Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 8, 1910, Page 30

A A A e = e ————————————RROR You're Luveny "~ you Qer T rwe e st r INUSRGENCY N TENNIS Western Devotees of Game Rebel at East's Rules, ' PROBLEM FOR THE ASSOCIATION Natl 1 Organization Left on Limb | by the Attitude of New Follow- ers of the Clay Court Contents. NEW YORK, May 7.—The fascinating | | theme of lawn tennis and its national aspects, from the Amerlcan standpoint, re- cently produced a lively and entertaining debate between two devotees of the game, who also hold positions as elub officials. Without Intending any eriticism of the United States Lawn Tennis assoctation for its share in past lawn tennis history,” sald one of the expert plagefs, “it Is oertain that its position toward the game will be put to the test during the ing season “ From all sections of the courry, and espe- clally the west, where the newly fnstituted clay eourt champlonship of the United States has served as Inspiration, there (s a marked inerease In the number of thoss socking the pastime of the courts. Now the question that comes into the minds of #ome of us Is: Is it to be shown that the laws and rules of the game mean some- thing and-are to be observed, or are they to stand as only something to be inter-| preted or violated according to agreements | between friendly competitors? ! b Power to Westward., ““There 18 no evading the fact that the national assoclatign and the active mem- | bers of the exceutive committee are to be | more closely judged by their acts this year | than In the past. It is not shooting wide of the mark to predict that another year | more power Wil be vested in representatives from the west, and even the Pacific coast. The time has arrived for the governing | body to face the conditions squarely and realize that no longer is lawn tennis the favorite game of a select few n the east- ern states, but s a sport played ardently by upwards of 4,000,000 of our population from Canada to the gulf, and from the At- lantic” ocean to the Pacific. ““The determined attitude of the western players at the last annual meeting stands @8 the handwriting on the wall. Dr. P. B, Hawk, who is a leader in that section of ©f the country, and the others associated with him, have declared that there the rules will be strictly observed. So the east may not do otherwise. Altogether, players here have been dissatisfied with the en- forcement of rules upon one special court, or In & speclal match of a tournament, and all others decided In & haphazard manner. If rules apply to one group of players or match, all should be %o gov- erned and judged. The unfairness of mak- ing ong player the especial victim of a' foot-fault judge, and allowing others to| &0 free, has already provoked to outbursts of excusable anger. The opportunity for & general enforcement of all the rules—and | lawn tennis Is remarkably free from the manifold technicalities surrounding other sporte—Is in the hands of the national as- soctation. Several of the executive com- mittee In the past have endeavored (o place the burden of Infringements upon the clubs. Certainly the clubs are in a measure sponsible, but their laxity carried penalty for flagrant infringemenis, and so nothing is accomplished beyond an un- pleasant discussion that ends nowhere.” . Growth Due to Merit, The continuance of the discussion em- phasized the bellef that ‘with the wide- spread growth of the game throughout the eountry—a growth due solely to merit, and not to the boom of promoted fostering— that conditions were to be materially Im- proved this season. Among the most im- portant clubs there Is & concerted effort toward enrolling an adequate staff of um- plres and linesmen before the actual com- petitions of ihe tournaments begin. Underneach the subject of rule enforce- ment and the position the national asso- clation may take in governing. crops out a spirit of Intense rivalry, At last the west looms &s a menace to the suprimacy of | the east upon the courts.. Westerners have | declared, In no spirit of bonstfulness, that | In tournament management they excell:d the east. Then the west has set itself the task of bullding up premier championship lints that will surpass other sections of the | country. Their Implféd challenge has | stirred not only the players of this section, | but the pationil association. As a conse- quence the tournaments about to begin af- ford early evidenco of exceptional sport and keen Intrrest in every way PRINCETON TENNIS HAMPERED Bad M mement and Few Coarts Threaten Sport. PRINCETON J., May 7,—Tennis at Princeton university s In & bad way probably the worst managed minor sport at Old Nassau, and the undergraduates are complaining. wiih cousiderable justice. Princeton has ten courts for move than 1,30 | students, while Lawrenceville preparatory school has thirty-two courts for only 400 boys, and some of thesa are too small to hold a racquet, and there is doubt that as \ary a proportion out of Princeton's total enrollment play tennle, or rather would ke 10, a8 15 the case at Lawrenckville. Prinoe- | ton has club courts, but thess are acces- sible to only a Mmited number of men, and & §ood many club mén may be seen on the university courts any day, PEORIA BATSMEN PLAY WELL Defeat Danville Three-l Team S'x to Three! DANVILLE, Ill, May 7.-Peoria batted today and won, § to § Seore: RH.E. I 2000100003 41 Peorla 0000023380 06123 tterles: Reynolds and Wolf, Swmirier musse , Ia. May #IR |tor the Swedish It is SUNDAY BEE: POSITIVELY |~o- DML T7ANC E Will szfange for Olympic - at Stockholm International Committee to Hold a Meeting for Big Contest at Luxemburg. — ! NEW YORK, May 7.—A meeting of the international Olympic committee has been called for the second week in June at Lux- emburg for the purpose, it Is said, of pass- iyg on the program of the games at Sweden 912, This program has already been ar- ranged and will be presented by Colonel Balck and Comte Clarence de Rosen, the Swedish representative on the International and to judge from the cursory allu- sions about its make-up It will not be nearly as long as the program of the Eng- lish Olympie two years ago. Such sports as football, archery, boxing, golf, hockey, lacrosse, racquets, tennis, motorboat racing and polo are to be ex- cluded, but there are to be a few events belonging to the track and field depart- meat which were not included in the Eng- lish list. One Is the pentathlum or all around champlonship. This was given In the program at Athens in 1906 and was won by Méllander, a Swede. Colonel Balck, It is sald, wiil suggest that the entire fixture cover @hout ten days amd that the entries from each country be made through their respective governing bodies to the Interna- tional committee. The Swedes will also suggest that the date of their games be figed for the early part of the month of June. The ‘work -of constructing the stadium, near Stockhalm, has progressed consider- ably. The stadium is situated In the Idrottsparken, near the city of Stockholm, on a picturesque site. As to the success of the fixture there need surely be no doubt, government Is behind It and the crown prince will be the president of the meet. The government has donated 400,000 franes toward the expenses of erect- ing the stadium and other Incidentals. The Swedish Sporting association have come forward with their help and have contrib- uted the sum of 100,000 francs toward the expense fund. The Swedes say they will carry out the program much the same way as the English did and they will imitate the London management as much as pos- sible, Des Moinésr(‘)pens SeasonThis Week Parade of Hundred Automobiles Will Eccort Team to Grounds—Mayor to Pitch First Ball. DES MO1 la., May T.—(Specia)—Dés Moines opens the season at home this week and great preparations are being made for the first game at the local park. A long automobile parade is being planned, with T. Fred Henry's band in the lead. The [lowa Auto club, uider the leadership of President John Gibson. will endeavor to line up 100 automobiles for the big proces- jon. Mayor Hanna will throw the first | ball. Former Manager Dwyer expects to Join the team tomorrow next day and though still weak from the appendicitis op- eration it is possible he may be In the game next w His batting Is expected to help put the Champs on the upgrade. isn:'r'ruc BASKET BALL EMINENCE or High School “B" Class Defeats Seniors by Score of 32 to 26, High school “B" clazs of the Young Men's Christian assoclation won the champlonship of the Omaha High school by defeating the senlor class team by a score of 32 to 2. This Is the first defeat for the seniors, while the “B" squad has a record of two games, losf out of thirty-ohw played. The game fast from the start. Dur ing the first few minutes of play th #eniors ran up a score of 10 before the B’ squad got any, but from the ‘time the latter started to score they kept the pace Just a littie too fast ‘for the others. Hughes and Crocker did the star playing. The_lineun: M. 8 B ! b . { SENIORS. 6. Geid Dar ) | Hughos (C) 3 Crocker o | carison | PR | Fleld goals: er, T; Carlson, |enroad, 1, Hughes, 2;' Weirick, 2 Howard, 4; Hoffert, 2; Mills, 1. Free throws: Burk- enroad, &; ‘Howard, i Hoffert, &. Each side awardad 1 point, Yifller Pari Mea's Plant, ]%] { The members of the Miller Furik | elub attended a smoker at the club ground roome, Friday night which gave these who were not famillar with the conditiens 4 the popular resort the Kdea of the line of work that has been mapped out for this Year's entertalnment of the club. ~Dubuque won today’s game, 4 to 3. Score R.H.E Waterloo ..., 0 0 20 1000035832 Dubua) 1010000204102 Batteriea: Clausson, Tarles and Harring- DAVENPORT, Ia., May 7.-Darkness to- atopped & twelve-lnning the game with The members who started the movement for a general athletic club at the Mliller park site explained what was meant by the organization of a club that would mean Ong of the spart centers of the eity. ches were made boosting the organ- ization Which Indicated that the growth of n:- °r“|=:u|m"' 7;." :u-;iy and would ventually terminate in one o strongest athletic organizations of 2 FOUL TIPS CATCHEKS' BANE Tom Needham, Old Backstop, Relates Experiences. STORY OF BATTERED HAND Crippled Members Tell Tale of Many Accidents Behind the Some Are Under Bat— Born Lucky Star. NEW YORK, May 7.—“Some catchers must have been born under lucky star Certainly I wasn't,” says Tom Needham, a veteran big league catcher. “When base ball fans discuss the various players with perfect hands, few stop to consider the backstops who have been in the game year after year without sustaining injuries osher than slight dislocations. But the doctors and surgeons have been a busy lot of men affixing finger splints and binding up the tape since base ball was adopted as the national pastime. Speaking of the disabled catchers it happens to he.my lot to register among the badly bent species. Ten years ago I had two perfect hands. Save for a few scars which bore mute 'stimony to my greenness as a tamer of hite rats and a group of freckles there wasn't a blemish on ef*her mitt. Now I am ashamed to look at them. “Foul tfps, the bane of all catchers, have altered the general appearance of my paws. The fingers of my right hand have been maimed or splintered so often I can scarcely cite all the instanees. It was one of George Mullin's fast balls, accompanied by a foul tip, that smashed the little finger of the pegging hand years ago, when 1 was connected with the Grand Rapids of the Interstate league. Charles Pittinger, now dead, broke the first finger of the same hand in 1904 The gnaried effect of my index finger speaks for the speed of Oscar Street. That happened while 1 was catching with the Wheeling club. Work Uhder Difficulty. “Oftentimes ~catchers, though hurt, are asked to work dally under i ful conditions. That happened to me after Vie Wilils, now of the St. Louls Cardinais, had smashed the lfttle finger of my throw- ing hand in 1900. While playing on the Fort Wayne club of the Interstate lcague under Manager Miller, 1 had the mis- fortune to break one finger. The club was up in the pennant race and Miller refused to give me a lay-off until the finger re- covered. Instead he compelled me to work fourteen games under penalty of a dis- charge. “‘Ca’tching at all times fs the most dan- gerous position on the ball field. Take the case of Jack O'Nefll, the old Chicago player. Fis hands were all shot to pieces in years of service, but the hardest blow came when @a foul tip crashed through his mask, blinding him in one eye. This accldent drove O'Nefll from the diamond. Among the catchers who have been more or fess fortunate, I would mention the names of Roger Bresnahan of the Cardi- dals, Pat Moran of the Cubs, Charley Dooin of Philadelphia Nationals, Gibson of Pittsburg, Admiral Schlel-of the Giants, Billy Bergen of Brooklyn and Johnny Kling. None of those catchers has been serfously hurt behind the bat Larry MclLean, Jimmy Archer, Billy Sullivan, Joe Sugden, Frank Bowerman, belong in my olass as regards hard luck. Chance of the Cubs, who held down u catcher's job for ten years prior to going to first base, is another of the unlucky player How They Work, “No two catchers work alike. That's undoubtedly the reason catchers who go through game after game without hurt- ing their hands usually suffer injuries about the legs, yet my hands are alw gotting In the way of foul tips. “Catchers also are a superstitious {One won't permit another to touch glove lest some hoodoo might Kach catcher has his model, favorite stick. These gloves are made per order In glove factories. There must be more than 100 ifferent designs, which §oes to show the little eecentricities of the atchers. One backstop will catoh the ball {1igh up on his glove, another will recelve {it right in the middie of the mitt, and oth- ers have different spots well worn into the leather and padding showing clearly where the ball lands.” | High School Teunis Doubles. | Thirteen couples have been entered fo | the boys' doubles in tennis In the Omaha High ' school. The winners wiil 'rl--uc: ln:i Ruh;{l ?’il‘ a u:.‘ e « year's champions. The list of enty :“ éulll nd lpdvldl!' Bancker and Mc Menemy, Weirick and Hateh, Gardner a; McCullough. Fernald and Sussman, Mor and MeCormick. Harm and Ohrle, Gain Land Qiuc. Baldrige and Howel and Patton, Tukey and Milard, und Davis and Zimmerman and Cague. |\ Laié dack may we eurca by applying Chamberiin's Liniment (wo o' three tim ® day, with & vigorous rubbing at each ap- plication. lot. nis follow. own particular the same a&s batters have thelr ert L. Mes lay Rab- | the | ;_%el{'.lr"; | s wite forgives his failings. Iowa School of New Foot Ball Coaches and Gridiron Experts from Several Colleges Giving Amended Rules a Tryout. WHO STARTED THAT Rumorg AEOUT THE OVER.TRANING srowr? SOUTHPAW PITCHERS WIN Artists Flinging from the Po-t Side Not at All Slow. Kxperts Are Not to De Underrated in Con- trol, Speed or Other Quall- tles that Win Games. NEW YORK, May 7.—It is a common ex- pression in base ball that when & port side pitchér goes through a game with one or two bases on balls “he had, good control for a left-hander.” As a matter of fact, when it comes down to that there are some left-handers, and not by any means a striking scarcity of them, who have quite good control, day in and day out, as most right-handers. There are not any southpaws who have as good eon- trol us Mathewson, but Mathewson has ex- ceptionally good control among right or left-handers. The {wo left-nanded pitchers who have been In the box for the High- Ianders this season have put the ball over the plate as well as any right-handers, those two being Vaughn and Frill. Vaughn has shown noticeably good control. Another left-hander ' whose control s nearly always comspicuously good, for & right or left-hander, fs Wiltse of the DES MOINES, Ia., May 7.—(Special)— “lowa’'s School of New Foot Ball” has started its classes on the Drake stadium. At the first session there were present a large number of coaches around this city and Coach Clyde Williams of Ames and many former gridiron heroes. Experl- ments, numerous and varied, were tried. Among those who attended the first cla in the new school were: John L. Griffith, Drake coach; Clyde Willilams, Ames coach; John Van Liew, Fast High coach; Robert ans, West High coach; Dr Thomal | Burcham, prominent official and former | coach and player; W. Carlson, former East | High player; A. Carlson, former East | High player, and W. G. Stevenson, class 94 team coach at Drake. The entire time was consumed in devis- ing plays to advance the ball. It was dls- covered that the only plays that were suc- cessful were the old-time “trick plays, consisting of delayed passes, fake run: fake bucks, cross bucks, double bucks and eriss-cross formations, The plays in which the straight buek into the line were used proved unsuccessful. It is the opinion of some of the coaches that the spread formation will be used more than ever this year. A short-fiipped for- ward pass will be tried more or less also, in order to have the defense open up slightly, More classes will be held this coming week and it is expected that the attendance will be gradually increased until all the experts in central lowa will be responding to the roll call. WET . GROUNDE, © TENNIS Mateh Between Nebraska and Creigh- ton for Today Called Off. On account of Thursday's and Friday's { rain the tennis match to be played on the grounds of the Creighton Tennis assoclation between Creighton and Nebraska univer- sities today was called off and will prob- ably be played later in the month. The Cornhusker teams were to arrlve Saturday morning, but the wet condition of the courts rendered play Impossible, 80 a telegram was sent by Creighton asking | to_postpone the match. This will enable the blue and white team to practice and perfect a fast system of play. The team is now made up of Howard Farrell, B. Smythe, Hal Driscoll and George Shirley. Owing to the large number of entries in the tournament, the last few rounds of play were somewhat delayed and the team members were unable to practice together. Wednesday afternoon. was played the prettiest match of the season, between Shirley and Bushman. The latter defeated Festner in the tourney, o-0, 4-6, 6-3, and Gleawon, 64, 6-3, and was then open to challenge. Shirley challenged and in an excellent match proved he was the better man, Bushman, by stead ing, won the first two sets, last three and the match, consfstent play- but lost the South Omaha Howlers, Metz Bros. bowling team defeated the Carpenter Transfer team last night at Bouth Omaha by a score of 2,024 fo 2490, The South Omaha team played about even until tho last game when they dropped Score: about 100 points to the visitors. METZ BROS. Neale Sprague Demman Huntington Blakeney Lepinski Clark .. Nolan Kennedy Hemleben Totals 2,450 Banduet ior Bowiers. There will be & meeting of the captains of the Omaha Bowling league, Booster league and Mereartile league at Francisco's Sunday at 10:30 a. m. for the purpose of ar- ranging a joint banquet (o be held at some early date. At this time there will also be & meeting of ihe captains of the Omaha Bowling league to make nominations of officers for the foliowing year. Election will follow by a vote of the members of this league by ballot, which will be de- posited at the & This is important. York Loses te Heaver Crossing. YORK, Neb, May 7.—(Specfal)~A team from the Clty league of York was deteated at Beaver Crossicg, 4 to I Eddie Moore, tormerly piteher for . Kilbourn York Coits, pitched for Beaver Crossing and Hefty of York pitched a good game, and had he been given better support. would have linded the game for York. In first inning three fielding errors by York sllowed thiee seores and after this Beaver Crossing was able to make only one more | seore. A Bachelor's Refloctions. Sentiment fills 4 woman's life just the | way squure meals do @ mun s | We hate men for their successes and { @espise them for thelr failures. Truth might be a lot more popular if it couldn’t get people into so much trouble. A girl's family tries to run her love affair with a man and she succeeds in runnig his with her. A man can get blamed just as hard for trying to do good ard falling as for tryin to do bad and suceeeding. A man_can admire himself for the way Life is full of pain; & few men wel | hanged; most men get married, When & girl has a married sister U's & | slgn #he is woing to try to run her love | affairs for her.. A woman believes in love ahead of everv- thing es that when it com’s aw' ‘o i 2 still_go_on heliey's | York Press. Glants. Control is his long suit. Plank of the Athletics is a left-hander who has nice control as & rule, and so has Doc White of the White Sox. Among the left- handers of the olden days “Lady” Bald- win was possessed of effective command of the ball. Wildness was not among his faults, while Matt Kilroy had fine control and Ed Morrls knew how to and could put the ball where he wanted to. Pass a Good Many. It must be conceded, however, that the very best control is shown by the right- handed pitchers. Also among the pitchers who did the most work last year two or three left-handers were conspicuous by the number of balls they issued. There was Killlan of the Tigers, for instance. In 178 innings, about nineteen games, he gave forty-nine passes to first, which s an average of nearly three strolls a game. Nap Rucker of the Brooklyns gave 101 bases on balls in thirty-eight games last year, which was almost three a game. Three bases on balls a game doesn’t seem 850 very many when you come to think of it, not enough to harp on wildness, yet Rucker, next to Killian, gave more bases on balls a game than any leading big league left-hander except Klllian and Kar- er. S Mattern, of the Boston Doves, in forty- seven games dispensed 101 promenades to first base. Laitield, of the Pittsburgs, gave only fifty-four in thirty-two games. Lush of the Cardinals, provided sixty-nine walks in thirty-four games. In 275 innin; about thirty games, last year, Plank walked bat- ters sixty-two times, an average of a fraction over two. Waddell, in 220 innin, walked s]ightly over two men A& game. Krause of the Athletics, averaged over two to a game, forty-nine walks In 220 innin, Killian averaged close to three a game ‘White less than two, and Karger, who was the “‘wildest” of any of the leading south- paws, over three. Karger gave twenty-two bases on balls in sixty-elght innin Right Hand Champlo By comparison, the work of several of the prominent right-handers is given; Matthew- son distributed only thirty-six bases on balls in thirty-seven games. Brown gave fifty-thres in fifty games, averaging slightly over one & game to Matty's less than one. Camnits gave sixty-eight bases |in forty-one me; Smith of the White Sox, gave seventy bases on balls in 365 in- nings Mullen of the Detrolts, seventy- eight In 308 Innings; Young of the Cleve- lands, fifty-nine in 296 innings; Bender of the Athleties, forty-five in 250 innings; Walsh of the White Sox, fifty in 230 in- nings; Joss of the Clevelands, thirty-one in 242 innings; Johnson of /the Washingtons, | elghty-four in 297 innings; Warhop .of the | Highlanders, eighty-one in 234 innings, and Pelty, of the Browns, fifty-three in 199 in- nings. Smith averaged less than two walks a game, Mullen over two, Young less than two, Bender less than two, Walsh less than two, Joss & good deal less than two, Johnson less than two, Warhop over three and Pelty over two. Wild Bill Donovan, a right-hander, was wilder than any of the pitchers of either kind named. He handed out sixty bases on balls in 140 innings. That is practically fifteen games, and sixty walks for fifteen games 18 an average of | tour to a game. LAWN TENNIS BLUE RIBBON Beals C. Wright to Head the Ameri- can Team in Davis Cup Play. NEW YORK, May 7.—Beals C. Wright of Boston will head the American team of challengers for the Davis international lawn tennis challenge cup this season, and the preliminary tle matches will be decided on the courts at Wimbledon, London. This was made known officially from the execu- | tive committee of the United State National Lawn Tennis association. In addition, the certainty of Americans playing against the British Isles’ team, the offer challenging nation inst the Australasian holders of the trophy, was assured by the acceptance Of the expense guarantee of §2,000 to de- fray the traveling expenses of the Ameri- cans to London. The further apnouncement was made that Willlam A. Larned, national singles champlion; Willlam J. Clothier of Philadel- phia, and the ¥ Harold H. Hackett and Frederick B. Alex- ander, had all positively declined to con. of business as their reason for refusing the homor. Reymond D. Little, who has held o place on other international teams, has sig. | nified the possibility of his goink, as have Australasians last year. Maurice E. Mc- | Loughlin and Melville H. Long. The rules make a team of four players possible. The date for the international ties at Wimbledon remains to be decided upon by the English Lawn Tennis assoclation. There Is the probabllity, however, thei the Amer- icans will not sa'l from this country until after the all-comers’ pational champlonship at Newport, R. L, in August tional doubles champions, | ! sider places on the team, pleoding pressure | algo the two Californians who met the | who are paying $35.00 faction any of our $25 pleasant smile on their to $50.00 for your suits. For $20.00 we will build to your entire satis 00 to $40.00 suits. Be from Missouri and we will do our part. Wide-awake business men are leaving our store every day with a suit of clothes and o face. Get in the procession this spring and save from $10.00 to $20.00 on your suit. Herzog Tailoring Co. ' | AIM AT TWO-MINUTE MARK Owners of Fast Harness Horses Are Keying Them High. LAST YEAR'S RECORD WAS GOOD Uhlam, Penisa Maid, The Harvester nd Soprano Are Four O ten in the Field that Wil Go for Two-Minute Goal. DETROIT, Mich., May 1.—There were o many sensational performances during the 1908 harness season that close followers of the sport are already figuring on the chances for record-breaking performances during the coming racing year. The two- minute mark appears to be the goal aimed at in an actual race, and there are sev- eral candldates for a place In the charmed clrcle. ‘There are at least five or six trotters who showed wonderful form last year that have ben picked as possible two-minute flyers in 1910, and the followers of the big line feel confident that the mark will be reached this year. In the matter of record breaking, last year was sensational, to say the least, for s that had withstood the assaults of @ score or more of years ylelded to the in- evitable. Native Belle's 2-year-old per- formance in 2:07%, at the trot, being, of course, the most meritorious. It Is rather early yet to obtain anw accurate idea from that quarter, if any, is to come the young- sters that will continue this time-shading stunt. But this early in the season one thing in connection with tne time tlits is certain. It 1s that there will be lots of shooting at the two-minute mark, and among ‘g00d Jjudges, four horsés stand out rather pre- eminently as the most likely to get down to the two-minute figures. These four have all shown their ability aB race horses, and In this respect differ somewhat from Lou Dillon, the world's trotting champlon, of whom it may be from her glory as a record-breaker, that #he was never a consistent race mare. Four Promistng Candidates. The four to whom horsemen look as at least furnishing the bulk of the enter- tainment in endeavoring to attain the even two minutes for the mile, are, In the orde; of their present records: Uhlan, 2:0214; Penlsa Mald, 2:04%; The Harvester, 2:064, and Soprano, 2:08%, as & 3-year-old. On the form he showed last season, the chances favor Uhlan, for which C. K. E. Billings, the present owner of Lou Dillon, pald $35,000 after Bob Proctor, the Read- ville, trainer, had marked him in 2:02. Uhlan has been wintering at Thomasvillc, in the south, and is now at Memphis, While he will probably be used very largely for matinee racing by Mr. Billings, it Is cer- tain, also, that he will be sent to beat hix record before the year is out, Uhlan proved his racing qualities last season In his race with the great Hamburg Belle, forcing the mare to trot in 2:01'§ and 2:01%, the fastest two heats ever trot- ted In a race. Uhlan turned the tables on Hamburg Belle at Readville, winning in 2:02% and 2:08%, and later trotted in 2:02%. Srainer Proctor stated last year that he thought Uhlan would surely trot a mile in two minutes this year, and good judges feel this prediction will come true. Banking on Penisa Mid. According to M. D. Shutt of Rock Rapids, Ta., If any trotter goes in an even two min- utes the coming season it will be his own little Penisa Mald, that delicate but sweet. galted little mare that was quite the sensa- tion of the Grand Circult of 199, Few could see a year ago at this time where Shutt was Justified in making payments on Penisa Mald, then with & record of ouly 2:19%, In all of the big stakes of the year. Yet she proved the year's biggest money winner, earning In stakes and purses $22,753, or nearly twenty times as much as the §1,200 Shutt pald for her, She returned to winter quarters with the credit of the fastest heat ever won by a trotting mare in a regular class race, and, as If to cap the climax, late in the fall, over the poor half-mile track In her home town, stepped & quarter In an even 30 sec- onds. Bhutt has the mare at Memphis, and says she can beat 2:00. And If his judgment 1s as good at the present time as it was twelve months ago she surely will do the trick. It 18 poverblal that Edward Geers rarely waxes genuinely enthusiastic over any of his horses, Equally true It is that he he- lieves he can drive’The Harvester in 2:00 this season—surely that he ecan beat Cresceus’ long-standing stallion record. Geers Hos the Harvester, At Readville Geers drove The Harvester & workout mile in 2:4% as against Direc- tum's 4-year-old record of 2:06%, and late: at Lexington he was stepped in 2:03%. Two years ago The Harvester, as a 3-year-old, record of 2:08%. Last year he was the largest money-winning trotter among the stallions, and showed a trial in time that was faster than the record that had stood for seventeen years for 4-year-olds. The world's stallion record of 2:02 looks to be surely In The Harvester's reach, and a mile In 320 not unreasonably beyond his limit. The race track managers of the country, oollectively speaking. have awakened from their lethargy of many vears duration and have at ‘last realized that innovations and departures from the stereotyped are neces- sald, without detracting In the slightest | was unbroken In February, but by fall a |’ DOG MEDIGINES epsinated Digestive Tablets..............50 luuf- Cure Liquid, non-poisonous Sho Liquid Shampoo Soap—kills fleas.. 2o Distemper Powder—reduces fever...... 40 Tonie Tablets—Give as a tonic after m lor distemper . Arecanut Vi Eye Lotion . . Victor's Flea Kilier, pint We sell Spratt's—Den! Medicine—ask for book. Sherman & HicConnell Drug Co. Cor. 16th and Dodge, Omahsa. OWL ‘DRUG GO. Cor. 16th and Harney. Omaha. Telephone Harney 2687, o h ¥ That Awful = Gas Did you hear it? How embar. rassing. Thesestomach noisssmake you wish you could sink through the floor. You imagine everyone hears them. Keepa box of CAS- CARETS in your purse or pocket and take a part of one after eating, It will relieve the stomach of gas. g1 CASCARETS 10c a box for treatment. Alldruggists. Bigy o the world—-wmillion boxes & mouth. e and...! Glover's Dug - HOTELS. s i Hotel Martinique B’way, 32d and 33d Sts NEW YORK CITY IN THE HEART OF THINGS HIGH CLASS FIREPROOF HOTEL Handsomely furnished, all outside rooms, with every modern appointment, oze block from New Penn Depot, near all leading department stores and theatres. ROOMS WITH PRIVILEGE OF BATH, $1.50 per Day and Up. ROOMS WITH PRIVATE BATH, $2.50 per Day and Up. ‘The highest class of accom- modations at modorate rates. The new addition will be complsted on Soptember lst, giving Lotel ca- pacity of 600 rooms and 400 baths Walter Chandler, Jr., Manager i wtans The days of straight three-in-five cv throughout, with the racing lasti BIx and some times even seven or cip heats, to be carried over two or three day are things of the past. While su very properly, will continue to hav place gn the prograin, novelties and f are to be introduced all along the 1ir In this the tracks of the country are v largely, consclously or otherwise, followi In the lead of the Readville track, lon noted for its agrressive, Initiative culminating with its rich $0.00) Am. handieap derby, that attracted | more attention than was t [ h rac other race In the trotting world The early announcements of race pr gram show that this year there are (o | nary novelties in the wav of stakes Tavern “Steak” at the Cleveland clreult meeting belng one of the m splcuous In this line BENSON CLUB READY FOR SH00T Large Number of Events for Day of Tonrnament. The Benson Gun club is making prepars tions for the second Interstate shoot tha will be held at its grounds May 17 and 1 It is expected the shoot will be one of the big local events of the season On Monday, May 16, a preliminary pro gram of 100 targets will be shot under the Jack rabbit system, consisting of five events of twenty targets each. Shooting in th event will begin at 2:0 in the afternoon Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Topperwein of Ha Antonio, Tex., will be present on Wedne day, May 18, and will give an exhibition o fancy rifle, pistol and shotgun shoot and Mrs. Topperwein will take part in * regular program Training the & An fuventive genlus has patented a ha which I8 especlally designed the shape of the lady's ear regarded as a revival of the old-fasi of wearing nightcaps which were consii ered an Important item of the coar costumes In our grandmothers’ day hinted that the inventor referred to I* the lookout for the time when ea again permitted to show In publlc they have been traired Into go by midnight harness and nighicip wiseat philosophers have decided | usel 0 eavor to trace the the vi % of fashion In wor but there still rem: few Wy #ary to bring (o thelr race mestings the largest erowds, keep on trying.—National Madine. Bee Want Ads will boost you: burinoss. Al § L3 P A ] '