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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
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Elmer Here, from Haverford Grammar
achool. He la a cousin of the famous T.
Truxton Hare, the former Quaker guard
and captain. 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
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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.
"Chick" Shedd. last season s heavy left
end, will be back ia tb game at IsO
pounds, but Cortelyou Is missing so far at
the other extremity. About fifty of hi
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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.
For Creighton 'varsity the lineup la not yet
settled. Two teama of about equal weight
will play a number of short practice games
during the week and th best men will be
chosen by Ooaeh Elllck to play tb first
game.
Th regular schedule for Crelgbton will
begin October 4, aa follow:
October 4, Lincoln Medics, at Omaha.
October 11, Tabor college, at Omaha.
October IS, Ioane colieg. at Omaha.
October a. Amity college, at College
Springs.
November J. Haskell Indians, at Omaha.
November , Omaha High achool, at
Omaha.
..November li. St. Mary's college, at BL
Mary's, Kan.
November Xt, I'nlverslty of Nebraska, at
Omaha.
November 27. liiahland Park colleca. at
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Fsoria lrri aa Dsormat far Omasa During
' Ev" fl-mas.
DENVER RAISES Cnr OF' UNFAIRNESS
Anticipates the OsiaUa.MllwasUee
Series by Asserting that One
Team Will Thrw Gamea
to the Other.
What a clncb. s
If Peoria could only have been induced to
atay until after election Omaha would
have won the pennant. But Billy Hart,
who is nothing if not a good fellow, said
It wouldn't be fair to cheat Joe Qulnn out
of hia turn at a snap, and so be went over
to Des Moines to dump a few more games.
Only ope thing may ba urged liv support of
the Peoria performance here. Every other
team In the league has had a chance at
Peoria, and all taken full advantage of It.
But it ia not sport. 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
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and can be Bhown conclusively that ahe
has no cnance ior ine ixuiwii, io
will be thrown to Omaha In order that the
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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.
During th laat Milwaukee series there
Manager Parka Wilson deliberately
blocked the visiting catcher at tha plat
Dr. McGrcw hps stood the test of time as one of the
most Skilled and Successful Specialists in the
treatment of all forms of Diseases of Men.
lie lins devotod the mature years of a llfetimo to hla profeaslonnl work. He
has passed the hnlf century milestone and hjs judgment and aklll ns a special
ist hare grown, broadened and deepened ns the years have Roue by. He has
lived to see old theories exploded and now ones proved, accepted and put In 1
practice.. There have been many changes In medical science and many new dis
coveries In his time. He brings to bear upon every case the practical experience
of more than a quarter of a century and the mature Judgment which comes only
to the physician who spends a lifetime upon the study and practice of his pro
fession. 27 YEARS' EXPERIENCE. 17 YEARS IN OMAHA
Cass. nij Increases the confidence that men have placed In Dr.
CYCry Uay McOrew as a TltCE SPECIALIST. And the tcreat army of
cured men throughout the western state s Is a fitting testimony that the confi
dence they hare placed In Dr. McGrew as a specialist, was nerer betrayed.
DR. LIcQREW
Uasicocoio and
AX ABSOLUTE CURE IS GUARANTEED. CIIAK GES LOW.
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while Eyler scored the winning run. Um
pire Messmcr saw the work, hut wouM
not Interfere. So flagrant v.- the act
that even the Tlmef refrrr-! It an a
piece of "dirty ball playing," nr.ii haltingly
excused it on the ground that Dnnver had
been badly treated at Milwaukee. 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
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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. Adraa
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