Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 12, 1890, Page 12

12 THE LOCAL WORLD OF SPORT, An Amateur Who Wants the Class- iflcation Rule to Govern. WHO WILL THE CAPTAIN BE? An Interesting Grist of Rase Dall News--Pertamming to the Roped Arenn—The Rod, Dog and Gun Questions and Answers. An Amatenr Pr UNDAY'S Brn in the sporting columns con tained an announcement of the grand trap ahoot ing tournament that is to take place 1 Omaha next April under the management of John Dunmire and Frank S, Parmelee, also that there il be no classt fication of shooters, hut that it will be open to the world. Now, on be of the trap shooting ly he 1o enter my the amate osts, num who can ¢ teurs, [ desi aganst placing protest poorer cluss of shooters on the same with the protessional or expert shots, and | s or level fondly hopo that you will exert yourself to nt that there will be sonie provision the management 8o that the shoot- rs who are present will cither be han pped or classitied according to their known qualifieations, especially in the live bird con- tests. | cun assure you thatsuch action will be conferring a great favor on all lovers of fair play whoare only moderate shots. To proceed turther, it cannot bo denied that our tournaments do not draw as they once did. Many ordinary shots remain at home for fear of meeting 100 warm company. The reason s easily explained, becauso at nearly all our tournaments you will find professionals Budd, Stice, Mc Murchy, Elliott, Tucker, Ruble, Heikes, Par- malee, Bandle dnd others who are known as the best shots in the country - men who can be depended upon to_ kil from 90 to 100 per cent of their birds. Now, the men who can only kill three or four birds out of five, and who stand no earthly show i shooting ten or twelve-bird contests, under the same con- ditions, enjoy the sport just us weil as the experts, but they rightfully kick against tho expensc. The bractice that is in vogue, all men shooting in the sume cluss, regardless of their proficiency, is ull wrong and should be corrected by our liberally-aisposed friends, Dunmire and Parmalee, To illustrato: s there u man 80 dull who, owning a three- minute horse, as to enter him in a race ugainst an Axtell or a Sunol! But this samo wan, under the aonouncement made thut there he no classification or handicaps for the April tournament, if he happens to b amateur trap shot and attends this tourna- went, is compelled w0 blay against fully as great odds, or elso remain a silent and dis- iusted spe ator. onds, the professionals, will ask: ou going to make s change to m tions of tho poorer shooters! In I would say, owe method would be itving the shooters, and allow no man to shoot in & class lower than that to which he belongs. This can cusily be determined, and then no man who is fond of shooting will be compelled to remain away for fear of being forced to snoot against a man who caun diseonnt him. If we aceept the expression of many sports- men therc has got to be some radical changes and reforms made or else tournaments will still continue to remain unpopular, and what are the objoctions besides those dlready ex- pressed: “Uhe principalone is the forming of combinations. Several expert trap-stots will £0 to a shoot with the avowed intention of Bliooting out every one they can aud then divide among themselves what ever net winnings there may be. The amateur does not belong 1o any of these combinations, but is fond of shooling ut the trap and is y fectly willing to devote a certain amount for the priviloge, Ho does not uphold combing tions or practice missing birds to obtain a position. The consequence s that after u few trials he makes the discovery that ho has B0 busiiess with the crowd and then he re- lapses 1010 mncuous dasuetude. s communication is not written in any spirit of envy. 1 do not object to those who by long practice and constant use become ex perts to utilize their skill, out tbhey can hardly expect amateurs to contribute to their purposes or attend shoots when fore- going results are certain. In other words they will foook in vain for the appearance of the solitary granger o combine upon—then Othello’s occupation | 3 Now, Mr. Editor, betieving you will recog- nize the justness of all sct forth in this letter, will you lend us a helpine hand and aid in this reform, and see if Messrs. Dun- wmire and Parmelee cannot be prevailed upon to give us o clussified tournament. If not, then let them nandicap all professional shooters in live bird shooting and allow all amateurs according to their profieiency from three to six yards. H. . CLank. Bellevue, Neb., Jan, 9. In reply to the gentleman, who is a well Iknown trapsnot and an ardent devotee of tield sports, it is but necessury to state that Messrs. Dunmire and Parmelee have de- lod to include in thew programme u large number of classified events, ~exactly as ex- vressed i the above, 1n addition to these, there will be anumber of big live-bird shoots open to all, and, i an amateur or ordmary ShOt mecs 'proper to enter any of these he docs 80 with the full understinding of the conditions. These free-for-uil shoots are ab- v _essentiol as an attraction for the ofessionul shots 1 the country, and 1t stands to reason that but fow save the frst. cluss will feel like participating in theso oevents. If they do, and are shot out, it is theirlook ou Classified trap shooting is all right, but it is in the free-for-all matches, where 1o one is hampered or handicapped, that one looks for the demonstration of su- perior skill, and furnishes a greator amount of sport for the spectators. However, Mr, Clark can - roat assured that wma- tours will be shown every cousideration, and wlowed everything that is equal, fair and equitable at the coming great tournament.— Wb, Who Will Captain the Owmal The aquestion of the captainey of the Omana ball team next season has not yet been determiued, nor will it be until the ar- rival of Manager Leonard the latter part of nextmonth, Itisa matter, however, thav soems destined to involve no little trouble, 08 in the present make-up of the team thero i8 not a single manamong them all who pos- sesses any very maked qualifications for tho position. In theso days, 100, it is protty thoroughly understood just how uecessary for harmonious and effective tean work & £000 captain 18, and it is also understood that Ao efMcient ptain wust combine nerve, und judgment und the best of discrimini. tion in his character. Ho must be o rigid discivlinarian, resolute, yet considerate and courteous to bis men: wide-awake uund vigi- lant, ever ready Lo scize upon any point thut Will further the success of his team or help win 8 game. He must have au iron will, olear head and eye at ull (ines, and studi- ously avoid any display of petly auth but wo avout h business i ness-like way. ‘That wan, the present Omala team does not posséss. It is wol kuown whom Manager Leonard favors, but President MeCormick, if no better man s signed i the weanume, will rocommend Jiwmy Canavauss the wan most competent and" deserving of the howor, Canavan, though,lacks many of the aualifications m nocessary 1o a captain, and it is not uolike! that he would failin bolding down the position a8 Itought t be beld down. After Crooks’ retirement from the captaincy last season Wally Andrews douned bis mantle, and while he did f well, he in no way ais tinguished bimself. If Dan Shannon can be signed, he will be made captain and play secoud, which will send Canavan baock o his old position in the flela. Shaunon wised President McCormick in New York last full that if ho was released by Louwsville he would communicate with Omaha the first thiug he did. But he has failed to do 80, though he was released unconditionaliy fully two weeks ago. McCormick has writton and tolegrapbed him both,but as yet hus received no word in ly. If possible e will be signed. '?bunon is 8 natura, seaptain, @s well we a hard workingl endurable at all, avd his cheery voi ball_player. FHis, nterest in the success of his side never flags, and e never overlooks an advantage nor hesitates 1o sacrifico his own record to assist his team. He is ansthing but a record player, and had he been more cautions of his opportunities for individual advancement when he was & member of the local team, he would have been considered a stronger player than his work really demonstrated, Shannon is also o gentlemanly fellow, n good coacher, nd it is to be hoped the Omana munagement will secure him and put him in command of the team on the field next sum- mer. A Lamentable Lack of Coachers, While the ball team Omaha has already se. cured for next seasou is unquestionably a strong one and satisfactory in most particu- Iars, there is yet one very essential element it lacks, and lacks badly. That is, a coacher. A3 the men now stand, thoy are an oxcep- tionably tame lot of players. They are conscientious and industrious and all that, yet not a single member of the wh aggregation has r figured to any noti 8 u concher or an enthusiast upou the field his sort of a team is 10 apt to be quitters, thal is n_team who will make a poor up-hill fight, and tho scoring of three or four runs by the opposi tion in tho opening innings will be apt to figure as, the cquivalent of defeat, Last senson Omabia was especially strong in this department. — Crooks, with his foghorn nd his icrepressible vitality, made one mos. proficient coachers in the pro- on, and it was his unique work that dered muny a lislloss and lngging game 0d in- cs ' that infused his confreres al of spirit in many a tight place, spurred them on to greater efforts and oft-times turncd defeat into victory, Ho was ably seconded in this good work by Jimmy Cooniey and Tom Nagle, while once in a great while Andrews would get out be~ hind ficst and fracture the ambient atmos - mosphere with those rusty rasping ciler-factory lungs of his. Now who will fill the places of these invaluable men next season! To be sure, if Shanton is se— cured, ho will make up in a great measure for tho absence of our old coachoers, for, when in the mood, ho makes an exceilent whoover-up und is well calcelated to tanta- 1520 a young twirler into the delivery of many a wide bull, many a wild pitch. There has “been considerable said and written aguinst all this hurrah coaching, but, in the wild and woollv west it is the style that catches the crowd and lends an additional interest to the sport. imitable an with & rene ign a Second Baseman. L management hias, at lst, con- cluded to secure a fiest-class second base- man for next season, if that be possible, and send Canavan back to the position he fills so blyin left field. With this sonsible object in view, President MeCormick has no- titied M conurd to spare no pains in his end Danuy Shannon, who DUt ub such & strong game for the Louisvilio Americun « tion team during the past scason. If Shuunon eannot be cogaged, Leonara has been instructed to look up ed Bituman's record, and, it found satisfactory, to negotinte with him. Bittman is a fine youug pluyer and second base is his home position. ~ The writer, who knows him well, recommends him ns ' wost desirable usan, He is a native of Cincinnati, and a graduate of the old Mill creek bottoms, a famous Kgrounds that has turned ocut its full quantum of No. 1 players, umong woom muy bo men- tionod Buck Eiwing, the great New York catcher; Loug John Riley, Lefty Marr, Ollio Beard and scores of others. Bittman will fill tho biil. He is a hustler from Hustlers- ville, a splendid concher, a strong, free hitter and unexcelled upon the lin Affuirs of the Omaha Club There is but little interesting news in local base ball circles, The complete roster of the elub, with the exception of another first class catcher and u second baseman, is made up. The schedule meeting will be held in this city about the middle of February, after which base ball affaifs will begin to boom, Manager Leonard has been wstructed to report here during the last of Februa but tho players will not be here until fully a month later, The question of uew grounds still remains in statu quo, but Presicont Me. Cormick expeets to learn definitely about matter before the month expires, Frank J. Bird, tho latest addition to the local catching foree was a former old Cleve land player, who sailed under an assumed D Elmer Cleveland says he will make a good mau, that he is one of the nardest hitters he ever saw, and a good all-ro player. Everstuing considered, the prospe for finc sport upon the diamond next season for Omaha, are excerdingly bright. nd The Official. Roster. Appended will be found a correct and ofi- cial list of all contracts for 1590, signed by players with the Western association : With Omaha—C. H, Willis, J. J. Fanning, W. Urquhart, M. B, Hines, £. E. Cloveland, W. H. Clark, C. K. McConell, W, i J. Walsh, Wally Audrows, Jumes Cal C. H. Moran and Charles'J, Bird. With Sioux City—W. Burdick, €, J, Mur- phy, T. Brosnan, k. Gonins, John Clino, 13, C. Glenn and H. Kappell. With Milwaukee—\V. F, Kreig, I, Clau- sen, C. H, Cushman (manager), Jobn Thorn- o, G. W, Davies, P.J. Welch, A. Tko, H, H. Howes, Thomas Flanagan and T, J. Poor: n With St. Paul—J. B. Glasscock, Tra Phil- Lips, R. K. Burus, John Cantillion, J. Meekin and E. Burks, With Minneapolis —John E, Car Foster, H, B, Chrisman, J. Ryan, J. Hen- gle, H. O'Day, Joseph Miller, N, Hudson. With Denver—C. H. Trumpy, ‘I J. Flood, John MeGlone, Wilhmn Kennedy and M. Whitehead. With Des Moines—D. Clare, W, F. Macul- lar, ). Sommers. M. H. Brimblecom, F Fusselbach, W. John A. Walsh, John F. Roach and Con Strothers, With Kansas City—John Healey, H. C. Long, W. C. Alvord, Park B. Swartzel, J, B. Gunson, Churles C. Bell, I". Pears, 5 Pickett, C. K. Hoover, b, E, Smith and H. E. A Rifl ‘man Brr, Neb, Jan, 0.—To the Sporting Edi- tor of Tue B Will you be so kind as to publish the cnclosed challenge again 1n Sun- day’s sporting columus where I know' all in- terested will see it. ‘Lhe undersigned, wishing to create an in- terest in rifle shooting i Sewurd county, hereby challenges any person in said county toshoot a rifle at tareet at200 yards, off Challenge. haud, open sights, stakes to bo §1 per shot. No rifle larger thau a 40-60 to be used. The above challenge is to remaln open for two weeks from aute and is open to any mau in Ssward county. Furthor information can be obtained by addressing. B. W, BuskeLs, Bee, Neb, Polo League Standing. The standiog of the city polo league, in- cluding all the gawes that have been played with the existing clubs, as well as thoso which have withdrawn from the race, is as follows : Teams, Played. Won. Lost. Omaba Waeel Club i [ Council Bluffs, 1 Ramolers . 2 Morses. . 2 Countinentals. 2 Klashes From the Diamond, Con Strouthers, first baseman of the Day- enports lust scason, has signed with Des Moines, The Sowders bo; there is 4 brigade of them—are all winteriag in Indianvolis, uad they are not eating suowballs eitber. No exhibition games have as yot been arrunged for spriog, although Secretary Hranat has application s for dates from Cin- cinnati, Cleveland and Chicago. Nut Hudson will do ro pitching for Min- neapolis vext seasou. He will divide his uwe between capturing flies and doing the can-can aet in the outfiela. Herman Long will be a great favorite in Buston next season. —Sporting Times, Right yOU are, the grewt wienerwurst shortstop is capable of capturing any crowd, however eritical it may be. The Boston Herald stutes that Daony Stearns will occupy big Brouthers shoes next season. One of them will do, though, Mr. Stevens. You'd better rent tho other to | tho brotherhood to cache their guarantee fund 1. What has become of Rea Deagle! Ren is & woulder by trade and it may be that e bas hied himself wway 10 some sequestered spot 1 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: and 18 moulding a lot of new curves and slants t suring on the brotherhood. Frank Selee, manager of the Boatons, was in Chicago Tu He went there to sign Herman Lone, wh he succeedod in doing. Wonder he did’t ruu ovor here fora chat with old friends. New Haven has signed First-baseman Schoeneck, the eighty-one tonner. What the classic burg has signed him for fails to ap- pear, but it is probable that he will be used in the foundation of their now city hatl. Charlie Reilly made thirty homo runs i the westorn association Iast season, and he's quite liable to knock out as many more in the Americau next season.. There is no limit to the ability of vhese occidental ball-tossers. President MeCormick says now he don't know whhether he will sign either Jack Messitt or Joe Strauss for next season, ns he hopes to get better men than either of them. If he does take them, however, it will be at his price and not theirs. And now Des Moines has gono and sigaed a pitcher yelept Dan Clare, Trust the Pro- Nibitionists in the corralling of phenoms. They garner a mow full of thom every win- ter, but somehow or other they all ooze bo- fore the season opens, The Boston elub wants Jack Crooks, and nts him bad. Selee wired Columbus to ne her pile, and Columbus wired back “Silver Tongue n't for sale at any price. And think of it! Selee once wanted 10 sell Crooks to Canton, O., for $400. ctor Harry McCormick left for Frisco raday, and he took along with him o contract which ho expects Knell to sign, Howaver, if he fails to got the young man's autograph, it will be no_great 10ss probably, for they just knocked the tar out ot him out on the Pacific this winter. The Cowboys have signed Slater, the Amherst college shortsto, Hao is said to be a comer, and it is to be hoped 8o, for Omaha intends to knock about a ton of conceit out of the Missourians when they collide next spring, und they'll need all the ‘‘comers" they can secure in the meantime, Milwaukee is tryiog to secure Ebright, with the Washington league team during the latter part of last season. It might not be improper tostate that Milwaukee is also en- deavoring to secure about every other player laying around loose. They bave again put a collar on peor ofd Tommy Poorman. Oneof Jack Chabman's fiest breaks as manager of the Louisvilles was to release Dan Shannon, who was by long odds the bost of the poor aggregation thut repre- sentad Louisville in the American ussocias tion last season. Wonder if there was a little combine in the “Colonel’s” ranks that it avout his dismissal.—Louis ville Courier Journal, y 13riody, onc of the Western associa- st year's umpires, wants to break the blaying ranks again, But Patty’s 1t was all he could into day is evidently pa do while nmpiring here last year to toss a ball from his position behi 4 the but to the pitch- er's box, ana yet on time he was one of the | swiftest ana most accurate throwers in the vrofession. o1d forsuken St. Joe—the home of the uking o last despairing effort, witti Charlie Lord as the chief spirit, to” or. wan little league for a cent. Just now she reising her blandishments upon Lincoin, Topeka. Leavenworth, Hastings, Hutchinson, Sedalia, Wichita ' and other frontio ary posts. O, Lora} ‘The Milwaukae Sentinol says that mana- ger Cushman signed Déter Flanagan, foux City’s crack last scasons bird’s nes or pitcher. It also says that Flanagan struck out two hundred batters last season with seven errors, Now if Peter can strike out 1wo hundrea batters with seven errors, in the name of high heaven how many batters could he strike out with two hunared orrors{ Peter you are certainly an old hollyhock ! Manager Selee of the Beancaters has called o halt on the signing of raw material, He says the club must now put its super- fluous shokels in seasoned timber. Juat be patient, Frank, alittle while longer, and you can have the pick of all Boston's old men— in fact it wouldn't surprise Tue BEE much to sce the hundredth of a million benuty, the only iell, buck at his old post by the time the roses bloom again, Won't Jack Lyneh of Boston, Con Daily of New York and the balance of the gam-. blors who work bascball as a specialty in the summer be in high feather the coming sea- son if the brotherhood proves a go! Coim- bi; ion pool players will have to keep a cyo on all brotherhood combinations, se they will be frequent, startling and wonderfully made up. With the players boss of themselves look out for a return of the crooked days of the seventies, “om Mansell, he of the inflammatory curls, gives out the frozen fact that he will be seen cavorting upon the ball field awain next spring. Can it be that he hassigned with the Buflulo brotherhood aggrogatiou of posterior numbers, For the past year or so Mansell has been fondling the salury of a gripman on a IKunsas Citg cable car, and 1t may be thav his car will be signed with him. Some of the Bison players could get ovet more ground in that way than in any other, Cleveland 1s rejoicing over its capture ot Peek-a-boo Veach, an old time Western leaguer, to play first for them next season. They say he is a great hitter, and that s a fact, but L know of nothing he can hit as often and with as much eclat us he can a big, full-rigged, foaming schooner, Let’em como his way and he’il blow ‘em off so fast, ivll make your head wwim. But, of course, Peck has reformed; they all do it at this stage of the game. Anyway, here’s to Cleve- land’s Juck with him. ~ With the writer, 1t 1s anyviing to beat the brotherhooa. The New York Sporting Times—en passant the nowsiest, most interesting and the most ably edited baseball journal in the count suys that the Omaha team for next season will muke the rest of the Western associa- tion teums hustie for dour lfe. Speak- ing of the Times, have you observed whe tropical wanner in which it is handling e brotherhood wreckers. That man Cayler is 4 cuckoo, 'The writer knew him back in his Cincinnati days and alwiys considered him the best baseball autjority in the country, as well s the game's most brilliant historian, He wields a pen that is oven wightier than Mouthy Ward's famous guar- antee fund. John Harain writes to the baseball editor of Tue Bee that on the slope no stock is taken in the brotherhood, aud that they are betting even that never a ball is pitched un- der the wrecker's auspices. Hosays further that the old loague players out there who have sigued with this outfit are as leary as owls, and follow each other around like so many poodle dogs, as if each was approhien. sive that the other would desert first. He says likewiso that it isa well known fact that wany of them are praying that the league will win its injunction suit against Jounny Ward, in order that they may have an excuse for juming buck into the bondage of the old National league, It's funny when yoa come to think about it, how these ducks are stuck on slavery. President McCormick inforis Tue B that travehug men and others who saw Catcher Moran play last season Auy that Omaha has a treasure in the big fellow, and that they look for him to develop into a Beanett, s Bushong or 4 Ewing, MeCor- mick also intimated that a certain young gentleman who hys signed for next season must ctiunge his' mode of living or he'll wake up some morning to find himself fired incoatmently. beCormick says he'll sup- Port 10 lushiers or bummers if ho never wins & game, al of which is very commendable in McCormick. Sandy G. V, Griswold of Tax Bsg is rep- resented in the Christmas number of the Omaha Excelsior by a story with the laid in - Cincinnati, Mr, “Griswold srorting editor of Tue Bee, and Tue Sux- DAY I3EE now has about as good & sporting drpartment as any daily in the country, ex- copting the Boston Globe and the Hoston Herald. Mr. Griswold's style of reporting base bali games is uuique and has attracted widespread attention to bis work. When Spanldieg was planniog last winter's base ball trip around the world bhe askea Gris- wold o go along and report tho games, offer- :mz Lo pay s expevses.™~Capital City Cour- ier, Fraok Aroold, the Columbus, O., corre spondent of the ‘Sporting Life, embodies a huge gob of tafly for It West—Old Cigar Sign—regularly in his weekly letters. In the last issue he states that West is a great ball player, a tremendous hitter, aud too a an for the Western assoclation, This is the struw that caves in the dromedary back, and I hasten to wmform Araold that West did u\umdpv. Lo play one season in this association, sud the unanimous verdict was that he was & great big 4o-calibre dub, hardly competent 10 play on the gate, Ar- nold’s slur comes in poor grace, oo, when it is known that the present Columbus team ic made up almost entirely of ex- Western asso- clation players. How it wade the ball cranks iauj they read Manager Selee’s foolis! when break avrs ULy PAY ARY 12, 1890.-SINTEEN PAGES | about Herman Ing outplaying Billy Nash! T tho first ikl Holes o, mgt. son Nash vlay threo gamos of ball, if any, in threa Yenrs, as he has boen looking after his intor- ests in the west, and nover leaves his club. Nash 1s the mpsh-valuable thied-baseman the country todag, and as @ batsman is far anond of theé® Wbw-comer, who will remind Bostonians o' Jop”Smith in his stick work Long outdo Nush in taking toul flies! Why, Mr. Manager,, your judgment_is “minor league.” —T. Mffuane in Boston Globe, Well, Mr. Smarty, you ave so quick to criticize Manager Seleo, will you please tell us how often you haye, seen 1,oug. Exerien peraons who nhaye watched both Nash and the Kansas City'man play say there is no comparison. dong, as An infielder, had no equal in the Amgrican association iast sca- son, and in addition he is a fine base-runn ar and batter, Long will create a decided sen- sation in Boston next summer, and you, along with some other baseball cranks, will Iaugh out of tho wrong side of your mouth. Don't let your projudice run away with your judgment, Timothy, Tom Lovett, Omaha's old_star twirler, hias not been resigned by Brooklyn, and the probabilities are that hie wiil not be. The difficulty with Lovott , and it is no secrot hercabouts, that his pitching arm is defunct. 1t's demise’ took place even before ho fin- ished the scason here in 'S8, und when nhe was sold to Brocklyn President McCormick looked uvon the sale as the greatest wind- fall that ever camo his way. Ho told Mana- ger Selee tim ud time again that Tom's arm was go but Selee stoutly denied it, yet the infrequency with which ho put Loy ett 1n the box long toward the latter part of thoe s on will be vividly recallea by all the local cranks, . Miscellaneous Local Sports, The Omaha gun club has resolved to pros- ecute any and all dealers or commission merchants who expose any game for sale out of scason, The Taw for deer, chicken and quail has expired, Ed. Corrigan, the well-known I horseman, was in the city yesterday. Tho local middieweight boxing competition opens at the Atheneum club rooms tavo woeks from tomorrow ovening. The funeral of the late Dan Sullivan, who Was Known as an umpire and who numbered his friends among the ball vlayers by tas hundreds, took place from his brother's resi- dence in Chicago last Monday. On next Tuesday evening at the coliseum, immediately before the commencement of the polo game, Will Pixley and George San- shay, acouple of fast young wheelmen, will ride a two-mile race for & small prize. Manager Prince has now received six en- tries through Tir Bk for the great six-aay bicyele race to bewin at the Coliseum Feb= ruary 10, In addition to these four other entrios have been made, and the outlook for a great tering. A professional six-day six hours a day byciclo 1 begins at the Mechanics vuvilion, Portland, Ore., on the 20th. ck Prince of this city'has entered for the cou- test and will leave for Portland some time the lattor part of this week. Fred Fuller, with an av the schuctzen verein's first prize, a handsome gold medal, for the past season’s shooting. Next season the verein will adobt the new or classifiod rules. All the members who mado an average of .85 this year will constitute the first class, und all under that the second class. Tom Eck, the eycle manager, has returned from Kurope avd is in Minneapolis, whero be 18 arranging for u six-day skatng matcn of two hours duration each night, to come off at Hengle & Foster's rink. Such pro- fessionals as Paulsen, Dowd, MeCormick and Bluck have siguified their mtention 1o enter into the contest, 1t is quite probable that the patrons of tho Gate City Athletic club will huve au oppor- tunity some time along in the early spring months to see a fight as is u fight. Manager Kilkenny has been negotiuting with Danny Necohain—now in California—for a contest with Jimmy Lindsay, and it looks bright for a consummation of this end. O, my, what a mill these two would make The Gate City, Omaha Gua polo teams have withdrawn from the city leazue and aisbavded. This leaves five strong clubs yet in the league, who will play the season out, u new ule having been drawn up for thut purpose. The re. maining teams ara the Wheel Ciub, Conti- nentals, Rambiers, Morses and Council Blutfs,” Kach has made rapid_advancement in the sicuce of the game, and as they aro ovenly matched, all coming games will bo much closer and wore interesting. Jimmy Lindsay has contracted to knock Patsy Murray out iu threo rounds at South Omaba some time within the next three weeks, and a forfeit of £20 was posted the other evening for a bet of £100 a side that he will doit, The winner 1s also to tuko the eutire gate receipts, and the contest is to bo governed by Queensbury rules. In South Omaha the fraternity claim that Lindsay has bit off more thun he can “'chaw,” and they as City age of 107, won d und Millard are willing to bet to the limit that Murray wins, Questions and Answers. Will you please state in SUNDAY'S BEE the nawes of the players and their positions of the Omaha base ball team for 1340?—Young Brothers, Newman Grove, Neb. Ans.—Clarke, Knell, Fanning, Bays and McConnell, pitchers; Erqubart, Morau and Bird, catchers; Wally Androws, firat; sec- ond unsigued; Cleveland, third; Walsh, short; Willis, right, and Canavan, loft. Please state in Sundsy's sporting columns whether Dave Rowe has signed a young twirler from Bruno, this state !—David City Neb, Ans.—He has signed Trumphy from this state, but whether from Bruno or not, the writer cannot state, Please publish the names of the National lengue players who have as yot signed neither with the "old league or the brotherhood.— Deblman, Omaha, Auns.—There are but nine of them. Car- rolt, Madden, Hines, Gumbert, Gilks, Had- dock, Welch, Flint and Tom Browan, Can you give the data of the first and last performance of Flora Temple, her color and whetaer she is yet living!-~I B. F'., Omaha. Aus,—Can find no aato of Flora Templo's first and last trot, nor her color. She is dead, -She first beat 2:20, at Kalamazoo, Mich., October 15, 1859, time, 2:193{. To decido a wager, biease stato 1n Pz Brr whether John L, Sullivan ever whipped Jim Elliott, killed m Chicago by Jere Dunnt When dia Tom Hyre die, and where! What distance does a horse go every second when trotting @ 2:0 cjip/—T, H.H.and R. O., city. ANS.—Yes, heknooked him out in three rounds. Tom Hyre died in 1840 at New York city. A 2:20 gait covers 87 5~7 feet per second. To decide a wager, state in SUNDAY'S BeE: A B and O are playing high five—A is the dealer, B makes the trump, must B lead a trump the first play i —Srorr, city. Axs.—Not unless they agreed upon such a rule before the kame began. Ordivarily its optional with ‘the player who makes the trump to lead one or not just us he chooses, Will you please state whether you consiaer the following! Pattern 12 guage gun a good one: 201 No. 7'shot, 25 inch circle, 38 yards, 15 ounces suotf How 1s an 8-pound gun, 0-inch barrels for chicken and quaili—Birn Suor, Kearney, Neb. Axs.—Very good. Al right, Chaglie—You are right, 8 man who enters any contest, rugniog, walking, jumping, row- wng, bieyele riding boxing or what not, and bets money on himself coases to be an ama- teur. Le Will you please state in your sporting de- partment lomorrgw when the American derby was run Jhicago in 1856 and who won it!—[nquired, Fair Grounds. Ans.—June 26. Luckey Haldwin's Silver Cloud. In the spring our wild fowl ‘shooting is in the marshes about Whitiog aud other ad- Jucent lakes, whero the swamp grass, cane uud dead weeds are 80 runk and the mud so miroy that we lose fully one-half the birds cut dowa. What dog is the best for retriey- ing ou such grouuds {~Ducker, Ouawa, la, Aus. ~Chosapeake bay dogs are the very best, but setters, any breed, can be trained to do admirable work. Seven Up--High goes out first -lwa{-. Referee—Your question is not a legitimate one.. Iuquire somewhere else. The men you meution never met even in & glove contest. OF course any player can enter & jack pot after passing if @ player ovens it after him, He way tako his chance of belping a pair of Bon-openers or may have passed with a big intending to *‘raise” if anyone .epoch of that distant October day. PAWNEES OF TAE PLAINS. Graphic Deecription of a Deadly Fight With Hereditary Eiomies. CHEYENNES AND ARAPAHOES, How a Whole Day Was Spentj by the Three Great Tribes in Indiscriminate ana Brutal Staughter, Scalp Lock Ownors ON. William Daily, the South Omaha live stock comigis sion merchant and ex- United States marshal of this distri isan interesting gentleman in conversation. Lasy of address, A a «mooth, fluent WA alker, pleasing in speech and deportment, this could hardly be otherwise. Then to add to the charm of this natuval ent as a talker, he is a veritable encyelopedia of the early history, political, commar- cini and otherwise, of this great and glorious stato of ours, and is never at a loss for wn entertaining theme to talk upon, nor disinclined to divulge the good things he recollects—**all of which he saw, and part of which he was.” Mr. Daily was born in the town of Madison, Jeffer son county, Indiana, in the year of 1828, In ‘61 he emigrated west, settling upon a fine farm in Ne- maha county, near the settlement of Peru, in what was then the territory of Nebraska, where he has resided almost uninterruptedly ever since, in fact, up to last February, when he removed to this cit His, farm lifo was that of a stock raiser and breeder, by which he has sequired avery comfortable competency. Mo never sold a grain of corn off of his place, but fed it all uv, and as an evidence of the character of his farm for corn produc- tion it is but necessary to mention that cighty acres in corn ‘last season aver- aged seventy-five bushels to the and the land was upland at that, a po formance that could not have been ex- pected of the virgin soii. M Daily was appointed .United es mar in 1871 by President Grant during his first term, and he was reappointed at the expiration of four years fora sccond term. He relates the many thrilling episodes of his ot reeras.n government official with o keen relish, yot accompanicd with a modesty and grace that isat once as captivating as the subject interesting. In 1867-8 Mr. Daily wa ent of the Indian g wmatter is superintend- rist and saw mills on the reservation of the Otoes, under [n- dian Agent John P. Baker, and be- came a man of much influence among the aborigines. “The history of an Indian battle I witnessed once,” said Mr. Dailey to the er one day last woek, “I believo would read as well as anything I conld tell you. it was a spectacle I ean never forgetand I see it all now just as vividly as the day on which it took place.” And the spealier half closed his oyes and ceused talking a moment asif looking bick through the mists of long years and living agun through the thrilling “The fight took place,” he finally re- sumed, ‘“‘apon the Saline fork of the Swmoky Hill river in western K. between the combined focces the Pawnees, lowas, Sacs Foxes, Kickapoo and Otoe Indiuns on the one side and the fierce and rancorous Cheyenues, Arap- ahoes and Sioux on the other. You must know there had long been a bit- ter foud between these western Indians and the Pawnees of eastern Kansas and Missouri; u feud that ran back farther than the memory of man, and any inad- vertent collision of the two factions meant a bloody and internicine strife. This irreconcilable enmity had its ovi- gin, I suppose. as most all Tndian hostil- ity did, over their hunting grounds The Cheyennes and their allies were nomads. ' roaming Indians not under treaty stipulations, who made their headquarters in the farther west, some- where at the foot of the mountains They were cruei. treacherous and vin dictive, and carried on their warfare against the Pawnees and their friendiy kindred with the remorselessness of fiends—waylnying and massacreing their hunting parties, ruuning off their horses and stock, abusing their women and committing every species of out- ragetheir devilish ingenuity could sug- gest. “However, when the battle to which I refer took place, our Indians were off on their annual buffalo hunt, to procure meat to bridge them over the approach- ing winter. I had been detailed to ac- company them, because there had been some confederate emissaries umong the different nations of this section endeavoring to 1nduce the bucks to . join forces with some of the southern tribes and go into the ser- vice of therebel army on the southwest border, which was then, on account of the occupation of the United States forces elsewhere, in a lamentably de- fenseless condition. The confederate leaders had taken advantage of the ex- isting state of affairs to further harvass the federal government by moving among the Indians and inciting them with 1nsurrectional flre by their fatal and insidious eloquence. It was nppre- hended that some of our Indians might become imbued with a thirst for war and ally themselves with these south- ern hostiies for the sake of carnage and plunder. Cousequently I was sent on this hunt with them. Anoth- er precaution was taken by Agent Baker in supplylng them with arms, and very few guns were allowed them, and the hunt was to bamade al- most solely with bows and arrows and spears, 5 was to be expected, we failed to find any buffalo within 100 miles of the ageuncy, and our scouts were not slow in dt»cm'crlng signs that told them that the Cheyennes had been ahead. of us ana were driving the gume out of the couatry, purposely, probably, to draw us on further where they could have a better chanoe to sweep down upon and annihilate us, -« ‘We finally reached the Saline fork and here found our first buffalo, » herd embracing probably one hundred or more, all of which we surrounded and killed. We bad by this time had sev- eral encounters with the Cheyennes Arapahoes, who were doing ever{thinz in lgair power to annoy us, snd 1 knew that before the hunt could be com- pleted we were 1o for a serious en- counter. N **The day before the battle a couple of mi; young men were out after chickens, when they were suddenly beset by a band of mounted Cheyenneés and would have been killed had we not discovered their sore predicament in the nick of v time. Th ck to back upon the naked plain and kept the yelling Bedouins at bay for a time with their bows and arro They wero shortly conplotely encircled, however, and the Cheyennes wero advancing from all d rections. Some,over-eager to secure the trophy of a scalp, had leaped from their mustangs and were approaching on foot, with wild and vengeful gestures and wildor, more appalling vells “The two brave Otoes nev They stood firm us statues, detormined, vet hopeless, until they were discovered by Big Soldier, one of our hardiest braves, who with a hundred followers dashed to the rescue and drove the Cheyennes off. Big Soldier, who was very brave, followed them a long ways, in fact he gotso far ahead of his com- panions that the Cheyennes stoppedand tatked to him. They asked him who he was and he told them an Owe. Then they told him to go back to his people and take them away from the Pawnees, because they were going to kill them all, and they did not want to kill the Otoes, “That night Toverheard somo of our chicfs in council, among whom was Bi ldier. Arkekor, Little Pipe, Pawnoe- coucher and Cheyennecusheoine, or Cheyenne Killer, aud 1 felt satisfiod that a battle was impending, that it would take place in fact the next day. “Then I wentamong my Lndinns, the Otoes, and told them that they must not £o into the fight, that it was none of their funcral, that ther were unarmed comparatively, and would ba killed, squaws, puppooses and all, for you must remember that the squaws and pap- pooses are taken on the annual hunt, 1 urther toid them that Agent Baker would be angry at them, and they woula be punished by the great father at Washington, and finally they concluded ke my advice. They were loyal fellows and I knew they would do what thev said., “*The next morning when we began to move, my men, the Otoes, gradually drew aw from the main body. which numbered” a couple of thousind, and so skillful were our maneuvres man- aged that we had not gone over a mile when were in a distinet body by our- slves, away from the Pawnces and ana Foxes. We hore off southwest, west, and about 11 o'cloc up on o communding hill to wateh the movements of the other Indians on the plain. "hey were in full view only a trifle over a mile away, and a stirring sight it was! tAway to the west ward a of mounted men were approaching. They were Cheyennes and Arvapuhoos. We couid see their stellated lance-heads glistening 1n the morning sur, their feathered crests vising and falling like the waves of the sea and their long nd gaudy raiment flaunting large body ‘“The Pawnees and their allies were drawn up in battle array awaiting them ~—sitting their horses like images carved from stone, fearless and brave as it is possible for human beings to be. The enemy, reaching a convenient dis- tance, also mavshaled their forees in battle’s stern array, a long line of wild and fierce Ishmaelites, but ex- ceuting their movements with a mili- tary precision that might have given a pointer to Uncie Sam’s drilled fore It was indeed u thrilling picture. **Just before the onslaught several run- ners came to us and solicited our aid, but I advised agninstany such move and all obeyed with the exception of Chey- enne Killer and four or five other hot- headed young bueks, who had sniffed the affray afar and could not withstand the temptation to take a hand in it. At a given sig the two hostile bod re set in motion, and with wild and discordant yells, they spurred their ponies and dashed toward ench othe emptying their bows and guus as the advanced, but just as it scemed the must inevitably collide and come t gether 1n an exterminating hand-to- hand encounter, they would wheel their horses, five a “ting voll of barbed shafts and bullets 1nto each other’s ranks. then fall back, veforming again on the original iine, over -and over again. We watched this interesting punoramanearly all the afternoon, and then not knowing what might be the result, we pucked up again and moved on twenty miles further toward the set- tlement. **The next morning Cheyenne Killer came into our camp and reported that a great battle had been fought, and that many had been killed, bringing his hands together mardy times in suce, sion to show the extent of the loss of life. How mu of* the enemy had been slain_he did not know, as they carried off their dead, but they began to retreat just at dusk, and at davk tho Pawnees were left complete masters of the field. “*After finishing his recital Cheye Killer reached in hi mimus and dr forth a long black, wirey sealp, with its hawk’s plume and gaudy ribbons, together with the index finger of an Indian brave, and nanded them to me us trophies of the battle, remarking that he had taken them from a Chey- e enne, a great warrior, Then he told how two warriors, u Pawnee and o Cheyenne, in the fivst we rode | | DRS. BETTS & BETTS 08 FARNAN STRERT, OMAIA, NEB. = (Upposite Paxton Hotel,) Oflce hovrs, wa. m., 10§ p. m. pom Specinlists in Ch ensos. 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They throttled each other, and as their fie steeds puwed the braivie turf, and reared and v desperation of the con- flict, the two warriovs slashed away at each other with their knives, and neither wavered, but continued on in his full intent to kiil, until suddenly they toppled off between their restive steeds, locked together in the embrace of death. Both were victors! Both were dead! Cheyenne Killer had seen the whole encounter, and as the Chevenne forces fell back, he run forward to where the two warriors luy and tore off the Che enne’s scalp and cut off the index fingor of his right hand. *Of course this battle. broke up our hunt, and we returned to the agency next to empty handed, but I dare suy there are few men living today who ever saw amore theilling spectacle than that battle between those wild ana savage burbarians of the plains, and it will live in my memory as fresh as if it were but yesterday to the longest day I live, Ten years after that memorable event the Cheyennes caught a big huntin, party of the Pawnees upon the he waters of the Republican and killed 128 of them. And even to this day a Cheyenne hates a Pawnee, and a Paw- nee hates a Cheyenue. In next SUNDAY’S Bee will be found Mr. Daily’s recollections of the stirring days of lfle removal of the capital from Omaha to Lincoln, e Au Absolute Cure. 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