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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 25, 1904)
-THE OMATTA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER 25. 1M4. 15 SPORTING GOSSIP OF THE WEEK We were there. Omaha's base ball team has now ocm pled every position In the Western league pennant race, from lut to first. and tri umphed simply through playing ball. It Is certain that no more brilliant finish waa try made by a team, and It Is almost as certain that no more popular victory was ver won. All around the circuit it l conceded that the best team Anally pushed to the front, and that Omaha honestly de serves victory. Bill Roarke la popular with the, people In the Western league towns outside of Omaha, and hs Is surely the Idol of the fans at home. Therefore all who have watched the rare will be glad if the victory comes to Omaha. It has been a heart-breaking finish, and the gait struck by tha Omaha team has proven too swift for the others who were possi bilities. Denver and Colorado Springy were played off their feet and out of the race on the Omaha grounds, and now admit that the game they met here was Just a little bit faster than they could go. It has been steady bare ball from first to last that has won for the Rourke family, and the wism of the plan adopted by Papa Bill has been vindicated. The best part of the pennant race Is that the result will not be finally deter mined until the last man Is out In the last Inning of the second game that Is to be played today. The season will wind up this afternoon, and Omaha will play a double-header with 8t. Joeeph on the Vin ton street grounds. These games are Just as important as any that have been played, and any of the dubious ones who think the St. Joseph team has not been playing ball during Its stay In Omaha la Invited to look over the scores. Omaha has had to fight Just as hard all week to defeat St. Joseph as It did to beat Denver and Colo rado Springs, and the closing games of the season are sure to be of the most In teresting sort. And it Is due to the home team that the fans gather In full force and by their presence show that they ap preciate tha gallant struggle that has ended by pushing Omaha's colors to the front. It will be a most appropriate testi monial to fill the park with a crowd that will lay the famoua Kansas City game In second place. Letjs go out and make it necessary to have "ground rules" again. It baa been fifteen years since Omahu finished first In a league race, and the supporters of the game here should show that they are alive to this fact. That game on Tuesday will long dwell In the memory of each of the 1500 fans who braved the cold wind to see It. It was one of the most magnificent exhibitions. of per fect ball on the part of Omaha that was ver seen. Colorado Springs played splen did ball, but the fast and aggressive tac tics of the Omahans made the Springs team look like It was standing still. Here's an example: In the eighth inning Blake, for the Springs, hit a ball against the left field fence. Gonding, who la not a fast runner, got three bases on a similar hit, but Blake, who is speedy, was held at second by Thlel's quick return of the ball. The next man up hit to the right field fence and Blake tore for home. Carter threw to How ard and Howard to Gonding, and Blake was caught ten feet from the plate. It was as fast a piece of fielding as was ever seen and perfect In execution. In the ninth Inning four hits were ripped off by the Springs bunch, and only one man got home. It is Just such fielding as that that has- made the Omaha team a terror to Its opponents. On the attack Omaha was as determined. Vllleman pitched a splendid game, but was squarely beaten, for Omaha, had driven In the two runs needed to win before Kahl took his unfortunate balloon ascension In the seventh, when he threw the ball away twice and allowed Omaha to core four times. It would take a b'g book to fell all about the pretty and dashing work of the home team on that occasion. But that Is the sort of ball playing that has won the pennant for Omaha.- Before the team left for Its last western trip Tom Flemmlng said no team in the league could beat Omaha, fot the team work had been developed" to perfection and every man was In the gam to the end. Probably enough has been said about the muddle Into which President Sexton plunged the fans by sending out a reeort of games for the season that did not agree with records kept by others. It Is not yet explained how he reached bis conclusions, but the explanation will doubtless be forth coming In due season. The Bee's record contains every game played by each club during the season, as determined by the score or the umpire's decision, and as such. Is absolutely correct. This ought to end all disputes about the standing of the teams. Some of fTIe esot?rtc members of the home roasters' organization have laid wagers against Omaha's winning, some of them being that the team would not finish better than third. These gentlemen are welcome to all the consolation either of the stand ing tables will afford them. , To show Just how fast the team has been playing since the second week In July, when the season turned Into Its second half. The Bee haa prepared the following table, which shows the Individual performance of each member of the team In the field and at the bat since July 10. It Includes the games up to Friday. September 3: BATTING AVERAGES AB R. H. Howard Carter 17 Welch 314 Freese S3 rinding 22 Thomas JKrt Dolan 23 Fchlpke 291 Pfeister 72 Quick S Brown 12S Companion 10 4 M 4fi 8 r M ss 4J 8 i 9 0 111 9 22 62 90 70 f U in 19 1 Ave .rw .S3 .31! .$; .2-7 .ar.T .i47 .2:1 .iss .152 .141 .luc FIELDING AVERAGES. Companion 0 7 Gonding S17 t3 Carter 22 Thomas ?20 61 Welch V.3 13 Howard 13 21 Pfeister 8 44 Brown 72 78 'vuick a 5l Frees Ill 20 Dolan -150 2A 8chipke 70 199 Figures are given here E. 0 5 35 6 IS 2 8 3 9 30 29 only TC 7 31 161 lii"6 lf-2 397 67 US M 147 :4 2!S for Ave l.ft.'O .m .w .Ml .Sfio .47 .949 .I4 .W9 .u3 those players who were with the team on July 10. Sanders and Thiel have Joined the team since, so there Is no chance to Com pare their work, as It Is recorded In the table that shows the records for tha season. On July 10 the team batting aver age was .249 and the team fielding average was .940. Now these figures have been raised to .258 and .948 respectively. In the meantime the team averages for the eighty two games played since July 10 up-to last Friday night are .267 and .98. Just how good this may be determined by a com parison with the big leagues. One week ago Pittsburg led the National league In both team fielding and batting, the figure being .23 and .955, while New Tork leads the American in batting with .262 and Chi cago In fielding with .904. That surely makes the Omaha record look good, doesn't It? And of the eighty-two games men tioned Omaha has won fifty-four, a per centage of .659. Cheer up, we'll have that flag yet. The record of the players for the season, up to and Including the game of Friday, Is: BATTING AVERAGES. AB. Howard 594 Welch 558 Freese 153 Dolan 515 Thiel 241 Carter 551 Thomas 52 Gonding ........ 4i1 Sohipke 529 Sanders 64 Brown 12 Quick 70 Pfeister 113 Companion CO R. 110 81 17 63 52 111 87 48 64 0 15 5 10 6 H. 186 18 40 138 64 146 146 10 118 12 29 11 15 7 Last Ave Week. .313 .301 .3H .28 .266 .265 .261 .240 .23 ,1F8 .179 .157 .134 .117 .310 .306 .293 .29 .275 .258 .151 .241 .213 .161 .in j .1.15 .117 Totals 4.602 668 1.1S9 .258 .237 FIELDING AVERAGES. Last O. A. . E. TC. Ave Week. Gonding ... 614 125 15 756 . 90 .979 Thiel 91 17 3 111 .973 .9) Thomas ....1.480 80 53 1.61J .967 .98 Sanders .... 8 64 2 64 . 99 .96 Brown .... 77 99 9 15 .961 .964 Carter 234 29 14 277 .949 .965 PfeiRter ... 8 71 4 83 .952 .947 Quirk 3 64 1 0 .m .943 Companion 2 62 4 68 .9t8 .937 Howard ... 28 390 40 698 .943 .948 Welch 279 15 18 313 .942 .940 Freese 248 34 20 302 . 934 .932 Dolan 321 4 70 775 .910 . 91)7 Schlpke ... 150 322 50 622 .904 .908 Totals ...3.7S5 1.736 306 ijx M8 .948 and Beau Brumml Charles De Osrmo Gray will h on exhibition In the Auditorium. Who could want anything better? Horses are horses and Dr. Gray Is Dr. Gray. Without the one the other would be lone some and the public disappointed. The horse show has set the members of the Omaha Driving club hustling, and they have reached the conclusion that there are at least 150 horses In the city which would make a very prtty showing on the race track. What they are trying to do Is to get these 150 racing, and plans are being made for next spring by which forty and fifty horses will start In an afternoon: "The great excuse," said one member, "which we hear when trying to get a fellow to enter his horse for a race. Is that horse racing does not pay. Of course It does not. Nobody expects It to. But does automo blllng or golfing or yachting pay?" Hera is the solving of the whole question. Horse racing Is a sport, but Is has so long been associated with men who go Into the game for monetary gilns that the average horse owner has reached the conclusion that horse racing Is a business and those that enter it must do so with an Idea of making money. Those who Intend to take it up for money making purposes had bet ter not If they wish to properly enjoy the sport. A!l that the club wants are men who love horses and perhaps have some of their own, to put his hoes on the track. He will get the worth of his money in fun. The smaller towns in the state are Just completing their racing season, and from Tekamah. Beatrice, Blair and Fremont come reports of the most successful racing season that the circuit has ever had. Eight to ten horses entered In every race and the prises ranged from tl00 to JiO a race. In fact, so successful has been the racing that the Nebraska circuit is reckoned on a higher plane than thit of Iowa and Illinois. Omaha, the greatest city in the state, has not taken a hand in this success. It has stood alone, but now the sporting men t the city are asked to come forward with their horses and money and make this city the best racing city In the western empire. With horse racing goes the Industry of reeding horses. The enthusiastic way in which the people in the state have caught onto the game has led many persons, among them being men like Louis Fransler, W. R. Cryall and Clark Coates. to go In for breeding better and more horses In the state. There is no reason why Nebraska should not raise as good horses as any state In the union. It has water as putre aa can be found In Kentucky. It has a larger variety of grasses than any other state, and. best of all, It has an ex ceedingly clear atmosphere. Those who have taken up breeding have made a sue cess of It, as can be seen by the large number of Nebraska brd horses that are winning right and left In the east. The summer sports In Omaha are cer tainly closing with a flourish. The horse show ' and the great matinee booked for October ( for the horsemen, a match be tween Andrew Christie of the Field club and W. C. Sherwood for the golfers and as for base ball well even the fans have had good enough ball to satisfy them. The coming week is for horsemen. Three hundred of the beet horses in the country It seems hard to convince outsiders that there, are horses In Omaha which will rank with the .best. The horses which In this city are reckoned as average animals would In a great many places be classed among the tip-toppers. Here is one ' at random: Allle Chant wood, a chestnut mare, pacer, owned by Secretary Carr of the Omaha Driving efub; sne was sired by Chantwood, he by Wilkes Nutwood, he by Nutwood, he by Belmont, and so on till their pedigree reaches back to Hambe!-, tonlan X. Dam by Nellie Burt, who ha the blood of Lady McMilllan, etc. Sh? has not been driven much, but did lr. half mile In a matinee In 1:15. And th -by the by, she is a Nebraska product being bred on Maywood farm at Aurora Neb. This single instance shows he kind of horses that Omaha horsemen- possess. There are others. Retina, Tom Dennison mare, has also a strain of the Wilkes blood in her, and Coney holds the record of a mile in 2:02. The visitors during the Ak-Sar-Ben will miss much if they do not attend the mati nee to be held at the Sprague street drlv ing tracks on October 6. At !eaat three pacing, one trotting and two runnin racea have been arranged to come off and the best horseflesh In the city will compete. In f a More Thm Enough Power The Oldsmobile Light Tonneau Car will negotiate any 'grade a horse can climb and will do it forwards or backwards. Its motor rated at 10 h. p. has developed 13 4-10 h. p. on the testing stand and every motor must pull up well over 10 h. p. before it can be put in an Oldsmobile Tonneau Car. It has 5 Hx6 inch bore and stroke and its heavy construction permits the utilization of ail power in the engine without strain or breakage. Most automobiles can develcpe their rated horse power only under exceptional favorable condition and the parts we not heavy enough to stand continual strain. The Oldsmobile Tonneau Car delivers the power on the, drive wheels and gets you there and back. It can be depended upon at all times. aaa to ow sew BaassasM Art II T B. . Scufcud Uaoateat. $6.S0: Tounni luaalmit. (79 Xk Light luunH Cat. SVM.0S. ail I. a. k. taaucy. OLDS MOTOR. WORKS. Detroit. Mkh. WESTERN BRANCH. Hie) rrnam SL, Oman. If the Omaha Driving club succeeds getting the horsemen in the city to Joi them there is a good prospect of having a different and better track, with club house, pavilion, etc.. In the near future. W. C. Sherwood, former golf professional of the Omaha Field club, now professional at the St. Louis Country club, Is to jlay A. Christie an eighteen-hole match for 1200 a side at the Field club links this after noon. Both the men are about the best that can be found in the western country and the match has created quite a deal of Interest. Christie has done the course in seventy-four, which Is eleven below bogey Sherwood played Gilbert Nichols In St. Louis a few days ago and lost by the near scores of i up and 1 up in two matches of eighteen holes each. The first big bags In this season' shoot ing have been brought home by J. A. Kuhn and N. B. Updike, who got over 150 birds between them, mostly teal and red head pintails. The two were around Schickley, Neb., and report that shooting there cannot be described In mere words. A pure albino of the blue-winged teal genus is on exhibi tion In Tonwsend's gun store. This rare bird was killed at McPaul, la., by R. Bald win. Letters from the sandhills say that chickens there- are plentiful, and as the lakes are full, good duck shooting Is ex pected when the flight starts. Dr. Frank Owen while at Lake Madison caught a seven and a quarter-pound large-mouthed black bass. Captain Kellar of Fort Crook brought down sixteen Jack snipe In his neighborhood in a morning's shoot The Omaha Bowling league opened it series of games laat week with the result that the Oiumoda. Omaha and Drexels are tied for first place. The Onlmods, who were pitted algainst the W'averlys, did things to last year's champions that made them feci like amateurs. For the team holding the tropny to lose three gumet straight, lirst whack out of the box, is nut plestaajit. The Omaha hiuuled the Black Kata the same dose a did thu Onimuds to the Waverljs and the Drextl bent the Krug Park two out of three guinea. The higneat score up to the pieneiu time was made by C. M. Zarp of ibo Oiuaha witn 6id to Ul credit, next cumea tjjerde of the Onlmod with i7, and third K. Seie with 651. Play will continue Hv davi in th week till the etbluy-one game are played out. Numerous cash priea are offered for those that do strange and wonderful thine in the way of knocking duwu pin. The large number of cricketera that turned out last Sunday for a practice match at the Field cluo has given hope to the men who are trying to boost up a cricket club In thi city. This morning another practice gume will e played and an Omaha eleven will go to Siuux City on October L was expected tnot of the men were stale through lack of practice, but they soon got on to the swing of the thing and starved to try and place tho balls in tha club house. The game attracted soma r he tennis players, who have in them the makings of fine crlckeiers with a little practice. Apart from the bunch of raw material stood many old players who did things to the bowling of the dubs. Vaughan opened the fun by slogging to euuare U-ir Break or no break, a ball to leg wttu hlra mean one to the boundary. What the Omaha team really wants is better fielding. Its hardly worth the candle to snaka a half century and then allow the opposing team luO by pour fielding. Quick, sharp, - i Schlitz Beer Is Jus.t This Barley selected by a partner in our concern from the best barley that grows. And we malt it ourselves. 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