Evening Star Newspaper, July 6, 1895, Page 13

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, JULY 6, 1895-TWENTY PAGES. 13 TO STOP WRANGLING President Young Writes a Sharp Letter to Umpires. PLAYERS MUST BE KEPT QUIET —__>+—__— P. ment. Eee ‘DABLE MOVE s this is the perienced in roblem. When a headquarters as engaged © McDonald, the the staff of California umpir amon sense In munication that “Uncle Nick” revailed upon to permit publication. considerable gin- through ft, but here is all attered for themselves MeDonald: After all our talk I did hope and expect that ahead and enforce the rules. Monday's Washington-Balti- uo permitted players re- ly to run in from the fieid and wrangle and delay the game. I cannot hold you as a league umpire with a log end chain unless you enforce the rules drawn for the benefit of those interested In the national game. You should have imposed a fine upon five or six of the play ers of the two clubs, and seatei several of them upon the bench, if it became neccs- sary. I will sustain an umpire all the time in doing his duty and enforcing the rules, but 1 will not keep him 1f he disregards the instructions given him. This running in from the field to dispute an umpire’s de- cisions, thereby causing great delay, !s an injury to the game, and disgusting to its better class of patrons. If the rules are wrong It not your fault nor mine, but it is our duty to enforce them, regardless of fear or favor, and I will not tolerate an umpire who lacks the courage to perform the duty so clearly laid before him. I am repeatedly blamed for the shortcomings of the umpires in this regard, and I do not know what better I can do than to keep on ckanging the personncl of the staff until I can secure the services of men who will carry out the Instructions given them to the letter. There never was a time in the history of the game when the umpire could be 80 completely master of the situation as at ent. 'mpires should not permit any ver other than the captains of the com- peting teams to approach or address him at all during the progress of the game. I write this not only for your personal in- fcrmation and guidance, but for all of the members of the staif, and I shall send each of them a copy. I would suggest that you give both cap- tains fair notice before the game of what you propose to do; then do it. N. E. YOUNG. Urseemly Arguments by Players. Mr. Young says the people do not turn out by the thousands to listen to the un- seemly arguments that almost datly take place on the ball field between the umpire and dissatisfied playe: The rules are per- fectly plain on the subject, and there ts no excuse for’the umpire allowing every mem- ber of the team to question his decisions and ring out the game to the discomifit- ure of the people who pay their money to see ball playing. Intelligent players should kr that an umpire cannot reverse his di on upless he finds that he has violated the rules. Errors of judgment by an umpire cannot be corrected. The rule is so plain that there should be no chance for argument. ve a few extracts from the rules, 1 to umpires, which are frequent- ored: : ywmpire {s master of the field from mmencement to the termination of Dear Mr. Monday last, ould go ing to game.) more umpire must keep the contesting nines playing constantly from the com- mencement of the game to ils termination, w vs only as are rendered accident, Injury or rain. must require the players of each side to promptly take their positions in the Held as scon as the third man is out. “The batsman ts out tf he fails to take his position within one minute after the umpire has called for the batsman, A Trying Task. The selection of the umpires is one of the most trying duties “Uncle Nick” has to perform. It frequently occurs that the very men who recorhmend the appointment of certain umpires are the first to protest ple Tired of Unseemly Argu-! year Wednesday. | field to step a ru | which had jv who hit to W the stand, He threw In from the ner; the ball hit the hat been dropped by the man iter, and bounded clear to letting in two runs. aged twel four, f his heal by a He pitched ball, hi g fractured. die Tuesday's wonderful game sensationalism by Wedn ning game between the Se y on account of reputation of the Senators. just where the several thou. if mistake.—Brooklyn Correspond pce Sporting Life. The fact that the Ciacinnati team under ningtons. Buck Ewing did no better on the eastern trip than the gang led by Charley Com iskey a year ago has had a damr effect upon the lukewarm supporter: club, and on them. “Bia” M champion Cincinnat! Reds still playin, bail. Harry Me tered. Von der Ahe emphatically de orts that he intended to se 1s or his club. He says he in base ball as long rmick is dead—all there was n0* trouble betw er Ahe and ex: Manager Bu over the salary question. Both President Von der Ahe and Manager Ruckenberger are authority for the statement that their financial matters were adjusted In less than ten minutes that there was no squabble, no difficulty and no grounds for such an tnsinuation. Jim Galvin, the umpire, stated the other day that in the twenty-four years he had been connected with base ball he had never had the tough eaperience that has fallen to his lot as an umpire. Some people think the ordeal has been hard enough to cause him to pull up stakes and quit, but fhis he has no Intent of doing. Manager Irwin Is figuring on a fall trip to England with the larger portion of the Philadelphia team. The team that Man- ager Irwin expects to take to England is to consist of Pitchers Taylor and McGill or Carsey; catcher, Clements; infielders, Boyle, Hall, Sullivan and Reilly (Cross de- clining to go), and outfielders, Delehanty, Hamilton and either Thompson or Turner. “The poorest umpire always reports the most fines,’ sald Capt. Pat Tebeau of Cleve- land the other day, “and that is easily ex- plained. While in Washington President Young showed me a list of the fines as charged up against each umpire, and I saw that Bob Emsile !s the only man on the staff who has not fined a player one cent. While the Phillies were playing in Brook- lyn one critic declared that “Carsey pitched fn his usual careless, sloppy style.” This was doing Kid an injustice. His “careless, sloppy style” is so in appearance only, due to his cool, collected manner, and to his Contrary nerve in taking chances. He takes more chances with his slow ball and gets away with it oftener than any pitcher in the business. Last Monday Mr. Von der Ahe received a telegram from John B. Day, ex-president of the New York club, offering his services as manager of the Browns. Every true lover of the game will com- mend the stand taken by President Young In his letter to Umplre McDonald. Sense- lees wrangling by ball players is the bane of the game. Yesterday was an off day for all of the eastern teams. Chicago's defeat sends the White Stocking aggregation to fourth place, the Beaneaters taking third. The defeat of the Pirates by Cieveland gives the Orioles a firmer hold on first place, while the Pitts- burg aggregation is being closely pushed by Boston for second place. By defeating Chicaxo, the Reds jumped from eighth, and are now in seventh place, Philadelphia dropping to hth. The standing of the other clubs remains unchanged. ‘The Senators are scheduled to play today at Louisville, but they made arrangements with the Colonels to play two games on Sunday in order that they might remain over in Philadelphia. In consequence of this they cannot reach Louisville in time so that the second battle and last with the eastern clubs In the west will open with five teams on each side. The Baltimores have been putting up such a creditable game that their admirers are sadly disappointed to see that they cannot take defeat manfully, but must play the baby act—‘the umpire robbed us.”” ‘The next tlme President Young wants to try one of his freaks on a dog, he should experiment on a cur and not on a thorough- bred.—(Baltimore American.) How famil- Jar! They used to say the same thing here until the incredulous public laughed. It doesn’t go here any more. Danny Coogan will be moved to Atlantic Cit y by the advice of his physicians. d the danger point has in his case, and that a few the seaside will bring him around all right. It is not strange that players and spec- tators abuse the umpires when they are encouraged by such utterances and threats as these by a Baltimore paper: ‘One thing is certain, either a very decided improve- ment must be made in the appointment of umpires, or the pockets of those most in- terested will suffer. The magnates may run many things as they like, but they must take care not to impose on the people.” Yesterday’s Lengue Games. At Chicago: Pitchers. HE. Cincinnat! ..Dwyer... 410 8 Chicago.....Terry, Thornton -~5 94 him and urge his removal. There are now on file at league headquarters over fifty applications for appointment to the staff. For five years certain gentlemen promi- nently connected with the league have been urging the appointment of Jimmy Galvin. He is now on trial, without much prospect of success. Mr. Redheffer, who made such a farcical exhibition here Wednesday, was well indorsed by men who are supposed to know what constitutes a desirable umpire. Mr. McDonald was considered the greatest umpire on the Pacific coast, and his ap- pointment was pressed by men who have the best interests of the national game at heart. It might be wiser and more satis- factory for ali concerned if “Uncle Nick” instituted a training school for umpires in the minor leagues and made his selections upon merit alone, without regard te in- fluential indorsements. WIL! Not Sell Mercer. Again the rumor is afloat that Earl Wag- ner might be induced to part with his clever little pitcher and general utility man, Win Mercer. Upon the authority of Mr. Wagner the statement fs denied. Mer- cer is one of the most valuable members of the Senatorial combination. He has been pitching in hi luck recently, but he goes right ahead und plays good ball whereve: he is staticned. He promises to develop into a first-class 1 pitching abilit Hoffer of I of the best pit none of the der, in addition to his Itimore comes near being one ers In the league. He has preliminary motions that so re- of other pitchers. He makes ter number of deliveries in a given n any other twirler in the business. has good command and he keeps fir- ing the ball at the batsman without the usual dilatory tactics of Esper, Lampe, Hawley and a long string of others, Arthur Irwin says the Phillies are in a better position to win the pennant than they have been for many years past. His ™men are all getting into form again, and afier turning from their western’ trip they will e nearly two months of steady playing on their own grounds. Bare Ball Notes. Outfielder Abner Dalrymple has been re- leased by Evansville at his cwn requ tafford, brother of Jim of New York, is undoubtedly /the find of the New Orleans team this year. His batting is terrific and his first base play as good as any {n the Iai Washington has lost more games by one run than any other club tn the league.— Philadelphia Inquirer ot so. Louisville that hard-luck record, with Philadel- 1 good second. orting Life. no doubt at all that the double ystem a3 wot to come. Every and every ump’ Under umpiring be made a + game be played under any tor Morse. ing about and the the other day mpions should the rebel band e him, and hi Kc. would Itkely let Wimoet made the que At Pittsburg: Cleveland . 1 Pittsburg . 4 At St. Louis: St. Louis....Kissinger, Ehret. 0 Louisville . Weyhing.. 3 The Brooktyn league team. stopped over in Rochester to play an exhibition game with the Rochesters yesterday, and was defeated in a close contest. Mark Baldwin, the ex-Pittsburg twirler, was in the box for the home team, and he had the Bride- grooms guessing most of the time. Daub, on the other hand, was an easy mark for 8; the Rochesters. Brooklyn, 7. The League Record. The record so far is as, follows: Score: Rochester, 7 Philadelphia. a3 New York. 585, Wa: BSi/St. Louis... 20 42 | Brook'yn. “561| Louisville... “9 49° Standing of the clubs July 6, 1804: Clubs. Cinbs, Baltimore. Cleveland, Boston. New Y 08) St. Pittsburg. )| Chieaxo Philadelphia, 32 28 [582] Washin; Brookiyn. 24.579) Louisville. Schedule for Today. Philadelphia at Cleveland, Boston at Pittsburg. Brooklyn at Cincinnati. New York at Chigago. Baltimore at St. Louis. AN INTERESTING CONTEST. Suecess of the Annual Games of the Washington Quting Club, The annual games of the Washington Outing Club took place Thursday afternoon at the club's grounds before a large number of friends of the membrs of the organi- zation. After the games-the guests of the club were entertained in the club house with a program which included dancing and other amusements. The games result- ed as follows: 75-yard dash—C, W. Park, first; P. Saum, second. Time, 0.00. Throwing the hammer—C. H. Davis, 98 feet, first; Abe King, second. Standing broad jump—L. Baumgartner, 9 feet, first; M. Dammen, second. 100-yard dash—C. Clifford, first; P. Saum, seconi. Time, 0.12. Horizontal bar—C. Ludwig, first; H. Rothschild, second. Running broad Jump—M. Dammen,]17 feet, first; L. Baumgartner, second. Running high Jump—M. Dammen, 5 feet 4 inches, first; C. Clifford,”second. Putting shot—M. Dammen, 29 feet, first; King, second. 20-yard dash—C. Clifford, first; J. Bern- helmer, second. Time, 0.27. allel har—H. Rothschild first. 440-yard dash—C, Clifford, first; Scrivener, . Time, 1.18. walk—C. H. Davis, first; C. Ludwig, second. Time, 11.60. Mahea, first; L. Baum- r, second. The tug of war was won by the team composed of Messrs. A. King, Goldstein, Clifford, Reitzenstein and Melbaum. A Pacing Record Broken. rathberry broke the world’s half-mile soria, Ill., yesterday, pac- » mile In 2.00 in the second heat of -for-all pace. THE FINISH OF THE HENLEY COURSE ON THE THAMES. THE DEPARTMENTAL LEAGUE The Postponed Games and the Schedule of the Second Series. Some Gossipy Comments About the Various Games, the Umpires and the Individual Players, , After the last game of the first series of the schedule of the Departmental League the postponed games will be played off. There are quite a number of these, and they may materially affect the standing of the clubs before the second series opens. The schedule for this series {s rot made out yet, but it will go into effect immediately after the postponed games. It is thought that a game between the Washington Light Infantry and the Bureau of Engraving and Printing would be an ex- cellent contest, and would draw a large crowd to the park. As it is, these iwo clubs are about the best paying ones in the league, as each one has a strong repre- sentation owt in every game in which they participate. As the Bureau stands at the head of the list, and the Light Infantry has made such a great stride toward displacing them and the District Commissioners, it ts thought that one of the best games of the season would result from the two teams crossing bats. Bach has an excellent infield—Leach, Mad- igan, Helmerich and McCauley on the Bu- reau, and Wisner, Wise, Winkleman and Stewart on the soldier boys’. Both are strong in the outfield, and are about evenly matched in batting, and a close score should mark the end of the game. A meeting of the officers and executive committee of the league will be called in a very short while to arrange the schedule and other matters which have come up for settlement. - Tubby” Dickinson certainly had an off day in the game with the District Com- missioners. He is credited with three er- rors by the official score and about ten by the unofficial one. The wildness of Fitz- gerald, who 4 difficulty tn locating the plate In the early part of the game, how- ever, had a great deal to do with his passed balls and his general playing. It goes hard with “Tubby” to be beaten. ‘The absence of Mr. Catlin from the list of umpires is felt in no small degree. Mr. Cat- lin was one of the best-informed and one of the most efficient umpires on the local staff, and when he was obliged to leave the city his departure was felt to be a loss to the league. The other members of th fr are doing good work, however, and no se- rious kicking is oceurring over any of the decisions. This gentlemanly playing and absence of continuous wrangling and kick- ing fs one of the enjoyable features of these games, and {s still more remarkable when it is remembered that most of the kicking takes place in amateur games. The league officials are to be congratu- lated over the increasing attendance. A number of ladies make the journey to the park almost every day a Departmental League game takes place, and they show as much interest in the result as the male backers of the clubs do. The Bureau a: leads in this feature, and sends a number of the pretty bureau girls to every game in which It takes part. Although an umpire fs allowed to send a man to the bench for certain offenses, he is not able to Impose a fine. Fining would be a much better w: in the optnion of many, as sending a pl: r to the bench cripples the team of which he is a member, where- as a fine would accomplish the same result, would nut weaken his team and would en- rich the coffers of the league. Of course, an umpire would have to use great discre- tion and judgment in the imposing of fines, but with the staff which {fs at present with the league there should be no fear on this score. Wise appeared at short for the Light In- fantry team on the Fourth of July. He is the same old Billy Wise, and played his usual good game. His work at short was of the steady order that always puts con- fidence {nto the infield, and it is unques- ticnably true that since he has been play- ing this position the Light Infantry team has picked up wonderfully. Gleason pitched an excellent game against the P. O. D. on the Fourth. He allowed them only four hits. In the gamo between the P. O. D. and-the W. L. I. C. on the Fourth Chapman man- aged to fill the positions of short stop, sec- ord base, pitcher and catcher, and managed to make between the four places sever er- rors. “Hlroy is putting up an excellent game for the soldier boys, and is catching in his old-time form. He is also batting and run- ning bases well. Wisner won many words of praise by his work in the Fourth of July game. He ac- ‘cepted seven chances and his error was ex- cusable cn a hard hit ball. He seemed to be in front of the ball every time it was knccked in his direction, and hits between him and short were scarce articles. Jaquette, who played on the P. O. D.’s on the Fourth, would make a good second baseman with a little coaching and prac- tice. In his eagerness, however, to get the ball he becomes so excited that it either rolls out of his reach or else he throws It away about twenty-six feet over the first baseman’s head. He made a rattling ood step in this game, though it looked good for a sure hit. Big Regatta at Austin. Austin, Texas, will supplement the Cor- bett-Fitzsimmons fight by giving a grand international regatta after the event. One thousand dollars will be offered each for single aud double sculls arfd $2,000 for a four-oared shell. Interesting Sport. The track was muddy at Alexander Is- land yesterday, and although close finishes were not in order the sport was interesting throvghout. Three favorites and a heavily backed second choice were among the win- ners, and the bookles and talent managed to quit about even. Charma was beaten in the two-year-old race, Giggle, a 60-1 shot, beating the filly for the place. The winners were: Venusberg, 7 to 1; Allan L., 10 to Woodchopper, 7 to 10; Sir William, 7 to 3; Traitor, 8 to 5; Fagin, 7 to 10. A World's Record Beaten. ‘The world’s record for the 220-yards dash was broken at Ontario, Cal., Thursday, by George K. Nolan of Riverside, who covered the distance in 19 25 seconds. Chattanooga's Franchise Sarrendered. Chattanooga’s base ball franchise has been surrendered to President Nicklin of the Southern League. Mobile, Knoxville and Columbus, Ga., are mentioned as pos- sible successors. CORNELUS WORK AT HENLEY. Critics. Do Not Think the Americans Can Win. es izhted by the Associated Press.) LONDON, July 6—Reviewing the pros- pects of the Cornell crew at the coming regatta at Henley, Mr. W. B. Woodgate, the expert English oarsman, who has care- fully watched the progress made by all the crews which will compete in the race for the grand challenge cup, predicts that the Leander and New College crews will be first and second. Mr. Woodgate also expresses the opinion that the Cornell crew will not be able to hold out after passing Fawley Court against the longer reach and swing of the English crews. The Pall Mall Gazette, commenting on the same subject, thinks that the Cornell men have been doing the reverse of im- provement during the past week. It has been discovered, the Pall Mall Gazette adds, that staleness ‘Is a thing to be guarded against as much as insufficient’ preparation Mr. D. H. MacLean, an old oarsman of Eton and Oxford experience, and who has been present at the Henley regattas of twenty years past, thinks that the Cor- rell men are undoubtedly a very fine crew, and the best the United States could pro- Guce, as they have carried everything be- fore them in Americ: He adds: ‘They are s!mply an unknown quantity in the competition for the grand challenge cup, and if they win, we must reconsider our most cherished ideas of rowing. t Mr. MacLean also expressed the opinion that the Canadians, with the crew of the Argonaut Rowing Club of Toronto, co: ing of C. H. Munz, F..H. Thompson, E. Thompson and R.A. Munz, have a beau English crew with which to compete for the swand's challenge dup for fours. He says they are as speedy a lot of men as ny he has seen. < Woodgate Is also reported as sa “Cornell's. machine-like action hz dom if ever been surpassed for evenn and regularity. The ghiaf culiarity of Cornell’: le lies in the sho: s of their stroke and absence of body swing upon which the British oarsmen lay so much They seldom paddle at le than minute, which for’ the British style would be a fair racing stroke; and they race they go as high as 45, a ta which the long swing of the Hritish style could not be got through. Cornell's work depends mainly on the plgtdn action of the legs, and legs cannot work alone fn this st or more than five minutes without ercepiibly tiring. For this reason we think that in spite of their goo ndition and precision of style @ornell will not hold their own after fairly caught against the longer reach and swing of hc as Trinity Hall, Leander and New e did the course yesterday in econds, being the best trial nglish crew, but only exactly t trial, Cornell row- P the course yesterday in 3.19. ‘Trinity Hall in 3.21, both being better than form yet shown by Lean: Courtney ts, however, that Cornell has done half © course in wry JONES IS LONELY. His Fellow-Clubmen All Fear He Will Invite Them to Go Bicycling. om the New York ‘Tribune. What's come over Jones lately?" asked about a table in an athletic club. got to be a regular hermit. He used to be as sociable as anyLody, but now you never see him dining with anybody, and he sits alone in the reading room as if he hadn't a friend in the club." : “You don't know about Jones because you don't ride _a wheel,” said a second man. “All of us bicyclists are afraid to talk much with him, for fear of being urged to go riding with him. He's a good fellow, and we should like to go on tours with him, but he's the most awful rider fn the club. He never seems to get his fill, Cen- turies are mere child's play with him, and the man who rtarts out to ride with him is likely to be brought home on a shutter, suffering absolute physical exhaustion. When he Invites us to go on a run with him, it isn’t pleasant to refuse, so we have all got to keeping away from him.’ “It's a pit chimed in a third, “for Jones is a delightful fellow otherwise, and he 1s extremely fond of company on his trips. But there is simply no getting on with him when he is on his wheel. Three of us started last Sunday to go with him to Patchogue. The round trip is just 126 miles, and we thought that that would satisfy even his craving for bicycling. But it didn’t. The only way in which he could content himself was by riding several miles abead of us asionally, and then coming back until he met us. When we started on the home trip, he explained thi hadn't his lantern, and w have to get back before dark. So he left us, and got in an hour or two before we did.” “That isn’ the worst,” put in another of the party. “He's got a new wheel, and wants to ride to Albany in a day. It's nearly 150 miles, ard a good deal of the is bad, so the mary who starts out with him will have to show himself a ‘ouitt or reach Albany three-quarters dead. And Jores is looking for a victim; sc if ho talks bicycle to ary one, you tell him your wheel's In the factory.” { Wendell Phillips’ Home. From the Boston Commonwealth. The city counctl of Boston has ordered that a marble tablet shall be placed on the spot where Wendell Phillips lived for forty years, The inscription ds this: “Here Wendell Phillips resided for forty years, devoted by him to efforts to secure the abolition of American-slavery in this country. The charms of home, the enjoy- ments of wealth andilearning, even the kindly recognition of his! fellow-citizens, were by him accounted as naught compared with duty, He lived to.see justice triumph- ant, freedom universal, and to recelve the tardy praise of his former opponents. The blessings of the poor,. friendless and the ed enriched him. In Boston he was N 29, 1811, and died Feb. Iss. This tablet was erected in 1S! by the or- cer of the city counc!l of Boston The tablet emits a sta nt which Mr, Phillips made to me once, as I stood upon the steps with him. E told me how he lived there because his wife I'ked the place; and these words, which he then spoke, might be added to the inscription on the still true, I am ace, as we stand, marble tablet. They are fraid: ‘And from this the doors of forty Hquor she: ———- -+0+— A Cycler’s Problem. From Life. “No, Victor, “how can I be yours when our cycle club, ‘The Bloomers,’ has just taken for its mot- to, ‘Divided we stand, united we fall?’"” CUP CHALLENGERS Marked Changes in Form and Construction of English Yachts. Now Nearly Like American Bonts— British Craft Are Used for Other Than Racing Purposes. The English yachts during the past forty years have changed very much in form and in construction. The yachtsmen and de- signers of Great Britain have discarded the narrow boats, that were good for noth- ing but racing, and that carried a veritable i GNESes | Cambria, 1870. lead mine on their keels, and have given their yachts more beam, and consequently made them more habitable. The Americans have discarded the ex- treme beam and light-draught boat, the skimming-dish type, and have tacked on some of the Britisher’s depth. The result <. | Livonia, 1871. fs that the two tyres have approached each other very closely, and this year the challenger for the America cup and the defending yacht are rly of the same dim sions, at least, according to all the reports that the designers and builders will give out at present. SE Countess of Dufferin, 1876. The schconer Cambria was the first chal- lenger for the cup. She was a keel schoor- er, 10S feet in length on the water lire. | She was heavily planked and built for many years’ sailing. Her beam was 21 Atlanta, 1sSs1. draught 12 feet. The Magic, a rd schooner, de the Cam- ly, and then Mr. A. d the Livonla built, and tried ags for the cup. This time he buflt a boat feet on the water line, 23 feet 7 inches and feet, Genesta, 1585. s draught. In con- ruction the Livonia was very similar to the Cambria. The Columbia and Sappho easily defeated her. The Countess of Du schooner, was the ‘in, a centerboard challenger. Her model Galatea, 1886. was thoroughly American, heamy ahd with ight draught. The At ta came the year after the Countess, and she, teo, was American. She was (4 feet on the water line, 19 feet beam, and 5'y feet graught. Nothing was learned from these two boats, and it was jot until 1885 that a really big a a ew Thistle, 1887, bid was made for the cup. The Genesta came over. She was a true type of the English cutter, narrow and deep, and with large displacement. She was 90 feet over all, Sl feet on the water line, 15 feet beam, and 15 feet 6 inches draught. To meet her the Puritan was built. She was a wooden beat, and accomplished that for which she was constructed. Valkyrie. 1892. In 1886 the Galatea raced for the cup. She was built of , and, while being 5 feet longer on the ter line and 10 feet longer over all, she was the same breadth and draught, namely, 15 feet and 13 feet % irches, respectively. The Mayflower, an other boat built of wood, defeated her very easily. The next the Thistle came. The canny Scotcimen had taken a leaf out of w The Lines of Valkyrie. . the Yankees’ book, and had added beam to their boats The Thistle was 86 feet 4 Inches on the water line, 4 inches longer than the Galatea,.and her beam was 20 feet 3 inches, 5 feet 3 Inches more than the Galatea, while her draught was 13 feet 8 inches. The Volunteer defeated the Thistle easily, and the Englishmen then waited five years before challenging again. The Valkyrie came over. She was a Defender’« Sheer and Sail Plans. powerful craft, 85 feet 6 inches on the water line, 128 feet over all, 22 feet 9 Inches beam and 18%, feet draught. She had a long overhanging bow and a long low counter. The Valkyrie’s bow was fuiler than Vigilant’s, and the forefoot was all cut av ot the sheer plan shows a graceful curve to the deepest part. Con- siderable rake was given to the stern post. The Vigilant hal a long, flat keel, whi te y. It was in this differ- ence that the Valkyrie -was able to go about so quickly. —+e+—____ He Couldn't Help It. the Book rs n Julian Raiph was a clty reporter he wi side and met a large German of serious t to some gathering on the east demeanor at the door. “Excuse me,” said Ralph,“I'm a reporter for the Sun.” “Vell,” was the reply, “you can't help dot.” And Ralph has een wondering ever since whether his [ locutor was really as ser- ious as his appearance indicated. . y. her own- | COUNTRY AND SEASIDE. Where the Summer Days May Be Pleasantly Passed. who have not its own ani the . The among the salt sei is most ‘ove. John ‘ollton, at pleasant establishme Gr 28 Ocean Pathway, has a good repu a being one of the most comfortable houses at this p One of the most delightful pla part of the country to spend a few in the hy 1 term is down on the mM in St. 3 post office at he i ist, tractions, it bide f: yertion of the re: al capital. T' e rooms ar nh its unexc r to absort the w. such ing, , crabbing and the kin- dred ple Walnut Point, at Cowart, » is just the place to choose for a month's o' This resort opened July 1. It is kept by W. P. Cowart, who should be adiressed for terms, etc. Dr. R. P. Blackistone now makes his an- nual announcement of the opening of River Springs, on the Potomac, in the state of Maryland. This place is said to have no superior in that state for beauty of loca- tion, excellence of water, and for general advantages that go to make a summer re- sort a pleasure to the tired city Colton-on-the-Potomac is or the Tost attractive summer resorts within ea: reach of the city, and there are two steamers daily. For good salt water bath- ing, fishing and sea food this place offers iS many attractions as any resort on the riny deep, Steamers Wakefield and Ar- rowsmith stop there, and the rate is only $1.50 a day, with a reduction by the week or month, Ocean Grove, N. J., is one of the best known seaside resorts. Its attractions are well known to lovers of the seaside, and Washingtonians will do well to stop at the Arlington, cne of the leading hotels of the Grove, in full view of the ocean, with a first-class cuisine and service, and a fine orchestra. During the hot weather a trip to the sea shore is a genuine treat no matter if for only a few days, and Cape May is just the place to spend the time. The Colonial Hotel, fronting the ocean, with large piaz- zas and all modern improvements, offers special inducements to W ingtonians, who will find this new hotel a delightful re- sort. Any one desiring to spend the summer at Buzzard’s Bay will do well to communicate with J. Romaine Brown & Co., 50 West 33d street, New York city. This firm has a beautiful residence fronting the ocean. The house is all furnished and ready for house- keeping, and it can be rented for the sea- son at a moderate price. The Etteron Hotel at Cape May has a world-wide reputation as one of the best de hotels in the country. Du t season a new pavilion has be acted adjoining the hotel, afd other at- ive improvements have been made, 5 respect. The Elberon is opposite Congress Hall, and = R. Wilson will furnish further particu- ja Toating, will furn: bathing, fishing and crabbing th all the changes necessary to e rest and a good time. These, to- gether with a first~ table, are the in- dutem: . P, Cowart, whose of Virginia, which ‘erry through sc owhatan Hatel rhe Powhatan was built ago, and is a modern hotel. rounded with spaciox jent and the hou pped with safe the coun at of J an attractive old town in n us to rates can be ob- sing Mr. W. L. Shephard, The Mountain House at Cresson, Pa., opened June This hotel is at the sum- mit of the Allegheny mountains, on the main line of the Pennsylvania railroad. Pure mountain air and water, delightful drives and good accommodations render u one of the most attractive of moun- tain resorts. Here are some of the features of the Brady House at Atiantie City: Neare the ocean, good board, large garden and mod- erate rates. Mr. James Brady is the man- ager. The Mont Alto at Harmonsville, W. Va., is reached via the Baltimore and Ohio and West Virginia Central. It ts at the top of the Alleghanies and affords a home-like re- sort at low rates. Mr. W. J. Alderton is the proprietor. The Hotel Maryland at Annapolis is a delightful place. It commands a view of Chesapeake bay and the Severn river. The neighborhood affords fine boating, bathing, crabbing and fishing, while the table is supplied with all the delicacies of Chesa- peake bay. The house has a dancing hall, billiard room, hot and cold baths, and the rates are $6 per week and upward. Saginaw Inn, at Atlantic City, Is the placa to go for pleasure and solid comfort during the heated term. It is at the ocean end of Connecticut avenue and is provided with all modern conveniences. Comfortable, airy rooms and liberal terms ctive features of “The Duftington,” ouri avenue near the beach, at At- City. Address Michener & Custer for particnlars, Cool, invigorating breezes are always blowing over and through the Hotel Aldine At- on Pacific avenue near Ohio lantie City. It is a st tablishment, with m mnable terms for transient and permanent gu Hot and cold sea-water baths, private farm and dairy, are mentioned as some of the attractions of the Hotel San Marco, Atlantic City. It is conveniently located at the junction of Pacitic and Massachu- setts avenues. One of the best managed hostelries at At- Jan City is “The Pennhurst,” at the ocean end of Michigan avenue. It has re- cently been ealatged and remodeied. An elevator has been added‘ to its other con- veniences. The nearest house fo the beach at Cape May, N. J., and one of the most charming abodes at that famed watering piace is the Marine Villa, now in its twenty-second Season under the capable management of F. Hallenbeck. = ee A Reasoncr. From the Burlington (fowa) Journal. “There, Willie,” said the lad’s mother, “is ten cents. for you. Now, what are you go- ing to do with it?” “Save it ae to buy fireworks for the Fourth of July,” replied the boy in a tone whose pesitiveness was almost defiant. “Why, Wilife, you know you are saving venue, up your money to give to the heathen.” es’m, but the Chinese are heathen, aren't th “Yes, dear. “And the Chinese make the firecrackers, den't they?” am told they do.” “Well, then, the heathen'll get my money just the same, so it's all righ’ See Rather Overdid It. From the Chicago Tribune, The curtain had risen on the third act and the momentary hush that preceded the resumption of the performance on the siage was broken by a stentorian voice from the rear of the auditorium: “Is Dr. Higginspiker tn the house?” 4 tall, heavily whiskered man occupying a front seat rose up. “If Dr, Higginspiker fs in the house,’ re- sumed the stentorian voice, “he told me I was to come here and call him out at 10 o'clock!” Whereupon Dr. Higginsptker, looking very red, picked up his hat and cane and walked down the aisle amid loud and en- thuslastic applause. ART OF COCK FIGHTING. It Was « Favorite § Century rt in the Last From the Realm. In the middle of the eighteenth century ne called out against cock fighting heath sh mo of diversion, which ought « to be confined to barbar- y that time it had grown perform: 7 as we in the “sporting pic. tures” of a hundred years ago, where the birds, provided with long steel spurs, stab one another to death in a pit, surrounded ring of ring old gentlemen in boots But, difficult as it may bé fact, in earlier times this wag ch shocked nobody, and real- eh less horrible than the Geor- pposes. care Was taken from the mo- the egg was laid to insure the of what might turn out to be a valuat ighter. At a month old the yeung birds were censed ey morning With burning rosemary or pennyroyal, and th taken for a c titutional on a grass plot. Directly the comb appeared tt tot. I ¥ »peare: was cut away and the scar constantly rubbed with butter. If the chicken crowed too feocn he was cast out, for a good never raised his votce till late in tite. When a promising bird had been selected no pains were spared with him; he was given Sirange end elaborate foods—cheese par- fres. chopped leeks, toast sopped in wine, a pngrt no racer of our day fs nourished c ed more de y fa gtarded more delicately by his for- phe bird was soft fully taken out of his pen after morning meal and a pair of “hots,” padded rolls of leather, were care- fastened over the spurs. Anoth : rt cock similarly protected was bri out and the two bir ane being set on a law of fine turf, were encouraged to fight ‘and biffet one another until the prize cock showed sicns of weariness. He was then taken up, deprived of his “hots” and buried. in a bosket of sweet straw, packed around him tn such a way that he could scaroel; stir, “and so shall he stew and sweat until the pvening.” This basket was called the stove,” and before the cock was put Into eee hore made to isfmredd a lump of icpped rosemary an yunded sugar mixed in butter. Pe oe Some amateurs liked to put their fighting cocks into a cock bag, but this was not held to be so efficactous as a “stove,” be- cause the air could not pass so freely through it. All the next day the cock rested, ard on the following. morning the cock master took him into a green inclosure. Then, putting him down on the turf, and holding some ordinary “dunge hil’ cock in his arms, the master showed it to him, ran from him, enticed him to follcw, and occasionally allowed him to get a stroke at the dunghill bird. When thoroughly heated with this pastime the fighter was once more stuffed with butter of rosemary and then stoved In the basket of straw till the evening. This kind of training went on for six weeks, which was considered the proper time for training a ecck, the last three days being spent in absolute rest and fasting, so that it was a fresh and hungry bird that was brought out at length into the pit. Now came the exercise of the real art of cock fighting— the proper relation of the fighters. None of the incidental refinements which made elghteenth century cock fighting so cruel had occurred to the simplicity of the seventeenth. No additions were made to the armor of the birds—no metal spurs or needles fixed to their vigorous legs. All that was done was to clear decks for fighting—to cut off the long feathers of the neck and talls, to clip the wings, to smooth and sharpen the beak and heels with a _krife. It was important to leave no feathers on the crown of the head for the foe to take hold of, and then, after a final ceremony, when the cock master had licked the head and eyes of the cham- picn all over with his tongue, the bird was turned into the pit to try his fortune, After the battle was over each combatant vas tenderly taken up and his wounds were scoured. He was then put into hig basket to recover, so wrapped in flannel and pressed down with straw that he could scarcely breathe and thus left motionless for the night. oo The Clown’s Baby. From the Argonaut. It was out on the western frontier, The miners, rugeed and brown, ed around the posters; come 10 town! in the darkoess Me murmured, impatiently bunting: , ge that I cannot find; 1 T've looked in Tr must have beew I The miv were stamp and shouting; Ther were not very patient The Aown bent over the cradle: “T must taki you, Litde Ben: The mother started and shivered, But trouble and want were near; She lifted her baby gently; “You'll be very ful, dear?” “Careful? You foolish darling!"* Mow tenderly it was sa‘d, While a smile shone through the paint. “TI love each hair of his bead!” chalk anf ‘The noise rose into an uproar: Misrule for the time was kin The clown, with a foolish chute Rolted into the riry But as, with a squeak and flourish, ‘The fiddies closed thelr tune, You'll hold him us if he was made of glassgt Said the clown to pantaloon, The jovial fellow nodded; - “Pye a couple myself,” he said; “I know how to handie"‘em, bless’ yout OM. fellow, go abe: The fun grew fast and And not one of all the Had guessed that the baby was alive, When he suddenly Inughed aloud. Oh, that baby laugh! it was echoed From the benches with a ri And the roughest customer there sprang up With, “Bors, it's the real thing!"? The ring was Janimed in a minute; Not a man that did not strive |” For “a shot at holding the baby’ The baby that was “alive!” thronged with kneeling suitors midst of the dusty ring, 1 his court right royally— ‘The fair little baby king— ‘Till one of the shonting courtlers— Aman with a cold, hard face. Tho talk for miles of the country ‘And the tesror of the place— * Raised the little And chackled, As the ing to ils shoulder * rey re ev 5 8 Of silver, and gold, and notes; People are not alw puniless Because they don't wear coats, “Three cheers for the baby! wore Were Meant; ) ch they were given Was enouch to raise the tent. ‘Aud then there was sudden silence, \1 a gruff old miner said: me, boys, enongh of this rumpus! It's time it was put to bed. o, looking a little sheepish, z twit faces strangely brizht, audience, somewhat, lingering, ‘ked ont into the night. And the bold-faced leader chuckled: “He wasn't a bit afraid! ‘as game as he’s good-looking. . that was a show that pal a = 7 An Irish Agent's Wit. From Arswers. ‘The proprietor of a large buildng in Lon- don, which contains seteral flats on the upper floors, says that he never succeeded fn renting these apartments readily pntil he employed a very cloquent Irish woman as his agent. Several times the graceful “plarney” of this excellent woman has se- cured a customer, where a less-gifted agent would probably have felled. “Kinvayniences, is It?” says she to ap: plicants for the rooms. “Sure, it’s hot an’ could wather at all hours of the day an’ nolght, agrayable to yer tashte, an’ scul- lery coppers that wud make a washer- women of the Queen of England by priffer- ce.” cre the rooms comfortably rer. ear Shey warmed?” with a surprised air. “gure, wid a sloight turn o” yer wrist ye have anny degray o’ timperature known to But therimether.” warmed?” “But the staircase; is that easy to go up?” “Now, thin,” says the eloquent axeot 3 if she were reaching the climax of all wonderful advantages of the building, “ staircase is that aisy that when ye'er goin’ oop ye would well b’lave that yer comin’ down,” The intend! tenant usually Ga pitulates at this poink: a