Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 18, 1894, Page 16

16 CHAT WITH THE Tho Birds that Fly in the Budding Spring Time, BONERS THE AFFAIRS OF WESTERN HORSEMEN The Carol of the Dickey Bird—Jensen's Big Wolf-The Kennel Club and Miscellaneous Local Kporting Grist remiam Goose The proverblal calm has again the storm About all of the fightin lads re out of a job, the winter is hard and the world s cold Snowballs are a favorite diet with the boys who for a year or have been fe in the best in the land. It is a not knowing a good thing when you see it, The ordeal through which base pall passed proved a purifying one, but it is doubtful whether much be said for Fistiana. There be some sort of a r of the game, but It is excec gly problematical The popu lar demand is for its suppression, and while there is a good deal of frau mixed up in the general itiment in opposition, I am forced to confess that I think a protracted rest will prove beneficial all round. sure case ¢ can may There is absolutely no interest being taken in the proposed Corbett and Jackson fight, excepting within the narrow confines of th red-hot's association. Of course, prize fight- ers themselves and the men who derive a questionable livelihood out of the trade- for it is as much of a trade as cobbling or laying brick—will always be interested, and they will continue to talk as long as there [s anyone to listen. Fighting is all the I8 worth living for in the sphere in which they move, and you might as well expect a banker to lose interest in his money as to expect a prize fighter to become in- fatuated with Sunday school affairs. The reason there isn't more interest mani- fest in the coming big mill is that many have failed to make up their minds that it is on the level. BEven the smooth and gloss, Parson Davie who is behind Peter, ha: ailed to make sure to his many newspaper ds that the money he and Mr. Brady posted is to be fought for in the ring. I received a letter from him no longer than four days ago, and, while he is enthusiastic over the prosperity of his “Uncle Tom's Cabin” snap, and says that Peter is strong and well, and little cuter than ever, he is as mum as a biyou oyster on the question of the big fight. It strikes me that the Parson, with all his powers of perspicacity and a would be working the fight in an adve way for all it is worth, but he seems totully indifferent to the auriferous opportunity. Still, [ am loth to believe that the Parson has “gone back.” When I saw him at Jacksonville there were no additional lines detectable in his handsome face; his eyes were as bright as of and physic- ally, all over, he looked about right for the biggest kind' of a money making scheme. You see, a man las to be in condition for a struggle in this matter-of-fact commercial world, as well as for one in the exciting Im" of the ring. “But looks are de- ivin’,” as the Indiana groom observed when his wife took off her false hair and pulled out her teeth. It may be the Parson and Peter are really in the same boat, and that the Parson has gone back mentally while Peter has kept pace physically. The chances are against this, however, and you can all expect to hear in some novel and unique way from Mr. Davies before the Ides of March arrive, The sporting fraternity is getting exceed- ingly weary of Tom O'Rourke’s under- handed hounding of Billy Plimmer. His senseless challenges which fill the papers of the city where the little Englishman ap- rs with his show don't go. Plimmer is- sued his ultimatum months ago, shortly after besting the Haligonian in their famous four-round setto, and has been wise and sensible enough to stick to it unswervingly. He is in a position to dictate his own terms and has had the brain to appreciate this pre rogative. - He said, and still says, that he is ready to fight the darkey for a whole Journey for $10,000 a side and the bantam- Welght championship of the world at 114 pounds, weigh in at the ring side. That is fair, inasmuch as Dixon claims both the feather and bantam-weight belts. But O'Rourke, who has grown fat and sassy on his whack from the black boy, won't have it that way. He wants ten or a dozen hours before the gong sounds for George to build up to the featherweight standard. In other words, he wants six or eight pounds the best of it. Plimmer will surrender his claims to sanity when he concedes a half dozen ounces. There are a good many of Dick Moore's friends in Omaha who do not tally with me on the outcome of Dick’s collision with Dan Creedon next Saturday night. Well, that is their right. This would be a nice abiding place, indeed, if we all thought alike. T know as well as any one that Moore is much better than what is cailed a good man. 1 have seen him fight a good many times, and know him like a book. He has been a staunch friend of mine ever since I made his first fight here, in which, by the way of anomaly, he got badly beaten.” That was simply because he got fooled, however. He thought a hair- cut and a shampoo was all the training he needed to punch young Niland into a state of somnolency. But after having his face pounded into a marmalade the stockyards youth suddenly developed a whirlwind of strength, and on the spot Dick had jocularly picked out to fall on when he stepped into the ring, proved his reclining place when he went out. w 1 honestly hope that Dick will beat Creedon, but I don’t think he can do it, my friend Benny Henton's say-so to the con- trary. Benny is the sporting editor of the Boston Glob¢, and he generally knows what he is talking about. This time, though, it smells a trifle like the long whiff. If Dick wins from big Dan [ will be among the first to send him flowers, Thero are many uncertainties in the game, as all have noticed in the past year or two, but from the thme of the flood it has always been the same, and will continue 5o on to the grand finale. Personally, I believe that Cre don will triumph hard and despe ately fought battle. Moore knows nothing but fight, but In Creedon he meets a man who I8 superior in almost every way to any man he has ever met. Dick is clever and strong and as game as the gamest. He has also had barrels of experience. But Cre don's greater weight and speed will prove a powerful factor in the result. That he Is also a superior general inside the ropes I also firmly beliove, and to this more than anything else I look to see him clinch the fight, It he Is able to clinch it at all. In the meantime the Apostolic youth will glve the Dbig Antipodean = a merry punching, and it he s a falr chunce may land on Danfel in a way that will induce him to quit. Hope so. Tak- ing the men physically, and that is what [ do, there {sn't much question as to who has the best of it and betting men will assur- edly make Croedon the favorite. Fricnds most always go it blind when it comes to their man and the result. If the favorite loses then the blokes who backed bim all of a sudden discover that he “has gone back' and was always “overrated,” but if the second choice goes out “he went up agalnst too st a proposition,” was outelassed every way" and “was far from i It inadvertenily crept into The Bee last Thursday morning that Jack Gorman got the best of It in his setto with Jimmy Lind- say out at “Shorty's” the night before. And %0 he did, that Is, he got the 85 cents the ad games tossed into the ring, and Jimmy allowed him to escape with his life. 1t tended good deal prize fighter whipped him in high time i Andrews—no pun wax boing convinced that he is & better steam-fitter than he is a Jim MeCoy of South Omaha 1 Jog last Wednesday night Ho frst camie -here several years ago to fAght Jack 1 They fought. Hi was a anghing, vadaverous cove who looked as it a good sUM breeze would blow him into the piver., But he surprised everybody Davis fincluded, but only the first followed | round. Jack was making one of his grand stand convolutions, when suddenly one ot Hiram’s long arms shot out Iiké a piston- rod, and his big dun glove went into Jack's mug like a battering ram. Then we all thought we were going to see a fight, but in «the next round Davis killed him. But he was iike the hog that didn't know when he had enough, 80 he tackles Jack once more, and Jack kills him over again. He shuffles up the cards again, and he and Jimmy Pants Hightower have a chase. igh*swor was in a particularly happy mood that night, and in the second round he caught Mr. drews in the pomona adami with a swinging right hand smash, and Mr. Andrews didn’t recover his volce for a full six months. In fact, that eame nearly being a fatal blow But I remember seven or eight years ago when Andrews was meeting all-comers at the Theater Comique, Philadelnhix, under the nom de guerre of “Rook’s Unknown,” and he pounded ‘em all out big and little, white, black and yellow. But Hiram s a “has been,” and he should now confine himself ex- clusively to the plumbing business. Think of it, any way, a plumber In the ring! SANDY GRISWOLD. RING DAYS IN THE MARSH, ota Bright for the Most Enchanting of All Outdoor Sport. The widespread and heavy snowfall of the week has filled the duck shooter's with enthusiasm. Prior to this event prospects for the spring sport were indeed, on account of a lack of Such another dry spell as this se tion of the country is but fairly emerging from has not been experienced in a decade. It set in early in May last, reigned uninte ruptedly throughout the summer and.fall, and but light and inconsequential rains broke the arid monctony during the present winter. The result was an absolute drying up of all the small lakes and streams before autumn had properly begun, and by the time the duck season was on even the larger bodies of water and rivers were 5o low that induce- ment for the birds to remain long on any of their former favorite feeding grounds was so slender that the poorest kind of sport the rule. For good wild fowl shooting there must be plenty of water. With the lakes at their lowest water mark and the marshes dried up and baked as hard as a cement floor there is little opportunity for the palmiped beauties to eke out a subsistence, and no matter how delightful the weather or favorable ‘the other gencral conditions, th will tarry but a short time cre they their way on to more advantageous ha ut the late fall of the flocculent has dissipated the sportsman’s fear of a con tinuation of this unfavorable = condition There has been an immense descent of the beautiful all over the west, on the plains and in the mountains, and when the thaw comes it means such a freshet as will send the rivers and streams gushing on to the sea fill up the lakes and inundate all the marshes and lowlands, This means capital sport with the lordly canvasback, the royal mallard, the ashen redhead, the pintail, teal and bluebill, to say nothing of the excite- ment an influx of the Canadas and the Hutchins geese will create. Notwithstanding the prolonged period of dryness there was a most beautiful crop of native food last fall, but the birds being unablo to get at it means that the bulk of it remains to be fattened upon in the sweet spring time. The wild rice stalks in all the north and western marshes bent low with the weight of their tiny Kernels, all of the nutritious seeds were more than luxuri- ant, and the nut grass and smart weed were abundant everywhere. Of course wild celery (spiralis vallisneria) and all of the much sought for auquatic plants suffered greatly, and while the birds may wax fat upon f naceous deposits this spring, they must de themselves these subacqueous delicacles until the golden days of October roll round once aga Such a rare cliate 's this in whict we live that vegetation flourishes with but the nourishing influences of the dews, which descond like rain during the = short nights of the hottest summer. These lie like a moist blanket over the emerald world until the growing life absorbs or the sun rays suck leavenward again. But once again let me speak on a favorite theme—the ducks. I am a lover of nature in all its aspects, and ascribe to indulgence in its delights the quickness of sight, the steadiness of nerve and the soundness of mind and body I enjoy today. I have lived to learn of outdoor life, but would fain be- lieve the has just bégun. Of the birds that come up from the tropical Mexic in the spring the pintail (anas acuta), called sprigtall in the east, are about the first, then follow speedily in order the canvasback, the redhead, bluebill, widgeon, mallard and teal. The Canada goose and his congeners even precede the pintall, many of them, remarkable as it may seem, lingering here all through the winter. Just two weeks ago Billy Hoagland Killed four big Canadas just twelve miles west of the city in a field bordering the Elkhorn. But as the pintail is the first of the duck family to tempt the sportsman hence in the spring, he Is entitled to the sendoffl. The period of his arrival depends largely on the state of the weather, and he generally comes in with a storm of rain and snow and sleet, and later, when his cousins arrive, is found much in the company of the mallard, Widgeon and teal. Their plumage is soft and blended beautifully with greenish browns, grays and dull, yellowish lines, They fly high, mi- grate in tremendous flocks and frequent the open prairies and broad expanses of water. They are also fond of heavily wooded, swift flowing rivers, from which they will wade far into the timber for favorite food. They ar usually a dull bird, decoy readily, and are easlest killed of any of the wild fowl family. They are generally in poor form, owing to their penchant for long journeys without rest, and consequently not overly desirable for (he table. The canvasback is universaily acknowl edged to be the king of his kind. He fs the largest of all the ducks end s fup. posed to possess edible qualitics eminently superior to any of his relatives, although I have had T s served that in overy way came up to, if not surpassed, his Ligh standard. They are magnificent looker the drakes especially, with their shapely cinnamon heads, ashen wings and snowy white bodies. In flight they are the swiftest of all the wild fowl, being capable of over 100 miles an hour. They are cxtremely shy, remarkably hardy and the most di fleuit bird to Kill that flies. Years a these princely birds halted here in countle millions on their semi-anuual .migrations, but latterly they are rare, and, lackaday growing rarer with each recurring season The redhead is known as the canvasback's first cousin, which bird they closely re semble, but are destinctly different. Prop- erly placed upon the table, it would take the most expert gastronomic connoisseur to separate him from the canvasback. They are rapid, strong fyers, but decoy beauti fully and furnish the most exhilarating sport from a blind. They are good fecders, with an insatiable appetite for wild celery. tender twigs and grasses, aquatic bulbs and smart weed. They do not visit this region in any considerable numbers in the fall but seldom fail to come in plenteously in the spring time. The mallard is and I might say the choice of a large ma- Jority of local sportsmen. They are not S0 quick of wing as the canvasback or red- head, but quick enough to suit the taste of the greatest adept with the hammerl They are a great bird to ‘“jump” In the marshes, but supply all the delights of such pursuits over decoys. They are exceedingly wary, but lure well to a large stool of de- coys, anchored in front of a fast natural blind, They haunt the shallows, and al- though they can dive like a blue bill, seldom look for food in more than a foot and a helf of water. Like the geese, they are fond of field feeding, and in stubble and corn make many a sumptuous banquet on the scattered kernels of the farmer's har- vest, Like the mallard, the teal, both green and blue wing, are partial to the shallows yet the green wing often frequents the deep, Upen waters. They fly like bullets, decoy but indifferently, and alight with an abrupt- ness that discomfits many an experienced gunner. They are certalnly a morceau second to none in the game line, and 1 have yet to meet man or woman who can refrain from ecstatic exclamation when sitting down to a platter of well-browned teal The widgeon, or American bald pate, di plays many of the characteristics of the mullard also, yet he favors the open water and seldom tempted to penetrate 1 W districts. They hardly ever fly in flocks, but in twos and threes, and once in A while bunches of a halt doa Like the pintall, they love (o haunt the open past heart the meager. water was the most familiar bird, lod prairie, and next to the mallard are the :I‘ most plentiful of all the species here. They fly swiftly, but are among the easiest of the tribe to drop to shot, and decoy much after the fashion of the pintail. For the table the widgeon must be in prime condition, and he Is seldom else, consequently ranks well in epicurean qualifications with the red- head and mallard, They are less favored in the way of glorfous plumage than other ducks, a fact that detracts much from their marketable value, Of course there are many which visit these waters, but those men- tioned above are the principal ones, and, while I might proceed on entertainingly to the sportsman, the labor might be lost on the general reader. other ducks The Omahn Kennel €1 The Omaha Kennel club s still ve alive and in a promising condition. was an enthusiastic meeting held at Dr. J C. Whinnery's office last Wednesday even- ing. The treasurer's report showed the club to be free from debt and with a neat bal- ance in cash on nd. The feasibility of holding a bench show this year was exhaus- tively discussed, and the outlook is promis- ing for such an event, which means another fine success. After a lot of general business was disposed of the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: Dr o Whinnery, president; J. H. McTague, vic president; E. L. Marston, recording secre tary; Charles F. Frenzer, financial secre- tary; Fred Rath, treasurer; W. Watterman, Charles Ogden, John T. Evans and Dr. Eb- bitt, directors; Dr. Cyer of Philadelphia, del- egate to the American Kennel club. Barnstorming at Manilia, Teddy Gallagher, the Black Hills bantam, and ““Boge” Rhodes, the pride of lowa, will glve an athletic exhibition at Manilla, Ia, next Saturday evening. Talent from Omah and Sfoux City will assist. Gallagher and Rhodes in a ten-round go will be the main i much There Affairs of the Western Horse The new year book will be out this week. It has been settled at last that the great trotter, Walter B, is Missourl bred. Free Coinage, the great Kansas 3-year- old, will go without hopples this year. Houston, Tex., is building a mile track that will cost when completed close to $50,000. Commencing June 20, there will be a twenty-day’s running meeting held at Kan- n. MeGregor, y owned at Topeka, der of milk, is held at $4,000. en thousand dollars is the price offered by an Englishman for the yearling colt, Boreal, and he has not changed hands. The fast mare, Delia Shipp, that was seen veral times in the west last year, died at her Kentucky home, January 31. She was raced all of last season and lost only one race. DuBois brothers, the Denver breeders, have leased the Overland track in that ci and will give a June meeting this season, with from §25,000 to $30,000 in stakes and purses. The Colorado pacer, Pilot Knox, now 19 vears old, will be out the coming season as a trotter, and it is said he has shown at the latter gait enough speed to warrant his being sent east. Beauchamp & Jarvis of Concordia, Kan., have purchased the Robert McGregor stal- lion, Tom McGregor, 2:20%. This horse a grand individual, and fast enough to reduce his record at ny time A wealthy horseman has offered $10,000 for Mascot, 2:04, and he didn't get him for that. Mascot Is a geld- ing, and aside from his racing value, pos- S 's none but a road horse value, Ella Woodline, the Nebraska ear-old that was sold last fall for $5,000, is now held at $15,000, and she has shown her own- ers so much speed that they aver that they would hate to sell her at that price. It will be learned with regret by most of the western breeders that Judge Ken- nedy of Maryville, Mo., intends to go out of the business, and that he has consigned the whole of his valuable stable to the Cleveland sale. Jackson Case of Racine, Wis., out this year, in addition to the performer, Jennie K., 2:15 Wilkes, 219%; Patriot, 2:24; Hellas, Hattie K., 2:24%; Trotwood, 2:27%, several green ones by Phallas, John Kelly writes from Derrver has a great string of horses at the DuBois farm. He adds that he expects to beat Nancy Hanks' record with the little black wonder, Dircctum, the coming season. He has the best wishes of the write A review of the animals in The Conqueror's pedigree shows that their sons and daughter have produced 474 performers in 2 or bet- ter. This is the most grandly bred horse that ever made a season in the state, and he is certainly a horse that Omaha ought to feel proud of. Turf journals have all along insisted that Jack Curry, who has become noted as the driver of Alix, would train this season at Fleetwood Park, New York, but Mr. Curry announces that he will train on the Daven- port, I, mile track. Morris Jones has been thinking that he would again attempt to drive Alix, but when the time comes Curry will probably get her. Western Resources, a Nebraska turf jour- nal, says that Alamito won all his races as a d-year-old. He didn't, though, for Ken- tucky Union beat him three straight that year in Sedalia in 5 514, Captain Pyle always claimed that he could have won every heat in this race, but he did not want a mark on Alamito better than 2:25 for that season. However, Ala- mito is yet a great horse, and in the hands of such a man as Dick Tilden he ought to be among the great moncy winners of the west the coming season. The King Hill farm at St. Joseph, Mo., is zing to campaign Willard Russell, 2:17, Wilkie Russell, again this season. This is a good young horse, and he has shown that he is possessed of plenty of +d, though a little inclined to be erratic, Half of the trouble heretofore, however, has been with his driver, who had hardly as good a head as the horse. 1t Mr. Dono- van will select a driver this year with haif of the care he would display in selecting a race hor: he will more than probably have a race hors Among at Duluth, Minn. will have ional Victoria 2:241%; and that he the animals that Frank Grigsby of Arkoe, Mo., advertises to sell at Red Oak Ia., on the 2ith, is a colt that is probably better bred, as producers go, than any other Imal in America. He {s by Victor Ene, by Roberdean, by King Rene, and his dam is Rose Rysdyk, by Robert Rysdyk, second dam Olivette, by Onward, third dam Santa Claus, by Magie, fourth dam Josie Railey, by General George H. Adams, fifth dam nta Maria, by Pilot, jr., 12; sixth dam by Roebuck, a son of The King. IFifteen brood mares are represented in this youngst pedigree. If he don’t turn out a cracker- jack there is little in breeding, 0 business on earth has suffered so much at the hands of its fool friends as has that of the breeding of trotting horses. It has been the continual whining and chronie kicking of breeders as much as anything that has brought about the de- pression in . the business. 1f every man who s interested in breeding trotters would put on a cheerful air and always insist that the business was all right it would not be many moons ere the hooks of the good stal- lions would be full and sales would be better. Try the prescription. The best way in the world to cause your neighbors to be- lieve your business has gone to the devil is to keep telling him that. On the other hand, you can rely upon making him think the opposite If the opposite avgument is made. The South is to be held at Omaha in March is assuming better proportions every day, and in an interyiew with John D. Creighton a few days ago he sald he thought the sales would develop into sales of a national reputation, and that they meant incalculable good to Omaha and Nebraska. Manager Short reports the re- ceipt of many new consignments, many of them from the best farms in the land. The limit of three hundred head will soon be filled up with a class of horses that will en tice the best buyers in the country this way and this vicinity will be ated to one of the best horse shows ever held in the west Among the consignments thus far thero are the get of Shadeland Onward, 2:18} Woodline, 19; Anteec 2:161% Dictator Egotist, Nutwood, Winslow Wilkes, Red Wilkes, Charles Caffrey, Simmons, and oth great oues, The first horse sale that unual catalogue Issued by the Keystone farm Is just out and Is a hand some souvenir of that great Nebraska farm. Following the title page is a handsome photo -tone view of the fari, lncluding resl THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: | INDAY, FEBRUARY 1 1894--SIXTEEN PAGES dence, track, paddooks, stable and training | barn, Handsome portraits of The Con queror, 2:17, Wooddflah, Phenon and Two Strike, 2:121%, emMellish the Interior pages, while the tabulations and compilations of pedigrees are compiéte, even to details. In the introductory Mri Paxton strikes a key- note when he says ‘The past two years have brought about a somewhat radical change in the breeding business as relates to the light harness horse. A few years ago all that was eensidered necessary was to breed In cortain established and called fashionable Hines, and when the was dropped he was salable on the merits of his breeding alome. All this is ohanged now, however, and that horse is only con sidered well bred that is bred in race horse lines and inherits that quality. the World's falr, to see this great race fin- ished. Do you think that those enthusiastic people who sat in the amphitheater at Wash- ington park and cheered themselves hoars whenever thelr favorite showed up in front would have been satisfied to have had that race ended as it stood at the end of the sixth heat and with no further knowledge of the ability of the individual participators? The public pays its money to see a horse race, and it will never be satisfled with any rule that declares a race ended before it is won. If you :wateh a grand stand, ull through the circuit and year after year, as the writer has, you will find that as evening approaches, where there is a race on where one horse evidently outclasses his fleld, there will be few occupants in the stand, but, on the other hand, if the race s one in which there are several horses contend- ing overy inch of the way, and the h have been split, hardly a seat will be v cated until the race is ended or carried over. This is the best index to public sentiment, There s discussion in the turf papers again this winter regarding a new rule that will shorten races. Among the apparently most popular theories ad- vanced is what fs known as the six-heat rule. This rule wowd cause a race to be ended at the end of six heats without re- gard to the standing of the horses. 1 am unalterably opposed to any such rule. In the first place horses have been bred for almost a century with a view to producing not alone speed but ability to endure a long r Such a rule as is advocated would be at least a step toward the single dash system and it never could become popular, for it would settle no question of supremac BEvery race goer knows that the most inter- esting races he ever saw were the hotl contested, split-heat affairs, whe it an unsettled question until the end had been reached which lorse was golng to be the victor—a race where all the horses were 80 evenly matched as to make every heat a race from wire to wire. Go back with me to the great Columbian free-for-all in Chi- cago last season and tell me, if you will, if there has ever, in the history of the Ameri- can horse, been a race where so much in- terest was shown on the part of an enthusi- tic, sport-loving public. For three days, while this race lasted, thousands of people ayed away from the great counter attraction The west holds the rds for the fastest ling, any sex; faste considerable world's trotting rec. tallion, fastest year. t 2-year-old colt, fastest 2-year-old gelding, fastest 3-year-old colt, fastest 4-year-old filly, fastest 5-year-old mare, fastest b-year-old gelding, winner of the fastest heat in a race, winner of the fastest heat by a stallion, fastest heat by mare, fastest heat by a gelding (di- vided honor between two western horses), stest heat by a vearling, fastest heat by a d-year-old, fastest heat by a G-year-old, fastest first heat, fastest second heat, fastest third heat, fastest fourth heat, fastest fifth heat (divided honor between two wostern fastest ninth heat, fastest three-heat race, fastest four-heat race, fastest five-heat race, fast- est six-heat race, fastest seven-h fast eight-heat race, fastest race, fastest mile to wagon in mile against time with running ma west has in the pacing contingent the fast- est mile (a division of honor between the ecast and west), the fastest three miles, the fastest four miles, divides honors with the fastest yearling colt, fastest astest 2-year<old - colt, f: ar-old colt, fastest 3-year-old fill gelding, fastest 4-year- fastest 4-year-old gelding, fastest 5-year-old stalllon, fastest 5-year-old mare, fastest heat by a stallion, fastest heat by a mare, fastest heat by a vearling, fastest heat by a 4- vear-old, fastest fourth heat (division of honor between east and west), fastest sixth heat, fastest two-heat race, fastest mile to wagon, fastest mile against time on a half mile track, fastest mile in a race on a half mile track. We will have the whole thing in a couple of more years rling rling est mare, ossip with the Shooters, The late Lieavy fall of snow drove the crows into the city by the hundreds. + L. Ashton is one of the prime mov the organization of a gun club at Savage, Tlie Central City Gun club will hold spring tournament April 24, 25 and 26, There are a lot of good fellows connected with this club, and it goes without saying that their shoot will be an interesting one. The Korker Duck Decoy Is out, and it is a magnificent work and will receive the hearty endorsement of all appreciative gunners. It is certainly the best duck decoy on the war- Kket. M. Peters of this city is the in- ventor. 1t is made of closely woven drill- ing, water proof and moulded in the form of a duck, with a filling of fine cork. There is no weighty anchor, and the painting is artistic and life like. Fred J. Lamb came in from Sidney day last week. Fred is the great western shooter you've all heard of so often. He says that he has caught 800 muskrats this winter with a pin hook and expects to kili a whole train lond of ducks next month, Clark R. Hutton of Paxton sent down three fine geese to his old shooting mate Johnny Hardin, last week. Hutton says the hunters have been there all winter and have managed to keep in .good condition He is lookng for fine shooting in the next thirty days. At the Eden Musce they have what is called the “Grass Man from Borneo,” but on close inspection the other evening I dis- that he was none other than my friend, Jack Knowlos, in one of grass ducking suits, Jack up, but in exoneration safd that were hard and it was anything to honest dollar. in its one covered old estec Lawrence W editor is in receipt of the letter of the otective in rt the The sporting is following open The officer and Ifish request sportsmen United States to rey game and fish instance to send state g warden found), that prompt may result in the conviction fenders, Full p the essential address of law the illegal shooting. National Gume, Bird jation earnestly sections of the any violations of the informant_ in each dupli report to the (where such can be co-operative work of the of me iculars are desired in every case. information being name and reakers, date and place shing, capture or ship- ment of game or fish, names and addresses { witnesses who can testify in behall of the prosecution, and any further facts bear ing upon the case which may be known to the complainant, Any information relating to the violations of the fish and game laws will e prompt attention ifiaddressed (o the tary, P. 0. box 50, Milwaukee, Wis. FRED E. POND, Secretary. OMAHA, PPeb. 17.—Sandy Griswold, Sport ing 1ditor of The Bee: Wil vou' Kindly mention i tomorvew morning's Bee that if the quartet of Dunlap, Li., shooters, Messrs. Dean, Abbott, Arft and Saul, stil think they can outshoot any four Omaha shoot ers. Parmelec ed, and come over here 1will that they are accommodited The shoot will be according o their origl nal proposition, fifty live birds each, for $i0 a corner, and if desired we will return the complimént and shoot them on their own grounds. J.J. HARI Charlie Willilams, the good lool man from Missouri Valley, announces that he Intends to don his war-bonnet again this spring and go after all the fast ones in this section of the workl. Well, Charlie hasn't stood before the trap much lately, but judg ing frem the style in which le stopped mallards up in the Lugenbeel marshes last fall, 1 believe it will take a good man to beat him The genial Dr the river, was in the city one day last week He says that on Christmas day he made the shot of his life—killing an immense Canada wolgh thirty-two pounds, This hard to swallow, but when the declared that they compelled to gooselets in a ten-gallon wash that he was used at a church g sports Capels of Percival, over tor wer cook boller his and Giving our w/ole attention to money The tailors must be in—active practice—the fabrics must be cntlemen! You can’t draw the line too sharply in placing your order for —— Dressy Attire ! Jresh—and you'll find Nico!l fi st in Zaste and guality. Their price will be your best guide and helper, $20 zm(} $25 for a serviceable and stylishsuit. $5 and $6 for trousers. is our way of building up trade. making=to=order——and doing the best for the least We don’t know a better way—than to get the best materials for you to choose from, By our bright arrangement, you can examine—a thousand styles in Draped side by side for easy comparison. Spring Styles ready for inspection sociable, seventy-six the carcass, I caved. J. C. Read, one of Omaha's most trap shots, has a match on. On March 10, at Central City, he is to shoot a 100-live bird race with W. S. Duer of Hastings for $50 a side and the price of the feathe The race s to be made under the American association rules, thirty yards rise, five un- known traps. It will take in the morning and in the afternoon the local gun club will hold a sweepstakes shoot. Both Read and Duer are capital shots, but I will pick J. C. for a winner. Jack Morrison, Jack Knowles, Dr. Whin- nery, Hospe, Geor Loomis, M. € Peters, Stocky Heth, and all the rest of the duckers, are waiting patiently for the win- ter to break up. They have their Lefevers all in tip-top shape, de nted over, and cases packed with and_at sound of the first “quack” will make a sortie of the surrounding marshes. Knowles, who is one of the oldest and best posted sportsmen of the city, says this big snow we have just had will make us plenty of water, and in turn plenty of shooting. Paul Jensen is a ranchman and a man. He lives fifty miles north of ¥ and has had considerable sport killing wolves this winter. Among the varigated assort- ment 0l has administered a quictus to were six big gray timber wolves, the last one, which he shot just a few days ago, standing three feet and nine inches at the shoulders. These big wolves are very de- structive to the stock and Jensen's mode of disposing of them is, to say the least, ¢ fective and novel. He watches his stock on the distant hilisides through a pair of power- ful field glasses. When he detects a wolf about to make an onslaught on his herd he walts patiently till he gets through. It doesn’t take him more than twenty minutes to get a steer down, and when he does Paul keeps his glasses on him until he gets through with his banquet. ‘They are most voracious and will continue to gorge them- selves until their hices will hold no more. It is at this felicitions juncture that Paul grabs his Winchester, mounts his pony and sallies forth to the slaughter. The wolf is too full to make much of a chase and Jensen soon overhauls him and pumps him full of lead. Whisperings fro; itle Annie. Juke Wells will manage Mobile this year, and promises to make the Blackbirds fly in the front rank. George Washington Henry will tramp down the hollyhocks in Toledo’s Southpaw garden this year, Kid Baldwin wants to join the Omahogs for 1894, and if Manager Rourke is on, he'l collar Clarence without delay. Milt West will play first for Wilkesbarre, Dan Shannon will never lose sight of his old pals, and it Is a credit to him. “Chicken’ Wolf may be found with Lin- coln this spring. Buffalo has given him the “chase” and ho desires to migrate west. Omaha_does not get George Darby after all. He will remain in his native city a member of Jimmy Manning's cowboy gang. Frank Sclee will not let Harry S it he can help it. He thinks th has many a deceptive curve up his vet. Varney Anderson, an old Western league pitcher, offers to go to Boston for his board that is until he demonstrates that he is in it again. They are calling Jack Crooks hard names over in St. Louis this spring, The Glob Democrat referred to him as ““Mr. Crooks the other day O, no, old Petie Browning wouldn't be a card in the Western association. He wants to come out here and play first base, and it will be a lucky team that gets him back to base ball! “Hen” Boyle wants to rejoin Indianapolis, his old love, and George Wood hankers for the game once more. Anyway, that is what Ban Johnson claims. By the time the season opens there will be over sixty professional ba 1l clubs in ration, including about 700 will receive compensation ranging from $50 to $100 per month. Tip" O'Neil, formerly Louls Brown champions, manufacturing business at Amsterdam, Y., Young hailed from Norman Leslie Baker can have a Western association umpireship for the asking. Won- der what has become of Bake. His dog is still here, but no one seems to Know anys thing of Leslie's whereabouts. Oliver Burns of Portland, Me., lost a job to play shortstop for Minneapolis this season by a captured letter, The eplstle was on the train which was held up by the cowboy and as a result the letter never reached its destination. ST Wil people dining off of clever old” man sleeve the in his town famous St the clgar brother Nick of is with th who has played in Omaha several seasons, is booked to play right field for Binghamton next season. Last 3 he was with Albany, but only played a part of the season on account of a sprained ankle He was with Pitelier Nichols of the Bostons in this city in 1889, Frank Killen, so Ren come oft his Pitisburg perch contract. Every paper in the nted out the error of his the Sabbath and he marched into camp on Mon day. The ball player who thinks $2,400 for six months' play a bad salary finds little sympathy in any quarters Just now According to the Cincinnatl Times-Sta Elmer Smith is going to Mount Clemens to train down, The craze for baths is wide spread at Pittsburg, but Frank Killen | never thought of ramming his head in a barrel of salt water. That's all the train ing he needs, because he suys he's the greatest pitcher thut ever went into the dlumond The spring association will be Tuesday, and will delegates from the in the circuit. T says, ha signed City Mulford and Smoky way on the Western held at Des Moines next be largely attended by difterent cities included object of the meeting | to perfect organization and o come to an absolute understanding as to the iutention of each city discuss the schedule and other fmportant matters. President Rowe Tom McVittie and 8. G. V. Griswold will go over from this elty meeting of Questions wnd Answ MAHA, Fet To th Editor £ The Hee Please #tut Sunda paper the welght of Cha hell when he fought ¢ inhart, sul riber Ans.—One hundre There are letters at the 1 and fifty-four pou sporting depart i the | ment | satisty | Editol | of The ball player, and J. it BLAIR, Neb., Ieb, Editor of The D your humble servont boys, please answer in following which has alre many times in ome people themselves: In a and B are 46, C and the trump ing low. Who wins? Ans—C and D. OMAHA, 17, 17 of The | During plays a 4 spot, B plays spot Bee for a4 how for third Clifton Hill, Ans.—Two for nothing, A 1, 2, a run, and 1’ for FAIRBURY, Neb., Feb, ing Editor of Iee: enclosed question in T greatly oblig In the cribbage A leads a 7. and C pla and ¢ Then if A p a four? and if claim a run Ans.—Cor! WA and each the five?—\W 12, the 1 a 3 Omaha who Keeps munition? ~ Also state 8. 8. powde of the 8. s v sider the W, powder I shoot. FPREMONT, el Sditor of The Bee iski shooters hooting, Hurli is the beést?—Tr Ans.—Both_are ass con 1. Dpe used, 1 much the best LLACE, Neb., I sditor of The i ugh The Sunda tain’ rules for playing cost of same?—Tod Ans.—Order Hoyle on g bookseller. 4 Neb., Feb. sdifor of The Ihee: game, A 31, 13 29; B but A holds low. Ans.—A. M Spe ring record Omitia, now tionality and Reade D ok of of Jack of N place Kk has lic and Sund unless )r 9 and make the last he of the most what and whether any lsrode the be To Wi general gham or Amer but on rules are the most popular and High bids 8 and Who wins? DUy To the 1y the the satisfaction of rest ¥'s been . bu they ¢ high Spor of i nsw Fred Knickerbocker, Allen cannot rend fiv 1t e A A and B buy «and D hold- K me To the Sportir of cribbage A | litor 3spot; A plays a 3 spot, £D A il card, 1. Su follows 1ims a 5 can he cl follows thig with a 1, can 1 sporting wood t the Will you pleas ome you the t rule the o, sund be succeeding 5 ¥y nys Bee pegged B 1, 2, n 52 the Sport. Kindly answer day same of B threc the with an it but at in Amer! of three. im a run of dealer improved am think other kind I con- the Sporting trap an? Which o the Sport- Bee whe cribbage, Moxa. can and the mes of your local » the Sport five ADOW GROVE, Neb., T & B itor of The Bec birth whole times; complete record, in Nova Scotia. s about ¥ e IN TH, Henry Guy Carleton's “The Lion’s Mouth, time in this city THEA To Subscriber’ the se publish romantic will be seen for the first on. Wedne at Boyd's new theater. rly ni- A Constant | 1ot of men his dran Februar Mr. Warde will appear in his original role of Rinaldo, and Mr. Fra Angelo. The scenes laid in Venic of James will be s the er play during the sixteenth centur. N as are antl the plot hinges on the custom in Venic at that any b ing accu public receptacie mouth.” Such accusatic prompted by pr mediate_arralgnment followed as a Paul di Nov of Rinaldo, has that city from the who succeeded his Novarro, murdered the Benedetti, who as Friar Angelo, chief meets Linora falls madly in passionate ado In order to save introduced by the Francesco to cast i of Paul di Novara into she being unaware of her husband. Rinaldo into prison, but the Angelo by his arch Christopher. time of bringing tions love ation seroll into the torture cha awaits death and doge of Venice, None of the local s the entire production Wl stage furniture, organization will and H. Baker and Rimint Byrne theater The Brothers ifteenth Street mencing with matin derful and very suce Bells.” This season they thing new, having dollars in perfecting a lot ling tricks, new devices TheBrothers evidences natural talent with preservation. Here Mr. John F. Byrne, u capital Irish comedian our representative in the background, Th clates are clever in thelr The play Kome tunities to these clever alone displaying their but some remarkable sketches and dance them famous, Saturday, with Wakhington make and Thursday In fon of play the engagement dash u wire o full vie come rule father, by Franc afterward Inquisitor. daughter of Jullo, with d s secretly Rinaldo's crafty the the nber declare scenery today, ssful expended scenery Byrne's n lies M and comedian a charge on by simply placing a scroll bear- gainst him as a citizen in a known ns were vate malice, and mi Dbefory rule the by to her, true soized mask conspirator, him The doge orders into prison and the aroused populac of the B aga “1ig or ant Coun torture rro, an exile unde Veni Julio, Luigl Ring inst on's 1y im- of and the to the i f of masquerades aldo the doj wins married Linora malevolent is the name lion's identity and torn where him is curried by include uliug nee “Fr will one in and will the th omedy with thou of difficult mechanical versatility Rin lay be u: including scenery this ca appear week, ¢ uth of t rom riar 1 wiul ed, fine Uaesar, de at m [0} o inds st 1 untiring en young skl Jugsling which Matin grand birthday Kent with t th 2zle puts in broth make many this people pant helped Wedn Ky will ¢ (Sun pre s and endor play 1ight ory of rt th ay) tige el of | fe w minutes, 207 So. 15th Street. Karbach A view is shown. Another scene is the Kentucky rniountain mendous chasm spanned bridge and built to a It is in this act that lov will find plenty of cxcitem falls into the gorge and th a flying swing across the cb of a rope, saves her lover death by picking up a dynamite hurls it is about to explode, and byss, where it explodes wi shattering the walls of t causing tho whole mass deals with Kentucky ife whatever may domestic life it has larity by filling the theater: been given. With the auxil by height rs of to be its merits as a demonstrated Blk. of the famous Lexington race track a grand view of showing a tre- small foot- of thirty feet, melodrama ent. The bridge » hieroine makes hasm on the end from impending bomb, which into the th terrific force, precipice and fall. The play d character, and drama of its popu- wherever it las faries nearly 100 people will be employed in the production One of the most current season at the opers city will probably be the fort ment of the celebrated naval sign,” which comes to nights, commencing the 25th sign” is based upon perhaps tional episode of the civil the double merit nd instrueting t the old story is intensely ations thrillingly dramatic, investiture is said to sury attempts at stage realism. — MUSICAL AND DIt Thomas W. retire afte years old It is said tha rewsk this country next November agement of Ch. F. Tretbar. Dr. Joachim will cclebra Jubilee this year. His first ce was made March 28, 18 anish musician has d. sical notation by which flat system is done ¢ next s bt Mr. glad to give the Quaker The old operettas of Offer ing in rmany In Dresde ing “Orphee aux Enfe and Josef Hofmann, now preparing to return to that his plano playi s “Struck Oil" is the comedy in which Mis: next season with A. ager Augustus Pitou's In 1803 there Amg nan Jane H were prod thirty operas, five comic ope operettas, two opera bouffes, musical sketches. In Franc elght opera comiques, eight important interesting Keene announces that years fulfills events of the a houses in this Nceming engage drama, “TheEn- Boyd for four inst. “The En- the most sensa- war, and hence of ‘entertaining e young. Th and the situ- while the sc 1LaATIC, he will Ie says he is 54 i will return to under the man- ite his English London appear- 4, evised a system i the sharp-and- with, In two weeks Mr. Irving p | in Philadelphia dyed to $60,000 Irving will always be ity a show. \bach are reviv- ‘0 they are giv- 1 “*Barbe Bleue.” of age, fs ica. It is said carly proms of a tuart new farce 5 to star Wilson, under Man- direction tuced in Italy ras, thirty-four two idyls, three ce three operas, operettas, one Iyric comedy and one lyric drama were pro- duced, In a letter to a New York Daly writes from London that his England 1 owing will not come to a to the great succe Night.” When his compan country a brief tour of the be made and the sl York theater will not begin Comedian Crane's engagenm (N. Y.) theater will end on he will again go westward tour. “The Seaator,” if th continues, will be the only during the engagement. ceases, however, “‘Brother Probation” may be revived After a long fight T, secured the American Limited,” the latest Gilber effort, and all arrangements to give it a first presentatic ay theater, New Y on The attempts to sccure t caused a good deal of bitter he American Symphony ganization exclusively of cians, has been working al successfully, und gave its f cently at Chickerin 1] principal number ny, D major zkowski's first Meistersinger leader An tmportant recently during i} namely, a hymn stone with the we have known especially on the fore hoped that lieved to belong fore Christ, will that is now Involved in Mr. Wilkon Barrett ginius" in Chicago. The announcement is auth that Mme. Helena Modjoska the stage at the end of th Mme. Modjeska Is now playin and her intention to make t engagement in that city b lished by the metropo Mme. Modjeska's car honorable ¢ She u wife of the buis manuge 1876 from Poland actress of acknowled belongs to this other as an artist career In San Franciseo, app enne Lecouvreur,” in wh jmmediate su The n made a tour of the Unit the first she has bee and off the stage leading parts in support ppearing with him at iouse, Among her most have heen Jullet, Beatrice Rosalind, Ophelia, Julle dc Stuart, Camille, Frou-k reur, Queen Katherir bella, Portia, and play of that al dlse to Apolle musical not little abou practical this 1o the Count 1 \ and, alt I high country ma She bega of Stantein teck the largest amber wted on the n They put of these pills for great s Risers, 1t John" Henry rights Noy and the pi Mr. Sam excavations hymn furnish th he came friend Augustin season in until May “Pwelfth ny reaches this large cities will son at his New until next fall. ient at the Star March 10, when for his spring demand for it play presented the demand and “On s of French has of “Utopia, t and Sulliva have been made n at the Broad- aster Monday, e opera have feeling chiestra, an or- born musi- quietly, but irst concert re- ork. The e Mozart sym- variations from clude to ko 1o ra very was made in Delphi, ), engraved on ation. Hitherto t Greek music, le; it s there= which I8 be- contury bes key to much curity revived "Virs made from ason. York, farewell pub-= papers, been a long and ntess, belng the who Is now her to America in hough then an i reputation, she re than to any n her American aring in “Adri= e made an weason she and from both on played Boooth, ns ritatively will retire 1 in New nis her Just b n new ilar she vin Viola, Inogen, Mortimer, Mary, Adrienne Lecous Macheth, I Sudermann's own' lo= \ssla world, th the o, yearly outs at $1,000,000, De Litle ' 4 -