Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 11, 1894, Page 19

THE KICKERS OF THE PICSKIN How the Game Rages Throughout the Whole Country, WHISPER'NGS OF THE WHIRLING WHEEL Chat with Echoes the Ball Players—Field Trial Forest, Field and Stream— Vur Sporting Kn dge Lox. wi- Boys of 10 years are wearing I and talk knowlngly about *punts,” wodges” and the like. They look forward o the time when they Il play upon the high school team, then upon a college team and make a touch down that saves the day and be carr.ed off the field on the muscular arms of a score of football lunatics. There aro half a dozen preparatory schools which act as feeders o the various college teams. At Andover, and Philips, Exeter, the enthusi ta even go so0 far as to carry on reguiar proselyting campaigns the grammar schools fu order the promising young athletes for their schools, and, of course, Harvard and Yale men know for mouths beforehand what footballists are com- ing from Andover and Exeter. You must not forget that there is just as great rivalry between the freshmen teams of the different colleges as there between the picked college teams, But not all of the great football players of today began playing when they were 10 years of age. ¢ grammar school trained and tcademy trained boy often finds him self supplanted by a novice. A big hulking freshman from the country will walk down 1o the field to watch the men play. He remarks that he believes he can play the game himselt—such is the story of Heffelfinger. He makes a try in the prac- tice, and the captain finds that he has en- countered a genius—for a man may have a genius for football as well as for anything else—which sets the whole college into a 8pasm of joy. Kootball has now become as popular in the West as In the east. Every college has its team and belongs to xome college league, and as many of the westcrn institutions are co-educational, tie victorious young atil-tes d» not have to go as far away as their eastern brothers for feminine praise of their prowes:, The same rules apply in the west as in the east, but the game is not played so roughly, OF, at least, fewer accidents have resulted. In the imaller colleges where the men can- not afford to train so finely as they do in tho east the players wear thick wool to- boggan caps and keep their hair cut down to the length of that of an ordinary individual, Bocause there is no such rivalry between any Of the western colleges as between Harvard, Yals and Princeton, the sport does not be- come the all engro:sing mania that it is in the eastern universitics. The larger we. ern colleges have graduates of Harvard, Yale and Princeton to coach them, and not in- frequently when a strong man is developed In a western college he is induced to go east, and know.nug the warm reception he Wil recelve, the opportunity s seldom missed. The football player Is a broad shouldered, $mooth faced, bright eyed, long haired young man, is a good fellow to know (if he has not grown egotistical through his victories), and 18 really our modern knight errant who fights for the honor of his alma mater instead of bis family name, and to win praise from my lady in laces as he stands before her in his ripped, mud-bespattered and sometimes blood-bespattered suit, bruised but triumph- ant. And now he wears an armor the same 38 the old knight. He has a mask for his nose and mouth, pads for his cars, caps for bis shoulders, pads for his stomach, shin protectors and ‘bandages for his legs and Arms to prevent him from being mauled aud brulsed and killed. Yet, with all of these to protect him he sometimes loses his life. But more American college men dis o causes traccable to lack of exerclse than in football. ~ The world is bound to havo jts knights, anyway, and our footballist is of & beter sort ‘than' a blustering, threatening swashbuckler or the Insipid creatures some. times met at afternoon teas. Speaking of the foot ballist’s armor, it 15 interesting to note how rapidly -foot ball has leveloped in this country. It Is only twenty [tars since the Rugby gamo was introduced, hen the players wore long trousers, the Shirt of tho track athlete, with handker shiets tied around their heads. Of course, both Harvard and Yale claim to have intre duced foot ball. It would never do for on of the universities to allow an honor com. pletely to the other. Rev. R. S. Shaft a pastor at Jack:onville, 11, declares that Yalc and . Columbia played a game according Rugby rules in 1872, Columbia winning, 1870 he was studying in Germany. Wwas an Oxford man, who explained and gloried the Rugby game. Young Shaff brought an oval leather ball ncross the wator with him. He exhibited it to some O his college mates in his room. They guyed hilm about it unmercifully, and said it might do for the nursery, but not for men, ho finally porsuaded them to try a game. They liked It s0 well that Yale has boen wedded to foot ball ever since, Harvard has another version of the intro duction of the pigskin ball. “The Crimson- played two games of foot ball In Cambridge gainst McGill university of Montreal in the spring of '74. The first game, according to old-fashioned rules, was won by the Har. vard men. In the second game, in which they claim the Rugby rules for the first time prevailed, both sides failed to score, In the fall of '74 the Harvards played against an ail-Canada team at Montreal They were, peculiarly enough, for the most part undersized men. They found thelr op ponents were glants. Montreal soclety turned out with a great flutter of feathers to see the little Yankees humiliated. They poked fun at the little Yankees, and said to the little Yankees: “What do you think your little fellows can do against our big fellows anyway?” But that's the way the big Gauls used to scoff at the little Romans in Caesar's legions—before a battle, The little Yankees used th Is the way of Yankees big Canadians g hair “flying among to secure is to In His chum heads, which big and little, The tarted with a solld phalanx (Which was the term of the famous up-to- date flying wedge) to carry the ball Irre. sistibly down the fleld. But the little Yan. kees got them tangled up before they had gone a rod. Then there was a shut down at the Canadian end of the field. Little Billes Seaman, the smallest Yankee of them all, had just slid in between the big follow's legs, and while they were squabbling, he had kicked a goal and stood with his hands In pockets, an enfant terrible smile upon his chubby face. Before the game was little Billee Scaman had demonstrat he could gt over ed that through almost any sort of a hole. With British persistence the Canadians tried their phalanx again and again, and every time little Billeo Seaman or some other Mttle Yankee would slip away with the ball and kick a goal. And after he had kicked a goal little Billee Seaman couldn't resist a little smile, which was full of suggestion. Pinally the giant Canadians were completely demoralized. In 1875 Harvard vanquished Yale at Rugby. Tu 1§76 Yale turned the tables under the cap- tainship of Eugene V. Baker. Walter Camp played in this team, and was captain in 1877, 1878 and 1879, And Yale has won continu ously evor since with the one exception when Arthur Cummock led Harvard to a glorious vietory. Foot ball Is an intellectual as well muscular game, us the public may be prised to know. To play it + man must have a oool head Whicli most of the uninitiated stand, is always done by means of numbers. Bach man has his number, and the spaces batween them are numbered. The quarter back glves the orders. Suppose the right end is numbered 12 and tho left Lalf-back .13 numbered 1 and the Quarter-back wants the left half-back to go around the vight ond, the quarter-back will say T—13--13 or §—12—18, or 501213, the first number being known as a bluff and counts for nothing—so the enemy will not be able to learn the siznals. It takes con- slderable training, you will readily under- stand, to respond immediately Lo these sig- uals which are rattled with lightning rapidity from the quartor-hack's lips. Naturally, the quarter-beck must have the best head of any man in the team. o 18 the field officer of the toani. There are & number of technical a sur- successfully a The signaling do not under £l THE OMAHA. DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11, changes {n the rules of foot ball this year, with which all foot ball experts are by this time familiar, There Is a great treat in store for Omaha lovers of the great sport on Thanksgiving | day, when the University of Nebraska tackies | the University of lowa on the Y. M. C. A | &rounds. With good weather this eity | should turn out a crowd of at least 5,000 or 6,000 spectators. Duck Shooting Among the Sioux. PINE RIDGE RESERVATION, D Sept. 11.—To the Sporting Editor of The Bee: Allow me to preface this article with an acknowledgment to the sporting editor of The Bee for the kindly hints he gave that of considersble value to us on this It had been our desire for years to ' known in common par | the “hunter's paradise,” and & | though we have much means, time |and effort, the results until now were a | disappointment and we Invariably went home | disgusted. It Is with much pleasure I report | this trip, for a theme of this kind is always | Interesting to the sportsman. Having equipped ourselves with the neces sary accoutrements for a few days outing we boarded an Elkhorn Valley passenger to | & point in the distant west. There we dis einbarked and procuring transportation by m we proceeded morth in ot nw; |lakes and marshes we were in quest of. | The Dakota state line running east and west, marking the boundary between South Dakota and Nebraska 1s only two and one-half miles north of the point where we landed, quite contrary to what the average way represents, and to our surprise we found oursclves within the Pine Ridge rescrvation. It was of little consequence where we were, for we came prepared to stay and to find game if any was in the country. Latitude or longitude concerned us very little, We had no permit to be sure, but we were innocent invaders and zoon cultivated the friendship of Shark Fish, Cloud Dog and other unpreposses Brules, whose names I cannot recall, each effort has given me the lockjaw. We felt reasonably safe in not being molested or ejected frofi that patch of country re- served for sun danc alp lifting and other absorbing sports. Diligent inquiry at Cody gave us some in- formation, but it is to Mr. Newbury, who owns a large ranch just this side of the state line, that we are indebted for many valuable pointers. His kindness and un- selfish hospitality, characteristic of all frontiersmen, 18 proverblal. During the late Indian Insurrection, he was ona of the settlers that did not decamp and it was be- causo of his friendly intercourse with them and knowledge of their language that in- sured his safety. No Indian comes to his house but 1s given food and shelter. They may not be exactly welcome guests, for they appear anything but tidy and Inviting, but they are treated generousl Just the same. This gentleman directed to the lake and afforded us every assistance. This necessarily enhanced the pleasures of this trip very much. These marshes or lakes are located in a deep basin or depression of the arth's surfacs, embracing perhaps ten square miles of territory. There is but one outlet to these lakes and generally it is dry There are tWo lakes proper, separated by nd bills running north and south between which is a draw or obliterated channel formerly connecting the two lakes. Sur- rounding these lakes are graduated hills, some of which are quite lofty, This gives it a romantic appearance These lakes receive their supply from springs and hunters must be very cautious not to get in one of th boggy pools as it has no bottom. The North lake, containing an area of perhups threo or four sections, is the most beautiful and picturesque of the two. It sweeps way to the west and northwest, into peols and shallow marshes. This marsh is covered with wild rice, celery and food, such as water fowl live and wax fat on. [ am_ Informed by Mr. Newbury that seldom 18 the solitude of these Immense marshes disturbed by the hunter. This was quite ev nt to m by the indifferenc with which some greeted our appearan T re- member as we slid our boat in the lake and by the way the southeast shore affords the most favorable landing, thousands upon thousands of ducks of all kinds rose in the alr. As we slowly and noiselessly paddled our boat toward the north marshes myriads of teal, mallards and red heads flitted hither and thither and at times would come within twenty-five or thirty yards of us. I ob- served mallards, commonly regarded a very shy and suspicious bird, remain sitting upon the water not over fifty yards distant, craning their necks and apparently scrutin. izing us with absorbing interest. Our party comprising only four, namely, Douns, Rem- ington, Hermsen and myself, camp was pitchied about one mile from the lakes, upon dry soil, and where we would get plenty of pure salubrious air. ~We were conveyed by team to and from the lakes, thus entafiing very little work. Mr. Douns and I took command of the North lake the first even- ing's shoot, while Messrs. Remington and | Hermsen the South lake. We steered fo the morth side and were wise enough not to fira a shot until we were located and well concealed. We had just moored our boat when George pulled on three mallards, bag £ing two the first shot, and the other with the second. As I picked up my gun three more drifted In and T killed two of them with one shot and George the other. We continued the slaughter until we had knocked down some thirty-five, and, feeling satisfied, we returned to camp. The shooting in the south lake is not so good as experience has demonstrated, hence Messrs. Remington and Hermsen were not so fortunate. The cond evening, having selected a more favorable point, where the ducks croned George and 1 gged forty-two. Last even- Ing's shooting capped the climax, us four bagging conjointly eighty-five, Douns and Hermsen being credited with sixty, Rem- Ington and myselt with twenty-five. This 1 consider excellent for a two and one-half hours’ shoot in early September, before the flight from the noril com noteworthy that this game bri and I am informed that mallard ducks re- main here the year round. I think this |s the Ideal hunting ground for one that ap- preciates sport of this kind. The expense is nominal and the benefit derived from an outing of this kind in the way of health Imestimable, Hunters coming here must come prepared with everything for camping purposes. For eighty-five miles north ther IS not a white settiement A few straggling cowboys are occasionally met, but Indians are the sole occupants allowed permanently | on the reservation. There are some antelope here, jack rabbits plentiful, but chickens and grouse this year are quite scarce. This 15 supposed to be due to the extreme drouth baving kil off the Insects upon which the young brood subsists, and consequently they perished. We observed a scarcity of insect lite, except that most pestiferous of de- testablo annimals, fleas, and they simply | evour one. Those contemplating a trip into | rvation should procure a permit, then sibility of trouble is avoided Y J. H. LOWREY. Field Trinls for Nebraska. M'COOK, Neb., Nov. 6.—To the Sporting Editor of The Bee: In reply to the article in the Sunday Bee regarding the field trials In this state, I would say: I would like to see a fleld trial elub organized and would join same and do everything in my power to help make it a success. I have nothing | to run this fall, but have a very fine Rod- erigo bitch that I will breed to Gladstone Boy December 1. The produce of this union should make some good material for derbies. 1 could not attend a mecting in Omaha at present, but should be glad to see one held and a club organized. Hoping to hear further in regard to this subject through The Bee, I remaln respeetfully.—W C. LaTourette, AIRMONT, Neb., Nov. 4.—To the Sport- ing Editor of The Bee: In this Sunday issue of The Omaha Beo I notice an article by | Field Trial in regard to organizing a field trial club for Nebraska. If such a club fs | organized you could get a great many mem- | bers from this part of the state, as there is quite an amount of interest taken in hunt- ing dogs here. There are quite a number | of well bred English setters in this and ad- joining towns, and their owners would lend their hearty support to a move in this direc- tion. Yours respectfully.—S. F. Ashley. FREMONT, Nov. 7.--To the Sporting Edi- tor of The Bee: Push the fleld trial pros- pect. It is just what sportsmen and fine dog owners want. You will recelve every assistance and encouragement from this part of the state.—Vietor IIL LINCOLN, Nov. 5.—To the Sporting Edi- | tor of The Bee: Both of the subjects so| effectually touched upon in Sunday's Bee, | the preseérvation of our game and the fleld | were trip, reach as | lanc search ng for | days' lonely wandering I fel | tables | ment comes next, and it | that he also holds the world's skating record | 1:35% | June 1, 1874. | mile is 26:08, made by Joey | brougnt | regular trial enterprise, are accorded the warmest | the wires were taken dow approval here. Sportsmen everywhere ate with you, and I hope to see both. matters brought to a successful issue.—Hammetless, Frod Fuller in the Mountains. OMAHA, Nov. 8.—To the Sporting Editor of The Bee: I have just returned from my bear hunt. I started away with two friends about the 6th of last month and when we got to sheridan we walted for another to follow, but we got tired of waiting and after four days started for the mountains with a ranchman named J. C. Barr. He owns 00 acres miles south of Sheridan, He fs an old butcher of fifty summers or more, but is still as full of fun as Majors® friends are of sorrow. He was with eight days and he wouldn't accept a nickel in compensation. He furnished us with four mules and three saddle horses. We hunted two days without success, but succevded in losing a mule. Finally Fred Mengedoht and Frank Heft concluded to go home. Fred had a stitch in his back and Frank was homesick. This left me to hunt alone. So, with a saddle and pack horse, I started out in the wilderness by myself. After four 11 in with a party three other hunters and we forthwith an to make it warm for the bear and elk ere was John Jacobs in this party, Joe is Tom us of be | Kieler, formerly of Omaha, and Bill Linton of Montana. elk, eight deer, one | Canada Iynx and a We did this ab We killed two bear, mountain lon, one quantity of small fry. it sixty miles from Sheridan | near the Big Horn basin. My comrades | were ail royal fellows and expert hunters, | and they have my sincere thanks for their | great kindness to me. They simply gave be a bully time. FRED A. FULLER. Only a Difference of Opinion NEBRASKA, CITY, Neb, Nov. 7.—To the Sporting Kditor of The Bee: In a recent Issue of your valuable paper we noticed an article stating that the Council Bluffs foot- ball team was not very well satisfied with the treatment they received at our hands. For that we are very sorry. But they did not stop there, they said we had run in men, great bewhiskered men, for no other purpose than to beat them. - The only man on the team that has a sign of whiskers is the little end that played against the O. H. 8., October 13. In fact It was the same team excepting the left tackle, and there, instead of a man weighing 176, we played a little colored fellow weighing about 145, and moreover we did not have a- professional ‘pug,” as they boasted after the game. Another thing there was quite a number of ladies on the ground, and one or two of their men, especially ‘the center, used lan- guage only fit for a_barroom, and even then it would be disgraceful. Most of their men are gentlemen, but they made the mistake of carrying with them a few of the other kind. “The average is a scant 162, not 175 as stated. If you can give us space for this you will confer a favor on yours for fair play.—Nebraska City High School Football Team. thirteen The Frank Kemp Cricket Cup. J. C. Doyle of the Omaha Cricket club was presented Friday evening with the Frank Kemp silver cup in honor of having made the highest general average during the season, 14.90. The Kemp cup is a beautiful and valuable souvenir, solid silver, standing thirteen inches high, and of unique design and exquisite finish. Whisperings of the Wheel. Captain Ed Walker of the Tourist Wheel- men announces the following club runs for November. ~ These runs will wind up the club's riding season. The runs will be taken provided the weather and roads per- mit, otherwise they will be abandoned: No- vember 11, Blair, Neb., fitty-two miles; No- vember 18, La Platte, Neb., thirty miles; November South Omanha_and Council Bluffs, twenty miles. Start, 8 a. m The uniform retail price for high grades in 1895 will be $100. The Pope Manufuc- turing company, who built the famous ““Col- umbla,” has set the pace, and there is but little doubt other manufacturers will follow. G. A. Maxwell, the Winfield, Kan., crack class A man, has been relegated to the “busy B" list by “Mister’ Raymond. Sev- eral doughty Towans were put without the pale also in the same breath. W. Wagner, Mt. Vernon; W. A. Trueblood, Central City R. Grandle, Marlon, and J. *Pitkin, Viola, are now classed as professionals, and ama- teur racing men are warned not to compete with them under penalty of ‘being expelled from the League of American Wheelmen, if members of that organization The following claims for record lowed during the past week: One-half mile, flying start, paced, 53 1-5; two-thirds of a mile, paced, ‘flying start, 1:11 4-5, John S. Johnson at Waltham, Mass, Sepfember 21-22; one-quarter mile, unpaced, standing start, 29 4-5 seconds, J. W. Campbell at Spokane, Wash., September 3, 1894, The Dunlap tire people are making a cor- rugated tire for the 1895 season. Not satisfied with riding a bicycle at the most rapid gait ever recorded, a flying mile in 1:35 2-5, John S. Johnson recently elec- trified the ‘wheeling fraternity by smashing the gigantic Sanger's unpaced mile record 7 1-5 seconds. Johnson's time on the Tono wanda boulevard for the mile unpaced was 147 4-5. While the League of American Wheelmen racing board has not accepted Johnnie's record yet, and it s doubtful whether they will ‘or not, as his wonderful rides were made on a straightaway course, a course or boulevard paved with brick and not upon a regular track, yet his records have been accepted as the fastest time ever made on a bicyele by any human being by the wheel press and the lay press through- out this broad land. It s to be regretted that his wonderful performance was chap- eroned and engineered by so many of his stables mates and fellow employes. Wheel- men who know the crowd at Buffalo who attended him know also of their faking pro- pensities. The New York Sun, in com- menting upon his flying mile, says: *John- s0n's performance takes rank as the fastest mile ever covered by any method of progres- s'on outside of railroading. The record show that engine No. 999 of the Empirz State express covered a mile over the New York Central railroad track, between Crittenden and Wende, N. Y., on May 10, 1893, in 32 seconds. There were four heavy cars attached, and the entire train weighed 460.000 pounds. Johnson's latest achie may be mentioned for one mile, 2.45%, made at Minn, January 21, 1893, “The mighty thoroughbred horse Salvator will have good cause to feel aggrieved it he ever learns the fact. His great record of made against time on the straight away track at Monmouth Park, N. J., Au- gust 28, 1890, with 110 pounds up, had just nth of a second clipped off of it by the ng bicyclist. In no other class of sport the two minute mark been beaten under fair conditions. The pacing record for a mile is 2.01%, made by Robert J. this sea- | 5on, while the trotting figures have been re- duced to 2:03% by Alix at Galesburg, IIL, recently. The fa lete is 4 | George, Minneapolis est mile ever made by an ath 28. The tecord is held by W. G the well known English runner Suowshoe racing Is not a universal sport, but its followers have shown considerable speed at times. The world's record for a | mile in skeleton shoes is 5:39%, made by J. F. Scholes at Montreal, Can., February 1571, Some noted heel-and-fos experts | have gone a mile in remarkable time. The world’s record for this yle s | 6:23, made by W. Perkins at London, Eng., The swimming record for 4 Nuttall in_ Hol- ling worth Lake, England, August 19, 1593, “It is claimed that John S. Johnson has the bicycle record for the mile, unpaced, down under two minutes. He made the mile In 1:574-5. This plows a furrew in the 2:07 1-5, which Sanger were al- | N, The fow record ]nr 5635 seconds for the half unpaced also Is a record breaker, and goes ahead of Tyler's 57 4-5 at Waltham, ““Johnson is the first man in the world to break the trotting, pacing and running horse records, the first man in the world to do the mile with fiylng start and with standing | start in less than two minutes. No man ever did a mile fn less than 1:50 until John- son did the trick, but he can also claim that he first did the mile under 1:40, and now he is the only man who has done the mile unpaced In less than two minutes," A party of nine weary Tourls into the c last Sunday evening bumped themselves successfully Glenwood, la. road, a round trip of fifty miles. The roads ,were abe nable. The club will try Blair today, weather permitting. Messrs. Willlamson, Carothers, Bixby Hat- tenhater and Nichols. of the Ganymedes passed through Ompha last Sunday morning the club run to Plattsmouth, They re turned home via Glenwood. They reported | the roads on the Nebraska side very good. The regular business meeting of the ur- ists, booked for Wedmesday cvening, wa postponed as the necessary quorum fatled to | attend, The enterfalnment committee have been laboring duripg the past week with the managers of halls and orchestras, trying to obtaln n reasonably low bid for the club dances to be given thes'winter. The gentle- men have succeeded fn part and are anxious to report. A spectl meeting will be called at an early date. The bicycle is the newspapers means of obta s straggled having over the being used extonsively by in large cities, as a rapid ing election returns. A corps | | of mounted messengers were kept busy dur- re- | | | ing the® late election, bringing turns to the Omaha press An Indiana fa in the mer has built a bicycle for his own use, (which weigha seventy-fi pounds, The wheels once did duty as a| part of a sulky plow and the frame is fash- foned from a walking plow beam and the hounds of a farmy wagon. London, Eng., is the b insurance company whose aim insure wheels and wheelmer has a paid up capital of £15,000 sterling. On October 27 the supreme court of Min- nesota sitting at St. Paul rendered a decision of much benefit to wheelmen. A cyclist was riding along over a country road and a horse and driver approached from the oppo- site direction. The horse saw the bicycle, became unmanageable and ran away, demol- ishing the buggy amd injuring the driver. The driver brought suit for heavy damages. The court in handing down his decision in | favor of the defendant, sald: ‘“Bicycles are vehicles used extensively for -convenience, pleasure and business, and the riding of them upon the public highways, in the ordi- nary manner, as s now done, is neither un- lawful nor prohibited. They can not be banished, because they are not ancient vehl- cles, and were not used in the garden of Eden by Adam and Eve.” It is very noticeable out of ten, where road the horse displays more its driver. Johnnie Johnson’s phenomenal records made at Buffalo have been placed in a class by themselves and are labeled ‘“straight away road records,” paced and unpaced. | hplace of an | in life is to| The company | | | that hogs intelligence in nine cases are plentiful, than Chat with the Ball Players. The death of Mike Kelly, which occurred in Boston last Thursday, cast a gloom over the base ball world He was one of the best known players in the profession, a man of countless friends, and his sad end g deplored and regretted on all hands. Tom Foley wants to be assoclated with Charley Comiskey in the ownership of a club at St. Paul Billy Sharsig is likely to control the base ball destinies of Allenfown next year. The presence of Uncle Anson In Texas next spring will be a_great heip to the Lone Star leaguers. The Chicagos will be in the front rank during the revival there and will like- wise share the usufruct. Manager W. H. Watkins is wintering at Port Huron and will aid the projectors of a Michigan state league. Port Huron, Bay City, Flint, Battle Creek, Owosso and Jack- son are mentioned as likely cities. “Monk” Cline, the old Sioux City fielder, now a fireman in Louisville, Ky., was dangerously tnjured by falling walls in'a Gre a few nights ago. Greminger is the name of a Canton, O., youngster who has béen signed to play third base for Cleveland. = Perhaps *‘Chippy” Mec- Garr will have to shave off that shoe brush of his and start out again as a young blood.— Cincinnati Times-Star. Well, “Chippy” can depend on one thingy any way. If he cannot find a_job with any 6 the other clubs Omaha is willing to give him another show for his white alley. “Sloux City doesn*t deserve a place in the Western league,” remarked Billy Hart this morning. ““Why, after we had won the pen- nant our welcome home was awfully chilly. The fans seemed to take our success for granted.”"—Ren Mulford. There is one thing Sioux Clty doesn't desérve, nud that is any such unfavorable comments from Billy Hart whom they made a favdrite up there and paid him mpre money than his services were worth. That is, however, only another sample of the ball player's gratitude Washington wants to trade Old Smear Kase Hassamaer for Tommy Doud, and Der Poss Bresident is about half inclined to take 'em up. From a flelding and base running point of view the Washington management would get all the best of such a trade, but Von der Ahe's batting strength would be materially increased. Hassamaer led Doud ffty-nine points in batting the past season, but Doud's fielding was much the best, and he had be- sides nearly three times as many stolen bases to his credit as Hassamaer. With Selbach, Abbey and Doud on the outfield the Senators would have one of the very best outfielding teams in the business. WADHAMS, Mich., Nov. 2.—To the Sport- ing Edltor of The Bee: Your two kind favors are on hand and I certainly appreciated your advice. I tried to get McDougal, as you sug- gested, but St. Louls outbid me. However, I have written both Speer and Moran. What do you think o Mertes us a hitter? Am a cVicker and Flynn are too light, el W. H. WATKINS Milwaukee fans are asking, ‘‘Where are at?" The Evening Wisconsin declares: here is little information to be had re- garding the situation in Milwaukee. The men back of the Western league club announce that they will bulld a new park on the old Wright street grounds, while Harry Quin says: ‘We will hava the fastest kind of ball at Athletic park.’ Both sides are determined to go ahead, and it looks now as it Milwau- kee will have two clubs. The Western league and American assoclation clubs in this city would do well to compromise in some manner. It is certain that one of them must go under, as the town will not support two clubs. Omaha—so 'tis sald—has been invited to Join the Western league.—Times-Star. Forest, Field and Stream. | England, and a party of eastern friends are Frank Parmelee, G, W. Loomis, Mr. Money of the H. C. Powder company, London, shooting quall in Kansas. Mr. Loomis' private car. Tom Davis has the sporting editor's ace knowledgements for recent favors in the way | of venison and bear steaks. | The sporting editor has recelved a number | of sound communications on the question of a new game law, which will be forthcoming in good time. Geese are said to be quite plentiful along the upper Platte, but so far as good shooting is concerned the gunner might as well give up for 1594, They went via Questions and Answers. LINCOLN, Neb., Nov. 1.—To the Sporting Editor of The Bee: WIIl you please tell me who, it any one, is the winner in a game of checkers played as follows: One of the players set for the mark, and which Johnson has | beaten by nearly ten seconds. The weather was very threatening, and the rain to fall just as the squad came out Johnson for the mile. Johnson rode a | seventy-inch geared wheel. The electric timiog apparatus worked to perfection, and the little wind came up In siight puffs that were neither a help nor a hindrance to good riding. The time at the quarter was not caught, but at the bhalf the wheel passed over the line In 0:553-6 seconds, and the third quarter was done In 1:26%. Johnson finished in splendid shape and rode on for a short distance before he went back the start for a try behind the quad. Through some misunderstanding they slowed after pacing the quarter mark in 23 seconds, and About that time the rain begam to fall and o pace began | to| moves his man Into ‘the double corner of hia opponent. He afterward loses all the rest of his men, and when his turn to move comes | he cannot move his man, which s situated in | the double corner as aforesaid (ame which s a | single man), on account of his opponent’s man on his own king row in the same double corner. 1s the game, a blocked game, or has it been fairly won? ' Please answer in next Sunday’s Bee and oblige.—H. Mason, Ans.—It is & win FREMONT, Neb., Oct..20.—To the Sporting Editor of The Bee: “Will you please answer | the following question ‘in next Sunday's Bee and oblige: What 13 he helght, weight and | easurements of A, A. Zimmerman as com- pared with J. Johuson, J. P. Bliss, Sauger and Ziegler?—A Reader, Ans.—Give It up. , WAHOO, Neb, Nov. 2.~To the Sporting’] a2 Editor of The regarding the Moran and S Bee To proficiency respect eer as “base throwers' stato in next Sunday's Bee the flelding average of each If that be a source of authentic knowledge to judge from.—C. R Goucher, Elmer Johnson, Bd Killian, Ans flelding and batting averages of the stern assoclation wiil appear in next Sunday's Bee. PLATTSMOUTH, Oct. 20.—To the Sport- ing Editor of o Bee Will you tell me in next Sunday's Bee If J. S. Johnson rode a mile in 1 minute 2-56 seconds. Was it on level track or down hill.—I, D. Jolinson. Ans.—Ho did, so it is claimed. First quarter down hili; second quarter up hill, at about the same incline; the last half com- paratively level, on a smooth brick pave- ment. GRAND ISLAND, Neb., Oct. 20.—To the Sporting Editor of The Bee: Please give in unday's Bee J. 8. Johnson's best record for a mile on a bicycle and oblige. Please give date on which the record was made.— Constant Reader. Ans,—1:35 2-5 ,at Buffalo, October 24, To the Sporting Bditor of The Bee: Please answer in Sunday's Bee to decide a bet, What is the population of the Chinese Em- pire and what of Japan?—Count. Ans.—China, 400,000,000; Japan, 45,000,000, COUNCIL BLUFFS, Ia., Nov. 2.—To the Sporting Editor of The Bee: Having heard a good deal about the ‘‘missing word" craze in London not long ago, I desire to understand what it means. Nof having been able to get a good explanation, I hope you will answer It in next Sunday's Bee.—A Subscriber. Ans.—It was simply publishing a familiar saying with one word omitted, and glving prize to the one who first supplied the “missing word."” BELKHORN, Neb., Oct. ing Bditor of The Bee playing draw; A deals, Mr. Dealer stay out. that blind was tends that the play nec notwithstanding nothing mencement of play about playing J. P's. B is of the opinion that it is optional with him whether he shall withdraw his blind or inaugurate a jack pot. How about it? Your answer in next Sunday's Bee will settle the question and place in_circulation $10 that is now tied up pending decision.—Stake Holder. Ans.—Unless the players agreed that no jack pots should be played, it was a natural Jack pot. COLUMBUS, Neb., Nov. 8.—To the Sport- ing Editor of The Bee: Please state in Sunday’s Bee how many points game birds and animals count in a club hunt and oblige. —A Subscriber. Ans.—Tho club holding the hunt can make its own schedule of points. There is no standard. GREENWOOD, Neb, Nov. 7.—To the Sporting Editor of The Bee: Please answer through your sporting column the following: If the captains of two ball nines agree to play a full nine inning game to decide a bet, and they should be unable on account of darkness or any other hindrance to play it out, has the umpire any right whatever to call it a game if one side is ahead, unless the full nine innings are played out?—John Bird. settle a dispute ely of ploase 20.—To the Sport- A, B, C and D B antes; C, D and Owing to the fact up A con- es a “fack pot,” was said at com- Ans.—He has not. OMAHA, Nov. 2.—To the Sporting Editor of The Hee: Will you kindly inform me through the medium of your excellent paper it the article about Bd Neal’s skull and por- tions of his skeleton being in Salt Lake is true?—P. P, Ans.—I never dug him up. OMAHA, Nov. 2.—To the Sporting Editor of The Bee: Is there anything in the rumor to the effect that there Is to be a stop put to giving prizes for cards at private parties by the local authorities on the same grounds that gambling was suppressed and ‘“nickel- in-the-slot” machines were taken out, ete? Are not these prizes given the same as a teacher gives her scholars for getting the most head marks, and can the giving of prizes be construed so as to be calied gam- bling?—A Subscriber. Ans.—(1) Know of no such Think not. GLENWOOD, Ia., Nov. 1.—To the Sporting Bditor of The Bee: Will you please inform me through the columns of Sunday’s Bee, where in Omaha, or in your state, I can get a pointer dog broken. ~If in Omaha please glve street and number.—George A. Davies. Ans.—You will find Ed W. Hamilton of Pawlet, Deuel county, Nebraska, a competent man, Write to him. ————— PRESCIENCE. silliness. (2) T. B. 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Somerville Journal, Among the golid rock-ribbed truths, Of which there are a few Within this world of sham and (Of course, we don't me 1s_this one, known to ever Whose friends esteem him wise, That, if you are a business man, It pays to advertise. What sense Is thel With all vour curtains down? It pays to dress your windows up, And paraly the town. It pays to have n great big s To zzle people's eyes, And better still-don’'t miss this fact— It pays to advertise, 8o, If you And rest fn ur old age, Seek newspaper publicity, A column or a page ‘Will bring its cost back ten times o'er, Perhaps to your surprise, And ever -afterward you'll ‘say It pays to advertise, e A JAPANESE GAME. The first rainy afternoon after the arrival of Miss Taylor, the new governess, the four little Poole children stood at the windows of the school room. They were staring outside and almost if not quite pouting, because, as Bertha sald, “It is a pity to have a whole &ood afternoon spoiled by rain.”” Miss Taylor passing the door heard the re- mark, also saw the disconsolate looks; she came in under a smiling face which had the effect of a rainbow. “I read the other day,” she said, Japanese game called ‘‘The Five in keeping shop En would be prosperous, Senses Game Of course the children were at once inter- ested and gathered around Miss Taylor. “May we play it now?" “I don't see why we shouldn’t, but it will depend a little upon whether the cook is in a good humor or not.” “What a funny idea,” laughed Billy, “Then we can’t play it, for she never Is.” “Which one of you is her favorite “Lily.” sald three of the children, while Lily pointed to herself and sald confidently, +Oh, yes, T am." “Well, then Lily, I will send you down to the cook and on this slip of paper I will write the namos of certain articles that I want you to bring me, just a trifle of each one, re- member; Bertha and Billy can help me by making little cornucopias of paper; that's right, Bertha, very well done, turn up the end to keep in the contents.” Then Miss Taylor wrote the list in a plain round hand, so that 8-year-old Lily would not have to comé trudging up two flights of stairs to have anything explained. The list ran follows: sugar, tea, coffee, ciunamon, late, nutmeg, garlie. There were twelve cornucopls Taylor put ten of them in a box singly packed together and sent Lily down to “beard the lioness in her den,” while she took the two that were left and went into her own room She found some peppermints in a drawer which she pounded and put in one cornucopia and sand in the other.” “It looks £o like sugar that T am quite apt to make a mistake myself with my eyes open.” M Salt, cloves, pepper, choco nall. Miss ntime Bertha and Billy had been anx lously waiting for what was to come next Before Billy had a chance to get fid Miss Taylor reappeared and placed her mys terious packages on the long school room table which she had cleared of books “Would you mind telling us what the game is, Miss Taylor,” inquired Billy. “I would decidedly until Lily's return, bu here she comes. Well done, little lady, and | the cook did not bite you nor put you in her on the president, and the suggestion suited | me to a T. We didn't have long to wait at the white house. very cordially. “‘And what are you dolng now, Tom?' he asked ‘I'm making more money than ever be- fore,’ says Tow. ‘I'm in & new line of busi- ness together, and it brings me in large profits.” ‘What under,the sun can it be? asked the president. “ ‘Why, wherever I go,' says Tom, ‘I snoop | around the old second-hand shops and art stores and pick up old pictures for about $4 aplece, and then I sell 'em to father for $400 aplece. Mr. Clevelan laughed heartily, didn’t believe the yarn at all “Tom,' says he, ‘you'll have to sit up very late at night and.get up very early in the morning it ever you really expeot to get the better of your father in a business deal?” " But he ——— Art Faralture. Indlanapolis Journal: ““That stove,” began the customer with deadly calmness, “you sold to me last week as an ‘art stove,’ I believe? “Yes," admitted the dealer. “Isn't it?" “It doesn't know any more about art tha a hog ‘does about Sunday. “Bh? What? T say it doesn’ know the first thing about art. 1 haven't tried it on painting yet, but it can't draw worth & cent” Mr. Cleveland received us | {y | pudding to make it extra sweet?"* “‘No,” panted Lily. “She only sald shure If yez take all that stuff, yez'll send fur every doctor in town night." They all laughed at Lily's funny brogue, and Miss Taylor soon had the little cornu coplas in line on the table. She then took a large white silk handkerchief from her pocket, and said lertha being the shall have the honor first,” and proceeded chief tightly on Bertha's blue eyes. “Now, Bertha,” she explained, ““Billy will take a pinch from any of these cornucopias he pleases and place it on your tongue and you are to taste it and tell me what It is.," “0f course, I can do that,” said Bertha, “Is that all the gam »on't be too sure result.’” But, Miss Taylor, please have Billy wash his hands first; they are mever clean.” Billy was so anxious to drop a plece of gariic on Bertha's tongue that he obediently left the room when told to do so, and re- turned with clean hands, Put out your tongue, Bertha,” and out it came; a piece of garllc was lald on it and “What is it you have in your mouth?” said Miss Taylor anxlously, for she knew the gamo would start all wrong if Bertha should guess right and she really could not see how garile could be mistaken for sugar or sait. g Bertha, for- about the list and ale at ‘and have before oldest lady present, of being blindfolded to bind the handker- wait tlll you see the once removed the disagrecable morsel from her tongue. Thoe others all laughed heartily and Billy took his turn right gleefully, saying “I can tell onions from fish every day in the week, I'am sure of that.” You are always sure of everything, you know Billy,"” said Bertha, a little spitefully, for she still had the nasty taste in her mouth and a large glass of ico water scemed only to have made it worse, Taylor suggested fn an aside to Bertha to try Billy on sand and Bertha put a generous pinch on his tongue. He took a good taste of it and spit it out quickly. “It you must give a fellow salt, why not have nice table salt instead of this horrid rock stuff that is so gritty!" “Did the salt make you thirsty, Billy,” inquired Miss Taylor. “Awfully, 1 could drink a gallon of ica water. ~ Why do you laugh like that—you know it was salt, now don’t tell mo that LU was sugar. Bertha would never have given mo anything so sweet as that,’ almost angrily. “My dear little boy, this is a game and we laugh when we play games, you know, Id Miss Taylor, gently but reprovingly, Sugar would undoubtedly have been the medicine you required just now, but you see Bertha made a mistake and gave you'— Salt, I know,” interrupted Billy. “It is the Kind of salt that little birds have on the floors of their cages and that you lie in at the seashore,”” and then the laugh was on Billy and he good-naturedly joined in it. “Now, little messenger Lily, it s your turn and Brother Ned shall put whatever he pleases on your pink tongue.” Neddy with eyes as big as saucers took a piece of cinnamon and dropped it in Lily's spen mouth “Oh, it's coffee and I love it and I never have any only Sunday mornings just a sippity sip from mamma’s cup.” If you had it oftener you might possibly know it better when you tasted it, but per- haps not, as thelr tasting without' seeing is o great mistake. You see how necessary ense s to another. It Is your turn, Master Ned. Ned bravely stood the ordeal of being “made blind,” as he expressed it, and Lily whispered to Miss Taylor, “I must give him sugar; he is so fond of it.” All right, dear, you may,” and Misy Taylor smiled approyingly on the little girl. Ned gave a big suck and a happy smil broke over his dear little face as he sald, “Sugar—more"'- “Bravo, Neddy," the first one to gu right,” and the little hero was rewarded by another dose from the same cornucopla. The children tried each other over and over again and as often as not made mis- takes. Miss Taylor explained to them how closely allied the senscs are and what a difference it makes when one sense comes to the help of another. Little Ned sat on her knee and learned the names of the five senses, repeating them after her, telling them off on his four chubby little fingers, and one thumb—sight, smell, taste, hearing and feeling. ROSE MURDOCK. —_—— INDUSTEIAL NOTES. The grave diggers of Bngland are out for an elght-hour da The United States owners, Our woolen mills employ 219,000 persons, An inventor has devised a child’s swing which will work the well pump as the child wings Elephants' Arpets. pensive. The total value mineral products last belng the smallest 1889 When the irrigation works now under way in Arlzona are completed 1,000,000 acres of arid land will be made fertile. A Peo hoemaker has Invented a work- ing shoe with a wooden (poplar) sole one inch thick. It is very durable, comfortable and comparatively light The south produced $86,607,602 worth of lumber in 1880. To make this output 5,784 mills were operated and 71,650 hands ems ployed. The product in 1880 was worth §: It more than doubled in has 8,000,000 home skins are tanned to make They never wear out, but are ex- of the year was $609, United State 0, ten tric brake for trolley cars, to take of tho handbrake, has been in- vented by Elmer A. Sperry of Cleveland and he cialms that it will stop the car in shorter time, besides avolding danger of wearing the wheel flat. The south contains over 200,000,000 acres of forest land—over Lalf of the woodland arca of the United Btates. Sho has almost every varlety, so far as quality is concorned, There are nearly 6,000 saw mills in operas tion, employing over 73,000 hunds. The out- put of the planing mills in 1890 was over $22,000,000. Reports just made to the Michigan »tate auditor give an Interesting idea of the wealth in the copper minss of the upper peninsula. There are but nine working mines and these lLave pald in divids somothing ever §60,000,000, the Calumet Hecla leading with about kalf the total pay- menta. It is a surprising fect that about f." cent of the utock of these mines of beld in Noston. . et