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RJ HSl COUNCILS) s t v VOL,. G LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, JULY 24, liOf 8 PAGES NO. 16 3 Some Dope About the Great National Game Of course the cry of "knocker went ap. That was to hare been expected. But It wasn't a -knock." it was merely a little bit of friendly advice offered by one who pays his money at the sate, never asks for favors and only -wants to set his money's worth. He doesn't demand that the team win very game he only wants it to play the ball it has up its collective sleeve. There isn't a man on the Lincoln team who wouldn't strengthen any other team la the league! There isn't a finer bunch ot young men playing professional ball anywhere. But there Is something wrong somewhere and the only desire is to locate it- FOr example: la the first game of Saturday's double header Roberts of "Wichita, playing first base, went down after a low throw. The runner went Into him. spiking his wrist. But be fore Roberta made a- "holler" he went after the ball and fielded it in. Then he paid attention to his injury. In the second game practically the same thing happened at third base only different. Hogreiver went after a low throw and injured a finger, missing the ball and letting it get away. Instead of retreivlng the ball and then look ing after his injury he let the ball go, and before another player could get it a couple of men had scampered over the plate. And Hogreiver's injury wasn't as bad as Roberts' injury at that Mason's injury in the second game Saturday was a bad one. While at bat a pitched bail slammed him on the finger already badly injured and fairly ripped the flesh up. It could plainly be seen from the grand stand. The plucky little catcher had to re tire, and the injury will keep him awake nights for some time. Sullivan. with spiked foot, went in and per formed his usual gocd stunt. By the way. the Honorable Jeems Sullivan is becoming a very depend able bitter. He has to take a lot of "Joshing' about his running qualities, but it comes from people who mean it in fun. Jimniie runs a good deal like a dray wagon during a teamsters' strike, and that's why the stands rose en masse Saturday and cheered rap turously when Jimmie bunted and got away with it. Now Isn't It awful. Mabel: Just as we had a chance to get out ot the bottom hole the Pooh Ebs hike up to Omaha and actually stop the long winning, streak of the Rourkeites. winning both games of last Sunday's double header. This increased a bit the lead the Pooh Ebs had over the Foxies, although the Foxies took the bulk of the series with Wichita. Per haps there Is something in this "hard luck" gag, after alL I Gagnler may not be a Frenchman. but all the same it is a French name and it it were given the French pro nunciation it would no longer be "Gag' for an abbreviation. "Gone-yer" is the correct pronunciation, but here's hop ing it will be a long Ume before we'll say "Gone". There were two fly catches in the first game of last Saturday's double header that were well worth the price of admission. Jude's catch of a long drive to the fence was ot the kind that you may read about now and then, but see only once or twice in a lifetime. A litt.e later Davidson came in like a meteor and scooped an impos sible one with his left hand. It cost the management dollars to nail the root back on after the game was over. V Mr. Shaner, who essayed to pitch the first game Saturday got his bumps good and plenty- and was early with drawn. Then he officiated in the sec ond game and let the Foxies down with six hits. Manager Fox fattened up his batting average in those Saturday games. He got a three-bagger that under ordinary circumstances would have been an easy fly-out. But the knowledgeous center fielder, relying upon the tact that Fox hasn't been smashing 'em to the fence, played well up to short's position. As a result he was some thing less than a mile on the Inside ot Fox's smashing drive to the fence, and Fox scooted to third. The same state of affairs gave Fox a double the next time he went to bat. The official score of last Saturday's double header shows one error for Lincoln in the first game and one er ror In the second. The Lincoln team leads the league in fielding. The man we traded Bonno for hasn't reported yet. Even at that the trade was a good one. But we do wish Zal usky would come into the reservation. The game on Friday of last week which Lincoln won. by the way was the shortest played on the home grounds this season, being a little less than 1:40. Two hours and more has been the rule. Thomas hasn't been putting 'em over the fence this year, but he. has smashed some liners Into safe terri tory. Some of these days Jude is going to get one over the right field fence, and thus break a record. Every day, over in the south sec- I "Lincoln (Central Labor The Fourth Annual Benefit of the Lincoln Central Labor Union will be held at the Oliver Theater, Friday Evening, July 30th The attraction for this occasion will be "THE DEFAULTER," and it will be presented by the full strength of the Grace Haywood Stock Co. It is full of human interest, and will please all who see it. i REGULAR PRICES OF ADMISSION, 25c and 10c This benefit is ten- AJ ArifNfiWT FUCTVIFNT Tickets exchangeable dered the Central Labor AV AVlVIlU W jLCUUlYljCri 1 at the box office for re Union through the courtesy of Manager Gaatz, served seat tickets now for sale by the.commit of the company, Manager Zehrung, of the Oliver tee. Reservation of seats may be made at any and membership of the Grace Hayward Stock Co. time after 9:00 o'clock Monday morning, July 26 tion ot the stand, a bellows-lunged fan does mighty good "rooting." It might be a good idea for the manage ment to put him in a uniform and set him over on the coaching line. And it Lincoln had a first division team the indications are that Messrs. DeSpain and Stoner would have to engage a dray to haul the gate receipts up town. With a tail-end team Lin coln enthusiasts are flocking in droves to the park. Last Saturday's at tea dance was almost equal to opening day. If McCafferty should lose his cap and make a headfirst slide for the base, the probabilities are the base man would dodge under the mistaken idea that he was facing the headlight of a locomotive. Mac's dome is a polished wonder. Omaha won twelve straight games and then laid down three times in front of Pueblo, Just as we had a chance to thrust the Pooh Ebs back into the last hole. Police! Umpire Glenalvin will not do. He has a habit of baring his teeth and rushing up. towards a player as if he ' intended to bite a chunk out of him. i but for all his pugilistic bluffs he has a yellow streak around his abdomen 1 - . I 1 T ! team was deliberately robbed of a game the Foxes were the victims last Wednesday. Glenalvin umpired like a man with a head full of feathers and two eyes full of glue. We depre ciate violence towards an umpire, but after seeing Glenalvin's exhibition last Wednesday we were quite willina to chip in to pay the fine of any frantic fan who swatted him in the visage. Glenalvin had it coming to him. good and proper. Prexy O'Neill will confer a favor on Lincoln by sidetracking Glenalvin from all future Lincoln games and sending us an umpire recruited from a blind asylum. We'd stand a better chance to get a square deal. The fans were disappointed in not having a chance to see Forrester, the new pitching recruit, work before the learn went away. We are hoping lie te Bomi-where near what he is touted as being, but we've been hearing this line of "booster" dope so long we are growing a little leary. All we can do is to hope for the best. Let us cheerfully admit that Hog reiver is a wise old dog. And let ua al so agree that he has been in the game long enough to learn about ail Mie ropes there are to learn. And then let us also agree that the old veter an has been playing some sleepy ball of laic. Occasionally he seems to wander around third base in a sort of daze. Wednesday he went to sleep and came within an ace of having his phiz smashed by one of Sullivan's sud- FOURTH ANNUAL BENEFIT den whips down to third. If Hogreiver had been awake with his eye on the ball he would have caught the runner off a mile. As it was he dropped the ball after coming dangerously near catching it in his face. By the way, if it is a rough spot in the sod that makes him miss so many, what's the matter with running the roller over it? Well, five out ot the last seven is not so worse, everything considered. At any rate the old hoodoo seems to have been pretty badly Jarred, and by the time the boys get home perhaps it will have disappeared entirely. Here's wishing. But, for heaven's sake now, no more of the much vaunted Blenalvin. He is rancid. Fourth annual benefit Lincoln Cen tral Labor Union, Oliver theatre, Fri day evening, July 30. Tickets 25 and 15 cents. Courtesy Grace Hayward Stock Co. and Frank Zehrung, mana ger. Oliver. ANOTHER MR. KENNEDY. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Kennedy are re joicing over the arrival of another son. The little fellow arrived Tuesday morning. July 20. Mr. Kennedy is a member of the Western Newspaper Union chapeL A SAO DEATH. Popular Boy Drowned in the Muddy Waters of Salt Creek. Lawrence Barrett, aged fourteen was drowned in Salt Creek Tuesdav afternoon of this week while bathing with a lot of boy companions in Lin coln Park. He started to swim the creek and when near the middle sank from sight. His companions gave the alarm, but all attempts as rescue were unavailing. An hour passed before the body was nVcovered. Young Barrett was a brother of Al Barrett, a member of Lincoln Typo graphical Union. The funeral was held Thursday and interment was in Wyu- ka. ANOTHER BIRTHDAY. Colonel Erst ine King, foreman of the "Western Newspaper Union, had another birthday last Tuesday, but he didn't think of it until the day after. When he remembered it he forgot to tell the force which one it was. We don't know how old this genial Mis sourian is, but whatever his age, he doesn't look it, and here's hoping he'll have a hundred more birthday anni- versararies. CENTRAL LABOR UNION. Second July Meeting Will Be Held Next Tuesday Evening. The Central Labor Union will meet next Tuesday evening at Bruse hall and there is every reason why the at tendance should be large. The final arrangements for the benefit perform ance at he Oliver on the following Friday evening are to be made, and other business of importance will comej up for transaction. The delegates from the Street Railway Association and from the Teamsters will be on hand to be obligated. The matter of the central body's participation in the Labor Day celebra tion will also receive attention at this meeting. The attendance at these meetings has been increasing right along, and a livelier interest is being manifested in the work of the organization. If the affiliated unions will see to it that their delegates are faithful in atten dance the result will soon be apparent in an increase in the number of unions in Lincoln. This increase has been heavy of late, but there yet remains a big work to do, and it can not be done as it should unless all take hold and boost. HERE'S A MAN! "I'll sign the scale if I am the only man in the world to do so," said Mr. Griffith, the owner of the GriflUh Iron and Charcoal Tin Mill In Washington, 13., to the Amalgamated Association. Fourth annual benefit Lincoln Cen tral Labor Union, Oliver theatre, Fri day evening, July 30. Tickets 25 and 15 cents. Courtesy Grace Hayward Stock Co and Frank Zehrung, mana ger. Oliver. The number ot women who earn their own living in the United States has now reached the surprising total of nearly 5,000,000. Among the Live Here If the plans of the Labor Day com- mittee go right the people of this city are going to have the privilege of hearing one of the greatest women of this generation on the day that la bor celebrates. Every student of civil war history has read of the "Fighting McDowells." One of them reached the rank of ma jor general, and his war record is a bright page in the republic's history. The woman who is going to be the orator of the day for the trades union ists of Lincoln and Havelock is the daughter of that famous general Mary E McDowell of Chicago. And Mary EL McDowell has inherited the blood of the "Fighting McDowells." She is the head worker in the Univer sity of Chicago social settlement, and it was she who organized the girl workers in the Chicago packing houses and fought with them during the memorable packing house strike in that city. She alone of all the women of Chicago dared to "talk tnr ney" to the Armours, the Codahys, the Swifts and the Morrises. Day after day she counciled with the striking Union girls, cheering them on In their de mand for common justice, and she told without mincing words the hor rible conditions prevalent in those sinks of filth and iniquity. Four years ago the editor of The Wageworker had the privilege of hear ing Miss McDowell when she ad dressed the American Federation of Labor convention at Minneapolis. She represented the Woman's Trade Union League and was asked to occupy the floor for thirty minutes. At the end of that time the convention, admist rousing cheers, begged her to continue. and for an hour she held that big as sembly of brainy and earnest men with her simple eloquence. There were many great speechs delivered on the floor of that convention, bnt not one of them was listened to with more interest and pleasure than the speech of Mary EL McDowell. As stated in the beginning, if the plans of the committee go all right Miss McDowell will be the Labor Day orator in Lincoln. The committee sit .i ,....,. ir;cc ATorwtweTI ! wiii cuucaiui iu lit c .-I. . in Lincoln the day before Labor Day (Sunday) and if this can be brought about an effort will be made to secure the privilege of having her occupy a couple of Lincoln pnlpits, once in the morning and again in the evening. She has a message for the whole people, not trades union men and women alone, and those who can hear her and miss the opportunity will en tertain many regrets. The Wagework er hopes that by next week it will be able to definitely announce the completion of arrangements whereby Ones and Hereabouts Miss McDowell's appearance is as sured, Raymond Robins, in a private letter to the editor, says that Mis McDowell is the ery best possible speaker the local committee coald ' cure an assertioii that The Wage worker is quite willing to endorse. Fourth annual benefit Lincoln Cen tral Labor Union, Oliver theatre, Fri day evening, July 30L Ticket 25 anal 15 cents. Courtesy Grace Hayward Stack Co. and Frank Zehrwng, mana ger. Oliver. The Labor Day committee met at the labor commia toner's office Friday evening of last week aad effected! a temporary organization by electing- C H. Chase chairman aad Alex Wee fe es ser, secretary. A committee was ap pointed to confer with the Capita! Beach management relative to hold ing the picnic at the Beach.) A com mittee on printing and publicity was also appointed. Several necessary com mittees were suggested bat appoint ment was deferred on til several salons had sent their representatives. It was decided to ask each affiliated union to appropriate tea cents per member to a guarantee fund, the sasse to be refunded pro rata from the pro ceeds of the celebration. This fond is for the purpose of guaranteeing any deficit. Twelve anions were repre sented at the labor commissioner's of fice last night, bnt The Wageworker went to press too carry to give a re port of its work. The committee will meet regularly every Friday evening from now on. with perhaps an oc casional extra meeting as Labor Day draws near. Last waei The Wageworker toW bow Sam De Xedry had been with drawn cj a d-iegste from Waahingtoa Typographical Union to the Central Labor Unlou of that Clj. President Kidd deposed De Xedry on the ground that De Xedry was "too radical." It so happens that De Xedry has bees secretary of the central body aad its business agent for five eonseestive tarms, and the week following Presi dent Kidd's action was to witness an other election. Did Kidd's actioa have any effect? When the cesttrai body met the folio-wing week the first business transacted was to make De Xedry a "delegate at large" to the central body as long as be reasaiaed -editor of the Washington Trad Unionist. Wheat the time came to elect officers De Xedry was re-elected secretary f-r the sixth coasecatfve time. There are a whole lot of peo ple who opine that Kidd's actioa was . not based so much upon the growsd that De Xedry is "too radical"' as it was upon political grounds. At aay rate, the Washington Trades and La bor Assembly handed President Kidd of the Typographical Union a very large and soar lemon while handing De Xedry a juicy red apple. And there are a lot of western "prints" who are Just tickled to dead about it. The trades union movement is la need of a few regiments of "radicals'" like Sam De Xedry. The union building tradesmen of Lincoln have contributed not less than $50O worth of work to the public band concert movement. They built the band stand without cost to the people. The union musicians came across wit $150 towards the concerts. The Cen tral Labor Union went down into its depleted treasury aad contributed $2.50 to the concert fund. Thare are a lot of people in Lincoln who are always talking about "doing some thing? for the workingman.'' but it is taking an awful lot of coaxing to xr' them to come across with money enough to make the concert fuivi large enough to start with. If talk performed a service fir the working man there are a few hundred people in Lincoln who could furnish the talfc and never sweat a hair. The Central Labor Union beseSt at the Oliver theatre on Friday evening, July 30, ought to be a record breaker in point of attendance at that popular playhouse. The Grace Hayward Cot. i3 offering a series of splendid pTays, put on by a company that is deserv ing of all praise for its arOsrie work. The central body's share of the pro ceeds will be devoted to orgaaiaaoa I work, and every unionist in tie city (Continued on Page -LI