Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 13, 1894, Page 20

Doings of the Weck in the Field of Athletics, CHATS WITH THE PRIZE FIGHT FANS New Orleans Again in the Ring Business— Talks with Tarf Patre Wheel Notes— Diamond Dust and the Usual Grist of Athletic Squibs, There must certainly be something wrong with the Atlantie cable. A whole weel now elapsed and Champion Jim Corbett tailed to telegraph the suffering Amerl public that his theatrical engagement abr will absolutely precluis the possibility of his meeting on until later in the autumn or early winter, and this in xplicable déreliction of Jim's part should be imm:di- ately investigated. It some submarine dis- turbance has interfered with the perfect working of the wires, a searching par should be sent out at once, from both N York and Liverpool, and with instructions to spare neither expense or pains until the defugelty, whatever it may be, fs discovered United ¢ and remedied. The people of the States must hear, at least on every other Uay, that Jim can't meet Peter in June, but and it also n't do this in the i he and little that he will later on in th must know just why Jim coming month of ros Willie must never fail to repeat that it is their stupendous dramatic duties that pre- vents. The people will never forgive them if they neglect th They expect these great gobs of wind regularly and methodicall and it will be downright culpability in Jim and Willie if they neglect to send them over as per arrangement with Parson Davies be- fore the sailed. They should remember, {00, that every one of these cablegrams is g for interview with Peter on this side and gives the sable Hercules a chance to again enlighten the poor Amerlcan suckers that he signed to fight Jim in June, that his the cham- theatrical pressure i great @ plon’s, that he will never consent to fight gouth of Mason and Dixon's line on account nd that he must of the race prejudice, know something definite soon about Colonel Corbett’s plans or he will pack his little bandbox and follow him across the drink. Are you all on? nks to the gracious: gods, Joe At last, th mmons are matched ' Choynski and Bob Fitz to a finish at catch weights, They. signed articles on Wednesday last and another dead weight has been lLfted from off the world. While the agreement docs not fix any spe- cific time for the clash of these maulies, T am enabled, through my inti- macy with such affai; to inform my read- ers just when it will take place, and if they won't let it go any further, I will tell them. I suppose this is unprofessional, but the scoop is such pulssant one that I am coerced to smother all honor, and tear it off. 1t Joe and Bob get mad I'll have to stand it, but then I have prize fighters mad at me before and yet came out unscathed. Now, mind, this is on the dead, and if any- body asks you where you got it tell them a little chippie whispered it to you. or course, 1 don't like to do This, but this life would be an elysium, indecd, if we never did anything but what we knew was right, and I get my precepts from such men as Judge Scott, Jere Dunn and the St. Joe Kid, and everybody knows they are on the level. You sce, Joe and Bob are to fight when any rep- utable club hangs up a $15,000 purse for the event—that is one of the minor specifications of the articles—and az this is such a measly sum, there will be such an avalanche of ap- plieations for the go that Bob and Joe will bo at a loss which to accept. As the club must be a reputable club, however, there is but one choice, the Do-'em-all club of Jack- sonville, 'la. They will get the fight be- yond the shadow of a ghost, and by a private wire from Chief Skin Bowden I am in- formed that they have already fixed upon the 315t of next February for the fight. rival After young Griffo met and so cleverly bested Johnny Griffin a few weeks ago in Boston, o good many sporting authorities at once picked him out as the man to do George Dixon. They did not take into con- sideration that this was a limited round e: hibition contest, nor that Griffo weighed nearly twenty pounds more than the Brain- tree boy, nor the fact that Griffin was there at the end of the bout in better shape to go further than he was in the early rounds of the contest. Simply because this bulky little Antipodean tatterdemalion slapped and tapped Johnny almost at will in a few rounds, and run over him from sheer force of welght in others, they settled upon him as a world beater and picked him as the proper party to divest the Haligonian of his robes of glory. But since Griffo and “Nutty” Billy Murphy had it out for ten rounds the other night, and not- withstanding Gentleman Bill Daly gave the award to Griffo, there has been a decided change of sentiment. The cock-sure fel- lows are now a bit leary, and they are glib to announce that Griffo will =~ have most anything else than a cinch when he meets the doughty colored lad, who has swept everything before him during the past five years. That Murphy gave Griffo as good as he sent all descriptions of the . contest conclusively prove, and also that Daly should have made it a dead heat. That he did not, however, is only another fllus- tration of the fact that the fellow coming always gets the best of it in these question- able affairs and the fellow going the other end. Still, because Griffo did not clearly best Murphy is no reason why he should not whip Dixon. There has always been a doubt in my mind whether Dixon could do any better with Murphy than Griffo did. Without any’ exception Billy Murphy has been one of the greatest featherweights that ever lived, and when he first came to this . country four years ago he was a veritable physical tornado, I saw him box Austin Gibbons down at the old People’s theater ono night, and despite Gibbons' weight, +height, reach and strength he wasn't in it Murphy was a great knockout puncher and no antagonist ever had him licked until the Jast count of the fatal ten had been tolled off. Murphy's statement that he was never Upetter In his life than at present, though must be taken with a liberal quantity of galt. These be tight times for the pugs and to keep eating they dare miss no opportu- nity to blow their own bugle. To acknowl- edga that he has gone back means a prome- nade with the banner. But all this has but little to do with Griffo’s coming fight with Dixon. Can he whip him? that's the ques- tion. For one I think not. » For o time 1 feared my old friend Tommy Ryan had become whelmed in the vortex of giddy lifo at Jiridgeport. 1 could get no word from, nor find anthing in the papers about him or his affairs. The following re. celved last night shows that he is still in the flesh and on the hustle: HARTFORD, ‘Conn., May 10.—Saniy Gris- wold, Sporting Editor of The Bee.—My Dear 0ld Friend: Just made up my mind to drop you a line. Thought maybe yeu would like to know “where I am at” and what T am Qoing. Well, in the first place I have just returned from St. Louls, where I boxed Jack Wilkes, my old victim at South Omaha. He Is not nearly as good as he was then and 1 had but little trouble in doing as I pleased, On the 224 of this month T box Jack Falvey of Providence, and as he |y fuecedly clever I expect a pleasant time. 1 have started a boxing acdemy here in Hartford, 245 Main street, and am doing Jendidly. 1 am now working hard to get on another go with Mysterious Billy Smith, and all I insist on is that it must be long enough that a declsion will be reached Who will get this I am well satisfled, but Billy 1sn't and Is holding oft. If we fight, no matter where It takes place, I want you there, I will keep you advised. Glve my regards to all my Omaha friends, especlally “Old Spud” and Bandle. If you think of it send me my serap book. My pupils are anxious to see it Hoping to hear from you soon, I am, of gourse, always your friend, TOMMY RYAN, Brower House, Hartfort, Conn. %, Jack Falvey is True enough, as Tom bested blg Owen fuecdly clever. He Zelgler a couple of weeks ago In an artistic’ wity that was said to be Haphalean in its effects. It was a sure enough case of selence versus strength, and skill won. falvey bas also fought Stanton Abbott a THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, MAY 13, 1894—TWENTY PAGES fifteen-round draw, which in itself s suf- ficlent to stamp him as A dangerous man in his class, and Tommy does not want to get too gay with him. Of course I apprebend no Mikelihood of disaster to Ryan, but Falvey is_one of those kind of men that I would advise him to push along fast and do him as quickly and thoroughly as possible. The great secret of Jack Dempsey's early success was that he spared no man until he had him hung up. On Thursday night next North Platte Is to be the scene of a finish contest bhetween Jimmy Lindsay of this city and the Black Pearl of Sacramento. This is not Harris Martin, the Black Pearl of erstwhile loca fame, but a new coon equally strong and clever, Lindsay is in superb condition for almost any kind of a scrap and his friends look to find him an easy winner. Of course, they may be mistaken. . SANDY GRISWOLD. The S smen's Shoot, The eigliteenth annual shoot of the State Sportsmen’s association opens up at Colum- bus on Tu y morning next and ntinues for three days, May 15, 16 and 17, The in- dications all point to one of the biggest and sful shoots ever held under the this time-honored and veteran the assoctation for the . Schroeder, president; H. J. Arnold, treasurer, and G. B. Speice, secrotary, all of Columbus. These gentle- men are all first class shots and have had e officers of present year are G, much experience in trap shooting tourna- ments, and will give the state one of the biggest and most enjoyable shoots she has ever had. They ere getting together a large number of live birds, and will have a ton or so of Chamberlain's blue rock tar- gets on hand, as well as a complete set of Chamberlain's expert traps, clectrical id to be the best in the world. These ton, are the most popular in_ the y, and it will be seen that the Colum- I managementi intends to afford the sportsmen attending the very best of ever: thing in the market. The program for the pended: FIRST DAY, MAY 15, LIVE BIRDS. o live Dirds, moneys, three; pull, targets, three days Is ap- live birds, moneys, four; birds, moneys, thres birds, C, F 50, emblemat , value, state championshiy nonly; now he This badg soctation; 210, TARG 2. Ten single hree; entranc enty single ta; targets—$10 added; § s, four; ets; moneys, four; gets—$15 added; OND DAY, MAY 16, LIV BIRDS. moneys, thres entranc No. 11. entr: n live birds—$15 added; moneys, nce, §7 ven live three; birds; money nee, %, 15, State association t-am-sho)t ba/'g two men to a team, Open to sportsmen only. . IFive live bird nd two double and 50 pe 20 per cent to third, per team, $10. is badge ent to second; $50 added. Entrance TARGETS. . 10. 1;.In single targets; moneys, three; nee, $. Twenty single targets—s$10 addes 0. 11 Fifteen four; entrance, $1.50, 1 anipion team gold medal. Open ska sportsmen only. The medal nted by Pforzheimer & Keller com- any, through I2. Hallet, Lincoln, Neb. To main the property of the Nebraska State Sportsmen’s assoclation, but the team win- ning it may retain it by giving satisfactory guarantee that it will be forthcoming at the next annual tournament, to be shot for as herein provided: The tedm holding it to be entitled to entrance money the following year, Any club may designate s many ams as they desire jn this contest. 85 added, four moneys. ntrance per team, $5. “LAST DAY, MAY 17, LIVE BIRDS. No. 17. Seven live birds. Novelty shoot, gun below elbow until bird is in the air—$10 added; monevs, three: entrance, $. moneys 19, '{_-‘n live birds; moneys, four; , $7.00. 21 Seven live birds; moneys, three; entrance, $5. No. 2.'Ten live birds—$i5 added moneys, four; entrance, $7.50, TARGETS, No.18. Ten single targets; moneys, threc; entrance, $1. No. 20. Twenty single targets—$10 added; moneys, four; entrance, $2. No. 2 fteen single targéts; moneys, four nce, $1.50. No. 24. Platfsmouth silver cup. Open to Neb ka sportsmen only. Four members Only one of a club to compose a team. team to be entered I lub. Ten single to each man, ~ First, eup and 5 per second, 10 per cent; third, 20 per cent. dded if not less than four teams shool. ance per team, $10, ourney will be governed by the n association rules, except that 1% be used in uage will' begin at 8:30 sharp Cach ce” of birds is included in ent In case of ties each may draw his proportion of purse. Where three moneys are given the division will be 50, 50 and 20 per cent; four moneys, 40, 30, 2 and 10; five moneys, 30. 2 and’ 10. Added 'money will not be paid when than three squads enter the contest, unless otherwise stated in the program. = Shooters cannot enter any event after the first squad have finished thelr score. Sl For the Protection of Our Fish, The fishermen of Omaha and Council Bluffs have at last joimed hands for the protection of the lakes in this neighborhood and have held seyeral meetings looking to a permanent organization. The seining will be stopped and lovers of the rod can soon feel assured of reasona- ble success at Cut-Off and Manawa. Over one hundred of the Omaha fishermen have joined, and about the same number from the Bluffs. The lakes will be re-stocked with the best of game fish and will be pre tected from unlawful destruction. The law is 'strong enough in both Nebraska and lowa and only needs enforcement. There has as yet been no permanent organization but a joint meeting will be held on Thurs- day next at Cross Gun company's store, this city, for that purpose. The association is backed by the fish commissons of both states, and will effect much good. The temporary officers at present are Willlam Simeral, chairman, of the Omaha club; Dr. A. P. Ginn, secretary, and J. B. Meikle, attorney. W. H. Schurz, chairman of the Council Bluffs club, and Mr, Graham, secretary. b All that is now wanted is for the South Omaha fishermen to join, and they are in- vited to come up on Thursday evening next at 8 o'clock and take part in the per- manent organization. September Trotting Session. The Nebraska Association of Trotting and Pacing Horse Breeders are making most elaborate preparations for their ninth an- nual meeting, which will be held in this city on the falr grounds course the first week in September. This assoclation, as Is well' known, 1s distinctly a local organiza- tion and 1s in & better condition this year than ever before in its history, consequently the hest meeting of the series can be safely counted on Jhis fall. There will be a tre- mendous fleld of locally bred horses, as well as a large entry 1ist from adjoining states, and ‘::fl.[uur\»nlllll)‘s;‘;“lnl will be a most ex . A. J. Briggs, s vi among Nebraska brecders, ia the ascretary. with headquarters at Superior, and upon application will gladly “furnish interested parties with the fullest information the coming autumn ses ARan Song of the Fear throws to bases like a Clements or a4 Zimmer, The Quinces will be here tomorrow, we kil ‘em? Seery is playing good ball both | e and at the bat e e We must have this afternoon’s game. need it in our buhlm»& 5 Ladles should remember that they have no Imission to pay Thursdays, Ladles' day at the Charles Street park will be the popular day.of the wesk, Fred Jevne has been reccmmended to President Young as a good man for umpire. Herealter the south section of the grand Shall We stand will be reserved for ladles. No smoking will be allowed here. George McVey s apt to give any pitoher a touch of heart failure. He is one of the hardest hitters in the profession. McVey, McMackin and Fear are a trio of first class coachers. Papa Rourke, likewise, frequently takes a hand in the noise. The reserved section will be partitioned off before the team returns from its first Jaunt abroad, and comfortable chairs put. in. Jack Gaffney, “King of Umpires,” has been taken out of the damp by Patricio Powers and given a berth in the Eastern league, Lincoln and Omaha are abreast for second place. Wait until we get the Agriculturists Up here. | ‘Then we wiil trot fo the front— | maybe, St. Joe good game and it 18 take after, Whitehill has already developed into a really great pitcher. He has the most tant lizing curves and controls them like an ex- has been putting up a rattling both In the field and at the bat, 8t. Joe the Rourke family must pert rifleman, Tom Ram Denver's old left-handed twirler, is making ninnies of the heavy hit- ters in the Southern league. Ramsey is with Savannah. The Milwaukees ara minus two young bloods. Those erstwhile Cleveland twirlers Scheible and William—have both been knocked down.—Times-Star, Two more games—tomorrow and Tuesday, then the Rourkes go away for a couple of weeks. Returning June 1, they will tackle Lincoln at the Charles street park. Jack Munyun and Kid Fear are always in the thick of the fray. They never tire and fight just as hard when a ling ways in the rear as they do when in the lead. Harry Wright's opinion of Treadway is that he is the hardest line hitter in the league, and an Al thrower. And Harry comes pretty near knowing . what he Is talking about.. The Rourke family opens up at Quincy next Friday for thrie games; thence they £0 to Jacksonville, Rock Island and Peoria. Out of the twelve games they want about eight. Wood should take The Bee's hint and try a pair of smoked glasses. number of flelders in the big league are using them, and they find them an immense help in the sun's glare. Paddy Boyle, 80 a good many of the pa- trons of the game are inclined to think, is ltable to shirk hard hit grounders. This is a fault easily mastered, however, and Paddy is too promising a young player to be handi- capped in this way long. Grand Rapids did the liveliest stick work of the year Tuesday when Phillips of the Hoosiers was pounded for a total of thirty- nine bases, says Ren Mulford. But Ren doesn’t read the papers. On the same day Omaha hit young Mr. Burris of Jacksonville for sixty-two totals, including nine home runs, four of which’ fell oft ¢f Jack Mun- yun's bat. There is no need of repining over games that are lost, no matter what the cause may be. Almost daily games are lost by a single misplay or a_combination of circum- stances unforeseen. Mistakes are made, and vous ones, too. But the next day the g0 in and play, if possible, harder than ever, to win. It is when a team is on the downward troad thati sympathy and Kkind words are needed. But low few ever get even a cheering word to help them rise again! Think this over, too. A gallant Boston crank, who attended the opening game in Brookiyn, say “The ladies were out in force, and few cities can alow such an array of beauty as Brooklyn The Bostonian should lose no time in visit- ing New York, when he will learn that this is one of the “few cities' which “‘can ew York Evening Telegram. And what's the matter with Philadelphia? Why, she’s all right; sie's got some of the finest.—Phila- deiphia Press. And Omaha. You ought to take a squint at the flower garden her grand stand presents, especially on ladies’ day. The Sandy Griswolds, that hot little ball team of which Ambrose Ellington is manager and A. C. Martin captain, has certainly come to stay. After giving a mixed team of strong players from the ranks of the Non pareils, Athletics and Daistes a few days ago such a close call, they have been unuble to make a date for today and will consequently put it in at practice. Their suits, blue knickerbockers, shirts, caps and stockings, with white trimmings, will be on hand in the courso of a few days and in their new togs the boys expect to sweep all before them. Manager Eliington intends to give his team a big benefit ball after the season expires, whether they win the city amateur championship or not. Just now he Is anx- fously waiting for dates and he isn't par- ticular whether they come from in or out of the city, all will be attended to. Com- munications should be addressed to Am- brose Ellington, Bee Building. The team at present includes suck well known local players as Grant Thompson, Fred Arnot, A, C. Mar- tin, Ed Maloney, Joe Miller, De Witt Burg- man, Al Thompson, Billy Kilby, Billy Knopp, W. H. Ryan, Fred Murray and Billy McCoy. Whisperings of the Wheel. The scorcher man to the road has gone, In the thick of the dust vou'll find him, His brother's pants he has buckled on And his wife he has left behind him. “Oh, Sunday run," the scorcher cried ho’ all the club forsake theej. One wheel at least thy route shall ride orcher true shall make thee:’’ The scorcher scorched, but his dusty chain, Lost its pin and fell asunder, driving _wheel turned not ag: Tho' the rider swore like thund; 1 said, “I'll have to walk to town hro' the dust tho' I do smother, May the d—l take the Sunday run Tl never take another.” —The Idler. The North End Cycling club is a new acquisition to the local firmament. The association of the local cyeling clubs is no nearer an organization than a week ago. No one seems to be willing to start the movement and foster it. The Young Men's Christian association cyclers and the Tourists held an informal joint run Friday eyening of last week to the Bluffs, Many mail carriers in the large cities have adopted the bicycle as a means of rapld locomotion, and the mail service of Uncle Sam now contains some very expert cyclists. The Ganymede Wheel club, under com- mand of Cuptain Williamson and Lieutenant Carothers, passed through the city last Sun- day enrovte for Bellevue, where the club spent the day. Each year since its organization the Cl cago Cycling Club assoclation has indulged in a club run, which has always been well attended. This year the run was partici- pated in by over 1,000 riders. . The route chosen was the Pullman course. The Tourist Wheelmen have an outing on the Military road today, their destination being Arlington, round trip sixty-two miles. The Fremont club will meet the Tourists at Elk City and run over to Arlington with them, where dinner will be served (and lots of it, too). The Tourists will return home late in the afternoon. Willlam Martin, a former Omahog and ex-soldier, is winning races in Paree from the “oracks” as he pleases. He has given up long distant races and taken up quick, short distance work, and Is showing good head and speed. Lumsden of Chicago Is also reeling ‘em off just a little bit faster, than the ‘furriners” want to, The Tourists, fourteen strong, tacked on to the gale last Sunday and let it blow them down to the pretty little county seat of Mills county, lowa, L e., Glenwood, where they spent the delightful day. Some of the boys were coaxed Into a match game of base ball before they returned, and are now mourning the lack of thelr customary elas- A tleity. The game? Oh, well, the least .aid about the matter the better. Glenwood took it by a score of 8 to 2. Lieutenant Melton took his bugle along to pract'ce on consequently the cattle along the route are all suffering from acute deafness. Condon Is riding like the wind, and the Omaha Wheel club colors will be carried over the tape well in the front this season. Culley, Pegau, Flescher, Proulx, Pixley and Holton are all riding well and gaining speed. Quite a number of the local wheelmen are riding hard on the country road getting into condition for the great relay ride in August. Captain Willlamson is also get- ting his relay men into shape for the ride. The Tourists are hunting up their old fishing tackle and have sent out a commit- tee digging buit for their angling excursion next Sunday. The prizes for the Tourst road mileage this year consist of the club medal for first ce, & gold medal for second, & cyclometer Uhird, o silver cup (or fourid, and 1o ad- | ANY PEOPLE say they don’t see how it pays to ad- vertise the way we do and sell goods as cheap as we claim. They are right, It don't pay. We are not after money---we are quitting and we propose to quit in style to make ourselves remembered, Everybody must get it cheap now or they won't buy-~that's one reason we are GOING OUT OF BUSINESS 202039 AT KA 3 ¥S b3 UT JUST WHILE we are going we wish to incidentally remark that no living man will Cassimere TR s =S P2 b3 1.. W be allowed to compete with us. No house - can import cheap suits to catch our customers, for, listen---last week we sold 750 of those g12, §15, $18 and g20 cheviot and cassimere suits for $8. Now the cther 500 are going for a few days at §5 oo--as long as they last. Your friends will tell you all about them. All the rest of the $12 to $20 Cheviot and Suits we sold for $8 last week go now at COLUMBIA CLOTHING CO. For a while at 13th and Farnam—then we quit. toes, light biscuit and a rich mixture of Mocha and Java—and were gathered about the glowing stove—which Clifford kept stuffed full of chips—enjoying our cigar chatting on the thrilling events of the dition to this a club century pin for the member who finishes last in the century run this season, yet within the stipulated time, fourteen hours. There s also some talk in regard to a record medal to be put {HOME OF THE CANVASBACK | up for the member of the club ml;lkllng n‘:e What a March Blizzard Means Amnng the | and listening to the “taunting cries of best record to Bellevue, the medal to be o : Boreas' fiends without, when suddenly the Known as the Bellevue medal, and the win- Sand Hills of Western Nebraska. door was pushed rudély open, admitiing a chilly blast of sieet and wind, and the figure \ of a man, muffled to the eyes und literally coated with ice and snow. It was Rudolph, the trapper, With our ready assistance Gus was quickly stripped of his stiffened garments and into warm, dry ones, and then, after the cra ings of hunger and thirst had both been al- layed, he threw himself contentedly on a pile ner to defend it against all challengers in the club. The contestant winning it three different times to hold it as his personal property. The Omaha Wheel club will pedal down to Glenwood, la., today, where they will spend the day. The run is a beautiful one, and by cyclometer measurement from Omaha is forty-nine and three-fifths miles, BETE NOIR OF COWBOY AND RANCHMAN aught in the Storm—Narrow Escape of the Old Trapper—A Fearful Tramp—Rex, the King round trip. The rum takes the rider along oimors of wolf skins before the fire and related his the base of the bluffs, over a slightly hilly experfence’ in the bligzard. road to the eleven mile bridge, and then He had been “following his line” down bears abruptly to the left into the lovely ¥ on Hackberry and Roundup lakes, and wooded hills, Thes coast into Glenwood EARFUL as the | elated with a big catch of rat and Skunk from the top of the hill is well worth the blizzard raged on { he had failed to keep track of the time of ride. One thing the run lacks to make 2 i day and the theatening aspect of the it perfect, and that is a fine and tempting the afternoon of | weather, and before he fajrly realized it the dinner. It Is pretty hard to get a good our first day at | blast was upon him in all its awful impet- dinner at the other end of the route for Goose lake, it was | U0SIY, and ina blinding swirl of sleet, rain some reason. 9 and drifting snow he found himself strug- Tyler and Sanger are hard at work train- nothing compared | glig to get through the hills. For a time his efforts were futile and, ex- perienced and indurated old plainsman that he was, he felt that there was imminent danger ahead. Still, of course, he perse- vered, and after frequently stopping to take his bearings and study the character of the surrounding hills and note the direction of the storm, he would move on again with braver steps and sturdier resolution, but to its furious vio- otuewaed) lence of that night, the next day and the night following While the telegraph told briefly of its extent and destruc- ing on the Denver tracks. Sanger welghs 0 pounds and is only riding now to reduce flesh. Johnnie Johnson, Murphy, Callahan, and Taylor are training with the Tomec zang down in Dixie, where the magnolia blooms and miles are reeled off in 2:07 1-5. Bliss and Dirnberger are on the coast tak- ing In the Midwinter fair tournament, and the great army of unknowns and fifth-rate men are training just as hard for the little country pot hunts, which will soon begin. Wheelmen will watch with interest the gigantic struggle this year between Sanger, Tyler, Hyslop, Johnson, Dirnberger, Taylor and Bliss for the crown of laurel that Zim- mie cast aside. It is dollars to mudpies that Sunger will wear the cast-off emblem of royalty. There are manw wheelmen who think Zimmie showed his good sense when he forsook the amateur ranks and turned professional. Sanger might have divided Honors with him this season as an amateur King. ‘With the Rod and Gun. Frank Keniston, Charlie Melrose and Bill McCune were at Blue lake after ociopus and tarpon Wednesday. They got both. J. R. Antes and H. T. Lemist made a big basket of black buss at W Point re- cently, in fact, about the biggest yet re- ported this season. A large delegation of local shots including such experts as Parmelee, Hardin, Reed, Peters, Loomis, Brucker, Townsend, Brewer and ofhers, will attend the state shoot at Columbus this week. Jack Morrison, who by the way has de- veloped into one of the best field shots in this neck o' the woods, and Charlie Lewls shot the last of the jacks at Calhoun last Tuesday, They also bagged a hall-dozen sickle-bill curlew and a fine bag of yellow- legs. f230 Ingram and J. D. Weaver of the Coun- il Blufts Nonpareil and Milt Uhl and J. P Ryan of The Bee spent last Sunday on the Jakes near West Point, guests of that prince of sportmen and good feliows, Colonel Fred Sonnenschein. That they returned with a Well filled creel of bass and croppies goes Without relating, inasmuch as the matchless Frederick was with th Answers. v, JOSEPH, ¢ 5.—To the Spor g BAMOF of 1 Wil you plea Pubnish in next Sunday's Hee the answer P ollowing: A, B, C and D are play- ing pitch, seven points to be a game, A and B eheh have ix points. A buys for two, X Dlivs out high, B plays low and im- Ao hiately ¢latms out, 18 "B out or must e gume be finished? By answering this the KOl greatly oblige.—Binswan, 208 Kd- mond street 1t A played high and made either mfifl"‘.}r zame besidesy 80 that he made his {Wo good, he wins, of course. COUNCIL BLUFES, April 8-—To the Sporting Bditor of The Bee: To settle a Alpute will you please answer the follow- :In what uestions in the Bunday Bee: WV Hermit win the” English derby? In what year did Blue Gown win, and Whith Year was Lady Elizabeth favorite? Sportsmar fermit In 1867 lizabeth was: f; Blue Gown in 1868, vorite in the latter Y O OUNCIL BLUFPS{ May 9.—To the Sport- Ing Raditor of The Bee: ' Will you piease Htate in next Sunday’s Bee through what hoeident Catcher Meanett of the Boston feam lost both lewseat Topeka, Kan., last winter?—W. . WesslaRe. Ans.—He fell under the wheels in b Ing & moving train. OMAHA, May 10.-To the Sporting Editor of The Bee: Will you kindly state In your next Sunday's issue what are “ladies’ days" of the Omaha ball elub?~Faa-nie. Ans,—Thursdays. tiveness, it con- veyed but a vague LRy e of its awtul k\!*_\‘(\’t “>= character. A blizzard in the sandhills or on the plains is an entirely different elementary - exhibi- tion from a blizzard in town or city. There is a wildness and a horror about it on the desert that Is indescribable, and woe Is it to man or beast caught in It at any con- siderable distance from any of the meager shelter that desolate country affords. Cat- tle perish by the hundreds—by the herd. Their instinct goes for naught when once overwhelmed on those broad plains or in the limitless pasture-lands among the gloomy hills. There is but one hope for the poor beasts and that is to drift with the storm, which they invariably do. Once started nothing scems formidable enough to check or swerve them aside; rugged erag or canon, nill or dale, river, lake or morass offer no impediment to thelr onward march until absolute exhaustion or death overtakes them, They make no detours, but drift straight ahead, and once the shores of a lake or swamp are reached the leaders, pushed on- ward by the hosts in the rear, plunge blindly fu. If enabled to reach the opposite shore they continue on until the fury of the storm has abated sufficiently to allow them to halt for rest and what scanty nourishment they may be able to paw up from under the snow. If the depth of water or mire precludes this possibility they crowd in and on until they are either stuck fast in the mud or drown, hundreds often meeting this terrible fate in a body of water or mushy slough which in pleasant weather would furnish nothing worse than a haven of refreshment. There are Innumer- able instances where whole herds have be- come wedged in, In just such a place, 5o thickly jammed fogether that you cross upon their backs, here to remain until completely buried by the drifting snow. When the storm breaks and the disconsolate cowboy or ranchman goes forth in quest of his drifted stock a horn or two glistening in the sun from out a desert of snow often leads him to the mausoleum of his lll-fated bunch. While locomotion is possible, drifting cattle never stop, but keep on their weary way for days and nights, In fact until the storm spends its fury and indications of peace again descend upon the earth Truly a blizzard on the western plains is the bete noir of the stockman's life, entail ing as It does enormous loss and days and nights of laborious traveling, privation and toll. Many and many a man has been robbed of his all in a single night by one of these tremendous visitatios and no one can ap their wwful ~destructivencss until it with thelr own e They ar not only dangerous to the lives of stock, but pan himself, and many and many a be ent herder has met a horrible death on thelr midst. The lawyer, Hamilton and myself had regaled ourselves upon one of Mrs H.'s most bounteous dinners—plles of pike, the crusted skin cracking open from the creamy, white flesh; tender slices of bacon, nicely browned, and canvasback, roasted to'a turn, and sprinkled with watercress fresh from the swalls of Coyote Rup, - with Lyounalsg pota- just as ignorant of his exact whereabouts and as blind as ever. The hills were soon swallowed up in the mazes of the blast and there was no deter- mining the true direction of the storm. Tt seemed to scream in through the arroyos, shrick over the highlands and across the barrens from all sides at once and con- verge like a howling cohort of rapacious de- mons upon his devoted head. The snow and sleet were now streaming over the whole earth In one continuous sheet, the wind sweeping everything before it with the ravings of a hurricane _first this way and then that, like some evi spirit bent upon the most diabolical ends. From the nature of the ground and the more regular onrush of the blizard Rudolph at last felt that he had reached the open, but in its horrible fury to tell in just which direction refuge lay, or to find the well worn wagon road, was a task he felt hopeless, indeed. Yet he would never for a mo ment believe he was lost, and though blinded and bafed by the driving snow, which came down upon him in whirls and eddies, he struggled on. In the very midst of all’ that wild and fearful din Rudolnh told how there were intervals of such a deathlike stillness that was even more appall- Ing than all the horrible wproar. — This is one of the mysterious featurcs of such a storm on the broad plains of the west, and all those who have encountered such W recall these tomblike spells, which fall ever and anon upon the rageful rush of the tempest. On, on, ceaselessly on labored the sturdy trapper. ~ There were times when ke seened to make literally no headway at all, when every landmark known to his practiced senses was lost, and he felt, so he said, as he plodded and stumbled for- ward, as If he was tramping to his own funeral. Now he plunged Into some deep- ening drift, and the next moment was fairly tearing his way through the matted grass and weeds, which In places defled the power of the blast, while all the time was heard that deep, muffied roar, coming and going like the mystle sounds we hear at the dead of night from the lashing and wrathful ocean, and, in sooth, Rudolph might have well felt that he was alone with death. And why not? Even though the old trap- per was @ native of “the hills and plains, ¢ though he was versed in all their dark some vagarles as the student is in his books, he was not superhuman. Why not, I re peat, might not he be plodding to his own funeral? Others as learned In such lore, as wise and fearless and courageous as he, had n lost in just such storms—others had n submerged in just such avalauches of sleet and snow, only to be thawed out and found rigid and lifeless in the sunlight of a future day. But Gus wasn't the man t get ly frightened; still an Increasing unecasiness was cresping over him. This was about as close a call as he had ever experi enced in all his life of privation and exposure and the situation ed to grow worse with every step he took. He was almost ready to drop from fatigue, but he knew that meant an end to 1t all sure and speedy, and on on he pushed. It he could only find shelter somewhere, som hole in the plain, or some barricade against the face of the | storm, he would anyway stop briefly for rest. But the night was settling down upon bim blagker than Brebus and he dare not bosoms the dista prisonment ing hills, no caress of ripple or flasl gentler winds stiri think of rest. His he: rt began to quickes its pulsations and he began to flounder ulun; more recklessly. A frantic dete solzed him. Ho must get out of ihat Biacie and howling blast at once or never. Gus was mad, and when he gets mad, well, ha is a host within himself upon such ccca- sion Hark! He stopped. Surely that was the bark of a dog, or was it but the yawp of some strageling or frecbooting coyote, or but another stranger wail of the wind. . Ough-ough-00-00-00. There it Is again. There is no coyote or wind about that—it is a dog and no less a dog than King Rex Calling the fuithful brute at the top of his lungs Rudolph actuslly broke into a lope and the next moment the dog, with an out~ burst of joyous barks, was plunging in the snow about him. Al thoughts of danger and lonesomeness fled as by mugle with Rex's coming, and so did Gus' uncertainty about his exact situation, He had been travei- ing aright ever since he left the hills and had the dog discovered him or not, in a few more monents he would have actually bumpt up agalnst the sod walls of Hamil~ ton mansion. . We sat up late that night, tired as we all were, but you see the lawyer had brewed us a bowl of punch, and its exhilarating effects banished all ideas of sleep from our minds, and until nearly 12 we lolled and lounged about the fire, each one endeavoring to outlie the other. After a close race Willie walked off with the pennant, although at one or two stages It looked as if Gus might come in first. Hamilton was left at the post, while I was a bad third. Just Dbefore retiring Rudolph stepped to the door to ascertain what Old Probabilities. proposed to do on the morrow and he wasn't long in finding out. “Whew-ee!"™ he efaculated, as swept by wilder and fiercer than ever; “no ducks tomorrow. 1 am afraid, boys, we are in it for a day or two. It has simply got to wear ftself out When It comes this way. I've seen just such storms before.” And the trapper was right. There was no let-up In the fury’ of the gale until mid- night the next night, when it ceased ahout as” suddenly as it began, and a cold blue sky, studded with millions of lustrous stars, overspread a blank and whitened world, The morning following broke clear and beautiful, but quite cold. The snow, almost on a level with the lodge top, lay like a winding sheet over the whole enyironing country, yet nature gave freedom to the voices that told that there was yet life and anfmation beneath all this semblance of death, that her warm heart still beat under the White shroud which enfolded her rigld breast. A timid plping came from the myrald of buntings disporting in the fields on e hand, while from beneath their frozem t lakes bewailed their fm= with smothered moans that. awakened a mournful chorus from the sleep= whose white glare reflected now. of wave. The A the stripped cane stalks « the blast and hollow reeds into murmurs sweet yet sad, soft mantle of tawny gold over th while the April sunshine ke a winter~ wearied earth, I remarked to Ed in a we stood in the doof the frozen surfac ! 1 I 1 0 t t ! u t ! fi up for the t t t I suppose this ends our duck hunting,'™ lisconsolate way, us ay and gazed off over of Lake Hamilton, duck shooting—you It 15 just of atr hol “Ends our know the countr There are plenty akes and they will be crowded with. birds. Jon't you worry-—they haven't gone away. tell you, Sandy, that blizzard was a god= send to us, but the cattle owners, it was — on them. Il tell you what 1I'll do, now hat you are so doubtful, I'll bet you a quart of soda water to a package of clgarettes hat we kill more birds today than you ever killed in one day in your life “fut there fs not a bird in the air, BQ,” ¥ ejolned Interrogatively “Of coruse there isn't and there until we or somebody else Jumps them from le airholes. Hut walt, we'll get grub and se off, and I think you will learn more and aster yourself than I can teach you." At the breakfast table we agreed to split od and I, and Rex of course, 0 go to G lake, while the lawyer and he trapper were to try thelr luck down om he Blg Blue, So the meal over and we were don't tng good. y in the big won't be oft, Bd and I in the spring wagon and Billy and Ru I [t " olph in the big road wagon. The sun shone bright and mellow, but rid= ng the air was a bit too refreshing for coms ort, but we forgot all about this when once we reached the shores of the lake, and way 1t to the north discovered an acre or t¥o. of ducks crowded together as close as they shelter of the rice fields, ould sit In a huge airhole just under the Little pllls for great lls: DeWitt's Little arly Risers, i