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. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY{ APRIL 14, 1889—SIXTEEN PAGES. TREMENDOUS GRASH IN PRIGES! Greatest Sale Ever Known to the Furniture Trade' We received this week more Furniture Carpets, Stoves and House Furnishing Goods than were everreceived in one week by any furniture " housein Omaha. We purchased the stock of two instalment dealers who were closing business, and must admit the fact that we have over- ' . 8tocked ourselves. We really have more goods than we have room for. The actual value of this stock is $85,000, purchased by us for less . than 50 cents on the dollar. We therefore begin to-morrow the greatest sacrifice sale ever attempted by any house furnishing goods estab- : hsh;nent in Omaha. Thisisachance, once in alifetime. We give the benefit of this purchase to our customers. Positively no dealers supplied ' during this great sale. PRICES AND QUALITIES SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS Chamber Double Spring. .. Double Mattresses. ... Chairs. Tables. Rockers. Folding Bed Book Cases. ‘Wardrobes Pictures. Stoves.......... Gasoline Stoves. .. TRefrigerators..... Baby Carringes. . This is What Brings thhe i ’19 WORTH OF GCODS, $1 PER WEEK, OR $4 PER MONTH. $75 WORTH OF GOODS, $2.50 PER WEEK OR $10 PER MONTH. $25 WORTH OF GOODS, 31.50 PER WEEK, OR $6 PER MONTH. $100 WORTH OF GOODS, $3 PER WEEK, OR 812 PER MONTH. $50 WORTH OF GOODS, $2 PER WEEK, OR $8 PER MONTH. $200 WORTH OF GOOD¥S, $5 PER WEEK, OR $20 PER MONTH. Come at once to avoid the rush. No trouble to show lgoods. Parties residing at a distance farnished with car tickets free. Special inducements to young people starting housekeeping. Open evenings till 9 o’clock. All purchasers of $10 and over presented with a set of silyer-plated Tea Spoons. Peoples’ * Mammoth * Instalment » House, LARGEST EXCLUSIVE INSTALMENT HOUSE WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI, 613-615 NORTH SIXTEENTH STREET, BETWEEN CALIFORNIA AND WEBSTER STREETS. B. ROSENTHAL & CO, PROPRIETORS. .worth 8 4.00 now $ 2.00 worth 8.00 now 4.00 .worth 7.00 now 8.50 .worth 1.00 now 50 .worth 2,00 now .90 .worth 3.00 now 1.00 .worth 50.00 now 30.00 .worth 15.00 now 9.50 .worth 7.50 now 4.0 . worth .65 now .85 .worth .40 now 20 .worth 1.00 now .worth 5.00 now .worth 15.00 now Center Tables. Extension Tables. Kitchen Safes. Pillows Comforts. Lace Curtains Parlor Suits. Plush Rock Plush Chairs. .. Ingrain Carpets Stair Carpets. . 3 Brussels Carpets......... Rugs. . Bureaus. .worth 10.00 now .worth $18.00 now 8 9.50 worth 85.00 now 18.00 worth 40.00 now 25.00 worth 50.00 now 80,00 .worth 12,50 now .worth 10.00 now worth 20.00 now worth 8.50 now worth 8.00 now .worth 1 .worth 1.75 now ..worth 1.25 now Lounges..... 5.00 Bed Loungef Side Boards Secreta Ladies’ Cabinets Hall Racks. Office Desks Ladies’ Desks Hanging Lamp: Mrs. Potts’ Irons. No. 1 Tubs...... No. 8 Boilers. Ironing Board 8.50 now 4.00 now 75 now 50 now «worth 00 now .worth 50.00 now .worth 15.00 now .worth 25.00 now .worth 5.00 now .worth 18.00 now .worth 7.50 now .worth 20.00 now .worth 12.00 now worth vorth «oes . worth WESTERN BRANCH: N. W. Corner Post and Dupont Streets, SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. EASTERN OFFICE: 259 WEST BALTIMORE STREET, BALTIMORE, MD. Lovett, he nover forgets a batter, He 1s new man in the association, but ho will have the weak points of the association batters on his fingers ends before the championship race quite a record in masonry, Herald. Last Wednesday evening week he was made a Knight Templar by special dis- pensation in the St. Bernard commandery, i perior breeding. Belle has a magnificent foal at side by Rosewater. Temperance Lady, spotied mare, by Mam- brino Patchion, dam' by Hail Storm, foal at strength this season than ever before. For a good reliable every bay batter, honest Joe Struee comes pretty near filling the bill. He play—but he can’t. He keeps a private cue at the Millard and w low no one to use it under any consideration. Al Cahn plays a fine game of balk line. another shotgun celebrity, will be here Tues- s the Chicago day next to participate in the Hardin tourna- ment. The Le Fovre Gun club will hold their - IN THE FIELD OF SPORTS. A Good and a Bad Rule Included in the New Code. SOMETHING ABOUT OUR HITTERS © A Revival of Billiards—The Bench Show—Tafly For Lovett—Horse Talk—Flashes From the Diamona—Ete. A Good and a Bad Rule, game, should be encour- aged. Everything thatiwill tend to increase tho inter- est and excitement in these struggles on the diamond should be carefully fostered. Anything that goes to add to the intricacy of the game should be set down upon heavily and peremptorily. Base ball 18 & simple, honest, invigorating and healthful pastime, and the easier and more compre- hensiye the rules, the better for the perpe- tuation of the sport. In the exhibition games played so far this spring the result of the pew rules have been closely watched and liberally commented upon, The return to the three strike, four ball rule is universally spproved, but by tne abolition of the fowl tip catch onecof the prettiest, neatest and most dificult plays in the whole game is done away with, The majority of enthusiasts cannot ubderstand why this was done. It ywas sumply to encourage batting and base running, and is a slight curtailing of the pitcher’'s advantages. It is even more damaging to the catcher, but, @ & rule, base ball managers have no oyes for their catchers in formula- 1n, lhmrpluymr regulations, The pitcher 48 the pet, and all fatherly vigilance is kept over him. All the catcher is expected to do 10 get up behund the bat and take his med- ne until knocked out of all semblanco to & _ ball player, and is laid away on the shelf ‘whence no back stop ever returns. Not- withstanding the elimination of the foul tip, Bo must stand closo up behina the bat, and take his as before. This rule, the Bhflt " writer thinlls, is both a severe and a bad one. Make 1t & Gala Day. The championship season of 1580 opens at Ake local park next Saturday with Sam Mor- fon's Minneapolis team. As this 18 going to be & great season for the game, it wouldn't a bad 1dea for the local management to . signalize the day with a fow extra flourishes, Ladies sbould be adwmitted free; the grand stand decorated with flags, and a good band rovided for an open air concert, to begin, i at 2 o'clock and continue until the um, the scason of '89 with his welcome cry 4 ‘iplay ball.” It can be mude an occasion 3 w“o remembered. Tafy for Lovett, A Brooklyn eorrespondent thus smears the ine emulsion over our late lamesuted i Lovett, our new pitcher, will prove a ‘walugble maa to us, I think, He is a sto built fellow, aud capable of standing I physical strain. The peculiarity about is that he can pitch as good a game in weather as he can in the balmiest day " inJune. Ithink Lovettis about as neara rpart of the Glauts' great pitcher, @8 it would be possible to find, He ot many of the good qualities that go to Keefo the remarkable Pilcher he 1s. motions ave life Keefe's and nobody knows whether to expect a swiftly pitched ball, cutting the center of the plate,or a slow irye that could not be reached with a graph pole. He pitehes every ball with jue wotion and his change of pace and ol of the diminutive sphere is remarka- bore is auvother good thirg about is well under way, and what he once learns he never forgets. He studies a batter as a cat does a mouse, and then profits by the weak points detected by his keen eye. - If ho finds that a batter cannot stop a low ball that batter will never got a high one from Mr. ovett. Selee’s Kules. Managor Sclee has posted up in the dress- ing room at the ball park the following rules. They are very terse, but contain all that is necessary if even half way en- forced: 1. Players must be in bed not later than p. m, 2 2. Players must report at grounds weck days at 10:30 o, m. and 2 p. m.; Sundays at 2 p. m. 3, Drinking will not be tolerated. Any player who drinks intoxicating liquors will pay for the privilege. 2 4. Avoid bad company; do not use profane language; be gentlemen at all times—in fact, De a credit to the game and the city you rep- resent. F. G. SeLee, Manager Omaha B. B. C, Sizing Them Up, Enthusiasts, who have watched the Omaha team in its exhibition games during the past ten days, are generally of the opinion that it is the strongest aggregation of ball players that has ever represented the Gate City. One cannot help being impressed with_the athletic appearance of the men. They look like & woll trained string of thoroughbreds, Every mau is in fing fettle. Cleveland and Crooks were the only ones who carried much superiluous flesh at reporting time, but they have worked 1t nearly all off, The team, av a casual glance, even, shows that it is strong physically, and woe to the team who sizes them up acres who have place for the otherwise. Maybe the wise- picked out fourth ) boys right in their prediction, but if they get no better than that position the other teams must all show up two-fold stronger than they were last season. Clarke is in better form than ever before, Willis has much speed and gpod curves, Kennedy is pitching well, and ig ambitious to do better. No one who' has seen Proesser will deny that he gives prom- ise of beinga first-class twirler. The Omahas are thevetoro better fortified in the pitching department than over before, There is no occasion to lament the loss of the “‘ouly Lovett’—the New Yorks, in their game with Brooklyn the other day, found in him a verituble pudding. In catching, however, we are yet a trifle weak. Nagle's work is " faultless. He holds one itcher’s delivory as well us another, and is throwing to” second is remarkable. Cooney is a strong backstop, but there is constant use for him elsownere, and it will be impossible for Nagle to do all the work. In Andrews, Crooks, Cooney and Cleveland the team has the strongest infield in the Western association, Strauss, Leighton and Canavan or Messett make an outfield that, when batting, fielding and base running are considered, need not take off their hats to any of them. With this strong combination, under such a steady, relisble manager as Frank Solee, there is no reason why the Omahas should disappoint tue expectations of their most sauguine fricnds, Every Dog Has His Day. Everything s at lust in readiness for the opening of the spriug bench show, which takes place noxt Fucsday morning at 1216 Farnam street, and eontinues to the 19th in- clusive, Manager Ingramn is greatly elated over the prospective su s of the exhibi- tion, which is assured by the fact that he has alreudy received nearly three hundred en- trics and they are still comingin ata rate that makes his accommnodations a question. Among the dogs already entered are some of the handsomest, most valuable and uoble bred in the country, and the show will be one worthy of the most liberal patronage. A large number of winners at the recent show in Chicago will be here, and there will be big dogs and littie dor'l, beautiful do, nd ugly , and dogs of every size, shape, color and breed imaginable, aud the exhibition will go ou record as the best thiug in this line ever seen west of Chicagu, Something About Our Hitters. Owmaha is cortaiuly stronger gin hitting is not like some hard nitters, who are spas- modic in their work. By that it is meant men who go several days without a hit and run across some easy mark whom they hit out of the lot every time they go to the bat, and thus fatten up their batting average. Big Cleveland, 00, when in proper form, is another great hitter, and he'll make some of the chatterers i the grand stand put a padlock on their mouths yet before the season ends. He ought to be good for at least a hit a game. He picks out good balls and rarely eoes after one that is not over the plate. Crooks, Cooney and Andrews are ali up in the front rank, and Dad Clarke is an opportune hit- ter. 'He is not regular because he goes after two many baa balls, However, he is just as apt to knock out a three-bagger after & ball be has to tip-toc after as he is off of one across the plate. There’s no use to chide “Dad” for this fault, for he knows his busi- ness better than any one can tell him. Leighton cuts a good figure at the bat, and it is dollars to doughnuts will shortly begin to ‘“line ’em _out.” Messitt is big and strong, und at times hits well, and little Willis and Proesser are any- thing but slouches. E: ody likes to sce Nagle come to bat at a critical point in the game, for that is just where he gets in his work. Canavan, as yet, has done lttle with the stick, but he is as clean cut as a race hsrse, and a fine general player, Tips for Turfmen. ~ New Yorlk World, “‘The Best Time on Record’’—Father Time. “‘Dark Horses’--Black ones. ‘“‘Short Horses”—Ponies. ‘‘Left at the Post'—Letters. “Futurity Stakes” — A wealthy man’s money. “The Grand Prize"—Eternal life. “Well Bunched” —Strings of bananas. ‘‘Under a Strong Pull”—A loaded freight trai “Very Crooked Work"—Handwriting. ““Promising Youngsters'—Bad boys after being whipped. “‘Out for the Money"—Cracksmen. “Great Odds—Museum freaks. “In the 2:14 Class”—Sweet sixteon, “Takes the Dust—Street-cleancrs. “Tumbles to Himselt"—A vorpoise. “Famous Plungers’—Whales, “A Waiting Race”—Negroes. “A Spring Meeting"”—Muster of the housc- cleaning brigade. *Pocketed'—Handkerchiefs, Omaha’s Thoroughbreds. The horse reporter made & flying trip to N. L D. Soloman's Spring Valley stock farm yesterday afternoon, and found no less than forty-six head of trottiug bred stock domi- ciled there. Nine-tenths of these animals are standard bred. Prominent among all these 1s the colt, Ed. Rosewater, with a record of 2:20}¢ as a two- year-old, Take the chances and climate combined, with which this horse has had to contend, and it must be acknowledged that he is one | of the greatest, if not the greatest, two-year- old in the world. He came from the balmy land of the blue grass to this cold climate started in a race with aged horses, but he won all the same, and scored the remarkable record of 2:203. This colt was sired Vasco, he by Harold, the sire of Maud ., 3:08%, dam Mary B, by Vineo, by Vindex, by Blood's Blackhawlc. Next comes Black Wilkes, No. 8541, dam Fanny Belle by Coufederate Chief.’ This fellow is grandly bred. He has never been developed for speed, but is & getter of speed as & two-year-old by him has shown a trial of Winslow Wilkes, two-year-old, trial 2:42, by Black Wiikes, d lede by Helmont, the sire of Nutwood, 2:18, Among the best of Solowan’s brood is Minnie R, trotting record 2:19; record 2:10}¢; with running mate o Mionie was sired by J. C. Sreckenriaxe, dam untraced. She has a fine foal at side sired by Also, son of So-50. Wil be bred to Rosewater. Belle, bay mare, record 2:46, by Daniel Lawbert, dam by Ethan Allen, 2:25, su- mares side by Black Wilkes. Alleige, grey mare, by Almont, No. 33, dam untraced, will foul to Rosewatel Lady Saturn, bay mare, by Saturn, 2:22, dam untr: The Lady has a fine filly foal by Black Wilkes, Solomon is sweet on this filly, cousidering her a rare combnation of blood and speed. William Daly & Son have at their barn, 1120 South Thirtieth street, Gail McMahan, bay mare, eight years old; record, 2:i4: sired by McMahan, dam Gail Hamilton, by Hambletonian Pilot, bay mare, six years old; sire Con- spirator, by Contractor; dam by Boy Pilot,by Black Pilot, sire of Pilot, Jr. This mare has been bred to Trenton, and the produce will be as fashionably bred as could be desired. Jowsharp, bay mare, five years old, sired by McMahan, 2:21; dam full sister to Gail McMahan. Trwin M., bay gelding, four years old, by McMahan, 2:21; dam, a thoroughbred mare, is handsomie and v peedy. Belle Thorne, bay filly, three years old, sired by Hawthorne, by Maine Hambleton- ian; dam Gail McMahan, 2:84; is another beauty and should go vi fast. A handsome span of bay fi this lot. Willlam Mag Ellis, trial 2 sired by Ohio, Scott’s Chil hief. 'k is the possessor of Lady ); buy mare nin s old, 1410, dam Mary Scott, by Lady Ellis is very speedy and il to Dark Night and be L 4 Mr. Mack also owns a span of bay geldings, a four and five year old, full brothers, sixteen hands high, both hind ankles white up to fetlock and only five pounds difference in their weights, William Watson has a ringer in his late purchase. He is a strawberry roan pacer and can pace way down in the—well 1 won't say how fast, but if any of the boys tackle him they will think the bottom has dropped outof time, S. Caulfield has just purchased the bred brood mare, Florence L,sived by dam Emma Grant,by Recconstruc- ,2:2). Bmma Grantd is full sister to Fanny Wheelock, the daw of Bonuio Me- Gregor, record, 2:16, Chasing the Spheres. There scems to be a revival of billiard in- terests in most of the large eastern cities, and slignt additional activity is even notice- able here in the principal billiard halls, such as Foley & Darsts, Billy Thompson’s, the Millard, the Murray and Woodwmunsie's, Bince this new impetus has been given the game many old players have taken up the cue, and may be seen of afterneons and even- ings trying conclusions with younger adepts, and endeavoring to regain their former skill. The rooms above mentioned are thronged every evening. It seems to add zest to the after-suppersmoke to ‘‘chase the spheres'’ for half an hour or s0. Some of. the popular sa- loons in Chicago, St. Lows asd Clcinnat make no pretense of charging regular patrons for the playing, being sati uxd with the rev- enue from the bar, which invariably accom- panies such contests, 4 ‘While Omaha has no very netable musters of the cue, she can boast of & mumber of de- cidedly clever amateul Frank Keniston, an old-tumer, has boen the crack local player for years; and is still con- sidered by many to be the champion, purtic- ularly at the balk-liuve gmme. He always plays best when there is a wager on his win ning. Keniston is, also, very smooth at fif- teen ball pool, Frank Muir is fond of billiards, and at cushion caroms is a hard man to down. he fluest in town, however, is Lieutenant Arrowsmith, He is what the boys cail a “igrand stand player;” that is, Lie puts on the excrueiation, and plays so well as be fore a large audience. The lieutenant, too, has & peculiarity of blaming all ‘*‘miscues’ and “misses” on the stick, - He never makes @ failure through lack of science—t is the stick that goes back on him. However, he is o fine plaver, and it is a treat to wateh him when he encounters a foeman half way worthy of his ash, He makes wondrous fancy shots and is the poetry of gracefuluness. Bill Woods, of the Bauk of Commerce, ersuwhile a great player, still likes to drop round occasionally and wield the stick wuile Le relates to the crowd what a phenomenal game he used to put up back in the sixtecnth century. Colonel Frauk Parmelee thinks he can He handles the cue with the grace of a pro- fessional, and will keep any of them busy to s him. He is als au fait at pool. Tom Boyd finds sury in propelling the valls from selling tickets and_taliang his friends to death. The melody of Tom's chin is something_ that would give Orpheus the t sweats.3 Arthur Remington is very fond of the three-ball game r hesitates to play auy of his “pals” for a “small bottle.” In fact it is real St. Julien or Pomery Sec on thio side every time. A. M. Anderson. after some great loga i court, likes to go over to Tom Foley’s and punch the ivories for an hour or so. Heis quite clever. Charlie Cralle usually takes up the cueto keop in practice when his daily dutics in tickling the key in the telegraph office is over. Ho is a strong player. Prof. Massey Howard is fond of the game and a handy man at the balk-line, William Badger is a comer at cushion caroms, and very expert at straight billards. . C. Fithian 18 the champion local “bank shot.” He scldom misses a possible score of this description. Harry Parrish is to be_seen frequently pe- destrianizing around a table at the Palace. He is quiet but nervous, and plays a superb cushion carom game. Harry T. Warner is an excellent player and always attracts a crowd of interes spectators. He is a comparative stranger in the rooms, but when in good play is no doubt the equal of Arrowsmith or Keniston, Of late years ho has confined hunself stricily to business, and given the balls and cue the Y. Del Rudd, Charlic Lewis and John Morri son ara devoted to the pastime, and all more than average fair players. Harry Hunter and Dog Show Billy Ingram engagein a bout now and then for a petit vial and a smoke at the Murray. They are both way up, and furnish a first-class exhi- bition. Among the pool players, Mr. Davis, of th e Mitlard, is unquestionably the king' bee of them all. There are but few players in the city but what he will play one pocket against their four. His conception of geometrical angles is something marvelous. He also ys billiards with sufficient dexterity to make it interesting for any of the town players, Charlie Beck is another extraordinary pool player, even being thought by gome to be the superior of Davis, The writer, however, has never scen Mr, Beck play, und is conse quently disqualified as a judg Billy Thompson, Harry Sharpe, Charlie Jeans, George P. 'Cronk, C. 1. IKershaw, Mail Carrier ‘luttle, J. E. Ebersole and Arthur Jolliffe are &l fifteen-ball pool sharks, and many of them strong at pin pool. There 'are quité & number of other good players in the ctiy, bu the above named aveled Fant. The Hardin Tournament, On Tuesday morning next the Hardin shooting tournament will open up Bt the new gun club grounds, on the lowa side of the river. The management have made claborate preparations, and the shoot will be an unusually interesting one. Five thou- sand liye pureons and sparyows have been secured, and as & large number of the most celebrated trap shots of the west will be in attendunce, the four days' tourney promises great results. Nt Trap, Dog and Gun, ‘The Omaha gun club's roster of oficers for the current year are W. H. 8. Hughes, presi- dent; John' Field, secretary, and Goodley Brucker, treasurér. Bourd of wunagers, Messers, Har , Gwin and Petty. Dr, A H. Worley has been delegated to selicit prizes for the summer shoot. George B, Tzschuch, of this city, and Col oncigloffmuyr, of Coucil Bluffs, speut th dax Wop b te last week among the wild fowl.” They brought to vag 127 Hutchins geese and brant, and fifty or sixty ducks. The Omabi gun club will hold their first regular shoot of the season Tuesday aftor- uoon next, on their new grounds across the river. The Gate City Gun club will hold their st shoot of the season on the afternoon of 215t on the new grounds across the river. Charlie Budd, of Des Moines, the cham- their aunual election next Tuesday evening. A New Trouing Circuit. A trotting circuit has been_establishea $by the turf men of this city, Kearney, Grand Isiand and Denver. The dates for the racos at Kearney have been fixed for the 4th to the 1ith of June, and at Grand Island the week followmg. 'Purses to_the amount of £5,500 will be hung up, and the enterprise, it is thougpt will be a sul Flashes From the Diamond. Pitcher Winkleman goes to Baltimore. Patsev Oliver Tebeau is playing a great third for Cleveiand. Twineman, of the Denvers, is showing up strong with the stick. Chippey McGarr, in the absence of Jimmy Maoning, is acting as captain of the Cow boys. Sioux City has signed Monk Cline, the old Louisville favorite. Genins has been let out. Lovett of the Brooklyns is the first pitcher this season to strike out threc men 1n suc- cession. Proesser, of the local team, was the first man to make a home run tis season, and Clarke next. Cincinnati is proud of Jim Duryea, their Western association pitcher. They say he is as speedy as King. Andrews Las a_very sore ankle, and is extremely doubuful whetlier he will be uble to play for three or four weeks, Kansas City has tendered Omaha $2,000 for Clarke- so it is said. However, Omaha cannot afford to part with Dad just now at any price. The Pioneer Press says that Fog-horn Jack Crooks and his diamond badge are sadly missed from St. Paul's strects and at the matinees. ‘Omaha must have another catcher. Nagle will not be able to catch day in and day out, and it will be a suicidal procedure to take Cooney from short. Kearney has a base_ball stock company with a capital stock of #5,000. They say they are bound to have the strongest team outside of Omaha there is in the state. Under the n rule less strike outs but more bases on bal ceable. Itis a hard watter to determine which of the is the worse drawbnck to the game. Manager Watkis, of the Kansas Citys, while here last week, made the local man- agement a handsome offer for Clarke. He will not be r ed, however, at any price, What the Omaha team needs worse than anything is a relicf catcher. Cooney should never be taken from short, that wili be dis- astrous, Nagle, bowever, should have an able assistant. Nagle says that the Omaha infield, pitcher and cateher, is all that ought to be pitted against the St. Joe's in championship games, He thinks they are entitled to justabout such @ hanaicap, Omaba bas a jewel in young Willis, He uses his head, as well us his arm, in pitching, and is bound to become # great favorite here, S0 far, his work in the box has been pre-emi- nently good. St Paul papers assert that Manager Burnes asks $3,000 for Pickett's releuse Pickett is the most overrated player in the whole west. He would probably last throug h @ game or two in the National leag U is going 10 take an urtist to distinguish sacrifice hits from ‘‘flukes” this season. While a sacrifice bit is as creditable to a bat- ter as o safe hit, who cun say when a sacri- fice bit is really madet Now, don’t all speak at once, two the old Omaha player, is a, which was booked for o Its full roster of players smbraces. Hurter, Kettridge and Murphy, cate Dawmaris, Colling and Henry, 'pitchers; ay, first; Larkngs, ona &ulltm, third; Spill, short; Murphy, left; Honry, middle, and Lauman, right. Both “Chippay” McGarr and “Poet” Burns, while hero recently, declared they would Tather pluy ball In Oniabia than in any city in the country. MeGarr also paid the eut local teau & hugh liment, to the 2 per cent gation. clland, late of than last season’s Second Baseman Bill MeC and two evenings later he was admitted to Medinah temple as a noble of tho mystic shiine. McClellan played with the Chi- cagos @ _few scasons ugo, and has boen with the Brooklyns during the past three years, The coming season ho plays in Denver, and his position in the nine wiil be either sécond basa or short stop. McClellan s believed to be the only base ball player who is & nobla of the mystic shrine, and his groat popular. ity with his associates accounts for his usu- ally rapid strides forward in masonry. Miscellaneous Sports. Billy Hennessy, formerly of this city, and Dan Gallagher, of Fort Worth, Tex., fought near Peoria, IlL, Thursday. The referee alled the battle a draw, and was chased Chree miles through the woods. Hennessy tis in jail Dave Benne rian, leaves for California Tu 1e has entered in the six-day go-us-you-please at Krisco. He has been practicing on a bicycle whilesojourning in this city, and in time will maké a rider, Wilbur F. Knapp left for Hot Springs, rday. He has several races on and will not return to Omaha until after the great Chicago tournsment, Wilbur Knapp, Dave Bennett, Charlie Ashinger and John Hourihan are at Hot Springs. The new officers of the Gate City Athletio club are Charles McCormick, president; C. vico president; Billy Magner, sec- . Parmelee, treasurer, and Jinmy Kilkenney, manager., Lottie Stanley has challenged Mlle Arm- aindo to race 100 miles, 500 miles, or forty- eight hours, for the sum of 1,000 o side, the race 1o take place at Pittsburg, Boston, or Philadelphia, six weeks from date, and the winner, in addition to the stake money, to ba the champion lady bicyclist of America. Qu Answe To decide a bet, please answer the follow- ing question: In'a gawmo of cribbage A piays a4 svot; B plays a 6spot, then A plays a 5 spot, counting 152 with a run of 8. 13 then plays a tray, takihg four holes for tho run of four. A claims he has no right to the run of four, as the & spov intervenes.—P., Omaha. Ans.—A is correct, Will you please state in columns who will umpire t plonship games herel--1, syreet. Ans.—The umpire’s schedule has not been made out as yet, and it1s not known who will umpice the inaugural games. In last Sunday's “diamond flashes” you stuted thut there were five ex-National league players with the Denver toam this year. Who are they t—Doubtful, Omana. Ans.—Dolan, Dalrymple, 1towe, McQuaid and Silch, Can you furnish the numes of this season’s Des Moiues ball clubi—John Androws, Coune cil Bluffs. Ans.—Hart, Brynan, Alexander and Em- merke, pitchers; Trafiloy, Kenyon and Cody, cateners; Smith, first; Phelun, second; Con- nell, third; Maculler, short; Maskrey, right; Tilden. center; Patton, left, and Mendentall Sunday’s sporting | you kindly explain the meaning of the last part of ‘section 10, rule 45, Spald. ing's base ball guide for 188, whore y “Hut if the base r be declured —£. F. Ingalls, Long Pine, Neb, Ans.—If the base bag becomos loosensd from its fastenings aud is displaced, if the runner touches it he is safe, Will you please state in the columns of Sunday's Bee ou what day of the Hardin tournament the biggest pigeon shoot tukes place! Who is the best wing saot, Frank Parmelee or John Petty(—A Subscriber, Omaha, Ans.—Friday, the lust day. Your last question we are unable Lo ALSWer—some cons sider Potty the superior, others Parmelee, To decide a bet will you kindly state ho many home runs Danuy Stearns made tast season. Also pleasc state his prgse with the Omaba, pion wing suot of jthe world, and J. R, Stice, | Brooklyn, now of Deuver, receutly wade ‘ Ans.—~Nive. Don't know,

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