Evening Star Newspaper, April 28, 1894, Page 13

Sem Se RETEL Washington is already beginning to find Sirhe Boston salaty list ie sald to be leas in than $30,000. Great base bell for that THE SEASON OPENED * Poor old Anson is being ridiculed by the How the Washington Ball Players | entire ‘Chicago ‘According to. the Migs U ” Foie Nom colts are “all dead me t they can’t play ball.” — P "arom the way Jonmny Ward has been pairing his batteries, it appears that he Fates le higher than Wilson, as Jack WHAT IS SHOWN BY THE SEVEN GAMES! witnOveneen'"S ‘Sites’ gssies"bacenss nd Westervelt. Dc Mme Page team, ‘ uence ” the pite! for Anson's are Hard Hitters, Good Base Runners | They come from Omaha. latest terms to indicate the pitcher and Work Together. and catcher are “deceiver” and “retriever.” The fielders should be “retrievers” and the umpire the “perceiver,” to carry out the matter to a proper ending.—Boston Globe. Mike Kelly has received 227 applications for places on his Allentown team. Among SEWS OF OUTSIDE CLUBS | them was one trom an unknown, who honestly admits that he is forty-one years of age. Umpire Hurst fined McCarthy of Boston HE BASE BALL | s10 for back talk the other day. While at season in Washing- on @ strike yak ee = him. oa ton is fairly under| Det one was.a ie reques' Hurst to make it two strikes. After being way, and the merits | fined McCarthy shut up. and demerits of the| Captain Dave Fouts of the Brooklyns is members of the local|said to be afflicted with neuralgia. The team are no longer SS Would give almost any- matters of conjec-| Touisville cranks have presented this year what it nes | feta doubttal if’ the lest Kindy Soot en e left foot of _ RM Year what 1€ Bas | Denemoth would ‘held the case of the cked in the past— | Coionels._New York Evening Telegram. good first and third| The league could not make a more proft- basemen; and though | able ca pl aa he aed of pon " sion ican Association prices. SF 1% auttela ts com | Bom, 12 cid American Association prices, Posed of new men, | enthusiasts all over the country? ‘they are already high in popular favor. In-| Anson Fas some very likely youngsters dividually the men are of fine physique,and,|on his infield, but they are not working es & rule, hard hitters and good base run-| Well together. a ome ners. The team work is excellent, as a re-|tynch and OF erke: The fatter was’ too sult of earnest practice just prior to the| slow and the former was too fast. Lynch opening of the professional season. will not heve the easy time this summer The new men under contract to wear the | that he had in the past. . Uniform of the Senators do credit to Man-| ,1¢ was the very fn Tot thar Bay ager Schmeiz’s sagacity as a judge of the gtab-bag collection, after the scurvy treat- fualities of a first-rate ball player. Those| ment accorded them, and with Petty in the box, toc. Hine illae larchrymae.—New York Evening World. If Chicago loses many more games it's @ oie Island schooner mn wi @ uniform in and Play first base. “y Harry Wright says the umpires have — _— this tne than ever before, and ey can quicl event kicking b; enforcing the rules.) eis: For a team that claims to be made up of | reat ball players the Bostons do the baby act oftener than any club in the league. Baltimore was the only team in the league that made a southern practice tour this spring. They won their first three games, and there is likely to be a rush of league teams to the south next spring. Indianapolis has a ball team composed of policemen, and they intend to make a tour of the neighboring cities. Ot the seventy-four National League pitchers, twelve are left-handed, nine are new to = —— thirteen appeared last season, and on! eleven haters 40, iy were in the league Right Fielder Selbach. he has secured do not belong to the expert- ment class. They are fast players and hard workers, who do not lose their wits at criti- eal times, and if hustling counts for any- thing, the Washington Base Ball Club will | M¢Patted and Outfeldea by Kelly‘s fulfill the predictions of many writers and Allentown Team. end the season several notches higher in| ‘The largest crowd that ever attended a eee eae other clubs of suppos- | game of base ball on the Allentown, Pa, ahtink grounds witnessed the game yesterday af- Pat Tebeau, in an interview at Louisville | ternoon between “King” Kelly's Allentown the other day, gave the following estimate | Club and the Bostons. Every town from of the championship race: Esston to Mauch Chunk was represented, “Will Boston have a walkover for the | and the carrying capacity of the electric flag? Not for a minute. There are going to | railway was severely tested to handle the be four clubs in the field for the pennant | crowd. The turnstile shows the crowd to this year. They are Cleveland, Boston,New | have numbered 4,000, and it was a good- ‘York and Pittsburg, and Boston hasn't even | natured crowd, that came prepared to see @ shade the vest of it. New York hes been | the Bostons slaughter Keily’s aggregation. e@trengthened wonderfully, and Pittsburg bgragerrs Johnson bed on hand and took ‘was pretty good when the season of "03 end-| Part in the opening of the season. To lend ed. Everybody knows we're all right. Phil- | €clat to the occasion, the mayor of Allen- adelphia is a hard team to beat, but I hard-| town, councilmen and city officials, bu: dy look upon them as being in the pennant- | Sesses of Catasauqua and the Bethiehems winning class. Louisville and Philadelphia, | were invited and occupied choice seats. The however, I think, with the four clubs which | famous Allentown Band gave a concert be- Will fight for the flag, will make up the first | fore the game opened. As the clubs entered Givision. the grounds they were given an ovation. “They have been making a great fuss| Kelly was loudiy cheered and the “King” ever in Cincinnati, but that team is not as | @cknowledged the compliment. Boston put strong as the one you have here. In Brook-| three pitchers in the box and used two lyn there has been considerable talk, be-| Catchers. Allentown tried two pitchers, cause that is a big city, but nobody need be | ¢ach of whom was about equally effective. efraid of Brooklyn. St. Louis has strong | AS Kelly stepped to the bat in the first in- pitchers, but they haven't got a club to sup- | Ding, after one man had retired, Umpire rt them properly. Those colts over in| Murnane, on behalf of the Boston team, hicago may play phenomenal ball for a| Presented him with @ magnificent pair of week, or even a month, but after that they | old cuff links set with diamonds. will fall back where they belong, and that| | He repaid the Bostons for their kindness somewhere down in the second division. | by making a hit, the first in the game, and Itimore has got in Dan Brouthers just | later stole second, where he was left. While what they needed most—a heavy hitting | Kelly did the best batting for Allentown,his first baseman. As for Washington, I don’t | fielding was below par, and it was owing to know what to think of that team. It may | his errors that his team lost the game. It surprise us, and it may not.” Was a good game, though not abounding in —— any noteworthy plays. In its report of one of the Baltimore-Bos- Pp tor Allentown was fone, by Yon games a monumental city paper says: | fweoney at shor Moran in center, Bow- pared tons played that sharp, brainy | {0% 24d to play its best to win. Kilroy and Donoghue pitched for Kelly and Nichols, game for which they re celebrated, and in- | Stivetts and Lovett for Boston. The scot troduced at least one new trick, which Allentown, 4 cen 8 hits, 4 errors; Boston, 1 | 5 runs, 6 hits, 8 errors. caught the Orioles napping, and put out © ei two men. In the field they played without | ,,5% Wise played second for Kelly, mak- r two-base hit $2 error, save the one intentionally made einacer hariea fupes Caetano Bor cay nd which resulted In @/no chances. Mulvey covered third without play. Robinson was on second, with McGraw on | ¢'TOF and made a hit. Milligan caught and ——___ BOSTONS NEARLY BEATEN. a made a double. Altogether the old Wash- first, when Keeler bit an easy ily to left | ington players did well. Couldn’t Manager Geld. It went right into McCarthy's hands. | Schmelz arrange @ game with kelly? Both Robinson and McGraw, seeing that it was impossible for McCarthy to lose it, ugged close to their bases. Ina flash Bos- ton’s brilliant fielder took in the situation. Instead of catching the ball he let it drop, Fasm it up amd threw quickly to third. MR. YOUNG'S LATEST BULLETIN. Om-cial An cement of Players Signed or Released by Ball Clubs. President-Secretary Young of the Nation- al League announces the following con- tracts for 1894: Nash hurried the ball on to second, and »th Robinson and McGraw were doubled before either had fully realized what was going on. It was a new one on Baltimore Qnd the men were dazed. It is such bail] With Washington—C. EB. Petty, Joseph playing as this that has won the champion- a = - 4 Sullivan, A. Maul. Cincinnati—Thomas W. ne eee Parrott. Chicago—James Ryan. Bostoh— Frand De Hass Robinson of the Cleveland | William H. Merritt. Hazleton—Charles club some weeks before the opening of the | Hazen, A. W. Lawson. Pottsville—William Season, made this prediction: “On Decora- | Armstrong, James C. MceCaughey. Peters- tion day, May 30, 1 think the twelve teams | burg—H. F. Keefer, Edward Leach, Joseph will stand this way: Boston, fir: Cleveiand | Boucher, A. egy 2 | Age nen unk. : oN r ;| G. A) Myers, S. ‘ord, C. Hammond, EB. ee ne ean one Benen |W. Ereckmy Glecgh Kelp. Weetee Ok Ac Cleveland or Pittsburg, fourth; Philadel- | Wage Ha’ Johnson, H. Hauptman, i. phia, fifth; Cincinnati, sixth; Chicago, | Collinower, T. L. McCreary, Dennis Cleary, seventh: Brooklyn, eighth; Baltimore.ninth; | Charles Elsey, Andy Moore, J. W. Fry, uisville, tenth; St. Louis, eleventh; Wash-| John Corcoran. Lynchburg—George D. ngton, twelfth. By July 4 the standing will | Goetz, M. K. Osborn, George Shultz, F. J. be the same except Boston and Pittsburg | Lewis, Benjamin Cress, Edward Ulam, H. Fill_ have the first two places, with New] Ww. Glass, Kit McKenna. Richmond—W. York Cleveland third or fourth. ‘The | ¢ ‘Osborne. hh will be between New York and Bos-| “Rejeased—By Philadelphia, John I. Shar- . with Cléveland and Pittsburg close be- | rott; by St. Louis, Perry Warden; by 4 them. I do not believe the Philadel- | Washington, Joseph Mulvey, R. W. Black, do as well under Irwin as when | John McMahon (shortstop). and as for|" The New York State League has been rs was @ great | admitted to qualified membership under Senmant winner es Cie weaser tee the national agreement, class B, without Up to date Mr. Robinson is decidedly | reservation, and the following is a list of Wrong as concerns the standing, with the | members: Albany, Amsterdam, Johnstown, exception of Boston, Cleveland and Phila-| Kingston, Pittsfield and Poughkeepsie. @clphia. rea Where They Will Play Today. n Cincinnati, where it stormed for four Brooklyn at Washington. Boston at < that the argument of Pres-| pnijadelphia. Baltimore at New York. ldent Hart of the Chicagos that the league | pittshurg at Cincinnati. Cleveland at St. should have “good weather for its good} yous Chicago at Louisville. * or, in other words, that the open- Ing of the championship season should not peur until such a time as they are reason- y sure of good weather.is the correct one. May 1 is about the proper time to open the eeason. The National Regatta. The biggest bidders for the next annual regatta of the National Association of Am- ateur Oarsmen at Chautauqua, Quinsiga- mond and Saratoga courses. It looks at In Cartwright Washington has about the| present as if the cca tale be over the =e Saratoga best first baseman in the country. He is| Saratoga course. It was held at not only a great fielder, but a bard hitter | L0%2 ‘ne mghest mader for 1004" "The, se- and good base runner. Abbey, in left, also| SC.iation will hold a quarterly meeting saved several runs by making three fine| May i2 at the Marlborough Hotel, New running catches. With Sullivan back at| York city, and the question will then be short, Washin n has a great team this | decided. ear, excepting that, outside of Esper, it as no strictly first-class pitchers. The team is very fast, every man on it outside f the batteries being fleet footed. They are Bice fine flelders and good hitters, says e Philadelphia Ledger. Dan Creedon the Victor. Dan Creedon knocked out Dick Moore in the ninth round last night at the Twin City Athletic Club at Minneapolis in the fight for the middle-weight championship. Sandy Caught on the Fly. Griswald of Omaha was referee. Creedon Chief of Umpires Harry Wright expressed | and Moore were in fine condition. They himself as satisfied with the work of Um-| had by Romp thee rigger wong mo — pire Stage fn Philadelphia on ‘Thursday. | TOUnd pr A of $100 to $75, although lon He is an athletic young man, who runs to| cgi sympathy was, of course, with Moore. the bases to see every play. He gives his _-—— @ecisions in a quick ee ee ee ‘Ready to Exchange. nd is apparently always co-rect. Stage . Blade a very, favorable impression , | ATMrMEee Die fatewt- whe hen; hyen <i that Anson Rasa good team this season.” | lis short life in a city, was taken to vialt at A Washing fan who abused one of |a “real farm.” The child was in ecstasies. Gus Sehmelzs young men for an error| Every animal on the place was a delight to the other day was yanked off the lot and/| nim, but his affections especially centered lucked up, chazged with disorderly conduct. | ipont a Jersey calf ee -Pittsburg Dispatch. “ ” In reply to Mr. Taicott’s offer to bet $600| owhen ut like to buy 1%" he said to the to $300 that the New Yorks will beat out) “But what w 7 ve ti ‘change?’ the Brooklyns, President Byrne dryly says: | ne wae asked ees 9°U StVe im exchange? “It’s an easy thing to bet with other peo-| My baby sister,” replied the child with plc's money. The #40 that my t-lend. Mz.| the utmost gravity; “we have @ new baby leott, is waving about so reckiessly nearly every year at our house, and we've ine $500 he held out on that poor, unfor-| never had @ calf!” timate Farrel” kind ‘ —_—_. “Revenge on_ those ashingtons 1s oleae a - sweet,” says a New York paper. | Buckingham's Dye for the Whiskers does ite ;, wk thoroughly, coloring 4 uniform brown of Poor Unele Anson seems to be left in the | flack, which’ when an eu -< i se ich. when dry, will neither rub, wash off THE TERRORS OF PARALYSIS Overcome at Last by the Advance of - _ Medical Science. ‘The Testimony ef a Man Who Wes Half No citizen of this village is better known or more highly respected than Theodore J. Wheeier, who has lived nere for nearly half a century. Five yeats ago he wse stricken with Paralysis and was in its worstform. The phy Siclans said thet he would surely Gia But Mr. | Wheater did not die, and {t ts to tell the readers | of the Palladtwm about bis almost miractious | Tecovery that # reporter called upon him. | Despite his sixtytive years of age, and the im a | tense mental and bodily aM™i:ctions, be bas been. | | COMING TOURNAMENTS obliged to encure for nearly fve years, Ma, OLO HAS BEEN IN- Wheeler is still a fine looking man Me am tre@uced into Wash- ington this spring in a systematic way for the first time, not that it has not been H au renal to | tet d b g i fe # E efi ( i 5% iis Hale rie | my hands for several minutes, but without re- sult, Finally I got back into bedand sent for | Dr. 8. M. Bennett of this village He informed me that I bad wuffered what is commonly called a’ of paralysis.’ I could not believe tt Gt first, Dit the numbness continued to epread, the entire lower half of my body, as well as my legs, was affected. My bowels and kidneys re fused to perform their functions, and! wasonly relieved by mechanical process. 1 was not satisfied with Dr. Bennety's di. gnosis, and sent for Dr, Low, of Pulaski. He only confirmed i fl + E in the stables of the E ae 238 THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 1894—TWENTY PAGES. 8 argue that these events will kill the sport. ’ ‘There is little dan; f this, however, even THE TENNIS SEASON | Sire itcie eases this nowever.“even |A RICH MAN’S GAME out in the cold. For as soon as their abill- e v4 colm Chace and Wrenn were the A Forecast of Men and Events for content at tha’ Wet x grote Polo Has Come to Washingeon to ; ment, w! was last, en the Opening Yegr. both of these players were of t the ‘Youthful Stay. Invitation Tournament. q But there is one strong argument In favor UNCERTAINTIES OF HE GAMB) oc". ‘crimson “wsexertne' "i toe | WHY NOP GENERALLY POPULAR each player plays twice with every other player and the one winning the greatest H i number of matches is declared the victor. H A Brief Career Predicted for Cham- Thus s player's superiority over Ie fellow | What is Needed te Make an Expert : players is better proven than in the ordi- pion Wrenn. tourdament. Take the all-comers’ Polo Playe ear, for instance. The in the usual method ————— mentor, in other words, the fret wr of| THE RULES OF THE GAME m a 5 men play together, the winner contesting in the finals and likewise the lower section of players contest together, the ultimate Written for The Bwening Star. Mowe shee nen ibe j mnagl te ear ee 8 WARM WEATH-| road to the finals in the lower helt’ wes er approaches, and — rugged, as Shaw, Knapp, Valentine those of an athletic | a1 Eddie Hall, Larned, im Chace, turn of mind take er, and Hobart were all drawn in this lf, while to reach that round in the first up the various sports | half was a much easier task, inasmuch as in which they sre/the only players of distinction it included especially interested, | were Wrenn, Stevens and Sam Chase. So among the first upon | Wrenn got to the finals with but two hard their r| Ra ty Gat eae friends, the tennis/ It is to be hoped that some day @ series experts, clad in flan-| of tournaments can be held in different nels, and wearing | Parts of the country and then that the sev- a| eral winners may contest at Newport in a wat tak the — manner thas the invitation tour : arm - | naments are now conduct horsebac! remarked, in nis bat or racket, as This Year's Fixtares. paling Hat tt bald ete {t is generally termed. The tennis season! ‘The following is @ list of the various pony has been applied to almost usually opens at St. Augustine, and then | tournaments as they occur in order: In- of Mttle horse that had his tall cu! erm tof it o' tournaments occur at periods becoming | tergcholastic championships (preliminary | his mane ero ‘al fn more frequent, ending with the Lengel rounds—finals at Newport during cham-| few poset ipsa pbb asee-y began rity comers’ tournament at the Cosino at New-| pionship week), at Cambridge, New Haven, | polo ‘fleld, ihe the’ auiné: Soni oe the dream of | Princeton and New York, May 5; southern | fashion at Newport and Staten Island and Dr. Bennett's rtatement and advised me to get an ee conor dn “areca” and |championship, at Washington, May 21;|a tew other reaorte—for it has never been | greeted use, ‘The players ready to die. For six monthe 1 lay tn bed at every player who is styled a a sans New sie championship, at New H: extensively played good many ponies bright colors, which to the pic- | the home of my niece, Mrs. G. A. Penfield, an- being Gaalt) i nis bees 4c make the | West Newton, June 20; miGlie trates ans were brought from Texas and the west, and ber of the scene. abie to turn over in bed, bardiy, and requiring mane ponliaie podlereva at this, the greate: Pionship, at Orange, June 27; invitation | the good ones among them became popular constant attention ang care. Finally 1 grew of all tournaments. For there the fair | Urnament, Tuxedo Park, N. Y., Jaly 2;| for riding and driving; but as the style of teed to my helplessness end would crew! out Seabright Cricket Club of Seabright, N. J., ho ie aud getting partially Greased would drag daughters of America’s most exclusive s0-| July 9; Knickerbocker Tennis Club of New | ‘"@ Snimals had been set by the polo play. ony boy sheah ter baba; Galaga eRROTE ! is sgatte EongEe it ciety gather around the courts and cheer | York, July 14; invitation tournament, Es-| ¢T® they took the name of polo ponies. Ii their favorites on to victory. And there, | sex, Mass., July 16; New York state cham- | You have a pony, and wish to do so, you can an infant when creeping, but unable to help it might be well to add, the youthful player pionship, at Saratoga, July 16; Longwood | change him to a so-called polo pony with- mayeeif in the leest with may lower limsta, ‘There has svereaa rt, while the veteran Cricket Club of Boston, July 28; Long Is-| out much trouble. He ought to be over ‘Was not the slightest feeling in the lower part gst’ “oo land championship, at South ‘Hampton, | twelve hands high and not more than four- of my body and a needle thrust into my aMictea: must merit by some brilliant stroke or| July 30; Outing and Tennis Club of New- off would pot ince the pein return the approbation of the spectators. | castle, N. H., July 80; invitation tourna-| teem hands, and {f you cut his tall 80 parts prod sara The tennis season that closed at Newport | ment, Sorrento, Me., August 6; Bar Harbor | that it is not longer than four inches and ‘This went on until eight months ago. aay last August was certainly one of the many | Tennis Club, August 6; eastern champion-| crop his mane off close you can call him I readin tbe Palladium of a Cansdian gentie surprises and disappointments. And for |®5!P, Narragansett Pier, August 18; all-| polo pony, just as, it is said, the owner | scmetimes from lack of s an man who suffered from paralysis and who hed ‘urp! nae b comers’ tournament, New York, August 21; | o¢ an ord! sloop or er can from unfortunate injuries. If a man p! found relief in Dr. Williams’ Pink Pilla Im brilliant tennis, the All-comers’ tourna-| Nyack Country Club, September 47 Rock: inary sloop or schoon: change | ed dal te oaehe co awe toe “=| [regen —s - ment of last year has probably never been | away Hunting Club of Cedarhurst, L. ,| her to a yacht by simply putting a plano least. ponies fo ipioms Geseribed sufferer 1 read equaled. September 11; intercollegiate cha aplonship, and @ quantity of champagne in the cabin. ouaka «ee. an almost exact counterpart of my own afie Hobart and His Lawford. New Haven,October 2. H. B. NSEDHAM, Of Oriental Origin. KEW PUBLICATIONS. tions, and 1 Getermined io give the medicines The beginning of the season found Clar- But to return to the game itself. As it is —— trial Before I could hardly hope for results 1 ence Hobart the strong favorite, and THE BRITISH ARMY. known in this country and in England, it is UDERDALE. By F. began to feel a marked improvement in my favorite he remained until his crushing hardly more than twenty years old, having | ford, autbon of VSaracinesos. Pietie cnt’ |condition. First my kidneys and then my defeat at the hands of Fred Hovey in | "ts Recruiting and Desertions and Its| been introduced first in 1871 by the tenth Rew fork! Macmillan & ‘Washington: | bowels began again, afler @ lapse of over Sour the semi-final round at Newport. Hobart’s Total Available Force. Hussars, a British regiment just returned ‘* years, to perform their natural functions The style of play catches the crowd. He is| Some very interesting statistics are pre- | from service in India. In the spring of that} Katherine Lauderdale will rank well with | numbness left my body and the sense of fesling probably the only crack who uses effee- | sented in the recent official returns of the} year the first match game on record took | the many returned. This continued until the numbaess tively and exclusively the Lawford stroke. | condition of the British army. It appears | place at Aldershot, and it excited a good bad left my limbs entirely. Now 1 can go To make this stroke one must hit the ball | that its aggregate strength on the first day | deal of interest and the game became popu- to the village with one cane and 1p the house just before it drops to the ground, with a | of the present year was above 219,000, being | lar at once. But in India British cavalry- gO around witboutany. It is with the grestest straight-arm, under-hand stroke, at the|the largest ever known under the present |men had been playing it for some time, grtes Gig BL A 4 pleasure that I recommend Dr. Wiliiame’ Pink Bives the ball a twist, ced tt tices rit | establishment, and, in fact, exceeding by | and they had learned it from the natives, | historic Italy, but the difference i @ nat- | Pins to the public. I know what they have one for me and I wil thi h 5 about 8,000 the authorized maximum. It is | Large horses seldom thrive in a tropleal| ig located in New York city. In two yol- betiove) they help othert or goin "ut Of aad 20k Ra ee naturally impossible, with the constant re- | climate, so that the use of ponies for riding | umes, nicely bound, is latest of Me, similarly aMictec. customed to the game imagines it will, | cruiting and discharging, to keep the force | may have suggested that they would be as should be as popular as any the twist drops it into the court. In other | siways at the exact point set by law, but | to @ good use to enable men to ts predecessors. words, it is similar to a drop-ball delivered the purpose doubtless is to keep the average | On horseback, for that is by @ pitcher, and the principle is the same. When the natives of the Hobart went h seaso! for the year close to the maximum, and, feats. ageing: bine oc whee the game is beyond the ken of four defeats against him, three of which | indeed, it was 216,400. not being entirely merited by his opponents, | Of the 219,000 men thus spoken of, about | dates back to prehistoric times w Malcolm Chace, Budlong and Wrenn, the| 105,500 were serving in Great Britain and | favorite pastime in Persia, Tartary and Fran Hocnsmpion. He had also defeated | Ireiand; 81,500 in the colonies; 77,000 in| the frontiers of India betore Englishmen were ever heard of in those regions. It was lovey several cae but each defeat | India, and ‘5,000 in Egypt. The recruiting played also, it is said, in Arabia and in Dr. Williams’ Pink Pilis are prepared by te Dr. Williams’ Medicine Company, of Sebense- tady,N.¥. They contain in a condensed form, all the elements necessary to give new lifeané : He showed deuce sets, and Hovey's game tm- en to off: th Proved, while Hobart reached the top-notch foe test ee ere yk and ci on. of his play even before the double cham- London led off, as usual, with 5,355 re- Pionship was played in Chicago. Reference might well be at this ¢ruits, and then followed Manchester with ges FSF erippe, palpitation of the heart, pale and raliow complexion, and the tired feeling rem iting from nervous prostration; all diseases result- FBG ear! 000, Glass. 922, Birming- ing viliated humors fn the bioo@. such aa point to this double tournament held at Ron wink ~ 4 ld aS 717. In the is known as “pulu,” but it may — wrvglen Chicago in July. Hobart and Hovey con- m of recruiting, as in ours, the famous Vénetian been derived from Marco fented with the pairs from Chieago and the| certain physical standards. are set, but | travele: Polo, who flourished in a do ‘acific slope and easily defeated them. ecial” Iso allowed. Thi Then came the match in which Campbeli | ;:PCcia!” enlistments are also allowed. Thus and Huntington, champions for two years, list ho were under 5 feet 4 inches in endeavored to defend their title and thus height, 4, who were under 33 inches al be tt ee are ig veg chest measurement, and 1,667 who were un- — ssociat for the pair holding the dard semblance to ghanaplonshige three peane is der the minimum stan of weight. Still, bien - —) eT called jut Hobart and 1” - | polo. This last is a wild dance Or excesses of whatever nature. Hovey played like clockwork and won from | there, Were, fewer Of SUCH Pee a enliet, | accompanied by contortions of tee wots ee ‘ing th 3 | Pink Pilisare sold in boxes mever tm loose their opponents three sets to one. At New-| ments than dur the dancers usually sing @ melancholy dirge J Loturop. form, by the dozen ndred, and the publie port during the week of the All-comers' tour. | $h0ws that recruiting was favorable. And | tie Cassers Neually sing y at Penggad beter aig t yo ON by or bui resei ham} for the first time im very many years the ‘ing, occasionally stop- a called upon to defend, thelr title, tad, if] !fantry Of the line waa recruited beyond fo, and then golng’on again seoiecs’ ‘s | MF- Norton presents, is devoted to reform in | is tnis ghape) at 60 conta bon, or tit bones tot they are in the best of form, there can be | ts authorized strength. ty be- | the civil service of this country—e subject | g> 50 and may be had of all druggists or directly fertile brain may detect some similarit little doubt but that the victory will be tween the game and the a gfe by mail from Dr. Wiliams’ Medicine Com theirs. | pany, Schenectady, N. ¥. fourteenth century, since the players the ball have a great deal of traveling to in the game, or the movement and twisting of the body of the rider in his efforts to strike the ball ry have suggested some re- The desertions for the year were a little more than og — w rt previous a had been 4, ese figures appear to us Among the Has-Beens. very small compared with those of our own The All-comers’ tournament might well army on an establishment of about 25,000 have been termed a surprise party, and in| men. However, the reentage of deser- it the prophecies of the knowing ones were | tions to the number of recruits enlisted was in the British army 13.7 last year, against blasted. In the first place, the Hall broth- = 11.9 the year before. It is rather difficult to ers, Sam. Chase, the western champion, and trace the exact reasons for such variatio: Richard Stevens were quietly laid away on} An important institution in the British the shelf among the “has-beens”and in no oar. Spiee tae = regen o Ranyod although a in Congress S par esti orca lepton one, is the reserve. There were 17,828 men upon as factors. Then the mighty Hobart, | transferred from the army to the army fe- | hav universally selected as the coming cham- serve in 1891, and 17,751 in 1892, with but & em was defeated in a great match by | few hundred les . Hovey. Hovey was then lauded as the coming champion, no one considering for @ moment that Wrenn would cut any figure in the finals, but he did, decidedly, and as a result Hovey was beaten; the All- Requirements for a Good Player. After having been received with great fa- vor in England by those who love excite ment and feats of horsemanship, polo had only @ short time to wait before it found it- self in America. It was first played in Newport and on Staten Island, and has since become popular in other places. As @ recreation and sport it hardly has an equal. A player to be a good one must perfect rough-rider seat, must have muscle and must not be troubled with fear last year. The total num- | of bodily injury. Of danger there is con. ber on January 1 last seems to have been 80, thinking and unselfish Americans all admit are not only desirable, but necessary. & So LABORATORY CHESOSTRY. By ‘Those who are interested in Mterature of Coliege. pte J Ebosily talery. O ert 4 con- | the speculattvely-historical sort will not be RS om sidera’ ‘our pony may fall down e | disappointed in “96.” It has many theor- |THE, SOUL OF THE BisHor. .830. The militia enrolled at the inspec- | Quick and frequent wheeling he has to 40, | ies some of. them good. ‘The doctrines | Yraatet; suitor of tion dates last year numbered nearly 124,700, | You may hit yourself with your owa pol | woud have been tore forcible had Mr. al while the yeomanry were nearly 10,400 | stick, or, what is more probable, someone | Rose. placed his strong. The volunteers on November i iast | ¢lse may hit you with his, or you may, in gomere’ winner was ,Wwrenn, and upon | numbered nearly 227,000, and the militia re- | Your eagerness at following the ball, collide Campbell's refusal to defend his title this | serve 31,000. The army reserve has been | at full speed with another pony. This last youthful crack became champion of Amer-| Gcntinually increasing for the last twenty | # the greatest danger and has resulted ot- ica. years, but from special causes there may be | Casionally in disasters. But, after all ‘The finest tennis of the tournament and a slackening in this increase next year. | is said, it is difficult to see zy is as the ‘greatest tennis ever played upon the| However, a permanent first-class reserve of |dangerous as hunting, for in jumps Casino courts since thi ys of Richard | hetween 70,000 and 80,000 can be counted on, | Which the man who follows the hounds Gears was that of the Hovey-Hobart match. | Out of the militia many men joined the reg. | takes there is always the possibility of a Hobart in two sets played his best game, | Gia, army, navy and marines. The yeo- | fall from a considerable height with a horse while the game of Hovey was phenomenal | manry cavalry has been decreasing for | weighing over 1,000 pounes to go €own with and he defeated Hobart by the score of | som years, but the vollinteer force con. |¥ou or on you. It is not denied, however, 5 5 . Again and again did Hobart | tinues to show an upward tendency. that polo is dangerous. If it were not there Place his beautiful Lawford stroke, but |“ ‘According to the London Standard, at no | Would not be much excitement in it, and it at the net, with movements as quick | previous time has there been go large a| Would neither be a sport for spectator nor |: as a cat, returned every ball and in the end | force of enrolled men available for service | player. had Hobart at his mercy. a have! in case of need. First comes the regular | Nearly every man playell npckey. or shin- termed Hovey the quickest man on the ten- army, with nearly 220,000 of all ranks.|Ny when he was @ boy. en it is cold nis court and the most brilliant of Ameri-|Tre2c could be immediately supplemented | cnough it is @ favorite sport for skaters on ca’s cracks, and, undoubtedly, he is entitled by 80,000 army reserve men and "30.000 mi-|the ice, and where skating rinks are in foatit the compliments paid him. But why | iitia reserve, making in all 38,000. men | Vogue It is played on roller skates, although did Wrenn defeat bim? Why do our cham-| svatiable for service abroad. Almost ex- |in the latter case it is usually termed polo. pion Dall teams £0 down before the “tail- | Sctiy the same number would then remain |It consists simply in two ing teams en- finders: cometimes? Because the former | Sroiied for home defense, namely, 228,000 |deavoring with long hooked sticks to drive have neglected to put on thelr ‘batting | Volunteers, 94,000 militia and. 10,000 yeo- |® ball into opposite goals. Because the sticie clothes,” and the latter put up the most | Danry. making 832,000. Thus the aggresate | hae @ hook at the end it is hook-ey or heck. Or repeating ong at very veclcnced pate | for foreign and home service, in case of |€Y; at least,-that is supposed to be the of repeating only at very prolonged inter- | sergency, would be 602,000 men. origin of the name, but as it probably vals. 7 inated with boys one cannot be certain. if ‘The Champion's Future, @ player gets in the wrong place and at- But the writer would not deteriorate our A Long, but Successful Ride. tempts to strike the ball, being himself on champlon’s ability. He is a remarkable! Last fall Mr. George Eustis wagered Mr. | the side which properly belongs to his ad- player, but has risen too quickly, having | Caivin Knutt that the latter could not ride | es ana ip whacked orn ite ee own played practically only two seasons, and| his bay mare, Winnie Davis, seven years he complies with the order. Hence the lacks the experience necessary to defend old, out of an unknown dam, by Conductor, | name “shinny,” and there are few boys the championship. Tennis ethics will not|¢rom Prospect Hall, two miles beyond | who have not had a practical definition of permit him to enter the various tourna-| Frederick, Md., to the Metropolitan Club, | the term written in black and blue upon ments that he may acquire the standard of | this city, in m hours and fofty-five their legs. . Put a group f hockey players on ponies play which he will so greatly need when % & o'clock yesterday morni: called upon to defend his title next August, | ™inutes. At 6 0 Ruth biked oonben te att ert odified the chanea tad ne ates, hi the attempt was made, Mr. Knutt being | m: le change, and no shinny ortlived. "He was Fepeatedty beaten lat | accompanied by Mr. Montgomery Blair as | ticks are permitted, asthe wen season in various tournaments and he nar-| timekeeper. The distance was fifty miles, conseq! ces a — _— gies Dolo mallet is rowly escaped defeat at the hands of Marion | and at 11:40 yesterday morning the two | UUally about four feet long and of strong Wright, an inferior player, in the All- alighted at the club here, Mr, Knutt having = a which is rien to strike e Ing a cross piece of wood. At — fty-five minutes to spare. During the | the end of the handle a leather loop is put |= EXILE, AND OTHER STORIES. By Mary Fal- Feccuemiunibuaet that Maver ube ton jotraey Mr. Blair used, three, horsen Ae | chout the waist to trovent te player loving fsbington: Robert Beal oS Eanowncala play no more. Hovey le rag | Horace Washington decided that the mare | his stick, {f it should slip out of his hand. a oF Dart TG Mey racticg of lee Ie foxoW | arrived in good condition, that being one|as {t does not infrequently. The bail is those pleasing narratives which engaged in the practice it {8 uniikery | of the conditions of the wager. Considera- | hard and about as big as a base ball. It is | One of the most gifted of American author- and Hobart 1s in _ re * oh rd boy fiw | ble money changed hands on the result, | painted white and whenever it is struck the| esses knows so well how to write: “In that — id vere ¢. wong Phe ds 18) and it is probable other contests will arise | noise can be heard quite a distance To “Friend Barton's Concern,” “The [ong earn poked) Sao p- Tord nl ‘mover out of yesterday’s performance. protien any Suter IE an. —— must be © Alcazar, - Oo _— strui ve . le] po i ae POM i And Binet Biushed. Shey pe ee ee meant 48 | From Tite. slipping, and would be injurious, beside, to} THE AMATEUR TELESCOPISTS HANDBOOK. thi I. meg ‘ geese Pon om Tommy—"Yes; cats can see in thé dark| the ponies’ fect, and a soft field is very By Frank M. Grbvon, Pa.D., LL.B. New York: double championship, both of these plarecs | 40d so can Ethel; ‘cause when Mr. Wright | soon cut up by the rapid riding. Longmans, Green & may enter, and then let the aspiring cracks | Walked into the parlor when she was sittin’ An Equine Cricket Player. Young astronomers whose telescopes are beware. Haunted by his defeat at the| all alone in the dark, I heard her say to| The rider does not, a8 a general thing,|of small caliber will find in this com- y, Arthur, you didn’t get shaved! wear spurs, for he is apt to use his heels | prehensive but un; tious little volume — of hiro tr apind = Ls! Play the game of his life, and shoul e win the against the pony’s side, to a large extent, | # large quantity of the most practical kinds all-comers, as he doubtlessly will, Wrenn and, of course, he cannot use a whip. He of information, rides somewhat after the Jndian fashion, |GERMAN FOR had better look to his laurels. Day of Young Players. urging the horse by punching him with ¢! . " heel. His skill depends on two things—his s i = ——s =e oo _____ A Narrow Escape. ‘There are two young players who will cut t Newport thi: 5 quite a figure at pO} Is season; they an eat of ths poly Gua tis the ball. In the latter case he must be ex- are Will Larned and Malcolm Chace. Larned’s play is somewhat of the style of y tremely careful not to strike his own mount Hobart's and in the all-comers he forced or any OTe horse or rider. The pony, if Hobart to play @ five-set match, and then he is clever, soon understands the objects nearly wrested the honors from the New of the game and follows the ball of his own accord. Nevertheless, it is a very danger- Yorker’s grasp. Malcolm Chace been termed the boy wonder, inasmuch as he has ous sport for him. His bridle ought to be A ; German aud English Proverbs; H to Determine the Gender of Nouns, etc. B. Dr, Jucob Mayer. Fourth edition. Pailededpbie 1. Kobler. INDUCTIVE STU ENGLISH GRAMMAR. shown such remarkable skill for two sea- provided with “blinkers” to protect his| “ny Witian KR acme, Ph.D., president of the sons an now but eighteen years of eyes from possible chance blows, and his University of Chi and Issac B. Bur age. He is a graceful, earnest player, and of Hobart last year, together with his five-set match with Larned in the all- co "Ss, places him in the first rank, He easily won the In ollegiate tourna- ment at New Haven last fall, so he now legs should be with boots for the same reason. In point of fact,when he is properly decked vut for the polo field he looks not unlike | rim SCNDAY PronLEMt Present a sort of equine cricket player. If he could pects, Passel Tndostriel” Social, ith: talk he would certainly call the game by cal and Keligions. ree. -M., associate im the University of Chicago, late of Re Boston Latin School. Sew York: American Besk Company. pers presonted at the for success at Newport are very rosy. In looking over the tennis fixtures for the com- ing season one is immediately impressed with the unusually large number of invita- tion tournaments. These events came into ue only a season or two ago and are up- held and encouraged by many lovers of the game, but others condemn the practice and { 5 Y | xirs, Cobwigger—i bought @ mecktle | yesterday, and the one you sent wasn’t anything like it. | Haberdasher—The one we sent, was picked ovt by your husband a § ago, in case you ever bought one for has the honor of being intercollegiate cham- a its vulgar old rame of shinny,for he is pretty ternational © oD ‘Mest, ce pion, and if he continues to improve this certain to get some ugly whacks across his a gma 250, 1808. Boston! James year, as he undoubtedly will, his chances Shillington (excited and out of breath)—| legs before he gets th ih. That the 2 roug! Don't stop me, deah fellah! I have onuly| game is hard on him is true; that he is | ery LINWOOD. A >» one minute to weach me houze, or me/ running risk of life and limb is equally a lee ene ‘Robert Grabam,” “The weputation will be irretrievably lost. fact, but it may well be questioned whethor Planter's Northeru Bride, ‘Linda, 4 Jones—Why, what's the matter he does not like it, for the love of sport oy, aud Mi & Ww. Ry Mrs. Caroline Shillington (breaking away)—Why, it’s} which is implanted in the breasts of men only one minute to 12 wtag trate rat S eo Cog a a ja ag oe i ‘ — the stweet with @ sack coat and der! evolution same parsi pe ‘sunshioe, end hat on! Tt is known that good horses are passion- ‘Meadow Brook,” “Marion Grey,” &.