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a THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, SEPTEMllKU SI, 1U01I. 11 GOSSIP FROM THE GRIDIRON Tint Waak f Practic ladies ts ChangM Likaly ii Tig Teams. COACHES AND CAPTAINS CONSERVATIVE ttierlac Irtrhfi Them Xnt to Be To rtancalae Aboal Eleveoa j . I Btll Material Ha, Iteea TVell Tried Oat. Practically the first week of real practice In the loot ball world haa now been com pleted, and a glance over the many teams of the country show already changes from thr.Ir outlook! fa they were Imagined to exist a week ago, Just before the assembl ing of the aquada. Strange to say, the most . remarkable feature of the week'a develop ments seems to be that most of the teama bave suffered a lessening- of their pros pects '.n that time. Coaches and captalna usually .leave a wide margin for the pos sibility of the non-appearance of player In the fall. They are nerer too aangulne, , preferring to err In the other direction. For that reason statements as to a college's foot ball outlook made before the squads have assembled are conservative, and can be relied upon to be none too favorable. This year all the schools began announcing along toward the first of September how poor their prospects were and now after one week of practice It la found that even at that the chancea were overestimated. After every allowance was made for all defections of old men considered possible, . 'It develops, that still more of them will .remain out of the game and In conse quence a smothered howl Is going up from . most foot ball training quarters. Aalde from that fact the Interesting de velopment of the week In foot ball circle is that affair In this sport are becoming more conservative than they have been of recent years. Two facts make this plain. In the first place, the commencement of training has been universally postponed several weeks. As the football fever has grown In Intensity during the last decade . candidates and coaches have been devoting . more and more effort and time to prepara tion for the aeason. It Is a short one, only two month, beginning practically on October 1, and always closing with the Thanksgiving day game. Moat colleges open about the middle of September and . si years ago or ao the time between reg istration and the first game wat considered ample for preliminary training. But as competition grew keener and Interest , waxed fierce the time of preliminary work was lengthened, till finally foot ball men were asked to report before the college year opened. The aeaaon of 1901 was the climax In this Hne. For the big teams of that year candidates spent prscllcally the whole summer preparing. Everybody took a pigskin home with him for the summer . vacation and did what he could with that. , Then each man T.-as supposed to keep In good ahape all aummer, and to report many weeka before school opened In per fect condition physically. So all such a . ,man needed waa a hardening and training In the game Itself. Even aa far west as Wisconsin this extreme spirit, waa evident In 1901, as the squad was assembled in . August, more than a month before the first game. : The year 1902 shows a waning of this ex aggeration, though the game of foot ball It self haa a atronger hold on the colleges than ever. It la now undoubtedly the national college sport, but there Is little chance of 4 Its eyer being made so very great a part of an undergraduate's life as It waa last year. - . Towit, the championship team of the world of last season, that of Har- Tafd, la yet to assemble, It being called together for tomorrow, while the last week haa marked the first gathering of almost all the Important squads. The second sign of a coming conserrattsm Is fhat training Itself is not so exaggerated aa In the past. The pace la not ao killing. Men are put to work slower and kept at it easier then before. More attention than , .' ever Is paid to the actual conditioning of the players, which la their, main safeguard ;. - against Injury. They are not thrust so , quickly into the scrimmages of the actual game. They are taught how to play It theoretically very thoroughly before they ' ar aaked to do it in action. They are not : 'compelled to learn the proper place for them . In the Interference by being knocked end over end In a scrimmage whenever they lose that position. They are shown with pencil . and paper, with non-opposed lineups. Just ' ' what la expected of them before they are i - asked to do It In actual practice. In fact, the blackboard la becoming a ant.1 part of foot ball training. Every play that a team uaes is figured out in detail. Each man baa a number, and a relative posi tion where he should be at different points In the progress of the play.- When the day's work at punting and falling on the ball and signal practice 1 over the squad is assem bled by the coach after dinner and an hour "each night la apent in quizses. Each man In turn goes to the board and ia made to . explain any point about any play, and he ,1 also expected to be able to diagram the 'play completely. . . In pursuit of tbs spirit of conservatism only an of the teama of the Big Four baa yea had scrimmage work. That ia the Uni versity of Pennsylvania squad, In training at Eagleemere for the last three weeks , Ths Quakers were taken put unusually early, because they were so weak last sea ' aon. Dr. Williams is bending every energy and applying all rules of common-sense ' and anatomical science to build up a great eleven, and hie prospects grow brighter 'each, week. .Till last . Wednesday signal practice waa the nearest his eleven cam to a scrimmage, and they haven't had much of It yet. Meanwhile the major portion of the time ia still being spent in practice In ,' kicking and tackling the dummy and fall ing on the ball. The event of greatest in I REMICK'S ECZEMA CURE. The firrt application give relief I on bos will our any ordinary ease of Keaama, Pis arbor's Ilea aad all luiiuog or eoaly eruptions. h-iw, fifty Cant per box. PURIFY THE BLOOD. Ia KCMKK1 f II 7 Q oulckly cured I aa Imm J Csura. The first V FREE D0H0Z0IIE OFFER. 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Young Hare weighs 167 pounds and Is t feet 1 Inch tall, but Is only 19 years of age, and will fill out. At prep School he played tackle, but his lightness and kicking ability are causing him to be tried out aa a fullback. He haa Sloan as a rival for the place and both men kick fifty yards easily and regularly. It may be said that Pennsylvania la the' only college of the Big Four whose prospects have not diminished In the week. The Quakers are almost sure of having a much better team than that of 1901. -From old Nassau comes a louder wall than ever. A week ago at least six of last year' regular men were expected as a necleus, but practice began last Monday and the week has developed that this num ber Is to be reduced to five, as Dana, rlghtguard, will not be out. This leaves only Captain Davis as left end, DeWitt at right tackle, Henry at right end, Freeman at quarter and McClave at halfback tor a atarter. And even that little band Is threatened with further depletion. Davis and DeWttt, two of the especial stars, are In trouble with the faculty because they failed to pass the examlnationa last spring, and they will not be allowed to play unless they pole up and pass some now. So on old men the Tigers find themselves pinched. However, Coach Carry Cochran finds himself confronted with the most promising bunch of new ones Princeton has known In years, and he will do all he can with them, though, of course, they will be green. The new material la of such quality that It seems to assure to the Timers a great team in a year or ao, If not in 1902. The heaviest man of the new ones Is a prep school man from Lawrencevlllc, named Roger. He weighs 290 pound. From the same place come the two Rafferty brothers, cousins of the Yale Rafferty. They play end and fullback. Another prominent new one ia Ross McClave, a brother of the present Tiger half. He weigh 180 pounds, and Is touted as a great kicker, which will make htm very valuable to Nassau. From such material Cochran and Davla will be compelled to find about six-elevenths of the present season's team, and though the fact that most of the promising ones have bad prep school ex perience Is encouraging, yet to all Intents and purposes they are still green for Princetonlan foot ball men. Feeling that In year past the Crimsons have Buffered more from overtraining than from any lack of It, Harvard coaches are the last to assemble their men. Tomor row is the day set for the gathering at Cambridge, end today, aa last week, the prospect is that Harvard will be compelled to build almost an entire new team. Like Princeton, only five old men will be .back for their places. Barnard at guard and Bowditch at end will be a skeleton starter for a line of seven men, and In the back fleld Graydon full, Kernan half and captain and Marshall quarter are the old-timers. This means one half, two tackles, a guard, center and end to look for. Though prac tise has not yet begun. It Is ' to bet the coaches are busy looking. ' After Harvard's brilliant showing of last year this smattering of the old star Is discouraging, and hopes are not raised much by a glance over the new candi dates. The bunch is not a very promising one so far. Actual assembling may bring out soma new ones. To date Wright, a law achool man, "Zeus" Roberta and Sug den aeem the atrong bids for the center Job. The vacant guard will be the cause of a hot contest .between Robinson, the shot putter, and Rlggs and Kidder, two men from last year'a freshman team. That give a great bunch of material for the two places, but with the tackles comes the rub. , Cutts and Blagden would be hard enough to replace anyway, and It will be a poor fellow for them that will be pulled out of auch men as Wright, a sophomore, and Jonea, both aubstltutes last year, and only mediocre ones, and Mills and Ovtson of last season's freshman team. The tackle posltlona are the places that make a team strbngest If they are atrong and weakest if they are weak, and they are already picked for the Crimson's soft spot this year. uoing out to the vacant end. there Is a good list of candidates, with the colored man, Matthews, showing best, despite his light weight. Clothier, the Philadelphia tennis player. Burgess and "Dud" Clark are other probabllltlee for the place. Be- nind the line, meanwhile. Harvard etarta In strong. With three old men back only one half Is needed, and thla should be eas ily supplied from such candidates aa Miff lin, Derby. Jones and Knowles. It is ru mored that Marshall, though a veteran. will be hard pressed to bold his place at quarter by Leo Daly, a cousin of the old Harvard captain, and Baldwin and Parker are also seeking the peripheral place. Though the Yale Blues have been in training all the past week, a stern silence Is being maintained regarding the team and Its outlook. Very little news of the squad has leaked outside New liaven. but what haa come ia in the nature of a blow to the school. De Saulles, the famous quarterback, la not to return and he has been counted on all the time. He waa last aeaaon the greatest college quarter anywhere, performing remarkable defensive feats In the great game with Harvard. Daly of West Point. Harvard's former quarter and captain, waa given the place on the All American team. but De Saulles ranked very closely to him and Daly'a preference came only because of auperior kicking abil ity. Aa ao often the case wtth foot ball men, scholarship troubles cause De Saulles' departure from college. Then cornea an other blow almost as hard la the announce ment that Fullback Weymouth will not re turn. This puta Yale matters on a very different basis from that of a week ago. Then It waa thought that only two ends and Olcott as guard would be lost. That left the back field intact, and left also more linesmen than any other team of the Big Four will have. Now the back field is riddled, the two atrongeat men going. De nn , Quickly & Permancnth iples, of long atandlnr purify the blood, by takini PFPfti li LOO U TOSH. . by vain Baiks Eeaeaaa application give inatast relief. OROIONt. Saulles' place It will be almost impossible to fill satisfactorily, but there la some con solation In the fact that Bloomer haa returned to achool and can take Wey mouth's place at full. He Is not a kicker, however, and Weymouth was, so the Blues till have the problem of a kicking back to solve. Metcalf, last yesr's first substitute quarter, will take that position to start the season, but a atronger man Is desired. Among all the candidates not a , good kicker la in eight. Meanwhile the end po sitions will be well cared for, from present prospects. Captain Neal of the freshman team of '01 and Coffin, Columbia's tackle a year ago, are brilliant candldatea for the places vacated by Swan and Captain Gould. Rafferty. first substitute end of last year,' will be tried both there and at half. Yale la boasting most Just now about Shevlin, the giant hammer thrower of Hill prepara tory achool. Every college of the Big Four went after him, and Yale claims victory, saying he has entered. Shevlin 1 consid ered the best foot ball catch from any prep school this fall, and Captain Gardner of the Quaker team Is equally Insistent that Shevlin has entered the University of Pennsylvania. Meanwhile the bone of con tention has not yet appeared at either place. From the alk it would aeem that berths awaited him on both teams. Despite the early start In training which some of the conference colleges of the mid dle west secured, there Is so far very lit tle to be said concerning these teama. When the eastern schools start they start hard, but not so In the west. Towlt, but seven men have so far appeared for practice at Ann Arbor, though the squad waa called out ten days ago. That number does not represent the sctual returning strength of the Wolverines. Though only foul of last year's team are back so far, there will be two more and several strong substitutes shortly. School does not open there till the coming Wednesday and" evidently the candidates are not so anxtoua about get ting Into the game as to put In an ap pearance before time for claases. The first week will undoubtedly bring out a great many men, aa the high standing of Michi gan In last year'a struggle for western championship honors has given the game a great boost at Ann Arbor and every big and husky freshman will have gridiron as pirations. At Wisconsin things have not been quite so backward, but they were slow never theless, as Coach King did not arrive on the acene till last Wednesday. He found a squad of fifteen men and his own coming out quickly brought it tip to a score or more. The Badger have not done anything toward team formation yet. They are still shy the two halves and a tackle and tho danger now la that a search for a center and perhaps a guard will also be necessi tated by the failure of the old men to come back aa expected. Despite this slowness with which ma terial Is appearing at the two schools, Wis consin and Michigan, It may fairly be prog nosticated now that they will have the great team of the Big Nine. Chicago, Northwestern and Minnesota, the other biggest ones of that bunch, have certainly to date nothing to build great hope on. So mutilated was the Gopher team that the squad was started In training on September 1 last, earliest of any team In the coun try. The idea was that perhaps green men could be transformed Into playera aa good as those with one season's experience by long preliminary practice. With three men of a first eleven left. Coach Williams certainly haa hla hands full to make up an experienced team. Northwestern' prospecta seem equally dork. But four of the old eleven will re turn to be the nucleus for a new team and the new material which must be drawn upon for the rest Is not said to contain many world beater. At Chicago university Stagg has a better showing than be had a year ago, but hia work ao far has not developed any prom ises of a atrong team. He also began work very early and has already played two practice games. Belolt, Purdue and Notre Dame promise fairly well, but Illinois State university Is tho only one of the Big Nine outside of Michigan and Wisconsin that haa really good prospects and there la little fear that this team will class up with either the1 Wolverine or Badgers. Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri are all In training now. Each of the achool has a good bunch of candidates, but none of them save ' Missouri is overburdened with old men. Iowa expecta to do better than last year, and is devoting preliminary work to the acquiring 'ef snap, speed and quick starts, which a game with the light ning Illinois team taught them the value of last aeaaon. Arthur Curtis, Wiscon sin's captain and tackle of last year, also captain of the All-Middle-West eleven, is coaching Kansas, and will doubtless ac complish great thlnga with the material at hand. He says his chancea for a atrong team are not very bright, however, as the last year'a team waa none too good, and the return of seven of its components is no great feather. Curtis will give Kansas a atrlctly Wisconsin style, of play. Over at Columbia. Mo., Is a team that ia not reckoned with much because of Its com plete outclassing by Nebraska last year. It must be remembered that it was a crowd of new men that comprised the eleven in '01, and aa practically all of them wtll re turn a far better aggregation should be worked up. Nebraaka, meanwhile, from ita showing thus far should have no trouble in main taining an absolute supremacy outside of the Big Nine. Even at that the prospects for the Cornhuskera are not so bright, since the call of time, aa they were on paper two weeka ago, when every player on last year'a team but three waa a sure return. Now that the squad la assembled and achool has begun Coach Booth find that he la ahy a considerable number of veterans. Just at present Coach Booth find him self looking for an end and a back or ao. The rest of hla lineup ia well provided for with ample material, the only fault to be found being that much of it ia green. What really worries the Nebraska coach Just now Is that Bender has not come back to play half nor Cortelyou ef Omaha to play end. Both are high class men and will be very bard to replace. For the reat, the team prospecta may now be summarised. "Old BUI" Koehler, last year'a center, has gone to play with the University of Chicago. For his placs Hubbard from the Lincoln High achool la the moat likely candidate. He welgha 197 pound. Cotton, a big un dergraduate from Syracuse, is also a can didate. For guarda there ia first of all Dan Ringer, the veteran of three seasons, who will play provided he can get bis knee strengthened up and properly braced. He will be on the left aide. On the other side are two last year'a substitutes striving for position. Maloney weighs X20 pounds and ha a great spirit. He will, prqbably get tb Job. Tobln, the huge hammer thrower, la another atalwart with some experience In im. This leaves tb center trio pretty well fixed and tha tacklea come next.' Captain Westover will, of course, play on the right aide, and.' so tar. Just two men have ahowa for the other place. They are Brlgga of Red Oak. , la., a 180-pound man. and Wll son of the Illinois normal srhool, weighing 190 pounds. 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BelweoriT; er 6,09 2d; friend have entered into a conspiracy to persuade him to come by writing letters, hut It ha doe not succumb there are still two more chances. One is that Roy Kll'-tt of Lincoln will get out again, vj lia, .is played on the championship '98 team. The other hop la "Mike" Thomas of Omaha, of local High school fame first and later Identified with Creighton college. Either man could fill "Cort's" shoes creditably and Booth want them both. The coach came to Omaha last Thursday especially to see Thomas and It Is thought that "Mike" will enter the university about October 1. He la always in good shape and with a little work here ia Omaha be fore he goes down will be ready to go onto. the field at once. Booth Is especially glad to bear of Thomas' kicking ability. which Is considerable In every department. punts, places and drops. Next come tha backa and it la still main tained that Thorpe will play quarter, though he Is not out yet. His first sub stitute will doubtless be Morris Benedict of the Lincoln High school '99 and 1900 teama. Benedict can then step into the ob for 'OS. - For halve Bell of last year'a squad Is out, aa la 'Eager. Then Billy Englehardt of- the Omaha High aohool eleven for four years paat haa Juat registered, to the de light of 'varsity fanatics, who thought be was going to Ann Arbor. Englehardt la almost aura of a regular back positiou. Myers and Hewitt are two more atrong candidate. For fullback Booth la already completely satisfied in Ollie Mickle, who haa made easily tha best showing of any new man. He played the position with the champion Lincoln High achool teams of '69 and 1900 and haa Just come north from Texas to Join the 'varsity squad.' Ollie Is weighlug 172 pound and la fast as lightning. Ha haa wonderful nerve and, although he is a terrific charger, hia most pleasing feature to Booth la hla defense. There he ia strong and there waa Nebraska'a weakness at fullback last year. Plllsbury was not strong on defense. All the men save Bender, Cortelyou, Thomas, Elliott and Thorpe are out. Should all these corns Nebraska will have a team remarkably strong everywhere, save at tha tacklea and center, and-possibly a guard. With green men in these places not much can b said In encouragement. Even it Bender and Cortelyou remain away, the team can do well with the othera, but Thorpe and either Thomas or Elliott must be had. Practice la atlll preliminary, but the com ing week la the third one alnce assembly, and tha Area scrimmages will soon begin Booth saya he needs much material from the arrivals of last week In order to mak up hla second, third and fourth elevens. The Crelgbton university foot ball team wtll give a first exhibition of it prowess on the 'varsity gridiron next Saturday at 3 p. m. The field at Twenty-fifth and Cali fornia streets la in fine condition, and, as there ar to be awarma of visitors In tha city that day, tb boy are expecting a horde of spectators. The Creighton alumni eleven will oppose the team of '03 in this first game, and, although the ex-Crelghton men are nearly all atar foot ball players, victory Is not certain for them. Coach Eltlck la bringing the new team Into shape In a sur prising manner. The new playera are mors faithful at, practice than the old ones, and most of the positions will b filled by stranger. Thomas and Furay will hold tb end posi tion! against Creighton, and everybody knowa they are hard men to get around. Dan Butler will play fullback and the Una la not likely to hold taut Id front of hla plungea, but la galna will probably be short. Th remainder of the alumni team, except the McShan brothers, Is not so fresh In tb minds of gridiron devotees, but It will make the Creighton boys jlay foot ball. 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A pennant won by the game played Thursday forenoon would have a sickly appearance, almost aa bad aa that which Denver expects to win by the un sportsmanlike methods pursued In that town during the last year. Technically the game Is all right and will count at full weight In the Omaha list of victories, but how little the public carea for auch vic tories has been proven by the slim at tendance at the Peoria aeries and the sar castic comment made by the fans in talking of the games. Base ball is dominated en tirely by the professional element, but the game is generally conducted along the lines of true sport, a fact that makes the present Instance seem the more offensive. No on Is simple enough to believe that three games would have been played in one day It there waa any real prospect of Omaha losing any of them; and th cer tainty of the result destroys th interest In the contest. one of the really amusing things In con nection with the windup of the season Is the following paragraph from the Denver Times: i it i.AH,n font that Vl .r. II TPr TIO II 1 a wrii .nun . , tams in the league that are the equals of Milwaukee and Omaha In their hatred or i . ...I.. 1. .. n Inln 1 tmfth, and can be Bhown conclusively that ahe has no cnance ior ine ixuiwii, io will be thrown to Omaha In order that the . . - .. i . . n.iM.'.p mil Itr XScUrasKa iem if by any combination of circumstances Milwaukee reacnea umana wmi a cnn"j for the pennant ana umana i uui ui n, the games Willi be thrown to Mllwauke. rni a few weeka axo when tb Denver team started on it last trip away from hA Times orlnted several sensa tional' screeds charging the team with purposely losing games at Kanaae city ana nt Jnnenh. The DarasTaph quoted was written while Denver was pulling off two gamea a day with Peoria ana me times w tma.tln of what an easy thing the bom team had. Milwaukee and Omaha do not hate Denver, but they have ample cauae to complain of the treatment ac corded them at the home or tha orlxzitas. 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On the occasion of Milwaukee's former visit to Denver, the umpiring waa so rank that Duffy's men practically refused to play. When Omaha was there the Rourkes got similar dose. The Denver Post stated that at least two games were stolen by the umpire for the home team. It ba been the boast all season at Denver that no visiting team could win a game on the Broadway grounds, and that , boast haa been made good. The treatment of all visiting team, by players, press and pub lic haa been outrageous. On the grounds the visiting teams are pelted by hood lums, who throw pop bottles and cushions, stones and atlcks. No umpire dare make a decision against the home team, for the police are only on the grounds to arrest any visiting player who may be goaded Into making a protest against the actions of the crowd. And the papers call vis itors all sorts of names. Now that the season Is nearly over the papers there are making a hypocritical protest against hoodlumlsm, but the damage ba been done. Denver Is welcome to the pen nant and to any aatlsfacttoa that may come from winning by the tactlca adopted, but the course of the people out there has not advanced the cause of base ball in any way. And they needn't worry about Omaha throwing gamea to Milwaukee or any other team. Omaha will wind up the aeason In a posi tion that will satisfy everybody who baa watched the fortunes of the team closely during, the season. Misfortune ha been on the trail ever since the very beginning. As originally organized the Omaha team easily demonstrated ita superiority over the rest of the league. When everything seemed plain sailing the bad luck began to butt in. Dave Calhoun waa crippled for the aeason Just when his service were most needed. Eddie Hlckey met a succes sion of accldenta which practically deprived the team of hla services all summer, for be has not been able to play up to his mark, although he stuck to his work man fully until finally forced out by tho rup ture of a tendon. Joe Dolan baa met a succession of painful and annoying In juries. Frank Oenins and Bobby Carter were both compelled to lay oft by hurt received by playing. Johnny Oondlng was laid up a couple of times and once both he and Thomas were out of the game at the same time, so that a young amateur had to be pressed Into service aa catcher for . aeverai games. Ace Stewart played ball and wrestled with malaria at the same time for several weeks, and now Stone is out for good. These are merely incldenta of th game, but Indicate tb handicap under which the Omaha team labored dur ing the aeaaon. Base ball of the most sat isfactory sort waa aerved to thousands of delighted patrons, and no matter what the final poaltlon of the team In th standing table, tb playera will be followed to tbelr homes at tb close of the aeason by the good wishes of all. They hav mad a gal lant fight against big odds and have well maintained th nam of th city, both on and off th Held. Wherever the team haa gon It ha been welcomed by tb people, No Summer Bowel Troubles Not for me 1 I'm safe from 11 of them and happy. The heat of sum mer causes organic matter everywhere to decay. All dead vegetable or animal matter rots if not kept on ice. ,A11 undigested food in the human body will ferment a hundred times as quickly in summer as in winter. Consequence stomach, liver, bowels poisoned, thrown out of order sour stomach, gases, colic, diarrhoea, dysentery, cholera, append icitis, and in some regions yellow fever and the plague. Little children suffer terribly everywhere. What does good sense tell you to do ? You can't keep the human body on ice, and the drinking of ice-cold drinki does more harm than good because it stops digestion and ehills the in ternal organs. The proper thing is to keep all impure and unnecessary matter out of the bodv every day. not ele it a chance to sour and de cay in the stomach and bowels, and poison the blood and the whole bodv. In this wav vou will stoD all hot. feverish conditions, and keep . your insides cool and healthy. To do it, use a medicine that ii not offensive to the taste and not harsh and violent in its action. There is only one safe system-cleaner to take in the summer time, beczus it will not cause diarrhoea or griping, and that is Beat for th Bowcla. AU aruscMa, km, sac. liMiltl C. C. C. OaarrantM to ur ar Tour wfUag Auay C., rr n CUnES -mm because they knew that while Omaha was in town they would have clean, snappy ball, played by men who would behav both, on and off tbe field. In this the playera who have worn the Omaha uniform thla summer have won more than a pennant, and have brought more credit to the nam of the city than if they had won the cham pionship twice over. They may not wear the Omaha uniform next year, but they will all be welcome here at any time. Peoria' presence In Omaha added but little to the batting averages of tha Omaha, team, but only the great Stone shows any appreciable drop. Frank Oentna leads tha list, with seventeen safeties during tha week, and Bobby Carter la low man, with, aix. Oondlng had sixty ttiances In the ten, gamea and accepted them all. Tb ststls tlc: ' BATTING AVERAGES. Last A. H. R. IT. Ave. week. Stone 432 61 149 .344 ..1S9 Wright 5i 10 17 .:K!6 .4J Dolan 4X1 7S 12S .'M .i."3 Ptewart, 477 82 118 ..247 .a.0 Gcnina BIS 71 1L'6 . .24:t .ESI Carter Mtf 88 1)9 .2.K Thomas 314 K4 75 .2i8 Hlckey 37 45 75 .34 .:M Gondlng 440 42 fig .2"0 . Pears 14S 10 27 .188 .178 Oven 119 11 21 , .178 .173 Alloway 7 - 8 16 .164 .143 Brown IM 13 22 .101 .153 FIELDING AVERAGES. Last O. A. . E. Tot. Ave. week. Alloway ... 9 117 2i 128 .9K4 . Oondlng ... KB 160 14 815 . 982 . 981 Wright .... 148 9 ' 4 161 .975 1.(100 Pears 24 13 843 .962 .9i'0 Brown 2.1 124 9 If .961 .HO Thomas ... 635 43 24 2 .960 .939 Stone 37 12 H 230 . 952 . 951 Stewart ... : 425 41 798 .tH8 .953 C'nrter .... 192 87 1 4 243 . 942 .&; Owen 13 ll8 8 129 .937 .933 Genina .... 222 9 23 354 . 935 .943 Dolan 3i6 340 61 707 .912 .0 Hlckey .... 123 189 49 361. .864 .864 No league record ever showed the same condition as regards tbe championship aa existed In the Western at the close of the Friday evening gamea. Two teama tied fop first place is not an unusual condition, but to have four teams practically tied waa never before known. Last week Th Bee called attention to tha fact that tha first four placea depended on the outcome of th last three games, but some of th wisa boya thought the posltlona were already taken. Denver's cinch haa faded and each of the four now ba a good chance to win out. Omaha la unfortunate In not being1 able to put its full strength into tb field against the Milwaukee team, which la un questionably stronger now than it ha been at any time during th season. If Omaha should win the pennant, It will ba a most remarkable victory. At all events, no dis grace attachea to any at tbe cluba in tbs first division. T. J. Hlckey talked through hi hat at Kansas City tor a few moment during tb week. He said every team In hla lague made money but Milwaukee, but Quln and Havenor do not mind tbe loss of a few millions ao long as they can bold the fran chise. Bom people outside th Hlckey league would like to have all tha money Kansas City, St. Paul and Minneapolis didn't make. In the National John T. Brush looked over the record of attend anc at Boston and Philadelphia, and then aid It had been a year of great prosperity and all th National teama had madsj money. aaa. Never sold la avlli. Tha aula tsbla moasy back. BampU aee baaalat fraa. 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