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There is more interest than ever expressed in the game, and all of the clubs are starting in work with a will, though as yet the line-up of none has been been definitely agreed upon, outside of perhaps the Carrol! Insti- tute. While it has been decided to have the first game of the season played on or be- fcre November 10, the details are now being arranged to have everything completed by that time. _ Perhaps the most important thing is the arrangement of the schedule, and adopting a different course from last year, the en- tire schedule will be mapped out at the be- ginning of the season, so that every club will just know what it will have to do and get in readiness for the same. The commit- tee in charge of the schedule consists of Messrs. S. Porter House, W. L. I.; Beckley, C. L; George Mansfield, E. A. C., and R. J. Beall, jr.,C. A. C. This committee is expected to arrange a suitable playing schedule, and present the same at the next reguiir meet- ing of the league, which will be held Tues- day evening at the club house of the East- ern Athletic Club. The report of the com- mittee will be read, and without a doubt adopted, as in its compilation care is taken to suit the convenience as near as possible of every club. In the matter of rules the league is to be ecngratulated upon the adoption of the in- ternational rules, the benefits of which are twofold. A better game is put up from a scientific point of view, and one which will have the result of bringing out a larger at- tendance at the games. More than this, if any of the local clubs desire to play games with outside clubs, either at home or abroad, the same set of rules govern, and thereby permit the local men to play a game with which they are familiar. Under the rules the team may be com- pozed of seven or nine men, according to the room afforded for playing. Perhaps the only place where nine men can be uscd on a side will be at the armory of the Washington Light Infantry. One change made in the international rules was the abolishing of a line five feet from the walls of the gymnasium, designed to protect the players from contact with the hard surface. The gymnasiums of most of the local clubs are too small to permit this line being drawn, hence it was abolished. ‘The make-up of the various teams of the league is something of interest to many members. As before stated, the exact line-up has not been made, but the men in training on the various teams, most of whom will likely play, are as follows: The Washington Light Infantry team, which won the championship last year, has already started in for active work. Most all of the men of last year are on the team. Mr. John S. Robinson is manager. Harry Lee will be captain of the team this year, having proven his ability last season. The team this year will consist of Ernest and Jesse Schafhirt, Harry McCabe, Samuel Shreve, Fréd Burnett, J. O. Waters, Claude Given, Royce Hough and Walter McCath- ran. ‘The Carroll Institute team, which finished second in the race last season, will have practically the same men. Mangan, Daly, Hughes, Mess and Burberick of last year’s team will play this year. Gallagher is at present unable to play, and his place will be filled by Murphy. Pearson, another member of last year’s team, will not play this season, he being succeeded by Donohue. The substitutes are Crutchet and McCloskey. This team ought to stand somewhere near the lead this season, and has aspirations for the championship trophy. The Washington Athletic Club will have practically the same team as last year. They finished third, and will perhaps make a better showing this year. Sanderson, who last year- was captain of the team, will play this year,*but Mullen, one of last year’s players, will succeed him as cap- tain. The other players of last year are: Kenny, Martin, Ackers and Suit. The new McCauley, Green and Brinkley. , Who last year was with the Eastern Athletic Club, will undoubtedly play on the WasLington Athletic Club this year. The Eastern Athletic Club will be after the pennant this year, and promise to put up a strong game. Last year they finished fourth at the close of the season, and they expect this year to come higher. Mr. Gee. Mansfield, the well-known Fast Washing- ton business man, was elected manager of the team a few days ago, and during the week he started the candidates of the team in active training. A good many of the old members of last year will be on the team, and the candidates are: F. Raab, George Gates, Fred. S. Wyesbader, B. Raab, William Brearley, W. Marshalk, Ed. Ockert, T. L. Johnson, R. R. Mackey, L. Sedgwick and Mr. Whens. The Columbia Athletic Club team is still an uncertainty as to its composition,though the determination is to have a team. They have an excellent fleld from which to pick a team. and among the number are: Duke, Underwood, Beall, Clark, Wells, Parsons, Magee, Speare, Cabrera, McGowan, Franz, Haycock, Talmadge and Dickinson. There is some doubt expressed, however, as to Wells and Dickinson playing. The Corcoran Cadets have an unusually large number of men to pick from, though the team will be somewhat light in weight compared with the other teams. Sixteen men have been in practice for the game for some time past and are rapidly getting into good playing trim. The composition of the team for the coming year has not been picked out, though there is material enough to pick out two teams and still have substitutes. Messrs. Clark, Collins, Davis, Gulsta, Walters, Dodge, De Moll, Schroeder und McGlue of last year’s team will play this year. Messrs. Thompson and Burton, who played last year, are now on the sick list, and it {s not known whether or not they will play this year. Among the new candidates are Messrs. Bouley, Row- land, Munck, O'Connell, Chick, Mills, Putsche, Godey and David Collins: The team of the Miles Cycle Infantry has not yet been decided upon. There are @ number of candidates practicing every evening in the National Guard Athletic Association gymnasium at the armory buitding, and the team to represent the company wl! probably not be picked until the latter part of the month. Among those in training for the team are Tierney, Alex- ander, Campbell, Freck, Gibson and Jack- scn, who played on the team last year. The new men are Micha- Todd, Loveless, Eggleston and Weaver. The Queer Wheelmen will come in the field with a team. Though starting out as a new club, it will not have an entirely new team, as a good many of the members were on other teams last year. No regular practice has been commenced as yet, and {t is surmised that the team wili consist of George E. Boyd, captain, and Messrs. Charles Long, E. A. Pitkin, Paul von Boeckman, R. H. Atkinson, Jannero Pow- ers and John Woerner, with Robert Cloak- ey, Fred Vogt, Frank Ghiselli and L. O. Slack, substitutes. UNIVERSITY ATHLETICS. Catholic University. The Athletic Association of the Catholic University will be formally organized for the work of the year early in November, ty which time the qualificaticns of the different applicants for membership can be fully ascertained. It is probable that no foot ball team will be organized at present. Two hand ball courts have been erected in the rear of Caldwell Hall, and a bas ball field is now being laid off back of Mc- Mahon Hall. It is expected that some good Don’t Buy a Wheel —without first learning the great in- ducements we are offering—you'tl lose money if you do. [New Wheels for hire, 25e. per hour. Enterprise Cycle Co., 812-814 14th St. Jno. Woernér, jr., Mgr. ec24144 —The highest class of laundry work possible to atcomplish’ at the Yale Laundry, 514 1oth st: ’Phone 1092—and wagon will call, ~~ rt ‘ 9. athletes will be developed from the material now at the university. Georgetown University. The wearers of the blue and gray are jubilant over the result of the tennis tour- nament, in which Goodfellow and Driscoll won first place and Tobin and MacMahon second place. Cullen, '99, manager of billiards, has an- nounced two tournaments for this year, one to take place before the holidays, the other in the spring term. Devereux, '08, is expected to be the win- ner of the half-mile race at the field and track meet on November 7. A new departure, or rather a return to the old Grecian sports, will be inaugurated at the fleld and track meet. Smith, Shea and Doyle are practicing daily with the dis- cus, and Smith will try for the record, 111 feet 11 inches, now held by Sheldon of Yale. McAnerny, '98, shows great improvemeni over his work of last year, and the other athletes are in fine form. Wefers never was in better condition, and is expected to break the records in the 100 and 220-yard dashes. Trainer Foley has found two quarter and half-mile runners in Fleming and Prince that he expects to surprise some one with on_the 7th. Ruff, Stewart, Curtis and Coffin of the High School relay team are now under Trainer Foley's direction and are in fine condition. Great interest is manifested in the ap- proaching meet of November 7. The leges invited to participate and who have signified their intention to send representa- tives are Brown, Columbia (N. Y.), Colum- bilan (D. C.), Cornell, Fordham, Harvard, Holy Cross, Lafayette, Lehigh, University of Pennsylvania, Princeton and Yale. Sunday afternoon the class of ‘! eleven will meet the 1900 eleven on Georgetown field. The line up for the game follows: Position. 1900 Cullen, L. .. .Ceater. -Horrig.n Applegarth......Left guard. Byrn. -Right guard. O'Shea. -Left tackle. Delahar t Right tackle .-Head Walsh, R. -Left end «McIntyre Bell Right end. Fleming Lynch. Quarter bac! Loughlin Cullen. .....Right half back. Muligan Nagle. -Left_half back. McColgan Jovin. -Full back Muryin Fox, '97, is getiing speedier every day and Trainer Foley predicts he will secure a Place at Mott Haven. J. T. Collins has been elected manager of base ball, and a schedule is being made out for games with Princeton, University of Pennsylvania, University of Virginia and Yale. Wednesday ‘97 and ‘98 elevens will try conclusions. Driscoll will meet ‘Davidson on the bache- lor courts to decide the District tennis championship as soon as the latter, who has been sick, is able to play. Howard University. A practic? game was played between the regular university eleven and a “pick-up” team Thursday, resulting in a victory for the regulars. A game has been arranged with the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania Reserves for Sat- urday, October 31. ‘It is expected that an interesting game will result, as the teams are quite evenly matched in weight. The Tennis Club met Thursday afternoon and elected Holmes, president; Brewer, vice president; Gillam, treasurer, and Paxcon, secretary. There will be a series uf games played, the first being scheduled for this afternoon. Prof. Cook of '95 Oxford is coaching the foot ball team. GRAND COUP IN WHIST. About 000 Games It is Possible. ‘ Writing regarding the grand coup in whist for the St. Paul Globe, Mr. George L. Bunn says: Cavendish says that the opportunity for making the grand coup will occur on an average not more than once in: 20,000} games. We believe that this ts no exag- geration; we have seen the play made but once in our whist experience prior to Oc- tober 14, 1896. In the progressive game, at the St. Paul Chess and Whist Club, last Wednesday night, an opportunity arose and Was promptly taken advantage of. We give the deal and play below. Messrs. Briggs and Bunn were the North and South players. The grand coup 1s not in itself a difficult’ play; it requires only careful at- tention to the fall of the cards to be able to perceive the chance when it arises, and no more whist ability to take advantage of the chance than many other situations require. The bird is prized for its extrema rarity, rather than for any difficulty in capturing it after it makes its appearance. The deal is given below exactly as pl. and, while the development is not extrao dinary, it is a fact that the opportunity for the play arose at but one table out of the seven at which the deal was played. Trump, Hearts, Three. Leader, West. Once in The Hands, East. Souh. West. 3c 50 2c KH Hx. au EL 3H Qux Ksx Qs 8 mw 8C ACx S 6D ASx os 4D JSx 6c Cx te 73 Ke JC 5D ™m 3D ID Dx 10D ss. D SE 9s 9D JHx Score: Nortk and South, 7. Comment. Trick 2—North has no other lead than a trump. East makes the ordinary play of King second hand, and it is fortunate he did so, for, otherwise, the chance for the grand coup would not have arisen. Trick 3—West plays a false card, which, for the time being, makes North think that South has the other two trumps. Of course North knows that East has no more, and that the Jack and Eight are together with South or West. Trick 4—West thinks that the outlook for the club suit Is not pleasant, and leads from his Three of spades. ‘Trick 5—East thinks that South has trumps left, and returns his partner's club suit in preference to the spade. Tricks 6-7—West makes him two com- manding spades, and South's failure to trump marks Jack and Elght of trumps with West. South echoes in his discards to signify that he 1s throwing away from his long suit, a fact that North must per- ceive anyway, but the echo serves to in- duce North to credit South with strength as well as length In the diamond suit. ‘Trick 5—West’s lead of a club is question- able, as he can place the tenace with South; however, West can also ‘place the dia- monds in South's hand, and his play should not be criticised too severely, especially as it gives North the opportunity of a life- time. Had West led a diamond at that point, North's play would have been more difficult, but he could have made a grand stand play by discarding Ace of diamonds on South’s lead of King of clubs, trump- -ng another club, and returning his sma. diamond. This vould not be the grand coup, but a play of a much more difficult character, requiring brilliant play by botu South and North. Trick South perceives the situation and leads King of clubs. South undoubted-, ly expected North to make the play he did; North has left Ten, Seven and Six of trumps, and Ace, Eight of, diamonds; he knows ‘that if he discards ‘his small dia- mond in this trick, he will be compelled to win the next trick with Ace of dia- monds and lead a trump to West's Jack, Eight, while if he trumps King of clubs and South has King of diamonds, the lead will come through West and he will make only his Jack of trumps. Even if Sou has rot King of diamonds, the play can- not lose, as the loss of a diamond trick will be made up by making the lead come through West's trump tenace. North, therefore, trumps his partner's trick. ‘Tricks 10-18—The coup succeeds. South has the necessary card, and West makes but one trump. Cooper Breaks a Record. Tom Cooper smashed the world’s unpaced quarter-mile record Thursday night at the Memphis, Tenn., Coliseum races. His time was 26 2-6 seconds. The best previous rec. ord was 26 3-5 seconds, held by Con Baker and Johnson. Asked to Manage Philadelphia. William H. Murray, for two seasons man- ager of the Providence ball team, has been asked to take the management of the Philadelphia team, ON LOCAL @DOT BALL FIELDS Games That Have Been With Ont- side Teams. i Preparations for the Thanksgiving Day Contest— Work of Gallnudet and Columbip=Athietic Club Men. ‘The local. foot.pall players have been doing but little of fate. ‘The Indian sum- mer weather ofthe past week, while it has been splendid to all of the poputation of the city, does nut make good foot ball weather. The game Is productive of more exertion to all players than any other out- door game, and if the weather is the least bit warm the players feel it more and become fatigued more easily. The weather of the past week was excellent from a spectator’s point of view, but the ideal foot ball fs the crisp, cool weather, char- acteristic of the closing days of fall, when the atmosphere is bracing enough to in- vigorate the players and keep them moving lively ali of the time. Very little has been done so far by the local clubs, outside of the matter of forma- tion. The decision has been reached by a good many organizations to have an eleven in the field this season. Outside of this very little work has been doue in the mat- ter of line-up. The Gallaudets. To Gallaudet College belongs the credit of having the first local team in the field. This eleven has had its practice and played three or four games, in which the colle- gians of the deaf and dumb institute have come out victorious. This is, indeed, a very creditable showing, and speaks well of the strength of the team this season. ‘The line-up is a decided improvement over last year, and this fact ts fully evidenced by the success of the eleven so far this season. ‘There Is a good deal of old mate- rial on the team, and the new men who qualified for positions this year have strengthened the team considerably. The eleven this year is, without a doubt, the strongest that was ever put out from among the ranks of the students at Ken- dall Green. In weight the eleven will com- pare favorably with any other foot ball team in town. The average weight of the men is about 100 pounds, and this will prob- ably equal the average weight of the Co- lumbia Athletic Club team. The Gallaudets have not yet shown their full strength. The teams they have played with have not been their equal in weight and skill. In the game last Saturday, in which the Gallaudets and the Maryland Agricultural College elevens cathe together, with neither side scoring at the end of two halves, cannot be taken as a fair example of the strength of the deaf and dumb players. Their team was crippled by the absence of several of the best players, and but for this fact Gallaudet would have won, they playing an aggressive game all the way through, the ball hovering off the Agricultural boys’. tifteen-yard line most of the time. In the event of a game be- tween the Columbia Athletic Club and the Gallaudets, the playing would be decidedly Interesting, though. it is likely that the former team would have slightly the best of it, Columbia Athletic Club. Captain W. Fred. Sims cf the Columbia Athletic Club eleven has been busily en- giged In whipping the men under him in line, and with this end in view the candi- dates for the team have been puiting in some hard practice every afternoon this week at Columbia field.” While there 1s an abundance of material it does not look as though the team will be as strong as the teams of previous years, though strong enough to compete with any local club. The Hme-up of thé team has not been set- tled, and though’ sdihe of the candidates will be In position In the game now in progress at C. A.C. field it does rot fol- low-that this wil be the regular line-up for the®eason. “The line-up for the game today was not decided until last evening and is a sort of a patchwork affair. If the eleven wins it Wil be all right. and probably exert @ big influence 2a the fu- ture organization of the team. If, on the other hand, the club loses this afternoon there avill be wy sort of shaking up. The candidates In training and the posi- tions they are after are as follows: Center, tnderwood Gapen; guards, McCon- ville, Chaprian, Dickinson Brown tacklers, McGowan, Saunders and Hickok; Maupin, Curtiss and “Humphreys; quarter back, Parsons and Mag halt backs, Captain Sims, Lewis, Cooker and M full backs, Lewis, Walsh and he team from the officers of Fort Mon- roe arrived in the city this morning by boat, Manager Charles A. Cabrera receiv- ing a telegram from J. A pton, the manager of the Fort Monrve en. He met the team and their friends, who came up to root the men to victory, and tock charge of the entire contingent for the The Potomnes, The Potomacs who started in the field to have an eleven are not meeting with an- ticipated success in the matter of form- ing an cleven. The members are some- what lacking in the interest of the or- ganization, and that beirg the case It is hardly likely that a team will be organized until a change of sentiment is experienced among the players. One of the first games cheduled by Manager Schell was with the Hampton Athletic Club of Hampton, Va., and on account of the conditions men- tloned abcve the game was canceled. Upon the earnest request of the Hampton peo- ple the matter was reconsidered and a team formed and sent down under Cap:. Lyman, “ho plays full back. The result of the game is awaited with interest. Thanksgiving Day Game Nothing has been done in the way of the Thanksdiving day game, though nego- tiations are now in progress for several garaes. Manager Cabrera was anxious to have a game with the University of Vir- ginia eleven on this dete, but the matter seems to have resulted in naught. Nego- tlations are now pending for a game on that holiday with the Orange Athletic Club of Orange, N. J. The Central ‘High School team plays its first game of the week this afternoon at Alexandria, where it wili meet the team of the Episcopal High School at that place. There is some rivalry between the two schools, and as the Central boys have strengthered the weak spots in their line up a good game can be expected. The High School boys will carry with them @ good crowd of rooters. THE BUDA PESTH TOURNEY. Comments on the Work of the Chess Experts. The tournament at Buda Pesth came to a close Wednesday last, so far as the regular schedule 1s concerned. As previously an- nounced, Tschigotin and Charousek tied for first place, and are now playing off the tle, the first game of whith was scheduled for yesterday. At Nuremberg Tschigorin and Charousck finishéd ténth and twelfth in a list of nineteen players. They were hehind six of the players whbm they defeated at Buda Pesth. ‘Pachigerin has long heen known as a play¢r of the first rank, but Charousek is a new aight out of his’ own country. He defestedM@schigorin, Pillsbury, Winawer, Tarrasea and Maroczy, and drew with Walbrodt and Schlechter, showing that he belongs ‘qh. the front rank of the world’s players. He ost but two games, namely, to Marco-and Janowski. Pillsbury finished third. In his last game h Tarrasch he,hada draw in hand, but he needed to win!thé game to tie for first place. Having everytWing to gain and noth- ing to lose, he playe for a win and lost the game. ARS de Winawer made h five start, winning six cut of seven games played by him, but in the last five games he lost four and drew the fifth. Maroczy and Janowski were not in the same form as at Nuremberg, and the play of Tarrasch was also way off. The following table shows the score of each player in games won, lost and drawn, comparing the score with that at Nurem- berg: Won. Last. Drawn. filisbury Sanow Schlechter. NOP AHATRAGIA AASO MOM BOM COED: OH cetorem mboertpeacoes 10 2 Sess) At Buda Pesth the highest possible score was 12; at Nuremburg it was 18. The average length of the games was 48 moves; at Nuremberg it was 46 moves. As will be seen below, the players han- dling the white pieces won the greater number of games. ‘The same was true at Nuremberg, but at Hastings the situation was reversed. As regards the openings, the Ruy Lopez continues the favorite. This was not the case in the early stages of the tourna- ment, but in the last four rounds thirteen games, or more than half, were ‘played at that opening. The queen’s gambit declined was the next favorite. Notwithstanding the successful acceptance of the pawn at Nuremberg, the gambit was not once ac- cepted at Buda Pes:h. The king bishop's game was played five times, while at Nuremburg it was not played once. The following is a list of the openings played at least three times, with the results at each: White Black Aerie won. wou. Dein. iy Lopex, Queen's gambit’ declined French defense p's gambit knights’ game. Dutch opening. Vienna game Other openings, mas ets coer BBE] momsomnemsnssens’ Totals at Hastings The match for the championship of the World between Lasker and Steinitz will be- win the first of next month. Local chess players will regret to hear of the death at Bristol, England, on Oc- tober 5, of Dr. W. H. K. Pollock. It will be remembered that he was the captain of the Baltimore team which visited this city two or three times three or four years ago. He won the brilllancy prize for his game with Weiss in the sixth American chess congress, Four clerks in the record and pension otfice of the War Department have played together at various times, and there has been a question as to which is the su- perlor player. To settle the matter it was arranged that each should play four games with each othef player. The games have not all been played yet, but the results so far place Mr. Paul in the lead; Mundelle, second; Gruber, third, and Showalter, fourth. WHIST CIRCLES BUSY. Recent Games Played in the Local Clubs. Local whist circles have been busy the past week. At the Columbia Athletic Club last Saturday evening four pairs contested 24 hands, 8 hands with each other pair. The results were as follows: Shaw and Swearingen, plus 12; Walls and Taliaferro, plus 2; Barnard and Baldwin, plus 2, and Safford and Jack, 16 minus. Wednesday evening at the same club 6 pairs played 3 hands with each other pair, the final score being as follows: Shaw and Hampton, plus 10; Walls and Macey, plus 7; Wooten and Safford, plus 5; Taliaferro and Callan, plus 1, and Jackson and Swear- ingen, 0. The play of Mr. Shaw has been unusually strong. He ts a new member, and has at once stepped to the front among the whist player: Two fours played 16 hands, duplicate whist, at the Washington Chess Club, 614 J2th street, lust Saturday evening. Messra. Turner, Knight, Behrends and Lee defeated Messrs. Finn, Martin, Marks and Walker, tricks, the total gains being 12 to 7. The following are the leading scores in the compass whist match at the Capital Bicycle Club, counting only those who have played at least two evenings: Williams, MeComb, 19; Young, 6.05; Mattingly, 28; Stephen, 4.62; Fogg, 3.50; ; Carr, 1.96; Pelouze, 1.89) , 1.50; Myers, 0.81; Hoeke, 0.43. Wednesday evening at the Capital Bicy- cle Club 5 teams of 4 played a complicated match with all the other teams, the resuits being as follows: Fogg, McComb, Schoen- born and Mattingly, plus 12; Pelouze, Wirt, Myers and Cooper, minus 1; Hills, Barnes, Cool and Clark, minus 1; Garr, Cole, Ste- phens and Hoeke, minus 3; Prince, Bail- brache, Bunnemeyer and Taylor, minus 7. A meeting was called at the Columbia Athletic Club yesterday afternoon for the purpose of organizing a whist league among the local clubs. The Columbia Ath- letie Club, Capital Bicycle Club, Woman's Whist Club and Washington Chess, Checker ard Whist Club were represented. After a brief discussion it was decided to arrange a series of matches among the clubs rep- resented, should it meet the approval of the clubs themselves, each club to play one match with every other club. It was also suggested that each team be composed of eight persons, but this has not been defi- nitely settled. It is probable the first match Will be played on November 10. The Woman's Whist Club is composed of about twenty young ladies, who meet. at private houses each week and play for prizes. They have a team which, in play- ing strength, is probably unequaled by any ladies’ team in the city. It will be inter- esting to watch the results of their matches with teams from the Capital Bicycle and Columbia Athletic clubs. Then the match between the and the C. A. C.'s will prove very interest- ing. The latter have such veterans as Saf- ford, Walls and Wooten amoung them, and have a large number of others to draw from, such as Taliaferro, Bedan, Jackson, Barnard. Macey, Swearingen, Shaw, Childs and others. The C. A. C.’s have formally challenged the C. Bi. C.’s to a match, irreszective cf the above arrangement, and it will un- doubtedly be accepted. Both these clubs are practicing their players a great deal, and the matches betweea them will be well contested. c. Bi. Crs Fits and Sharkey Matched. Fitzsimmons . and Sharkey have been matched to box ten rounds at San Fran- cisco December 9. The men will compete for a $10,000 purse, the winner to take all. Big Foot Ball Games Today. Today's foot ball schedule is: University of Pennsylvania vs. Lafayette College, at Franklin Field, Philadelphia. Yale University vs. Carlisle Indian School in New York city. Harvard University sity, at Ithaca, N. Y. Princeton University vs. Pennsylvania State College, at Princeton, N. J. Brown University vs. Lehigh University, at Providence, R. I. United States Military Cadets vs. Union College, at West Point, N. ¥. Cornell Univer- Cooper and Bald Matched. Tom Cooper's backers have deposited 2500 for a series of match races with Ed. Baid for $1,000 a side. As Bald has been ex- tremely anxious to race Cooper, the mateh is practically an assured fact. Three races will be ridden in three different cities of the south, the distance to be decided later. The three towns will probably be Nash- ville, Louisville and New Orleans. SS A Remarkable Clock, From the London Times. Japan possesses a remarkable timeplece. It is contained in a frame three feet wide and five feet long, representing a noonday landscape of great beauty. The foreground is a mass of blossom; in the rear ts seen a hill, gradual in ascent, from which ap- parently flows a crystal cascade, whence a thread-like stream meanders. In the sky a golden sun turns on a silver wire, strik- ing the hcurs on a silver gong as it passes. Bach hour ts marked ona frame by a creeping tortoise, which serves the place of a hand. A lovely bird warbles at the close of each hour, and a mouse scampers from its hiding place and is soon lost to view. Food for Your Pet Bird. From the Feather. “For a cnange, for canaries and. other birds,” said an experienced raiser of birds, “nothing is better food than the various kinds of grasses which are now going tc seed. Around any grass plots can be found grass which has gone to seed. This is a natural food for birds at this season of the year, and it should be freely given them. The birds will relish the change very much, arfd it will improve them in plumage and song. They are tired of the ordinary seeds, which are good enough when there are no others, but now seed of every kind is in profusion, and needs only to be picked up. virhe pepper grass is now in full seed, and it is a great bracer for the feathered pets, and especially for canaries. : Birds like green stuff at all times, but are spe- cially fond of grass seeds of any kind. My experience is that no mistake can be made, and that a bird never eats any seed that it does not like and that ts not good for it.” —— — A toon for all, Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup. sisialol4 Carpets Made, 50 OF THESB REED ROCKERS go on sale Monday for 3.9 They're large size, shel- lac finish, strong and handsome Chairs. Twice the price wouldn't be more than they’re worth. If you want one you'll have to come early. ° Laid and LINED. We want to call your attention to the last feature. Lots of folks make and lay your Carpets for you. But we do. them without extra charge. Nobody else lines You buy the Car- pet—we do the rest. You'll always get an advantage here. House & Herrmann, Liberal Furnishers, Cor. 7th and I Streets. it Another Invoice Of those Blue Black and Brown Kerseys will be in on Mon- day. The Overcoats we're making of these stuffs are beyond adoubt the BEST VALUEEVER PRESENTED TO THE MEN of this city at the price of "15. 4 Check or plaid Body lining. Silk sleeve Lining. Velvet collar. Double or single Breasted. Mertz and Mertz, New “Era” Tailors, 906 F Street. Seema eee aetna ete tetera THE LOTTERY OF RICHES. A Good Woman's Advantage of Marry- ing = Poor Man. From the Boston Transcript. “I have been young and now am old,” sald one of the charming middle-aged wo- men of the period, whose looks belle the baptismal register, and Who rather enjoy arrogating to themselves the wisdom and experience of age. “And I have reached that period of life,” she continued, “when I can look back and see results and note how seldom those who are born with silver spoons in their mouths, as the saying is, have the silver fork when they are grown up. When I look back and remember who were the jeunesse doree of my youth—the men whose lives and positions above all others seemed particularly enviable and de- sirable—and then look about me and see how few of those who were called men of pleasure in those days have attained an honorable and useful middle age, I feel that I can preach a sermon to my boys and their friends with object lessons that ougnt to make it very impressive. Some are poor, having spent health and substance, like the prodigal, in riotous Iving. Even those who have apparently not suffered in purse or health are a set of discontented, blase, weary worldlings, who go over the same treadmill of fashionable existence year by year without pleasure or profit. “Another thing I have noticed from my vantage ground of a lifelong experience is that, if only as a purely worldly maxim, honesty certainly is the best policy. Many a brilliant man I have seen who has 4 stroyed his prospects by the crooked ways in which he sought to better himself finan- cially, politically and even socially, where- as if he had walked honorable before all men he would have gained the world’s good opinion, and in many instances the very things he coveted. And finally there are the young married couples of my youth. In nine cases out of ten, those of my friends who married poor young men, and who gave up the luxuries of their homes to prove veritable helpmeets to the men of their choice, are now almost without ex- ception prosperous, and in many cases wealthy, while those men and girls who married for money are, as a rule, greatly in want of It. ‘Be good and you will be happy’ is the old maxim, and certainly it seems true from a materialistic as well as from a religious point of view.” —_—_—_+or— The Telephone of the Future. Odessa Correspondent of the London News. ‘A Moscow electrician, M. Kildischewsky, claims to have made a very important dis- covery in the improvement of telephonic communication. The essential principle of the improvement is that distance makes = nce to the carriage of sound, or, a feast, that a telephonic communication may be carried over distances as long as in the cose of a telegraphic current. In the pres- ence of the chief of telegraphs and the de- pertmental engineer at Moscow, and using an ordinary telegraph wire, M. Kildis- chewsgy a few days ago made a very suc- cessful test of his invention by communt- cating with Rostoff on the Don,a distance of 980 miles. Ordinary speech, music and sin; .ing were heard with as perfect distinctness 8 if the communication were made be- tween two local Moscow stations. M. Kil- Gischewsky, It is anonunced, will now pro- ceed to London to test his discovery by ex- periments with one of the Atlantic cables between that city and New York. —EEE Telegraphing From Midocean. Among the thousands of telegrams re- ceived by the Duke and Duchess of York upon the birth of the young prince was one from the captain and crew of the Far- aday, which was, at that moment, in the middle of the Atlantic, engaged in a new cable to America. The end of the cabie-on board was attached to a signaling instrument, and by-thjs they had received fe hews of the birth of an heir to the throne. THE HAND OF IAN MacLAREN, Wonderfal Work of a Palmist Who Can Operate Blindfo! From the York Journal. There is a new palmist in town, Hargett, whose specialty is reading character from anonymous imprinis. He can read the hand blindfolded by the touch and form. From the palm he says he can tell the date of marriage, past and prospective, which ought to make him popular with the young women of New York. Here are some things he said after in- specting an unlabeled imprint of the hand of Ian MacLaren: “This hand is that of a man with re- markable intellectual power. It indicates mental ability that is really extraordinary. His mind is possibly more artistic in ex- pression than in scientific research, He does not spend so much time in digging out as in molding what he has. Style with him fs everything. This is truly a iterary hand, rather novelistic, humoristic and poetic in taste. Psychological studies and biography and history of the religious de- velopment of mankind are fascinating studies to this man. “While he may be clear to himself, he might dress his literary children in’ an- tique garb and attract attention to them by their old clothes. He is most intcrested in living bodies above the carih. In this line of thought he shows very superior qualities beyond what we ordinarily call good. “This hand indicates a man with a great ambition along lines of literature and art. Nothing short of an inevitable crush will set him back. That great thumb shows in- domitable will power and mental force. He is ideal, and all that he accepts Is very high —in work, in dress, in taste, in a wife.” - tos Reason for His Anger. From the Chicago Evenlig Post. “You're excite “I admit it. I am.” “You shouldn't let your temper get the better of you.” “I don’t, ordinarily, but when a man at- tacks the bicycle and disputes the most conservative statements in regard to it, I can't help it. Why, not ten minutes ago a man had the audacity to stand up and deny that the bicycle was the best thing in the world for rheumatism, neuralgia and sore throat.” ———-+e-+____ ‘The Click of the Ball Bearings. From the New York Evening Sun. A bicycle expert says: “To be at its best the ball in a bearing, contrary to the gen- eral belief, should not be of extreme hard- ness. Balls in cycle bearings fall in two Wways—by splitting and by wearing flat. If @ ball stops rolling in a bearing it at once has a flat spot formed on it, which makes it forever useless, and balls often split in two when at work. Just how a solid, sound steel ball can be split in such light ccmpany as the parts of a wheel is difficult to understand. Nevertheless, the bearing balls do split, as is well known to any repairer who has played the part of doctor to a sick bicycle.” —___§__+ Positive Proof. From Trath. Miss Daisy Medders (coyly)—“Do you leve me, Jason?” Jason Huckelberry—* "Course I love youl Do you s'pose I'd have been actin’ the fooh over you all this time if I didn’t ———_ +e- A Finished Wheelman, From the Chicago Record. “Scorcher’s a perfect wreck.” “What alls him?” “The doctor says he has bicycle heart, bicyc'e head, bicycle face, bicycle eyes, bi- cycle teeth and bicycle knees.”