Omaha daily bee., 1916-03-19
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glove; thcu shalt not covet they neigh
bor's sweater, nor his ball. nor his bat,
nor anything that is thy neighbor's.
3. Thou shalt be early TO bed and early
to rise and Johnny on the spot for early
practice; remembering never IN touch
drop OF liquor nor cigaret, nor 70 slide
down the fire escape to Visit tue Gay
ID Play bali and win the pennant.
Holmes Has an idea.
Ducky Holmes down in Lincoln is get
ting n lot of big city Ideas In his noodle.
Ducky evidently believes Lincoln is a
regular city He is considering the In
stallation OF grandstand chairs at the
Link park. At present Omaha and Dem
yer are the only cities in the Western
which have these accommodations for. the
fans who demand comfort when lamping
a ball game.
Ducky figures on installing some 1000
OF 1900 Of these chairs In the grand stand.
Sioux City comes to bat with a claim
for the honor OF owning the first athlete
to report. Connie Callahan Is the early
bird. Connie reported last week. Calla-
han has been wintering in Boston.
Sioux City will not report at Fairbury
for spring training until April 1. several
udyb hINGT Oihdnd HttLln dN bCdAAitts
Isbell Grabs Coal Miner.
Frank Isbell of Des Moines has signed
coal miner for his ball club. The
knight OF the pick Is a pitcher named
James Grant. He is q years old and
halls from High Bridge. Ia. where he
hurled semi-pro ball last year. II els a
southpaw and made a mark last year by
whiting nineteen men in a game with
Adei. Ia. and by shutting out the crack
Atlantic. Ia. team. on which Artie Thorn
ason and Ebsen Closman played.
Isbell IL working on the hunch that
both Ed Walsh and Benny Kauff were
once coal miners.
In a tanning bee at Des Moines the
day Isbell sprung a yarn on Roxy Mid
dleton and George Graham that is worth
repeating.
Omaha and Wichita we're playing and
Middleton reached first base. Graham
was holding down second for the
Rourkes. The next man up hit a
grounder toward second. Graham stopped
the ball, but IL rolled away from him
several yards into the outfield. Middle
ton tore around second and on TO third.
Graham fielded the ball and glanced
up In time to see Roxy rounding third
and feinting 20 return to that sack. Gra-
ham in a fit of peevish anger threw
the ball down into his gloved hand and
leisurely turned to throw II TO the pitcher.
He than heard cries from his teammates
and looked up just In time TO see Middle
ton crossing the plate. Roxy walked
over TO the bench, sat down and drawled
without a smile: Il guess that Will shut
up the Ty Cobb talk in this league
for a few days
We don't know how true this story is,
II isn't ours.
Patterson with 81. Joseph,
No more does Doc White. former White
sox star. quit the Western league than
another one bobs up. Roy Patterson. an
old White sox hurler. has been signed
70 labor for Jack Hollands -. Joseph
club. Patterson was a great hurler In
mis- day. but he's pretty much OF a vet
eran now and Il N questionable TO say
the least II he has the ability to stick
in Glass A company.
Pa Rourke has tied the tinkling tim
ware 20 one Of his athletes. The un-
fortunate one is Bobby Wells. Pa has
slipped Bobby his unconditional