Evening Star Newspaper, April 4, 1896, Page 24

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And the fun of it Is—we'ye gor Frank Wells, Stttmeker, p47 Pa. Ave. mb10-3m,20 Neck Dressing We Make Wheels ® == 7% Too! They are the lightest Running Wheeis on Earth ana Strictly High Grade. We Always Made Good Sewing Machines! Why Shouldn’t We Make Good Wheels? QUALITY GUARANTEED THE BEST. ENTERPRISE CYCLE CO., Organs Loveactatt Shea SUPPLEE HARDWARE Co. lesale Distributors, Philadelphia, WATIONAL SEWIKG MACHINE CO., fezessct LACK OF YOUNGSTERS Few Finds Picked Up by the League Clubs. Bie RESULTS OF THE SOUTHERN TRIPS Advantage of the Left-Hand Batters on Base Lines. NOTES OF THE PLAYERS Se One of the most noticeable features of the preliminary trying-out season this year has been the small number of young players who have proven themselves worthy of the fast company to which they aspired. New York took fully twenty-five of these piayers south with them, but it is doubtful if they will use one. The one doubtful case is that of Connaughton, whose batting may save him a place in the outfield. Seymour, the pitcher, played with the team last year, and may do. Baltimore has only one novice with them, Bowerman, but he ts so erratic that he will play only in case of the greatest necessity. Boston has none. Brooklyn one—Jores, the outfielder—and in this case a good man has most probably been found. Philadelphia had a most promising mau, Houlen, the shortstop, but that old-time favorite and snappy player, Cross, from the latest indications, seems to have frozen him out. = Pittsburg has a half dezen youngsters, but “You Lese” Mack has decided to de- pend upon his vetera..s and permit his new Men to get through a season of wying-out in the minor leagues. Cleveland also has a half dozen new men, but none fast enough to displace McGarr from third or Blake from right field. Cincinnati sppears to have mace ». great find in Wiley Davis, the yong pitcher from Tennessee. Otherwise, the team is Miller in ally a new nine, but they are mostly cld-timers, and the new blood signed will have very little opportu- nity to develop. Chicago and Louisville have new blood by the carload, but Uncle Anson has had a hard time during the trying-out season bringing any of his string up to the stand- ard of Wilmot or a Pfeffer. That old war horse, Decker, is said to be slated for Wil- mot's place, ard the ex-colt, “Jiggs” Par- rott, will probably go on second. From this iz can be seen that Chicago has not fared very well with tts large string of coits. Louisville will have to play at least four young-blood players on the nine this sea- son, rightfield, first base, short stop and third base being the positions to be filled by _the new men. Washington has three or four new men, but it is a question whether any of them will get into the game this season unle: an accident should knock some of the reg- ulars out of their positions. McGuire will Probably catch as many games this season as last Cartwright never gets hurt, as he is a Hercules and hard as nails, and Rogers will see very little of the initial bag. . Lush is the mest promising, und riay replace Brown at center, but this is only supposi- tion, as the latter is one of the best field- ers in the country, and may develop strength with the stick. This may be an off year with new-blood players, as quite a number were developed timers are hard to last season, and the ol crowd out, but it 1s a significant fact that all the clubs in the first division depend a great deal for their success upon seasoned Players. The Baltimore team cannot be classed as new blood, as outside cf Keeler there is not a player on the team that has rot been playing ball for the past five years, at least. The Senators are almost in the same class. Regarding only one man is there a record of President Robison of the Cleveland Club putting his foot down in opposition to Man- ager Tebeau, and that was when he fayored the latter’s brother, George,““White Wings,” who played on the Washington team in 1894. Everybody knows that last year, when Manager Tebeau intended to release Gecrge for no other reason than because he was bis brotker, and he did not desire to run the chance of being accused of par- tality, President Robison insisted that the pleyer be retained. When Tebeau was get- tng out the contracts for this year he again mentioned the subject of his brother. “He is a good man,” he said, “but he and I both wish that we were not giving anybody a chance to say that it is.family business. He can get plenty of cpportunities else- where. and it might be better to let him go.” President Robison replied: “t don't see as you're concerned beéause I want your brother on my team. I only.wish you rad a few more brothers like him.” Man- ager Tebeau has not mentioned the subject since. Every now and then base ball writers who have taken. a. particular dislike to “Uncle” Anson, will bring forward his bat- ting record of last year, which was the worst of his carcer, as an indication that the grand old man is going backward. Since the spring trip to Texas “Uncle” An- son has been batting like a fiend, and sev- eral Chicago newspaper men who took the trip with the colts cannot say too much in praise of his playing this spring. One of these writers recently said: “Why has ‘Uncle’ always been a star hitter? I think one answer can be found in the fact that the field, even after seeing him bat al! these years, never know just where to play for the old fellow. A nervy right fielder can get in front of Lange's terrible drives, ant though not able to stop them, can field them in quickly enough to hold him at first cr second. Shortstops will get on to Truby in time and will play deep for his monoton- ous whacks at thelr position. But when good old ‘Uncle’ takes ‘the stick you can see all the field in a state of restless com- metion. The old boy is apt to take the center fielder off his feet or make the left fielder chase down to the club house, or jar the right field fence, and nobody can feel happy on the visiting team until he is disposed of. I think this will be the old man’s greatest year as a slugger, and look for him to bat up to 390.” The discount game in base hall is a new thing, and the victory at New Orleans for the Cincinnatis over the club representing that city, when they put out four players in each inning, marks the Reds as formid- able candidates for high honors in the league. The handicap of putting out four players in every inning to the other team’s three, and then winning out by a fair mar- gin, is something of an achievement. This is a big concession to make, even to a minor league team, especially in the earlier stages of the season, when the major league's pitchers dare not take chances of “putting on steam.” That the Cincinnatis were able to pick up the handicap and beat out a team of fairly good professionals seems to em- phasize all the good things that have been said and written about them. Several western and eastern papers have been figuring that St. Louis has a good chance to beat out the Senators and the ‘Loulsville clubs this season. The St. Louis’ have a chance, but a mighty slim onc. For instance, smailpox might become an epi- demic in the Washirgton club, and some of McCiosky’s Colonels of tender years might catch the measles. Otherwise, if any one offers Chris a plugged quarter for his chance of landing tenth or better, he had better neeept it. Left-handed batters have a hunch over right-handed batters, in that their batting box is several fect closer to first base than the box on the other side of the plate. These few feet look like a very little thing, but two feet in a close play are as good as a mile. All the men fast in getting to first, notably Billy Hamilton, Burkezt, Eddie Mc- Kean and Tom Brown, are left-handed bat- ters. Now, Jimmie McAleer of the Cleve- lands in a straightaway run can give every one of these players some feet and a beat- ing, yet all of them have a “hunch” over the Clevelands’ great outfielder in running to first base, in that he is right-handed in using the stick. Jimmie is going to cry and over- come this handicap by baiting left-handed, and, if he succeeds in getting his eye on the ball from that position, he will become a hot member in getting to first. Base Ball Notes. ; Fred. Pfeffer has been ousted from second base on the New York team through out- side interference, but, as he leads the club in batting, he has been shifted to short stop, and, although it is not his home po- THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, APRIL, sition, he can play it better than any one on the New York pay roll. __ Don’t expect too much from young De Montreville in the first part @f the season. He is young, and may be over-anxious, but tol oe pate for the first class, and will get oO Charley Farrell has been, docked $600 from last year’s salary on account of his poor work in ‘95, but he will get it back if he plays up to his standard. Charley hi already pulled himself together, and it is @ foregone conclusion that the half-dozen centuries will be his when the seasom comes to an end. The ranks 9f the ‘‘hold-outs" are narrow- ing down week by week. Since last Satur- day Burkett has come into the fold, leav- ing Rusie, Ziiamer, Breitenstein and Fore- man outside the breastworks. Foreman will probably sign when the Cincinnatis re- turn home, but it looks like a great strug- gle with the others. The Brooklyns’ new out fielder, Jones, is making Schoch and Anderson feel shaky. Joe Corbett is quite a boxer, as some of the Baltimore boys discovered to their sor- Tow. The hit and run game is all the rage with ambitious managers. Yet two clubs seldom play it in one game, and it is easily blocked. Arthur Irwin tried last week to sign a Philadelphia amateur named Goeckel to play first base. Will that man never get through looking for talent? ‘There ought to be an interesting contest for leading .batsman of the Philadelphia club this ‘season between Delahanty, Thompson, Brouthers, Sullivan, Clements, Cross and one or two others. Dick Cooly declares that he is the equal of any man on the St. Louis team. He makes the assertion with the same cool- ness with which he is demanding a con- tract for $2,400. Billy Hamilton duplicated his famous kick of last year with the Phillies, when he demanded that the Boston club pay for his uniform. William's bluff didn’t go. The Chicagos are beginning to think the name of “sunny south” as applied to Texas is a misnomer. For five days the weather has been unfit for outdoor prac- tice, and the cold wave flag still flutters triumphantly from the weather bureau lookout. If James Manning, the manager of the Kansas City club, is a good jndge of a pitcher’s abilities, the Phillies will trot out another “phenom” this year. Manning says Eyler, whom the Philadelphia club signed on the recommendation of an old University of Pennsylvania ball player, is a coming great pitcher. Brouthers starts in early this year hit- ting the ball, he making three singles and a double out of five times at the bat in the first game. Delahanty also has his eye on the ball, he making a double, a triple and a home run in his first game out of four times at the bat. Von der Ahe has sent Breitenstein an open letter. It is a twelve-page dictated atfair. One stanza reads: “You were given $iv0 and told that your wife could have as much money as she reeded for domestic waats while you were away with the team. 1f you do not report on April 1, 1806, at Sportsman’s Park in preper condition to play bail (and I am to be sole judge of your condition), you will have to take the consequences. ‘The trouble with you is that your indiscreet friends, by the:r fool- Ish flattery, have ‘swelled’ your head to unusual proportions, and It is impossible to reason with you in a sensible manner. ithdraw my offer of an additional vance of $100, payable to your wife, and I will not allow you another cent before pay day.” ‘There is a story going the rounds that one of Rusie’s fines, the $100 levicd at Bal- timore, should not have been inflicted. As the tale gces, Rusie and Fuller were room mates. The pitcher did rot tind the key at the desk one night when he went there for it, and also could not get into the room. Sooner than demand an cxplanation and get Fuller into trouble, Rusie slept with Mike ‘Tiernan. The next morning one of Mr. Freedman’s spies reported that Rusie had not slept in his room the night before, and the $iW) penalty was placed. Fuller could not explain, or would not, and Rusie kept his mouth shut. NATIONAL PARK BLEACHERS. Views of Patrons of the Game—Mr. Wagner Defended. The decision of Vice President Wagner of the Washington club to move the twenty- five-cent seats at Nationxzl Park further away from the grand stand has aroused considerable comment among local patrons of the game. The Star has received a number of communications in which Mr. Wagner's decision ts discussed. “A. S. B.” holds that the proposed seats will be better placed than the same priced seats are in other cities. He writes: “A great deal is being said against Mr. Wagner for changing the 25-cent seats farther east on the right of the grand stand. If those people who are complaining so loudly would visit some of the other league parks and see where their 25-cent seats are situated, they would find on the cpening day here that in the rearrange- ment the 25-cent seats are located in as g00d, if not a better, position than those in any other park in the National League. I bave known Mr. Wagner for the past two years, and I have found him to be like all other business men, trying to make money for himself, and at the same time doing his utmost in every respect to please his pa- trons and cater to their wishes. I know tkat a great many bleacher patrons were anxious that Mr. Wagner should give them better seats, with a roof over them, and they would.prefer to pay 50 cents, as they considered the bieachers the best seats in the park, if made more comfortable. He has carried out their wishes by taking only about one-half of the original bleachers for 50-cent seats, and has added about 2,000 seats to the 25-cent bleachers. It is my cpinion that when the rearrangement of the seats at the park is seen, they wil be greatly appreciated by the 25-cent as well ag the 50-cent patrons.” “Bleecherites” writes: “The bleacherites have seen regularly that tMe fifty-cent seais were never more than one-third filled, and that there were enough vacant fifty-cent seats to accom- modate nearly all the patrons, including the bleachers, and having seen and known this, they are entirely unable to per- ceive any demand for more fifty-cent seats. “Hundreds of ‘bleacherites’ do heartily indorse and commend the article of ‘Ex- patron’ contained in your issue of the vd instant, and are ready to tender you a vote of thanks for the publication of the same.” “Selah” asserts that Mr. Wagner’s com- parison of seats at the park and those at a theater is faulty. He says: “Referring to Mr. Wagner's statement, as printed in Wednesday's Star, as to the space allotted for twenty-tive-cent seats in other league cities, from which it ap- pears that only at Baltimore and Phila- delphia does the space equal or exceed that granted in this city, I wonder if it occurred to him that there is a difference between the character of entertainment af- forded by those clubs and his own. Per- haps so, as he drew a comparison between the comfort and luxiny of a twenty-five- cent seat at the theater and one costing from $1 to $3, the last sum Washington people never paying except for a superior quality of performance. As last season Baltimore won eigaty-seven games and Phil- adelphia seventy-eight, while Washington won but forty-three games, consequently our club is only about half as good as the others, but the price for seats is alike in all taree cities. Therefore, it is clear that Mr. Wagner discriminates against, not in favor of, his patrons.” Another ex-patron writes: “Mr. Wagner lays great stress on the fact that he, among other things, has estab- lshed ‘ladies’ days,’ and admitted ladies free two days in each week. Granted he does, he loses nothing and is giving noth- ing away. as he Is only creating a desire cn the part of the ladies to attend more Games each week, and here is where Mr. Wagner, with his great discernment, reaps the golden harvest.” “New Yorker” writes: “I would respectfully ask for a little space in your paper for my indorsement of (Ex-Patron's) remarks in last night's Star concerning those new bleachers at the ball grounds. I can cheerfully make affidavit that no day while I was present last sum- mer were the 50-cent seats overtaxed, and I think Mr. Wagner is making a mistake when he seeks to add more tariff to his earnings without a corresponding increase in base ball talent. Reciprecity, in objecting at length to the change in the bleachers, says: “There waa @ popular demand that the bieachers as formerly located be covered and made more ecmfortable, and this is the response to the clasts who have been the most liberal in supporting the club—fifty cents, or be rele- geted to the back fence. Those who >a- tronized the bleachers were not hoodlums or ignorameses. They were men of in- telligence and refinement, for the most pert eroployes of the various departments receiving moderate salaries, who enjoyed the naticnal game, and whose presence added life and Interest to the sport and gave encouragement to the players, but whose limit is twenty-five cents. They will be conspicuous by absence, andthe season will not have advanced far before it_will be-aeknowledged that im the-ticket office three quarters: are more desirable 3,000 1,000." 1 ‘A. writes: “If Sarcapes' : : 3 the:patrons of 50-cent seats do not wish to siti the grandstand, but wish the cut-door seats covered for their convenience, why not:¢over those already in place and not encroach upon the 25-cent seats, as it is evidemt, beyond # doubt, that neither. position nor anm is. lacking? ‘The statement that ampis accommodations will be provided -bleacher patrons comes: with poor grace, when thoseypersons are driven to the outfield forxpositions where they Will need opera glagues’to witness any play. We are not asking especially for- comfort. That would be tox nwich. The theater comparison does not +t the case. One can see as woll from the gallery as from the ground ficor of an-dpeta house. It is to be witkin secing distatice of the game that we desire—even a bleacheritc hasn't telescopes for eyes.” a eo WILL BE A’ GREAT GAME, Georgetown to Play the Princeton Team Next Tuesday. The Princetori ‘base ball team, which is now making its annual spring tour of the south, will appear in Washington Tuesday, April 7, In a game with the Georgetown University team. This promises to be the greatest college game of the year in’ this city. The Princeton. team is one of the strongest turned out at old Nassau for many seasons. Althcugh the work of the season is not far advanced, the men show up well in their work, and are developing strong team play. ‘The Princeton team has been hampered by a lack of outdoor work this season, previous to leaving for its long trip, the cold weather confining it to practice in the “cage.” The team con- tains of last year’s strong nine the follow- ing men: Capt. Bradley, Altman, Easton, -Wilson, Smith, Ward, Gunster and Jayne. Keily, on first base, is a new man, he hav- ing been ineligible last season. Kelly was one of the half backs on the fogt ball team last fall. Wayav, on second, is another new tan, though having had considerable ex- perience. Suter, another member of the team, was quarter back on the foot ball team of last season. He plays in the out- eld. The Princeton’ men ‘are working Katd fof"! championship honors this season. A series of five games with both Yale and Harvard is to be played this year, and the pitchers, especially, are” being | well trained for their part of the work. Capt. Bradley {s the most popular lead- er of a Princeton team in years. He enjoys the confidence and respect of the entire student body at Princeton, as well as the -Players under his direction. His batting and fielding make him a most valuable man, and adding to this his qualities as a leader, Princeton has a model captain for the season of ’95. Ancther man who has been a mainstay in the pitching department and at the batts On RucAltman, whovis néw playing his third season on the Princeton team, Altman tsa: eool, steady player, usihg good judgment in’ the box. He has a speedy delivery, and fields his position well. When not pitching he plays in the outfield, In order that the team may re- ceive the benefit of i's strong hitting. The team as it now plays is: Altman, Wilson. Easton and Jayne, pitchers; Smith and Titus, catchers; Kelly, first’ base; Wayav, second ty ard, shortstop; Gunster, third; Capt. Bradley and Suter, to- gether with several of the pitchers, in the outfield. The Princeton team yesterday defeated (the University of Virginia nine at Char- lottesville by 5 to 4: The team will play Washington ‘and Tiee University, University of North Carolina, Georgetown University end Richmond league team. °°)” The games letween Princeton and George- town are always hard-fought contests, and the game this year promises to be more exciting than ever. GEORGETOWN’S BUSY WEEK. Blue and Gray to Meet Princeton Tuesday and Yale Wednesday. Next week promises to be a busy one for the team of Georgetown University, four games being scheduled with the strongest teams the "Varsity aggregation has yet struggled with. The week opens with a game Monday at Richmond, with the Rich- mond State League. Immediately after the game the team journeys home, and ‘Tuesday plays a strong Princeton team on the Georgetown campus. The team then leaves for Old Point Comfort, where’ they play with Yale Wednesday, and turday they play the Syracuse Eastern. League team here. Should the team win all these gam2s {t will have a elear hold on the col- lege championship for the season, including even the team of the University of Virgin- ta, which ts regarded as one of the strong- est nines of any of the colleges, being dem- onstrated by the'r exceedingly close play- Ing with the Princetons at Charlottesville. The Gallandet Nine. Next week the Gallaudet team has only one game-scheduled, and that'witti the Na- val Cadets at Annapolis Saturday. after- noon. This afternoon the team will play the Catholic. University nine on their grounds at Kendall Green. 3 ROCKVILLE’S TEAM. Its Pitching Department to Be Sirengthened. For several seasons Rockville has been represented in the base ball arena by a team that ranks with th amateur organizations in the Dist aryland. Being composed of excentionally fine ama- teur fielders, who have played together for several consecutive seasons, this team has developed a remarkable degrce of pro- ficiency in team work, and to chis, more than anything else, can be attributed their well-known success. While not particularly ting, the team’s chief 5 s can be sald to have beea In. the, pi department. This weakness is expected to be remedied the coming season. In addi= tion to Nicholson, who has pitched for Rockville with fair suceess for several seasons, the team will have Harry ard, now with Columbian Universtiy, Bob Hilton, formerly the crack pitcher of West- minster College. Their presence is expect- ed to make strong weak spot. With these exceptions the team will be composed of the same players as last year. Gene Harness will do the buik of the catchi Dawson at first, Rabbit at second, Eagle .or Shaw até ‘third, and Kelchner at short, will be the infield, while the outficid will be-composodrof Jenes, deft; Kingdon, center; Shaw or Eagle, right! Hall will be substitute. Thé'tirst-game of the season is scheduled for April 8, with Ted Sullivan’s “fexas Steers,” the New Haven nine. This will be the first appear- ance of a professional team in Rockville. C. A. ©. Nike-Pins, The secoad ass:gnment of the last ser‘es in the nine-pin tournament of the Colum- bla Athletic Club completed its full quota of twelve games lest evening, although none of the scores made by the players composing the ass{z1y at will ‘affect the championship stantling fs it 1s npw made up, with'Joe Huntér irf the lead, 49: De- monet second, 43, and Dinckas third, 42. 1. Brown led in'lust njght's games, with a to- tal of 18, with King'seé3nd, with a score of 17. The tourramenf wijh close this evening, when the full number of players in the tcurnament will haxe bowled twelve games apiece. Taose whg; bowed last night and thelr scor2s are 2g, follyws: I. Brown, 18; King, 17; Goodale, 16; Rice, 13; Grant, 13; Sutton, 12; Callahan, 9. » Lafayette Defeated Columbian, Lafayette made up sémewhat for its de- feat by Georgetown by gaining a victory over Columbian University yesterday af- ternoon at Capitol Parl the score being 18 to 13. Th2 Columbian*team probably Just the game in the first Iining, when errors caused by the high wind let Lafayette make seven runs. Columbian made six er- Tors to Lafayette’s two, while Sigman and Drieshach were a trifle more effective when Men were on bases than Cummings. The high wind made playing difficult, and nearly evary ball that wes scnt to the out- field was misjudged, this® accounting. in some measure for the large number of heavy hits..Two double’ plays*by Colum- bidn, participated in by Beall, Greene, Dal- zell and D. Fuggitt, were tne features of the game, together with Rothermel's good work at second. The attendance was fair, when the cold weather was considered, and both teams received plenty of encourage- ment. wie a en Sweet Moments cigarettes as all smokers will testify the heretofore only “mre: proparly. maimed, WITH .THE CYCLISTS Topics of Interest to the Local Wheelmen. ARRANGING FOR THE SOCIETY MEET Gratifying Growth of the L. A. W. in the District. GOSSIP OF THE CLUBS The event of the coming week in cycling circles will be the smoker given by the Queer Wheelmen on Thursday evening. In keeping with the ndme of the club the in- vitations are unique and queerly worded. in the upper left-hand corner of the yellow invitation cards is printed the club em- blem, a winged wheel. The invitation is printed in imitation engraved type and worded in a nondescript language. The wording runs as follows: “We want yer, phoney, ‘deed we do; we want ter git yer in an’ let yer wear a Q. We's gwine to smoke at 510 llth street, on Thursday, April de 9th. We warm up at 8:30 and cool off at 11:30 p.x.”” A meeting of the Queer Wheelmen was held Thursday, at which applications for membership were received from Mr. C. L. Petze and 8. Barnhardt. There were four- teen members present, and considerable in- terest manifested. It was decided to hold mo runs tomorrow. At the next meeting of the club the annual cle=‘ion of officers will be held, with fifteen minutes allowed for nominations, after which the election will -proceed. The smoker committee, consisting of Messrs. Gardner, Slack, Vogt and Pitkin, made a very favorable report for the suc- cess of the smoker. The number of tick- ets of admission is limited, and each mem- ber of the club allowed but five. A plano will be introduced at the cccasion of the ‘smoker, and the program of a musical and literary nature will not be announced till dance of good things to eat. The club decided to adopt a uniform, and a committee was appointed for the’ pur- Po: While no restriction were placed it is certain that the uniforms will be pretty. Washington Road Club. ‘The Washington Road Club held a meet- | wg Wednesday evening, at. which the re- pert of the cycle show was read. The at fair proved to be a financial success, and the club is highly pleased with the result. A special meeting will be held Monday evening to adopt a constitution presented by a committee, consisting of Messrs. Wil- liam Jose, Perry P. Patrick and J. E. Bischoff, Messrs. T. N. Burdette. R. R. Revill, W. S. Sheets, L. J. Wooldridge, W. R. Tappan and W. K. Larrimore were admitted to membership. A run will be made tomorrow to Cabin Jchn bridge, the members leaving the club house at 11 o'clock. The Arlington Wheelmen will take a spin up the conduit tomorrow morning. Tues- day evening the regular monthly meeting of the club will be held at the Losckam lotel. The Society Race Mect. The bicycle meet of the Chevy Chase Hunt Club, for the benefit of the Home for the Incurables, will come off next Saturday afternoon at the Eclipse Bicycle Park, cor- ner 17th and C streets northwest. This treet was previously arranged for March 21, but on account of the unsettled condi- t-cn of the weather it was postponed till next week. The sanction for the meet was granted last week by the racing board of the L. A. W. for March 21, but it is ex- pected that no difficulty will be encountered in having the date of the sanction changed. The executive committee, consisting of Miss Boardman, Mr. Henry Earl and Mr. Henry May, Mr. Wilson, in charge of the Eclipse field, has been very energetic in the matter, not only drilling the entrants, but ai80 in getting up a list of prizes for the yarlous events. The list, however, is far frcm being completed, and it is likely the prizes will not be announced until the day before the race. Growth of the L. A. W. The interest in the local division of the league is on the upward trend, and Wed- nesday Mr. Charles E. Wood, the secre- tary-treasurer, forwarded a batch of six- teen applications for membership, the largest number from the District for the last five years to be sent out at any one time. This is due to the energetic and sys- tematic hustling which is being done to re- vive the interests of the league. Before the end of the month the local division wili have a full complement of } officers. A vice consul is an officer for a division, and elected to place, but at the time the present officers assumed duty the District of Columbia was only a subdi- vision, attaining a healthy growth in the meanwhile. The office of vice consul is, therefore, an appointive on¢, with a say lying entirely with the chief consul. In addition to this officer, there will be four or five local consuls, appointed for the va- rious sections of the city to boom up the interests of the organization in those lo- calities. A local consul will be appointed for Georgetown and one for each of the four sections of the city. These appoint- ments will not be announced, however, un- til two or three weeks, though the selec- tious have virtually been made. Local Road Book. The work on the local road book is pro- gressing at a rapid rate, and it is expected that the compilation will make its appear- ance somewhere around the middle of June. The book will have one large map, embracing the surrounding territory in Maryland and Virginia. Following this will be an itemized number of trips that can be taken within the territory shown on the map. Though the cost of this book will be rather heavy, it will undoubtedly be dis- tributed free of charge among the mem- bers of the league in this city. The chief eensul is considering a number of pro- jected summer entertainments for the members of the organization, to revive in- terest in its affal TRACK. Indications Point to One That Will Be a Mile Aroand. From indications the city will have an- other track for cycle racing, which will be one mile in circumferance. The parties who propose building the mile track had the mat- ter under consideration for some time, iong before the incorporation of the company known as the International Track «and Amusement Company was thought of. The unformed company had In view a piece of land just above the site of the International track, but the location of the new track at this point spoiled the plans in that direction, and now a track is contemplated in a diffe: ent part of the city. The new concern is not ready to announce its name to the public, though there are a number of well-known persons interested in its work. Chief Consul Robertson of the league is one of the jeading men in the movement. A site has virtually been agreed upon, though the location 1s not given, be- cause the land has not been secured, there- by allowing the owner a chance to raise its price. It is stated that the new track will not be located over three miles from the center of the city, and convenient of access by street railroads. The idea is to erect a good track, and one that will be speedy in all respects. According to the plans, the track will have a twenty-five-foot back-stretch, while the home stretch will open out to forty feet, the same width as the international track. The surface of the track will be of granolithic, making over 10,000 square yards of surface. Estimates have been secured for the con- struction of this kind of a track, and the lowest bid so far received as $15,000. Ex- clusive of the rental or purchase of the grounds, this will make the cost of getting the track in shape near $20,000. An ener- getic inquiry is now being made in regard to cement and concrete tracks, and photo- graphs of all of the leading tracks of the country, including the Waltham and the Fountain Ferry tracks, are-now being se- cured to further aid in the matter. The International Track. In the meanwhile the construction of the international track is going on at a rapid later. The committee promised an abun- |” .4,. 1896-TWENTY-SIX PAGES. ; completed, and the buildings which will be first erected will only be for temporary us2, the company having in view the erec- tion of permanent and architecturally per- fect buildings. Last Sunday end all during the week a large number of persons visited the place, and inspected the work. The measurement of the course wilb-be made eighteen inches from the inner side, and will be exactly 1,760 feet around, almost similar in all re- Spects to the celebrated Manhattan Beach track. LOCAL CHESS TOURNEYS. Results of Nearly 3,000 Games Played by the Washington Ciub. The first continuous tourney at the Wash- ington Chess Club came to a close Tuesday evening, 2,044 games having been played in all, or an average of nearly 1,000 games for each of the three months of the tourney. Dr. M. 8S. Hawkins won the first prize, with the score of thirty-seven wins to three rames lost. Mr. C. Jackson was an easy second. By winning fourteen out of fifteen games played in the month of March, Mr. E. P. Hanna jumped ahead of several others and secured third prize. Captain J. P. Walker won the greatest num- ber of games in the three months of the tourney, and won a special prize therefor. The following is the score of the leaders: Won. Lost. P.c. 1 M. 8. Hawkirs. 37 pales 2 Goda 3 3 30 10 4 wt 4 5 20 9 6 08D 7 12100 BS 8 30 1B 9 6 = (37 10 a 2 4 BO sz go a (39 9 67 110 v7 ot 306, 171158 12 iz 36 36 3% 102 wi 92 116 gi. 121 37° bo B47 11158 a8 7 4 8T Sixteen persons less than 40 per cent of their games. Ancther tournament was at once started, under a new rating. To be eligible for a prize a player must play at least forty games with at least ten different players. The Capital Club Tourney. The chess tournament at the Capiial Bi- cycle Club also came to a close Tuesday evening. Several games are yet unplayed, but if all were played it would not change the result. Mr. Usina won the first prize, “The Beck of the Hastings Tourney,” his score be!ng 25 won to 2 lost, a very ecred- itable score. His nearest rival is Chas. M. Ltarrick, who won 20% and lost 41%. He carried off second prize, “Lowenthal’s Mor- phy’s Gar: The score of the remaining contestants is as follows: Quackenbush. - eS prize, Lasker's Wirt won the special “Common Sense in Chess,” offered to the player who should first finish all his games. A Well-Played Game. ‘The game below was played the past week in the Capital Club tournament. Mr. Carr played an excellent game. The finish was brililant. If black took the rook he would be mated in a few moves. Should he de- cline to take it, Mr. Carr wins spcedily by doubling his rooks on the rook’s file. Mr. Quackenbush did not display his usual strength in this game. D. J. Carr. E.C.Quack-; D. 3. Carr. 5.C.Quack- White.) ~~ enbush. White.) ~~ endush. (Black.) (Biack.) 1P-Ki- PEt 14 KtckrP B—Kt2, 2P_KERS PxP 15 Kt-k¢ R-K 3 Kt—KB3 P-KKtt [16Q-Q% K—Ke 4B-Ri P- 17 Exp. Kt_ks Bo 18B-K3 0 P—KI Ki Kt-OB3 |19 PRS B_Rs 7 P-Ot B-Kt {20 RB BxBeh 8 PO °! Brkt 21 OxB Kt-Kip 9 QxB Kr-Ks /22Q-K2 P_re 10 3. 23 Pxp P 11 Kt-Q2 Castles. /24 BRA B 12 Kt—B3- P-KB3 | 25 But 13 P—QRa Kt—-KU 126 RaP itesizns. The Steinitz-Schiffers Match. The Steinitz-Schiffers match of twelve gemes ffi afl ts well under way, reports showing that five games have been play- ed, of which Steinitz won three and Schif- fers two. Im the first and third games Steinitz adopted the unusual defense of the Ruy Lopez with 3, B—B4 and 4, Q—B3. He won the first game in briliant style. In the third game Schiffers varied his moves and defeated the veteran in playing the end game. The second and fourth games were both Guioco piano, Steinitz winning the second game in his best style, but losing the fourth game in twenty-five moves, owing to the vigorous line of play adopted by his adversary. The Pillsbury Association. For the purpose of furthering correspond- ence play the Pillsbury National Chess Association has been organized. Its pres- ident is E. T. Runge of 7332 Harvard ave- nve, Chicago, Ill. The organization will be cpen to all players residing in the United States. There will be five sections, viz: Eastern, central, southern, western and Pacific. Tournaments for district cham- pionships will be inaugurated, and at their corclusion a final tourney between the five winners for the ciub championship will be contested. If a new or old member aspires for championship honors he must first defeat his district champion before playing the club champion. Members are rot obiiged to enter the championship *con- tests, and may play informal games by writing to the secretary, Charles A. Nourse, 1531 Lill avenue, Ghicago. There are sev- eral otker good features, among which is that members may play or rest, as they sce fit, the desire being that chess may prove a valuable study and a pleasant recreation,not a task. INTERCLUB WHIST. Result of the First Round in the Tournament. The first round of the interclub whist tournament was played the past week,each of the six clubs entered playing one match. These matches consist of twenty-four deals each, duplicate whist. They are played in rcunds of eight deals. The first matches were played Thursday evening. The Washington Chess, Checker and Whist Club and the Le Droit Park club played at the club rooms of the form- er, 61f 12th street northwest. The contest wes a close one, and but for some strategic play on the part of Dr. Walls in the third and fifth hands, with the aid of a little luck in the last eight hands, the result might have been different, as the Washing- ton club “fell down” at one table in play- ing the last eight hands. The Washingtons won by five tricks. The teams were com- posed as follows: Le Droit Park—Capt. Prince, Dr. Stevens, and Messrs. Grinnell and Kimball. Washington—Dr. Walls and Messrs. Usina, Turner and Jones. The following shows the gains by rounds. Washington. Le Droit Park. Washington. . Le Droit Parl Woushington. Le Droit Park. Total gains—Washington, Park, 10. The Mt. Pleasant and I Street elubs play- ed at 1012 13th street, at the room of one of the members of the latter club. The contest was one-sided, the I Street Ciub having 2 case of “rattle,” and the Mt. Pleasants winning by nineteen tricks. The Mt. Pleasants were represented by Messrs. Taliaferro, Young, Davis, Summers; the Rwoomn E 5 r § 3 é econeow Sa Ste o* cows onw com StS onosocor com Sum oe porsces hell Trike it noe it, 26; I Street, 7. Last evening the Capital Bicycle and Capitol Hill clubs came together at the club rooms of the former. The C. Bi. C.'s put forth their best short suit team, viz: Messrs. Low, Barrick, Quackenbush and Low, and last evening they tried their skill -against one of the best regular teams, out- side of their own club, in the city. The Capitol Hill team ts composed of Messrs. Borches, King, Jackson and Barnard. They put up a strong game, and the C. Bi. C.’a won by but two tricks. The score by rounds is as follows: 111-4 000-4 000-3 001-4 Bi, 20104 Capitol Hill 1003005 oom games—C. Bi. C., 12; Capitol Hill, 1 ° 3 o 00 00 00 10 00 Sosves ° 1 0 2 22200 OL The coming week the contestants are C. Bi. C. vs. I Street, Washington vs. Gapitol Hill, and Mt. Pleasant vs. Le Droit Park. Tonight the Capital Bicycle Club will have a compass whist contest, memberdé and friends entering. HOW MENELEK LOOKS. As African Monarchs Go, He is a Ver> Grent Man. Fron the London Dally News. M. Morelli, who has thoroughly explore the Harrar, Shoa and Galas countries, haa been giving his impressions of Menelek, King, or Negus, of Shoa. He knows hint well, thinks him able and unscrupulous, and likely to make the country he rules over the Prussia of East Africa. His pelace or guebi at Antolo is like any other house there, but is on a much larger scale. It stands in a triple stockade, and hat a ccnical thatched roof, supported inside by a circular row of pillars, on which Euro- pean red, yellow, green umbrellas, silks, satirs, crockery and other—in his eyes— valuablé objects are hung with an eye te orremental eff ‘The guebi looks like a - immense mushroom. about sixty feet in diameter, with two large alcoves, in one of which is placed a sort of divan throne, where he sits to give bis audiences. ‘The cushions are covered with bright sik. The queen’s alc orpesite, and adorned with scarts, mantles, pictures and straw hats trimmod ir the European style. A trellis lines the tent, and is ured as a gun rack. There is hardly a lath to be seen to the height of six feet, so thick are the Remington and other rifles. Mene- lek is always buying guns, and has been fer the last twelve years. He asks Euro- peans whom he receives to be seated on armchairs kept on purpose for them. He swears by Gorghis Gueital and Mikael Gucitai, or St. George and St. Michael, the Patrons of Shoa; is afraid of ghosts, and of the evil eye, and stands in awe of monks anc hermits. The king wears a broad-brimmed Panama hat, or a white felt hat of the same shape. Beneath it is a light stuff bound round the head and tied in a bow behind. His over-garment is a wide mantle of black silk, shaped like the Arab bournous. Men- elek used to be very fond of watches and other timepieces. Their mechanism inter- ested him, but he cares less for them now. All his habitations are on high hills. His seat of justice is under a wide-spreading tree on the hilltop at Ankoboer. The royal guebi is on the top of a small plateau, trem which he can see a great distance, Cicse to it is a church dedicated to Miriam. The position is regarded as impregnable. A European architect built there a preity Villa for Menelek faced with glazed tiles, but the monks persuaded the king that he would be unlucky from the day he went to live in it, and that they feared thunder- bolts would fall on ft. Queen Taftou manages to obtain Euro- pean gowns. She has a rich head of hair, which she urranges in many braids, like the Roman empresses, and then draws back from ber forehead and twists up in one coil behind. Menelek is her sixth husband. Widowers are not free to re- marry in Shea, but widows are. The king is excepted from this rule should he have no offspring. An important personage in the royal &uebi is Gabriel Gobano, who is a native of the country, but was sold as a slave at Cairo. A pasha adopted him and had him educated at that city and Jerusalem, where he became a wonderful linguist and got into relation with influential members of the Russian clergy, with whom he keeps up a correspondence. He aks Russiar, German, Italian, French, English and Ara- bic, and is Menelek’s interpreter and often his secretary. He ran away from the pasha and reverted to Abyssinian Chris- tianity. Meneiek has unbounded confi- dence tn this man’s judgment. The queen was not favorable to him until he married in church her first dresser, who is also her confidential maid. It is circular, and ———-+ee. RAN THE WRONG WAY. This is a Most Remarkable Base Ball Story. From the New York Telegram, ll wager a dollar to a quart of sun- shine,” says ex-Umpire George W. Burn- ham, “that I saw the funniest piay ever made on the diamond. In°1883 I was um- piring for Watkins at Port Huron. ‘Dan’ O'Leary came up there with the Pittsburg Browns. > “By the four-tongue forks of Dante’s lightning, George, but I'm glad to sce you, What are you doing here?’ was Dan's pre- iminary. . “ ‘Umpiring.” “Thank heaven for that! The fates are last upon my side!’ “Well, we went up to the park ner. Mountjoy was pitching Huron. O’Leary had heard of the then celebrated pitcher, but had not met him, Dan headed the baiting orders. “So this is Dumjoy, is it not?” quot Dan, as he took his position at the bat. ne strike!’ I shouted. ‘What's that, éeorge? You forget we are from the same municipality. Let me have one crack at the ball, and I'll make ‘anadian citizen out of it.’ after din. for Port “O'Leary was frenzied. ‘I'll lose the ball in spite of you.’ Dan bats left handed, Mountjoy pitched him an inshoot. Dan stepped out of the lines and knocked it away over Morrison into the left. ““Well, what do you think of me, George, you great mountain of obesity—go on a fellow townsman, eh? 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