Evening Star Newspaper, October 12, 1895, Page 13

“THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1895-TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. 18 ———_ = ‘The weather tomorrow Is likely to be fair and cooler. FRANK LIBBEY & CO. Established = = = = The Oldest Lumber Firm in Washington. Building? Repairing’? Are You Are You Then you should by ae ee . * % * ee ee ee eH a a * # HERE RH HH eH cause they BUY FRO than any other lumber at the cffice if you v * * * * x % * 1824. all means call at our office or write * * us for a responsible carpenter or builder to do the work for * you. As we are the oldest firm in the District (seventy-one * years) and have had long experience in business, naturally the “CREAM” of the builders’ trade comes to our yard. As you know, we are very particular and only deal with the best and most responsible builders, who stand at the HEAD OF THEIR PROFESSION, and who will give you no trouble by lien law or any other way. 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Ave. > rigor- of New us and save mrnyy Woolens to select from. ps an X Hastett & Pistel, 1345 Pa. Ave.N. W. @ll-204 Up-te Tailoring Ehop. Tottering. ‘Your Psyche knot looks pretty wobbly, Ethel! I supyese it is because it is your first?" Tre debutante (consulting mirror)—“So it does! In fact, quite Buddensiecky.” TALK WITH CORBETT Frank Carpenter Visited the Pugilist in His Training Quarters. WHAT HE EATS AND HOW HE LIVES He Will Never Fight Again After He Meets Fitzsimmons. MONEY HE HAS MADE (Copyrighted, 1895, by Frank G. Carpenter.) TOOK A RUN down to Asbury Park recently to have an interview with James J. Corbett. I have never seen a prize fight, nor have I ever talked with a prize fighter before. 1 don’t know that I have even shaken a“‘hand that Sullivan shook.” I know nothing about the rules of the ring, and I have never put up any money on a boxing match. I represent in this a large number of people of the United States, and I want to describe for them just how this man looks to an outsider. At least a million or so of dollars may be won or lost upon him during the next few weeks, and at least fifty millions out of’ the sev- enty-five million people in the United States will be talking atcut him. I have been with him for a day. I have seen him dressed and undressed. I have watched him as he went through his training, and have had a chance to study every steel spring of the five feet ten inches of muscle, bone and sinew of which his frame is made. I have seen him haul one of his trainers, the burly McVey, who weighs 200 pounds, over the floor in a wrestling match, and have waiched a regular fight between him and Steve O’Dennell,who, it is proposed, is to form a second part of the great fight. I have chatted with him while he rested, and have had a glimpse of his soul as I talked with him in his cottage late in the evening, when his hard day's work was done, and he was for the time at peace with himself and the world. I have, ir short, had a good chance to study him, and I find hima decidedly interesting charac- ter. I first talked to him about his training, and asked him !f he did not find it hard work. He replied: “Few people have any idea what such training means. It is no fun, I can tell you. You have to keep it up for weeks, and I will train steadily from now on until the Nght, working every day and watching every point to put and keep mysclf in per- fect condition. It is especially hard at the start. Just now my feet and hands are covered with blisters. The flesh of my palms is raw and sore, but I have to go on. I know it will pass away, and my hands will get hard, but I get sick and tired of it. I don’t like it, and I want to stop.” The Life of a Slave. “It is the life of a slave,” he continued. “Think of it! I got up at 8 o'clock this morning and took a row for an hour on the lake before breakfast. After I was through with my meal, I walked a mile to Brady's cottage and went into training. You saw me there. I punched the bag for half an hour, and then rolled the weights of that wrist machine up and down for fifteen min- utes to strengthen my wrists. I worked like a horse at the pulley weights, and then scuffled for another hour with McVey. I den’t like to wrestle, and I hate to be pull- ed and hauled and strained day after day for the mere purpose of putting my mus- cles into shape. That handball whicn I did next wes not hard work, but it was in a sweat-box, and a half gallon of perspira- tion must have run out of me while I was jumping about, trying to oil my joints. And then my fight with Steve O'Donnell today. I call it a fight, for it was one. O'Donnell and I are rot going through mere sparring matches in our training. We fight every day, and fight to win. O'Donnell is getting to be a formidable antagonist. He has learned all my tricks, and I have more trouble with him every bout. He keeps me bright, and I will be in perfect condition by the time the fight comes off. In addition to the work you saw, I have to take long walks, and I work steadily up to 4 o'clock every day, and do not dare to stop for lunch. It is no picnic, I can tell you.” What Corbett Ents. peaking of lunch, Mr. Corbett, what do you eat at such times? “Oh, almost anything,” replied Corbett; “but I don’t dare to eat more than two meals a day. I have to exercise and fight on an empty stomach, and I will go into my fight with Fitzsimmons, in all probabili- ty, feeling very hungry. If a man has any food in hfs stomach and he gets a blow be- low the belt it knocks him out. I used to take three meals a day, but during training I confine myself to two. I have my break- fast about 8:30 and my dinner at g “What did you eat today?” I asked. “Well, let's see!” replied Corbett. “I had a chop, some oatmeal, toast and ripe fruit, with a cup of tea, for my breakfast. My dinner consisted of some well-done roast lamb, mashed potatoes and other vege- tables, and a little stewed fruit for dessert. I had to pess by the pastry and sweets. I have to be careful to eat things which agree with me, and it {s queer what things do agree with me. When I am in training, I have an entirely different appetite than that which I have at ordinary times. I have all sorts of odd tastes, and my system seems to demand certain foods. If I desire a thing I get it, for I know tnat nothing else will satisfy me. What I eat one day may be entirely different from what I want the next. I don’t know what it is, but I suprose it’s the training.” “How about drinking?” “I never drink very much at any time, you know. But it is with my armk as with my food. I take what I crave, and I sometimes drink considerable. I sweat pro- fusely, and the water goes through my pores like a sieve. I use only one kind of water from beginning to end. I am now vsing an imported German mineral water, and I have enough in stock to keep me sup- plied until after the fight. I do not like ice water. I am afraid of it. Sometimes I crave a glass of beer during training, and at others nothing but a bottle of cham- pagne will satisfy me. At such times I must have it, no matter what it costs.”’ The Valve of Training. “What is the effect of such training upon your constitution? Is it of permanent value? Does it last after you stop?” “Yes, when this fight is over I will be in perfect condition. Every muscle will be healthy. Every pere clean. My stomach and other machinery will be in the smooth- est working order. If I had no exercise whatever it would, I think, be five years I materially failed. Of course I can’t tell exactly how Icng it would last. I have never been out of training for more than a year before this.” “How about its value for building up weak bedies, Mr. Corbett? Take a look at me! I weigh ninety-five, pounds. Could you make a prize fighter of me?” A smile played for a moment around the ips of the athlete ap be looked. He re- plied: “I doubt about the prize fighter, but I could make you ‘strongér and healthier. Let any man take such! training as I am taking, and I will engagd that it will round him out and make hin ‘well if he has no organic disease. It will cure some diseases. It will drive away liver complaints and stomach troubles. It WM put his kidneys into good working order, and nervousness and sleeplessness will fly from him. I have a friend here with me from San Fran- cisco. One of his lungs was slightly af- fected. He was losing weight, and the doctors did not seem to be able to do any- thing for him. I have taken him in charge and he is growing better, and I will make 2 well man of him. Of course I do this on the ground of friendship, I would not do it for pay.” Corbett and Fitzsimmons. The conversation here turred to the pro- Posed fight, and I asked: “Mr. Corbett, 1 wonder how a man feels in a great fight like that you are pre- paring for, with a nation hanging on to his every blow, when he knows that a Yew minutes stand to make or lose him thousands. How is it? Are you not afraid?” “I can’t answer that question,” replied Mr. Gorbett. “I would not, of course, say trat I was ever afraid. It would not be w:se for me to answer that way, and if yo me I will say that I have never been afraid, But it is a serious situation, that of a great prize fight. A man can ‘never stell how he is going to come out until it is ended. He may know, or think he knows— he may feel that he can beat his opponent, but he cannot be certain until the fight is over. Now, I feel that I can whip Fitz- simmons. Fitzsimmons feels that he can beat me, and he, I doubt not, is just as cenfident as I am. I can only say if he can beat me he is welcome to it. I think he will have enough to do, and if h® suc- ce-ds ke will earn his money, I can tell you.” “What kind of a man is Fitzsimmons “I believe he is a better man than any I have yet fought. He is by all odds the best . present company excepted, in the United States today. He has a longer reach and more science than had Sulli- van, Kilrain or Mitchell and he is full of nerve. I don't believe in underrating your enemies, but I feel that I can beat him.” He Will Hold Himself in C “I should think, Mr. Corbett, It would take lots of nerve to go through a fight like this. One must get mad. Can you hold yourseif in check at such times?” “Yes, I think I can. You know they say I did not at the Mitchell fight. They said head. It was not true, but even , if the losing of my head will en- e to. knock out Fitzs'mmons as as I did Charley Mitchell, I will stied to lose it.” “But you are not afraid you will kill a man some time in such a fight?” “No,” replied Mr. Corbett. “Such a if you tried.” It Does Hart. “But you get battered and bruised,” said L oses are often broken and the flesh of a prize fighter’s face is sometimes re- duced to a jelly. Does not the physical pain stop you? Don’t it hurt?” “Yes, of course it does,” replied Corbett rather indignantky, his mind going back probably to blows he had received in the past t hurts at the time, and it lasts often a good while after the fight, but you never think of vain at such times. You have only one idea, and that is to beat you oppenent.” He Will Never Fight Again. “Who do you expect will next challenge you for the championship, Mr. Corbet said I; “if you beat Fitzsimmons, whom will you fight next?” “I will never fight again under any cir- cumstances,” was the emphatic reply. ““phis is my last fight. I don’t like it, and I wen't do it. It looks very easy as you sit here on the porch and talk about fight- ing. but real fighting Is no fun. You see how I have to train. Today my feet were so sore I covld hardly stand, but the train- ing had to zo on. Then, You have no idea of the abuse and the slander that are showered upon the man, who is called the champ‘on ef, the, world. J tell you I am tired of This prize fighting is no soft snap. It ts true thefe 18 money in it, but it is worth all it costs.” From the Bank to the Prize Ring. “How did you ccme to get into it? Where aid you get your first taste for boxing?” 2 always had it,” replied Corbett. ‘As a boy I was cock of the walk wher- ever I wel 1 boxed at school, and after I left and went into business I kept up my boxing. i belonged to a boxing club and gave lessons at the tine I was a bank clerk and it my boxing that got me out of the bank and made me strike out for m: if.” much were you getting as a bank sked. B was $1,200 a year when I replied Corbetr. “I started in at $25 a month and had risen to $100 a month. ut what is $100? It is hardly more than ercugh to buy a decent suit of clothes, to say nothitg of keeping a family on it. Still, $100 a month was pretty good for a bank clerk, and it seemed to me that I was des- tined to he a clerk ail my life if I staye it was this that made me break away an strike out for myself.” “But you could have done better after a while kad you remained with the bank, could you not?” I asked. ‘Have you never wished that you had done so, and let fight- ing alone?” No, never,” was Corbett’s reply. “If I Lad kept on at the bank, I would probably not be getting more than $1U0 a month to- day. There are lots of smarter men than I am worki for less than that in every city of the Union. You can buy acres of them ‘They wil! work on and on, growing less val uable as they grow older, and by and by they wili be dropped. Now, I don’t want to be mere! cog in the wheels of any man’s machine I believe most men can do bet- ter if they start out for themselves. One reeds only a little horse sense. There are mcre bright men working as clerks than as employers. What the others need is to break away and strike out. Money in Prize Fighting. “You have made a great deal of money since you left the bank, have you not?” “Yes, I have,” replied Corbett. “I made an amount equal to thirty years of my bank salary, or $37,000, out of the Suilivan fight. I made a good thing out of Mitchell, and I hope to do well out of Fitzsimmons. My stage work has paid me better than my fighting, though, of course, it has been based upon my record as a fighter. After this fight is over I expect to devote myself to the stage. 1 have always had ambitions to be an actor, and I believe I am a suc- cess as such. I have several new plays in view, which are being prepared for me.” “You are a different man from most fighters, Mr. Corbett. You seem to unde stand how to save and invest your money.” s the reply. “I have saved some and invested some. Some of my in- vestments promise well. If they turn out as I hope they will I will be a rich man in a short time. If not, I stand in to lose a great deal. But if I lose all I will still have Jim Corbett to fall back on, and he has never failed me yet.” FRANK G. CARPENTER. On the whole he prefers the bucking horse. (With apologies to Mr. Remington.) —Century. a ee See The Evening Star for the full time the mystery story, “‘When the War Was Over,” is running, including back nurabers, will be sent, postpaid, to out-of-town subscribers for 60 cents. Subscribe for an out-of-town friend. ON THE GRIDIRON] Plans for Foot Ball Here This Season. C.A.C. WILL HAVE A STROLG TEAM The Orients Are Expected to Line Up in Force. =e AMONG THE HIGH SCHOOLS —————o As a result of the new life and energy in- fused into the Columbia Athletic Club, and also on account of the improved financial condition of the club, it has been formally decided to place a foot ball eleven on the gridircn this season. A meeting was held Wednesday evening, at which a gratifying interest was shown in this branch of ath- letics by a number of members, there ‘be- ing present all of last year’s second team and some of the memters of the first. Thursday evening foot ball uniforms were donned, and the prospective candidates practiced falling on the ball, and also run- ning with it. The team which will result from these efforts will not, however, Le as strong or as beefy as the one which wore the winged arrow ‘ast Thanksgiving day; but, notwithstanding this fact, Washington will be treated to some fine exhibitions of foot ball, and, above all, will not be de- prived of her annual Thanksgiving day game. No arrangements have been made as yet toward fiading opponent for this latter game, nor, in fact, for any, for the reason that no manager has been appointed. The gentleman who will act in this capacity w.ll probably be Mr. Townley A. McKee, clerk of the club. Mr. McKee won an en- viable reputation from the way he handled the immense crowd last season, and there is, in fact, nobody belonging to the club better qualified to fill the position than he is, With the question of manager disposed of, the next position in order is that of captain of the eleven. As in the case of the manager. the captain will, no doubt, be the same as the one of 1St4—Capt. Lewis S. Wells, jr. In forming the team it was understood that no expenses were to be in- curred, such as hiring grounds for the sea- son and securing the services of a coach, and providing a training table, and with the exception of obtaining a few necessary incidentals this plan will be strictly ad- hered to. All the games, except possibly the big one, will be played on Columbia Field. The goal posts and the lines have already been marked out there. Make-Up of the Team. Just who will compose the team has nov been fully decided upon, but some positions are, however, about settled. Capt. Wells is expected to fill his old position as tackle. Stuart Johnson will be seen running with the pigskin in his old love—half back. Johnny Shields has definitely decided to ac- cept the offer of the Orange Athletic Club, and so full back will be vacant in a way. If, however, as good a substitute could be found for Al Leet, for instance, as the one who will fill Shields’ shoes, there would be very little trouble in completing the per- sonnel of the eleven. C. C. Clark, last year’s capta:n and full back of the second team and one of the best players in Wash- ington, is booked for full. Gapen is ex- pected to show up at center and possibly Belknap as a guard. The latter man broke a couple of ribs last year eariy ia the season and was thus prevented from playing, otherwise he would have been a likely candidate for guard at the Thanks- giving day game. Siuart Johnson has his eye on several good men for other places in the line, who are said to possess a good deal of weight, and with these and the whole scrub to choose from Capt. Wells should have no difficulty in securing plenty of available men. The probability is that a new face will be seen in Columbia foot bail in the person of Harris, captain of last year’s Maryland Agricultural College ag- wregation. Harris has had a good deal of experience at the game and is pretty cer- tain of getting a place. A strong factor in erganizing foot ball at the C. A. C. is the presence of the local. championship foot ball cup in the rooms of the club. It would have had to go by default this season al- most certainly had there been no team, and may possibly, anyhow, if a certain organi- zation now collecting material for an eleven succeeds in its present plans. Though the season has nearly reached active work, it is expected that the C. A. C. management will arrange to play several games in Washington with some of the big colieges. The Orient Team. The organization just referred to is the Orient Athletic Club of Capitol Hill. The Orients for the past year or two have been purely a social club, though there have been two or three feeble attempts in the athletic line, which never got any farther than the “attempt stage.” One reason why the Orients have not had a foot ball team of late to amount to anything is because there has been no good person to act as captain. Thomas A. Aiton, well known as the captain and quarter back of the champion Eastern High School team of 1802, is to be the man for the position. Mr. Aiton attended Princetcn last year, but is now a student at the Columbian Law School. In addition to being a thoroughly experienced player he has the valuable quality in a captain of being able to en- force strict discipline among his men. He is expected to play at quarter. Frank Geog- hegan, the tennis crack, and every bit as good as John Shields at the punt, will act as full back. In the game played between the Eastern and Central High Schools in isv2, in which the former won, Geoghegan performed a feat seldom seen, namely, arop-kicking the ball, with the result of two goals, from the field. Two other East- ern men of former years, Avis and B ingham, are also booked for the’ old places—Avis at half back and Buckingham at end. Brock is the other half, and has played on both Y. M. C. A. and C. A. C. teams. The Hiiton brothers are trying, one for center and the other for guard. Brown and Erkley are the men for the tackies. Bright for the other guard, while it is a toss up between Jean Gooding and Compton for the other end. Of course,none of the positions are definitely settled upon, but those at the helm think that the per- sonnel of the Orients will be about as just given. If carried out the cleven will aver- age between 1) and 165 pounds, and ac- cording to Full Back Geoghegan, “there is a strong likelihood of the O. A. C. challeng- ing the C. A. C.” Practice has so far been indulged in back of Lincoin Park, but it is the hope of the management to secure the old Capitol Park. High School Ten: The game és played in the High schools should possess more interest this year than last fcr the reason that the annual cham- pions} ip of the High schools is to be played this year, aftec an interval of one season, between the Centrals and the Easterns, they having the best teams, from present prospects, of the four schools. Last year the Easterns put up a scientific game, but they were tco light to cope successfully with the h ier elevens. This year the | case is different, and the Centrals and the Easterns are about equal in the matter of weight, with possibly the latter having a shade the advantage. For the Capitol Hill people, Miller is by all cdds their heaviest man. Miller has 210 pounds to his credit in active training and has his weight well distributed cver his bo He will prove at right guard a veritable rock for any man who tries to get through him. McKenzie, the other gtard, is up in the air to the extent of six feet two, but only has a hun- dred and sixty odd to his credit. Meigs, the | center, tips the seales at between a hundred and forty-five and fifty, but is wiry and ex- perienced. elly, the quarter, is also the captain, and played quarter lust year. Ps sons, half; Chapell, tackle; John Maupin, full, and Williams and Hurst, ends, have been playing foot ball ever since they at- tended the High School and know all the ins and outs of the game. Wright and Pierce are new men, the former to be placed at half and the latter at tackte. The Eastern team are-fortunate in haviag a coach not often obtained by a high school eleven. This gentleman is Mr. Emory C. Wilson, a membei_ of the faculty and a former player at Cornell University. Mr. Wilson has Fad the assistance during the past two weeks of a well-known student of the University of Pennsylvania and also of several members of the Orients. While the students, as given above, are likely to fill the places assigned to them, yet the coach has some thirty odd candidates to choose from, and may decide to make some changes. The opening game of the season fer the team will be. Saturday, October "9, when the Eastern High School are sched- uled to play Gallaudet College. Central High School. The team at the Central High School is just now in the uncertain state of organi- zation. Several of the last year team’s stars are back and will undoubtedly play. The average weight of this season’s team will be lighter by several pounds than that of last, though the general feeling is that just as good a lot of players will line up for the first game. Among the players in the freshman class is a big Californian who is expected to do great things. Several new men will be given a chance to show their capabilities before the positions are as- signed. Practice games are in order just at pres- ent, and these scrub games show a surplus of excellent material. Among the young men who are anxious for a position on the first team are Ketchum, Underwood, Oys- ter, Watson, Maxwell, Barnard, Kummcll, Deardoff and Moore. Phil Tindall, last year’s crack, will captain the team. He is at work on new plays and signals, and is confident of success. Mr. Eugene Bradley Wilkins has been appointed manager for the season, and is arranging with the man- agers of the other High School teams for a serles of games. These games are to be the athletic features of the year and are pur- posed to arouse school spirit in a friendly. yet competitive way. Mr. Wilkins has re- ceived letters from the Baltimore City Col- lege, Alexandria Episcopal Higi School and several local teams, asking for a game, but no outside dates will be filled until ‘all school games have been arranged. These will probably begin the latter part of this month. BELIEVES IN FOOT BALL. President Gilman of Johns Hopkins Discusses Athletics. President Gilman of Johns Hopkins Un!- versity addressed a large number of the foot ball enthusiasts of the university yester- day afternoon, speaking in favor of athlet- ics. He gave a graphic description of the y foot ball was played on the green at Yale in his freshman year—the freshman class at one end of the green, hatless and coatless; the sophormore at the other in similar guise, the ball in the middle. There was a wild rush, a hot, stragl'ng, swaying, kicking throng in a hot scrim- mage; no rules on e‘ther side, the only ob- Ject to get the ball into the adversaries’ ter- nos ve in young men exercising them- selves in healthy athletic games. To show you how much I believe in this, [ will tell you that I recently received a Jetter inviting me to accept the place of one of the vice presidents upon the occasion of the interna- tional athletic contests to be held at Athens, Greece, in the spring of 18%, and that 1 have accepted the honor. There is much that is fine in athle! Sports, and all that is manly and conducive io a strengthening of muscle, and sound 2nd healthy men should be encouraged. There are many ways this can be accomplished. Foot hail is one of the means, and hen played a@ cording to established ways and sanely, there 1s no reason why !t shou!d be discout- aged. “Of course, foot ball, as ev=*y may be abused. If played too roughl are apt to be hurt, and if too muc given to one’s college studies, will unfor- tunately suffer thereby. But everything that tends to the development of Sound, heaithy bodies is to be wele» n2 1; all Ameri- cans should be pround of + 1c1 a triumph as that of the Yale athie: enuy over the best athletes the Un y of Cam- bridge could pro happy to say that I can co »pevice fully with you in your desires io: ball and athletics. LOCAL FOOT BALL The Galla and Central School Teams to Play. The Gallaudet eleven will play their first fame this afternoon at Gallaudet College, corner of 7th and M streets northeast. Their opponents will be the strong team of the Central High School. Both elevens are stronger than last year, and both are con- fident of making a large score. A new gate has been made at the east end of the -wall on Florida avenue, and the crowd will be refused admittance at the gate on 7th and M streets. The line-up of the Gallaudet team will be as follows: Roth, right en Dudley, right tackle; Brooks, right guar Sinclair, outer; Rosson, left guard; Brock- hagen, left tackle; Nicholson or Haig, right erd; Capt. Hubbard, quarter back; Grimm or O'Connor, left half back; Price or Haig, right haif back; Erd, full back. High “HIGH SCHOOL FOOT BALL TEAMS. The Boys Getting Rendy for Some Lively Scrimmages. ‘The fost ball teams of the respective High Schools have been late in beginning practice this year, as only a few of the boys who played on the first team last year returned this year, and it has taken quite a while to recruit new men. Practice this week has been sharp. The men are rapidly getting into form and play- ing in regular positions. By the middle of next week it is expected that all of the teams will be decided upon, and the men assigned to their regular positions,and then the struggle for the championship of the High Schools will begin. On Wednesday the Potomacs, a very promising amateur eleven, lined up against the Centrals and defeated them by a score of 4 to 0 in a half an hour game. The team, as represented in this game, was E. W. Demar, center; Mr. Kimmell, left guard; Mr. Ketchum, right guard; B. Wason, right le; N. Underwood, left tackle; Charles mith, right end; M. C. Maxwell, left end; Guy Oyster, full back; Phil Tindall, right half F. W. Albert, left half’ back, and Wade L. Jolly, quarter back. This ar- rangement, with the probable substitutions of Wm. M. Shuster for Watson, who ts op- pesing Maxwell for left end, and Alfred G. Maddren for Demar, who is to take Ketch- um's place, is the most likely to be decided upon. ‘The average weight of the Central team is 154 pounds, the heaviest man being De- mar, 185 pounds, while the lightest is Joll: 140 pounds. A second practice game with the Potomacs was played Thursday, in which the latter again came out victorious with a score of 4 to 0. Prospects at the Eastern this year are much brighter than for several years past, as they pave better material and are pra‘ ticing under the guidance of Mr. Wilson, a member of the faculty, who has had much experience in foot bail and looks after the boys regularly. As yet no games have becn scheduled, but challenges have been received from the first and second Kendail Green (eams, from the M. A. C. team end the Central and Business schools, — ~ Of the dozen and a half boys who are practicing, those who have the best chances for position on the team are Meigs, center; Miller, Linger and McKen- zie for guards; Chappel for right and Snell for left tackle, with Wagner and Price as close seconds; Williams and S. Maupin for ends, with Shilling as a second choice; J. Maupin as full back, Parson left half back, with Hurst and Pierce having equal chances for the position of right half back, and Kelly, who is captain, as quarter back. S. Miller,’ who carries 195 avoirdupols, is the heaviest men, and Kelly, with a weight of 125 pounds, is the lightest. The mean weight of the team is 145 1-2 pounds, which is 8 1-2 pounds less than that of the Cen- tral. At the Business, as at the Eastern, most of the men are recruits, there being only a couple who played on the strong team of last year. Their practice does not show up as well as that of thelr brother school because of a lack of coaching, which will be looked after as soon as Chas. Lyman gets into the game. From present indications the beys most likely to get on the team are: Moore, cen- ter; Amiss and King, right and left guard Ferree and McKee, left and right ta Monroe and Councilman, left. and ends; Meins, quarter back; White, tull back; Goff, right half back, and Clark, left half back. After school next T da; a meeting will be held, at which a capta’ and manager will be chosen and the eleven positions filled by the most desirable men. Buckingham, Kelly and Sheperd will prob- ably be the substitutes. Good Pool Playing. Mr. Bernard Harding, the champion pool player of the District of Columbia, will meet Mr. Wm. Nash, champion of Tren- ton, N. J., in a contest of 600 points con- tinuous pool at the West End billiard par- lors, 125 32d street, Monday evening. THE LITTLE QUESTION One of the Wonders of the Yachting From the New York Sun. One of the most remarkable and interest- ing boats of tne present yachting season is the little fifteen-footer or half-rater Ques- tion, designed and built by L. H. Hunting- ton of New Rochelle. A very good repro- duction of her model and how this little box- like racer appears under sail accompanies this article, which conveys in measure some idea of this unique boat's lines. While every one laughed at the idea of this little marine coffin, for the Question, looks like an undertaker’s shop afloat, hold- ing her own with the cther boats in her class, she not oniy proved her ability to hold her own with them in a moderate bri but to wallop them out of their boots in a blow. Briefly speaking, the Question is a flat, box-shaped skimming dish of the sim- plest possible description, but built on cor- rect principles for speed. Her principal dimensions are as follows: Length over all, 24 feet; length on the load water line, 14.35 feet; beam, 5 feet; draught of hull, 3 inches; draught of skag aft, about 12 inches; draught with centerboard down, about 3 feet 9 inches. Her centerboard is made of 3-16-inch steel plate and weighs about 150 pound: The Question has been called all sorts of names, but more often a scow than any- thing else, but she is not a scow, by any The Question. means, as both her deck and bottom have & couple of inches crown—that is, she has a reverse sheer above and quite a rocker be- low. Her sides are almost parallel for three- quarters of her length, her stern being Square and the bow rather abruptly pointed. The Question is well constructed, having a three-quarter inch cedar skin, with oak frames one inch by one and a quarter spaced ten inches apart, and yachtsmen wiil be in- terested to know that she cost just about one-sixth the price of the other boats in her class. The Question has hardly a semblance of a cock pit, a 10 by 12 inch hatch being tha only opening in her deck, and her crew le perfectly flat at all times except when off the wind in a drift, when they squat about her deck as best they can. Her centerboard, a3 before stated, is of sheet steel. It is six feet long and can be raised right up through the deck. The Question, unlike the Spruce and Ethelwynn, with their lug and leg of mutton sails, has a gaff to her mainsail, and good judges think she would have done even better than she has with better fitting canvas. While the Question did very well from the time she was launched, it is hardly fair to compare her early work with the other boata in her class, as they were not ready till kate in the season. When the little racer got fairly in trim the Question won some not- able victories in strong winds; in fact, the harder it blew the faster she went. The Question, for instance, won the Huguenot Yacht Club's race in a stiff southeasterly wind, turning Old Hen Reef before the Ethelwynn, our little cup defender, rounded Gangway buoy. In the Horseshoe Harbor Club's regatta there was another stiff wind, and the Ques- tion was Icading the Ethelwynn over eight minutes when the latter capsized. In ad- dition to the above, the Question, in one of the international races between Spruce IV and Ethelwynn off Oyster bay, crossed the line over a minute astern and beat both the defender and challenger by over fifteen minutes over the course. The Question, while remarkably fast in @ breeze of wind, was beaten by the Ethel- wynn, Trilby and Olita In moderate or ight breezes whenever they met. In spite of this she is certainly one of the most remark- able boats of the season, and proves con- clusively that desgners have a good deal to learn yet before the perfect boat is evolved. —se-+—_. WON DERBY AND ST. LEGER. Sir Visto Won Them for Lord Rone= bery. From the New York Sun, a Ladas, the three-year-old winner of the derby and St. Leger in 1894, Wearing the primrose colors of the Earl of Rosebery, was a very taking big colt by Hampton out of Illuminata that looked just what he was —a race horse of the highest type. This year’s winner of the double event, also from the earl’s string, is Sir Visto, a son of tre Irish horse Barcaldine. He is nothing like the horse Ladas was to look at, and he would never be selected as a crack per- former out of a lot of horses in the pad- dock. The picture reproduced from Sporting Life shows the coit as he appeared almost immediately after his victory in the derby. He may have filled out somewhat since then, three-year-olds, as a general thing, ecming on very rapidly after July. - The success achieved by the Earl of Rose- tery in thus winning two such classic events two years in succession with horses of his own breeding has created quite a sensation among Engl'sh racing men. Gen- tlemen have tried for many years to win the derby, and have tried an extensive stud Sir Visto. to draw from. Along comes the earl with a comparatively small stud, brings the vet- eran Matthew Dawson out of retirement train Ladas, and, presto, the honors are ta his legs. Sir Visto comes the next year, just as naturally as though nobie lords had a sort of compact with fortune to give the produce of the'r stud more speed than the horses of a man without a coronet, But Rosebery has been what is cailed a lucky man, and the tale which many per- sons regard as a fable is told ofttimes his countrymen of his ambition expres while at Oxford. It was that he shoul marry an heiress, become premier of Eng- land and win the derby. He has more than accomplished the dearest wishes of hig heart, for besides wedding Miss Rothechig, he has been prime minister of England won the derby twice. Turf honors are fickle, however, at thr very best. The best strains of blood fail te nick at times, and years of patience and theorizing may not produce an animal fit to win a selling race. A worn-out old mare and a stallion not counted a success as @ race horse may produce a flyer of the high- est class. —-+0-+— Merely a Matter of Business. From the ago Post. “Glcrious sport!” cried the man by the readside as the scorchers went by. “I can’t see it!” returned the man whe was watering his horse. “That must be because you are prejue diced,” said the man who had first spol “It has everything in its favor. I e find it an excellent thing for business.” “I don’t,” replied the other sullenly. “From that I infer you are the proprig tor of a livery stable. “Iam. And you “Oh, I'm a surgeo!