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Cincinnat!.. 48 -676 New York... 38 33.500 Boston. 41 27 (603 Philadelphia 29 36 446 Cleveland. /) 41 27 Washington. 29 39 1426 Baltimore... 40 27 27 39 408 Chicago. 40 31 +28 50 315 Pittsburg... 38 31 22 48 314 The Senators made it five out of nine by defeating the Orioles at Baltimore yes- terday in a pitchers’ contest. Maul and Mercer were the opposing twirlers, and the dark-haired Adonis had much the bet- ter of the argument with the monumental city’s feshion plate. But six hits were made off “Winnie,” two more being made off “‘Allle,” and both “destroyers of fe- male hearts were as steady as if on pa- rade on Connecticut avenue or Charles street, not a pass being given by either. How the game was won and lost is thus told by the Baltimore American: By margin of one run the Senators again “‘did things’? to the Orioles yester- day. 9 one should begrudge the visitors their needed victory, for they both fielded and batted in a way deserving of success. That the Birds did net win was simply because they again forgot those elements of the game which have won pennants for them. Winnie Mercer twirled for Wag- her's men, and he was in great form. Early in the contest it became evident that he could not be slaughtered. The remedy demonstrated to be most successful against @ pitcher in such form is to worry him. Hanion’s men applied this remedy for Just one inning. It worked like a charm, yielding the only two runs that saved the pennant chasers from a shut-out. There Were sporadic attempts to apply the rem- edy in one or two other instances, but there was no good will about these ef- forts. The open sesame, tried and proven So often, was thrown away as useless. In- stead of bunting, giving chances for er- Tors, and working in sacrifices, the home players seemed always po: d with the idea that their salvation depended on lunging at the first. ball pitched. Hits could not be made this way, and so the Senators won another victory. Had the Orioles batted scientifically there would have be en nothing but sympathy for their defeat, as their fielding w i often brilliant. He el a It was a pity that Al. Maul should have lost a game twirled so well. From the start the Washingtons seemed to understand that a bit of brains mixed with bats is a potent factor in making runs. In the first inning it lcoked as though Maul would be Siaughtered. Selbach laced one into left center, and Gettman landed one into right. Anderson made off with a hit, and then McGuire called the turn by sacrificing. He Was out at first on a fine play by Maul, but It answered the purpose of ady neing both (Gettman and Anderson, Selbach having al- ready scored on Anderson's hit. Then Reitz plunked a littl= between-fields fly out into right, and the last two runs were scored for Washington. After that inning Maul pitched finely, and was bucked brilliantly, so that no more Scnators crossed the plate. For three innings Mercer seemed in a fair Way to shut out the Birds without a hit. But for an error by Wagner, the locals would have gone out in one, two, three order during those tnnings. Jennings beat out a hit in the fourth, and De Mont made a clean one in the fifth. It was in the sixth that a glimpse was given of batting, according to Hanlon. Keeler, first up, got a bunt. Jennings put his weight gainst it, sendirg a nice fly to Gettman. Then McGann sent a bent down the third- nase line. The ball eluded Meyers, Keeler getting to third, and McGann being safe. McGann went off for second, and McGuire and Mercer tried a ruse for catching Keel- er, but {t didn’t work, though Keeler had close cali at third. Then good old “Steve” Brodie. cracked a single into left, and the cnly two runs came over the plate. Brodie tried to stretch it into a double, and was out at second. After that inning, as before it, the Birds were helpless in Mercer's hands. In the tast three innings but one scratch infield hit was made by the heavy sluggers. They banged away, refusing to keep up bunting and scientific play, and. as the ball refused to bang, they were con- stantly blanked. Some of ths playing was brilliant. Ball for Baltimore, and Wrigley for Washing- ton took the fielding honors. Ball played the third bag as it is rarely played. In the third inning he stopped a drive from Reitz that was going out into left, and then he threw out the runner, making an al- together -emarkable performance. He killed other bas> hits, and made fine runs for flies. Wrigley was the cause for the kill- ing of Orlole base hits. Zeke always plays his best against the Birds, and he fairly glittered vesierday, covering acres of ter- ritoty and making a succession of remark- able p 's. In the seventh inning the Senators were prevented from scoring by some wonderful playing around heme plate. Meyers had tarted on a crack down the third-base ne, Wrigley had bunted and Mercer had sacrificed, putting Meyers on third and Wrigley on second. Selbach slashed a hot one down to Ball," and Meyers started for the plate. By quick fielding Ball got the ball first to the plate, and Meyers was out. When Robbie sent the ball down to second to hold Selbach Wrigley had the temerity to steam for home. De Mont saw the play and rifled the ball into the hands of Rob- bie in time to tab the runner. It was fine fielding by Ball end De Mont, and superb work by Rotbie, who had a perfect touch. Score: Baltimore. R.H.O.A. | Washington. R-H.0.A.E. Keeler, rf.. 1 2 1 © ©/Seibach, If.1 2 3 1 0 Jennings.«8. 0 1 2 2 O/Gettmanrf. 1 12 1 0 McGann, 1b 1110 0 0/Andersou,1b 1 114 0 0 Holmes, If. 0 0 2 0200 1i 1B BO 13 ooo 03 1530 05 2110 0 0° 0:4 5 627 82719 2 Baltimore. 0 0 0-2 Washington. 22.2.4 0 0 0-3 Stolen bases—McGann and Selbach. Earned runs —Baltimore, 2; Washington, 3. Thrée-base bit— Wrigley Sacrifice bits—McGuire and Mercer. Double plays—Gettman to Anderson; Ball te Me- Gann; Wrigley to Reitz to Anderson. Struek out— By Mercer, 1; by Maul, 3. Left on bases—Balti- more, 2; Wasbiagton, 4. Time—1.40. Umpires— Lynch and Andrews. Philadelphia, 5; Boston, 0. Pitcher “Red” Donohue twirled the Quakers into a great victory yesterday over the Bostons at Philadelphia, riot a hit be- ing made off of his delivery, the home club winning by 5 to 0. Willis, on the other hand, was wild, giving eight bases on bulls and hitting two batsmen. % WE. 060000000-0 oi Boston Philadel ~-210039000s-5 7 2 level: 5; St. Louis, 0. The St Louis boys were whitewashed at Cleveland yesterday, the Indians winnlag by 5 to 0. Powell allowed the Browns but two hits, while but five safetizs were reg- istered off of Sudhoff, but they were bunched and brought runs over the plate. RB HE. Cleveland......100040000-5 8 6 St. Louie.....5000000000-0 2 1 Cincinnati, 11; Chicago, 8. The Chicagos made five runs in the first inning on their own grounds, playing against the Cincinnatis, yesterday, and a | victory seemed assured, but the Ewingites hammered out six runs in the jJast inning, winning by 11 to 8. Piteher Hill struck out nine of the Chicago batsmen. R. H.E. Seoeo02 001-8 vB - 1020002061 18 5 New York, 6; Brooklyn, 2, The Giants have apparently resolved to play ball for Billy Joyce, as they won again yesterday at New York over the Brooklyns by 6 to 2. The Joyceites made all their runs in the first two innings, but they were enough to win. R. HEL 24000000x 6 3 200000000-2 5 i Pittsburg, 14; Louisville, 3. The Louisvilles were an easy problem yesterday at Pitsburg, the Pirates winning by 14 to 3, Fraser was taken out of the New York. Brookiya. box in the fourth inning, after fourteen runs had been made, and Dowling stituted. ub- RB HE. 000x164 13 5 103 91 BALTIMORE COMMENT. What the Oysterville Papers Have to Say About Yesterday's Game. Mercer’s chief delight is in downing the birds. Reitz is playing a great game for the Washingtonians. The Senators have already won five out of nine games from the Orioles. Reitz was favored with a bit of luck in the first, getting a safety on a pop fly to short right. A: victory yesterday would have meant second place. As it is, the birds dropped below Cleveland. The Orioles were too anxious, and hit at the first ball pitched, nearly always with disastrous results. : Wagner’s error was absolutely inexcus- able. He dropped Jennings’ easy fly in the opeting inning. Mercer made a great stop of Holmes’ hot grounder in the first, catching his man at Anderson's corner. Joe Kelley did not see yesterday's game. He was detained at home on.account of family matters. It is a boy. ‘The Orioles will tackle Washington again today over at the capital, and Jerry Nops will probably pitch. Wrigley covered himself all over with glory. One of his prettiest plays was made in retiring Robbie in the fifth. Ball had his tg®ubles with Selbach’s high fcul in the second. He caught the sphere, juggled it, and then just managed to re- cover. Wrigley got three bases in the second on an ordinary single to left fleld. Just before reaching Holmes the ball bounded badly and rolled to the fence. Maul got out of a tight hole In the sec- ond. The first man up got as far as third, with nobody out. Berry was equal to the occasion, and the next three men flew out. ‘The Orioles had the Senators going in the sixth through bunting. Keeler reached first on a bunt, and then McGann dumped one. Myers let it roll right past him and Keeler kept on to third. MeGann, how- ever, failed to take second. Anderson’s hit in the opening inning, on which Selbach scored with the first run, was a dinky grounder just out of Maul’s reach. It was a lucky hit and counted largely in the final summing up. Manager Hanlon will give his batting order a shaking up today. It will pe as foliows: Keeler, Jennings, Brodie, De Montreville, McGann, Holmes, Ball, Robin- son, Nops. Brodie has been hitting the ball as hard as any man on the team lately and has been given the place of honor at third rom the top. De Montreville has also been hitting well. MeGann, who earlier in the season was doing the steadiest work with the sdck on the whole team, has had a slump lately, Holmes, who has made but three hits in the last seven games, is Weakest with men on bases on account of his eagerness to hit. @ Mercer vsed to be the easiest thing in the league for the Orioles to beat. He pitched many games against them for several years and never won one until just before the season closed last year. He succeeded in defeating them largely because the pen- nant was practically lost. That was a bad break, for it gave him confidence, and he has won every game he has pitched against the Orioles this year. In one game early lest season in Washington the score was 9 to 0 in favor of the Senators in the third inning, when the Orioles fell upon Mercer and hammered out a victory. Alas! it is no knger so. SALE OF JACK DOYLE. The Ex-New Yorker Returns to His Old Clab. ‘The negotiations looking to the release of Jack Doyle were brought to an end last evening by Magnates Wagner and Freed- man, and the much-advertised ball player immediately boarded a train for the great metropolis, When the negotiations were started Mr. Wagner had an idea that he was offering a Jewel of the first water In the base ball market, but, sad to relate, only one purchaser came to the front, and with a wad of money that is generally paid cut for a first-class minor leaguer. Mr. Wagner's first demand was for $3,000 and “Scrappy” Joyce, but the wily New York president has a soft spot in his heart for the Giants’ first baseman, and refused to let him go. Doyle came to Washington ‘\hursday with the news that the best he could secure for himself was $2,000. As this seemed such a paltry price for the great player Doyle is reputed to be, Mr. Wagner demurred and held off until last night. Afver the handsome victory in Bal- timere yesterday J. Earl came to the con- clusion that the Washington club does not need tbe services of Mr. Doyle, and also that half a loaf was better than none, in the shape of $2,000, and the New York offer Ww: closed. Doyle was a happy man last night when he bade Mr. Wagner good-bye. He has wanted to play in New York for a year or more, as the surroundings are very much to Jack's liking, and, should Manager Joyce conclude to play him behind the bat, the New Yorks should be materially strength- ened. Junior Base Ball. The Senators defeated the Atlantics by 8 to 7. The Atlantics released. Grau and Medfeldt, their old battery, but they proved too much for them. Address S. H. Davis or Field Superintendent 8. N, C. Medfeldt, 6u9 I street southwest. The Berwyns and College Park recently played a very interesting game of base bail on the grounds of the former. Score, 13 to 3. Batteries: Berwyns, Werber and Keefoner; College Park, Brown and Powell. The feature of the game was the pitching of Werber, striking out ten men. DEATH OF BILLY YOUNG. He Was Well-Known in Local Pugi- listic Circles, “Billy Young,” the well-known local pugilist, died Thursday night tn Baltimore. His real name was Carwithen. He came naturally by his instincts as a pugilist. His father was an Englishman who fought a bare-knuckle fight in the ring with Thos Sayers. Among the men Young met in the ring were John Odenhal, James Keenan, John Monahan, Horace Leeds, Jack Dempsey, Wm. Duke, Joseph Elliott, Jack Dougher- ty and “Paddy” Duffy. The late Jack Cavanaugh was Young's original trainer, but in later years he was trained by Jake Kilrain. Young’s trade was that of shoeingsmith. He had a shop in this city for several years, and married a Washington gtrl, Possibly the greatest laurel won by him was in Washington. George Dixon, the champion light-weight, was going through the country under the management of Thomas O'Rourke, offering to put out any man of his weight in four rounds or fo: feit $50. Dixon was putting men out night- ly, but he met a stumbling block in Young. Billy not only stayed the four rounds, but many who saw the fight thought Young would have put Dixon out had not O'Rourke jumped into the ring and saved his man. There was great excitement in the theater. Young got the decision and the $50. Fast Track at Indianapolis, Indianapolis will have one of the fastest bicycle race tracks in the world when the wheelmen visit that city in August. The Newby oval was thoroughly tested on the Fourth and the riders who tried its sloping surface, all pronounced it the fastest track on which they had ever ridden. L. D. Ca- banne, the professional rider, won the mile open in the evening, and put the track rec- ord in competition at 1.50 3-5. The race was tandem paced by two local professton- als and Cabanne said that he could easily have gone ten seconds faster. He is en- thusiastic over the new track and believes it to be faster than any in the country. é —_+ Po npr F. ou will get an answer. 3 oA RACE DAY" AF ASCOT Very Differetit' Front the’Saburban or Brookly1# Hatidicap. MORE LIKE A BIG GARDEN PaRTY —_—_ = —. Where London’ 'Sobiety Can Be Seen at'Its'Best. IN THE ROYAL INCLOSURE a Special Correspondence of The Evening Star, LONDON, June 20, 1898. The program of the great Ascot day, the day whereon the long race for the gold cup is to be contested, begins in London and immediately after’ breakfast. Boston on the morning of a Harvard commence- ment is the only parallel that occurs to an American. All the stréets of Mayfair are crowded with carriages, brakes and cabs converging like corn Into a hopper toward Waterloo station. There is an hour’s pan- orama from th2 window of a railway car- riage, swift glimpses of emerald lawns, red tiled cottages, trees all neatly . trimmed, brooks with carefully boarded banks, a miniature landseape looking as though It was accustomed to be Swept and garnished every morning by the Jawn mower and pruning knife. Finally the little engine pulls up into Ascot depot; and then follows the mad, perspiring, scrambling charge upon the ticket office? Not at all. This is England. The train's cargo is disembarked as leisurely as though the world were halting its revolution for the process. No corporation _ hireling clutches your coin and howls “Move on, there!” while he puffs vile tobacco smoke into your eyes. Jt is a benevolent old gen- tleman in uniform who Hands out the pasteboard quite apologetically for the trouble he imposes. He even pauses for a civil remark, abserving: “A tina, soft day, sir.” You admit thy softness, but are not so sure it is fine. The rain is dripping down in rivers, but to the. manifest satisfaction of the veterans, for a rainy Ascot morning is the best assurance of a suushiny after- noon; if the sun should appear in the morning there would inevitably come show- ers before dinner. Instead of the rush for places, which an American visitor navural- ay expects, all the arrivals stroll away as deliberately as iovers by moonlight through 4 grassy lane walled by green hedges with overhanging cherry trees bursting into white and red biossoms. Every man jas two or three women in tow, most of the women enveloped in oilskin wrappings, and in their efforts to save their drapery from the wet, exhibiting a few inches of silk stockings and a wealth of embroidered linen with real English frankness. English women never shrink fem a necessary dis- play of their ankles, nor is there any ap- parent reason why they should, A Garden of Dainty Hues. The rain does s soon as all the Londoners are ins' their seats in the grandstand, a the whole field bursts forth, like ‘ansforming into butterflies, from m: hes and ollskins to a bewildering of dainty hues. For Ascot, though, gréat race mecting,£p F than a magnified lawn party. cans experienced in races at home have come prepared to see a huge circular track overclouded with dayt°afid surrounded by rough board fences: placarding the merits of ready-made clothing and patent medi- cines in letters large as Yellow New York War extras. Ascot tmpré¥ses these Ameri- cens first, as does eyery other féature of England—except thé’ ndty—by its smail- ness. It impresses tiem (Also by its order, its cleanliness, its assemblage of distin- guished and stalwart; mep,. who are all at-. tired as alike as privates of one regiment, end the pink-faced women, no two of whem. are dressed at all alike, and by the op- pressive solemnity that broods over It. Why are all these people so gloomy, the American asks. Can he have mistakenly stumbled upon some ceremonial of pubic sorrow? And where are the grounds, and where is the racing track? Here is a grandstand, and around it are several thousand ladies gathered in the open field. Over facing the tiers of seats stands a row of unhorsed four-in-hand coaches swarming with well-dressed peo- ple; behind the red and blue coaches is massed the populace, several thousands of those who, in England, are contented to acknowledge themselves the “lower class- es.” Back of the lower classes a village of tents rears its white roofs. Beyond are rolling green fields, with red cottages sur- rounded by trees, and clear beyond the cottages wooded hills dwindling away to a deep blue blur. A Quaint Little Procession. But what has all this to do with horse racing, and where is the race track? While the foreigner 1s asking these questions a shriek of trumpets tomes on the breeze. Then a battalion of policemen march down the lawn in front of the stands and leave an open trail In their rear, Ilke the progress of a snow plough, the people quietly falling back and lining up along the sides of the trail, no one resistirg, no one rushing back Into the cpening after the officers have passed, and no one getting clubbed. A quaint little procession trots down the bed of the channel which the constables have mowed. It is ushered along by a posse of gentlemen, mounted on splendid steeds and arrayed in gorgeous regalia handed down from feudal thnes, scarlet, gold and green, the chief of whom you learn 1s the Earl of Coventry, whose official designation is mas- ter of the buckhcunds and who draws a fat salary from the pockets of taxpayers for such important functions as this one. Following the group of horsemen with th2 mediaeval titles end trappings come half- a-dozen open carriages attended by red- coated outriders. In these carriages are thelr royal highnasses the Prince and Princess of Wales and several of their sts- ters, cousins and aunts. The bands play “Britons Never, Never, Never Shali Be Slaves,” perhaps by way of asserting to the royalties th2 independence of thelr sub- jects, these titled patrons of sport are ushered into an iron-railed inclosure, which is already populated by two or three hun- dred gentlemen and ladies of tha elect and then the day's real business is ready to begin. A bell rings, a dozen horses canter up the pathway, which the policemen have sw2pt, mounted by gay jockeys, bobbing up and down, and flapping thelr arms in the mechanical English style, whereupon it dawns upon strangers that this grassy road is the race track. Wor ‘this first race the runners are aligned along the crest of a knoll far up the meadow. They have a straightaway track, ssemjngly down hill all the way, although, of Gourse, it ts level from the whitewashed starting line at the bottom of the slopé>* Down ‘the turf they come, a huddle of. gleaming colors, until just before the s' ey davelop into orses and riders, eyery jockey’s whip arm threshing like a ywindmill, several even leaning over the necks.of,their animals ro- gardless of traditi English form,thanks to our Tod Sloane... , Enthusinsmoin Bad Form. The American §j oF begin to yell as the race finishes, but the} stop short and look foolish when they over that they are doing all the citeering.alone. They are reminded again that? thié’is England, and Englishmen’ do not give Vocal expression to their emotions. There is a brief allerice, while the horses pass, then the bugs of conversation starts again, and that mo- ment of stillness is the only recognition the runners get for their efforts. Some one has peel poe ee of beer soe eee ures sadly, but in reply they argut that it is the business of horses and joc! eys to exert themselves; they (the Britons) appreciate the exhibition, but why should SHAKE INTO YOUR SHOE Allen's Fi powder 's Foot-Ease, a feet. It feet and Li eye aire i rational and educated-persons strain their throats with howling over the spectacle? When it comes in their way to be the actors instead of spectators they will play their parts with equal stoicism, equally as a matter of course, whether their role be to run or row in a race, to die slowly of jungie fever at an Indian civil service post several hundred miles from A white neigh- bor or quickly on the end of a poisoned spear head in the African desert—it is all a part of life, and why should there be un- necessary shouting about it? The newspaper correspondents who de- scribed Gladstone's funeral were particu- larly impressed by the sorrowful silence of the people, but one of them, speaking on second thought after Ascot, said there was nothing unusuai about it after all. One who did not know what was going on could hardly, so far as the people's demeanor was concerned, discover any difference be- tween those who gathered for the great parliamentarian’s funeral or those who sought pleasure at the Oxford-Cambridge boat race or Ascot, and this without the slightest intention of disrespect to Glad- stone’s memory or his mourners. The pas- sivity of the English is neither occasional nor assumed; it is temperamental. Withim Sacred Precincts, After the race the people sweep over the track again Ike a tidal wave. Most of them are crowding up for a view of the royalties who are hedged in by the fron railing. This consecrated space is only an acre of ground in front of the grand stand. It commands no better view than other sections of the field, if as good, but many people just oui- side the iron fence would barter their hopes of heaven to pass it, and some of them, in- deed, have employed devious diplomacy apd founded hospitals and kissed the dust from aristocratic boots to that end, for that corral is known as the royal inclosure, and to be seen therein was at once to have their standing among London's four hundred cer- lified and sealed. The old-time aristocrats are lamenting that the royal inclosure is losing some of its sanctity in these degen- erate years of the pushful newly rich. All sorts of people manage to climb the bar- riers, they wail. Persons who owe their po- sitions to their brains instead of the acci- dents of birth, those who have made money by mercantile operations, even actors and painters and the like. But most of the elect bear titles and are indisputably entitled to entrance. Cabinet ministers, princes, par- liamentarians, soldiers and dipiomats are in evidence. All the members of the Amert- can embassy are on hand, wiih the latest addition to the staff, General Bates, dis- cussing the war with the bluff old Irisn admiral, Lord Charles Beresford; also Chauncey Depew, the center of a group of listeners, just as though he was at home, and the newest of the resident Americans, Senator Cameron, who tries to find relief from the turmoil of Pennsylvania politics in the life of an English: country gentle- man. Another American is conspicuous, but not in the royal inclosure. Up above in the owners’ box is seen the dark, Sphinx- like face of Richard Croker, with an un- lighted cigar clutched in his grim mouth. He also aspires to lead the life of an Eng- lish country gentleman, but his reception by other English gentlemen is what they would call in Tammany circles a frost. Socially Elect. The race track is the dividing line be- tween the two estates, society and the populace. Society spreads itself through the grand stand, the reyal inclosure in front and other Inclosures flanking royal- ty’s Iawn, whose special distinctions are apparent only to the initiated. The gen- eral effect of this half of the field Is of a very minutely pieced and delicately color- ed mosaic. Thousands of ladies are stroll- ing abecut garbed in the most gossamery fabrics of white and pink and light blues in many different shades, and also greens, violets and yellows (with parasols of as many hues), and bonnets which a raindrop would crush, reflecting the mild English sun. No man has been gifted by Provi- dence to describe these creations. It can only be explained that Ascot bonnets and Ascot gowns are triumphs over which the jadies dream for months, and that che flufiest stuffs imaginable and all tints of the spectroscope combine toward the over- powering effect. The men deserve no men- tion as a spectacular factor. Their names Tay overspread the empire, but their bodies are all slaves to the tyranny of tha top hat and frock coats. They chafe un- der their fetters, but cannot muster cour- age to break them. Last year there was a piteous appeal to Caesar. Would not his royal highness, Edward Albert, graciously consent to wear something comfortable to Ascot? Leaders were printed on the merits of the alpine hat, but when the fateful day on which the comfort of England depend- ed had come the eyes which were focussed on the prince's headgear met disappoint- ment, and like loyal subjects they bowed their heads again under the only form of despotism which their monarchy imp = There are no big race days in America like this one monopolized by the fashion- able set. - With the Plain People. The people over on the plebelan ‘side of the track are a very small factor in the occasion. Tney seem to be subdued by the formal stiffness of the other side, and are not at all uproarious and amusing lik> a Derby crowd. They have a long row of booths like the side shows of an American county fair, with placards of “The Oldest Firm in England,” “Birmingham Bill,” with “Fifty Years’ Honest Record,” who ever Betrayed an Investor,” and “Cashes Every Ticket at the Tap of the Bell,” or “Murray & Murph the “Old Reliables,”” whose motto is “Prompt pay every day," and a man in corduroys and red necktie, with a shrill voice, standing or a box in front of every tent and taking in shillings and sov- erelgns with the careless speed of a circns ticket chopper while he exhorts his’ “friends” to step vp and try their luck. An army of small bankers who do business from a satchel hung abcut their necks, and will not refuse a sixpence, infest the turf aiso, and the amount of silver which cir- cuiates is amazing. The carters sit about the grass with their arms around their girls in the most matter of fact way, while whole families camp on one little two- wheeled donkey cart and pass around the whisky bottle without neglecting the chil- dren who are simost too small to lift it for themselves. These are the British low- er classes, and to an American they are the saddest feature of the whole country, for they will never be anything else, never expect to be, could not be if they would and appa-ently would not be if they could. They find huge delight in the clowns and burnt cork minstrels who turn somersaults and sing negro melodies in a cockney dia- lect, which passes current as the genuine plentation English, and who work very hard for very few coppers. Some of these minstrels form whole troups, who dash over to the reserved seats between races, seat themselves in a crescent on camp stcols and give a brief performance after the most approved Haverley tradition. Making Their Bets. The swells do their betting in quieter fashion. In the long waits between races they stroll over to th? paddock, where all the horses for the next event are led out in procession by their grooms, and proud the stable boy who can bestride a blanket which has a coronet braided in its corners. ‘The long-waist2d blonde young Britishers, who have been accurately described by Ouida and Du Maurier; the ‘hearty, red- faced old gentlemen, who, belonging to the leisure class, retain their vitality longer than Americans, and even the ladies, young and old, stand about inspecting the racers very critically, Then they enter their wagers with gold pencils in tiny nots books and move on to the tents where the London clubs have their solemn waiters spreading elaborate piace ncrrea hig gg a constant fusil- lade of ing corks. Finally, every one ass2mbles for the last great event, the race of two and a half miles, for the ae ay oe the ruin of mai orses. er the grey- hound-bullt animals have finished the straightaway stretch thoy keep on around a big circle, the silken cclors now and then lost to sight behind a knoll and flashing in and out among the trees. When they come around to the post again a hated French horse is in the lead, the Yale blu2 of Croker’s stable lags far behind, and pocr Bay Ronald, who carried so many thousand pounds, stops still and arches his back and coughs dismally, and people are saying that he has run his last race, British Stoicism. “As the people saunter back through the gr2en-hedged lane, besieged by well-fed beggars whining “Good luck, ladies,” no one can read in the impassive British faces whether they have lost or won their hun- dreds, but most of them have experienced one or tha other result. There is no crowd- ing the cars, six and 3 Open alli day merely an incident to our business as it is elsewhere—we make a Singles Tandems Triplets Largest renting stock in the city. Sunday To rent brand new single, tandem & triplet wheels. VOID all the annoyances of breakdowns, punctures, etc., in- cident to old worn-out bicycles by renting your mount here tomorrow. Our renting stock is composed of brand new high-grade wheels in “tip top” condition. 25c. hour = 50c. hour = 75c. hour Renting wheels is not $1.50 day. = $2.50 day. $3.00 day. If you wish to buy we can give you the pick of the two best wheels in the world at $50. Remember, we are still sell- ing the famous Double-roller stead of $100. $100 Andrae Track Racers, $75; full nickeled, $85. West End Cycle Co., Karl Von Rodenstein, Manager, 730 15th St., Above Riggs’ Bank. eelecteteststecestetecinteSecestededtetedec on DOE ttenettenot specialty of renting—and we guarantee the best service in the city at these prices: Chain ’98 Keatings at $50 in- And the latest ’98 model of the $75 Andrae (with taper gauge tubing) at $50. Or full nickeled at $60. Seedesdestesdestestested seats are to be found. In the United States the compartment would have ceased tu be a smoker when the ladies entered, but not here. The Briton proceeds to light his cigar and fili the air with smoke quite placidly. It is his right; if these ladies did not want to cough they should have kept out, his manner says, and it is this same stubborn persistence in his rights which makes the Briton collectively most disagreeable as an enemy and most desirable as an ally. RM. C. —_~—-—__ SAVINGS OF A LIFETIME. Frank Funk Took Every Dollar Mrs. Brooks Hada. Mrs. Martha Brooks, who was horribly beaten by Frank Funk at the time her husband was murdered, seems now to be on the way to recovery. Late yesterday afternoon Mrs. Brooks made a partial statement of the affair, and told friends that the amount taken by Funk was almost $1,500. She further stated that the day of the murder she had locked all the money in the sideboard drawer and carried the key around her neck. She had no recollection of the attack by Funk, but said that the latter had been Eanging around the house for a week, and had frequently expressed a desire to live with them. Mrs. Brooks further said that she had noticed that Funk watched her, In order to ascertain where she put the money. It is stated that Mrs. Brooks has not another dollar, Funk having carried off the savings of her lifetime. ee RAILWAY CROSSINGS. Special Policemen and Where They WILL Be Stationed. The matter of speclul policemen at street railway crossings was discussed at a con- ference held today between the District Commissioners and the representatives of the companies. The railway companies were represented by President Dunlop of the Capital Traction Company and General Manager Carll; President Weaver of the Metropolitan company, President Wilson and General Manager King of the Colum- bia company, and President Griswold of the Anacostia company. Mr. R. Ross Perry, the attorney of the Capital Traction Com-! was also present, and Mr. Nathaniel | pany, Wilson appeared also ‘as the attorney the Metropolitan company. of the District, Mr. S. T. Thomas, and Cap- tain Austin of the police force also appear- ed. After a general discussion as to where the special policemen shall be stationed and how appointed and paid, the Commissioners took the matter into consideration. The Commissioners, after the adjournment of the conference, decided that the special policemen shall be stationed as follows: Two men each at 7th street and Pennsyl- vania avenue, 7th and F streets, 7th street and Florida avenue, 9th street and Pennsyl- vania avenue, 9th and F streets, 3th and K streets, 14th street and New York avenue, lath and H streets, and 15th street and New York avenue, from 8 a.m. to 12 o'clock midnight, each man doing eight hours of duty; lith and F streets, one man from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily, and 14th and U streets one man daily from 4 p.m. to 12 o'clock midnight, from May 1 to October 31. It is understood that the railway com- panies will be informed that the Commis- sioners will reserve to themselves the right to nominate and appoint these special po- licemen, and will fix their compensation at 375 a month, the men to uniform as are the regular members of the police force, and instructed not to interfere with the traffic of the companies, but merely to enforce or- der and the laws regulating the conduct of the employes of the companies at crossings. Sg Holloway Receives Pardon. Arthur D. Holloway, the young man from Georgia, who was committed to jail several days ago for six months by Judge Kimball for carrying concealed weapons, and in whose case Lawyer Horace Ford became interestad, has been pardoned by the Pres!- ent and released from prison. At the request of Mr. Ford Judge Kimball tcday ordered the return of the weapons to Holloway, it being the desire of the latter, by selling them, to thus get money to pay his fare home. of The attorney | | than these Fanc; Neglige Shirt and Is cool Silk-bosom for $1.00. Shirts we're se Besuties; Just in. TEEL’S, 1329 F St. Close at 6 D.m. ° Satu days excepted. iy®- 14d fr ‘There's no risk about Cure For Stati sere: tis soft corns without the Corns Bact soe tan ae Stevens’ Pharmacy, are AND PA. AVE. 0 to Siccardi’s FOR BARGAINS IN HUMAN HaR, Hair Switches at Great Bargains. $3.00 Switches reduced to $1.50. $5.00 Switches reduced to $2. $5.00 Switebes reduced to $5.00, Gray and White lair reduced in same proportion, Mme. Siccardi, 711 ith st., next to Palais Royal. Private rooms for baindressing, shampooing and dyeing. 8e13-16,tf AINE’S ULERY MAKES IMPOUND PEOPLE WELL. ee20 — oy For Keeping Unlicensed Bar. Robert E, Cunningham, who keeps a road house over at Rosslyn, was recently before the court of "Squire V. W. Sellers on a charge of conducting an unlicensed bar room. The evidence was secured through the means of a free fight which occurred in the place a few Sundays ago, in which the participants claimed to have secured drinks of various kinds. He was held guilty and a fine of $200 was imposed, with costs, amounting to $12, or ten months in the county jail in default. An appeal wai taken from the deciston of the court, bonds to the amount of $1,000 being furnished by Pope Colbert, a farmer. —— Proposals Opened. Proposals for supplying the District with general construction m ials were opened at the District building today at noon, Be- tween twenty-five and thirty bids were re- ceived, including a number of out-of-town bidders. It will be several days before @ statement of the proposals can be tabu- lated. > Maher Defeats Goddard. Peter Maher defeated Joe in eight rounds last night at the L letie Club of New York. The men They had been sched to fight twenty-five rounds with five-ou ves. Goddard had defeated Maher on two previous occasions and was the favor- ite in the betting. ee Middle States Tennix. The middle states tennis championships were continued yesterday afternoon on the courts of the Orange Lawn Tennis Club, at Orange, N. J. Ware and Forbes beat Fischer and Millett in the semi-final doubles, and later in the finals won from Whitman and Carleton Today the final singles between Wi.cman and Millett will be played. Yesterday's scores follow: Championship doubles, semi-final round— J. D. Forbes and L. E. Ware beat B. P. Fischer and 8. C. Millett, 6—3, 6—2. Final round—J. D. Forbes and L. E. Ware beat M. D. Whitman and R. H. Carleton, 3-4, 6-3, 6-1 + To New York on His Wheel. “Eddie” Smith of the Century Cycle Clut has left on his wheel for New York city. After a visit of a week he will return by wheel. ae It matters little what ft is that you want— whether a siti ation or a servant—a “want” ad. in The Str will reach the person whe can fill your 1 :ed. “THE EQUAL OF THE BEST WHEEL MADE.” CRAWFORDS are the standard of the season of 708, by which the worth of other wheels are measured. Everywhere is heard, the *‘*Crawford” is the best for the money and as good as any for more. Do not be persuaded to pay a big price for - a wheel when “Crawford” for you can get the 950.00. The Crawford M’f’g Co., EP. VAN MATER, MCR. 929 OTH STREET iW.