Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 9, 1894, Page 19

SPORTS FOR COLDEN AUTUNN All 8orts of News for the Followers of the Gun and Doz, FRESH BR:EZES FROM THE BALL FIELD Whisp ut ngs from the Wheel -1t ~Oft-The Feet | a-State Championship-Hu Speech d the Quory Column. 1 Shooting Kerino HE gunners' hal- cyon days are al- most due, in fact, na are already here, as the chicken shoot- ing fs at its height, and shooting par- fes going and com- ing are cf almost dally occurrence, The re- ports of Incoming teal and yellow legs are making the sportsmen hustle for time, and all the indications point to much sport ahead measure, Nebrasku is surely a favored state. Her re- sources and facilities for health prolonging pursults are as innumerable as her superior attractions for the st ckmen and agricultur- lists, There is no gument against the fact that fleld sports are healthful ploasures of the most pronounced kind, and Nebraska teems with th almost the entire year round. 1 know of.no state whero better chicken or quail shooting abounds or where there arc better cr more ducking or snipe grounds. Beautitul lakes, environed by miles of reedy, rushy low land, make a verit- able paradise for the wild fowl and snipe, and our bar-besprinkled rivers a favorite place for the geese and crane. Arthur J. Webb, a well posted sportsman dnd a fine all-round fellow, put in a half day near La Platte last week. Ie was after the nimble gray squirrel, and got him, too iwenty-three of him, Webb says they are very plentiful and that there i3 not half as much danger in hunting them as chasing ducks and snipe. Arthur never will forget that flcck of steers he got tangled up with down at Percival a year ago. Hon. John D, Platt of western Nebraska, formerly a government scont back In the days of the rampant Sioux, and now a big cattle man, was in the clly several days last week. He says the game is scarce this fall out his way and he 190ks tor & dull fal in a spcrting way, The grouse and chicken have been driven off by the drought. ckle- bill curlew were plentiful during the sum- mer, but are gone now. Colonel Platt killed twenty-four in July with four shots. If reports are true, and I have every reason to believe they are, the colonel will take™ a partner home with him the next time he comes (0 the city. Here's ta you, old man, T'll call round in the fall and knock over & Thanksgiving goose for you. In a letter to the writer Sanford K. Brown of Jackson, Neb., says that there was an Omaba spcrtsman up in Burt county a few days ago in quest of upland plover. He was anxious to shoot Mr. Brown any kind of & match for a §50-Willlam. They didn't shool, but I would advise the Omaha man to Liok a leetle oud. 1 have shot quail with Mr. Brown and there is no shot in the Gate City who has a cinch on any of his money ‘when it comes to handling the hammerless, My esteemed Patrick, and friends, Rob and John that enthusiastic sportsman, Mr. Fred Montmorency, went out after chicken on the 1st. They used up two days in the work, but report very few birds. They bagged twenty some and coy- ered the same ground that two years ago would have yielded from 100 to 150 birds. Captain Haskell of Whitman was in town the other day, having brought in with him eight carloads of cattle. He says the big mountain wolves are very numerous.in his locality and destroylng more or less cattle every night. They are going to organize a big party of hunters soon for a regular wolt round-up and they hope to get rid of the pests. The sporting editor has an ‘invitation to participate in the hunt. e unc Shea of Council Bluffs has re- turned from a hunt up near Gordon, He declares that they can all talk about the chicken as much as they like, but he only saw seven birds on the grounds where last year he averaged from, thirty-five to forty a day. Few people are aware that some of the finest rail shooting grounds in this part of the country are almost within the city limits. But it Is & fact, and the ity sports- men are having some very fine early fall shooting at these toothsome little birds in the lakes and ponds in the East Omaha bot- toms. The marshes are full of them, and a fairly good shooter can bag a half hundred of these birds in a few hours. The specles abounding here are the clap- per rail or fresh water marsh hen, which is of the subfamily rallinae, and especially of the genus rallus, a water rail or marsh hen. Ralls are a small marsh loving, wading bird, related to coots and gallinules. They live In marshes and low, wet places, and make their way through the mazes of reeds and rushes with great ease and celerity, the body being thin and compressed, and the legs long and stout. The king rail, or fresh water marsh hen, is R. elegans, and is one of the American game fowl. A number of sportsmen who are aware of the existence of these little water fowl have been making some great bags of them during the past week. At this season of the year they are quite tame, and are rolling in fat. ‘With a small guage gun, and lightly loaded shells, a man can bag a couple of dozen ralls inelde of (wo hours and at the same time enjoy some lively sport. The marsh hens are voclferous feeders, and until the sun gets almost at ita zenith they are buslly engaged In gaining sustenance from around the roots of the cat-tails, flags and the water moss. Their shrill cries and chucklings fill a sportsman with visions of a delicious dinner, and with his waders he carcfully makes his way through the rushes to some open place in the marsh and quletly awaits developments. In a few moments several of the bright-eyed, red breasted little fellows are seen cautiously peeping out of the rushes to see what has disturbed them. They grow bolder, and soon several of them are hard at work dipping under the water and around in the moss for food. A good shot presents itsell. Bang! goos a No. 12 or 16, and over rolls the pretty little hens, while the others take a short flight, presenting easy marks for the gun- ner, and he has no trouble in bagging from two to five birds. In a few moments another bunch of birds come out and the sport is continued until the hunter's desires are sat- isfied, or the birds quit feeding. Last Tuesday the writer enjoyed a fore- noon's sport among theso birds, and after a couple hours of hard work bagged elghteen of the birds. H: was armed with a 22-calibre Ballard rifle, and for a while had the conceit completely taken out of him by missing one bird four times in succession. The fifth shot lald him out, and then it was found that every bullet had graz:d the bird, but owing to its deceptive size, none of them bad struck & vital place. After getting a mess of the birds, the hunter turned his attention to a big bunch of mud hens in the rushes, and for a time had considerable sport in making these imitation ducks seek shelter from the leaden pellets by diving repeatedly, On Friday morning the writer, who in the meantime had become filled with a craving for another feast of marsh hens, sallied forth with his arsenal again, and not only bagged a baker's dozen of these birds, but killed four fine, fat, yellow-l:gged snipe, and & halt dozen sandpipers. This might be termed pretty falr shooting with a small rifle, and is as good & bag as many of the “scatter gun' shooters make. Detective Dunn knocked over a fine bag of marsh ns one morning this week, and other sportsmen report good luck on brief hunting expeditions on both sides of the river. It is roported that small ducks are beginning to coms In at Honey Creek lake, and some shooting Is belng indulged in by the boys on the quiet Post-Season Games for Omaha, President Rowe is completing a most at- tractive schedule of post-season exhibition games, and It {8 a sure thing that some fine ball is to be seen at the Charles street park during October. Besides the six game: WIth Lincoln for the state ehamplonship, ne- | gotlations are (n pregress with the Chieago and St. Louls National league teams, and also with Minceapolls, S8ioux City and Kan- saf City of the ‘Western league. The Omaha team, Intact, will return to Omaha on the 24th, and remain here until the last week In October. TALK ABOUT YOUR BIG SCORES. The Niagaras Hold a Record Not Likely to ‘o Wroken, Henry Chadwick, the veteran, In a recent budget of gossip, says: A correspondent wrote me to know what the highest score Is that was ever made in a base ball match. The answer is 200. Tn these days of splen- did flelding games, marked by single figure the boys who read of runs in a game being made by the hundred wonder how it could be done. The task was a very easy one, when it s considered that the pitching was simply tossing the ball to the bat, for one thing, and that the ball played with was nearly ten inches in circumferencs and had two and a half ounces of rubber In its scores, composition. The match in question was plaved in Buffalo on June 8, 1869, and the contestants were the Niagara club nine and the unpractic:d local amateur nine of the Columbia club. to the lattes The s 10. former scored 209 runs Two of the Niagara club's runs each, and 13 of these runs wero home runs. What “splendid batting’” it must have be:n. The Niagaras began the game with a score of 40 runs in their first inning, and they finished up with 58 runs in their eighth and 19 in their ninth. It was a regular pedestrian go-as-you-please match at base ball. A Buffalo paper, in com- menting on the game, said “‘We are Inclined in base ball matters to reason logically. r instance, the Rted Stockings beat the Niagaras by a score of 42 to 6, or 7 to 1. The fair inference fs, it the Cineinnatians had played the Columbias, the score would have been 1,463 to 1 or 2. Another game of the same kind, played the following year, took place at Memphis, between the Bluft City nine and the profes- sional team of Chicago, the score of which was as follows: Chicago <. T2714 0 13853416 23157 Bluft City....0 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0— 1 To call thes aMairs good batting games is a misnomer. Let any of the muscular play- ers get a pitcher to toss fair balls to them, and let them get a lively clastic ball to bat ith, and they can readily run up large ores. When you see two first class nines batsmen made playing a game together marked by single figure scores, then there is a chance of seeing ®ood batting against skiliful pitching and sharp flelding. make long hi pitching and w they generall days" of the Muffin”* batsmen can easily and home runs against poor rse flelding, and that is what had in the so-called “good old game For the (' plonship of the State, Out on the grounds Thursday last, just after the game, Pa and Buckerino got into a rather incandescent argument over the relative merits of their respective teams. Both were hot because they did not win the series. The fact that they broke even seemed to furnish no solace for either. “If it hadn't been for this clgar box you've made us play in,” yelped Buck, d never | won a game—we would have made it eighteen straight, see!”’ “You talk like a monkey,” retorted Pa, and his back humped up a notch or two. “If we hadn’t had trouble in our ranks at critical times during the season you fellows would all be at your trade again—cutting corn. De empire robbed us of no less than four games on your grounds, and_the .two you won here was on account of our crip- pled_condition.” “‘Have you any stuff?" inquired Buckerino. “Got three men cutting off coupons down at the Omaha Commercial bank every day,” retorted Pa. “Well, T'll tell you what 'l do,” Hiram, fastening the Index finger of right hand in Pa’s buttonhole. “What?" queried Papa. “I'll bet you $200 that we can beat you In a series’ of six games after the cham- pionship season is over, for the champlon- ship of the state, three to be played here and three in Lincoln.” You can’t put up too quick. ‘A $50 forfeit will answer at present, won't {t?" “Cert.” “Well, here's mine,” and Buckerino planked down his half century, which was promptly covered by Pa, the sporting edi- tor holding the stake “Now,” sald Pa, “all we've got to do is to agree on an umpire and the dates “That's all,” replied Hiram. “And we can do that after we get home.” “'Sure. So the old saw about wind that sald his its being an il blows nobody any good has again been exemplified—by reason of the tie on the championship series we are to have six more games between these invete- rate rivals, six more games for the cham- pionship of the state, and $200 great big cart wheels. This Is mews that will be greted with delight by all the fans, as the battle for the pennant won't be in it with this strife for the championship of the state. And maybe Buckerino and Pa arn't a couple of astute birds. Something About the Umpire. The umpire question has been the all- absorbing one in the Western assoclation this year, notwithstanding that this august personage receives as much money for his work and more than many of the best play- ers. Of all the many trial horses we have had here this summer, not one, except Jack Haskell, has given satisfaction, and he has invariably given Omaha the worst of it. Not intentionally, probably, but in his in- tenso desire to give the opposing teams no grounds for a claim that he was partial, Yet he is the making of a superb man, and is yet destined for the big league | What & preposterous plece of business on the part of the eastern President Rowe with intermeddling with the umpire in the interests of the home team. Next to Haskell came Ward, who was eminently satisfactory at first, fairly good later, but finally fairly exasperating. Cline we never saw much of, but what we did see supplied an elegant sufficiency, and there has been no sighing here for him any time since. But 1t has not been Omaha who has done the kicking and complaining. She [has been freer from this than any city in -the cir- cuit. Every one of the eastern towns has sung, and they still keep on singing their tales of woe. Reedy took a game away from Omaha, then apologized, and so did Need- ham. However, I do not believe there has been any dishonest umpiring. The one word, incompetency, tells the story. Most of them have simply bent forward, peered intently into space, then guessed at balls and strikes, while on the bases the team who got the most jaws to work, generally got the decision. Notwithstanding these minor drawbacks, the assoclation has been the model minor base ball organization of the country, not only for this year, but In the history ‘of the game. press to charge cech. Buck Ebright says that the reason Omaha stands at the head of the batting list is on account of our short right and left field fences. A solid punch any time sends the sphere over either one or the other, ac- cording to Buckerino, and that, too, when these hits would be sure outs at Lincoln. There is 50 much crampedness about the whole garden that a man whose guessing tank is in good order does mot have to be told that the painted post on one hand and the barn on the other are for the guidance of the ‘“‘em- pire" in determining what are two-baggers and what are home runs, “The cigar box,” continued Buck, “is a fitting title for Omaba’s park. If all the Omaha games had been played on our grounds,” and Buckerino crossed his heart, “we'd won every bloody one of them. Why I have seen the most ridiculous kind of hits pop over the fence, and any sor. of a decent drive always bangs up against the fence and bounds back, making & two-bagger out of what could mot possibly be stretched into more than a single. And more than this, hits that ou our grounds would count for homers or three-baggers are by the same reason cut down here to singles. Now, our grounds are the right kind of grounds, Our fielders do not tramp on each other's corns in trylng to get around, as they do here. Why, D one game we lost here there were no less than thirteea balls histed over the fence, and seven of these wers good for the round trip. Now, how could the Rourke family cscape with anything but a big bat- ting average. But do not think 1 mean to disparage your team, il is an average eort | of a country nine, made up of good fellows, and I like every ome of them—especially when I get them on my ground: For Mon Marbics or Chalk. OMAHA, Sept. §.—To the Sporting Rditor of The Bee: During the summer while 1 was Injured and unable to run a sprinter by name of EA Powell of South Omaha was blowing around how easy it was to beat me | and in some cases I understand he said he did beat me. He never beat and if he thinks I am easy he can have a race for all the money he wants or for fun. I will run him 100 yards, pistol shot start, for $25 up. I understand he has plenty backing in South Omaha, Let them post it with Sandy Gris- wold of The Bee, the latter also to chose the pistol firers. 1f Powell can't find $26 backing I'll go out to the falr grounds any time and run him for fum, just to let him see how easy I am. FRANK SULLIVAN, Copple Has Hand. W. D. Copple, the famous Bancroft sprinter, has got a big race on hand. He Is matched with T. C. Morrls, the California wondér, in a 100-yard race for $1,000 a side, the race to come Off at Los Angeles, October me, | park from | rough 1. Copple s very cohfident, and, together with EQ Toll, his trainer, will leave for the coast next week he Ball Chat with avers. HO will be the champions at the end of the baseball season In the three leagues s the ques- tion that Is agitat- ing the ball cranks at the present writ- ing. The Western assoclation is by far the prettiest race and has been since the start of the sea- son. Tt will take a good guesser to mame the winner even at this late day. They have thirteen games to play, which makes it possible for any of the six top clubs to win, a state of affairs that has never happened in baseball since the game started. Rock Island has a trifle the best of M, as they are at home until the end of the season, but the crippling of one or more of her players means disaster. Omaha starts away from home not in as good shape as was hoped she would, with small likell- hood of getting any good player to join at this late date, as no player likes to be re- served 80 ¢ to the end of the season The National leagus has been the greatest success financlally in the east in its history proving that winning ball always pays, no matter what condition the country is in. In all the years past in the league the race has always ‘dwindled down to a sure thing for one club before this time, or at least to two clubs. This was so when Chicago and New York had such a fight in 1885, the three last games deciding the pennant. This year Bal- timore leads by a small margin, with good prospects, as they are all good travelers, they have been lucky in not getting their players hurt, but their pitchers are not as strong_as some others, Can they win it? New York on their last trip west were the most successful and since then have played wonderful ball from a pitcher's standpoint, Rusie and Meekin doing all the work until the game was won, then using German and Clark, which shows Manager Ward's head. If New York can come anywhere near du- plicating her last western trip nothing can stop them from winning the pennant. Bos- ton stands the poorest show of any of the three clubs, as their pitchers have not heen steady winners this year and the other cluus are well up to their tricky playing. Boston lost when the bunt was taken away from her. Philadelphia is in the game yet and may take the place of one of the above. Brooklyn ean- not reach the top, nelther can Cleveland, but the latter may spoll the aspirations of any of the leaders. The race is a wonderful one. The Western league has not been so interest- ing, as Sioux City got such a lead early in the season and will hardly be headed, as they are great people away from home, while Kansas City and Minneapolis are not. The Minnies have an advantage at home on ac- count of the small grounds. They are smaller than Omaha's, It would take a lucky man to namo all the winners of the three leagues. The Rourkes rank first in batting and Afth in fielding. 0ld Cy Duryea Is playing right field for the Allentowns in the Eastern. Cleveland is banking on New York loosen- ing up and giving her Dad Clarke. In the east they call Bert Inks, came into prominence here, “Captain Jinks. Pedroes scems to be putting up a giit edge sort of ball, both In the fleld and at the bat, for Buckerino. Colonel Flaherty, late of Cleveland and spoken for by President Rowe, has gone and jolned the Milwaukees. Jimmy Canavan has fallen batting for Cincinnati lately, been doing some great fielding. St. Joe did not get Mike Kelly after all. They made a good bid for him, but the only considered the playing season too near its end. Eddfe Biteljorg, once the pride and hope of Omaha, has been resurrected and is pite ing good ball for the swamp angels up in Toledo, 1t 15 whispered about that Bobby Langs- ford and Pa have Kissed and made up and that Bob again joins the team this week Hope so. 1f Omaha cannot reach the pennant it Is the devout wish cof the Omaha crank that Lincoln—despite all alleged prejudice—may secure the plum. irace Pearce, the old-time umpire and a close friend of the sporting editor's bick in the 70's, died in a New York hospital one day last’ week. Owing to the long stretch of beautiful weather that is yet to come the Omaha cranks cannot realize that the championship who first in his he has down but season is over here. There is such a thing as making too much of a ball player by both public and manage- ment, as was fully exemplified in Lily Langs- ford's case last week. In a game between Minneapolis and In- dlanapolis the other day fifty-eight hits and fifty-six runs were made—the hitting and run-getting record of the year, It is quite probable that both the Chicago and St. Louis National l:ague teams will be seen here in conflict with the Rourkes during the month of October. The Johnson Brothers grocery team, Leay- enworth and Park avenue, played a remark- able game a few days since, shutting out the strong City Steams without & run. In the last seven games on the home grounds Hutchison played the greatest fletd- ing game of any man In the team, besides doing a whole 1t of timely batting In the two Decoration day games at Balti- more Joe Kelley, the ex-Omahog, was only at the bat nine times, and he made nine hits, including a triple and four doubles, The Boston Herald says that there Is a movement among the more respectable ball players to haye men of the Pat Tebeau stripe barred from the game. Can it be done? The Western assoclation has nearly $5000 in its treasury, and expects to swell this considerably yet, This s certainly a good endorsement of President Rowe's adminis- tration. Captain Jimmy Manning of tbe Cowboys says this 1s his last seascn on the dlamond. Ren Mulford, however, says the genial Jeems is good for at least a half dozen mol tarewolls. Omaha, without & doubt, pitohing corps in Abbey, Clausen and White- hill in the Western association. And in Billy Moran she has a catcher as good as the very bes Jasper Johnson's pitching wing sora and he is not likely service to the Lincolns ve. In form, to have on hand, Big McVey, captain of the Rourkes, will winter in Omaha. Just before leaving for the east Thursday he entered into a con- tract with Tom Foley to take charge of the Phoenix billlard pariors. Captain Larry Twitchell, who was one of Shaugon’s lambs three years ago, was gre- has the strongest is very to be of much for some days to he is the best kind of a man mted with a handsome gold medal at Mil- ukee the other day . for being the best arol player on Iha team. The last game of the season with ¥ Ebright's bright you day last was the grandest, completest victory of the year. It has Jeft the army of fans In a state of beatitude ha*d to deseribe. Messrs. H. T. and J, T, Westerman, editors and proprietors of thal fiewsy and metropoli am farmers on Thurs- tan sheet, the Lincolj News, together with Mr. H. T. Dobbins,| the sporting editor watched last Sunday’d game at St. Charles the grand stand Goodenough, who flooted a barber with a chair in a Tenth Atraet shop in this city fout years ago when, with St. Paul, had a and tumble fight in the s\geets at irand Rapids the oler day with Cateher Sples and was badly fone up. The insubordination of such splendid players as Lingstord and Fear has been a matter of almost universal regret. Both were grent favorites, and the fans are loth to glve them up. That they will both be placed on the blacklist 1s a forgone con- clusion Sloux City has not patronized its elub to any extent this season, and there is talk of dropping the Corn Huskers from the West- ern next season.—Times-Star. You don't know the Sioux City people. They can stand a bigger loss with better grace than any community in the west The indifferent work of Freddy Clausen in last Wednesday's game at the Charles street park was caused by the reception of the news just before play began that his 10-year-old brother was dead. He died at his home in Milwaukee early in August, but this was the ceived of his Al C of the first intelligence Fred had re- ad bereavement. Buckenberger 18 no longer manager Pittsburgs. He was dethroned d Connle Mack temporarily installed kin; now of Sioux City, will have charge of the Pittsburgs next season. Ren Mulford of the Cincinnati Times-Star continues to get up the brightest and sn plest base ball department in the country. From the day that Tom Lovett joined the Providince team, after being released by Boston, that team went to the front in the Bastern leagne and has stayed there, with the prospect of winning the championship. Lovett helped the Brooklyn club to win two championships, and now promises to be the prominent factor in winning a third. Manager Al Buckenberger has put on the robes of prophe He is sure that neither Baltimore nor Poston s in the race: this year at all for the pennant. Said he the other evening: ‘“New York will win the pennant beyond a doubt, or rather Rusie and Meekin will win it for them. The Iike of such pitching as has been done by these men has never before been seen, and they are improwing cach day. They are cer- tainly the greatest pitchers on earth.” George H. Cumings, the deaf mute pitcher who made a good record in lIowa and Ne- braska in 1890 and 1891, has just returned from the east, where he has been pitching in the Pennsylvania State lezgue, and is now visiting relatives at Westside, lowa. He Is a good man and any team in need of a good pitcher, base runner and batter would do well to secure his services, which they can do by writing him at Westside. Whisperings of (ho Wheel % LADY CYCLISTS who read ‘“‘Whisper- ings of the Wheel” will be interested in the following remarks from the pen of one who seems to be spi- clally anxious to see (RN the "advance of the v\ national costume for \splendid and_healthful sport of cycling. The N/ cnuributor, in modesty \ ¥ signs “Common —, Sense,” and the articla is worth tho reading, containing comments and information of valug relative to the new costume which is attracting so much atten- tion all over the civilized world. The Ganymede Wheel cwp Is schedulad for Blair today by way of Omaha, leaying their club house in Council Bluffs at 7 o’clock sharp In a recent road race over in Iilinols one of the starters, Thomas' Lewis, covered the proseribed_distance, sik‘and one-halt miles, in 34:15. The gentieman s a gay youngster of 68 summers. Ho'felt no bad effects from his fast ride. The rain of early Sunday morning made the roads just sticky enough to knock out the scheduled club runs. The Tourists did not go to Irvington as. advertised, but held an impromptu run to Courtland beach in the afternoon. Captain Walker asks all members of the Tourist Wheelmen to turn out on the club tours this month and next to help swell the club mileage. Bring along your cycling friends and acquaintances. Don't miss the annual club century on the fast Sunday of this month. OMAHA, Sept. yelo Editor of "The Bee: Discussion always accompanies the ad- vent of mew ideas, especlally those which vary from the usual to quite an extent. The new ladies’ 'cycling suits may be repulsive and ridiculous, or refined and tasty, ac- cording as they are made. The American League of Racing Cyclists, in order to protect itself, and at the same time protect the race meet promoter, has adopted the rule to suspend all racing men and teams who enter at race meets and fail to appear or serve proper notice that they will not ride. This is a move in tho right direction, Next Sunday ) \ladies who enjoy the the Ganymede Wheel club boys will take their annual spin to Sioux City, Ia., distance 116 miles. Captain Wil- liamson feels confident that he will take more men through this year than on the last occasion. Several Omaha cyclists have sig- nified their intention of accompanying the centurions. The Kearney Cycle club of Kearney, Neb., will give a big meet on September 19 and 20, Valuation of prize list, §2,500. Twenty races on the program, ten in class A and ten in class B, All the western “flyers” will enter and the gentlemen in charge of the meet will strain every nerve to make the two days meet a great success. A. H. Brown, Mrs, Brown and Miss Alice Gaust, cyclists’ of Pueblo, recently toured from Pueblo to Denver, Colorado Springs and Manitou, covering 284 miles on their wheels. The longest day’s run was seventy- five miles, and the ladies felt no fatigue whatever. They wore comfortable bloomer suits, the new national costume. A Denver journal In commenting on the late meet and the numerous visitors says: “Dress reform received quite a boom here during the meet and a great.many com- fortable and attractive suits could be seen among the wheelwomen. If all the new cos- tumes were as neat and becoming as some of those worn here the last vestige of preju~ dice would be swept away by a mighty tide ar approval.' The Cycling West, published in Denver, has its little fling at President Luscomb, and far east, as follows: ‘‘Despite th ab- e of most of the officials of the League of American Wheelmen, considerable rant ing in eastern papirs and a little dissatis- faction expressed by the president at not being able to appoint the officials, the Den- ver meet will pass into history as the great- est_since the foundation of the league. As a New England meet |t was a failure, As a national affair, it was a grand success.” Sarcasm well put, én? Things that are in themselves acknowl- edged Lo be sensible and correct when prop- erly made, always have to suffer in the eyes of the public because of mismade and untrue imitations, whieh are resorted to in order to accomplish differer nd indi- viduality, and even especial notice. Gay colors and awkwardness attract quickest, but neatness and taste leave more permanent and favorable impressions. There are con- ceded to be two sensible and modest modes of attirement for our sister ‘cyclists. Quite preferable the soft colored suit consisting of walst neatly made, with sleeves Ioosely pleated at shoulder to match pleats in the skirt, bloomer trousets, not too large, redch- ing just below the knee, where they merge into leather leggings which should match the suit as nearly as possible. A short skirt to the top of the leggins leaves un- warranted the claim of immodesty. A wide belt and cap of the goods, and gloves, shoes and leggins alike set off the combination, and the universal comment (aside from those who delight in unkind criticism) Is that the desired ends, viz., comfort, safety, refine. ment and modesty are accomplished in th mode of ‘cycle dres Tho “big cracks” are all having a try at tho unpaced mile record and the beautiful golflen slab hung up by Morgan & Wright of Chicago fot the record. The slab is worth over §500 in crude gold alone, 1o say mothing of the vast amount of skilled labor that has been expended upon It. It goes to the holder of the unpaced mile record at the end of this season. Sanger of “Schlitzville” started the ball rolling by establishing the record at 2:111-6, This was in time cut down several seconds until Harry Tyler succeeded In plac- Ing the figures at 2:07 3-5 on August 21, He also lowered unpaced records for quarter and half. Time for quarter The unpaced mile record a the world’s record for the mile on a bi as it s the only true manner of judging what a mian can do. The unpaced mile leaves him his own general and judge. He has no one to pull him along or screen him from the wind. What he does he does alone The other, while not corceded to be so popular, yet quite as comfortable, is the carefully “made divided skirt of dull, soft shade. No description need be wmiven. In any suit loudness should be avoided. Bright colors or contrasts are very noticeable, and usually worn by those whose grace does not justify the attention they attract. Erect posture, proper conduct, neat and tidy ap- pearance and perseverance in the cause will do most to overcoge the as yet only par- tially historical prejudic inst ladies riding ‘cycles, and this much less important innovation, the new and proper, safe and sensible costume for ladies a-wheel COMMON SENSE HOME MAD! CGYMNASIUM. Outit Needs. Having a great desire for a gymnasium but living in a small towri that had mone and not possessing the means to “order” an ontfit from those seductive catalogues of sporting goods houses which every school boy has longingly perused, T decided to de vise and construct one. It was such a suc- cess, and the cost so small, that [ believe that thers are many boys in the eountry wh will be glad to know how it was made. The total cost of my gymnasium was $8 An Inexpensive Sufficlent for All A boy in any country town can make one as cheap, and perhaps cheaper. With the outfit described below, you can get enough exercis: In volume and varfety to suit the average amatear athlete. THE FRAME First, a tall frame is erected. Get three large beams 6x3 inches, two of them 16 feet and one 6 feet in length. Mortise the short beam on top of the long ones, and set the frame in the ground. Sink it about thre feet, and run guy wires from the top, or else use wooden props, in order that there shall be no oscillation. Upon this frame the seviral appliances are fixed. The most Important of these is the HORIZONTAL BAR There is, probably, in your neighborhood turning lathe, If o, you can get a seas oned hickory bar turned in a few for 75 cents should be about 1 in diam:ter and 6 fect long. get one turned, a carpenter draw one out for you. Abont two inches at each end of the bar should be left square, the roundness tapering oft from the square- ness. Defore using the bar should be well sandpapered In order to make it as smooth us possible. This bar fits in the frame be- tween the two upright beams. To make it adjustable to different heights and remova- ble in a few seconds’ time several corre- sponding holes must be cut into each of the uprights. In one of the uprights cut fiy uare holes just sufficient in size to admit the square end of the bar. Let the first hole be, say four feet from the ground, and the four others half a foot apart above it. They should be in the center (from right to left) of the upright, and should go about half way through. The holes in the other upright ‘should be, instead of square, twice the length of tha others, and from the top part of each of them a little passage wide enough for the end of a bar to slip though should extend out to the edge of the upright. This device makes the bar easily removible. SWINGING RINGS. 4 inche: 1f you cannot will hew and Next in importance to the bar are the rings. Get a pair of rings about five inches in diameter. It you prefer you can have them shaped likz a stirrup. This shape is more comfortablo for the hands. You can get a pair made by a blacksmith for 40 cents. These rings are suspended from the top beam to any height from the ground you may desire by (wo small rop In the top beam put two screw rings (like th on a picture frame to which th: cord is at- tached) and to these fasten the rop:s. The ropes should be as small as possible, but very strong. It is a good idea to wrap the rings once or twice with narrow strips of flannel in order to save the hands. STRIKING BAG. This is an admirable c:ntrivance veloping the muscles of the arm, chest and back, and to boys of a pugilistic tendency it stands unequaled among gymnasium ap- pliances. The cheapest ready-made bag to be had is $4, but a rubber foot ball of av- erage size, which can be bought in most small towns for §1, answers all purposes Encase it in a snug fitting cloth bag so that for de- it can be fastened to the rope. If you can't get a football persuade your mother or sister to make you a canvas bag and fill it with the lightest material obtainable— cushion halr, *excelsior or rags, If neces- sary. It should be light enough for you to, after a few days practice, be able, With a solid blow, o knock it ten feet in the air. This, like the rings, is suspended from the top beam with a small rope, coming to a height parallel to your shoulders. It Is tc be in the center of the frame. CHEST WEIGHTS, Chest welghts today take high rank among gymnasium applances. They consti- tute one of the simplest and most benefi- cent forms cf exercis> known. The cheap- est I have seen them catalogued at is $5. 1 have given the most expensive ones an cqual trial with the one I made, and the latter, in the good effect produced, does not suffer by comparison. On the outer side of one of the uprights nail (mortise in) a strong board three or four inches wile and two and one-haif feet long. It should be at a height level with the shoulders. Near each end of this crossbar place a strong, small pulley wheel (which can be procured at any hardware store for 5 cents per pair). Get two pieces of rope (size of the other ropes mentioned), each piece longer by a third than the distance from the ground to the pulley wheel. On one end of these ropes welghts are attached The kind, so they are equal, is immaterial. I used two small tin buckets filled with pebbles. Then run the ropes up through the wheels, letting the ends hang down about a foot below the wheels. To these ends attach small stirrup-shaped rings, as gested for the swinging rings, except smaller. Of course you are to guage the weights to your strength I would suggest now that you get an old, worn out mattress and put it under your frame. This will perhaps save you from some hard falls. Drive a large nall In each of the uprights to hang the rings and striking bags on when they are nct in use T think that by a careful study of the foregolng directions you can construct in your yard a gymnasium that will do you a lifetime of good, that will give you many hours of pleasurable recreation and (as you will see from detailed statement below) at an insignificant cost. Three beams for frame.... ection of ... . l‘uur plec Four rings. 2002232 00 Or less 150 or less of 'rope 8 Horizontal bar. "2 1,00 or less Two pulley whe T One striking bag... wriaees 1 00 OF less Two screw Tings.. 1 YA A R B et T Y] In an artice next Sunday I will give de- tailed information about the simplest ex- ercises for the everal appliances herewith described. A H M. PERRY, In, Bept. 6 —To the Sporting Ed- itor of The H se say in next Sun- day's Bee S S BARL entitled to his base if hit by a ball from pitcher that he strikes at on the first or second strike and how does It affect other base runners? 1s it a dead ball? The rules do not define it clearly to some people.—C H. Draper. Ans.—It Is a strike, but does not affect other runners as in case of belng hit by ball on third strike, when base runners must return 1o thelr bases. STROMSBURG, Neb, Sept. 5.—To the Sporting Editor of The ee: Two partners, A and B, go Into a store, A picks up a dicé box with' five dice in, turns it upside down and says to B, ‘I bet there are three aces,” and I takes the bet. A lifts up the box and finds only one ace turned up. Who wins the bet? Nothing was sald how the aces OMAIIA ! | One Day Only MONDAY, i~ SEPT. 10 Grounds 20th and Paul Strests. CAPITAL INV STED £3,500.,000, DAILY EXPENSES 87,.300. ONLY SHOW ENDORSED® BY THE CLERQY. No False Pretonse. 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Blenkiron. Ans.—Send 25 cents and 2-cent stamp to Richard K. Fox, Police Gazette, New York He will forward rules to you. There Is but one copy in The Bee office MINNEAPOL Sept. 4. Editor of The Bee: Please should be tur it not. personall An WAL Editor of 0 the Sporting tate in Sun- day’s sporting query column the address of b Turner, bookmaker, and oblige.—R. L. Ans.—Turner is in this city, but leaves for Minneapolis this evening. KANSAS CITY, Sept. 4.—To the Sporting Bditor of The Beé: If possible will you give me the address of the owner of a_good pointer which can be bought?—R. T Holmes. Ans.—Address W. J. Cusick, 1810 Grace street, this city. LITTLE SIOUX, Ta. 5.—To the Here I8 a Sporting Editor of 5 question in baseball 1 would like to have answered in the eporting columns of The Omaha Sunday Bee: A game of ball was matched for a $50 purse, §2 a side. At the end of nine innings the score was a tie They played the tenth and it resulted the same way. In the first half of the eleventh one score was made by the visiting club and in the last half cne was made by the home club on a block ball. Visiting club got mad, claiming it was not a block ball. After thi fon of the umpire had | made in the field, there being t the other umpire, who was umpiring balls and_strikes, visiting elul utes, he gave the game 9 to 0. Who takes the money ?—1. O. Ans.—Everything goes with the umpire's decigion, and it seems both concurred in this one, SILVER CITY, Ta., ing Rditor of The He A shoots inside ring Who wins?—D. Haine Ans.—What is a half bell? —_—— SINCE AUGUST, *NINETY-THREE. called the men to play. The failing to respond in five min- to the home club the Sport- L shooting B shoots a half bell. Cincinnati Commerclal. Now backward, turn backward, old Tim Just paus rhyme Move slowly, more slowly; the of haste, The time that you s to waste. insatiate in thy flight and attend to my s no need ve you may find goes Now, there! 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