Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-02-25
Judgments

HAT do you think Of the talk
1917 OF moving a Western league
"J team to Chicago1 Not much.
What interest could any Chi
cago fans have In Western
league team1 Local interest is the prime
essentially in base ball. far more neces-
sary than u good short stop pitcher or
sven manager. OF course. while we look
for no such arrangement, stranger things
have happened than TO install Western
league team at the South Side park In
Chicago and arrange the schedule so
the westerners would be there when the
,sox were away. Only by giving the team
the indelible stamp Of Comiskey's pro-
tege would It be able to make H. we
think, and then there would be dC-bt
lCfkcago, especially the south side OF
chicago, is base ball crazy and those
hans might In the absence OF the adored
,aor, find II possible TO open the cookies
OF their affections to embrace another
biol. but 1t Ia a question. Only by making
Z Il appear that comiskey was deeply
interested in the success OF the team and
The league, would the arrangement. we
believe, succeed, for the Old Roman
can make those south sides jump through
the curve Of his thumb and foreflnger
The objection out OF which this gossip
OF n Chicago team arises is that the
Western league circuit isnotsufficiently
compact. We cannot fully appreciate this
II is about as compact. II strikes US, as
any league OF consequence and even any
minor league. Furthermore. the idea Is
that 10 transfer Is made TO Chicago 1t
DO Of the Denver team. That subtracts
frum the Western league the largest
and biggest attendance town on the cir
cult It Is extremely doubtful II enough
local interest could be worked up in
Chicago to make up for the loss Of Dem
yer. But thus far, this project 10 only
gossip and 1t may never DO anything
else Certainly. we should like to see
Omaha In a league OF larger cities and
anything else that would promise more
strength and prosperity to the Western
league. but II hardly seems to that this
one-sidsd plan does that.
There was something strange about that
trade Of Campbell for Donlin which Pitts
.burgh made with Boston. Campbell Is =
youngster and q good one, while very
body knows that Donlin's status In base
ball is a desperate attempt to come
back" Pittsburgh is well filled up with
veterans. and. It would seem. needed
some young blood. Clarke. veteran
outfieldsr, expects to be on the bench
this season. then why add Donlin, esBs-
cially since the team must look to the
future?
Tho pitcher is to be on the level this
season. that Is, he will tnot stand W
on a mound above the rest Of the dla-
mond. but the mound will be cut away
The Sporting News asks how then car
the diamond be drained? Well. they will
have to figure that out later. but fol
the purposes Of the game Of base bal
the mound ought to have been cut down
before. Many people have thought thai
for 9 long time.
The Sporting News says that dezpit,
ali the noise OF the sO-called Columbian
league, II has not a player under con
tract les, anu We GOhDt II IL mas any
thing else under contract. Where are IL,
grounds, Already It has cut its list o.
towns from eight to six. This Is nesril
the first Of March. Those six probably
VIII all disappear before April /.
A Lincoln correspondent to the Sporting
News says. of course Gagnier Is tn
class Of the league at short" Gagnier 1
a good shortstop.s but he never saw II,
day he could play that position witt
Berger Of last years Wichita-PuebII
team
The sudden advent Of that bitter sto-I
IA Chicago during the week is expla!ne'
by the fact that on that day the Threo
Eye league msgnates had a meetinl
scheduled in that city.
II Is 20 be hoped that base baIl's goa
has been chased out OF and far from De
Eo11es.
An Omaha asxs this year Is a wiz
rias team Il has vEited pstica1y.