Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 18, 1894, Page 20

CIAT WITH THE BOXERS The Big Fellows Are Making Active Prepara- tions and Mean Fight. THE HORSEMEN AND THE WHEELMEN On the Lake and in the Fleld-State Sporta- man's Annual Shoot—Opening of the Horse Sales Tuesday, and Regular Weekly Grist. Try as hard as they may, It seems quite fmpossible for Parson Davies and Billy Brady to create any Interest in the Corbett- Jackson fight. For weeks now matters have been in statu quo, and are likely to re- main until something more definite is promulgated in regard to the affair. A battle ground in this country seems to be out of the question, and if they are com- pelled to go abroad for. one, the match wil bo stripped of much of “the interest that would eventually be taken in it. latest hopeless effort to reawaken waning excitement was to take the Colorado Madura over to New York and have him tape-lined by the illustrious Dr. John Wilson Gibbs. The Parson hoped that by glving publicity to the physical propor- tions of his gigantic black pet he would again sot the scribblers at work. He has succeeded only in a moderate degree. The difficulty is that they are all onto the min- isterial sport's game, also that of the expert Esculapius In Gowanus. 50 As a_forogone fact, Dr. Gibbs has pro- nounced Peter to be in ‘“‘perfect physical condition,” and one of the most magnificant specimenis of the gonus homo he has ever run across in all his long and varied career. The doctor doesn’t see how a man superlor to the Midnight Mars can be produced. The doctor, I might add, Is pretty smooth people He measures a apalyzes these marvels in puggery at so much per pug. Hen to find a client inferior to any of his previous patrons or out of condition, is mot in the game as he plays it. They must all be the best. It was Doctor Gibbs, you all remem- ber, who said as much for John L., and Jim Corbett. He missed it in the big fellow's case by a few thousand yards, but his diags nosis of the champlon panned out very sats tsfactorily indeed. Notwithstanding the uphill work the man- agers are experiencing in their endeavors to boom the fight, I have no doubt now but what they are in earnest, and if the Illlvlvxls possible we'll have a fight. T am strengdh- ened In this by a letter from Davies, in which he says each side has already posted $4,000 with Will H. Davis of Chicago, who has been selected as stakeholder, and one week from tomorrow will deposit $4,000 more. The Parson and Peter were to go halvers in the $10,000 stake, but now, since Dr. Gibbs has run up and down his lines, Jackson says he will furnish the whole amount single handed before he will miss another chance at Jim, and that if they can- not get a purse the bet will be sufficient for him. Another matter that should not be overlooked at this juncture is the fact that both men are now loudly professing their gupreme confidence in their respective abili- tles to win. Corbett says that Jackson Is Just peaches and cream—and a savory dish the big West Indian would make—for him, that he is so constructed anatomically that he can't get away. He neither ducks, side- steps or dances, simply shuflles backward and forward with a monotony only to be broken by stiff punches in the mug and the spare-ribs. And Peter, he says that if a played-out, stale old boy like Cholly Mitchell can hit Jim in the mouth and chest at will, it oughtn’t be any very stupendous matter for him to finally knock him out. But it is the old story over again, and I suppose we will have to listen to it for several months to come. That the champlon msiis business T haven't the slightest doubt. }le honestly belleves he can easily whale Jackson, and racently has arrived at the conclusion that the greatest snap he can possibly get on is a boxing contest. He would certainly prefer to act If emoluments were commen- surate, but it seems lately that there has been a_decided curtallment in this business. I quoth from a well known castern author- ity anent this: “It is no secret that W. A. Brady and Champion Jim Corbett are not_enthusiastic over the receipts of the Corbett theatrical company since the Jack- sonville engagement. It was confidently ex- pected that the money would flow into the box office like water over Niagara Falls, but these fond hopes have not been realized. The first setback was encountered at the Corbett reception at Madison Square Garden, where the receipts, instead of passing the $10,000 mark, as was expected, only reached the comparatively modest-sum of $4,600. Tie Boston engagement followed, and it was glven out that $15,000 was taken in, when, in fact, but about half that amount had been recelved. The Harlem engagement was very unsatisfactory from a_financial show-point, and Jim cannot get Peter Into a ring too quick to suit his ideas as to his “ worth as a money-getter. Now that Stanton Abbott sails for England next Wednesday he Is hot on Jack M- Aulifte’s trail. Since he knocked out Harry Gilmore, Chicago's old trial horse, his bump of confidence has assumed most abnormal proportions. He declares that he will sac- rifice almost anything—save his trip over home next week—to get the Willlamsburger inside the ropes. If he fails in this he will magnanimously take on Austin Gibbons. It is_wonderful how anxious all these forelgn fighters got to try conclusions with Ameri-a’s best men when they are about to put the ocean between them. If Abbott is on the level ho should refrain from all such ou bursts until his return from Europe. He may have a fight on much quicker than he desires. McAuliffe Is in New York now. And then, too, Stanton will bo in better fettle for a broadside challengo to Ameri- cans after he demonstrates what he can do with Martin Denny, the Australian, whom he fights in London the last of April. The good people of Buffalo have finally risen in their might and it is a guaranteed fact that no more finish fights will be pulled off there, The determination is, as indi- cated from the pulpit, to wipe out all ath- letic clubs that encourage prize fighting. This is particularly tough on Bobby Fitz- simmons, who was to have met Jim Daly there within the next ten weeks. Robert 1w on his uppers and as the suow is all gone he sees starvation staring him in the face. Over In righteous Chicago, however, every- thing still continues to go, and before the expiration of another ten days, two notable conflicts will have been decided there. The first of these will be between the little ones, Tke O'Neil Weir and Alfred Griffiths, botter known as Griffo. They will bump together tomorrow night for eight rounds. The mill menns considerable to both men. If the Antepodian wins, he may then hope to see, his mateh with George Dixon consummated. If he loses it s another passenger for the hog train, and the eccentric Spider from Belfast will be the most lively candidate for a trial with the Haligonian, Next comes the big ones, a clever one and a dub. On the 27th Steve O'Donnell and Billy Woods will become neighborly. O'Donnell s the big Melbourne fighter who trained Cbarlie Mitehell, and by the way, he now says that in all his practico bouts with the Englishman before that littlo affair at Jacksonville, he could have easily taken the best of It. He declares that Mitchell was tho rankest kind of a disappointment and weeks before the fight he knew he badn't a 100 to 1 chance. But as I r marked before, he will take on Jack Davis' old opponent one week from next Tuesday night, and if he does not beat him in a jog he, too, had better get aboard the porcine excursion train, Buts to revert to Griffo, His manager, Jack Hartford, writes a local business man, an old friend of his, that he wants to bring Grifto over to Omaha, and that-If the sporty boys here can dig up a man anywhere with- in twelve or fifteen pounds of the tralian's welght, we'll have a fight. ford says that we can go down to South Omaha and pull it off all right, which goes to show that some one from the Magic eity has been communicating with him. But that doesn't matter, it Mr. Hartford has got AUy woney o burn up, let Bim come ever; there s a haymow full of men here who will Just sprinkle a little tobasco sauce on Griffo and eat him up. So greatly elated were Kid Lavigne's Michigan friends over the way in which he thumped and chased Solly Smith about the ring a week or 0 ago, that they are now fairly aching to get Solly into a finish fight with him. They say that Smithy need only put up a plece of the stuft he Is so anxious to bet Johnny Grifin with, and they will double it that the Saginaw boy licks him Solly, however, fs no sucker. He has tested the Kid's prowess, and it will be many moons before he goes back for any more of it SANDY GRISWOLD. Wants Them All Treatod Alike. OMAHA, March 15—To the Sporting Bdi- tor of The Bee: Last Wednesday morning's Bee contained an ftem stating that Billy Schnell had been protested and expelled from tho League of American Wheelmen, pending an Investigation of charges flled against him This was no surprise to a great many wheelmen in this city, as it was generally understood that something was to be done to reform the methods employed by several of our racing men. Buj now that the in- vestigation is on, would Tt not be well to in- vite some of our local “snow whites,” and a few more out in the state, up on the carpet to answer a few questions? Among the first invite the young gentle- man up who was Instrumental in starting this investigation. ~ Ask him what he has done with some of his prizes. Ask him hat compensation he received or where re the prizes he won at Bohanan's hall in Lincoln in 1891, During his ofourn in that clty he rode upwards of twenty-five races, he and the “People’s Hero" winning alternat except when the sweetheart of the “P. F." was In attendance. Ask him what he has done with those prizes. Ask him what was the nature of the prizes he, another Omaha rider and “Lincoln's Brav- est” contested for Friday afternoon during state fair week in 18817 Ask him these auestions and see if he can answer better than the man whom he has been instru- mental in protesting. He may have the prizes, or may loaned them to a lady friend and she lost them, or a burglar may have broken Into the house and stole them. But I think not. Those were not the kind of prizes one treasured for a keepsake or loaned a lady friend for an ornament. Ask him about the agreements to some of the Coliseum fakes, particularly the last one, which “Senator’ Morgan dubed “Died-a-borning.” Let him answer these questions and then judge whether he is the right kind of a party to protest one of our racing men. Now, Mr. Ebersole, if you are in this in- vestigation in earnest, and the league mem- bers in this vicinity think you are, make a lean job of it. ~ This section has been roasted by the eastern press long enough for the methods employed by its racing men, and I think it's about time something was done. Give them all an equal chance to explain matters, and I think they will all receive a dose of L. A. W. medicine out of the same bottle. A LEAGUE MEMBER. Burk’s Original Conundrums. To the Sporting Editor of The Bee: Here. with find a few original conundrums on the nine players of a base ball team. Should you deem them good enough for your Sunday column of sports, why you have the liberty to use them. If not, cast them into the basket, for I simply send them through ths advice of a few of the boys. HARRY W. BURKLEY. Why Is the catcher of a base ball team the growler rusher of the country? He takes all there is from the pitcher. Why s the batter the most unreliable man in the club? He give foul tips to tha catcher. Why s the pitcher like a domestic? stirs up the batter on the home plate. When i3 it that the first baseman at a critical moment has wheels in his head? When he's off his base. | When would the second baseman make a good police officer? When he arrests a run- ner from stealing a base. When is the third baseman the swiftest man in the club? When he catches a (fowl) on the fly. Why is a good short stop like a precious stone? He is the shining light of the diamond. Why are the flelders like scene shifters? They know how to handle the flies. Ho The State Shoot Next May. The State Sportsmen's association fs mak- ing elaborate preparations for its eighteenth annual tournament to be held at Columbus, this state, May 15, 16 and 17. The officers of the association for the present year are G. A. Schroeder, president; H. J. Arnold, troasurer, and G. B. Spelce, secretary, all of Columbus. These gentlemen are all first class shots and have had much ex- perience In trap shooting tournaments, and will give the state one of the biggest and most enjoyable shoots she has ever had. They are getting together a large number of live birds, and will have a ton or so of Chamberlin's' blue rock targets on hand, as well as a complete set of Chamberlin's ex- pert traps, electrical pull, said to be the best in the world. These targets, too, are the most popular in the country, and it will be seen that the Columbus management intends to afford the sportsmen attending the very best of cverything in the market. The full program will appear in The Bee in good time, also a full report of each day’s shoot. The Ce ing Breeders Meeting. The Nebraska Association of Trotting and Pacing Horse Breeders, purely a state Insti- tution, will hold their ninth annual meeting at the fair grounds course, this city, during tho first week of September. The assocla. tion s In a most healthful condition, and will leave nothing undone to make this meet- ing the best and most interesting it has ever held. With this end In view Secretary. A. J. Briggs of Superior has called a meet. ing of the dircctors to be held at the Mer- chants hotel Tuesday evening next, March 20. That a full attendance will be on hand is an assured fact from the Interest all the members aro manifesting at oven this early date, u Know Jack, of Course. HAVANA, Cuba, March 9.—Sandy Gris- wold, Sporting Editor of The Bee: Have been here a month now and have beaten about every rider and horse on the island. Of course I haven't done a thing in the way of getting the stuff. Only pulled out a cool thousand for two days racing last week. closed you will souvenirs given out find one of the silken at the last bull fight. Pleaso accept it for old acquaintance sake, Say, Sandy, one of these bull pens would make a dandy place for Corbett and Jack- son to fight in, Good bye. Wil see you i June. JACK. Short Harry Sago has been appolnted manager of the Rock Islands. Joe Quinn will close his livery stable and again cover seccnd for Vondy. ed Jeyne would like an umpire's “sit” undor your Uncle Dave's regime. Jack Fanning, once with Omaha, has been taken into camp at New Orleans, Manager Rourke says Omaha will have the hardest outfield of any team in the association. The contracts of the men with the Omaha club have been approved by the president ot the assoclation. Bddie Cassian, who was on Omaha's pay roll in 1892, has signed with the Brocktons of the Eastern league. Billy Armour, who was sald to have been crippled for life in a coasting accident, is in a fair way to perfect recovery. “Toad" Ramsey, famous in his old Louls- villo days, has concluded to try it once more. He has signed with S nah, St. Joo Is putting a good deal of work on her new grounds, and declares that she wil have the very best in the circuit. Kansas City gets a good man in Cliff Car- voll, and with three such pitchers as Darby, McGinty and Daniels ought to be able to make matters pretty warm for most of the clubs In thé Western league. President Rowe appointed two additionm pires for the Western association yester. day, In the persons of George M. Lucas, an old Western league umpire of Chi. cago, and Cline of New Albany Ind, Both are sald to be com. potent men, and President Rowe considers himself lucky in securing them. It seems that the work of the big league moguls at their recent meeting has met almost univers | approbation in lve base use Hall Storles THE OMAHA DAILY ‘ BEE: ball clrcles. Instead of abolishing the bunt hit, it was penalized, Inasmuch as hereafte: the batter who bunts a ball foul will have a strike called on him, and, of course, this will make the attempt foss frequent. It will also require greater skill on the part of the batter when he does attempt it Lew Camp has received a little billet doux from Uncle Anson commanding him to ex hibit his graceful proportions in the Windy City on or before March 21. Lew, how- ever, will hardly leave heforo the last of the month, as he s just recovering from a com- bination of complaints that have pulled him down materfally, ~ He Is_rounding to ali right, however, and by good care will proba- bly be sound as a dollar by April 1. Lincoln is having hard Inek.. Dirst her manager, Jay Jay McCloskey, jumiped his contract, and now big Bill Kreig, the baker, has concluded to steer clear of N-braska and go to Detroit. Lincoln, however should not worry. Bill will be back knen ing dough before the fire crackers begin to pop. And she should remember, too, that “Kid" Baldwin has gone back un his word with Omaha, which I regard as an ex- tremely lucky thing for the team. Jack Haskell has drawn the first prize in President Rowe's umpire lottery and the association s to be congratuiatsd. Harkell is an Omaha boy and has in hiin the making of one of the best umpices in the lard. He 18 quick and accurate in makiug h's de- cisions, and has a volce filled with a tone and a romance that almost make« the deat hear. He officiated on the amatcur fleld last summer and generally got thiongh his games without kick from player or epec- tator. Manager Rourke has reported for duty and Wwill now remain here until the close of the season. He was busy all day yesterds with a pile of correspondence that has ac- cumulated during the past few days. This Includes almost everything, from requests for post season dates by the Bostons and Pittsburgs, spring dates with the Western league clubs, applications for umpireship bids for lumber and building, down to ri quests for a small slice of advance from players signed. ~ Billy is highly elated over the a clation's prospects, and, of course, bly be as sound as a dollar by April 1. That the playing strength of the new Western association will be up to the stand- ard of that of the new Western league is a fact the cranks are overlooking. While the league has corralled a large number of well known old ‘““has-beens’ the assoc fon will be composed almost in its entirety of young blood, and while many of the league's players will drop out of sight entirely when the test comes, those in the association will be commanding the attention of the magnates in the big body. It will be the association this year that will prove a training school for the National league. Omaha’s base ball patrons are getting ex- ceedingly anxious to know something definite about the new club’s grounds, but as yet 1o absolute statement can be made. They are assured, however, that a_most desirable site will be secured. ' The management has been working assiduously and have all but clinched a deal for the finest grounds a local club has ever controlled. They are cen- trally located and accessible to no less than three car lines, all of which run within a block of the grounds. There is no occa- sion for alarm or uneasiness among the cranks. Everything will be all right by the middle of April, and the championship season does not begin until May 5. There is no profession that has felt the stringency of the times more foruibly than the ball players. There las tcen a tremendous cut In salaries even in the big league, while the slump in the lesser organi- zations has been something ppyaiing, at least to the players. A month's sa‘ary this year, in many Instances, will not amount to as much as what they drew in a week a year or so ago. However, the reauction was a necessary one, and the only thing that assured a perpetuation of {he great sport. The players will not got cverything this year, for the magnates wili insist on pulling out cigarette money anyway. The recent death of big Ed Williamson and the deplorable accident which befell Charlie Bennett reminds me that these two match- less players began their professional lives in the same year and in the same team. It was with the Neshannocks of New Castle, Pa and I'll never forget the day in 1879 they me and defeated the Columbus, O., Buckeyes 'in a hard fought thirteen-inning game. Bennett and Williamson were both catchers then, and both took part in the game that sent the Neshannock stock upward like a rocket. There never were two greater players than Charlie and Ed, and the old-time crank heaves a sigh of sorrow when he thinks of the cruel fato that has overtaken both. Willlamson is dead and Bennett a cripple for the rest of his days, having lost both legs in a Kansas railroad accident. Jimmy Manning, Kansas City's manager, has reported for duty and is now industri- ously at work stringing Ralph Stout, form- erly proprietor of Omaha, and tiie rest of the gullible ‘scribes down there. Jimmy says he has the greatest team the Cowboy metropolis has ever known and ‘hat there will be no let up until the pennant is won. While Jeems is evidently quite r'ght In this, ho docs not state who it is that is to win' the flag. They will open the ecason local aggregation next Sumluy, and 1 will open the mew St. Louis grounds with a game with “der Prowns. Manning has written Manager Rourke for a couple of dates, and, It is quite probable, will get them. My, what a snap ve would have! Tom Lovett has been unconditionally re- leased by Brooklyn, and up to date no other club has manifested a disposition to plck him up, at least in the Natlonal league. Lovett's fate again exemplifies the ups and downs, principally the downs, of a ball player's life. Lovett, three years ago, was thought to be the coming pitcher of the country, His success swelled his head to abnormal proportions, and he lay idle throughout the entire season of '92 because he wanted $500 more than the Brooklyns would pay him. They offered him $4,000 for about five months' play, but he held out for $4,500, and the consequences were he went through the whole season without making a penny. Tom Lovett, by a long way, was the highest-priced player who ever donned a uni- form in the city of Omaha, He was a mem- ber of Selee's pets in 1858, and drew just §15 for every game he played whether he pitched or not. Toward the latter end of the season he became so bullheaded and unruly that he pitched just when he felt like It, and no oftener, and when he did step Into the box it was generally to lose the game. Omaha could easily have won the champlonship that season had Lovett been true to his en- gagement and played the ball he was capable of. Wonder how he'd like to play out here again at the old rates, now that he has been pushed out of fast company. ‘With the Local Horsemen. John Splan has purchased the Nebraska bred filly, Ella Woodline, by Woodline, 2:19 Grinnell, Ia., has fixed upon September 10 to 13 for this season’s trotting and pacing meet. Atlantic, Ta., will hold their 1894 meeting on September 10-13 inclusive, James Tobin, Bmmettsburg, Ta., and W. H. Colby, Ft, Dodge, will train over Mason City track this spring. John D. Pattison, Chadron, sold his pac- ing filly, Lulu Lobasco, 2:50%, last week to Michael Elmore of Alliance for $1,000. Thomas F. Miller of Fullerton, Neb., has consigned a couple of choice ones from Cedarbank farm to the South Omaha sale. 2. R. Acom of Filley, Neb., is the pos- sessor of a promising Lobasco filly, which will be worked by C. B. McDonald this sea- son Up In Chadron “they are contemplating another long distance race, this time, how- over, to take place on the Chadron race track. Billy Paxton's racing stables will be set to work on the Council Bluffs track tomor- row. He will have about elghteen head in training Clinton Briggs has commenced active work on his cam s, and his driver, the well known Dick Tilden, is anticipating a big money-making season. Charley Cockrell, Lincoln, Neb., s highly pleasad with his 4-year-old gelding, Darkey, as a road horse and it takes a good one to please Charley.—Western Resources. R. W. Ellison, Mason City, Ia., the man ho drove Storm, 2:08%, recently purchased Itherlal, 2:20%, son of Red Wilkes, from Harbin & Burkill, Austin, Minn.—Western Resources. J. & B. J. Curtin of Decorah, Ia., have purchased the 2.year-old filly, Winnie T, granddaughter of Pancoast, and the 2-year- old_colt, Renosha, by Kenosha, son of Phallas, 2:13% ©. W. Beach has Inaugurated a training stable at Auburn, this state. He brought out H. the SUNDAY,! MARCH 18, 1894-~TWENTY PAGES TELEPHONE 506, 19 NOTARY PUBLIC, CHARLES KAUFMANN INSURANCE, REAL ESTATE AND LOANS. REPRESENTS: Lion of London, England............. Gitizens of Pittshurgh, Pa............. Detroit Fire and Marine of Detroit ......... Connecticut, of Hartford, Conn CERTIFICATE OF PUBLICATION. Office of Auditor of Public Accounts, State of Nebraska. Lincoln, Feb. 1, 1894, It is hereby certified that the Lion Fire Insurance company of London In England has complied with the insurance law of this state and is authorized to transact the busi- ness of fire insurance in this state for the current year. Witness my hand and the seal of the | auditor of public accounts the day and year above written, EUGENE MOORE, Auditor of Public Accounts. | above written. CERTIFICATE OF PUBLICATION. Office_of Auditor of Public Accounts, State of Nebraska. Lincoln, Feb. 1, 1894. It is hereby certified that the Citizens' In- surance company of Pittsburgh, in the state of Pennsylvania, has complied with the in- surance law of this state and is authorized to transact the business of fire insurance in this state for the current yea Witness my hand and the seal of the auditor of public accounts the day and year EUGENE MOORE Auditor of Public Accounts. CAPITAL Scottish Union and National, of Edinburgh, Scotiand.... 30,000,000 oo 1,250,000 500,000 300,000 400,000 . 81,000,000 CERTIFICATE OF PUBLICATION. Office_of Auditor of Public Accounts, Sta of Nebraska. Lincoln, Feb. 1, 1894, It Is hereby certified that the Scottish Union and National of Edinburg, in Great Britain, has complied with the insurance law of this state and is authorized to trans- act the business of fire insurance in this state for the current year. Witness my hand and the scal of the auditor of public accounts the day and year above written. BUGENE MOORE, Auditor of Public Accounts. ASSETS 32,241,000 5,000,000 125,000 680,000 1,160,000 82,633,000 CERTIFICATE OF PUBLICATION. Office of Auditor of Public Accounts, State of Nebraska, Lincoln, Feb. 1, 1894. Tt Is hereby certified that the American | Thsurance company of Boston, in the stato of Massachusctts, has complied with the insurance law of this state and is authorized to transact the business of fire insurance in this state for the current year. Witness my hand and the auditor of public accounts the day above written. EUGENE MOORE, Auditor of Public Accounts. seal CERTIFICATE OF PUBLICATION. Office of Auditor of Public Accounts, State of Nebraska. ) Lincoln, Feb. 1, 1894. It is hereby certified that the Detroit Fire and Marine Insurance company of Detroit in the state of Michigan has complied with the insurance law of thig state and is author- ized to transact thal business of fire In- surance in this state for the current year. Witness my hand iand the seal of the auditor of public accounts the day and year above written. BUGENE MOORE, Auditori-of Public Accounts. ool @& A Specialty of Loans on Improved Prop- erty at Lowest Current Rates. Charles Kaufmann, 13802 Douglas Street, Omaha, Neb. CERTIFICATE OF PUBLICATION. Office of Auditor of Public Accounts, State of Nebraska, Lincoln, Feb. 1, 1804, It s hereby certified that the Connecticut Fire Insurance company of Hartford in the state of Connecticut has complied with the insurance law of this state and is author- ized to transact business of fire insurance in_this state for the current year. Witness my hand and the seal of the auditor of public accounts the day and year above written. . BUGENE MOORE, Auditor of Public Accounts. such well known racers as Chronometer, 2:15%; Republican, '2:19%; Kittle Vera, 2:23%, and Talavera, 2:30. A meeting of the board” of directors of the Nebraska Assoclation of Trotting and Pacing Horse Breeders. will be held Tuesday next, March 20, at 7 o'clack p. m., at the Merchants hotel, this city. John D. Creighton, one of Omaha's most prominent trotting horse breeders, re- cently sold at his Kentucky farm Junemont, 2:14, for $4,000. Junemont is a son of Tremont and is said to be very fast. Billy Paxton has added still another valua- ble brood mare to his extensive stables at the Keystone breeding farm. Brightlight, the dam of that fast filly, Image, 3, 2:19, by Delmarch, and Mite, who trotted second in 2:31 as a 2-year-old. The Nebraska Assoclation of Trotting and Pacing Horse Breeders will meet the first week in September at Omaha. They an- nounce stakes, trotting and pacing, for foals of 1893 and for foals of 1892, and trotting for foals of 1891 that are eligible to the 2:50 clas. The coming meeting will doubtless celipse all former meetings. Mr. J. D. Creighton, Omaha's prominent trotting horse breeder, and who owns a blg stock farm near Donerail, this county, made several important sales of trotters yester- day, says the Lexington, Ky., Transcript of March 7. He sold to Mr. L. V. Harkness, the millionaire Standard oil magnate of New York, who has bought a fine Bluegrass farm in this county, the 2-year-old brown fily Belle Meta, by Alfonso (son of Baron Wilkes 2:18, out of Alma Meta, the great brood mare), dam Berkshire Belle 2:30, by Alcyone 227 (son of George Wilkes 2:22 out of Alma Mater, the great brood mare), second dam Belle Brasfield 2:20; third dam Sallie Choir- ester (dam of Protine 2:18, Belle Brasfield 2:20, and Bello Pitchen 2:30%, the dam of Baron Wilkes 2:18), by Mambrino Cholrester. It will be seen that this filly is Inbred to Alma Mater and that her pedigree is one of the best in the year book. Last year, as a yearling, she showed a 2:20 gait. She has wintered well and is now a slashing good looking 2-year-old, and as she is entered in a number of rich stakes this year she ought to win herself out this season. Price, $6,000. Mr. Creighton also sold to Mr, Matt Spellecy of Columbus, O., the chestnut stal- lion Junemont 2:14, by Fremont, dam Fanny Carey by Jack Rosey. Price, $7,000, To the same parties a 3-year-old filly by June- mont. Price, $1,000. ~ Three fine foals have just arrived on the Creighton farm. They are all by the stallion Junemont. Their dams are Mary Trayeler by Happy Traveler; J. 8. C. by Bcho and Mona Wilkes by George Wilkes. ~Mr. Creighton, in counting up the value of the foals of the last named mare, Mona Wilkes, says the last five of her foals have netted him $14,675 On the Lake and in the Field. Frank Parmelce returned Thursday from a day's shoot at Clarks. He brought back something like a gross of birds—ducks and geese x-President Harrison has gone to the Pacific coast, taking with him an armory of ten guns, a part of which he expects to use in game shooting. J. F. Day and C. P. Southard of this city and Norman Burkland of Chicago, left yes- terday for the upper Platte region. They expect to be gone a week Fred J. Lamb says the snipe shooting on the Nishnabotna bottoms will be fine this spring, which shows how old sports- men differ on this point. Will Crary, the boys say, Is now sleep- ing nightly with his waders and canvas sult on, ready to jump out any morning and go forth and slaughter the geese and ducks. G. O, Courtney, well known here as the genial represcntative of the Lefever Arms company, killed forty-eight pigeons out of fitty at a Syracuse, N. Y., shoot one day last week. Robert J. Hentz, manager ot the Langdon Fishing and Shooting club, has the sporting editor's acknowledgements for a card of honorary membership and one shara of stock. The Hoaglands are still walting for the goose flight. So far they have bagged but few birds, but say they will stick to thelr post if it takes all sum- mer. General Brooke and party are making extensive proparations for a week's duck shoot. All they are waiting for now Is telegraphio notification tg leave for the shooting grounds. Jack Day has just returned from Ashland without & feather. Says there hasn't been & goose thore—excepting himself—for three yoars—and he don't expect any for that fong a time to come. Joseph M. Haskell, a septuagenarian, but still an ardent fisherman and hunter,together with W, H. Frost and one or two others, s at Stromsburg encamped out on the Elkhorn watching for the arrival of the mallard and the redhead. George Field of North Platte, in speaking about the spring shooting yesterday, pre- dicts that it will be better than for years, as the geese have lingered in his vicinity all winter and ducks are already quite plentiful. J. M. Davison of Percival was in the city day before yesterday. He reports but fow ducks down his way and fears it is on ac- count of lack of wet grounds, and that the snipo shooting is also destined to be poor this spring. The National Shooting association hold its annual meeting in Elwood, Ind., commencing June 27 and lasting threo days. Great preparations are being madoe for this event, which is destined to be the most important tourney ever held In the country. J. J. Shea of Council Bluffs made a ban- ner bag of birds one day last week—sixty- two ducks and two Canada geese. J. J. says he still shoots the old Lefever he bought of J. J. Hardin five years ago, and he can reach 'em a triflo farther than any of the boys he has yet shot against. Dan Wheeler, Jr., is back from a few days outing down near Bigelow, Mo. He was one of C. A. Claflin’s party of campers, but re- turned on account of the slender shooting they were having. The party, four guns, bagged something like forty ducks, princi- pally canvasback, in four days’ shooting. Mr. Wheeler will rejoin the party when the flight gets good. That model sportsman’s journal, the For- est and Stream, advocates, as a sure rem- edy against the threatened total destruction of game, a law absolutely prohibiting the sale of gamo at all seasons. This Is pretty sweeping, but commands the respect of all those interested in game protection, inas- much as it Is really the only effective solu- tion to this great question. M. M. Journan, the French pigeon crack, sold his Lancaster gun, with which he had won so many big prizes in the last nine years, to Count Zichy for $750 and a new gun, This is the gun with which Count Zichy won the Grand Prix at Monte Carlo this year. From the moment he parted with his old weapon Jourman is sald to have shot in poor form, while Count Zichy used it and won the first prize in the big annual shoot. Charlie Beindorf, John and Robert Patrick and Fred Montmorency put in several days in the vicinity of Valley, and despite tho scarclty of birds made a bag of three speckle fronts and about thirty mixed ducks. A. J. Webb, an experienced ducker and a capital shot, ran down to the Waubuncey marshes one day last week, but ran right back again. He saw but few birds and they were sky-high, and he wisely concluded to waste no further time. Charley M. Hampson, commerclal agent of the Wabash road at Denver, was in the city the past week. Charley is a member of th rland Park and Rocky Mountain Gun clubs, and he has a private hunting and fishing reserve up in the mountains near Bustis park. Mr. Hampson is a thorough sportsman and has as fine an outfit of guns, dogs and fishing tackle as any of the boys. He 18 a successful sportsman and rarely re- turns from a hunting or fishing expedition without a well filled bag or creel. he Manson Gun club of Manson, Ia., will hold its fourth annual trap shooting tournament Tuesday and Wednesday, April 17 and 18. There will be nine events each day, live birds and targets, and the pros- pects are that the affair will be a very suc- cessful one. In addition to the purses there will bo seventeen special prizes, con- sisting of handsomely mounted game birds, On the second day there will be a special match between Jolin Georgson of Kelly, Ia. and H. A. Kline of Manson, twenty-five live birds, $25 a side. Eastern clubs are netting crows for trap shooting purposes. They are caught in a net about thirty feet long and twelve feet in width It 1s placed between strong hickory spring poles, set 100 feet apart, and bent backward, so that the net lies flat on the ground s distance from the balt Chunks of meat are laid at a point the net will cover, when sprung by the trap- per from a blind 300 feet distant, by means of a line which reaches from the trigger to his bower. The crows are sold for 25 cents a pair; 1,600 were captured In ten days two weeks ago. The program for the great American handicap shoot at live birds, which s to be held at Dexter Park, N. Y., April 4, 5 and 6, has been received, and an Inspection of it proves that the occasion will be one of great interest to the trap shooters of this country. An attraction of the tournament will be a match at twenty-five live birds, $26 entrance, with a guaranteed purse of $1,000; the three highest scores to take the will entire pot. The handicap will be from twenty-five to thirty-three yards, with a dead line at the thirty-three-yard mark; boundary fifty yards. The continued balmy weather has been a great disappointment to wild fowl shooters, as it has very decidedly interfered with their sport, and many are now of the opin- fon that there will be no shooting of any con- sequence in this vicinity this spring. They are all a trifle premature, however, and there are really no good grounds for appre- | hension. It is early yet for the main Issue of ducks to come up from the south and the probabilities are that it will not make its appearance for a week yet or at least until after some very emphatic atmospheric dis- turbance. It doesn’t matter much what this {s—rain, snow, wind or cold. The fear, too, that the birds have all gone morth without halting here is an idle one. * There has been but a moderate filght at best, and this was composed principally of sprigtails. The birds have simply not arrived yet, but can be ex- pected in force at no distant day. Whisperings of the Wheel. It's Captain Walker now for the popular Ed P., and he's somewhat of a rider, too. The Tourlsts are talking of adopting tan sweaters and hose and bloomers as a dis- tinctive uniform. ‘“‘Good Roads" for the month of February has an interesting article on the beautles of Asbury Park, replete with photo-gravure illustration. The League of American Wheelmen Bulle- tin will be published in Chicago henceforth. The Bearings Publishing company were awarded the contract Prof. Gellenbeck and wife entertained a large number of the Tourists last Thurs- day evening, musle, refreshments and dancing being the features of the evening's entertainment. Sioux City is still “in it” as a cycling town. She boasts of a club of fifty mem- bers and several “fiyers.” The club is termed the Inter Ocean Wheel club and was organized in 1893, composed partly of the old 8. C. C. C. Bleycle salesmen have begun thelr semi- annual flight over thelr territory. ~ Omaha is getting her share of the affable gentle- men's attention. Half a dozen dropped In and out last week. The usual number of beginners have com- menced to “gyrate” over the pavements on the comparatively deserted back streots, the warm weather and spring-like smiles bringing them out in sco % The fraternity existing among the wheel- men {8 not as mythical as one might be led to belleve. A prominent member of the wheel club across the river recently ran on the democratic ticket for a public ofice and his mates turned out, {rrespective of party, and worked for him like heroes. He was elected by a snug little margin, too. One of the novelties in “bikes” this year Is a diamond framed safety with four-inch tires and a coal oll motor attachment, to help the rider “on the hills” and to ac- erate his speed on the level. One gal- lon of coal oil or kerosene will propel the machine 200 miles. Good thing for the ambitious century man on the last twenty- five—eh? Billy Schnell of last season's Tourist rac- ing team has been suspended from tho leagu for thirty days on charges brought again him for breaking the amateur rule. The racing board 18 investigating these charges at present and will determine shortly whether Billy is a “pure white” or not Billy is a “flyer” well known to Nebraska boys, who would be pleased to have him de. clared one of the flock of white sheep, and it is hoped that he will be able to convince his accusers that they have been misin- formed. The Omaha cyclists are much agitated over the state meet at present and are muk ing a great pull to locate the meet here. The indications are that the meet will be held In Omaha, as other towns in the state do not seem to be interested bidders, Mr. Ebersole, the chief consul of the division, is much In favor of the movement toward Omaha as well as the majority of the wheel men in the city, A few would rather see it go elsewhere. A meeting of the league members in the city was held at the Omaha Wheel club rooms last Friday evening and the matter was thoroughly discussed pro and con, but nothing definite was don A safety which Is claimed to be specially suitable for one-legged cyclists 15 the latest novelty, The speclal feature of the ma chine s that it may be propelled elther entirely by the hand or in conjunction with pedal driving. Instead of the usual handle bar, this is bent around so far as to run the two handlebars into one. The handle bas an up and down motion, which, by means of cranks, causes & toothed wheel, fixed about half way between the handlebar and the axle of the front wheel, to revolve, The front wheel Is consequently driven by means of a chain running round the above mentioned toothed wheel, and one fixed on the hub of the front wheel similar to that on the hind wheel of the usual safety. The annual election of officers of Tourist Wheelmen for 1894 oceurred room 212 New York Life building March 7. Candi were plenty, and it was a late hour before the battle of the ballots was The following gentlemen came out victorious Henry B. Taggar, president; A. C. Adams, vice president; I. A. Henins ger, secre Welch A. Kingsley, treass urer; Bd P.” Walker, captain; membership committee, A. E. Burwell, Charles Pegau and Alex Melton. The enfertalnment com- mittee Is to be selected at the regular April meeting. The new board of officers enter upon thelr onerous duties at this meeting, and the club looks forward to the season of 1894 with hope. The latter part of the past scason has been one of misfor- tune, owing to various causes, main amor which was the “chronic club delinquent which afflicts all clubs more or less, Th new board has determined to wield the ax unceasingly and weed out the “genus.” At the March meeting twenty-six members were expelled from the club for nonpayment of dues. The club fs now in better shape than it has been for some time, the old board having worked like Trojans in the last two months to put it on a better foot- ing. To a great extent it has succeedod, with the help of a few loyal membors. The now board, it is helieved, will comnlete tho work begun. The old fashioned club run will be adhered to this season as in the past. Pienic, country tours, fishing ex- cursions and century runs will also be at- tractions. “Scorehing will be discountenanced and the runs will be conducted for the on- Joyment of the riders. The competition for the club medal, best mileage, will be con- tinued, the season commencing May 7, end- ing November 30. Several other prizes will be in addition this scason. Captain Walker has not appointed his subaltern of- fleers yet, but will do so during the month and issue his rad rules. Each member will be supplicd with a copy of these rules. At present the club is without quarters, but in- dications point to another start in a small way. the at Questions and Answers. NEHAWKA, Neb., March 10.—To the Sporting Bditor of The Bee: Please answer the following _question through f norning Bee and oblige a constant veral days ago appeared an article in Bee stating that a man at Winnipes I 120 feet on skates, How did he Where can 1 get rules governing fighting.”—J. D." Horton, Ans.—(1) Tt is called ski-leaping and 1 ac- complished on skis, a sort of footgear from something like & tobogian slide. (2) Get our news dealer to order Turner's Cocking Manual. COLUMBUS, Neb, March 9.—To the Sporting EBditor of The Bee: In playing cribbage, when the last card makes fif how many holes should be pegged?—J. Curtls Ang.—Three. SI0UX CITY, March 15.—To the Sporting he flee: Ploase state Pater Jack- wge and measurements n Sunday’s and accept the thanks of a couple of your regular readers.—it. L. Lansing. Ans.—Jackson |8 Vears old, and a few days since welghed, stripped, 210 pounds: helght, 6 feet 3 inch in his bare feet: ne 16% inches: chest, 3 inches: chest expanded, 413 inches} right bic inches; left biceps, 1 forgarm, 11 ‘Inches; left fore- inches: ight thigh, 214 Inches 23 jnches; walst, 32 inches; abdg Inches; rieht calf, 11 Inchos: left cngth of right arm, 31 inéi s; inches; width of shoulders, 18 7 'Inches; right wrist, 0% M. left arm, inches; | inches OMAHA, March 13.To the Sporting 1dl- tor of The Bee: Will you pl state’ in ur next Sunday's Bee the prices of bufld- ach as are used pany at South Omaha, 1 & ally O 1621 Izard street, Omaha, Neb. Ans.—Take run down to the shops. 1 haven't bullt a ear fo that, actually, I couldn’t tell yc NORTH PLATTE, Neb., March W.—To the Sporting Kdltor of The Bee: Please an- swer In your Sunday's Hee: (1) When 13 the best time to kil wild geese in their fecding rounds, the morning or evening? (2) What Iis the best shot to use for them? (3 What is the best way of was decoy Keeso that have holes in them and others that leak? () Where {5 a good place for Keese along the North Platte river?—A Reader Ans. by the raflroad the birds are (3) Take them Where they are (1) Both are good If about. (2) BH's and No, I's. to n first-class cobbler. (4) the thickest e - Cure fndigestion and blilousness DeWitt's Little Early Risers. with