Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 11, 1894, Page 19

wvem 78 short CHAT WITH THE BOXERS Including the Story of Bill MoCune's Lobster and Wine, THE BIG HORSE SALES AT SOUTH OMAHA | \ Derby s Duckers and the actall and Bat-Biddy's Horse and Dog and the the Robin, ture Biuo Bird and otwithstanding all of the eastorn fistic @uthorities declared that Dan Creedon far lassed Dick Moore in thelr recent round draw, it seems that Dick and his backer, Ben Benton, haven’t got enough yet. On Tuesdny last Benton challenged the Aus- trallan on behalf of Moore for a finish tle for $1,000 a side, and as a demonstration of business deposited with Captain Cooke a $500 William to bind the match. This goe to show that “all of the castern authorities’ may sometimes ba very much off their base It seems sonable to suppose that Dick knows whether he greatly out- classed or not, and also just how much he was worsted. The referee, It will be remems bered, sald it was a standoff, and this de- clsion, together with Dick’s confidence, would seem to Indicate that the referce under® #stood his business. Moore says that note withstanding his apparently fine condition, that he was sadly out of whack in one or two particulars, chief of which was that he of the necessary wind to carry Journe and that had he could have over- He promises to con. vince Daniel of the truth of this assertion it he will consent to meet him again. As to the hitting, the St. Paul boy says he got in a good share of it, and despite the fact that the authorities aver that his punches lacked steam, he says he and Creedon are the only parties qualified to pass judgment on that point. And it looks as if knows what he is talking about. However, consldering every thing, I am still of the opinion that Dick will stand but’a very poor show of ever getting a decision over the bulky Antipodean. was 80 him for so long a he had sufficient time come this difficulty. There is little prospect, in my mind, for the pulling off of the match between George Dixon and Young Griffo, but if they should be so fortunate, there 18 precious little doubt who would come out on top. The proposed six-round go between Griffo and Tke Welr, which takes place in Chicago some time this month, will have much to do with the above fight. It strikes me that the tough little Australian has bitten off about as much as he can masticate in the Spider. If he even bests him it will surprise me consid ably. The time was when Weir was head and shoulders above any feather —weight that ever lived, and despite his bad hands, 1s well able to make matters warm for any of them yet. He won all his battles in this country, save one or two, in hollow style. He was always ready to fight, and there was hardly a fortnight passed for several years when he did not have one on his hands. He went back a bit, however, through dissl- pation and recklessness, lost many of his friends and all his stuff, and for quite a Jong time was on the bum. He came west, and in 1889 met Frank Murphy at Kouts, Ind., and made a draw of it after fighting eighty vicious rounds. —Then the Spider floated out to the coast, and a year later en- tered into a job with Billy Murphy to beat the ‘Frisco club and pool rooms. He went out in the fourteenth round from a tap in the stomach, only to get the double X from both nutty Billy and the gams, and since that time he has been all over the country scrapping for meal tickets and clgaret money. In the meantime, however, he has beaten Billy Murphy just like eating pie, and for"a year past has been endeavoring to get on a meet with George Dixon, but hig been in such bad repute that he has found all his efforts very uphill work. If Griffo can whip Isaac It will do more to boost his cause along than anything he has yet done in this country, but for one I do not think he can do it. While on the subject of the Lillputs, the bravado of Solly Pulaski Smith is some- thing that makes old sports smile. he will ept Johnny Griffin's challenge for $5,000 a side and bet him $1,000 ad- ditional that he stops him in four round: To every man who saw Smith whip Grifiin at Roby last July it would be a more proper thing for Johnny to bet Solly $10 that he Of all the “flukes” in the annals of the ring, Solly’s According can't stop him in 1,000 rounds. over Johnny was the biggest. to my way of thinking Grifin is the only feather-weight in the world who can lick Dixon, and I think Dixon shares with me my good opinion, But to reminis a bit. I'll never forget the fight between Smith and Griffin, or the sight of Bill McCune's face when Johnny recelved that soforiferous thunderbolt in the Jaw In the fourth round. Through the kind- ness of Dominick O'Malley 1 got Bill a seat down In the press row alongside of mine, He was halt tickled to death, for he had $300 up on the fight, and it was worth another hundred to rest his nose on the ropes where he could see every move of the contesting gladiators. “How's she goln'?” he anxiously in- quired as he scttled himself comfortably in the New York Herald's chair. “All one way," I replied. “Grifin's gloves have been stuffed with lead pipe. “Just the way T think,” quickly got Bill, “this s just like finding money. “Any on it?" “Only three hundred.” ““Let me in? ‘Haven't you played Johnny “‘Not a red. “No, I can’t lot loose of such ready dough. You sce 1 have been here at the fair nearly three weeks now and my finances are sadly out of whack. Wh, I had to borrow a hundred of Patsey Falion to make my crack good. I left my roll at the hotel. See? But I'll tell you what we'll have when we get get back in the city."” “What? Something good, I'll bet.” Ymly a quart of red neck and one of Rector's biggest lobsters apicee, that's all.” About this time the men entered the ring, and after an outburst of applause, a hush settled over the vast crowd of spectators. Champion Jim Corbett, Donaldson, De- laney, Brady and several other notables were in the box immediately behind our chairs, and Corbett eallod out to Griflin, who was in the corner close to where we sat “‘Hello, there! How're you fed Johnny?" And tho Braintree lad turned his pompa- doured head toward the champion’s box, and, recognizing his distinguished friend, smiled and replied Out of sight—couldn’t be fine BIIL Jheard this, and leanin chucklingly whispered “Oh, no, 1 guess wine—1 ain't a back ing, over he we won't lobster and very s t man when it comes to plekin’' winners. And he gave me a nudge In the side, making a dent be- {woen my riba large cuougl to hide your hat n The fight was on, It was all ono wa about his work like the master of the art he 1s. He kept both hands shooting out and in like twin picees of machinery, and Solly's cucurbitaceous little nut was punched from slde to side, and back on his shoulders, as it it was attached to the trunk by a piece of elustie, He tried his famous rushes again and again, But all to no avail. Johun would side step him and puich him in re turning as easy as eating mush, Johnny set right At the sound of the gong Grifin tripped back to his chair with all the gayety of a summer girl on a lark, and afier swashing als throat, turned to Corbott and said Easy, isn't he? ““Too casy,”” and Jim smiled bewitchingly. Solly was sitting in his chajr, with & mug a0 him as red as your flannel undershirt, and pufing like a porpoise. His brother, Beward, and Zeke Abrahams were stiffening him up with words of cheer, but there was a somber cloud hanglug over his corner thick a8 a brick How do you like that wine rour lobster, Iy It done enough 1" nd I got another two inches of ) L Aud L gat t thumb in he second an® third rounds were repeti- Sandy, and Dicks He says Solly was next to helpless do a thing to him but tions of the first, and Johnny didn’t punch his limited brain nto an addle, One hundred to ten shouted Corbett, as Grifin took his corner after the third, smil ing and radiant as a jocund May morning. ““That fellow wants s ly to make him a present,” whispered Bill to me. Then the fourth and last was on. Hither- to Griffin had nimbly avolded all of Smith rushes with the and_grace of an Arlel. But this time, as the Californian came up wobbly and groggy, the Braintre boy evidently made up his mind that the danger mark had been passed, and as Solly rushed blindly upon him he planted himseif squarely to meet him. He meant to stand still and knock him out without further cere mony. BIff, biff, right and left shot into Pulaski’s inflammatory mug. Sofky stag- gered about like a drunken man, but came on for more, swinging his knotty arfus like a couple of flails, “Its all ov cried Bill, half starting from his chair, “lets get a start before the jam comes,"” Then he fell back like a hod full of mud He rubbed his eyes and peered through the ropes Was it real or unreal “By the gods, he's out,” gasped BIll, clutching the arms of his chair after the fashion of a man who had tumbled into a beer vat And he was out! But It was Grifiin instead of Smith One of those wil slashes of Solly’s had caught him In a vul nerable portion of the ncck, and he went down and out like a flash of lightning. The only real hard punch he suffered in the en- tire fight Bill wasn't in such a hurry to get out of ° big shed then, and we lingered, and aw Johnny's limp form carried to his chair. frantic, frenzied vhm we had our wine and lobster after all. We quaffed and ate in gloomy silence, how- ever, at a corner table in Rector's, but Bill was game, and paid the bill, “ighters’ earnings are again subjects of discussion since Bob Fitzsimmons has stated that he made $80,000, and is financially speaking ‘on the hog train,’ says Cap Cook, the Boston pugilist authority. came to America a very much surprised man to find that the profession of pugilism was a much surer and swifter road to wealth than the trade of blacksmithing and horseshoe ing. Bob has been, as fighters go, a very snug fellow In respect to the money that he expended generously or lavishly. been th farth re- move from a . bar-room ‘money- burner’ or a ‘flend’ for the green cloths of the gambling houses of: the beguilements of the race tracks. ‘Every man a sucker for something’, {s the maxim of the sporting world, which well understands” that if hu- manity was all angelic, and men were all made of wood, sinners would find hard scratching for a livelihood. Bob's beguilers, who have ‘fanned’ him for the bank-roll that he kept closely guarded from others, have been the original Garden of Eden tempters, whose prime Mother Eve did Adam up for his garden and fruit orchard Fitzsimmons’s wealth would have been large for an Australlan fighter if he had husbanded it and taken it home. Dut bless us, if our fistic stars. were money savers and hoarders would they be fighters at all? Wouldn't they be getting rich in easier ways? The few great fortunes accumulated among pugilists have nearly all been made in pursuits outside of pugilism. The gen- eral opinion among the ‘old sort’ was that if a living income could be obtained by the fighting, the pugilist should congratulate himself. Most of the old-timers who have accumulated much money have acquired it through business operations, not through di- rect practice of pugilism. John Gully, the ‘member for Pofitefract,’ Tom King, John Morrissey and Ned Price are among the old ring fighters I recall who have accumu- lated sizable fortunes. King became Inter- ested in profitable bookmaking. Morrissey was put in the way of wealth by the friend- ship of ‘Old Commodore Vanderbilt and the liking of rich men of the civil war period for the rugged strength of Morrissey's char- acter. 'Old Smoke,” as they calied him, did not leave a great fortune, but plenty came his way. He believed with Dean Swift that ‘it is easily seen what God thinks of money by the kind of men that he gives it to’ Ned Price, who, I sup- pose, s the richest ex-pugilist in the world has acquired wealth by the prac- tice of law in New York, by play writing and in dealing in real estate. Bill Hastings (Dub- lin Tricks), who died not long ago, acquired a snug fortw s by ‘imported champagne’ manu- facturing, on Staten island. His champagne grapes grew, I believe, on apple trees in the neighboring ‘state of New Jersey. Hastings was thus free always to wager that his ‘Pom- ery,’ ‘Mumm’ or ‘Veuve Cliquot,’ was the genuine ‘forelgn produet.’ John L. Sullivan’s wealth would have been large, and probably the largest ever acquired by a fighter, if Sul- livan had not sown it on both sides of the road as h made it. Champion James J. Cor- bett has earned quite a fortune in two fights 15,000 net when he defeated Sullivan, and $20,000 in his defeat of Mitehall. Corbott's wealth promises to be larger than that of any pugilist in the world during his time, be- cause his investments are good and his earn- ings equal those of leading stage stars. There are, though, few rich fighters—none that I can’ mention as now in sight—who have for- tunes strictly earned in pugilism. It is a question as to Fitzsimmons whether he has been able to earn much except in fighting. If ho is, as he now declares, at the bottom of his barrel, he may be easier to please in the matter of mateh making. There are very few rich fighters on record, and, as I have said, scarce any who have really earned their money in the practicd of pugilism; and, in- deed, the fortunes of the richest of these, compared with those of fairly successful mer- chants, manufacturers and other business men, are small and insignificant. And of all times the present is a particularly cold, frozen one for the fortune seckers by the fighting route." Tommy Ryan agalu writes me that he will leave the cast for Chicago this week, and after a stay of a fey weeks there, during which time he hopes to settle all scores with Billy Smith, he will run over to Omaha for fow days' visit. Tommy’s protege, Geo Siddons, won his fight with Danny Russ last Saturday night, and this netted the pair, something like $1,800. They are as- sured of three squares and a bed for some timo to come. For twelve rounds the fighting was even, but Siddons' superior ring generalship soon gave him the advantage. Russell was groggy after the twelfth round, and received terri- ble punishment. By terrific rushes he knocked Siddons over the ropes twice, and in the twenty-seventh round deliberately fouled by putting his arm around Siddons' neck and trying to throw him. The referee thereupon gave the Aight to Siddons. Rus- sell's face was badly bruised and swollen, one eye being entirely closed, A tolegram from Denver Ed Smith request- ing me to meet Jack McAuliffe at the 4 o'clock Burlington trai n Friday afternoon was Instrumental in gathering quite a select crowd at the depot on the occasion, and the great lightwelght was tickled immensely over the reception. In the crowd was Cap- tain R. L. Mayberry of St. Louls, Harry Smith of the Roland Reed mpan: ator Withuell, Architeet Voss, Tom Biddison, L. H. Benedict, Colonel Mark Turner, Jimmy Lindsay and Mister Griswold. After Mo Auliffe had stored away in his berth a num- ber of tributes of respect in the shape of several long red-necked bottles, which one Tom Foley, formerly of Ireland, but now of the Phoenix refreshment emporium, had sent down to him, we all adjourned over to Pat O'Hern's barrel house, and we didn't do a thing to any of those barrels over the ocly emptied about three of them in the half hour we had to spend Jack was looking well and feeling better, but 80 bu: were we all In assisting M O'F ping the mahogany hot, that 1 didn’t get a chance to have much of a pri- vate talk with him. He did say, however, as the train pulled out, that if some of his rich English relatives didn’t die pretty quick and leave him the butk of thelr stuff, he'd have to make one more fight. SANDY GRISWOLD. Among the Loeal Horsemen. The Kinney brothers are putting a lot of work on the fair ground track this spring and by the 1st of May it will be finer condition than ever before, They are clreulating season tickets amoung the horse men of the city, which tickets grant all the privileges of this famous old course The Kin that1f the holders of these tickets will call a meeting and ¢ an oxclusive association among themselves they buve the use of the track for now leys state can .that THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: rodsior matinees, or can have the track | “skeape,” cleared any evening for special races among themselves, The Kinnoy brothers will give their own stables their fast work on matinee days and will endeavor to have all the trainers on the grounds join with them No objectionable characters will be allowed upon the grounds at any time. The second annual sale of trotting bred horses at the Union Stock yards, South Omaha, will be held soon. Such men as Willlam A. Paxton, senior and junior, John A. Creighton John A. McShane, P. A Valentine, B. K. Smith, M. C. Keith, Milton Rogers, John B. Sherman and A. C st are Interested in the success of the entel prise, while Frank B. Short, the well and favorably known stock man, is superi tendent and general manager. John D. Creighton told the writer several weeks ago nothing could be so beneficlal to Ne- braska's trotting horse Interests as these sales, and predicted that within a short period they could rival even the great Kentucky sales, if not eclipse them entirely, 80 thoroughly are they being managed. He sald that he has known for several years, as has every other local breeder, that some- where In the great Missouri valley a grand combination sale would be held annually by breeders sooner or later. The cata- logue for the coming sales is out and a magulficent list it containg, It is a 113-paged mpllet and contains a list of no less than 262 consignments of selected hor: , repre senting the breeding farms of the following distinguished breeders W. A. Paxton, jr., Omaha, Neb F. Miller, Fullerton, Neb.; J. G David City B. H num, M Mo.; M. P. wn, Papillion, Neb.; A Shallenberger, Alma, Neb.; Clinton Brig Omaha, Neb,; Thomas H. Jones, Howe, Neb.; M. i Crete, eb.; C. T. Donovan, Maitland, Mo.; C. Calhoun, Lincoln, Neb.; Carson & Canover, Towa City, la.; Willlam Frazier, Wayne, Neb.; A. R. Goolsby, Falls City, Neb.; Church Howe & Son, Howe Neb.; Alfred H. Pope, Windom, Minn . J. Vaughan, Westmark, Neb.; J. R. Thompson, nsas City, Mo.; F. M. & D. R. Mill Des Moin Ta.; George W. E. Dor: , F mont, Neb. B. H. Reed, Lexington, K. J. J. Johnson, Wahoo, Neb.; C. J. Nobe Beatrice, Neb.; M. M. Cood, Fremont, Neb.; J. W. Beadle, Papillion, Neb.; W. D. Taylor, 8t. Joseph, Mo.; D. T. Mount, Omaha, Neb.; W. A. White, St. Joscph, Mo.; T. J. Snyder, Papillion, Nob.; A. A. Kitzmliller, Wichita, Kan. These breeders represent such sires as the following: Mambrino Patchen, Hurley Bur- ley, Counsellor, Monwood, Chavles Cafffrey, Strathmore, Nutwood, Wilkes Boy, King Rene, Idol Wilkes, Victor Bismark, Dictator, Hindoo Wilkes, Red Wilkes,® Mercurius, Robert McGregor, Ellerslie Wilkes, Shade- land Onward, Chitwood, Mambrino Boy Chestnut Wilkes, General Wilkes, Lemont, Stranger, Egmont, Kansas Wilkes, Osirls, Saturn, Idle, 44, Brino Wilkes, Blackwood, Mambrino, Almolite, Red Wing, Appolo, 6063, Wedgewood, Banquet, Catham, Recorder and others. The first horse that will be put up on the morning of the 20th will be that superb chestnut stallion, Banquet, 2:24, the very best bred and the fastest son of the great Mambrino Patchen, and then will fol- low a continuous string of fine ones until the close Saturday evening. Nat Brown Is in receipt of a’ letter from C. W. Williams, the celebrated race course hoomer of Independence, Ia., that he will not leave the scenes of his great exploits for come oonsiderable time, at least not until the financial condition of the country be- comes settled. W. A. Paxton, jr., has set out in the laud- able dotermination of making his breeding farm the premler establishment of the Kind in_the country. Clinton 1. Brigas’ great stallion, Alamito, 2:191, will remain throughout the season at the Lincoln fair grounds. George Goodrich of Richland, Ta, has added two fillies, one by C. F. Clay, 2:18, and the other by Nuthurst, 2:12, to his stbles. W. Thomas Cording, . Paxton, jr., has made still another purchase. On Saturday he purchased the brood mare Teabelle at the Cleveland, O., sales. Teabelle is in foal by Egbert, sire of Egmont and Lobasco. She is out of an own sister of Nutgall, 2:20, and is rated as a most valuable accession to the Keystone molfl‘ll)t'n;":’\‘x(nn has purchased a new pacer in Frank Melbourne, a b-year-old without a mark, but the stuff is in him to make one, you can rest assured, or Paxton wouldn't have him. Great Sport Down on Platte, CLARKS, Neb., March 8. —Sandy Griswold, Sporting Editor of The Bee: The spring shooting has commenced in earnest in this locality. Already several camps are estab- lished on the Platte and good bags of game are reported daily. I had the pleasure of visiting a camp within three miles of our village for a day's shooting yesterday. It is conducted by Doc Richardson and *“Honk Hoyt,” with whom you are no doubt ac- quainted. They have arranged everything necessary to accommodate, and can furnish good shooting and comfortable quarters to Visiting sportsmen. They have leased river privileges for a territory of several miles, ave established two large tents and have engaged the services of Rally Terpin, the popular caterer of Clarks. The camp is furnished with beds composed of as fine springs, mattresses, blankets, pillows, etc., as you will find In the average hotel. ~They furnish everything necessary to sportsmen except guns, wardrobe and a ‘good eye.’ Thus far the flight has prineipally been white front and Canada geese, pintail, teal mal- ard and a few red head ducks. For one day's shoot we brought in fifty-eight ducks nd seventeen geese. The ice has entircly left the river and the shooting this year will probably be earlier and better than usual. The boys send regards and can assure a good time and plenty of shooting it you can make it conventent to run up for a few days. Some of us expect to go fo Central City today to sce the live bird match between Reed and Buel. Henry Homan spent the first two days of this week in camp and returned to Omaha with a credi able showing of ducks and ge (He bought the camp supply.) F. S. Parmelee and party are expected here in a few days, Drs. Galbrith and Peabody have just started for camp with a wagon load of ammunition and blood in their eyes, _Yours very ro- spectfully, J. C. MARTIN. The American Derby. Many changes were made last week in the quotations in the Amerlcan derby. The 0dds lald against tho horses are very tempt- Ing, and several owners have taken advan- tage of the long prices offered and backed their candidates. A $100 bet placed on a 100 or 200 to 1 shot to win and to show, would net the lucky Invester quite a for- tune if his horse should prove the winuer, and, If beaten for the first place, still prove a profitable investment, as one-fourth of the stralght odds are paid it the horse runs one, two, three. The prices against the favorites, Domino, Senator Grady and Dobbins, remain. un: changed at 10 to 1, showing that no excep- tional play has been made on them. A £100 bet placed on either of them would hardly be noticed, and only large wagers would force their odds down. Of the horses that have been deemed worthy of an early investment by their owners, the following are the most promi- nent: Broadhead, cked down from 150 to 1, to 100 to 1; Calumet, from 200 to 1, to 100 to 1; Despot, from 250 to 1, to 100 to 1; El Telegrapho, from 100 to 1, to 50 to 1: Fra Diavola, from 500 to 1, to 100 to 1; Fox.. hound, from 300 to 1, to 100 to 1; Pearl Song, | from 100 to 1, to 30 to 1; St. Pat, from 100 to 1, to 50 to 1. The Robin and the Blue Wird. There Is no melody so soft and sweet to human ears as the first spring notes of robin red breast and the blue bird. They are both with us once again, and while this fact 1s not absolute proof that the spring has falrly broken nor that the frost is out of the ground, it at least augers this early condi tlon. The arrival of this precious little pair Is always an exhilaration to the fever- ish sportsman, and when once he hears the robin's timid chirp or the blue bird's plalntifr note from housetop or orchard, his fancy be gins to turn toward fleld and marsh and stream. Once more, in imagination, he feels the sof* wandering brecze fanning his face us he pushes forward, in rubber boots and corduroy, through the tangle of ambi tious spouts, yellow grass, herbs, striving plants, ferns and mosses; over lichened logs and through golden tendrilled willows, crim son-stained maple sprigs and creeping vines, Once more he hears the mallard’s quack the gouse's houk or the suipe's shrill [Pwitty sport, left last night for Frisco. and once more he plods camp- ward with his burden of feathered prizes In the evening, when the tender tints of the March sky are trembling away into the soft gray of the deepening twilight. All these Joy® of days agone comes to the sportsman's heart with the first musical cry of the blue bird and the robin. The Shamrocks Moom Again OMAHA, March 4.—To the Sporting Editor of The Bee: The Shamrock Base Ball club has reorganized for the season of 1804 with the following players Quinlan, center and right fleld: Kleftner, pitcher; Wood, first base; Fox, second base; Toozer, shortstop Whiting, third base;, Whitney, left field; Lowry, center fleld; O'Connor, right fleld and catcher; Tietsen, sub. Grounds will be located at Fifth and Marey. Would like to hear from all club in the city, Athletics preferred. Address all challenges to G. E Vood, 614 South Sixth street G wWoon, Captain Shamrotk Base Ball Club, ittle Weeny Bl llsler, whd has just closed an ongagement at Boyd's'bbera house, is the proud possessor of one oFthe prettiest safety bicycles ever made for'a'lady rider. It is probably the lightest bie¥ble ever made for a lady, weighing but twéhty-six pounds. It will bo placed upon exhibition in Kansas City at the bicycle show.now running there. nia Constward. Tom Biddison, Omaha'8 genial, popular and The closing of the shops here deprived Thomas of his vocation, and he goes to the coast as a representative of a big syndicate of east- ern_bookmakers. May he pile up the rocks as high as Gilroy's kite ere he returns to his whilom pastures Slop Opening of the Duck Season. The Cross Gun company has moved its es- tablishment to neat apartments on Fifteenth street, two doors south of the postoffice. Henry Homan and Robert Wells are at Clarks paralyzing the geese and ducks and making life a burden to Uncle Billy West and Wild Goose Hoyt J. S. White and C. W. Rainey, a pair of gentlemanly and enthusiastic duckers, are making preparations for their annual spring onslaught among the birds. Rollo Heikes, the well known Springfield, 0., trap shot, recently shattered 500 blue rocks in thirty-seven and one-quarter seconds at Dayton. Rollo is well known here to all our prominent trap shooters. He has been here on several occasions and always left his mark. Rob and John Patrick, Col. Montmorency and Lieutenant Quay—if he gete back form Florida in time, will take ten days off for a duck shoot, leaving some time this week. They will camp out, and expect a royal time, This time, John says, they will steer clear of cripled geese, and confine their efforts to the redhead and mallards. George A. Hongland and son, Billy, are out at the Schuyler laying for the ducks and geese. Hoagland does more shooting than any half dozen men in Omaha. He hardly misses a day from the opening till the close of the season, and In that time slaughters a large amount of game. What does he do with it, that's the question? He certainly doesn’t market it? Fred J. Lamb of Sidney was in town again Iast week with a wagon load of muskrat skins. He has had a gay time with the rats this winter, and has copped out something like $800 for their pelts. He took back to JTowa with him several barrels of shot and powder and says by next Saturday night he will glut the Omaha market with geese, ducks, yellow legs, curlew and snipe. General Sheppard of the army headquars ters, with a couple of companions, were out after the quackers last Sunday, and Shep bagged three pintails. Shep says there wero a great many birds in sight, but the grass was so short he couldn’t crawl on them, His companions say that those he did get, he had to crawl about a mile for, and he wora out his vest and broke his watch crytal during the operation. A catalogue of the Chamberlain Cartridge and Tarfet company's first annual tourna- ment, to be held at Cleveland, O., June 19-21 inclusive, 18 on my table. It Is an elaborate affair, handsomely fllustrated with hunting gems’ and the portraits:of +he ‘most cele- brated wing shots of the country, and which includes, of course, that of Frank S. Parme- lee of this city. Thedthree day's card in- cludes eighteen shootsy: all blue rocks, the prizes aggregating something like $3,000. Mr. Parmelee will be oferof the competifors. William Lucas of Frémont was in the city a day or so last week. ' He said that about two weeks ago at on¢ ‘glance he saw as many as a_million prairie chickens, more or less. He has lived in Nebraska for twenty-five years, but never in all this time put together, has he seen as many chick- ens as he did on this occasion. Barring an excessively wet spring, Mr. Lucas pro. dicts n great crop of chicks next fall. He s one of Fremont's best shols, and generally knows what he is talking about. General Manager Dickinson, J. H. McCon- nell,, L. H. Korty, P. J. Nichols, G. W. Mc- Geath, Charlie Coons, Car Accountant Buck- ingham and Joe Sykes, a brother of Bill's, and several other railroad magnates, have eturned from a trip up into Idaho. Joe wys they killed mallards with a sword up there, they were so thick, and McConnell caught a twelve-gound trout with a hook made out of a safdly pin, but he didn't ex- plain how it came that Mac had a safety pin along. Must have been minus a button somewhere. C. A. Claflin, that prince of gentleman sportsmen, Dan Wheeler, jr., “Skip” Dundy and Ed Baum are encamped In the marshes near Biglow, Mo., and will be out ten days. That they are snugly and luxuriantly en- sconced in their outdoor home is a guar- anteed fact, | much as Mr. Claflin is at the head of the quartet. He has one of the most comple hunting outfits in the country. May the birds fly plentifully in their neighborhood during their stay, is my sincere wish. 1 neglected to say that heo- dore Wiseman, jr., Is acting as guide and chet for the party, and he is qualified to do his work well Again the query Is made, what has be- come of the Dunlap shots? The Omalia bo are anxious to hear from them once more, and In the event of another challenge, will surely amccept. It must be understood, though, that the Dunlap sportsmen are gentlemen, every one of them, and the chal- len, sued last November was meant m in the spirit of courteous invitation, rather than a banter. If the Omaha shoot want to shoot them so badly, all they have to do is to jump on the cars and run o I think Mr. Dean will see that they get a shot or two, If at nothing better than a bottle, Jack K and John J. the bottoms owles, the veteran duck killer, Hardin, put in last Sunday in near Hamburg. They made a big kil of pintalls—Afty-five they claim, but there is a copper on the claim thousands of birds flying high, Knowles declares he has a_cinch on the ducks from this on out, as he has purchased one of Laws erence’s grass suits. He simply scatters a lot of corn about on the ground, squats down amidst this, and when the ducks com he just reaches out from his grass clothes. grabs them by the neck, wrings it, and chucks them in a convenient hole, When Jack is on the march, panoplied in his armor of hay, he looks like some huge behemoth of an unknown world. The duck shooters are all agog. T spring shooting season opened up with such unexpected suddenness that it caught many of the sportsmen unprepared for the fur There has been a lot of hustling going ¢ during the past week, however, and the greatest sluggard of them all is now alert for the signal to sally ‘forth. Hoats have been overhauled, shootng togs rigged up anew, and shells loaded, and from this on until May there will be a merry roar in marsh and on lake and river. Many en thusiasts have already been out, or are out now, but up to date tha reports of “kill have been sparse 'Afld unsatisfactory Thousands of pintails WaVe been seen flying over, but so far the bks made have been small. The canvasback, mallards, redheads, teal and widgeon are féut' beginning to drop in sparingly, and theré'will be no real good shooting before the ¥th of this month It s entirely too early’yet, and much bad weather is inevitable Within the next two weeks, or this will pedve an exceptional spring, indeed. I am gntielpating an un- common lot of sport there s plenty of water everywher plenty of water means plenty of birds. As a matter of Interest to all shooters the new departure of the old and reliable Peters Cartridge company of Clucinnati 1s herewith agd NDAY, MARCH 11, 1894--TWENTY PAGES. given. This popular old house has recently trebled their capital stock for the purpose of golng Into the manufacture of all kinds of metallic ammunition, gun wads, ete., on a very extensive and elaborate scale. Some very heavy contracts have already been lot, as the Cincinnat! and Chicago papers show, for the finest machinery, and a large num- ber of oxpert machinists are now at work on additional special machinery, which will put the American house in the very first rank as manufacturers of this line of all those both in this country and Burope, as well as in the manufacture of shotgun am munition. They are already prepared to manufacture everything from a B B cap for | boys' Flobert rifles, to the finest govern- ment rifle cartridges, and tremendous quan tities of them at that. It will be some months, of course, before the Peters’ are In a condition to put these goods on the market, as they will absolutely refuse to dispose of a penny’s worth until the goods are perfect in every detail, and In every way cqual to those manufactured in this or any other country. Harh 0ld Geory Ollfe Beard this season Reddy Hanrahan will scrap and play short for Troy this season Bill Kreig, the baker, will catch and slug and manage for Quincy. John Grim, a Cincinnati like to play with Omaha. The Western league schedule meeets at Milwaukee tomorrow The old Western league pitcher, Gus Klof, has been signed by Rock Island Jantzen, the big, long-legged signed to backstop for Savannah, “Farmer” Visner and “Boozy' will twinklo with the Syracuse Sta Von der Ahe says he will sell Jack Crooks it hie can get his price. Name it, we'll take him St. Paul Rapids won't let go. Billy Rourke will be in Omaha early in April and map out a practice program for the Omahogs Omaha Is dead ripe for base ball-and there is little doubt but what a successful season is before the new team. Charlie Dewald and both clalmed by Erie, signed with Cleveland. Of Kansas City’s whole team, Jimmy Man- ning and George Darby are the only ones who have ever played ther John M. Flannigan of Minneapolis has been elected captain of the university base ball nine at Notre Dame, Ind. Dig 12d Swartwood, known as Swarty during his life in Sloux City, has been ap- pointed a National league umpire. Manager Billy Rourke writes that he will have Omaha's full complement of players signed by the 15th of this month. Jerry BEdinger, with the Nebraska State league last year, has been gathered in by Des Moines. Likewise Pieface Traflley. In case the Paul street grounds are se- cured Omaha is to have one of the hands somest grand stands in the Western assocla- tion. Grand Rapids has trapped Pinkney. En passent, that pretty little Michigan' city Is bound to make a great showing in the West- ern league race. St. Joe Intends to issue the boss score card. It will be published by the club, and will be ornamented with the photos ot prominent players. “Purty” Merritt, the little Boston catcher, is out of an engagement. 1t will be a dif- fleult task, however, to coax him into a minor league again. Milwaukee, as usual, Is ing for the Western league. that may pull through until July 4. look out for Milwaukee to bust. Minneapolis has resurrected ‘‘Moxie" Hengle. If he puts up anything like the game he did here in 1592 the Millers will have no cause to regret his exhumation. They are hard at work down in St. Joe on their new grounds, which will be ready for play by the last of this month. They will be opened by a gama with the Corn Huskers. The St. Joseph team has been ordered to report on or before the 15th of April. This will_give the Missourians a big advantage in the way of practice over the Omahas, whom they look upon as thelr natural prey. Gus Schmelz can now stroke his chin- chillas with great complacency. His sale of Farrell and Meekin to New York was a masterly stroke of finance. Next thing he'll be selling Charlie Abbey for a few thousand simoleons. The Omaha management has given up the idea of obtaining the grounds on Douglas street and are now negotiating for the old circus grounds out on Twentieth and Paul streets. This is a most desirable location and tho hope is that they will be secured. Harry Wright is now chief of the National league umpires. He is supposed to keep that much-abused individual in line. Harry will put in his time assigning the league's staff and traveling from one ground to an- other seeing that they do their duty. His salary will be $2,000 a year, and in no way could the league have invested the money to a better advantage, rs of the Spring Time, » Gore has signed with Troy will be at Charleston’s helm catcher, would committee Swede, has Hoover nibbling for the Grand but the Michiganders 1s still Billy Van Dyke are but Dewald has doing the roars There's a league Then Questions adn Answers. OMAHA, March 8.—To the Sporting T of The B A and B are playing poke bets, 1B ecalls him: A holds (wo pair, king and jacks; B holds two pair, aces and fives who ‘wins? Kindly publish'in your Sunday Bee the answer.—An Old Subseriber. Ans. and fives. How long have you been playing poker SOUTH OMAHA, March 8—To the Sport- ing Iditor of The Bee: Please answer in your Sunday paper and oblize one of vour readers, the highest standing flat foot kick, backwards and forward? = Also the_record of Town's high kicker that lives at Kellogs, Ta.?— K. E. Jackso Ang.—() There is no record, heard of him. PORTLAND,Ore., ing Edit The He in the fall or winter of named George Kendall put dumb_bell ahout 500 times n the Grand Opera house in your city, and that he also put up a 50-pound bell against three men at the Atheneum club rooms, utting the bell up ten times each minute about 100 minutes.? Please give me the records of these two events through ch sporting columns of The Bee, as I am in- terested in weight lifting and’ would Tike to know the exact number of times the bells were put up?—Athlete Ans.—George Kendall put up a 25-pound aumb’ bell times at the Grand Opera house. Know nothing about his Atheneum club_room exploits, — However, he was a wonderful man in this particular line March 8.—To the Sport- Will you please de. in your Sunday fssue of Wheat at close of market 1s 60%c; BB that it will open above 6e the 1 accepts the bet; they put up the money: it opens the next morning at Gie; who wins' the money?—W. W. Balcom. Ans.—B. A specifically states that it will open above Gle. There is no question in the matter, he loses, OMAFA, March 9 (2) Never March 4 I am infol To the Sport- ed that 1887 an_athlete up a 2-pound iccession in A bets next mornin To the Sporting Bajt of The Ree: Please state in Sunday sporting columns if Jim Lindsay takes scholars in boxing? Tt he does, please give street address. 1f not please give name of some other good boxing Instructor,—Sub- seribor Ans structor offic BIG SPRINGS, Editor of The B A, B and C, D ar polnts; A is' dealing, C Cards. and turns same first trump; A continue until they are all run out can C make A turn that Pleage answer in Sunday Hoyle on seven-up?—R. B Ans.—(1) He cannot. (2 e 18 O, K on the game SOUTH AUBURN, Neh., March 7.—To the Sporting Editor of The Ploase stite in Sunday's Bee which nsider the better lake, Wilson ham, over near McPaul, 1a.? Iy od place to or night it these ,and at what statlon does one get off the train? Why is it that chicken or quail can be had at the Bowss i Laneoln tine and i1 v birds we Lindsay Is a an be addressed ca Hmmy and proficient {n- of this March 7.—To the Sporting In régard to seven-u playing seven-up, ten begs; A runs the suit trump s to run the except one ¢ card for_trum What 18 is generally good shootin t off at elther Bartlett ¢ prictors of these hotels and should be. They ove you country hoys. and tell them’ that [ Ans.—()There af either lake McPaul. (2) The pr an be prosecuted have no rights U Just write BLUFPS, Ia., March 6.—To the titor of ‘The Bes Please let know through next Sunday's Bee when will ducks and snipe begin o arrive, and also when will the season be over for shoot- GARPETS. There are many new things to be seen in Moquette, Axmin- ster and Velvet carpets,and they iwe down in price. You can buy a good Velvet at 90c and $1.00 per yard---depends on the pat- 1.00 will be the price put on a few patterns of Axminsters. It will pay you to see them, as there won’t be any at this price Ingrains in the greatest va- riety of new eflects. The prices begin low enough, and only get to 55¢ for an wool extra super. Some new things as high as 65¢ and 75c, but they are just, as cheap. Ol & Willlm Garpet o 1414-16-18 Douglas Street, Omaha, Neb. When is the best time of y fish Do you know of a good lake for shooting or How far will No. 5 shot from 10- fish from a boa oming in now. season expires the last of April. n May and November. of good lakes within With killing force is good betwe about half a foot. 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