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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 18, 1917)
Wi BtBtTCV a team fft a ttlmmmir It U ruddenly announced it is playing Mly tnXormal foot ball. T The, Foot Ball Dope is Sure to Be Upset Today EBBETS IN FAVOR. ' OF SHORT SEASON Brooklyn Magnate Sees Million v Dollars for War Fuijd in . Taxes From National League. Charles H. Ebbets, manager of the Brooklyn base ball club, says 5 "The policy of the National league, I am positive, will be to continue opera tions of 1918. I believe that it would be unwise to discontinue, for several good reasons. In the ' first place it is the patriotic duty of club own ers to keep the game alive for, by so doing, the government will receive from base ball nearly $1,000,000 in an nual taxes. "The public will require some form of recreation during the continuance of the war. Base ball is a healthy amftsement and should be maintained juTas the theaters will be kept open Ef closing our gates the national gane would be seriously injured, property interests destroyed and thousands of young men deprived of l means of livelihood. "I believe that the sport should be continued precisely along the same lines that have prevailed for the last fifteen years. Players' salaries should be paid consistent .with a club's income. The government re quires that, the public must pay the 10 per cent tax on admission so that the tariff will have to be increased accordingly. "The length of the schedule for next jrear is a matter for joint action by She major leagues. I favor 140 games, beginning about April 25 and closing September 28. It is preferable to pay 19 or 20 players a fair gross salary rather than divide the gross among 25 men." JIMMY MILL IS REAL GOAT OF U. S. Indianapolis Magnate Gets Stung by Fake Relative and Then Balks on Faying Taxi Robber. TaberskFs Feat Amazes f Burner PooIXhampion Frank Taberski, pocket billiard champion, has beaten seven recent challengers in succession and only needs two more triumphs to secure permanent possession of the trophy. Jerome R.'Keogh, fopmer champion, hi commenting oiT Taberski's great work in scoring 277 points to Concan non's 92 in the final block oftheir re cent match in Buffalo, said, "Never nave such odds been overcome. Ta berski's achievement in scoring 183 balls to Concannon's four in the be- f inning of the final night's play, after eing 127 balls behind, stands without parallel in the annals of champion ship play." Heinie Zimmerman's chase of Col lins across the plate- and Urban Fabcr's attempt to crowd Weaver off third, brought to light bones and "goats" of the world's series. . They weren't the only goats, however. There were others. This story is of a man who was made the goat; there in it differs from the woeful tale ai Heinie and Urban. They were the molders of their own fortunes. James C. McGill. president of the Indianapolis club, is the unfortunate 4ho is to be the "hero" of this tale. Mac, having won the American asso ciation pennant and later the double A title, was quite a prominent figure at the world's series encounters. That helped make him a target. Every body was busy congratulating him on his good year in the lobby of the Blackstone hotel, in Chicago, when up marched a man slightly known to McGill. He was a distant relative too distant to know McGill under or dinary circumstances, but rather closer when it netted a gain. "Why, hello, Jimmy," cried the rel ative: "let me congratulate you on the work of the Indians. So glad to see," etc., ad inf., accompanying the greeting with a pumphandle opera tion of McGill's hand. After the effusive greeting died down and while they were talking commonplaces, the new-found friend suddenly interjected: "Say, Jimmy, can you possibly get me a ticket to today's game? I've come all the way from home and can't buy a ducat anywhere." Mr. McGill, who is nothing if not obliging, volunteered to try. McGill went to the Sox office to get one that was coming to him. For it he shelled out $15; in other words a $5 pasteboard for the three games in Chicago. The Indianapolis man sauntered back to the hotel, found his man and handed him the ticket. "Mac, you don't know how many times obliged I am for this favor," blurted out the ticket's recipient. "I'll never be able to repay you for it. A thousand thanks." He took the ticket, placed it , securely wujiis wallet and vanished. McGill gazed at the crowd and the fading figure of the very friendly rel ative and began to realize that he They Both Start from Scratch Cbpyrtaht, HIT, International New Pric f You FexovAtf" MAvJt GOT-N TO CHOP OFf" TXfe ( YOOfc HOAJCjR ( vawUTtve to Si- A rVlAM Of5 v ran vmowj A cy-v-r? kmmm 1 SOU GIGGUAJCs-y1 . o .1 rst' i i ) -" v J-U.IU. " TTT had been "done." $15 to be obliging. That experience was cheap com pared to what awaited him after he got to New York. With a party of friends he taxied to the Polo grounds. The taxi fare was $4.50. In his hurry not to become separated from his friends, McGill peeled off what he thought was a $5 bill from the roll in his pocket and hustled after the friends. The haste made considerable It had cost himl waste, for that evening McGill dis covered mat tne Din was a ou instead of a five and how could he hope to identify the chauffeur on Broadway? Billy Doyle to Be Scout For Phils; Big Job Ahead Report has it that Billy Doyle, this year business manager for the Mil waukee, association club and formerly scout for Cleveland and the St. Louis Browns, has been selected for the position of scout with the Philadel phia National league club next sea son. As the Phillies are to be rebuilt almost entire by Manager Moran the scouting job will be. an important one, for. it involves the picking of a num ber of young players for development. Moran will put a half dozen players on the market during the winter and among those mentioned as going on the block are Dode Paskert, Erskine Mayer, Oscar Dugey, Eddie Burnt, Jimmy Lavender and perhaps Eppa Rixey. This Is Easy. A Pittsburgh fan wants to know if Max Carey couldn't steal as many bases as Ty Cobb if he could, like Cobb, hit .385. The answer is: Carey can't hit .385. Gaoraia Tech. ii playiag fafonpMd foot bail toia 7mt all right. Aak an tMn they hav played. -A? ( wy- . s mm) - M:A ' ' . ' 1 n , I I i r I'M t r- I - (marked) if f TWO CLUBS AFTER THISYOUNG MAN Cleveland and Chicago Gubt Both Have Catcher Tom Daly on Beserve List; What'i Answer? Inspection of the reserve lists filed by clubs of the major leagues reveals that a club in each league lays claim to Catcher Tom Daly and the raixun gives him the first chance to get into public print, at least as a major leaguer, that lie has had all season. Daly figured in a trade between tb White Sox and Cleveland that made him an Indian, but he decorated the Cleveland bench until late in the sea son, when he was sold to Buffalo. lie finished the season there and the next news of him was that Buffalo had sold him to the Chicago Cubs. However that may be, his name didn't appear m tne pubiisned list ot purchased players, nor did it apnear in the list of players recalled, but there was a "Bailey" recalled by Cleveland from nunaio. n nine ining ime a mistake in the letters of a name doubtless won't interfere with Cleveland's claim, but it would be interesting to know jusX how sBuffalo and Chicago thought they could make a deal for a player belonging to another club. One of Charley Wjeghman's clever ideas for rebuilding his Cubs, perhaps. Granting that Cleveland proves its claim, Daly may yet have his chance, with the Indians, for Manager Fohl may have more need of an extra catcher next year than he had this. Steve O'Neill can't continue doing all the work and Billings and Deberry have yet to show themselves as first string men. This is not the first time Tom Daly has been the subject of dispute, by the way. The Boston Americans thought they had pur chased him once from Lowell, but the validity of the deal was disputed and when Boston withdrew ' its claim Lowell sold him to the White. Sox. Daly was rated a big prospect as a catcher at that time, but Ra Scalk, like Steve O'Neill wilh the Indians, refused to yield to him. Tom's greatest claim to fame lies' in that home run he made before the king of England when the White Sox and Giants, on their tour of the world, were playing their final game of. the trip in London. It was a great battle, that game. Each team wanted it. for there was a good deal, of rivalry as the tour drew to a close. Recollection it that it went 11 innings and that when Daly broke it up with a homer even King George stood ' up and cheered just like an ordinary fan in the bleachers. , rl Adele Garrisons Intensely Fascinating Story of Married Life, z "The Revelations of a Wife," Now Running Every Day in The Omaha Evening Bee. Stajrt It and You Will Read Every Chapter MISS PIPPIN The Colonel Will Not Be Robbed of Nothing Unless it's His Cook. - '0i- Oeprrifht HIT, Interactional Nawa SJarviM Drawn for The Bee by Arnot "By dolly r it's SHOW 'ErA TrlFW House surA-i- Kot Ukk J l lXVIl cli iwr To iHVMtt. THESE "?T?EfttSES rwvr "RECKON viTH OS xAiCcc-nur, SW?P frt.NOW I I 81 mQU Jtl onRU HOT 1ACK 1 "follow ColorlEl T villtt A SoKRV DftY "foTl GtTS iHTUt Wfty op LfiKDIROH 0 up 6Ho M- 'm 5?Kt IF THE 1 sit Wrtd'T- pRoTECT OS We'u PROTECT OORSElVES ftStfNG TOR VROTLCTION yoo r JJJ1 t M? 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