Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-27
'WAIlA SUNDAY BEE


I'D Pop Eyicr wants TO get back
into the Western league. He Is
c~ourting a place on the st. Joe
~ pitching staff. We say let the old
man return. And we say further 20 our
own Pa IIourke, take him on. For three
consecutive years Eyler. ss Denver's pre-
mier pitcher. had omaha completely at his
mercy. and for more than three years he
pitched winning ball IN this league, his
last stand being with Lincoln. Pop was
always 9 prime f~avorlte, especially In
Omaha, and The chances are he would I'LL
the stand today. He Insists he has taken
O pcw hold on life and can come BACK.
W. not take him at his wordf Look at
aim Jeffties, he has been out for three
yeurs and we ell know he Is "eoming back
TO lex Johnson. other old-timers have
come back before this and made good.
Look at C-incinnatus; ne left the pillow
standing in the field and went right In
town and pitched the Romans TO victory.
Then there's Farmer Burns-his return to
tie mat So the marvel OF wrestling history.
and Bill Bryan. after four years cessation
from tho tedious tAsk Of running for presi-
dent. conios back and makes q strenuous
race. OF course he didn't get anything
but the money. Now Joe Cans insists he
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marked the day after, you can't do It
again" WIN these facts before us, how
can ", deny pop Eyler a chance?
Horolc spirits In the press and state leg
isiaturts are rushing to the rescue of the
down-trcddon ball player, whose common
sale and purchase they conceive to be
modern slavery" All. noble spirit, lofty
Apul, lmpArlshablo patriotisml Such mani
&stations OF actua altruinm in this day
OF Hordid commoroialism are indeed re-
frtshing, inspiring. But might W. suggest,
merely az an antidote TO excitement, that
this samn bondage Of modern slavery
against which the ~yoornanry Of our land
Is now declalmlnG IL piling UP financial for
tunes for SCORES Of lite humble serfs, many
Of whom would be out working for day
wages II they were not professional ball
~players7 Thia, then, Is the one consola-
ton we lave, and II may be taken as a
mark Of distinction between the white slave
OF today and the black slave of the COS.
w. p. Grassland Of Wesleyan university,
the young man who, on the Judges re-
turns. won first place in the Nebraska state
oratorioal contest and then after he had
gone home found on a review of the figures
llab Nt tAAAAG oNIoHu anu v AAAoNr WAANAC
upon he telephoned to Creighton univer-
sity that it's man, F. P. Matthews, was
the ghotor, has set a fine example in true
spor&tmsnship which college athletes as
well as orators should mulat 1t is an
example too infrequently practiced by many
Of the college athletes. II some OF the
young men In the University of Nebraska,
where athletes just now are some elastic
morally. would take this lesson home to
themselves they might DO a lot to redeem
their regulations and elevate sportsman
ship at hat institution. For It is in need
Of elevation. Since colleges and universi-
ties Insist on making much Of athletics as
a part OF college life-and this is whole
some-they canno with impunity to the
spirit of their professions afford to adopt
a lower standard of ethics for their sports
than they observe in their intellectual pur-
suits.