Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 17, 1890, Page 12

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. SUN SPORTS OF WANING SUMMER. The Usual Brocsy Weekly Orist of Base- ball Gossip. MOVEMENTS OF THE WHEELMEN. The Gun and Trap -September Races —Amateur tnformation—Miscel- lancous Sports and Ques~ tions Answered. yw it 18 whispered about in knowing base- bl cireles that steps have already been taken looking toward a thorough and complete reor- ganization of the wihole Western association Noxt scason, The prospect is one, too, which if brought to a successful issue will strength- en this body a hundredfold and gl it the standing in the bascball world to which it is justlyentitled, Theideaof the Western pla iniz second fiddle to such avag-tag and bob-tail institution as the American association is “dat m de monk sick and it somoething is reasonable to anticipate that the present scason will bring to an end all such sheer nonsense, To think that such cities as con- stitnte the Western association have, sinee it has been in existence, been contr ting to the support of the Amef and the Nationale league too, somethin, that 1 should think would drive such old time red base ball manipulators and moguls is Dave Rowe and Sum Morton ins 1 dow't know about Sam Morton, ¢ ause it has always Vecn the write nthat Sam is_only acting as Spalding's we and ulways been on that potentate’s salary list. Tiut s the the story goes, however, this new move is to remoye many of the life sapping barnacles that have so long clung to the weste soclation, and to_metamorphose it into “asscrtive, self-defensive sel-sus- taining body, a body'that will show mo_fear nor favor, other than that provided for in the national agrecment, to_ecither of the other bodies who claim s distinetive superiority solely on account of priority of existence. tern agent, nas No Bench Warmers This Year. The Omaha management has broken away this season from the old pernicious habit of carrying expensive and uscless extra men. During the last two years she carried a bur- den in the shape of a brigade of high-priced bench-warmers sufiicienty to nave erushed the life out of any organization, and it was from this very cause that Omaha has never made any money ont of her ball team, Mannger Leonard, in this regard, has shown himself to be aman of the soundest economical ideas, und if the s anything like eithor of tho former iterest, there would be something to Jingle in the coffers of the clubat the eud of the race it has been demonstrated member of the t that " any cer au could not be advantag ously utilized, Leonard has prompily let him out. Among those who hz been sob adrift since the opening of th are Bays, Sommeors, MeConnell, I Collins, Martin, Urquahart, auss, Kittle and Phalen, Th ere all ad hle, with the pe ionof Piteher Sow- devs Thet 1y in need of twirl- in talent. Clarlk, ng severely worked, for the first time in two y is the team’s only stay, us I worthless, He is not ¢nly alarmingly erra but plays 1'no interest whate the te Sowders was in the week, and it is difficult v hie was disposed of aud Fagin rotained. Again, Secretary Brandt clainis that Martin, a_wooden-headed kid who at- tompted to fill the box for Omithia on several occasions, is o wonder. Why didu’t he keep him¢ But, as Tup Bee has remarked on several oceasions herctofore, it requires at least a modicum of brains to play ball, just as it does to suw wood or plow corii, How Baseball Has Declined. As conclusive proof that the brotherhood waragainst the National league has all but killed the great national game for this season at least, the daily press all over the country has been interviewing the dealers in base- ball aud sportivg goods, and from all sources the reports show that hardly a thied as many baseball goods has been sold this year as was sold last year. In order that it might be known just how the trade has bean _effected here Tue Ber man dropped into Dunmire & Cross sporting goods house yesterday and inquired abont thefr sales. Bascball goods.’ repeated Mr. Dunmive, ‘why we have no call for them at_all, com- paratively speaking, aud two-thirds of our season’s stock will have to be carried over, "There are no calls for bats or balls, or masics, protectors, gloves, or in fact, any of the paruphernalia that belongs to the game and ihere has not been since the opening of the season. Last season we sold piles of base- ball goods, in fact they coustituted our chief commodity.” “How about other sporting goods,have they fallen off at a like ratio?” “No indeed. Every other line of sporting goods has enjoyed a bigger run than ever,and 1 suppose will about even up matters. The shooters have beert particularly active. New un clubs have been organized and equipp and there never was a livelier demand for gunning goods than just now. We are selling ammunitions and guns, shooting rigs and fish- ing tackle and tho like'at a rate that surpuss- es anything of the kind in many season About lawn tennis—the eastern papers re- port big sales in tonnis goods, foot balls, cro- quet, vacket and other ‘similar articles, and say that these games have supplanted hase- pall to a large extent. - “I know that is true, and we have enjoyed a pood teade in - these goods, but the hunters and fisnermen are particul lively in the west this season, O yes, thero isno doubt that this is an off year in baseball.,” A Man for the Emcrgency. It muy appear a little bitgally and pre- sumptuous to offer a manager of Frank Leon- ard’s capacity a ittle advice about handling his team, but there arca great numbver of people in Omaha to whom ‘it is a source of considerable wonderment that he does not use Willis more frequently in the box. teams are rounding into the last qi and every game counts double, proven himself quite a twirler the few times Lo has been called upon this season, especially so against the strong teams of Milwaukee and Miuneapolis, aund one or twoof the other toams are anything but familiar with his de- hvery, Why ot try him oftenert Clarke, who is batting as hard ns any man on the team, and Who is & good man to have in any game, can fill Willis' place iu_center field very acceptably and then be there for sub- stitution in case the opposing team should getonto Tit too hard, A gume lost with Willis in the box will cost no more than a gome lost behind Count Fagin. Put him in aud let him pullout afew more games for you before the season is done, 1 oW, Willis has power as a Wait Until They're Hatched, Up in Milwaukee, so tremendous is the cranial swelling of the #o called maguates, they are making an endeavor to get up an excitement over & proposed series of cham. plonsbip games between the winners of the Western and American associations after the close of the regular season. They are count- ing on the pennant to a dead cortain and are waxing preternaturally anxious to measure streugth with the American assoclation chumpions as o test of the relative strongth of the two bodics, That is what ghey ad- vance s the eause of their anxiey for sich & scries, but the true cause is that they are fuirly crazy to get into the American associa- tion, and “want to demonstrate that they are fully able to hold up their end m any cliss. There is 1o doubt of the Milwaukees ability to hold up their end with the winners of the American association or the leaguc either for that matter, but the rea- son tney advance for their anxiety for such a sories is where they display their nerve, and their cackling before the egy is laid is another thing that makes them silly in all men's eyes, It such a series is puyed it is more llkelyehut the Kansus Citys will n?m!um this associa- tion, rather thun the swellhead Browers, Reddy’s Lecture on Himself, “1 can’t realize what is the difficulty with my Dhitting,” pemarked Reddy Hanra- han; “I used to line ‘’em out ‘with very satisfactory regulavity, but this soason my goodeye seems % have The, N | game As quicklyas | § gone wrong. Tdon’t go after wide ones either, and when I cut loose you may depend on it that the ball is over the pan. I am not dis- couraged, however, for everything comes to o man who wails, ifis nothing more than a base on balls. 1 can't keep on_hitting over and under, and one of these fine days I'll begin to smash her such welts between the eyes and on thenose us will proclaim that General Hanrahan is himself again,” Wants to Get Uponjthe Line: Like Tom Loftus, M anager Leonard is in favor of the adoption of arule by the na- tional agreement clubs that will pormit the manager of a team to coach his men from the bench, He goes further, and would like to sce the manager anthorized to goupon the lines and direct his men. It is too often tho case.”” be argues, “with certain headstrong players to disrezard the commands and advice of a.fellow player, under the impression that their judgment is superior to his, oras is more frequently a fact, out of pure spite. With the managor on the lines giving his orders it would be different. No player would dare disregand his directions,in the f lopped off of his monthly salary ismot alwaysa player who is ac gaged in the game who best conche A voice grand stand or the bleachers many a time prevents an out, and many a time coaches ina run. The nanage esponsi- for the s play, why not let. him di- it He iseven more interested than a . He is more vigilant and watehes the corners closer, us that Lhe has to do, It is Liko Ic After the horse has been stolen to tella player how the play ought to have boen made, when he comes it to the beneh, and it naver fails to annog, pro- volke and disgruntle him. But it he follows the orders of the m and then the play results disastrously, the player cannot be reprimanded, as the fault will be with the man o ar of having w_slice Aain, it voly' en- the makes from is ng the stablo Des Moines' Dis “ailure, Probubly the biggost, failure ever scored by a base ball club whs that of Des Moines this season, and if the Western association knows ler busiuess she will hereafter lot the great prohibition metropolis se- verely alone. Owing to the lack of interest shown in the team at home, Macullar's yration hias proved no gttrac- tion at all, and the attendance to sed them where has been wofully mgazre. With the possible exception of about four pames not enoiugh prople passed through the Des Moines gates to pay the policomen; gate tenders and _ground eniployes, let aloge the guarantee and fairly salavied players, This, 0o, in the face of the fact that thobteam strack a winning streak iu the early wee! the n, and put upa game unsury in the association. They, t0o, have the bes grounds in ociation and other con- veniences not enjoyed by the other clubs. But the city scems hoodooed is coneorncd, and has failure in alt the term implies. A city league is now suvplying the iittle band of faithful cranks that still_vemain_ with their Tun at 15 and 10 conts o head. Lincoln canngb well fail to pan out twpfold better thin Des Moines, and the transfor will hurt no one. So Differently Alike. Two of Omahas ieaviest hitters have vory decided peculiarities. Cleveland, whose stick work of late has been simply maguifi- cent, is the bugaboo of all pitchers. They know they cannot fool Grover. He wont go after the wide ones, or those over his head or grazing the plate, and they know they have to put them over or give him his base. His eyeis a “good one” indeed, and it isa rare thing for him to strike out. Heis not only a sure hitfer, but a hard one, and as a conse- quence one of the best nien on the team to- day, In divect contraviety to Blmeris Joo Walsh. Thaore's another dandy with the club for you, But strauge m Joo but. seldom smashes o real good ball, one that comes squarely over, hut on the other hand, makes most of his shot-like drives on wide ones or high ones, or what would certainl be a **ball” if he wonld let it alone. There no oue kunowledgeous cnough to coich Joo when at the bat. He knows his busiuess better than any one else, and_instruction at such a time is inadvisable. Walsh isa free hitter, and he can knock a home run out of a ball that he has to stand on his tip toes for, or u three bagger out of one a foot from the plate Just as easy as he can on one that splits the pan, When Joe strikes out you can bet that the ball went right over the plate, so faras the proven a If we Beat Denverand the Huskers. The Omahias will make a strenuous effort to beat both Denver and Sioux City out in the race, and her chances iu this respect are good. No team is playing any botter ball than Omaha, and with the addition of an- other fairly good pitcher, she should win fuily two-thirds of her remaining games both at home and abroad. Fourth place in ordinary seisons does not mean a very flut- toving position for a team that was as ambi- tious and promising as the Black Sox were in the opening weeks, hut fourth place this eur will be in such’ close proximity to the eaders that it will not prove so disappoint- ingafterall. Six or eight consecutive vie- tories will now boost the Omahas right up with the hounds, and she will then been- abled to keep them in_full ery until the goal is reached. We must have two out of three from St. Paul, Minneapolis and Milwankee onour next northern trin, and then hooray for big crowds for the finishing games ou the home grounds. Ave the Black Sox equal to such aspurt! With ome move pitcher, echo answors ** Yes.” Rizht O the Bat., The adherents of the National leagne have had reason to feel jubilint the past two weeks, Iiver since the league teams made their second trip 0ast the aggregate attend- ance ab their g the attendance T'his state of aff: at Brotherhood contests, sugzests the thought that while gratifying to league adhercnts it is far from comforting to the backers of the follow- ors of the revolt. Itis an old saying that he who laughs last laughs best, aud from all ap- pearances it now seems that the parent or- ganization of the Natonal league would have a chance to do the “‘ha-haing’ next fall at the oxpense of the opposition. The Next Games at Home. Next Wednesday Powell's aggrogation of g, brawny Corn Huskers will battlo for snpremacy with the Black Sox at- the local pvark. It is to be hoped that a new era will mark these games, and that whilo at home the Omahas will regain the ground lost abroad. Noteam in the Western or American associa- tious, either, for that matter, has any license to beat the Omahas, They are strong in- dividually, but there is a screw loose some- where, and their boasted team work fails to assert’ itself against such teams as KKaus City and Milwaukee. Manager Leonard will endeavor, though, to line 'emup agnin, and if he takes theee stralght from the Corn 1al- ace gang, all the late defeats will be forgi Right Off the Bat. Catcher Billy Bavleis capturing the Lacoma cranks, Omaha pla in the box., President McCormick expects to havea new piteher here in time for next Sunday's game, “Peck-a-Boo Boozer” Veach is back on the coast playing with the California state league, T'he Millers have the honor of being the only club to shut out the Cowooys this season, Herman Long is fourth of all the National league teaws, while our own Cooney leads the procession, L so many clubs are after Piteher Hudson, for heaven's sgke why douw't some one of them sign him! Gunson of the Cowboys went to bat seven times in two games at Kansas City against Minncapolis and mado seven hits, Miuneapolis lost eight straight games on her recont trip and tumblod from fipst to third place. She will climb agafn, how- over, Milwaulkee boasts of their attendance, Can they aver 2000 to & gawme for every game tht:\l on the homo grounds us Minucapolis l0es Killen is quite a pitcher, but the best end of the battery was loft In Grand Rapids. If E-n over was & wonder Catcher McMakon one, “Suith, of Kausas City,” is the titic of a s in Denver today, with Clarke Land Cla ten-stanza which the Kansas City Star prints on its editorial pago dedicated to Elmer, Tho Kansas City Blucs have takenup a new fad. They think iv brings Inck to'go up. on the fleld in uniforms of as many colors as were used by the tailor who mado Joseph's cont. Fact! O, my! What aroast Clark did get in Konsas City last week. Howover, every player who works hard onforcign grounds must expect to incur the displeasure of tho local fans, 1 ahome player is spiked or run into by a visiting baso-runner the locat papers call it “Qirty’* playing. 1f the home players do the spiking it is i accident. Do you see how the thing works! No baseball writer in the country gets up a brighter colamn t Ren Mulford of the Cincinmati Times-Star. Ho has o knack of getting hold of news as is news thatis the envy of all his brother scribes, Elmer Foster and “Moxie'” Hengle, the two Minneapolis players suspended by 'Morton, are playing with the Houghtons, which bo- longs to the Upper Peninsula league, This leagrue is not a party to any agrecment. . Clinkers Fagin, in oneof the recent Minno- apolis games at association patk, sent Twohey 10 base on balls overy thno he faced him, and in the score Twoliey was not credited with o singlo time at the bat and yet he made a vun. Charley Snyder hustlod Otiver Patrio Cassius Tebeau out of the game at Chicago last week, Tho players-directors: rs-captaing may fire the old Red Stocking, but while he'is in harness ho will allow 1o one to make @ monkey out of hin,— Ren Mulford, Times-Star. What alot of old base ball huns apd stiffs will talee a little quict stroll into oblivion this fall. Deacon Jim White will lead the proces- sion, The Deacon has beenon tho turf twenty-two cousecutive years, agd is bald and toothless, and must go on account of extrome senility alone. Jim O'Rourke, Jack Rowe, George Gore, Ned Williamson, Brouthers, and a dozen others are passe and must stop back for the younger blood; There ave fow pitchers, if any, who have surpassed Dad Clarke's recor His first yearus a professional club was with the Nor- wich club, of the Central New York leagie. In June of that year T saw him the Oneidas of that league without a safo hit and but twen X men were at bat in nine full innings. But one man rea base and he did so on balls (which 1ot counted time at bat during that season), e caught him off the bag, I think, beforo a ball was pitched. I any one has beaten this record 1 have failed to see it. Interesting Amatenr Gossip, Bradford of the Nonpariels is a great little batter b Parcival will hereafter do the catehing for the Nonpariels, Itying is mot playing with the Crane com- pany toam at prosent. Scharrot will cover third for the balance of the season. Russ McKelvey will ¢ Musee team in to me. Blair has a great pitcher in Well baum and a good first baseman in Russell, Stephenson of the Bluffs wwill tl for the Crane Company tean, Rustin of the Crane compuny tenm puts up a great third base but is weak at the bat, " Miller, short stop of the City Steams, is the baseranner inany of the Nebraska teams. Flannigan and Creighton won most all their games while on their trip to Deadwood, Dak. Molloer, pitcher for Nebraska City, has an off. ‘rh*um Lead City, Dak,, but will not ac- cept. Missouri Valley and the Nebraska City : ats will probubly puay at Missouri Valley Nebraska City third for the ver probably t b The Shamrocks play the Eighteenth street Stars today for $10 a side on the Metz Bros. grounds, Thompson," third basemen of the Nebraska City team, has been released and rejoined the Eden Musees, Nelson of the Crane company making of a good pliyer, short for them, Evervbody go out today and sce a good These are good teams and put up o ass game of ball, eist and Purcell will be the battery today the City Steams, and Ilannugan and Creighton for the Musces, Only one home run hit this season has been secured off Pitcher Hart of the Stetms, and that by Lacey of Blair. Blair has signed Lee of Sterling, left field. They will probably sfi; Buseman Patterson of the Steams, Spud Farmish intends to challenge the Omahas if he wins today's game with the City Steams. Spud is full of mud! Carrigan of the Crane company team is n worker for his side, but he should learn that incessant kicking will never win a game, Lacey, the catcher, has signed with Blair. Inhis {irst appearance with them Jast Sun- til;,\' he made a two-bagger and a home-run off art. Patterson, change pitcher of the City Steams, was at Sncnandosh five days this . 'He is playinga great game and os o base runner is away up. The City Steams have challenged the Blair team for a gume for §0 a side and all the gate receipts, They are not satisfied with their defeat of last Sunday. Hart and Linanan, battery of the City Steams, left Thursday with the Stanton Neb.) ball club for atrip to the Black Hills. They will be gone about three weolks. Council Bluff's does not seem able to get up much of a team. The Iden-Musees walked outhem to the tune of 26 to 1+ at Manawa last Sunday. The Bluffs huve won one game this year. McAuliffo has returned from Golden, Col., and will cover second again for his old tean, the City Steams. Fle is a good and an elegant base runner and will sl mthe team considerably. Primrose and West's minstrels team pl: the Eden Museos at the park Tues Au ust 19, Tho minsteel boys huve a greil to They defeated one of the b. league tenms last w Mr. Gibson of Blair may be a good but as an umpireis a dead failive. Omahd teams look out for him, [u a recent game with the Crane compuny team Baldwin of the Crane company made a'clear home run over the for and was called out at the home plate by this sume Gibson, Chadron, Neb, has o great team, which have not been defeated but a couple of times this season, Bittenger of Omaha s playing with them, Omaha will have some great amateur teams next season, The Freaks and City Steams will both be out stronger than ever, The City Steams and the Bden Musees pl at the local park Sunday afternoon at :30, This will be a great game,as the clubs have it in for cach other and both say they are bound towin. The Musecs are composed of A, No. 1 players, mostly old Civy Steam men, whilo the City Stearis will huve out their strougest team. has the He is covering 1L, for n Third m st lowa stato armer, ‘the September 1Taces, The Omalia city racos will be held Septem- ber 2, 8 and 4, at the fafe grounds, during the progress of the fair and exhibition. preparations are being made for a spl list of attractions for the speed ring, w managoment is counting on three days of splondid spor : The programiie is as follows TURSDAY EMBER 2ND. ‘onls of 188, mile heats, best 2 Trotting. cluss, mile heats, bos: S0 Rununing, one wile dash 10 WEDNKSDAR SEPTEMI Trotting. Fouls of 1 mile heats, best 3 in 5 Fr A it ane Trotting, o heuts, be dind 300 Trottinz, e heats, bestdind 400 Running, i Bireoneisanses soee JOO THURSDAY SEPTEMBR 4TH, Trottlng, Youls of 18, mile heats, best 3 » in 4 A N SN ] Trotting, 2:35 cluss, mile hewts, bestdin'd 35) Running, hulf wilé apd repeat... ....... 100 Entries close August 3. Al purses four moneys, 50, 25, nd 10 per cent, ntranco fee 10 pe e unning ruces to nt Mf goveried by the American, racing rules, tries thereln to close at 6 o'clock on the even ing preceding the race, unless othorwise wn- nounced. Records made after August 15, 15%, will not be & bar toentries in the foregoing races, The American trotting gasociation rules to fovern, with the followidx " excoptions: An orse distancing the field, or any part thereof, Is entitied to one money onl; Trotting pu vided, 50, %, 15 and 10 per conti runnlng purses divided, ®, 3 and 10 per cent. Ruces that cannot be ealled by 4 o'clock p.m. of the last day of the wévk allotted to such member may be deelured off, und the entrance wouney therein refundes The Omaha Weckly Shoot. The Omuia gun club’s regular weekly shoot > took placo on Dunmire & Cross’ grounds across the river yesterday afternoon. The day was fine and the shooting good, as the core attest Fleld. . 111 0101118 Hrower 110 1101118 Townsend -2 g 11011 Kennedy L0t Mussolma 101 10111~ Rauman. . 1001 11101 Dickey 0010 110f Bedford 11 0111 Zelior 100 11011 1 11110 Poweli \ 1011 10010 01110 1011118 Borland AL 0111 07011 1111 01011 Armil, 10000 00000 00000 (0000 00001~ Captain Kmerson's Run Card. Captain Emerson, of the Omaha Wheel club, has issued the following run card, for the balance of the present month. This morning, to start from the club house at ) a. m. slarp, to Park’s mills and return, a dis! f en miles., 80 p, m.,to Council Bluffs and return, ten miles, The 24th, werning, 10 sharp, blind run, cighteen mwiilos, Afternoon, 8 sharp, Fair: mount Pavk and return, twelve miles, Thotith, 7.3 p. m. South Omuha, ten miles, Thedlst, § a, m., Bellevue and return, twenty-two mi Apolto Club Notes. Jack Kastman has sold his vacer and says e intends quitting the business, The called run for today is Florence in tho euing and Manawa in the alternoos he run to Bellevue last Sunday was mado ¢ seve and a general good time was had Fleschor mag Louis while t and on a poor track at that, A thief entered Lon Plescher's voom in the Mound Cy y night and absquatulated with all b shand ancdals he has won at the different tournaments. Flescl at St. Louis training hard for the coming ament there, In aletter from him he vs the boys are all riding very 3\|'n. but their track is very poor for fast din. The club uniforms will probably be here by next week., ‘They are blue Norfolk coats, black pants and “stockings and bluick caps, with @ red star in the top, these being in the club colors, The Apollo and Omaha wheel clubs made the run to Lake Manawa one night last week and returned together. There were at least fifty wheelmen in line. They made a ve pretty showing, Before the scason is ov they expect to make several joint runs, of a mile in St. y-cight seconds, to Whisperings (rom the Wheel, B Suith voprts dey times west of Lin: col, Run to Park's mills today, TLeave club house 0 a. m. Perri i out for him, He i M. Fred Careuth will attend the division meet at St. Paul the 15thand 16th, Mittauer is the boy that can keep them in line, as lasi Suu run 9 Perrigo I of Ameriean Wh e Fow would Fred Mathews do for chief consul? He's alt right. Nebraska needs one. € 1t is reported that Pixley has a road race on with Healy of South Omaha for a cup,best o in three, ‘The run to Manawa last Sund 5 all right and the retarn home was a corser, thir- ty-nine wheels in line, making a procession twe blocks long. one is hustling for the tournament. Prizes ave coming in from all sides. All the manufacturers have responded, Omaha mer- chants ave doing the handsome. Keep up the training, boy: nd_don't Jose all you have gained now, You will need all your muscle as there will be some good ones here from outside the city. Look out for and Island and Plattsmouth. Licutenant Mittaner's call for today's road run to Parks Mills, 9 a. m., sixteen™ m| 3 rouds are us smooth as asphult. The mem- bers need no other inducement to insurea large and congenial crowd. The threc-mau club is having its ragular runs, Prof. Pervigo wishes it distineily un- denstood that it is still the three-man club, and that they do not want to infringe ou auy club's na Their banquetlast night shows till in the rin: Fravk and George Alleck and Ed Neodemus made the round vrip from iremont to Omalia last Sunday. rank Alleck is developig intoa strong rider, After viding thivty miles he turned in aud scorched all the scorch out of the Omaeha wheel club would-be scorchers and did it casy. The Leaguo of Amer sued another neat pre annual meet, which is to take ace at Niagara Falls on the 25th, 26th and 2ith inst. The programnme gives all information as to details and is particulurly valuablo to visiting wueelmen, It dese s the = arouhd the Falls and tells the different points of in- tevest which should be visito]. It is tobe noped that this will be the initial step to bring the wheelmen of the city to- gether irrespective of club differences ov petty jealousy und promote fratornal fecling, as well as cyeling interest. With our up- wards of two hundred riders in Omaha half that number could get together say once o week, muke some of the many picasiant runs about the city und make a fine showing. The business relating to the Septe tournament is progressing very fi bly. ‘T'he prize committee is doing gooil work and lots of it and promise one of the finest List of At he League ngara, an wheelmen has amme forits e i3~ enth ever given in a wes I Mutthews, the genial sce: 'y of the tou ment committoe, is in_ corres Wi a numier Omuha wil the state, Itis rurcored in wheel circles that G, O, Franesco will turn his back on Omaha in u couples of months and make hisfuture homo in Portlund, Ove. In_ Francisco the wheel club will 1ose one of its oldest memners an oue of its most active riders, and it is hoje.l he will reconsi is intention. Butif ho must go the b vishes of the club will go with bim, aud it he ever returns ho will flud the Yateh-string hangl out and a rousing weleom ting him, Speaking of the number of Omaha wheel- wmien it scems strange that with the Fremont, Lincoln and Loxington chibs, ns well as a number of other good eycling towns in the state, and the many unattached riders, com- bined with our own, we can only boaste six L. A, W, members in Nebraska, While the local consuls throughout the state don't seom to be doing much rustling. Omaha too s rather quiet in this respect and can count her league membfos in the twenties. It is to be hoped that the remedy will suggest itself to the proper authoritics and the apphcation be yiompt and effactivo. What a nice nrocession the Loys made on their ride to lake Manawa last Sunday. Tho roads were delightful, and although upwards of thivty wheelnen were crowded together on the narrow roud, no falls were taken. 0 ear Epenoter got himself and wheel tangled up in about two rods of tive tupe, and Fa Smith almost cuta horse in half with the front wheel of his “firey untamed, but no oue was hurt, One noticenblo foae ture W the number of safties out of the eutire number almost hatf had safety mounts, and the procession tooked yorry attractive coming down Broadway in siugle file, asafety and ovdinary alternately- Miscellaneous Local Sports, Intelligence has been received from the mountains to thoeftect thut Dr. Galbraith, Wwho is off with the Dundy grizzly bear expe- dition has scored the first bear. * He run it into a narrow canon, and bucking it up be- tween two huge boultders, he actually talked itto death. It was an old dam und weighed 1755 pounds, The upland plover are still lingering in the pastures and large bugs aro beiug wade daily y local guuners, Some unusually large black biss were taken out at Horseshoe lake during the past week, one whopper, cought by H. T, Miller, weighing four and three-fourths pounds. Woodchuck are affording good shooting at Honey Creek and Onuwa, and green and blue Wing toal have began to drop in in isolated Hocks, Somo of the finest field shots of the state ar: *o be found in the city of Grand Island. Messrs Harrison and Reynard are two who can hold their own with “the best in the land. Mr. George Tzschuck and the sporting edi- tor are up on the Loup revelluig amoug the curlew aud plover. of fast rid sce Uhe fa Questions and Answers, Will you please give me the titleof some good reliable book on bird dog training, and where can Ierchm the same(—Field Shot, Grand Island. Ans,—There is no bettor than “Tmlnluzl Dr. Birney cures AY, AUGUST 17, 1890-SIXTEEN PAGES. Broking,” which can be ordered of the Forest and Stream Publishing Co., 818 Broad. way, N. Y. It isa practieal and successful guide for amateur dog traluers; its teach- ings will enable you in handling o dog ac cording to his nature, Will you please stato in Sunday*s Ber and oblige an old subseriber whoether Johnny Dwyerof Brooklyn was over the pugilistic champion of America and_did he not wrest the title from Jimmy Ellioty, the fighter killed by Jero Punn in Clicago elght or ten years ago! Do you think Suliiyan and Jackson will ever meet in the ring! What has come over the fighters, anyway: have they all quiti-Old Timer, North Platte, Ans.—Dywyer was the champlon from May 0,1579 t0 81, Ho won the belt from Eiliott, beating him in twelvo rounds in twelve minutes, in Canada on the date above men- tioned, There is no prosgect of & meeting between Sullivan and Jackson, Pugilism is a played out sport in this country, and it tho hope of all respectable people that it will nover see a revival. Will you please defiue the term amateur, and settle adispute and o wagerl-1rofes- sional, Omala. Aus.—An amateur is ons who does not enter inan open compotition, or for either a stake, public or admission money or cntranee foo, or compete with or against professionals for uny sortof a prize; who hasnever taught, pursued or assisted in the pursuit of athletic S ans of liveliliood; whose 1ip of any athletic club was ot bout or does not continue because of ny mutual agrecment or understanding, pros wheveby his becoming o continuing a mem f such club would be of any pecuniary benefit to him whatever,di- reet orindi nd who has never been em- ployed at any oceupation fuvolyving the stand- i ing of athletic records with betting and WhZErs, W was the distance Sam Pateh jumped ! What is o at Niag- Lawrence Donovan, from?!—Owen C. C, see Falls and was kille the helghth of the suspension brid ara at (he point where the ball player jumped Council Bliffs. Ans,—Eight ninety-five fect, Did Kansas City sien Elmer Smith as a piteher or a flelder? Where did he ever pitch and what is his record ?—Third Base, ¢ Ans—Asa ficlder, Smith pitehed for Cin clunati in '$7-8, and had arecord equal to that 3 in the conntry. His arm went > during the season of 'S8 and Cineinnati let him outand Kansas City signed him es- six feet. One hundred and pecially for his hitting and flelding ability, Dy, Bivney cures entarrh, Bee bldgs el s HONEY FORTAE LADIES, con her A peard fish with gold hend and tail serves as a searf pin. acle ribbons with gold fleur-deis are often used instead of bows. A new song entitled A Reverie” was com dby Mrs. Henry T. Spooner, a Boston society woman, There never was a woman yet who didu't long to tell some other woman just how she oughit to do up her hair. Gold thimbles are coves with minute dwisies in relief instead of being penctrated with the usual needle holes. It is rumored tnat the pa: Pennsylvania_limited are tobe attended by ludios’ maids in place of colored port Allthe “swellest” floeal decorations made in London during the season were the work of two L. florists, Mus. Norton and Mrs, Green, W A portrait on ivory of Mrs, Fremont in her youth, alued memento of General Fre- mont's s placed on his breast at his death and buried with him, ew ladies consider that thev 'ty or fifty miles of hair haired may even have to dres: miles of threads of gold every mom The report of the Massachusetts bu labor statistics shows that in I8 ninet branches of industry men werenot employed, in 18 only cizht Au niventory Elizabeth, made “Queen Boss™ had £OW DS ‘fore parts tans, 96 cloaks, 83 sufeguards, 15 lap inantle A pretty sewing apron is made of a large silic handiiorebief or square of silk twenty seven inches in o size, The pointed bib formed by gathering the square acro er under a ribbon_belt. Thence the 1sin a deep-pointed apron front. All who are possessed of fine tortoise shell ornaments or combs will be glad to know that they can be easily cleaned and polished by dipping them first in spirits of wine ana rub- bing them thoroughl; Jishing them aftor- ward with a little bismuth applied with a chamois skin. A wonderful wedding dress was recently made up i Russia for the daughter of u great Russian artist. It is of regulation white satin_are innumerable little al, painted by her What may be its garters have gauze bows in ot on _the sars v some on their heads e eventy ean of there wer which wo there w doublets and hany is ant accomplished an, and has always embroidered > clothes of her children, As Prince William she heard the little prince the prayers cvery might, but now she has so other diifics to pecform she is obliged ve them to their attendants, 1 cliewing and its effects have been sub- Jocted to a scientific examination with the tly grati result that the scientist rtion that in this pro los which move tho o ually developed, and the E which produces fair, plump cheeks is det orated,” Lade Haberton, the English d has sanctioned a hew sort of dress for tennis, boating. shooting and outdoor wear encrally It looks likke an o=dinary dress, but inside the foundation is closed at_the hem, forming o kind of divided skirt, which does away with the wearing of petticoats. One ofthe handsome belles of Colu is Miss Kittio Thurman, @ the *O1d Roman,” ex-Senato is doseribod #s a pronounced brunette, hasabout her much of that individuality which characterize the daughters of Judg Phurman, one of whom Mrs, McCormack, re- sides on Long Island. Many parents are apt to consider their daughters worth their weight fu gold, but a h gentloman estimated his two daugh- ! valio 0 a higher rate than this, queathing o each her weight in £1 notes. selder seems to have been thinner than ar sister, for she got J#00, while the ived £57 former hildhood she h Straight fro cold tub, and emevges ther owing; she feels the blood ursing through her veius, and the rude shich a good circulation always The cold bath she never n or winter she welcomes it Dbefore , hreak! an carly l_.hu Tom warm and slocts § Then, p walk, or perhaps o quartef of o mile's quick run,or a two-mile at a slower pace, or a gallop country on lorseback. Any of these an appetite for breakfast. Later on she uses o haub belts of Indian clabs, or frequents thegyunasium. In all athletic sports—row- ing, Fiding cricket, lawn tennis, ete.—she is at home, and, some say, is o first-cluss hand. ——— 2 Dr. Birney cures catarrh, Bee bldg Sdaio e st A Dusting Machine. A genius with a profound thought mill has taken up the subject of dust- ing and sweeping by means of suction draughts. He has a perambulating ma- chine which, by means of fansand h draulic pressure, gets a draughtthrough a spiral hose, with a nozzle shaped at its terminus like the trombleend of & trombone. Hestarts up a grand racket onthe carpet till the dust flics, then turns on this blizzard machine, and a condensed cyclone is immediately pre- cipitated. Hemoves the hose end round and wherever the cloud of dust arises the suction of his mechanism draws it‘ and it immediately goes **up the spout,” 8010 apeak. Thisis oue of the curiosi- ties of the patent office, o SR catarrh, Bee bldg, THE ASSOCIATION AVERAGES. Rocords of the Ball Players in All the Western Teams, VERY MANY INTERESTING FEATURES, Omaha Clayers Lead the Catehers and Short Stops-—-The Club and In- dividual Averages of Al the Boys. TrrBee's monthly averazes of the Westem association that are herewith given show many futeresting foatures There are fifteen players in the league who have batting averages of 300 or over. Sioux City has 1, 8t. Paul 2, Denver 1, Milwaukee 4, Minneapolis 5, Des Moines 1, Omaha Kangas City 1. Siebel, the Sioux Cit pitefier, leads the hitting with.265,and Mains, aSt. Paul twi 'y, 18 second, with 5 Cur- tis of Denver, however, who has pla nearly four times as many games as S and nearly twice as many as Mains, is thir with 838, Duke of Minn ont as far as aver: s concernod wlis leads the pitehing tal- A earned rans per gamne Thomton of Milwaukee leads when the percentage of first buse hits to times at bt by opponents is considered. Every man who has taken part in fifteen s given a batting and fielding record, y piteher who has piteied in ten games gets an average, Minneapolis leads the elubs in batting and Milwaukee 1sa close second, while Sionx City is at thet Mil- wankee is tied with Des Moines for the high- est fielding y and Kansas City is lust. Urquhart of Omaha leads the *catchers, Steams of Kansas City the fisst basemen, O'Brien of St Paul the second basemen, Miller of Minneapolis the third bisemen, Walsh of Omaha the short stops, Glenn of ity the left ficlders, Kriog of Mil- the center fielders and Straus Phelun the right fielders. The figur low ¢ CLUB BATTING, oLuns. cLuns. “seuRy) WO “PAIRY “dag A Milw sk ) Des Moinos Gl BATTING AVERAGE PLAYER--CLUB, 5 Foiter, Minnennolis. Des diotn el nsas Oty . 25| ) Swartzel, Kansas Cl 5 #1 Urquhart,Omais & St Paul s/ ) Phalen, Omaha.. R | Weldh, Milwauk Rowe, Den Walsh, Do M i1 Minalng, Kans 5 Burks, st. Paul \ Wiilis, O . yn, Des Maiios iwaukoo. Ii1otinnd, | Miiler, M pr. St Paul Milwnken. L Minneapolis | Fusselbich, Des Moines Sioni Clty i Ouaha . Denyoer s B BRIL: reirsgonr ning, Denver & Onal %0 0'Brien, St P S 1) Rouch, Dos Molnes | Bell, Kansus Clty .. 3, ING AVERA e 30 0N PLAYERS-CLUB, ---poadocow 190 307 1 | | | GATCIERS— 1 Urqubart,Omaha 2 bonohue, Ka i Myers, Ml g 1 Lohberk, I 217) b4 9250 i 527 | )15/ 7 Strauss, Bl o) Croasiy. | 1 Westlake, O Juntzen, Milwaok Dagdale, Minneapolls oran, Omaha, . Gunson, Kansay city. Broughton, St. P, |Krelg, Milw Wilson, Deny, 4 Reynolds, ben §| Androws, o/ Powell. Sloux | Flannigan, Des Mo 5| Morri Milwaukoo. . 6/ 1tyn, Minteapolls. 1, Hawes, St Pau 5 i| 720 28 1 82| 8121 10 00Dy 1K [ 1 1 t DBOOKSE Chronic, Nerrous, Bi DI Special att 20 Burdick, Sloux City and is famo able for her Rowo, Donwer ECOND IEAREN KN 1O rion, St Fanl HE v an, Ol s Mol ian. Donv 1 waukeo Manning, Kansas Ot L Minneapolis 2 Cantillfon St Paul, | TR A SEME N 1 Miller, Minneapolis.. 2 Pytto < 0 1195t 10,500 il Omalin 80144286 070 2| 4 1| 1) o0l ] ) Milw S1 nver. . Dos M 08 O ! Hanrahin, Sioux ( 0. ot 2 Minnehan, Min 5 Abbey, St Vanl CENTERR ¥ 1 Krebe, MiL wan 2 Fostor, Minnon p 0, Poc 1 W {Carroli, ) | mrGue || 1 Oimuhaands, City 40l @iom O ah i 0| 191000 A Motnos. mye 1|8 an. Minnoape 1112 an, M w anke 06 8 sa i § 0 8l & Conway, Kiusas City | @ sommore, Dos Moines Dos Mones. iell, Minne ning Den s St Pl 1. Dis Meines ey Dr. Birney cures eatarrh, Beo bldg. Brieya o Bismarcks wife is expert with the needlo asa conk. Sheis als renark- o, simple picty and for her chari ics, ——— Dr. Birney cures catarrh, Bee bldg. su0 it DY, RS AND STATION TAVERS AND PRINTERS, 113 South 16(h Street. 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