Omaha daily bee., 1916-10-29
Judgments

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the last of October. But the Amer.
can association, which played l6s
games this year, it is said, is ready to
cut to l54. The Western league is
ready to trim to l40 games after hav-
ing tested out the extreme schedule
OF lo8 games, the medium race, l54,
and the shorter l40-game schedule,
The Southern association wound I'D
the year on Labor day this year and
intends to profit by experience and
do the same thing next year. The l.
|. |. league goes to the other ex.
IRENE and announces reduction in
the number Of games from l4O to
10. When bad weather is encoun-
tered in spring or fall, long schedules
make the going hard, and the mag
mates, especially the minor leaguers.
have come to realize that the add.
. tlonal profits which are occasionally
made by long schedules are not worth
the gamble.
Ban Johnson is howling bloody
murder because some of the Ameri-
can league players have been barn
stormlng. 1t is said some punishment
is to be melted out for this heinous
ottense. And yet several big league
clubs, the Braves and Yanks and the
Tigers and Giants, have consummated
plans to make spring tours together
next year on the journey homeward
from the southern training camps
Such games as these are bound to
hurt. They will injure the minor
league club owners in the towns on
the itinerary and, in case one club
pummels the daylight out of the
other, will check those Underestimate
ing discussions over the relative class
of the two big leagues. Is one any
worse than the CHER, or might it not
be the other" isgworse than the
"one?"
John Tener, president of the Ma
tlonal league, has declared war on
Ban Johnson, president oflthe Amer
lean league, because Ban happened to
criticise McGraw's action in 7duitting
the held during game between the
Giants and Robins. Tener even goes
so far as to make the very rude re-
mark, IF Johnson wants to do any
hell-raising he need not look any Nfur-
Their for an opportunity than the
statement made by one of the club
owners against the umpires of his
owners against the umpires of His
take it from the force and character
of this response, is anxious to mix it
with Ban. Ban is known as sonie-
thing of a willing gladiator hims Elf
and it looks like a pleasant win Ter
from the ringside seats. Have I'm
ring the gong, Mr.. Referee.
Followers of Nebraska foot Hi
are going to be able to get a retty
good line on the merits of Missdtiri
Valley foot ball as compared to HAT
of the east this year. Notre Daiie,
which clashes with the CornhuslSers
on Thanksgiving day, plays the Amy
next week. The Army has one ofthe
best teams it ever had this year and
ranks long favorite over the Navy.
But westerners are confident Notre
Dame will vanquish the military War
riors, and in case they do Cornhubker
supporters will get a chance to isize
up their hopefuls with the BEST the
east possesses.
Ty Cobb is going to be the star
in a six-reel movie. Ty is to play
the part of a world-famed athlete
who steals second, third and home,
thus winning the game and the beau
tifully blonde daughter of bank
president The chap who inv ented
the game Of base ball may have
Thought at the time that the child. of
his brain was to be a recreation and
sport for the American people, but
evidently he invented the gam e for
the personal use of Ty Cobb.
A score of suggestions to remedy
the worlds series evil have been made
by as many reformers since the Red
Sox put the skids under the Robins.
Some of the suggestions are good
ones, probably they are all better
than the present postseason system,
and it behooves the we'll known COM
mish to show little speed this win
ter and see if a practical plan can't
be worked out.
1t looks like a six-club league for
the Western in 1917. Frank Isbell
has given up all hope of ,reviving
Wichita and Savage is getting ready
to blow Topeka A six-club league
may make less interesting pennant
race and 1t may check the prestige |
of the Western, but it will be better
than Juggling the burden of a couple
of lame ducks.
National leaguers are offering the
twenty-one-p player limit rule as an
abb for the manifest superiority of
the American league. What the Ma
rional league needs most is little
more pep even couple of cheer
leaders might help.
Already $4,000 seats have been sold
for the annual Army-Navy game,
showing that the New York National
league club didn't pull any business
boner when it bought this event
from Uncle Sam.
Will wonders never cease? Geor-
gia Tech, the other day, ran up
score of 222 to 0 against Cumberland |
and Cumberland's lineup carried such
names as Tennessee, Sullivan, Car
ney and Murphy, too.
Owens and HarsCh Lead