THADEMARKED BY THE SPORTING LIFE PTJB. CO. ENTERED AT PHILA. P. O. AS SECOND CLASS MATTER VOLUME 26, NO. 14. PHILADELPHIA, DECEMBER 28, 1895. PRICE, TEN CENTS.
DES MOINES DOINGS. OMAHA'S FINAL PLACE. AFTER A COMBINE. Manager Traffley Will Have His '96 The City Will After All be in the STILL ON EARTH. Team Well in Hand. Western Association. Des Moines, la., Dec. 26.-Manager William Omaha, Dec. 23. Kditor "Sporting Life:" I Traffley, after tussling with diptheria for over notice the various correspondents are very much A ONION OF MICHIGAN AND INDIANA four weeks, is again able to be "out and about." worried as to where Omaha will be found the THE SOUTHERN LEAGUE WILL REMAIN The effects of the dread disease are still dis coming season. Some say the Western League, cernible, but "Traf" is rapidly recovering his while others place us in the Western Associa IN THE FIELD. BALL TOWNS. former health and strength, and when seen by tion. It may be that a place will be provided a "Record" man Thursday was in buoyant spir for us in the "Nebraska State League." Any its. When asked about nex» year's team he how, boys, don't worry; the fate of the town said: is in the hands of my old friend, Hiekey, who A Two-Days' Meeting at Birmingham An Inter-State League Likely to be Or TEAM MAKE-UP. is president of the Association. Now. will you ''The team is virtually complete now. I have mind? When in town last week he was unable ganized With the Michigan League 20 men under contract, and out of the lot I feel to say what would be done and was more or less at Which Some Advance Was confident I can pick a club that will land the afraid of the Western League people. rag in Des Moines." Since that time, however, I have heard from as a Basis An Eight-Club Circuit ''How about Preston?" a reliable source that the Western League would Made in the Line ol Reorganization "I have reserved Preston, and it is quite likely not come here, as after looking over the ground he will wear a Des Moines uniform next sea it was decided that the outlook was not as fav That Could be Formed, son. I have received numerous letters from orable as they would like, so they gave up the For Next Season, him and in each he emphatically declares that idea, and left the field to the Association. he has quit drinking, and quit for good! If he Tom McVHtie, who holds the Western Associa Birmingham, Ala., Dec. 22. The South Detroit, Mich., Dec. 25. Another minor demonstrates next spring that this is a fact he tion franchise, says that he already had a num league is to be organized, under the name will play in every game. You remember the ber of players who had accepted terms, and now ern League base ball clubs held a meet of the Indiana-Michigan League. Since the game he put up at third for St. Jo in '94V That's that there is some money in sight there would ing in this city last night. There were Tri-State League disbanded, base ball has what sent him into the National. Booze knocked be no difficulty in securing all the men he present J. B. Nicklin, of Chattanooga, been very dull in the Hoosier State. The him out." needed. president; B. L. Holland, R- H. Jones, Michigan League of four clubs Grand Rap BETTER DISCIPLINE! Your correspondents would like to see the re Montgomery, Ala.; George T. Stalliugs and ids, Jackson, Lausing and Kalamazoo was Tour correspondent then intimated to Traffley turn of Lohman. Ulrich, Egan and Oarrish to Dr. K. C. White, of Nashville; J. B. Alien, a paying venture, and uow they want to that among the Des Moines team last year there Omaha. Slaglc has already signed with, another of Atlanta, and Henry Powers, of New- club,, so we can't get him.. Sorry for this Orleans. Evansvllle was represented by take four Indiana clubs into the fold. The was a little more lushing than was essential I consider this boy a comer, and with another cities invited to join are* Ft. Way tie, Terre to their happiness and health. . proxy. The ranting, after discussion, indor.s- Haute, Muncie and AncfJM|on. The Michi "I know that," said Traf, "but it douU &.••' season's experience think he Will be the p \'.on of the last meeting in Chatta- gan end of the League is Certain, and the next season. 1 have learnt a thing or two from company. *- " wrongs" and awarded the penuant. for last season Hoosiers will join. Of the new clubs Ft. my experience. 1 realize now that J have been to Nashville. Atlanta kicked to the last, but too lenient in the past, but you know I've played HAPPY HAZLETON, was not upheld in the kick. Wayne has been semi-professional, and the under all kinds of managers myself and I don't It was practically decided that Evansville ! fans are anxious to get a professional team. like to be too hard on the* boys. But there will to be counted as dropped out for next season. Andersen and Muncie have always patron be no lushing on the Des Moines team next year Sharsig Has a Small Army of Players However, the League is to consist of eight clubs, ized the game liberally, and have had not while I am manager and can by any pos Under Contract. with the three additions that are expected. Ap teams for several years. Anderson defeat sible means prevent it." plications for franchises were received from, ed several Western Iveague clubs last sum Hazleton, Pa., Dec. 24.-Manager Billy Sharsig Little Hock, Knoxville, Macon, Savannah, Chat- mer, and were defeated for the champion was in town for a day last week and gave tauoga and Birmingham. Chattanooga, Birming ship by Elwood. Terre Haute is not ca FRANKLIN ON SHANNON DEAL. the cranks subject for talk. Manager bharsig ham and Knoxville will probably come into the pable of supporting a Western League stated that the arrangements for the use of League. Gives His Reasons For Voting as He the National League grounds in Philadelphia team, but a club in the new league will be were completed and everything was m readi This will make the roster of clubs as follows: a paying venture. It is said that the Ft. Did at the League Meeting. ness for launching the League. The meeting New Orleans, Mobile, Montgomery, Atlanta, Wayue team has been selected as a "farm" Buffalo. Dec. 23. President Franklin, of the will be held in Philadelphia January 15. Chattanooga, Nashville, Birmingham and Knox by the Cleveland club. Some excellent ma Biffalo Base Ball Club was seen yesterday e- Twenty men have now been signed by the ville, terial will be obtained, and several Ft. paiding ihe claim thit be bad voted »giiist Hazletou management for '96. It is the inten Wayne boys will play on the team. Rochester and in favor of Wihsesbarre on the tion to launch a League that will stick to SECOND DAY'S PROCEEDINGS. ———————— ,-i Shaj'iion deal at the annual meeting of the gether. If the smallest towns desire to come Birmingham, Ala., Dec. 23. The meeting of Fiistern League. Mr. franklin said that tie in or speculative sports apply for admission the Southern League of Base Ball Clubs came TO OFFSET ANSON. had simply done bis duty to tin league an.l tbey can secure a franchise only by posting a to a close yesterday afternoon. did it despite the fact that Shai non was a good substantial guarantee of their sincerity. From The question of filling the vacancies which are An Offer to the Cleveland Players to friend. this basis there will be no wavering, and if now open in the League came up first. The. Go on the Stage. "Shannon set up the claim," said Mr. Frank the circuit must be started with four clubs on claims of the cities anxious to get into the fold lin, "that Wilkesbarre slill owed him $50 more this order it will be done. It is believed, how were looked over and it was finally decided to Cleveland, O., Dec. 23. The Cleveland for the season of 1894, and the sair.e amount ever, that six clubs at least will come in at leave the matter to a committee of two. JVlessrs. Base Ball team has received an offer from for the season lust past. E. W. Bogi.'t, presi the start. Henry Powers, of New Orleans, and GeK'ge T. an enterprising theatrical manager to go dent of the Wilkesbarres and also proprietor of With the exception of two men all of last Stallings, of Nashville, were appointed. on the stage. This manager probably n'g- the Wilkesbarre Leader, bad facts and figures year's players have been retained by Sharsig. The guarantee fund was the next matter. It ures that if some is good more is better to show that Shannon had been paid in full These he will take to Philadelphia with him. was decided to place the guarantee necessary and that if Anson, Lathain and other stars with the exception of $41, and there had "been They won the State League pennant last year, from each city at $1000 and each place must; have been drawing- cards he will start out a check far that amount in the office for som? and with a few additions he is confident of have the money up on or before March 1. The time for him. Shannon demanded his release planting the trophy in the Quaker City in '96. aalry limit was fixed at $1000 per month. with a whole deck composed of the Temple oil the ground that he had not been pa'd. It Cup team. Manager Tebeau tells of the prop The president was instructed to appoint a was simply a question of veracity between a committee of two to correspond with the officials osition in a letter to the sporting editor of ball player and the president of a club. It did SMITH HUSTLING of the different minor leagues, looking for the the "Plain Dealer" and says: not see'n to me that Shannon would go ahead inauguration of arrangements for the better pro "It is simply a question of salary, for if and play with Wilkesbarre in 1895 if the club To Give Lynchburg a Good Team tection of interests of all minor leagues. Dr. they pay the price they can secure the Cleveland had not paid him all that was due for 1894. R. L. C. White, of Nashville, and B!" L. Holt, ball players. We shall certainly demand a Shauno is a good friend of mine, but I had to Next Year. of Montgomery, were appointed as this committee. good, large salary and moreover, we want to be do my duty." Lynchburg, Dec. 24. Editor "Sporting Life:'t The secretary was also instructed to corres paid in advance. No tie walking for us, thank Though it is yet several months before the base pond with President Nick Young, of the Na you- We remember Digby Bell's Company too A SOUTHERN TRI-STATE. ball season opens the air is full of various tional League, with a view of securing the vrell for that. I hope that the deal can be ar rumors as to who is who, and though none of protection of Class A. The meeting then ad ranged simply for the good of the public, for Talk of Such a League Down in the teams in the State League have been an journed to meet on January 26 in Chattanooga 1he bluff at acting those ball players are making nounced I am pretty certain -that we will be in to elect officers. out East must be tiresome and it will be a Georgia. the nice when the season opens. Messrs. Stallings and Powers will start out relief to see a first-class team in the real ar Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 25. There is talk of organ Manager Smith writes from Knoxville, Tenn., on their tour of investigation January 4, visit ticle." izing a Tri-State Base Ball League in the that he is signing a great team for '96. Leahy ing all the cities which have filed application South. The plans are to unit* Tennessee, and Schabel are about the only members of last for membership, investigating the financial The part, the team is wanted for is to Georgia aud Alabama in a short-jump, $600-limit season's team we have signed for '96. Smith backing of each and considering their geo give an exhibition of a ball club at indoor league. The Knoxville team will be a member writes that he has signed two pitchers who graphical situation in making up the most. practice and at gymnasium work. The man of the league. Manager Moffett. of the latter will be second Oths. compact league. Each club will be required to who runs a theatre company for amuse club, says: "I will be iu for such au organiza Speaking of Orth, reminds me that I read put up $1000 as a guarantee before a franchise ment, and to secure coin of the republic tion for all there is in it, and believe base ball in "Sporting Life" of December 14 a statement is issued to them. The committee has full will be in the city just after the holidays would prove of much greater interest if such an from Charley Mitchell in regard to Orth that power to act. and Manager Tebeau will be here at the organization were perfected. You win count is very unjust to the latter. The facts in the same time. Then some kind of an arrange me in for the Tri-State, but I am opposed from case are these: Mitchell showed me. what he LANCASTER LINES UP. ment will be made if it is possible to make start to finish to the .$1200-limit Southern and its said was an offer from Connie Mack to Orth and kangaroo jumps. Boom the Tri-State. 'It's a also a contract for Orth to sign. Orth said he one. good thing push it along.' " Cincinnati talent, did not want to go to Pitsburg, so the Lyuch- A Public Meeting Decides For a as usual, will be called into service, and PILING the burg management would not sell him against his Team Next Season. ON AGONY. new organization will include several of the wishes. Charley probably feels sore over Orth's Lancaster, Pa.. Dec. 24. A public meeting in weaker clubs in the Southern League last sea refusal, hence the roast. the interest of the formation of a State League Those Kansas City Profits Steadily son, . __ Ed Kagey's many friends here hope that he Club here next year was held in the Court housij Gaining:. will make his mark with the New Yorks. He Friday evening, Piesident H. H. Hensel, of the has great curves, but lacks control. JACQUES. Toronto, Dec. 4. Mr. Frank N. Dennis, an Mr. Freedmaii's Beard. Lancaster Base Ball Association being in the old Gait boy, is now secretary of Jimm.y Man President Freedman, of the New York Base chair. Speeches were made and much en ning's flourishing Kansas City Base Ball Club. Ball Club, summoned some friends to the Cort- Players Will be Plenty. thusiasm was manifested. The Association has He is at present in the city visiting frietds, landt street headquarters yesteiday. And those twen chartered with a capital of $3000. Lan and yesterday talked glowingly of Uncle Sam's who were wise did not go. By which exhibition Minor league managers will have plenty of caster will put the best team it cati secure in national game in the West. of shrewdness they missed an edifying sight- chances to secure good players if they wait the Held, a number of the members of last sea Kansas City finished second to Indianapolis Mr. Freedman in a new set of whiskers. They until about May 1, when the National League son's team writing that th?y will sign. Fifty In the Western League last season, and Man were upon the Milwaukee brewery style. An clubs will begin the weeding out process. Phil shares of stock were subscribed for at onco. ager Manning cleared $12,000. So no wonder he idea of their construction may be conveyed by adelphia, for instance, has 23 men under con The old grounds in the East End have beeu se refused an offer to locate in New York. In '94 the exclamation of each visitor: "Weber and tract: New York, 2S; Louisville, 32; Cleveland. cured and extensive improvements will be made he made $18,000, the '95 slump being caused by Fields, b'gosh. with Dutch Daly and George 22: Chicago, 23; Pittsburg, 24; Brooklyn, 23, thereto. Another meeting will be held this week, tve wet Sundays and a bud Fourth of July, the S Knight fighting for the place. New York and every other club fioni six to 12 more than and everything will then be completed for launch oro&ts on Sundays and holidays averaging $1000. 'World." they will carry through tlie season. ing a Uub ucit season. JLIFE. .Dec.... 28*. THE WORLD OF ing it up to suit themselves, the magnates kiudlj great unknowtj is,, and he adnjjts th«t it is ft accepted it and very magnanimously tendered hiu: friend a vote of thanks. That required assurance, tc of his. It's a dark secret. OLD TALE RE-TOLD. say the least. NEW YORK NEWS. MANY TO CHOOSE FROM. SCANT COURTESY FOR THE DONOR. Hartford and a "prominent League club" are What right bad the Eastern League delegate: loked upon as tbe two clubs booked for the A FEW CURSORY to tamper with that deed of gift? The cu] vacancies. The Philadelphia Club, as was hinted REMARKS ABOUT didn't cost the League a cent. It was give; THE ATLANTIC ASSOCIATION IS NOW iu this column two weeks ago, is the applicant outright by Mr. Steinert under such condition; for a franchise. It is said that It Is the in INGRATITUDE. as he saw fit to fix upon it. The Ea at ern Leagu tention of the Quaker Club to locate its proposed had power to accept or reject the generosity ai v ORGANIZED. Atlantic League Ciub iu Philadelphia, playiug they saw fit, and there their power ended. Wha on the home grounds when tbe League club they did was to turn 'round and slap the dono is on the road. If such is the plan where will The Eastern League Magnates Show in the face by exactly reversing his expressvc the Philadelphia State League Club come in? wishes. Much better would it have been to re Full Details of tbe Two Days' Meeting Allentown, Albany, Troy, Danbury, Atlantic ject the offer altogether if they didn't like tb City and Elizabeth were among the cities ap That the Major Leaguers Are Not terras. That would have been honorable, bu plying for franchises previous to the meeting. the sneaking courae adopted and carefully guard in Gotham Last Week Scope o It is rumored that the Trenton team will di Alone in Capacity ed from the press was not honorable. That 1 vide its games during the season, playing half For Tricks the way it looks to an outsider. tbe Organization A Southern Trip iu that city and half in Atlantic City. NOT WELL PLEIASBD. OTHEit DETAILS. That Are Yain. Mr. Steinert was unable to be-present at tb The Schedule Committee consists of President meeting and received his first intimation of th For tbe Giants Decided Upon, Eta Crane, Denuy Long and AI Buckeuberger. The true state of affairs from the "Union" represeu season will consist of 126 games, half to ba There is always a great deal that trans tative last evening. He had noticed the pe played on the h*me grounds, the season lo pires behind the doors of Parlor F, of the culiar wording of the press dispatches, but sup New York, Dec. 23, Editor "Sporting ope'n about April '22. The League plan of di Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York City, posed that it was an error; When informed o Life:" This is certainly a very uuaeason vision of receipts on the 50 per cent, basis will when a base bali meeting is in session the manner in which his generosity was receivec able time for active base ball dismission prevail under tbe constitution of the Atlantic by the league Mr. Steinert simply said: "' yet every item of news and comment Association. . ."' ' there which does not at once reach the will have nothing farther re public through the newspapers. If thi to do with it. Tbii garding the players who are to represent Umpires' salaries have been fixed at $1500. is not base ball weather at all, and I have enougl this great The officials will pay their expenses out of this. were not true it would be a great mysterj busiress to attend to without metropolis is read with remark how the magnates in thinking or talk able interest by the vast army of cranks An endless number of applications have been session could spend in* about base ball. Tbe cup is stored away ii received by President Crane, among,them being so much time transacting the business my basement. If they want it let on Manhattan Island and within the radius them cooii of Greater New York. A-cross Billy Quinn, Charley Jones, Jack Conriolly, they are publicly credited with. after it. I linvs given it to *he League, an< the noble Jerry Sullivan, Jiui Galligau and Tommy Pbelan, The aruual meeting of the Eastern they can do what they please with it. I Hudson in the State of New Jersey, which coul< by the of the Virginia League. The last but not least League just closed was no exception to the not keep it in my window, all winter." way, is now entirely re-established thing done by the magnates of the new league rule and a few things uot yet published It was very evident that Mr. Steinert wai in the Union, base ball talk is on tap. Such WHS to decide upon a'"Hairy Wright Day." It transpired there which will interest Bast little pleased with the aspect of affairs, an< enterprising cities as Newark, Paterson and will be observed ou the day designated by tbe ern League followers. One of thes« inci that the failure of the local club to provide ; Jersey O4ty are looking forward to the National League. dents is given and commented upon in suitable place for the cup pleased him as littl uuxt playing season with unusual interest SOUTHERN PLANS. tbe Springfield "Union" by "Oy," a writer as the action of the league magnates in re This state of affairs must have been appre Jacksonville will again be tbe training ground well known all over the Eastern League versing his expressed wishes. A little later h« ciated by the backers of the new Atlantic of the rejuvenated New Yorks. Harvoy Watkins territory as follows: said that he would think it over and perhaps Association. A good team in Newark, with has made suitable arrangements, and with tbe would write President Powers about the mat Sunday playing, aid of a good cook the boys will ter and express bis views more plainly. should make an tin be got in shape Row Over the Steinert usually g'ood showing for a minor by Manager Irwin. At the hotel the players will Cup. LOCAL DERELICTION. have a dining room to themselves, a'nd the Th?j-e is a story behind this harmless look In passing it might be mentioned League club. Paterson should draw tbat the enough on Sunday to assure grounds are on the line of the trolley road. ing paragiaph which was published by nearlj reason for the burial of the Steinert Cup in tbe Harvey Watkins says tbat a little rolling will put fill the papers regarding the Steinert Cup: donor's basement is due to the woeful complete success. And Jersey City will join in "Th< Inactivity procession with a team of New York colts. the grounds In good shape. He bas also engaged deed of gift of Albert Steinert. of Spriugfleld of the directors of the local club, to whom the New the hall in which Corbett and Mitchell was received and accepted. Mr. Steinert matter of providing a suitable place for York and vicinity shMild be fairly alive with the settled do exhibit great national game next year. their little differences, which will be fitted up as nates a cup to tbe Eastern League to be playec ing it was left with full, power, at the lasl a modern gymnasium. The "gym" will for at the close of each season by tbe clubs fin meeting of the stockholders. So far as has ATLANTIC ASSOCIATION MEETING. be used been discerned on rainy days, and also by the pitchers before ishing first and second a vote of thanks no move whatever has been Parlor F, at tbe Fifth Avenue, is certainly they begin to work their arms in earnest. The tendered the dor-or," etc. made by them in the matter, but it has been the base ball chamber of tbe country. If the learned from other team will leave early in March and will put in That innocent looking paragraph doesn't indi sources that a suitable loca walls of Parlor F could speak they would re three solid weeks of hard work. The team will cate any of the trouble that was behind it. Ai tion for exhibiting the cup would gladly be late many untold tales of League affairs. The furnished on application play its way North, and by the time the bovs o matter of fact Mr. Steinert did no such thing either at the art museum Eastern League, presided over by energetic Pa reach the Polo Grounds they as indicated. His deed of gift expressly stipu or at the Court Square Theatre. Perhaps th< Powers, occupied the famous room for its semi will undoubtedly latter place would be in fine condition. Amos Rusie has informed luted that the cup was to be played for las' be preferable as being mon annual meeting, and not to be outdone tbs new one of his Harlem season by the clubs "finishing first and second,' frequented, and it would mean a very slight Atlantic Association held its first meeting within friends that he will not. go expense and effort on the South, as he is keeping in condition at his native but each season thereafter by tbe club which part of the base bal the historic walls of Parlor F last week. In city. Perhaps had won the cup the previous season and the directors to provide a suitable glass case arid terest in the new organization seems to be Manager Irwin will not concur stand with which to avail with the big Hoosier in this opinion. "Silent club which won the championship the succeeding themselves of either increasing every day. The salary limit and Mike" season. There were one or two provisos which courtesy. general scope of the new league was outlined in Tiernan says' he looks forward to the covered exceptional cases, but it was expressed LOCAL INDIGNATION. this column several weeks ago. The new ven Southern trip with considerable pleasure, and Upyond a doubt that the club which won ihe Manager Burns' opinion of the. action taken by ture is now safely launched and a successful sea- he believes that it is a wise move to invads cup should have an opportunity to contest for the Eastern League was shown by his threat sou is expected. Last Thursday the magnates the South in the spring. it the next season as a reward for wianing it that it would make no difference to Springfield. assembled, bu.t they did not complete their work ODDS AND END'S'. And thereby hangs His team would finish either first or second until Friday. Jersey City, Newark, Paterson, Let us hope that the New Year will find suf a tale. anyway next season, ficient space In "Sporting Life" THE DEED OF GIFT. and. therefore, be eligible Wilmington, Trenton and New Haven constitute for a reliable, to fight for the cup again in spite of the dele the circuit. The new league will be on a par authentic and artistic picture of our esteemed It will be remembered that the National Leagu gates. But that doesn't humorist, Albert was alter the principle o: with the Eastern and Western Leagues, and will Mott. We have not had the having a squabble over the Temple Cup ju&l the thing. start tlie season on a firm financial basis, each pleasure of seeing his face, which he so mod at the time when Mr. Steiuert donated his cup C. T. Sbean. who was elected estly to this one of the Board city representad putting up $500 as a guarantee informed us some time ago is strikingly league. New York held the Temple of Directors for hf-tt season, expressed his opin that the season will be continued to the end. handsome. It is at the request of the feminine Cup and claimed the right to contest for it with ion in unmistakable terms last night and point readers of tbe 'Life" in this vicinity tbe team that won first place, while others PRESIDENT CRANE'S PLANS. that ed out the fact that the Providence delegates Sam I make this suggestion. It was not inspired, by claimed that the first and second clubs should had been turned dbwn from every league com Crane, the veteran player and well-known any compete for scribe, was finally elected president, secretary of the Baltimore players. it, as in the first season. It was mittee appointed as indicative of the attitude President Freedman went over to Philadelphia who put his wishes in legal form. Mr. Steinert of President Powers toward such dog-in-the- and treasurer, with a salary of $1500, and he will made shortly engage headquarters in some desirable last week and announced that he had secured the provisions of his deed of gift so plain mangerism as Providence had been guilty of. the services of pitcher L/impe, who twirled for with the able assistance of Lawyer Kitzgiblxms A FINAL SHOT. building in this city. Remember, it is President v/foo put his wishes in Crane now, although it's dollars to doughnuts the Quakers part of last season. He is a south legal form. Mr. Steinerl The provisions of the deed that goes with the paw and will join the army of pitchers now com believed it right tbat the club which held the Steinert Cup make it possible for the donor that we will always call him Sam Crane just cup should compete the same. Be that as it may, he will continue manded by Colonel Freedman. We hope he will for it on the following year. to withdraw It entirely under certain eoijdi- not be extinguished as soon as he The Temple Cup Committee later decided that tions, and this is one of them. The magnates his work in the interests of t\fe new league begins to their with renewed energy, and when the season glimmer. President Freedman was asked what trophy should be played for by the two took all the liberty they pleased with his gift. he grive for Lam.pe, and loading clubs each year. Tbe righj, or wrong Ib would have been a matter of courtesy, at opens the Atlantic will be in shape to show a he smiled and said: of either view is solid front. At present the circuit consists of "Why, he was a present, and you know It is not a matter of importance lenst, to have consulted him before making any discourteous to d.^line here. The fact remains that tbe Steinert Cup such radical and arbitrary changes. six clubs, but by the time the season opens Jt presents." This is Mr. Steinert's will probably be increased to eight. Manager Ellis. of the Newark Clnb. sny« provisions were unmistakable. first experience with that he will bring the best NO CONFUSION OF TERMS. the greed and grasping, cut-throat policv of base : THE FRANCHISE AWARDED. of his Grand Rapid* ball magnates, nnd it would be a satisfaction The franchises are held players Eiast, pnd will probably fill In from the It must be rernemberfd. too, that this deed to as follows: Denny g'ood material in the Ironside Club. of gift was drawn up and filed with President know exactly what he thinks of them now that Long in Washington, "Patsey" Wrlght in Pat he has ascertained the exact state of their sports erson, G. B. Ellis in Newark, "Ted" Sullivan President Freedman says the New York Ciub Powers, of the East era ' League, 10 days before manship. will now stand pat. as no more players who the end of the championship season before it in New Haven. AI Buckenberger will in all probability get the Trenton franchise. The are wanted can be secured. Tbe Louisville nego was certain that Springfield had won the pen tiations seem to be all at an end. Freedm.in nant, and, consequently, before ST. PAUL SIPTINGS. trolley capitalists in New Jersey's capital are any idea of the willing to bear all expense of stands, grounds savs that if Anson thinks that his $10.000 offer result of a cup series could be prognosticated. for Large is a bluff he implores the Windy In other words, when Mr. Steinert made Comiskey Taking Things and the like, and at the meeting on Friday those Easy Harry Stevens represented the Interests of Mr. City ycnulne yentlemnn to promptly call his provisions it was with the full knowledge that About bluff. Come now, Arise, show your hand. Providence stood an equal show with Springfield That New Park. Buckenberger. Tbe Jersey City franchise is said St. Paul, Miun., Dec. 24. Charley Comiskey to be enveloped in mystery: a veritable dark- It is generally understood that Manager Trwirt to win that oup and profit by its terms next is will open the season with Van Haltren in season. There was no disposition to favor in Chicago, where he will remain until be horse magnate, as he is called, will bold full left Spring has signed all of his men. As yet he bas sway across the river. To establish a club in field. If he prove?! a good sun-worshiper .and can field in the deal, but simply to furnish an added signed hold bis own with the stick he incentive to win the cup by making its possession only O'Rourke and Johnston. He will Jersey City, under the National Agreement it will be a fix have practically all the old men. back again, was necessary to secure tbe consent of the New ture. Stafford, however, will watch for a an advantage in future greater than the mere with the ch-ir.ce to displace the lengthy difference between 60 and exception of Irwin ~ and Cfcmp. The York Club, under the five-mile corporate limit. Californian. It 40 per cent, of the latter will be part owner and manager of the This consent has been given by President Freed- will be plKV ball from the start, and may the gate receipts. Victoria best n?an win. AN UNGRACIOUS (B. C.) team in tlie Pacific Northwestern man, and the latter freely admits that the Jer WM. F. H. KOELSCH. PROCEEDING. League. Mullane is in Chicago doing a good sey City Club will be a sort of training school But Providence didn't win the cup. No soon deal of skating ou the er, however, was the deed ice. He will pitch for the. New Yorks, and thereby the many prom THAT CALIFORNIA FIZZLE. of gift taken up regularly for St. Paul next year. He will not ising players will have a chance to develop in at tbe recent meeting than the Providence rep play at first base. resentatives jumped up and commenced It is said tbat Louisville is a minor league club quite near the Polo Tim O'Rourke Roastg grumbling endeavoring to make a trade for Boyle, but Grounds, instead of keeping a lot of promising Barnes anhit or . home ruu will Andrew Freedman then some one close to the team. He makea tion of the animosity which prompted the move be strjctly :ne tired. At that game we played in Brainerd on its merits. \ inergetic magnate is interested in the club. A two or three of his men were so ment was found in the openly-stated hints by STRATTON'S POSITION. Committee on Franchise was selected full they couldn't the Providence magnates that the other clubs V by the play at all, and Barnes asked Charley Irwin htid Jimmy Burns will not be released by St. Paul, delegates at the recent meeting with full power and I to play. We didn't want to do deliberately "thrown" games to Springfield ;t is said, although it is not known in wnat to elect two additional clubs. In this particular it, but all the season to insure our winning the pennant position Comiskey said we bad better, so we did. away from Providence. Comiskey will play , next year. it matter this committee will be the "whole thing." Several of Barnes' other men played so that all depends upon what Scott Stratton decides to THE COMMITTEE ^he people said it was a farce, RATHER TOO SNEAKY. do. Stratton has about made up his mind to and we came If anyone ever doubted the deep-seated rivalry Selected was President Crane, Denny Long and n for a share of the blame, when: it wasn't retire from base ball and engage in business, the unknown >ur fault. Comiskey feels dead between these two teams and cities last sea but Comiskey is trying hard to make him change Jersey City man. The latter is sore about that son, and tbe extreme soreheadedness that pre ilso on the Board of Directors. Thus it can be Barnes talk in regard -to the California trip. his mind. Burns is slated for a position, though, He told me to tell vailed in Providence over the double loss of the and it is not wholly improbable that first base seen that the mysterious representative of Jersey you. Barnes claims that pennant and Steinert Cup, here is a proof posi will be his new office. City is a factor in the League. It is said that he made money and Comiskey lost; that Comia- tive. It is a dog-in-the-manger trick, and a true iromineat Jersey City politicians are taking an key's men queered the deal. This is not on th» Charley Connors, of St. Louis, who achieved square. You see It's index ot tbe quality of sportsmanship ('.') exist quite a local reputation as a pitcher and handy nterest in the matter, and that when the this way, everybody lost ing in Clamtown. Remember, Mr. Steinert's all-round name of the owner is disclosed tt will create a noney, but Comiskey lost the least. He isn't provisions player, has been engaged by Manager Lhe loser they say he were not made after Springfield had Comiskey. Young Connors has all the different profound sensation in base ball circles. If I is. He dropped about won the cup, but before. If Providence had kinds im not greatly mistaken E. F. C. Young, the .300 to $400. Engel. of Milwaukee, was the big won this cup, would the Clamdiggers of delivery, and under the tuition of the gest loser. It was Barnes' own men that threw have made great Comiskey be will develop iu time into a chairman of the Democratic State Committee In told'Nit" tUe provislous ? Would Spring! star twirlei-. s'ew Jersey and a prominent Jersey City man, him up in the air, not ours, as he says. It is ofie of President Freedman's warm friends was Barnes' own crowd that did the boozing. i» !tS tLh°7 T feel like giving Barnes a roast every cbancs ^ C?m*«about Olat the Paragraph "Denny" Long, who last nd has always felt a keen interest in Freed- about the deed of gift was given out to the season managed nan's base ball venture. But of course there get. Well, anyway, we had a good tlm» cress :he Toledo team, is at the head of a move- and gave the coast better ball than as though it was all right. After hav° i nent the object of .re other politicians in Jersey City. Mr. yreed- they ever lus torn Mr. Steinert's gift to pieces andI patch- which is to play Sunday :ian says tbat Mr. had before. They've got the foot ball and b!» fames on Weeiawken Heights next summer. Young is not the man, but at i ycle lie same time the magnate know* who the etc."- craze out there, and it's hard to coca- Dec- 28-
him. It Is rumored that he lost about 50 He hits pretty well over the 300 mark even as a plunks by failing to get the man. pitcher, is a strong thrower, and, above all, is Chauncey Stuart did not favor the boys young, ambitious and, of exemplary habits. with his presence, as expected. Willie has evi-: FROM THE CAPITAL. NEWS' NOTES. - dently forgotten the promise he made when' The Virginia League seems to have a hard he went away on Thanksgiving Day. time finding the right man for president, secre W. H. Loeke and bride have returned from tary, etc. President Young recommended Jack their wedding trip, and are at home to their THE SPRING PLANS OF THE LOCAL Chapman, but the big manager is evidently not friends in Crafton, Pa. Mr. Locke will have hankering after the job. charge of the advertising-feature of the Pitts CLUB APPROVED. To complete the general scheme of harmony burg Club score card. A special effort will about that training trip of the 'New York Club be made to have this matter made an attrac it is only necessary for the players to report tion of the card. One season the Pittsburg with a full growth of foot ball locks. Imagine Club had over $2800 worth of ads on the Kid Gleason so discuised! card. Since that time, however, business Gus Schmelz on tlie Gronnd For a Few If Shiebeck had done as well In Washington men have been besieged with so many advertis as he did in the Western League there would ing schemes that they are hard to land. Days No Improvement at the Park have been little talk of another man to fill his Ed. Hutchinson, who is one of the baker's position at short. He lead the Western League dozen men signed by Louisville for third short stops, making but four errors in 60 chances. base, is no young blood by any means. Hutch Probable Interesting Facts About Joe Bouccer, of this city, will again take his comes from Lawrenceville, this city, a section chances and spend next summer umpiring in the which has turned out Berger and other well- Texas League. JOHN HBYDLER. known players. He came to the front when the Georgetown University Club, PITTSBURG POINTS. he played second base with the Zanesville (O.) MINORLEAGUE BALL*. team of the Tri-State League, a nine composed of Fry, Swift, McShannie and others. He Washington, D. C., Deo. 24. Editor was a clever ground coverer, but not any too "Sporting Life:" We are to have a little The Proper Way to Run the Game CONNIE MACK'TO HAYE FULL-SWAY strong in sticking. Anson gave him a trial, Wagnerian comedy next week. That is, in Small Communities. then he drifted to the Pacific Coast. People Hoyt supplies the comedy, while the Wag Gloversville, N. Y., Dec. 25. Editor "Sporting AS USUAL. who have seen him play recently declare ners supply everything else. There is Life:" As was fully expected, the suggestions they believe he will do. nothing about the title, "A Texas Steer," in my letter of the 2tith ult. in regard to the Jack Glasscock's throwing arm Is believed to remind one of base ball, unless it is that salary limit and mode of signing players by the to be gaining in strength, and mebbe the old incident in Ted Sullivan's president-secretary of the proposed new State The Yeteran May Not Take All His man will be in the game next year. He can career, when league have received their review from neighbor play first base all right, even now, but if that some of the Lone Star State people wanted Peters. arm is in good kelter Jack will cavort around to run him for Congress for bringing the In the first place I simply suggested a moderate Captures South Some Problems his old stamping ground. championship to Dallas. salary limit, which each club could faithfully Arthur Irwin is a great stickler for men he IN LUCK. live up to and under which they would be more likes. Last season he signed Lampe for the likely to play their fully quoto of scheduled Phillies, and even after the big fellow Still, there is not a little local base ball For the Management to Solve was flavor about games, and I actually believe that a salary banged for over 20 hits by the Pirates, a light- the "Steer," for are not the list in excess of six: hundred dollars a month, hitting team, Irwin declared to the undersigned Washington Club magnates, the brothers for each, club would be more than the patronage Bits ot News, Etc. that the man was all right and would yet Wagner, the proprietor, Mr. Schmelz, the of any city In the league would warrant, unless get going. This will be Lampe's third time manager, and Chas. Miller, the well-known more interest was shown than was demonstrated in the League. It may prove a charm. local sporting editor, the advance agent? by last year's attendance. Pittsburg, Deo. 23. Editor "Sporting While in Atlanta last week the writer was Together with Tim Murphy, also a local As both the presidents of last year's league Life:" The owners of the Pittsburg Club struck by the lively appearance of that town. man, this combination has proved eminently were vitally interested in their respective clubs, Lave decided 011 the policy they will pur Of course the Exposition drew many strangers, successful. It is safe, therefore, to say the it seems but natural that ex-President Peters sue in the year soon at hand. It will be but even then the Gate City is thriving in local base ball hoodo parted company with Man should realize that there was considerable kick similar to last year in many respects. Then a remarkable way. If base ball will go at ager Schmelz when he entered the profession. ing in regard to partiality shown and inconi- the season ran through without any clashes all in the South here is the town. The Queen An Instance of his changed luck Is shown by petehcy in the management of last year's State of consequence. and Crescent and Southern Railways were run the fact that Congress will not take its annual League. With the spirit of ' 'arery one for Connie Mack will be given the same pow ning heavy with passengers and freight. At holiday recess, and that most of the n-".v mem himself and the devil take the hindmost" of; lanta Is only an over-night run from Cincin bers will be In town to pay last year it could not be expected but that the er as he had last year, with perhaps a lit tribute to Hoyt's party tle bit more. His handling of the team, in nati, and if the game can be developed there clever political satire, as presented by Wague-s, comprising the hindmost would make a the place some day might be drilled into a Schmelz et al. most decided kick, which some of them did. 1895 gave perfect satisfaction in perhaps League town. But as far as that is concerned there are al every instance but 9116. It is surmised that While Mr. Schmelz is here he will probably Don't put much stock in the story about Tom take a trip out to National Park to s> e what ways some kickers that could nob be satisfied one owner did not like Mack's plan of driv McCreary giving up base ball for a'business sit. under any circumstances. Improvements will be necessary to jut Hie grounds In speaking ing a couple of his men which he put in Mao likes the game too well. Perhaps it would and stands In shape for another season. The of the singing or consignment of operation during the last Eastern trip. be a good idea for Ely's one-lung story to join players to each club I simply endeavored to con outfield is in poor shape, and will require a thor vey the fact that a man thoroughly Nothing was said which gave convincing proof hands with McCreary's business-sit gag. ough raking and rolling next spring to fit It competent of this belief. However, putting this and that President Kerr several times recently has en and with the interest of the League at heart, for fielding ground balls with any degree of ac instead of being interested in some particular together yields a fair result. Mack apparent joyed the privilege of a grape vine interview. curacy. It is not likely, however, that the ly half suspected that he was making a very One paper had a "long talk" with hin> on all club, could, out of all the young bloods there is club will go to much expense in making repairs in the country, pick six or eight evenly-balanced radical move, for one day in New York he was sorts of subjects. Mr. Kerr didn't hear of it to the stands, as next season will probably wind heard to say to a friend that he wondered until three days later, then he was in a state clubs, and with the necessary added strength, up the Seventh street park as far as base ball to the weaker clubs from time to time keep the If he had made a mistake in trying to ginger of trepidation until he had read the interview. is concerned. up a few of the men. Mr. Charles Johnson, of Arbuckles & Co., one clubs quite evenly balanced in playing strength. People who witnessed the lay-down of several THE SPRING PLANS As for evading the salary limit who should of the steadfast friends of the Pirates under of the club, as outlined in last of the Pirates away from home made up their all conditions has just recovered from a severe week's "Life," be more an adept at that business than one minds without much trouble that Mack pur snern to meet with the approbation of the dyed- who as one of the founders of last year's league attack of fever. in-the-wool fans, who will be nil too anxious sued the proper tactics. The shortcomings Pat Donovan will not be on here to teach and at the time president of the same, should of the players in question had to be seen in a few short months to hie .nemselves out have practically completed the signing of his the young ladies bow to skate. Tlie concern took to the green field to give an idea of their disastrous nature. Donovan's name in vain by advertising him> too to size up the r,ew players and high-price team before the others had hardly Therefore it is no wonder some dissatisfaction extensively. make wise predictions as to their future. commenced? But by adopting this method of occurred. The circumstances once explained, The Senators will have but two weeks to get signing and allotment of the players I cannot Mr. Freedman must be opening wine judging into trim, if the championship conceive, away went all the fault-finding. from the extent of the elegant notices he is sfison opens with an honest president-secretary, how Mack made a hit with one director of the April 16, and Manager Schmelz will have his it is possible to evade it, as every man is signed getting in New York. The Pittsburg Club once hands full to put the team : n food v.'nying form and Pittsburg Club by carrying out a plan the had a president who told his directors that he every contract drawn by him. director had long advocated. in this short time. It's a jjood thing he is not To demonstrate the fact that ball players, Try out a man, was worth a half-column advertising in every thinking and if he won't do release him. This was the New York paper each day. , An investigation of perfecting an »laborate system- of and good ones, too, can be signed at a reasonable director's signals, a la Irwin. Half a aozen games, how salary, I will simply mention the fact that policy, and he once was on the revealed that he was buying a half-dozen bottles ever, verge of demanding the resignation of a cer daily. CIRCLE. I"~Tr " with strong minor 'oague c'l bs, such as the only two players now playing with the Na tain manager because he declined to pitch a the manager is arranging ! r, v ill go a long tional League namely, Jones, lately drafted new man who was drawing good pay, and way toward putting the players on their mettle. from Springfield by Brooklyn, and Madison, now In his games had not shown himself to be GLEISALVIN MOVING. There may be a game or two vc.th -ollege teams, with Philadelphia, were signed and played in last exactly of League calibre. Mack gave this and It is possible that the >.trong Georgetown year's New York State League teams at $t>5 and same player a trial, and when he failed he A Number of Players Signed For His College Club will have a practice whirl with the $75 a month, respectively, while Amsterdam's gave him ten days. His work later on in Senators. Such a series would interest every prize beauty, who was signed at $25O a month, a small League proved that Portland Team. one of the local enthusiasts vho witnessed tlie was subsequently relegated among the back Mack bad not fast work blundered. Portland, Ore., Dec. 19. Editor "Sporting of the collegians last summer. numbers. Next season Connie will be given full charge. Life:" No new phase has appeared on the base THE GEORGETOWN CLUB As further proof that pitchers and catch He will guess the pitchers, place the players, ball question of late, but from present appear last season was the hardest-hitting college club ers can be signed fit the salaries I monUcned etc., and when he sees a good man he can ances it will not be long before some steps in the country, and the quality of its material Mr. Levi, last year's president of the Glovers dp business without urging for permission. are taken toward the signing of players that can best be judged by the fact that not less ville, N. Y., Club, while on a business trip to The owners believe he is the man for the are to make up the personnel of the various than four of its members received flattering Boston the latter part of last June, obtained position. They have every confidence in teams. In fact, already some players have offers from National League managers. It ap an option on the services of Mahoney, now with him. He has a couple of big problems before been signed by Manager Glenalvin to play on pears rather singular, then, that a recently Portland, and formerly with Washington, at him, and the veteran should be given all the the home team. Babb will be found on third published make-up of an All-American college $75 a month, and could also have signed pitcher chance. It is now given out that the club base. No doubt he will make a success of that nire assigns one place to Georgetown and that Sullivan, ECW with Pawtucket, at that price; will positively not take all of Its 30 odd position, and when it is considered that the to Mahoney as a sub, and this also in face of but perhaps tho^e people are not good enough players to Hot Springs. There are a couple coming season will be his first on the profes the fact that Princeton's was the only club among for Amsterdam? who were signed merely as emergency men sional diamond, he having heretofore been found the half-dozen big colleges who managed to Any manager can sign ball players If he is when the outlook for players of that position on teams representing amateur athletic clubs, win a series from them. They defeated Yale willing to give therm the earth, but what sfimpa was decidedly dismal. They may get their as he is a resident of this city, the cranks something like 24 to 3 last spring, and now a man as being a competent manager is one release soon. will doubtless look with pleasure upon his ad who can get together and did get together a Yale's respect is so great for the blue and gray winning team, vancement and do everything in their power to of Georgetown that it insists upon playing fu with about half the salary list JAY EARLE'S WONDER. make his debut in professional company a suc that some of Ihe other State League clubs paid ture games on neutral grounds. So it is likely a man, for A few of the boys about headquarters the other cess. the two college clubs will meet at Old Point Instance, like "Vio" Wilbur, of last day began discussing base ball topics. Some Bob Perham, who will be found on the Initial next spring and have it out. year's "Bingos." \ body spoke of J. Earle Wagner's statement that bag, Is also a newcomer in professional ranks. Immediately after the holidays the candidates It is not the amount of salary a team is paid the Senators would stand pat for next season. Prior to the coming season he was found playing for the 'varsity team will begin training. The that makes them a drawing card, but 'he quality They were Iri the best of shape, etc. Suddenly on college teams in the State, and also on of ball they play, and Mr. Peters knows as well club will lose a strong hitting quartet in Car- as anyone that cue of the gang said: "J. Early Bird Is the best amateur athletic club teams. In fact, he and mody. E. Maheaey, Sullivan and McGrath, who the National jueague ranks to man I ever met when I needed a story. Last Babb this last season both played on the roster graduated last summer, but so promising are day are being filled with young and ambitious spring we met the Senators in the South. Jay of the Portland Amateur Athletic Club team. It players who all started on a small salary. the recent additions of base ball material that I am pleased was more talkative than ever, and time being was really. perceivable at that time by the next year's tesm is looked forward to as the to see a player get all he ia plenty we listened. There was a man named patrons of these games that the two players worth yet, I think it wiser to gradually edu equal of the giants of the past. What they cate our Collins with the Senators. He was a stout, im aforesaid were both making rapid strides in the lose in hitting will be made up by faster fielding. base ball nublio to a standard that mense-shouldered lad, a heavy weight lifter, I be base ball profession, and that it would not .be thev will apreciate what is being done for their lieve. Jay Earle went into ecstacy over his long before they were found in some league THE TEAM MAKE-UP. benefit, and that they may enable Dy their at playing. 'There's where we have paid all the ex composed of professional players. It is the earn Captain Harley believes the team will be tendance at the games the owners and promoters penses of our trip,' he said. 'Why that fellow est wish, of all the cranks of Oregon that these picked from the following candidates: though, of base ball in our communities to give thein, is one of the most promising players in the players make a name for themselves in the of course, M. Mahoney. Reardon, Harley and teams according to the encouragement J*Wch, country. He is worth $2000 as he stands.' professional arena, and that the time will not McCarthy, of last season's team, are fixtures: is shown by their attendance at the games, Everything was Collins with Jay. He talked be far off before they are found on the roster of MaJboney, Lambert and Prasey, pitchers; Ma- than to have tlie people who are milling to give of nobody else. The Pittsburgh boys were dead some National League team. honey. Coleman and Dugan, catchers: Mahoney it their financial support shake their heads anxious to get a look at the man. They finally The other players signed by Glenalvin up to alternating with Lambert at first: Fleming or and intimate that it is not self-supporting because secured a chance, and then Jay was given the date are not so well known, either by reputation Lambe, second; McGlachlen or McLaughlln. third; tl,e salary list eats up all the laugh. Collins was released before the seaaon as ball players or otherwise, but it Is safe to Reardon, short stop; Harley, left field; Mc opened.'' say that they are men who are a credit to their Carthy, centre field, and Kelly or Mclntire. NOT AFRAID TO WORK. profession, for it is a well-known fact that the right field. In addition to these are Dillon. DUBUQUE INSTEAD OF OMAHA. Jakey He;vitt, the farmer boy pitcher of the year that Glenalvin had charge of the team Fincke, Maguire and Gaynor. all strong players, Rochester team, is holding down a good position in this city the men who were found and not without a chance to make the 'varsity President Hickey Favors Giving It a In Maidsville, Pa. This boy is deserving of a on the team were men who anyone would be team great deal of credit. He supports his parents glad to take by the hand and call a friend, Captain Dick Harley. of this club, is the man Western Association Franchise. and a wife. In 1894 a minor league manager and in the short time they were in this city Selee was after for the Boston dub. He is Rockford. 111., Dec. 22. Manager Nicol. of beat Jakey out of a lot of salary. As a result they gained the friendship and esteem of all not only an excellent outfielder and fast on the Rockford ball team, has received a letter the poor fellow had to go to work as a Section persons with whom they came in contact. the bases, but is said to be the surest hitter from President Hickey, of the Western Asso hand on the railroad. He caught cold which A gentleman by the name of Von Gieschen among the college players. Harley graduates ciation, which has also been sent to the own settled in bis back. This weakened him, and has been signed as one of the pitchers. He hails next June, and will play the balance of the ers of other franchises, stating that he is in he lost 25 pounds. He was a mere shadow from the Michigan League. I myself do not season either at Newport or Cape May. He favor of givina Dubuque the Omaha franchise, when with the Pirates. Manager Mack wanted know anything of this man's ability as a pitcher, will act as the Georgetown team's coach in as that city "is enthusiastic over base ball to keep Jakey on the club pay roll, but every but Glenalvin's judgment is that he is a comer, case the athletic authorities do not engage a and has offered to raise $3000 to support a time Connie took a look at Jakey's debilitated and he has so written us. An outfielder by the professional. team, and also to give a $2000 guarantee that face and neck be changed his mind. Hewitt re name of Pace has also been secured, and if his Altogether, Georgetown is making big stride: they will finish the season and have a paying covered his health when in Rochester, and look playing out here is as good as we have previously toward the athletic premiership of America's attendance. The claim of the Western League ed in prime shape on his return. heard he will fill the bill. A catcher has also educational institutions. It already hns the to Omaha has been relinquished, and that been signed, but his name champion sprinter, WAFFLES. is not divulged as and is not far from holding city will have no base ball if it gets shut out yet. It is said that he played with the Detroit the same honors in the department devoted to of "the Western Association.. George Edward Nichol and family were team last season. the national game. out buying gifts last week. Nick received These are all the players signed to date, ex PITCHER OTIS STOCKSDALE. An Oft-Told Story. a big slice of advance from his Western em cept that the entire Findlay (O.) team will be who last season drew his release from both the ployers, and put it to a good use. moved intact to Seattle to represent that city. Washington and Boston Clubs, will possibly have Pittsburg has been dickering with pitcher Elmer Smith is busy receiving requests from From present indications it appears that we another trial in the major League next year. McCreary for some time, and evidently has friends for bull terrier puppies. He has some are to have a League composed of young blood, His lack of effectiveness, his friends think, wns caused the latter to become dissatisfied, judg good stock, and it isn't a bit troublesome and that is just what we want. Players who due in a great measure to the lingering effects ing by the appended dispatch, which was to dispose of the young specimens. People will put life into the game and make it gingery, of typhoid fever, from, which he recovered only sent out from Pittsburg last night: "Pitcher who received promise from Smittie are always and not old worn-out League players, who just shortlv before the opening of the playing sea McCreary to-day repeated his declaration that gnre to get the object. stand out in the field and draw their salary, son. ' As a pitcher, perhaps, Stocksdale will he will not play in Louisville next year. He The man who wanted to sign Silver Braun for which, by the way, is rather big, and never never set the world nfire. but his qualifications says that he will go into business rather than « Western League team is still in town, but make any effort to exert themselves. for the making of a hardhitting first baseman return to Louisville." Of course, this is all Hot in the good humor that once characterized CONSOLIDATION. or outfielder seem to be generally overlooked. bosh. Philadelphia "Ledger." LIFE. Dec- 28.
fishing in Chicago waters for a second basemao. together too heavy to pay and out He wants Ace Stewart or Harry Truby. of all proportions to the doubtful benefits Fred Tenney, of the Bostons, has been se to be derived in the distant and uncertain A CENTRAL LEAGUE cured to train the Brown University player*, SPORTING LIFE future. and will assume charge early in January. George Tebeau is trying to organize a Col A WEEKLY JOURNAL SEEMS NOW TO BE PRETTY WELL orado League to include Denver, Cripple Creek, to Aspen, Leadville, Pueblo and Colorado Springs. Devoted IT WILL BE A SUCCESS. Pitcher Nichols, of tbe Bostons, has signi SHOOT. ASSURED, fied his consent to Manager Manning to make BASE BALL, BICYCLING, one of the team which Is to go to Australia. ING, GENERAL SPORTS It is gratifying to note that base ball Jimmy Canavan may retire from base ball. organizations of every degree have fallen He has been offered a lucrative position In a AND PASTIMES. readily into line with the National League's With Four Existing Clubs as a Nucleus New Bedford (..Mass.) manufacturing establish scheme to raise the funds necessary to ment. Published by Frank Genins is quoted as saying that h* erect a monument to the late lamented the Projectors Expect to Have No would prefer playing regularly ou a Western THE SPORTING LIFE PUBLISHING CO, Harry \Vright. League team to "subbing"' on a National League The indications now are that every league Trouble in Making up a Compact team. 34 South Third St., in the country of any importance what Captain Anson Is after pitcher Dowd, who day's did suob good work for Newport last season. Philadelphia, Pa., U. S. A. ever will devote the proceeds of one Eight-Club Circuit, Mr. • Dowd is at the Harvard law school this play to the Harry Wright monument fund. winter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: The National, Western and Eastern Leagues Jack Glasscock has been claimed by the St. Plttsburg. Dec. 24. It is now practically Paul for,nest season, but it is likely that be Year...... &4.00 and the new Atlantic Association have al One into line, and the rest will settled that the Central Base Ball League, will be kept by A. C. Buckenberger to manage Six Months...... ; ...... 2.25 ready fallen an eight-club organization, to include towns Wheeling. Three Months...... 1.23 uo doubt follow in due time. in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia, Billy Earle has declined the offer of the fciugle Copy...... 10c. This is as it should be, and the base ball will be doing business when the season franchise at Victoria, B. C., In the North Pa Foreign Postage, $1.04 Extra per Annum. public should turn out in numbers on the cf 18U6 opens. Four clubs have already cific League. He hadn't the ready cash needed days selected, so that the proceeds may been located at Wheeling, Youngstown, to invest. PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. the purchase New Castle and Washington. Other towns Manager Garrlty was handicapped last year be sufficiently large to insure have made application for the remaining in Portland just as be is this season in Lewiston, of a respectable marble shaft to mark the lie readers of SPORTING LIFB who franchises, which will be given to those i. e.. lack of funds to secure the players resting place of the best man in every sense most eligible. A meeting of the League I would like. Iiave not facilities for reaching news ever connected with held, probably, in the second week The never-to-be-forgotten Billy Taylor is In dealers should by all means subscribe, of the word that was will be our national game. of January, for purposes of organization. I Jacksonville, Fla., organizing a team of picked thus assuring themselves regular and Among the other cities under consideration j Southern League players. They will make a prompt delivery by mail direct from are Akron, Bradford and McKeesport. tour in the South. this office. Pitcher Killen. of the Pittsburg Club, say» Captain Anson admits that the genera! he will leave for Hot Springs next year, some standard of play is to-dtiy higher than ever, NEWS AND COMMENT. time before the team. He t-ays his leg Is now INDEX TO CONTENTS. and that the players average higher in in as strong as ever. and capacity, but qualifies his Now that Latbatn has been disposed of by telligence Pitcher1 Luby has signed with Rochester. Cincinnati to St. Louis, it is very likely that Base Ball News...... Pages 3 tolO admission with the claim that the "stars'' Minneapolis has signed pitcher Joe Carney. Bug Holiday will be the man who will lead Shooting News...... Pages 11 to 14 of to-day do not compare with the stars of Manager McClostey ii erecting a cottage at off the batting order. Cycling News...... Pages 15 to 16 other days the MaMormicks, Williamsous, Louisville. Fred Pfeffer is in the City Hospital at Chi Fei'gusons, Kellys, Ewiugs. and, Barueses. Second basenian John Tighe is wintering in cago, a victim of appendicitis. It is thought, That qualification proves that the veteran Scranton, Pa. however, that he is in no real danger, and will Ex-outfielder Billy Sunday is still doing mis be out of bed in a week. TO CORRESPONDENTS. is getting along hi years old men always siocary work. Shortstop Dahlen, of the Chicago Club, broke make a reservation for something of the 9t. Joseph has signed catcher Martin Mitchell his arm recently, and the fracture is slow in "Sporting dim and musty |,ast. of Pittsburg. knitting. Fortunately, Indeed, for him that it All correspondents of the Milwaukee has signed s short stop named was not the good right arm. Life" are requested to return their cre MeZena on trial, President Sam Crane, of the New Atlantis It would be only common sense and 'oiiim; Association, roped in quite a pot of money dentials for renewal for 1896. Prompt to avoid Buffalo. through a monster cake walk given bj him prudtjuce for the National League reservation by eve in New York City. compliance with this request is neces crowding the minor leagues too hard. Acts I Charley Abbey, the Seaator't outfielder, Is Christmas ] resting in Washington. Manager Buckenberger has signed for bin sary in order to facilitate the annual of oppression become cumulative in ef Trenton team two young Pittsburgers, named fect as iij number and the inevitable result George Miller will b« osed as a geBeral Albert Wagner, a third baseman, and John labor of reorganizing the correspond substitute by Louisville. Wagner, an outfielder. They are brothers. is rebellion or revolution, accordingly as Ed McKean, of the Clfrfelands, is mourning major Manager Rasty W right says he has signed for ence corps, which is, by the way. quite the revolt fails or succeeds. The the less of his mother. his Paterson, N. J.. team Torreyson, second a task, owing to the immense number league cannot afford to open the door to Manager Hanlcu intends to hold first basemaa base; Boyle, of the Texas League, third baee, rebellion or even to pronounced dissatis Carey for contingencies. and McMacken and George Smith, pitchers. of contributors the "Sporting Life" faction. It has needed minor league alli Catcher Mo'ran, of Chicago, Is to be Dan Daub, the Brooklyn pitcher, is reported it will need ''loaned" to Minneapolis. as having been, under arrest at Meltonville, O., has on its staff. ance and support in the past; O. P. Cay lor touts K.id Gleason as the com- charged with being one of a gang of White- it again in the future. | lag captain of the Giar.ts. cappers that stoned a house in that vicinity. | OutSolder Dan Sweeney has been released Billy Earle, catcher and hypnotist, is soon from Syracuse's reservation. to place Professor before bis name, and will NOTHING NEW IN BASE BALL, St. Louis, having secured the National Charley Nichols is collecting rents for a big open au office In Cleveland for the cure of the Republican Convention, is now engaged real estate man in Kansas City. opium habit and nervous diseases by hypnotism. The New York "World" has sprung, as in a serious effort to also capture the Dem Manager Gerrity has signed pitcher Kling, It is said that Colonel Ellison, owner of late of Kansas City, for Lewiston. the Ohio State "Journal," and formerly wrier new and novel, a proposition to decide cuimi- ocratic Convention. First thing we know Cincinnati Club, of runs the Southwest St. Joseph has signed inflelder Messner, «f of a small block of stock iu the pionship contests by percentage the hustling metropolis of Burlington, and Vallely, of Ottumwa. is also Interested in Tcun Loftus' new Columbus made by and against a team. The idea may will be reaching out after the annual meet Pitcher Borchers wants another chance, and dub. be novel but it is not new, as it was first ings of the National League and American has applied lor it to the Detroit Club. Louisville has signed an outflelder named broached iii the columns of "Sporting Life" Association of Professional Base Ball Clubs. It is believed by ball players that Jack Charlie Dexter, who played with tbe Evans- to $15,000. ville team last season. He is 21 years of age, four years ago hy Mr. Frank Auderson. Mr. V'on der Ahe has reason to be proud of Crooks is worth from '$10,000 and a brilliant left The Detroit Clilb has engaged old Bill said to be a natural hitter Philadelphia journalist, with whom the his city. Houston as keeper of the new ball park. fielder. idea originate!]. Clarke, of Manager Garrity writes to «ay that the Howe Miller, a cousin of Bill Lewiston Club is encouraging him in every way The idea has merit and many things can The Eastern League's claim that drafted the Giants, will probably play with Buffalo. to get a strong team. "If we don't land close be urged in its favor. But it has no more Frank Foreman writes from Baltimore that to the top it will be my fault," said tbe Lewis- players should be paid for and signed with he is Still paying strict attention to his skating chance of adoption than would have a rule reasonable time is a just one and ton manager. in a rink. According to Harry Francis Charlie Cushman requiring a batsman to put the ball en _. prevail. Sixty days is long enough Twitchell, of Milwaukee, Is trying out, and it is should Manager would have been a more popular manager in the fence or be declared for a club to make up its mind about re hard to ''borrow" Billy Clingman from Pitts Milwaukee than Walter Wilmot. A good many therefore really waste of space and effort a drafted player; burg. people entertain the notion that Walter is mere taining or relinquishing who more to discuss the matter. and too long to keep a minor club guess Arlie Latbam says that the man ly a Chicago Club agent. The insuperable objection to the idea than himself puu ou airs is the musical com Richard, better known s.s "Nick" Struck, a ing whether a drafted player is to be poser. director of the Louisville Base Ball Club, died Is its radical character. It would neces turned or his place filled by some other It is reported that Baltimore will farm out at Louisville, December 24, of typhoid fever. sitate the first nbsotute change in the player. pitcher Arthur Clarksou and first baseman Mr. Struck was a wealthy contractor and a method of deciding games since the game Carey. great base ball enthusiast. and thereby lead to in "Tub" Welch Is putting In tbe winter play- Lew Whistler and "Long John" Healy are was instituted, play in the terminable confusion^ in the public mind. The Atlattic Association is now organiz Ing handball, to be in condition to selling groceries together in St. Louis. Whistler With a small, spring. will not manage or play In the Southern League Such a radical departure from the old ed with six club members. Manager McCloskey expects to make a Louis next season, but will be found with some West and established method would be, for compact circuit of populous cities and un ville "faa-m" of the Houstoo Club, of the Texas ern League or Western Association club. reason of policy and expediency, not at all der the control of practical base ball mana League. Evangelist Bill Sunday is, together with desirable, or even if desirable, not prac gers of reputation and experience, there is Sam Mertes, Quincy's speedy left fielder Chapman, going to begin a three weeks' crusade should not last year, will be one of Couiiskey's Saints against sin in Brooklyn on February 7. Now, ticable or advisable. Base ball has now no reason why the Association iu 1896. why did be select Mr. Byrne's bailiwick as reached such a point of perfection that few prove entirely successful, and become a Besides being a good catcher George Miller tbe starting point of bis revival campaign? ; changes are required, and none of them permanent addition to the steadily-growing will be valuable to Louisville as a fog-horn The parents of Tom McCreery, the Pittsburg" radical. minor league family. coacher. ) boy, who was with the Louisville team last President Hickey, of the Western Association, year, and who signed with that team for 18
artists acting under such conditions. You must of Lewiston, desires to manage, captain and til'st possess tbe players with the quick, snappy, play first base, but the suggestion does not ap brain and brawn. Otherwise an attempt to pear to meet with much favor. Other managers practice the finesse of the game IB a farce. BROOKLYN BUDGET. have applied, but it la doubtful if a decision HORRORS. will be made till after the New England League Elmer Bates irritatingly takes every occasion meeting. At this meeting the club will no to mention tbe Temple Cup. It has nothing doubt be represented by Messrs. C. B, Bur- whatever to do with a gun and only a third EOT FEW CHANGES LIKELY IN THE leigh and O. W. Richards. KENNEBEC. class sou-ot'-a-gun would ring it in in that con nection. We don't want to be quick on the W1L.MOTS WORK. trigger down here, but Elmer Bates is solemnly LOCAL TEAM, warned that not even Cuppy and Temple Cup He is Steadily Going Ahead With are synonymous, although having some sort of a kind of resemblance in their prominent features. Some Shifting in the Outfield Will he His Minneapolis Plans. Mr. Bates is also reminded that the Baltimore Minneapolis, Minn., Dec. 24. It is more than man, although a dead shot, never gets half shot; likely that the Minneapolis team will consist tbat he weighs^ several pounds, has muscles like Ahont the Extent of the Shake-up in next year of Wilson and Moran for catchers; iron and has tbe price of a railroad ticket to Werden, first base; Stewart or Truby, second BALTIMOREBULLETIN Cleveland in his inside pocket. He can get base; Ball, Short; Joe Strauss, third base; away from Patsey Tebeau and the whole gang. Byrne's Team How a Pitcher Re Lally, Frank and Wilmot in the outfield and POST SEASON SERIES. Fraser and Blackburn, the mainstays, in the box, with two additional pitchers of strength. HOW SPORTS STIMULATE WARLIKE And while on this subject it may just as well gained the Use of His Arm, Etc. Before next season opens up the local cranks be mentioned that 1896 will close with Baltimore will see some new faces in the team, and if as the repository of both the Pennant and the they pan out the way the management ex PROPENSITIES. temple cup (Mr. Campp will please use a great Brooklyn, Dec. 25. Editor "Sporting pects them to the pennant will come dangerous big P for Pennant and a little t and the same Life:" A few changes will be made in the ly near to flying at size c for temple Athletic Park in 1896. cup, and scratch out all this personnel of the Brooklyn team when THE HOLD-OUT. in parenthesis afterward so as not to give it they take the field nxt year. Most of these, away)., It is now practically settled that catcher The Baltimore Club as a Softer ol Finan however, will be iti the outfield. Whether Wilson and pitcher Fraser will be signed by Herman and Harry Vender Horst, with Ned any Hanlon, are now in consultation with the biggest changes will be made on the makeup Manager Wilmot for the Minneapolis team in cial Problems The Indispensable jewelry house in the city with a view to having of the infield is yet to be seen. Many per side of a week. There is some slight hitch a pedestal made for the permanent repository sons think that the team should be let between Wilmon and the management as to of the cup. When this became known all the alone as they closed the season this year. terms, but odds are 50 to 5 that the big Complement to Good Management large retail establishments made competitive Nothing weakens a team more than making catcher will have put his name to a contract bids to have the whole thing established in changes on the infield, especially if the inside of 24 hours. Fraser will be along in a their show windows, and this illustrates the con new man is not considered by the other couple of days, and there is no doubt of his The Next Temple Cup Series, Etc. fidence they have in Hanlon. , players to be as good as the one he re being taken into the fold. Wilmot has been They know positively that the whole business doing a 'good deal of telegraphing in the last places. Then, too, if the deposed player two days, and it has all been comes to Baltimore to stay if Ned really makes is popular with them the new man will about Schriver. Baltimore, Dec. 23. Editor "Sporting up his mind to have it so. ALBERT MOTT. There is a rumor this afternoon that the lat Life:" There is a pretty stiff ball game find that his path is not strewn with roses. ter has signed, but while the management ad mapped out between the United States and SAVANNAH SAD PENNANT CHANCES. mits negotiations, it denies that any deal lias Great Britain. But there is no good reason It has been some years since Brooklyn has been made. WERDEN IN LINE. why it should be a powder and ball game. At the Prospect of Being Another had a champion team, but the one that will It can just as well be settled by repre represent it in the major league Perry Werden has signed with the Minne sentative base ball teams from each coun Season Without Ball. next year gives promise of being one of apolis management for next year. He will try to have a contest on neutral grounds. Savannah, Ga., Dec. 24. Editor "Sporting the best it has had in some time. The play first base. Manager Wilmot sent Werden's Life:" Our fair city seems to be destined to contract to St. Louis, where Werden is winter Real war is only a little bigger athletic club will not have such a string of ing when he isn't off hunting, and the contract, game, and quite frequently feeling runs suffer another season from the loss of base young pitchers to try out next spring as some ball. The people here are anxious for Savannah signed, was returned yesterday. Werden writes uo stronger in one than the other. If you of the other clubs will have, but as its vet a very to be represented next year, but it is of no eran pitchers are all good U will not need nice letter to Wilmot, saying that he don't believe it you have only to reflect avail. Our city cannot compose a league by her will report in good condition when the bell that Patsy Tebeau's life would not be many youngsters. Unless the players work to rings. He likes the new owners and man lonesome, and as the other places seem so shy gether the club cannot expect to hold a very worth a steel flagstaff if the strong and are afraid to venture into the world again agement here, and believes that Minneapolis high place in the championship race. The will make a strong bid for the arm of the law did not paralyze the many arms then it is no base ball, no life. club has strengthened Its team by getting sev pennant. raised in menace. So, too, McGraw would be in The Southern trip craze of the big clubs seems eral outfielders. In McCarthy the club has a AT HEADQUARTERS. danger, and so would Tucker, Jack Doyle and to be as hot as ever, and we hope to see their a host of others. veteran with a vast amount of experience, who Manager Walter Wilmot, of the Minneapolis faces in our city again. It will be remembered should be good for several years to come. Club, has taken an office at 611 Bank of Com You may not have thought of it, but sports that Cleveland decided in the early spring last Jones is what is termed in base ball parlance a merce Building, Minneapolis, where he may and athletic games have much to do with war. year not to come South, but when it was dis "youngster," although he came well recom be found daily between the hours of 10 and They did in ancient history and they do now. covered by the Cleveland Club owners that all mended from the Eastern League. He may 12. Applicants for positions on the diamond The existing war feeling in this country has the other big League clubs were en route South work his way up to the top notch, and become and other people having business with Man been acre influenced by the international yacht they changed their mind (also their money), and one of the star outfielders of the profession; ager Wilmot may now find him ensconced in contest than by.all the sympathy for Venezuela. at the eleventh hour decided that it behooved then, again, he may prove to be entirely out of an easy chair before an elaborate roll-top The people of the United States have wanted them to visit the "Sunny South." WTell, the his class. Still, Brooklyn appears to have a desk in his office, instead of looking him up to "get at 'em" ever since the Duaraven troubles results of Cleveland's success last year is widely much stronger team for next year than it had at hotels and elsewhere. and now anything affords an excuse. It is not known. Now, let us suppose for a moment this. The nine was weaker in batting than any intended to say that the President and Con that if Cleveland did not come South last other way, ranking eighth in the major League BOGERT'S STATEMENT, gress are so much influenced, but the people year would she have won the Temple Cup? I in that throughout the country have been worked up over myself don't think that she would, as a great respect. the yacht race until nothing but blows (no joke), many of her men were hardly in condition at THAT MINOR LEAGUE LEGISLATION. Showing That Wilkesbarre Was Not if not blood, will settle it. So they will fight the start, and if the Sunny South had not President Byrne, in recently speaking about Indebted to Shannon. tor Venezuela or Omaha, it don't make a cent's been visited by the Spiders her fielders would not the resolution adopted by the major League at worth of difference which, and sports and ath have caught so many flies. It would have not its late meeting cutting the drafting price Wilkesbarre, Pa., Dec. 26. At the Eastern letics are mostly responsible lor the sentiment. been the case of "walk into my parlor, says of minor league players in half, said: "I did League meeting Shanon's claim for release from So, settle it by base ball. the spider to the fly," but it would have been not frame that resolution from any selfish reservation, on the ground that Wilkesbarre And if Baltimore is chosen to represent the "dear spider, I am too hot for you, says the motive. I think you will agree with me that was indebted to him, was emphatically com United States you can waive the neutral ground gentle fly." if a minor league player gives promise of hav bated by that club, and President Bcgert, of proviso. Now, let all you big "guns" of base ball, ing the ability to play in faster company it Wilkesbarre, the club's financial manager, pro The Orioles can go over there and lick them if you do not have to go to Venezuela to pitch is only fair to him to give him a chance to duced substantial evidence to controvert Shan out of their socks. and catch cannon balls, come to the Sunny get into that company. The argument has non's claim. South and get the extra avoirdupois off you. The been advanced that if a minor league club The argument put forth by Mr. Shannon was Great general, that Hanlon. that he hadn't received his full salary, he dis FINANCIAL base ball players who are considered "hot stuff" goes to the trouble of developing a player it PROBLEMS. would be good men to handle the fireworks for is entitled to the benefit therefrom. But is puting the agreement made with him in Jan Did it ever strike you that it is true economy the United States Navy. that fair to the player himself? A man Is uary, 1894, which was that if he quit the season to employ the very best managers ajid the very GOOD LOCAL PLAYERS. justified in making a change in any business with the club in first place he was to hav» best players? Mr. Editor, we are delighted at the prospect if it is to bis own advancement. This, I ?1500, if second place $1350, and if third place, Well, it is. of witnessing the debut of some of our own Sa think, is the case as to this resolution. It $1250; for four and a half months' services, It is believed that there are few if any clubs vannah boys in tbe different leagues next year. affords the player a better epportunity to Shannon's claim being that the figures were in the big League whose expense account foots The ones that have so far signed are Frank But improve his own condition." $1500, $1400 and $1300. He was settled with up a smaller total for the last four years than ler, reserved by New York, who is now the A TIP at the $1250 rate last year and no dispute arose Baltimore. TO LAME-ARMED PITCHERS. father of a bright baby girl, who will prove to Pitcher William Terry, who is wintering in as to the different salary until after the Roch It is nob all a matter of salaries paid manager be a mascot to Frank. Jim Btillantyne, the ris this city, is the oldest twirler in point of ex ester contemplated purchase had been refused, and players, but a great deal of expense is ing Mike Kelly, will in all probability don a perience iu the League. He began pitching and he brought this argument up to show thai contained in the amount of money wasted in Nashville uniform. He has several other offers, professionally In 1880, and made his best rec he had not been paid his salary and was free. errors of Judgment in selecting playing talent. but I think he will be found in the Southern ord with the Brooklyn Club in 1890, when the He went to Vice President Tammany and en Very frequently a new manager is employed, League, but be is sureiy destined for the big team won the pennant. He declares that his tered his complaint and claimed before the and then the owners give it out to the papers League in a year's time. arm is as good as ever, and with the speed League that he had transacted all his busi that the manager is untramm«led in the amount Tommy Murray, the clever third basernan, is hex possesses Terry feels certain he is good ness with Mr. Tammany and that Mr. Tammany- of money he shall expend for players, and It is second to none of the fastest runners in the for a number of years yet. His arm "went was the only man who had signed him, but he expected this statement will catch the people. T/pn
will be doing his constituents an injustice if a good ball player for cash. That ought to end he does not heed their requests. Henry asks the rurcors from Freedraunsville. nothing until he has determined his worth. RAYMOND SETS HIMSELF RIGHT. Now, could anything be fairer? LOUISVILLE LINES. I met Harry Raymond the other day, when he told me of the reason why he deserted MINOR MENTION. tale is so Manager Watkins bas s'gned Jack Grimm, the Louisville Club in 1890, The who will go down different to what most people believed it to the Cincinnati catcher, WHAT THE ACQUISITION OF GEORGE be and Raymond las been censured to such into history as the discoverer of Wiley Davis. doubtless Jack is a good man, and will fill the hole an apparent unjust extent that it will left vacant by the going of McFarland to St. be interesting to local cranks at least to know Louis. MILLER MEANS. what prompted both he and Ehret to take Cliff Groves, another graduate of the Bond the steps they did that year. Hills, the leading amateur team of the city, In 1890 Raymond was captain and third will be seen again this year with the Vir Team A baseman of the Louisville Club, then playing ginia League. He was a player last year His Value to the Louisville in the Association. Ehret, along with Scott with Roney Viox, who hails from the same Stratton, was the star pitcher of the team. source. The club that year won the pennant, and in Rod in Pickle For Cincinnati- cidentally that was the only year Louisville was There may be a little fracas over George pennant-winning team. Reiman. the Maysville pitcher. It seems that ever represented by a Detroit and Indianapolis both claim his ser Raymond's Explanation Louis Along toward the last of the season when vices. The Detroit Club claims that George the fight was hottest Raymond and. Ehres agreed last year to sign with that team, were promised $500 each in case the club land but Indianapolis has claimed him by process ville Players Now in Demand, ed the pennant. Aside from this Raymond let them fight it out. had previously been promised an additional CHIPS. of League law. Now, captaining the team. After tha CINCINNATI $500 for Buck Elwood, who was instrumental in bringing Frank Foreman to life again, is out Louisville, Ky., Dec. 24. Editor "Sport season closed repeated demands were made with an invention that will bring order out ing Life:" Look here, we can't be so ba( by both players for the money that they had LOCAL INTEREST IN NEXT YEAR'S of chaos, or rather good arms out of stiff off for an intield next season. The sign in every reason to believe was justly owing to ones. what a long head th them, but they were always put off on some of Geo. Miller shows drew near Business Manager Bancroft has decided to do management has. The midget is no'slouch pretext or other, and when time LEAGUE SCHEDULE, less playing with the Western League clubs for the next season they were still without of a third baseman, and if it comes to th their money. It is easily understood why than usual this spring. This is a move in worst he can be kept permanently on th the right direction. F. E. GOODWIN. neither of the players cared to again become bag during the season and the club is no connected with the management of a team Porkopolis Wants a Better Distribution likely to suffer by having him there. T that would treat its players in this fashion, BANGOR STIRRING. my mind he would be more valuable ther and receiving offers from the Lincoln Club of than he would be behind the bat, wher the Western League, which was not a party of Plums Ewing Still Scheming to Directory and Management For '96 the team is already strong. Then there i to the reserve rule, both players signed with Now Provided For. Frank Shugart. It is more than probabl that club. Shortly after the season opened President Strengthen the Reds The Date For Bangor, Me., Dec. 27. Editor "Sporting that next year will be the best he has ha< Raymond received overtures from meeting of the Bangor his health is improve( Parsons, then the head of the Louisville Club, Life:" At the annual for some time, and if offering him inducements to return to Louis Base Ball Association, held last week, the ought to be a strong man between secom directors were elected to serve for ville and promising to pay him the money ; the Spring Southern Trip Advanced, following and third base, so it looks to me very much still due him from the former season. The the season of '96: J. Fred Webster, Fred W. happenings of the past week hav and like the end of it was that Raymond, believing probab Ayer. Charles A. Fowler, H. A. Appleton added to the prospects of the club. to return to Cincinnati, O., Dec. 24. Editor "Sporting I. K. Stetson. This Board of Directors elected ly he had been too hasty, agreed l,ife:" It won't be very many mouths be 3. Fred Webster president, F. W. Ayer acting A VISIT FROM. VON DER AHB. Louisville, which he did, and joined the teain. and J. H. Rice secretary and treas Louisville was honored the past weel Again his demands for a settlement were never fore the preliminary skirmishes will begin manager complied with after an attempt in that direc before the real battle that is to come. urer. by a visit from Mr. Von der Ahe. of St he again left William Lang has been signed to manage was fo tion lasting three weeks, and Something less than ten weeks only will Louis. He gave it out that his trip the team. the twelve companies of the the team, and is already on the lookout for the purpose of securing if possible the releas elapse before first-class players. Notwithstanding the failure Raymond claims that he was justified in the National League Gufrrd will be bivouacked of pitcher McDermott. but his propositions i stand he took by the utter disregard by the to realize the many formed hopes which ex that direction met with a chilly reception, an on Southern ground, training for a war, isted at the beginning of the past season, the inanagement to live up to its agreement with it did not take him long to ascertain that Me him, and is willing to leave it to his friends in which there will be eleven defeated new deal in the directorate for the Association Dermott was not for sale, but Dr. Stucky di armies and but one victorious. But until is one to kindle the flame into any of the to be the judge of his actions. Manager Chap not want his trip to be of no avail, and hi had charge of the team at that time, then your war correspondents can only fans who may have been even disgusted with counter proposition for the services of Mille man you informed as to organization by last season's work. but he was powerless to rectify the trouble keep were so flattering to the ruler of the Futui- on account of lack of funds, and the blame their generals of the troops that will enter Until a few weeks ago It was earnestly hoped Great that he consented to let Miller come t that Messrs. Hersey, Mason. Snow and Cur- is laid on the then directory and President into conflict some time the latter part Ixvaisville, and there is consequent rejoicin. Pa rsons. of April, or as soon as the winter snows ran, of the old directors, would serve again on among the Colonels, where Miller is justly popu account of the experiences which they had This statement of the case puts a different have disappeared, to leave their progress lar. Mr. Von der Ahe still considers Mille on the actions of both he and Ehret, during the season would better enable them to a good man for any team, but believes that h light impeded. pick a winner for Bangor than a new Board and will go a long way toward changing the COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF YOUNG, now has a team selected for next year tha of the home people toward the two would do. But the new directors are gentle will permit him to spare Miller, and, further feeling whose headquarters are in Washington, men whom the public place perfect confidence men, who are both residenti of Louisville. more, believes it to be to the interest of Mille Raymond has not yet signed with any club, side by side with Grover Cleveland, is said in. and are all pronouiiceil devotees of the to .get away from certain friends in St. Loui and places in national game. Their first move in selecting and would be a valuable man to the home to be at work upon the dates who have been a detriment to him. he can still play which the decisive battles of the war of 1896 Mr. William Lang as manager and giving him team on third base, which best players that CORDIALLY WELCOMED. along with the best of them. will be fought. I sincerely hope he will carte blanche to sign only the mattei what they think of Miller in St in his judgment are such shows the local No THE PITCHERS IN DEMAND. uot blunder as last year. Schedules have Louis he will meet with a warm reception i every club ID the been made up from the time the National patrons that they will be treated to some It seems that nearly coming season. Louisville, where he has been wanted for som League wants McDermott and McCreary. Han- League first saw birth, but none have been very fine games this An effort was made to secure him las With Portland, Pawtuckett and Brockton time. lon was the. first in the League to make an more unsatisfactory to the majority than" the winter, but it failed. To show what the player be schedule of '95. Enormous jumps was a pro looking all over the country for players, and offer for McDermott, and that was before year, think of him Aug. Weyhing said: "You neei did any good work or came into prominence. lific source of complaint, but niltfng as com the New England League in Class A next will not be satisfied nor tha we are bound to see some hot games. And not fear that he It is said that Hanlon offered $2000 for him pared to the notorious Fourth ol July clause, he will not put forth his best efforts. He i last ' In which Cincinnati, Cleveland and Louisville Bangor cannot afford to keep behind her pre while the club was playing in Baltimore the fact that a player who likes the sport aside from tin season on the first Eastern trip. It is a cold were nicely thrown down to 'jenerit the East, vious records, and considering never see him on the bench to none for last year was only our second year in the i money in it. You d:iy in July when Hanlon overlooks the ability that they might have three holidays he is always on the coaching lines, and is as i tell a ball player the West. New England League, our average attendance of any player. He could to the games was far ahead of any other cit hard a worker aa f ever saw. and aside from in the dark. WANT THE FOURTH. that be is a good drawing card, and will b The cities on this side of the Alleghenies in the League. We will in all probability d That sixteen-lnning game here with Boston next year, as base ball in th! worth many a dollar to the club on that ac will go down in history. McDermott had as last year proved to be as ;rood drawing towns even better count." The general feeling seems to be tha as the majority of Eastern cities. Cincinnati locality never was more popular than it wa much speed in the sixteenth inning as he had last fall. REX his addition to the team is a valuable one, and when he commenced, and could have pitched bowed to the schedule-makers that they everybody is glad we got him, had done Porkopolis an injustice in taking from 25 innings just as easy. her the only holiday of the year. Perhaps BURLINGTON BRIEFS. HOW IT HAPPENED. McCreary only pitched four games while he gave the Cincinnati team a few more Mr. .Von der Ahe met President Stucky a was with the club, and won three out of Chicago as much speed as any pitcher dollars than would have been drawn at home, A Visit of Inspection From President the Louisville Hotel by appointment. Chris of four. He has but the time-honored Independence Day dates fered Ely, Miller and Kissinger and $:JOOO ii in the business. Coupled with this he Is a bad been killed and the public did not relish Hickey of the Association. cash for McDermott, but the doctor inforrnec fine butsrnan, a sprinter on the bases and the cold shoulder that was given them, and Burlington, la., Dec. 23.-Editor "Sporti him that no player on the Louisville team was, a good all-around player. He was the find loud was the kicking. President i o
success the past year. He returned from the all know Bob well. For their benefit allow me meeting of tue new Board of Directors full of to say right here that Wheelock is a much bet enthusiasm over the prospects and the new ter ball player to-day than at that time, and people who will handle the game. President up to his standard Keith and Manager Burnham, of the Brocktons, if the balance of the team are are not saying much, but they are brimful of no fears need be entertained regarding the ar confidence that Brockton Will have the best ticle of ball that will be put up for Columbus. base ball year in its history, and they have HOW FRED ELY QUEERED There has already been a big boiler made by every reason to believe this will be so. Presi HIS one of the sporting Writers on an afternoon dent Issacson, of the Lewiston Club, has been daily here on account of the slowness shown by anxious to cast off base ball fetters and retire OWN GAME. Loftus in not having his grounds and team se from active office, but the other gentlemen lected. As regards the grounds there are at in the game there have said no, and thus he least two splendid locations, both of which has been literally compelled to remain at the Mr. Loftus has seen, and with the entire winr head of affairs. The only club that has not Why Miller Was Sold to Louisville ter ahead of him, together With his ability, I named its manager is Augusta. There is no hur haven't the least doubt in the world but what ry about this, to be sure, but it will undoubted the team he will place here will in every way ly be done at the annual meeting of the'League Echoes ol the Recent Deal With Cin be a credit to the city. My opinion is we will January 8. have a splendid team. Loftus certainly knows THE LAPSE OF TIMH. a ball player from a "tub," and in my mind I It was just 22 years ago on Christmas Day cinnati Ted Sullivan Ambitious would prefer him to any manager in the league that a game of ball was played on the present for more reasons than one. If I was financially Boston grounds by two sides chosen by Harry interested in any club in the Western League Wriglit and Al. Spalding. Harry's side won to Shine as a Playwright, Etc, I believe I would prefer casting my interest in 18 to 16 in a ten-inning game. Harry pitched the one Loftus was tied to. to his brother Sam's catching, while Dave Bird- There is a man who has been running the HUB HAPPENINGS. St. Louis, Dec. 24. Editor "Sporting Toledo Club on the field for the past two sea sail caught for Spalding. "Dr." Pope, now in this city, umpired the game. It was a mild Life:" One of the inevitable "inside facts" sons whom I would like to see Loftus ih some day, according to the "Doctor," the thermometer of the late League meeting which has come way mar age to get, and that person is none AN OBJECT LESSON IN THE SALES standing about 45. The score was tied three to the surface is that the national body other than John (lirney. He knows his busi times. The ground was in fairly good condi took steps to punish "Fred" Ely, the crack ness, Is a thorough ball players and a gentleman tion, George Wright Wearing rubber shoes to shortstop of the Browns, by compelling him all the time. I believe he and Loftus would SYSTEM, keep from slipping. We have had weather re to play with St. Louis, as Pfeffer was or harmonize, and I know the team would be well cently certainly mild enough for a game of dered to play with Louisville last year, handled on the field that has him for a captain. ball if the ground were not too moist and if he refused to do so he was to be Well, the league didn't do a thing to my eld SPOKES FROM THE HUB!' placed upon the blacklist. friend, Denny Long, all of which I was very sorry to see. Tk Case of Outfielder McCarthy Inter- Clerk Harry Gill, of the United States Hotel Ely's alleged offense was insubordina I don't think Bobby Wheelock will relish com of this city, played with the Olympics and tion and use of contemptuous and dis this town one bit, for reasons which Bowdoius of the early game in this city He respectful language in speaking of his ing back to {:' esting to the Base Ball World An was a short stop and a thrower of great ac employer, Mr. ~ Von cler Abe. The St. Louis are known to only a few. As bis friend, I tossers of the large num- would advise him to bring along a big club with curacy. Few ball president denies that any such action was him and not. to feel any delicacy about using other Plea For the Double Umpire taken by the League. He says that Ely put it when he gets here. In a claim for $150, two weeks' salary, which If our friend Loftus reads this- short letter he alleged was wrongfully withheld from him I wish, when he finds time, he would drop me -System The New England League, once a crack ball tosser. Harry little shows at the end of the season. a line or so and put me next, for We are all his 61 summers. MUST REMAIN IN ST. LOUIS. Charley Hoyt has got back to his old home with in the dark, and would enjoy a bit Of live news Boston, Dec. 26. Editor "Sporting Life:" his Contented Woman," and his many friends The League denied the claim, holding that from Dubuu.ue. Come, Tom. DEENSs have had a good laugh with him over his reputed Ely had voluntarily surrendered his right to Manager SSelee says that he does not ap- the money by returning home as an invalid. at all about Mc purchase of the Louisville Club, of which he MILWAUKEE GIVES IN I'l-eheud any difficulty says he never had the remotest idea; but it Mr. Von dev Ahe says that Ely's conduct to Carthy appending his name to a Brooklyn is dull kicking, boys, in winter, and we must ward him has been personally offensive, and contract. He says Mac was satisfied to go have some sensations evea if we have to fish for that he will punish him by insisting on his And Secures Speer and Barnes in the there at the start. Your correspondent ask them through the ice. playing in St. Louis. Mr. Von der Ahe said Regulation Manner. ed the manager what would be the effect yesterday that he had decided to trade Ely If the League season opens Thursday, April to Plttsburg for pitcher Hart and short stop Milwaukee, Wis., Dec. 24. Manager Twltchell ii' McCarthy refused to go to Brooklyn, lt>, as seems likely, and is said to be officially returned last week from Cedar Rapids, la., and was told that in such a case he would settled, Selee will have to rearrange dates made Monte Cross, but that Ely's offensive utter whither he had gone to secure the release of not play ball. That sort of thing may go with clubs in the New England League. Boston ances had caused him to reconsider his de pitcher Barnes and catcher Spear from Manager in the case of a man who is literally forc will open away from horn* for three games, and cision. He now gives it out that the short Ebright, of last year's Lincoln (Neb.) team. with three, probably with Brook stop will play in St. Louis or not at all. ed into signing, having nothing else to then Jump home "I will send him a fair contract," said Von Twltchell found that the men could not be en lull back upon, but McCarthy has a good lyn, and then go away to finish, in Baltimore, Ahe recently, "and if he does not send gaged except by draft or purchase. Ebright business and in case he refused to sign a Washington and Philadelphia. der asked $2000 for the two and Twitchell offered it back by return mail, signed and all, I will in the neighborhood of $1000. Several managers contract to g;o to Brooklyn the Boston Club Joe Kelley and Harry Dolan are making good withdraw it and substitute another calling for would have to release him or take care of scores at candle pins in the Duffy & McCarthy a salary of $50 a month." Ely got $300 a ,re negotiating for the battery. him, for the player would surely secure his alley. month last season, and he was well worth it. THE PLAYERS DRAFTED. to go to law, and be At Harvard they are having a squabble Over rights if he cared the captaincy. Scannell, the catcher of two WHY MILLER WAS SOLD. Tuesday night there was a meeting of the ing a tighter he would undoubtedly take Local opinion is divided as to the wisdom Irectors of the Jirewers, andana theTiie factsluuis werencie seasons past, wants it, and so does Dean, who otated as given above by Manager Twitcbell. that course McCarthy was very much in has been a "sub." Scannell's friends insist :that of catcher George Miller's sale to the Louis earnest when he said that if the Boston ville Club. Mr. Von der Ahe has little to say The directors assured Twitchell that they were an attempt is made to throw him down because in favor of doing what he wished to do draft CJub was to benefit by any sale of his ser his name is Scannell, and he is not one of the about it, but the real secret of his anxiety extent of of George Miller was due to the the two men and yesterday morning a check for vices, as had been said, to the society men. Denn is a ''sassiety" man, and his to get rid $1000 was forwarded to President Young, of several thousand dollars, he intended to friends claim that Scannell has not the tempera intimacy existing between Miller and Fred Ely. Chris was under the impression that the National league, together with a notice to get a slice himself. President Byrrie is un ment to make a good captain, and that Dean the effect that Barnes and Spear had been doubtedly aware of McCarthy's feeling1 in would make the better man. There you have it, Miller had something to do with Ely's sulk- the matter. McCarthy, has no fault to nnd and just now the matter of a choice is sus Ing, and since he v came to this conclusion drafted by Milwaukee. with the salary part of the deal. It will pended until everybody gets cooled off. he has been trying to dispose of Miller in a TWITCHELL HAPPY. be very interesting to note the outcome of If Willie Mains, of the Lewistons, Is not trade or for a cash consideration. Miller was "Now We are fixed in two position* that have a better pitcher than many a reputed phenom the life of the Browns last season, and his been greatly troubling me," said Manager this whole mutter. enon secured for next season, I m-lss my guess. absence from the team next year will be Twitehell when the letter had been mailed. "In THE SALE SYSTEM. Fred Tenney. of the Bostons, is seen occas regretted by the fans. Von der Ahe's failure Spear we have a first-class backstop, and the believed, result in base ball can. only be equitable when ionally in the city. He will be kept busy soon, to get McDermott will, it is position behind the bat is therefore filled as I as he is to assume charge of the Brown Uni in pitcher Frazier's release being purchased vant it filled. Though it has not been gener- tae player enters into the transaction as immediately. The money secured for Mil well as the buyer and seller. An en versity candidates for the ball team early in illy known, pitcher George Stephens has prob- January. Fred would like to land his boys a win ler will be used for this purpose. ibly pitched for the last time. He is suffering thusiast, of over 30 years stand ner ever the Harvards this coming campaign. THAT CINCINNATI DEAL. from consumption, I believe, and the loss of ing, said to me the other day: Colonel George Billings is coming round all There is also still some little adverse com Stephens, of course, crippled us in the box. ' What a blot on base ball is this sales system., right. Boston has elected for its two-year Mayor ment on the trade with Cincinnati of Ehret With Barnes, Rettger, Kirtly, Baker and Jones, where a man is bought and sold like a slave. a Democrat Josiah Quincy and the Colonel's and Peitz for Latham, Parrott, McFarland the Colorado wonder, I am confident that We His wishes in the mutter are never taken into idol was smashed. George wns rather down in and Morgan Murphy. Now, I believe that St. have sufficient first-class pitching talent. consideration. He may benefit in salary by a the mouth for a time, but Xrnas brought him Louis gets all the best of the bargain in THE INFIELD. few dollars, and he is told this is sufficient for around all right. trading Peitz and Ehret for Latham, Parrott, him to ,keep his mouth shut and go where he McFarland and Murphy four for two one of "The outfield Is all right as It stands, and is bid. A player cannot be blamed for desiring Tommy Niland, of the Toledos, oocasiona the infield will be all right, I hope, when I get takes in a polo game in S-Ueui. "Jimmy" Cann- the two a pitcher, who could do no good in a man to play short. Stafford did not show en to assert himself on such a vital point as is van's tenm has been making a great spurt, and St. Louis, the other a catcher, who would do this." The same argument could be made to no good, and who has repeatedly stated that tirely to -my liking last season, but he was apply to the minor leagues. It is not difficult is headed for the pennant. His team has the not in good health, and he may be capable ot reputation of playing the prettiest and most he did not want to remain in St. Louis, and playing much better ball this year. Hartniau to foresee that the way the minor leagues are would not try to make a record If kept here. crowded will produce a revolution some day, scientific game in the Association. Canavan was at third settles all concern for that position, and out of the game on Friday and Saturday on ac Every man secured from Cincinnati Was re Taylor can play second base better than many a and if this is done the minors will have by far leased to St. Louis by President Brush be the best of it. Naturally they should have some count of a fractured rtb, but his team won just man who has credit for better playing. I am the same. One of the most remarkable games cause of differences among the players on the going home to-day well satisfied with the out say in all legislation that affects their Interests, team not because of their poor work. Latham but what do they get? Their players are taken of the season was played Saturday «t Pawtua'iet. look, and I am satisfied with the prospects Pawtucket scored a goal in 1m. 50s.. and Salem is a great run-getter, and can cover third for the first time Since last season closed." from them' at such periods and for such com base far better than it has been covered in pensation as the major League determines. . The tied in 1m. 29s. It took 34m. 17s. for the home Since the opening of last season the Mil- clnb to make the next goal, the game ending 3 pnst years. Parrott mny develop Into a first- .raakee Club has spent $2800 for players, a minors themselves are not even consulted in the class pitcher, and McFarland and Morgan matter, dm such things last? Hardly. to 1 in favor of Pawtucket. The standing at larger amount than any other Western League the close of last week was New Bedford. 17-12; Murphy are good enough catchers for a pen team, and much larger amount than three- DOUBLE UMPIRES NEEDED. Pawtucket. 18-15; Providence, 1S-15; Fall River, nant-winning aggregation. These be facts, and ourths of the National League clubs have spent. facts are stubborn things. Then look at the umpire question. It ia sure 14-17; Salem, 11-17. . _, .* THE CITY LEAGUE CIRCUIT. to be a 'fizzle next season. With the clubs gen Happy New Year, all! J. O. MORSE. . SULLIVAN'S "PLAY." erally stronger than last season, the battles will They say Ted Sullivan is a direct descendant There will be a meeting of the City Basa be closer and the work of the umpire greater. Of the O'Joshers. He has been telling Wash- Ball League held on January 13. Oil the occa There will be even more scrapping than there PEORIA POINTERS. ingtonians tbftt he has written a play for sion it will be determined which clubs will was last season. The only possible chance of Joe Quiun, which he has called "Biddy Mo- constitute the organization for the coming sea keeping the players in check and the game on Some Talk of a New Circuit With rlarity." In speaking of it he said to a re son. The question will then come up Whether porter: a popular basis was to adopt the double umpire Peoria as a Centre. lubs. The four-Club organization of last year- B.vstem. It was economy that prevented its Peorla, Dec. 24. Editor "Sporting Life:" "Biddy Mpriarlty was an historic character was very successful, but by the secession of the adaption. It was duced poor economy, and that Since last writing the news of a new scheme for who lived In the time of Daniel O'Connell, Zieglers there is a vacancy for which there Will be shown before the year is very old; Cap next season has been given out In a quiet way. in Dublin. She was known far and wide as are four candidates the Kiftnickinnies, Quins, tains and players will be urged to make mat It is nothing more nor less than the Burlington the wittiest woman in Ireland, and it is re West Ends and Skidmores. All of these art- ters as warm for the poor umpire as they pos Idea of a new League with Peorla as the centre. lated that O'Connell, who was a wit himself, strong amateur organizations. It is almost a sibly can do, and the spectators will follow Your Burlington correspondent must have got once called on Biddy, who kept a stall in the certainty, however, that no South Side club suit. With what result? Well, there can be a, strong "tip" on What was likely to happen Dublin market, and entered into a combat of will be" admitted unless a ball park ia built in. but one result. Scenes of turbulence which will talk with her. O'Connell's identity wasn't that territory. cost the game more than the expense of a proper when he suggested that League in last week's revealed to her till the great statesman left system of umpiring. If clubs will go it that letter, as he had it "pat." the market, retired from the field a loser. way let them do so. The double system works The only obstacle here is the fact that this This scene in my play offers scope for bril better than the single system, say what they city is in the Western Association. That, the liant dialogue.' will. It was proved so again and again last promoters of the scheme say, can be overcome by And Ted read the entire cross-fire of Milesian year. Why was it that President Young was getting the street car company to refuse the pyrotechnics, in imitation of Daniel and Biddy. appealed to to assign two umpires to the most park to any club but the one in the new as The dialogue is really clever and funny. important games, and often did so without be sociation, a'nd as the car company controls the Joe Quinn will deliver a grand oration on My Back ing asked? If the big games, so-called, needed present parft as well as all available grounds Von der Ahe, and among other clever songs Arms and limbs are stiff and lame and it is the double umpire system it should have been for a new park they are in a position to dictate will deliver, with a straight arm, "That Old employed for all the games. It is the only fair vho shall run a club here. Red Shawl My Mother Wore." "The Jasper misery for me to move. This is rheumatism, thing for all of the clubs. The testimony of This is a strong argument, as it is a fact that Greens." of Savannah. Ga.. will give Quinn a caused by lactic acid in the blood. Neutral such an umpire as "Bob" Emslie should be . big time when he strikes that Southern city. ize this acid, purify the blood, and cure rheu (Sufficient. He says that if it were necessary Of course the Western Association might com A DEAL THAT FAILED. by taking the one true blood purifier, to watch only the playing there would be no plain, but that would "cut no ice" under the President Von dpi- Ahe on Saturday received matism trouble, but the umpire is called upon to keep circumstances. a telegram from Harry Diddlebock, his new Hood's Snrsaparilla. his eyes open for tricks, for illegal coaching, The only way this scheme can be successfully manager, stating that his offer of $30,000 for "I have been taking Hood's Sarsaparilla for etc.; that it distracts his attention and makes headed off is to make Burlington a member of Delehanty, Thompson, Carsey, Taylor and the last six months, and find it a groat help to it almost impossible to preside at a game alone the Western Association, and as that is now Clements, of the Philadelphia team, had been satisfactorily. almost an assured fact there is a probability of refused. Diddlebock says further in his tele me. I have been suffering with rheumatism in THE NEW ENGLAND LEAGU® the new League dying young. However, there gram that Philadelphia is going to make him my left arm and shoulder, which was rendered is no use denying the fact that the scheme Is would have little difficulty to enlarge its circuit a proposition for the sale of Taylor, Grady, entirely helpless. I am able to use them again being worked very strongly just now. White, Madison and Reilly. since taking Hood's Sarsaparilla." MRS, C. were it so inclined, but there is no probability of As far as this city is concerned It makes this whatsoever. No club is desirous of dropping little difference. All the people ask for is LiOFTUS' CLUB. E. SAY, Box 414, Junction Cit3', Kansas. out, and those who are in do not care to go out a club in a good minor league, no matter what or sell out. It is said that Newport, R. I., fans by would like to obtain admission, but there is no the name may be, and the people (called What is Being Hone to Give Colum opening or -prospect for one. Newport will have players not up to date) are the ones who must to play independently for another season. Man io the saying or the ghost cannot walk. bus Base Ball. ager Charles Marston, of the Fall River Club, HURLEY. Columbus, O., Dec. 24 Editor "Sporting went to New York to attend the Eastern League Life:" It will be my pleasure each week to meeting, as well as look up some of the players. An Ohio League Possible. furnish you with all news pertaining to the He was after third baseman McGuire, of the Columbus, O., Dec. 24. An effort is being team which our maitual friend, B'rer Loftus, is Amsterdams, but McDermott got in ahead of him made to organize a league composed of Defiance, getting together for Columbus. Up to date 1 there. Marston intends to get a new first E^remont, Fostoria, Lima, Kenton, Tiffin, Find- believe he has signed fojr men. Of this number Sarsaparilla baseman in the place ef "Doc" Kennedy. "Bil lay and Piqua. The average distance between one man in partksiilar is well known here. Bobby Is the One True Blood Purifier. $1; 6 for $5. ly" Long, the ex-second baseman and umpire, these towns is about 30 miles. A $500 salary Wheelock, and your bumble sen-ant, the under fcas been re-engaged to manage the Bangor Club, limit is talked of. Defiance parties are boom signed, were members of the old American As- is a strong endorsement of Ui» methods and ing tliis scheme. uociattan team here in '90 and '91, and tke fans Hood's Pills cure all Liver Ills. 25 cents. LIFE. Dec. 28-
name is his trouble. If there is any man in the League whose name .is more often guyed tfian Lampe's I don't know who it is. "Lampe was extinguished." "Put out the Lampe, "The Lampe did not shine" and similar gags appeared in every paper after he pitched an BASE BALL unsuccessful game here for Philadelphia, Tbornton outpitehin? him by a heavy margin. Speaking of Philadelphia players, what are they going to do with Jack Boyle? I remem- v,o,.' ,,-hpn .-ioti-r>-
lads in that position in fielding the past season. I fully believe in fact, statistics show it than ARE either O'Connor or Pat Tebeau, would have more assists in a full season at first base than any THE first baseman living. HARWOOD'S LEAGUE BALLS BEST NOTES AND NEWS. (Established 1868) We are positively famishing out here for a JOLASS. view of Captain Anson, Dude Latham and Tim Hurst all on the same stage. If that wouldn't be worth a dollar then what would? Mr. J. Palmer O'Nell. of Pittsburg, was talk ing about base balL with Mr. Wesley at the Weddell a night or two ago as I i!:opped in. Gossip About the Recent Eastern "Base ball generals come and go." said the A.J. REACH erstwhile manager from Cojnie Mack's town, L/eague Meeting and Local News. "but there is none of them ahead of Patsy Te- Syracuse, N. Y., Dec. 23. Editor "Sporting beau. He is a marvel, sure enough." Life:" Despite all talk to the contrary the PHILADELPHIA, PA. Sam MacMakin, of this city, who did great circuit of the Eastern League will remain the work on the Dallas. Tex., team last season, has same as last season. Scrauton, the town that signed lo play with Paterson, N. J., next year many were doubtful of, has loomed up as strong at a salary said to be over $200 per month. as any of the others, and under the guidance Sole Manufacturers of Every ball player and everyone else who knows of Manager McDermott. formerly of Fall River, Ed McKcan will deeply sympathize with him will doubtless cut a figure in the race for the in the loss of his mother. McKean was as de pennant next year. Your correspondent while voted to her as a young man could possibly be in attendance at the late meeting of the East "CORBETT" to his mother, and his winters at the home in ern at New York had a talk with Manager ANOTHER SHORT ESSAY ON THE EF Grafton were the happiest hours of his i'fe. McDermott, and I am prepared to say that while He received many messages of sympathy from my friend Mac is making no idle boasts as to about the League circuit. what he will do in the Eastern League, he will FORT TO STOP COACHING, Charlie Zimmer 1 reaped another harvest out have a good ball team that will win many games. of his indoor games this season. McDermott has s4gned two young players that BOXING GLOVES Mr. Phelon says my prophesies as to what are bound to succeed. They are third baseman McGuire, last season with Richfield Springs, our club will do scare him almost to death. I -AND- Base Ball Unlike Any Other Game- only wish the Cleveland Club could do the same and catcher Eld Rafferty, of the New York thing to big Anson's team. Maybe it can if State League. These players were easily the More Players May be Signed A Mr. Freedman gets Longe. leaders in their respective positions in the Captain Tebeau will be here company they were in last season. The Scranton next week or Club will positively play no Sunday ball next the week after to arrange for the spring trip. season. Scrap of History Notes and Nets Te.ss Rurkett writes that, he is' us lucUv with his rod and guf> ns he was in finding the ball THE EASTERN LEAGUE MEETING Inst s^ngArt. If Tess is telling the tr
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EVENTS OF THE WEEK. 83, 53, (h, 45, 83, 42, 69 and 113. Eames 1002 ARCH ST., PHILADELPHIA. made runs of 30, 33 43, 36 and 48. ranch offices and salesrooms iu all principal cities. H. J. BERGMAN. Agent. The Chigago Tournament—The Fate of Leading Experts May Depend The games were played on & 5x10 table, on which shows that even Boston is disposed the Result — Billiards in Boston— to fall into line, and no longer play match and OTHER ARTICLES Fine Playing by Games. billiards on toy tables. The coming; Chicago tournament is now SKATES -For WINTER SPORTS. the one topic which attracts the attention Mr. Carter's playing with Gallagher of the billiard world. On its success artis ranks him about on a par with the young tically will largely depend the fate of experts who recently played In the pro the leading experts of this country for some fessional tournament which took place in time to come. Probably for all time; so far this city. as It refers to the leading; musters of the A. G. SPALDING & BROS., :giuue, whose conduct for years past has Mrs, H. W. Collender, widf>w of the late ;btven such as to disgust the public; while H. W> Collender. is at present in Flor NCWYORK. CHICAGO. PHILADELPHIA. it is an open secret that room keepers atid ence, Italy, where two of her daughters're» manufacturers have long since wished that side. Mrs. John O'Connor, who has been living in Stamford, Conn., for some time these 'loading ' experts, w.ere at the bottom second meeting was also In favor of Schaef- players. What they want is good honest ball. of the sea. ..This .Chicago tournament pos- past, has taken n house in the beautiful town of Mount Vernon. X. Y. Mrs. O'Cou- er, but the score this time was Sehaefer SO, for Heaven's sake, give it to them,. , ses.§es excellent material to make it one 50, Helm 42. I was asked what I thought of the rnl-e abol ot nor is the owner of considerable valuable ishing fines. 1 think it is a big mistake. Giv-e great Interest. Its great attraction will real estate in Mount Vernon. I hear that Frank Magglol* Is putting up lie in the fact -that it is entirely free from some good billiards at St. Louis-. John the players to understand distinctly thai any professional bullies and professional black- Werner, tbe pool player, who has just re uiigentlemanly conduct on their part Will not ue Mailers. Tile" players who nave ehtered are It goes without saying that the billiard tolerated and 'if an umpire soaks them for $25 editor of this journal wishes all of his turned from the Saintly City, says that or $50 as. the case may be, they and not the professional men who love honorable and Prank Is playing better than he has done manly readers a very Merry Christmas and a club will have to liquidate the debt, it will soon eont>?sts. TTiey are willing, in the happy and more than prosperous New Year. for years. Tom Gallagher, who has been bring them to their milk. If there is a difference interest of billiards and their business, to It is our earnest wish that a year hence playing at Boston daring the past week, is of opinion between umpire and player let the take their qhauces. Such as was the rule all of the professionals in this country and also showing well. He played one game captain of the team go to the umpire and try before the era of the salary-paid hum elsewhere may not only be in the enjoy of 400 points, with au average of 10, and to adjust the difference in a gentlemanly way, bug. The result will be watched with ment of good health but financially more a high run of 55, aud another with an av or, in other words, smother the umpire with, greatiuterest by all, classes. If the tourna prosperous than ever. erage of 13 3-10, and a high run of 77. kindness; it goes further. TEXAS. ment *hould prove to be a failure the lead These two players are entered in the short- ing experts will cling to their old hope The University of Pennsylvania, now one stop tournament, which has been arranged Chicago's Outfit. of getting something for nothing by again of the greatest seats of learning in the by The Brunswick-Balke-Oollender Com Chicago will have 23 players next year, as fol going on the salary list. It' the tourna world, and probably quite the equal of pany, and which starts on January 18. Ed. lows: Kittridge, Donohue, Moran, catchers; ment suonld prove successful.- and- we jTail Yale. Cambridge and Princetonk of this MoLaughlin. champion of Pennsylvania, Griffith Terrv, Hutchinson, Thornton, Friend, to see how i,t can be otherwise, the leauing country; Oxford, of England. Ind May- who is slated for the same tourney, is prac McFarland, Dolan, Parker, pitchers; Anson, experts will for the tirst time in very nooth, of Dublin, Ireland, has been fur ticing at his home in Philadelphia. He will Decker, Truby, . Stewart, McCormlck, Everett, litany year's be obliged to work for their nished with one of the finest billiard rooms go to Nevy York right after the holidays Dahlen, Parrott, infield; Lange, Ryan, Flynn and living. This may be tip-hill work at first, to be found in any such institution. The and finish up his preliminary work with McBride, outfield. but in time it will not only be the salta room contains six Union League tables of Maurice Daly. I have not heard what Ca tion of the. leading experts, tout of the ut- the BrUnswick-Balke-Collender make, while pron and Sutton. the Canadian champions, benefit to billiards iU general. this firm, with its usual generosity, made are doing, nor am I any better posted re and presented the University with one of garding Hatley. who is still attending to Thomas J. Gallagher, the distinguished the finest private cue racks to be found business at Duluth, but they will probably journalist and expert, has been named by in this country. put in an appearance here soon after the the Western papers as the man most like New Year has dawned upon us. and then I |NCE MORE In harmony ly to eouie out "first. As an expert, Air. The Chicago Athletic Club, of Chicago, shall be aWe to form some idea of their with the world, 2OOO Gallagher's great .strength lies in his nerve probably one of the finest club houses in work. cpmpletely cured men aro power, which probably ranks to day what this country, has extended an invitation to There Is absolutely nothing new concern singing happy praises for Sexton's did ten years ago. Frank Ives is Edward McLaughliu, of this city, and ing the professionals. Sehaefer is giving the greatest, grand .the only expert before the public at pres Joseph Capron, of Canada, to be its' guests exhibitions at his own rooms and at differ est and most 'ic- ent whose nerve can be compared with that during the Chicago tournament. A new ent places in the vicinity whenever his ser cessful cure A x- Of Gallagher's. To defeat Gallagher it is table will be furnished by the club ex vices are called for. and Ives has not been ual weakness and necessary for ah expert to play at least 25 pressly for McLaughliu and Capron to heard from since his ludicrous attempt to lost vigor known to per cent, better billiards. Gallag-her's style practice on. This is a courtesy which will induce his former employer to give" him medical science. An of play belongs to the Old school. While he be more than appreciated by the dis $2000 to play Vlgnaux. I should not be at account of this won tun average from 15 to 17. however, at tinguished experts and reflects credit on all surprised to see the Young Napoleon re derful discovery, in 14-iiu-h balk line, 1 hero is but little danger the liberality and generosity of Chicago. It turn to America in u short time. He has book form, with ref> of his defeat by any of the short-stops now is, we hope, the forerunner of a practice been cutting a pretty large swathe during eronces and proofs, before the public. to be emulated in all large cities of this the last three or four years, but if all 1 will be sent to suf country where tournaments . shall take hear is correct, he has fering men (sealed) free. Full manly vigor Place. JOHN CRKA.HAN. not been so success permanently W. F. Etatley. of Duluth. probably rsuiks ful in the betting ring as he desired, and restored. Failure impossible. next to Mr. Gallagher. As an expert It is a lie may have to return to playing billiards question if he Is not the better player of CHICAGO LETtEH. in his own country in order to keep the ERIE MEDICAL CO.,BUFFALO,N.Y. the two. Not having' seen Mr. Hatley play proverbial pot boiling. WEST SIDKR. and knowing but little of his nerve as a Trade Booming in Rooms—Mussey's diplomat at billiards we are not in a po Tournament-Three-Cushion Con FOR SYPHILIS AND sition to write intelligently or justly of his tests—Decay of the Professional BASE BALL NEWS. abilities as a master of the game. Expert. TEXAS TOPICS. Frank Maggoli ranks very high as a Chicago, Dec. 21.-Editor "Sporting THE ONLY CURE is short-stop expert. Like most of the men Life: While there is very little profes Houston Borrows Some Louisville of his class in billiards, however, he has sional billiards being indulged iu just'now, "8 been kept in the background for years in the city, the interest of the admirers of Players—A Good Training Place. .past, owing to the boss element which has the gentleman's gaune is maintained by the Houston, Tei., Dec. 21. Editor "Sporting number of amateur .contests that are in Life:" President Jolm H. KirUy, of the Hous .been on the salary list. This gentleman ton Base will now have an opportunity to show his progress at all the leading biliard head Ball Association, reached here last H, NEAR SANSOM ST., PHI LA., PA. prowess, and to aid largely in placing ex quarters. It is now pretty generally con week from Boston, where he bad been attend ceded by room keepers that while pro ing to some business appertaining to the electric perts of his class before the American car system. public. fessional contests are of benefit to the business in proportion to the excellence of He called a meeting of th« Association for the exhibition given by the Friday next and will then make the necessary Joseph W. Capron and George Sutton. of players, still arrangements to have the old park ou Truvis Canada, are practically unknown here In the bone and sinew, as it were, of the game street put in ftrst-class order. It is his Inten the East, although generally speaking, these is the amateur. This truth has become tion to have everything iu readiness before the experts are sufficiently known to the public more aud more apparent during the past ml'Idle of February, as the Louisville team are to warrant the prediction that they may two or three years, since the inauguration expected during the first week in March. make things very lively for the American of the amateur tournaments for the inter- NO MALARIA. experts. It was good judgment to secure club and State championship by the Bruus- "Aotor" Anson will have the Chicagos at INJECTION. the Canadian experts, as they may in time wick-Balke-Collender Company. Those bat Galveston early in March, aud the people of both prove to be what the Dion Brothers were tles on the green doth-aroused more local cities will then have the pleasure of witnessing A PERMANENT CURE to billiards in this country. The Dions enthusiasm than has been witnessed for some good games between the Colonels and Colts. 1 of the most obstinate cases of Gonorrhoea and I came originally from Canada, arid made many years, and as a result all the room Some people in the East are under the impres ' Gleet, guaranteed in from 3 to O days: flo' things very lively for the American ex keepers received material benefit by the sion that these summer trips South are more 1 other treatment required, and without the n»tu-J perts for increased playing at their rooms. This is or less injurious to the players. Malaria, they seiitins results of dosing with Culiebs, Copaiba J very many years. the aim which should be sought by all in say, gets into their system, and when they reach or Sandal-Wood. .I.Ferr* & Co., (successors to, the business. The way to build up' a good home to begin the championship series they are Hrou). Pharnmcien, Parls^ At. all druggists. Edward MeTjaughlin, the expert from this trade is to encourage one's patrons. Room all broken up. Such is not the case, and I City, is too well-known nationally to re keepers in every city of the Union would feel satisfied that when the Louisville team quire any introduction or comment in this find their business greatly increased by readied home last year not one of the aggrega paper. As an expert pure and simple he bearing this carefully in mind, and at every tion were suffering with malaria or anything should easily rank as one of the stars of else of a. like nature. opportunity offer prizes for competition The the tournament. His stroke Is as tine as among their customers. It gives the young South ! the best, place on earth for pre that liminary practice, and the woatlier during Feb of Schaefer's. and now that he has player something to strive for and makes ruary and March in the State of Texas is as Blasters of . the game to encounter it is him a more ardent devotee of the game it fine as weather can lie and just the weather quite probable that he will play some of self, and it causes friendly rivalry and for ball playing. Here we are within four days the best billiards of his life. It is dif awakens a general interest in the amuse of Christmas, the thermometer standing 68 de ficult to locate Mr. McLaughliu among such ment in the community where such con grees and the sun and sky perfect. If some of fine experts. He is quite capable of coming tests are successfully carried out. By all the sore-heads and know-it-alls were to pay out second, but is not likely to come out means therefore encourage the amateurs. us a visit they would get off the earth before last. "War Horse" Gallagher should oonie The three-cushion carrom tournament in again asserting that the South is injurious for Big O Is a non-poisonous out ball players looking for a place to get into Shape. remedy for Gonorrhoea. first. Like old wine he seems to im progress at Will Mussey's roins here, has Whites, Spermatorrhoja, prove with time, not so much in his play assumed a singular phase. There are 16 BORROWING PLAYERS. Gleet, unnatural dis ing as in his nerve, and the latter is al- players in the tourney and they play in Roach and Shar'er have been uere some time, charges, or any inflamma Avuys-a powerful factor in billiards, es pairs, one team against ^the other. There now. and are more than pleased with the place. tion, irritation or ulcera- pecially where so many men are supposed are only three games remaining to be de Harry Cote writes that he is anxious for the tion of mucous mem to raiiK; about 'even as experts. season lo open, and wants to get at Ted Sulli branes. Non-astringent, cided, and there are no less than five of van's aggregation. Your Louisville correspon guaranteed not to stric the eight teams tied for first place. This dent. Mr. Saunders, let the cat out of the bag ture. Sold by Druggists Thomas J. Gallagher recently gave a se shows that the teams are pretty evenly in the last issue. We tried to keep the matter ries of exhibitions at Murphy's Hub billiard matched, aud reflects considerable credit oh quiet. To those who are anxious to know the by express, prepa, room. Boston, having for his opponents Will $1.00. or 3 bottles for $2.75. Mussey's judgment iu arranging the truth I will say that Manager McCloskey, of Circular Messrs. Carter and Eames, of that city. teams. Louisville, has farmed out the three players, sent on request. The gome played was the 14-inch balk line, During the past week an interesting Lcesou, Jacobs and Semple. to the Houston Ghib. Gallagher playing 400 to 2~>0 for bis oppo match between Charley Sohaefer, the The latter-nahied player is one of the best col nents, which lie succeeded in doing without brother of the little Wizard, and Bd. Helm lege pitchers in the country, and if he can write p*grfbookfi>r mei; 27 pictures I 1 full-pan o any very' great effort on his part. His has been decided. They were matched to poetry as well as be can play ball h« wiU be entvingi, iriu to life. Sent «e«led for 1 ?c. ia average with Carter was nearly 12, and play two games at tl.ree cushion oarroms. in big demand, iLunp*. Drawer W, KUUM Citj. Bo. 20 with Bailies. The latter made the re 50 points, each game, ..fUu a side; each con RULE POINTS. markable average of nearly 12, which test or a total of $100 involved on the The double umpire system, t hope, will' "be or about to be nad" ffotwt" tor eithe but proves that we have experts general result. The first game was one adopted. It 19 a step in the rigfct direction, and IF MARRIED in this country, although kept in of the prettiest contests I have seeu for would give the public wore satisfaction than the background by the "bosses" of years, Helm losing by one point, the score anything else I know of. The public keep up Uie salry list. .Uallagher made runs of 45, the gome, and they are getting tired of paying RUBBER GOODS.—Sealed particulars sent ( standing 50 to 4i) iu Schaefer's favor. The their money to see set-to's between umpire aud urma j>enuu» ouly. CIUM CO., Kaosaa Qrt/t M«> X>eo 28- SFORTINGT LIFE. 11 THE WORLD OF SHOOTERS. Our plan, however, was not intended for the fact that they are at all tournaments, small tournaments where a mixed crowd and no amateur pretends tq attend one of shooters participated, but for use at where they do all. Rarely does a salaried large meets, such as those which were FROM "FAIR PLAY." man go away behind. We all like to see held in Cincinnati, Memphis, Cleveland these men and their goods, but we feel they and Rochester, during last season. At the should be made to shot for first place or Rochester tournament some of the highest HE WOULD LIKE TO SEE SALARIED no place. They have a great advantage men barely paid expenses, and on the last over all others. This is not right. Let day one shooter averaged over 95 per cent, them shoot, but for first place only. I and lost money. We think that the plan MEN HANDICAPPED. know that the great majority of shooters of making the salaried or manufacturers' feel this way. Now, let some tournament agents, pay in 20 per cent, addition to the committee start this ball rolling. It will The Forehand Arms Company entrance money would somewhat equalize prove a great boom to the sport of target to matters as far as the money part is con Would Amateurs be Benefited if shooting. FAIR PLAY. cerned, and we would like to have the Place It Upon the Market views of some of the amateurs on this the Experts Were ON TOP AGAIN. question, and also of the manufacturers' Obliged to Get agents, as they are certainly entitled to Harvey McMurchy, The Handicap Question Once More a voice in the matter. WILL K. PARK. in First Place to Win, and Would With His Smith Gun, Wins the Buffalo Subscription Under Discussion, FAIRVIEW GUN CLUB. tue Experts be the Losers? Shoot. Harvey McMurchy, of Fulton, N. Y., with his Baltimore Marksmen Carry Away smith gun, was the bright particular star of the For the last, few years the gun trade has Most of the Money at This Shoot. Erie, Pa., Dee. 23. Editor "Sporting been going into the hammerless produc Life:" I have read with interest the plan tion, until many factories have dropped The live bird and target shoting tournament suggested given by the Fairview Gun Club, of Lancaster, by Mr. Park for dividing purses the manufacture of the hammer gun, '* c."^. tAlWLHTJ . .1-tc UlltugUL UXM. ______- - --.., and Pa., took at shooting tournaments. At all such af are devoting their entire service: to the place on their grounds at Hambright's >ne of the 25 birds and he did not have to Three-Mile House, on December 12 and 13. fairs shooters of all classes, from the crack hammerless. Trap shooting has advanced to the poor shot, or the better shot who ise both barrels many times, either. so rapidly and Among the visitors were H. A. Penroso, Bert is constantly adding new con Claridge and Gent, of Baltimore, Md.; Esterley out of form, meet on common ground, and verts to the sport that the demand foe and Coldren, of Reading; Clover, of Huntingdon, some of them must pay the bills and fur guns for this kind of shooting has not and Adamsj* of Lewistown, Pa. The first day nish the money that goes to the winners. retrograded, but cu the contrary has shown was devoted to targets and the following scores No plan can be devised where all will be a steady tendency towards the use of the were made: winners, nor can one be formed where hanunerless gun for trap shooting, and First event, 10 Blue Rocks, $1.00, 3 moneys. none will lose, no matter if now all be experts; ci .c;asi Aurora; n;. ij. ivieyer, 01 .rwuuesi-ei, when a sportsman buys a new gun for Claridge 10111 11011 81 Gent ...1110011101 7 some of them must pay the fiddler. If all E. Andrews, of Sardinia; Harvey McMurchy, of trap work it is invariably of the hammer- Penrose .10111 11101 8|Johus ...1000011010 4 are amateurs and moderate shots some will Fulton, and E. C. Burkhardt, C. S. Burkhardt, less pattern. Martin . .10110 01111 7|Brenner .0001001000 2 shoot better than others, and the otbe,rs H. D. Kirkover, G. Fleischman and Otto Bes- Second event, 15 Blue Rocks, $1.50, 3 moneys. must then settle the bills; for targets, Notwithstanding Gent...... 11111 11111 11111 15 The match was at S5 live birda The en all this, the Forehand Penrose...... traps, and men to run the traps cost money Arms Company, of Worcester, Mass., have ...... 11111 01111 11101 13 and must be paid for by some one. Nat trance wasi $26, with the purse divided into Martin...... 11011 OHIO 11111 12 four moneys, 40 per cent., 30 per cent., 20 per been perfecting arrangements to put a new Claridge...... 11101 urally the beaten ones must do this. One hammer gun on the market next year. It 01101 00111 10 object of shooting cent, and 10 per cent. Good scores was the Johns ...... 00110 00110 11110 8 is to become a good shot, rule all the way through, and the contest will be a double-barrel gun, having the Paine ...... 01100 one object of being a good shot is to have same fastening 01101 00101 7 was sharp and exciting. as their hammerless, and Third event, 25 Blue Rouks, $2.50, 3 moneys. your sport, and make some one else pay McMurchy was led a pretty chase for first hon the sample which was shown to us was Penrose ..11111 11111 10001 11111 11110 21 for it. Naturally the man who devotes the ors by Worthingtoa, of Cleveland. Up to the a very siiooth, finely-finished, and well Claridge 11111 11101 01100 11101 11101 19 most time and expense to the sport will 24th round both men had killed' every bird. made gun. The fastening is a long, heavy Galbreth 10111 11011 01011 OHIO 10111 18 be the better shot, other things being equal. Both had been shooting in such good form that extension of the top rib, which is bolted Gent .. 10111 01001 11011 11110 10110 17 As all know some become good shots by na it looked as if the end would be a tie. bv the top lever fastening. The main Johns . 11111 01010 01011 00110 11111 17 ture as it were, others never can become Upson and Meyer divided third honors. Meyer springs are made of coil spiral wire, and Paine 11101.11100 11010 11110 01100 17 good shots. Now, unless good shots can did not start off as well as the Cleveland man, will be very strong and sure fire; the trig Third event was 10 Blue Rocks, entrance do better at tournaments than poor shots but he made up for lost time later on. He ger guard will be of wrought iron, and $2.00, 3 moneys, and Event 4 was 10 Blue there is no use of trying to become good missed his second bird and let the ninth get with long tcng; the stock is of good pat Rocks. $1.50, 3 moneys. shots, and fine guns and first-class ammu out of bounds. He shot straight then till the tern and Third Event. Fourth Kvent. 18tb bird. He missed that. He did not let very strong. In all, it wa's a well- Claridge ...... 01101 11111 81 H10I 11111 9 nition are of no account. A system of any made and durable-appearing gun, and the handicapping that puts a poor shot on an more get away from him, though, and fin Forehand Arms Penrose ...... 11011 11111 91 11111 01110 8 ished his 25th with a score of 22. Upson al Company will undoubtedly Galbreth ...... 11011 11011 8] 11110 11101 8 equal footing with a good one will cer lowed his sixth bird to get out of bounds. After secure a good trade on their hammer gun, Gent ...... 01011 01111 7| 00110 00101-4 tainly prove a failure. Personally, I be that he shot. straight till he came up on the if there is any demand iu that line. Paine ...... 11010 11011 7) lieve in the equitable system, because it 21st round. He let that bird and the next get Fell ...... 11111 01011 8j 00111 00000 3 divides the money mor3 evenly. The high away. He brought down the remaining three While visiting the plant of the Forehand Martin ...... 11101 10111 8j 11110 11001 7 men are^so far ahead, nor are the low all right, tying with the Rochester man. Arms Company we were impressed with Bowers ...... 10111 10111 8| men out so much. This is my only reason Harry Kirkover did the best work towards the immense quantity of revolvers which Johns ...... I 10100 10010 4 for liking it, but I am aware that shooters holding up the colors of the local contingent. that company were producing, the capac The balance of the day was spent in miss and generally do not favor it. There is actual He divided fourth honors with Sim Glover, of ity of their plant being several hundred out matches. ly no incentive to drop for place under this Rochester. Glover did most of U* poor wort finished revolvers and pistols a day. The SECOND DAY. DECEMBER 13. plan. Its fault lies in lessening the ele in the beginning. The second day was devoted to live bird ment of chance. The fates seemed to be against most .of the revolvers were all of the automatic and shooting, and a good lot of flyers There is in fact no chance local aggregation, double-action pattern and of high grade had been pro in it. No chance to make a big haul by though the scores they made vided. The Baltimore gunners were close to being would ordinarily be considered pretty good. quality. The new automatic ejector gun the top in all the events, and carried away the on top alone or in any other place Twenty birds each fell to the lot of Otto Besser, which' they have lately placed on the best of the purses. Four events were shot with alone. The high man always gets more '~ and E. C. Burkhardt, while p. S. Bmk- market has been taking well for a cheap the following scores. The first event out of it than the lower one, but not so liardt was for very gogot 19 and Gus Fleischman 17. giih, and is very simple in construction, the amateur championship of the county. much more, and the very element of th East Aurora man, brought down 20. The well fastened and durable. They expect to FIRST EVENT 10 BIRDS, $5. chance that exists in the present plan is a full produce twenty-five finished guns a day Johns . ..2002102101- 6!Young ...0010100200-3 great inducement to many a shooter. Un H. 11 in MI* m** 2212211112-25 next season, and will continue to employ Martin . .1212210220- S| Brant ...1200222200-6 der the present plan a man ma.y shoot poor May >2222 22222 22122 11221 11200-24 the services of Mr. Edward Perry, who Berner ..2021002122- TlGarber ..0002000000- 1 ly in seven out of eight events and never Osgood '".'22222 *2211 22222 22222 00212-22 was salesman for Schoverling, DaJy & Farmer .2021122212- 91 Paine ...0122021220-7 get a place. He may in the eighth do well Meyer ' 20221 121*2 22221 22021 21122-22 Gales, of New York, for fifteen years. Mr. SECOND EVENT 10 BIRDS. $5. and get on top alone, or with one other and Glover. ep ' " 22220 1*202 21222 12110 11222-21. Perry is well acquainted with the gun Coldren . .1221112012- OlGent ....2211101222-9 may come out ahead in the eleventh hour. Kirko and hardware trade and will have no dif Penrose .2001211010- 6!Myers ...0220010202-5 In Mr. Park's plan this could not happen, Kelse ficulty in disposing of their product. Claridge .1211212220- 9| ZeUers ..1200202010-5 for his poor shooting in the first seven Esterly . .0202202022- 6|Russel ...0022011202-6 events would ruin his chances for any hope THIRD EVENT 10 BIRDS. $10. Andrew The handicap question is still being agi Mvers .. .002^220002- 41 Russe .. .2112000210- « in the last. I belteve in separate events, tated. We will make an addition to the plan Coldren .1112121210- 9lClaridge .I 1 22211122-lo for the benefit of the poorer shot. In the Fleischman rdt .00010 12222 20220 12220 21101-1 suggested by "Sporting Life" in its issue Gent ....1222022222- 91 Dommell .0110112222-8 long run the experts would always be on of December 7. Our plan was to make the Penrose .1221220201- Sidover ...1110010222- 7 top under Mr. Park's plan. Then a man 10 to 40 high guns (according to the num Franklin .111221122-101 Adams' ...2022012221-8 has a small chance of being alone in some £» ;§-3il^a10^ '^s ber of entries) divide the entire amount of Esterly . .2252221200- 8| of the lower places. I have seen such entrance for the day. Under this plan FOURTH EVENT 10 BIRDS, $5. things happen, and have seen the man who Mey the men .would, surely be paid according Clover . ..222C211211- 9|A;iderson 2002000110-4 broke 16 targets get more than the one who to their skill, but as there seems to be a Adams ...1102021020- 6 Taylor ...0222022201- 7 broka his 20 straight This don't seem fair, feeling against the expert entering on an Gent ....221:201220-8 Myers .... 2000220200- 4 but it is one of the uncertainties of the THE GRAND MIDWINTER. even basis with the amateur we make the Frcnklin .2121201122- 91 Hart ....0002020200-3 present system that seems to make it pop following . addition to our plan. As the Claridgf; .2212112222-lOlPenrose . .0110222002- C ular. The making of many purses more San Antonio "will Add $2OOO to manufacturers' The remainder of the afternoon was taken up equally divided agents are furnished free by a miss and out match, in which nearly all of is proving a success, as for Their Great Tournament. all, the ammunition that they use they are tb'e gunners took part. instances at the San Antonio shoot in programme of the grand midwinter tour- sure to be the price of their shells ahead January the rroneys are 30, 25. 20, 15 and Tb< name of the man who is obliged to pay for them. REYNOLDS THE WINNER. 10 per cent., 5 moneys and 20 bird events. So we will place an extra entrance fee on Now it is a fact that every man who at Janui all manufacturers' agents tends tournaments us, i and sub rosa He Defeats Valentine in a Live Bird and is not under pay, day "boomers" who are furnished with their and has not his ammunition and expenses 20 i 3iu<*le0f gets. entrance $3, with $50 added p'owder, shells or ammunition because of Match. free is handicapped, as he must win, say to e 'ach purse or $400 for the day. The second their influence or skill in shooting. A dozen members of the' Bergen Rod and Gun from 30 to 75 per cent, before he can start day is just the same. The third lay has six Club, of Brooklyn, went to the grounds at Flat- even with the salaried man. This is hard- everits at 20 single targets, entrance $3, with By making such men pay an extra lands December 17 to witness the nanch-tal id lv fair dealing. The paid man is there to $50 added to each purse, and one event at BO amount into the purse it would help the of match between Robert L». Valentine and display the guns or the ammunition of the sing les entrance $3. with $100 added, and amateurs to a degree, as it would make James W. Reynolds. The conditions were that company employing him. the E C. Powder Company's silver cup to the the former was U stand at 30 yards and shxkt first money. The fourth day has six events at more money to be shot for, and the ex The amateur who comes is his customer, singles, $3 and $50 added to each perts would be the ones who would be at 25 live birds, while Reynolds was allowed or 20 i purse, 27 birds and to shoot from the 29 mark. It is the one to whom he is supposed to and one event, which will be the interstate paying it, and not be poorer shots. If show his goods. Now. again, it is a fact match, four men from any one State to the manufacturers' agents or salaried was this allowance of two birds that won the tear shoot- race for Reynolds. At the close of the 25th that generally the salaried man is one shoot__... as a team, entrance $10 a team $100. ters were charged, say 20 per cent, extra, round the score w.os a tie, eaoh having killed of the crack "shots of the country. Why added, 50 birds to each man Fi«h day they would pay in $3.60 in entrance fee 21 birds. TSen Reynolds came in for his al should he not be. He is always training. will have eight events at 20 singles, $3 en- in a 20-bird race when the amateur would lowance of two birds. He missed his 26th bird, These men are undoubtedly as a class the tran< e $50 added to each purse, all purses dl- only be obliged to pay in $3.00. In a 15- but kibcked over the last and won. The score: best shots in the country, with possibly videc 1 in five moneys, 30, 25, 20, 15 and 10 bird race, with $1.50 entrance, the paid MATCH. VALENTINE VS. REYNOLDS. a verv few others who may at times be per expert would 'contribute $1.80, or 30 cents Reynolds, 29yds.2222101112021212210121HV2.>2 22 able to keep pacs with them. Look over M.. George, Albert Steves and O. C. more than the amateur, and in a $2.00 VaienHne. 30yds. .2222222012220010222222222 21 Guesisaz are the managers, and they plainly the scores of the tournaments and see who that entrance event he would pay In 40 cents Sweepstakes, flve birds, all 28yds.; $1 entrance; are nearlv always at the top and who at stat* they will give a "dead square rnore than the amateur, which would just two moneys; class shooting R. L. Valentine shoo which, of course, "goes." Menger tend all of the shoots the salaried men. will be the headquarters. Special about equalize matters as far as the cost of 5 J S Fletcher 4, John Schaeffer 4, Thomas This is all right, only I know that it is Ho rates ammunition is concerned. O'Dell 4. J. W. Revnolds 3, Peter O'Brien 3, the feeling on a.11 railroads. Louis Wilson 3, Alfred W. Morton 2, Charles of ne.irly every shooter that Kynders 2, J. J. O'Donnell 2, D. the salaried men should shoot for first Westminster's Big Shoot. Judge Lindslay's plan was to make tne G. Quinn 1. place, and failing to get there should be winners in one event pay more money to out of a place. Very few of them would The fashionable pigeon grounds, have been enter in the next, NATIONAL GUN CLUB. dull this fall, more so this year than ever be but this would now and go away out of pocket. They would get fore, and very few large sweepstakes have been then catch an amateur, who by good luck The Scores Made at Their Regular there often enough to more than even contested as the result. The Westminster Ken would "slobber" into first place, and might Weekly Shoot, them up. I believe that if all who were nel Club has at last decided to start the ball also encourage dropping for place, which paid agents of gun or powder or am rolling, andnd has arranged for a large handicap is one great, pernicious habit that affects The National Gim Club, of Milwaukee, Wis., munition manufacturers January held their weekly shoot on December 17. and were confined to shoot on Ja 1. on the pretty grounds at traps shooters.. In another column of our the following first place or none, more would turn out Babylon, LL, I.I Besides a very handsome cup paper we publish scores were made at 25 Blue Rocks: inner, the a communication from J. O. Cox 21, C. H. Garfield 19, H. Schultz 15, to the tournaments. It is a general com for the wi club adds a $250 purse to "Fair Play," and he expresses himself W. Altaian 16, S. T. Schmidt 12, C. Thomas plaint among-all of the shooters but the 60 per cencent, of the entrance money. The sec quite plainly on the subject, and covers the 17, P. Peters 16, W. Kirchahn 17. very best that the salaried men carry off ond will receive $100 added money and 30 per ground very well. We are always very Sweepstakes were shot subsequent to the regUr too much of the money furnished by the cent,, of thee entrance money, anand the third $50 glad to receive &ueh articles, and Will al poorer shots. There is some andon,i 10 penor r cent,rpnt of the entrance money. A lar event as follows: justice in this. ain will leave ways give space to any communication that At 10 Blue Rocks Kirehahn 9, Peters 7, Gar- Of course, the better shots among the am special tr Long Island City on contains interesting, matter for gunners field 8 and Schultz 4; total. 28; versus Thomas ateurs will be on top, but these cracks thee arrivaarrval of the 8.45 A. M. boat from the and trap 9, Cox 10, Foster foot of Thirty-fourth street. East River. Shoot shooters. "Fair Play" believes 8 and Weigle 3: total, 30. among the amateurs are not at every ing will begin promptly that the salaried men. should be obliged to At 10 Blue Rocks Garfield 9, Kirchahn 9, Cox shoot, and all over the country. In the at 11 o'clock. 9 and Gulich 8; Great preparations are being made by Mr. win first place or none, but sometimes first total. 35; versus Foster 7, long run the salaried men probably carry Jamesames G. K. Dover, tnethe president, to enterentertain place -does- not pay entrance money back, Thomas 7. Peters 7 and Altman 7; total, 28. off as much money as est At 10 Blue Rocks' Garfleld .five times their a large crowd of visitors with one of the W and some of the experts would not draw S, Gulich 4 and number of any other class of shooters you minster's good old-fashioned lunci- Thomas 9; total, 21; versus Kirchaha 8. Cox New Year's lui 4>ut much money at tue end of the day. - can pick out. One reason of this lies in eons. LIFE. Dec. 28.
a side on January 8. Kelsey is an old-tim ANSOIS PARTICIPATED skle, which was woo by the latter with the fol er and should be a, winner. lowing score: Woodruff .... .12121 21110 00121 00011 21212— 19; In the Elizabeth Gun Club's Fifth Ferris ...... 12020 00201 00012 21001 02221—14 Mr. P. O. Wood, of Detroit, Midi., who The second match was between D. Kelly and surprised the boys by breaking 50 straight Bi-SIonthly Tournament. H. Blumburg at 25 birds, for $^5 a side, which when shooting with John Parker in the Ideal weather for lovers of trap shooting resulted in a tie, and will be decided on January team match at Parker's shoot, has been brought a large gathering of shooters on De 1. 1S96. backed to shoot a match with Theodore cember 19 to the grounds of the Elizabeth D. Kelly .... .12101 21111 12111 12122 11121T-24 Cicotte, of River Rouge. Mich., at 100 tar Gun Club, corner of North Broad street and H Blumberg ..12110 1122,1 12121 12121 12112—24 gets, for §200 a side. Wood won the semi- Parker road, Elizabeth, N. J. The occasion Third, fourth and fifth events were at 5 birds, expert championship of the State, and is was the tiftb bi-monthly tournament of the $3. looked upon as a winner. Cicotte's friends club, a meeting of more than usual import Third event. Fourth event. Fifth event. have confidence in their man, and a close ance, and which crowded the club house and Lockwood .21101—4 12211—5 00201-2 YOU KNOW. contest may be expected. grounds. The programme called for twelve Sanger . ..20021—3 20122—4 21202—3 events, all of which were at inanimate tar Ferris .. ..01022—3 00011-2 Annie Oakley, who has a residence in gets. J. A. R. Elliott and Geoffry wan the Ma -tih .. ..02112—4 01222—4 22202-4 Nutley. N.' J., returned home a few days majority of the events, while Apgar and Hendric . ..21200—3 11222—6 02222—4 HOT TOO PERSONAL BUT JUST PER- ago from a shooting trip in Virginia, where Geoffiry divided the oialn event, the ninth Capron ., ..11200—3 10010—2 she met with good success. In private life shot, with 24 out of 25 birds each. The scores Souder .. 00000—0 Annie Oakley is -Mrs. Frank Butler, her were: Woodruff 12102—4 SOML ENOUGB. Event No, 1.—Ten birds, unknown angles, tw« W. Peck .. 02220-3 husband being her business manager and prizes—Shaw, S; Piercy. 7; Herrington, 7; EVENT NO. 6—10 BIRDS. $7. constant attendant. Their home in Nutley Taylor, 9; Jewell, 6; Parker, 7. Sanger ....120221221- 9|Hendric ..1110012200—6 was costructed according to their ideas of Event No. 2.—Ten birds, unknown angles, two WooJrnff .0022122122— SlFerris ...0102210102—6 Bits ol Hews and Gossip About Men how a perfect home should be built, and prizes—Shaw, 8; Piercy, 7; Thomas, 7; Her Martin . ..1022211101— SlLookwood .0212100100—5 the interior is decorated with the trophies rington, 7; Parker, 7; Jewell, 6; Apgar, 8; of the chase, mounted birds, and souvenirs Adams, 8; Elliott, 9; Taylor, 10. OVER FRENCHTOWN WAY. Whom All LoYers ol Shooting Know which have been collected from all parts Event No. 3.—Fifteen birds, unknown angles of the world. two prizes—Piercy, 12: Apgar, 11; Herring in Person or Through the Medium ton, 10; Shaw, 11; Thomas, 11; Elliott, 15 A Live Pigeon Shoot That Was At Tom Morfey, the crack pigeon shot of Adams. 13; Jewell, 9. tended by Philadelphia Cracks. Paterson. N. J.. will shoot a match at live Event No. 4—Ten birds, (Rev.) angles.—Apga Thrf live pigeon shoot at Frenehtown, N. J., ol General Fame. birds with Jim Blliott some time in Jan ou December 19. was very well attended, and uary. Morfey will use his double gun and a number of Philadelphia pigeon shooters went over to enjoy the sport. The birds were a first- Dr. Carver, "The Evil Spirit of the Elliott will handle the "trombone," both Event" Nq. 5.—Twenty birds, unknown angles class lot, and contained some "regular corkers." Plains," is now in California giving bis will stand at 30 yards rise. two prizes—Elliott. 20: Apgar, 18: Piercy, 16 William Apgar. cf FrencUtow«, gave the boya marvelous exhibitions of fauey shooting Herrington, 18: Geoffrey, 16; Brimthal. 14 a dinner and supper that really surpised them, with the rifle and sbotguu. A Western Ferd Van Dyke, who has so ably repre Hebbard, 16; Kellar, 17; Shaw, 14; Adams, IQ and they will forgive him for not shooting any sportsman's journal states that he has a sented the Winchester Arms Company at Thomas, 14: C. Von Lengerke, 18. better. Among the visitors were Joseph and horse trained to dive from a platform 30 the trap tournaments throughout the coun Event No. 6.—Fifteen birds, expet% rules, both Harry Thurmiin. of Germantown, Pa.; /urn feet high. Unless it ha,s improved wonder try for the last two seasons, is uow lo- barrels, twe. priaes—Apgar, 10; Geoffry, K-! Curran and Lang, of Philadelphia; Brown and ca'ted at New Haven, where he may remain Herringtou, 13; Piercy, 12; Thomas, 12: El Fountain, of Old Bridge, N. J.; Wagner, Read fully in the "diving" part we cannot se§ for several months. He has,given up shot liott, 14; Shaw, 10; Adams, »; Brimthall, 9 ing, Ainwein ar_d Thorckpson, of Raven Rock, anything very remarkable about it, any gun work for the time being and devoting Keller, U. N. J.; Garner and Heist, of Doyiestown, Pa,; more than water running over Niagara himself to rifle shooting. If Ferd handles Event No. 7.—Twenty birds, unknown angles William Holies, of Mount Pleasant. Falls. It simply can't help itself. With a-rifle as well as a shotgun he will make four prizes—Herritage, 13; Ton Lengerke, 17; The shoting was all done at 30yds. rise. 50yds. the "diving horse" it is the same, as it is some people think that the Winchester rifle Geoffrey, 18; Apgar, 16; Herrington, 16; Brim boundary, Hurlinguarn rules. Following are the led out on a bridge 30 feet over the water thall. 15; Pierey. 13; Elliott, 19; Shaw, 17' scores: and just as it gets over » trap door a is the be.-it in the world. Dutchy, 18; Woodruff, 15; Thomas, 18; Keller, Events No. 1. 2 4 and 5 were 5 birds, $3; and string is pulled, and the bottom drops out, 16; Adams, 17; Folsom, 15; Hebbard, 15: events 3, 6 and 7 were miss and out, $1; and allowing the poor horse to fall into the Dr. George Hudson, of the New York Ger Lawrence, 14; Miller, 19. ties divided. water. There is nothing very strange man Gun Club, and Richard Itegau, ex- Event No. 8.—Fifteen birds, unknown angles, No. 1. I No. 2. No. 3. about this, but if the horse stood suspend president of the Emerald Gun Club, are four prizes—Heritage, 8; Geoffrey, 15; Her- H. Thurman ...... 12112—51 20122—4 210 —3 ed after trap door was dropped, or floated spending a few weeks bunting in North riugton. 13; Brimthall, 11: Miller, 14; Apgar, Zurn ...... 20212—4 22221-5 1210 —3 Carolina. 11; Adams, 14; Von Lengerke, 11; Keller, 12; Apgar...... 21000—21 02112—4 120 —2 oft' in the air, the Doctor anxl his horse Piercy, 12; Dutchy, 12; Thomas, 13; Shaw, 8; would create a great furore. J. Thurman ...... 20101—31 11122-5 0 -0 Harry Thurman. of the Rainbow Knitting EHiott. 15; Sickley, 12; Folsoin, 10; Heb Curran ...... 11021—41 21110—4 20 —1 Mills, Gennantown. Pa., was in New York bard, 13. La»g ..20001—21 12222—5 2220 —3 Mr. Fred Devlne, of Utica. N. Y., the recently buying yarns. We don't know Event No. 9.—Twenty-five' birds, unknown an Brown .. . ,.11112-5| 00001-1 0 —0 pretty fly rod maker, was calling on the just the kind that he purchased, but if he gles, four prizes—Shaw, 22; Elliott, 21; Pier Fountain, .. ..10111—4! 11222—5 2212 —4 trade in Philadelphia on Friday and Satur called at Fred Quimby's, 294 Broadway, cy, 19; Folsom, 21; Woodruff, 21; Apgar, 24; Buck .. ... | 00102—2 1111 —4 day of last week. He had a double-jointed Duteny, 20; Herrington, 19; Miller, 23; Geof Millburn .. | 20022-S he could have procured quail shooting frey, 24; Slckley, 18; Lawrence, 10; Giers, trunk which was filled with all kinds of yarns, imported from Maryland, which Heist .. 1212 —4 sticks, poles and rods for pulling nsh out 22; Von Lengerke, 21: Adams, 21; Keller, 21. Garr.er .. . 2111 —4 would be decidedly blue in color: hunting Event No. 10.—Ten birds, unknown angles, four No. 4. No. 5. of the water, and there were some very yarns, gray with age; fishing yarns, posi pretty fly rods among them. Mr. Devine prizes.—Apgar, 9; Folsom, 9; Shaw, 8; El H. Thurman ...... 11011-4 10121—4 tively yellow; sportsmen's supper yarns, liott, 10; Thomas, 7: Keller, 9; Adams, 10; Heist ...... 11212—5 10221—4 makes the finest hand-made fishing rod in chocolate and wine colored; rifle shooting Piercy, 8; Woodruff, 8: Giers, 9; Heritage, 8; 10222—4 the country, and his reputation has been Lang ...... 01201—3 yarns, lead colored; duck-shooting-in-the- Hebbard. 6: Dutchy, 8: E. Sickley, 8; Geof J. Thurman !'...... 11111—5 12120—4 scattered all over the land, where it has spring yarns, with a green cast; yarns frey, 9; Lawrence, 6; Miller, S; Herrington, 7. Curran ...... 21200—3! 02001—2 been very beneficial for spring crops. Even about the winnings made at tnap shoots Event No. 11.—Fifteen birds, unknown angles, Warford ... '". '...... 11211—5 11011—4 Francis Schlatter, the great healer, who by will be gold and silver colored; yams from four prizes.—Dutchy, 14; Herrington, 12; Pier Garner ...... 10112—4 12111—5 simply laying his hands on the afflicted Baltimore will be of the blonde shade; cy. 12; Geoffrey, 14; Apgar, 12: Adams, 11; Zurn .... . ! ".!'...... 11122—5 21110—4 parts cures rheumatism, neuralgia, grip, yarns of all kinds will be read in "Sporting Giers, 14: Shaw, 11; Keller, 14; Elliott, 15; Ca se ...... 10111—4! 21101-4 liver complaint, dizziness, loss of memory, Life." and the yarns furnished by the pro Folsom, 11; E. Sickely, 13; Miller, 13; Mllburn ...... 10221—4 11211—5 loss of appetite, loss of money, yellow prietor of 294 Broadway will contain all Thomas, 14; Von Lengerke, 14; Heritage, 12; Holjes .... "...... 22011—4 02220—3 taste in tha mouth in the morning, that tir Whitehead, 12, Fountain ...... 00021—2| 12101--4 the colors of the rainbow, which will be Bvent No. 12.—Ten birds, unknown angles, four "" '"" ...... 12101—41 11211-5 ed feeling and other diseases that the flesh quite appropriate for the Rainbow Knitting Brown " " ' " " ' - ' ' - is heir to now carries a Devlne prizes.—Shaw, 8; E. Sickley, 9: Craft, 9; Fol Buck ...... lllH-5 02120—3 rod and Fred ought to get a good Mills. som, 8: Elliott, 10; Keller, 7: Thomas. 9; Apsar ...... 10101—3 lot of orders from the West, but they must Whitehead, 8; Giers, 9; Herrington, 8: Piercy, Reading ...... •••••• 11122—5 Dr. H. H. Frothingham, of Chicago, de 7; Apgar, 7; Dutchy, 10; Adams, 7; G«oif- Wagner ...... 11122-5 have big fish there to need so heavy a feated J. J. Smith, of Evanston, 111., in a frey, 9. Thompson ...... 11111—5 rod. The following from, a Western ex 100-pigeon match for $100 a side, at Chi SECOND DAY, DECEMBER 20. Gerry ...... 10101—3 change explains Itself: "Now Carries a De- cago, on December 23, by a score of 83 The second day was devoted to live-bird Arnwein « ...... 12111—5 vine Rod. Sohlatter says it was present to 80. The birds were first-class. shooting, and a large number of the cracks No. 6. No. 7. ed to him by an angel. Trinidad, Colo.. were present. Captain Anson, the base ball Wagner ...... 0 —0 2120 -3 1212 -4 Dec. 20.—Francis Schlatter. the healer, now Charlie Budd, of Des Moines; Charles player, acter man and crack shot, was pres carries a Divine rod. The rod is of copper ent, but was somewhat handicapped by having Grimm, of Clear Lake, and Fred Gilbert, Heisf8 •Y:::::::::::::iii2»it=8 -0 and weighs 39 pounds. It is considered to to use a strange gun, but he got into second ufng .'. ••••••••• :: ; ::;: i2f 2211 -1 0 be a miraculous instrument by the healer of Spirit Lake, la., will attend the San money in the nrst and second events. Among -2 210 -a and came to him in a miraculous way. He Antonio shoot. those present were Captain John L. Brewer, of Thompson ...... -20 says that he was met on. the roadway by New York; J. A. R. Elliott, Kansas City; Arnwein ...... -HO -2j 2211 an angel of God who gave him the rod and Harvey McMurchy, "the prince of gun Frank Class, of Morristown, N. J.; Alien Garner ...... -HO told him to carry it as long as it was the salesman," with his Smith gun, says that Willey, of Hartford, Conn.; Neaf Apgar, of New J. Thurman...... 20 will of the Father that he should. When he "had his shooting clothes on" at the York; Timmons, of Morristown, N. J.; Aaron Apsar ...... 110 120 -2 it was time for him to discard the rod he recent live-bird shoot at Buffalo, in which Woodruff, of Elizabeth, N. J.; Elmer Shaner, Holjes ...... 20 he won first money, with a score of 25 of Pittsburg, manager of the Interstate Asso Case ...... -.10 would receive further word from the ciation, who refereed, and "Hustling Billy" Warford ...... 122210 -5 1121 -4 Father." straight. We understand from very relia Hobart, who acted as scoreman. 2220 -3 ble authority they are the same kind of The first event was a seven-bird handicap K^e^tr;^:::^^! W. H. Skinner, of the W. A. Powder clothes that he has been wearing all sum sweep, $5 entrance, and three moneys. El Company, has returned to New York after mer. "Mac's1" shooting clothes seem -to be liott and Timmons divided first money, while WON THE E. C. CUP. an extended trip in the West, where he his favorite suit and fit him very welt Captain Anson and Class divided second money, lias been working in the interest of the Timmons winning third. Walter Sykes Captures It at the New jpowder he represents. Mr. B. H. Worthen. of Charleston, S, C., Event two was a ten-bird sweep under the wants to shoot a match with any gentle same conditions. Class and Willey divided Utrecht Club Shoot. man in that State for the championship first money with a straight score, Elliott, Walter F. Sykes won the E. C. Powder cup, of Geo. Mosher, with his neat Hollenbeck Anson and Timmons killing nine each ior sec gun, was calling on the trade in New York of South Carolina, and will wager $100 011 the New Utrecht Gun Club, of Brooklyn, at the result. ond money, Thomas taking third money with Woodlawn on December 21. The birds trapped and Philadelphia recently. He reported a a score of eight killed. The third and last were fast and were favored by a strong wind. very good trade. was the principal event of the day. The Bes>iil«, being credited with winning the cup Chas. MacAlester won the Omnium Cup conditions were 25 birds per man, handicap Srkes carried off the greater part of the sweep A Bridgeport man Is the inventor of a on Thanksgiving Day at the Philadelphia rise, 50yds. boundary, $10 entrance, birds stake accompanying. In a practice ahoot for mushroom bullet. We don't know what a Gun Club shoot and divided all the sweeps. extra, three moneys. Captain Brewer captur the birds Dr. EBdy and J.. Alien killed ten mushroom bullet is, but if it will only pro His load was 52 grains of B. C. powder. ed the first money, with a score of 24 killed. straight. Ttu has to be won five time* tect those foolish people who pick and eat Willey and Woodruff divided second money, b»'fove i" becomes the property of a member. toadstools for mushrooms, it will be a val Captain Brewer is reported to have kill with a score of 23 killed, and Class, Piercy C Furguesen, Jr., has four wins to his credit, uable invention.—"Ansonia Sentinel." ed 09 out of 100 live pigeons in an ex and Koegel third money, with 22 killed eaeb. bat being away on a shooting trip Sbuth, was hibition match in Jersey on Christmas day. Summary: not piesen* to make a bid for the prize. Tha Noel Money, of the E. C. Powder Com Event No. 1, 7 birds, $5, 3 moneys. pany, has just returned from a trip through J. S. Dustin, at one time a crack shot of Elliott, 30yds...... 1112112-7 0E. O, POWDER CUP— CLUB HANDICAP. the Harrisburg Shooting Association, now Class, 30yds ...... \ 1 2 0 1 2 1—6 the South. He reports the E. C. powder Timmons, 28yds...... 1 1 2 2 0 1 0—5 W F Svkes ...... B 2222220222 9 booming in the.Southern States and g'aiu- resides in Newark, N. J. He takes part in Captain Anson, 27yds. ..1211102—6 ing new friends every day. many of the live-bird sweeps in that vicin Astfalk, 28yds ...... 1 0 2 0 0 1 1—4 i ity, and on Christmas day defeated John Thomas, 28yds ...... 2 2 2 1 1 2 2— 7 2112222*20 « W. L. Colville. formerly with the Baker Erb in a 15-bird match, killing 13 to his Event No. 2, 10 birds, $5, 3 moneys. Gun Company, of Batavia, N. Y., was vis opponent's 12. Elltott, 30yds...... 1220112211—9 Adams ' ^HOOT-TEN BHlDa iting in the Bast recently. "Swiveler" is Timmons, 28yds...... 0121112111—9 Class. well-known to the sportsmen all »over the Mr. B. G. Empie, of Lynchburg, Va., Class, 30yds...... 112222222 2—10 .... B 1111211113 10 country and is quite a traveler. one of the most popular sportsmen in that Captain Anson, 27yds.. 1222121021—9 J Alien ..... O 1111211112 10 city, and a member of the Lynchburg Gun Astfulk, 28yds ...... 0220220101-5 3. £ott ..;;.."...••• O 1101202101 « E. H. Knlskern, of Elmira, N. Y., was in Club, has taken up his residence in New- Willey, 28yds ...... 112212222 2—10 New York City recently. He has severed Orleans. The sportsmen of Lynchburg will Bunn, 27yds ...... 2022012012—7 THE SECOND MATCH. liis connection with the Elmira Arms Com miss him very much, as he was a leading Thoma«. 28yds...... 1222121021—9 Event No. S, 25 bird*. $10, birds extra, 3 pany. member of their club. He was given a moneys, class shooting. The Programme Arranged For the farewell shoot on December 17, and car Brewer, 33yds. 12121 12111 11111 11101 12222—24 Sweeps at the Philadelphia v*. Tom Keller is going to discharge John ries to his new home the best wishes of Willey, 30yds..22222 22220 22211 22222 22202—23 Parker- as captan of the "lolauthe," as his many friends. Woodruff, 29y.12221 12221 11012 12202 21211—23 Delaware Match. •"Jack" tried to sail the noble craft on Piercy, 27yds.. 02122 22112 12210 11221 11022—22 The second match of the series of three b«- dry land, and that won't go with Keller. Class, 31yds. ..22212 22211 21212 00121 12022—2? ween twenty-five Philadelphia trap shooters and The lolanthe was not made to run on dry Koegel, 27yds.22022 11221 22012 10111 22112—22 a like number from the Delaware State League, on Saturday, January 4, at tb» land and Harvey McMurchey will take Lmdington Made a Straight Score of Timinons, 28y..11011 22220 12111 10121 11202—21 will take place Tom's place as cabin boy and se£ that the Benner, 27yds.22111 12020 02121 21122 20111—21 grounds of the Wilmington Gun Club, at Front lamps are kept filled with the right kind Twenty-five. Elliott, 31yds..22202 11022 02221 22012 20111~<>0 ind Union street, Wilmington, Del. The sweep- of oil. The Badger State Gun dub -held a shoot at Anson, 28yds. .21222 22222 01001 21022 02122—2O itakes before and after the matec will consist Blue Kock targets at Wauwatosa, Wis., on De Bunn, 28yds.. .00221 10200 w __ 5 f the following: cember 12, and the following scores were made: Svent No. 1 10 targets, known...... $1.00 A party of Buffalo sportsmen, including 3vent No. 2 10 targets, unknown...... 1.00 the Hon. Charles F. Tubor, Oie L. Snyder, H. Ludington .11111 11111 11111 11111 11111—25 TRAP AT PELHAMVILLE. Cvent No. 3, 15 targets, known...... 1.50 H. D. Kirkover, Herman Diehl, E. C. llan- Fisher ...... 1011111111111011111111111—23 Cvent No. 4, 15 targets, unknown...... 1.00 dall, and the Hon. Henry H. Guenther, Mirgler .. ,..11111 11101 11111 11111 10111—23 Scores of the Live Bird Shooting at Svent No. 5, 20 targets, known...... 1.50 left for South Carolina on December 20 E. liarnekow ..1011111110011111111110111—21 the Wauregan Grounds. 5vent No. 6, 10 targets, known...... 1.00 for a ten-day shooting trip. E. Leister ....1111110111100111111111011—21 Cvent No. 7, 10 targets, unknown...... l.OO Miller ...... 01011 11011 11111 10011 11111—20 A number of sportsmen who enjoy live bird vent No. 8, 15 targets, known...... 1.50- F. D. Kelsey, of East Aurora, N. Y., and I'. Sclmiitz ....11101 00111 11001 01111 10011—17 shooting gathered at the Wauregan Shooting vent No. 9, 15 targets, unknown...... 1.00 Luetzow .. . .00010 10101 10111 10111 11110—36 Grounds, at Pelhamville, N. Y.. on December Svent No. 10, 20 targets, known ...... 1.50 Otto Besser, Jr., of Buffalo1. N, Y., will Thomas .. .. .10O01 00101 00100 00100 01100— 8 19. The first event was a match between Fer Other events to suit shooters. Cha», Ferenba.ofc» suoot a uuitcli at 100 live birds for $100 Twinem .. . .00000 0&001 00001 00000 00100- 3 ris and Woodruff at 2o birds each, toe $25 a Captain Delaware State League. 13 Dec. 28- SPORTING LIFE.
etc. Last week the award wa> made, and Hugh Malloy came off winner. He had a total GUN of 42 weasels and 6 red foxes, all of whlcli L. C. SMITH had been killed by him between December IB, 1S94, and December 16, 1895. A banquet to BORED FOR.... the members of the association followed. CLiUB~ME>)TSHOOT. Nitro Powder shoot any Nuro Powder in a 2OO- Wrijfht Defeats Bunker and not get loose. Bird Match at Babylon. made There was a fair-sized gathering of club men at tbe grounds of tbe Westminster Kennel THERE. Club, Babylon, L. 1., December 24, to witness AND of the HERE B. Wrlght, a 200-btrd match between H. Larchmont Yacht Club, and W. G. Bunker, of the Westchester Country Club. Fred Moore. GATHERED the well-known amateur, looked after the in [ITEMS IKENT SHOOTING terests of Wrlght, while L. T. Davenport, who recently killed 97 out of 100 birds iu a contest ON THE FLY. at the same grounds, was behind Bunker. The match started shortly before 11 o'clock, and Wrigbt quickly took the lead through Bunker's missing his second bird. He also lost Announcements From Club Secretaries bis tilth and seventh birds. Wrlght's first miss was on bis ninth bird, which dropped We now put the Ejector mechanism on all of the dl fferent dead out of bounds. He lost his tenth bird Steel, Crown Steel, Damas Trap Shooting Tourna fifteen birds Wrlght grades. \Ve use Whitworth Fluid —Coming outright. In the next cus and Laminated Barrels. missed only one and Bunker two. Tbe round in price from $47.00 to •500.00. ended In favor of Wrigbt. who killed 22 out of Our Guns range ments—News Notes ol General 25. Bunker brought down 20. There was little change in the shooters' posi SEKD FOR CATALOGUE- Interest. tions during the next string, each killing 22. On the third string, however, Wright got a Y. commanding lead by killing 22 to Bunker's HUNTER ARMS CO.. FULTON, N. shooting match for a purse of 19. After each man had shot 100 birds Wrlght A pigeon led by a score of 87 to Bunker's 83. From $50 took place at 1'ardvllle, N. J., Decem his lead, making the high total ot eight William Weidman, of here out the Larchmont mm Increased Dr. Wynn ber 18, between and finally won by a score of 177 to 161. Sum birds killed. Tbe scores: Trenton, and Gilbert Geiberson, of Al- BIRDS. man shot at 25 birds. maries: CLUB SHOOT-TEN GRAND AMERICAN lentowu, N. J. Each H. B. Wright- Dr. Wynn, 30yds...... 10222 20222- 8 Ueiberson killed 22, Weldmau 15. 22122 122*0 12212 21011 11111-22 Dr. Eddy, 29yds...... 10221 01210— 7 20222 22202 20212 22222 22222—22 J. B Lake, 29yds...... 11111 01020—7 A big two days' shoot will take plaoft at 02021 22221 22212 22220 21222-22 W. R. Brixey, 28yds...... 21202 20012- 7 HANDICAP Doylestowu, Pa., on Thursday and Friday. 12222 00102 11*22 21222 11222-21 J. B. Talmage. 27yds...... 12021 10022— 7 January a and 3, 1800. Live birds and Blue 20221 21212 22122 0222* 12220—21 Hugh McLaughliu, 29yds.. 10011 02010- 5 a Blue 22112 22221 12221 22021 12212—24 Glgllo, 27yds...... 00021 02010— 4 won byj. G. Rocks will be used. There will be Samuel 3 April 4 nnd 5, x8gs, Hock match on Thursday for the county 01121 22122 12123 11220 21202—22 W. A. Stewart, 2Kyds...... 00100 10100— which a 1122* 12120 12112 22222 11221-23-177 Sweepstakes, five birds, all 28yds. rise—Hugh Messner, with championship, to the winner of 4, J. E. Lake 4, Kold medal will be awarded. On Friday W. G. Bunker- McLaughlln 5. Dr. Eddy bird match for the 10211 00221 2*110 22222 22221—20 Dr. Wynn 3, W. R. Brliey 3, W. A. Stewart there will be a live 22021 12122 22212 12220 '2211-22 3, Dr. Vau Zlle 3, W. F. Sykes 3, J. B. DU PONT SMOKELESS. championship of Bucks County. One thous 211*2—19 insist that they be who attend 22*12 01211 11201 01021 Talmage 3. When ordering Shells, and live birds on hand. Those 12122 22210 01222 21011 21212—22 Sweepstakes, game conditions—Dr. Van Zlle 5, — the last tournament at Doylestown will 10*21 0202*-16 4, Dr. \Vyun loaded with this powd*r. ed go 20202 10111 01112 W. F. Sykes 6, J. B. Talmage remember the good time and will surely ' l 22212 22122 12122 22022 20110—22 3, W. R. Brliey 2. again. Geo. Carmen will be manager, 01121 22122 2222* 00102 20211—19 which insures fair treatment. ; . 2212* 2M22 112*2 11211 12*21-21-181 ASHBOUBNE MARKSMEN. Du Pont's Rifle. Unequalled for general use In Rifle or Shot Contract hunters are slaughtering wild A FINE SCORE. Was Spent on the gun. at an alarming rate on the How the Day ducks ami geese of This Club. Texas Gulf coast, and it is feared that the John Sanders Makes a Record of 07 Grounds Du Pont's Choke Bore. wild fowl will soon be exterminated. The Christmas Day was celebrated by nearly all Shoots clean and strong. Especially adapt to pass a strin Out of 10O at Albany. the gun clubs In the vicinity of Philadel Legislature will be asked Gun of pre ed for Prairie and Upland Shooting. law. Some of the members of the West Old phia by giving » trap shoot. While tbis gent Club, of Albany, N. Y., met on their grounds vented any one particular club from having a practice. We shooters Du Pont's Trap Powder. Kingston Gun Club was recently on December 19 for their usual large turnout, a very fair number of Th» are Indebted to our friend Horace A. Derby, of gathered in the comfortable grounds of tbe Marked V. G.P. Something new for Trap chartered at Kingston, N. Y. This is the what he Pa., on Clean, and Quick. is in a very flour the "Argus," for tbe scores, and this is Ashbourne Gun Club, at Ashbourne, Shooters. Strong, old Pansy Gun Club and has to say regarding the shooting: th« Beading road. The day was perfect for ishing condition. "In the clay pigeon shooting there wafl much the sport, being warm and pleasant, and Du Pont's Eagle Ducking. The boys started In to shoot air stirring. Blue Kock traps Club, of Newark, that was queer. not a breath of Prepared especially for Seaside and Field The South Side Gun under the difficult conditions of unknown traps, and targets were used, and the traps were Shooting. N. J., will give Its fifteenth annual New unknown angles, making dreadful work of It, and arranged to throw a clean, even flight, with Year's I>ay reception and tournament on its then, at the suggestion of the writer, lapsed good speed, and they worked very smoothly.4 Grain. grounds, where shooting will begin at 0 Into the conditions of the old "machine" style The pulling arrangement was well adjusted Du Pont's Crystal o'clock A. M. The grounds are very ac of shooting to renew a more intimate acquaint and those who came to spend a pleasant after The Highest Grade of Powder Manufactured. cessible, and a shoot under the governing ance with their breech-loaders. Johnny Sanders noon at tlie traps went away satisfied. The committee, R. H. Breintnall, president; W. made his great score under the easier method, members of tbe club made it agreeable to all R. Hobart, secretary-treasurer, and I. H. nnd the others varied their practice by both visitors, and not ft complaint was heard in f. /. Du Pont de Nemours Co. Terrell, manager, is one that is always hard and easy shooting. Some of the work was any way. A good crowd so bad that I have selected only the four best Among the visitors were four members of properly run and managed. they have a crazy were K. M. Wilmingion, Dataware. usually attends these annual tournaments, scores for reproduction, and the Hatboro Gun Club. These 1806, should be no character which shows how the boys got the Boileau, who was using the "Duke" brand of and New Year's Day, bitter and the sweet In." loaded shells and was not afraid to let peo exception. TUB 100-B1RD RACE. ple know it; C. Brink and A. Boileau, the »mHD POSTAL FOK Sanders— latter mashing targets fine with his "pump" The T.imltfd Gnn Club, of Indianapolis, J. B. wbo loads the "Duke" pigeons on 11111 11111 11111 11111 11111—25 gun. and J. Brennan, will hold an nil-day shoot at live 11111 11111 11111 11111 11111—25 shells, and tbe words on his shooting blouse 1. ISM. A plan of handicapping 11111 11111-24 were very plain. He loads the shells, and his THREE IN OMC.' January 11111 11110 11111 Phila will be used which will give all shooters 11010 Hill 11111 Hill 11111-23-97 Smith gun does the rest. W. Peters, of FOR GUNS and BICYCLES. to win. The Urn'.ted Gun delphia, with his load of Kings powder, called Pmrnto Rust. an equnl chance H. B. Sanders- of PoJltlrfly Club is a progressive one and will give 10111 11110 11001 11111 11011-20 at the cashier's desk frequently. Members (Inn. >tl l'»rl» Thorougklr. 11111 00111—20 the home club wbo held their own were Munch, •IT li » Perfect Lubrleint *ftd a good stoot. 11111 11101 10110 not (jam. 10111 10101 11111 01111 11111-21 Pearson and .the Hollowells. doea 11111 01111-22—83 The object of tbe shoot was to give » iple seat for 10 ots. in stamps. Mr. J. TV. Fnlford, the well-known trap 11111 01101 11111 a chance to day's tournament A. O. Arnold- pleasant time, and let all have shot announces s two 11111-23 shoot, so the sweeps were made with small G. W. COLE i CO. and targets, on January 23 and 01111 11111 11110 11111 1 and R. at lire birds 10111 10111 00111 00111 11110-18 entrance, and, excepting events Nos. Trinity Building, New York- 24. on the grounds of the Oneida County were ten targets, known angles, entrance 60 at ITtlea. N. Y. Jim oiooo 11010 11111 01110—17 according to Ask your dealer for it. Sportsmen's Association, 11111 10100 11111 00100 11011-17-75 cents, and three to four moneys, Fulford's popularity as a sportsman number of entries. Event No. 1 was a miss- Mr. John T. Belts— five cents and manager of a tournament Is £ guar inn iiooi 11111 10010 11101—19 and-out, and those missing donated H. CAMERON WON the shoot will be conducted in 11011-10110—16 ' for each bird shot at. and the winner took J. antee that iiooo mil 10010 are the scores: first-class style. 11111 00011 10001 11101 01101-16 the purse. Following at Live Birds Given by 00110 11101 10011 11111 11111—19—70 Event No. 1. Event No 2. The Contest A party of Kansas City (Mo.) sportsmen "Duke"...... 11111111-81 11101 10110-7 the Enterprise Gun Club. went to the Indian Territory a month or SCHORTEMEiER AND TROSTEti B. Hollowell ...... 11111110—71 01111 11111-0 John H. Cameron won tbe live hlrd conter,t eix weeks ago on a hunt, and on their re J. Hollowell...... 11110 —4| 10111 01111—R of the Enterprise Gun Club, of Brooklyn, N. Y., W. Bills ...... 1111O —41 11110 01111-8 Beach, December 1!», from ten com turn all were very reticent regarding their Did Fine Work and Tied For the 00001—3 at North kind of a lime they bad, A. Boileau.... „.. 11110 —4J 10001 petitors. Tbe principal event was at seven success or tbe Hell Gate Gun Club Trophy. W. Munch...... 11110 4| 11110 11111-9 liirds. handicap. American Association rules, but 'the Kansas City "World" says it has 110 very poor. they got nicely set The Hell Gate Gun Club, of New York, had C. Bitting...... governing, and the scores made were leaked out that after ita monthly live-bird contest at Dtixter Park, E. Boileau ...... 110 -2| 01011 00111-« CLUB SHOOT—SEVEN BI11DS. in oamp and prepared to enjoy them and 10 -1| 01001 11111-7 *222222 8 tled down L. I., December 17. Louis Schortcmeler W. Hollowell...... J. H. Cameron. 26 yds. rise..... selves the Indian police swooped Fred Trostel did fine work, both making clean C. Brink...... 10 10111 10011—7 }. G. Willlamson, 25yds. rise., 2012120 S upon them and carried off all their guns, scores. Attinist s.-limitt, Albert Knodel and W. "Peters"...... 0 10111 11111-9 Frank England. 27 yds. rise.... 11)02021 4 ammunition and other equipment, besides Eugene r latter just returned from A. Holiowell.. ...0 —0 00110 10010—4 A. B. Whyland. 25 yds. rise.... 0 2 1 2 00 0 3 all the game they had bagger], which was an exteu i trip—were only one point Carner ...... 0 —0 A. G. Hudson, 25 yds. rise...... 10022*0 3 adding insult to injury.—"American Field." behind. '! nude will count at tbe close Pearson ^...... , 10010 01010-4 W. H. Greene, 2IS yds. rise...... -2 1 0 0 0 0 2 3 of the year in the general averages for the an Thomas ...... 01111 11101—8 J. A. Andrews, 25 yds. rise.... 0120010 3 prizes. The score: Event No. 3. Event No. 4. Kennedy, 2« yds. rise.... 10020*0 2 The Classification and Tournament Com nual P. C. 2 of the Interstate Association have CLUB SHOOT-TEN BIRDS. Duke ...... 11111 11100- 8| 10101 01101- 8 James O'ltourke, 25 yils. rise.... 1100*00 mittee 2Syds. 212222222 1—10 J. Hollowell 11011 11010— 7| 11110 10101- 7 Fred B. Wecdon, 23 vds. rise... 0002020 1 decided that the Great American Handicap L. H. Schortemeier. 9 1 of the association in Krecl. Trostel, 28yds...... 212221212 1-10 Munch .....11111 ---"11101- 9| 11111 10111— S. G. Porter,-2« yds. rise...... 0*02000 and other contests Eugene Doenick, 2%4s.... 1221011212—9 W. Hollowell 10111 01101— 71 11111 11111—10 Sweepstakes, tbree birds, all twenty-five April next will be shot at Elkwood Park. 11111-10 S; Eng N. 1. Albert Knodel. 28yds...... 1220221112—9 Peters ...... 11111 11111-101 11111 vurds—Andrews, 3; Porter, 3; Hudson, which is not far from Red Bank. August Schmitt, 28ydS. ... 0221122211—9 A. Boileau ,.10110 11110— 71 11011 10111- 8 land. 2; Wbyland, 2; Greeue, 2; Weedon, 1; This committee also decided that the tour J. H. Voss. 28yds...... 2*2*211112— 8 B. Boileau . .11101 10010—61 01010 00101-4 O'Kourke, 1; Keuendy. 1. naments of this association will be divid John Woelfel, 28yds...... 212021121*— 8 U. Hallowell 11111 11010— R| 011U 01111- .S Sweepstakes, same conditions— Andrews, 2; Eng er! between the Southern State and Maine, Henry Kohla, 2Syds...... 1110011021— 7 Peareon ....11011 11111- 9| 10101 11110-7 land. 2; Kennedy. 2; Porter, 1; Weedon, 1; Vermont and New Hampshire. S. J. HfM. 2Syrts...... 11212**102— 7 Brink ...... 11101 01011—71 11111 11001—8 Greene, 1; Whyland. 0 . Robert I. '...... 2002112021—7 A. Hollowell. 01010 00101- 41 J Pilklngton. .T. Nichols and J. Elliott J. P. D:i yds... 0010121222—7 Event No. B, 15 targets. $1.00. Fred Hoey Wins. at Baychester. George 1 ...... 0121001121— T Duke ...... 11111 11111 11111— IB Park, shot a three-cornered match ...... 2 * 22 • 00222- 6 .10111 11110 11111-13 Tbe principal attraction at Elkwood Christmas Day. Pllkington won Gus NOWUK. -.-..a* t'eters ...... N. J., ou Christmas Dft.v, traa the N. Y.. on Ohrls Rabcnstein, 2Syds... 0011221200—6 A. Boileau...... 11101 11111 00111—12 Ix>Dg Branch, by killing fi2 out of 75. The conditions 0200122200— 5 live-bird sboot for the championship of Mon- and Hc-nry Block. 2Syds...... W. Hollowell...... 11101 10111 01111-12 were only five entries, were 75 birdg per man. SO yards rise John Schur, 25yds...... 000021 1 202— t ...... 10011 11111 11101-12 nioutb County. There HurHngham rules gov 0022200002— 4 13. Boileau.. owing to tbe appearance of such cracks as Fred ,10 yards boundary, Charles Rieger. 2Syds..... Pearson...... 11110 11110 11011-12 as competitors. The H. W. Voss, 2Syds...... 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 2— 4 ....11110 01011 01111—11 Hoey and Edgar Murphy erning. Munch' ...... shoot was Interesting, there being three ties, at Chris Weber, 2Syds...... 1100020*01—4 K. Hollowell ...... 11010 11100 01101-9 won by Fred Emond, of Buffalo. Charles Newman, 25yds... 0022200002— 4 Event No. 7 ten birds each. The event wus finally Jacob Koch and Event No. 6. Hoey, with a score of 17 out of 18. Summary: X Y have been matched to shoot three Emil Marquardt. 2Syds. ..40002100020—3 nuke ...... 01111 01111- 81 10110 11111- S 2—9 first MATCH-TEN BIRDS. 11101 11001—7 Hoev ...... 222220222 r-i'.T-i at 100 live birds each, the 0122222222— 9 Peters .. ..11101 11100— ...... 202111221 1—W to take place on January 1. 1806, S. J. Held. 30yds...... A. Boileau ..OHIO 01011—61 10110 11000— S Murphy August Schmitt, 30yds.... 1202212120—8 11111— 9 Daly ...... 2011222222—6 11-,.. -.-fond on January R, and the third on W. Hollowell 11111 11111—10] 01111 W. Price ...... 222022101 2-8 Association ,T. Hollowell 00111 11101— 7! B. 0—5 January 15. American Shooting FOUNTAIN Gl'N CIjUB. 11111— S Parker ...... 111002010 'Each match will be for J10O a side, Pearson ....10011 11101—71 OHIO In the shoot-off, miss and out, the scores were: rules. K. Boileau ..10111 11111- 9! 11011 jllll— 9 2 1 1 1 2 2 2—S loser to pay for hlrrK Jacob Koch is Brixey Trophy at 7| 11111 00111- 8 Hoey ...... 2 Emond Is a Dr. Wynn Won the Brink ...... 11101 11100— Daly ...... 2122122 0-7 known as an old i Shoot, K. Hollowell 01101 10111- 7] 00111 01111— 7 2 2 1 2 0 . .—5 ehooter of considi v, and it will Their Regular Brent No. 9. Murphy ...... 2 William Wynu won the valu Event No. 8. The other contests resulted a« follows: £n,ii>rii>.s
at the traps. The Hunter Arms Company contains progressive business men, who are ever ready to take advantage of any im provement offered and produce it for the benefit of sportsmen. Their ejector gun is winning its way into the hearts of gun ners, and trap shooters all over the country are prefering the high grade Smith guns to the imported weapons, which were for merly so popular with those who desired a \\1 high grade gun. The Hunter Arms Com pany have a very interesting catalogue which they will furnish to any one on ap plication. ___SMOKELESS POWDER. FRED MOORE WINS. At Jack Parker's tournament, Detroit, 189?, the following marvelous scores NEWS OF THE TRADE. were made, proving the wonderful regularity of " E. C. He Captures the Handicap Match at Powder. the Larchmont Club. DIAMOND MEDALTEAM RACE. Quite a large number of club men were pres //pon/v 1 ^~. -^fe WOOD ent at the grounds of the Larchmont Yacht REDWING } " W PARKER Club at Larchmont, N. Y.. December 25, to out of TOO targets shot at. witness some handicap sweepstakes decided, in which some of the best-known wing shots THE HANDICAP CHAMPIONSHIP CUP WAS won by a gentlemen breaking 50 in the country took part. straight with " E. C." Powder. The shoot of the day, a fifteen-bird handicap, The Hunter Arms Company a Progressive was won by F. G. Moore, with fifteen straight, For Duck Shooting, "J£. C." is by far the best, as it is the only smoke from the 30yd. mark. Relknap and Butler less powder that holds its patterns with heavy charges. tied for second place, with fourteen each. A Concern Ostrander Repeating Gun number of five-bird, miss-and-out events fol lowed. In the first Wright and W. S. Edey BPIEHICJH "E. c." POWDE? copiPBjfY, Ufl. Oakland, Bergen Co., K. J. Ready Elmira Arms Company's each killed 11 and divided. Th'e second was divided between Moore. Butler and Daven port at the end of the sixth round, while Change Deiine's Fishing Rods. the final shoot went to Davenport, with 11 straight. Summaries: FIVE PAIRS. Scboverling, Daly & Gales, of New G. Relknap, 25yds...... 01 10 11 11 11 8 Perfected in ttie following Calibrea, York, wholesale and retail dealers in F. G. Moore, 25yds..... 00 01 11 11 11 7 sportsmen goods of every description, re H. B. Wright, 25yds.... 11 11 11 11 01- 9 MANUFACTURED BY port a Very good trade for the past season, A. Butler, 25yds...... 10 10 00 .. ..-2 high grade guns selling well and the W. S. Edey, 25yds...... 11 10 00 01 01 5 THE UNION METALLIC CARTRIDGE CO,, Bridgeport, Conn,, U, 8, A, American product in good demand. In THREE PAIRS. ( heap hammerless guns the home manufac G. Relpknap, 25yds...... 01 11 10 4 turer was the best seller, and, in faot, F. G. Moore, 25yds...... 10 .. . . 1 almost exclusively called for in a low- H. B. Wright, 25yds...... 10 11 11- 5 priced arm. Their shell and ammunition A. Butler, 25yds...... 11 11 01-5 SMOKELESS '-• '.; •" trade had been first class and they carry FIVE SINGLES-HANDICAP. a full line In that branch. They had add G. Relknap, 29yds...... 22202 4 ed a line of field and marine glasses to F. G. Moore, 30yds...... 20221-4 22 Short 25-20 Marlln 32-40 B. & ft. 32-40 B. & M. their stock. The trade in football goods H. B. Wright, 30yds...... 11112 5 38-55 B. & ft. und supplies had been booming and they A. Butler, 29yds...... 1 * 2 2 2 4 Metal Cased flushroom Metal Cased fitted out a team of the soldiers on Gov L. T. Davenport, 30yds...... 01222 4 ernor's Island. A full line of gold goods had W. S. Edey. 30yds...... * 2 2 2 2 4 48-55 B. & n. 45-90 Winchester 45-90 Winchester 450 Revolver 236 U. S. Navy been placed in stock' and they were pre J. Stillman. 27yds...... 10 1 00 2 flushroom fletal Cased Mushroom pared to fjll all orders in that line. Schov- HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES 15 BIRDS. erling, Daly & Gales are one of the largest G. Relkuap. 29yds.-... 11101 22122 22222 14 30 U. S. Army 303 Savage 303 Savage and most reliable houses in the East, and F. G. Moore. 30yds.... 11111 11221 12122 15 303 Savage always give their customers first-class H. B. Wright. 30yds... 21212 0*111 1 - 9 Metal Cased Expansive niniature goods. A. Butler, 29vds...... 11122 22110 22121-14 * * L. T. Davenport. 30yds 11111 1220 - S OTHER CALIBRES IN PREPARATION. The Forehand Arms Co., of Worcester. W. S. Edey, 30yds.... 11202 22122 * 9 Mass., report gun trade much better than J. Stillman, 27yds.... 10122 01011 211 -10 last year, and they had not been able NEW YORK OFFICE, 313-315 Broadway. SAN FRANCISCO OFFICE, B17-519 Market St. to keep up with the orders for their new SHOOTING ATMANAYUXK. model hammerless. Their ejector gun had also been taking well with sportsmen and The Mount Vernon Gun Club Enjoys on the Powder question, If you have not yet tried the they were working 300 hands-on full time Christmas Day. Don't be misled hard grain Smokeless on guns and revolvers, making hammer- The Mount Vernon Gun Club, of Manayunk. less ejectors and non-ejectors, hammerless Pa., held an all-day shoot on Christmas Day on guns, both single and double barrel and its ground at Glen Willow, in Upper Manayunk, hammerless single guns, using twist and sweepstake, handicap and individual matches be POWDER steel barrels. ing decided, the wind-up being at a dead mark, insist upon doing so; or try it again and leave sentiments out of the question. If your regular * * * distance 40yds.. for a white trotting pony., which dealer does not keep SCHULTZE Powder or SCHULTZE Powder Loaded Shells, procure them Fred Devine, of TJtica, N. Y., manufac resulted in a tie between Messrs. Thornbcrry. from an other dealer and don't take other ammunition, because interested parties tell you it's just turer of fine hand-made fishing rods, fold Rhoyds and Innis, out of 400 contestants. In as good or better. ing camp stoves and Clark's Patent Fold- the shoot-off Innis won. American Association Thppp is nnna /'//
f >ec. 28- SPORTINQ LIFE. 15 THE WORLD OF CYCLING. to go to the coast t» train ID the spring. emblematic of each century ride. Those Bald also thinks that next year the na not otherwise Interested in cycling will tional circuif will begin at the Western learn that these bars are frequently seen Th« mm OF REFORM end and end in the East. This will on the vests of bic/ycile riders, being allow an earlier start and will suit the attached to each other in the form of a riders better, for they will not be com chain. Gunther has something like 100 of Columbia |TH A VIEW TO BOOMIHG CYCLE pelled to take a long journey at the last them. Investigation proved that these •loycU of the season. bars could be made and sold at a hand some profit at 75 cents, so that some one RACING SPORT. CLASS B RIDERS FAVORED. was clearly getting a "rake off." Secretary Fairchild, of the Century Club, Pad Calendar had sole charge of giving out the orders Any Attempt to Remove Them by the to the "official" jeweler and no doubt Re-Classification Scheme Regu L. A. \V. Will be Strongly Opposed. beard the gossip afloat in relation to the For 1896 New York, Dec. 24. While the ultimate matter. At any rate Fairchild had fre lation Contracts For Riders Prob settlement of the racing question for next quently been asked to secure a reduction season by the League of American Wheel In prices, but as steadily refused to listen men is a matter of conjecture amoug thereto. These bars really cost the manu able Reduction in the Value ol Prizes wheelmen, the plan to retain the three facturer about 24 cents. classes under an improved system, as out Falrchild has evidently lost a "good lined in the local papers last week seems thing" and seeks revenge on Gunther. As in the Intermediate Class of Races. to be the popular solution to the problem. the later is one of the best known wheel The suggestion to abolish Class B and tbe men in the city, a leading member of ITUe Raclug Board of the L. A. \V. Is ex- retention of purely amateur and profes the powerful Lincoln Cycling Club and one ected to-suggest many radical reforms to sional classes will be bitterly opposed at of the oldest century riders In the country, pe racing rules at the National Assembly the National Assembly. the investigation will likely end in nothing oetlug. It is likely that an attempt will Joseph Goodman, a leading member of serious. : ; made to .reduce the prize value tor the the Connecticut Division of the L. A. W., Intermediate class' of faces tram $151) to who has been actively connected with rac BEJEWELED BICYCLES. |10O. This move is evidently made for ing for the past ten years has given the he purpose of protecting those wlft> do- subject considerable study and discusses Demand Springing up For Wheels to YOU NEED IT. ite prizes to meetings. An attempt will the situation as follows: made to have the League adopt a regti- "Out of the multitude of questions Cost From $5OO to $tOOO. A Desk Calendar is a necessity most ation track for rao.iug men in the employ brought to bear ou the subject of racing New York, Dec. 24. Tlffanv & Co., convenient kind of storehouse for mem* only one is of supreme Importance: Shall oranda. The Columbia Desk Calendar if-manufacturers. These contracts will he have something new for wheelmen In a is brightest and handsomest of all full rawn up by members of the L. A. \V. the prize be divisible? I admit the semi- silver bicycle, which was put ou exhibition of dainty pen sketches and entertaining ' " the Cycle Board of Trade, and will professional attributes of the makers' am at their store to-day. The wheel Is the thoughts on outdoor exercise and sport. ..ower the latter to cancel agreements ateurs of the past and the Class B men first of the kind ever made. In order to Occasionally reminds yon of the superb irith Its rlflets upon the flrst direct vio- of the present, but believe that the evils of insure strength and durability, it was nec quality of Columbia Bicycles and of flation of any contract. At the present professionalism thus diluted are greatly ex essary to have the supporting rods and your need of one. You won't object to lime the manufacturers are at a disad aggerated. The present system insures in spokes of steel. All the rest of the frame that, of course. The Calendar will be vantage with tUeir riders. divisible prizes, a large number of well- is of sterling silver. The handle bar is of mailed for five 2-cent stamps. The admission of professionals to the L. trained racing men and spirted contests, plain silver, with burnished ivory handles. " \V. and the reclassinVation of the rae- and so pretty thoroughly covers the neces The other silver parts are finely engraved Address Calendar Department, men Is now .being considered by the sities of the situation. by hand with repousse etching of the Louis POPE MANUFACTURING CO., >i»g Board. The Canadian Wheelmen's "Racing we must have. Phere are three X/I style. The sprocket wheel is of plain HARTFORD, OONN. ssoelatiou adopted similar rules to the ways In which it may be had, viz.: pro silver. The saddle itself is studded with A. W. last spring, but it is now con- fessional, half-professional and strictly am silver nails. The cost of the machine as onted with the necessity of making some ateur. The flrst la found wanting every It stands Is $500. A silver lantern to go ,-jangefi. time it is weighed in the balance. The with it will add from $100 to $200 to the The Idea of dividing the professional second produces stirring events, lowers price. stopped I believe the men should receive thf> flasses and maintaining one purely am- records and pleases the public, and the The completed wheel weighs about 26 privilege of coming back Into Class A. for it Meur division will be presented to the third is an impossibility on the large scale pounds. A member of tbe Tiffany Com would hardly be fair to create the class and \ational Assembly of the L. A. W. Racing necessary to cycling sport. pany said to-day, In explaining the con then force the men Into profetsioualism, after Board. The suggestion of the Canadian "This Is the view from a sporting stand struction of the new hike: "This wheel they had joined It." Wheelmen's Asoclation to roi-lirlsten Class point from the position of a public which was built to supply a demand which we and give it the title of "Trade Profes- likes to go to the races. But there Is know to exist among some of our pa rtonal" or "Semi-Professional" Class is another point of view, and what Is seen trons for a better and more expensive BITS OF RACING HEWS, aid to be the plan of reform that tbe therefrom would at flrst thought seem to wheel than can be had on the market A. \V. proposes. overshadow and obscure what the general at present. Such a wheel we have tried Bald >nd Cooper left California for the East L number of the leading manufacturers public sees. The manufacturer supports to make, and I believe that another season Saturday. Is said have not decided by auy means semi-professionalism. It Is one of his ways will see many of them at tbe fashionable In Belgium amtenrs an* professional! are per i give up the employment of racing teams. of advertising, and what be sees in the resorts. mitted to ride against each other. and, while ths Racing Board is said to two-class system Is worth making a note A woman's wheel \s being finished in E. O. Bald won 53 first prizes on the na favor an amateur and professional class. of. If the League abandons Class B and the firm's shops. This wheel will be much tional circuit during the past season. 1t realizes that the profession! element has goes back to two classes, professional and more richly ornamented, and its place will Tom Kck is said to be trying- to form a not yet attained sufficient strength in the amateur, I dare say the old hurrah over be $1000. A lantern, which is being made combination of Johnson, Tttu» and Barnett to country to displace Class K entirely. As the makers' amateur will have to be en to go with It. will be set with precious take abroad next spring. a substitute, therefore, it has been prac dured again, and that when the thing has stones, and will cost several hundred dol Walter Sanger saya that he will devote his tically agreed to urge that Class B men, gone far enough there will again be a Class lars. tlow to skath.g this winter so »» to be la abapa who are essentially professionals, except B. or something of a similar nature, Iu its to begin training early next spring. that they are not allowed to race for cash place." It Is authentically stattd in Boston that A. purses, shall receive a proper title. .A FEMALE RACE. G. Spclding and J. O. Bowie are to organiza THREE CANADIAN CLASSES. a cash prize league for cycle racing. A Long Distance Affair to Take G. O. Brown la mentioned as the successor BALD HOME AGAIN. How Racing Will be Conducted Place in New York. to G. H. Orr as chairman of the Racing Board Across the Border Next Year. _ There Is to be a bicycle race In Madison of the Ouaadian Wheelmen's Association. The Star Rider of Class B Will Spend Square Garden next mouth for women ri The Panama Park Company, of Jacksonville, Some Time in Buffalo. Toronto, Out., Dec. 25. Chairman George Fla., are preparing plans for a new bicycle track H. Orr, of the Canadian Wheelmen's As ders. This Is the first effort of auy mag In that city. The general design and plan of Buffalo, Deo. 20. Rather unexpectedly sociation, sizes up the racing situation as nitude ever given in this city and will be construction will bo similar to that of the Foun E. C. Bald, the star performer in the follows: If firms decide not to employ Class maJiaged upon the same lines as. that gov tain Ferry track, at Louisville. Ky. much-talked of Class B of the League of B teams, that will not eliminate the Class erning the recent affair of a similar char At CWeago, 111., December 21, John Lawson, American Wheelmen, returned to Buffalo B element. It will drive the fast riders acter just concluded at the Royal Aqua The Terrihle Swede," rode a quarter-mile on yesterday. Owing to the fact that Bald into the professional ranks and will make rium, In London, which proved one of the Fowler's home trainer, at Fowler's retail store. was not looked for until to-uiorrow his It an easier thing for the less speedy ri most successful enterprises of tbe sea Time. 6 2-5s.; 10 .Titles in 22m. flat; 1 mile hi presence In the city was not generally ders of that class to make a good showing. son, both financially and from a sporting 45 1-59. He used a 68 gear. It was a'mar- known, but the Cannon Bull met many of If it is the sense of the C. W. A. and L. standpoint. Billy Madden and Dave Hol velous performance. , his friends and was heartily greeted by all A. W. that class amateur and professional land are at the head of affairs and judg F. J. Titus, O. M. Murphy and TJ. IV. fn- of them. Bald was last in Buffalo during Is the necessary article, where could the ing from the number of applications for banne, who have been permanently suspended the respite he took in the racing season, men be placed who are given tires and entry blanks there will be more competi from all L.. A. Wr races, are preparing stall- and it will be remembered that after he re wheels by local agents to advertise them on tors than can be well handled. nuLta of their cases for presentation to tho joined the national circuit party he con the' track If the riders themselves are A feature of the sport will be the entire National Asaembly, when they expect that the tinued his good work, which has made him absence of severe physical strain on the officers of the League wfll take some steps to famous all over the country and which averse to riJlng professionally? The Rac contestants. No competitor will remain on revoke the decision of the Huclng Board. They lias left him the undisputed champion of ing Board would not be able to dispose of the track more than two hours at are now circulating petitions asking for a re them advantageously. At present they can a time, consideration of their cases. the class in w^hioh he rides. But classes be shoved into Class B, but under and each ride of two hours is to be fol aside. Bald would be a winner in any com the lowed by a rest of two hours. In order pany on the form he has shown in the straight definition their proper place would to accomplish this desirable state of af past season. During the racing season be with the cash fellows. They would ocouply thasame position as riders who fairs, the riders will be grouped In squads, Bald has won thousands of dollars In ad and the racing done according to this sche prizes and so popular is the Buffalo vertise a club by taking their expenses. boy With Class A and pro. the former would dule: First squad, 3 P. M. to 5 P. M.; sec that there is none to grudge him his suc ond squad, 5.30 P. M. to 7.30 P. M.; third cess. practically be Class B and hot the Simon squad, 7.45 P. M. to 9.45 P. M.; fourth Bald told a reporter yesterday that he pure division. squad, 10 P. M. to 12 M. By that ar O The had no definite plans for the future. "I "If the same rules are not In farce In rangement each contestant will be re will spend a couple 6f weeks iu Buffalo," Canada as In tho States our riders couldn t quired to ride about 28 hours In six days. eaid he, "and then I will go up to Chicago ride over there and theirs over here. The start will be made on January 6 and Yellow for the first of the cycle shows. I will Though we don't want them very par continue until January 11. The track will also take In the New York shows. After ticularly, yet It would not be advisable to be ten laps to a mile. that I have made no definite plans for tbe erect a barrier against them. future." "Next year professional races will be en Fellow "It has been said that Titus and your couraged In Canada, but they will prob GIDEON ON RULES. is the title bestowed on the self would go abroad to race with the pro ably be treated In the same manner that fessionals on the other side this winter." thev have this sea^wn, as it is impossible What, the Racing Board's Chairman Stearns bicycle by the a.dmirers 'There is nothing iu that. No such ar to keep track of the small country affairs, Thinks of Suggested Changes. of its orange rims. rangement has been made. I may go as the pastoral pro. will not be under the Chairman Gideon of the Racing Board of abroad, but there have been no plans for same fear of the Board as his brethren of tbe L. A. W.. has made .few comments In constructing the '96 such a trip." the city." upon any suggested changes in the rac "There have also been stories to the ef As can be gleaned from his remarks be ing rules for next season, but now that the Stearns we have striven to fect that you and others would sign with la In favor of three classes, but in any plans and ideas of the Board have been make the best bicycle produci Rpaldlug or the Syracuse company and event whatever the L. A. W. decide upon put into shape for presentation to the Na 55 ride in the professional class next year?" will be the proper caper here. tional Assembly he Is more communicative. ble, and if best materials, "Xgthing in that, either. My contract In discussing the future of Class B he says: O with' tbe Pope Manufastvrlng Company will HAD A SOFT THING. superior workmanship, unsur expire In February, and there are no defl "The future of Class B rests entirely with O passed facilities, and honest ate arrangements made after that date." tjie manufacturers and requires little concern ou Century Road Club Secretary Sore the part of either the liaclug Board or the effort count for anything we Questioned further, Bald said that he Over Losing His Perquisites. League. Class K was the outgrowth of certain did not think that there would be a general conditions, and if those conditions have ceased have surely succeeded. professional class next year. He believed Chicago, 111., Dec. 23. Cyclers here who to exist the clasa will also cease to exist. About tlat there would still be the same three follow the Century road racing are amused three years ago a number of reputable manu Our handsome new catalogue, clasaoa, A and B amateurs and the profes at the efforts of young Mr. Falrchild, who facturers said in effect: 'We realize the adver which we will mail on request, sional class, as this year. From what seeks to have Joe Gimther expelled from tising possibilities of speedy men riding our is not more artistic than the wheels, and are willing to pay for the main Bald said it seems certain that he expects the Century Road Club of America. The tenance of first-class teams. wheel itself. .... to stay in Class B next year, if the class iilnst Gunther is that he agitated Prof'^"'"' " "' ; " Is in existence. in of 25 cents in. the price ot in bad odor in America, and the i faith in riders of that class, w: E. C. STEARINS ct CO., Makers,. On the Mnrpliy-Calinnne question Bald ;irs. Mr. (runther was one of ...... i,.. ,...;,! i,-;il,.,i,, l.<.-'>uling i ...... n to the problem Syracuse, N. Y. i to the sport.' ;>>sslonal class was San Francisco, Cal. Toronto, Ont. \viis lar^'1 le. racing received t the Cen 1 It where it is to- TINKHAU CYtLE CO.. >0«-310 W. 5JTH ST., .r<- now tired of it NEW YORK CITY AGENTS. » only there iuga be 16 SPORTING LIFE. Dec- 38-
possible for one new to tbe wheel and ignor- book. Very close to 400 spaces will be nt of the right way of holding the handles, to used by the exhibitors. This will indicate o bonurcb the muscles of the bauds by eitra- to the- trade what an enormous show the irdinary pressure that they might be affected coming one will be. Matiufaoturers and or a week, or even a month; but I cannot cou- dealers and all others connected with the MORGAN *WRIGHT~[|RE| :etve"It offs onl'vthis happeningwben'Th'e wheelto an isold improperly rider. u»eJ I trade"'aue will""" beue admittedauiiuneu freencc ,?"";-°during the tat it constitutes a source of danger The I forenoou hours upon self-Identification. cycle face comes from exhaustion of l-be body j & wbole. Tbe bicycle band, as it may be ZIMMERMAN BEATEN, '"•' ARE GOOD TIRES -1 :al!ed, is tbe result of exhaustion of the mus es in the band. As persons differ in point of lie Experiences Two More Defeats ,ge, temperament, physical strength and power endurance, each wheelman must formulate in Australia. ules for his own guidance. If be is unable to Still more bad news from Australia. A and he dropped the bluff when he thought o this let him consult a medical adviser, cablegram from Melbourne states that Zim- company would remain. 'here is hardly an organ in the body which may merman was defeated there twice Decem The Eclipse Bicycle Company, of Elmlra. ot be influenced one way or the other by the ber 22 in two races. The races were both Y., through its representative. G. W. Houk. ! THE BICYCLE HAND. iroper or improper use of the bicycle, and ia scratch events of a mile each. The victor placed its San Kraucisco and Southern t'. ertain diseases of the nervous system bicvcle fornia agencies in the hands of Hawley Broth- Iding is very serviceable. in one was Pither, of New Zealand, and in Hardware Company, one of the largest wbolrs "I am convinced that, for any permanent In- the other Walker, of Victoria. This is hi hardware houses on the coast, having hrai, DOES RIDING S WHEEL CAUSE lury or permanent nervous or muscular de- ded lamentable news, but it is no more houses in 1/n Angeles and San Diego. angement. cycling ia not responsible. Young than what was feared by those who were Tbe Cleveland wood handle-bar will be one iders should not try to emulate tbe work of cognizant of tiie conditions of racing in the the 1896 features. The trade is divided on i PARALYSIS? hampions. for It will surely injure their health land of the kangaroo. merits or demerits, but tbe majority of tl; ,nd undermine their constitution. It is my be It is absurd to believe that any man can who have given the matter any thought ef that most of tbe alleged afflctions of cyclists retain his speed forever, and one who has inclined to believe tbat the wood handle- ire pure myths: at any rate, disease and bndil* done the amount of racing that Zlmmerman will become as successful as the wood rimj Some Peculiar Cases Noted A Spe xhaustion of any sort are by no means neces- has must surely, to use the vernacular, be which had such a hard time getting started. ry consequences of bicycle riding." The '96 models of tbe Cleveland bicycles hav nearly "due." This would apply under or some novel features tbat will interest all wheel cialist in Nervous Diseases Who is L. A. W. BULLETIN. dinary conditions, but to take a man ad men. Tbe large tubing, hardened-pin chain mitted to be nearing the end of his career aud dust-proof bearings that made tbe Cleve as a cyelist notwithstanding the fact tbat land so popular this year bave been retained, an Experienced Cyclei Tells How latest Information From the Racing he is the best one the world ever saw and a number of patented devices added to tbe Board's Chairman. from tracks which resemble billiard tables 'S)B model. the Hand is Allected. Philadelphia. Dec. 20. The following rec in the smoothness of their surfaces, and H. P. Campbell, advertising man of the Rest ords have been accepted: put him on grass tracks, against fast and ing Wheel Company, is doing his firm proud strong young fellows just entering t"he rac- in tasty and telling advertisements. Half-mile. Class A, unpaced, flying start. A new tirm has been organized in Columbua, After the merits and virtues of an inven _gainst time, by Harry C. Clark, 'enver, j iug world, and who have been used to such Ind.. to manufacture a high-grade bicycle. It is tion have comn'.eudjil themselves to most Col.. 59 seconds, November 20. i conditions all their lives, and expect blm to called the Columbus Brass and Iron Company. people It is but natural that attention, Two miles. Class A. unpaced. standing defeat them is' ridiculous. The principal stockholders arc Congressman Jesse I should also turn to its defects auU influ start, against time, by Harry C. Clark, Den It is to be hoped, however, that Zimmer- Overstreet, of Franklin, aud his two brothers. ences disadvantageous. With no single de ver, Col.. 4 minutes, 40 1-5 seconds, No nwin will shortly get into his stride, as The wheel will be known as the "Hoosier." vice of great utility has this tendency been vember 21. tho horsemen say. and carryall some event "Chained Lightning" is tbe latest name for more evident than in the case of the bic-y- Three miles. Class A. unpaced. standing longer thau a half-mile dash, before he a lubricant, manufactured by tbe Bicycle Spe cle. Bicycling was once thousht to cause start, against time, by Harry C. Clark. leaves tbe Antipodes. Whenever he meets cialty Company, Canton. O. weak knees, and for a time the "bicycle Denver, Col., 7 minutes, lp seconds, No a decent track it is dollars to doughnuts H. K. and W. K. Firth and C. H. Shaffer hnv» knee" held sway; then came in regular vember 21. that he will show tbe cornstalks and gum formed a stock company for the manufacture of order the bicycle hump, the bicycle ueck, Four miles. Class A. unpaced. standing suckers what racing really Is, but alas! bicycles at Muskegon. Mich. They have leased the bicycle face and the bicycle feet. Now the electric alarm factory at Muskegon Heights, start, against time, by Harry C. Clark, decent tracks in Australia are so very few and will at once fit it with tbe necessary ma we have the biycle hand. Denver. Col., 9 minutes, 47 seconds, No and far between. chinery. INSTANCES OF BAD EFFECTS. vember 21. It is said that Hurnber & Co., Paris, wii! When cycling causes odd sensations or Five milea. Class A, unpaced, standing BERLO'S FAST HIDE. next year make an aluminum, wheel. a temporary aulictioii among new riders it start, against time, by Harry C. Clark. Articles of corporation have been signed for Is easily accounted for by the fact that Denver, Col., 12 minutes, 12 seconds, No He Covers a Mile Paced With Plyfng the Albany Manufacturing Company, which will they are not hardened to the sport, but vember 21. locate at Albany, a small town In the gas belt, when wheelmen long in the saddle cpui- SANCTIONS GRANTED. Start in 1 Minute and 44 Seconds. near Mnncie, Ind. The company will engage plain 'tis time to investigate. Mr. William New Orleans. La.. Dec. 21. Peter Berlo on a large scale In tbe manufacture of cold December 21 Southern Wheelmen, New s a wonder, and tbe local track something drawn seamless steel tubing for bicycles. A U. Fisher, a carpenter and builder of West Orleans. I/a. Thirty-first street, and a strong, healthy that fast bicycle riders have heretofore plnnt will also he put up for the manufacture February 20, "M--New West Side Atb> dreamed of. but never realized. Last even of juvenile wheels and a medium-grade adult's man, can vouch for the bicycle hand. To i> letic Club, New York. machine. New York "Sun" reporter he said: ing Uerlo cut the paced flying start record December 25-26 Tusson L. A. W. Club, for three-quarters of a mile, from lui. 18 The wonderful Wyoming records the fastest I ha^e ridden a bicycle for five years, and Tucson, Arizona. mile ever ridden were made on the Syracuse toy machiut-b have all beeu bigb-grade. Some January 1. '96 Phoenix City Railway l-5s. to 1m. 17s. wheel, which is handled hy the Supplee Hard- inontbs ago i made luy first long rim, covering Company, Phoenix. Arizona. This evening at a race meet held at tbe wart* Company, of Philadelphia. about 75 miles. On reluming uiy left bauii track lie made a time trial, and did a fly- The Eiwin Manufacturing Company, of Green- felt strangely, and examination showed tba TRANSFERRED TO CLASS B. Ing start, paced, mile in 1m. 44s., btisli. N'. Y.. capital $S(WO, has been Incorporated tbe last I >vo angers were perfectly numb Arthur A. Kaliska, Buffalo, N. Y., under beating tlie world's professional rec hy John Envin and W. W. Grey, of Albany, and lifeless beyond tbe middle joint. Believing clause g. ord, tbe amateur record being 1.42 2-5. and R. J. Pratt, of Greenbush. to make bicycle*. tbe tumble to be of short life. I let i: take its C. T. Muiphy, Laredo, Tex., under His time was eight secouds better than W. S. Burtls, of Burtis & Zlmmerman. bought O'.vn limp to go away. More tban a raontb clause b. the best heretofore made in auy public the plant of the Peare* Bicycle Manufacturing olap^i c! h.-fore it showed any signs of disappear O. W. MoBrlde, Lincoln, Neb., under meet. In the mile professional race be Company. Freehold, N. J., at the receiver's sale, lug: *m-u ui.* lingers gradually came to fee1 clause d. did the mile iu 1m. SO 2-os. world's for J2255. normal, uml in a few days were as good as ever. SUSPENDED. competition record, flying start, pac The Yellow Fellow. R. O. Stearns & Co.'s live Hit! trouble 'always returns whenever t take weekly journal, issued a 16-page Chi'istmas num ridrs of uncommon lengtb. say of 30 to 60 mllea, For competing in unsauctioned race ed, also beating tbe world professional rec ord of 1m. 5:i l-5s. by Ziegler ber this week. insl'«ed in a new rover unuao- hu! i: st liJom last nowadays more than a week against a rider, under permanent suspen allr tasty and striking The number was con i inly lately I had an awack of it that lastet sion: Kobert Korlicker. Golden City. Mo.; on the Louisville track. tributed to by several writers well-known to h\f -,1-ry-; Three or four of my acquaintance1 Charles Lillibridge. Cartersville, Mo., and Mr. Troy, the manager, still hopes fo* » literary world, including Walt MeDwis'il!. bam been afflicted in almost precisely the sam Perry. Webb City, Mo., are suspend day without too high a wind, when he the celebrated artist humorist of the N>-v York way. It ts invariably tbe last two Anger ed from all track racing for one year from can attack tbe records, and says he will "World." who has written expressly for tbe tbiif. nre affected. October 4. keep bis men here until he gets the mile Christ-mas "Yellow . Fellow" a humorous sketch "This paralysli is. of course, brought abou H. D. Cleveland, Rutland. Vt., Is sus world's record, which this track can afford by the machine's constant vibration, which entitled "The Bicvcle Family." Tbe number is although lessened by the pneumatic tire, i pended pending return of prize wrongfully him better thau any other of which he has lavishly Illustrated, and may be secured free, still present. When the vibration is excessiv^ held by him. any knowledge of. by sending a postal to E. C. Stearns & Co., and coiilinues for a minute or two. as in riding By vote of Board, under Article IV, Sec Syracuse, N. Y. swiftly over a pebbly road, or when coasting tion 7. clause I, L. A. W. By-Laws, Clar STT1X, ANOTHER. FOB BERLO. The Anglo-American Cycle Fittings Co., 105- these two fingers began to lose life1. Gripping ence Clark, of Matteawan, N. Y.. is sus New Orleans. La.. Dec. 22. It transpires 107 Chambers street. New York, with works the handle l«ir tightly and back-pedaling on a pended for one year from December 10. that Peter Berlo also made a new world's nt Wnterbury. Conn., will exhibit at the New steep bill will also bring on the numbness. Why DECLARED PROFESSIONALS. record for the two-thirds mile, paced, fly York Cycle Shos%-stonds 23!) and 240 an ab some wheelmen should fall beir to this misfor ing start, yesterday. He covered the dis solutely complete line of parts and fittings used tune and others escape it is hard to tell. It, Ir W. J. Tremaine, Fort Worth, Tex., un in cycle construction of highest grade nnd new der clause b. tance In 1m. 7 l-5s., the best previous models presenting some extremely novel fea my opinion that anyone who rides long dip time having been 1m. 9 2-ns. tances without rest is likely to experience th. W. U. Goodnough, Des Moines, Ia., under tures. These goods will be sbown in both same condition that I have. Taking into so clause b. finished and unfinished condition, and will em count that the fingers affected are perhaps o GEORGE W. GIDEON, Chairman. New Road Records Accepted. brace a novelty in the Hoe of barrel Hubs, turned less importance than the others, and generall Chicago, 111.. Dec. 22.-The following ro»d from the solid bar on automatic, machinery, be less tased. it may be that a good many rider, THE GREAT SHOW. records have been allowed by the Century Koad ing absolutely dustproof 3-S balls, 3 point hear have had the same trouble in mild form with Club of America: ings. New model ball steering heads, dust- out suspecting its cause." Some Method of Procedure For Ex B J. Burtsch and J. Nonnenbacher. New York proof barrel bottom brackets with detachable AN EXPERT'S OPINION. to Philadelphia. 8.50: Philadelphia and return, sprocket wheels and "Inflexible" cranks: rear Desiring to know more about the bicycl, hibitors Outlined. 19.56. August 2r>; tandem records. fork ends, seat lugs. "Ideal" adjustable handle The coming Cycle i bow in the Madison Tom Butler, ten miles, 25.30, September 28; Mas bars. "Anglo" single piece and Boston lami hand. and. if possible, to ascertain its ex sachusetts record. nated wood rims. act cause and prevalence, the reporter call Square Garden. Mew York City, which L. N. WallestoD, rive miles, 11,18, October 4; ed on a professor of nervous diseases, ai opens on January 18 and closes on the Massachusetts record. all-round athlete and an enthusiast], 25th, will be beyond all doubt the most L. N. Walleston, ten miles. 24.14: fifteen- miles, HERE THERE AND EVERYWHERE. wheelman ever since tbe advent of safetj complete exhibition of cycles and things 36.24; twenty miles, 48.58; twenty-five miles. bicycles. Said be: pertaining thereto that the world has ever 1.00.39, October 4; Massachusetts and Ameri The present membership of tbe League of "It Is quite probable that a good many hi seen. In a larger sense than ever before, can records. American Wheelmen is 3S.292. Cyclists bave feit a numbness of certain flu the show will be of gr^at trade Importance, T!ie annual meeting of tbe U A. W. will gers, and perhaps of the wbole hand. I tiav as dealers and manufacturers from every be held in Baltimore on February 17. often felt it myself, and it is i: H point of the compass will attend it at some TRADE NEWS. The English "Cyelist" compliments the Amer caused by undue pressure on tl.i .1 time during the week. For the accommo ican papers on the soundness of their mechanical Anyone who grips the handles «>i ,.i dation of those coming from a distance, Tbe E>win Manufacturing Company, Troy, N. articles. too tightly U liable to make liis niwrs mseii special rates have been obtained on the Y., of which Jobn Erwin and W. W. Gray, of Among the orders received by B. f?. Stearns Bible to the touch. I am of tbe opinion tha principal railroads through the courtesy of the machine's vibration aioue has little or n Albany, and Kobert Pratt, of Greenbush & Oo. last week was on« for a machine for the part in bringing it about. Such a thing the Trunk Line Association. In order to Heights, are interested, will take possession of German Ambassador at Paris. n»ver heard of when hard-tired wheels were _ secure this special rate the method of pro tbe building on Greeubush Heights formerly oc Th-3 air-brake for Uie bicycle was bound to use, and their vibration compared with that cedure is as follows: cupied by the Photogenic Paper Company and 6t come. The English device of the kind is In of pneumatic wheels was as 10 to 1. The person Intending to visit the convention the building for tbe manufacture of bicycles. genious and effective, but seemingly too cumber "It is not. at all uncommon to Dud person and cycle show so informs his borne ticket agent. Work will commence as soon as Receirer Wag some and complicated to ever become popular. If the agent's railroad, has granted the reduced ner can give possession. who complain of thte and similar results " Tbe 1896 catalogue of the Liberty Cycle Com General Miles, in his annual report, recently cjvV-- -lysis, when literally it is only rate and supplied the agent with certificates, the filed, speaks in glowing terma of the bicycle, passenger buys a ticket to New York at full pany, which is now in press, will be one of the i):. .bness is a disorder of sensibility handsomest specimens of the printer's and en and recommends the addition of one full regi w: is a loss of motion. I hav fare, and the agent gives him an official certifi ment of cyclists to the regular army. The Gen cate, stating that he is a passenger to the cycle graver's art ever issued. cuii..- IM .,,.,..i.t with hundreds of bicyclist Owing to a misunderstanding the Union Cycle eral's position makes It llkelj tbat the sugges and have many friends and acquaintances amonj convention, and on conditions entitled to a re Manufacturing Company did not nrx-uro tbe posi tion will bear fruit. neurologists, but I have never heard of a cas turn ticket at one-third of the full fare. This The fame of Stearns wheels In cert,i!n1y world of genuine paralysis due to bicycle riding. 1 certificate is examined and vised by B. U. tion at tlin show its standing in the wide, and orders arc con'-- 1 -- 11 -- l ; - - ' trade w. " " nt. This stablo and enter is possible, of course, to produce true paralysi Franks, assistant secretary of the Cycle Board at the Stearns factory fr. from gripping the handle bar of a bicycle" I prising I be" found, however, during of Trade and tile railroad agent at the Madison show w, ;s 282 and 2S3, right in the sources. Tirnour Hall, n death for a great'lengt. Square Garden. Upon presentation of the certi South Africa, 1s among 11., , ,,,,., , ! ,, n al-u» - !! why the pressun ficate properly vised a return ticket at the re centre or me im^y scene, irily is, exerted b There is every probability that the Keating in their orders for '96 Yellow Fellows. duced fare ea.u be secured. Immediately upon Wheel Company will move from Holyoke and Sachtleben, who went to the far Bast to as holding <'•' : nig upon them sboul your arrival at tbe Madison Square Garden your cither build or lease a larger factory near New sist in tbe apprehension of Lenz's murderers. Is cause HM any form. certificate should be deposited at tbe Madisoa York, Many a town would like to secure the virtually a prisoner in Ezeroum. Tbe disorders "Other bodr besides the hand Square Garden office of the Cycle Board of Trade,- Keating factory. Tbe proposed new factors' in in the East make It unsafe for a Christian to often be < lilr Trom bicycling. I a receipt for the same will be given, th© certi Holyoke is said to have been a "bluff" by the venture over the brigand-infested roads, and fact, it is ery co::- " , wheelman t. ficate will then he properly vised and returned owner of the Renting factory building, who Sochtleben will probably be unable to return rind his feet in tbi- Then again to you upon presentation of your receipt. wishes to retain tbe Keating people as tenants, to this country for some time to come. continued pre«snr(» n;t . unless it i As stated above, the show opens on Sat (>! >', s iorm. freqitenti urday evening, the ISth inst. It will be be. !. All riders shoul the weieht of th closed on Sunday, but on the succeeding ..... ! . r^herwts days will be in session day aud evening, \ bo an the forenoons being specially devoted to centur the trade visitors. For the convenience of . ., - ...... ;s ef IT the trade visitors the bureau of informa rides for t,sje majority of whe tion, which was so much appreciated at id. the last s-how, will be in operation asi ]-" -niv tn.'nit'.n'ss of the hand: usual, but with an increased force of clerks. 32? 'iey an A register for dealers will also be kept :*tme i ng. bu and every one connected with the trade Is re tha re" "' " requested to cuter his name an !:<>ur. rntire a i This is done In order that the i'mo'.l: :u ng to see a special dealer can !j of tiia* U a - ; ;irn ms nac ,-abouia '>j rtfureuce to tii«