Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 4, 1894, Page 16

16 et CHAT WITH THE BOXERS A Few of the Notables Met in the Laud of the Alligator, THE LOCAL HORSEMAN'S MEATY COLUMN Breezy Base Ball Gossip—A January Goose Hunt—Biffs with th 1 found the following poetic and eloquent ffusion upon my desk yesterday morning The author's name Is withheld to save him from ¢ s annoyance from musce mona- gers. The lines are entitld CORB , THE KING Within the prize ring hand to ha The n liators stund Two « And proud de Nor s toll John L. wglish Mitchell’s far ess from the ring t jut makes the welkin rbett! Co 15! ve been asked froquently shice o turn from Jacksonville what I think of Col bett now, and honestly and candidly I re ply that T think of him as I have always thought, that le I8 a mighty fighter, the greatest probably of all now prominently before the people. 1 h solitary line derogatory to Corl as a fightor, and never will ample and honest grounds fur Mitchell had 1o more show American champion than a one of the smelter's and I was one of the sporting _crities who went on he would not last over ten rounds, Jacksonville I placed a dollar or (wo that he wouldn't be there at the end of six. As to Corbett's foul tactics in the late snap, ever word that has been written is true, and they were a revelation to his lost of friends. That he lost his head, had abun. dant grounds for his action, may be true enough, still that is no excuse. He could have whipped Charlie Mitchell easily in six or seven rounds with either hand tied se- curely around his back, and he should have held himself above any move that would have laid him open to criticism. But what he did do cuts no figure now; nothing could have altered the result. As I said in my telegraphic story of the fight, he proved himself a resistiess physical tornado, and I now think he can whip any man in the busi- ness in the world, not excepting Peter Jack- son. In substanti fight, I kerew Whom sens hile wild ring, s ebility ul I have 50 00INg. wit, the flake in farnaces, very few record that and in ation of what T said of the th produce what P. J. Dona hue of the New York Recorder had to sa He s the best authority on the game on either side of the Atlantic and a friend and ;umnt‘h believer in the prowess of Jim Cor- ett, Mr. Donahue said: “Viewed critically it can only be said that it was a most disgrace- ful exhibition. The American champion lost his head in hls anxiety to annihilate his op- ponent, and the seconds of Mitchell were rattled from the start. Principals and sec- onds violated all rules of the ving, and so palpable were the fouls that I thought the cited mob would overstep the b.unds and carry all before them. Pandemonium reigned and there were yells of derision and threats of violence and, as I said before, it Is fortunate that the affair was over so quickly. The first time Mitchell was knocked down Corbett stood over him like a lion over its prey. His eyes blazed with anger, and his usually pale sallow face was livid. Ref- eree Kelly stepped between the men and prevented Corbett from committing a foul, The second time the Englishman was floored Jim stood over his prostrat® foe and, as the latter raised himself to one knee, Cor- bett struck him on the head. Jim had lost his self-control, and would have battered his helpless antagonist insensibllity had he not been restrained. A dozen men jumped into the ring and surronnded the big man. His seconds, Billy Delaney and Jack Dempsey, fought with him to prevent him striking Charlie again and again, and thus losing on a foul, while Fogarty ran across the ring and carried the almost in- animate form of the British bdxer to his corner. “The sceno was one I shall never forget. The spectators, wild with excitement, jumped to their feet und stamped and yelled until it seemed as if bedlam had broken loose. Men who are usually gool at such times wore greatly excited, dnd cxcitable men made wild threats. It appeared as it serl- ous trouble would result. The gong sounded, and in the minute allowed for rest the hubbub subsided somewhat and the crowd became less demonstrative.” to Corbett has changed man 80 many of us saw ago in New Orleans. The Corbett of that occasion and the Corbett who so quickly fanned Charlie Mitchell to sleep the other day are two entirely different individuals. On that September night in the Olympic arena he was a mere stripling to what he is now. hen he was a David to Goliath, but today he is a Colossus of Rhodes along- side of all living aspirants for fistic fame. A finished athlete, symmetrical as a medel in body and limb, of fabulous stréngth and marvelous quickness, and a fighter who throws a deep shadow over the world of Flstiana, vastly from the @ little over a year Already the press has begun to dehate on the coming Corbett and Jackson soiree. But the hope i that we may be spared the avalanche of rot which has been launched upon us during the past six months. That another big fight will be held in Jacksonvile is as improbable as the fear that Grover Cloveland will yet be made king of all the Americas, But few men who went down there a week ago will ever go again. The Do-'em-All club will ever more prove a bar- rier to tho sporty element to the flowery land of Ponce de Leon. They held-up, shook-down and maced overybody in sight, and are the exccration of all legitimate sportsmen today. They oven mulcted the newspaper men, the men who have been capping their game for nearly a year, §2 head (o see seven minutes fun, and fthen permitted outsiders at §2 apiece to crowd in and monopolize the seats set aside for them They charged $35 for box seats when there wasn't a box on the grounds, nothing but a Tot of rough eircus seats, many of them un- prote n with a shingle for a roof. They charged $35 for these imaginary luxu- ries, and $46 when they stuck an over-ripe sucker. And more and more yet, after they had burglarized all the foreign visitors in this outrageous manner, they ogened up their ticket office out on on the grounds and sold boxes, reserved and press seats for whatever they could get for them. Some paid $5, some pakl $250, and not a small number got in for §1. They proved them- selves a set of cheap shoo-strings, utterly and wholly devoid of honesty or principle, and as incapable of business as a hog is of manners. They got out their little billies when the first stranger struck the town, and they uever put them back again until the last guy had left the place. 1s it likely that such a mest of rats will ever again be allowed to enjoy the profits of legitimae sport NORTH PLATTE, Neb., Jan. 28.—To the Sporting Editor of The Bee: Your account of the late scrap was the most interesting, and doubtless,the most valuable, T have ever read. None of the accounts of the differ- ent reporters say that “Jim came up with a smile on his good-tempered mug,” as the editor of Bell's Life used to say of old Tom Sayers, On the contrary, his flerce little eyes and thin-lipped, cruel mouth must have been the opposite of an open countenance or *‘a good-natured mug." 1t is a curlous fact that all the old time English champlonship fights, from 1837 or 1 , when Deaf Burke butted Hendigo on the ropes down to the very debatable contest between Harry Broome aud the Tipton Slasher (1851), we won and lost by a foul. Corbett made a narrow escape of losing his champlonship in the same way. Ring history proves that pugilists who with Increasing years wax fat and corpulent invariably leave off Nothing 18 more upsportsmanlike or contemptibl than for a pugllist to attribute his defeat to pol son, By the way, what is the object of modern pugilists or their handlers putting such ogreglous lies in the papers about thelr measurements of body and limbs, wolghts, etc? dark and light-lined sketeh of Corbett and Mitchell has been ! represonts “Slim Jim" and Mitchell to shown with @ pair of shoulders sald monsure two feet four across and Corbett's two feet. ~ John L. had the most massive frame of all the pugilists of the present time and his shoulders naked from point to point, before he met Corbett, measurcd two Inches 1t Mitchell measured six fnches broader than Sulllvan and four inches more than Corbett he must have had a coat on with artificially squared shoulders composed of buckram and padding. Cor- bett's calyes in one table are 17 inches and in another 14%. Which are wo to belleve? It that double dark and white-lined sketch of Jim and Charlie is correct, Corbett, al- though nearly a head ta must have looked a perfect lath in comparison. A re- porter said he was present when Mitchell welghed, stripped, after exercising, 1 pounds, and that could be relied on as cor- rect, Most of the papers stated that he would enter the ring at 175 or 180 pounds Muchell’s chest measurement was given as an inch and a half more than John L.'s. The latter said Mitehell had much increased in welght since he fought him in France in 188, and that his fighting welght would now be from 197 to 203 pounds! *Poor little fit- teen-stone baby Mitchell,” quoth old Jack. “The ecrushed tragedlan’” sald le had said hard things about Mitchell, and think any worse of him for retaliating, and said he was no coward. Sully said James J. came into his room at 'Frisco and begged of him not to hit him hard, *T swear it James J. said Sullivan was a man he ad- mired, and that his heart warmed to his Irish, ete. Old Jack seemed to prefer Mitchell's peppery remarks to James J slobbers, He probably thought Charlie's were more sincere, and Jim's came from the pen of his mentor, Brady, for advertis- ing purposes. Modern Queensberry rules contests seem to be all in one extreme or the opposite in regard to the number of rounds, Peter Jackson and Jim Corbett, “The Buffalo” and Greggalns-were most pro- longed tedious affairs. On the other hand many expected long scientific contests be- tween the great guns have been disappoint- ments which have been all over in a few rounds, and not worth the price of admis- slon. K OF Here is a starter: TACOMA, Feb, 3.—Barney Levy, well known in Tacoma, las started a movement to organize the Washington Athletic club, for the purpose of having the battle be- tween Jim Corbett and Peter Jackson take place in this city next June. Mr. Levy is enthusiastic over the scheme, and is con- fident that it ean be successfully carricd out He proposed that the club offer a purse of $40,000, or some sum that will induce the fightors to come here. He says there are cnough sporting men In the city, in Cali- fornia, Oregon, Idaho and Montana, to in- sure success. There areenough miners in Montana alone who would come here to see the battle to insure the financial suceess of the scheme. Sporting men who have been talked with in regard to the matter speak favorably of it. I met Tommy Ryan at the Windsor on the morning of the fight. He was togged up in great style, with light derby, English box- coat, creased trousers and proper stick, and ‘physlcally looked out of sight. Tommy has broadened in cvery way since he left Omaha, and weighs, walking around, 179 pounds. He was a Corbett man, but con- sidered Mitchell tricky enougl to stay twelve or fiteen rounds. In speaking of Mysterious Billy Smith, Ryan grew extremely Vivacious, and declared that a finish fight would be a gift. “Punched him so hard in our last £o,"continued Tommy, “that 1 am afraid he will never consent to meet me to afin- ish. It he does, he will have to be bully- ragged into it, and I want all my newspaper friends to help me out. All they have got to do is to publish what I say, and I think Smith s a cheap fighter and that I can lick him sure, without getting a bloody nose. It maybe, however, that 1 will be compelled to slap his face in public to spur him up to the fighting point. He is a hot headed duck, and a personal affront of this kind would likely make him fight. But if we ever do meet, Sandy, don't you fail to put a lit- tle dough on me.” Tommy is dead stuck on his New England home, and said that out- side of Omaha he would rather live there than any place in the world. 1 met still another old Omaha celebrity at the fight, in the guise of no less a person- age than Jack Prince, the bicycle champion. Like Ryan, he also seemed to be belly-deep in clover. He wore an English suit of drab, with a vest as full of color as Joseph's coat, patent leather gaiters and a dinmond stud nearly as big as a tin cup. Although a fellow countryman of Mitchells, he had expense money on the American champion, and, when I met him, was feeling particu- larly hilarious, as le had just closed a con- tract with M. Lelande of the Los Amerl- canos, Havana, to ride against a relay of horses after the bull fight on the coming Sunday afternoon in that famous eity. Jack sailed via the Lelande excursion, Tampa, Key West and Havana, Friday after- noon, leaving Mrs. Prince in Jacksonville, the guest of a daughter of onc of the big hotcls. He expects to make a tour of the principal West Indian cities ere his return to the United States and will be in Omaha about June 1. There were still a couple of more ex- Omahans 1 met, in fact, traveled with them from Evansyille to Jax. First of these was Big Marks Gumbert, who has the street cleaning and sweeping contract for Evans- ville, and is getting rich hand over fist, and mext Mark Stafford, a genial sport, who a few years ago waxed fat and oleaginous off the members of the Nebraska legislature down at Lincoln in that ancient and time- lonored divertisement called poker. Johnny Regan was also with the gang and an agree- able trio they made. They had a basket of Clicquot with them, a bale of Perfectos, a marked deck of pasteboards and were as lavish with their effects as so many Coal Oil Johnnics. T haven't got time to tell of tho game of whist we had in which each man ot the biggest poker hand, but it will make good reading in the time o come, The disgraceful scenes that wera cnacted at the Florida metropolis were in sad con- trast with those that wero unfolded by the model clubs at New Orleans. The Do-em- Al club was a fake and dead-beat concern from its very incipiency. Neither Manager Bowden or President Mason possesses the brain of an ordinary jackass. Bowden has a head like a tack, is humpbacked and as repulsive in form and feature as the Satyr. Mason is a sycophantic, puffed up little Eng- lishman, mercenary as a miser and as de- void of principle as a bunco-steerer, They are both bluffs on manhood and cannot here- after, in the sporting world, take rank even with' the shoe-strings or tin-horns, They knew that with this fight their connection with sporting affairs would forever' be at an end, so they went to work systematically and romorselessly to gut every man in In speaking of these people in the York Recorder Peter Donahue said talk about future fights and the purses they will give. Let mc give them a tip. Bowden, Mason and company have as much chance to give a fight in sonville as I have. on, what sportsmen recognize, as the “bum.” Bowden may be a great man in Duval county, but he figures as a dummy with sport lovers; Mason comes under the head of a monkey, As for the rest of the outfit, they do not know that ice is frozen water. They place their hooks and then go to sleep. Highway robbery would be a mild term to give the form of thievery visitors to Jack- sonville were forced to undergo. If you had money you were held up, and if you had no money, you were held on suspicion. Every- body was on the “get the coin” order, and when they fell out, and could not find “suckers’to rob, they robbed between them- selves. It was a most delectable assem- blage of thieves, and to me it seemed as if the contents of all state prisons had been sont upon Bay, Hogan and Main streets. Every man who ever turned crooked stone, or walloped a leather or dipped Into a pocket or put powder into a safe, was there, and the only wonder to me was that the bank escaped. 1 do not know anything about it, but it seems to me that the Florida bank and a few other institutions were lucky in escap- ing. 1 would bo with the governor today it he made another attempt to prevent fight ing in the Peninsula state. He was right from the start, for he knew his men. That the governor was right in placing the militla there was made manifest within twenty-four hours. He knew that the men who would charge 385 for §25 tickets we not the kidney to take an event of the kind on their hands. He is a game sport, but §oing the rounds of the press, where Corbett l an honest one, and bhe sized Bowden and | untruthful Mason, and he knew that twenty- | he did not | Mason and company up in the same style he would as if acting as chief justice of the circuit court, He knew the shriveled-up and unreliable Bowden and the blatant and Brow- ard, the sheriff, would be thrown down, and he put in the cigarette-smoking militia. To the newspaper men Bowden and Mason never told the truth and, when they agreed to make the hard-workers of the press pay in order to give the news to the patrons of the game, they sounded the death knell of the Duval Athletic club, It may not mean much to either man, but it means some- | thing to sycophantic Joe Vendig, who was a | party to the scheme, and who had not the nerve to protect the party of the north, Jc or, as he is better known, “‘Circular Joe, was a big stockholder, representing Mike Dwyer, and he tried to hide himself behind the actfons of the others, but I may as well tell him now that it don't go. He may find some people who will pet him because of his connections, but he will soon find himself down at his level, SANDY GRISWOLD, Hunt. of The weather A January the Sporting exceptionally has prevailed this winter up to a recent date has caused the ducks and geese to linger in the northern latitudes much beyond their: wonted time, and in some sections have afforded exc tionally fine shooting. This is particularly true along the Mississippl river,, where goose shooting, as a rule, Is a decidedly slim pas- time. During a visit last week to Burling- ton, Ia., the writer accompanied several local gunners on a trip for the wary honkers and succeeded in bringing two of them-—a Hutchins and a Canada—to bag. The shoot- ing is all done at the alr holes on the river, which are sufficiently large and numerous to induce the birds to remain in the country. No such bags of geese are made now, or at_any time, in the. Mississippi valley as fall to the lot of the gunners along the Platte, but they are sufficiently plentiful to reward the enthusiastic gunnen for his trouble. Shooting geese |s always attended with a large measure of persoi discomfort, and none but the enthusiast is liable to extract enough pleasure from it to repay for the hardships, As the writer sat in the blind that morning with the keen north wind, as it swept down the Father of Waters, pl ing a lively game with his hirsute append- le was forcibly reminded of “What these mortals be.” But it was worth all to see the royal birds double up and come down “ker plunk on the ice. T sportsmen along the river are mak- ing the most of their present opportunity, which comes to them but rarely C. J. BEST. Bee that To The Editor fine atters. and About W There is an_increasing de pacer as a road horse. 3 Only one addition was made to the list last year—Flying Jib, 2:04. The Keystone farm is issuing its first an- nual catalogue. It will be out in the next ten days and is a very complete affair. Kansas has three kite tracks, one at Hol- ton, one at Ellsworth and the third at Rus- sell. A meeting of the Improved Stock Breeders will be held at Columbus, Neb., February 20-22. There trotting in 1892, There or better. added in 1893, The 2:30 list now numbers over 10,000 performers, over 2,000 of these having been added during 189% = During the campaign of 1893 over 20,000 horses were raced, and of these over 2,000 entered the 2:30 list. The Lucas county fair will be held Sep- tember 18 to 21. The secretary is W. M. Householder, Chariton, Ta. Dr. D. C. Everson, Cawker City, Kan., has purchased the stallion Borden, 2:24%, by Cuy- ler, dam Silence, by Abdallah XV. Eight stallions now have trotting records below 2:10. All of them have secured their records n the past two years. Race meetings the coming season will be patronized more liberally than last. There will be no World’s fair to divide attention. Thirty-four pacers and twenty-three trot- ters have records of 2:10 or better. Twenty- seven of these, or almost half, are products of the west. Rosewater, the big roan stalion that last spring took the record at Omaha of 2:16%, will be in Driver Chase's string this season. He will be worked on the mile track at St. Joseph. The Hedrick, for the 2:05 were eleven newcomers to the 2:10 list in 1893 as against five new ones are 183 trotters with records of Sixty-seven of these we Track _associa- tion will hold a July meeting. The usual liberal purses will be oftered. A special prize will be offered for a reduction of the track record of 2:15%. * Ben Marshall, a full brother to Mary Mar- shall and May Marshall, will be in the year-old pacing *classes this year. If he can do as well as his s isters there will be no trouble whenever he starts. At the close of the year 1892 there were but two horses with trotting records below 2:08. Now there are six: Nancy Hanks, 2:04; Directum, 2:05%; Stamboul, 2:07%; Alix, 2:07%; Arion, 2:07%; Kremlin, 2:07%. Orrin Hickok will drive the Russian stal- lion, Krakus, in his races on the American turf this year. Secretaries will have to re- cord his breeding as follows: Krakus, by Bezimmy-anny-Arfin, dam Tishina, by Kri- voduskin. Only two horses have éver beaten 2:05 in a race—Mascott, 2:04, and Flying Jib, 2:04%. Only four horses have ever beaten 2:05 a race or against time—Nancy Hanks, Mascott, 2:04, Flying Jib, 2:04, -and Pointer, 2:04%. R. Boyleston Hall,who is still balancing (?) horses, has done some of the most wretched work, on western horses that the writer ever saw. If all his work is alike it is good advice to always let him practice on some one else’s horses. Twenty-five of the representative citizens of Independenc , have organized an as- soclation for the purpose of perpetuating the meetings started by Charley Williams. In- dependence, however, will never become a ra horse town again. Fred Carmen of Tarkio, Mo, string of campaigners for the coming season the fast pacer Northwest, 2:15, by Egmont. Northwest will be put to trotting this sca- 5 In the same stable is Billy Bunker, and Charles H,, 2:26%. but five race t Ta., Kite has in his There are ica where the ks in_ Amer- 2:05 mark has been beaten. They are Chicago, Terre Haute, Detroit, Nashville and. Sedalla. Only one of these, Sedalia, I8 Kite shaped, and it holds the slow- est record of the five, 2:04%. There is a constant demand for horses that are well bred, handsome, siylisn, good cotor, kind disposition, fearless and that can draw two in a wagon at the raw or a mile In 2:50 or thereabouts. Sucn u wurse' is worth today from $300 to $1,000. Cyclone, by Caliban, was one ur the atest sites of extreme speed that ever He was. taken with lockjaw and died weeks ago. Ho was the sire of Dr. 2:1214; Gillette, 2:11%; Ci and twelve others in the Pansy MeGregor, the yearling that holds the world’s trotting record, is reported to have a “dickey' leg. 1f she has, however, sho must have got it within the past few Jks, as the writer saw ber less than six weeks ago and she was as sound as a newly minted dollar, Driver Join Kelly has opened a public stable and will have Directum in his string the coming season. He writes that he ex- pects the little black stallfon to go very close to the 2:00 mark this season. Mr. Kelly will race his stable through the east and middle west, Trainer Daugherty of Leon, Ta., writes that Jowa’s famous pacer, Blue Sign, 2:081;, s being worked every nice day, and that he has fully recovered from the injury he sustaine a in the great free-for-all pace at Fleetwood Park, N. Y. last fall. Mr.Daugherty thinks that Blue Sign will beat 2:05 this year. Since a son of Robert MeGregor, owned Kansas, is the sire of the champion yearling, that blood is in demand in t ulist-ridden state, and Tulloch & W expecting to profit by the boom have re purchased and taken to Topeka the stallion McInez, by Robert McGregor, dam Inez, by Sweepstalkes. A. Cole of Creston, la, ern representative of the cago, I8 complling a directory breeders who campaign thelr B lived. two in who Is the west Horseman, Chi of western horses. The & thousaud diretory Wil contaln over THE OMAHA DAILY REE SUNDAY, FEBRUARY Continental C THE WESTERN 1, 1894--SIXTEEN PAGES, lothing House Another Great Gash Parehase Gonstmmate THOS. T. ECKERT, Ceneral Msnager. NUMBER _£35 () Rl AR UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY, NORVIN GREEN, President. CHECK 41 RECEIV 3,000 Mens’ Fine Double Breasted Sack Suits, bought from Michael Stern & Co, and M. Sampter & Co. for 50c on the dollar of the manufacturers’ actual cost. ON SALE A1lL Tuis There are twenty-two styles of fabric. The cheapest suitin the lot would retail ordi- narily for $20.00, and the bztter grades $25.00. OMAHA, Feb. 1, 1894.—This sale demands the attention of every buyer of fine clothinz in Omaha. CARD. retail these goods at will not cover the cost of the cloth and trimmings. FREELAND--LOOMIS CO. — names will b a great and will be the first one printed. Tt assistance to associa- tions ahd others, The Mo., This farm ow Shawmut, by Red Wilkes. inbred much sought after and highly pri; is arranging to move to Creston, Red Cross Stock farm of Stewartsville, Ta. ns Red Shawmut, 2:25%, by dam Kate Mitchell, 2:28%, This horse is an intensely a cross that is ed. Clay-Hamiltonian, Up to the present time the weather in the west has been magnificent and there has hardly been a day that horses could not be worked on the track or road. nearly As a result, all the western campaigners are in fine condition and, if the weather continues as it has, there will be some fast work by the open A the The urging the adoption of the bill. As predicted Fullager, the good Illinois trainer, who wa last se with the Keystone faj son, Fu lorses Hawi ment Last year the Hawarden a of the The_ a: track and at its first meeting the track got record a horse, Larr Bost anz Slou to hang fall. Danny Wilkesbarre, ond. Th age the good one. Ned danger Spring Rus velt are They « Brooklyn is trying to unload Lovett. would course Ma signed to Pit Savannah capitalists have purchased the Southern by Jimmy Manning. Martin J. said to be full ™ mineral water. Tim has just Heo has a mark of .334 with the stick. Big Chicago. the grass to spring up under Indianapoliy Gayle, smash two y Jimmy Cana treight car full this winter, and handball playing. Aftel Smith, will b all sig The Nichols They the s Sout for a rule which will prevent the big leagues from them, Wi Kentucky legi vent associ The bill requires that any vertising a race meeting shall give a good sufficient amount of money proposed to be raced ager is a f will have some of the best bred and fastest ry Twitehell will wield his little club for the Colonels again this year. ell, Me . McClosky rously 5, Ark estern contingent when the season be introduced in ature which will pre- tions from defrauding horsemen. association ad- and full for. are bill is to bond to the state for the best associations of Kentucky in last Sunday's Bee, Ab. son with M.I3. McHenry, has engaged n for the coming sea- It is hardly necessary to add that Mr. st-class driver and that he in America in his stable, arden, Ta., is out with its announce- for a meeting to be held July 3-6. sociation held one most successful meetings in the west. sociation has a new regulation mile of 2:11, held Ontonian, 2:07Y Midwinter Lunch for the Fans. by the Nebraska catehers for next season will be ritt, Ryan and Connaughton. has alrcady selected a_place the championship ‘“rag” next City up X Shannon has caught on with Ho will manage and play sec- will play first and man- Lincoln team this year. He is a Williamson, late of the Chicagos, is ill. He is at present at Hot e, German, “Dad” Clarke and Wester- Jew York's “sure thing" pitchers. an't lose. He make @ good man for Omaha, of he would. nager Cushman T. C. Willlams cher Cobbi of and Milwauliee waived has claim league franchise formerly owned In is new catcher He oallared a Waukeshas. has Lee of the 80 Donahue of the New England league been lassoed by Jimmy Manning. Sam Dungan has already reported at ammy doesn’t intend to allow his No. 9's. landed Pitcher Bobby whom the Omahas hits one June day has the youth od for twenty-six ars ago. n hasn't made more than a coln out of his polo snap pas given it up and gone to old tring' They separation o and the spring. roten Billy reunited ned with Hoston people are squealing about Kid pitching much on the coast he will report at Beantown in with a lame fin league magnates years Kue in fear ing hern clamorous are from wa players taking all thelr good cuit They clalm that their cl ruined last year by the depredations commit- ted by the league.—Ren Mulford. Kansas City is quite jubilant base ball prospects. Manning is gether quite an array of talent. The Bostons made more runs t delphia made 9588 and Cleveland 9 York led in stolen bases with 313. Robert Martin and purchased an interest Baseball club. These in two the Thomas Burns over han 144, John S. Barnes now control the club. St. Jacob Beckley has gone to Hot Springs to boil out all the little measley strikes and wants to runs and him. He of home wedk hits that are in land at Pittsburg full beeswax. Home Run Breckenridge refuses to yield Campau. Orleans the Missis- of Count v in New on to the blandishments He says he wouldn't pla for the biggest steamboat sippi. 20 N. Williamson, the days of the Chicago White prominence, is dangerously Springs. il Times-Star. at ease.—Cincinnati I met Ted Sullivan to be a moneymaker. He sent to “Stub” Bandel, Ru Harry Saulisbury and said in on us-in the spring. Ted will the Atlanta team this year. Frank Selee in a personal letter to George of Charley ““There is no gainsaying the fact that we have been greatly weakened by the our loss, r, but as a man, will be heartily to the the old war horse was without a superior in his line and that it will take a long time before we can get one or two men to jump in and He was not only and of emaker Munson thus bewails the loss Bennett: has befa Bennett, fearful misfortune that great catche not only as a pl severely felt in our and sincerely regret diamond, I am frank ranks, and I to confe: done. gentlemanly n do the work he b one of the mos off the diamond, but he had a very effectually acting as a p when any little disturbance arose. Jacksonville, lie said the new Western association ought his regards McKelvey he would drop manage that he s lost the old short stop in Stockings’ Hot He has grown to be a mammoth and is ailing with some sort of liver dis- at ulen His that on ulty Billy Rourke Will Manage Omaha. Billy Rourke, who wa in 1857, and manage the Gate City team v here, and his return no little pleasure, old patrons lailed with he will hav blue birds begin to chirp. Rourke was born in Columbus, O., in Au- gust, 1864, and made his professional debut on sville, that state, in 1885, rs as Larry Twitchell, the diamond at Zane along with such play with the Omahas as been signed to play third base ar. Ho is well and favorably known to all the be has alveady began hustling for a team, and snys a corker in line by the time the his y will He Nick Huandibo, Carl MeVey and Curt Welch. s with Duluth, npionship of In 1886 he v ning the ¢ league. He pl 15, when he returned to Duluth captained the Lima team in the Jeague. and won the pennant. He the Island Neb, Grand Island, the Grand tion with company, Lean and i*h the Ft. Worth, Tex., Texas league was short-lived of that yoar he went to Ce in the Two-Eyed league, and his tew the scason in secoud place. managed the Grand Island State team, but last season old trade. Billy Rourke is a rattiing good ball player b has and o gentleman, and the Omaha made & wise selection 1o nim for th manager, pestions and Answe Jan. 25.~To the Spor Hest Paper. West of Chic a bet please state in Sunds time they go by In Jack: tral or Eastern time?=F. SLOA tor ¢ decide what Fla., ¢ ley Ans, ALMA, , Ia. ral Neb, Jan, #.—To the that club Northwest ved in Omaha in 1857 till July in 1888 he I'ri-State then re- solved to quit base ball, and accepted a posi- Canning In 1500 went back to the national game, playing The In n. fn June Rapids, Ia., m ended 2 oir tea ting Edi ago; ay's 1 sonville, H. Far Sporting her scouring the east for young blood, and is getting to- any club last season, scoring 1,003 times. Phila- New have, Minneapolis gentlemen and and and win: he League was engaged at bis Bditor of the Bee: sented tion ague sporting page. A OMAHA, Jan. 28 tor of the 1 this year? ns. Je Bee and whether he ever fought with Charley Mitchell? Ans. it W ing Editor of the pute pl in the sporting dey Sulliv the mc 1. OMAHA, Jan tor of the Bee: kindly Sunda 1 t ring, dic AL elbow or Kindly d pap Ans. Aodging. little I Ans. with W SOUTH OMAHA, ing Iditor of the i you Jackson and in the tern Base and, stant re . Fever, Lincoln, (1) Omaha, se, Rock 1s 3 (2) Y ukee, Mini The fabrics are the finest and the workmanship the very best. flfl AND $ l z g U Worth $20 and $25, Th What cities are repre- Ball ass there to be a xt ader’ Des ind-Moline,Quincy, KK ey neapoli M id Rapids, Toledo and Indidnapo- lee: Ples where Denver Id Robert Hicks, () state in the query Birmingham, Bngland. To the Sporting e state in Smith was the Sporting To decide a was: colu n of unday’s born, @ He Bdi- e will you the | 1y Bee the dimensions of the ring in )" Sullivan co, and gry .—Twenty IUYLER, N and Mitche tly oblige? ur feet squ eb., Jan, 2 Hee: n-Corbett fight dodging and running Sullivan or Corbett H, M. West, an didn't do an; couldn W He tt hit ubscriber. around 1 claim Corbett Champlon tprinting, considerable dodging and all the fighting. OMAHA 2 of the I Mitehell re fought Fenquag. lin ‘To the Sport- To decide a e answer the following cuestion rtment of the He did in hich y dis- In the th running or Jim dia To_the Sporting Editor ou kindly decide a bet: with his B bets that he did not. > this bet in your next Sunday’s “He knocked him down the first time a blow across the an, the wk 1, rrect a Slavin colump: jand and the number of roun: bets the fight did rounds Ans SUTTON, BEditor of the e to let me billiard last fall? Moore, Mitchell’ last great fight, A ot last thr it did. Please stat A and B, Ten rounds, Ncb., eb. 1 Will ‘you what the sco between Ives Know pame Mitehell or C (). Cant give you without looking up the files, bet at all Editor of the T in your Sur OMAHA, Jar of day Ll th l An Now ing the 8 1 knock down An he t round; the other party 8. went out OMAHA, Jun. of the wag oo smart Ta., Jan, 20, Will you § ue how NCOF ay i m draw? May Constant Reader 20, Iide: Plea Bee Dempey t in their fight at New dndly paper,if any, Mr. ) 48 regulal correspond ibscriber, 103 . City. ) York TON, 1 tor of the e unday Bee how many t Sullivan down in i} is made to dectde 8 that Corbett knocke the fourth round, and Jack, 1 W. M. Ward Sullivan wasn't kn the twenty-firs To the Sp: P L Will Can yon let me know father-in-law, @) in South denie so state In next with his 0 the Sport- Swer fight in 3/Tough u state in to the 120 t? A * rounds and number ot To_the Sporting £0 Kind was in th and R how bet L act orl next s nmy m the He didn't To the Sportin answe long g0 was it ‘orbett und Peter Jackson fought Pitzsimmons’ Orleans; M @ im, Y3 th t round ortin Ttee whether Corbett and Juckson fol draw [ glv WM An fought the refer ing Kind as to tell me whether 18, (color porting test mile on skates? ur next Sun LINCOLN tor part of y having forty-six points bid play lrevenbeck, 1 Neb. In, Al lifornin to seltlc decisi in the ¢ f5co, or not, the referee’ After sixty-one decided no Jan. 25 INWOOD, Ta 2 Bee: Woul itor of the whipped or atly oblige n in Sidi Neb., of the 1) was ever you will gt By Bob I CREEIK, fditor A R 142 To the playing il the game. y | minute Jun Three the In has forty-six fifty-two being points, while the party high and % uth The side having Afty Athletic b wins? club, bet; th I B rounds had contest To t 1 you ¥ oy, 2. —~To What Itender conds. oth ) kht o belng i1 Btreet, points, Iy Rox_ Ha N. B. W. 18 ) decide o bet in also mick and hirteenth The To the Sport- Please state throu 8 Corl T first ked down until 1itor naay' € Han (e and been © Sport ks th th with WEEK. e prices we offer to high and low In their High and low alw WOOD RIVER, Sporting Bditor of bet will you kindly swering the foll livan and his nds goes out first, counts out first. Neb., Jan. To the the Hee: To decide a write a letter to me ving question: Did Sul- give Mitchell and his Al W through p ou whatever John M. Brett, s.—No questions did. CHADRON, Neb, Bditor of the | your trouble answered by mail, Jan. 21, the Sporta y Please decide the following bed A b B that Corbett will w the fight; during the conversation B claims that if Corbett don’t whip AMitchell it 15 a draw: A loses the moncy. Please answer in s Tice, does the money, £ with rel n7—Rounds Ans.—(1) have made the bet a K8, Ta., Jan. 25.—To the the | A'bets B that ay Corbett 1l whip clared r in Sun- ~Under. the have been adraw RED OAK, la, Jan Bditor of the Hed circumstances it would 25.—To the Sporting Plense state In next Sunday tiie Bee of what descent is Ch Is he a nuturalized American now or not?—Harry A. Clements. Ans.—(1) Engl N. FATRBURY, . Rditor of the Bee: Settle a dispy you please let us know by Sunday's Dee What time is used In Jackso ntral or Baster it different frg in Omaha i Ans.—C me s COLUMBI Jun, 27 ing laditor of the Game, of cribby four playing 2 plays 4, tak two points; kes SIX points; D v 3, takes two points; A plays 2, tukes B plays b four c wys 6, takos nothing: D plays 6, run of six polnts How Is it?—J. Ans.-Correct AHA, J To the Sporting A n. 2%.—To the of (he Bee: Wil you able paper Sunday” mornin the colored pugilist, has v If g0, “where, what' date Subscriber Ans.—He has ne OMAHA, Jan, 2. -To the Sporting of the Hee: To decide a bet please S i your next Sunday's issue if, In playing high five, the biddcr is pelled to lead trumps?-H. L. Ans, PO Sporting Iditor het nswer Did nd 3 Jacoh Korth. itor vilus Dixon, ated -A Sporting I nswer in vour nether v heen 1 by whe 1dito To To decide Sunday's 1 ver have tho ) a in next Jackson MON of the t's fath reply Bee and g A In Trel IPRIEMON'T, tor of the T Ploiisc tec: What fs the he wheel? Thanking main.—Fred Ans.—Itond recc LINCOLN, Jan tor of the' Hec questions to decid Nigh five (1) Can trump? Can carded trump and dealer the vight tc () 1f both sides ¢ which wing?—Earnest Ang.—(1) Yes, but @ B @ No. K0 out at the same and make high SUPERIOR, ing Editor of the the Sporting was Champlon in what year? columns of the A BB Reader, don’t know what year. To the Sporting I answer in Jun, 26, Bee: Wher born, and ugh' the wtly oblig 1ditor Corbe T the Sporting Please answer these a wager: In doubl o player discard an player pick out a digs play (17 (@) Has the Jok at the bottom card? out at the same time, Themalin not a natural (1 How can It I am Idis point th na To the Sport Hoe: 1n a game of seven- up A runs the cards; they run diamonds three times, leaying of course but one card; has not A the vight to turn that card withs out congent of his opponent in the ? Pleage answer, in Sunday's Bee. Mitehell Ans.—He OMAHA, | of the Beé in the Sunday royal flush | that a royal flush claims that If four flush can be held, b only be held wiih | the joker a lega) « tute an_ace In holding a cldms It cu N eliim 3 Henderson orth Seventeenth Strect Ans.—(DAce, King, queen, Jack and Ifu‘ any suit. Any stralght flish beats four Four aces and o royal flush cannot | be held at the same time ) The joker 15 not a legal card, but if playing stralghta could be substituled for an ace. A game? 30 Wa has not b, 1.-To the Sporting Editow To decide bet please State Boe: What constitutes a gume of poker? H cluima beats four aces, and N aces out no royal cause a royal flush can ree n 17 (2) 1 can it subst oyal flush? 1t can't?— W