Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 6, 1891, Page 15

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE UNDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1891—SIXTEEN PAGES. THE SPORTS OF EARLY WINTER. ¥ The Knigbts of the Roped Arens, What They are Dying and Expect to D>, A REVIEW OF THE SHOOTING SEASON. Prince's Tug-of-War—The Gabble of the Crank—1hs Byker's Budget— Foot Ball, Billiar’s and Sporting Small Talk, Tit-Tattie of the Hing. O IT is practically D sattled that the next fistic card for this section of the glono will be a finish con- test between Young Dobbs, Lincoln's colored middle- weignt, and Bob Harper of Chicago. There is no manner of doubt about the pair being able to # malko a fight,orgive an exhibition rather, after the fashion that most pleases the patrons of the ring. Dobbs’ fight witt Sherroy at Rowley’s hall last win- ter was one of tho groatest mills ever fought in the west. Dobbs won after forty-one rounds had been fought—forty-one rounds of good hard punching, in which tho rosy flowed copiously and knockdowns wero but common frills to the excitement. As for Harper all that can be said 1s based upon his general reputation, which is first class, and Prof. Hightower, who will manage the con- test, says he is a fine match for Dobbs, Defoated pugilists are seldom in want of excuses, and Dick Moore is no exception o the rule. He atiributes his knock-out by Niland a week ago due to a lack of training, and the very philu=ophical reason that on that night the stockyards boy was the best man. He says that the South Omabia repre- sentative is a hard hitter and terrific pun- {sner while he is fresh. Dick wasa veritabie tub of buiter on tho night of the meoting, totally without trainirg. and couse- quently without suflicient stamina to with- stand the pork packer's savoge rushes. In the sixth round, however, he_concentrated his flagging energies, and had Niland *done” had he only known it. After that he went to to pieces and the muscled kid had little difi- culty in bringing the contest toun end. in anything like condition, in another collision, which is not uniikely, Mooro would boa 2 to 1 favorite, still it is not improbable that Niland is b1s equal under any condition: It isn’t just the proper ching to stylo Niland a novice, for be has had gooa hard experienco and plenty of it, haying fought three finish contests in as many weeks at his old stamp- ing grounds in tho Worla's Iair city, and whut's more, ho won them all. However, by vanquishing Dicle Mooro he won the battle of his career, and s, consequently, entitled to more than ordinary credit. Niland taiks of going to Chicago for a fow week’s visit, but arrangements for another meeting with Moore will be made cro his de- parture,but More says if ho can’t get another go at Tim he's done with the ring for ever. Jack Davis, since he had a cancer dissected from his upper lin, 18 waxing fat aud hearty. He has no engagements o and is attending strictly to his duties of teaching the young and ambitious how to parry and punch. Danny Daly, the Omaha feather weigh, 1s now located'at Lead City, South Dakota, and along about the 10th will meet Hollings~ worth. the Ogden feather weight, for 4 00 purse, with an excellent chanco for the hon- ors. The Pacific club of Frisco offered Daly a match with Hawlkins for a $1,300 purso for Christmas eve, but owing to his meet with Hollingsworth, was compelled to decline, Rothery, his old backor here, says he received a letter Tuesday from parties in Minneapolis club offoring to match Daly against Hogan for{$1,500 purse beforo the rehavilitated Twin City elub. This match will likely be made. There are a number of pugilistic savants in this city, who bave always proclaimed that Harris Martin, the Black Poarl, was in- vineible, and that Ko could only be bested by amon in bis class, by the lavish useofa base pall bat oran’ ax. However, Mr. Mar- tin got the kibosh last Monday night in "Frisco; “Boston Berny’s' height and reach and tremendous steam was too much for the Pearl, although be lasted for twenty-five rounds. Martin, however, would have had a taste of defeat more than a year ago had not Jim Hightower been jobbed out of his dues when they met at St. Joe. A delegation of four or five from this city acd South Omaha will go over to Chicago vext [riday to be in at the mect between Tom Ryaun, the local welterweight, and How- son, the Knglishman, which comes off the following night, December 12, Jack Wilkes’ backer will be one of the delegation from South Omaha, and every effort will be made to arrange a contest for Wilkes with Ryan to come off in tms vicivivy early in January. Louis Houseman, sporting editor of the Inter- Ocean and Ryan’s manager, writes me that thore are but slender prospects of such a mateh beiig made. Jimmy Lindsey isredivivus. o is anxious to go over to Chicago for the Ryan-Howson mill, ana if he does, will challenge the winuer. He 1s willing, fu faot anxious, to meet either for a thousand-dollar pusse be- fore the local club. Abe Nixon, recently knocked out by Jack Davis in a little midnight bout on Cut-off island, meots Young Burke at Denver, Mon- day ight. In case the proposed contest between Dobbs and Harper falls through, Aaron Sherroy, the Lincoln man's quondam antagonist, says he'll “'put ’em on wid im" and ho won't ask apurseas big as a weal sack for doing it, either, Dan Daly, the St. Louis miadle-weight, who died suddenly at his home last weel, was well known in sporting circles here, 1t was he who *faked’” the South Omaha club out of $00 & yeur or €0 ago with a couplo of monkeys called Allen and Mooney, but no one blames him especiully for that. = He was a clever, gentlomanly follow, and a favorite in bis set. Daly was born in Scotland, but has lived in the States all his life, His fivst fight was with Frank Glover in Chicago, but ended in a draw. During his pugilistic career he defeated Tom Lynch, Jim Dounelly, Artie Flint an1 Ed. Kelley. iis_first fight with Kelloy lasted two hours and twenty-five min- utes and was one of the longest contests un- der the marquis of Queensberry rules on record. Daly leaves & widow and two child- ren. Jimmy Lindsay expresses a willingness to meet Niland in the event that another maten is not made with Moore, and as Moore will leave for St. Paul this week it is more than probable that Lindsay will be given tirst choice. Lindsay, however, will not agree to any contest for the mere gate receipts alone, and in this resolve he is eminuntly correct, and if the stockyards mun consents to meet him his frienas will have to come forward and testify to the faith there is in them with & respectable sized stake. This will make a £0 worth witnessing, and the prepunderance of opinion is that Niland must improve ma- terially before he can ever hope so adminis- ter a narcotic to the Omaha man, Notwith- standing all that has been said about Lind- sey and his mode of fighting, he is yet one of the best middleweights in the country, His deteat by Harry Gilmore is no criterion to go by, for’ he lost tnat simply through bull- headeduess. Toduy Jimmy Lindsay is the greatest pugilistio card, in this vicinity, that can possibly be produced. ¢ Harey MeCoy, the Burlington middle- welght, is expected nere in the next ten days, and in him Wilkes' backers will find a good deal of ready money and a mau ready to fight wt the drop of the hat. Billy Woods, the Denver pug who con- quered Jack Da last spring, will have an entertainment on his hauds one week from ‘Thursday night, the 17th, that will probably cause him to long for his mamma. He fights Joo Choyloski before the Pacific club at "Frisco. Billy Hawkios, former lightweignt cham- {:mn of Canada, and who haadled Jimmy irifin in this city in bis two fights with Lindsay, has been granted his secend so- loura on earth. He met Sailor Brown at Montreal Monday night and knocked him out ! Bays, Summors and Fanning. Tn 180i in two rounds. The Fall Wild Fowl Season. Practically the fall wild fowl shooting for 1801 is over, yot there will be tolerable sport with the Canadas for a month yet along tho bars of the Platte and the Missouri, and an occasional crack at an old mallard may be bad. But the grand army of ducks bave winged their way to sunnier ciimes. A cursory roview of the season shows that it has been an unusually good one, despite the fact that no very tremendous bags were made vy any particulr set of hunters, that of Messrs. Dickey, MeFarland, Wiliams and Gregg, who went up into South Dakota eariy in October, being the best. In a weck's shooting this quartette huug up something like 2,000 wallards, with a sorinkling of can vas back, teal, widgeon, red head and biue bills. With more water the season would have certainly been an unprecedented one, as such an abundance of feed was never known on the lakes and streams and rivers and marshes of this and the surrounding states. Thero were but few hunting parties that made excursions to any of the well known shooting grounds who came buck empty haunded, and the veriest tyro in tho sport was enabled to knock over his ten or a dozen ducks a day. As was predicted, owing to the piontifulness of feed, and other favor- able conditions, the ducks came in uncom- monly eurly, the first issue of maliards, widg- eon, pintail and redhead cominz down from tho north s early as the 25th of September, while the teal wore disporting themselves and waxing faton the reedy shallows even as early us {wo weeks previous to this dato. For teal, both blue and greea wing, a_better season ' was never known, and ail through the month of October they were slain by the barrel about Whiting, Waubuncey, Missouri Valley and along the Platte and the Loup and their trib- utary streams, and when 1t i3 said thav these little beauties are the morsels of the wholo wild fowl family, not excepting even the vaunted canvasback and the corn fed mal- lard, the delight of the local gunner can read- ily be imagined. And mallards, too, were exceedingly plentiful, and in most tewpting form, butthe flight of the other big ducie, ly the canvasback and the redtead, w: i i not to such an extent, however, as to render the season conspicuous from others, because it is a well established fuct that these birds scldom stop over here in any very considerable numbers in their fall flight. "The spring time is the season for the canvasback and his rival, the redhead; at any rate for these mid-coun- try waters. Every.hing taken into consideration, however, the season has been one of unusual profit and enjoyment, and ho would be a churlish sportsman, indeed, who could find grounds for complaint. Tho fall flight of geese has been nothing to excite enthustasm, although the conditions, with the exception of vater, were just as good as they were for the ducks, and this leads to the opinion that the days of great £0056 shooting for this section of the country are rapidly on the wane, and but a few years more will be required to make a shot at an old honker an event in a day's outing. Just now the birds ave more plentiful than they have been any time duriug the season, and some tolerably good consignments were re- ceived last week from along the Platte. In the spring tho geeso sre more plentiful, but not balf so desirable for the table. The jack snipe shooting has been spas- modie, and at no time more than “fair to middlin’.” For a few days there was pretty good shooting on the lowlands east of Mis- souri Valley, and for & weelk or more at Ban- croft it was great. But these were only isolated cases, for on the majority of the best local grounds the birds were never plentiful, & _ scarcity of moisture belng tho only expianation to offer for their absence. Of the sandpiper family. from the July visitof the upland plover down to the first real cold snap, thera was any abundance, and it was no trick atall to zo forth and return with a gooa kill of golden-backs, the greater and lesser yellow- legs, or any of the smaller varieties of these delicate morceaux. From this on to the freeze-up sportsmen must be content with an occasional foray through the stubble for quail a ramble through the brown woods for squirrels, for there is little further chance for shooting on the lakes or in the marshes until the tempered winds of March again loosen their icy fet- ters, Stil After Maggio'l. In view of the recent defl promulgated by Frank Parmelee in the ioterests of Frances Maggioli, the local champion billiardist, the foliowing clipping from the St. Paul Pioneer Press is in anything but good grace. The Press says: Some weeks ago, after Hatloy came to St. Puul to make his home, he at- tempted Lo make a match with Maggioli o Omaha who had cluimed the championship of the Northwest. Maegioli accented, but wheun the time came for the prize money to be put up the wounld-be champion backed out, and was roundly scored by the sporting papers, which all conceded to Hatley the champion- ship of tho Northwest. Mr. Hatloy modestly accepted the title, aud says that he is pre- ared to defend it against all comers, “for lood, money or marbles.” If Hatley is so willing to defend his absurd claiin, why doesn’t he send down a forfeit ana bind a match for Parmelee's simoleons ! Maggioh is still here, and although naving severed his connection with the Millard rooms, is apt to remain here, at any rate as long as they continue to “‘como as easy’ as they have in the past two or three weeks. The Philadelpbia Sporting Life, which paper has been treating the Omaha man with any- thing but courtesy, also takes a whack at bim in its last issue. Hereit is: “The St. Paul papers aro publishing pic- tures of Will Hatley, who now makes 500 or no count at the regular three-ball game, and tly averaged $3%5 ina 200 point four- ch balk line game, and 29 in a game of 500 at the same style of billiards, Where, oh, where is Maggioli?” It All Depends on Peace. So far, all rumors to the contrary, no call for & meating of the Western association has as yot been issued either from Minneapolis or Kansas City, nor will there be uatil it is definitely known just what, the leugue and association intend to do. That is a problem. One day the signs all look bright for peac aud the next dark and forbidding, portend- ing only a continuation of the bitter warfure now waging between the older organization Hack of Minneapolis dectares, however, that the Westorn association is sureto be rehabil- itated, take place what, may, and he will take pains that the cireuit includes no weak kneed towns. In this eveut, the baron should ba overscrupulous, and see that no hole is left open through which his own burg can shp in, for of all tha weak-kneed towns in the orgauization last year, Minneapolis was the weakest. And yet I do not wish to assert anything unkind against the Minnesota metropolis, for with a good team ana Kkood management, she would muke one of the strongest base ball teams in the country, and & Western assoclation withont her would be a lame structure indeed. How- ever, this is neither here nor there. The base ball patrons of Omaha can make up their minds that there will be no real live, interesting news forthcoming until the National league and American association come to some amiable understanding, It they fail to reach this, then the baso bail prospects for the western cities will be slim indeed. And We Have Ono Lisft. * During the past four years Omaha has had something like 100 ball players of more or less notoriety upon her pay roll, ana Omaha has never beon a remarkably good ball town cither. Somae of these players have reached the top noteh of fame, buta iarge majority néver succeeded in getting into faster com- pauy than & minor league, Among those wuo have reached the top-most rung on tie base ball laader might be mentioned Crooks, Cooney, Nicnols, Lovett, Nagle, Twitchell, Halligan and MoeGarr, and of these all are in the hurness today with the exceptioa of Tom Nagle. ut to go over tho list for the past five years, suroly it will recall many names the average crank has furEullun. 1o 1887 tuere were Dwyer, Hader, Genins, Rourke, Swift, Bandle, Harter, 'Bartson, Walsh, Kveymeyer, Dovgherty, Goodenough, Brim- blacow, Heuley, Veach, Houseman, O’ Leary, Jantzen and Mesditt. In 1858, Burns, Sow- ders, Aunis, O'Conuell, Gorman, Miller, Shanuon, McGarr, Doran, Burdick, Messitt, Wilson ' Healey, ' Clark, Cassian, Lovett, Crooks, Jeyne, Mayer, Kenuedy, Strauss and agle, ' In 1889, Crooks, Cieveland, Cooney, navan, Audrows, Strauss, Walsh, Naglo, Wiilis, Messitt, Clarke aud Nichols. ' In 1590, Works, Eiteljore, Newman, Walsh, Cleve. tand, Phalen, Andrews, Canavan, Kearn Willls, Urquohart, Fagin, Hanraban, Thayer, O'Counor, Martin, Hines, Nowiman, 'Colilns, N Ci | Mo Cauley, Shannon, Donnelly, Walsh, Clarke, Eiteljory, Sutcliffe, Halligan, Twitchell, inflin, Baker and _Trafoy, Fianagan, Mo~ Crelland, Smith, McGlone, Fioids, Dungan, Whitehead, Dugdale, Stein,Day and Wright. The Internanionat Tug-of-War, One week from Monday night, the 14th,the six days international tug-of-war struggle begins at the colissum, and promises to be oneof the most thrilling sporting events ever witnessed here, All of the large cities bave had their performance and goue wila over it. The contesting teams consfst of ten men each, and there will be ten teams, each one representing a different nation. The tourn- ament will continuo through six nights,there being six heats each nignt, and on the sixth night the team naving won the most heats is decided the prize, winner. There will be, however, three first, socond and third, The rope used is an inch and three-quarters in circumference; a white handkerchief tied on tbis marks the middle. i'he black painted lines on the floor of the platform, on which these struggles will take place are fourteen feet apart, thus indicating the length of the pull. When the handkerchief comes over either of theso lines the team on the other side has lost. The floor of the platform, which s eight feet high in the center of the auditorium, giving all an_ unobstructed view, is padded, or battened, in order that the men who pull in a reclining position may not sustain injury. There are raised slats nailed to the fioor, four ches apart, against which the coutestants brace their feot, thus securing o tremendous purchase, Mauagor Prince has been hustling hard and now has no less than eight teams, representing eight distinct na- tionalities, training for the ev Theso an--Captain Jack Kinne Captain P. J. Kirby; Den- . Noble, capiatn; Swedon—J. in; Bohemia—P. Jellen, cap- Canada—Thomas Hines, captain; Ger- many—Fred A. Fuller, captain; England — Thomas Stoniger, captain, Tne rales governing these struggles are as follows : 1. Thateach team shall consist of ten men, two substitutes to be allowed. 2. That after the signal to start has been given, no person but the ten men shall bo allowed to touch the rope or any competitor until the pull has been decided by the referee, 3. That the teams shall be drawn against each other by lot for the pull, the odd and even numbers to compete with each other in the order in which they may be drawn. 4.. That the length of the pull shall be seven feet. 5. That any kind of footwear may be used, bu:]must be free from spikes and projecting nails, 6. That the rope shall be four inches in cir- cumference, That the competitors shall be allowed to use any substance they choose to strengthen their grip, 8. Thut tho rope ahall be fastened in the center by a lever until ready to start, and that the referees shall signal the start and finish of each pull by firing a pistol. That fifteen minutes shail be allowed bo- tween the closing or one pull ana the begin- ning of the next, each team to take its place in the order drawn. 10. That when ten teams shall have pulled against each other one pull the pulling shall be continued, each team to pull aguinst a team that it has not previously pulled against until six teams have each been beaten four times, 11. That should an odd number of teams be left in the contest, say five, seven or nine,the refereo and judges shall 0 arrange tho re- maining pulis as to give as nearly as possible the same number of pulls to tho remaining teams 12, That the four remaining teams shall pull against each other for the first, second, third and fourth prize: 13. That the nauie, age, weight and height of each memuer of each team, incinding sub- stitutes, shall bo handed to the manager on or before December 13, 1591 14. That when any team is beaten four times it shall be dropped from the listof competitors. 15. That the teaws drawn from the pull on each day shall be on the platform and ready to pull at 8:15 p, m. Avother Foot Ball Team. The Omaba Meaical College Foot Ball club was organized by the students of that collego on Tuesday evening last. The fol- lowing otticors wero installed and players so- lected: T. Martin Muellor, captam;J. F. Davis, manager; H. S. Brevoort, secrotary and treasuror, L. W. Edwards, center rush; George Rocder, right guard; W. Johnson, first tackle; F. A. Stockdale, second tackle; J. Saunders, loft guard ;. Rugg, first tacklo; J. F. Leepor, second tacklo; . M. Muellor, captwin; quarter back; Fred Driver, half back: L. A. Hick, half back; F. E. Beale, fall back, Kenner, Davies, Lusk, M etz substitutes. Average welzht 160 pounds. I'ne club is backed financially by the faculty of the college and starts out under most favorablo auspices. Suits and othor cquip- ments have been ordered, and tho club ex- pects to bo in regular training in a fow days. In the no distant future the team hopes to meet the differont athletic associations in tho city und vicinity. One of Wattie's Best “Touches " A couplo of weeks ago, in a vein of jocular- ity, 1 made mention in these columus of & visit from W. H. Watkins, the famous old Detroit-St. Paul-Kansas City baso ball mun- ager, now on the road for a cigar house. In this unfortunate stab one of Wattie's best touches’ " was likened unto a picce of rove, which was cruol, considering the fact that tho said Adelina'Patti is & smoke fit for the gods. Yesterdaz, with a box, I received tho following: Graxp Tstaxp, Neb, Dec. 2—Friend Sandy: Be genorous in your strength, I dou’t remember of ever having taken @ shot at you, if I had 1 would probably have got you. If thera is malice in your heart toward e, wait till [ get back to Omaha, then vent 1t on mo and not on my cigars. I called at Tie Bew no less than three times when in Omaha, trying to seo you, but you were off hunting. Your friend, Warrie. Gab and G ibole of tne Crank. “Spud” Farrish, the local base ball oracle, says ho has a sort of a sneakin’ iden that the Western association is going to be graated at least a year's rest. Buckenherger has lassooed Frank Killen, who used to piten in the Western association for his board and clothes, for Pittsburg for the modest sum of £3,000 for the season. Billy Earle, who failed, after all, to make counections with either the Boston or Wash- ington association clubs for next year, is playing ball with Lawson’s Cuoan outfit, ‘The old Omaba base ball association’s loase on the present ball park has but one more year to run, and it begins to look as if the last professional game had been played there. 1f Jimmy Canavan plays in Milwaukee next season it will ve in right fleld. Dahlen will guard second and Shoch short. But wall Milwauken be in it next season, you see Co- lumbus — IMiteher Billy Hart, with the, Huskers last season, is sticking type in Cincinnati. Next yoar 0o will bo the king of the Chicago asso. ciation team, and in bim Mr. Pfeffer has a veritable crackerjack. Manager Buckenberger with Stwoux City last year, is now hustling for the Pittsburg leaguers, at whose helm he will in all likeli- hood be found nuxt year. Well, Buck is a competent man for the job and here's to Lim, Out in Denver they are determiued to have professional ball next year, and if the West- €rn assoclation, in the event of reorganiza- tion, closes the doors on her,she will endeavor :? rtmn a state league with a living salary mit. W. E. Rockwell. formerly of tois eity, now president of the Pacific Northwesv league, bas offered a beauniful silver cup and silken pennant to the winners of tho Pacific coast championship, for which San Jose and Port- 1and are now batthng, Portland is confident of winning the coast championship from San Jose, relying maiuly on three ex-Omaha pitchers, Jack launing, Peter MeNabb and “Kid” Camp, Besides thess, Charlie Abbey and Oney Pattou are also with the Portlands. Down in St. Joe they think the best thing the Western association could do would be to revive the ola Western league circuit, or start out with a new one to include St, Joe, Atchison, Leavenwortn, Topeka, . Dos Moines, Omaha, Lincolu and Hastings.} Miscellaneous Looal Sports, Gallant Boy is one of the most famous greyhounds at Denver. He was & prize winuer of the derby at Grand Hend, Kau. Senator Morgan is ia Chicago making ar- | rangemants for Fok's gF8R, six aay bicyols | chase which takes plpeg there Christmas weelk, 2 Frank Keniston,one of Onraha's best known billiaraists, has opened,¥p pleasant rooms on the basement floor of 4§e New York Life building. Tom Eck, owing to T’flurfl in making sat- isfactory arrangementsdar the Coliseum, has abandoned the idea of weix-day bicycle race for this city, so @y, this month is con- cerned anyway, Dr. Ramacciotti, Geotge Schroeder, Adam Suyder, Sheriff Boyd, Charlie Withaell and Gil Lo Vally spent several days out on the Raw Hide last week with their little guns and their swords and. their pistols. ‘They sliot away something over a barrel of powder and a ton of shot, and onby bagged seven ele- phants, six grizzlies and two megatheriums. These gentlomen are hunters form away back. Cut the cards ! The testimonial tendered William Martin, the world's champlon long-distance bicyclist, at the Dotroit rink the olber night was not what had been hoped for, Thero was no mad rush for tickets, no suffocating jams on_the inside, although the beneliciary went to New York almost unknown and defeated men of national remown by hundreds of miles. Hardly 1,000 people attended, but among the number were wmany ardent wheelmen who helped dispel the thoughts of a disappointe ing gate by ablevodied yelling. “Foot ball,”” remarked Rob Patrick, ‘‘has come to Omaha to stay, and 1502 I firmly be- lieve will see a league in existence here. This fall the boys can’t find time for much elso than tall, but wait untii next year. 1t is the richt thing, tao, for the Omaha Athlectic club to take first steps in this mattor. They havo the nucleus for a good team already, and next fall the league can be organized before the zular foot ball seasor ally begins, Tho game is being popularized all over the coun- try, and it is gratifying to sce tho enthus- iasm reach Omaha.”" Rob, you want to look up arvecent issue of the New York Metro- polis and read what it has to say on the great gamo. W hisperings of the W heel. Look out for the blue and gold next season. Another season drawn to a close and the Florence record remains unbroken. A. H. Perrigo left Tuesday morn foran extended business trip through the state. Gus Fpenoter 1s out again after asevero spell of sickness, looking happy and well. The track at the Coliseum will bo roemod- eled shortly, raised corners and ends will be built, so rumor says. Pneumatic and big cusions will be all the rage next season, solid tires will be as unpop- ular as ordinaries were this season. ‘Tho theater party promises to be a swell affair. Some twenty or thirty wheelmen have signified their attention of attending. The committee are doing some tall rustling. The “profesh” aro heading this way and ere many moons will be whirling around the Cohiseum track in a blooming six day race. Charlie Ashinger, the “Oklahoma Cyclone,” leads the parade. The Tourists closed their riding season November 30 having ridden 16,110 miles since April 1, 915 124 elub runs have been called, 110 of which have boen attonded, the bal- ance of fourteen were abaudoned on account of inclement, weather. The Omaha Wheel club “gymn’ begins to assume substantial shape. 'The basement will be thorouzhly overhauled, renovated and fitted up with pulley weizhts,” lockers, row- ing machine and a striking bag, dumb bells, Indian clubs, boxing gloves and foils will be added for the benefit of the athletes. The Sioux City cyching club opened their new club rooms and indoor track November 12, The attendance was very large and the race program quite,. iuteresting. The Sioux City Cveliug club seems to bo a por- manent institution and receives the support of the entire city’s population. E. B. Smith wins the high five prize, hav- ing a sure thing hold on first place. Tho fightis now between. W. G. Perfect and William Bmerson for second place. The games continue to draw well, an interested crowd attonding last Mouday nignt's series, Twenty games remain. unplaved. Tne Bep will publish the full scorp in next Sunday's issuo. The contest for the 1801 club medals closed on the'same datd. H. K. Switn se- cured first place and tbe nandsome gold medal, Bob Young came under the wirea good second and owns the league pin. Below is the record since August 1: Runs Attended. Mileage. LK. Smith. R L. Youn; E, R Smith 5.1 Rumol John Kelley. E. L. Potter.” feflkin ‘ollins. Ldr L, Colby J. Morris... L, Porter(iold * Donaghue L Kastmam Muihall " W. Connoran. 2. Holton . Holt Sehneli’ I Burr PP 2o L. Fiescher It will bo abard matter to pick a winner for the 92 medals from the above field. Questions and Answers. DunrAp. Ia., Nov, o tor of THE BrE: Ple Californin Jack A has 7 ; high, low. and game nnd B inakes juok. akes his high and low before B niakes When thoy couat A has game. Which B. 3 CouNCIL BLUFFS, Tn.. Dec. 4.—To the Spor ing Editor of Te BEE: To declde a bet please stite In your hext Sunduy's edition tho fol- lowing: “A und B are playing double high 51 points and B has 47 points. A The hand Is pluyed ana A mak the gimos B makes tho re A claims that hie, needinz only o 1 point and making it, goes out; B claims that buying the vrump and making it, he goes out’—A Con- stunt Reader. A wins. eb., Dec. 4.=T0 tho Sportin I would like to usk i g the game of euchre: A und B plays againse Uand D A dewls the cards und U passes, B orders it up, that s Lo orders his partner up; now when It comes to A ho clufms he can pliy 1t alono and makes four DOInts: now we want to know 1t A can play alone after neing ordered up by his par Plouso let me know throngh THE Beei—Wil fum MeBock. Ans.—You cannot order your partnor up, but you can assist him, Hoyle says under the circumstances that that your partner can play it alone.”” although it 1s played both ways. However tha rule allowing u player after being assisted by his partner to play it aloue, is a poor tion con -‘ 0 ll\;' Sport de a bet plense 1ENunov 1nks made a Ajferton at Iudepend- Shannoil, 3 your question to . C. C, Wil- liams, [ndependénce. ' Woon Riven, Nel To the Sporting Editor o THE i I Tk dbs Ive us your de- cision on a gumo of high five. A 1s31° B I 47, B blds it for 7, mukes high. 0w and left pou- dro, A gets gime. Who'Wins? To the '8 THE BEl de a bet bl Tim Nilana's fighe with' Plek ako was his first fizht, sud what Is wate of tho man? Wausithe Bluck defeated before he met #boston Benny Monday night?—Bendige/" Ans.—(1) Niland has ude sovoral fizhts, (2) Judging from the fagk that he defoated i top-noteher like Moore,,is s a good one. (4 It was the Pearl’s first dofeat. Although ho bas fought several draws. NEBRASKA O1ry, Nob,, iD6o. 4.-=To the Sport- itor of Tk BEe: A and B are playing wme of high five for 21 points, A nd B20 points A buys the trump and makes 1, B bhaving low or the deu: Kking ouch Who wins?--A 8 1 " Ans,—This auestion has probably been an- swered for the hundredth timoin these col- umns. B wins of course, Editor of whether shuckers—Haller's Australian for corn Salve. 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