Omaha daily bee., 1911-04-09
JUDGMENTS


- AsE ball devotees sustained a great
disappointment IN Governor AL
drieh's veto Of the Bartling bill
IL which proposed TO make Il optional
with each community In the state
as 70 sunday base bali When the bin was
oIa"n and introduced early in the session
mere was every reason to believe IL would
pass ana meet the executives approval
without doubt but politics found its way
/. INTO the measure In time and urovea is
(mdoing. The bin and the Sunday base ban
ls.tuation in Nebraska have been grossly
misrepresented. evidently as a result OF
an honest Misrepresentation. IL has been
proclaimed far and wide that as a result
OF TINS bills defeat Nebraska will have no
sunday ball The fact is Nebraska il in
precisely the condition az 70 sunday bali
II has been in for many years. ever since
It has been under the operation of the
present law. The present law prohibits
sunday ball, but in communities where
public sentiment has favored Sunday ball
It has been played. and. doubtless. will
continue TO be played. What President
Rourke and those Interested in this bin
hoped to accomplish through its passage
was an act that would enable Sunday ball
TO be played legally instead Of illegally.
And what seems to have been mlsunder-
9,ood about this bill was that 1t would
5~have enabled community to prohibit sun
day ball Just as 1t would to sanction T.
il was purely local option and home rule
in principle. Since the question is governed
entirely by public sentiment anyway. the
desire was TO intrench public sentiment
with law. 1t Is too bad the bill did not be-
come law.
The Bee has appealed to the people OF
Omaha to rally to the support OF President
Rourke this year, to iii his new park to
overlooking on the opening day OF the
season, April 81. and show him that they
are for the man who spends the money
for a modern base ball plant and good
team. That is what he has done. The park
is away above the standard Of minor league
parks and up to many majors The team.
too we have faith in II looks like a con-
tender, II not a winner. 1t has not begun
10 hit hard as vet, but it has been de-
prived Of the right sort Of practice for that
\thus far II will fall into line, though.
Nts fielding is already gilt-edged That, too,
VIII improve. The record of the Rourkes
for maintaining winning team is the
best warrant we can offer for the belief
that they win have one this year IL II is
possible. No Omaha fan has anything to
complain OF. for this city has taken its
place in second division about as seldom as
any on the circuit More often II has led
or fought 1t out with the team that did
Harry steinfeldt, the veteran Cub third
baseman has at last been cut loose for the
ffninors, but he says he will retire to pri-
vate business. steinfeldt was the last cog
placed In the wheel Of the great machine
built up by Frank Chance in his successful
At tn -haag far Of Cub
He had everything but a third basemar
wien, in 1906 he snapped Jake Weimer &c
Cincinnati for Steiny, completing his plans
and then went ahead and began to hang III
the pennants. Steinfeldt made a serious
mistake when he began to balk this spring
He should have known he was going bacl
and had no chance 10 demand higher sal
airy or longer term contracts. We do NO
believe Zimmerman win ever fill Steiny'.
place at third He may get the job. bu
he has not the steinfeldt caliber. The
young man Doyle may prove more like It
we do not know.
Bert King acted like a wise little mar
Z. in returning to Omaha before the las
day Of grace set by Pa. He is needed II
Omaha and probably needs Omaha and
yet we might have tugged ana worried
along somehow even II he had not come
But II is desirable to have him. We meet
the four outfielders-King, Schoonover
Pickering and Anderson. It is still to b,
determined by the men themselves which
one is TO become the utility. It's a case O
the survival Of the fittest
Hugh Fullerton's prediction for the Cub
is interesting He says they have not gon
back one step, but are strong enough I
win a pennant in a canter. He assert
" fhat Chance is more determined than eve
yths year to win. not only the pennant q
the National league, but also the world
series against the Athletics. II these tw
teams should come together again It woul
be the greatest event in the history
base ball thus far.
II now looks as II the Three-I leagu
would get matters patched up and g
along with the same eight teams II had
Including Waterloo, against which tn
whole fight was made. President Tearne
early became an anti-Waterloo man an
u President Kinsella OF Springfield has bee
the moving spirit to GUST the Iowa city
II politics had been kept out OF the con
troversy It probably could have been sci
tied long ago.
George Stones case IL pathetic. FroI
/the king batter Of the American league
Me becomes an outcast and that, too, b'