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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JANUARY 2, 1910.
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OMAHA, PfNUAT, JANUATIT t, 1I0.
JUDGMENTS
1-allH wise one insist there la more
than panslng soswlp In the rumor
' of i player ' strike In the National
league an a reply to the magnate'
action In mining the game schedule
from 154 to IBS, without any organised ad
vance In salaries to corresiond. Such
hlng certainly would not be unnatural. A
nan. of course, gets paid, ordinarily, ac
inrdlng to the work he does; some by the
quality and most by the quantity. But at
ill events the quantitative factor enters
.nto consideration. A magnate, In discuss
ing this 1 rumor, takes refuKe behind the
Argument that a great many of the p ayers
re not In a position to strike, for, he
isnertfl, they are signed up for next year
and In many cases for a year or two be
yond. He overlooks Jhe point, however,
that they signed before the proposition of
IS games was brought up. And It Is open
M argument whether. If they refused to
play under these contracts In lfllO, they
would bo violating any agreement. There
Is ample room for questioning If the ma
jority of players would have signed the
same contracts had they known or been
advised that a schedule of lffl games was
to be adopted. The lengthened schedule
means many more double-headers and, as
it was last year, the various clubs en
gaged In some twenty of these perform
ances, which, to say the ast, are de
cidedly unpopular with players. The
magnates have adopted the lengthened
schedule, why? For the simple purpose
of Increasing 'their Incomes. Why not,
then, be willing to share their enlarged
profits with their men? A players' strike
would certainly be revolutionary at this
time, when the status of base ba't Is none
too settled at best, when the American as
uoclntlon In only awaiting the opportunity
of the expiration of Its contract to Invade
tnsjor league territory and other elements
are disturbed. If the players should take
It Into their heads that their only recourse
lay In a strike we might have some lively
doings. But the conservative opinion will
be against the idea of the strike. The In
terests at stake are too great. The mag
nates, should .they find themselves con
fronted by such an alternative, would dis
cover some middle ground between them
and the extreme of a base ball war.
. The owners of the Chicago Cubs have
'Just bought the Philadelphia National's
park. What for? Messrs. Murphy and
l Fogel will make themselves ridiculous If
they persist In denying the fact that the
ownership of the two teams Is ldentloal.
The base ball public will not be as read
ily reconciled to this entering' wedge or
syndicate base ball as It has been ready
to believe the fact of Its existence. . No
sreclous pleading will be sufficient to con
vince people who support the game that
,the game can be preserved In its original
form as a clean sport under the system
Th'ch Messrs. Murphy et al. have thus
tiisMtnrd. It Is one of the worst misfor
tunes that could befall base ball, this very
Philadelphia deal. Already one of the ef
fectsand by no means of the most vicious
character Is suggesting Itself in the pro-
A posed exchange Of Outfielder Magee for
some of the Cubs' outcasts. Making one
team strong at the expense of another
will, If carried far enough, prove' dis
astrous. It cannot fall to -work mischief
In any form. The fim'imental principle
of any game and particularly base - ball
lies In the spirit of honest rivalry and even
justice. Base ball will go the route of the
"old and honorable game of wrestling'' the
moment It lets down its bars to blp
podromlng. In the matter of spiking Joe Tinker
' who Is qualified to speak lays the burden
of the blame on the baseman. He Insists
that basemen should know their base run
ners and give them all the right-of-way
to which they are entitled. He admits Ty
Cobb, who has spiked many men, si Idea
hard and Insists that for this reason he
should be given the path. But Jo says
Frank Chance slides harder than any other
man In the business and yet never spikes
anybody because all the players know him
and clear the track when they see Mm
coming. Too Bad Elll Dahlen Tinker gives
the palm for being the best slider in the
game. Tinker probably Is talking sunns
and Is simply voicing the view of the mag
nates who after scanning the situation de
cided they could not abandon the spikes.
1 The suggestion that the magnates save
the good things they are saying of President-elect
Lynch until along in the season
to a wise one. There, la no sort of doubt
of Tom Lynch ability to discharge the
duties of president of the National league
ably and wisely, but there la much doubt
that certain magnate will reat oontented
If he adheres rigidly to this simple policy.
Thlnvs in the old orgsnlxatlon can be re
stored to normal condition It the men who
sre now- showorlng praises on the new
resident will be as aealous to support him
aVineetly during the playing season.
Kid Elberfletd la out with a solemn
declaration that he Is going to Washington
with the determination of helping McAleer
With a winning team. Morover the Ta
basco Kid expresses gratification that
Stalling sold him to the Senators. For
htm, he says, playing with a tallender has
no terror. But If they get many like the
Kid and keep them doing their best they
won't be tallenders long.
With the bright outlook for the Western
leaguo this year, the next thing to be
nought Is a strong staff of umpire. We
will not be able to get back Mullin, the
young man who has been picked up by
the National, nor can we hope to Improve
much on him. We still have Handsome
Jack Haskell and for one Jack will do,
but the chance are we shall need at least
three or four more as good.
ra has about decided to pas up Dany
Dreamer Durbin, whom he could have got
for this year. Your father U right In
casting about for husky pitchers who can
go th nine-inning rout without taking a
half-hitch In their next-week' vitality.
With such a staff last season Omaha would
have cinched th flag.
Wa'ter Camp I a wise man, but his
wisdom hus about run the gauntlet In
trying to convince people that foot bail
needs do .reforming. People know better,
lluitiffli thev tyir v ha the crudest kind nf
f lniu compared with the sapient Mr.
Camp.
l. Joe will be 'in th dilficult rule of
the prodigal son on trial getting th fatted
calf, If be mke good? It' not up to
father so much a it I to the bad com
pany that lured th erring one away.
.Three prominent league will open th
nidi of W10 Uh new presidents the Na
tional with Lynch, American association
' Uh Chhlngtun and th Thie-Ey with
'foarney.
If Mi Joe can only dig up old Pup Eyler
maybe it Will be stir of success.
Now fur In toiXJiet stand.
BOOSTING ODDS SOT IS FAVOR
Florida Frowns on the Bookmakers'
Old Methods.
PLUNGER AND BOOKIES TOGETHER
It II era me an Rvll 5 York
Traeka Before the Agaew-Ifart
Law l I at Ef
fect. NEW YORK, Jan. 1. Bookmaker oper
ating at Jacksonville, have been notified
that th practice Of "boosting" or "plug
ging" prices, which ha been common at
the race tracks In the United State and
Canada, Is strictly prohibited and that
the persons violating the new order will
be ruled off. Thl reform, if backed by
sincere motive. Is expected to do racing
in Florida a lot of good. In future, there
fore, the Jacksonville layer will be com
pelled to take at least $100 on a 2H to
1 shot, r0 on a 6 to 1 shot, and $20 on a
horse quoted at 10 to 1. In other words
the bookmaker cannot refuse to accept
wager at the odds they have chalked on
their slates. If they do not want a play
on a certain horse, no nrlca rtiunt be
quoted.
The "plugging" of price became a
great evil In the former betting rings
on the New York track before the pas
sage of the Angew-Hart measure. Lead
ing bookmakers, ' who knew more than
other about the respective merit of the
horses In each race established the mar
ket They wrote down the odds in ac
cordance with their own calculation and
more than 300 layers copied them. En-
Joying such an advantage, It was not at
all strange that the bookmakers became
unscrupulous and proceeded to manipulate
the prices for the benefit of themselves
and some of the big bettor, ' who were
their clients.
If a plunger had a good thing and wanted
to secure a fat price, at the same time
concealing bia play, he" went to one of
these bookmaker and handed him a com
mission to be placed on a certain horse
The bookmaker making the prioea that
were promptly copied by hi business rival,
seldom, failed to quote a higher price
against hi client' horse than waa war
ranted and then, as the quotation appeared
on 200 slates, his agent hurried about the
ring getting the commission down In small
lump. Meanwhile this bookmaker refused
to accept any wager on the hors him
self.
In many Instances It developed that th
bookmaker, anxious to profit by the
plunger's information, placed a solid wager
at top price for himself first and then got
his client's money down at the best odds
obtainable. One of ' the biggest laver on
the metropolitan tracks worked thl game
so Incessantly that in .due time the other
chalkers became wary' of ht price and
avoided him altogether. Hi methods were
well Illustrated the day James R. Keene's
Sysonby made hla first appearance a a
two-year-old. The great Melton colt had
been kept so Weil under cover that ha was
generally underestimated by the profes
sional dockers. It, was known that he was
a high class youngster, but hi real worth
was a well kept secret. .
Th debut of Sysonby took place at
Brlj,..on Beach. A mob surrounded the
ring's prlo maker, waiting for the first
chalk mark. The orafty -layer, backed by
several big better, put up "even money"
against the Keene colt, and the quotation
was carried at., top speed to the other
layers. Ia the twinkling of an eye the big
operator were offering. 300 bookmaker In
the. main ring all the money they wer
willing to accept on Sysonby, until the
price was rubbed to 4 to 6. At this price
there was another heavy play, until 8 to 6
was offered on all sides.
The original price maker, however, did
not weaken on his "even money" propo
sition for the excellent reason that he re
fused every big wager that came his way,
though he kept the quotation on hi slate
and held It up where all could see it.
Finally a western business man who was
not a regular at the track came along, and
seeing "even money" on this chalker's
slate said:
"I'l bet you fifty on Sysonby." 1
"Don't want it!" growled the ring's
price maker. "Go away from here! You're
blocking the crowd!"
"But you've got even money on your
slate!" persisted the western man. "If
you don't want my bet why don't you rub
out the price?"
"Stop annoying me or I'll have you
ejected I" yelled the bookmaker,' where
upon, a fight aeemed Imminent. Publicity
caused a cessation of these method for a
time, but the bookmaker soon resumed on
the old lines. '
Baldy Kyan put over a killing one day
at Jamaica with a hone named Cary.
He took this same pricemaker into his
confidence and told htm to play th odds.
When the market opened th layer put SO
to 1 on hi slat and these odd appeared
alt over th ring. Ryan had twenty man
on hand to bet mall lumi on Cary, o
that the chalkers might not become sus
picious, but on of these agent, who wa
rattled, sailed up to th original prlo
maker.
"I'll bet you fifty on Cary!" he, shouted,
noting SO to 1 on the slate.
"Don't want It!" snapped th Ryanised
bookmaker with a glare.
"Take twenty-five?" asked the plunger's
agent.
"Not a nickel!" was the reply.
"Well, rub out the pric then! You'r
piker!" said the agent a he walked away
In a rage. Cary, It may be recalled, was
backed down to 10 to 1 and won, th ring
paying out nearly $100,000 on hi succea,
but Ryan' bookmaker didn't lose a dollar.
One of the biggest plunger known on
Auto Records
Past
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Quarter-mile
Kilometer
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Five mile
Ten miles
Twenty miles
Fifty miles
One hundred miles....
Two hundred miles....
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Event. Distance,
Vanderbllt cup
Wheatley Hills
MaHsapequa cup
l,owell trophy....,,.
Cube oup
Indiana trophy
Fairmuunt Park cup...
Rlverhead. Clasa 1
Rtverhead. Class 4...,.
I'ortola. Class I
Los Angeles-Phoenix...
aanual Tour of American AatomoMl Association.
Trophy. Route. DIs.. miles. Car. Owner.
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WINNERS OF PROMINENT
STAKES DURING 1909.
Barn handicap Kin; Jane
California Derby Hlrk FrlTat
California Oak Kon Qaeea
Tberatea stake
Kentucky Darby Wlnterf rn
Metropolltaa Slag- Jams
Belmont stake Je lfaea.a
Xantuoky Oak moral
national stallion Sweep
Latent Parky Olambala
Brooklya kanaieap King Jaine
Great Am.rioaa Btarbottle
Brooklyn Derby Jo Madden
aburaaa fits Herbert
Great Trial Stake Dalmatian
Jookey CVah taka Tit Herbert
Beallsatlon Tit Blerbert
Canadian Darby Bint
Saratoga cap , Olambala
mtniiiy Sweep
th American turf wa severely scorched
at a local track several year ago by
"hunching" the price against a supposed
"dead one." Whether he got the double
cross or not will never be known. A cer
tain stake winner was entered In a selling
race and th night before the trainer met
the plunger at Bheepahead Bay.
"W01 your horse win tomorrow?"
queried the plunger, who was booking at
th time.
"That I can't say!" replied the trainer,
who wa mixed up with several well
known operators, who usually wagered
their money away from the track. "You
see he wa Just a bit lam after a work
out yesterday and I am Just starting him
as an experiment. If so and so is a
good as they say he Is, he will beat my
hors easily. In fact, I don't see how I
can win under the circumstances. If you
are going to lay my horse you might put
a bet on the other one for me!"
Believing he had an ace In the hole, the
plunging bookmaker kept the information
to himself, and when the market opened
on the raoe next day the stake winner
waa quoted at 7 to B and the ao and so
horse was at S to 1. The plunger quickly
boosted the 'price against the latter, at
the same time refusing to take a bet
on him, and sent out hi runner to get
down $6,000 with th other layers, who
had followed ' his example. When this
money hod been placed th plunging book
maker plugged the price against the stake
winner and cried out:
"Come on, boys! Here's t to 6 against
the favorite! All you want of it!"
The wise money came In a flood, but
the bookmaker never turned a hair. He
took In nearly $8,000 on th stake winner,
who waa ald to hav been lam two day
before, and when the horses went to the
post he stood to loss $5,000 on the so and
so horse and nearly $16,000 on the favorite.
He got up Into the grand stand Just In
time to see the stake winner get home
by a nose, with the other horse in the
place, both Jockeys whipping all the way
down tha homestretch. A day later he
learned that the trainer's gambling friends
had won nearly $30,000 from two extensive
pool room operator In this city and had
also cleaned up handsomely in the west.
Another celebrated bookmaker was
trimmed several year ago In a similar
manner, though hard luck had a great
deal to do with his losses. He wa inter
ested In a prominent stable which owntd
a famous sprinter. The horse was en
tered in a selling event one day and the
stable connections, knowing that th price
would be small, batched a trick that would
hav been fine if successful. ' The hors
wa taken out early in the morning for a
short exercise gallop in th presence of a
regiment of dockers and trainers. His leg
wer encased in tightly wound bandages
and after a breeze down the stretch he
seemed to ba lame, whereupon his trainer
offered to etll him to anybody for $1,0C0.
A th horse was a patched up cripple no
body wanted to take a chance, and when
he was announced as a starter in the af
ternoon the rumor was rife that he was
on th verge of a breakdown.
Thl waa where the wise bookmaker
plunger came in. The moment the ring
displayed 7 to 5 against the horse he
"bunched" or. "plugged" the price to 11 to
i, and being in touch with the secrets of
this particular stable it was an accepted
fact that he knew the horse was lame.
Up went th odds all over the ring then
and the bookmaker's agents got busy
everywhere. They placed nearly $12,000 for
him before the other layer got Into the
ownership of the coin, v whereupon there
wa a panic.
The race started and the sprinter sailed
out in front. He was leading by several
length when he reached th head of the
stretch, but in th next doxen yard he
bung in hi stride, stopped a if shot and
hobbled down to the Judges' stand on
three legs. Hla lameness waa the real
thing.
PLAN HOME TALENT SPEEDWAY
Chicago Motorist Want to Have n
Track of Their Own.
CHICAGO, Jan. 1. Directors of the Chi
cago Automobile olub, in considering a
course for the Cob cup and Indiana trophy
event of 1910, will give th preference to
a speedway backed by "home talent" If
th plan now under way do not mis
carry. Th sit 1 within asy reaching
distance of Chicago, with transportation
available by both steam and surfaoe rail
roads. Th argument In favor of a speed
way backed by member, 1 that these
enthusiast, interested in "th perpetuity
of the two club classics, ar willing to
furnish th capital for Installing the two
mil track and the grandstands without
any liability attaching to the club. They
will take a chanc of seourlng Interest on
their investment, either by conducting the
event themselves, under a club sanction,
with the club hanging up the trophy, or by
renting th track to th club at a fixed
pric for these events.
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BIND BALL PLAYERS FOR YEAR
Game Has Grown to Be a Sport for
All the Year Around.
CONTRACTS FOB TWELVE MONTHS
Receipt of th Big League Ht
Doubled DnrlB the Last Six
. Years, Aec.rdssg to Secre
taries' Reports.
NEW YORK, Jan. 1. Base ball as a
business and a a sport ha attained such
Importance that it can no longer be called
a summer pastime. The game is played
in the United Statos ten months out Of
twelve. During the off-season the traffic
in players 1 most brisk and th inter
ests involved ar vastly greater than ten
year ago. That 1 demonstrated by Sec
retary's Aeydier' financial report at the
last annual meeting, when figures proved
that th gat receipt in th' eight National
league cities last season wer twice as
much as in 1903, th first year that the
National and American leagues worked to
gether under the peace agreement. And
Is was a big game six years ago.
One of the things that serves to demon
strate the development of th great sport
is the recent talk of placing players under
contracts that will bind them for a year,
instead of six or seven months, as is now
tha case. Star ball player are now re
garded as prominent theatrical headllners.
The concerns that pay them fancy salar
ies, oppose the winter ball burlesque, which
cheapens the game and the player.
Many prominent thesplan place them
selves under contract to manager and
draw salary whether they work or not.
The twelve month's ball contract i bound
to com. It will simply b bar to curb
player during tha winter month. Flay
er will be allowed to go anywhere and
to put in the off seasons a they see fit
just so they do not play any base ball.
Salaries will be arranged so that an ath
lete can draw his annual stipend in twelve
monthly payments or get it all In six
months.
Minor leagu player do not figure in
this schema for th lessor light ar not
considered valuable enough to be hedged
with such restrictions. Hut th day is
not far olf, when roving bands of major
leaguers will be denied the privilege of
collecting shekels from the yokels,, who
nowadays always roar about the lack of
class In such exhibitions.
The risk of Injury in exhibition games
I another thing that Is causing club own
era to discuss the twelve months con
tract seriously. In California recently.
Catcher Bliss broke hi right ankle slid
ing to base and will hardly be able to
play all next season. Other players, who
have failed to take a rest between sea
sons and who rtubbed along In Cuba or
Japan hav Buffered from their excess of
industry.
Cuba Is rapidly growing In disfavor with
American ball players, and the Yankees
are just as cordially disliked by the Cubans.
The Indianapolis team went to Cuba in
October and gathered th shekels. A team
composed principally of Detroit players fol
lowed them. This team was chased out
of Cuba a week before completing its
schedule. Last month a Chicago promoter
toult a good Uam of National leaguer to
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tha Island. He found that hi predecessors
had skimmed off all, the cream. Although
this team was a classy one, It played only
two games and then quit because of lack
of patronage. A row followed and a player
was arrested as the team prepared to
return to th states. Cuba will soon be
on the Ineligible list.
SWEEPING BILLIARD DEFY OUT
Oe Oro Trie to Show that He Mean
Business.
NEW YORK, Jan. 1. Alfredo Be Oro,
champion-of the world at three cushion
billiards, issued a sweeping challenge th
other day. The defl wa directed at th
entire outfit of balkllne professionals, some
of whom hav been quoted recently a
making light of I)e Oro's supremacy.
"I will play Hoppe, Slosson, Sutton,
Cllne, Demarest, Cutler or Mornlngstar at
three-cushions for $2,000 a side, under any
conditions and at any number of point
they may suggest," was Pe Oro' challenge.
Willie Hoppe, whose published Intent
to capture both the 1S.1 and 13 J balkllne
and the three-cushion championship a
well, caused De Oro's outburst, said in
reply that he wa not a three-cushion
player and did not propos to become one.
Mornlngstar also declined the Issue on th
same grounds.
"The games are almost as distinctly
different as balk-line billiards and pool,"
said Hoppe. "I appreciate De Oro' mas
tery of tha game. It is unlikely that I
could make a good match with him after a
year's practice."
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Umpire Rules
New President Will Ask that Mat
ter of Umpires Be Carefully
Looked After.
NEW YORK, Jan. 1. Some very Import
ant base ball legislation dealing with the
question of umpires will be put through at
tha next session of the National league
mogul in February. President Tom
Lynch has decided that the umpire end
of the game need overhauling, and he's
going to do tha overhauling. Heretofore
attention has centered on tha doing of
th player. Tha judges of play have re
ceived little consideration, no on deeming
them and their works Important enough to
take up th time of the magnate in ses
sion. Tha empire Is to ba the big thing the
coming season.
Lynch's Idea I to find out just where
the game can be Improved from an um
pire's standpoint, and then ask the mag
nate to enact bae ball law governing
on or more suggestions on reforms that
ha will make. In this manner Lynch hopes
to lessen the protests of umpires' rulings,
which were so common last season. With
the reforms that Lynch has In mind In ef
fect, the umpire will know just wher he
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stands and how far he oan go. It will b
a case of the umpires running th game,
and not the magnate.
Tim Hurst is naturally pleased at th
election of Tom Lynch as National leagu
president, "All they need now," say Tim,
"is to elect another umpire a vice presi
dent of the league."
Tim and Lynch worked together for year
and they ought to know each other well.
Tim says Lynch will have all the magnates
calling him Mr. Lynch in short order, and
he'll be president with a capital P. Tim
tells a story of Lynch that shows th
honesty of tha man,
"Years ago," says Hurst, "Lynch, Bob
Emslle and I combined to strike for mor
money. Unci Nick Young, then bos of
th National league, turned down all our
request. H would hand out th argu
ment that he couldn't raise our salaries
because this club had lost money, and to
had that on. Well, we threatened to hold
out even after th season opened.
"One day Lynch received a letter from,
Uncle Nick telling him that hi salary
would be raised 1150, but not to say any
thing to Emsla or ' me. Here' wher
Lynch' character cam to the surface.
Instead of putting the letter under hi
ircn iui prumyiiy inaiieu ll lo m. in in
course of a few days I got a similar letter
from President Young and before th sea
son opened wa all got out advance."
"Will Lynch be a real president?" Tin
asked his own question. "Well, I hata to
think of anybody going, 4 o him and looking
for a shade the best of It?"
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