Omaha daily bee., 1914-03-22

the Omaha Western league club
has focused to the point of nam
ing an individual as a possible
purchaser, but that seems to be
as far as we can go at this time Pa
Rourke says nothing more than that Il
hear they are going to buy me out again.
WE'LL they have had good many of such
stories in the air in the years I've owned
tho team. II they are not careful, !
may fool them some day and SELL Our
understanding Is that Pa, like most other
business men, would not refuse to sell il
he got his price, neither is he seeking
purchaser. For our part, we lay claim to
no inside information on the subject. One
thing appears plain to us, that Omaha
faces the brightest day OF its history as
a base bah city. With the upheavRl all
about us shaking and changing old condi-
tons Omaha at least seems to stand in
the way OF something better as to classl-
fication and organization This Is sub
ject that grows uninteresting to us. We
live in the belief that sooner or later this
city viii be restored to the larger COM
pany in which 1t belongs; that before
many cycles come and go it will be on
circuit with cities of its own class. In
opening Of the Western league marks its
best season. The make-ups Of the teams
are beyond our ken, definitely, at this
time, and probably beyond the ken OF any
other one Individual. We have not even
a word of prediction to utter as to our
own home team. 1t will be largely a new
aggregation, and that of itself, should
augur something good.
The Sporting News takes Jack Holland
severely to task for suggesting to Mike
sexton that the minors cut loose from
the najors, at least until the present
turmoil is settled. because the minors
are made to hold the sack during the
federal raid. OF course, 1t is bad time
to swap horses while crossing a stream.
but one thing ought TO be plain to every
body and that is that sooner or later the
majors will have to give the minors a
little more of the rope or they will hang
themselves as bad as they have now in
this outlaw division. Hoggishness is the
chief cause OF the federal league and
hoEgishness by the majors has hurt the
minors for a good long time. Perhaps,
as the. Sporting News says, the Glass AA
leagues will feel the brunt OF the fed
eral uprising more keenly than the Class
A and lesser organizations but that Is
wide OF the mark when II comes 70 an
swering the old sores OF long-standing.
It is entirely too early to foretell the
outcome of the federal leagues develop
ment. For our part. We continue TO
think It may In the end be very health
full for baseball in general and that min
ors as we'll as majors will feel some
benefit.
1t now seems that the cause of Comis-
keys distressing illness at Rome was
homesickness for friends and native land.
At least such is the story some dopesters
have spun on the basis that when Mrs
Comiskey asked the Roman doctor why
he felt that her husband should hasten to
Paris he replied: Because that will be
two days nearer the United States" But
the Old Roman was accompanied by his
wife, and many of his warmest friends
Didn't they count. or was it just the soil
of his native America he needed? But
why go into the bowels Of good story
1t always spoils It.
Pa Rourlke has built a cupalo to hii
grandstand wherein will perch the youths
who go out 70 bring in the daily reports
Of the matinee. Pa has the right idea
of exaltlng the press. That is where I
belongs-up above and far removed from
the common things of mundane life. Go
fear OF incurring some such trouble al
Ambassador Page did with his Monroe
doctrine speech, we hasten to add tina
this IL . joke.)
What do you think of that galaxy o
amateur teams Omaha has lined up fol
the year eh? They ought to develo
many a Ty Cobb and Christy Mathewson
not to say Hans Wagner
J. Bull may get control Of the Panam
canal, hut an American has just wreste
another worlds championship from him
young Jay Gould turning the trick.
Omaha is producing a fine lot of youn
huskies these days, and 1t needn't sur
prise any one II among the numbe
should develop star.
College men are making things liyel
in the March sunshine, which means tn
track meets later on will be events G
real interest,
Now they say Auggsy McGraw ge,
$4,000 a year and Is therefore the tor
liner. Batter upl
And youn hear q lot from old Trappe
Bill before tue season is over.
What Will the Jim Kane knockers do I
amuse themselves this year,
Yet after all is done and said, the Fec
got more minors than majors.
The Federals still continue to wori
along without Hal Chase.