Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 17, 1894, Page 20

— g s v e —— CHAT WITH THE BOXERS| Tommy Ryan and Mysterious Billy to Settle an 0ld Ecore, ALIX AND FLYING JIB AT UNION PARK Whisperings of the Wheel—The Shooters and the Fishers—The Rourke Family, Gossip and the Customary Grist of Local Nports. Tommy Ryan and Mysterious Billy Smith have at last been matched for a finish fight. The Twin City Athletic club at Minneapolia gets the attraction, and it will come oft Jarly in August, the exact date not yet be- g set. There are no two men in the country whom the western red-hots would rather see come together, and I predict a jammed house for the club when they do. Ryan has a legion of friends in this city, and a big delegation will most surely make ihe trip, and to a man their money will 20 on Tom. Barring accidents, the ques- tion as to the superiority of the two men with the Omaha contingent is as godd as set- ted. They regard the event already as all over but the shouting. The quid nuncs re- gard Tommy as a ‘‘moral,” but I caution them not to be overconfident. I have seen too many money made fayorites bowled over within the past three years to be in a hurry to pick the winner in this case. I cannot help but look upon Ryan as the man, however, and yet there is plenty of time to stake your bank notes and silver pleces. The two have already had a covple of limited shys at each other, and on all hands it was agreed that the western lad had much the best of both. Indeed, Colonel Hopkins told me that in their last meeting Tommy made a monkey out of his lurid an- tagonist, and’ had him as good as out as early as the third round. But Tommy didn’t get him in the third or in any other round, and the referce made it a dead heat. This is something those who are contemplating speculation to be careful Another thing, scanning the records of the two men, it looks as if it ought to be a long and stiff battle. Physically the men are well matched. They will scale at 142 pounds, which means Smith's very best weight, while with Tommy it is a question. He was as big as Dick Moore when I saw him at Jacksonville last winter, and weighed, walking around, 179 pounds. Can he peel off enough of this to get at the standard and be good and strong? He never would fight below 140, you know, and two pounds more is such an additional trifle that I am in- clined to be leary.. If Tom can get to weight all right I will have no hesitancy in declaring what I think. But I will wait and see. All of you folk who have studied the game know how unsatisfactory figuring on a fight- er's form by comparative analysis is. It very often leads up to false conclusions as to the relative merits of men, and yet it is our only means of judging men who have never made the whole journey. If Bill beats George in seven rounds, and Jim beats George In two rounds it is only loglcal o think that Jim can lick Bill, all ihings being equal. But this “think” is often wrong, as has been exemplified a thousand times within the magic circle. I do not want Tommy's friends—and i am one of them—to infer by the foregoing re- “marks, that 1 believe Smith will beat him, for I do not. But I do believe that it will be injudicious for them to install Tommy as an odds on favorite two months before the fight. The men are both too good, and this inclination on the part of -his followers is more due to sentiment than sound judgment. It is the woi'st ort of ‘financiering to back a man simply because you admire him. If you have taken their measure, and are sat- isfled with your knowledge of their pugilistic ability, then pick one for a winner, that is all right, and shows speculative sense. Other- wise you might as well throw up heads or tails for choice. In appearance Tom and Billy do not differ much. Both are tall and straignt as arrows, with square shoulders and fluely modeled arms and legs, Ryan being the best of the two, as Smith's underpinning barely exceeds average size. Both are good looking men. Smith's face is expressive of flerce deter- mination, but at the same time is clean cut and even classical in outline, He stands five feet nine and three-quarters inches. Ryan has a wonderful muscular development about the neck and back. His legs are perfeet, and he is one of the most agile men who ever en- tered the ring. He Is a quarter of an inch shorter than Smith. He Is a hard hitter, marvelously clever, quick as a cat and strong as a tiger. Smith has many of the same qualities, but fights differently. He rushes in like a bull at a barn door and relies al- most wholly on swinging blows and never glves an opponent much rest, makes him mix matters, and up to the time he met Ryan his great strength in close quarters always stood him in good stead. Tom's left in his face tamed him wonderfully in both of their meetings, and it will be Tom's left that will turn the trick in August next, if he turns it at all. In reviewing the situation, Peter Donohue says: Well, whatever you may say or think about Champlon Jim Corbett you must give him credit for being consistent in at least one respect—he will not fight In England. He ap- prised the National Sporting club of London of his determination, and very sensibly adds that he cannot see where he would be bene- fited by fighting in London for $15,000, when he can sccure a purse of $35,000 on this side of the big pond. No one can find fault with Jim for ignoring the English club's offer under the circumstances, but there Is one thing that may militate against his chances of getting the bigger purse. That fs Jack- son's aversion to fight In the south. Peter knows the prejudices of the southern people against men of his color, and It was this knowledge that caused him to stipulate for a Dattleground north of the Mason and *Dixon line. He has declared he will not fight in the south, and ns he is quite as positive in his ways as Corbett is in his, the chances for a fight are very slim. It takes two men to make a fight, and at the present time it scems to me that the two men will not meet in the same ring. As it is now, the articles of agreement signed by “‘Corbett and Jackson are of no more value than (he paper they are written on. ‘They have been violated by both men, and the men show dispositions to violate them to a greater extent. In spite of the clause call- ing for a fight In America, Jackson agrees with a London club to fight in England, while Corbett fgnores the territorisl clause and dickers with an organization in the south. Jackson knows full well that Cor- bett wil not fight abroad, and James knows that Peter will not go to Florida to fight; henco they. feel safe In going along as the are at present. The prospects are that the affalr will end like a French duel, with the honor of the principals appeased, without the Jetting of blood. When championship honors are settled thus, it Is time to have every day Sunday. MARSHALLTOWN, la., Jute 13, Griswold, Sporting Editor of The Bee: Wil you please be kind enough to put this chal- Jenge i The Omaha Bee in the sporting news? ‘Chis “coon” s a wonder, and if you have any men there in his class would bo glad (o hear from them.—C. A. Close. MARSHALLTOWN, Ia., June .—I herchy challenge any 185-pound man, give or take five pounds, in the state of lowa or Nebraska to a ten-round glove contest for $100 a side and gate receipts, which will no doubt sount to $600 or $600 after paying ex- penses, winner to take all. Fight to ta piace within twenty-five miles of Marshull- town, la, one but good men will he recognizod.—Jim Sellers, Marshalltown, la Hollors' challenge finds a place In these colmns not because I take much stock in Bis ability to whip anybody, but because 1 age & chanoe for o little sport. It Sellers fugans what he says his challenge would Baye been accompanled With & fow simeleons a5 an oarnest of goad falthe. But et (hat : It Mr. Close, who ds evidently Setlers’ ndy THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, JUNE 17, 1894, produce a man for hipr And we will try and demonstrate juet how wonderful this coon is. SANDY GRISWOLD, Lawn Teunia i v ivaha. These are bright duy¥ for lawn tennis in Omaha. The tournament on the club ground on Harney street and the ‘‘members-only" tournament of the Young Men's Christian as- soclation to begin tdmorrow are nothing more than the outward and visible signs of the inward life and enthusiasm that have placed this most healthful game in the very front rank among outdoor sports in the city. It is doubtful if even base ball can command as great a number of players in Omaha as lawn tennis does now. Time was when the Englishmen had the game In their own hands, when they held all the champlonships, and so far as public play was concerned they came very near monopolizing the whole thing. There were of course always a few Americans who were to be found in the courts, but now they are very largely In the majority and some of them are quite in the front rank of all. Speaking In a general way the English followers of the game are confined to the Omaba club. There are in the town, how- ever, an already large and constantly in- creasing number of private clubs, some of which number almost as many members as the central organization, which has its courts on Harney street. The Young Men's Chris- tlan association has even more members, though probably fewer who are in constant practice; yet the extraordinary number of entries for the tournament this coming week shows that they are not dead. There is the Cass Street club, which is in quite a flour- ishing condition, and the Windsor Place club and others too numerous to mention. No private boarding house is any longer complete without at least one court. The Shriner, three blocks west of the Omaha Tennis club, had a court ready before April closed, and very soon another was added right alongside, . Now these two have proved entirely too inadequate for the enthusiasm that 18 manifesting iteelf in the game and two more have been added on the same lot. And Omaha 18 not the ‘only town in the state that can make a good showing in lawn fennis. Hastings alwaye has manifested a considerable interest in the game, and the fact that she has.been promised the doubles ch mp'uns . p tcurn mert tiis year is making the local club hustle quite a’little to have things up to the tip-top by the time the date for that event comes around. This, it is now practically decided, will be on the 15th and two subsequént days of July, but no for- mal announcement of this'can be made until after the adjourned meeting of the state association which s to be held on the 21st inst. Lincoln Is this year making an al- most desperate struggle for ‘the singles championship event, and if it were not that one of the two events has already been con. ceded to one of the smaller towns of the state, Omaha would probably be willing to concede that she had some claim to it. Last year, however, the Lincoln club almost dropped out of existence, and this year it has been revived in a semi-lifeless state. But it is not so much the activity that is manifested by the local club that should or does determine the location of a champion. ship competition as the interest the general population of the city is likely to take in the affair. There is no use in all the strong men in Nebraska congregating in a towa where no one cares to see them play, let alone the little matter of paying their cash for it. One of the primary objects of the state association, presumably, is to further the in. terests of the game throughout the state and to increase its' popularity. The annual champlonship competition is about the only thing that the state has in the way of educa. tional exhibits, and though there may be some reason for allowing one of the two events'to go out of ‘Omaha once in awhile with the idea of working up a boom in some of the smaller cities, it certainly seems that until there are other cities that can glve some assurance of bejng able to pay the entire cost of the affair and providing prizes for the winner out of the gate receipts, both of the events ghould never leave Omaha in the same year. The Omaha club has been unriecessarily generous already in its offers to not only pay every cent of the expenses of the singles, if-they are played here, which of course would be opligatory on it, but also to contribute substantially to the cost of the prizes for the doubles at Hastings. Among the smaller towns there is also a very lively interest in the game. Geneva has a club with a membership of thirty, not at all bad for a place of less than 1,600 in- habitants, and has applied for admission to the state association. Imperial is moving at quite a lively, galt and will no doubt be heard from before the summer is over. Ord, which had a very successful little tournament of her own last year, is now getting into shape again and Arapahoe Is also wide awake. g 1t is too early yet to say very much about the city tournament in Omaha, although it hus been in progress for we whole of the past week. The number of entries was unusually encouraging and the only pity is that it is so difficult to get in more than a very few hours play just before dark each cvening. If it were only possible to devote the whole day to it the whole thing could have been ended long ago. The interest in the ladies’ event is due largely to the novelty of it, though in years gone by there have been similar events in the city. It is unfortunate that so many of the strongest players in the ecity were unable to find partners who were willing to compete, but it must be said that for an experiment it has proved a great success. Sufficient ladles have appeared to show that the other sex does not monopolize the tennis of the community and their per- formances in court during the last few days is sufficient evidence that there Is at least scme merit in their play. More than one of the ladies competing in the tournament has a good idea of the game, and not only that, but has practiced It sufficiently to become able to do what they want to do with any ordinary ball that comes to them. By the end of another week there will be better opportunity to judge of the success of the tournament, not only from a financial standpoint, but, what after all is more im- portant to everybody in this case, as an exhibition of first class tennis. Omaha has among her players several of no mean ability. THE FLYERS AT UNION PARK. Opening of the Brig:s Trotting Meetlng Next Week, The Clinton H. Briggs trotting meeting, which comes off at Union park, over the river, the 26th, 27th and 28th of this month, s creating a great .furore among western race people, and will doubtless be the best trotting and pacing session held in this part of the country for years, The purses and speclal moneys aggregate over $10,000, more money than has been put in any three race meetings here for ten | years. All horsemen who know the manage. ment know that what he says will go, Bach purse is bona fide and will be paid at the | wire us soon as the judges have announced the winners, In addition to the ten regulur events there will be several special events of national interest and Importance, und two of these will cost a little mint of money, Both | Alix, 2:710%, the queen of the racing world, | and Flying b, holder of the pacing record, will go an exhibition mile, and Flyinz Jib will start in a half mile pace. Mr, Sulisbury wil be on the grounds wth hs famous string and will show Dan Lowell, the California Cy- clone. Besides these, there will be other speclal events, any one of which should pack the stands to repletion, W. P, MeNair, who Is working in conjunc- tion with Mr. Briggs in the perfection of tha coming meoting, s already on the ounds and putting fn every hour at hard work. A trip 1o the park will convince the most skeptical that nothing is to be left un- done. ireat improvements have been made both n the stands and un the track, and to- | day Unton park is second to no course in the | country, It always has been famous as a fast track and one casily kept in order. but | this spring it is even better than at any time In its history, Horsemen who are al- ready upon the ground are congratulating | themselves upon the highly satjsfactory con dition of things, and although' early in the they are predicting some smasied ds already. The fact that ATIX, the queen uf trotters, 18 to be hore, along with that pacing wonder, Fiying Jib, bas crewted a widespread inter- esi. and 8o great Is the curiosity (0 see these wagnifie animals that the raiiroads wit al) run cheap excursions on the diys they' are | here, and it aould Be no surprise to see 10,- 000 people on hand on these occaslons. The fleld of horses ontered thus far i¥ ext , will senid me $100 as & foreit, I will | ceedingly large and embraces on the lists some of the greatest trotters. in the country, | and by the time of the closing of the entries | next Saturday, the 23d, there will be double as many fine horses here as at any previous meeting for years. The money hung up, and_the unswerving faith racing people have in Manager Briggs and his promises, com- bine in making the outlook for the coming meeting better and brighter every day, and with good weather there is no doubt but what a tremendous success shotild be scored. The ex- hibition miles of Alix and Flying Jib alone would be sufficient to fill any grandstand in the country, and will doubtless prove equally attractive here, . Both the Omaha and Council Bluffs busi- ness men and turf lovers are much interested in the success of Mr. Briggs' first enterprise and will allow nothing to escape them that would have a tendency to augment and en- hance his chances for a triumph. For the benefit of horsemen who have not yet seen the program a synopsis of the card 1s again given. The complete program will appear in next Sunday's Bee. No. I—Free-for-all pace, half-mile dash.$ 600 very 600 800 600 00 600 $00 o 500 No. o- 1, fonls 1802 (2 {n )00 500 Special to be announced latar 5,000 Mr. Briggs has just recelved information that a large delégation of trotting horse peo- ple will be here from Chicago and vicinity, and daily his prospects of a big success grow brighter. Wheeling at Fremont. The Crescent Cycling club was organized at Fremont last’ week with twenty-eight charter members, and the following official roster: President, Frank Srack; vice president, H, “redrickson; secretary and treasurer, Tony Plambeck; captain, J. D. Johnson; first lieutenant, George Gauger; second lleutenant, James Silvey. The charter members, J. D. Nussle, George Gauger, F. G. Silvey, J. D. Johnson, H. Fredrickson, : Jake J. Jensen, A. N. Smith, G. A. Hinman, Fred Gumpert, Fred Mail, John Kiel, A: E. Hagensick, C. H Balduff, Grant Srack, Tony Plambeck, J. W. Stéwart, C. C. Main, J. L. Buckley, H. H. Beede, C. V. Swanson, Billie Jones, W. V. Dodge, Frank Gumpert, Dell Sweet, George R. Moyer and Sidney Moon. The schedule for runs for this month was as_follows: June 10, Hooper; 13, Arlington; 17, North Bend; 20, Nickerson; 24, Krugers Lake, fishing; 27, Cedar Bluff J. D. JOHNSON, Captain C. C. C. Copple to Hob Harris. GRUNDY CENTER, June 11.—To the Sporting Editor of The Bee: I see by Police News Bob Harris of Niobrara, Neb., challenges any man in America to run a seventy-five yards foot race, barring Mor- ris end Quirk. I will match Mr. Harris seventy-five yards, pistol shot start, Shef- field rules to govern, for any part of $in, race to take piace in Omaha any time within ten days notice. So, Mr. Harris, it you mean_ business send forfeit to the Sporting Editor of The Bee, or any bank. Am willing to let any newspaper man s lect pistol firer and referce. Now, MTr. Harris, if this proposition is not safisfac- tory to you, then you make one. All 1 want is a race and everything fair and square on both sides. I don’t’ want any the best of it, and if you want to run, I think this proposition will suit. So, come on, Bob: let us have a_race. , Yours re- spectfully, W. H. COPPLE. For tho Next SIx Wenks. The Rourke family migrates to Des Moines tomorrow for three games, June 19, 20 and 21, then they come home’ dgain for eighteen straight games at the Charles" street park. June 22, 23 and 24 the Rock Islands are here; June 26, 27 and 28, Peoria; June 29, 30 and July 1, Jacksonville, and July 3, 4-4, the Yellow Boys from Quincy; July 6, 7 and 8, Des Moines; July 9, 10 end 11, St. Joe. Then they go down to Lincoln for three games, July 13, 14 and 15; Des Moines, July 17, 18 and 19; then home again for three more whacks at Thomas, Jeffer-on Hicke: Salt Creek clodhoppers, July 20, 21 and July 23 they cpen their second long trip at St. Joe, playing there also on the 2ith and 25th; then movng on to Rock Island, Pe- oria, Jacksonville and Quincy. On August 10 Peoria opens up on the:home grounds for her final games here, the other eastern teams following in order. ° Last Three Games with St. Joe. The following statistics will give some sort of an idea of the comparative work of Omaha and St. Joe in the series of games played on the home grounds last week. If it hadn't have been for the Rourkes' outrageous work in the sccond game the Missourians would fare badly in the exhibit: AB. R. H. SB. E Omaha . wng1260 82, 41 '8 10 St. Joe..... coeadl o 81 86 14 13 Omaha won the first and last game and in the second game was guilty of enough yel- low playing to last them several months. In this game they made twelve .of their nine- teen errors, while the St. Joes made nine- teen of their thirty-six hits, and eighteen of their thirty-one runs. Kxpunge this game and the leaders would make a poor showing indeed. Chin Cancerts at'the Park. Manager Rourke hereafter will guard right fleld. Thomas Jefferson Hickey's farmer boys will be here this afternoon. Frank Sheibeck, with Omaha in 1802, is making a good substitute for Pittsburg. 1t Is dollars to dimes that St. Joe isu’t as good as third at the end of the season. Omaha_should be in the lead by July 4 that is If she plays the game she is capal of. Omaha wants one more pitcher and must have him, if Papa is compeiled to buy Kid Nichols. The ordinary patron of the game thinks a change of umpires in Omaha wouldn't b bad to take, Joe Walsh wasn't fast enough for Sioux City and was given the chase. He is now with Detroit. Inasmuch as there Is no game here Thurs- day Manager Rourke will make Friday ladies day this week. Young Dolan, a local amateur of well known ability, has been installed at third and is doing well. GIl Hatfield is the Hero of Toledo. He won a game the other day by a timely four- bagger In the ninth innin, Outside of the National league the West- ern association s the healthiest base ball organization in the couutry, lnwu blowing ‘em off lately and this is to The ladies departmeut In the grandstand at Charles Street park has been nicely carpeted and otherwise improved. Wood, released from Omaha, has been in- stalled permanently on Buck Ebright's team —and Buck was wWise in securing him. The Lincoln Farmers are out for blood, so Thomas Jefferson Hickey says, and intend to lambaste the life out of the Rourkes this afternoon. . Jack Munyan and George McVey are hard working, earnest players. The extremes crank cheerfully overlooks any errors they may make. Pedroes is doing as good fielding and hit- ting as any man on the team. He has a weak arm, which interferes with his throw- ing, but he's plenty good enough as it is. W. H. Lucas, a 33 degree manager, has taken charge of the Quincys. It I8 to be hoped that he knows a little more about managing a ball team than he does about umpiring. Next Friday, opening day with Rock Island, has been set aside by Manager Rourke as ladies day and a great crowd will_doubtless be present to cheer the boys to victory. Kid Fear stands a good chance of gradu- i ating with faster company In another ye He plays the kind of ball' that warms the cockles of the crank’s heart.” He is always | on the hustle. Billy Morsn has had tempting offers from Mobile and other Southern league cities, but very wisely prefers to stay here. He is cne of the malnstays of the team, and it would be extremely disastrous to 1sse him. | With fair weather today the biggest crowd | of the seascn will be on hand to xee Papa rub it fn on the farmers. Several big ex- | curslons will arrive this moraing, and the chance that the fullest capicity of the grounds will be tes The Omuhas ure at Des Molnes Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday and on Friday open up here with the Rock Islangs. One or two of the Rourke family have inform them that Papa Blll- bas: his eyes | WE MAKE WE MAKE WE MAKE WE MAKE WE MAKE WE MAKE WE MAKE WE MAKE , WE MAKE WE MAKE WE MAKE WE MAKE SUITS. WE MAKE WE MAKE SUITS. SUITS. The Greatest of all Custom Tailoring Concerns in the World offers what none other CAN OFFEER, ASUIT of CUT TO ORDER Custom Made, up-to-date clothing from cloths of unquestionable quality YN CUT TO ORDER. DON'T BE A Ready-Made MAN when you can have your clothes cut fo order at the ordinary ready-made prices. Our stock embraces every grade of materials from our $13.25 Leaders to the wants of the most fastidious society man. 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Osmond, the English champlon, has retired | oo was 10 to permanenily from g can't get in Wheel ‘club next month friends, Martin and | Bame. As 2't scem to get up quite enough | Were made off either pitcher and cnough sed to win much of the French gold. They | strike outs were made to turn a profes- arc having bad luck, riding in third, fourth | sional green with eny. ame the wheelmen rode on up to the Valley where a fine dinner was served at Cheney. The boys encountered a terrific sixth marks. alley Wheel club passed city Sunday They left the Valley in the morn- ing, crossed the river at Blair and followed the' Blair road to Omaha, returning on the | Wb SS08 o BIEEC A tross bats with the . ‘Medes. The ball team of the Ganymede: The Tourists “go a-fishing’” again next | are still the champion Sunday, the prospective point being Augus- Club members are requested s ik to take along lunch and two or three good throw lines and invite your friends who ride § oo wpr other side of the river. tine's Landing. Bicycling has infecte 400 in New York and paching parties” go ladies ride guite well and [ phi’ (10 B go along to carry | ner entitled Cycling with these peo- | double play be made by first touchi ¢ : their gentlemen the sunshades, ple, however, is only a fad and will soon die | base runner a_very tame death. zgar, the genlal president of | swer in Sunday Bee. 0th fust. He intends to [ yiu vip in about four days with the | ¢ he has rigged out on | gets ther the last few in prizes to b will attend. Ridgeway, & prominent wheelman 1 ov the repairer tinkered | CARSON, la, June 12 of Grand Is Omaha Tuesday, wil he Laving met with an accl- | Bditor of tilitary voad coming in from left Grand Island Sunday mor | evening, riding the | 116 mils in fourteen hours. He | tour over Nebraska, his destina- | pijy | up his moui 18 making a eventually home again by the sun and tanbed Harry Wheeler has He was well burned | jior of The Be: by the wind. Sunday Bee wh “made & mopkey” of | €ontesis 8t he Beotch plenlo wre such | davs mone by, aud I know him o be & thrown tute the pook lay-off without pay Is the best | the French gentleman picked out by they will get. Jack Munyun is probadly one of the fin- est, it not the finest, cribbage player in the He says he held 30 in his hand one time and 19 in his crib, when he had 49 to go, and won a house and lot, or a lot of houses, 1 forget which, at Roseville, O., on knowing ones to “lick Zimmie.” M. is the gentleman’s hand] writes his name ‘“‘Dennis’ was an interested spectator. was a corker for attendance, fully day and sand papered roads. The at 8:30 a. m. and the run to Reel" tance is twelve and one-half miles. Frank Mauping, | (ams attached to the clubs could middle, ~Darkest | woro ghort of players and a picked added another scalp to their belt. afternoon enroute | youq wing on the return trip which Questions and Answers. , June 14.—~To the Sport- ing Editor of E III in playing a the . of - ball, first base be occup! e membere of the runne and a man at bat bats to pitcher i an_out, and is st base? and the Batsman stopped to run put the bat Briggs. Starts for Davens | “sps=(1) ‘It a fiy, bats ) No, not unless | n s out is put becowe quite a | i ' In o game of base bal 1 by base ru a fair hit wenty basi the line betw and between éd from first) The basemun neither touched the or even attempted (o do s ¢ paper Wih oceuy at bat mad about Th Monday, Jui jan kot the n first rup 0 run on | steppod ¢ b runner reached second ba alled safe. Was the decislon ri; Crandall, Ang.—1t was Tourist Whee!men | a few hours in | form us of the whereabouts of Carson Base Hall” Club, Plattsmouth, 1 to Hastings and | “o\raga June m | ¢ To the § that an amateur can enter without losing his amateur standing.—Amateur. 2 and he doubtle: now. Wheeler rode away from him on the finish like a frelght train running wild on the down grade. Frenchman tried his best to catch on, the Yankee's pace was too hot and he had to content himself with second place. Zimm amateéur can compete for mon OMAHA, June 14 itor of 1 VILLISCA, Ia. June 1l and the Ganymede Wheel club last Sunday | in& Iditor of The e Please answer in Sunday Dee and oblige de Ans.—Certainly, BURLINGTON, Ta, June 11.—To the "N Sporting I AnfN0. know it St. Joseph, Mo., had a ball in the Weste ssociation since 188( it was, and if the L1 Ekfelt, 1065 Ans.—In 1889, made from the Ganymede club rooms the dis- together in a friendly contest. The Tourists composed of Tourists, Ganymedes farmer boys, were sent into the diamond to do battle with the Gandymede Giants. Hebron, the Ohlowa club 1 game -was a hot one and the Ganymedes the last half of the ninth inning, and I, know of. umpire, declared the gam of Hebron, There is 4 L 5 in favor of the 'Medes pvath. He finds he | pinyre and Lewis performed the battery work for the 'Medes, and Smith and Cla run and pienic of the Omaha | did like service for the picked nine. and Ganymede Wheel club has | mier of the Bluffs umpired a fair oft for today and will be held | although he became excited in the iuning when the picked nine were at bat has postponed the club | and forgot to score two men who ambled picnic which was to have been held in the | over the plate, He Vi today and the | as wmpire. If the batteries had been have a regular club run in- | ported at all the up the mor to declare the game. Here a cumstances: elghth (Sth) Hebr out five runs in their half of the making the scor t, made two outs in one of Ohlowa came to bat and batted a fly to right, which I supposed fell second 'd as scorer as well ne would have been a fine one; the numerous errors marred it was only a couple of safe hits After the ball said to let it go. Then T rev a progress rather of a task. Another game will soon be played when the regular favor of Hebron bron boys gave them all th were entitled (o, and, what is n reluctance that I reve list base ballists of the valley, having never been defeated. r hi foot 1 - ; o deli ball? The rulé confifets. One clause would roll, il be in contact with the | “6, e aqge of the prairfe, half walled (n by rock, dense with immense trees dra oons of 10ss, says one foot ite, defined In rule 8, while another clause “He shall not ralse either foot unless which pitcher fails or can ALLIANCE, Ne i me a description of how to la alf mile race cours stretches clght turns, et and lay out the money ral ut 1 walk to' fivst If he feels like it Neb,, June M.—To the Sporting days and claims that Editor of The Bee Will you please an- sall will aid him greatly on his tour, swer the following question in your eelmen oft Blair will hold a bicye and tournament red several hundred dollars r the ambitious speedy races will b southeast of town. | ond b and Council Bluffs cyclists | Was [0 A ten mile handicap is on the am, as well a8 several quarter dashes | huil to first to make a double play and half mile scratoh races. th up a fair ground sldent of (parallel, — an: cony et to right seml-¢ e | half W mile three fect from the fence; the but threw of the track desired. If not con: » with a lcop at the end, loose wire To the Sporting e ‘Hee: Wil you kindly st base ball pitcher? The last we heard of him he was playing with Plattsmouth. is the | Ans.—Know nothing of his whereab nowever, will probably catch CHICAGO, Jung M.~gandy - Oy Sporting Editor of The T I have & | finen. i that p friend here, Mr. J. J. MgDonald, who 18 an gt e enced sportsman, and for almost the Man or WORAR 9 5t time in his life 18’ without a good bird 1 Liave myself shot over his dogs in porting Please state in her the rules governing Don’t know their rules, but no ‘0 the Sporting Ed- Heeqel, Will you please answer it D Issue of The Hee whether filicy & Drice o Yace track has been' e ton “Answer ‘at since June 18597—C. Wilson. jzoare, of:inddress ion! -Ni d do it To the Sport- A\.'I‘“;?s-—‘“r“(\ C. Does rule sec- v Jude s strucl v batter? COUNCIL BLUFR include bulls ‘struck "at by batter? g COUNCIL BL in next Sunday's itor ‘of The Bee: Please let COUNCIL BLUFF Sporting Iditor of me know through 18 the best battin and how many ba and by whom mad ern ar ague or W if 0 what y finished the season?— street, Lincoln, Neb. at Ohiowa yesterday, Ohiow taouins e onsiderable g DAVID CHEY, o stakeholders refuse to Dhonins, Fditer: of untit yon decide my o3 o b7 tha oot fLrebalo I the last half of the CUre them 0 went to bat, knocking up, and t 12 1o 7. Ohiowa went 6 DeWitt'’s Witch Ha ground (and 1 still think it did), An Underground Riv 1 it fair and give the bat- Y which 1 did. =~ Still Ohiow i the Hebron club told me der why it s ca ed to play. I d_one batter and wa out, The Hebron boys still ed my de 1 gay and the decla while at other time enough to float a ¢ my not a pit yun the plate when he delivers stage from whose act of delivering the ball” Please long fe the above through The Bee and called “The Sink." w. P. Burt. never been sounded. (1) You were correct. (2) He can | underground river flows and makes its wa; ralse his foot, | no one knows where. b., June 9—To the Sport- dime K0 we Blon of | “‘goes dry.” In a ) KO will h hi its made ce trick and J. Simonson, of these sinks, all of ed and g of a fin huildin selation | dollar and ave half acre in extent North of Galnesvill 800 feet feet 4% Incl Lay off two stral cted at cle (radiu 23 feet 2 316 | A large str place the fencé exactly upon »d (which Is the inside of th I the track will measure exactly am of a pool that las no fence (o be placed according to th ptaln an engincer to run th be donc as follows: Place | circle the pool many to it « n upon the stake, und measure upon 8 6 feet 2 el Inches (the radius | d1sappears. curves,' which, from the center \eh ‘the ends of the ' the Brooksville p-ol 3.k \-circle, * place 18 haunted for the end of one strulkht sid man, and woman, L stake every twelve feet, It disappeared In 1t ne thof the fence panels de- [ wapd, In the plone | the country, 8o th wold, | yecrot soclety which | n deseril wn 1 | members of the s . WE MAKE | WE MAKE WE MAKE WE MAKE WE MAKE WE MAKE | WE MAKE ooy — WE MAKE WE MAKE WE MAKE WE MAKE Judge of these things. broken dog for field work, no better authority than to apply. Give us breeder “or trainer, or both, who can Il He wants a wel] and T know. of ourself td" whol nanie of som ce as (o put it out of the que i convenient, | greatly oblige—C. I, Barnard, "8, In., June 17.—To the Please stato iee whether Umpire Cline « 18 Monk Cline, who was left fleld for Sioux City in 1800.—Subscriber. of The Bee: S, Ta., June 15.—To th, ext Sunday's Bee what made by the batter, I think that Munyan of this yeur's Omahas has the best. HEBRON, Neb., June 14.—To the Sport- I right’—A. F. P. I2ditor 'of The Bee: ~ During the ball Ans.—Munyan made four home runs and V8 two two-baggers in a game with Jacksons t the fleld in ville, which is as good as any record X Neb, June 14.—To direction inflating a, ov tell me where I can ses Ans,—Write to Gould, arconaut, this city. ninth (9th), e i el Saive cure Salve cures plles, MYSTERIES OF FLCRIDA, 1d the club Kicked and left the — “The manager and captain of Hebron me to third ——— s wo order; Mul- DeWitt's Witch Hazel that Makes Things ¥ Lively. Two miles south of Galnesville, Fla., Is a the batter a_home run, which I prairfe. At certuln scasons strangers wone but a8 Ohiowa saw no show to win game they still refus ‘n half minutes and declared the bat ed a and ‘one- | look out upon a broad strctch of water sp deep that storms churn rolling white-capped billoy Ohlowa tw minutes commerce of the lake Is done iy its surface intd 5. At times the writer in the Florida Times, I have crossed One thing more and I will quit. the prairie in the steamer and again have hor @ right to raise gone over identically the same is a pool Bt this sink an | Sometimes an ac or 80 of land, trees and all, will fall into the AN e Heer “Will you pledse | underground river, and then the drainage o y out a the prairle is obstructe . d around the obatruction & then the prairie “goes wet." borhood of Gaincsville as round as a aging from a quarter to a § Is a protty and mys= \ch end with @ per- terfous spot called the “Devil's Mill-hopper," with considerable force very similar to A stream of water Brooksyille 15 another pool the Devil's Mill-hopper pours into It and disappears In a whirlpool in the center. Throw a log in it and it will times, gradually draw= Suddenly the log eNoukh *jng pearer to the center. | Some grewsome storles are connected with mysteriously ver 10 be heard of afters days of that part of grave offence to ai gegged, bound, and in the darkoess of