Omaha daily bee., 1916-07-09
IT'S A HARD YEAR
ON THE DIRECTORS
Every Manager Who Loses q
Protest Accumulates Crouch
and Starts Anvil Chorus.
SEVERAL DECISIONS MADE
BY FRANK OUIGLEY.

The majority of this exaggerated
abuse which different teams claim
they got handed to them by the board
Of directors of the Omaha Amateur
Base Ball association is good old
fashioned birdseed. This season 1t
seems that every team that brings a
protest to the directors for final
decision is invariably slipped lemon
unless said decision is in their favor.
When decision is rendered against
team they nurse a Crouch against
the directors and instead of working
to make the association success,
they are always ready to knock a pro-
gressive organization and utilize their
hammers with the vicious intention
of busting up the association. All this
hostile criticism hurled so promiscu-
ously at the board Of directors is
enough to make all of them throw
up their positions when you take into
consideration the fact that the moth
ing doing placard is their compensa-
ton from a pecuniary standpoint.
Like all other human pieces of ma
chinery the directors have different
ideas on different matters and some
times it is difficult matter for them
to agree, but none of them show par
tiality to any certain player or team.
They do what their thought reser-
voirs cough regardless of personal
feelings and if the directors cannot
keep the association above water by
honest methods they are willing to
sink as martyrs to the cause.
Eligibility Squabble.
A real warm session was on the
program when the directors met last
Wednesday night, the main argument
being the eligibility of Hansen and
Deal to play with the Bourgeois.
Hansen and Deal have been playing
all season with the Council Bluffs Joe
Smiths. 1t was not question for the
directors to decide, because this mat
ter should be left to the directors of
the Greater Omaha league magnates
and if necessary could be settled later
by the board. Frank Suchy made a
motion that Hansen and Deal Be
barred from playing with the Bour-
geois if he, Suchy, could not be al
lowed to use Duggert and Oleson of
the Brandeis team for his Hotel Cas-
tie aggregation. The question was
threshed out from every angle, so
now if the directors are required to
decide they will be in position to
do so.
L. Everson was granted permission
to play with the Tradesmen. Tommie
Graham can play with the Beddeos,
provided he secures his release from
the Walter G. Clarks. The Albright
nts-McCarthys' Sunnybrooks
tussle was ordered to remain as
played. The J. D. Crews protested a
game played some time ago with the
Dundee Woolen Mills because at that
time the Dundees had sixteen men
under contract. The game was or
dered replayed. Because the Corr
Electrics claimed the diamond at
Thirty-seventh and Arbor was in an
unfit condition to play on, they failed
to show up for their game booked
with the Nourse Oil company. Both
managers talked the matter over on
Saturday and they were to decide
Sunday morning whether or not the
game would be staged. Sunday they
failed to get into communication with
each other. The directors laid the
protest on the shelf, to be decided
later if this game should have any
bearing in the championship of the
Southern league,
Organize Union Pacific Team.
James Saunders bobs up with the
information that he is going to mus
ter a team of Class A players to-
gether from the shops and headquar-
ters OF the Union Pacific and take
them for a tour over the Nebraska
division of the Union Pacific and a
few miles over the boards into Wy
oming. Plans for the trip, which will
commence on August II, are now
being consummated. 1t is the inten-
ton of Saunders if possible to book
games with the following teams: FIRE.
mont, Grand Island, Central City,
Columbus, North Platte, Kearney,
Pine Bluff, Cheyenne and Boulder.