Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-02-12
JUDGMENTS

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CANNOT see where the cubs
have gone back 20 any great
NV extent Just let Manager
aged and infirm Mr.. Sheckard
auo see the seven other Ma
tiOnal league clubs fight to
r Chicago the waiver price for him
could you secure single waiver
nU the down and out pitchers ot
fnt cub staff But there's no danger Of
f waivers being asked. Tho Athletics
msrTn ne laSs se ,sssue e enT we
snnot see why they should not repeat.
I'D we fail to figure that any National
Hgue team has strengthened sufficiently
beat the Cubs whose one great weak
s last year was on the slab, q weakness
IN isn't likely to be IN evidence again.
N this Is merely for the purpose OF show
No how wild the dopesters sometimes
fnn.-Sporting News.
From where we are sitting this looks
Ike pretty good dope II is the concensus
q opinion that both Athletics and cubs
Nil be the league winners this season.
Elark Griffith and Miller Huggins Of Gin
llnnau pick the Cubs 70 cop the National
Dag What other team is in position
o beat them2 Pittsburg can scarcely ex-
pect TO come up to its 1908 form, New
:. ork has some weak spots TO I'll. and
srfUIffnati. which Is the team Joe Tinker
thinks the winner will have 20 beat, IL not
quite in a position 70 promise crowding
the Cubs out Of first place, especially since
|its manager and veteran second basefnan
think that way. The Cubs slab weakness
is likely to be overcome this season, Tor
Chance knows the necessity Of It and has
the resources to enable him to do what he
knows he ought to do.
Denver papers have found verdict for
hal
him as the greatest OF minor league mag
mates The verdict Is based on Mr.. Nc
GINS purpose Of sending his team south on
a spring training trip in a special train at
an expenseof 500 900 OF course, It might
seem little early to form the decision now,
Abut that's another matter, since the de-
sion is already formed Regardless Of
all other considerations Mr.. McGill Is
entitled 10 the palm whether his venture
proves a monumental financial success or
failure since II ia an innovation in the
Western league, we are nevertheless going
TO watch its results with the same degree
OF interest as II the verdict had not been
hcturned. For the good Of the league. It
D. TO be hoped Denver will have a winning
DFteam, for Denvers success means much
for the leagues success. Its team looms
up good on paper, though It would be
little mprudent to concede Il the pennant
just yet
The Nebraska base ball men have taken
a neV and wise tack this year Of initiating
thetoayc ball legislation, instead OF wait
~, as Usual for the legislature to start
Things: OF changing from the defensive TO
the offensive side Of the fight. The bill
TO give each community the option Of reg
ulsting Sunday games is better than the
an. chat fnr9aa r,afforq either vvav aQafuRf
majority sentiments We have learned
enough TO know that majorities are not
easily forced against their will and that
the ant-sunday laws have been dead let
tiers.
The story OF Jimmy Austin being sold to
St Louis seems to have originated up
where the aeropanes sometimes ny, those
that fly high enough. The Sporting News
thinks Hal Chase would not incline his
ear unto such proposition, II admits
the Browns could use Jimmy 70 great ad-
vantage, reuarking: There are great
many worse third basemen and not a lot
better ones than Austin" For a team
that needs ginger and grit and speed ike
the Highlanders do. 1t would seem bad
thing to let Austin get away.
That new timber, Demer, Kelly and Bow
man, Pa has annexed from Waterloo, Is
! only a little driftwood he will use for
weather boarding during the preseason
erIod. As a matter OF fact It does not
aoO9ary belong to him, but is towed into
thisSqort as a refuge until Lord Wellington
etres We need raw material, perhaps,
but not so bloody raw,
The commissions ruling that nonreserye
players cannot hold the commission Tor
redress from grievances Is logical in a
sense The player asks a certain advan-
tage over his employer when he signs one
OF these contracts. so he should be willing
TO rest his case there and not seek to
collect at both ends Of the line
students at Iowa city are urging th'
athletic board OF control to cut loose from
the Missouri Valley conference and remain
in tha big Eight" The other schools
OF the Missouri Valley league will welcome
the vacancy In case the Hawkeyes leave
This organization will become stronger and
will have more harmony in its meetings
Not many Rourke contracts have been
returned. What boots. II? The boys are
Just warming up their fingers so they
can write Don't worry about any blanks
coming back Everybody is on his toes
already for the fiag as an additional
sdornment to that new park.
The National commission may take action
TO prevent the deliberate postponement oil
games to make possible double headers
And Il ought to- II Il Is possible TO play
a game Il should be played whether By
putting It off 20 another date for a double
header would bring better returns or not
Charley Dryden says the White Rats
55k upon Joe Tinker In his capacity a.
an actor as an onion. and have taker
steps to fumigate him. Joe evidently go
q Whit OF the formRldehyde, for he SEEM
20 have beat the fumigators TO the smok,
house.
Not content with landing the Panams
exposition san Franciscan writes I,
the sporting News 20 ask Just how 1
Was Fred Merkle lost that game 20 an,
Cubs IN 1905. Those folks do like to rul