day, I've got to get busy right away
looking around for a swift sidewheeler. AS
= rule, ! don't think much of left-handed
pitchers. but we've got to have one good
one to take. care Of clubs which run heavily
toward ,left-handed b~atters.." - Topeka
Capitol.
President Isbell received the contract he
forwarded to George Hughes, last seasons
Wichita second baseman this morning, II
wasn't signed. 1t hadn't even been opened.
the face written by the mail carrier who
delivered II was the one word refused"
"Guess he must be trying to slip some
thing over OF. the old man." observed
'Tsay." as he deposited the unopened let
ter in his desk. Maybe no didn't know