Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-02-18
Judgments

dIlOlHCl u HllilllilS. l uC last lllllc the
W. k public was harpooned in the
spine was when Mr.. Willard and Mr..
Moran staged their. gentle joust in
New York City. That was a year ago
and a year should be long enough
for the victim to recover and set him.
self for a second attack. P, T. Bar
mum once remarked there was one
born every minute. His dope may
have been all right then, but it's all
wrong now; there's three born every
minute and two OF them bite every
time ten-round, no-decision tango
is exhibited by couple of alleged
fist singers, who, if they were called
by their right names, have Vernon
Castle licked to FRAGILE.
Base ball magnates, it would seem,
need not be overly worried about the
prospects of war. Canada has been
sending troops to Europe for two
years now and Montreal and Toronto
are still active members of the In
ternational league. And Toronto led
the league in attendance last year
and was one OF the few money max
ers in the loop Toronto is said to
have sent 10000 men to the trenches,
too. And as the prevailing belief is
that the United States would not be
even as active as Canada if we should
become tangled up in the embroglio,
it would seem the magnates are I'M
necessarily alarmed.
The Western league has definitely
concluded Joplin is the city in which
to place the eighth club. Joplin may
be the propitious city and it may not
be. Joplin and Tulsa once fought it
out for Western association pennant
in the final game of the season at
Joplin. The total gate receipts
amounted to $1.60 or some such enor-
nous sum. Of course, Joplin may be
much improved city, but it would
seem to the ordinary observer focus
ing his field glasses from distance
that Joplin would have had to have
imported lot of new citizens or dis
tributed an entirely different brand of
enthusiasm to make it Western league
territory.
Les Darcy, who was first thought
to be fighter, but has turned out to
be chorus person in vaudeville, has
been handed left-handed rap in the
molars by one Al Lippe, manager Of
Jeff Smith. Lippe declares Darcy
was knocked out by Smith in Aus
tra1ia and that Smith was jobbed out
of the victory. To prove same Lippe
offers to pit Smith against Darcy for
glory, honor and fame, neither fighter
to get cent of the gate receipts and
50 per cent of the dough to go to the
Canadian Red Cross fund. Darcy
will probably accept this offer about
as quickly as Ban Johnson would in
vite Dave Fultz to luncheon.
Ban Johnson very graciously an
nounces that in the event of war
American league players will be re-
leased from their base ball contracts
to enlist in the army. This should be
gladstone tidings to the athletes who
cavort around the diamond green
sward. Having been SO keen for war
during the days of the Federal league,
we have no doubt the recruiting Of
fees will be besieged by the perfect
specimens of physical young manhood
who wish 10 continue the war, this
time with rifle and cannon as weapons
instead of check books and fountain
pens.
All in all it must be admitted Fred
Fulton is a favored son of Dame For
tune. Born and developed in an age
of tramp fighters, thoughts of which
make an old-time fight fan cough hys-
terically, Fred has had cinch in lay
ing low all other contenders for the
championship crown and becomes the
logical man to tangle with the title
holding drone, Willard. Fulton's leap
to the top of the ladder is due more to
lack of class in the heavyweight ranks
rather than record Of achievement.
Hal Chase is said to have signed a
two-yesr contract with Cincinnati,
thus giving the critics and experts
much to ponder over owing to the
fact that the magnates have come
out in favor of one-year contract
We fail to see the reason for this
perturbation. The new contracts con-
tain the ten-day clause. And of what
use, pray, is two-year contract con-
tanning a ten-day clause? The Reds
can fire Hal just as quickly as u
boat could ruin bark canoe.
Wilbur Robinson Indignantly re-
fuses to concede the National league
pennant to the Giants, as most of the
experts have done, and insists his
Dodgers will be in the running. Will
bur had better observe caution in
emitting the war talk, with lack
Wheat threatening to quit base ball
and retire to his ranch in Oklahoma
and half a dozen other of the Robins
yelping about salary cuts.
President Tener says base ball fans
should support the agitation to turn
the clocks ahead an hour. No doubt
a fan might be able to arrive home in
time to partake of a little midnight
lunch instead of just breezing into
the dornicile in the nick of time TIC
catch his portion of the daily setting
of ham and eggs. The governor is
right
That $4,000 talk over the Darcy.
Gibbons bout must be brain puz.
zler for the Australian. From the
Sums he received in his home coun.