THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JUNE
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Tim Omaiia Sunday Bee.
Judgments
THE HORSE ASD THE AUH fc.".h:
An Instructive Comparison of First
Cost and Sunning Expenses.
OMAMA, N1CB., SUNDAY, Jt'J.'E 5. 1MU.
HAH not the sacrifice hit srrvrd Its
day In base ball? We know there
will be many to answer this ques.
Hon In the naatlve with a most
tmphntlc frown. They will ariue
mat the sacrifice hit ta one of the most
scirimric attans in the game, and that It
wins bh many came aa any other one
iHCtor, ana we are not going to quarrel
with their contention, for anybody, who
knows bane ball knowa all the virtue of
the sacrifice. But to get down to the bed
rock of thla queatlon, what ia the purpoae
'I the game divested of Its commercial
aspect : Is It not to develop the hiKhest
possible degreo of Interest and Ingenuity 7
The sacrifice hit, we believe, haa aerved
Ita nay for the simple reason that It haa
fallen into the routine clans. Base bull can
never aurvlve the contemporary progress
arid development If It becomes merely rou
t Inn 1 1 it'll! tw. . , t I ........ ...,.,
that, to continue In a straight, sure line of
pi oki ens The sacrifice hit In routine for
thi'4 reai on that It Is tliu expected thing,
Everybody knowa Just when i.iook for It.
The game opens wltli t ,u m... natter try
ing for his base h i, .ikmi.o that aecm
bett under the .. .nm, ,i.ni it la
foiegone conclumu ui the next muii up
will sacrifice. Now, Is there any uiku
mcnt to deny that thla deprives the game
of a certain amount of interest and thrill
which It should possess? But It will bi
as Id It Is not the time to hit It out. ' .
baiter takes too many chances In trying
lilt a ball at such a stage of the gaiuu.
Well, that Is 4 question. Mow many bunts
t such times are ever beaten out? A
scant minority. The loun in the field
knows exactly what to o for; Its infield
comes In and soon the iiuie bunt Is laid,
down and nine tines out of ten the runner
goes out at firat, and the only gain Is the
runner Is advanced one base. In the mean
time ho might have been, and frequently Is,
hi own out at second. Base ball must be
Ike war, surprising at every angle. The
fellow who, like Hannibal of old, can pull
off what the other side Is not looking for
Is the best ; man, and only when used in
such cases, as an emergency proposition,
...... I- n n . . ( I . . Y. I . . ...... 1 1 I . ! ( . . 1
tan mv jauviiiiu? jjii ue Illguiy vai-
' ucd. If , the second batter up teaches the
y out team that it cannot count on his bunt
1 lug no more than on his "hitting 'er out"
V the game takes on a new Interest and more
science. The origin of the bunt waa s base
hit. The old Baltimore Orioles made It
common, though, of course,, they did not
originate It, and used. It always with the
expectation of making a base hit oull of
It. Certainly players were bunting, or,
as they called - It then, "tipping" the
ball back In the '80a, but not even then
did they ever have the notion of uaing it
as a sucrlflce, but always a hit. And that
Is what we have got to come to In this
day of great thought and resource It we
would save the game from the bane of
stilted formality.
Gotch pursued the system of wrestling
In the Zbyssko match which, had he pursued
In his contest vlth Hackenachmldt would
have cut short his victory there to a mat
ter of a few minutes Instead of stringing
out the affair for more than two hours and
ending in a dog-fall. If we are to aooept
things as they come- to us we may say
that It was Qotch's avowed purpose to go
into Hack from the start as he ruahed
Zhyssko, but Farmer Burns said no and
held him back for the waiting game. Of
course the match with Zbyssko la not sub
Juct to the criticism thai other wrestles
. sometimes Incur as to their squareness.
for in this match hlppodroming could have
nothing to gain by a quick fall such as
both these were, the former unprecedent
ed quick. The match marks Qotch more
distinctly than ever as a man alone and In
hla own claas, and tela the thinking Amer
ican above the gruelling foreigner In this
lino, old test of mental and physical agil
ity. There never was a chance anyway
of this Zbysako throwing Frank Ootch. He
Us not in his class and really had no license
Sj wrestle him except that hla looks and
strength made him a good drawing card
t the box office and were sufficient to
fool many people into believing that he
might down the lowan.
Another week has come and gone without
disclosing any material steadiness In the
slaying of Omaha's much loved ball team,
out not even that should give a faithful
Tun serious worry. The season Is young,
the weather Is irregular and the team Is
potentially strong, and It is not the only
one In the league that Is losing. Besides
all this President Rourke Is still hiring and
looking for new material. There Is no weak
ni-83 except in the box, and it Is a ques
Ktkm if after the weather settles down
J,lura will be much of a weakness there.
The best pitchers are getting their bumps
these days and will get them so long as
Mr. Sol and Mr. Pluvlus are unable to
come to more amicable terms, to say noth
k Big of Old Man Boreas. Of course Omaha
( Hants a winning team and Omaha is en
titled to a winning team, and if Pa Rourke
can accomplish what he la trying for
Omaha will have a winning team. On
paper it is the strongest lineup In the
league, and on the field It is until you get
to the box, so that with the recent addl
tion Pa haa made to the staff we may hope
for prompt rejuvenation there.
Base ball la a game ui wonders. They
have 1 been counting off the consecutive
games won by Brooklyn. But as a matter
of fact Brooklyn Is one of several teams
that must be reckoned with for a time It,
like the 6t. I-oula Nationals, Cincinnati and
1 tost on Americans, has been weeding out
old men and drawing in new ones until
It has a good team that ought to go well
when It gets thoroughly organised. And
the others ought to be comers, barring ac
cidents, for two or three seasons.
MACHINE POWER BEATS THE NAG
Mlteaae Coat Greater for Horse Tkaa
Hanabnat Kiprrlrnre of Man
Who Tried Both Classes
of rower.
1 have seen a good many tables of ex
pense of running large touring ears for
pleasure, but very few for Small business
runabouts, such aa the physician In general
practice, contractor, city engineer, or real
estate man uses, hence the following state
ment of facta may be of Interest.
In September, HK7. I purchased second
hand, a two-cylinder 12-horse-power run
about, weighing 1,300 pounds, which had
been used six months, running about 2.000
miles In that time, but which was In good
condition. This had, beside the stock equip
ment, a pantasote top, glass wind-shield,
and wicker backet, on the flat deck behind
the aeat. (This last a most useful addition
for carrying packages, from a box of tacks
up to a sack of flour.) This cost STitrO.BO de
llvered. There haa been added since, gas
lamps and generator, odometer. Jack and
storags battery, coating 50.45, making the
total cost of the car and equipment, SiilO.95.
With this I have covered In a little more
than two years, from October 1, 1907. to
November 18, lflOS, 12,960 miles, or about
half way around the globe, at a cost, for
running expenses, of 17H.81. The mileage
per month was as follows:
Miles
ilonth. 1907-S HiOK-9 190B
October f5
November 740
December UiO
anuary
b ebruary ,, 14
houses the new car, ami
torehouse for our gurden
tools and seeds, fo thst expense waa not
Included.
Comparison on Mtlraae Haala.
Now let ua compare this cost with that
of a horse and busgy In similar work. For
two years preceding this automobile pur
chase, I used an outfit consisting of a light
horse and Iron-tire runabout (and It was
not very much of an outfit at that. This
coat, horse, buggy and harness, and
sold two years later for S5, a depreciation
of SM5. or pi a month. The cost to run a
month waa as follows:
Boarding horse 118
Hhoelng horse i i
Miscellaneous repairs 2
March 47
April 6!2
May 8)4
tine tV,
uly 64
August 563
September . 4M6
Totals
17
W2
KI4
YC
3W
552
7W
63H
737
43
707
8,011
29.00
.077
.097
Amateur Drivers
on Grand Circuit
6.089
Cost In Detail
Poor old "Nance,", as we called it, waaj
good, after some repairs and a coat of
paint, 'for another seaaon, but for various
reasons, I wanted a larger car, accommo
dating four persons, so traded It In for $275.
This makes the loss by depreciation In two
years, 33,96, which should be added to the
running expense. The cost In detail is as
Per
Mile.
.006
.001
.018
.002
.024
.004
follows:
Item. Total.
Gasoline S 0.66
Oil 1.67
Tires 201.181
Tires repaired 31.96 I
Dry cells 25.60)
iorage oanrry cnargea 2. mm
K-n.ln. ........ t .... 1?fl MS
BC-fa-l.V ...............
Other repairs 132.81
Storage, 4V4 months 27.00
Misc. (license, numbers, car
bide, spk. iugs, etc.) Z.06
Total '. 123
It Is hard to get at the mileage, as an
odometer was not used, but as practically
the same route waa covered each week day,
about twelve miles in length, an estimate
of 300 miles a month Is not tar out. I did
not take the horse out Sundays or evenings,
as her feet got pavement sore, and I wanted
to spare her all I could. Then the cost per
mile was:
Running expanses 077
Depreciation 020
Total 097
Let ua put the automobile and horse side
by side for the purpose of belter compari
son: Automobile. Horse.
Running expenses per month . .2g.06 S23.0U
Running expenses per month.
eluding depreciation 41.1"
Running expenses per mile 065
Kvnnlng expenses per mile. In
cluding depreciation 080
Why the Anto Win Oat.
Bo we see, although It costs more per
month to run an automobile, it costs less
per mile, with Incomparably greater pleas
ure. In the hot summer evenings, instead
of sweltering at home, letting the horse
rest in the barn, out of sheer pity for the
poor dumb beast, we simply fill up the
gasoline tank and cool off by a twenty or
thirty-mile run against the breeze. On Bun
days or holidays we may take a run to a
neighboring city forty or fifty milea away,
and return In time to start to work when
the whistle blows next morning. (Though
it must be confessed It does not always
turn Out that way. I remember starting
one morning at t a. m. on a forty-mile
drive, expecting to be In at 8 o'clock. Had
two punctures, one blowout, broke a spring,
all the battery wires, and the timer, and
got in at 11:30 but under our own steam.)
I always put the horse on pasture the four
winter months,' but now use the car every
month In the year, and If It la not used It
is not eating Its head off standing In the
barn. Its motto Is "No mileage no expense."
In conclusion I can only say I am so
pleased with my experience that I have
purchased a new and larger car, and would
not go back, to a horse and buggy If one
were given me. Arthur Hay In Country
Life In America.
Annual Inter-City Harness Matinees
to Form Part of the Em
pire City Meet.' '
NEW YORK, June 4 It is practically
certain now that the annual intercity har
ness matinee of the Amateur' Drivers'
Iengue of America will form part of the
Empire City grand circuit meeting during
the week of August 22. This asKurance
came from Lieutenant Governor Horace
White. As president of the Syracuse driv
ing club, a member of the league, Mr.
White is one of a committee of four which
will decide upon a track for the big annual
amateur event, the other members being
Harry K. Devereux of Cleveland, presi
dent of the league; J. D. Callary, president
of the Pittsburg Driving club, and Arnold
Iawson, a member of the Gentlemen's
Driving club of Boston. President Devereux
promised his support for the empire track
late last fall, when a grand circuit meeting
was being talked about for New Tork.
The pionilxe of Mr. White gains the third
vote for Nw Yuik, which mrans that the
country's best amateur drivers and fastest
trotters and pacers driven In matinees will
be here, and, a.M greatly to the harness
sport In connection with the Kmplre City
grand circuit meeting. The cluba In mem
bership with the I,Rue of Amateur Driv
ing cluba are the Gentlemen's Driving club'
of BoHt'on, the Gentlemen's Driving club
of Chicago, the Gentlemen's Driving club
of Cleveland, the Gentlemen's Driving club
of Columbus, the Gentlemen's Driving club
of Lexington, the Gentlemen's Driving club
of Memphis, the New Yolk Driving club,
the Matliee club of Pittsburg and Alle
gheny and the Driving club of Syracuse.
Aa soon as the committee makes an of
ficial decision leading members of the
New York Trotting club and the New
York Driving club will begin preparations
for the entertainment of visiting horsemen,
and have all possible accommodations
ready for their horses and men at the
Yonkcra track. Lieutenant Governor White
said that he may drive Baron Alcyone
C.15'4), the trotter which won the Read
vllle derby last year and which In entered
in the Bpeedway stakea under the name of
Lyndon Farm, the breeding establishment
of his brother, Ernest White.
Total running expanses..... 713.31
Depreciation 835.96
;053
.026
Interstate $1,750
Hupmobile $750
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DISTRIBUTERS FOR NEBRASKA, IOWA AND SOUTH DAKOTA.
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De Tamble, $650 De Tamble, cy $1,275
Total all expenses $1,064.26 .080
An Inspection of this table reveals sev
eral Interesting facts. The principal Item
expense la not (as the novtde thinks)
gasoline, but repairs, at four times tho
gasoline cost; next Is tires, three times as
much, with gasoline a poor third. I used
621 gallons of the latter, at an average
cost of U cents a gallon, and averaged
twenty-one miles on a gallon during the
entire period. J have run as high as twenty-eight
miles on a gallon during, the
summer months, when everything was
working well. OH Is a small Item, only
twenty-eight gallons at 65 cents a gallon.
and one quart ran 100 miles an hour.
: Roach Hiding.
My work aa park superintendent takes
me over many rough new roads, across
railroad tracts, ruts and chuck holes, which
may account for the high repair cost. In
the two years I have cracked two cylin
ders, broken two springs, both sides of the
frame, stripped the differential and worn
out six sets of ball bearings. New roads
of sharp stone and cinders wear out tires
sooner than asphalt, especially when one
starts and stops as often as I do. I have
used twelve new casings (besides one that
failed after 791 miles of use and was re
placed free by the company) and three
Inner tubes; the average life of a casing
was about 4,300 miles. At first I bad punc
tures repaired at a garage, but on figuring
up I found thirty-three patches had cost
$25.76, so I bought an acid repair outfit,
since which I have put on sixty patches
myself at a cost of 14.60 not counting my
own time.
Dry cells were used for Ignition at first,
running about 1,000 miles on a double set
of ten cells, but later, when I could get
only 600 or 600 miles out of a set, I shifted
to a six-sixty storage battery, costing 115,
and running 1,000 miles on a charge cost
ing 60 cants, as compared to 12,60 for the
dry cells. Storage charges were avoided
after the first few months by building a
frame garage 12x16 feet, with cement floon.
and underground gasoline tank, on the back
end of my lot, at a cost of 11115. This Is as
TENNEY'S DAYS AEE NOW OVER
Haa Record of Sixteen Years as Ball
- Player.
Fred Teney's days of ' usefulness to the
New York Giants have passed and" the one
time king of the first sackers has been
turned loose.
The passing of Tenney from the big
league marks the going of the last of the
stars who won pennants for Boston In 1896,
1S97 and 189g. What an aggregation of ball
toasers that old Boston bunch was! Duffy,
Hamilton and old Stahl In the gardens. Col
Una on third, Lowe second, Herman Long
short, Tenney first, Bergen and Ganzel
oatchers and Nicholas, Klobedan Lewis
and Stlvetrta pitchers. Tenney is the last
one of thla old guard to remain In the
claasy company of the big league.
Tenney Joined the Boston team in 1894 aa
a catcher, coming direct from Brown uni
versity. Although left-handed. Tenney
made good back of the bat, but he didn't
come Into his own until he replaced old
Tom Tucker on first base. Then he be
came the marvel of the base ball world.
Last year Tenney slowed up, and this
spring, before reporting to the Olants at
Marlln, Tex., he had an operation per
formed on his foot, which he hoped would
benefit him. At Dallas McGraw announced
that he would play Merkle regularly en
first, but would hold Tenney In reserve.
Unlike most athletes. Tenney has saved
his money, and has a beautiful home at
Wlnthrop Highlands, Mass., a suburb of
Boston. He Is an accomplished artist wltlh
water colors and Is also a clever writer,
having had considerable experience in prao
tlcal newspaper work, so when his release
slip Is handed him he will not have to
worry over the future. '
In the sixteen years Fred Tenney has
been in the big league he has batted as
follows:
Year.
1894....
1896....
UWt....
1897...,
1898...,
1899...
19"l0...
Pet. 1 Year.
.S87I1B02
, .278,1903
.8421904
, .I261906
, ,336il906
. ,860 1907
.28411908
Pet.
.278
.314
.270
, .2X8
, .2S3
. .278
. .250
. .23u
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Ueorge Stone seems to have recovered
lis batting eye and his bad leg Improved
'la conduct, so that the ex-Omahan is de
livering some gnoda for the Browns. But
It will take several Stones to bring the
Browns out of the dumps. Not a team In
the majors Is worse off today than that
land of BL Louis orphana For the sake
of the name If nothing else It ought to be
a winner.
,
The Cubs evidently have decided to win
.the pennant, but they find themselves serl
W ply harassed by their old rivals, the
'"isnts, the Pirates resting on their oars
for the nonce, since they cannot rest on
inythlng else just at present.
Young McQulllen of Philadelphia, whose
pitching last seaaon startled everybody, has
Just been fined ISO and suspended Indef
initely without pay for poor work, which
Is a wholesome Indication that loafing will
ut be tolerated.
Old Coxy Joe la having the fun of his
life laaimlng the cover off the ball out In
the.ifve league.
VkV oi
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