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Best machinery, “expert” help, finest washing materials and prompt delivery explain why you should try The Yale. ther reasons will present themselves after you have tried us! : Until you become our’ cus- tomer you'll never know what best work means! Decide now to. drop :that postal. One of our wagons will call! THE YALE... : STEAM | LAUNDRY, F. H. Walker & €o., - « 514 oth St. & 1104 14th St. *Phone 10921104 14th St. It a we PARKER: BRIDGET & CO., Clothiers, 315 7th st. -philicant ANIC Is it not significant that we should have been awarded the contract for supplying the spring uniforms for all of the conductors and gripmen in the employ of the Capital Traction Company? There were lower prices than ours quoted, but the awarding committee did not want “truck.” Ours was selected because of the su- perior quality of the cloth and work- manship submitted for the price. Price should not be your first con- sideration, for some clothing is dear at any price. The same applies to Base Ball and Athletic Goods. Some dealers consider only “how cheap.” We consider only “how good.” Had you not better follow the ex- ample of the “experts” and let us sell you your Spring Suit? PARKER, BRIDGET & CO, It Clothiers, 315 7th St. DEACONS IN DISTRESS. They Faid $400 for $3,000 Worth of = Green Goods. Saturday night two colored men, well dressed, and whose appearance indicated that they were, perhaps, ministers of the gospel, called on Sergt. Perry at police headquarters to tell him of the misfor- tunes of a friend. Instead of being minis- ters, they were only deacons and Sunday school teachers, so they said, in an Oxford, Ala., church. John Kersey and Henry Green were the names they gave. It soon became apparent from their statements that they had been victimized by “green goods” men, and when Sergt. Perry as- serted his belief that such had been the case, they admitted that they had parted with $400, and had obtained therefor only $1 and some green paper. One of them had received a circular from the swindlers, who seem to thrive in New York city, and the fact that he could get $3,000 in counterfeit money for only $400 in genu'ne greertbacks led him to believe that he could enjoy a trip to the metropol:s and be able to retire from active life if he succeeded in getting the amount mentioned in paper which would be accepted as money. From Oxford, Ala., the deacons went to Atlanta, and their friends believed they were going off on a pleasure trip. From Atlanta they telegraphed John Comas at Bethlehem, Pa., that they would meet him. They did meet him, and the usual result followed. They went to New York with him, and were given a box in which was th. “boodle,” a roll of green paper with the dollar bill on the outside. “Don't open the box until you reach home,” they were told, but when they reached this city and stopped at the Phil- adelphia House, their desire to count ‘their wealth caused them to open the box. Then it was that they made the discovery. Later the swindled deacons left for their home to tell the contributors to the $400 fund how they had been swindled. ———__ SENT TO THE REFORM SCHOOL. Result of Mary Proctor’s Thieving Espedition Saturday Night. Mary Proctor ang™ Bertie Jenifer, col- ored girls, made the rounds of a number of stores Saturday might, and had succeeded in getting in a gogd supply of Easter goods before Precinct Detective Sutton and Po- liceman McDaniels arrested them. Mary Proctor, who is eighteen years old, said she came here Friday two weeks ago from Warrenton, Va., to go in service. She went to the house of Mrs. Jenifer, on L street, to beard, and Saturday night she got Ber- tie Jenifer, who is thirteen years old, to go out with her, and when they reached 7th street they went in a number of stores, and the loss of goods resulted. The stores they visited were those of Lansburgh Bros., Kann & Sons, King’s Palace and W. H. Stoll’s shoe store. This morning the prisoners were in Judge M‘ler’s court on a charge of theft, and it was apparent from their statements that the big girl did the stealing and had the younger one to assist her. Mary denied that she stole any of the ar- ticles, and claimed that she bought the shoes and a child’s cap. Their plan was to knock articles from the counters and then put them under their skirts. “If you've only been here two weeks and have done all this,” remarked the court, “I don’t know what you would do if you remained here two months.” “It's very enticing to a girl fresh from the cornfieJd,” remarked Lawyer Moss, “when she comes here and goes into such magniticent stores.” “Enticing, is it?” asked the court. “Then she should have remained in the cornfield.” Mary was sent to the reform school dur- ing minority, and Bertie was released un- der a suspension of sentence because of her age, and also for the reason that she had been led astray by the older girl. ——— Mrs. Lee Wants & Divorce. - Leaner M. Lee has filed a petition for divorce from Oliver B. Lee. The papers in the case were withheld from publication. OUT ON THE DIAMOND Five of the Senators Take Prac- tice. DEPARTMENTAL LEAGUE PROSPECTS Compass Whist at the Capital Bi. Club | 0 se. GENERAL SPORTING NOTES —— SS Preparation for the coming professional base ball season in Washington was offi- clally begun today. Mr. Earl Wagner will hereafter be in direct control of the players and conduct the management of affairs un- til the arrival of Manager Schmelz. The members of the team who are in the city are McGuire, Cartwright, Abbey, De Montreville and Mallarkey. The quintet were on the grounds this morning taking thelr first exercise, and expected io bundle up warmly and move about again this af- ternoon in spite of the snow. Catcher Jim McGuire, looking a p‘cture of health, was gazing wistfully at the snow through a window at his boarding place when a Star reporter called this afternoon. “Bad weather this for us,” said McGuire. “All the other clubs are down south play- ing regularly, and I tell you we'll have to hustle to reach the standard by the open- ing of the season—not very many weeks be- fore the first game, you know. We are fur- ther handicapped by the condition of the grounds; it will require every minute of the time bettween this and April 16 to pat them in anything like playing shape. A number of improvements, I understand, are to be made, principally the erection of new bleachers in place of those now standing and the placing of new supports beneath the left-field seats. The rest of the boys will show up in a day or two, and there will be no delay in’going ahead. When the um- pire calls ‘Play ball’ I think the team will start off for a far better record than that of last season.” Practice games are to be played beginning about April 4. Ted Sullivan's New Haven Tigers and a number of the college teams will meet the Senators. Mr. Earl Wagner,vice president and treas- urer of the club, was in the city today. Pitcher John Mallarkey, whose home is Springfield, Ohio, who spent the winter at Seranton, Pa., made his appearance at the ball park Saturday, in excellent condition and anxious to piay ball. It will not be necessary for him to do any training down, e is rather under weight. He says he loses weight in winter, but re- covers the necessary avoirdupois in the spring and summer. He has practiced con- siantly during the winter, and says he can put his most puzzling curves and deceptive drop balls over the plate every time. Mc- Guire and Cartwright predict a brilliant season for the young man. Mr. J. K. Sirasberger will have a rope stretched from his office, 407 7th street, to the building opposite, upon which will be suspended a large representaticn of a base ball, which will announce, in large let- ters, the games as they will occur at Na- tional Park. It will also announce “when games have been postponed on account of rain or wet grounds.” This will be a very convenient arrangements for the @own-town patrons. The question where the local league clubs will play wil be settled upon Earl Wag- ter's arrival. If National Park cannot be secured the tuams may play at the old Capitol Park grounds. The demand for the special complimen- tary season patses is far in excess of the eupply. President Young says that every mail brings requests from old friends, which he reluctantly is compelled to refuse, for the reason that only a few of them sre at his disposal, and they have been pre- empted. Among all of his old friends in Washington, whom he would have liked to compliment with a souvenir, he gave out enly five. RTMENTAL LEAGUE. Indications Point to a Most Success- ful Season. ‘The Departmental Base Ball League Is now well under headway for the approaching season, and from indications it will be the most successful season the league has seen. It will start in with stx clubs, comprising probably the majority of the finest amateur ball players in the District of Columbia. This year no experiments will be tried with weak clubs, and only those of a recognized standing and strength will find a place. ‘The clubs will be the Bureau of Engrav- ing and Printing, the Washington Light Infantry, the District Commissioners Office, the Treasury Department, a team from Fort Myer, and one other to be selected from the applications of the Pension Office, Canterbury Athletic Club, the Shamrock and City Post Office teams. The sixth club will be selected at the next meeting of the club, to be held tomorrow night. The Bu- reau of Engraving and Printing team was the winner of the championship last year, and no doubt is expressed as to its ability to play good ball. The Washington Light Infantry team is also remembered for its good work, and will be in the field with a stronger team. Frank Roach will look out for the busi- nes interests of the bureau, while Mr. S. P. House, the enthusiast on every athletic subject of the W. L. I. will act as the manager of the infantry boys. The Treasury Department team showed up well during the second series of the league last year. Dr. Glendie B. Young will look after the business end of the team. The District office team, winners of the championship two years ago, will be under the manage- ment of Mr. John Fisher. The Fort Myer team is looked upon as the dark horse of the season just as the Light Infantry oc- cupied that position last year. It is said that the soldier boys from the fort have made up an excellent team, and one which will have no difficulty in making way with the District lads. Peter Johnson, who is generally described as ‘the athletic- looking Swede,” will have charge of the club. Either the pension office or the Canter- bury Athletic Club would make an excel- lent sixth club, with the odds, perhaps, a little in favor of the boys from the red Larn, on account of their being a depart- mental organization. The pension boys had an excellent team last year, and their trouble with the league was to be regretted greatly. The team has been etrengthened this year and will, without doubt, give an excellent account of itself in every game in which it participates. The Canterburys are an energetic set of players, and would also make a good sixth club. This matter, however, will be left to the discretion and judgment of the board of management of the league at its next meeting. The new rule allowing clubs to go out- side of the league and secure extra players from District base ball experts will make the games all close and exciting, and put all of the teams on an equal footing. In this way a weak place on a team can soon be strengthened, and there should be no reason with this arrangement for a game with seventeen or eighteen errors to a side. There are any number of excellent players in the District who would be glad of a place on a team in the league, and no dif- ficulty should be experienced in finding ma- terial. Mr. Sousa, president of the league, is on a still hunt for umpires, and it is expected that all the places will be filled satisfac- torily when the season commences. A num- ber of applications have been received for the position of umpire, but they have not been acted upon. Mr. Sousa started a revival of interest. in local amaterr base ball when he organized the Departmental League two years ago, and since that time the amateur players of the city have risen considerably higher in the estimation of the minor leagues in this part of the country and elsewhere. - In speaking of his intended resignation, announced some time ago, Mr. Sousa said: “The league is composed of men who are bright, energetic and enthusiastic, and you may be sure that they will continue to gain ones in this city. I been induced o start a big athletic club composed of de- partment clubs only, and, as this will oc- cupy much of my time the coming season, T am obliged to resign my position as presi- Gent of the Departmental League, but will assist the boys in every way possible.” Mr, Sousa would say nothing of the plans of the new athletic club, but stated that ' ‘THE. EVENING. STAR, MONDAY, MARCH 23, 1896-TWELVE PAGES: “°|TWO-MINUTE HORSE the public would hear from it in substantial way before very long. FIRST LOCAL GAME. Columbian UniversttjONine Wins by The first game of in the Jocal amateur season was played Saturday after- noon at Capitol Park the Columbian University and Gallaudet ‘College nines, the former team. winning byi@ score of 15 to 6 by better team work and the good pitching of Cummings. The gréifids were not in very good ‘condition, and this fact is re- sponsible for several errors. The Colum- bian nine showed up vety well and will undoubtedly make its midrk in the coming season. Greene, Dalzell, ‘Mills, Beall and Cummings all did excellent work, while OConnor and Erd played well for Gallau- jet. z The outcome of the game was never in doubt from the start, although the Gal- laudet boys made a good up-hill fight, their team work by signs being excellent. Cummings and Fugitt were the Colum- bian battery. Sessons, Smielau and Hast- ings and Erd were in the box for Gallaudet, while Price and O'Connor went behind. the bat. Columbian made 13 hits and 4 errors end Gallandet 7 hits and 6 errors? ‘The two teams will play again tomorrow afternoon at Capitol Park, and the mutes expect to make a much better showing. ‘The batteries will probably be changed and there is every prospect for a close game. ‘The Columbian nine will play Yale College Law School Friday at Capitol Park and the pore expect to give a good account of them- selves. SOUTHERN BASE BALL LEAGUE, Nashville Dropped and Columbus, Ga., : to Be Admitted. The Southern Association of Base Ball Clubs met Saturday at Birmingham in adjourned session, for the purpose of ar- ranging a schedule for the coming season. Cities represented were as follows: At- lanta, C. Braffy and James Knowles; Bir- mingham, G. D. Allison and Col. Jacobs; Memphis, B. M. Bruce and Charles Frank; Little Rock, Aaron Frank; Montgomery, Barry L. Holt; Mobile, Vv. O'Connor; New Orleans, Henry Powers. Nashville was not represented. A communication was read from Dr. R. C. L, White of Nashville, announcing that in view of the action taken at the meeting in Mobile last Saturday, the Nashville Club had no other option than to withdraw from the Southern Association. A Handicap Base Ball Game. The first professional handicap game on 1ecord was played by Cincinnati and New Orleans at New Orleans yesterday, Cincin- nati putting out four of the New Orleans men each inning to New Orleans putting out three of the visitors. The hardicap was originated by Manager Bancroft of the Reds, and made the game close and excit- ing for six innings, when the home team changed pitchers, and the visitors took his delivery and pounded out runs enough to win the game. a Score: Cincinnatt 0110032x-916 3 New Orlea: ---021100012-710 4 Home run—McGinnis. _Two-base hits— Gray, Pender, Phelan and Davis. Umpires —L. Clark and Fitzgeraid. Placing the “Ginnts.” It now looks as though the make-up of the New York team will be: Farrell, Wil- son and Zearfoss, catchers; Meekin, Rusie, Clark end Seymour, pitchers; Harry Davis, first base; Pfeffer, second base; George Davis, third base; Gleason, left field; Van Haltren, center field; Tiernan, right field; Connaughton, short stop. George Davis has been) doing so well in practice that it is more than probable he will again be seen at his old corner. There can be no doubt of Gleason's success as an outfielder. Although Manager Irwin has made no definite decision as yet, Gleeson will probably cover Sddie Burke’s old ground. 3 SS WHIST. — Resulis of the Games at the Capital Bi. Club Houne. Compass whist was agin played at the Capital Bicycle Club “Saturday evening. There was a greater variance in the play than In elther of the previous evanings, the difference between the highest and lowest scores in both north and south and east and west being twenty-three tricks. Jack- son and Barnard of the Capital Hill Club made the highest score at the north and south positions, with plus 10, while Hoeke and J. FE. Williams led at east and west with 12 plus. ‘The following is the full score of the even- ing, outside pairs being marked with an asterisk: North and south—*Jackson and Barnard, 141; Quackenbush and Spalding, 1 *Young and Summers, Johnson ‘and’ Taylor, *Gannett and Fletcher, and *Davis and Taliaferro, each 143; Cole and Stephens, 131; Low and Copenhaver, 124; Pelouze and Willard, 119; Macdaniel and Schmidt, 118; average for north and south, 131. East and west—Hoeke and'J. E. Williams, 154; Hefry and Clark, 147; Cooke and Har- COMP. Rollings and Taylor, 131; average for east and west, 142. Compass whist will again be indulged in next Saturday evening. ‘fhe Washington Woman's Whist Club also spent last Saturday evening at com- pass whist. The highest scores were made by Mrs. King and Miss Hendley, playing north and south, and Miss King and Mrs. Stoddart, playing east and west. The whist branch of the Washington Club (ladies) will entertain their gentlemen friends at compass whist tomorrow evea- ing. Wonld Not Let Them Figh Thirty-five hundred persons gathered at the Grand Central Palace in New York Sat- urday night to see a boxing show. Charles (Kid) McCoy and Joe Choynski were to have boxed six rounds at catch weights and four other bouts were biiled. Police Captain Delaney interfered and was hissed. When McCoy and Choynski ap- peared in the ring, Announcer Dunn stated that the police would not allow the boxers to fight on their merits, and Referee Jimmy Carroll said he would render no decision. The men boxed four one-minute rounds amid derisive cheers and groans. Cc. A. C. Nine-Pins. The first series of the Columbia Athletic Club nine-pin tourney came to a close Sat- urday evening with Denekas in the lead with 27 pins to his credit; Hunter second, with 24. Von Lindgren led the bowling Saturday evening with 17 to his credit, it being an off-night for several of the best bowlers of the club. The first series closes with each man having howled four gamcs, and the result will undéubtedly be very much changed when afithe players have completed thelr quota¥“of twelve games each. ts Washington Handiedép Declarations. Henry of Navarre ang Dorian have been declared out of the Washington handicap to be run at the coming meeting of the Washington Jockey Cl#b." Both horses will be sent on for the métting, however, and will start in overnight évents. Execilent Howling. An individual champignship bowling tour- rament has been started-at the Carroll In- stitute. The tournameht'is open to ama- teur bowlers of the District, and some of the best local men have entered. The as- signments have been mde in sets of six, each assignment to bowl’five series of three games each. The first set, bowled Friday evening. B.Locraft set a new mark in bowl- ing, his scores being the best that have been made in a championship tournament on a regulation alley in the District. His scores were 231, 227 and 200; average, 2191-3. The evening, col ine, . Laud, Miller and Schlaich. eee Ashland Wilkes Sold for $10,000. Ashland Wilkes, the famous sire of John R. Gentry, was sold at Wichita, Kan., Saturday, at private sale to J. F. Scott of Lexington, Ky., for $10,000 cash. Mr. Scott is the man who developed the speed in John R. Gentry and sold him a few weeks ago. Ashland goes to the same sont’. in Kentucky where Patchen Wilkes | now Views of the Owner of Nancy Hanks on Breeding. TROTTING RECORD 10 BE LOWERED What Can Be Accomplished by Good Blood. THE BEST SPEED LINE “Has the limit of trotting speed been reached?” This question was recently pro- Pounded by the writer to J. Malcolm Forbes, the well-known Boston millionaire sportsman. “I do not think so,” was the answer; “in fact, I am positive it hasn't. I believe that the two-minute goal will be reached and even shaded. Everything points to this conclusion, and while it would be foolish to pick out any one animal for the task cr set any approximate date, I think it more than possible that before the end of the present decade the 2.03 3-4 which repre- sents the trotting record today will be con- siderably lowered. “As to the possibility of the pacing rec- ord, I cannot speak with such certainty, for it is a branch of the business that I have never studied. The consensus of opin- ion, however, and the statistics of the track seem to indicate thet the two-minute goal will be soomer reached by a horse of that gait. “Everything in the trotting world is pro- gressing. Naturally, now that the figures have settled to a point below 2.04, the pro- gression is bound to be slower. It is the pece that kills. When Maud 8. trotted a mile in 2.08 3-4, and that record stood for over five years, it looked as if the mark had been well nigh -reached, but now, with many trotters below that figure, and ore five seconds faster, it looks as if it were foolish to set a limit. . Scientific Breedin “I believe the future of the sport depends on the closer and more scientific applica- tion of the principles of breeding. If a Dic- tator got a Director, and he in turn a Di- rectum, the speed element being intensified with the progression in production, why may not Directum’s son be greater than he, and his grandson even more advanced? “Horses are being more scientifically shod, harnessed, trained and driven than ever; they have better tracks to race on, and the instinct which teaches a horse to trot and keep trying harder to maintain that gait, to the limit of his speed ability, is being intensified. Certain families of trotters have been noted as phenomenal speed producers. In the judicious breeding of the best obtainable members of those families, with a due care for size, strength and brains, Iles the best possible chance for a marked reduction of the record. I am a firm believer in American ingenuity, pluck and faith, so that I deem it almost assured that one day we will see the two- minute trotter.” ‘The name of J. Malcolm Forbes is posei- bly better known to the American horse- loving people than that of any other who has been identified so short a time with the industry. ‘This is due, in a great measure, to two things. The first is the fact that the Ferbes family has been most prominently identified with the detense of the America’s cup; the other, that Mr. Forbes has gone ito the breeding of the light-harness horse with his brains as strongly marked a fac- tor as his money. Working for Speed. His first purchase to attract continental attention was that of the unbeaten and, in some ways, incomparable harness queen— Nancy Hanks. It was not for her race ability that he bought the renowned daugh- ter of Happy Medium; but in pursuance of his. theory for the advancement of speed. The second step in this direction was the payment of $125,000 for the horse he want- ed. This was the figure at which the transfer of Arion was made from the late Leland Stanford to Mr. Forbes. At that time Arion looked like the surest prospect for a two-minute etallion, for he had pulled a high-wheeled sulky—as a two-year-old— a mile in 2.10%, a feat yet unequaled by any trotter of the same age, under im- proved conditions, Mr. Forbes’ theory is a simple one, for it is based on the old axiom: “Like begets like.” Thus, if a champion is bred to a champion and the produce is sound, straisht and right (in the parlance of the sale ring), the argument is that the pros- pecttve ability, from the right of speed in- heritance, is vastly improved. ‘The objection that the world-famous mares Lady Suffolk, Highland’ Maid, Flora Temple, Goldsmith Maid and Maud §., all champions in their day, or the equal- ly renowned Licy, American Girl, Fanny Witherspoon, Martha Wilkes, or dozens as readily named, were not phenomenal speed producers does not deter Mr. Forbes. Apart from the fact that some of these mares never produced, there is the objection that they were raced or trained till so late in life that a good share of their vitality was wasted. This is hardly possible nowadays. Combining All Elements. It is not so many years ago that the best -horsemen thought a horse was too young to train till he had turned his fifth year and the stud was only counted fit for the honorable retirement of old age. ‘Though trained as a two-year-old and hay- ing, in three years’ training, reduced that record of 2.10% to 2.07%, Arion is only :n his seventh year. He has been hurt but very little, if speed development of his kind is to be counted harmful, so far as the draught on his vitality is concerned. Nancy Hanks is Lut ten years old, and as her extreme flights of speed were confined mainly to public trials she has not had the hardship of the mares which have been subjected to the trying experience of rac- ing on their vitality. Mr. Forbes is a great believer in bre2d- ing through channels of speed production, or by combining all possible elements of championship form to reproduce and in- tensify their characteristics. The idca Mr. Forbes had in the purchase of Arion was this: He was by Electioneer, and the best colt trotter of a horse that has sired more phenomenal speed than any horse living or dead. It is also speed that keeps at the trot, for in 152 horses that have beaten standard time, or that limit set by the Register for recognized record, but a single pacer {s in the list. The dam of Arion was by Nutwood, the horse recognized as the greatest sire. ‘Thus Arion represented the combination that Mr. Forbes had decided was the best possible foundation for the advancement of his theory, being the fastest natural colt trotter the world has ever seen—by the greatest sire of phenomenal speed and out of a mare by a wonderful speed producer. It was the element of “breeding on.” The Best Speed Line. To insure the proper chance to the pos- sible sire of a two-minute trotter Mr. Fcrbes bought the best mares he couid find from almost every line that had pro- duced phenomenal speed. The limits of this article are too confined to permit of the portrayal of the treatment they receive, but good judges feel confident that time will show the judgment of J. Malcotm Forbes to be good. Mr. Forbes believes in the advancement of the trotter, and is not one of the kind who thinks there is any set limit to the at- tainments of the light harness brigade. He thinks that while the improvements in sulkies, tracks, harness and the like will be pronounced In their help, the scientific ap- plication of the strict laws of heredity and the best choice of the individuals will be as fully answerable for that ability to carry @ speed average of thirty seconds to the quarter, for a le. Mr. Forbes’ belief in the future champion trotter being descended from a scion of the Electioneer family is based on statistics in the past five or six years. In that time the Blectioneer champions in the different classes have been: Sunol (a many time world beater in the annihilation of records), Manzanita, Bonita, Fantasy, Hinda Rose, Arion, Wildflower, Fred Crocker, Adbell, Bell Bird, Palo Alto. This list, and only two of them are by eons of Electioneer, is incomparably su- perior to that of any other sire or even to that of any two. Thus the theory of Mr. Forbes is that the best cing family, reinforced a of the-best obtainable living « thing tet “fo ‘the ‘eredit ft feveryth oO! tioneer, is the proper fount for a stream to produce repre- sentative, — . 5 one thorou; as Arion it may be that a filly out of a mare like Nancy oa it by some Speed getter of phenomenal may, to CHAMPIONS AT BILLIARDS. Ives and Garnier Ready to Meet Schaefer in the New York Tournament Frank C. Ives, champion billiard player of the world, and Albert Garnier, the French expert, have arrived in New York from Europe. They were half through a tour of Europe when they received a fiat- tering offer from Maurice Daly. They de- cided to give up the European contests and return to America at once. The tournament will include games in New York, and Boston. The New York engagement will begin at Mad!son Square Garden Concert Hall March 30, and the style of the games will be 18-inch balk line. Garnier, Schaefer and Ives will be the contestants, The game will be 800 points up. Mr. Daly tried to secure Slosson and Spinks, but did not succeed in this attempt. DE ORO CHALLENGES. Clearwater Must Defend His Title of Pool Champion of the United States. The pool tourney for the championship of the United States between Clearwater of Pittsburg, and Keogh of Scranton resulted in the victory of the Pittsburger by the score 000 to 535. Alfred De Oro challenged the winner to play for from $150 to $500 for the cham- pionship, and has made a deposit of $500 to cover his def. COMING 8ST. ASAPH MEETING. A Program of Races Shortly to Be Published. It is understood that Secretary Schultze of the Virginia Jockey Club will in a few days begin the preparation of a program for a meeting which it !s proposed shall be commenced at the St. Asaph track the Ist of April. This purpose ig predicted on the belief that the Virginia authorities will not interfere meantime. It is said that the starter and judges have not yet been select- ed. The track {s in a rather bad conditior., but Tom Strahan, who is in charge of it, 1s confident he will have it in suitable shape by the Ist of next month. There are more thar enough horses, whicn are being pre- pared at the Alexander Island ‘track. The St. Asaph meeting will not, it is said, antagonize the Benning meeting. The la’ ter track Is In fine zhaps, and the many im- provements there, n cfore described, are rapidly approaching completion. About all of the stables are already filled, and there will be such an overtlow of horses that the stables at the Ivy City track will be utilized. The horses at the Benning track are all well, and their condition fs all that couid be desired. Every morning, and not infre- quently in the evening, the track is well filled with horses at work, and, they are already attracting great attention. The number of two-year-olJs is unusually large, and not a few future crackajacks are said to be among them. HIGH SCHOOL FIELD DAY. Preparations for the Coming Athletic Event in Progress. Mr. Philip Tindall called a second meet- ing of the four school committees on the inter-high sthool track ard field day to or- der at 3:30 o'clock at the Ccntral High School Friday afternoon for further con- sideration of the matter. The following representatives were present: Messrs. Tin- doll, Farrow and Albert, Central; Kelly, ‘Chappel and Hallam, Eastern; Gough, White and Ferree, Business, 9nd Hudson and Taussig, Western. Reports of the different chairmen were read, and it was decided to use the rules of the Intercollegiate Athietic AsSociaticn and run the bicycle race under the sanction of the L. A. W. The finance committee reported the following offers: The Evening Star Newspaper Company, a cup or medal; C. H. Davidson, a silver med- al; R. H. Harris, very likely a gold medal, and something from the stock of each of the following merchants: Mertz, Tappan, Copeland, Davis and Robinson & Chery. Mr. Dovgias, vice president of the Inter- collegiate Athletic Association, and a stu- dent at Georgetown College, was present, and instructed the committees regarding the events, management of ‘he eu.tries and the duties of field officers, giving them some valuable information and advice. It was decided to strike out the running hop, skip and jump contest and to substitute a three- legzed race as an extra event. It was also unanimotrly decided to change the one- mile bicycle raee to a two-mile race, and to use two and one-half-foot hurdles. Ertries must be from stidents in the dif- ferent high schools only, who have attend- ed school since January. Five entries from a school will be the minimum allowed for any one event, but probably only three starters will be allowed, and the winner will be credited with five points, second with three points and third with one point. The school that scores the greatest number of points will win the championship, and will be awarded a handscme trophy, to be contested for annually. This will probabiy be a cup denated by The Star. The events will very prcbably be held on the Georgetown College campus, which was tendered to the high schcels through Mr. Douglas, and the date will be cither May 30 or June 6. The Chess Game Adjourned. The tenth game of the United States chess championship match was commenced Saturday in Philadelphia at the Franklin Chess Club. Kemeny opened with a queen's gambit, which Showalter declined. count of inferior development on white's part, black gained the attack after the twelfth move. At a late hour last night the game was adjourned until today at 2 o'clock. ——— THE WRECK OF THE TOBIN, An Admiralty Case That Involved Much Testimony. Judge Cox, holding the United States Dis- trict Court, this morning handed down a decree in the case of Charles Burnett and others agt. Charles G. Smith and Charles G. Smith, jr., in which a judgment is ren- dered against the Smiths as lessees of the wharf at which the schooner Ellen Tobin, belonging to Burnett and others, was wrecked in August, 1833, by reason of being run through by a large rock. This admir- aliy suit has now been pending for more than two years, and {it was during last summer that Judge Cole decided that the respondents, Smith and Smith the younger, were responsible for the damages to the vessel, and as is usual in such cases re- ferred the case to Col. James G. Payne as special commissioner to assess the amount of the damages. Col. Payne reported the value of the vessel to be $6,009, but the lbellants, by their proctor, Randall Hagner, excepted to the commissiorier’s report on the ground that the commissioner had de- cided the case by comparing the vessel with barks and brigs engaged in off-shore trade and not with vessels engaged in the coasting trade, as should have been done, as the Ellen Tobin was a schooner engaged in the coasting trade exclusively and pro- tected in her business by the United States statutes, which bar foreign vessels from competition in the coasting trade. Judge Cox sustained the libellants’ ex- ceptions, and after passing an order of March 10, 1896, in which he decided to take certain testimony which had been rejected by the commissioner offered in rebuttal of the comparison of barks and brigs—in open court—as is often done in admiralty cases— he now increases the amount of the value of the schooner to $8,000, and awards in- terest on that sum from the date of the wrecking of the vessel, and in addition Some $1,200, which had to be paid by the owners in order to have the cargo of broken stone pumped out of the vessel so that the wreck might be removed. Randall Hagner represented the libel- lants, and- Messrs. Nathaniel Wilson and Job Barnard the respondents. Some two thousand pages of typewritten testimony was taken in the case, besides @ veritable picture gallery of phoiographs and some els of models and plats. The vessel, which originally cost $30,000, was claimed to be worth $10,000 when wrecked, and after her destruction was sold for $25, the purchasers rebuilding her at the cost of some $12,600. . le. for On ac-|. Goldenberg’s, 928 7th—706 K Street. Reductions Galore! We're making quick work of the stock. We shall begin tearing down in a few days. Every day something or another is falling in price, so that you cannot afford to skip our announcements. These for tomorrow: ~ Silks. Beautiful Figured Taffeta Silks waists, handsome brocaded uch colorings as green and brown, rose and biue, which are good value at Tc. 53c. a yard. Heavy and Fine Quality Black Satin Duchesse—the regular 85c, sort. Re Guced to 65c. a yard. 22inch Plain Biack Taffeta Silke— Which sell elsewtere at Tc. 58c. a yard. Extra Fine Quality Black Armure— @ctually worth §1. 75¢. a yard. 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