Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-12-19
IINGERSOLL GOES
BACK TO MILLERS
Rourke Pitcher Who Hurled No-Hit
Game Last Summer is Purchased
by Minneapolis.
IsBELL HAS FIGHT ON HANDS

Bob IngersoIi. who startled the natives
last summer by hurting a no-run, no-hit
game for the Rourkes returns to Mime
apolis IN the spring.
Ingersol came 60 Omaha from Mime
apolis In the middle OF the year after he
failed to show much in the association.
He started right In with Omaha and
pitched good base ball. topping his REQ
ord with the no-ht combat Cantilllon
followed his work here and. as he had
string on him. purchased him back
from Omaha
InRersoll was handicapped during his
trial with the Mlllers last spring by q
bad ankle. He was unable 20 got into
good condition until he came heres
He Is expected to make good with tho
northerners next year.
Trouble In Des AToines.
Frank Isbell and Tom Fairweather are
carded 20 have a fight on their hands to
preserve Sunday base ball in Des Moines.
The Antl-Saloon league of the Iowa capt.
tai IL heading a move TO abolish the Sun
day theater and Sunday base BALL II Is
said the league is receiving some substan-
tlal backing and stands n good chance
for success. lsbell and Fairweather, OF
course. viii fight the movement, as II Is
an esNauusneu TACT NnaN nono nA bho
Western league teams could exist with
out Sunday games. II might he possible
for tho Des Moines magnRteu to build
park at Valley Junction, a railroad juno
ton adjoining Des Moinea. nut It would
necessitate an expenditure of at least
$4,000 and the attendance would un-
doubtedly suffer. II would ~ a sad blow
TO the Western league n the anti-saloon-
lat ahould succeed
Prexie'a Life Not All Roses.
President-elect Frank c. Zehrung Is al
ready encountering a few OF the trials
and tribulations OF base ball loop
prexie. Would-be and almost umpires
are making a concentrated attack on the
peace of the new president even at this
early date and II Zehrung would sign
all of them he would have enough to
give every player an umpire to carry
his luggage around. Zehrung says there
| evidently Is no truth in the assertion
that the umpire's life II hard one the
way applications for jobs are coming In.
The new prexie. however. Ia not signing
up any jumps. as he does not officially
take office until the first Of the year
and will make no move until then.
Galloway at shOrtstOp.
Long. lean. lanly Jim Galloway. who
held down the keystone sack for the Dem
yer Grizzlies and cracked the pill all
over the lot last year, will be switched
to the shortstop position on the coast.
by which league he was drafted from
Denver Galloway should burn 'em UP
out on the coast as he was considerable
firebrand In this loop and when such
players MS Roxie Middleton, Ham Patter-
son, ct al. can get away with It in the
Class AA league, II should be n cinch
for a regular player like Galloway.
RoursSe Likes IxiIduff.
Pa Rourke says he IL tickled to hear
that Pete Kiduff has been sold 10 him.
Rourke made Oklahoma City an offer
for the short-stopper and the news of the
sale In the newspapers was his first
Information that HIS offer was accepted.
Kiiduff, says Rourke. is p years old.
five-foot-seven I'm the air, weighs 1850
pounds and hits and throws right handed.
He is fast as lightning, according to
Pa and Is a mighty sweet fielder. He
hit for .29s last year. and busted nine
teen home runs. which shows that no
| knows how to handle himself at the
plate. Last year was Kilduffs second
year in base ball
KRws Sign Kid.
The Topeka club has signed a hurler.
who Is a genuine Kansan. The youth,
Mr.. Savage has signed is Howard Bumps
OF Ottawa. Mr.. Bumps made quite a
record in Independent base ball at OF
tawa. II remains TO be seen whether he
viii get the bumps or not, as his name
would signify.
O'NeiII at So. JoeF
There is story current among Western
league circles that Norris L. oNeIll. who
was separated from the presidency OF
the Western league. viii be once more
actively engaged In the business of this
loop The story has It that Tip o'rseil
will become the active executive Of the
st. Joseph club now that Jack Holland
has signed to be business manager OF
the Kansas City club in the American
association. II has always been suspected
that Tip was part owner of the St.
Joseph franchise. II not the principal one.
and thus the report following Hollands
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