BASE BALL, TRAP SHOOTING AND GENERAL SPORTS
# VOLUME 36, NO. 25. PHILADELPHIA, MARCH 9, 1901. PRICE, FIVE CENTS. # SECUREJMPIRES WILLING WAGNERS SO AS TO GET THE BEST WORK STILL HANKERING AFTER THE GRAND OUT OF THEM. OLD GAME, Tia Hurst Believes That They Should The Ex-Washington (M Owners Now Hafj Iron-Clad Saason Contracts Like Fish Out ol Water and Anxious so as to Eliminate tha Fear ol to Get Back Into the Sport Which Losing Their Positions. Yields Both Pleasure and Pro lit. Philadelphia, Pa., March 7. There is a Editor "Sporting New York. March 5. possibility that the Wagner Brothers, for Nation Life:" Timothy Hurst, noted as a mer owners of the Washington National al Longuc umpire ;ind referee of glove con League base ball club, will get back into tests, lias suggested a plan to certain mug- the business before very long. Frank Kob- nates whereby in future umpires would laon, the owner of the St. Louis Club, it cot be afraid to enforce the rules against la said, is threatened with, blindness, and rowdyism. He says that the failure of is anxious to sell out his interests in that the club owners to live up to their rules city and get out of base ball. That there and to compel tbulr plnyers to obey com has been some dickering there is no ques mands of the umpires has made the lat tion, for George Wagner last night ad ter so uncertain of their bread and butter mitted that he made Kobisou au offer for that they are of necessity lenient. As a the club about four months ago. But at remedy Hurst suggested that when an that time Kobisou declined the offer. umpire signs Ills contract before the open- "BAKKIS IS WJLLIN'." lug of the season It should be stipulated George Wagner, when asked to talk therein lu ironclad terms that the umpire about the matter last night, said: "We will receive ills salary for the entire sea have been anxious to get hack into base son and that no matter how many pro hall ever since we got out of Washington, tests are lodged against him he cannot, be and the first good opportunity that pre discharged unless for permanent illness or sents itself will be accepted, though it intoxication. must be under organized base ball. We "With the League held by such a con- have uot been asked to buy the St. Louis trai-i," explained Hurst last night, "the Club, but will be willing to do business umpires would be sure of their money and with Uobison at any time he may want would therefore have nerve enough to en Catcher Harry Smith, ol Pittshurg. to sell. It is our intention to get back in force the rules. As it is now an umpire the game in some big city aud run the wlio Is fearless ia subjected to intimida team on entirely different plans than we tion from team managers, players and though he admits that It Iwks like It. Said he: did in Washington,. We will procure thu magnates to such an extent ..that he Is PHILADELPHIA POINTS. "Yes. it Is possible, though not probable. Money best team money can get, but we will not Every held out ij> the baud Is a powerful factor, and finally forced out of the business. Mack Gathering In a Fine have anything to do with the game in any body Is looking for a shade the better of Connie it Is easy for some players to forget their man- Ball Team—The Philadelphia Club hood, violate their contract and break their of. the smaller cities, tnich as Washington.'' it and for that reason an umpire's life f£ BOUND TO BUTT IN. Job After Its Players—Col. Kujjei-s in word. The players are our assets, and we will made a burden. He is fearful of his certainly defend our rights to the last dlteh. In conclusion Mr. Wagner said: "But and consequently oanuot do justice to liim Fighting Mood, Ktc. thief March 6.-According to The American League has eome here like a for the present we have not a cent invest self and everybody else." i'hiladelphia, Pa.. in the night, and the very people that we made contract the new Philadelphia grand stand ed, though there Is no telling how soon we possible in baseball are now so base as to steal be a, and bleachers will be ready for delivery us thousands of dollars will get back into the game. It may LAWSOrsTATEST. the players that cost or by Contractor Foster to President Sbibe to procure." week, a month, or a year, but sooner a Park In Rantnn With Ihe three weeks from to-day. Manager Connie NO LEAGCE MEETING. later he will again have a club. We love Expectation of Organizing a Penn Mack has been in the West for two weeks Asked If the report was true that there would the game ami have always made money league. for players, but is ex be another meeting of tbe National League in out of it; therefore, we are auxiou8 to sylvania hustling Rog Eastern. !'«-. March 4. Editor "Sporting pected home to-morrow. From all about two weeks a secret meeting Colonel get back again." well-known accounts he will have a corking good team. ers said: "There will be no more meetings of Life:" Alfred W. Lawson. the the National League, secret or otherwise. All base ball manager has leased grounds at It is claimed that to date bu bag signed the following players: Pitchers, Mercer, Kelluai, tbe business has been transacted, and there Is PORTSMOUTH_SAVED. Twelfth and Northampton streets for a now nothing to do but sign the players aud com base bull park, and Is now engaged ID or Kusie. UHUIJ. Willis: catchers, McFarlaud aud M. Power.--: first bast-. Crisbam: second hase, mence tbe season." Two Prominent Citizens Take the ganizing a professional ball team to rep LOCAL JOTTINGS. Club Off Mrs. liratly'w Hands auU grounds will he Lajole; tbivd base, Lave Cross: short stops, resent this city. The Kultz nnd Conroy; outtleldcrs, l-'lictt and possi Dick Harley last week, upon «o>tet» of Ke-enicage Manager Clarke. graded and Inclosed and a grand stand and bly Billy Hamilton. Tbe opening game will be President Zimmer. refused a bouafide contract Norfolk, Va., Mnn-h .">. 1'ortsnioath'g bloaclHT erected, it Is expected to or wltb Moss* professionals oo April 8. with tbe Cincinnati club. League composed of teams position in the ' Virginia-North Carolina ganize a Slate THE LEAGUE CLUB'S ROSTER. Pitcher Frank Donahue, of tbe Phllllei, Is 1» Allentown Reading, Lancaster. Potts- Villanova -College team. League of professional base ball clubs in Manager Shetwline. of the Philadelphia Na coaching tbe and Willlatu- York and Easton, but if the effort yesterday sending Pitcher Orth has been keeping in condition all assured. Charles T. Bland ville. tional League Cl'ib. WHS bur.y of Ports to form the league fails an Independent pro out contracts to all players who were members winter by holding down a job at Lyncbburg, son Smith, prominent clti/ens fessional it-am will be maintained here to of his team lust year, and wbo have been re Va. mouth, have secured the franchise and en play cames with teams from other towns. served by bltn for tbe season of 1901. ID all 21 Mont* Cross denies the report that h« ever gaged Wynn Clarke as manager. Clarke Mr. I.awson believes that with a reasonable men. Of these only two have algued Townsend, received an offer from the American League. had already secured a stroug leaui. salary list aod ground* that can be reach of tie Chester club, and Wbite. of Georgetown Manager Shettsline says Flick accepted tbe Among these who have signed we: Jo 1m ed quickly by the local trolley lir.es, pro both pitchers. Of tbe rest all have promised Philadelphia club's terms hist fall and Is, there j Foreman and William O'Brieri, of Haiti- fessional base bail can be made to pay to sign eiccpt Lajole. Flick. McFarlanrt. Siagle fore, in honor bound cot to desert. I more; Clever Connor, of Cincinnati; .Lew- lu this city. and P ? I, who are snftl to have Jumped to the I Is llnpp.'of. Springfield. Ohio; Louis Knaw, American League, although Manager Shetollne George Tobeau All Right. i of Cincinnati, and (Jrovpo Halt's, i/f Wash. Out For (»<>ntl. refuses to b^lipve 11, Knowr. Knunl". George Tebeau begun tbe
NATIONAL LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP SCHEDULE FOR 19O1.
CMJBS. At fioiton. At Brookiva. At New York. At Philadelphia. At PitUbur;. At CMeac*. At Cincinnati. At St. Loui*.
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«rs." Tbe players will undoubtedly ask that to get out of that league, whicb he said would a berth with tbe National League, bettering bis fared very well In the matter of good assign clubs seeking to enjoin them he compelled to be a sure loser in tbe present year. condition by $600 on the season. ments. In opening the season at Chicago, ft. file an indemnity bond to reimburse tbe player President John T. Bru«h looked remarkably One rumor which found many believers was booking which also includes the first Sunday, for salary and costs should tbe case go against well. It will be remembered that be was any tbat Charley Power would be Nick Young's suc game on the West Side, Cincinnati gftte at lus the club. thing but well at tbe last meeting. He ex cessor nest year. cious a plum as there is in tbe basket. Mem "According to good legal authority the play pressed bimself as feeling better than he had iu Tbe imperturbable Soden expressed himself as orial l>ay and Labor Day assignments in Phila ers prayer will be granted. Then if tbe a very long time. satisfied with the situation nnd thought that delphia do not promise as much as they once clubs lost* they will not only be minus the serv President Hi-'key, who has gotten himself In few players would jump the League. Director did. There were signs of dissatisfaction with ices of the players but will have to pay tb£m close touob with ail base ball notabilities, as Ci'iiant was as jolly as usual, except when the tho Quaker management last year, and that for the time they were restrained by order of sured everybody that Tebeau's trouble over American League was mentioned, when hia hot matter of a double-barreled tariff a eliding the Court from earning their living. This would Shelly Park in Kansas City would be easily fighting blood mounted at once. scale of admission prices hasn't done the dab be an expensive proceeding, especially iu tho bridged over, and tbat there was not the slight While Watkius and Power looked heart-broken any good. rases of Collins, Lajoie, Gritlith, McGinnity, est doubt that that ground would be tbe scene over the Association's affairs, Arthur Irwin took THE PUBLIC'S FAITH. Clarke, Duffy and others who are, according to of next season's Western League game in Kan the matter philosophically and was always ready I sincerely hope the National Leugo« wfll be report, slated to receive from $2400 to $4000 sas City. to tell or enjoy a joko or good story. content to stick to their guns and fire than from American League clubs next season." At the first day of the meet Tim Murnane sent Everybody was genuinely sorry to hear that on the days mentioned in the original exhibit to the effect dates. The great American public has accepted Colonel the Boston I "Globe" u statement Abo Yeager, of tbe Brooklyn Kogle, was ill iu Apropos to the option clause that the Levgue clubs had virtually come to an bed with a bad case of rheumatism. ] them In good faith and hundreds of ttintuanda .Rogers says be is willing to Ktake his legal understanding regarding future membership, and Not a Now York morninc paper grave tbe of handy schedules aud booklets for enthusiasts - reputation upon its validity, while Mr. that Col. Rogers wnuld be excluded altogether, meeting more than half a column a dsv. Tbe will be printed from tbe draft for early dis Klllilea, of Milwaukee, also au able lawyer, and tbe Brooklyn Club forced to go to Washing order to the local reporters was to boil down tribution. To amend the schedule to any consid pays it cannot hold water. Doubtless Law ton or remain out In the cold. When questioned, , that which had hitherto been featured. It was erable degree would be an affront to the fin yer Taylor, of the Players' Protective As on tbe subject Muruane said he had the very stated by Vila, Tidden and other reporters that multitude. sociation, holds the same view, else he best of rev sou for believing his story to be abso- : the New York papers will almost igi.oiv basts NR.V RITU3 TALK. would not permit members of his organiza lutely correct. ; ball this season, at least so far as tbe League If games are not hurried aion^ In the National tion to jump. Time and the Judges will Gus Abell and Harry Vonderhorst were missed Is concerned. League next season It won't be the fault of the by the push. Abeil i« rather disgusted with : Kblirtts and Hanlon stuck together in and out rulemakers. Mlque Kahoe, upeakiug for the show who is right. Bnt so loup as the backstops, seems to think tbe rule compelling; magnates pay the bills the lawyers can't League doings and preferred to rernulu at Yar- ! of meeiug like Siamese twins. Both were kept mouth, Mass., where he is wintering. Yonder- i busy between League sessions fixing things up to tbe catcher to play close behind the bat. w1\l lose, no matter which side they are lined be responsible for many a crippled Knight of up with. uorst is ill at bis home in Baltimore. corral tbeir players. President Young stated that he was making The West was poorly represented among the the Big Mitt. It is probable that tbe rule which an effort to get Tom Lyucb back on the umpire newspaper push. Pittsbnrg sent two scribes, calls tbe first and second foul balls strikes will Meeting lOcltoes. staff. The others will be Kmslie and O'Day sure Cincinnati one, St. Louis and Chicago not any. serve to lessen the labor of the backstops a bit, Umpire Tim Hurst enlivened tbe corridor pro and Frank Dwyer probably. Hurst is doomed, The East did better, Boston Bending Murnane, for it should result in more strike-out*. Tbat is with seme of his choice bon mots. He certain magnates being firmly against him. and Harnes. while the Philadelphia d«-le- an advantage to the twirlers, whicb Charley ceedings Morse althouga. I als-> added to the gayely by introducing several Tbat capable minor league mauager, Walter gation consisted of Hough. Billy Weart. Dan Nicbols has probably overlooked, "'White Hats" who were out on strike. W. Burnham, was among the lookers-on. He | Life." notice a wail from the Hub, in which the pre Reeves and the .Editor of "Sporting tho opin President Young announctd that he had rc- had several talks with Strobel and Mayer. who F. C. RICHTEK. mier pitcher of tbe Bean Eaters is of reivinl over thirty applications for positions OD urged him to take bold in Columbus. Burnham ion that tbe new law prohibiting "warm ups'' tbe National League staff of umpires. Some will probably do It; if BO he will make Co after the batsman takes bis position at bat, will of those who made applications are Billy Nash, lumbus a success. be responsible for many base hits by the opposi "Bug" Holliday. Tim Hurst, "Hank" O'Day. Colonel Rogers put in considerable of bis spare RED LIGHTS BURN. tion. If that is a fact it will possibly counter Tom Connelly, Robert Emslie, James McDonald time explaining to the scribes his action and balance the "hunch" on strike-onts which the and Ilardie Heuderson. position in the matter of the Philadelphia Amer Living Pictures For Cincinnati Fans man at tbe slab will get. Tbe abolition of th«> The once famous pitcher, Elton Chamberlain, ican Association franchise. —Talk of Desertions of Barrett and penalty of a base for being hit by a pitched ball looked in for a day. Barney Dreyfus went over to Jersey City dur is another advantage which the legislation of Jake Wells looked in occasionally. He had ing the meeting and bad Judge Kowe, the Auten- Scott Connie Mack After Ualin 1001 has given the twirler. lots of time, as the striking "White Rats" have Kerr lawyer, transfer to him tbe one Pittsburg and Kehoe. AN INCIDENT OF 190O. closed bis Richmond Theatre, despite the fact Club share Ro\ve beld. This share was then Pink Hawley delivered one ball in * "warm tbat he was one of the first managers to concede transferred to Dreyfus' attorney, Mr. Nurtltrup. By 72e?i MuJford, Jr. up" at League Park last year which was charged all their demands. Naturally Wells is a sore Pittsburg had two scribes present in the cler against bim as an illegal delivery, and the man in having run Into new trouble, after h« ical looking W. L. Mcllvain. of the "Dispatch," Cincinnati, O., March 4. Editor "Sport Redman who was at bat was sent to his base thought he bad forever bidden farewell to the uud tbe jolly Jim Nellis, of tbe "Commercial Ga ing Life," Light la breaking at last but "The Pink One" refused to obey the empire's "most exacting and ungrateful people on earth" zette." the stage mauaeers have Insisted upon put order to pitch, but kept firing tbe sphere acre*:* base ball players. Manager George Davia did not manifest much ting a tableaux on the boards entitled tbe diamond to Jack Doyle, lie had been hurried President Zimmer revealed the interesting fact interest in tbe proceedings. He said he was "The Red Deserters." It Is a living pic ly called into action tn stop tbe fusillade of hits that the American League bad decided not to satisfied tbat he would have a pretty strong ture in which the fan-conuoiseur c»in see which had driven Carrick benchward. Tbe de t<-nipt any Pittsburg players, owing to the fact team for next season. no artistic beauty. Two of Cincinnati's play cision of the umpire was wildly cheered an that President Dreyfus had used all bis men so The famous college chums, Lauder and Fultz, ers are included in the all-star cast of the indication tbat mid-game practice 10 not appre well. took in the proceedings for a few hours one new drama copyrighted by tbe American League, ciated (especially if the fellow on the other s!d-> The standing canard about the resignation day. Both looked fine. Lauder is now in charge entitled "Lost tu the League." Ed. Scott and is the one who needs it). The changes seem to of President Young made its appearance. This i of the New York office of an Attleboro, Mass., Jim Barrett were both credited with possess be all- right, although Captain Com is bey and time the paragraphers had it that Freedmau j Jewelry manufacturing company, and said he ing hearts that beat so kindly for Ban Johusou'ti some other critics in the enemy's country seem would take Young's place. Mr. Frecdmau was out of base ball for good. Fulta said he onr;i lizatfou that they had resolved to say fare to think that the counting of fouls is beyond the promptly denied the tale, stating tbat he had would probably play in the American League. well to the old allegiance. ken of an ordinary League umpire. no taste for the position and would not bavt- t That famous veteran, Lew Sinimons, now a UNDER CONTRACT. time to give it any attention, even if he desired resident "White Rat" iu New York, was mound A KKD PUZZLE, Minor managers continue to eye Porkopolltan It. For a fact Freedmau is too big a man to eucb day talking reminiscence. He Is a rooter The story was disquieting to say the least, talent. Rd. Henneke. who was in tho NP\V accept any salaried position in the League, it of the Amt-ricau League, which he regards as though it was not generally credited. In this York League iu '99, had a row with President will be observed that Mr. Young is still the tbe legitimate successor of the old American matter-of-fact sporting world you hove got to Farrcll and played the Georgia-Tennessee cir president. Association. "show" the average ball player, and while cuit last season, has made his peaco with his Zimmer tried to deny that Clark Griffith bad The only Cincinnati scribe present at this money talks It takts a lot of it to talk loud old manager and will return to Troy, to which tried to induce Wngner, of Pittsburg. to sign meeting was tbe witty and genial Charley Mur enough to drive a Son of Swat away from a citv his old team has been transferred. In with the American League, but President Drey phy, of the "inquirer." The fart tbat Zubcr. sure thing. If Deacon Scott and Brother Bar Miller Huggfns, the second barman of Th*> fus produced documentary proof. GHllo and Mulford should be absent shows how rett have left us to mourn they must have been Mountaineers Mayor Moischmann's Catskill Pittsburg has offered St. Louis Tannehill and base ball bus fallen In the esteem of the Cin given gome thing more than tho full line of talk, team Jimmy Ryan captured a clever lad for St. Ely for Rhody Wallace, But Frank Roblsou cinnati newspaper publishers. which Jimmy Collins informed "Long Shot" at Paul. Ho IK as good n second baweinao as ever turned down the offer. The mrnor leagues were represented by Presi Buffalo was the ouly thing that had been hand wore the uniform on Cincinnati's amateur dia Tim Hurst voiced his belief that reporters dent Hickey. of tbe Western League, nnd ed him. monds. ought to be barred from the dressing-rooms and Messrs. Strobel and Meyers, of the Interstate CDNNT MACK'S WOOING. OFF FOR VIRGINIA. not allowed to talk with players before or aftej: Ix-ague. President Pat Powers, of the Fiisiern While the Barrett-Scott problem was under Eddy Ashenbacb Is a bit disappointed because the games. League, although a resident of New York, gave discussion Manager Conny Mack slipped into the National anfl American Leagues did nor. Manager McPbee stuck out tbe entire meeting tbe meeting tbe cold shoulder. town aLd paid eloquent court to two more mem o^mo tornther »nd nmoke thff pipe. f>f peace. and tried hard to make some deals, but mot The American Association push consisted of bers of the Ked clan. Both Mlqut* Kehoe and He has sijrned "Muggsy" MeGraw's Orioles fo;- with no success. He signed out fielder Dick Har- WatkvPS. Power. Clarko itml Invln, who were a Frank Hahn were tbe players be sought. They a game with his Newport News-Hampton Club ley away from Detroit, however. McPhee also vory forlorn and chagrined lot. Watkins was listened, but gave no sign of surrender that on Kaster Monday, but under the National paw Jerry Barrett and received assurance tbat the sorest man ever seen at a League meeting. could be taken and accepted as such. This hud Agreement cannot play them, unless there is « Barrett had no notion of jumping the League. I He had reason to be. been a lively winter for "Noodles." Only a few compromise. Ashenbach will go to Virginia in Manager Tom Loftus was conspicuous by his ! Umpire TUn Horst was the life of tbe meet- weeks ago be was posted as a suspect simply be a week or two. He ihas signed but two Ctn- absence, as Chicago bad no more deals to make. i Ing with his droll storier, and apt repartee. cause be appeared on the Itialto one afternoon cinnrtians Frank ("Fatty") Hempelman for President Hart came to terms with Jack Doyle Harry Pulliam ran him a close second. with a roll of bills as big as an elephant's leg. second base, nnd Charley Heiberger. but be aod signed bim to a mutually satisfactory con Tbe playors in evidence were Moute O'oss, It was alleged that he bad signed his Cincin wants to pet "Pot" Reiman for first. Billy Kobn- tract as soon as tbe Players' Association ban Frank Donahue. Ales Smith. George Davis, Billy nati contract and "touched" Col. Nelson Asbley If Is another Porkopolitan who plays in that was lifted. Keeler. Tom Daly. Charley Zimmer. Jack Doyle, Lloyd, the Keeper ot' ihe Keys to the tted Strong league. He will again wear a Portsmouth uni J. Earl-? Wagner came over from Philadelphia Jack Warner, Bill Clurke and pitcher McPartlin Box. Both denied the impeachment. form. for a day and bad levernl secret confabs with about as small a lot. numerically speaking, us AS CONNY SEES THINGS. the magnates. The purport of his vi.iit could were ever seen at a League meet. Two famous I met Conncy Mack just before he left trwn. not be learned, but it probably concerned tbe veterans Burdock and Horrung looking like He said be was East-bound by easy stages, NEWS AND COMMENT. money still doe for the sale of the Washington two-year olds, also attended. Hornung put In but all he told me of his sojourn iu Porkopolla Clnb. an application for an umplreship. would not make a story as long or as exciting Pitcher "Dad" Graham, of Cheyenne, ha* Stanley RoMson was among the missing. Those bright theatrical luminaries. Frank as an old Beadle's dime novel. He confessed been signed by Omaha. Important business detained bim in Cleveland. McKee and F. B. Wtlpht. mingled with the base to seeing Kehoe and Habu. but farther than tuat Outfielder Buck Freeman, of Boston, has Tbe only League managers present at the ball push every day. They were "good buyers-" he would not go in the realms of erplanation. been appointed Lafayette College coach. Frank Selee, of Boston; Hanlon, T'mplre Supervisor, John B. Day, as usual, at "It looks like a clash," said Mack. "I guess meeting were a reconciliation now. The Southern League Umpire Tom McNamara of Brooklyn: McPhee, of Cincinnati, and Shetts- tended every session as an "honorary member." there is no chance for has gone to Hot Springs to get into condition. lino, of Philadelphia. The last-named remained He WHS not reappolnted. because the prospect American League, however, hopes to move along of a bard, expensive summer has brought on without auy friction of dates. If the National -The Utica Club's status is nettled, and that bnt one day. while on the second day S^lee jind city will rtmnin in the New York Ijeaguo. Mr. Director Billings jumped to Buffalo to sign Col- another of the League's periodical economic fits. people count on changing their schedule to con President Dreyfua was congratulated on all flict with ours we cau do a« much changing as A. It, Brown lias disposed of all his tntereye Una. sides ovt-r bis victory iu getting control of tbe they cau, and we will show the people tbat we iu tl)*> club to Harry W. Roberts, who will The only out-and-out American League man the club henceforth. preneiit WRS Frank UougL, of Philadelphia, who Pittsburg Club. He accepted the good things are nut desirous of dividing interest in tue conduct *ent some hot stuff tw the Philadelphia "In- said of and to bim with his usual modesty. game." Base ball calendar (six montba) in beautiful U was sad that Power, Watkins and Pulliam OFF THE PLUM TREE. bright colors, representing a game of base ball Alderman Franklin, of Buffalo, looked In for a were reimbursed by the League for their Asso With clear sailing in five cities in the circuit JD progress; Uncle Sam and Jobnnie Bull an day and was kept busy explaining his cold ciation organizing exj^nse*. Meantime Editor the National League can well afford to proceed base ball fans; George Van Haltren at the throw down by tbe American Leaguers, of KichtiT is personally »ut over $500; but then on tho lines scheduled ot tho meeting last bat. Portraits of William A. La nut*1, formerly whom he enrertains a very poor opinion. He look at the fun be had! week. It would bfi :i mistake to ar«u»i£ adverse of Chicago; A. G. SpuMing. Father ChudwVk *I4 ol» two-year dalliance with tbe American Frank Dwyer, tbe old pitcher, was at tb« criticism in Boston. Philadelphia and Chicago and Umpire James A. McDonald. Price, thirty t^aeue had cott biro over $tK>00, and all #one meeting. Last season he made a bit umpiring by turning a somersault on the date question cents. Descriptive circular free. S B, CburcJi, to pot. Ee said, however, tkat he wan glad 1 in the American League. He U now booked for and fixing up mix-ups for those cities, the Reds SOT Sansome street, San SPORTING LIFE. March 9, 1901.
more to do with bts fellow magnates until League Club when Selee went to gee dim last they establish clean base ball, it is to laugh. week, because Selee would not pay as much as CHICAGO GLEANINGS. The National League is the exponent of !wwi- Somers offered $3000. For that figure Dineen SPORTINGLlFE lurnisrn. aud the public is tvell aware of the ou Monday signed with the Boston American New Hales Are Praised and Sharply fact. The American I-eague intends to pave League Club. A WEEKLY JOURNAL the way for cleao sport, because the club The siguing of short stop Parent, of Provi Criticized Talk of Wholesale De Devoted to owners allow me to enforce the rules at uny dence, shows that the American League re sertions From the Big League. cost. Hanloo is the only piactk-al base ball gards the whole base ball world as Us oyster. BASE BALL, TRAP SHOOTING expert ou the National League's Rntes Com Ou« woek ago Sodeu aud l-'reedmau said that £y W. A. Pkdon, Jr. mittee, and he is In the minority. The Aram- the Association and American League might AND GENERAL SPORTS. cau fyague has marc tl;au one practical export light, but the National aud American never. Chicago, Mtiivti 4. Editor "Sporting iu McGraw. Coniiskey. Duffy. Mauolng and Uow about it now? Life:" To-duy I lie nation will unite In others who Tr«de marked by the Sportint have l>eeu star ball players and boow Jimmy Collius settled all doubts la to his In placing President William MoKiuley on his Life Pnb. C« Just what the gamt' needs." tentions last Friday, when he went chair of power. Some Ecte.-ed at Philadelphia Post to Cleve days a^o, and, prob Offlc* NO CHANGES. land and signed with Somers as manager-cap ably for some time in tho futurt1, a large as Second Cla» Matter. Regarding the prospect of a rule cnange tain. His salary will, it is said, be $5000. part of the nation united in yanking Kiug by tlie American League, Mr. Johnson said: It would be quite u joke If National League Base Ball off bia throne, aud, if lie climbs Published by managers were obliged to pick up American back, it \vijl be a wonder. Maybe the new "There will be uo radical chauge mnde by our League cast-offs to till their teams. rules will put him there, and maybe there Ruhw Committee in the playing rules, as tbat Catcher Lcahy. formerly with Washington and will be nothing THE SPORTING LIFE PUBLISHING CO. u-ould be confusing to the public, aod the com New York, is reported to have signed with the doing. Since the National mittee \vil} act conservatively in relation to Milwaukee American league Club. Last year League meeting adjourned the fans have 34 South Third St., that question. Last year our ^rames progressed be caught for Providence, which club won the had plenty to buzz about in the ebanges Philadelphia, Pa., U. S. A. rapidly uinier the instruction!* given to the championship of the Ivisteru Ix'aguc. decreed by the magnates, and the comment American League umpires relative to the move Cleveland's outfield has been completed with has bo*n both friendly and hostile. Many ments of the players on the field, and this the signing of Frank Genins. have come forward to say that the uew SUBSCRIPTION RATES: year our umpires 'will not be handicapped as Anent the signing of Keeler, Kelley. Dnhlen rules One Year ...... 92.OO those under the jurisdiction ot tlte National and Kennedy by Brooklyn, President Johnson, ARE SURB WINNERS. Six Months ...... 1.23 League will lio under the rules adopted at the said, on Tuesday, according to a press dispatch Possibly. I hope so. The clauses mak Single C«|» ...... 5c. recent New \oik meeting. from Chicago, that neither of these men had ever been ing the catcher come up close, and making foreign 1'ostBKe. $1.O4 Extra per COMISKBY'S VIEWS. approached or offered a contract by the pitcher get a swift motion, will add A linn in. the American League. The practical Charley Comiske.r approves Catcher Orisham. of last year's Cleveland to the speed; yet. so far as the catcher was PAYABLE: i* ADVANCE. of the abolition of the lilt-liy-pitcher rule, American League Club, has, it is reported, jump eom-erned, was there ever a prettier sight tuit has no use for the oilier changes made ed to the Ne\v York National League Clnb. than the catchers streaming back l>y Ihe National League. Kcgardiug those Manager McAIeer. of Cleveland, says all of bis to tho stand after the errant foul tly, hi' said: players are now safely signed except flrst base- \vlii eh they will now lot idly drop, \\ Ink- the man t*uchance. umpire yrlls "Strike One!" Slaking tho pitcher "The new rules will tnal;e the umpire busy, cut LUCK AUD PLUCK lie will have in have liis regular indicator tc National League men are now shooting It Into out bis footing uitb tbe first huseiuau was risUt ;ind proper. One part :5f band ami IH the other he'll have to carry a Hugh Uuflfy by professing to pity aud condone of tbat la\v Uas buou his action. They sdy he was "all fn'' ns a njisundersUkKl. Critics all over the country have split-second watch to time the pitcher and see iH-iMi howling hi'cuusc, tbat Ue delivers a ball every UO secuuds. Then National League player, aud therefore, excusable if the pitcher was pre- COMBINED TO HELP THE AMERICAN he must have a tape measure handy to see that for taking advantage of Milwaukee's exorbitant ventml frmn llnxnviiig uuywht-re sav<- to the offer of $o5oO or #4000 as manager-captain. catcher, base running would beeoiue u farce, the ratelwr Saens within 10 feet of the plate all All of Ihe tiiue. and he really ought to have au Taylor. tin- deaf li.tlte pitcher of the New the ruuuei- tvmild have to do \vuuld In-, LEAGUE TO SUCCESS. V.irUs. is said lo have signed a Boston contract. tbey thought, to yet ou first, ibeu walk down estia iudicator to keep track ot the fouls. The lo National League will cither have to go back to Captain Wilberl Kobiusou, of the Baltimore second, luoviui; with the pitcher's arm. Jfm the double-umpire eysteui or else ye. Gshln^ for team of the American League, Is authority for Hurt, hovvovor, assures mo that this is ao ei- some of those sea-devils which they use I" rep the statement tbat. all the teams of tbe Ameri lur that when the new rules are printed and Ban Johnson's Organization Fortunate resent the trusts iu cartoons octopus-yes; can League are complete aud tbat President ready for the season's play there will be tin an that's i«. Each umpire ought to have out' of Johnson ~has the roster ready to spring ou tbt> nex exempting the pitcher wbeu there are men in Us Enemies Who, in Every Crisis, lho.se things around to carry the truck needed public within a few days. Tbe various teams ou buses. to accurately enforce the uew rules. No, 1 don't have secured some of the most famous base ball THE HIT-BY-PITCHEU think ue will adopt any of those changes for players. alteration comes in for crUIftem, too. For my Hare Unwittingly and Uniillingly the American League. It would make the job of Vice President Somers. of Cleveland and Bos part, 1 ihinU :iny man game enough to deli1>er- iimpirini? ivorlh about $tWO a day, aod we can't ton, .lays tbat he will never give in to tbe ately get bel'ore a fast ball ought to have the afford it. Besides, «e don't need the rules. The National league if it. takes his last penny. As base for his nerve. Mr. Hart and others bold Contributed to Its Success. American 1/ea^ue games have always been fftst Mr. Souiers is said to be in the sevcu<-ngurc cir that it pitcher cannot hit u luan i\ ho is watch I'uousb to suit the public." cle. It cau be seen what tbe National League ful aud dodges. Nonsense! I have played ball will bav.. to buck up against. and been swattPd hard when wriggling like a By Francis C. Riehler. The players of the Baltimore team who are snako to get away. Any mtiu who lius evi'i* CAPTURING STARS. In the Monumental City are taking daily exer miscalculated an itishool will Bay the same. Tbe American Longno is fortunate iu cise In the Johns Hopkins University cage, aod That rule will terrorize lots of batsmen. its I'uvuiicy. aud Joiibly fortunate iu uav- are showing the results. It is hard, too, for a man who hits them out The American League Now Carries Charley Comlskey flatly denies tbat tbe pur In dead earnest to liuvi' a fuul .-ailed wlu-ri tho iug every move in base b;ill break to its Ihe War Into Africa. port of bis recent visit to St. Louis was to hunt ball strikes but an inch this *id<> of first or advantage. In fact botlj National The American League is now actively up local capital for an American League club to third. Mr. Hart 'opines that a foul of tbat sort engaged iu siguiuii National League play be located at the old Sportsman's Park. He shows skill on tho part of the pitcber, but 1 League and American Association have said he was only endeavoring to arraugc for As duu't believe iu rewarding the pitcber that way. ers to American League contracts In de- If the magnates really wmited steadily played into tlie American tiauce of sociation football nest fall. to shorten Ihe the much-talked of option clause, j Catcher George Yeager is figuring In a Cincin- game, help tlift batters instead of tho pi tellers, League's hands, liotl) as regards players upon which the National League has been ! nati court, where I* Is trying to collect a bill and make things lively nil along the lino, they aud territory. Not so long a.uo one Na strongly dcpcndiiiK for protection air.Uust j for a tilterlujr oiachiuc, for which he is tbe ought to have made it three balls for a pass in the rape of its players. The American I agent. stead of four. That would havo made the pitch tional League maur.ito by hamstringing: League is uow working openly the Play Coniiskey bad signed the noted Inter-State ers keep them over, seud them right across, and tile Associalinu in 1'hiladelpliia helped ers' Association haun against the signing of [jcaguc first basemau Jack Law, formerly of helped the fun. the American Leajrtii' over several al contracts bavlng been lifted. Tho National Maustield. AMERICAN IDEAS. League is also not Idle, luit to date the The contract for the completion of the Amer Ban Johnson ami Char Me Hugh Duffy has been a power Indeed to the the Association would as surely open Us season hurrying pitchers into tlie box without a ed by the American League. It Is believed American cause. H<- landed Collius. Sta.hl. Di- and as surely play it out as the American chance to "warm up" is unjust, in Uir.t that all National League star players have neen and Willis, and secured Ferris. the player League. No Chicago fno ever dreamed that the many valuable been signed to a special straight and equit awarded by tbe National Board to Cincinnati Association would live, and it was felt hers twirlers may injure their able contract. from Norwich, Conn. When tbe teams are fi tbat the League never intended to let it live. arms by working them when "cold." nally made up it will be found that Duffy alone On finding that the press and public would AS TO KOWDY BAI.L. corraled a dozen of some of the best base hall not stand for the hybrid, the League let it drop, Johnson further states that the rule com News and Gossip. talent available. and thus killed off, as they suppose, a troop of pelling umpires to remove players who President Jolmsou, on Wednesday, denied tb« Pitcher Clnrk Griffith signed with the Chicago promoters who have been disagreeable to th« indulge Iu obscene language is worthless, report in circulation for some time that tt* Club last Saturday salary not stated. pompons for the last two years. Tbe Associa unless-the club owners back up President American League had ever held or tried to ob Digby Bell. DeWolf Hopper and several other tion magnates made themselves into colossal Young's orders to the » apires to enforce tain nn option upon Sportsmen's Park. St. rabid base ball "fans' are said to have trans chumps when they ever shook hands with that tlie rules. On this point he said: Louis, the old home of Vou Der Abe's Browns. ferred their affections from the National to tbe eua*e bunch of double-cross artists, the National "Wkea 4"rcedcji:a says lie will nave Bothlu Pitchsr Diceeo refused to lift) with tHe Boston American League, .... Lvalue, and I duu't cum who heart; me aaj w. March 9,1901. SPORTII^Q LIFE.
equally good men out. From now on it was induced to resign the Interstate League American Association ns a purely Western will be quite as presidency and a lucrative position on the organization ou the lines laid out above. much a scramble for 1'lttstuirg "Leader" and accept the Asso YALE, ASSOCIATION. good places by players as by magnates The matter was considered at length but ciation presidency upon the personal assur no Immediate steps were taken, it being for good players, and only a few swell- ance of Mr. Brush, he claims, that the As determined to await the events of the headed star players will profit by the sociation would surely be started, "as the next few days. The Milwaukee men ex CRIPPLED AT BIRTH, THEN KILLED National League had gone too far to back pressed confidence iu President Watkius unfortunate situation. out now," and that the only stumbling and held him In no way to blame for the block would be in Baltimore, wbere the failure of the Association. They also said B? THE LEAGUE. League was "prepared to see Clarke they had not given up their determination ASSOCIATION'S COLLAPSE. through." to get into base ball, but would probably ASSOCIATION MEN SINCEItB. await a more favorable opportunity than The Start on the Road to Ruin and Meantime the Philadelphia contretemps the present. It will be a long wait con The Association Promoters Pay the had enabled the American League to over sidering the fact that, in the event of re the Rapid Progress Toward the come hurdles in Philadelphia, Washington organization, the American League being Inevitable Melancholy hnd, Thanks to Monk and Boston, and assure its Eastern circuit; in on the ground floor will have the call for Penalty For Forsaking eying With the League. thus further discrediting and hampering any major league plums that may be the When the National Association (late Association. Still the Association men floating about at that time. And so endetb. Tbeir Original Faitb and Running labored faithfully to fulfil their part of the this last, sad chapter of the attempt to or American Association "hoodoo" name) met bargain. at Chicago, Dec. •>!. 28. 211, pursuant to (Juln and Havenor signed a man ganize a rival American Association. ; After Strange and False Gods. call of Temporary Chairman Itichter, for ager and one player, and started to pre 1USCRF.TION BKTTEK THAN VALOR. permanent organization, strong liac-king for pare a ball park. Koeli paid several ex Since the League meeting Charlie Pow seven pensive visits to Detroit, located a ground ers has greatly modified his strictures of the cities was in sight, the only city and only three days before the League League magnates for abandoning the Asso By Francis lacking being in the West, which the Mil C. Kichler. waukee contingent had always said would meeting closed n lease upon it at $1800 per ciation to ignoble death. The League When "Sporting Life" recently made he really with four clubs year. Colonel Whitesides, in Louisville, or has evidently reimbursed him in some way when the East ganized a $20,000 stock company, with all for his sacrifice, as was but right. How the assertion that produced four cities. At this meeting the the -American Asso Washington, I'hiladclphia and Boston were money in sight. In Washington the this was done Mr. Powers refuses to di ciation would surely take the field, its money was secured and various hurdles vulge. Watkins has also been mollified in represented in person and 1'rovideuce by overcome, ami only a week before the some way, as in a long signed statement confidence was based upon the fact that proxy, the late Mr. Bimigan being ready League meet to enter Providence ns soon us a permanent an agreement with a railroad in an Indianapolis paper he goes over the the National League, through certain company, to furnisb a completely equipped whole Association movement from the organization was shown him. park, was signed, sealed and delivered. time Mr. Brush took it ia hand, saddles of its leaders, had been positively com DIVIDED AND COXQUBRKD. the Tiie Kastera delegates soon discovered Indianapolis was also ready, with money, sole cause .of failure ou Col. John I. Rog mitted to the support of the new Asso that the Milwaukee contingent had been ground and team. ers and absolves Mr. Brush from all blame for some time In secret communication with HOCKS IN TUB PATH. in the premises. Watkins takes the groin d ciation under all conditions. This con The trouble arose at Philadelphia, Boston that Mr. Brush could not deliver the goods fidence- National League people, and had been in nnd Baltimore. In Philadelphia was doubled for the reason occulated with the deadly League virus. As the Athlet because he was thrown down by his League that whatever weakness the Association a result there was ics leased the right to play on the Philadel colleagues in this matter quite as hard .':s division where there phia grounds for about $81100 per annum. was the Association. Watkins' present exhibited was due to the League's fail had hitherto been unity of purpose and For Boston, Arthur action. The Milwaukee syndicate refused Irwin labored hard al statement does nut jibe with his rosy re ure to live up to certain promises in the to go ahead on independent though not a full member, the "written ports prior to the League meeting nnd lines or with consent" of the Boston League Club not his tierce denunciation of the magnates first instance. It was therefore almost out National Agreement protection, and having preferred to have assurances been secured until after the Asso during the recent meeting. But lie was unbelievable that the National League of League ciation adjourned hart practically signed a very sore then; it's different now. Wat- support and assistance. After two days of full team: would, if assistance was needed, abandon labor and argument the Eastern but while he was doing this his kins is wise mid discreet, as becomes a. delegates hacking was driven away from him by the man in his defenceless position, but how the child it had so cruelly crippled at were compelled to give in or abandon, the derisive project, and chose the former comment of the press, the delay lie must bleed at the heart! Mr. Rus- birth although there was nothing in tin- course. Ac in pushing the Association's fortunes and eliuupt, Wiitkins' partner, who is out $10.- cordingly Harry Pnllium, an admitted agent the unfavorable outlook for a third National League's record would forbid for the League, and Watkius were admit club in OOil without having hail a game for bis ted to Boston, in Baltimore, which the Associa money, is H ss reserved, and fiercely de suspicion or expectation of ingratitude the meeting, a temporary organiza tion had only tilken on to please the League. nounces the National League magnates for cr perfidy. tion was once more created, with Mr. Clarke uajl the Sitme mountain of distrust what Itichter as president pro tern, nnd he styles the "rawest deal ever per Rut when tho crucial test came the Messrs. to overcome, and all he conld get from his petrated by organized base hull men." who Havener, I'nlllain and Irwin were appoint proposed backers was one broken promise National ed a committee he declares should be renamed "organized League failed once more to to wait on the National after another. Even backing secured by banco men." rise to the occasion and with cynical League circuit committee. President Power failed when the moment OfT 1'OR OOOO. nill'SIPS CHANGES. for nutting disregard of pledges and policy left the When chairman up arrived. According to a dispatch from Milwaukee Brush, of this committee, HKI'SII AGAIN KAILS TO DRI.lVRIi. the hapless "Three Unices." Quin. Hav struggling infant to its fate. The Asso was seen he at once insistod upou the com Several days before the League meeting enor and Koch, have issued a statement in plete side-tracking of Mr. Iticuter in the Messrs. Power. Watklns, Irwin, Clarke and which they ciation is not at this writing quite dead. work of further organizing, of which work sliow that they are not quite It may survive as a third-class or fourth- Bryan held a conference in New York and rid of tlie'hypnotic influence that was the Brush took charge. He also set aside the decided that tile League would have to i cause of their sad sacritice. They have class minor sectional league, lint as a j Association committee In favor of i'ulllam permit the substitution of Providence and listened to Wntkins and perhaps Brush - and \Viitkins, rechrlstened the tiling the | Worcester for Philadelphia nnd Baltimore. present or future major league it is now ! American Association, drew up the "In- and voice their conviction that the As>n- and forever out of the running. or else nuance the Baltimore Club and ciatlon's collapse was not due to UM.V The (llanapcills confession" of faith, printed In also extend some help to Irwiu in his tri League throwdown. but for lack of prop*!- very name "American Association," "Sporting Life" some time ago, and "im angular tight in Boston a tight in which backing in Boston ami Baltimore. (M. proved" upon .Mr. Itichter's circuit by sub lie stood to lose hirf all, merely for the bene through blunders and failures running stituting the great cities of Indianapolis. sapient paper-magnates! But they have back for a full generation, has become fit of the League. When this alternative had their 1111 of base ball promoting, jury Louisville and Baltimore for the measly was broached to the League people, the ing from an interview with Mr. Koch iu a mock and a byword with press and little villages of Chicago. St. Louis and first proposition was turned down, as it which he Is quoted as saying: "We will public, and even the National League 1'rovldence. Havener, of Chicago, was will could not be accomplished without break not try to orgaulxe any Association In the ingly shifted back to his own Milwaukee ing up (lie loyal Kustern League. In the West.' nor will we try again next year. didn't quite escape the "hoodoo" when it doorstep. Spluk, of St. Louis, was given matter of extending financial help to Bal We are out of it. They must 'show i»f linked the title with its ancient name. the "dinky-dink." Detroit under Vnndor- timore and Boston, Mr. Brush got another in the future. It wns a good lesson and I The American League will fall heir to lieck_ being_ ., substituted. _Bill Clurkc. in tnrn-down, and once more he failed to de want iv> more of it." Which would indi Bnltlniore,°was picked to supplant the rich liver,,, v . the,. . goods, , .,. . as.. a majority...... ,....,, of... the.... League-. ..,.,., cate thut Watkins' scheme of a purely scr- all that the old Association had of pres Blinignn, of Providence. Mr. Brush agree- m;n>iiutes refused to even consider the mat- tional American Association will have to tige, glory and public esteem. Ins to secure League backing for darkle | ter'of putting; up money to help out the As- get along, if ii stars at all. without Mil should local backing for such a desperate i soclat!ou: indeed, it is said, that when it waukee While the National League is largely venture..,..., . . us.. opposing ., ! .. MeUrnw's club be f,ai]1(. t(, si,mv of i,lim| s, l.-recdman. Brush "capital and brains." to blame for the melancholy collapse of lacking. ami Drevfuss were file only League men Hogan's Hot Hits. OOODS NOT DRLIVBRF.n. RRF.n. willing to go to a finish in fulfillment of the Association, first and deepest blame Messrs. Watkius and 1'iilli am then sallied I tlu, i.ca.,m,'s promises. The following interesting cominnnlentlcn attaches to the Milwaukee promoters; forth and wasted two weeks and...... consider...... , » ASSOCIATION ni-MpKn from President John llflgnn. of the Phil.i- thi'ir'g must be the censure: their's the able carfare securing the signatures of the (lelphi.i Athletic Club, explains itself. It It was soon foiuid that the League, ns " i Tain regret. Had they remained true to various new would-be magnates to the new a body, would not stand for any financial well worth reading: and useless Indianapolis agreement, lint pledges, express or implied, inudu by its Philadelphia, March 5. Kdltnr "Sporting their friends and fellow-promoters, turn not one step was taken to secure the Bos- committee. This let Baltimore and Boston Life:" I am still alive. Slill expect to eat my ed deaf ears to the babble of foolish and tou and Philadelphia League clulw' assent out and killed the Kaxtcrn circuit of the three meals as usual every day when 1 have to invasion of their teirltory. Mr. Brush Association, whereupon the Association time to eat thoui. and I suppose Niks whP'.i lie inexperienced self-seekers; and adhered evidently taking it for granted that his hen the news will sleep just as well as hof u". men tilled the hotel corridors with their We had only signed one plujoi, but had live or rigidly to the original lines of indepen mere dictation would bring those clubs lamentations. Watkins and Power were into line for his personal six on the string wqiling for the adjournment ot dent organization they would now be at programme. Be particularly sore over the throwdown of I hi- League meeting, whoa 1 was prepaivd lo the top instead of the bottom, and the lieving everything to be nil right, a meet the Association, as both bitterly denounced scud mil checks for advance money. All our ing of the new "American" Association was the League on the score of perfidy and stockholders, except one, had paid the first 1 .vo Association would to-day undoubtedly called for New York, where a majority of soundly cursed themselves for their (alls of the. assessment, and we were not wony- occupy the place of the American the Xationnl Board simultaneously also np- stupidity In blindly trusting to mere verbal ing about that one delinquent, as our lawyer League, niul the latter would be like the peared. Everything went off according to [ promise's In a matter of such bear (who, by the way, is not Col. Rogers) said tb.'t-> programme, until the whole scheme was ' ing upon their personal. fortunes.- Claike could be no defense to a suit ou such a call. Association at present either moribund thrown into confusion by the flat refusal and Irwin while vehement iu denunciation Now. however, we will return all the asacss- or reduced to petty minor league status. of Colonel Rogers, of Philadelphia who of the National League, took matters more mcnls paid In and pigeon-hole, our charter and suspected his undent enemy. Brush, of a ether documents, and await a future opportun Instead philosophically' than Watkins and Power. ity, which of that in spite of friendly design to secure a foothold in Philadelphia The two hist named also cooled off after wo hope will be nest year. We aie warnings, against the expiration of the League's 10- out a little money for stationery and traveling, appeals to reason and the cost they saw that the American Association but that is about all. 1 was just about to sign yeur agreement to permit any Association was a hopeless case as a national organi ly experience of Union Association, Play ( lull to be located in Philadelphia except a contract with a business manager, who would ers' League and old Association backers zation and set about to save what they represent Nllcs and me in base ball, as PIT under the control of his friends in the old could from the wreck. private business for some months lo come would \viih League guile the Milwaukee con Athletic Club, pledged to play ou the Phila A POOl! SOP. have prevented our active dally attention. tingent brashly dallied with the League delphia Club's ground. Irwin nnd Clurke shook the dust of New IKW1N Bl.AMKI). FOOLKD ONCE MOP.B. York from their feet on Wednesday after From President Power'* report, published "Delilah," were shorn of the locks This proved a terrible blow to the Asso noon. leaving Watkins and Power to tight Muu/h :i, the reason of the failure can be best of power and prestige, made the play ciation men. who had trusted implicitly In it out with the League at a four-hour ses told in his own words: "1 received assurances thing of the I'hillistines, and then, with Mr. Brush's ability to "deliver the goods." sion Wednesday night. When they enicrg from the authorised agent of the National and almost threw the whole scheme into ed from lliut it was evident that their League Circuit Committee that the American out the slightest compunction, hurled tile soup liireen. .lust then the Association wounds had been somewhat salved. Power Association would be supported through thick into outer darkness, there men should have stood pat with a demand hail been given assurance that the League and thin, but the failure of some of those to remain for the delivery of the Koods originally promised supporters to live up to their agree probably forever. And so the National would take care of him in some fashion, ment, and the fact that bargained for or file substitution of Provi while Watkins was encouraged to endeavor one of our own men League cunningly and at dence or some oilier city for Philadelphia, went back ou us knocked down all we had built small expense to keep the Association afloat as a Western up." The support alluded to was in the event Uillml off another lot of promoters and failing either proposition should have organiKntlou, through a combination of In who declared everything off, thus placing of the Baltimoi-e Association Club failing us. I might and with proper deference to the dianapolis, Louisville, Milwaukee and De am Informed that the rest of the League, at hlume upon the shoulders of Messrs. Brush troit. with Dayton, Columbus. Toledo nnd last week's meeting, repudiated Mr. Brush's reason and experience would have real and Rogers the one for failing to make Ft. Wayne. of the old Interstate League. promises of support because contrary to the ized their cherished ambition to become good and the other for blocking both the To this end Strobel. of Toledo, and Meyer, league's own declarations that the American Association and his own League. Unfor of l"t. Wayue, promised to co-operate, and Association must paddle Its own canoe. The powers in b^se ball. tunately the Association men allowed them the League promised the use of the title. "one of the men who went back on us" and Considering all the circumstances at selves to be persuaded by the League com "American Association." the right to the "knocked down all we had built up" was Mr. mittee to accept the horrible situation for territory above named, together with Irwin, of the Boston Club, w-ho for four week* tending the inception and development one year, with promise of any needful was quoted so often as boasting of his financial Mansfield; and the privilege of retaining barking, of the American Association few will Immediate assistance and future redress. the Indianapolis territory and all his play and of the players he had signed. Pres MANY SACRIFICES MADB. ident Power states that Irwin, as late as Monday mourn its untimely demise, and but little ers except Magoon and Hartsell. This was of last week, told him that everything was Accordingly the Athletic Club wns ac the best the League conld or would do, sympathy will be extended the befooled cepted as u member, Koch was shifted to nourishing in Boston, but on Tuesday announced promoters and so ended the "Milwaukee syndicate's" that his backers had withdrawn and he must of child-like faith. Just one a losing proposition in Detroit and Clarke dream of a great national organization. throw up the sponge. This was certainly an class will have reason to regret the was admitted to lead a forlorn hope in Bal Watkins left New York on Thursday morn unexpected knock-down, and In connection wllli collapse, namely, the players. For them timore thus making the Association a mere inn for the west to secure the Milwaukee the Baltimore failure gave us the dinky-dink. It tool and fender for the National League. syndicate's co-operation Iu tlie new is very amusing now to see repented dispatches the thing is in the nature of a catas From this moment it was discredited with pcuen\e, failing which Indianapolis and from Indianapolis attributing the failure of tlio trophe. U was calculated the public and players and derided by the Louisville Association 10 another cause, viz.: The Phila that the Asso press, and will probably enter the Western ciation would employ over one hundred its only hope of being able to League. delphia Club's "insisting" on the Athletic* start- was through the assistance of the IN STATU QUO. playing at its ball park. first-class players the surplus of the League, pledged by its committee and On Saturday Watkins reached Indianap THE PHILAllKI.PHIA SITUATION. National and American Leagues. "who ever heard of the League failing to olis whither lie had summoned yuin. Hav When Mr. Nllcs and 1, by appointment, met With back up one of its committees'.'" Thus Mr. Watkins and Mr. Koch, at Colonel Rogers* the Association out of enor and Koch, the Milwaukee trio, who house, on January 20 last it, fully that num heavily handicapped the Association men hnd. despite many warnings of the writer to sign the organiza went to work in good faith. Watkins acted tion papers, lie was told. In our presence, that ber of superior players must fall far and others, pinned their faith to rosy there was no obligation to play at firoad and as temporary president for several weeks, League promises. In addition down in the scale of remunerative em while an effort to compar Huntingdon streets, but both Mr. Nlles and I ployment those to secure the wily P. T. ing notes and exhibiting their wounds to said that as we had that option also we would holding on in the two Powers, of the Kastoru League, failed, each oilier. the four gentlemen consulted major leagues simply driving other finally Mr. Charles B. rower, of I'ittsburg. wilu relcrcuce to the reorganization of the Od League circles, and the sentiment for a re shall, within ten days after such assignment tract with the Pan-American people at Buffalo hearing became practically unanimous. of this contract, fully complete such resigna along other lines of the business for the sum tion, withdrawal or expulsion, provided that the mer. He also said 75 shares of stock in a now "Sporting Life" kuew what it was talking had been sold PLAYERS^PROGRESS. it predicted with posHiveiiess I party of the tiiBt part fihall bo liable to tbe base ball company at Columbus about when prom party of the. Second part for whatever propor at $25 eacb, aud that 75 shares bad been that the League and Players' Association will bo placed tu th» was placed tion of the salary or compensation mentioned in ised, which is all that would get together because H the eighteenth paragraph as may be earned, market. A meeting of the Interstate League in contidt-iitial possession of a copy of the up to and Including the expira has been called for Columbus for to-day. Stro- THE ASSOCIATION EMERGESTRIOMPH- due or iu arrears not ask for players' revised demands, which, however, tion of tbe ten days' notice of annulment above bel says the Interstate will probably it could not, and did not, print, in accord to and Including the day of as protection, but adopt the National League style recited or up a suggestion ANT FROM THE BATTLE. ance with its settled policy never to violate signment, if this contract shall have been pre of contract, in accordance with any trust reposed iu it. viously assigned to sueu other club. Rut If said ZIMM1SIJ DOKS WELL. party of tbe second part shall, at the expira President Zimmer was invited by Presi tion of said ten days' notice of annulment, be It At Y [early All That It Set Out dent Young to appear before the League Indebted, by reason of advances or otherwise, to with a request for a rehearing. This was tbe party of the first part, said notice of ari- con uulnieut shall be of GO effect unless the amount to accomplish, Demonstrates Its done and the League appointed as its of sucb indebtedness be paid or teudered to tbe ference committee Messrs. Brush, Hart and party of the first part at or before the expira Sodou lawyer Itogers being left olT the tion of said ten days' police of annulment. Value to the Players as a Class, committee as a reeoguition of the Associa Paragraph ly It is hereby expressly under flQGAN'S HARD HITS. tion's relegation of lawyer Taylor to the stood and agreed that tbe first party shall buve Assures Its Own Perpetuation. background. This committee had a seveu- the option or right to renew the contract with (Contnutd from Fifth Pagt.) and hour seance with Mr. Zimmer on Feb. 20. all Is terms, provisions and conditions for an In tills trying ordeal Mr. Zimmer, from all other period of six months beginning April 10, he idiots if we did not take advantage of It. accounts, sustained himself well, although l'i , and the second party hereby agrees to 541!,00u of unpaid assessments By Franeis C. Richter. to We had about he battled siligle-lmnded against three "of perform similar services aud to be subject on our capital stock. We do uot think our The Players' Protective Association the ablest and craftiest mou Iu base ball all the obligations, duties and liabilities pre stockholders would \villingly pay up such as h;is einei'si'd from the severe test of the we should rather say two, because Mr. Hurt scribed iu this contract for tbe period of such sessments for tbe purpose of risking perhaps the was ill most of the time and finally had to renewal, provided tbat written notice of the whole amount tu the building of fences and long deadlgck with the National League exercise of sucb renewal be served upon the at a new location, wbeu we could walk leave the business entirelv with Brush and of stands chastened, strengthened and triumph fact, as will appear later. Mr. second party prior to the 15th day of October iuto the best ball park In tbe country without a Sodeu. In the current year of this contract. in fact without ant. It ia true the Association suffered dimmer not only more thau held his own single ceut to invest In lixtures, Iu the negotiations, hut actually outwitted Mr. Zimmer left New York on Wednesday any expense, except a moderate rental. Mr. some reverses and humiliations and fail the Leaguers Iu the only bit of craft tliat evening at the request of the League to Watkins thought It would look better to play it set out to accomplish, the matter. supervise the Immediate printing of the elsewhere, but we told him that we did not ed to achieve all entered as above agreed upon. think people when they had a quarter of a new contract witnessing a noveitheless it was more than passably MCTUAL CONCESSION'S. MISTAKEN AMERICAN LEAGUERS. dollar or r>0 cents to invest Iu truckling to or fa The conclusion reached was in the nature nt name of hall would cure a tig whether tbe successful. Without of a compromise. The League committee The Zimmer notice to players was Philadelphia oluh wns hacking us or not, They organization, and with the first regarded as a severe blow to the would go through our turn stiles 1C they thought voring any agreed to the first two demands; also to very soundly single purpose of conserving the inter reduce the option in all new contracts to American League, and was they would s«?e a good game, und they would one year, thus making each virtually a commended or condemned in the hotel cor refuse to Invest their mouey if they thought the, ests of the Association iu particular not to transfer a ridors, according to personal predilection. exhibition n cheap one. Of fours*-, "the proof two-year conti-jct: also at In tho eating." Suppose wo jind all the players in general it hewed team in a body from » disbanded club at ICvcri tile American League magnates of the pudding is league Inferior In rank. tlrst were taken in. and iu published inter hnd started 10 build such fences ;uid stand?, resolutely to the line no matter where loss salary or 10 a bitterly condemned tlie notice, and where would we he now with the It-win ihrow- In return Mr. Zimmer waived the third de- views 'i"-!.- «ii£- the chips fell. As a result it secured the as bitccrly arraigucd Zimmer as a League down and the failure in Baltimore? lurncl. it being held that if adopted etc. Later, however, the American geMtlon wns do foolish that even WatUns «!ld some valuable concessions from the game would become demoraliz-d by endless tool, UK- subject further. From that Ur. 1* with Leaguers awoke to the fact that the /hu m.t push League's absolutists, compelled recogni appointments of and squabbles or no eITcct on until a week ago Watkins has been quoted ia arbitration committees. When this com mor order would have little I he papers as say in* that everything was In tion by that haughty body, proved that any player, and that through it Zimuicr and promise was reached the Leaguers demand Players' As K«KH! shape in all the Association circuit, mere players can make and hold com ed that the Players' Association protect the had extricated himself aud the he pariicularly referred to thu advantage tbe sociation, from a difficult and delicate parka demonstrated fully that National League against violation of the Association hud in having so many bull bination, and option clause by its members, and also to position. He was compelled to talif the already equipped, as compared with the Ameri the [-layers are valuable factors in the players. This Zimmer was step he did or else have all the Associa can 1-eague. who had to build at least four new expel deserting fail, therefore, to quote national game, not to be lightly set not prepared to grant, but after consulta tion, as ft body, was striving to secure ones. Li is only necessary, tion with players Doyle and Keeler anil merely to oblige one league and a small what Mr. Watkins has said for over a mouth aside or overridden with impunity. Most by wire from Attorney Taylor minority of ambitious or greedy players. after the birth of the Association to show hovr Instruction Tbat he should secure what he did, at the inconsistent his declaration is now, that our oc important of all. from the players' stand he submitted the following notice to the Philadelphia bull park was tbe players: cost of an order which has uo binding ef cupying point, the Association demonstrated its fect until the most improbable cuuseut of Cause of the overthrow. to each and every player and thus "As president of the Players' Protective As is secured, amply attests THE GREAT MISTAKE. value representative. the Association assured its own perpetuation. Hence sociation, ami as Its ant homed Zitnmer's skill and shrewdness, as well as So fnr as Colonel Rogers is concerned, except I hereby agree, in return for tbe concessions his zeal, in behalf of the IMayers* Asso ro give some friendly advioo on the player will grow stronger granted by the National League this 26th day of question, we have had nothing to do with him forth the Association or ciation. It also speaks volumes for the permanent fac February. 1U01, tbat all National League Taylor who by wire guided since the execution of our lease a day or two and become a powerful Eastern League players who irjuy sigrn American craft of Lawyer after Mr. Watklus* visit, which lease we sent will always have Lcjijruo contracts will he suspended p<'mling /immer and framed the Ineffective notice. which trust be betrayed by tor in base ball, which SOMKRS A TRIFLE OFF. to him in trust and with. action by tbe Players' Protective Association divulging Its contents. to be reckoned as a body." Magnate Comers, of Cleveland, was the I liavo also received several letters from Mr. ' These splendid results, achieved in CHARLES ZIMMER. American League magnate most bitter In Watkins since that time, assuring me that short year, are due to the patience This was not exactly as the League denunciation of Mr. Ziiumer. and it was every thing was promising along the circuit. one not until Zimmer threw a brick house at given public assurances of players and the skill, wanted It. but it was all that Mr. Zimmer Mr. Pnwer has also und loyalty of the could grant, so it was accepted by the him that he realized the true position of the l.lg financial backing of the Association intelligence, resourcefulness and disin and promulgated by Mr. affairs. On Friday last Mr. Souiers wired clubs. On February Uti he is quoted in the League Committee public announcement of "Sporting Life" as saying: "Kvery Association, terestedness of the leaders particular Zimmer. The futility of tin- agreement Zimmer to make that suspensions arc only the fact that players could sign with the club has a hacking of from $150,000 to $200,000, ly Messrs. Taylor, Zimmer and Jennings. lies iu the fact American League. To this Mr. Zimmer re and that they surely would begin their games temporary, aud must be made permanent that Ivwln and most striking tribute to the sagacity "as n body:" in sponded by wire: "Sign players: the agree by April 28." Thus it appears The by vote of the Association ment amounts to nothing." The Cleveland nil the other big financiers knew from January of these leaders is the fact that though short, by a majority vote of all members, thing 18, when the Board of Arbitration granted pro to obtain, as papers, however, not yet sizing the Association, which in defeated, humiliated and placed in false which It will be very difficult up properly, made Zimmer out a double- tection to the American ball players, as a mass, are not likely to C'lnrke ex cluded the Athletic Club, thut we were going to at the start, they managed by for attempting to dealer, and it was not until Bill piny at the Philadelphia Ball Park, and why position expel a fellow-member plained things that they saw through, the conservative shrewdness to recover lost better bis condition or increase his in they did not then and there quit the game in come. whole thimr. stead of giving out boastful interviews no In ground and prestige, to compel the mag THR NEW CONTRACT. CLARKB SHEDS LIGHT. telligent man can understand. to secure had been reached Catcher Clarke, who was a paper mag BRUSH CENSURED. nates to reverse themselves, When the compromise nate for a few weeks, gave out an Inter all they originally asked tot; and, Mr. Zimmer and the League Committee The truth Is that Brush and his man Friday nearly spent some hours in drawing up a new con view In Baltimore, Saturday, in which he (Wut bins) were working every tiling their way at the finish, to give the League a lit tract embodying the changes agwed upon. stated that the Players' Association played and were blocked in their Intention to forco "humiliation medicine" The fallowing is the full text of the ar a very clever game on the National League Koch into Philadelphia, because of our contmet, tle of Ha own magnates in having President Ziinmer make which no club or league could set aside, uud it that transparently ticles in tte contract which, have been who Itself for a few by unloading upon changed: ' the agreement suspending all players their disappointment vented innocuous order to the players, which sign with the American League, aud re days In u lot of silly twaddle, which they re 1. That the wond party, for the consideration ceiving iu consideration the granting of all pudiated by every word and net for the next five has no binding force or deterrent effect mentioned, corenunts and agrees to perform such the jibiyers' demands. "If players sign weeks thereafter, and now which they dig up upon any individual member, provides duties pertaining to the exhibition of tbe game with the American League," said Clarke," in contradiction of nil their repeated stories to of base ball as may be required of him by tilt- the contrary to explain their miserable failure. no permanent penally and depends for times nml they will be suspended, but not expelled, first party or Its assigns, at sucb and at the next meeting of tho Association 1 knew Mr. Watkins very well in the Kastera its ratification upon the Association "as places as the first party or H* assigns may des And Ju«t to League In 1892, and did not then udmire him or ignate, for the period of six months, commenc they will all be reinstated." his egotistical sneer, and doubled then hi* sin a body." This body can be trusted not ing oa the dav of April. 100 and endiug on show actions speak louder than words, cerity. Recent events bave uot chuuged tliat to expel a member for attempting to the day of October. J90 . inclusive. It is Clarke at ouce jumped to the American opiuioa. Respectfully. better his condition or increase his in agreed that the. second party shall not perform League. JOHN T. HOGA.V. President. such duties, flod the first party agrees not to LAWYER TAYLOR EXPLAINS ALL. of President Power's duties, P. S. Tn confirmation come objects that the organization prac require said peeond party to perform tiuch Attorney Taylor. of the Players' Asso I «*tuv in this morning's paper a dis said first statement for aoy party or parties other tban ciation, i'n an Interview with a Buffalo from Milwaukee to tbe effect that Messrs. tically was created and lives for; or. if period, except us in this patch party during said "Express" reporter made the matter clear Havener. Qviin aud Koch issued a statement it suspend to reinstate at its own paragraph particularly specified. Tbe first well could be. After stating that he organization's disrup lend as it last night saying that the if fitness party agrees not to sell, assign, exchange, (Taylor) had framed the much-discussed was only because of failure to get proper pleasure. All things considered, of tbe services tion be the test of survival the Players' As or In any otber manner dispose notice and wired it to President Zimmer, Unaacial backing Iu Boston aud Baltimore. of the second pa'rty except by absolute aud Taylor said of Its effect: demonstrated its uuconditionfll release bereunder or pursuant to Mr. sociation has fully does not mean that in the same sphere as the the provisions of Paragraph 15 hereof, for any "The word 'suspension' right to exist period, to any person, firm, corporation or or National League, players eann.it sign vvlih tbe FOR MANAGERS AND PLAYERS. tormefly omnipotent League magnates. ganization, either bereunder or under any pro American League. The jumping act will undoubt of the league or as edly be taken care of by tbe National League, vision of the constitution flrst which the first party may be a magnates, who probably will blacklist any man R. C. Steptfnsou. fnst ou'.fieldor and sociation of open for * linage- member, or of any so-called National Agreement that goes Into the American League. That Is base man sad hard hitter, in PLAYERSJVIN. ' of any so-called lookout, surely not ours. They wanted ment; has played !n New York, New Rutland, nr of the rules or regulations their N. or otherwise, unless sucb something in return for tbe concessions that Virginia ami National Leagues. Address 2*21) Hoard of Arbitration N, J. 2-23-4t* After Very Clever Jfanoanverinff disposal of said services, executed in triplicate they made, and we gave It to them that we Broad street. Trenton, They Secure Some Concessions, .and signed by and delivered to each of the three would suspend the Jumper from our Association parties interested. It Is agreed that a refusal pending the notion of his case by the Players' Outwit the League, aud Secure De by said second party to consent to bis services Protective Association. The man can go on and shall uof be deemed good play, and when we meet again, wbich cannot tie Jack Crawfonl. late of Connec sired Recognition. beiog so disposed Is still disengaged. cause bereunder for bis suspension or for bis be. before next winter for the reason tbat (be lantic Leagues, The Players' Protective Association, nt portion of his sal season will not allow It. we will look of "Sporting Life." ing compelled to forfeit any plaving season with Nortb It* Cleveland meeting. February 11, acted by fine or otherwise, Into the violators' cases, and if WP find that Pitcher Thomas IJpp. last ary, earned or to be earned, is open for en{:JiK"mcut. Ad with admirable discretion Uy lefusiug 10 infliction of any penalty'on Win in they have been guilty of any wrongdoing they Attleboro (Mass.) or for the Hank street. Baltimore. Md. become n c;it's pan- for nny organization. any manner. It Is further agreed that tbe word will be dropped as members of Hie players 1 dress 2204 to conserve be reinstated. So ,loe Fergufion, pitcher, lute of Virginia and Mindful of the single purpose "assigns" as used in this contract refers to and union, but If not they will to sign any where. tlie and covered nothing In it." Nesv Yorh Leagues, is free thi' interests of its cwn organization, Includes onlv assignment* completed you see there really ia street, Reading. PH. statu and Fifteen (15) Address 104 North Ninth Association l>y order preserved the by Paragraphs Numbers Two (2) From this it is evident that Lnwyer Thomas McGuirk. tirst baseinnn. (8 free t» quo and reduced its demands upon the hereof. Taylor was the inspiration of the whole sign anywhere, owiog to dlsbaoduieut of Wash National to three, viz.: (1) The abolition of Paragraph 1T> It Is mutually understood and Mr. Club, with which he hud the Hrst matter and that Mr. Zimmer followed ington Association all forms of ''farming:" (2) the abolition agreed tliat. should the said party of Address 02 Lawrence street, Brooklyn, or be expelled from tlie Taylor's secret Instructions to the letter, signed. of the sales system without the consent, in part resign, withdraw and at no time exceeded them. Mr. Taylor N. Y. writing, executed iu triplicate, uf the said league and association of which tbe party Fmnli West, the wen-known Atlantic I^eacti* a club member, then this In pondudine the above interview paid player Involved: (3) the reference of nil of the first part Is now tribute to Zimmer's ability and stat pitcher, tti open for engagement. Addr s» WJi- contract and tbe rights of the party of tbe first a hlsrh County, Pa. flub disputes with players to temporary of the party inasmuch as Zimmer has taken so Djcnilng. Allegheny part hereun'jer may, at the option ed that William Garoni, pitcher, formerly of N^w Honrd? of Arbitration In each case, with second part, after ten days' written no much time from his Cleveland business aud upon either party for failure of the YorU and Bridgeport, would like to sign wild SI00 penalty tice, be forever annulled, ended and determined. worked so hard without fee or hope of Addresa Fort Leo, N, J. the Board findings. or some minor league. to accept But if. prior to sucb registration, withdrawal reward, he deserves a lot of praise and Fred Press, third baseman and short stop of FAVORABLE RECEPTION. expulsion, this contract shall be assigned (either thanks instead of censure. with Pennsylvania »nd North Ouo- or by experience Immediately after the Cleveland meeting by writing of tbe party of tbe first part Itna leagues. Is at liberty. Address 105 West who had been appointed tbe operation of the provisions of said consti I'ri-sidpiit Xhnmer. league STROBEL SICK. Eden street, Baltimore. Md. conduct future nego tution") to another club member of scid Intlelder Larry BatUm is free from reserva ti Co mini t tee of one to member of another tiations, owing to the League's prejudice and association or to a club Has Enough of Base Ball and tion and is open for an engagement. Addrtss 624 league or association of equal rank with tbe He N. Y. :;^ainst lawyers in general, and Lawyer party Fourth avenue. Brooklyn. league or association of which the first Sells His Club. Outfielder. six years' minor league experteoce, Taylor in particular, mailed each League event this Is not a club member, then In either Special to "Sporting Life." desires position with semi-professional team, clnh a copy of the revised demands, coupled shall continue In full force, with nil hearing liy a new contract O.. March 6. Manager Charles .1. George Camerob, Box 594, Flushing. L. J. with a request for n its terms, provisions and conditions unimpaired Toledo, late of the Atlantic 1 was nothing and Strobe!, of the Interstate base ball team of this Gus Moran. outtielder, League committee! As then and unaffected liy such Assignment, binding and Western Leagues. Is free to tlo business and as tlie upon the party of tlie second city, said to-nlglst he had closed n deal to dis revolutionary in these demands, obligatory as well with ooy Hub. Addiess. JG24 West York street, threatened, the new part as upon tbe sairl ehil' neniher accepting pose of bis team aud franchise to Bob Gilks reserve rulo was not * COD- o IX proposals met with jjeueral approbation In udi assignment, provided Ual iU- Erst yh:tf anc some associates, and sail also closed March 9,1901. SPORTING LIFE. 7 of them have been signed at absurdly low salar HERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY TO GET YOUR FAVORITE BASE BALL ies, as compared with those paid in the National lA-ague. Others are being negotiated with on PAPER AT HALF PRICE I FACTS FROM FOSTER. the same basis, while in the meantime their employers arc trying to pet National League players to jump by offering them all kinds of inducements in a tinnacini way. In other words, the old system that brought GROSS BREACH OF FAITB BY THE about the brotherhood revolt will be in vogue in the American League another year. There AMERICAN LEAGUE. will be one or two stars to each club, If the National I^oajue men can be Induced to jump, Sporting Life who will pet all tbe money. The other poor "dubs," who held the American League to For 18 years the acknowledged authority on matters pertaining to Base Points in the Contract Hade by That gether can get along the best way that they can. and kindred sports. In playing up the "'star" theory the Ameri Ball, Trap Shooting Organization With President Bart, can Ijciigiie backers h;iTi? showu conclusively that they cannot prorit by experience, and 'hat thej* are not conversant with baseball matters that oj Chicago' "Little ffillle "Heeler thonld by of timely Interest to them. Nothing will go further to make dissatisfaction^ ©ne Year for only $1.00 in their organization than the mure fact that Again a Hatlopl League Player. they *r* not treating all their men as Qear alike as they should. by complying with the following conditions: By John' & Potter. WHAT ABOUT HROTHERL7 LOVE? Another question thai has caused a great deal Believing that Sporting Life readers entertain a real affection fpr this paper, and .Brooklyn. N- V.. March fi.-KditQr "Rpurt- of discussion aod nut a little comment on the In;; Lift-:"-- There i;> in possession of James part of the thinking puhlir, refers to Die pos a keen interest in its success, we venture to make a request and offer for their co A. fl;iit, tiie president' uf the Chtcnyo CUifo, sibility of certain of tho National League nlay- operation in the extension of its circulation. urn* of lut; must remarkable documents ever ers jumping from the National League to the (.ii'iivvn up in base ball. Before the season American League. Presuming that each reader is acquainted with other pejspns in his locality IK- it vet it is likely IQ cut quite a figure in Is that why the Players* Protective Associa Mm- present strife. tion was formed, 'hat certain stars in tho interested in base ball, shooting and general sports, who may nevertheless happen I tiav« heeu with the American Loagrue National League might crowd their fellow-hall not to be Sporting Life readers, we would suggest that each of our readers make it Vnit**-(position of [mttlng another orgutitau- players out of" employment and fatten their sal aries at tbe expense of those who ar3 less de a point to go over his list of friends and acquaintances and send us on the below fhHt into tlie fivlrf. for it seemed as if it sirous? xvrmiil surely !>* a ;,'oo i weights, now. tbit boxiuj? LB irem-rnHy opi ewM f vl:ruiig!;uut tbe UuUou- Statt$. . They h***; pointed out io Powers ibat .tfuvuru! eab t>* j PAT POWERSJ>E!DE. '- more easily ri-acbeg. from New York am! other | Eastern sporting "etctor* tban Carson City or ( siau Francisco, acd^-'-at less rspeuse. Siuce Imil | How About Your Bat? "_ htlOs w.is abolished in Cuba the sporting HOI HIS EASTERN LEAC-3E IS BOW .element las been hungry tnr some oilier 1'onn of amusement, and the idea prevail* Ui*t I! you have an old bat might till the bill. that is just right, PROGRESSING. or a broken bat that vou wish duplicated, CAREY'S CHAPR send it to us mid we will make you an exact duplicate ai the regular price ol 7f> cents The Latest Ne«s From Various Points The Buffalo Manager Announces each. We will keep the model of your nat His Team ForlOOl. al our factory, so that you can re-order at in the Circuit The Death ol Club Buffalo. N. Y., March 4. Editor "Sport!jg »ny time. Our highest quality bais are Life:" George Carey. manager of tbe Buffalo Base Ball Club; made tbe statement last even made from the very best selected second Owner Banigan Mourned Presi ing that all the i layers for th° elub for this growth white ash, grown on high land, and season bad beeo signed and that tbe team would under no circumstances begin to practice at Bvansvllle, Ind., ou April 4. do we use swamp or dent Powers in Cuba. 'J'be players that will accompany tbe club from lowland ash in these bats. Buffalo are as follows: John Kerwin, Charles Hastings, Doc Amole, Brwio Hooker. George Our bats are made under the supervision of By Francis C. Richter* Mills. Frank Foreman, pitcbers; George Speer, Jack Picket'., who has b-eeu- identified '.vith Below will be found the most recent catcher: William Hallmau aod Matthew Eroder- base ball for tbe past fifteen years, having ick. short stops: George Carey. first base; LouU played with the National, Eastern and West- news concerning the clubs and players Blerbauer, second base; Doc Andrews, thiro em" Leagues. Mr. Fickett is undoubtedly <«ie of the Eastern League, which has every base; Jake Gettman. centre; James Hart, right of the best Judges of. wise ball bats in toe field; Jacico Halligao, left field. .country and is thoroughly familiar with the reason to anticipate a better season than players' wants. - It has enjoyed for some years: News Notea SpaJding's Official Base Ball Guide for 1901. ready April 1, contains tbe New.R The Rochester team will report to Manager cial Tecorda; pictures of ail the League teams and Leading PROVIDENCE GRIEP BuckenbtTjier, in Newark, N. J., in April. players. Price, 10 cents, Charlie Dooins, the crack catcher of Cincin Over the Sudden Death of Mr. nati, who signed with the St. Joe team, bas William Banfgan. been notified by Nick Young that he must report A. G. SPALDING & BROS. to the Toronto Club. (Incorporated) Providence, March 2. Editor "Sporting Life:" Manager Dooley, of the Montreal Club, has It (.'fline. as a sh are full of confldferjce arid enthusiasm, and say ; tbty will inak* the simcu pure article. Biriil-ji' i bom and Little Rock, it is conceded, will do | IN THEJOUTH S«-»od playing. | Gec-rse Stalllngs is CTp^cted in Nashville yoon. | His friends lo'&f-d for him down whea ht- waa ou his re-cent visit to Cinciunatl'last wveb. | RAPID PROGRESS IH ORGANIZATION George Moore, coutracfjr. i« looking after the erection of bleachers, grand stand, etc.. whore the Nashville team will play In tho famous ud IS BEING MADE. Athletic Park before many drys. "EDYLB BRAUN." Tlifi Circuit Permanently Established NEW YORK NUGGETS. and the Clubs Hustling For Players Painful Evidence of the Lack of I merest In the Old L.eaeue The Nearly All Haw Their Full Com Situation in New \ork-The Club plement Selma in Atlanta's Place. Likely to Lose Many Players. By B'm. /'. H. Koelech. ' By Frantis C. Rickttr, Now York, March 4. Editor "Sporting Life 1." If the gentlt'men kuown ns Leugue Below;" will be found the latest news uiagiuites have uuy powers of observation and gossip anent that hustling baby in it must be apparent to them that popular iuterest iu the great game of base ball Is the National Agreement family the new at low ebb. The receut meeting attracted Soutiiero League: less Interest than has any iu many years. These seuil-aunual pitheriiigs were looked THE SCHEDULE; MEET. forwuril to with great interest by base ball folks a few years aco. No end of The Season Opens May 2 and Selma IIHSO ball booming emanated from the cor The Best ridors and meeting room in those days. Takes All an* a'* IMacft. Interest has been gradually on the wane Memphis, Tenn, March 4. Kdltot "Sport ins: during the past three years, until now Lif"."--Al the in'-ctln^ of the Southern League, j; ta'jigi!? meeting, wliich wiis ivucv an event, bold here M:ituniuy und Sunday, the clubs rep lias liecoDK! a mere Incident In the sporting resented were New Orb-uus, Memphis. LUt-ln world. This lust meeting \vns the ponrest at- KtVk. Hlirevcport. Birmingham. Nashville aud uacl it not Iwen for I he pres Shoe tended of all. unit Base=ball CbuttanongA.. As WiUinm Nu^cnt, ft Atlanta, ence of a tvu- 8t;indbys airjoug tbe RCrII>t-s tin«l failed to appear, his franchise was declared i'or- a im-re hamlfull or players the hublnii's of the fHied and tnrru'd ovi»r lo' F>. T. Peters, nf hnfrl \vonltl prolmbly nevi-r have buo\vn that Keluiu. who immediately posted » certified check tbe National League was in session. It was for $500 guarantee uud all back clues and as A CH1LI.INO FROST sessments. tbnt last meeting. In former years a gront on the Diamond. PRESIDENT KENT SUSTAINED. many rooters would drop Iu during the mat The clubs were given until May la to reduce ing and mingle with the many managers, plavera the number of surplus players ur.d yet within anil scribes who congregated in the corridors It has held first place for nineteen years. Worn by ninety per tb'- salary HmU. They are forbidden to play ex to talk base bull. It Is different now Even cent of all professionals in America. hibition games bvlwe*>u themselves before the the assaranee of a base bull \vsr failed to re championship season opens. President Kent's vive auy widespread interest Iu the doings of derisions over disputed- -players bwxveen clubs the magnates. The local press, with its power were unanimously approved. All players signed ful Influence and its widely read pages, devoted and claimed for Atlanta have been transferred little space to the meeting. All these things CLAFLIN'S PROFESSIONAL," ... $7.50 to Selma. must have made an impression on the magnates No base-ball shoe ever made can equal thit shoe. TUB SCHEDULE. The magnates will now begin to realize the The Schedule Committee was unablo to finish vnlue of newspaper support In base ball and es- It3 labors, but gives ibis arrangement of open "CLAFLIN'S MINOR LEAGUE," - - - $5.00 pcclally so since the doings of the American This shoe is as good as many higher-priced make*. ing championship gomes: New Orleans at League seem to be so widely discussed In the Shreveporr, Memphis at Little Rock, Nashville newspapers. Observation at the recent meet ar Chattanooga, Selma at Birmingham. One ing plainly demonstrated that the "CLAFLIN'S AMATEUR," ..... $3.50 hundred and. thirty-two games will be played, wjiiiincn^Inp May 2. Si-lma. however, will not AMERICAN' LEAQCE The best base-ball shoe ever offered at anywhere near the price, play Sunday ball, either at homo or abroad. is In good favor with the majority of the scribes. So far as the local situation is concern- FIT GUARANTEED. Send size and width of street shoe, with outline of foot dwwn ed this India'erencR toward base ball is nothing on paper. CHATTANOOGA CHATTER. unusual, as the local press has been glvln» REMIT WITH ORDER, and we will deliver the shoes anywhere in the United States, base ball the go-by for several years. A partf. saving you 60c. to 7oe. express charges. The Latest News From the Southern san of tha American League remarked tbe othei All Craftin Shoes are already titled with spikes, which are included at the above day that if Johnson could put a teuoi In this prices. They are hand-forged, and made exclusively for the Claflin Shoes, just now league Headquarters. city its hackers would have a gold mine Th, Chattanooga. Tenu., March 4. Editor "Sport- we have a number of extra spikes, which we will dispose of at the following price*: same person declared that tlij American League finish, $1.50; heavier, $1.00. Toe plates, rijht er left, 5OC, InK:"--Hefore leaving for.the Southern. League people hope to get a footing here next rear. Lightest weight, finest schedule meet fug. at Memphis, last Saturday, Certain League men argue that when" the Piosldnnt Kent announced that he has approved game began to decline In this city Interest fell the following contracts: With New Orleans, off all along the line. These same League men Glad to mr.il you a copy of our new book about Base-ball Shoes, as soon as it is off press. Fred Abhott and-Joe Dane; nnd Nnsbvllle, Law- cherished a hope that Send us your name and address. son Farrl-s. \V. D. Coodeuough. James M. Bal- THE \EW YORK CI.CB lantynn; with Little KuOfe. John S. Skopec. New would make a strong showing this year and MAKER OF BASE-BALL SHOES Orleans has claimed Charles McOin. that the bottom had been struck iu base bui; CAUL E. WOOD, _ depression. Having placated "Chief Zlmoipr one of the Chattanuoga catchers, who last year who made certain demands on behalf of thi' 1107 Chestnut St., Philadelphia illicit .for and managed the Helena tt»am of CLAFLIN, players, they felt encouraged, when over ,\ the Montana State League, was born at Pulton, trivial matter the New York club ajaln took .Mo.. April ft. 1375. His first professional eii- a stand, by the withdrawal of Its president In txi^rmeiir was with the Topeka Club in ISftp. anger, thnt has given the hopeful magnates lie played the senson of 'Of! with Jefferson City. the cnld shiver. Until the magnates agree t.i Mo.. «nd was with St. Josi'ph in '07 ami Kiiltnn, amend a resolution regarding profunltv "on the M tlce of fielding grounderg and throwing to buses I nd it Is believed to be the only instance in the fast team this season haxe been greatly strength was continued to-day, and will be the regular tnte where a professional coach has been ein- ened during the past wecfc, and tiac progress of thing from now on. ed with the exception of the State Univers- the candidates will afford inte'resrtng speculation COLLEGE CHEER. Captain Green said that he has not yet de ty. Base ball has never been the success at for some time. Green, third baseruan on, last cided when to call out the rest of the candidate*. tterbefu that foot hall has, but there promises year's Manhattan College team, who 'svas de but it is believed that flic first of this wr«;k o be a big revival of interest this spring. tained at home on account or his injured1 knee, will find University Kield busy with * 'spring will he a valuable acquisition to tho team.' Tl» WHAT IS GOING ON IN UNIVERSITY practice." if the weather permits, and If the reporting of Leih, of AHoona, Pa., at the train- weather is unfavorable, the1 cage will be crowd VANDERBfLT'S VIM. ins quarters, will add greatly to the pitching ed with would-be 'Varsity uien. forc«'. Corlln and Poolin, both of last year'* BALL CIRCLES. THE CANDIDATES. The Tea in Candidate* Hard at Work BuekDcll University team, are showing up in The men wbo have reported thus far ari in the Cage. good form. The pitching staff now numbers as follows: Catchers L. G. Blssell, VV. I). five men, but nothing will be done to get them Clarke. II. P. Butler. PI. H. H. Hillebrand and Nashville, Tenn, March 4. Editor "Sporting Into form until the warm weather commences. Base Ball Teams at the Leading T. P. Mumford; Pitchers O. Cl. Stevens, W. H. *if(.'." H. C. Dyer, who used to play with the Underbill, J. H. Duff, W. B. Buyers and H. & amous Knqxville lleds, is In the city studying New man; First Uasemen F. H. McLflnrey, S. iw and will play ou the Vanderbilt 'Varsity, VIRGINIA 'VARSITY Colleges Now the Cbie! Topic L. Koch, 3. P. Sousa, N. R. McLure. W. Woods 'hat oi'paiii'/.atinu is being por fueled. 1'rac- and \V. W. Gordon; Second Basemen W. A. ice has ht-gun in the cage of a deserted West Announces a likely fJst of Candi Hours, R. P. Crary, V. II. M.Laurey; Third i(]« dieting room, und also ou Dudley Field, Among the Devotees ol Ball Sports Baseman R. L, Burrell; Short Stops K. V. Pell. t'hen the weather permits. Coach Billy Guiid, dates For Her Team. P. L. Madden, and W. 1J. Cosgrave; Fielders f Oallutin, bi'^an work early lu March, Among Charlottesville. Va.. March 3. The first call to The News From All Points. J. D. Mills. T. P. Mumford, B. M! Miller, E. B. hosa fruui whom University of Virginia base hall candidates .was Powell, F. U Madden, W. F. Preston. D. W. TUB TEAM answered hy 32 men. Virglpla" begins th* season Kdwards, G W. Ely, J. R. Truesdale, W. B. rill be selected are: Catchers. Fugler and Cnrr; with seven of the old men Carter (raptainj, Germany, W. B. Buyers, and T. F. Spnrgln. iltchurs. Harry'llolman. Palmt-r and Gnrrett; Nalle., Steptoe, Stearns, Walker, Ci-aciaft and Below will be found the current news It Is to the freshman class that Princcton first base. Dyer, formerly with &Duxvflle llcds. Timberlnke. The candidates are: regarding base ball at the various col must look for the development of pitchers this Perry: pitchers. J. Hnluiat) ftiu) Hitt-hft1 ; Pitchers -Pollard, of Willium ond Mary Col season. C. G. Stevens, the freshmnu from An- ml base, Harliee «nrt Da via. It itch ie "and lege; Wall. Wormen. Peate. Force, Ci-acraft, leges which have permanent base ball dover, Is said to give pood promise of brilliant Jrown. J. Willianison; shortstop, W'eise, iiice. Clark, of Virginia Military Institute; HoH>-of organizations, and are now busily en work. VV. H. Underbill, who mad« a pomi ri-c- Ji-aig; third base, Kiigh-r'; out fielders. Matthews, the Episcopal High School; ML ran. of St. Al- ord In football last fall. Is also a Ukely eaudJ- limmons, Hinea and Siblcy. Manager Walter ban's; llansborougb, Garnett, Harris nnd Carter. gaged in preparation for the approach dut« for the pitcher's box. Draper, of the V;;nderbilt 'Varsity, announces Catchers Nulle, Scott, Hatcher, Cidd, Hardy ing college season. 'Hilt SCHEDULE and Johnson, First Base Wall, Garnett, Waller, Elackwell PENN PESSIMISTIC somewhnt as follows: four games with Mnn- and Carrot 1. '•'....'.'. RULE CHANGES. tger Fisihcr's team, two on Dudley Field and Second Base Coleman, Lavender, Pollard..add Pew Candidates Reporting For Prac wo nt Hie old AHilotic Park, to be played In Wtilker. ' r*" ; I Colleges Will Adopt National League tice and Prospects Are Poor. Jarch; Mercer College, ut Macon, Ga., April Third Base Steptoe and Walker. 5. 6 and 7; Georgia Tccbs. at Atlanta, April Short stop MiniieKerodt-, Gentry qnd Stearns. Amendments. Philadelphia, March 2. -Much fear It enter -if), *2« and 27; Central and Centre College. Uy., tained over the prospects of the University (if Outfield Faddy. I.oyd, Timbcrlake, Preston, New Haven, Coiin., March 3. It Is be at UirhmmuJ and Danville. Ky., April 18. 11>, Cucke, Craeraft, Herndoq, Winstori, Hunter a'od Pennsylvania base ball team for the coming !1; University of Ga., iu Nashville. May o, 4; lieved at Vale that the American, college season, due to the apathy tbown hy the candi liiadley Walker. teams will adopt without alteratiou the Trinity College, or University of Texas, May Murray M. McGuire, captnin of the famous dates. At yesterday's practice not uiore thnu i), ij. In Nashville. Wiishlngtcii and Lee ur new set of base ball rules proposed at the fifteen men. including the 'Varsity aud tenm of 'i>:{, whirh won second place in tUe fresh- ;entral Colk-j.'*.', in Nashville, May 17, 18; $u- IntiTcnUegiute games ut the World's Fair, boa meeting of the National League magnates icu. reported. Couch Irwin has been away for VHLUUC, Mujr 24, 25. last week. Captain l-'rauk Robert sou, of several days, and a good many of the candi arrived to coach the pitchers. the Yale nine, said to-night, La speaking dates also seem to be taking a vacation. Thf of the chants: cause for the lack of interest Is difficult U> un tt WOUH1NQ. Gettysburg Going Ahead. "I hardly think that any special correspondence derstand. The most will be necessary among the colleges to secure PLAUSIBLE REASON A boat Sixty Men Now at Work. In Gettysburg. Pa., March 5. Captain Lantz, of tbe adoption of the rules. 1 think that the o<>|- jo far assigned is the fact that all but two Gettysburg College, has issued his call fur base leges will express themselves as willing to adopt f last year's team have returned to college the Cage. ball candidate)!, anil already has 23 or more the League rules as published in the nlh'eial and are trying their old-position. This fact New Flaven, March 5. Vale's university base candidates ut hard work In tho cage. 1C experi guide when it appears. Personally, I am very seetns to have caused, many of the new candi !>;ill players rejilly begau work lust Thursday lu enced players count for anything, Gettysburg much pleased with the rules. Of course, nil the dateses too feelee thata they have no chance to se-- the CHK«. About sixty meti reported. This mnn- College should stand well to tin: front in colle rules tending to prevent unnecessary delays iii ire a position on the team. and. therefore, jer includes all the players willj the exception giate bfi^e hall this season. All of lust year's the game me welcome, 1 think that college ey have not come out.. The'' universal apathy >f the battery Candida ten, about fourteen In players nre in college, with two exceptions, Dale pitcbcit will be bothered more thau anything among the candidates for the 'Va'rsity team was lumlwr. These men will report to-morrow, and und (Jladfelter. who played second base and else by the rule forbidding liiem to throw to hat caused the busy ball commutes to organize from that time until the players are able to short stop, respectively. Captain Ijint/ jR'lll bases or to warm up. If any of the new rules A FUKSHMAN TBA.M, oi-cupy the diamond at Yulu field will practice cover third basa. Plank, who was a jiropleni to Is decline^ hy the colleges this will be the qne>. nn which those men who could not secnre a po laily. RO many butsmen last season, will get the brunt Of course, the National League managers made sition on the 'Varsity could win a place. The Captain Kobortson, who Is also the 'Varsity of the work In the box, hut will be relieved Tiy the new rules thfnklnj; entirely of the profession freshman team has been organised only about pitcher of tbe past two years, told your repre Kottermau and Winters, whose jjjtching of last al game. They have, however, vot*! that the older experts can concede these odds Armour gave the president of the League a to the youogster.'but it is alsu quite possible Hst of his pl.-i.vers iU',d Hi'- Idea is tb«l tbf im;u that the youngster may come off the victor. That will bt- prou-cud. Power, it will be ivmt.'iub^rwO. BILLIARD veteran "War Horse" Thomas J. Gallagher. ir was chus-eu piesidtut of the liiicr-iitate NEWS. PITT5BURG POINTS. Bunjti oiio of the "toughest" propositions in Urn coun woi.-ks ago. try to encounter on a billiard table. His game- STROBEL'S DOSE. is uot attractive or brilliant to lock at from tfy the way, spuakiug of the Inter-State; re THE GENTLEMAN'S GAME AT HOME a billiard poiat of view, but be is ever inter PIRATES GOT FAIR TREATMENT BY calls the deal Strobe! got before the National esting while playing, as you do uot know Heard. For days, they say. Mr. S. had bem AND ABROAD. whether he is going to average 1C or more, or tolling friends that when be got before that or oat off his opponents' head in tbe event of the THE LEAGUE. ganization he would tell thviu a few things. latter having what is known as luck. MeLnugh- His time came last week. He raiue out of liu, on the other bund, is quite the opposite to the room like a man who had beeu having1 his Gallagher. Although an Irishman, like Gal money on a dead horse for hours and did not Eowison and Mornlngstar Great In lagher, McLaughliu was born in tbe Quaker Colonels Dreyluss and Puliiam Not know It. Tbey say that Mr. Brush bandvd him City, and would, as a rulo, prefer to lose a j a copy of the National Agreement, and asked terest In Their Contests Daly's game rather than accuse his opponent of nat ! him to look it orer. The CHSC didn't take long having counted when he did. There is just Worried by the Damands ol Time lor the Board to make up Itr miud. enough of the Hibernian blood in the Quaker, SCHEDULES. Enterprise Foss and Conklln A however, to make him play bis best billiards One Expected More Which Did Those reports about itonua Wagner getting with master experts for opponents, and la the good as a bowler are all right. He made a fiuu present contests we shall bo surprised If Mc- ivoord on the alleys of Gaffuey &. Co. tbe "other H The werking parts are few and simple, th« general outline of the gun is graceful and the locking device is positively safe. Dan THE SHOW. Lcfever was in charge of this display. Sehorerling. Ualy & Gates, of New York, had an exhibit of the Daly CHILLED AND SOFT SHOT THE SEVENTH ANNUAL AT MSD1SOH gun, showing both the double and the three barrel models. Their space was well We wish to call sportsmen's attention to the relative economic value of Tilled with nearly every article needed by Chilled and Soft Shot when used with smokeless powders. SQUARE GARDEN. the sportsiuuu. The exhibit in a general The killing pattern of Chilled Shot at ordinary distances is fully 25 per cerrt. way was the most extensive oue in the Garden, for the lover of out door sports, better than that of Soft Shot, and the penetration is much greater. The reason for gunning. Rshing, canoeing, golf, anil ath- this is that the effect of the explosion of the powder in the gun is less on Chilled Many New and Interesting Features leii'.-s. having Its full share. Shot, in proportion to its hardness, and it flies straighter and is less affected by The Steveus Arms and Tool Co., of Chl- the wind than if it were bruised or imperfect. The Scenes Fascinating to Every copee Palls, Mass., had a complete line of ttjfir rifles and single barrel shot guns. In The extra cost of shells, loaded with Tatham's Chilled Shot, is $1.50 to the rifles they showed the "Steveus Ideal," $1.00 per 1000, but the increased chances of killing would be worth 25 per cent, of Sportsman Wild Game and Game which has loug established a name for it self for reliable work. The diamond model the whole cost of the loaded shells. target pistol is ouc of the best for this Of course the worst ammunition may sometimes, by chance, do good execu Birds Sports With Can and Pistol style of shooting, being famous for its tion, but it does not pay to use it habitually, and, as the price of first-class loaded accuracy and simplicity of action. They shells cuts no figure compared with the satisfaction of making good bags or win A short step as to distance Is the change were showing their new single barrel shot from city pavement to palmy avenue at gun, listed at $7.30, with and without ejec ning prizes, it may be readily seen that sportsmen can afford to pay whatever it Utidison Square Gardeu this week and tors, which attracted much notice from costs to get Tatham's Chilled Shot. iie\t. the occasion of the 1!HU Sportsmen's their clean finish and solid appearance. Tatham's Chilled Shot is absolutely the best in the market, being harder, Show in New York City. This seventh an James Karraher, their popular trade ii-p- nual affair under the auspices of the Na reseutative was in charge. rounder, better polished, and more uniform than any other make, and sportsmen tional Sportsmen's Association is most pic will find they can kill with much greater certainty by using it. turesque and entertaining, with perhaps a The Cartridge Companies. slight void noticeable to the younger etc- The concerns manufacturing loaded am- r-enl ntliletically inclined, who miss ihe muuitiou for tile shotguu. ritle and pistol 83 BeeVcman St.. aquatic sports of former years, and conse were the Union Metallic Cartridge Co. and quent competition. the Peters Cartridge Co. Not much in TATHAM & BROTHERS, NEW YORK. The palm-lined foyor but slightly pre the line of new goodfc were shown, but pares patrons for the delights within. The a general exhibit of the standard metallic stage \Mew at ouce attracts attention with and shotguu ammunition was exhibited. Its immense canvas accurately depicting The Union Metallic Cartridge Co. had Longfellow's Land of Hiawatha. ijuite a double space, with two very handsome the best elTect of its weird beauty is se upright cases, connected with an arch. cured at evening from upper rear balcony, The general appearance was magnificent, THE REPUTATION OF yet the majority are content with closer and the V. M. C. exhibit could be dc- inspection, where each movement of the scerned from every part of the Gardeu. Indian tribe in possession is watched un The, upright cases contained all the sizes tiringly by large crowds of people sur and kind of metallic ammunition made by rounding the miniature lake. This latter this concern, from the smallest .22 to the appeals to the angler with its full stock of big guns of the navy. 100 YEARS trout, as yet uuassailed by deceiving fly, The shotgun shells were displayed In to the lover of nature, who finds perfection open cases to sh.ivv Ihe various kinds of in detail, witli island in foreground, Indian powder and wadding used for all sorts of IN THE MANUFACTURE OF EXPLOSIVES tepees in the distance, rugged rocks and shooting. At the trap the highest grade lulling waters completing an artificial view of loaded shells are desired, and the U. M. IS THE GUARANTEE OF only to be found at a Sportsmen's Show. C. have won their share of the honors for l^ach aftt ruoon ami evening the stirring several years past. The big events, like scenes of the familiar legend are enacted the Grand American Handicap, have been with faithful fidelity by the ludian maids, won yearly by I1. M. C. factory loaded squaws, warriors and braves, ;:ll of ;he shells. The inanimate targets champion Ojibway tribe, I'rom Ihe shores of Lake ship have from time to time beeu held by men using these shells. Such men as DU PONT SMOKELESS Hurou, under the 'direction of Mr. H. O. Armstrong, Canadian Pacific Itailway. The Heikes, Budd, Le Hoy, Parmelee, Mar r.'il man's canoe, with noiseless paddle, shall. Panning, Hallowell, Morfey and eklrts island and shore incessantly, and hundreds of others use ('. M. C. factory but for the music of the orchestra, which loaded shells In all of their shootiug. intermittently streams forth, the spectators The Peters Cartridge Co., of Cincin E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS &. CO., would be carried unwittingly into the nati. 0.. with Eastern agency at realms of poesy and fancy. 80 Chambers street, bad a handsome double WILMINGTON, DEL. Near the entrance are grouped the cages space, beautifully decorated, and which of wild animals, native and foreign game was of unusual interest to every lover of / ixurnjannjuuxrurnn/uti ixi/uTJTJi/uTnjTjrxua/u^rLruTjmru i birds, gentle-eyed deer and white-Hagged rifle and pistol shooting. antelope are in close proximity to their The Peters Cartridge Co. have met with phenomenal success within the past few more massive-horned brethren, the uncouth Tatham's but no better than they ought to make, moose and nearly extinct buffalo. The years with their metallic ammunition, as really the cause of the trouble. well as with their shotgun shells. Last product stands Brst with the expert marks and foi* au average the scores are really cow caribou eyes askance her many callers, men, as they are sure of the leaden mes lower than on outdoor grounds, where the Indifferent, alike as to compliment and year the Peters cartridges swept nearly everything in the pistol, revolver ami rifle sengers being correct in siKe and form, shooting appeared even harder. criticism. besides \vitli peculiar hardness of each On the first day, March 2.' Heikes won The enclosures of quail, pheasant, duck contests throughout the country. At the Sea Girt meeting last summer they won Individual pellet. In ordering shells be sure the championship medal, with '.14 out of of all varieties, geese and swans form an to get Tutliuui'x shot as well as your favor KXI. Gilbert was next, with HI, although interesting portion of the show; likewise the Interstate Military mutch, the Regi mental match, All Comers' Military match. ite brand of powder, since more depends this was in his second trial, in which ho the fish exhibit, which consists of fresh upon the shot Hum most shooters imagine. broke but 1!) out of his lirst 2T>. W. li. water specimens in good condition, ami \ew Jersey Uifle Association match, the Winchester match and the greatest of all, At their stand Tat ham Brothers showed rroshy broke I'O in his first trial, and the little hatchery which treats of fish life One of the. Gilbert 8-t. A. II. Pox was third, In Us initial stages. the YVluibletou (1000-yard) International all the different sizes of shot. match. features was a frame containing several with 80 on his third chance. 1'nr- Sportsmen's camps, ideally pic-luring life million pelle'.s, so arranged as to britiff melee had 86, Panning Hit, Le l!oy amid natures haunts mil-round iu abuud- In revolver competition the Peters am munition was victorious In many important forth the absolute perfection of manufac 7.S. On the second day. March 4, there mice the game exhibit ou ground Boor. The ture. were 45 trials in the championship contest. ever-present: hunter's cabin is found In matches, both at short and long range. Por the past three- years Peters cartridzes The Le Roy Shot & Lead Works also dis The light was none too good and toward great variety, their beauty enhanced by a tower being the last it was too dark for flue work. the natural netting of the Garden's fir-clad have won the contests at the Sportsmen's played a line of their goods, Show in the rifle gallery, proving the won the principal feature. Panning led with 00. a clever performance; walls. Rustle settees here and there Invite The old and well-established firm of 3. Croxby !14, Heikes and Gilbert c.r_! each. the tired spectator to rest awhile without derful efficiency of their small bore metallic ammunition. The King's Semi-Smokeless H. I.an & Co.. New York had a Le Hoy 80, Pariuelee 87, Pox 84, all iu lirst loss of time, since in all directions the eye Smokeless thai. is pleased with the outlook. The Indian is used in the metallic goods, and King's case containing the Ballistite Smokeless for shotgun shells. They were powder In different combinations of loads. In the continuous match there were 2i booth is invariably thronged, their display itself entries, some making as many as 16 trials. of baskets uud souvenirs attracting many giving out several books on rifle and pistol The Ballistite has rapidly established purchasers. shooting, which interested all lovers of among the users of nitvo powder, and the On bis lirst effort Panning ran ill) and Ibis sport, The Pastern agent of this com (itiest kind of results are being obtained Heikes 1'J. Griffith went to l!7 on his sec by many "f the crack trap shots who arc ond test. Then Ileikes made it 71 straight The Tnxulermind. pany, Thomas H. Keller, with his son. Haze, nnd Jlr. Cook, were In charge of uslnc.lt. It is a dense powder of unusual and stopped. This gave him the medal tur Never before has the display of taxider this display. i|ulckuesR and killing power, will) greatly the day, as no one approached this mark, mist work been so extensive and beauti decreased recoil. It is loaded by the I". Gilbert, with ">7, be-ing second highest on ful. Many new features were to be seen Trap and Target*, M. C. (.'o. and the "Winchester Repeating the tenth trial. iu this line and tlio visitors found much The famous Magautrap for throwing Blue Anns Co. iu moderate and high-priced There was much complaint made by the to admire at the large spaces occupied by Rock targets is now iu use on most of Hie shells. residents in the locality and it was feared Freif Suuter. S. B. Crosby & Co., Thos. This firm are importers of firearms, fenc that an injunction would be secured to Fraine, M. Ablott Prazor. John Murga- best gun club grounds of America. This machine has become popular with trap ing goods and sportsmen's supplies of every stop the shooting, but it opened at 10 A. M. troyd and The Maine Exhibit. Game ani description. Mr. U. W. Wells was In on Tuesday with a good list of entries. mals and heads, game birds and fish were shooters because of Its rapidity of throw and its saving in charge. On Tuesday, MM'ch 3th. a heavy wind shown In the latest design of the art of ing the artificial flights, The lovers of outdoor life, and particu and chilly air made hard shouting. The Uxidtrmy. expense to a club running it over the old system of five traps. The Magamrnp used larly the camper, found much to interest Blue Rocks ducked considerable in the huge in the tournament on the Uoof Garden did them at the exhibit of D. T. Abercrombie box where tin? shooting is done, and scores The Gun Trade. constant work with little balks or delay, Jt Co.. New York. The supplies for a camp were lower than usual with the majority. The Remington Arms Co., of llion, N. Y., and a wonderful regularity of Bight, owing ing and canoeing trip were shown in its Pred Gilbert went out wilh !I4 on his lirst had a handsome mahogany case occupying to the electric motor. various stages, giving much useful informa trial in the championship, R. O. Heikcs two spaces. H was the most complete and The Cliuniherhilu Cartridge and Target tion, iu this line. The tent, folding cots, tied bin) on a second trial. Parmelee had valuable exhibit of fire arms shown In the Co.. of Cleveland, O., displayed the Mugau- camp chairs and camp bedding showed th" '.10. Pox also broke tiO on his third trial. Garden. All the grades of hammer and trr.p and explained Its workings to all who comforts which win be enjoyed in camp life Hanks broke 80. Crosby fell to SB. having hauimerloss guns, both single and double were interested, and also had a case of with the camping paraphernalia, which 17 in his score. Lcltoy 83. P. Daly 83 and barrel; the different sizes and grades of trap shooters' specialties, which they are was reduced to the minimum In space and Fanning fell to 81.- There were ucarly tifly rifles, both sporting and military, were dis now manufacturing. The llowley cheek weight. This firm also showed a model contestants. played in an attractive mauner. pad. an easily adjusted arrangement for of the liiieold canoe, which is attracting In the continuous match Gilbert had The Remington sun is too well known straightening or lengthening the gun much notice from the canoeists. This ma- 33. but Pox raised it to .">. Then Gilbert, to need a new introduction to our read stock, and the Heikes' hand protector, leriul gives much strength and will not made it 6") and it stood hi^h for the day. ers. The past records of the Remington for use of trap shooters, were shown in all warp or leal;. Write for catalogue of camp Panning had '33, Heikes 38, GrillUb ^.'j, guns prove the high standard of their sizes. This display was iu charge of C'Uas. outlits to D. T. Alic-rcrouibie Hi Co.. 2-3 Crosby '22. merits and they are famous the world over. North. South street, New York. At the trap the good scores made by such BEIDEMAN GUN CLUB. well Known shots as Heikes. Lelioy, Conrt- ney and Pulfin-d and others have proven Canoes and Canoeing. The Trap Shootlngi Hardcastle Won a Gun In tJi ; Holi the power of the Remington gun for tins While the Indians held forth on the lake On the Uoof Gardeu the exports hail day Shoot. branch of sport. The Grand American in their birch bark canoes the white men their inning, and all devotees of tills sport Handicap In IS',18 was won by 10. D. Fill- had to be content to examine the latest had au opportunity of witnessing the best The Beicleman Gun Club gave its annual ford with a Remington gun. The strength. models of modern craft. shots in America in open competition. Washington's Birthday shoot for a gun, at reliability, shooting quality and workman The Indian Old Town Canoe Co. had the Never before has there been such an aggre Beideman. X. J. Owing to the bad we«lh- ship making it a desirable weapon. most extensive exhibit in this Hue. showing gation in the National Sportsmen's con er and strong birds it was difficult to run The latest model hammerless was one several pretty models of their manufacture. tests. Kred Gilbert. R. O. Helkes. J. *. good scores. which sells at >W3. This was a perfectly The prices were within the reach of the Panning. W. Et. Crnsby. Prank Parmelee, C. Hai-deastle and A. B. Brewer tied on plain gun. with blued steel barrels, full average mortal mid ihe finish of these J. .1. Hallowell. Edward Banks. J. K. five birds. On the shoot-off Brewer miss choked and guaranteed ill every way. The pretty yet serviceable canoes was all that Hull. li. Le Hoy. Phil Daly. A. H. Pox, ed a hard one and Hardcastle killed one finest gnu was listed at $7.10. and was a one could desire. The grades were from Kd. Kike. Colonel Courtney. E. C. Griffith. just ns hard. There were several sweeps, beautiful piece of the gun mak"r's art. $2." to $43. the cheapest being an excep S. Van Alien I'.nd others made a warm miss and out. This stand was In charge of Col. Courtuey. tionally nice boat for the price. combination, and a man who won a medai Tim scores: the popular trade representative of the knew that he earned it. .1. Carlisle ... .20202-31 J. Cownn . ,...022w-2 Other Exhibitors. J. Morris ... .02021 31 J. Marbey ....01122 4 Eemingtou Arms Co. The arrangements were perfect under the A Brewer ... .l!l!l 51 Vs°. Cumujinga .22102 4 The Lefever Anns Co.. of Syracuse. N. In the manufacture of shot Tath.im management of Elmer E. Shaner. A Ma- J. Kellr-y .... .00002 II H. Ranking ... ll!olo-:i Y.. had a display of their uammeriess shot Brothers, of New Yurk, lead the world. gaiitrap, run by au electric motor, and U. Miller . ....12111) 41 C. Pnwcll ....12020 :) guns. The Lefever gun has been on the In shotgun work the best results are Blue Hock targets, made pretty shooting. H. H;iffner .. .00101 21 Grnbh ...... 10101 :', market for many years and has a high obtained by Ihe best ammunition. To the uninitiated the Bights appeared W. Cuinmines 11201 41 C. Hnrdcastle .11112 r> reputation. The grades are listed from £44 When the shot is imperfect iu form easy, but a trial soon convinced one that W. Snow . . . . .00220 2! H. \Mtaf . ... .IXU'M— 1 to $4011. The cheapest grade is a plain the powder or shell is often blamed there was plenty of space around each bird. VV. Sliayhorn .OJ222 4!J. Onwun .....;' "..'v . t> gun, well finished and nicely balanced. Cor poor patterngt when uneven shot is To be sure, the experts made good scores, J. Moriis .....20211-11 G. Eiuweclucr OiWUO-0 LIFE. March 9,1901. Gloucester County with quail. Mr. Hen- derson Is also waging war on hawks, which are killing olT whole coveys of these game THOSE YOU KHOW. birds iu some sections. The "Old Reliable" Parker ONCE MORE PROVES ITS RIliHT TO THE TITLE, AT THE GRAXiD AMERICAN HANDICAP OF 19OO. A report from West Chester, Pa., says 1st, 11 D. Bates, with 59 Straight Kills. 2nd, J. R. Ma. BOT TOO PERSONAL BUT JUST PER that two men have been tracking rabbits lone, with 58 Straight Kills. 3d, Phil. Daly, Jr., wita to their holes in newly-fallen snow, or by 31 Straight Kills. means of a hound. Then they dig the rab SONAL ENOUGH. bit out with a pick and shovel. An effort ALL USED THE is being made to detect the law-breakers. We hope they will be caught and properly OLD RELIABLE." Bits ol News, Gossip and Comment punished. Quail are reported to have suffered from About Men Whom Loyers of Shoot the extreme cold through the State, and in the Catawissa Valley several covies ing Know in Person or Through have been found frozen. This is sod news for sportsmen of that county, as they went to considerable expense two years the Medium ol General Fame. ago to restock this valley. Also, as the official records snow, M)S of the entire purse won with Parkers, By Will K. Park. Walter Alien won the first of a series S7.5* of all puns winning money were Parker*, and 34.6* of all guus en of shoots at Kansas City, February 22, kill tered were 1'arkers, which proves I hat the Parker is unquestionably the 3. R. Hnll. of Parker Bros.. Is moving ing 25 straight birds without a tie. most popular and quite lively these days. He shot in the "reliable" gun in the world. Harrisbarg live-bird handicap on February Send tor catalogue. PARKER BROS., Meriden, Conn. •JX and ou the following day completed iu J. J. Hallowell, of the U. M. C. Co., has the ItXJ-targct handicap of the Altoona returned from an extended western trip, accompanied hy his wife and young son, Gun Club. At the latter place he was Do not burn your hand when you high gnu at scratch, but the handicap and has again taken up his residence in SHOOT BLUE ROCKS." given this city. ___ to the others beat him out. USE There is talk of a team match between The crackajack target shots are work Springfield and Cincinnati, to take place ing for medals on the Roof Garden this this month. The lirst match will occur week, endeavoring to break nil previous in the latter place with eight to teu men records for long runs and hundred target HEIKES on a side. matches. C. Nauman. O. Fcudner, E. Fendner and Hall, of Mt. Pulaskl, I1L, won the Herald HAND Webb carried off the honors at the tirst trophy and first money at IVoria. III., target shoot of the season at lugteside, February ^'7, with 25 straight live birds. San Francisco, February 22. PROTECTOR In onr last Issue an error was made In Jake Beckley, of the Cincinnati Base the records of the Hot Springs tournament. Ball Club, refereed the big pigeon shoot The scores were nsed as they came from A NECESSITY for BLUE ROCK shooting. at Hot Springs recently, and the boys our special correspondent, but for some all say he has an "'eagle eye." reason those of first d:iy made l;y J. S. A COMFORT for ANY KIND of shooting. Fanning and K. O. Heikes were reversed. PRICES Six-Inch, 75 cents each; Nine-inch, $1.25 each; Twelve-inch, $1.50 each. Charlie Wagner and Harry Valentine led Heikes broke 152 and Fanning 146. This for the day's shooting at the Forester Gnu made a difference and gave Heikes third Sold by all dealera or sent by mail on receipt of price. Club, Albany, N. Y., February 22, each and Fanning fourth for the three days' breaking 127 out of 150 targets. shooting. Manufactured b/ The Chamberlin Cartridge & Target Co., Cleveland, o., U.S. A. W. R. Crosby took first honors In tae tar J. S. Fanning has been presented with a get shooting at Ilot Springs, Feb. 19-22, most beautiful and valuable gold timepiece TRADE NEWS. The only complete record shows that breaking .9S5 per cent, for 490 shots, with by the Latlin and Hand Powder Co., which » a run of 58 straight on the second day, he so ably represents. On one side is his The Chamberliu Cartridge and Target and 70 straight ou the third day. He used monogram, on the other the year in which Co., Cleveland, U., have bought out the an L. C. Smith gun, E. C. powder and presented. Inside the case Is the inscrip interests of the Heikes' Hand Protector, of Winchester Leader shell. "Bill" has been tion: -Presented to J. S. Fanning by the H. O. Heikes, and will manufacture this Lallln & Rand Powder Co. in recognition useful E. article C." a very good shot all this season. ou a large scale. The above of his securing the largest number of firsts firm have also purchased the patents and We have received during WOO." Jack has rea'son to feel business of the Kowlcy Pad Co., manufac a number of pro proud of his chronometer. turers of the Howley cheek pad. grammes of trap shoots within the past * * * month which undoubtedly were intended for a review iu thc.se columns. Iu many A lire bird handicap will be held at Ox "K. C." and "Scuultze" continues to Instances the matter1 was not at hand un ford, Fa., March 12th, under the manage hold its own among the users of nitro til the shoot was only a day or two otf, or ment of Herbert Alexander. The prize will powder. In all of the important winning else was too late for our publication to be a 12 gauge hammerless Fruncotte gun, at the traps within the past few years, use It. We are always willing to give Sl.Otf entrance miss and out. Shoot to com "E. C." or Schultze, has played a part, POWDER tournament programmes a notice, but wo mence at 10 A. M. Two sets of traps. tincl the manufacturers are enjoying a large must insist that they be received a week trade on these two brands. The latest or ten days prior to the event. A shoot will be held at Berwick, Pa., honors won with "K. C." Is the amateur Stands FIRST and THIRD in the list March W and 14. First day live birds, live bird championship. Write for their second day targets. Events to suit the circulars, etc. of HIGH AVERAGE winners for The game laws of Arizona, among other * * * things, forbids the killing of camel shooters, A. S. A. rules. Headquarters at from St. Charles The Baker Gun and Forging Co., Batavla, the entire season of ifjoo. October 1 to February 1. SomK may won Hotel. Shooting to commence Wis., lay claim to the safest hammerlcss der why this animal is included in the at 0 A. M. Eli Hess, manager. guu on the market. The hammers can list. Many years ago a number of camels not be jarred dosvu accidentally, and to wore imported from Kgypt by the Govern Dr. DnrbT defeated C. E. Geikler at the Keystone Shooting discharge the gun the triggers must be ment to he used in carrying the mail across League grounds, this pulled after the safety slide has been Fishing Tackle and the "Great American Uesert." They were city, March 5th. by the score of UO to 85 operated. The Baker Gun Quarterly, an in hardly a success and later the railroads out of 100 live birds. teresting bulletin, is mailed free of charge Sporting Goods, made them obsolete. As the Government to all who apply to the above firm. had no use for camels they turned them KEYSTONE SHOOTING LEAGUE. J, B. SHAHKON & SONS, loose and to-daw a sportsman can have The Fred. D. Divine* Co., of Utlca, N. camel shooting without going to Kgypt. Harrison Carried Off the Club Chal Y., are meeting with good sucess iu the sale 1020 Market Street, Philadelphia. lenge Cup. of their line hand-made fishing rods, which HAND LOADED SHELLS A SPECIALTY. Krcd. Miller, of Darby. Pa., was booked Although have a high reputation among fishermen all to appear at Suffolk Park, this city, Feb. Hnrrlson won the challenge cup over the country. Now is the time to Our Xew Fishing T«ckl« Catalogue sent for the asking. shoot on March 2 at the Keystone Shooting overhaul your old rods and buy L'8. and attempt to kill 13 out of 13 live League, at Holmesburg Junction, by out- new ones. birds. Ithode Island rules. A large crowd shooting Write for their new catalogue of flue rods. was on hand, but Miller failed to appear. Sanford and Budd in the shoot- * * * wadding and the shot must be absolutely As it was a chilly day. his feet may have off. Captain Van Loon was the high gun The Remington gun is meeting with n perfect. Many men are settled on certain gotten cold before he reached the grounds of the day. He made a score of 28 straight constant demand among trap shooters, as brands of powder, but are not particular and he went home to warm them. kills In the three events. well as game shots. The strong, safe and as to the make of shot. Few seem to It was a fine day for shooting and the reliable action, the high shooting qualities, understand bow much depends ou the birds were a fast lot. Twenty-one marks and the moderate price, makes it a popular shot. It must be perfect iu spherical form Cal Calllson made best average at the men faced the traps in the club handicap weapon. The latest catalogue of Reming or the pattern will be wild; it must be of Trovo. Utah, Gun Club shoot, Feb. 1EJ, and three men Ridge. Van Loon and Kus- a certain hardness or it will flatten in breaking 99 out of 110 targets. ton gun is mailed to all who apply to the sell killed straight, while five tied with Remington Arms Co., Iliou, N. Y. the barrel and fly wide of the mark. Tnth- nine kills for second honors. Following » * * aui's chilled shot is perfect, both iu form The Grand Triennial Championship, at are the scores: uml hardness. It is wis(* to uae the best. The Hazard Powder Co., New York, » * Monte Carlo, which is a 25-bird sweep, Challenge cup. ten birds, 30 yards rise, 50 are. meeting with great success in their $20 entrance, with S2000 added, was wou yards boundary, optional sweepstakes. smokeless rifle powder and are receiving The Daisy Manufacturing Company, Ply this year by Hon. S. H. Bercsford (Eng I W Budd ...... 11111 21112-10 numerous imjuiries concerning same, as mouth, Mich.. manufacturers of the- land), with 2S kills. Mr. D. Mackintosh W. Harrison ...... 21222 22212-10 well as letters attesting to their perfect "Daisy" and "Sentinel" air rifles have a (Australia) was second, Mr. Vernon Barker D. Sanford ...... 22222 22222-lU qualities. The following very attractive calendar, which they are (England) third and Mr. Crittenden Uoblu- K Russell ...... 11210 22121-!! Is a copy of one mailing to their customers. C Fitzgerald ...... 22112 12220-9 of these letters: 011 (American) fourth. The latter is a Syracuse. N. Y., Feb. 3. 1901. To native of San Francisco. F \V Van Loon ...... 20111 12221- 0 The Hazard ll'. Henry ...... 01211 22120-8 Powder Co., Nos 44, 46 and 48 Odar street, PEORIA OUN CLUB. F. B. McCoy ...... 02222 22022-8 New York. N. Y. Will G. Campbell, secretary and treasnr J. Vandegrift ...... 10121 212-1-8 Gentlemen: Mr. A. O. Hall Killed Straight For the Herald er of the Sportsmen's Association of A. Baltz ...... Kischang has &ome the 20211 22102-8 new smokeless rifle Trophy. Northwest, announces thoir seventh-~ an- F M Hobbs ...... 22200 12220-7 Peorla, 111., Feb. £7.-Editor "Sporting mini tournament at Blue Rocks, at WallaV C' K Geikler ...... 2222- 20202- 7 powder of your manu .1. A'Amlerson facture-, and wished Life:" The regular medal shoot of the ' Walla, Washington, June 23, 26 and 27: ...... 20222 2:1020-7 me to give it a trial Peorla Gun Club took place on February $2500 in trophies, and $1000 in added cash J VV Orth ...... 02002 02000 3 to see \vhut 1 thought will be the drawing card. Live birds 'Shoot-off, 3 birds. 24th at the club grounds. The weather was will W. Harrison of it, and it has given fine and bids flew well, only one clean be shot on June 28-2!); a special event will ...... -Ill 111-6 finch perfect satisfac be at 1. W Budd ...... 112 202-5 score being made. Meidroth was the win 25 birds, $25 entrauce. D SaufoKi ...... 0 -0 tion I thought perhaps ner with ten straight. Mulvey shot well, Club handicap, ten birds, handicap in yards you would be Interest but was unlucky iu losing two birds over Henry Mohring, a ed to know the result, farmer, of Forestbnrg, rise 50 yards boundary, optional sweepstakes. and I have also recom the line. Four tied on seven and one Sullivan county, N". Y.. says au exchange, H "Rlclee (Xfi...... 21221 22222-10 mended it to my friend rifle shooters, and those fell to six. The scores: wan IB a change made in the State law pro- K'W Van Loon. (30)...... 21122 11122-10 that have time to test it all speak very Leisy ...... 22003 11120 7 tcciiiiK wild deer. He says he must Ed linssell. (29)...... 12212 31112-10 highly of it. "When 1 clean my rifle and take Meidroth ...... 12211 21211 10 abandon farming unless he receives some I W Bndd, (30) ...... 112-1 21-12-10 It up the next day and run a patch through Portman ...... 12210 00220 8 protection from the ravages of the animals. D Kanford. (30)...... 22220 22222-9 it. there tl. Henry. (30)...... 02022 22122-9 Is no signs of rust, and it is the Heilinau ...... 12202 20220 7 most even' shooting powder I have ever seen. Baker ...... 01212 22020 7 F R McCov (30)...... '2222 22222-9 Have IJoward Itidge, of this city, was award .1.' A Anderson, tried the other makes of powder, but Holt, Wm...... 02220 20121- 7 ed » handsome gold watch, valued :it $1«0 (29) ...... 22K2 2-222-0 don't want them. Yours respectfully. Mulvey ...... 22001 12222 8 Dr. Darby. (20i ...... 2222- 22222- » (Signed) L. H. Coleman, by thf Latlin & Rand Powder Co.. for C. GelUcr. (29)...... 122U2 22202-8 On February 27th the Herald trophy was ilUp'ising of the second greatest amount of No. 316 Kellogg St., shot for at ^5 live birds. Hall, of Mt, A. Halt*. (28)...... 01212 221H2- 8 Syracuse. N. Y. L. A- It. powder during the year of I'.HXi. .1 W Ortb. (28)...... 22222 2-2O2- 8 Pnlaski. III., won with a clean score, his The target shown was made by Mr. Cole- work being of a bich order, as the birds Howard is too modest to say much, but Dr. Oohi-1. (2X1 ...... 02111 -2212- 8 man, being the result ln> fvt'cinently looks to see what lime it is. j W. Hnrrison. (30) ...... 02112 12110-8 of six shots with a were a good lot. Heilman and Burnslde W X F'anccltf. (30) ...... 22220 23-25 rino. distance 05 feet, ii'iing Hazard went out with 24 each, and divided second 22220-- 8 No. 1 Uifle Smokeless powder. Diive IClllott. the manager of Uu Pont C.'Ca'mpbell. <2S) ...... 00221 12220-7 * * money. Portman took third ou 23. Four Shooting Park. St. Louis. Is booming pigeon .1 Hack. (28) ...... OJ211 -21*1- V men withdrew before the finish. K llohbs. CtOl ...... 220-0 21212 7 Tathnm Brothers, 82 Beekman street, The scores: shooting in that city and his excellent New York, manufacturers of chilled and work is evidenced by forty to lifty shooters j J. Vandergrift. (SO)...... 220IK 2122*- 7 Lclsy ...... 22221 22221 2222222200 1220W-- 81 C. Fitzgerald. (30) ...... 2*021 102-0 0 soft shot, have gained for themselves the Meidroth . ... .12021 12122 12121 2111O Ow -IS participating In events ou those groun'ds I Daviilson. i2S) ...... 10210 10220-6 j highest reputation in their line. Trap Baker ...... 21002 alZL'O 2w 8 nearly (-very week. . I Swt'pestflke. eight birds. $3 entrance, 30 yards I shots are very particular to have the very I'ortmon ...... 12122 22122 22222 22020 22222-23 rise. 5o ynrds bi.undar;,1 Van I.oon 8. MeOuy S. i best ammunition. When they enter a Hfilman ..... 12l2o 12221 22121 22211 12122-24 John M. Henderson. of Woodbury, N. J.. ,' Anderson S, Darby 7. Fitzgerald 7. raiapbeil 7, j match it should be with a feeling that Rurnsides . . . .22222 22221 2222U 22222 22222-24 Is making arrangement* with the New Jer- I (Jeikior 7, IK-m.v 7. Ortii 7. Budd (i, Mutsdeu 0. , their load Is perfect. In order to have tbe Hall ...... 1222? S2122 SS221 U12S S1132- » ma Slate Game Commission to restock Bobbs 5, YaiidergrUt 5, Baltz i, GoeUtil *. t verv best kiad TV"1 Dowder. th* fcliell. tu«a UoST ...... 10CO» - » March 9,1901, SPOKTINO LIFE. 15 EXPERIENCED SPORTSMEN AT THE TRAP OR IN THE FIELD REMINGTON HAMMERLESS $35.00 to $250.00 DESCRIBED IN COMPLETE CATALOGUE, MAILED FREE REMINGTON ARMS CO. ILION, N. Y. 313-315 BROADWAY, NEW YORK tection, and not working with the other members of the Commission. Mr. Sooer has issued a pamphlet setting forth his ob A SHOTGUN SHELL EDITORIAL NOTES. jections to House Hill No. 43, and justify ing his position In the matter. Among oliier things Mr. Sober says he It Is Loaded With By Will K. Park. would like to shoot ten pheasants a day The programme of the Colorado State if the law allowed it. He advocates chang Ihoot. uelu at Colorado Springs, February ing the open season from November 1 to 22 and 23. reached us tno late for a re- December 15, so as to prevent the "grape "Vlevf before flic shoot. In a circular let vine shooter" from slaughtering pheasants, King's Smokeless ter sent out hy JoliD \\'. Uurrett, captain (grouse) when they feed on wild grapes. Of (UP Colorado Springs (Jui! flub, lie snys: We would like to know where the wild "This tournament is not being promoted grapes are so abundant that pheasants can Powder with any idea of making money far the be slaughtered to any alarming extent. State Association or our club. II Is the Mr. Sober also states that sometimes A. Perfect outgrowth of a desire of the undersigned qi'.all are not hatched until October, and Load for Field and Trap Shooting to give a shoot that will bring ottt all of the season should be shortened. Whife tills the shooters of this State, as well as to is to be regretted, it is a pity that the Invite othpr States and every lover of iiuail cannot be taught to lay their eggs true sportsmanship to join us and aid earlier in the season, say June or July, so A full line of these famous Cartridges us In' creating, to a greater degree, a warm the young can be fully matured by October now manufactured. «nd kindly feeling towards each Other, 151 h. It Is the quail's fault and not the to huild up trap shooting in this RtMte sportsmen. Last year 1be season was very They are the best made for rifle, revol upon a foundation of true sportsmanship dilatory and some energetic quail may ver and pistol. and fellowship." Keen competition, honest have tried to raise two or even three rivalry aud honesty of purpose, the writer breeds, thereby having a few uuhatched They never deteriorate, and cost no believes, are requisite to keep the art of eggs on baud when the. season opened on more than old style ammunition. trap shooting ou a plane that is the most October loth. commendable." Loaded with KING'S SEMI- They have excelled in every depart It Is surely Impossible to make game SMOKELESS POWDER ment of shooting. It would he well foe the clubs la chnrce. laws for this great State which will suit at sofue other State shoots to emulate all gunners. Those living in the lower the example of the Coloruda Gun Club. eastern nortlon have rabbits, hut little There are somv States which not only AMMUNITION OF TO-PAY THE 20tb CENTURY. discriminate against nil outsiders, but even bring some of their own State shoot ers, members in good standing In the ,,State Association, under a ruling which forbids them from participating In State events. It does seem a pity that any The Peters Cartridge Co. State has men so proficient iu the art Eastern Department, of shooting, or through their means of making a livelihood, that they should be 80 Chambers St., New York. debarred from participating in any and TRAP IN ST. LOUIS. T. H. KELLER, Manager. Cincinnati, Ohio. all of the events offered by the Associa tion of nliien they are a member. Kenyon Won the Du Pont Park Dia mond Medal. The programme of the Colorado State MORE RECORDS Sportsmen was one calculated to attract St. Louis. Mo.. Feb. 2.".-Editor "Sport- Made with the Hazard Smokeless Powder. a large gathering of true sportsmen who Ing Life:" The regular slioot for the t>u- love I'ont Park medal, took place ou these At Omaha, Neb., Sept. 27, 1900, J. A. R. Elliott, 96; trap shooting. The events were at l^ grounds yesterday. Kenyon winning with and 20 targets eleven events a day. with 23 straight in the shoot-off. John Cahanne F. Parmelee, 95. the sum of $20 added to each purse, and being the runner-up. There were forty Kansas City, Oit. 2d, J. A. R. Elliot, 99; F. flilbert, ffS. $37.50 Average money, a total of $'2:'7.50 Kansas City, Oct. 3d. J. A. R. Elliott, 99; F. Gilbert, 07. added inoue)'. The second day had jcjti2.50 entries, and ten killed ten straight birds. In cash added. $300 worth of merchan After this event Bush successfully de Possible 100 live birds, 30 yards rise. fended thik Mermod trophy against Vv. K. Tbe abore records of Mr. Elliott bar* nerer b«en aooom dise prizes was offered with an entrance Nold, by tfie score of 22 to 21, out of 25 fee of only $1.00, which includes price of birds. pllsbed by any other man. targets. Tljirty-flve prizes were offered anil The birds in the medal shoot, also the He used Hazard'* "Blue Ribbon" Smokeless every shooter fnjling to win a prize hud Mermod trophy race. were of a good qual Powder. Tbe scores fpeik for in power. his entrance nioney returned. \Vby can't ity, and the wer.ther was Weal for the sport some of our Kasteru States emulate Col of pigeon shootiug. See tbat your shells art loaded with Hazard Powder orado? The scores: and always win. Ten live birds, for Do Pont Park medal. Writ* for elrculari to The New Century Cluh, of West Ches Dr. Galnra (31) ...... :....22222 22221-10 ter, Pa., made a stir last week by at Slwni-vr (31) ...... 22221 22223-10 tempting to stop the onnnai pigeou shoot W. B. Hill (281 ...... 11111 12222-10 THE HAZARD POWDER CO,, of the West Chester (»uu Club. At a meet W. D. Kenyon (28) ...... 21222 12222-10 44. 46, 48 Cedar St., New York City. ing of the club the following resolution Scbuara (28) ...... 22212 22112-10 "tvas unanimously adopted after a spirited jno. Cabahne (80) ...... 22223 22222 10 denunciation of the "heartless killin" of .1. M. Si'Uer (201...... 22111 12211-10 birds: Jos. Urntrlek >28) ...... 22212 11111 in SALT LAKE GUN CLUB. State nnilcr the act of March ii', IS'.IO. "The women of the New Century Club, C. M. Bu?h (301 ...... 11111 21221-10 and deriiics public and private waters, in learning of the great shoot of live birds, Hy. Coiirades (281 ...... 22122 11222-10 Callisou Again Carries OfT the sures (.he product of the State tlsh hatch to take .place. In West Chester, enter their J. W. Bowman (28) ...... 22222 -2212 » eries, accuracy to the bcncHt of the ans- protest against making a target of live W. B. N:ison (20) ...... 22111 2331)I— n Honors In the Medal Event. \\i\Sf public, aud deals fairly with, the com Hrds, and ask In the name of humanity W. H. X,ild (301 ...... 22222 22021- !) A dozen members of the Salt I,akc Gun mercial Interests. Chris. Heiligecsteln (30)...... 22221 '1212- H Club celebrated Washington's Klrthday, at t'.iat these Innocent, helpless creatures be Kd. rrouderaast (311 ...... -2111 The followlns nominations of officers to saved from such cruelty." 21212-1) Salt Lake City. Vtah. The main event Dele Cabanue (29) ...... 22222 2H222 !) Was at SO Bltip Rorks. be clectctl at the next in^ctln^. were made: We will venture to say that not one of Phil Weber 128) ...... 11112 111M-0 The scores: President. Bushrod Wnshingtnn .lames, M. the women of the New Century Club fitly Blue -Uwk« (Irtffith 46. IVase 41. J. ever Fred Fink (28) ...... 22220 11222-B Mitoholl 41, Dr. Dart 40. Joe Sharp :i'J. Ixive 39, D.; vice president. Howard A. (,'hase, W. gaw a llve-bird slioot. and therefore, are Win. U,igge!-iDan (S8) ...... 22212 22220- D J. N. Sharp its. Hcudprson 37. Woodruff 36, Bar- H. Rurkhnnlt, \Vllliani IV Thompson: cor net.capable of judging whether or not it Dr. Smith (81) ...... 222*3 22222- B rctt SB, Walker 84, W. \V. MItcbell 34. responding secretary, .1. rVnrosu Collius: is the "heartless killing" of "innocent, J N. Burrows (28) ...... 11102 12221-9 Ou Kpb. i!:t th»- regular club shoot was recording secretory. Marion G. Sellers', helpless creatures." We will also venture C'bas. Fresch (2S> ...... 20131 12021- B , held, at 50 Blue Hock?. ('«] t'nUiaou again treasurer, (Jeorge T. (iwilllam. Two nev to say that a number of the women C. Turner (28) ...... 22012 10121-8 members. 1'ere.v W. Warnc aud J. U. Al of the New Century Club, at the time F. C. Meier (29)...... 1 111* 01221- S carried off the honors with 48 out of SO. Cbas Weber (26) ...... 20022 22122 8 Tbe scores: ien' wen- elected. they made the "spirited denunciation," CIMb sftoot. 50 Blue Rocks-C. Calllson were waring on their bonnets the heads, Jonab (iiSi ...... 22210 12110-8 48. J. Jobnsou 128) ...... 21023 111O2-8 Sharp. Sr., 47, Joe Sharp 43, CarkPr 43. Ffatc Htandard Gun Club. triugx and feathers of some of our most 42, Booth 38, J. N. Sharp 35. Barratt 33, Wll- beautiful song birds, which had been ruth W. K. Barker (27) ...... 22222 20021 8 Tbe Standard liaii (;lub held a shoot at Bine lessly slaughtered to gratify their vanity. Herbert (28) ...... 12201 20012 T Rocks at Standnnl. Pa., t'ob. 23. The main Let the women of the New Centura Club Wasoo (20) ...... 21012 0*211-7 To Protect Fish. ereut at 5U targeth had yix <-ontcstaDts. and H. ! ' B. Arris (28) ...... 11221 00210 7 T. Krdman n'as the winner \vith 40 broken. The hold a spirited meeting, denounce all song Campbell (28) ...... 2"21 2-222 T A new bill, l>eing a complete codification bird killing and pass a resolution forbld- Jess Lee (28) ...... 01120 11101- 7 of all acts of Assembly relating to ftsh Cl-UC SHOOT. T.O BLUB ROCKS. dinz the wearing of song bird fenthers on Dr. Clark (291 ...... 2-122 22»20- 7 and amendments thereto, was presented T Kllne .... .Into) 10110 11100 10111 01101 their hats. Then they will be doing 8ome- ( has. Sandberg (28)...... 12012 21-02 7 before the Pennsylvania Fish I'roreciive 11010 10111 OHIO 1(1101 10111-33 thing. ___ ' M. C. UPed (28) ...... 22210 02120- 7 Association for discussion ut a meeting helil C. E. Weater.Joill lliol loi 10 lllol 10111 M W Miller (27) ...... 10129 20020- C :tt 1(I2<) Arch street recently. The 01111 11110 11110 01111 01011-37 In a recent Issue we printed a communi Williams (2$) ...... 01201 00112-6 new bill classifies food and game fish, J. F.' Wlttttan. 10101 loiiooiiiooilioiooio cation from Joseph Kaibfus, secretary of H C Clav (28)...... 11220 10100-6 specifies open seasons, seeks to protect 10110 10101 01101 OHIO 10111-30 tlieTiaroe Commission of this State. In the Kroell (28) ...... 121-0 00011-5 bass under nine V. J Snyder.. 10101 lolol 10101 01011 00101 In tbe »lioot-off of ties on 10 Kenya won on 23 inches, and brook or . 11100 11001 10101 00101 10111 30 article BOSTON GUN CLIJR Twenty tttt birds' handicap; $10 totrance. FREEHOLDCJUN CLUB. tournament of the Pettra. Cartridge Company, Rose system. of Cluclnnati. Major B." P. McKisslck, Bat *>oi>o2 2*v>22 tery Park Hotel, Asbt-Tille. N. C. LeRoy Does Great Work From Long Disney 12!» . 22120 22222-19 Van Derveer and Ellis Won First March 13-14. Uiwk Farm Hotel, W. Allentown, Distance. Kreuger (2u) ! 11122 012H 20111 12122 18 Prize in a Target Shoot. Pa. Targets and live, birds. Stoner (2yj . .21121 21101 12221 22101-18 March 1(1, 20, 21. Ashevl!!c, N. C.. Peters Cart Wellington, Mass., Feb. 23. Editor Wall (2UI...... 12201 11121 02011 12111 17 Freehold, N. J.. Editor "Sporting Life:" ridge Co., tournament, Major A. P. McKlssick. "Sporting Life:" The Boston Gun Club's Wilson (29) .. ..22222 22021 02022 22222-17 Enclosed please tind scores made at the sect., Battery Park Hotel, Ashevllle; Joun sixth serial prize shoot. Feb. 20. attracted Kraucescus (2S ..21021 11111 22022 12020 annual all day shoot of the Freehold Gun Parker, manager. sixteen sliooters, who took advantage of a Heiker (29) . ..20202 21012 22222 22021-1« Club, on Washington's Birthday. The day March 21 Newell Gun Club, target an-1 Iive-olf4l fine day to enjoy ttielr favorite recreation, Filies (29) .. ..22220 012210 2202 10222-15 was a tine one tor shooting, and a goodly 8hnot, Newell, la. H. G. Uall. secretary. Hull <2!>> ... ..12220 01202 11121 20101-15 March 23, handioaj) target sweep for gun, Clear- '('he scores loomed up of a better average Stevenson (21 ..02110 12022 than usual, while Leroy's 28 out of SO view Gun Club, Darby, Pa. Si-aboldt <27> ..11111 12022 April 1-5 The Iniersiiile AssociHtlon'H ninth from iilyds. rise is the best yet tnade in ..22221 2010O annual Grand Aiuericun llantllcan lf>urn)^:u'it:. series. Live bird practice from 2!>yd. mark Byers (28) ... . .002112 22222 at live birds, at Interstate Park. Qui'eii^, has seemingly good effect oo target work Hofl'mau (28) ..21120 21002 Long Island. N. V. from his handicap distance. Conway t'28) ..12222 22020 Hall, of Atlantic Highlands; Schenck, of April 9-1U llnlthmirp Klmorlng Anuwlnrlnii. Griffiths placed a good 25 from 10yds., Itojers (28) .. . . 12212 01020 00212 20011 1:! Asbury Park; Height and Henuett, of eighth nnnual spring rouinitmrnt. Taigets mid while Horace aud Worthing were close de- Metzgor (27) ..02201 22010 IdlOO 10121-12 Spring Lake, and many more. The events live birds. U. P. Collins. lecretat-y, Ualtl- hind, with 23 and 22 respectively. Mr. Stall (28) ... .02022 20112 OOOOU 00;'20 10 were run off principally over' the Magau- ininv. Mil. Leonard, of Brockton Gun Club, shot, at a Uoehue (27) . .22020 10020 20220 02200-10 trap, but a few were decided on the April 16-1S Kansas State Shoot, Leavenworto, 64 per cent, gait in all but the match Sargeant set; in all about i!000 targets Kan. W. II. Ivocbler, secretary. events, breaking 47 out of 50 in practice were thrown. The programme called for April 17 and 18 The Interstate Association's and suffering reverses in the prize score. TRAP AT ALLliXTOWN*. eight events aud two extras were added. tournament, at Jacksonville, Kla., imd'-r rh.- Mr. Worthing, another Brocktonian, aver- F.vent No. 3 was a merchandise. 10 targtts; auspices of the Jacksonville Gun Club. 13. \\. Tbe Local Clubs Hold a Shoot at 30 cents entrance; privilege to re-enter; Speny, se