Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-06
MANY MOURN LOSS OF POWERS
joint, Brush Writes Letter of Appre.
citation from Far Off Texas.
NELSON HOPING TO COME BACK
"Cy" Young IL Not to Retire, Accord
ing to the Latest Report, but VIII
Go Forth to Make n Record
of SIX Hundred Wins.

When the Eastern league had finished
its session. not long ago by eCcting an
other than Patrick T. Powers president OF
the organization for the season to come,
regret was expressed I'm more than one
quarter that the club owners had seen fit
to change pilots
John T. Brush, president and owner Of
the New York National league base ball
club, sent a telegram to MIR. Powers from
far off Texas, where he is trying to find
sunshine, but in the long electrical jump
from San Antonio to New York there
were some phrases Of the telegram which
became distorted and some punctuation
marks which ran into an open switch.
The telegram, as Mr. Brush wrote It, is
really stronger than that which reached
New York and the telegram, which was
read in New York. seemed to everybody to
be pretty high testimonial to the ability
Of Mr.. Powers The original copy Of the
message reads as follows:
To p. T. Powers, Former President of the
Eastern League, New York city IL Is
with unmeasured regret that / learn of
your retirement from the presidency OF the
Eastern league. l cannot forget your 10y
atty and devotion to its interests. the sac
rifices, both personal and financial, during
those periods when with weaker man
than yourself at the helm the craft would
have foundered. II Is the man who by his
genius, courage and fidelity brings order
out of chaos and establishes a dynasty
that | honor, not the man who inherits IT,.
When Its history IS written your name
must be allied with those who have led
and never wavered in their efforts to pre-
serve organized base ball and establish
IL as the greatest sport of the world. II
marvels me that the memories Of the pro-
cess by which the magnificent Eastern
| league structure has been erected should
so soon slumber. JOHN T. BRUSH.
December -, 1910.
Whether base ball continues to prosper
five centuries from now, or fifty, there
will always be a feeling of genuine ad-
miration for those who stood up and made
the fight which helped 1t to its present
prosperity, and Patrick r. Powers was one
of them.
1t is easier to continue a success than II
is to create one.
Quit You're Kiddin'.
Battling Nelson says that he is every
bit as good as he was when he first broke
into pugilism. Then he nslvely adds that
he will have a secret try out" to see II
he is fit to challenge Moran and Wolgast
What Joy the Batter is?
They can't come back" he insisted in
Reno. Morning. noon and night, he
walked the streets Of the Nevada city and
! pTedCneO 10 the BdInDleft tne COWboyf Nhe
] miner the Indian, the gringo and the
prcspector, II they were aught to listen
that Johnson would win, because they
can't come back"
Now he is trying TO persuade himself
that they can
Nelson says the blow with which Moran
! floored him was the hardest that he ever
! received. All the world turned black and
he figured on another earthquake in San
1 Francisco. te
Lamy Makes n Record.
When Lamy. the speed skater, was in
vited to come to New York to race. he de-
clined on the ground that he had not been
given enough time for work and was not
in good condition. Then he went out a
! saranac Lake and beat Sees record of
1871 seconds for the 22o-yard dash. He
skated in the wonderfully good time OF
172s seconds.
! What in the name Of the immortal Hans
Brinkler would he have done had he been
in condition?
Young Not to Retire.
A later bulletin from Cleveland says
that "Cy' Young is not to retire.
Delighted to hear it, and no more fare
well appearances are going to be written
for the veteran until he is seen boarding Q
train for the sheep and hens at Paot o.
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