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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 27, 1904)
THE OMAITA ILLUSTRATED BEE. November 27, lftO. .SPORTING GOSSIP OF WEEK t New Home of the Racqnet Club is Nearly Beady to Inter. 'OWA HORSES AND THE AUTOMOBILE , Drivers of the Wbli Wasjea Find : rirmtr te Da tthn Wtilrllns Ales the Hawker Hlh. waya Kwa4ara. Another straw Indicative of the present commercial growth of Omaha Is the new Omaha Racquet club home, now In course of construction on Kljhteonth afreet, be tween Ilarnev ami Howard streets. The new club house Is being built at a cost of J lin.CiOO. and when completed will occupy a niche peculiarly Its own In local club dom. The building is of frame construc tion, partly two stories and partly onc atory. It will b equipped with tile plunge baths, ateam-heated throughout, lunch rooms, billiard rooms, bowling alleys, three quash courts and other appointments, making It thoroughly up-to-date and cosy. There will be facilities for after theater lunches ard other social events Incident to the life of a club house. The building will be owned by the club and a five-year lease Is held on the ground, with an option for purchase at the end of thit time.. The club now has almost the limit of seventy- Ave members. It was organised three years ago with a membership of twenty and has grown steadily since that time. It Is b.Mlcved the game of squash, an in door tennis, will be popularised to an ex tent hitherto unknown In Omaha with the opening of the new club house. This gHme has been In vogue In many, of the larger eastern cities. It will be one of the chief features of the new club house. It Is expected the club house will be opened on Christmas morning. The present officers of the Omaha Bacquet club are: Luther Kountse. president! Frank Haskell, vice president; N. P. Hodge, Jr.. secretary: Samuel Burns, Jr., treasurer; T. 8. Ken nedy, I. L,. Kountse and Frank Haskell, executive committee Omaha autolsta who have not made the run to Missouri Valley should da m at the earliest opportunity. Never mind if .'he weather Is chilly, Just bundle up in a buffalo or fur coat, have a foot warmer comfortably, installed at your pedal ex tremities and start out. The topography of the country traversed, the broad Melds mingling with the bluffs, lends a scenlo charm that Is at once ap preciated by the chauffeur: And the mo toring traveler will And Just enough hills to make the level stretches of road the more enjoyable. Iast Sunday C. K. Wllklns took a party of friends On a seventy-flve-mlle trip In Ma Wlnton touring car Into Iowa. The start was mads from the Powell garage at a. m.. and In a few minutes the car was speeding along the road to Honey creek, thence to Lovoland, on to Missouri Valley and into the country some miles beyond. The Tehlcle, propelled by Its un seen power, as It were, oscllated over the road as on the wings of the morning. Its movement was the poetry of motion until a skittish horse, hove in sight, when the car would stop In obeisance of an Iowa iaw, which Is said to be no dead statute, either. The driver of a horse that thinks nn automobile is a. machine fearfully and wonderfully made needs but to throw his arm at a horizontal position as a signal for the chauffeur to stop his car. Then, when tbe chauffeftr has stopped his vehicle, should the horse continue to take life seriously, it would sahoove the chauffeur to dismount and cajole the equine past the auto and thus, avoid the possibility of a law suit. Judging from ..last, Sunday 'a trip. Prof. Oleason, who recently pacified wild horses at the Auditorium, could find a ateady Job for the winter In' Iowa, Introducing horses to automobiles. About on out of every five horses last Sunday looked at the enr as if the animal was Ave stories from the ground and about to jump. Some con sented to be driven by, while others had to be led past the horseless conveyance. Seriously, however, It Is the consensus of opinion that the horse and automobile, the horseman and chauffeur, are getting to gether In Iowa, A more friendly feeling Is being created and the future of the automobile looks roseate In the Hawkey e state. Speaking of the growing popularity of the automobile, a writer In the St. Paul Pio neer Press has this to. say In a recent, issue: ; "And the popularity of the automobllo Is Just begun. In the near future the public Is to see it not so much as a racing machine or a means by which the rich can rid themselves of their money, but more than every utility. "Perhaps It may solve the problem of good roads; . Centuries of horse-using have Inflicted America with disgraceful public highways.. Since the coming of the power propelled - road vehicles, there has been more agitation for proper roadways than ever before, and the entire country la bent on securing Improvement. "It Is not too much to expect that soma day the farmer will carry his hay to market nn an automobile, that the milk man will stop his gasoline cart at your door, that the bulk of the country products that are now hauled in clumsy wagons over humps and through ruts and slough? will eventually pass over macadam streets lo autos more simple and efficient than any now In- use. The automobile Is no longer a fad, but a,' business convenience."- The big leagues wSl be holding their an- ual meetings pretty soon, the ' National coming together first, and week later the American. At theae meetings the fats of the new drafting clause sdopteHd by the National Association of Minor Base Ball Leagues will be determined. It Is alto gether likely that the majors will turn down ths proposition with a thump. . The old clause was taken on by the majors only after considerable time had been spent In debate, and then merely as a concession Quaker Maid THE WHISKEY WITH A REPUTATION Awarded the Gold Medal at the Louisiana Purchase Expo sition for Purity, Quality and Perfection of Age rOK SALE AT A IX UKAUIBTO BABf, , CAS-H ADD tMsVO ROUI .K!RSCH & CDs. Kansas City. M3. to the minors. It affords the owner of a small team a certain amount of protection and does amay with' the greatest evil of organised base ball so far as the player and minor leagues sre concerned, thst of farming players. I'njer the draft regula tion a team In a minor league has more or less control of the pliiyer al! the time; under the old arrangement It had none. Now, when a player goes up and falls to make good, he goes back to the team wh' re be started. If the new rule goes Into ef fect the player will he subject to secondary draft by the double A claps teams, and the little fellow further down the line will simply be left where he was before the association provided a means of protection by national agreeement. The money In volved In the new rule doesn't amount to enough to be worthy of consideration, for ordinarily the big leagues paid far In ex cess of the draft price for players that made good. The danger Is In the possi bility of abrogating the entire drafting rule, and thus throwing open the way to a renewal of former abuses, among them the practice of farming players. Such a course might suit George Tebau and the little coterie of wreckers who are associated with him, but It will spell ruin for the many minor leagues of the country. The Sporting News of St. Ixmls Is expos ing each week some new angle of the New York deal whereby Tebeau put himself at the head of the affair of minor base I all. In Its latest number the Sporting News publishes some letter that are of great Interest to the Western league patrons. In these It shows how Tebeau deliberately blocked the plan adopted at St. Louis last season to arbitrate the differences between the American as'wx'latlon and the Western league with regard to Kansas City and Milwaukee. It was a deliberate violation of an agreement, but this didn't amount to anything with Tebeau. One of his ass st ents In ths deal was Griffiths, the protege Of Pat Powers, who is now on the national commission with Tebeau, and Is retained as the association's lawyer at a fee of IGOO. Anyone who has watched the progress of events will have little difficulty In believ ing that Tebeau and Griffiths will gev along together very well, and It Is not likely that Bert will bring lit many minority reports. The doings of the national commission are certain to be harmonious, but It Is a grave question If the minor' leagues will gain any thing under tho new order. ' Uncle Adrian C. Anson admits that he made an offer to buy the Washington franchise In the American league, and that he Is anxious to get back Into base ball. If there Is a man In the country who could make a club go In Washington It Is Big Ans. It is announced ttuit Joe Cantlllon has secured Herman Long to manage his Des Moines team and play second base. Cnn tlllon might as well understand right at the start thnt absentee ownership Isn't any more popular In the Western than Is syndicate ball. He will know this before the coming season Is ended, and then there'll be a lot of knocking against Des Moines for not being a good bull town because the people will not put money into the pocket of an owner who intends to spend his time looking after another team In another association. If Cantlllon wants to be a magnate, why doesn't he come out and be one. Instead of trying to be one by proxy? Des Moines Is a good ball town, and Cantlllon a good manager, but the two must be worked together and not at long range to succeed. And Herman Long was once a corking good short stop, but he doesn't belong In the Western league class any more. He was all In for the big league some time ago.and last summer he was all In for the tail-enders in the Amer can association. This. Isn't going to get him anything In the Des Moines team. lTp at Sioux City trie men who own the team are waiting to see whether Tebeau is going to run the league or not. If he does it Is very much like a cinch that a lot of missionary work will have to be done to keep the Sioux In line. This Just shows how popular Brother George Is around the circuit. lie event a few hours In Denver the other day looking over "his Interests" there. He told a News reporter that Colo rado Springs and Denver are anchored In the Western, but didn't give much Infor mation aa to what other towns were. He did say that he had no candidate for presi dent to succeed Mike Sexton, but that Is not In line with Information that comes from other sources. Last season Tebeau wanted Otto Floto of the Denver Post to be president, and It is understood now that he has renewed his promise to Floto. When the league meets in Omaha In Jan uary It is likely that the Tebeau combina tion will hear something. The team owners who are not In on the deal propose to make their case plain, and if they can control the league, will give the public the best of evidence that Tebeaulsm Is dead In ths Western. A movement la on foot to reor ganise St. Joseph end put the team there In such condition that a repetition of last season's fiasco will not be possible. In case this goes through the Western circuit for 1906 will be the same as It was In M. Thursday afternoon's gams of Indoor foot ball at the Auditorium is believed to be but a starter of what is in store for the natrons of sport in Omaha this winter. Another Indoor game la to be given some evening this week and other events of greater Importance are on the tapis for the coming weeks and months. Manager Qlllan of the Auditorium Is now considering the matter of having a season of roller skating In the Auditorium at a comparatively early date. The board of directors la considering the wisdom of covering the present flooring wi n maple or taking chances on the flooring now In the Auditorium, which surface would stand the skating from sixty to ninety- days be fore wearing to suoh a condition as to Jeopardise the safety of the skater. At any rate it is believed there will be roller skating at the Auditorium and It is an nounced that it will compare with any to be found In the eastern cities when It la Inaugurated. Manager Oillan now has sev ers! tarn pes of tkmei at his office. Tbe most approved pattern' Is a hollow alum!- Rye None Better is we. The guar antee that ffoea with every flc Klbbin $3 Hat is given b y makers whose word tj as goud as 01 d. Styles and qualities are perfect. At LEADING DEALERS num style with ball bearings and Is said to carry the skater over the floor like pro verbial greeted lightning. Manager Qlllan Is a 'so working up a carnival of sports whlh he hopes to have about the first of February. It la his in tention to have a number of neighboring cltisa compete ard have a teison of sports lasting about a week. Such sports aa tug-of-war. polo, fencing, wrestling, basket ball. etc.. will be encouraged. Edward Quirk of the Omaha base ball team and George Begerow, both ex per'enred pdo p'ayers, are snx'ous to form a polo team In the event of the game be ing played at the Auditorium th'e w'n'er. Others have evinced an Interest In the mat ter and unless all signs fall Ortlihi will see a revival of sport this season thst will compare with the old days at the Coll seiim when Jack Prince was In the F311e. ROMANCE OF A HIRED SUIT Sweetheart's "Yes" Tacked Away la' m Pocket and Almost Lost to Right. "It would surprise you were I to tell you the names and positions of some Of the men who patronize me," salt the man a part of whose business Is Indicated by the sign "Dress Suits for Hire." "But then, again. It oughtn't," he continued, "for a man must hold some position In some sort of society If It is ever necessary or advis able for him to hire a dress suit. "We are always finding things In tho pockets of hired dress suits. There was Arte instance that turned out a real ro mance. Several months ago In going through the pockets of a 'dress coat we came across an unopened letter. . It was fully addressed, so I merely slipped It Into one of my business envelopes, rewrote the address and mailed It. I never heard any thing from it until the other day, when the postman left a parcel In the store, which was found to contain a large slice of wedding cake. There was a note, too, which revealed the romance. "The note was from the man to whom I had forwarded the letter I found In the dress coat pocket. ' He said that that letter had been the.menns of making htm the happiest man on earth. You know what that means. Men always say that Just after they have been married. Well, this young fellow had asked the girl In I the case to marry him and she had prom ised to give him her answer at a dance to which both had been Invited. "During the evening , she , had avoided the subject; djd 'not mentlop.lt even nt parting,, and the lover had gone home con vlnced that it wa all off. He spent a bad day. being too proud to appeal to the young woman, and then he got the letter which I had forwarded to him. It was his 'Yes or her 'Yes.' Just as you look at It. At any rate It fixed matters all up. She had written it before going to the dance and had slipped It Into his packet while dancing with him, thinking to give him a fine surprise. She did, all right, but not entirely the way she had planned. She never supposed for an Instant that he had hired his suit, and consequently would not be apt to think there would be anything In the pockets for him. "Weil, after everything was smoothed over, he confessed and the girl insisted that a piece of wedding cake be sent to me In return for my little part In the af fair. "Sometimes I am unable to return arti cles found In dress suits owing to a nat ural aversion on the part of the hirer to reveal his name and address. My wife Is wearing a pretty little ring today which I found In the pocket of a vest which had been hired by a young man who would not give his address, though, as my custom, I asked for l(. The suit was returned by a small hoy, who gave me a receipt for the deposit and vanished. When I went through the pockets I came across the ring, a narrow gold band with two dia monds and a ruby, and put it aside for the owner when he should come after it. But he never came, and as that was six years ago, I don't suppose he ever will." Wash ington Post. Taking; Life Easily. Former Senator Oeerge F. Edmunds re cently visited one of the mountain hamlets In Vermont where he had not been for many years. Despite the fact that it waa near a railroad, It appeared not to have Increased In slie or changed a whit in thirty years. "What's your popula tion now?" the senator asked the local hotellceeper. "Oh. somewhere between 1.200 and 1.400." "Why, the place used to have nearly 1,000, didn't It?" "Yep, that's so. 'Tain t so big as 'twas." "Well, I guess babies aren't born here very fre quently, are they?" "Oh, 'bout once." Uricsol the Only Cure for Rheumatism If you are suffering from rheumatism there la a chance for you to become ab solutely cured. Tou may cure yourself and do it quickly if you will lay aside your prejudice and skepticism. 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