Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 26, 1890, Page 16

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, JANUARY 26, 1890.~SIXTEEN PAGES. THE LOCAL WORLD OF SPORT An Amueing Reminiscence of the Roped Arena. HARDLY THE COLUER DE ROSE. Early Spring Games—Spicy Wheel Notes—Deer on Honey Creek—Tho Dog and Gun -Miscellaneous News and Comments, A Match and a Reminiscence. Jack Davis, the local heavyweight, and Ed Hall, a welterweight from the Fort, were matched last night for a finish contest for #100 a side, the meet to come oft at South Omaha on a date in the near future. The match may be a bona fide one, but from the writer's knowledge of the prowess and skill of the two principals, it is but reasonable to nfer that it is “understood.” Davisis abig, brawny, muscled fellow, extremely clever ‘with both hands, shifty upon his feet, and a ring general, while Hall 18 a raw one, lank, lean and without either science or experi- ence. In fact, he is 1o nowise a match for Dayis, and will stand about as much chance in a mill with him as—O well, you've all heard about that snowflake in the subterres- trial regions. A year or 80 ago a prominent local sporte fng man had Hall in training for a fight with Billy Hennessy, who resided in this city at that time, and was laying out considerable money on bim to get Lim in_proper trim, as Hennessy was even then rated as much more than a common pug. Hall's backer finally became leary, and beiog & rather clever boxer himself,he concluded to test his protege before proceeding further with his arrange. ments for the mateh, So Hall wastakenupin- to a smallroom above the Progressive saloon on Dodge street, and informed of his back- er's intentions. He was told to fight his best, to push right out from the shoulder, and bot mince matters, but if possible knock his backer out. Four-ounce gloves were Eroducr‘d, and the two men stripped to the uff—the backer showing up fully twenty pounds lighter than Hall, who expressed a repugnance to going in _against a man ev! dently so vastly his inferior, He was as- sured that that was all rignt; that he should entertain no modest scruples on that score, but mitch in and *'do” him in a round if pos- sible. He finnlly assented; a referee and timer was chosen, and as the audience, & small but recherche assemblage, mounted chairs arranged around the upartment to glve the combatants room, they stepped to the center. Hail at once showed that he was the runkest kind of a novice, und,as he ‘was endeavoring w throw bimself Into an approved position, biff| he got it in the jaw! ‘I'nen before he could realize what had struck him, biff! smash! bang! right and left, the backer’s dukes went against his bemvddled conk. Time was called a little before it was up, in order that Mr. Hall might recover a little of the wind that had been thumped out of bim. The second round was even worse than the first, and after smashing him two or three times 1n the neck and jaw, a well- directed righter sont him down in the straw, and the backer puliing off his mits, laconic- ally announced: ‘*‘Gentlemen, Mr, Hall's match with Hennessy is off.” Howover, theyv say Hall has improved wonderfully since those days, and is really now a man of no mean ability; but no one need worry, Jack Davis will demonstrate all there 18 in him in a night or two hence. Not Exactly Rose Colored. Again it is asserted that the Western asso- ciation 1s in-a better and more promising coudition than any baseball organization in the country, and the best ball played any- ‘where will be seen right: here next summer, Btill the fans must be prepared for many general changes. There will be more dis- banded clubs by the middle of July than was ever known in any two previous seasons within the histocy of the game, for the gen- eral outlook never was more unsatisfactory and discouraging. 1t will require at least a 1ull year for the trcubled waters to become calm again, Who 18 to blame for this la- mentable status of affairsi The brother- hoodi Correct. The wholesale desertion from the National league, fabulous salarics and contract breaking, superinduced by the idiotic action of a large number of the pro- fessional stars, has slugged the sport until it 18 decidedly groggy, and it don’t look as if it would be able to stand many more rounds. A brief twelvemonth ago the prospects for the great national sport were at their bright- ost, and everybody was predicting glori- ously attractive season., Today, with the quarreling and lawing factions, the future could mnot present a gloowier or more un- promising aspect. It may not be mal apro- PO8 10 ask right here, what is to becomo of the army of players, say along about July 15, if the brotherhood throws np the spongel Ay that time much of the new blood infused into the veins of the grand old national league will have rejuvenated that body in such a thorough way that she will never miss her old stars,” What will they do, that's the question{ Go back to the shovel and the pick, the hod and the garbage cart, probably, Yo eko out a scanty subsistence in a way that was theirs pefore baseball made gentle- mon Lo‘r elegant leisure out of them. That's wha The First Games of the Season. President McCormick has made dates with Manager Schmelz, of the Cleveland league toam for exhibition games hera on April 2, 8, 9and 10, The National Trap Shooters, The great combination of national trap shooters will hold their first shoot at Cincin- nati nextv Tuesday, The combination in- cludes the pick of the tournament shooters from all parts of the United States. The men are under a year's contract at a princely salary, and travel from one end of the coun- try to the other in their own special palace oah The ombinaLion 18 AIVIded tato teaws, the eastern and the western. The eastern team is made up of H. McMurchy of Syra- cuse, W. H. Wolsencraft of Philadelphia, W. E, Perry of Boston, H. B, Whitney of Phelps, N. Y.: U. 8. Perry, Worcester, . The western team includes C. W. Budd of Des Moines, In.; Joseph R. Stice of Omaha; R O. Heikes of Dayton, O.; J. A. Ruble of Beloit, Wis.; C, A. Cahon, of Free~ port, I, The combination will be in Omaha Beptember 20 and rewaiu over Sunday, Decr on the Honeycreek. About a month since some local rabbit hunters, among whom was Vincent Coberly of Crescent Station, about elght miles north of the Bluffs on the Northwestern road, dis- covered a lot of deer tracks in the lLight snow tnen upon the grouad, in the dried-up sloughs about Honeycreek lake. As far as the hun- ters could make out from the number and different sized tracks, they celculated that there were twelveof the beautiful animals in the neighberhiood. How they came there no one pretended to know, but it 18 quite likely they had been driven in there by hunters Who have been hounding them on the Nebras- ko side of the river. The day following the discovery of the tracks several hunting rties were orgauized 1 hunt the animals. oung Corberly was & member of oue of these and whilo cautiously making his way through the undergrowth on the island across from Gilmore's farm, he jumped a big doe, Aload of buckshot behind the shoulder tumbled her over in the snow. At the report of the gun a half-grown fawn tlmvad from its nest in tho long grass and Jorberly was in the act of drawing on it ‘when a wouster buck, with spreading ant- lers, leaped from vehind an old log where ho had been suuning himself, and the hunter turned and with the other barrel laid bim Jow, The fawn goi away, This was o pretty good roing's work, however, and sum- moniog his compauions, Corberly hauled yenison to the main land. The buck was a huc fellow weighing 240 pounds. The haie had all been worn off his front legs up to the Inu\und the bunters came to the conclusion that he had been hunted nard and traveled a Ew‘ ways. Since then seven more 0. rhe unch have been killed by different isauwers, and the country is still being industriously beaten up for the remaining three yet sup- posed to be in the vicinity, A Corn Husker's Defl, GREENWOOD, Neb,, Jan. 23.—To the Sport- fog Editor of Tue Bee: 1 wish to comyere sorb buskiog in Nebraska witk Macys, toe - eastorn crack’s rocord. The article that ap- peared In Tnr Brr January 8 was quite em- barrassing to many corn huskers of Ne- braska. To think of the idea of Macy chal- lenging the United States with such a record, Iwill relate to you the average huskirg record in Nebraska, One husking match, between two boys out here, was a8 follows: One pickea thirty-six bushels and the other thirty-eight bushels in forty-eight minutes, but 1n wagons and seventy pounds taken per bushel. I think it would benefit Macy's health to come out west and learn how to shuckc corn, I suppose his peg ot hot in such a fast operation as he boasts of. He can put up all the money that Lo can raise, from $1,000 to £5,000, out hera and we'll husk the life out of mm. He is like the 0ld down easter who blowed about skat< ing in the summer and mowing in the win- tor. If he really wishes a match he can be accommodated out he ' HARRY PEARSON, Fouthern Racers Coming West. The secretary of the Twin City jockey club of St. Paal and Mioneavolis has just re- turned from the southern racing eircuit. He says that most all of the horsemen ho met in the south declared that they intended 10 run their racers 1n the west next summer, a8 they received quite a sufliciency of east- ern methods last season. Now, if Omaha had a jockey club she would stand a chance of seeing all the southern crack racers on the local turf noxt summer, but 88 ,she hasn’t, nor is likely to have, judging from the apathy among horsemen here, they will have to be content with readicg about them in meagre Lelograms from Kansas City, St. Paul and Minuoeapolis Spokes from Wheel. “Dad," is that so? Have you really bought o wheolt If Captain Mittauer 1s in the city, his pres- ence is earnestly requested at the club rooms. The ‘‘Lost Chord” has been found—Oscar Epenetter found it. Kd Smith and Porter- field helped him, though, Mr. S. W, Whitney, a prominent wheel- mun of St. Paul, visited the city last week 1 quest of Porry Badolet and Mr, Emmel, This can't be culled the best weather for cycling, but the boys have hopes-—-one of which Is that February 2 will be cloudy all day. The wheelmen of Niagara Falls aro agitat- ing the subject of the League of American Wheelmen meet for 1500, Their invitation, if sent, will be acted on at the Kebruary meeting. A revival of the wheeling interests may be expected in Omaha the coming season. Two years ago it was very active in these matters, wnd 1ts riders had a national reputation through its live and energetic club, Some of tho safoty riders have boen seen pushing their wheels around in the snow this week, They did not look as though they were enjoying it much, especially climbing Harney street. W. F. Search and W. Wallker, two fast young riders, have arranged for a series of ruces to come off at the Coliseum. The tirst, one mile, to be run on the evening of the 20th, the second, two miles, January 81, and tné third, threo miles, February 4. It is funny how quick the boys who take the 7 o’clock car north stopped all of a sud- den when the snow came. It is reported that they have all jowned together and solemnly sworn not to go out until the snow 18 gone. And the poor girls do waut to have a sleigh ride so bad ! Jnck Prince created a good deal of amuse- ment at the club room one evening last week, by a fifteen minute speech on **What Uknow about fakes.” Of course the mem- bers know about them ns well as he, but were glad to have him verify them. Jack ys the days of fakes arc over at the Uoli- seum. The life of a person who gives tips to the sporung editor of a Sunday paper must surely be a burden to him. Good proof of this i8 their short lives, They spring up one week only to bo gone the next. It is hardly to be wondered at though as the S, £. is ai- ways after him for tips, and the boys are al- ways “joshing” him about them. The fuce- tious remarks he can stand, but the violent ond unkind kicks he receives because he happens to mention some one's name once t00 often, is what keops him on the verge of suicide. The four-hour six-day raco at the Coli- seum promises to be a good one, and it has every appearance of being for biood. Read- ing was never in better form, and Schill and Gerwing are going just as fast, The record is pretty sure to be broken. If Morgan is 80 anxious to tackle Reading nuw is his chance. His record will probably be better if he stays in Portland though, There will be a good field of starters all evenly matched. Lots of new blood. Kennedy’s coming in creates ali ttle uncasiness among the entries, as he is & new man to them all, The Nebraska division of the L. A. W, 18 in a deplorable condition. It has less than seventy wembers in the state and no organi- zation at all. Nebraska should have at least 200 members, and it could be brought much higher than thatwith a little extra work. It seems as though there might be elected or apponted some_division oficers who would do their duty. ‘We need a chief consul, sec- retary and treasurer, and they should be men who will take right hold of the L., A. W, and see that it is kept up to the standard of the divisions of other states. There is not a league hotel in the state nor a localcousul outside of Omaha. Every towa that has a wheelman in it, no matter if it is only one, should have a local consul, It is to be hoped that this will stir the few members left up a little and that tbey will see that the con~ dition of things 18 bettered. The test bicycle case from the city of To- peka was filed in the supreme court yester- day by Johnson, Martin & Keeler. W. E, Swift was arrested by the police for riding across the Kansas avenue bridge on his bicycle, 1 violation of a city ordinance, He was fined in the police court and then ap- pealed to the district court, which decided against the wheelman, Tho case is appealed RAme 18 soa with the exception of deer, in this 1»0;1\;{. oro are scarcely uny elk, I have seen but four this winter, There are some about fifty miles wost in the Big Horn mountains, and some bear, but the country is full of Nunters and game must be very scarce next fall, There are plenty of ante- lops and sheep, but they ure being killed by tho car-load. Flashes From the Diamond. Deos Moinesis laying her plans for Sunday ball the coming season, Both Patton and Maskrey hive been given the “run” by Des Moines. Ed Siich, formerly with the Brooklyns, has signed with Milwaukee. What an infleld Tucker, Crooks, Long and Nash would make for the Hub. Jack Pickett will play shortstop for Kan- sas City, vice Herman Long, sold to Boston. He will also cavtain the team. Catehor Briggs, ot one time with the Union Pacifics of this city, recently losta bright little daughter by diptheria. Big George Wilson, who was with Omiha 1885, is a catcher that some of the big league teams would like to purchase. Joe Herr says e will never play ball again, and that is a very sensible resolution on Joe’s part, for his lust attempt was a dire fail- ure. The Milwaukeo club is negotiating with Martin Sullivan, who ishighly recommendea to Manager Cushman by President Spald- ing. The Denver club hassigned Pitcher Frank Hoffman, late of the Houston, Tex., team; nlsolcmchcr Lobbeck, formerly of ' Cleve- and. Tom Naele and Jimmy Cooney are two of the boys from whom Captain Anson expects great things next season, He will not be dis- appointed. Dave Rowe says his new catcher, Park Wilson, will develope into a great backatop. Heis as active as a catand has but few passed balls, Sandy McDermott, a Western association umpire last season, is to be appointea on tho National league staff. He is a good man and will fill the bill, Papa Ezra Sutton talks of taking hold of the Oregon and Washington embryonio league. What & team ho aad Senator Mor: «an will make. Charles A. Uhl, who caught for the Ash- land, Wis., club last season, is In the city open to an engagement, He might call on President McCormick, Billy Crowell, with Sioux City last year, has signed with Burlington, and promises to sond em over the plate next season in @ wiy that will paralyze the Iutor- staters. In commenting on Tur BAr's observation relative to baseball gamblers being in high feather next scason should the brotherhood prove a go, the Sporting Times says: Manager Finn of the Oakland, Cal., club, has signed, through the efforts of the writer, C. F. Lookabaugh of Mouut Moruis, 1l Lookabaugh played at Grand island last sea- son Elmer Cleveland has begun to work off & little of the superfluous avoirdupois taken on during the past dozen weeks, and says he will be in tip-top trim by the time the gong taps. What has become of old Fighting Pete Hotaling, any way? In these piping timesof war his clarion voice should be heard high Bh?;'u the din. Pete has probably McGinty- 1zed. Clarkson says Jack Crooks is the finest second baseman in the country, and Jack fully agrees with him, He is up in St. Paui go\y teiling his old frienas what a great man e is. Kansas City, although her baseball scribes declare she has a cinch on the Western as- sociation peunant, goes right on signing players. The latest addition is Billy Bottenus, Jimmy Manniog has failed as yet to return to the Cowboys fold, and no one seems to kunow what has become of him, Maybe he has joined those new Sunday clothes at the bottom of the drink. Joe Werrick is making horse collars in Balumore, and it's two to one he does his work better than he does on second base. Allof St. Paul's blather about Werrick’s playing last season, 19 slush. . Charlie Bartson, who was with O.naha in ?87, wiil piteh for the Chicago brotherhood team the coming season. He has made great pregross during the past two years, and is said to be a great stratogist. Doc McDonough, the old business mana- ger of the Omaha Herald, is one of the brotherhood’s syndicate writers in New Yorn, Caylor suys that the Nebraska prai- rie grass i8 still growing under Doc's tongue. Cleveland’s new second baseman, Joe Ard- ner, is no stranzer to Forest City peoplo sinco he played with the Clevelunds once be- fore, he taking Dunlap's place when the lat- ter jumped to the Union association in 1834, The Denver team this year will be com- posed almost wholly of young players, and that they will put up a good suiff game there 18 but little doubr. T'hey go to Hot Springs in March, thence ona short trip through Texas, . “Chippie” McGarr will probably be Bos- ton’s general utility man the coming season. The little bird, however, doesn't like the idea a bit. He wants to play regularly on the ream and show-that he has recoverad more than his 1887 form. “Catcher Nagle, says the Sporting Times, will cause Charlie Farrell, of the Chicazo brotherhood team, to turn green with enyy next summer, and calls upon the Windy city public to watch the younsver catch, bat and throw! Columbus’ efforts to boom Crooks as a £10,000 prize, will fail, as Boston has about decided not to invest to that extent, Inci- dentaliy, the Boston Herald which has never. seen Crooks play, has discovered that heis somewhat slow on double plays, At last 1t is rumored that Ward {s reaching out for one or two Western associatio play- ars. Duke of Minneapolis is being tamperad with. If Johnny stretches any of his slimy tentaculums out this way, we’ll have to send 10 the supreme court in behalf of all the wheelmen of the city for the purpose of testing the validity of the ordinance, the wheelmen claiming that a bicycle has the same right upon a public highway that any other vehicle has, and that the ordinance under which Swift was arrested 1s not vald, The case is one in which wheelmen all over the state are interested, Ivis claimed that the attorneys for the wheelmen will be able to cite decisions from numerous courts which pleariy prove the Topeka ordinance to be invahd. Miscellaneous Looal Sports. Grand ‘Island and Kearney both have flourishing gun clubs, and both contain in their membership some corking trap shops. ‘Tom Eck writes that McCormick, the tall, lank, bony Canadian skater, can beat Alex Paulsen in any kind of a contest and for any distance he can name. Danny Needham, the St. Paul pugilist, was quietly married to a young lady of that city befora he left for the coast. No wonder he won his first fight. He had to. Prinne Wilkes won $13,600 in South Amer- ica the past season. His best Euglish mile was 2:16% overa very heavy track. The verformance was equalto 2:11 on a fast track, ‘The enjoymeut of most luxuries we can forego, but outdoor exsercise is not one of them. Health demauds harmless sports 8od recreations as percmptorily as iv does the bath, Eastern sportsmen, couvinced by late fleld trials, are endoraing the English setter over the long favored pointer, und pronounce them the staunchest, wost enduring bird dogs in the world, City of Council Bluffs and Omaha are talking of butlding two toboggan slides be- tween the two cities. ‘T'he cost of putting up the slides will be in the mneighborhood of $1.500 and wiil make a slide over a mile each way.—Des Moines Register, What suckers these vrohibition newspaper fellows ure, any way. At present the T’eal snowy owl is to be found in unusual numbers between the Flatte and Loup rivers in Buffale and Daw- son counties, this state, Breeze, the Council Bluffs taxidermist has roceived three speci- mens from that region during the past week. They are of all shades, from the heavily mottled fomale to the immaculate male, one specimen being without spot or blemish, Manager Prince has completed arrange- ments for & series of polo games with the Lincoln team, the first game being fixed for the Coliseum Saturday Bvunlnf, February L. The Omaba team, picked from the cit, league, will comprise Ruodes of the Whed) club, MecGuire of the Ramblers, Kennedy of Council Blafts, Mathews of the Morses and Jean of the Continentals, A levter from Golden City, Mont,, says Ed. Brandt down to lick him| Des Moines has sold her supple little catcher Cody to the Cleveland League club. Well, he did some fine backstopping last season, and being a very boy yet, he is liable to create a sensation almost any time. The Prohibs bad better have kept him. Dumpy little Bobby Black 18 hoavling for his release from Sioux City. He imagines that he has recovered his pitching arm, and thinks he is worth big money, Hobby, you should have your head pianed, you are a very ordinary ball player at the very best. Milwaukee keeps a close *‘tab” on Omaha's movements, and as auickly as she learns that the Gate City is after a player, she straight- way throws out her lines. Well the old Dutch settlement will learn many bright things by keeping a vigilunt eye on Omaha. Lincolu azain has the baseball fever bad, and the fans down there are endeavoring to form a league composed of the Capital Civy, Fremont, Columbus, Beatrice,Grand Island, Kearney and Hastings, and it seems that such a circuit, with cheap teams, ought to Pprove a success, St, Paul is lamenting its failure to secure new grounds, and the fact that for another year, at least, tney must contine their strug- gles on the diamond to the little isolated sheep pen where their pet sluggers have so long gamboled and cavortad in their mad et- forts to win the flag. Elmer Smith of the Cowboys is a great fancier of fighting dogs and devotes much ume to raising the purps. After the ball scason opens Frank Baudle says if he'll bring his best fighter up here he'll pit his three-legged Mascott against him for a nice gutta percha medal, Billy Alvord, sold to Toledo by Kansas City, has gone back on the Ohio club and signed with Ward's Brooklyn brotherhood ap. Well, Billy 18 knnlm{ a little loggy nyway, ‘and Toledo has little cause for worry. Last season he couldn't hit the side of abarn with a clapboard. Milwaukee would like to sign Swartwood, but then who wouldn’t Milwankee like to sign? It i8 quite Lkely they would sign Charlie Bennett and even King Kelley, too, if they could. Mauanager Cushman says in any event they will never drop three games in succession to Omaha again. Cuarlie Abbey of this city is In “receipt of a fine offer from the Riverside club of the California league, and will doubtless sign il negotgtions he now has on hand with one or two eastern clubs do not pan out favorably. Abbedv is & promising young ball ?Inysr and would be a valuable man for any of the minor league clubs, Andy Cusick, the well known old Phila delphia second who is now work ing with a plumbing firm in this city, says :h arm is coming to life agan all right, and @ wauts to bounce into the arena again Lhis spring, A plumber wanting W balll Next, it 18 supposed; bank and rallroad presidents, will want to be promoted to the diamond. Columbus will never need fear the loss of & ocatcher, since Urooks has shown such superior ability to play behind the bat. Jack himself says he can line 'em down to second after a stylo that would' give Charlie Bon- nett the nignt sweats, He also ciaims that he fairly shocked tne Bostons out in Cali- fornia, Always knew that Jack was a regu lar old malaplerurns electricus. We take off our editorial hat to Tum OsanA Bre, This western honey gatherer's tail 18 not 8o painfuins bees' tails generally are, but he comes into our office loaded down with honey. If you will read Tue Ber's bright, truthful pages, you may sce at & glance that the basoball editor of that paper 18 & gontlemnn, a scholar and an excellent Judge,—New York Sporting Times, Omaha and Kansas Oity will be at swords' points during the coming season. Idoth cities have remarkably strong teams, and both are claiming the Western association championship.—Sporting Times, I'heswords’ points is all right, but Kansas City is doing all the championship claiming. Omaha sim~ ply holds that she has gotten a good, strong team together, and will make @ rattling good fight for first honors, Taylor Shaeffer, who played secouna for St. Paul in 1887,ann Toledo 1asy season, has been roleased by the latter club as too light for the American association. When Taylor and the Orator were both playing in tho West- eru association they claimed that they were brothers in order that Georgo's extrems sen- ility would not be suspected. Jt now turns out that Taylor is nothing more or less than the orator's grandson, There is more in what Tue Bre says than would appear at firstsight. Men who would betray and try to rob the men who made it possible for them to draw salaries of $4,000 and £5,000 merely on a chance of mukln;{ o few extra thousand at the cost of profes- sional baseball playing, would not hesitate 10 hippodrome or play the pool box onca they are their own baseball bosses. ‘There is no false alarm in the buze of Tue Bre. The wishy-washy organs of the brother- hood declare that it is a libelous outrage to denominate the old league players who have signed pluyers’ league contracts as wreeks ers, ete., but in their minds every player Who sticks to the old organization that has fostered and nourisned baseball until 1t has reached & higher plunc than any other out- door sport, is a deserter and a sneak. The star pitchors ten years ago, in 1880, were Golasmith and Corcoran of Chicago, Bond of Boston, Ward of Providence, iic- Cormick of Cleveland, Welch of Troy, Will ‘White of Cincinnati, McGunnigle avd Poor- man of Buffalo, and Richmond ~the eollege pitcher—of Worcester. But one of these former luminaries is pitching ball today, Cor- coran, and he's but little good. Who are to be the star twirlers for 1890, Pitcher Anderson, of the Phillies, form- erly with Des Moines, while playing with a knife Friday at President Reach’s oftice, met with what may turn out to be a serious accident. He ran the knife nearly the full length of the blads into his leg above the knee, and the woubhd bled so freely that Mr, Reach had o summon two physicians from Jefferson college to stop the tlow of blood. bandaged the leg and sent Anderson The physicians think no artery or tendon was cut and that itis only a flesh wound. ‘These are the old league men who have so far resigned league contracts for 1800: Ti nan, Welch, Mucphy. Clarkson, G Smith, Clements, Decker, Schriver, Gleason, Duy, Anderson, Myers, Mulvey, Thompson, Delahanty, Riddle, Anson, Burns, Hutchin! son, Wilimot, Glasscoek, Denn Rusie, Fee, Sommers, Iucklev, Miller, Sunday, Conway, Sowders, Laucr, Beatin, Zimmer, MeKean, Gilks, Tom Daly. “Thirty-nine in all and more to cotwe. *It's & long time till spring.”’ The Minncapolis Tribune says: “The schedule committee appointed by the Western associat:on does not meot until March, but a schedule has been prepared by the Minnne- apolis, St. Paul, Des Moines avd Milwankee cluba. ‘I'he schadule has been submitted by President Thompson of the St. Paul club to Denver, Kansas City, Omaha asd Sioux City, and so far scems to be satisfactory.’ Yes, it was so satisfactory to Omaha that after one glance over it President McCor- mick fired it into the waste vasket. The new rule passed at the last annual meeting governing the conduct of playerson the field towards the: umpire, will do away with the “kicks" which were of so frequent occurrence last season. By its provisions the umpire can give the pluyersa minute in which to get back into the field and resume play, so that protracted kicks will be a thing or the past. ‘Tho crowds next season will be even more orderly t last. ‘The umpires are hired by the association, and it is to their interest to give a decision as they soe it on the field, and not ae it is viewed from the stands or bleachers, ‘The Kansas City Times says, to leave all specalation and theory out of the questio and to come atonce to actual, practical busi- ness, it desires to give it out cold-bloodedly that Kansas City intends to fly the Western association pennant for 1891, It does not de- sire, however, to flaunt the red flag 1n the faces of Omaha, Minneapolis, Sioux City and the balance of the teams, but simply wishes to pit itself on record, All right, Timesey, old chappie, but now that you have gotten ril of your extra steam, ’spose'n you lie still and sox nix until the blue bird begins to pipe again, A correspondent says that Jos Walsh] is the man to captain the local team next sea- son, that he is a heady player, well up o the fine points of the game, and got the sand to kick when iv is necessar It is admitted that Joe has many capabilities, and is a gen- tlemanly fellow, but his kicking propensities have not been very carefully nurtured. He begins all right, rushes fercely in, while his sunny cyrls seem to coruscate like fire, bat the instant umpire says: ‘*‘You ¢ get baclc there or Ill soak you,” Joe usually wilts like a morning-glory in the noonday sun. Qnestions and Answers. ‘Will you ploase state in Sunday’s Bee the time of the fasteest mile the grey hound Clothesline, recently the property of Charles Kosters, ever madei—Courser, Omaha. Ans.—Have no record of Clothesline’s per- formances. Is there any dealer in live jack rabbits in Omaha; if not, can you furnish tho address of of any such dealer?—Morton, Des Moines. Ans.—There is no such dealer here. The eastern coursing club get their jack rabbits ot H. L. Lievtried, Garden City, Kan, Please puolish in Sunday's Ber the best staading jump on record, also the best run- ning jump.—J. H, Marne, Ia, Aus.—Best standing jump on record, Guorge W. Hamilton, at Romeo, Mich., Oc- tober 8, 1885, with weights, 14 feet 5i{ inches. Running long jump, Joe Howard, at Chester, England, May 8, 1854, with weights, 20 feet 7 inches. Once more it is announced that no ques- tions, save those pertaining w0 field or ath- letic sports, will be;answered in this depart- ment. Please auswer in: Sunday's Bee. Where did Fanning, Bays and MoConnell pitch last season! With whawclubs were Erquerhart, Moran and Birdt Has Kuell a record that comes anywhere oqualling Clarke’s! Who is Kearns of the Londen, Out., club, a catcher or basemani—Young i3ros., Newman (3rove, a Ans.—Fanoing with Buffalo, Bays with South Omaha, McConnell with Saline, Kas; Erquerhart with Lowell and Moran with Kearoey, Bird did not play last season. Knell's record is fanbelow Clarke's, Kearns is a catcher. Who holds the record for the longest throw with a base ballt What is Jake Kil- rain’s right namel When will the Western association championship season openi— Young Sport, Omala. Ans. — These questions have been an- swered over and over in these columns, First, Johnoy Hatfleld, 133 yards, I foot, 7}¢ inches, October 15, 1872, Second, John Kil- lian, Third, the opening of the season will be determined upbn at the schedule meeting held in this city next mouth, Sporting Editor of Tas Bee: Will you please publish an Tue LEg the venaity for shooting crows or birds of auy kind within the city limits1 Many parties are shootin, crows and it is an outrage, as they are firs class scavengers and perfectly harmless.— Bubseriber, Bection 12 of eity ordinauce No. 2103, says Every person who shall kill or wouud, or at- tempt to kill or wound by the use of fire arms, bow and arrow, peltiug with stones or by otherwise, auy pird within the dw’ limits, or shoot an arrow, or throw a stone or club, or other missil at any bird within any private grounds, or public park, sauare or grounds, (such bird not being the prop- erty of the person 8o offending) or enter upon any private enclosure, or public grounds belonging to the city, for the pur- nose of doing any act prohibited in this sec- tion, shall, unon conviction, be fined not ex- ceeding $25 for each and every offense. Please answer the following in Sunday’s edition: A, B and C sit down to play draw poker. The game is uniimited. A bets 81003 13 sees this and ‘‘ralses” A $200; A then secs 13's 8200 and raises him §00. B ouly has §200 loft and calls for a show down for his money. A claims that I} has no show for what money ho has already 1o the pot, as he declared himself opon at'the begiuning.— Sebscriber, Oxford, Neb. Ans,— A is correc In playing double high five 52 poinis, A and Bhave 51 points, C and D have 47 points, ‘I'he trump is mado and C leads the ace and ots a five and caus game. A and B have the ton and can save it, and claim the game, Who wins! Shall look for answor in Sus- DAY Beg, tho preachiurs to the contrary not- withstanding, —C. ¥, Reed, Omana. Ans.—A and B, Will you pleass inform me in Sunday’s Ber whether tho Puritan 18 a centerboard or keel boat. Also what willa hand i orib- bage count with four sevens and an ace turned up.—A Constant Leader, Grand Island, Ans. four eights with an ace turned up There is a queerly matched couple in Atlanta, The husband weighs 130 pounds and the wife 300 pounds, When they were married the man weighed 150 and the wowan 120, is the name of n new soprano, who is drawing so many people to the Paris Opera comique that movey has to be refused at the doors. She is compared to Van Zandt and hor admirers declare that in time she will be another Pacti. Jeremiah Smith, of Morgan county, Ohio, has a cat which is known to the neighbors as “'solar spectrum.” From the tip of its tail to the end of its nose there are distributed all the colors of the rainbow. Its nose shines like a carbuncle, and there are several shades of vialet on the fore legs. Miss Beatricoe Lieb, who was formerly leading ludy of “The Paymaster” company, has been engaged for the leading female part in “A Dark Secret” for the remainder of tho season. Miss Lieb’s stay with “‘The Pay- master’’ was not a very pleasant one because the real paymaster was a very dilatory in- dividual, The Carl Rosa opera company is to add to its repertoire Balfe's “Talisman’ and Bizet's “Pearl Fishers” Among the artists of the company known to American audiences are Mlle. Zelie de Lussan, Miss Amanda Fabris and ton McGuekin, Mlle, Tremell, for- merly an Itaiian opera contralto, has joined the Carl Rosa troupe. A Northfield (O.) farmer named Abner Greenleaf, having a premonition that the summer weather would extend far into the winter, tried a little experiment. He planted a uumber of hillsof potatoes late in Septem- ber, The tubers throve well, and on Christ- mas day the farmer’s table was supplied with new potatoes from his own garden, Nearly thirty years ago a locomotive on the Erie railway exploded her boiler near the depot at Almond, Alleguny county, New York, killing two men and injuring another quite severely. Last week a mill race at that place wus cleaned out, and in 1t was found the bell belonging to the unfortunate locomotive, which must have been hurled u distance of forty rods, Ibsen’s plays appear to have met with dire failure in Australia. A writer in Melbourne says of “A Doll's Home:” *“Shakespeare can give [bsen 300 years start in knowledge of human nature, and lick the Norwegian gentleman 1n a trot, ‘Three centuries hence the ‘Doll’ won't have a grain of sawdust left in her false creation, while Desdemona will be clingiug to her swactheart in the good old style.” A great success has been won at the Paris Ambiga by a furious melodrama called *‘La Policiere,” an adaptation from a novel by Xavier dé Montepin, pubhished 1 the Petit Journul. It has forty-one personages and thirteen tableaux, and is crowded full of ex- exciting action founded upon an ntricate and incredible but ingenious plot. The critics assail it vigorously, but the Ambigu audi- ences are enchanted, and English versions of it will be plentiful before long. A curious circumstance is noted by the Tampa (Fla.) News. An orange grove near that place was abandoned a long time ago. The cars pass the grove, and it is said that the row of trees next the car track has a healthy, vigorous appearance, while all the trees beyond, without one exception, have a deathly pallor which betokens early demise. Whether the thriftiness of the trees nextthe track is due to the trembling of the ground caused by passing trains, or to the smoke from the engines, both or either, is & ques- tion. A middle-aged colored man boarded a horse car in Brooklyn the other evening, and when the conductor came around for his fare didn’t bother about his pockets, but simply put his hand to one of his capacious ears and drew forth a nickel. The conductor and pas- sengors were astonished at the maneuver, and the conductor asked: “Why do ycu carry your money there, captain?’ **'Cause it’s handy, sir,” replied the son of Ham, and the passengers all laughed at the new wrinkle in money pouches. It was observed that he also carried a nickel in the other ear. Where would Mr. Barnum be if all the world had the same opinions of monstrosities as the Chinese appear to havel A woman in Woo-foo village, Fukion province, recently gave birth t o boy with four eyes. The cmother was very much frightened and wished to have the ochild killed, but the husband would not allow it to be done. It was flnally agreed to exhibit the child fora few days to prevent such an unfortunate affair ever occurring 8gain in the family, The Chinese believe that such deformities are caused by evil spirits. After it had been on view for some time the mother put an end to the child's existence by drown- ing it in @ tub of water. ‘'om Apton, colored, aged seventy years, of Burlington, Ia , had'a surgical operation performed, by which he relieved of ovoer two inches of horn, or tail-like protuberance at the base of his spinal column. It seems that he has had the same operation per- formed once or twice before, but the append- age has continued to grow until finally he was compelled by the incogveience it caused him to have it entirely removed. The pbysicians engaged in the case think they have so ro- moved the strange growth as to eradicate its further development. They are much puz- zled to account for 1t. One physician is in- clined to believe it a development of proud flesh, caused by a rifle ball wound received during the war, New York has taken to William H, Crane and *“I'he Senator” with all the ardor of a first love and the Star theater in which he is playing it 18 nizhtly thronged with the most enthusiastic of audiences, So ereat is the demand for scats that they are being re- sorved in large numbers for nights weeks ahead., Mr. Crane's Senator Hannibal Rivers ls wounderfully fine performance and it will live iu the annals of the stage as a companion part to the Colonel Sellers of the lamented John T. Raymond, the Hard- well Slote of Mr. Florence and the Rip Van Winkle of Joseph Jefferson, Mr. Crane has wisely surrounded himself with a very able company, who ars excellently suited with parts which display their abilities o best advantage. It has long been the contention of the aistinguished comedian that the need o1 the American stage was uwore nationalism in its plays, aud the success of “The Sen- ator” i’n proof positive that he is rigut i his idea, e —— (1889,) On his kuees he vows his passion ; ‘Tells her that he'll die without her; Then (it's now quite out of fashion) Slowly draws bis arms around her Aund whispers, "1 l%vag}ou." (1 441 think it's time that [ should marry.” Says she, *How much will you settlel It takes & pile to get me, Harry, A cool million of the metali” And whispers, *That will do,” e —r— There are times when a feeling of las- situde will overcome the most robus when the system crayes for pure bloos to furnish the elements of health an strength., The best remedy for Qurlly- ing the blood is Dr, J, H, McLean’s Sar~ saparillp, SCHOOL TEACHER ABROAD, The Work She Has Accomplished in Omaha. OLD-TIME EDUCATIONAL LIMITS, The Evolution Which Has Raised Omaha to a Prominent Position Among the Educational Cen- ters of the Country. Mrs. Newton's Last Oh apters, [In last Sunday’s B was published the first chapters of a paper on the edu- cational history of Oizilin, Fose Hetore the late meeting of the Nebraska his- torical society at Lincoln, by Mrs. M. B, Newton, principal of the "Castellar school of this city, The history was complete up to the inception of the work of the high school, The conclud=~ ing chapters are as follow Meanwhile thearchitects and builders were engaged in erecting tho high school. But, before it was completed, the board of regents and the board ~ of directors were dis- banded by the legislature and the control of the city system was vested in board of education. The city was en- by the addition of three districts at this time, as the first board of educa-~ tionnumbered twelve members. Tho council rooms were rented for their uso, and the first meeting was held May 11, 1872. No brick schools were then owned, but three were in course of con- struction, the Pacitic school being the first one erected. A. . Nightengale was elected eity superintendent of schools. Mr. Kel- lom, principal of the highschool; J. B. Bruner, principal Izard; Dewitt S. Beals principal of the Pacific and Mr. Snow principal of the Central or Ploas- ant school. Looking at the Izard school today, standing nearly in the center of the city, it seems strange to think that less than twenty years ago the daily papers commented severely upon the folly of buying school property so far out 1in the country, These schools filled very rap- idly, notwithstanding the newspapers. Mr. Nightengale, in his first report, complained of the crowded condition of the schools and suggested extra accom- modations in various directions. His complaints have been echoed and re- echoed inevery superintendent’s report since, Mr. Nightengale remained a year, successfully inaugurating Mr, Beals’ system of grading. At the end of that time Mr. Beals was elected superin: tendent. The schools remained under his charge for seven years, and in- creased radidly in numbers and im- proved with almost equal rapidity. No one person, perhaps, has had so great an influence on these schools as AMr. Beals., Ho has been continuously connected with them for twenty-nine ?'cmvs. Associated with him since 1872, have been Mr. Bruuer, Miss Anna oos and Miss Jennie McKoon, These teachers have had charge of the largest and most important schools in the city. Their’s have been the brains and the heads to execute and supplement the work of the superintendentsand boards. Omaha has been exceptionally fortu- nate in the people associated with the early days of her schools. At present the schools rank high among ail cities and this I believe is owing largely to the noble character and broad minds of those who luid the foundations of tho system, George B. Lane followed Mr. Beals. He made no changes in the'system but brought about several changes in the books used. Ho remained in office two years and was then succeeded by H. M. James, then assistant superintendent of public 1nstructions in Cleveland, O. Mr, James found himself in charge of twelve buildings, attended by about four thousand pupils, in care of less than one hundred teachers. A striking feature of the schools of that time was the poor attendance. This was attributed tothe poor condi: tion of the strects, very few being paved or graded and to some parental indifference to the advantages of regu- lar attendance. 1In a list of a score of other cities, of similar size, tabulated b{ Mr. James, Omaha stood at the foot of the list in the percentage of attend- ance. That gentleman at once gave at- tention to this subject with gratifying results, The increase both in enroll- ment and attendance has been marvel- ous and has taxed the board beyond its ability to provide shelter for these crowds. Casements, hallways and store- rooms in school buildings have been hastily arranged and all sorts of build- ings have been rented, Those schools in fair condition have been enlarged and ten new houses, each seating from five hundred to eight hundred pupils, with about the same number of small buildings varying from one to six rooms, have been erected within the last five years. In 1887, Mr., Hines, the fourth prinoci- pal of the high school, accepted the po- sition of state superintendent of Con- necticut and resigned his position in Omaha, Previous to 1882, Omaha had a smaller high school class than any other city of its size in America. The preparatory high school class was taught only in the central school. This wus not convenient for pupils living in the outskirts and to prevent these pupils from leaving school, this grade was established in several of the larger buildings. H. P. Lews was elected the fifth principal. Today the high school contains one of the largest classes in the United States, even comparing Omaha with many cities larger than herself. This is proof that the care be-~ stowed upon it by Mr, James, Mr, Tewis and the board of education is recognized and appreciated in the city, The tremendous increase of 245 per cent in the public school enrollment against the very moderate increase of 25 per cent in private schools, attests also the popularity of the former, The Omaha business college, established by E. W. Rohrbough in 1878, Creighton college in the same year,the Sacred Heart convent, together with several parochial schools, are the only ones of any size, although many have made an attempt to get a foothold here. The law of Nebraska does not forbid corporal punishmernt, and previous to 1881 each teacher inflicted such punish-~ ment 88 was deemed necessary. Mr. James disapproved of corporal unishment of any kind as be- ng degrading 10 both teacher and pupil, and 1t has, therefore, been abandoned, The efficiency of the schools was in- creased, first by the appointment of Miss Kate Ball as a specal teacher of weiting and drawing, then by Misses Lucia and Fannie Rogers taking charge of musie, and later Mv, H, M. Kumme- row as & teacher of calisthenics, and latterly professor of gymnasticsin the high school. The purchase of a quant- ity of supplementary reading matter was an improvement at this time and in accord with the most advanced educa- tional theories, As another inducement to take the high school course, the experiment of adding a manual training school was begun in 1884, Mr. Albert Bauman,a graduate of the St. Lows twainiog school was einployed ns teacher. ThiW branch has proved a success, and is still in active operation. Tho cooking school for girls was tried goon after, but did not prove the success its sponsor had hoped for and was abandoned at tho oloso of tho year, To Omaha belongs the credit of having been the first city to establish a manual training school as o rogular branch of the city school sys« tem. In 1880, Omaha changed from a city of the first class to a metropolitan city and its board of education was again disbanded by the legislature and a new board of fifteen members was electod by the city. The secrotary, formerly & wember, choson by vote of tho bourd, was no longer n member, but was oms ployed by the board. The legislature of 1883 passed a law requiring all teachers in this stato to teach the effects of intoxicating drinks and all stimulants and narcotic upon the human system, So that instruction in physiology and hygiene bocame a part of the work of ll grades. Perbaps, however, the most impor- tant step the board of education have ever taken was 1885, All books to be used throughout the schools wore henceforth to be suppliod to_ the pupils by tho city, The advantages of this arrangement are 1nestimable. Mr, Jumes in 1885 made a chango in grading. Ho divided the year’s work into two parts instead of three, the highest,class being since known as the I3 class. In 1888 a course in book-keeping was added to the high school elective and become very popular, Since then no changes have taken place. The year 1890 finds Omaha with over twelve thousand pupils attenaing her schools, and fifty-one school buildings in the care of 270 teachers. A TR EDUCATIONAL, The Rev. Dr, Anderson, late president of Rochester university, and Mrs. Anderson aro spending the winter at Lake Helen, Fla, The committee on science and the arts of the Eranklin institute of Philedelphin has awarded the Elliott Cresson medal to Otte mar Mergenthaler of Baltimore, for the ins vention of the linotype machine. 'I'he lan~ guage of the report is: “For the rapidity and excellence of the work of the linotype machine. and for the economy resulting in the class of work to which 1t is applicable,” The last act of President W. W. Patton, who died last week, was to send, with a very pleasant note of sympathy, 850 to Chancellor McCracken, in response to an appeal for his alma mater. He then went, out fora walkj and seemg some children working a tricyclo up the Lill, he pushed behind to help them, when ho felt a pressure upon his lungs and had to stop and summon help to go home. “I am afraid,” said he, when he had been taken to his daughter’s house, “‘that those children will think [ left them very abruptly.” The oppression in his chest incrensed, and ha died that night, One feature which the city and tne school system should have, aud which both need quite us wuch as they do nced new chools; is a school building which shall be the cen- ter and distributing pont of all information on school matters, says The School. As there is no city in the country which has sg great & number of pupils, teachers and schoal builldings, there is also no large city which hus more adequate means of reaching, directing or accommodating 1ts teachers; of furmshing them desired information on school subjects, of wstructing them in the history of education itself, an instruction which has become part of the necewsary studies of the teachers of today, who desire to become fully abreast with the latest edu- cational movements. Over a bundred little Indian girls of the Lincoln institute witnessed the play of the “Prince and the Pauper’ in Philadelphia the other evening, and a committee of one girl from each tribe afterward wrote the follows letter to Elsic Leslie: ‘“*Miss Elsie Les- —Dear Little: Friend We thought we would write and express our thanks to for your kind invitation to us, the Indian girls of Lincoln institute, to seo the beuuti- ful play of ‘Prince and Pauper.! Lucy Gor- don, Sioux trive; Madeline Warren. Chi pewa; Jane Eyre, Pawnee; Notlie Hensell Modoc; Edna Eaglefeather, Osage; Minnie . Cye,” Winnebago, und’ Etta Tyndale, The C, A. Stephens laboratory of Norway Lake, Minn,, makes an offer of considerablg interest to biological students. A circula¥ just issued by that institution says: “From a desire 10 veriiy his own researche esas to the causes of fmiling nutrition in aging organisms, the undersigned hereby offers three cash prizes of §175, $125 and $100 for the best three comparative demonstra- tions, by means of microscopical shdes, of the blood capillaries 1n young and aged tis sues, canine, or humun. “Hy young tissues, (canine) are meant tis- sues from animals between the ages of one and three years, “By aged tissues, (canine) are meant ti sues from animals notless than twelye yoars of age. “By aged tissuos, (human) aro meant tis- sues from subjects not less than sixty-five eavs of age, *“By young tissues, (human) are meant tissues from subjects between the ages of ten and twenty years, “While a preference will be given to dem- onstrations for human tissues, it will be pos- sible for work in canine tissues to take the first, and, indeed, all of the prizes, But of two slides equally well done in all respects, oue canine the other human, the latter will be given the preference, Canine tissues slbould be from large animals, “Twelve slides from young and twelve from aged tissues must be submittea by each competitor, together with a full description of the subjects, metuods pursued and every deuail and’ circumstance which is likely to throw light upon, or account for any pecu-~ harity, ‘The slides are for comparison as to the condition of capillary circulation, the {oung with the old, and should be i num- ored pairs, or groups for the same kind of.- tissuo. The term tissue is used in a general sense, €. g., pulmonary tissue, hepatic tissue, renal tissue, ossous tissue, muscular Lissuo, nerve tissue, alimentary tissue, ote, “Ihis offer will remain open’until August 20, 1890, s will bo adjudged on October 1, tphe pr —— 1890, CONNUBIALITIES, ‘The wheels of matrimonial life run more smoothly where there is a litule juven-lie. ‘When & man i8 looking for a wife it 1s hig mission, When he gets her it is his subs mission, Some women are never pleasant to their nhusbands except when there is some othew woman around, ‘The engagement ring is symbolical of how, after marriage, the wife will wind the huss band around her little finger, Ethel—George, mother was looking when you kissed me last night. Goeorge—How did she take it! Kthel yell, she said she fol§ satisfied now that you mean business. Rev. Carrie J. Bartlett, pastor of the Uniy tarian church at Kalamazoo, Mich,, pery formed her first marriage ceremony the other du{. The Bartiett pair was he firsy wedded by 8 woman in Kalamazoo. Mr. Ponn—It umuses mo to see you dresse ing to go around the corner, Oue would think you were going to a wedding, Mrs, Penn—I[ didn't spend much time drossing when I went to your wedding, Mr, Penn— No, you weren't taking any chances, You knew that delays were dangerous, Widdle—I have often heard of your wifa as a most accomplished woman, Waddle— - She is more than accomplished, sir, She is gifted, I have never scen her equal as a mind-reader, *“A mind-reader? How does she find any field for the exarcise of that ifte” “She exercises it on me, She always nows what I am going to say as soon as [ bewin o say it, and she takes the job off my hands. I baven't uttered a complete sen~ tence in my bouse for niueteen years aud six months.” The chin 1s said 1o be an important thing for a man to consider in choosing a wife, but the absence of chin is what he really, truly needs after the ceremony. ¥ Ho (about to ask for a kiss)—I have an im portaut question 1 ask you, She (playfully, —1 know what it is, George, You want to be your wife. Well, take me. He (rather taken o-back)—This is somewhat sudden, isn't it1 She filunderl_}')Al don't kuoow, George, whether it is sudden for you or noty but L have waited for it for turee yeours,