Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 6, 1902, Page 9

'BASE BALL GOSSIP OF WEEK Omaha Roosts on Top Rail in Western League Race. ' NICE WORK BY ROURKES ON LONG TRIP Oixty Per Cent of Games Played Won by the Team in Despfte of Most Adverse Con- ditions, What do you think of that? Bame old team, same old place In the standing table. And the home knockers, of witich pecullar genus of base ball crank Omahia has & 16vely bunch, have ‘sent their little. bammers - fo the shops to get new tips. . Back in the lead again after taking Kansas City’s dust for more than a month, | after runniig third to Denver's second for & few days, and by steady, homest con- isistest playlng. Robbed by incompetent umpires, roasted by Incompetent writers and battered by the most vindictive gang of (home roasters that ever maligned a team, the Rourke family has gone forward with its work in a consclentious, cireful man- ner that has delighted its ardent supporters, 'When the team left Omaha it was after the hardest possible run of luck Five suc- cessive defeats on the home grounds had pulled it down and the first game away from home was lost, making Denver within sy reach of second place. Three defeats at Denver did the trick and then three at Oolorado Springs seemed to clinch the mat- ter. But the turn came after the teamn Bad Jost twelve out of fifteen games. On the trip which ended Friday evening at Kansas City the Omahas played twenty- three games, winnjng thirteen, losiog nine and one was tied. That is a good enough record for anyone. It is over 50 per cent and is mighty close to champlonship form. The galt is the best possible answer to the eroakers who raised that joyful chorus of 1 told you 80" when the team was losing. It looked 8o easy, then, to see history re- peating itself that many bets were made that Omaha would not be better than fourth on its return. It is needless, perhaps, to say that none of these bets went begging for takers. And here the team is at home again in first place, with a series of ghteen games on the home grounds. It will be mighty queer if Omaha doesn't lead the league race for a few days, at any rate. Denver has been doing the slide act with the greatest vigor and persistency of any. It will be something to wonder at if the Grizzlies, which left home in second place for ‘a short trip through the east, get home any better than fifth. Milwaukee has al- ready passed Denver and holds third place, while St. Joe 18 in fifth and Is apparently the only reason that will prevent Denver from falling out of the first division bunch bofore the end of the present disastrous expedition. When St. Joe started its little runaway by taking four stralght from Omaha and three out of four from Kansas City, The Bee remarked that the pace waa a trifie fast for the McKibben crowd, which, on public form at least, had no right to be turning off quarters at the rate they were. The soundness of that judg- ment has been proven by the performance of the SBaints lately. Milwaukee has gotten together a good team and Is playing first- rate ball. Moreover, the people of Schiltz- ville are slowly swinging around to Duffy, and his e receipts are increasing cor- respondingly. Des Molnos s out of last place now and is putting up a game. that ought, to send it still higher up in. the table.” Peoria has the booby prize for the present, but Colorado Springs is a bidder for the place. Bill Everitt is hustling for players, though, and may get his team in better condition. His bunch never did 'look fast, though, and gives no sign of re- covery. Just how steadlly consistent the game presented by the Omaha_.team is can be told better by the figures given herewith: BATTING AVERAGES. o H. Ave. Week. 63 .33 .8 o7 2 6l 61 [ a 61 4 Graham Dolan .,. Genins ,. C 5 2 | - FIELDING AVERAGES. B. Tot. Ave. [ 691 851 -5 EBa.aEg. 38T [ 828 18 One of the really amusing features of the race is the cheerful consistency with which the Denver faithful refuse to see any other | | i Miwavkee afd Des Moines. team in the league than Kansas City, “It Kaneas City is out of the way Denver will win {t" is the continual ery of the Packard contingent. To a man up & tree just now, barring Omaba and Kansas City, there are two other teams in the league that will beat Denver out unless the makeup of the tzzlien 1s greafly changed. _They are Predictions, unsate at sny time, are especially 86 at | this balf way stage of the race. If pub- | llc form 1is to be taken as & basis for calculation Omaha ought to be & cinch, for it has won a majority of games played from every team but Denver. This per- formance.under all known forme of making dope. gfvos Omaha first in the race. Kan- #sas City under the same -fule {s entitled | to second and the other places are open. | Just what changes the eecond half of the | race may bring about only time can tell. | 1t 1s2’t too fate te turn the standing upside 1 down, for none of the teams are in an abso- ;mm,- hopeless hole. | The league meeting at St. Joseph was productive of mothing of real importance. The magnates resolved on what most peo- ple had already admitted, that the league will live through the season. Official action was taken to put on the blacklist three or tour players who jumped from the Western association Into the Hickey fold. ‘“Wizar: Herman is included In this bunch The magnates also decided that players will have to pay thelr own fines hereafter. This move was taken in the interest of better discipline, It doesn’t look good to an outsider, for any manager who has made a practice of paying the fines imposed on unruly members will easily find a way to continue. It is alleged that overtures from the Hickeyites looking to a peace agree- ment were recelved, but just why such action should have been taken lsn't clear. Neither side has anything to gain by mak- ing peace now. It must be a fight to the finish, and the beaten party will have to get out of the other's territory. In this connection it 18 good to see how George Tebeau's judgment is backed by events. He abandoned Kansas City, giv- g Dale Gear and his Wisconsin col- eagues all the results of his season’s la- bors there, including the certainty of a fight, and went to Loulsville with noth- ing. He leased grounds; erected m base ball plant and scraped together a team which s not only making a procession of the American assoclation pennmant race, but is drawing more Kentuckians to ball games than have turned out since the Colonels won the champlonship of the old American assoclation twenty years ago. Tebeau s the only magnate In the bunch who is making any money. Not one of the other towns Is drawing paying at- tendance, Columbus having dropped oft when the team took its slump. If the league should go to pleces now, the wreck would find Tebeau on top with a nice lit- tle sum of money to the good, and with the nucleus of a good ball team ready to start another league next season. It fsn’t all luck in Tebeau's case. He Is one of the bralnlest men in base ball today, and cailing him a pirate doesn't change this fact Joe Quinn got home after & winning trip with a kick at the umpires. Maybe these much abused individuals are not so far wrong after all. Winners and losers alike grumble at the decisions, which leads to the opinion that the umpire must be right at least half of the time, LOCAL HORSE NEWS OF WEEK Aftermath of the Race Meet that Was Rained Out om Third' Day. Since yesterday evening the Keystone farm has presented a lonesome appearance. A special Arms palace horse car, new from the shops in Chicago, was sidetracked on the farm switech and a carload of almost sixteen trotters was loaded for Des Moines. Besides the aged horses, such a George Castle, 2:11%; Bachelor Mald, 2:25%; The Merchant, The Medium, The Orphan, Confidence, etc., were the 3-year- olds, The Critic, The Clerk, Consclence and Consider, and two yearlings. The first stop Is Des Moines, where the races commence July From Des Moines the car will go the next week to Freeport, Ill, then Joliet and Galesburg, Ill. From the latter point the horses will go through the Grand cir- cuit, eastward, striking Terre Haute, Ind., Cincinnati, 0., and finally Hartford, Conm: Turning westward the Keystone string will make a long ship to Lexiogton, Ky., and will end the season at the big Memphls, Tenn., meet. At Lexington The Critic will meet the crack 8-year-olds of the year in the rich classic event, the Kentucky Fu- turity. The Omaha management is recelving great encouragement through the horse press for the clean, up-to-date meeting just given in Omaha. Although, on account of rain, only two days’ racing could be given, those two days ehowed horsemen that the meeting was being conducted in a fair, busfness-like way. The only horseman who would have the slightest ground for com- ‘The most quickly effective thing on earth for nature's *' house cleani which poison the blood and drag down the vitality. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, JULY 6, plaint and that was John Raynor, who pro- [ tested the last heat in the 2:18 trot, said | to the secrotary betore he left: ‘“Thomas, |1 eheerfully withdraw my protest and you | can pay the money as the judge decided, for 1 see you fellows are treating everyone allke. 1 am going to be sure and take In | Omaba again mext year.” Although the Millard Hotel stake for 2:35 pacers was not decided, it being on Friday's program, the assoclation lived up to the rules and mot only pald back the entrance fee of $25 to each starter, but gavo them the same amount additional. This is strictly accord- 10& to & rule that some assoclations try to get around. Charles H. Gelo, the best known horse writer in the entire west, was present both days of the meeting. The result of his visit 1§ a strong article, in the current Horse Review, predicting a bright future for Omaha race goers. The friends of the as- soclation will be glad to know that in spite of the rain the club will come out about $16 ahead. It was the hope of the men interested to make enough to entirely overbaul the grounds. From present indi- cations they will do it anyway. As the horsemen gathered around the secretary, Al Thomas, to wish him goodbye and good luck, for he is a brother trainer, he said “Gentlemen, it we can get a lease on these grounds we are going to have a five or six days' meeting next year the week following the Denver meeting. If we get the lease the track will be almost entirely rebuflt. By mnext spring aleo the barns and sheds now standing will be almost entirely rebulit. Some of them will be torn down alto- gother. When you come again next spring you will not know the place.” TRACK MEET AT Y. M. C. A. PARK Director Barnes Announces the Ar- rangements for Amateur Athletic Contest. The fourth annual athletic earnival, un- der the auspices of the Omaha Young Men' Christian association, will be held Satur- day, July 19, at the Ames Avenue park, under sanction of the Athletic League of North America, and will be open to any registered amateur. Entry fee will be 25 cents for one event and 10 cents for each succeeding event. Entries close Wednes- day, July 17, at noon. All entries and com- munioations should be addressed to F. B. Barnes, Y. M. C. A, Omaha. Handicaps will be published July 18. The events are: 100-yard dash handicap; 220-yard dash, handicap; 440-yard dash, handicap; one mile run, handicap; running high jump, handicap; pole vault, handicap; running broad jump; twelve-pound hammer throw, handicap. Special events: G0-yard dash for boys under 12, scratch; 100-yard dash Yor boys under 16, scratch; one mile relay race (four men per team), five to enter, four to com- pete; pursuit race (between two teams from 'Cross Country club); half mile relay race for boys under 12 years (four boys in each team, each running 220 yards); tennis tournament (members only); boys' tennis tournament (members only); base ball game. Sultably lettered medals will be awarded for first and second places. Relay races only one medal to each member of winning team. ¢ Valuable Time Saved. Slight injuries often disable a man and cause several days' loss of time, and when blood polson develope, sometimes result in the loss of a hand or limb. Chamberlain's Paln Balm is an antiseptic liniment. When applied to cuts, bruises and burns it causes them to heal quickly and without matura- tion, and prevents any danger of blood polson. The t Straw. 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Let me see. Well, I'vh fished and fished and spent days and weeks about fishing camps and in parties of that kind, but I cannot seem to recall any fish story juet now.” That's & good sample of the answers you get, and it means a world of insistence and a persistent tickling of all the corners of an angler's memory before you can entice 80 much as & single aneedote, true or falee And it is not because the people aren't fishing. Omaha fishermen have never angled more madly than during the month of. June, despite the fact that the weather has been more unfavorable for that eport than in any previous summer for years past. Twen- ty-five ralny days out of the thirty did not suffice to check the exodus to the varlous fishiog grounds known to local sportsmen, nor did the steady hover of clouds during the remaining’ small portion of the month dampen: the enthusiasm of the wielders of line and rod. It would seem that the rainy spell even heightened the fishing fever, and when Its rarity ls coneidered this can be understood. The reel rollers probably looked at the matter philosophically and made up their minds that the rain assured them of water to fish In at least, €0 they went at the game with good will, rejolcing at the ool weather and adding only waterproofs and possibly rubber helmets to thelr outfits with which to guard against the discom- forts of a drizzle or a downpour. In any event, from whatever cause, it la certain that a horde of Omahans have done their MNttle stunt at casting or trolling or still- fishing the last month, and though the luck Bas been on the whole rather bad this has not dampened their ardor sufficiently to pre- vent thelr returning in good spirits. But, once again, ask theeo people for a good fish story and they stand mute, helpless. “A fish story. Ummmmmm. Well, say, ask me In tomorrow, won't you? I ought certainly to know some, but I'm at a loss to remember one just now." This was the way Judge Munger, the veteran of the northern lakes, met the proposition. But he hn(ll one the next day, all right, and here it fs: “Now, I'm about to tell you a fish story that will be the best you ever heard,” sald the judge. ‘“‘Not especlally because of its unusual features, although it has them. No, the great merit of this story lies in the fact of its absolute truth. The tale is remark- able. The incident did not even ocecur on & fishing trip, strictly epeaking, but there are plenty of fish in it. “The gist of the story i{s that I once owned a dog that caught fish with ease and avidity. You needn’t take my word for it. In my desk I bave a stat:ment to that effet, detailed In every particular of the catching, and eigned by three witnesses and sworn to before a notary. I'll show it to you. “This dog was pot raised for a fishing dog, and I nevei knew he was a fisherma; till he had attained a considerable age. Dash was born and bred a hunter, in fact, and as such I had always used him. His first flehing -experience resulted from a bunting trip, too, It was in the fall of 1895 and I was after ducks out in Dodge eounty near Robert Patrick's farm, with Fried of Fremont and some others. I was using Dash to retrigve that day, for he was al- ways a flne water dog, although he was an Irish setter. We had worked up along past the lake near Patrick's farm to the far end and had been unable to land any ducks. So at the end we took a shot or so at some enipe and went over to pick up a few that tell. In dolng this we came across an #so- lated pond, knee deep and clear, that had evidently been formed during high water, when it was a part of the lake, and had been separated by dry weather later. “This pond was simply alive with b and pike. It looked like the pools at the fish hatcheries, the fish were so thick in there. They were big, too, and without a word we jumped In that pond and went after the fish. We had the water riled up shortly, but despite tHat we scooped out the big fellows in armfuls, tossing them onto the bank. ‘Meanwhile Dash had been looking on and suddenly he splashed lnto the pond. He stood there, eyeing the surface of the water and then a finny back showed near him. He just grabbed it and went to shore, After laylng it sately on the bank he returned. We were dumfounded, but that beat fish- ing, even by hand, 60 we left off and just ‘watched that dog carry on. He landed fish after fish the same way, and when he once got & grip on one he never let loose till it was on terra firma. “It was a remarkable exhibition. The dog had simply mimicked our actions in the wates Clerk of United States Distriet Court Hoyt was present to hear this tale. “Well, he vouchsafed, when It was ended, “that may have been the first time a dog ever caught fish {n that manner, but it wasn't the first time men ever did by a long shot Back in York state years ago when I was & kid we used to do that same trick in the Erle canal. That place was at times fairly alive with fish, especially at the sea- son of the freshet They would come rushing down the canal in great swarms and we would wade in to meet them. All we had to do was to stand in the water tacing the rush and grab, throwing armful after armful out on the bank. Of course 1 do not mean to say that this occurred overy day, nor that I ever threw out more than & ton or so of fish at ome fishing, but the ‘great profusion of fish in the canal was the best preventive of any poverty or suffering in that neighborhood that could have been had." “My fish tale will have to be & hard Juck story,” said R. L. Bush, one of the cleverest fin teasers in Omaha, who was approached last Monday. “I have just returned from Lake Washington, where I spent eleven days. C. W. Baboock and 1 fished together during that time, and by last Saturday night we had landed a good sized haul, despite the unfavorable weather. We were makiug our headquar- ters at Pat Sheean's place, and each day s we finished up we would save out our cholcest fish and put them with our pile in & corner of Pat's lce house. We were to start bome Monday morning, so we completed the pile Sunday and counted a beautiful mess of 106 big ones, bass and plke. When we came In to get the string Sunday morning and start for the. station across couniry the whole thing was goue. We were mighty sore and could not explain it at first. Then we remembered that a great crowd of people had come down from St. Paul and Minneapolis for the one day's fishing on Sunday, and we decided that one of them had swiped our string on I Sunday night In order to make a sbowing when he returned home. tainly was in shape to make the showing sll right, for he had-ihe Wesults of our. e PAPA—Oh, what a pain! [ belleve I have a fever in the heart. MANMMA—Nonsen it 1an’t your heart, it's your stomach. Every time you eat, this hot weather, you get a sour stom- ach full of hot gases and acids, and you swell up until your heart hardly has room to beat. 1f you were not so obstin- you'd take my advice and keep your insides cool by taking a CASCA RET Candy Cathartic every night before going to bed. They work while you slesp and keep you regular in the hottest veather best efforts of eleven days to offer al day’s catch.” “0, cheer up,” sald Tom Brennan, who was standing by. “‘You ought to be mighty glad to have had such good sport. You were fortunate to have the opportunity of catching so many fine fish. When you hear my troubles you'll feel ashamed that you mentioned yours. I have been to Shell lake, away up In Wisconsin more than 600 miles. Now, let me say to yeu that after days and days of persistent fish- ing I have come back from that place that is touted so big as a fishing fleld with just four fish and only onme of those {s mine. What do you think of that? Ride all night and all day on the train to reach real prize fishing grounds and make that kind of a haul. But that wasn't the worst of it. 1 had Insult added to injury. As 1 was on my disconsolate way back a party joined the train from Lake Washington, not halt far away, and one man in it had 100 fine fish. And he was bringing that string to Omaha. I felt large and important with my little four fish.” “I cannot remember a fish story proper,* suld Harry Homan when approached, “but 1 remember a little incident which oc- curred on one of our fishing trips which was far more interesting to me than many fishing episodes, both from a scientific and a personal standpoint. The value of the occurrence Is chiefly in the fact that it goes to show so plainly how strongly we are affected by the mere thought that cer- taln things are 8o, or how easily the mind can daceive itself. “This was some years ago and we had a party of women with us. The men were sleeping on the ground in the open air, on | blankets. The women had a tent. It was in a southern state and reptiles abounded. | The women soon found this out, and when it came time to go to bed they became trantic with fear, refusing to lle down or | coven sit down for fear of snakes, tarantulas an centipedes. ‘We were at'a loss as to what to do with them, till the guide for the party came to the rescue with a happy thought. “It {s well known that no varmint will cross a lariat rope of twisted halr. It is rough and prickly and they refuse to slide over it Cowboys always make use of this fact and ring their halr lariats around them when they sleep in the open air. This gulde explained this to the women oand sald he would run his lariat around the tent. They were contented, but insisted on seeing it done. “Here came the rub. There was not a hair lariat in the camp. We had, however, a short bair rope on the halter, and the guide played a good bluft with this. He gave me one end at the front corner of the tent and he walked past the entrance with the other end It just reached around the other corner, and he dropped it there out of sight of the women, who were watching through the flap, but he kept right on walking round. Finally he reached me on the other side and told me to tle the ends. The result was that the women went to sleep and rested sourdly, safe in their own minds and so in reality. There were a tew masculine members of that party, how- ever who lay awake nearly all night, so as to be sure and get that rope away before the women had & chance to discover the hoax in the morning, as we all knew it wasn't safe for us to play on thelr credulity and let them find it out.” “That reminds me of the way some of the more mischievous ones in our crowd would scare the other sick when I was & young sald Robert Patrick. “We had a fine fishing place about twenty miles from home and a party of us used to drive over in a blg wagon, with provislons and cook- ing utensils, and stay a few day: always slept in the open air, and that wi our chance for fun at the expense of the sleepler onet The favorite trick was to wait till some serious-minded fellow fell fast asleep and then to shove the wagon close up to his bed. Then we would grab the trace chalns on the doubletree and rattle them like mad, yelling all the time, ‘Whoa, there!’ The effect was Indescrib- ably funny. The nolse would wake the sleeper suddenly and the words, the sight of the wagon right over him and the rattling, which sounded just as the chalns sound when the team is at a loose gallop, would make him sure that the team was running away and was right on top of him. No matter how often It was repeated, the result was always a cinch.. The victim never falled to go straight up in the air, trightened to our hearts' content.” “I think I have won more bets as a result of one lone fishing trip than’ in any other way,” said Harry Townsend, “and I still stand to win more any time, for I always have the means with me, Ali I do 1s to bet that 1 once saw a frog with a leg fourteen inches and a half long and I invariably win. D'l bet you the cigars on that same proposition right now. You don't want it? Well, you're wise, for I always carry the bones of that leg with me. Here they are, from toe to top, and they will measure what I say.” And Harry fingered the treasure tenderly as he replaced it in the envelope in which it was carried. The bone was as big as a leadpencil in the heavier part of the leg. “I got that in 1898, continued ~Harry. “My brother and myself were fishing and hunting along Silver creek, in Mitchell county, west Texas, in what they called the great American desert. The first night there we heard the roaring of a frog that made & noise far deeper and louder than that of any bull. We could hardly believe it was & frog and only knew it was because the nolses came in short fragments. We remarked that it must be a mighty big frog. The mext day we were working up creek with our guns, looking for ducks, when I saw the frog on the opposite bank. He was & monster, sittiug as bigh as a pug dog, and was & beautiful green color. We watched him a moment, amazed, and then I crawled up for a shot. The frog let me get close and & charge of No. 6 shot planted him where he sat, “That night we each ate & leg and they wers a4 blg as & two-pound stsak, I saved the bones from mine, stripping it clear down ta the toes, and took them back to town when we returned. There I almost broke the town. We would tell the story of the frog, say that it welghed twenty pounds and had a leg fourteen inches and a half long and offer to bet on the latter proposition and prove it. The game easy. “It might be interesting to you to know, by the way, that this creek where we got the frog was the famous disappearing creek, worshipped by the Comanches, its banks being their favorite camping ground and rendezvous. All along the firet por- tion of its course it would run a little way and then dive under the sand, coming out a quarter of a mile or so farther on. For this characteristic the Indians venerated it. After ten miles, however, the tributary springs were so Dumerous that it disappeared no more." “I can tell you something that Al May- hew of Waterloo, Neb,, did one time that you'll not believe,” sald George A. Hoag- land, “but it can be proved by three wit« nesses. Fifteen years ago Al sunk a hoopnet in the mouth of the Elkhorn river at Valley when the fish were running up stream. The next day he pulled it up with elght catfish in it. They weighed Just 2,100 pounds, a little over a ton. Their size was fairly uniform, each welghing something less than 300 pounds. Can you beat that? ““That was a great catch that three of us made at Webb lake, in Minnesota, two weeks ago,” sald Judge Fawcett. ‘“In one day we pulled out 500, pounds and threw | back ifnnumerable pickerel that kept both- ering us. It's good fun to fish like that Five miles below Council Bluffs, on the | Missourl river, there is a veritable fisher- | men’s Utopla. Few anglers know of this spot, but those who do make many visits there. It is called Augustine's place, after the man who owns it, and it 1s not so much for fishermen exactly for those who have a taste for fish, which are generally fishermen, #o it amount to the same thing in the end. And this is what you can find at Augus- tine's: Absolute quiet, the river at its pfettiest, a beautiful grove on its banks, a cool breeze of pure air, a mossy sward, and the grandest kind of a fish supper at the day's close, prepared at an open fire be- fore your eyes and eaten out of doors. Augustine owns a little farm, but he is a born fisherman, and you never have to tell him you are coming, for he always has the fish part of the program om hand. Just put a basket of bread and butter sand- wiches and a few bottles of beer in the back of your buggy some afternoon and drive down to Augustine’s. He has some smooth quoit grounds and you cam play at the game if you like, or loat or read. At dusk Augustins will start his open fire near by and throw a peck of potatoes In the em- bers. Then he will bring a few handeome catfish from a hoopnet near shore and will proceed;to cook them by an original method. He rune a sharp, long stick through each fish from end to end, then shoves the stick perpendicularly in the ground before the fire. As ome side of the fish thus impaled s brofled he turns the stick, and by thus twisting now and then the job is finished. Those who have eaten there eay it is the finest plece of fish broiling to be had in the country. Lately a few soclety people have learned of this stunt, and several times parties have gone to Augustine’s. Ed George in partic- e \IM‘ INCORPORATED $100,000,00. EASY MONEY $10 makes $100 by our sure and safe gystem of turf investment. Entirely NewPlan, Write for it quick DOUGLASS DALY €O, Turf Commissioners, 112 Clark Street, CHICAGO. 'DR. MCGREW (Ags 53) SPECIALIST. 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Then many of the seasoned old fishermen who like to eat the things as well as catch. them, have long been in the practice of! golng down with thelr wives and families. “Bfly” Towneend, J. Smead, Charles Lowls and Bill Hardin do this ever and anon, and they.say they always hate to come home. Only a few miles above smelters, rallroad: shops and rallroad yards are filling the ate mosphere with a constant din and an ome nipresent haze of dirt and discharge, but none of either finds its way around the MI‘ to Augustine's, snugly hidden by the Great! Muddy. | Best Results in the New Coiffure Effeots are obtained by the oscasional use of COKE DANDRUFF CURE Golf, A’})er{ect toilet requisite at all times and especially agreeable after ‘ennis, Boating. Bathing, etc. Keeps the scalp clean; tne hair healthy and luxuriant. It has proven its undoubted merits. All Drugg Antiseptic. Saves time. Makes finest soft and velvety. Beware of counterfeits, s sell the genuine in 80c and $1 00 bettles. 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