Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 26, 1889, Page 16

B THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY MAY 26, 1839.-SIXTEEN PAGES. IAL GLEARING SALE OF OUR EN $10.00 worth of goods, $1.00 per week or $4.00 a month} $25.00 worth of goads, $1.50 per week or $6.00 a month. $50.00 worth of goods., $2.00 per waek or $8.00 a month. =" Qur Terms. ot the season. B IR THE LARGEST LNE oF i PAALCR B SuITS ON THE ROAD. § HousES FuRNISHED SompLETe, \\\. /\_,s St PEOPLCS MAMMOT i -lNST‘ALM(Nr- - ' House . x —_— e —————— We made prenarations for doing a big trade, we h ave done it, and are doing it every da LT ,(,Z\-Q’\\—,'ZfiW/N EUER .\/ %~ most. We know that thisis an unusual proceeding, but we believe in novelty. 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ROSENTHAL & CO. Prop’s. Goods sold and delivered free of charge to Council Bluffs, Florence, Fort Omaha and South Omaha. The Instalmsnts we ofer, Low Prices, Easy Terms, Good 5 Values and Prompt, Shipments. THE LOCAL FIELD OF SPORTS Record of One of the Equestriennes ‘Who Appears at the Coliseum. FACTS ABOUT LINDSAY'S RECORD Weekly Resume of Local Sporting Matters—The Base Ball Out- look—Diamond Flashes— Miscellaneous Sports. A Noted Horsewoman. Miss Jennie Reber, one of the eques- triennes who take part in the ruce against the lady bicyciers at the Coliseum this week, is one of the best known horsewomen in the country, She is from San Jose, Cal., but was ‘born in Morrison, Ill. She is nineteen years of age and weighs 118 pounds. She first began riding in races in the fall of 18g4, since which time she has ridden throughout the south and west, closing the season of 1883 at the Shrevesport, La., exposition, where she was awarded a handsome medal and gold mounted riding whip as the best lady rider out of thirteen entries, Miss Reber hus ridden several races against Miss Williaws, her companion in the present race. She is _ #aid 1o be the best hurdle rider in the world, and has gonea mile over four jumps, with 146 pounds up, in 1:51%. She has béen in arduous practice at the Coliseum for the week past, and is in a flne condition for a long race. This will be Miss Reber’s first race on an indoor track, and the first at- tempt of any lady to ride a six day’s race. One hundred miles is the record for a lady, that of Nellic Burke, at Galveston, Tex. S Miss Williams both are eager to try this long race, and they couldu’t have found a better man in the country to pilot them through, than Marve Beardsley, and if they obey his instructions there is little doubt but ‘what they will get through all right. A Bundred Yard Dash, There was a one hundred yard sprint race out at the ball park yesterday morniug, that furnished considerable excitement among the players. Willis and Nichols got into a dispute over their individual merits as run ners, and finally the latter said he would run Willis 100 vards for &5 a side. The banter was immediately accepted, the money deposited 1n Cunaven's hands and Crooks chosen as referee. The course was from the home plate to center field, aud after several false starts the two men got away, with the Kid a trifie in the lead. This ne held until within twenty-five yards of the goal, when Willis let himself out aud dashed by Nichols, winning the race by a yard. Nichols felt little sore over the result, and still olain that he can beat Willis, but it wiil be a cold day when he puts up another §25 ou such a yenture, Willis covered the hundrad yards in 11X seconds, A PROSPEOTIVE MILL, Something About Jimmy Lindsay Record. It may not be very generally known, but Jimmy Lindsay, the local middle-weight champion, is preparing for a battle with Danoy Needham, the redoubtable St. Paul Dght-weight. It has not been given out where or when the fight is to take place, but it Is thoroughly understood that all the ar- rauge ts have been made, and Jimwy is 0 go into active training st once. These men are both firstraters, and the miil will be worth many a mile's traval w sce. Danny Needhai bas won some notable battles, is & game two-handed fighter, and said to many the superior of illy Meyers. yers, however, was awarded the fight in he and Daony made, although many iders claimed that Noedbam was the Jut lu speaking of Needhaw, Jimmy wust not be overlooked. He is a ly clever man, and will be able to Ag;lut any of them in his class. His fight was with Sam Stevenson, some years ago, in & hall on Douglas stree twelve rounds and was declared His uext appearance within the circle was with Sid Clarke, of Brooklyn, a year ago last summer, on & sand-bar up the Missouri river, Lindsay put his man to sleep in nine rounds, himself escaping without a scratch, Followiug this came his four-ounce glove fight with Billy Hennessey in the opera house two years ago. This was a vicious battle. and nlthough Hennessoy had the best of Lindsay by twelve pounds, Jimmy succeeded in best- ing him. His next victim _ was Prof. Cranston of South Omaha, whom he knocked out with a punch in exactly four mmutes, His last fight was with California Dempsey in Pat Rowloy's new hall, South Omahs, and which he won handily after four rough-and-tumble rounds, Lindsay to-day is a better man than he ever was. He keeps himself in fine fettle, carries no superfluous flesh, and can get into the pink of condition with but tittle hard vrain- ing, and when Mr. Needham gots through with him he will realize that he has had a fight. The mill will attract mnch attention throughout the whole northwest, and 1t can be depended upon that Lindsay will make the effort of his life to conquer the St. Paal slugger, ‘What Crooks Believes. “It is batting that wins games this sea- son,” suid Captain Crooks the other day, “and you can bet on that. Our team is fielding just as good as the best of them, but 8ome of our most relinble men have lost their good eye. However, 'm nota bit discour- aged; we are in the hunt yet, and it won’t be long before our streak of good luck will come. St, Paul's game hasn’t been any bet- ter than ours, or Sioux Citys, but still they are way in the lead, simply because they have had all the luck. “Why, just look at it, here's an instance: Last Tuesday St. Paul and Milwaukee be- gan a game, and in the second inning, Mil- waukee knocked out nine runs, and i the third four more, while St. Paul had suc- coeded id getling but one man Lome., But along came a rain storm, and the game was called. Don’t you call that pure luck? You sce they were certain losers, but Jupiter Pluvius steps in and saves them. The next day they go.outand win easily, Oh, I tell you Iam a believer in luck, every time,” Among the Amateur Wheelmen. The runs of last Sunday were again aban- doned an® the old rehable one to Council Blufts taken. Missouri Valley to-day, 8 o'clock sharp. Tt is hoped that all the active riders of the club will be on this run, as they ought to swell the club nnleage, which this month has fallen away behind that of April. u has again tuken hold and joined the active ranks: he will be seen rid- irg a Victor safety. Here's hopin’ that he will be seen often on the road with the club. ‘The hundred mile ride of June 2 js to be an exclusive O. W, C. affair. * All members who intend to take part will please notify the cap- in before Thursdny evening, 80 that he may have an ides of how wany meals will have to be ordered ahead at the various stop- l;lnx ints, which will be Glenwood for reakfast number two and Red Oak for din- ner. It is expected that Red Oak will be made by 11 o'clock, where two hours' rest will be taken. Members should got the idea out of their heads that it will partake in any nature of @ scorch. The pace be about seven and oue-half miles an hour, The L. A. W, has gotten out a yery neat mewmbership ticket for the current y People who do not know whether they would like wheeling or not can try for them- selves and sce, and at a slight expense. Ma- chives can be hired here now by the hour, week, month or season. It is always those who think they can’t master the ‘‘unruly :)nelt" that have the leust trouble in learn- ng. Don'ts. L Don't swallow 100 much cold water, when ot. Don’t ride without a brake. Don’t start out with an empty oil cad. Don't cut corners too closely. Don’t start out on a day’s ride with only 10 cents in your pockets, Don't ride too soon after eating, Don’t sit on damp grass after riding, Don't stop to thuwp a road boy uniess ycu have to. Don't act like a rowdy. Don't scorch on a club run, Fishing at Ounawa. Messrs, Henry Wobster, Oscar DPundt, Charles Tate, Yohn H. Hull, Hal Pease and J. W. Schoelply, under the guidance of S. M. Smith, civil engineer of the Northwestern, are casting for bass at Lake Onawa, Iowa. The party, Which was accompanied by a number of gentlemen from Missouri Valley, left for the lake Friday evening in a special car, They will return to-morrow. The Australia nin Omaha, Peter Jackson, the celebrated colored Aus- tralian pugilist, who has recently made such a great record in Frisco by knocking out all comers, passed through Omaba Friday morn- ing en route east. He is a tremendous big fellow, and looks as if he might knocka house down, let alone a man. Jackson’s views of fistic sport are in alignment with his conduct in the ring since he ¢ame to this country. In all his contests it has been eyi- dent that his desire was to win withont in- flicting unnecessary punishment upon his op- ponent, and to win by a margin just wide enough to be decisive. " Pugilism as exempli- fied by Jackson has shown less of the brutai- izing tendencies, and more of the chivalrous spirit, than thut of auny fighter, white or black, that the history of the P, K. has ever known. TFighting with him is an art, and he has shown in his active work as well as in his oft expressed views that he has followed the science into all its recesses and mastered its every detail. In the coming buttle be- tween Sullivan and Kilrain, Jackson is in- clined to believe that John L. will win. The Value of Stick Work. “How did it come that Omaha dropped three straight games on their own grounds to Sioux City#" is a question that has been asked a hundred and one times since the disaster. The answer is simply that the Corn Huskers put up the better game, Omana’s, principal weakness lying in her hitting. There is nothing ‘that has amore depressing influence on & player's mind than his fnability to hit the ball. He may be doing indifferent fielding, but if he is Eolumxnwn or three hits a day, he is in the est of humor and plays hard all the time. Let bim field to perfection, however, and fail to connect with & smash at the sphere occasionally, and he is sour and dumpy, and plays in a sort of perfunctory way. He thinks the audience believe that he is not do- ing his share for the team, and he becomes nervous and excitable, and he is then utterly incapable of accomplishing what he most desires, and in consequence defeat comes to his team. That was the dificulty with the White Sox, uuquestionably in their games with the corn huskers, Look at tbe first St. Joe game. A homer, @ triple and a single in the first inning, put the whole team ina fine humor, and they went in and smasheu the ball at will, win- ning the game hands down. You very rarely bear a player “blow’ over a long run- ning cateh, or a circus stop of a hot ground- er, or a fine jump and catch or any play of that description, but lev him bang out a sin: gle drive at a critical stage in the game and ring in & run or Lwo,or getthe ball over the fence, und he will refer Lo it every day until it becomes a grey-whiskered chestuut. If the Omahas had just hit “‘a little bit” in the Sioux City games, the shoe might have now been on the other foot, Horses Wheels. To-morrow afterncon the great six-day race, horses vs bioyclos, will commence at the Coliseum, and the prospects are exceed- ingly good for a close and interesting stru gle. A splendid turf track has been put down in the build- ing, and all arraogements perfected for a flue race. iss Jennie Reber, of San Jose, and Miss Lizzie Williams, of Los Ai geles, Cal., have been here for several days, and Have beeu riding hard in the building, They have twenty on hand, and = express confidence of winning the bicyele riders, ‘”uauty Baldwin, Brown, Jesse oods and Jesse Oakes have also been here several day; also put in the time in arduo Like the equestriennes, win easily. The race is six hours & duy for six days, for §1,000 a side and the gate; the borse riders to reiieve each other every hour, and the bicycliennes every quarter hour. President MeCormick's Luck. A postul from W. G. Albright, wno in first-cluss the race, horses utmost The ittie and have training. they say they will company with “Dick” McCormick, Jeff W. Bedford, George Ames, Marsh Kennard, C. W. Rudd, E. T. Duke and W. J. Hahn, is enjoying an outing at Lake Asakis, conveys the intelligence that they are having a high old time umong the trout, the bass and the pickerel. The president of the ball club takes a shot gun out in the boat with him, to keep off the cannibalistic ocypodious, which, as an old farmer told him, haunt those waters up there. The first nibble Dick got he wanted to bet Jeff Bedford a stack of blues that it was a “‘three-sacker.” Finally the cork went under and McCormick pulled, only to find that his bait was gone, and in diszust he exclaimed : “An error, by George—if Tommy Nagle had been here, he'd a caught that!” Hardin Challenges Reading. OwmAuA, Neb., May 25.—To the Sporting Editor of Tug Bee: Please insert the fol- lowing and oblige: On behalf of Wilbur F. Knapp, whom I consider the fastest bicycle rider in the world, I hereby challenge Ned Reading, the soldier, for a 25, 50 or 100-mile race with the Denver boy, for $100 to $500 a side, the race to come off at the Coliseum within the next three weeks. Enclosed you will find my check for §0, w hich I post as an earnest of the above defy. Joux J. HARDIN, Flashes From the Diamond. Denver has signed pitcher Shores. The Mountameers this afternoon. ‘Won't somcebody please head of St. Paul. Last game to-morrow until the 16th of June, Shut-outs are few and far between this year, The mascots this year bave all proven Jonahs, Sioux City has re-signed George Washing- ton Bradley. The White Sox leave for Sioux City to- morrow evening. ‘There will be an immense crowd at the ball park this afternoon. Rielly,who couldn’t hit a balloon last year, leads St. Paul in batting, Miiwaukee and Des Moines are the *‘snap” clubs of the Western association, Milwaukee is trying to induce Baldwin to go into base ball again. MeAleer is winning golden opinions by his extraordinary fielding for Cleveland. Omaha might get Frank Graves, the disen- gaged California catcher, and he is a No, L man, 100. Dan Shunnon now heads Louisville's bat- ting list. He has been playing great ball for the Falls City team all spring. Denver did 4 vast awount of crowing over her two victories over Omaha, but of late she “hasn’t been sayin’ a word,” Minneapolis now has two ex-Philadelphia pitchers—Vinton and Mitchell. They are also after O'Conuell, Omaha's Jast year's fivst baseuw: Joe Strauss has made four home runs, Cleveland, Crooks, Messet, three each, an Cooney and Canavan twe each, and Walsh one. % The ““Has-Beens” are adryg in the base ball market. It is not -whal a player has doue that pleases an augienga these days, but what he can and does dg, aud nothing more. Cleveland leads in batting for the Omahas, with an average of .390. ° Crooks is & closo secand, with Cooney third, Canavan fourth, Messett fifth and ‘Strauss, Nagle, Willis, Walsn, Clarke and Andrews in the oraer named. Holliday, Duryea and Earl, the Western association piayers with the Cincinnatis, are proving themselves the hope of that aggre- ation. They are all thrée hard batters, good fase runners und clegant fielders. Above all hard, couscientions “Lady” they are ambitious, workers. St. Paul has done remarkably well since the opening of the season, and bids fair to walk away with the flag. They won eight out of the ten games played abroad, and seven out of he eight played at home. They are putting up @ pretty game—one that can not be very well improved upon, BSioux City 1s improving 1o her work every Rawe, and she promises Lo make it exceed: ingly' warm for the St. Fauls. In Cline, Glenu and Genins they have a great com- | bination of fielders, hitters and base runners, and 1n Burke they havo the greatest short- stop in the Western association. Sandy McDermott, the umpire, is showing o detergination to' eradicate ‘‘dirty ball’ that_is praiseworthy. He claims that little can be accomplished by fining a player, but the effective plan is to rob the team of the very advantage tho player is endeavoring to securo by turning a trick, He is doing this, and as a result there is but little **dirty ball’ practiced in games he presides over. Questions an1 Answars, You said the second rocent Sioux City- Omuha game was one of the shortest on re- cord, one hour and fiftcen minutes. Will you please inform us which was the shortest professional game over played ! ", R. AND JonN G., Omaha. Ans.—Between Oshkosh and Milwaukee in 1887; one hour and six minutes. Will you please state in Sun day’s sporting columns Lottie Stanley’s six-day Dbicycle record? WHEELMAN, City. Ans,—Five hundred and twenty-five and three-auarters of a mile, Sporting Editor of Tur Bee: Some time since 1 saw it stated in ‘Tue BEe that Sulli- van and Kilrain met in the ring once, some six or seven years ago. Can't_you give us some additional information on this subject, as it is seriously doubted by many? Orp Timer, North Platte. Ans.—Sullivan and Kilrain did meet in the ring once, but very little prominence has ever been given the meeting. In fact, it is difficult to get at the details of the affair. There has been an evident endeavor in cer- tain quarters to keep from the public the result of that meecting, but John Me- Cormick, the best authority ob either side of the water, on fights and fighters, sends the following to Tue Bee: “Tom Drohan, a boxing teacher in Boston, wrote a letter to Barnett, on November 23, 1888, in which he says: ‘Sullivan and Kilrain met 1n the Re vere hall, Boston, six years ago, but the en- counter was never recorded. They were billed for four rounds. I was chosen referec by Kilrain's friends with the understanding that 1 was to give him the best of it, if I could. They never finished the four rounds. Sullivan gave Kilrain a knock-out in the sec- ond round, and there is where I bogan to get in my funny work. Igave Jake seven min utes in which to come up. Sullivan was standing over him and wanted to know if I was ever going to order Kilrain up. Says I, “Give him a little time; do you want to kill mm? Sullivan said: ‘No, but I'll stand right here till he does get up.’ Jake finally got to his feet, went to the dressing room room and never came back.” Will you please publish in Tae Bee at an early date, a tabulated stutemont giving the number of games won by each club 1 the Western association this season, and .how‘i:lg from which club'the games were won, . H. BoLLARD, Springview, Neb. Aus.—Can give y ou Omaha’s record only She has won tbree from Minneapolis, three from Milwaukee, two from Des Moines, one from St. Paul, one from Denver and five from St. Joe. Has lost two to St. Paul, two to Denver, three to Sioux City and one to Des Moines., ‘Who is considered the best billiardist in Omaha, and who the best poolplayer! Where wus Jacob Schweffer born! When will the last game of base ball be played in this eity this season, that is a professional game t—Tuk MURRAY. Ans.—1. Lieutenant Ainsworth, of Fort Omaha. Mr. Davis, of the Millard hotel rooms, 2. Jacob Shieffer was born In Mil waukee, Sunday, September 15. 8. With Denver, J, L. M, Webster Streev Depot.—Your query is utterly unintelligible. Please re peat it. A bets B that Omaha, or any club for that matter, will win the first three gumes ste plays. ' The first game played results in a tie, who wins{—The Governor, Beatrice, | Ans.—Neither, The bet is off, sp—— Stillman G. Whittaker will month of June in this city. spend the A PATROLMAN ON THE BEAT, He Details the Pleasures and Hard- ships of His Calling. THE FRIGID TERRORS OF WINTER How the Officera Are Considered By the Subordinates and the Acts Which the Latter Appreci- ate—Saturday Arrests. The Man With a Star. “I don’t mind my job in summer time,” said the proud bearer of a metropolitan po- lice star, as he stopped for a moment to chat with a BEE representative, “but it is fear- fully tough on us in winter. There have been nights in midwinter when it has been 80 cold, and the wind so penctrating, that 1 oxpected to freezs to death before morning; and yet, I did not dare 16 leave my beat as I was afruid some sergeant would come sneaking around, and I would lose my po- sition by not being at my post. Those nights come up before me now like horrible night- mares. 1 used to slap my hands against my breast to keep them from freczing until my chest, hands and arms uo to the elbows were o mass of bruises, My ears and nose have botn succumbed to the cold and been frozen as white aud hard as marble, Some of the boys object to patrolling a beat at night, four weeks at a stretch every other month, but I did not object to it in the summer tinie, as I consider it ulmost a svap. The nights are generally cool and it is much more pleas- ant 1o be on the streets at that time than it is in the glare of the hot sun at noonday. But a man is occasionally bothered about getting to slecp on a hot day, as you, gentle- ‘men, know yourselves,who have done night service on Tue Bee, and had to sleep day- times, “Our business is full of perils, and we are daily,compelled to face danger. If a shoot- ing or cutting scrape is in progress, we can't do hike other men—turn tail and fly, but we must, instead, walk into the thickest of the fight, interfere with the men attempting to kill each other, and run the risk of being murdered ourselves, I have been shot at, stabbed, and kuocked down and rolled over the mud many oktime in tempts to serve the people fully. 1 have had men with revolvers in their hands and a look of in- flexible determination on their faces tell me if I dared to approach a foot nearer they would blow my brains out, and yet, I have to see the first time when such threats have frightened me from my line of duty and de- terred me from arresting and disarming the violators of the law. I have gone into bawdy houses, where rowdies were shooting every pane of glass in the windows, and have been threatened with a similar treatment if I in- terfered. I have had to follow burglars down back alleys when I could scarcely see an inch be- fore my face, and I expected every moment to be shot down like a dog. There are deeds of heroism performed by fuithful men on the police force of which the people never hear, and the meun wearing stars, to-day, are worthy of as much attention and praise as the boys who wore the blue, ‘here are men on the police force who have served in the army also, and they say thay, takiog all in all, their expericnces as soldiers were no more remarkable than those of some of our patrolmen. “Some peoplo affect to despise a police- man, but my experience is that all law- abiding and intelligent citizens respect us as friends, while the thieves, thugs and other law-brealkers regard us as their enem ie: who are anxious to get their names inw 'Lk Beg and the other pupers, and frequently they sre the very first to sneak away in the face of dan ger. “But, whilp speakiog about these cowardly officers, let me tell you that all the boys are getting to dread Saturday mght. Since the Beder Tor the closing of saloons on' Sunday went into offect. § “1 do not like to arrest many of the men 1 find on that night, because, sometimes, they are good, hard working men, and 1 generally y 1 induce th taken home, “What wages do vorter, “When a pew man goes ou the force he gets 860 per month, but, after two months® service, he is raised to $70 per month. The detectives, or fly cops, as they are called grot $75 per month. The sergeants get £S0 per month, the chiof of dotectives 890, while the captains receive $100 a month, Tho chief gets §150, over twice as much as a patrolman, “I do not like our sergeants. If they have it in for a man they will get him off the force in a short time. And yet, a favoriie can do something ten times as bad aud never get reported. ““We do not blame the captains as the; have to sec that every man is disciplined, who is reported to them as beng guilty of a misdemeanor. And yet, I have known wher a similar offense has been discovered by captain, and nothinz outside of a few words of personal admonition ever came of it. This is why the boys all like the cantains and will do anything for thew, while, atthe same time, they daspise the sergeants. Cap- tain Green is one of the greatest-hearted men I ever kuew, and t no man on the police force has been more slandered. He is a thorough gentleman and a magnificent ofti- cor. He has performed a thousand little kindnosses that neither you nor anybody but the recipients know anything about. I 'ahall never forget a sight thav touched my heart, in which he figured, over a year ago. You remember that, at that time, the city council | was fighting the police commission and had refused for nearly three months to vote the salaries of the newly appointed policemen, Some of the boys were in a bhard row of stumps; they had no meney and no credit and their families alnost starved to death. Oze day, while Captain Green was making his rounds, he came across one of these un- fortunale lads who was patrolling his beat in the dronching rain without a rubber coat. The poor fellow was soakicg wet and yet he saluted his superior ofticer with a smile and tried his bestto look cheerful. The captain understood the situation at a glance, the ofticer was too poor to afford a rubber coat, With his tact, the captain took off his own rubber coat and insisted on making & present of it to the patrolian. And when the latter refused it, the captain threw it over the officer’s shoulders and then walked hastily away. You can bet your life that that policemun would walk through burning sulphur to-day for ‘Cap.’ Gree *‘But 1 must be careful of what Isay. fellows have been fired from the fore less than what I have alrcady said to you, ou see, & policeman has not the right of free speech like the remainder of Awmerican citizens, So good day." —~— Miscellaneous Sports. Colouel Frank Parmelee, of this city, got a picce of alinost every ruce shot at the state sportsmen’s tournament at Norfolk last woel, Lottie Stanley is here, and it is wore thau probable that o race betwecn her und Jesse r friends to see that thoy are you get?” asked the re- Oalos for the championship of America, will be arranged for next week. 1t should be o swoepstakes, however, in order that Lily Williams, Heauty Baldwin, Kittie Brown, Jessie Woods, and others, miy go in, Any of them are ‘as goods as Oalkes, or Stanley either, for that matter, taking their recent achievements into consideration, Ed Rothery has again arranged for a trial flight by his homing birds. The fly will be from I'rewont, and will take place next Thursday, the birds to be liberated avi3 o'clock, noon The ducks bave at last all gone, and the spring shooting for 1889 is over. Sportsmen must now confine themselves to the line and rod for excitement and recreation. John J. Hardin is in Cheyenne making ar- rangements for an athletic tournament to be held there in June, * Davo Bounott, the Canadian sprinter and o long-distance runner, is iu the oity. Bluffs firemen's a ruce on for the Council tournament in June, Senator Morgan, W. B, Knapp, Tom W. k, 13ob Neilson, Albert Shock and Jack ince, all the champions of the world, came from Chicago last night. Beauty Buldwin, Kitty Brown, Jesse Woods and Jesse Oakes, the lady by ers, ars rived yosterday from New York. Iteading und Neilson are booked for u fiftys mile race ut the Coliseum one weck from uext Suturday night for $250 a side, ¥ in