Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 8, 1891, Page 13

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1891-SIXTEEN PAGES. THE LOCAL WORLD OF SPORT. Words Touching the Western Association With the Bark On, A GOOD STORY ON THE LATE SAM CROUCH. What the Pugs are Doing—Amateur sip—The Wheel and Gun— And Breery Miscellan- cous tports. Tnnsiuch as there: exists littlo doubt but what some change 18 10 be made in the West- ern association circuitat the coming meeting, it1s high time tho truth was spoken. All the T that bas been written to the eflect that this association was the most. flourishing of any in the country lust season has only tended t0 decelve and mislead, It is pure rot. In- stcad of being an overgrown auccess, ranting alon sz without a ripple to perturb or perplex, a8 s been repeatedly stated by writers who oy had no facilities for knowing just what he «ituation was, 1t came nearly proving the Iz, +st farce and failure of them all. Tt was 8 o-as-vou-please concern. There wasn't a #inile cliih in the cireuit that did not, at one time or another during the season, with possi- ble tho excoption of Kansas City, th 0 throw 1up thesponge and cry quits inconti- ently. Omaha was in this boat herself, and t wasonly pure backbone that kept her te.dy in the teeth of the wind on to the end Dc Moines quit early and Lincoln barely wabbled through in her stead. Denver was fo iragments at the close and wanted to throw up 0s early ss August. Dave Rowe gl intoa wrangle with the papers down here and they all but guyed him out of the town. Sioux City totteridon the verge from i and didn't tako in enough Bobby Black's laundry bill. nt into couvulsions and swor she would withdraw when her old mens’ tearn ran up_against Jimmy Manning's rejuvonated Blues in - September. They conldn't draw flies, and wanted to move the <lub to New York or London, the west wasu't Dig enough for Milwaulkee, = St. Paul was held together with elastic plasters all through the season, and if they hadn't inang- urated a fight over the ownership of the Franchise it would have been buried good and deep as carly as August. It was liko fighting for possession of a scuttled ship. Not a club made a dollar, or came out even, with the single exception of Kansas City, and still every day we hear of what a_glitlering success’ this association was. This lamentable status of affairs was all attributed to the Brotherhood war. But the poiut I wish to make is this, the encour- ment that is being extended to certain oliios now eueavoring to clinch thele hold on this circult is the kind of encouagement that will result in serious d 3 1s 0 crying need for a change in the Western association now that 1t has been clevated to the dignity of & major league, and if Denver and Soux City, and many include Lincoln in this category, can be honorably gotten rid off, the speedier it is done the better. A mug- nificent eirenit, including Indianapolis, ledo and Detroit, is now a possibility. It will save nearly threo thousand miles of travel and curtail expenses commensurately. Senti- ment should not go in & question of such im- portance. If the circuit is keot intact, as it now stands, mind what I say —there will be two or threo clubs floundering in the ruck before the middle of the scason. Half and half of the gate is the only possible salvation for the Western association as sho now stands, Talk About Your Stories. A notice of the death of Sam Crouch, a for- mer well known gambler and horseman of Cincinnati, Chillicothe and Columbus, O. which took placein the latter city one day Zast weok, recalls an oldstory that the writer heard one fall at Chester Pack, that will bear publication. Twenty years ormoreago,Crouch ‘was the owner of a_dandy string of horses at Chillicothe, and among the bunch was one youngster, a Bonny Scotland, called T.azarus, of more than ordinary promise. He vas as sleck and glossy as satin, with a beau- tiful head, neck and shoulders, and limbs that tapered like & deer All of the horsey connoisseurs, and ther ‘were plenty of them in those days in south- ern Ohio, among whom might ve mentioned the late “John Reber and Coionel Ed Hunter of Lancaster, Louis Gregg of Circle- ville, Blandy of Zanesvill, Thurman of Columbus, and others of national fame. Well Crouch was_so swelled up over the prospects of young Lazarus, that one spring e concluded to take s string down to Sara- toga and enter the descendant of vhe great Scotland for the Saratoga cup. A large delegation of Chillicothe and Cincinnati pes- ple, ladies and wentlomen, went to the springs specially to witness Lazarus run away from all the cracks of the country. Well, to cuta long story short, the horses came to'the post, aud in high glee the western contingent stood up in their landaus and carriages and secretly exulted as they compaired the ary Lazarus 1o the other competitors in the race. They were off at last, and oh my, what a chase it wis round to tie head of the stretch, Lazarus had shot ahead like a bird upon the wing, and old Sam and his friends were crazy with de- light. But as the gang rounded into the home streteh and came thundering down to the wire, iv was hard to distinguish one horse from the other, but youcouldn't fool old Sam, His eagle eye never lost track of the beloved Tazarus, and as bis friends were all erying in confusion 1o know where he was, (e sprang upon the seat of his carriage between two well known ladies, and swinging his ‘white slouch hat, he yelled : *“The Lord said that Lazarus should come forth, and by God, there he comes fourth ! Crazy Hovso Schmnitt. Schumitt, the St. Paul pitcher, who afforded the cranks such an unlimited fund of sport Auring the Apostles closing gaues on tho Omaha grounds tast fall, may be denominated the Crazy Horse of the diamond. Hels the ouly man in the world who can produce more sound with his jaw than Dan Houin, and his actions during a game are as erratic as they are funuy. The last game Schmitt pitched forthe Pittsburg league team was against @hicagoon June 12, Probably nobody e Joyed the game as hugely as he did. Ho was ‘wild, hit big Anson 1inthe ribs, gave twelve bases on balls and foreed in three runs, He was crazy with delight. The Chicagos ham- mered him unmercifully,but this only seemed 1o add to Schmitt's delight. With u big grin he watched the ball shoot from the batter's stick and danced gleefully when it struck the ground. He keptup a continual jabber, but paid no notice to anybody. The game went 1o the Chicagos by a score of 16 to 3. Sehmitt walked the plank after the game. He joined the St. Puuls shortly after and has been sign- ed by that club for hext season, and the local cranks will all lay for him when the Saints come down here next. spring. No Bulge on Us. Kansas Civy has forged prominently to tho front in baseball affairs, The head of the ‘Woestern association makes the Missouri me- tropolis an elegant news ceutor, and Colonel Slater and Majors Stout and Bell have got thelr heaas cocked up way out of sight, Omaha isn’t jealous, however, because she i3 80 much larger than sas City, and has Buch & redundance of resources for sporting news of ull_ kiuds that what she misses on basoball is made up in craps, lawn tennis and Liddly-winks, Gone to New Orleans. Ju company with C. W, Budd of Des Moines, Rollo Hicks and Captain Organ of Chicago, Frank Parmalee, John Field and John Gwin left for New Orleans Thurscay wvening to take part in the big Mardi Gras shoot which comes off within the next two Wweeks. There will be a spes match onthis pecasion between two teams composed strict- ly of northern and southern shooters, and it 15 in this match the Omaha representatives will take part. Manager Shannon Com'ng. Manager Shannon will arrive in Omaha, Tonday March 2, just four weeks from next Mouday. Griswold of Omaha, © Here's suceess to the national agreement of the Western association of today, also to Uresident Krauthoft—the maa who worked the thing to a suceessful end, But it mt b here stuted that not to him atone should the credit be given, Sandy Griswold, the sporting editor of Tie Owana Ber, is entitiod 10 & good share of the credit, as it was howho has agitated the scheme for the past two years to my knowledge, and at tholast meeting of the association presented the matter before President Krauthoff in such a mannor s to win a promise from that gentleman to think the mattor over' although at that time the president openly confessed he was opposed 10 tho scheme. ‘Therefore 1 am In favor of giving credit whore credit is due; henoe 1said above that not to him (President K rauthoff) alone should all the praise be given. He certainly de- servos the best that can be said of him, but he must bo wiling to share the credit with Griswold. Your Kansas City correspondent will please note this.—St. Louis Spo:ting News. Shannon Gets Norman Baker, Manager Shannon has sucoceded in hook- ing on to anotherfirst class man for this year's Omahu team, He is a pitcher and no ss & personage than Norman Baker, with the Baltimores last year. This is certainly a bit of great luck for the Gate City club, as Baker has been in great demand during the past month, there being no less thantive teams, two' National league and throe 1sso- ciation, bidding for his services. He is one of tho best pitchersin the country, so far having control over theball is concerne and besides is more thanan ordinary hitt and a good all round flelder, Thus team stands, McCauley first, Shanno Hatfield third, Walsh slort and W ter. Then there is Halligan, Newr Stenzel for catchers, and Knell, and Clarke v assist Baker in the box. will b seen that Omaba is v a fair way to have the strongest team that ever repre sented tho cit, lis con- nand {Chin Music of the Crank. Elmer Foster will return to Minneapolis. Denver hias ady placed season tickets on sale. Milwaukee aspired, but since has respired, sings Dan Reedy Willis of the Omatas would like to wet his release and play in some eastern club next season. Piteher Keofeof last and a cousin of Tim K Denver. i) Anson thinks the Milwaukees got the hest of the trade of Thomton for Schriver and Vickery. Umpire MeDermott, who has been retained by the Western association, is wintering in Chicago, Home runs will not be so plentiful up at St. Paul this_year. They are to have en- larged grounds, The Westesn assoclation schedule this yoar will probably call for 140 games instead of the 126 as last year. Pitcher Fournier of last y about playing in Denver. cepted his terms. One Kansas City faction wants tosee Hiets Carpenter scalped and aro pulling for Chip MeGarr to cover third. corge Stallings wants to play in Omana. Herels a hint for Dan Shannon, and a good one at that, Y. Sporting Times Big Perry Werden, who lushed and plaged ball in about equal parts, in _the Western as- sociation four years ago, will play with the Orioles this y It looks s if the Hoo taste of Western associa New York Herald. general sentiment. The regulation Pittsburg fairy tale, chirps Ren Mulford, says that Tom Loftus will manage Milwaukee, but fails to state where they iutend to bury Charlie Cushman. Gil Hatfield may go to Washington instend of Omoha, una then ogain he may not. Shan- non has Hatfield's contract In his inside pocket, at least that is the latest information. Cnarlie Abbey, one of the best little fielder: and a rattiing _hitter, 1o, is ono of the clori- cal force in Swoux City's auditor's ofiice. Charlie will aguin line em out for St. Paul this year. The Boston and Cincinnati_papers are full of slush about thatalleged buffoon of the diamond, Arlie Latham. It strikes a majority of the people, however, that an_inter-state league is about Latham's size just now. Is this intended for sarcasm. or what? Council_Bluffs will mako an effort to pur- chase Sioux City's bascball franchise. A syndicate has been organized to boom the town and they thinl haseball 15 the best card they can draw to.—Times-Star, A Western association “revised circuit” is being boomed so: Milwaukee, Toledo, In- dianapotis and Detroit in_the north and cast and Minneapolis, St. Paul, Omaha and Kan* sns Uity in the west. That would tet Lincoln and Denver out.— Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. What sort of a bluff is Sioux City attempt- ing, anyway! Tho telegraph says that they have sigred Cateher Billy all of last yoar's toam savo Crossle; Black, Strauss and Kappe woing to do with theso men, put’em to work on the corn palace or what! Secrotary Brandt forwarded Bitly Works® rolease Thursduy. The truth of the matter is Omaba didw't have a very firm cluten on Billy, and rather than be involved inany fuss they et him out. However, it mightbe added that Manager Shannon did not favor his re- tention under any circumstances, to say noth- ing about grapes of any Kkind. This isn't the grape season. In conversation with 8 New York World reporter the other day Mr. A. G. Mills paid Mr. L. C. Krauthoff the following high and deserved compliment: “In the preparation of the new national agreoment Mr. Krauthofft did an immense amoont of work. He is g Jnan whose ability had nover been fully preciated hitherto, The original draft of the now document was make by him, and, while minor changes were mtroduced here and there, the agreement is todav practically the same s ho first. conceived it. He met with more or less opposition in the league meeting to many of the main features, but he carried his ideas tothe fore and convinced his oppo- nents of the correctness and stability of the points in question. Ivs_too bad that hels not located nearer New York.” Manager Morton of the Toledo elub, was. here yesterday and loft for Grand Rapids, Mich., under orders from President K raut hoff of the Western association, to look over the town preparatory to putting a Western association team in it. Mr. Mortou thinks tho Western association of 1801 will bo made upof Toledo, Grand Rapids, Indianapols, Milwaukee, St. Paul, Minneapolis, Kansas City and Omaha. Sioux City has dropped out. Denver aud Lincoln will be dropped out unless Milwaukee goes into the American association In place of Chicago. A~ Westorn league mecting will bo held one day this weelc. American association peoplo blame ex-President Phelps for failing to *'ro- serve” the Athlctio players. Aorton also said that atthe association’s special meeting last fall the Athletic franchise was given up t0 the assoaiation, This makes Phelp's neg- lect all *ho worse,—Cleveland Leader, er. the outfielder signed by Manager Manning last season, lives in Cia- cinnatl, and is credited with’ the following story of how hecameto sign with Kansas City': “It was luck, T guess, We (Ottumwa) {(flnyod the Kaunsas Citys and -~ somebody nocked a fly over Elmer” Smith's head aud wade ahomo run, ‘If you'd had our left flelder ho would have eaten that ball!’ yelled a fellow in the bleachers toCaptain Manning. Well, us it turned out, Smith knocked an awful long fly the next time he came to bat, and I ran away up the bank and caught it. Ihit pretty well, too, and next afternom Manning called me up and invited me to go to Kansas City on trial. Idid o and there you are. 1hit well in the fow gamesI played with the Biues and made a good many sacrifice hits, too. I expect to be phyed in the field and will alternatein left and right—taking the latter place when Elmer is pitching.” The latest man sigued by Milwaukee fs John E. Buckley of Malboro, Mass. Last year Buckley was with the Buffalo brotherhood team, but along with Gus Krock ana two or throe more men was released to cut down the heavy expenses. He pitched only a_few ames, winnwg one from Boston when Mike elloy’s men were doing thelr greatest work and pitching in losing games with other teams, in which, however, the scores were close and did him credit. Buckloy is twenty-ono years of age, weighs 1% pounds and is 5 feet 10 inches In helght. Buckley was with the team that won the the semi-jrofessional champion- ship of Massachusetts n 188), pitching thirty- niue games, winuing thirty-two and stoaling sixty-one basos, He has & batting average of .27, a flelding average of 378, aud & sprint- ing record of 100 yards in 11 seconds, = Mil- waukee bas also the great Philadelphia bat- oy r's Troys talks club has ac- ors will really got a tion ball this vear. — That seems to bo the tory, Vickery and Sohriver, who were oh- tained in exchange for Thomton, Cstcher John Grim of last year's Rochesters has also been signed, but Rochester will fight thomat- ter before the board of control. The Western assoclation wants (o be counted in on that interchange of games idea inthe fall, says Mulford. Yes, and he can pet we'll be there, aud it is & new Dunlap we lick the W hat ts of Cincinnati just as easy as the pleurisy, George Hogriever of the Kausas Cit; says that Manning has informed him thal Poet Burns (sto be released. Some of the local fans would like to see Jim back here, but if heisn't good enough for the Cowboys we can't use him. Jack Crooksis getting fat as a fiddle selling collar buttons in St. Paul. When he feels too healthy for any use, he goes bofors the Y. M. C. A. and delivers his famous lecture on SHaglolgy." Don't forget it, Jack went through college, he and Jimmy Lunt to- gether. Our Parisian friend. Joo Stranss, has come outof hibernation down at Cumminsyille, near Cicinnati, long enough to write Sioux City, asking what they intendto do with him, 1t ihe Corn Huskers don't want him he has a chance to stand 4s & hit-me-for-ten-dollars ciear sign in the outfield of the Lexington, Ky., elub. WA player who has received an ample slice of pay in advance never stavts in the season haif as well as the man who bas got all b money coming to him,’ dec John B, Fos ter, “Ihere aro many players who would find that shoe just fit. Omaha will pay no more advance, That is one reform thatis an out- come of the war., Johnny Megatherum Ward ting a pleasure tripto tho eit fle will stop at fnneapolis, Omaha, Kan y and Der nd the people of the United” States ma. assurdly look for an intery ach of these citles as to the causes which led to the dowufallof the Brothertood league. I have | one already written Dad Clark, whe s contmempla of the great Milwaukee, £300 fine last sumr came within an ace of ending his_existence, will finds man with awill of his own in Manager Shannon of Omaha. 1t is said that Leonard would have been justified in any measurens togetting even with Clark last season, but was always lenient with him, consequently Clark all but aisintegrated the team.—N. Y. Sporting Tiv In Minneapolis there is much enthusiasm over the coming season, but of all the cities in this association, the Millers are the least improved, ‘They have Dugdaleand Mahoney to do the backstopping: with Duke, Killen and Bartson to face them; Ryn, Day and Miller for the bases—and u weal infield it is Shugart at shovt anfl McQuade, Carroll and Minnchan for the respective gardens Itis o funny thing about the winter habita- tionof bull players, Out n Omald, which next to Minneapolis is the largest city in the west, there is but one professional ball player singz the winter—Joe Walsh—while in S Paul thore are Duryea, Crooks, Werrick Carty, tin, Wilmot, Viau and Galvin Minneapolis, Dugdale, Duke, Hengel, Pow Burdick, Foster, Murphy aud Harkiess Y. Sporting Times. or Me- od a syndicate down for Brother Dave or £o down Omaha. They have no w ennant so long as they canlick us. Well, my misguided friends, don't be alarmed but “what [ will use all the simoleons you cun rake. scrape and borrow. but he can't get a team that can whip oneside of us in a dozen ye: From the present outlook the Lincoln team, ho will be very strong-like last seasor Jomiskies—too stroug to win. Manager Watkins is sciting an_example it might do for other managers to imitate. He has not only about completed a corking strong team for the Apostolic city, but has made ail his spring dates, opens the scason at Louisville March nd 81, and at Colum - bus, O., Apri St. Paul has Bald- win, McMahon, Brown and Frost for cateh- ers; Mecekin, Ford, M: chmitt, MoHaie and Dalton, pitehers; Jack O'Brien, first: Earle, s\*(uu(\; Ely, short, and Osborne, Abbey aud Murphy in the field. A spanking good outiit. ““Toledo is making a determined effort to break into the Western associ Mulford, the sage of Cincinnati, “but it not absolutely certain that the Future Great will not be back in the Amerizan associution vefore the callof ‘piay_ ball.’ The Chicago problem looks a bit doubtful, but how the /estern would howl it Beertown was taken from her circuit.’”” Thats just wiece you are off your base, Mul, the ~ Western would never make a whimper. We don’t care a figr for Milwank2e, haven't we Oskosh, Kauka k Kekomo and Jopiin to fall buck on I, T guess yes ! in Denver they have been exceedingly busy, in fact the little proverbil bes we reail about is nowhere. “White Wings” Tebean lasamove on him thai would ens Otero. So far, he says, his autorraph album contains spec of the caligraphy of no less thiea nof the greatest twirlers on earth, leading off with Toad Ram es1., and followed closely by M b, ‘Tramphy, Gallagher, Payue, Kennedy and’ Noves; for catchers he has Reynolds—a good ‘'un—and Wilson; for the bases himself, and, perbaps, ippy”’ McGarr; short, Will White and the ficla Treadway and MecClellau; which leaves a third baseman and a fidlder yet to bo secured. Down at Kansas City thoy are so oceupled in lauding President Krauthofl and Johnny Speus that they are allowing thelr team to go by default. Jimmy Mauning, however, is one of ouroldest und most foxy inbubitants and he keeps his paw and his pon incessantly on the hustle. Every day almiost one or the other of the KKansas City papers has an effu- sion fromn the versatils” pill pounder, depict- ing inradiant colors the Cow boys® dros pects for 1801, when itis a well known fact that they have hardly turied a hand. They have King Eliner, to be sure, and Floover, 0o, but this pair, along with young Hogriever and a atour, can’c expect to make much of the flag. Still Speas is promis- duy, aud 1o get a yoa reached St. Paul last Thursday to take part in_the first game of in- door baseball ever played in Minnesoty “Cy," you know, owns @ buckwheat pate somowhere up noar the Luke of the Woods, where he spends nis winters. Speaking of Duryea, recalls the incomparable thum ping he gotouton the local grounds threo vears ago. He was just catehing on @s o great twirler aud his' bead was swelling with the idea that ho was too fast for the Western as- sociwion. He was with St. Paul and St. Paul wanted the game badly, and _although “O1dCy™ had pitehed the day before, to clinch the game in advance, he was put in ugain, A sorry afternoon thatwas for tio farmer. Omaha mado three home runs, two triples, three two-sackers and fourteen sigles off his chain lightning delivery, winuing the game by ascoreof 19t0 3. Hé was then sold to Cincinuati, Whisperings from the Wiheel. Toronto, Can., has 1,500 wheclmen, The Denver Ramblers have admitted Jack Prince to their charmed cirele. Van Horn of Lincoln would make an ex- cellent vice consul for Nebras ka, The 1591 meet of the Cauadian wheelme.'s associstion will be held at Hamilton, Ont. Mr. Fred Patee of the Peoria, 111, bicvcle club, has been in the city for several days. Tayenty-four postmen, mounted on bicycles, collect the daily mail in Washington, D. C. L. Walker, a sixty-five years old cyclor of Newark, N. J., rodo 4,1% miles i 1500, Over a score of byeiclists havegone to Bur- nuda from New York, They will tour that Island on their wheels, W. E. Coombe will start for California in a few days, witn the intention of making bis future home in the Golden state, A. H. Perrigo has been apwinted chiet consul for the nebraska division of the League of American Wheelmen, How about puematic tires in road races this season! The handicappers will havea lively time placing them correctly. Kastman has added to his creed the some- what appropriate request, ‘'give us this day our daily kick.” Comment is unnecessary. M. De Roberts and F. Templeton were elocted to sctive membership o the Omaha wheel club at its business meeting last Tues- day night. The wheel club will havea birthday party on Mareh 7to celebrate the tenth year of its existence and the first auniversary of its re- moval to its new home, Clarence H. Swith of luggage-carrier fame was avisitor at the Wheel club last week. Mr. Switn is arranging for a tour through Europe, 1o start from New York in July. ‘I'ne annual election of ofticers of the Omaha wheel club will be held on April7. It is too early for much opem rivalry for the various offices, but knowing predictions. £. B. Smith is wearing the prize pin for winning the greatest numbor of games at bigh-five Inst Monday oven This score ralsed his average and he is stiil foremost in the race for first prize. The L. A. W. racing board will meet in Philadelphia on E'ebruary 13 to act on the de- cision reached at the refent A. A. N. and L. A. W. conference, and to consider the amend- ment of the racing rules, The wheel club’s billiard room 1s the scene of some very spirited gaities on Thursday and Saturday nights, whenrthe contostants in the [l toutue struggle for honors, Rhodes is nthe lead now with 4 record of 807, but Matthews and Poarce aro also favorites and are decidedly “in it This {s what our cvelo poet sonds us dedi- cating the same to Twenty-fourth strect lead- ing to South Omaha This street is not passable, Not even jackassable; And those who wish {o travel it, Should turn outand gravel it. There is an absolute noed of some form of athletic exercise forcity men who canuot in thelr short dally walks lay up thet fund of health and strongth necessary to the s plishment of any considerable business. Those men, who by cyeling keep their bodies in fine working order, an at alltimes deaw heavily upon this resource of strength and always find their drafts honored ‘That. ladies’ night I8 becoming very popular at the Omahawheel club was fully demon strated by the merry party assembled in the club parlors last_Wednesday ovening. Lady destined to occupy a prominent oyele world and' the local club to keep abreast of the times by example of the majority of ing organizations and admit aro making wise place in th wauld do wi following t n whe nember: Gomsip. ) patieats on cushion tires in England, Itis reported that S ng path. e T, A. W, ns Detrolt this yea Itis estimated that the in the city of New Y Bob _Gerwin Apollo cycle capin tho race evening. Hoy and Smith of New Benford, have twen- ty gold medals won in competition. What has becomeof our track committee? Wehavenot hoard fron thom lately. Secretary Calking has received his now cushioned tived Victor safety. It 1sa daisy, 50 Dick suys. Ttis estimated that wheels manufactured g season. ack Princo has a now Columbia racer, presented to him by Colonel Pope during his 1 tour last fall, scher and Denman are working hard at the turners hall for the coming six-day amn- teur race at the Coliseam, There has b Lo insurance company organized in Washington, D, C. They insure against the 1oss of bieyeles by theft. . exprossos his any amateur hill will retire from the fonal moet is to be held in club 000 the there will be in this country willinguess to'back Pix a in the city in aone to threo Winship, the Chi given up “the good old ords Rover safoty on which, he will do his hereaft Denver has 2500 wheelmen an no pavement —that is to amount 0 anything—while Omiaka has but 400 and hus miles and miles of pavement. bicycle club mbership g o eligible hip. ! Perriszo has beon appornted chief consul for the Nebraska aivision of the League of Amcrican Wheelmen. “Perry” got hustle on yourse: v will have 250 League of American W heelmen in our state next year, Managzer Mardis is now talking of an ama- teur six-d1y race o f these | . 'T'his ought to bo @ payiog venture, us the people would lenow thoy were secing square and it would bring out'such w. s Flescher, Pixley, Péaboly, Wort Tagger, Mears and many otlier fiy Nothing that has recontly come into favor with the American women promises to be moro bencficial than eyels riding, a healthy exerse goiting one out into the open air, along ceuntry roads, bringing the most im- portaut musclesinto use and not o greata demand upon tho bodily stren Woren who areonlyin ordinary health can ride withont feir of physical injury. Those who are less vigorous c beginning with short ru quire ne gth, The Wearers of the Jake KKilni He meets G Mitta, 1 safely at" urch, will challenge the wiauer Ciirain match. % lved™? Counolly is dangereusly iil at Bellevue hospital in Now York. La Blauche and younz Michell fight beforo the California club, February 29, A brother of La Blanche, the Marine, 13 an attactie of a North Sixteentu stroet, plumbing cstablishment. Billy O'Donmell and a'soung novice dubhed the “Star" are booked “for a meet at classic cek. olnson, the black star, for- merly of this city, is hoxing professor in the West Side club at Detroft, Mich, The Bowen-Gibbons fight is off. T pug wis aftaid 1o go ahead, Jack experienco with an - unkno: quantity made nim A The Olyinpi its offer k MeAuliffe-Billy thought they would o out of some other club. ir host. . whowas conquored by Pat ya eounleof years siuce, is ston, Pu., for knooking out one 1t is do-btful whether pver from the effects of the pounding he received. Jack Demsey's beneflt out at Galveston called some 610 people who braved slush and o seo tho oefeated Noupareil lie evening was Dompsey’s thre setto with Tom Monoghan, tho Lo; ampion light alis sportina catere Harry Giulmore for Audy Mills, th Jael Hightower of this eity, o maag it will come off at South Omaha carly in March. Mills, in a letter to Geary, stat SIf yous hang up any sort o' money I'll come dowhiand kill your niz too quick.” Ttis sufe to say if Mills"does meet Juck he'll be a vory tired coon when he gets through with hiw, John L. Sullivan anuounced yesterday that e wouid_ back Patsy Kerrigan against the winner of the Ne flgat in Min- neapolis, Februa 500 @ side, if & club offered a_su On February , last year, I<e u wnd N n fought 100 rounds to a draw in” San Francisco in six nours and forty winites, that battle being the longest on record. | Johu L. savs he has no personal preference @s to the winner of the Needham-Ryan fights but would like to see the former wiven the verdict in order to bring about a meeting 0f the Lo old oppo- unents, Frank Slavin is growing bolder as “Sully"” gots deeper into his work' of putting down whisk! Slavinannouncés that he has ac- cepted the challenge sald ‘o have been mado by John L. Sullivan, t§ present the former with £,0001f he stauds up before the other for six rounds. Siavin. further offers to wage $£5,000 to Sullivan's $10,000, that he, Slavia, will knock Swllivan out jn six rounds. Slavin says fl(utuhe is willing to fight in any city in the, United States, and as proof of his confideage in American fair play, he will come alone. And to all this the American sport echoes “Rats ! The Nedham-Ryan fight comes off at Min- uneapolis, Tuesday night, February 17, and a delagation of Omabans will will go up to see the mill. A private letter from Minneapolis says that Needham settled down to hard work on Monday for his go with the Chicago pugilist. Ho tipped the scalo at exactly 141, and by Saturaay will be down to 135, At this mark be will remain _until February 17, the date of the contest. Needham is a pow- erful man for his welght, and aside for get- ting off useless beef and sparring so that he retains his quickuess aud cloveruess he does not need to train very hard. That heisa great ring general is shown by the fact that bis seconds go bebind him_instructed to care for him just as he orders. Ryan is in the pink of form already, and if he falls to win he can not charge defeat to lack of preliminary work. Ryau is about Needham’s weight and height, is reach is somewhat longer, He is very fast on his feet, uud quick to foliow n advantage, He lsa hard hitter and g to the limit, The following lotter was enclosed to Major Jack Condon of this city by kd Rothery : Would you be so kind as tochallenge the winuer of the Ryan-McCormick fight in my behalf? Twill moetoithor of them. 1 am the man who vrote to you recently about Rilly Woods. If you can arrange a match for me in Denver I would be very much obliged to you You can make it for a purse or a stake. PAT ALLEN, This man is a son of the veteran, Tom Allen, at ono time champion heavy-weight champion of America. Pat fought Davis, the Omaha heavy-weight, recently, butwas de- foated, Jack Ryan was seen last night in regard to his willingness to meet Allen in a flnish go, and replied : “T will meet Allen, win or lose, if he will como down to within ten pounds of weight, which is from 157 to 160 pounds, but T don't foel disposed to give away twenty-five pounds the advantage to so good a man s Pat Allen. If he will come within ten pounds of my weight, I will fight him toa finish.” Bert McCormick could not be found, but if he proves to be a winner in the mill to como off on February 11, ho will undoubtedly givo Allen a trial.~Denver News, Allen “has been notified that the winner of the above flght will accommodate him, und ho left for Denver last Friday night. ' The Nows s wrong in stating that Pat is a son of the vet, Tom Allen. He is no relati Miscellaneo Max Barnes has pu the running hop price being 3500, The Omat fect its ory give a bon ol Sports. hasod of J. C. Tuthill o Uriah Heap, the purchase kennel club, which is to per nizatlon next Tiesday night, will 1 show probably in M Omaha trap shooters wiil bo pained to learn of the serious illness of W. K. Limberg— “Wick," the well known shooting authority. A handicap game of billiards_between tho local champion Keniston, and Hale, winner of the recent Palace tournament is on the tapis, “There promises to bo the spring, owing to th the mountains and 1 fow! shooters are counting on great sport in March and April. orthwestern Trotuing circuit bas just at St. Payl, with Winoua, Paul, Minneapolis, Still- Superior and Eau Clire as plenty of water in heavy snow fall in St. Wost members, Evan Lewis, the Strangler Pebruary 23 with the Jem ( tion, and the man will bo horo bett combini- he can't throw cateh-as- catch-can fn fifteen minutes will be awarded 1 %50 note, Here's a chanco for Big Baldwin, T'his has been a fine wintor for the quail, and as there was an abundance loft._over for sced, prospects are big for next fall's crop. The past season was one of the best, for quail in this locality that has been know in a dozen years, When Fritz Emmot noxt visits Boyd's, Omaha dog fanci es will bo offorded an op- portunity of seeing Plinlimmon, the famous St. Bernard, who stands_twenty-four inches at the shoulder and weighs over two hundred pounds Lucien Mare Christol, tho veteran “doing” Texas. He was beaten at San An tonio this weel by/Louis Lec, an artilleryman of Light Battery I A. The soldier two steaight £ : in eight minutes, Jack Prince, the horo of Dony turn here in May will bo_ac Crocker, Nielson, Morgan, Knapp, Whitlese; f-dozen of other well-kuown profes . Ho promises the biggest h, A Murray hotel spost inquired of thesport- ing editor last night what was meant. by shooting a match at live pigoons —whether it was common parlor match or one of the old- s that is used, This alone go Helsley's famous turkey shoot at 200 yards rise, Local shooters are still on the anxious seat over the prospective amendment of the game laws, They might as well bottie their ner- vousness, hiowever, for from the present out- look the legislaturo will hayo no time, atleast during the present session, to monkey with the woese and ducks. Just now they are after bigger game, Governors, for instance. Miss Helen Baldwin, who bas spun_along the track on a bieyele o fawe, has arrived in the city. i Allen of En- wlaad form the ad- f ncompany of fair bicyclists asix day race at Music hall in about three weeks, Harry Canfield and Clint Crawford are to_be sssociated in the e, and in addition to_the expert fair straddlers’of the byke alr liere, Louise i Bisa Von Blumen, Jessio Oaks Williams are to o Miss Min- r, who mik tubition at Kohl & Middleton's seen in the raco, It will beu fort cight hours b Times S fake is who will ent shteenth trotting in a public trial, driven 1d, 0. Holstein is horse, being a trotter by a nd out of His sive Indi g record in one of mmost seen upon the turf of trotters, being s’ of Budd Dable. 2:131;, and seven hers in 2:30 or bett Indianapolis is also by a trovter, ¥ Tattld 5, siro of funapolis and four others, with eu aver- record of Tattler is the best son of us of Maud$ aud Juy- Holstein' von her rocord orth treat, has pur ate staltion, Holst other Her dam being th mare Sallie Chorister, daw of twoin the list—HellePatchen, 2:3037, at two year: (dum of Baron_Wilke ), Admi public_trial of 2 nd Homer, sire of Letan H, 2:4 stein will bea valuablo to Omaba's horse interests, being already second to no city in the west. Questions and Answers, w OMAHA. Noh. Fob. 5—To th itor of TiiE Bek: Will you k in- m e If possible. who owns i thoroughibred Gordon setier d Also w thorough- Ured irish sette ton. Auns, —Goraon, F. Cla Billy Town: Sot Sport- Ing 2 Harry 531 Manning avenue, Youngstown, O. G Nob.-=Tathe Sporting Bdi- torof Would yu kind iy tell me in the Sport ¢ columns of NAY Bik: 1 Wiere [ miht purchuse the O ipper annual for 15017 Where 1 could buy Captain Mayne Retd's novel, “Sounding theé Signal?* 2 Did Juckson ever moet in the prize oy ~(1. At any news and book depot in ty. (2) They have not. kSON. Neb, | Bad: nd B it dow and A bets B mike A tike o Constant Reader, Ans.—If they are pl can, if not, not. Your this department. OMaMA, Feb, 4.~To the Sporting Editor of T BEE—Whai, (s meant by o “short stop' bililard tourney? Don'tyon think Gil Hat- fie'd. lutely signed by Munager Shannon, little 8 5, or doos A take the pil ying table stakes he cond query is not in i with the stiok?—D. Ans.—(1) Give itup. (2) Ho isa fair hit- tor and a spindid all-around player. Drama- tic questions teceive no attention from this departm ent. Counctr, Brugws, Feb. 6.—To the Sporting Editor ot ‘I’ BEE—~What Is the comparative ability of our wmateur and prcfessonal sprinters?—Sprint. Ans.—Opinions differ as to tho relative ability of smateur and professional runners, and many of the latter doubt that a record of ton seconds has been beaten. BrorieL, Neb. Feb. 2.—To Bditor of TH# Bee.~You will ob ber by answering the following: dealer 'n & four-handed o of seven-up, give, withou Goos. Ans.—Ha can if you don’t catch him at it. But, strictly speaking, he can., It is fre- quently done. BrADSHAW, Neb. Editor of Thk B 100 tho hest_ tim ne-quarter of athrop. Ans,—The nearest I am enabled to get at is 2014 seconds, Clothesline made 200 yards in 115, the best on record, at Buffalo, N. Y., April 24, 1536, 2. PAUL, Minn.—To the Sporting Tik Bek: ~ Will you please stateo in sporting colomns the dis goes each Ans.—87 the Sporting ze & subseri- Cun the Feb. 3.—To the Sporting Will 'you kindly inform ade by u graghound mile and ditor ot andiy's 230 trotier ud?—Barnum, Hote! Ryau, feot. OUNGSTERS' NOVE CONTEST. Forty.Eight of Thom Tried to Talk the Plainest and Wina Prize. Tt wasn’t a baby show. Not abit of it. It was 8 priz contest for the champlonshiv of California. Thoro wore precisely forty-oignt contestants, They were the rosiest, jolilest, roly-poliest lot of curly-headed little rivals that ever lived. T'here wasn't a soul among thom who had een three yoars of lifo, They stood in a puzzled group at the stato citrus fair at Marysville. Some ingenious mortal offered a prize to the entorprising youngster who could say, “state citrus fair” most trippingly on the tonguo, For weoks the hapless mites wero In training. They were “reducea’ with those magic words, and they were brought down to the proper welght by vocal exercises, weirdand torturous enough for an elecution teacher. There were a good many more than forty-oight in training, but when the day ar- rived, only that number was found to be in condition to enter. Five ata time the mites marchod upon a na platform opposite the judges’ chairs, This was what occurred, aceording to the San Francisco Examiner. “Harrtet Smith,” said the chiof judge, sternly, ay ‘state citrus fa Miss Smith was a° most dignitied damsel of two years and a half. Sho was not to be rufied by any Judge, be ho never so majestic. “Tate, titrus” tair," sho announced with an air of jality. picture-book, H suid the judg ttrotted proudly aw. of the contest. “Clementina fair, erict. You may The dignitied She was out ‘state y, say citrus ow Clemontina was a trifle [right ened. But she bore up bravely “stato,” she bogan very distinetly, *State — 0-0-0—" the words were lost in a storm of tears Clonenting was borue away, walling pit- consly. Theé next mite was more successful. Sho was 4 very dumpling of a child, with around face as swoetand freshas a blush rose. She tiptoed cautiously to the very edge of the platform. She raised her chubby hand a8 in warnmg. Hor eyes were wide and uwe-struck. “Stato ciirus fair) she said, in an indescribubly mysterious whisper, “You may sit down,"” said the judge, The toddiing mite gravely sat down, with her pudgy arms cally folded. She was ono of the victors, After her came a grinning morsel, just as round and’ good-natured as a kitten, He was just a trifie over two years, and_his kinky wool was tied up with a gorgeous yellow ribbon, He was evidently bursting with pride at the festivity of his attire, and he swaggered up to the platform. “Sthate thiruth fa'r,” ho shouted in ear- splitting tones, He wasmota whit discomfited by tho an- nouncement that he would not win the prize, Ho_ seized the gayly colored book given him and strutted good-humoredly away. Thero were five prizes offered, snd from all the competitors the five best were selected to try for the first prize. This was & crucial hour, an men’s souls, Miss Eunico Gordon won a proud victory. She recoived $10—the first prize. Miss Bupico Gordon was born February 188, She is a dainty little creaturo, with floss silk hair and pansy eyes. She said the mystic words in an excited, hur- ried voice, in this wiso: “Stato—Citrus— Fair—Now —~Gimme—the —Money. Hazel Ralston was gowned and bonneted in sombre black, but she looked anything but sombre when she seizod a shining & pioce in her dimpled fist. She was a_quaint, old- tashioned toddlor, and she emphasized every word of her brief address with a docp obeis- ance, Oleo Cain was theonly boy in it. He rushed impetuously forward and shouted “State,"at the top of his voice; then he stopped short. “Citrus fair he 'faltered in -weak, trom- bling accents, But he recoived his 83, His oyes sparkled when he saw them. “E—c-e," ho gasped, *ain’t they big?” Lucills ' Parmetee looked as pleased as Punch or as pleased as heis supposed tolook. She won $2. A dimpled infant with a regular Cupld's bow of a mouth, received 1. Her name was Julia Plymire, at the dollar with a pu Then her face lit up. “Me-mine-me-mine,* she shrieked. And everybody there wishod they could hug her. Aft wholo thing was reign Not for long, however. Lungs of oneof the contestants came shrill shrieks mingled with sharp canine barks. When the anxious mother arrived upon the scone she fonnd her hopeful weeping bitterly. A big-cared Puppy satnear him, whintie dejectedly, “Bad doggie,” he sobbed,*‘won't tay titrus fair.” hour to try She looked ed expression. peace vom the “‘Dress makes the man” is often said As we journcy on thro' life. It unmakes him, too, if he happens to have A dear and expensive wife. She—I was at their marriage, but loat sight of them afterward. Did they get along well together! He—Yes. Hoelived at his club in New York and she boarded in New Orleans. There are ouly 200 womon preachers in this country. Still most married mo think thoy have olie, ‘There are 2,700 husbands in New York city, it is stated, who are supported by their wives. “If there is one time more than another,’ says an experienced marrled man, “when' a woman should be left alone, itis when aline of clothes comes down iu the mud.” An Atchison woman says that her hushand has four good duys, and then three bad days. Hechanges twice o week, or 10+ times a year, What made Chauncey M. Depew drop the solace of u cigar! Mrs. Depew presented him with a box ou his birthday ana made him promise not o give them to his fricnds. As hebad a desire to see other birthdays he quit smoking. When into his domestic Man s to bring a force bill, He'll find this rule of mightand main Will end in a divorce mill, A Germadl left his wifein the oid country fourteen years ago and settled in W hitewater, Wis., aud marnied again, About six weeks ago his deserted wife dreamed of nis location and camo over and went direct to the town, the street, the house, and her old man now xirls Iu‘Jnll and wonders about the magnetism of souls, A wealthy Atcl reign n woman made her will recently, and sho says in it that at the end of five years all her fortune is to be given to her husband if he can provo that he has visited her grave ten times in that h of time, o1 L rabh Bernhardy lefy ¥ huge trunks full of the fine brought to America. he would last nearly two vears. Nextt France she loved America and the An he opened in New York atthe Gar- tor on February 2 and will play there five woeks, following with Washing- ton, Philadeiohia (opora house, one weok, March 23, opening in *‘La Tosca’), Boston. Montreal, Detroit, Indimapolis, Loni’ aud Denver, opening at San Francisco April 24. On May 2 she will start for Australia, playing at Melbourne, Syduey, Adelaide and Srisbane. She will open again &t ‘Frisco September 253 then to Mexico, Havana, South 'America, New York, London and St. Petersburg. Her reportoire includes “Cleopatra” and possibly @ now piece, “Fraucois Prenner,” by an Ital- ian author. ' With her she brings an asp and a huge white spotted with black Danish boar- bound, one of the finest specimens alive, Hor leading man will be the excellent fetor, Duguensne, who ¥as here with Coquelin and Hading. RECEIVED NEW A 1ot of vory fine Jups Gold s foFel g Jupuncee Imported Hartz Mou Canaries warranted Cluss Singers .50 each, minles 815 each. Taiking Parrots from $15.00 up. hod Mockingbirds, ench singer. Virginla Cardinals, each singer, ! y fine tull-blooded white Hulldog #20.00. re with fifty t wardrobe ever aid her tour .00 (%3 St., OxmanA, Neo | MAX G- SLER, 417 Soutn 1n DIPHTHERTA RAVAGES Agonizing Exporience of a Parent Wha Lost Two S:ns in the Brief Spaco of Five Days from the Diseascs But Whon Other Children Were Similarly AfMicted at & Later Da'e He Hal a Remedy That Saveld Them. Salt Lake City, Jan. 23" 1801, For the bonefit of the publie, I give my oxpor ience with diptherin, 1 know this disense when I sce itas IThave had iy in my house throo difforent times. Threo yoars ago, Llost two boys in five days from diptherin. My firstexpernce with Microbe Killer in this dreadful disease was inmy own family, T had two child- ron tak down with diptheria enrly last fall. They 1 patchoes in their throats, fover, and every symptom of the disense, Iat once gave them each o winoglass of No. 2 M. K. and repeatod ftin a few minutes. I then gave them asmaller quantity every thirty minutes for about three hours, Then let them rost until morning $ind repeated the treatmont until noon, when all traces of the trouble had vanished, I continued giving them small doses four timesa day for throe days. Tho cure was perfect. My next case was in tho family of Mr. Jus. Bishop. I wisited him; when his first child was lying dead, and ade vised him to use the Microbo Killer should any of his other children ba taken, Telaid his hand upon his lit- tlo boy's head and sald: “T dread this one being taken worse than the one that hue died, hecause 1 feel that he would have a poorer chanee of recovery. Ho is a weakly child and has been kept in the house with the other during it's sickness, and I know the disease would wo hard with him.” Three day's later, he informed me that his little hoy waa soriously sick: ymptoms wera croupy from the beginning. (The first had died of diptherie eroun, which fs considered the worst form of the malady. | Mr. Bishop then asked me, ns a friend “Can Irely on M. K. alone?” I told him emphatically **Yos,” but if he thought nocessary, to uso a little liquor a8 a stimulant. He commenced giving the M. K. about 6:00 p. m., one_tablespoon- ful every filtoen minutos. He also used it frequently as a gargle. The next morning, the boy broke out in a profuse sweat, and the disease was mastered, though the treatmeat was kept up for sevoral days. The mombrane — was thrown up on the second day, and Mr. Bishop described it as being neariy as thick asa pencil and like atwisted string I saw tho boy nearly a week later. and he was perfectly cured. No nasal twang, no symptoms of paralysis, nor any of the usual after effects of a bad caso of diptherin, The Doctor who treated the first child saw the results of the use of Microbe Killer in this case and was dumbfounded. Inexttreated four cases in one family. They used the Microbe Killer and fully recovered. There has been a great many cases of diptheria in this city, probably as many as ten others within the lastt hirty days, where the M. K. has been used, and it has not failed to cure in a single in- stance. Mr. Benion of Taylorsville, south of thie city, had six children down at one time, one of them a baby thirteen woeks old, The Doctors said they had black diptheria. These were all cured by the M. K., as well as a great many others in the same town. A lady treated them, using as many as fourteen jugs in ten days. Snhe saved every case. Diptheria was epidemic in the town, schools closed and all public gathoerings prohibited. The success whichattended her, in com- parison with the Doctors was so marked that she was aslked by them what kind of medicine she used, She told them it was M. K. Iean give you a great many other »s that have been cured by M. K. Wishing you overy success, L re- main yours truly. D. L. DAVIS, Me. Davis is a prominent mholesale merchant of Salt Luke City. Additional information will be cheer fully furnished by the Micrube Killer Co..St. Joseph, Mo. For Sale in Omana by Sherman & McConnell, Kuhn &Co., Max Becht. A. D. Foster, Council Bluffs. DR. J. E. McGREW, THE SPECIALIST. More Than Fifteen Years Experience in the Treatment of PRIVATE DISEASES out the 1oss of an hour's time. STRICTUR Acure Iy in fro five da Pormanently pain or In<tr: ting: no allatin y known to modern sclence. cured without emarkublo rem Cured 1n ) to 6 days. Grew’s treatment. for blood disease hns boon unood the most powerful and suceessful romedy ever dis- covered £or the absolute oure of this dixe Il Bsuccons with this disos % uover been equallod. A COmDLELe CUFe GUA KANTEED LOST MANHOOD fhot s ousnoss, mod ol atural discharges, are absolutely cured. Rellof Ly mmodinte and completo. SKIN DISEASES manently cured. FEMALE DISEASE curd truly n completo, con LADIES £100 2 10 4 ONL! DR. McGREW'S In oharacter, and from the Atlantle to' 4 3 n graduste of “iEGULA K" medicino and has had loag and careful experience M hospiral practico, and is claswed among the leading specialist 1n_modern atment by coFrespon Book or clreulars about each of (ho above disvases, FILEE. Office, 14th and Farnam Sts,, Omaha, Neb. Entrance oo elthor street. y, & VALUABLE TREATISE on this diseaso o any pufe 0o will wend me hoir Expross aod P.0.ad ross, 2. A Slocum, ML (. 181 Pearl Bty N, X Dr. Ma. s terrible Rhoumatism and all dis- euses of the bload, liver, kidneys aad bladdor par= Bar dis i ness sna of the or biadder et and Book fres, marvelous snccoss h won for him aro which 1s truly SUMPTION, bove disedno