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THE OMATTA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY. ArKIL 24. 1004. in SPORTING GOSSIP OF THE WEEK "They're oft'." Omaha at Colorado Springs; Des Moines at Denver; 8t. Joseph at Sioux City; th man who can name the three winners of today games will he given a seat In the grand stand a week from today for cents. But never mind that; It Is the day we have been watting for In the west, the start of the bob tailed pennant race, and It will go a long waya toward determining what several of us have been busy for the last few weeks trying to figure out the relative playing strength of the teams. Following the dope, the race ought to be Denver, Omaha or Colorado 'Springs, Des Molncs, 8t. Joseph and Bloux City. But there's one beautiful thing about base ball, and that la Its uncertainty. Denver may not have the smooth sailing the apparent Strength of the team Indicates; Omaha Is sure to be stronger after the season has advanced a little and the new men get ac quainted with each other and the young atera pick up some of the points In practice which they now have merely In theory. This Is true of the other teams of the valley towns aa well, for the weather has been such as to almost entirely preclude practice during the training season, and the men know a great deal more Just now of each other's prowess as card players than as ball players. Warm weatlur and actual experience on the field will remedy this, and the end of the first month ought to see a great Improvement In the work all around. Omaha will open In Colorado Springs to day with a team more than twice as strong aa the one that started the season at Denver last year. To begin with, there are no dissensions among the men; each Is full of the Idea of playing ball for Omuhu. None of them has reached the age where he must be nursed In order to keep In the game. And not one has a private grievance against the management on which to pred icate his poor work in the field. Just what an advantage this Is can be understood by those who are familiar with the sorry showing made by Omaha In the field last eason. The default wast duo entirely to the Indifference of veteran players on whom Tresldent Rourke had relied, and Whose defection was the more Indefensible because they had been the recipients of favors extended by the management. Such conditions do not now exl.it. The team, composed almost wholly of young players, Is thoroughly united and has but one ob ject In view. Dolan and Miller are the only men on the team who are really en titled to the distinction of being . called veternns Gond!ng Is an old head, but Is younger In the game than either. Carter and Thomas have practically learned the ame with Omaha. Schafstall and Com panion are seasoned pitchers, but from there on the team Is of young men who are Just heglnnlr.x their course In higher base ball. Downs and Shlnke promise very well in their respective positions, and Howard Is a fielder of ability, though lacking In experience. The pitching staff Is still an unsettled problem. Llebhardt will undoubt edly make good. Root, although suffering from a sore shoulder muscle, gave evidence ot great ability during the practice season, and If his arm gets right, will be of much ervlce to the team. Henderson Is thought to be better than last year, and may do. McCarthy looks well, but hasn't had a chance yet to show what he can do In real work. Tiy the time Brown gets out of school the ability of the other pitchers will be very well established, and Rourke will have a line on what he needs to. do. Brown, by. the way. took a hard fallout of the' (Cedar Rapids team of the'Three-I league at- Ames (net week, winning his game handily, and making the leaguers look like amateurs at the bat. All In n, the outlook forX)maha Is decidedly good Just at present. Rourke has a fast fielding team, and one that can bat more than twice as hard as the team he started with last year, so his chances for the cellar championship are not very bright. Out In Denver the) question ti whether the game will he given proper support by the public. Some of the fans are worrying because they are not In one of the big leagues, but this has been chronic with Denver from the very beginning, and the chances are that the grandstand at Broad Way park will be well filled with home i ; rooters everytime the gates are opened, while the home knockera will be uptown talking about the days when Ous Dundon and "Denver" Jones were members of the team. When Denver has sent as may play ers Into the big league aa Omaha or St. Joe they will be used to the change out there and get willing to give their atten tion to the boya who are coming up. Here In the valley the people are aa much Interested In the game as ever, and It will be funny If the river teams do not get splendid support from the public. Eloux City has always been a good ball town, and with the team, aa now, in the hands of a popular management, the patronage is sure to be big. St. Joseph has never been noted for large attendance. but the loyal fans there go steadily, so that the team haa always paid. Dea Moines Is good and the patronage there doean't depend on the posi tion of the team In the standing table. Omaha haa never failed to give profitable support to a deserving team, such as It un doubtedly has this season. The Interest haa been shown by the crowds that have turned out to the practice games this spring, 'thousands of fans defying the cold wave while they watched the half-froien players chase the ball aoross the field. This la a glorious promise for the summer time games. Speaking of attendance, published figures still point to the fact that Ban Johnson has his course marked out for him, and with out his needing to Insist on a fus wltlj the National, either. In every one of the towns where two teams are maintained the Na t'cmal ha rut'lrawn tlm American, and from appearances the popularity the Johnsonltes enjoyed during the early season's of the invasion of the National ter ritory bids fair to be transferred to the National. This Is particularly true In New York, Chicago and St. Ixnils. In New York 35,0"0 were out to see the opening National league game; In St. Louis 22,OnO went out to see Charlie Nichols' team In Its first game, and while the Chicago opening was under bad weather conditions, the welcome Selee's team got was such aa to c!,'' color to the Impression that Comlskey has lost his hold on Chicago's great heart. One potent factor enters Into this state of affairs, and that Is that in each city the National appears to have the better team of the two. NJchols easily demonstrated the fact that his team Is better than Me Aleer's at St. Louis. But, no matter why, the National Is regaining Its former popu larity, and the best sign is the turnout of the people to the parks. It la most encour aging to those who are Interested In base ball to note the support the game la getting from the public Just now. prise beauty of the American association and a season without a glimpse of his handsome phlx would be blank Indeed for the patrons. About the time Hoggy was making np his mind that he couldn't stand It, Charley Jones came to himself, and decided to report to Comlskey. He was the last of the rebels and held out aa long aa there was any chance of getting a salary from John T. Brush for doing noth ing; It was at last made clear to him that Brush couldn't pay him unless he did It In some underhand way, and Brush Isn't giving away money this season, so Jones Is again with the White Sox. Another thing that helped him come back was that "Denver" Jones Is making good with the stick. In the field and with the people. The advent of Ous Dundon at third brought George Davis Into the fold, end the one Jones fetched the other, so that Comlskey really got four star players Instead of two when he concluded his Denver deal. Brooklyn established the fact that Sun day ball could be played on one Island as well as the other, and the rest of the season will see considerable change In the dates of the National schedule In Tebbltt's town. Now,, when the good people of Philadelphia and Boston are Introduced to the pleasures of Sunday base ball, the apotheosis of the fan will be almost complete. Western leaguers are doing remarkably well In the big leagues Just now. The roster of transplanted players from the Western was not very extensively added to this season, but the few who did go ovef have done exceedingly well. . McPherson, who was with Milwaukee last summer, pitched a flfteen-lnnlng 1 to 1 game for Philadelphia against New York one day last week, and "Denver" Jones won a game tor Chicago from Cleveland by his heady base running, and got all sorts of newspaper praise for doing It. Ous Dun don has had many compliments from Chi cago r'iple and Is looked upon a&'being the goods In the Comlskey camp. Frank Owen has been bad enough to lose both games he pitched for Commy'a crew, and MordecaJ Brown lost Ills game for Selee's hunch against Cincinnati, but these pitchers will show right before the season ends. Jakle Welmer did no better than Brown against the Reds. Doolin distinguished himself the other day at Philadelphia by chasing Muggsy McQraw off the grounds and Stone won a game for Milwaukee from Louisville, so, all together, the former Western boya are doing right well. If Bill Rourke's hopes are not blighted, he will have at the end of the present sea son a couple of players to be added to the Western colony In the big league circles George Hogrlever couldn't endure the Idea of seeing another man working In the sun field for Indianapolis, so he had long heart-to-face talk with Phillips Just before the game began on opening day, and aa a result was found In bis old corner when the gong tapped. Hoggy Is the T1 La Grippe, Catarrh, Asthma. 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Diets team. a1 second name will also he eecured for that date, There are at least two candi dates for each position on the team, and there Is so little difference In the rlaylnn abilities that It will be a very difficult matter to decide Just who will he selected. FYom all Indications the team representing the club this year will be by far the host it has ever had, aa more In terest la being displayed. Drug Department Every little incipient bunch of sunshine that has had the temerity to show Its head for the last two weeks haa been a signal for a concerted announcement on the part of the sporting fraternity that at last spring had actually arrived, and that all sorts of things mlglH be scheduled with entire safety and propriety. And Just so often have those same prophecies been dashed and blown and frozen and soaked back Into the tall timbers, and the game of Impatient waiting necessarily continued. Pa Rourke's going away with his company of hall toppers has caused aa many a heart ache aa has tho bad weather, but, like it, cannot be helped, and meantime, until the opening of the season here the "th of May, the fans are appeasing their base ball ap petites with the games of the leas preten tious fry In the persona of the local ama teur teams. And, by the way, while these same amateur teams may not have the glamour of Pa's name written on their shirt fronts, or belong to any league, they have and will put up a quality of ball that would make some of the best of the paid players whip up some to go by them. It Is a fact that the Omahans gave the Armours a hard throw down when they crossed bats on the Vinton street diamond the other day, hut It Is also true that that game was the first one the pork packers had played this season, and even at that, with a little more head work displayed, they would have given the leaguer a good, stiff run for their money. Adams, the Armour pitcher, Is a youngster, but he Is a husky one and hag some curves that puzzled the best of them. Withers, who pitched the first half of the game. Is a boy 'In the same class and can pitch winning ball when he gets the cold of winter out of his business arm. Tonne man and Finley are two other' good men on this team who might be very easily de veloped Into league timber. O'Keefe, their first base man, accepted eleven chances In the game, with Only one error, and that's a better record than many a. good league player averages. The Lee-Glass-Andreesen ririmlzatiin Is nlrr. a strong one, as the game wiyi the Armours yesterday showed, and so Is the Council Bluffs team, the Coronas, the Nonpareils, the Crelghton col lege and half a dozen others that might be named. While there Is no combination or league of the amateur teams, the man agers of most of them have gotten together and arranged for a number of regular games during ;he summer that will serve to create a healthy rivalry and provide the fans with their favjerlle " entertainment, dished up In hot doses during the time tint Pa's pets find It necessary to be out of town. These are red letter days, at the Field club house r.nd grounds and no mistake. For weeks past every bright day has seen numbers of the members hanging around the vicinity with a longing look In their eyes, sniffing the air and covertly wlshng for the openng. The work that has been going on In the line of Improvement and change Is now well nigh completed and Is assurance of the fact that the coming sum mer will be the most notably successful and pleasant In the history of the organiza tion. The Field club is essentially a golf club, In so far as the preferences of 90 per cunt f the members go, and that being the case, It Is natural that the most exten sive Improvements made have been on the golf course. The work has been done under the special supervision and direction of In structor Christy and It Is not a vain boast when the members say that they now have one of the finest courses In this part of the country. It measures eighteen holes, as formerly, but the rearrangement has added seventy-seven yards to the length of it, and each half, or nine holes, brings the player back to the club house, which Is desirable and convenient for a variety of reasons that the members are quick to ap preciate. The play Is now around the field Instead of straightway across It, as before, and the outaHfy course Is 3.159 yards, bogey forty-three, while the in course Is 2,633 yards, bogey thirty-nine, making a total play for the eighteen holes of S.847 ' yards, with eighty-two bogey. The old dirt tees have been done away with and turf tees made that will be conducive to much better scores. New tee boxes havabeen made and each bears the number of (Tie hole, the d's tance and bogey, so that there can be no mistakes or tonfuBlon In this regard. Mark ers have been located at each 100 yards of distance and the course been laid out with a view to the most advantageous disposi tion of the natural hazards in which the grounds abound. Another thing, while not of great Importance in Itself, but which adds to the pleasure of the game In many ways, particularly with strangers to the links. Is the Issuance of score cards, which offer not only the opportunity to keep an accurate record of each play, but have on the reverse side a perfect diagram of the course In which every tee, hole, depression of ground and everything elF Is noted. So golf Is to be very much of an Item with the Field club this summer. But that Isn't all. To have everything In keeping the tennis courts are being given a thorough repairing and overhauling that amounts almost to reconstruction. There are six double courts and under the ex experienced eye of Mr. Christy they have each had a brick foundation put under the dirt,,, so that there never can be any sagging or unevennesa. no matter .what weather may. develop. The base ball dla mond, too. Is receiving Its proportionate share of attention and will be In ship shape within a day or two. Interest In the game la fast cfpproachlng a red hot state and with their handsome new uniforms, of which mention has already been made In this eolumn. the team will look well, to say the least. Twenty-five candidates ap peared for practice a week ago and. al though the weather was somewhat chilly, all showed themselves to be In excellent condition, and the practice held was as lively as If It were the middle of July. A number of the old university club players were out, as also were all the members of last yesr's team, while several new players have joined the club this year. The first game of the season was played yesterday afternoon with the Commercial College team, and this week a game will be played with the high school. All candidates will be given a chine In these games. On May T the club win open and the real opening game of the season wilt be played Reports from the Interstate shoot In progress at Kansas City the last week were altogether too meager to suit the stay-at-homes Interested In the gun prop osition, and perhaps It Is not strange, con sidering the fact that the meeting was but little, if any, better attended by the pigeon sharps than was Omaha's meeting, held when the thermometer was hovering around the sero mark and men's fingers got so numb that they did not know until they heard the noise whether they were pulling the trigger or not. Strange to say. the scores made were not much better, either, and the good ones that were came Omaha's way with quite surprising as well as gratifying frequency. Billy Townsend got Into five firsts In one day and others of the Omsha and Nebraska teams did equally as well. Some twenty of the local gun club members attended the meeting first and last. The bowling season Is virtually at an end, Insofar as contests between local teams Is concerned, and that It has been more than successful from every point of view goes without saying. The season has developed many good ones In this city, and many who would be If they could, and some of the scores that have been made both by Individ uals and In team work compare favorably with any that have been made In the whnlo United States. The minds of the managers of the Omaha association alleys are al ready big with plans and schemes for the future and promises are made of some ex citing events in this line In Omaha before snow shall fly again. Of course, meantime, the high rollers will keep their hands In by rolling a little every day and all the alleys will be patronized by the unpretentious bowler who does the work for fun or to kill time during the summer. But the heat of the battle Is, for the time being, past. The present time is a trying one for the devotee of the rod and gun. In other words, he is In the position of what Is commonly known as between hay and grass. The law arfd the statute in such case made and provided, has put an en3 to the hunting season, and the ducks, Jacksnlpe' and all kinds of feathered and furry things are free to come and go un molested. To be sure the sportsman Is free to fish to his heart's content, but the only thing that It Is possible to catch Just now Is cold. So the fisher sits back. nor. force, and dreams and tells of other days ana tne good ones that are coming. The deadlock between Tuthlll and Den nlson and the Omaha Driving club still continues with no prospect of an Imme diate settlement. This state of things Is largely due to the fact of Dennlson's Ill ness which has confined him to his room for several weeks and Incapacitated him from talking horse or any. other business. The members of the Driving club give as surance that the matter will be satisfac torily adjusted before long, and that the race matinees that have proven so popular In the past will be held again this summer w.th a lot of additional fixings and trim mings that will make them more attractive and better drawing cards than ever. PRIVATE CAR. EXCURSION To. California Via Rock Island System. Private car "Lacona" leaves Omaha Saturday, April SO. for a four weeks' trip to the Pacific coast and return. on the way to California stona win i,. made at Denver, Colorado Springs, Qion- wooa ana salt Lake City. Pclnts In Call fornla which will be vMted are: 8r. mento, Fresno. Los Angeles, Santa Bar- , dl.u wii rianciseo. Tne re turn Journey will be made by way of Port land. Tacoma, Seattle, Vancouver, thence to St. Paul and Des Moines via Canadian t-acino railway. The, car has a bath room, hot an ooi water, observation parlor, kitchen and dlnlnr arrangements, berths and slate mums. it win De occupied during the en tire Journey. Meals and berths are in cluded In the rat, which Irom Omnh. i. only 1126, of which IC1 is rayable at this office, the remainder to bo collected by Mr. Van Winkle aboard the car. The rate Is exceptionally low. hem ni about I2.G0 per day for board and lodging. run iiiiurmaiion at tniS Offlc. F. P. RUTHERFORD, D. W., Tass. Agt., 1323 Farnam St., Omaha. Ol'T OF THE ORDINARY. CO HSUE3ED BY A FIRE THBTfl it WEES Will HOT CLUEHOf i t'j l IK II Only those who have experienced the awful itching and burn ing of Eczema can know how it feels to be consumed by the blis tering, fiery acids oozing out through the pores of the skin. There is no other skin disease that compares in severity with Eczema. It begins as a mere redness or the 'skin, or comes in little watery blisters and pimples, discharging a thin sticky fluid which hardens into scabs and scales, leaving a raw and inflame4 surface as they peel off, while the itching is almost intolerable. Eczema is the most vicious and violent of all skin diseases, ap pearing in many different forms: the dry and scaly kind with brownish white crusts, which gives the skin a rough leathery appearance, and producing seme times painful fissures and sores. In other cases the skin has a swollen, moist appearance, with occasional profuse discharges of watery matter. But all the varieties and types of this aggra vating disease are akin and are caused by impure blood and an over-acid condition of this vital fluid that seem to set the skin on fire, kindling a flame that water will not quench, and an itching, stinging eruption that lotions, soapssalves and powders cannot suppress. As the poisonous acias in me Diooa increase me erup tion spreads and becomes more angry looking, and the itching and burning more unbeara ble. Eczema is the commonest of all skin diseases, and the most aggravating and treach erous, disappearing at times, then returning suddenly and in a severer form than ever. It is particularly bad in warm weather,' be cause at this season the skin is reacting and the blood is making extra effort to throw off the morbid secretions and acid impurities that have been accumulating during the long win ter months, and there is an over flow of the acrid matter andiacid poison through the pores, oroducine irritation and redness of the skin and all the terrors of Eczema. Soothing applications are beneficial and advisable, but not curative, because the seat of the disease is in the blood, and external or surface treatment can not change bad blood into good blood or purge the system of impurities. Only a blood puri fier can do this, and while treating the skin the blood must be looked after or the disease is sure to return when the blood is again over charged with acids. S. S. S. to purify and cleanse the blood, and some non-irritating, soothing salve or lotion, is the proper treatment tor all torms ot lczema. a. o. o. lias made some remarkable cures ,of this stubborn skin disease cases that had become chronic from long neglect or wrong treatment. S. S. S. is the only guaranteed strictly vegetable blood remedy. It is without a single mineral ingredient, but of medicinal roots that come from the fields and forests or Nature's store-houses. S. S. S. combines both purifying and . tonic properties that enter into the circulation and destroy the impurities, and at the same time tone up the general system. Skin diseases are, after all, only symptoms of impure and vitiated blood and external signs of disordered systems, and when you cure the blood the erup tions disappear. x ,,.'.'.. If you have Eczema or any blood disease, sore or eruption, write tis and our physician will gladly advise you and furnish any information desired without cost to you. 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This may be era use the identity nf tho iii,.. often be. known to the listener by the tone his voice H nrl thus remnva .m , i t fear. ..o oy national governments from the traffic in alcoholics last year were: 1 nlted States. 17S.0OO.noO; Orent Britain I138.000.0ri0; France, 1100,000.000; Italy and Hol land, each $20,000,0,0110, and in Russia, where ine iquir business is a government monop oly, the revenue was I36S.000.000. Mrs. Martha Aniklptrute n vAd iv aia April 16 In her home near Bristol, Morgan county. She came to Ohio from Pennwyl vania when 15 years old. She distinctly remembered Incidents of the war of 1S12. She lived with a son-in-law and daughter aged respectively 8! and 77. She had been a widow since 183i An odd case la to rome un for a Vi ni. lng In court In Alliance, O. John Clement or tantun sold a parrot to Hanna Hughes fur $6 and guaranteed that the bird was a good talker.. Miss Hughes says that it Is not a good converatttionaliHt, and that Clement misrepresented Its qualities. Suit is brought to collect S15. due on the .il The bird will be brought Into court, and If u proves mat it is a good talker Clement will receive a Judgment. . monei i urey m. jones or uavenport, a well known live stock auctioneer. In as sociation with a number of other prominent auctioneer a, win open in juiy in I'avenport, I t., a school of auctioneering unrl nralnn The aim of the school will be to develop auctioneers capable of rolling oft talk by tim yuru. lneie win ue courses in oratory. irammur una otner orancftes ana a com potent specialist in charge of each depart mcnt. Colonel Jonea conducted sales of fancy cattle in seventeen states of the union last yer. In Bohemia every wage-worker, of what ever sex or age. must have a "work book.' which contains his personal description and history, and his employer's endorsements. Permission to travel In search of work must be endorsed by the local authorities. In changing locations a certificate from orig inal place of residence must be secured and filed at th new location. This work book, therefore, becomes a passport, ex haustive In Its way; it must be produced and recorded at each new location, and permission to leave the country must be specifically stated. Congressman Hamilton of Michigan fell Into rather a sarcastic mood one afternoon last week while diaousalng the wonders of presenl-aay prosperity. i naer this pros parity.' said he, we have arranaed It so that a clever writer draws a salary of 140.000 a year and a Jockey who can steer a hore first down the stretch draws Ho.OuO a season ana wmmn an international flg-ure. Vid a pugilist of brawn, a srara. ful dancer, a melodious singer or an ac tress with a past can capitalise soltr plexus blow, a song, a dance or a sex problem play Into th price of a forty-acre Dear Sirs: la th summer of 1898 I vn attaoked with a breaking oat, whloh doctors said was Eoxma. It com menced on th lnsld of my arms and gradually spread. Th dootors who examined ma aald they oould our it, and treated ma for soma tlm. but It graw woraa all tha while. -I then wrot yon, and upon receipt of a reply to my Utter I got six bottle of S. 8. 8. and began taking It aooordlug to dlraotlon. I had used fonr and a half bottle befora seeing any effeot at all ) then tha Eozema seemed to gat a great deal worse, but I kept on taking tha medloln. and In thre or . four day th eruption commenced to shed off. I oould rub It off like bran, and thl was th and of th Eosetna. I took In all nine bottles, and never spent that much, money for anything that did me so muoh good. 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