Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-02-04
STRIKE WRANGLE
MAY PROVE BOON
Big League Leaders Believe
the Player -Magnate Fuss
May Help Game.
PUT MORE FIGHT IN MEN
By JACK VEIOCK.


the wrangling of members Of the
Players fraternity with the mag
mates may be extended in another di-
rection the coming season.
Some OF the players who have been
such close pals in the past will not
be quite as friendly next season"
says Wild Bill Donovan OF the Yam
KEGS; and Uncle Wilbert Robinson
and Johnny ,McGraw are also of this
opinion.
They believe that the threatened
strike OF the fraternity will bring
about condition which has been
needed in base ball for a number OF
years-less of the fraternal spirit
among players on the field OF play
and more rivalry, which is needed to
put ginger into the game.
Many's the time we have heard
fans remark that the players on OPP
posing teams are too friendly. Visit
ing each others club houses and
benches and chatting in a conhden-
tial way during the progress of a
game OF ball takes something of a
spirit of competition from the pas
time, they say
No base ball fan appreciates game
that drags. Pepper is the thing he
wants ito see. He also wants to see
the players fight for everything they
can get out of ball game, By this
we do not mean that the base ball bug
will applaud rowdyism, for, speaking
in general sense, he will not. OF
course, there is always a sprinkling
of fans who enjoy an exhibition of
fsticufs on the ball field, but the
percentage is so small that it is
scarcely worth mentioning.
The belief expressed by Bill Dono-
van was recently recounted by Joe
Tinker, the ex-manager of the Cubs.
Joe says that members of the fra
ternity and nonmembers of the Or
ganization held each other aloof. He
claims that his failure to keep the
Cubs in the pennant race was partly
due to factions on his team. And
yet Joe believes that the wide sprink-
ling of members and nonmembers
throughout the two major leagues
ought to bring about greater rivalry
in the future.
Uncle Wilbert Robinson has no pa
tience with the spirit that has invaded
the game during the last few years.
1t is his belief that a majority of the
players have unknowingly reached
the point where they never worry
how game of ball ends so long as
they get their pay. And Robinson was
member of the fighting Baltimore
Orioles of the old days, when players
didn't get chubby" on the ball field.
They went out there to win and they
fought every inch of the way
Advice from Jones.
Tad Jones, the miracle man of
foot ball, believes that boxing and
wrestling will help his gridiron play
ers' condition themselves for the COM
ing campaign in a large way.
Jones has advised his players,
eighty in all, to take up both sports
during the summer months. He says
that in order to be at his best the
foot ball player must keep himself in
condition first OF ALL and in doing SO
he must map out way whereby he
can develop speed of the eye, the
brain, the arms and the legs. He
must bring all of his muscles into
play in various ways to fit himself for
delivering his best on the foot ball
field.
Banties Make Hits.
Snowy Baker, the Australian flight
promoter, writes that the bantam
weights are going big in kangaroo
Land.
THE banties are all the go in Aus
tralia at present" says Baker. They
are drawing big houses, and the fight.
loving public has beer taking more
interest in the little fellows than ever
before"
During the last few weeks a num-
Der of elimination contests among
some of the coming bantams have
been held in Sydney and Melbourne
At each of these bouts crowds of from
5000 to 1000 have been turning out.
Among the bantams who are hold.
ing places in the line in Australia are
Jack Jannese, the champion, anc
Vines Blackburn, Harry Holmes
Andy Mcclure, Eddie Clifford, Chicl
Lloyd and Albert Locke.
Clabby Declines.
Jimmy Clabby, who is numbered
among the victims of Fred Key, the
Australian sensation of the present
day, was recently offered a big guar
antee for a return match with tn,
conqueror of Milburn Saylor, bu
Jimmy declined. Clabby is far from
being through with the boxing game
for he has many good battle left il
his system, but the lure of the racing
game has been keeping Clabby out o
the ring, and he is said to be making
mint of money around Australian
tracks, where he is associated will
Eddie McGoorty in running book.
Demaree Has Squawk.
When you horn in on player
pocketbook or interfere with hi
pleasures, you Immediately get ;
huge squawk out of him. When Dav'
Fultz was preparing to hurl his def
into the teeth of organized base ball
he commissioned Steamer Al" Dema
rec to act as chairman of a meeting
of Fraternity members around Chi
cago. Demaree, being director o
the Fraternity, responded nobly ant
made some statements which indi
Gated he was for the Fraternity first
last and all the time.
Then Demaree was traded to tn,
Cubs by the Phillies and shortly after
ward Fultz announced that the de
parture of the Cubs from Chicago wa
to be the signal for the first big gul
of the players strike. Having becom
member of the Cubs Demare
realized that he would be expected
/ to stay at home if he kept his Frater
nifty vows, and he promptly yelpe'
his disapproval of the plan.
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