Evening Star Newspaper, August 27, 1892, Page 12

12 ON THE DIAMONI What President Wagner Says Abo’ Player-M. rs of Teams. QU ALIT! Some of the F son With ¢ » Acts of Danny Richa ston Nine— With Du b Has Three Interestin, PF will agree wr A mark of Pr mare been made in all the game —t back. Take second an How many bare. to go than eateher to eccor fn about the = very c another. Then base. It is much shorter it with a fast rus I tell you th 1 diamond had rat ne a BURKE: s s 8 3 She ‘THE PITCHERS’ HANK. According to a table compiled at the begi Bing of the present week the following were | Several use, the leading pitchers of the leagy Won, Loat. = ° 1 7 3 umncaranbogs AGAIN KNOCKED ovT. ‘The Colts Again Take a Game From the Senators. tal THE EVENING STAR: ). Kil Du bail | minz . 1. Struck out—By by Killen, 2 Passed ‘Time of game—1 hour and 45 Umpire—Mz. Emslie. THER GAMES YESTERDAY. Jers pitched another great game yester- Bostons out with but one bit. nels. played a sharp, snappy game, tors played quite a different one. pitched to Merritt and Staley to Gan- nt Kelly he Col Is made six bi a rror and the Beaneaters one hit and six 8. 01011124 00000000 sisville, 1. Three-base hit— bases—Brown and _ Pfeffer. Jennings, Pfeffer and Whistler; Nash. First base on balls—Off off Staley, 1. Struck out—By Sand- 1 ball—Ganzel. Time of game— minutes. Umpire—Mr. Burn: hing out of the box in sey taking his place, . Dowse caught for itched to Viack for the etcam. The Phillies made 8 hits and 5 the Pirates 9 hits and 2 errors. 01002250 1-1 701001001 0-8 Pittsburg, 5. ‘Two-base hit— hits—Beckley (2). Stoien Donovan. Double plays Alien, Connor and Wevhing, ind Thompson by Smith, 3 Um- 1 0 Se Louis, but four the New Yorks | y and shut out each side imaking one error. Tigge caught for St. Lowis and ° 00000 0 0-0 100710001 x—3 runs—New York, 3. Two-base hits Stolen bases— Werden (2). Doyle Crooks and Werden. Cievelands and Brooklyns played two the Spiders winning both, In. the first tched to Zimmer, and_ kept the Bride- to three singles. Kennedy pitched The Spi Javed an errorlees game, Bridegrooms made five misplays. 000200021-5 60000001 01 Cleveland, 1, Stolen bases— MeAlecr. _ Double play—Davis, irtue. First base on balls—Of off Kennedy, 7. Struck out- Kennedy. 7. ‘Time of game—2 Mr. Lynch. <d their hits in the fourth and thereby won. Young and : n and Kinslow were the prevented more than six innings 0113207 eee :030010-4 Cleveland. 3. Two-base hite— Kinslow. Stolen bases—Virtue, . Zimmer, Ward and O'Brien. First base on balls—-By Young, 6; by Stein, 2; by 1. Struck out—By Young, 1; by Stein, 1. ball—Kinslow. Wild _‘piteh—Young. me--2hours, Umpire—Mr. Lyne STANDING OF THE CLUBS. Por 2 Louisville -| Cineianat!, Raltumore.. Chicago. § St. Lous... 1.4 Washingt’n} NoTES. Will Gumbert's release has been recalled by Chicago. Manager Wri; negapead abt thinks the Clevelands will they go east. used by the Chicago club. that Parrott should have pt Koat. imore-Cincinnati game was om Friday to Sunday. uled today are: Washington at re at Cincinnati, Boston New York at St. Lonis, Philadelphia Brooklyn at Cleveland. wh hington’s representatives have lost ten | games and won one on their present western trip. P. Caylor is guilty of this shot at a shining ro will bea big demand for skates is the report of the wholesale That should be some encouragement for Von der Ahe. He is carrying n large stock.” Von der Ahe is having another big kick. He claims that the second gume between the nd the Bostons at Kaneas City should an exhibition gume and that two 1 have been played "he league directors the celebrated colored National Park Wednesday, r of the coming week. The iy strong team and play a y will have as opponents the gion team. nine made up of the loea , and three close ago club has signed Harry Miller, a ed pitcher. He comes from the Illinoi- r Stearns bas left one of his teeth in as result of stopping a liner from ns bat with his mouth in a recent game. omiskey now realizes that he made his base ball career in releasing . the New York second baseman. You der Ahe wired the Cincinnati hat player will you give for Car- andthe reply went back: “Three for Rhines, Harrington and Genins.” luusen of the Louisvilles is superstitions enough to believe that the last club at the bat most lucky one, and therefore generally Capt. Pfeffer to take the last innings. President Brush of the Cincinnatis 1 coming aluntfor men to strengthen the de- i Reds. He will forage among the gue clubs, which is made up more Jeague players, Base ball is booming just now better than ¥ 1 the season. The grand old game d always will stand high with the nerican public. It is honest, and that is why it lives when other sports die. Cincinaati En- quirer "Comiskey on Thursday wired Von der Abe: nd us an outfielder if you can. We need one badly.” Von der Abe laughed in his sur- prise at receiving such a request considering the Strained relations existing between himself and of his old club. He sent Comiskey “{ need outfielders myself. Send along anything you've got.” —— All Happens in » Second, | From the Popular Science News. | A second is the smallest division of time in eastern le good deal can happen eve second. A light wave, for instance. passes thr. s distance of about 185,000 miles in this length of time. A current of electricity hae probably an cven greater epeod. ‘The earth itself moves in its orbit at a rate of about twenty miles « sec- (ond, thus far exceeding ‘the fastest railroad trains on its surface. A tuning fork of the French standard vibrates S70 times per second to produce the note A on ‘the treble staff. ———_+e+____ | | | ence than it did formerly. WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, adaust ot 1892—SIXTEEN PAGES. WHIRLING WHEELMEN Items of Interest to the Riders of the Silent Steed. WATERMELON RUNS. Many That Were Planned Have Been Aban- doned on Account of the Dusty Roads— ‘What ts Going on in the Different Local Clabs—General Notes. en ey HEELING THROUGH the dust is not con- sidered a pleasant sport by wheelmen who are in the habit of making long runs through the rural districts, and just now the knights of the steed .are welcoming every drop of rain with 3 much grace aa though they were members of the Farmers’ Alliance. The roadsare unusually dusty now, and for that reason the wheelmen | are going slow, and country runs are few | and far between. Tomorrow, however, several of the clubs will brave the weather | and the roads and make trips through | the country to some pleasant resorts. With so many pneumatic-tired wheels among | the club members, dry-road riding is made comparatively easy. It is much different now | than when all solid tires were in use and the condition of the roads makes much leas diffor- ‘The roads leading east through the watermelon section have been worse than those in other sections and the con- sequence is that several watermelon runs were abandoned. THE COLUMBIA CLUB. Among the Columbia Club members things are booming just now. The capturing of so many prizes during the Arlington race meet gave the scorchers an idea that they were at the head of the racers, and they are extremely anxious for another meet in order to again score another such victory. Nine prizes were | captured by the members of the Columbias, in- cluding the team prize. a handsome silver water set, which now adorns one of the tables at the club house. In the one-mile novice race the prize was a gold watch, which is now being worn by Mr. J. C. Wood, who has made such a good racing record this season. In order to give these racers another oppor- tunity to show themselves errangements are being made for a race meet at the ¥. M. C. A. grounds during the encampment, the races to follow the games of the Y. M. ©. A. To that end a committee composed of Messrs. Ellis, Wood, Jose and Stinemetz has been appointed to make the necessary arrangements. At a meeting of the club held Thursday night Vice President Pierce prosided and matters of interest tothe cli were discussed. Amon, other things discussed was the question’ of whether the present location was suitable for abicycle club or not and whether or not the best interests of the organization required the return to a house in the city, but no action was taken thereon. . OFFICERS ELECTED. An election to fill several vacancies resulted | in the selection of the following: Samuel Stine- metz, president; George B. French, treasurer; James McCalmont, corresponding secretary; H. P. Mazon, financial secretary; W. 0. Howen- stein, recording secretary. Lieut. Tony Anderson has called a club run for tomorrow to Dickey’s, the start to be made at 9 o'clock from the residence of Treasurer | French, No. 2409 N street. Capt. Harvey Southwick and Mr. Charles McEnaney are spending ten days at Harper's ‘erry. A communication has been received from the Centaur Cycling Club of Baltimore thanking the Columbias for courtesies extended during the recent meet and expressing e hope to be able to reciprocate in the near future. A FOUR-HUNDRED-MILE RUN. The cycling event of the season bas been an- nounced by Capt. Macdaniel of the Capital Club. It is the thirteenth annual tour of the club and a large attendance is promised. The party will leave here next Saturday afternoon and Will be on the road ten days, riding through the beautiful and historic Shenandoah valley. a distance of 400 miles. ‘The program of the trip,as announced by Capt. Macdaniel, is aa follows: Saturday, September 3—Leave Washington 20 p.m., R. and D. R.R. ‘unday, September 4—Arrive at Lynchburg, Va., 5:30 a.m., breakfast; leave Lynchburg 7:35 am.,N. and W. RK; arrive Bedford City 8:30 a.m; wheei to Peak oe oe 12 miles, din- er, supper, lodging and breakfast. Mantes, hepeeuiee 5—To Buchanan, eleven miles, dinner; to Natural Bridge, twelve miles, supper, lodging and breakfast at Forest Inn. sday, September 6—To Lexington, eight- een miles, dinner; to Staunton, thirty-six miles, supper, lodging and breakfast, at Kalorama House. Wednesday, September 7—To Harrisonburg, twenty-rix miles, dinner; to New Market, eight- cen miles, supper, lodging and breakfast at Central House. ‘Thursday, September 8--To Strausburg, thirty miles, dinner; to Winchester, twenty miles, supper, lodging and breakfast’ at Miss Luey Williams’. Friday, September 9—To Capon Bridge, W. Va., twenty miles, dinner; to Romney, twenty miles, supper, lodging and breakfast. Saturday, September 10—To Cumberland, ‘Md., thirty miles, dinner; to Flint Stone, twelve miles, supper, lodging and breakfast. Sunday, September 11—To Hancock, twenty- eight , dinner; to —— = miles, supper, lodging at Hotel Hamilton. ‘Monday, September 12—To Frederick, twenty- seven miles, dinner; to Iidgeville, fourteen miles, supper, lodging and breakfast at Nel- ton's. ‘Tuesday, September 18—To Brookville, nine- teen miles, dinner; to Washington, twenty-one miles, 1 TUE CAPITAL CLUB. ‘There has not been # run of the Capital Club for a couple of weeks because of the condition of the roads, and also because of the absence from the city of eo many members. Mr. John T. Mount will go to Buffalo in a few days, taking bis wheel with him. It is his in- tention to visit friends ut various places in New York state and he will go from place to place on his wheel. Messrs. Bingham and Crossman, who went to Europe early in the summer, are expected home shortly. CRESCENT CENTURY WHEELMEN. The Crescent Century Wheelmen have not made many long club runs recently, but some of the members have kept on the road and suo- ceeded in maintaining the record of the club. Last Sunday J. W. Myers and Clarence Palmer braved the odds against wheeling und rode to Frederick end return, making the hundred miles in time to add another bar | Brighton, 8. 1. bike, and with Detectives y and Galla- hor As oxperts Inspector MoCathran soon ex to have a bicycle contingent, that will effective work in emergency cases. Some officers think that in another year or two Con- gress will provide a number of bikes for use in the department. TEST OF ENDURANCE. “When a man can propel a bicycle 413 miles in twenty-four hours with but fifteen minutes’ rest, keeping up an average epeed of close upon seventeen miles each and every hour, and finish the last mile of this wonderful performance in 2.26, as F. W. Shorland has done in the recont twenty-four hour contestat Herne Hill,” says the L. A. W. Bulletin, ““we become iost in any at- tempt to predict the possibilities of the modern bicycle or of the man who rides it, None but the most analytical and mathematical tind can pouibly comprehend the true signifl- cance of the figures we have given in reference to Shorland’s performance. When they are comprehended reason almost refuses to admit that man is capable of nccomplishing such an unheard of test of endurance and speed. It seems impossible that Shorland’s record could ever be equaled again, much less surpassed, butso often in the past have we seen cycling performances, which at the time we thought would never'be repeated, early surpassed by new riders and new wheels, that we hesitate to declare even so wonderful a ride as 413 miles in twenty-four hours beyond the powers of accom- plishment of rome future Shorland.” FIXTURES FOR SEPTEMBER, 2—Crescent Cycle Club's tournament, Derby Driving Park, Birmington, Conn. 3—Passai N. J., Athletic Club tournament 3—Staten Island Athletic Cyclers race meet at West New 4, 5—Maine division autumn | meet, Biddeford, Me. 5—Saginaw (. C. meet, | Union Park, Saginaw, Mich. 5— Harrisburg Wheel Club, Harrisburg, Pa., tournament. 5: Syracuse C. race meet, Kirkwood Park, Syracuse, N 5—Columbian tourname Columbus, Obio, Columbus Cyeling Club. 5, 6- 'yeling Club tournament, Indiar 5—Union Company (N.J.) Kondsters’ race meeting at Rahway, N. J.; A. H. Chamber- lain. 5—Progreasive team race, Staten Island Athletic Cyclera, continuation of _ Sep- tember 3. 5, 6—Hartford, Conn., Wheel Club tournament. 8—Race meet of the St. Mic wheelmen. — ide, Cal. 9—Humboidt Wheelmen first annual tournament, Eureka, Cal. 9, 10—Zig Zag “Club t . Ine dianapolis, Ind.; address A. 44 E. New Yqgk street. 10—Milwaukee (Wis. }W. tour- nament at National Park. 10—Toledo C.C. race meet, Toledo Driving Park. 14—Races under Somerset County Agricultural Society; four Taces: $500 in prizes; Dr. C. B. Mathewson, Box 613, Somerville, N. J. 14, 15—Diamond tournament, Springfield, Mass.: address W. C. Colton. 17-—Annual tournament of Associa Cycling Clubs of Philadelphia, ‘Tioga track; ad- dress H. Crowther, 34 S. 3rd’ street, Phila phia. 20—Race meet, York. Pa. '21—Balti- Maryland’ Bi. Club tournament; Thos J. Lindsay, 225 E. Baltimore street. 27— Peoria, I, races at state fair; H. G. Rouse, Peoria, Ill.’ 29, 30—Race meet, Louisville, Ky. 29, 30—Louisville (Ky.) C. C. fall tournament. ——_+0+_____ Written for The Eypning Star. IN PRAIRIE DOG TOWNS. How the Curious Little Animals Construct Their Dwellings. NE OF THE MOST INTERESTING sights that greets the eye of the overland traveler in the west is the prairie dog and the prairie dog towns. Perhaps nowhere can ® more strictly American characteristic be | found than these little four-footed animals that are to be found in colonies of thousands in many localities throughont the great west. To those of us here in the east they may readily be compared to the common yood- chuck, resembling them both in structure and habits, although the dogs are of a decidedly gregarious naturo, while the “‘chuchi” are only nominally so. Just how the littlo fellows manage to live is somewhat of a question, as they are usually found in the very poorest sections of the country, often miles from the water and where very little grass or vegetable matter is tobe found. In fact it is a c-mmon saying on the frontier that wherever a dog town exists it is a good country to keep away from. THEIR MADITS. They are curious little animals, easily alarmed, und the grotesque sight of thirty or forty all diving into their burrows at once is frequently witnessed. The first thing that greets the visitor is a white spot here an: on the bare earth as he approaches the vill these are the old holes, forsaken years ago—a | little further and rude misshapen mounda of jearth are found, with partly filled burrows leading down into’ their more re doned dwellings and then the inhabited ones, A barking, scampering lot of dogs welcome you, | and while some plunge at once out of sight | others squat low down at the entrance and while keeping up a constant barking carefally watch yolr movements, THE BURROWS. Curious things, these burrows, First a mound of earth is thrown up, in the top of which is the entrance and from'which the dirt comprising the mound is brought. ‘The open- ing descends at an angle of about 45° for two or three feet und then branches off at right angles, tunneling the earth in various directions and often making a regular network of subter- Tanean passages.” Occasionally, but not often, this angle in much less, resembling the burrow of a woodchuck for all the world, bit I have met with only a few such, probabl dozen in all. At the mouth of the extavation theearth is beaten down bard, forming in some instances a rim, near which the owner site and barks from ‘morning until night. It is useless to shoot one sifting thus, for oven if Killed stone dead they manage to drop back into the holes and out of reach, while euch a thing as © wounded dog being captured is seldom heard of. When alarmed the dogs run for the nearest burrow, three or four frequently diving into the same one. This has given. to many the idea that several families live together. but this idea is erroneous. Each pair apparentiy has its own burrow, and only in case of danger do they make use of one in common, wien the nearest dwelling is a common haven of refuge. ANOTHER ZURONEOUS IMPRESSION is that the rattlesnakes, dogs and a small bur- rowing owl that inhabits these villages dwell to- gether in harmony. ‘Travelers and writers have told this for many years, but recent investiga- tions have exploded this pretty modern story of the lion and the lamb. ‘To begin with, the burrowing owl when free from intrusion will almost invariably be found in the old deserted burrows already mentioned and here when hungry the rattlesnakes repair, tofeed on owls, young or old, that he may be able tosecure, | Naturally enough when ularmod all three are apt to make for the same retreat, and it is in such cases that they have been found and tho story circulated. Prairie dogs are cunning little creatures, make amusing and interesting pets, as they are easily tamed and can be taught to do a few tricks, while to the hungry man they are not unpalata- ble as an article of food, and even pronounced quite tender and delicate by some. In Shackelford county, Toxas, about fifteen miles northwest of Albans, in’ an immense colony, extending for miles and covering hun- Gade Ott cuaaa tol idkar ten ground, while near Albany (approaching fronfthe south- wost)up to within & mile of the or is ascolony even larger. ofa ie wi can be Spinel | from the inelosure at the Zoological re the animals aro not in their native element, and, of course, show to dicadvant Here they are tame. ntly aban- ita pegelar meeting of te night it, W. treasurer. John Shaw; lieutenant, J. W. ‘The new officers take while there it is difficult to approach within thirty or forty yards. EM A sa rf Investigating a City Government. The special committee of citizens of Jersey City appointed to investigate the doings of the city government during- the past year made a report yesterday te Mayor Wanser. Tho com- mittee present charges of corruption and mal- | would ferent Boat Clubs. eens THE FALL REGATTAS. EES Their New Eight-oared Shell—Some of the Well-known Oarsmen and What They Are Doing—Aquatic Notes, —__ + OWING HAS TAKEN a back seat as'a feature of the Columbia Ath- the members to me, “for this year at least, but next year we will again take hold and pull the stroke clean through.” uted the lack of interest AS". ba pt 4 2 ZY to the fact that the men <7 CUM! | having nothing in view fully, as the club would not send crews away, they naturally dropped out. But it seems to me that the members would have enough love for the sport to come down and get out boats, say overy other day, and row for the good the exercise would do them. It would not be necessary for them to train; besides, seem that the matter of club pride, if nothing else, would cause them to get the blue and red affoat, and atleast keep the boats from drving up’ for the want of use. Capt. Wilson is still out of town. son, willing to row, but unable by himself to fill a four, is taking exercise on the island and in daily practice throwing the hammer and putting the fifty-six-pound weight. In the latter he hopes to get in shape to enter in the A. C. 3. N. games at Philadelphia, September 17. He will make the best of them throw their best. Eu- gene O'Leary is also willing to row, but for lack of company has taken to running and is pre- paring to do the mile at the club games this fall. Bobby Elder is running, getting ready for the 220 Smart and Dodge {nd McDonald and Dickin- son are working regularly under Prof. Crossley, some sprinting and others running. Dodge is anxious to learn to put the shot, and in practice does well. . sail boat, He has old four-oa: pea Johnson is still tinkering away in hi 1 gets lots of pleasure out of 'd shell Passaic, now worthless asa urned into’ what is known as a a class of boat very popular on water with sweeps the in single sculling. Ijunt is rowing daily in his single and going weil. When Harry Lee returns from Cape May, where he now is in camp, being a member of the W. L. L. C., the “chippie” crew will again get together, for their own improvement, if for nothing else, row regular, This is good news, aa the crew is too good a one to break up, especially as we have 80 few good crows on the river, Prof. Crossiey ‘will soon be on top, as now that the time for fall games approaches he will be constantly and regularly in demand, shaping this one and polishing of that one and encouraging ali in their work on track and in the field. He is himself still a good one in al- most all lines, he can throw the fifty-six pounds aswell asthe best, and, notwithstanding be is getting along. he stili_ shows much speed when he feels like letting himself out. He is as mueh at home on the field as he is in the gym- nasiam, ‘The club's fall games will be held on the Island on October &, Ata meeting of the board of governors of the club held Thursday evening the matter of the interclub eight-oared shell’ race was brought up, but owing to the volume of business on hand and the absence of some of thé members of the board action on the matter was deferred until the meeting to be held early in the com- ing week. Individually the members are in would each have two oars as the action when had will be favorable. THE ANALOSTAN BOAT CLUB, The matter of the inter-club eight-oared race for Monday eve sence from the city of some of the governiny spirits the meeting was not held for lack of a quorum, Another meeting is called for early in the coming week, when we hope for bett luck. There be favorubl; ted upon. Ofcourse, the main question involved is the one to decide upow the class of race the club will prefer. At this time the sentiment isin favor of such m race_ that will not affect the standing or grade of the mon, as the club does not think it fair ¥ other class of race than the grade to the men belong. ‘The clab regatta has been postponed from September 3 to Thursday, September 8, and this was made necessary on account of the de- lay in securing transportation for the new eight oared shell As the new boat is to figare some- what prominently in the regatta, the time be- tween its arrival here, even if it got here today, and the original date of the regatta would be too short to give the crew a chance to become accus- tomed to it. It will probably be the best boat of its kind that ever founda home on this river. It will have every possible improvement in slides and locks and braces. While the latter are os light ns possible strength has not been sacrificed at the expense of weight, and all with a view to scenring and retaining’ the greatest umount of stiffness. The coxswain’s seat will be comfortable, and as compared with the old style cramped up closed-like-a-jack-knife position, the new seat will be as a velvet rocking chair is toweracker box. The coxswain will have ad- justable stretchers. He can stretch his legs out, He is a little farther away from the stroke, but that makes little or no difference. It is a paper boat sixty-one feet ten inches long. eleven inches deep, twenty-two inches wide, and built to carry acrew of 140 pounds average. Donobue oars will be used. ‘The two gigs, Philadelphia and Fredericks- burg, have been put in thorough repair and Janitor Biggs has every reason to bo proud of his work. ‘The bottoms look like new boate nd aro said to have gained at least ten seconds in speed. Col. Fiowers and Pairo and Marshall are still at Narragansett. I'am glad to know that, as I did not suppose that Dick Pairo could bo’ still anywhere. Sect has tnken to single sculling and is doing well. satixfied with anything less than a trip to navy yard and return. Lewis is doing well in the coxswain’s seat of the gig, and he will make @ good one for the eight. Stearns has first one thing and then another, now he haa an abscess on (his) hand, Webb and Longstreet make @ strong double, and ure rowing regularly. Gig rowing fs very popular at this house, and nover a day passes without having seen a gig crew out. On Thursday one gig had Robert- son, stroke; Prentiss, 3; MeKerfay, 2, and Cren- shaw, bow, with Lewis, coxswain. a ‘The four got througlt the water in good shape and fast, with Fischer, stroke; Chandler, 3; Smith, 2, and Rodrique, bow. THE POTOMAC BOAT CLUB. The past week has been a banner week for this club, as the number of members afloat at one time every day far exceeded all previous records. It wasa common occurrence to see an eight, sometimes two, and two fdtre and a doubie and two singles out at one time, besides the pleasure boats, and ll this, the roeult of bal away at it, but mainly result eecied net tio ereocen el aartae ON THE WATER. Matters of Interest Among the Dif- The Annlostans Waiting for the Arrival of for which to train faith-. it) Adam John- | still uppermost in his mind that the | Instead of the men rowing | no doubt that the matter will | to the men to saeritice them by entering them | and therein lies the greatest comfort, of course. | He foliowa Perkins’ example and is not | letic Club,” saidgone of | He attrib- | favor of the race and it is more than likely that | the grade or standing of the men, whether they | ably received,as stated i: are it to handle after ey ag themselves a few Dr. J. C. Exner has returned to the city after pleatant stay at Atlantic City. second of the series of semi-monthly hops was held last evening and was largely attended, and was in every way an enjovable affair. The pretty girls and their pretty dresses and Schroeder's music and all that and that made a pleasant cool evening pass all too quickly. To my correspondent who wants to know Which I would rather attond a cake walk or a club meeting I have to say: When I get some of the splinters of parliamentary practice out of | my collar I may be able to answer him. In the j Meantime I can assure him that one affords me | 4s much amusement as the other. The big eight will begin next week to get | into some sort of shape, preperatory to train- ing for the interclub race. Capt. Zappone has his family at Falls Church on account of the illness of his Youngest chi'd. THE POTOMAC RIVER REGATTA. ‘When the matter of a joint Potomac river re- gatta was presented to the execu ‘ive committee of the G. A. R. encampment at its meeting Inst week by representatives from the Columbias aud Analostans and Potomacs it was very favor this column last week, and upon motion of Capt. Geoge E. Lemon it Was referred to the entertainment committee, Gen. 8. S. Burdett, chairman. At a meeting of the Inst named ‘committee held Thursday evening the matter was presented by Gen. Bur- dett and fully discussed. Asa feature it was | looked upon as one which would have to I ‘THE EQUINE FLYERS. |The Great Futurity Stakes to Be Bun This Afternoon. — ———__. | This Has Been a Bad Year for the Plungers — Brief Review of the Work on the Mon- mouth Park ‘Track—Notes of Interest to All Lovers of the Turf, —_+—__ EAVY BETTING will be the order of things this afternoon of the Coney Island Jockey Club begins at Sheepshead Bay,and the futurity stakes, the Fichest stakes run for in this country, will be decided. The race is for two-year-olds and it is estimated rounded out the program of entertainment that there would have been little left to ask for. As | A noveity it would have helped to place this city’s effort far ahead of any previous encampment. The gratuitous effort on the part of the local boat clubs to add their efforts to. make this en- campment's snccess a greater one was favora- bly commended. The uneelfixh motive which prompted the proffer, aside, of course, from t! interests of rowing it would have subserved (which was nota seltish motive),was very highly | appreciated, and while the offer of the featare was accepted, yet the fact remains that neither | regattas nor any other features can be given Without money. cold cash money, and as the | entertainment committee and_ all’ other com- mittees, for that matter, have had the amounts allotted them scaled, and as other features had previously been agreed upon and contracted ‘or, the committee felt the ‘necessity to decline | regretfully the tender of the three clubs to hold | an open regatta the coming month, and the | secretary of the committee was directed to 80 inform the joint regatta committee and to add | that if the amount necessary to carry on the regatta could possibly have been spared the committee on entertainment would gladly have adopted the feature, which would have been the talk of the veterans long after they bad re- | turned to their homes in every nook and cor- ner of this country. AN OFF YEAR; BETTER LUCK NEXT TEAR. Thus another of the largest of bubbles of hope has burst and the rowing men of the city are left to the hope for better luck next year. This has undoubtedly been an off year on our | river and these off years are of periodical recur- once out of this year's slough of in- y it is believed that the local clubs will next year once more make their presence felt among the rowing clubs of the country. But something must be done this winter, not only | by the officers, but by the men in the ranks of | two of the clubs. What this “some- ig” is, in ost general apathy that exists regarding aquatic sporte, is a prob- | Jem that confronts the thinking men of the clubs, THE INTERCLUB EIGHT-OARED RACE. The talk among the several clubs of having an eight-oared shell race among themsclves for « time revived the hopes that something would be done, but,like the cooling draught of nectar, “which cheers but does not mebriate,” the flurry soon passed off and now all hands are standing around and waiting for something to turn up, and the first thing you know the snow will fly and the groans of the foot-| ballist will be heard in the land and) mingled with the wail of regret of the rowing | men over “what might have been” will be so long and loud that it will reach to the oarsman | who liveth and roweth in Mars. Individually | and collectively the rowing men in each of the | clubs are in fayor of the race and, indeed, eager | for the fray. THE POTOMAC RIVER NAVY. The difficulty which may arise in arranging the triangular or interelub eight-oared race, in so far as the class of race is concerned, so that be juniors or seniors, might have been obviated was to have been considered at a meeting called | and for the general good of the clubs and the ing last, but owing to the ab-| interest in rowing this question of an eight- ' | Potomac river navy, and a number ofthe mem- if the clubs had long ago formed a Potomac Tiver navy. In order that future questions of | this kind and similar ones may be promptly met | oared race has revived the matter of forming a bers of the three clubs informally talked the | matter over and found the plan feasible. In order that all the clubs may be equally well represented on the staff of offices, certain men have been canvassed and have consented if the | navy is formed to allow the use of their names | ae officers, and it was that inasmuch as | the Analostan Club is the oldest it should have the commodore, and the Potomacs the vice- commodore, and as the Columbias are the largest in membership it should have the very prominent and active officer, the captain, and | the other officers to be distributed equally among all. Of course, if the Old Dominions of Alexandria, Va., come in, that club will be! entitled to its share in the alloiment of officers. Now, why not push this thing while it is being, talked about. I think it will pa; I know it) would strengthen the interest in rowing, and | then, if at any time we wanted to send away a| real strong crew to represent the navy and the river, what a crew we could make up, a sort of composite, as it were. It is proposed, as soon as all club'members have gotten back to town and settled down for the season, to call a meet- ing and devise means by which the plan out- lined may become an assured fact. THE STATEN ISLAND REGATTA, The sixth annual labor day celebration of the Staten Island Athletic Club at the club grounds, West New Brighton, on September 5, promises to excel all previous efforts vf that thrifty club. In its list of events, besides lawn tennis and base ball and bicycle races and foot ball, it will have agame of lacrosse between the Ottawa La Crosse Club, champions of | Canada, and the Staten Island Athletic Club. | There will also be pony races for gentlemen riders, and last, but best of all, an open regatta for junior and intermediate and senior eight- oared shells, one mile and a half straightaway, to be rowed’ as the tide permite, some time be- tween 10:30 a. m. and 12:30 p.m. As usual the entries this year will belarge. Among the clubs that will probably be represented in the junior eaghts are Neptune of Baltimore and Tritons of Newark and Metropolitans of New York and the Staten Islands. In the intermediate the Pas- saics and Tritons of Newark, the Arthur Kulls of Elizabethport and the Staten Island's crew, which won the junior race at the middle states. In the senior race the Atalantas of New York and the Staten Islands, and it was the Columbias of this city, present holders of the cup, would come up. Some of the above may not come, while the entries may show great deal larger number. The Potomas of this city won the cup early in the race for it, the time being 5.043, the course then being a mile straightaway. The Columbias of this city won last year and the year before. Cap) ance 's Seventh Regiment Band is in attend- 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. and the celebra- tion closes witha magnificent display of fire- works, ning at 8:30 p.m. Iam told that 5,000 is average attendance at the above nly affords : President, Frank E. Smith, San Francisco; vice president, Martin | won’ for hi | limite the Elizabeth and gross value will be close to $75,000. The large numb: entries were originally received, whi Gradual processes of declarations, reduced to the present number of which is at this writing 216, while out of this his year posed of the following: Lady Violet, Lovelace, Morello and Spartan, 118 each; Hammie and Unele Jim. 108 each; Plutus and Freize, Wl each: Sir Francis, Comanche, Gov. Foraker, Belladonna colt and Uncle Jess, 115; Lidger- Jieod and Pat Malloy, jr., 105 each, and Mirage, ENTITLED TO CONSIDERATION. Of those who have performed in such manner as to entitle them to most consideration are Lady Violet, Morello, Lovelace, Hammie and Comanche; but as penalties and allowances will play an important part in bringing together the performers and non-performers, «ince fow of the two-vear-olds of the year have shown themselves either consistent performers or of anything like first quality, a few pounds in weight becomes a matter of far greater im- portance than is usually the case. The ques- tion of jockeyship also becomes an itaportant one, for where a large ficld of homes star’ there are not enough first-class riders to go around, and such owners, therefore, who have good jockeys at their command have a material ad- ¥antage. Garrison will have the mount on Lady Violet; Fitzpatrick will pilot Morello: Simms will guide Lidgerwood; Lambie will be up on Hammie; Taral will ride Spartan; Little- field, Frieze; Bergen Lovelace; Murphy, Co- manche, and Hamilton, the Belladonna’ colt. ‘The race will lie between Morello and Lady Violet and the former will in all probability win, especially if the track be heavy. But a sorrier lot of youngsters never perhaps in the history of the turf «ported silk for #o important a stake; in fact it is questionable whether raany of them are even worth the $350 it will cost to start them, s The presence of Morello is inthe opinion of many an evidence of weakness on the part of the board of control. It is certainly nota precedent likely to encourage trainers in future to avail themselves of the rule calling for them to take outa license. Morello is trained by a man whose license has been withdrawn, and yet with the greatest of “sang froid” the board per- mits the colt to start. It is contended that in | the first place the colt doesn’t belong to Van Ness, even though his name as owner appears | on the Coney Island stake book. It is also laid mato that Van Ness can train the the day of the con- test hand him over toxom> one cise who has not been relieved of fis license. This arrange- ment would read very pretty in “Alice in Won- derland,” but in this matter-of-fact world it 8 very much of a childish, weak-kneed in- ficiency to cope with existing circumstances, A BAD YEAR FOR THE PLUNGERS. This seems tobe a very bad year for the | plangers at the race tracks in all parts of the Down at Monmouth Hark the story is that M. P. Dy nings in the early part of the then enormous. - Frederick to have lost something like $35,000, and the same amount is the sum reported to have been lost by ‘Pittsburg Phil,” who is known to have been plaving in hard Inck. The «mailer fry have suffered as well. for the Monmouth meet- ing has been a most disastrous one to those who {have been playing the horses on form, and about as bad for those who have backed the “good things” in the races. ‘The brewery confederacy have had a bard fight with fortune up tothe time that Don Alonzo and Yorkville Belle were allowed to race themselves into form, and one of the assistant owners hud to quit the game 2s he found it too hard, according to the statement of some of his acquaintances, From | | the west there comes the port that the big plunger of that section, Chris Smith, the owner f Yo Tambien, Van Buren and other horses in ‘hat are known as the Kendall stables, bas lost $125,000 this year besides what hi+ borses have im, and that amounts to about £100,000, and perhaps a trifle more. Smith is a heavy player and is open to “tips” from all sorte of sources, so that he has been in the habit of playing every race every day, something that it is perfectly evident that no man can do successfully. He has now come east, TALK OF A RACING LAW. There is the usw+l talk about a racing law in New Jervey next year, but there are so many different elements engaged in racing in New Jersey that a bill to suit all of them is an im- possibility. There is a bill drawn up, to be presented to the legislature, similar to the Ives pool law, which restricts racing to forty days in any county within fifty miles of Jersey City. It is said to meet the approval of the power be- hind Guttenburg, and gives Gloucester all that its proprietor and manager ask for, although it inden aseociations to twenty days for euch association. One of the principal sbarelolder¢ of the Linden association said twenty days were far better than none at all, and so far as he was concerned he would do his bost to have it become a law. from a trustworthy source says that a nce is to be held and a readjustment of racing difficul- ties made that will prove satisfactory to all in- terested. THE MONMOUTH PARK TRACK. ‘The meeting of the Monmouth Park Associa- tion, which ended Thursday, began on Monday, July 4, and continued twenty-four days, racing ‘Tuesdaye, Thuredays and Saturdays. A total of 154 races was run, in which 29% horses started, and to which a total of €231,050 was added by the Monmouth Park Associstion, in- cluding €1,000 in plate. ‘The total value of the 154 races as run is $403,685, in which $12,325 included in surplus money from selling races, of which two- went to the second and one-third to the third horses. ‘There were three “dead heats,” the money value which was divided, making 7 There were two “walkovers” and in which only two horses started. |GOSSIP ON THE EVENT! when the fall meoting | that ite | number it is probable that the field will be com- | er has lost nearly #190,000, | which would eat up the greater part of bis win- | hard is reported | @ too, She basa wonderful t makes her own pace in ber races. | turfmen to a man say tl | perfectly $t abe ix capable of defeating the | Western queen of the three-year- | Marcus Daly's stable. for 189 about fifteen. As onty the ones that have shown good form will be retained the to be strengthened by some purchases year olds that are likely to tain o Palin their three-year-old form. Ar thereare few ds that have shown bich-cless form. «that have aren the market W. Johnso it looks as 1 B, Riley will r a div | paign | Rancocas with begin the campaign with a « fifteen hot When any }form he will ship them t their places with prepared by Mr. Ril | stable is likely to be n 1888, hem and Jo me of t that Sims ¥ mean 18s a liberal offer w for his serv Dw who em, Sims, was consulted and was present | offer was made. Mr. Dwyor hw self to be a good fr an por and dislikes to lose lim, by be wants to seo him ride tn wear the Ren- time. late W. 1 stand a thoro wing wey early to “Mike” Don to Hin iw Purchased by sale s he was never the vant OVEK THE CHESS BOAT From the America Biack wh White to play e: «8 pie mate in two (2) moves, GAME No. 76. PETROS DEF Played im the minor tournament at coneress. White—J. W. Batrd. Black Sehwetder LPKs [Kae aR kets a kk | Pa 3 tbe nos SkES he Rap i hw Castien kek Arone Boge 1 une Ey |13 Petes : 3 : 4 ‘ ry 3 3 : seNine presen rete ess pawn to wit in th kuiebt ay pears to bjromining about rather aimivsniy . ZUKERTORT OPENING. first round of the contest for the Staate- Auscust 4, IN: Zettung troph White kJ. H. Hanham, Kt aa (black) play : ‘at the Washinet | Club.” "The" discram Mustrates the pesith | twenty-ninth move. Black’ ne Me. mate im three woves. Hus can it white interposed queen at Bb and yunced Correct solutions re C, DGS, TE): Kune D. & xoTES. Aconsultation game was played on August & during the seasion of the Counties Chess Anso- ciation congress at Brighton, Eng., between Mr. Gunsberg and the Rev. A. B. Shipworth on one side and Herr Lasker and the Rev. G. A. of Lasker's powers of match play, and as latter is in excellent form Gunsberg probably be relegated to a subordinate peaition to wall Berlin Club's offer of 1,000 the ae ‘® match between Tarrasch and Ee i F : ! I a ! i ( A RUS To WASHINOTON GRovE. Last Sunday the Arlington run wae to Wash- Just why Duryea was taken out of the game | yesterday in the third inning, when bat three bite had been made off him, it is difficult to, understand at this dista: The substitution of Killen did no good, for he was pie for the Colts and they wou easily, earning three of the five runs made after Duryea retired. The one run secured by the Senators was made in the fixet inving, when Dowd bit for three bases aud was bre ugat in by Hoy's single. MeGuire and Richardson bad o or each, and Dablen to bis team. MeGuire sitcre aud Sehriver backed up Colte made six singles, two e-baggers and one four- ‘Chinese for Servants in England. From the Pall Mall Gazette, returned home. Ex-Capt. 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