Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 29, 1902, Page 11

e, s THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, E 29, 1902, BASE BALL GOSSIP OF Omaha Team Slips Back Into Sscond Plase | in the Raoce, DENVER HITS THE SLIDE WITH VIGOR Makes the Record Year, While §t. Joe's Headl Rush Top Place meks & Lettle. Lose; fo the Oh, T don't know. That toboggan slide didn't go all the way through after all, and any way It was wide enough to hold two, for the Denver team managed to get in right alongside of Omaha and go kiting down about as rapidly s anything we've seen lately. Eight straight loses is the record for the season, | and Omaha cheerfully passes the medal over to the Grizziles. Who'll be its next wearer doesn’'t appear on the surface, but | the team that gets it from Denver will surely have to hustle. While all this aliding. has been going on Kansas City has come down a few, too, but has managed to check the downward rush, and {s now hold- Ing first place by the safest margin of the season. St. Joe's mad dash for the top | brought the team up into the first division Binch, but as yet the McKibbenites haven't been able to pass anyone on the way. In the present serles, should the Saints win | ll, which fsn't ltkely, there lles a chance | for them to pass ‘Denver and tle Omaha But Omaha will get one if not two of the games there, and is sure to geét one of the games at Kansas City Milwaukee, Peorla and Des Moines are all putting out & much faster article of ball than they did during the early days of the season, and will meké matters mighty warm for the first division bunch before the next month Is over. Colorado Springs is the rank in- and-outer of the league, and it is not likely that its position will be much improved. The brulsing series at Peoria and its victories indigate that Omaha has called a halt on the hard luck features of the present expedition and 1s again playing ball. This is what the local fans rejoice to see. Eighteen games on the home ground during July ought to see the Rourke flag fiying from the league masthead when the téam next goes Away. Another umplre in the Western ylelded up the official prerogative and returned o private life during the week. Mr. Harry ©ries of Chicago found the work a little {00 gtrenuous and last Monday evening, after he Had been rescued from a mob of dissat- fsfled Missourians down ut St. Joseph, he wired his indicator to President Sexton. Mr. Criss is the genial gentleman who took two of the Colorado Springs serics away from Onfs by his erratic decisions. He did not:last long enough to reach Omaha, hap- pily, for with the luck the team has been having It 1s almost a cinch that Criss would have been sent here to umpire the long July series. It Is nmow a chance be- tween a new man and Cox, who Is not a bad sort when one thinks of Latham. Bddlé Gordon has made good with Denver "and s well spoken of by the papers out there. He {s sure to be a favorite it he ie allowed to remain with the team Packard 18 quite ambitious to win the pennant, and, ag fhis home attendance depends on his having a winning team, he is certaln to strengthen his present aggregation. It is given out that he ie negotiating with Na- tional league magnates for a catcher, a couple of pitchers and an outfielder. If he lands this bunch, it's Bddie to the law office agaln. Parke Wilson's bad ley in ‘such condition that e’ will not be able to_do much work this season. Omaha's cripples are rounding into condition once more, and, 1barring the unexpected, the team ought to be In better condition when it reaches home than it was at the beginning of the IT WILL COME BACK Some Omaha Iluldonli Have Learned How to Keep It Away. Your back may not ache very long. But the ache will return shortly. Comes oftner—stays longer. Unless the kidneys are relieved. Doan's Kidney Pills cures all kidney {ills, Omaha people endorse them. My. Charles O. Wringer, a brick molder, No.. 1182 North Nineteeénth street, says: “A ‘friend of mine heard me complain of aching fn my back and trouble with the kidney secretions. I had been subject to these attacks from the day I hurt my back Jifting house sills four years ago. = This friend gave me a box of Doan's Kidney Pills which he had bought at Kuhn & Co.'s drug store. . I.thought-a dose or two helped and Increased the quantity. The treat- ment cured me; at least up to date I have pot begn bothered with any of my old symptoms Bold for 50 cents per box, by all dealers. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y., ‘sole agents for the United States. Remember the name—Doan's—and take .mo other. | the fastest of ball How steady and consistent its work hak beeni is shown by the statistics. The play- ers go right along, week In and week out, olrculating around the marks made early in the season in the fleld and showing some improvement at the bat right along. While there fs not a real slugger on the t team batting average Is as good some of the alleged slugging outfits. are the figures for the games played up to Priday: FIELDING AVERAGES. A, 7 = - 2 % E 25385335 O. Calhoun B Alloway 3 Gonding %9 76 Graham ... 15 4 Brown ...........0 Thomas Stone . Btewart Genins Carter Owen Dolan ' Hickey Zaedsl Senila 338 BoaoTwecmwens 3 28,9285 BaSsani.an BATTING AVERA e 2 A 8tone . ol Graham Btewart Dolan ... it 200 L] 226 184 194 104 Carter Genins Calhoun . Gonding Hickey Thomas Alloway Owen . Brown B. 36 72 93 8 ] o What kind of salaries are they paying in the Connecticut league? Tom Owens, sald to be the finest second baseman the Springfleld (Mase.) team has had in many years, jumped to Toledo, saylng he was tired of working for $100 a month and passing up good chances to better himself. Bill Clements goes to Kansas City of the Hickey league at $225 per. It begins to look Ilike the Hickeyltes were Hhunting cheaper material. When the eeason opened two and a quarter per wouldn't buy cigaroots for a Hickey player. Nothing under three and a halt was thought of. And what a lovely lot of old fossils there are drawing %ood_money In that league—that s, it they are drawing anything. Attendance at the east end towns of the league has been some better during the last two weeks, but In- dianapolis hasn't got over the 900 mark oftener 'than once or twice. Onme of the tunny things is the way the Milwaukee and Kansas City boosters for the American compare attendance. “We're not doing much here,” they say, “but in Kansas City (or Milwaukee) we're getting five to thelr one.”” If this were 80, it's mighty cold con- solation, for the crowds are etill under 400. Last Sunday Omaba drew 4,000 people at Milwaukee, a very encouraging prospect, and public favor actually seems moving to- ward Duffy. None of them, except Louis- ville, are drawing hard enough to pay ex- penses, though, and to an outsider it seems only a question of how much good money the maguates want to send after bad. cunaRBNEENE. 8T onaStssTATSNER Kicking at the umpire is always a bad practice and very often operates to deprive & team of the services of a valuable player. For example, take that tle game at Peoria. Calboun allowed his temper to get the bet- ter of him while at the bat and was put out of the game and then off the grounds. This was {n the fifth inning, and for eight innings the team had to fight without him, & youngster filling his position on first. Ha Calhoun been able to control himself his aesistance might have enabled the team to win. At Colorado Springs he and Genins were both put out of the game by an um- pire who would use atthority whether he showed judgment or not, and the game was lost. In none of the kicks that have been regiateréd this season has the kicker gained apoint, other -than to {nfur the enmity of the umplre, and frequently deprive his team of his service. It has been a matter of gen- eral regret that better umpires could not be had, but the fact remains that they have charge of the games and none are too diffi- dent or too lenient to assert their authority. The rule giving the umpire the right to put a player out of the game is a good one and players ought to respect it. At all events they should be careful not to kick them- selves out of the game. SHOOT ON FOURTH OF JULY Dickey Bird Gun Club to Hold an All-Day Session at Krug Park Grounds. On July 4 the Dickey Bird Gun club will bold a shoot at its grounds east of Krug park, which promises to be one of the larg- ost affairs of the kind pulled off in Omaha this year. More than 100 entries are expected and a card of twelve. events offers an all day’'s sport of no mean proportions. There are among the events eight fifteen- target singles, with §1 entrance, one five- target palr, with 50 cents entrance, one twenty-target sin with $1.25 entrance and two twenty-five-target trophy events in eingles, with an entrance fee of 25 cents each. These last two trophy events are open to members only, Shooting will commence promptly at 10 o'clock in the morning. All ties are to be divided except in the medal events, which are to be shot off at twenty-five targets. All entries for the trophy eveqts close after the first squad of five men has shot out. In the fifteen-bird events there will be four monles, divided into 40, 30, 20 and 10 We Have the Largest phones and bicycles Stock of upto-date vehicles, automobiles, grapho- in Omaha. Don't buy shopworn goods that are out of date every- where when you can get the products of the best manufacturers in all kinds, grades and prices that the jobber cannot buy. The maker's name is on every job. Look us over before purchasing for we have the goods. H. E. FREDRICKSON, 15th and Capitol Ave,, Omaha, wenty-bird monies, 30, 25, 20 per cent respectively. there will be two monles, 80 and 40 per cent. Bntrance fees include all targets. Black powder is barred and shells will be for sale on the grounds. In all the decision of the referee will be final 15 and 10 QUAINT FEATURES OF LIFE. Grasshoppers are worth §1 a bushel In Banpete county, Utah. The market Is prace tically without limit and cannot be over- stocked. Men and women are engaged In the work of collecting the insects. Boys and girls find profitable employment at the work. The grasshoppers are numbered by the milllon. They ate killing the crops, ruining the trees and denuding every plant of its foliage. Great armies of them darken the sun and hover like clouds of dust oyer the green flelds and gardens. Wherever the destructive pests attack a flield of grass or grain they take the entire crop, leaving dust and desolation. Paterson, N. J., has had much distinction, honorable and the reverse. Now it boasts “the meanest man in the world,” who pawned his wite's best ekirt and false teeth to get the price bf a elrcus ticket. “Far be it from us, s the New York Sun, “to defend such a malefactor, but the passion for the ecircus ls mighty and much will be forgiven to it by all those who as boys have gaped and peeped at circus tents and hung penniless for hours about those en- chanted palaces. The Paterson man did wrong, but he did wrong that good might come. He spent the proceeds of guilt in a good chuse. We leave him to the casulsts, not without hope, that they, too, have telt the oircus madness.” The descendants of Brigham Young, the Mormon apostle, have decided to hold an- nual family reunions. Although he dled in 1877 there are over 1,000 direot descenddnts, and there {8 not in Salt Lake Oity an avail- able building large enough to hold the “family.” There are living six widows ot the Mormon president. Some of these women have positions of high honor in the Mormon chureh, one of thelr labors being the tracing out of progenitors of Mormon families, who are plucked as bramds from the burning by having living persons bap- tized in thelr names. “And now it Is to provide the king of Spain ‘with a wife that his numerous guardians find to be their duty,” says the Boston Transcript. “Poor little Alfonso, one says at first, when hearing that the pope and some others are busying them- #elves to find & throne mate for him, but with sober second thought there comes the reflection” that aftér all hé 18 saved some- thing by the arrangement which obtains In royal tircles. He doesn't. have to lle awake at night tossing about on his pillow making up his mind to propose and then perhaps tollow these restiess nights with even worse ones caused by the refusal of his over« tures, All this is being done for him and he Ig at libérty to give his mind to state affalrs or even to very trivial ones, while the matchmaking goes on. Probably, young as he is, he has the habit of kings born and bred in him so strongly that if the princess chosen for him be young and wholesome he will ask for no more.” The Kansas friends of''Gene Ware ha dug up an Englieh edition of “Ironquill, annotated liberally in explanation of its Americantsms. The refrain, “Who openeth a jackpot may not always rake it down,” £ difficulties dls ed of in a foot- note, which lays down a eafe and conserva- tive rule for foreigners ln the great Ameri- can game' ‘The ‘Jackpot’ I8 a feature of a gamblifg ‘®ame at cards in which each player' contributes an ®qual amount of mopey. to the formation of the ‘pot.’ To ‘open’. a jackpot means>’ to start the gambling for that particular pot. It can only be done by that playet who has a hand of & certain prescribed degree of excellence. It he can sustdin his supremacy he may win, but in the course of the play he may lose. If he wins, he Wins all. Henc¥, to ang parlance, means deavoring to got all that his-associates have in sight. Four kings is a good hand to open The following curious political advertisé- ments appeared the other day in the Hous ton (Tex.) Times: J. B. MARMION Solleits Your Support at the Coming Democratic Primaries for Justice of the Peace, Precinct No. 1. Mr. Marmion is proprietor of the only Union Blacksmith Shop In the Fifth Ward. Vote for A. N. (BUD) FITZGERALD, b § or Jystice of the Peace, Precinct No. 1. This is my Tule: To change the location of the Court that 1 take Charge of; should I be Elected, thereby change the surroundings in order to e it to its proper dignity belonging to of trial, to keep order and to decide eclal favor to anyone. [ 1o all cases without OUT OF THE ORDINARY, A Hoboken man talked while a barber was sheving him ahd had a slice taken out of his chin. Now he {s suing t rher because the latter started the conversation. ‘A message mealed in a bottle and thrown to the water at Dalaware bay was taken rom the stomach of a shark near Portyg: and_fhe message ans This incident ought to suggest the ibilities of & shark postal service via the Atlantic. Atter living with his wite for halt a cen- e Becrest, a_ citizen of Muncle, Ind., has hl‘l:l mnelud.dfl ;'hll e Ih.. allll ngov T an sues for dl- Yorse, “Ha i 8 years oldand Mrs. Secrest is five years his junior. They sepgrated a short timé ago. The la sensation in Paris develops in the person of an infant nrvdlfi; . Car- men Champmoynat, who at age of 10 writes verses, Pm and rMYI that win praise from cfitics. Bhe is the daughter of & planist and her talent won no speclal notice until she went to An unmarried woman's estate of $635.75 was lately distributed by the probate court of Indiana among thirty-nine heirs. The 1a) t_amount anyone received was §7 ch_went to surviving brothers and s te e small amount was $3.08, po‘n:%n grandnephews and grandnleces ceived. By a new law In Montreal, Quebec, all bread must be sold by welght after Beps tember 1 next except fancy bread under The ssed the law one pound. counell after a bitter contest I tr&mr months e lish bakers past between the rac opposing it and the French bakers insist- ing that It must be enacted as a protection " th " ‘who, they claimed, have been Fosatendly Gefravacd “suspension day" in the national presentatives all little bllls to are no objection go through at about one & minut The speaker calls the ayes and nays. body answers, and he declares eas- passed. One day | week llq?r of Ohio had one of these bills in charge. ‘When the title was read he said: “This bill ought to go through with a notse. 1 will give .a street car ticket to every man who will vote for it Half a dozen members voled aye and each gravely collected his bribe from the Ohio man Ptk iy Civil War D Record. During the civil war almost 300,000 men were killed or died from wounds recelvéd in battle. This is an appalling death record, but does Dot equal that caused by indigestion, dyspepsia, constipation and liver and kidney diseases. Since the | troduction of Hostetter's Stomach Bit- ters, fifty years ago, the number has been considerably reduced because it is & sure cure for these diseases gnd is the best bealth maker known to science. A trial will certalaly convince you. ut n e ms For the doublé event TORIES OF HORSE RACI Bome Reminiscences Gathered Around th Judges' Btand. ' TYPICAL ANECDOTES OF -THE. OLD-TIMERS How a Few Racesa Have Been Won and Some of ‘the Downs of a Driver's Life. There ard no tales like those of the track, and there is no gossip to equal a turtman when once started on a flood of memories that are indelibly written into his career. The four days' racing which has just ended in Omaha was the occa- slon of an unusual assembling of such horsemen, and as a result there was an upheaval of reminiscences of racing experi- ences that has not been paralleled here in many years. In the fudges' stand this gousip found its working center, and this can be easily understood when the list of the men who were there is reviewed. First there was Billy Sapp, the veteran horse- man of Council Bluffs, Ta., who has started horses for decades; next was Nick Ronin of Fremont, a turf follower from the '60s on; add to these such old stagers as G. G. Irey, M. L. Learned and Clinton Briges of Omaha and John 8. Adams of Genoa, and you have the foundation for a lively mess of track storfes. And they were certainly to be had last week. Not a race but re- minded some or all of these officials of something théy had seen somewhere; not a heat but had in It some feature that was simply a repetition of what some black mare or bay gelding did back In York state or otherwhere years ago, and then some of the old-time dri appeared on duty, and this meant @ host of additional recollet- tlons. “Why, there's old Halsell from Waco, Tex.,” says G. G. Irey, as Ollle Miller, the little black Texas mare, was driven onto the track for the second race of the first day. Behind the horse sat a little man with gray sideburns, and to him Irey re- ferred. “1 remember him," continued the speaker, “‘when he dfove the famous pacer, Richball, the horse that made a record of 2:12% back in 1883. Halsell was the man who brought that horse out, and he was the one who drove him to that regord. But Haleell is a crafty old dog. Richball paced many a race before anyone knew how good he was, and in his great race agalnst Porter and Buffalo Girl at Suffolk in 1883 Halsell had.them all guessing. He brought Rjchball out for the first heat wearing wooden toe welghts. They looked Just 1ike the metal, but they didn't have the Welght, and the animal was away behind in that heat, The next was the same, and that time Richball was almost distanced. By that time old Halsell had the measure of all his opponents, Aand also had his horse’s price around the 100 tb 1 shot mark, which was where he wanted it. Before the third heat he changed welghts, putting on the real thing, and then the fun began. Richball simply walked away from them all for three straight heats, and the people were thunderstruck. But Halsell had won the purse, a monster one, and it was found later that a big bunch of money had been placed on Richball at an enormous long figure just before the third heat.” “That's just old Halsell's style, all right,” chimed in Cliniton ‘Briggs, “and your story -about him remilrids me of & trick old Gen- eral ‘Bill' Turner did it Rochester, N. Y., some years ago.: The general was as foxy as any, bf them and he holds undisputed the reputation’ ‘of baving made more money racing than any horseman.. He always drove his own animals, and & little scheme he worked with a sorrel mare will show you how It was that-he always came out ahead finally and how patient and persistent he was to galg ap end. This sorrel was a trotter .and .the general had carried, her with bis stable for three seasons straight. In- that time ehe had never been in the money once And was always just inside the flag or else outside of it entirely. “All these three years the general was paying.race entry fees on the mare and not getting a cent back, but he was simply following out & preconcived plan, as turned out finally. The denouement to the scheme came at, Rochester, where they were having blg crowds, -big betting and Dbig, purses. The general could, of course, always get the mare in the low classes, for she had mever done & thing. This time he had her entered for a good stake and in the first heat she barely escaped the flag. A friend came out to the general sympathizingly and advised him to take the horse off for good, saying she had never done a thing in three years and never wolld. “ ‘Well, it takes time to learn 'em to go,’ responded the general, ‘and I gu I'll bave a little more patience with her.' Then he went over and found that the price on the sorrel had gone up from 4 to 1 to 10 to 1. A few minutes later half a dosen men lumped in all some $30,000 on the mare at those figures. When fhe ‘mext heat was called none of the other entries nor the crowd expected anything from that horse and 41d not even notice her. But wheén the bunch rounded into the stretch the mare was with it and she pulled away a winner at the wire. For the next two heats the story was the shme and & suspicious crowd surrounded the general at the end. ‘Wal, T never seen her go afore,’ said he, ‘and T'Il mever ask her te again. She's won mé a race at last.” And he stuck to it. Phe sorrel was never started again ‘and the gemeral had put the price of farms on her that day.- For three years he had steadfastly pulled her in every race, just walting for her name to get 8o worthless as to be invaluable to him."” ‘““Here comes old Sumper Bruen behind a sweet-gaited little bay mare,” sald Ernest James, who had happened in, “and you can bet Sumner will 'show some of that same crafty work. He alwaye has something up his sleeve. But t 18 & regular old Bob Kneebs type of driver for you. At least he was when I knew him in the '00s. Nothing could stop him. He was absolutely reck- Over in Jowa they called him ‘Sumner n of Logan Chief fam of him that omce w] in the stretch, and he simply leaped onto Logan Chief's back and rode right over the bunch, dragging a wrecked cart behind him, but leading at the wire. He has had many keen experiences. In '96 he drove the famous Belle J all season and won two heats with her of the great Merchants' and Manufac- turers’' $10,000 stake at Detroit. He sold the Terrors Acne, Tetter \) Eczema alt Rheum Psoriasis Nettle Rash An itching, burning skin disease during the hot, sultry summer weather, is a positive terror and a veritable demon of discomfort. 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Rheum, Nettle Rash or kindred disease, write us about it, and med information wanted will be given without charge. Our Book on Skin Diseases will be sent free to all cal advice or any special desiring it. “THE SWIFT SPECIFIC COMPANY, ATLANTA, GA. the best of them. Few make anything at (B b “Butthat Philips wasn't te lucky A%, an- other driver of the same name I know. This from M. D. Learned. “The first of every month to this day Howard Philips receives from James Gordon Benmnett a check for $150. Why? Just because he was the man who drove Bennett's mare Autrain to that $65,000 stake and all those other ylc- torfes in '98. That's the year Bennett Rad Autrain and her balt-sister In Europe, where they cleaned the boards. PBilips drove them both; changi jg them around. He would al- ways try them both out and use the horse that was in best ‘trim that particular day. But Bennett didn't pension him for win- ning especlally, but for being on the square, Autrain created a furor in Europe and bet- ting ran to awful heights. Many a time Philips was offered thousands upon thou- sands of dollars to make Autrain lose just one race, but he never listened. He has never worked for Bennett since that year, but he gets that money just the . When he left Bennett's employ Philips remon- strated about the check, but Bennett re- plied that he wanted Howard to take it as long as he sent it, as it was merely in homage to an honest man.” Just then a leathery-faced old horseman climbed the stairs to the stand and ac- costed Starter Sapp: “Are you Bllly Sapp?" “I am." “Well, I want to shake hands with you. 1 started under you once at Joliet and you gave me a mighty square deal.” “No 1 dldn’t,” responded Sapp, smiling. “I'm not the man." “‘Aren’t you W. F. Sapp?” “Yes." “Then you're the fellow, and I want to say that you're a square starter.” “Well, T hope I'm that,” repllied Sapp, “but I never started a race at Jollet.| There's another who lives in Kai want. ‘We have a great time, me and W. F, Sapp,” continued Billy, turning to the other judges. “Both of us are starters and we live not so far apart. The identity of names has ‘caused not & little confusion and some laughable incidents have resultes arter, also a W. F. Sapp, , and he's the man you Ruesell Willlams, & 13-year-old" boy of Benson, made & big hit with the old-timers in the stand, who freely predicted for him a great future as a racing offeial. Russell had never seen a horse race before in his life. Secretary Thomas had brought him out to help at the stand as messenger, but it was not lotig before Russell had accepted the responeibility for the entire meet. Once the end of the heat. He reported back t! the animal had plenty of room, and when the next heat was called he asked Starter Sapp: “Hadn't 1 better go up and flag those horses again?" Sapp sald he had better go and Russell was distance official from then on. In one race, too, Halsell drew his horee in the first heat, the animal not being in shape yet after a jar on the cars. When the next heat mare for $5,600 to an Australlan in '98. This fellow took her to Australia, where she captured the record and still holds it." “Do you know who that is that just took Bruen's horse?" queried John 8. Adams of Genoa. “Why, that old Billy West of Fort Madi He was ewipin' the famous Judge B in '96, but just this last winter I ran across him cooking in a hotel in Iowa some- where. Now I see he's swipin' for Bruen. was always a valuable man around a When be was rubbin' Judge B, Charley Philips was driving the grand old horse. The other day I saw Charley driving a laundry wagon here in Omaba. Just forty years that man spent in the horse business. He was noted once, for he drove Judge B to that record of 2:10 at Ottumwa. also held the five-mile record with Satellite for many years. Well, the racia’ business busts came along Russell noticed there was one horse missing yelling to Sapp to hold the race a minute, ran to the stables and ordered Halsell out at once. The old driver explained to Russell the philosophy of the “draw” in a horse race and the boy was finally satisfied to let the beat proceed. Wednesday afternoon Sumner Bruen, the driver, entered the stand in response to a call from Starter Sapp, and was reprimanded for bholding Dulele 8 in the fourth race, which it was plain was all his if he wanted it. “We must have square racing here,” sald bate to let Dulcle go out of the sald Sumner, “but I suppose to.'" Then Bruen became com- | six seasons pect to drive,” he sald. “I've got her entered In $9,000 worth of atakes this sea- son.. Bhe just aged and I never knew her to’ break but once in her whole life, ahd then I forced her to ‘it, just to see how she'd behave. The result was so terrible, that I shall never do it again. I cotld not get her back on her feet for a quarter of & mile and it seemed to break her heart. She will never do it of her own accord. She just paces along and apparently don't know any other gait. Of course, it's a g00d thing to have a horse know how to catch back again when It does break, but ti was. plain.to mé that it would take Dulcle an awful long, hard time to learn that, and, If she is néver going to go oft her féet anyway, it's just as well, and I'll never force ber off again just for practice in catching.” “I was just thinking of the first time I ever saw high clase racing,” sald Nick Ronl “It was at Oxford, Pa., twenty-five years a A blacksmith came out and drove a horse’ in 2:42 to a high wheeled sulky and the time sent the people crasy, it was .80 wonderful. There were 40,000 of them there. A little later, in Westchester, we had a similar 'crowd and the ‘big Tace lay between a Lancaster county horse, Lizzle, and a Chester county mare, Effie, The county rivalry was Intense. Both counties were bet solld on their respective horses. Lizzie won in the home of her opponent and Lancaster county owned the whole of Chester county. The time was 2:32, and that was considered marvelous. A little later they raced again at Lanéaster county and there Effie won on her op- ponent's own track.. So the counties just went back to their former owners and every one was square.” Freaks and marvels have checkered the entire career of Ella Range, the guldeless pacing mare. According to her history as related by her tralner, Ed4 Fitzssimmons, this horse has led a life that for eventfulness could be equaled by those of few ordinary men. Most remarkable of all the incidents related by Fitssimmons, however, 18 doub! less the very manner in which the mare happened to begin as a guideless wonder. After Ella's sensational performance last Wednesday, when she did a mile on the half mile oval in 2:10%, Bd came to t! Judges’ stand to get the time by quarters and g0 got In on the general round of tales. Sald he: “This mare 18 10 years old and I have been starting her as a guldeless pacer for ¥ began It in a most pecullar way. Ella is bred up with any of them, belng by Coast Range, by Nutland; dam, America, by Arcadian, by Egbert. Hayes of Chippewa Falls, Wis. her, thought she would mal fond of her. took her to wi an ornery streak in her and after seasons of labor she was still a bad actor. She would go right through a fence, whether there was & gate there or not, and needed more governors and straps and things than any horse I ever It became simply useless to start her at all and one day I lost my temper and sald I would make a guldeless wonder out of her or kill her. “80 I took her out to the track in hobbles and simply turned her loose. A friend bet me $20 she would fall down before she reached the quarter. I took it, and Ella paced safely fwo rods past the quarter, when ehe turned a complete somerset. We helped her up and led her back and started her over. That time she went clear round. From that time on her futufe was settled. That fall took all meanness out of her as well, and it is a pecullar fact that since then I have been able to drive ber all right. In fact, she goes a mile ky in about 2:17. Every year, [ & little faster at the gulds 13 me, and had she not gone once around on the gallop today with a broken hobble she would have made 2:08 beyond a doubt, for she was plainly ‘good.’ “The mare bas been through & lot. The 18t use. ' Cleanses but does not shrink— ‘woolens, flannels, laces, embroideries, and other dainty things. Good for bath and toilet, More economical than toilet soap—and purer. ‘Three bises —laundry, soc; | bath and tollet, sc: oval tollet, 5. o, o request. f Tuz Cunahy P.nima bu. Omahs... Kaness City. terrible cyclone at New Richmond, Wis., found her there, gnd three years ago she ~ was caught in the terrible fire at the stables the track at Aurors, I started, while a face was on. left her marked good and plenty, and she was taken out for dead.” The total absence of any hair on Ella's slender back and another smaller bare patch behind her ears show where the fire eat into her. Her spirit 8 not affected, however, and she is a beautiful, pure- galtéd animel, with breeding in all hey lines. J. C. Kappers of Bau Claire, Wis., owns her now. Baturday afternoon at the eofose of the last day’s taeing Nick Ronin called all the officials afound hjm, together with othes who were 10 the #tand at the time Every- one thought that Nick intended to wind up the meet aith a Jast good.story, but this was an erfor. “I merely. wish' to ‘tell you fellows once all attentiob, “‘Dot. to. forget ‘the fine meet we will have down at Fremont next week, T know-it wilF-be-good; because .F gm secre- tary of the Fremont Driving Park associa- and I know all-about it. -Now, I've down here and ‘blessed you all with the light of my countenance for four days #nd 1 want you to do as much by me next week. Il promise you it will be worth your while. You thisk you have seen some mighty good races here this week, but I wish to say right now that they'll be just as good down there in Fremont town. It ia hard to figure it out any differently when you remember that most of these horses golng right down there tomorrow. We h @ bunch of smooth races scheduled that will be enough to draw them all, and they are entered all right. 2:18 trot all right, and in the 2:17 pace are Dr. Tom, Jessle Kling and Trilby t showed you such a hot race bere Thursday in a similar event, Golng to the 2:22 pacing class, there is Bumner Bruen's Dulcle 8, the ‘sweet- gaited' wond nd Lina K and Dalsy Egmont N lds, too, we have The Critic and Ollle Miller. 'Ot course you understand that these are only a few sample entries | huve mentioned, for every race of the nine is stocked tull, and we will show good fun on July 2, § and 4 the coming week."