Omaha daily bee., 1916-07-23
AMATEURS GET SET
FOR CITY SERIES
Contests to Decide Champion.
ship Titles Will Be Started
Second Week in August.
QUIG WANTS A PARADE
BY FRANK QUIGLEY.

Next wednesday night when the
directors Of the Omaha Amateur as
ISOLATION hold their weekly talkfest,
first arrangements for the city cham
pionship games will be consummated.
This season the directors are going
to shoot the initial bomb approx
mately the middle of August, so if
Jupiter Pluvious butts in they will be
fortified with a couple of extra Sun
days.
So far the parade noise has not been
stirred up, so the writer might as we'll
start the ball rolling Last year the
base ball parade was a distinct sue
cess. About 100 gas carts loaded to
the brim with base ball players oozed
over the main thoroughfares and
amply demonstrated the strength OF
the Omaha Amateur Base Ball asso-
citation to thousands. This ostenta-
tious exhibit helped considerably to
create packed houses for the cham
pionship contests, which followed. At
the present time the money box of the
association only contains $l07.5l to
defray the expenses of the various
trips and as this amount would only
pay for the squares and hunks and
because the railroads are averse to
floating across with free transporta-
ton like some of the local pitchers,
something must be done to swell the
gate dough. A parade turned the trick
last season and unless some wise nut
can conceive a plan that will prove
more magnetic to draw a crowd, an
other parade will have to be staged.
Jumps Quit Job.
Because McDougal and Tompsett,
municipal umpires, quit adjudicating
at the expiration of the sixth round
during the Mccarthy Sunnybrooks-
Nourse Oil jamboree, the directors or
dered that another nine Inning game
be booked, the first three innings to
decide the game left unfinished. The
score of the unfinished game was IA
to 5 in favor of the Sunnybrooks.
Tompsett quit barking because he had
to go to work at six bells, but the
reason why the other fellow quit
still remains a mystery.
The directors allowed the Walnut
Grove Athletics game postponed
some time ago with the Qniveras.
The Albright Merchants asked for a
rehearing on their game played with
McCarthy's Sunnybrooks, but the di-
rectors turned a deaf ear to their
plea. The National Cash Registers
and Trimble Bros. teams will be al
lowed rehearing Of their case at the
next meeting. The Trimbles are the
boys that are doing the kicking. The
game in question was played on Me-
mortal day and resulted in to 5 vic
tory for the Registers. Recently the
Trimbles woke up and found that one
of the players, although just an or
binary Class c ball player, was not
under contract consequently he was
not eligible to participate in said
fracas. His contract was turned in
the next day and he has played in
ever game since then.
Hollander Barred.
The directos barred Hollander from
playing with the Beddcos, because
Manager Hageman Of the Trimble
Bros, objected, but they allowed the
Beddeos to sign up any other Class
c ball player they could grab.
Chuck Johnson's contract with the
Modern Woodmen No. 945, was de-
clared valid.
Pennant At Stake.
One Of the biggest little games Of
the season will be on the boards at
Thirty-second street and Dewey ave-
nue. this afternoon when the Trimble
Bros. and the Tradesman put on their
farewell bout, which will eliminate
one or the other from the chance of
staging the final game with the Bed
deos for the championship Of the
Booster league, a Class c organiza-
ton. At the present writing, the Bed
deos, Trimbles and Tradesman are
knotted for first place in aforemen-
tioed league. Intense rivalry exists
between these two congregation billed
for today, so a classy scrap is looked