Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 11, 1891, Page 13

OCTOBER'S BUDGET OF SPORTS How the Western Assooiation Has Been Nourished by the Older Bodies, NOMENCLATURE OF THE SPORTSMAN, A Fundamental Setting Law—Wheel Whisperings—At Union Park— Arcnic News and Dog Rod and Gun. T would be astu- pendous task for any one, no matter how ingenious, to show what earthly use the National league has ever been to the Wes- tern association, but on the other hand an casy mat- ter to show how indispensavle tho Western has been to the | The Western all through its tempestous career has been nothing more or less than & blg training school for the players of the older organization, even down 1o tho season just closed, when the two bod- fes were supposed to enjoy the sume rights aud prorogatives and to stand on an equal footing in all things with each otnor. As 5000 as a playerin the Western asso- clation attained a proficiency in skill to in- sure his holding up his end with fast tho class of the league, by some hook or crook he baus found his way withia the ranks of tho latter. By the liberal use of money, through the connivance of dishonest man- ager o mystic ramifications of the luw,or downright dishonesty, one way or tho other, the league clubs have never failed 10 drain the Western of its star players. To socure them this year, necessitated the anni hilation of the Western assoeiation, which was brought about by the refusalof the Jeaguo to lend o helping hand, when through the disloyalty and tureachery of Dan Shan- non, the Omaha club threatened to go to etocnal smash. Asa proof of the above al- legution, it is but necessa to cast your eye over the list of skilled pluyers who have been extracted, by one means or anotner, from the Westeérn association’s ranks within the past three years, and given berths in the engue. Boston has had Kid Nichols, Harry Staley, Hermun Long, Link Lowe, Joo Quinn and Sam Dungan; Cincinnati, Biily Earle. Jocko Halligan, Tacks Curtis, aud Old Cy Duryea; Cleveland, Jimmy McAleer, Patsey Tebeau and Jack O'Connor; Chicago, Biliy Hutchi- son, Jimy Cooney and Tom Nagle; Phila- delphia, Billy Hamilton; Pittsburg, Jake Beckley, Shugart ana Reilly and Brookiyu, Tom Lovert and Ely. Nor do | mean to exclude the American as- sociation for its share of the glory in dis- rupting and destroying the Western associa tion. When the National league and the American association stood snoulder to shoulder they did as thoy pleased with the Western and robbed her right and left. If either wanted a player from any of the w ern organizations, they either made a bluft at buying him, or literally and deliverately stole him, the' lattec way being the ono in opul® practice. The vresent season has Twen no exception to the rule so far as the association has been concerned. As carly s June last that big Dutch hulk in St. Lows, and who, it might be said, has always been an inimical element in legitimate bascball, began his machinations against the Westorn association, in the tempting offers he made to Clarke, Eiteljorg, Waish, Davies, Ely and others, and which finally’ culminated in the downfall of this organization, Hhe Washingtons, during the last three mouths 0! its existence, was almost wholly made up of Western association players; Cineinnati had Jimmy Canavan; St. Louis gobbled up an invoice of talent from Minne- apolis; Boston stole Hoodlum Grifiths, aud Columbus bought Jack Crooks, = and hes always been justly proud of him, as today ho is the peer of any secord base man living, not_excepting Richardson, Col- lins, Pfeffcr or McPhoe. This year Colum- bus'got Jimmy Donnelly, Larry Tiwitchell, Tim O'Rourke and His Muglets, Clarko while Louisville stole Harry Raymond and Pitcher Meekin at a critical time, and Balti- wore endeavored to induce Walsh, Dar- ling and Killen to jump, and so the story runs all through the past four years. The Western association has been called upon to weather many storms, as Ren Mul- ford truly says, but néver such's cyclone of ill-luck us that'which has all but wiped out the orgavization_ this season. At the peaco congress last November the Westorn was received into full followship asa party to the National agreement, with a mem- bership just as dignified as that of the Nation League and the American Asso- ciation, The history of the insurrection of the latter body and the bresking up of the little family tea party, need not be related here. Mismanagement and treachery were two ovils that encompassed the overthrow of a body that started out joyfully, but carry- ing & burden in the shape of exorbitant sal- ary rolls that would have wrought disaster 1o a eircuit 50 Yur(‘flnl stronger. . Paul died first, but Duluth accepted its franchise, players and percertage. Omaha was betrayed by its own president, but th break here was patched up. Milwaukee's desertion and tho death of Minneapohs, Lin- coln and Duluth were events that quickly followed ono another, leaving but four of the original eight cluts to make a semblanco of a fight to the finish. The chameleon holds the world’s record for lightning changes, but the baseball situa- tlon comes 1n now with a close rub for first choice. The Judge Talks Talk, The same old crowd of shooters and sports- men were gathered about the stoue down at Cross’ gun store last night discussing guos and dogs and shouting and hunting gener ally, when the conversation finally settled down to the nomenclature of sportsmen. It is uot the new school of gunnors,” said Judge Hughes *who call things by their right names, hut the old men who acquired their knowledge of sportsmen’s lore by largo experionce, and men who loved the pursuit of fleld sports as much for the com- munion with nature which it afforded them, as for the bag of fur or feather, they might mako. Nowadays every dry goods clerk or counter hopper, who knows how to cock a gun, is included in the catogory of sports- men, but they are along way from tho old Forester-Audubon-Curvier class, I tell you." *You are right there, judge,” ' interruptad John Petty,” it makes me tived to bear some of the sportsmen of this day add uge tell of their exploits afield; I mean the class that culls & quail & patridge, and is as apt to call a goose a duck, 8 ho is tocallita goose.”! “'Me too," put in Goodley Brucker, I was up ut Cut-Off lke the other day with one of our city oficials and ho got a pot shot at lot of mud hens, killing three. Aftor he had retreived them ho asked mo whether they were blue or green winged toal." “And what'd you tell him " inquived Par- melee. “Why I told him that they were canvasback and he took them Lomo as aud proud a man us you over saw,” Then they all laughed. “When I was & young man," proceeded the Judge, “and had & good deal of time to spead with the gun, T did so with oue of the best posted sportsinen in the old Bay stato, and 1 carued to cail thiags: by thelr Tight bames When game came in sight or flushed, with us, and ono wished to votify the other, ho would cry ‘mark.” To follow a bird in' its flight and see where it lit, we ‘marked bim down.’ And thore 18 much_more the rising sportsman should kuow, For iustauce, two groy hounds, two pointers or two sotters 1s & ‘brace;’ two wild fowls of any kind, or wood: cock, suipe or rabbits, are & ‘couple;’ two grouse, 1wo prairie chicken, two quail, are also @ ‘brace;’ Itis & bevy of quall; grouse, ‘pack’ turkeys, 'brood;" prairie chicken ‘covey; teal, ' ‘flocky sumipe, ‘whisp goese, “gang;” plovers and all shore birds, flock.' To break & dog: Come bebind, “heel;" to muke them careful, ‘steady:’ to oung happy make thom stuud, ‘oho;’ to drop to shot, | ‘obargey' W ‘hold - ¥ise, upi’ 0 bunt OMAHA DAILY BEE | kitled game, k dead; when found, ‘fotch.' You go duck and chicken ‘shoot- fog' and deer and bear ‘hunting.’ A dozen black bass aro ‘fish;’ a dozen black bass and one pickerel are ‘fishes.’ It is a ‘good shot! “with the shot gan; @ 'good marks- ma:" with the rifle. A duck rising from the water, ora bird flying from a tree ‘takes wing; plover, snipe, chicken and quall,rising from the ground, ‘fush.’ The proper name of ‘prairie chicken’is pinnated grouse, but ‘chioken’ is good enough. The names ‘phoasant’ and ‘partridgo’ are vulgarly ap- plied to the roughed grouse, and the latter even to quail. Partridge and pheasant are not indigenous to this country, Our ‘buf- falo,’ if there are any left, are bison, the ‘robbin’ & thrush and our ‘rabbit’ a hare. But one of the worst sporting blunders is to use military terms or practice military move- nts with ashot wun or sporting rifle. othing is moro_irritating to an_old sports - man than to see soms booby pick up a fowl- ing piece, go through soldier movements and then sight it as if ho were handling an army musket, and thus the word shouldering, which i3 used so often in army lifo, is not tolerated, although we all know the best of sports habitually place their gun over their shoulder on _their way to the shooting ground and after they leave the field and are homeward hound. 1t should be shouldered only on the march and uot in the shooting field,” and the judge lighted his “snipe’ afresh, - “Do you practice all you preach, judgo’ queried Pacmeler, and he winked at Brewer on the counte “Indeed I do, and a good deal more.” +And why don’t you write a boo k—I think 1t would sell, eh fellows " And of course they all said yes. | Fundamental Basis of Betting. Betting men, it seems, 1o matter how often or how frequaently the question may be de- cided by accepted authorities, will never ceaso pondering over a problem that has doubtiess ugitated their minds since the world began, and for this reason a Young Physician asks Trne Bre: A bets B that he can lift a greater number of pounds than B. Tha test shows that they ift oxactly the same weight. B claims that he wou because A did not lift more. Pleaso decide the bet. \Wno winsi T'his question, I suppose, has appeared in connection with every form of dispute known to man which admits’ of wuger. The dec sions, [ beliove, are practically unanimous tnat contests of such a nature are ties, and the principlo of this is justified by the funda mental ides of betting, and it 18 required i oue would guara against the most hateful in- cident of a wager, namely, a misunderstand ing. 1 cannot say that'tho first bet ever made wus on a_horse race, but it certainly was a contest of some sort, in which each man backed his horse or himself squarely and evenly ana without undue advantages as ta competitor. Since that period tue n has como down that when a man proposes to buck one of two horses, bis friend, if the latter takes him up, is understood to back the other. Or, in other words, ueither has tho advantage of the othior by possessing two out of the three chances incident to every trial; cither one side must win or the other, or neither. To make a_bet, unless it is specificaliy stipu- luted that one party gives odds, each can have one chance of victory only, and by general consent that is all either has over hud. Therefore, if A backed his lifting powers as against B’s, it is to be presumed that B backed his' in & like wner; and no quibble can be allowed in B's fuvor on the ground that A used the words ‘“greater number.’ although B did not express 1t, it was under- stooa that he made tle same statement. This s absolutely the only rule under which no misunderstanding to the uofair advantage of one as against the other is possible. This question_arises constantly, and that ory fact constitutes a strong argument that the universally accepted rute for determina- tion is the proper rule. 1f A therefore wishes to take his wager out of the class which makes ita tie under the circumstances of this case, he would have beea obliged to use some specific terms expressly forbidding the ordinary understanding of such a wager, and 1o suy squarely that by “greater number” he meant that these words should count in favor of his opponent. Shannon’s Washington Sendoff. Appended will be found tho touching linas with which a well known Washington baso bal writer disposes of Dan Shaunon : Tno local base ball kaleidoscopo has been shifted again, and thero is_anothor manager for Washington's team. He is only a tom: porary sort of a manager, to be sure, but he replacos the old one, and will continue to the end of the season. Griffiu is his name, and he has been playing ball in the outfield for us ever since ho left Omaha. Yes, Shannon, realizing the fact that his usefulness was at an end, has resigned. It seems funuy to say “vesigned” in his case, but that is the oficial term, and no one even thinks of using any othes Baltimore lost her Barnie and we lost our Suaunon; but how different wera tho cir- cumstances. Barnie had been there a long time and had done good work. He had had good luck, and in his time was practicaliy the ruling element of the Oriole combination. Ho resigned to get into pleasanter and more pro- fitable quarters, aud his going was the sigual for uuiversal expressions of regrot in Balti- more and corresponding joy in- Pniladelphia, Look first on that picture, and then imagino poor Dan Shannon, mduced to come away from Omaha, where he was having a_splen- did success, to take charge of a tail-end team, that was doomed to be still more tail-end than ever, and Jittle by little to lose the con- fidence of the directory. ;: I feol sorry for Shaunon, and it seems to me that—but I must not make any references to my innermost opinions oo this question, for I was taken aside before the game on Monday and assured by one of the directors that Shannon bad really done nothing whilo here to warrant his retention, and that the responsibility of tho team’s coustant defeats was his alone. He'll Take No Chance. The sporting editor of Tn: Beg is in re- colpt of a lotter from Louis Houseman, sporting editor of the Chicago Inter-Ocearr and the manager of Tom Ryan, tho cham- pion welterweight, stating that he is willimg to make a mateh before the South Omaha club between Ryan and Jack Wilkes, for the purse mentioned in last Sunday’s Be, pro- viding the elub allows [tvau §200 for expenses. 1t is somewhat doubfful, howover, whether the club will comply with this somewhat un- reasonablo request, and yet they may, as thoy aro anxious to bring the two men together. If they are wise they will make no such arrangement. Kyan has no right to make ch o demand, considering the respectable sizo of the purse offered, and the oasy thing— according to his friends’ say-so—it will be for him 10 take it back_to Chicago with him. It Ryan is allowed §00 for expenses, tho same must bo accorded to Wilkes. Th had much better make a mateh with Wilkes against Harry McCoy of Burlington, for 1t “would be more satsfactory all round. McCoy asks for no part of the purse uniess he can win itall, aud a staunch friend of his re- siding here will bet 00 on the side that he does. Work of the Nebraska Horse. There has been a good deal of inquiry re- cently as to the record of Nebraska bred horses and tho following table, for which Tur Beeis Indebted to Billy Haston, will sup- ply the information : 1-year-old stallion, Charles F aees yoar-old stallion. Eddie Hays .. 2-yoar-old mare, Kute Caffrey d-year-old stallion, Robble P o 4-year-old stallion, nslow Wilkes, pacing......... . R A Best stallion trotting, any age, M Loow, 1857 .. Aieanssstarsianne .s Best mare, trotting, any age, Glpsy Queen. s avee . . Best racords for 1, 2, 3 and 4-year-olds one stallion: Burdell. 1-year-old Eddle Hays. 2-year-old. .\ 000 Kate Caffroy, J-your-old...... Robbie P, é-year-old . sesseanss 3198 This record s held by Charles Caffroy, bo- longing to Ed Pylo, Humboldt, Neb., and is equalled by but one other horse in the Uinted States, Closing Meet at Union Park. The closing meeting of 1301 of the Union Park Trotting sud Running association will be held at Union park, Council Bluffs, ou October 20, 21, 22 and 23, commencing just one weok from Tuesday. That there wiil bo four days of splendid sport, there is no { question, as the iist of eutries is atready very targe and very complote. Many of the | best borses lu the west will bo hero'and the | management is makiog provarations for a Iargo attendance, Follotviog is the pro- , Tuesday, October 20--2:20 trotting. 3% paoiag, parss M0o; 3-Jeur-old trotting, stake 100, Second da, Wodnesday, Ogtobor 21.-2:33 frotting, purse HO0; 231 (rotfing, purse HOD; d-yeur-old trotting, stake §100. hird flnx‘ Thursday, Jotober 22--2:50 trot- Pirse ¥ioo: 2.0 pclog, purse #00; free- I trotting, purse #$400; stock yards de h]/. stuko $100; “ore-mile dash for stock yards norses only. Fourth day, Friday, October 23--2:32 trot- ting, purse $400: freg-for-all paciiig, purse 400:"' froe-for-all stallions, trotting. purso #400. For particulars address Nat Brown, seere- tary, Merchauts hotel, Echoes from the Diamond. Joe Walsh has returned from Baltimore. Larry Twitohell will be in domany fornext year.—Sporting Life. For what, pray Tom Lovette, Omaha's pride in 1578, shut out the New York Pigmles in two games this year. Danny this winte game! Jimmy Canayan, with Kel's Cincinnati killers and the Milwaukees, missed but a sin- gle game during the entire season. St. Louis claims to have signed Pitcner Killen of tlie Milwaukees for next season, but just how der boss managed to do this, would be hard to say. Milwaukee 1s making an extensive raid on the players of the defnnct Interstato league, which means a rigid economical platform for next season. Both Dad Clarke and Eddie Eiteljorg have apparently ventured too near the edge and tumbled off. Neither has boeu heard from for six weeks or more, Ouiver Perry Beard, who wound up the season as Denver's helmsman, singularly enough occupied the position of captain with every team he was evor associated. Big Jake Beckley, the biggest kicker in the profession today, reachod his home at ITannibal, Mo., and will remain there uutil the johnny jump-ups begin to jump. “There nover was a bettor market for prom- ising young base ball players than that of- fered today. The collapse of the numerous miuor assoclations has filled the woods with them. ven tno little lumberman’s club way up in Marinette, Wis., couldn’t get along with Eimer Foster. He got full and licked the president, and thoy let’ him out. That was several weeks ago. Jack Sneed an old Omala_ball player was released and resigned no less than thres tumes by Columbus during the past season. Sneed belongs to that class of players whom base ball would bo better off without. Gus Alberts was voted a $200 diamond modal at the close of the seascn in Miwaukee as the most popular member of the Brewers’ teara, It is hardly likely, bowever that Gussie will be on the team another season. If the crank waants to witness one more good game this fall let him go down to Non vareil park, corner Fiftoenth and Vinton streets this afternoon and see the conflict be- tween the Nonpareils and ap All-Omaba team. ‘What do you think of this, anyway! in Milwaukee they say they had 12,000 peo- plo on the grounds on the occasion of their first game with Boston—about as many as they had the whole season in the Western as- sociation. President Packard is still crying about the pennant, and claims that Deiver ought to have it. Pack, old parq, if you will come up here McCormick will be pleased to make you a present of about fifty vards of cheap muslin he won in '89. Davies, the pride of Milwaukee, fairly out- did himself, after the Brewers bought their way into the association. And, think of it, Charlie Cushman never thought he was worth a tinker's demuition until Omaha wanted to trade Dad Clarke for him. The Pittsburg club is aileged to hrve maide an unsuccessful try for Picher Killen of Milwaukee. I'rank does not care to play in Pittsburg uext season. He wants 4,000, and K100 in advance mouey. which he will never got from Milwaukee in these panicky times. There 1s a remarkablo ubanimity among the prominent base ball writers of the coun- try that there -vas more or less skulduggery used 1 the winning of the League pennant. But just how the matteris to e, or ever can be, remedied, is something yeu to be devel- oped. Kansas City will have a pretty good string of pitehers to choose from uext season, They are Swartzel, Smith, Stein, Pears, Sowder and Roach.—Times. But at is she going to choose them for, or is is 1t oaly a case of the «id in front of 'a shop window Chrisumas eve! Adrian C. Anson is tho sturdiest character of base ball and one for whom all fair-minded lovers ot a national sport ave coming to have a groat deal of respect. He will have a great deal more satisfaction and honor in second place than Boston will have in first place under present. circumstances. His Gaspipelots, Willie Mains, moose in far off Maine. The Evening Wis- consin says: ‘“He has been reserved by the local matiagemdnt, who expect that he will he one of the star twirlers next season." What? Reserved! In the lexicon used by the association 1s there such a word { Jack Crooks, o says the Columbus Dis- path, is contemplating a trip to Kurope, but that is all he is doiug, simply contemplating it. What Jack will do, as soon as he can get that famous white overcoat out, is to come to Omaha and spend twn or three weecks, then go into hibernation at St. Paul. “The last game of the season will be played at Nonpareil park this afternoon, the Non- pareils against All Omaha, In the latter team will be Baker, Trafiiey and Walsh and they say they must'wallop the amateurs. [t is a benefit game fov the plavers and a good crowd will probably be 1 atteadance. Old Hick Carpenter is at his home in Bur- lington, la. Fis wife has been seriously ill, but is recovering, and if you waui to fina Hicl in the next month you'll have to hie yoursolf to the Dakota ducking grounas. Hick is an inveterate sportsman and puts in about the entire winter with shotgun or rifle, There is no doubt whatever that this has been the most disastrous year for profession- al ball since 1577-8. Commencing with tio looting tactics of the League and Association before the sesson ovened down to the fraudu- lent ending of the Leaguo race. Both play- ers and maguate seem determined to slay the goose that lays the auriferous egg. Aud Columbus, if sho has u toam pext sea- son, will ouce more embrace rowdy Charhe Reilly, Allsummer he was abusea like a pickpocket by the Columbus press, but on signifying his desive to get back into the Buckeye fold once more they have taken it all back. And, recotlect, Rielly never would have gone back had not the Pittsburg let bim go, tagged, N. U. Dan Shannon execrates the day he sold out the Omaha ball club. Here he was a king, was establishing a great reputation, by thé graco of & kindly press, ana_making money. In the American association he was a butt of ridicule and was finally kicked out hodily. Ofall the old team, not asingle man has scored a success sinco the wreck in July to which they were all a party. The Milwaukee club, it is said, is negotiat- ing with Tommy Burns of Chicago. He is wanted as Milwaukeo's manager-captain next season. The club also claims to have sigued thirdbaseman Dahien of Chicago for next season. Althougn the club officials re- fuse to confirm the report it is practically settlod that Cruoks, tho old Western favorite, now playing second bose for Columbus, will be signed for the Milwaukee team in 1892, Ho will be played at third, and {f Canavan is secured, the latter, with Dalrymple, Burke and Petut, will be retained. claiming Crooks. . When the autumn leaves are turning, And the blast blows hard und keen, Base ball flelds are growing colder, And the crowds are slim and lea: Then the player with his boodle Frding quickly from his view, Writes unto his aged parents “D'll stay the winter through with you." Whisperings of the Wheel. ‘The Florence club is still unbroken. Roads in the country are rogula trenches, Tho Tourists were fairly well represented 8t the Sioux City races. Turee new members were admitted to the Omaha Wheel club last Thursday evening. Parties of wheelmen are slaughtering snipe and ducks up 1n the viclnity of Honey Creex. H. . Rhodes has returned from the Black Hills, where he has beon visitingifor several weeks, Nebras«a division of tne League of Ameri- can Wheolmen hasn't gained & point for a tearns will work in Kansas City ~Times, Work what, the shell Up trapping oston 19 also mud (8} UNDA Y- OCTOBER 11, 1891-‘SIXTEEN PAGE woek. The “rustiors! cation. 1t is a strange fact that not one-half of the really active wheelmen of Omaha are club members, Bieveling on the Bluffs is now punishable less than &1 Erank T. Mittauer oame in from Portland, Ore., Wednesday evenitig, and spent several hours with the boys at the club, Zimmerman has demonstrated by thie sea- son’s work that he is' just a little bit faster than any of the rest ot the gang. The Hickory club is getting in its work in Omaha cyocling circles to judge from the number of “Hickory"' badges worn. “Baron Kpenotter is an apostle of the tarpsichorean art. He claims to have taught Carmencila some of her bost dances, Lieutenant Morris of the Tourist wheel- men, who has been spending & two weeks’ vacation in the Dakotas, is home again, look- ing wonderfully refrostied. Genal Gegrge Waldren will endeavor to koep Heyn'§ best camera from smashing out at Aanscom park this morning. The Tourist Wheelmen pose for a club photo, A large kitchen rango is to bo added to the furnitire of the Omaha Wheel club house; visions of oyster suppers, hot coffee, etc., flit before the eyes of the club men. Hoiton, one of the Tourists' fastest men, has given up racing until next senson when he will como forth upon anew eighteen pounds racer and give the boys point Ten clergymen of Cleveland, O., have formed themselves into a bieyelo club and named it the Cloveland church club. Ciub runs aro indulged in once a week. How about “smokers ! High-five, billiards the arawing cards cool evenings. come around twice a oftener and enjoy home.” +Doc" Connors, who has been chasing tho festive bear and frisky antelope arouna Big Horn mountains, Wyoming for a month past, has_returned to civilization again, with & goodly atock of bear stories for the benefit of tho *tenderfoot.” Boys, don't forget the Missouri Wheel club's tournament Wednesdey, the lith inst. The Valloy bovs expect a big dele- gation from Omaha and thoy should not be disappointed.- We may have a tournament of our own some day. A committee has beon placed in charge of the coming “high five" tournament, and “play” will soon be called. These card tournaments are one of the best features of indoor entertainments devised by the Omaha Wheel club boys, and always draw a merry crowd to the club house. The New York Bicycle club, one of the wealthiest and Jargest bi clubs in’ the United States, is no more. The club members de. cided to disband the club and go into volun tary liquidation. Here is another caso whore associate aud Inactivo membership sapoed the life of a4 promising and prosperovs organ- ization. The Sioux City tournament was a grand success, both financially and otherwise, Tho prizes were distributed over guite a consid- crable territory, Omaha coming in for a share of tho spoils, I. L. Potter of the Tourist \Vheelmen haying gathered what few plums Omaha secured. Speetators ctaim that fully 400 wheelmen took part in the parade. The cycling press endorses tho coming pro- fessional six-day race av Maaison Square Garden and claims ‘that the race will be “square’’ from start to finish. Morgan, Prince, Ashinger, Martin and Keading will represent Awerica ju tho struggle. Local wheelmen will no doubt waten with intere: tho progress of the Omaha men—Reading and Martin. Jack Prince of Coliseum fame and one of the “profesh.” is a familiar figuro on Omaba streets again. Princa is entered in the great internatioual six-day race at Madison Square garden, New York city, which will be started this month. He has Déen traming at differ- cnt points and says he is in splendid shape. The American colors will adorn his manly frame while ho skims around the oval. Two minutes eighteen and one-fifth seconds tor a mile, made by Burlo on a safery, seoms to be a record which is liable to stand for some time; 2:21 4-5, made by Zimmerman at Paoria, is the only American “time’ which has approached it thus far. Doutge holds tho records from six to twenty miles. Zim- merman’s time is _the worla’s record in com- petition. Tho mile made by Berio and the mile made by Osmond were both inade against timo with pacemakers. Local Misc llaneous Sports, In “Chick,” Blauche Kennedy is the owner of the best brok @1 red setter in the west Dorsey Burgess, the champion wing shot of St. Joo, und the next probable oppouent of J. A R. Elliott, has located permanantly in this city. There will be a handicap_trap shoot on the Cross grourds across the river on Saturday next for a box of fine imported cigars hung up by Major Frani Fogg. Quail shooters are industriously at work, but as t, owing to the rank vegetation, but small bags have been made. Frow all quar- ters, though, come reports of a plentifulness of the birds, 'rank Suilivan and George Davis, two 19- year-old boys, will sprit 400 yards at the fair grounds tomorrow afternoon for $10 u side. The sporting oditor of Tue Bek is holding the stakes, A small flock of wild pigeons, the first seon hero for soveral years, were seen flying over the city southward bound on Thursday last. Twenty years ago this was the most plentiful game bicd in America. Jack Prince, the irrepressiblo bicvelo jockev, made Tiie Bee a friendly call one day last week. He was envoute for Now York to take part in Tom Ick's big six day chase at Madison Square garden, The Omaha Rfle ¢ ub has challenged the Council Bluffs hufle club to shoot a friendly match for tho oysters, but as yet the Towa snarpshooters have failed to respond. What's the matter boys, haven't you the price! Shadeland Onward, the stallion who trotted amile in 2:185; at Syracuse, this state, Sep- tember 20, is owned by Gould & Miller, bankers, of Fullerton, Neb. They purchased him for $5,500 and have refused $20,000 for him, ¥. L. Campbell, of Norfolk, bas the sport- ing editor's acknowledgemeonts for a kindly invitation to Join him in a jack smpe shoot. He says the snipe is very plentiful up there and quail and ducks quite abunaant. Later on, Mr. Campbell and your ivitation may bo uccepted. Judge Dundy is still leading the life of a hermit in tho gloomy fastnesses of the moun- tains in Wyoming somewheve within a hun- dred mile of Chug. The judgo has no com- paniou but his cook, iorse, dog aud gun, aud yet the latest advices report him having a royal time. One week a . Sunday he kilied a big grizzly, his third on this trip. Harvey McGrow spent Monday last 1 the marshes about Sioux ‘river, making one of the finest bags of Wilson snipe, seventy-one in number, brought {uto this city for many a day. In addition to thils nice bunch of scolo pax Mac also bugged ‘eleven teal and a pair of wood duck. He has the sporting editor's acknowledgements for a nice bunch of the snipe. The Maggioli-Hatley billiard match is at last off. Mr. Maggloli of this city declines to meet the St. Paul wan on the grounds that ho cannot leave his business. After all the talk that has been made anl so long as Frances declared to the writer that he would lay Hatley if but for.a $ note, he should Klvu strained a point,and met the Minnesota ick, win or lose, Jack Morrison, who has become one of the most ardent followers of the gun, and a good sbot, too, together with H. B. Ken- nedy and Mao Morrisen, put iu several days this week at the lakes near Onawa. While they found the ducks yot scarce, they brought in some twenty greenwings, a pair of reahead, eighteen yellow legs avd about fifty jacks. The teal and snipe were fat and luscious. Thanks. thust be taking & va- dewalks in the with a fine of not and yarn spinning are at the club housa these “Youse fellers” who only year should drop in all the comforts of Valloy Questions Cuntis, Neb., Oct, § — portin of THE BEE: Ploase oxplain In your issue what constitutes a thorouzhbre and what is the "difforence between a thor- oughbred, & full blooded and stundard bred horse?--G. W. Hishop. Ans.—A thoroughbred must be eizht re- moves as & runner. A thoroughbred and 8 full bioodea horse are the same. A stand- ard brod trotter must either have a record of 2:30 or be the producer of a 2:30 horse the dam must produce two 2:30 horses, and the sire of one 2:30, There are no thorough- bred trotters. Thoroughbreds are runners and standards trotters, under the American registration rulos. OMANA, Oot. & ortne Editor of uE B % poker dice, one man shakds to klngs, and the other two shak- 10g two tens, Is [t ong tie all tis? or does the high man go out? Tf 80 whit Is the use of tno Dprhase, ‘one t16 all tie.'~Dide, Ans.—1t 13 only one tie all tfe when the contestants so agree bofors the§ bogin shak- ing. Itis an abdurdity under any eiroum- stances, OuANA. Ogt, 0.~To the Sporting Fditor of THE BEE: When a party of throo are thrFow- Ing poker dice, the first !hnw«n;ntrn’ ings and the two others a x\nlr of douces ench. How does the game continue?~Dicer, Ans —The lirst goes out, and the other two throw off to soe who is stuck. If they aro throwing for a stake, two kings wins without further ceremony. CoLFAX, Ta., Oct. &=To the Sporting Editor of Tur Bek:—To deoide a bet please state In Sunday’ which team won In thelr Iast series, the Nouparells or Beatric What has become of Stonay of Omaha?—C, Parker. Ans. —Beatrice § to 5. They only played ono gamo and it required ten innings. Stoney is in this of and will run for mayor next spring. DEADWOOD, D., Oct ditor of Tue Bee: In p bank. I have Ly bets open. ono o 4 and 4-10; 1 put a marker botween the uce-deu coppered 1z this goos for 8 single the turn D-mee, what was the netion, ¢ how much money won or lost?—M. C. Hickey. Ans.—You simoly get ‘“doublo shot on tne turn ;" losing 815 and #12.50, #27.50 in all; the fact that the marker went ‘‘single” cut 10 figure with tha bet taking the 10. On the uextturn it will likely come 4-aco. Then hunt a straw stack. OLD PERFUSION. the Sporting 00 Written for The Bee bu Thar cum into the g dobatin’ The best breed of licker to use fur irrigatin’, One uy them Yankee fellers, o rog'lar ammy* ture In the way uv western lit'ryture. Au’ Lie tole us confidenshiy m aout," An’ wanted to buy & gold mine “here ur horo baout." He'd heera that gold miues growed without no cultivatin’ An’ ho di'n't like farmin® nohow--"twa'n't ellyvatin Ef ho hed tu work the sile he'd like tu work her deep, Whar gold wus dug ez taters an’ piled up in heap, Ur whar it lmn' in pockets awaitin’ to be found Jost by a light diggin’ on tho sarfls ground. An’ he asked of we eud show bim 4 mine uy that sort Whar gold dust wuz a oozin’ frum the ground by the quart, I3t wo cua he would pay us fur the trouble we'ere at Aw’ give us all employment in the diggins. Wharat A man called Mizzoory who'd been digein’ a decado Without the slightost trace uyv any hiz spado, that Yankeo fellor called Perfusion An’ prefaced his remarks by hopin’ 'twus no intrusion 7o tell him *bout the mine afore he took him to 1t, Then of he di'n't want to buy haf to do it. sarfis Digaing 1 shop, just as we'ere mauners 'n minin’ he'd “sold his uy the gold on Tola ‘bout a mine he he wouldn’t ““Ihe mine,” said ho, “'s a payin® ono; I've of‘en dug o quart Uy pure gold outen her with no dregs uy any sort.” Aw’ he went on tu tell him how 1t sometimes follers In the course uy the dizgin’ you run gold dollars, More'n enough to pay_expenses—brignt ou’ "reddy coined— Awaitin’ in thé pockets, prayin’ to bo pur- loined. Aw theamount uv pure gold he could see ablazin’ On_the top uv the sile wuz perfec’ly amazin’. An’ somelites it oozed frum a crevice In tho rocl More'n enough in an hour tu fill a two gatlin crock. An’ he hinted with a sigh, an’ a neave "neath his vest Sunthia’ "bout a girl ho hed wouldn’t cum wast, S0 ho wantod tu go to her—she'd to twice— Au’ be'd soll old Perfusion at o groat sacti- ce. An’ while he wu fol- ler's ey Bulged out on his "scutcheon like skylights in the skies. The hope uv great riches without no cultiva- tin’ Uv the silo an’ things wuz so perfe'tly ela- tin’ That he bought Mizzoory’s mines an’ paid ‘im then au’ thar “Thirteen thousand doliars on the counter uy the bar. across A him a talkin’ that Yankee Mizzoory set 'em up an’ struck out fur the east, With hiz spirits risin’ faster than bread made uv yeast. 2 We got one lotter frum him but he made no allusion To the sacritico he made when Perfusion; He jestgsald, 1 am married an' livin' on a farm Away frum all temptations an’ alarm, Ez 1 onco felt *bout starvin’ bo sold old feelin’ no an' the Injin's Aw’ he signed his name in the old way “Your'n, Mizzoory." The owner of Perfusion had a long lookin® faco When he'd worked her fur a month without fludin’ notraco Uv any gold a oozin’ trum the sido uy the mine, Ur any gola a blazin’ n the silo so rich an’ fine, An no bright gold dollars bearing stamp uv Uncle Sam An’ he fin'ly concluded the wine wa'n't wuth a dam. But he kept ot fury An’ a swearin’ all tho timo 'bout that Mizzoory, Till his credit woz oxhausted an’ his strength all gone An’ ne throwed down his pickaswearin’ he'd R0 off on The first stage startin’ east. saw a shinin’ On the end uv his tool a sight that stopped his pinin’, ‘That last stroke bad opened up it old Perfus- ion’s side A vein uy gold four foet high an’ mora'n as many wide, An’ ez fur the length uv it nobody knows bt Him Who mado the mines, au’ miners to worlk 'em with a vim, workin' morc'na year liko —ed When lo! he He did give us employment, we're workin’ for him now, But his cognomin's changed from Old Yank to I How, An’ he lives at 'F'risco in tho best and biggest Y An’' his In!rriuu horses are the swiftest in the race, An’ a wife an’ five children are thar to bless his home An’ him an’ them have millions no matter whero they roam. Au’ every time I see him ho makes sum al- lusion To the asy Mizzoory sold him good old Por- fusion An’ he o(“ux’;dlh..\uku Mizzoory fur the way he i About the gold oozin' frum old Perfusion’s THE NAU HTY DOLL. Eugene Fie'd in Chicaa News My doll is a dreadful caro Her namo is Miss Amandy: I dress hier up and curl ber hair And feod hor tafty candy. Yet, headless of the pleading voice Of her devoted mother, Sho will not wed hor mothor's choioo, But says she'll wea another, I'd have her wed the china vase— _There is no Drosden rarer You might go searching ever. And never find u fairer; He is u gentle, pinkish youth Of that there's no denying Yot when I speak of nim, forsooth, Amandy fails to erying! place Sho loves the drum—that's ver; And scorns the vase so cleve And weeping vows sho will ¢ A spinster doll forever | The protestations of the drum 1am convinced are hollow ; Whon onco distressing times should como, How soon would ruin follow. plain main Yet all in vain the Dresden boy From yonder mantel woos her— A mania for that vulger toy, © noisy drum, imbues hot | Tn vawn I wheel her to and fro And reason with her mildly; Her waxen tears in_torrents 110w, Hor sawdust hoart boats wildly. I'm sure that when I' And wear lon n big and tall, g trailing drosses, Ishan't encourage beaux at all Till mamma juiesces; Our choice will be a suitor then As pretty as this vaso is On, how wo'll hate the noisy men With whiskers on their faces! HONEY FOR THE LADIEN. A gold ship on waves of olivines is brooch. Some of tho handsomest Paris have coat princesso backs Sitk velvet comes to the fore this soason ns a fabric pro-eminently adapted for trimming, the now dress matorials. A mourning pin that may bo commendod is @ beart shaped rim of black enamel v an inuer row of pearls. Some of tho dainty faus for full dress uses aro made of snowy marabout feathers mounted on sticks of mother-o'-pear] Some of the new round-waisted dresses aro finished with sharply pointed bretelies that reach below the waist line, front and back. The girl who wants to bo very smart on a rainy day now wears a long watorproof cont, with an enormous double-breastea cape made of such loud plaid. Chiffon is still a very faskionable garnitura and is.used for ruffs, floancos, soft blouso fronts, and as tinted linings 1o white lace whaists and skirts made without seams, Sowe of the now capos of velvet for drossy evening wear aro very elozant and pictur- esque in appearance und confer great dis tinction on' the wearer if she bo tall and slender. Castimeres aro sitk embroidered iu Persian colors in palm-leat and flower traceries. Fine brondcloths are exquisitely appliquod in cloth aud velvet, with outlining of silk om- broider: Back combs and hair pins are more popu- lar and more enriched than ever. Amber shell sticke, never more than three in num- ber, arosurmounted by the richest tops in gold und jewels. A hiandsome adyance costumo for autumn wear is of fine bluo serge, the skirt on a foundation, and slashed twice in frout with panels of white cloth completely covered with blae and gold braiding. Among tho new silks is a satin of tho most delicious buff. It is brocaded in self-color with fine flowers, Scattered among these are bouquets of great blue blossoms that contrast effectively with the buff. Among the latest models of hats for the autumn season at the chateaux is Leghorn straw; the crown is covered by a garlond of roses and a tuft of feathers® Tho underpart of the brim is trimmed in front with a wreath of roses. First Boston Mamma.—1 was horrified to find my little Bessie reading that demorali- zing story of Cinderella yesterday. Second Boston Mumma.—Shocking! T won't lot it Ro into my nursery. A glass slipper is only ono remove from & diaphanous skirt Salambo 1s a new delicate shade of rasp- berry mink that is combined with Russian green in French evening toilets of crepo do chino and Marie Antoinotto brocade, showing a beautifully figured floral surface upon o background shot with theso two colors. Garnet ornaments ure returning to the foot of fashion’s throne, and Mme. Grundy has welcomed them with ringing hospitality. Garnet chatelaine bags and arnet galoons for edging house skirts and silk stroot skirts of walking length enliven tho most sombre fabrics. Bulfinch—T am sorry to learn, Mrs, Grey- neck, that vour husband has been lost at sea. Mrs. Greyieck—0, it was a terrible blow, Bulfinch—And the body, I believe, has not been recovered. Mvs. Grevneck—Ah, that's the terrible part of it. He'd just haa nine teoth filled with gold. A gray Benealiue silk, with a white and gold vest, aud box pleated basque set on un der a row of passementerie of gold and silver studded with many colored jewels. A band of this passmenteria placed round ench off just nnder tho a new wowns sent from fronts aud demi-trained sleeve, finishing them elbow, form rich ruflles of lace, Spotted or plain silics, even if shabby, may be venovated, especially for demi-toileite, by baving a uarrow flodnce of lace edgo ' tho <kirt, while picce lnce, edged with lace, put on full, can form the front drapery, Tha full back may be of dee lace flouncing or of plece lace finished with a frill, as in front. The smurtest autumn coat reaches almost to the knees, fitting the figuro vory closely and being decorated with huge pockat lapols. Down each side and lininz thoe collar is gray krimmor or black astrakhan fur, and these Lines aro really only put to show how per- fectly the jacket itself is adapted to the figure. iowns for middle-azed ladies, dark silis in black or rich colors may be trimmed in black Iace, and these, with some variation of hoad dress and jowelry, will form useful evening or dinner gowns. Tneso may be again varied and brightened for littie dinner par ties or local entertainments by frilled fichus of colored chiffon or head dross to match, At arecont wedding out of town, a lady guest from California appeared in 2 marvel- lously beautiful dress of shimmering silver gray brocade, figured with pinkish mauve flowers, Tho toilet was made up in combina- tion with pale pinkish mauve satin, trimmed with fiuest siver cuipure, en appiique, tho beautiful garniture also forming u finish around the half-low roundiog ueck of tho poiuted bodic Another lovely evening dress is of exquis- ite ovster white Beugaline. The trained skart is fitted tightly to the figure and._comes over the bodice beneath a small draped pavier, which forms the only decoration of the skirt, the richness of the material ren dering trimming unnecessary. The low bodice is cut square both back and front, and basa most artistically arranged bertho of choice lace, frills of 1ace falling laosely over tho berthe, whi'e the tiny sleeves aro entirely composed of lace e s catarrh, Dr. Birney cur Bos bldg Van Houten's Gocoa. PLEASE READ THIS. OO Cents a pound for VAN HOUTEN'S GOCOA (“Best & Goes Farthest") seems to be high. Let us compare it with the price of Coffee: 11b. of good coffee costs at least 30c., makes 31 half-pint cups, g 6w w V. H. Cocoa * 14 therefore 80c., ¢ 93 ¢ ¢ 4 also 90c, “ 160 ¢ ¢ u D~ Which is the Cheaper Drink ? ~83 R Pt 90c. —{ 20 s tiso * ; Sold by every Grocer 93 cups of Coffee, ‘‘V,H,Cocoa! Dr. McGrew Limats Ilis Practice to ¥ LDiseases of a Lri- vate Nature. The long experience and consequent cessful treatment of pri- vate discases have made for Dr. McGrew, the specialist, a reputation to be envied. There are any number of “sure cures’” that never cure and the doctor thoroughly understands the disadvantages thus arising, to be overcome. But the thousands of letters on file at his offices testifying to the efficacy of his treatment is irrepuftable evidence of his skill, His methods of doing busi- ness are fair and honor- able, and his charges most reasonable. Be itunderstood, however, Suc- SN that Dr. McGrew is not a “curc all” nor a «frec cure,” but he does effect complete and rapid cures of even tha most stubborn private discases with all their complicationsand ruin- ous results. The ef- fects of his medicines are felt almost instantly after taking, using the most powerful remedies known to modern science, for the cure of disseases of a private nature. Dr. McGrew's terms are based upon a true and honest esti- mate of the cost to cure. depending, of course, upon the naturc of the discase. Treatment is given at so much per month or, except in complicated cases, a stated price for full treatment. Patients at a distance, who will carcfully answer his question list, be treated equally as well and with as much scc recy as by personal in- terviews. Dr. McGrew is thoroughly read and conscentious, and marvelous cures of pri- vate discases and sex- ual disorders, have ex- tended his reputation from Norway to Alas- ka, and thousands attest his mastery over these blighting disecases. Patients can call upon the doctor at his offices 14th Far- nam Sts., sccond floor, can his corner and or address, Dr. J. E. McGrew