Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-17
JUDGMENTS

AsoA - q TIE NANOlH NIllNu lOeI Ine
game for Omaha Friday. Omaha
played some classy ball once
the bases were filled by Pueblo
before a man was out and yet
the eide was retired runless The bases
were filled by a single, a hit batter and a
pass. Then fly was sent to short center.
which Thomson got, but the runner on
third could not &C home The next man
UP drove hot grounder toward first and
Kane, playing in, nabbed t. whipped the
runner from third off at the plate and got
back TO first in time 20 get Arbogast's
throw. completing the double play. Niehoff
made another double play unassisted
man was on second when the batter hit to
short. Niehoff ran off took the play
feigned a throw to first and tagged the
man who attempted to make third then ran
over in front Of second in ample time to
tag out the runner coming from first Sin
delar pitched a good game and II was not
the hits made off him that lost the game
He himself, however with wild pitch. a
Wild throw and interfering with a runner in
the first inning, contributed 10 the defeat.
but his pitching showed class Ellis, how
ever, was able to hang the Indian sign on
the Rourkes at critical times What must
impress the fans is that the team is much
r
rell at short and Coyle in left. than If
has been this season. Whether these young
sters will maintain the fast pace they are
going, we cannot say but we see no
reason why they should not OF course II
Is long time before next spring, when
we shall hope for and expect as strong a.
team as there Is in the league, but with the
three recruits from the State league the
new shortstop. Justis, and others we APP
pear to have some available material
The purchase Of a half interest in the
Boston American league team bv Jimmy
McAleer and business partner. ought
TO prove one of the most popular moves
made in base ball for many a year for
IL means McAleer as the active manager
OF the team. No team has suffered from
acknowledgement more than this one and
the tauIt seems TO have lain chiefly. with
the owner. the young John T. TavIor
layIors great penchant has been his de-
sire to tie the hands of the men he had
employed as manager, This disrupted ana
olsorganized and initiated vastly to the
olsaoVantage OF the team. He has had
way OF suspending a Damocles sword
over the heads of worthy players. who
might strike losing streak That is
bad thing as Mr.. Taylor must have learned
before now. No man can do his hest
under such a strain A winning team is
needed in Boston and McAleer ought N
De able TO put one there He is a handIAr
OF men, a postmaster at the game and
good manager who never vet has had
the best chance TO show what he coura
do.
The field day at Lincoln arranged nv
Don Despair was apparently a success
and IT is well to make it an annual event
1t Is TO be regretted that Sioux civ
ornaha and Topeka players did not partic-
ipate in the events. OF course. as far Al
the aH-star team goes it is perhaps never
possible to select in any league the team
mat Will comprise the very best. man
tor each position. largely for the reason
mat 1t is not possible to make such dis
examinations. Often no two tudrAs u-,Ii
agree as to the best players and so nanv
players are so closely matched that IL ts
impossible to distinguish accurately. h.
tween them. So that there should be no
capuousness along that line, and we do
not know that there has been in this case
But meets or this sort are wholesome when
wholesomely conducted as we sunnosa
this one was. They bring the PLAYERS n.
gether in healthy competition and arouse
and stimulate interest among the fans
OF course, to make the meets really ar
1eetve, it will be necessary to make them
regular annual affairs
Should the Giants win the National
league pennant and the Athletics the Amer
lcAh' II VIII bring together for worlds
hohoTs the two teams that met in 1905. 1t
was not much Of a meeting, for the Giants
had
his best. let his yellow take possession az
him. and never went ina game. con-
Veniently missing a train for New Yorl,
ana getting lost. We can see no oincb in
1t this year, though, for New York. nor
yet for the Athletics. Both teams are
strong but the Mackmen surely ought 10
make 1t a tough fight for the Giants.
.
The National commission has nror,,,,
gated new rule regulating the number
OF options major league team NAV boId
on larmed-out players We will wait and
see II II works no better than the various.
V-promulgated rules as to the msxinuro
number OF players team NAV hold under
pay or the rule against farming-out Tba
national commission is a powerful bo5,,
so powerful, in fact, that 1t can sbut its
eyes 10 the flagrant violation of its own
tNies with perfect IMMUNITY. Power is a
Oad thing when it reaches that stage
g.. Inc poor. old Cubs are in straits when
the ancient Kitty BransfieId is imported
Tor fill-in al first and Manager Chance
comes from the sick-bench as a pinch
hitter BY the way, the ease with which
PLAYERS pass from the Cubs to the Phnnes
and vice versa continues to suggest a
community OF ownership there that is far
from wholesome. II the same Interests
90 not own both these teams then there
Is some other subterransan control tina,
Is not much better Why has the Iiabt
not been turned on?
Pa Rourke Is thinking Of giving prize
Tor the most regular attendance this
season Honors are pretty even thus far
between Cal Valentine and George Hol.
comb The one who wins will get "a
umpire in the last game Of the season
Cal SAYS II he couldn't do a better iot
than some he has seen he wouldn't maxi
the effort. We think so, too
The Cub pitchers seem unable TO .corns
back Neither Brown, Ruelback nor Richie
is going his gait, and Cole is all bur a