Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 7, 1889, Page 9

b SPECIAL and Extraordinary A BUNCH OF \ ¥ ! B # } , .l\\ Will, Monday, make prices on special lines / ML | EIGHTEENTH YEAR. French Violets Given Free to Every Lady Visit- ing Our Millinery Department, OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 7, 1889 THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE. =SIXTEEN PAGES, ‘ — . s GIVEN AWAY To Every Lady Visiting Our Millinery Department, A BUNCH OF FRENCH 502, 504, 506, 508 and51 uth 1 3th-st.,. Corner of Howard. of New Spring Goods, that are sure to bring such a rush to their store thatthey have engaged extra help, so that everyone will be waited upon. It will pay you to attend the sale. ' MILLINERY W ash Dress Goods Our spring millinery trade so far has been immense, over " 3,000 LADIES' TRIMMED HATS Sold last week., Everybody is surprised atthe business we are doing wvhile other houses are complaining of dull trade. Why? Dwing to the fact that we buy in such large quantities from the manufacturers direct and sell our goods at a small margin that we save our customers fully 50 Per Gent From Millinery House Prices We have determined to raak the leadin Lire secon: e the Millinery Department one of features of our business, and are now devotin floor to our millinery department, making it l?\(‘ hand- our en- somest, largest and best lighted millinery departmentin the city. We amcf;loy only the best experienced trimmers, have the late an vies, TRIM HATS FREE OF CHARGE. ————————————————————————— To-morrow we will display a very extensive selection of IMPORTED DESIGNS SR IN-—— Hats,Round Hats and Bonnets| - UNTRIMMED HATS 1S AT PRESENT VERY COMPLETE, OUR ST0CK OF 050 Pleces Very Newest Effects and Perslan Designs PARIS SATINES, i m IS “SEASON'S PRODUCTION 100 PIECES BENUINE SCOTCH ZEPHYR GINGHAMS, 2000 Remnants French Satines, - 9i e Yard. LINENS. EPECIALS IN ANl DR SN 75¢, $1, a1 $1.51 PER DOZ WORTH DOUBLE. 1 4000 Dozen LINENS. HOUSEK EEPEE INVITED Lixtrs Largze. All Lin TOW RIS 2¢and 19c Each WORTH ¢ AND i LINENS. A BIG LO A BIG BARGAIN! White Table Damask, S0 WORTH UP TO $1.00. KHMBROIDHKIRIKS, FINE WHITE Embroidered Flouncing, 19cC Fine work, good width for Children's Dresses. i VESS EMIQADERDD 'SKIRTINGS, Very e swhas Embrojidered SKIRTINGS, 40 inches wided beautiful work. G EMBROIDERY BARGAIN ¥ Embrotdered to the waist. VIOLETS. DressGoods These are the Lowest Prices at which we ever have or ever will again offer New Dress Goods. At 6%c* Ny oV At 10¢2cnes Al new shades, DOUBLE-FOLD ST €™ st week at 15¢; wiil go this week ... ... FOLD E. At 12%c s At 22%c "M At 25¢" Bis opening bargain At 35¢* tae v we will move them At 37%c W +will go this week At 48c At 50¢ \ Al50 mixtures; worth 5 pieces of IMPORTED NOV bought to sell cheap at SPRING CASHMERE, 1. X. CASHMER Ality: Will be S0l ...\ At 19¢— cses, splendid DOUBLE.FOLD ENGLISH UASIMERE, €™ “Weokat £ic, Will go this Week ........... .- 5 At 23— vieces very tiuo ENGLISH HODY CASHMER " Pliist Week nt e, will jzo this week R WINCI LADIES' CLOTH, nico zroy an brown mixtues pleces splendid quality all-wool, PRING FLANNEL SUITING; worthi5) WOOL 40-INCH CASHMERE and bourht to sell at that p. beautiful new Tmported Al t colorings, intended for salea! At 35 ~20 pieces French Black and White Check DRE3S GOODS €™ Kveilworth 50c; wo will et thewm o, ... T but you m IMPORTED P! at 1%, will be . At Gle per yard ndvertised LAt 100 per yard vertised last week heavy twill 34 inches wide, good colors; T oy AT 12350 per yard advertised last ... At 10¢ per yard 3 fuchos wide, advertised % per yard worth 40 por yard 3 {nohes wids, all new Will go this wesk as an ... At 230 per yard 2 colors, worth 50c on 13 80 late . At 50 per yard all the '4¢ per yard inches wid, <. AUUSC per yard ouble-fold, full ol FRENCH SERG B 30c; will go this wask At i -INCH ALL WOOL SUITING, in fall line of all the now plain 1l this week—SPECIAL— At 43¢ per yard S and SIDE BANDS; OW...... .. At 50C per yard hand. 3 will Y PLAIDS, STRIP ve them AID3 AND STRIE 50 ploces 34INCH AL WOO At ZBes R INan AT N ‘gronnds, old roso groun 1%, tan grounds, gobelin ieap'at $1 2 cases 40-INCH ALL-WOOL ¥ grounds, ete. ; would b At 50c At 67c™ v A At 88c1)pices PURE SILK WARP H :wmm‘ I'A, % fnches wide, all shades; advertised last week at WG will lot them 10 this WoeK. ... INISHED ALL-WOOL HE .. At Tbe per yard RT1 beantifully finishod goods, and [t in all the new spring colors;advertised last week at 0323 will go this weex. At 50c per yard TA, regular $1.00 .l ... At BTo per yard new spring ‘must close them out this woek, t B3¢ por yard RI but w IN THE FIELD OF SPORT. Encouraging Proepects of a Success- ful Base Ball Season. A TALK ABOUT BASE RUNNERS. A Oolossal Bicycling Tournament— President McCormick—The Bench ® Show—Trap, Dog and Gun— Miscellaneous Sporting. The New Schedule. Moines on Tuesday last and revised the playing schedule for the present season. There was a representative from each club, President McCormick and Secretary Brandt being present from here, in atten- dance at themeeting and by their combined ‘work succeeded in turning out a very fair and satistactory schedule. The season opens. on April 20th, five days earlier than by the first schedule, and the northern cities open in the southern, with Minneapolis at Omaha; St. Paul at Sioux City; Milwaukee av St. Joe, and Des Moines at Denver. This ar- rangement will have a tendency to enhgnce the opening games a hundred fold over the former situation. The season closes Septem- ber 80, with the southern cities in the north The schedule provided for the home grounds is as follows: April—Minneapolis, 20, 21 and 23; St. Paul 25, 27 and 28; Milwaukee 30, May—Milwaukee 1and 2; Des Moines 4, 5 and 6; Sioux City 18, 19 and 20; St. Joe 21, 22 and 23; Denver 24, 25 and 26, Jllne——MlnnelSolh 16, 17 and 18; St. Paul 20, 22 and 23; Milwaukee 26, 27 and 28; Des Moines 29 and 30. July—Des Moines 1: Sioux City 8, 4 and 4; Bt. Joseph 6, 7 and 9; Denver 22,23 and 24. August—Milwaukee 8, 10 and 11; Minne- apolis 12, 18 aud 14; St. Paul 16, 17 and 18; Des Moines 20, 21 and 22; Sioux City 23, 24 and 25; St. Joseph 28, 20 and September—Denver 13, 14 and 15. ‘This makes 03 games for the home grounds, and they are admirably distributed among the other seven teams. Of these contests 12 fall upon Saturdays and 18 upon Sundays, as follows: : Aprii—Minneapolis 20 and 21; St. Paul and 28, May--Des Moines 4 and 6; Sioux City 18 and 19; Denver 25 and 26, June—Minneapolis, Sunday 16; St. Paul 23 and 28; Des Moines 20 and 80, July—St. Joe, 6 and 7. Ausul Milwaukee, 10 and 11; St. Paul, 17 and 1 ux City, 24 and 25, September—Denver, 14 and 15, Omaha finishes the season in Milwaukee September 27, 28 aud 29, his schedule shows that some brains were exercised in getting it up, and no little credit for the same is due Secretary O. E. . Brunds of this city, About Base Runners, Brynan, of the Sioux Citys, 18 unquestion- ably the flectest runuer in the Western association. He can cover one bundred yards in & straightaway run in less than eleven second here is no other player in_this association that can duplicate this perform- ance. Of the Omakus, Crooks is a good starter from the plate, 'and & good start is a big thing in making & base. What Crooks would do under favorable circumstances and on a good cinder path'is another thing. He 068 10t civim to be a sprinter. Cooney an ake bis little duck legs go like a piston-rod of 8 locomotive trying to make up lost tume. He leaves the plate op & bunt or a short hit like an arrow from the bow, and it crowds an infielder to throw bim outeven on a cleanly handled ball. mau, and may develo) call a lalla-cooler. fio\- ug on his toes and makes for ke a thoroughbred, Jack Messitt is a ban- mh‘r runner, and he goes like a whirl- wind, is a good slider and mukes many a base that would be lost to a less agile man Aundrews, Strauss and Nagle are fair base runners, and little Wilils 1s a dandy. Cleve- pud is 100 big to muke frst giuss time, but | | his 1ine hitting will make up for this. Procs. ser surely Las the material in him for o fiyer. Kennedy is not a fast man, but Daddy Clarice, at times, runs well. President McCormick. The last issue of the New York Sporting Times contains an excellent portrait of J. S. McCormick, of this city, and president of Western association, accompanied by the fol- lowing sketch J. 8. McCormick, president of the Western association was born in 1885 at Cadiz, O. He settled in Omaha when he was twenty-two years of age and began business there as u surveyor. That calling, however,.he did not follow a great while, as he saw & promising opening in the grocery trade. It was in this branch of businese that he laid the founda- tion for his fortuve. Mr. McCormick was quick to perceive that Omaha would develop into one of the ieading cities of the west, and he laid his plains accordingly. He was engaged in freighting on the plains and later secured large government contracts, charging his obligations promptly and credit- ably. He was elected president of the Omaha club in the fall of 1887, and was re-clected at the last annual meeting. At the Minne- apolis meeting of the association he was chosen president and treasurer. Mr. Me- Cormick is a popular man 1n all that is desir- able which that word implies. The Sporting Times has had hard work to secure his pho- tograph, as ho wus averse to the publicity into which his picture in _this paper will lift him. His regara for the paper, however, triumphed over his disinclination, and our readers may see lim on another page s be is. Umpire Sandy McDermott. The Western association’s new umpire, Sandy McDermott, will cut a queer figure when in the field this season, if what is said of him is true. Here is the fairy tale that comes from Chicago: ‘‘Sandy has had built for use during the coming season a helmet and a cunirass of stout bull's hide, stecl bound and brass riveted, which shield bis head aud body. The suit is ingeniously con- structed to yield with the movements of the wearer, while light but strong steel ribs offer stout resistance to assaults from without, The helmet is lined with a combination of steel bars and springs and cottoit wool in such & way that not even the most powerful blow from an irate batsman would be felt on the woarer's bead. In fuct, the quly vulnerable spot in the helmet 1s the hole flecessarily left for the umpire’s mouth, und even this is in a measure protected by a wire netting. For his legs, Sundy has devised a covering some- what resembling cricketers’ foils, but much thicker and stronger, constructed of heavy bull’s hide.” A Close Fight Predicted, The Western assocuation race for 1880 gives promise now of being more closely contested than ever before in the histo ry of the organization, When the hot cl ose of last season is taken into consideration this is ng # good deal, The additions to the playing strength of the Milwaukees, Den- vers, St. Joes, St. Pauls and Omahas, indi- cate that the struggle this year will be a remarkable one. Because the Sioux Citys, Des Momes and Min apolis toams are not included in the above is no assertion that they will not be in the fight, It goes without saying that Morton and his wild hustlers will be right up among the leaders all the time, if they do not make the pace. No team has a cinch, and will have to keep busy all the time. At no stage of the game can any of them lay back on their oars. They must be keyed u};fi their fullest tension from the first tap o e bell until they pass under the wive in October. Then look out for a close finish and lots of hurrab and excitement, Syld at a Long Price. William Daily, an Omaha horse breeder and tramer, sold Gail McMahan and her colt, Belle Thorne, to Frank Batts, of Hall, Mo., one day this week for oue of the longest vrices ever paid for a pair of Nebraska bred colts. Gail McMahan is & trotter, with 34 mark, by McMahan, dam by Hambletonian Chief. ‘Belle Thorne is by Hawthorue, dam Lady Thorne, i‘?‘ Thorvedale, by Main Hambletonian. Helle Thorne goes in the colt stakas at the breeders mosting held in August. THE SPRING BANCH SHOW. Evidence That It Will Attract Atten- tion Throughout the Country. An extraordinary interest is being taken in Manager Ingram’s spring bench show, which opens at 1216 Farnam street one weelk from next Tuesday and continucs to the 19th inclusive. In cvidence of this fact the prizes offered by business men are herein enumer- ated: C. 8. Ruymond, a beautiful silver cup, appropriately engraved, for the kennel win- ning the most prizes. Dr. Saxe, a box of fine tollet soap, to the best skye-terrier. Pease Bros,, silk umbrella, to the best black and tan, J. J. Hardin, an clegant collar, first English mastiff. Charles Fauning, hand- some collar, first St. Bernard’s. Licutenant Wright, silver collar, first setter. Frank Parmelee, lovely set of harness, first pug. Welty & Guy, fine collar, first fox terrier. William Lawler, of the Eden Musee, gold medal, first Mexican hairiess. J. A. Wood & Co., box of imported cigars, first bull ter- rier, Dave Kauffman, box of fine cigars, first grey hound. In addition to these there are many other special prizes. Entries are coming in daily and the show promises to be one of the most interesting ever held in the west, Prize-winning pointers and setters from all parts of the country will be here. Somé of these dogs huve taken first prizes on the English bench, and are known to dog fanciers throughout the world, Blood- hounds, great Danes, Mastiffs and St. Bernard's will head the list of large dogs. There are also several entries of fine New- foundlands and Scottish stag hounds, There will be auy number of dogs benched that no money can buy, most of them have al- ready won first prizes in eastern competi- tion, but there will be some new aspirants for first honors that will make the old fel- lows bid high to beat them. A large selec- tion of old Virginia fox hounds have been entered, and will attract much attention. Every old time sportsman is familiar with the liquid music of their tongues, and the sight will awaken memories of many a thrilling chase. There will be a large show of fine grey hounds, and fheir companions “in the field,” the fox terrier. The fox terrier is a gritty little dog, with just spunk enough 10 go at unything from a mouse up to an clephant. They will go into the burrow of u rubbit, fox or wolf, and seldom fail to rout the me out. The skye, Scotch and Irish terrier, the black and tin and pug, are the favorites with the ladies. There area number of splendid pugs in Omaha, able to compete with the best, and most of them will be benched. It the Omaha dogs are en- tered as they ought to be, there is little doibt but what many of the first honors will be taken here. It isn't every city in the country that can get up a show like this, and it is pleasing to note the interest that is being evinced in the enterprise. The Trap, Dog and Gun. G. Ingraw has sold his big greyhound, . Ile was purchased yssterday by E. allurd of Wilber, this state, for §5: John 8, Prince und Frank Parmelee shot a blue match yesterday ufternoon, tweuty birds each, eighteen yards' rise, for price of birds and shells and $10 a side, ' The score: Parmelee ... 11111111110111111111-19 brince. ., 110101111111111001 1118 Prince is what might be properly called a new ‘shot, but he is coming up on the “loracks’? very fast. is shooting in splendid form and will soon be enabled to step up to the mark with the best of them. Messrs. Herdin, Ketchem and Clarke shot a triangular match yesterday on the new club grounds across the river, each mau ting $10, fifty blue rocks, eighteen yards Fise. Str. Hardin won by 'the magniicent score of 49 0ut of 50, 'The score: Hardin —1LINONA I 11149, xmh-miwmwm«nmmuuum 11L111110111101 Clarke—11TILITIONINONILION 100011111 1104, A vastnumber 0f gunners have been out during the past weck, and although the col Liuu wari, weather has kept the birds from moving much, some very fine sport was had at different ponts. Goose shooting ut Clark’s, Brady’s Island, Willow Islaud, Val- ley and Rogers has been unusually pood, and some large bags have been made. At Clarke's. Wednesdsy = Mr. Hoyt downed y-oue white gegse and brant, and on the 1r. Hale bagged six! ports ordinary pintail , and lower down, sloughs along the Missouri, mallard shooting has been exceptionally fine, C. C. Wil there have been large numbers of bi i Valley, but only small bags have made owing- to the low waters and summer weather. Blue bills are to be found on the Elkhorn in large flocks, but are flwnkl;u: htt There are absolutely no anvasbuc g made jubin J. Hardin shocting tournament opens on th b’s new grounds across the river one week from ‘Puesday next and con- tinues four days, Huardm has sccured 0, live birds, 4,000 pigeons and 2,000 Eng sparrows, and there is every indication of lurge and interesting meeting of the crack shots. The Omaha Rifle club will meet atthe sporting goods house of Gwin & Dunm corner Thirteeath and Dodge stree Wednesday night, for the annual elec! officers, and the transaction of a lot of cellancous business. The Omaha Gun club will meet at the sume place Tuesday evening for business of a similar character. This is the gun club's annual meeting, Hon. John M. Thurston spent the week up the Platte with a party of friends among the geese and wild fowl. They had a glorious time and bagged several barrels of game. - A Colo:sal Tournamenat. W. G. Ingram goes to Chicago with J, J. Hardin in May to assist in the management of the great cycling tournament. These gen- tlemen have several of the entries to look after, besides other material interests to watch over. This will undoubtedly be the grandest and biggest bicycie tournament ever held in the warld. There will be one professional event, géntinuing six days, eight hours daily. For this $1,000 will be given, and provided there ‘ive eight or wore start- ers, as seems highly ‘probable, it wiil be di- vided into five prizes, she first man taking $500, the second §250, the thira 8125, fourth %75 and fifth §0. L 'there are less than eight starters, only four przes will be given, the third man taking #50 and the fourth £100. In addition to this,gu special prize, whether in money or a troplly has not yet boen de- cided, will be given te thewinner provided he beats the record, 747 mules, made by Morgan at Minneapolis. ~As this would require un ay crage speed of over fifteen iwiles nine hun- dred and ninety yards am hour, the race will, beyond question, be fast and exciting. 'The men who have aiready éxpressed their inten- tion of riding are Prince, his pupil, Reading, the soidier, Knapp, Morgan, Dingley, Ash- inger, Harrison, Albert Senock, “Whnittaker, Nielson and others, The other events will bs numerous enough and sufiiciently varied in character to please the most fastidious, we will be races for novices, and experts, beys and old men, league inen and unattached men, suburban clubs and city clubs, in short overy mau will be given an opportarity to distinguish iim- self in sowe way or ofher, if it is only by taking a header und bringing down the rest of the fleld, The Wolt' Chase. Everybody is inamiring about the great fox, wolf and jack-rabbit chase, which is booked for the Coliseuw on the night of April 20, This mevel ana turilling enter- talnment bas awskened a most remarkable intercst, and Manager Iugram will undoubt- edly have several thqusand people on hand 1o see the sport, The wolyes aud foxes are being put in condition and will make asgreat chase. Brier eat @ horse, these avimals, while the rabbits will tended to by greyhounds. A wire netting will be put up entirely around the balus- trade of the Coliscuw, @nd there will be no 5 di r of the wild animals creating a stam- pede by leaping among the sudience. Be- sides these chases there will be an nterest- ing programmme, embracing many new fea- tures, arranged for the occasion. vents at the Colixcum. There will be heaps of fun at the Coliseum ! during the next_five weeks, as Manager Prince has made ‘arrangements for several attractive events. On the evening of the 20th Ingram's wolif and fox chase will take place, and a large crowd will doubtless turn out to witness this d thrilling exhibition. on > three-hour a night wheel rico 3 begins, continuing to the 2ith inclusive. There are alrcady fifteen cntries, and the affair will be spirited and exeiting indeed, are always emulous and run fo / time. On the 20th the lady bykers, Beaut win and ali, with three or four new one; commence their second six-day race here. ition is going on as to the n Omaha girl who it will be a formidable competitor for first honors On Thursday next Wilbur ¥, Knapp, one of the speedicst wheelmen in_the world, will ride a 100 mile race with Ned Reading, the soldier, for #100 a side. Readmng has im- proved wonderfully since last scan in @ pub- Jie race, and will make Knapp hustie to beat him. Flashes From the Diamon:i, Walsh goes to Des Moines, The Cowboys on Tuesday and Wednesday next, avenport has signed left-ficlder Rout- cliffe, Carroll Pauls, has at last signed with the St. Nichols may yet pitci for the v, of St. Paul, is through coaching Jim Hart, of Des Moines, will manage the Boston team, Proesser did not accompany the Omahas on their urip. Pearce, Minneapolis' new first busemun, is said to be a comer, Joo Harr joined the Milwaukee team at Louisville yosterday. A uew insido fence has been built entirely around the local park. “Trick” McSorley has decn made captain of the Sacramento team, Denver has no less than six ex league players in her ranks, Sporadic scores of exhibition ball gawes are blooming forth in all the city dailies. Omaha has three of Portsmouth’s last sea- s0u'; team—Canavan, Leighton and Willis, er and Jimmy McCullar ha their releases by Des Moines for National #3900 each, ‘Who will hit Jeff Bedford for fifty cases this year! Joe Miller was the only lucky one last year. St. Paul refused an offer of §1,000 from Washington for Pickett—in their highly erudite minds. Milwaukee bemoans the release of Pitcher Winkleman, It was a mistake. He was the best twirler they had. orge Moolic has signed with Hartford caught for Omaha a few games on the final trip of last season. This week's New York Sporting Times contains a cut of Em, Hengle, Minueapolis’ clever second baseman. George TofMing, of the St. Joeo. team, ref cently received the nice little sum of #3550 from his father's estate in Bolton, Mass. The Western association championship season opens in Omaha one week from Suu- day next with Sam Morton’s strong Miune- apolis teamn, Sioux City has refused several offers for the release of short-stop Burke, who played 80 brilliantly for Jacksonville against the Phillies this spring. Every city in the Western \association is well satisfiod with the revision of tne play- ing schedule, and uncommon Success is pre- dicted for the season. X There is a good deal of talk \ Sloux City nday games, the of- about stopping the aver that they ficers of the club, however will not be interfered with. Sam Moffet, one of Omuha's last season pitchers, is reported to have struck it rich in Montana. He has made §40,000 out of his mine, and is about to close out to San Fran- cisco capitalists, The Spalding base ball guide is on our table, It is replete with valuable in‘>rma- tion, and the front page is adorned with a portrait of the late William A. Hulburt, the father of the Nalional league. The St. Paul Pioneer Press says the fans up there view the strong Milwaukee team with avprehension. Outside of Milwaukee, Omaha is regarded as likely to give the Apostles their haadest tussle, Catcher Earle’s record on the Australian tp was us follows: Games, 45; at bat, 117: runs, 28; basc hits, 33; stolen bases, 14} general average, .252. in the All America team he ranked third, Carroll being first and Ward s nd. As catcher he ranked first, with an average of .937. The second very kind invitation from the Philadelphia Sporting Life, the leading base journal of the age, to the banquet it will giye to the Spalding tourists, has been received by the sporting editor of Tue BER, and he takes this occassion to return his heartiest thanks; also to express regrets at his inal ity to attend. The Enquirer says that “Bug” Holliday, when playing in the field is a *‘dead ringer’ for Curt Welch, He walks like the great Philadelphian, throws like him, and catches afly with the same easy, graceful motion, At the bat and on the bases he reminds one of Latham. He runs on his toes with the same kind of a motion as the St. Louis clown, Among the young blood jn the Amorican association this season may be mentioned Holliday, Beard and Earle, of the Cincin- natis, Quinn, Foreman, and Whittaker, of the Baltimores, Raymond and Shannon, of the Louisviiles, Freemun, Cudworth and Fuller, of the Browns, Lovett and Visner, of the Brooklyns, Paine and Brennan, of the Ath- leties, while the Columbus and Kansas City clubs ‘are composed almost entirely of young- sters. Manager Selee will rigidly enforce the pro- hibition rules this season, and any man caught taking a drink will be assessed a healthy tine. Oue player is ulready com- plaining that it will weaken him to be cut off from his beer, and that he will have it in moderate quantities come what may. 1f this is true, the sooner the Omahas get { him the better. The rule is & most b one, und should be religiously enforced, The exhibition season for '8Y is now in full blast, ‘I'he battle has opened in dead earn- est all along the line, und by this time the fight for supremacy betyeén the Western assoclation teams and the Americans will be av its thickest. In another ten days the competent enthusiast wiil be able to form some idea of the comparative strength of the Western teams. It is not expected that many games will be captured from the American association, but base ball is very uncertain, Tug Arundel, the vanner tough and bar room loafer of the profession, and who played in the Western association last sea- son, has been amusing himself all w ter whipping policewan and knocking out inoffensive citizeus of Auourn, N. Y., stirred up @ hornet's uest the other night. Ho run into Mile Manscll while on the war-path, and Mike didu't do anything but kick in some of his teeth, black both of his eyes und cut his head open with a club. Arundel is in the hospital and Mike 18 outof the state. Auburn is therefore rid of two troublesome customers for u while, at loast. Denver’s new grounds will be the finest in the Westorn assoclatiou cities. They are 450x725 feet, so that ev home run made is duly earncd, T'he grand stand is & model of beauty, and_every couvenience possible is wdded for the benefit of the patrons. The *‘bleaching bourds’ are a snecial teature and are built for couveuience, The seating ca- pacity of the grounas is 4.500, A new featuro is that the owner of the refreshment portions will not be allowed in the audience during the progress of the game, so that patrons will not ke annoyed by the coarh candy and lemonade wan. " The ‘ladies' portion of the grand stand will consist of cusbioned cliairs “nd other convenlences for th {luu. Manager Sclee remarked last night: “I am better pleased than ever with my new. men. After I had secured the full team early this spring I looked carofully over the list and concluded that the Omahas for 1889 were just a trifle weaker in the feld than they were in 1858, but a great deal stronger in batting and base running. Since I have seej them in soveral games against strong opposi- tion I am convinced that' we are not only stronger in these two essentials, but quite as muscular in fielding. Leighton backs up second evory time a man starts from first and some of these runners who have been going down to third on overthrows to second will cet fooled with Leighton behind Crooks,” ’ A base ball organization, with a_capital stock of $1,000, has been organized at Nor- folk. The following are the officers: W. ‘W. Marple, president: Rome Miller, treas. urer; S. H. Overholsen, secretary; J. F. Riley, busiuess manager. Rome Miller, W, W. Marplo, R. G. Fleming, J. I, Riley, D. AL Hopkins, G. P. Moore nm'i' S. H. Overholsen, board of directors, Miscellaneous Sports. Two ‘more handsome red foxes were re- ceived yosterday by Manager Ingram for his great chase on the evening of the 20th at the Coliseum, Senator Morgan 18 in New York making arrangements for a six day race by the ludy bicyelists, to take place some time in May. The first number of the Western Horse- man, a neat and newsy weekly octavo, pub- hshed in this city, and devoted of course to the turf and equine interests, is before the writer. It is well filled with interestin, local information and selected matter, an merits success. 1t roprints a lot of Tig Bree's horse notes without credit, however. The summer meeting of the Nebraska as- sociation of trotting horse hreeders will be held August 27, 28, 20 and 30, It has not been decided yet which town or city will get this meeting. Trainers at the fair grounds are enjoying most phenomenal weather for their work, and the track is alive with promising fiyers every morning and evening, Questions and Answers, Last week I asked Tue Beg for the cham: pion bicycle riders of the world, but received no answer in Sunday’s Ber, Won't you please supply the information this week f— Amateur Wheelman, Ncbraska National Bunk, Ans.—W. A, Rowe, of Lynn, Mass., re tired, wus the general world’s champion. k Prince is the 72 hour champion, record 1,050 miles, W. £. Kuoapp is the 50 mile champion, He made that distauce in 2 hours, 20 minutes and 41 seconds, English riders and authorities suy this is the greatest feat ever performed on a wheel, as every mile was made inside of 8 minutes, Knapp 18 also the 48 hour champion; record 711. Shock is the six-day-six-night, 142 hours, champion ; record 1,405 miies, Will you please state in Tue 13 ing colummns next Sunday on what days and ¢ the Omaha Gun club hold thew ly shoots; Also what 1s Frank Par- melee’s record for 100 bird Ane, nesday afternoon. Hereafter on their new grounds across the river ou the line of the motor railway, Ninety-seven, Allow me o congrutulate you upon your work in the sporting department of your paper. It is the only paper in the western country west of Chicago taking such a com- mendable interest in sporting uffairs, and compares favorably with the best in the country. We get replics two or three weoks eurlier through Tk Bee than we possibly can by sending to the eastern dal or sporting journals, Continue the good work, itis extensively read. How do you rate the present Omaha ball team —are they as strong as last season's !~ H. Dawson, Omaha, Ans.—We rate the Omauas quite up to last scason’s standard, with & slight excep- tion, Al round they are probably just as strong. Thauks for your kind opinion, Can you inform we what has become of McHenry Johuson, the Black Starf--John Detray, South Omuba. Ans. ~1e is porter s Cia Leudville, s sport- Fush's salocm