THECoriaiGHT, 1887, BY THE SPORTING LIFE PCBUSHINO Co. SPORTING LIFEENTIBED AT THILA. POST OFFICE AS sicosn CLASS HATTER. VOLUME 10, NO. 6. PHILADELPHIA, PA., NOVEMBER 16, 1887. PRICE, FIVE CENTS.

that would be $2,160. If Detroit would only be worth is no doubt but what he will be. PreaiJeot Brush has dent refuses to promulgate thy contract on the ground the guarantee it would be 8600, but I believe it would openly said he will be, nnJ whea he says 90,1 am satis­ that Si rot here is a suspeude-l p'ayer. The club clttimi COMING EVENTS. do much better and go at least $1.000, and Pittsburg ¥ARD TALKS. fied. I think at least two others ns good as Hiaes are that Strothera was only suspended by tho president. should go gl,BOO. Now what would Philadelphia on the string, but who they are no ouo knows but Mr. LATE NEWS. who h«d no authority to do so. The matter will b* have to pay out at 40 per cent, or ten cents on every Brush himself. Things will be apt to devylop after brought befure the Leaguu urn-ting, admission? If it paid out 56,000 for twelve games it the League meeting on Nov. 16, but DOS much will bo would have to average 5,000 people to every game, known unlil after that time. President Brush will THE WASHINGTON CXtTB. Important Meetings and then it would have $9,000 left for its share, not The BrotHerhood's Posi­ attend, and will leave for New York Sunday night or Speculations as to Von counting twenty-five cents per head for tho grand Monday. He haa expressed no opinion about the A Straight Tip About the Management an<| stand, and aa at leant one-third of that number would Brotherhood. Ht> will be for percentage, of coarse. go on the grand stand, it would realize $5,000 from tion Again Defined. der Ahe's Visit. Policy of the Club. Crowded Together. STRAY ITEMS. Special to SPORTING: LIFE. that source, giving it 814,000 for the 86,000 paid out. Henry Boyle is atill here and report says he will re­ "You see every club would be protected as well as main here ail winter. WASHI.\GTON,D. C., Nov. 12. benefited by this plan. There would be no riak to A Definite Settlement Sam Thompson, of the Detroits, is at hia home in went to Philadelphia ye-tcrday, in quest of Joint Rules Committee and any of them. Everv League cily c\ub would have to pay of the this city. Hi8 people live in Danville, but the big The Washington Club's Plans- $200 if less than 1,370 people were present, and those Tom Deasley, whom he proposes to sign for the right fielder will maki- Indianapolis hia headquarters. Senators. Mr. Sullivan says tho Washington same clubs would be safe in Philadelphia whether Recognition Question Lurry McKeon tells me that ho will probablj- play Damage to the Browns' Three League Meetings 2,000 people were present or not. Of course Philadel­ with Sam Morton's Chicago Wcstorn League team Club is weeding out all the oil demoralizing phia must be granted a concession aud instead of pay­ next year, lidding dowu first base. element, and will next season present a strong ing the visiting club fifteen cents on every admission Desired. Tom Brown will be married this Grounds General team of good young material. in One Week. they will winter. The pitchers only pay ten cents, because they have au As- From what issiid about the matter, I Judge that will be Whitney, Gilinore and O'Dayj catchers. Bociation club to compete with and cannot charge more Paul Hines will play first base next yoar, SDombsrg than twenty-five cents admission. But the other clubs Intelligence. Muck, Mi,ih Murray aud possibly Tom Deadly; The coming week will be probably the most John Ward, on hig way back from the South, going to right field. The latter says he 13 going to O'Brien, Meyers and Irwin ou thi* bases; Don wily, will htmily suffer by this, as Philadelphia Is unques­ take good care of himself this winter and make a important not only in the year, but in base ball tionably the best base ball city in tho country aud tho was in Philadelphia, for a few hours on Wednes­ short fa-Id; and Wilmot, Hoy and Shock in tho out­ great record next season. fit-Id, Ted, who is a g"O-l j;i'Ige of ball p]:iyori, says history, aa no less than three leagues will meet, difference is made upon the increased attendance here. day. He left New Orleans Sunday night, re­ Pittsburg, Boston and a few other clnbs will proba­ WHAT IS GOING ON. "I deemed it best to make some lawful provision for this will be a strong combination, much stronger, In­ as well as the Joint Committee on Playing turning North on Brotherhood business, and will bly cease chattering about securing Nod Williamsoo deed, than would appear upon paper. Sullivan, also turnstiles with patent regwteis. That will do away rejoin the New Yorks in California. since he has signei a Chicago contract. A. G. 0. Possible Motives for Von der Ahe's Visit to Rules. The latter body will convene at the with the labor of counting so many tickets every day, New York at This Time. states that he has the refusal of the mauagtinent of Hotel Anderson, Pittsburg, Monday, Nov. 14. and to avoid disputes and recounts. The eame ia true Concerning the declaration of the Brother­ the team, but that acceptance hiogea upoa another hood that after Nov. 15th it would consider the PITTSBURG PEN'CIIXINGS. Special to SPORTING LIFE. matter. Sullivan is anxious to establish an Interna­ The committee consists of Messrs. Spalding, about the number of gates. Inasmuch a* every club NEW Rogers and Day for the has to have two men on the bench in addition to the League's refusal to meet it as final, Ward said YORK, Nov. 12. Von der Ahe's presence tional Le-igue teum of his own in Troy, X. Y., and In League, and Messrs. The Deal for Dunlap S^ll Hoping for in New York City a now working to that efld. If ihat schemefnlls through, Barnie, Williams and Phelps for the Association. uine men ou the field, a club would have to carry a that that date was named under the belief that week prior to the League wholy army of players on every trip to man these Hines Club Gossip, meeting, and his continuance £M wili probably accept the management of tho It is not likely that many important changes the League met Nov. 14th. There was no de­ here causes no Washington Club. niauy gates if some provision were not made for this, PITTSBURG, Nov. 11. Editor STORTING LIFE: little excitement among the boys. They don't will be made in the playing rules. The number and this would be too ex-peasive so long as this infer­ sire to force a special meeting upon the League, Beautiful base ball weather has as that prevailed in know exactly whether he is here to jump tho of strikes may be reduced to three and the base- nal Interstate Commerce Law is in operation. An­ would havo been absurd in view of the the Gas City for several weeks, up to to-day, but The Rochester Club Reorganized. other provision should be made- that no person shall fact Browns into the League or to arrange for the > hit-for-base-on-balls rule be altered, errors in - that the regular annual meeting was to oc­ everybody seems tired of the game for the sea­ Special to SPURTING LIFE.. pass through the gate without a ticket. If the man at cur on the 16th. He has written President purchase of the Metropolitan franchise, and ROCHESTER, N. Y., Nov. 12. A meeting of the new stead of hits being given pitchers for bases ou the gate accepts money instead of a ticket and he son, and very little ball was played. During balls. The bunted ball rule may also be revised. Young correcting the mistake. 'The idea of the make New York a home for the Browns. I do Rochester Club was held list night, tit which a board passes through, the turnstile will register one more ad­ the week the talk of the enthusiasts was the not know whether any of them happen to have of directors consisting of tho following gentlemen, Some verbal corrections will also be made, es­ mission than the man at the ticket Council was that if the regular meeting passed office has, and this purchase of Dunlap. thought that Chris may be in New York so as to was chosen: H Goetzman, C.G. L»imzruber, William pecially with a view to forcing the umpires to^ mixes up accounts. There should be a penalty for any and no recognition had been accorded the Deiuinger, Albert Will and A. G. Reiuiurt. A com­ attendant at gate receiving cash, and for any club ad- There is nothing nevr in tho matter, so said be away from St. Louis in the^e trying days of enforce the rules as laid down. Brotherhood there would be no other course left President Nimick to-day. Mr. Nimick hopes mittee was appointed tJ secure newgiouuk and ne­ Hiutmg people through any gate other than the three but to consider the refusal final. defeat, or for the purpose of being near the gotiate with players. Tne cash capital of the Associa­ The National, International and Ohio Leagues manned by the visiting club." What the the newspapers will keep as quiet as possible on Brotherhood wants is a definite settlement of League in their trying hour, or to help Byrne tion will be ^7,000, over half of which has already been will meet on Wednesday. Of these meetings by the purchase, as it may spoil the deal to keep subscribed. far the most important in its bearings upon the the matter within a limited time. It does not select a corps of umpires. But he is here, and WHERE REFORM IS NEEDED. whooping it up. Some weeks ago, when the the rest is all vanity and vexation. I don't National game is that of the , wish to put this off until spring, but if the deal was commenced, President Nimick, and Boating in What is Sauce for the Goose Should be League intends know whether Chris would like to pay a big Australia* at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York. The to refuse what it considers its others, claimed that there was nothing in it and Special to SPORTING LIFE. percentage question affects the League alone, Sauce for the Gander. just rights, it wants time to mako arrangements price for the Metropolitan franchise or not. But it was not until late Saturday afternoon, that if he would it strikes me that Byrne wouldn't LONDOS, Nov. 12. The Sportsman's special dispatch but the solution of the Brotherhood problem will PITTSBURG, Pa., Nov. 6. Kditor SPORTING accordingly. The issue between the two bodies is, he admitted that there was something in the from Melbourne says that iho mimaa regatta, which LIFE: While the temperance question is being as THE SPORTING LIFE has all along pointed out, be burning to let this much-ta!ked-of New York took j.'ace on Nov. 9, was won have mighty influence upon base ball in all its story. He said, to-day, that not a word had territory go to the St. Louis Uruwos, thus putting a by Nilson, who de­ ramifications. The issue between the League vigorously pushed to the front by correspondents more serious than some would make it appear. been sent to Dunlapasyet, and perhaps nothing would club iu their hands to knock his brains out. Is it not feated Pcrkiiis handily and disposed of the uther con and its players is plain. The question of wise and otherwise, would this not be the proper Propositions have been made to the Brother­ bo done until after the League meeting. I hear that more likely that the Brooklyn people are looking Umlauts with entire ease. changing the contract is not so important as is time to drop a hint to the presidents, secreta­ hood by business men of prominence and stand­ several other deals and the exchange of either Smith forward lo the time when they will have a strong the method of change. The League is willing ries and managers of the different League and ing to induce them to form a new organizntion, or Barkley are on, but nothing definite can bo learned, League team in Brooklyn, and, with the Now York PORTLAND BLUE. Association clubs? and it is "policy" for the management to deny the Club, control all this Metropolitan territory? to make reasonable concessions and modifications, to sign them under the Brotherhood's contracts, same. It would not surprise me very much to seo Chris Discouraged Over Losses Sustained Last but wants to do it only in its own way, without If these men expect ball players to abstain and to play them next season as in the past. Indianapolis has not secured Hines, and tho matter turn a flip-flop into tho League's arm next week. Year The Outlook. from the use of the "ardent" then they the This doubtless accounts for the Brotherhood's stands jtiot as it did when tiie Pittsburg Club repre­ Mind recognizing the Brotherhood as an important I doti't say he has any such idea at present. Cut PORTLAND, We., Nov. 10. Editor SPORTING factor in these changes. The Brotherhood, how­ club officials should either sign the pledge or desire to know definitely what the League sentatives met Paul in Washington. Paul said he such an idea is likely to pogeesshim at any momeut confine their drinking to such places and will do. would not play in Indianapolis at any price. The and if it comes at tho rigUt time he will flop. He LIFE: Base bail is a dead is^e. Our team ever, insists not only upon reform but upon being at such Washington management admitted times that the players may not be influenced by Speaking of the resignations of \Villiamson that the deal witU couldn't lose by it and it might be a positive gain. finished tho sen son in the hole some thousand officially recognized in connection with tho pro­ Indianapolis had been closed as far as they were con­ Chris is aa uncertain as a fle.i. There is lots of League dollars, and the three or four the example. This last may raise a smile on the and Flint, Ward said that it does not at gentlemen who posed reformation. Recognition,superncially,may all sig­ cerned. If Hines refuses to go the deal is void. It pressure in St. Louis, personal and from newspapers, handled the team, are ju?t a little shy of taking leem a trifling thing, but it is in reality a very face of some "old stager/' but the word is used nify a break in the Brotherhood, and this is looks as if he would come litre. pushing him toward the League camp. He may not after due consideration, and I repeat it influ­ proved by the fact that none of the Galvin began telling reminiscences to-&fli ^iicni Tfoald be regarded tn one of the beat bua'6 bill deals, Haverhill vote on the pennant has a spike ten inches AII muiuc.ue'.iL iniAviauai iroi., unilago bec^mv," tu tuo end. so far as this city id concerned, that couU be made. long through it, a? a souvenir of the old adage, "The occn feigned ior Euflalo during the past embroiled with some New Orlcanians in a dis­ John Coleman was very much pleased with the ac­ Spaldiug and Anson both like My era1 work at second end jnstitks the means." or not. As eight men are on the list al- pute over the game. The Chicago man was tion of tlift Eaglft Club in offering him their assistance. and negotiations are now in progress for an exchange. We shall not probably sign many men until tha .<.imy no hurry is being experienced. The out­ about to bo put John will be able to go home shortly. Ho was in a Negotiatious are also pending between Washington robins nest again. Advance mouey spoils some men out of the grounds, when Kelly bud way for a while and lay on his back for over a duct of the base ball business. The advocates field is complete, and Hamburg, Remsen and jumped into the stand and interfered in behalf and Boston for the services of B)bby Wneeler, who who live on the fat of tho land all winter and kick week. developed so much strength aa a general player with their brains out all summer for their folly. of guarantee make the point that under this sys­ Kappel will fill the bill with great satisfaction of his.friend. The affair was settled in a friendly To-day President Nimick received notice of the an­ tem for the first time in the Bean-eaters. Few of the old team will be in our ranks next the history of the League to all concerned, A short stop, third baseman way, and to show that no hard feelings existed, nual League meeting next week. He will attend, also At the League meeting President Hewitt will en­ seasi-n. The probabilities are that there will be all the clubs were self-supporting, but an analysis and one or two catchers are now all that is I believe "Kel" took a glass of beer with the Director Brown and Horace Phillips. deavor to secure from the New York Club one-half of plaj era enough next spring. We shall go off ou no would probably show that this pleasant state of wanted. As to second base it is generally party. As for the other men of the team they Morris still lingers about aud every now and then the gate receipts instead of the usual guarantee for Southern trip and come home several hundred dollars affairs is largely due to the present excellent cir­ thought hero that Grant says something about the money due him. Ho the games played in New York City on Labor Day, behind the game, and you can bet your life that our will again be found were all right and misbehaved in no way. Our thinks he is surely entitled to pay for the twenty days cuit of the League and to the unprecedented here, as a strong move will be made to abolish which is regarded aa a legal holiday, and under the team will be as icettk an any of them next season, and share of the receipts for that day amounted to he was absent at Mt. demons. CIRCLE. League constitution the receipts should have been we will do the "strengthen act" when the occasion de­ closeness of the championship struggle, which tho rule prohibiting the signing of colored little over three dollars each, which was the equally divided. mands. Exp- rience is a star teacher, and our stock of made the weaker clubs for the first time factors players at the meeting next Wednesday. Man­ reason we did not care to play Wednesday, and HASTINGS HAPPENINGS. President Young has decided not to attend the this wholesome article is abundant just at present. The in the struggle from the beginning to the end of ager Chapman will bo here Monday, and will go to as tho New Orleans meeting of the joint committee on rules at Pittsburg probabilities are thut base ball will boom here next Toronto to attend the meeting. London, Troy and Club was paying its men Monday. year, and with proper handling there is a balance iu the season. Appended is an interview with a five dollars each a game, their indifference to The Business of the Past Season Settled League manager in which a compromise worth Utica will undoubtedly take the piace of Newark, Satisfactorily News Notes. Official notice ia given of a contract between the store for the managers. Don't imagine for a moment Jersey City, Scranton and Wilkesbarre. A strong playing is accounted for. Detroit Club and Frank Schiebeck for uuxt season. that we lose eight of ffur own mistakes this fast sea­ considering is suggested. eight-club league will thus bo formed, with no long HASTINGS, Neb., Nov. 8. Editor SPORTING LAENEB. son. Wo made lots of them aud h*ve the proofs of It jumps as that of tbe season just passed. LIFE: The Hastings Base Ball Association on our ledger. It's beneficial eometimes to e>'0 your PERCENTAGE VS. GUARANTEE. Gibbs, the new pitcher of the Buffulos, was picked FROM INDIANAPOLIS. have settled up their business for this season, shortcomings and daltv whh your faults. We often NEW CLUB. forget the lumber yard in our own eye in detecting up at Syracuse last August by Manager Chapman, but The Old Grounds Re-teased for Three and like the re it of tbe Western League towns, A League Manager Suggests a Compromise as the club could not afford to risk a game then by the beam iu our neighbor's. W. CLIFFORD. Years Plans came out behind in the game. A light assess­ Birmingham Organized for Next Season His Idea Illustrated. using experiments he was not given a trial. He was for Next Season, Etc. under contract with the Utica Club last epring, but INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 9. Editor SPORTI\G ment on the stock was made to square the GoUIsby's Instructions. WHEELING WORKING WELL. Bhall the percentage system be readopted or never appeared in a game. LIFE: The base ball management has settled salaries. It is to be hoped that a State League Special to SPORTING LIFE. lhall the guarantee system remain in vogue is Fanning has returned from New York where he one important matter during the past will be formed in Nebraska for 1888. BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Nov. 12. Walter H. An Eftort to Get a Team That Can Win a one of the most has been visiting friends. He will remain here this week, and important questions that will no doubt President Brush and tne board of di­ Since the business of the Base Ball Associa­ Goldsby, manager of next season's ball club, Pennant. come up for settlement at the winter. League meeting Carroll fc here aa slick and spry as ever. Ho may rectors feel much relieved. There has been a tion was closed up iu a manner satisfactory to _. -;ved in tho city Thursday morning and a WHEELING, W. Va, Nov. 9. Editor SroimNa this week. Detroit, Indianapolis, Pittsburg and sign with London. strong probability that every stockholder, considering the many adverse cir­ j mec ing of the directors and stockholders was LIFE: Strenuous efforts are being made to get Washington the old Seventh street cumstances the Association had to contend with, I but are on record for percentage, while Harry Esterday ia a good ball player, but he is not grounds would bo laid out in lots the coming hela last night. The resignation of President up a nine in Wheeling for next season that will Philadelphia and Boston strong enough for the Association. His stick work voice the sentiment of the stockholders and the citi­ have declared for season and the question Wilson was accepted and the following officers havo no trouble in carrying off tho pennant in guarantee. will not he worth speaking of. of a new field has given zens in general, when I say that mucti credit is due It is not known what Chicago and the management considerable trouble. President Else-more, Secretary Knowlton and Cor­ were elected for next season: F. M. Irion, the Ohio League, and if negotiations at present New York favor. Kid Williams, of Scranton, would not look bad as a The Manager Fogel, of Indian­ bashful Buffalo. Kid is a living example of the say­ matter has been settled, however, and the old responding Secretary W. S. McKinney, for the untir­ president; I. R. Hocbstaiter, vice president; H. J. under way should come out well such a result apolis, said to a SPORTING LIFE representative ing aud unceasing labor they have performed, and ing that "good goods come in email packages.11 grounds have been re-leased for three years. The suc­ Copeland, secretary and treasurer; W. H. Goldsby, will be almost a foregone conclusion. Under yesterday that inasmuch as his people cess obtained without remuneration, but "heaps" of manager. The new directors are F. M. Iriou, B. M. favored ______OLYMPIC. question was a serious one inasmuch as ground the management of Buekenberger, who piloted the percentage system he made it a point, upon abuse. They will uudoubtedly receive their reward in Hughes, T. R. Uochstadter, F. O. Sbeppard and M. J. THE INTERNATIONAL Is have been taken in this Hutrie, of New York. Doo. New Orleans Ready and when his club visited the grounds of that same direction, an I it is unlikely that either city will en­ ciation knocking at the gate of the baso ball park, ask­ for Busienss. great salaries as they have been getting, and if their dub and they drew only five hundred people. He deavor to become a member of the League. The n-1- ing admission under some conditions agreeable to the Special to SPORTING LIFE. dormmds are acceded to, the Ohio League will be a wanted to be guaranteed a certain amount when his mission of Elmira and London in tho place of Newark ball management. Last year the Athletic Association STAUNCH NEWARK. NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 12. The New Orleans Base thing of the past before next season is half over. club wai on the road, BO that it would at least have ita and Jersey City would bo a wise step, curtailing, as it insisted on having a bicycle track around the grounds, Call Park Association held a meeting Thursday night. The Wheeling Association is setting a bad example expen.-es defrayed." largely would, traveling expenses, and by London's ad­ much to the disgust of the League folks. Thero was Determined to Stick to the Game New The financial etatcmeut shows a profit of abutit 54,000 to her sister clubs in this respect, and may realize Mr. Fogel has given the subject much thought and mission increasing the interest in tho game in this quite a row ovfer the matter, and in view of these facts Officers Elected, Etc. on the season, which it wai decided to hold as a re­ before long tho mistake that is being made. We considt- ration, and he has a plan upon which he be­ country. Toronto would have two Canadian rivals in it is probable that the base ball people will fix the park NEWARK, ftov. 9. The annual meeting of serve fund for next aeasais. A two-story grand stand should pay just whit wo can afford and no more. lieves both sides If we came out even this season on low eateries, can agree. Ho thioks that if flection London and Hamilton instead of one, as ladt season, in to enit themselves and let the "lawn tennis and foot the Newark Club was hold last week, and nine will bo erected and other improven^euts made. 61 is amended as follows, it will be fair and Juat to the Ambitious City's team, and with the keou rivalry ball" fellows go to tho "deuinition bow wows." Jack Nelson, who played with the Mets last year and where will we land next year on such an in fit ted both Hides: among them th^re would be a decided benefit to all. There is to be a groat improvement both Iu the directors were elected for the ensuing year. The stands high up in the averages, is being negotiated basis? PICKWICK. ''Each club shall have exclusive control of Ita own Mr. E. S. Cox, of this city, is the only one ineuiioned grounds aud buildings. prospects for next season's team worts discussed. with and it is possible he will be tecured to play here ground. But the home club Bhall. except in cities oc­ in connection with the presidency of tbe League. He A NEW GRAND STA^T) The directors elected are John Shoemaker, Jacob noit season. SANDUSKY SIFTINGS. cupied by a National League and American Associa­ does not want the position, aud it is doubtful if he can Haussling, John Barcalow, Thomas Beale, Dr. tion club, and except on holidays, puy to the visiting will be one of the improvements, and it Is the present be induced to accept it. However, a strenuous effort intention to change the building from ihe southeast Joseph H. Hayden, Henry Lyons, Robert Hel­ [Annual Session of Michigan Breeders. Two More Flayers Signed Complaining club tor every championship game played by it on will be mado to authorize his candidature, which Special to SPORTING LIFE. About the Chief laid grounds thirty to tbe southwest corner of the grounds. The old ler, Edgar B. Bond and John W. Collins. Sub­ Executive. per centum of the receipts of gen­ would undoubtedly result in his unanimoui election. grand stand fronts northwest^and the crowd gets the JACKSON, Mich., Nov. 12 The Michigan Trotting eral admission (or fifteen cents per head), providing Secretary White's name is also mentioned in connec­ sequently these directors met and elected John SASDUSKY, 0., Nov. 8. Editor SPOUTING LIFK: that L370 or more admissions have passed through] the eun throughout the game, and there seems to be a de­ Horse Breedeis' Association has hold its annual meet­ -Matt Shell, of last year's nine, has signed a tion with the combined office of president and secre­ mand for a change. This will make the building Shoemaker, president; Edgar E. Bond, vice president; ing, aud elected tho following officers: President, W. gates, Jmd if leas than thai number, the visiting club tary. Itobert He'ler, secretary, and John W. Collins, treas­ Sandusky contract, and J. T. Dillon, catcher of hall receive the front to the northwest and the crowd will, therefore, A. Gibson, Jackson; vice president, S. II. Godfrey, sum of two hundred dollars. In cities bo protected from the eun almost entirely. Tbo urer. The financial report of the treasurer shows that Parma; secretary, L. C, Webb, Mason; treasurer, Walter the Kazoos, will wear a uniform at our expense. occupied by a National League and American Associa­ THE BROWNS IN THE LEAGUE. change there is a surplus of several huu Ired dollars on hand. Clark, Battle Crook. It waa decided to hold the tion club the home club shall pay to the visiting club will place the out fielders 'with their faces to The provisions of the Inter national League wera gouo name President Voegeie refuses to recognize our con­ the sun. but will be a good thing for the catcher and number of stak« races a-ilaU year, ouo each for 2, 3. tract with Con Str<>tliers. Wonder what size hat for every championship game on said grounds forty Reasons for Thinking They Would at Least first baseman. over and it waa found that tliu Newark Club had lived 4 atd 5-ytar-olds, and the samo terms as 1 iat year per 'centum (or 10 cents per head) of the receipts Bank Third. np to them all and therefore could by no moans be our president wears? Not satisfied with illegally of general admission, providing that 2,000 or more ad­ The gmnd stand will not oe an expensive structure, dropped from membership. The newly elected officers were adopted. The date of the racos was set for some It has been stated that the St. Louis team but will bo a groat improvement over the old one in time hi June or July. suspending tbe player, crippling our team, and missions have pais^d through the gates, and if less then expressed themsylvea as being ready to go to depriving the man of earning than that number, tbe visiting club shall receive th would not stand higher than fifth in the every respect. It will be of modern style, and instead a living, he acts League of the present wood-bottomed chairs, some new aud work at once and prepare for action. It was stated sum of two hundred dollars. On National or Siat- pennant race. This loads a writer in tho that players would be secured without delay. The Fire at the St. Louis Grounds. as though he owned tho League and imagine* holida}8 tho homo comfortable seats will be u-jed. I think it is tho in­ Special to SPORTING LIFE, he hay barred Con forever from playing ball club shall pay to the visiting cJub Brooklyn Eagle to say: "Lot me see about tention to spend from $3 000 to 86,000 iu tbe building, question of selecting a manager was deferred for the fifty per centum of the receipts for general admission. which, with the material in the old prc-seut, and there is a bare possibility that the board ST. Louis, Nov. 12. Thursday evening fire broke here. Sandusky and Columbus seem to have All such payments shall bo mado immediately after that. In the world's pennant teries Detroit one, ought to will look after the team whilo at home and that it will out iu the players'dressing room at Sportsman Paik. beat St. Louis ten out of fifteen, games. Now it make a very respectable grand stand, as it does not been sdecred as targets for Voegelc's bulldozing. the close of each championship parae. No club shall need to be very be under the charge of a good reliable player while aud before the flames could bo extinguished, they had We, ia particular, have got all we have m<;ro than three gates, t-xc-pt on special ocoa- would be a, fair estimate to take the last fifteen large. However, no definite plans abroad, thus saving the extra expense of a manager. spread to the handsome hand ball court and gymna­ want from ions, when the coimeut of tho manager of tho visiting havo been adopted, aud I shall be able to tell more Mansfield, aud would earnestly suggest that t!i*> presi­ games the Detroit team played with League about it later OP. Tho grounds will be graded and llie S>> far there have been but two nam?s mentioned for sium stiil tho nurth fence. The dressing room, which dency bo given to some one not in a city holding a club shall be obtained before auy additional pates are club? in their League championship oiHliold will be made the position, Chris Meisol aud Fergus RIalone. Both was a small frame building U a total loss, whilo the franchise. opened, and turnstiles with putcm resistors shall series and as smooth aa the diamond, all of havo had the home club retains thirty-five. eleven times out of filtoen. The champions defeated but who they are remains a secret. Experience has ger whilo playing abroad. Ohio League Meeting Called. has the stuff in him for a first-class nrut baseman, and Mr. Sodtn should not object to this, as besidei the the Boston team in ten games out of their last fifteen. taught him that you have not got a man unti! you see Walker is working here in town packing sowing Special to SPORTING LIFE. as a hitttr he leada the nine. J. 0. EL tbiity five cents, he will have the twenty-five to the and also tho In iiauapolis Club the same number, ana him iu the club's uniform and for thU reason he de­ machines for the export trade. He has had an offer MJNSFIELD, 0., Nov. 12. Tho annual meeting of grand aland, and as he will have a beauty next year I they beat the New York teanj ip nine out of the last clines to speak of his aims. Ho has, however, ex­ from Wurce&ter, tut prefers to play hero if there ia a the Ohio League of Base Ball Club-i will be hoht in tho Important to Rochester People. predict it will be tilled at every game. Mr. Reach's fifteen. They only won seven out of the last fifteen pressed his mind on ouo point. He Is done with ex­ chance. Burdick llouso parlors, Kalamazo,>, Mich., Nov. 15, at club can now make a trip and play twelve games and with Philadelphia, and but six with Chicago. In periments and will hereafter nso money and secure "Diamond Jim" (Fields) was here with his collec­ 10 A. ¥. sharp. C. U. VOKGKLE, Secretary. Mr. Juhn Daily, the agent of tho Union News Com­ be certain of at lea-it 92,400 whether Detroit has only view of thoeo fact*, what nonsense it ia to staie that players of known ability. He says the club spent tion of rare stones this week to see what was to be . pany Ht the Now York C«ntrvil Depot, Rochester, N. ft dozen or ton thousand 1*0 pie on its ground*. But the St. Louis team would not be* higher than fifth, enough money in experimenting last season to havo done about having a club next year. He has a good Y., write? us that he hm over ono bnndre.l copies cf rhaticdg are he would got at least $6,000 instead of when the lowest they would be placed ou thU basis bought the releases of several first-class men, men offer from Toronto, but says he will play here if they Dispute Between Club and President. TUE Si">BTiNU LIFK on «ale every Sund t'j, from 4:50 st. Indianapolis will aveinge would be third, thowing aside the fact that had the who would have added strength to the teat*1. From want him to. Jim and Walker are great favorites. Special to SPORTING LIFE: p. M. iihtH 10 r. H. He in ttie onlv newsdealer open on 3,000 at least to every game next year. This would Di'troits played the strong game with tbe League this on he proposes to know what he is buying. In Leo Smith Is hero with his family and will make 8AHDVSKT, 0,, Nov. 12. The Samlwtky Club is hav­ that d-iy in Rochester. He also states that he will givt» him ia throe games 91,350. Chicago should be clubs i hoy d'd aga'nat St. Loui- they would havs woo Hines the club has secured a great man. I speak of this hia homo for the winter aud to with us next soa- ing a dispute with President Voeg

RBADSB, Savannah. (1) Tr&un*. (2) Tea. (3) San factory in Hartford. I am not BO well nrqualnted Is ADDITION to Ed Crane the Philadelphia combina­ Tebean, R. H. Pflttlt, Thorn-* K. Burn«, Mark Baldwin, Francisco Gill or Chronicle. (4) None. FROM DETROIT. with 'Rosie,' bat Terry' Larkin told me d»t 'Rosie' tion has secured Qanael, of Detroit. M. C. Sullivan, D. Darling, George Van Haltren, J. SUBSCRIBES, Van Horn, Ia. Of the 60 gamea Barker was der t afferent feller wot useter hang round the THAT brilliant short stop, Marr Phillips, h*fl again Ryan, F. Flint, E. N. Willlamton and A. C- Anson. THE SPORTING LIFE. A Plea for Percentage I-atest Phase of Brooklyn fish woffs, 'Ro-«ie' is nr rougii aud tumbl e woo 4, Heed 1; tlie reet were drawn. cut hia lot with the Uamiltou Club. IT is a continuous mutter of surprise and speculation PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT the Dunlap Deal Newt Items. fight-r, bat on dls oceathion dere will be no biting or VAN HALTREV wij] pitrh Jy for the Green- h'.'W gnd why the 'Players1 B otfjerhood came to be K. G. AI.LEN, Marion, 0. Tliey will be published aa gouging or kicking. Now gei]tl**«*nj if yeese- make from theeecretary. bOOtl & afbran Club during the w I liter, started in tha New York team, which ia, all things soon aa rtceived DSTROIT, Nov. 10. Editor Sposmo LIFE: wot dey call a 'jimmy circle' 1 will cat! time, and consi^T*.^ ahont th« boat "^"d anl Iwst *r?Stpfl i>*»"ft No. 202 South Ninth Street, Philada. SNTDEB, Detroit. B. wins; as Boston and Pittsburg The League has a very important question to 'Jap' »nd 'Rorfe' can slog one nudjer to der 'qoeeu'a IT COST 824,000 to rim the Toronto Club, champions of the International League, l*»t season. ball team >n the busmen. Fides are very roi'o iu thai BY TIIE led alternately from May 2 to 4. decide next Wednesday. I do not refer to the must elegant taste/ " team. A. C. BUCKBNREKOKR, B. Van Saotj B. J. Stapleton, not CATCHER JACK CULLEN has arrived in Marysville, have signed with Wheeling. Brotherhood matter, for I know that will THE FIGHT. Cal., where he will captain the local club. LEWIS MORRTSON, the well-kn.iwnactor, who is now Sporting Life Publishing Company, oau86 more than a, ripple of excitement. There Bound 1 No sooner had Keenan called time than In San Francisco, h«s caught on to the racket, and haa H. B., Baltimore, Md. (1) Six years old land over. Roseman made a dash far his wiry but befuddled an­ THE joint Southern trip of the St.Loan and Ctilcago known as the Morr son medal, (2) The length of a horse. is a question of more vital interest than that of combination has been a success financially. put up a fine gold emblem 2b whose order att Cheeks, Drafts, Money Orders, the Brotherhood confronting the foremost base tagonist, Tobin wai prepared for til e onslaught and to be presented to !h* player having the best batting and Remittance! must be made payable. LATBRICH, Washington. He played with the Wash­ caught his sturdy Brooklyn antagonist a terrific left- MANAGER Lorrrs, of tbe gt. Louis Club, haa signed a average at the close of the present California League ington Club during lt&7. ball organization of the world. It is a question haiided blow on the ''boko," which sent the claret young Kockford, 111., catcher named Hi&fB. season. POST OFFICE BOX, 918. W. C. S., Sharon. Pa. A. wins, the Pittiiburga being in which the future welfare of the League is flying in profusion all over "RoeieV ball shirt, which BUSHONQ, CoaiHkey and Welch and Geo. Munson, A STOCK company has been organized at Long whitewashed four times. intricately interwoven. It ia the question he wore OD the occasion. "First blood for Tobin," take iheir wrves with them to San Francisco. Branch for the purpose of giving 1 exhibition gamea TERMS: ZeiDLBft, Cleveland, 0. No manager haa yet been whether the percentage system of dividing rang out from several of his friends. Nothing daunted, S. P. HAGAN, C. B. Powers and John Brennan have next season. Tlie company will have a cash capiUl of the sturdy Brooklynite pursued the earae tactics, and Association umpires. Snbecription, p«r annum (postage paid)...... S2.25 selected we believe. receipts is to again prevail in the League a been appointed Western 525,000. It will have spacious grounds with a fine STORES, Walkerton, Ont. Shindle haa signed with this time was successful in evading Tobin's vicious left. Iris aaid that Davy Force next season will receive grand «Mnd. The company will organize and eq.iip a Six months...... " " ...... 1.35 system to which is in the main due the present Getting into close quarters, it was evident that Tobin good team. Three months...... " " ...... 65 Baltimore for 1888. 8400 monthly from the Memphis Club's treasury. prosperous condition of the League. Will the stcod a very poor show, on account of Rosemau'a supe­ EX-UMPIRE MIKB WALRH haa a couple of Blua Single copies...... " " ...... 5c. Si'BscBiBEB, Louisville. Both games were sched­ rior strength. uR;*te" got "Cap's^nead in chancery MIKE KELLY says he ha* declined the proffered win­ INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. uled for Louisville. League, which, through the selfish efforts of a ter engagement with the HcNiah minstrel troupe. Grass League players who he thinks can hold their few, abolished this just system and substituted and pummelled him to his heart's content; then, as own in f.»t company. Oue is a«t-neral player named A READES, San Francisco, CaL, Anaon'a rank Aug. quick aa a 8mh, he back-heeled him, throwing him to THE Toronto Club has added P. J. Hurtnett, Tommy Lee Paul, and the other a sh jrt stop named' Rogr-r Ed- 1 was not first. the pernicious guarantee plan, return to its the ground aa though he had been fired out of a cata­ Kearns and A. W. Atkbson to its list of players. Wards. B >th men, Mike s.\ys, are good stickers and ADVERTISING RATES: F. BAKER, Chicago, 111. We have no knowledge of senses and again resume the just and fair basis pult. VON DKBAni is undecided whether to pl«y pitcher' base-ninrers. (FIXED AND FINAL) League team. such a fact. of business partnership which has placed the Round 2 Roseman pursued the same tactics as In Devlin in his Association or Western FORTUVATELY there ia no conflict of dates in the in- One insertion...... SO cents per line, Nonpars! BALTIMOBI, Md. (1) All the year 'round. (2) No. organization in its present proud position, or will the first When he got an opening he rushed upon THE Buffalo Club, having signed so many of its last igmatinn of the winter series at the rival grounds Six months...... 11% " " " " (3) No. the League, blind to its own interests, continue hia adversary like an infuriated bull. This titno Tobin year's t«am, ought to start oat strong next season. at San Francisco. Central Park throws its gates open caught him on tbe kiswr which staggered him for tha THE New Orleans Olub has settled its troubles with One Jf«r.,...... 15 " " " " C. E. M., Savannah, Ga. The umpire decided cor­ the vicious system, persistence in which has time being; bnt Tobin was too weak to fallow up the on tbo 20th iust., a-id the California League inau­ ADVERTISERS should forward their favors so as to rectly. advantage, lloseman again rushed in and, getting his Memphis and Charleston by paying each club S250. gurates its teason with two gamed with tho New York* paper goes to press brought the American Association to a position haa the base ball fever bad. It -hanks^vinsDav. reach us by 3 P. M. Saturday, as this HERMAN, Washington, D. 0. The shot you refer to where disruption was not an improbability. now very tired adversary's head in chancery, he sailed BIRMINGHAM, Ala., EVERY SATURDAY AT 5 P. M. la fair. in to d

stance, the batsman first at the bat makes a clean outfield graded, coated with loam and sown. It ought nable adjunct to any club in tho minor organizations, bit, which earns him first basp; by sharp base- CHUNKS OF WISDOM. to be a very fine field next season. BALTIMORE BULLETIN. njnning regular stolen bases and may develop v* ry speedily into a faster da**). It BASE BALL, I will say the runner The clnb may dedib tG l'V.JM a clay or cinder track is not known whether they would afcf-;>t an engage­ gets to seeotid and third bases, and is sent borne on The league's Position and its Lesson to 'or bicycling aud general athleticsof The Salary Question—Humors of a Stock another one-third or one- ment, but judging irom their station in life they could short, single clean hit. Now, while this run the Association—The Time Ripe for the *burth of a mile in circumference on Association Park. Company—The New Grounds—York Re­ not afford to refuse a fair offer. Some of tho player* i-t earned off the fielding it is not earned off the pitch­ Adoption of *'The Sporting Life's" Mil­ "f it does the path will go round the field. The reason CHADWICK'S CHAT. ing, inasmuch ad but turns to the Diamond, Etc. returning from the South speak very favorably of tb* . for the sharp b'tse-running tha lenium Plan—The Latest Proposed Eva­ or this is that the Madison Avenue Athletic Park prospects of a base hits would only have placed runners ou first and rack will be torn up before cext spring and the park BALTIMORE, Nor. 11. Editor SPORTING LIFE: Changes In tlie Scoring Rules Suggested— second bases. But suppose the first three men at tho sion of the Rules, Etc. sold for building lots. The annual question of salaries ia agitating NORTH CAROLINA LEAGUE, An Klimination Recommended—Blunders bat make, single clean hita and the fourth makes a sac­ CLEVELAND, 0., Nov. 11. Editor SPORTING fcd Seward, pitcher which somo people are moving to organize for the of the Athletic?, is at WilHameton, '.he breasts of our players, eo much so that gome cities of Wilmiiigton, Kcquiring Remedies—Record of Sacrifice rifice hit, when in the form of hit to right short which IFE: The idea comes to me, soft aud low aa the ass.j coaching the Williams College team. He had Rttaigli, Charlotte end other forces the fielder >f them are heartily dissatisfied and inclined to growing places. The population and surroundings Hits and Base-Running Statistics Com­ t-> put the striker out only, or a long ones of the voice of William Barnie, Eso., of an otter to go to Calitornia with the Philadelphia com- high fly ball to deep outfield which, though giving a ' {nation, but after his >ut off signing until the last horn blows. There would scarcely juniify any very great expense, but mented Upon. Baltimore, to a minor League work with the collegians iadoue seini-professional catch, enables the runner at third to get home player of promise, ie wiil come home and repeat his work of last winter lannot be much difference in opinion but what fcMims would, it is thought, make a NEW YORK, Nov. 10.—Editor SPORTING LIFE: safely after the catch, in such caw the run is clean hat the League is in the position of the young a the Cleveland gymnasium. Cilroy, at least, ia entitled to a fair aupp.-rr. The prime mover is said to Ix* a gentle­ good liberal ad- man iu the Custom I think it H about time that some improve­ earned off the pitching. This plain distinction should >ear, the troubles of which were all before. The It is safe to predict that nothing connected with the ance over the comparatively House at Wiimiiigton whos* namo be made in the record so as to ensure justice small wages he has is not j'lst n"W recalled to memory, but respectable ment was made in the scoring rules of the game, to tho row with the Brotherhood is being generally incinnati meeting will bo discussed with so much leretofore received, and that Tucker also be- pitcher in tbe annual averages of earned runs and not inauiniity as the bauqu«t which Aaron Stern threat- baso ball adventures, who have uot other proaptfcU, for, under the existing code of rules, they are aa now, in which gross injustice is done the pitchers underestimated, as it seems t* me, by the League j ns. ongs to a class that commands a larger com- might look the matter up with profit. T. T. T. anything but satisfactory, either as a statistical both in the fielding as well as tbe pitching averages. managers themselves. If it was not so, whence It pains the heart of the elect in this corner of the >eneution than the very modest 3am he has record of the play in the game, or as data for lies BY CHADWICK. he wide publication of the fact that Flint and j miverso that Mike and Jerry and Buck should have >een receiving. And there are others, too, who calculating the relative degree of skill of each iVilliainson had signed Chicago contracts in i taken in the town of New Orleans so completely. as far as merit is concerned, deserve recognition NEW YORK MENTION. plujer of ft club nine. In a recent letter I com­ FROM THE CAPITAL. pite of the Brotherhood? The object sought J And it must be quite a large town. n this happy, financial way, and they all feel eerns to have been missed, for And , with one load of grief upon his Rumors of Deals and Secret Meeti-.-.gfi— A mented at some length on tho absurd rule no one else seoms i oul, has ta'en on another. A polo league for New ustified in asking better terms, because the Talk Comment on the Forthcoming to have "caved." There With a County Magnate—Bits of which givve the credit of a base hit to a bat sen an is no doubt but that fork foraooth? And to think that Jim is of age, and management has allowed the uccontradictc 1 News. who wjw awarded a base hit Meeting—An Appeal from a Blacklisted he contract used by League clubs should be "103 had opportunities fbr accumulating wisdom for on called balls, one tatement to be publicly made that NEW YORK, Nov. result of which rule has been to exalt Player—Washington Club Notes, Etc. amended. There is grave doubt as to tlie 'ears. much 11. Editor SPORTING the bats­ money was clear velvet during the LIFE: There is another deal bubble being man who received the most bases WASHINGTON, Nov. 12. Editor SPORTING amendments whjch will be proposed being equi- i Joe Ardner is the most positive man In Ohio that the >ast season. in­ on balls above Cansaa City Western League team will win the pen- Naturally, of course, the flated, but at this date it has not been sufficiently tbe one who made the most clean LIFE: "The annual meeting of the National table all round. There is as much injustice in the j >oys want to hits. On this lant. But he sorrows because Halliday, Stearns and share in the general prosperity matured to be set off. The general opinion is point, therefore, it League of Professional Base Ball Clubs will be slayers' demands as there would be in the unre- i lacnllar have gone ,hey is needless to say anything away. believe themselves to havo earned, and if that tho deal will explode in the Metropolitan more, as I do not think held at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York tricted acts of some managers, and one is very There must be some mistake about Worcester's claim .he club officials will that the same mistake boast they must expect camp, but whether it will or not few know, will again be made. As I have City, Wednesday, Nov. 16, at noon. The direc­ ipt to believe that the extremists in the Brotber- o William Hawos. He is here and told me a week hcse little troubles and annoyances. and had consider­ igo that Minneapolis Now, the they wi!l not tell. They say able experience within tors will meet the same day and place at 9 lood would voice the claims of the organization, i had accepted hid terms and that "act is, that while premature ex­ the past thirty years of e wouM go back there, a small number of gamea in plosions do no one any good and generally my career iu scoring and o'clock A. M., sharp.'* Jut the fieht is on, aud if, as I am credibly informed, j -he early hurt reporting the details here is The high salary age bowls merrily on and we have part of the season drew a larger somebody. Billy Barnie has been in town of match The above is a copy of an official circular pro­ capital behind the Brotherhood to enable it, j fot to the pats that when a attendance for games which have been played in the as a last resort, to go along without the League man­ manager goes after a man than ever before, the bal­ a day or two. He talks fluently Metropolis within mulgated by Secretary N. E. Young last week* .nd asks him his terms the question is: *'How much ance of about the pros­ that lengthy period, I may agers, it will be a very serious fight and one that is the games were patronized pects of his Maryland team and minor topics, be pardoned for claiming to The proceedings of said meeting will be watched .ikely to make moru trouble than mve you got?" "Three thousand dollars," says the ,o just about the same extent have some attention even the late Union manager, "Well," thoughtfully drawls the player, a? in former years, but that is all. Billy say a that if there paid with more than usual interest by the lovers of movement. One cannot, while having but limited ad­ so that the total is any by the League and Association magnates I want £2.75 more than that." F. H. BUUNELI- attendance for the whole season deal he knows nothing about it. Paste this in for what I may have to say on the subject of the National game, in view of tho fact that the miration for League methods, help offering Day, Spal- I was only a very few thousands more than in claims of the Brotherhood [ing, Soden & Co. a little sympathy on account of tbe your hat, and a week from now refer to it and revising the playing rules of the game, and es­ of Players to formal trait they aro ,he other seasons when the club lost money. recognition by the League will be considered, in. They will be wise if I THE see if he is a disciple of George Washington or pecially of that portion of them applicable to iheer obstinacy does not intensify the trouble. SOUTHERN LEAGUE. When it is remembered, too, that traveling ex- Col. Tom Ochiltree. together with other matters of equal importance- But to the Association the situation >enses Chris Von der Abe, tha coring; and as tho League convention meets should furnish Already Shaping Things for Next Tear- were greater than in former years, and ruler of tho destinies of St. There has been considerable speculation as to a deep lesion. The time has como for the abolition of ;hat the salary Louis base ball, ar­ next week in this city the time is opportune for The New Orleans Rivals liuck Ewiiig list was also larger, it can bo rived in town on Thursday, but what the outcome will be, but those who are in many of the present conditions between clubs and • readily seen that the he ran the suggesting such revision of the scoring rules as ilayers. Tbe law of the land and base ball law must I Scared, Etc. treasury is not any too gauntlet successfully and started over for teems a position to know do not look for any serious >lethoric. Indeed, your to me advisable in promoting the advance­ 'jibe," if base ball is to be permanent. And they can | NEW ORLEANS, Nov. &. Editor SPORTING if the average per season of town before any of the local base ball scribes ment of change in the relations now existing between >e made to "jibe" so oss has been formerly five thousand the game. Taking up the scoring rules easily that only pure laziness or IIFE: The annual meeting of the Southern dollars as could get hold of him. President Byrnc, of the as they the League and the players of that association. jure obstinacy can prevent reform. And a reform club officials have stated, that are published in the "League Guide" jeague has heen held, and tho affairs of the margin is almost Brooklyn Club, also left for Philadelphia for 1887, I will proceed to suggest Since tbe League was first organized its an­ offered by the ascendent party ia a thousand times .00 large to have been overcome this such amend­ more valuable thHu one forced ast season closed, and all attention is now di­ season as on the same night. He will get back ments as nual meetings have been preceded by sensational upou it after a bitter will be seen at a glance when it appear to me to be necessary. tight, that can but leave bad feeling behind. The League rected towards reshaping the League for next is remembered on Sunday, but whether the deil will rumors of the wildest description, which were ,hat that sum alone represents twenty THE BATTING RULES. now lias »» ugly fight on its bauds, which tt couU eason, and, from the present interest mani­ thousand explode or not before he gets back to Gutham, is not justified by the proceedings that followed. lave avoided. The Brotherhood has not yet extended spectators; the increased pay First as to the record of the batting in the fested, there is no doubt but this League will be roll and expenses beyond yours truly. Some say Von der So it will probably be this year. The gentl% !o the Association. But it will, and quickly too, un~ perhaps thirty Ahe is game, which under the existing code provides tronger and in better shape ia thousand more,makingatotal, at here to arrange for the transfer of men who manage and conduct the League have time leas the .League players" organization is completely '88 than ever i modest estimate, of a necessarily increased attend­ some of his for times at bat and clean base hits in the tabu­ aud tiiue again demonstrated thair ability to,uiiiuinid- cnocked out. Therefore is the Association to be con­ )efore. Our new president (J. T. Wilson) is an slayers to Brooklyn and some of the Brooklyn lated ance of fifty thousand pitrous. Of course, that is ab- score, and for extr.i base hits in the summary. ter its attain; iu a business-like manner with due re­ gratulated on its position. It can observe the strife of energetic, wide-awake business man, whose suc­ on its face, and white patrons jlaycrs to St. Louis. Brooklyn has some play­ In rega~d to "times at bat," I am unable to see the >pposing forces would be glad to gard tor the interest U all concerned. The players on other lands but its own, and shape cess in all his business undertakings is evidence have all the lads rewarded for their meritorious work ers who would play better ba^e ball in St. Louis, correctness of tho rule which does n-it charge a "time have an unqualified right to secure enlployment wher­ ,ts course accordingly. On every hand I see indica- a eighty-seven, the b^Yd can see that they are realty »t bat" to the batsman wbo has had one or more strikes ever their [.era-mal interest* will be best served, pro- tioLs that tell me THE SPOBTING LIFE plan must be enough that tho affairs of the League the com- and I feel reasonably sure that some of Pritch- Called on him, or who has given iiot justified by the earnings uf the club iu demanding ard's tho field a chance for viiled they proceed in accordance with the rules and adopted, and what is more, lived up to in good faith. ng year will be handled in a thorough manner. more than they can pull in at (he gate. ludeed, if foundlings will do better or probably more catching a foul tall, and who is afterward** giv^n his regulations which were formed to perpetuate and Therefore would it be certain to fill the void, clear The four clubs that finished the season are rumor atisfiictory work in the City of Churches. base on called balls, on being hit with a pitched IB true, already efforts are being made to or­ ball, or foster professional ball playing. awuv the legal disabilities under which base ball un- already hard at work signing players for next ganize the club into There may be one or two more Association on a balk made by an ilk-gal delivery. In my opinion, It is nece.-ssii'y ttiit proper discretion quietly rests, and enable base ball capitalists to should be used con­ season, and there is no doubt but moguls in your town, and it may be found that if the batsman ha^ had one opportunity for hitting at iu distributing the players among: the several clubs, trol, ia an cquiUble manner, their peculiar field. Out what four A STOCK COMPANY a fair ball and Las either struck at it without hitting otherwise all of the star players might be fuund in of the quarrels and bad methods of the owners and other good cities will enter, and with the pick so aa to make in the future a wider distribution of 3y Friday there will be enough there to hold an It, or declined to strike at it,'or ha^ hit foul so a* to two or three club*. Prolession.il pride inspires nearly miinagwrs of clubs have come the troubles of the past, f the South aod the percentage plan, we have jarniugs, if so fortunate, or losses, if as usual. Mr. nformal meeting of the Association. I know afford Vouderhorst has been, ao the field a fair chance for a catch, ho should be all of the players witn a desire to be connected with a and the greater ones here aud ou the horizon. Good every reason to expect the greatest boom in base far, shouldering about all that some of the Association magnates who are charged with a time at bat. In regard to the defini Taith all round heio losses, it is understood, eveu before he publicly team that atther Ictyis or stands well up in the raco would be a very profitable thing in base )all next season ever known in tho Southern not delegates will go to the Pittsburg meeting on tiou of base bits in section 3 of rule 70 of the code, I for the championship, and unless there were certain bail and I am not afraid to declare that all the bad faith »came a participator in the business of the club, and Monday, and I know llint John B. Day is not the only Would amend the rule to read as f 'Hows: rules to restrain them the weaker teams would stand f the players collected in a neap would be a much League. Atlanta, Chattanooga, Nashville and f he baa now come to the conclusion that a little League maguato not on the committee who will also "When the ball lr,;m the bat strikes the ground in but little nhow iu the scramble for material. smaller one than tbat of the clubs gathered iu theiroue Mobile are the cities expected to complete tho >roadcast distribution of responsibility through the ;o to FHtsburg. The ret ucm from that meeting will front of the foul liues, and out of the fair reach of the The p.ay era' contracts may bind a little too tight in [>ile. It has become rather fashionable to attribute all League. medium of a stock company id desirable, it cannot be o all probability affirm that tho Brotherhood fielders. wondered at. The very happy way in which the question some instances, but the League and the players cau base bull ills to the player. Ho can in truth be charged There is yet some preliminary business did not com-i up fur discussion. Don't believe it. It "When a bit ball is partially or wholly stopped by a with of the Athletic Club capitalized ita franchise and interest* aud will adjust their differences without auy foreign but few, and those few have been intensified be­ League unfinished will como up, but it may not come out in the report! fielder rnuDing to meet the ball, but who cannot re­ interference. cause of the license that the clubs bavo given some of which will be brought up at a ately may have led to the alleged effort in BaUimore; of the sesuioa. cover himself in time to handle the hall before the President Young itis class, owing to ability possessed 'uture meeting, sometime before the opening of anyway it is u-jt by auy meaiid a bad idea, and the has packed his gripsack with and which the WE LEARN striker roaches first base. League records and documents and is prepared to start clubs sought. These talented toughs and sharpers next season. Thia business might have been minor is Touched for as a fact by ono who would be AS WE AGE. "When .ikely to know if anything Havo you over the bsll ia hit so sharply to an Infielder that for Nt-w Yorfc to attend tho unuual meeting. He may have been beacons for others, less able, to follow. \Ve finished at the annual meeting, were it not for of the kind was conteui- eat down and meditated how some he cannot bandle it in time to put out a man. In case all ilated. It is not known just how the people would )eople, looking through spectacled of about the same proceed firat to Pittsburg, where a meeting of tbe joint know the result. No one wants the drunkard of he fact that the delegates wasted most of their Of doubt over this class of hits, score a base hit and ex­ committee on playing rules ia to be held next Tuesday. meagre ability; tbe deserter, who cannot "hit a bal- espoiid to such a scheme, but it is very likely the bcus, see so differently? I had a talk with ono of our empt ihe fielder from the charge of an error." ime at the meeting in considering a proposition of an eituation has been, or will be, thoroughly but quietly country's base ball moguls the other day, and what h« It is not probable that there will bo any radical loun," or the contract-breaker, who isn't a great organization from "Between the foul lio*s" is not aa definite aa "in changes in the fielder aud first-class base-runner. this citv that was trying to beat the canvassed before the club officials publicly commit said impressed me curiously. I do ny which Solly w<»a to go to lha Boston Club in con­ is auy one indebted to it. in pensation, just the fame as they would Lave done had Their best men appear to bo absorbed by Brooklyn, error if he lails to field it. Section 4 I would omit There in, however, $12 standing to the creditof a party our days and been approved cracks, the blacklist and thore does not appear sideration of that famous check for 510,000, there was hey proposed to have the same delegates help thorn to to bo auy very energetic an from the record, and for these reasons: Iu the first nut West who, after umpiring a single game, was never wouldn't have held them more than two seasons. mblic novementa toward making arrangements to Indignant howl from this locality. Such questions place, it is simply duplicating a record which appears rob the store of their neighbors. as these were fired at thfc Now York managtuttmt: hear.l from &!2" "Aint Now York got as Jnmoiary, on the ground that it ia simply offering the as it should, the local franchise ought to bo worth as much money as Boston?" "AVhy dou't you get Denny League, as yet. has only a squad of regular mercy- Association next mouth at Cincinnati, adopt THE much a^ that nowadays there is mauy ft hustling manager who fails batsman an official premium for a record instead of eeeking suppliants. SPORTING LIFE'S plan as far as it of Cincinnati, Louisville or St. Louis; or third bas"?" ''AV'hy duu't the Giants have McOor- Among .the latter is A. 11. suite our case, and jut thia fact they seem to have lost sight of by ;o get his optics on them. Ot course, if TUE SPORTING batting solely ia the interents of the team. This is Nichofs, late of the Louisvilles, who, with Hall. Craver having once adopted it, live up to its provisions aa well LiiFE Millennium plan U to be adopted at the coming mirk?" "Whv don't theclu>> get Dunlap fur second?1* especially true in regard to the class of bate men tempting offers they received from the intruders. They ["he local club s'ood the bombardment courageously. whose and others, was put upon the blacklist in 1877 for as we know bow. This ia strong talk, but the time for were also blinded neeting of the Association and made applicable to the lole efforts while at the bat are directed to hitting for alleged crookedness. namby-pambyism as to the strength and importance k>hn B. Day's office was I'l^iegud ,but if the owner of Nicbols has addressed a long is behind, aud tbat for reform at of the National Agreement because they evidently season of eighty-eight, the mystery U solved at once, three-baggers and home runs so aa to work np big petition to the League requesting reinstatement so band. and Brooklyn's long-headed manager ia more eloii- ho New York Club eaid anything it simply waa: batting averages iad never studied that stone wall which stands bo- 'Wo don't need him. or wo don't want him." No for themselves, instead of devoting that hia name may be banded dowu to his children THE LATEST THING ;aied than usual. Say, now, honest, old fellow, is that their effort-* solely to the art of batting to make runs, IN RTTLE EVASION. lind the National game, and which is the great urther excuse was mude, and the local club aud man­ without stain of crooked base ball playing upon it. Right upon the heels of tbe point raised with refer­ safeguard and protection he direction of the goutlo November zephyrs? And jt being H general rule v. 1th the class of hit­ He stated that he for those who have their agement WHS jumped ispou pretty lively iu conse- has no intention of returning to the ence io the contracts of men bound to Mr. Von der money invested in it, and, were it not for the ad­ peaking of the Mets, too, brings to memory that queer ters to make an effort for their pet bit, even at the diamond, and accompanied his petition with a formal ase of 0 Brien, Kioslow and [ucnce. I mot Mr. Pay the afturooon following that Ahe for one of his two St. Louis teams, and the evi­ vice that A. J. Beach and John Morrow gave, and Cross. If the men were Jew Orleans Cost df running the risk of sacrificing a ruuuer on resignation from the League iu tho event of his appeal not under regular fornn of contract, it must have been scandal in which some of tho player* of third base when dent justice to other clubs of releasing men before wbo Interpreted the National Agreement for them, he Ntw York combination acted more like Bowery but one man is out. That this record being granted. they are transferred >nly an oversight careless, to bo sure but what an Of ex rr a-base hita encourages the ha hit of batting for a from one league to the other, the affairs of the Southern League, in all probability, loafers thau gentlemen. Our thoughts commingled. At tbe headquarters of the Washington Club this comes the news that New York is to place its surplus would now be in the court?, pportunity there was for a little Record there is no doubt, and it Is helped on by the has been a vtry quiet week. instead of smooth and We both seamed to be tumkiiiicof the same thing for President Hewitt and players in Jersey City to play in tbe International settled as they me. If the directors of the Southern MAGNANIMITY IX BASE BALL summary of extra hita and the special reference made his aon Walter will represent the Senators at the once. *'You remember last year when ." But no io them League. And side by side with this comes the an­ League expect to have clubs spend money in build­ o be displayed, and how much better it would have uioio was necessary. He stood the flow of adverw in tbe newspaper reports. It is about time League meeting. Mr. Hewitt seems determined to try nouncement that that credit in the score for clean base hita should be '*a League club may locate its reserve ing up its arms, they roust also expect to guarantee been to have observed it. The Loigue, as a body, criticism ratlior than say uumethiiiK that uii^ht injure and improve the standing of the homeclub nextseason, players with the Newark Club," also of the Interna­ each arm their fullest limited to the column recording baso nils, without re­ and in addition to the support and protection, in­ seldom makes serious mistakes, but some of the League he reputation of snme player whose bread and butter new material already secured tional League. Humph! Thia is another novelty ia stead of encouraging and aiding organized members sometimes make very gard to the mimbor of bases such hits yield. Let me negotiations are pending with several other players of bands to ailly blunders. Was depended upou bis salary at> a bail player, I t!o not Bay just here that tho lino of rule evasion. What right has New York break them down, and, a* the National gamo is sur­ the game worth the candle, now, in this case? Mr. wish lo raise the luliujc power of the New York Club had the Detroit team depended for well-known reputation. If the deal is successful under the rules jucce-n io the pennant race upon tbeitfs^^rk at the to send its men to Jersey City? All rounded by good, wiofl legislation, which hus been Day must have been aware that Mr. By rue had pur­ upon a peUeatHl that bo may be worshipped as a (in Washingtonians will have nothing to complain of, but pacif« in which these men play in excess of five would made for the best interests of base chased the franchise Ija; *s hard hitters of thn "three-bagger" and "home should it fail they will be none ball, and which of the Mets and the right to too aagel. I don't think that John B, Day ia a beavenly the wiser, therefore be illegal, unless they had signed Jersey City contracts. ha* stood every test thus far it has been put to, services of the players In all good faith. ru; ",class, and made fielding skill, base-running and he has concluded to keep his own couusol for the What a jody on tin wheels by any means. Ho don1! need any barp team work secondary, they And before signing Jersey City contracts the men those handling the affairs of the various clubs owe graceful act it would tiavo boon to have left him in suggestions, however, about his business. He knows would have been present. must bo released and tbe other adly lelt;aud especially would this have been the clubs in the League it to the whole League of which they form a part, quiet possession of what he had pitid for, although he low to attend lo hia aflatra about aa well aa any mail I He liaa not formally selected a manager for next givon ten days iu which to sigu them before going to to thoroughly inform themselves on could not We in the world's championship series in which they season, but the indicit'on^ are strongly this legislation prove a formal logal title to it. It would bo enow. in favor of Jersey City, The other League club talked of in re­ and be guided by it. difficult to find a parallel caso in any business but specially excelled in the last- named elements of sue- Ted Sullivan. Ted has made himself generally useful ba-o WE JtfTSS A MEETING. teas in match play tug. lation to Newark n.ust be Philadelphia, It only, out­ The organization that tried to take the franchise ball. This sort of freebooting, piratical practice seems to Mr. Ucwit, aud the latter has great confidence iu side of Now York, has any from the e ball men here expected that the meeting of the his judgment number of surplus players. present management acknowledged they to be only common to the business of buccaneering AN ELIMINATION RECOMMENDED. of base ball talent. Ted is now And yet I do not believe that Harry Wright or Al were beaten by base ball law, base ball. Some committee on playing rules was to be held in this city in Onlo on an important which, if they had un­ very few peoplo appear to admire The columns of the tabulated score which record the mission, but he Reach, acute as they are, would whip tbe devil around derstood at the outset would havo stopped them iu this and diguify the tactics by the high-sounding on Tue-day, but the base ball magnates have recon­ number of players put out, the assistances in putting will try to be in New York while the League meeting is tbe stump ia such a clumsy fashion. The loaning their efforts; and it title sidered and tho session will be held at Pittsburg town in progress. Whoever of seema it was because the Mem­ of diplomacy, state or ballcraft, shrewd business them out; and the error* chsr^ed, I would eliminate may be selected to manage players i* illegal, and it is only by eu:h means that phis, Birmingham and Charleston delegates knew as instinct, etc., etc., but the plain, common, homespun, on Monday instead. Some are sorry, but others who altogether, and iu the place of these three columns I the Senators next year, will have some first-dasi mate­ Now York can hold its men and play little as they did about lave been accustomed to hustling around those base rial to handle and them in another thia same base ball law that everyday fact is that much of such practice is nut only would substitute two, in which should be recorded the the friends of the homo club are club of its own or any other League without very also led them into the error of encouraging not strictly houest, but makes jail meetings t:o lively and getting so little news, are quite confident that if the manager performs the marked men of the per­ total number of chances offered a fielder for putting his duty great expense. Day by day it becomes evident that a movement. This case, I trust, will have its lesson, not sona who adopt such means of getting pU yers and not. The aiimisphere of Immense secrecy aid im­ out or assisting to put out baUraen or base-runners, and maintains the proper discipline among tho players, rule limiting the number of players only iu this League carrying portance which hovers over many of our base bait seventh place will not do for under contract to 1 but in all leagues where the af­ on the business. Why cannot this business and the total of such chance-* accepted. This amend­ Washington. one club at one time must be again put upon the fairs of the game are rua with disregard to the be carried on in the legitimate way gatherings makes one tired. A persjn not familiar The Washington management made a strong base of other lines? ment would not only do away with an extra column play books. Such a rule would have tbe effect that a stal­ ball law that surrounds it. Why should not a mau's -1bade ball word" be as good with the ways of our magnates of the game, might b* In the tabulated score, but it would get rid of the f>r the sorvicea of Krock,but the Chicagos captured wart and wide-awake policeman has on a burglar, Powell, Widner, McVey and as any one's bond? pardoned if he supposed that those delegates who him. and "Shorty" Fuller, of Why ia this line should it be as­ error column in its present objectionable form, and it isn't a bad thing for the burglar. this season's team, have been signed for '88, also serted, as the writer has heard it unblushingly guard their words and doings so cart-fully when in fielders would not thna bs discouraged Anson has signed a contract to play with the Chi­ session held the welfare of ihe nation in their io their efforts THG COMING ASSOCIATION MEETING. Pitcher Weber, of last year's Birmin^hams. Bradley spoken in open conversation, that the speaker hands. to face difficult balls by th« fear of having an array of cago* next season, and tho same has been approved by Of course, if they want to hold meetings and exclude The meeting of the American Association to be held and Geiss will, in all probability, sign. This will give "considered a business lie as nt* lie at all?" Why error figures charged against them, which new deters President Young. This id said to be quite an unuml us virtually tho same cannot tho recognized members of the pres^ that is their busi­ proceeding for at Cincinoati Monday, Dec. 5, ought to be ono of the infield, which was the strong­ they make base ball methods just as honest o many fielders from making efforts to field difficult the Big Fellow. est feature of the '87 team. and no more so than others? Why, ness. If a portion of the public makes up its mind All of the Chicago team except Pfefler and most harmonious aud reformatory in the progressive if there is any­ balls which they wo^.Id otherwise attempt to fielJ. Clarkson The management is now looking for a couple of thing on earth that should bo presented to the public that the managers in their meetings ure concocting Either do this or leave out the have attached their names to contractstur n^xt at-ason. history of that body. Of course there are a hundred schemes which will not bear public scrutiny, why I error column altogether, schemes to come up, recommendations good catchers and two good batting fielders, aud, as a clean and spotless entertainment it should bo our or place in that column every error made, whether it Clarkson's Washington friends can hardly credit the for rulechanges when suppose that Is tho public's business. What will be rumor to be made and some general fixing to do. But there these are signed, the team for 'S8 will be com­ fino National sport, which should in time advance to be a "battery error" viz., a pissed hall, a wild pitch, that be is dissatisfied with Chicago, and desires plete. Jack Sueed is one the term of done at this ex-Sooty City convention can only be con­ to play elaewhe/e next year. I remember isn't a fight in sight, and there doesn't need to be a of the fielders spoken of gentlemanly apart and again to rofinod a baso on called balls, or on a ^itched ball hitting the very dis­ There is a general desire in this city to see Jack wear- sport. Tho game will grow so much faster with strict jectured at present. Messrs. Sp^Miog, Rogers and batsman. tinctly a conversation which took place in this city fight. It is about time that the Association, fragmen­ Voting will look after tho interests of tary and Ing a New Orleans uniform next year. attention to these virtues. But, alas, while they re­ the League, and Of conIM, in substituting a cnlnmn giving the last summer, while the Chicago toam was playing quarrelsome as it has been before and since Messrs. Phelps, Barnie and Williams the Asso­ record Deuny Me Knight showed the Ewiug will prove a strong boxman for Memphis, un­ quire it of the players iu £hoir exhibition before the of chances offered a fielder for put* ing out or assisting here,between Anson, Clartson and yours truly. Anso way, rested and watched less he throws ciation's interests. 0. P. Caylor and the commit­ watt explaining tho other fellows fight, and the indications are that that arm out (?) again a few times dur­ public, strict honesty, be it said in sorrow, Is quite a to put out a batsman or ^base-runner, new clauses why the Chicago management had di ing the season. John has a long stranger to a number tee of three from the players, who were so posed of the services of Kelly, Gore, McC >rmick tbe other fellows will have it out in good style. There head and knows who are connected with the would have to be substituted for those which now de­ anc about the right time always to throw bis arm out (?) of game a* ft business. The fact Is, batfo ball people be­ conspicuously present «t last year's meeting will not bo fine put-outs and assistances. Dalrymple. He weut on to eay that one of the best is the Brotherhood to settle with, and also the per­ present that is in the secret chamber. They may centage vs. guarantee question. If tbe joint. come so eager in tho huut for players that many of One palpable blunder in the rules requires to be evidences of good management WHS when a club al­ latter isn't The New be in (he corridor of the Hotel Andersoa, however. ways had soma good settled satisfactorily we may have Detroit asking fjr Yorks have finished their series here and these things are done in the thoughtless impulse of the remedied, and that ia the giving the pitcher the credit material t<> sell, as anyone with are forced to acknowledge that they struck moment, and where tho meeting ia to take place. Jjlin B. Day said money enough could make a good purchase. another American franchise, though Detroit hasn't a snag in some of them perhaps wear a conscious for a fielding assistance on batsmen he retires on In dis­ the snutf little team they faced. Never did the same blush when after-reflection paints thsir conduct ia its yesterday that he had no idea just what the committed called strikes. Through posing of the players abovt* named, tbe Chicag got such an elegant chance for a bluff M she had after would do. He knew of no changes which were to be thia mistake the data on Pittsburgh jump players battle harder to win games than they did true colors. Well, well, well we really don't want to which is b*-ed th^ fifldin? averages of pitchers is ren- ma naif erne tit concluded that they were getting knotty and the last Association vacancy. made, and thought the playing rules as in vogue were There are only three avenues for Detroit this time against the Southern League champions. They pulled scold, but remember men, a point that may interest d-ied utterly useless a^ a criteiion of a pitcher's skill und preferred to fill thoir places with straighter aari out of the four of five games played you the not in need of further reform. Billy Barnio, of Bal­ more oven timber. She may get percentage via honied words and by the merest higner the plane on which you elevate Iho as a fielder in Ms position. Just as there are battery thread. One tie game and one 5 to 3, ono 3 to 1 and business of base ball, the more lucrative it will be­ timore, Ia also here. In fact he has been here for a rror-i and fielding errors entirely distinct from each Turning to Clarkson, Auson said: "John, perhaps diplomacy combined with the fairness and interest ol day or two. What brings him hero he sayetli not. a mnjority of the clubs, or quit. The courts one 5 to 4, show that they had to play ball for all they come to you. Oh, thoro now, do you know Other, so are these battery assistances iuiu fielding os- you will he seasoned well enough next year to bring may aid knew how Barnie thinks there will bo oiie or two minor changes a good Brethren Stearns, Gray and Watkins, and their to win. They found iu Widner and Powell TOM YORK, "'stances, and they are similarly distinctive. roun 1 price in the market. How much do yot com­ a pair of pitchers much stronger made ia tho rules. He has one or two suggestions to suppose we could ronlizo on you?" Of course bined attention should be called to tbe fact that the than they expected to this may run across in a minor league. These pitchers held who has been ont of base ball for a year or so, couldn't offer himself. His reforms will refer to "the "four SACRIFICE HITS. havo been s

One of the Brown* writes me from the South that There would be more Jim Whites, Panl Radfords, ciDDHti's centennial celebration will bring tens of their trip has been a splendid one. They have been CAYLOR'S COMMENT. Staggs. Tj uea and thirt da^s pla>Iug ball lo-daj if the CINCINNATI CHIPS. thousands of *tr&ngi-rs to town. Ti.e club*e year finan­ treated in flue style both by ihe pnblic and the preea. ioa ft r, drunkard, and wo u Id-bo prize fighters could be cially this time Y.-A- *;* - lie-,t ovV-r BASE BALL. A Suggestion to the Committee on Rules known in Cincin­ The writer remark* that Lathao)'«coachiatf and autfoa The True Inwardness of the O'Brien Res­ weeded out of the profession. Though theie be many nati, a:id it will u hot ; «r r.oxt. on (he fluid made him tl.e hero of the -lay. ervation Blunder An Invitation De­ most resjtectattle, intelligent men playing professional Anent Stolen Bases President Stern on Assistant Treasurer jjhii Nilftn 1 has been lying dan- Mrs. Captain Comiakcya-id Mr9.Curtis Welch will clined—Sunday Playing and Winter ball to-day, their profession is looked down upon. It an Kastern Trip Interesting Bits of gp roust) ill, eren to the point of ue^h. Mr. NiNnd ST. LOUIS SIFT1NGS. join the champions at New Oil-aus. Mrs. Doc ia true, as well as deplorable, that among tho better Gofwip. La3 been Mr. Stern** right-hand man this season. if* Bushong will go direct from St. Louis to San Francisco. Jaunta Condemned—The Young Blood the Spring Detroit—St. LonU Series—A Craze, Etc. classes the followiug of a ball player ia considered to has had charge of the press gate aud piloted the Cin­ A great many writers in THE SPGHTINO LIFE draw be, socially, very low. The friends of the best men in CINCINNATI, Nov. 9. Editor SPOUTING LIFE: cinnati Club about the country several Urn**. Cliunge Discussed—Von tier A he FT- on their imagination when they say that tho Browns- NEW YORK, Nov. 11. Editor SPORTING LIFE: the profession are constantly moriific-d to hear ball I think I would be forgiven if in the course of "Hick"' CariviiUu- und ISImor South arrived in town prt'ss;;s Himself on Possible Changes ia Detroit 8'Tiea will work a^iiinat the American Asso­ players spoken of as being people- wholly without this screed I should happen to get Governor a couple of days a^o aft^r week's Lunt in the c. uutry. ciation. I don't see why it should. Thin ia the ftrrt -If Brunell, Stack ho use and a few more of tiie 11 rownb and Kindred Subjects— BiU your correspondents do not cease prodding about character or respectability. Is it a wonder then that Foraker on base, for the game of politics has Thny shot just tw ' rat-bits. of Now*. time that a League club ever won the world's chfira- relatives prevent many young men from entering the The Iloastology Club will commence its meetings piuuanip, and it may b« t^e hwt time. Who kn.-wn? the Tom O'Urien affair I shall be driven, for profession they might aduru, while some of tboau who been the one that was first in the thoughts of next \wnk. THK SPOUTING LICI: has b*>eD chosen as ST. Louis, Nov. 10. Editor SPORTING LIFE: Manner Maoning, of the Kansaj City team, is un- self-protection, to say gome things about my are alieady in aro often temp tod aud half persuaded by Ohio sons this week. The Governor made a thy omYJtil i.rg-uj. Every ball tosser in town will join It ia rather eatly to commence talking of a d?r the impression that Le will have a winning team connection with the MeU that I vastly prefer to their families t > quit tho calling and go into some luas hou.e run yesterday, and as the People played during the v-int»;r. spring series between the Browns and Detroit*, in tho Western L<*ajrue next season. 8'. Lou«8, of leave unsaid. Personally, I was treated splen­ remunerative buaiuesa? the part of umpire there will bb no protest. Aa Have yu« noticed how many ball tosserg have been but there ia no doubt but that sach a series will cor.n»e, is my first choice, but if wo can't get the pen­ for Powell, he fouled out. getting married la-dv' If Cnpid ia iii th*» market ha nant, then I am for Kansas City. I will oe pleased if didly by Messrs. Wiman and Watrous, and have The way to make base ball playing respectable is to might get a jro^nl iosii'dnuapiichei-jtidglng-friim tU« bf iirrnnged for next year. It would be a good it lands in Missouri. I don't say that Jimmy Mann­ nothing to say of either save that which I would make drunkenness and loafeiiam among the plajers Death entered the ranks of the old ball play­ w;ij he ha-* tossed tliuijhaft of iov« through (tiohearti idea for the two great aggregations to start in at ing ia the nicest manager in the country, hut I do say say of my beat friends. Professionally, however, expensive. If I have preached a sermon it ia because ers this morning, and William J. Riley was the of tho hoys this suuimtM. BEN MuLroKD, JR. Kew Orleans and ploy -northward. The series tlint there is not a nicer manager than the little man it is another matter entirely. I can only say the profession needs missionary work. I heartily join victim of the Grim lleaper's graap. On last would answer two purposes, viz.: Get the men at the h«id of Mended' club. hand* with Chadwick and any other of your corre*- Friday Riley was taken ill, and the disease de­ Charle) Levis, the gentleman that managed th« now and I hope this will be sufficient that for ponaentB in a crusade agaiust tu« drunkard aud the In guod shape for the championship season, and Chatranooga Club two years ago and played with the six weeks previous to the end of the season I loafer. veloped into inflammation of the bowels. The CHJCAGO]NEWS. decide tho point as to whether the Wolverines Leavoo worth, Kas., Club lust season until it disbanded, had ceased to be manager of the Mots, so far as fatal work was quickly done. Among the "old- How the Chicago Club Outwitted the De­ is now in the city, where he will probably winter. cun put up as good a game in the spring as they the exerciso of power was concerned. I knew T have good reason for knowing tbat Mr. Von der timers" Kiley was well known. In the days troit in Securing Pitcher Krock—The can in the fall. From a financial standpoint the BeeideH being a good ball player and a gentleman, nothing about the signing of Tom O'Brion, Kins- Ahe will release both Bn^hong and Caruthers to when Cincinnati was in the League he was a Lev is has eh-jwn him-ielf to b<) a good manager, and as Brooklyn. The tranaf^r may not be m«de until spring, Approaching League Sloe ting Contract fall series was a dismal failure, as the contest captain of n team he is hard to b,-at. He will no low, Parsons or Weidman until after they were but these players will he found in the Brooklyn team Red Stocking. He aldo played in the Cleveland Changes A. Close Call for Sam Morton, was too one sided. The two clubs, go I am told, doubt be found at the head of a slub at Manchester, N. signed. I never knew, till Brunell published wheu the next season opens. Mr. Byrne ha* now be­ Club once upon a time, and after his retirement Etc. cleared less than $3,000 apiece, the traveling ex­ II., next staaon, as ho has received an tiffar from that come a recognized referee in the Association and on from the diamond field he became an umpire. the sum, what amount was paid for Tom O'Brien'a CHICAGO, Nov. 8. Editor SPOUTING LIFE: - penses cutting a big hole in the boodle, and if city to organize aud manage a team. Charley is well release. The above men, with the exception of his shoulders are laid all ol the important questions Ever since the appointment of Collector Bishon President known down Ka^t, although he has spent m^st of his to be settled. If it is true that Each Pht-lps is going he has been a guager. It has been some years There is little interest in Chicago at this writing, Von der Ahe cleared less than $3,000 life in the South and Southwest. Th* Manchester Weidman, will bear me out that I didn't even to retire from baw ball the Brooklyn president will be on the series, without extra pay to his men, the since he appeared in the uniform of either a in affairs of the National game, on account of people are to tw congratulatod upon their selection. know what salaries they were to draw until I a greater power than evor. I see his hand in the re­ the overshadowing intercut in the eases of the Detroit Club must have come out at the little Manager Loftua, of tho White Sticking Western was first told by them. I signed Cross and Fa- organisation of the Athletics, and I abo know that he player or an umpire. "The boys'* will remem­ end of the horn, as all of their men received a League tenm, has signed the following players to is now on a still hunt for umpires. That all of the ber him better as "Pigtail" Riley. Why condemned Anarchists. However, there are a gin and fixed their salaries. They each signed few instunces upon record since the date of my good round sum for their work. The spring se­ represent St. Louis n-xt sfiwon: Catchers, Dolan and about the 15th of September, and as thirty daya other clubs look to this shrewd little man for guidance that remarkable nickname was given to Kenyon; pitchers. Staley «nd Davlin, and probably no one knows better than myself, aud his power will him I cannot tell. He has been so known as last letter worth recording. The first of theaa ries will probably be arranged without the great KuourTand Hudson will be transferred to the new did not elapse from that time till the day of he all the greater now that he will be relieved of the ia the eit;nin^ of Gus Krock, which occurred last flourish of trumpets that characterized the fall team; Lyons, second bnae; Herr, third base; AlcotF, reservation Oct. 10 both were under contract drudgery of team management. long as I can remember. Saturday evening, after the forms of THB SPoariNa games, and without the extra expeme of a spe­ short atop, and Nicholaon, left field. Two outfieldere at that time, and the reservation of both was SCORING STOLEN BASKS. LEFE had closed. cial train, etc. Do these so-called and R first baseman are yot to be signed, good and valid, so far as anything can be valid What a sigh of relief'the other club officials will So the joint committee on rules meets next About 5 o'clock that day I saw in converaation with Ed Sitch, of tiio Bro-jklyng, has joined the gymna­ heave to know that HcGuunigle has removed the team Monday? Will you allow me just one chance at Hpaldiug, Manager Watkins, of the world's champion WORLD'S CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES sium, and he will be as hard as a rock, and as tough aa in the American Association. The law is a pressure from Charley's brain to such an extent that tetun. pay is a question that ia being turned over by a pine knot when March gets here. plain one as plain as English words ean make he can run the Association single-handed and alone. their cars? It is about that rule of scoring "What's up now?" I asked of Watkina. more than one base ball man. And another JOE PaiTCHABD. it, perhaps but what bearing that would have stolen bases. You know and I know how many "Oh, nothing, 1' was the uusatnfrtctory reply of the question that will no doubt receive serious con­ had in the premises must be surmised, since both Last winter I kept asserting that the young blood catchers there were in all the base ball organi­ Detrotter. "I am just over hero looking around.' 1 WHITES AND BROWNS. men are reported as signed by the Brooklyns. which was then tbe voguo would be a regretful quan­ zations during the early part of the season who "Trying to make a deal for any of our players?" sideration at the hands of both tho American tity on tbe whole before the hot days came. Was I ' Yi-s, uir. Fjr your players or those of anybody el» Association and League is: Do these world's You know the Barkley and Mullane cases were dropped balls to save the record of a stolen base The Two Clubs Still In the South— Finan­ right? At the same time George Tebean was writing going against them. Such was the case here whom I can secure." championship series work a general good fur the cial Success. instances where existing laws were coolly pushed to Pr it chard about the great work he intended to do in ' You waut Giurkaon, I suppose?" game at large? I have bean given to understand by aside so that a few of the moving spirits of the Cincinnati "with the help of God." Well, and I have reason to believe that in other cities "You bet your life, I do." several gt-mltmen who are well posted, that the exhi­ The St. Louis and Chicago combinations played George did do good work there for the same injustice to base-runners was done by ' How ba-lly?" together Association might have their personal wishes bition games throughout tbe country were anything at Augusta, Ga., Nov. 3, before a large gratified. awhile. But listen to bis this winter song to his St. official scorers who strained a point in deciding "J want him *o much that I will give as much u but SHiiBtiietoiy thia fall, wheu viewing the object crowd. The game was poorly played and re- Louis friend: "I am sorry I ever put my name to an how that rule should be interpreted. For a any of tht-in for his release." through financial glasses. The aeries between the De- American Association contract. I would much rather "Would you, honestly, plank down 57,500 for John?" sulted in a win for the Browns by 9 to 4. On The reservation of Tom O'Brien was alone of tifte I stood alone here in maintaining (hat my position troitti uuil liruwiie were the ct-ntre of attraction, and pliiy in one of the minor Association teams. I would was right. THE SPORTING LIFE gave prominence to "Well, that ia the figure we wcrn on when you cnina all other contests were pasded hy almost unnoticed by the 4th the clubs played at Charleston, S. C. all those cited illegal, because the thirty days adviae all young players to remain in the minor leagues my in. \Ve nuty get higher." said VVatkina, with a smile Tho ground was packed. The battery work was idea and it was indorsed by John M. Ward and others the base ball loving public. If no money ia nude by had elapsed from the time of* his supplemental till they get well seasoiied." And yet the boys think whose opinions I valued highly. Then the tide at Al. the two clubs coil testing tor the \voi M's champioiiahip good on both sides. King and Boyle officiated agreement with Mr. Watrous before the dav of I am rattle-brained and don't knew beans when the turned and balls purposely dropped availed catchers "How many men has Detroit signed for next year?*1 pennant, and if the other clubacaimut nil tlidr parks for St. Louis, and Mullane and Carroll for Chi­ bag is open. Well, well, George, there in no teacher noihiug as fc*r as Cincinnati was concerned. I asked. because all the interest ia outeivd in the world's reservation had come around. Consequently he like experience. You are one who succeeded among When "Alighty few," was the reply. "We haven't signed cago. The Browns "got left" in the second inn­ was not under contract Oct. 10, and accordingly here a fortnight ago Captain Ward said: any of our old stand-bys yet." chaini>ion-ihip games, it looks very much to a m tn up ten who failed; yet you realize a fact over which you "I notice that nearly all the scorers in the League "Why?'' a tree AS if iheue big ^mut-s wuuM bo l-gislateil a^tinst. ing when a passed ball, a wild pitch, and two not liable to reservation. I knew neither tho have fullon. Add to your experience the practice of muffa netted the Whites eix rnna. The Browns rallied men like Dan Stearns, Lovetr, Macnllar and those who cities are scoring stolen bases as you suggested." "Well, because they are all members of the Brother­ At the end of tho reason, or as thu s-ja^on is Hearing date or the character of O'Brien's contract with The committee on rules can make plum section 4 of its end, it would be a good idea for ihe League and the remainder of the game was a splendid exhibi­ have been in tho upper cla??, were dropped and are hood ami can't sign." tion of ball playing. Two umpires officiated. Score: Mr. Watrous until he asked me about it some­ now sought after agaiu, but will not be drawn away to rule G5, and I have uo doubt but time they will take "You bhoLld follow our example," said Sralding, and Association clubs to play a beries of guinea appropriate action. Then* it* not doubt in my mitid all around. My idea would b« to have every League 8T. LOUIS. AB.R.B. P. A. E| CHICAGO. AB.R B. P. A.E time the latter part of October. He then told the sacrifice. "The ChiCtttf-i Club has signed eighteen men lor th« Lfttham, 3b.. 4 1 1 2 2 llCarroIl.c...... 6 1 0 3 21 tbat "Little Nic" is third instead of first among the season of 18s8." club vi^it all the American Association cities and tuen me when and what kind of a contract he had base-runner* in the American Assocition this year ha?o all the Association clulw visit the League cities. McPliee, 20.. 4 0 2 2 4 lfRyan,cf...... 5 0 2 300 made with Mr. W. I asked him whether he Lot me take up my unfinished information bureau "Got out," said Wat; "you'ie joking*" OVSYil, If..... 40010 OJPfeffcr, 2b... 500 4 20 and I will have ended my infliction for tnis week. simply Lit cause that rule was unjustly operated. Nicol "Not a bit of it," said Spacing. "I have signed It would stir thiago up wonderfully, and ihe mudlly had at any time Letw«en the 28th day of August and watt unwittingly slaughtered in ^he house of hij thin crowds tbat wituees exhibition games in the fall G>miskey,lb 4 1 I 12 t 0:Witliain'u,M 5 34050 tho 28th of September been naked to stgu a regular Tommy Esterbrook The color for a four o'clock dog every m«u twho played with us last year with the ex­ Ciruthera,rf 4 0010 2 l BiKti?,3K.... 511 1 00 friends. He stale many a base in the early part of the ceptions ot Pftfier and Clurkson, and would he large enough to make the most greedy man­ , Metropolitan contract. He said he had iut,and I tben in November is yellow. Ye?, it costs loss to season, under circumstances such as I refer to, and not half a dozen mort ager soiile. Take the city of St. L')uis as an illustra­ Welch, cf.... 401 50 OlMuIlauf.p... 423 1 20 truthfully told him that his reservation had heen live in Brooklyn than in Harlem. Nick Young colts btside.'1 Robinson,**- 4 1 3 2 3 O.Dalrvm'le. If 4 2 1 4 00 one of them were credited save on my individual score ' "Well, you are lucky," said Watkins, with a sigh, tion. All lovers of the game in this city, and they can illegally made. At the game time I urged that ho act Your note received complaining of tho frauduloncy of book and thnt Is 110 part of' the official record. Stovey be counted by the thuiif-auds wLen the attractions are King, p...... 4 1 1 0 1 2'S«Wv*n,lb..4 » 0 8 00 carefully in the premises, because the Association \vaa tho automatic scale. It is not the fault of the scale "I wish we were as well fixed, but we will bo with yott Boyle, c...... 30321 p|Maskrey,rf.. 411 3 00 I see ItaiU Nic eight bases, xvhiie Latham is ahead of between now and Jan. 1.*' good, would turn out en masse to see the Chicagos, on record as being too much prone to override their that it will not work for you. Next time you just put him seven. Perhaps they suffered in the tamo way that New Yorks, Pbilhtw, B«3atous, Detruifcj, Fiitsburgs, Total...... 35412 27 12 6! Total...... 41101227 111 Uws with the ext-rcise of arbitrary power. For the a brick in your pocket. I've tried it. George Stack- After a little more general conversation Spalding Nic did. I am cot qualified to speak upon the ques­ left us, but shortly afterwards he rctippeaied \Va(*liiugtons and Indianapolis. It would be a real CMcago...... 06200010 1 10 present dopouout sa>eth no more. house No; M.tisdigo is not au anarchist. He tion, but I am certain that if Nicul had been giveu all with a treat to see the Browns nuasure swords with the St, Louis...... 120001000 4 sometimes exolodea a base ball bomb, but it big fellow who passed through tho door and went that he is entitled to under the latter day rulings in­ down Htairs. I did not recognize the man, but it was above aggregatiocs. It would be something different Earned runs Chicagn 2, &)t. L*-nis 3, Two-base Yesterday I took my usual stroll down Broadway a ia not made of dynamite mostly wind stead of the 135 stolen bases officially recorded for from thu general order of things. As the season druwe hita Kyan 2, Wllliamson 2, Dalrymple. McPhee, eastern we wealthy young New Yorkers have at this John means well, but he thiuka too fa*t. Henry Chad- Gnu Kiock, of the Oshkosh te;im. him he would have quite 150. The three Stovey, "Who was that?" 1 aeked Spalding, and for answer, to a close the championship series is nearly always Kiner. Left on bast's Chicago 4, St. Louis 4. Bases seamen of (he fear. I was keeping a sharp lookout wick Wo recommend you to Dcmohue's Digest of Lathum and Nicol are so closely bunched that it is i ut settled and it matters little who win* the Imme club stolen Ctiir,ai:o 1, SL LouU 4. Struck out By Mul- abend for some one of ~my intimates among the grtat Base Ball Information for Beginners. Study it care­ he hurst into a laugh. "Sit down and I will tell yoij a debatable question who ia the best base runner about it. It is a good one,'* or the vigitord and thu crowds glow beautifully U lanfl 1, by King 1. Jfhst on balls Chicago 4, St. men of Gotham George Gould, De Launcey Nicoll, fully, and in a short time you'll be able to write an among them? While I am on the subject of scoring I from day to day. Louis 1. Double plays Comiakey, Robinson; Robin- Beny Wall, Uenry Irvintr, Henry Clews, James Gor­ interesting article on the sport. Ed F. Stevena As a A NARROW ESCAPS. prohibition candidate your physique is against you. waut to refer to PRESIDENT VON DER AHE IS NOW IN THB EAST, 8"D, McPliee, Comiskoy; WiUlamann, Pfeffer, Sullivan. don Bennett, Jim Mutrie, Billy O'Biieu or Jolm Well, it seems that Wat kins had had his eye upon Wild pitrhps Mutlace 2, Kin,< 1. Ptiesed b'xll Boyle. It will not be easy to convince your constituency that A DECLARATION OF JIM KEEHAN*8. and the order of the tiay will be the reported number Mandieo, wheu all of a mighty sudenly fifty brilliant Do you notice that in the official record Keonan Krock for some time, und while he (Walking) sat ia Umpires Jini'»nin and Corcorrm. liihtd flashed upon my bewildered eyea. Something you do not consume several growlers of lager beer Spaldiug's office, an agent of the Detroit Club wa* of deals that he is making. I called upuu the Browns' On SaturdAy tuornine. NOT. 5, another contest took ovary hour. Bitter stick to the temperance cause in ranks eighth and Baldwin fourteenth in fielding president bnnday and asked him the cause oi his visit was coming down the street that waadazzling. Before among all the catchers? Now here at home we think rakiuij Milwaukee with a fine tooth comb in search of placo in tho eame city before a much smaller crowd. I Imd rtcovered from the blindmc effects enough to base ball alone. Fred Carroll By all n.eaus the Northwestern League twirler. It swems, however, to the East, and he unaw^red with a smile, accom­ Th*- ChicasEos bit out from the shoulder, but the St. remain in California if yon can secure a our catch rs rank as high as any in the Association, panying: "I am going Kast for several reasons. The determine whether it was a public btereopticon or the and it has always been a surprise when the monthly that Krock had promised tipaldiLg to come down to Louts won the game by their superior base-running explosion of cne of Yon der Abe's brilliant idoas I WHS gold mine out ihere. Horace Phillips A hustler, Chicago and tolk things over at Lis first opportunity, ruaiu object, hi-wever, is to s*tf some of the young like everything else, wears out. Tommy Burns Two averages came out to find Baldwin and Keenan tagging blood that I have secured, and pay them their advance and more scientific batting. S(:oiv: seized by the hand and greeted with: "Hello, 0. P., and it so happened that he chose Saturduy afternoon P. A E* ST. LOUIS- AB.R.B. P. A. B dollars will buy forty beers sometimes. Brunei! along toward the tatl-enders. They never seemed to money. Will I do any trading while away? Well, CHICAGO. A8. H.B, you're juat the man I'm looking for; here's the four make any more errors than the ordinary run of back and that hu £0t to the store judt sitter Watkins had Cwrol, c...... ft I 4 311 LatJmm, 3b.. 601 0 30 dollars I owe yon." No; the Hanging of the Crane was not written by taken a seat in Mr. Spaldius's private -/flice, with hla that is a question that I cannot answer, as there is uo Rvan. McPhfi-, 2b. 4 0 1 5 30 Jimmy Williams. George Munson Wait till yon have stops who held up their ends for St. Louis, Louisville, telling what may turn up in the Ka<*t. So far, I have p...... 512 1 60 Cleveland, Baltimore, Brooklyn, the Mots and Ath­ btvck to the door. While Wa'kius was chatting away, Puffer, 2b.... 501 330 O'Neil, If..... 422 0 00 The expression, as a whole, may sound parodoxlcal. been married a year. Buffalo Bill Apply to Charley Krock opened the door and btuck his head into th* done nothing, and furthermore I have not been asked WilliHm'n^s 403 1 2 l|G>mIskpy,rf4 01211 Byrne for a now supply of Indians; he haa some for letics this summer. And I don't know that that to Bell any of my crack players, only in a casunl way. In base hall busuiesa particularly, one, I mi^ht say, opinion has changed any since the discovery that Mil- room. I wasn't there, but I can imagine ih« expres­ Burns. 3b..... 423 n 2 0 Carnthers.lb 4 12900 never meets ajnau who saya he has been looking for sale cheap a job lot. J. B. Day The question is not sion that uiubt have settled up^u A Pa face when h* If a man wants a player he generally eayn: 'I want who struck Billy PatterBon,but who signed Tom 0' Brien ligan., Greor, Cross, Bushong. Kerins, liobinaon, Town- that man; naraw your price tor him, and it the figure Mul'ant*, lb. 4 1 2 11 01 "" iisz. p...... 4 011 you and at the same time pays you money. It is looked over Waldos' head and saw tho pitcher they Dalrymu'e.lf 4 01201 Welch.cf..... 400 4 for the Meta. 0. P. CATLOE. send, Trott and Fulmer take rank above Keeoan, and suite, we wiil make a trade.' / have had some in­ m"re likely to be: "Hellot You're just the man I've that Baldwin is also led by Suyder, Boyle, Cook, Hol- were both after. "All right, I will be runt there,'* quiries as to the price asked for Urn man and that Sullivan,c,ss4 0 0 4 0 l|Robin«on,ss. 3 2 1 been looking for. Where is that four dollars you owe he sang out. "Excuse me a moment," (this to Ma*krey,rf.. 4 0 1 2 0 o'ltnshonn.c... 4 1_ 1 * 30 ME?" bert and Reipschlager. Cincinnati scorers are pretty man, bnt to thes<> communications I have paii hut THE NEW YORK COMBINATION. severe on catchers. If a ball is fired down to second a Watkius) and the Detroit omuager bowed hfc T«ry littlo attention, as some of the writer.* do not Total...... 39 5 U 27 14 5! Total...... 36 610 27 17 1 trifle high or low a wild throw is chalked up against head in assent while Spalding dashed through need the nieu they are asking about. Y^; there will St. Louis...... 00110220 0 6 So, do you wonder at the double paralysis which Two More Good Games Played at New the catcher. the duoruay, grabbed (he astonished ball Chicago...... 12100001 0 5 overcame my eytwight and my equanimity of mind? player by the shoulder and started on a be several changes in the ranks of the Browns Orleans—Future Moves. "We get a worse deal right here at home than in any next season; at l«ast that is what I think Earned runs St. Louis 2, Chicago 2. Two-baae hita It was the president of the Cincinnati Club with city in the country/' said Jiui Keen an to me the other trot with him to the renr of the store. "Don't say * at proaunt. Some of the old-timers may be replaced O'Neil, Carrol, Foutz, Mnlhtne. Sfrnck out By whom I had collided, as I presently realized, just as NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 7. The New York com­ day. "Other scor-rs don't pin you down to sending word, for your lift1, hissed Stalling, "just keep a-run- by new faces, and I think that the public demnud Foutz 2, by Ryan 1. Pasied balls Bmhong 2. First self-po«sesaed, plucky and self-assurtd as ever, hut bination played its last games here Sunday. the ball on » bee line to a base, and unless you throw ning." HftirtdK- ck through tho g;it« of the mail­ this. However, it hits been stated repeatedly that I OD balls St. Louis 2, Chicago 1. Umpires Simonin bedecked with half a dozen more diamond solitaires Two games were played, one wide uo error is given and only stolen bases are re­ ing room and jammed him dywn behind a lot of snip­ and Corcoran. in the morning and ping boxes in the corner, then he grabbed an old bicy­ would sell any man on the learn if my price were paid. than whi-n I last saw him. The brilliants seemed to the other in the afternoon. Powell pitched a corded. I'm not kicking, mind you, only it is hard on Thid is a fnct, bur it would take a mighty big bundle The two combinations were to hare p'aycd at have grown out of his budy as warts sometimes grow the club's fielding recoid." cle and ihree or four bundles of paper, threw them on of money to get hold of a few of my crack players, aud Charleston, S. C., last Sunday, but the pr. acheis out of a man's skin. No wonder he wears them. His magnificent game in tho morning, and only six top of Krock's hiJir^-placa, and was about adding ihs waited on the chief of police and prevailed iipou him ROAMING IN THE EAST. mailing girl »yd half a do/.eu baud grenades to th* it is hardly possible that the big guns of the team clnb had made a barrel of gold dollars this season, and hits were made off him, most of these being President Aaron S. Stern h*s been elected to run the wiil play elsewhere tbau in St. Louis in 1888. I onder- to prohibit the game. Wheu apprised of the state of liis commercial business always prospers. It was with ^cratches with men on bases. Powell struck out pile, when h*^*2»verfd biH head, and with a parting puiilic fe- ling the club-* cancelled the game. real pleasure I met him, machine again ]n '88. At the meeting of the Cincin­ warning to tl^Wrhko-ih wan nut to stir, went biw k to staud that several of the boys are dissatisfied with to say nothing of the four Connor and Tiernan in succession and set the nati Ctub the other evening not only was he re-elected, St. Lmi 13 and waut t» go elsewhere next season. Ou Monday, N--v. 7, tbe last ffame at Cliarleatou was d(.liars a bet I made him that his club would get Watkius. I came in a moment after and helped V»at-^ played before a small crowd. With the exception of crowd wild. Powell scored for the New Orleans but the compliment was extended to every ono of the kins to rasp the soul of the impatient president of th* Should there be any cbangea the ones that are dis­ fecond place. The bet was made in St. Xouis last old officers. Louis Hauck will remain as treasurer satisfied would be the first to go. A ball player that 8>.>me exceptionnlly gotxl catches here and there August. In 1885, whenever he wanted his club to Club in the first on his single, Richardson's fum­ Whites for fifteen minutes. throughout the game, it was itlwoluSely devoid of any­ despite hid early resolution that he had enough. Mr. Just so eooii as Watkins and myself had disappeared works as so much machinery and does not have his win, be usually laid a wa^er with me that they would ble, a sacrifice, and a passed tall. In the same inning Stern is in the East. Before he went ho declared: heart in his work will not be a first-clan thing like excitement. The cluba evideutly weut uut lose, anrl the result invariably waa that while I WOQ Ewiug and Connor got un base by the umpire's kind­ down the stairway, Spalding bolted for the mailing to do some picuicking, and tto far as that is concerned, the Wt his club won the game, and every one con­ ness, aud Tieruau brought the pair in by a fine three- "I am going to New York to pay 0. P. Caylor a five room and yanking tho furniture o.t Krock, rushed the suites. How long will 1 remain East? dollar bill that I owe him.1' Abi>ut a week or ten days. While I think of it, they succeeded admirably. Score: cerned wa-i happy. That was the spirit of the St. bjgger to centre. In the eighth Ewing was put out at "A bet?" big fellow into his office und signed him for 1888. It ST. LOUI8. AB.R.B. P. A.El CHICAGO. AB.R.B. P. A.I ii theopinion of every one here who knows Krock I want to put myst-lf right before the public Louis bet of four dollars. c:«coud and decided aafet aud scored on Conuor'd two- "Yes. Xatham,3b... 53202 O'Canoll.c...... 501 3 10 tagger. Scure: He had faith that the Clncinnatis would take that he will make a good man for Chicago. He U a on the little reduction that was made from Carutbers' second place and I went him to tho ext-.-nt of a'V.'" McPbee, MEW YORK. AB.R.B. P. A.E N. ORLKA'8. AB.R.B. P. A.K giani in size, with tearful speed in delivery and really salary when he was paM off the last time. A portion 2b.. 5 1 3 2 5 o;Rv»n,cf...... 6 1 1 2 Being assured that my presence was net objection­ "I intend to go to Fall Biver before I return," he of the amount was tukt n more active than Anson and to be a on lime for duty in ih') spring, anJ when ho did report where we lunched and then went to a matinee. Before Ward, 68...... 401 0 4 U W. Fuller, ss 4 0 0 1 30 there. I hope to bring back both his contract and that be wan in no condition to play ball, but w:ened. The bhlancn of banquet he will give the Association delegates at and I will go to Philadelphia and get his contract. It the $1UG taken off his pay was for the few days ihat he Welch, cf..... 501 0 00 Dalrvm'f, If 3 1 1 4 Cincinnati after Ihe nnnunl meeting. I declined with Tiernau.p..,. 401 0 00 Vau^hu, c... 300 3 00 New York to attend the meeting. He is non-com- is my desire to have every mun signed be Cure January mitral upon what course be will take in conuection was abs'-nt from the club after he had been notified to Robinson, ss. 4 1 1 1 4 1'Sullivan, lb.. 3 1 0 8 00 t huuk 9 upon the grounds that my presence would be Penny, 3b... 3 0 1 1 2 0 Bradloy,3b.. 3 0 0 020 1. Twelve of the sixteen men are already signed, and report in St. Louis. It was the time that he went Bu»hoog,c... 4 1 1 0 2 0 Maskrey, rf..4 1 3 300 "objectionable" to those great ba§e ball lights, Barnie Bichar'u,2b.3 0 0 0 0 l.H. Fuller, cf 3 0 0 100 with the question of the Brotherhood, ihe proposed Feonelly, Corkhill, Tebeau and Keilly are the uuly readoptiou of the percentage oystem, the circuit, etc., home to Chicago from Philadelphia. I told him to go Total...... 4a 1118 2714 21 Total...... 37 61024 102 and Von der Ahe. I would not for the world shake Brown, c..... 300 4 30 McVey, lb... 3 0 1 10 00 ones who have nut turned over their contracts to me." borne and lake good care of himself and to come to St. St. Louis...... 01005203 x 11 the wise deliberations of the Baltimore beauty with Keefo, If...... 3 0 0 1 9 0,Wldner,rf.... 3 0 0 100 but I infer from the tenor of his remarks that h« It is all nonsense to suppose that there is any truth would M kave have the percentage system prevail as Louis as soon as he WHS able. This he did not do, but Chicago...... 001000311 6 my objectionable presence nor hy my personal pres­ Total...... 3*23 8 27 19 2| Total...... 30 1 4 24 ]2 T in the report that Cincinnati is making a still hunt for be remained up there and attended the ball games and Earned ruua St. Lnuis 7, Chicago 7. Two-base hits ence inar the sweet lo^ic and greasy eloquence of Von New York.....—...... 20000001 x—3 the guarantee. He is securing from time to time an a shi>rt stop. Manager Schmelz told me there was not expression of opinion as to the present playing rules, the race?, and had a good time, while we were without Maskrey 3, Comiskey 2, Carutbers, Bysn, William- der Ahe's after-dinner speech. The banquet, I know, New Orleans...... 1 0000000 0—1 a thing in the story, and Fennelly is expected to take pitchers bore. I heanl that he was going to the games son. Struck out By Mullane 1. Banes on balls St. will be a success so ranch as Mr. Sterna' liberality can Earned runs New York 1. Two-base hit Connor. and I am pleased to say that with few exceptions op­ his place with the rest of the boys in '88. By the way position to the rule giving a batsman a base hit for a ud the races, and I notified him to report here within Louis 2, Chicago 3 Hit by pitcher By Carutber« 2. make it, but Caylor's Khost mast not sit at the feast to Throe-base hit Tiernan. Bases on balls Now York the Beds are to huvo two new uniforms next season. a specified time (and I gave him plenty of time) or his Passed balls Carroll 3. Umpire Powers. break into the enjoyment of Billy McBeth and Curia 2. Left on baaes .New York 5, New Orleanu2. Struck base on balls seems unanimous. If the joint rules One of them Is to bo of navy blue cloth, with red caps committee will recommend the elimination of this pay would be stopped. Uo did not report to me as I McDnfl. [Me is the way all the Doniielly editions out By Keefe 5, by Powell 4. Stolen bases New and stockings. had asked him to aud I took out of his salary the STAB SCINTILLATIONS. now spell it.] Yurk 6, New Orleans 1. Umpire Suck provision and the substitution of a paragraph giving a PAIR BALLS. man credit for a base hit only when he has recorded Amount I said I would, aud that is all there is to In the afternoon game New Orleans made four rnna Put mo down as an enthusiastic indorser of Henry it." Pitcher Dnndon Sijrnecl Other Players Brother Stern thinks he haa the pennant winner for In the firdt two innings, but after that New York it, and credit for a base on balls when he secures it, it next year and I'm with him in the belief. He has scored five runs in ihree innings, on errors of the Chadwick's battle cry for '88 "Drive thednmkards out" will do that which will highly gratify a majority of ANOTHER PITCHER FOR THE BROWNS. Under Consideration, Etc. The "old mau's" head is level on this question that those who witness the game and are interested in th* Joe Murphy is still shoving a Faber No. 2 on the made contracts with Mullane and Smith for next locals and hard hits by Connor, Tie man and Richard­ SYRACUSE, N. Y., Nov. 10. Editor SPORTING season by which they each get a certain sum of is certain. Before Preaident Stern Itft (or New York, records. Globe-Democrat, and he has a nice winter situation, son. In the last inning New Orleans got three men he said to me, "There will never be another drop of but when tue spring falls LIFE: Another man ha« been added to the list, money extra for every game they win. He thinks on bases, «heu Ewing kicked against a decision and PICK-UPS AND COMMENT. in upon us Joe will throw Captain Fennelly will be ready to sign before spring intoxicating liquor gold on the grounds on Sunday as Speaking with Spaldine to-day as to what, If any, his pencil to one side for the hog-hide and the ash making in all four players signed for next sea­ tried to withdraw hid men. Loss of gate receipts was long as I have anything to do with the club. The and become a professional ball comes along, and he ia probably right. Frank has no threatened and the game was played out, New York cbangea would be made in the c-mtract, he eaid; player. He has been son's team. The latest to append his signature fault to find with the club, but dislikes the West and man who in granted the bar privileges next year must "There will bo several provisions, which are now aekpd to sign with a gnat many clubs the must flat­ retiring the hide. Score: understand that." And Mr. Stern, in his efforts at re­ to a contract was E. J. Dundon, the mute the treatment he has at times received from the ho a contract and become a fuli-fledgfd Brown- represent Syracuse at the League meeting next until they were boisterously full. Remove the temp­ Stock iug. Joe is a good pitcher, and, with a little the lad aud threatened to cuff his ears or spank him in Denny, 3b... 400 2 31 Bradley, 3b« 4 1 1 0 11 nececsary, among others, to the existence of the clubs. public if he didn't stop the dirty tation, and there will be less of that sort of thing. Now, however, the necessity does not exist, and th* more- experience in the box, he will be as good a* any week at Toronto. These gentlemen will en­ tirade, and for a time Richar'u, cf. 4 0 1 2 0 0 M. Fuller cf. 3 1 0 3 00 "Hux" McQueery is a sensible boy. He lives over of them. He has terrific speed, good commaod of the deavor to pass a resolution to allow each club the persecution ceased. Frank is a little sensitive Brown, c...... 30080 0 McVey, lb... 4 0 0 12 01 rule will be done away with." too much so. The decent, respectable ID Covington, and hU name appears to the real estate Sam Morton and Pete Galhigher had a close call th* ball and he doea not lose his wits when men are on the to sign one colored player. Manager Hackett element of Cin­ Keefe, p...... 3 1 1 0 8 IjWldner, p... 4 0 2 0 62 transfers of a few days ago. He is putting his spare bases. Bushong would be just the man to catch cinnati admire him as a ball player, and they hope he Total...... 34 5 5 27 15 5) Total...... 36 4 7 *53 17 6 other day. Sam was seated at his desk in the wig­ has not returned here as yet, and therefore will wholly ignore the howling of the gutter brigade. change into property. Good for "Moxl" Back in the wam. Pete stood near by chatting with him. At Murphy, as he could give him a great many valuable nothing can bo learned as to his movements In regard *Kelly out for not running, old days when Me was a member of the Covington pointer*. New York...... 00118000 x 6 that moment Joe Quest entered, and, pnlling a rusty to signing new men. The home mauagementsay they The news comes from Charleston tbat last Sunday's Stars, he WHS known AS "Home Run Mox." He always Smith & Wesson revolver from his pocket, said he NEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS. desire to &i«n Marr, the great New Orleans...... 23000000 0 4 baU holding his right hand above his left. outfielder of lant .year's proposed game between the Chicago and St. Louis Earned runs New Orleans 1. Two-base hits watited it cleaned, at the same time endeavoring t* Catcher Kcnyon, recently signed by Mr. Yon der team. They must be up and doing, or he will make "Nickel" Ivory, another Covington ball-tosser, is open tho breech, with the barrel pointed toward th* team was prevented by the officers of the law. This Richardson, Tiernan, Keefe, VaughD. Three-base hit home from Lotransport, Ind., where he played this Abe, as also McCarthy, will probably play on the his escape. A well-known National League manager coming upon the h^els of the news of the disgraceful wigwaji. Suddenly there wad a report, »nd a light of Bruwnn instead of the Western Lca-ue team. Mr. W. Fuller. Bases on balls New York 3. Left on year. He will take more talent to Indiana with him baa an eye on "Lefty," and will prab him when fcnnrlay scents in New Orleans, ought to cause base bases New York 5, New Orleans 7. Struck oul>-By glass in the wigwam ju^t in front and a little to th* Von rier Ahe says he will play McCarthy at second and an opportunity offers. One of the best field­ ball officials to begin to look upon Sunday ball playing next senaoD. left of Gallagher fell to the floor in a thousand frag- Ko'.in-oD at short. ers aud hitters in Keele 6, Widner 3. Stolen bases New York 4, New £ don't want Brother Brunell to imagine I have any the League fa in very seriously. It is one of the rocks upon which the Orleans 2. Double play Connor and Swing. Umpire m?nt8. Almost immediately Pete's head appeared Bill GleosDU leads the short stops of the Association, correspondence with Syracuse, and things guns of tiemenduus calibre to turn loose on him, but through the suddenly created aperture, game will be wrecked, unless the danger can soon be Suck. that Union story will be forthcoming some of those and, waving and he is anything but a record pUyer. Did any one look favorable for his coming here. He will fill a big averted. The popular feeling agaiust^base ball clubs' his himd to the startled crowd in tho store ten foet be­ ever see the old-timer shirk a hot ball, or, in fact, CapJaiu Ward left for New York last night ID the days. There's nothing like adding to the truth of gap if he signs. Two pitchers from the Western defiance of the Sunday laws is fast growing, and the interest of the Brotherhood. He got a telegram from low, lie siiid: "It's ill right, gentloineu. T ain't sayiuf make any kind of play that was stamped "record?" League are favorably spoken of and will be signed if history. a word. But, just the same, I am neither an Anar­ time is as sure to come when the friends of law and President Ward yesterday saying his letter, asking Will Harr, back in the old days, used to pitch for an Lafet year Gleaaon hit the baU at the right time and term-t can ho agreed upon. Secretary Bo we says that order will win in the battle aa that the sun will rise chist, a rifle target, nor a base bull umpire, and the the Browns won tho world's chainpioa.thip, find he recognition of the Brotherhood, would be submitted lo amateur niiie at East Norwood. Syracuse will have some great twirlers in next year's to-morrow. Why, therefore, do not tlie Association the League meeting, and this business caused him to best I'd have gotten if I hud been done up would bar* was the hero of the day. This year fan was a little bit t«am. Con Murphy is favorably i-poken of by the "llennie" Kappol has already tired of life in Phila­ been a newspaper notice of a bum people atx-p in aud anticipate the will of the Letter go to New York. He will rejoin the toam In San delphia, lor he has written to Hick Carpenter asking base ball player off in both hU hitting and fielding, and now everybody board and may be signed, aa he is expected here class, and try to secure their patronage and approval, having been killed in Spaldlug'a etore. Next time, Bay* put a new man at short. Sm:h is lifp. Francisco. for a place on the kteam he intend* to take to New shortly. There are minors circulating that Bittman instead ul their einuity and opposition? The New York team will start on its Western tour Jusie, turn that salt-box tho other way." President Von der Ahe would have left for the East will play second base here a-rain next season, but this Orleans. HABBT PALSIEJU last Sunday night, but he WHS detained on account of is highly improbable as, in a conversation with one of about next Thursday with eight moo. It will fill in Yon hoar nothing nowadays of that proposed wrest­ « the dcaih of his sister's child. The Lengne people have always most strenuously with a local player at the places it plays until Ward ling nntch between "Little Nic" and "Rid11 Baldwin. the directors, I was toM that Bittman is the man who opposed Sunday playing. It will not countenance A Sunday Game on I.ong Island. We-tern, Southern and other leaguo players are spread ihe ntory throughout the country that the again joins the fold in California. Leou Viau is married, and he took his wife a pretty th^ evil in any form. But there are League players creature to the Pacific Slope wich him. Judging At Rklgw001.1 Park, Sunday, Nov. 6, a picked team, plenty in tit. Louis. In fact, they are more plenty Syracuse players were robbed here last season by the? composed of Metropolitan und other professionals, than Guin-tobe around a country school bonne. who are bound to pull the League name down into from the looks of that Denver score he i* not injurine association und ill-used generally. Any man that has the condemnation of the Law and Order Leazue, by TWO UMPIRES. playoi with the ^eoatore, of New York City. It wa* The divorce suit pending against Ailie Latham, the played hall in a Syracuse team knows how much cred­ his aim to any remarkable ex teat. "He must have making winter jaunts through the South under the walked up to iho plate and laid the ball on their bats," not an unpleasant afternoon for playing, but ther* Br<>wns third base ma o, wa-i allowed t^> go to the de­ ence tn give to these tale*. Ex-manager Joseph Sim- How the Double-headed Method Strikes a were not more than two or throe hundred people fault docket a. few days ago in tho Circuit Court, name and colors of their clubs. We have a lot in declared "Lefty" Marr, as he glanced over the score. mona is here and can be signed aa manager for next Charleston, masquerading as the Chicagos, and they Sport-loving Editor. present. The Bletd won tho game through their su­ which indicates that Mr. Latham does not intend to season. Mr. Si in moos' fkillful handling of the team Less than two hundred people sa\v the Mctticken are run out by thf pressure of law and order people. Editorial from New York Sun. Stars trounced by the Sli.uurocks in six innings on perior fielding, they having been outbatted by their defend the cafe. from tho time of Mr. Gifforri's release nntil near the opponents. It grew rather chilly toward the close of Jttek KIrby, the old Maroon twirler, IB in this city In New Orleans there is another baud calling them- Nvxt to taking tho National championship from the the 6th. Gilks, Dale, Bungler and Sullivan took turns close of the season is acknowledged by everybody to selves the New Yorks, and they are central figures in the f^ame, which was called at the end of the fifth with his wife and child, and will remain hero till tho have been par excellence. American Association and giving it to the Loague, the at pitching. opening of next season. He says th*t his arm is now a public Sunday disgrace. The Phillies are another most noteworthy result of the Detroit-31. Louis gamee That is quite a change Al Hungler makes next year inning. Score: Coriander, of the Clevolanda, ia at home and will hodiie-podge team on the way to the Pacific coa^t SENATORS. AB.B. B. P. A. B j MET*. AB.R. B. P. A. V in good shape and ho expects to do good work next put in some hard work this winter at the Alhambra was to show the value of having two umpires for erory a jump from Charleston, in the Southern, to Ljnn, where, if any predictions maybe made, based OQ the great match. The series between those loadert of their in tho New KngUnd League. I am inclined to think Moorebe'd,p 30002 0|M.Beca'n,3b a 1 0 0 00 ea*<>n. He may pitch for Von der A he's White Kink. Murray, lb.. 30090 l'Tr..y, 2b...... 310 3 20 Stocking character of some of the playera in that body, it may respective organizations was unusually iiupoiiaut, yet that Al will hold his own there. Club. Gleason, of this 4>ity, is a very promising catcher. be safe to bay they will be heard Moonoy, SB.. 2 1 1 0 2 l.Hinkin'n rf 3 0 0 1 00 Old reliable* Tom Dolnn is to be with ua next year, Jamoit Dovine, ihe celebrated left-handed pitcher, from before spring never in fifteen consecutive games was »o little fault Hurry Wheeler Is not expected to return to Cincin­ comes, in a similarly unfortunate way. found with the umpiring. The remarkable acquies­ nati tbla winter. It has beeu A long time sinco ho has Sheridan,3b. 211 3 01 i Kennedy, M. 3 1 2 0 20 and his many friends aro glad of it. Tom it) one of the considers him as one of tho coming men in his posi­ Carey, 2b..... 21102 0 Crane, lb..... 300 B 00 best-kni'wn ball piayrn that ever stood, up behind tho tion. cence of both clubs in the decisions, und tbe rat is fac­ visited htt oM home. His brother, Bob Wheeler, ii "rubber" at Sportsman** What can be done? It can be stopped. Make these tion of the §pectators, arose from the fact not only that still a base ball enthusiast and is in business hero. Hopkitts,cf.. 201 0 00 Clinton, If... 211 0 01 Park, and Tom Loftus i-t to The Syracuse Star* stood first Tast season as bitters. Dillon, If..... 201 1 00 Lynch, p..... 201 0 80 be congratulated up-ju securing him, Dolan was one It was in this department that they were supposed to men sign twelve-month contracts. It would be no Messrs. Kelly and Gaffaey were competent for their Kalamazoo wanted to give "Bud" Itomsey 8250 a of thu boat t Attars in hardship, t>ut a positive benefit to clubs and players. work, but that this work was so divided between them month. His folks would object to his playing ball Slaib, rf...... 20100 S.Collms, c..... 200 6 21 the Western League. lie led be weak before tho season opened. Tracy, c...... 200 2 1 llW.Bi-ca'n, of 2 0 0 0 00 the Lincoln Club in stick work. Simon-', of tho Syracuse Stars, played the largest Reservation, as it is now held, is in reality aa en­ that it could be performed well. professionally, for he has a good position, earns a nice Next fall we will pl;iy the KariRta City team for the number of pune-i last nrasju of any International forced contract. The twelve-months" contract would Faulty umpiring haa spoiled scores of games, aud salary, is proud of a pretty \vlto, ami Uvoa In a cosy Total...... 20 3 6 15 7 7t TuUl...... 23 4 4 16 14 8 ctiainpit n-hipof Mi-sonri. Of course, wo do not in­ League plajer, 109, and Marr wont most times to bat, be fairer by far. It.wonld compel a player to pase his perhaps has more than once caused championship hoine that his father gave him a f«w months a^o. Senator*...... 0102 0 3 tend to pit the "invincible" Browns ag.iin-»t Manges' 617. winters in auch a way that be would come out ia the honors to be awarded where they did not belong. "Lefty" Marr says he is not the player Hamilton is Metropolitan ...... 1030 0 4 Cow buys, but we will allow the bruad-biiinrned boys Wright, of the Hamiltons. who has been favorably spring St to do his duty to his club and have proved a The two points tbat cause the inoat dissatisfaction after. Cleveland w reaching after him aui will Two-base hit Kami-, cly. Basf* Hto!'j [i S:aib. to "ra*«HlK" with our colt team. sfolten of fur centre fielder, will undoubtedly join a credit to the profession. It would not prevent him are poor judgment in calling baits or strikes and wrong probably get him, for Manager Williams is coming to Struck ont Horbtu-ad, Murray 3, Sheridan, Trar-y, Our W>!-t«rn League team Aill make pnnie of (he Northwestern Leagua team next season as it is said he from doing^honorable, honest work during the winter decisions an to whether runners hare or have not safely town in u few clays to ^eo him. I'asswl ball Collina. Wild pitch llorehead. Um­ boys in tt'e West and North play ball the coming si a- bus obtained his release from Hamilton. months at an additional profit to himself, but it would reached their bases. The alteration In the playing After Hart had fooled the Indianapolis Club BO pire Hart. eon. Tom Loftus will have the team strong at all Tho work at Star Park has been stopped, as the right prevent hi-* junketing tonra over thocountry in search rules this year, by which the old distinction between badly in the hut gamo playod hero by tho Hookers, points. Ho will havu the best pitcher* and catuhera in field fence will not b« moved bank until early next of a good time, to pay the expenses of which be dffins high and low balls was abolished, baa done more than Jack Glasscotk asked: "Where did you get him?" Why Nashville Hesitates. the L^a^ue, and his infield and outlield will bo very spring. Thero will then be an abundance of ro "m for the written laws and invites tbat disgrace upcn his anything else to diminish fuffuy decisions on the The answer given, he declared: "Some people are NASHVILLE. Nov. 9. Nashville will htrdly ho ready strong also. four-baggers inside the ioolosure. G. Wuiz. club which he himself doesn't seem to dread. It former point. If two umpires could also be habitually born to luck, hero we've been chasing all over alter a to put up thf forfeit money and eater tho LeagU'.) by Biic Schoeneck, thefrfnntof tho profecsioa, will be would be worth the while of the National League to employed, the extra one standing behind second base, pitcher and arc still on th» hunt!'1 the first Monday in December. It is wailh g for th* well received wheu ho appears bore with Spalding'a LANCASTER, PA., NOTES. Williiira Zpcher, who suc­ look into this new danger at their meeting next week. as in tbe Delroit-St. Louis games, the second grent Joo Strauss, who is here for the winter, tit ink a Mil­ decision of tho Sunday playing question bj the Wi-steni'Lefigne team next season. Sch *eiu'ck is an old cessfully placed at short and managed the Altoonas and cause of diasatisfactiun wuiild be reduced as much waukee good enough for )iim and ho wiil gr- back in Supreme Court, about Due. 5. The base ball p-. j,io Union AsHK-iatiou player, aud all >St. Lonisuns remeiu- Cantons (Ohio), has been ath'iniein this city on a visit. In the same train of thought let me cry an all bail as it well can be. The main trouble is in deter­ the spring. Now that his o)d pard, Eel Clark, is inar- feel almost certain of a favorable issuu, anfi if ul o\vul bei1 him on account of his sia«. lie weighs about '240 He has returned to Canton, where be will manage a and all honor to the Paul Bad fords and Jim Whites mining whether a runner is successful in attempting riod, he must feel fi-^rt of lonsjly. to huvo Sunday games Xa*hvillo wouM pay as well ua pounds. There's no danger of tho bit; fiiit btuemun billiard room. Wbiln Eo«t, Mr. Zecln-r visited Phila­ who have the manhood to say to their ball clubs, "We to steal second base; and the habit of sliding in to the The Cincinnati pla.vora in tho International Leasiio N<-w Orleans, and t e ablo to support n first-claps toim. tipping over, as bin feet are plenty lurge enough for delphia, and signed" Baus\vine and Virtue for next will not play on Sundays for all the money you may base increases the difficulty of deckling rightly, when hold llioir own, I see, for MeQ'.icery ranks ninth Withort 3utid;>y giimos tho prospect i* not contain ed him to balance bim.-eit nicely. year's Gun ton team. Both played with Mr. Zccher in offer." No ridicule, however much, can lower such tbe umpire is at the opposite corner of the diamond. atnonz tho Binders ami Bittmau tenth. as bright, Pr^sidf nt Morrow and others of the old Jack Glnaeon, the old Brown Stocking Louisville AHoona and Giuum last si.-«son, and Cleveland wanted mon in the public estimation. I had rather be in the The St. Louis men, who were famous for stealing "Lcftv" Miirr WHS the second best Mwo-mimor in stockholders have promised to take a a ink-reft in or­ Athletic player, fays th;it be will surely be found on Virtii" fur next j ear. He Is a guO{J first baacman and shoes of pitcher Stag** and have people sneer at me for base*, lost many runs by trying this with Detroit, and the International League, and ho i« deservedly proud ganizing thtf now club. The SumUy law ou trial is ft tho diamond ajrftin next year. Jucis was an awful I-ft-handed hitter. Bauswine is a pitcher...... W. S. saying, as he did, that he prayed for help before going some of them, instead of Iteing sty led, aa usual "daring" of his record. Stat'i law, and if EPttl.nl in favor of ball playing M-m- alugKi-r and if he again plays ball there ia DO d«ubt of Dean, of this city would make an excellent umpire for into pitch a game thin to be placed in John Ward's runners, appeared in the new light of "reckleW GilksandCrowoll, Olevefe*idV star pitchers, will phi- can also have Sunday games, but Mr. Doan i-jys his being »blo to crick tho b.tll in Hie ms* a^ain. lie any Aasi-ciati'm. He served in that caducity for tivo position by having the news telegraphed all over the runners. Had two umpires been the rule in tho both spoud tlio winter hero. Memphis doea uot want them.___ Would make a good man for tho frt. Louis White Stock- seasons with tho Pennsylvania Association aud gave country that he hid to take his wife out of the graud League in past years, some clubs fumoud for winning Tho Cincinnati Hill P«rk has be*m rented for the tho best of srtiisfaciion. He has just received a strong stand at New Orleans and seud her home in a carriage games by stealing bases muht have been faUK.ua in­ months ot December, January and February toO'Kune, PRESIDENT fJncsn »ay$ that during tho p5*** Vl':ir *" iugs. Iu;IIniia|K>lt4Club spent over £0,000 in <>xp

3 Maskroy, Mil...... 118 205 62 281 .915 wereontof ah ape. Smith went to the Athletic man­ dictate to thorn. Nevertheless,1 thiuk they will not 4—Bupch, St. P...... 43 4» « 54 .889 FALLS CITY GOSSIP. agement aud wtd ho would like to try his HUB HAPPENINGS. turn a deaf ear to the petition fora conference. Let 6 McCarthy, Osh...... 72 108 18 H4 .875 hand against the Loulsvilles. The Athletics os hear wh«*t the playera want. They cannot have a BASE BALL. The Percentage Question at the League 6 Hurphy, EHU C._... 69 104 10 138 .870 A Long Interview with President Phejps— concluded to try him, and accordingly great many grl evinces. Ifth^y think they have they 7 Patton, Minn...... 72 90 11 124 .865 The Meeting of the Joint Rules Com­ he went into the box. The Aihle'ios Meeting—Bluffs Not to Go ThU Time- must want tlie uarih, ID the vernacular of tbe ntr< et. 8 8ulcliffc, Des M..... 34 40 18 72 .861 mittee—The Outlook for the American lost tho game, bnt It was not young Smith's fault. He The Eastern League Scheme — The There are some clear heads at the hHmof tbe Brothwr- NORTHWESTERN LEAGUE. 9 Moriarity, La C..... Ill 209 2* 272 .857 Association -A New Pitcher Signed, Ktc. had good curves and pitched a swift ball. Hi* chief Brotherhood Question, Etc, h'tod's interests, and In their liscussfons they mutt 10 Stavens, Ean C...... 18 25 10 41 .854 fault was poor control of the tall. Ihe Athletics hive evolve I something which the base ball world THE OFFICIAL AVEBA.GE3. 11—Van Dyke, De« M.. 26 46 6 54 .852 LOUISVILLE, Ky., Nov. 8. Editor SPORTING would have signed him, bat they thought be was BOSTOX, Nov. 11. Editor SPORTING LIFE: ought to k>" w about. Just, what It ia they have never ,„/Lowe, Eau C...... 15 14 8 26 .846 LIFE: Your correspondent had a long and in­ somewhat inexperienced and would prove of little What a galaxy of base ball stars there will be se^n (it yet to divulge, anil consequently any Attempt Tlie \Vork Accomplished by the Clubs and "ISowders, St. P...... 21 28 5 39 .846 teresting talk with President Zach Phelpa this valuo to them. At the beginning of this last season at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, in New York, next to discus* "what the Brotherhood wanta" would bo Players of One of the Best of Last Sea­ 13 Earl,., Dnl...... 17 23 1 29 .828 morning. On base ball Mr. Phel pa is not Jim Hart signed him for his Milwaukee Club and he week! Of course the National League magnate foolish. son'8 >liuor Leagues. 14 Brynan, Dul...... 20 16 5 26 .808 usually the most communicative of mortals. developed rapidly there. But there are two others to be considered In tb« 15 Kllw.Oah...... 25 23 10 41 .805 Tbe management does not expect Smith to be a constellation will be the centre of the system, Boflton Club, besides Pn sident Soden. Our worthy Appended will be found the official averages 16 Seiton, Dul...... 45 62 11 91 .802 He considers it wisdom not to divulge his plans Ramaey or a Kilroy, and will be contented if he can but all magnitudes will be represented. Oar president goes slow and U very deliberate. Just tu« of tlie Nortwestern League, compiled by Secre­ Centre Fielder*. too early in the action, but on this occasion he do good, steady, reliable work. Still, the Louisvilles three Graces will be on hand, with their guns opposite to him is Treasurer Billings, who is very ira- tary Jlorton. The first five batsmen were Fos­ 1 Sylvester. Mil...... 40 68 8 85 .906 felt like talking and he unburdened himself. have been remarkably lucky with new men. The putuon*, but knows what he behoves, and in;ikes up club has never yet bought the release loaded to the muzzle, for the fight for "home ter, of Minneapolis, .415; Kreig, uf Minneapolis, 2 Jevne, La C...... 109 243 18 31 292 .894 Wbfcn I entered his office he was reading a let­ of a player of rule" that is to say, home receipts. Down his mind without deliiy. He don't like anything secret, .401; 3 Hoy, Osh...... 116 227 19 277 .888 ter. As he laid it down he said: established reputation. It has always taken new and aud in death on the Brotherhood. He d .m't want McCauley, of St. Paul, .401; Williams, of 4 Foster, Minn...... 109 270 32 341 .886 unknown men, yet the team ia always strong. All with the country villages that want to travel in anything to do with the organization, and if be had Milwaukee, .398, and M«Cjrthy, of Oshkosh, 6 Jones, Dul...... 105 191 18 241 -880 "Yea, I have some news. That letter was to told, the club has not, during its existence, paid aa first-class company and can't pay their way. the outing of B xiton's vote, I ain afraid it would b* .389. In fielding, Sowders leads the pitchers; 6 Whitely, Des M..... 108 186 13 227 .877 notify me that the joint committee of the much as 83000 for releases. Herker, Browning, We don't want any such in the League. Down thrown against hearing John Ward's communication. McCauloy, of La. Crosse, the catchers; Veach, of ;7 St*»enn, Mil...... 27 55 8 72 .875 League ond Association on playing rules will Wolf, Kerins, White, Cook, Cross and Werrick cost in this retired section of the country we are per­ But (hero is Manager Conant. lie ia not qnit« so dn- Dea Moines, the first basemen; Brosnan, of 8 McClellan, Eau C... 119 267 27 339 .867 meet at 10 A. M. next Monday at tho Anderson nothing. Ramsey cost about ¥500, Collin» about $500, cidad against the organization aa Mr. Billing?, bat 9 Hull, Mil...... 23 48 11 69 .855 Chamberlain cost nothing, Mack cost $300, and other fectly willing to pay for what we get, and will feels ubout as Pri-aid^nt Sodf-n does. All three of th«j I>es Moines, the second basemen; Strauss, of Mil­ 10 Strauss, Mil...... 16 31 3 40 .850 Hotel in Pitta burg, and I am summoned to be players, who are not now in the club, never cost pay well for it, too, but we don't intend to settle directors will go on to New York Tuoaday afternoon, waukee, the third b.isemen. Davy Force, of 11-Murphy, SLP...... 115 74 25 130 .762 present." much. I think thia is quite a compliment to the for the extravagant living of any Western and be there that eventa?: to sort of get tbe lay of th« l)cs Moines, the short stop.*; Van Dyke, of De8 Ltft Fielders. "Do you know what is the nature of the busi­ management, for it shows much foresight and wisdom. friends. I thought, in passing, it would be well land, before roll call on Wednesday. 1 Van Dyke, Des M.. 88 18 159 .90S There are clubs weaker than Louisville which have, Moines, the left fieiders; Sylvester of Milwau­ 128 ness to be transacted?" A CHANCE TO MAKE DEALS. /Lowe, 6 84 .893 during their existence, paid $10,000 or (15,000 for to remind our friends out in that town with the Eau 0...... 45 69 *'I cannot say exactly, but of coarse it is con­ While President Sotien and Mi*. Coiiaut are do voting kee, to* centre fielders, and Veaoh, of Des Z t Kooks, L» C...... 218 23 270 .893 playera. world beaters that we stand just where we 116 themselves to the business of the League meeting, I Moines, the right fielders: S Wilmot, St. P...... 120 185 16 228 .882 cerning the playing rules for next season, and NOTES AND COMMENT. always have on this question of home receipts. imagine Mr. Billing* will bo laying some wires which CIA'B BATTISB AVRRA(?E9. 4 McMillan, Dul...... 103 216 20 273 .864 quite a number of things will be considered." The Louisville players do not take much interest in Like Hanquo'a ghost, the percentage problem may connect later. He ha* more schemes 6 Winkleman, 15 91 .857 than could Emk. G.ime.-. A.B. R. B.[I. P'cH. S.B. E.R. Minn. 44 63 "Will any important changes be made?" the bast; ball Brotherhood. will never down, and it be explained in a week. When be gets ready to work 1 St. Paul...... 124 494S 911 1C/.18 .34:1 302 28:2 ./Bums, Osh...... 11* 196 12 244 .852 has got to be fought all "I think not. People seem to be pretty well John Ward's letter to the base ball presfdento cre­ over again this year. Why it should be J defy one out he goes quietly about it, generally saying 2 Euu Claire... 125 4045 80S UUl .328 429 444 0 1 B»hd, Enu <).._...... 48 91 13 122 .852 ated much interest here. Quite a number look for a 7 Williams., Mil...... 121 200 17 255 .851 satisfied with the rules in force last season, and, even "Mat" to explain. We all know thit in nothing to anybody until he has brought matters to m 8 Oohkoeb...... 116 4712 5-7 1M2 .325 354 267 conflict between the Brotherhood and the League. head. Perhaps he has been hatching some of thoa* 4 Mmneupolis.'llO JGB.5 906 1510 .324 415 338 8 Willis, Minn...... 23 30 * 43 .791 of course, we are aiming to suit the public, tor The sale of tbe Athletics to a stock company caused business of any kind are men, who, be they un­ schemes and is aixmt ready to work 9 Murphy, 28 5 44 .750 it furnishes our patrons-" them out. II B DesMuiues... 123 4928 90B 1564 .317 485 437 Minn...... 19 no surprise here. It was expected. successful, do not ask their more fortunate there are any releases to be bought in New York 6 Lu Crosse_... 122 4544 759 1420 .313 398 323 CATCHERS' RECORD. "But a number of suggestions are to be made, Hecker has not yet begun to bore for oil at the Fair Wednesday lie will be therewith a g->odbig roll. Aad 7 Milwaukee... 123 4933 871 lof>4 .305 392 312 friends to share with them their earnings. And Games. P.O. A. B. P.B. Cli's. Ave. are there not?" Grounds, as was announced. that is just what the percentage advocates want. possibly he will be ready to disuse of a few relea^ea. 8 Dnluth...... 122 4803 805 1259 .262 342 329 1 McCanley, LaCL33 173 43 8 27 251 .861 "Oh, yes, I have heard of several. Probably Kamsey la in town, after a trip to Indianapolis aad In the fiist place, "Had" will nevur pilch here again. 2 Wilson, Osh...... 36 185 59 5 40 289 .844 Such a scheme would be ridiculed in anything INDIVIDUAL BAITISG AVfciiAGES. one or two persons want the rules as they were other points. He is in the pink of condition, aad ap­ He says he won't, and so do the direct-on. That ia all Bank. (imu«a. A.R R. B.H. S.B. Av«. 3—Murray, Mil...... 65 347 519 .838 pears to be taking splendid care of himself. but base ball. Of course Detroit will lead the is necessary. Tim question now is, where will he go? 1 Ko-ter, Minn...... 113 613 136 213 62 .415 4 Stockwell, St. P.. 82 495 767 .833 formerly, namely, six balls and three strikes, Keddy Mack, writing from his home at Newport to percentage party, and I suppose handsome Fred Come, gentlemen, start your bids; or else toil 2 Kricg, Miun...... 59 266 49 107 8 .402 5 Brought-m, Mil. 96 475 751 .832 and no base hit on a b.tse on balls. Then one or two others a friend here, says he is looking forward anxiously to what you have got in exchange. Then thera 535 .822 will want tbe base hit on a baso on bails abolished. fetearns will have the Hoosiers and the Pitts- 8 McCauley, St. P...... 115 4% 72 199 24 .41)1 6 Kem'r.Dul., St.P 71 S35 next season, and intends to play the game of his life. burg people with him. But it will take six is Con Daily. There are scores of worse catrnetv 4 Williams, Mil...... 121 472 128 187 82 .396 7 Siitcliffe, Des M. 51 26* 450 .816 But the majority are in favor of keeping things at Zach Phelps says Cleveland is solidly fixed in the iu the country, but Bostou has no use for him. He. ifl 6 McCarthy, Osh...... 80 380 102 148 69 .389 8 Kreig, Miun...... 33 156 239 .808 they ore." American Association. He s*ys she did uot make any votes to down the home rule faction. In other one of the old ones who is sure to be found somewhere 6 Crooks, St. P..__._ 121 531 100 206 32 .383 9 GastnVM, Osh.... 46 28* 458 .806 "Then it is the judgment of the base ball men that money last season, as the club had to be established words, three votes will be sufficient to give the else next season. And where will Grandfather Ezra 7 Cross, Eau C...... _ 95 455 7U 176 14 .387 10 Sage, Dos M...... 69 239 451 .794 the new playing rules are a success?" then, but will undoubtedly have a fine dividend next percentage friends a black eye. You can put Button be when tbe robins nest again? Not here I 8 OloveluDil, Si. P...... 106 491 104 186 25 .379 11 Earle, Dnl...... 72 330 554 .778 "Undoubtedly so, I think. At first, when we began year. fear. Others would like his services and can use him 12 Lane, Ean C ..... 25 99 188 .777 to use them there was a ^ood dtial of dissatisfaction, Boston's vote right down now as one of those - fMestun. Dill...... 48 225 35 85 8 .378 Louisville and Cincinnati cranks are already be­ three. If two more of the Eastern clubs will to advantage. He is too good a player to hs on th« "\Qu.-st, E.iuC...... 55 216 46 93 25 .378 13 Nanl«,LaC.,Osh.. 51 210 366 .762 but we were not surprised at that. It ia usually the ginning to bet on next yeac'a series between their teiim to-day and on the bench to-morrow. But that a 10 McC«nley,LaC...... 35 152 35 67 li .375 14 McK'r,MiDn,K.O 60 253 416 .740 case with changed. There were a great many kicks respective clubs. pull with our "big three," the money we spend the way it will have to bo if he remains here. Aud I 11 Quiuii, Dul...___ 91 435 S^ 162 46 .372 15 Uillou,Eauf!.,StP 26 148 252 .734 from the cranks. They ar.uufd that tho batting was In hia Hot Springs letter, John Kelly says that at the South End grounds next season will stay "Shouldn't wonder if money would buy the greatest 12 Huy, Odh...... lit) 532 108 195 67 .367 16 Weckboc'r.Eau C 23 73 151 .728 too heavy, that the pitchers were of little value, and, players are plentiful there, and oven the most in­ left fielder in the business Joe Iloruung. 217 .714 in Boston, and not go towards putting the best 13 MiiBkrey, Mil...... 121 660 102 205 46 .366 17 Haidy, LaC...... 26 112 most of all, they objected to scoring a man a base hit experienced ask oxorbitaul salaries. players in the country in Detroit, where they On the other hand we must have some new faces IB ,, fWhitelj, D«sM...... 108 473 85 172 23 .364 is Cox, "Eau C...... 16 73 143 .692 when ho waa given his base on balls. By and by It IB the general opinion here that Von der Ahe our cine. Tho Fifth Avouua Hotel is as gcod a plac* 19 Kenzle, La C...... 25 79 160 .675 their objections begiiu to grow infrequent, aud they cau't pay without assistance. How Pre-ident Day "\Sliafor, Osh...... _... 114 549 127 200 63 .304 was a little rash, when he accused John Kelly of feels on this matter I have uot the remotest idea, as I as any in wbich to make deals, and I ahull hope to ,. (Dnryta, St. P...... 39 163 27 58 7 .356 finally ceased entirely. The rules had exactly the favoritism in the world's championship series. hear of some exchanges or sales before the week ! effect dfsirod. The batting was made heavier, there have never spoken to him on it, but I would bet even 10 lK,,rcc, Des M ...... 42 19* 41 69 10 .356 WATEKBUBT WHISPEKS. If Caruthers leaves the diamond as he haa an­ money that be will vote for home receipts. It will over. 16 Wulls, Des M...... 50 203 32 72 28 .355 was more chance for base-running, and tbe gamea, nounced, he will be a loss to base ball, lie is a The Eastern League Outlook for Next therefore, were more excitiug.^The pitcher also had aa great favorite h«re. only be necessary then to bring Washington into line SPOKES PROM TBE HUB. fll'Cuunell. Oah...... 116 534 102 189 36 .354 and the present equitable system of keeping all you Not a player signed yet. .17 J McUollum, EauC.... 124 568 111 201 75 .354 Season — Eight Clubs Calculated Upon. much opportunity as ever for the display of skill with If the Lomaville Clnb can stand as high as second his curves." next year it wilt not make lesa than $20,000. can get on your own grounds will be retained. Young Far fell, who ia to play with Chicago next I Slovens, E*u C...... 41 189 38 67 13 .354 WATERBURY, Conn., Nov. 10. Editor SPORT­ season, did not sign a contract until day before yes­ Keilly, Eau C...... 98 448 96 15S 61 .353 "Then you are pretty well convinced that there will After ail Keddy Mack came out third in batting. NO BLUFFS THIS SBASOM. 18 ING LIFE: That part of tBe worM that is the be no material changes?" Many predicted that he would not be able to maintain It will never do for Detroit to make any such bluffs terday. I watched him aa he sat chatting with Tim Koche, (Vh...... 33 153 27 54 36 .353 Muman, and don't wonder that he makes a good .'ti, Mi on...... Ill 506 116 178 72 .352 home of the Eastern League don't get much "I am quite sure of it. The people are satisfied with the gait at which he started. this time as a year ago. Everybody knows that Presi­ space in THE SPORTING LIFE, nor does it deserve the present rales, and of course, their satisfaction is to Cook is now snugly ensconced in a good berth with dent Stearns would never think of taking the Wolver­ catcher. He has a band that would only have to grow Burin, O.-h...... 114 540 122 190 53 .352 a little to cover the State of Rhode Inland. i rntcliSp, Des M...... 1(15 606 109 17S 43 .352 it, but your many, many reulers hereabouts be taken as the criterion of judgment." the Rochester fire department, and is taking fine care ines into the American Association now that their "Mr. Phelpa, there has been a treat deal of talk of himself. strength has been compared with that of the Associa­ Nod Stevens, the massive base tall editor of th» 20 Murphy, St. P...... 121 585 142 205 80 .350 may like to see a word just the same. Tho base Herald* was a candidate for State Representative, on . fStrief, Minn...... 60 227 38 79 6 .348 about Cincinnati and St. Louis jumping to the League. During the last season, when the club loat, the Louis­ tion "champs." It would be simply jumping out of ball eyes of the country ought, if they have not Do you believe that ih-. y will do so?" ville people did not kick like they used to. They are the flre-place into the fire. Uow much money would tho cold water ticket, and received thirty-seven whoto " 1 lieiiel, Eau C...... 48 230 49 80 28 .348 votes. "Steve" was not elected this time, but will try 22 Ocllajber, Eau U.... 19 75 16 26 7 .347 already, to gaze from afar upon & league that THE ASSOCIATION OUTLOOK. learning to bear defeat with equanimity. It is time. the Detroits make in the Association eveu OB a titty Eriterday writes the management that he is anxious per cent, division. Why, in two months after the again. , fHawe'i, Mmn_..._... 117 632 117 184 72 .346 ran from August 1st to the close of the season "I do not. I don't think there is any probab ility of Manager Cu-lworth, who succeeded McGunnigle at " \ Laroque, 1\>t "»...... 98 468 108 162 59 .346 with only two clubs, Danbury and Waterbury, snch a thing. I have frequently talked with both to please here and will do his utmost next season. season opened, as President Soden said to me to-day, Several attempts have lately been made to buy stock they wonld be BO far ahead of all the other clubs that Lowell, is tending strictly to business. He bus signed 24 Kell.iK!f, St. P.,Dul.. 68 313 61 108 28 .345 who stayed with each other to the last, nothing You der Ahe and Stern on the matter, and they Pulhemus, who went from Haverhill to Indianapolis 25 Murphy, Minn...... 15 61 12 21 3 .314 have repeatedly assured me that they had no in­ In the Louisville Club, but none can be obtained. That the race would be settled, and they wouldn't draw a to gain save a few hundred dollars in defaulting shows that it is on a firm basis. corporal's guard. and was a failure ia the League. Guiuasso baa also 20 VFiluiot, St. P...... 119 655 122 190 89 .342 tention of leaving the Association. I hnve no signed for next year. 27 Miller, La C...... 115 631 96 181 19 .341 clubs' guirantee bonds; probably not worth cause to disbelieve them, and I am quite sure that Tbe annual meeting of the Association at Cincin­ Bluffs won't go thla year. <; nati will have a good attendance of base ball men from After that ten to five series Detroit will have no We shall have all we want to read about next week*! 28 Strauss, Mil...... 123 5:<0 99 180 65 .310 much, hut which they propose to try and collect, I do not." meeting. Billy Harris will go on to New York to 251 Juvne, Ui C...... Ill 453 80 162 82 .336 and the glory of playing the season out. They "This is the only month in the year during which a thia city. J. A. desire to get out of the League. There is uo other class fast enough for world's champions. All this report it for the Globe, and Ned Stevena will be then 30 Slieibeck, Dul...... 94 4C6 85 136 47 .335 had no great players to sell, no large audiences club can leave the Association, is it not?1' as usual for the Herald, , ( Wiuklsman, Minn.. 87 386 79 129 31 .334 "Yes; November was tlie month wlected for such THE NEW WESTERN ASSOCIATION. talk about the percentage fight being the rock on to pay them, for there could be but little interest which the League may split is simply trash. Suppos­ Gnl Gardner don't fancy being sold by Indianapolia. 81 JDonii, Osh...... 114 603 90 168 18 .334 matter-. The annual meeting of the Loague will be He thinks he might have something to say when tt 32 lt.j"k«, La 0...... 118 622 97 174 70 .333 in games between them, hut still the fact remains* that held on the 10th iust., at New York, an 1 if a clnb The Outlook for It—A Rosy Future Pre­ ing it should develop into a sectional battle between they ttuck and should be held up as two towns desira­ the East and West. Al Spalding would no more think came to signing the contract. 33 K,,rle, Dul...... 114 477 112 158 55 Alt wishes to leave us forthe rival orgauination it will dicted by Chief Executive Movton. Tim Human is a firm believer in the Brotherhood. 34 Killon, EauC, St. P.. 30 128 21 36 6 .328 ble for any league, east of tbe luteruatioual, to got to have to apply for admission during that st-ssiou. I ain, of catting loose from Boston, New York and Philadel­ strengthen for '88. \Vhat it will be, who will be iu it, CHICAGO, 111., Nor. 7. President Morton, of phia than he wonld of going into the box again, and He says: ''The present contract is too much of a jug- 35 Burdifk, O-b...... 33 132 22 43 13 .326 however, convinced that no club in the American As­ handled affair." MUGWUMP. 36 ionet, Iml...... 117 541 97 176 45 .325 &., we know uot. President Taylor is a quiet kind sociation will do so. Before the percentage system the Western Association, is enthusiastic over trying to earn his living as a twirler. He knows the 37 fort.ett, La C...... 106 460 88 149 49 .324 of a bustler and it wonld not be surprising if the was adopted St. Louis might have doue so, but not the prospects of the new organization. Says he: greatest base ball towns ia the country are in the East, 38 Init going to be an expensive Out in Cincinnati they want to com** info th« League, 52 1 Scott, taC...... 69 283 34 86 4 .304 With all its ups and downs was there, ever a league cities anxious and begging for admission to the team, but it will be well-selected. grand old game. Along our principal thorough­ 53 Br.iUiihton, Mil...... 105 423 66 128 19 30) American Association. For instance, there i« New- aud things are getting so there that they are not at fares, should you meet a crowd of friends, th« 64 HMKiilki*, K*o C..... 24 94 13 28 0 .298 that turned uut so many tine young playere? One or atk, which already has a first-class club. The popu­ PAYING LARGE SALAItlBfl. all dependent on Sundiy games aa they are in St. - f) s M...... 16 74 15 22 19 .297 more of its graduates can be found iu almost every lation of Newark is about the same, if not a little "I have not got the idea that I must have a certain Louis. An4 that la just where the next changos ia cenvernation is sure to drift on to Lorigan's won­ . M...... 71 271L. 43 83 17 .297 League club and ninny in the Asso -iation. Boston larger than that of Louisville, and in addition a club player at any cost and that no otber will do. I be­ the League are corning. Cincinnati and Brooklyn derful pit^hin?, Gagus' base piny, tho remarkable Mil...... Vt^f^ V, 54 6 .295 h«s Johtiaton. N:ish an-I Tate; Keiv York has Tiernnn there draws much patroungo irom Jersey City, Ho- lieve that good players are abundant, aud if a certain will slip in to fill the next vacancies. Such a deal throwing of Blackiston, or those running catchei :i C...... 108 592 100 r74 Cl .294 andMurphf \\ :i-hi:i.'ton has Gilmore, Sehoch and bi.keu aud other places. Buffalo, too, is anxious to mau holds his services at an extravagant figure I can would mean a mint of money for New York and j ark; Ohi 'nd dispel this air of mystery that has the followers of the respective clubs wager r Kills, Osh...... 27 122 18 35 11 .287 who can phiy third like Joe, even now. He is quite a tion, are as high us $1,800 or more. They will be the been hanging over the ball players* organization. 62 colt yet, a valuable man for any team, an opportune "I do not know what to say about the Metro­ gilt-edged team of the League, as Oshkosh waa of the heavily upon their favorites, but some of th« Veach, Des M...... 65 29'i 85 24 .287 politans. I haven't tbe slightest idea what will be They are ready and anxious to satisfy the curiosity of ,., ( Wilson, Osh...... 37 149 22 42 1 .28-2 hitter, a cranky, cros-t aud a good fellow. Northwestern League. Kansas City is, however, a the base ball world, and are only waiting; to see whether players actually bet on contests in which they Pettit has done pretty well with Chicago, but Mutrle done with that club. I am, however, inclined to the first-clans ball town, and can afford to p*y big salaries M t M'Keev'r,Minn.,E.C. 69 234 32 66 14 .282 belief that it will be planted somewhere in New they will be invited to "come iu and reason together," engage, in sums ranging from five to a hundred 64 Houssey.KauC., Mil. 58 247 43 69 16 .279 said be was no good after seeing him play one game. and make money. Kansas City people are of tbe kind or are to be practically snubbed by the capitalists in He did play pocrly that day, but he ought to have York City, and retained in the Association. Strength­ that want a winning team and patronize tmch a team dollars. I am satisfied that President Monft 65 Crowlej, L»C...... 19 »7 19 27 5 .278 ened and properly handled, U could be made a pay­ the business. I have no sympathy with the stntiraent 6fj Meinko, La C...... Ill 514 73 142 21 .276 seen from his actions that be was a bait player, for he very largely. The team is almost entirely made up of that ball players are an ill-used, down-trodden, aud un­ does not countenance the pernicious vice aad ia sure. From the way the League is going for young ing inve-trnent.** players from last year's Western League, and are sup­ that he is doing all he can to break it up. II 67 Legit, St. P., La C.... 18 80 15 22 4 .275 "If the Metropolitans were to be abolished, what appreciated class of suffering humanity; bat I do be­ . ( Cox, Eiu C...... 22 95 22 26 9 .274 blood this fall the minor leagues will have to taae posed to be the pick of that League. I am of the lieve that they have wrong-4 aad grievances, the same will require the moat stringent measures, such "kids" next season, tor salaries are sky-high, even for city are you iu favor of admitting in their olace?" opinion that SOUIB of the less expensive teams will sur­ ""I Stock well, St. P...... 82 S61 55 99 22 .274 "Buffalo or Newark. Either would be good as any other body of specialists, and they should be as heavily fining and blacklisting of players, to F,9 Van Dyke, Dos M.... 118 520 81 114 108 .271 moderately good players. Some of them will get left, prise the Kansas City aggregation." allowed to present them to tho proper jury. That is no duubt. for ball players are growing in every coruer enough." ' What do you thiuk of the Milwaukee* for next bring about the desired result. But he is a de­ 70- Hull. MC.. St. P...... 59 259 41 70 15 .270 "Mr. Phelps, some of the League organs have been what they propose, to do next Wednesday, and in my 71- rotbor8, Ean C...... 41 IBS 25 44 11 .267 lot now. Every year tuius up a new crop an good or year?" judgment they are entitled to a hearing. So far as I termined little fellow and will save the gam* better than the lasf, and the cbainpioud of '91 or '92 claiming that the Association was in n tottering con­ "[ haven't the least doubt but what they will be well 72- Vhu, St. P...... 60 245 36 64 11 .201 dition, and that it might not be in existence next can gather from the fragmentary hints let drop occa­ from odium. ., fST.narity, La C...... 87 390 55 101 59 .259 are stealing over the fences to see a game and juct to the front. I consider Jim Hart one of the shrewd­ sionally as to their intentions, they wish to simply You have by this time heard of the conduct getting into practice for iho small leagues and ambi­ Hfca-ton, Wbat do you say of thai?" est managers in the business.;lle exercises pood judg­ 73 \Prnk, Minn...... 20 85 16 22 10 .259 "It is all slate to their employers what thoy deem unjust sec­ tious to be Connois, Bennctts, Kellys and the like. nonsense. The Association is stronger ment in the selection of players and has got some of Hen Moore on the field, In the game played 74 Lovett, Osh...... 25 14 25 4 .253 than it ever was good tions in the base ball statutes, which make a law unto Do yon ever hear Bridgeport menti med nowadays before. Tlie adoption of the per­ men for uext year. PetEee, his new second baseinau, on the 22d instant, and how he withdrew from -,/L>,nd,EauC...... 26 103 13 26 3 .252 centage plan greatly themselves, and to propose such changes us seem to as a base ball town? That place i* absolutely no good. consolidated our strength, but I regard aa hi* best find and will add greatly to his the same in disgust, was fined and blacklisted. 7S 1 Biynin, Dul...... 80 337 42 85 30 .252 even without ttiat, we would have been in a better them f*ir and in accordance with common aense. To 76-Faatz. DM M...... 76 329 61 After dropping out of the League right after the team. Lowe is a splendid fielder and good all around It is said that he had staked $100 on the result, 80 48 .243 Fourth of July fire-crackers, it now condition than ever." hear these complaints would be a becoming indulgence 77 Fill-, I>ul...... 40 161 12 39 5 .242 refii-ses, we hear, player, while Pherson, the pitcher, secured from the even for base ball magnates, aud if they don't ap­ supposing, with hundreds of others, thatLorigan to pay its little guarantee of £250, and that, too, after "Why do you say that?" Manchester, in highly spoken of in the East. 78 Klopf, Minn...... 50 161 29 36 4 .238 closing out to O^hko^-h for a goodly sum and losing "Fi>r several reasjua. In the first place all our cities prove of them, all well and good. They have only to was to pitch, and when he found that Pure oil 79 N«jll<>, 0.-h,La C...... 67 221 25 52 8 .235 arc growing rapidly and in each one the base ball pub­ NEXT YEAR'S UMPIRES. say PO. That is an easy thing to do. . f Weckbi-cker, Eau 0. 23 81 10 19 5 .226 nothing. What a Bridgeport and whit a atrong affair But I might keep on giving my ideas until next was sent in the box his chagrin and disappoint* their b»se hall association wa*. 1 woadcr wonld it lic and patronage increases year by year. We have a "I shall endeavor to get the new association on a ment overcame his discretion. Concerning th» ""Ismitli.Mil...... 30 124 13 28 3 .226 take free tickets to seo a game at little Dauhurv? Dan- higher class of players each year, and the management much better basis with regard to umpires than the Fourth ot July and it would not help my good friends 81 JValkrod, Dnl...... 46 197 31 44 19 .223 bury might throw iu a hat for each of Its members. of each club is constantly improving. It is all folly Northwestern League ever was. I shall pay good in the Brotherhood any. The men of big base ball affairthe San Franoiaao Neioa Letter makes theso 82 Peak, Du!...... 30 122 15 27 7 .221 There is om> strong thing in its favor, though, iu a for the League to talk about any weaknesa in our salaries, about 81,000 and expenses and intend to have brains have got to decide the players' fate. Our pertinent observations: 83 Pyle, La C...... 48 189 21 41 8 .217 ranks. I am surprised that anybody in the League the best men in tho business. I thiuk uow that M.C- triumvirs are three of them and between thorn they "Henry Moore, the agile centre fielder, late of thi) 34 10 .204 baie ball way; it has got two good grounds, bnt 1 will cast one of 84 Keiizin, La C...... 42 167 25 guess they will have to build churches or sewing should wish us any harm. I am sure that our pros Quatd, Powers and Brennan will be anung them. (he eight votes at the meeting. They Pioneers, may not be a aaftt, but he has made serfonf 65 Oastfifld, Osh...... 50 203 32 40 28 .197 parity cannot injure the National League. The two These men are all tried umpires and cannot but prove don't all entertain exactly the same views on the charges against the manager of tho Pioneer Club and 19 2 .196 machine lactoriud on them. 1 bad intended to send Brotherhood ., f H.ill-troni, LaC...... 25 97 9 should feel a mutual interest, for what is beneficial .to satisfactory." ______problem, but they have a cast-iron rule of the California League. He ha§ said repeatedly you some notes about the players in this League this that when two of them to \Jlarkin, Dui...... 42 163 14 3 .196 the one is beneficial to the other." aarree the third need not be afnce hfs retirement that the games of base bill at to* 17 year, but have already taken too much space. Keep consulted. 87 Brewstfr, Dul...... 24 90 7 1 .189 BIRMINGHAM BRIEFS. I sat in President Soden's office this after­ HaigVit Street Grounds have been fixed your eye on the Eastern League, and particularly CLtJB NEW9. noon and drew beforehand. 88 Kennedy.Des M..L.C 40 163 16 28 3 .172 him out on the subject which all base Such an accusation demands instant, earnest investi­ Waterbury and Danbury. "What kind of a Reason do you think the Louisville bill enthusiast* are CLUB PIELDIXG AVERAGES. A Manager and Several Players Signed— discussing now. He said: "1 am gation, and If he speaks the truth, the hucksters aad Club will huve next year?" as much In the dark as any one as to what the players Bank. Games. P.O. A. E. T*lch's.ATe. HOPEFUL HAMILTON. "Excellent. I think it will be more prosperous than Atlanta to Enter the League. barttrers cannot be ejocted too quickly. It will not 1 Oshko«h...... _. 116 3052 1884 369 5306 .930 intend to ask for if they are given a bearing. I sup- do to nmwer that Moore makes these accusation* any yet known. We are going to use all judicious ef­ BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Nov. 8. The local club has pone they are going to make a kick against the present 2 Si. Paul...... 124 3176 2190 417 5783 .928 Players Being Signed—Strong Financial forts to strengthen our club, and we will make a bold made a good start for next season by signing simply became he has baen disciplined for hlit point, but do you think it ia exactly 5 Mihvmikee...... 123 3232 1927 435 559'4 .922 to our interest to have the club stand aa high as possi­ champion Topeka Club, as manager. This defeat of the Pioneora was a prearrauffwi affair, and 6 Dos Muinej...... 123 3238 207s 475 6791 .918 LIFE: Base ball matters have been very lively the square thing?" their opinions c.mnot be ignored by President Mon*. ble, and, of course, we are going to neglect no efforts means that Birmingham will make a big bid "If ball plnyers* salaries were in any way commen­ 7 E.u Claire...... 125 2388 11)58 596 4942 .879 for the pa«t few days. Manager Wood has been to attain that end. The interest in base ball attor the for the Southern League pennant. Duffee and Moore tan offer no excuse fjr hii refusal to play h!g 8 Hicneaiwlis...... 119 2126 1712 5:!4 4372 .878 surate with tbe work they do I should not think It be*t, evn-n if he was aware that there was trickery on hustling, and as ft consequence, Jones, Man- F64son has closed ia keeping up wonderfully, and it is BurkiS, the best players of last season's club, right to lav them off without pay. But tbeir pay is INDIVIDUAL FIKLDlSC AVKItAGES. likelvtobe maintained." foot. He was engaged to play at centre field, not to sell, Moore, Phillipa and Andrus, have already have also signed. In Atlanta last Wednes­ exorbi'ant beyond all reason. When they slgti they manage the club, io say who should pitch, or io ioter- First Bataneu. "What will be dene at the annual meeting of the As­ are simply informed virtually that if they are incapable signed. Andrua played right field for Portland day, a local gentleman met Mr. Henry W. feru in any way. This season he has worked hard for Bank. Games. P.O. A. E. Ch'a. Are. this year; has played sociation?" of doing satisfactory work because they do uot live up 1 Vench, DM M...... 28 350 8 5 363 .986 here in '86. He ia a "Tbat occurs next mouth in Cincinnati. A great Grady, who said: "There will be no trouble in the club and ha* done all lie c^uld for its suoceM. to the terms of contract they certainly cannot expect The^« facts tuken into consideration, he deserves a fall 2 Scott, La C...... 67 688 25 17 7:10 .977 good batter and base-runner, and a fair fielder. deal of important business will be transacted, but I raisin* enough money here to put Atlanta in the to draw their pay. There was Radhourn, f\>r example. . fOViinnoll, Oh...... 103 12!* 59 4211)26 M'J All tbe other players are too well known to cannot yet say much about it. We expect it to be a Leasue next season. If the people here can agree on bearing before the League, and the affairs of the clnb He was paid an exorbitant salary, just what h<* a^knd at the same time should be invoatiRated." 3 | Smith, EiitlC...... 74 687 29 23 739 .969 the readers of THE SPORTING LIFB for it to be big event, aud moat all the base bnll notables of the the question of management, I think Atlanta will be for, but he was told that he had got pitch «ood ball if 4 Faalz, Dea M...... 74 812 40 31 883 .905 country will be present. Mr. Stera has said that he in the League with a good ciub." Mr. Grady ex­ h« expected to get his ronney. He didn't livw up to his Our Society also comments relative to the street necessary to make mention. 19 going to £ive us a splendid banquet, and tbe occa­ 6 Morris* y. Mil...... 122 1303 41 55 1399 .961 Chas. Collins is up in Muskoka, deer stalk­ pressed a willingness to take stock and do all iu hia side of the contract. On the other hand, there was fight between Moore and Manager Finn, brought .,/' roi.lcy, LaC...... 18 1(18 2 7 177 .900 sion will bean interesting one." power to get Atlanta to enter the League. Stem myer and Buffintoo. They could not pitch satis­ ing. I don't know his plans for tho coming "Where i<* John Kelly, now?" President Wilson and Mr. Joe Frank will go over about by restless and interfering friends, in "iMacauley, St. P.... 101 11:3 33 481201 .900 factory ball, but they kept themselves in good condi­ which Moore came 7 Ingra'ui,Dui.,KauC 118 1199 44 66 1299 .957 season. Toronto is very anxiona to secure "Kelly is at Hot Springs. I got a letter from him the:e next week, and they will doubrle« have no tion all'tlie time and tried their very best all tho time. out second best; 8 Hasvc-s, Miun...... 105 1016 28 50 1094 .954 him for next season. The home management this morning. Kelly is vorv sore over a charge made difficulty in organizing a strong association. The We never laid them off without pay. Why? Because "The fracas between Moore aud Firm might jcut M 9 Firle, Dul...... 31 301 5 21 327 .936 will make a grievous mistake if they let Collius go against him by 0. P. Caylorin a letter to TUB SPORT­ work of getting the four club* necessary to make an they were trying all the time to bo in proper condition well have been avoided. Street broil- of any kind ara Second Bojsemen. or allow him to slip through their flugers. Collins ING LIFE. Mr. Caylor accused him of favoring Detroit eight-club league ha* been divided tip as follows: to earn their money. 80 long as players' salaries re­ degrading, and the one in question added nothing to f Ikiwn.m, DiisM..... 123 301 144 60 868 .931 is the best inneldcr and base-rnriner in Canada, be­ in the world's championship series because he had Birmingham takes Atlanta; New Orleans, Mobile; main where they are now I shall be in favor of retain­ the dignity of base ball. Finn should have kept hte 1 1 Q'H-st, Eau 0...... (19 249 240 36 525 .031 sides being a splendid field captain. money bet on the Wolverines aad wished to see them Memphis, Nashville, while Charleston will work on ing thin means of protecting our own interests." temper, and tho public woui have respected him th« 2 Strlef, Minn...... 45 116 145 21 2S2 .925 At the coining meeting in Toronto I sincerely hope win." Chattanooga. "That will not be pleasing news to the players, but more." 3 Quiun, Dul...... 93 3!>1 ^96 52 B49 .920 tbe League v.111 go back to the old eight-club "Of course Kelly denies that?" The new president of the League, Mr. Wilson, hag whit they are particularly anxious to know now Is if Moore, who has kept as straight aa a string resigned a^ pre^dent of tlie local club, and Vice Presi­ 4 Fo^tl)r, Mil...... 91 270 294 51 615 .917 scheme, ('ontrii^t the standing of the League at the THE CHARGES AGAINST KELLY. tliev are to be given a chance to appear before the the entire season, has played a phenomenal dent Irlon will till the position until the annual League tribunal ./Ci.itett, LaC...... 103 248 265 51 604 .910 end of this season with that of last, and uo further "Certainly. Ue has written a card in reply, which next Wednesday?" game in the neld and at the bat, gaining thou­ *1 Crooks, Ht P...... 118 3155 359 72 796 .910 argument is uecwsary. I also hope they will do away will appear in the n-^xt is^ue of THE SPORTING LIFE, election of offi -era. "Just yet I have not fully made up ray mind liow I , f Pe;.k, M'*,E ,.C ,D'l 42 107 133 30 330 .91* with the salary limit. and in his letter to me he ,-ays that during that series By an ordinance putting the park outside the city f;h:ill go on that qufsti^n. I am in favor of hearing sands of friends thereby, who greatly deplore hli 6 1 MeiutT, >liun...... 34 113 76 19 208 .909 Hamilton has the best financial backing of any he never tried harder io hin life to be strictly fair and limits, Sunday play life was secured, but the Law and our players whenever they wi*h to mwt us in confer­ defection. Why Mike Finn did not put Lorigaa 7 Shafer, Osh...... 114 IVi 307 61 660 .908 team in tbe League. The stock is owued and con­ impartial. Ha say* that, personally, be wished to see Order League stepped iu and stopped Sunday games ence, but I don't quite believe in recognizing them as in thu points in this COD test, the winning of wbich g l'roBs, Eau C...... 26 104 87 24 215 .888 trolled by the following gentlemen: fohu I'attereon, St. Louis win; he also says that any one who doubts OB the ground of violation of the old common law a Brotherhood.'* would have kept Ui3 nine in the lead tor the champion- 9 Iltccius, Mil...... 28 76 70 24 1TO .359 the bonanza builder and contractor; Alderman Dixon, his word is at liberty to ask Latham, Uushoug, (Vin- prohibiting Sunday disturbance. A test case was "Yes, but it is practically the same thing, whether ship, with Neddy anxl.m^ and willing to pitch, hoi Third Rataox*. of Dixou s wholesale fruit home; W. R. Davis, our i*key, or any of the old, cool players of the St. Louis made and th« Supreme Court will paaa upon the mat­ they come at players or as members of auorganizition. not, to my mind, been satisfactorily explained. 1 Strauss, Mil...... 88 145 159 40 344 .884 leading jeweler, aud George £. Tnckett, rnanufac- Club about the matter; and any one of them will say ter this winter. In either c^se they come to you to present irrievaucee Tbe New Ynrka are book«l for the league Ground* tiirepot" tho word-renowned Myrtle navy tobacco. I that his umpiring was perfectly just. I myself do not whifh are for all. but sent in through a c immittee." on the 27th proximo, aud their advout, aud with whoa 2 Sheibeck, Dill...... 44 73 110 26 209 .876 HARPINOON THE PENNANT. 3 MtinKe, L» C...... 116 15* 190 81 395 .871 u ndertftand that they are at present negotiating for the belidve fur a moment that Kellv vns unfair." "That Is so. Understand, I am decidedly in favor of they are to play agaiuat are qunathma greatly agitating use cf tbe cricket grounds; if they are successful "Von der Ahe has also charged that Kelly favored hearing the players as playera, but I cbubt the divis­ the public tntnd. They will tiare a powerful oppoal* 4 Dorun.Oah...... 114 177 271 72 620 .862 The AshUiii.I Club Wants a Review of tbe 6 Putton, Minn...... 35 39 81 20 140 .857 Hamilton will have iho finest base ball park on the Detroit becauw he was ranking a bid for a situation as ibility of recognizing any organization, such as the tiori in Central Park, situated right in the boart of th* 6 MeMor, Mlinn...... 72 108 133 *2 283 .852 Continent, besides being the largest. a League umpire.'1 State League Table. Brotherhood. It ia establishing a bad precedent A city, and under the. management of thu experienced 7 Alvurd, DCS M...... 85 143 187 66 398 .833 John McPheisou & Co. won the Manufacturers' "Yea; I heard of that. Von dor Ahe mu*-t have said From the 8hanv>kiu Sentinel. manufacturer will receive hU own employees, but H*rt, who, witH his evenly matched ard celebrated 8 K.'illy, Bin d...... 98 147 196 72 415 .827 League pennant. Among the rising young players it when be felt u little sore over his defeat. I can Aahlmid is trying hard to get the game frrnn Dan­ don't fancy,entertaining a committee of the Kriighta of tearnn mafe.^8 a strong bid for patronage. In antici­ 9 F.mlkrod, Dul...... 46 65 1(>0 . 35 200 .825 this League brought to the surface are Bob Kell, easily prove that Kelly had no such idea in his head. ville which was to have been played Sept. 22, or equa- Labor. That is the way I feel in this case." pation of BUCCBM the association has spout a great deal 10 -CU T«lan garner with Sim bury; hearing." m<-ro than half accommodate tho vaat thruiigi that Many people have taken stock in the idea suggested "To n ci.-rfain extent yon are right. But they have 2_l>c>ss, Kflii C...... 68 <103 227 45 376 .880 by some lia*- ball crank regarding handicaps iu bage ''He is keeping hie eyes open. He wants a good Mt. Oarmol played but five gntue* with Ma?ian<>y City. will be attracted to tbe games. XacU will catch a* 3_Pick!>tt, St. P...... 87 81 267 48 396 ,fi"9 pitcher and he will get him, I think." Iu the first instance Hnzletou weathered ihn season hurt their owu case. I don't know bnt what I should overflow from the other. ball, but I have not boon able to s^e tho slightest merit I»H decidedly in fav.'r of having a conference, if John 4 Oo'.noy, Osh...... 31 39 82 17 138 .877 iu the ieu tainly think it would have been wi^er from the play- A NEW LOUISVILLE PITCHER. Shamofcln...... mv annual resume of the Califorma season iu a few 10 Gall.iKher. K»« C... 18 15 43 12 70 .829 u-ell to the front. If one could gauge tbe strength 23 17 40 .575 en' standpoint, not to hare tried this ultimatum 11 Lowe, Kan C...... 26 43 89 26 149 .826 of clul -a for the season to come as well as for the past The Loaisvilles a few d*ys agj signed Hex Smith, A^hlaud...... 21 19 40 .625 weeks, aud will keep you posted ou thu duiugs of oof 12 Wills, Mil...... IS 11 45 12 68 .824 "ason the plan might be bettered. HV>r the greater tbe pitcher of the Aiilwaukees. Smith h -i a good Hazleton...... 20 20 40 .600 business." Eastern visitors during the winter. IS Kell(VK,Sf. P., Dul 68 7.1 2119 69 384 .820 part ot l««t season Detroit lacked both Benaett and record. lie pitched in thirty-two game* for the Ath­ Mt. Crtrmel...... 20 20 iO .500 THAT UNFORTUNATE ULTIMATUM. WALLKB WALLACI. 14 -Laroque, Dos M.... J9 62 178 60 298 .709 Dmilap; lioston lacked Burdock; New York, Ewiug; letics, winning twt-uly-one, and that «hows that lie is Sb imokin would stand exactly where It belongs, President Ward's blunder in the date of the meeting 1-V-Uvord, P«« M...... 32 47 105 44 196 .770 Philadelphia, Bastian and Mulvey, and so on. Can a made of first-class stuff. After the middle of ihe sea­ fir-rt; Ash laud would crowd Hazlet'n out of second amounts to nothing. That in a small matt-r. But the IN COMMENTING on the 8itu:iti^n in New York a New 1C -Shvc-!(incl. St. P.... 15 14 35 16 65 .754 Chicago, which let such players as Kelly, Gore and year. Smith is abuiit 22 years of ago and wa-i reir^d Shamikin would f*il would be percentage, fnlliue; 47 ble conference, and then, if the result was not satis­ low them to "retain a siieut fran.:hi«e in Nuw York nil 19 B clio, 0.-.11...... 31 20 72 31 123 .748 Dalryiaplo (ro In one season, and for consideration here in Louisville. He has been pUying in amateur ;>oint9. A-hland1* elevation to second place would be factory, come action cuuH have been taken. The th»v d'-hire to once m^re place a team here and in tha in nutime sell to Ruftaio ametnl-or-ihip for noxtmasoB, KiylU Fidtlsrt. would let William-on, Pfeffer and Clarks-m « > in an clubs sinew his childh*x>d. He has pi'.c'ied a>r«in*t an with a decrease of 49 poiutfl, while Hazletm wonld be League magnates raunot fail lo meet next Wednesday now alight!y prejudiced agiitiat (he Brotherhood, Buffalo would make a nrjt-cluss base bail coruer fur 1 Teach, Des M...... 2 43 .953 other? Po<»b bah! Better take tbe players, shake Ascodation club. During tho aeosoii of 1SSG, when really the Bufferer, dropping not only 107 points, but 2* 32 9 tho Adfoxiiaiion." a-Laruutqus, D«M. 17 17 6 25 .920 them up in & bag aud divide them. the Athletics were playing here, all their pitchers into a poor third. owing to the fueling that an attaint* ha» be#u uiad« to 6 THE SPORTINQ LIFE. . 10.

F. A. Gardner, secretary; and C. W. Ulricli. treasurer The Pamrapo Athletic Club, of Jersey City, N. J., The Ottawa (Ont.) Chess Club b«s succeeded In or- as purchased for 81,700 two lote, 30 by 100 fe«t each, yes. Only one of the 100 shots was out of lin* ROD & GUN. auizing^ with a successful future well assured. Presi- ATHLETIC. n C«dmus avenue, Sayo^HC, £* * site for the organi­ orizontaliy with the bull's-eye. On an eliptieal ent, J. B. Hitllkett; secretary, Thos. Taylorj treasurer, CRICKET. target he would zation's club house, for the erection of which the club have made a much higher f. fl. Ixvg-tt. as borrowed 81,500 from * New York building and core. * WILD FOWLSHOOTING. The Scranton, P»., Chew Club, h»s elected offlcers A MZDICAI, EXPOSITION can association, at a premium of five per cent INVADERS OF AUSTRALIA. ar the ent-uijR year: J. C. Lang, president; M. H. The Toronto (Ont.) University Athletic Club held Random Shots. 'inn, vice president; Of the Value of Muscles Danger Menacing the Duck Develle Foote, recording Mcre- in the Legs of Sprint leir last cross country run of tho present season over he Two English Visiting Teams—Record Stic* and Bndd are matched at 100 birds for $100 Snooting: Sport ary; bout five at Havre de Grace Geo Watros, corresponding secretary; 0. Moore, Runners. miles and a half of rather rough land on of the Previous Trips to the Antipodes. de, the shoot to take place at the St. Louis tourna- -Existing S«rious reaaurer. fov. 3. Seventeen took part in the contest, which re- ent Nov. 29, 30, Dec. 1. Evils and the Proper Remedies There­ Dr. Sargent has a very interesting paper in The two English cricket teams which sailed Chas. Barker, the American checker champion, has 'cribner on athletics, ulted in favor of W. Machell, whose time was 37m. John Brewer and William Graham commenced ft fore—Prompt Action Imperative. from which we glean the Is. A. A. Macdonald was 2d, a minute behind. om England have arrived at Australia, the ve night!' een matched agatnat Robert Martins, th« Scotch ollowing: "We feel shoot at 5,000 glum balls, at Philadelphia PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 10. Editor SPORTING lampion. They will play fifty games at Olassgow prepared to maintain that The Athletic Club cross country team cam captained by G. F. Vernon commencing ov. 7. Up to Saturday morafng Brewer was 51 balla ektively long limbs, LIFE: For thirty years or more the Susque- Dec. 26. The stakes are £100 a side. with short body, full chest ajoyed a pleasant seven-mile run across country on leir first game Oct. 28 against an eleven of lead. nd small bones, will characterize le morning of Oct. 29, starting from hanna flats at Havre de Graco, Md., A chess contest between the Wilmington, Del., and the typical the Woodbine delaide. Tho English captain and W. W The challenge badge representing the Individual in the altimore, Md., Chess Clubs tiort-distance runner wherever [otel, Highbridge, at 10 A. M. At the finish B. ay pigeon championship of the Massachusetts Glass- counties of Harford and Cecil, have been the ended last Saturday in a he maybe found, ead were unable to play. At the end of the ictory for Wilminicton. Two games were won, two hort races (100, 200 and 440 yards) [ickey was first, W. Skillman second and P. D. ill Association was shot for at the Walnut Hill paradise of duck shooters. I may say are often killman third. Tho others were clow up. rst day's play the score stood: England, 104; nge, it is the -"ere drawn, and the fifth was adjourned for adjudica- won by a few inches, and the value Fifteen Maes., Nov. 2, and was won by Wardwell. best place in the world, not only for quantity, on, with the position in favor of Wilmington. of an inch tailed. delaide, 64. for the loss of two wickets. Griffin The National Rifle bat r two in a runner's stride is of the Association is discussing the ad-* quality,bat the shooting has changedconsiderably James Reed, the checker player, ia In Chicago. He greatest im- A series of sports was held at the Stralhraore ook the last three wickets of the visitors with sability of protesting aeainat Sergeant Doian in tho of late years, 'ill accompany Barker to England this winter, if the ortance, for, other qualifications being equal, rounds, Forfar, Scotland, Oct. 22, the chief event be- uccessivc balls. atch to be shot off witli the Michigan State team, so that while it is still a noted ng a four-mile race, which place, it is fast le champi'.n succeeds in making a match with the i is man is bound to be first at the goal. The is stated to have been won The team collected by Mr. Georgo F. olan uses a special sight which was protested against losing its popularity and if the nglisb champion, and on y P. <*nnmi io 19m. 11 1-5 s., he running three miles 1884. existing laws his return home Reed pr<>- mall girth of the legs ot runners is often ernon, and who are making tho tour under are not changed at once this fall, oses to pliy another match with him for the chant- lystifying. n 14oi. 14 2-5 s. If correct, the time for both dis- Our Uifle Ass elation , of Newark, N. J., elected the when the legislature From the girth of a muscle we get ances is the best on record, sucplantiug that made le auspices of the Melbourne Club, consists of meets, there will be many ion honors. correct idea of its volume iu Mowing ofrKa-rs recently: President, A. 0. Kiefer; boats for sale. Of course, they or transverse diame- 863 by J. White. Jessrs. G. F. Vernon, Middlesex; M. B. Hawke, ce president, G. Snellen; secretary, will be bought, The Adelaide Jubilee Cheas Congress proved a great ers, but learn Fred Knothe; but the purchasers will be new nccesB. We bave not many details, but learn that little of its length and the extent Among the starters for the twelfth Sir Joseph Banks ~orkshire; W. W. Read, Surrey; M. P. Bowden, tasurer, Wm. Drexler; captain, F. A. Frienschner; beginner?, who f its contractile andicap at Sydney, want to try their hand. After one season i»ir were ten entrants in the master's championship fibres. Whereas it is the length AU*., was the American champion, urrey; A. E. Stoddart, Middlesex; T. C. eutenant, Eiuil vVillois. they ourcey; that Henry Charlie f the muscle, and i. E. Myers, who was placed on tho 17yds. mark. He The College Gun Club will sell out and in a few years the once famous won the first prize of £50, not the thickness, that is of 'Brien, Middlesex; A. E. Newton, Somerset, of Penniylvanl* University ith a score of lout, 0; drawn, 3; won 6. Mr. Esling ignificance to short-distance runners. won his trinl heats in good style, but failed to get bet- as elected those officers: President, W. P. Smith, '87' place will be a thing of the past. Given .er than third place in the final heat. The winner, J. nd tho following professionals, namely: R. To show the on second prize and Mr. Gossip third. he physiological fact that a muscle G.; first vice president, E. J. Sellers, '89, Law; sec- frightful depreciation of duck shooting in a few can con- Antler, had 21yd«. start, and the second man, J. Atkin- 4bel, Surrey; J. T. Rawlin, Yorkshire; R. Peel, nd vice president, J. H. Brinton, *90; corresponding A curious work, according to La Strategic, 10 now in ract about one-third of its length, on, was placed years, let me give an illustration: ress at Barcelona, Spain. The author, Sonor Jose it will readily on the 18yds. mark. Time, 13J^s. 'orkshire; W. Bates, Yorkshire; J. Beaumont, cretary, P. S. P, Baulolph, '88, MeJ.; recording sec­ Five years e seen that the longer The Suburban go I purchased a scow for $3,000. It originally ruoer, intends to demonstrate not only that Ihe the muscle the Harriers held their seoond cross- urrey; W. Attewell, Notts. tary, \V. H. Trotter, Jr., '90; treasurer, A. H. Smith, Haie reater will be the movement ountry run of the season on Saturday, Oct. 29, the 0. cost the owner $4,000. but the shooting was get­ of chess was not introduced into Spain by the of the part The team managed by Shaw, Shrewsbury and rabs, but, also, that it is of Egyptian and not of In- o which it is attached. To the tart being from the Woodbine Hotel, Highbridge, at The Union Rifle Club is a new organization at ting so poor, that the owner was glad to sell runner ' p. M. After a punishing race E. C. Carter .illywhite is composed of Messrs. C. A. Smith, for iaa origin. A prelty difficult thesis, we should say, tie desired movement is in the elevation captured looinneld, N. J. The offlcers are: President, Will- $3,000. To-day this same outfit would u the face of the well-known of the rst place by 2yds., T. A. Collett 2d, J. Finley 3d, W. ussex; W. Newham, Sussex; G. Brann, Sussex; m A. Akers; vice bring researches of Wilkin- bJgh and the extension and flexion president, Arthur Leuthatusserj but $800, and I doubt that a customer could be n, Birsch and oth^r Egyptologists, and of the chess* of the leg 'rank 4th, H. Denise 5th, W. Kenny 6th and the i. C. Docker, Derbyshire; and the following cretary, Win. Raab, Jr.; treasurer, T. IIenden*on; storical works of Forbos and Van der Linde. nd foot. An instantaneous photograph of there far in the rear. About seven miles were rnu in rofessionals, namely: J. Lillywhite, Sussex; roperty owner, William J. llaab. The club proposes found even at that price. print-runners 6m. 3s. bave The majority of the inhabitants shows that the range in the I. Shrewsbury, Notts; M. Read, Surry; G. A. several matches during the winter. Thirty of Havre de novement of the limbs is very About fifty members of the Young Men's Christian ames are now upon the roll. Grace at one time lived by gunning extensive the Association, johman, Surrey; J. Briggs, Lancashire; R. and fishing, tride of a fast walker being from of Philadelphia, held a meeting on the The newly elected officers of the Baltimore, Md.t and as each year the game grew scarcer, THE TURF. 4 to 6 feet, vening of Nov. 2 and took preliminary steps lowards "filing, Lancashire; G. Ulyett, Yorkshire, J. a few nd that of a fast runner from 6 to 8 feet. chuetzen Society are as follows: President, Adolph dropped out and went at something else. The If rganizin< a Young Men's Christian Athletic Associa- t. Preston, Yorkshire; A. D. Pougher, Leices- Tartini; vice president, George Bunnecke; first shoot- ae stature is short, it is necessary for the run- on. Committees were appointed to frame a constitu- market gunners owned outfits in the way of 'ONVENTION OP PROMINENT TURF­ ershiro. ig master, Charles Struth; second, B. Lupus; secretary, ler to get a greater elevation from the ground lon and by-laws, and examine grounds, with a view harles Myohl; asoistant secretary, H. (loops, sink-boxes, decoys, small boats, MEN. These are respectively the tenth and eleventh 11. Kuhiman| etc., t each step in order to maintain a long o leasing for field events. Another meeting will be reasurer, H. H. Vonderheide; comptroller, Henry costing from $2,000 to $4,000 each, and could stride. eld on the 16th if.it. inglish teams who have visited Australia, the Vhen this is done a relatively long lower leg .uast; director?, Geo. Leimbach, Fred Decker, William kill enough ducks in a season to pay for Electing Offlcers of the Tnrf Congress and is At Madison, Wis., Oct. 29, a wrestling match be- rst having been H. U. Stephenson's, in 1862, leise, Fred Urandau and H, Schlegel. this f the greatest advantage. This fact is admir- whole outlay, an 1 at that time one could not Forming a Circuit for '88. ween Evan Lewis, the Straugler, and J. P. Murphy, fho played twelve matches, winning six and The American Turf Congress held an impor- bly brought out in the case of Myers, the pro- f Sault Ste. Marie, Mkh., for 8250 a side and 75 per osing two; next followed George Parr's, in 1S64, charter a boat for love or money. Now, these ent. of the gate receipts, very .nt two days meeting at Lexington, Ky., Nov. essional runner. With a height of 5 feet 7i was easily won by Lewis in who made a great record, playing sixteen same men own no beats, but captain other nches, which is tiree straight falls in seven, one and a quarter and SPORTING NOTES people's boats and 10. Among the delegates present were a little below the mean, or 50 matches, of which they won ten and lost none, at $50 per month for five months, er cent, class, he has vo and a quarter minutes. Murphy was so shaken and whereas lie following distinguished turfmen: President a length of lower leg y the Straugler in the first round that he vomited 'here was then an interval of nine years, when HAND BATi. previously they could make by which corresponds to a man over 5 market shooting $1,5UO to $4,000 Charles Green, of the St. Louis Association; feet 10 inches terribly and stood no show whatever dnring the re­ je third visit was made in 1873-74 by W. G. in a season, n height, a length of thigh usually mainder of the match. Jnited States vs. Ireland—Gossip one can now charter ecretary Brewster, of the Washington Park found in race's team, who played fifteen matches, win­ About the from $15 per day up to men of 5 feet 9 inches, while the On Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 24, a Coming International Contest. $50. It is said that one fine Club, Chicago; Col. R. Simmons, president of sitting height five mile cross- ing ten and losing three; the fourth team was shot has killed s the same as that which makes up the ountry run will be given by the Athletic Club of The hand $5,000 worth of canvas-backs in one h« New Orleans Association; Col. M. Lewis stature arnes Lillywhite':-, in 1876-77; they played ball players of New York and season. f men of 5 feet 4 inches. b6 Schuylkill Nftvy in Fairmount Park, open to mem­ Jrooklyn, not to And why has this sad change come Mark, president of the Louisville Jockey Club; bra enly, starting from the Wissahickon at 11 o'clock wenty-three matches, winning eleven and losing mention those of Philadelphia, to the t. Louis, Chicago and Havre de Grace duck-shooting interests? Be­ 7en. James F, Robinson, president af the Keu- harp, ana finishing at the loua boat honse. Prizes, our; the fifth was Lord Harris', in 1878-7S,played Boston, are greatly in­ BEST IN HIS CLUB. consisting of goW, silver vested in the coming cause some of these very gunners were not satis­ ucky Association; B. G. Bruce, secretary of the and bronze, will be awarded jirteen matches, winning five and losing international contest for o the winners of first, second and third places. En- bree; le hand ball championship of the world, be-. fied with a good thing, but out of pure greed Congress, and James B. Ferguson, secretary of Guy Richards Winner of First Prize the sixth, Alfred Shaw's, in 1831-82, In the ri. s close Nov. 21, and should be made to Mr. Frank layed ween ex-Alderman Phil Casey, of Brooklyn, started the big gun shooting at night and drove he Kentucky Association. The Congress went Staten Island Games. Henderson, 1913 Market street. twenty-five matches, winning thirteen ver the racing nd losing three; the seventh, le United States champion, and John Lawlor, the ducks from their feeding grounds. It is a rules pretty thoroughly, and The annual championship games of the Staten The annual fall games of the Adams Academy Ath- Hon. Ivo Bligh's, he question of etic n 1882-83, played seventeen matches, f Cork, the noted Irish champion. This match well-known fact that no wild fowl or beast will appointing paid judges was island Athletic Club, on their grounds at Association took place at Quincy, Mass., Oct. 31. winning irought up and West Vinners: Foot ball kick C. H. Porter winner,distance, ine and losing three; the eighth, Shaw, Shrews- was commenced in Ireland last August, the ar- long stay at any pkce where they are disturbed discussed. The matter was left Srighton, S. I., took place Nov. 8 and 9. Guy o the discretion of each club. Kansas City was 21ft. Sin. Oue hundred yards dash C. F. Page, 12%s. ury and Lillywhite's, in 1884-85, played thirty- angements providing for the playing of twenty- It night while feeding. lichards, late of Columbia College, won the lalf-mile run A. B. Emmes, 2m. 4Gs. Hurdle race To stop this admitted as a member of the Congress. An iree matches, winning sixteen and losing two; ne games, ten of which were to be played at abuse many laws were passed, irst prize with 26 points; C. Whitehorn was A. B. Emm , 22s. Three-legned race C. F. Page, C. iawlor's court at bnt it was, nevertheless, lection of officers for the ensuing year resulted I. Potter, 17X"- Two hundred and twenty yards nd the ninth, Shaw, Shrewsbury and Lilly- Cork, Ireland, and eleven at continued just the same d with 25 points, and R. Penn Smith, 3d, with Jasey's court in Brooklyn. for several seasons, as people as follows: President, Charles Green, St. Louis; ash A. B. Emmes, 31%3. Quarter-mile run C. F. white's, in 1886-87, played twenty-nine matches, The result of the who knew the men 6 points. S. S. Schuyler was disqualified for 'age, 1m. rst ten games played Were afraid to inform Secretary, B. G. Bruce, Lexington; Treasurer, lOJ^s. Long jump L. A. Frothinghara, winning twelve and losing two. Thus of 183 last August was the suo- for fear of bodily harm or not coming up to the standard in three events, 6ft. 7iu. Tug-of-war won by the fourth class by 4ft ess of Lawlor by the following score: destruction of barns or other property, and it still 0. L. Bradley, Lexington. The Disabled matches played by English elevens in Australia, lesults are as follows: The Cleveland (Ohio) Athletic Park is to be cut up into 11 told, Lawlor...... 110001110 1—« went on until a smart detective went down Jockeys' Fund, over which there was considera- 100yds. R. Peuu Smith, 1st; S. S. Schnyler, milding they have won ninety-two (about fifty 2d; G. lots uext spring, and the local bicyclers and er cent.), lost asey ...... 0 01110001 0—4 there, lived with these men, shot with them, ile scandal last spring, was found to be all Hichmds, 3d. Time. Ue. thletes will have to seek a new traclt The track twenty-two (about twelve per This leaves Casey seven games Putting the ent.), and sixty-nine to win out of nd when he found them all out, arrested the right. There is a surplus on hand of $10,000. 56tb weight A. Whitehorn, 1st, 16ft. olds all the Ohio State bicycle records and two fast (about thirty-eight per be eleven to be played this month, 3in.; H. Thoip, 2d, 16ft. 3in.; B. P. Smith, 3d, 15ft. pedestrian marks H. M. Johnson's 100 ent.) have been drawn. against five whole lot, confiscated the guns and had the men The secretaries of the various Western clubs yards in 9 4-5 y Lawlor; so it is evident that the contest .fterwards lOin. econds, a world's record made under the auspices of will fined. While this shooting is still done fre­ arranged a schedule for a spring and Kunnmg high jump G. Richards, 1st, 6ft. e a deeply interesting one. Despite tho odds summer 8ln.; A. he Cleveland Athletic Club, July 31, 1886, and on quently, yet there is not enough to do racing circuit next year. Lexington Whilehoru, 2J, 5ft. 6in.; S. S. Schuyler, 3d, 5ft. 2iu. Nov. 12,1884, James Grant, of Boston, ran a losing A WINTER'S OUTING. gainst him Casey is the favorite in the betting much harm. opens with an eight-day meeting, followed by 440yds. L. L. Betting, 1st, S. S. Schuyler, 2d; B. P. hree mile race on the track in 15:10J.^, which After this was broken up these re- rip of a Philadelphia and n nearly all the cities on this side the Atlantis, very same men L,ouisville, eight days; Covington, fourteen days; Smith, 3d. Time, 56 2-5s. cnained the best on record for America until Septem­ New York Team were put to their wits ends to Putting the 16tt> stiot N. H. Thorp, 1st, 30ft. to the West Indies. while Lawlor is well backed on the other side, devise another mode St. Louis, ten days; Kansas City, six days, and llin. ber 11,1886, when Grant beat it upon the Brooklyn of getting ducks and C. Whitehorn, 2J; K. P. Smith, 3d. N. Y.) tiack. After a great deal 'his match has given Casey the opportunity he adopted the iVashington Park, Chicago, exact number of Pol- vault C. of correspondence on the ".as seine. This is by far the most de- Whitehurn, 1st, 8ft. 9in.; G. Rich­ Three of the nine competing athletes in the eighth ubject, final arrangements sought, for several years post, to build » itructive of all devices, for, while days not yet decided. The Congress will meet ards, 2d; R P. Smith, 3d. have been made for iew model hand ball they do laudicap one-half mile race for the James E. Sullivan team of cricketers from New York court in Brooklyn, and not catch all ducks that n New Orleans, La., on the second Monday in 120jds. hurdles G. Richards.lst; B. P. Smith, 2d; H. rold medil on the Pastime Athletic Club's and Phila- bis has been accomplished under tue auspices of the get into the net, they N. Thorp, 3d. ground, elphia to play in the care the ducks so badly they never November, 1888. Time, 19 1 5s. )ct. 31, had twice won the medal, and scratchman W. West Indian Islands dur- ewly trgauized hand ball club, of Brooklyn, of come back. Throwing the 1611) hammer C. Whitehorn, 1st, 65ft. ng the months of December, which Casey These nets are put out right on P Bowen, T. J. Welstead on the 8yds. mark, and 17yds. 1887, and January, has been mada president. This new the feeding Track Talk. 3iu.; N. H. Thorp, 2J; S. s<. Schuyler, 3d. man G. W. Riley, each expected to make it his por- 838. Mr. Newbold Etting, lub now completed is located on Degraw street grounds, and the ducks in diving Broad jump G. Bichards, 1st, 19ft. of the Morion Club, become entan­ Blush Rose, by Reform, is to be bred to Milton 4%ln.; 8. S. onal property by capturing it once more. The pace f Philadelphia, and Cyril ear Court, in Brooklyn, and beyond question it gled and, of course, arc dro Schujler, 2d; C. Whilehorn, 3d. Wilson, of fte Staten s the finest hand ball court wned. These drowned Young's Pizarro. was hot from the start on the 12-lap track. Riley fell sland Club, New York, in Brooklyn, and away birds are gathered and sent to market One mile run G. Richards, 1st; S. L. Betting, 2d; C. back going around the circuit the third time, but came have been the main ahead of anything in Ireland. The court itself if and Phila­ Up to Nov. 1 Charley Wood ia well ahead of all Whitehorn, 3d. Time, 5m. 42 3-5s. romoters of the trip. delphia and New York families eat drownedducks. other jockeys in England. again, and managed to pass J. Mundle, who had 33yds. The cricketers will sail ixty-six feet in length bv twenty-five feet in width, The officers were: Referee, S. B. Hazard; start on the final stretch. Riley won rom New York Dee. 17, and will land nd over thirty feet in height to" the skylight. The If for no other reason than selling drowned The fleet racer Little Minch lowered the seven fur- by a yard, with Dec. 23 judges, W. A. Lentilhon, A. N. Lawrence and Mundle two yards in front of Bowen. Welstead camo at St. Croix. On the following day a front wall" is thirty feet high and faced with smooth ducks these villainous netters should be .ong record to 1:35 at Nashville Nov. 6. match will white marble, which prose­ E. E. Hewlett; time-keepers, H. B. Rich and n fourth. The medal is now Riley's personal property >e played with an eleven friim the will give an accurate return of cuted to the full extent of the law, as drowned A ion of the celebrated English stallion, Hermit, The time was 2m. 10%s. Leeward lie ball from the service. Toe side walls are faced ill, it is R. T. P. Fiske; ecorers, M. C. Davis and H. W. Island at Fort Ritts and the Sunday ducks certainly cannot be healthy food. said, soon be imported to New York. The New Jersey Athletic Club, of Bergen of Christ­ nth Portland cement, giving a hard, smooth service, Several The Board of Appeals Janssen. Point, mas will be spent in Martinique. ud the floor ia made of four-inch of these netters were recently arrested, of the American Trotting As­ N. J., has purchased at a cost of 830,000 a tract of ten On Thursday white pine clear but are sociation will hold a meeting at the Sherman House, and Friday, Dec. 29 and 30, a match oards three inches thick. The back wall is nine feet out on bail and have returned to their nefarious acres of land in Newark Bay, upon which will be will come Chicago, Dec. 6. CKOSS COUNTRY RACING. erected club and boat houses, to be finished early in off at Trinidad between the home team and igh, with thick glass windows five feet from the floor, vocation. It is to be hoped that when the .nd above this wall and over the dressing rooms their The Sussex County, N. J., Agricultural Society have the spring. The club, whicli was formerly the Bergen visitors. The Americans will spend Sunday, are trial comes .up next month they will receive selected Oct. 2, 3, 4 and 5, 1888, for their fall meet­ E. C. Carter Again Wins the Point Athlotic Club, has icated the lower and upper galleries, the former for Champion­ already over 300 members Fan. 1, in Demerara, with matches to be hereafter le use of club their just dues. I, for one, am willing ing at Newton, N. J. ship—Other Events. and is rapidly growing. The officers are: President, members and their friend*, and the to he:id arranged for Jan. 2, 3, 5, 6 and 7. atter for the public at large. There are three dress- » prosecution fund with a subscription of $25 Linda Lewis, the dam of Linden, died recently at The fifth cross Johu Newman; vice president, A. C. Stevens; secre­ the farm of country championship race of tary, Robert J. D. Mackie; treasim-r, The team will go to the Barbadoos on Satur­ Dg rooms under the galleries, as also the club room, in order to help stamp out her owner, S. P. Lancaster, Bardatown Chai les B. An- djoiniug which are hot and this evil. Ky. She was 23 years old. the New York Athletic Club was held over a net't; trustees, Charles C. Marshall. Thomas Toby, John day, Jan. 7, arriving on Sunday. Four cold shower baths. In This work has been going on for three five days ict, everything has been done to make it a model years, Pressure is being brought to bear on the executive mile course Nov. 8. E. C. Carter again won C. Buntou, Alfred W. Booth, Charles E. Annett and will be spent there, with possible games against and meantime people were wondering why the championship, H. 31. Popliam. The iadies of BayoHUe City and Eiiza- and ball court in every respect. The club will open the committee of the Metropolitan racing clubs to raise finishing the distance in 34m. all comers. The next point will be Jamaica, ts new court on Tuesday, Nov. 15, at noon, on ducks were ao scarce and why no the betu will hold a fair some time this winter for the which red-heads came weights for all horse races. 52s., with G. Y. Gilbert 2d by 200yds.; P. D. he team landing there on Sunday, Jan. 15. ccasion there will be a special contest New Yorfcv». around as in former times. Various reasons The yearling bay colt by urpose of raising mouey to furnish the new club Longfellow,dam Imp. Man- Skillman, 3d. ouse. Chose matches will bo played: Jan. 16 and 17, irooklyn the conJl^i^ in which will 1* the.veteran^ were given, special stress being laid upon zanita, which J. B. Hangin paid $3,000 for last spring The iaruey McQuade and Brooklyn's expert, Will the Spartan Harrii -s had a paper chase the SPOUTS AT IlABVABn. The annual fall handicap Jnited States against Kingston Cricket Club; Court- feet that there was no wild curry, but netting diet! near Lexington, Ky., on Nov. 8. same date. The ey. Thi-t match will be tor $100 a side, and best five honors of the day were carried meeting of the Harvard Athletic Association was held .8 and 19, United States against officers of the n nine games. was the real cause. Green Mountain Maid, ihe greatest speed producing off by Mr. Oct. 29 at Cambridge, Mass. Winners: 120yds. The grand international match takes trotting mare in the world is twenty-five years Al Fleishman, closely followed by hurdle garrison; 21 and 23, United States against lace at 10 i. M. on Tuesday, Nov. 22, when Messrs. Another thing that does great ol(i Messrs. race Walk-over for Noble, '88; time, 19s. 100yds. the damage is the and has an uuweanedcolt valued at £3,000. E. F. Hanbold and A. Kitchelt, respec­ 5t. Elizabeth Cricket Club. Tho team as far ^asey and Lawlor will enter the court to finish up f o'clock law, which prohibits any craft tively dash Won by Burt, L. S., in 105-7s. Two-mile bi­ as beir match of twenty-one crossing The Sire brothers, of New York, will probably send second and third. Robert Stoll was fourth cycle race Won by Davis, oa.n be learned will be thirteen in games by playing the last certain lines until after 5 A. «. Now, '91 (sciatch); time, 6m. number, and leven of their series. The admission on this occasion while the their horses, Harry Wilkes, Rosalind Wilkes and the and the rest as follows: Messrs. T. L. Cooke, ~%s.; this lowers ihe Harvard record by25s. Onemile he acceptances so far are Newbold Etting, Camber of boats is increasing each year, still, pacer Gossip, Jr., to California for the winter. George Renner, rait Won will be three dollars, to the upper gallery, and five Charles Nissen, W. W. Doyle, by B.irlingham, '91; time, 8m. 40>^. Merion Club; T. W. Biddle, Philadelphia Club; ollars for reserved seats in the lower gallery. Sup- with proper regulations, this would make no Harry Wilkes and Rosaline Wilkes, trotted for a R. Hanbold and W. Metz. The winner's time High jump Won by Bale, '91 (scratch); 6ft. 3%in. purse of 85,000 X N. Palmer, Carl Champion, Young America; ilementary to this match there will be a grand double- material difference, as I contend that 250 boats at Dallas, Tex., on November 4. Harry wns 2h. 16m. 23 4-5s. The 440yds. dash Won by Stead, ^1 (25yd».); time, 61s. ontest, iu which Phil Casey won iu straight heats; time, 2:18}4 2:19J^, 2:17. hares reached home Oue mile run Won by Davenport, '91 (scratch); y. J. Duhring, Germantown; C. Coates, Bel- and Jim Dunn, of Brook" hooting every day would not do as much dam­ 56m. 38 4-5s. ahead of the pack. time, yn, will play against Lawlor and partner, of Cork an There is some misunderstanding, it is said, between 4m. 46s. 220yds. dash Won by Dade, '90 (12yds.); mont; A. Clark, Sea Bright Club; E. H. Outer- rish expert for age as the above mentioned practice?. The Prospect Harriers, the biggest cross ime, 23%s. Broad jump Won $600 in a suries of best seven out of Jacob Piiicus, trainer, and ihe Beltuout family. The by Wolf, '90 (18in.); iridge, C3'ril Wilson, Paul Outerbridge and J. H. welve games. ______The law not allowing shooting within a half trouble may cause tho retirement of Pincus from the country club in Brooklyn, held their first paper 18ft. J4in. Half-mile run Won by Cogswell, '88 jambkin, mile icratch"); time, 2m. 4-5s. Throwing Staten Island Club. The two vacan­ of shore does no good, but gives three or stable. chase this season Nov. 8. Twenty-seven hounds the hammer cies will be filled from POLO MATTERS. four property The Coney Island Won by Gibson, 83ft. Pole vault Won by Leavitt, Philadelphia players of owners the exclusive right to shoot Jockey Club paid a tax of 87,548.- started from the club house on the Prospect he amateur class. Tho home there. This should be 85 on its receipt* of 5150,977 during the pa-t season, 89,18ft. i^in. Putting the shot H. B. Gilson, '88, team will sail on A New Boston Movement—A New Leagaa changed, and allow shoot­ Park plaza and followed C. Schoenecke and W. 31ft. Sin. he return trip on Jan. 24, arriving ing anywhere. and the B;ooklyn Jockey Club a tax of §4,49:2.50, on in New Organized. 869,850. Ayres, the hires, over about twelve miles of FORDHAM COILEBE SPORTS. The fork on the last day of the month. Now the question is what annual fall meet- The Massachusetts Division of tho New Eng- can be done? It MondeL-soho, the once noted race horse, died in Texas difficult ground toward Canarsie village. From .ng of tlie St. John's College Athletic Association was teems a very grave problem, and yet it is very thence they went leid Nov. 8 and Polo Association held a special meeting last week of inflammation of the bowels. He was 1C to FlatlandS, then to Parkville on the collpge ciimpus at Fordham. The Byes. easily solved Let the people who live in the years old, and at one time held the luile and a quarter and home through the Park. results were as follows: 100yds. dash First heat: H. for. 7 to consider the application of a sixth J. D. Floyd was The Halifax duck-shooting counties and make their living record of 2:08. first anl W. Ayres second. Time, 2h. 27m. Quackenboss, '89, 1st; D. A. Hanrahan, '89, 2d. Sec­ Cup has been won four times by Young club, to be called the Bostons, but to play in out of gunning and fishing All the thoroughbred stock, siity-ono head In all, ond heat: D. B. Cushion, '88, and W. Newton, '88, tie America, three times by Belmont and once by German- ^helsea. The application was made by J. H. send men to the 'or 1st place. Final heat: A. Quackenboss, own. legislature who know the property of the late Captain Cottrell, of Mobile, '89, 1st; dobbins, but was refused. At the meeting it what is wanted and see bave The Great Local Pedestrian Match. D. B. Cushion, '88, 2tl Putting the shot T. Shea, '88, The authorities of St. Paul school have forbidden that proper been shipped to Lexiugton, Ky., to be sold al was stated that a. syndicate including the Boston laws are passed, and when passed public auction. The forthcoming international six days' 1st; D. A. Hanrahan,'89, 2d. Running high jump iot ball and base ball, leaving cricket as the only re­ go-as-you- T Shea, '88,1st. G. B. Donnelly, Dase ball management, and Wright & Ditson, are put in force. And here is about what is An old thoroughbred stallion named Joe Hooker, please race in this city is attracting unusual attention, England, 2i). Pole cognized game. seeded: and bids vault G. B. Donnelly, England, '88, 1st; D. B. C. Hacking, secretary of the Listowel and Al Spalding, were making arrangements to fir many years the property of James Rudy, Jr., oi fair to be one of Ihe greatest events in the Cushion, Club, of the For night gunning Harriaburg, Pd,, has pedestrian line on record. Large crowds assemble '88, and J. A. Butler, '89, tie for 2d. Half- Ontario Cricket League, contemplates organizing a ease the Mechanics' building on Huntington pass » law making the been sold to John Young, of Har- mile walk C. Livingaton, '90, 1st; D. Haurahan, '89, penalty to any one found guilty risburg, for 385. daily at the Rink, Twenty-third and Chestnut iingari team to visit Philadelphia and New York next avenue, buy tho Woburn franchise, which is one of the $250 fine and one streets, to watch the 2d. Throwing 10B) hammer T. Shea, '88, 1st; D. A. July. strongest clubs in the year's imprisonment. J. B. Dyer, trainer for Mr. Gratz, has purchased contestants training for the event. rlanrahan, '89, Lt-ague, and transfer them to Tom Cox could not get his 8100 stake money In 2d. Running broad jump G. B. A Northwestern Cricket League is to be 3oston. Manager John Murriil, of the B>ston Base For netting ducks confiscation the colt Okema, three years old, by Reform, darn Donnelly, England, '88,1st; D. A. Hanrahan, '89, 2d. formed, to of nets, $250 Maggie B. B., the dam of Iroquois, by Imp. Australian time to make his entry on November 1. Since then _3 composed of clubs in St. Joseph, Chicago, Racine 3all Club, will manage the club if the deal is consum­ fine and two years. - his friends have subscribed nearly the full amount, Half-mile run G. B. Donnelly, England, '88, 1st; D. £ansas City, Omaha, Winnipeg, mated, which is more than probable. Boston is a good for stud purposes. B. Cushion, '88, 2d. Denver, St. Paul anc Make the time of crossing the line 3 o'clock in The and he hopes no one will object to his name being dinneapolis. own for polo, and it ia thought that the Massachu­ unfortunate retirement of "Snapper" Qarrison, added to the list when The Suburban Harriers held setts branch of the New England the morning. owing to a threatened dangerous illness, leaves the he is ready with the cash, their third run of the There has been but little talk lately of the amalga­ Leaguo will go to which will be on Saturday. It remains with the con­ season on Saturday, Nov. 5, the start being made at 5 mation of Philadelphia and Young America, and it )iecos unless Boston is represented. I contend ducks would not mind men and field clear to Jimmy McLaughlin for the premier testants to say whether p. M. from the Fort A league of rink polo players iockeyship of the year. he can enter or not. George Atlantic Garden. Among now seems probable that the two clubs will be in the comprising Brooklyn, boats at night (if no guns were shot off) putting Frank Le Grande has posted the remainder of his ;he pack were, as usual, many visitors, including Dave ield as separate organizations next season at least. New York, Jersey City and Newark, has elected al W. J. Haskell, of Hartford, Conn., has sold for the stake mmey, which Roach, the professional iresident John B. Day, of out decoys and quietly moving away scows as he was granted permission to do coach of tho N. Y. A. C.; A. The Philadelphia Cricket Club Oct 29 had its annual the New York Base Ball Potter Brothers the trotting horse R. R. H. to James by November 10, as he did not know tho terms of the D. Stone, Orion Boat Club, and C. Renner, of the Spar- 31ub. The organisation will be known as the Metro- much as they would to see 100 boats all over the Golden, of Boston, for 82,500. B. B. H. recently meeting and banquet. These officers were elected: ob­ race when he sent a check for $25 to ihow he meant :au Harriers. The route taken »as over the cross­ 'resident, )olitan Polo League, and will have polo teams in the flats at daylight with an army of men talking tained a record of 2:25^. country championship Edwin N. Bemon; directors, A. W Biddle, bur cities named. The teams will to enter. course, and before half the dis­ M. D.; Casper Morris, M. D.; William Potter, J. be composed of and shouting. By making the hour 2 or 3 George A. Singerly paid $200 for Prince Wilkes as a Bobby Tint has also entered the raco at the last tance was run mauy of the men were badly cut and Emlen irofessional polo players, and tho games will be con- o'clock all weanling. A number of bruised, Smith, C. T. Cowperthwait, J. A. Harris, Jr.; J. S. lucted under the rules this work can be done in the dark the best posted men in and minute. plainly demonstrating the severity of the Smith, Jr.; Gustavus Remak, of the New England Polo while the gaaio cannot around Lexingtou think that the Prince will be the work. S:ill they kept on, first one leading and then Jr. League. ______fee what is going on, and At the annual meeting of the Philadelphia Club the by daybreak everything is quiet king of the turf next year. Pointers. another, until the tired pack reached the last stretch and still and of the course, where a splendid struggle ensued, .'ollowinc resolution was adopted: That the Philadel­ Pickings and Callings. there is nothing George Forties and Dave Muckle have an 84-acre Dnncan C. Ross Is in New Orleans. He ia on Car­ phia Cricket Club approves but the shooting to scare farm near Warrenville, 0., on which they have a num­ his ter, Gilbert, Collett and Stone fairly sprinting for Ihe of a plan by which the an- P. S. Sears, '89, has won the tenuia championship of them. ber of ray to Australia. lead. When within ten yards of the finish Gilbert lual championship of the city shall be decided by a Harvard in singles. fine colls. Among them is 0. K., by Brown system of points for the winning of Make the license for sink boxes $100 and for Wilkes, dam Bessie Turner. Sprinter Harry Bethune talks of going to England shot to thi front, Collett and Stone finishing a dead first, second ant! Dog racing has been Introduced o see the International fight and run unior eleven championships and the best inaividua' at Dnlutb, Wl«. bushwhackers $50 per annum. Make a law Imp. Glenelg heads the list of winning in a few handi­ beat for second, with Carter, Banks, Kennv and Ben- ,nd has become extremely popular. im- sires of the caps. ner close up. The )r club averages. ing $100 fine for any one found gunning, or jeason. Hanover has won more than any other three- others were content to jog home. The Southern Tennis Association was formally or­ year-old, 885.000; James Quirk and James Collinl, the well-known HIGHLAND There was » scheme on foot toconsolidfite tho Young ing with nets on the Susquehanna flats Emperor of Norfolk heads the two- A. C. SPORTS. Held on the grounds of America aod Gormantown cricket clubs, ganized at Washington, D. C., Oct. 20, and W. N, B. n year-olds, 835,000, and Eurus the four-yeir-oldfl. runners, are said to have sailed for England in quest of the club, at Roxborough, Pa., October 29. and botl Berry was elected president. during the months of October, November and matches. Results organizations appointed committees to meet ant Lord Dudley, who is quite a youth and one of the One hundred yards (handicap) Final heat, T. H consider In the Intercollegiate tennis tournament which December. Gnerrero, Burns, Hegelman, Howarth and Grant Babcock, together the question of consolidation. The richest men in England, has collected a strong stable N. Y. A. C., (3>ds.), 1st, in lO^s. Throwing result of the consultation of these committees was closed at New Haven Oct. 14 Harvard won tho cham­ This will reduce the number of shooters and of race horses. Dick Mareh, formerly will run a 25-mile race at New Bedford, Mass., Nov. base ball Simpson, 296ft. Running bases Snyder pionship in both handler for the 24, that consolidation was not agreed to. It is more than singles and doubles. Columbia wal allow the few that pay the license to kill enough Duke of Hamilton's horses, will train for Lord Dudley. Thanksgiving night. 162-53 Putting 161b shot George Bunton 33ft. 6in. probable second. Yale 1st- that the Young Americas will continue to enable them to employ men to do the Jinimie Golden, with the chestnut mare Augusta University A. C. has arranged for weekly A. Schroeder, 2d. Mile walk E.Schofield, Y. M. C to occupy their present ground, taking a yearly lease The Hamilton Toboganing Club has elected the fol- work, handicap contests beginning after the Christmas recess A., '(Ini. start), 1st.; E. F. Von Stavoren, Schuylkill Navy and on the present basis of $100 licenses for Schuyler, beat Jock Bowen'a stallion Norway Knox, until they find themselves in a condition to purchase .owing officers: Messrs. Henry McLaren, president; at Mystic Park, and continuing until the winter meeting. A!'C., (15s.),2d. Time, 8:58. One hundred and twenty It Is then likely Hugh C. boxes and $50 for bushwhackers would give Boston, Nov. 4. Five beau were yards hurdle race Final that a situation near the line of the Baker, vice president; Denholm Burns, the trotted, the winner getting a record of 2:26 in the At Hamilton, Ont., Nov. 5, Meinke and Harry heat, A. A. Jordan, 1st, in Pennsylvania railroad will be selected. A lot a icretary; George Martin, treasurer. two counties at least $25,000 per year, where Bowling, ran 100 yds. for 8100 a side. Bowling gave 19V<». Running high jump A. A. Jordan, 6ft. 4%iu. Queen Lane second heat. Isi-'W Shaw, 5fr. Station is now being examined with The Empire Curling Club, of Albany, N. Y., elected they now get hardly enough to pay the police. Thomas Meinke two yards start, and won by a foot. The time 3^in., 24. Quarter-mile run C. M view of purchase. the following offlcers W. Moeier, the Kansas City Tima reporter Smith, came In first; F. H. Babcock, N. Y. A. C., 2d on Nov. 3: President, Peter A. Finally have five or six good men appointed who was so brutally assaulted and had his jaw broken was given as 10 1-5 seconds. Stephens; secretary. John N. Foster; treasurer, John Gladstone but the judges gave the race to F. D. Babcock. Sack as police and keep all hands up to the scratch. by Ed Corrigau, the turfman, has brought suit in the Is a firm believer in the good of athletics race_o. M. Sinith A. Lehman; instructors, Alox Simpson, Johu N. Fos­ and his son, Herbert Gladstone, is the president won from J. A. Ott and G. T. Gil­ ter, J. In conclusion I repeat that something must United States Circuit Court against Corrigan to recover of a bert. Pole vault A. B. Cline, U. of Pa., 9ft. loin., 1st 0. Montagnani and II. C. Southwick. 110,000 damages. National Physical Recreation Society that has been THE TRIGGER. Just outside of Long Island be done and while I don't mean to imply that recently A. A". Jordan, 9ft. 4in., 2<1. iHunning broad jump City, Oct. 26, a savage T. J. MidJagh, a well-known turfman of Paterson, been organized in Liverpool. Greor<'e Brinton, dog fight took place between Spider, a Long Island my ideas are perfect, yet I flatter myself that The Spartan 19ft. 9in., 1st; A. A. Jordan, 19ft Pa., has concluded, it is said, to retire from active par­ Harriers, of New York City, will give 6Uin.*2d. One mile run C. M. Smith, 1st; G. T. Gil­ A RECORD BROKEN. brindle, and Toby, a New York white, each weighing they form a starting point in the right direc­ ticipation in turf matters. All bis horses, including the first open handicap cross-country race ever held bert, 2J; G. Kirby, unplaced. twenty-seven pounds. The purse was 8250. Spider in America, November J. A. Hurtling, Jr., won tion. The local authorities and public owe it to Dick Organ, 2:24%; Kitty Hood, 2:24%; Blanche, 2:30 19. Between fifty and seventy the two mile bicycle race in 8m. Is., and tho amusing The Best Revolver Shooting Figures won in Ih. 15m. Myrtella runners well compete, among them champion E. C. Over­ themselves, as a matter of self-interest, to G., 2:23, and several others will be sold a obstacle race was cleverly won J. Allisou .Ott, of the topped. Mark Stainthorp's Little Mary won »$125 sweep­ public auction. Carter. home club. stakes handicap race and a 8100 gold collar presented do something, as I'll venture to say that the Trenton, N. J.. has At Boston Nov. 4, F. E. Bennett, of the Bos John F. Gilbirds, the well-known stock breeder oi a new athletic association en­ HOLT by Arthur Chambers, at Echo Park, Philadelphia, Oct. hooter* who go to Maryland bring at least titled "The Young Men's Athletic Club." The offlcers CEOSS COIMOK SPORTS. Hold at Worcester ton National Lancers, made a successful 17. Sharp's Lotta Missouri, has sold the bay gelding Anglin, 2:27}^, by Mass., Oct. 29. The chief interest centred in the 10C atterup was 2d; White's Ormonde, 3d; and $150,000 per annum to that part of the country George Wilkes, dam Bettie Brown, by Mambriuo are: Charles C. Cissidy, president; Dennis V. Con­ to break tho 1000-shot record with aa army Thompson's Queen, 4th. nors, vice president, yards dash, which was won by Donohoe, who, bavinf re and leave it there. This tidy little sum, now Patchan, to W. R. Cottrell, of St. Loafs. The gelding and Peter G. McGuire, recording previou-ly run for money, volver at 50 yards, until now held by Chevaliei The new officers of tho Dundon, Ont., Curling Club will be campaigned secretary. is considered » professional icattered about in the ducking counties, would next season by 11. Y. D. Scales, o The college record is, therefore, that made by Cahil] Ira Paine, whose record was 841 points, with 7( arc: President, Thomas Wilson; vice president, John Washington, 111. A 200-yards foot raco was to have been run at Return: Hundred Bertram; representative members, M. S. Wilson, Eobt be sadly missed were the ducking sport to be Worcester, yards dash Donohoo. '90, 10s bull's-eyes. The exhibition was conduct ec killed, Walter Gratl, of this city, has sent five of hie Mass., Monday, for J200 a side by M. J Cahill, '88, 10}4s. Throwing base ball Judge, "88 McKechnie; chaplain, Kev. Dr. Lang; secretary- as now seems, under existing conditions, brood Slattery and Dan Scully, well-known sprinters. Scully under the supervision of the Rifle, and was helc treasurer, inevitable. mares to B. Porter Ashc's stock farm in Cali­ 110yds. Standing broad jump Ciunmings, '88,11ft James Ross, M. D. fornia, to bo bred. Charlotte by Lyttleton, will be refused to start and the referee, W. H. Harden, de­ Sin Three standing jumps Cummings, '88, 34ft at the range of the Massachusetts Rifle Associa­ The Keystone Fishing Club, of Pittsbnrg, recently If even with such inducement the local people bred to Norfolk; Smilax, to Alta or Ed Corrigun clared all bets off. lV,in Hop step and jump Cahill, '88, 41ft. ]}^m tion at Walnut Hill. The scoring was done elected the following officers: President, William The by will not move then it beh'ooves the owners of the Dizzy Blonde, to Wildidle; Termagant, to Joe Daniels Jersey City Athletic Association last weeK Running broad jump Cahill, '88, 17ft. llin. Tw the official scorers of tho association, and the Meyers; vice president, Johu Ryan; treasurer, D. W. many scows located there and Marilee, to Flood. elected these officers: President, Wm. Brinkerhoff mile run Mfade,'88,12m. 34e. Throu-insr. the ham Martin; secretary, H. Balph; trustees, B. Briukman, to start the reform and vice conditions were the sumo as those under whicl if money is needed each scow should Jockey Garrison will ride for J. B. Haggin, th< president, James C. Young; recording secretary mer_Cnmmings. '88, 56ft. 9in. Running high jump William Fuhrer, George A. Madden. contribute Wm. T. Vidal; corresponding secretary, Arthur L Cahill '88, 5ft. 3in. Paine made his record. A Smith hammer Duncfcn, 85ft.; Long and Case Ninth...... 9 10 7 9 10 7 8 9 7 10- 8 hie fog tie' partner could have beaten Renshaw, hut Mr. U. A. two cbefls coluniLS in Paris; oue in Le Monde I Col. E. W. Conovor, the veteran horseman of Mid- in an hour. 82ft. Standing broad jump Casoy, lift. lOin Tentn...... 10 8 9 10 8 8 10 8 9 9- 9 .W and the other in the Republiqite Francaist. At Dunam, 10ft. llin. Running high jump Long, Dituon, who saw all the loading Englishmen in play dletown Monmouth county, N. J., is lying danger a meeting of the Yale University Athletic Aesocii 5f last summer, quite agrees with Turn Pettit that R. D. We learn from The Sckachzeitung that tho German ously ill with tion Oct. 31, offlcers for the ensuing year were elected 4in Ca»ey, 5ft. lin. Running broad jump Long Total....,...... ,...... --- - - kidney trouble, and his recovery i 18fi Sears would have beaten Uenshaw had they met at Chew League is based on the federation of niiiety-tw somewhat doubtful. Tho Colonel has always been ar as follows: President, H. F. Walker, '89; vice presi llin.. Casey, 18ft. Three standing jumps Case When Paine made his record of 841 he mad Newport, and dent 34ft 7in.; Long, 34ft. Having says, furthermore, that Mr. Sears, in lute having two thousand five hundred member*. enthusiastic admirer of the trotter, and he owned th L B Gawtry, '89; secretary and treasurer, T. L won 6 points, LOB 70 bull's-eyes. It will be seen that the championship tournament at Newport, played UU Bayard, Jr., '90. W. Harmar, '90, and A. B. Mocn, '89 withdrew from the half-mile run, which was the Benne The Omaha Ghees Club has these new officei famous mare Emetine, that produced six colts wh made 77. All of the last string of 10 were bull' most perfect games of tennis ever witnessed. fitorge Barker, president; Julia* Meyor, vice presidtm have records of 2:30 or tetter. were elected member* of tU* ueoutive board. given to Casey. ISTov. 16. SPORTIlSra

ment of W. J. Hoi ton, and with this support: Emma The Rndge Cycl* Company has been tmuformed support* Mr. Mantell U thoroughly efficient and in into a Uock company. elude* the Misses Gillette, Van Sickle, Dnroy and Blanchar!, W. L. Bnchanun, F. H. Wheeler, H. M Shfldon, and tho Mt-ssrs. Mason, Marsden, Lindsay Wolls, D. C. Alger, Paul Fleming and Fred Raymond WHEELING. D. E. Price won the 6 11-16 mil-i road race of tho AQUATIC THE STAGE. and Ringgold. The ca*t is sufficiently strong to guar­ Joe Wilson is advance. Manchester Club, Nov. 2, Iu 35m. 55s. J. K. Ncwtoo antee an excellent performance. The costumes are Thr.mas J. Martin, of Milea and Barton's HLost In was second. historically corract and thode of Mr. Mantell are ex­ New Yvrk" Company, wan found d-ad on the floor of NOTKVVOBTHY PERFORMANCES. B. H. Doll net, of tho Cleveland Bicycle Club, b»s HANLAX IN AUSTRALIA. ceedingly handsome. hin room at the African House, Troy, N. T., NOT. 8 niiide.a new Ohio Slate 24-hour road recurd, ridiug 190 The company played on the night of the 7th at Rand's Tricycle, Tandem and Safety Bicycle milts in 23h 45m. A Cool Reception for the Ex-Champion of Horatio What He is Doing. Colonel Tleishman seema to be ruling the dramatl Opera House, Martin taking the character Kecords Broken iu England* John A. Wells, of this oity, mounted Canaan's hill weeks. At the Academy o Chester, a sturdy lawyer. The dec.-ased w« farty-two By mail advices from England we learn that near BTwyn, Nov. 6, a bicycla feat which but oue The race between Edward Hanlan and Wm. roost for the next two survived by a wife and two children. Music lie is the presiding spirit over the production o year* old and is new figures have been put on record in bicycle other man has accomplished. Beach for tho ohampioiuhip of the world, is set luire Kirnlfy's spectacle, "Lagardew, or the Hunch Ilia wife is known on the stage aa Kariou Fidke. 17, at Coventry, Indianapolis U about the only large city in the down for the 26th inst., on the Nopeau river, the wonlerful boy pianist, eails sports. On Monday, October back of Paris," which is one of the must efitctive ere Joseph HoffiDan, F. W. Allard and B. Oxborrow made world's North or West which is bahin'l the times in cycling near Penrith, 34 miles from Sydney, N. S. W. ations of stage sensationalism of ita kind ever produced for America by the Bremen steamer AlKr, accom matters. It has no organized wheel clnb. in this city. Tho story, which ia a version of the panied by his father and m thor and his German tandem records from 11 to 25 miles. In the It IIAS leaked out that Asa Dolph, ex-champion The fact of Banian's arrival at Sydney, in Sep­ "Duke's Motto," is, of course, only the frame-work manager. Passage had been secured by the Cunarc first hotir, HO miles 715 yards were covered. bicycle rider, and Misa Flora Smith, of LoudeuviHe tember last, haa already been cabled. The ex- for a series of gorgeous tableaux and effective ballets line from Liverpool, but litte Joe seems to be vory Summary: were married in Wooster, Ohio, a couple of weeks champion sorely felt the coldness of his recep­ It had a run of over 500 tiigh'a in Paris, and it has fastidious about his cuiaiue, and objects to the Eng­ M. S. | M. H. M. 8. H. H. M. 8. ago. received. lish style on sea and shore. Su his unhappy manage] II. tion, according to mail advices just just concluded a century of representations in Niblu'i 0 2 50 4-5 10... 0 29 IT 19...*0 55 542-5 J. Ktmp Bartlett, chief consul of the Maryland He informed the only two gentlemen who me! Garden, NL-W York, so it certainly does not come t< was obliged to nay $150 extra for this change of 0 11...*0 32 13 20...*0 58 51 2-5 steamer. Division of the L. A.W., has signified his inteniion to him at the wharf that the first square meal ha this city without th« prestiife of success. The tulle 0 12...*0 35 10 2-521...*! 1 43 resign. A. E. Mealy will, in all probability, be bin of the "Seven Ages" introduces an army of pretty Work is progressing at Betz's North Broad Street Opera 0 11 13. ..'0 38 9 4 45 successor. had had since sailing from San Francisco was pictures, tbe dancers being Contracts for decorations and elegant chair* women in seven distinct House. 0 14 28 1-5 14...«0 41 6 2-5 7 50 resigned from tho German- the one he ate with them at the Paragon Hotel led by Mile. Francioni and Mile. Marie Biumbflla, two were, given out a week ago amounting to ab-mt SS.^OtK) 511-5 George D. Gideon has 0 17 15. ..'0 44 2 21...*! 10 town Cycle Club to devote liin entiro energies to the soon after he got ashore. He lost ten pounds in of the famous terpsi chorda a qneeni. An equally The new Opera House ban an auditorium 135 feet in 7... 0 20 18 3-0 16...*0 46 68 2-5 25...M 13 422-5 striking scene of beauty is the ballet in the fiiat act and 156 feet in width, which would give, accord­ interests cl the new Tioga Cycling Club, of which ho weight during the passage, and was thte sickest depth ;s... o 23 19 17. ..*0 49 60 is a member. which is eutitled "Gtvay Hevels" and introduces ing to the usual system, a seating capacity for 6.00C 19... 0 26 1S../0 52 48 1-5 of all sick passengers. He said he felt the neg­ among other marveluue manipulations of ankles, toe Tenons. But it U intended to furnish seats for 1,800 * World's taudeui records. MaUby, the American fancy bicycle rider now with lect of his old friends in Australia, and, while ad­ and calves, a Bohemian dance of the most extraordi­ only, for thitre will be an aisle aj^ feet wide between On October 19, A. P. Englehart lowered the the American team ia England, has got his business mitting that he was at fault in not writing them nary agility. each row of seats. The decoration of the interior will down ao fine that he can ride on tho single wheel OD a be in modifications of Japanese styles, according to tbe safety records from six to twenty miles. Dis­ wire. All pronounce him a wonder. from the Western Continent; repudiated any The National will illustrate next week what an most intense ro.-theticism. tance covered in one hour: Twenty miles, 874 The New York Bicycle Club has purchased tho lot and all reports that he had said anything to enormous number of people have been waiting to see Tbe executive staffs of the varloni companies yards. Summary: on which its new club house u to bo erected. The give them offence. A correspondent says: "Iloodman Illind." Manager Kelly baa arranged fo under the direction of Messrs. Henry E. Abbey AI. S. M. M. 8. |M. M. 8. location is on West End avenue, midway between Sev­ "Perhaps, after all, it is better for him that ha a magnificent production of the great Euglish melo­ and Maurice Grau for tbe ensuing season 2!"« 513-5 8..... *23 31 Il5..... '44 20 enty-first and Seventy-second streets. 203-5 should not be petted, feted and spoiled as he was drama, and it is said that the mechanical effects whicl commenced this month as follows: For the 47 4-6 9..... *26 27 4-5 16..... *47 Tho Springftel.l Bicycle Company has elected the the will be introduced in the Thames embankment ecen Gerster company, acting manager Marcus R. Mayer 3..... 41 2-5 10..... »29 242-517..... "50 211-5 following board of directors for the ensuing year: before, but he has every right to expect will far surpass anything that wag ever attempted iu business manager, J. H.Copleston;aseut, Divid Peyserj 4..... *32 18..... »53 273-5 Benjamin S. Lovoll, J. L. Yost and J. B. McUuue; J. B treatment deserved and accorded to any promi-* other theatres where "Iloodman Blind'* has been treasurer, C. Wilson; conductor.*, Adolph Neuendorff 5..... 364-5 12..... *35 19..... *58 223-5 McOnne, president, and J. L. Yost, secretary. nent athlete, especially as he is sufficiently san­ *38 given. and Siguor Ferari. For the Josef Hoffman company- 344-o 15 1-5 20..... »5» 164-5 W. I. Wilhelm, of the Beading Bicycle Club, on guine of successfully -''inning back the cham­ acting manager, Mircus R. Mayer; bu^ineai nunager 7..... *20 30 ,14..... 16 I Nov. 6 broke the record from Paoli to Fifty-secont pions-hip of the world TO find £300 of his atak« trea-urer, Will F. Morion; conductor, Atlolph * World's records. Kobert B. Mantell. and street, making the distance, about sixteen miles, in money himself, and to pay all his expenses from Neuendorff; representative, Jeff. T. Leerburger. F. W. Allard eclipsed tricycling records from miuutoa, 10 seconds, beating dchwartz's time 3 minutes "While a reader of plays at Iho Lyceum,* said Mr 21 to 50 miles at the track in Coventry, Eng., 55 seconds. his landing." DeMille the other day, "I was on one occasion Daily October 22. The now figures were made in a The annual mooting of the Hartford Wliool Club, Hanlan brought but one racing shell boa$ AMERICAN DRAMA. sold. It came about in this way. A young fellow trial against time, and the full distance was Nov. 8 resulted in the election of L. A. Tracy, presi­ with him to Australia. He has secured train­ brought me a manuscript play aud a'&ed me to exam­ dent; J. G. Grace, vice president; T. W. Sivindars, re­ at Penrith, at the Commercial do B'>, but thought no more oi covered in 2h. 43m 53 2-5s. Allard's 50 miles ing quarters First Production of "The Be^nm," th< ine it. I promised to cording secretary; Fred Buruham, financial secretary Hotel, kept by Mr. Warmsley. Geo. Perkius, New Comic Opera, by Two Gentlemen o it. About a month later the young fellow called time 2h. 43m. 53 3-5s was 6iu. 16s. better F. E. Eaton, treasurer. 'I can't find anything in your play,'said I, the ex-champion of England, is training him. Chicago An Apparent Success "-Lagar- again. than Bower's time. Twenty miles were ridden B. H. Eblert won a ten-mile match race at Chicago out of patience, handling tho neatly-folded manu^crlpl record cut up to fifty. Times profes­ He accounted for his defeat by Gaudaur last dere" at the Academy and Mantell as 'It won't do for our puipose. in Ih. 3m. 6s., and Oct. 20, from Alfred A. UcCuniy, tno fitruout back to the young mun. a yard. The course, from Drexo summer, saying that his b:tat was too light, "Monbars" at the Walnut "Sne." 'Will you be kind enough to point out what you find each mile as follows: sional "Star" rider, by young man with a M. II. M. S. H. H. M. S.IM. H. M. S. boulevard and Cottage Grove avenue eouth and east to which rendered the craft nnma,uu£?Able in tho objectionable?' persisted the was covered iu 32:08. BILLS AT THE LOCAL THEATRES. malicious smile, as he untied the tape that bound the 21...... 1 6 7'3l...... l 37 36 41...... 2 10 49 Jackson Park aud return, open part of tho bike, and also said that in iiii WALXUT...... Mantell in '*Monb«ira.' manuscript and showed me that the whole of tho sup­ 22...... 1 9 12 ! 32...... 1 40 52 42...... 2 14 20 The District of Columbia division of tho L. A. W. race he defeated Gaudaur easily. HU 56 a second NATION AL...... "Hoodman Blind. posed manuscript was a blank I To tell tho truth, 1 23...... 1 12 18 (33...... 1 44 6 43...... 2 17 has asked the Maryland division to co-operate in by Teenier, at Toronto, just before his do* 1 15 25'34...... 1 47 20 44...... S 21 45 movement to thoroughly post the ronds throughout defeat BHOAD STREET THEATRE...... ''She.1 had never untied the packet." 24...... 25...... 1 18 iJS'SS.....^ 1 SO 35;45...... «2 25 27 Maryland and the Disti let. The plan is to put 8i*o parture, he accounted for by saying that while CHESTNUT ST. OPERA. HOUSE...... "Held by the Euemy.1 IQ an address to the pupils of the dramatic depart­ 16 tho pike* for the one of the Nov. 4, by 26...... 1 21 41J36...... 1 63 K !«.;.::„. 3 ft boards at the crow-roads along going to the starting post he broke THEATRE...... Nat. C. Goodwin ment of the Chicago, 111., Conservatory, EOldance of wheelmen. CHESTNUT Modjesko, some of her remarks ou the "Needs of an 27...... 1 24 50 37...... 1 57 1347...... 2 K T row-looks of his racing shell, and had to pat ARCH...... Jefferson Actur" may interest the profession. She said: "] 28...... 1 28 l'38...... 2 0 55149.'."'."" 2 36 53 A loo mil* hicycle road race WAI concluded at Bos­ back and row in a boat he had never been in FOBEPAUOU'S...... "The Martyr. carry my part iu my pocket until I am perfect in the 29...... 1 31 15'39...... 2 3 40 32 ton, Nov. 6. The couieot:r'ta were: W. H. Bhodes, of before in his life. Excuses are quite 1 34 25 40...... 3 7 21 |oO...... 2 43 53 but onco LYCIUH ...... "Chris and Lei.a. lines; then I study the characters in order to be true 30...... DorchcBter; S. P. Hollingsvvorth, Indiana; P. J- Berlo easily found, and not likely to be contradicted It is not necessary to adopt all the vulgar­ made South Boston; J. Fred. Midgley, Worcester; Frank CONTINENTAL THEATRE...... "The Silver King. to nature. Major Knoi-Holmes and Buckingham when a man is so far away from home as Ned isms of the character in order to do this." Modjeska records from twenty-six to thirty miles, Carmen, Cambridge, and G. J. Lyons, Lynn. Hollinga- ELEVENTH ST. OPERA HOUSE...... Carocrosa' Minstrels tandem worth came iu first iu Sb. 45m. iOi. Bhodes was 2d, Hanlan now is, but, of course, the Australians also thinks it is necessary for an actor or actress who being 2h. 1m. 20s. The pair have NINTH AND ARCH 3IuSEUH...... Freaks, etc expects to become a shining light to have a general their times Carmen 3d. wondered at the ex-champion's two defeats of AcADtMY OF Music...... Kiralfy's "Lagardere. knowledge of music (even though he or she never never ridden together before. The major is last summer, and wouldn't be satisfied until By the way, the scenes of misery depicted on th played or sang), of poets, authors, and the times in eighty years of age and finished wonderfully the why and the wherefore from Current Comment and Gossip. stage of tho National next week will not be withou the characters were cast. Such an address as they learned which fresh, riding the last quarter of a mile in 49a, Hanlan himself. PHILADELPHIA, Saturday, Nov. 12. The the their good effect this coming winter weather. Vie Modjeska save in Chicago would be of vast import­ F. S. Buckingham succeeded in lowering the atrical week which is now closing has been a aud crime are shown in their worst aspect during thi ance to many professionals if .it could be continued in FINANCIAL. performance, and even a night's amusement may sug­ this city. quarter-mile tricycle record, his time being TEEJIEB AND GAUDAUR, notable one for several reasons locally, for th gest a warning possibility to some of u^ who stand or 40 3-5s. one second better than Gatehouse's re­ opera alleged to have been Miss Emma Abbott appears to think that a church production of an iho brink. I ehould like to sermonize a bit, bui is a theatrical agency. It isn't. A church is a com­ cord. Time-keeper, G. Illston, official timer SPORTS IN WALL STREET. Teemer Hurls Two Sweeping Challenge* entirely composed and written by two Ameri Bichter is yelling: "Cut it short!" munity of people who assemble to hear their teacher National Cyclists' Union. at the St. Louisaii. cans, which appears to have achieved success reprove and edify them; if they invite the public to A Genuine Bull Movement Following the The excuses made by Jake Gaudaur and hid "Held by the Enemy," which succeeds McCaull' their assemblages, it is not with the idea that the generally, in the first performance in America GOOD RACING. Election and Anarchist Execution backer, J. A. St. John, for his recent defeat by of Mr. living's stage version of ".Faust." opera at the Chestnut Street Opera House, is an ok guests will get up a debate. If the guests do not like story, but is not yet too old to draw large and inter­ tho privileges of admonition accorded to the preacher Comment on the Various Stocks The John Teemer, ascribing it to a lame back, and ested audience. Nat Goodwin goes to the Cheetnu in his own flock they need not come, and they can go Successful Fall Tournament of the West Scarcity of Money, Etc. the fact that tbe Western oarsman was "off" in Place to "The Begum," however, she is a lady his burlesque company, and then Street Theatre with away. It is not a place of public amusement. They Philadelphia Athletic Association. The market has been slowly developing ani the matter of condition, thus detracting from »n Indian Princess, not of tha race represents are the usual changes of bill at the cheap theatres have not paid to enter, ami they cannot exact aa The fall meeting of the West Philadelphia Ath­ broadening the past week, and has been really the credit due the champion, has incensed the by Sitting Bull A Company, but a reigning The Dime Museum has au exceptionally interesting equivalent for their mouoy. To got up in a morgue, Nov. 5 was marked by spirited to tha collection of freaks, aud Carncross a burlesque on the a cathedral, a sj nagogne or a meeting house aud pa­ letic Association stronger than the most sanguine bulls antici­ latter and his backers, and in a letter sovereign of one of tho toy kingdoms on thi racing. The track, one-fifth of a mile in extent, public Teemer makes the following propositions: bank of the Ganges the land oi Brahma, en election. rade one's personal show in the face of the little pated. The unfavorable conditions surrounding community's duties and prejudices and rights U about was in capital condition, and but for a strong tho election, and the fears of some troubles in "Now, with due respect to St. John and hid chantment and wonderful wealth. The Kcgtiv as we I inf ended to have written a paragraph or two anen 1 as vulgar and impertinent a piece of business wind the time in several of the races would have Chicago over the Anarchists' hanging, deterred protege, Gaudaur, I give them this chance, hav­ (Moiiame Cottrelly), as the story is told by IrvinjE'a production of "Faust," and DalyV'Railroado ever heard of. been much faster. Among the special events ol many from taking an extended interest in the ing been authorized this day by my backers to Mr. Harry B. Smith in a witty and rythmi Love," but I am crowded out until next week. Even a race be­ review of a comic opr-ra oa base ball in denied me, and the meeting was the three-minute limit market, but as soon as this little trouble was do so. Mr. Duryea will immediately match m« libretto, is fond of frequent marriage and to at tween Wilhelm and Schwartz, of the Reading to row Jake Gaudaur a single-scull race of threo tain the desirable change is in the habit o aa for the National Opera dmpauy, which has been dispensed with on Friday the entire list gave giving a vnriety of spectacular and vocal pyrotechnic THE RING. Bicycle Club, and Dampman, of Honeybrook, evidences of fast developing into a genuine bull miles for $2,500 a side, at ~Point of Pines, May declaring war against a neighbor, so as to have the week displays at the Academy of Music during Pa. From start to finish spurt after spurt took movement. I have nothing but praises to be­ 30 next, and will make the stake larger if de­ her husband killed in the thick of battle. Th there i* nothing ruore that I care to say about it be­ ABROAD. made a determined effort to will make a series of three races to oc­ yond the fact that it is a resurrection of Mr. Thur- THE AMERICAN CHAMPION place, and Wilhelm stow on the way the insiders have worked the sired, or complications which thus ensue are unfolded in pass his fellow-member, but without avail, cur at a place and time to be agreed upon, for humorous way by an astrologer (Mr ber's American Opera corpse, which may exist Reading deal, keeping the short interest intact a very a season or two a^nd may get stranded at O^ukosl Sullivan's Magnificent Reception In Eng­ Schwartz winning in the capital time of 2:584-5, $1,000 each, Gaudaor to select one place. I an­ Digby Bell), a prime minister (Mr. Hopper), a f->r up to Friday, and then moving the price rapidly next month. Mr. Cholinondeley Jones, a handsome land His Debut in London The Favora­ Wilhelm being but a fifth of a second behind. until some of the more sensible ones were other, and toss for the third. Will also increase substitute general (Mr. Wilke), and by otoer Enc;lifhman who travels in the press interests of the ble Impression Created, Etc. The inter-club race between Bradley and Van the stakes to $2,500 for each race and will be by Mr. DeAngelis, Mr opera, could not find the way to this office, ao our in- compelled to cover their lines. Thus the bears personages represented Tho steamer Cephalonia, bearing the great Dusen was also interesting, the two men being satisfied for the winner of two races to take the Harry Macdonough, Miss Marion Manola, Misi forojHtion is uatuitilly meagre, but I understand that have been beaten on their own battle ground. "Destruc­ American pugilist, John L. Sullivan, arrived at quite evenly matched. Bradley held the lead full of $7,500 for the three races. I am further Annie Myers, and Mrs. Laura Joyce Bell. "Ntro" ia not to be compared; with Paine'a They chose this stock out of all others to make tion of Pompeii." Liverpool, Eng., Nov. 6. On landing an en­ until after the third lap, when Van Dusen passed their grand contest, and have been worsted. A authorized to offer the following: Mr. Buryea wheel's length. match myself and Hamm to row double- scene of the two acts is laid on the banks thusiastic crowd tried to unharness the horses of him and finally won by an open loss of 10 per cent, on some 50,000 shares of will The Rider ILiggard's "She," dramatized by Richard 0 was also a clever per­ scull against Gaudaur and any man in the of the Ganges the river gleaming and glitter the carriage in waiting for him. He gave a Schaffer's mile in 3:011-5 stock is quite an item, and as soon as they get White, was produced at the Broad Street Theatre on the other events the Athletic United States to-day for from $1,000 to $5,000 and each character, in Wedn.-Kiiay evening. Anyone who has read the novel reception at the Grand Hotel in the afternoon, formance. In through buying in their shorts in this quarter, I ing in the perspective, a winner in Race also to occur next summerj and i> the chorus of some thirty odd people, is will undertitaud how readily the varied incidents afforc among those present being his old opponent, Club of the Schuylkill Navy had look for them to run in others, notably St. Paul. or more. eluding and running high willing to have any of the above races rowed for attired with Oriental gorgeousne?s, such as per opportunities for scenic display. Unfortunately the Alf Greenfield, who greeted him most cordially. Terry in the 100yds. run Tbis is another property that has been marked adaptor has not made the moat of his chances and con­ An unpleasant incident of the arrival was the jump, and the University of Pennsylvania in for ruin by the bears, and on all occasions they $5,000, A response from Mr. St. John or haps was never yet surpassed on the stage. For a spec­ sequently the play is not a t-uccees, either aa the customs authorities of the belt the mile walk and mile run. Return: basis Gaudaur will be sufficient to cause Messrs. Dur­ instance, on the marriage garment worn by tacle or aa a drama. The make-up of the ac­ detention by have been selling it with impunity. The Lingle Don?laa, yea and Keenan to post forfeits for any and all* Madarue Cottrefly as The I^f.o Koven. As much can bo &aid to Mr Joe Polke haa been Investing his money, Kilmin. Smith himself also made a few re­ engendered by counter accusations amongst Captain Stevenaon has had a meeting with the can­ Smith; if his jingles occabionally enggtat Gilbert, ho "Mixed Pickles," in A farm and miud in El Dorado marks, saying that he meant to beat Kilrain, A FUSE KOAD RACE. the management of selling out on one another. The didates for the Harvard ere* and has outlined tha lead of a county. Col. story goes that the Oregon Transcontinental stock Is course of training, wbich will begin immediately, haa at least bad the good gfnso to follow the and would then do his best to beat Sullivan, 20 muster in tho art of comic librettos. Janauschek will resume starring Nov. 14. Harry The Twenty-Five Mile Event of the New to b« sold to a syndicate at 40 for the prefered and The rowing men now playing foot ball will begin to Rich, Lionel Bland and Maggie Deano are engaged for The American champion boxed with Ashton and for tho common, and that Wright is getting out of hU train after Thanksgiving. Coaching for the present Jersey Team Racing Association. Madame Cottrelly deseirea all possible praise for her her support. three other leading pugilists, and, although he stock at these figures, so as to lighten the additional will be done by Captain Stevenson, assisted now and taste in costuming and stage setting. As for her par! "Chrissy," a comedy-drama from Howard P. Tay- appeared to be slightly out of condition, his One of the most interesting cycling events of load he will have to carry; I understand he says then by ex-Captains Cowlea and Uogers. A newetrok* there is little iu It beyond" a tom-tom song,.which i, lor's pen, was acted for tbe first timo on any stage skill, agility and tremendous hitting power the season vcas the 25-mile road race of the he has sold no stock whatever, but then I believe will Iiavo to be developed to take the place of Caldwell, not aa mnch appreciated as it might be, owing to thi Nov. 5 at Dayton, 0. which railroad managers are exempt from telling the truth. who declines to row another season. completely captured the critics and made Jem New Jersey Team Racing Association, The stock has all been sold in the Philadelphia fact that the court jester (Do Au^elie) stands besido Prof. Harry Kellar and Eva I*. Medley were mar­ took place in Hudson county, N. J., November In order to help mako practical yachtsmen the Sea-» aud convulses the audience with laughter. Digby parlors, Kalainazoo. Smith, who watched the American champion, market, so as to avoid suspicion. wanhaka Corinthian Yar^ht Club, of New York, will her ried at the Congregational Church from the heard again about the Bell has a part which offers few opportunities fur a Mich., Nov. 1, by Rev. W. A, Waterman. look grave. 8th. Six teams, of four men each, Some comments are now duritg tbe coming winter hnvo a course of lecturer scarcity of money. It Is true tho bank reserves are comedian of his rank, and the sanio may bo said for Plirebo Russell, who made a creditaole debut at After all his blowing Charlie Mitchell failed Brooklyn Bicycle Club, Elizabeth Wheelmen, November 19, December 10, January 7 and 28, Feb­ Do Wolf Hopper. By this I mean that both gentlo- Hudson County Wheelmen, Kings County working closer, but there will be . no trouble in pro­ ruary 19, March 18 and April 1 and 22. Subjects of oly'fl Theatre, N'-w York, last week, ia said to be a to meet Sullivan in London Nov. 8 to arrange curing all the money required to run a bull campaign meii »ra clever fttid funny, but they do not "&tar." protego of Agnes Ethel (Mrs. F. W. Traey). terms for a fight. In speaking of the demon­ Wheelmen, Union County Wheelmen and Ilderan interest to yachtsmen will bo treated by officers of the role in the opei-i and until the new year. The action of the government in navy and other well-kuowu experts. It is a bo pro­ De Angtlis has (he bf-st comic Louis James and Marie M'ainwright have added Club started. The starters were as fol­ m»hes the most of it. Give him a chance aud ho will stration given John L. Sullivan by his Boston Bicycle making several banks depositories of the public funds posed to establish at the club house a regular class for "Old Lovo Letters" and "The Wonder" to their reper­ Tiends on his departure for England, the Lon­ lows: keepa tbe market iu an easy condition all the time. instruction iu practical navigation, under Captain ku<»ek out Frank Wileon. Hopper and Boll endeavor will pJay "Gomez de la Vegas." things by tory, and iator they Brooklyn Bicycle Clnb G. E. D. Todd, W. S. M. Some operators sold out their stocks Friday, expecting Howard Pattersoa. to mako np for the l»ckue« ot don Sportsman says: "This shows the estima- Saturday, but were dis­ an olio entertainment in the second act, but Col. McCftiill has entered Into a contract with U. E. Mead.E. D. Williams aud N. F. Waters. a very bad hank statement on The Pout hartraia Repatta Association, of New Or­ Abbey whereby Mr. McCaii'l's Company will appear ;ion Sullivan is hell in by the American public, appointed, as Saturday's prices were the higheut for it ia Httle more than grotesque horae play. Tbe the champion is no coun- Elizabeth (N. J.) Wheelmen S. J. Berry, Jr.; S. B. leans, last week elected the following officers for th« very stale. I saw tho same at Wallack'a Theatre next May and remain until Oct. and goes to prove that Bowman and F. C. Gilbert. the week. Charles T. Soniat, St. frovutore racket is very, see anything ahead of us now In the shape ensuing year: Commodore, thing in 1862 at Drury Lano Theatre clown aud 6, 1S88. .erfeit. The Americans have but one pugilistic Hudson County Wheelmen, Jersey City C. E. I cannot Johns; vice commodore, K. B. Musgrovo, Louisianasj "Tack and the Bean Qua Lavlck, supported by Celia Alsbsrg and a idol, and that ia John Lawrence Sullivan." Kluge, C. A. Bbnken, E. P. Baggott and E. M. Smith. of danger. Railroad earnings are simply phenomenal treasurer, pjntitioon in the pantomime, at 3 per cent on an aver­ secretary, K T. i'lorance, Wojt Ends; Stalk." Of cour;*e, Hopper and Doll make you laugh. itrong company, is touring iho Pacific Slope, under Kincs County Wheelmen, ot Brooklyn J. Knox, Money is easy. Stocks loan Horace P. McLeau, Perseverance. The flrut tbrea their art an comedians. True, I :ho management of Charles Goodwiu, formerly of the T. L. Wilson, T. J. Hall, Jr. and W. C. Marion, Jr. age, showing the existence of a very large uncovered The reports showed that tha They are master* in Shoulder Hits. buying, and people are named were re-elected. was so crowded in my weal, that I \va* for:ed to laugh Baldwin, San Francisco, Cal. Union County Wheelmen, of Westfleld, N. J. W. short interest. London ia association is solid financially, and its efforts hava John C.Peters, who knocked ont Stanley Cutler at B. Bhett, J. E. Warner, A. Farrington and T. H. making money. Stocks are lower than they were last perpendicularly instead of horizontally, but Hopper A letter from a former member of the Carpontar now aa brought about a renewal of the rowing spirit in tha expected to ret i la your ribs every time, Cleveland, has been matched to fight Mervino Thomp­ Burnet. year before all this change took place, and the regatta will be larger and better and Bell are Dramatic Co. announces the disbanding of that party dividends are about increasing, aud hopes becoino clubs. Next year ami they do aa tho "Astrologer"' mid "Prime Minister" it Greenville, 0., last week. Mismanagement is at- son a ten-round go with small gloves on Dec. 12. Ilderan Bicycle Club, of Brooklyn H. L. Bradley, than oyer. J. W. Schoofer, G. L. Warner and W. G. F. Claw. facts, I cannot see how the mighty tide of speculation of htT majesty, The Beginn; nevertheless the club of :ribut(d to bo the cause, and Ealarka are eaid to re­ Jem Smith aspires to be a sprinter. Ho had a spin flood. Aa I said a few wi-cka A.t the last regatta of the National Association grara as tho court jester is called, suouid be iu London, but was beaten, can fail to change to ita Jhiu Nttvt, main unpaid. n a 135yd?. sprint recently C. B. Kluge, of the Hudson County Wheelmen, ago, it is all « matter of sentiment, and this seutimout rumors of boat sawing were spread broadcast, and In divided between the two go&tlemcu. Fannie Stevens, of Hoyt & Thomas' "Hole In tbe although he received a start ot 27*t ho appears in a hut it will not interfere with his engagement will Philadelphia is pat duwn for tho scene of a sii- lelphia, Marcellus Bak»r, a noted light-weight pugilist, Wheelmen for the fourth time, with 69 points; Club de- nu«. j.iuy on Monday must be re carded as une of the with Mr. Downing. :e married soon and he proposes to retire from the At Baltimore, Oct. 29, tho Druid Lacrosse day contest some timo in January. This, it ig thought, noi'ihlo events of iho week. The slury of "Slonbars" Brooklyn Bicycle Club, second, 61 points; Hud­ eated the 1'rinceton team by 4 goals to 2. will prove a groat \tintor attraction, as all tho great Robert Fulford met with a very painful accident on ing for good. In the future he will devote bis timo Wheelmen, 48 points; Ilderan Bicy­ is intensely dramatic, and tltiis-ilTon^ tbe fullest scope at tbe o instructing pupili in tho manly art. son County The- larcosse match for the world's championship at scullers arc to outer. John Teemer, Jake Gaudaur. plot Monday. He was opening a bottle of ammonia Lee and othura will for tho emotional powers of Mr. >l«Mtell. Tho Hotel, wben the cork came out unex- and Stanley Cutler, both cle Club, 10; Elizabeth Wheelmen, 35; Union Montreal, Nov. 5j between tho Toronto and Cornwall Al Harnm, Wallace Huas, George with the era of Napoleon lh« First ia France, Veetminstcr John C. Peters, colored, tho entries. George Hoomor states ia ft deals ctedly and Hie liquid was thrown in bis eyes. He ia leavy-weights, fought twelve hard rounds with two- County Wheelmen, 23. unus resulted in a draw. The ecxjffl was 2 goal* each. E>e am';at Clnb Nov. 9, at ita an­ wooi ami v.-ods the daughter of a floy-ilist nohl«man, Sheffield, scorers; E. K. Austin, D. B. Bonnett Ripon, Grand Rapids, Hiram, O., Cedar Rapids, Still- nual meeting, ho-u'd its treasuier's report, which Iho girl consouting to tho match to save lier fa'her ageTtifn' there, were the inspiration of a real estate Tom Sellers, a "Black Diamond," of Duluth, was timekeepers; F. L. Bingham, ,riu in that city. Mr. Curtu received a percentage Hatched to stand up ten rounds with the "Black and F. B. Jones, water, Winona arid La Sal le, 111. A regular schedule showed receipts, ?5,493.76; expenditures, 3?5,423.89[ from (M>verty. After marriage, Mvnbar*t who hides R. L. Calkins and J. L. Chapman, judges; E. of gauiefl w'll be arranged and pUyed. balance, SGO.?7. The office of cuptain of tho crow w,i Twueath ii 'uluff exterior ;\ rno-it noble disposition, dls- n all lots worked off. Vail," of Minneapolis, at Duluth, Nov. 2, but after Diamond" wilted aud tbe C. Criohton, clerk of The Western Amateur Lacrosse Association was or­ abolished and in its place that of business manager covor-i that he d'K-s Dot own liii \vife*« heart, her love A chorus Hingers' union is In process of formation ;oing Qve rounds the "Black W. Johnson, starter; T. eleciwU Black Pvarl" was declared the victor. ganized at a meeting held ut the Tremonc House, Chi­ WAD established. The following officers were being i>.*6eg!a«l by u lovor of her youth. The custom­ or the purpose of weeding out those who ar« iu- ourso; E. B. Moore, assistant clerk, and W. D. Pi'6did-?nt, I. M. Selitfuun; vice president, G. F. War­ thiu^s, anil mnch of tho G'/«iute ompetont and increasing the salaries of those who Articles havo been signwd for a ftftean-round srlove cago, 111., Oct. iiO, the fallow Jute clubs boing repre­ ary vjliuin complicates Edwards, marshal. "Detroit, Calumot and ren; treasurer, Jtiepor T. Goodwin; secretary C. K, JUelnoUe business t>n?nes, but finally Mottba*s horoughly understand their business. It originated ight, uuder Marquia of Qneen.»berry rules, between sented: St. Paul. Sttllwator, Chicago. The officers elected war*1: President, N. J. Ceekiuair directors, Graduates K. C. Cornell, A. B, win-* mid his wife GUIs captive to his di voted it the Metropolitan Opera House, and is rapidly )empsey und Ge,o. La Blanche. The purse ia one of i^nd-i, J. T. 0. Rhitt4.1aiidor, Gty Richards and W. prodding. 1,500, SiOO to the loser, auiki«hain; Undergraduates E. Klapp, ]). F. &» whole utory posttveting a flavor Worrell and Horace Cone are starring in the n or near - Boatou, after Dempsey's content with H. B. Smith, the well-known "Star" bicycle manu­ St. Paul; »!cniid vic« prwidwut, H. tbeio is nothing in the Ireno ttort Crauo, Calumot. Drover, H. B, ttiy, R. U«iklobau aud 11. S. Palmer. of vulgarity or suggesti venous. Tho company which rene NVoircll ComcUy Company under the manage­ Bettgaa. facturer, ift dead. iivit} accrtjtary uud U'u&auror, 8 TITE Nov. 16.

paid according to contract. In fact, it looks as played towards the calling by tbe bo« element in if there bad been some more queer work ia the American billiards. tfase. BILLIARDS. At the Columbia room, New York, Nov. 8, Manning, of Now York, and Powers, of Chicago, pool expert*, WALDO IYI. CLAFLIN, * played a match bat 21 in 40 games for $100 a side. Mr. Child, president of the American Kennel 1.OCAL BILLIARDS. Manning won by 21 to 11. DOGS AND THEIR OWNERS. 31nb, has, I am glad to see, acted on tho sugges- Manning. Of New Yoik, and Powers, of Chicago lon I made that as the Minnesota Kennel Club The Proposed Tournament for the State two well-known pool experts, played in New York 831 CHESTNUT STREET, A Singular Derision of the English Kennel 'ailed to comply with the requirements of the A. Tuesday for S1UO a side. Manning captured the Club A Blundering Translation The Championship. £. C. constitution, the disqualification of Dan stakes, winnrng 21 games to Powers' 11. Winsted Show Premium List, Etc. Philadelphia, )'Shea does not hold. That is the way to do. There is probably more than sufficient ma- Maurice Daly has receive! a letter from Albert Pa. A strange decision aa many will call it, while :erial in this State at present to get up one of Gamier, dated at Brussels, Oct. 17, in which the latter Jet us have the same sauce for the drake as the etrongly urges Maurice to come to Paris and locate him­ others will apply a stronger terra, has just been duck. the most interesting State tournaments known self a* a room-keeper iu that wicked city. rendered by the English Kennel Club committee. to the history of billiards in Pennsylvania. In­ Edward McLanghlin can be matched to playThomas The Members of the Following Base Ball The case as officially stated in the Kennel Gazette, . deed, it is quite possible to get up a State tour­ Mr. Drake took up a good deal of space last J. Gallagher, of Chicago, or John Randolph Heiser, of was as follows: nament for the championship of this State, with­ New York, if they care to play in the Quaker City. week in THR SPORTING LIFE to prove that I "A letter was read from Mr. W. S. Clark, of Wl- out the aid of any expert outside this city. Such The Philadelphia would, of course, make a liberal baw, complaining that his hulldog, Criber, waa ob­ 'as in error in saying he owned the animal that a tournament, as a matter of course, is not to be allowance for expenses. Clubs wear the Celebrated jected to at tho Strabane show by the Kennel Club would have won a prize had he succeeded in desired, providing the gifted sons of the game Probably it is owing to the fact that, having made for not being registered, and explaining that the third hirgest run in the history of billiards and he getting the winner disqualified. I accept his throughout the State can be induce! to enter. bonnht the dog at the Edinburgh show, in 1886, corrections. It was entered in his kennel part­ while playing a match for cold cash at that, that Mc- where he won a prize as Crtber, and was not dis­ In the event of the failure, however, to secure Laughliu's game ia considered so insignificant by some qualified. Ou the matter being investigated it WM ner's namo. This being the case, how does Mr. such experts as Dodds, of Pittsburg; Brandt, of very insignificant players. found that thelaie owner of Ihedogwished him regis­ Drake get over the requirements of Rule 2 of Scrantou; and Cline, of Lancaster, to enter the Tbe following gentlemen have been elected active tered before the Edinburgh show aa Criber, but the ;he A. K. C., which calls for the names of tho list of contestants, it is clearly the members of the National Billiard Association: Fred­ form was returned for the selection of another name, duty of local mi mi erick Seeberger and ;ICE: L. T. Hibtis, of this ; io«a fide owner of each dog? city; John there not being enough distinction from Cribber, al­ experts to hold a State tournament without their Metz, Charles T. Bunten, John Percell, Slicha'el Kil- ST. LOUIS, BOSTON, ready entered. The form was returned with the . * aid. kelly, Albert Young and W. H. Duhy, of New York. n»me Buga Boo, in which it was duly registered, but A correspondent sends me a clipping respect­ It is confidently expected, however, that If the manufacturer of the future profits by the ex­ ATHLETIC, CHICAGO, not in time for the alteration to be made in the Edin­ ing the coming Philadelphia fields trials at Dodds, Brandt and Clino will not only respond perience of tho manufacturer of the past tbe boss burgh catalogue. The said dog appears in the last Frederica, Del. I cannot say what paper it is element in tb.3 history of the calling iu tho future will Tolunie ot stud-book under the namo of Buga Boo, favorably, but take part in the tournament, from but the person who forwards says "this is should it take place. As there has been no per­ only be known by the monument of double dealing BROOKLYN, DETROIT, credited with the win at Edinburgh. Dt-cided that erected by the boss element iu American billiards the objection cannot be withdrawn, and that Mr. correct, I wrote it." sonal invitation (outside the press), extended to Clarke'a remedy is against the late owner of the "The new license to shoot In this State is $25, which during the past fifteen years. BALTIMORE, NEW YORK, the experts referred to, for the reason that the "The average life of an active billiard player, 80 busy dog for not supplying him with his name aa regis­ mounts to a prohibitory tariff so far as the Philadel­ time has not as yet arrived to extend the invi­ tered." phia Club is concerned. As the members have bought used he to bo kept, was formerly 10 years. He would their quail to be liberated at the trials, and made all tation to these experts, local room-keepers, not die, but he would retire, worn out. The present LOUISVILLE, RITTSBURG, * . other arrangements to meet at Fredtricu, the trials will who have this matter in hand, will extend a race of leading professionals do ao little match playing In all cases decided by a club. law and equity be held there next week, but in the future the club courteous invitation to Dodds, Brandt and Cline that they promise to be active for 50 years. The must go hand in hand, and it will be conceded youngest of them has now been before (he public aa a will go elsewhere. It is to be regretted that they at the proper time, and it is to be hoped that in by all that the equity of the Criber case de­ could not make a permanent headquarters in Kent match player for 13 years at least. It is to be said of the event of such an invitation that these ex­ them, as the Republicans were wont to say of Chief manded a different decision. I am not sure, county, as the club would have done. Farms were to CLEVELAND, RHIL ADELR be purchased by members cf tho club, a club house perts will accept the invitation. Clearly it is to Justice ISoger B. Taney, 'Tfeey may die the} will never even, that when it comes down to the hard pan and kennels would have been built, and American and their interest to do so. The three experts re­ resign.' " Benj . Gerno in New York Times. METROPOLITAN". INDIAN AROLI S law that the committee's decision would stand European game birds bred and posted upon their ferred to are not only room-keepers with the A Chicago correspondent of this paper writes as follows in relation to the tournament now being the test of a suit. As for saying that the remedy grounds. exception of Brandt. "One membor of the club. Mr. Victor II. Hildeman, who is manager of Baccus' played in that city: "The attendance at the opening is against the late owner of the dog, that ia an room in Scranton but they are probably three REFERENCES Any Member of the Above Clubs. absurdity of the first water. I do not know who has already purchased a farm between Frederica and of the tournament was simply no attendance as far as Milford, and he was commissioned to secure other of the strongest players in this State. the public was concerned, there being not more than the "late owner" was, but let us suppose a case: projerty this fall. Mr. Haldeman now regrets his As there has been no excitement in the bil­ 150 persona present, most of them being billiard men Mr. Smith sends a dog to a show catalogued basty purchase, as he cares nothing for farming and or tuose who were interested in the calling. I regret liard world of Pittsburg since Dodds played in this paucity of attendance, as the present tournament at £20; Smith does not go there himself, and only bought his property for breeding purposes. Irre­ the last State tournament, which took place in Mr, Jones, fancying the dog, goes to the secre­ sponsible pot hunters paid no attention to the $5 is a step in the right direction, and will do much License !aw and will not likely b9 prompt in taking this city, it should be evident that billiards in towards breaking up the boss element in the calling tary, and finding that no claim has been made out the $25 tariff. Native not hunters have been busy Pittsburg would take a new lease of life were bore. The cause of this poor attendance was owing to CHICAGO NEW YORK for the dog, pays the £20 and gets a receipt the last two weeks slaughtering the quail in their Mr. DodUs to enter the prospective tournament. the hall and bad management, as the tournament waa not well advertised. Independent of this, however, 108 MADISON 241 BROADWAY which entitles him to remove him; the sec­ nests and in other ways doing their beet to extermi­ What is true of Pittsburg is equally so of the retary advises Mr. Smith that his dog has been nate tnem." 1 am satisfie 1 that a handicap tournament will not game in the cities of Scranton and Lancaster. interest the general public who always want to see claimed and encloses check for the amount, less . * Air. Baccus' room is one of the institutions of t'^e great masters of the calling come together in the usual commission; the late owner does not This weather is trying on ourselves, who have Scranton, and in its appointments, management tournaments. Giving odds does not make the playera PORTING GOOD know the purchaser's name, who it is quite pos- only to speak to get extra coverlets and cloth­ even. Tbe present contests may do for tho gambling OE3STTJS, and general completeness as to details is proba­ element, as it may furnish that element w: ith an op­ (iblo is a stranger to the secretary, and hav­ ing. It is as tough on the dogs, so see that bly as fine as any room in this country. The And receive by mail a eamp'<> set « f ing paid cash for the dog, he was they are made comfortable. Another thing portunity to bet on either side, bnt the great maflses of not under fact that Mr. Baccus charges sixty cents per tbe public who don't want to bet, want to see even OTTH. obligations to give explanations respecting hirn- how would you like to have nothing to eat but hour for the use of ton tables is sufficient proof contests. The hall was so cold .that it was almost im­ (PLAYED WITH 2 DICE AND 9 COUXTEKS.) «elf other than name for the receipt. Now, how a dish of frozen food and to turn your stomach that Scranton is not only a good city for bil­ possible to play in it." Professional players and experts in base ball pronounce it * Perfect Game, interesting in every point, Js the late owner to communicate with the pur­ into a thawing machine? PORCUPINE. liards, but that both Brandt and Baceus are A Sunday or two ago the pool dive at Tenth and tiding; the closest attentioii until tho end. A game for m> n HS well as hoys. Easily learned and Spring Gardeu streets, where pool can be played tor exciting. Its correctness in detail, simplicity of method and great beauty are its strong points. All chaser, and what interest has he in doing so, masters of their calling. As regards Mr. Cline »nyway? There is no necessity on his part to A. K. C. Meeting Called. "three cents per cue," was raided by Lieutenant Smith the brilliant plays of the professional game are possible In th« 21 combinations formed by thf throws of two and the fine room with some ten or twelve tables, and several of the Eighth D strict officers. Some dlco. The press commends It* merits. It will teach the ladies to thoroughly understand and appreciate inpply anything beyond the dog for the £20. NEW TOEK, Nov. 11. Editor SPORTIXO LI»E: By order of tbe president, a special meeting of the Ameri­ which he manages in Lancaster, it is not neces­ twelve or fifteen boys from tbe age of fifteen to America's greatest p»stimo. It is entirely different from anything on the market. That is what he disposed of, and he was under can Kennel Club is called for Tuesday, Dec. 6, at 10 sary to speak. Cline has for some years past eighteen years were arrested and locked up in the sta­ "OUR NATIONAL RATjL GAME'* Is a revolution in indoor amusements. Two to eighteen per­ sons cau piay. forming: two aid-^s; tho throws of the dice indicating flies, fouls, strikes, balls, hits, bo obligations to give anything else. oYlock A.'M., to be held at the office of tho club, for been considered a master of the cue, and we tion house together with the manager of the dive. the purpose of acting on the amendments intro­ The place waa reported by the neighbors as being a errors, double plays, home runs, etc., all proportionally arrange i thus: l-Zt a base hit; 2-3, a strike} * . have no doubt that he will enter the State tour­ general nuisance, and, while the authorities notified 2-C, a foul, etc., a small counter being placed to represent a player's position oo base. After studying over the case a good deal it duced by the Philadelphia Kennel Club. Tho quar­ terly meeting of the Executive Committee of the A. nament if the tournament is made worthy of tlio owner more than once of the complainta made, no 1 Base Itrikcs me that the fault rests with the kennel K. C. is called for the same date and at the same our State. attention waa paid to the complaints as long aa the Tho annexed score shows a game played on this Innings...... 1 3j4 oje 7 8 9 Runs Hits. Errors elub in connection with the Edinburgh show. place, to follow the meetiuir of tut club. Members As a matter of course, much, if not all, de­ youngsters came along with their three-cent [iecea. principle, and demonstrates at onco its close similarity The rule of the club, as I understand it, is that are hereby notified that the annual duos (510) are pay­ The parents of the boys who were locked up called at Lot he official game: Gentlemen...... 0 1 22 0'002 0 7 11 3 pends on the room-keepers of this city whether the station bouse and informed the officers no dog can receive a prize unless registered. able on or before Dec. 1. See Art. X, Sec. 1. that they Ladies...... 0 1 14 0000 0 6 8 6 A. P. VEEDESBUBOB. this tournament shill take place or not. In were under tho impression that their children had Now, the kennel club did not object to Criber's other words, "the sinews of war," or tho finan­ gone to church. The owner of the pool dive is old in "OUR NATIONAL BAIL GAME" is a folding game, 18x18. It is printed in six cold's, hishljr receiving the prize at Edinburgh, therefor they Kennel Notes. ces must be furnished tbe business, aud should have known better, inas­ ornamented, and its appearance undoubtedly attracts much attention. Each game includes a dice-cup, by the room-keepers of dice and counters. conceded that the dog was registered. No court Franklyn Sa tterthwaite. of New York, has been this city. The Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co. much as that he kept a dive at Eighth and Vine selected to judge the California Field Trills, which streets some years ago when pool for drinks was in the of law would hold that it was Mr. Clarke's duty are naturally expected to lend some financial he) dey of its glory in this city. The proprietor and Price, Complete, by Mail, 50 Cents. to purchase the Stud Book for 1887 to find out begin Jan. 16, 1888. aid towards getting this tournament up. For manager were held under S600 bail for The Miami Kennels have purchased the entire lot a hearing, and whether the club had made tho mistake of our own part, we should prefer seeing this tour­ the young experts under £300 bail to appear aa wit­ of dogs formerly owned by the Ohio Kennels. Among nesses. It is to be hoped that allowing a dog to win a prize under a different the lot are Jessie Turner and Susie Gladstone. nament take plaae without any aid from manu­ the law will make au name from that in which he was registered. example of this dive-keeper if only to warn others The New England Kennel Club, having been facturers, for obvious reasons. It is a question that their fate shall be tho same if they persist in Not by a very large majority. obliged to vacate the rooms occupied by them at Hotel in our mind if manufacturers should be pounced keeping dives open to boys on Sunday or any other Bojlston, owing to the alterations now being made iu A. G. SPALDING & BROS., . down [upon on every occasion to furnish dav. ZOO If I was in Mr. Clarke's place I would sue that building, have taken rooms at 6 Hamilton place, money for such tournaments. Their table, it is Boston. AMUSEJIENTS. 3STIST7S7- the Strabane show for the prize, and it is dollars The annual Robins Island field trials will be held true, will be used. As it has not yet to doughnuts he would get the money, whereas Nov. 15. The judges invited to serve are Judge C. been made quite clear to the public that it is if he tries recovering from the late owner he is E. Fratt, Mr. Jacob Pentz and Col. L. C. Brace. possible to have a tournament without resorting I. FLEISHMAN...... Manager. bound to lose his money and time. Mr. Wade There will shortly be 2,000 new quail on the pre­ to the aid of a billiard table it is obvious that BEGINNING MONDAY, NOV. 14. AN INTERNATIONAL SPORTING EVENT! »lways has plenty of legal talent at his disposal; serve, and another thousand will be put out after the some table must be used. Twelve Nights, Wednesday anil Saturday Matinees, On this occasion it is Grand Thanksgiving Day Matinee. what can he find out for us on the point sug­ trials. very evident that it must be that of the Bruns­ For the World's Championship! In the absence of specific charges against Dan WITH ALL THE ORIGINAL SPLENDOR, gested? O'Shea, disqualified by the St. Paul aud Minnesota wick-Balke-Collender Co., for the simple reason . Kennel Club, the President of the American Kennel that there is no other table in the Philadelphia 1MRE KIRALFY S Who is adding to their kennels? From the Club has reinstated him, until the meeting of the market. If there was, it is not so clear that the Graiul spectacular production of Anicet £tockkeeper I learn that "the first-prize English executive committee of the club, Dec. 6, at which professionals would not avail themselves of the Bourgeois aod Paul Feval'a Romantic THE RINK 23d AND CHESTNUT STS. time the matter will be decided. advantage. Drama, "LA BOSSU." Just concluded tetter bitch, Blue Nell, was claimed at Carlisle A Toy Dug Club is to he organized In New York a rnn of over one hundred nigtita at Begins Monday Morning, Nov. 21, at 12:15 O'Olock, by Mr. W. Graham, of Belfast, at the catalogue City on tho 15th inst. The meeting for organization Such things have been known to happen in Niblo's Garden Theatre, New York, price of 50 guineas." Also that "Mr. Win. will be held at No. 221 West Thirty-eighth street. the past, and in view of the fact that profes­ entitled, These Champions of tho Tan Eark have paid their 8100 Entrance Fee, and Graham, of Belfast, has purchased from Mr. Win. One of the objects of the club is to hold au annual sional billiardists, whether room-keepers or ex­ will positively start: bench show at which none of the other breeds will be perts, are as a rule as ungrateful as republics, GEO. LITTLEWOOD. Champion of Encland. Jenkins, of Neath, the pointer puppy Gladys, by admitted, excepting, perhap.', the full grown St. Ber­ JAMES ALBERT of Philadelphia, Naso of Upton Eros, at a high figure." nard and mastiff. especially when all classes of professionals, PETER PAXCHOT, Champion of America . * Tho greyhound Belle P., champion courser of whether room-keepers or experts, want to buy FRANK HART, the Colored Champion. Three winners of the Waterloo Cup have died America, who captured first prize in cash and the goods from manufacturers at the lowest possible GEO. NOREMAC, Clmmpion of Scotland. American Field Cup, at the recent meeting at Great price for cash and make the manufacturer wait ANTON-STROKEL, ths TireUa Alistrija. recently: Mineral Water, Princess Dagmar and DAN BUBXS, of New York State. Bend, Kansas, is a daughter of the well known Colo­ for the cash until they are ready to pay it, we OR THE the still more famous Coomassie, the double win­ rado courser, "Echo," owned by C. F. Hoeckel, of Den­ HUNCHBACK OF PARIS, E. C. MOORE, of Philadelphia ner of 1877 and 1878. ver, Colo. Mr. Hoeckel has the finest nack of grey­ fail to see how manufacturers can bo expected Represented by an Excelfent ca^t. JERKY CKONIN, of Elmira, N. 1. to respond to the cash call of all unless the lat­ FRANK LE GEASD, Champion of tho United States. » . hounds in the West, all full blooded and of great speed Special and First Engagement since The Pacific Kennel Club has received the accept­ ter are a sort of Midas in which everything touring Europe of the Star Premier HAMILTON'S UNKNOWN Belieyed to be Mr. G. R. Krehl's knowledge of European BOBBY YINT, the "Littlo Shoemaker." ances of John Davidson, of "Monroe, Mich., and Jas. which they touch shall turn Dauseude, languages has enabled him to point out some to gold. The Wits-in, of Philadelphia, as judges at the club's Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co. have been writ­ MLLE. ADELE CORNALBA. glaring errors in a translation which appeared bench show, April 5, in San Francisco. Mr. Watson, riret appearance iu Philadelphia of LITTLEWOOD, the English Champion, ten to, however, on this subject, and as their in tho London Field of the points of the also asked the club to nominate him as representa­ MLLE. FEANCIONI. Came to America especially for this race, ami challenges ALL AMERICA St. reply was moat encouraging there is every reason Bernard as decided at the International Con­ tive on the executive committee of the American Ken­ Premier Danaeuse from St. Carlo, to beat him. nel Club. Editor Briggs, of the Breeder and Sporlman, to believe that they will be as generous in the Naples, in conjunction with gress at Zurich. The following, says Mr. Krehl, JAMES WATSON. Sporting Editor The JVes», Referee. bitlerly opposed the nomination, and the club finally future in this respect as they have been in the MLLE. MARIE BRAMBILLA, in the Stoekkeeper, are some of the most absurd chose Mr. Francis Suppoi ted by H. H. BIDDLEBOCK, Sporting Editor The Times, Associate Referee.______W. H. VOLTZ, Manager. K. Hitchcock, of New York. past. mistakes in the translation: A dispatch Nov. 11 from Carthaze, Mo., where the It should be obvious to all, however, that the IMRE KI R ALFY'S In the paragraph about the muzzle tbe German tezt Western Field Trials had been in progress, says: The aj-a "nicltt verjnngt:'' which meam not snipy (i. e., Western Field Trials Association has elected the fol­ time has arrived when the line should be drawn Grand Ballet Corps tapering), whereas the club translation has it "not lowing officers: President, A. A. Whipple, of Kansas in such matters. For years past it has been the OF 150 AKTISTS. REMOVAL. tumpy." "Widerrist" the Gerinin for withers, is City, first vice president, Theo. Moiher, of Abilcne, howl and cry of room-keepers that manufac­ THE GYPSY REVELS. | TUB SEVEN AGES. translated "flatik," "Kuhhetsig" is translated "splay- KM.; second vice president, F. I. Case, of Ilacine. Gorgeous Scenery, painted by Itohec- Wis.; secretary and treasurer, B. C. Van Home, of turers were the bone of contention in the bil­ chiand Amable, of Paris; Cav. Mag- fcotedness," instead of cew-hocked! Over the portion liard world inasmuch as that they literally sup­ of the standard dev^vd to color the translator of the Kansas City. The final heat for the first or 8250 naui, of Parma, and Merry, of Now fit. Bernard Club has come lamentably to grief; but prize between Kingsmark and Pray's Gladstone was ported all sorts of straggling tramps of profes- York. Superb Costumes, deaigned by the climax is reached by his rendering "fcfasae," the won by the latter. The Derby winner is owned by fessional experts by keeping their name on the Willielm, of London, and Draner, of ^Engravings:* German for "blaze," in the following words: "And the James A Balen, of Kansas City. Paris, aud executed by Misa Fisher, of pay-roll of their books. If we are not mistaken London; Landolff, of Paris; Eavea.of general color of tho dog should be lightish." This the sign of the times now points to a general funny mistake was no doubt caused by the double Now York. meaning of "Wawe," which also signifies "paleness." breaking up of such practice. AVhy then try ADMISSION, 25c. AND 50c. ETCHINGS After this, the last part of such a "comedy of errors1 ' FOOT BALL. to give a new lease of life to an issue which all Tickets at Fiacher'n, 1221 Chestnut Street. Sale now falls almost flaf. Tbe Swiss code savs: "Vorderlaufe have been hoping for to be present at the fune­ open fur next woek.______mtr leicht befedert; an den Keulen stark enticiclielte Hosen" CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES. ral? If we are to have a State tournament let ATIONAL THEATRE, nd the club translati m is, "Forelegs but thinly room-keepers and professionals contribute the Bidge Avenue, Tenth and Callowhill Sts. Coated; strongly developed socks on the forelege;" Pennsylvania anil Wesleyan Badly Beaten N whereas the correct meaning is, "The feather on the by Princeton and Harvard. money. And above all let the billiard world of RESERVED ORCIIESTRACUAIES ONLY 50 CENTS. America see that the State of Pennsylvania can forelegs is only slight, but on the thighs it appears At Philadelphia, Nov. 5, the University of MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14. trashy." be the first to set the example in this respect, Pennsylvania foot ball team played its second MATINEES TUESDAY.THUKSDAY AND SATURDAY and thus deal a deadly blow to the boss element . championship game against Princton, and was of the calling, Smox WASP. The Great Wallack'g Theatre Success, The sacreligious J. Gumming Macdona is back disastrously defeated by a score of 95 points to Easels, in England. I thought ho was in Texan, boom­ 0. The University team played with but six ing the town he named after himself. Perhaps regular men, and consequently were unable to HANDICAP BILLIARDS. le is selling corner lots to some of the few gulli­ do anything against Princeton's heavy rush line. The ;Results ble Englishmen who still hare any faith in such The teams were: of the Chicago Tournament Den as Macdona. Princeton Hodge, Chapin, Irvine, George, Gowan, the Past Week. Pedestals, » . Speer and Jackson, rushers; Hancock, quarter-back; The handicap tournament at Chicago was and Price (captain) half-backs; Ames, full-back. commenced November 5 and is now in progress. CHAS. E. MASON The Collie Club sweepstakes will bo decided at Pennsylvania Wocd, Keely, Dewey, Ashhuret, MR. FREDERICK DE BELLEVILLE the Chestnut Street Rink in this city on Wednes­ The entries and handicaps are as follows: Slos- HAS REMOVED TO Spaotb, Shell and Miol (captain), rushers; Church, AND day next, Nov. 16, at 2 p. M. Mr. Martin Den­ quarter-back; liulmo and Colladay, half-bicks; Gra­ son, 200; Schaefer, 200; Carter, 170; Gallagher nis is to be the judge, and the winners will be ham, full-back. Tho re'eree waa Mr. Hu^h Hodge and Catton, 160; Maggioli, 150; Hatley, 115; 137 1ST. Eighth Street,, Picture announced in next week's SPOSTINQ LIFE. and the umpire, Mr. V/m. Posey. Moulds, Ives, Thatcher, John Matthews and MISS VIOLA ALLEN, PHILADELPHIA.. HARVARD'S REMARKABLE SCORE. . John Donovan, 110. After the opening games At Cambridge, Mass., Nov. 5, the Harvard SUPPORTED BY A SUPERB COMPANY. By the way, I hear that tho collie bitch November 5 four games per day are being Frames* team defeated Wesleyan by the extraordinary Metchley Surprise, has been sold to come to this played, two each afternoon and evening. Fifty- SPECLAL SCENERY. score of 110 to 0. The home team secured the SCO., &CO. country. Mr. Megson either got very soon tired five games will be required to complete the BECUKE SEATS DURING THE DAY, 8:30 TO 6. ball every time and worked through the oppos­ of his purchase, or else ho got a very large price tournament, there being eleven entries, Lay ing rush line as if Wesleyan's men were dum­ Next Week, Thanksgiving, for her. having been allowed to take Matthews' place in mies. The teams were: the St. Louis tournament. On the opening SHADOWS OF A GREAT CITY. * * Harvard Rushers, Curomock, Piper, Woodman, Men who wouldn't acknowledge six months Markoe, Trafford, Butler aud Bancroft; quarter-back, night Slosson and Moulds played the first game, ALNUT STREET THEATRE. Old Frames Re-gilded go that Glenlivat was the crack collie of the Harding; half-backs, Holden (caplain) and Porter; the latter to run 110 points to Slosson's 200. I FLETSHMAN...... SoIe Lessee aud Manager. TWO WEEKS, year, now that he is dead are whispering, "I've full back, Sears. Following is the score: BEGINNING MONDAY. NOV. H. Wesleyan Rushers, McDonald, Richards, Gardner, Slosson 5, 3, 0, 5, 0, 4, 0, 0, 1, 8, 2, 5, 14, 0, 1, 0, Regular Matineea Wednesday and Saturday. A'linn- got «« gooil a dog as Glenlivat." All that I can Wells, Heath, Glynn and Floy; quarter-bacK, Beattys 2, 4, 0, 2, 7, 0, 0, 1, 1, 2, 23, 4, 3, 2, 6, 1, 4 111. gion 60 Cents. NOISE SUBDUERS. Bay is that any man who has as good a dog as (captuln); hall-backs, Hamlin aud Manchester; full­ Average, 3 9-134. Largest run, 23. ENGAGEMENT OF THE HIGHLY ESTEEMED, Qlenlivnt was has got the pole to knock tho per- back, Sl-iyback. Moulds 4, 1, 0, 0, 8, 5, 2, 0, 5, 0, 0, 1, 3, 3, 9, 1, iKOMANTIC EMOTIONAL ACTOll, "John Creahan, of tho Continental Hotel, Philadel­ giramons with next year. If I had the dog in Referee, J. A Hodge, Princeton, '83; umpire, F. E. 2, 10, 7, 3, 2, 1. 5, 0, 2, 0, 18, 3, 10, 0, 2, 0, 0, 2, 1 MB. ROBERT B. phia, baa devised a much-Deeded appliance for redac­ 110. Average, 3 1-7. Largest run, 18. my possession tn-day I would not soil him for Fisher, Harvard, '86. ____ tor the noisa in rooms, and a patent has been The next game was between Shaefer and Under the mauagemcnt of Augustus Pitou in hia bril­ granted him for it. Almost every pUyer, who has con- less than $2,000. That is not bluff at all, as Notes. Thatcher, and was played with the same odds as liant, picturesque V-act drama Bidcration for others, will recall how much ho has those who will next spring see tho only litter ol Yale and Harvard bavo definitely decided to play al the previous one, Shaefer being required to make 3VE O-3XT IB .A. H JS. been made to suffer in consequence of the mania hia ' puppies he got before he was killed will ac­ New York Thanksgiving Day. neighboring players have htul for hammering their 200 points to Thatcher's 110. Shaefer played a SCENES LAID IN IfRANCE UNDEIMNAPOLIiUN I. knowledge. Still, they may not be good enough At Philadelphia, Nov. 9, Pennsylvania University cues upon the floor, as if to beat time when they had very uneven game. Thatcher started off poorly, failed to beal their antagonist. Creahan stops this to win next year, as I hear of at least six breed­ beat Haverford College 36 to 0. SYNOPSIS: but finally awoke and played a strong game. TO OWNERS OF VALUABLE DOGS racket by a simple device that he attaches to the butt ers who have something to sweep tho boards No class games will be pUyod at Harvard this year, ACT I THE CHATE VU DrtfOTBMONT. by order of tho executive committed of the foot ball Score: ASHMONT'S BOOKS. of the cue. As he describes it in a letter, his inven­ with in the spring. ACT II. AT TAVEENIER'S INN. tion, despite ita amiifcins simplicity, is something we association. Shaefer 35, 0, 2, 0, 0, 0, 4, 5, 1, 0, 0, 0,12, 0,6, 0, 0, ACT III. THE PORT OF ST. HALO. TIIEIK MANAGEMENT IN HEALTH never before beard of or saw. Cioahan conceived the While playing » foot ball match nt Strathroy, Ont., 1, 0, 13, 2,1, 0, 0, 0,0, 17, 2, 2, 17, 0, 2. 3, 0, 2, 2, 0,1, 0, ACT IV. MONBABS' APARTMENT. i AND TREATMENT IN DIoEASE.iaab- idea because ho had failed to get tho thing itself, or Mr. Shotwell has been buying a couple of eol- Nov. 8, I'ercy Laird, a?ed 13, dropped dead. He waa a 10, 0, 0, 0, 2, 8,0, 0, 4, 7, 6, 5, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2 174. Avei- ACT V. THE SICK CHAMBER. solntoiy indispensable to you. It is tho acknowledged substitute for it, from the billiard manufacturers, Jics from Mr. Gibs'jn, of Byron, Ont. lie w.is son of W. P. Laird, barrister, of Strathroy. rge, 3; largest run, 35. Seat* now on sale for next week. authority, advising yon how to properly care for your lie ha^i decided to fix t'je price at one dollar a dozen." all off on his last purchase, Shirley, and I can­ The first game in the Eastern Intercollegiate Foot Tbatcher 0, 0,1, 0, 0, 6,1, 6, 0, 0, 1, 1, I, 0, 4, 0, dog when woll, and how to treat him when sick. 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 5. 0, 2, 0, 5, 3, 1, 0, 1, 1, 3, 2, 0, 0, 3, 3,1, 0, GRAND THANKSGIVING MATINEE. Tuii SPORTING LITK says: "It ia credited on both Now York CWpj>«r. not think what possessed him to suppose ho had Ball League series at Dartmouth, was pUyod Nov. 9, with Amhorst, resulting M ta 0 iu favor of Dart­ 5, 0, 2, 2, 2, 0, 9, 2, 1,1, 4, 2, 0, 2, 1, 0, 0, 0, 8, 0, 6 110. ROAD STREET THEATRE. sides of the Atlantic as being Uio best work oil the a world-beiter in that animal. Shirley died of Average, 1 5-59; largest run, 9. subject over published.1' Price, ?2.00. mouth. B PRINCIPLES OF DOG TRAINING. By W. 0. distemper some little time ago, so I am not The Wynnewood Alhletic Association has organ­ Since then up to Friday these results have BBOAD ABOVE SPRUCE STREET. BILLIARBS. treading on corns. followed: Hatley beat Matthews, 200 to 1C7; Perry, (Kit Killbird), rewritten by " Aehment." Says ized a fo-it ball lean. The players are; Kiddle, Mills, Original Operatic, Spectacular Dramatization o! 37o Trop and Trigger; fhia work covers thj ground HEADQUAKTEIW FOIt TUB Cooper, Plu.l.m, Wood, Fislcr, Gsrwood, Wiley, Laweoa, Gallagher beat Donovan, 200 to 173; Matthews ol training a dot; lor the field completely, and, at the Brt-.iiswiok-Balke-Coilender Co. Billiard Mr. Hallett, tho indefatigable secretary of the Tietz and Kimball. beat Thatcher, 110 to 57; Carter beat Hatley, earuo lino, briefly. It is invnluablo to field si»ortg- Tables, Carom Combination and Pool. Winsted, Conn., Club, has issued a much im­ Tho Columbia College freshmen foot ball team has 170 to 59; Matthews beat Ives, 110 to 50; H. RIDER HAGGARD'S men." Price, 50 cents. These books sent postpaid on £illi:ird Goo'la ol every description alw;iys oil h^tid. proved premium list for this year's show of De­ received a challenge from tho freshmen of Princeton Moulds beat Donavan, 110 to 74; Thatcher beat jcceipt of price. J. L. THAYEtt, No. 18ti Tremont Over ~>OO,000 Noise SuMuers Sold. University, which has been accepted. The game will NOVEL OF Street, Ro^ton, Mass. Ordoru from Ul parts of tho world promptly attoudod to cember 14 and following days. Prizes of $5 and probably be played at the Polo Ground on Nov. 19. Slosson, 200 to 188; Carter beat Catton, 170 JOHN CEEAHAW, $3 arc offered in the majority of the classe.B,which At New York Nov.8, the Yale team beat the Cres­ to 78. _ Continental Hotel, Philadelphia. will pay expenses for the winners. The kennel cent* by 70 to 0; the Actives bout Seton Hall 23 to 0; editor of the Turf, field and Farm is very much tho Brooklyn Heights beat Columbia Freshmen 4 to 0; Caroms. SHE! SHE! SHE! SPRATTS PATENT worried over the decision of tho special for "the an I the new!}-organized Manhattan Athletic team The boas element In American billiards mast go. TUB HIT OF THE SEASON. was beaten by the American Athletic Club 17 to 8. H. J best short-bodied, short-legged, short-faced, The boss element in tbe bil' :ard world 10 destined to EVERT EVENING AND SATUKDAY MATINEE. DEALDK IN ihort-haired house watch dog of no particular Games played Saturday, Nov. 5: At New Haven, be ita own Burcbaid. DOG CAKES. Gmn.. Rutgcrs was beat-.'n by Yalo 74 to 0. At New Tho advertising racket In local billiard circles ia PEICES Reserved 81.50, SI and 75 C«n(«. General The Brunswick Balke Collemler Co.'s breed" is to bo decided. To relieve his anxiety York, the Crescent* beat the New York A. 0. team e Admiwn, 50 Cents. G;illery 25 Coula. Billiard and Tool Tables, Bar Fix- I will te!l him that tho non-sportiug judge being played for all it is worth. OF ALL SPORTING GOODS to 0. At Montrual, for the college championship of Henry McKennt* at last accounts was in St. John, N. tures, Saloon Furniture, Check doesn't judge mongrels. The young man of the Canada, Ottawa beat Montreal 10 to 6. At Swartti- B., and Lou Shaw was giving exhibitions In Cincin­ icissors ia recommended to roid hia English ex­ more, Pa., Swarthtnoie won from Haverford by 30 to JHE DEALERS AND GROCERS, and Cash Registers, Etc. 1C. At Uarrowgato, Oiford boat Tiog» 19 to 0. At nati. AMERICAN CYCLES 1800 AKCU STREET, PHILADELPHIA. changes carefully this week. Philadelphia, Havorford Colleei' Orammar School de­ A pool tournament is likely to be held In New York DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE * . * feated Penu Charter by 14 to 4. At Annapolin, St. should Balbo, the Cuban expert, return from the West \> D.O- YOU WANT A D O G C. W. Puris, of Cincinnati, is trying to rescue John's College bwt Johns Hopklus by C to 0, an* at ludiea. ONAPPLICATION. DOC BUYERS' CUiDE. I Newark tho Keurney Hangers beat tho Almas 4 to 0. Thomas Foley writes ua from Chicago that trade in Cole-rod piataB, 1OO engravings !| ED. McLAUGHLIN'S Bowe from the charge made by Mr. Uryson that hte room is better tbau ever, while tho other rooms OHMULlYaJEFEERY of different bre*xlfl, prices they kro Rowo has never paid tho money, "something worth, and where to buy thora | Tbo Metropolitan Bowling Club, of New York City, there, aaya Mr. Foley, "ate equally prosperous."' «ver $1,000," ho owes the National FicW Trials Serves 'em right. Mailed for 10 Cents. Billiard Parlors, u«s orftauizMl with these officers! William F. Pater- CHICAGO, ILL. ASSOCIATED FANCIERS, . . ST. Club. Ho writes quito a long letter, but he son, pretidool; William A. litzsiioom, socrrtiary and Wanted For exhibition aa the greataet curiosity o 887 B, £igttb Si PluUdatjlua, Pa.Jj BUOAII sr.aTATioii, I-UILADEU HIA does not attempt to prove that tee uu'Uey was tieanurvr, »od E. J. Dover, captain. the wntury, auy integrity kuuwu to have, been du