Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 23, 1890, Page 12

——————— | [ | ! | | | THE OMAHA DAILY. BEE, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1890-SINTFEN PAGES. AUTUNN'S SPORTING WISDUP. Freshening Breezes from Over the Ball Field, THE MANLY ART OF SELF-DEFENSE. Line and Rod--Dog and Gun-—The Wheel—-Bench Show -Lund Re- gatta and Miscellaneous Information. “Tit Willis is the only man we have signed B0 far," said Harry McCormick last evening, “and what's more he is the only man we i tend to sign for some time to come. There's no hurry." “But you intend to strengthen the team, don't yout"” +Of course we do. We have thirteen good men on our reserve list now, but the proba- Dilities are that several of them are nov good enough, and will have to be let out. Butas I remarked before, there's no hurry. The Brotherhood flunk has filled the mar- ket with good material, and the West- ern association s going to get the ick at pretty near its own price. 1 think he day of absurd salaries is over, and that's o glorious good thing for the game, too, It “would Le anything but.the fair thing for the Jeague to let any man out who stood by them throuch the rocky days of season, and whe put up anything Iike the work required of him, to make room for some brotherhood desertar, and they will not do it eitber. Is thers & National league club 1n the country who would release an_honest and_competerit layer for a man like Pickett, Joe Mulvey or Pik Juko Bockloy? 1 hopo not, any way. S0 Jou see there is going to bo a little army of ball players who will be glad to_get a job, and the gliddest of all of these should be the precious trio [ just mentioned,” “‘Has any of your men tried to hurl the bar- poon ye that 1 served men " ““What, advance , you meani Well, yes, we've received several invitations to for: ‘ward a slice, but we haven’t advanced a sou and do not intend to. The improvident bail player must be content with snowball this winter; for hell get but fe advauce cart-wheels from any source. That is another disagreeable feature of the busi- ness done away with, for the coming season at least.” +*And our prospects this coming year?” *“They ought to be first-class considering the healthy feeling of security that has been restored by the defeat of prohibition, and the neral activity that is noticeable in all franches of trade. ~ Bug you can't tell; base- ball is as uncertain as the wind. It may catch on with a tremendous boom next spring, and again, may not. The interest in the game had all but petered last season, and it may re- quiro timo to coax it back. Tho business men, of Omaha, even those really fond of thesport do not lend the nid and encouragement to the game that they should. They are all equally sted, and should not cxpect one or two JON CArTy on such an uncertain ven- ture alone and unassisted. The city gets un- equalled advertisement through her baseball team, and what the city gets certainly tends to tho betterment of her trade, and the bus ness men should give us every encourage- ment within_their power. If they will but do this, we'll give them a team that will give them all the dust. Omaha's Twirling Quartette. “The Omaha team will not be so bad off for pitchers hext season as most people seem to think,” remarked ex-President Dick last evening. *“The brotherhood bust-up gives us Knell again, and with Clark, Kuell, Fagin and Willis, I think we'll come protfy near holding our own,” po. Then you ars coufident of getting Knell ack +0f course I am. Didw't webuy himin *88 of St. Joe, and_dida’t we reserve_him at the end of tho season? Well I guess yes. So you see he is ours. He jumped to the broth- ‘erhood last spring, and of course we had no redress and sere compelled to let him go. He itched wonderful bail for the Pniladelphia rothers during the past season, and I think e is one of the greatest twirlers in the coun- try. He need fear no unjust treatment at our hands for deserting us, for he only followed the example of older and more experienced heads, and we are too well satisfled to get him back." “Have jou heard anything from Knell But Milwaukeo is evidently aware of how the land lays, and s negotiating with him; but it will do them no good. Mr. Philip Knell must make up his mind to pla fn Omaha next Season of not play at ik, Milwaukee offers us hig Morrissy and a small monetary consideration in exchange for the young man, but we have declined with thanks." “And you also intend to keep Count Fagin 0 ‘“That depends. If we can dispose of him advantageously, of course we shall doso; but for the present he will remain on our re- servo list." Going to Join the Band, “‘What do you think of the Western asso- clation’s chances of becoming a party to the National agreement?” was asked of Secretary Brandt an evening or two since, “Good. Tho board of arbitration meets in December and President Krauthoff will be on Xand to make an effort to have this associa- tion granted representation on the board, and and that it become a party of the first part to the National agreement. That is certainly’ our right. We are as much & major league as any in existence; our ball the past sea- son was equal to that furnished either by the league or brotherhood, and superior to that of the American association; we have a circuit of the liveliest and most enterprising cities in the muntrwust as able and intelligent men in the coutrol of our affairs, and intend here- after to assert ourselves.’ “That is something Tue Bre has harped upon for three years or more." “‘Yes, [ know that, but the time for real action in this matter has just arrived.” “‘And you think President Krauthoff will succeed in his mission" ‘“‘Yes, [do. Ihave been informed that all he National league clubs are favorable to this recognition, excepting Cleveland, and it 1sn't very likely that tho tail is going to wag the dog in this instance.” v *#So then the Western association is going to be some pumkins at last " ““You bet, we are going to join the band.” Chance for a Square Meal, To the Baseball Editor: Inan item inlast Sunday’s edition of the World-Herald ap- peared a paragraph from a disinterested par- 1y, asserting that the Crane company had no mght to claim the local championship as their wvictories were mostly from out of town clubs. 1 bave this much to say to the disinterested ‘compiler of baseball averages, that he has us down as losing two games to the City Steams, Correct. One game out of three to the Non- pareils. Wrong, We only met the Nonpa- reils twico last scason, and each elub scored & victory. One game that we lost to the City Steams, Andy Cusick, the umpire, admitted that had he given it the secoud thought he ‘would have given the decision in our favor, ‘which woul ve givea us the e. Now if the aforesaid compiler is so disinterested as to keep a record for the season perhaps he would like to bank some of his earnings (not from disinteresting baseball compiling) on the Nonpareils at the opening of next season. If he will, it will be the first one that we have found to put up mouoy enough to make it an object to play for. If anyone will produce a team that has held up tho fame for which amateurs are noted, any where near the manuer in which we did last season, only losing to one club, the City Steams, produce itand call at Crane company's and get a Thanksgiving turkey. ONE OF THE CRANES, The Busz of the Fan. Patsy Bofivar Tebeuu is getting up a team n St. Louis to go o Denver for a brief sea- son, Manager Van Horn, of the Denvers, has signed but two men for next season, Scrappy Jack Messett and Joo Werriek. Harding, the old St. Joe catcher, who ve- nded to the wvickname “Jumbo,” is run- uing a ropewalk in St. Louis. Edwund D, Coffin, who was the first catcher the Oskosh team had in 1886 in the WNorthwestern league, is dead. Consumption, It is quite probable that all the Western ition cities will see Suuday ball next season, thera belng only two in doubt, Lin- coln and Minneapolis. v Pitcher Dan Claro has been in soak at Mount_Clements, Mich,, and now declares that he's good for 100 years more. rhere’s no mistake, Danny is & promising ball player, anyway. The coming season is golug to be a tough one for the hoodlum stripe of players, It is the golden opportumity to get rid of this ele- ment, and don't let any one think that it will bo overlooked. Cormick will have full charge of th club and team next season. “Un will just loll back in his easy chiair and watch the boys barrel up the sinoleans. Herman Long, the old Western assoctation player and the ereat German short-stop, re- ceived in the neighborhood of $20 an hour, actual playing time, last scason, and he didn't fump to the brotherhvod eittier,poor fool! It is being whispered by the little birds, principally chipples, that Jack Rowe will be a member of Brother Dave's Lincoln team next season. That's right Jack, it's about time, row in somewhere, anywhere, just so yougetin. Tim Hurst, lite manager of the Minneap- olis team, will be an_applicant for a position upon the National league's staff of umpires. That he would make a good one, there 1s little donbt. The only difficulty with Tim is his falsetto voice, The Cowboy metropolis is _dead certain to evolve a batch of baseball sensations this winter. All this indiscriminate flattery belug smeared over President Krauthoff por- tends something. The Western association must be argus eyed. Ramsey Crooks, once a ball player him- self, has jast returned from a week'’s sojourn in St. Paul. He says his brothor Jack is finer than satin and _cougratulating himself ey day that he turned a_deaf ear to Mark Bal win's seductive soug last winter. Sam Morton has opened up a cigar store in Minneapolis, and Sam _knows as well as any- body whata nice box of Garcias makes—puff However, it wouldn't surprise any one if Sam was seen at the head of the Omaha management next season. Stranger things have happened. Manager Hanlon of the lamented Pittsburg Brothers, swears, actually swears, that Sec- retary Brunell has Martin Duke's contract in his inside pocket, He also says the club sent Martin 820, Tho question now arises, what is Brunell going to do with it? Proba’ bly have it stuffed. The Milwaukee club has demonstrated its good sense by re-engaging_ Charlie Cushman to pilot the frisky Brewers through another season. He afso gets an_increase of salary, and in gratitudo declares that he will make it cighteen straight from Omaha next season, instead of seventeen, ‘the report that comes floatiug in _on the breezo from that hyperborean village, Minne- apolis, that the sporting editor of THE BEx wants' the management of the Sioux City team next seasou, is a fairy story that found birth in Dave Rowe's sterile brain. Would you give up a salary of 10,000 a year just for the pleasuro of following Jakey Stradss and Bobby Black over the conatry, und being near George Common? No.of course you wouldn’t. James Lallie, in his day one of the mostsen- sational of right fielders, and regarded as the rival or Mike Kelly, in the position, died in Kansas City, November 9, of typhoid fever. He had not 'played ball since the season of 1887, when he was with the Kansas City Western association team. In that year ho was married to a young lady of Kansas City who was possessed of considerable means. He rotired from the baseball field to manage her cstate. "The fight to pull down this great sport has been long and flerce, but the battle is won at last. The old flag of the national agreement will continue to wave over the scores of pro- fessional fields in 1801, The Brotherhood and Players’ league are virtually things of the past. Touse p street phrase, “it isall over but the hollering.” Aud there must be no time lost in_ “hollering.” The disastrous season just ended can bury itself. Let us all look to 1891 and help replace the game where it was at the close of 18%).—Editor Caylo That's all right, Mr. Times, about lookin' forward; but will'she come, think you, in '01, The idealistic little home circle of Mr. and Mrs. Ren Mulford, jr., of East Norwood was broken yesterday by one of those entirely unéxpected visitations of death that come with stunning swiftness and_are entirely un- announced until the bereaved ones have nought left but the precious memory of a little life, that it seems should have been spared: ‘The victim was “Little Ren,” their first-born, the idol of their hearts—a darling boy, with' eyes and hair of tender brown, and’ delightfully cute and winniog ways, whose disposition scemed to be made of sun- beams woven together. The little fellow was ill for several days with diphtheria, but there was o reason to' suppose that a fatal termination was promised. — Cincinnati Times-Star. Papa Chadwick says: I was very glad to learn of the election of Mr. Krauthof, of the Kansas City club, as president of tho' West- ern association. 1t would have made a world of difference to the American association had Mr, Krauthoft been elected successor to Mr. Wilkoff in 1859, 1n that case the ‘combine’ could not have been successful and the Brooklyn club would not have been driven to resign from the association as it was by the policy of the “combine.” By the way, how creditably the Western association stands out this season as the exceptionally success- ful organization of the professional fraternity for 1890. I heartily congratulate the West- ern association clubs in securing the services of so able and worthy a gentleman for their president, Talk Among the Amateurs. Lawson will manage the Cranes next sea- son. ‘The Camp boys have been reserved by Se- attle, Fhe Cranes have signed their whole last season’s team. ‘Thompson of the Nebraska City’s will win- ter in Omaha. Hurley has signed with the West Omahas for next season. . Granden, of the Eighteenth Street Stars, is a coming pitcher. Neola, Ia., would like to have & team in the field next season. Tonex of the Nonpareils batted well toward the end of the season. Jellen, of the Nonpareils, is travelin g for a life insnrauce company. The Shamrocks have made for new suits next season. Hightower, the pugilist, was a mewmber of last year's Lincoln Giants. Lan Gillen, the once famous catcher, is in the plumbing pusiness in this city. The Diamonds will organize earley in the spring and promise to have a strong team, Council Bluffs should be able to put a first- class amateur team in the field next season. Geist was in ths city last week. He will probably sign with San Francisco next sea- son. Ben Nelson will probably manage the West Omahas next season. He will make a good one. Homer Kirk has withdrawn from baseball wnd has drifted into billiards. Homer is quite an artist. Patterson has not signed for next season. He would make a good third-baseman for one of the local clubs. Kuhn of the Crane company’s, who did not play mach towards the last of the season,will on the diamond again next spring. Lawson led the Crane companys at the bat with an average of 396, Bowles, Carrigan, Wigman and Etnyre were close after, Blair and Fremont are both hard at work signing players for noext season. Both cities promise to have a good team in the field. Austin, Missouri Valley's short-stop, eloped with one of the fair maidens of that burg, leaving bis wife and child behind. Logan will probably have a team in the fleld next season, but 1t will not be very suc- cessful, as they 'dow't permit Sunday ball playing inthat burg, George Mattison has been tendered the management of the City Steams and will K‘mbnbly accept. He will put a strong team the field next season, As Missour: Valley will not have a team next season it be well for some of the ‘phenom’ hunters to cast theireyes in that direction, as all of last season’s team ave still in the eity, The item I one of last Sunday's local papers about “Spud's City Chumpions'” s all bosh. Spud has been trying for four years to have a “‘champion team" aud has not landed better than fourth place yet. Dick Costello, the onoe famous St. Louis teher, will leave for that city in & few days arrangements treat his arm. Dick was at one time the | crack pitcher of St. Louls, and says be will —— bo fn better form than eover when spring wets in, Waltor Watts, a_ local amateur who played with tho City' Steams lnst season, is to bo married next Wednesday evoning to an estimable young lady of this city. Here's shing hiin many & pleasant home run and a long round of continuous pleasure atthe home base, Knights of the Squared Cirole. The South Omaha athietic club have fnally satisfactorily completed all arrangements for their November attraction, which is forth- coming on Tuesday eveuing next, aud will doubtless be witnessed by o tremendous crowd, 8o extraordinary is the interest mani- t. That eyerything will pass off with, the order and dignity of any athletic amuseuiont is insured by the careful manner the club management has proceeded. There will be 10 fracture of the law, The bill comprises, among other things, a finish contest with big loves, between Michael J. Mooney of Gales- urg, 1L, and Harry Allen, o son of the old world's champion, Tom Allen, for a purse of £1,000 hung up by the club, and #6500 a side posted by the men themselves. Mlbonflf'. with his trainer, Jack Wilkes, who recently dofeated Jimwmy Lindsay, arrived Friday afternoon, and Allen and his backer and handler, yesterday morning. Both men are in the fallest flush of hoalth, and trained down ‘s fine as sik. Allen is a formidable looking customer, while Mooney is anything buta chorub. 1{ will probably bo the stubbornest fistic conflict witnessed in this vicinity in a long time. "The club's December card is & battle be- tween the featherweights, Danny Daly of Bangor, Mo, and Tommy White, 8 protege of the Chicago board of trade, for a $00 purse and is booked for December 6. e tight at Germanta hail last Tugsduy evening was & very clever one, the Blac Poarl demonstrating_that he is really and trully a bad nigger. Hightower has no busi- ness in the ring with him, and in fact there are but fow in his class that have. Pat Shechey of St. Paul writes the sport- ing editor that he s willing to meet Jack Davis before the South Omaha_athietic club for n purse of $1,200, £1,000 to the winner and 200 t0 the loser. Sheehey says Killen has flunked in their proposed fight before the Minneapolis club and he would like to come hero and test Davis. The president of tho South Omaha athletic club received the following telgram Thurs- day afternoon from the editor of the Police news: BosTo! ideit South Omaha Afhletic Club: The Providence club promise to pull the Godfrey-Lannon fight, off on the night of the 25th, Your offer of £2,000 is most liberal'and if the mill fails to transpire you will hear from them, A. W, Cook. Will the Jap Explain. D1t scems that Matsada Sorokichi, the Jap, would rather take the chances of going against a well known professional of Me: Mahon's ability than an an amateur and a novice like D. P. Baldwin. Before the alleged mateh between McMahon and Sorokichi was consummated, Billy Hawley accepted the latter's challenge in behalf of Baldwin, through the same source the Jap's defli reached the public, the columns of Tite Bre. If Matsada wants a good straight match here's his opportunity. He and Mo- Mahon can wat, for it is a well known truism that everything comes to-men who wait, and 1t begins tolook as if these worthies want everything. Come up now, Mr. Japan, and talk out like a man who means business. Hawloy's acceptance is again published in order that its genuineness may not be brought in question, Oxana, Neb,, Nov. 16.—Sporting Editor Bue: Seeing the Jap's challenge in our paper to wrestle any one n the country, best two in three falls, I hereby accept his challenge in behaif of D. P. Baldwin of Omaha and will meot. the Jap and his backers at ln{ time to arrange a match, Yours respectfully, Pror. BiLuy Hawrey., Kelley and the Indians. Four Owama, Neb., Nov. 22.—To the Sporting Editor 6f Tur Bee: 1 take this method of conveying the information to the parties interested that my intended meeting with the winner of the Davis-Dutton light- weight championship fight which took place Monday evening at the Atheneum must be postpoed, owing to the Indian outbroal. Should I get back without an arrow in me, will be hapoy to knock Irish or Davis either out for a reasonable purse. Miciagr Keriey, Soldier, Fort Omaha, McMahon aud Sorakichi. An agrecment was entered into Friduy by which Matsada Sorakichi, the Jup, and Thomas McMahon will come together in a Graeco-Koman wrestling match at the Grand opera house next Tnesday night for S50 as ide. The rules governing the match will be, all holds go, best two n three falls, The winner will take all of tho stake monoy and 5 per cent of the gross gate mouey. It the partios fall to appear, or 1f either party fails toscore two falls during the coutest, the gate mouey will bo refundad and the stakes nated to some charitable mstitution. High School Gym. A very complete gymnasium, embracing almost every species of apparatus for physt- cal culture—clubs, dumb-bells, pulleys,ropes, bars, trapeze, rowing machines and wnumer- able other athletic devices. In addition to this a heavy rubber pad covers the floor,with provisions for a running course and 1unv|~Plug ¥ounds. The work was putin by W. D. ownsend of Dunmire & Cross' sporting goods house, and is a very artistic job. Dog and Bird Show. The opening day is billed for November 23. The indicatlons now are that the number of entries, both in the fancy and on the bench will exceed anything of the kind ever booked in the west. It is gratifying to the lovers of thorough- bred fowls, standard dogs and pedigreed pigeons to show all Omaha, whose citizens are known over tho land as progressive,, pushing and enterprising, has taken so much intefest in this exposition. 1t is a most encouraging fact to the poultry industry of the west that more money is he- ing paid for thoroughbred stock, and more money 1s being received for thoroughbred stock in tho state and in the great valley of the Mississippl today than ever before, Fowls are moving, as stockmen say of horned creatures. Specimens are solling from §35 to §230 each. As in all other lines of good breeding, rare specimens sell readily, while grades or 'culls #0 a-bewging on the market for buyers with short money. What is the result! Why, people are anxious tosge @ bird that goes quickly at loug money. When people see such forms ana feathers, some one in the crowd wants it. He buys it, breeds it, reproduces its like, aud thus stimulates an industry that is third on the list as a resource of the country (cot- ton and corn only bringing a greater rev- enue). But Omnha, asserting herself. through the secretary of the State Poultry assocla- tion, puts it over. the cast in the matter of money awards in a manner that is characteristic of. tho Gate city—the city whose portuls open té the grains, and meats, and minerals of the world, and whose resources are inexhaustible. Never before the years 1859 and 1500 did the breeders of fancy poultry, east or west, witness the payment of large money pre- miuws for successful competition. Thero is 8 diguity In moey which is a part and parcel of its intrinsic worth. The slang phrase puts it that ‘“money talks.) True enough. - But we will go further and say that whether money talks or not, there is a po- tency and power in the ovatory of thatsilence which prevails while a man i3 descending to the southern extremity of his pockets to bring to the surface gold dollars and puts them upon the oceau of trade for value re- celved in fine specimens of the feathered world. We all love money; we love to handle that move the shiners toward us. ore is money In poultry, rightly handled. Brains go with all successtul effort. In the show next week wmay be seen dis- plays of poultry that will av onco tell the visitor of time, experience, money and labor spent in their' production. Those who love the beautiful in nature (und who does nott) havo a feast before them in this exposition. ‘The public is wont to speak of & man who is an enthusiast on chickens as a ‘“chicken crank.” That's all rght. “Cranks’ move the world, and have since the days of Pythagoras, Edisou is & crank, and that crank has turned muny a usefu ! Skiliful poultry fanclers were a better phrase, porhaps. owever that may be, the roduction of thosybred fancy fowls is an ndustey now izod by such men as Vanderbilt, Secretapy Rusk, tho last “Long John' Wentwortly, ex-President Hayes, Sec- retary Rovert W. Furnas, the queen of Great Britain and Jyudreds of other notables Let us ifot call thiis great industry a “smali business” more. 'Ptie to quit that talk When & man like 'Fwsic counsels wise con- | gressional legislation in respect of so great a source of revenue, it ceases to be “small." This he has done, When the circas comes we all pay our littlo 50 cents and the cloywn carries it away by the thousands and we urb the poorer for his hav- ing come and gone, But the dog and Ypoultry exhibit brings us entertainnient not only, but what little money it costs us to see it stays at home. Wo are the better off in mouey and sport. Shall we not think of this matter in a busi- ness way from this date on! This exposition has been vp worked for a long time. It is here. We have got what we wanted. Let us show that we wanted it by every means worthy of our great city. A Dry Land Boat Race. The great land regatta opens up at tho Coliseum tomorrow afternoon at half-past 2 and continues day and night throughout the week, Lec, Ross, Plaisted, Lorgen and tho manager, Paul Boyton, have been here in practice soveral days, and the other noted oarsmen who are to compete for the purso and championship will arrive this morning. This is the first boat race on drv land and i3 certain to awaken a vastdeal of curiosity and afford no end.of amusement. The road souller, as the bout is called, is a very ingen- fous piece of mechunism, fashioned sowewhat after the tricycle, but capable of much greater speed.” The management declares that the race will be a bona_fide one; that cach man will try to make his mavk at this the initial performance of this kind in this country. A Thanksgiving S8hoot. The Omaha gun ciub will assemble on the Cross & Dunmire grounds across the river, Thanksgiving morning, for the purpose of holding their grand snnual wind-up shoot. Captains will be elected and sides chosen, and the side scoring the fewest birds out of ten to each man, will enjoy the felicity of liquidating for a sumptuous collation for the whole club, Succeeding tho club shoot there will be a number of live bird sweepstakes shoots and a number of target matches, Mr. Dunmire has succeeded in getting about six hundred, birds, and lovers of the trap are as- reat duy’s sport, The Sporting editorof The B been selected to referee the club shoot. Hynes, the Runner. Onaia, Neb-, Nov. 22.—Sporting Editor Bee: Several weeks ago | issued a challengo to any professional runner in this state or any state adjoining for a race from one to five miles for a stake of $100. T have re- ceived no reply from any one. My forfeit of # is still in your hauds, and I heroby repeat my challeng Tox Hyxgs, Omaha, Madge and King Philip. There will be a rat catching match for $20 asideat 2 o'clock this afternoon over a well known saloon on Douglas street. W. Myer has watched his fox terrier Madge against Charlie Koster's King Philip, the purp chew- ing up his fifty rodents in the shortest time to be declared the \vinper. Whisperings from the Wheel. Captain Emerson has called runs to Flor- ence this morning aud Council Bluffs this afternoon. Prof. Parrigo’s features are gradually re- treating behina a mass of luxuriant folinge. Frank Siefkin, 00, is cultivating a beard. The warm spring-iike weather during the Past week has revived the waning interest in cycling and the Omaha Wheel club boys have been making the most of it. Now is the time forour long distance rec- ord _breakers to gain fame and applause by sending their milage records for 1890 to tho secretary of the League of American Wheel- men. Dr. L. K. Garfleld of Algona, Ta., is soventy years of age and has_just learned to ride a bi- cycle. Here is anothor proof of the good old saying that “it is never too late too mend."'— Bi World. Moonlight nights, fine roads and agrecablo companions nearly'completo the wheelman's idea of true happiness, and as this will prob- ably be the last moon of the riding season, all are doing their best to improve the time. Indoor ball is becoming a very popular win- ter sport among castoru cycling clubs and as Owaha’s promoters of athletics are_always abreast of tho times, several teams will be or- ganized to play match games the coming sea- son. E. C. Rowe is wheeling across the conti- nent on his roturn trip from California, by the southern route. When last heard from he was traveling through the Indian Terri- tory and reported good roads and fine weather. Dunlop, the famous Irishinventor of the pneumatic tire, has studied out a “‘pneu’ one which he claims will surpass ull his late in- ventions. 1t will be of the cushion variety and fitted toa specially.mado rim which, e says, will entirely obviate the cutting diffi- culty. A party of cyclers consisting of Misses Allen, Hickox and Belt and Messrs. Perrigo, Belt and Ebersole enjoyod a mooulightride to Councl Bluffs on Thursday evening. On their return the party stopped at the club house, where the professor entertained them by an exhibition of trick and fancy pool play- ng. The Denver Ramblers' rooms are being entirely remodeled and already present very neat and attractive appearance. They bave been handsomely decorated, and new chairs, carpets and’ desk have been pur- chased The Denver boys will imtato” tho local fraternity and give a series of winter receptions. G. L. Morris, a London racing man, arrly- ed in New York city on Monday last, Morris was the first man to take a “‘pneumatic’’ in England, and with his wheel he scooned sev- oral important handicaps and scratch races, beating many men who were much his sup- evior on ordinary wheels. After the others commenced to Use pueumatic tires ho was ‘mot in it," ‘There can be no doubt that the ladies bicy- cle has come to stay. Only s short time ago the idea of & woman riding around on two wheels was pooh-poohed. She had her trycy- cle, but 1t wasa heavy, tircsome, cumber- some machino, An onterprising wheelman finally made a bicycle with two whoels of ex- actly the same sizoand with the seat much nearer the ground than on the man's bicycle, The idea was perfected and the modern wheel for women is the result. And now it is no uncommon sight to see our own girls on Dodge or other smooth paved streets on this favorite vehicle, Miscelta Looal Sport. Patsoy J. Kirby s organised an_athietio uffs. clubin Council Bl Jack Hayes, an éx with the cue him- self, has charge of the Palace rooms. B. F. Reinmund of Galesburg, IlL., and a crack trap shot, calléd bn the sporting editor yesterday. 5 Bear signs are said t4 be very numerous the Snake river valley, Judge Dundy will please take notice, 10 The gun club sheot across the river Thanksgiving mornifig will be participated in by the crack shots,of the city. Charlie Budd is aaxigus for another whack at Frank Parmeleg, for big stakes. Catch foxy Frank putting Jp anything big- weil | guess not. i The latast fad in fi»md! is awad placed over the shot with incisions in IS’L It breaks on leaving th®’ gun and allows of o more even pattern, J. A. Epeneter received by express from Boston yesterday,a handsome thoroughbred Trish setter from Major E. L. Franklin of the Boston kennel cluo, Harry L. Goodman, one of the best known bench ‘show judges i the world, now ocon- nected with American Field, Chicago, has been in the city several d: the guest of I, W. Miner. Big Baldwin took a little conceit outof the Jap down at the Musee an eveuing or two since, by putting up the ponderous 250-pound club with ease. Thore wre some people who think that Baldwin could put up the Jap, club and all, The continued warm weather has all but ut an end to the wild fowl shooting. Geese, lowever, are mow_roported to huve agai come in along the Platte in goodly numbers, and better sport may be expected for the next two woelks. A new shell is in the market, 1t is strong- ly reinforced and allows the insertion of a cop primer, giving greater individual ve- locity. The shell js manufactured in the United States and is called the U. M. C, fe- enforced V. L. & D. shell. One of the most interesting contributions to current_sporting literature is tho story of Clarence Whistler's lifo, written by 8, V. Griswold of Titk Ovana F The William Muldoon was heve he was asked : “Did you ever moet a man you did not feel sure of beatiuge’ and he roplied: **Yes: Clarence Whistler was a wonderful man." Had Whistler taken caro of himself he might have attained tho rank of the greatest ath- lote the world ever saw.—Cinciunati Com- morcial-Gazette. The exhaustive disquisitions running in the American Field, ostensibly to teach the young idea how to &hoot, are worth just so much a column, What the aspiring sportive young American wants is experience. Pull on your waders, shoulder your gnn, and take & trip out the Platto or up” the Missouri, and so how different it fs_from shooting ducks and geeso on paper. One day out Is worth seven hundred columns of the choicest in- structions ever written. Another thing, two- thirds of the stuff written on hunting and fishing, is from the pens of men who don't know a prairie chicken from a gillagaloo bird, or & wild goose from a “thunder pump.’* Towa Is coming to the frout as the home of octogenarian sprinters and athlotes. A yoar ago A. C. Owen of Mason City, In., who has passed his four-score years, challenged any man in the United States of his ageto run a forty rod foot race for $1,000 a side, but has never yet received o taker and has withdrawn the challenge, Dr. L. K. Garfleid of Algona nearing the eighticth mile post, claims to be the fastest bicyelist in the U ed States for # man of his age, and substantiates his claim by planking down hard money for any rea- sonable amount to any one who thinks that heisn’tand wants to prove it, He rides a safoty. Robert Morris of New York says: ' ‘Sport- ing' hus the call at present among our people, and nearly every lady and gentleman of the rising generation - this community 1s in- terested in it as much if not more than in politics.” Mr. Morris refers to the 'i0's, when there were but three sporting editors iu New York, Uncle Joe Elliottof the Herald,. ““Topp” Maguire of the Sun, and Mr. Crick" more of the Woild. They devoted their efforts principally to horse racing and prize fighting. ~ Now ‘every daily paper in_the metropolis has its corps of sporting writers, d the Sun and World have a small army of pecialists who arc under John H. Mandigo and George H. Dickinson respectivel Arrangements are being made for a shoot- ing match which, from a pecuniary stand- Eoinl, will totally oclipse anything in the 1story of such,contests, The principals in the project are Champion of America J. R. Elliott of IKansas City and Charles MacAllistor of Philadelphia, ‘MacAllistor nas the recoed of haying shot for the largest purse ever com- peted for by shooters. The contest was last spring_with Dr. Knapp of New York, and over §7,000 changed hands on the result, Knapp was defeated. It is estimated that if the proposed contest takes place at least £50,000 will be wagered. The two contest- ant will each put up 0000, The propotod match will_probably take place at Philadel- phia some time m tho spring. Questions and Answers. Pleascglve In Sunday's issue of the majority agalost “the amendmen the officlal vote of Douglas county of 1888 an 1800, This Is to decide a be nd” wlll greater oblige the writer.-B. B,, Omahu. Ans.—Tha actual majority against prohibi- tion 1s 49,958, th ough on the direct votethe ma- jority is only 20,658, Douglas county’s official vote in 1888 was: Thayer, 8,508: McShae, 12479; Bigelow, 411; Butler, 47. In 180! Richards, 6,450; Boyd, 18,308 Powers, 1,173; Paine, 233, To settle a di will you ly inform mo [n your Sunday issue how & Indians there s in the United States todsy. About how many warrlors? What does 1t cost { government to support them, and oblige: ubscriber, Ans. —There are- 246,056 Indians in the United States exclusive of the five civilized tribes. From 70,000 to 80,000 of theseare able to bear arms, The cost to the government for thelast fiscal year to support them was in round numbers §6,000,000. Wili you plegse state whother Andy Boven ever whipped Billy Meyers or not? s Bowen adarkey! This is o decido a wager.—H. . T. city. Ans.—(1) Hodid. (2) He is a mulatto, To declde a bet please answer. A bet G Ne- braska would elect two democratic congress- men at the last election. Who wins? rank Fuller, clty. Ans,—Mr. McKeighan, congressman-elect from the Second district, emphatically do- clares that he is not a democrat. He was nominated by the alliance aud simply cn- dorsed by the democrats. Accordingly G loses on a technicality. Will you kindly answer the followin five problem in” Sunday's B Both have 46 poluts, one m‘"f’ kives 8 and makes the trump, and makes high, low, jack and five spot of clubs, spades belng the ‘trump. The other side make game and five of spades. Which side wins?—K. MeGoer, Dawson, Neb. Ans.—The side that scored the five of trumps wins. To decide abet will high- sides on please answer the following in Sunday's Hee: A and B are play- inghighfive. A hus 48 points, B has bl. A makes the trump, and takes high, low. jack and podro; B takes ten spot (@amie). Which hand ‘wins?—A Bubscriber, Omaba. Ans.—B wins, WLl you please deciden wager by answor- ing Ln SUNDAY R Which 1is the largest in population in Nebraska, tha_cities, tovns an villages. or the country?—A Subseriber. Ans.—The country has about one-third more population than the cities and towns. WILL you please answer this question in your next Sunday paper? I 5 e nagame of high five. n discarded, the first 1land the desler has The second party has The first man has, affer the cards have b man draws his hand dealt to the next mal not looked at his cards. and finds he has n e o mistake in holdingup one card that Is nota trump. Is he entitled $0 unother card?—J. K., Kearney, Neb. Ans.—Most certainly not. Should the stakeholdoe of an election bet Qo county officor turn over the money on the decision of county canvassing bourd If notice of contest has been filed, or should stakehold- erawaitthe result of contest? If uotice of contest has not been filed, but defeated can- didute declares his Intention of contesting, should stakeholder turn over stakes or not? Pleuse answerat once through your columus, —Chambers Keltar, Hot Springs. Souch Da- Kota. Ans.—It would be proper enough to hold the stakes under the circumstances, but. the stakeholder’s judgment in such matters gen- erally goes. Dr. Birney cures catarrh, Bee bldg. i IMPIETIES, A praying Christian is not always a paying Christian. 2 All flesh 1s grass, and the grass-widow is frequently cut. The drunkard sows tares and raises cain ip the field of 1ife. The rich need Christian charity, but the poor need the other sort. The roar guard always gets left. been so since the days of Joshua. Rovivalist—Miss, have you found the Lord ! American Heiress—I should say so. I'm en- guged to be married to him, The devil's a pretty good fellow, In spive of his s and his tall; Ho says, and his accents are mellow, He's o warm 5pot at howme or us ail, “He actually kicked me out, and I beliove T'm goiug to have a_carbuncle where he bt me.” “Behold how great a mattor & small fire icindleth ! “The boy with wisdom past his years Now looks about with care to'see Which of the Sunday-schools appears Most likely for a Christmas troe. Miss Mary—I can't think Mrs. Meade is so devout as they say. I saw her asleop today in church on her husband’s shoulder. Miss Jay—Yes, she's 50 anxious for her husband to boa pillow of the church, "T'would not be well if all the world were This has good, Hocauso-—aud this is one of many samples— 1f all men were, where would the" clorgy got The sinners for their horrible examp lost Mes. Nubbins—Josiah, are you going to get up! Mr. Nubbins (yawning)—Well, I have one cousolation—1 shail have enough slee when I'in aead. Mrs. N,—Yos, und you will find the fire lit when you awalie, just us you do now. “Did God make my eyes?" asked a blue- eyed tot of_her motner, dropping the doll sho had been playing with. *Yes,” was the re- ply. “What kind of blue sfuff does God have, mamma?" was the unanswerable query which followed, s ool T De* Birney cures catarrh, Bee nldg. Qver- coats. That'll I'it Any Man. And Prices That'll Swuit $5—We have a cork- er. 2 lines in chin- chillas and Union beaver coats for the coldestday in the year. . $6.-——W e’ll giveyou a durable chinchil- la,or if you prefer, a good storm uls- ter. $8_—A1‘f this figure we show some extra values There’s thebeaver or com, fortable chinchil- 'Ia, plain or fancy lining. $]0—The popular price. The assort- ment at this liter- ally includes ev- erything.Beavers, meltons, chinchil. las, kerseys and all the famousfab- rics. Plain & fancy lined, make & fit perfection. $ ]Z—H;—we can please any taste. 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