Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 11, 1894, Page 16

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1894--SIXTEEN PAGES N r v 3 | does not most always strike twice In the | geographical situation of the citles embraced | second dam the dam of Ontonian, 2:07%, there is In it {8 about all there is to the | couldn’t have done a nicer thing than by | There s a gei ood feell thes have got to say is pitch in Edward and make | president, secretary and treasurer are all | the west. verything now points to more FRO A Move to Get the Corbett-Jackson Fight | the most of it, and if the gang wants to | located there, and every team in the organi- | prosperous times, and that tha.time Is not know where you smoke {nvite them to call | zatfon is made up almost wholly of old | g “qictant wher m 5 for Omaha, ‘round to the Champlon's Rest, 1362 Larimer yrkopolis castofts and native players. That | rar, ISt & ljv;. there will again be a stroet, opposite tho city hall, Denver, and | a majority of the umpires will also come | [0 Ml for wollibred trottora ang pacers Join 'em in a pipe. from the Queen City is a good two to one | - R o AL M M o SR ] picking up all over the west. Numerous WHISPERINGS OF THE WHIRLING WHEEL | Among the host of thoroughbreds T met at | Ban sonmsen’ 1n voinm. t atlow ny. Cine | Sles at good figures. have been made in the At this price you will The most successful “Profits Jacksonville I forgot to mention HEugene | cinnati man to escape. ki L i 'le repre s Talbot. He's from Ottumwa, Ta., and is T s Walter McHenry of Des Molnes has re- find every style repre- less shoe sale” ever held in Interesting Western Turf Matters—Among | all right. He was for Corbett and had th What a Taxpayer Says. cently purchased Patronage Jr., a grandly sented. Otival nerve fo'put 8300 to win £0, and e let th OMAHA, Feb. 10.—8. V. G.- Griswold, | bred son of Patronage and Adinda. This o bulk of it go that night for flzz at the | goooi . Mo is magnificent bree as Patronage is the T R Sy T I ing Breezes from the Ball Field and verett bar. porting Biitor of The Bee: The coming | . J1ef"A 1S w?\:':m Adinds 18 Dy Attor- a General Sporting Compendiu s S e— . 4 contest between James J. Corbett and Peter sire: of the dwm of Alix.. Mr, Mo Willle Green™ of the St. Louls Star 8ay- | Jackson, concerning which there is now con- | Henry has also purchased Hermagic, by 5, ins, like u few others that might be men: | iderable in the columns of the press, has | Herschel, dam by Hermes, another rovaily Insido of three weeks Dick Moore and Dan | ad “avh.” 1t 1 unfortunate for the sport | ¢t me to thinking whether it would be g:;x!fl‘f":"“‘\‘\";” This C certainly starting the Creedon are to fight to a finish somewhere | that the battle should have been fought | WOrth while to try and get the big fight for \\*mu..‘ ¥ 1‘("‘" right iz i f in Boston, and I might add that inside of | under rough-and-tumble rules, but in it | Omaha. Those of our citizens with whom I | o o H:""' ",““jw':“"lrl»"“*“:(:":"'“"'.w‘l'):l5;"‘\': three weeks the probabitities are that Dick | Corbett demonstrated to the satisfuction of | have talked concerning this have shown | the colt classes thia. year: that -will_ attrace Moore will receive a thorough licking. Cree- | ;Lm0 o0 o' WhHE it ftehell ae | Breat enthusiasm, and all seem to be | some attention, These gentlemen ha don I8 the big, broad-shouldered, bulky PUg | Sullivan went at Paddy Ryan when the only of the opinfon that it a few n@\'v‘r done much in the way of developing who claims the middleweight champtonship | John L. was in his prime, and Corbett did | Kood men will take hold earnestly, it can be | {Heit JOUBRSters "'["l \pts "”1“}'” "‘".””"'; of Australia, but of course unjustly, for that | Mitchell with the gloves about a minute | made a success. If clubs would be formed | 1 thoy l;n\’o'll";\.:‘l‘“?,\::;(‘:-“lml b ey L title belongs to one Robert Fitzsimmons in- quicker than it took Sullivan to defeat | 1o consist of our moneyed and business men, | that the public will advertise their horses ko Ryan with the raw ‘uns. Mitchell simply | committees would be appointed to interview 8 disputably. That he is an extra good man X e 4 pp i for them it is to be hoped they will be suc- y was not in it. He was out-classed. He | officials of steam and street rallways. The | cessful in his class, however, goes without Saying. | would not stand a ghost of a show with | number of visitors the event would attract 3 Ho defeated Alex Greggains, once the pride | Corbett at any stago. He disappointed | ought to be very great, and as the rall- | ger or moinonitatively announced that the of the coast, without turning a hair, and for | everybody and did not come up to what had | ronds would derive @ great amount of extra | s heretotoree st o "Nt won e (e the past several months has been the spar- | been predicted of him by his admire passenger traffic, they should respond | est of lving sires. as numt bt t , ; He was the quickest and worst whipped | jiherally. The street railways also come in i S1ro¥; U8 numbery §o, but 1A ring partner of Jim Corbett. That he has | ;0 B0, (0 GOTTE Mo @ ring, and 18 & | for (hele shire, Th conea b amso coma in | from it as the race records and winnings of smproved by his assoclation with the cham- | jiving eyidence of the fact that James J. | the Collseum, which would be right on the | L% broduce go. The second generation of N e room for doubt, and | Cork as g ey o of ‘love ine: b ght on the | the Nutwoods is lots better than the first plon th is but little room for doul yrbett has got beyond the sts cable line, and easily reached from any & outside of Fitzsimmons I do not believe | taps' and knows how to deliver a knockout | depot or hotel In the eity. Committees At all events, all conditions considered, no there is a middleweight in the country who | blow. Corbett s now the acknowledged | could interview our hotels. they deriving | LCTi¢ In America should command a fee of can whip him. champlon beavywelght boxer of the | probably a greater amount of benefits from | Srewes wni ne 1S hardly probable that the — world. the event than any other business. THe | Noienon 1h dneliitered with the success of A funny thing about this proposed fight is Datanca of the. pirse affered. whin shouq | Nutwood in the stud this year. that it is to be for the middleweight cham- | 1t may be looked upon as a colossal | not be le FiiNed by A western circuit that will take in the fol- ¥ not be less than $40,000, to be raised by sub- plonship of the world. Bob Fitzsimmons, it | joke, but there is nothing jocular about it | geription. lowing cities is a possibility: ~Mason City, is then presumed, is graciously staking Dick | \when the statement is made that reputable Some opposition would have to be en- | LeMars, Sloux City and Council Bluffala., and Dan to this bauble, but this is difficult | business parties of this city are quietly 1ay- | countered. both from. the churches and the | Omaha and Lyons, Neb., Joseph and to credit when the lanky Kangaroo's | ing the ropes to secure the Corbett-Jackson | authorities. Kansas City, Mo., Topeka and Wichita, penuriousness fs taken into consideration. | fight for Omaha. As vet nothing definite | ““ppete"Choy, 1o vaver to be no obstacle ko | KN and Dallas, Tex. ~This would make a The truth of the matter is the fight is o [ {s know and there may be nothing come of | garious that it conld not be overcome. The | Strong circuit and one that western horsemen be for no champlonship whatsoever, but | jt, which is most likely, but I know that a | advertisement Omaha would get, not only | %Culd feel bound to patronize and assist. simply for the glory and shekels there may | move is*being made with this end in vView. | in this country, but over the whole cisilizea | With but a single exception it would be a bo I it. For Dick Moore it means every- | True it is that a finer arena for such an ex- | world, iy {nducement enough o make he | CIrcHlt of short shipments, and every one thing, that s If he can win, bt for Creedon | hibition than the old Coliseum does not exist | undertaking well worthy of consideration by | Of, these citiea have a good reputation for it means very little unless he gets licke in the country today, and $50,000 profit would | eyery citizen who has the interest of Omaha | °ffering liberal purses and always paying and, as T sald before, this is highly improb- | not be xtravagant estimate could the | at' heart. Make the purde big enough to | Ut able. While Dick Moore is o rattling kool | battle be brought off here, = make it an object. Then deposit a portion | Among the consignments to the sale next man, he has never displayed .m)nv.nll)». ike SANDY GRISWOLD. in the hands of some responsible party as | month at South Omaha will be a filly owned '-'m-uv,‘“:-;'w,:"rl';'[ '"".‘r‘m\ ,:"‘" S inohie Shall We Huve the Fight an evidence of good faith. 1 should very | bY W. A. White, St. Joseph, Mo., that is ARaIN old_ thing sure when he mee > ¥ Hrtoh Mo bt S VouTBIve S SR OBINIG worthy a place in the catalogue of any of Mien of (he Creedon calibre. The best man [ OMAHA, Feb. 7.—Sandy Griswold, Sport- | 1 A HEOTI IO VIR LA D (I T RS il U e Dick ever whipped was “Shadow” Mabe _n‘!m ing Editor of The Bee: The newspapers of | mateh coming oft here possible endeavor to | Wilkes (sire of Jennie Wilkes, 2:12%, and for the past year has been ‘“going out be s ally the sporting press, are | get a movement to that end started eleven other standard performers) one of I e ith the regularity of a Sailor & hat end started. ! fore all comers with the reg Y I teemingwith comments about the coming con- A TAXPAYER. | the best bred sons of George Wilkes, The Brown or George La Blanche. It is remote |\t WEEEE (ORI £ s dam of the filly is by Lockheart, 2:13%, sec- from my desire to detract in the slightest petween Corbett and Jackson. It would + M. C. A, Diamong Affairs, ond dam by Baymont (sire of the fast pacér degree from Dick's worth as a man therefore 1ot he any too early to make stren- | Lysle Abbott, manager and captain of the | Jordan), third dam by Swigert, sire of Bril- fighter, bt when his vaulting am uous efforts to get the moneyed men of our | Y, M. C. A. base ball team, has been fn | Bant. 2:17%. and forty other standard per- Jeads Nim % far astray an honest confes live city interested and offer a suitable purse formers, This filly shows a good gait and is tho only thlng that i yln ny event 1| is destined to be a fast performer. will pull for the St. Paul boy. Biaia 4 Turt papers are advocating all sor a. The advertisement our city would | Nebr papers are advocating all sorts of : Nebraska, and the chances are flattering for | plans to protect the h en of the countr. i SOUTH: OMAHA, Feb, 9.—To the Sport- | get cannot be overestimated. We have not, | g & 5 e O ac SO, Every lady, every man will be et I By “hal | hecording. to the. comemroiat hove M0L | games with all of them this summer. from wild-cat associations that advertise : 5 lenge Pat Ford, to a finish fight for any | (ot 8 EE ) £ ge 8, Of last year's team, Conner, Jeffries, ;1;"' purses and stakes and never pay them. rapidly waited upon as we will Bt of money he may want to put up. | suffered as much financially as any other | gioney. McKelvey. Jelle » o | The best and only practical plan is that 1 meet ons o limited number | city of the same size, and there ought to T‘)".”".' Ma ‘fl UL LY ‘““}K“”“”Y ave | yqyocated by the writer some time since: have plenty of extra salesmen. been engaged, and Fred Rustin, on his re- | Compel all associations holding a meeting unas (any vt unds) for any | o™y ne 5 amount of money he wants to put up it little exertion required to raise an | turn from Yale, will also play. to give a bond to the parent oclation ; Y. immense sum—sa 50,000— e o ) ening g : : LML ALY Y ol oHEw The _\]m“{‘g 'mh_r'“ to fn’h-n”ll Prior to the opening gf the championship | guaranteeing the faithful fulfillment of all | § 'a The above challenge was unaccompanied . s | season a series of games will be played with | contract o ATan CRARHG B ou aq tree ¢ deposit, but the entirely trust- | lWavs well represented as to numbers in | the new Western assoclation team. - e LU R LB TR e oD Ig as rect. with any deposit, tho entirely trisb: | oy "Clty, couldsbo dependsd on' to; faiss & n estern association team. vestigate this bond, and when found to be worthy and rellable character of the BEBUe" | goodly portion of the sum and do some tall | for the curpmey of vagianed the assoclation | all right give the member a certificate man who sent it, and who \\( . T e e e AL for the purpose of playing on the team this | showing these facts. Compel the member has been nty enough for its publication. | oo "6 ATARE, L e Mk vou to take | fcason. One is Frank Crawford, who | to place a copy of this certificate on all its — —— — ey a Dixon has at last made another | hold and in next Sunday's Bee fn the ‘;l'"}!hll and ‘f:u"uj_rgj"l the Michigan Univer- | entry blanks, so that a horseman who re- | priety: *Not unless I get my Dit,” s of the local clubs held its annual tournament, | purposes, and are as intelligent in their w}wrmn ixon _lfl»m”“m-ml Tast Saturday | SPorting columns give your views on the ;‘ y_l CamgiastaR o and the other is | ceives one may know that the member is | sarcastic Mr. Mulford. a tournament which drew out a large crowd | Work almost as man himself. e ing t " Chioago, and s with Alfred | Subject. [ wilkdo some talking on the out- Lawler, one of last summmer’s Conven- | doing business with the sanction of the par- | At a recent meeting of .the’ Convention | Of spectators and netted the club a neat sum, | The officers of the State Sports e Mhottar Known as Young Grifto, | Side. ~but this compared to your efforts | * Managers Ll B e condng] | S8 S bl : Base Ball club Tom Bermingham was re- | @ tournament at which the state records | ciation, President G. A. Schroeder, Tr They are to fight in June, along about the would be as thunder to a small boy's yell in | exhibition games can’ get them by addressing | oS, of the turf papers are taking the [ elected president, Joe Dolan secretary and i Went glimmering. —Omaha is the home of f urer H. J. Arnold and Sccretary G. B. et mud Jackson are planning to | 4n empty barrel. The World-Herald will | T'vale Abbbott, this clty & Nebraska Breeders association to task for [ Art Creighton team captain. Three mew t of the fastest racing men, a big city | Speice, all of Columbus, are determined (o o, for. $5,000 o aide @nd the Inevitable | Call the two groat fighters brutes, tramps | ‘Mo players have all heen notifled to get Soclaring, off the Nebraska = Futurity | plavers were also engaged In Sam Moulifte, 1 with many things of interest to out- | make the next state shoot, which comes of, largeat purse. 1f the affair ever eventuates | &0d bums, but in its account of the battle | {5 work in the gymnasium at once, that stake. The members of this association | Charlie Bradford fand Pitcher McElvain. ders who probably do not have the chance [ at Columbus, May 15, 16 and 17, the biggest 1t uht to be a great go. Dixon is the king | Afterwards will not hesitate to crowd out | tley may be in condition for the first plea did exactly what they ought. They saw | The club will Lold a grand hop at Armory | €very day to visit the metropolis, has good | and best vet hell by this honorable body. of all featherwelghts, and Griffo is highly | church notices and Dr. Talmage's sermon; | ant weather in April. The intention is to that they were going to be unable to com- | hall March 27, for the purpose of supplying | hotels, three or four wheel clubs, and of casy Fish Commissioner Lew May informs me IR A oiT 54 bl don o assiiTaTOFINEHiLa) | B1EONEO (R1vE b aryytin I fanaonn ity theN Dat: [ (ouenY theta caacntaty i ear) ahti post iblaaatar I Lo e L parbiotinalicontract ealled Hford | Sthejteam Wit new initarms) ace Then, too, the meet will likely be [ that there are botter prospects for Nebraski s tle. IU will no doubt call upon Governor | chg® tL° season at the carliest possible date: ] in this stake, and rather than deceive the | According ~to Han - Johnson, ~Charley | Iun under the auspices of one of the wheel- | fishermen this year. than ever before in the But what is the use of making these big | Crounse to do his duty, and threaten | tyroughout the season horsemen they at once returned to breeders | Bennett was the oldest catcher in point of | D& organizations, very probably the Omaha | history of the stite. All the likely streams Pugilism is under a popular ban, | Sheriff Drexel with impeachment if he el their entrance money Among those | length of service in the league. No back | Wheel club, and it could not be placed in | and lakes in the state have heen stocked and and there isn’t a single reputable club with *s not interfere. Will Race for the Poor. who had made entries in this _Mx\k;' there | stop ever rivaled him for precision or lv;-'{vr hands should it come to Omaha. The | restocked during the past ten years, and Drofessional prize fighting as its excuse for This will not have any effect upon the OMAHA, Feb. 9.—To the Sporting Editor ;\‘".r" FRomaRwlio had failed 1!0_ compl y‘ nmg excellence in his work. Last season was ! :nm\m‘\\ heel club could, with the facilities | reports of results during the past year have B day. “Who i thon to | lover of sporting matters any mora than | of The Bé: As a matter of courss, 1 am | LC,Tequirements of the conditions, and they | one of the best he ever plaved, aud, | It possesscs make it a great and noted suc- | been most gratifying (o our Industrious com= give the largest purse "Frisco, New | the —sermons that will be preached | oo o F S 0 O BIEEE g were ruled out of the distribution of en- | although he did not have a good batting | ¢es5. ~In the event Omaha s chosen for the | missioner. B e Orleans have all | aRalnst such a brutal exhibition of | 49¢PlY In sympathy with the poor of the | trance money,but thoso: who had kept up | percentage,.his hitting was very timely and | fourth anmual state meet it is the duty of |~ pranic Lawrence, the well known Chicago it thio brs up. Jacksonville is little bet- | Strength or the ill-will that the mention of city, but being unable myself to tender any | the payments not only received the amount | more than once helped to win a game at the every wheelman and wheelwoman in the city | coortsman, has invented and patented a financial aid, T thought T might be the means | they had paid, but were paid the legal | eleventh hour. to seo that it Is a meet which will be handed [ nost ingenious ducking outfit and wild fowl or than a panel house, and so there you | @ prize fight in Omaha will stir up amongst ] ; z ,','n. Km:\l‘l ',,m,,n, botween comparatively | the church going people. Therefore go | Of raising quite a respectable sum to be do- | rate of interest for the time the association Tim Hurst, the umpire, is a great bellever | down in state cycling history as the King [ ghooters are unanimous on its gencral utility unknown pugs may yet be pulled off at | ahead. nated to them through any reputable agent | had had the money. This left the asso- | jn the scheme for all clubs to have experi- | meet of them all. A1 Atcoday It canklsta o N coatiandlliat o ot o ce. d - | ciation to hold the sack for considerable of | enced trainers. H 8 th ot f ball “Setage: 3 7 various points, but there is but little hope As to the advantages accruing to the city. | oF committee. My idea is to ride a handi g A enced trainers. e says the action of bal ‘Setagec,” on the Cycling West, has some | wrought from prairie grass in such a man- e e aitien! As the battle will be, the same as all | cap bicycle race with Ed Reading. The | & loss. And Jjust why the turf papers | players in general, in certain things, are i sparkling reminiscence talk in the issue of | ner as to give Ao crotishing liunten|thelaps the Shooters and the Fishers- Refresh- invat. . - A great barga ; L ,correspondence with the universities of ch would insure the fight coming off in | Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa and The price in the hub is for shoes formerly sold as high as $5. Coliseum management would doubtless give | should think that the association should | scandalous. For instance, they mnever buy | February 1. Here are some extracts rela- | pearance of a small hay cock or clump of up the building one evening for such a com- | refund money to those who had failed to | their shoes to fit them and to help their | tive to the national meet, which no doubt ;,:r 5. It is certainly the greatest artificial keep up their payments is beyond under- | yunning. They don’t pay any attention to : will be read with interest: blind ever introduced. other previous heavyweight contests, the Fighters are not nearly so particular these | greatest in modern ‘times, so will the z days as they were a year back. With but | crowd attracted by it be the greatest mendable purpose. To enhance the pro- few exceptions they are all ready and eager | Omaha has ever sen within its limits, | Bram’s attractiveness it would probably be standing, Had the stake been continued | thejr spikes. All these things, if looked | Newport captured the first League of sy T anywhera and scrap for almost | Chicago day at the World's fair | better to give a mixed athletic entertain- and in the end raced, those who had de- | after as they should be by all conscientious ' American Wheelmen meet in J880; 150 wheel- MMy with the Groves. 1 - 2 : B martic > pet o faulted in payments could start no colt. | piay vould help their batting averages an were present. Thi vthing. Dan Creedon and Dick Moore are | will huve to take a’back seat. Our hotels | Ment, the participants in the performance all | f4 ts cot Lainos players, would help their batting averages ' men were present. This meet was the idea | Jac it s hasn anaanged b / Then why, if, the association declares the | and better running would result. Tim | of Kirk Munroe, the famous children's \‘“’:,l":: easSees Hoon CohelioReaaE b 10 get only $1,500, which possibly means two-, | Will double, treble, aye, quadruple their bus- | understanding that the entire receipts go to f D¢ : ik 8 £ i ey of that figure, and Alex Greggains.| iness during the week: of the battle,,and | the poor. & Please mention this in The Bee, | face ‘DI‘I ;\mtl I:‘dnyx‘;l"l‘;fl l:‘":lf'“ le::."”ld“s‘; thinks a couple of lessons from an ex- | author. Boston got the meet in 1881; the e e hanl Carbett Gorge roy, T i each one coin a few Streot rail- | and the affair may be brought to a success- | ble interes! heir mone: perienced sprinter on starting would also be | were about 1,000 w en prese Frank Slavin wants ot elther Corbel George Godfrey, Tom Tracey, Tommy Kyan, HtHglcolta e w thalandi. ERB res brall t also be compelled o pay back the money | be i 4 about 1,000 wheelmen present. or Sullivan for $10,000. Bet a half dollar to those who have defaulted? It strikes | woula help them a couple of feet in a dash | York in 1883, Washington in 1884, he prefers Sullivan. Mysterious Billy er#n. Solly Pulaski, John- |“ y' ('2)!\\|luu|t-s will do the biggest business [ ful issue. LILLIE WILLIAMS. Ny Griffin. 1ke We® and a half hundred | in their history, and, incidentally, they must e i - g at F ore Went ongngements at any price. And | not be forgotten when the hat is DASSOd. | wiiieer eunty ar Chioan mejthat fulafmuch ihatlor tonll eoncorncds]\toinratibese: 2 The Buffalo meet in 1885 was the first elther Young Parsons or Pat Ford, jr, from the outlook I take it most of them will | The Coliseum, where the fight will be pulled am Swart of Chicago has opened up a 18500 ln ELE when § '}’, ";r ey are go- Johnnie Ward was Champion Corbett's | really big meet. Racing was then only a | SaW Droper to reply to the defl recently from the outlook 1 take it most of e ol | ol could be.temporarily ealared tnd thys | Doxing school fn The Beo bullding ind starts | I to be unble to bring off an event as | nex man” during the st fow|duys of his | side ‘fssuc and a monster parade was the | promulgated by George Middleton, and tho anything but roseate, yet most of the fight- | give employment to idle carpenters. Busi- | off with a class of twenty-two prominent '.‘"“"I“"L R el R KR e and re- | yraining for his fight with Charlie Mitchell. | main feature. latter's forfeit of $25 was drawn down by ers are rosettes. ness at the depots will be rushing, and every | young business men. Mr. Swart is a pupil T‘;rf‘ 'n, e fl g “‘ :’l'_‘ ml\ b o "“}"fl(&'- Corbett thought more of J. Montgomery than Boston captured the meet in 1886, St. Louis | his backers yesterday. \..\ livery stable keeper must engage additional | ot William O'Connell, Tommy Ryan's old | Lcre is no other honorable course open to | any one around his tralning quarters, and it | in 1887, Baltimore in 1888, Hagerstown in | Nearly every sportively-inclined cltizen ] t themn; w;n; t‘hle In'nll l'lx’u"vr llml'rul];‘ o8 m-l\"-w:'u 1889. O1d vets who attended the Hagers- | returned from Jucksonville with a pair of cry of the ted hots, and many fighters who | advantages we would derive. But none of | gymnashum, and his style is strictly mod with him from his room in Jacksonville to | town meet will never forget it, and the resi- | stuffed alligators in his valise. They were Vore. conspicuously mentioned a twelve- | these can hold a candle to the advertising— | the defensive e styleliaiatnictivimonarn, Signs of the Sweet Springtime. the ringside, Yes, Big Jim thought a great | dents of Hagerstown either, for that matter. | mounted just like boxers, and their front o oped but of SIght antire: | World Wide and free at that—which OMANE | boour: mny. - Conator M o e mio | Wl White will probably play short for | deal of Littie Johnnie, and at the end gave | Niagara Falls was the scene of the 1390 | claws were covered with tiny gloves. They lyogone. to work, maybe, and more are | Would gt out of the affair. B il enb Nt R hovInn aatiottinase | EEeoTIA: the New Yorker a fine Irish setter. OWNg to [ meet. Here the badge craze, the lockstep | made a great souvenir of the battle. Aropping every day. Not only have the | The advantages Omala offers. Our streets | eniightened times, the principie being to do | Toledo has made a ten-strike in securing | the peculiar actions of the animal he W8 | movement and various other features of | Someboily in Philadelphia asked Corbett it fighters disappeared, but their backers, too, | are all paved and a network of railways | effective work and avoid punishment in re- | Gill Hatfleld. dubbed “Mysterious Billy Smith” by the ) the national meets were given birth. Here | ne would accept another challenge from Sul- Even genial Zeke Abrahams, who dreamed | covers them. No mile and a half of poor, | turn, Sioux City has got a cracker-jack in | CRlifornian. “Mysterious Billy" 1s now I | it was that the first pneumatic racing wheel | livan, and he said: “Oh, John fs a good of the wealth of the Rockefellers, through | soft, vellow sand intervenes between .the Catcher Frank Kraus Carolina, where he is being broken for fleld | made its appearance on American tracks. | hearted fellow. He doesn’t want to fight. the ohannel of one Solly Smith. is now | center of the city and the scene of the con- Ta Borap at Elkh e s 4 work for next season. Laurie, the English crick riging it. I would do anything in my power for the Wheeling. krunts In a Sacramento packing | test. Passengers from other towns will be | A finish boxing contest has been arranged | The Western league scason will open on | There will be a regular mixup of the | “potroic in 1891—how it rained and how the | big fellow, and 1 wouldn’t permit him to go Nouse. | Whan In New Orleans but ohe year | st down In front of the ontrance within | for Elkhorn on the evenimg of February | (¢ 224 or 20th of April. battle-royal order in the Western league the | pross roasted the Detroit wheelmen! TR thelriag withi mely o Zoka wore. dlamonds that would have | thirty minutes atter landing In Omaha, T e ovenl Of o VY | teries in the country, and in Jack McGlone | coming season, says the Cinclnnati Enquirer. | ™\¢uduington bia high and raked in the [ "\ 5 St et TR turned Alvin Joslin gresn with envy. But b composed of our most succeshul | ceipts, between Jim MeCoy of South Omana | theY et & corking third baseman. No league vet organized ever represented | 180 moot, and it was a corker. Eight thous | o, hen Joln L S I antagonist they have all gone up the spout. George | and solid business men should be formed. e e o ooy fpouth Omaha | preparations are being made in Boston | a8 many different factions as will be - | und wheelmen and wheelwomen took part the (otheriqaystioginat 1|8 U H8 HARAn B Dixon checked Ezekiel's mad onrush to . J. K 3. | weignts. 6 i) "M | for a big benefit for Charlie Bennett. cluded in this body the coning season. It | n=(ho parade, which was viewed by the | Jake Kirain L L wealth and fame. Solly proved a meteor of A Big Year for the National Game. The prospects are flattering for a boom | Wil be a regular sectional fight all around. | jregident of the United States O A el o0 L Take and It have bl instgn ficant magnitude. Gaodbye, Zekes | frarey wWelden the. well bamve e iing About Western Turf Matters. A G it oty e Vauderbeck, manager of the Detroits, s | "ALG0) (6o’ in 1805 say this much for you, Jakeand L hate goodbye, Solly, ® e s POTURE | yonn Kelly will drive the DuBois Bro Mhe ha management have thel os | from Los Angeles, Cal., and nearly his en- y _ji was great—so was neyerianidsltabotora. Whens tif e oracle of the Cincinnati Enquirer, has The Omaha management have their Unes {yira fcam_will be made up of California in the ring I felt more confident of being » string this year, in addition to the horses | out for one of the best minor league bat- % meet was known to the world able to win the big purse than I did after I An_interesting question has been raised ag | Never cooled in his warmth for baseball, | he brings from California players. Sharzig, of the Indianapolis team, A crank on statistics quof eat Britain 4 The: a as . 5 A signed 08 nonet| & P 4 i g e u o couple of rounds. They Herman Long las signed a Boston con- | hails from Philadelphia and he thinks there | o5 CCOLinG 00,000 wheelmen and wheel- | S8yed With you o coupla ok Fouit LR o what Mitchell lost by the interference of | He is overly fon . o At . to yhat Mitchell lost by the interforenco of | He is overly fond of pugilism, but his greed | The fast pacer § R, that was in Dob | tract, thus settiing all talk that he Is to bo | s nothing lke Pennsylvanin players. He | woman, the United Stat O AL Corbats seconds in restraining the cham- | for tho pleasures of the diamond fs somo- | Knecb's.string last sedson, will be driven | transforred to New York. fx, nothing like Pennsylvania players Ho | women, (o United Statos and Canada at | §10, 100"t ‘Waiock vou ' out in twenty ¥ A committing a foul, and whether | thing inordinate and of perennial endurance, | by George Starr this season. e ool o P AL Ch IS ool sk malauany | oon o Branceiaas D00 Allitrle. s Sarmasa | frounay, butlitiainati or not the referee should have given | Of the prospec e ‘) year p ¢ G e oy SR | 0L SHERREQaDGOts foRithe, Gursent yoari e Bainum & Grigsby of Maryville, Mo., ad- | will probably be most satisfactorily scttled | belongs in Lowell, Mass., and’ nearly every | ang 5000 scattered through Afrie e beneficial to the batters, as fast starting | Chicago was the rendezvous in 188 “I am down on my luck,” is the one | help to keep up. ~The above are only a few | precepter, and the instructor in the Chicago - . Asia, S vertise a public sale of trotters and pacers | within the next ten days. one of his players will hail from™ Yankee- | Augiralia and the islands, an aggregate of Questions Tmld\" w r~‘- & 1 Feb, 9T he Sporting 0! technical foul, says the Bostor “You e ek . L e i R .|m}~ paean ".m' 41 tell ..IL‘{’T,’?".'}.3’1-,‘."21 to take place at Red Oak, Ia., February 24, Patsy Tebeau, George Tebeau and Jack | dom. Jimmie Manning, manager of the [ 1307000 cyclists of both sexes. And there | OMAHA, % he Spotting Mditon pthensany A report from the Keystone farm, Omaha, | 0'Connor graduated from the same amateur { Kansas Citys, believes in Southern 1eague | gre only a few of us left! o e e mdyyia Tice. 1o decido @ bets bett would have fouled his man as he rested | token you can get rly r rth S almost his am W 14 s K freaks s 5 ed | token you can get a fairly reliable forecast The C e v 2 L helpless on the floor but for his seconds, who | of the baseball season by the minor leagues ys that the great colt The Conqueror is | team—the Shamrocks of North St. Louis. talent and ‘almost his entire team will be Some of the queerest looking freaks in | & Chumpion J. J. Corbett an Irishman ol had np business in the ring. If the ref- | jn existence or in the process of organi: wintering finely and putting on lots of “Pig” Ward is to play second base for eree would have had to give the Englishman | tion. With this idea in view, it flesh, Washington for a little while. He will soon made up of players who were in the south | picycles have come to light this season. One o 0. N last scason. Manager Watkins, of the Sloux | 54 wheel built on the plan of the railroad | . an Irish-American. the verdict. That would have meant $20,000 remarl 4 S The Horseman, Chicago, says: “No one | convince His Whiskers that he isn't it | City team, has made a heavy raid on Cin- ocipede, where you work hands and fe Feb, 0.—To t orting Fditor f remark that, in spite of the hard times . 89, 88y onvince His Whiskers that he sn't in it | 500 803 st Touis talent for his toam. | Leiting double power and an. Increase Wil you plea Sun- to Mitchell, besides a chance to make a great | {hat have previ ced be : e Keystone fo 3 Vi ! ! 8 o prevailed, the outlook for baseball | need be alarmed it the Keystone farm, [ with Sam Wise, d . Bllis, ¢ o the Western atior deal moro giving exhibitions, and also an- | never was as bright as it was fqr 189f. | Omaha, should send out a record-breaking | *yox McQuery, the old first baseman Munagers Barnes ‘\llfr'llllnl«“-n'""llnxll'“ll\.'m‘{ spead (7). Another fs a regulation gafoty- | day's Hee when 0 Weatamn auscelacion, other match, ‘The men who bet on Mitchell | Phere are more minor leagues organized | 2-year-old by Director.” wishes to emerge from his retirement at the Minneapo Mlwauken 8 s cared like an old fashioned *'St with | champ players yet?—0ld Timer, 1s worthy would e wo efr money, of 5 i apids teams, respectively, are more co R L PRy 1 - would have won their money, which must | and listed under the protecting wings of the D. T. Mount of Omaha has sold to O. Covington, Ky, and once moro toss the | Jablds teams ro I\l_“‘% R vers and straps, B : M iy Howrke haw ¢ L X o e fine we o o past week has | poen i yase and captain, anc have been hundreds of thousands throughout | | A g L 3 )ig body now than ever before in the his- H ing & Co., Columbus, eb., Wilkeros, by | ball for glor: d lar; T T T S T T R R e g body A the his g & Co., , Neb., . ball for glory—and a salary. strong L from all quarters of *the | prousht out sco SRy A AR of ' good. . #f s anIDIRY ".',l‘ Vh--y‘:vprmlu bou) ]:l ",‘,'. tory of the game. All sections of this great nteros. This horse is a promising one 3111 Krelg, the old Western league catcher, l.“‘“’l'fl SI0IA, L I brought out res o heclmen, who were | negotiations ar with @ nun &ood.o P ot e portalnly saved the | and glorious country are again in the throes | and his new owners intend to give him an | would like a berth on the Omaha toam. RIS notifiguring on'a spin before Apri {CANSAS CITY, Feb, 8.—To the Sporting 3 of a malignant attack of baseball fever, and | opportunity to race, it is said. He is a hard hitter and is good enough for Whisperings of the Wheel, With the Logltimate Sportsmen ltor of The 1 Will you please . 4 ¢ Peter Jackon in your Sun- will be a favor to several of | G. Knowles, e American come- | very fas g m ) o pre ety aadirai Re0ss Knowles, the American come- | very fast pacing mares, one by Advance | jne on many strings this winter, He has | clubmates. this winte Jolp DAmines 1 AR BT o Sa00 Jee dian, being responsibl for its latest | and one by Garnet Wilkes, both great 2 7 7 t Baom on S Rhe - X 5 et L] g 8, b sreat | agked New York for a trial and wants to act Max Wedeles and Ben V. Walters, two of Attorney Wil “Simeral. will ‘enter his possible for Corbett to lose the contest on m on English soll. Next season there | young sire as recelver for his old-time pitcher, Dad | tho “solid men' of the Tourlsts, are repre- | o Aberney A N the Chicago bench Jackson fs a West Indian, but has RANIRIAAEICEREDALE f0. Jabo the ‘canteut. o be two Western leagues, an Eastern | * 1, L. Balley, Chicago, has recently pur- | Clar senting their respective houses on the roud. | Seraom Setier Al Wl o, ost TIAian it 1 ; AT Tlleblooded negroes and he ment of Mr. Spencer T. Williams, the well . at lust, after many trials and tribulations, It | €, E. Rawson of Des Moines has recently | any team in any of the minor bodi Hy E. Fredricksen of the Tourists 18 in | penort has it that the grouse are belng Xnown referee of boxing in this city, on this | e . LIALL point s follows ““There can he no ;1{In taken a strong foothold in England, | bought of W. E. Hamilton, same place, two Colone! James B. Peoples believes in pla the city again shaking hands with his old trapped by the car loads in South Dakota doubt as to the final result of a battle on its merits between these men, yet it was quis of Queensberry rules for a contestant a Southern league, a New England | cnased of Morris Jones, Red Oak, Ia., the | “mho Toledo, Milwaukee and Minneapolis [ Mr. and Mre. Henry . Taggar entertained Dr. Galbraith is in Florida, and writes P Q ovel oppor ftan hia' the Two Eyed league, Pennsylvania obert McGrego o day.’ Mr. 5 S eir home o e specimen of the race. His helght fs to stand over his” opponent after he has kood Robert McGregor mare, Birthday.” Mr. | oams all report at Cincinnati for practico | & number of the wheelmen at their home on 1 0 BEEREG, 00 elow St Augustine | § fing specimen of tho race, His hetent |y o 4 Ohio league, a California league, - T i s v knocked him down, unless he has returned | o, B ague, a | jones has also sold to B. F. Heckert, Red . o AR > the Wesfe! Nort entieth street last Thursday ever 1 ) 17 Mhdaratand from tho Horald roport, me | Unione Wil e some Kind of a league. If | Broita J. IEARAR ™he annual election of offcers for the | The indications are good for an early “"':“l":",li”'m R P T did not do, but stood over Mitchell like a | ppq, ) ) . HL grand old game is more upon its feet awk walting for his prey.’ Second, it i A R was a breach of the rules for his seconds to | s I:‘l:‘.‘“" Joas :x'-'m“;'";.'.,',‘y‘."-l‘“?-.u ‘:I'::"P‘; 3 ot the or leagues 18 i does not give one an idea that the oponing of Ui spring Wild fowl shooting. | | COUNCIL BLUKL b 8o the Sport- nie Bditor of The Hed Wit game of crib occurs next month and { convention | Without considerablo rain, however, Door | juq ut my house lnst night a younis lady There are one or two penny-wise spirits Bobolink Lowe, the old Milwaukee player, urist Wheclmen in the directory of the St. Joseph Fair asso- | has signed his Boston contract, and before |/the members are donning their clation, and If they can have their way the | tho month is out he will double up with a | caps” and holding caucuses cvery night. | sport wilk-be the rul held twenty-nin 15 that the largest hand i r in this club this season will Frank Parmelee will hold a series of big | that can be held, and how often his it been bird and target shoots on the grounds | held? hree fives il the Jack of seaddy B he e b0 held Cribbage?—A Re rush into the ring and put hands on Cor- | {ie coming season it Is hardly probable that | N : The chief off ik alning school for the mother league, and g eas y probable that | Newcastle girl and o a little song and dance | The chief of bett. To be sure, this technical foul was | i i Kol tose: offahors of (ogue, and | (hat city will be among those holding big | in a matrimonial way L] be the captain, as the club intends to follow | wve done to prevent Corbett committing & | hody that our stars of the future will come. | Meetings. Ex-Pitcher Billy Sowders, whose home s | UP its old-time methods of roud riding. | across the river this year, probably as often Bt o e K o tho e *bie | Should base ball take the hold in England | There I8 a growing demand in England for | in Indianapolis, has applied for a v on | There B B s rasitalaad bim. ¢ 4d | that it now gives promise of doing, it may | the American light harness horse that wiil | the Indianapolis team, and is willing to be et e Ttanall. Mitcholl would have bad | Come Lo pass’ that there will be.a world's | £ot still greater as they loarn more of the | put on trial without salary. Omaha will 2. Taggar, F. A. Henin e 1 have no means of telling how Ittiog Mitohell, Mithe wvo had | champlonship sarios played in the wear | horse. The time will surcly come when | gake him on’bettersterms than these. Walker, Hy T, Taggn, Heninger, Jack | yelnawleagement ‘for a bunch of magnifi- | of course LWE B QI (V Canior D every cliance In’ the world of winning on a | gt habie Ssties plaved in b e et L G UL ; Culley, W. M. Barnum and John Hynes are | 2elhowishuement, fof & bR B it | many . No. twenty-five cannot, be foul ‘that could not have been overlooked by | ‘Wit (¢, Whl be u world's ehamplonship | % SRR, o The Western Assoclation of Base Dall | mon whom the elub has its"eye on for the { G GEGTAL wealon, wero In elegant con- | & i} nor twin ® refores, Yo satisfied that it was all the name fmplies. It would awaken Clubs has applied to the league for classi- | captaine arrivals of the seasc Z teen el O A ;:; polsres, ”; ARSLE T odihaL! EAa® | all the great patriotic prido of this coun- [ Bert Harmon, the most enterprising of | fied D s B 1ol reaaiary[(eaRiaincy e TR ] [ SOUTH OMAHA, b, 8T the Sporting famitn st ob A ok A ry it the day should come when the best | Creston, Ta’s horsemen, has recently pur- | tion) under the national agreement, and re- TGRS U BQMA A1l JAHE B WAL HASNE or! ed as A ‘{.nu in all England would be pitted against | chased of L. Banks Wilson the old | coived the same. This prevents the oust- I\"'u'; “M\T}II:L “' ‘\T 'I:: "“l' asons Why g America’s best for the base ball supremacy | colt Grayson, by Greenwa dam by | ing of RIARG: RN RERTORMLIS. SUst iy hile e are many roasons wh That Champlon Jim Corbett tgnored the | G¢"{E" RO | nlCERTRON NE i ing of any of the cities agreed upon at the [ FI VTR G ¢ There are equally as challonge of “Denver” Ed Smith at Jack- e world, Petoskey. This fellow s a pacer and shows | Chicago meetin Sonvillo Is no reason why the assoclation of Tho Two Western Outfits, ved hot sports should believe that ¢ new Western assoclation,” says the the dgughty Brum does mot | Suoriing Life want 18 fight the obliterator of & o and Charlle M. Ed 15 in earn- | MA1e 1D of Omaha and Lincoln tn Nebraska, | raced on American soil this year Instead of | {ook a box of red pepper to cause Georgle | wostern and northerly parts est and has the best of backing in J. J Des Molnes and Moline in lowa, Rock | BOINg to Germany as was at first announced. | to show signs of life about half the time he | (e Jeague members belonging to this di AR \ Quiun of San Francisco, the man who had | Island, Jucksonvillo, Peoria and Quincy in | ThIS flly as o S-yoar old was a great was playing with Denver. Vision ‘moaide outside of Omaha and would | that the dog will be returned next week as [ OMAHA, Feb To the Sporting Kditor oronghly broken as any dug In the coun- | of 'Fhe Bee w6 Kiato wh the necessary fuith to stay with him in his | Illinois, but s excellently oMcered and seoms a | thoronghl kon s an in th By | of Uima- Rhei . Lleaks "EALS Rt b battle whh Goddard, the Australlan RIant. | 1, bo lysed on economical princlples, and i A ; The local of Tzuak Walton ha An: ur Inchos Vhile I think Smith ts good enough for al- | i The loca oA t Neb., 10b, 6.—To the 8po .‘.‘,..L.'.u.\, of the heavy-welghts, 1 do not con- | N, theres an excellent chance of suc- | sale that will bear the closest kind of in- | tended by President Rowe, Manager Me- | places of smaller magnitude and t sport during the past Neb,, Il To the Sporting Ml good enough for Corbett, He s | Cest. The only mistake of the organizers | spection. This farm has some of the best | Vittle and 8. G. V. Crswold from th's ety Pttt doubt the majority of wheelmen | ton days fshing through the ice at Cut.OM The Beok I’ s gama of casinog Ao b O way, in body, legs and | was to nssume a title so very similar to | bred material In the west, and is sending | Grand Raplds and Lincoln both have a | would prefer to have the 1564 meot held in | and Manawa, BOW psphon_dpent ‘lest ird, "pife on an ace on these two cards roach, and although he would doubtless give | that of (he Western league as to surely lead | the choicest animals on the farm to this | claim on George Pinkney, the old Brooklyn | a smaller town. But if the meet comes to upaday on the formior W . . it | oA Cailit ten?OF in other words can b hpion a8 hard a ght, it not harder, | t wuch confusion in the public mind and | sal third baseman. A worth [ O hAre ! an nen tha J - worth | of hard work sucec In catching a fine, 1 hyjld from his hand and board at the saw over, had ¢ pring | 8150 among indiffere badly posted pres: e jould of the Woodline Puller- ) cAleer hasn't signed a Cleveland | mentioning. Omaha has more whe ; he has ever had, I cannot bring mong indifferent or badly posted press | E. 12 Gould of the Woodline farm, Fuller Jimmie McAleer hasn't slgned a Cleveland mention ing, Ouigi Lak mare wheslme Lt R T P A R ] ke any number of good men in the | ag once a month, commencing in May twenty-five b club this year who are rustlers and will Colonel John R. Amesley, the genfal Kan Ans.—Twenty-nine is the most that can mako good and efiicient _ofticors. sas. sportsman, has tho mporting editor's | be held. It has been frequently held, but Rabbits are about the only legitimate | Editor of The Bee: = Will you please state game at this timo, und xomo blg bags have | In your column of the Bunday Bee how i about: Honoy oreel any natlonal holidavs there are in the and Noble's lakes. ‘The big snow fsll o Mo the difference between a nation, [ el many why she should not, chief among the | fH€ SOUIes JEreS 008 Y hunting | define th gen, a world of speed, The Brooklyn cranks are tickled half to | Jitter boing its location. Omaha is loca Thurad Mght made - excollont Bunting [ hGhduy and a logal holiday A It is certainly a pleasing announcement ath over the fact that they have coMared | jn the extreme eastern part of the state, | Saturday and gcores of hunters were ou Ans |“A n]t- ;".',1\..‘“ -Ml" B mioh th 4;}; tihas s that Ella Woodline, the great 2-year-old | George Treadway, and this fact also tickles | ana therefore not handy for the league mem: | nandsomo Englian [ as @ natlonal holldwy, but the lourth i has a rather wide circuit, | sold by the Woodline farm, Is going to be | the western ks most inordinatoly. It | pers who reside in the western, south tter, Robert Gladstone, to C. W. Tway of [ 507 yocquge 1t 18 lexal in all states. Thers The bulk of | Tenncssee last fall to be broken for t {8 no other hollday lekal in overy state. A . Selden sent hiy fleld, and fs In recelpt of a letter stating | jegal holida¥ Is a hollday fixed by statute. former and she is bred to traln on The spring meeting of the new Western | doubtloss prefer to have the meet held in Mambrino Park farm of Des Moines, Ta., | assoelation will be held at Des Moines one | more centrally located town. —The mokt suc will make a consignment to the South Omaha | week from next Tuesday, and will be at- | cessful meets thus far have been held in there Is | be having exe the ¢ Omaha there are many advantages that any | myself to bellove that>he would have any | Writers. “This will ultimately work to the | ton, Neb., has recently consummated several | contract and he seems to be stlll dreaming | \ Lot a chance of victory. His fight with | 1Jury of the inferior organization, which | good sales, among them being the transfer | of the possibility of transfer, for he says UG R M) SUSUEAINE O LSE A0 BN i O At Soddard was one of the hardest battles | the iiow assoclation undoubtedly s, of that good colt, Shadeland Conveyor, to | “I have not signed a contract, and don't | the country-—a track which can be, with little | batr t B0ld sporis. bas receiy 4 taur One uur|‘l‘l ribe It, 'qr tion," Wo r The Western assoclation made no mis- | Messrs. Harris & Riley, Alblon, Neb. This | propose to be sold unless I know it." Colonel | expense. placed iu the best of condition,as was | bair of tralned wild gecse from North Da r to De Witt's Witsh Hazel Salve, cures, take In the melection of & name, as the | colt is by Usurper, dam by Harry Plummer, | McAleer might have added with perfect pro- | exemplified on July and fastest half mile tracks in this part of | the Mercury, and wn enthuslastic lover and - - e of the century and his success a little less than marvelous, But lightning, you know, 22 of last year, when o kota. They have been broken for decoy | piles