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BASE BALL GOSSIP OF WEEK
Om'.K'i Trip of Lt Yaar and the One
Jit. Eodi '
D f TERENCE IN THE TEAM'S RECORD
Average of Ikr Men at the Bat la
the rield at T la Tlmt LaM Yesr
ad the Flsjeres for Tkla
Year Caaaar4.
Bo different.
Jut about a year ago th Rourk family
t returned from Ita long rwlng around the
J circuit, -with a hwplUI Hat that mad every
'$ ono m ho read It weep, but In first pUre.
They left home after a series of disaster
that crowded them out of flrat place, lop
ing five game atralght on the home ground,
and then loat ail more at Denver and Colo
rado ftprlng and dropped from flrat to
third r'wc. After thla they took a brace,
and went from town to town, carrying
terror to every team they met. and winding
up a moet brilliant campaign by defeating
Charley Nichols' team on Ita home grounds
tn a double-hetider on July 4. On that trip
Omaha played twenty-three gamea. won
thirteen, loat nine and tied one, a percent
age for the trip of .590. Ita flrat aerie on
the home ground after returning waa
agnlnst Denver, and It won three out of
four. What a difference from tha recent
record of the team, which haa Just returned
after aa disastrous a trip aa ever an Omaha
base ball team took. Since leaving home
last -month Omaha haa visited the same
town and played the aame teama the aame
number of gamea. with the net result of
five wlna and eighteen defeat, a percent
age of .211. No wonder the home roaster
are Jubilant and the aupportera of the team
are downcast Manager Rourke haa prom
ised better thlnga, and the patrona of the
game are waiting on him. No one who
known the men on the Omaha team la yet
convinced that tha men are not capable of
doing better work than they have been, and
that la one reaaon for the dlssatlsf action
felt with tha results.
For tha purpose of comparlaon, the aver
agea of the men at thla time last year la
here given:
BATTING AVERAGES
Lost
AB. R. H. Ave.Week.
im 21 M . .sw
234 1U 67 .2 ,2S;
M 10 23 .;S4 .29
217 S3 CI .2 1 .2it
242 39 4 .24 .24
233 49 0 .2157 .27
1M 2 47 .22 .233
218 22 M .234 .21
230 2 47 .213 .21f
90 10 1 .177 .173
11 .174 .rs
41 I .148 .Ifif
B t I .090 .K2
ELJ3INQ AVERAGES.
LBt
PO. A. E. Total. Ave.Week.
4 M 1 M .93 .979
BM 29 11 m .9tl
SJ1 77 4" .975 . 978
120 77 9 131 .99 .971
67 4 I 74 .909 .951
5 59 S W .957 . 967
1M 1!2 IB 863 .(M7 ..':
15 52 4 71 .943 .9K
K3 8 97 .MM .927
98 23 9 130 .930 .924
8 48 62 .9113 H6
130 1 16 328 .F90 .W3
73 11 29 218 .m .871
Btone ...
1 i trtewart
lrhHm
Tnilan ...
" tieiilna .
. t'nrter ..
fnlhoun
Oondlng
lllckey .
Thomas
Owen ...
Alloway
Al'oway
t'alhoun
Vmdlng
Thomua
Stone ...
Itrown ..
Ptewart
(Iralmm
("wrter ..
Oenins ..
Owen ...
Dnlan ..
lllckey .
The averages of the players at the bat
and In the field for the present season, up
to Friday night, are:
BATTING AVERAGES.
T.aat
AB. R.
Wright 192 18
Welch 74 t
Carter 192 28
Thomas 103 10
lllckey 118 8
Shugart 137 23
Dolan 1H0 23
0nlns lHt 27
rlhsfstal 44 0
Uonding 97 t
ITeston 125 1
Milton 37 1
Cnmoanlon 19 1
Hendurson 19 1
H. Av. W k
54 . 292 .y?
20
49
24
27
31
40
18
8
17
21
4
1
1
.270
.2M
.233
.2
.22
22
'.202
.184
.175
.161
.1
.077
.077
.325
.2M
.244
.225
.213
.192
.16
.171
.173
.ft
.05
FIELDING AVERAGES.
Last
PO. A. E. Tot. Av. W k
Thomas ..
Oenins ....
Wright ...
Oonatng .
Companion
Preston ...
Dolan
Carter ....
Shugart ..
Henderson
8 ha fatal ..
Milton ....
Welch ....
Hit key ...
.110 30 1 149
.9S0
.979
.954
.956
....125 19 148
441 3ti 21 519
....126 44 8 177
.... I 85 2 42
.... 74 0 4 78
....119 139 22 ISO
98 7 9 114
.... 87 106 15 188
9 19 3 II
5 12 4 41
6 18 t 49
29 1 6 18
41 19 18 100
.960
.19
.955
.9o2
.949
.921
.921
.930
.9a
.9112
.898
.842
.830
.947
.913
.913
.913
.St
.913
.8;
.811
It will be noted th t e.t-ry man on the
team haa Improved In hla batting aave
Welch and Thomas. Thomas waa only tn
ona game, and did not get a hit In that.
i"eh?h has dropped out of tha .100 Hat. but
UXrlght rame pretty near breaking back
Into the slugger class. Hlckey shows the
greatest Individual Improvement In his
work, Jumping up among the heavy-hitters
of the team and Improving hla fielding
average at the same time. In fielding
everybody but a couple of the pitchers
shows Improvement. Wright played the
week through without an error, a decided
advance. In hla play. A comparison of the
figures of the players who are on the team
now with their record of laat year at this
I time
A ct It
time will be found of Interest. At the out-
will be noticed that the team bat
average a year ago was .251, and the
fielding average waa .940. Now the bat
ting average Is .117 and the fielding is .837.
Just at present the question seems to be.
Who Is running the National league Garry
Herrmann n Joi n V. Tlrush? Mr. Herrmann
won the first round lat winter when he
I'U'led through the peace pact and made
thlnga look aa If war between the big
leagues waa over. John T. Brush at that
ttm held out to the end and only took
th doM when he waa compelled to. lie
frankly said he didn't like it. and It now
t eg ns to look aa If he waa honest In say
ing so. At any rate, thoae who thought
the war waa over ure entitled to one more
think for their money. John T. Brush
haa Just opened up a breach that la almost
aa wide aa any that ever existed between
the American and NaMonal Iraguea, and
likewise haa the National magnatea di
vided Into two ramps onoe more, and la far
thla reaaon supposed to be happy. George
Davis and Elberfeld are the occasions for
the renewal of warfare. When the peace
iact wns signed and the disposition of the
Jumping players wss made. lavla wss or
dered to play with Chicago and Elberfeld
with Detroit. Davis refused t go to Comls
keir, and Elberft-ld made such a mouth
abrut playing with Detroit that he was
finally traded to Chicsgo. Taking thla for
an excuse, Mr. Brush induced Harry Pul
11am. who was playing at being president
of the National league, to allow Davis to
Join the New Tork team. Thla plain viola
tion of tha terms of the Cincinnati com
pact naturally aroused the magnstcs on
both sides of the fence, snd In the National
league. It Is Soden. H anion and Brush on
one side. Hart. Roblson and Herrmann on
the other and Barney Dreyfua and the
"Vhlladelphla bunch not aalng a word. The
. tinsonltes were quick to tska up the gage
4rown down by Brush, and an Injunction
aa plastered oa Davis without delay at
ha Instance of Comtakey and others,
lending tha hearing on the Injunction and
a. probable meeting of th National league,
the matter la drawing a great dJ of de
!ate from the bass ball editors of the
country. x
, J t many respects thla la tha most Im
I srtant situation that haa arisen In the
' -kss ball world In a long tints. Co start
witX U Involves tha credit and honor of
the magnatea themselves It has only bean
a Xw swaths sines they formal: and
openly pledged themselves to do certs In
things snd to use all their pnw.ru to carry
ont eert.iln agreements. At the very first
o-port unity the compect Is broken snd the
sgr.ements thrown to nsught by one of the
part's to It. It Is true that Mr. Brush
did not voluntarily submit to the Cincin
nati arrangement, but hi association did,
and he is b und by the sets of his asso
ciates, or at least should be. His delib
erate step In putting Dv1a Into the game
wh'n he kn-w the play r wne barred by
an agreement to whlih h la a subscribing
I srty csn only be Intel preted in one way.
He haa no regard for agreementa or con
tracts, and Is In favor of disregarding them
st any time ha may be benefited thereby,
m matter at what coat to any of hla asso
rim i. In order to maintain a hold on the
I ub Ic aupport the Nat.onal league mag
na n will have to repudiate this action of
Bru'h; It Is too palpably defiant of all sense
pf honor snd responsibility for them to
und rtake to uphold It. The pretext he
has seised upon to Justify his outrsgeous
acdon la too flimsy. Elberfeld waa awarded
to Detroit, and If that club saw fit to dis
pense with his services It could do so with
out In sny way violating or disregarding the
terms of the Cincinnati compact. It Is
different with Davla. He was awarded to
the Chicago American team and hla serv-
1c a are still In demand by that team. For
Bruh to play him under these condltlona
la an outrage on base ball decency. And
that Harry Pulllam ahould give his con
sent to Brush's hlgh-hsnded plan is evl-
d.me that Pulllam Is unfit to be president
of the National or any other league.
Another noint that Is Involved, and one
n whir-h the maanates of the National
league based their strongest claim for pub
lic sympathy and support aunng me o)
when the Johnsonltes were rawing ineir
ranks. Is the sscredness of contracts. In
veral instances the National league mag
nates went Into court and made tights In
support of the reserve clause of their con
tracts, which amounts to nothing less man
rvnr a club a Derpetual claim on the
fcervices of a player, the claim to be term
inated only at the option or me magnaie
and the player to have nothing to say In
the premises. In the case of the Phlladel-
r.M rluh. at the time John l. ttogers wis
ita chief owner, against LaJole. Fraxen and
Bernard, this reserve clause was upneio
by the court and the players were enjoined
from playing with sny other club than the
Philadelphia National without the consent
of the ownera of that team. This is only
. ,,t a rr.u t manv Instances In which
the National magnates have fought to give
life to their reserve clause ana to maintain
:h snnctitv of contracts. In the case or
George Davis, he was not satisfied with the
regular form of contract used by the tn.
.n n American leacue club, and so went
to an attorney. John M. Ward, a former
famous member of the New York team, and
hf.ii Mm riraw a sneclal contract, peculiarly
binding on both parties, which was ratified
by Comiskey and Davis. Since the con-tmi-at-ai'
rami ud over Davla. being precip
itated by his attempt to Jump the contract
and go to New York to play wim ma na
tionals It has been stated by Ward and
boasted by Davis that under the contract
Comiskey would be compelled to pay uavts
whether he played or not. and Ward even
went so far as to say that Comiskey would
have to pay Davla, even If the Utter
should play with New York. If that con
tract, which still has a year to run. Is so
binding on Comiskey. Isn't It reasonable to
suppose that Davis Is held to something?
If anything, it must be that Comiskey U
entitled to Davis' services aa a ball player.
Knowing that this contract existed. Brush
first sought to get the player to violate It,
and then, after the conference of the two
i..ff.. had declared the contract valid and
binding and had agreed to give their moral
support to Its enforcement, urusn upneio.
the player In his deflance to the magnatea
and refuaal to play for Chicago, and now
he undertakes to make the violation of the
contract complete by playing him In New
Tork- Brush's action Is a deliberate de
fiance, not only to law, but to his associ
ates in the National league.
So far the only steps Uken by the Amer
in r.ie neonle have been to secure
an injunction agalnat Davis" playing
-ih th. New York National team, iney
are apparently waiting to see what the
National league magnatea propose ooing.
It is squarely up to the National league
Tf thev abide by the Cincinnati
agreement, then Brush will be forced to
givi up Davis or get out of base ball. If
the National league supports Brush, then
the war la on once more, and the Amer
ican lMLa-ue certainly knows how to right
So far Garry Hermann Is the only National
league magnate to declare himself openly
on the matter. He says that New York
will not be allowed to play Davla on the
Cincinnati grounds unless the other seven
f-ii.Vx in the learue order him to. Barney
Dreyfus says he will wait until the league
meeting before he talks. And there the
matter standa.
In the meantime the American league
magnates and the American Association of
Minor Leagues have reached an agreement
on the protection plan, a sort of revival
of the old National agreement, and It Is
now up to the National league for action.
But what good will an agreement be If
men of the Bruah stripe control In bass
ball affairs? No demoralisation could ba
worse than that which grows out of owners
refusing to recognise contracts and failing
to live up to agreementa among themselves.
For the good of baae ball It Is loped that
Bruah will be given a severe setback and
that Pulllam will be deposed from the po
sition he Is apparently unfitted to fill.
In the meantime we of the Western
league are In need of a little protection
ourselves. Duffy's band of Milwaukee war
lion is the object of much solicitude
among the big leaguea, especially tha
American, and Tom Loftus and Charley
Comiskey are both looking for some of the
men who are now holding aloft the ban
ner of the Creams. Duffy haa so far de
clined all offers to sell, and the only chance
for the big leaguer to connect with hla
men la by raiding. If the war breaks out,
the raid may be expected. Then Parke
Wilson Is In Denver, seeing what he can
do with Packard's bunch. He wanta Dun
dm and one other for hla Pacific coast
hunch, although that la not a settled fact.
During the week th rumor waa rife In
Omaha that Jo Dolan had tn his pocket
a ticket for Beattl. and that he would
go there to Join the outlaw team aa soon
as he got his month's pay from Rourk.
Dolan haa never been classed ss a rubber
leg. and It Is hard for his friends In Omaha
to think that ha would do such a thing
It la more than likely that If he wa bent
on going Rourk would do as he did with
Fleming and others, give him hla release
so ha could g with a clear record.
Bill Everltt put up a very pleaaant face
over being suspended 0v days for being
too rough In his remonstrance with t'm
pir Messmer. But Messmer proved that
Hughey Duffy had him slsed up right, and
that while Everltt waa wrong, th provo
cation waa certainly great. Sexton hasn't'
had much better luck with hla umpiring
stsn this yesr than h did laat. Several
time recently players have been called
upon to take charge of gamea, owing to
ths failure of th scheduled Umplr to
appear, and. singular enough, th chief
offender la this regard haa been Measmer.
th mas to protact. whom Sexton has been
called upon to exercise hla autharltv. U
teextoa baa ahown himself at all time
willing to give his am pi res good Bala lie
TT1E OMAITA
and full protection, but be does not seem
to be abie to secure a competent stafl.
WOMEN GO IN FOR LUSTY SPORT1
Lfeager gat Is fled t Dereret the
Ycreuedae While the Mea
Folks Play.
The much heralded return of woman to
the wiles and arts of the hammock and th
veranda, the swish of soft clothes and th
prattle of small talk la proving a delusion
In Omaha thla summer. For the girl of
the open, wlth the gossip of the tennis
courts, the links, the bowling alley and
ail of the other summer sports la the girl
of the hour at the clubs. Her athletic
brothers are proud of her and she is their
friend and confident. In the long summer
evenings she sits on th broad, breesy
verandas of the athletic clubs and recount,
enthusiastically her day's work and It is
one of multitudinous sides. Tennis In the
morning, golf In the afternoon and bowling
lit the evening and horseback riding, bowl
ing and long sails on moonlight nights on
the waters of Manawa. She Is proud of
the tan on her cheeks and th growing
muscles In her arms.
In th years before the women have been
the Idle workers at the clubs and her en
thusiasm in the sports of the men hss
been confined to a little play when the
day waa not too warm and she waa not
too tired and, above all, there was more
Joy In wstchlng it all listlessly from the
shadows of the porches than In the doing
of It. No encouragement waa given her
to embark In the pleasures of the con
tests, but this year, encouragement or not.
the women have started. An attempt has
been made to do for them In golf what was
done for the men and they have shown
their appreciation by taking hold of golf.
At the Country club the women always
played but not so at the FWld club and
the first tournament there brought out a
doscn women. They had had little practice
and Mid pot play alarmingly well, but they
t ied and are keeping on trying so that
they can merit the attention of the com
mittee. With a few more Intereated In
golf at the Field club a cup will be given
by the Country and Field clubs together
to be competed for by the women of the
two clubs. This year the cup would prob
ably fall readily enough to the women of
the Country club, but another year would
tell a less certain tale.
It la not golf, though, that they need
encouragement In. lit la tennla and bowl
ing. At the Country club, the women
monopolise the courts to the exclusion of
the men and there are some, who play a
game such aa few of the men of the club
can beat. The Field club, too, ia a ren
dexvous for the women players and there
are always some of them on tha courts In
the morning and in the late afternoon. But
nothing has been done to Interest them
as a tournament -would. The other club
and private courts around town are Just
as busy with women aa the men will allow
and many of the women are playing a
good game.
A riding club haa been organised and
the women outnumber the men rhen they
start out through the city streets and
the country byways asd, through the day
they slip In and out of the town on horse
back until It seems that aome of them live
in the saddle. Then there Is bowling and
the scores that aome of them are chalking
up are making the men envious and the
women have to play alone as the men are
fearful of being beaten. At the Field club
there is a high score for women of more
than 200 and It la not unusual for them to
run up In the 500 class any evening.
At Manawa the women are taking hold
of sailing and are learning to handle the
boats almost aa well aa the men. In the
afternoons, when there la no one to take
them out and there is a light breexe they
take cut the boats by themaelvea and skim
over the face of the waters like old-time
sailors.
TALK AMONG THE TENNIS MEN
Ostroane of the Handicap Teerna
seats red the Effect ea the
Tennis Is still the center of Interest
unon; local followers of amateur sports
and the closing of th most successful
tournament of the St. Croix, club is the by
word for talk of more tournaments. The
city championship is being srranged for
and la to be within th next three weeks.
The preent plan Is to have It begin a
week from Monday. The original plan of
dividing it between the St. Croix and Field
club courts has been given up and It will
probably fall to the Field club entirely.
The Bt. Croix club was desirous of having
either the singles or the doubles played on
Ita courts, but has given In because of tbe
ampler facilities for the players at the
Feld club. Another Idea brought out by
the "tournament on the St. Croix courts is
the having of an open night at both the
Field club and the St. Croix club each week
for the players of the two clubs to meet
each other In matches. It Is certain that
the experience gained by this Inter-club
play will be valuable to the local players
In many ways. By meeting all of the best
players In town the strong men will in
crease the value of their play considerably,
which they could not do otherwise by meet
ing only a few, whose play was much ths
same aa their own.
With the Interstate nearer and nearer at
hand, everyone la anxiously acannlng tha
list of players to discover If the year has
not brought forth some players who can
make a successful showing In th finals In
the Interstate. It seems that, with the
number of tennla enthusiasts In Omaha,
there should be some one who could carry
away some of the honors and not allow
the visitors to have everything. In the
ainglea Con Young is undoubtedly the
strongest player any of the local courts
can produce. He has been playing for
twelve yeara or more and hla play la Just
as clean and fast today aa It ever waa. Ha
haa a great faculty of placing his lawfords
down the alley and keeping his opponent
behind the line, and when be is at the net
he plays Just aa fast and as surely. In
both th Field club and th 8t. Croix
tournaments this year he has been heavily
handicapped and has played a scratch
man In the finals whils he owed fifteen.
His really weak point ia a tendency to lose
hla head when he Is In match play against
a man with a reputation aa a tennis player.
It seems to unnerve him and h loses con
sistently without reason. Last year th
consolation ahould have been hla, but out
of aheer good naturedness he gave them
away to bis opponent because h thought
h was deserving of them because he was
the better man
la Battln. Pollard and Chase there Is a
trinity of good players In tbe singles who
follow Young closely. Battin Is develop
ing a strong gam thla year. He plays
a slashing style of gam and looks far
easier than bs Is. Pollard playa a wonder
ful uphill gam on his nerve Chaae la a
new man and needa practice badly. With
that h will probably be as good as any of
th local players In the singles. He has
started In to work In earnest since ths
tournament and will probably round Into
excellent shape by th time of th Inter
state. In th doublee the St. Croix club showed
up very strong In 'Its tournament and
promises to put the strongest team In ths
Interstate this year. U. Kohn and Chase
DAILY BEE: SUNDAY,
are the best team that the club has and
are better than any others In the city with
the possible xoeptlon of Caldwell snd
Toung. Caldwell has plsyed little this
year and Is not Im condition to show whst
he can do as yet. He and Toung have
played together for yeara and they need
but little practice together.
Kohn and Chase were counted out early
In the tournament through their own
negligence and careless style of play, but
they showed, at times, the strength of
their plsy. Kuhn and Welty, who plstyd
and won the finals from Pollard and Scrlb-
ner, showed clearly that they are to be
reckoned with. They played aa well as
their opponents In the finale and would
probably have won out without the handi
cap that they carried. Scrlbner and Pol
lard also are playing a remarkably good
game In doubles and are a coming team.
Scrlbner Is weak In trying to play fancy
strokes where straight tennis In many In
stances would do as well and be less
dangerous, because of Its more certain as
pect
It Is doubtful If all of the good tennis Is
being played on these, two courts, though,
as the Bhrlner courts sent several strong
players Into tbe St. Croix tournament and
what they did other courts could probably
equal If they tried. The city tournament
will probably bring out some of these un
known players, aa an attempt will be made
to have atl of the courts In the city repre
sented In It.
Y. M. C. A. PLANS WORK
Series ef Events That Are Betas; Car
ried Forward by Its Hasky
Athletes.
The Toung Men's Christian association Is
working out a series-of outdoor events In
sport this summer thst is Interesting a
great number of the members. With tennis.
base ball and the track to rely upon over
300 of the members have taken up syste
matic work In some line for the summer
months and enthusiasm reigns supreme.
The association Is greatly handicapped In
having taken up all of this work entirely
new thla year, after It had died out for
three or four years. It was difficult to find
out who was interested and who was not
at the beginning and to find the men wh
knew the most of each sport. Many of the
members of the club hnd other sffinities
for the summer and their aid and enthusi
asm could not be relied upon to help out
the newer men. But the young class took
hold and Mr. Pentland has been able to
arrange and carry out a tennis handicap
tournament in singles with sixteen entries
during the last week.
Few of the players were old players and
the handicaps were of a wide range and
Interfered with the value of the play, but
it Increased Interest among the beglnnera
wonderfully and the association Is now
talking of having a city handicap tourna
ment on ita courts In a week or two. None
of the association players took part in the
St. Croix tournament, although they have
several good men In Patterson. Tebblns and
Gllmore. In order to keep up the interest
at its present pitch a plan la now forming
for an all-year contest, common to many
associations of this type. A button will bo
given to each man. These buttons ate
numbered consecutively and are given out
haphaxzard. The man with the button
with the higher numeral can challenge any
player with a smaller numeral and he la
required to play him within a certain
length of time or trade buttons. If the
man with the button with the larger
numeral bests his opponent he trades but
tons and each player ( works for the buttons
with the lower numbers on. At the end of
the season prizes will be given to the men
having the first, second and third buttons.
Interest in track work haa not been as
Great as that in any other branch of out
door sports, but there are enough men to
have a meet and this will be held on July
2. Because of the small number of men
working along these lines the entries will
necessarily be small and not all of the
regular events will be run off. A number
of the track men are high school boys, who
are Interested In this class of work, and
most of the entries will be fiom them. It
Is scarcely anticipated that any of the
records will be very' low, as the men are
mostly Inexperienced and have had little
opportunity to get Into condition thla year,
as the grounds for practicing were not put
into shape until late in the season.
Base ball has taken a strong hold on ths
members snd six teams have been organ
ised within the association. A regular
schedule hss been arranged and the teams
are working it out on Wednesdays and
Saturdays. Several of the teams are corns
posed entirely of men working for certain
local concerns, while the other teams are
made up of members regardless of where
they work. These games have proven of a
great deal of Interest to the members who
are not players, as well as to those who
play, and the contest for the association
championship promises to be very exciting.
PREACHER PLAYS BASE BALL
Taraa Dew a a Three) Tksiss4 Dallas1
Offer Beeaase pert Was
Dealea Blsa.
Playing base ball and preaching th
word to his Westchester (N. Y.) flock Is
contentment compared to 13.000 a year and
black-frocked dignity all the week around
In Troy to the mind of Rev. William D.
Giffln of th Westchester Methodist Epis
copal church.
Rev. Mr. Giffln has relieved th anxious
minds of his parishioners by announcing
that he Is going to stay and will not accept
the offer of a big flock In tha up-stat
town at more than double his present
salary.
"In the first place, this Is a delightful
spot, is filled with delightful people, and
I feel as though I can do lots of good and
help many people here," he said. "And
then, you know, I like to play ball. Even
11.800 more a year couldn't atop me from
playing base ball. Why, when they sent
for me and told me they wanted me at 13.
000. I told them I wanted to think it over. I
told them I played first base, pitched well,
rode a bicycle, played tennis, and tf I
came I wanted them to realise that I waan't
treating the cloth with lack of dignity If I
continued at the manly sports.
"But the deacons up there shook their
heads and aald. No very firmly. They
told me to think It over, and I did. I sent
them word this week that I would rather
stay here and play ball at tl.S than go up
there and not nlay ball at $3,000. That was
final, and here I am."
Rev. Mr. Giffln Is 9 years old. tl,
broad-ahnnldered and an all-around ath
leteChicago Inter Ocean.
Meet rssalar la the World.
What Is th most popular advertised
medicine in the world? A ft ar years ago
It was supposed to be a brand of pi is made
la England claiming a sale of (.OOO.OUO pack
ages a year. Thla record Is badly beaten,
however, today by th famous American
family medicine Caacarrts, Candy Cathartic,
which are selling at aa average of over
.0u0 boxes every day, over a million boxes
a month, and over twelve million boxes a
year. This appears to be evidence of
overwhelming popularity, th most note
worthy oa record.
JULY
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Two Carloads "Ramblers,"
$650 and $750.
JUST RECEIVED FOR PROAlP i DELIVERY,
ALSO STOCK OF
Winton Touring Car, 20-ilorse Power Gasoline.
Peerless Touring Our, 16-lIorse Power Gasoline.
Shelby, Four Pawenjjer, 10-IIorse Power Gasoline.
Toledo, Four Paasenger dos-a-tlos, 10-llorse Power
Steam. Locomobile, Two Passenger, Four Horse Power Steam
Columbia and National Electric Automobiles.
Second-band Machines from 300 up.
Agents Wanted. Write for Prices.
H. E. FREDRICKSON,
15th and Capitol Ave. OMAHA
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A Sensation
You get it and get it
ood when a 5-pound bass strikes
your book. The "Minnesota
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Well et yea the lake skere fas
aia SO Oaabs te St. Pawl saf nt.ra.
dally rlat Jnee, Jely. Aea-wst tu
aepteeaesr. Kates all bVsbJb re
sorts. Y. H. BRILL, Dlsf. Pass. Agent
h !KUr lei
All the numerous patlenta who placed themselves under our treatment dur
ing ths past two weeks, were convinced by an inspection of our modern appli
ances and machines, thst w could live up to our promise to effect thorough
cures. After hearing a full explanation of our method of treatment it becomos
plain to the most skeptical patient t hat we cure only by honust and scientific
measures. We cure permanently and give a written guarantoe to cure
VARICOCELE, LOST MANHOOD, OLDOD POISON.
STRICTURE, PILES, FISTULA.
Or any ailment In our line of practice for a fee of
Only Five Dollars.
There la but one condition and that Is that the offer must be accepted with
out delay. After tbe lath of July It will be withdrawn.
Cook rjyedical Co.,
110 tnd 112 S. I4tl St., Omaha, (Over Dally Nets.)
OFFICE HOURS a a. m. to 8 p. m. Sundays io a. w. to 12:30 p. m.
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I That backache mustn't go
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? Kidnevs are out of order Backache
is their cry for help
Serious trouble is sure to follow if you don't heed
the warning Diabttes, Urinary Trouble, Bright's
Disease they're all the natural outcome of neg
lected backache
But there's a way to stop it
Doan's Kidney Pills
make the sick kidneys well cure tha bac'a -h by removing the
cause there's proof of it right here in Omaha plenty of proof
thewonl of Omaha people proof that you can't possibly doubt
Read this testimony
Mr. Wm. Page, bricklayer, of 4211 Burdette stret. says: "Always after a hard day's
work or when I caught a cold, which settled In my loins, backache became very se
vere. Doan's Kidney Fills, procured at Kuhn Co't drug store corner IBth anil
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that I have no hesitation In recommending them to anyone suffering from either
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Doan's Kidney Pills are for at all Drue Mores.
50 cents a box. Foster-nilburn Co., Buffalo.
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DISEASES OF MEN
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Biggest - Br.jhest Best.
3113-15 Harney Street.
BHUENNESS
r!3 : rTo stay Cured In a few days. A
UUilkUnew discovery. Harmle.-m In Its
: Hcuon ana positively destroys nil deslr
! for alcoholic stimulants; also cures per-
iiiunT-iikij like runnui; urunaaru or in, cany
drinker with equal certainty, o.oo euif.
I (.-metered to It. and not a tingle failure. It
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business. It cures when all others have
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i white: for free hooklet.
'MORPHIUE cocaine
I.IWlll lllllia Opium. Laudanum or
any drug hahlt cured in un week without
rain. Hhock or depression. No hypodermics.
No matter how rrvinv trealrnenn have
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pay. Write for F;e Booklet. Keferencc:
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