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T of the CHAT WITH THE BOXERS A Cursory Review of the Fate of Mysterious Eilly Smith, CHICKEN SHIOTING AND ITS DELIGHTS Whisperings of the Wheel—The Dog, Rod and Gun—The Pennant Chase and Dia- mond Gossip—The Usual Sun- day Sporting Grist ERTAIN it is that level-headed Toms my Ryan has things down about right. He has made few, it, any, mis- takes during his career as a pugl- list, and today has not only the honor of being the wel- terweight cham- plon of America, England and Aus- skillful and sclen- world. 8o far as tra, but the most tific fighter in the his get-away capabilities are concerned, even slippery Jim Corbett never saw the day he was in it with him. A man that can fight twenty rounds with such a supremely robust antagonist as Mysterious Billy Smith and come out of the same with- out as much as a nose bleed proves him- self the king-pin of them all. That's what Tommy did, and consequently the palm is his. On the night of the fight and after it was all over, and while Smith was tossing in pain, bruised and contused out of all sem- blance of his good looking self, on his little cot in the Twin City club rooms, Ryan with a party of choice spirits, was seated n Dell Rudd’s back parlors, discussing, over sundry cold bottles, the thrilling events of the evening. “I am done with finish fights for all time,” observed Tommy, as he tipped back against tho wall and quietly sipped his Apollinaris, “there I« nothing in them; in fact, there is very little in the business at its best. How- ever, I can realize as much by limited-round exhibitions as I can by fighting any of these guys to a finish. 1 do not want to appear egotistical, but I don’t believe the man lives who can best me in a limited match. There- fore I have made up my mind to stick to that style of fighting from this on out.” In referring sto the fight, some one In- quired of Tom whether Smith had reached him effectively any time during the turn-up. “Did he?” quickly responded Tom, “‘well I should remark. He caught me one right hand smash in the throat while I was going from him ‘long in the early part of the fight, and for a few seconds I thought the world had ended. It cut off my wind like & razor, and I felt it to the very close. Then he gave me a poke in the kidneys once or twice that didn’'t do me a bit of good, but that was about all. He never gave me & single facer that amounted to anything, and all of his body blows combined into one dian’t equal the solitary smash I adminis- tered in the pit of his stomach in the first clinch in the second round. It hurt him badly, and while it enraged him horribly, I saw a change in his demeanor immedi- ately, and T knew all T had to do was to be careful and bide my time.” ‘‘There has been a whole lot of talk,” continued Tommy, “about there being a yaller streak in me, or a corner off of my heart, or something or other, I don’t know what, but I notice when I fight, and it comes down to actual punching, that you generally find the boys with the long green pretty generally on my side. Why, a week ago the Twin City club people telegraphed it broadcast over the country that Billy Smith was and would be the favarite here up to entering the ring, and at the same time there hadn't been a single bone bet. If the Mysterious was the favorite it was simply with a few stiffs here who lost their stult when I ended Danny Needham's claims 1o being somebody. Ever since that memor- able event they have been praying out here that God would send along a man who ‘would knock my bloody head off, but up to date God has fooled ’em, and will continue to fool 'em for some time to come, 'cording to my way of thinking. They had Smith ribbed up until he was actually in the sev- enth heaven of delight, and I honestly be- Meve that he thought he had a copper- riveted cinch. I met him In the club rooms the day I got here, and in his tough way he sald I was wasting time training, that he would make me jump over the ropes before five rounds had been fought. Then when I told him that a good big dinner, topped off with a slice of watermelon and & plate of ice cream was all the training I wanted to whip the whole Bmith famfly, he wanted to fight right there, and I am sorry they wouldn't let him. But as I intimated before, 1 am done with finish fighting for good, and limi- andlmund ‘xocs' :xtmvl it lhlere fsn’t a vast eal more in sight than what I get o this affair tonight.” 8 G Considering the horrible beating Ryan gave Smith, and the fact that he escaped himself without mar or mark to tell that he had been in a contest, it is excoedingly funny to read the various reports that were telegraphed to the various papers through- out the country, and funnler still to read the accounts of the battle written by sporting scribes who were not present at the scrap and could only have derived their informa- tlon from the telegraphic accounts of the same. For instance, read what Ren Mulford Cincinnati Times-Star projects through his 95-cent palm leaf, way down in pork-and-beer-tow “Tommy Ryan was declared champlon welterweight of the world at the Twin City Athletic club last night. In his battle with Mysterious Billy Smith he displayed great ring generalship. He kept away from the @angerous right of the mysterious boxer and threw iIn his left so often that Smith was exhausted. There was no knockout, but at the end of the twentieth round Smith Wwas a sight. His nose was broken, end his face wore a bloody smile. Joe Choynski, Who acted as referee, gave Ryan the de. ¢lslon on points, for he clearly had the best of the battle, That judgment, however, was Rot a popular one, for even the friends of Ryan thought Smith entitled to a ‘lock in’ on the money and a draw. Now, that {s rot. The decislon was one of the most popular I ever heard rendered At a fight, I the tremendous demonstration that followed Choynski's declaration can be taken for anything. Smith was left bloody and all but total'y blind and unconselods in his chair, while the immense crowd yclled Atself hoarse, and fairly pulled the platform down and the ring to pieces to got at Ryan. And honestly, T do not believe there was a an in the entire immense (Lrong, save illy Smith and Big Alf Kennedy, who hought anything else than that the verdict was most emphatically just and right. Ryan bad his man beaten to a gory stardstill, and he couldn't have retained his feet one- Balf minute longer to have saved his life, Then Mulford continuss: “Ryan secured first blood in che sixth, and closed Smith's dght eye in the eleventh. In the sixth §m|lh fought Ryan to his knees. During he fourteenth Smith planted a right-hander on Ryan's chest, which all but lifted him off his fegt (Another error, Ryan was never fought to his knees or anything like It, nor even was there a single time In the entira twenty rounds when it looked even If Smith might bave a chance. He never liffed Ryan oft his feet with a chest or gny Sther king of a blow, and I fuct only got ip tws sciid Faps during thé whole mdlee, dho a right- hauder upon Tommy's Pomona Adami, which Was a soaker, and one in the kidneys. That was the extent of the execution done by Smith) Four rounds later Ryan landed the blow whioh set Smith's wheels to whirling, It was a jawbreaker, and before the three minutes “were finished Smith was going, The bell saved the mysteriots lad in t pineteenth and he managed to Stand up all through the twentleth. Ryan refused to THE OMAHA place himself in reach of the right that has knocked out every man Smith has ever met save him."” Ryan refusod to place himself in reach of that awful right. Now that is rich. From the first smack Ryan gave Smith in the twentieth round, to Its close almost, Smith was clinging half unconsclous, blood- besmeared, wild end delirfous, about Tommy's neck, and when the gong sounded and his frantic seconds tore him away, he sunk into his seat like a huge lump of ragged liver. No Ren, you have to guess again. P. Jay Donahue's say on the battle, how- ever, of all I have read, reads more as it should read. P. Jay says: “Billy Smith's nom de arena will have to be changed. The ‘mysterious’ part of the westerner has been knocked higher than the Eiffel tower, and he has fallen back into the ranks of the plain Smiths. When Billy's optics are opened again sufficiently to do business, and he can see his way along the pugilistic highway leading to the cham- plonship, he will probably appreclate how he was handicapped by the appellation be- stowed upon him by his ring sponsors, Alas! Billy is no longer ‘Mysterious. Tommy Ryan has ‘laid the ghost,’ and is now to be hailed as champion of welterweights. The Chicagoan has demonstrated his superiority over Smith, and, in addition to the honor of victory, he secured $2,000 in cash.” (In a pig's valise.) “The contest Thursday night at the Twin City club was a grand one, and the courage and strength of the men were put to severe tests. There need never be any doubt as to Ryan's gameness or Smith's pluck. Both men fought in the gamest manner possible. There had been doubts expressed in some quarters about Ryan, because of his failure to meet Danny Needham at New Orleans, but those who doubted are now convinced that Tom {s not faint-hearted.” “The special telegraph report from the ringside to the Recorder, published yesterday, described graphically the incidents in and around the ring, and made plain the fact that Ryan was a better factician than*Smith. As 1 predicted in this column several days ago, Smith proved to be the aggressor at the start, and forced the fighting, in order to get & quick decision, while Ryan, acting on the defensive, met the rushes with straight counters on the face and eyes. It was this straight punching that won the day. Early in the game Ryan landed a stiff left jab on Smith's right eye, which soon puffed up. Then that optic became Tom's mark, and it received all his care and attention until Billy was blind on the right side. The loft eye was then selected as a mark, and it, too, was visited with stiff left jabs until finally the lids almost met. About that time the “mysterious one” was fighting at random and was a comparatively easy mark to hit. But he had been thoroughly trained and well conditioned, and his legs were strong and his courage unflinching, Ryan was also strong on his legs, but his exertions had taken much steam out of him, and he could not deliver a_knock-out-blow in the twentieth round. He had so much the best of the en- counter, however, that the referee could do nothing else than give him the fight.” Now that is something like it and shows that Peter knows when a man is licked about as well as the next one. As a number of Tom's close friends are aware, his real name is not Ryan, that being simply his nom de guerre. ~ He was bap- tized under the name of Thomas Youngs, and comes from a good old Scotch-English family from near Syracuse, N. Y. Tom says It there is Hebraic blood in his veins, he ‘is not aware of it, but if there Is he is ot ashamed of It. "On the morning of the fight Tom's 18-year- old brother, Julius, arrived in Minneapolis. He was bound to see the fight and beat his transportation all the way from Syracuse. “You ought to have seen him,” sald Tom with a laugh, “before I had him washed and laundered; he was the worst looking Kkid you ever saw. He had bumped his way clear from Syracuse and was a walking monument of dirt and cinders. They were in his tecth, in his ears and in his hair, and there was enough good, rich loam ‘rcund his neck to have manured an acre of potatoes. But his bonnet, that was enough to knock a sucker into a fit. It had once been a white straw, but now looked like a handful of dirty hay. But the kid's all right, I tell you, and too game to let a little matter of 1,000-mile promenade shut him out of such a treat as seeing hl!”blg brother punch holes in one Billy Smith. Ryan, as a natural consequence to being on Yihe ‘champlonship pedestal, 1s being challenged on all hands. Even Smith hasn’t got enough, and then there is George Daw- son and Billy Layton down at St. Joe. Tom may possibly take some notice of Dawson, but of Smith or Layton never. And Dawson, it wouldn't take Ryan but six or eight rounds to make this fellow wish he had adhered to his resolution to quit fighting for good. He is not in Tom's class by several degrees, as Tom demonstrated in their little six-round turn-up at Chicago. By the way, I forgot to mention that the gloves Ryan wore in his excoriation of the Mysterious are in possession of Frank Bandle, and you couldn’t by ’em with a carload of gold or two cartloads of love. Jimmy Lindsey and Fletch Robbins are putting in every minute of their time pre- paring themselves for their great contest next Thursday evening down at Plattsmouth. Jimmp is already in tip-top fighting fig, and Robbins is sald to be fine as satin. Jim Is working at Courtland beach, does lots of rowing, running and bag punching, besides boxing with a couple of glants he has im- ported from Patagonla. Jim says he's got to win and is taking no chances on being caught out of condition. Manager Hamil- ton was in my office yesterday and he in- formed me that Robbins was busy as a nallor, already down to fighting heft and as quick and clean-cut as a bird. It will evidently be a contest worth a long journey to see. I will run an excursion to the fight, leaving the B. & M. depot at 7 o'clock and returning the same night, immediately after the contest, all for one price, trans- portation and the fight, for a three-dollar William. I had a short talk with my old friends, Charlie Davies and Joe Choynskl, in the bar at the West hotel the night after the Ryan- Smith collision and enjoyed the reunion im- mensely. Both gentlemen look as if they were accustomed to nothing save fortune's blandest smiles, and it is to be ardently hoped there will be no switch in their luck. “Charlle,”” said I, “you haven't anything to tell me regarding Peter, have you?" “Not a word,” laconically responded the Parson, and after that neither Jackson or Corbett were mentioned In our conversation. But as little Brady is back and Jim, too, the papers will be glutted with slush in a few days, sure. I aid intend this week to tell of the delights and trials and tribulations of my excursion party, but have already gone too far as it is and again must put off fhe pleasure. SANDY GRISWODD. Interstate Tennls Touraey. The Omaha Tennis club Is rapldly com- pleting its arrangements for the intgrstate tournament, which will be held in this city on Monday, August 20, and continue, prob- ably, throughout the week. This will be (naaha's first venture In holding an all- comers tournament, yet from the numerous Inquiries received by Secretary Young its success 1s already assured. Denver, Kansas City, Stoux City and Des Moines clubs will be represented In the tournament, and a strong effort is also being made to secure several Chicago players. As an inducement to get good players to come to Omaha the club will be compelled to effer some valuable prizes, and will be obliged to call upon the merchants of the clty for some financial as- sistance. A committee, consisting of S. S. Caldwell, Fred Lake and H. E. Snow, was appointed to canvass the city for subscrip- tions, The club desires to raise $100. Other committees appointéd ard: Grounds—George E. Haverstick, S. Caldwell and C. H. Young. _ Prizes—W. Owen, J. W. Battin, George E. Haverstick. Reception—0C. § Cullingbam, R. R. Young, J. W. Battin, W. Owen. v Coming Home ina Bune There is no change In the standlng of the teams in the champlonship séramble and it continues to stand unparalleled as the hottest, closest, most stubborn race in the history of the great national game. The seven clubs are still neck and meck, with the Yellow Boys from Quincy coming fast, It a single game to make the leaders tall-enders and the tail-ende leadors, All eight clubs are still in the race, although Quincy has but a shadow of a chance. Her bad start has been a hard thing to overcome and the best she can reasonably hope for now is to lmprove her standing in games won and lost. It s al- most certain she must quit last. With the other seven clubs, however, it is different. Thoey are evenly matched and one's chances are as good as another’s. They are coming down the stretch in a bunch, Yale's Captain Next Year. The Boston Sunday Journal, along with an excellent full length portrait of the subject, says: Fred A. Rustin of Omaha, Neb,, who has been elected captain of the Yale nine for next year, has played on the team for the past three years, first at third base and later at right fleld. He and his brother, Wylle Rustin, whose sad death during a& Yale society initiation o shocked the world two years ago, were both members of the Andover academy team before golng to Yale. Rustin s a good batsman and an excep- tionally good outfielder. Among his fellows his genial and frank nature has made him one of the most popular students at Yale. He fs 22 years old and should have graduated from the Sheffield Scientific school this year, but will return to Yale next fall and take advanced chemistry courses preparatory to a study of medicine. requires but The Way it Used to Was. OMAHA, July 30.—To the Sporting BEdi- tor of The Bee: Your article anent frog hunt- ing was of decided interest, but you omitted one method of taking the slippery delicacy, which, though possibly lacking In the true sportsmanship ring, is nevertheless a whole barrel of fun; revert for a moment to your former days in the east, and you will no doubt recall the following amusement, so popular with the Yankee: Time, about 9 p. m. paraphernalia, or- dinary ‘boat, bulls-eye lantern, fair size pail with ‘cover, and a healthy desire for a frog breakfast; ‘paddling about rather close to the shore, man in stern inspecting edge of bank by light of lantern, shining throats of our prey come out in bold rellef; keeping light full in his inquisitive face, quietly paddle toward bank, and with a firm grip pick him up and deposit his frogship in the receptacle provided. Sounds “dead easy,” don’t 1t? Well, it s after you have lost a_few, for your chagrin will promptly develop in you a desire to conquer which will give you the grip positive, such as held by death over the tuberculous ethopian. One very decided advantage in catching them in this way Is that you may keep them alive, and thus “resh from the water” whenever wanted on your table. Thanking you for many pleasant moments spent in reading your carefully prepared sporting news, believe me, ever thine.—One Who Eats 'Em. Friend P. C. M.: The frog article was not mine, still it was in The Bee, and am glad you enjoyed it. Thanking you for your pleasant comments, I would add that your method of taking the big batrachians is per- tectly familiar to me. Yelps from tho fileachers. OME' people seem to think that a ball team, to be a good team, must win at least five out of every six games it plays. If this was the case the Interest in the fortunes of such a team would be short-lived, indeed, and the average crank would say, “Well, it is a sure thing they will win, so T won't go out today, but wait for the score this evening.”” 1 contend, de- spite the meager showing the Omahas have made away from home, that they are one of the very best teams in the Western asso- clation, and if they do not win the flag they will hustle the team that does. Their weak- est point is base running. If they were up in this highly essential art it is safe to say their losses on the fleld would not average ‘more than one game a week. They are giants with the stick and lead the association, while in fielding they rank second, and it would seem from this that they should come in under the wire in the van or ‘close thereto. President Dave E. Rowe Is at Colorado Springs for a few days' rest and recupera- tion. Voiceless Tim O'Rourke of memory fond has been sworn in as one of Schmelz's Sena- torial curios. “Tub” Welch of the old-time St. Joes has organized a strong semi-professional team at Zanesville, 0. There has been a break made in the ranks of the Eastern league. Troy has quit about $1,000 in the hole. Larry Twitchell isn’t a league umpire after all, but is now gobbling flies in the right fleld for Milwaukee. Count Campau’s life as a Senator was very briet, and he is now filling his lungs with pure minor league air in the fleld for Milwaukee. 5 “Lily Langtry Langsford is the sort of frontispiece they have put on old Bobby out in the Western association.—Cincinnati Times-Star. Jocko Munyan and Paddy Boyle are both putting up a gilt-edge article of ball for Quincy, much to the pleasure of their many friends’ here. “Whit Wings" Tebeau cracked out a liner in the third inning in a game at Cleveland the other day that broke Frank Killen's pitching arm. “Grasshopper”Ulrich is fulfilling the hope of the cranks with the Rourke family, bat- ting, run-getting and flelding like a regular double distilled little devil. “Deacon” Whitehill gives promises of up- holding the rep he made for himself at Tyrone as a_ slugger. In every game now he cops out his little two or three bagger. 1 met Bobby Gilks at Minneapolis last week. He was there with the Toledos, He is looking fine and playing great ball, and, of course, sent his kind regards to all of the boys down at Bandle's. The local management is already figuring on a decided enlargement of the Charles Street park this winter and the chances aro good for a fulfillment of thelr fondest hope in this line. “Runty” Boxendale has mot been able to maintain the clip he started out on with the Prohibitionists. In his last three games he got it, and got it hard right wrere Nancy wears her beads. Friday next, which will witness the open- ing game with the Peorias, will be ladics’ day at the Charles Street park. The sport has made itself extremely popular with the fair sex this season, and every ladies' day finds the grand stand crowded with youth and beauty. While in Minnegpolis last week John S. Barnes, manager of the Minnies, wanted to bet me a new suit of clothes that Omaha would be in the Western league next year. Ho hinted at a big deal now in yegotlation, but refused to let me in on the ground floor yet awhile. i Scrappy Jack Newell, the baldheaded, has been “trun down’ by the Corn Huskers. How would Jack look at third for Omaha? Jack Fanning, once with Omaha, didn't last long with the Phillies. He was king of the Southern league, but very Council Bluffs in the big body. The Rourkes will reach home once more on Friday morning next, and in the after- noon meet the Peoria Blackbirds at the Charles street park. They also play Peoria Saturday and’ Sunday, 11 and 12, On August 14, 15 and 16 Jacksonville follows, Quincy, 17, 18 and 19, and Rock Island, 20, 21 and 22. From Pittsburg, says Ren Mulford, comes the chestnut that the rejuvenated American assoclation will take the fleld next year and fight the league, As most of the brother- hood moguls have “gone broke" sifice the disastrous war of 1890 any story of the qls- covery of a new race of angels looking for a Sorsp 1o, uch times as thewt will fnd Tow bes levers outside the “‘space rate boys” and the lunatic asylums. Bykers' Tourney at Weeplng Water. Weeping Water 18 to have a bicycle tournament, held under sanction of the League of American Wheelmen racing board and League of American Wheelmen rule and with J. H. Haldeman as manager, © Thursday, the 23 of this month, for which they are making elaborate preparations and DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, AUGUST 5. 1801 are expecting o large day's card Is aogood one, following event: attendance. The introducing the GLASS A, Two mile noviee Eirat, blovole lmpL. .o 8800 Second, Bicycle wateh charm............. 250 One-half mile moviee, Ladies only: First, hanging lamp............. $6.50 Second, silver cap ‘ 2.00 Two mile open: First, gold filled watch. Second, gold plated watc Five ‘mile opem handicap: First, gold filled watch.................. $30.00 Becond, gold cuff buttons...........e... b.00 CLASS B. One mile: One siiver titing: water set. «ov $30.00 After Chicken in Wanlng Summer. HE present sea- son has been a good one for the prairie chicken crop in Nebraska I it has not been for any other The early portion of the season was perfet for nest- ing, and since the little chicks have hatched out there have been mo violent storms to Kill them off. = There was a large number of old birds left over from previous y~ars, and reports from the central and western part of tho state indicate that there is an un- usual supply of young birds this season. In spite of the fact that the law does not permit the shooting of the birds until Sep- tember 1, it is a notorious fact that the hunting of these birds commences all over Nebraska early in July, and usually by the time the season Is here there are very fow loft in the vicinity of the towns, and the sportsman who respects the law must elther be content with no shooting of a satisfac- tory character, or else must go some dis- tance from the town to get It. This year it promises to be little better, for it has been so insufferably hot and dry that hunting by either man or dog has been out of the question. This has delayed the slaughter somewhat and allowed the birds to grow stronger of wing, and they will not fall quite 5o casy a prey as formerly, and for this reason there is likely to be good shooting left when the open season arrives without being compelled to go out of the world to find it. The very thing that has operated to save them 5o far this season, however, will cause a still more ruthless war of extermination later on unless the sportsmen of the state take a hand to stop it. There are every vear a large number of men In this state who make their living by hunting these birds and selling them, and the -failure or partial failure of the crops in a large por- tion of the state will vastly add to this army and the attendant slaughter of the birds. Men who ordinarily do mot think it worth while or who have something else to do which pays them better will this yeer seo in the s an oportunity to make a little money, and will accept it. To make chicken hunting pay the hunter must bring to bag an average of two dozen birds per day, and at this rate even one hunter will Kill en astonishing number in a season. If something is not-done to stop this slaughter birds will be few and far between next year. All true sportsmen will be content to await the coming of September 1, when chicken hunting and chicken: shooting will be law- ful. And by thesway thero is a vast differ- ence between chicken hunting and chicken shooting, as many an ardent adventurer has found out. At this season of the year there is 1o sport in either: It is too oppressive to tramp through drled stubble, sere grass or burnt corn for the former, and an outrage in the latter, even If:you or your dog is so for- tunate as to locats a covey of the soft, flabby, pin-feathered chicklings. There is no skill In this event required in the slaughter, which s attended ‘with neither enthusiasm nor_excitement, Of courss o chicken or grouse is at its very best for table purposes when but half grown, but this 4s no argument in" extenua- tion of their umlawful Killing, and a full grown bird is sufficicntly toothsome to an- swer all gastronomic requirements. When once the season opens there will be an exodus of impatient sportsmen, all pano- plied with hammerless and shells, and greedy to get at tne mottled beauties from which they have been debarred for a twelvemonth. Side by side, with the pointer and setter ranging In front, they will tramp the fields, the sidehills and draws, and in the lazy, hazy days of golden autumn know such enjoyment as never befalls the midsummer miscreant and buccancer. Besides the actual pleasure to the hunter from the fact that he is engaged in an honest recreation, there is still greater delight to be derived from the thousand beauties of waning summer. Shut up in store or office perhaps all through the hot days, the sights and sounds and odors of the droning country now seem to him al- together new. Such an outing, with th birds fairly plentiful and strong enough of pinlon to test his keenest sight and steadiest nerve, it is a revelation of another existence, yet cach enchanted faculty brings back to bim memories of other days like these, of other companions, but nons so beautiful, so happy or beloved. To him the morning and evening note of the golden-breasted meadow lark, as he perches proudly on the top of the tallest fence post, standing well up on his cream-colored pillars, or tilts on swaying sunflower stalk, never sounded half so piain- tive, half so sweet. And for his delight the ‘ruddy-chested robin hops nimbly and fearlessly along the green and dank creek’ bank, darts athwart brown meadow, emit- ting from his yellow beak a sharp, petulent staccato, yet full of the lilt of melody that the sense of honest sportsmen alone can un- derstand and appreciate. The modest flowers of early fall, the moose's heart, the adder's tongue, goldenrod, wind flower and Indian plume, open their' tender faces seemingly to greet him, an old-time friend. And more, too, he hears the querulous caw of the flapping crow, the faint chickadee of the vagrant solitaire, and the sharp and almost incessant twitter of the blackbird. From off over the low sandhills, from river, lake or marshy expanse, occasionally comes the honk of an early goose or the quack of a mallard that has nested and r-ared her fam- ily here, while from above falls the shrill shriek of the ever-present red-tailed hawlk, poised on moveless wing, intent on some unwary rahbit or creeping chick. Then again the broad prairie, with its endless un- dulations of yellow grass, is as silent as the tomb, The birds have hushed their merry throats, yet over the limitless plain, through the hills and mottes of timber, across lake and into somber valley, is marching south- ward noiselessly, imperceptibly, but sure and certain, the advance guard of a host—cold, white and cheerless—soon to make itself everywhere felt and heard. But look! There is Nell, and Don, too, on a dead stand, in that little patch of buck- wheat stuble youder. Now for a double! With Rod. Dog and Gun, W. J. Connell Is shooting grizzly bear and turtle doves in the mountains of the Big Horn. Harvey Moores left for the grayling streams of north Michigan Friday morning, to be gone a month. Lpwyer Bill Simeral and John Owens made & handsome bag of plover out on Pax ton's ranch sevoral days ago. E. T. Johnson spent a couple of days with the bass at Spirit Lake last week, but re- ports few fish and poor sport. Joe Chilberg, Sam Megeath, W. E. Heath- cote and E. S. Brooks will put in a couple of weeks among the mountain streams near Rawlins, To make prime wild fowl shooting this fall on the best known grounds in this state, there must be a vast deal more rain than has thus far fallen this summer. Reports from all sectlons of the state are in_harmony on the head that this year's crop of both chickens and quail will exceed that of oy former years {p a decade. The Wallacd Gun club of Wallace, Neb., held » meting & fo eveplngs ago for (o purpote ot formulatifls Paos tor' gy e venllun of illegal cbl"kun ghooting, a \f thelr motto 1s to let no fi? Ity man escapé, Notwithstanding byt small bags of upland plover have been made by local gunners Upoi Pie ‘hilldides and meadows of this mme- diate vicinity, they have not been as plenti- ful In twenty vears. The prairies and up lands of the whole state are literally covered with them, and at some points In the in- rior of the state they have been killed by | the hundreds. The bird is a queer one in many respects, and belng nocturnal in thelr migrations, the alr seems full of them every night, as Is indicated by their plaintive but melodious “tur-wheetle, tur-wheetle.’ Judge John M. Thurston and wife have returned from a two weeks' outing within the terebinthinated wilds of northern Michi- gan, and a major portion of the time was occupled with rod and reel. The judge is an expert, while Mrs. Thurston Is exceed- ingly skilitul, and they would make a for- midable couple in a piscatorial competition. The last few days of their stay was at Lake Gobeble, which Judge Thurston thinks th best black bass waters in the world. They made a blg catch, among which was one four and one-fourth-pounder, and innumer- able three and three and a half pounders. Big Following is a schedule of the big trotting sessions to be held over the country during the remainder of the season. In all of these meetings the Billy A. Paxton stables are entered, and in many of them that of Clin- ton H. Briggs: Joliet, IlL, August 7; Grand Rapids, Mich., August 13-17; Chicago, August 18 Independence, Ta., August 27-81; Indianapolis, Ind., September & Terre Haute, Ind., September, 10-14; Gales- burg, I, September 17-22; Coiumbus, O, September 24- Chillicothe, October 1-6 ngton, October i Nashville, October Whisperings of the Wheel, GAIN the schedule in the Washington- Denver relay has changed, but does not affect Omaha, the time being the same as heretofore published —11:02 p. m., Sat- urday, August 11. The Ganymedes rec:ive the message at Atlantic at 5:19 =1 p. m. on the 1lth Instead of 5:24 p. m., and the Omaha riders deliver the message to Fremont at 2:02 a. m. Sunday, the 12th, instead of 1:52 a. m., as before scheduled. Indications all point to the ride being a ‘“corker’ now, and the cy- clists are all sanguine that the schedule will be beaten by several hours. The change in time is caused by the change from Eastern to Central time and from Central time to Mountain time along the route, tha route having been found to be ten miles shorter than at first reported, and as some of the re- lays will have to b ridden in the night, the time has been necessarily lengthened and shortened on the daylight relays. The moon is full on the 16th and will, therefore, be rather luminous on the 11th, 12th, 13th and 14th. Riders are requested to be ready at a moment’s notice to jump into the saddle. Captain Walker of the Tourist Wheelmen extends a standing invitation to all wheel- men in the city who enjoy country touring to join with his club on any or all of the August tours. Below is given a list. See what you are missing by not attending: August 5, Plattsmouth, forty-four miles, start 7:30 a. m.; August 9, Courtland beach, eight miles, start 7:30 p. m.; August 12, Millard, thirty-six miles, start 7:30 a. m.; August 16, Metcalf park (moonlight), fourteen miles, start 7:30 p. m.; August 19, Blair, fifty-two miles, start 7:30 a. m.; August 26, Crescent City, twenty-six miles,’ start 8 o'clock a.m.; August 30, blind run, start 7:30 p. m. It may be possible that today's run may be changed to Elk City, to go over the Wash- ington-Denver relay course from Omaha to Elk City. Al runs start from M. O. Daxon's store, corner Sixteenth and Chicago, promptly on time. The Ganymede Wheel club of Council Bluffs passes through the city today enroute for Fremont. As the time for the national meet draws nigh it Is in place to ask if you have made any arrangements for attending this, the greatest meet of the year? If not, don’t you think it is about time to bestir yourself and save up your dollars for the event, that is if you have not already been fortunate enough to save them? The meet is bound to be the finest you ever attended, and the trip alone will compensate you for the small ex- pense incurred. You will see some of the grandest and most picturesque of American scenery, some of the speediest and hottest contesied races and thousands of merry wheelmen and_wheelwomen that you never saw before. The railroads and hotels are making a strong play for your patronage, and to meet you part way_have reduced rates, to be in reach of all. You are going? Of course you are, and you are going with the Nebraska delegation, too! An elaborate program of entertainment has been planned by the Denver wheelmen and league officials, the principal events of which are two mon- ster parades of wheelmen, one in the day- time of Monday of the festive week, the other a lantern parade on Friday evening; a mammoth “‘picnic’ for visiting cyclists on Lookout mountain on Wednesday, and the league races of Thursday, Friday and Satur- day. The national championships will be run as follows: Thursday, half mile and five mile; Friday, two mile; Saturday, quarter mile and one mile. Riders of classes A and B compete together in these championships. You know what that means! The races will be hummers. Nineteen other races will be run during the three days, in which class A and class B men will compete separately. FROM THE EXCHANGES. Cycling ‘is experiencing a boom in South Africa. Kearney s to in September. The Japanese are enthusiastic They have a weckly cycling journal lished at Tokio. The German army has adopted the cycle for courier and picket duty. Bight hundred and thirty bicycles have been recently or- dered by the government. Gonstant Houret, the French long distance cyclist, broke the world twenty-four hour record by thirty-two miles, His record Is 457 miles and 1,612 yards. “Five hundred delegates were present at the first annual session of the Good Roads con- vention at Asbury Park on July 6. Governor Fuller of Vermont presided. The major portion of the United States and territories were represented “Pinkey” Bliss' record of two minutes flat for the standing mile is gone, “‘smashed to flinders.”” On August 2 at Waltham, Mus: Harry C. Tyler paced by (hree tandems su ceeded in lowering it to 1:57 §-5. These times are also record—two-thirds of a mile, 1:19 1-6, three-quarters, 1:29. The record was official. . The recent light showers have not laid the dust on the country roads very much, especially in the vicinity of Omaha, and in consequence the club runs are not very well attended. The bathing resorts seem to be the rendezvous of the local wheelmen. been have another $2,500 meet wheelmen. pub- Questions and Answers. OMAHA, Neb, July 30.—To_the Sporting Editor of The i3ee: Friend Sandy—Please Jet me know through next Bunday's Bee what bait you use for bass and perch. I ave tried many kinds without success illiam_ Paxton. ‘Ans.—I hate to glve it away, Billy, but 1 have found Charlle Townsend's "Yellow= stone rye a grand balt for bass, and Old Hermitage will land a perch every tme. RAPID CITY, 8. D, July #0.-To the g ufilug Editor 'of The 'Bee:™ A, B and ( afe playing seven-up, C deals,'A and B tle for game, each having 4 points, C 3 ointd. A claims game, having eldest hund, and C claim no game out, Which I8 Correct? _Please answer in Sunday Bee and oblige.—F. M. Cannon. Ans.—Goes to the one furthest from the dealer PLATTSMOUTH, Neb., ‘ Sporting kditor of' The Tee: " To decide a bet please answer the following in next Sunday's Bee: A and B ure playing old- fashioned game of seven-up and ' A turng spades as trump. B begs and cards are all run out except the last one which 18 rned by consent and 1s the jack of spades. s that jack count for déaler or not?— jlliam_Neville. July 20, the JTH OMAHA, July 16-To the Sport- Sditor of The Pee: Wil you kindly state In Sunday's Bee the highest price ever pald in this country for a 2-vear-old horse; the highest price paid for apy horse, and Kindly ekplajp what is meant by the | expxrm-luli -“'»:‘1 r-old” as applied to | jsex? Trond what country has thi i BRP8kwn 11a best racing stock? Thanking you in advance for your trouble, : | un ARg.—The answer to this qu. | Sunday was both Incomplete and incor 1) The highest price ever pald for a 2- | year-old was for Arion, §120,000. (2) The ighest price ever pald for a horse was for Omonde, $150,000. (3) A horse @ Z-year old on the second 1st of January of his existence, For instance, a horse foaled in December 18 & yearling after the lst of stion $264.68. It furnishes a house complete, and does it up brown. We have another outfit for an even $150; for $500. Th another for $99.95; another one 1 we have a complete schedule, with the prices ops posite each article, and a blank space for you to fill in. Young man, marry your best girl at one You can pay in a little down and the balane monthly payments, PARLOR. arfor Carpet, Irussels (1316x1216) lor Suit, b-pleces, crushed onk frame. ace CURtAing. CHenllle Curtains nn Rk Lamp...... LIVING ROOM. Carpet (12x12) Ingrain. 4 Fancy Rocker, ok frame. tapestry 7 Rattan Rocker. AL 1 Antlque Hookease, adjustat Antique 1 Antigu. 1 Center 1 Pair Po 2 Pairs 2 Window Curtaing, fnciuding fix 1 Bisaue Decorated Table Lamp DINING ROOM. 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Kitchen Utinsils, including bofl Winger, Flat Irons, Cloth Wash Board, Water Pail, Refrigerators HALL. Hall and Stair Carpets (15 yards. Hall Rack with mirror.... Ouk Hull Chair, Hanging Lamp WAt v Bedstead and Spring. Mattress, Pillow, Blanket, Pair Pillows Slips, ete.... Bureau and Wash Stand Mirror Chair .......5264.68 OUR BABY CABS Are put together to stay. Buy a Featherstone Cab and it is good for the next generation. 100 patterns to choose from. Prices 40 per cent. discount from former prices to close them out quick, as we need the room, Formerly Peaple’s Mammoth Instaliment House. Close evening at 6:30, except Saturday. Send 10 cents for postage on big 294 catalogue. January and a 2-year-old after’ the next 1st of January. This is according to the racing code, (4) Runners, England; trotters, United Stafes. SOUTH OMAHA, Aug. ing_Editor of The' Bee: next Sunday’s Bee which high five: A had 17 and on hearts, and made high and low and five spot?—F. J. Kavan. Ans.—B making jack or game went out. SILVER CITY, Ta., Aug. 3.—To the Sport- ing Bditor of The Bee: in vour Sunday issue please answer the following ques- tions, and please put it in so they won't know it is from Silver City. You can zn my letter backward, S. I3 G. Silver City Ball club went to Carson ay ball. After the game was over they sent a cipher telegram. ~ The fellow that got it went and bet some money and the ones that he bet with claim that it was no bet, as he bet the money after he got the cipher message and was running no chance, but betting on a suré thing.—S. E. G. Ans.—According to_ betting ethics you can’t bet on a sure thing, but you can’all the same, and it is done hundreds of times every day on every race track in the country. The bet gaes. NEWMAN GROVE, Neb, Sporting Iditor of The Bee in Sunday’s Bee the following: Omaha done with Camp and Moran? Also where did Omaha's this year's players play last year.—G. A. Ans.—(1) Camp_is _indisposed quit. (2) Don’t know. ROCKPORT, ing Editor of The Bee: In a game of base ball the bases are fuil, and the first base starts for second bas without being fe d off, and the ball is thro Without touching the runner from r' ge, 18 the runner fi 0 first out unless touched by the ball. The second base runner and the third base runner each holding their bases, and not advancing to give the runner on first a clear b ¥ 1.—To the Sport- Please report in man is out in Aug 3.—To the Please answer and Moran mun on T. A. Bailey, Li Ans.—He must be touched. BARTLEY, Neb,, July 28.-To the Sport- g Editor of The Bee: To setile a dis- pute will_you please answer the following n next Sunday' Bee and oblig In a game of base ball A claims that a base | « runner is prohibited from taking more than one base In case a ball, fairly thrown by pitcher, passes the catcher. B claims runner’ is entitled to all the s he can get before cateher fields ball I‘[\\ll him out. Who is right? Does a captain have privilege of changing the positions of players at any time du g the game? Who is right in this dispute? Captain moves his pitcher from the box to a b and substitutes another pitcher in the sixt inning. Wishes to reinstate first pitch in the elghth after two outs have been made, A holds that he can; B says not.— Reader. Ans (1) B. (2) Yes. (3) A 1s correct, ARAPAHOR, Neb., July 28~To the Sport- ing Editor of The Hee: I e answer in Sunday’s issue the following question: Has a club the right to change pitchers during an inning over of the opposing nin taken in from the b from first base to seriber. Ans.—Yes, AXTELL, N The_ pitcher is not nch, but I8 changed pitéher's box.—Sub- Aug 2.—To the Sporting Bitor of The Bee:” Wil you b so kind a3 b answer this in next Sunday's Hee; If jn a game of ball a man running from third £ home runs fn "o circle and don't come in_on the line, is he out or safe? Give us your opinfon.’ If a home team has no flags out and bats a ball between thi and short, and strikes fair and rolls out, which is it, fair or foul? Pleage give uf your best opinion to settle ‘a dispute and oblige.—D. 5. Sellen, Captain of Axtell Base Ball club, Ans.—(1) Safe. (2) Foul MADISON, Neb., Au Editoy of ) se answer in the Sunddy Bee to decide small wager and oblige: In game of base ball there 15 base runner on first base e calls thr strikes on the batte cateher fails to hold third strike-lsn't the batter out? W. E. Kinsella. Ans.—He 1 DENISON, Ta., July 2 Editor of The ' Bi Please following In Sunday's Bee: In base ball, with two out and a base, A bets B that the batsman goes to first' base. The batsman bats a grounder who pyts the base tg the second basema: rz‘ nek out at éécond base and makes no To the Sporting To the ansy effort to throw the batsman out first, ther being three out Who wins? an the pitcher cover first base on a grounder, hit to the first basen n, betwean first and second bases.—John W. Campbell. Ans.—(1) When the third man is out that settles it, B wins, (2) Yes, or on a hit anywhere else, CENTRAL CITY, Neb., July To the Sporting Bditor of Phe Bee: Ple the following question in Sunday Bee of the 2 i With the catcher behl foul Is knocked and sald catick effort to cateh it spectator or play the batter out or not least forty feet in air.— Captain Central City Base Ball. club, Ans.—Of course not, unless the man who caught the ball intcrférred with the catcher, then of course the umpire would properly call the bat B 20. A bid 1[of please Infa me whether tariff bill, and how he voted? ham, sports together haven't heard from him for nearly'a week now. word bill, but he promised me what do you want? difference between navy plug? walked What has | to bible in T more. Mo, Aug. 1.—To the Sport- | \it i talk Johnny. they is always tryin' to find out where the teacher lives so the Mother—Johnn, ittle mamma, and she through *'red came in at a small station and took a seat, says the Detroit Free Press. commodation the objection of the captain | and the conversation, befor to i “Alr you married dozen hands?” “No, “Ner how hard it i to make a livin’ fer s@ many 7" peace Joke that w uy her mind?" “Never, “An' you this time the smile he gave me had some= thing seraphic in it. “Certainly not He reached over and lald his hand affees tionately on my knee, “Well, know a doggon tring about matrimony, you don't; an' you have my syms pathy. you?" and that It his hand, The new c park, broke out 1 out. OMAHA, Auz, 2. The Hec ) decide a bet through Su voted on the will Hill late Ans.—Well, sir, Hill and twenty ye ago, In his about last how he letter he didn’t say voted on the he'd vote agin it. mise o PRATTLE OF THE YOUNGSTERS, Tommy—Say, paw. Mr. Tommy—Yes, cats can see in into the parlor when him, “Why, Arthur, shaved today. L'ttle Miss Mugg (noticing friend’s She says it isn't good form. Freckles—I didn’t know 50 old as that. Little Ethel—I wonder why about their old school d; I s'pose after they men get” growed up can lick him. Bthel—Johnny took my what do you Johnny—TIt was all in the I sald “Let's play sald “All wight,” Little Broadway, “Jimmieboy,” said Jimmieboy's fathe ome here and kiss me; yow're a dear littls fellow. he was asked. deed? you? sald Jimmicboy. Know “Yeth," lisped the boy, ‘I know that pap. returned his ‘father. ~ “Who “Oh, you've thaid it “And generally alkin' about.’ doing as what you're e e ‘WHAT HE DIDN'T KNOW. He Had Everything to Learn About Matrie mony's Iest Blessings. One da. brush” Kentucky a train and, therefore, man wasn't long in soclable, striking he struck his gait and at last got on sonalities. he asked, I expressed my regret that I was not. “Don’t know nothing about ralsin’ gittin' 'em offen yer No. ever trotted up an’' down half the night with a squalin’ baby?" I was glad to say that I had not and he went right on. “Don't know what It is to have a scoldin® er one that never gives you a minute's unless,” and he chuckled 8 coming, “unless it wuz a ple never wuz a widower?" and young feller,” he sald, “you don's the delights uv Have something to drink, he passed me a bottle 80 black most startled me as 1 took it out of ter geyser at the Yellowstone n quiet for some time, with terrific force the other day, & rocis welghing 2,000 pounds to the T 200 fect, steam rising 500 feet, ace equaling the combined thousand locomotives rd for ten mil Every geyser basin played for hours, which had b hn R. Foresman, the Sporting Editor you day's Bee senate M. Cunning- 1 were old but I tarift Figg—Now, Tommy—What Is the the sea horse and the the dark, and so can Ethel, 'cause when Mr. Wright she was sit- ting all alone in the dark I heard her say you didn't get the family parlor)—Sister Ellen will not have our family bible in the parlor any Little your sister like to Little Dbanana, mean’—— game, and so she got a table for a banana stand and then I was a policeman and walked past, “In- told tho often,” papa, you on a train which leads or follows native It was an ac~ up a He rattled around a good deal half a over the won't which