Omaha daily bee., 1913-09-28


Brown, Jack Pfeister. Frank
- - owen, Pat Ragan, Dusty Rhodes;
catchers, Agnew and Hick John
or Austin or Perring; left field, George
son; first base. Chick Autrey; second
base, schipke; third base. Perring,
Austin, Niehoff; shortstop. Niehoff or
Austin or Perring; left field, George
Stone; center, Del Howard. and
right field, Gus williams7 These are for
Iner Omahans who are now, have been or
are going into the big leagues. In their
day they were all great ball players.
Omaha has been especially strong on
third basemen. sending in turn George
Perring, Bill Schipke, Jimmy Austin and
Bert Niehoff to faster company. Del
Howard, who could play anywhere. is
placed in center field in this lineup,
though he covered second for Omaha
and relieved Chance at first for tile Cubs.
Dusty Rhodes came to Omaha from st.
Louis and does not return from here, but
a Texas team, to the majors. But a
glance at that array of pitohers-Hughes
still winner for Washington; Brown,
king in his day, here and at Chicago;
Jack Pfeister, the greatest southpaw for
some years in the National, the terrible
Giant killer who went back only after
breaking his pitching arm; Pat Ragan,
now in his prime at Brooklyn. As to
catchers, OF Sam Agnew the st. Louis
Republic says: He has the best throw
ing arm in the American league and
knows how to use it," For Hick John
son we bespeak q successful career in
New York. These are not all the men
who have graduated from Omaha into the
big company, but they are enough to
show the big part Omaha has played, is
playing and will play on the larger lots,
and offers some refutation to the thought
less statement about our never having the
best.
The solons OF base ball have put their
feet down on the fake practice OF ball
players selling their names as signatures
to writeups of worlds series games, and
it is good ruling, however, well OBJ
served. Intelligent people must know
that all this expert" literature that goes
over or under the name Of some ball
player was never written by him, II. in
deed, ever read by him. 1t is a species
of fraud palmed off on credulous pub
lie. Fake papers have for weeks been
heralding In advance their list of "ex-
pert player writer's who will report the
worlds series games as If the best ball
player on earth could do as good Job
at writing a game as the newspaper
writer trained by years Of experience In
1ust that line Of work. But what do gull"
ible people care for the truth2 Didn't
the late Mr. Phineas T. Barnum answer
the question when he said that The
American people like to be fooled7"
Chicago paper takes occasion to announce
that its reports OF the worlds series
and city series will be written by Its own
staff of trained newspaper men, who fol-
low the two local clubs and who travel
to every city on the major league cir
cults throughout the season" And what
paper will have better reports than II
possibly could do II such thing were
possible for the ten leading stars OF the
game to write It's matter. But the climax
Of this fraud comes In a bally good joke,
Here is a fake sheet publishing as the
"star reporter" OF it's worlds series starr
n bail player who can neither read nor
write; he cannot even write his name
unless he has acquired the art in the last
year. Yet he is to be the big noise In
the reports OF the great games for THIS
paper and its array of fake sisters. But
one thing, It upholds the policy OF those
Oapers.