Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-07-16
OMAHA WILL PASS
UP NATIONAL MEET
No Coin in Treasury to Send
Representatives to Meet
ing at Indianapolis.
HOT WATER FOR DIRECTORS
BY FRANK QUIGLEY.

A communication was received from
the National association by the board
OF directors of the Omaha Amateur
Base Ball association which requested
that representative of the Omaha
association should be present at the
meeting OF the various delegates on
August II at Indianapolis. The di.
rectors decided in the negative rela.
tive to sending an agent to Indianap-
oils because they have set aside no
appropriation for this trip. The main
purpose of the meeting is to decide
when and where the elimination cham
pionship games will! be staged and
the final championship contest. The
Omaha boys will be satisfied to take
chance on the ruling of the dele
gates present because they are rea-
sonably sure of square deal
A motion was made and passed
at the meeting of the directors that
players connected with the Brandeis
and Joe Smiths and other teams of
a similar standing, would be barred
from participation in games coming
under the jurisdiction of the Omaha
Amateur association. The Walnut
Grove Athletics were allowed to sign
three men of class B caliber to take
the place of the same number of de-
serters.
Scrap in Omaha Loop.
Although the Fourth of July is his
tory fireworks were very much in
evidence at the meeting OF the mag
mates of the Greater Omaha league
last week The excessive heat did
not deter the various managers from
being exasperated during the session.
1t was decided to let the Frank Dew
eys under the wire next Sunday to
fill up the gap left open by the de-
parture of the Ducky Holmes ag-
gregation. The games credited to
the Armours and Luxus as being for
feited by the Holmes crew were
ordered cut out and if these games
have any bearing on the champion
ships they will probably have to be
played as postponed games with the
Frank Deweys, because the Deweys
are only supposed to play one round.
The Deweys were not required to put
up the customary forfeit but they
are to forfeit their share of the gate
receipts, said dough going to the 9TH
ers teams in this league. The writer
is of the opinion that the Deweys
ought to consult an alienist and as
certain what is wrong with their
think tanks. Pretty soft for the bal
ance of the Greater Omaha winners
to spend the mazuma earned by the
Frank Deweys.
OF course, after the Frank Deweys
earn twenty rocks and reimburse the
Greater Omaha leagues strong box
with same, then they can gobble at
the balance. 1t looks as if this league
ought to be tickled to get a team to
promise to supplant the Ducks, with
out practically forcing them to play
for their health. Twenty-Five dollars
of the Ducky Holmes forfeit money
will go as originally intended and the
other SIS, minus So association dues,
will be hung up as an incentive to
make the boys close to the cellar en-
deavor to land berth four.
When the Deweys enter the field
their standing will be nought and the
Ducky Holmes standing will be rele-
gated to the wood pile. John Boek-
hoff, the manager of the Armours,
was in Chicago and did not have
voice at the meeting He would have
probably raised a racket, tennis or
some other kind, when it was sug-
gested that the games forfeited to the
Armours by the Ducky Holmes team
would not be allowed. Circumstances
have been such that the Armours in
variably fall in line to meet the fate
of different decisions made by the
magnates of the Greater Omaha
league. Possibly the decisions are
Just and the writer is unable to figure
out all the contingencies, but anyway
the Armours are up against starchy
proposition.
End Is Near.
The final struggle for supremacy
in the Class A Saturday league, known
as the Commercial league, will be put
on the boards next Saturday, either
at Luxus or Ducky Holmes park,
when the Armours and Hotel Castle
will clash. They are now knotted
for the first stall This wrangle will
be worth the price with tip on the
side.
Next Tuesday the Ramblers will
ramble out of Omaha on a smoke
wagon labeled for Aurora, Neb.,
where they will stage their initial ar
gument of two-weeks' run through
the state, which will probably termi.
nate at North Platte.
They have one more game booked
before the National league closes its
books, that game being scheduled
with the Centurions. 1t has been ru-
mored that the Centurions will for
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