Omaha daily bee., 1914-06-14

~ disgust as manager of the st.
- - Louis Federals and toss the reins
over to AL Bridwell who jumped
from the Cubs That may or may not be
true. Seems a bit strange that a man OF
the miners pluck and tenacity would
give UP on anything. and as there is an
other team besides his in last place in
the race, he cannot claim exclusive
grounds for disgust. OF course, it may
be money proposition; maybe the team
is falling to draw as Brown thinks it
should, and maybe there is nothing to
tho rumor at all. Well, the situation has
its drawbacks. ST. Louis fans had de-
termined to go with the winning team,
even though 1t be an outlaw. They
tired after many years of following a
loser. Neither the Browns nor Cardinals
seemed able to get much higher than last
place or seventh at best and fans were
sore. Along came several gentlemen OF
plethoric purses and genial dispositions
with a chance to break into the Feds.
They were going to build up champion
ship team at the jump-up, Brown was
secured for manager. He was also
destined to be great drawing card at
the gate. The season opened. The Feds
drew for a while and won many games,
but alas and alack! Both Browns and
Cards had come back" They went to
paving up the earth. The fans cast a
few furtive glances back at the new Feds,
then tore over to the other two parks
There is this about it-you can't keep g.
fan from going to see a winning team
play ball; you may be able to beat him
hack out of a losers field. 1t was
Browns fame and popularity against all
the other odds. He and his team may
yet prosper, but in the meantime interest
in the reluvenated and fleet-footed
Browns and to some extent in the prom
Using Cardinals is up-fever heat with
the Browns. There is one place where
the invaders are hoeing rough row, but
considering this is only their first real
year. 1t may not be so bad.
If that staff Of White Sox pitchers
keeps up it's present pace the team will
not hnger long near the bottom. Cicotte,
Russell, Benz, Scott and a few others,
not to speak of Big Ed who may yet
round to. The American race is going TO
be race all the way. evidently. The re-
juvenated Browns are forming one big
factor. They are speedy lot and with
big Earl Hamilton and one or two other
trouble for all the other teams. The
Browns have some real stars. shotten. for
example, whether you take him in the
field, at bat or on the bases; Austin.
though weak with the willow, is a won
der fielding; C. Walker, in left is find
of the season; Pratt, Wares and Leary
are all coming hard. Hickey is getting
good results, the best, in fact the men
urfKr 4u
ter in base ball under the general head
ing, Managing a Team the keynote of
which is that gentlemanly methods can
be made to pay big results. OF course
he is not the first or only gentleman
among team managers; they may all be
such, but he is hitting out on new ground
just the same. Washington, the Athletics
or whatever team cops the flag will know
that II has put St. Louis out of the way
II no doubt pains the average fan a lot
to know that Chawles Webb Murphy hai
TO cough up 5000 back pay to Artie Hof
man, one of the many stars he snuffet
out after they helped make him. It tool
the corkscrew of court trial to get thj
judgment, but Holman will collect a lo
of satisfaction as interest.
Welcome back, Dick Cooley, to ou
midst and may the Kaws kaw better To-
you than they did for our esteemed o.,
pioneer, Dale Gear. And maybe they viii
II you instill into them a little new ma
terial. That new material stuff is
great thing for any ball team that fail
to win game
You have been watching. we trow an,
trust, Bert Niehoffs wonderful work a
third and at bat for Cinz nifty, we hope
II there is a faster third baseman In tn
old league at present we don't knoy
who he is. Niehoff was ready for tn
majors the year that Pittsburgh le
him go.
a good many fans are scratching thei
heads for the reason for letting Jir
Kane got away from u.s. We wonder hoy
many OF those pondering head-scratcher
were members OF the anti-Kane anv
chorus during the years Jim was here.
Buck OBrlen having failed in Bosto
and indianapolis, is once more ripe 10
Denver. What allied Buck, chiefly wa
that his wheels wouldn't work In IN
thick air Of Bunker Hill ana Indiana.
One thing the Western league need
more than anything else is a high grad
Of pitching. Its lack in this respect
more marked than for-severai years. an
here is one way in which Omaha prat
tically leads the league.