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LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, JULY 24, liOf
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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.
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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.
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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
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