Evening Star Newspaper, February 20, 1897, Page 9

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1897-24 PAGES, THE EVENING STAR, WASH. B. WILLIAMS, Furniture, &c., 7th and D Sts. Cleaning-up Sale of odds & ends Monday. a lot of aceamula- We ealcalate ‘a low on every of these items: LACE CURTAIN: aud $1.25 odd $1 ham Lace Going to stop selling Tapestry ‘Tab Crsere—henee these ridienloas mock Of prices 6-4 Fringed Tapestry 15° $2.00 Hie Covers. v $8 S4 Heavy Fringed Tapestry Table Covers. $ 124 Heavy na Tits BSE $B ‘overs. To close.....-- = Chenille Portieres at cost. WASH. B. WILLIAMS, Furniture, etc., 7th & D sts. Fe 2O-SOMt “The best laundry in Wash- ington.” That’s what two- thirds of the men say about the Yale. The opinion of that many is worth something. Drop a postal—or ‘phone 1og2—wagon will call. The Yale, 518 roth st. It Ss Ar HAVE YOU SEEN THE °07 Victor Road Racer? It not only. contains “Victor grade” material and “Vietor grade” workman- ship all the way through, but it has all the latest Httle touches which bring a bey ie up to date. 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Co. gooeones eaeseseeses es oncese Standard Bicycle, and infinite SOS SDOSH9DSOS G8 9E98 90505009 ey 3. HART BRITTAIN, Local Manager, 452 Penn. Ave. y MATCH WITH CORPORAL HIGH. Jagunrina to Meet Him in a Bread- sword Contest. Corp. Nelson K. High of Troop -A of the 6th Cavalry, at Fert Myer, who defeated Duncan C. Ross in a mounted broadsword contest in this city in December by & score of 12 to 8 points, and who ranks in the records of the War Department as the champion master of horse and sword of the army, has received a “defi” from a most unexpected quarter. An agent of Jaguarina, the woman champion foot and mounted fencer, met a representative of High in this city today for the purpose of making the preliminary arrangements for a mounted battle with the little corporal. At present she stands matched against Capt. Xavier Orlofsky, the Russian cham- pion, for a mounted contest for a stake of $0 a side in New York in April. Jaguarina’s manager proposed to Corp. High's representative that the cavalryman meet this lady in twenty-one three-minute attacks mounted, the first eleven points to win, for a purse of $00 a side, the match with High to take place within two months after the Orlofsky contest, or during the latter part of June. To ths Corp. High’s representative agreed, and, although no articles were signed, the conditions were fully discussed and assented to by both parties, and, there- fore, the soldier and the lady stand prac- tically matched for a contest with swords on horseback. Jaguarina, who is thirty-one years of age, has been a military rough rider and fencer since she was a young girl, and for fourteen years has been a professional. She has defeated many mounted fencers, among them Sergt. Owen Davis, 2d United States Cavalry; Capt. J. H. Marshall, 6th Dragoon Guards, British army; Capt. E. N. Jen- nings, 8th Royal Irish Hussars, British army; Ccnrad Wiedermann, German Uh- lan; Lieut. Baron Arno von Freilitzsch, Austrian Cavalry, and Lieut. Paul De Ville, French Chasseurs. Corperal High is about thirty years of age, and, although a small man, weighs 170 pounds. He served in the 4th Hussars, British army, and was then transferred to the 6th Dragoon Guards, with which regi- ment he served in South Africa, from 1879 to 1888. He came to this country eight years ago, and immediately enlisted in the Gth Cavalry. He is the crack show cavalry- man of the army, and when any exhibitions are to be given in riding and fencing he is always selected. At the recent military tournament in Madison Square Garden he expressed a desire to fence with any cav- alryman in the army. When the 6th acted as escort to Li Hung Chang in New York, High and his horse attracted especial at- tention. Jaguarina lives in Baltimore. BASKET BALL. ‘The week in the local basket ball circles has been even quieter than the preceding week, when the Baltimore players enliven- ed things by coming over and playing a return game with the Corcoran Cadets. This week only one game has been played since Monday, and that was a game for practice only between the Queer Wheel- men and Company C of the Washington Light Infantry, in which the soldier boys came off victorious. There ts a regularly scheduled game for this evening between ‘the Corcoran Cadets and the Carroll In- stitute, on the result of which depends the breaking of the existing tie between both teams for second place. ‘The Washington Light Infantry and the Eastern Athletic Club met last Saturday evening, and. by losing the game, the latter club fell to fourth place, while the winners strengthened their hold on first place. Out- side of this there is no change in_ the standing of the other clubs, and the Queer Wheelmen nd only a short distance ahead of the Washington Athletic Club, which winds up the list. As yet there remains but a few days over two weeks before the season winds up, and the relative position of the clubs at judged. be played, wita several games, ‘The Li Sb nnlry Days snly Swo more will wi ‘which will place that at and, while it is certain they will win one, it will be sufficient to put them in second place. The greatest tussle for a position will be between the Corcoran Cadets and the Eastern Athletic Club for third place. Should the Corcorans win the game this evening, they can be certain of their place, but if they lose they will stand even chances of finishing ahead of their rivals. From the way the Queer Wteelmen and the Washington Athletic Club have been playing, it looks now as though both clubs will be tied at the wind-up. If there is arything. it is in favor of the last-named club, which is now putting up a stronger game than at any previous time during the season. There are two games scheduled for next week. The Eastern Athletic Club and the Washington Athletic Club. will meet on Wednesday evening, most likely at the club house of the latter team. The Corcoran Cadets and the Washington Light Infantry will play Saturday evening, at the infantry armory, and this game is expected to be something of a surprise, according to the statement of Capt. Edwards of the Cor- corans. The standing of the clubs up to date is as follow: Name. Washington Light Infantry Carroll Institute.. Corcoran Cadet Corps Eastern Athletic Club. Queer Wheelmen... There are two games scheduled in the Major Bowling League for next week, the first of which comes off Tuesday evening at the Carrol! Institute, between the team cf that organization and the bowlers of the Washington Athletic Club. The Saeri- gerbund bowlers will play the Carrolls on Friday evening, at the former club's head- quarters. The season of the league will not close for over a month as yet, the last game being scheduled for March 29. The Southeastern League. Arrangements have been completed which assures Macon’s entry in the Southeastern League of Base Ball Clubs. This means that the Southeastern League goes through the season as was originally contemplated— a six-club league, comprising Macon, Co- lumbus, Atlanta, Augusta and Savannah, Ga., with Charieston, 8. ——_+___ The Elastic Reaction of Steel. From the Iron Age. If we produce elastic deformation ofa body and remove the load causing such deformation, the effect of the strain= exert- ed continues to act for a longer or shorter time; that is, the removal of the load, or the distorting force, does not Produce im- mediate rest,but the metal remains strained for days and weeks. This continuation of the strains affecting the metal after re- moval of the stress or stresses is called ¢lastic reaction. This elastic reaction, which begins after the elastic limit has been passed, diminishes in the course of time, partly or entirely, depending on the mole- ee Ce pe ihe metal. ‘tmar in a ture in 1885 calls atten- tion to observations he made in the manu- facture of steel springs. He says if steel wire was made into springs immediately or soon after drawing the wire very dis- couraging results were obtained, because the wire broke when coiled for springs. This caused grave doubts whether the right quality of steel was used. However, it was observed later that the same wire, if used from six to elght days after having been A Mean Advantage. From the Cleveland Jeader. Charley—“No, I guess I'll not call at the Pinkhams any more.” George—“Why not?” MILD AND;STARTLING Sensations of the Base Balt World During fhe Week: - REPORTED RUPTORE OF THE CLUBS Where Some df the Washington Players Will'Go This Year. ee CURRENT NOTES OF THE GAME Two sensations wére sprung on the base ball world during the past week, one of a mild form, the other startling, as it has all the ear marks of being inspired. The first was the Rusie-Taylor-Clements deal and the second the reported rupture in the membership of the big league. Notwith- standing the denials of all parties interest- ed the deal for the above-named players looks to be such a good thing for the parties concerned that the story can be taken as being very probable. Philadelphia can spare Jack Taylor and Catcher Clem- ents, as the club has several very good catchers, while New York is getting rid of a white elephant and securing what she needs badly—a first-class catcher. The Quaker city club has always been weak in the box, be it real or imaginary, and an addition like Amos Rusie would put it in the front rank for trophy honors. Rusie will never again play with New York, and if a deal is made for the great pitcher, Freedman will have to travel many miles to secure as good return as is offered by the Philadelphia management. In the matter of the reported rupture be- tween the “big five” and “little seven,” as given out by a New York paper last Wed- nesday, there can be no doubt that the old feeling between the league and association clubs is again coming to the top. The as- sociation members of the league favor cheaper base ball and Sunday games, while the league’s original members pose as the opponents of these two ideas. The “big five’ made a bad break at the last meeting of the league in threatening to withdraw from the twelve-club organization, and the calling of its blu is what has created ail the bad feeling. The old association members are head and shoulders above the “big five” when it comes to diplomatic base ball maneuvering, and by a little hustling they secured assurances from moneyed people in every city of the “big five” that new clubs would be placed in those cilics just as soon as the present membership Was dissolved. This prompt action brought the Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Pitts- burg and Chicago magnates to their senses, and a graceful “craw!” was the result. But the fighting feeling still exists, and the mouthpieces of the “big five’ have con- tinued to harp on the fact that unless the clubs from these five cities are treated more than fairly in the matter of schedule dates a big rumpus will occur at the Bal- timore meeting next week. From a Washington outlook—and a prominent local base ball man can be quoted, if necessary—the “big five” will swal- low their little dose as usual next week, and everything will pe serene. Sand is an’ unknown quantity with them when their wallets are threatened, and they have a holy horror of a’ basé ball war, with its consequent increase in salaries for the players. It seems almost humorous when the situation fs ‘Sized up in a business fashion. Here are twelve clubs that con- trol base ball in Amerjca, and through this control dictate all the plans in connection with the national. game. It is a base ball trust, pure and simpte, and through the combination clubs ate enabled to make each season all the way from 10 to 50-per cent on the money invested. Take the Washington club % ag example. It fs con- ceded that the clu® chéared $20,000 last sea- son, and at a vdluatiog of $100,000 this is a cool 20 per cet. “The Cincinnati club cleared nearly $700; the New. Yorks, $80,000; the Philadélphias, .$40,000;.the Bos- tong, about $45,00p: Pittsburg, $35,000, and Chicago, fully $9,00&@ Could these clubs do nearly as wel¥ ft'the combine did not exist? Emphatically, no. The | weaker clubs may not draw as well as the stronger clubs, but they are as necessary as their better fixed companions, and act as a guard against ruinous competition. -Owning their own grounds, a matter that several prom- inent base ball adherents of the “big five”” have been harping on for months past, does not cut much of a figure in the base ball world. A lease does just as well, and, besides, not as much money is tied up To put the whole matter in a nutshell, it has gome down to a matter of burying per- sonal feeling and greed and making the best of w situation. While 20 per cent may not please the ‘bigger clubs, they will doubtless come to the conclusion that it is better than losing that much, and a con- cession to nearly all the demands put for- ward by the “little seven” will likely fol- low at the coming Baltimore meeting, and harmony will again reign for another sea- son. It is hard to draw a singed cat near a fire, let alone into it. Through the medium of the District Amateur League fully half a hundred local base ball players will graduate into pro- fessional ranks the coming season. Three or four seasons back when the Y. M. C. A. and the Georgetown College teams furnish- ed about all the amateur base ball in this city, it was a rarity to see the name of a Washington player among the professional clubs. Today there are a dozen, and in the Eastern, Western and Atlantic leagues their playing has been of the most sensa- tional kind. Every one is a comer, and within the next year or two Washington will be claiming as many professional play- ers es Philadelphia or Cincinnati. The Southern and Virginia leagues are respon- sible in a great way for the advancement of the local players, and through “Ted” Sullivan and the Texas League in 185 sev- eral of the local boys were pushed to the front. The coming season will see flocks of the boys from Washington going into the ranks of professionals, the Virginia and Southern leagues, as usual, catching the greater part of the graft. The Roanoke club will have Morrison, Nugent, Sullivan, Geo. E,,Brown, Pitcher ‘Trepton Team. Gafford, Hoffman ana Connors; Danville, Powell, Dougherty, Purner, Collins, Ejbel and Flaherty; the’ Winstons of North Car- olina, Rothe, Leveless, McCann, Smith and Hayden, as.mamager. Noreum, the clever south-paw.piteher, will go to Falt River. Cauliflower to Aus\in, Tex. Brown, the left-hander from Georetown, has been ceptured by ‘“Ted”’ Sullivan, and’ will help out, the pitching corps of the Trenton club. Ernest Hodge goes to Newark, N. J.; Algic McBride to St. Paul, and so on down the line. There are several others that have already signed papers for next séason and almost a dozen more who have been ap- proached as to their terms. Of course, it is not necessary to refer to. “Bert” Myers and Harry O’Hagan, as they are too well known, but they are coming so fast that it expected that before the season ends oes a ted pought to pee beet ey oe ie he clubs in the league eir hit- ting atilities alone. 4 the face: of all this @ reorganization of the better clubs of the leagues for the peerey ir and reat coming season compact be in order. one 4 of “Bug” Holiday for Roger Connor, as the signing of the big first baseman would un- doubtedly take Buck Ewing off of first and relegate him to the bench as a manager. No matter what sort of a game Capt. Ev-ing puts up next season, he is needed on the initial beg. His headwork and batting are needed, and Ewing even at his worst is better than half a dozen other first base- men in the league that could be named. Ewing will flay first base if he is able to stand on two legs. If it is shown after training that his underpinning won’t hold his body, then the bag will be looked after by Holliday and Vaughn. There is no use to speculate about another first baseman. Capt. Ewing gave it out last week that he didn’t want any one for this position, and that ought to settle it. “Bug” Holliday played first base in a number of games last year, and he demonstrated that with a lit- tle practice he will be able to play the po- sition with the best of them. “Bug” is faster than Vaughn: he can play a deever field and get back to the bag in better style than the good-natured, hard-working farmer can. Last year Holliday led the red legs in batting, and it is the best policy to have the best batters on the team in as many games as pesinle. Both Ewing and Holliday are harder batters than any first baseman that car b> mustered from the smaller leagues. The most assuring thing to the admirers of the club is that Ewing will be on first for the Cincinnatis the coming season, barring unlooked-for diffi- culties. A new and clever trick has been played on the base ball world by the backers of the New Orleans club. It consisted simply in falsely recording the averages of a first- class player, and through this means the club has been able to hold on to a player that would have been drafted to the bigger league had the player’s work been truth- fully recorded. This scheme is a great one, and similar tactics will no doubt be resorted te by other minor league clubs who desire to hold on to first-class players. The player’s name was Gonding, and he played behind the bat for New Orleans last season. When the players and umpires of the South- ern League drifted north and westward last fall they all told wonderful tales of the catcher’s ability. This Gonding, they said, Was a second Bennett as a catcher and a glorious batter. But when the averages came out the player was credited with a batting per- centage of only .147. ‘That killed him in the eyes of the big league managers. As much as they liked his catching thoy didn’t want a nan who could hit only so weak as that. Now that the rush for players is over and Gonding cannot be drafted the people down in the crescent city are smiling with themselves and have let out the fact that the player is a won- derful batter, hitting over 490 throughout the season, and his catching average 1s close to the 1,000 mark, and that his aver- age was deliberately falsified so as to keep him in New Orleans another season. This is great work for the magnates, but tard on the player. Newspape> averages are handy things to have around, and if this sort of crcoked scoring is to spread they will be found to be more reliabl2 than the official reports. It looks now as if we are again to lose the Senators to Washington on Decoration day. It has been President Youns’s policy to assign the western clubs to the best cities in the league on Decoration day in rotation. The Cincinnatis have swung around the eastern circuit until it is now their turn to play in Washington. This city has the reputation of being a poor place for base ball on Memorial day, and as a consequence games have been trans- ferred to Pittsburg and other cities. This year the holiday falls on Sunday and will be observed on Monday. As the Senators play Suuday ball it is easy to put two and two together. If the Cincinnatis are scheduled for this city on Decoration day it is more than likely that the Senators will play in that city on Sunday, a big Sunday city, and then two gamcs on Monday. These games come at the winding up of the first western series. and it will be an easy matter for the local club to reach Cincinnati for the Sunday game. Both Bancroft and Wagner are good business men, and the arrangement will surely go through, as that Sunday is an open one and would be lost entirely but for this arrangement. Cincinnati has not had a game of ball on Decoration day since the twelve-club league was organized, and a tremendous crowd would undoubtedly turn out. Washington “fans” will not relish the idea of transferring games, but when it comes to pitting a crowd of 8,000 against 25,000, counting the Sunday game, Mr. Wagner can hardly be blamed for making the iransfer. Notes of the Game. In a Iittle less than a month, with good weather, the Senators will be at work at National Park. The first regular exhibition game will come’ off April 1, the Norfolk club of the Virginia League being the at- traction. Captain Willie Joyce recently said that New York had no deal pending with Wash- ington and that he was not anxious to se- cure McGuire. He admitted, however, that he would like to have Mercer or Selbach, and might worry along with De Montre- ville. If there is Sunday ball in Cleveland this seascn none of the Cleveland players will be sold, and the great team will remain in- tact. If there is no Sunday ball—well, that is different. It looks as if the coming season would be a poor one for young blood players. The best nowadays are the boys that have been in the thick of the fray for about four years. They know how and are surely the real people. Still the work of the veterans on the New York team must not be over- locked. It is stated that President Kerr of the Pittsburgs will ge to the league meeting next week loaded for bear. He says that the rules about changes in the pitching box are aimed at his darling—Killen—and if adopted will surely handicap that left- handed pitcher. Kerr says he will fight the propose changes to a finish. Three or four players on the local team will have to play good ball the coming season or take a dose of minor league med- icine. New men ean be had for the ex- perse of telegraphing, and this fact will help the club more than can be imagined. A special to a paper from St. Louis says: “Stanley Robison, vice president of the Cteveland Base Ball Club, passed through here yesterday en route from Het Sprin to Cleveland. Robison said that the le: clubs would nave to come to the al Von der Ahe. He added tha: four of the eastern clubs would, at the coming meet- ing of the league, each turn over a player to the Cleveland club, and the laiter would in turn give to Von der Ahe a quartet of its stars.” Manager Burns of the Hartford Club has signed Peul Radford to play shortstop or second base. Last season Radford !ed the New England League in base running and run getting while playing with Bangor. WILL HAVE ANOTHER SHOOT. Twelve Events by “c Glen Echo Gun Ctup. The Glen Echo Gun Club, which recently gave a successful tourney, is endeavoring to bring the sport to the prominence that it deserves. It is understood that arrange- ments are being made to amalgamate all of the gunning clubs of the city in the one club, making 6ne large organization. The secretary of the club, Mr. O. W. Hyde, announces that Monday the club will have another tournament at its grounds at Glen Echo, and if the weather is good there will undoubtedly be a large gather- ing. There are twelve events on ihe pro- gram, three being merchandise events and nine sweepstakes. All of the merchandis+ events are twenty-five birds, and the en- trance fee is seventy-five cents. ‘“shree of the sweepstakes will be for twenty birds, the entrance fee being $1.50, while the other sweepstake events will be for fifteen birds, with an entrance fee of 31. The price of birds in the sweepstakes will be two cents, and in-the merchandise three gunners will have as competitors the cracks of the surround- ing, eounties. SEE-SAWED. AT TENPINS. Games Between C. A. C. and Saturday Night Club Teams. A tenpin tournament of some interest has just been concluded between a team from the Columbia AtEletic Club and an organization known as the Saturday Night Club, which rolls weekly on the alleys at | close the Cairo. The contest extended over four evenings, alternating between the alleys of the C. A. C. and the Cairo, three being played each evening. id in any way remarkable, the two teame were quite evenly matched and the con- 1 Yaie games }in that “Throw Physic To the Dogs” AND TAKE FRESH AIR AND EXERCISE ON A STERLING BICYCLE. BUILT LIKE A WATCH.” EASY RUNNING AND STRONG, HENCE NO TAX ON YOUR STRENGTH AND NO ANXIETY FOR YOUR SAFETY. S END FOR CATALOGUE. erling Cycle Works, Chicago, Ill. Washington Agent, W. ROY MITCHELL, New York Ave. and 14th St. fe20-8,tu&thIGw Branch, 924 9th St. test was never without interest, the out- come being uncertain until the final game was played. The two teams see-sawed with interesting regularity, forging ahead each evening when on the home alleys. When totals were fcoted up it Was found that the Saturday Night Club had come off victoriovs with a lead of 135 pins out of a total of 8683. This club also won six of the twelve games played and tied one. | The first series was played on the alley: of the Columbia Athletic Club, and at it conclusion. the team from that club had a lead of 170 pins. When the return game was played on the Cairo alleys, the Satur- day Night Club overcame this lead and went ahead of its opponents 76 pins. The third evening was finished with the C. A. C. team 62 pins in the lead, and Thursday evening last, when the final and deciding series was played, this lead was augmented 10 pins in the first game. In the next two games, however, the Saturday Night Club won by good margins, and finished the tournament 135 pins ahead of the opposing team. A summary of the games shows the fol- lowing features: Highest individual score, Rudolph Kauffmann, S. N. C., 219; Deyo, C. A. C., and Shields, S. N.C. highest team score, C. A C., 819; 3. N.'C., X16; highes* individual average for a single se Rudolph Kauffmann, S. N. C., 1 Deyo, C. A. 168 2-3; total pins, t games, Saturday Night Club, 8,683: Colum- bia Athletic Club, 8,548; team average for Saturday Night Club, 144.7; CALC, 14 When half the tournament had been played, George W. Kennedy was substi- tuted for Norman T. Elliott in the Satur- Cay Night Club on account of the illness of the latter. The record of the players follows: High Score | } 175 | The bowling team from the Saengerbund Club visited the Washin:,ton Athletic Club last night and rolled a match set of tenpins with the W. A. C. The Seengerbund team rolled in great form, making tle-fine tex:m average of 794 for the set, and ning both games. This is the first time that a visiting team has won « set of games from a home club this season. In the first game the Saengerbund pu: up a score of 708 to 740 by the Washingtons, and the second game they rolled 790 .o 697 by the Wash- ingtons. Burdine ma4d> the highest score ef the evening, 187, and the best average for the set, 187 pins. Fuller made the iigh- est score for his side, 172, nd also the best average, 153% pins. Difficult spares were made by Laue, 5—9—10; by Burdine, 3—10; by Kidd, 5—10, and 5-6 and 5-0-0, by Brueger. The score follows: Saengerbund. AME. +. 1 4 2 6 1. 2 6 3 187 Burdine...2 61 { 5 174 Hrueggerss. 2 6 Totals....10 26 798 Totals. 18 Washington Athletic Club. FIRST GAME. , ; SHOOND, GAME. SP SIGs scmesinger. 1 te Schlesinger. 4 lesinger. 0 eres 2 4 Ma2|Puller.---- 2 13 o 6 143 Brinkle; 116 2 3 138 O'Connor. 148 3 2 129 Kiad.. 158 Totals....13 17 740) Totals....7 22 6m The next set of games will be rolled next Tuesday evening on the Carroll Institute alleys between the Carroll Institute and the Washington Athletic Club teams. ‘The standing of the clubs are as follows: red. Won. Last. To play. 21 13 ry 32 15 17 16 ery 14 20 a WILL BE A GREAT MEETING Wefers md Others to Try to Break Records. The annual indoor athletic meeting to be held at Boston in March gby the Boston College A. A. promises to be one of the most successful events of that nature ever given at the hub. One of the features of the meeting will be the attempt on the part of B. J. Wefers to create a new world’s record for the 40- yard run. Wefers equaled the world’s rec- ord of 4 3-5 seconds for this distance at the B. A. A. meet, and is confident he will be able to lower that mark in his coming attempt. Grosvenor, the M. IL. T. runner, who holds the record for 35 yards, will also be seen in that competition, as well as Bigelow of Harvard, who made such a splendid showing at the B. A. A. meetin, Dike Clark of the Newton A. A., Jackson of Newtowne A. A., Fox of Holy Cross, Roche of Harvard, and, in fact, all the eons race is ‘a scratch event, and will show to a nicety where the honors should a special valuable trophy fcr the man who trick Princeton and N. Y. A. C., the“holder of the 880-yard world’s record, who defeated the Engiish champions in the London A. C.-N. Y. A. C. meet two years ago, has promised to take part. Wright of Brown University, the New England champion at the one mile and three miles, now at- ; well-known fact that Georgetown did not have her four best men. Efforts are being made to bring about a meeting between Harvard and Yale. Har- vard has already signified her intention and willingness to meet Yale, and it only remains with the New Haven athletes to clinch the contest if the present difficulties: are adjusted. The otaer events will be #-yard novic yard open, 44-yard run, Ssi-yard run, c ile run, potato race, running high jump and putting 16-pound shot. All of these events are handicaps except the 40- yard invitation and novice races. Prizes will be given to first, second and third men in each event, and a hand. silver s Id will be given to th ollege or athletic club scoring the largest number of points. PLAYED SHORT sUITs, The Philadelphia Ladies Unpreparee w Proper Defense. A team of lady whisters from this city played Mrs. Andrews’ team for the men’s trophies at Philadelphia Wedn and were defeated by one trick. The ers were: Holders—Mrs. T. H. Andrews, Mrs. J. Goodman, Mrs. H. Teulmin and Mrs L. Ellisen, Challengers—Mrs. H. McCrea, Mrs. Wm. Earle, Mrs. Howley and M. De Sibour, The score by deais was: ay piay ER Deals... 12345678 Total Holders... 1211000 —7 allenger: e000 “cia Deals. is : Wwi1l121 1001004 90000020 141516 Total Holders... ors Challengers Deals. Totai 99010000 —4 #5 2°101LO®D —s5 Final scorn —Holders, 12 challengers, 11 The Philadelphia Tel > ys of the mene egtapn says of the The Washingtonians played a short- game of a radical type. The Phila phians have never before met this <tyle play in a match, have not been coached to the proper defense against Holders. Challengers. it, and there- fore most naturally allowed quite a num- ber of tricks to escape that would haw been corraled had their opponents” game and the way to meet it been understood by them. For example, a jack led by a lone suit player should ‘be covered by second hand hold ace, but not king or queen: whe a short-suiter leads this jack the ace is the worst play possible. In the former ca the leader has almost certainly king and queen, and the ace must be played to win the trick. In the latter the leader has neither the king nor queen, and the a.2 must be held up in order to give the part- ner a chance to win with ti ner ed the queen, if he This is merely a sample of the many dif- ferences in the proper defense against the two systems. As the holders won in spite of t artificial defense, we can only conclu they either played superior whist. in situations or the short suit game by its herent weakness proved expensive. Pos- sibly it was a little bit of both, HARVARD HAS REFUSED. Fermally Declares That She Wi Meet Penn. or C: on the Water vices from Harvard terday affirm the statement that the Crimson would not consent to admit Pennsylvania and Colum- bia to the Harvard-Yale-Cornell race, as requested by Cornell. The matter was thor- oughly discussed at the meeting of the Harvard athletic committee last night, and opinions of leading rowing men on the sub- ject heard. It was decided impolitic for Harvard to grant the request made, for the reason that she desired to avoid any add- ditional entargement in rowing which would make her promise to Yale of a dual race in 1888 more difficult to fulfill. The fact was emphasized that Harvard feit toward both Pennsylvania and Columbia only the friendliest of feelings, but that her engagements were such that she could not consider seriously a race with either of them on the water. It is now definitely settled that the col- leges will row two races on the Hudson. The arrangements for the Pennsylvania, Columbia and Cornell race will be made at a meeting to be held tonight at the Uni- versity Club, New York. Cornel! will receive Harvard's official an- swer today. CHECKERS. Messrs. Farquhar and Mundelle, the two strongest players in the District, are play- ing a match of fourteen games, for suprem- acy. Four of the games will be played this evening at the rooms of the Washing- ton Club, 614 12th street northwest. Next Monday afternoon, beginning at 2 o'clock, a knock-out checker tourney will be held at the. same club rooms. All play- ers are invited to take part. In the evening of the same day, Wash- ington’s birthday, the Anacostia’s big six team will once more meet a team from the Washington Club. The match will begin at 7 o'clock. Baltimore. Charles Esper will not be with the Ba!- timore team this year. Manager Hanion has sold his release to Manager Connie Mack, who will have charge of the Milwau- kee team of the Western League. “When be is in form,” said Manager Hanlon, yesterday, “Esper is the equal of any of them. He is a wonderful witcher and has the greatest slow ball, when he can control it, that I know of.” Every big league club waived claim to him before Manager Mack could secure ity, te, | him. Mr. Hanlon would, perhaps, have Pied arses y pemeer: tue Worsmerns held Esper still had he not gotten young er; Jimmie McLaughlin of Holy Crods; | Jerry Nepa, who promises to be a great yf Worcester; Arthur Blake, the Esper has been pitching professional ball hero of the Loo-yard face Im the B.A. A. nine years. He made a great reputation meet; opie ng on the oid Athletics, and was afterward men the Yale, Amherst and the ath- | with team. that the college with a view of been matched producing University of Washington, D. nant.