Omaha daily bee., 1915-03-07

sion OF his the greater the un-
certainty in the minds OF player and mag
nate, and neither can tell how far he is
to be permitted to go. Just why the Judge
should delay all this time in the matter
of handing down a decision is unknown,
but il may be guessed at. Maybe he is
planning writing a companion to the
famous bred Scott decision, the pro
nouncement that got poor old Roger
fancy in such disrepute and brought to
him obloquy that lasted long after his
life. but which finally came to be quoted
as an authoritative statement of the law
Of master and servant. The law of con-
tracts is most concerned in the case be-
fore Judge LanCis and he may be able to
prepare a treatise on that which will
establish in the compass Of a single
opinion the concentrated experience of
all the world. Let us hope that he does,
and that he makes clear just what por-
lions of the base ball contract are valid
and binding, and to what extent the rela-
ton of owners and players is contractual
and what proportion of it comes under the
head OF master and servant, and maybe
the future will be then undisturbed by
unseemly argument, calling of names and
the like. But, for goodness sake. Judge
Lands, hurry up.
young man from out In the. state
writes to The Bee this week, in COM
plant against the law prohibiting spring
shooting He makes his own point very
clear, but misses entirely the purpose of
the law. 1t is not intended TO protect
the game in the spring so that the city
man may go out and shoot 1t in the fall;
it is to 80 order the matter that game
birds will be preserved for anybody to
shoot. If he can get into touch with
some of the old-timers, who handled
shotguns forty or even thirty-ftve years
ago, he will learn something that may
surprise him. And the old-timer who Is
honest will admit that the changed con-
ditions in shooting have been brought
about by the spring hunting, the Staying
of birds at a time when they ought to
be let alone. male bird killed in the
spring means the possible destruction of
several broods, while every female bird
killed certainly means that one brood has
been prevented. In the face of facts so
plain as these. the man who really loves
to hunt, who abominates the pot hunter,
and who wouldn't take advantage of a
bird. ought to rejoice when he sees the
water fowl winging its way north un-
molested in the spring. That bird is GER
tain TO come back in the fall. accom-
panied by its summer-reared family. and
that is why the shooting of water fowl
In the spring has been prohibited
In England horse racing is to be kept
alive during the war to hold up interest
In breeding. over here, the attempt is
being made to revive the sport in the in
terest OF betting. That's all the differ
Ence
Willie Ritchie says he is going to give
Freddie Welsh one awful humping when
they come together. And just a day or
Two ago Charley White told the Chicago
boys how he was going to grab the title
from the little Britisher. Oh. very we'll
II Freddie Welsh stays over here long
enough, he will have grabbed off about
Ill the coin his ccuntrymen lost when
lhoy sold railroad and other stocks away
below the market price last fall.
The Nebraska state league magnates
are game all right. and they are also
business men. so the tight little league
will very likely have another flourish
ing season.
Wen. that affair didn't take place at
Juarez, and 1t looks like it would not
take place at Havana, or, for that matter,
anywhere in the wide wide world.
In less than six weeks now they'll all
have to uncover, and II won't make a
great deal OF difference what Judge Ian
dis finally decides.
Pa Rourke is said to have a wild pitcher
In his list OF hirelings this season, Quite
some novelty, We assure you.
Brother Dave is just as proud Of this
snow as II he were raising winter wheat
instead of mere sod grass.
No matter where Walter johnson
pitches. a lot of batters won't worry II
be is kept on the bench,
Pas boys win soon be trooping In, ana
that win be another sign OF the spring.
Jumbo Stiehm's basket ballers are just
like his boot ball team-only different
Anyhow the big mags admit the Feds
are a fact and not a theory.
Here's wishing a good season to Nor
deesi Brown.
Time to begin TO overhaul that fishing