Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 28, 1909, Page 29

THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: NOVEM BER 28, 1909 ITHE OMAHA SunDAY Brr ' { OMAHA, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 150, ITHOUT attempting to fix respon- sibility for the disappointing eareer of the Nebraska foot ball team during the last few weeks of the season which ended with the disastrous defeat on Thanksgiving day At the hands of a third-rate school, it may by suggested that something s radically wrong with Cornhusker athletics, and that the remedy should be applied vigorously apd without delay. Given a student body the size of that at Lincoln, and the proper spirit among the undergraduates, no form of sport or athletics should langulsh and fall into the state that has marked the carcer of the foot ball team. Whethor Coach Cole be all his supporters do- fractors say, the truth Is that under his administration the team that has worn the 'earlet and cream on the foot ball field has been sadly defeated under such condi- tlons as are discouraging to the friends ot the school, not to speak of the patriotic boys and girls who always want see the home team win. For this result the Coach must accept at least a part of the re- sponsibility. If his troubles are due to causes other than his ability, he is entitied to have those causes removed by the athletic board. If, as has been pub- Hely stated, the “frats” at Nebraska are responsib’e for the decadence of the prowess of the Cornhusker team, then the fraternities ought to feel ashamed. it thelr influence s to be along “rule or ruin" lines, it Is high time someone In Authority were reading them a lecture on the necessity of giving loyal support to Nebraska, rather than to a fraternity Bwhose general Interests are not centered at the school. If Cole goes or Cole stays, this disturbing element must be removed by the establishment of a better sense of patriotic justice, or Nebraska will never have on the fied a team that will rightly represent it. In the showing of hands that s certain to come, the whole matter ought to be cleared up. The record for the season Is all against Cole; the war between the '“Greeks” and the '“Barbs" may be at the bottom of it; but in it all Is nothing of credit “~r the University of Nebraska. or to If the news s correct that Murphy and Brush have secured holdings in the Phil- Wudelphia Naticnal league team, it Is dis- trossingly bad news. It Is a violation of one of the cardinal principles of clean baso ball for one man to be financially inter- @sted in more than one team in the same league, a principle that must be respected if the game is to endure as a strong, virile institution, ¥ Chicago and New York magnates, the sys- tém would be vielous, but it is doubly dengerous with men of this type Involved. The Natlonal league could il afford, just 8t this time, to suffer such a blow, for it 18 & blow to enlarge the powers of Murphy and Brush. The old organization necded rather to pull away from certaln moorings that were undermining Its stability, but ‘Instead of secking safer havens, It has anchored in another treacherous port. It example as well as precept were necessary 0 prove the evil of such a system, we might invite attention to the past history of the Wes league. Murphy spent the last year making trouble for the National. It he has secured a footing in Philadelphia, &8 it seems he has, he may be expeoted 10 make more trouble in the future, trouble that may really mean something to the 'Jeague and base ball. He is even a more @angerous man than Brush, for his sordid lust for power knows no bounds. SJust as the base ball world Jets ready 10 settle down into the comfortavle ¢ flation of feeling that the long-embl; war with the outlaws s over, cowes G. Tebeau and threatens a new spell of out- la-wry for no better reason than thut the 'National Assoclation of Professlonal liuse Ball Leagues awarded a man who lad Blgned with Tebeau back to the California #%Coast league, formerly the djutlaws. It {Was necessary in the adjustment of the Gomplicated questions arising through the Outlaws' surrender to award and shift ‘many players, and this was onc case In hand. The fact, however, that it (oushes the Interests of Tebeau makes all the Aif- ference In the world. Suppose, for instance, the player, Catoher Frambes, had Lean a player Tebeau didn't value or care for, then what would White Wings have done? It's not the principle of the thing, it ncver s that, that actuates Tebeau, but always the exigency of an lsolated case, wilh pure selfishness as the purpose to be snb- served. Well, come on with your war Cousin George. Our stomach is just atout 1 strong endugh to eat you right now. "-m the first time In thirty-four con- mecutive years Ned Hanlon Is out of base ball. He has sold his Baltimore team to Jack Dunn. Few men ever attalned as great and none greater distinction in the than Hanlon. As player, manager and magnate he was always a brilllant puccess and he is one of the men whose Pework and influence have elevated the §ame. [he Sporting News ls one medium of public expression not closed to personal 1 felicitations between friends this side of the grave. And this is well, too, for ante- mortem bouquets are excluded in so many | places. Before Zbysco and his manager go too far with that dream of bumping the public, « they should remember that Gotch let { Roller win & handicap once upon a time, but has Peraistently refused to allow him any further concessions. Jimmy Austin has done pretty well for & beglnner. At the end of his first season | In fast company he has them speculating sover who will be able to drag him away from New York. The St. Louls Browns after him. WIth thelr eminent proficiency in the pse of splkes why couldn't Joe Tinker and Ty Cobb devise an effective remedy of thelr misuse, now that they must stay with us, Goteh still finds time between curtain calls to go out and pick up a little easy money. This Zbysco fellow has got down 10 the two-falls-an-hour handicap class. Possibly Ty Cobb may be able to save gnough out of that increased salary to pay # 0 fine, anyway. . One benefit of the theater season is that "It has shut off the Jeffries-Johnson wind machine. % Guess now we can talk base ball with- Sut being accused of lese majeste. Spikes, like spitbails. have been adjudged & necessary evil Heavens, Joo Via, says Murphy, is o | Ma-horn eport! Leaving out of consideration | the personality of two such men as the | AUCTION BRIDGE FOR THREE Bidding in the Absence of a Fourth Player, | WHERE RULES DIFFER SOME| ‘"I' Point that Commends the to the Skillful Declaration an my's Hand. Game Player—The Dum- Auction bridge has become so on the other side of the Atiantic that the clubs have drawn up specthl rules to provide for a contingency that they might have foreseen from the start—the adapta- tlon of the game to three players when they canot get the fourth to make up a table for the, full rubber, While auction bridge may not be quite a8 good a game for three, as it 1s for four, 1t has one point which will recommend it very strongly to the player who is above the average. This Is that the responsibility for the result In scoring below the line depends entirely upon the individual and is not interfered with by any partner. It is quite true that the partner of the declared has nothing to do with the play on tha hand, but In straight bridge or In | auction for four players he gets in his | deadly work before the p'ay begins. There 1s probably no game in the world in which A bad partner can do you 8o much harm as In auction bridge. It s at the moment in which you are trying to make the game as expensive as possible for your opponents that he steps In and throws the whole cost of the experiment on you. After you have bid them up to four in diamonds, which you know they cannot make, and | have adroltly dropped them at that point by refusing to go any higher than the three of hearts, which you bid when you | knew you could make it, along comes your partner, ‘ full of mistaken geal, to help you and bids four in hearts, on which the adversaries simply slaughter you. In three hand auction one thing is certain. No matter how lad a p'ayer may be at the table or how wildly he may declare you will never be called upon to play that declaration. Tf it is the highest bid, he will play it himself and alone. It it is not the highest it does not matter much what he bid, as it Is not a contract that anyone will be called on to fullfill. The rules of the game differ in some respects from those for four hands. The cholce of seats and the first deal are cut for as usual, the lowest cut dealing the first hand and the next lowest sitting on bis left, the other at the dealer's right. This leaves the dummy hand opposite the dealer, but it may happen on subsequent deals that the dummy or vacant seat will be on the actual dealer’s right or left. This makes no difference, as thirteen cards are desit, one at a time, to each of the four positions at the table, whether there is any one sitting opposite the dealer or not. No | | change 1s made In the positions of the | players untl the final declaration is set- | tlea. | The deal passes to the left, and the deajer |in each hand must make an original bid | of at least one in spades. Each player in | turn has an cpportunity to bid higher, to | ouble or to pass, dumm.y's thirteen cards lying untouched. The player bids on his own cards without any idea of giving In- formation to any partner who might do better, as the player sitting opposite him will not be his partner unless as opposed to the declaration of the third player. There I8 no new deal if & player makes a declaration out of turn, because he Is not giving information to any one but his adversaries, each of whom scores fifty points penalty in the honor column and proceeds as If no irregular bid had been made. There is no limit to the number of times a player may Increase his bid, provided he is overcalled by some oOther player in the interval; but If a bid fs not overcalled the bldder cannot change it in ary way. As soon as the highest bid is deter- trined, the thirteen cards dealt for the dummy are placed opposite the declarer. 1* there happens to be a player sitting op- posite him, that player moves into the va- cant seat, taking his own hand with him. Dummy's cards are not exposed until the eldest hand, to the left of the declarer, has led. The knowledge that a certain position will be occupled by the player sitting opposite you s sometimes useful when you are In earnest about getting the declaration; because you can judge from the bid made by the one who will be com- | pelled to change his seat what sult he will lead or what will be led to him when the play begins. No matter how many changes of position of this kind take place, the order of the three players does mot alter, 8o that each deals in his right turn | all through the rubber. On first taking up this game some per- sons are confused by the changing of the hands. It should be observed that the two hands which are dealt opposite one | another are never partners unless the va- cant seat happens to be opposite the high- est bldder. If the vacant seat is on the bldder's right, the thirteen cards that lie there will be his dummy, and not his ad- versary cards. There are one or two rules for the three hand game which differ materlally from | those of four hand. Most of the irregu- larities treat demand & new deal fn four hand are settled in penalties In three hand. For instance: If, after the deal 1s com- pléte, but before a card is led, any player exposes a cord from his own hand, that ard must be left on the table. Each of his adversaries will score 100 points penalty and when it comes to the play of the hana the declarer, If he was not the one in taull, may prevent the eldest hand from | leading the suit of the exposed card. | If he does not exercise this right the | card remains on the table as exposed and | Mable to be called unless it can be got | ¥id of in the ‘course of play. If the card | | was exposed by the declarer he may take It up, and there s no further penalty against him beyond the 100 points. I & player doubles a declaration out of turn each adversary scores 100 points pen- |alty and the one who s wrongly doubl:a shall have the rigit to say whether or Lot the deuble shall stand. not allowed to stand, caunot double that declaration, but the bidding may proceed. If one player doubles only the one who is doubled can. redouble. But for this rule a player might be doub- lng his partoer. No.one but the declarer, who plays the dummy hand with his own, can score to- ward game In the trick column, therefore no one but the highest bidder can win the §ame or rubber on any deal. When the declaration succeeds It Is scored as at bridge. *If it has been doubled the Aeclarer gets | fifty points penalty. If he gets more than his contract he gets fifty points for each additional trick as well. It he has re- ’duuhlud the penalty s 108 Instead of fify. popular | the other | #ames gets 2360 points more for winning the | 1f |the double is | player | they get is not the point. The thing to count Is the tricks taken by the declarer | If he has bid to get two by cards and| wins five tricks only he fails by three | Many beginners at thi= game make the mistake of reckoning that as the adver- saries get two by cards they get two tricks penalty, which Is ail wrong. Every game counts 100 points to the win. ner of it, and the first player to get two rubber, games bonus; points. Honors are scored according to the num- ber held by the individual player who Scores them, instead of by partnership holding, as at bridge. The declarer counts the honors in his dummy, of course, but hix adversaries score their hands Indepen- dently of each other. Bach honor 18 worth one trick in points, 80 that one honor In spades are worth 2; two honors in dtamonds are worth 12, and 80 on for the other suits. If a player holds four or five honors in his own hand they count double, four In spades belng worth 16 instead of 8, five in hearts $0 instead of 4. In no-trumps the aces are worth 10 points each, but four in one hand are worth 100, At tho end of the rubber the scores are balanced by the skat system, so that each player wins or loses to each of the others the difference between his score. and theirs. Here is an example of the method, the final scores at the end of a rubber being shown in the top line: %o that if in succession, 100 for each the player wins two he gets 40 points game and 20 rubber A wins from B the difference between 0 and 1,83, which is 535, 0 A Is credited with that amount and B Is charged with it. A and C are then compared in the same way and finully B and C are ad- Justed. The additions prove that A wir all the money, the losses being shared by B and C. With regard to the tacties of the game they differ in no respeet from any form of bridge when it comes to the play of the cards, but in the bidding for the trump there I8 a material difference from the factors that control in auction bridge for four players. In three-hand you are never trying to coax your partner to increase his bid or to go no-trumps by showing him your strength. You are strictly on your own account all the timi To the beginner the confusing element | In three-hand auction is due to the fact | that the hand which will be your partner's If you get the declaration Is absolutely mum In the bidding and s always more or less of a mystery. When this form of llle‘ game Is first trled good players rapldly arrive at the conclusion that they can eredit the dummy hand with strength in the sults which are not named in the bid- ding If the sults are expensive ones, Suppose that the dealer starts with one club, the dummy hand lying on his right. Second player goes one in diamonds and | the third bidder cannot have anything in | hearts or he would bid one heart to over- call one diamond instead of risking three in spades., This looks as If the dealer could trust dummy for the hearts. Knowing that the spade suit will be on his right and the diambnds on his left, he can calculate the probabilities of succeeding with & no- trumper according to his chances of stop- ping either or both the declared suits and of finding dummy with the hearts. With a little experience at the game the sharp players soon begin to utilize this system of trusting dummy by turning it into & very fine bluff. nothing at all In a sult they bid on i, | 80 as to make the other players think it it not in the dummy. The effects of this style of play are sometimes rather curious. The player who has made the bluff is perhaps left with the declaration and finds to his agreeable as- | tonishment that dummy has the whole sult and the contract goes through swim- mingly, thanks to dummy's help. On the other hand, it sometimes turns out that when one player has made a blurt on hearts, another has made a bluff on diamonds. The one who ls bluffing on diamonds thinks the other is afraid of that suit and that the dlamonds are act- ually in the dummy, so he calls two or three in dlamonds, although he has noth- | ing in that particular sult himself. When | dummy's cards are turned up, he finds| to his Qlsgust that dummy has all the hearts and has nothing in diamonds at all, and he goes down for three or four tricks The chief skill in three-hand lles in the Judgment of what your cards are worth It taken In conjunction with an average dummy. In this respect, the declaration, | 1t sound, very closely resembles the mako | in ordinary bridge, but, of course, no trumpers for more than one or two| tricks Bhould not be lightly risked If the bidding shows a strong sult against you In which you have noe protection. There are some who profess to think | ous rac | some of |the great falling off | price makers at the this game would be much improvea if | the dummy hand were turned up the bidding began, and each player were | aliowed to bid on what he thought he could do with that and for a partner. The writer three hand just as an experiment, and it | was found that while one player might be | wiling to undertake to do a certain thing with dummy for a partner, his undertak- Ing was, as a rule, either very limited or very safe. The others, at the same time, had ample opportunity to judge what they could do against the exposed hand, and the great objection to this form of the | game turned out to be the time the p.‘n)-er.\‘ took to think it all over before they would | Venture to make a bid at all. Take it all together, the rules they have drawn up for three-hand auction bridge Seem to make a game that is quite good enough to pass the time very pleasantly make up the regulation table, NEW YORK, Nov Joe Jeanette and test of thirty rounds at a show to be held at the Cirque de Parls, the blg fight ciub in the French capital, on the night of | December 1. They will battle for a purse | of 500, of which the winner will receive $.500 and the loser 32,000, This battle will be the second fight be tween these men, their previous one hay- Ing been wom by Jeanette, who awarded the decision after McVey was haa not fight any longer. tralning for the fight Defeat for Staute STANTON, Neb., Nov Team. %.—(Spectal.)—In ball on the loeal floor, the Alligator team of Weat Point defeated the Big S team of Stanton by the score of % to 18, on Thanks- giving day. The features of the game were the all around playing of Thompson of When the declarer falls to get his con- tract each of his adversaries scores fif'y Polnts penalty for each trick by which he falls, or 10 if either of them doubled, 200 if they were redoubled. The number of tricks West Point and Templin of Stanton. Goals |from tield: Thompson, 5 Theisen, 4 | Krause, Page, 1; Templin, 2; Nye, 2. Foul |throws: Stanton, 6; West Point, 5. Referee {Sidel. Umpire: K. Thompson. qQuit in the fiftieth round, saying he could | Both men are now | one of the most exciting games of basket | | consisted of fourteen days, | tour tried this style of playing | winning favorites, | Black Mate, | Tim Plppin, 10 to 1; 1da D., 1 to 1, and when it is impossible to get a fourth to | M Americuns Are Matched to Fight a¢ |Vilsner, | | won, a | Byzantin HARDSEASON FOR THE LAYERS | Percentage of Winning Favorites | Greater Than Ever Before. RECORD OF RACES IN GOTHAM| In 817 Runm in New York 304 Fiest Cholces Are Succesaf Also 194 Second Cholces and 87 Third Choloes. NEW YORK, Nov. %i.—Judging from the restlts of the races run on the Jockey club’'s tracks In New York state this year the so-called bookmakers did not have much to spare in the struggle with the form players. Enemles of racing when at- tempting to point out the evil supposed to emanate from betting seldom fail to allude to “ecrafty bookmakers who are rolling in wealth because the public is victimized by a brace game.” Tt Is candidly admitted by any falr minded turf advocate that racing 16 4 hard game to beat, but it Is also true that many acceptors of oral wagers during the recent campalgn here lost heavily be- ecause of the remarkable consistency of what is known as “public form.” According to records of well known speculators who keep tabs on each year's business, or rather the form displayed by public cholces, lost season surpased all previous ones In the number and percen- tage of winning tavorites, second and thi; choices. There were 13 days devoted to the sport In this state, exclusive of hunt meetinge, and in that time 817 races were run, including steeplochases. In thess events 304 favorites were succesful, a rec- ord breaking percentage of .48; 184 second choices and 57 third cholces won, making a total of 67 successful public cholces, or an average of 8 per cent. There were 113 unplaced favorites and 121 winners at odds of § to 1 or more. Many of these long shots were heavily backed, too, so that the men who lald the odds and took oral wagers were evidently up against a stiff game. Many of the layers who finished ahead of the game were unable to collect what was coming to them, but those who lost were compelled, as a matter of palley and custom, to make good every dollar. Dope on the Game. Yet in splte of this remarkable mani- festation of form it is a fact that numer- were regarded as ‘“queer” and the best known jockeys Wwere roundly scored for suspicious looking rides. The absence of organized bookmaking and In the number of tracks were sald to be reasons why the horses ran more closely to the calculations of form students than In former years, but at the same time it must not be overlooked that many of the successful favorites were at such short 0dds that few persons could back them. The Peer, for Instance, won a race at 1 to 40, while Ilambala, Jack Atkins and Celt, scored at 1 to 3, with Fitz Herbert quoted at 1 to 15 on several occasions. Some of these short priced favorites were upset, too, notably The Peer, at 1 to 13, when he indulged In one of this errdtic performances. The layers almost to a man admitted that the players displayed increased know- ledge of the game. They asserted that in a majority of races no matter how many horses went to the post the play was centered upon two or three starters, and that the only chance they had to win was when those cholces ran contrary to the way they were played or some un- backed long shot got home to upset the When they have |talent. The average price maker, there- fore, will tell you that he had an un- usually bad year, all things considered, and that his prospects for another season are not particularly bright. The betting, as a rule, was rather light. There were very few big bettors, the speculation being, in a measure, confined to small fry oper- ators or to the layers who wagered with one another. The tnability to record wag- ers caused numerous disputes which could not be adjusted by the former methods of a1 itration so that the entire system of betting was hardly satisfactory. Details ot the Season. The opening meeting at Belmont park which began on May 13, continued eleven days, in which sixty-seven races were run. Thirty-six favorites were victorious, a percentage of .54 while sixteen seconds cliolces and two third cholces were also successful, with six favorites unplaced. The winning horses at § to 1 or better were Elfin Bedu, 8 to 1; Waldo, 10 to 1; De- tian, 10 to 1; Mary Davis, 10 to 1; Racquet, 8 to 1, and Marcellus, 16 to 1. In eleven days at Gravesend there were sixty-six races, in which thirty-six fay- orites, twelve second choices and seven third cholces won, the percentage of suc- cessful favorites being .65. Then first choices did not finish in the money and the long priced winners were Black Chief, 25 to 1; Notasulga, 15 to 1; Royal Onyx, 13 to 1; Judge Ermentrout, 5 to 1; Prince Gal, 20 to 1; Lucella, 15 to 1; Bigot, 60 to 1; Mexoana, § to 1, and Summer Night, 15 to before | 1 The spring meeting at sheepshead Bay races which produced thirty-nine & percentage of .46, fir- teen second choices, fifteen third cholces and twelve unplaced favorites, wi\ these victorious long shots: Dalmation, 15 to 1; Rockstone, 15 Notasulga, § to 1; 20 to 1; Chickasaw, 40 to 1; to St. Dunstan, 8 to 1 The racing during the Empire City meet- Ing eame In for some harsh comment, ye: in ninety-six races run In sixteen days 41 per cent of the favorites, thirty-nine, got the money. There were twenty-four suc- cesstul second fourteen third s and fifteen unplaced favorites, The ong priced winners were Zephyr, 20 to 1; Ighting Bob, 16 to 1; Eschau, 12 to 1; altbie, 20 to 1; St , 2 to 1; Hal- cholces, cho Jose | ket, 10 to 1; Superstition, 8 to 1; Sir Ned- | to 1; Tomy Faus, ! TWO0 SMOKE PUGS IN FRANCE | '© ! Frank Purcell, @ to 1; Queen of tie dam, 8 to 1; lda D. Hills, H te, § to 1 and Shapdale, 8 Maltb: Neddam Cam- to 1 . Halket, Su Tony Faust ghting perstitio and Sum McVey, the colored American heavy- | <"*PI°d shrewd persons to subject the lay- welghts, were matched to meet in a con- | <™ !0 @0 artistic trimming Saratoga’s Showing, The Saratoga the lasted were 14 races meeting, the twonty-four largest of days. There In whi_h sixty-four favorites Ppercentage secoud cholces wihile thirty-five This meeting long shots 9 to 1; Beaucoup, Johnson, year of .42 also fourteen favorites bristied with including Appica- 8 to 1; Sir John 12 to 1; Bpellbound, § to 1; Bell wether, 15 to 1y Black Hawk, 10 to 1; S to 1; Loulse Welles, 8 to 1; Baird, 10 to 1; Herpes, § to 1. Rocky O'Brien, 40 to 1; John Johnson, 10 to 1; Firestone, § to 1; Glennadeane, 10 0 1; Glorlole, § to 1; Pretend, 8 to 1; Cholrmaster of Chesterbrook, 3 to 1, Quantico, § to 1; Wise Mason, § to 1; Rio § to 1; Achleve, § to 1; Spelibound, § to 1; Henderson, 20 to 1: Stmple Honour § to 1; Donad McDonald, 12 to §; The Wrestler, § to 1; St. Deiniol, 10 to 1; Aunt Jule, 15 to 1; Rlo Grande, 10 to 1 and Hobbin Around, ¥ to L The fall scason at thirty third cholce were unplaced. triumphent tion, Alice «|1i Patsy, 8 to 1; with elghty- | | howea & greater percentege of winning favorites than ever were recorded on an enstern track. Seventy-two races were run in twelve days and forty-three favorites. % per cent, landed in front. There wero tyenty-one victorlous second choices, four third cholces and favorites that | finlshed In the ruck. The long shots that went over the plate in front were Summer | Night, 2 to 1; Raquet, 3 to 1; Queen Marguerite, 8 to 1; Woodcratt, % to 1; Campaigner, 10 to 1; Harlem Mald, 12 to 1, and Livonta, 16 to 1 In seventy-two races in twelve days at Gravesend, In the fall, thirty-five favorites #ot the money and hung up a percentage of 49 per cent. Seventeen second and nine thINd ohoices also scored, while seven | favorites were unplaced. The long priced winners at this meeting were Huda's Stster, 15 to 1; Allce Baird, 12 to 1; Wool- casta, 18 to 1; Alanarku, 80 to 1; The Turk, 8 to 1; Effendl, 12 to 1; King's Commoner, 30 to 1; Majestic, 10 to 1, and Affliction, 15 to 1 | Then came Belmont Park again with twelve days and seventy-two races, in which thiity-eight favorites scored for a percentage of .63, also twenty-one second | cholces and six third cholces in front, with six favorites out of the money. Ben Loval, 10 to 1; Twilight Queen, 10 to 1; Bello, 12 |to 1; Everett, 8 to 1, and Royal Captive, 8 to 1, provided upsets. Jamaica’s Twelve Days. In seventy-two races at the Jamalca meeting of twelve days thirty-four fa- vorites passed the judges first for a per- centage of 7. Twenty sccond cholces and |five thira choices also scored, with thir- teen favorites out of the money. The long shots that went over the plate wera Beau- coup, 10 to 1; Desirous, 10 to 1; May River, 20 to 1; Campalgner, 10 to 1; Queen Mar- | guerite, 8 to 1; The Turk, 10 to 1; Prac- |tical, 12 to 1; Rockstone, 12 to 1; Marigot, 10 to 1; Mobility, 10 to 1; County Fair, 2 to 1; De Kalb, 16 to 1, and Far West, 10 to 1 At Aqueduct in seventy-two races thirty- four favorites, eleven second cholces and eleven third choices were first at the wire, the percentage of winning favorites being 47, Four favorites falled to get Inside of the money and the successful long shots were Cindy, 10 to 1; Earl's Court, 20 to 1; Bang, § to 1; Hill Top, 15 to 1; Hoffman, ® to 1; Racquet, 8 to 1; Hampton Court, 15 to 1; Shapdale, 12 to 1; Imprudent, 8 to 1; Dandy Dixon, 8 to 1; 8ir Evelyn, 10 to Rockstone, § to 1; Star Bottle, § to 1, and Black Mate, 12 to L The most sensational killing of the year was pulled off by John E. Madden with Hampton Court, when the colt was backed from 2 to 1 down to 8 and won in a gallop. Madden would not say how much money he cleaned up, but it was reported that the amount ran .nto five figures. Among the price makers who were miss- ing a greater part of the season were Leo Mayer, English Bill Jackman, Jim Murphy, the Cellas, Cole Ullman, Jack Sturgls, Bill Cowan, Kid Weller, Frank Tyler and others. Many former betters remained away, Including John W. Gates, Charley Elllson, Joe Yeager, John A. Drake, Al Dryer, James B. Brady, Jesse Lewlisohn, Frank J. Farrell, T. D. Sullivan and C. E. Durnell, STALLINGS SPENDS HIS MONEY Who seven Has Twenty-One New Players, Cost a Fortune. NEW YORK, Nov. 2.—The twenty-one new players who will be & part of Camp Stalllngs next spring cost the New York American league club $29,90. That amount of money certainly should bring some re- sults, There is ons player's name oppo- site which a lttle red star should be placed to attract attention, Johnson, who played third base on the Portland club of the Pacific Coast league last season, cost Frank Farrell $,00. But, according to reports, he is worth all of it. Denny Long, the same who uncovered Hal Chase, is the discoverer of Johnson, and Flelder Jones, former manager of the Chicago White Sox, safs he's the real thing as a ball player. The following table shows where each player came from and how much was pald for him: Player and Club. Price. Johnson, Portland . -$ 4,000 Fisher, Hartford 5 Farrell, Marion . Foster, Detrolt Mitchell, Toronto Roach, Lancaster Daniels, Altoona Carroll, Akron Frill, Newark Madden, Utlca .. Wanner, Hartford Tiemeyer, Altoona Wotel’, Altoona Channell, Fort Wayne . Danzig, Lowell . Gray, 'Willlamsport McMahon, Syracuse Clum, Portsmouth Revelle, Richmond Walsh, Rocky Moun: Upbam, Akron g2588 g e 201909099, EEEEFER T glgs Total Nelson W NEW YORK, Nov, 2I.—Battling Nelson has finally consented to give Freddie Welsh, the English lightwelght champion, the preference over the other fighters in a battle with him, and as soon as Welsh ar- rives here from England they will be matched to meet in & forty-five round fight at Jimmy Coffroth’s openalr club at Colma, Cal, for the lightwelght championship of | the world. ‘““Welsh's victory of Summers, which gave him the title of champlon of England, en | titles him to a fight with me,” said Nelson, | “and on that account I have decided to give him the first chance when I have fin- |1sbed up my present theatrical engage- |ment. He must fight me forty-five rounds, | as T will not agree to any other aistance.” Freddle Welsh certainly made a bunch of money out of his recent victory over Johnny | Summers at the National Sporting club of London. Besides winning the big end of |the purse, Welsh also wagered enough | money on his chances to send his winnings up to $10,00. Welsh intends to sail for this country the second week in December, ~ SUIT OR OVERCOAT TO ORDER $20 During this stock reducing sale we will make to measure your choice of our $25.00, $28.00 and $30.00 Suits and Overcoats— For $20.00 These garments will be well made and finely trim- med—We use Skinner satin for the overcoat sleeve lin- ing, silk velvet for the collar, and a good body lining that will wear as long as the goods. We guarantee 'every gar. ment perfect in fit and style. MacCarthy-Wilson ' Tailoring Co., | 304-306 South 16th St. Sheephead Bay | HOW SHE CURED - HeR RHEUMATISM 1 wish every rheumatic sufferer to know what 8. 8. 8. did for me, I had been afflicted with Rheumatism for twenty years, sametimes being entirely laid up by it, and always lame in some part of my body. It grew worse until it was misery to attempt to walk at all; my right knee was nearly twice its natural size and was drawn up considerably shorter than the other one. A friend advised me to take S.S. which I com- menced, I had tried so many things that I must say I had very little faith that it would do me any good, but was willing to try anything that promised relief. Before I had been using it long I was greatly encouraged, and continuing the medicine I soon found I was entirely cured. The lameness and soreness all left, and I can straighten, move or bend my leg as well as any one. I am sixty-five years old, but have had no symptoms of Rheumatism since S. 8. S. cured me. MRS, IDA M. PALMER, No. 195 Fulton St., Blooklyn, N. Y. The sincere and truthful tone of Mrs. Palmer's letter must impress every one who reads it. She had suffered with the agonies of Rheuma~ tism for twenty years, and when she found a medicine that proved its worth by curing her, a humane interest in others who were suffering from the disease prompted her to recommend it. Rheumatism is due to a diseased condition of the blood cells and corpuscles, brought about by an excess of uric acid in the circulation. This uratic impurity gets into the blood usually because of systemic irregularities, such as constipation, imperfect kidney action, indigestion, and other minor stomach disturbances. These common ailments prevent the proper working of the eliminative members, and thus a certain percentage of the refuse matter which should pass off is left in the system to sour and form uric acid, which is absorbed into the blood. Then the corpuscles of the circulation which ordinarily furnish nourishment to the body, are saturated with the uratic impurity, which they deposit into the muscles, nerves, bones and joints. This causes inflammation and the pains, aches, and stiffness of Rheumatism. External applications, such as plasters, liniments, hot a¥plications. etc., cannot have any permanent effect on Rheumatism. emporary relief from its pains is sometimes afforded by such measures, but the old cause is always at work in the blood, and as soon as the local treatment is left off every symptom will return. i There is but one way to cure Rheumtism, and that is to purify the blood—cleanse the circulation of the uric acid impurity. S. .S.dzo';l and at- into the blood s. s.s. tacks the disease at its PURELY VEGETABLE head, and by removing every particle of the in- flammatory uratic matter, and buildin* up the blood to a healthful condition, this medicine destroys the cause and cures Rheu- matism. When S. 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