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HOMES TO
PLAY FIRST
GAME TODAY
Omaha Western League Club
Makes First Appearance of
1918 Season in Clash
With Brandeis.
. WESTERN LOOP PILOTS.
Omaha Bill Jackson.
St Jpseph Bert Daniels.
Joplin Rudy Hulswitt.
Sioux City Ducky Holmes.
' Des Moines Jack Coffey.
Topeka Johnny Nee.
Wichita Joe Berger.
Hutchinson Otto Jacobs.
The Omaha Western league bate.
ball club plays its first game of the
year this afternoon. With the consent
of the weather man the Rourkes will
take the diamond this afternoon for
a joust with the Brandeis stores, Fred
Bradford's crack semi-pro nine.
The game this afternoon will be one
of the two exhibition games the
Rourkes will play before staring the
Western league season, May 1. The
other game will be played next Sun
day against the Camp Dodge canton
ment team. '
PROMISE GOOD GAME.
The Rourkes have been training
only for one weekend, as several of
the athletes reported late, tie team
as a unit has really only had two
Jays' practice. J!ut the men are in
pretty fair condition and Manager
Tackson promises a good game. t
Bellicose Bill probably will send his
young hurlers in for mound duty
ugainst the semi-pros today so that
'.be fans as well as himself can get
" line on their abilities. Corey, the
louthpaw from Hannibal, and Fuhr,
mother kid southpaw, probably will
jet a chance to show their wares.
Jackson, however, may work O'Toole,
Mere or Luschen into the contest.
Bradford Hopeful. V
The Brandeis team has been prac
ticing for three weeks and promises
to give the Rourkes real competition.
It has long been an ambition of Fred
Bradford to hand the Omaha pro
fessionals a lacing and each year he
hopes it is the year. This year Fred
is a little more hopeful than usual.
His crew got the jump on the' Rourkes
n the practice and his lineup this year
is the best he has ever had. So Fred
has high hopes of slipping a fast one
over on Jackson today and registering
, a victory over, the Rourkes,
Swede Olson, who is just about a
das! pitcher, will be on the firing
line for the semi-pros. Olson's wing
is reported to oe m great condition.
He has been working out for several
weeks, advancing by easy stages, so
that now he feels in mid-season form.
Olson "may go the whole route for the
Brandeis.' 1
Plan Military Day.;
Great plans are being made for
i the military program at Rourke
park next Sunday. The Camp Dodge
teata, -which will clash with the
Rourkes in the main event, is com
posed exclusively of ex-professional
and college stars. Three of the play
ers, including two pitchers the
Rourkes "will face, are former major
leaguens. The Dodge team is the
real article, so a fancy ball game is
on the schedule. ' '"'
Then Earl Caddock, heavyweight
wrsetling champion of the world, is
to go on the mat a few minutes with
a training partner; and Mike Gibbons,
h St. Paul ohantom. will perform
a tew OOXing iriCKS wiui a parinci.
vThe 41st infantrjr band from Fort
Cro'ok wilLfurnish the music.
. Receipts Go to Camp.
All of the receipts of the game will
gci to the Camp Dodge athletic fund.
This is the way the Rourkes arid
1 Brandeis will lineup for, action to
day: - ' ' '
rinnhi. Brandeis.
Jackson...... ..first ...NovlUky
qtoil second ,.H. Williams
MalthAwn Second. . , i
IKmlca. third . 7. ..... . Synek
' Jufnto...... short McQrath
Biihant... left Roben
Hanford center Dygert
'lolderman right .'. lwler
. Pratt v .catch
l--tnr V catch........
l.lnule....... ,.. catch Lynch
j'Tool pitch 1.. Olson
Afsrs.. ..,.....Pltcn
I.uschen Pitch
Cprey., pitch
J'uhr Pitch
Kopp. ..pitch
NEBRASKA STATE
NET TOURNEY TO
, BE HELD JULY 29
The annual Nebraska State Tennis
Championship tournament will be
staged starting July29, according to
a bulletin ' issued yesterday by the
United States National Lawn Tennis
asKoraion. ' I
Jhc location of the 1918 Nebraska
tournament is as yet undetermined so
the saction for the event was issued
to the Western Lawn Tennis associa
tion of which the Nebraska associa
tion is a member.
The last two state tournaments
have been held at Wayne and Super
ior, respectively, but the tournament
committee is a little at sea as to a lo
cation for the one this year. It may
be that the Omaha Field club will en
tertain the event, although it is the
policy of the association to hold the
tourney! outside Of the metropolis in
order, to stimulate ' interest in tht
game. ' f .
Ite Missouri Valley Championship
tournament-will be held this year at
Kansas City. It starts August 19.
It is probable . a. Urge number of
Omaha tennis enjftiusiasts will attend
and take part. - '','',,
Another tournament of interest for
Omaha fans is the Iowa state tourney
.vhich Will Adams of Omaha won one
fear.. This event will be held Just t
veek prior to the Missouri Valley,
starting at Des Moines on April 13.
, Name Is Changed. . -
The Tomaneks of the Booster
league have changed, their name to
Ue Parsley Commission Company '
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FULTON PLANS
TO BLUEPRINT
JESS WILLARD
Heavyweight Challenger Hikes
for Bush to Get Inside
Dope for July 4
Fight.
By RINGSIDER.
Chicago, April 13. Now that Jess
Vyillard and Fred Fulton are signed
up ior tneir name juiy i jor tne
heavyweight championship, talk and
i prediction regarding the scrap nat
urally turns to the capabilities, the
weaknesses, etc., of the two men. In
talking this over the other day with
Mike Gibbons, who is piloting the
destinies of Fulton in this row, Mike
was asked how he and Fred were
going to get a line on Jess.
And from Mike's answer it de
veloped that the theatrical and boxing
tours he and Fred make before the
fight are only incidentals to what
they are really out for. In short, they
are going out into the sticks to get
information on the weakness and pet
aversions and also the strong points
of the champion. They are going
into some of Willard's old stamping
grounds in the west and northwest
and dig up that which they desire.
Blue-print Jess.
'That's a mighty, hTrd Aing to
say," said Mike. "The plan of battle
carefully laid out to-day may not be
worth a whoop tomorrow. But I can
tell you this. We are going to blue
print this big fellow from the top of
his head to the soles of his feet be
fore the day of battle. We are going
to find out everything there is to
know about him. We will find out
his weak points, if he has any, and
tab up all the good ones as we pick
them up from time io time.
"This informaticm will be put on a
big blueprint and we will make , a
careful study of it for a long time
before the contest. By the time the
date of the mill rolls-around we will
have it pretty well figured out. Yes,
sir.
ir, that s just what I mean a blue-
print showing Willard just as your
architect would show you a blueprint
of a house he is building for you.
Is an Old Stunt.
"We've done this with other fight
ers we felt a little in doubt about
and found it a mighty good thing. I
can recommend it to any fighter who
is going vinto' an important match
against an opponent that figures to
be as good as he it himself."
And then Collins told of the great
confidence Fulton has in this coming
battle. Fred thinks Jess is a trifle
too old and hasn't fought enough
recently to be at his best. He doesn't
think' Willard is looking particularly
fit just now.
Western League
Notes
lo McDonald, a youngster who Blared
In tba St. Paul Catholic league lait year,
la to be given a trial with the St Joeenh
Western league club.
St. Joseph hai ilcned two ahortitODi.
One It named Oenner. lie halla from
Chicago. The other la Brubaker of the
Central league. i
VntnhAf. liilr tTt . n wt. .... ...
Kanaaa City by the Olanta, haa been ahlpper
in turn ny ine wiuea to Joplin.
Kanaaa Clly hae aent Outfielder Pitt to
Hutchinson. McOraw turned Jltt over to
uiil inman. an Hawaiian who waa wltln!
muu mm icara age, naa caugni on
with St Joaeph. '
ueapite the audden aeaulaltlon of 150.000
through fortunate speculation In oil landl.
Tex Jons promisee to be back on first
base for Wichita.
Bert Nlchoff. former Rourke. haa been
traded by the Phils to the Cardinal! for
Pitcher Mule Watson. Bert, however, la a
holdout. "
Oak Hennlng. first aacker. who waa with
Omaha a few mlnutea last spring, haa been
drafted Into the army. Oak reported at
uaiiaa this aprlng, but T had only worked
out a few days before Uncle Sam summoned.
Denver base ball enthusiasts are trvlnc
to promote a alx-club Colorado state league.
It will be an Independent organisation with
teams In Denver. Colorado Borings. Pueblo.
Cheyenne, Ureeley and one other city.
Kraiy Kat Klrkham, the celebrated
leaner who waa with St. Joseph In 11 and
1917. will hold down an outfield berth with
Little Rock.
June Cass haa been returned to Des
Moines by Washington. Cass landed In
clasa 1 of the army draft ao the Senators
passed htm up pronto owing to a IJ.000
price tag attached. The coin would have to
have been paid had Washington retained.
June. 1 . ' .
Jack Kottelnlck, a recruit" pitcher, has
been farmed to Sioux City by the St. Louis
tsrrtlnals. ' v .
Sioux City has algned Chick Ferrell, an
outfielder who played with Rochester In the
International league last yean Eunlck. a
third eacker, waa procured from the Cleve
land Americana.
Shay, from the Cuba, and McClellan, from
the White Sox, have been turned back to
Hutchinson but both are In the drafe.
Don Brown, former Topeka hurler, haa
signed a Joplin contract. '
Wichita tana are talking pennant already.
The Wolvea beat Kansas City In an ex
hibition gamo the other day. -
Hloux City haa lost Outfielder Ty Lober.
He haa been drafted and wtl not even report
to the new Indiana.
Surplus talent of the fit Louis Cardinals
is to be ahipped to St Joseph, It la reported.
SCATTERED TOiFOUR WINDS
Only Three Veterans of 1917 Still Remain;
All of Other Seek Fame in Distant Fields. v
ARE ROURKES OF LAST YEAR
Scattered to four winds are the
Rourkes of yester-year. Of the score
or more of athletes who at one time
or another last year carried the ban
ners of the gate city upon the West
ern league base ball diamonds, only
three have signed 1918 contracts. The
others Ire gone. v- . -
Half a dozen outfielders dug their
cleats into the turf at Rourke- park
last year. 'Not one of them will- re
turn to Omaha this spring. V Earl
Smith is with the St. Louis Browns.
Shag Thompson is building ships at
Chester, Pa. Fin Yardley is with
Columbus in the American associa
tion. Three former Rourke outfield
ers are in the Pacific coast league.
Morrie Schick is with Los Angeles,
Ward Miller with-Salt Lake City and
Cy Forsythe with Sacramento.
The infield, too, is all broken up.
Ha-old Irelan has left the grand old
game to enter the exciting pursuit of
salesmanship. Harold, during -an
ideal winter in Omaha, discovered he
was a salesman of no mean ability.
He made enough money to buy an
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14 0 if AH A, SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 14, 1918.
The Worshippe r:c p r ght ,m-int rna 1 nai 1 :By Berndt
IB mSTVlMVteURTUDCEAtfMT EE IM j ' ? C- I
W of Mt" for Tvf Worked y?- t J VjLdL f
"V HARD INTBMNING AND V -MS 1 "
TRIAL MW BIG tEAGUr J , " 4 1
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Wielding.
By FRED S. HUNTER.
A RECENT fire in Cleveland de
m trriuart a 11 Vi en 3n no c cFtf tliaf
evt j j -a m ovavii kjj"--'
were ready for distribution. Which
must have been joyful news to the base
ball bushwackers in the sixth city.
But there is a suspicion the fire was
a clever bit ot camounage; mar. tne
Cleveland club bad decided to revise
its free list.
Rajah Decends. I " , v
JJ OW the world do move and times
change. Roger -Bresnahan, we
learn, is to depend upon Miller Hug
gins to fill the gaps in the Toledo
team with v Yankee discards. And
only a short time ago Rajah would
have suffered the loss of his throwing
arm before he would consent to even
speak to Miller Huggins let alone
put himself under obligations. to the
Yank leader. '
Why Not Admit It? ,
THE Boston Red Sox have signed
Al Shean to play second base, say
reports from the bean city. . Why not
admit that Johnny Evers is a dead
one and be done with it?
( .
ADanaon xiopc
PITTS)BUKUH is to nave a Doxmg
commission to look after the game
in that city. But is the Pittsburgh,
boxing commission behavelike some
other boxing commissions 'we could
name offhand, the game will be likely
to be in the hands of the coroner
soon.
Playing With Fire.
rp HERE is a loud outcry in the
east, over the hour to start ball
games tliis year ' Club magnates,
scribes and fans are getting all ex
cited and hurling arguments around
with the carelessness of a Pullman
porter on the trail of a barber shop
rival. All of which is much ado about
nothing, unless the - magnates are
lucky there is likely to be no starting
hour at all about July M.
Alibi Ike. -
ALIBI Ife is always the handy guy
. in pugilistic circles. 'Jock Malone
who the other day drew a beating
from Byron Downey says the cagey
Downey sprinkled talcum powder on
the ring instead of rosin. We thought
the last of the talcum powder
fighters vanished when Freddie Welsh
went on his way. -
Cagey Connie.
1 T'S a great life if you don't weaken.
YTftf inr4nia ti a lkaiaan dip.
a ji liioiaiivi it nog uvvu uio
covered Connie Mack really has a
line-up to place upon the field, to
morrow. automobile, so he decided that game
had base ball beaten to death. Joe
Burg and Hal Brokaw, both of whom
tried u little infielding with the
Rourkes Brokaw also played in the
outfield are with Joplin. Hugh
Bradley, who played first base, is
still in the league, playing with To
peka. iJave Williams, another first
sacker, is at Kelly field, Texas, in the
aviation service. Marty Krup; is
beaded toward some branch of the
service,. while Otto Nye, third sacker,
is awaiting the next draft call.
Both of the " Omaha catchers . of
1917 art gone. Tony Brottem is
playing in a Little-Rock uniform and
Ben Shaw is still striving for a regu
lar oertn with tne Pittsburgh Pirates
Many . . pitchers appeared with
Omaha last year; Three remain
They are O'Toole, Merz and Lusch
en, Jim Park is with Columbus in
the American association, Pete Mc
Guire is at Camp Funston, Cecil
Thompson has become a railroad din
ing car conductor. Of the other
Rourke pitchers of " last season we
have lost track. Thejr're just, gone.
BIG LEAGUE CLUBS PRY LID
OF 1918 SEASON THIS WEEK
r
American League to Marshal Forces for First Call of
"Play Ball" With Two Games Monday; National
, to Start in Bunch Tuesday; Pennant
. Races Are Uncertain.
With many players missing, due to voluntary and draft enlistment into
war service and stalling changes of uniform since the close of the 1917 sea
son, the major leagues wilt open their annual pennant campaign this week
under conditions which have not existed at any previous period in the history
of the organizations. True to tradition and bravely facing the uncertain fu
ture, the 16 clubs composing the National and American leagues began their
1918 schedules confident that in the niche which base ball has hewed for itself
in the national life will be found a saffoothold, even in the perilous times
of the present day.
The American league, weather "permitting1, will have the honor of mar
shaling its forces to the first call of "Play ball." On Monday the New York
club of the junior association will face the Washington club players at the
nationa capital city, while theJPhiladelphia Athletics will oppose Boston on
the home diamond of the latter team. The following day the four remaining
clubs of the American league and all eight of the Natjonal league will swing
into action in the various cities of the circuits, providing the weather, jnan
co-operates wth the players and the fans.
The schedules for Tuesday call for the following opening games: Ameri
can League Cleveland vs., Detroit at Cleveland; Chicago vs. St. Louis at
Chicago. National League St. Louis vs. Chicago at St, Louis; Cincinnati vs.
Pittsburgh at Cincinnati; New York vs. Brooklyn at New York, and Phila
delphia vs. Boston at Philadelphia.
NATIONAL LEAGUE,
NEW. YORK.
The New Tork Nationals enter the 1911
pennant race with, excellent prospects of
being In the foreranka of tharlag struggle
from the opening of the season. Failure to
repeat the feat of winning the champion
ship of the senior league again would be due
not so much to loss of playing strength aa
the greater opposition offered by other clubs
which have built up weak departments
since the close of ths 1917 campaign.
Several of the best of the Olanta squad
ot a year ago will be missing, due to de
fections, trades and the possible operation
of the draft, but by deals and other meth
ods of skillful recruiting Manager McOraw
wilt be able to fill any breaks in hla lineup
and expects to enter the pennant race with
a combination fully as strong aa that which
won its way Into the world's series last au
tumn. '
Charley (Buck) Herzog will be missing
at second base, having been traded to the
Boston Nationals, and Larry Doyle, for
merly a member of the New York and later
of the Chicago Cubs, will again hold down
the midway sack for the Olanta., Dave
Robertson has apparently made up his mind
not to play with the team this season, which
will undoubtedly pave the way for the In
troduction of Ross Young, one of the "finds"
ot recent years. In the team outfield. Should
Benny Kauff be called to service early ih
the base ball campaign, however, the Olanta
outfield will not be equal to that of last'
summer.
PHILADELPHIA. '
In the opinion of a number ot base ball
experts, the sale of Alexander and Ktlllfer
to the Chicago Cubs has iut tbe Philadelphia
Nationals out of the running for the 1918
pennant' Conceded to have been the main
stay of the club in its winning of the cham
pionship In 1915 and In Its drives for similar
honors In lilt and 1917, Alexander and
Killifer have ift a big hole in the Phillies
that cannot be filled at this time.
Besides losing this great battery, the en-,
llstnient "In the military service of Eppa
Rlxey and the failure of Chief Bender to
report. Manager Pat Moran haa been
troubled with a number of holdouts and
his team la now only rounding Into shape
for the opening of the championship season
this week.
Moran haa combed the country for pitch
ing talent, but has thus far been unable to
make .up for any ot the fOsa sustained In
the sata of Alexander and KllITter. Mayer
and Oeschger are the most reliable of the
pitching staff which also Includes Ben Tin
cup, the Indian, The catchers will include
Burns, Adams and Dlllhoefer, the latter a
newcomer from the Chicago Nationals.
ST. LOCIS.
Itnder the management of Jack Hendricks,
who appears for the first time as a major
league pilot this season, the St. Louis Na
tionals, with its club personnel practically
Intact from last year, have entered the base
ball pennant race determined to better thetr
record ot last season third place In the
National league gonfalon.
The enlistment In the marines of Jack
Miller, wrio had been chosen to succeed
Miller Huggins as manager when the latter
assumed the leadership of. the New York
Americans, caused President Branch Rickey
to cast about f.-r a new manager. eettl,d
upon Jack Hendricks, who had an enviable
record in minor league base hall and who
was nnder eontract with Indianapolis in the
American .association, and finally secured
his services.
Jack Miller, second baseman, and Marvin
Goodwin, pitcher the former in the ma
rines and the latter In an aviation camp.
aretho only regulars now In' military serr
1 n.tt.1 whA hii heen an the club lev.
Nral years, has been selected to fill Millers
place and, although his work Is not equal
to that ot the ctar, Hendricks pronounces It
"satisfactory." To bolster up the pitching
staff. Sherdell waa secured from Milwaukee
In the American association, as was Robin
son from Little Rock, Ark., In the Southern
association. ' -
Rogers Hornby, temperamental shortstop,
from his horn- In Texas, for several months
refused to talk terms, and until the train
ing season jraa a week unW way declined
to affix his signature to a contract. Horn
by, for some time, had been the central
figure In numerous reported trades in which
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AMERICAN LEAGUE.
CHICAGO.
The Chicago Americans will stand pat
with the team which, won the world's
championship from the New Yorle Nation
als last season. President Charles A.
Comlakey and his, manager, Clarence Row
land, feel confident that the team which
von base ball's highest honors last season
has the class to repeat this year.
All the regulars looked in shape to start
two weeks , before . the season opened, al
though the tralnlng'trip to Mineral Wells,
Tex., was the most "abbreviated' the club
baa aver taken. ' ' i
The weakest spot on the cjub Is the
pitching department. It was ths same
worry Rowland experienced last year. The
Whits Sox laid claim to only two men who
were able togo the full nine Innings on
the mound. Tnese were Clcotte and Faber.
Williams and Danforth, southpaws, were
a "fifty-fifty" pair, whose team work In
relieving, each other also helped the Chi
cago club. ' Danforth also was a first-class
finisher for some of the other twlrlers.
These two pitchers are expected to ''go
the route" this season, anfl if they can
fulfill Rowland's expectations, the pennant
chances ot the White Sox are exceedingly
bright. . . 'f '.
Shellenffach,' a redVult pitcher frpm the
Milwaukee club ' of th American associa
tion, is making his second attempt io break
in with the White ,8x.: He is So years
old, a right-hander, six feet, one inch tall
pand weighs 178 pounds. -
CLEVELAND.
Manager La Fohl of the 'Cleveland
Americans feels that lt'a the Chicago White
Sox against the field "in the American
league race this . year asd that his team
ha as good a ahapce as any ot the other
seven to beat oat 'Chicago
The Cleveland, 1917, outfield la Intact,
barring sickness or Inlartes, this yesr with
Speaker In center, Graney In left and Roth
In right. In case of either Roth or Speak
er being drafted Cleveland has Floyd
Farmer and Joe Wood, former BoBton star
oltcher. for outfielders. Wood has shown
great fielding ability In practice and if he
can tcgain his old batting eye and hit the
hall like he did in 1912-13 he win mane
a good substitute outfielder or first base
man, in rase he does not mane a success
ful comeback aa a pitcher.
First and third bases are the uneertaln-
tles in. the Infield. Chapman will play
shortstop and - Wambsganss second base.
Martv Kavanagh will probably start at
firat. althouKh Ed Miller, a recent acquis!
tion from the New Orleans Club, Is likely
to give Kavanagh a hard fight for the
berth. Its a togs-up between the new
comer. Ous Gets, and the verai Terry
Turner, fot'thlrd base.' with the chance in
favor of Gex..
, DETROIT. '
As war and time have claimed their
toll of Tigers, the Detroit Americans will
start the season with new men In the
regular lineup. Ram Crawford, the mighty
slugger of pennant., days, haa played his
last game with Detroit. George Burns, first
baseman, went to the Philadelphia AmerU
carls In a three-cornered deal. Howard
Ehmke, the promising right-hand pitcher, la
In the navy, and Shortstop Owen Bush
has been placed In class A by his local
draft board, but probably will not be called
until late In the season. "Hack" Spencer
has. declined to come back to Detroit.
Harry Coveleskle, once a great southpaw,
Is the. doubtful man among the veteran
twlrlers. He TM released last season, but
Jennings took him south this spring, be
cause Coveleskte Insisted that his arm has
yielded to medical treatment and had re
gained its former strength.
At the spring camp at Waxahacle. Tex..
Jennings tried out a large squad of bat
tery men but had comparatively few re
pmit fielders. Of the Ditchers. Erickaen.
formerly with Detroit and the leadfng I
twlrler In the Pacific coast league teat year,
has made the most Impress've showing.
Einneran from St. Paul aid Kalllefrom
Des Moines have great records and Jennings
had been impressed by their spring perform
ances. The rest of the recruit twlrlers, with
the possible exception of Hall 4rom Joplin,
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WARTIME BALL
UNDERGOES ACID
TEST THIS YEAR
Magnates, Players and Fans
Face Season of Uncertainty
Owing to Strife Across
the Water.
By JACK VEIOCK.
New York, April 13. War-time
base ball will undergo the acid test
this season. t
Next Tuesday the sixteen clubs of
the two 'major leagues will face tha
barrier, eagei and ready to start bat
tling for the honor of playing for the
world's championship next fall, but
they will start under vastly different
conditions than they did one year ago.
Is base bah strong enough to sur
vive? Is it looted so firmly with the
sport-loving public and so necessary
as a form of recreation tfiat it can
sail along smoothly in these rather
panicky war times? Only the play
ing out of the season will tell.
The popti.arity of the national
game is best indicated by the success
or failure of major league clubs in
various parts of the country. At
tendance at games in the big leagues
is the barometer by which even minor
league clubs can judge the sentiment
of the masses. So the fortunes of big
league clubs at the box office will be
watched with interest.
All Optimistic.
John K. Tener, president of the Na
tional league: Ban Johnson, czar ot
the American league, and GarryJ
lierrman, chairman of the National
Base Ball commrssion, have all gone
on record with optimistic statements
iu sizing up the prospects for 19l8.
They believe in base ball and they see
the necessity of keeping it afloat in
order that it may not lose prestige.
Many of the club ownersin the big
show feel the same way, but there
are some who are doubtful. The war
tax which will be cbllected at the box
office is not high enough to keep the
real fan away. But it is a practical
certainty that a good many folkswho
patronized base ball liberally in past
years will not go out to the parks as
often this year.
Prices High.
Prices are mighty hgh, and base
ball, after all, s a recreative luxury.
So a certain per cent of the fans will
Hooverize on base ball to some extent.
The class of base ball which will be
dished up to the bugs by big league
clubs will be just as attrafctive as ever
before. No club has been hit so hard
by, enlistments or the draft to date
that its class has been lowered to the
extent of drowning all hopes for a
good finish in either pennant ace. So
the usual incentives that mark the
spring drives will' be felt again this
year.
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WESTERN LEAGUE
TEAMS BEGIN TO
TAKE REAL FORM
Every Club in League Starts
Preliminary Practice; Wichita
Even, Plays a'
. Game.
Western league teams are begin
ning to assume form as the call for
spring training goei out. Every club
in the league began preliminary train
ing last week and this week the real
'grind of the spring preparatory ses
sion will ge: under way. ,
Many of t';e old familiar faces wili
be missing this year. Some of the
veterans hava passed upon their way;
others have gone into the service of
their country. Some of the clubs:
likyS Omaha, are almost entirely new.
But here arid there a number of the
old-timers will be seen so that tli!
Western will at least look like the
same old league.
Wichita was the first club to begin
training. Joe Bcrgerwill manage Ihc
Wolves aga;:.- this season. He had
eight rookies on the job April 1 and
before most of the clubs had even at
tempted to tart training, had played
a ball game for the benefit of the Red
Cross. Wichita looms strong this
year. A body blow was dealt the
club when Pep Goodwin went to war,
but Isbell believes he has a man to
more than fill his place. x
Harry Spratt, new business mana
ger, who will serve as iiead of the
club while John Savage attends to
Kansas City, is lining things up at
Joplin He and Rudy Hulswitt, the
new playing manager, started spring
practice last Monday. Joplin lost sev
eral players through sales and to the
army, but still ,has a formidable look
ing aggregation.
Coffey at Des Moines.
Des Moines still has the old reliablt
Jack Coffey at the helm and hi Jiai
many of his players in the fold al
ready. Jack is helping coach the
Camp Dodge cantonment team, bu:
he finds plenty of time to teach his
own charges. The Boosters startec
practice early last week and by the
last of the week were in full swing.
Ducky Holmes' Sioux City athletes,
did not report until late last week and
will not gc: going in earnest until
this week.
Topeka is one of the league's un
known quantities. Many old Denvet
players are on the roster and Spencer
Abbott, the iew magnate in the
league,1 seems to have plenty of finan
cial backing. He has sighed a lot of
new athletes and if they all deliver
the Kaws , v ill compose one of the
strongest organizations in the loop.
Johnny Nee, who was in the Central
league last year, will manage Topeka,
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