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THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: feUNDAY, 5, 1904. 10 r SPOHTIKG GOSSIP OF THE WEEK in rr u a1 Ir 11 "No game; rain." That sign baa oost the team owner an Immense un.ouut of monoy during the lj.it wock. Kvery team In tho country hag suf for'd to lomi extent, and almost all of the loams 1,1a) Inf la the northern states have loit fully half of the giimca scheduled. This tells big on the year's buMncss, for expenses go on Just the same, nnd every time a game Is postponed It moans that the probable gut, receipts of that d:y form Junt so much of a loss to the owner. 11a has no way of getting even, but must con tent himself with the rvnVctlnn that If It hadn't rained he would have been money ahuad. Omaha lost a Saturday and Sunday game at St. Joreph, a game Wednesday at Sioux City and a game on Friday at Colo rado Fprlngs, all due to rain. This tntnns at least H.GO0 to Papa bill and no earthly .Jiope of ever getting It back. While Omaha was standing Idle the other teams wero unrlna too, and the lofs Is general to the league and very unfortunate, for each team needs all the money It can get Just nt present. Outside of Omaba tha atten dancu has not been good, eren Denver having fallen down at the gate. The Mountatneora were a little lucky In tho matter of weather, though, for they man- vojfed t play--eff their home series and Colorado Springs only won four out of six ( rrora Denver. Might have done better ' If h a schedule had been longer. This, too, aftwr the Denver boosters had been telling What they intended to do to the Springs when they cams tofrrthar. It Just happened to be the other way around, and It is all due to a fact that was demonstrated In Omaha that the Cuba are weak at the bat. In fact, Denver showed up about the weak est hitting lot that has visited Omaha this seamjn. They are fine fielders, and know what to do wfaca they get on bases, but they caanot be depended on for the blngles. Bpenklng of base running, there l Omaha's wpak spot Just now. In the g.imes played tap till Saturday the Itourkes havo made IS6 hits of various lengths and hav cashed but 149 of them. It la not to be ex pected that every hit will develop Into a run, but In thana days of scientific ball the peroentaffe of inns to hits ouht to be larger than it la. Fully half of the games that havo been lout have been by one run, and If a Uttlo more attention had been paid to the conduct of mop. on bases the needed tally would have been forthcoming. The seventeon-innlng gamo with St. Joseph could have been won twice If even ordinary caution had been exercised by the runners. As It stands, Howard seems to bo the only man on the team who runs right. Captain Polan has a fine chance for reform In this direction. He knows the angles, and he ought to get "nls mon into a little more lively action around the bags. Generally, the play of the team Is Im proving, slowly, Hit still an Improvement. P'ewer dumb plnys are being made and the team work is being developed in every way. Not so many trick plays aro being tried, Kotirko and Dolan preferring to depend on Btralsht base ball, but each man Is getting Into tho game with more of vim and cer tainty. Errors aro still being made, but they are on lung chances and ahow the In tention of the player, but even at this the avert) go of the team is still on the uplift. April 2$ the team average for Holding was .905; May S the figures were .08; May 16 the. average bad grown to SZS, May 23 It had fallen bacV to .921, May 9 the Jump took the flgu.ea to, .832, and on the present shqwlng the teein lit fielding at the general averago of .931 This Is not wonderful work, but It shows tho right spirit. , When the team gets so it can hit tho 95 per cent clip we were getting two. . years ago, and cnr. bat the way it is batting now, we will have no trouble la leading the list. Only, three of the team is behrw the 90 per cent mark Just now, and they are' slowly climbing toward the glor ious company of the good fielders. Bobby Curter hast been the worst offender this season, his work being Inexplicable. He has already made one more error than be made all last summer. Bobby doesn't u ml en take to explain It, but keeps plug- Ing V way. tnlng tr wst everything hlf Into right field, and will soon be putting up the brilliant game that has made him such a favorite here. The hitting Isn't all that tt might be, but Omaha Is no worsa off than any other team in this regard. The .3u0 list is a very short ono Is w.jl th le lyuen this season, and no one seems to be able to account for the genArnl elun.p. It may be that the pitch ers have overcome the handicap placed on them from time, to time during the laat few seasons, until tbey again have the advantage of the batter, and it may be that tho fielding Is nharpor than evr before. "Something of both these causes figures In the result, very likely, for, while fewer bases on balls ur given, and fewer nieu are struck out by the pitchers, fewer I lls are registered. This Indicate tluU the fielders have sotaulhtrg to do with the change. Ono thing is positively cer tain the game hue never been so strenuous as It is now. Here are the slaMstk-s li regard to the Individual performance of the Omaha team members. Includirg the games up till Fri day night: 11ATTINO AVERAGES. Lest AD. R If. Dnl.-in . 11 13 4o Kreen..' il 3 1') Welch 114 13 S iiownrd Ui -a M Jlill-r 1.14 J ) Schlpke Ut la 31 M t an by .12 4 7 i liomaa 130 IS 23 L,i-Miardt .7 1 t Carter la 21 27 (Joliding W 10 li t te.su r 15 1 3 Companion 24 1 3 Ar, W ee Totals ..1.104 149 285 .370 .23 .2.1 ,2tt .2.') .22i .2.3 .215 .JM .2i .2x .115 1i .3 .3 .2 .2.3 .2 4 .2'3 .7 .. .215 .lvl .2.1 .115 .2.V5 Last A. B. TC. Av. Week. 9 0 1.000 - 1.0) 39 4-163 .; .972 13 12 3.V4 .! .!W4 24 1 27 .!S .978 16 74 .932 .Id 4 67 .93-) .4' 87 13 155 .9.3 ' .93 1 20 2-'l .910 ,1H 26 I 31 .9i3 .9i U4 13 121 .1 .99 22 I 27 S9 .W4 4 8 69 .834 .79 8 6 87 .866 409 S9 1.343 . 934 . 932 OntaJitt went to the bat 104 times In the three games, and niado twenty-suva hits. an average of .260 for the week YIELDING AVERAUiSS. rfelter 0 Uondiug 120 I homas &0 MoCaj-thy .... 4 Wean 63 Miller 4f lioward 64 1 olnn to ! Companion .. 2 Bern (jke 43 I.IHiWrdt .... I Orter 67 r rcoao 24 Totals ....847 During the week the Omaha players ac cepted 113 out of 118 chanoes offered, 'a field, ing averago for the throe games of .958. The Sioux City ahakeup will very likely help the playing of that team, although it is doubtful If it will do mora than get the raco a little closer. The Sioux appear to be hopelessly last. Jay Andrews Is a good ball player, but a frost as a manager. He had a big handicap, too. In the matter of getting a team together, and isn't to blame a great deal for the poor showing the Sioux made, although be became disheartened and resigned. Tarker has his work cut out for him if he can get any life into the re. mains. The addition of Fleming and Law. ler, with the long-geared Metcalfe, gives thorn a cracking good outfield, at any rate, and in Fremer and -Kelly Parker has at least two good InfieMers. St Joseph Is still playing the fast game that took Ormihas breath away and will have to be settled with by every team that bumps. Into them for a while at least. Dee Moines Is In and out, as usual, while the Springe and Denver are Just about holding what they showed at the start, and that Isn't enough to entitle them to head honors. It looks very much now as If St. Joe were headed for top place, and if Omaha only geta in swing once the Rourkes will not be very far away from the Saints. Hand ball bids fair to become as popular a summer game with the various athletlu organizations of the city as has basket baJl for the winter months. There are already a number of courts In town If courts Is tba proper name for them some of them Im provised, It la true, but answering every purpose so far as the actual fun and exer cise Is conoerned. One of the best. Is that at Crelghton university, where the blarO: brick walls of two of the wings of the In stitution and the wall of the main building, equally minus of windows, offers a splendid chance for playing the game that la taken advantage of daily by a large number of students to the neglect of base ball, tennis and others of the more aggressive gamea. The Young Men's Christian association gymnasium has also been turned Into a one-wall court for tho summer, as already hbted In this column, and Is proving so popular that half the number who want to use It cannot be accommodated. The sides of about every third barn throughout the city aro being utilised for the same purpose by the smaller fry, who are quick to get onto anything new in the line of amuse ment, though not one person in ten of those who see them know what they are doing. Hand ball, like basket ball, U a game for girls as well as boys, and Is worth looking up by all of both genders who are not al ready familiar with Its Ins and outs. Iet not the local rans be In amy wise cast down or discouraged. Just because Pa Rourke and his bunch have shaken the dun of the city temporarily from their dainty feetlets. Neither run amuck with the Idea that Just because the sold bunch is cavorting over other pastures green there is no chance to sea fast ball In this city of Omaha. There are some amateur teams, so called. In this burg that can play ball. And there do be those fully con-petont to Judgo who say that any one of several of these local teams could give any team In the Western league the mer riest, maddest kind of a little Jaunt for Its money If It ever came to a question of supremacy as botween the two. But be that as it may, and all conjectures aside, It Is unqualifiedly true that there are some rattling good games played here that com paratively few people see or know about Take, for Instance, that ten-inning game nt Vinton park last Sunday afternoon, be tween the Arrrours nnd Originals, with th score 4 to t at the finish, and only one error on rlther side. Note the fact that the Originals made only one. Just one little hit oft young Adams in nine consecutive innings, and the Armours but five, off Scully, and then answer the question whether or not that Isn't playing some and Pitching some. Take the game, for an Illustration. In which the aame Original beat the Crelghtons, 4 to 3, with six hit on the one side and five on the other, and then Judge If the amateurs of Omaha can or not furnish a quality of ball fit for the funniest fan that ever warmed bleacher. The next time there la a game between two of these nines go and see fnr yourself and be convinced, and don't wait until the good ones are all picked out, as they are year by year, for the leagues, and you have to dig up 60 cents to help pay their salary. The rejuvenation of the popularity of tennis In this and other populous centers Is once more attested by the formation this last week of another club, which 4atest organisation Is to be known by the ea phonlous title of the Courtland. New double courts have already been laid out on the lot nt the corner of Twenty-fourth street and. fit. Mary's avenue and they have been built with an eye to durability aa well aa fast work on the pnrt of the players. Among the score of young men who are the charter members of the new organisation are some of the best players In the city and It Is proposed to have representatives wf the Courtland In every open tournament held in and about Omaha this season. large proportion of the members belong to other clubs which have tennis courts, but which are not tennis clubs, as the new one Is proposed to be to the exclusion of all other games. The first board of officers include w. 13. Dickinson as president treasurer, T. W. Jay cox, Jr.! secretary, C. D. Blrkett The golf sharps of the Field club are feel ing happy Just now over the fact that if the Country club players did trtke them Into camp as a wholo In their recent match Harry Morrill still holds the best stick In the- city so far as heard from. Morrill and Dick Stewart fought It out over the course from end to end to the ultimate victory of the man with the smile that won't coma off, and now his friends all agree that he Is the sure enough "cham peen." Even Morrill himself admits that he Is tho best anywhere around this end of the circuit All is still uncertainty and confusion with regard to the holding of an auto race meet in this city during the summer and this In spite of the fact that every owner of a hum cart In the city Is head over heels In favor of the scheme and cannot see, for the life of him, why some of tho other fellows don't get the thing a-golng. Now that Barney Oldfleld, who is unuestlon ably the fleetest Bulleteer that ever went over a clrder path, has been reinstated In the good graces of the National Auto as sociation and glveri back his mlle-a-mlnute gun, he can and will come to Omahal and be the main guy In any show that th locai cnoorers win arrange. Oldfleld would prove a great drawing card, too. for any kind of a meeting, both on account of his having so many friends and ac quaintances In Omaha, made In the Jays when he did all his hiking on a bicycle. and because of his wonderful performances on the famous Bullet No. 2. Then there are other chaiTeu.-s right here In the city who acknowledge that they are about the best what Is when It comes to training a chug wagon oven almost any kind of go ing, and that all they need Is a chanc to show, what they can do. When the thing does get framed up. If It ever does, the Lincoln, Kansas City and Denver cranks will be Invited Jo come and be a part of the show that will certainly be worth the price of admission. IIIiiII'Hi.iwS?! mmm Will 1 a!ttsPW--,il3vfe ML-' 3 through and through 0 . ' s aula Omaha, 'Pbua AGKfcTS tluso Bill, 1 T.l. W. CvincU itiuaa, TtL to- The track meat to be- nartlclnated In rv teams from Creigton. Bellevue. ; the Omaha Toung Men's Christian association and ons or two iowa institutions that was to havs been nulled tttf In thi Aitv .HnV v present month has fallen' through, much to the regret of the local strong men. The trouble seems to be that the educators in the institutions named have gotten an Insane Idea into their heads that the prep aration and training that the contestants in such an event must nedeasarllv n through would Interfere with the ab sorbing of useful knowledge) on the part of the aforesaid contestants, which knowl edge the young ideas are supposed to be laying away Just at this time in particu larly large and well assorted chunks. Tn other words, the faculty have vetoed the meet because they consider the date se lected as Inopportune. C. E. Wllklns has nlaced th nr tn- the new auto that he will make his pllgrlm ago to the east and through tha Wow land states In, and the same will De deliv- erea to him this week. It Is a 24-horse power Wlnton tourlnv ear hnf h iir of It has never been seen In these parts be fore, and If It doesn't make the nennle nn the line of march toward the rising sun that Mr. Wllklns proposes to inake, put on their colored goggles, then all bets are off. The body of the new gig Is yellow. Yellow doesn't begin to express It, either. a aanaenon Diossom is yellow on a bright spring mornlna. but the in nnennt little flower looks pnle and sickly beside thla new can. it a as yellow as well, it's yellow, anyhow, and then some. Jt has black enamel trimmings and is altogether about aa handsome a vehicle as ever was put upon four wheels. Whether he had it painted In this style so that he would not have to use a honk horn to let people know he was coming, deponent saith not, but It's a loud one and no mistake. Be sides being the gayest of the gay, Mr. Wllklns believes it, Is also the best of the best for practical service, and will attempt to duplicate In it the 26.000 miles that he traveled In his other machine last year, which was of the same manufacture. That's a good ways to travel Jn one ma chine, and no one can blame him for having faith in one that will take him that far and bring him back every trip. , Another beautiful machine that has at tracted much attention on the streets be tween showers during the last few days iff the Pope Toledo touring car purchased the first of the week by A. I. Root. This is of the 1904 model and aa handsome aa they make them, besides having all the other attributek that make the hum carta a pleasure. Mr. Root a machine la of Tale blue enamel with wheels of coaoh yellow and with Its handsome canopy, fine leather mountings and brass trimmings is a thing of beauty that he hopes will prove a Joy forever. 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Gould rlots and Dr. Gllmore hare each Invested in a White ateamer car and both feel that they have rotten the very beat. The demonstrator who showed the machine to Mr. Plets tonk him In the course of the try-out on the Florence boulevard and up Ponca hill north of the Northweatern tracks. . It Is claimed that no other machine In the city has ever suo oed. d in making this climb. S. A. Mo Whorter has purchased a 1904 model Win ton and la now using the same to hla com plete satisfaction, while Dr. Elmer Porter la making hi calls in a Franklin. The unanimity of rood nature with which the local autolats have conformed to the mica and regulatlnna which the irood city fathers have adopted concerning them and their carta Is quite aa surprising as It Is unusual. It Is seldom that a paper can be read these days that does not con tain accounts of scraps between the drivers f sutoraobiles and the ponce at various places or be ths treat oowtuiti.d public with which the haughty chauffeur is bound to come In oontact more or less. It was only a day or two ago that a New York aristocrat of the female persuasion bumped Into a plebeian bike rider and left him prostrate In the dust, whereupon the popu lace shied over-ripe eggs and last year's vegetables at the woman untl) she managed to get up steam enough to get out of range. Her vehicle bore no number and she made good her escape. Omaha driver cannot do that, for now, under the new ordinance, every auto bears a number and every driver ha a a license to go so fast and no faster, saith the mayor. Besides, ail the Omaha people who make a practice of going about in the benzine buggies are dear, good, kind people. Now it's the New London (la.) Gun club that proposes to mete out a meet to the various big and little guns - of this and surrounding parts of Uncle Sam's domain. The dates selected for the noise are June 14, 15 and 16, and from the preparations that are being made the New London pigeon plungers expect to have company. The Omaha bunch has got a little whiff of the price money Into Its nostrils and Is sharpening up daily for the event. Among those who will go from here are Billy Townsend of this city, J. H. Sleveiv son of Wisner, Dick Llnderman of Lincoln' W. A. Waddlngton of Beatrice, H. G. Tay lor of Meckling, S. D., and Fred Goodrich and H. S. McDonald of Omaha. These men will stop long enough at New London to clean things up there, and will thm represent the state at the International shoot which begins at Indianapolis tbe morning of June 18, and lasts for a week or more. The yacht racing at Lake Manawa last week proved the best that has ever taken place on the lake, as regards a close finish and a fight all the way through. The Argo finally won by a clever trick, forcing the Manawa to windward and then slip ping by Its stem and beating It across tHs line. However, there has not baen much chance for the boats to prove their worth, as the winds were very light, and the races were finished only two minutes Inside the time limit. The Grebe on Monday sailed the race of the day, and on what little windward work there waa It anlled away fro si all the boats, but on the long runs before the wind the Argo made up what It had lost and crossed the line In the lead. In the Monday race the Manawa was off color, for some reason, and for awhile waa beaten by every boat In the race. It did not respond to Its rud ders, and Immediately after the race Ita double rudders were taken out and the large single rydder put In, which seems to Improve the boat a good deal. The yachtsmen are awaiting, with a great deal of Interest, the first race in a good wind, and opinion Is rife aa to whether the Manawa will prove Its claim, that In any kind- of a fair wind It can win. One of the many to determine which boat hall defend tne cup tn the coming races with the Lotos Tacht club of St. Joe la on June a. The Bt. Joe men sre making elaborate preparations for these races and are coming up here with the determination to take back the Manawa ChallenKe cup, as they have failed to do so ' three times be fora, ' They will soon be known us the Uptons of tbe west, but once they get the cup they will have a great advantage and the Omaha sailors will have to go down the river after It. New sailing numbers have been assigned to the yachta, under which they will sail lall summer. They all carry the num bers on both sides of the main sail. They follow, with the names of the owners: No. 2, Swallow, J. a White; No. 6, Vitesse, C. T. Stewart; No. 4, La Favorite, Stevens; No. 7, Andover, A. Dickinson; No. S, By Georgia, Wright, Main , & George; No. 10, Grebe, Cooley & Rogers; No. 11, Manawa, E. W. Dixon; No. 12, Petrel, C. S. Leffertsi No. 13. Xenla, Metcalf & Clark; No. 14, Argo, Stevens & McAllister. Following to a program for the annual track and field meet to be held at Bellevue college tomorrow, beginning at 1:30 o'clock In the afternoon: 100-yard daah; 130-yard hurdle; mile run; 220-yard dash; running" high jump; 440-yard run; pole vault;, run ning broad Jump; putting 16-pound shot; throwing 16-pound hammer; college-academy relay race, six men to a team; half mile run; 2?0-yard hurdle; discus throw. The best individual score in all of the above events entitles the maker to the possession of the president's cup for gen eral athletics for one year. This is now held by T. V. Moore, Jr. The officers se lected for these. events are as follows: Track judges,' Prof. W. E. Leonard, Dr. Kerr and Oscar Kayssr; field Judges, 1. F. Stepp, Prof. Sterenberg and F. H. Ruune; clerk of course, W, il. Kerr; scorer. Prof. Weils; referee, J. A. PI pal; starter. Perry M. Wheeler. The finals in the men's tennis will come Monday, the doubles in the morn ing and the singles at 4 In the afternoon. The women's doubles and singles will also be played off at the same hours, the win ning team In the former thereby gaining possession of the president's tennis cup for ons year. All of these events axe a part of the commencement week program and aa such will doubUess be well attended by the friends and graduates of the college, Tact Behind the Cluster. "Talk about being: a good saleswoman." mid a clerk in one of tho big stores. "Mrs. X came In this morning to buy a rain cloak, and what do you think I sold her?" "Can't guess." "A pink chiffon party dress and a lace parasol." "Well, I didn't do so badly myself," said another. 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