Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 4, 1891, Page 13

SPORTS OF INDIAN SUMMER. | o Quack of the Mallard Making Music in the Marsh, fl([ SANDBAGGING OF UNCLE ANSE. 0 Closing Fall Races--The Flight of the Wild Duck—Wilkes vs Ryan ~The Bykers and Breezy Local Squibs, t'he sportsman’s harvest has begun, Every Gwner of dog and gun is in a fever of im- Patience, and from morn till night the whole @ountry will soon resound with their uproar. ¥rom stubble field to hazel patch, and from Bazel patch to wood, nod back again, will Bome the reverberation of burniog powder, zxm visions of quail on toast will fill many a anquet ball; frow end to end and border to bordor, the marshy expanse will vibrate with @ischarge and echo, and nowhere within its Feedy confines can teal or mallard, canvas- back, redhead or widgeon find place or rest for his webbed feet. Kven the poor bittern ®ad herons, narnidess and worthless, fiap affrightedly to aud fro from one unsato re- ireat to another in unceasing jeopardy at the ands of veteran and tyro who can cover beir slow and awkward flight. very few places have as many attractions for oue fond of hunting as Nebraska. For those who love to tell of exploits of prowess ‘with shotgun or rifle, whose awbition is to hine as crack shots and skillful hunters, this state offers advantages almost unsur- assed. Between Omaba und the sand-hills f Box Butte county and the Niobrara and Republican valleys, one may find every Bpecies of choico game, from the antelope to tho fox squirrol, and the Canada goose to the tiny reed bird. It is truo there are no elophants in Ne- braska, and neither rhinoceros, lion or tiger, but if one yearns for aanger and can find no sport in hunting unless the risk is great, he can, at littlo expense or trouble, run over amidst the gloomy mountains of Colorado or Wyoming, and they will probably fina the festivo grizzly or cinnamon sufficiently enter- faining. An ordinary wildcat, and they are plentiful in tho timber lands along the river bottoms, is a pleasant little creature, and a big gray wolf has been known to furnish cousiderable divertisement if not killed at the first shot. The coyote is not as game as an ongle nor as ferocious as his Arctic cousin, but will make a pretty decent sort of a fight when ouce convinced that speed {2 n failro ‘and rotreat cut oft. But t is not of the major game I wish to speak, for s every one kuows our rapidly advancing and increasing population is fast pushing all species of this sort over tho bor- ders, but in the lesser varioties, particularly of the feathered family, it abounds in wild profusion. The big honking Canada, the wary sandbill, the white, snow and speckled oose, the toothsome canvasback, the whiz- fng teal, plump and quacking mallard, lus- clous redhead, bluebill, widgeon, butter ball, mergauzer, and the despised, but not wholly useless mud hen, are to be found upon every marsh. Prairie chicken and sharp tailed grouse are found inall the foot hills ana great valioys; auail are plentiful from the city limits to the lino of adjacent states; the Wilson snipe in every fenny or boggy bottom land, plover on the uplands and doves in ev- ery stubble, millet field and highway. Rob- ins, meadow larks and flickers are among the umbler game, but a dainty dish of any of hem will make a meal fi for a king. Any one in Omaha who owns a gun or can bee, borrow or steal something that will shoot can have a day’s sport at very slight expense. It is true the Judge Dundys’, the Henry 1fomans’ and the John Pettys' have it‘m"v complaiued that they can no longer nock over their buffalo back of the post- oftice or pot black bear in_Jefforson squure, but if one wants to kill a dear or an antelope Bnd owns arifle and knows how to use it, he can do it within twenty-four hours travel, and any one loaded for bear, it they don't care to go to too much trouble and expense, oan jump on the motor, run out to Benson @ud take a shot at a couple of young cinna- mons caged out there. As for quail and ducks,they can be found within a short drive from the corner of Fifteenth and Farnam streets, though of course one must go farther afield for anything like real sport. Though game is not as plentiful in pluces it was a few that is moro due to the lucrease of population and hunt- ers driving it to quieter precinets than to any alarming 4epletion of the species. Birds and animas soon learn to stay away from a place where thoy are constantly disturbed, Generally speaking tho state of Nebraska, §n the wollow autumn season, is one vast ame preserve, and as tho game laws are ro- pected to a cortain extent, a good day's sport is attainablo by any one willing to take the trouble of getting there. Wild fowl will shortly be the most plenti- fu! game around here, and good shooting can be counted on at any one of the innumerable feeding grounas: ‘Waubuncey, Whitin, Missouri Valley, Sweet Water, Honey creok, Horseshos, Bancroft, Norfolk, along the Elkhorn orany of the rivers or lakes at farther distances, Later in the soason one can always find ducks early in the morning and late at eveu- {ng at the Cut-Off marshes, but it is gener- ally hard work. But these, and down the Missouri a few miles, av the ' nearest placos where oue can gotafow good chances at teal or mallard. Sometimes & 00d bag can be made in the 0w lands east of Calhoun. It is an easy trip and worth trying when there is a good Hight on. And thén, t0o, good bags are often mads t Cut-Off lake. About a half hour before usk the ducks como 1n flying both north and south. Thoy fly rather low, but they como 30 fast that you must hold well ahoad, or our chance i gone. ‘Chore is not muelr foed ero, and, unlike birds in_quest of this, the have no object in life except to cover aistanco and they ulways seem in a match race, so of vourse are hard to kill. A blue wing coming down the wind at dusk at the rate of ninety miles an hour requires the eye and nerveof a Purmeleo or Kenuedy to stop, and yet I have often heard alleged sportsmen declare that wildfowl shooting requires less skill than the slaughtor of the straight flying quail, How- ver, there is a popular projudice, and iv is founded on good grounds, against the birds killed in this malodorous region, and in fact some years ago most of tho ducks killed about Cut-Off do bave a fishy flavor, ‘Chere 1S no trace of the finny tribe, howevor, n the ducks killed on the he Whiting or Barlott marshes. Thero hoy got the smart weed, nut grass and dest of all, the whito roots of the vallisaeria spiralis, known to the gurner as wild celory. Thero is nothing like our common celer pbout this plant, however, forit is a thin, harrow grasslike blade always found eu' twised with its nearest neighbor. It does ive, though, to the fiesh of tha birds a do- ightfully pungent flavor closely akin to table colery. The canvasback aid blue are reat divers and prefer the roots of the Eoiralis to any othbr food, and aro alway followed about by the red head, widgeon and mallard, who either capture part of the fruit of tho diver's labor or wait and feed on the rofuse loft, which 1s found about their “using” places, The commoner ducks that foed on tho tops of grass and other vegeta- tion nover approach the fine flavor of tne ducks mentioned. Prairie ohickon shooting, despite the beavy inroads made upon them by market Bnd pot hunters months beforo the season opened, is still reported good In most dis- tant sections of the state, and the fuall shooting this fall promisos botter yport than at any time within a period of fifteen wears, Tho birds can bo found almost uny- Whero within a radius of twents miles, or all over tho state, even, in localities suited to their poculiar’ tastes. There are but fow woodcock in Nebrasks, and in fact they are B raro bird anywhere; but snive, their first cousins, und I even deom a choicer bird, that 18 the Wilson, are to be found in countless numbers in both fall and spring on auy of the noighboring low lands. The fall season for the Jacks will open up in all its glory be- fora auother balf month,but as yet few have oome iuto the market, Papa Anson is Sandbagged. Chicago and Sioux City will not wrestle for the chumplonship of the world after all, for Chicago missed connections on ber last trip for the league pennant. The New York Pigmies, in their malicious pique, laid down In five straight games before Frank Selee's Ien, aud this gave Boston the coveted buut- jng. That Chicago was robbed of the bonor, Jough, there isu't one base ball crauk in THE OMAHA DAILY BEE, 10,000 but who wiil agree on that point. In not ons of the closing games with the Bean- eaters did tho New Yorks piten either Rusie or Ewing, their crack twirlers, They de- pended in all five games on such timber as young Coughlin and Sullivan, and were beaten in every game save the last with ludi- crous ease. So much for the arrangoment that closed the season in the league with the eastern clubs pitted against tho cast and the westorn against the west. While there isn’t hardly a possible doubt of a high- handed outrage in the settlement of supre- macy in the league, Chicago daro not make much of & “roa bo status of base ball affairs is too precarious and problematical to permit of any internal strife or dissension at this time. Pa Anson, however, i3 now con- vinced of the corrosive qualities in the irony of fate. He may ‘“beer” and lament. and froth at the mouth, but no determined effort will be made to right the wrong that has been done him. He must eventually submit, This is ail tho more bitter, when it is remembered that he won the pennant honestly and squarely, and that too, with the cheapest team in the league, and it probably this very fact that Dbvought _ about the combine to beat him. It was gall and wormwood to New York, Bos- ton, Brooklyn ana Philadelphia to sce the highest horiors to be attained in a long and arduous season, go to the untried team of the western metropolis. And then, too, Anson is tho most_thoroughly despisod maa thero is in vase ball today, among ball play ors themselves, and there is a sort of uni- versal rejoicing in the ranks of all the com- peting clubs. Heis the ablest general of them all,which accounts for his unpopularity. This rape of the pennant, however, may boar good fruit, for it is reasonablo to sup pose that 1t will operate as a strong avgument for peace between the league and the A weri- can ussoication, upon which the salvation of the game hinges. The loague dares not ente into a fight avainst itself, and for the nonce the wronged raust necessarily acquiesce in tho evil that has been dono them. If eversthing was harmonious in the baseball world, is thero one so weak as to suppose for a moment that Chicago, proud, arrogant and powerful as she is, would Succumb to this piece of barcfaced sandbagging? Not much. She would go on to Boston and punch tho Beaneaters irto the bay, one by one, until the whole population was sacrificed, before sho would give up that rag. But sho dassent do it now. Already the American is threat- ening to put a team in atthe Windy City next season, and peaco and harmony and uni- versal good will, is what they most want just now. AS the situation now stands Boston will play Boston for the world’s championship and Chicago and Sioux City will indulge in a cousolation series up at Sioux City next week. This series, however, will be every whit as interesting and count as much us though the Chicagos had not been cheated out of tho honors they so royally won among their own fellows. The Flight of the Wild Duck. A number of geatlemen interested in shoot- ing wore congregated at Cross’ gun store last oveaing discussing the fall season when the conversation turned on tho speed of wild ducks, 8 subject in which the gunners of tnis city will shortly be intensely interested, and oue on which there is some diversity of opinion. John Potty, probably one of the best shots on wild fowl in tho west said: “1 have had a good deal of experience with wild fowl, but what I am going to tell you I have gathered in the main from others, and it can be relied upon. 1 can tell you within a fraction about how much space any one of thom can get over in au hour, There 1s not & railroad train that can hold a candle the slowest duck that flies. “But the canvasback is the racer of them all, if he lays himself out to his work. When this duck is taking things easy, enjoying a little trip around tho block, as it were, ho goes through the airat a rate'of about eighty miles an_hour. If he has business some- where and has to get thero ho puts at least two miles behind him every minute and does it easily. If you don’t beliovo this just fire square at the leader in a string of canvas- backs who Arc out on a busiuess cruise some time. Shot travel pretty fast, and if you happen Lo bit one of the birds see if it is hot the sixth or seventh one back of the drake or leader. A drake does not always lead, but generally does if thero 1 one in the flock; if there are more they soldom take the lead, but a wise old hen will bo.' found there. If you wish to bring her down you mustaim at least eight foet ahead of her, and if sho falls, you will find hera long distance off, say soveral hun- dred vards, “The mallard 15 slower; it1s all he can do” to mako a mile a minute, buthe can do it if he wants to. His regular flight is about for- ty-five miles an hour. “Tho black duck is a closo relative of the mallard, s also siow compared with the can- vasback, and the putail, widgeon and wood- duck are but littio faster. Tuo redhead can go easy and make ninety miles an hour as long as he likes, all day ‘if necessary. The blue wing teal, and his” beautiful cousin, the groen wing, can fly side by side and make 100 miles an hour without turning a feather. ““And maybe you think a wild gooso can't fly. Buthe can. If you seea flock of big Canadas moving nloug so high up that thoy seom to bo scraping the sky with their backs, you would hardly think that_ they were mak- ing a hundred miles an hour, but they are. The wild goose is not much of a pedestrian, but on the wing ho is a hummer.” to A Match for November. Negotiations are pending botween the man- gement of the Magic City Athletic club and Tom Ryan, the champion welterweight of Chicago, and Jack Wilies of St. Lous, for a contost before this club i November. The club has signified a witlingness to haog up a $1,000 purse, and Wilkes is aoxious for the mateh, RRyan, however, by reason of his do- cisive victory' ovor Danny Needham last spring, has a much more exalted opinion of his worth as o pugilistic attraction, ana claims that §1,000 is not enough meney. How- ever, in the light that it will be like picking berries off the bushes, as one of his friends putsit, he way yet accept. Pugilists, like base bull players, havo a queer idea of the value of mouey, but tho signs of the times are that both will be brought to a proper realization of their worth beforo the lapse of mauy more yeurs or be compelled to go to work. In speaking of the Maglo City club, by " the way, and its prediliction for scraps in which Jack Wilkes may figure, it might be well to state here that they have tho making of a match that would beat » match with Ltyan out of sight, if they sen proper to make it. Harry McCoy —and he is a corker—of Burlingtou is starv- ing for a fight, end would be unly too willing t0 come here and meet Wilkes for oven a loss purso than §1,000. The club need have no ap- prehensions as to the capabilities of this man, for he is all right. Just now he, too, is on- deavoring to come. to terms with Ryan, or rather is endeavoring to devise ways and meaus for tho welterweight's meeting him, as ho himself offers every possible iuduce: ment for the Windy City mau to come to time. If the Magic City olub wants a good attrac- tion, & cheap oue, and one that can be secured without trouble or expense, let it hang up purse for McCoy aud Wilkes. Thero is £00 at the Dismond for anybody at any time, that the Burlington mian can whip Mr. Wilkes, 'he Valley Wheel Tourney. A bicyele tournament will be held at Mis souri Valloy one week from Wednesday next, under the ausploes of the Missouri Valley Whoel club. Following is the pro- gramme First Race—One mile uovice, ordinary. First, gold modal, $10; second, silver medal, Second Race—One mile novice, safety, :lhl. gold medal, §10; second, silver medal, 5. v 5 Thira Raco—One milo, open ordinary. First, gold wateh, $10; second, John Ander- son's bioyele suit, $10; third, Cramer Bros. silkc umbrella, § ‘ourth Kaco—Three mile, open, ordinary. First, Missouri Valley Whoel club'prize, $15; second, T, Foss' chair, $10; third, Bachrach & Co.’s silk hat, §7.50. Fifth Raco—One-halt orainary. First, Stern §7.50: second, revolver, §. Sixth Race—One-half mile Missour: Valley Wheel club, safoty. First, silver cup, $10. Soventh ' Raco—One-half mile Missourl Valiey Whoel club, ordinary. First. Silver cup, 810, Eighth Race—One milo safety open Gold wateh, #40; second. Cyclometer, third, Tinkle's haud satchel, . Nith Raco—Quarter milo dash in heats. First. Half dozen photos, 11x14, Roed, #8; second. (. B. Smith rug, §. Teath ' Race—Oue-half mile ssfoty opeu. mile run and ride & Co.'s silk vest, First. 1 two by | Minneapolis and _St. First. Broeoh loading shotgun, $35; second. Pair tailor mado pants, $10. Eloventh Race—Consolation, one-half mile safety. First. (ola medal, #10; socond. Box ~of cigars, 81; third. Leather medal. Mr. Jack Kastman ot this city bas beon appointed referee. The Fall Trotting Event. The fall meeting of the Union Park Trot- tine assoclation will be held at the Council Bluffs course, October 20, 21, 22 and 23, and the management is making preparations for some extra good sport. The purses aggregaet nearly $5,000, and a large number of speedy horses have already been entered, and more aro coming in every day. The entries close Monday, October 12, _i®ull particulars can bo had by addressing Nat Brown, socretary, Morchants hotel, this city. The programme: First duy, Tuesday, October 20-2:20 trotting, purse &407: ' 2:3) pacing, purse $40 r-old trotting. stake $100, Second day, We ay. October Y trotting, purse $400; 2:27 trotting, purse 3 r-old trotting, stake #100, Third day, Thursday, October 5 trot- ting, purse 8i00; 2:30 pacing, purse #00; free- for-all trotting, purse M00; stock yurds derby, stako 8100; one milo dash for stock yards horses onl, urth ¢ y October 2~ trot- ting. purse $100; free-for-ull pacing. purso #400; froe-for-all stalllons. trotting, purse $400. The 'Pareils are Willing. Omama, Oct. 2.—To the Sporting Editor of Tue Bee: The cranks of Omaha are thirsty for some good amateur base bail, and the Noupareils ought to arrange a game wsth tho team that represents Lemars, la. They are about a match and would b a drawing card, The Nonpareils could well afford a suflicient guarantee, as an averoge crowd of 1,000 people have been attending the poorer games at their park. A game like this would necessitate an increase of seating accommo- dations I think. EX-LEMARSAN 2.8 Fri The State Stallion Kecord, Syracusk, Neb., Oct. 2.—To the Sporting Editor of Tur Ber: At the trotting meeting over the Review track, on Saturday, Sep- tember 26, Shadelanda Onward trotted to a record of 2:1814. This is the fastest record evor made by a stallion in Nebraska. Roxy Leo, a chestnut mare owned by R. L. M- Joseph, Mo., got a record of 5¢; Eli, brown gelding, 2:201¢. D. T. Hill, Secretary. Snorts From the Charlie Horse. Jack Crooks goes to the Boston league club next season. Jocko Fields is catching for the Philadel- vhia league club, Old Cy Sutcliffe will occupy first for Wash- ington next year. President Krauthoff doesn’t think tho out- look for peace is very bright. Meakin of Sioux City was ono of the pitch- ors Kansas City coulan’t hit. All the Denver playors have beon reservod for 1392, paid off aud sent homo, Manager Selee of the Boston club is quite a proporty Lolder in Lynn, Mass. Billy Hoover, notwithstanding his lushing, leads the Kansas City team at tho bat. Swartwood has gotten to b quite a base- runner. For a largo man ho is pretty rapid. Kansas City i3 a great ball town. It drow 5,000 peoplo last Sunday to an exhibition game. Danny Stearns plays the pool rooms protty nard aud will probably domuch of it this winter. Kansas City proposas to hang on to Stei n and Dungan next season. They are too good to let go. Herman Bader, one of Omaha's 87 toam, stole 104 basos this season in tho Eastorn as- sociation. Tim O'Rourke, of Columbus, seems able to hold his own among American association third basemen, In the Sioux City ball team but two men got ovar 300 in batting. They were Swart- wood and O'Brien. Emslio has the best, cloarest and loudest voice of any umpire now in tho league, so says the Sporting Life. The Lincoln club is said to owo its players something like 5,000, but Omaha's teams were both paid up in full. Burkett, sinco he re-entered the league, bas been doing just as heavy work with the bat as when he was with the Giants. DShannon has been of no earthly uso to Washington.—Washington Star. = What's that! Who 1s Shannon, anyway? A great many players have already signed for noxt season, and thoy have shown good judgrent in gotting in under cover. “Red” Walsh and “Flip” McGraw_aro not holding up their end in Baltimore. Walsh is the better of the two.—The Times. Ted Sullivan has signed Catcher Billy Moran and the left-handed pitcher Hugh Bennett of the Jolict club, for St. Louis. Monk Cline is oucu wiore a Louisville plaver—Donovan’s successor in tho outfield of that club. How the veterans will bob up! Omaha’s prospects for a ball team are not quite as somore as they were. Tmx Bre will have news for the cranks are many weoks clapse. Jack Creoks may not bo indisputably the best second baseman of the association, but he undoubtealy is tho king-pin of tho Col- umbus club. Deuver had fivo men with & batting aver- ago of over .300. They were Beard, .330; Tebeau, Burns, .343; O'Connor, .304] Spraguo. .32 Tho Boston Assoclation team wants 1illy Earte of Sioux City. Karle has caught the game of s lifc this season. His work has been remarkable. In Lynch, Gaffnoy, McQuade, Hurst and Emslie tho leaguo has the finest ana most cflicient statf of empires it ever had. It would bo hard to excel. The Evening Wisconsin will present tho most popularplayer in the Milwaukee team with a §150 gotd medal, the winner to be de- decided on by ballots. Packard of Denver, wants to form a six- olub league next season with Denver, Kansas City, Omaha, St. Joseph, Sioux City and an: other town out further west. ~ Snyder managed the Washington tail- endors as well as tney could be managed, Shannon, as & _manager, has beon & worse failuro than Sam Trott,.—The Post. Hey, there ! Denver was tho heayy hitting team in the western association. The champion Sioux couldn’t bat a little bit. It is doubtful if any team ever won a peanant that did as little hard hitting, Elmer Smith éxpeats to do good work next season. Hesays he pitches his game every other woak. Ho will bo retained by Kansas City, however, s ho hits woll and is a passa- bly good outfielder. or somo reason Halligan is never called William, which is his real Christian name, Everybody calls him Jocko since he was so dubbed by Tuk Owmama Be incinnati Commdreial-Giazotte. There will be many changes next season in tho make-up of several leaguo teams, and it will be interesting to watch the result of an infusion of young players into the ranks of tho old-timers 5 Gaffuey s once more an umpiro in areal major league, baving been transferred from the Western association to the Natioual leaguo. ~Gaff says ho was glad to got out of the wild and weird west with hus life. Josse Burkoett has shown up exceedingly well with Cieveland. Ho loads off in good style and stands up near the top of the list in batting and flelding. Some years ago Burlkett was & well known professional roller skater. Perry Werden's poor work in Baltimore of late is attributed by many to the bleachers, who made a mark of bim. He lost his head eutirely after the crowd began jeering him about having once been the driver of a St. Louis beer wagon, No pitcher in the Western association has this season done better work than Billy Hart of Sioux City, and it is among the probabili- ties that he may again be taken into the major league fold—that is, if Sioux City is out of it for good, after the world's series. The Boston League club telographed the sporting editor the other day to sign Big Sam Duogan, 1f ho cousidered him fast euough for the league. The reply sent back was that Duugan was fast enough for any league, that he was in Kansas City and that Boston would do well in snaring him. President Krauthoff of the Western associ- ation, says there is no doubt there will be a Wostern association next year. He thinks a good circuit could -be formed by takiug in [ndianapolis, Detroit, Toledo and Girand Kap- ids. The west end of this circuit would be Paul, Kansas City, Owmaha or Sioux City, —~Courier-Journal. Aud zow the old enthuslasts and earuiest SUNDAY OGIOBER supportors of the game akthe national capital aro howling for Daniel S ¢Q:nun’| scalp lock, and if ho lasts to the clode O the season he will do weil, The tumescent condition of Mr. Shannon's head bas Wmeiiorated during tho last mouth and he may agaiu be able to woear hisold hat—the ono 'Dick MeCormick gave him, Jim Manning is down on his luck. Ho feels very much broke up over the Western associ- ation flasco. The playing of the Kausas City team this season may Yesult in Manning being shelved next year as faras tho man agership is concernod. Tho Kansas City papers avo insisting on & manager who fsn't 50 “chummy’’ with his men. It is thought Manning was too lax in his discipline, The last aspirant, for midAgerial honors in Washiugton was Dan Shannon, a young man who came out of the west with a little band of Omaka braves, and a reputation for being asuro winner when the chances were any thing like even. He was to revoiutionize base ball in the Capital City, and make such managers as Auson, Harty Wrignt and all of tho great lights in the loague and the associa- tion_turn green with envy. It was “Dan this” “apd “Dan that” around Washington headquarters for some time, and those who were inclined to criticise his methods were told to “*be patient, Dan will get there in due time.” Now, the very roen who were most enthusiastic over Dan declare he is no_good, and it is reported from headquarters that he will be fired as soon as the championship series in over. Whisperings of the Wheel. Waterloo today, let everybody turn out. The Tourists pedal down to Glennwood today. Holton and Potter will ride a full Humber racing tandem noxt season. The captain of the Tourist Wheelmen re- ports 2,953 miles for the past month, The Omaha Wheel club's eyclo library is one of the most complete in ahe west. Billy Schnell has forsaken the G. O. O. ana now does his spriuting on an Ormande pucumatic tired racer—a safety, too! The tourists failed to bave their “pictures tooken’ last Sunday on nccount of the rain Tho event vas postponed until Sunday the 11th inst, Omaba did quite well at the Peoria meet cousidering ail things. Omaha's racing men are rapidlv becoming known outside of the local circle. _ Messenger boys in some of the eastern cit- ies use wheels to quicken their pace. Some of the Omaba kids have been riding forsome me but the pace remains the same, “Prince” Fck, he of the silver locks, is making a great effort to create his six day go as you pleaso professional bicycie race one of the events of this season’s programme. Havo you had your cigar yet! James E. Ebersolo, the Otaha Wheel " ‘ub's popular vice president, and his bride bave returned from a honeymoon trip into the *‘far east.” Nobraska division has 105 members—only five more and we will bave reached the 200 mark. Boys, cen’t we rustle up the required quintet and secure the other ropresentative! “These cool evenings have tleir effect upon the wheelmen. Just glance in at the pleasan® little card parties at the club house any night of the week and beuold the wonderful magic at work. A. H. Perrigo, with his accustomed enter- prise, has moved a portion of his bicycle em- porium out to the Coliseum where ho has ar- ranged quite a pretty exhibit of cycles and cycle supplies. Frank Arthur, treasurer of the Missouri Vatley Wheel club, was a visitor to ths Gate City last week. He improved his opportuni- ty and boomed the coming tournament for all hie was worth. The Omaha Wheel club started for Water- loo Sunday morning after the shower, but were compelled to postpone the pleasant trip until today. Mud has a tendency to suck in the forks you know. On_ the 2tk {nst. Edze, the great English racer, rode from Loudon to Edinburgh, a dis- tanco of 307 miles, in the remarkable time of of 3 hours and {45 minutes, establishing a record for that distance. ‘Through the kindnessof Mr. Elton, the proprictor of the Klton vineyards, Me: Potter, Denman and Holton of the Tourists were enabled to sample some of the luscious fruit fresh from tho vines last Sunday, they being the ouly ones of the Tourists to attend the club run.” Boys, see what you missed. O. L. Colby of the tourist wheelmen left for Texas the 20th ult. which state will_claim him as a citizen henceforth. Mr. Colby's Omaia friends among the wheeling fraternity | wish him abundant success in his new home, Omaha has 1ot an active cyclist and the place ho has vacated will remain unflied for some time. A recent cycle crank’s figures as to the number of wheclwen in the world are some- thing tremendous, He claims 700,000 cyclists of both sexes in Bagland, Wales, Scotiand, Ireland and France, 300,000 in Australia, Kus sia, Germany and other European_countries, The Uuited States i quoted at 900,000—al- ta million. The Missour: Valley Wheel club's tourna- ment, which occurs the l4th iust., will at- ract’a large gathering of Nebraska und Towa Messrs, Kendall, McGavern, Reed and Jones, the committee who have the affair in hand, aro an energetic yuartotte of rustlers and ure'working tooth and toe nail for the success of tho races. They have issued their prize and programme of events, and are scatteriug them broadcast among the wheelmon. Tho half mile track upon which the races wiil be run is an ex- cellent ono a..d will be placed in the cream of condition. Local scorchers, Omaha, Lin- coln, Dos Moines, Sioux City and Fremont fiyers will contend for supremacy. Tho club will tender a_bountiful banquet to the visit- ing wheelmen in tho ovening, and to attend the meet is to enjoy a splendid time, Turn out everyboay and help the good cause along. A train will leave the Council Bluils North- western devot at 9:15 and arrive in Missour Valley about 10:10, leaving there on the re- turn trip abovt 7 o'clock, giving ample time for every oue to enjoy the day's sports. En- trance blanks and prize llsts can bo had of A. H. Porrigoor E. R. Smith. Porterfield of the Omana Whoel ciub, Potter and Denman of the Tourist Wheelmen, Schnell and Pix- ley of the Omaha Athldtic club baye all made numerous entries and some hot races between these gontlemen may be looked for. The standing of tho competitors for the Tourist gold medal is as follows to date: 13 5 fom g 14 John Kelley | B Sothn e E. L Potter 18 ) O, L. Colby 1 3 \\'.mfrnu . . e 14 BL I Bultheeeos s A W.J. Morris. . vene 9 Walla Tavlor... vees vees 9 B. L. Porterfield.. Ty Ly ne Theso have all passed the 100-mile mark; several wkose names do not apoear have not reached the ceutury notohas vet, Questions and Answers, LINCOLN, Sept. #0.--To the Sporting Editor ot Tue Be Will you plegse explain in Sun- day's BEE the difference butween a spore and Sporting mwan and Sportsmui?=-S port. Ans.—A Sport or sporting man refers to a gentlomanly gambler, o race-track follower, @ tough, an ill-bred 'dog fighter or pugilist! while a'sportsman_rofers to a true lover of rod and gun aud field sports, a man who up- holds the game laws and averythiug else that is honorable. UNiox Deror. Oct. {.--To the Sporting E ftor of Tue Bek Ploase state in Sunday BEE the light welght champion of Amerlca bofare Jack Dempsey.--Con Ans—Charlio Norton of Newark, N, J, OMARA, Oot. 2~To the Sportiug Editor of 4, 1891-SIXTEEN | Tne Bee: Please state In ¢ Buck Ewing playing ball this yeal whom and in what position: " Ans.—Buck 18 still with the Now Yorks, but owing to a “glass" arm has done most of his playing on the bench this soason. | . Harry 7., city—John L. Sullivan is 5 feet. 1014 inches in height, L OMANA, Oct. 2=To the Sporting Editor of THe By Please aeclde this bet: Aand B ench choose four teams In the Wostern sso- | elntfon una the one who nanes the team that wins Uio ponuant wins the bot. A chooses Minnoapoils, nsas Olty, Milwaukee wnd Denver B choos Sioux Clty, Lineoin, Omaha and St ul? Does BB win the bet, or 18 it declared off?—A Subscriber. Ans.—B wins tho bet. OMANA. Nob., Oct 2.—To the Sporting Edic tor of THE BEE: A bots a certain prisoner will recelve a sontence of more than 8 days; B bets ho will o recelve 60 days. . The prisoner is acquitted. Who wins the bet?—V. & D, Ans. - Didn't you ho was acquitted! Well, what did B bet? OMAHA, Nob., Oot. 4.—To the Sporting Hdi- tor of Tne Bek: To sottle ap argument, will you please decide on the following: A and B ure Lowling a gamo of “cocked but," and A hus made a pin. B bets A that A will not sther pin. A throws and makes two e shiot. 18 elains that A did aving made two pin A pin. How 13 1t7—Chrls. Hans A wins. Fresoxt, Neb., Oct. fo the Sporting Editor of Te BEE: DA the ball players who wont 1 the world with Spaldiug play foot ballin Australin and Englana? 1f 50 what wis their succe 1 were the games with first rute teams? Plense answer in Tne SUN- DAY BEE.—Jewett. Ans.—They did not. OMAIA, Oct. 2.--To the Sporting Editor of Willyou please answer the enclosed HESUNDAY B nd oblige? When playing ra 1zz1e and two ro partners and make six, do the other threo ake eight ench or do they Is entitled to inday's Bree: Is ¥+ 150, with pors Kight each. Nob., inz Editor of Tie Bee: iowing in SUNDAY'S BE s not ubdy it to by Oct. 1.--To_the Sport- so decide the fol A bets B that New uy county. Officinl ous of (e stite of Lou- located In the parish of Who wins?~John Finfry. Techuically A wins, but that is all, as a parish_in Loulsiana is identical with a county in Nebraska. . Winpsor Horer, Oct. 2. Editor of Tk BEE: We I y right, Flanagan and Smith of the de- et Omalia base ball club. Oanayou tell us where It will reach them?—Clerk Bu r. Ans.— Leadley, Detroit: Wright, Syracuse, N. Y.; Smith, Boston. Don't kiow Flana- gan’s whereabouts, adn w Orleans, Ans. To the Sporting o muil for Lead- Oct. How doc s & pitche To the Sporting Fditor of Kid Nichols rank with 7 Did he shut out the Also give tho years iber of the Na- THE BRI Clarkson w7 in which St. Lou o league.--Nahant. ns.— (1) Nichols’ work this year 1s but a noteh behind that of Clarkson’s, (2) He did not. Boston, however, shut Chicago out June 10, 13 to 0. Nichols won his first game from Anson’s colts September 16. St. Louis was n the leaguo in ’S6 and 'S7. Miscellaneous Local Sports. The Omaha Gun club will meet at Cross’ gun store Tuesday uight to make arrango- ments for their annual club hunt. John Dunmire and Ben Woods are talking of a big trap shooting tournament for the third week in this month. It would be a success. Guuners are making good bags of Virgnia rail on all tho adjacent marsies. W. D. Townsend and Will Hoagland bronght mn thirty-eight one day last week, after two hours' shooting below Manawa. Jack Davis returned from 'F'risco on Mon- day last, still showing some evidences of his encountor with Billy Woods. Davis attrib- utes his downfall to the inofficiency and of- ficiousness of his esquires—particularly Bob Fitzsimmons. O'Connell, who is looking after Pat Killen, writes Ed Rothery that the St. Paul slasher has taken off_twenty pounds since he began traming and is fit to fight tomorrow. Ho adds that Bob Ferguson 1s training as if bis life depended on the battle, Seven English bicyclists have sailed from England to take part in Tom Kck's bicycle tournament at Madison square garden next month. They ~are Arthur Robb, Alfred Robb, Willis’Wood, M. J. O'Flannagan, Wil- liam Lamb, George Edlia and Richard How- ell. The open season for quail began on Thurs- day last, October 1, The birds are extremely plentiful, but it will be tough shooting for a month to come, owing to the rank vegetation, Jack Frost must got in his work on this very | thorougniy before man or dog will experience much pleasure in pursuit of Bob White. Bat Masterson, says tho 'Frisco Adver- | tiser, is enthusiastic over Billy Woods' vie- tory oyer Jack Davis, and now intends to match him against Juke Kilrain. Tis is all bosh, however. It is doubttul whether Masterson has anything further to do with Woods, for he knows he is anything but g first class man, His fiehit with Dayjg although he won, domonstrated this. 0 Informauon Free. Do you know that any old sora or cut can be absolutoly cured by tho intellignt uso of Haller's Barbed Wire Liniment: Bo meroi- ful to your horse and try i “If marriage is a ‘failure,’ " said Sybil, “what on earth is an_engagement?” “Why, only o ‘temporary embarrassment,” respond- od Top. The sister of Mrs. James Brown Potter hias just marricd_a wealthy Frenchman, who evidently discredits the old adage that blood w1l tell.” Ethiel—Edith is a very much_disappointed young woman, Maud—What is the reason! Ethel—She set her cap fora foreign title, and she got nothing but a rich American, Miss Harriet Bell, daughcor of Col. and Mrs, Joseph McC. Bell of Milwaukee, was murried Saturday of last week to Alex Cas- well, formally of Providence, R. I. He—I wish, Laura. that you had a big brother. She—Why! He—So that he couldn't get under’ the sofa. Won't you please call him out and send him co bed ! Not one yet bas advertised for news of a wedding at which the presents were not “mumerous and costly,” but the Penciller expects to see such an advertisement in some paper every day. The “*Rose of Lismore” may find consola- tion from assuming the unromantic name of Hon. 5. Burd Grubb of New Jorsey. She can call him “Burdie'’ and still keep within the strict limits of veracity. Corn Edsull, the actress, gave a dinner in Chicago the evening at which she formally aunounced her engagement to Mr, Frank Higbee, of this city.” Now, if Miss Jausen would only be equaily frank. Wilkins—Will you marry e, $Miss Harto? Miss Harto—This is so sudden,’ Vou surprise me; yes, I will. Wilkins—And, by Jo surprisé me, too. 1 was sure vou wouldn't accept me. So sure in fact thatl had five dollars bet on it. Now I'm five ont. Silly American mothers who conuive at the sending of cablo dispatches from Eurono apnouncing that their daughtors are receiving marked attentions from the Prince of Wales can learn something by studying a recent example. Unsavory notoriety 'is apt to have unpleasant consequences. - Reproving & Masher. A New Yorker who reproved a *‘mash- er’ by knocking out twoof his teeth 1s in danger of death from blood poison- ing. 1t has long been conceded that the “masher” 15 a contemptible reptile, but this is the first case that demonstrates that he is venomous. 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