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Show I OMAHA DEMANDS A REGULAR BALL CLUB Tie Omaha Bee oflicially declares Omaha a ball town and demands a real ball team. What Clark Griffith has done to Washington Wash-ington goes to show tlie possibilities of putting u winning team in a losing town. Three years ago most, if pot all. the stockholders in Washington would have sold out at the drop of tho hat. Today they arc said to be hanging onto their stock as If It were their lives. Answer: Twenty per cent dividend this year. 10 per cent last year. Clark Griffith did it ay getting a set of ball players and managing man-aging them, so as to keep the team un near the top. ' a '.'WQnrS, e,a,d t0 note." says tho Bee. 'that Pa Bourlce promlsea Ornaha a wln-1 wln-1 nlng club next year. The fact that Pa has promised thef same thing before I should cut no figure.- As a' matter of fact he has made good, on his promise generally, giving the city a first division team nine times In fourteen years. But that's a little off tho line. Pa surely 1 realizes that it is up to him a3 a bualnces man to have a team that will win "ball i games in 1911. And as to what such a j team will brinfc him. he has only to rc- survey Borne of his old bank books of a few years ago, when deposits from th gjate money wero running much higher than of late. Ws are most earnestly I anxious to have Jtourke succeed, and E S??,16 mLm "s6" hu really gets going. This is a hall town and now demands a L hall team." |