. Oiling Up the
Judgments
' OST of Omaha's defeats of lata
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have been by the bat of. an
eye and most aggravating to
the fans, who are eaeer to see
Omaha win every came It da vs.
A hit at the right time would have won
any one of several of these, but the hit
did not come. A good deal has been said
of the let-down In the pitchers and some
of them have let down, but anyone who
will take the time to analyse results, will
see. very clearly that Omaha cannot
charge lts.defeats to Its pitchers. It is a
good team, a corking good team, but It
-Js not doing the work It should do.
The" sting of defeat is quite mollified
for the team that tails the race like the
one now being run in the Western league.
As this Is written the leaders have won
43 and lost 32 games, having a percentage
of .573 and the eighth team has won 81
and lost 41, a percentage of .431. Much
more than that could scarcely be asked.
It is the best and really the only genuine
race of four leagues the two majors, the
association and the Western. It is al
most the ideal situation in base ball. It
shows eight teams so " evenly matched
that in the middle of the season the pen
nant belongs to any one of them. St
Joseph has clung with great tenacity to
first place. Not since it nosed Denver
out of that position, has it left it, al
though its grip Is steadily lessening. Sioux
City, on a mad rampage, threatens to
slip into the; top notch for a little while,
with Des Moines, Omaha and Denver hot
on its trail. Chief Johnson deserves
much credit for putting and keeping St.
Joseph In first place, but Omaha exploded
the chief on his last visit here, then
Sioux City got him and since that he
has been tame as any other good Indian
and his team lias lost its ferocity, most
of Jt, anyhow. ,
Unless the tide turns radically very soon
all interest in the National league pen
nan face is oih, -for New - York i -hopelessly
in the lead. The Cubs have come
to with a vengeance at last, but only
after their old-time rivals are far in the
distance ahead, and nothing now but a
run of fierce luck is likely to overtake
the demon Giants. They owe their great
lead, of course .to the marvelous work
of Marquard, who Is giving value received
at last for that $11,000 paid for him.
Meantime, Muggsy is able to hold onto
his old tribe of pitchers Mathewson,
Wiltse, Ames and Crandall. .
If "A Fan" will send his name to The
Bee, the anonymous letter, in which e
charges the Omaha newspapers with
ing subsidized by Pa Rourke, will be
printed. What we would like to know Is
the name of the brave man who calls
folks all sorts of names In a typewritten
document and then is too timid to sign
his name.
Well, one result of the otherwise un
satisfactory outcome of the disgraceful
affair at Las Vegas is that Jack Curloy
is separated from some of the coin he
gouged from the public on his Labor Day
fake last season. . -
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It did our hearts good to see Schipke
come to life down at St. Joe. There is
no reason under the sun that this little
fellow, who once set the American league
on fire with his work at third; should
not return to his old form.
Brooklyn stopped the raving Giants by
taking a double header from them on
the glorious Fourth,, but with. General
Mathewson leading the way, the bold
warriors came marching right back again
the next day. '.''
So long, however,' as Omaha leads tn
base running, sacrificing and fielding, it
is difficult for the most expert 'knocker
to figure it out' a very bad team.
Sorrow, for the death of "Hek" is In
tensified by a longing to read vhat he
would have written about the Las Vegas
and Los Angeles affairs. .
Uncle Sam's boys show up pretty well
in the prelims at Stockholm, and that's
a pretty good. sign, for the finals... ,
Abie Attell'a comeback looks almost as
good as Ad Wolgast's. They both need
the money.;. . , ,
Now on that sixteen straight at home,
let us take at least fifteen. Oh, of course,
thirteen would do. " . .
Now that the team is home again,
show how well -you like it by: going
to the game. ' .'' i ' ,
' Young Hicks uiay be all right after an
other season or two, but it is seasoning
he needs. - , . .
Washington just must win, it seems, If
it takes fifteen innings to do it "..
Mark Hall Is still making the Jo-Joes
eat out of his hand. Mark that.
A; erab Is he who' goes to the park hoping-
the home team will lose.
How-familiar those-sounds now being
wafted over from Sweden!
Ad Wolgast also has a crown on which
there is a smudge.
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. There's nothing like that in Packey
VcFarJand's record .
Old Whip for the Nineteenth Straight
GUNNERS ANDPARKS TO MEET
Fort Omaha Will Hold Much of In
terest for Amateur Fan.
DOUBLE-HEADERS ABE IN OBDEfi
Triumph Will Go to Council Blaffs
to Meet the Merchant Other
Team Will Also Go
Oat of Town.
Thos afternoon the Dundees clash with
the Foresters and the Townsends lock
horns with the HanBcom Parks. This
will be the first meeting of the Gunners
and Parks. The battery for the Town
sends will be Young and Cavanaugh and
for the Hanscom Parks H, Bogatts and
Edward Bogatts will work. Halbe will
umpire. First game at 1:30 o'clock, sec
ond at 3:30 o'clock. ' The lineup:
Foresters. Dundees.
Dargazewskl...! First ....Fitzgerald
Bogatts Second.. Hazen
Browiak..... v.. Short Stipts
Unick Third Dineen
Bote Left McCreary
Lair Center Oberriger
Spachursky Right Kaufman
Christy Catch Speilmau
Chick Pitch Vernon
Second game:
Hanscom Parks. Townsends.
Cavanaugh First ...O'Connor
Bando ....Second Hal
Swoboda Short ...Jenkins
Collins Third J... Malum
Yearlk Left ....Faber
Front . Center ......Muller
Tuttle Right Young
E. BogattB Catch Coe
H. Bogatts Pitch Balllnger
Benson Pitch Young
The Triumphs will meet the Council
Bluffs Merchants on the tatter's home
grounds at S o'clock. A double header
is scheduled, the first contest being be
tween a pair of class B teams. -: The
Triumphs and Merchants have, met twice
before this season. The other two de
bates resulted in the former getting the
long end after hard fights. Peterson
will pitch for the Council Bluffs family
and Probst or Oleson for represent the
Triumphs.-Lineup;- .
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Triumphs. Merchants.
Hachten First Wahl
Graham Second Hodge
Minikus Short Mr-T.ann
Durkee Third Phillips
uougneny L,ert Scanlon
Lawler Center Goff
Welch Right Evers
Clair Catch ..Payne
rrpqsi.... fitcn .., Peterson
Oleson Pitch Duff
Hickey pitch
At Farrell park, where the Klplingers
and Hoilys put on the first show
the Farrel Syrups will meet the Grain
Exchange. The Farrels will present an
extraordinary strong bunch. Forsland
will hurl for the Farrells and Kinnard
or Rothke will be on the firing line for
the Grain men. First game:
Hollys O. D. Kiplingers
F. . Dougherty, first Guinane
J. Dougherty... second Nelson
Welch short..., Mc Qrath
IF. Dougherty, third plats
McAndrews......left Abdill
Hronek. ........... center Gloden
Falconer......... right. .' Sandan
McCreary,.. 4.... catch , Dineen
Russam pitch Moran
Kelly pitch. FitzGerald
Second game:
Farrells. Grain Exchange
W. Quigley first Dennison
Cross...... second Siller
Stevens...". short Grossman
Elliott..... third McNamara
Kucera left..... ,. Gran
Smith cen ter Murray
Caughlan right Knee
Ogden catch Morrow
Forsland........ pitch Kinnard
Kane ...pitch Rathke
Kemp pitch , ,
Plattsmouth is the objective point
of the A. O. U. W. team today. Last
Sunday the Plattsmouth aggregation
handed the Cross team a lemon and
they hope to do likewise to the A. O.
U. W. gang. Plattsmouth has secured
a leaguer to do 'their hurling. Cass,
the old reliable, will be on the rubber
for the Workmen.
At Florence park two games are on
the program, Florence Athletic vs.
South Omaha Ramblers and Alhambrag
vs. Goldstroms.
' At Elmwood park the Independent!
will meet the Jourdans at 3 ' o'clock.
McDermott will hurl the horsehtde for
the Independent troupe.
At Fort Crook the Luxus and Advos
will meet at 2:30. Dyke will heave for
the Brewers and Baker will hoist 'em
for the Advos. Lineup:
Advos 1 Luxus
McGrath. ........ first Hochten
Bowley second Rapp
Probst.-....,, short.... Smith
Carmod y ......... thl rd .'. Tracey
Feltman left Denny
Flanagan. ....... center Melady
Coe right Vanous
Baker .catch.... Danze
Madden pitch Dyke
pitch Cunningham
Armour Park will be the scene of a
battle when the Baums mix with the
Armours outfit. Parrlsh will work for
the Iron dudes and Graves will boost 'era
for the packers.
At Blair the famous Hoctors from
Packersville will do their mightiest to
snag , the long end. Of course, they will
be a trifle outclassed, but Manager Marsh
says that with an even break of luck
they can 'float back with the bacon.
At Fapilllon the Shamrocks will play
today. For games address George Ken
nedy, Twenty-fourth and N streets.
or Telephone South 1893. Snuff Smith will
leave the pill for the Irish lads and
Rhodes will be on the mound for Papll
lion. ' ,
A Twenty-fourth and Vinton streets
the Stars and Stripes And the Southside
Athletics will shake hands at 3 o'clock.
Altman will pitch for the patriotic ag
gregation. ,
The. South Omaha Shamrocks -are. Just
crazy for a whack at the Triumphs. They
will play just for the sport or will put up
enough dough to make the bout Interest
ing. Thronffh the Knothole,
The Townsends played for a $125 purse
at Tekamah the Fourth.
Harry Coe caught for Herman last
Thursday against Blair.
Joe Adams iced ten beans hurling for
Oakland, Neb., the Fourth.
Out of fourteen games played the A.
O. U. W. have dropped four.
Rudy Sheur hit one for the circuit at
Tekamah on the Fourth of July.
Beber, the strike-out wonder, Is twirl
ing good ball for the Hoctors of Squeal-
Villi.
Jack Cavanaugh Is a permanent fixture
behind the bat tor the Townsends here
after. .-
In the Rock. Island-Storz mix George
Dougherty got four hits out of five times
at bat.
Ray Young let Tekamah down with
four hits last Thursday morning and won
4 o 8,
Bill Fox gathered ten rocks at Wlsner,
Neb., the Fourth. He held down the
Cobb field.
The All Stars will journey to Tekamah
next Friday for a tussle with the town
team there.
Charlie Coe hit one for the circuit at
Tekamah, scoring Sheur, who hit tor
three bases.
The-O. D. Kiplingers have attached a
new gink to their twirling staff. Fitz
gerald is his monicker. ,
Ray' Young, Rudy Sheur and Leo Byrne
are going to play with Tekamah the 14th,
lath, ISth, nth and lth.
Townsends against the Hanscom Parks
today at Fort Omaha. There will be
some class to this mix.
Another Holly floated away last week,
viz., Russam. He Is going to hold down
short for Win side, Neb.
Bob Elliott of the Farrells pickled ten
rollers playing short for Wlsner, Neb.,
against Dodge, the Fourth.
"Cap" Benson, the manager? with the
Quaker Oats smile, says he got It handed
to him by the ump at Athletic park.
L. C. Marsh, the cheese of the Hoctors,
says to bring along your own umpire it
you want a square deal at Crescent City,
la.
Hachten of the Luxus team cornered
three hits during the Luxus-Holly battle
-a home run, a three-bagger and a sin
gle. Up at Woodbine a dude tagged Steph-any.-who
hails from Neola, la., does the
adjudicating, and he is all to the mustard.-
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Wtllard Quigley has again entered the
base ball ring as a player. He is holding
down the initial sack for the Farrell
Syrups.
Twlrler Cunningham of the Luxus team
Is especially noted for his noodle work.
His belfry plays a conspicuous part in
every fray.
Their Match
The larger figure is that of Joe Rivers,
the Mexican fighter, whose friends have
been confident of his ability to stay
twenty rounds with Wolgast. Rivers Is
a native of Los Angeles, has just passed
hla JLwesUetb...bjtlbday. and Jii present
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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JULY
Copyright, 1911 National News Assn.
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Few Golfers from
Here to Attend the
Western at Denver
Only one Omaha man will enter the
fourteenth annual amateur golf cham
pionship turoameht of the Western Golf
association which , will be held at the
Denver Country olub grounds at Denver,
July 15 to 30 Inclusive.
Several Omahana had planned to enter
this tournament, but the poor showing
made by the local cracks in the state
tournament held last week has caused
a great droppinr out. Sam Reynolds, the
winner of the state tournament, follow
ing his winning the title announced that
he would compete for honors at Denver,
but when he was defeated last Thursday
by Albert Cahn at the Field club for
the club championship, he decided to
remain at home. Albert Cahn Is prob
ably the only Omaha man who will en
ter the big meet.
Dr. H. C. Sumney, one ot Omaha's
best players, may go to the tourney. He
says he will not go expecting to win
anything, but simply to see some good
golf playing, as the cracks and sharps
of the country will be entered In the
play. Dr. Sumney Is not certain that he
will go, but If he does he will enter and
play just to see some good players and
study their style of playing.
W. J. Foye, the Country club sharp,
also Intended to enter the meet as did
E. H. Sprague, but both have decided
to stay away from Denver and enter
the Trans-Mississippi golf tournament at
Mlnnekada club at Minneapolis on Aug
ust 12. A large number of the Omaha
players will enter this meet as they are
certain that they will at least get a
show for some of the honors. The Trans
Mississippi is on the same order of the
Nebraska State tournament in that it
bars out the cracks from all, parts of the
country and just players tn the west
central states are allowed to enter.
Pnrria at Oat. -
Just as expected. Art Wilson and Fred
Merkle are al but over that partnership
In an automobile. Wilson was fined $5 for
speeding and Insisted on Merkle paying
half the assessment because he owns half
the car. Now Merkle refuses to pay for
half the gasoline when Wilson Is exercis
ing the machine.
Called Fake
weight is 128 pounds. The other la Ad
Wolgast, who went through the hardest
kind of training for the Independence day
battle. In the middle of June he offered
to wager $10,006 that Rivers could not
stay the limit. The outcome of the con-
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NEW POOL GRAFT IS WORKED
Lottery wth Ball Scores ai Basis is
Making Promoters Bich.
WOMEN FALL FOB THE GAME
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Operator Deducts Whatever Amount
Me Pleases es HI Commission
and There Is No War ot
Tabblnc His Profits.
NEW YORK, July S.-Selllnf pools on
base ball games Is becoming a greater
evil than policy, aocordlng to men who
are conversant with the methods ot petty
gamblers now operating tn cities through
out the country. These pools, started In
small minor league towns, have grown
rapidly Into an industry that Involves
thousands of dollars and It interesting
women as well as men. It isn't the re
sult of a ball game that prompts specu
lation of this kind, but the number of
runs secured by a team during a period
of seven days. Pools are sold for 25 and
60 cents and in one Instance reoently a
winning ticket paid $040. This form of
betting is applied for four leagues the
National, American, International and
New York State giving opportunities to
speculate as to the weekly run mak
ing of thirty-two clubs.
Several newspapers In the country pub
lish tables showing the run secured by
these thirty-two clubs. As an example
from June 21 to June 27, Inclusive, the
American league holders of Boston pool
tickets were successful, as the Red Sox
scored fifty-six runs within the stated
period. The Giants carried oft the honors
in the National league with fifty-six runs,
the Torontos led In the International
league .with forty-eight runs. It Is pointed
out that each pool seller deducts 20 per
cent of the money received on all clubs
In one league, and without making pub
lie the' number of tickets sold he pays
all winning slips according to any scale
of settling prices he may see fit to ar
range, r ; .
o Tab on the Operator. "
"If a pool seller receives 6,000 tickets
at 26 cents each," explained a person who
has looked Into the matter, "he has 11,260
in cash. He deducts I'M tor his commis
sion and it 2,000 tickets haev been sold
on the winner each winning ticket holder
received 60; cents. Jf on the other hand
he sells the same number of tickets and
only 100 persons are entitled to collect
he can pay $10 to each, or even 17 or $6,
whatever he thinks Is enough, tor there
Is no way of finding out just how much
business has been transacted. In parl
mutual betting on horse races the ma
chines record the exact number of tickets
purchased son each horse, so that there
is no chance for fraud. But pool selling
on ball gam'es Is a new graft which is
conducted entirely under the surface, i
"Various schemes are used . to , get
around the law. In many Instances pools
are not sold openly. If you want to bet'
you go Into a cigar store and buy a 6
cent weed for 30 cents. In addition to
the smoke you receive a ticket which
you can make out according to your own
judgment. In some places, evidently pro
tected, the cigar ruse Isn't necessary and
tickets are sold openly. In two cities
having clubs In the New York State
league the attendance at the games haf
been greatly diminished by the selling
test has raised a storm among fight fol
lowers and charges of fake are openly I
and. .generally made.
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for The Bee by
of pools, for persons with a gambling
fever prefer to take a chance with a
quarter or half a dollar In a pool rather
than pay that much money to sit on the
bleachers or In the grandstand. I know
that hundreds of women are playing this
game and also I can give you facts con:
earning young men who have thrown up
good positions In factories, to sell pools
with more lucrative results.
"You can visit any number of minor
league towns and see erowds before the
bulletin boards watching the scoring of
runs. The results ot the games are of
not so much Importance. Runs, it
properly guessed, land the money. Over
In Newark a man has been making big
money at the pool selling game. He told
a friend in confidence recently that he
followed one line of action. He said he
made sure to pay all holders ot winning
tickets so that there could be no kick.
But he admitted that In addition to de
ducting the 20 per cent commission sure
velvet he also held out a fat amount.
Nobody but himself knew how much
money was taken In and that in settling
up he was able to apportion the winning
shares according to his own figures. He
even admitted that he could Increase the
number of winning tlcketholders either
by employing confederates or by simply
exaggerating the figures, In that way
he was able to deprive winners of their
just dues.'
"In other words base ball pool selling
affords an unusual chance to get rich
quick. It's a swindle that has policy
beaten to ' a frassle. It Is growing
steadily In spite ot heroic efforts on the
part of base ball men and the authorities
to check the evil and In time It will
spread all over the country, The work
ing classes fall for th game readily, In
asmuch as there's always a chanoe to
get something tor practically nothing.
Whenever there's a big winning the fact
is widely circulated, It wasn't so very
long ago that a 26-eent ticket yielded
IM0, whereupon the business during the
following week was more than doubted.
''Just to show what is possible the
Giants made fifty-sox runs In the week
ended June 27, with the Boston tallend
ers standing second with forty-four runs,
Pittsburgh followed with forty-two, Chi.
cage with forty-one. Brooklyn with
thirty-eight, St, Louis with twenty-six,
Philadelphia with filneteen and Cincin
nati with eighteen. If Boston had topped
the Giants' total score I know one pool
seller who would have paid out 1320 for
each 26-cent ticket. . "
The National Base Ball commission
Is heading a vigorous crusade against
this form of gambling and is receiving
assistance from all organized leagues.
The authorities have been urged to co
operate and some arrests have been
made, but It seems a difficult task to
secure sufficient evidence to convict.
LIEUT. DOUGLAS CHOSEN
NAVY FOOT BALL COACH
ANNAPOLIS, Md., July 6.-Lieutenant
Douglas L, Howard, U. 8. N., has been
selected coach of the navy foot ball team
next fall. Frank Wheston of Yale will
act as field coach for another year.
Probable assistants are Lleutanent
Jonas H. Ingram, Captains Dalton,
Wecms and Shaw. The regular football
squad will return to the academy a week
before' It opens, and fourth year candi
dates will report September 1.
ubc Still Moving-.
Historians disagree on the details of
records for straight wins made by pitchers
of the past, but Rube .Marquard Is not
disturbed. He's given them something to
put in their notebooks, anyway.
Hernehe n"lcel.
St. Joseph has released Fred Hersche,
recently picked up when Wichita turned
him loose. He worked In two games for
the Drummers, as relief pitcher when
both had been lost.
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Harvard Schedule j
for 1912 Announced!
NEW YORK, July". Harvard's foot-j
ball schedule for 1912 haa been, announced!
and It shows but one change from lastj
year's eard. VanderblH college replac
ing the Carlisle Indian school. Princeton.
Is on the list, three weeks before thai
season closes.
Only nine games are on- the program,'
with none down for Wednesday. This is
in line with the action of the larger uni
versities In abandoning the midweek
games and playing all contests on Sat
urdays. ' ,,-
Heretofore Princeton has usually played
the shortest foot ball schedule in the
(eastern college world, but frequently
the Tigers had ten or a dozen- games
carded. It la believed that the Orange
and Black menu will be about aa limited
as the Crimson's and that Yale's will be
little longer. . . ,
Foot ball enthusiasts were glad to see
that the Tigers ware included on the
Cambridge card, as it was feared In
some quarters that Harvard might de
cide to cut the Jerseymen following their
defeat by Sam White last fall.
Voder the home and home-rule Prince
ton will play In the stadium at Cambridge
this year. Harvard Invaded the "Jungle"!
last year. The Yale game will be played
In New Haven. The Blue will go to Jer
sey for the Tiger struggle, however. The
Intergames between the three universities
give each of them a "big game" at
home. . 1 . ,
The Harvard season opena on Septem
ber 28 against Maine, and Holy Cross Is
met on Ootober (. A week later the Wil
liams aggregation, and then Amherst
and Brown, successively, filling out the
month. Princeton is the first November
date, with Vanderbllt a week laterthen
Dartmouth, and finally Yaie on Novem
ber 22,
-The Vanderbllt game, It is believed,1
will prove harder than the Carlisle, as
the southerners are always a swift, ver.
tattle team, A brother-in-law of Hurry-,
up Yost of Miohlgan coaches the Vandor-'
bile' eleven. ' r-'- ' -
WESTERN GOLFERS MEET
AT DENVER THIS MONTH
CHICAGO, July 8.-At the Denver Coun-
try club from July 15 to 20, the fourteenth
annual tournament of the Western Golf,
association will be' held. A gold medal;
will be awarded to the winner ot thei
championship, a stiver medal to the run-'
ner-up, a bronse medal to each loser la!
the semi-finals, and a trophy for the
lowest score for thlrty-slx holes in thai
qualifying round.. On Monday, July 15,
will be the elimination round, eighteen!
holes, medal play, fifty-four to continue
the next day, when. the qualifying round
ot eighteen holes will be had, thirty-two
to quality by addition of scores made In
the elimination and qualifying rounds.
the Wednesday rounds In match play
for the different cups will be eighteen
holes. The semi finals for those on Thurs
day and the finals on Friday will be at
thlrty-slx holes, as will be the second and
third rounds of match play and the semi
final and final for the championship
on Friday and Saturday, respectively.
The total length ot the course. Is 6.323
yards, made up of 2,141 yards out and '
3.IS8 yards in. The part cut la thlrty-slx j
and in thirty-seven, which Is. the ama
teur course' record. In the pairing of thai
two for the championship match rounds
the following system will be followed:
No. 1 will pair with No. 17, No. 9 with
No. 23, No. 6 with No. 25, etc., the last I
No. 32, being paired with No. IS. ,
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C. D. Hansen Is a new catcher secured 1
by Des Moines, He Is from the Uni
versity of Minnesota. Last ' year ha j
played semi-pro ball In Iowa. !
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