Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-01-09
Judgments

eral league players who will
III hold their own in the Ameri-
- can or National, is the somber
IMIky1AHOI and doleful wall arising from,
- the Threats of a large assem-
OILY or base ball mourners. who, il an
pears, are unable to detect any ability
AT all among the Federal league athletes
IL Is carefully and analytically pointed
out that the terrible .slugEers of the Feds
VIII pat somewhere around 072 against
dig league pitching, and that in reality
the Federal stars are merely a bunch of
lncompetents who couldn't hold down n
Job in trolley loop Now comes forth
MI Joseph Tinker. the new manager of
the Chicago Cubs, and impiously fires
the harpoon into these mourners For
Joseph passes out the news of his tenta-
tive choices for positions on the reiuve-
mated Cubs. Anh Joseph in all earnest
ness announces he will retain thirteen
Federal leaguers. not including himself
on the Cubs. And he win only keen eight
OF the Cubs. He further says eleven of
the Feds are on the auction block while
ne is ready to swap twenty-five of the
Cubs. for money athletes. marbles or
chalk. Cheering news, indeed. this should
be TO our cheerful Tnourners who have
been doing their best to bury base ball
under the green sod Also cheerful news
to those serene cyclists who told US In
such glowing terms Of the superiority OF
the majors in Organized Ball over the
Federals years ago.
What has happened to the University
OF Nebraska athletic board? No more
does this board fatty refuse to pay
Jumbo Stiehm a sum greater than SS,50O
per annum to act as director of athletics
at the Cornhuskers institution, than 81
puts up a desperate battle for the priv
ilege of paying Dick Rutherford, captain
of the 1916 eleven. $3.50 TO merely be an
assistant coach. H. The sum to be paid
. Rutherford to act as an assistant is as
great as the salary paid Stiehm to be
head coach when ne first came to Ne
braska. Nebraska has been accused Of
sliimping In its appropriations To ath-
etics In the past. Now It appears the
Board OF Control has hurdled TO the
other extreme Payment of $500 for an
assistant coach. especially one who has
had no previous experience nor the
proven ability to demand such a salary
appears 10 be q bit Of extravaganza
And the athletic board became exceed
ingly wrsthy because Indiana university
for few moments stood in the way OF
this extravaganza What is coming over
the athletic board at Nebraska? Has
that surplus OF $4,000 profited on the lslb
foot ball season innoculated the board
with germs OF lavishness, OF what? Any
way there seems to be a niger i'm the
woodpile some place and the first thing
we know we will learn that Nebraska
nN
thousand a year.
Joe stecher has started east. The Me-
braska bow intends to invade the sacred
precincts of old Gotham and show the
sophisticated roues of Broadway what
regular wrestler looks like and how he
acts. Stecher should burn things up in
New York. George Turner was respon-
sible for an almost unlimited amount of
enthusiasm among the graphing fans
back there. He wrestled with a mask on
and was only known as The Masked
Werstler." Out here Turner is considered
TO be a very ordinary mat artist and it
is believed Stecher. Peters or Caddock,
all three, could make mincemeRt Of him
in douhde-quick time. If Turner can Gre
ate excitement along the great white way
stecher ought TO start q riot.
California is out of the running for the
1916 Western Amateur Golf tournament.
leaving Midlothian of Chicago and the
Country club OF Omaha TO fight IL out.
And at last it looks as If the Omaha
. Country club would land the coveted
prize. This is the first year Midlothian
has entered a bid for the tourney. while
the Omaha club was I'm the field last
year. BY all that is Just and right the
Country club should he awarded the event
and to one not familiar with the inner
workings Of the Western Golf association,
il would seem that only a fine exhibition
OF the triple-eross will prevent the event
,oming to Omaha next summer
Poor New Orleans. The willard Fulton
fight has been called off. and II these
two heavyweight pugs should happen to
collide, Il Will be In a ten-rOund go in an
other city terrible blow 20 the
crescent city, this. How would you like
to live in a town, expect to see willard
and Fulton fight and then. without warn
ing. have the proposed and advertised mill
snatched out from under your nose? 1t
IS too appalling for thought
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Another chopping block like unto
Jim Flynn. has been born in Pueblo, Colo
His name is Lew Bodie II Lew happens
to be built on the order of the well known
Ping. all his weight from the neck up a
few heavyweights are likely 10 be toteing
around broken hands in the months to
come. rt
.
Billy Sullivan has been released by Min
neapolis and signed by Detroit. Probably
Billy is too young for the Millers.
In all this base ball peace there are
a lot Of athletes wondering II they will
get any Of the pieces.