Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 29, 1895, Page 18

The Autumnal Sporting Reason Uncom- monly Lively and Varied. BOB KNEEBS, THE DISCREDITED RINGER The rhett-Fitzsimmons Fight—An ldyl of the Indinn Summer—The Ball Seaxon— cral Gossl OB KNEEBS, who has been a familiar figure on the local race tracks for a meny years been expelled association from tracks by the An fean Trotting clation This s the outgrowth of the old driver's ar- rest in Germany on a charge of ringing, and the edict was promulgated last Monday. Kneebs being at Sioux City, wherc he had several horses entered for the races. It is alleged that he will carry ths matter Into the courts and test the right of the assoc’a- tion to take such actlon. But he hid better let the matter drop where it is and consider himself lucky. The only salvaton of th turf is for this assoclation to rigid y and un- compromisinely enforee its laws, and when- over a follower of the track ciught in fraudulent work let him share the fate of foxy old Robert, And I might dwell on this matter a I't'ls longer. There should be a safer system fin selecting judges for rac: meetings under the sanction of this powerful assoclaton There 15 too much skulduggery made possible upon the track by collusion or connivance with the judges. Pulling is the commoneat of all the dirt of both the harncss and thoroughbred courses. A driver ciught in this despicable act should be ruled off sans ceremonic, and rulad off for I'fe. I am not exactly familiar with the late work of Curry and McHenry at Philadelphis, haviog gleanel what informatlon I do possa:s from newspaper reports. If these men were guilty, however, of the charges preferred against them, they should have got just what Kne:bs got. All oftenders, no matter who they may be or by m they are employed, should be treatel ike. In a few more brief weeks the season now in progress will be at an end and there is certainly no subject so deserving of careful considcration by the American Trotting as- soclation as that of judges for association tracks, At the late meeting at old historic Fleetwood professional judges were employed, and so satisfactory were their duties per- formed to the public and owners and drivers that the example will surely be followed nex yeur at all of the conspicuous trotting meet- ings. At Flectwood the presiding judge was a salaried professional, as were his two as- sistants and clerk. This quartet were the sole occupants of the stand. Not even the starter was allowed with them. He had his own individual stand and the timers another. No colonels or majors or visiting statesmen wera tolerated In the judges' stand on any pretext or business whatever. Thus, with no one to interfere with, advise or instruct them, they were left alone with thelr duties, which they executed with eminent satisfaction to a'l. As a result the usual raucous clamor about “rank decisions” was not heard once during the entire meeting. Everything glided along with the placidity of a summer stream. With all due respect this matter is referred to the Omaha Driving assoclation, which is already laying its plans for a grand meeting of the harness horses at the new state fair ground track next June. They intend to give Omaha and the surrounding country such another meeting as was never dreamed of here be- fore, and as a potent element of success paid professional judges, starter and timers should be sericusly considered. It looks more now as i the big Corbett and Fitzsimmons mill has a chance of being un- loaded than it has sinco the two champion brusers signed articles to fight. The high- est judicial authority in Texas has decided that there is no law In that state prohibiting boxing, or prize fighting, either, for that mat- ter, and certainly this is a bétter condition of things than ever existed before in any part of the country where a big combat was to take place. The most stubborn and strenuous opposition was met with in the Corbett and Mitchell affair in Florida, and In New Or- leans, where the Corbett and Sullivan car- nival was pulled off so successfully and so serencly, the law was of such character that Il be pulled off in Dallas. He th di ed me to where the amphitheater o arena was being bullt, and 1 boarded the | car rnd rode out to where the carpenters (about 150 im number) are at work. The work was commenced over a week ago and will be finished and completed in about two and a half weeks. It |s estimated that the seating capacity will ba about 5,000, 1f I hear of anything contrary I will let you The above addrese will H. A The first big college game of foot ball for the campaign of '95 took place at Milwaukee | last Saturday afternoon between the Wisconsin know. and Northwestorn university teams, the Badgers winning by a score of 12 to 6, and from now until the holidays this vigorous athletic sport may be expected to hold In- dependent sway. This reminds me that the unofficial rules for the season have been fs- sted. A number of them have been so ma- terlally changed that now when two teams declde to play there must be a positive under. standing whether the mateh will be under the compromise rules of 1895, th Princeton modifications or the Harva Ponnsylvania-Cornell interpretation for 1895, That there will be a race for America's cup next year s now a foregone conclusion. The New York Yacht club has received a formal challenge thrc gh the Royal Viciorla Yacht club, from Charles Day Rose, an Eng- lish sportsman and a banker of wealth and prominence. All Britain, of course, felt much humiliation and disappointment at the out- come of the races between Defender and Val- kyrie 111, and deplored the fact that the yachting contests between England and the United States for the cup were likely to be discontinued. But on this side it has been the idea all along that there was too much #porty blocd in the veins of Johnny Bull not to “come again." The mere fact that friend Dunraven erred in bringing over his oyster smack to haul the cup back in is no reason for the bellef that there fsn't a yacht or two in all Britain that can sail a little bit, and it may be depended on that they will not give up the fight until time runs out. Who knows but what Mr. Rose is the flower of the flock? This is proving a bad year for foreign sportsmen and athletes on this side. The defeat of Valkyrie wasn't in it with the way the New York Athlgtic club skinned the crack London aggregation on Saturday of last we vas a battle royal of brain and brawi arms and lungs, of muscle and method. ~ And the Americans, like Jack Spratt and his wife, licked the platter clean Our English rivals were ronted foot anid dragoon. They did not get a pinch. Yet they never said die, but manfully sustained their reps as true sportsmen and gentlemen They were the first to applaud the wondrous feats of their sturdy Yankee cousins, and cheered the longest at the smashing of each record. All through defeat they maintained both nerve and smile, and as Londoner after Lendoner went down' the tremendous throng did not withhold its applause. A fairer or more impartial crowd never graced an ath- letic meeting here or abroad, and it was the fastest and best in the annals of amateur sport. The telegraph has supplied the re- sults days ago, o they will not be given here. Crum, our Towa neighbor, did not ful- fill his western heralding, but the marvelous Wofers more than made up for Johnny's shortcomings. Kilpatrick carried everythi before him in the 880 yard run, Sweeney was invincible in the high jump, Conneff took the mile run with ease, Gray carried off the shot putting contests, Wefers was to the front at all his distances, Chase captured the 120 yard hurdle, Mitchell threw the hammer fur- ther than anybody else, Burke finished first in the 440 yard race, little Bloss was the broadest jumper in the crowd, Tommy Con- neff was the speediest man at thres milos, and Uncle Sam Is proud of every mother's son of them. All this leads me to crow over the fact that America s the only country. We are champlons of the wave, the ring, the cinder path, of heavy-welghting and hammer throw- ing, on the ball fied, at chess, bil- liards and whist. ‘In only one department of athletic pastime do our English rivals sur- pass us, and that is at th»ir own national game—cricket. Thus far the visitors from Oxford and Cambridge have triumphed in every contest, their last victory being over the Gentlemen of Philad:Iphia last Monday by the skeleton margin of four runs and two wickets, and surely there is no Ameri- can so parsimonious as to begrudge them this, Henry of Navarre, the pride of the thor- oughbreds, had his colors lowered at Graves- end last Saturday. The pace in the Orient:l was too fast for the champlon and the weight too heavy. There were a lot of famous jumpers in the push, besides the great Navarre, Clifford was thers, and Rogers ran him in first; then thers were Sir Walter and Sir Excess, Rey el Santa Anita and Counter Tenor. The mile and a quar- ter was made in 2:07%. Sir Excess came second and the king, ridden out, third. That Henry ot Navarre was defeated was no fault of Jockey Griffin. It was the big the big event could have been nipped in the bud at any moment. While I say the pros- pects are very bright for the meeling of the two gladlators In Texas, there is yet no ab- solute surety that they will. The governor s still citrant and threaten and de- clares hie will stop the affair if, like Colonel Mel Redfield, he has to call out the home guards. But a good many people think the chief exccutive is only stringing his contin- gency for political effect. It has been the same with a good many governors, not ex- cluding Governor Merriman of Minnesota, Mitchell of Florida and Matthews of Indiana, but as yet the good results of all this fussing and fuming have thus far failed to come to the surface, outside of the fact that each led the punchers a merry chase for a few weeks. It is not likely that Governor Cul- berson. who is said to be in the “good fel- low stakes,” wili go much further with his opposition. He has done his duty fully. The courts have decided there is nothing In the laws of his state against prize fighting and he should rest content. He is cetrainly not a bigger man than the law. But whether he Is or no, the promoters of the affair are vigorously pushing their preparation. The big amphitheater is going up now, Dan Stewart and his retinue are Jubllant, but respectful, and Fitzsimmons is on his training grounds within the precincts of the state and everything points to a fulfillment of the articles as to fight, time and place, with one exception, and that Is Corbett. Now, as for myself, 1 expect Cor- bett to win, and if he is anything like the sinewy and speedy athlste he was when he met Sullivan, to win quickly, but I may be mistaken, and do not think' that Corbett shares in my good opinion of himself. His actions belie his words, and his every move since the articles were signed has shown that his small brain fs perplexed with doubts. [ take no stock In his lack of con- dition, sickness or lame knee. Everything is all O. K. with the big bruiser but his heart, and no amount of argument ean do away with that common belief. Harry Wel- don, one of Corbett's staunchest friends, says “Both men have done enough to warrant anybody in thinking that newspaper puffs Instead of pugilistic honors are what they are after. But Corbett has offended in this particular far more than ever., Every move made by Corbett since the articles were signed might easily be contorted by his mies as showing that the proposed fight is distasteful to him. Corbett’s appearance was never that of a champion. He never had the strong, colossal, heroic looking front of Jobn L. Sullivan. Indeed, Corbett in his citizen’s clothes gives no hint of the mag- nificent athlete that he 1s. He looks insig- nificant. While he never had the apppear- ance of a champlon, he has always actel like one until the present match was made. He has put his friends and admirers in the le and embarrassing position of apolo- gists. It has come to hard llues when the friends are put on the defensive. fallen to a low estate when Its stellar light, its banner bearer, puts him- Self In a position that not only plainly hints, but says almost as emphatically as the words themselves, ‘I am the champlon, but this business of defending the champlonsh!p is not to my lking." But let that go for what it is worth. If the Dig fight takes place Omaha sporting miem, and those of the adjacent country, will b well provided fo in Ing th me, as been made and an announcement is only bo- ing withheld until It is definitely known fust what will be done. But as I {ntimated before, It begins to look very much as If the contest was to be pulled off. The following letter from a well known hl:‘ulnul man gives some valuable ln- GRAND WINDSOR, DALL\S, Tex. . 3. —To the Sporting Editor of The He - requested by you, af inding in Dall gated the Corbett-| mmo-s fixht enlling on Mr. wWart R S L G welght and fast pace that beat him. 8.G. V. G. Cranks. F' there are any ball cranks who fail to experience all of the keen excitement of uncertainty over the National league pennant chase they are queer animals indeed. There has never been such a race In the history of this grand old body, and It is ex- ceedingly doubtful whether there ever will be again. KFrom the moment the um- pire tapped the first ball in the spring up untl two weeks ago nine out of the dozen teams who made the start were within easy reach of the flag. Even now, Saturday morning, with the last game but one day off, the result of the battle is still in doubt, and 1t is @ toss-up between Baltimore and Cleve- land which gets the coveted honor. The narrowest margin separates the two. Cleve- land has three games to play, two with Louis- ville and one with Chicago. Baltimore has two to play with Noew York. If Cleveland wins all three of her games and Baltimore loses both of hers, which is unlikely, then Cleveland will get the pennant. Were the Orloles leas plucky than they are they would have become panic-stricken under the terrific ait at which Cleveland has been coming. It is a fight to the death between the two scrappiest teams of the league, and, with a fair field and no favor, it is every crank's wish that the best team may win. The Western oclation champlonship season closed on Wednesday last, leaving Buckerino and his Lincoln clolhoppers eary winners of the pennint. The standing of the various teams, however, was to mixed up and unintelligible that even In Piorla Dug- dale wanted a meeting callod in order that the different managers might shake dice for the flag. Funny Dugdale, Base ball cranks all over the country are pleased because Papa Anson of Chicago won his bets, a4 good many thousand dollars early in the season that the Colts would beat out Boston, New York, St. Louis and Cincinnati, and they have done it. He wagered Fred Jevne, the umpire, put a gob of chew- ing gum In Pitcher Weyhing's whiskers at Louisville the other day, and the result was a rough and tumble fight, in which Colonel Weyhing was badly worsted, Petlo Lohman of St Des Molnes, Speer and Barnes of Lincoln and McGreevy and Mertes of Quincy are members of one of the teams that will play in California this winter. Joe, McFarland of Freddy Barnes, the Nebriska university boy, won thirty-one games and losh eight for Lincoln during the season. And yet none of the big league clubs have nalled him. It Is quite probable that next season will s6e many changes in the make up of the Boston team. It is already quite certain that Billy Nash will be with New York. Pittsburg searched the country faithtully throughout the season. but sbe found no man Who could fill Mente Cross's shoes at short. In Cuppy, Youug, Wallace and Wilson Cleveland has the stron L pitching corps sho ever had. o b In Cleveland they are already arrangl Anson has signed Third Baseman MecCor- mack and Pltcher McGreevey of the Quincy team. Loulsville was after the men. New York won the series from Chicago, elght games out of twelve, Baltimore plays her last game of the sea- son tomorrow afternoon, in New York, with the Glants “‘Ducky’ Holmes is the most popular player in Lou'sville today, barring Catcher Warner. He has done excellent work for the Colonels since he joined them. Orth of the Phillies hasn't lost a game since he joined that team. He has eight straights to his credit. Only a year ago he was playing In a modest Hoosler team. pau's pet name In the western clrenit 1s “Spaghettl,” The count looks like an Italian nobleman, and has a jaw on him worth its weight in gold. Count ¢ The records show that the New Yorks did botter work against the west than any other castern club. They won forty-five games, taking all the series save the ones from Cleveland and Pittsburg. The Phillies won one game lers, and all the others with the exception of the Senators counted their suc- cesees in the forties The Western league fight is over, and In- dlanapolls is preparing to greet the champ- fons. The £t Pauls finished second and the others in this order: Kansas City, Minneapo- lis, Detroit, Milwaukee, Terre Haute and drand Rapids. Jack Crooks made two home runs and a triple off Amie Rusie's delivery the other day. Indianoplis did not lose a series in the Western league fight. Reynolds, the little Nebraska shortstop of the Quiney team, wears lon3 hair, and in the Sunday game when he came to bat he was presented with a curling iron, says the Rockford Morning Star, Princeton's Tigers enjoyed a phenomenal season on the diamond this year. The total receipts for the season wero over $8,000 and there is a $2,500 nest egg In the treasury. Buck Ebright, manager and captain of the Lincoln ball team, will act in a lika capacity for Omaha next season. Wonder how Sandy Griswold likes that arrangement?--Fremont Buck Ibright and the sporting editor have been warm personal friends for many rs, and if Buckerino does come here, the arrangement wilt be one that will recelve his hearticst endorsement and sup- port. Ebright is very popular in this city and he will be received with open arms, An Idyl of the Indian Summer. HE open season for quail bagins next Tuesday and con- tinues until January 1. In order to be in readiness for this ? f ever welcome era R 4 / sportsmen are just N = | It now payipg unusual T attention to their and “Nell” and Wi dogs. “Jack" are always regarded with much affec- tion by their owners, it is only upon the near approach of the open season that admiration Altheugh ““Don"" amounts almost to idolatry. receives such The dog never attention as he does at this ason of the year. Never s he fed so daintily or caressed and petted so lavishly. Every point is noted with critical care and duly commented upon. In the estimation of his proud master his value is suddenly enhanced a thousandfold. And by the way, there are many fine dogs in Omaha—dogs, which in the aggregate, would foot up to no mean fortune. M. . Peters has a kennel of English setters which he prizes highly, and Charlle Johannes would ask more than you would for your horse for his princely “Smoke.” Dr. Whinnery is thé proprietor of a valuable Laverick and Lawyer Will Simeral claims the best kennel of Gordons in the west. And then there is George W. Loomis the popular B. & M. man, Frank S. Parme. lee, the champion wing shot of the west, Fred Montmorency, Billy Townsend, Bob Wells, Dr. Galbraith, Henry Homan, J. J. Dickey and John Hardin, who owns the staunch- est and best broken setter (?)in the country Stockton Heth has a star in his handsome old blue belton, *“‘Spor Jack Morrison, however, thinks he has a dog In his white and black English pointer, ““Duke,” that can give them all cards and spades on the bench or in the fleld and beat them out. But while on this subject, let me remark it looks as if the pointer was the coming bird dog. He is in high feather in all the upper shooting crcles of the United States and his popu larity is undoubtedly extending everywhere. He always was my dog and I own a 1l ack S but he has been out on Ed Hamilton's ranch for a year or more, and T know little about his ~ actual worth in the fleld. But as intimated above the pointer is advancing rapidly, and just as rapidly is the setter golng back. In the late Manitoba fleld trials there was a magnificent lot of pointers in all the competitions for the ribbons with the setters, and, be it sald, they were largely successful, too. For a good many years ihe setter has carried off the palm in fleld trials, but there is a chance now for his short-haired relative to share In these honors, if not relieve him of the bulk of them. But the quail! Although the season opens next Tuesday, as yet only the Incipient symptoms of the hunting season are making themselyes mani- fest. To be sure the flash of the orlole's black and orange is seen no more as he darts amidst the dooryard follage, but instead a suspicion of russet and gold fs stealing in among the side- walk maples. The blackbird is chirping a sad farewell overhead, the sunflower's petals make a tawny baldric beneath withering stalks, and the acldulous berries of the sumach are darkening among its reddening leaves on the hillstde. Jack Frost has begun his stealthy encroachment upon all summer life, and yet the great banks of weeds and tangly under- growth in ravine and valley have not assumed that ascitical air which never fails to come with the true hunting season. We feel that the dawn of hazy autumn is upon us, we see it in the deepening tone of mature and feel it In the crisp atmosphere which mantles both eveningtide and morning. And this is uot all. A change has come over the spirit of the old dog's dreams. No longer does he sleepily eye your approach or rignify his pleasure with an indolent wag of tha tall, There is a look of intensity In his whole being, and it Is now with flashing eyes, erect ears and anxious whine he notes the first sound of your familiar footfall. It is with a bark and ‘a rush he greets you as you hove In sight, and harsh measures are necessary to check his spirited cavortings. -Can it be that the old dog knows that-the law is al- most up, or has his acute ears caught from afar that plaintive whistle whicl sets the blood a-tingle In our veins, or his keen nos- trils sniffed the fragrance of the stubble or tho browning hedgerow, where the scarlet arils of the bittersweet blink amid the fading emerald and where Bob White ever loves to disport himself these frosty mornings? Who can tell? But It makes little difference. 1f it is to re- main one of the sweet mysterles of nature’ volume, it needs no necromancer to unfold to the sportsman that it will soon be time to whistle up the frantic old dog and with ham- merless a-shoulder start for the scenes which all through the long summer days he has pletured a thousand times and more in fancy's mirror. Down there where field borders the cottonwooded creek, through the briary brake and wp the hill- beyond, where the autumn’s elation has dyed the proud banners of hazel, grape and plum; over and into the dried up slough, where the lad; slipper and the aster but lately glowed, and where the wild rose bush extends its incar- nadined and acenaceous arms, and where many a time before you have seen the old dog draw down and set stift—where many a time before you have been stariled by a whirl of beating brown wi many A time fter both barrels have been sent after the le hurtling shapes, you bave gloried in your skill or anathematized yi haste and eagerness. Ob, yes, gunnes are almost here, that idyllie, the hal- eyon epoch of all the year. The Whist Club's Blectio An adjourned annual meeting of the Omala the gray corn- | ednesday evening, Octol , at 8 o'clock p. m. for the election of offfeers fon the ensulng year. Every member is urged to be present. In the Fie nt the Trap, Recont reports from Lake Washington in- dicate that angling conditions have become decidedly Improved, although even yet the sport Is far from being up to the standard of early May. The black bass are taking both frog, minnow and spoon, and several good catches have been made within the past few days. Local fishermen are having indifferent luck at Cut-off, Big and Manawa lakes, but as s well known these w have all beeti nearly depopulated by and netters these many moons. Omeha parties will Lake Washington ers seiners Several vie ' | and Quinnebaugh, near Tekamah, during the present week, Jack Morrison Charile Willia day last woal was a shooting guest ms at Missourl Valley and while they found Jacks a scarce quantity, indeed, they made a nice kil of green and blue wing teal some thirty-eight in all. But a single snipe was brought to Bag. Mr. Morrison tells a big pelican #tory that will bear repetition here. They ihad a barefooted country boy with them as driver and valet. e had a dilapidated pumper, and late in the after- of one the noon, while they were crouching in the reeds walting for teal, a flock of eleven pelicans flew “over the boy's blind. He got in two shots and killed seven of these huge birds, 5 It 15 pleasing to note that Lew May, one of our etate fish commissioners, stands a €00d show of getting on the government commission. It ‘would certainly be a wise selection, as Mr. May is an_enthusiast in ichthyology, and one of the best read men In the science in the country. In refutation of the numerous claims that many of our birds are worthless as destroyers of insccts, an elaborate contradiction and an urgent plea for thi'r protection and preservation has been published by Jonathan Perlam in a recent Issue of the Chicago Inter_Ocean. - While I do not agree with Mr. Perlam in some particulars, especially In regard to the despicable Englith sparrow, his effort is a most interesting and instruc. tive one. He asserts that the robin, the blue jay, the crow and the much despised English sparrow, and, In fact, most of th birds that farmers make war upon as enemies of their crops of fruit and grain, are in truth vast consumers of the very insects that would all but exterminate the crops were not thelr numbers materially decimated by these birds. The article i3 fllustrated by life-like cuts of the weevil, Hesslan fly, Wheat midge, jointworm and other insects destructive of “grain, and of the curculio, codling moth and peach tree borer. Mr. Periam makes good his plea for the birds and his indictment of all persons desirous of destroying them is based upon facts re- garding the usefulness of the winged w ers in the great hive of life, which have heen demonstrated by careful Investigation. He shows that both agriculturist and horti- culturist are incalenlably indebted to the virds, and should be thelr most vigorous protecto With yesterday's club shoot on the Omaha nds across the river tne trap shooting =on for 1895 mayv be said to have closed here was considerable interest in the trap here during the past summer and among the experts was a goodly number of prominent and well known business men. They are fond of the sport, and, being ambitious to excel, made rapid progress with the use of the hammerless. This speaks well for next season's shoots, and a decided revival In this invigorating and healthy past may be confidently anticipated with the ad- vent of =pring. Just now the wild fowl and quail season s upon us and artificfal birds will be given a long rest. Harvey McMurchy of the Hunter Arms company and who is well known to all our local trap shots, and an old resident of Cin- cinnatl, proved the king pin of the profession at the Detroit tournament, and succeeded in distancing all gompetitors. He had no aim- culty in winning ‘the international medal, and @lso the medal for the highest averages, Mike Clark' puts in a good many of his cvenings at Cut-Off lake. He reports good 1 and jack' snipe shooting and during the past week has bagged thirty-seven teal and twenty-two jacks. Joe Goldsmith’and Colonel Sampson of the Misfit parlors‘wére out at Mud lake the other day. Joe killed' two ducks, seven mud hens and a turtle, while the strong man aid better, He rolled up His bloomers, waded in and caught four buffalo fish aggregating twenty- three pounds, OMAHA, Sept. 28.—To the Sporting Editor of The Bee: T notice in The Bee of Sep- tember 8 that J. Read declared that he would pay no attention to my challenge for a return 100-bird shoot because it was not accompanied by a proper surety of good faith in the way of a cash deposit. Now both Mr. Read and Mr. Parmelee, who seems to be Read’s right bower and adviser, know that T would shoot the best shot in the world it T sald I would; they also know that I was out of the city when he made his little cheap talk. Now to aveld giving Read any pre- text or excuse for not meeting me, I hereby challonge him to shoot me a 100-live-pigeon maich, any time not later than November 2, 1895, for not less than $100 a side; match to take place on the old or new fair grounds, or at the Cowncil Bluffs Driving park, and would suggest Mr. G. W. Loomis for referse and Mr. Goodley Brucker and W, H. 8, Hughes for trap pullers, all of whom are honorable gentlemen and friends of both Mr. Read and myself. Fnclosed please find 325 as a forfeit. Now Mr. Read step up or lay down. Respectfully, JOHN J, money above ref with the tres 1. HARDIN. red to has rer of The The forfeit been deposit Bee.—Sport., F Ben Hutton of the Blg Horn Pasin Is in the city for a short visit. fle bronght down with him twelve bear pelts and several fine specimens of clk antlers. Ben has laid tn a supply of ammunition and provisions and will spend much of the winter hunting and trapping In the Basin. He reports gamo and fur plentiful, and knows every foot of the ground. In the 'T)s old Red Cloud led Ben a merry chase all over that region, and he is one of the best posted guldes in the mountains. He .wears a huga watch chain, made of grizzly bear teeth, and is a last remnant of the old-time scouts and trappers, John Hardin fs in from his ranch, north of Paxton. He says game fs scarce up his way, no chicken or grouse to speak of, and but little water in the lakes, and he ex- pects but meager shooting this fall, Dr. Caples of Percival dropped In on the sporting editor a day or two ago. He re. ports snipe shooting good and getting better daily. Billy Hardin and J. J. Shea put in a day at Land north of Loke, the Bluffs, on. day last week, and bagged twenty-seven teal and fourteen jack. Shea says he can grass a green wing farther than any man living with his new Lefever, Hank Chestnut was In from Keith county yesterday. He says goose shooting will be excellent this fall, as there is plenty of water in the Platte and feed in vast quan- tities. Billy Hoagland, one of the best shots in the state, and an expert with rod and reel, has quit the [ymber business and settled on a ranch in eastern Wyoming. that gamo of all kinds, elk, antelope and deer, and geese and ducks, are plentiful up bis way, and, of course, he 18 in paradise Success Billy, me boy. A new rifle has' recently been put upon the market, and which 1 being highly prafsed by the big game hunters of the west. It fs the Hoenel repester. It Is made on the Mann- licher sysiem, and is similar to the gun used in the German and Austrian armies. It & powerful, weapon, welghing from six d one-half to Seven pounds, with barrels of twenty-four or twenty-eight inches; yet 50 well proporfiohed withel that it Impresses you, as you bring it up to your eve's leval, belng much Mghter than 1t reslly I, Hence that word Vlittla.” For game shoot- ing, tho bullets used in this repeafer are partly mautled with niciel; and while their caliber Is oniy a slad> over 31, their great He writes | veloclty caus leaden polnts to upon fmpact with the gam; making a wound equal to that of the older style 46 calfber. The State University Eleven, LINCOLN, Sept. 28.—To the Sporting Editor of The Bee: Foot ball prospects at the Univer- sity of Nebraska were never brighter at this Season of the year than at prescat. Many of the old players have returped, many new players are on the campus, the students are all enthusiastic, and what 1s better than al, the boys are to have the active co- operation of the faculty this fall. The new chancellor s heartily in favor of the game and in conversation with him yesterday, he sald: “We think it beneficlal to the inter. ests of the school to e a good foot ball team in the field and will give it whatever encouragement Is within our power. When you take short trips 1 will excnse the boys from recitations which tuey miss in con sequence thereof, and they will net have to make up the time lost ay tn former years but simply be re:ponsible to each professor for the work under him, and If the work is kept up to a good standard everything will be satisfactory,” Although the chancellor has probably been the busleat man in Nebraska for the past three weeks, he has taken time to study and Inquire into the rules and amendments as adopted by the different colleges and uni- versltics so as to give his opinion in pur- suance of a request from the east, The old men who have returned and who have appeared on the campus are Whipple. Shue, Hayward, Fair and Jones. The old men who are at present in collage, but do not expect to play, are Oury, Spooner, Pack- ard and Pace, whiee the promising new men are Shed of Ashland, Jones and Cameron of the second eleven last year, King, who was formerly captain of the Grinnell coilege team, and several others. The weather is pretty warm to work very hard, so that the time is put in in punting, falling on the ball, passing, ete. The team has completed arrangements to go to Butte in tho middle of October, which is an extra inducement to the boys to work hard, as all know what an enjoyable trip it is. The management has wisely furnisthed a complete new outfit of suits, heavily padded, to do away as far as possible with any chance of injury to the boys, which is more apt to occur at the b glnning of the season when the players are oft. To show how the popularity of the game Is increasing I will relate to you a little incident which occurred on the campus yesterday. A well-to-do gentleman was here to place his son, a strong, healthy boy, in coliege. One of the students was helping him to arrange his work. When it camo to the matter of exercise the student sald: “I suppose you want to take up the military drill for exercise?’ “No,” replied the father, “I want him to take up foot ball."” CHARLIE THOMAS. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. 26.—To the Sporting Editor of The Bee: I bet $10 the Defender would win the series of cup races, but cannot get my money until the dispute is decided, and it is left to you. Do I win ?—Al Meyers Ans.—You do. The Defender was declared winner of the whole serf OMAHA, Sept. 26.—To the Sporting Editor of The Bee: Will you please decide the foilow. ing dispute: A plays 4, B plays 3, A plays a 5 and takes a run of three; B plays a co and has a run of four; A plays a ¢ and takes a run of five; B plays an acs, mak g a run of six. A then plays a 4 spot and clalms a run of six. B disputes his right to a run. Which is right>—W. L. McGee, 50 South Twenty-eighth street. Ans.—A. PLATTSMOUTH, Sept. 27.—To the Sport- ing Editor of The Bee: Please answer follow ing in next Sunday's Bez and ob'ige: Accord- Ing to latest statistics and information at hand, is New York City considered the third city of the world?—E. W. Foster, Ans.—Yos. NELSON, Neb., Sept. 24.—To the Sporting ditor of The Bee: Recognizing your ability and authority in answering all questions per- talning to sporting matters, 1 submlit the following for your decisfon: A and B are playing pitch (or cinch). A is 9 and B 8. B bids two and obtains the trump, making low jack and game, while A holds high. Which Wins the game?—A Reader. Ans.—As they play it here the bidder goes out It he makes the points he bids. CENTRAL CITY, Sert. 25.—To the Sport- ing Editor of The Bee: To decide a bet please answer the following: A, B, C and D playing in a game of draw. A is dealing and B calls for five cards, and in dealing A exposes the third card. Is C entitled to the next after the one is exposed or does B re- ceive the two next cards before dealing to C? (2) In a game of draw poker a man antes two call five, and a man with three chips stays. And ‘the man that antes does not want to stay. What Is the man with the three chips entitled to? Or Is the man en- titled to the five chips?—A Subseriber. Ans—(1) He gets his card after the others are helped. (2) He gets a chip and a half if allowed a show OMAHA, Sept. To the Sporting Editor of The Bee: Will you please inform me in The Sunday Bee where in the eastern part of the state is the best duck and quail shoot- ing, or where, in the state, is the best? Also, when does the duck seaton commence, and when does the Hunters' camp at Clarks open, and by whom is it run?—A Constant Reader. Ans.—Along the river bottom. Know of ro best place in the state. Duck season s now on. October 10, by Sam Richmon: OMAHA, Sept. 27.—To the Sporting Bditor 1of The Bee: Would you kindly let a resder | know through your Sunday paper if the rec- ord made by Donovan of 0:09 3-5 for 100 yards is official or faked up for the occasion?— Sprinter. Ans.—Officlal, HEBRON, Sept. 26.—To the Sporting Ed- ttor of The Bee: To sottle dispute please answer: (1) Has J. L. Sullivan been married SIOUX CITY, Sept. twice? (2) Has he any children?—T. N. R. Peer; Ans.—(1) No. (2) No. FORT NIOBRARA, Neb., Sept. 24.—To the Sporting Editor of The Bee: Please answer in next Sunday’s Bee, in your Question and Answer column, the location of Creighton | college?—Lit. Assn., company G, Twelfth in- fantry. Ans.—2410 California_street, this city. KEARNEY, Neb., Sept. 24.—To the Sporting Bditor of The Bee: In shaking poker dice A shakes three sixes: B bets A $2 to $1 that | he beats three sixes; B shakes three sixes and claims the bet is a draw; A claims that B d4id not heat three sixes and therefors he vins. A bets B $2 to $1 that Corbett whips Fitzsimmons. The fight results in a craw. A | claims that the money is divided equally. B claims that each withdraws h's own.—David Adams Ans.—(1). It Is a draw. (2). A Is correct according to strict betting ethles, but the division is seldom made. It is simply called no bet. OMAHA, Sept. 24.—To the Sporting Rdi- tor of The Bee: Plense answer the follow ing in The Sunday Bee: A says that temper- | ance went Into effect in Towa on July 4, 1884 | B says on July 4, 1852 Please answer to | | 1 decide a bet.—Constant Reade; Ans.—A 18 wrong, and so is B. Temper- ance has never gone into effect in lowa. I saw & man drunker than a lord over in| Council Bluffs vesterday. DENISON, Ia., Sept. 24.—To the Sport- | ing Editor of The Bee: (1) When and| where did the running horse Salvator make ' | his world's record for one mile? (2) Was | it on a straight or circle track? (3) Was he matched against any other horse or horses, and it he was, what horse or hor were they? (4) Was he paced out with three or more horses stationed along the track.—A. J. Gary, proprietor Pargo house. *Ans.—(1) Monmouth park, Augu: 1890 (2) Straight course, against time. (3) No 4) No. LARAMIE, Wyo., Sept. 25.—To the Sport- ing Editer of The Bee: Would you please answer In next Sunday's B In playing fifteen-ball pool, strietly call shot game, i you do not hit the ball you call, but one of the other balls instead, would it be called a scratch?—Amil Magnuson. Ans.—No. SOUTH _OMAHA, Neb., Sporting Editor of The B this question in Sunday's personal property, according of Nebraska?—John O'Leary. 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