Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 30, 1893, Page 15

HAT WITH THE Pmaha Gentlemen's Roadster Olub's Ooming | Race Meeting. | HISPERINGS OF THE WHIRLING WHEEL BOXERS B reparations For the Great Indian Game The Shooting and New Western Leagn Sorts of Sport, Shooters nd Al One week ago when Joe Choynski here with the Peter Jackson “Uncle T¢ Cabin® company, I had a long contidential chat with him one evening at the Paxton After an interesting discussion on affairs pugilistic in general, I remarked to him Joe, I have never yet heard an_authenti ount of your fights with Jim Corbett; in fack. 1 have nover run ncross any of the e tails in the papers, save the fact that he whipped you four times “Well, he did not, he only whipp once,” quickly interrupted Joe with som acerbity, “and then he didn't knock me out If you'll just wait a few moments I'll tell you the whole story, and if think best can call in a notary public and 'l make fidavit to it Assuring him that I countal and that it would require davits to me belicve it, he one knee in his hands and began w uf- | vould relish the re no afi- | clasped | s to I was only 17 years of age —hardly that when 1 first boxed Jim Corbett L bare foot boy running around San Francisco That was in 'S5 and Corbett was the cham pion of the Olympic club. T had up to that time never had on a pair of boxing gloves or | a pairof tights, buta number of the boys had considerable faith in my ability to scrap | and they induced me to ey Corbett on ‘We met in a stall in his father's livery sta- ble, with the horses all around us. W hoxed about ten seconds, only, as we were in | danger from the horses. A day or two after that some of the boys told Corbett that | id 1 could lick him, and that night he came round to my home on_Golden Gate avenue and said that 1 had to fight him, 1 said all right, Ul fight you. ‘The next Sunday we | went out back of the graveyard—the Laurel | Hill cemetery. 1 had but two friends with me, my brother and another young fellow. | Corbeit had eight Hayes Valley roughs with | him. Yes, we fought with bare knuckles 1 had never yet had on a boxing glove. We fought not over a minute. 1 hit him a punch | in_the neck and he fell down. His friends | called time, and my brother, secing 1 had ne possible chance, told me to stop. | did and then Corbett stepped up to my brother and vunched him i the nose, sayving, ‘You are the cause of this' We then wrangled awhil | | | | but finally returned to the city i o | | “About a vear after that Corbett asked me to spar him in the Olympic ciub one night big Joe MeAuliffe at the last moment having efused fo meet Corbett on this oceasion I was nervous and bashiul; had never been in a ring, nor the club either, for that matter. 1 knew no one, while the whole house were his pupils and friends. He assured me that it would only be a friendly four-round exh bition, and said, ‘there is #10 in it for you, | Joe. T told him I did not_care for the woncy, but would box him. You sce Cor- | bett was the boxing professor of the club, | and all of us kids fairly idolized him. A | bank clerk, bah! That rosy old story gives | me a cramp. He was some sort of a messen ger about the building, but never stood at a | counter or desk in his life. Well, I got in | the ring with him that night and in'the very | ¢ start I saw he meant to knock me out if b could, so I made up my mind to take a hand in the fight myselr. e diant accomplish | his sneaking intention, and we fought the whole four rounds out. He punished n considerably, however, and had me bleedin terribly, and yet the papers next day said 1 had all the bést of it. Their files will attest | to this. | “The bout was no more than over when Cor- bett's fricnds took him off to a dressing room, leaving me all bloody and half blind gropinge about the ring. Bill Brown, who was prominent light'in the Olympic elub in those | tossed a couple of five-dollar gold | intQ the ring Justas I was ing out. | looked like yellow cartwheels to me ana I grabbed thein up and clasped them tightly in my left hand. When I got into the dressing room Corbett was dressed. He came up to me and in an eager tone said, ‘Did you get that, Joe; did yougetit! I said, ‘Yes, here it is,” opening my hand and shovsing him the two gold pieces. 1 had no more than opened my hand when he grabbed one of the pieces and said, “This will square | oe,’and shoved it in his pockot. 1 was | a poy and didn't know but what it was all right and never made a kick. Do you think he will want me to make affidavit to this? Not much “The next time I met Corbett was ina barn again. That was in 1889, We fought four | rounds, when the police stopped the fight Oue week after that we had our fight on the | barge outside of San Rafel, They bhad no , but Corbett had the regula- tion three ouncers. Seeing this, Captain Griffiths, the well known norse owner and | turfman, threw me his driving gloves, say ing: ‘Here, Joe, wear these.’ [ pulled them | on, but they were too small and would not fit me. 1 couldn't close my hands right. 1 wanted to cut off the tingers, but the Cor- bett crowd wouldn't let me, so 1 fought him | with them as they were. There were | twenty-seven rounds of it, and in the four- teenth he wanted to quit. He sat in his chair, erying, ‘I'm beat! I'm beat!" and Tom Williams, the race man, and Billy Delaney had to shove him off his seat ‘let him have it with him, run around him knocked moout. Itooka cramp in one of my leks and couldn’'t got up for twelve sco- | onds. In that time, Corbett having broken the cartilage in my nose, I eame within an | ace of bleeding to death, Delaney cried | ur right ; run round " But he never “1 never spoke to Corbett after that until T met him on the train enroute to the Fitz simmons-Maher fight. Some friends brought us together. We shook hands and Corbett said: *Well, old fellow, I'm glad to meet you —low ave you! You know [ alwaysdid think the world of you.' SOIf that isithe case 1 said, you are telling the newspaper the country that you times ! SOh, that is only part ¢ Don't feel hard over that got to plug my own game along. Do you | sup if you were on top, ana said that you had lammed me three or four times, that it would make any aifference? Not a bitof | it, I'd be right with you." “There, Sandy, you've got story of my alleged famous bott. “Why is it ien all over whipped me four the game, Joe You kn.w\ I have | the fiehts with Cor truthful | What do you think of it? Ii “Did Corbett over do any that was all he was at first, o scrapper and faker. Ho ran away home with Denny Dillon and - Captain nings, the broadswordsman, as o went over to Salt Lake and faked a fignt | with Ed McDonald. After that he faked a fight up in Portland with Dave Campbell in the Mechanics pavillion, under the manage ment of Senator Morgan and Jack Prince, the bieycle man. It was for the gate and Campbell had it stipulated in the article that Corbett waus to forfeit his whole share if he knocked Daveout or gave him the | double cross. Asa Hamilton refereed the | sell. see Priuce is to be in Omaha in Ma ask him to tell you the story." faking? Wy, | common from | Jen tarter; | | “All tatk about the probabilities of the | failure of Mitchell to return to this country | in the fall,” says P, J. Donohue in the New York Recorder, “and make good his eng: ment to meet Corbett is utter rot. He will | be her id,us the boys say, will have “bells ou him." That is, he will tuako & noise when he arrives, and will make a marked effect upon the public opinion, as well as & marked effect on the frontispiece of Mr. Corbett when they meet 'he death of Squire Abingdon will have any effect upon the match, so far as the financial end of the affair is concerned The Squire gave up his coin to Mitchell freely, and “without any conditions, and Charlio put it up to make & mateh. There | are few chances of the mateh failing through.” not In last Sunday's New York Advertiser John B. McCormick, familiarly known to news- paver readers tho world over as ““Macou, a3 1his 10 say +Corbett, b, take in verball of the Omana ) the way, made & grave mis- Y dssalting Saudy’ Griswold & because Sandy intimated | and that 1s more than Jim ( | Jim's attractiveness | long tist of | wold, | the wrong place for his little bypla, | have | fog dissappears before the | the sun. n the columns of his paper that it was fear of his prowess which kept him from tack- ling Jockson again. He scems to have lost his head, and he stigmatized Jackson s that nigger.' Men who consent to battle with negroes put themselves on footing with them, and it is a stele eall ing the pot black when to the color of their skin in of derision. Jackson has a black hide he has been true to those who have true to him. rbett can say if he speaks the truth. 1, for one, do not be lieve that Jim is a little bit afraid of Jack son. He stood him off when he was a very sick man, and well and fit he should be able to conquer him. There are two reasons why Corbete does not care particularly to fight Jackson again. He never would have met him had it not been that he was forced into doing s by the taunts of his enemies. In the first place, he knows that the southern people, with whom he is popular, do not like wea of a white man fighting with ro, They have condoned his doir . but they would hardly look with favor upon his meeting Peter again. The second reason is that some of Corbett's most i mate advisers have not implicit confidence his ability to defeat Jackson. They f that if Jim was defeated by the big blac as a star would b no longer have an op portunity to ‘make an easy living through him. | know whereof I spe: Perhaps it is not wholly selfishuess on the part of all of them, S them know that Jim is at times af 1 stomachic trouble, which being of an intermittent character, is labl to @ him at the most inopportune times I see that he had trouble of this kind while in Omaha, The last time Isaw him 1 ad vised him to put himself in the hands first physician and take a thorou course of treatment for it ome di may regret that he did not follow my viee th terms but been gone and they would class I have received the ad Mike Donovan's forthcoming v The Science of Boxing,” with a request for o brief review. Mr. Donovan is and has been for the past eight years the boxing in structor in the swell New York Atehltic club, and has had among his pupils gentle men emiment in science, lituature, art and politics, many prominent in social and commercial life, and is universally endorsed as the most proficient instructor either in this country or England. “The Science of Boxing™ is a neat volume of sixty-six pages and as chock full of meat as u cocoanut is of milk—a tersely, explicitly written work that covers every requisite that constitutes per fection in the manly art of self-defense. iplete and instructive man on seience of boxing I cheerfuly add my 1onial to those who have had the pl of looking over the advance sheets s is well known, is an old exponent of the prize ving himsclf, and Pat Kendricks of New Orleans told mé,when in the Cre nt City o few weeks ago, that he considercd him vne of th smplished men Fistiana has ever produce . Hence he is amply qualified to expatiate upon the subject he has taken in hand. He besan his prize ring carcer when 18 years old, i 15 when he fought Billy Crowley, in St. Louis with bare knuckles. The fight lasted through ninety-two fierce rounds, Donovan losing on _an unintentional foul. After thirty-three battles, with a large percentage of victories over bigger men, he tived permanently in 1584, when he ac cepted the position he now fills of boxiug in structor of the New York Atnletic club Tywice since then, however, e has been in the ving as a competitor. In 1553 at Will iamsburg he fought a draw with Jack Demp. sey., but during the six rounds the Nonj il's friends were kept constantly oz ed fearing that the old vet would put out th man who was then the hero of the squared cirele, and in the heyday of his fighting s, In 91 Donovan met his old-time foe, . MeClellan, now a staunch_friend, for the fourth time, at the Bightn Street thea- ter, New York, beating him in one short round, wnice proof slips of me entitled the testi- ure Mike Donovan, n W, The annah Press of April 21 says: the presence of a crowd of L and gentle- men at the union depot, Omaha, Sunday morning, Jim Corbett undertook to even up matters with Sandy Griswold, the well known sporting editor of ‘I'ne Odans Bee ‘The immediate cause of the row was an al 1article from Mr. Griswold's pen as that Corbett was afraid to meet ackson, Corbett stopped over to call ndown. Sandy is not a rge man, but has the nerve of a big one, Corbett walked up to him on the platform and, in his loudest tone, demanded what he meant by his systematic course of roasting hun, Griswold replied in kind, ¢ ng that he was not obliged to explain his con- duct to him, and intimating that he had vo ire to argue with a bully, Then Corbett sw furious with every other phrase, and with an oarh said: *Lam not afraid to fight that nigger. 1 can whip him any day, and 1 will demon- strate it. He doés not want any of my game. 1.do not see why you should stand up for nigger as against the only distinetly Ameri- an pugilist the country ever had a liar if you say I will not fight Jackson, or if #ou think I can’t whip the nig, here is £1.000 you may have if you fix a match with the nigger for me," And as he concluded the remark the cham- pion reached into his pocket, but tailed to produce the money. He was interrupted by a policeman, who reminded him that his con- duct was objectionable to_ the ladies present, In | and he returned to his car. The Cleveland Plain Dealer Jim Corbett, the champion bruisel attacked Sandy Gr Tine OMAlA BeE's able sporting editor, but like all first-class sporting talked back, intimating that he had no desire to argue with a loafer and 4 bully. Corbett became enraged, but a po- liceman convinced him that he had selected and as 1t turned out Griswold got all the “ad™ there was in the affair, THE ROADSTEKS JUNE MEETIN Together With a Budget of B Ha iossip. All doubts as to the success of the Omaha Gentlemen's Roadster been 2y Local xe wafted away and dissipated as warming rays of hummer and the old onc of the best in the whole country—will bo the theater of some gay and pleasurable scenes about the tune the roses are filling the summer with Ttwill bea fair grounds coursc their odorous breath The committee appointed for have been working industriously and the guaranty fund stands today about com pleted. “This alone insures the unqualitieq success of the June moeting. But in addi tion to this there is the further assurance by a hemtdy application for eutry blanks from all parts of the countr) en from the rocky shoresof Maine to the shadows of the great hills in Colorado. There will be a long string of famous flyers here —probably the best ever assembled to compete at any local meeting. This all speaks volumes for the club and what they now ask most urg- ently is that the citizens turn out in full i and_augment the success already assured. This will be the means of enlar; the elub, which means incalculable good for Omaha As to the organization’s condition just now, it could not be better: members ave paying up their dues with commendable prompti- tude and new ones are cowing in almaost daily, Interest in racing affairs was never at @ greater height, as is attested by the numerous new horses that are appearing on the road and at the track verybody seems imbued with the right spirit, which suf ficiently demonstrates the popularity of the club, As un extra inducement club offers & handson owner of the horse winning the most races this season. This cup will be emblematic of this achievement, and shortly be put upon display in Raymoud's show window T'he club has secured a very salisfuctory lease of the tract, which will be kept in superb condition at all times by P. H. Kin who is extremely interested in the or- ganization's success. It will be found at all times throughout the summer an attractive rendezvous for the ladis who are almost universally ardent adwmirers of the horse. With their escorts, they are cordially i vited to drlve out on any pleasant evening and watceh the preliminary work E. M. Bartlet, the club’s new president, is manifesting the right sort of an interest in the affairs of the club, and will contribute largely toward makiug all its undertakings successful. He is popular with the members and the right sort of a head for just such an organization. All members who resigued after the an- nual election have been re-elected, and every inducement is extended to those who have the purpose to members the silver cup to the Asa | You are | club's June meeting | THE OMAHA DAILY na yot neglected to add their tames to the club's roster W. B. Millard has a beauty in the stallion Midvail Prince, who will be seen on the track after this season, in the hands of the skillful | McGuire. He is certainly one of the most magnificent animals in the state, and has a brilliant future before him William Snyder is out with & new one, Red Star. He made a mark of 2:80 last au tumn and this summer Snyder expects to give them all a hot chase for the champion ship cup Bob Wells, the handsome and genial Rob | ert, owns a colt called Mary Bello that prom- ises well. Mo has fitted himself out wit training paraphernalia and Mary Belle will be introduced to the bst ecompany at once (i D, Edwards has been seen a good many times recently turning the corners with Columbus Dan. He hassome sinister design and will bear watching C. K. Morrell's Folly M is acquitting her- self with rare credit this spring. W. J. Hughes, yelept “Billy," suys Oklahoma will keep his nose right in the van this summe does he must go some more H. H. Martin, one of the moving spivits in this ennobling svort, has added a pacer to his string, He is a sorrel gelding called and H. H. says ho thinks excéed i well of him I'he pacers promise to increase in quantity and some one wants to go after a trotter to head off John I Redick's M. G., who promises to throw dust in a good many ' eyes ere the dog days roll around Hal Mc bay mare has the rep. of being ver and that beautiful black £ his can o down in the s Reed has brought Kinderhook in farm and the gentlemanly reins- the pacing elass can all count on 10 to give her the ha! ha! dick's roan pacer, too. pkins and will be f the bunch Millard, besides has a number of fast for fun rufus-hued but if he wd's sidor 1 the yund right Midvail Prince, well-bred youngsters He will be on the track often and contribute y to the club's prosperity Lexpect o see MceGuire —who s skillful and competent—do some great work as the track trainer this season. He is steady, sober, always industrious and, what is more, thoroughly knows his biz George M. Swigart, superintendent of th speed ring, is patting in some vigorous lic for the coming June meeting, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, 16, 17 and 18, It is now whispered about that Henvy Hor- man will be on deck with a surprise at the approaching races 1. AL Cudahy has a pair of spanking good trotters and has joined the club. J.D. Dadesman, another recent recruit, will give the boys @ chase with his handsome team of trotters G W. Kelly exp brown mare shortly Billy Paxton, jr., I un and, has a couple with which he intends to skin"em all Chandler, the vet, is handling Two-Strike and the speedy two-year old Conqueror, who they say is woing with the wind Clinton Briges, who is now distin | the business, will endeavor 1o show Gumbo's heels to the crowd of pacers J. T Lytle of Greenwood tids state handsome bay youngster in D) Almont Aberdeen, 2:22 J.CL Kesterson, owr stock farm, Fairbury, °ts to bring in his fast has a , 4 son of v of Crystal Springs Neb,, owns a yearling colt by Aldenwood, by Chitwood, son of Nutwood, that he is willing to mateh against wling pacer in the state. The pre is youngsier wanted to trot. but a wig was in demand, and when the reforma tion was imparted to the little fellow he took tothe pace as kindly as a duck takes to wter. - Ho can pace better than a 40 clip tern Resources. Flora, the dam of the great race mare Fanchon, 2:10%, has foaled a bay colt by Lockheart, 13, at the Sherwood farm Sheldon, Ia. The mare and colt are the | property of J. W. Boyee, Sioux Falls, S. D., who also owns Fanchon, William Frazier, added the 2-year-old Wedgewood, 2:1 Belle Acton, on of Wayne, bay filly to his stables, April 10, paced a mile in | fourtecn seconds. This is a 1:52 clip and it looks as it Online's 2-year-old recora of 2:11, as well as some of the records of the more aged ones, will be in danger when the daughter of Shadeland Onward gets the word this year.—H. S, Reed. t Linden Tree park, Beatrice, Neb., “Pilden is busy with his'string of campaign- e Among the number that he is driving are Tip Tyler, 2:24; Smith (p), 2:2315; 2:4714; Nickel Plate, the fast bay gelding without a record: Dr, M a green pacer, and the 2-year-old Privat They are all in fine shape and taking strong work in preparation for the carly races. Cheyenne county is_becoming noted rked degree for improvement of y description, says a Sidney write At Sidoey there is, perhaps, the most nota- ble chai from the old-time cowboy “broneho™ to the best grade of fine imported trotting, running and draft horses. Recent importation has been made by L. B. Cary and others of a number of Hambletonian and Morgan stallions and mares, from which will doubtless spring some of the best produced in any country. Besides the mnew horses being brought into the county this spring, 1t will not do to over- look the ‘Lamonts,’ owned by Ed Doran of the Lawrence Fork rancn, whose record is well known to the people of the county, or Infantry, owned by J. 1. Logan, over near Chimney Rock, fast stock with good records, Among the draft thoroughbreds of this are those owned L Watkins, 2 Allen Bros., D. W. White and Harshman They are all good ones, and hereafter there will be no excuse for breed- ing inferior animals he most re- cent but net the least important importation for breeding purposes ever brought into ths valley is the imported “Catelonian Jack,” King James. owned by Stearns & Powell of this village. He stands fourteen hands high, weighs 955 pounds, is plack in color and a beauty in build, with a ice like o Missouri eyclone. Neb. Clodeon, has by Dick in a horss Considerable cussing of heard among the memt Lacrosse club, who ar active practice by wet grounds, and unless things take a sudden change the home team will bein bad shape to meet the Lincoln warriors on Saturday and Sunday, May 1 and 14 The meeting of these two t on the: s shoutd draw o big crowd, for | the enthusias®s will have a good opportunity to whoop and give vent to their excitement A fine game will no doubt be put up, it being for blood, honor and victory alone. The Omaha team is being continiially strength- ened, the latest addition being C. D, ( h- ers, an old Montreal player, and a good all around man, and Mr. O'Hanley of Couneci! Bluffs, u first class lacrosse player and thorough athlete. These gentlemen will strengthen the Omahas considerably. At the last meeting of the Omahas a clause was inserted in the constitution of the club to the effect that *“tnhe club is a strictly amateur association, that no pro fossional or discreditod lacrosse player be allowed in membership, and that the club play no team having professionals, or play ers blackballed by other clubs.” This clause freezes out certain objectionable aracters throughout the state and city, A +big effort will be made to get the Chicago team here on July 4, and 1f successful a tournament will be arranged with oth state clubs, when such a weck of excit ing sport will be offered Omaha as it has not enjoyed since the palmy days ot base ball. The Omahas will practice every night at 6:30 at St. Mary’s avenue, and ail embers ure requested to turn out today at They play at the fair grounds, ratch match will be made. Any one desirous of joining the club will be commodated by sending his name and | dress to the secretary, H. W. Howell, South Tenth the weather is rs of the Omaha kept from much ow Western Leagu Thomas MeVittie, who represented Omaha at the late meeting of the proposed now Western Base Ball league in Kansas City, eturned last night I is very en thusiastic over the prospects of the project and says that it will go through. A six-club league, including Omaha, Kansas City, Den- very, Pueblo, Wichita and Topeka, wis or- K‘mlrud with L. C. Krauthoff, the well | known Kansas City attorney, as president nd Deacon Jim Whitfield of the same city retary. After an exhaustive discussion as to the best basis on which to conduct tne ffairs of the new organization, the meeting adjourned until new Sunday, the Tth of May, when the preliminary work will all be com: ploted. The meeting will be held at the Midland hotel, Kansas City, The intention is to open the season on or about M Whisperings of the Wheel. Look out for the house warming next on the program. J. Heury Kastman accompanied the Tour- BEE UNDAY, APRIL ¢ fats and the North OfEhA peds to Fromont lasf night. 1t may be arranged'ss that the public witness a road race thas season after all A large party of the Omaha Wheel club boys rode down to the legendary Sarpy mills Sunday The Council Bluffs Wheel club's called run card is out for May®hd embraces several attractive runs. The weather permitting, the Omahas will have their club photo taken at Fairmount park this afternoon Quite a lavge number Christian association ¢ Thursday evening fon run Colonel Burwell of thh has become quite a favosite at the club house. His topical, sentimental and comic songs are quite catehy, may of Young Men's clers turned out last their regular called urist Wheelmen he Young Men's Christian Wheel club will give its first schedule run next Tnursday evening at 7:30 to South Omaha. Wheelmen generally and other fricuds invited Efforts are being made to organize an orchestra out of the musical talent ot the Tourists, which, if they meet with success will give the boys an - opportunity of listen ing to sweet melody at the house during long evenings which will come later, The Tourists were scattered all over the country last Sunday despite the high wind which” prevailed all day. Captain Potter led a party down to Bellevue for dinner, W . Dax piloted another party to ola, [a iy to Missouri Valley others went to Springfield, Papillion, 1oun and Crescent City Daxon, the nopular ey the armory on Capitol aver up ar hool there today. He already has a good elass of ladies, genticmen and children, and, being a professional teacher, expects to have his hands full from this on. The armory is admirably e the purpose and Prof. Daxon will always have it in the pink of condition A 1 many of our riders would do well to keep on the right side of the street, pass teams on the right side and do the right thing generally; also, do not go fying through the streets ata breakneck pace T'he city officials have been very easy on the wheelmen, but if things continue as they nave been they will undoubtedly slap a limit on riding within the city limits and compel us to carry the detestable bell and lamp. 1. L. H. Holton of the Tourist Whe left for Chicago last Wednesday where he accepts a position in the tration building as registry clerk ton lately resigned his position with the Standard” Wagon company to accept the position in Chicago. “Ikey” will now run the World's fair to suit himself, and ex- tends to his friends among the wheelmen to call and help him run it while in the eity, Through the liverality and kindness of the club members the reading room at the Tour- ist Wheelmen club house is rapidly becom ing one of the features of the cozy little cyclists home on California street. The best eyeling papers and periodicals are to be found on the reading table and shelves are filling up with popular maga zines and literature of the day, all contribu by interested members of the club hanks, gentlemen, your kinduness is appre ciated At a meeting of the racing board of the Omaha Wheel club,’ held last Saturday night, it was decided, as a club, to give up atl idea of ar e this season, Just think of this, the Lifgest city in the state, with four good eyeling elubs and nearly 1,600 riders, yet they cannot afford to support a road Look at Lincoln with but 100 riders, and young riders at that, while there » any number of men in Omaha who have n wheelmen for the last twelve years, but still these young riders of Lincoln held o rvoad race last fall and -made a howling suc- cess of it. Brace up, Omaha wheelmen, put your shoulder to the wheel and let the peo- ble know that you are ou carth, The Tourist Wheelmen inaugurate their riding season of 1803 with a grand social run May 7. 1803, Captain Potter requests that every active, associata and honorary mem ber that can'scrape up wheel attend in rid- ing costume, “Wear your colors, boys!' 1s the cry at the club hou and make the opening run a “rouser.”. This run will be the fist run in the:medalcontest, which will continue throughout the season, closing on the lust of November, The prize list this year will be somewnat larger than last, and the contest promises to be i spirvited one. A system of registering will enable the road ofticers to keep track of each contestant's mileage, and, as_heretofore, regular reports will be published in THESUNDAY BEE. Activ members of the club are requested to look over the road rules governing this contest, and consult the run cards and bulletin boards regarding other points. Run cards will be issu as heretofore and bulletin boards at the different cycle stores will give info Lion concerning coming runs. The Tourists are determined to beat their pry vious excellent record of 1802 and will un- doubtedly do so. The club extends a hearty welcome to all cyelists, attached or other- wise, to attend these pleasarable runs with them. If you like country touring, countr dinners, a‘general good time and the enjoy ment of eyele riding turn out with them and make & trip or two. Association O leased will oy has and list ist ne s men morning, dminis Mr. Hol the novel The Shootlug and the Shooters. State shooting tournament dates, May 2 24 und Tur Bee will publish the state shoot pro- gram next Sunday. The opening shoot of Bemis Park Gun club next Thursday afternoon will be on live birds exclusively The state sportmen’s association program can be had by addressing . >armelee, seeretary, or William . Nason, treasurer, The Bemis Park Gun club have joined the state association and will enter teams from their club to contest for state chumpionship events, John J. Hardin and Jack Knowlesare down on the Waubuncey today, and with Dr, H G. Capels will make it excoedingly pleasant for the lingering birds. Nearly all money added at the “ate shoot is on state events, and open to Nebraska shooters only. This ought to encourage the boys to come prepared to win some of it The Bemis Park club set the ball rolling next Thureday, May 4, on live bir The club race is at fifteen pigeons once a month and targets on other club shooting days. The Omaha Gun elub commence May 6, and have a very Interesting race; they handi: cap their menmbers to equalize the differ members' chances of winning the diamond medal ‘The 24 and stato tournamont will be held May and Manager Nuson is making e: tensive arrangements for the affair. Parti having live birds to dispose of should write to him at once. The Raymoud Gun club open up their se ub shooting uext Saturday kly matches cousist of fifteen single tar. gets, unknown angles, fifteen walk uround and five pairs Pigeons are scarce this year and the state events may have to becutdown. Any shooter knowing where birdsean be bought will con fer a favor on the as#aiation by writing to William E. Nason, The Bemis Park Gwa club will inaugurate its scason's club shouts at their handsome new grounds across tie river next Thursd afternoon. With favdrable weather a large attenaance will be on hand to participate the shoot Good snipe and teal shooting continues. and gunners have been making the most of the few brief spasmseof good weather that have been granted this vegion the past week “The lingering of winter in the lap of spring has kept the bulk of “the birds here i spite of themselves, but & wholesale exodus for the north may be lofiked for tr moment settled weather is asgured. The birds have not been simply loafing here until balmy weather arrives. 1t has been a case of have to. Th sting time is fast approaching. and fair weather will see thewui on their way to foreign chimes, and all those anxious for one more whack at the toothsoma blue wing and luscious scolopax had better get in their work within the next three or four days, or they will be disappointed Question swers, Ouaua, April 2 Sporting Editor of THE BEE: Please stute in your SUNDAY Bk if Jauies J. Corbett over fought Jike Kilrain and when.—Frank Svanda. Aus.—They sparred six rounds at New Orleans a couple of years ago, Corbett get ting the decision, COUNCIL BLUFFS, Ta., April 27.—To the Sport- ing Editor of Tue Bee: Please dectdo this in next Sunday's HEe: You have four clubs in your hand ‘und a heart turned, do the clubs count & four flush {n playlng cribbager—Reader of DALy Beg, L} Ans.—It counts a four flush however, it could not count GRAND ISLAND, Neb,, April 25.—To the .i\)url- lng Editor of Tug Bew: Kindly decide follows In the “crib," | | 1803--TWENTY ing bot In your Sunduy pape are playing high five, ¢ the trump but does not lead same. obliged to do sor-—James 1. Foley Ans. He is not, unless that is the under standing when you begin the game. ‘They play the game that way in some places, but it is not the rule S10UX Crry, La April 20, To the S$porting Edi torof Tik ek Kindly advise through your nest SUNDAY Bek, which {s the right play to make inngame of high five under the ’ LHowing clr CUmStancees: Our opponents nike bidding ten: my partner has his deal.d have n-vvrum,r— and d seallfor any cards, giving my partner tha benefitof the deck. should 1 have called for cards, and was it make this play A Reader of Tne Bre Ans.—You must draw to your hand, still the gawe is often played as you played, hold ine your original cards without drawing OMAIA, April 20 To the Sporting Editor of Tore Bes Wil you please inform me in Sun- day's BEE where T ean geta genuine thorougl- bred puz dog? | know there are some in this city, but know thoy niust hay s ot ones s other part of the country Charles H. Curtls, Ans. - Write the South Eighth street PAGES A party of tour o of fho party, buye Woodbury kennels, Philadelbhia - Busy people have no time, and people have no inclination to use pills muke them sick a day for every dose take. They have learned that™ tr De Witt's Little Early Risers does not in terfere with their health by eausing nausea pain or griping. These little pills are per, fect in action and resulte, regulating the stomach and bowels so that headaches, diz ziness and lassitude are prevented. They the blood, elear the complexion and i the sy of health in these Lo fello ws, 135 sensible that thoy use of cleanse -— SOLDLERS HOM Miles Zentmyer Resents Imputations Made Upon His Managemeont, Scuvyrer, Neb., April To the Editor of Tue Bre: [ hope | may ba pardoned presuming to ask y o mike u brief statement through the columns of Tur Bk, which [am prompted to do by a report 1 no tice in yesterday's Bre, from your Lin coln correspondent, that refers to some dis covery made by Auditor Moore in over claims allowed by the house committe to members of the visiting and examining board of the Soldiers and Sailers Home at Grana Island. - Referring to Mary E. Ward, A. W. Buffum Townsend, this report says as follows SMary Ward rtified that there was due her from the state the sum of #76.30 and the commandant certified tnat the claim was correct and unpaid. And yet the records in the auditor's oftice show that she had re. ceived a warrant on February 15 amounts included in th of the items, total being IS0 J. W, Townsend's ¢l; was for 306,71, but the records show tha received in February two vouchers, cc six items and amounting to #4443 Buffum's cla records received $22.74 auditor states that h understand how the parties could make so noticeable a mistake in certifying to their claims and swearing that they were correct and unpad.’ Did he so state? Upon bold statement, perhaps surprise wou natural I was in Lincoln on last (21st inst.) and had a conversa witn Auditor Moore +his office about an- other claim of one of the members of this same board, calling his attention to an error | in that claim which in part had been dupli- | ated by the house committee, —and these identical elaims mentioned in cidentally came under consideration They were unpaid when certified to by myself commandant, and un- | doubtedly unpaid when prescented by these ofticials to the legislature. Attention was | directed to the warrants drawn in Februar i from itemized accounts of days and | date of service as shown by vouchers file as well as claims filed with the committee, he could readily sce how each claim stood, and he undoubtedly would find the claims had been filed with the committee on claims before the warrants were drawn in Feb- | ruary With this information and explanation on my part, Lam surprised that Auditor Moore would state to any person that he was at g loss to account for the action of those ties, as he is reported. In fuct, my cousidera- tion for the auditor is such that [ am led to doubt his using such Jlanguage, for the rea- son, I will hazard the statement the figur given are not correct, that the auditor's rec ord will show in the case of Mr. Townsend, for instance, the numbers of his February Wi nuts to be 74570 and 74568, calling in the aggregate for §i6.47, instead of $44.48 as re- ported. 1 am not disposed under the circumstanc to either justify or condemn the legislative committee on claims in the premises, as it is parent it was not the intention of this re- port so to do. It was aimed at the late mem- bers of the visiting and examining board in general and myselt in particular, and, as will be seen, was not only uncalled for, but an un just retlection Perhaps, under the circumstances, 1 might | be pardoned, at the suggestion, for stuting here that this last report is somewhat in keeping with certain other garbled reports I have noticed, among which was a statement that a great quantity of supplies was on hand when I took charge as commandant, all of which had disappeared, As could be sen by the record and otherwise, there were on hand to be turned over, and were turned over, to the present commandant, 1D, A. Scoville (who, by the way, I believe to be | a good ma some such items as follow Cash, i d rec from my predeces Captain Henry) head of hogs, 70 of which would average 250 pounds eacn, the balance, with possibly two exceptions, would re 150 pounds each ; for nission looking and J. W the im t he rin; W that he of the had alre: amount I'he is at a loss to show 1y the face of such a | talk good |'w SOFreCt 10 | zero during most of the the claims of | for the | | Are thosa ignorant n was allowed at £11.50 but the | | he human | | dignified yet courteous demeanor of | !‘a.up also % head of cattle, from a lot of 30 head purchased last June for beef, in addition to the howme stock with increasé numbering 50 head ; also other stock and supplies, which [ simply mention, without intending any re- flection upon former administrations, to show the false and malicious character of reports current. As for myself, the closer the scrutiny and showing up of the whole | truth of all matters in the discharge of my ofticiul dutios as commandant, which [ court, the more damnable will appear the action of some parties, who, for purposes best known to themselves, have undertaken to malign the undersig Yours truly, Mires 7 a JENTMYER, Why buy a_foreisn i can | bett at home. Try Cook's I 4 u Dry Imperial Champagne. | | “What shall w on your tombstone?" asked the minister of the editor. W are here o stay s the feeble reply. “Rey. Dr. Cuteman has made his church very popular.’ fow?" “By having his choir sing lullabies instead of hymns.' Soprano—The ventilation of this church is just awful. Alto—Isu't it, though! Do you suppose that is the reason Mr. Thirdly hus such difficulty in airing his views’ Sam Jones has Christianized a_large num- bor of Kentuckiuns, including several colonels. Now, if the Kentuckians can on find some way nf\ hristianizing Sam Jon, “My dear young friend,” exclaimed the good wan, solemuly, “do you attend church regularly " *“Yes, sir, but I didn't go today She's visitiug friends out of town, you know. (Good Minister—That new choir ing the church Mr. Worldlie You'vi sopr St New isn't fill the way 1 thought it would Well, what can you expect? got a homely tenor and & married no. Peter—Enter. Why do Spirit—1 dou't see any don't have any ushers here where you please.” **Dear me! ent heaven is from our church.’ *How did you like the sermon?” asked the | minister of ‘the drummer. “Oh, I liked some parts of it first rate,” was the reply. “Your remarks about sins of omission | didn’t hit me, but when you talked about those of commission I must say you wers getting pretty close. A certain witty Irish priest w breakfast by r. Gludstone. great man asked: “What will you say to this, Father i1 when I tell you that on my last visit to Italy I saw on the doov of the Church of St. Agnese, etc., a table of gences, and actually saw written up there a remission of 1,000 years of punish went on payment of 1 franc? Yes, Father 1saw it with iy own eyes. A thou ears for a single franc! What do you say to that?” “What do I say to that?" said the padre gayly. “Why, [ say it was dirt cheap. What more would you wanl for your money?" ‘I'ne family were driving slowly home from the Church of Our Savior, wheu, aftera hesitate usher. We | Sit down how differ you invited to *uddenly the moment's musing, the small dauehter spo ke | up briskly with s disapproving tone: I don't like him." “Don't like whom, asked her mother. “That pry preached for Mr. Rhodes today not, dear! 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