Omaha daily bee., 1914-06-07
Judgments

pouse his frame with wealthy water
And he need not shake a digit,
Need not make a noise like working
Need not gamhol through the motions,
Just sit pat upon his coccyK,
Dragging down his weekly insult
But, while we have started writing
In this Hiawatha meter.
In this sing-song easy meter,
CCourse it's easy Just like stealing
Candy from bloomin' baby.)
We will lengthen out these verses
With q word on Foel's decision,
Which, you garner. put the jody
On the Fed league magnate's nanny.
What an awful kick was slipped them
'Twixt medulla oblongata
And the spot they sit, when resting,
Took the Junk" from out Injunction,
Leaving II as tight and solid
As a democrat in Texas.
But injunc's and Foell aside, sir.
Would that we were Big Chief Johnson,
Dragging down the shimmering shekels
While we warmed our curembingo,
Doing nothing. and that daily.
j. P. M. In Chicago Record Herald.
~ RoTHER ]. p. M, II strikes
- us, has touched off one OF
the best OF the season Mean
time. the blow dealt the Federal
league by Judge Foells refusal
I" dissolve organized base balls injunc-
ton against johnson appears to hit the
outlaws between the eyes. johnson, It
will be remembered, jumped his Cincin-
natl contract to pitch for the Kansas City
Feds. whereupon he was enjoined from
playing. He has been restrained by the
temporary order. which is now made per-
manent and will not do any pitching for
ye outlaws In Chicago, where the decision
was made. This ruling does not affect
johnson anywhere but Chicago. though,
Of course, If he should be sent in to work
for the Feds in any other city. organized
base ball would simply go through the
same process there as 1t did in Chicago
10 tie his hands. Johnson is quoted as
saying, Nothing can make me play ball
again in Cincinnati" Possibly, but the
precedent seems to be established against
direct and flagrant contract jumping.
The real issue involved In this dispute
was once more the validity OF the ten
days notice of release clause. The Fed
erals set 1t up as one of their vital points
The Judge pointed out that johnson
signed the Cincinnati contract containing
that clause after having worked under
II the year before at a smaller salary
without protesting against the clause;
that the clause appears in most con-
tracts OF base ball players, and that It is
hard TO believe a player would delib-
erately sign contract he believed TO be
unfair.
And now another word on the matter
OF delaying games. After all, is it the
fault, primarily, of the umpires? Many
say not and there is ground for their
TV
body knows. 1t always has been and al
ways will be next to impossible for the
average umpire-they are not all like
ShamoSin Kelly-in the minor league 10
command sufficient respect and order as
to enforce the expedition of the game.
Yet, of course, the umpire is not even
under this theory, 10 be totally dissolved
from responsibility, But the point of this
argument is that the greater onus falls
on the team owner. Let the employer
make II plain to his players that they
must regard time on the diamond. move
along with respect for the wishes and
interests OF the fans who do not care
TO throw time away and we might have
less Of this slip-shod, go-as-you-please
business The team owner, then is the
fellow with first power. Even the man.
ager, especially il he be a player and
not an owner, is apt TO lack IL. Perhaps
this theory is correct and all 10 the good
1t certainly seems plausible and sound
enough. The employer ought to be able
20 control his men II anyone can and
II he makes a ruling he ought to be able
20 enforce IT, at least reasonably well
II any Western league owner OF manager
has an iron rule against loafing on the
diamond, we don't know IL. OF course
MI Ia NrAt hal
teams. that makes a difference. But pos
sibly the inclination is to lay too much
of q burden on the umpires in this con
nection. Wen, let the burden be divided
II necessary. the team owner doing hi
part. the umpire his toward having thi
game played on a business-llke basis. We
desire to urge this matter for It is be
coming a subject OF a good deal OF com
plant by the fans. Certainly II II get
20 the point OF affecting gate receipts
the owners and managers ought TO b,
amenable to the appeal for there are NJ
gate receipts TO lose in this league.
Mr.. Broom" Donaldson Of the "AI
Nations"-white, black and red--made
very clean sweep OF our vaunted Stories
tanning twenty and allowing only three I,
hit him. Mr.. Donaldson also gave a few
interesting and instructive object lesson
in how TO hit the ball and run bases
Truth is. n Mr.. Donaldson's skin hap
pened 20 have a little different hue 90 1
he, with possibly Mr.. Mendez, might b
pitching for some team even more famou
in the records than the AN Nations"
Ty Cobb may soon be able to If
Detroit back into the running