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J. L LATHROP & SONS cantile, Dwellings and Farm Property i the irrongest companies at low rated: | Firgt for Mack’s Men in Philadelphia City Series—Fight- Give us a call before placing your business elsewhere, 28 Shetucket Streety -Norwich, Conn. marldaw. Are You Going Abroad? obtain & supply of our self identifying travelers’ checks|in the present spring serie: ~—payable anywhere—and let us insure your baggage wherever you may be. ‘Before doing s * B. P. LEARNED & CO., Down Stairs in The Thames Loan and | Foxen, Moore and Dooin; Trust Co. Building. = the warning to every careless ma: by tl score of 2 to 1. The series stands: Soore by innings: RHF American National Batteries: Coombs and Thomas; O'Day and Connolly. Baseball Games Tuesday. At Charleston: Charleston At Charlotte: Charlotte (Carolina) 0. 8, Danville (Virginia) 2. At Cincinnati: Cincinnat! (National) 0, Washington (American) 0. three innings. 9, Richmond (Virginia) 2. College Baseball Tuesday. At Norfolk: Yale 7, U, S. Marines 4 At Princeton: Albright 3, Princeten 6. Gotch's Last Season. champion wrestler of the world, stated n | here that next winter would be his who lives unprotected by a policy for | last season on the mat. The only rea- FIRE INSURANCE, Lot us write Tomorrow may be TOO LATE, ISAAC S. JONES, Insurance Agt. Richards Building, apridaw NEW LONDON COUNTY MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE CO., |in Towa. of Norwich, Conn. ESTABLISHED 1540. Statement Jamuary 1, 1900 Anvets Burplus Total Income Lowses Paid Siuce Orgauiza- tion Presldent—H. H. Galiup, Becretary—W. F. Lester. Treas. and Asst. Sec’y, Willlam H. Prothero. $170,121. This company is now accepting Insurance on approved locai = ur polisy TODAY. $256,517.78 | heavyweight ¢ son he remained in the game for this length of time, he said, was because he wanted & final clash with Hacken- semidt. He expects to flll the offer of the Melbourné promoter for a $13,000 end @1 Main Street. | of the purse as his share to meet Hackenschmidt mext November. Gotch says he wil] raise Poland China pigs for the market when he retires.. He owns miore than 1,000 acres of land /" Burns Wants Return Match. New York, April 6.—Tommy Burns from whom Jack Johnson wrested the mpionship of the « | World, is anxjous for another fight with the negro pugilist. Hugh D. McIntosh $60,26470 | gnnounced tonight that he had.been 1642,552.54 authorized, in a cablegram from Eurns, to arrange a return match with John- son. He said he would pdst $5,000 to- morrow to bind such a match, any- where and on any terms, It Johason does not-accept, Mclntosh sald Burns would fight Ketchel' and Kaufmann, but certain terms which he would not make public at present would have to be complied with by the either farm or protected property, di- | ldst two named fighters. roct through any Agency under the e jurisdiction of the Norwich Board of Overtraining Causes Death. Underwriters. HOME OFFICE: 28 Shetucket Street, marlldaw The Hartford Fire Insurance Co. Paid all its losses by the late Shannon fire, $25,601.71, Cash Without Discount MORALr “insure with the Hartford” ‘Cash asscts, $20,434, 61, Jofin E—Parker, LOCAL AGENT, Office with M. S. 6llbert & Sons, Second Floor, 141 Main St Telephona 894, Fuller’s Insurance Norwieh, Comm.|cord, Ohio, and member of Jast s Zanesville, 0., April 6.—J. F. Wilson, aged 24, manager of the baseball team cf Muskingum college of New Con- y football and basketball died of heart disease today. Hiss illness, it is said, was brought on by over exertion during hard train- ing just prior to the football season last fall. Hoppe Challenges Morningstar. Cincinnati, 0., April 5—Willie Hoppe. who s playing exhibition billiard games here, announced tonight that he had sent, a challenge to Ora C. Morn- ingstar, who last week won the na- tional 18.3 billiard championship. He offers to play _Morningstar 6,000 to 5.000 points at 18.2 balk line and to bet from 8,000 to $10,000 on the result. Reicling Reinstated Aftor Three Years Cincinnati, April 6.—The national baseball commission today granted the application of F. C, Relsling for rein- statement on the eligible list, ke naving been placed on the ineligible Mst be- cause of alleged violation of contract with the Brooklyn club of the National league three years ago. A $100 fine is imposed agalnst Reisling, Weston Does 38 Miles More. ‘Wooster, 0., April 8—Fdward Pay- son 'Weston arrived here at 5.30 p. m. Athletics Win Game from Quakers continue to issue insurance on Mer. . 000000200-2 7 2 000000100—1 5 2 umpires, Atlantic) 0, New ]ank }gmor}:cau}) g t Atlanta: Atlanta Southern; A &nd flercest game yet seen In Jewett shoskiyn A (ff{-‘:“{gfl?)"é: City. The Danielson texm was a great At Danville: Beston (National No 2y - ing Bear Wins from Pirolo at New London. Philadelpnia, Pa., Aprll 6.—By bunch- from Canton, having covered 38 miles Ing singies in the seventh inning, the| during the day. The roads were very Jocal Americans defeated the Philagel- [ heavy and the veteran said he had puc phia Nationals today for the first time | in a miserable day. He expects to leave here at 7 a, m. for Ashland. Nationals, games won 2; American 1.| ALL-STARS WIN AGAINST JEWETT CiTY TEAM. Cyclones Are Defeated by Danielson Five—Winners Challenge Tigers of Norwich. The Danielson All-Stars defeated the (South | Jewett City Cyclones in Jewett City by 4 score of 8 1-2 to 2 1-2, playing under professional Tules. It was the roughest deal lighter, but more skilled than thefr opponents, wko used football tactics, unintentionally, however. The Ali- Stars have met with only one defeat ‘Rain— | this season, and that &n Norwich's own floor. They did not have their At Richmond: New York (National) | resular lineup, two of the fastest play- ers bing absent. They challenge the Tigers for the last game of the season to decide the championship for sec- ondary teams. The summary: All-Stars—Brunsdon and Rainville guards; Halpin, center; Healey and Mellor, forwards. Cyclones—Bothwell and Sweet, for- Chicago, April 6—Frank Gotch, the | o, ge; Wakefield, center; Popham and ingras, guards. Field goals, Mellor 5, Healey 2, Hal- pin_1, Wakefield 1, Bothwell 1; foul goals, Mellor 1, Popham 1. Locals Select Football Lineup. In their game with the Lorraines of Westerly,” Rhode Island champions at association football, the Norwich club has_selected their lineup to play at Sachem park on Saturday as follows: Goal, H. Finlayson; backs, H. Andrews, Ferguson; halves,” Corners, Critchley, Wharon; forwards, A, Finlayson, Hil- ton, Brown/McComb, Buckley. Mr. MoCugzage of Jewett City will be referee and the game will receive the official sanction of the city fath=rs through the presence of Mayor Lippitt and the members of the common coun- cil, while it is anticipated that this last game of the season will bring out a record breaking crowd. Preston Highlanders Organize. The Preston Highlanders have or- ganized for the season. Their lineup will give any team in Néew London county a_game, averaging 20 years old We would like to play the Preston Stars. 1f they will give us a return game on our grounds next Sunday we will play them. Answer through this paper. The lineup: Savage ¢, Yeomans (capt.) 2h,Farreli ss, Lord (acting man- ager) p, Oleny 3b, Hagae rf, Brown If, Harrington 1b, J. Farrell of, H. Mucle sub. Address all challenges to Thomas 3. Lord, Norwich, R. F. D, No. 3, Tel. 238-3. Open House to Meet Tigers. Captain Brooks for the Open House team and Physical Director Peckham for the Tigers of the Y. M. C. A, have signed their two basketball fives for a game Saturday night at the Y. M. C. A As both quintettes have a big follow- ing, the rooters are expected to be out in force and a fast game is assured. Kennedy to Talk to Umpires. Umpjre Chief Kennedy has called & meetiyfz of the Connecticut Jeague um- pires ‘at the Hotel Garde, Hartford, for the 22d, the day befors the league sea- son opens. At this time the quintette will become acquainted, and will be given & talk by Chief Kennedy on the new rules. Kennedy has a quintette of umpires. They are O'Brien of New York, for- merly of the New England league, Niel on of Columbus, Murray of Pitts. Pa., ‘Cullen of Long Island, and Sternbers, As Sternberg cannot re- port for two or three weeks after the league season begins he will be re- garded as a substitute for a time. Their will be work enough to keep the whole quintette busy, and there will be a double header system of umpires FINANCIAL AND COMMERGIAL, WAVERING MARKET. Professional Bears Take Advantage of Situation by Offering Down Prices. New York, April 6.—The demand for stocks today encountered an amount of offerings that overbore the balances and carried the price movement back- vanse evidently was, in itself, a main ling, which incentive to much of the Agency e o e T mers The New London County Mufual | 2°rt to take ndvantage of the waver Fire Insurance Company. Under the NEW MANAGEMENT of this Company it gives me pleasure rt. The o professional _bears wer ing eppearance of the market and to help on_the -decline with short selling and with offering down of prices. For- elgners were disposed to take profits @ swe!l as home speculators. The fact o | thut we present week in the stock mar- announce to my customers that | am |Xt will tnd on Thursday, added to the authorized to insure the better class of | d/sinciination t the most favorable terms. Uniform Rates will be charged to all, All LOSSES will receive fair and | cisive Information ls given of honorable attention. JAMES E. FULLER, General Insurance Agent, marlld No. 161 Mai N. TARRANT & GO, 117 MAIN STREET. Fire, Accident, Health, Liability, Plate Glass and Steam Boiler . .. administration. Nothing was offered, Norwich Union Fire Insurance Socisty, | 1/5° Western Assurance Co., U. €, Assots §2,397,608.00. Bec11d Street. extend speculative commitmertbs. nment OmOrrow’s gove oth city and FARM PROPERTY upon | crop report is awaited with keen in- tere infiue: , and it is expected to have an e on the speculation it th spring _condition of the winter wheat crop. With wheat and cotton both at top prices for the season, and with re- minders not lacking of erop dunage to ount for this, the sto ket 1s compelled to take some 1ot the subject. The conference on ‘Phursday between the anthracite operators and miners' representatives is expecte. have some decisive effect on the imme diate future of trade activity In that field. The opening arguments in the government's sult against the Stand- ard Ol company at St. Louls contain- ed some material for appraising any change In governmental policy in these prosecutions of might have resulted from the chan, in stich as has been as: jot, of pros fre cial gandpoint. The matter was com- mented upon in connection with the day's stock market. Some very un- favorable view smed in 1 the finan fency, d and the heavy tone 1 ates Steel was of sympa- fre on the whole market. The ATTORNEYS AT LAW. AMOS A. BROWNING, zing movement was under control facilitated by the sustaining in special stocks, 1 explanation in the s of shorts effected 1y at the end of the eff without_any sy news, The coveri | & considerable #ttorney-at-Law, 8 Richards Bldg. | dav. Bonds were irregular. ‘Total E gales, par value, $5812,000. United ‘Phone 206, States bonds were unchanged on call. STOCKS. SAOWN & PERKINS, tlorneys at Law " over First Nat Bank, Shetucket St Entrance Statrway, “est to Thames Nat Bunk Tel. 38 2580) Amalgamated Copper . Car & Foundry. R R Cotton O . . Linseed Ofl . Bolers, Tanks, Smoke Stagks | = - == All kinds of Plate Iron Work. ‘We make a specigity of Repalring 106 To. pfd SPCIRS BAOTHERS, Water Siieet, Nzw London ‘Bhone wik mayie American Locomotire Do. prd g 100 Ameriean Woulen . 2400 Anaconda Miniag 1300 Ateleon ...... . 400 Atlantic Coast Line #r00aBaltimore & Olio. 0 Do. _otd 14100 Brookisn Rapld Transit. 20 Canadian Pacifi: 3 1200 Centeal wards, The extent of the recent ad- rporations which | of the steel trade po- | DY, Moo 1004 Central of "New Jerse peake & Obio 0 Great Western 00 Chicago & N. W. : hicago, M. & St P. . C. C. & St 1dis. 1o’ ¥uel & Tron & Southern ware & Hudion or & Rio Grande.. Do.ahrd Distillers’ S krle 2 Do. 1st pfd . i pta neral Fleciric rihern ptd etfs. Ll Central Interborough ~ Met. Do. ptd ternational Paper Do. pld New_York Central N. Y. Ont & West 5500 Norfoik & Western N | 1000 North American 26300 Northern Pacifio i Mail nnsylvania ... G C C AT ‘Steel Car. 3 Palnce Car iway Steel Spriog. Keading . 400 Republic ‘Steel Do. pla . Rock Istand Co | |3 | Toledo, Do. ptd Do, st ptd uited States Steel Do. pfd e = Utah Copper 3 Ya. Carolina Chem. Do. pfd - Wabasih Do. pd ... Westinghoue Flestric . Westem Unlon . ——— Wheellng & L. s 3900 Wisconsin Cenral 15500 Am. Tel. & Teg. Total sales, 862,400 FEE A FE COTTON. New York ~April 6—Cotton spot uiet; middling uplands 10.10, mid- ling gulf 10.35. The sales of the day were 150 bales. Futures closed barely steady. Clos- Ing bids: April .79, ‘May 9.0, June 9.77, July 9.77, August 9.76, September 9.58, Octobe 9, November 9.57, De- cember 9.57, uary 9.52, February March 9.52. MONEY. ) New,_ York, April 6.—Money on call easy, 13-4@3 per cent, ruling rate 13-4 and 2, last loan 2, closing bid 13-4, offered at 2. Time loans easy and dull; sixty days 21-4 to 21-2 per cent, ninety days 212 per cent, six to 4 pew cent, Kennedy Answers Critios Who Are Op- i Indian Chief Throws Pirol> Easily, Chief Fighting Bear proved far too posed Change. strong {:xl!onnt Pirolo f!{n:‘mafi ; L& X % sey at the wres| Yale will use its English | shell New London Tuesday night, throwing|in the it odred race wl{h’“m‘g Uni- him with a crotch hold in 23 minutes| versity of Pennsylvania next Saturday. and then getting the second fall on e oy M e Beaed U L e i L e him the match, in which the conditions | ¢g. were mlu t]:e wuboto mr;::[:h bypo; nent twice in an ur. barre of Sintreal was referee. The bout was a | Soccig &n Euglish shell tor the race. good one, but was attended by only & | gnell ons day and an American boat smail crowd. ¥4 In the preliminary, Win the Indian }mn::, &‘m«‘:fi:&n -cn‘;‘::: threw Young Pienig in 10 minutes. Daent stect on thelr rowing, ISdaed, the English shell in which tI now Irish Giant Looking for Barnes. plan \o‘mw on the hflym‘l‘l”hfl a Jack McGrath is thinking it is about | bottom so fixed that the rigging time he heard something directly from Dri Jim. Barnes about a return match with Chief Fighting Bear. McGrath is {raining aily by wrestiing at the gym and boxing, but he don’t propose to keep this up forever walting for the match Barnes has promised him. If ‘Barnes is in earnest, McGrath says, it is about #fme he showed up, or else confessed that he is trylng to crawl out. Young Jail Hills Challenge. The Young Jail Hills would like to ghallenge' the Bean Hill tesm. _The neup is as follows: Norie ¢, Barry and Luls p, N. Protone 1b, L. Masesh- | hell, it could win the eame race ¥ for 2b, R Reyeane 3b, R. Kenney ss,| American rigged and vice versa. Suvivalan cf, Eloise tf, McGown If.|1f our work is to count for anything They ekunked the Thamesville Stars|it hould be devoted to finding out by the score of 9 to 0. The battery for | Which is the better and what kind of the winners were Berry and Norie. and that can be dons Two Races on SchuylWL. Philadeiphia, April 6—Yale and| THE NATURAL WAY Philadelphla_have decided to row two races Instead of one on the Schuslkilh FIGHTER'S WINNING CARD. river Saturday. In tion to e P Tvarsity race, the second crews of the | Pugilistio Stars Must Sorap the Way two colleges will have a race, which| Nature Taught—Jeff Couldn’t Shift will precede the big event. from Crouch. Amateur Baseball. I think now, and have always The Young Blackbirds defeated the | thought, that the best method of fight- Young Indians 6 to 1. The batteries|ing is the way in which nature has were, for the winners W. McKnight c, | best fitted a ist, said James J. W. Ricker p, for the losers H. Slattery | Corbett in a discussion on what ring ¢, A. Clisth p. W. McKnight does not | tactics a fighter should adopt to win. ¢ with the Blackbirds, but played|If 2 man has a punch then he should with them Friday. He is the captain | depend a lot on it to win him victory, of the Potatoes. If he has cleverness he should let the| — other fellow present the ope: and CIBOT FROZEN OUT. be ready to take advantage of it aay Frenchman Who Has Defeated St. time. ,’g&?llnt Nolmhamé:: l;rtuhol “‘r Yves Wasn't Allowed to Start in effries reac! nnacle of Marathon Derby. fame because they &d not try to ac quire an artificial way of fighting. probably made the biggest change of Contrary to general bellef, no cham- | gny of the three mentioned. Whwn ho plonship was involved in the race, and | gtarted to fight he stood almost straigh St. Yves must beat several good men | yp in the air. But Tommy Ryan, pro! before he can claim the title. The| ahly the “gtuuo: master of champlon. race was a closed one,~the entries of | ship tactics in the history of pugilism, Edward Cibot and Louls Orphee of | showed him the cro@®h that covered France, John Svanberg of Sweden and| up his jaw and mede him the hardest Pat White of Ireland being refused.| pugilist that ever lived to knock out Of this quartette, Cibot has the best| But the crouch belonged to Jeff's clalm to the championship . He has|method of fighting, and he fell into it not only beaten St. Yves, his country- | as naturally as he learned to use his man, several times, but holds the rec- | legs when he was a kid. B ord for the Marathon distance, 2.34.50,| Ketchel has tried to change his Cibot, with Orphee as a partner, won [method of fighting twjice and adopt an the recent six day go as you please|artificial way, but found it worked to race at Madison Squaré garden, and | his disadvantage. Now he has reached is now training hard for Marathon | the conciusion that in ail future figh contests. Although he has not run|he will follow the lines that nan against Svanberg, he has frequently | mapped out for him as a fighter. defeated men who have beaten the| The natural way in everything Swede. He holds many European | surely the best. 1 dist: s d e ong distance records and is anxious KE: EL FITZ'S EQUAL. —ee to rn SLthea in’}hln country. Before the race Tom Flanagan, the * former manager of Longboat, stated|Michigan Lion in Line for Heavy- that the Indian had broken training weight Title—Has the Punch. last Tuesday and would hardly finish, as he was out of condition. The van-| Persons who have seen nearly all quisher of Dorando and Shrubb made |the big ring battles for the last 25 a sorry spectacle, and was never dan- | years appear to agree on one point— gerous throughout the race. It will|that Stanley Ketchel is the egual of require several weeks of hard training|Bob Fitzsimmons in punching ability to get him back to form, and 'enenlhmlc nu} though perhaps e the Cornishman’s inferior in experi- MORNING COLD BATHS. ence and crafty mfi::l!l. l:tnlmn;on; P ‘Was never a great Xer. e recelves Part of Modern Physical Culture—DFr.|severe punishment in his battles with Johnson's Resolutions. Corbett, Jeffries, Choynski, Sharkey . and others, but that made no differ- Someone has asked if cold water|ence so long as he could get near baths are a good thing to take in the | enough to hand in his famous w. morning. For those wko are in ordi- | lops. nary business pursuits they undoubt-| That is Ketchel's style of fighting, ely are a benefit and form part of the|and as Ketchel is heavier now than ystem that goes with up to date phy- | Fitzsimmons was when he won the sical culture treatment. It is the one|championship of the werld from Cor- thing that once the habit is firmly | pett at Carson City, he thinks he has formea gives less trouble to the patient | g right to challenge Johnson and also than anything else. He is at once ex- | feels confident of success in view of hilirated and the day starts in bright | of the fact that Johnson has never de- however it ends. The excuse that|feated a first class man, many offer is that they don't have| So no matter whether Johnson side- time, and I suppose this is 8o, but|gteps Ketchel or not, it is the general pinned down to cold logic the 15 min-| opinion among sporting men that the utes extra- early rising will be more | Yonderrul Michigan Lion will in the than compensated by the 15 per cent.| near)future be a contender for the better condition a little later on. It is|pcavy weight champlonship of the the getting ouf of bed !n the morning| worid and there are many good judges that troubles us today, just as it 8id in | U}0 ree) sure Ketchel will win the Dr. Samuel Johnson's time in the davs | yiria 1¢ he is properly handled and also of Merry Old England, when she was merry all of the time. Dr. Johnson :’:fi U S R e Cll S R me New Year's resolutions as CAN BEAT JOHNSON. O’Brien Says Ketchel Has the Punch to Do It to New York, April 2.—Philadelphia Septemher)—I resolva, To rise | Jack O'Brien says that Stanley Ketch- early, not later than 6 if T can; 1 hope | €l the middleweight champion, can de. sooner, but as soon as I can, feat Jack Johnson. O'Brien states thot 1765—Why resolution, 1 purpose to c rise at 8 because though lpnh’x)fil not| the ®zameness to do the trick. Th et rise early, it will be much earlier | Quaker wishes to have it understonc than T now rise, for I often le till 2. | that he does not naw thi- o 7 “1769—1 purpose and hope to rise | to Ketchel to boost himself, but to let early in the morning, at §, and by de- | the sporting pubiic siw grees at wonderful “Michigan Lion” is entitivd “1774—I hope to rise at 8 to a fight with Johnson and that the et il negro must consider his challenge. HOPEFUL BUNCH OF ORATORS |Ketchel said yesterduy that while he is e} et anxious to get & crack at Johnson Will Arrive Next Weef at he had left the matter entirely to his My New Names: 21204 | manager, Willus Britt, who is aleo hot «n the negro's trail. Jack O'Brien says that Ketchel can beat Langford as well 8 Johnson and & match between them. ground now, Herman Schincel and Bill | It 18 belleved. would draw a big rowd. Campion, who have been working out | If Ketchel and Al Kautman cculd meet on the country roads, and Joe Connor | !B 8 ten round bout there'd be plenty of the Springfleld team has jolned the | Of Betion, it is thought, and with that Squad. Art Nichols, the ola man of| end in view several matchmakers were the game, sent word that he would be SIS T ey chey: on hand next Wednesday. }ddie| no w/ARSITY RACE Swander will come in from his scout- BETWEEN TIGERS AND YALE. ing expedition about the same time, The twe players recommended by eyt g::enaer, rxml:rh‘?rue.a:gd g.-:;":d Princeton 'Varsity Wil Meet Yale man Rogers, o report ;‘hel;]e at once. Manager Ganzel Ssoqnd hwrs of the Rochester team was sent ele N Fram fo that eflect yesterday. - Mirst | oy Bayers, Conn. Apeil 5—That Baseman Keyes of the Elmira team the Yale and Princeton ‘varsity crews has also béen added to the list and | niren tomors To wWetter Can oy wil' be given a chance to compete with | fee o tomEn By e T taare Catchpole, Snyder and possibly Bill| oo, & METber Of Hhe GO re o Miller, if Oakland_ever lots loose of | Dard. As to whether the second crew him. ' From the Brooklyn club will will race or not is up to the Yale fac- e & pieher oy the oy club will | gity, according to the following state- who 1s said to be & comer, O'Toole of | MRt made by Mr Camp: = o Brockton, who is mow on the spring| S0 far as Yale is conce — training trip with Cincianati, has been | Matter 18 up to the faculty for action. offered to President Durant, but as he | The Yale varsity will mot row the wants $300 a month salary he will Princeton Vll'.‘!yh.-nmy. ‘The race Frobably mot grace the Watsrbury | Vil Be between the Yale second crew bench, as that salary is contrary to|2nd the Princeton ‘varsity. It will be the rules lald down by Secretary | FOWod either two days before or two ORoutka et ceterss but 12 not yos? | days after the Amerfcan Henley. Yale to by Hartford ef cetera. Outfielder | 8PPreciates the honor of beMg Prince Barry and Pitcher Hughes of Wilkes- | ton's first opponent at Carnegle lake barra are two more that cean mkee| “The Yale crew 1s now on the Schyul- to Waterbury if they are wanted, ‘S,‘Ln‘l'fi;':'n’,i" a:f:ra:? Tace against §0—Resolved, To rise as early as I can. 61—My purpose is, To regulate my Waterbury’s ball players report next week, and already there are two cn the Two Chicago Views. Comiskey of the White Sox remariks: Mopiith Shsafes: “While the race in the American league| Spalding’s Athletic Library for April this season promises to be close and|!8 devoted to Marathon running. It hard fought throughomt, T don't gee|has been compiled by James E. Sulli- how the other olubs are going to keep | Van. president of the Amateur Athletic the White Sox away from the pen-|union, and is a timely and interesting nant, and from this angle the 1909 publication. wiil float 1n Chicago, Tl . he weak teams| The book containg & history of the last year have all strengthened and a |origin of Marathon racing and-a com- great race should result. I pick Cleve.| plete list of Marathon races held since land to be & good second to my team.” | the revival of this form of sport. It Manager Chance of Chicago says he | also_contains several articles on “How thinks his team ean win the champion . | to Train for Marathon Running,” ship :E?;m xil-h{h. Bvers, with | “How to Manage a Marathon,” etc., al ors these written by experts. that ‘The illustrations are an Impertant s feature of the book, and comprise pic- fleld’ and have a ~g00d combination | tures of all the Marathon runners of with Howard at first base, Zimmerman | recent date. at second, Hofman at short and Kane| “Marathon Running” will be sent to at third base. ALy addxesa in the Lizied Biates or going will be. mmucn ng m . Ho ‘say5, b can 18y off his remdler o were with the team a year ago_Phe- 1an, first base; Hilt, shortstop; Miller, | 9 03 s barren this ycar. — sJabn Madden says that the trotting Northampton would like very mueh | Dorse of today is as well bred as the to get Hilt, Manager Bowler made | thOroushbred. Early Alice, .06 3-4, Is now owned b - give Manager O'Rourke Accorsini, first | in Milwaukee. She brought $4,600 at ver, will vllf with the Reading Atlan- baseman; Murphy, third baseman, and | the Sedalia sale. clul Russia, 2.28, own sister to Maud S., s stiil living at the age of dced a filly foal last season by and Nolte, pitchers, and Kerr, catcher. reliable Hi Ladd will be in the center the Ohio /State league and is well rec- feet tall, is C. E. Pollard, who comes a finish, best two out of three falls, Conroy is the regular third baser. | g catch as catch can. Articles will be| It Is said that there has been more signed to put the match on In Hart | ®arnest training in the south this vear | than ever before. The players reui- . . must be in condition in ford. dry them thoroughly. For the purpose of insuring a quick | tH€m If they can be re change of a spare wheel for a disabled one a dummy hub has been devised. Boston. and force the latter into the cylinder. the punch, the science anl| ‘Warren street. New !w}c ¥ - O'ROURKE’S NINE. fl,,... en—H: vehicles wi ops e s Squad of | 05 on thens amounted 1o 20 Signed. Out of the 20 men signed only seven third base; Ladd, centerfield; Romer the offer outright, - He is willing to Robarge, catcher and outflelder, in ex, change for Hilt. The three men named were with Meriden last season . These plavers promise better than ever before. Old garden. ready to cover an acre, Pitch- show his worth and Young Kerr may have an opportunity to develop still further. The new men among the pitchers are A. J. McCarthy of Charlestown, H., who is 6 feet 2 inches tall. 'He | °f Bessi has pitched in the Eastern and New York leagues with success. Fred Searles of Saco, Me, is an- that have made standard r other big fellow. He has had experi- ence in the New England and Maine lellu;t In the jast named league he ‘won ut of 32 games pitched. 1ast sea: ommended, An unknown, whe is a big fellow 6 from Glastonbury Hansen vs. Harvey Parker. Fritz Hansen has accepted the chal- lenge of Harvey Parker to wrestle to Maloney to Run St. Yvi Maloney to run St. Yves, the Marathon | that the team is in shape and hopes for the Dest.” Derby winner. A Application of tar to the surface of | roads has been successfully carried | out on the Revere Beach parkway in | | An English motorist has evolved the | motor apron. He appreciated that many dresses and suits have been | ruined in motoring because the long coats would slip apart in front The Indiapapolis police department has installed a touring car that will he used espacially to answer murder, burglar and other emergency calls, be- ing kept in readiness at all times. As the years go on.and the number | of automobiles In use Sncreases, the revenue derived from their taxation | will be so great that it will be applied | to the building as well as the up-keen of the roads. The proposed motor liability law in Germany is declared to have produced a serlous effect already on the German industry, as people are afraid to buy cars when they are faced with such frightful liabilities. To prevent any emery or other abra- sive materfals from falling into the | cylinder while gringing in the valves, it is a good plan to tie a length of strong string to a small piece of waste A new competition, part of the plan tor popularizing the Brooklands (En= ) track, is about to be inaugurated. This | contest is to be limited to automobiles will be a competition for the fastest| e . 4 No. 2 HARNESS HORSE NOTES: Lady Rivers, dam of Sweet Marle, 2.08 3-4, | She prod Manager O’'Rourke a1so looks for | McKinney, 2.11 1-4 tmproved work on the part of Pomer as_pitcher. Trainer George Starr, who has spent the winter in New York, wiH train a Miller is to be back at third for a | public stable and will locate af New starter and Phelan will have another | York " . o A et York at an early date. A green trotting mare by McKinney. 211 1-4, 8 reported to hav aquarter for Charley De Ryder at the Pleasanton track recently in 16 1-2} er Noite will get another chance to| geconds. ton, track is J. D. Armstrong's brown coit by Searchiight, 2.05 1-4, out | AgTeeable for him. Taylor, by Col. Hambrick. Wilton, 2.19 1-2, by George Wilkes, | is the sire of 112 trotters and 24 pacers | man, from the Boston vords. He | another deal has been almost complet- e.sireq | ©d with the Brooklyn club for the ser- rs with | vices of Pltcher L. A. Kruger, Spud Murphy, the diminutive Wa- { terbury third sacker, is Moquette (4) | Northampton, Is working out in Hart- ford and getting into is credited with 22 sons that a total of 64 trotters and 40 pac records in standard time, total of 104, His ‘;no.sl successful son, as a sire of Powell of Fast Liverpool, 0., | 5iandard speed recor, is @ brother of William Powell, ‘who e oquetts wal T At s uch clever work for Springffeld | 10 toke as fast a re : Ho fus Bas upe‘;,e“‘:f,n four year old, which he did with little | tract to Goldie Bowder, handiing, the salury offered did BASEBALL BRIEFS. Frank Chance says that t the arm. will gnend in a few Gays. With Delehanty back, Unglaub will | Barry. move over to first base for the Sen- ators. McBride will play short, and | ize that they order to hold their jobs Manager Muray considers the Phil- outfielder Fielder Jones Is He is a good judge and cess of his fielding proba Ofiice, Wharves and Yard: ‘44 to 76 West Main Street (Ceniral Wharl.) 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Thomas Ashworth, anaged the Spencer baseball club when Jack Zeller, now head of baseball works, was pitching, says Zel- »"good as a Connecticut the Sprinefield Pitcher Jawn Hess writes to Spring- ! fleld friends that he has returned his A vearling trotter that is attracting | contract unsigned conside ? ® | Club., Hess says he will not play with T i ntion at the Lexing” | Lawrence unless things are made more the Lawrence Manager McCormick of Holyoke has secured Charles Bell, a second base= Americans and who belopgs to shape for the returned his con- unsigned, as not appeal to At the meeting of the directors in o Haven, April 5, the schedule will loss of | he adopted. Manager Clarkin's ticket will be a discussion whether some of Waterbury team defeated Jim Barry of Chicago in the scheduled twelve- a straight victory by a foul blow from STOCKS, BONDS AND COTTON. Bill Block Correspondent of ENN|S & STOPPANI, Established in 1885, 42 Broadway, New York. 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