Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 16, 1895, Page 18

3 0¥ WASHINGTON'S SHORES The Barrister Lands a Big Pickerel After a Hard Battle, WHISPER NGS OF THE WHIRLING WAEEL Palaver with the Hall Players—The Rod, Gon and Dog—The Sprinter's Ambi- thon and the Weekly Round- Up of Sport. | HERE s cer- | tainly no place within easy | reach of Omaha nearly | so attractive | these splondid | June days as Lake Washing- ton, Minn, It s but nine and through as lovely & country as lies out of doors. You leave here at 6:10 in the evening and reach Kasota Junction at 4:50 in the morn- ing. Already this year there has been upwards of 100 Omahans at the lake and this month | this number will be doubled. Just now the black bass are emerging from the spawning | period, and for the next five or six weeks will bite voraciously. Pickerel and pike are also taking the lure with exciting fre- quency and sunfish, sheepshead and perch can be taken almost at will. Trolling, cast- ing and still-fishing are now at their height | at these lovely waters, and during these perfect days of June, for either health or happiness there Is nothing that can surpass a fishing trip to Washington. The skies up in that charmed country are always of the perfect blue, shaded with drifts of silver, the flelds and woods are very conservatories, with their odorous wild blos- soms and exuberance of tangly verdure. The air is always redolent with the eweets of these painted beauties and the spicy fra- grance of the woods, out of whose shady aisles comes the tinkling call of the oriole, whose orange and black flashes in and out among the graceful elms and towering oaks; tho silver chime of the hermit thrush and the cackling note of the yellowhammer. ‘These are the sweet voices which call to you 10 break the bonds of business for at least a brief season of free life in the fresh air. Many catch the soothing sounds and respond to revel in the delights of the June days amidst the perfume of full-leafed woods by | the cool waters of the rippling lake. Lament- able indeed must it be to possess a mind | which replies to no caress of nature, that | feels 1o longing for the wild world of woods and waters when the oriole calls, Sunrise on Lake Washington! A golden light kindles the long stretch of rushes and feathery maples upon the south- ern_border of the lovely lake; one beautiful sweep £ dark cnd Jizht cre m fields and woods covers the remainder of the scene, while to the northward stretches the silvery sheen of the bass and pickerels' home. The picture soft and rich, and yet with a wild beauty about it, steeped as it is in the mellow charm of dawning day. Charlie Thomas and the sporting editor put in a couple of rare days there this week, and the reader Is invited to accompany us on our early visit after bass, Ben Roberts is in the seat and rows away from Sheehan's landing oft down through the narrows. On the right is a selvedge of light, flufty reeds and rushes, backed by swaying maples and an expanse of waving wheat and Tye flelds, with graceful wooded acclivities Dbetween. ~ On the left is the craggy bluffs, With their scraggy oaks and glistening boul: ders, seperating one arm of the lake from the other. The breaking sunlight lies like a golden mantle over the exquisite scene, its soft rays tinging the wild rose into deepes pink and making yellow intaglios of the wila clamatis and blossoming moosehead fitting in the crannies of the abrupt shores. The mnarrows widen as we proceed, with thickets of rushes and beds of aquatic' moss lining the crystal channel, while back of us it dwindles into a sheeny streak, rolling and undulating like a water serpent in heavy herbage. Side cul-de-sacs entice our little clinker, graceful a pike, but Ben's steady stroke sends her skimming on through the water like a bird upon the wing. A thunderpump rises awkwardly from her mornfng vigil for tadpole or crawfish in the tall reeds along the near shore and fans heavily away down the lake with a plaintive cry, the light touching her slender, brown shapo as sho bursts nto the fullness of the y. Ben finally slows up, as we near the moss beds, just east of the red barn, and rests gracefully on his oars as Charlie and I pick up our rods. We both begin trying for glori- ous old micropterus salmoides at the mouth of tho little bay which opens coyly into the awaying rushes. Dropping adroitly here, fling- ing there, we tease the lazy waters, but in vain. Not a strike rewards our feverish labors. Ben picks up the oars and with gentle stroke sends the boat up closer, where the water is more shallow, the moss heavier. We skip our spoons over the rippling surface, specking the dark, green, sleepy pools with them, our gray coats glancing like the heron’s back, as we bend to and fro, stoop and rise in_the ardor of our work. The bull frog croaks amongst the floating liypads along the marshy shore; a devil's darning needle flashes athwart the water in a prism of royal purple and gleaming violet, the kine Tow on the distant hillside, and the pestiferous gnat hums and buzzes about our ears as if in mockery at our earnest labors. Ben sits idly In his seat indifferent to ev- erything save the pearly bubbles eddying away from the rocking boat's side. Softer still, through the shimmering morn- ing haze, the sun sheds his rays over the scene. On the left bank the trees and alders are thrown in the glassy lake by the most delicate penciling, forming a series of fairy paintings, specked with the topaz and the crimson, tho garnet and lapis-lazuli of the glancing sunshine, paintings that can b2 found in wo Paris gallery or salon. From the gnarled trunks of the trees to the cut edges of their leaves, everything on the margin s deplcted in the lake as if its waters o one wonderful mirror. The gentle 0s- clllations of our boat fracture these fairy scones now and then, but placid welling crystals again and again restore them as if by invisible fingers. Suddenly we find ourselves moored in a net work of floating moss, and salimoides makes assault after assault upon our en- tieing lure, and for two hours the sport is unexampled. In that time a dozen bass or more, in ail the blazonry of their splendid armor, are flopping and gleaming in the bot- tom of our boat. There, Charlie's spoon strikes a quiet pool, back and beyond the first line of reeds, where the sunlight glares like the orb of a bazilisk. “Whoop-1at” cries the excited young bar- ister. “Steady!" echoes Ben. “It's a whale," quoth T. Off the stricken fish darts, like a bullet from a gun. Down he dives, as if to pene- trate the lake's bottom. Then up he comes again, as If to clear the aqueous barrier and take a flight through ether. As his yellow, spotted sides flash in the sun- Ught we fee what it +Esox Americanus! A big pickerel, the tiger of the waters! : Back into the depths he plunges, like a metal projectile. The slender rod bends and creaks threateningly. Charlie is white with excitement, Ben and I entranced look- is. ers-on. There 16 no surcease from agony in the mossy depths, and the big fish breaks for the surface agaln. Hera ho launches out des- perately and spins round with luconceivable speed. The barrister plays him with won- derful skill. Now he gives him rope with whieh to eventually hang himself; now he Teels In as fast skilted fingers can work the small crank; click-click-clickety-click, he gives him length again. Charlie has the rod’s butt planted In the pit of his stomach, while he holds on deftly with his left hand and works the with his right. His countenance has a grave cast, but he is cool, collected and reilant, always keeping the contorting savage of the lake, like an old , taut up to the rein. | years | vory scarce. | Just at a time when the young birds | unable to care for themselves, and the | ever. gish, Charlie reels him eautlously In. We 800 his lo der, golden shape plough- ing boatward near the wurface. He will soon Le ours. One more desperate, frantic lunge for the ‘moss bed—one more herolo dash toward the dreper waters, one more turn, and the conquering fisherman steers him deftly toward the boat, He Is weary and drowning. Charlle reels him in cautiously. Suddenly there is a glitter at the boat's side; a spasmodic flop, a faint outpull. Ben leans over, makes a sweep with his naked arms; the net s bensath him, and the next second a seven-ponnd pickerel s wildly floun- dering in hopelessness and despair in the bot- tom ot our good b The Rod, « Will and Irvine Gardner, Gardner, are catching muscalonge wilds of Wisconsin, near Bayfleld. Addison C. Thomas, superintendent of the leased wire service of the Assoclated press west of the Alleghenies, and probably one of the most skillful fly-casters in Chicago, was in Omaha Thursday, renewing old acquaint- ances. Reports this spring from the western and western central portions of the state where the shooting has generally been good of late were to the effect that old birds were This alone would have been sufficient to have caused poor shooting, but on top of this the weather has been against them. The heavy and continued rains which have been the salvation of the crops came were damp num- n and Dog. sons of Dean in the and cold has undoubtedly kilied large bers. It is painfully evident that those who love to shoot over the dog will be compelled to wait a little later in the season and take their outing with bobwhite, who promises to be more in evidence this season than His cheery call is everywhere to be heard, He has overflowed the confines of the country, and taken up quarters in the parks of the city, and the brown October days have glorious times in store for the devotees of the scatter gun. Not only is this condi- tion of things apparent in the immediate vicinity of the city, but from all over the state the same reports are sent in by sports- men who keep a weather eye upon the fu- ture. In this year of glorious crop prospects thera is one which promises to be a complete failure, or at best only half a crop—that is the prairie chicken. Last season was the most disastrous to these birds of any In the annals of Nebraska, and In many places where they were previously plenty, they are now practically exterminated. Whether they died as the result of thirst, or simply emi- grated to more favored localities, has been a disputed point. If the latter is the case, with the return of more favored seasons the birds will return also, but if the dry weather exterminatzd them, nothing but the most stringent protectlon will ever pro- duce good chicken in Nebraska again. TEKAMAH, Neb., June 11.—To the Sport- ing Editor of The Bee: Frequent inquiries from abroad are made by letter at this office. Nearly every day I am called upon to answer such letters concerning Holman's lake as a resort for camping, fishing, boating, ete. It is a splendid body of water, well filled with bass, perch, croppies, ete. Last season the State Fish commissioners planted 5,000,000 pike that are now two and one-half and three inches in length and spawning. An- other plant of 1,000,000 was made by Super- intendent O'Brien this year. Large timber skirts the lake at many places, making beautiful shade for camping parties. Banker H. M. Hopewell, brother of Judge Hope- well, has a crude resort with boats at the nearest point to Tekamah. As it is attract- ing 5o much attention and so many inquiries are made, Mr. C. E. Bardwell and I would be pleased to have you join us in a day or two in a troll along the moss beds of this lake. Let us know when you can come and we will endeavor to make you a pleasant time. Yours, etc., W. H. KORNS. That will surely be a great dog show in September. The Omaha Kennel club is working hard to this end and already evi- dence is accumulating that points to a mag- nificent success. Billy Campbell and Mrs. Campbell and Charlie Ross of South Omaha put in several days at Sheehan's breezy CIilt house at Lake Washington last week. They made a fine catch of bass, pike and pickerel, Mrs, Campbell outangling both of the genflemen. Don Chamberlain, Jim Dewar and Colonel Andy Hunt, three pretty hot pieces of meat, made it exceedingly interesting for the big pickerel at Lake Washington several days last week. They say that Dewar caught an octopus, but Don declares it was a mermaid and that she lived just back of the woods on the north shore of the lake. Judge Sam Chapman and Cashler S Waugh of Plattsmouth have just returned from a bass fish at Independence lake, Min- nesota. Of course they made a big catch and of course they had a royal time. M. G. Chilberg, wife and little daughter of Kearney are rusticating and fishing at Lake Washington. Governor Grant of Denver, who is with J. J. Dickey's party at Three Lakes, Wis., distinguished himself and the entire party by landing a thirty-seven-pound muscallonge last Monday. Among the prominent ‘visiting sportsmen who were here at the state shoot were Charlie Budd, Des Moines, la.; W. H. Skin- ner of the new American Smokeless Powder manufactory, New York City; Ted Acker- man, Stanion; J. W. Den, a crack from Arapahoe; George Nicolai, Sutton; U. G. Powell, Fred W. Sharp, F." M. Miller, C. L. Latshaw, C. D. Linderman, E. B. Hallett and A. D. McCandless of Lincoln; E. W. Bexton, W. 8. Duer, W. S. McKinney, Hastings; B. E. Hairgrove, Sutton; J. M Crabill, one of the old vets, Clarinda, Ta.; Jack Harkins, Glendon; E. O. Trotter, Kings- ley, Ia.; Fred Glibert, Spirit Lake; D. V. Palmer, Lake Park, 'Ia.; George Slocum, Primghar, Ta.; Tug Wilson, R. Flanders, Lon Kemery, ‘Chadron; Jim Den, Arapahoe. and the champion of ‘western Nebraska, W. D. Pruitt and J. W. Evans, also of Arapahoe; G. L. Becker, J. M. Browning, A. P. Bize'ow, Oglen, Utah; J. G. Hillberry, W. J. Organ, Beaver Crossing; A. A. Glade, W. W. Harri- son, Grand Island; H. S. Westfleld, M. D.. Will Pyper, Colonel Hoftmayer, Major Bill Hardin, A. W. Riekman, Council Bluffs; Judge Barnes, auother hero of the old days, Norfolk; O. G. Smith, assistant superintend- ent, alias “Uncle Den,” Brownville, J. S. Hoftman, Atlantic, and scores of = others whose names were not obtainabl From a Tour st's Note Hook. The club members are all pleased with the substitute bicyele ordinance as submitted by the police committee to the council. The eity authorities may feel assured that the club- men will co-operate with them in the carry- ing out of the provisions of the ordinance. Here are a few “Don’'ts” that I have jotted down which may interest our club members and at the same time prove of a little judicious advice. Anyway it would not do any harm to read them over and remember them: Don't miss any more club meetings than you can help. Something might be done in your absence which you would object to. You should be present and enter your protest at the time, Don't let toe other members do your riding for you. You will be far more benefited by doing it yourself. Don't alr your grievances in the ears of outsiders. What is said and done in club meetings is for the club members only to discuss. Don't “’kick" at the road officers any more than you can help. Remember that they have every member in the club to please and it 1s a big job. Don't waste your time and energy in de- riding or criticising rival clubs. The same time and energy displayed for buliding up and betterment of your own club will work wonders. Don't forget to be a gentleman ever or a wheell always. Your example will al- ways attract favorable attention. Don't attend club runs in full dress suits. You will feel much more uncomfortable th it attired properly. Don't tax your strength or your mount by trying to climb a bill because some other fellow does. "1t is no disgrace Lo walk up a 1] The regul; abandoned | count of rain. Despite the threatening aspect of the over- banging cloudw last Sunday morning, some thirty odd of the club members made the trip to Missouri Valley, Ia., in company with a half dozen of the folly Turner Wheel club boys. T evening club run was t Wednesday evening on ac- w the huge pickerel cavorts less des. perately; his movements are slow and slug- and reached the Valley shortly after 11. Stops were wade at Cresceat and Loveland. party left Omaha at 9 o'clock The clubs rode wefl together, the new men were looked after and encouraged, the entire party riding into the Valley in good order. Arrangements had been made at the Hotel Cheney for the accommodation of the entire party by Captaln Smith. The hotel people | exerted * themselves and could not have treatod them better had they been congress- men with a pull. After a splendid dinner the party climbed the high blufl back of the little efty and viewed the wide landscape which stretches away for miles. They watched the approaching storm with fn- terest, as they saw in its arrival the end of their day's outing awheel. .Until train time the hotel resounded with merry laughter and song—the old-timers told their yarns for the “edification of the novices and every one | had a good time. The club’ returncd late in the afternoon and well pleased with the trip. As the last Sunday in July is anniversary day, the trip will be taken in conjunction with the Council Bluffs boys. Today the club will have an outing at | Bellevue and Fort Crook, providing the day | is pleasant and the roads rideable Fort Omaha club will join with us and try to overcome our young glants at a game of base ball. The clubs will meet at the “Pump House at 8 o'clock, and, with colors flying, proceed to Hanscom park, where they will be photographed by Heyn. From there they will proceed at once to Bellevue and return by way of Fort Crook. | | Secretary Newcomb rts that he will have to employ a stenographer if the club membership increases as rapldly as in the past few weeks. Don't forget the Boulevard run this week under the management of the lady members of the club. Commencing with next month the captain will call runs during the week for the ladies. They will have sole charge of these runs. Meesrs. Barnum, Bouk and Smith, the com- mittee appointed to solicit prizes for the 18 mileage competition, are meeting with great success in their efforts. Among the con- tributors are Travelers' Accident company, Omaha Knitting works, M. 0. Daxon, Will M. Barnum & Bro., Omaha Bicycle company, G. M. Randall, John Harriott & Co., D. J. O'Brien, Standard Accident company, Referee Publishing company, Cycling West, The Wheel Publishing company, Harry Hartry, Freder- fck, the hatter, C. E. Jenkins, H. K. Smith and the New Haven Silverware company. A nice prize list will be hung up for the club members, and the committee is working like mad to get the matter in shape for the printers before the 20th inst, as the pam- phlets will have to be distributed by the 1st of July. ‘The Tourist Meet club would like to hear from every wheelman in the city who would like to attend the Kearney meet on his wheel. Delegations will be picked up at Fremont, Schuyler, Columbus and Grand Island, so that the crowd will number nearly 100. The ride, while a loug one, will bs made in two or three days at a pace to suit everyone, Ad- dress John Hynes, or the club officers for particulars. Chief Consul Ebersole wishes me to state to the club members that an effort is being made to make up a special train for Kearney. The train will be ample for the accommoda- tion of every wheelman or wheelwoman. A car will be attached for the wheels. A num- ber of ladies will accompany the party. Full rticulars can be obtained from Mr. Eber- l"Y’ or the secretary of the Omaha Wheel club. Why can't we have a camera club? Our runs are routed through some of the pretti- est portions of the Missouri valley, and many lovely views could be obtained. Work it up, somehody! What has become of Jack Culley and Jack Hynes, Dave O'Drien, Billy Barnum and dozens more of the jolly fellows who,com- menced the season so well. We don't see your smiling faces on runs any more. NELLIE HAZELL. Whisperings ot the Whoel. There is a possibility of the Omaha Wheel club's famous Googlers changing their name for the Kearney meet this year on account of an overabundance of mirth and racket last season. It has been whispered among the tnner circle had the club had most too noisy a time packed up in its little grip last year, and when they let it out it grew faster than one of Prof. Hermann's magic boquets. It fact, it got so big it filled the entire town in a very short time. It is needless to say there wiil be more hilarity this year than last, however, and if I'm not mistaken the “Pete Wheelers will lead the procession very much the same as last Fourth, only in larger numbers. Several new members, hot ones, too, will be in it this season, from be- ginning o end, and if Kearney don't get a thorough shelling from their many out-of- town friends and admirers, it will be strange indeed. But what in the name of Sweet William is the Fourth of July for but to make a racket in, no matter whether in Kearney or in Council Bluffs. The Wheel club won't have to hunt far for original ideas for their own advertising at Kearney this year, for several exceedingly bright schemes have already been proposed, and tho most of them passed favorably upon. ‘Pad- dlefoot” s being kept busy, gucssing just which he likes best, and it is possible he will throw up his hands and take every- thing as it comes. In that case look out for new tricks all over town when the turnout comes. Next Tuesday evening there will be a postponed meeting at the club house at § o'clock, to which all members are urgently requested to be present, as business con- cerning sp:cial rates, trains, etc., for Kear- ney, will be discussed. This week Is principally Kearney news in this column, and if any apologles are due for an overabundance of enthusiastic talk regarding the same, let us know, and we will explain all when the historical meet is over, Nothing could be more foolish than to wait until the last day or two to decide as to whether you are going to Kearney or not. Make up your mind and notify any of the following named gentlemen who have been appointed a special committee to watch out for the interests of all wheelmen who antici- pate going, viz: F. H. Slefken, J. L. Live- sey and J. E. Ebersole. These men are all league officials who are in posseszion of facts and figures that are beneficial in the fullest sense of the word and it will surely pay to talk the case over with one of them. In case a party of 100 is guaranteed from Omaha a special train will be furnished to run on any schedule desired. More than that, a single fare is to be had only in case this sized party is made up, so it is plain to be seen that concerted action means much here. Send your name to the wheel club if you have the faintest| idea of celebrating the glorlous Fourth with the proper people, and learn something to your advantage. Today a regular old time picnic is on the string and new and old members will be out in force. It Is a fishing party at Horseshoe lake, and at the time The Bee readers are eating their breakfast the jolly wheelmen will either be puliing out fish or looking for the man who stole the glass. It 1s quite likely the gun sports will turn out today too, and a number of guns and a barrel of blue rocks will occupy a very prominent place in the commissary wagon. Particulars next week. No wonder Eddie Heyden worked so hard to make a success of his recent six-day race at the Colisaum, for I see the foxy REddie i¢ now happily married to a charming young lady of this city. Three or four thousand del- lars for a week's sport will pay for a splendid wedding journey, and I think Ed must have figured it just that way. Everybody goes to Kearney the Fourth from the Wheel club excepting Doe Kelm. Doc has a contract to wateh the janitor of the Murray flats and he says if he was away two days “‘he really would be missed."” That's a good story on the genial doctor, and a good clgar always makes him tell it. Give him two, for 1 get half. They tell a good one on Captain Potter, too. s everybody knows, Bert is a racing man and always goes into training for the state races in a way that means business. This particular day he had reeled off a few extra miles out over the Dodge street course, and on his return to the city limits stopped at the club house for a rub down. After a very refreshing bath he looked around for the bottle of witch hazel which the racing board always keeps on hand for the fast and mighty men to bathe their muscles with. Unknown to him the photographic board of the club also keeps some bottles up there and it may be the hard names of the chemi- cals had something to do with decelving him and making him think he was reading the technical term instead of the common every-day title of Pond's Extract, No mat- ter. Time was preclous, and soon Bert's muscles were warmed up, not with witch hazel, but with a bountiful supply of the vile liquid the camera fiends use to develop their pletures. Juot at this time King Denman dropped in, and as Denny is a racing man nd camera crank (0o, he noticed something l-m wrong and immediately made up his mind to have some fun. With a long face The | and & voice twll pipity he told Potter of ror and madly informed him he was p oned by that rank developer, and then kindly offered to helpihim live awhile longer. Polson was a hard werd for Bert and he couldn’t got the stuff oft half fast enough. Then he must sea a doetariin such a dangerous case, and while he went;out and hunted one King sat down and laughed himself to sleep. Yes, Potter got ovep it all right, but if you're ! anticipating a eonversation with him regard- ing this don’t forget to go armed from your hand to your shoutder. E. R. Smith’took out a party of prospective club members' last Sunday to Kelly's lake on a fishing trip, and if just one-half the storles they tell ate true, then I'm sorry 1 wasn't along, for no one is more willing to go under in a good cause than himself, who is myself. They were a_swell looking crowd when they started out from a Farnam strect restaurant about: 4:30 in the morning, and all that kept me from going was that there wers plenty without me. 1 heard all ahout it, and I'm going to tell it all, except about | what they used for breakfast, dinner and gupper, and whenever they were thirsty That fs not to be mentioned, especlally in the sporting column. The lake was reached about 9 o'clock, after a beautiful drive through some of the prettiest country around Omaha, and within fifteen minutes atter the arrival’ one man had fallen into the lake, another had snared himself on a spoon hook, and last, but not least, another had broken the faucet. ' Trouble of all kinds come all at once, but of course it couldn't last foraver, and in a little while fishing commencad in earnest. Bites were thick everywhere, both in the boat and in the water, but they didn't amount to much. Not a fish could be landed and Horton swears that one fish was doing all the biting all by Itself. Later on, when Fletcher 1it his pipe, called the fish nam and got already to lie down in the boat for |a nap, the catfish came around and mewed and purred so0 loud Teddy decided (o get even, and went at 'em again, that time with' better success. In about five minutes he had 106, and had just made up his mind to quit, when his string broke, and all his fish got away except two. Thoroughly dis- heartened, he wound up his line, and rather than set in the boat and be guyed, he got out and walked to the shore and ot dinner ready. Just then the rain commanced to peur down so hard it would glance off, and all hands pulled for th> grassy banks to sample Fletcher's lunch, Over an after-dinner cigar the latest and best storles were told, songs were sung, and all else known to amise was indulged in until some fellows came along and invited the boys to try their hend at spearing. That was just what they wanted and they speared till the tears came on their arms, but as before, no fish crowned their efforts until Gilbert got out of the boat and caught a few with his hands, and held them while Eddy stabbed them, to make them look as if they were speared. They were very accommodating fish, indeed, so much 50 that they all carried their scales with them, which made the weighing part very easy. And those speckled beauties came right home with the boys, too, to prove just how good fishing was that day. On account of the fearfully hard rain it was found necessary to break camp earlier than de- sired, for the home trip was not a pleasant one to face, even when wrapped up tight In mackintoshes and rubber caps. Through the kindness of the Solzman brothers a couple of hours were pleasantly whirled away at their home, where it was “nip and tuck” to see which crowd could do the most for the other .in ‘the way of amusement. Fletcher exhibfts, ‘with much pride, several fine snap shots hé& got, and while memory and those pictures Jast it's hardly likely the trip will_be forgotten. In the party were Messrs, Eddy, Flefcher, Smith, Horton and Gilbert, and 16 is a safe assertion to make that not a jollier crowd of boys have left the city on aJaunt for a long, long time. Only elghte¢n. days more and the glorious Fourth of July will be here. Each year Nebraska wheelmen anxiously await the coming of thi day and look forward to it with a great deaf of pleasure. Since 1889 the Nebraska division, League of American Wheelmen, has on each Fourth of July held its annual meeting. In 1889 it was held at Lexington, in '90 at Omaha, '91 at York, '92 at Hastings, '93 at Lincoln, and '94 at Kearney. The wheelmen of the latter named city are great hustlers and they have suc- ceeded in securing the “plum’ again this year. They are offering as fnducements for the wheelmen to be present $1,500 in prizes for the races, reduced hotel and railroad rates, a grand banquet and ball and many other things which will lend enjoyment to the affair. Their race track has been re- surfaced and is now one of the fastest in the state, therefore it is expected that all existing state records will be lowered. The meeting will be called to order promptly at 10 o'clock on the morning of July 4 by Chief Consul Ebersole. It will be heid in the parlors of the Midway hotel and all league members will be expected to be pres- ent. The races, among which will be the state championships, will be run in the afternoon at the Wheelmen's park. Chief Consul Ebersole and Secretary-Treasurer Slefken are trylng to arrange for a special train for the accommodation of Omaha wheelmen. It will leave the union depot for Kearney at 6 p. m. on July 3 and arrive in Kearney the morning of the 4th, return- ing to this city on the morning of the 6th. They must have 100 names of wheelmen who will go In order to get the special and all those desiring to be “in it” will confer a favor upon the committee by sending in thelr names as soon as possible. Special provision will be made for the ladies and it is hoped that there will be many of them. The cost will be comparatively small, the fare for the round trip being but about §6. The trip can be made on $10 and it will be a “ten” that you will never regret having spent if you go. The new bicycle ordinance” which was passed by the city council at its last meet- ing, is as follows: Sectlon 1. It is hereby declared unlawful for any person, upwards of the age of 10 years, to ride any bicycle or trieyele upon or over any sidewalk in the city of Omaha Any person over the age of 10 years violating the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon convie- tion theraof shall be fined' in any sum not ex- ceading twenty-five dollars ($25.00). Section 2. It s hereby declared unlawful for any person to ride any bicycle or tricycie over, upon or along any public street or avenue at a speed greater than eight miles an hour in that part of the city of Omaha bounded by the following streets: Ninth street on the east, Leavenworth street on the south, Twenty-fourth street on the west and Cuming strect on the north or for any person to ride any bicycle or tricycle over, upon or along any public street or avenue of the city of Omaha outside of the above lim- Its at a greater speed than ten miles an hour. Any person violating any of the pro- visions of this section shall bo deen=d guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof ahall be fined in any sum not exceeding twenty-five dollars ($25.00). Section 3. That this ordinance shall take effsct and bé in force from and after its passage. Passed June' 11, 1895. The bell and lamp section haviog been cut out, this makes the law an easy one to obey, and wieelmén should see that it is lived up to to the letter. Councilman W. A. Saunders offered fhe following resolution, which was alio adppteds Rezolved, That the fire and police con missioners be requested to instruct the p lico department to enforce ordinance No. 2,994, relating to the throwing of glass, tin and ‘wires in the itreets. Councilman Saunders is proving himself to be a true friend of the wheelmen. Only last week he hired several small boys, a team and wagon, at his own expense, to pick up wire, glass, tin cans, etc., In the Fifth ward. The result was that a good sized wagon load of this trash, which is death to pneumatic tires, was picked up Mr. Saunders will be remembered by the “bicycle boys,” and they may be able to return him some fdvor scme day. It would not be a bad idea for some of our other councilmen to take pattern of him, and have their respective wards cleaned up. The Omaha Wheel club will send a racing team to Kearney to represent the club and city in the coming champlonship races. Last year Omaha got left on championships, and they do mot intend to be caught napping again this year. The team will probably be composed of Frederickson, Gadke, Mach and McCullough. Harry Edghill will do no more racing this season. Such are his intentions and a bushel of challenges will not make him ehange them. He has won his fame and glory and intends to hold on td it for a while at least. That there are a number of faster men In the city than he there s not the slightest doubt, but they are mot going to get a chance to take his glory away from him this year. Wise boy, Harry. A woman with her first wheel or a new | do more toward repairing the mental strain | of the schoolroom than a whole pharmacy. riding costume s never entirely satisflod with either until one or both have been seen by the man she loves and the woman she de- tests the most. Records are like wills; as soon as they are made, there ls an effort on the part of all concerned to break them. To the ordinary man his first wheel s a great deal like a problem in mathematics— he doesn't always understand it when he gets It Just ‘as men are ready to be convinced that the woman of the twentieth century is to be physically as well as mentally per- fect, an eminent physician testifies that tho woman of today Is deteriorating physically from mental strain fn girlhood. He does | not prescribe the remedy—a simple one— give the girl a bicycle and the rosy cheeks and firm muscles will follow as a matter of course. An hour or two a day In the sunshine and fresh alr, with the amount of | exercise a pneumatic tired bicycle gives, will | PIONIC, Grand Road Race from Omaha to Coff- man's Statlon. The members of the switchmen’s union of Omaha and Council Bluffs will give a joint excursion and picnle June 30, to Coffman, twelve miles north of Omaha on the Chicago, St. Paul, Milwaukes & Omaha railway. Train will leave Broadway and Bighteenth streets, Council Bluffs, at 9:10 a. m., crossing the river via the new bridge at East Omaha. | From Webster street depot trains will leave | 9:30 a. m. and 1:30 p. m. A feature of this excursion will be a bieyele road race from Omaha to pienic grounds, starting from Twentleth and | Cuming streets at 11:30 a. m., sharp, open to | all amateur wheelmen, the only requirement | being that every participant must hold a numbered ticket, price $1, which can be had at any bicycle store. Prizes will be | glven as follow: First prize, bicycle suit; second prize, silk umbrella and split bamboo fishing rod; third prize, saddle and pump; fourth siz bicycle lamp; fifth prize, one pair tire protectors; sixth prize, pair pedals; seventn prize, sweater; eighth prize, cyclometer; ninth prize, will' be given by David O'Brien; tenth prize, necktie. Games and races will be in progress during the day at ‘*he picnic grounds and prizes awarded to the winners. Prizes are now on exhibition in Hayden Bros.” Sixteenth street windows. - Palaver with the tall Players. St. Joe says she is not for sale. menting in this direction.—Rockford Star. All of Omaha's pitchers seem to be out of form. There will be a jam at the falr grounds today. Shortstop Griffin has been laid off by the Des Moines management. The fair grounds park is all right. fans are delighted with the change. Jack O'Connor has only made one error on the Cleveland grounds this year. 014 Hutch has got his good eye back and 1s making tae hoghide squeal. O'Brien’s batting is as hard and timely as ever. He is very popular with the fans. LeRett should soon regain his old form, If he had Kling's nerve he would be a star all the year round.—Rockford Gazette. Petie Lohman is deserving of the most lay- ish praise. He catches day in and day out and never flags in his interest in the game. O'Brien leads the Omaha team at the bat, Marcum the St. Joes and . Van Buren the Lincolns. Buckerino has sawed off his mustache and this afternoon when the Omaha’s get through with him he will saw off his leg. “Beam s a coming pitcher.”—John Clem- ents. He appears to be a long time coming, John, ¢ Canavan of Indianapolis is laid up with a spiked foot. Managers Rowe and McVittie have met with many adverse experiences, but are working hard and will come out right side up in the end. Grasshopper Ulrich still continues to play good, hard ball. He can recover himseif after a fumble and throw his man out quicker and better than any man in the business. Cominsky threatens to move his St. Paul team to some other city if he is not allowed to play Sunday games there. Charley Reilly is playing short stop for the Phillies, taking Joe Sullivan’s place, on account of the latter’s illness and enforced lay-off. Manager Nicol of Rockford has signed Third Baseman Holland of Terre Haute and Pitcher Horton. .5 Joe Battin has blossomed out as a Western league umpire. He is giving general satis- faction. Omaha would fielder. The ladies of Rockford take more interest in the game than the ladies of any city in the league.—Star. The St. Joes are improving in their field play. In one of the games with Lincoln they made seventeen errors, and the next day only made eleven. The Jacksonville Journal says the only re- deeming feature of one of the recent Jackson- ville-Peorla games was when the umpire was hit in the head by a thrown ball. Some Quincy poetry: The boneless hams of Rockford Have met their worthy fate. The lunatics picked up l¥|<>lr sticks And pounded out threo stralght. There fs mourning In_dim Rockford And there's crape upon the door, They'll never win three games again And the fans are dreadful sore. The Sunday Rockford Republican sings: Our upward stride has now been stopped, And victory's chain is somewhere broke. Perhaps the Rockford base ball team Have got their batting clothes in soak. What's the matter with Cholly Shaffer, His flelding has been unaccountably ragged for two weeks past. Brace, Shafe, give us a sample of your ante-season work. There are certainly a lot of patriots down in St. Joe. They swear the Saints will be in the championship push yet before Sep- tember dawns. Hope 0, anyway. There are now two pitchers and a fielder named Roach in the association. Quincy has one and Des Moines has signed another, who comes from Chicago. Jacksonville has signed the third Roach to play right field. Even base ball writers exaggerate some times. A St. Joe paper says Manager Al- berts s playing with his right hand torn al- most to shreds. The society for the pre- The like a good, hard-hitting lor Is the best. He plays the same game ry day, id hi cn-ele I8 above the average. Omaha has just left us, and It they keep on nll‘lnl the dirty ball they aro mow playing. they will make many ene- mies. in one of the recent Omaha-Peoria games Shaffer, who one time disgraced Peorla in left field, and who is now doing the same for Omaha, made an exhibition of himself which should Lave mot with the MOAL severs cens from the umpire. In the sixth inning he picked up the bali and deliberately threw it over the fence. The umpiro paid no attention to this, but when in the heat of an argument Haller called MeKlunon a ob,"" he promptly clapped a fine of $10, and declarsd it would ~stick. Leitman, a young twirler from the dis- banded Western Interstate loague, has been signed, and has proved to be a lucky find for Charlis Flynn. Clarlle Flynn has signed A new twirler by the name of DeWald, He comes trom the Blue Grass region, and seems to be a good man, with lots of speed and g0od control. Saisler is developing into a fin hitter. In the three Omaha-Peorla game he went to bat seventeen times and got three home runs, eight two-base hits, fowr singles and got his base on balls twice. That is the best record of the season. We think. lots of Davy, as he {s a Peorla boy, and we like to see him do well, Foot 1all in the Mountains. It 1s finally a settled fact that a foot ball team will go from Omaha to meet the champions of the west at Butte, Mont., on the Fourth of July, As there is no organized team fn Omaha at this time of the year Charles L. Thomas has consented to under- take the task and will get a team together under the auspices of the University club of Omaha The Butte boys are not only a gentlemanly set of fellows, but thorough sportsmen and not only guarantee all expenses for the trip, but pay for it in advance and are going to an expense of over §1,000 to propare new grandstands and bleechers 50 as to be able to handle the crowd which they expeet William Gardner, whose golden locks and good playing captured the whole town of Butte last Thanksgiving, Is fishing at present in the wilds of Wisconsin, but he has been telegraphed for and will be here in time to prepare for the fray. The team will be composed of many of the same men who took the trip last fall, but Waltemeyer, Wood and Myers will be missed greatly and their places will have to be filled as best they can, The Butte team has been greatly reinforced and strengthened by practi and games, while the Omaha team is wholly out of training and practice, but Mr. Thomas hopes to round them to by the 4th. The Butte Miner says editorially: At last the Butte athletes are to have another go with the Omaha foot ball team, which swept, or kicked everything before it last year. It will be remembered that the Butte team mot the Oniahas on the athletic grounds in this city on last Thanksgiving day and that after the game the Butte team had nothing to give thanks for save the rapid approach of dark- ness. It will also be remembered that the Butte team was sorely crippled in that con- test, several of its best men being absent from the game. Now that the Butte team is in good form the admirers of the sport are anxious to witness another struggle between this city and Omaha and it is safe to predict that the crowd which will visit Athletic park on (he glorious Fourth will be the largest ever gathered in this region. Not only th: but from the time the game starts until ends and during the remainder of the day until the dawn of the powder-burnt 5th, the American eagle may take a vacation. The screaming will be done by as enthusiastic a multitude of cranks, screechers and patriots as ever gathered under the canopy of heaven to wake the cchoes, startle the hills and jar the blinking stars. This will be a Fourth with a ‘rah for you. Mr. Brent Wants a “Fes Kace, OMAHA, June 13.—To the Sporting Editor of The Bee: Please insert the following challengs in Sunday's sporting columns and oblige several of your regular readers: I hereby agree to back M. R. Sloufer to run Tommy Menzer a 100-yard foot race, he to name a time and place, for $25 a side. Man and money can be found at 1322 Douglas street. CHARLES BRENT. Questions nnd Answers, CLOVER HILL, Neb., June 10.—To the Sporting Editor of The Bee: Please answer in Sunday's Bee (1) since dogs have been made personal property can they be killed it tax is not paid? (2) Do not the same laws that protect other personal property, such as cattle, horses, etc., apply also, sinco the law has been passed, to dogs, and must they not be assessed as other personal prop- erty and tax be based on assessed value?— Evans Cramer. Ans.—(1) The dog catcher can impound dogs on which the taxes have not been paid. (2) Yes. (3) Yes. OMAHA, June 10.—To the Sporting Editor of The Bee: Will you in your Sunday's column kindly tell an admirer of one of your recent rticles on fishing the way to get to Lake Washington, and whether train service and hotel accommodations are gcol?— Gordon Clarke. Ans.—A brief description of this charming resort, with dircctions for reaching the same and accommodations after arrival, will be found in the sportsmen’s column of this issue. NORTH BEND, Neb., June 11.—To the Sporting Editor of The Bee: Will you kindly tell me in next Sunday’s Bee how they catch English sparrows for shooting matches?— W. W. R. Ans.—In the east they trap them—using a large steve-covered box raised on a stick over the balt of crumbs and bits of chopped meat, A string is attached to the stick and when the birds congregate beneath the box this is jerked out by the trapper, recretel conveniently near. The roosts of the birds are also robbed and big catches made. ASHLAND, June 12.—To the Sporting Fd- itor of The Bee: With a base runner on first base, the pitcher gives the ball se- cretly to first baseman, and takes his po- sition as defined in rule 29, and makes base runner believe he has the ball by holding both hands up in front as If in the act of delivering the ball, the base runner attempts stealing second, but is decelved by pitcher not holding bail and is touched with ball by baseman. Is base runner out? Or is it a balk, by rule 32, section 17 Please answer by Sunday’s Bee.—John D. Robbins, Ans.—The runner is out. It is an old threadbare trick. LAKRB STATION, Ta, June 12.—To the Sporting Editor of The Bee: Will you please let me know in next Sunday's paper where is J. Munyun, P. Boyle and E. Seery and Woods of last year's Omaha team?—A Sub- seriber, vention of cruelty to children should look into this. The Quincy Herald has some pleasant things to say of the Rockford team, with a few fairy tales on the side: “If Captain Larocque plays second base and tells his men (Like Captain LeRett of Rockford) what to do, the boys will win more games.” * * * ‘“The result of those thres games proves that both Quincy and Rockford have the strongest teams in the association, with per- haps Peorla pushing them hard. It is a toss of a penny which will win a game when they meet. The Rockfords have two or three long distance batters that lead everything in the association. They also play a hard uphill game, and never let down or weaken for a minute.” Pap Larocque is the best jollier who has been seen here In many a day. His %oice wouldn't entertain an audience at a phono- graphic_exhibition, but he always keeps it agitated, with good results. Mertes s too funny to be a fielder. He ought to be a song and dance man. Every time he catches a fly ball he goes through a form of alleged funny motions. Quincy humor isn't appre- ciated in Rockford. Mr. Joseph Visner pre- sents his most distingulshed compliments to Pitchers Abbey and Hickey. Only two home runs and the Hon. Joseph wasn't feel- ing well elther. Coaching is all right and Jollying up is encouraging. ~ But the Quincy’s overdo it. They probably imagine that the diamond is a Quiney beer garden. Larocque was 80 mean that he refused to pick up the ball and return it to the pitcher, and LeRett had to leave the bench and go after it. Nothing but an umpire named Ward, who has a penchant for stealing games, kept Rockford from making it three straight at Quincy. Is Abbey an exploded phenom? He was taken out of the game in time to save him from slaughter.—Rockford Star. Well, what do you think? We came home in last’ place, and now we are in first place, writes & Peorla correspondent. In fourteen games we have lost but two. The boys are playing great ball, and if they keep up this pace they will have the rag sure. Of all the first basemen we have ever had, "{al- Ans.—Munyun is with Evansville, Seery with Terre Haut, Boyle with Scranton and Woods with Findlay. KANSAS CITY, June 14.—To the Sport- ing Editor of The Bee: What combination makes a count of 25 in the game of crib bage? Please answer in The Sunday Bee and greatly oblige.—A Friend, Ans.—You can't score 25. LINCOLN, June 14.—To the Sporting Ed- itor of The Bee: Enclose find two ball scores. Will you please answer in the next Sunday Bee which of the two clubs played the best game?—Subscriber, Ans.—Can't answer. Neither score com- plete, LEXINGTON, Neb., June 12.—To the Sporting Editor of The Bee: Hose com- panies No. 1 and 2 agree to run for a purse. No. 1 picks a judge, No. 2 picks one and the two select a third judge. Companies run and tie on time. No. 2 makes proposition to divide money. No, 1 says “No." No. 2 then reports to judges ready to run at once. No. 1 leaves the ground and declare they will not run. What should judges do?— Hose Cart. Ans.—There is no way to make No. 1 run again. It is a tie and a draw. OMAHA, Neb., June 14.—To the Sporting Editor of The Bee: WIill you kindly answer in next Sunday's issue of The Bee followin question: _Five parties are playing the game of razzle dazzle with 102 points comprising a game. One player stands scored 101 and another 92 points; former s outbid by latter, who makes (e trump clubs, of which former holds the deuce and plays it on first trick, while the bidder makes the remaining points and both go out. Which wins the game, the bidder, or player holding the deuece? Also please say If same rules governing high five govern razzle dazzle’?—Subscriber. Ans.—Low goes out, Yes in a large meas. ure. The game I8 a mongrel game, for which there are no established or regular rules. One place they play it one way, and another, another, ing Editor day's Bee Losler for race, I will really (which pistol shot start and Shefield rules, during the month of July, for any amount. above suits for until he does, I will pay no more atte tion of the fact that 1 am entered in the light- welght is eligible he enter? too speedy for Leon for me, also, bul I will tackle them, at any rate, never to have tried at all.”” you forfeit for abov diately. STATE MEET AT KEARNEY Fifth Assembling of Nebraska Divisfon of the League of American Wheelmen, PROMISES TO BE AN EPOCH IN HISTORY Hustiing Days In the Beautifal City on vhe Platte—Famous Racers Who Will Be There—Full Program of the Moet, KEARNEY, Neb., June 15.-(Special Core respondence of The Bee)—On July 4 and § next promises to be the greatest bicycle tournament and race meet In the history of the western states, and the five tried and true committees of the Kearney Cycle and Park assoclation are at work early and late per- fecting every arrangement for the comfort and pleasure of the 2,000 wheelmen that will here asscmble to witness tho struggle of the glants for the championship honors and the supremacy In the class B ranks of the west- ern country. The track Is recelving a large amount of attention, and promises to be in most ex- cellent condition, with a sand and clay sur- face, when the bell taps for the novice event on the “day we celebrate,” which is the first day of the meet. Already this season the halt-mile competition record and the mile paced have fallen a couple of notches under the sprinting abllities of Grand Island's “‘star of cycledom,” Ora 0. Hayman, and this upon a Nebraska manufactured racing machine In his possossion but two days before the per- formance, so he that can not read the doom of '94 records must be dull indeed. AL the state mect in this, “the state meet city,” last year every state record went a glimmering into oblivion with from ten to thirty seconds wrenched from its tail, and your correspondent predicts that history will, as usual, repeat itself this year by another big smash at the records, and (o this end the prize committee has raised a $2,000 prizo list, which will consist of high grade wheels, big diamonds, sterling silverware, champion. ship medals etc., and it is within the range ot possibilities for a magnific'nt piano to be added, by the assistance of Omaha's leading dealers “in these high-priced and much sought-after instruments. Should this latter materlalize, it will be offered to the winner of the one mile open, class B, and it will be a race for blood, from start to finish, Tho Omaha Wheel club is negotiating for a speclal train, with every prospect of suce cess, as the same train would secure large delegations from Fremont, Columbus, Scauy= ler and Central City, leaving Grand Island to secure an exclusive train to transport tha entire city, as they are arranging to repay Kearney for the big delegation sent from this city to their race meet Tuesday last, The Tourist wheelmen of Omaha will come overland a-wheel, gathering recruits all along the route, and will no doubt roll into this city several hundred strong. Lincoln, York, Hastings, Beatrice, Stroms- burg, Red Cloud, Falls City, Superior, David City, Blair, Wayne, Plattsmouth, Lexington, North Platte, Gothenburg, Holdrege —and Minden have notified the association that they would send good delegations, and the hotel accommodations, aided by the opening of private homes, will barely give shelter to the vast multitude of cyclists coming. The Ladies' Tourist Cycle club of Grand Island, with a membership of over forty of that city’'s most prominent ladies, will make the journey a-wheel, a distance of forty-two miles, wearing the rational bloomer costume recently adopted by their organization. Nearly every city, town and village in the state Is bringing forth one or more candi- dates for championship honors and those that aeed watching are as follow: Bdghill, the “Western Union Kid” of six day fame of Omaha is a “good un" and no mistake. Tessier of Sutton, “‘the glant,” who dished up the little surprise party to the Lincolnites at thelr annual Decoration Day Race mect. Hayman, the Grand Island( cracker jack who rung in the ‘‘cake walk’ on all competitors and lowered two state records at the Grand Island meet of the Oriental 'Cycle club on the 11th inst., will give any man in the state a good race for th class A championship. Carter, a new man with a mighty mean sprint, won many friends by his excellent head work in the mile open at the same meet and they will watch him throughout the season with every expectation of his making a fine showing. He hails from Lincoln. Hastings comes forward ‘with a possible winner in their man Jacobson, who is in active training and from the best authority it is learned that his abilities are such as to merit the confilence of his club mates for his success on the track. Kearney in the meantime will contribute her share of riders and banks heavy on Col- lins, the “hot tomale” of the town, who subdued the Denver flyers in the mile open and at the same time reduced the Colora siate record to 2:13, which will stand for a few days at least. In addition o the above there will be the following men who will no doubt enter and an untold number of “dark horses,” who are laying under cover with the expectation of getting a large slice of handicap from Brother Lindsey, but the probabilities are that very few men will get the limit thie year simply because they have never been in a race for the reason that new men will be required to state their weight and gen- eral build in their entries, Helnzman, Gadke, Holton, Coulter, Staley, Hynes. and Pixley of Omaha. Yule brothers and Banks of Lincoln. McCall, Boehm, Weiter, Edwards, Kanert, Christianson Windolph and_Whitson of ' Grand _Island. Sowden and Miner of Red Cloud. Timmer- man of Superior. Bottenfield of Nelson, Nichol of Stromsburg. Smith of Lexington, Hoagland, Murray, Friend and Ell of Nortn Platte. Sabin of Beatrice. Hymer of Holdredge. Miller, Switz, Plerce brothers Earley, Carson, Jackson, Downing, and Keens of Kearney. In class B we confidently expect and in fact have received notice that we could de- pend upon their presence the following, with but one or two exceptions: Mockett of Lin- coln, Fredrickson of Omaha, Himstreet, Boles Rutherford, Banks, Pugh of Denver; Mills and Ashley of Kearney and others. Mr. Roberts of Gothenburg, a one-legged rider of almost national repute, challenges any man in the state to meet him in a mile event, his competitor to use but one pedal, and same has been accepted by C. W. Ashley of Kearney. The assoclation has therefo: decided to put vp a suitable prize and make the race open to all that wish to enter. The total number of entries will exceed 150, making It necessary for trial heats in tl morning of each day, glving two solid days of good racing. Entry blanks and programs upon application to F. M. Harter, secretary. Following is a lst of the events, sixteen lg number, eight each day: One mile novice, class A. One-quarter mile open, class A One-half mile open, class B. One mile open, class A, One-half mile (boys under 16), class A, One mile open, class B. Two-mile handicap, class A One-quarter mile open, class B. One-halt mile open, class A. Two-mile handicap open, class B. One-half mile, state championship. Five-mile l2p race open, c'ass B, One mile, state championship. Two-mile open, class B, Two-mile, state championship. ve-mile handicap open, class A “Twill be & corker.” Can you afford te miss it? The Kid Responds to Leon. GRAND ISLAND, June 10.—To the Sports of The Bee: I moticed in Sune a challenge for me from Leon a fitty or seventy-five-yard foot Losier is well aware of the fact that not run less than 100 yards. If he wants a race, and means busines 1 doubt), I will run him 100 yards, It the him let him send on his cash, to him whatever. He also makes note 100-yard championship race. Losler If he is so swift why don't Oh, no, those boys are a little bit They may prove to be “Better to have tried and lost, than It Lozler sends 1 will cover It immes FRANK J. SULLIVAN, < A 3 i [ 8 B\ - VA J