Evening Star Newspaper, August 12, 1895, Page 9

MISSING FROM THE 6:54 EXPRESS, A RAILWAY INSPECTOR’S STORY. BY JOHN T. PARTINGTON. (Copyright, 1805, by Irving Bacheller.) My spirits sank to zero. I was bitterly disappointed. I had félt absolutely certain of finding the boy at Mostyn, but it was evident that I was on the wrong scent. “But the express did stop here last night, I suppose?” I sald to the station master, after a short pause. : “Yes; sure,” was the reply. “I got a tele- gram to say that it would stop to set down Sir Philip Sandford and party. Sir Philip lives, as perhaps you know, at Rhydowen Hall, a good eight miles in the country. He and all his family, except his eldest son and daughter, went over to Sir Philip's brother’s place, near Beaumaris, on a visit, but during yesterday Mr. Reginald—that's the son left at home—got thrown from his horse and very badly hurt, and they tele- graphed to Sir Philip, and he came home, with his lady and the children, by the Bangor train and drove off at once.” “And you are quite sure that no little boy got out of the same train and was left on the platform?” “Quite sure, Mr. Barnes. I couldn't have missed seeing him if he’d been there. There was only Sir Philip's own party.” The Man With the Scar on His Face. “But if the boy didn’t come to you or to your porter, may you not have missed him and gone into the office, leaving him stand- ing on the platform?” * “It's impossible, Mr. Barnes,” old man shook his head decidedly. “Were you in attendance on the train yourself?” I asked. “Just tell me every- thing that passed.” “Weill, the porter and myself were both at the train. There was a goodish bit of luggage. It was in the cupboard of the carriage In which they had traveled, near the frent of the train, and I helped the porter to get it out. Sir Philip and his lady and tke children stood watching us. and then the porter put the luggage on the four-wheeled truck, and took it across the line to the down side, and out through the gate to the carriage, which was waiting for them, and the party came across at the same time and got Into the carriage.” “Sir Philip's own carriage, I suppose?” I saic Pirvgin “Yes, sure. While the luggage was being loaded the party were getting into the car- riage, bul it was rather a tight squeeze, and pne of the boys had to ride with the coachman. I lifted him on the seat myself end told’ the coachman there wasn’t room for hira inside, and I told Sir Philip what I , and he said, ‘All right,’ and then way. you are absolutely certain that only and the d that there was no boy left es, sure. stioned the porter, who cor- the station master’s story cular. He was quite certain oy I was seeking had not alighted yn, An wp) passenger train for Chester was now almost due, and I decided to go as far as might be necessary by it, and make in- qviries on the w: I did not expect, how- ever, to be able to obtain information bear- ing on the ease untit-I reached Connah’s Quay, as the train by which the boy trav- eled had certainly not called anywhere be- tween Mostyn and Connah’s Quay. The guard's journal which I had examined af- forded absolute proof of that. Of course, there was just the possibility that the boy might have fallen from the train, but I did not consider that at all likely, as he would have had to tamper with the door and un- fasten it on the outside before such a thing could have happened, and surely the other passengers in the compartment would have prevented him from doing anything of the kind; and even if such a mfshap had taken place, the other passengers would have been certain to have reported the occurrence at Connah’s Quay when the train arrived there, which, clearly, from Mrs. Fairholme’s statement, they had not done. I was not surprised. therefore, to find on inquiry that the statlon masters at Holy- well, Bagillt and Flint had neither seen nor heard anything of the boy. The station master at Connah's Quay, in reply to my hurried inquiries while the train stood at the station, confirmed in substance all that Mrs. Fairholme had told me as to what happened there on the arrival of the train. ‘The boy had certainly not alighted there, neither had any of the three other passen- gers who left Rhyl in the same compart- ment. He was now strongly of opinion that the boy was in the train while it stood at his station, but that he was prevented from ng by the other passengers in the I went on by the same train, and on ar- rival at Queensferry found that the station “Have you found Little Frank, Mr. Barnes?” master had been called away for an hour on urgent business, and I, therefore, went on to Sandyeroft and alighted there. I was rather glad to be able to get to that station vithout delay, because the tickets of the 4 express were always collected there, it being the nearest station to Chester, and I thought it likely that the station master or porter might be able to say whether or not the buy or the other three passengers were in the train on its arrival there. The sta- tion master told me, on inquiry, that he had collected the Uckets in the front part of the train and that he was quite sure no persons of the description given were then in the train. Neither had the porter seen them. It seemed clear, therefore, that the passen- gers had alighted at Queensferry, and I proceed+d to walk back to that station, a distance of about a mile and a half. ‘The station master had returned by the time I got there, and I at once told him my errand. He had not seen anything of the boy, he said, but he distinctly remembered the other passengers alighting there. The man with a scar on his face he had seen © or twice Lefore, but the women were ‘angers to him. The man’s ticket was only to Flint, and he had to pay excess. He red in finding the money by a ich he carried on his back, and did not seem to want to put down the ground. I don't like suggesting such an I said, nd I hope it will turn out to be a wrong one, but do you think it pos- sible from the appearance of the sack that the boy was Inside it?” “That's a horrible thought,” was the re- ply, “because if the lad was there he was quiet enough, and you know what that rs of Sir Philip's own family | means.- But it's quite possible. I wohdered why the fellow was ee mighty anxigus to keep the saek in his own clutches.” “Of course,” 1 said, “he may not have done the boy any serious harm, perhaps only rendered him unconscious in some way, 80 as to get him out of the train and away from the station. Iexpect the watch Pune She box cartie® Das: been tps tenets ion.” I arranged with the station master that. he should make inquiries for the bey in the neighborhood, while I went on to Con- nah’s Quay to compare notes with the po- lice, and secur® their acth co-operation in following up the clue I had found. The inspector of police was in the office when I arrived, and I soon told him my story and made him acquainted with my suspicions in regard to the man with a scar across his cheek. The inspector heard me patiently till I had finished, making mean- while one or two notes, and then he said quietly: “And you badly want to get hold of that man, I suppose? But you'll have to whistle ‘for him. He's gone.” ‘Gone! What do you mean?” I asked, in some excitement. “Oh, he's cleared out, bag and baggage. We ought to catch him, though. We know the man very well. He’s an old acquaint- ance of ours known as ‘Dusky Joe.’ I’m only surprised at a man with a face like that taking to bad ways. He's too easily recognized. He lives at Flint, and ts the biggest rascal in the district. He's already served one or two terms for various of- fenses, but if we can only catch him this time I fancy he'll be settled for a good long spell. My men have been after him all the mornirg. They’ve found traces of his hay- ing called at home during the night, but for the present, at any rate, he’s got clear away.” “T'm awfully sorry for that,” I said; “but what has become of the boy, I should like to know. Have you met with any trace of him, either living or—or dead?” “No news at all of the boy till you came,” was the reply ind we want Dusky Joe for quite another matter. I may as well tell you all about it. During the night there’s been a bad poaching affray on the Hawarden estate. Three poachers and two keepers met in the wood, and there was & hot fight, and the keepers got the worst of it, and they’re both badly hurt. One of them isn’t likely to get over jt. From what the other keeper says, Dusky Joe was one of the pcachers, and what you tell me as to his traveling to Queensferry last night confirms it. That's why we've been after him. And if he’s done anything to the lad, all the more reason why we should catch him as soon as we can. We can’t do more than we are doing to get hold of him, but I'll send a man to Queensferry at once to make inquiries for the lad round there, and if I hear anything T'll let you know.” It cecurred to me that before leaving Con- nah’s Quay it might be an advantage to have a conversation with Mrs. Edwards, and I got the station master, who was well acquainted with her, to go with me to her house and introduce me. I found her to be a very intelligent woman, apparently about fifty-five years of age, rather tall, and with @ very pleasing face. An ideal nurse I thought she must have been. “Have you found little Frank, Mr. Barnes?” she asked, eagerly, as soon as introductions were over, and the station master had left us. “T am sorry to say that I have not,” I re- plied. “I am so sorry. I don’t know what his mother will do if any harm has befallen him. She was in a dreadfully agitated state when she arrived here last night. She simply lives for her children. Young as she is, she has had a great deal of trou- ble, Mr. Barnes, and I do hope she may not have the loss ef her boy added to what she has already gone through.” “Do you know whether her little girl is better?” I asked. “Yes; she wired me an hour or so ago to say that Nellle was much better, and that it was not a case of scarlet fever, after all. But do you mind telling me, Mr. Barnes, what you have done to trace the boy, and whether you have found any clue at all?” I told Mrs. Edwards briefly what inquiries I had made, and how everything nuw seem- ed to point to Dusky Joe being responsible for the boy’s disappearance. “Although at first,” I added, “I did not attach as much importance to the fact of the bey being placed in that compartment as Mrs. Fairholme seemed to do. I felt sure I should find him at Mostyn, and his not being there was a great disappoint- ment.to,ime. It si s quite certa how- ever, that nobody alighted-there except Sir Philip Sandford and his mi) “Sir Philip Sandford exclaimed Mrs. Edwards, springing to her feet as if she had been galvanized. “Mr. Barnes, are you sure of the name? “Quite sure,”’ I replied; “but——’ does he--does, Sir. Philip live near there? “He lives at Rhydowen Hall, about elght miles inland. I remember his removing there a2 year or more ago. He bought an te there, I haye.heard.”” ” “Does his son—Mr. Reginald—live with him still?” , 7 “Was he with the party?” “No; he has met with an accident. He stayed at home, and was out riding yeSterday when he got thrown from his horse.” “He is not dead, Mr. Barnes, or—or in- jured fatally 2” “The only information I received was that he was badly hurt..I am sorry that the news distresses you. I had no idea that you knew Sir Philip or his family. But this does not help us find the boy.. You can suggest nothing that will afford me a fur- ther clue, I suppose?” “No, nothing. But before you go let me tell you why the,mention of Sir Philip and his son upset me’so much just now. Under the circumstances. I am. sure. Mrs. Fair- holme would not mind my doing so, for I have an impression, that in some way which I cannot understand it will help toward the recovery of her little boy. (To be continued.) Se THE SUGAR HEARING, It Concludes With Mr. Semmes’ Argu- ment. The hearing before Controller Bowler on the constitutionallty of the sugar bounty law came to an end Saturday. Thomas J. Semmes of New Orleans, the only speaker, presented a carefully prepared legal argu- ment, contending that if a century's con struction of the Constitution by Congress is binding in the courts then the power to tax for bounty a particular industry is no longer an open question, and that this course of legislation with the acquiescence of the people is as old as the nation itself, and has been sanctioned by both direct and indirect bounties. Mr. Bowler, in replying to points made by Mr. Semmes, laid down the principle that the people benefited by a law should know whether it is valid, and said that an un- constitutional law was equal to no law at all. He contended Congress was the agent of the people only in a limited sense, and there was such a thing as assuming a priv- flege never given, and that Congress had repeatedly taken this step, notably in the enactment of the income tax law. Mr. Semmes held the controller had no jurisdiction to decide the claim. —____+©+___. Ineendiarism at Rockville. The entire population of Rockville, Md., was aroused last night by a cry of fire, which proved to be in the public school house. The new fire apparatus was soon on the ground and succeeded in extinguish- ing the flaines before the building was en- tirely destroyed. The house was badly damaged by fire and water. There were signs that there had been placed in front of the building a lot of shavings and kindling wood and the whole saturated with coal oil. The building has for some time | been in the hands-of Mr. Chas. Viett, the | contractor for building a new wing. Some | time after the fire it was discovered that the incendiaries had also made an unsuc- cessful attempt to set fire to a building in another part of town. College Duty. Lieut. Thomas R. Adams, fifth artillery, has been ordered to duty as military pro- fessor at St. John’s College, Fordham, N.Y., and Lieut. M. O. Hollis, fourth infantry, to similar duty at the Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical College, Auburn, Ala. The Star Out of Town, THE EVENING STAR will be sent by mail to any address in the United States or Canada for such period as may be desired at the rate of fifty cents per month. &> But all such orders must be ac- companied by the money, or the Paper cannot be sent, as no ao- counts are kept with mail subscrip- tions, THE EVENING STAR, MONDAY,.AUGUST 12, 1895-TEN PAGES. PLAYERS TO BLAME KILLING INTEREST IN THE GAM The Public Disgusted With Sense- less and Continued Kicking. NOTES OF OUTDOOR SPORT “Down with the umpire!” is still the cry. No matter how miserably a team has played, a howl is started against the um- pire, and he gets all the blame for the de- feat. A close decision against a team starts the Jaws of the kickers, the protest is taken up by the bleachers, and for the rest of the game, no matter how hard the umpire tries to be just, he is only hooted and howled at. The impartial base ball fans are begin- ning to see that the trouble about the um- ires does not He in the inefficiency of the officials, nor in the bad judgment of Uncle Nick, wko selects them, but in the con- tinued kicking of players, who try in this way to cover up their indifferent playing. The cry of “robbed” is taken up by the bleachers, the newspapers re-echo it, and Uncle Nick and his staff are criticised from Boston to Chicago. Emsiie and Keefe can still umpire a game without fear of being mobbed, but that is because they made their reputation before the umpire warfare was begun in earnest. If either one were to make his initial appearance on the diamond at this stage of the game it is doybtful if he could hold the umpire-drubbers in check. Umpires Given No Show. The truth is, nowadays, they won’t give the umpires a chance. Take the case of Hunt, who began his league caree# at Na- tional Park. When he stepped out to the home plate an old base ball enthusiast in the grand stand remarked, “There’s a good umpire. I know him, and have seen him umpire many times. He has good judgment and ts firm. e’ll do well if they only give him a show It wasn’t long before a decision excited the ire of the Senators. Captain Cart- Wright made his protest, and after he had finished Sceappy Joyce, who had no busi- ness to open his mouth, took up the quar- rel, for such it had become, and wrangled in a disgraceful manner. The bleachers tock their cue, and Hunt was howled at end laughed at for the rest of the game. Of ccurse, he was rattled. It was his first appearance. How could he do justice to himself lacking the confidence of both players and audience, and with Uncle Nick watching the game? It was a case of a gcoc umpire spoiled at the start. The same thing is done in other cities, ang now the umpire problem is the most difficult one to solve in the base ball world. Scmething will have to be done before ancther year opens, or the public will be- cecme disgusted and will lose interest in the rational game. When they go to see a ball game they don’t want to be treated to an imitation prize fight. How It is Done. The Senators are ccnceded to be a sec- ond-division ball team. They can play and do play scme very clever games of ball, but in the Icng run they are outclassed by half the teams of the league. Yet the cry of “robbed” has been made so often that nearly one-half of their defeats have been attributed to inefficient umpiring. What the Washington public wants is a Lall team that will go on the ground and fight the opposing team with bat and bail, and not the umpire with their tongues. The umpire has a very difficult position to fill. He is in the game all the time, and is the target for all the billingsgate that can be collected from both teams and a crowd of on-lookers that, to say the least, is net impartial. Uncle Nick’s Judgment. There is no question about it; the present umpire system is not working satisfac- torily. But, as has been said, the blame does not rest on the umpires nor on Presi- dent Young, but upon players and public and the newspapers. As fer President Young, no one for a mo- ment doubts his honesty and sincerity, and should not doubt his judgment. He has picked out many good umpires, but it would be impossible to select a good one now. The players and fans would not let him do justice to the game nor to himself. Of course every one knows what the kicking players expect to gain by their protests. They have no idea that the umpire will change the decision that was the direct cause of the rumpus; but they hope to make him feel that he has not acted justly toward their side and will even matters up by giving subsequent decisions. in their favor; and incidentally to awaken the sym- Pathy of the crowd and convey the impres- sion that they are being robbed. The im- partial observer sits quietly and thinks that if these kickers would only play ball as earnestly as they protest they would stand a good show of winning the game. After all, the managers are much at fault. If the players were given to understand that they would not be upheld in their course, and would have to pay their fines themselves, matters would soon improve. Isn't it abvut-time that the ball tossers, so-called, should attend to the business for which they are hired and give the umpire a little show? It's becoming disgraceful. DISGRACEFUL SCENES. Capt. Doyle of the New Yorks Abuses Umpire Hunt. Doyle of the New Yorks caused a dis- graceful scene at Baltimere Saturday. Keeler bunted to Rusie and reached first about the same time as the ball. Hunt called him safe. It was one of those plays which might be called either way, and neither way it was given could it be termed a bad decision. The Sun says Doyle and the New York team rushed at poor Hunt. The gentleman- ly manager of the visitors shoved the um- pire with both fists as he reached him, Then he grabbed his coat and whirled him around in a circle, and finally shook him un- til the official was blue in the face. Several other New Yorkers joined in the fun. Hunt says that Doyle accompanied his assault with a torrent of vile ‘anguage. The offense was serious enough for five or six of the visitors to have been put out of the game, and it was lucky for them that a more nervy man than Hunt was not the object of their tirade. Doyle was fined $75, but such punishment as this counts for little, when, according to President Freed- man’s own assertion, New York players do not pay their own fines. When the inning ended and the Baltimores had tallied their six runs, Doyle, who had not ceased to talk, remeved his big mitt and hurled it at Hunt, striking the umpire on the leg. If Emslie had been the target for his glove-throwing, “Gentleman Jack’’ would doubtless have landed out on Huntingdon avenue,but Hunt allowed him to play the game out and to continue by his conduct to insult the spec- tators. It did not make a particle of difference in the result of the game whether Keeler was called out or not. Such exhibitions of temper will continue so long as the newspapers encourage taem by such remarks as the following in the New York World: There are many enthu- jasts in this city, who will gladly contrib- ute to pay Doyle's $25 fine for throwing his mitt into Hunt's face. O. P. Caylor says in the Herald: Doyle's offense was no greater than was “Joe” Kelley's, on the day before, when he loud- ly threatened, in the hearing of the multi- tude, to break Hunt's face if he didn’t re- verse a decision—and Hunt promptly re- ‘versed it. It was not as grave as was Kennedy's, who last year struck Umpire Betts in the face at the plate. This New Yorker Disgusted. “Uncle Nick” Engel of New York and Sam Crane of the New York Advertiser sew Saturday’s game at Union Park. Crane was disgusted with the kicking methods of Dcyle and others of the New York team, and expressed himself that it was the most outrageous conduct he ever saw on the ball field. Mr. Temple's Pwn View. While the controversy has been going of about the Temple cug mp one has been able to get the view of the donor, W. C. Tem- -ple of Pittsburg, owing to the absence of himself and wife at &.symmer resort in re- mote New England. His father-in-law, Mr. James Wood, whefi*seen, said: ‘The Gonor’s views at present ara as they were when he made the“trophy a matter of league competition. None but the clubs that finish first or second in the league Face in any season wake contestants for it, and New York wil fave no right in the contest this year unless It finishes first or second. Mr. Temple ‘ts loath to br2ak into the controversy, but: it amazes him to think that any other construction could be put on the rules governing his gift.” Today’s Schedule. ‘Washington at Boston. New York at Baltimore. Philadelphia at Brooklys St. Louis at Cleveland. Pittsburg at Cincinnati. Chicago at Loulsville. Yesterday’s Lengue Gam At Cincinnati— Pitchers. R. H. E. Cincinnati. Dwyer-Parrott 7 81 St. Louis. ‘Kissinger-Ehret. 7108 -Griffith... -3 41 -Cunningham. - 1638 Saturday’s Lengue Seores. Boston, 13; Washington, 6. Baltimore, 8; New York, 5. Philadelphia, 6; Brooklyn, 2 Pittsburg, 4; Louisville, 1, Cincinnati, 3; St. Louis, 2, The Lengue Record. Clubs. W. L. P.C./ Clubs. Cleveland... 57 37 .606 Pittsburg-:: 54 36 (600, New Baltimore. 35. [58S Brooklyn. ton...... 49 36 1576 Washington. Cincinnati... 49 38 onis. 42 1558! Loulsville Base Bull Notes, The terms of Third Baseman Niles of Pittsburg have been accepted, and he has been ordered to report to the Washington manager at Brooklyn. Joyce may be played on first, Niles taking his place. Fortunately, owing to the poor work of Louisville and St. Louis, the conspiracy of the umpires to put the Washingtons into last place will not succeed. The Pittsburg club has decided to give $2,000 for Pitcher Hastings of the Kansas City team, provided his services can be secured at once. There will be a special meeting of the National League at New York Monday, August 19, when the base ball magnates will discuss various important questions that have come to the front this season. The um- pire question is foremost among them, and the Temple cup series,to be played after the League championship games, will be talked over. Lew Phelan, a St. Louis man, who was the partner of Dan Creedon, the Australian middle-weight mghier, in the saloon busi- ness, has succeeded Quinn as manager of the St. Louis team. Quinn resigned his Position in Cincinnati after a stormy session with Von der Ahe. He says he Is tired of managing a team of “‘skates” for such a thankless man as Von @er Ahe. Umpire Burnham ‘at Boston Saturday fined Scheibeck $100, Jayce and McGuire $50 each, and Boyd, Mercer’and Hassamer $25 each for senseless kitking. The New York club+itopposed to the pres- ent schedule arrangements by which the western visiting teams play on alternate days in New York and Brooklyn. President Freedman may make»xn effort to secure a return to the old plan; by which visiting clubs play three suevtasive games at the Polo grounds. However, it is most unusual for the league to make schedule changes during a season. y There is a movemént’ on foot to abolish the institution of ‘Ladies’ day,” to which several managers are dfipcsed. _A well-defined rum has it that Chris Von der Ahe will be #testioned concerning the report that he Intends to give up base ball to go into the rating business, a A GOOD AWaseaadt GAME. Chicago. praeiire) The Y. M. C. A. Nine Defeats the Col- leginan, One of the best amateur games of the season was played Saturday afternoon at Capitol Park between the Y. M. C. A.’s of the Independent League and the All-college team, and resulted in a victory for the fcrmer by a close score of 2 to 1. It was a pitchers’ battle between Cole- rman and Sanburn from beginning to end, in which Sanburn received the best ‘sup- pert, although the fornter struck out thir- teen men. The game started with the Christian boys at the bat, the first two striking out. Hodge got his base cn balls, stole second end third, and came home on a wild throw by Coleman. The next man struck out. In the second inning they got their last run the same way, Harris making the run. Both teams only made three hits, Harris, Hodge and Kellar for the Christians, while Demontville, Moran und Keane did the act for the All-college. The scores Y¥. M. C. A. 11090002 All-college . 00000101 ‘Three-base hits, Harris. Two-base hits, Mcran. Stolen bases, Hodge, Harris, Carr, Kellar (2), McGuire (2), Keane. Struck out: By Coleman, 13; by Sanburn, 9. Passed coke Carr (2). Umpire, Mr. Tate. Time, Forfeited the Game. The District Commissioners’ team marred its chance for a clean record of victories by forfeiting its game to the Washing- ton Light Infantry Saturday. Fitzgerald was put out of the game by Umpire O'Neill for abusive language end the D. ©. 0.’s re- fused to play without him. Mr. O'Neill then pulled his waten on the kickers and gave the game to the W. L. L’s. The Departmental League. iubs. . Ie . Ww. L. P.O, B.E. and P. 3 0 1000 Treasury. 1 1 .500 Ww. T.... e Oo 3 .000 D.C. e G. 0 8 .000 Disorder at Terre Haute. Decent people will soon forsake base ball if this sort of thing spreads: Yesterday at Terre Haute the 1,700 persons present at the game with Indianapolis were much chagrined and some were so aggravated that they attacked the umpire and a few of the Indianapolis players at the close of the tenth inning. The home people thought the umpire had made wrorg decisions twice at second base, in each of which runs were involved. About fifty persons gathered around the umpire at the end of the game and began threatening to attack him. A few cushions were thrown and the crowd increased and began venting its ire on the visiting players as well. x They, with the umpire, were escorted to their "bus by policemen and Terre Haute players, but the crowd, began throwing at the "bus and the missiles flew so fast that the players who had:taken seats on top of the ’bus climbed inside and those inside ducked their heads.ibelow the windows. One or two were hurt, but not seriously. A special to the iSentinel from Terre Haute, Ind., says: Phe Indianapolis base ball players were mobbed here today at the ecnclusion of the game. During the game there were many close points of play and several decisions of Umpire Sheridan were taken exception to by: the bleachers. After the game had been finished, and Indian- apolis had won, the crowd became frenzied. A rush was made, arid‘as a result three of the Indianapolis men were injured—Motz, Hogan and Fisher. @he latter’s ankle was sprained, and Motz and Hogan received bruises about the face and body, though their injuries are not serious. THE TENNIS CRACKS. They Will Come Together at Narra- gansett Pier This Week. The eastern doubles championships at Narragansett Pier will be the event of the week in tennis, no tournament of any pre- tentions attempting to compete with it. Play will probably not begin until tomor- row, on account of the delay in finishing the Norwood Park contest, as Wrenn and Larned cannot possibly reach the Pier be- fore then. The winners in the doubles will have to undergo a further trial before tackling Champions Hobart and Hovey. The dou- bles are pleyed in two sections, the west- ern players competing at Chicago in July, and the eastern cracks playing at Narra- gansett in August. The winners of the sectional contest meet at Narragansett Pier and the winners of the east and west match will play at Ne against the ebempions for the national championship. The favorites for the tournament seem to be Wrenn and Chace and Foote and How- land, the teams which played together in the finals last year, when Foote and How- land won the sensational five-set_match— only to lose to the Neels the next day. The sirgle tennis championship of the United States will be held at Newport on Tuesday, August 20, and following days. Play will begin each day at 10:30 In the morning. The winner of the tournament will be called on to play R. D. Wrenn for the championship. Dr, James Dwight will be referee. All championship matches will be the best three in five advantage sets. Wrenn downed Stevens, in two well- played sets @t Norwood Park Saturday. The match was to decide the drawn battle of Wednesday, and, by mutual agreement, the short game was played. This was prob- ably fortunate for Wrenn, for Stevens just revels in t, and plays better as the games go on. Though the score looks one- sided, the victory was rot an easy one. Wrenn had 5—0 in the second set, but Stevens crowded up steadily, and would have reached 5—4 had he not elected to lob @ shot that he could easily have driven out of Wrenn’s reach. The champion’s exer- tions were telling on him, and he heaved a big sigh of relief when the last point was wor. Li ied set too hot a pace for Chace. Both men played for all that was in them for two sets, but, though Chace was usually in the lead, Larned managed both times to make the score 5—5, and scored the neces- sary brace of games each time. Then Chace decided that it was too hot to try to take three straight sets from the bril- liant Jerseyman, and he practically threw the third set. The standing of the players: TALK OF SPORTING CIRCLES. Corbett-Fitzsimmons Philadelphia. The impromptu meeting between Cham- pion James J. Corbett and Bob Fitzsim- mons at Green’s Hotel, in Philadelphia, early yesterdxy morning is the sensation of the kour, and sporting circles are agitated as they never were befcre. Scarcely any- thing else is talked about where sporting men are in the habit of congregating. Corbett was seen at the Broad street sta- tion just before he took the train at 6:20 o'clock last evening for Scranton, with his brother, Joe Corbett, and his sparring partner, Jack McVey. The champion was inclined to make Nght of the affair, and freely gave his version of it. “When I came to this city,” he said, “I heard that Fitz had been shooting off his mouth about me, and saying that I had sreaked out of the proposed bicycle race at Manhattan Beach, as I had sneaked out of everything else with which I had been connected. After coming from Wilmington last night I saw Fitzsimmons standing at the hctel desk about to register his ee a “You The Row in don’t know the way to write. ter let my brother write your name for you.’ I then said in a stinging manner: ‘I See ycu have been shooting off your mouth about me. and what you are going to do to me.’ He denied that he had, but I in- sisted that it was true, and went on to tell him: ‘You stand around this hotel, swell your chest and talk about me. Why don’t you tell me to my face the things you have been saying about me. You're a cur, and your record shows you to be one. I'll spit in your face,’ and I made good my word. I spat in his fac He did not resent it, but merely wiped his face with the back of his hand, and sald ‘What did you do that “Then I said: ‘What is all this talk about you pulling my nose? Why don’t you do it now, ard not talk about it when I am away. I'll show you how you'll puli my nose,” and then I flicked him twice with iy finger on the end of the nose, and took hold of his nose and twisted it. Thinking he might attempt to hit me, I took hold of the back of his head and pulled him toward me. With that, friends separated us, and took me to the other end 0. the room, while my brether Joe grabbed Fitzsimmons. That is all I know of the row, as I was down at the other end of the recom when rest of it occurred. Joe Corbett and McVey corroboraied the champion’s account of the row in every Getail, Joe also said that after Fitzsim- mons had gotten out of his grasp he threw ter at his (Joe's prevented the mi PILLSBUR Saturday’s Games in the Hastings Tournament. The fifth round of the international ch tournament was played Saturday at Hast- ings, England, the results being as follows: Pillsbury beat Alvin in a Ruy Lopez, after thirty-nine mov Tinsley beat arco in a petroff, after twenty-five ‘moves. Lasker beat Bird in an irregular game, after thirty-five moves. Pollock and Teichmann and Biackburne and Schlechter drew, after thirty-two and twenty moves, respectively. Burn beat Janowski in a queen's gambit declined, after sixty-four moves. Bardeieben beat Vergani in a P-Q4 open- ing, after thirty-three moves. Tscnigorin beat Tarrasch in a P-Q4 open- ing, after thirty-six moves. Steinitz beat Ganzberg in an Evans gam- bit, after forty-two moves. Walbrodt and Mason drew a French de- fense, after sixty-six moves, Mieses and Schiffers drew-a Vienna game, after fifty-five moves. Wheeled From Newburyport. Mr. J. H. Baker, an enthusiastic cyclist of Newburyport, Mass., reached this city last evening, covering the distance from his home on a wheel in seven days. He passed through Boston, Providence, Rridge- port, New York city, Trenton, Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore, and reports that many of the roads were in horrible condition. The National Croquet Tournament. The grounds of the Norwich, Conn., Cro- quet Club have been carefully graded and in every way prepared for the fourteenth annnal tournament of the National Croquet Association, which opens on August 19. There is every reason to believe that the forthcoming tournament will be sharply contested, since such cracks as Champion George C. Strong of New London, Prof. Chas. Jacobus of Springfield, Mass., the Rey. Phillip Germond of New York, Earl C. Butler of Middletown, Conn., and F. M. Bryant of Florence, Mass., will take part in them. Mr. Strong has been the “ground-billiard” champion twice in the past five years, and is considered a sure winner this year, while Prof. Jacobus has been champion once and runner-up haif a dozea times. Germond has taken all but first rank time and again during the past nineteen years, having lost the championship last year in the tie-off game with Strong. Experts have already begun practice on the National Grounds, and soon the mallet wielders of Middletown will join them. Valkyrie’s Spars Arrive. The Anchor line steamship Furnessia ar- rived at New York yesterday afternoon from Glasgow, bringing as a portion of her cargo the racing rpars and sails of Val- kyrie III., which is now on her way across the ocean under ketch rig to contest with the Defender for the America’s cup. What her racing rig is like is as yet a matter of conjecture on this side of the water, for the officers of the Furnessia claimed to know absolutely nothing about it further than that the long sticks and costly can- vas were a part of the vessel's freight. The Yampa’s Fine Performance. During the last week yachtsmen have been pleased to find that in the interna- tional cortests at Cowes America has made a good showing. The interest has been chiefly centered in the schooner races and the victory of the American yacht, the Yampa, has done much to show the cor- rectness of predictions concerning the su- periority of the United States -chooner yachts. She is not the fastest American schooner and yet she has beaten the apparently fastest English schooner, the Amphitrite, by over fourteen minutes and the Cetonia by over twenty-three minutes, exclusive of time allowance. This is a splendid showing for American schooner-yachts, and it has been much re- gretted that Mr. Palmer was not enabled to bring back with him the prize which would have served to remind him of this race at Cowes. The sailing committee had, however, no option in the matter when a protest. was made against the Yampa car- rying a larger number of men than the governing rules allow. MUST HAVE POOLS. = What the Trotting Meeting at Buffalo Has Demonstrated. BUFFALO, N. ¥., August 12.—The Buffalo grand circuit meeting has progressed just far enough, according to racing authori- ties, to convince those most interested in it financially that Ught harness racing with- out pools cannot be carried on successfully in this state. The present meeting, which is now half over, has afforded sport to those interested in pure racing far better than any afforded in past years. In this way the meeting has been a success. The gate receipts and other sources of in- come have fallen far short of any previous year, and in this regard the meeting has so far been a failure. Barring the interest in the big match race between Robert J. and Joe Patchen, each day has seen a falling off in the attendance, poten the sport has been of a superior ind. Ningara Again Racing. SOUTHAMPTON, August 12.—Luna, Aud- rey, Niagara, Inyoni and Veneta started this morning, close together, in the race for Lord Dunraven's challenge cup, under the auspices of thes Castle Yacht Club. The course. was from Calshot Castle, twenty-five miles long. A strong south- west wind was blowing, compelling the yachts to race with raced mainsails. The Future of Racing. From the New York World. After five months’ test the Gray law can be pronounced “n urqualified success. It has revolutionized torse racing, eliminated some of its most objectionable features and given to the sport a new dignity and de- eeney. The conditicns'of the races to be run this autumn mark the beginning of a new era on the turf. For the first time in tw 2 years there will be a cup race, all the events are at longer distances, and there is_a wholesome absence of short dashes. The meaning of this is that the Gray bill by abolishing the beckmaker and his $100 a day has made the track “managers turn for their revenue rrom the betting-ring to the grand stand. Under the old dispensation the attend- ance was an incident. Two hundred men in the ring were more valuable thar. 10,000 in the grand staid and were easier to get. The ring demanded short races and two- yeer-old races, because these always fur- nished big fields and uncertain cortests. Every demand the bookmakers made was joyously acceded to by the associations, which were earning fabulous profits on watered stock. Horses two years old and sprinters became of the greatest value, and breeders found thai stamina was no ‘onger in d2mand. It was none tvo soon that an end came to the reign of the gambler. ‘The Jockey Club has secured control of cne great racing property, Morris Park, and it is not “mprobable that this ts only the begianing, and that a circuit of splen- aid courses will be established where will be fought out the turf battles of the future. With the noble old sport in the hands of m-en who love horses better than they love dollars the future of honorable racing never before looked so bright. Sporting Notes. About 2,000 people attended the profes- sional and amateur races of the National Cycle and Athletic Club, at Manhattan Beach, Saturday. The half-mile scratch, professional final, was won by H. C. Tyler, Porter second and Sanger third. The mile handicap (professional), which had twenty- two starters, was won by W. Coleman, Springfield, Mass.: (twenty-five yards.) Tyler won the two-mile scratch in 3, Leating the American competition record of J. S. Johnson. Peter Jackson, now In London, said last Saturday: “I do not like to express an cpinion about the Corbett-Fitzsimmons fight, but my sympathies are not with Cor- Lett. the He has not treated me fairly in chance to meet him.” 0, Winning the final of the one-third open and “the $100 diamond. He took heat in the record time of .41 2-5 Jonn Lawson, ‘the terrible Swede,” fpll in ttempt in the hour record and broke his collarbone, at Chicago, Saturday, and Harry Palmer, and su The twenty-ratin twenty-elght-mile race at Po England, Saturday, for the Yachtsman’s . The Inyoni won, with the Audrey second and the Niagara third. The Vineta and the Isolde gave up and the Eucharis did not start. eS A COMMERCIAL TREATY. ~ yachts Chira to Place Japan Among the Moxt Favored Nations. ‘The new Japanese minister, at Pekin has begun the negotiation of a treaty of com- merce and navigation with China, and everything {s apparently moving smoothly. This new treaty follows the treaty of peace made at Shimonaseki, which briefly re- cited that when peace-was fully restored a new commercial treaty would be formed. It is an important document, as it gives in detail the terms on which China is to be cpened to commerce, whereas the peace treaty recited only the general fact. The negotiations have proceeded far erough to show that Japan will have the favored nation clause as to commerce. This will be the first time China has granted this clause to Japan. It assures to Japan the lowest rate of duty on arti- cles sent to China that the latter country exacts from any other country. Japan is thus placed on equal terms, for the first time, with Great Britain, the United States and other great powers. Another featufe of the’ new treaty is the establishment of Japanese consular courts in China for the trial of Japanese. This is to insure the Japanese against the crude judicial system and harsh punish- ments of China, and is similar to the con- svlar courts that other leading nations maintain in China. But as Japan has raised her judicial system to a high plane, abolishing all relics of brutal punishments, there is found to be no need of foreign courts in Japan. Great Britain and the United States have agreed to abolish their consular courts in Japan, and following this new order of things Japan will not let Chinese consular courts be established there, although they insist that Japan should have the same protection as other powers against the crude methods of jus- tice in China. ~ ——————+-e+—____ A New Counterfeit. A fine counterfeit $2 silver certificate has made its appearance in this city, and it is feared the country is being flooded with similar notes. It is a Windom certificate of 1£91 series, and is almcst perfect. The treasury seal, however, is out of position one-eighth of an inch. Quite a number of these bills have been picked up in Wash- ington the past few days. es Transfers of Real Estate. Deeds in fee have been filed as follows: Albert A. Brooke et ux. to Stephen T. Fox, lot 35, sq. 623; $1,000. Chas. H. Davidson to Louis Dorr, part lot 3, blk. 21, =ffing- bam place; $2,000. George H. Arvin to Samuel B. Beyer, part original lot 12, sq. 438; $2,500. George W. Lewis to Henry G. Lewis, lots 89, 90, 91, blk. 2, Trinidad; $10. Thos. Potee et ux. to Mary A. Perry, lot 87, sq. 911; $10. Edwina P. Chamberlia to John S. Rich, lot 9, blk. 43, Holmead es- tate; $10. Lucy V. Dugan to Allen 8. Joun- son, lot 2, blk. 17, Mt. Pleasant and Pleas- ant Plains; $10. David B. Gottwals to Madeleine A. Garnier, lots 179 and 180, sq. 15 Madeleine A. Garnier to Sara M. Garnier, lot 179, sq. $10. Amasa C. Paul et ux. to Sarah W. Paul, undivided half interest in lots 13 and 14, blk. 3, Whitney Close; $2,000. Thos. W. Fowler, executor, to Henry Murray, part lot A, sq. 444; $9,576. Louis J. Smith et al. to Albert L. Richardson, ls 5 ané 6, Chichester; $10. F. J. Shadd et ux. to George F. Pyles, part lot 22, section 1, Barry Farm; $050. United Security, Loan, Insurance and Trust Company to Marie E. Patterson, part original lot 20, sq. 79, $8,200. Thos. B. Wag- gaman and John W. Pilling, trustees, to John L. Waggaman, lots 10 and 12, ‘sq 107, Georgetow: 32. A big revenue raid has been made near Winston, N. C., and four moonshiners were arrested after a struggle. Ex-Secretary William C. Whitney says that he is not a candidate for the presi- dency. A dispatch from China says that the cruiser Detroit has sailed from Shanghai for Foo Chow to protect Americans in China. THE SPELL OF GOLF A Game Which Makes You an En thusiast. Revolutionizing the Habits of Inert Society — Other _ " Benefits, Mary Abbot in Chicago Times-Herald, That the game of golf has “driven” and “lofted” and “putted” ‘its winding way in- to the inmost hearts of its votaries it is absurd to deny. Wherever golf is played nothing else is thought of, talked about or allowed to interfere with the fervid follow- ing cf that sport. Tennis at its hottest height, base ball when it was strictly fashionable, were tame and lifeless in in- terest, if more demenstrative in action, than the craze for golf: And even the ar- dent bicycler has lucid moments when it is possible to devote a few stray enerzies to something besides the eternal wheel. But golf, when it gets you, grips hard and will not Iet go.” To begin with, it is one of those things which do not commit you to anything definitely damaging, at the start. That is how you get led into it. You can get your eye put out at golf, if you stand too near the player, to be sure; but 80 you can be run over at a street corner, through care- lessness. Learning the Game. You can, with common clothes on und a borrowed club or two, try your hand at & drive; and as golf is noted for the luck with which it satanically crowns its be- ginners, as a lure, it is safe to wager that you make up your mind, after one round, to learn the game. Then, after you have had your boot-soles stuffed: with hobnails and taken a lesson, you are ashamed to go back; you pass through’ a season of dire discouragement, times when you are disposed to revile the “foolish sport;” then a new impetus is born, fresh encourage- ment cones, and b2hold you are the proud possessor of a “score,” with which you do rot hesitate to regale such of your family and such of your friends as are not regal- ing you with theirs at the same time; und you are a full-fledged, absorbed, eager and --to non-players—tedious golfer. ‘The ctiquette of the game is rather sti- fling, especially at a match. Spectators are allowed, as a concession, to follow the players; but they are not supposed to speak a word for fear of disconcerting them. To see a stalwart -nan in deep thought, with a bal about big as a china alley perched on an ant-hill before him, while a breathless crowd stands, mute as mourners, at a respectful distance, is, if you have not a proper reverence for the game, slightly amusing. Described to Death. Gulf nas deen described to Ceath; the history of the game has beer written and rewritten; books have been issued, articles published, the jokes atout it have been passed along; ut one stege or another you hear that some Englishman described golf as a “game in which little balls were sent into little holes with implements as ill- suited as possible to the purpose;” and that a cockney, in describing it, said: “You sets a little ball on a little ‘ill; you ‘its it to ‘ell, and then you goes after it;* you hear learned discussions on the trlative merits of “brassis and “cleeke” for cer- tain subtleties of situation, but nobody who has not been oyer. the.course with the players or played himself and caught the spirit of the game—seen for himself that cool judgment, steady nerve and keen eye are required,in addition to knack andforce— knows the first thing obout it. As a culti- vator of patience, kindliness (at least out- werd show of these virtues), in face of irritating circumstances unforeseen, it has no ecual; it is healthful, inspiring and as far from tame as any game can be, 2l- though as the interest is-not eoncentrated and does not come with a rush, it is some- times thought to be too long drawn out. Skill Tells. Now, although accident, incident, ner- vousness or fitke may upset the finest ,cal- culations or ‘2f>at the dearest hopes cen- tered in a champion, it is astonishing how, in a game of such apparently diffused ener- gies, skill teils in the long run, and the good players aré absolutely weeded out from the bad. With the varieties of hum- mecks. holes, fences, pends, trees, uphill, downaill and all ofher~feographital di posings of plans, grades of players _resoive themselves almost without deviation. Luck enters in, consilermg the possibilities, less than one might suppose, and two men ac- custormed to playing on the same ground tegether, starting equal, will tle each other nearly every time. Golf is a game that will never become popular, in the big sense, on account of the space required, the paraphernalia -and the time. It will never be vulgarized on ac- count of the impossibility of enlisting the sympathies of a crowd. But it is revolu- tionizing the habits of inert so¢iety and making out-of-door exercise, and lots of it, a@ necessity for many who have hardly kncewn what it was to walk five miles: or spend three hours in the sun. Mayor Adolph Sutrow’s Offer. Adolph Sutrow, mayor of San Francisco, has offered the State University regents thirteen acres of land within the city limits, on which to erect buildings for the affillated colleges of the university. In addition to this he will deed to the trustee of the city thirteen acres adjoining, as a site for the Sutrow Hbrary of over 200,000 volumes. The library and property are to be held in trust for the city, and the library will be free to all, irrespective of race or color. The gift, which has not yet been accepted, is valued at $1,500,000, and will be worth $2,000,000 when the contemplated improve- ments are made. Mayor Sutrow is said to own one-tenth of the hotel real estate in San Francisco city and county. Most of it, however, is unimproved. © - Furicus Storm at Baltimore. A furious storm burst upon Baltimore and its vicinity yesterday afternoon. Great damage was done, including the destruction of a large factory, and the blowing down of roofs, chimneys, awnings, trees and other property. Boats were upset In the river and many persons were barely saved from drowning. 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