Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 21, 1894, Page 19

THE OMAHA DA SPORTS OF COLDEN AUTUMY A Review of the Work on the Various Ball | Fields, WHISPERINGS OF THE WHIRLING WHEEL | The OGria Iron Field-With the Shooters and the Fishers—A Word for Onr Game and the Usual Weekly Sporty Round-Up. The squabble over choosing the dates for 6 blg football games still goes merrily on Nothing has yet been dectded and thore Is nothing to base a prediction on. Yals posi- | tively Insists that she cannot glay Princeton | Before December 6, Princeton. claims that no game can be played by her after| December 1. The quarrel is becoming a trifle tiresome and 18 very pt to do an injury to the game. Why it s that Yale, who has played with Princeton within five days of | the Harvard game in years past, eannot play | this year in ten days A question that unblased follower of game s unable ®olve. It seems to be nstance of what very nearly approaches r, & thing Yalo has never been gulilty of before. Prince ton has made a o fon, even when she was in a position th 1 not require her to do so. Her title as pion, 1t it means anything at all, gly a decided right to & voice in the making the date, even to fnsisting that it take place Thanksgiving day in view of the that Yale claimed that her faculty was posed to the game on thot date she gave way It would be in Yale it would make in turn. As matter now stands, the management of both teams seem to bo may be the result. Princeton’s and Pennsylvania’s conduct all the confiict with regard to dates has be the most sportsmaniike of all the colleg Princeten strained ever nerve to obtain game with Harvard, but e latter willing. Pennsylvania (ried to get gam with Yale this year and was equally unsuc cessful. Yale's conduct in this case is also| much open Last year Penn sylvania gav ale one of the hardest fights the latter ever had, considernig her good gives lher a right to a each case put forw hard games would bre spoil their chance for Championship of what, <ollege has had no s At the end of thi the eolleges can And both Harvard 1o that, by th and Pennsylvania w tand the s: 2 she of beirg crippled. Princeton was perfectly willing to play Harvard November 5 or De cember 1, Bennsylvania November 10 and Yale Thanksgiving d. Pennsylvania was perfectly willing to pla Yale on November December 1, Princeton on November 10 arvard on Thanksglving day. But the e too clo for Harvard and Yale. ms to be a case of afraid ofore than any thing _else. Five d has always been enough for Yale to get ady after the Har- vard game until this year was beaten and that may have considerable to do with it. Harvard h: never been wili- ing to play Princeton she was o whelmingly beaten in 1850, When Yale four years ago pounded Princoton, who was in a while is the to | to an fe that t f uld ! upon fact sportsmanike she a conce: a was ur to critict nd rec this alone, witho rd of other year game, The clalm was that too mar up the teams and the championship as ft is now, on try for it at all w's play not one of the championship. Yale apparently fail soning, Princet in 1 i w and r i 5 or and deplorable condition as a result of the game | with Pennsylvania, she never thought of postponing the Thanksziving game and it may be noticed that Princeton mnever tried o have it postponed. Princeton could stand a defeat as well as a victory and was per fectly willing that the bast man should win. That threo hard games are too much & seuson to play is all bosh. If they can be all played in November let one be played the latter part of October. The teams ild all be as nearly matched then as they | be at the end of slould be settled before opens and thus do away Harvard now really I situation, and has an e: to intrench herself strongly in public tavor $he has no game scheduled from Novemb: 10 to November 24, and could easily get condition to met Yale on November 17 21, This would move the games forward week OF three days, as the case may be and this would give Yale sufficient time to get in shape to meet Princeton on Decem ber 1, If not Thanksgiving day. Harvard can do this without any danger to her own fnterests. In fact, it would bo to her benc fit to do so, on account Pennsylvania on Thanksgiving day, and the latter promises to be as hard a_game as the Yale game, If not harder. Unless Harvard yields this point, the chances are that there will be no Yale-Princeton game. The hypnotic condition into which Princ, ton seemed to have fallen during and after the Lehigh game, in which Lehigh came within six fnches of Princeton’s goal line. has worn off somewhat during the past week and the champions are Leginning to get into po. The whole time o far has been spent chiefly in working up interference and in practicing bucking the line and going around the ends, No tricks have been tried as yet, and Princeton’ will probably depend more on the perfection of her interferenc and the running, buckisg and kicking quali ties of her backs to win her games for her than tricks. The questlo Captain Tronchard is where to find the that will satistactorily 611 Phil King's old place at quarter. Morse as been tried again and has done more toward bracing up tho men than any one man on the tes He has the making in him of a quarter second only to Phil King. However, he does mot want to play the position, prefer ring the more showy place at half. The number of good half-backs is large, while the number of fair quarter-backs is small Nelson Poe being the only one. The latter will be glven another week's trial in the position, and it he does not come up to the standard Morse will be compelied to play the position, as he is the only man left. He does not fumble and he gives the signals in quick sucoession. At quarter he would have but few opportunities for display his phenomenal running and pivotal dodi qualities. While on the run, when tackled he swings around a way from the tackler and often goes through a whole fleld of men in this mannér. If Morse goes to quarter, the other half will in all probability be Har- old McCormick, who has been doing splendid work and promises to bo as strong a runner as Morso and ms speedy. He has mo pity on the tacklers who assail him and goos through them like a shot. He scems to have no fear whatever, and plun into the lime with' a reckl dash that is fascinating to foot ball lovers Rosengarten is laid up with a wrenched knee. Ward, the other half, is a little this year, but he hus not played very mu Relng occupled in coaching the other candi- dates, He Is a lttle slow in getting off and hid dodging is not well planned, but he is a wvery persistent trainer and will get into bet. ter form quickly. Crowdis at center has not been doing well the past week on account of his easy temper and his slowness in getting In play for interfere Dudley Riggs has shown more willingness than wdis and has done some brilliant work, especially in tackling. The fight between the two will be interesting before the question of superiority is finally settled. Burt and are still in the fight for full backs and neither are all that could be desired. Tyler has become weak in kicking, especially when hard pressed. He bucks the line hard and runs well, but lacks coolness Burt has much the same faults, but is a sure catch and a swift runner. His weakest point 1s line bucking, but he has steadily improved in that The fact that Williams scored against Ber has braced up Yale considerably and she has been playing a much better game. The point that is now bothering Hinkey Is the tackle question. Those were the weak places last year and they do not appear to be much better this year. Beard's work of lato has ben a dissappointment. Hs runs well with the ball and seldom fails to make his gain, but when n the line is ungarded haif the time. Unless he improves Young, Hickok or Judd may take kis place, s they are the season. This the season of 1895 with all strife Ids the key to th xcellent opportunity man | the veterans the | | in earncst and no game | y| n | Last year she | of her game with | that still bothers | working hasd. Murphy has returned to | work and will try for his old position as| tackle. Chadwick hat been playing at guard and hes proved himsel? a strong liné ma Ho ang Brown feve beap s‘vlng some very encouragiog wWork at thd Psition apd the latter appears to be fully as good as McCrea, last yodF'a guard. The latler bas become erratic and his chances for holding his place are decréasing daily. Hickok has improved, | but is lazy ‘and careless unless carefully | coached. Stillmah at center is showing mors | real improvemgnt than any other one of He is in far better shape than e was this time last year and is doing vastly better work ‘Ti8 now the youthlet geeth off to college, 1dol of his mother, brave and fair To return again unto us at ye Christmas, | With quantities of 1 arning and of—hair. Under tye magic influence of Frank Butter- | woTth's pfesence back of the line Yale has | braced up wonderfully | At practice Richard | broke his collar bor ous aceident on, Harvard's left end, This s the sixth seri- since practice began. Ex-Cap- tain Waters coached the team at Cambridge yesterday afternoon for the first time this | season The date of the Yale-Princeton football | match {s still in as much doubt as ever. The | Yale representatives refuse to meet the Tigers | ou Thanksgiving day, giving as a reason that they cannot endanger their chances of victory Ly playing so soon after the Harvard game. | Princeton only succeeded in scoring two downs and A safety in two twenty-minute halves against the University of Virginia at Baltimore a few days ago and had several of the kind of escapes from being The Virginia men showed fine form, particularly in defensive Princeton’s center was very weak and |V broke through again and again. All | of Princeton’s points were made in the first half and were due largely to the great work of Morss. Score; Princeton,14; University of | Virginia, Harvard defeated Andover 46 1o 0 the other | 1y, but their victory was dearly bought Grorge Gray, who played full back, had his leg broken just above the ankle. He will again don the canvas jacket. This is | ond time he has thus been disabled There was a real pleasant little game over t Ottumwa Saturday. George Davis of Par- sons éollege may die, and the dear girls will have a chance to Captain Herbert McDonald of the Y. A's and Jamos Reedy of the coll Both had their noses broken Harold McCormick of Chicago is the hero f the Princeton football field. He has been resting for a week on account of a sore mus- cle, cansed by excessive practice in punting hen trying for full-back. Yesterday after- | noon lie played half-back, and showed himselt such a brilliant ranner and line plunger that | there Is a question whether he will not leave full-back to Tyler and Burt hereafter, and | ontest for a place at half against Ward and Morse. He runs with a savage dash which eminds one of Ames. He bowled over his icklors with charming ease and cleared the uds for sixty and seventy yard runs Autumnal Buse Ball Hroe Jack Crooks winter tsville for | | rre agains | consola | M. C. lans, L raciog flend and will do circuil. He has signed with | 11 Staley, the ald Western leaguer, has been released by Bost Snatch him bald- licaded, Uncle Dave! C. F. Mathison of the New York Telegram ays a great deal in these fow lines: “The league magnates can rest assured that so { long as they attempt to monopolize the game here will be attempts made to start new leagues. The rational way for the leaguers s o return to two leagues of eight clubs ach, conducted on a basis of peace and reciprocity.” | | | Hugh Duffy leads the lea, with an average of .438 low in order, and Hamilton. guers in hitting, Four Quakers fol- Turner, Thompson, Delehanty Probably no ball player in the country, says Rten Mulford, has changed his uniform in a single season as often as did Al Manassau this year. He started in with Minneapolis #nd then went to Grand Rapids, then to De- troit, then to Toledo and finally wound up as 4 Western league umpire. The Giants made a neat haul on the Temple up series. Each member received a check for $768.68. The receipts we: as follows Baltimore, two games, $6,192.25; New York two games, §$13,422.25; total, $19,614.60, of which total the New Yorks' 65 per cent. ag- sregated $12,749.42 It is rumored that Charlie Comisky of the Cinclunati club will make an efort to put | a Western league team in at Omaha, Of course his idea is to join hands with Messrs, | Rowe, Rourke and McVittie of the Western assoclation club. has offered to Louig’ hands, Minneaj olis 3 take Clarkson off St Arthur Arthur Twineham has been ! of the St. Louis Browns for '95, Willic McGill was tho weakest of all the '94 hitters. hosen captain W. H. Watkins Las been signed to man- 280 Indianapolls next season, vice Billy Sharsig. On my return from the sand hil ! found the following letter from *‘Watty m my desk INDIANAPOLIS Oct. 1.—Sandy Gris- wold, Sporting Editor of The Bee—My 0ld Friend: Would you kindly let me know | where Billy Moran is, and as you are ac. uainted with all the men in the Wester 1sociation and disinterested as well, will you give me your opinion as to who are the best pitchers, the best hitting and fastest utfielder, and also infielder, third baseman and shortstops? 1 will conside this a per- sonal favor, Sandy, and one that I will try to return some day, as I know your judg- ment to be second to none on ball players Our league next n will be stronger than last and you can tell who could hold up their ends. Kindly let me hear from you soon as convenient and greatly oblige, Yours very truly, W. H. WATKINS, Wadhams, Mich, | The Western league honored Ban John- son with a re-election to the triple office of | president, secretary and treasurer. & that application for membership in the Western league, to suc- ceed Sioux City. The matter will be set- tied at another meeting in the Windy city November 20. “Bill" Everett has been drafted by Chi- cago. He played short for Detroit, can bat like a fiend, but is not a remarkably strong flelding shortstop. incoln in a little p championship of Ne Times-Star. Harvey Pastorius has been signed by W. H. Watkins to pitch for the Hooslers next season, Omaha defeated I, season fight for th braska. —Cincinnati Willie Mains. the double-barreled pitcher, | erstwhile of King Kel's Killers, has entered Brown university, Charley Abbey of the S cepted an offer to play In profesional association football team Sam Dugan hay been ‘called back” by Chicago, and Catcher Donohus of the Kan. sas City's has also been drafted by that club, ators has ac. Washington's Your Uncle Anson, with Walter Wilmot and Jim Duryea, is duck shooting in Minne- sota. While al St. Paul the chief of the Chicagos said: “I ehall attempt to rengthen my team materially for next year's work. 1 am not at all satisfied with the outcome of this season.” “The Accidental Champlons” s what O P. Caylor calls the Baltimors, and down in the Monumental City there is no love ex- pressed for 0. P. In the welcome home parade a meek and lowly donkey was in line labeled with the namo of the great New York eritic, “'0. P." had his laugh after the procession, Four straight rather upheld his arguments. Still Baltimore won fhe pennant with the largest percentage of any league winner during the last five years. The Louisvilles have secured Pitcher Hughey from Toledo. Denny Long will have to get out and dig up a whole lot of new pitchiers for next season. “Little Boy Blue'" is now left to blow his horn alone. [ to come in | plenty | drivel | the true sportsmen of that state the Philadelphia Public Ledger, Is a candi- date fof representative to the Pennaylvania | legislgture on the democratio ticket. his | Is a bAd year to be on that side of the hv»uuvv,l but Mr. Fogel is a very popular quantity. George McVey is the only member of the Iate Rourke family who will winter in Omaha. He has charge of Foley's billiard rooms, | e | The Down-Trodd, Player. | John B. Foster was ond of those who “fit" in the last great war with the victors with the rank of colonel of the | land grenadiers s week the colonel felt called upon in sensible fashion: “One would think to read what some | of the baseball writers have t hat the | days of the brotherhood were upon baseball again. Particylarly is this so of matter em- anating from Boston. The Boston players are referred to as ‘banded together' to resist any ffort that may be made by their employers to sign them for another year. That is | pretty stuff to write gbéut a thankless lot of woell paid athletes, who eptered a revolt in 1590 that nearly killed baseball for all time Boston. To this day the city of | Boston has not recovered from the shock and | from being the best baseball city in the coun- | try has got to the lebel of a nd rater, ( Any new baseball association that is organ- d to fight the league will get the hardest knockout that has yet been received in base: ball, and with it will come the knockout of | baseball. This country not stand another | baseball war. The former was the silli- est, most nsical that ever 1t nearly od the life of time. Now that the league Kame up again men with al- > said to be desirous of trying another round with the leagne. Only alleged brains would be responsible trying to | fa A new opposition leag baseball | a rtest for ten years at least. There will be of time to talk about new leagues Meanwhile don't revive that maudlin | about the poor ball player. If there is any human being on this shapely globe of | mud who Is better pald, better treated and in better standing with the community for the services that he renders 1o mumanity trot him out. There are several thousand gentlemen working on the railroads, clerking in the stores, bending ten hours a day over benches in the factories, delving in the mines, study- ing law, yea, even practicing law, searching medical volumes and thumbing over formulas for whooping cough, who would gladiy be ball players at the present market price per an- num, and who would be willing to sign life contracts as fast as the baseball managers would bring them on.” and came out Cleve loose this to break say h tommyro at ent was attempted baseball at th has built the leged brains for Giv Wnat Uresident Nick Says. saw three out of the four games played betw the New Yorks and Baltimores for the Temple cup,” remarked President Young of the National league upon return to Washington, “and it is gy sincere belief that the best club won the series in four straight games. In all the contests which I wit- nessed the New Yorkers played with a vim and earnestness which contrasted ve ry strongly with the half-hearted efforts of the Baltimore pla a matt of fact, Brodie declared was hardly fair to expect his team the championship twice in the same But all th an the players weiit into this series of games with their ©s wide open, and while it is true that New York had everything to gain and nothipg to lose, yet the lads from Gotham won the Temple cup on their merits, | and the games were of the most decisive | deseription No one could complain N\l\!} both sides did not play good ball in the first | three games, but the fact is that the New Yorkers were in better condition for work than their opponents, who simply laid down their hands vhen they became champions of the National league. In one respect, how- ever, these games will be of great benefit to base ball next season, for they have engendered a 8pirit of rivalry btween New York and Baltimore which cannot fail to create bound- less enthus m_in both these splendid base ball centers. Then, too, the fact that Ne York went straight ahead, winning games without indulging in anything even approximating hippodroming for gate re- ceipts, speaks volumes for the fairness of the greatest of all pational pastimes.’ that it to win season The base ball season of 1894 will go down upon the sporting chronicles as one of the most prosperous since the game became pro- fessional, and there Is ev ry rea n - to belicve that next year will not show a de- cline in the interest, writes 0. P. Caylor, who then contributes this chapter to Cin- cinnati base ball history: “While in Chi- cago recently 1 met Harry Wright and from him learned a bit of news that will correct base ball history somewhat. In | L accounts of the old Cincinnati Red tockings' remarkable chain of victories, when they played from S ptember, 186! June 14, 1871, without losing a game, they are credited with sixty-nine victories, no de- feats and one tie game. The tie game was the famous Haymaker game at Cineinnati, wherein the Haymakers left the field, re- fusing to accept a_decision made by Um- pire Brockway. This game has always been published as a tie. Harry says he has tho official score at home, and on the bot- tom of the score is indorsed these words ‘Forfeited to the Cincinnatis by a score of 9 10 0’ Brockway, who lives at Cincinnati says he remembers well that he s6 decided the game the minute the Haymakers left the fleld. So that famous chain of vietories must have one more added On the New Koot Ball Rules, A Philadelphia critic of the game of foot- ball, after secing & contest under the mew rules, arrives at tho conclusion that there is no marked change. The mass mo- mentum piays are not missed, as there fs much of the same sort of play on a smaller scale. The starting of the game with ® long punt was a novelty. One would have thought that as the team losing the ball saw it rise In the air their backs would settle themselves for a fair catch, and the result would have been a return kick. As a mat- ter of fact, nothing of the kind occurred As the ball descended into the back’s hands the ends followed it closely, but having had mpressed upon them the danger of in- terfering with a catch through the tripling of the old venalty of fiva yards, they kept at a respectable “distance and awaited the Signal for a catch—the raising of one hand, which the new rules require. The signal never came; the back, aware of his advantage, took the ball on the fly, and darting quickly to the right or left re. sorted to dodging tactics. A speedy run. ner and a clever dodger has an immense advantage here A Word for Our G, CENTRAL CITY, Neb., Oct. 18.—To the Sporting Editor of The Bee—Friend Sandy As It is rulable to ask your opinion in all questions of sport and knowing the interest you take in the promotion of field and wild fowl ahooting, I wish to ask “Why we cannot have better protection of game here in our state? You cannot help but acknowledg: that game is becoming more scarce each ye and unless something is done to proteot from the illegal market hunter it will soon ® something of the past. As early as July 10 prairie chickens were being killed around here and was continued until they were so scarce It did not pay the market hunter to ontinue. When the open season arrived I can safely say there was not an unbroken vey left within ten miles of Central City, and from what I hear it is the same through out the state. Geese and ducks are being slaughtered in @ like manner all along the Platte as soon as they begin to come; blinds are bullt every 200 or 300 yards along the river and ‘are occupied from day- light until dark, keeping up a continuous fusilade. 1 have been in formed by a reliable party that lives close Lo the bank that in three weeks, during the best flight last spring, no less than fitteen | alghts there were parties on the river shoot Ing geese by a reflector. Is it any wonder that our migrating fow! are making their visits shorter each year? If our game warden would glance over the work done by Charles H. Blow, the Illinols state game warden, he might profit thereby Mr. Blow has just completed a proposed game law to be presented to the next Il nols legislature and, if it passes, will be striot enough to insure ample protection to all game and will be highly appreciated by it you are in favor of that proposed law, Mr. Gris. wold, with a few modifications, write it up and it the sportsmen will pull together we | Horace 8. Fogel, (he sporting editor of may accomplish something. 1 am In favor of prohibiting shooting from the shore, and | no | Sunday’s Bee. ILY BEE: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1894, 1 think if we coyid that effect we wourd b for years to come ve & law passed to ve & good flight here Most apy ong can get all the geese they | limit want over decbys In the flelds, and (t would stob this undportamanlike pot-hunting have the flight now, and why not protect it? What say you? :Yours truly, A. C. CONNOR the subject on which hed upon proposed new In a future issue Mr. Connot speaka will be touc well as a revibion of Tilinols’ law. 1 am as familiar with the rapid dis appearance of game as any man in the state and will chebrfully lend any assistanc within my power to insure its propagation preservation and protection.—Sporting Rditor Forest, Fiel After all, the wild section of the country is proving the poorest known for a long series of years. The pro- Tonged drouth and consequent drying up of the lakes and marshes has made it impossible Yor the bitds to feed in their natural ele ments, and they have almost complotely given this section the go-by, There have been numerous parties out and many are in the fleld today, but so far there reports of big kills, Some fairly good bags have been made, lowever, and with a change in the character of the weather the shooting should be better from this on out until the cold weath in J. A. R. Elliott killed City recently and defeated Dr. Carver, who missed but one. It was the greatest match ever shot with ffty-yard boundaries. The only bird of the 200 lost dropg ad Just out of bound mund Stream. fowl shooting this 100 birds at Kansas s, Hith and day from a Dundy, Frank Hamilton S. G. V. Griswold returned Tues: week's outing in i hills of the west. While the shooting was almost an_absolute failure on account of the ph nomenally balmy weather, they had a most varied and pleasureabls exp re- untal of which will be forthe Stockton John 1. Hardin has been having some fine 8port with both chickens and ducks on his mous hunting grounds in the Birdwood creek country, morth of Paxton. Hard! Knowles and Hospe will spend a couple of weeks in the same region after the election. J. A. R. Elliott of Kan: the bona fide pigeon shot of the country. In his s te series of matches with Dr. Carv, d a decisive victory k- ing the wonderful record of 199 birds out of 200. s City is again Colonel Shepherd of the Army headquar ade a fine kill of mallards and teal at Lake Holman, near Tekamah, a few days ago. Tom McCague still continues to got in his nefarious work at Cut-Off lake. He was out the other morning and bagged nine mallards and one credgeon, and says it is all bosh trotting off to the suburbs of creation for good shooting. Lawyers Elmer, Ed Lytle and Pierce have returned from a brief the sand hills. They had hunting, but killed few Frederick sojourn in als plenty of birds Judge Ives, M. A. Hall, Charles Goss R. E. Patterson are encamped Lake in Minnesota, and report fair to middlin and Beaver shooting “Tramp” Irwin (J. J) was Captain A. H. Bogardus t live bird match at St. Louis, defeated 17, in by their Quail shooting is difficult sport but will have the call in weeks, Just now another three Some great catohes of bass are reported at Lake Washington, A Dish of ypol Milwaukeo has rty Hash. a new billiard parlor, which was dedicated by a game between = Frank Maggioli and Willam . McLaughlin, a local blayer. At straight rail Maggioli got there 300 to’ 56. Frank Ives has rented Maurice old parlors at 1202, Broadway, New and will practice thers for his matel “The Wizard." Shaeffer will also shape In Gotham. Mervine Thompson poking “around for wrestling matc warbling, “We Club, for Thee. Orin F. Hickok, driver of the champion Directum, was born fifiy-five years ago in Ohlo. He was a jockey before he became a driver, and in one season made $28,400 pilot- ing the horse St. Julien. The Warren (0.) track now holds the world’s trotting record over m half mile track. ~Willis Laird drove the 5-year-old bay mare Magnolia, by Howpath, an exhibition mile in 2:11%, thus beating Kitty Bayard's record of 2 Rose Mosenthern, the western girl defeated Tillio As of Hartford, in the mile and a half sculling race on the Mississippi at St. Louis. Miss Mosenthern's timo was 12:23%, and she defeated her east- ern riv sily that the latter gave up before the race was half ove A. A. Zimmerman, the ‘cycle champlon, has nade arrangemens fo race in Madison Square garden every night during Thanksgiving week. He will be the star of a great week's racing arranged by Manager Sanger of the Garden company. The leading racing men of nce, Germany, Italy and England will come over. The Advertiser say: are new constitutional amendment to be voted fpon next November. They are anxious to defeat the amendment, because it pro Libits gambling of all kinds in the state of New York and will not even permit pool selling on the race tracks of the state At Sioux City 10,000 people saw Online beat lis own and a world's record. Chand- ler drove Online and the runmer, Cheerful, driven by Ed Geers, acted as pa The first quarter was made in 32 seconds, secand In 1:03, third in 1:39, and the mile in 2:04, breaking the world's 4-year-old pacing ro. cord Frank G. Lenz is probably dead. His mother at Pittsburg has received a letter from the commercial tourist agents in Con- stantinople, Turkey, which really dispels all hope for the young man's safety. Lenz has been traveling through Asia under the care of Cooke & Sons, who have an agency in each large city. ' They say they have not heard from him since February and ask that disposition shall be made of his trunk and traveling bag, which arrived overland from Fabriz, Persia, months ago. Tha Temple trophy is a large silver cup prosented by Mr. W. C. Temple, ex-president of the Pittsburg club. E. A. Thrall, a New York jeweler, is the designer. It is unusually handsome, and is valued at $800. The cup is thirty inches in height without the onyx edestal, which adds another foot. The han- dles and upper rim are ornamented with delicate filigree. On the front of the cup in bold relief is the figure of a pitcher in the act of delivering a bail. Beneath this is the name of the Natiohal league in raised silver. The space on the back of the cup is for the name of the winning clubs. The cup must be wou three times before it becomes the prop erty of a club. The club winning tho charn. plonship of the National league is to play the club finishing second in the race for the pennant. Washington Park's retirement from the racing fleld is the sensatton of the day in the turf world. Three 1898 stakes, th American Derby, with $10,000 added, th Sheridan Stakes, $2,500 added, and the re vived Englewood stakes, $2,000 added, will close today. ovents for the 1895 meeting closed last Oc tober, which will haye to be abandoned They are the $25,000 American Derby, upon whose candidates the' bookmakers are al ready betting; the Queen lsabella stakes and the Sheridan stakes. Although aban- doned by the Washington Park club these three events are not likely to be nullified George V. Hankins of the Chicago Fair as sociation, which operates the mew Harlem track, said, after he had heard of the board's action: "I shall make the Washington Park club an offer to take the stakes which have closed and are closing off its hands. It is best for western racing that the stakes should not die, and I am Willing to take themn to Harlem and pay the same o owners as the Washington Park club.” Whisperings of the W Alex Melton and Walter Hynes rode down to Lincoln last Sunday. Nebraska division of the Leagua of can Wheelmen has 277 members Beveral of the local Iady ‘cyclists, clad in the bifurcated rational costume, rode out t Irvington and back last Sunday moraing be fore breakfast Four of the Ganymedes, headed by Telius Daly’s York, h with get in Fred urse They've Waiting, Roeder ara for a mixed signed and are Dear Athletic easily Conn., that the racing men Amer| as | has been | oming in next | raising a fund of $1,000,000 o defeat the | The club also has threo classie | We [ lar weekly spin over | consul; George | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | mile record {on their b | reputation, at present secretary of th Dahl, rode over the Tekamah century course last Sunday. Messrs Nichols, Hansen and Carothers each finished inside of the time Dahl's total time was ten hours. The Tourist wheelmen will take their regu- the Crescent City, Ia., & o'clock. Round trip Next Sunday they go to 8 o'clock. ~ Round trip road today. iwenty-six miles Millard. Start at thirty-six miles The second ticket division electior ef consul; R slated for the Nebraska L. J. Ollier, Liocoln, for Kirby, Hastings, for vice Ferd, Lincoln, for secre W Vance Arney G R tary-treasurer; Dr for representativ be a spirited contest The following motto appears upon all sta- tionery used by Kearney Cycling club and is indicative of the gentleman's popular- ity with the Kearney wheelmen: “For chief consul, Nebraska division, 1, W., 1895 James E. Ebersole.” Kearney is evidently solid for Jimmy | > Tourlst Wheeln an. | nual tour to Fremont provided the | weather and roads are fit. The ride is an enjoyable one, being over the old Military road, a distance of thirty-seven miles, one way. Digner will be taken at Fremont and the start for home made shortly therea The Tourlst Wheelmen tgok their regular day spin last week, their destination being Fremont, Neb. Captain Walker and Russell Condon made the outward trip in two hours and fitteen minutes, including sev- eral minutes stop to adjust a chain on the road. H. K. Smith left Council Bluffs at 9 | o'clock and reached Fremont at 11:40, his total time for forty-two miles being two hours and The fine condi- tion of the roads and the high wind blowing from the south aided the riders greatly Once more Johun the flying | vanish fr grasp and an- | other aspirant occupy the throne of popular | favor. Otto Ziegler, the speedy Californian now wears the laurel and holds the clusive tauble, Ziegler, clipped off fully three-quar- | of a second from Johnnie's late record his time made by the timers being 1:30 flat. | Had he been paced properly he would have | lowered the mark to 1:49, or possibly 1:48 3-5. | The west seems to be in the push this sea- son J. L. Livesey,the official handicapper for Nebraska, seems to be as much of a favorits | with wheelmen throughout the state as was his predecessor, J. Henry Kastman. Livesey is an Omaha man and his handi- | capping this season has given in most in- stainces good satisfaction. The best will miss | it once in a while, but Livesey's misses | have been quite infreq The manage- | ment of the late September meet at Kearney | recommend his handicapping in the best of | terms. He will likely be reappointed for an- | ather term W. B. Walker, the popular captain of the Kearney Cycling club, has invented a crank axle and bearings which he will patent with- out delay. The design has been forw the patent office at Washington. Those | have seen th eation claim it valuabie, Nellie Black of Kearney is st of the state to complete tury, we believe. The young lady recently | rode a century out of Kearney in good time and without inconvenience. Her costume was the rational ene which has so lately com- mended itself to the wheelwomen. Judging from the red-hot articles appear in ome of the Lincoln pap the equally red-hot answers which in one of the Kearney papers the be a heap of rivalry between the of there two bailiwicks crack, and Barnett W K theé A is 1 will make their today h hnson sees m his Mr t the first | a cen- | Miss lady cy whicn and | bob up ems to wheelmen Mills, the Kearney . the Lincoln crack, come in for considerable notice, the outcome of which is a challengs from the Kearney boy to Barnett for a five-mile race, on any track, at any time, the prize 1o be four high grade wheels, Barnett to allow Mills a start of 200 yards. The Kearney boys treat’ Barnett's powers rather lightly, The Hub, in a recent issue, states that “Barnett is a good man | quarter, half or mile, pretty good at two, but beyond that has been unable to back his pretentions.”” The Hub, in a recent Barnett and not wishing to meddle in the controversy the cycle editor of The Bee, who has seen Barnett ride in several pretty hot races, feels compelled to say that the Hub has underestimated lis powers and ability. Barnett has demonstrated his ability to ride five miles, even ten, on more than one oc- casion. The w to settle their superiority is to put 'em bo on scrateh for ten miles and let ‘em fight it out. If one is better than the other every mile after the first four will tell the tale. A small crowd of Tourists made the run to Bellevue last Sunday, but did not stop for dinner, The ride down, with the hurricane cks, was Ty joyable, but the | return trip was not so delightful Harr Smith rode from the Omuaha postoffice to the Bellevue postoffice in thirty-seven m nnte eleven second which lowers the record for stance, made last season by the Tourists on club run, A movement (s being placed on foot to hang up a gold medal for the Bellevue record, the medal tc be worn by the holder of the record until his record is in turn lowered, to become his personal property after having won it a certain number ~of times. The Bellevue record has been clipp:d down from time to time, but mever officially, or rather, in such a4 manner as records are usually reduced, with a corps of pace makers, time koepers, ete. The reducing has all been done by wheelmen while participating in a club run The first attempt at a record was made in 1889 by Frank Millauer, his time being in the neighborhood of fitiy-nine minutes, This was reduced by B. L. Porterfield, J. H. Kast- man and Walt Morris successively, during the season of '91. In '92 the Tourist Wheel men, on a regular ciub run, pulled it down a noteh or tw In ‘93 it was reduced still more by members of this club on regular club runs. The gale which was blowing last Surcay morning proved guite a factor in the reduction. The riders on the late Tourist club contury have decided that Captain Ed Walker won the gold century bad, which was donated by an eastern jewelry house, and the genial captain, therefore, wears a look of satisf tion. Tho regularly board of office nominated ticket for the 8 of the Nebraska division, L. A. W., shows a carefully selected slate, al- though two of the gentlemen chosen a novices at the business. All are enthusiastic wheelmen, and will doubtless make a good set of officers it elected. The ticket appears | to have the support of the majority af wheel men in the state. A strong effort is being made by parties in Omaha, Lincoln and Hast- ings to elect an opposition ticket, and they may prove successful. A better sélection for chief consul than that which heads the reg ular ticket could not have been made. The gentlemen composing the regularly nominated ticket are: For chief consul, James E. Eber- solo of Omaha; for vice consul, Charles E. Seifert of Lincoln; secretary-treasurer, Frank H. Siefkin of Omaha; representative, Dr. W. W. Vauce of Kearney Mr. Ebersole of Omaha, who seeks re- election, is a young business man, and old wheelman, and well versed in the business affairs of the division, has made a good, clear- headed and energetic officer, and will, if elected, prove his worthiness again Mr. Siefert of Lincoln, who asks the votes of Nebraska division members, is a young business man, with an excellent reputation an enthusiastic wheelman, and well posted as to league business. He will make & good sec ond to the worthy chief. Mr. Siefkin of Omaha, who seeks election as secretary-treasurer, is a young man of good Omaha Wheel club, an old and experienced wheel man, and while a novice in league matters will very likely prove a good and efficient officer. Dr. Vance of Kearney, known to the majority state, is an old cyclist, enthusiastic and caj- able. As representative of the division he will prove a factor. Considerable wire pull ing is being indulged in, and the battie of ballots promises (o be a ggod one, something almost unknown in the history of division electicns. while not very well of wheelmen in the 1008 and A 1a., Oct wer 18.—To the Sport- Ing Editor of The Bee: Now that Corbett and Fitzsimmons have been matched, will you please give the measurements of the two men, also what you think of the outeome, for the benefit of many interested.—H. L. Black Ans.—The following are the figures taken when the men were in tratning last Fitzsimmons 3: 168 61t Age Welght 11 in 3 % In Biceps orearm x These statistics show Corbett (o be younge, The election promises to | Mr. | F ded | In front to hit the bird at | shoutd | pulled [ [ | and, | With fer by twenty pounds, taller by an Inch, In fact, bigger In almost every way these natural advantages, his great | boxing skill and his great power, there | seems (o be no good reason for Corbett’ friends to fear for the reeult, Bot will, course. give Jim a greAt battle, but for I think Corbett a sure winner FREMONT, Neb., Oct. 19, | Bditor of The Bee: In the Bea will you please answer () The weight, height and Zeigler: (2) s J. 8. Johnson what Q0 you consider the best that s what kind of track? wheel does Zeigler ride Ans.—(1) 155 pounds (2) He s called “Th | man. (3) Cinder. (4) Rambler SHENANDOAH, Ia,, Oct. 11.—To the Sport. ing Editor of The Bee: Please inform me in your next Sunday kssue if there is any regu lation governing league base ball players, to prevent their playing ball under assumed names with mmateur clubs, o, in other words, an Moran of the Omahas play with another club under the name of Wade without laying | himself liable to any penalty 2—W., J. Staples. Ans.—He can, OMAMA, Oct of next_issu the following nationality of a Swede: (%) for bieveling, () what Kind of A Reader German but is & Ger- | v To orting Editor |ot The Bee: To de an argument please | [state in next Sunday's Bee the weight of [ Charley Mitehell when he fough oblige.~~A Constant Reader | Ans— LEXINGTON, Neb., Oct Ing Editor of The Bee Pleas. answer the following questions in Sunday’s Bee: (1) Does the Police Gazette belt become the {ndividual | ® property of any of the heavyweights; (2) is there any belt for the middlewe! ght or light- weight '—Joh Walsh Reader of Be Ans.—(1) He must defe OMAHA, Oct. 10T of The Bee A and © °rs, playing high five. ing very A d trump. C, Ithough tuses cards, but | |e 18—To the Sport- | ¢ contests t d it (2) No the v Editor and B and D pa The game Is finish- B bids and makes & no trumps, re stays in th that A may rob the deck and ther betteg suit. Was C right >—Major Ans.—"Robbing the d all, though it {s played compel a man (o draw cards. Ia., Oct e Bee: T in next tate to get or city.—A I [ t [ Y get Majors is no g re is no at ule to me 18 1 To the id unday’s a dive Constant porting argument Bee which is e fn, and in Reader of se state > casiest | what town The Bee. _Ans.—Sioux Falls, § OMAHA, Oct. 15.—To the Sport of The Bee: Will you please answer the fol lowlng in sporting column of next Sunday's Bee? If a 12-guage gun will send No. 6 shot | 300 yards in one second and a bird is fiying |° sixty miles per hour, at right angles past a | | hunter, when the weather is comparatively calm, how many feet should a hunter shoot the following dis. Forty yards, fifty yards, sixty | nty yards?—A € r | Ans.—If it was not for the high est which I hold “A Greener” Nis question | would have found a speedy lodgment in the | ¢ wasto basket. Life is t t and time too | preclous to squander on such impracticable propositions. But at forty ya 10 be the- oretically and mathematically correct, you ot eleven and hundred and thirty-three-thousanths udvance of | the bird to hit it when e: forty yards from the muzzle of your gun. In the field, | however, with mathematics out of the que tion, at forty yards you should hold no more than two or two and one-naif feet in fi of the bird going at an ordinary rate of speed. It takes practice, chief, to make a good bag of birds, It cannot be done by arithmetical methods D. It It Editor tances, to-wit ‘ yards and se e rm in | 00 sh is sh seven et in Iy e e ETRANGE_ AND THRILLING. « Uncommon Fe; [ e of Carrent Lite lling by a Fox Terrier. The following peculiar incident is told by a Baltimore man as terrier: “On last Tuesday, while the cellar door | was open, the dog descended in search of at about 9 o'clock. At 9:30 th dog was searched for and thought lost. No further notiee was taken to the matter until Wednes. day morning at 11 o'clock, when I was at tracted by a dog yelpi After a careful search In the cellar, which revealed only a pile of nd by the wall, I noticed the dog's nose protruding through an inch board at | the top window of the ecellar looking into the vard. © T went immediately upstairs and re moved five bricks from the pavement and the dog out. After a careful in I discovered had dug under the foundation of the house in the san. 1, which iad caved in on him Finding n other means of escape he dug up to the surface, A distance of six feet, and on rriving at the brick surface, which had been recently paved, dug toward the window, a listance of three feet, and had nearly eaten through the board in his efforts to free himself He s nearly exhausted when discovered being twenty-six hours under ground. One eye was entirely closed from sand, aud the other nearly 50" Tun- occurring to | his rnxi' spection e WASHINGTON'S FLOWER MARKET. At the flower market In Washington are many interesting occurrences which haye nothing to do with buying flowers, for there, as at any place where all sorts of people gather together, human nature expresses it self in odd and varying ways. A lady from the north, who was in the habit of frequenting the market to see what new floral treasures would appear from day to day, one morning spled a flower she never before seen “What that?" colored woman who “That, miss?" w. Dutchman’s breeches. Now the lady b s she asked had brought s the reply of it the in “That's old heard the name before and was quite aware that there was nothing funny in it. Nevertheless, there was some thing about the present moment that amused her, and she laughed. Just then a gentle- | man came up, and the same flower attracted his attention. “What's that?" he asked of the womar She hesitated, and looked distressed, Ev dently there had been something wrong about the name before, and now she was asked to say it again. “IUs—it's" —she man's pants.” Dutch stammered, *it's HELD BY A FISH Cooper of F fishing for muskallonge, October his 4-year-old daughter along. He hooked | @ big muskallonge. He could not hold the | fisk until it opened its gills, and then Cooper thrust @ band in on either side. The in sides of a muskallonge's gills are lined with little, shiarp, bone-like protuberances, and the instant Cooper inserted his hands the fish closed the gills and Cooper could not with draw his hands. A fearful stuggle ensued between the man and the fish, in the midst of which a swish | of the fish's tail knocked the little one over | board. Cooper was unable to get fres, and | he saw the child drown before his eyes. He finally released one of his hands and killed | the fish with a hammer. The next day he can town for treatment and told his story. His hands are much swollen and poisoned by contact with the gills, and the doctor says it will be a weck or two before he regains the use of them. The muskal- longo weighed aboul thirty-five pounds, ac cording to Cooper’s story William her, Mic went taking | | to | | | SUSPENDED BY A STRIN: An accident which might have terminated fatally happened to C. F. Walt, balloonist, at Capae, Mich., October 6. | In making an’ascension, and at a helght | ot 1,000 to 1,500 feet, he seized the parachute for the descent, and in some way the small | cord which held the parachute to the bar of the balloon (only a cord one-elghth of an inch in diameter) became entangled around | the bar of the balloon. He claims he untied the string before he attempted to drop. Any way, It resulted in the inverting of the| | parachute, leaving him suspended in the air with only the small cord to hold him. He remained qu.et, not dar‘.g to get hold of the bar above him. After a little further as- cent the balloon bega: decend, landy bim with considerable but to hurt him seriously. 80 completely prosy that a physiclan to force, LIG suicide,” sald that she which | drowned Corbett, and {a hustler for the saw scribe set type, Whisky waiter brought it fn a glass. | and, not wanting Some day—so t| A S0 many Venus porous as a sponge, but pure and verp heavy, the plece, which was not more thaj twice as large as the average man's hea weighing-foriy-six pounds. There 1§ but one way of accowntlng for the pecullar position of this ball of iron—it B84 Decn brought tos gethet agd shaped by the action of lights ning on the irdn particles in the clay A MARE SUICIDES, owned N mars once that ¢ nmitted A. R. Homer, to the Cincinnati Enquirer, “Sho had a colt of which shé was more than usually fond. One day the colt fell into a diteh nfiul broke i leg. The animal had to be killed, and it ther wag Inconsolable. She would whimper and oall for tha colt, and when it failed t6 comd nothing would induce her to eat For seve eral days all eofforts to Induge her to pare take of food were In vain, and I was afraid would starve. One morning I saw standing by a barrel of water from she was in the hablt of drinki attitude struck me as singular, and her Her EOINg to her I found that she was dead with her head stuck into the water as far as she ould reach. There was no other conclusion possible than that she had deliberately herself."” A BUG the Tamaroa CALL. (la) Bugle: “It takes newspaper business in this but the Bugle {s equal to the We can write a poem, discuss the umpire a ball game, report a wedding, wood, beat a lawyer, describe a fire 80 hat the readers will shed their wraps, make a dollar do the work of ten, shine at a soiree, dress a horticultural society, measure cal buse the liquor habit, test whisky, sub- to charity, go without meals, attack e silver, defend bi-metallism, sneer at Y, wear dfamonds, invent advertise- overlook scandal, praise bables, des mpkin raisers, minister to the afe heal the disgruntled, fight to a finish, mold opinion, sweep the office, praise e widows, run for office, speak at prayer neeting and stand in with everybody and everything.” Says cality now mergen rifY, he f 1ght it NOT THE JUDGE'S USUAL SIZE. A southern judge who was in a New Y. ate the other evenlr the ork ered for his drink York Tribune, The The judge looked wround, probably for the decanter, and them pointing (o tho glass with the whisky in gt aske What's that?" “Whisky, sir,” dhswered the Wasn't that what you ordered?" The judge pushed the glass away ntly, and, sitting erect in his ¢ he waiter a smile that was bea and wonderfully impressive. “My son said gravely, “when 1 take A drink of whisky I leave more than that in he glass says New walter, impa- r, gave itully frank PURE MILK A cow belonging nan fell into an c The owner found FROM A CISTERN. to a Maunhattan (R. I) n cistern the other night. her there in the morning, be late with th he took a ladder I, going down stern, he milked her there. Afterward the ow was hoisted out with a derrick. - SOME DAY Whi Ju mby ny tearful watching for the dawning light! faces toward the skies iry of the night! 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