Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-07-10
&c. And B. LEAGUE.
TA|LENDERS ARE.
LET OUT OF MUNY
Teams in Five Different
Leagues Are Dropped and
Suggestion Made to
Bar Them.
By WILLIAM o. BLOZIES.

dliiiiS " appear ioi tWo VI HioIc
consecutive scheduled games, nine
teams, of the class c and B leagues,
members of the Municipal Amateur
base bali association. have forfeited
their franchise for the 1919 playing
season.
These teams are: J. B. Roots and
American Railway Exchange of the
American league; Grace Methodists
and First NJ. f. Wops of the Church
league: Daily News and Nancy
Milling company of the Booster
league; euro Mineral Springs and
John Day Rubber company of the
Inter City league and the McKen-
ney Dentists of the Gate City
league.
All Tailenders.
All Of these teams are tail-enders
in their respective leagues and now
that the season is drawing to a close
and since they haven't any chance
at the pennant, they have lost heart
and have given up the ship. Prac-
tically all of these teams have not
won a game thus far this season,
while some have won but a few
By losing their rights to participate
any longer they have forfeited all
the money posted for their fran
chises in the league and player
privileges.
1t was officially announced yes
terday that the Orchard-Wilhelm
team, who have been making hard
fight for the flag in the Commercial
league have withdrawn from the
league for the season 1t is under
stood that the team was we'll
pleased with the association and with
the officials but Withdrew on &C
count of business reasons, which
made it impossible>for them to fin
lsh the season.
Should Be Barred.
In the opinion of the writer, the
managers and players of these
teams who have disbanded and
withdrawn from the league because
they have lost, a ruling should be
passed at the next meeting of the
directors of the association, barring
these players for period of two
years. These players should be bar
red and kept out of base ball, as it
is the kind of work that is hurting
the national pastime. A great in
justice has been done the hackers
of these teams These hackers put
in their hard-earned cash to sup
port the team and to boost anna
teur base ball in Omaha so that it
would be a great success, and now
these players and managers, just
because they have lost few Xames
lose interest and disband.
During the past two years it has
been hard for the officials and man
ayers to lineup hackers, as they
have not been given fair deal, and
if the officials of the association do
not take this in hand so as to pro-
tect the hacker, amateur base ball
will have a hard shedding in the
years to come.
Sundays Big Game.
The big game in local amateur
base ball circles for Sunday after
noon will be that between the
Brandeis Stores and the Murphy
Did-Its. and a record crowd is ex-
pected to be in attendance. Al
though the Brandeis Stores have
lost one game in the Greater Oma-
ha league, and have met with a
number of defeats at the hands of
out-of-town teams, Manager Marty
O'Toole announced last night that
his team has been strengthened 100
per cent and will make a great
showing Sunday afternoon. The
Murphys, who recently returned
from their trip east with four de-
feats and three victories, are all
spruced up and expect to cop the
game.
The game at present is scheduled
for Riverview park at $50 o'clock,
but it is likely that it will be trans
ferred to Fontenelle park.