Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 29, 1893, Page 10

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY,:OUTOBER 20, 1893-TWENTY PAGES SCIAT WITH THE BONERS) What May Be Expected by the Closing of the Olubs, REORGANIZATION OF THE WESTERN LEAGUE Whisperings of the Wheel—Centinuous ¥ool Mateh-dnck in England--The Trotters Work—Sports Afleld and Questions Answered, 1t is not probable that my chat with the boxers from this on to an indefinite period will be productive of any very great amount »f interest or information. That the game, nsofar as exhibitions befo oll governed seganized clubs are concerned, is virtually fead and buried,is a fact familiar to ail who ave sought_to keep piee with matters of ihis sort. This is a finale that was fr quently prognosticated iu these c imns, and while & fact to be r gretted in a certain sense it is really a nappy conclusion of & state of affairs that was rapidly becoming naaseating. Like the vall players in '01, the pug overstepped “aimself and now finds himself stared in the tace by work ora trip over the road for ragrancy or loitering or something worse. The land has been one of milk and honey snly for the tighter and his followers fora prolonged period of time that is really mar- velous consideving the fact that the sport is an unlawful one, let it be conducted under the guise of an athletic exhibition or otherwise, While a very large proportion of society pretend to believe that the game is vicious and moral corrupting, it is also < true that but a smallelement, comparatively, are honest and conscientious in tuis con tion. In all my experience, and 1t has been * quite extensive in this Ime, I have yet to meet the mun, gootleman or otherwise, who hus openly declared that he would not attend @ prize fight if he could do so without fear of sontamination, trouble or publicity. Io fact it is & very human failing to incline to any pastime or entortainment that is fraught with real excitement, and has been one from time immemorial throughout all civilization and heathendom, too. And more, this ex- citement has always been supplied. If it wasn'v a bull, dog or cock fight, it was a little mill with vh: aw ‘uns under the regime of the revolver and tho knife, where pyery participant carried his life in his hands, and where no man was safe, never vonaucted in the bright glare of the sun, or under the brilliancy of the electric light, but ulways under the cover of the crimiual's shield, the dead of night, by the gloomy llare of torches, in the doubly barred bar so0m, ot hole in the wall. £ These are facts patent to all reading and thinking citizens, as is the truth that with the advent of contests with padded gloves, under the surveillance of competen: and honest men, within the walls of lawfully in- rorporated = clubs, that the demoralizing features of v fights in a large measure totally disappeared. While the ordina; X ponent of the manly art, the individual who ekes out his meed of the necessities of life — with an occasional bottle on the side—by the nuickuess of his visual organs, ti u larity, elasticity and activity that swells his muscles, and the courage that fills his thor- ucic aepartment, is not a being of any vast wmount of acumes or intellectuality, he endowed with suflicient amount of horse sense 1o know on which sideof the br butteris. By tacit consent, and us if 1 tuated by a single sentiment, the whole fighting clement gladly welcomed and eepted the change of the protected arena of the club house for tho naked ring in vhe woods or the unbaliowed squared circle of the bar room, and during the interval in fuestion there have boen buv precious fev wevents pulled off behind the bush or unde lock, bar and key. The aiv of respectability that surrounded these club affaiis has had o most mellowing and beneficial effect on the charagter of the common scrapper, and the “horrible and vitiating details’ that were so commoh iu the old duy dissppeared as frost vanishes before the waditlg sun: Can any of the hundreds of respectful and respected business men, and church goers, 100, for I have met many of them there, re- call any such scenes as_attended the Han- ley-Iell fight out in Saunders county a decnde ago, that occurred at any of the harniless glove contests that were given by the Young Me Athletic club -a and the preceding fall and summer? any one recall any undue boisterou even in the exciteraent of & hot fimish riotousness, or ribuld singing, or revolvers, uny menace of any déscription or any seriousness of whatsoever character? 1 think-uot. An occasional eyo was pasted into the shadow, there were some kuock y livious to all results save those concomit with victory and defeat. ob- it It now looks as if another change was im- minent—-back from the new to the old—an ihe reports that must und will fill the daily press, spasmodically anyw will be ai- tained surieptitiously by the emergetic r porter, and replete with the details of the substrata of the commonwealth, of gangs of loafers and rowdies, of prize fights ter- minating in broils, in terrorism and murde There will ve no recountals of mauly con- tests in cosy und well lighted theagers, the cxploits of mauly men that might woll be emulated by our sous; examples of skill, strength and cndurance, uccompanied by only such atiributes us all can endorse, which wnke our blood run quicker, and make us proud of the fact that we are one of such a nation of men, ‘While the decadence or abolition of any amanly sport affects the army of workers who exert themselves to lay before the mul- titude delectable and entertaining accounts of its proy and results, possibly more materially than it does the majority of members of tho great hive, 1 claim that it _affocts, more or less, all men, and oven ci und nations. Just how, it would be su- pererogatory for mo to explain, as all intell- gent men can readily realize the truthfulness M thoelulm. Still 1 do not wish to be mis- anderstood in this matter, I am not writing n defense of In‘[u fighting, as prize fight- ng s commonly supposed to be, but 1 do sy that as long as such things must be it is setter to bave them under the influence ihat curb and check all tendency towara aarm and demoralization. If men must con- snd for the mastery, let such contention be 1 the presence and under the management 5f mon that ire men, who will ses that the “ights and possessions of all peoplo are pro- woted, and not under the auspices of thieves ind hoodlums, whose one mission in life is sime against the man 1 wnose image they auve been east, and whose one delight is the iis omfiture of Inw and order and decency. e are too many profligacies, too many dlaring sivs and inimical practices cither undoned or ignored by the powers electod to Aanedy such matters to fioquluny by and faussively witness the mock humantarianism shat has trivmphed in the matter of subvert- Wi & wueh lesser evil, There ave oo many agnest, manly storts 1o claim the- attention af sporting writers to call for their defuuse of such o deprecintory pastime as pugilism. Now thero is uo such intent here, 1 am only slating fucts as Lhey appesr to me, Buttis really funny w note the calm that hus followed the siorm. First the Cali- forniu clubs, one by onc.“‘ml up their shut- ‘iers, then that uncqualed Mecea of Fistiaua, ihe Crescent C through extravagance, nordinate greed and lax wanagement, fol- wowed suit, only 1o be imitawed by the Lob, y, and, last and fically, Coney lsiand, ihe ovo instifution that wis thought o e L8 invulnerable and as unshakablo as tao :ek of Gibraltar, Of course the big cottage Melianevillo still rears its head proudly ibove the surf-washed shore, and on tne Sommons out Canal stroet, at New Orleans, and i the middle of a big stubble tield over L the Hoosier borders mute,reproachful and MLy wituesses, loom skyward the mam- moth wooden pavilions of the Crescent City and Roby. Hut the stories of matches and matchmaking haye been told, the festive, chumupions ave out of a job, and 18 the shoriff. May he do with mere promptitude than has bis official boariug while he was la whaek," About the Mitehell.Corbett fight. As I Jiave iteruted and reiterated Line and i #gain in this viclaily, the whole affair wa wierely oue of Hatulency from the start, so ! | | | | far at least as the Coney Island olub was concerned. The attitude of righteous Gotham toward America's bete noir—Charlie Mitchell--upon his arrival here last spring should have been sufficient to impart to the club the foolhardiness of iny attempt on their part to pull off a fight in which he was 10 be the main attraction. The big fight has been officially declared off —as if it was ever on—and if Mitchell and Corbett aro still one- half so ambitious as they have been to demonstrate to a suffering world which is the better man, all they have to do is put up their stuff and slip out to somo quiet spot up the river or down tho bay and thump and punch away until one or the other cries enough, or is in such a condition that will preciude articulation Now that prize ighting is dead and a thing of the past, let us all say amen, with the added prayer that the greater evils are also to receive attention in the near future, and turn our attention to the next best thing in the sc line, the high toned,royal and The New York prese continues to devoto colurins of gossip concerning the fight, and that some of them doubt the genuineness of 1 off" s attested to in the following n the Advertiser: « shiotild not be placed on the statement that Mayor Boody und the Kings county authoritics have decided to stop the Corvett-Mitchell prize fight at Coney Island. It is not intended that this fistic” encounter shall take place bofore December, and {f Me. Boody and the Kings county pluguglics aro indorsed next month at the ballos box it is our judgment that the prizo fight will go on according to the origi- nal program. 2 The democratic authorities over the rivor are much in favor of this contest, and the most of them have been active in promoting it. It wonld, for example, be a bitter disap- pointment to the able and energetic Judge Newton of the Kings county bonch if this pet_enterpri i fered with. As for SherifY Courtney. he has given it his unqualified approval and aunounced that not only will he go himself as an interested spectator, but will take his sons. Mayor Boody has already given the proposed fizht his moral support, and ‘Boss' MeLaughlin would travel far to witness a slugging match such as this ono promises to be. Whether the big prize fight is off or nov denends entirely upon the result of the eice- tion next month."” ANDY GRISWOLD, INTERSTATE © AMPIONSHIP GAME., Booked for ¥ 3 ne Young Men's Cheistian association are rapidly perfecting their arcangoments for the great foot ball battle on Thanksgiving v, which will be fought at the local park vans of theState Universities of Nebraska and Towa. Last woek Tis Bee published the persounel of the Nebraska cam and follows it up this week witha -up" of the Towans. The Young Men's ociation has secured the consent of two railroads to run excursion trains from all points on their lines within 100 miles of this city, and the prospects ure good for. a tremendous attendance from meighboring cities and towns of both st Suojoined will be found the personnel of the team from over the river: Towa Crry, Ia., Oct. 27.—To the Sgorting Editor of “Tur Bre: The foot ball team of the State University of lowa are the champions of the Hawkeye state and it goes without saying that they ave the pride of all patriotic fowans. Though the team in past years has not been always victorious, yevit hasl > of inter- state reputation, Nebr. and Missouri all know the names of Stiles and Larrabee and others, Stiles and Larrabee are now oat_in the “rush” of lifo, but their pluces are filled with excellent’ material. The team is composed of men who play be- causc they loye the gim: and who are de- termined to win for the otate University of fowa if bard and gentlemanly, work will do it. Lookout fora good toam who havea love for a cheer something like thi “Haw! Haw! -Haw! CHil Hil Hi! lawkeye! Hawkeye! LRI W. A. Lomas, C.’%4, is manager of the team and isa member of Irving institute and a member of the Phi- Delta ‘lheta fra- ternity. He hasservod as a*Quill” editor and also as business manager of: the Junior Anuual of the class of *94. He plays tennis me and takes much interest in general . L. 04, s captain of the team. i an old man at Rugby and is play- this yea 1150 one of the Live men of the uni vy prom- inent i titera He was 1e of the foundie: ember of tho *Tabard,” u purely literary ization, aud belongs to the Phi Kappa : welihs about-190. , plays left half and cep” in the game. Myers is a grad- uate of frving institute, president of the State Athletic ass o0, and a ymember of the Phi Kapp aternity. He is ono of e ph v pluyers in the league, and weighs 155, plays vight half and is & com- paratively now mun. e tackles well and weighs about 160. Heis a member of the lays. a splendid gamo at 3 slls memories of “Old cers.” . He is stroug, quick and fear- He.weighs 104 pounds, ard, L. "5, plays right guard and_is eighing about 150. You 4 very strong mai Suowball,” incidentally, be- will hear rrom *Sn fore the season clos Ingersoll, I, '05 left guard andisa large, powerful man weighing ubout 210 pounds. By the way, he is a cousin to Bob himself. You must not miss scoing our ‘Bob" hoid his man. Van Oostehout, L, "M, plays right tackle and wade his mark in tho arena last year *low” and took a team on his comes from neross the sea but 5 no greenhorn. He is o graduate of the Zetagathian Literary society, es-president of the Athletic association and is & “I'abar- der.” He weighs about 170, Aldrich, Col. '95, also played in last year's team and plays a tackie this year. He is on the exccutive committeo of the “Quill” board, a member of the Athletic ad- board, belongs to the Zetagathian ry society and is n prominent Young Men's Curistian associution man, Weight, Is a sure ground gainer, 88, L. ‘03, plays left end. Heis a new man and u\nis a fairly good game, @ be- longs to the Phi Kappa P’s| fraternity. Has lots of nery Weighs 165, Robinson, C. 04, plays right end and is quite prominent in 8. U. L circles, He isa “Tabarder,” s member of the Athletic ad- visory board, and is one of the S. U. L mile runners. Ieis a Pl Kappa Psi man and weighs 153, Sawyer, M. 95, plays quarter back and is probably one of the steadiest and nerviest men playiog on any of the league teams. “Prince” is no slouch in any sense of the term, and knows iu nis vocabulary no such word as fear. He isa splendid runner and blocker, He is & Delta Tau Delt and weighs 5. Litjg, C. '95, is one of the line substitutes and o plucky player, weighing about 150 pounds. He took second in the shot-put con- test on field day, and is » favorite with the )8, Another wan showing splendid form and who muy make the team is Joe Allen, C, 95, Mr. Allen weighs about 150and is very prom- ineut in 8. U1 affairs and & man wakiog many friends among the students editor-in-chief of this year's Junior Annual aund is & member of the Pbi Delta Theta fra- ternity. Terrell is sub-tackly and is the nerviessy man at present auong the “subs” who are very close to 8 placo on the team. Heisa L. "M, and a five, sociable fellow; welgl about'150. o plays ball for keeps. White, C. ‘04, is a sub-end wan aud weigl 5. e is president of the 8. U, 1. Athletic associution and has a record on the mile run of five winutes, one and one-balf seconds. He is & member of ‘lrving wstituie, und also @ member of the “Polygon,” a new society orgauized in the interests af originalliterary Production ut tie university. WA L. A Call for Mr. Muffet, - Heusaun, Ja., Oct. 25.—To the Sporting Idiorof tes Bee: 1 see by your Omaus Bee that Mr. Muffet of O'Neill would like a seventy yard foot race with me. Now, Mr. Muffet, post 40 with the gporiing editor of Tus OxMaua Bee as u forfels for from $100 o $500 and nume your siart wad day ued I've He is hs | got you. Please publish and oblige. Al T shall insist on is that the race take place in Omaha, Javes MERORANTS, A Conple of Hetting Propsaitions. Rep Oak, Ia, Oct. 25.<To the Sporting Editorof Tar Brr: A gentloman requests me to have the following batting proposition posted in Tae Bee for a couple of days. Ploase publish and if any one aceopts any of them please wire me at my expense and he will post the money with you L. Everuare, Proposition 1: & to $5 Jackson will be elected ; £ to #10 ho will have 2,000 plurality ; £5 to §20, 4,000 plurality: &5 to $40, $,000 ptu- rality; &5 to 880, 16,000 plurality ; $5 to $100, 20,000 plurality. Proposition 2: & to & McKinley will bo clected ; £ to £10 he will nave 5,000 plurality : 20, 10,000 plurality ; £ to $40, 20,000 plu- 10 £30, 40,000 plurality; & to §100, ity. all bots on either proposition, o | first half of each one. n Encland, Some wecks ago Tue Bex had a cablegram from London, giving account of,the perform- | ance of the professional bicyelists gathered at Herne Hill, the world famous track. Among the events was the broaking of the world’s professional haif-mile record by Jack Prince of Omaha. Your old friend dJohn Shililagton covered the distance from a standing start in 1:0815, The sporting edi- tor of Tue Ber has a letter from e, in which he says ho will return to_the United States in about threo weeks. Enclosed was tho subjoined elipping from the Sporting Lire of London THE WORLD'S PROFESSION BROKEN, Jolin &, Prince, of Omaha, Neb., U. night, at Herno Hill, broke ) world's professional_bicycle record, the distan from start. Do . start in 1:52-5, which isnlso o world's fessional record, and it must be that the wind in each ¢ consid weil k Lite, as his porfor 3 often heen recorded in i . " He is an Englishman by birth, 1g boen born it Langley G n small town 1 Birming- . He began to ride u bicycle at the uge of nd it wiil be remembered that ut Wolver ton about two yoars age he won three lundieaps in succession, Prince being the only man i the world who ever nccomplished this feat. od Cooper in o milo rueo at L en Conper was at s best. He also defented Howell several tinie both in Englind and America. Princo is 83 rs of nge on the 27th of next mont ta AL HALE-MILE RECORD 8! pro- entionod owing with 's numoe must ba 1so defeated I stor w five foot ton inches und welghs twelve stone and two pounds In condition. He held the professional championshiv of America for nino years agiinst all comers, and wears a number of medals presented to him In t honor of his records. His chief object in over to the old country wis to Visit his wed parents, wlhom he had not seen for many years, but could not resist the opportunity of Golng for a fow records on the famous lerne Hill track, with the result given has applied to the National Oycling union to allow amuteurs to pace him,and it this 1s granted o expects 10 establish new world's records from half a mile to five miles, He will return to the States by the 28th of this month. “The trials lust night were properly timed by Robert Crip urton, Alfred Chad- wick und se Charley Wilson ot the Herne Hill track was starter.” Prince rods a Humber ruce d up to seventy-two inches, Are We in It or Not? Will we havea ballclub in Omaha next year? That is the question that is agitating tho minds of the cranks just now, the meeting in Chicago Tuesday last to re- organize the old Western association being the cause of all this, The sameold names appeared at this meoting with one or two exceptions that b been associated with theold Western in years past, which 1n 1t- self does not speak well for its future pros- pects. However, if Mr, Brush, Mr, Bauncroft and ono or two othergood men who are known to be responsible financially wiil come to the front und assume positions in the reorgauization there is no reason why the Western, with the circuit proposed, could not be made o success. The salary question is an'easy one'if the club managers: do not get overanxious to secure all stars and get them at once; the limit should pe $1,200 per month and a heavy penalty for stepping over that amount. ‘This oversteppng the salary limit wrecked the Western wnen it was in fine shape some years ago; it .also did the same last year with the Southern and would have done so with the National league if it had continued another year, That Omaha v for a ball club was made evident the day when 1,000 people went out to the old ball park to sce the Bostons and All Americas in the fack of oneof the worst cold north winds blowing clouds of dust over the grounds so that tha players could not be seen half the time. The remarkable thing about it was that thev were the best people of Omaha and some had their wives with them, and enjoved the fine old sport i ely, despite the bitter inclemency of Johuson and Payton Matched. A continuous fifteen-ball pool match was made yesterday between E. E. Johinson of the Denver pool rooms and Fred Payton of South Omaha for 350 a side, the match to consist of three games, 100 bulls each, to be played on three successive nights, Wednes- day, Thursday and Friday next, at Kenis- ton’s billiavd rooms in the New York Life building. A deposit of §15 each in the hands of G. V. swold, the balance to be posted prior to play on Wednesday even- ing. On the Lake and In the Field. ‘The Omaha Gun club hunt takes place to- morrow. Hon. Charles Withnell, George Kimmel and Walt Micsner are at Ogallala goose hunting. Drs. Whinunery, Gluck and Doeshe went up to Bancro(t last evening to check the flight of wild fowl south. J. 5. White and Christopher Columbus, Jr., were at Manawa Sunday and made a nice bag of ducks and yellow legs, Will Simeral drove out on the Military road Wednesday and ‘‘copped” outa nice bag of quail and one prairie chicken. Albert Isaacson, one of Tus BeEk elevator conductors, scured two or three bluewings to death up near Cut-Off yesterday morning. Stockton Heth and 8, G. V. Griswold bag- ged twenty-one quail one afternoon last week but a short ways out of the city limits Chartie Lewis, with his new Lofaver ejector, is down on the Arapahoe makin; s interesting for the scolopax, Wil A flock of soveral hundred prairie chicken have been seen frequently during the past week on the flats between this city and the Bluffs, John J. Hardin has gone to the northern part of the state with the determination of malking the premier score in next Monday's club hunt. Harvey McGrew; with a seloct party of kindred spivits—Oid Crow and Oscar Pop- per—are scaring the geese up about River Sloux today. Dr. Caples of Percival was in the oity last week, He says the birds are plentiful down nis way, and this week he intends to make the feathers fly. Billy Brewer has returned from a week's sport at Three Springs lake, South Dokots He repprts but a straggling flignt of geese ll,nd ducks, but found grouse as thick as sand urs, C. E. Keliogg spent a day at the much fre- quented Honey creek last week, and by some maovelous dispensation collared four wood- cock, and claims to have seen many wore. No. Mr. K. had not been drinking ! CGicorge A. Hoagland, Willlam Preston and Howard Clark have returned from their an- nual trip to the big game country, and laden with the spoils of the They made a big kill of elk, deer and mountais sheep. Billy Townsend will make his club hunt up the Missouri tomorrow, and it is dollars to doughuuts he comes in with a good show- ing. Billy is well up on game, and kuows their respective haunis as well or better than most gunners of this neck o' woods, * Henry Curtis and J. F". Day put in a day thicket and stubble last wi and clajm have flushed thirteen coveys of 2::“, but didn't get a feather. They L could have had several “'pot shols,” but weve too true to their instincts as thorough sportsmen to take such murderous advaulage of the birds, although both have severa! ren at home who simply aote on quail. e wu come up to geatlemen, I uko;o’urch-r{au for publication, so that the game slaughtorers of this vicinity mav | seo what & man lodlsitke who will not kill & bird on the mun& The annual Odto 'J"&unt of the Omaha Gun club comos off _today, and Parmelee’s gun store, where tho count will be made, 1s Quite apt Lo presenyan interesting spectacle tomorrow night. 0 sides ure as follows: Captain W, W. Hoagland, J. J. Read, W. H. S. Hughes, Frank Carmichael, Billy Towns- end, B. E. B. Kefinédy, Sandy Griswold, Will Krug and C. F\» Roed; Captain Frank Fogg, Frank 8. Parmgles, W. H. Given, Billy Brower, I'. Gray, Fred Fuller, H. B. Kennedy, Goodley Hrucker, Joft Bedford and otchum. The _losing sido will de- the exper ofn game banquot to bo given next Friday evening at one of the leading hotels yet to be agreed upon. The different species of game and birds of prey will be counted as follr ws: Least sand plper, Thitun sandt pipor Poet sonat yollow Tog Phalropd Red breast 1. wareet " 2/Goose of any kind DI Aclc anipe. irginia rail 10 1 I 14 Trumpet 16| An it Shoveler. BuMalo he Whisperings of tho Wheol. H. E. Cobb of Indiana and R. E. Purcell of Ashtabula, O., were visitors at the Tourist club house last week. The Omaha Wheel club Worla's faii smoler was a brilliant success. An account of it may be seen in other columns. It is rumored that two of our racing men will have a six day, eight hours a day go at eighteen horses on the Coliseum track very soon. Therace no doubt will draw. very well, Ben V. Walters and Max Weaeles are reprosenting their firms ‘‘upon the rond” aguin, ‘after several woeks of ‘“stay-at- home.” Both gentiemen are *‘club hustlers,’ and equally as effective as salesmen. Johnson, the Minneapolis “phenom,” was paced in his first quarter for record on the Kansas City track by Condon,the Omaha Wheel club fiyer. Mr. Condon says he made it pretuy hot for the Flour City champion and thinks he can ride in_just as fast a class as Johnson any day. His performances of Iate warrant him in his claim. Holton aud Schneil will probably ve the pride of the Tourist racing team 1f the club cotcludes to have a team in the field next scason, They wore bhe elub colors this sea- sou in honor and coyered themselves with giory on many a battle, field. There will bo the usual crop of ‘unkpowns” next spring for the *old vets" th doyn. Louis Flescher of the Tourists will enter the lists of matrimony next 'I'hursday even- ing the 2d prox. »Onelby one the club bachelors grow tired of ;singie blesseduess and the fasteniug of. théir galluses with a shingle nail and sedrch ot some estimable young woman to occupy the front seaton a life tandem. - The clubmates of the genial Louie wish him andohis bride *‘bon yoyage.” A. P. Williams won thespecial prize Tourist high five toucnament Thursday ing, winuing eight games outof the ten played. A special prize, will be given again next Thursday evening: pl begins promptly av 8:30. Hy Fredrickson leads in the general average,”’he winning nine straight games last”Thursday evening. Several new players- haye enterea the con- test, which 1 now drawing to a close, forty more games yet to be played. ‘The Tourists took t ustomary Sunday spin last Sabbath, several making the round wip to Belleyue' before dinner. The club- men have not lost their pride and enjoyment in road riding, all expressing the opinion that the present time is the best in the year to enjoy country road rides, John Hynes now leads for the club mileage medal, George § 1d Walker close seconds. While the club mileage ar will nov reach last season’s thou- sands, it will be well eoough up the line to create a feeling of pride in the Tourist breast The Ganymede Wheel club of Council Blufts held its annual club century run last Sunday over the Tokamah coursé. An invitation to the Tourists and Omaha Wheel club to accompany them on the run called out Harry Crouch and Dick Belt and Len Livesey from the Omaha Wheel club and George Suncha from the Tourists. The run was mude within the limit, the revurn trip in the face of a terrific head wind, Those who made the trip were Ed Duquette of the Ganymedes, Len Livesey, Dick Belt and Harry Crouch of the Omaha Wheel cluo, and George Sancha of the Tourists. The ‘old vet,” Billy Carothers, started, but gave uy the trip o account of a leaking tire, The riders say the roads were in excellent shape. The Tourist Wheelmen Century club is now anassured thing. A quorum of the in- terested centurians met at the club house last Tuesday evening and aftor listening to the reading of the short by-iaws and con- stitution for the government of the club, adopted them with fow changes, adjourning until next Tuesday evening, when an el tion of oficers will occur. ‘The club's object is to perpetuate century road riding and to act as & “side partner” to the Tourisy Wheolmen, Only members of the parent club are eligible to membership in the Century club, and only then after having ridden a Century according to the rules of the club and to the complete satis- faction of a Century board of three club members. The club badge is a specially de- sigued pin, in the construction of which the Tourist emblem, & cherry diamond plerced by a black arrow and entwined with & large letter “C"” in whitc, the wnole en- circled with a belt with buckle, are the dis- tinctive features. T'he ury club starts out with eighteen charter members, all prominent workers in the parent club, good road men and enthusiastio cyclists, who no doubt will keep alive the interest 'in long- distance road riding. The following gentle- men'compose the club: H, L. Beard, E. L. Pouter, H. K. Smith, Weleh Kingsley, John Hyues, Arthur Pickéfing, Lester . Holton, George Sancha, Ia%‘! Flescher, J. F. Culley, Max_Reichenberg, E. T. Vates, W, H. Mulhall, H. E. Taggar, Henry Fredrickson, ¥\ D. Parmer, Ed Proulx and E. P, Walker. One of those brignt, interesting, earnest talkers, who so much captivate the young men who compose thaljenergetic, restless body known as cyclists, is Rev. D. D. Odell, pasior of Beth Eden Baptist church on Park avenue. A whoelmih himself he fully real- izes just what will enfertain and at the samo time instruct themin a spiritual way. Ho has extended a :sificere invitation and waolcome to all wheelmet, both attached and unattached in this and immediately adjoin- ing cities, to spend a pleasant and profitable hour with him at b ch this evening. His sermon will be deliv 1o the wheel- men and for the wheeh , irvespective of creed, and it is hoped’that all will take ad- vaniage of this opportunity and pay the this plan of forcing the sale o 20 PR GREAT DISCOUNT S . W. GOOK & SO On account of the extreme dull business during the past summer we have docided upon We give 20¢ off each dollar's worth you buy. CENT DISCOUNT. f ALL our shoes. R HOE SALE Our L’ll“(;i: li;é k;l h.’\rml off, goes at $3.20, This is a fine shoe with heavy sole for winter, anl sells in every store in Omaha at $4. welt $4 shoes, 20 per cent Our ladies' hand turned fine dress $4 shoe goes at 20 per cent off, $8,20. Our ladies’ fine kid $3 shoe, 20 per cent off goes at $2.40, ALL GOODS MARKED IN PLAIN FIGURES, GENTLEMEN—We will let you select any shoe in our store and give you 20 per cent discount from our regu- lar price. Our $7 Shoes, 20 per cent off, Go at $5.60. Our $4 Shoes, 20 per cent off, Go at $3.20. Our $6 Shoes, 20 per cent off, Go at $4.80 Our $3 Shoes, 20 per cent off, Go at $2.40. Our $5 Shoes, 20 per cent off, Go at $4. Our $2 Shoes, 20 per cent off, Go at $1.60. lect in our immense stock. costume and loaded with ammunition and a determination to carry off the laurels of bringing home the largest bag of game. The spot selected for the club shoot was the low- lands adjacent to Fort Calhoun. The duy was an ideal huntsmana’s day, but for some reason the game failed to keep their part of the contract, and although there was lots of powder burned, few feathers flew. Several snipe. a wood duck and a squirrel were winged during the day. The doughty hunts- men dispute among themselves as to the owner of the squirrel’s brush. Walt Morris, J. H. Kastman, A. H. Porrigo ana a coup! mote all claim the honor of being the squir- rel’s destroyer, but as the squirrel is the only witness in the case who could throw light on the subject the said witness’ death will always remain & mystery. Everybody had a good time, however, and the hunt was declared a success. Gossip with the Horsemen. Marlk Time, ), was bred by L. C. Lloyd, Gothenberg, Neb. C. E. Cotton of Syracuse has purchased Burlock and other horses of R. C. Outcalt of Lincoln, On Thursday of last week Diamond won the 2:40 trot at Independence in straight heats, making a record ot 2:263. Prince T, theold stager of Council Biuffs, was distanced in the first heat in the free- for-all pace at Nashville last week. ‘Winnie Witkes (3), by Republican, 2:191¢, dam by Woodland, sonof Sencca Chief, won the 2:80 class at Syracuse, October 13, and took a record of 2:281{. This promising filly is owned by Mr. Reed of Neb. 1t is thought that Chan ving in the 2:2 ss at Nashville October 20 was roprehensible, The Conqueror, that grand 3-year-old son of Egotist, was a favorite, but he won third money, Luzelle beating him for nd Axle winning the race in 2:1537, 2 Western Resources. Ed Geers says he has watched the caveer of the seventeen 3-year-old pacers that went in the twelve-heat race at Independence, Ia., in the summer of 1801, says Trotwood, and that none of them have ever been much ac- count since. Among them was the fast young pacer Iolene, by Tennessee Wilkes, Wwhich has since taken a record of 2:23. Her owner says that since that race, no matter how fast shemay go out and step a mile by herself, as soon as gets up with a bunch of horses on the track no inducement can make her go through them-—she thinks she's on the Independence kite and goingin that twelve-heat race. She will pace a 2:15 clip o cateh up with the bunch and is then con- tent and satisfled, its a race no longer, but an all day ride to the county seat in com- pany with the neighbors. August 9, in this city, Belle Acton started for the first time this year and puced an ex- hibition mile alone, without the cheering in-, fluence of a pace maker, in {. The track is & half mile ring, and the handsome daugh- ter of Shadeland Onward had the speed to beat a much faster record, but being short of fast work, this being the first mile she was asked to go, she tired somewhat. The mile was a truly remarkable performance, Many of the turf writers ‘have insisted in stating that this mile was paced in 2:171{, out in this they err. At Nashville, Tenn., October 16, Belle Acton met four other crack 2.year-old pacers and won the first heat in 2:19%{ and the third In 2:173{. which is her record both in a race and against time, Tho cond heat of +this event was won by Buck Franklin, son of Ben Franklin, in 2:175. A Bateh of Punts and Kioks. The High school team, when intact, will pe found quite a nut to crack. “The young- sters are playing quite a good article of ball. Gates colloge wants to arrange a game with Doane college for the Omaha grounds, and the scheme will likely e consummated this week. The Omahs Young Men's Christian assooi- ation is getting & great team together and would like to make & mawh for Saturday, November 4. ! ‘he State University of Nebraska proved on Saturday last that they are capable of somo good siroug play in beating the Doane coliege team 25 10 0. The Towa University team has booked “games with the Kuansas university. Luther Minucsota university, Nebrasia university, Iowa college and Cornell college. So far they have played Coe colleze 56 to 0 in their favor, and the Denver Athletic club teaw 58 1o 0 against them, college, Questions and Answers, DEADWOOD, 8. D., Oct. 24.—To the Sportin Editor of Ta® Bex: Has the man on the deal- er's right the privile to shufiie the s aftor you havo' properly shufiied thom wnd hunded them to bl to cuti—0O. E. McAlllster. reverend geutleman Sheir respects. A large delegation from the Ganymede Whoel club, Turners Wheel club, Young Men's Christian association cyclers, Omaha Wheel club, Tourist Wheelmen and Magic City Wheel club will attend. Do not be & bit backward about going on your wheel, as the pastor has generously donated the use of aroom and The services of the janitor for the safety of the wheels duriug service. The subject of Rev. Odel lecture is “Headers,” a very suggestive by the way, lally to the wheelmen, as delivered the cyolisy el man will be doubly inieresting. Mr. Um(yh much . loterested in 0‘:““ and cyclists, sn]oéva his spin with best of them, and at oué time, in younger davs, held the long distance amateur championship of Illinois. The Omaha Wheel club gave its first an- nual hunting rty last Sunday, & large crowd of the clubmen golug up Lo the scene of slaughter, clad in the regulation shootlng Ans.—Yes, but the dealer has the right to shuffle, and the two can keep it up all night if they desire to, After the cards have been properly shufiied it is simply the duty of the man to the right to cut them s he sees proper. Any man in the game can ask for the cards and shuffle them, but it is always the r's privilege to shuffle last. Chere ure letters at the sporting depart- meut of Tas Bee for Joe Kelley, ball player, Billy Nason, manager of the Omaha shoot- ing grounds, and Ned Hamilton, pugllist. BourH OMANA, Oct. 12.—T0 th itor of Tk Bee: Pleuse ausw HEE th Dllu'\lx quuléou. © A was dealer, pusses, $ @lso pusses, A pi Aus 08, Jack, ten or either of the fives. Sruarrond, Ia, Oct. 98.-To the Bporting { To decide a bot in a gamo A Jack pot 1s made, A opens it him to They draw caras, Now who bets first, tho mun that opens or the min who raises the opener? Please answer in next Sund BiE.-Sport. 'o the Sporting s become of the B Dempsey-Dic ch. Isitofl or they to fight? Ans.—1t is off, away off, turn to England in & few d all he wants of Ame had a fight all fixed w sniled from England a few woeks ngo, but on his a 1 here he found he was ‘m takea. The Couey Island club will offer no more purses or attempt to pull off any miore matches until after December, if then, Hasrixas, Neb., Oct, 25.—To the Sporting Editor of TrE like: To sottle n bet, kindly inform me in the Sunday issue of THE BRE of the longest standing broad jump’ on record, without welghts, and oblige.-~Juuies Morln, Ans.—12 feet, 10} inches. L1aH, Oct. 25.—To the Sporting Editor of Tae Bee: Ploase lot me kuow if the quail lnw has been changed fort1893. The people up hor say they saw it in tho pupers. Lot mo know about it us soon as possible.—Theo Wise- man. An: 0 ¢hange. WiLsosvI 'k Bu W. I nd Burge will re- ys. He las had ho Sporting Bdi- the figuro five 1 claims that the he date is always head on a coin. OmANA, Oct. 27.—To the Sporting Editor ot TrE Bee: P nswer the following fn next nd 3 are plying high tive ), YZ48. Y 7 bid8 low last play. Sunday's B with X Z. Councit A 27.—To the Sporting Editor of T #lve me the ad- dress of 80! relinble 10 cock breeder and some English sotter dog fancier vl near Omaha or Council Bluffs.--A Constant Reader. Ans.—George Jewett, Omaha; dog fanciers too numerous to mention. L nanews b DeWitt's . ttle Ear safe pill, best pill. e SHE LOV:S THE GAME, Small pills Thrilling Career of Mrs. Ramsey, Known as “Buckskin Alice,” *‘Buckskin Alice” is not a very high- sounding appellation, nor is it exactly fitting the peculiar bit of femininity who bears it. The possossor of this unusual title, 8o suggestive of the frontierswoman, arrived in Denver re- cently and is now luxuriously enscoffeed in a handsome suite of apartments at the swellest of Denver's hostelries. Buck- skin Alice” is an appositive for Mrs, Alicoe Ramsey, which was applied to her by the miners of Leadville, when the City of the Clouds wus at its zenith of prosperity, on account of a suit of buckskin in which she nightly appeared, After learning of the exploits and achievements of *'Buckskin Alice” would expect to see & museular sort of an individual with gualities and man- ners befitting & woman who has had to deal with the roughest members of the male sex on the western bordors. othing could have been more erroneous - that the mental picture which I had painted of the noted female gambler. 1was most completely sur- prised at her entire personality. In- stead of the raw and uncultured speci- men of the female sex which [ had an- ticipated I found a wmodest and unassim- ing little woman; gentle to a marked degree, and rather refined in her in- stincts. Mrs. Ramsey is a trifle below medium stature and possesses a handsome figure. The head and face are distinguishing features, The head, on which grows a wealth of beautiful black hair, is nicely poised on & full, white neck, which is just & trifloshort, ' The face is entirely vegular in its formation, with big, brown eyes, with a soft, delicate oxpres- sion and & rich, creamy complexion. She is, withal, a woman of beauty and culti- vation. More is the wonder, then, the life she has lived. Alice is a confirmed gambler and has actuaily made & living—and a ood one, Loo—at this precavious calling or years. She is entirely free from the Qdisagreeable proclivities of the ordinary female of a sportive turn, To “‘Buck- skin Alice” such tendenclies are as re- pulsive as to any mother in the city. But she has an uncontrollable passion for risking hier eash on the tuan of the card, which ghe does with as much nerve and skill as the most accomplished male member of the fraternity, To her the merry chink of the chips as, they are deftly stacked on & nine spot of a faro layout, or are nervously fingered by the excited player, is sweoter music than the most delightful strains born of a 's magic touch or drawn forth by a Sousa's wondrous band, . Alice is mistress of almost every kin of game, but her chief source of pleas- ure is the festive draw, which vhe plays He thought he | b Dempsey when lie | HIS IS a genuine 20 per cent discount sale given off on every shoe you may se- We are bound to turn this stock into money. will be a cash sale, and no goods will be charged on our books at the discount G. W. COOK & SON, 202 and 205 South Fifteenth Street. This with the knowledge of the fine pointe of a Hoyle and the dash and spirit of a Billy Deutsch. This i.s Alice’s first visit to Denver in some time, and very naturally she looked up old friends and acquaintances whom she had known in_more exelting times. She hunted vp Bat Masterson, the king of western sports, and Colonel Jefforson R. Smith, with whom she has operated all over the Rocky mountains, Alice knew Bat in the bloodiest days of Dodge City before that noted man- killer had “completed his uubeaten record of twenty-tive killed, which, by the way, does not include “niggers” or 5. She speaks of those us among the most exciting times of her eventful carcer, and glibly recounts the tragio incidents in the ea history of that now almost forgotten Kansas town, . With Masterson she talked over old times. She recalled how Luke Short brought down the notorious Jim Court- wright, who was considered a *‘terror” by the entire country, in 1877 at Fort Worth, Tex. Short” was running the White Elepnant gambling house, where he was sought one evening by Courte ght, who had been held for the mur« of four strikers on the Mis. souri Pacific, but who had secured his release and come to kill Short. M'Come, Luke, let's make up and ba friends,” said Courtwright as he en- tored, atthe same time drawing his right hand from his hip pocket as though to shuke hands. When the hand appeared, however, it held 4 shin- ing 45, Quick as an electric shock Luke pulled his gun and fired. The ball took off Courtwright's right thumb and entered his side, while Short's would-be slayer shattered a neighboring window with his bullet. Luke then proceeded to fill his antagonist up on cold lead with deadly effect. Sho told Low Short, in '83, took possession of LDodge, and, with aband of cowboys, ran tho place to suit themselves in de finnce of the alleged ofticors of the law, and, in '8, while dealing Spanish Nonte up in Dakota, he killed two notorious desperadoes who had at- tempted to hold him up; how, while scouting during the Sioux war under General Cook, he killed five of a band of fifteenIndians who attacked him, and again in ‘81 sent to grass Charley Storms, a desperado with three to his credit, down at Tombstone; and in '01 was badly wounded by a man named Wright, who was himself shot before he escaped, at ort Worth—all this was vecalled by “Buckskin Alice,” who had witnessed the killing of Courtwright and was fully acquainted with the other incidents. ’?‘hun came the change which so com- plotely altered her life and misdirected the talents which doubtless would have brought distinetion to their possessor in a less ignoble calling, Alice was just 16 when she ran away from school and oined Cole's circus, appearing as & hurdle rider. Later she filled engage- ments with Orin Dros., Forepaugh's and Sells Bros.' shows, changing her voca: tion to that of a charioteor, Although but 31, her experiehces have probably been more variedeana oxciting than a score of ordinary women's lives rolled into one. She took up her new calling with & vim and paid little atien- tion to her surroundings. Many a for- tune has slipped through those soft, white digits of hers, and many aone has revorsed the course. A single sitting af faro has netted the daring gambler as high as 3,200, Alice’s gambling operations have not been confined to mining camps alone, Once she journeyed eastward and played in the big places of Kansas City, St Louis and Cincinnati, but, of course, always disguising her sex, which she Souiddo mith great success. Alice will probably remain in Denver afow days and then renew her endless journey through the cawps. pude ol Saa Aun ingenious instrument for automatically indicating the place of s fault ou under round conductors is bewx used Iu Berlin {n slarm is sounded at the central siation the moment & fault s developed. sud tbe location is indicated at the