Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 30, 1902, Page 11

t American Handioap Draws Immense Conoourse of Experts. OUR HUNDRED ARE SURE TO START ent Classie in ot Awaits Referee on Next W ay Morning. Entry Event History Call ot The occasion of the tenth annual Grand American Handicap, which will oceur at Kansas City this week under the auspices of the Interstate assoclation, will be one memorable to shooters the country over #s the greatest ever held, and an especial pride to western gunners as the first time this affair has been brought away from New York City. The growth of this even since its inception in 1893 is most inter- esting. The first handicap wae held at Dexter park, near New York City. There were but . twenty-three contestants, this number being all that were entered. R. A. Weich, at twenty-eight yards, took first Captaln N. E. Money, at the same distance, was second. There were Do straights shot. The handicap next Jocality, with fifty-four entries, all of whom contested. T. W. Morphy was first the twenty-elght-yard line, while Captain Money was again second, being placed this time at thirty yards. Morphy shot two straights. In 1895 the handicap was taken to Wiflard Park, also near New York City. J. G. Messner shot three straights and took first out of Afty-eight contestants of sixty- one entries. J. A. R. Elliott of Kansas City was pulled back to the thirty-three- yard line, but made second place. O. R Dickey, at twenty-nine yards, took first in 1896. The contest was held at Elkwood Park, another New York shooting place. 8 Glovér was second from the thirty-yard line. There were 109 entries, these shot at the birde Each year entries continued to increase there being 146 in 1857, T. A. Marsball, with twenty-eight yards range, was first, and made one straight Elkwood Park, and there were 135 con- test In 1898, again at Elkwood Park, 197 men faced the traps out of 207 entries. E. D. Fulford, with twenty-nine yards, shot nine straights and took first place, while G. W. Loomis of Omaha was a close second at twenty-eight yards. In 1599 the handicap was once more at Elkwood Park, and the entries jumped to 278. Of these 262 shot in the events, and T. A. Marshall made six strajghts and first place at twenty-nine yards. C. M. Grimm was second at the same distance. Interstate Park was the acene of the next handicap. H. D. Bates was first at twenty-eight yards, and J. R. Malone second on the same mark. Bates shot elght stralghts and there were 211 gunners out of 224 entries. Another slight falling off occurred in the number of en- tries in last year's handicap, again at Inter- state Park. E. C. Grifith made twenty-two straights at twenty-eight yards and won first hoaors, with J. L. D. Morrison second at twenty-nine yards. There were 222 en- tries and 200 contestants. When the first handicap shooter steps to position next Wednesday at Kansas City 1t s expected that tully 399 will be ready to follow him. All plans are now completed. The handicap committes will angounce its rating just as soon as entries can be gath- ered and sorted. John M. Lilly of Indlan- apolis s chairman of the committee and with him are C. W. Budd of Des Moines, Chris Gottlleb of Kansas City, Lewis Er- bardt of Atchison and Arthur Gandell of Cincinnatl. Elmer E. Shaner, ‘manager of the Interstate assoclation, is secretary of this committee, but has no' ¥ote in the bandicapping. The committee bas been at work since last Thursday and is scheduled to announce Its results toda: Omaha {8 represented among the official referees by Henry 8. McDonald. The others sre W. D: Rieger of Kansas City, E. P. Prisbee of Des Moines and J. G. Smith of Algona, Ia. The conditions of the handicap are twenty- fve birds, $25 entrance, birds extra, high gune, not class shooting, handicaps from twenty-five to thirty-three yards. Fifteen sundred dollars is guaranteed to the three bigh guns and all in excess of the puree will be divided according to the number of entries received. First high gun gets $600 and the sterling silver trophy, while $500 goes to the second gun and $400 to the third, Shooting in the handicap will begin at » o'clock on Wednesday morning, April 8. It will continue through Thursday and Friday Lntil finished. Many other events are scheduled for the meet both before and after the handicap and altogether probably two weeks will be consumed in shooting through the entire card. An interesting race will be the consola- tion handicap, sixteen birds, $10 entrance, bigh guns, birds extra. Winners of money in the Grand American Handicap will have one yard added to the official handicap for this event. Then comes the Jackson county sweepstakes, twelve birds, $7 entrance, fol- e ) Sent Free 10 Men. 'm Trial Pnll'c of this New Dis. covery l-llcd to Every Man Sendin me and Address— # Qlkl y lulom Strength and Vigor. | packages of & most k- who ‘ll‘l lld‘ lulllui&. n-y #0 many men who had battied for A B ROBINSON, M. D., C. M., Medical Director against mental and physical suf- M‘ hood that the Institute tribute free trial packa- o sll Ih. write. It is & home treat- all men who suffer with any -“ mul weakness resulting from le v mun loss of strength Pack, “Varicocels. * or M . 'l p.ru can now cure them- has larly grateful ef- n W R A &m‘ iocdl “SVing strength end ocatlon iving stre i whete it"1a needed. It and troubles that come - dee of the matural func: been an absolute success i uest to the State et llon ullmu h ayne . you of their faes iil e cuuplhd ity Institute She ‘tres ‘sample will enavle them to ses y it 'f-’w be cured of sexual wesk- per remedies are em- xufi"'u makes o' restric: lfi writes 'l‘l ST trom | and 105 of | en be treated and\ This event was at ffeature of the new grounds. | Krug's park Affair and the regular card closes with the Auld Lang Syne sweepstakes of sixteen birds at $10 entrance. On Saturday, when the last three events will occur, only twe sets of traps will be used. Four sets will run through the handicap, five traps to & set Previous to the handicap there is eched- uled for Monday the Blue River Park Intro- ductory, an eight-bird, $§ entrance shoot, and the Kansas City sweepstakes, a twelve- bird, $7 matter. On Tuesday comes the Nitro Powder handicap of sixteen birds at $10 entrance. All handicap events carry a | rating of from twenty-five to thirty-three vards, while the number of moneys into which the purses will be divided will be determined by the number of entries re- cefved. All events not handicapped will be thirty yards' rise. Birde are always extra. ™ no event save the Grand Amerfean Han- dicap will ties be shot off. Twelve-gauge is the top limit on the size of guns at this meet and they must not weigh more than eight pounds. The use of smaller bore will not be taken into consid- eration In the handicapping. In order to ex- pedite the shooting a contestant missing three birds in any event except the Grand | American Handicap will be dropped out, but year was in the same | will be called up to shoot in case he hae a chance to win any portion of the purse. DICKY BIRD GUN CLUB PLANS New Organ Amateur § men Ready to Open Tts Headquarters. The Dicky Bird Gun club will celebrate the opening of its new grounds east of next Saturday afternoon by a shooting carnival, ending with a banquet in the evening. The members of the club are mostly new to the game, but they are enthuslastic and intend to stick at the| work till they become experts. Refresh- | ments will be served at the opeaing and all are invited to come and witness the sport and take part in the festivities, A comfortable club house s to be a This will bave a wide porch all around it and will prove an ideal loafing place, as the location is the highest around, commanding a view of all the country about, including Florence | lake, Cut Off lake and the Missourl river. Every breeze that blows will strike there. All provisions for trap shooting have been perfected. There is a blind and a shooters’ walk, and shooting will be due northeast, with a clear sky and an unobstructed view all about, thus greatly facilitating the sport. During the hot months an awning will cover the shooters’ platform. Regular club shoots will be held on the first, and third Saturdays of each month with the privilege of shooting a club score on the following day. There will be prac- tice work every Saturday and Sunday after- néon. A record of all regular shoots will be kept, and on January 1 next the shooters will be classified from their total records and a final shoot for trophles will take place. SMITH AND FORBES MATCHED Colored Feather Will Meet One of Claimants of Champion- ship of Cla: Omaha’ It seeme impossible that any fistic in- fusion will be injected into the local sport- ing atmosphere before the mill scheduled to occur between Haich Smith, the colored featherweight of Omah; apd Clarente Forbes of Chicagg, who insists that he is featherwelght champlon of the world. Whatever justice may really attach to these claims made by Forbes {s immaterial, as it is a cinoh that he is one of the few top men of his weight now fighting and would be worth seeing anywbere against an op- ponent ae worthy as Smith has proved him- self to be. April is the month chosen for this match, but that is about as near as a date can be announced at this time. This is because of a dispute between the managers of the two principals regarding the welght. Smith Is a strong 120-pound man, while Forbes goes some lower and wishes a 118-pound weigh- ing clause in the articles. One or the other will undoubtedly give in, however, for each is anxious to make the match. Smith's backers are just as confident that thelr man's terrific punches and sturdy braln work will be efficient agalnst Forbes as they have been in all his previous fights. The colored boy &t present is in Hot Springs, Ark., where he expected to pick up several battles, but eo far things are coming rather slow down there and he will gladly return and fight before his friends in Omaba. It should prove a furious e: counter from the start, not only because of the ten-round limit, but also because each man has a reputation for taking no account of time. Bllly Rbodes, the lanky welterweight who made s0 many friends at his first appear- ance before an Omaha sporting assemblage at Washington hall in his match with Frank Colller, is framed up for a battle this week which will be a much tougher proposition. On next Friday night he will fght Otto Sleloff of Minneapolis. Sleloff is one of the best known of modern welterweight fighters. He has trimmed a great many opponents from coast to coast and does not object to any welght between 140 to 145 pounds. Rhodes realizes that he is golng up against a etiff proposition, but it is certain that he will come out of it with a cool head, ev though that member is knocked off his neck, Rhodes indulges in a peculiar style of fighting not often seen. While apparently very cautious he really does not mind being batted at all and makes no pretenses to an impregnable guard. He takes them on the face or on the gloves indiscriminately and rélies on a fierce wallop which he carries behind his right hand especially for get- ting even. Frank Collier, who came here from Brooklyn some months ago to fight Danny Haley. and has remained in South Omaha since that time, announces that he will not leave Omaha for some time yet. He hopes to take on a few more welterweights in Nebraska and Iowa before he returns east. In this connection it may be said that there is some chamce for & match being arranged with Chicago Jack Daly for either Collier or Rhodes in the near future. Daly has written Omaba sportsmen signifying his desire to get on & Ko out and each of the two local men is willing to take him on if stipulations can be satistactorily ad- Justed. Oscar Gardoer, the “Omaba Kid" has gone to his native heath, for Oscar is not an Omahan by birth, contrary to the wide- spread tradition to that effect. Minneapo- | lis is Oscar's birthplace, and there he has gone to show his old-time friends that his prowess is Dot abated since the time when they were all watching bim in the expecta- tion that be would punch his way to the championship 1n his class. ‘When Oscar left Omaha he was not sure whether he would return or not, it all de pending on the fleld up vorth. Billy Ke the old-time lightweight, came down and sot him, and there was a rousing reception st Harmonla ball, Minneapolis, for Oscar the pight he arrived there. He sparred some with Billy, who was an old-time fight- asiag, | 1o8 partaer, of his. Nebraska Men Devote Their Time to Base Ball Ohiefly. FIRST GAME SCHEDULED FOR NEXT WEEK Oma Leagune Team Will Give the 'Varsity Players a Tryout on the Fleld at Lincoln. Athletics at the University of Nebraska are now centering chiefly around base ball Even the track game is being neglected on account of the great interest in the diamond representatives, who will play through the longest and hardest schedule this spring that the institution has ever kmown. The base ball squads have passed through the limbering-up and toughening stage and are down to hard work. They are developing very fast play and their progress {s watched with keen Interest each evening by crowds of students despite the cold winds The chief feature of the last week's work on the diamond has been the promotion of several new players to the first squad from the serubs. They are: Reynolds, Roth, Wright, Thompson, the Indlan, Leatherbee and Shimer. Leatherbee is & young under- graduate from Fremont, who pitched re- markable ball all through north Nebraska last summer as a member of an amateur team. He had the country nines all afrald of his twirling, and made considerable of an agitation in the one brief season Si Reynolds has been taken on as an additional backstop, and he is pressing Doane and Maloney hard for the lead in that place. Wright is a utility man, tall and lanky and good anywhere you put him | Roth is a fast outfielder, while Shimer 's expected to prove a valuable adjunct to any one of several places. Thompson is the only | one of the new men taken on the first team | who is a pitcher, and he is making a grea | tear in the box. The second team, meanwhile, though somewhat crippled by losing this half dozen of its best players, is extremely enthusiastic | and during the workout games expects to give the ‘varsitys all they can do. Deacon Koehler, center on the ‘varsity foot ball eleven for three years, has been elected captain of the second team. This aggvegation Has the grounds from 1:30 to |8:30 each day, while the old men are given the field the rest of the afternoon It is certain that the base ball team will be on the best basis this season that it has ever known, not only as an aggregation of ball players, but also in the matter of equipment and grounds. The members will | be fitted with new playing togs throughout, euite and all, and the diamond Is better than it has ever been. A new backstop has been substituted and the grandstand erected last fall for the foot ball games offers comfort in seeing base ball contests that has not been known on University field before. across right field for the foot ball season and this has been swung around behind the home plate, offering still more seating ca- pacity. The first game will be played with the Omaha league team at Lincoln on April 7, | with two more on the two days following. | These contests are being awaited with great interest. The boys are very anxious to go against the cracks from the professional ranks, even though they know it is a | mighty hard nut for colleglate youngsters to crack. They hope to make a §ood show- Ing amd feel that they will have far the ad- vantage in condition at least. At a “base ball mass meeting held tn chapel last week great interest was mani- fested by a crowd which filled the hall to the walle. Coach Booth exhorted on be- half of the team and the game and said that he could promise better batteries this year than last, although he was not yet prepared to predict as to the balance of the team. Tennis players have taken advantage of the few balmy days and have resorted to the courts already. Improvements on these have not yet been accomplished as planned, but there surfacing and refencing is ex- pected to be done soon. There will be some keen competition in this sport at the uni- versity this year. The base ball frenzy has made a great gash in the ranks of track enthusiasts, but the interest will revive with the approach of the spring games, both local and Inter- state. Even now there are still a good many athletes who get out every afternoon in their bathing euit attire and speed around the track for form. LOCAL HORSE NEWS OF WEEK Announcem. t of Dates for Race Meet Followed by Naming of Early Closing Stake: To say that Omaha horse interests are booming s putting it very mildly. The organization of the Omaha Trottng Club and Horse Show association was followed by important results. Plans have not omly been completed for the race meeting to be held in Omaha June 25-28, but & horse show bas been taken under consideration. While nothing has been definitely settled, a horse sbow will probably be held during Ak-Saf- Ben week. Should this be the date de- cided on, it will come directly after the Denver borse show and two weeks pre- ceding the ome held In Des Moines, thus forming a circult of shows that will allow outside exhibitors to take advantage of. Mr. Thomas, secretary of the racing meet- ing. will be too busy ut this time to take charge of the matter, and correspondence has been entered upon with a prominent Des Moines man who has had experience in handling horse shows. While all the members of the Trotting Club and Horse Show assoclation are in- terested in amateur races, it has been thought best to keep the two interes separate. To carry out this plan, a meet- ing will be called in the near future of the amateur drivers of Omaba, South Omaha and Council Bluffs, to form a Tri-City Amateur Drivers’ assoclation. This as- sociation will take in hand the matter of giving amateur races durng the summer in comnection with the series of amateur races to be given at the race meeting in Ju Entry blanks for the early closing events of the race meeting have just been mailed The entries close on April 1, at 11 p. m. The six purses, aggregating $2,600, which close at that time, are as follows No. 1, $00-Millard Hotel, 2:3 class, pac- 3. 3%00-J. L. Brandels & Sons, 2:45 uomn!‘ ayden Bros., 2:28 class, trot- Im— W. R. Bennett company, 2:22 { mo—leu Bros. Erewing company, 3-year-olds and under, 2:35 class, pacing. No. 6 00" Keyatons Block farm. 3-year- olds and under, 2:45 class, trotting. The class events will close later. With the exception of the 3-year-old stakes, all races will be mile heats, best three in five, to be finished as per summary at the finish of the Afth heat. In this way no race will be prolonged beyond five heats. The Omaha meeting is the first of tae| Nebraska cireult, which gives $50,000 in stukes and purses and affords thirteen weeks of continuous racing. The meetings after Omaba are Fremont, Tekamab, David | n¢ City, Hastings, | | in Odin, A long bleacher was bullt directly | value of its 2:27 class trotting and 2:27 class pacing from $500 to $1,000 each. Several Omaba business men wished to follow this example and give $1,000 purses, but it was thought best to demonstrate that the com- ing meeting is to be differently managed than those of the past, and then next year offer larger purses Two Omaha trainers, Pat McAvoy and Charles Roby, will soon locate at 'the balf. mile track to train their horses till the opening of the racing season. Mr. McAvoy has already a few horses om the grounds and will increase his stable to some eix- teen head. Mr. Roby has about the same | number in a nearby stable, which he will move into the barne located on the race grounds in a few days. Mr. McAvey will bave in his string a number of his own horses, Including a promising 3-year-old mare by a son of Prodigal, 2:16, dam by Mascot. Mr. Mayne of Council Bluffs has a 2-year-old stallion by a son of Charles affrey, 10:43; a 3-year-old black pacing stallion Blackstrath, by Strathmore 408, Tom Dennison's fast pacer, The Kid, 2:13%, by Director, 2:17, dam by Jay Gould, 2:21%; Mr. Denaison's colt, Dandy Jim, and his brown mare, Durado, 2:18, by Durango, | 2:20%, dam Ada, others. Charles Roby has thirteen good ones be- longing to P. B. Haight. Among them are Jesse Kiing, 2:18%, by Taconnett 21845, son of Nelson, dam by Strathmore 408; May Bell, pacer, by Taconnett, dam by Broad- way, 2:29%; C./C. D, trotting mare, by Taconnett, dam by Dr. Franklin; Effe H 3-year-old trotter, by Taconnett, and a ndmber of Taconnett youngsters out of dAms by Alcantara, Kentucky Prince. Strathmore and Woodline. Mr. Roby also has in hands Mr. Gougeon's Billy Paxton, a young~stallion by The Conqueror, 2:12%; a trotter by Woodline, dam by Maxie Cobb, and one by The Conqueror, dam by Patron. Mr. Nymms, a horseman of Cedar Bluffs, itor in the city last week, and the Keystone farm. Mr. Nymms 2:20%, by Fairy Gift, and visited represents Mr. Knapp, also of Cedar Bluffs. Ed Allen of Marion, Ia., was in the city, and returned with Nat Brown's mare, Col- umbine, and & 2-year-old colt by The Con- queror, which he purchased. Fireman Craiger recently purchased from the Keystone farm a very fast weaning colt by Baron Grand, dam Moselle by Harold Onward. The price is not given, but is known to be high. A. L. Thomas, who purchased Junemont, 2:14, at the last Fasig-Tipton sale in New York, has sold him to Willen Myers, Cement City, Mich,, at a large profit. Junemont received his record in a third heat of a race and has a trial of 2:10%. He is a fine | looking stallion, a high stepper, the sire of | three race horses and some of the best high stepping trotters in the country. His three colts are Edward O. 2:14%, June| Bird, 2:20%, and June Wilk, 2:20%. Mr.| Thomas had shipped Junemont to his farm 111, but being offered a figure much in advance of his purchase price, sold him. Junemont was bred in Michigan, and in turn became the property of Mr. John D. Creigh- | ton of Omaba. Under Mr, Creighton’s ownership be W raced to his present record and earned the distinction of being the fastest high-stepping trotter in the United States. Junemont 1s by Tremont, 2:281%, a son of Belmont, dam Fannie Carey by Jack Rosey of Morgan descent. The best stallion possessed by an Omaha man 1s Ashland Wilkes, 2:17%, owned by John D. Creighton. ~ Mr. Creighton has Ashland Wilkes at the Orchard Park farm, near Lexington, Ky., and a recent dispatch states that he is visiting Orchard Park.to inspect the young Ashland Wilkes colts, of which there are fitty-eight. Ashland Wilkes was the leading sire of the United States last year, and from the number bf colts on hend he will doubtiess head the list again this ‘year. - Ashland Wilkes is the sire of John R. Gentry, 2:00%, and sixty-five others. Advices from Germany state that among | the entries for the Championship of Europe stake is the former Omaha mare, Con- tralto, 2:10, by The Conqueror, 2:12%. Matched against Contralto are eighteen other fast horses. Including Bonatella, 2:10, and Cald, 2:07%. Cald has wen more fast races than any in the list of nineteen start- ers. but Contraito beat Cald once last year. The stake is trotted each year at the Baden- Baden track, near Vienna, and is the cl trotting event on the other side. It was on this track that Que Allen trotted a heat in 2:08 2-5, which stands as the European trotting record. At Fred Terry's recent sale in St. Joseph, Mo., George Harvey of Kearney, Neb., bought a matched pair of bay geldings by The King for $680. A southeastern Nebraska racing eircuit has been organized, starting at Pawnee City and including Beatrice, Lincoln and Auburn, in the Nebraska circuit, and passing on to| Tecumseh and Salem. J. D. Mines, Hastings, Neb., has sold to Melvin Lockwood, Kenesaw, Neb., the stal- lion, Electric Storm, by Brown Hal, 2:12%. J. Davidson, Venango, Neb., and C. E. Gray, Platte, Neb., were in the St. Louls markets last week with some good horses. Recent Information that the noted sir J. R. Shedd, 2:19%, was burned in a fire at Concord, H., brings to mind the fact that one of his get, Shedd Wilkes, wi given her record by Mr. Thomas of Omaha. J. R. Shedd was foaled twenty years ago in Portsmouth, W. Va. He was by Red Wilkes, dam by Ericson, grand-dam by Van- dal, thoroughbred. He obtained his record in 1889 at Buffalo, N. Y., defeating & lar field in five heats. He is the eire of Wood- shed P., 2:09%; Harry Shed, 2:14%; Annle Shed, 2:14%. and fourteen others. WRESTLERS ARE MAKING DATES iotch Has a Matoh with Tom Jen- kins and Coleman with a; Towa Unknown. Omaba sportsmen who saw the Gotch- Coleman wrestling contest a week ago and who were amazed at the enormous bulk and still more astonishing agility of the lowa man, will be interested to know that he has finally arranged & match with Tom Jenkins, reputed the best heavyweight American wrestler now on the mat. The bout will occur In Chicago toward the end of April, and will be the biggest thing in the wrestling world that Gotch has ever attempted. A side bet of $2,600 has been placed already, and Gotch realizes that this is his opportunity to make himself known He will welgh 205 peunds, about five pounds more than Jenkins. Coleman, too, has secured another match. He will go against an unkoown at Ham- burg, la, on April 3. Coleman bas ce tainly improved a great deal since he wrestied, and he should experience no diff. culty in doing away with any man of his own weight. Sportsmen from Des Moines who witnessed the go between Coleman and Gotch were astonished at the former’ pleness, strength and endurance, and doubt that he was as good as any man of his weight In the country. The three preliminary wrestling bouts be- tween jocal amateurs, which preceded the Coleman-Gotch affair, have done much to revive interest in the game in Omaba. One atbletic organization has been formed Friend, Seward, York, |since that time with the sole pastime of trial | THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, MARCH 30, 1902 HOOTERS CATHER ON AW |yt & cvermpmymns, it | ATHLETICS AT UNIVERSITE [ oioicis, o o e, e st e st . o vy P— akes is anothe: welve-bird, entrance meeting In the circult, has increased the | great avidity. WORK OF THE LOCAL BOWLERS End of the League S and Poor Scores C he Rale. Teams. Qmaha ... Clarkson St. Charles German Gate City | Western | Krug Park National ... High reore: Individual Averages. Name and Team. Games. Emery, Omaha (] Fritschier, St. Charles... 12 Read, Omaha » Zarp, Omaha ® Denman, Clarkson | Kolls, Clarkson Beselin, German Beaman, Gate Ci Brunke,” Clarkson Smead,” Omaha. . Tracey, National 8 7 Schneider, St. Charles.. 5§ Lehman, 'Omaha & | Al Krug, German 6 1 Weber, German . Flanagan, charies Hartley. Sheldon, Gate City Huntington, Gate City.. *League record With only three weeks now intervening before the cloge of the schedule, the Omaha Bowling league has just ended one of the poorest weeks of play in its history this season. Ever since the awful slump of four weeks ago the boys have been mare or less down on thelr rolling luck and the scores have never risen since that time to | the level they were previously maintaining. | During the last week, however, this second- class playing was so evenly distributed that it was productive of no especial results as far s comparative standings go, for the | teams hold the same positions in the | column now that they did a week ago, save that the Germans have tied the St. Charles men for third place. The Omahas have just the same cinch on | the championship that they did a wcek ago It is possible for them to lose it, but not probable that they will. All they need do is to win two games of the nine remaluing in order to be completely out of harm's | way, while if they win one more the best | the Clarksons could do would be to tie | them by winning all nine of its own games, and the Omahbas would doubtless be safe in losing all the rest, for the Clarksons are mot going the gait which brings eight victories out of nine contests. i Meanwhile for third and second places | | there is room for a big fight. The Clark- | sons have yet to play the St. Charles, West- | | ern and Krug Park teams, and on form | { should win at least five games out of the series. The St. Charles men, however, will make a desperate effort to snatch sec- ond place, and they have a tough propo tion in the Clarksons, Germans and West- | erns. The first two are thelr rivals now for position. The Germans will do all in their power to leave the St. Charles behind and overtake the Clarksons, but their | schedule for the next three weeks would bardly justify any hopes, since they must meet the Omahas, St. Charles and West- erns. They may, however, put the St Charles team out of third place, but the | latter team's chances are on the whole | better. But the Clarksons have a good lead | for second, though their aspirations may lwen end there, since the Oma! play | the Gate Citys, Germans and Krug Parks. | Five of the eight teams are above the 500 | mark now. None raised its high score last week, and onuly the Germans and Gate Citys | played a better total score than the pre- vious week, all the rest falling down. Of | the entire number the Westerns alone kept thelr team average from falling off. But four men bowled over 200. Tracy was the Individual star of the week, taking both the single game high and the total indi- vidual high, with 211 and 561. The Clark- sons took the team total high, with 2,499, and the Omahas the team single game high, with 879, In the individual averages the first eu;m men are just in the same order as last week, Emery still eading them all. Brunke has taken Dinth place from Smead, how- ever, and below that there are a’few other | changes. Only nleteeen players of the | league came within the average of 1663 for a single game, F. Conrad having dropped below, he being the only one of last week's twenty who is not again in the list. April 17 marks the last game of the league schedule between the St. Charles and the German ttams. Bowlers are al- ready planning post-season matches. One affair of interest will be the series of games between the Otoes of Nebraska City and the Omahas of this city, for which arrange- ments are now being made. Games will be played both here and in Nebraska City. Tenpin scores of 200 and better on the Gate City alleys: L. T. Stearns, 205, 208; James P. O'Brien, 219; W. A. Chandler, 207, 202, 212; B. F. Hull, 202, 212; R. Encell, 223; W. C. Sherwood, 202, 208, 224; A. A Davis, Boone, Ia., 204; Ward, 227; C. B. Bridenbecker, 204, 237, 202, 208, 212, 210; L. M. Davis, 212; J. J. Davey, 265, 211, 208; C. W. Gordy, 242, 220, 215, 215, 206; P. H McLauren, 204; Dr. Ellls, 205, 204; EQ Lawler, 202; John Yocum, 204; Tracy, 211, 204, 226; B4 Simpson, 201, 210; James Ter- rill, 212, 202; Frank Graham, 208; Ed Simon, 216; M. Lease, 247, 236, 262; E. Lauman, Des Moines, 212, 226. Tenpin scores of 200 and better on Clark's alleys: W. H. Glichrist, 202, 220, 215; W. 8. Dexter, 202; W. W. Hartley, 201; H. F. Fowler, 214, 203; S. Eiraman, 215, 217, 209, 207, 203, 203; M. R. Huntington, 201, 209, 200, 202, 227, 212, 243, 212, 243, 205, 207, 213, 202, 224; H. W. Lehmann, 212, 214; Tom Reynolds, 201; W. H. Wigman, 211, 215, 216, 240; M. Z. Forscutt, 215; King Den- man, 206, 221, 213; F. J. Bengele, 200; H. O. Zimmerman, 231; G. Sample, 207; W. F. 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