Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 25, 1892, Page 16

* SPORTSFOR MERRY CHRISTHAS A Disquisition on the Popular Pastime of the Day. A DAY IN THE PHELPS COUNTY STUBBLE Guess on Coming Fights—Lugubrions Dia- mond Gosslp The Byker's Merry Bud- get and the Sportsman’s Melange. ALLY, it squire half an eye to see that the pres ent winte ing spring fthe busiest Jiistiana since the the carliest English championship. The daily press is filled with the dates of coming events committees of the various throughout th and com will be era in known anys of the contest metropolitan clubs try are aboute the busiest to be found in any line of trafiic or tr Matches are being made at a rate that is simply prodigal, and the exponent of the manly art who fails to get in his work in the next half twelvemonth will prove himself a sloth and a laggard, indeed. That it is the fighter cumulating evidence leaves little chance coun olden epoch ac- for doubt, and that it will prove but short-lived | is another incontrovertible fact. The pi is entirely oo rapid to be maintaincd the very men now straining might main to augment and further the genera interest n the game are the ones who will indubitably prove instrumental in killing it outright. Like base ball, prize fishting is bound to ontstrip itself, a8 the enormous wealth fig- uring in the dozen or more of prospective events makes this outcome patent to close observers. Ten thousand dollars makes a tremendous sum to be contended for in any Tine of sport. let it beon the turf, in the fleld or ring, and is an even wagered, but fow in the history of the world, Even is & big het or purse cither, but it1s o poor dub of o fighter who hasn't check enough to ask this ficure for the same performan could have been secur dreds. However, the climax may be deferrcd un til the big affairs that have been arranged by the New Orleans Crescent and Coney Isl and Athletic clubs come off, when the cata- clasm will come, if it comes at_ all, s swift and_devastating s a thunderbolt from heaven. That'any set of sensible | men would for amoment contempl ing such a sum as £40,000 for an_event that is us Jikely to terminate in twenty minutes as it i to tevminate at all, surpasses all understand- ing. Still that is what the Crescent club proposcs to hand over to Jim Hall or Bob Fitsaitmmons at the close of thelr little manuel argument next March 1?(”.1- offer genuine? is a d for as many hun- query being freuently propounded, and while much doubt is being expressed in this regard, | think it is. The assertions of the New York dailies, who are bending every endeavor to controvert the idex that New Orleans is the Mecea of pugilism. should be taken cum rano salis. If New York remains New York she must be on top in all matters of public moment, in religion, trade or amuse- ment. If possible she would have frustrate the scheme of a World's fair, but le instance the tide set in and ov er, but Chicago is not and it will require some very decp pocketbooks and some very long heads forthe city on the gulf to beat her out in her maddening chase for short- haired distinction, as the Coney Island club's latest_political stroke, the offéring of £45,000 for a fight between Jack MeAuliffic and Dick Burge, unquestionably attests. But to go back to my original proposition—- the downfall of the spor Can New Orleans bring to a succ ul fssue another carnival even approximating in_ greatn that of last September? 1 think uot. The secret of the success of this collossal achievement was due to the fact that the gr —the unrivale figure in the rwhelmed New Orleans, the premier stless magnet that drew Louisianaward the eyes of the civilized sporting world, the eléetrical force that quickened the pulse, and started the blood in the veins of every game man on top of the earth. Wh s the bruiser who ever had the following of the Big Fellow, both in and outside of spor cireles interminable retinue of busi tradesmen, bank; broke doctors and professional people, music literary and dramatic? There is no gainsay- ing the correctness of this, us degenerate, low and hoodlumish as he here is no accounting for human patronage or servility, in this case, onc and the sume thing. Gen eral Gr s advent in London created no more of a stir than did the entree of Johu L, Sullivan. The prospective head of the king- dom, the Prince of Wales, was a special und frequent caller, as were dukes and lords and marquises without number. 1 might tell a good story, one of Frank Lane's, in this nection, but will leave itfor anothe Sufiice it to say that this was the 1 made the New Orleans carnival Is Jim Corbett today the man John L, wus before September's surprise part thousand yards, off hand. And if he pitted against either Jackson, Mitchell or Goddard, was to be one of the spring attrac- tions, there would-be no such an exodus of northern, eastern and western men to D Orleans to watch the sport as there see the mighty Joln L. That was a that will never know a dupl But this isnot all. New Orleans has an- other cause for apprehension aside from the Coney Island club, and that is the senseless rivalry and competition that has been in- augurated between her t ding clubs, the old Olympic and th cent, This has been the influence that has elevated purses to their present vuinous and idiotic altitude. A single failuve, and bankruptey + is the resort of either of these organizations, That this is sure to follow, I have but mea. gre doubts, and 1 think New Orleaus is on the verge of ving a smash, pugilisti from which she will be many moons v covering. scene As to Hall and Fitzsimmons, in spite of the numerous shady stovies cmanating from aquers of the Coney Island club, © mateh for M before the New Orleans Crescent ciub is on the dead square in every detail, including the genuineness of the §0,000 purse, although the acme of folly, as well as the bitter feeling existing between the two men Of course the amount of moy the aftair is proposterously lange, but what is the matter with the majority of the purses being hung up these days? There is but littlo rhyme or reason in the accusations of the Coney Island cohorts, in testimony of which it is but necessary to reflect that this elub has just gone the Crescent $,000 better Ju offering 45,000 for the ac-Auliffe-Burge ht, If there is a log chain attached to thor purse it is that proposed by the New Yorkers. They claim that Hall and Fitz understand each other from the simple fact that Robert s having laid down to 05 for the paliry sum of 23, Outhe other hand, Hall elaiais that he licked him on the level, and is borme out in this by the corroboration of miler” Hale, the Austr g authority. always encompassed Hall” and Fitzsimmons and that $0,000 would be a nice little fortune to split between any Iwo wmen, | cannot help but think that the coming fight is to be on its merits. It would be o difficult matter for these two to make a fake now it they were so inclined Phore is too much suspicion hanging over each man. If they ever fought on the squure, and has any of their fights since thoy cawe into prominence in America and England been suspected in the smallest way, they must tight 5o this t As to which man should win, that is a Rmhlvm as is a problem. When I went up 1o Paul two years ago; when Frank Shaw the old Omabia gum, dans matehed for a firm believer that Hall would tote off the boodle. I had seen him work in a setto with Jack Davis at the Grand opera house, this city, and then and there wade up wmy v offered for the with suspicion, had these two Austral- doesn't | and | that ten years ago | 1 this sin- | st time has produced | Admitting that this episode has | movements of | wurse of $12,000,1 was o | THE cither. Jack says that along the laeg: creeks all the quail were 'covered to the depth of eight or ten fect by the late snows, and that all have doubtless been smothered took a single backward step, but kept right | or starved, and predicts a poor crop next | after Jack from start to finish, waiking | season. | fairly over him, dealing him out straight | lefts and crosses with the right ina style \ | that was simply electrifying At one stage, after getting a rather warm punch in the mouth, Jack said : “Here, voung feller, your getting a trifle fresh! 1 thought this was to be only a | friendly bout, I'll have to get back at you if that's your game," | “Why this is friendly enough, Jack,” re- sponded Hall, “but eut loose, paste me & | quy hoqt him at 200 yards off-hand. Took at couple, I wont'mind it we b CUhGE toith thiess pillows vEhurt each | 4ho score he made against Fuller last And without any apparant excrtion what- | l|"1‘i?£!‘.‘»1|:l:(»}‘,|"‘ll'» ""lly‘“; 1 '.',‘.:(', I‘ "-:““i‘f‘ oot ever, he continued his walk onthe heavy. | i G fod Piller from the start and could welght, smashing him indiscriminately woiil | yifto even bottered his score’ had it ‘been | A close of the | yeeoasary. He is probably as good an off- [ dod and, long distance shot as ) Well T never say_Fitzsimmons stripped for | "\;:;"| le L listance shot as there is in action until last ‘Septemberat th fnal, | 4 . when 1 saw him play o wild and weird W mazirka, at the oldAvademy of Music, on the ribs and jaws of Johnny Cash, the south orn middlewelght pet Then 1 yoted him a_ wonder tally resolved that if he and come together, 1 would be tious in any attempt to pr result | They are undoubtedly a very good match | Both can put up a good jab and get away sort of a game, or mix up i an ef if the occasion demands. In fact are both thorough ring tacticians, strong as | bulls, and capable of adopting the respective | manouvres af of the other, cut them out as | they may, when once vis a vis in_the ring From these facts it is but reasonable to ex pect a long battle. o superlatively scientific and supremely good one. Fitzsimmons is a4 monster in_ build, the hips up, and of shape, think possessed of considerable more mus v than Hall, and vet T do not think he OMAHA DAILI ind, that he could whip most anybody. Havis was o mere plaything in the good look- ng middleweight's hands, who, in the entire hree rounds in which they figured, never 1 have also reports from this vicinity that o large majority of the birds met a similar fate. The snow came in the night, and the birds being at roost, were buried beneath the enormous drifts, and next season’'s out- Took is indeed very poor. Some of the crack rifle shots of the country can get a game by calling on John W. Petty, and, indeed, T believe there are but few who Tsperings Merry Christmas? E. B. Smith too, ahd men. | Week. 4 " e i | Council Bluffs will havea bieyele club next T | scason ate the | C.G Candy sojourns in Chicago this Rockwell, C. C. were all in Fields (papa), I and J. W, Fulton Art Mahan of Cre Orleans, La.. was a visitor "in day of last week The Tourist Wheelmen and ball in the near future. now out working up the event | Jack Cully and_Billy Schuefl of the Touy- ists are running lines and dr Hawkeye state. Good exercise, which will harden their muscles for next se/son's work on the path and road. The Omaha Wheel club entertained the club members and a few of their friends at is as stiff a puncher. The latter has a - dr the club house Christmas eve with an old e hirvelogs, s tricaps boing | fashioned X-mas tree. Many gifts were dis of that peculiar devolopment which anato- | tributed from the tree and everyone who at- mists tell us give the greatest vy in | tended had a good time striking o hard blow. But leaving theit in- | W. M. “Pap” Brewster, dividual merits and demerits out of the ques- | League of Amer tion they are so evenly matched in weight, | St. Joseph, M height and reach that it would be foolhardy | ber of the N to essay anything better than o guess on the | “Jess” one day of last week, Mr. Brews outcome of their fghit s the great loague hustler : The postponed business meeting of the JNow. that tho lid ght, ct s L urist wheelinen was. held last Thursday England and Ameriea, Dick Burge and Jack | oyoping at which business of great impor TRl s sl Ly | ance to the club_ was transacted. [t is en ment, makes it doubtful whether the Hull | yeqtly requested that all members of the Fitzsimmons fight will have et e Riet | club be on hand at the next regular mecting attention and patronage. - That the st | epi Wil be held Thursday evening, Janu- named affair will come off at Coney Island, BTN nita s M ¥ ~ A surprise awaits every one. with all the superior advantages and attrac s tions of New York available, makes me be- plendent with gold leaf and all the lieve that it will e the best patronized of the rainbow the Xmas number of event of the two, There never will be an- rings comes to its readers this week other such a stampede to New Orleans as | enlarged and replete with numerous photo s withessed Tast Septembor, that can be | engravings of prominent wheelmen, short | Modfed upon, and. that. the Crescont City | Storics, interesting bicyele history and ro must_depend upon the whole country to | Sumeof the past year. The magazine is ke hor prodigious undertakings a success, | truly a modelof printers art and o credit to is another undisputable fact. But not so | its editors, the Xmas number Surpasses any with Gotham. She has within a_radius of | journal of its kind gotten out this season. 500 miles, casily 10,000,000 people to draw | The secretary-treasuvers read his annual [ from. Everybody wants togo to New York | report showing a substantial gain in the at least once in his lieftime, and as the sport- | division finances, also a goodly ceonomic ex- ing element is the high-life element of the | penditure by the state ofticers. The r great commonwealth, a card like the one in | shows a balance on hand December 1, 1802, brospect will cause an influx into Gowanus | of $2%6 against balance on hand same time in from all divections such as was never wit- $112. 1t 1s claimed that renewals will nessed before, that is if the card in question | bring this up to 400 befor is seasoned with a side dish or so, after the | annual division meet for was discussed fashior. of the big event in New Orleans last | and indications point to the most successful September. meet_ever held by the division. Another 1u this mill Tam perfectly mecting of the board will be held” in Omaha winner, 1t should be a gift to Gentleman | shortly. Jack., Burge is said to be clumsy and slow The oficers of Nebraska division League of | With an awkward guacd, and unstable | American Wheelmen met at Fremont De- action general, and if this is true, the Ameri- | cember 17 and reviewed the work of the past can champion will make a hash out of him. | year and made plang for the i He is the fastest fighter on tho turf today, | of next. Chief Consul Perrigo v uses both manlies as if attached to piston | nual report, showing less growth in 1862 than rods, has the eye of ag ' nd | in 1801 comparatively, he also recommend makes every punch count. 1f v Bull | the publication of more requiting literatus is no more than his fight with Jem Carney | A hand book will be published at once. A showed him to be, he would have been | scheme for giving prizes for new lucky to have remained across the drink. membership was introduced and _ne- cepted. circular o all member: of the division will be mailed, setting forth the inducements of the scheme. Ten pr 1t Cyeling elub, New the city one will give a social A committee is from and 1 treasus of the an Wheelmen, located at L and George Col tional Racing board, ¢ | | | twelght champions of | o free to pick the Andour own friend Tommy | George Dawson, they meet in March at New | Orleans. What do I think of themt That | i) be given for memberships, and will be thoy area corking Silely of lads and | gisiributed as follows: For one new mem- I‘“{!ilsl"“”il‘l”'"I‘_'ITlif".: nm«..l"(’i“\v::"\’f‘u\:f\l.i ber, gold plated League of American Wheel- R e T ST R Gy Thin | el WEAT oo B0 Lt e [l himself a worthy opponent of - the champion | plated League of American Wheelmen witcl | prelter by his victorles over Danny "Need: | guard; for three new members, gold plated am and Doc ell, who was g | Lengue of American Wheelmen pendant pin; cleverer than anyone hereaway dreamed, In- - gop four new members, gold plated League of both of these Rghts, however, the Aus- | American Wheelmen locket: for five new anwas quite as badly punished as |y empers, solid gold pin; for cight new mem- : Joser, and at a stage i each it looked | jopg, solid gold pin; for ten new members, as if the beaten man had the fight going his | go}id gold pin; for fifteen new members, solid n \‘\lnx-ln.-\l‘ ‘»\t;*lh_‘\{"- cand W | old wateh chain; for tiventy new meinbe ihohg 'm-:;::::; Y oun rounas e ifteen-year Foloy's, serew bezel, open face, S lienihalonteredbarithousinibruiss)seaten | s moEmNotn watell SR AN e o [etom iy el oulEampion fvdiol e e sNnaTaN AT IR O IETL | e e sereens e lnivalie Bomapentaity n im capable of stopping the rush of almost | = vy : Dt omeauehes T shall expect | skin, mingled with the wild cowboy yell of el e the western plains. softencd ayd toned by 3 : ; the sweet, musical tinkle of the Spanish mandolin and guitar. merry shouts of civil- ized laughter and jingling of spurs and -outrements, will resound through the pa lors and reception rooms of the Omaha | Wheel club on New Year's eve. For the Will como off on the same night. At the | nonce the club house will be converted into 1o Alto.C Johmeon and Juek Hall will | @ wigwam, and the braves of the On try conclusions. and 4t the Pacific Tommy | tribe will wander gt will about the tepee or White and Billy Murphy. sit in the council circle and take a whiff NaxtEWadnaaaay i nieht the “chagwah' or peace pipeas it is passed SRR Ty around. The occasion will be the annual G enilor Faitan | wateh meeting and New Year club social. TSl ranlon | Tnvitations have been issued to the club Van Heest and Solly | members and some of their friends, which ipa ? no doubt will be accepted with alacrity, as Biinne the Omuha Wheel elub is noted for the su e cess of its entertainments. The *Wild d and at the Trap. West Smoker,” which oceurs on New Yeur's Nebrasks, City s 10 have the cham- | eve, is something new in the way of a pion quil shot of the state. S0 far this sea- | ¢lub entertainment, the invention' of the son he has kitled 1,000 birds, fertile brains of the gentlemen composing £ the committee—Messrs. Perrigo, Kastman Dr. H, G. Miller has returned from Mon. | 8nd Cox. Music willbe made one of the tana after a ten months absence, He had mtoniuroslonielavatiies IIRELIATHS S Qe o had | fuvitations are quite “Injun” in make up and Ao 1] m.i,':L",\\'”.‘:"Qi,,:)‘.,. P JAO Gt | read, +Members Omaha Wheel Club Tribe five biack bear, two mountain lion and four | There will be concert and smoker at the Iynx, beside wtlond of small fry, He | tepee con Seventeenth and - Chicago stys hie intends heveafter to make a Jimited | Streets, Suturday cvening, December 2l Bunting trip unnually, While absent he | We will be assisted by a fow braves from visited allthe big vities of the “slope, but | iher tribes. = lenk L Tl T O found 10 town s good s Ok Honcpuialiicts SAL Ryan, Next Monday night 'k to a couple of numbers, The Palo Alto and acific clubs have caught the fever and are | and they hav nged the da Tespective events in order that they o will be treated Billy Plimmer, 1, and Joe MeGrath will her before the Coney hursday night Johnny Smith, My combin- shuson, Murphy, Van Heest and ) the T W. I, Harrison, my genial sporting friend from G wd s been in the eity soveral d 1T W, H. tells the truth, and ason to doubt but what he does, al, Hurvey MeGrew, Dr. Gluek and anumber of other gallant nimrods are not init with bim. e says he went before a A Day in the Stubble, Nourovk, Neb., Dee. 24.—To the Sporting ditor of Tue Bee: Never in the history of Nebraska has there been so great an abund- ance of quail as there are the present sea- ¢ i T A ' | son. A great many fine bags have been KL anht 6 cathen that | ably the greatest one that has been made in o " yaalfigh what | this section was one made by n party of Fre- O T B strer 0f Miacounty et | Wont sportsmen at Verdigre recently, when ran forcounty treisurer of Wi county st | 4o days' shooting netted in the close neigh- nutumn, and declaves he would huve been | 50060 °0f 500 birds. It is, however, 4 mat- gluetod i€ he coutd Iuive (ol s big N4 08 | oy of sincere regret. that ‘oo many of our B8 eppeRshY YAREY LY hunters and wopld-be sportsmen persist in - sluughtering tHe noble’ Bob White by pot What hus become of the onting, which s a& truly unmanly s challenge from the Bemis Park to the | {y'"f thsportsmanlike. N0 true sports- Omaha Gun clubt The Bemis boys ehal- |y will stoop so low as to slaughter lenged the Raymonds f live-bird shoot, | y"covey of quail, or even a single bird, while and the Raymonds not accepting, they gave | on the ground, or like sowe of our hunters itout that the Omahas were about their.| 4pd would-be sportsmen who own good dogs size. 1 can assure them, however, that |, excellent guns, sneak around for half an Omihas will accept any sort of . challenge | hour 1o got o shot at o bird sitting, This is they see fit to issue. Go for ‘em, wrong for two reasous, the first of which is the indiscriminate sliughter of the birds and the second that he therebyloses the sport of shooting and the pleasure of secing his dog work, The latter is certainly hulf the pleasure of hunting. The man wholoses sight of these two very m 1 points d ot call himself other & mere pot | hunter, and is deserving of the heartiest j i oxes. Jaek f,‘,“ff“‘\‘,‘".fl':‘}"‘ ““_“"‘,“.""“ | in the South Platte country, the farther red’s challenze guve evidence that he was | 5outh the better. On the Republican river quite a rifle shot, but his score incontinently | 304 TS ey are most. abundant xefutes the suspicion. Ired now declarcs | {0 yeqgons for which 1 attribute to the | that he fatends to keop on chulleuging Old | yify \iuters and less snow. rendering loss beats him. But if Fred will ke my advice | less great from cold and sturvation Guring he will drop him now like a hot potato. He | fedt" sy W45 HRE ¥ lm‘_‘h““ml by | il mever see the day he can beat him. | sportsmen and farmers from Indiseriminate Appended is the full scove of their lute meet: | (J, yghter both in and out of season. Organ- ized grun clubs have been of great bencfit in this direction, and this thought offers u sug- gestion that might be adopted with excel 8 | fent résults by the sportsmen of North # | Nebraska. In this part of the state many 18 | parties from the outside have been in the [ 11 | hubitof coming in_and slaughtering game 15 | birds and shipping them unlawiully to other ‘ 10 | markets, both in and out of the state. The | < severest punishment possible should e 2t | 12 | 2 | meted out t these offenders, und if Nebras s 108 1) Mot M8 s present gawe laws do not meet ihe ve 3. E. Knowles and Frank Carmichael re- | quirements of the case, they should be made | turned a day or two ago from a two days' | wmore stringent. | hunt in Towa. They say they killed 102 | In the latter days of November I was iu- quail, thirteen squirrels und forty-two cot-, | vited by my friend, known to all the spor tontails, and that game wusn's very pleuty | men in the state as the prince of govd fek much talked of | Policeman H. . Cook was down in the wilds of Sarpy county last Sunday, and says | hie bagged forty-cight quails, thivieen prairie | | chickens, thirteen cotton-tails and_ two jack | | rabbits. He says there are slathers of | game down there and he would have ki more if he had only taken an axe with him Sun- | ing stakey in | ort | to the | DAY, DE( y and whesesother name s Eugene Ham ton, propifener of the Hampton house at Holdrege, Bed, to take a quail hunt. Gono has quite swecord, but owing to the kin1 regard 1 Mesive for his excellent wife I re ‘rain from giviee it at present. Suffico it ty say, he is Me author. of that national & 1m A pastimes* high five.”" Also, he is a first class shot amd the possessor of all the B raphernalia n-lllupur(cmuqu thereunto | belonging for hwmting, fishing and camp ing, from @ six-room tent to A long handled Afrying pan. Among his possessions s~ one of Smith's latest improved; guns and_a fine pointer bitch known s Nell.” Nell is as finc a type of the Englsh pointer as one would wish to see, and ms for work—well, it has never been our lot to shoot over a better, The appointed day arrived, bright, bracing and a perfect autumn morning, We left the hotel at 6 o'clock in the morning with lunch packed and_everything in readiness for a perfect day's sport. We drove about seven miles and reached the appointed spot just as horizon. The place was perfect, the bed of a little creck or rivulet, which had long b Idry except here and there a pool which Providence had left t the quail might quench thefr thirst, and Nell might occasionally moisten her nostrils, the better to do her work. The latter was very necessary would be with an_ordina dog, though Nell could evidently have done excellent work without it, for the Yy was dry and nromised to be hot. FLater on we were favored with a friendly cloud over shadowing the sky and a gentle breeze avis ing from the west. Th k was lined with thick brush, with here a clump of plum trees and tufts of high grass, while the edges were fringed with cornficlds and wheat stubble. After leaving the carriage we had 1ot gone far until Nell began o scent game and started across a of stubble, where it was cvident the birds' had gone to feed She had mot gone far, however, when she came to a point, her tail straight out, her body like that of a statue, with o foot lifted from the ground. “Get them up!™ said I, but not a muscle moved. “She doesn’t do it that way,” said Gene, That part we will have to” do_ourselves.”” So on we go, Nell following elosely at our heels, pointing at every step. Onwe go for at lenst 100 yards, when a covy of seventecn flushed, Nell Iying close to the ground. ! bang ! bang! bang! Four birds the ult, the remaining thirteen seeking cover in the brush. “Get_the deaa birds,” said Gene, and like a flash Nell was off, quickly returning with two dead birds, the first load, and bringing the other two sin Back we went to the brush and i th On we went, but not far, until anoth was scented, but flushed wild, th getting a point, neither did we g but “watch them down!” which you will recognize as a familinr phrase, wis efacu- lated in a chorus. We did, and the spot was smali guleh with tall gr ould getaway from us here, Well, T guess not,” but the There were twoout of the thirteen that got away, one being pretty badly shot, the other a clean miss by two loads. ~ On w went, the doing eclegant work and we doing pretty fair shoot- ing until about 1 o'clock came and we returned to the wagon for lunch, When our rayenous appetites had been appeased we took an inventory of the game on hand, finding we had bagged eighty-seven of the gamest and best of all bivds, the festive quail, and decidedito defer further shooting until another day Tn conclusion let:me say that I never joyed aday’s good sport better orin mov it wy.and I can sincerely advise all my sportsmcn friends who would like an outing at Holdrege to cultivote the ac- quaintance of my,good friend, Gene Ham- tling Nell, Gene is a true : a royal good fellow, und s possessed, in addition to his many excellent social qualities, of a thorough knowledge of all the best shooting grounds in that viein- ity. With sucha companion and under such circumstances a day spent with rod or gun cannot fail to be enjoyable. F.L.C. A Bateh of Winter Singles. Tt would be a w; nything new or edifying on the base! situation. = A few misguidec writers making a frantic effort to arouse a little in- covey dog not shot, sionof the rules of the gime, th essary and improvements advisable very large army of the old day cranks refuse to énthuse worth @ continental, and it is a patent fact that ‘the best remedy for the present lapse would to give the game a long and health-reviving rest. In this connection my old_ and Rife of the Ohio State Journal staff, perti- nently remarks: News in the busc ball world is us dead as the proverbial door nail, and yhody connceted with the various Na- tional league teams appears to be putting in their time considering the situation, News- papers that have herctofore devoted daily space to the great national game, between sensons, are now giving it the go-by,whether us the result of a lack of interest, the idea is the carryiug out of 4 plan to let let the g everely alone during the win- ter months in the hope that such an arrange- ment miht tend to the upbuilding of the spoit in the spring. Certain it is that less space is devoted to base ball at this season of the than at any time in the last ten years.” What it means is only problemati The newspapers have made base ball, when they turn it down the magnates may as well hung up the violin, the flute, the yellow-bellied clavionet und ‘all the other musical instruments, for the base ball soivee is over, A § Justne Tsaid all the time. J. refused the presidency of the Northern cific railroad, and will stick to the Browns next season for his bpard and beer money. Johm T Brush just re-clected himself president of the Cincinnati club, and Stofe Moore has bought another block of stock in the same. Serappy Joyee of the Brooklyns is at Hot prings, where he hopes, by judicious exer- cise, to get back to his old-time self again “Phe only danger is that Scrappy will confin his exereise principally to the clbow, when he knows very well that his knees are full of joints. John M. Ward has notified the club that his che ing Life, tell the the balan New York I is veady for £300,—Sport- That's nothing, Just run over and sotham magnates to draw on me for e of that %33.000, Questions and Answers, WATERLOO, Nob .—To the Sporting Editorof Tne Be i me of deaw poker mo Hmit)y A opens pot for 50 cents, B stiys for 50, C stays also and vaises it$1.50, A 1 B do not sce the se und want a show for their money, but ¢ ela i Do A Whitve to see hisraise beforo they ean d cards. nd who wins? By Nis raise’ wean put up theextra dolliar he hets.—W. Ans.—They do. 10A GROVE, Tu,, Dec, 7. tor of Tk B where 1 can obt skiting?— Frank Lo Cox, Ans.—The New York Clipper will furnish you with what you want OMAHA, Neb., Dee. ftorof THEBEE: A and B play 1 soes his bet nd A hits 1o more money to call B, Show for his money.~ 1. J. G, Ans.—Not if tnere is no limit on the g L N 23.-To t Editol Will you p in Sund thie numes of th the el Diases b1 157 HiRD HAsw. " Ans.—Boston, 185, Spulding, White, M¢ Vey, Burnes, 8bafer, Wright, Leonard O'fourke, Manmiug, Beals and Heifert Chicdgo, 1876, SBpalding, White, McVe, Burnes, Peters, Glenn, Hines, seilakiy onry Pra To the Sporting Ciin you Inforin nu hook on fancy und f aises him, Does A get i me. Sporting publish b players of teams for 875 and Dee. 20.-To the Sporting Will you please inform of the New York " ROW care American Pield, 19 Park Place, New York Cousein BLUres, 1 -~ Fditor of TiE BEE: There are five shooters in a wateh, three moneys. Three tie for fiest, two for se L Whit b mes of third money? Ardey WAL 3 ns..—Thivd is divided between first and seond in the proportion of first and second moneys NORFOLK, Dec. 22.~To the Sporting Editor of THE BEE: Please s In Sunday's sport- Tug colunins the nationality of Joe Choynsk | and his birthplas Also the nuniber of 1 Juck De sey his be efeated, A th f the all=Pricchard fight 16 Fogl Boxer. q Ans.—Choynski was Jewish parents and Fitzsimmons. (3) August 20 ({here ave letters at Bandle's for Joe l Wulsh, Harry Gatewood and C. E. Barker, the Sporting Frisco of La Blanche boru_in (2) Twice, by ball players, the sun was peeping from behind the eastern | pateh | en- | ferest in a waning sport, by a labored discus- | changesnec- | Bul a revered friend, Colonel Ed K. | whether | ddy and | 1892—SIXTEEN PAGE the pin ittle coat and sprinkled cigar ashes about it so that it looked very like o smouldering cigarette, It was her intention to fool sev eral members of the company through the il lusion, She left the Plankinton house and passed down the street toward the Davidson theater. Just as she was walking by the Schlitz hotel, having in the meantime for gotten her cigarette ornament. she was hor- | Ky rified to notice three young gentleman make e a sudden rush for her, each eager, ovidently to reach her first. She thought the trio intoxieated, and was about to call upon the passers-by to protect hier when the gentleman who reached her first said “Ibeg & thousand pardons, madam, but arcless fellow has thrown & burning | te on your coat. Kindly allow me to | move it." "Miss Bennett's face lit up with Mme. Adelina Patti-Nicolini is known to | a merry smile as she realizod the cause of the world at large ns the quecn of song, the ; the @ itle courtesy And tho prire sprinter rreatest diva of the age. the neerloss artiste | dttempted to remove the noxious cgarcite ul fh*l ‘lm‘ f the age, the peerless artiste | 4,4 ghing it with his handkerehief, The where notes are as precious as pearls. To | whole thing was done so quickly that jolly those few who have been admitted within | Jane did not have time to remonstrate. The the sacred circle of her friendship she is | gentleman then used his gloved hand in his above all things a woman, the most charm efforts to remove the clgarette, and s the | ing andgracious of her sex ) those fav ¥8 on the English stage, London Cheever Goodwin s Rich & Harris that will combine comedy and minstrelsy | the piece Maurice Barrymore | as leading man of A. M He will take Rice | Mme, Patti's Kind Holiday Remembrance of Her Friends. | JAY GOULD'S PRESENT TO PAULINE HALL pera, hateher e has alme original noreeragy his will impersonate, Johnstone lennett's Love of Novelt An ocent at Rounlette- How Joseph Allen's Halr Turned White Co Ing Attractl Notes, sition and I poverty are some heroine Alexander Salvini and Manager W. Wilkison are now included among the ranch eros of southern California, having pur valty to her family in counted upon toil Gossl to Tos Angele No reserved seats, in any part of the house. " tanee while the curta the rules of the new Letters in New York A party of five Keyptians dancers have mwived iy 0 bonnet and o Vs are Theater of lower Arts ang nd two Grecia lonel, o Gree the edifled Rudolph Messrs. Choudens § seript libretto and s Varnoy's operetta, “La Briliant Achille,” now ning at the Theater de la Renaissance, Joseph e ifornia tour. Aronson_ has rson has Abandoned He will res! wed rea from gran is coming Lo “The Prodi e, the | A Lo of ple novel has received a has | Tumber: that hie i5 bothered by rranee. and that he is gr i | it for convincing her, by means of ample in cAristocracy,” that dam things in polite conversation his wife teful to the pla you aid cform siid, only twice weeks ago, witnessed o Vives Londof ison. the comedia 4 Comique company. is 10w e waged i anew opera entitled - Venus,? which is fast neaving completion, and also upon th wing sp cular play, Land of Gold,™ which T Henry producenext season at the op American theater in New York, ‘The be used in this new production, acco Mr. Frenel's estimate, will include 125 ped sons, and he says that #0000 will be e pended upon the work: before the curtain raised on the performance. he ingenuity of the playwrieht in see ing novelties to interest the theater-goer | quite abreast of the times. At Vienna | drama with the title “Among the Anthr Parnenburg, cess is attested by the large box office re- | A Commericing tomorrow, another | vembe Tale of the | ! ble hit of Mr. Burton Staniey will be | 19th, when nou, | | Chimney Corner,” was presented, with the | given, entitied “Ruzzle Dazzle.” which for | title role. | laughable situations, funny dialogue, ludi- | 'Phese programs give glimpses of the home | crous climaxes and clever “comedy work is lite of th the | one of the farce comedies ever pre- | munificence of her hospitality, and they | sentea. The action of the play is n the | make interesting souvenivs of one of the | grand salon of the sound steamer Bristol, most famous women of the century | the interioe of which will b aithfully re- o | produced, special scenery having been “pre- Several theatrical men were in a favorite | paved. Many novel stage settings will also resort of the profession the other day, dis- | be cmployed, and, with a coterie of such | cussing most everything but aqua pura. | medians as Burton Stanley, Lewis Jay Gould was mentioned, and that b , Charles Sully, Harry forth several stories \ck Ruitl, there promises 1 suppose.” said one of the party. “that | in the dialogue, but o1 some of you have noticed the magnificent | laughter. The specialties to be introduced be- | diamond and sapphire ring worn | | fore the comedy also smack of good things, as Hall. Well, boys, Jay went down into his | they present suchclever people s Lawrence jeans protty deep 1o Sottle for that gowgaw, | and Allen, refined ‘musical “artists; Eddic It must have cost a five century if it di Iox. tho clovor, Lancashiro clog: duncer; cent. Stately Pauline struck this windfall a | Batehelor's dog civeus, ten of - the best cdu- | few seasons ago in St. Louis, You know 1 | cated dogs that have ever appeared in pub. was with the company at the time. Th Lottie Thorne in skipping rope songs and was Polly's (sho always insisted on my call- | danees, and the phenomenal ehild performer, | ing her Bolly) first Season at starving, and, | La Petit Freddie, the most talented child of to tell the truth, she wouldn't have started | any ageor clime who is an accomplished out_atallif 1 hadu't agreed to support her, | Yocalist, singing in all languages, i wonder. “What are you snickering at? You know, | ful dancer, a n us miator and an ox: | all of you, that I'm the king comedin of the | ceptionally great musician, During his en- United States—Milwaukee ineluded —and but goment howill give corroot impersonations for my infernal modesty John Drew, Good- | Of Patrick Gilmore,the celebrated leader s Cax win, Dixey, Joe Holland, and the rest of the | mencita, the wonderful Spanish - din outfit couldn’t ride in the same elevator | Billy Emerson, the renowned | minstrel, | with me. Just you wait till some doetor | Will also introduce oviginal pleasing spes | discovers a bicloride injection to cure consti- | ties. With such a program this popu tutional insufiiciency of gall, and then—but | Play house can count on a big business all | o matter, week “How did it all happen? enough. We we t theater the ope i was good—for St, curtain went up noised ahout boxed in front eyes on his bystanders began to smile he suic h | ored oncs this wonderful artiste, to whom | said Miss Bennett, 1 bought it not ten min- | yoml. They come to thi | Kings and princes pay delighted homage, | utes agoin the jewelry storc A Heete | Gotham, o UAtEa. for | shows a sincere, cordinl, unaffected woman | flush swept over the gentloman's - face as he dol Tiness. Fur those honored with her regard | Fealized his attempt 4t jallantey had ‘been Mme. Patti hasa genuine, thoughtful kind vl I ML i v ] Ssmposed mostly of well kn theatrica liness that finds expression in simple, unos- | people, laughed Toud and lone tentatious methods which carry the fine YT THEATENS, fiavor of her esteem without the taint of condnscension | “Natural Gus,” with several new ingredi Some of these friends have ren }-nh is the Christmas atteaction at Boyd's | of tenor twelve woeks will be made, RIS son for their admiration of this gracious | theater and will open with a matinee per- | Van Winkle™ will be the only play presented woman, who has again shown her thought- | formance this (Sunday) afternoon. ‘The en Sir Augustus Harris, who mang | ful esteem by sending them protty Tittle holi- | Eagement is for four deys with matinee Mon- | heatrical thines in Tondon | day remembrances in the form of photo- | day afternoon also. What is I Bl Bl Ll | igriphs of Craig-y-nos castle and its envivons, | composition is likewise excructatingly funny, | Paughton: - lomenr Those reccived by the editor of Tie Beg are | more than maintaining the claims of this | critie, is* coming over for of the sume view, but one {8 printed lighy | Pirticulavgus of hature to he consideted us | and observation nd bears a Christmas recting, while the | i fiom e merry meter retaing mostof | gomonson Howard otheris in darker tones and New | its old comical characteristics. The cle oni's nncrIHLioR | ments evoking laughter have been strength The view is taken from the hill at the vear d with bunter ind hits at lateat follics ot iGN s T5e hio | the latter admisistered in- the ood natured ¥ D - the foreground 18 the | pgpper that always characterizes the sallies famous castle and its clustering attach- | of Donnelly and Givard. A talented com ments, Beyond is a beautiful valley, the [l will second the offorts of the stars in | SO (hedter rugzed Welsh hills closing in on it on either | £etting more fun than ever before out of the | foRspiciousiy on its programn ST W6 aowh Eheueh 1tsContor, ko & | Maturaily funny gns. - Miss Ay Ates plays | {20V Ditions of this theater: Wil pretty ribbon in a field of green, wanders a | the Trish womin, and there aré a number of | g0 WWRaRGIICH b it work of lut little'stream until it is lost in the misty dis ver voenlists and graceful dancers in the | fherr d sinull tonneb or remove e e e e exquiaite bits of | Tanks of the support who will impart addi- | during the performance, The theater Phiotographic art and make the daintiost of | Uonal effects 1o the sones and dances in | o L TGN URE souvenivs, | which Donuelly and - Givard lead. Of Don Alswernon Charles Swineburn, the Mine. s given further proof of hep | Belly and Givard's favee comedy it may truly | poct who may be chosen to suc thoughtful kindliest by sending the editor of | D¢ stid that it was constructed for Intuhinie | (petnyson to the lnureatship of B S W number of her | Purposes only. These comedians constantly | been in the theater, it i i 3 o | exerted themselves to improve: the article, | the last fourteen years. ’ L ENE R aIG DTG TaRRORRLICHRIY To mike use of their own pertinent phrase, | orved the playhouse with his the souvenirs. have no odor of shop about | thay have from time to time drawn upon a | three when he them, With one exception they are the | NeW meter i Rl G Programs of perf rces ut 16 beautiful | Webster and Brady's stupcndousspoctact: | tha i London, Tha ottie theater in the diva's castleyroyal entertain- | lar production, ~The Bottom of the Se I RELT (SR | ments provided by the queen of song for the | fills the bix stajtes with a serics of unprece: | g il g I LI | dele nof her guests, ‘These souvenirs, | dented and unparalleled noveltics, Out of p o 3o e AEIES AE therefore, represent the perfume of this | the usual order of plays is this one, much of | , FOuis Har | eracious Nostess' personality in private life | the action taking place on the floor of the | Kussell Ope | with no suggestion of professionalism occan. Above and around the uctors the | wrlicst of these programs is a record | strange monsters of the decp ave seen mov- | vt on board the steamship City of | ing through the mysterious depths, stavtled May 23, for the benefit of the | by, vet not afraid of their strange visitors n's Orphan institution at Liver- | Au ingenious plot unites the intercsts of the d Mme. Patti was down to sing cters fice of the billows in & “Home, Sweet Home, ™ . with the perils of those at_ the bottom | On August was g | of the sca. Startling originality appeals | Patti’s theater Craig-y-Nos ¢ st to the theater-goers and the The first part was a musical program, which | play a sensational novelty from was followed by a pantomimic drama en- | the fiest scene to the last. One titled “Love or Duty.” In the latter the | noveland instructive scene is produced with | diva took two parts. fldelity from the appliances actually used in A weele later “Camille” was given, with | the laying of an oceaun telegraph cable, tiin the title roll and Mr. Richard | From & moving ship a rope of wire is run out as Count de Varville, and there | and permitted to sink slowly to the ocean | Pophawi™ is soon to be produced. of whicl were violn and harp solos between the acts | floor. A second is the handsome pointed | 1he seenes ave laid in Afvica and ave of by two young ladies. interior of the ocean passenger steamboat s oes inthe discoveries of A pantomimic desceription of dramatic in- | she goes plowing through the waves, un schoolmaster at terest in four episodes entitled *Life at Ham- | citing episodes ave a wreek in o tempest on L 8 Wit ilton Castle’ ™ was produced on September | the broad Atlantic and a submarine diver | the cholera,” and s endeavoring to seeu | 10, and the hostess cnacted the paris of the | disturbed at hisdangerous work by an attack | its production in the Austeian gapital. It i | two daughters of Lady Hamilton. | from a giant octopus. A fight for' life takes | dmong the nnese, too, that Beginning with September 17th there were | place between the diver and his many armed | reached it apothe sis. there having be cight entertainments on successive evenings, | assailant. A more inspiving, animated pi presented on the the st the which are all recorded in one beautiful pro- | ture vacht under full sail bounding over | play called “Fallen Angels,” in gram. On Saturday night “A Sister's | the billows. Most of the scencry of th od-natured old father goes mad, sty | Jealousy™ was played with Mme, Patti in the | turesque and dramatic mavine spectacle is | his wife and has a stroke of a of Trene and” Sybil, two sisters. Sun- | new, i been recently painted for the | the dining voom whe | day evening there was i conc the | production by that well known | the tabl a down for four numbe Signor | s tist, John R. Young. This play is | = = Nicolini and Mr. Richard Nicolini contrib- | to be presented at the Fary uted one each. On Monday evening follow- | ter for five nights commencing ing a short concert, « uberge des | matinee (Christmas) December ATE RME { Audret;”ou Tuesday: mitle;” on Wed | Monday and e e | mes s Sonnambula” on Thursday | W' Your icket 5 an extravaganza on | Wi tor BRAD;'”"","'MWM"' L] Priday, ~Love Under Difiiculties,” a comedy; | and Bijou theate ' | each of the works named Mime. Patti took | ment toa close, and that it hus proven a suc- | Every ingredient possesses superb Tonia | ding parts ] properties and exerts a wonderful influs The latest of these programs is dated No- | ence in toning up and strengthening hex system, by driving through the proper channels all impurities, Health and strength guaranteed to resuit from its use. «My wife, who svas bedridden for olghs toon months, aftor using lradfleld’s Temale Regulator for two months 18 queen of - song and of best J. M. Jonxeow, Malvern, Ark, )/ BianFieLn REGULATOR Co., Atlanta, Gis Bold by Druggists ul §1.00 per bouleé. You may be Worse morrow. Consult at o tho famouy Lhe able, thiented, su Iy popu Physictans and surgeons Mile. Rhea's sumptuous and impressive who haverishly o sliairsitle ll;-':ll.\jnlm' | vival of “Josephi and the delight w 18 tho stings.ef H and business | which that revival is hailed by he » Soou_after the | body of admirers throughout the” Ameri SPEGIA'LISE Wednesday night it was | continent arc indications of that refined | behind that Jay Gould w taste in playgoers to discover which is o 1 had never before clapp the lasting pleasures the dvamatic | is millionaive mistits, so 1 p feels, The drama of “Josephine” is the round until I spotted him in the lower | most ambitious and most modern effort that | ght-corner box, T e he was huddled up | has been made to introduce the man of des back with three or four wealthy-1ook- | tiny and his loved but hapless ey wdividuals around him. How did Trec- | the ehief persons in a deaw, 1ts 1w ognize him? Why! from the pictures I'd | many and conspicuous, Rhe seen in the newsp®pers. To tell the truth, | been a dramatic NUCKSIOr. ATUis | wan s e — he was no grand sight for sore eyes, or | more to her than a long purse. Of course a | Of every namo wnd nuture, of overy form hiealthy ones either, but, then, he wiis the | prdent regard for the business side of the: | phaso und dogreo only und original Jay Gould; and 1 uess | atrical venturcs is a necessity, for without |~ Twenty-seven y most of us would have been glad enough to | money up to a certain lmit, it would not be | 27 yours of valuable and varled cxperiences understudy his role at 100 per cent vake-off. | possible to present her liberal views. During | 42 yuars of eareful and lavorious rescareh Intd “The box party seemed to like all the | the sev seasons in - which she ha b e 1000 i vetarios Lt diackss L OTLLEIN] | opera first rate, but Pauline’s lullaby in the | dressed herself to the American people. s ko)) UARD LIy RS AR T T second act captured little Gould.” There | has never descended to mevitricious tri curo; £7yoursof uniforn, phienouou 3U00s was o tviple encore and Polly fairly | nor committed any reprehensiblo profes. | Wi these kifted bubbled over. One of uld's party bt "o g U ot et | o St sndobyer” i’ it | SPECIALISTS knowledge of this has made her name man, and also, [ believe, part proprictor of | tower of strength, and munagers everywhere | gua thomsoives at tho head of thelr profe the theater, thus when the Wizrd' ¢ are glud and cager to make room for her in | gioy in Amerles, unrivalod in nll those el | pressed a desive to be introduced to the star | their theaters. By honoring Rhea, contem- | Jios Sonion compel success, 1 the intervening door wus soon uubarred, | porary playgoers honor themselves. Rhea | AR TS BRI PR R ey The house and company managers did the | Will present “Josephine” at Bogd's theater | o ok M WS RIEERLE TR (EA0L 0 00 ond honors, and there was considerable excite y evening and Saturday matinee, De- | forted for kot purieth AURAYAR ment behind, let me tell you, 1t isn't every wo.and 41, Shakespeiare's brilliant [ Permancnt cure ’"“‘ )id 1' ' Eangl: night you can rub elbows with a hundred nedy, “Much Ado About Nothing,” clos: iony of thousang '-“If4"~h<':‘\]\vllf;:\ e 3 onaire. | ing thé cngagement Saturds ening. have eu \rnishes the tim millionair ing the cngugement Saturday ning bava eured fura! od hook of On, simply | Uatfornily sucevsstul in th caro of Nervous Diseases, Chronic Diseases, wevr | Private Digeases ars of constant nr | Gould seemed quite at home behin | did not stave around like novice explalued several details to another member of the party while waiting for Pauline's change of costume, Of course 1 did not hear what took place i the star's dressing room except by hearsay. The couversation was, however, quite u long one, and the curtain | "h B8 FEC s R fo maarly’ teb Auinutos until tha | , She 8iaga childran in New York will brate Christiias with an entertaing & alls and stamping from the gallery night brought it up in a hurey. Mr. Gould was, 1 | M¥ underatand, exceedingly complimentavy and | tichard Mausfleld says that Chicago, but | Ors. Betts % Betts et e | 119 South (4th Strast, : . | CORNER OF DOUGLAS ST, About the riug! By jiugo! That's so! | Blsie Leslic hus retived for the present, | . 1'd forgotten the hub of thie story, The fol- | and will study under the diveetion of Dauicl OMAHA, NEB. Jowing duy, Thursday, Pauline received | Frohman. Sheis 15 S @ very pretly note from Mr. uh: in which Elenars Duse, the Italidh will v, he reiterated the compliments of the preced- | play only four times u week, Sulvini fashion, ing night and asked her to accept during her season hero, McCREW admirer and friend the enclosed trifling THE SPECIALIST. 1s unsurpassed in 1D ihahueai(a ke e aaad” “Hia triBing takon was 10 | oglars: Borbard Mooy PIRVATE DISEASES vett 1o help him ving; sud as Pauline was in a very mmable | you {istond of ¢ frame of mind just then she condescended to and all i LU aud Disnrders oMEN 18 yoars oxperience. accept it, Kind of her, wasn't it? ‘The oldest Jivin Writo for cireulars Clara Fisher Mader. John Drew, who i and question iist froe. 14th and Farnum Bt o atrical Topics, Mme. M ka speaks fiv Anuie holds 4 reception for audience =3ter the matinees. Rose Coghlan's enterprise for next season | may be a revival of “Money™ in good style lang ages the | Call upon, or address with stainp, cele It Lo actress, way join Wilson Bar with his American i divectly hom ALLCEICHN I CLPeSSes p bora in 1811, and Mrs In the Milwauked shop windows not long eVED yeurs \ounger ago o novelty in scarf pins was exhibited and Miss Jdohustone Bennett, now st the Columbia in Jane,” was the first to secure oue. The pin was a clever imitation of a | | half buned cigarette, very'deceptive in ap- | Frederick Leslie, who died 1he other wiis probably the Lst pa salary in Englaud or America, weck Benjamin Terry, the father of the num-l day 1 under He got #7150 & had “hool of acting in Bedford, Strand, writing a ‘play for 0 will use d s stock come role o in anew play soon. a Jewish girl, whose murr$ Hidpo- and o make & wine 1. he hase atract of fruit land during their recent visi A admifs some of § New York under n country to intros on of from manu* latest rune his Cale in New York dugs ing the holidays, after whicn a spring season many lettor from a man who says he has made his pile g it isswell to A Boston theater publishes the following “T'o the d lie st tiine he hoys sence wa L “The Dutehess of L L n of the Lillian o I'he neh will ng of hisnew “ust to the Livingstone. A in thd e aplay o six acts on vealism hag n ré. receutly a which a ngles sy, alldip s Supper is steiming on. it S1ox 'To-Day? treatment ang ' .