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_ NIGHT EDITION. : GENERAL SPORTING NEWS ON PAGE 4. Che “ Circulation Books Open to All.’? GENERAL SPORTING NEWS| _ON PAGE 4. _[« “ Circulation Books Open to All,’ } K ——— | PRICE ONE CENT. __ PRICE ONE Ch arr LORD ROSSLYN JOHN L. GETS WILL TRY LUCK | KNOCKED OUT AT SARATOCA) BY A WILDCAT. ‘Famous Englishman|It Growled at Sullivan, Who Carried His| and He Kicked Its "System" to Monte! Cage and Burst It Carlo Coming Here. Open. @ACKED BY A SYNDICATE|AT M’GOVERN QUARTERS, Animal Got Its Teeth in Prize) Fighter's Leg and Would Not Let Go Until Beaten In- sensible. "Dick"’ Canfield and Others of the ‘‘Gamblers’ Aristoc- racy” to Be Opposed at the “American Newmarket.” BRIDGEPORT, Conn., July 28.—With one of his legs and a pair of his trousers out of commission as the re- sult of a bout with a wildoat, John L. Sullivan is resting at Terry Me- Lord Rosslyn, who begulled English- men into a personally concelved system for beating Monte Carlo, now threat- ens to Invade Saratoga next month in opposition to all the well-known ‘American gamblers who do not pretend] Govern's training quarters in Stratford. to know more than the law allows] It will be some time before the about faro, roulette and other delight-] former champion {s atie to navigate. ful games of chance. In the interim his leg will be kept “Dick” Canfield and other members| soaked with liniment. A veterinary of the ‘gamblers aristocracy,” who| surgeon Is doing strenuous work with have held sway at Saratoga in years} the wildcat. Past, are now said to be the ones who| The old warhorse of the prize ring to be perticularly opposed by Lord | has been living in Bridgeport ever since Rosslyn and his backers. Tt ts asserted| his performance of Simon Legree drove that the nobleman with a system is tojall the Uncle Toms out of the busi- be pushed to the front by a powerful| Ress. During his residence-here he has syndicate of gamblers who Intend to do] reduced the visible supply of stimu: things ina swell way at Saratoga this|!@nt® to a0 alarming degree, season. They have teen prompt to ap- Wildcat in a Cage. preciate the sigi'tieance of “American} The desire to shake the hand of the Newmarket Heath,” which is now be- Ing established at ve Spa by Williain ©. Whitney and his fiien’s, and they Intend to get to the front with Lo-d Rosslyn—dontcher yer kicw—as ibe thief drawing card—the advertising igent as it cere. To Head a Syndicate. mbling of John L. at 4 o'clock in the morning. He left a congenial company and steered a course for the house of John Bond, where Terry is training for his fight with Young Corbett. Nobody knows how John made his way to Bond's, but he got there just at daybreak. Everybody in the house was asleep. On the front porch was a cage with & wildcat in it, the property of Fred R. Swift. The wildcat has been acting understudy for Bond's watchdog and 18 letter perfect. When: the heavy ‘foote goes that games wach Til beconerolied by the syndicate mith Lord Rosslyn at the head will be ver imtensively and systematicall ised. Sprjng street will be the scene of the pew panos enterprise, and “Bud” Renaws, who hi ae een peas sf toe Dick” Cas a of ue Both, be one of thi gate, Bane. (ered will Deus prone falls of the ponderous John L. came gently. tn thot, in]the ears of the wildcat it growled—a ppposition to Sir repey's ‘ambit ‘American Newmarket Heath" a verita- ble Monte Car! hoarse, throaty growl. John L, growled right back. He called ‘arlo. nee he uneven itp. reat the bank|the wildcat names. Then John L. onte Carl js “system’’— | w, ‘and kicked theccage, Which tailed to. the sortow ‘of many | Te yma'g welldirested kick. The cage sonfiding countrymen—Lord Rosslyn had a great train of followers, With Cord Roselyn as the drawing card, the build- trs of an American Monte Carlo hope jo secure by the magnetism of his name t large following. “thus is Lord Rosslyn's name to be ised. providing the plans now projected fo through, \STOR’S AUTO BROKE DOWN. Gillionalre in a Plight Gets Rapid) Railroad Service. spun acroess the porch, cofjided with the wall, broke open and the wildcat jumped out. Wildcat and John L. made a simul- taneous movement in the direction of each other, the animal st the same time uttering a scream that woke up every- body in the radius of a mile, It, Had Sullivan Down. , Capt, Bond and McGovern hurried out of the house. ‘They found John L. lying | on bis back’ in the yard trying to get the wildcat by the throat The agile andmal had a double row of sharp teeth buried In Sullivan's leg. Pieces of trousers were scattered all the way from the porch to the lawn and blood {rom both combatants stained the (Speoial to The Evening World.) CANTON, Mass, July %.—While en foute from Boston to Newport John facob Astor's automobile became dis- yoled on Washington street, Ponkapoag, jompelling Mr. and Mrs. Astor to aban- lon the vehicle at that point and pro- weed to Canton by electric cars. ry to beat the wildcat | ft would relinquish Its | Insensibl Here Mr. Astor told the facts of the noid’ of Joh Tn lee. By the tlme this mse to James H. Weir, staton agent ‘s done the old champion was bel-| br the ‘New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad at Canton, who im- nediately telegraphed to Poston for a pecial train to carry the party to New- tort It was just twenty-six minutes Towing like @ buftalo In distress. insisted that the wiideat had eaten leg off and wept at the prospect of going through the rest of his life on a cruteh, | rom the time Mr. Weir sent the mes-| When convinced that both fae to Boston asking for a mpecial| “propa” as he walled them, were tne] ar and engine to the time that the train) tact, he submitted to medical treat- trived and in a few minutes more Mr.| nent and went to sleep ind Mra, Astor were speeding to thelr The 4 te pis Ria net ya tela he wounds have been cauterized and ho serious sesits are anticn aie BIG FIRM OF EXPORTERS FAILS FOR HALF A MILLION, Cumming & Stockbridge Forced to Assign by Failure of B. Duran in Havana. Because of the failure in Havana ast Thursday of B, Duran, an im- lorter of cattle and general merchan- lise into Cuba, Cumming & Stock- ridge, one of the largest export com- oission firms in New York, with wanches in Berlin and Paris, as- igned to-day, placing the liabilities b excess of $600,000, Rufus W. Sprague. jr, the assignee, nounced soon after taking charge of he affairs of the firm that a statement fF aesets could not be made until the pndition of B, Duran's assets was jarned, It was said that Duran owed lumming & Stockbridge $150,000. An? however, I believe the labilities will reach a half million dollars, We can gay nothing about assets until we hear from Havana, The assignment was due to the failure in Havana last Friday of B, Duran, one of this firm's most im- portant connections, “From the reports we now have Mr. Duran failed for a heavy amount, but we know nothing of his assets, With him we are preferred creditors and will realize from hie assets. "Wa have placed expert accountants at work on the books of Cumming & Stockbridge and in a few days we ex- pect to be able to tell the exaot figures, “The firm relied upon the ability of Duran to pay and when he failed it precipitated Cumming & Btockbridge's ther New York firm is said to be fedited with a similar amount by), Prems dewpatches trom Havana the) furan Buran'é tellure amounted to sido, with . unted to , th he firm, which was compose’ of| only about haif that amount of aaets, It was said that his failure was brought about through the death, In an ‘pldeantc fr, Over 4 head of cattle Imported into lobert W. Cumming, Wales R. Stock ridge and Edward L. Desvernine, occu- ed an elaborate suit of offices in @ Bowling Green Building, No, 1 broadway, It has done a general com Hission business in export merchandise fe twenty) years and was considered he ofgthe most sound companies in bat lin® of business. Arthur Colby, of the firm of Alexan: BOGUS BARON SENT TO ISLAND, Bgous Baron von Manteufel, whose plain everyday name is Herman 'True- ber, was sent to the Island for six monthy this afternoon by Mugiatrace Deuel in the Centre Street Court, tw & Colby, attorneys for the as. Mayor Capraro eke velyced by the .|"Raron's” stories al ve im money, ee, said to an Bening World re hp 8 igomateinant y yf this afternoon: appeared @ have only posted the notice of ent & half hour and of course ve not been able to tell assets and accurately, Approximately, = = = < s = The ie ay Hogclal eaves | Now | York , Samapenions from Brook: py oy Brooklyn pugilist inhabited the breast | Mich FRANCESCO WINS THE HANDICAP. Dwyers Also Take the Third Money with Ethics—Advance Guard Is Second. GooD OD FAVORITES’ Rosetint, 7 to 10; Sadduycee, 4 to 6, Are Successful— Clarence Mackay to Sell Most of His Horses. (Spectat to The Evening World.) BRIGHTON BEACH RACE TRACK, July %—This is the beginning of the A man who looked like an < LS ROR ee feta ta) watenll Gees reenter the new final week's racing of the Brighton ‘* An , ul how refret vate ants, however. They were as full of Beach Racing Association, and while At Boston—Boston. ts) mated crowbar stcod in the pitchers’| thom. rhey have not struck thelr stride | life and vim as though the mercury were box. yet, but Mugsy Is getting them Into it there were no stake features on the card it was a good programme of over- night events, The weather was threat- ening and the showers before racing began just served to lay the dust on track. The attendance was very i being almost a record-breaker for the first day in the week. It is said Clarence H. Mackay will sell all his horses in training with the exception of the mares Trigger and Kamara. FIRST RACE. five furlongs. For two-year-olda; . Joca Rosetint, ‘109, Burn Mount Kiero, 112,Re chaelmas, 112, MoFad'n 3 ‘Mohs ESBSwws.canse Fourteen of the elghteen carded faced the starter, with Rose Tint an odds on favorite. being backed from 6 to 5. There was but little delay, and when the bar- ler went up Damon showed im front. urns at Once sent, Rose Tint into the lead, and making ail by two lengths. | Mount Kieco, ‘ridden out. ichaelmas’a length ‘for the Sacer SECOND RAGE. For three-year-olds and up; selling; mile and 4 sixteenth. ecitTars rate Jooaers, SAnEFIn: seam, Brooklyn, spending his vacation on the lichter Emma Kearn, of Ex-Convict Makes Boast as howe ee sarc aa #] which his father is the 029 S dttow ned off the boat this Foreman in Shenan-| He Escapes After Shooting|Secretary of the Trease Daute Siccariny. 40h ge afternoon. His ialper covered the body. The boy was fish-| Goah GQolliery and| FiveMen—Fired IntoCrowd| ury Declares that i : i 4 ing and lost his alance, a Workers Fall Under| Trying to Arrest Him, Those Who Neglect 0 8 40 EVEN SAM BRYANT Duty Must Go. aeltee Cottage, Oo arin 2 Hey) ab i HUGGED SEVEN WOM=N IN BRYANT PARK. ‘ Bullets of Crowd FRESNO, Cal, July 2%.—At Porter y Eawlo Kenton, 105 Jaca 10 11k | 00 <a : vile James MeKinney, an ex-convict \ witb, were numerous, for this event, Seven women were iieged by a man with a Van Dyke! porrsviuie, Pa. guly %—Dantel |i ave men and es “a into the coun. | Secretary of the Treasury Shaw paid n ie je) ina . a 4 i oO Ld s y to Cr a athe talent Rhy landingson Beets! beard in Bryant Park this aileinoon before a policeman put anjranderman, foreman at the Kohinoor |i, 4 roten rig, william Yann, on? | fame at tale selaidie ial sepeaeeaa She was, never prominent in the race BROOKLYN --- NEW YORK ---- GAME CALL AME At Baltimore—Enc¢ At Washington—é1)0 At Philadelphia—Si | LATE RESI Fourth Race—Ethyic Fifth Race—Felix Sa Fourth Race—Helcn Fifth Race—Brulare 1, CHICAGO MERCH: CHICAGO, July 28.— big State street store afternoon at his home here. have caused desponden>y. ma . ‘DROWNED FROV F William Rehbug, a schoolboy living at No. 78 Rapelye street end to the festivities - ° Fifth Game of Series Between Giants and Superbas. at Polo Grounds Begins with String of Goose Eggs. something of that kind, some years age when he ran over our first baseman. But McGann can now run over all the first basemen in the League and we won't Dahlen, a pay a word. fry, 1b It is no wonder the cranks are en- thusiastic. “They have a right to be with a leader like McGraw and with players like McGann and Lauder and Jones and Smith and Mathewson behind him, Real Baseball Weather. The weather at the Polo Grounds this afternoon was hot enough to limber up. the muscles of a wooden Indian. The Batting Order. New rere BY LANGDON SMITH. (Special to The Evening World.) J POLO GROUNDS, July 28.—A slim little figure stood on the shortstop line at the Polo Grounds this after- noon, picked u) a hot grounder with graceful abandon and lined it to urst. The big man on first base reached out a mitten as big as a sofa cushion and the ball sank into it with a plunk that sounded like a mule pulling its hoof out of the mud, Brooklyn. ping-pong experts, They are men who can handle the ball as woll as hit It— men who can make good on the t lines and in the fleld, in the pitcher's n not slzallng around the top of the tube. As hot as It was the new Giants were frisking around the field long tefore the time for regular practice. As McGraw watched them he sata: “1 am well satisfied with the bunch. Another strange person frisked around behind tne home plate and others yet chased files in the outfleid. New Giants Indeed. Ol-Timers Are Lively. The old-timers who are still left on the team have felt he stimulus of the new Infusion and are playing like two- year-olds. “The new Giants,” if you please.|” ‘pyey realize that there is only one|You can bet that next ‘year we will — Not rejuvenated giants, nor moribund} poss and that ts the determined litle net be tail-enders, I propose to beat. H stop lne. @ flag next season in the matter of thor Wantker giants awakened from a trance, but| chap on the shortstop line. ane arther Wentker 2, Active 3. jraw's ability as a shortstop ts/ training. giants who have always been giants “I may make a few changes In the 3 a 5 d Beana 2, Edgardo 3. only a small fraction of his ability as a ———— and who have come to New York to). jiayer. And oh, how we used to|team before the season 1s over, but pull the national game out of the] hate him when he played against us!|they will be In the nature of experi= ments. This is not going to be a Bal- timore team, buta New York team—@ team that will stand a good chance walloping anything in the League.”” iingery Practice. Before the new Giants took the field for practice half a dozen of them lined up in front of the Grand Stand and ~ began to practice batting. The change from the old style of do How we used to hurl adjectives and cushions at him whenever he called the umpire down for robbing him. Little did McGraw know that the only way to win a game was to stand In with the umpire. Now, however, McGraw Is on our side, and whenever he puts his nose up against that of the umpire we shall be} ready to take an oath that he ts right. ‘And McGann, too, We efiled him a long-legged Australian cannibal, or “TRACY NOT IN IT WITH ME,” HE SAYS mud. . The grand stand regarded them with awe. The rooters on the bleach- ere greeted them with every evidence of good fellowship. 2 Many times in the past has McGraw broken their hearts by beating the gay old nightmares who used to call them- selves Giants at the Polo Grounds. At last New York nas a ball team that Is a ball team and mot a gang of MINERS, SHOT AY STRIKERS 1s 2, Falella 3. ummer 3. HIpISELF. j NT KILLS “M. Rothschild, former head of the hat name, committed suicide this Business troubles are said to (Continued on Fourth Page!) SHAW WILL PUT, SHIRKERS. OUT. GHTER. ATHER’S i is dead. After sa there was without warning, of strikers near his home by a cro of is vietims + venderioin police station the} acd finisher A out: de he Hed” the birnch ‘a. merry ollp te’ the man said that he wi i twe ight, vl tvcenon, be fT Sere ght he will re- [at a rect ard players, MeKlaney lo, Lilla Lact Sree eR fetch. ere was @ gene: ton mn r ave vs a je and a he poin ne iealieance alan Pat won wyra| that he lived al Twe s : avenue. He Saidjoover. , acrman was also chancd [Wert (0.8 It blend as the. pela ed Jn the effort Mr. Will- beat Heitdaie and Bessie Mecartky reo] his father was a mii/ion adage snd, cour other mansunion men : Hotei? uma de. SOAKING 10 6YELSAUEE: ta THIRD RACE. —— verect nin. He [employees who have been neglecting thelr Highweight Handicap; for all ages; six tur- $i MAY CALL TROOPS TO duty or abusing thelr powers. I think longs » mY. | Mr. Willie has accomplished a vast a UELL MINE RIOTS. in te Stators. wate, Jocaers 8. HE Fin feats, TO EXCHANGE SCHOLARSHIP S. Q SHAE OF Sere VectnnE ‘running ike. Sp eaie f Casas? San Ryaninn Worle #10 clock-work, | have nothing of Benltechoui, icennia 2 § 34 3 4] -PARIG, July 28—Adolphe Cohn, professor of Romance Language at], (temualwe the Huang Wirt) elt Seen en ree ton | HE anit, abOME Aly | Glonmo}l, 128, urna... 9 3 4 {6G |Columbia University, had an interview to-day with M. Chaumie, the MinI8-| second call for troops 1s : gh nc tee Ned nes Williaa rt good, Won easily. ‘Time—1.14. ter of Public Instruction, in which he explained a soheme due to the |made by Sherlft tum sens ons, whteh t ‘The talent had an inning In this race is Younty, if the rioting at Lunsford rant ane ey r be iy shall probably go to At initiative of Nicholas Murray Butler, President of Columbia University, pro-| stopped. Owing to the working of the I : a ae “ity to-night (Continued on Fourth ase.) TWO MEN HURT I CRUSH AT BRIDGE, One Strikes Heavy Pillar and Is Taken to Hospital—Other Tries to Walk Home, but Faints. idea. In attempting to board a moving trol- Jey car on one of the loops at the New York end of the bridge this afternoon Edward G. Lake, of Stevens avenue, viding for the creation of scholarships to enable French students to study in) Ny jy breaker. strikers who some] in, my revenue Americad universities, notably Columbia, and to give Americans opportunity | mraee ano {nAUEUTR ea Oo LAC a Two ra ago MeKinney killed a man gamane te uty, wit ea are to come to French universities. M. Chaumle was much interested in the) broken out again. et bukerstield, but was exonera the immigration boarding officers. ———— WIRELESS TELEPHONE SUCCESSFUL BERLIN, July 28,—Ernest Runmer, an electrical inventor, haw succeed in telephoning seven kilometres by bis wireless method. wae perfectly aud‘ble continuously during the experiments. hitherta bas used a searchlight thirty-five centimetres in diameter, intends to construct another between 100 ard 200 centimetres, expecting to speak forty kilometres, which would be a distance sufficient to cover a modern city. | ee FOUR SHOT AND KILLED ON TRAIN. | This Time to Dry Manhate, pops and some apples two litle Eng: t have water and next day JOPLIN, Mo., July 24,—Four men, two whites and two negroes, are) 44, Isiand. lish boys, aged twelve and ten, started around | and found two eaake lon a career of adventure by stowlng 1 alan t have mine with reported to have been shot and killed on @ Missouri, Kansas and ‘lexas excursion train at a point in Indian Territory, have been shot down by the whites, who were in turn shot and killed by a” eaviiag that | Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company's It is unofficially stated that one of the cutters stutioned here TAL HOT WEATHER. ™W° STW awh ON eo UNER IS HERE AT LAST. or ten ang toreive 80 Thirsty Tha Had to Show Themselves. The speaking tise Ruhmer, who! | Summer Comes a Month ve | This Season but in Earnest) { bread, We we scrimped. Stout hearted and with a few lolll- shake up the gurgle when the negroes are said to big freighter Covlc and thirst ay aboard the Hunger jaw at Liverpool if thoy heard us or Nos bent Thirteenth atin Man:|4ebuty sherifl who as accompanying the excurslon WEATHER FORECAST, J inaity drove them from thelr places Ming battan, SEEN tn eee Lomencateeareaad of concealment, We lapped upright pillara near the tracks He re-| PEMBROKE, Ga., July 28.- John Wise, a negro, who attacked Mrs, Jonny a vietnie Fare OHTPRE PPT Cter aia ” y. when 1 sald to Amos, iVeae am Nest and thighs and waa rendered un.|Smith, @ young white woman, bas been lynched here. He was captured My eooler tor Fey were at the Barge itive awalt ; conscious. He was carried into the|near Poller, Ga., after a desperate fight with a posse, and returned to tnis bowers: Muht, fing the arrive the ferry-huat when any tba eae emengency hospital on the bridge and! piace, After being positively identified as the assailant of Mrs, Smith ne OR EU Ie Rat ana pae rea cienmasters inde sear velted am attended by An ambulas a phyalc n. n from the Hud- treet Hi that Lake had aa whose head wa They never ¥« t a e howpital hens, 3 . Sapel thrown lon, naan ah, SEVENTY MORE SLEUTHS DOOMED. leep brown eyes, spoke hi feet and wal ie prom it - Gnade, ‘declaring, that he would walk! — Seventy more of Capt. Titus’s slouths are to fall bwtore Commissioner) & A 78 Save ceo ianh hemi LARA BRYAN FOG-BOUND. serons the 0 liteitocts, from bia fail, no! Partridges ave within twenty-four hours, This {8 the rumor that waa! !® 4 i . eo ae ie, He Ae pet oat elise t walped current at Police Headquarters this afternoon, The Commissioner had is - ad ' AS wr } r Way to Sound, seers poen administered’ During the}and that he needed them oadly. ee Nae Here—Adnow Martin and Be) ew HAVEN, Conny July lied pefen PEE MELEE me With me, and he rod [on Lowls Nixon's ya wos unable to Bi char vara Piston tg LATEST PANTHER BULLETIN. | apron ORG Te RS Ce A reer ee “ait forked them up tp the Oak street Lag -ay Aura Well, the real old-timo hot weather! Sia, tS the Canada dock |! tee wied was P tation: At 6 o'clock Ciretor Ditmars with a party of ten men was scouring tho |» here at last and the New Yorkers) Vhursday and ran aboard the ork ‘i ‘was imp Die, for eRe We oh 1 No ic 7 C t arr mate Houre—chiewse, ao saa oon ata fase had mm ana to om Oh eral ie SP ie be ms | NEY Wt so ne tok an jesse ny te Pace ig gain peclal saves tbe animal, and Me. Ditmare said expect to get the abimal sre pecking up thelr shirt walsis and| while Amos watched I untaced the cloth | | Later tn t py Ce white ducks td back again as quickly/ over one of the life-boals, We @ oranied iclently to peri o **lunel) early his evening, ghee, able | ad chon laced ie up aged. We! gage * a , ' ‘ : ioe ialialiblats scale isnt ais ‘ ‘ ps itl it a El ‘ ‘ » i ee ee te i ease a vat 7 = ~ e ’ was hanged to @ telegraph pole and his body riddled with bullets, ¢ of vered with whe fell ¥ got us Out back Ja the boat Th