THE SPORTINGCOPYRIGHT, 1893, BY THE SPOKTINO LIFE PUB. CO. ENTEHKD AT PHILA. P. O. AS 8ECOMD CLASS MATPEB. L IFE VOLUME 22, NO. 9. PHILADELPHIA, PA., NOVEMBER 25,. 1893. PRICE, TEN GEN IS.

ith him and remained on duty as a pleased with his reception by George ort of a censor to see that the national Wagner. THE SPORTING LIFE. ules are not infringed upon. IN THE EASTERN. CHEVALIER M'GLONE. Winter racing will occupy the atten­ ANSONM Tuesday evening a start was made tion of the local public until next spring. WISDOM. A WEEKLY JOURNAL y electing Bau Johnson, of Cincinnati, Manager Schniel says quite a number Devoted to s president, secretary and treasurer, PRESIDENT POSERS TALKS WISELY THE EX-THIRD BASEMAN RESENTS of improvements will be made at the THE CHICAGO CAPTAIN GIVES FELLOW- ml a committee was appointed on con- ball park before the season opens. BASE BALL, BICYCLING AND titution and rules. It was settled that ON THE CIRCUIT QUESTION. AN INSULT TO HIS FIANCEE, JOHN H. KOCHEJ. MANAGERS A HINT. GENERAL SPORTS AND .limioapolis, Toledo. Detroit, Grand tapids, Milwaukee, Kansas City, Sioux LEAGUE MEETING ECHOES. PASTIMES. y ami Indianapolis will constitute he eight clubs of the new league. The Not in Favor ol Changes in or Addi­ And Lays Out an Insolent Rejected Vou Der Ahe Pictured as Sore At He Says They Have no Business Danc­ Published by Detroit franchise was awarded to Mr. Alleged League Methods. r'anderbeck. .^ tions to the Circuit Without Care- Suitor Who Rashly Presumed on The Philadelphia "Press" correspond­ ing Attendance at League Meetings THE SPORTIHG LIFE PUBLISHING CO. FINISHED AWAST. ent in his account of the League made To-day the League finished its busi- lul Consideration and Proper As­ His Superior Weight Mr. Von dor Ahe appear as dissatisfied Philadelphia, Pa., U. S. A. icss by adopting the constitution and and Size- with League proceedings. Said the A Prohibitive Price For Chicago nles reported by the committee, and also chronicler: Players The Bunt FRANCIS C RICHTER ) doptiug all of the ideas outlined on surances ot Stability. to Law. "Chris Von der Ahe was a very hot mem­ Question. Editors. he first day of the meeting. Each ber on Wednesday night, and declared that FRANK A. EGAN V lub put up a $1000 bond. The follow- he was up against a game compared with ng board of directors was chosen: In a recent letter to John Depinet, New York, Nov. 23. John J. Fruin, which that of the thimble rigger is on the Chicago, Nov. 20. Captain Anson was CONTENTS: 'anderbeek, of Detroit; Long, of resident of the Erie Athletic Assoeia- a hatter, doing business at No. 86 level. It was all over the drawing for not in attendance at the annual meeting 'oledo; Beck, of Sioux City, and J. ion, President Powers has something to Court street, Brooklyn, is about to begin members of the Hoard of Directors. Twelve of the National League in New York Base Ball News...... Pages 1 to 5 say of general interest regarding the suit against John T. McGlone, an ex- slips of paper, each containing the name last week. "When I want to attend the Bicycling News...... Pages 5 to 8 . Barnes, of Minneapolis. The sche- of one of the clubs, were placed in a ule committee was appointed, and will dropping of Erie, Wilkesbarre and Bing- ball player, who is at present the pro­ annual League meetings," said Auson Sports and Pastlmrg...... Page 8 uamtou from the Eastern League cir­ hat, and afterward six were drawn out, last Friday, "I will buy out a club and General Sporting News...... Fate 1 eport at the spring meeting of the prietor of a hotel in Alabama avenue, in the clubs whose names were thus drawn, x>ague. All of the clubs will play cuit. He says in part: the Twenty-sixth ward' of Brooklyn. forming the Board of Directors. By a become a magnate. Team managers Sunday ball except Indianapolis, Detroit "I do uot think, nor can I believe there Both Fruin and McGlone have been strange coincidence not one of the old have no right in the meeting. New York SUBSCRIPTION KATES: and probably Toledo. s a disposition ou the part of any of the paying attention to a handsome bru­ Association clubs were drawn. Mr. Abell, is still after Dahleu, I hear. I'll sell his One Tear...... S4.OO present club members to drop any of the nette who lives on Dean stroct, Brook­ of Urooklyn, suggested that one of the release, but my figures will bo high. ibove-named cities. Ou the contrary, I members thus selected retire, and that Six Months...... 3.33 hiuk there ix a desire to further continue lyn. McGlone succeeded, however, in Every player on the Chicago team is to­ Three Months...... Mr. Von der Ahe'be substituted In his 1.25 PHILADELPHIA POINTERS. he co-partnership begun last season. outstripping his rival in the race for stead. But this found no favor with the day worth $20,000 in cash. If New Single Copy...... 10c. While I have heard reports of certain cities the young lady's hand; and to-day she Leaguers, and the committee stands as York wants to give up $20,000 it can ikely to make applications PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. lol. Rogers Still Sore and Determined for franchises is wearing his engagement ring. It drawn. Then it became bruited about that have Dahlen, otherwise not. Why, sub­ Foreign Postage, 81.04 Extra per Annum. at our annual meeting, thus far I have was not until after his engagement that there had been some hocus pocus business stitutes are now quoted at $10,000. I to Fight Some More Next Year- lot received any and I would advise the he learned of the visits of the hatter in the drawing; that the slips on which have sole charge of the team and m> Current Local News and Gossip. League to go slow befora considering such were printed the names of the League applications. to the Dean street house, and became trades or deals are made without my ^SS-Tliose readers of TUB SPORTING LIFE Philadelphia, Nov. '22. — The time that jealous. clubs had been rolled into a ball, while knowledge. I think the League will who have not facilities "I think it would be a mistake to admit those with the names of the Association for reaching tas elapsed since the League meeting, at Toronto or any other city unless the club His fiancee informed him that she clubs on them were permitted to remain compromise on the bunt question by call­ newsdealers, or do not care to be depend­ which the Philadelphia Club was ef- vas owned solely by local people. While had ordered Mr. Fruin to discontinue as they were printed. Of course, in the ing every attempt that fails a strike. ent upon delivery by carriers or news 'ectually turned down, has not soothed I thiuk Toronto a good base ball city, his visits, and the hatter was aware of drawing it was the easiest thing In the That would be a very reasonable and he ruHled feelings of Colonel Rogers. as arc also Rochester and Syracuse, the world to locate the paper balls, and as agents, should by all means subscribe, Eastern League is now In such the engagement to him. Mr. McGlone proper move." Anson plays billiards The Colonel, always earnest, is doubly position called on the lady on Wednesday even­ they all contained the names of League daily and at present has no shooting thus assuring themselves regular and arnest on this percentage business, hat every application for franchise should clubs the Association people had no chance prompt delivery by mail direct from Do thoroughly investigated before admis­ ing and was told by her that Mr. Fruin in their lives. At least, that's the way the. matches on hand. The other day Ansou which ho considers the fight of his base sion is granted, In order to he certain had again visited the house, and before St. Louis magnate looks at it. Mr. Von paid W. P. Mussey $100, the amount this office. jail career. He still declares that he that tho applicant Is solid financially. taking his departure had chucked her der Ahe will now write a little piece with the base ball warrior lost to him in back­ will divide next season on the same "In the event of the Kastern League this title, 'Thrown Down Again, or Who ing the Chicago team last season. deciding to increase under the chin. Advertising Kate Upon Application. basis that he did the last; the other the number of clubs, Mr. McGlone went on the next even­ Uolled the Ballots?' " JLMMY KYA.N ALL IUGIIT. eleven [ would recommend that Scranton be In­ gS"TiiE SPOUTING LIFE goes to press at clubs say that he will divide ac­ vited to make application. Scranton, I un- ing to the Court street hat store. Mr. Chris is fathered with a good many Jimmy Ryau was discharged as cured cording to the percentage proscribed by lerstaud, proved to be a good city during Fiuiu was there, and it was the first things which he neither says nor does. from St. Luke's Hospital yesterday. His 2 P. M. every Thursday. the rules. In that event a lively light K he was correctly reported above, $SS"Advertisers to insure insertion should the past season, and her admission would time that the two men ever met. Fruin, how­ ankle is still weak, but the terrible would follow; but in all likelihood, when strengthen both Blughamton and Wilkes­ who is good looking and weighs about ever, he took his medicine manfully, wound on his leg below the knee has not fail to forward their favors so as to he Colonel has thoroughly calmed down, barre." two hundred pounds, eyed his visitor, as he was decidedly active iu League healed finely, and Jimmy, barring acci­ reach the publication office not later ic will not care to run uis head against As announced in our last issue the who is about fifty pounds lighter in legislation for the balance of the session, dents, expects to be able to play ball than Thursday morning. a solid stone wall. P-Vistern League meeting will be held at weight, critically. and in line with the majority of all ques­ a.'.'ain next season. His face is badly NO CHANCE) Ol' SUCCESSFUL OPPOSITION. Troy, N. Y., December 13. The League Suddenly McG'one's right arm shot tions. ______scarred and he looks like a hero of the ^-Advertisers will find THE SPORTING It is quite evident from the proceed­ will adopt some of LIFE one of the best mediums in the the amendments out and a blow landed on the hatter's Rebellion who was always in the front ings at the League meeting, and the ab­ made by the big League, notably those THE RULES COMMITTEE. country for any and every line of busi­ solute unanimity of sentiment against left eye. Two more blows followed, ranks where lead Hew the thickest. Ryau relating to exchange of players and and then without a word, the ex-ball has a saloon on Thirty-first street, be­ ness, for the reason that it not only the Philadelphia Club's financial method, transferring of championship games. fho Antagonistic Elements Thereof that the club will be unable to maintain playgr, with one of his hands bleeding tween Wabash and Michigan avenues. reaches an immense number of people There is some talk of consolidating tho profusely, left tha store. Called to Mind. ts ground. Whether right or wrong, Troy and Albany Clubs into a twin-city each week; but that it reaches a class the other clubs do uot propo.se to give It is for the damage done to his foat- A good deal of comment was made MILWAUKEE ORGANIZED. of readers who cannot, perhaps, be ;lub to represent both towns, but neither uies that Mr. Fruin has instructed his upon the character of the new Kules the Quakers 45 per cent, of a uO-oent >f the clubs think well of the scheme. reached by other means, who are liberal admission rate and accept in return lawyer to begin suit immediately against Committee. Two of the three mem­ The Club Incorporated, tlic Officer* There is a strong disposition to increase his assailant. bers are Brush, of Cincinnati, and in sentiment and disbursements; and fin­ only the same percentage on a Si-cent the circuit to 12 clubs if Scrantou, Syra­ Chosen and a Manager Selected. sasis. The opposition argues that if Reach, of Philadelphia, and the two are Milwaukee, ally that it opens up a new field little cuse, Rochester and Toronto come for­ such enemies that they will not speak Wis., Nov. '20.—The Mil­ cultivated by general advertisers. they made more money on the cheaper ward with proper backing. waukee Base Ball Club has been incor­ rate, so did the Phillies, and that con­ WASHINGTON WHISPERS. to each other. Von der Ahe is the porated at Madison with a capital of sequently the latter should be willing third, and the general impression is that $4000. The incorporators are Charles DISTRIBUTION: to stand their share. The Colonel is Owner Wagner Unwilling to Let the not one of the three will take an active Polachek, I{. E. GUjohan and Plilip SPORTING LIFE is the only a hard and obstinate fighter, but some BOSTON PLEASED part in the framing of the rules, but Lederer. >f his League colleagues are just as ob­ Property go Into the Hands of Wal­ that each club will delegate its power, weekly paper (to our knowledge) and that Harry Wright, Charles Coniis- The stockholders of the Milwaukee requiring a perfecting press and nine stinate and pugnacious, and they out­ With the Results of the League Meet­ ter Hewitt's Syndicate Still Hopes Club held a meeting at the Kirby House number the Colonel ten to one. ing The New England League Sec­ key and George Munson will do the hours, at a speed of 10,000 per That a Deal Will be Consummated. work. lust Friday afternoon and talked base LOCAL JOTTINGS. retaryship Vacant The Roller Polo ball for hour, to complete an edition. This Washington, Nov. 21. Editor "Sport­ It was suggested, when too late, that three hours. Every man was The Pittshurg Club is reported as con­ League, Etc. ing Life:" The effort made by Walter given an opportunity to express his is not a claim of 90,000 circulation, but fident that, it can secure Dclehanty from hereafter the League should delegate Boston, Nov. 25. Editor "Sporting Hewitt to purchase the interests of the task of revising the rules each year views, in order that a better under­ it is a claim and demonstration that the the Phillies. That's whore our Western Life:" Certainly no League meeting has George Wagner iu the Washington Club standing could be reached. The ground circulation of THE SPOK.TISO LIFE is I'riends will fool themselves badly. The to President Young, who should ask for caused more genuine surprise. It was did not succeed as was hoped. Mr. suggestions from every club and take was gone over carefully, and every­ by far larger than any weekly published Phillies are buying players of the Del- thought that tho strong clubs, and es­ Hewitt journeyed to New York and had thing passed off iu a harmonious man­ cl'anty -'alibre, not selling them. the best ideas thus received for the ner. and almost equals the largest monthly pecially the Bostons, would be milita­ a talk with the owner of the club, but basis of his report. This may be done The Philadelphia Club would give con­ ted against, but this was not done. On the latter was unwilling to let go. On The stockholders were enthusiastic on a monthly basis. The papers are siderable for Tom McCarthy, next season. New York "Herald." chipped by express as fast as printed and of Boston, the other hand, the under dog got. some Hewitt's return to this city he reported over the- prospects for next vear, and and a trade of Hamilton for that player very hard knocks. What i=f surprise the ibut Mr.. Wagner noted as if he Wfis i they predict that every club in the West­ any and all news stands in the following ,s undor consideration. ' abolition of the exhibition game >vas, sore on this city ami the people here, A METROPOLITAN LEAGUE. ern League will come out ahead at the cities or localities should have the paper While Colonel Rogers was in the indeed. There was a great deal con­ ind did not care to do anything which close of the season, unless they meet on sale the day specified opposite to each midst of his great speech at last Thurs­ nected with these games that hurt base might be acceptable to the sport-loving Knights of St. John and Malta to with very unfavorable weather. Otto locality: day's meeting of the League, and just ball. Players really do their work in people of Washington. Mr. Hewitt Play Base Ball. Shomborg, who had been practically after firing an, oratorical in.xhoot into tho amount of the contests they play, doubtless owes this impression to his The latest enthusiastic supporters of agreed upon as president of the club, New York City...... Saturday A.M. Tohn T. Brush, a telegram was handed Biooklyn, N. Y... . .Saturday A. M. and it has been the parsimony of a few chagrin in failing to consummate the the National game of base ball, as stated that business matters would pre­ Troy, N. Y...... Saturday A. M. him. It was from Billy Hallman. and that has compelled the others to play ou deal right then and there. There are evinced by their determination to fix up vent him from doing himself justice Buffalo, N. Y...... Saturday A. M. read in substance: "Trade me if you Sundays. The players in all sections of still hopes that the club will pass into a championship schedule, are the mem­ in that capacity, and he asked to be re­ Albany, N. Y...... Saturday A. M. n. I am tired of playing in Philadel­ the country should be served alike as the possession of local people other then bers of tho Ancient Order of Knights leased. Boston, Mass...... Saturday A. M. phia." Evidently Billy believes in start­ far as possible. Well, Boston stands in Hewitt, as a number of gentlemen have of St. John and Malta iu New York, The following were agreed upon as Springfield, Mass.. ..Saturday A. M. ing early his boom for increased salary. all of its strength, but I think it will expressed a disposition to take base ball Brooklyn and Philadelphia. Past Com­ officers: President, H. J. Killilea; sec­ Providence, R. I.. ..Saturday A. M. Gus Woyhing and Joe Mnlvey are Montreal, Can...... Saturday A. M. have a far harder battle than last sea­ stock, provided Mr. Wagner will sell. mander Sir William H. Buckett and retary and treasurer. Phil Lederer; niaii- Toronto, Can...... Saturday A. M. likely to go" into the cigar manufacturing son. Pittsburg is stronger in batteries From information which bears all the other members of the old Brooklyn En­ flgor, Charles H. disunion; board of Baltimore, Md...... Saturday A. M. business in this city. beyond comparison. I do not think any­ earmarks of credibility, George Wag­ campment, No. 55; Sir James M. Ryder, directors. Charles Polachek, R. E. Gil- Wiifhiligton, 1). C. . .Saturday A. M. James J. Barr, who died November one would stand and argue that point. ner will sell out his holdings provided of Eureka Encampment. No. 23, of this johan, James Carrothers, Charles Hil- New Orleans. La. . .Saturday A. M. 14, in this city, was at one time well Even Cincinnati and Chicago can give he gets his price. The sum of $30,000 city, and Sir Charles Paulas, of Phil­ berg and Fred Hall. Frank Cole, Louisville, Ky...... Saturday A. M. known in base ball circles. He was day Erie. Pa...... Saturday A. M. us points in batteries. As far as I can has been named as the figure, but if adelphia, propose to form a Tri-City clerk at the St. Charles Hotel, was de­ rittsburg, Pa...,. ..Saturday A. M. prominently identified in an ofhcial ca­ see, the game will be very lively, with such is really asked, George Wagner League of knightly players. The idea cided upon as the club's mascot. C. H. Chicago, III...... Saturday A. M. pacity with the old Keystone Club, plenty of batting and base-running. Hu­ will retain the club. The Hewitt syndi­ is to play a championship schedule of Cushman and H. J. Killilea were dele­ Cleveland, O...... Saturday A. M. which from 1S(« to 1800 played a series mors of a most insane stripe had per­ cate had $20,000 pledged, and it was local games among tho encampments of gated to attend the Western League Cincinnati, O...... Saturday A. M. of games with the Athletics for the vaded Boston. It was given out that not the intention to give up the entire the order in each city, and then to have St. Louis, Mo...... Saturday A. M. local championship, with one unvarying meeting at ludianopolis to-day. Milwaukee, Wis... ..Saturday A. M. Boston would have to give up either amount for the franchise. Efforts are the winning team in the Brooklyn Detroit, Midi...... Saturday A. M. result, however, the triuuuiph ot the Duffy, McCarthy or Nash, and that being made to get John R. McLean in­ League play tho New York champion­ Kansas City, Mo...... Monday A. M. latter team. ______the directors took stock is shown in the terested, and if successful the latter ship team, and the winner of that ser­ NOW IN LINE. St. Paul, M'inn...... Saturday P.M. rapid way the men were signed. would come pretty near giving Wash­ ies play the winner of the Quaker's Denver, Col ...... Monday A. M. Mr. J. C. Morse has resigned the ington a ball club worthy of patronage, series. Among the members of the order W. H. Beck Chosen President of the Omaha, Neb...... Monday A. M. A LITTLEJHITCH. Sioiix City Club. San Francisco. Cul ...... Tuesday P. M. secretaryship of the New England provi led he got control. Mr. McLean are many well known athletes, and in Philadelphia. Pa...... Saturday A. M. Howe and Hawley Object tothe Price League, a position he has held for many is no novice in base ball, as some years Brooklyn Encampment a very strong Sioux City, Nov. 19. Tho Sioux City Harrlsbiirg. Pa...... Saturday A. M. seasons. Mr. Morse's attention to this ago ho was financially interested in the team of players are already at work. Base Ball Club has effected permanent Set by Robison. organization. William H. Beck was Newark, N. J...... Saturday A. M. New York, Nov. '22.-T.here is an un­ League and to many other interests have Cincinnati Club. He is at the head one finding delay in the delivery been such a drain upon him that lie has of the local gas company, and is a pro­ elected president. A manager will be expected hitch in the negotiations be­ been obliged to succumb, and for the gressive man. PROM LEAGUE HEADQUARTERS. secured at once for the club, who will of THE SPORTING LIFE as per the tween Frank De Hass Robison and a past two weeks he has been under the MANAGER SCHMELZ IN TOWN. represent it at the Western League above table will oblige the publishers Cleveland syndicate, headed by George The Latest Bulletin Issued by the W Howe, Davis Hawley and Albert care of a doctor. It. will be many days Gus Schnulz was in this city for a meeting to be held at Indianapolis to­ by immediate notification. Efforts will before he will be able to be out again tuple of hours on Sunday, and while League President. morrow. Mr. Beck says he is in the be made cheerfully at all times by the L Johnson, for the sale of the Cleve­ among the boys. Bowling and roller polo hero spoke hopefully of the outlook for Washington, I). C., Nov. 21. Head­ League to stick«-aud proposes to place a land Ball Club. quarters National League and American publishers to overcome any delay or ob­ In spite of an understanding reached seemed to have too great charms for next season as far as the prospects for first-class team in the field, although ho struction in delivery. General Dixwell, so he was uot seen at the team he has gott-'n together are Association of Professional Base Ball will adhere strictly to the salary limit. during Friday's session of the National the League meeting as usual. concerned. He said from all he knew Clubs. It is expected that Billy Harringtoii League, Mr. 'Howe, who sent the des­ Tom Cotter and Fred Doe are having George Wagner would continue at the CONTRACTS FOR 1804. will be secured as manager. patch to the League agreeing to take tremendous battles in the roller polo head of tho club, mid had told him to With Washington, James McGuire; President Beck has written to Charley the club off Mr. Robison's hands at the league, and the fun is getting more en­ go ahead and complete the team for with Pittshurg. P. J. Do:iovan; with Cushman, of Milwaukee, asking him to latter's terms, now declares that jHo,- joyable as the season goes on. Jimmy next season. Schmelx has quite a num­ Philadelphia, Fred. Hartmau, E. J. select a manager for the Sioux City MADE UP AT LAST. 000 is too much to give for the fran­ Canavan does not seem to redeem his ber of old and young players on his Dolehanty, John Clements, Gus. McGiu- team for next season. Mr. Cushman chise, and gives out the surprising in­ promise of being in among the leaders. list, and thinks he will he able to sift nis, G. A. Turner. has named Charles Morion, William formation that he will not invest a Come, Jimmy, take a move! Director out a pretty strong team after a couple SPECIAL. Watkius, Walter Burnham and Charles THE CIRCUIT OF THE NEW WESTERN cent in the venture. Billings, of the Bostons, is one of the of weeks' practice in the spring. He Brooklyn has selected P. Gilbert, and Faatx as available men for the position. John B. Foster, of Cleveland, acted biggest enthusiasts. Captain Kyaii, of says big Ed. Cartwright will be found Baltimore has selected Bert Inks, both Ho has recon mended Charles Mortou LEAGUE COMPLETED. for Messrs. Howe, Hawley and John­ the fire force, saw his first polo game to satisfactorily fill the bill at first base, of the Springfield Club, and each club or Walter Burnham as the most com­ son at the League meeting, and he per­ last week, and now talks of nothing but and that Bill Hassamer will be a candi­ has deposited with me $~>00 as required petent managers. "Cush" has had deal­ sonally assured the League and Mr. polo. HDanny Richardson anticipates landing one or two more Ball Club, has written to Secretary by a 'clever game of bluff he and his on the shelf, the Cincinnati "Enqui­ succeeding W. H. Watkius as manager Western League was formally organ twirlers. The acquisition of big Mike of the St. Louis team. Diddlebock, of the State League, with ized at the Grand Hotel, in this city partner? may secure the Cleveland fran rer" says: Sullivan from the Cincinnati Club is respect to a meeting of the different after .1 two days' session, Monday a IK ehisc for perhaps $20,000. He recognizes "Second baseman Danuy Richardson dldn t supposed to give strength to the team. Bobby Lowe has left the Boston team clubs' representatives in this city ere Tuesday. The delegates to the meetin the fact that the League is unwilling treat the Brooklyn Club rltfht the past TUB EXCHANGE OP HOY. in San Francisco and returned to New­ long. The Harisburg Club will be on were: Grand Rapids, George Elli^ to do without Cleveland and imagines season; at least. President Abell says be When the anouncemeut was made castle, Pa., where his presence is reiiuir- deck stronger than ever next season Sioux City, W. II. Beck and H. II he holds the largest end of the stick didn't, and President Abell wouldn't say so that center fielder ed owing to litigation over property in and with a playing manager. This state­ unless it was so. Ditiiny has been flirting Hoy had been given which he is interested. Boyer; Minneapolis, John T. Barnes Mr Robison, who is still in town, has with trouble for three or four seasons. to Cincinnati in exchange for pitcher ment is ou the authority of Mr. Meyer, Milwaukee, C. H. Cushman and M. R received clippings from Cleveland paper; He was 8t loggerheads with the New York Sullivan, there was quite a howl from George Dixon was arrested Wednes­ who also states that there will be a man Killilea; Kansas City, James H. Man in which both Howe and Hawley denj team in 1891. lie had a whole lot of trou­ the cranks who referred to Sullivan's day at Lowell, Mass., on the charge of to look after the finances. Jack Hnsloii ning; Toledo, D. A. Long; Indianapolis hi-vins accepted the Cleveland (.'lub a ble with the Wagners iu 18912, and lie having been a failure the past season, prize fighting. Tuesday night in Law­ and George Miller are the only members John T. Brush. Detroit's proxy wa Mr. Robison's price. Said Mr. Robison couldn't get along with the Brooklyus while Hoy played good ball. This deal rence a Iran named Hennessey, anxious of the team wintering in the city. A held by John T. Barn PS. "I don't understand this at all. Mr last season. Danny has always drawn a looks rather funny from this distance, to win $oO by staying with Dixon four movement is on the boards to take in THE UXBS OP ORGANIZATION. swell salary, but in spite of his big pay Howe sent a telegram to the League 01 he never seemod to.«be satisfied. He al­ and it certainly appears as if the Wag­ rounds, -was knocked completely out. several good base ball cities in the State But little business was transacted on Friday that -he and others would take th ways had a grievance of some kind. If ners must have received something to The annual report of the Yale Uni­ and shake tho non-paying, towns, which Monday owing to Mr. Brush's failure ti club This talk of his now looks like this was the lirst lime/that Richardson boot. Couiiskey was hot after Hoy at versity Base Ball Club shows receipts were a drag ou the League all through reach here from New York in time I will not sell the club for one cen the beginning! of hist season, and made a than. $45.000. had been in a squabble with his employers for the year of $14,li71. and regular ex­ the season. Nothing was done beyond mapping ou loss The mutter Is In th there would be some grounds for suppos­ number of offers to trade, but was re­ penses of $9402. There is a balance of a line of action by an organization com han ds of the League's committee, and tin ing that the club might possibly be less Mr. Howe and his friends accept m> fused. The local club owners certainly $1778, after reserving $1500 for a tem­ LOOK OUT FOR ROORBACKS. uiittee. s they may wake up some fine morn equally to Name, but, as he has fallen out would not consent to such a deal with­ porary cage and paying about $1500 ter with three different employers In as many out a substantial bonus, It was decided to adopt the Const Ing and End that Detroit,, Buffalo,, or som seasons, one Is forced, no matter how and it looks like for the team's share of the training All Sorts of Nonsensical Iteports May tution of the National League with sue! other city hns secured the.. club.. Al.. John friendly he may foel to the great seooml- another case of weakening the team, but fable and Yale field expenses. The club Now he Expected. alterations as would be necessary t son is willing to put up money to keep th basemai). to think that Danny is to blame. collaring a few more dollars, as in the is thus more than self-supporting. meet Western conditions. It was als club lu Cleveland,, and I am glad he ha Tills time it would seem that Daiiuy has case of the sale of Danny Richardson. It took the National League two Ions a liancti to get buck in the game. Las seasons to clean up a big war debt of decided to have no salary limit. It wa succeeded In corraling more trouble than In the latter case not a cent of the pur­ Vermont School Base Ball League. further decided to adopt the guarante Friday 1 considered the matter settled he bargained for. Ho would like to en­ chase money ever found its way back $140,000. Now that their books are now I don't care how It comes out." gage a cheap man to help niiu let go of into the team. This Itarro. Vt., Nov. 21. Delecates from God- balanced there is little ground for belief system, instead of percentage, and t "When I go back to Cleveland," Mr may be good busi­ dard Seminary, Vermont Methodist Semi­ ha-ve a uniform admission rate of 2i the Job." ness management, but it may prove nary. St. Albans and Burlington Hi$rh in any of the wild cock and bull stories cents, with 25 cents extra for grain Robison continued, "I shall insist tha costly in the long run. With some Scliol, and St. Johiisbury Academy will that from time to time will be sprung my terms he accepted, and if they ar twenty minor league players to start soon meet at Montpelier relative to changes in the circuit. A stand. It was also decided that eael refused the League will then take charg Was It So Intended ? to form a. Ver­ club should deposit $1000 in the guar Chris Vcu d»r Ahe. of St. Louis, next seasou, the outlook is decidedly mont High School liaso Ball League. Louisville scribe fathers a rumor that of the matter. Forty-five thousand dol went gloomy for a winner, and it will require four Association cities are to be "bought autee fluid. h< me a very much dissatisfied man. He The Veterans' Home. TUB SECOND DAY'S WORK. lars isn't too much. If it wasn't for was not backward iu announcing that he some rather tall hustling on the part of out," and names !?ti.j,000 as the prica But little progress was made Tuesda ball club Cleveland would seldom looked i-pon tht> whole proceedings of this tho Wagners to arouse any enthusiasm Joe Start,, Charley Bufnuton, Tom rtoml, of tho Colonels' franchise ami $70,000 in the work of organization. The pro heard of. It would pay the city author­ m»uting as a "throw down" for the four among the public. They will find things George Wright, Mike Hines, Martin Sulli­ as the figure asked by Baltimore. When ex-Asscxliiliou clubs. The resolution which van, Billy Hawes, James A. Cuihvorlh, they get that much jectors waited until afternoon for th ities to buy the franchise." rather different than iu previous years. Arthur Whitney, Billy Annis. John Slc- money out of the prohibits any club from playijjc any kind SOME SENATORIAL CHAT. League Kentucky will be the greatest appearance of President Brush, of th of an exhibition game during the cham­ Gcachy, Pat Hurtnett, Joe Sullivan, Dupee prohibition stronghold in the United Cincinimti Club, and it was late in th Herbert L. Pratt, of Brooklyn, ha pionship season, under penalty of a line Mike Scaulou yearns to get back into Shaw, Dick Conwny and Sid Farrar are day before he reported, and then onl been elected captain of next ycur'g Am of &JUO is aimed at the Western Sunday base ball management. among the ex-professionals wiuteriutf iu States and hens in Marvluud will be for a moment. Frank Bancroft cam herst foot ball team. playing clubs. New York "Herald." Walter Hewitt was uot particularly New England. laying golden eggs. THE SPORTING LIFE. Nov. 2 5.

husiasm exists only in lead pencils and present to incite discord and promote Walter Hewitt Is said to yearn lor white paper. illfeeling for personal end's. In fact it another taste ol the Iruits ol a magnate's FOREST CITT FINDINGS. THE LEAGUE'S POSITION. may be truthfully said that the rumor Hie. He is one ol a syndicate ol Wash- InRtonlaus who desire to buy out the NO MORE HIPPOUROMIKO OR BASE BALL DEPARTMENT Under the League constitution the committees was never on hand at a Wagners. Cleveland franchise could not be dis- base ball convention in greater numbers Comiskoy has stated positively that so FRIVOLITY IN BASE BAJjL. K>sed of or transferred without con­ or so fully equipped with sleeve-con­ long as Motz pliiys first base as well as Then John T. Brush answered the Phil- sent of the League, a wise provision cealed, sharpened weapons, as during he did last season he Comiskey will con- "Cy" Young's Square Talk—No Sale adelphian in a speech calm but lengthy. ,vhich prevents the weakening of the last week. The placing in Nick Young's flue himsell to direction Irom. the beuch THE BIG LEAGUE, He scored Colonel Rogers for entering League by inflicting upon it un- tiands of the preparation of the schedule and Hues. Probable—Popular Mr. Robison— into an agreement with the ex-Associa­ lesirablo and unprofitable cities at last year was done only after intelli­ Tom Brown and John .Grim are play- McAleer's Bijc Lack—Other Notes tion clubs without a word to the old :he will or whim of any club. gent discussion. It was the first time Ing indoor base ball in Louisville. Plpffer and News of Interest. AT ITS ANNUAL MEETING, SETTLES League clubs, assuming that the alleged So this blocked1 Mr. Robison's plan to 'or many years he had done such work. was once a fiend at this game, but business Indianapolis agreement with the old sell. On the other hand, there is no He had1 a new League of twelve clubs probably leaves him no time lor further League clubs would still hold good method by which the League can com- to handle, the World's Fair problem to indulgence. Cleveland, Nov. 20. Editor "Sporting SOME KNOTTY PROBLEMS. under new conditions. Mr. Brush made confront, the change of methods of sev­ Director Kerr, ol Pittsburg, snys that Life." All the legislation enacted at >el a club to go on against its will. The Van Haltren was sold to New York "be­ the New York meeting seems to have his strong point in proving that all past League was therefore in a position eral clubs on the Sunday playing ques­ cause it is thought the buut will be abol­ agreements of the National League were where, in justice to Mr. Robison, it tion, and other perplexing features. Mis- ished and then Stenzel will be more useful been, in the line of progress. Old time IMPORTANT LEGISLATION ENACTED. dead when the new organization came lad to either let him sell out or, if it lakes were made which affected more or to Pittsburg than Van Haltren." friends of the game will certainly love into existence at Indianapolis in 1891. desired to retain Cleveland in the cir­ less all the clubs. The experience Mr. Jimmy Manning has the Kansas City the old .League all the more for the pro­ Then Colonel Rogers obtained the cuit, to purchase the franchise with a Young had this year will prevent a re­ franchise in the Western League, which hibitory clauses inserted in the by-laws floor again, and poured the vials of his view to disposing of it later to other newal of many of these and better sat­ would indicate that Messrs. Krauthoff aud regarding the farming out of the players; The Philadelphia Club Turned Down- wrath upon his bete noir, Mr. Brush, Cleveland parties isfaction given. The old time bickerings Speas are permanently out ol the game, a changing of dates; playing of exhibi­ and quarrels which resulted from select­ lact much to be regretted. It is to be tion games and kindred nuisances. whom he scored unmercifully and vin­ THE CLUB TO REMAIN IN CLEVELAND. hoped they got out whole. Cleveland to Remain in the League dictively. Then followed a free-for-all The matter was fully discussed iu all ing schedule committees is happily done The League is now a big enough and a away with, and an entirely disinterest­ Ex-Manager diaries Levis has become sound enough organization financially to talk, with the Colonel from the Quaker of its phases and at length, and the out­ quite a litterateur. His latest literary -Double Systems Not in Favor- City as a mark. come of the matter was the appointment ed employee of the whole body will do achievement was a seven-column review ol lay aside these little frivolities and run PHILADELPHIA. SAT LTOM. of an Emergency Committee consisting the work. the Southern League teams ol 1S!)3, which the N. L. and A. A. of Base Ball Clubs on Important Constitutional Amend­ In order to avoid any scandal and of Messrs. Brush, Byrue and Soden, "to An effort was made to have it also ap­ a St. Louis contemporary had the nerve the highest business plane possible. The to give no ground for charges of bad receive and report to the League any pear tliat some discrimination had been to publish in one solid installment. one honest sport has been vindicated in faith the League decided to abide by application for sales, transfers or new made against the American Association Second Baseman Hallman, ol Phila­ a magnificent way. An enormous debt ments Made The Usual Committees the spirit of the alleged Indianapolis Memberships which may be proposed." clubs iu the selection of the Board of delphia, has publioHr stated that he doesn't has been entirely cleaned away, and agreement so far as the present year Before this had been done there was as­ Directors and the members of the Na­ waut to play in" the Quaker City any each one of the twelve clubs is sound as tional Board. This is not true. It is longer but wants to locate In Pittsburg. a brickbat financially. Appointed, Etc. is concerned, and to end matters right surance that Cleveland parties would be It is among the probabilities that Hall­ there. Accordingly, the following res­ found to take the club. When it was also reported1 that some reference was No more happy time could have been made to this during the meeting, but man and Blerbauer may b» exchanged. chosen for laying aside everything that olution, presented by Mr. Yon der Abe, found that Robison was dead set to re- President Ruckstuhl, of the Louisville Morgan Murphy is one ol many catch­ When "The Sporting Life" went to was adopted by 11 to 1, the dissenting :ire, the wires were set going between ers who advocate a rule requiring um­ could give the faultfinders and pessi­ press last week, the League had been Club, who made an unusually effective mists the slightest chance to criticise. club being, of course, Philadelphia: he magnates and Messrs. George W. delegate, very promptly objected to auy pires to stand behind the plate all the in annual session one day. The result I Whereas, From the reiwrt of the Board of Di­ tlowe and Davis Hawley, former stock­ time. The claim is made thnt while they AN HONEST PLAYEIl. of the day's work was the election of rectors and the subsequent report of the secre- reference to a separate body. "We are behind the pitcher they ca.mot tell a Speaking about "hippodroming" and it appears that several of holders of the club, with a view of their kuow no league or association,we are one N. E. Young, as president-secretary- tury and treasurer, aking hold of the club once more. Al light loul tip from a strike aud vie* "faking" the people, reminds me of the. treasurer; the selection of a new Board the club members of this League have not paid body of twelve organized clubs, all with versa. talk I had with "Oy" Young just before Into the sinking fund of this association the Johnson, the ex-Brotherhood chief, also equal rights and iu good standing, and' Chris Ton der Ahe was much dis­ of Directors by lot; the amendment of | percentage of receipts called for by the con­ innounced his willingness to go in with the close of the season. The Clevelauds Section 44, designed to prevent exchange ! stitution, and have not complied with the re- constant reference to the past is not gruntled over his had luck In not being had won a game the day before, by the quiremen.s of our constitution Jn determining tlowe and Hawley in order to keep the proper." Thus spoke the Louisville drawn on the League Board ol Directors. or loan of players during the champion­ club in his native city. After a confer- According to the New York reporters. score of 17 to 4, the visitors milking ship season; and the amendment of and settling business affairs between eacu i'resident inside as well as outside the their four runs in the last two inniugs. other; nce between Robison, Byrne and John­ meeting and he made friends by his Chris had a sneaking notion that every­ Section 47, to prevent illegal transfer­ Whereas, It also appearing that this condition son, the latter's proposition, together course. thing wasn't exactly right about the As I came upon "Cy" he was reading a ring of championship games. Amend­ of affairs has been brought aiw.it by a misuse with certain League propositions, were j uat the Philadelphia question was drawing. morning paper account of the game, in ments relative to coaching, bunting and or misconstruction of certain stipulations and wired to the Cleveland parties. After Kx-Piesident Nimick, ol Pittsburg, which it was said: "'Cy' was generous the punishment of drunken and disorder­ agreements discussed and passed upon at the bound to arouse some feeling was appar­ was in New York during the League meet­ at the close. He let down his speed and Indianapolis meeting of the National League considerable wiring an answer was re­ ent, and the embers smouldered all day ing, aud dropped in at the Fifth Avenue ly players were referred to the Commit­ Immediately prior to the organization of this allowed the visitors four runs." ceived at 4.30 o'clock that Messrs. Howe, Wednesday, that night, and the next Hotel to renew old Irl-'udships. When "Now" said Young, "that was kindly tee on Rules. President Young was ap­ association in December, 1S!»1. bearing upon Elawley and others would take the club day. The position the Brooklyn Club asked whether he would like to be in pointed a committee of one to prepare the consolidation of the clul» of the National meant but it does me nn Injustice. League and American Association, which re­ off the hands of Mr. Robisou and the occupied to the question was somewhat the swim again, he emphatically shook People pay to see the game played for a schedule for 18'J4. A. H. Soden, C. sulted in the organization o( the present body League. It was then the Emergency distinct from the other clubs, and his head. H. Byrne and N. E. Young were elected known as the National League, and Amer­ Committee was appointed through whom Messrs. Abel I and Byrue set to work to The Brooklyn Club has drafted third all it's worth from start to finish. I members of the National Board of Ar­ ican Association of Base Ball Olubs; after baseman Gilbert, ol the Springfield Eastern never purposely gave another club a run a full discussion of all the questions the deal will be completed, everything discover some method of arbitration or League Club. President I'owers has re­ or let down in my pace unless I was tired, bitration. Below wi'l be found a de­ involved, and realizing the propriety of arriving now being merely a matter of time and compromise that would meet the situa­ ceived the draft money jfSOO. Gilbert, who ju my life. No matter if you are beat­ tailed report of the subsequent proceed­ at a conclusion which will efface all exist ing form. tion amicably. Some of the parties in once played with Baltimore, was one ol ing the other clubs, uO to 0, the public ings: differences, and in a spirit of harmony and re­ EXIT ROBISON ENTER HOWE. interest, however, were so thoroughly Barnio's fiuds. He has developed luto a spect for mutual Interests which has so far fine player. expects you to play. To show any governed this animal meeting, be It When the matter was all happily set­ charged for a discussion it was deemed mercy to the other club in the way of SECOND DAY'S WORK. Ilesolved, That all matters of difference affect­ tled the retiring magnate, Mr. Robison, necessary to let them have it out. A pro­ Van Haltren played under Ward In letting in a few runs puts the game on ing the payments and receipts of money* due said publicly: longed discussion followed, each side to the Brooklyn Players' League team In the level with lawn tennis, tiddle-de- The Philadelphia Matter Decisively from one club to another during the season of The reason I am getting out of base the question at issue being championed 1SUO and stands very high in the estima­ winks, or some other school girl frivolity. Settled—An Unprecedented Scene. ISilS be terminated, and that each club shull tion ol the New York manager. Ward has retain and hold such receipts, except in sui-h ball is because I cannot attend to the by men known to be naturally aggres­ always had a tender side for every player It makes me weary to read of this or When the magnates adjourned Wed­ cases as nre in no way affected or governed 'levelatid Club and my private business sive and determined. It is an opinion as ol that fatuous band of never-aay-die that pitcher not caring for a shut-out, nesday night, Nov. 15, it was with the by the alovo referred to or so-called ludiau- at the same time. I have been in the old as the water that runs, "a man who ball-players. and letting down purposely ." awltfl meeting; League quite a long time, and 1 am sorry pleads his own cause usually has a fool intention of taking a good night's rest! Kesutveil, mat tne stipulation or agreement to leave now. But It is absolutely neces­ Helen Dauvray Ward started on her THE CUWELAND CLUB. for the coming battle with the Phila­ which arpears on record as having been entered sary that I should con'sider my private for a client," and this was painfully theatrical career as "Little Nell, the Cali­ Not much is heard now about the sale delphia Club, which was the first thing into in Indianapolis, Dec. 15, 1891, by the Na- business interests first before all others. made manifest iu Parlor F., last week. fornia Diamond." It was, therefore, quite of the Cleveland Club. Especially U on the programme for Thursday morn­ tioiuil League, prior to co,isoHdation, be hereby I want to deal honorably with the League, The Philadelphia side of the question appropriate ttiat she should become in this true as regards its sale to any other ing. The meeting was called to order wilhdravn and abrogated. and I shall do nothing that will leave a was upheld by Col. John I. Rogers in later years "the heroine of the diamond" ItetiDlved, That hereafter, all agreements or blot upon my record. If the Cleveland his usual earnest style. That there was hy marrying Johu M. Ward, the chief ol city. You never know how much you at 11 o'clock, and was in continuous stipulations to the contrary, th» provisions of the the Brotherhood. love a friend until you are about to constitution affecting division of gate receipts Club goes into the hands of the ones I much to be said in his position was session until evening. In fact for nine waut it to, base bull In my city will be true, and he said it well and earnestly, Father Chadwick Is rapidly convalesc­ lose him. This talk about letting the long and hard fought hours the Nation­ and percentages, shall be adhered to precisely benefited, because it will he run by those ing from the attack ol rheumatism which Cleveland Club go has brought forward al jLeague wrestled with the Phila­ as all other requirements of said constitution. who can give more time to the game than too much so in fact and the result show­ prostrated him. Mr. Chadwick's recupera­ a host of fans, heretofore lukewarm in Under this resolution the Philadel­ the pleaa- ed that he needlessly drove from his tive powers are wonderful, considering his delphia problem. The latter, as base I can. I leave the League with lack of tact, men who their patronage, who swear by the long ball enthusiasts know, was the peculiar phia Club will keep its grand stand re­ untest recollections, and I sh;UI always support, by advanced age. He this year eutered upon horned spoons that if the Cleveland attitude assumed by Philadelphia which ceipts for 1803, but will in future have to !iave tue interests of base ball and the wanted to support him if he would only the scriptural term of three score aud settle on the same basis as other League National League at the bottom of my permit them. ten, having been born October 5, 1824. Club is kept right here in Cleveland next settled with all Lea"gue clubs on. one clubs, no matter what the admission beart." The final vote on the question, which Officials ol the St. Louis Fair Grounds season they will go to every game and basis, but desired that all League clubs The magnates, one and all, with the showed eleven clubs maintaining one and Itacing Association deny the report howl for the home team. This talk about settle with it on another and higher solitary exception of Colonel Rogers, position and the Philadelphia Club that Chris Von der Ahe Is trying to secure letting the club go away may not have AN UNUSUAL SCENE. a controlling interest iu that organization basis. As soon as this had been passed Mr. who did not show up at the meeting, ex­ standing alone, gave a strong denial to been so unwise from a business stand­ PHILADELPHIA'S POSITION. and tht presidency thereof. Chris has his point after all. Friends are coming to Rogers burst out of the parlor in a most pressed deep regret at the withdrawal the frequently made charge that there hands lull euough without monkeying with When the consolidation was effected excited condition, and unbosomed him­ of a man who, as one put it, has been was a combination or a clique opposed horse racing. That aud base ball wou't the front that were never heard of be­ at Indianapolis, the Philadelphias would self to a big gathering of delighted re­ "one of the pillars of the League and an to Philadelphia. The subsequent con­ mix. fore, and Mr. Robison is being besieged not consent to the dissolution of the old porters. Said lie, brandishing his fist in lionor to the game." George W. Howe duct of Col. Rogers in the hotel lobby New York came within fifteen minutes on every hand to never give up the club. League, and stood out against the con­ and Davis Hawley, who succeed Mr. and his undignified outbursts against ol getting Gilbert, the Springfield third Mr. Uohison is popular. Personally I solidation plan. They alleged that they the air: don't believe Mr. Robison intends to let "This is the worst bit of rascality that Robisou, are both known for their lib­ everyone was painful, indeed melan­ basemau. Just after I'resident Byrne had dare not charge a fifty cent general erality and integrity, while Albert L. choly. To Mr. Abell of the Brooklyn banded Nick Young a check for $5(K> for the club go. There isn't a man in Cleve­ admission, and a twenty-five cent add! the League has ever been guilty of. fhere Gilbert's release, Manager Ward came up land more popular than Frank do Hass on the minutes of the Indianapolis meet­ lohnson also stands well with the Cleve­ Club, is mainly due the happy sug­ with a .similar check, but Young said tioual sum for entrance to the grand ing is a stipulation that exactly covers land public, where he formerly resided. gestion which, was finally adopted by Hobison. He could be elected Mayor stand, and as tho plan of consolidation our case. President Young snys he re­ the eleven to one vote, and he had much Brooklyn was entitled to the player's ser­ by 10,000 plurality if he would go into members putting it there, but tlie major­ MISCELLANEOUS BUSINESS. vices. provided for n division of all admissions With the Cleveland problem solved it difficulty in bringing over some of his We have letters lor Eddie Mayer, a canvass. The fact that he owns the of fifty cents and under, in order to com ity claim It was never voted on. Brush fellow meml>ers. Cleveland Club brings out a fair percen­ says lie doesn't remember anything about was easy to speedily finish up the busi­ George Westlake. Chip! Koseman, Mike tage of th,e crowd every day. A clerk pel the incoming Association clubs to t and Byrne and Hart are with him. ness remaining for consideration. The Fortunately for all hands the Rumor Kilroy, Fred Itoat, Mike Trost, catcher divide equally, the Philadelphia;) stood But there is the stipulation on the min­ New York Club was not successful in and Disturbance Committee was not liolan, Curt Welch, Frank Forman, Itob in Mr. Robison's office told me a few out against consolidation and refused to utes I'hev get around it on a tochnicnl- its effort to increase its dead-head priv­ able to aeomplish very much. The Met- Gilks, Harry T. Smith, Jake Virtue, George days ago that Mr. Robison never re­ let tho scheme go through unless an ex­ ty and vote to huve it abrogated. Why, ropolition press, with possibly a slight Stephens, pitcher Ely, pitcher Purvln, D. fused a pass. ception should be made in their favor. t s the worst thing I've ever met with. ileges. The League decided to retain exception or two, seemed to grasp the A. Long, Tom Valley, John Coleman, "Couneilmen, city and county officials Finally a proposition was made that They're just robbing Philadelphia, that's this year's plan under which passes must whole situation and handle the meet­ Billy Harrington. and men with loads of money come all be settled for at regular rates by home ing in a manner most gratifying and Base ball lans, without distinction ol the way to his ortice to ask for passes," they try a fifty cent admission, with "But you can depend upon one thing, clubs when they exceed five per cent, of party, will regret the death ol Uncle Jerry twenty-five cents additional for a grand thut what our course has been this year the tickets taken at the gate. The annual which -will purely help the game im­ Kusk, who was ex-President Harrison's said the clerk. "Mr. Robison's only re­ stand sent and the old League mag­ so it will be next year, no matter what mensely next season. Secretary ol Agriculture, for the love he ply is: 'How many?' then he begins to season tickets issued by the President Thero was some great hustling for nates informally agreed that if the the League says. We'll settle vvilh visit- of the League, to be honored at all bore base ball. The deceased and ex- count them out." Philadelphia Club officials found that ug clubs on whatever basis we please. players and deals and exchanges wore Secretary Foster were gr»at lovers ot the But Mr. Robison is a tremendously We are uot going to be hoodwinked hy League grounds, were limited to twenty- iu the air every moment day and night. national game and regular attendants at those prices could not be maintained five. busy man. About half his life is spent tbey should have the privilege of reduc­ men who are always asking favors, and The usunl army of applicants' on the um­ the Washington games. on sleeping cars or at the Hofftuan don't you forget it. DOUBLE SYSTEMS NOT IN IT. pire stuff was on hand but Uncle Nick, The New York Club formally returned House in New York, or the Richelieu ing the rale to twenty-five cents. The "That man. Brush, is beneath me. I After a free discussion it was moved, Kelly to the Bostons last week. This was Philadelphia Club wanted the agree­ after last season's experience, will go in Chicago. 1 have gone into his office say now what I told him In the meeting. and adopted that the schedule for 181)4 very slow in his selections.- done at Kelly's request. The "King" may ment nut into writing and signed by I would not have his disposition, socially, be matle up on the plan of 181K!. This laud in Chicago on Anson's first base. scores of times and found a stack of the other clubs, but Mr. Robison, of morally, or otherwise, for every club In moans that, after a hard fight, the dou­ The "King" goes out on the road with letters a foot or more in height which Cleveland, suggested that the secretary ih« League. You should have seen him "O'Dowd's Neighbors" next month, aud n there was no probability of Mr. Robisou ble championship season scheme as pro­ theatrical success may save the Bostons be instructed to put the agreement in Lho. miscreant!" posed by Cleveland, Pittsburg, Cincin­ PERSONALS. reaching in a week. As a business care the minutes instead. So the case ended At this point Al. Reach and Harry the trouble of releasing the "Only." Frank might let the club go and breathe Wright managed to induce the excited nati, and Baltimore was effectually The retiring Cleveland man, Frank easier, but as a lover of athletic sports and the Philadelphias came around to smothered. Bid McThee will huut off and on all Itobison. is credited with being the mau the consolidation. and irate Colonel to withdraw from the I believe he would be very loath to part corridor, thus ending a scene unequalled The double umpire plan also received winter. who first conceived aud broached the TUB BKDUCT1ON MOVE. its quietus in a resolution which author­ Pitcher Dart Clark, has signed with twelve-club league. This is not exactly with the Cleveland franchise after all. They tried the 50-cent admission rate in the history of the League. ized the president to appoint a xtatf of Now York for $1500. true. Mr. Ilobison was one ol the big­ M'AI-EEll'S BIO WINNINGS. in 1892, and were fairly successful as WITHOUT PRECEDENT. umpires for 1894, not. to exceed seven in Both Mobile and Kansas City are ang­ gest lactors in the organization ot the .Tim McAlcer won a big bundle of to grogs attendance. But the grand Colonel Rogers violated all heard of number. To work the double umpire ling for Billy Kinsman. twelve-club league, but J. Walter Spalding money on McKinley's great victory. and conditions when he came Connor and Ticrnan will remain in Is entitled to the credit of originating the tand attendance, on which the Phila­ precedents system this staff would have to be at consolidation scheme. Jim lives in the centre of the Mahon- out, of the meeting room to the news­ least twelve. New York, so Ward says. ing Valley and mingles with the men delphia Club had to make its profit, was paper men and made them a speech after Fred. Prexlcr says thnt Louisville will Ex-pitcher Radhourno. who wound up who work'in the mills when there is any­ very small, so the club this year deter­ MOKE POWERS FOR POOH-BAH YOUNO. vote to kill the sacrifice bunt. his base ball career a couple of seasons everything was over, a speech in which The Constitution was so amended that wound up his saloon busi­ thing to d'o. He surmised that thero mined to rciluce the general admission Goodenough niicl Twineham are said to ago, has also was to be an awful slump and placed rate to 25 cents, under the alleged In­ blue flames danced merrily and in which President Young is thereby made a per­ be booked for release by St. Louis. ness Iu ISIoomlngton, III. He has sold dianapolis agreement. It made side there was a strong odor of brimstone manent committee of one on schedule. out his liquor emporium and has become his money at any odds on 30,000, 40,- and other ingredients that are supposed By this provision he is called upon in President Young will make out the a sort of a recluse. Had was always au 000 or even 70,000 for McKinley. As agreements with the four ex-Association League schedule on last year's lines. enthusiastic fisherman and hunter. He the official returns give the? Governor clubs, which were uot party to, or ac­ to make up a place referred to by the future to draft the schedule, of games Emslie, Lynch and McQuade are three ancients with respect and horror. If no every year. has given up everything else and devotes over 81,000 to the good McAleer ba» quainted with, the Indianapolis agree­ likely to be called to the League staff. nearly all his time to the rod aud gun. hunted up his stakeholders and secured ment among the old League clubs, and one else could appreciate Colonel Rogers' He is also required hereafter to re­ Tom Pnrrott has joined the Oaklands position newspaper mm could, for the port to the Board of Directors any vio­ Billy Sharsig, who has been offered his money. His winnings are placed then reduced the general admission \vith- and will pitch for that club all winter. the management ol the Indianapolis Clnl>, at close upon $4000. Childs also won out further notice to or consultation history of League meetings does not con­ lation of the constitution as soon as such St. Louis has made New York an offer expected 1' ln> present at the organization tain a previous instance of public indig­ violation shall be made known to him. for Roger Connor, which has bceu de­ meeting ol tl-c Western League, at Indian­ quite a sum. with the old League clubs. These were nation for the benefit of the writers upon He is furthermore made the sole in­ clined. apolis, last Monday, but he happened to AN EMPHATIC DENIAL. settled with under the reduced rate at be drawn MI the Philadelphia Grand Jury When George Dayis was a boy five or the rate of 1-Mi cents for each admis­ the daily press. terpreter of playing rules. St. Louis wnnts Jim O'Rourke. but he Most of Colonel Rogers' colleagues A TRIBUTE TO CHADWICK. would prefer playing nearer to his Bridge­ for November, from which he vainly tried six years of age his playmates were a sion, grand stand included, the Phila­ wore amazed when they heard of the Mr. Byrne reported that the veteran port home. to b'.- ex-'used. There is no dodging Grand rough class of urchins, and George delphia Club keeping the extra quarter The Washington Club lias exchanged Jury duty, except through sickness or corridor scene, and some of them plainly Henry Chadwick, the only journalist death. learned1 to use profanity. One day of a dollar on the grand stand admis­ living who has been reporting base ball outfielder Hoy lor pitcher Mike Sullivan, of George's uncle came over from Albany sion. expressed resentment. Said one of the Cincinnati. Father Chadwick missed his first most conservative of the lot: since the game was first played, away League meeting In many years, being con­ to Cohocs to see him. THE STORM RISES. -The Southern League president, Mr. "George," said the old gentleman, "1 "Rogers can talk as he pleases, but he back in the forties, w;is lying seriously Nlckliii. bears a striking resemblance to fined to his residence by a severe attack Under this condition of affairs the cauuot carry out his bluffs unless he has and dangerously ill at his home in Brook­ of Inflammatory rheumatism. Under the have been told that you are in the habit Nick Young. circumstances the resolutions ol sympathy of swearing a good deal of late. In other clubs were paying Philadelphia 25 no club. He'll have to settle cm tho lyn. In recognition of Mr. Chadwick's Dave Foutz says the abolition or modi­ cents for each admission at home and League's regular 25 and 50 cent basis, passed by the League at the instance this true?" years of hard work in the interest of the fication of tilt- bunt will usher Iu far more of President Byrne were most appropriate were only receiving 12y3 cents at Phila­ whether his grand stand cost seven cents sport the league adopted the follow­ scientific place batting. "Uncle Joe," said George, "it is a or *1.000.000." mid in singular good tnste. Nothing, we lie," and the boy burst into tears. delphia. Cleveland, Boston mid Cincin­ ing resolutions of sympathy for the Dave Foutz will succeed Dan Brouthers are sure, could havo gratified the "father nati entered strong objections to this; Later on Mr. Rogers said he'd sell afflicted gentleman: at first base for Brooklyn. Big Dan may ol base ball" more. INDOOR. BASE HALL New York, Chicago^ Brooklyn and Pitts- out, and argued that the cheap Western Resolved, Thnt this body lenrns with regret be found with Louisville. During the League meeting, President is prospering in Cleveland. The local burg accepting the division under pro­ clubs were trying to get the big end' of tliftt Mr. Heiu*y Olwdwlck, who. since the or- According to an Omaha paper "White Powers, ol the Eastern League, was be­ Pythian Lodges have the strongest test. The Philadelphia Club had made the cake in League legislation. Ho did Kniilzation of profeseUdinl huge ball in this coun­ Wings" Tebenu is figuring on playing with sieged by magnates in search of good league. There are four clubs the try, has been a ehamplon of honest, upright and Washington next season. private arrangements with the four As­ not make very complimentary remarks mnnly methods in phtying the game, and has players, aud Patrick had these men to Pythias, Damoiis, Kings and PliHos sociation clubs iu the new body, namely. about Messrs. Brush, Robison, Von der done much to enable the national gunie to reaeh Captain McKenzio, of the Princeton recommend: Cahlll, catcher ol Trov; Bon- and four games aru played every week. Ahe and Hart. Its present hlffh standard, has been for some time, base ball team, Is trying lor a place on ner, short stop, ol Wilkesbarre; McLangh- Louisville, St. Louis, Baltimore and lin, pitcher, of Wllkesbarre; Bruckenrldge, Such well-known players as Charley END OP THE DAY'S WORK. and la now seriously ill. We desire to say that Princeton's loot ball team. Zimmer, George Rettger and Audy Som- Washington. this body hereby extends to Mr. Ohndwiek Its Manager Ward says he will h:ive a first baseman. of Troy: Gilbert, thitid base- The , feeling between the Philadol- The only other business transacted by sincere sVmpathy in his affliction, arut while re- team next season that will play the game man, of Springfield; Eagan, second base­ rners, are taking part in the games. phias, on one hand, and the Bostons, the League during the day was to name crettinjf hU absence from onr annual meoting, as the Bostons did last season. mau, of Albany; Lynch, outfielder of WHERE THEX AIl» AT. ClevsMands and Cinciunatis o» the other, the Rules Committee nauioly, Messrs. hope and truit he will be blest with early con­ Pitcher Huwley threatens to retire and Springfield, and Lally, outfielder, of Erie. Charley /immer is now the only mem­ Strew very bitter, and in order to bal­ Brush, Von der Ahe and Reach and to valescence. go into business with his father, who has Next season New York patrons will ber of the Cleveland team of '1)3 left in ance up things the other clubs began sot the date and place of the next sched­ The meeting was finally ndjourned, to a sporting goods store iu Milwaukee. have score cards worthy the name. Harry the city. Captain Tebeau and Jack to withhold Philadelphia's receipts when ule meeting, which will occur February meet again in New York, February 20, Jake Wells expects to manage the Stevons, of Pittsburg, the greatest hustler O'Connor are in St. Louis, Jake Virtue the Fifth Avenue Hotel. The 1894. among all the score-card men. will have the Quakers played on their grounds, 26, at Mobile team next season That means that charge of the privilege, as he closed a in Philadelphia, Clarence Childs in Bal­ paying them on the same basis they League then adjourned until 10.30 Fri­ there will be no ball club at I'cusncola. contract with the New York Club for It timore, I'M. McKean in Grafton, Jim were paid 12% cents admission. When day morning. ECHOES OF THE MEETING. "The Dutchman and the Tramp" is the last week. Last season the score cards McAleer in Youngstown, Buck Ewiug in tlifse clubs came to Philadelphia Colonel title ol the sketch in which Billy Hallman, furnished at the Polo Grounds would have Cincinnati, Jesse Burkett and "Chin" Rogers and his partners naturally with­ THE CLOSING SESSION. A Remarkably Harmonious and ol the Phillies, and John Mackin appear. been a disgrace to a minor league town. It is within the range of possibilities Stpvens always has a printing press on SicGarr are at their' homes in Massa­ held from them the sums which hud Business-Like Gathering—Its Strik­ that Boston may exchange pitcher Stlvctts the grounds In whatever city he is located, chusetts, "Cy" Young is taking it easy been deducted from their receipts, and The Cleveland Franchise Matter Dis­ ing Points. for catcher Morgan Murphy, ol Cincinnati. so that he can get the names of the play­ on his farm down in Gilmore, U., John there was a fine how-d'-ye-do all around. posed of—Final Business Touches. The annual meeting of the National The New York Club may try to secure ers at the last moment, and buvers of Clarkson is hunting in Southern Kansas, The Philadelphia Club had the best of The chief business of the final meet­ League and American Association, given Burkett ol Cleveland, and McKean, ol the his cawls can be reasonably certain that and George Cuppy is building bridges it, however, because the ethers had ing on Friday, November 17, was the above in detail, came to a conclusion same club, has asked Ward to get his the names and positions are correct. round about Logansport, lud. started the withholding business too late. Cleveland franchise question. President with all parties, bar one notable excep­ release. NOTES AND NEWS. Wires were set at work, however, and liobison, the owner of the Cleveland tion, seemingly fairly well satisfied that Boston could get a big pot of money lor McKean declares that if Cuppy's hotel all the clubs of the League came to the on the whole the meting was a success. either Duffy. Nash or McCarthy Irom New DARTMOUTH DOINGS, at Milwaukee costs $11,000,000, he will conclusion that the Philadelphia Club Club, made no bones of his pressing York, but the triumvirs never sell star desire to sell out. Just what Mr. Rob In fact one representative of a promin­ players. The Captain For Next Season's Ball build one to cost twice as much, and should be compelled to divide on the ison's reasons are for retiring are nol ent club who has oftentimes blocked the Uick AVetherlll, the organizer ot the that it will cost $10 just to ask the name lines as the body, namely, 50 per known. Some say that he was caught way through lack of faith in the sin­ first prolesslonal ball club Cedar Hapiils Team Selected. clerk, "Is that clock right?" cent, of all its admission money. Col­ short in the late financial panic; others cerity and unselfish motives of his asso­ ever had, is uovv au engluecr on au Iowa Hanover, N. H., Nov. 20. G. A. Huff, Before he left Cleveland, "Kid" onel Rogers, however, became defiant, that he is tired of the game and' wants ciates, put himself on record as saying railroad. of Chicago, 111., was elected captain of Childs was asked if he would play hers and, through the "Sporting Life," threat­ to be relieved of the responsibilities of that, with the exception of the Philadel­ President Hart, ol Chicago, says he the base ball team for the coming sea­ in '1)4. "Sure thing," said the fat boy; ened the League with legal proceedings ownership in order to give more atten­ phia, incident, it was the fairest, pleas- has 16 men already under contract. Why son this afternoon. He graduated from "as long as Cleveland wants me I am if the present meeting should decide tion to his varied and important busi­ antest and most businesslike meeting ol not send the contracts to Nick Young lor the University of Illinois last year and satisfied to remain here." against him, which threat had about as ness interests. the body ha had ever attended. After promulgation? entered the Medical School here last Jesse Burkett was heard from last much, effect as water on a duck. OPPOSED TO TRANSFER. the first day's session merely routine Electrotype cuts ol all the pr rniiuent summer. He captained the University DISCUSSING THE CASH). base ball players from 1883 to 18!)4 are week. He is in business in Worcester, There was no doubt ing the fixed pur­ and miscellaneous business remained to tor sal* by th» "Sporting Life" at $1 ball team last season, so is well fitted Mass., and is doing well. The League tackled the problem at pose of Mr. Robison to sell, and he be done. each, post paid. for his present position. He will catch Ground keeper Tom Lawrence has once on Thursday morning. Colonel claimed that he had bona fide offers The new rules committee, consisting President Hart says money can't buy for the nine, filling Ramsey's place. By been playing the runners with some Rogers talked for over an hour and a from Detroit and Buffalo parties. But of Moasrs. Brush, Von der Aho and Dahlcn, as Chicago has never recovered his steady and efficient work as left success since the season closed. half, and proved from Secretary Young's while there was every desire to oblige Reach proved satisfactory in every way from the setback they got when they sold guard oa the champion eleven he has Tebeau slipped away to St. Louis very minutes of the Indianapolis meeting Mr. Robison for his past important ser and with the suggestions which will be Kelly aud Clarksou to Boston. won the favor of every man in college quietly. He will probably remain over of 1891 that Philadelphia was granted vices to the old League and the present furnished them from the different otli- Manager Bancroft has given up the six- and will take up his duties supported by the holidays. the right to charge 25 cents admission twelve-club League, there was unalter­ cials, managers and1 press represcnta- day pedestrian match at Cincinnati on the student body. It is pleasing to note that the League to the games in that city. Not one of able* opposition to transferring the frau tivss, some advisable changes wil account ol his inability to secure a proper magnates, with scarcely nn exception, the magnates outside those from the chise from Cleveland, the third best doubtless result. building to hold the event in. The New York Club has slipped up In Providence in Good Shape. decline to even seriously _ consider the Quaker City could remember how those city in the West, to Detroit, a city that It has been claimed' that some con­ question of substituting" Detroit for minutes came to be put iu the secre­ had a franchise and a champion teiin siderable dissatisfaction was expressed its efforts to secure catcher Farrell. of Providanae, Nov. 20. The 1'rovldence Washington, or iufleldfir Duhlen, ot Chi- Base Ball Club Imx a balance on hand of Cleveland. tary's books. They were there, how­ and was not able with all these advan over the fact that the making of tha cigo. Neither club will sell at any price. ¥"30.76, with a balance due from the for­ EI.MEU E. BATES. ever, not as a law, for it never came to tages to keep up its »ud. Good cities schedule had again been placed in the The New York Club has purchased mer manager of $98.44. Tbe income from a vote. It was enough to give Colonel are too hurd to get to think of substitu hands of Secretary Young. If auy outtieldcr Van Haltren Irom Plttsburg lor home games was £tO,lWO, and from games The Chicago and Baltimore clubs are Rogers a strong position, and one that ting for them sleepy towns that never such dissatisfaction existed it must have ( JOO. It is not known iu whose place abroad $5000. Visiting clubs were paid thinking of trying Mike Kelly, and even the League could not overlook. accorded1 a championship team go

thing of that sort. It is hoped the new bailed out several times. Two weeks aving such a man. The Colonels last committee on rule* realize the full im­ ST. LOUIS SIFTINGS. ago he was again arrested, and is now ear had pitchers who filled in well iu BROOKLYN BUDGET. BASE BALL portance of its duty. On that commit­ confined in the jail at Edwardsville, 111., pinch, notably Menafee. But the tee depends, in great measure, the sport­ BYBNE TALKS OP SELLING FOUTZ to await trial on December 8, when he lan of using pitchers outside of the NEW PLAYEKS NAMED FOB THE ing and therefore the financial success BY THE YARD. will be given a sentemce unless some ox has been shown to be a bad one. CHURCH CITY CLUB. of the League for the season of 1894. miracle in the shape of a good Samari­ itchers do not care to run the risk of If it makes rules that will beget play Review of the League Meeting by tan happens along and pays his fine. njuring their arms, and if they d'o, 'aliill, Gilbert and Tom Brown the in the field to hold public attention and Cusick was once a backstop of ability, lis is apt to result disastrously. Men- MOTT'S MISSIVE patronage, the next season will more Von Der Ahe and Munson—APath- and caught for the Philadelphia team. fee played left in Cleveland one day Men—Foutz May Rest Next Season than duplicate the past. The play in etlc Tale of the Ex-Ball Player's Since his retirement from base ball he nd distinguished himself by a brilliant —Honors to Brooklyn—News of the the field will not be the same unless Adversity—Gossip. worked occasionally but rarely and tinning catch and a quick return to the Week. SOME PERTINENT COMMENT UPON some changes are mad'e. By the prac­ performed odd and menial chores around ifield, which resulted in a double play, tice of on« season pitchers have over­ 'hat double play cause 1 his arm U> St. Louis, Nov. 10. Editor "Sporting tho saloon of the Daly Brothers, on Brooklyn, Nov. 21. Editor "Sporting THE LEAGUE MEETING. come the extra distance and other in- Market street. ain him at times throughout the re­ !_ife:" The Church City wheels are tentled handicap, and only the Life:" Mr. Von der Ahe and Mr. Mun­ minder, as he had gone oil the field son returned from the League meeting This is an example for those players roing round, and we have three play era MASTER BATSMEN who are in danger of dropping into the irect from the train, the day was raw, n the press, ready to turn them out to-night. The boss' attentions to Charley nd he had not warmed up. Breckiu- of the profession were able to get an Byrne at the League meeting must have sordid and abortive army of the tipple, ull-fledgcd Brooklynites, provided the Time Surely Strengthening Instead ol occasional hit in the middle and toward idge provides the club, as it now stands, vind blows the right way. These are diverted bin intentions. He had de­ knave and sluggard. vith a good substitute, as even can he the close of the last season. There was signs on the sinuous shadowgraphist There is talk of getting up a benefit .'ornmy Cahill, who was Troy's catcher I'eakeDiflgtaeTwelye-Clul) Organi- then only an average of about seven hits ot play the infield' with the exception and manager last season; third' base- from Brooklyn, the long-drawn and ever for Cusick, but I thing nothing will f first base, he could take Tim to a game by one team, including bunts, come of it. He is in poor health and his nan Gilbert, of Springfield, and Tom gepial Dave Foutz. 3'Rourko's place in right, for Tim is Jrown, of Louisville. zation Hanlon Moving to Reor­ and that does not give one to each in­ "Byrne said a funny thing to the confinement in a damp jail tilled with y no means a bad infielder. Even ning even. The majority of batsmen the scum of humanity will not improve niB FIFTH TOM. boss, says Mr. Munson. iiould the signing of Breckinridge mean Cahill had the boss catcher's record ganize His Team. were helpless and all suffered to some "I wouldn't mind having Dave Foutz his condition. If any of tha friends of iiat Brown will not bo at first for the extent. As the batting of the first part his prosperous days whose eye may 'or '93, he doing full duty in sixty-six of tho season ceased the attendance on the Browns, if we could strike a Colonels, Bill will not be greatly consecutive games, and is said to be bargain for him," said Chris to Charley strike this paragraph wish to assist him larmed, as he is altogether too good a a wizard behind the bat. Brooklyn has Baltimore, Nov. 21. Editor "Sport­ gradually fell off, and some of this was in any way, they can forward their due to the dominance of the pitcher. Byrne. man to go to shoveling coal yet. he refusal of his services, and it is ing Life:" That.seems to have been a "How would you pay me for Foutz, mite to me, care of St. Louis "Chroni­ PRETTY fiOOD NERVE, THIS. piite probable that he will anchor at very happy meeting of the Moguls in If bunting is prohibited there will nat­ cle," and I will acknowledge it in For steel-ribbed, copper-bottomed urally result a trifle more of hitting Chris by the yard?" Eastern Park next season. Cahill is Now York, and just what should have "What do you mean, Charley; are "Sporting Lifo." erye, that Brouthers-Tom Brown pro- milt much the same as Tommy Cor- boon anticipated by anyone who gave out, due to the concentration of the NOTES. osition was a corker. The man who efforts of the batsmen, but, it will not you joshing me?" said Chris. 'oran, and1 his friends give him cretlit thought to the subject. Traveling sales­ "Not exactly a jo»h. Dave measures Higgins, who umpired preliminary ex­ nade it could stand in front of a Krupp of being one of the men in the profes­ men do not start on their rounds in any be enough alone. It should1 be assisted un, receive the full force of the dis- by a more hittable ball coming over the pretty close to three yards, and I thought hibition games in Cincinnati last seasen, sion who possess brains aud know what city until prospective customers have it would be a good plan to sell him by called on me yesterday. He is after the harge, and then not receive a single trains aro for. plate, and any way to effect that would cut. Mr. Ruckstuhl was had their breakfasts and time for di­ be productive of much good in the direc­ the yard, if I parted with him at all," management of the Birmingham, Ala., approached NOT A NEW FACE. gestion with, perhaps, the aid of a sooth­ tion of enlivening the game and enlist­ said Mr. Byrne. team. i Now York by some magnate he de- Gilbert, although in second-class com- ing cigar. People are then found to be Chris commanded Byrne to cease his "I was sitting side of a jay in the linos to reveal the name of the gallous >any, has battled in the League, he ing a greater patronage and holding it. laving been with Baltimore not so long in a belter humor, and life has a rosier If the coamiittee conclude to let well idle joshing and get down to business, theatre the other night, and between the ndividual and offered Brouthers for Observant wives seldom suggest but the smooth little magnate from the acts he was looking over the pro­ Tom Brown. Mr. Uuckstuhl conrteous- igo. However, he is a comparative enough alone, basing non-action on the stranger to the general base ball pub­ "love-of-a-bonuet" to even doting patronage of last season, it will make a burg with the plethora of chapels and gramme," says Billy Joyce. "It said on y wired for the advice of Manager husbands iinlil after they have dined dominies refused to entertain any propo­ the programme: "Two acts elapse be­ Jarnie and Capt. Pfeffer. It is needless ic, but the claim is made that he will very serious mistake, and it will be be on good terms with all in a. short mid are content with the world. So illustrated before the Fourth of July sition that the boss could offer. tween act two and three.' The jay o tell what the response was. Capt. these majii-ites, coming together after a games. Of course the action of the Arid thus it is that the Fonts! bubble read it aloud to me, and said: 'Say, ^feffor was so dazed for several days ime, as he is a future star at third plethoric uieal off the public purse, were lias gone the way of the Kelly-Jerome- partner, I'm not going to sit here for the hat his friends thought he must, have )ase. His work from the start proved committee is not final, as it will have lim above the average, and his play' expected to iron out the wrinkles iu to be reviewed by the February meet­ Latham starring combination. rest of this show.' And he went out." iccoine a dope fiend. Just what hap- the baso ball mantle and ing of the League, but its reco-miuend'a- C1I1US' BREEZY CHAT. Jack Crooks and Jack O'Conuor send icued to Manager Barniu out on the ng with Springfield last year justified I'ATai IT LT "I guess we will penalize the bnnt," regards. oast has not been learned, but the iigh opinions that were formed of him. tious are necessary to show the public iy the way, did you know that New wilH invisible scams as a seasonable that it recognizes the situation and did said Mr. Yon der Ahc. "That is the best Charley King doesn't. mven't the slightest doubt that it must compromise we could possibly make JOB CAMPEELL, lave caused the Bostons to lose a game, York wanted Gilbert pretty badly. It's garment for 1894. Everybody had made propose to provide a remedy. The a fact, and John W'ard had a $500 Dudley, li'.id so why should they quarrel. legislation should be for the general with it. You will probably see some ilnnager Barnie could have gotten new faces iu the Brown's infield next Brouthers early last season as a gift, heck in his inside pocket, waiting to Waltzing Wagner and Colonel Percent. good of the game without bias as to serve cash notice on Nick Young ol KuA'ci'o were pronounced not guilty, and its effect upon any particular club in season. The new faces will be pret­ LOUISVILLE LINES. nit Wise William passed Dau by, and tier than those that emerge from the otham's desire to land the gentleman, to!d to not do it ugaiu. That was really the pennant race. No doubt the com­ igned "Big Bill" Brown. Big Bill was jut when he quietly presented his bit this only occasion for a light, and mittee will lose sight of tho effect of collars of Perry Werden, Jack Crooks u the game for Louisville from first to why and Joe Qninu. I don't mean by that BASE BALL, FROM A FALLS CITY of paper to the League president he light for L'H)dlc when your pockets are the adoption of its recommendations ast. Brouthers was taken back by 'ound that somebody had been there upon the particular clubs of the mem­ that Jack, Perry or Joe will positively STANDPOINT. Brooklyn, and about all he succeeded full of it, ami no liabilities to call it be released. I was simply thinking how jefore him. Mr. Charles H. Byrne forth. It appears to have been a ban­ bers or the personnel of their teams, n doing was to cause the" people, who uade up his mind after a conference and that will be a very patriotic thing th«y stood on the score of good looks Afraid of Shadows—"Why Louisville ever saw him in his days of greatness, quet, of pence. ere the loving cup cir­ when I spoke. There may be one or with Manager Foutz some days ago culated, and no guile was found in any­ to do. Was Ready to Sell Out—First Bfcse- vonder how Dan ever got into the busi­ hat Gilbert would about suit Brooklyn, ALBERT MOTT. two, or three infield changes. I am not ness, aud why, if he really ever was any one. All this is the result of a League prepared to say just how many at pres­ niaii Breckiiiridge Secured—That and immediately took steps to close the comprising all Ihe fighting territory in good, he didn't quit when all his blush- jargain, and when Ward reached Young ent. Policy forbids ray giving away Brown Deal, Etc. ng honors were full upon him. one grand circuit, and the organization CINCINNATI CHIPS. any deals I may have on hand. I was :he greatest ball player on the Polo "ill continue to be fairly harmonious About the time this deal was proposed, rounds found that Mr. Byrne had not perfectly satisfiad with the outcome of Louisville, Nov. 22. Editor "Sport­ and successful so long as it does not THE MAGNATES SATISFIED WITH the -meeting. We are in good shape x-magnate Gatto informed me he had under the wire just fifteen minutes Kj-.iit uy into Iwo separate bodies. It is ing Life:" There was a great, deal of leard Louisville intended to let Tom ahead of him. Although this.was no RESULTS- financially, and will make money next base ball excitement in the city by the h.-uxlly probable, iudccme terri­ Post-Meeting Gossip—Mr. Ban John­ but good men will feel satisfied with quieted down yet. All icen stringing Larry, or Larry had been ng yet. tory. Certainly not until monopolistic son Hcatls the Western—Comiskey this was caused by speculation as to rying to string me. Larry seemed to LEFT TO BABNIH. the wages we will pay them." where Louisville would be when the The Tom Brown deal is in an ein- abuses create dissatisfaction in the pub- 1'leascd With the Team—Hoy, the I was surprised to hear of the ic in a serious frame of mind, but then lie, and even this is not anticipated. straits in which Easterr0tnrfmcn find umpire called for play in '94. In the t has been noised about that in his hryotic state as yet. All depends on 'Hie magnates who hold such a prospec­ New Centre Fielder—Local Notes. themselves this winter. All the summer letter of seven days ago your corres­ outh he was destined for the stage. Billy Barnie's decision and until he is tive bonanza as the absolute control running meetings of the Eastern Jockey pondent indulged in some speculation, SAM 1TKEB, JK. lieard from no definite step will bo of the givnt American sport would be Cincinnati, Nov. 22. Editor "Sporting c.lubs were failures. The bookmakers but since then facts Have leaked out taken. Barnie is in California, but up idiots to invite opposition iu thai way Life:" The lively meeting of the League and horsemen suffered alike. The times showing how near right those guesses GUS SCHMKLZ CRITICIZED. to to-night had sent no answer to tele­ officials has ended and were. That the League wants to go grams relating to the matter. Brown or a.uy other. Cincinnati has were hard, and the "pickers," who plug­ His Experimental Players For Wash- There is a deal being negotiated for a out of the shuffle well satisfied. ged along with their little $2 and $.> back to an eight-club circuit there can would fill the vacancy iu Brooklyn's TKAIJE OF I'LAYIUW Coniiskey was around New York with bets, got hatchets and chopped down be no doubt. There is further every rea­ ingtoii Not Satisfactory. left field all right, but if Blonde Bill iih Washington, hy which each club his eye peeled for recruits, but though their amusement expenses. This little son for tills desire. Everybody recog­ Gus Schinelz, in addition to being a decides that Louisville needs him, tha iil'i profit considerably, owing to the he attempted several deals only one went George Washington act prevented the nizes the fact that a twelve-club circuit food fellow and a good base ball man, Brooklyn Club will manage to worry different conditions of each team. The through successfully. The deal by which cherries, so to say, from growing on is not as desirable as the old plan. The s also something of a showman. Ho along with somebody else. i rojocl is to trade Jonnings and Mnl- Hoy was secured in exchange for Sulli­ the traes of the bookmakers, for they public in the big cities quite naturally started out last fall on a still hunt for NO QOTOK SHIFTS. got mighty few plums prefer to see eight strong clubs than to >aso-ball freaks, and he has succeeded The possible coming of these three new fi'iie f<;r Furrc'll. By that means \Vash- van and a considerable cash bonus was from the public- players naturally suggests the question i-igtoii v/oiihl secure a tbn-d biiscman quite exciting. Negotiations for the ex­ purse. occasionally witness games with two or n outdoing the museums. He has a Mr. Byrne told me that thousands throe strong clubs, and at other times rare good collection, headed by that old as to what is to become of other men mi 1.! sliU'on it.s pitching corps with a change had been going on during the in the club. I have made inquiry and goad baUman. Baltimore woidd prob­ day, and Manager Schmolz, after arrang­ of the patrons who journeyed to Sheeps- give up coin for teams badly outclassed. campaigner, who has worked the cir­ ably play 1'Vrrell at third base, as it ing all terms with Coniiskey, said he head Bay, Morris Park, Gnttenburg and Such a state of affairs is unfortunately cuit from Maine to California and De­ ascertained that Brooklyn does not in­ Gloucester, gave the tracks the go-by, always bound to exist, for there are troit to New Orleans, Count Campau, tend to be caught Short of men in case i.« well supplied with catchers iu Rob­ would lunch with Mr. Wagner and con­ of accident, and that the addition inson and Clark. No doubt Farrell sult him with regard to the exchange. and in \ested their spare money in base not enough good players to form twelve with his mustache, and that other rare to tha v, o;:ld pruvw to be a better third ba ;c- "Be back in half an hour," suit! Coniis­ ball at New York, Philadelphia and Al clubs, and tho contrast between good one, Pig AVard, who used to flirt force may not make any difference to iii.'i-i than he is at present if he was key. "SVe have only an hour before our Brooklyn. This simply shows that base the leaders and tho tail^enders is very with the black-board iu Cincinnati's those on the list now. Some pcopla (ionuaiioiitly placet! in that position and train starts." Promptly in half an hour ball is a poor man's game, the game of marked. ight field in his efforts to capture high will probably jump at the conclusion '••{< to work out its possibilities. The Schmclx returned and said "You may the people. Tho Louisville magnates saw the force lies. Gns has made it a point not to that the coming of Brown would mean THAT HANDICAP YARN. of all this, aud when Mr. Kuekstuhl ngago anyone that cannot bunt. The the playing of Foutz on first and tha :lt has been that he lias been shifted havi- Hoy." The articles of exchange ,,'cnial manager is now . :a tliMt place <.'.:,'riisi'>nully, and that were taken immediately to President That base ball handicap idea that has went to the League meeting he was resting on his disposal of Brouthers. But that is not been fermenting in the kaleidoscopic authorized to sell out. Still the Col­ >ars at his home in Columbus, but he the programme at all. Foutz may tako was just enough to lieup him from get- Young and signed, and Treasurer Lloyd HIS his trap set in the Three-Eyed and :in:-; things :it th/i'd down as line as his and Captnin Comiskey seized their grips head of a prominent and imaginary onels did not propose to give their fran­ the notion not to play next season, ex­ f.itics promised. There is no question. Western base ball writer was given the chise away. Far from it, as the modest :ho Blue-Grass Leagues for some more cept when occasion requires, he giving and made for their train, just reaching proposition of tho Louisville directors 3aso ball monstrosities. Cincinnati "In­ all of his time to the development or .>;:(. his batting, and with McGraw, it in lime. laugh by all who discussed it at the quirer." 'I.:-, a tit I Taylor as infield partner* that (X3MMY PRARED IN A TRADE. League meeting. But this doesn't shat- was to get out of the League for $G,~),000, the team. Brouthers is a mighty slick ' :on; would be in as good hands as In the half-dozen attempts made by er the belief in the idea -by the gentle­ and on top of that to keep the best play­ man on first base and as everybody i..l be dws'.red.' Sliindle has been Cincinnati to secure players it was man who originated it. He told me rs on the team, and have the right to Manager Gus Schmelz is gathering a knows a giant at the bat. This being fiamy to see with what wholesome re­ yesterday that he would advocate it, nter any organization they might deem :eaui for Washington that is very much the case President Byrne will think a that it would be established some This statement is not street talk, Southern League in its make-up. In­ dozen times befoise letting him go and his p.'ny. sunn times fiel.ling and bat- spect Comiskey is regarded by other day fit. stead of strengthening tho team, it look? ;,..L; with'lilt: bcvt, but many times tax­ managers. Deals for exchange were sev­ just the same as handicapping is placed but an absolute fact. When this had taking chances of crippling the club in on other sports, and he believed the leaked ont, the directors did not rise up as though lighter timber was being used case of accident at some other important is;^ !iie ^alienee of spectators to an eral times conducted down to the point :o close up the weak spots. Last sea­ alirining extent. He occasionally make;t of naming the players each side should public would indorse it . It's a good on their hind legs and howl an indignant corner. thing for the worthy, genial and denial. They avoided foolishly lying son the Senators were counted as the RICHARDSON STILJj ALONE. ' '--«' rifviiig plays, even sensational and select, but the moment Comiskey made leaviest a choice the other fii"htly young man in question that he about the situation, but when Mr. Huck- lot of stickers in the League, Nothing has been done in the case or i(lh',r ones, but never seems able to party to the deal »nd the team's chief handicap was a Richardson. While Mr. Byrne does not ike a happy medium of batting and would incontinently back out. A trade is not taken seriously. If he were he stnhl, upon his return, was questioned might be confined in what Jack Crooks ack of good pitching talent. Ted Larkiu harbor the ill-will that some might ex­ !.titling I'::: ! would place him in the re­ with New York by which the Giants on these points he merely replied: uis been dropped, and Cartwright se­ were to take a pitcher is pleased to term a "nut joint,' which "There are some things in base baJl pect, owing to Richardson's doings, still liable ^tnxs.. |[*> i; considered very good, in exchange for cured to take his place. "Pig" AVard, Messrs. Abcll and Goodwin are not fav­ inflf-od, if n belter cannot be had, but a fielder was all but completed, and I take it, means a home for those it would not do to tell." whoso brains arc playing tag with them- who wasn't strong enough for Baltimore orably disposed towards the man. They Fan-oil '.voiikl iinpire rn«re confi Irnce in Coniiskey was asked to name his man. Mr. Rucksltihl, however, now insists or Cincinnati, is to play right field, and He selected Stafford. The choice was that the twelve-club will certainly last argue that he not only set the author* KM* KICK I public and add considerably Jampau in left. The only pitcher signed ity of his superior officers at defiance, the club's batting average. It is evidently unexpected, but with "I must However, I am inclined to believe that for another year, aud expects the tho gentleman responsible for is a young amatenr from the Pennsyl­ but hurt the club severely in several >t\1 also lo inal-e another boost in consult Ward about this" the would- the Colonels to clear good money. If it does vania League, and some- unknown ball be-trader withdrew, and the subject was handicap argument is simply hard up last it will be on account of the stiff ways. In view of this they are slow to . Jailing average by corralling Bug tosser from Northern Ohio has been se­ consider any proposition looking to the aikiay. am' if a deal in not again broached. Attempts were for material on which to fill the space terms demanded by the clubs not want­ that dim- for the papers on which he is employed. cured to take Hoy's place. We wisli second basemau again wearing a Brook­ i i.-nn be cttectcd he would probably made to secure Stivetts also, by giving ed in an eight-club League. Looking at Manager Schmelz nothing but good I printed his interview one afternoon tho situation properly, Louisville's offer lyn uniform. ii.i played in the now vacant right field. Murphy aiul a cash bonus or Chamber­ uck. but with such a combination he SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST. Wn';*«r Brodic, Joe Kclk'.v and. Bug lain in exchange. Boston offered to buy whilst itt a merry low comedy mood. was not an unreasonable one. The men cannot CHOCKS' TOGS. hope to finish better than last in You noticed, of course, that Brooklytf H.'ill'dav oiighl lo make a right tidy out- Murphy, but would make no trade. at the back of the club took big chances the race. Cincinnati "Commercial." was given full recognition at the League ' id. and a very excellent balling one, Boston" is weak in pitchers, the point Jack Crooks swaddled in a double- invested a large bank-roll, and at lasl breasted "great coat," as they have it meeting last week, and that the ability i > i. These men, with the addition of wherein Cincinnati is generally acknowl­ have a strong club. Base ball interest and merit of the officials of the organiza­ Inks, should put the Orioles in edged to be strongly fortified, while the in London, took a turn on Broadway has again become a craze, and financia HELEN AND JOHN. this morning. Jack O'Conuor was with tion was conceded in a irtgnal manner. TUB FAST CLASH, latter needs hitters. While admitting that success is assured. That being the case It is the old story of the survival of an exchange of Chamberlain for Stiv­ him. . T . they could hardly afford to quit for a A Sto»/ of the Days When They von if i!fi other changes are made. "What's that your wearing, Jack, a Were Honeymooning. the fittest. Messrs. Byrne apd Abell That, liKU-t-vi T, docs not follow, for etts would benefit both clubs. President nominal sum and enter the troublet take sincere interest in the welfare Ms.niirur ilanlon shows a disposition to Soden declined to make the trade. night shirt?" said Doug Crothers, who waters of another association. The statement that Helen Dauvray happened by whilst Jack and yours of the entire League, and are not both­ iniVri'Vo ii,,. dub whenever there is any A WO1U) FUOM COMISKBY. At the same time they were willing to has sued her husband, John Ward, cap­ ered with petty vanities. The two show­ IP!'-:.: available. Milce Kelly has been Coraiskoy, who passed through here truly were discussing actor Coghlan s yield gracefully to the desires of the tain of the New York base ball team, foi late marriage, Grover Cleveland s in­ ed their magnanimous spirit at the re­ moi.! soiled as a possible addition to the on hU way to Indianapolis, said he was other League magnates, and sell out al divorce, reminds the Louisville "Courier- cent meeting, when they wanted to with­ toam, bill it i; not believed Mr. Ilan­ rather glad he had not given up Morgan creasing adiposity, George Stevenson s a figure that would have properly paic Journal" man of tho following inter­ reesnt theatrical inclinations draw Brooklyn from the Board of Direc­ lon has any serious intentions in that Murphy, and said that the only reason and the them for the risk they had taken am esting story. tors, to which place it had been assigned Erection, certainly not if these o'her he had offered him was that the young bunt hit. ,. also leave Louisville assured of base ball Two Louisville girls went to New York in the usual way. They Wanted to step 'i .ire Rotten. II is not by any means man is not satisfied in Cincinnati. He "That's the latest style in a toga, representation iu a new organization to attend the art school. They lived at a said Jack. "I'm broke. When a man s boarding house where there were a number aside for anybody that might be named, .!.: ; -, :'.->t T'K-lor will play at all next said he felt better satisfied with the Some want to stay in the League but the proposition would not be con­ team in its present shape than he had broke he's got to make a (lash with as they want to see all the stars, but of very stylish aud agreeable people. clothes to get along on. There s a line Among them were a charming pair, a Mr. sidered by the othef" clubs. It was in man has to bo provided. It may not been at any time since he accepted its there are those who argue that there and Mrs. John Ward. One evening Mr. vain that Mr. Ahejl insisted. He and . ^.... . L-X j ;;is lo : ..*' UK management. He went to New York from one of tho poets I don't think was just as much excitement and inter­ Ward, who sat next to one of the girls at it's from the "Police Gazette" which Byrne were answered in an emphatic a;; i,; iLat i»i!siuAT BAT. tho American Association, to spread League clubs,' ' There is enough talent tary and treasurer belled into one. Mr. Once their names stood out conspicu­ BKECKIN'RinGEnucV'K-TV SECURED without contradict ion, he ought to call last "Home-Run" P.reckmridsc in the Lcagiit now, if it can be prop­ Johnson has aspired to the position of ously in the sporting columns of the At Manager Bancroft Slips Off With * himself into retirement and meditate erly distributed. One club has a super­ secretary for some time, bnt was hardly has been secured for the Louisville Club papers'. Now they are willing to accept Cincinnati Girl- on his sins. There is no denying tho fluity of what is a deficiency in another, prepared for such a shower of bless­ an income barely sufficient to hold body While Mr. Uuckstuhl was in New Yorl fact that Chris is vain. Ho would like nuil when all the negotiations and deals ings. There can be no complaint that and soul together. Base ball as a pro­ he served notice that ho would draf Cincinnati, Nov. 20. Colonel Franl to shine as a League magnate, and for huve been made, the twelve teams are the newspaper men are not well repre­ fession reminds me of politics. Trov's first base-man, and has beer C. Bancroft, business manager of th' that reason yearns for a place on the likoly to be in very fair shape, and sented in the Western Association. While the game lasts it's chickens, awarded that player. An effort wa Cincinnati Club, slipped off to Ports Board of Directors. He thinks of the more equal in playing strength. Be­ LITTI.E PARAGRAPHS. made t» get him last spring, and it wa mouth, O., on the Itith inst., where he plenty of it, and tho money flows was married to glory that was his in the old Associa­ sides, . .mcndutfms to the playing rules Several attempts were made to secure through the prodigal fingers like wator. thought everything had been arranged Miss Marie Siefried tion and argues that he should havo uuiy have a lendoney to put things more Dwyer but Csmiskey said "Nay, he is but it turned out Troy's claim conk of this city. "It is not good for man t When it comes time to take a stop not be set aside that late in tho day live alone" is one of the Scriptural Lu some of the same now. Chris forgets on "a balance. Pitching distance, re­ not "on my list of 'availablas.' " down aud out, the poor devils who have that he is at present in the company of strictions in bunting and sacrificing, and Manager*gc Bancroft was quietly mar- Tho public here has always been cage junctions that "Bannie" enthusiastic-all} been ordering the fare that a first- to see the man famous for so man indorses. New Bedford, Mass., has los men who do things on a business basis oliw features frequently affect one team ricd at: 1Portsmouth, O., and has taken class hotel affords arc forced (o content and have no use for the happy-go mure iliaii the other, and even if all the rooms in the city. He intsnds to make long drives wearing a Louisville un a citizen, and Cincinnati has gaiiiei themselves with the bread that they form. It is a question, though, jus one. Mayor Hale, of Portsmouth, per lucky methods that obtained with < ).'! * shoiii.i open up in 1894 as they Cincinnati his home and expects to break over the humble board of a cheap the Association. His associates in closed iu 1893, the standing at the end what will be done with Brockinridge formed the ceremony. Manager Ban bring his son here. boarding house. Then they begin to Tho retirement of Mr. William Browr croft did not tell a soul about the ar the League happen to be thoroughly of the sei'-'oii would not be the same Chris You der Ahe is again accused of think that the world owes them a giving. in earnest, and when they named under eluii!s:«-_XOLIA,' effect would make the result the same are making about cues Loui»rille has suffered from uo Fa. uth as centering the pitchur or any- PAUL CHA1IBERLIN. fit of SeeoucU and, principal*. Dan was THE SPORTINQ LIFE. Nov. 25.

hat President Nicklin had for Atlanta of fact, in the last four years some one cold plunks. A leading official wag ast season, as he did not like the idea of of the foreign towns has been the PITTSBURG PENCILLLNG8. heard to ask a man if a certain East­ CHICAGO GLEAN1KGS. BASE BALL, >eing paid off in notes. O, yes, Chat- favorite here. The question of success ern lieaguier ever gave a comparison of anooga is a barnacle to the League, you here, therefore, depends almost alto­ THE CLUB DISPOSES OF ONE OF Dad Clarke and Nichols, Erie's pitch­ THE OFFICIAL. SCOHER REPLIES iet, and Atlanta is the Southern metrop- gether in getting new men who can put ITS STARS. ers. TO HIS CRITICS, Jis of the base ball profession. up a tip top article of ball. Ned Swartwood was one of a party In the srtine issue of the aforesaid UNFAVORABLE COMPARISOy. New York Paid Well For Run-getter of hunters in Eastern Ohio last week. And Explains How He Did His Work SOUTHERNJFFAIRS. laper another fellow bobs up rather I asked Manager Barnie recently how I They ran across more than one farm 'ioleutly from the City of Winds, and the teams were compared with the clubs Van Haltren—Some Gossip From which bore the sign "No shooting here." —Some News of the Team—Prob­ after sailing into Francis C. Ilichter, as of Eastern minor Leagues. Iu years the Recent League Meeting—News They crossed one of these farms. The able Make-up of the Nine—Anson i sort of appetizer, he next quotes THE MACON CLDB'S EXTRAORDINARY gone by, when the magnates who guided Notes, Ctc. owner was cutting corn, and he spoke to Remain in Harness, Etc. C'hadwick and then Mott, and finally the sport on the coast contended that: up as they passed by, "No shooting, winds up with your humble servant. I FINANCIAL PROCEEDINGS. talent discarded by the National League Pittsburg, NOT. 21. Editor "Sporting men." "All right," was the reply. Just im sure I owe Mr. Dixie Hines, as he was not good1 enough for California, I then a big bunuie jumped up. Every Chicago, 111., Nov. 14. Editor "Sport­ signs himself, many thanks for putting Life:" Perhaps the sale of centre ing Life" Just returned from a trip to might have asked for a comparison be­ fielder George Van Haltren to the man covered him in a jiffy. "Don't ne in the snme category of objects of tween our teams and those of the great fire," said one, and sullenly every gun Cleveland, I began a careful examina­ To Attach the League's Reserve Fund, lis malice as the persons mentioned, and Giants was the biggest thing in the way tion of my "Sporting Life" files. Two Eastern organization. But as we grow of a base ball news item in this was lowered. lope I may ever deserve to row in the older, wiser and occasionally more mod­ city the Al Buckenberger is dabbling in foot weeks back, to my intense surprise, I same boat. Guess I can stand it if he past week. found an extract from a New York Which Altmayer, of Macon, Handled est our bump of self-esteem assumes Although some papers are ball at Wheeling. He is a coach for the an. This fellow must, be some sort of humbler proi>ortions from the polish of saying "we Nail City eleven, which meets Martin's daily containing some interesting re­ so Badly-Some Alleged Critics a modern Kip Van Winkle, and been experience; so I propounded my query, told you so," it is safe enough for others Ferry in a big game shortly. marks concerning the scorer of the New 'ust aroused from a prolonged* siesta cov­ expecting that the Louisville manager to assert that the sale was somewhat A story came from the League meet­ York Club, by "the ex-editor of the ex- ering a period of three or four years, as would have a meed of praise for the of a surprise. The sale of Stenzel wus ing that New York wouldn't trade Davis organ." Furthermore, I learned from Answered. le suddenly awakens to the fact that a home product. But Sir William, though generally looked for. for Patsy Tebeau. That's all that could the ex-editor's remarks that I was a new plan has been sprung upon the base kindly, was disposed to be critical. "You Van didn't stand very well with the be heard of the matter. substitute, an inexpensive hireling and 'tall world, which he credits to me as l>e- have any number of good ball players club folks after the Philadelphia series, A young man wlio bet that Cincinnati a generally insignificant sort of indi­ Chattanooga, Tenn., Nov. 18. Editor where he was accused of going to sleep vidual. Many thanks! Evidently the "Sporting Life:" We've had no end to ng something entirely new and nonsen­ out here, but they do not play the same would win sixth place came hustling sical, a plan which shocks him and drives game put up by Eastern minor league in the outfield and misjudging a fly ball in to see me the day after the ex-editor never saw me. I have seeu sensations down here in the Sunny South, which gave the I'hillies a hard fought League tiim and didn't take a second look. since base ball was sprung upon its peo­ m to frenzy. teams. There is not that pleasing snap meeting. He wanted to know what had Ye sods, aud little pisces! he considers to their play that one notices elsewhere. game. But all this was apparently brer done in the case. After a search Somebody made a base hit just then ple, but the latest from Macon is a It seemed to mo that some of the boys smoothed over by his good play later on. and 1 had to watch the diamond. Then honey-cooler, and just double discounts he "Millennium Plan," as suggested by the writer fouu-1 that the League re­ me to the Southern League in my pre­ size up the crowd first and play ball ac­ The day the season closed, a local paper fused to allow the Washington forfeit. a base was stolen, and 1 forgot the ex- anything in the sensation line that has vious letter, cordingly. I observed this tendency par­ said in a guessing way that perhaps the editor's existence. Let us change the ever knocked us galley west. the fruit of my own brain, Not every paper printed the matter. As I and something quite new and original, ticularly when on the road with the Californian wouldn't be on the team Billy Earle will never need another subject. wrote iu my last, Sam Altmeyer, the cus­ Oakland s and Bostons. A true player next season, because of his easy fly The question of scoring rules particu­ todian when every boy who knows anything course in hypnotism if he again gives of last season's about the game can tell you that the I throws his whole soul into every game, dropping propensity and proneness at out a story that he had to jolly Killen. larly as followed in Chicago seems to SINKING FUND Editor of the "Sporting Life" is the no matter how small the attendance times to run bases badly. This article The latter hasn't forgotten the Cincin­ greatly interest the ex-editor. Possibly had. for reasons best known to himself, author of it, and that it was thoroughly may be, and iu this respect the Califor- stirred up the Californian. He hunted nati story and speaks of it every now as I have only written base ball five invested the money of the League in discussed aud published some five years nians make a serious mistake." irp the club officials, and, they say, de­ and then. years aud missed during that period such a manner that same could not be ago in every base ball column of the "But you must admit," I protested, manded very forcibly an understanding Elmer Smith is already growling about three innings of a game played in 1801 considered a cash asset of the organi­ eadiug papers of the United States. "that the Frisoos aud Oaklands played for next year. The club promptly a long winter. Hunting is so good this my ideas on scoring may be raw, crude zation. Instead of the money being This wiseacre must have been out farm- ball for all that was in them in the signed him, and according to report, fall that it is hardly any use of going and full of inexperience. Nevertheless ready for call at any moment, this being ng in the backwoods districts about games in this city against Boston." jave an assurance that he would be put after game. Smith has been search­ I will give them for whatever they may the main thing to be considered iu get­ :hat time aud ever since, or he would "They playeel good ball," responded1 here. ing the woods in vain. be worth. A few words on the scoring of ting the money together as a sinking not show such extreme ignorance on a Barnie, "simply because they were made The day the sale was made the There are now just two candidates sacrifice hits and stolen bases the fund, Mr. Altmeyer invested it in ronl subject which he considers himself pro- elo so by the Bostons. Mind you, I writer remarked to a club official that for the League umpire staff from this stumbling blocks and chief sources of estate in Macon, aud when a call is icieut enough to write about. As to speak only by what I have seen. The it was a good thing the transfer occur­ section. One man has withdrawn from dissension among scorers may be tol­ made on him for it the magnates find lis remark that I offered this plan "with boys are playing on the i>ercentage plan red in winter, as there would have been the field, having secured something erably interesting. My ideas, on these that they can take it all out in whist- now, and perhaps acted differently when a grand howl over it. Van Haltreu points were as follows: :nany excuses," I will simply say that salaries is pretty good. Jing. After the League meeting, at IB proves himself to be an unblushing were paid." a good strong player. He hits well, Billy Gumbert injured an ankle while POIXTS ON SOOIUNG. which Macon wis not represented, the srevaricator, as I not only asked the NO FINDS IN OAIJFORNIA. runs fast and is a good judge of a fly in practice at foot ball the other even­ A sacrifice hit was credited on any ef­ officials of that club had a sort of griev­ League members, but urged them ear­ Manager Barnie, a few days ago, ad­ ball. Of course, he has his faults. ing. Despite this he was in Saturday's fort which advanced a baseruuuer, while ance meeting amongst themselves, the nestly to adopt it, and am extremely mitted he was looking for some new As a run-getter few can beat him. savage struggle between the P. A. C.'s [Hitting out the batsman, and a time at outcome of which was a resolution sorry that the Chattanooga representa­ men to strengthen his team for 1S1H, Just now it is a guess as to whether and A. A. A's. The latter won 8 to 4. bat was deducted for every intentional drafted by them, to the effect that, in­ tives, who were to champion it at the but said he saw no one among the ball the club will play Stenzel in the out- Gumbert had a lip cut in the row, but bunt sacrmce. In case an error was made asmuch as the Southern League saw tit neeting, were not present to do so. Bet- tossers out this way whom he wished to Beld or accept one of the four offers for got even. upon a palpable sacrmce, the batsman to disband and dissolve without con­ :er try to give the readers of your sheet sign. If he came to California, partly him, said to have been received at the CIRCLE. was still credited with the s-u-rifiee, and sulting them in the matter, for the purpose of picking up a few more meeting. the same deduction of a time at bat. and as they, some "news," Mr. Dixie, and don't fill players of the Deuny, Tom Brown or in their own estimation were therefore hree-fourths of your letters with quota­ UP FROM THE WILDS. Twice during the year, with a runner on Van Haltren type he will doubtless SALT CITY SAYINGS. third, batsmen were ordered to try for the last club remaining in the League, tions copied from the writers of the return home somewhat disappointed. Al Buckenberger came up to-day from they were entitled to the entire reserve "Sporting Life." the wilds of Wheeling, Glasscook's town, Base Ball Once More an outfield fly, and succeeded, bringing The Louisville base ball iuipressario a Topic of Talk in the runner. 1 made the same deduc­ fund aud would at once institute pro­ AL. \VT3NFELD. lias held a few receptions for the first time in nearly four weeks. —Chances For a Club. ceedings toward securing the money. since his ar­ The writer met him this afternoon, and tion in times at bat in these cases, as rival, the visitors being local stars who Syracuse, N. Y., Nov. 20. Editor the intention was equally apparent, and Now you can talk about would like to shed their effulgent rays had a nice little talk. Said Albert: "I "Sporting Life:" The buzz of the base HIGHWAY ROUBERY, CALIFORNIA CULLINQ8. was having a good time down there and the effort involved rather greater. on fields beyond the Kockies. He gave ball bee is now distinctly heard in these The ex-editor is hardly to be blamed misplaced confidence and breach of prom­ the^m little eneouragtnent wouldn't have come up, but \ got inter­ concerning se­ ested in the many reports that the club parts, aud the people are about awak­ for kicking at the New York scorer's ise suits as much as you want up in ANSON7 MAY TAKE HIS TEAM TO curing situations in other minor leagues. ening to the belief that Syracuse is way of counting stolen bases if the lat- Chicago after the Fair is over, but if "Boys," said he, "you don't know was going to sell some more players. THE COAST. when Besides, the papers were full of a trade once more to "shy her castor" into the ter's method was as the ex-editor de­ this Macon episode isn't an aggravated you are well off. Stay in California. ring of the National game. One month scribes it. Stolen combination of all three, I give it up. The country is filled of Bauer for Hallinan, etc. No, the bases in Chicago were The Bostons Doing Well in a Finan­ with ball players, Van Hallren sale was a surprise, ago it was as good as settled that our credited, in audition to those made ill In the first place, whose fault was it e-ager to take a job on the diamond to me. fans must go another cial Way—Howard Earlc Accident­ I didn't know® tiling about it until I season without the good old-fashioned way that every­ that Macon was not represented at the for a trifle above bed and board." the luxury of a ball team, but the body understands, League, as she should have been, and HOW THE JJEANEATEUS FARE. received a message from Mr. Kerr. I on the following ally Shot—Prospects For the Com­ always thought Van was going to be scene has changed, and now we are plays: (1) Taking two bases on a sacri­ what right had she to expect the other ing Year. Captain Nash and his men have no in a fair way to see our hopes realized fice a feat members to ask her consent to with us agiiu next season. I suppose, often performed by such a matter complaint to make about hard times. however, the gentlemen got their price in the way of base ball. nervy runners as Donovaii. (2) Beating which concerned the majority of the They have cleaned up about $85 or $!>0 GEORGE N. KUNTZSCH, out a throw-in of an outlield hit, when League members, aud no partiular one. San Francisco, Nov.Ki. Kditor "Sport- each in the three Sunday games for him ami he was let go to New York. ng" Life: James A. Hart, President of they Van is a pretty good man. I haven't owner of the Syracuse Stars, has sig­ there was a clear chance and effort to Had Sam Altmeyer been business man playeel, without taking iiito considera­ nified his intention to once more enter r«tire the runner. Some credit must be enough to have understood his duties as the Chicago Club, recently wrote to T. tion the smaller been able to hear anything new in P. Hobinson, the ex-Oakland manager, sums netted from week Wheeling. The League, I see, is going the lists, aud will start out this week given a man who dashes from first to custodian of this money it would have day contests. At this rate they will and find out just how much his en­ third, or from second to the plate, on a been divided long inquiring as to San Fmurisco as ji to abolish the bunt when there are men ago, at the last meet­ training ground for Captain Anson and earn from $140 to $170 each during the on bases. I was always in favor of thusiasm is shared by other lovers of short outfield hit, and arrives almost ing of the old League hi Atlanta. Be­ his hired band for the winter, ani first month and will certainly draw that." Buck will stay in town a couple the great game here. Mr. Kuntzsch with the ball, but I fail to see where any sides this, I understand that about $350 whether ga.nes could be arranged with down at the lowest figure $100 per of days to hear the 'news. He says has declared that if he receives suffi­ credit accrues to the runner who takes of this money was loaned to the Macon tbe teams here. Robinson turned the nie>nth up to the time of their return Glasscock is enjoying good health. cient encouragement so as to be able two bases on a hit so placed that even Club without consent of or authority letter over to Mr. J. B. Gilbert, and the East, providing the weather holds out NEWS FUOM THE MEWf. to present a strong front at the East­ such throwers as liyau or Treadway by the League, and perhaps this is the latter is now cogitating over) the proposi­ good. If the Chicage>s e'ome here and Treasurer Kerr has been overwhelmed ern League meeting at Troy next mouth, could not get the ball anywhere uoar reason they are so anxious to gulp it tion, whether it would be well to have tackle the Hub men, with warm weath­ with visitors since his return from the about twelve good bull players will gam­ him. "Honor to whom honor is due," etc. all in now. The whole thing looks very another Eastern team out here, or bet­ er, the Sunday gates will rarely be League meeting. Yesterday the under­ bol on the green at Star I'ark, arrayed if, with a man on third, a runner much rlim-tlammy, and does not reflect ter to leave Adrian C. and his colts under $1000. signed was able to get an all by himself in a Syracuse uniform. We have been went from first to second, and the man much credit either upon the Macon Club seek other pastures. If negotiations are KN'KLL WAS NHRVOfS, talk, but it only lasted two minutes. without base ball for a season, and there on third beat the return of thu ball or Mr. Sam Altmeyer. entered into with the Chicago Hub, the Great hopes were entertained last Sun­ It was interrupted by a few. is no denying the fact that the army for home, a stolen base was credited I ran up against John B. Nicklin, the arrangements will, of course, include a day that 1'hil Knell would be able to Said Mr. Kerr: "Yes, 1 believe we did of cranks here are weary and lonesome. to each runner, if both arrived safely. president, secretary and treasurer of series of games with the Boston team, repeat his feat in the first game against ask Mr. Tiilcott if he would let us have So they assert, and Mr. Kuntzsch pro­ If one was caught, a stolen base went the new Southern League of Base Ball and local players, thus carrying the ex­ Jsash's men, and the 5000 people who third baseman George Pavis, but I poses to find out, just how lonesome they to the other's record. Some scorers only Clubs, and asked him to give me his hibition series well into March next Mr. gathered in the stands expected to see know that we didn't get him. Mr. Tul- are. Your correspondent laid business gave the man who ran down to second opinion of the all-absorbing subject in Gilbert is in a quandary. While aware the Easterners put on their mettle. Knell cott's replies came very quick at that. aside this afternoon and went about the stolen base. baae ball, now, namely thnt the presence of the C'hicagos, in liad been looking forward to the day As to other men we tried to secure I among some of the most prominent Chicago critics do not fancy the total THE BUNT. addition to Nosh's club, would maintain with some expectancy, and hoped to put don't care about mentioning. We want former supporters of the game, and af­ abolition of the bunt, but are a unit "Well," he said, "you can put me down a strong interest in the sport, he is ap­ a feather iu his cap by downing the a permanent winner next season. Van ter much talk and a survey of the in demanding its restriction. Sacrifice as being most decidedly against it, and prehensive erf the after-effect. To drop celebrities. When the play opened Haltren could bunt, that is true, but question from all quarters has con­ bunts are played out, but bunts intend­ I have been so ever since it has been from National Leag'ie playing in March, Knell was apparently nervous, and he he only picked it up last season. And cluded that we will be in the game uext ed for hits, coining at points where 150 much overdone, as has been the- case to minor league exhibitions in April, is soon lost control of his delivery, send­ as for bunting, when the bases were year, providing there is an opening in they could not serve as sacrifices, were the last two years. If it cannot be en­ liable to be productive of disastrous re­ ing batsincu to first on balls aud plug­ not filled, well, he can make them once the League for our city. A very inter­ popular last season, and the playing tirely abolished to the satisfaction of sults. An indication of the sentiment of ging others in the ribs with wild pitches. in a while. New York was hard after esting interview was hud with rules could be easily adjusted according­ most of the clubs, I would consider the the public on the base ball situation was Then he steadied, but lost his effective­ ly. President Hart wants every at­ Jake Stenzel, but we wouldn't let him GEORGE K. FKAZHE, tempt at a bunt idea of Gus Schmelz's, to call each given last week, when the San Francisco ness in the seventh inning, when the go, so they took Van Haltren. The who owned the Syracuse franchise for called a strike, and bunted foul a strike, iuid should such and Oakland teams played at the park- visitors bunched four hits, and swelled has many adherents in this view of price? well, I observe that Mr. Talcott several seasons, and had nerve sufficient the problem's settlement. bunted strike be the third no bases shall here. While the weather was somewhat their score. Nichols was in line trim, says the New York Club paid $2500 for to enter a team in the American As­ be run or no rims scored, the next best elisagreeable, it is true, it was not and alloweel only six hits. Knell's sup­ SOME CHICAUO NEWS. him. I guess he ought to know. We sociation. Mr. Frazer has been a big Jimmy Kyan is around with a big thing. This would handicap the would enough so to keep the crowd away, yet port was neit of the best, and he be- gave $1000 and Joe Kelley tor Van a loser at the game, but is as ardent in b« hunters to such an extent that they the attendance was rather light. The came disheartened toward the close. cane and a huge crop of siduwhiskers. teams played year ago, aud Joe himself is a pretty his love for the sport to-day as ever he Contrary to published report, James would seldom, if ever, attempt it. Of a bri'liant game, but un- Outside of the start his work was good. good ball player." Just then a Lawrence- was. He owns the lease of Star Park, course, the trained and practiced bunter fortunately the quality of the sport was The game ended 7 to 2 in favor of Bos­ ville has made no settlement with the Lake not known in advance. grocer, who is a winter friend, now rented to the Syracuse Athletic Shore Road. The company offered him would have the advantage over his ton. On the proceeding day Oakland stepped up and said to Mr. Kerr: "Did Association, and said to your corres- a fairly large sum, but Kyan prefers weaker rivals, but that is as it should BOSTON DOING WELL. was downed by the players from the you bring that pitcher's release home The Bostons are drawing well now, pondeut that he would be much pleased to wait until he knows, definitely, wheth­ be, as a training school for learning centre of culture, 6 to 5. At the close with you? I mean the man I spoke to to see base ball flourish once more in er his injuries are permanent or only the fine points of the game is on the and the prospects are excellent for a con­ of the fourth inning, the Colonels had you about in the summer, Hemming, of our tinuance of the profitable patronage, yet midst. Mr. Frazer is a strong ad­ temporary. Jimmy may play centra comiut/uu, and not on a professional the game well iu hand, the score being Louisville." vocate of the-stock company plan, and next year, but the chances favor team. Now to show to what excess the same interest is not manifested iu then 5 to 1 in their favor, but poor "Oh, no," said Mr. Kerr, "I don't purely local performances. The question declares that there should be no dif­ Lange's retention in the garden. Dun- some of the players carried this attempt fielding cost them the game. think Louisville would let that man go." ficulty in raising more than enough gan's fate hinges on Hyau's recovery, to bunt, I would quote the example of tion: The people want first-class ball TIED THE RECORD. "A long green wad would bring them has settled itself down money to give the game a big send off and Schriver's doom upon the disposi­ our catcher, Dugdalft in a game last to this proposi- A controversy was raised here last around," continued the grocer. "Hem­ next season. His idea of a circuit is tion made of Mike Kelly. Don't fret season, who successfully fouled only, played by men of note. Then ming is a good man, full of nerve and 15 balls couu'S the query, "Will week over the game played November Toronto, Hamilton or London, Buffalo, about uncle's retirement yet. The old by actual count, in an attempt to ad­ the League next 9 in this city, between the San Francisco would be a great pitcher for a club like Erie, Rochester, Syracuse, Troy and Al­ man did not quit last season, as was vance a man on first a basei by year be formed iu keeping with the bunting. desires and Oakland teams. It was claimed Pittsburg." bany. generally reported. He let Decker play To say that this is tiresome to the spec­ of ball patrons?" Mr. Gilbert that the nine innings were completed "Ah, yes," interrupted Mr. Kerr, "I A REMINDER OF HAOKETT. the bag in the home games, but sent tators, is putting it mildly. I'm against has, I believe, no fixed plans for 1804, in the fastest time on record forty-five know he is as nervy as any of them, To right a mistake, it may be that young man to his rural abode and it with all my heart, and would like but is waiting for developments. He minutes. It was a cold, dreary day, but I don't think Louisville would let well to mention that Mr. Frazer, went on first himself during the last to see its early demise when the Nat­ recognizes the seriousness of the case, and there was not enough people on him go. We have a pitcher secured, and while at Detroit last summer, ran Eastern trip. Uncle is strong and ional League meets again." but is in doubt as to how he shall pro­ hand to pay the expenses. The hitting he is a good one, I tell you. Can't give across Charley Hackett, the Manager of hearty; he played good ball last sea­ I was very much amused recently ceed. The patriotic experime-nt of giving was light, and the lonely run was scored up his name for the present. Wait un­ the International League. Charley is son, and put Decker on the bag just on being shown home talent a chance to demonstrate its in the eighth inning. Johnson, a young til it begins to look like base ball again following the races, and as he "stands enough to show his own good nature and AX ARTTCLB ability has been tried and acknowledged phcnoui., pitched for 'Frisco, while and then it will be sprung on the public. in" he is doing finely. It was generally willingness to give the Fairbury man a to be a failure. The enthusiasts do not Horuer did "Ehret may be kept," said Mr. Kerr, understood show. in a base ball paper published out take kindly to like servie:e for the Colonels. here that Mr. Hackett died West, which a certaiu individual named the notion of paying their At the close of the play a dispute arose in response to a query. some two years ago. THE INFIELD coin to see" youngsters who have recently as to the The grocer now got the floor. He Messrs. will he Anson, Glenalvin, Dahlea Laniar sprung on the public from_his graduated from time the game started. There Kuntzsch and Faatz will get place of observation in Atlanta. With­ the amateur ranks, and was a delay of a few minutes after the gave Jack Menafee quite a lift, and said down to work this week and go over the and Irwin most of the time, with out any object, cause or reason, he shuts decline to patronize the games. regular hour of 3 o'clock, and it was on he was willing to make a wee little bet grounds preparatory to their attending Decker on first, and Camp on sec­ his eyes, clenches his fists, and makes RADICAL CHANGES NEEDED. this point that the disagreement re­ that Menafee was one of Louisville's the League meeting. Everybody likes ond part of the ganies. If Ryan re­ a most furious onslaught upon Chatta­ While there is no question that the sulted. Two watches in the pre'ss box host twirlers next season. He also J.iy Faatz and the fact that he is to covers, the outfield will probably contain nooga, as a base ball town, upon Mr. enthusiasm of the base ball loving pa­ caught the time for the eutie play at praised up John Berger, the Lawrence- captain the team will put him many a Wilmot, Lange and the gentle James. trons has only been lying dormant in the forty-five minutes, but the otBcial time ville catcher, and intimated that John dollar into the box. Kittridge aud Kelly are slated to catch, Nicklin as a president, and upon sev­ past two eral other things too numerous to men­ seasons, the problem confront­ was fixed by the conservative scorer, would be in the League next season, in DANIEL, AOKERMAN arid all the pitchers McGill, Abbey, ing the magnates of the present is Joseph W. Stapleton, at forty-seven fact, it was reported, that he had an Hntehison, Clausen, Griffith and Don- tion. I expect he must havo read a "What min­ of this city, a young gentleman well recent letter of mine, as he begins his must be done to maintain the utes. This makes the time a tie with offer from Philadelphia. and favorably known in base ball cir­ nelly, will be given a fair trial. Thi» disjointed narrative with the informa­ interest now manifested when the Bos­ that of the fastest, game on record THUEB CLUBS, FAVOUR!) TWO SEASONS. cles, is desirous of appointment as Um- aggregation would be strong in every tons return East?" That radical meas­ given in the "Clipper" Almanac. It was said that Pittsburg was going way batting, fielding, base running and tion, that the Southern League mag­ ures must be taken pite in some minor league. The writer pitching. Lange could nates met "iu solemn conclave." Then to acquire success FII.LED WITH SHOT. to the League meet prepared "to do a is personally acquainted with Mr. Ack- catch occasion­ cat not be gainsaid, and unless 'a de­ great deal of fighting for the double ally, aud Griffith and Donnelly would he wants to know why Mr. Nicklin was Howard Earle, the ex-first bnseman erman and takes pleasure in recom­ make good substitute outficlders. elected president of the League, and not parture is made from the old rut and of the Oakland Club, had a narrow es­ championship idea. Mr. Kerr came mending him for the position. He is a somebody else who is better known to novelties presented, there will be the cape from death last week near Petal- home with the report that it hadn't young man that would command the re­ ODDS AND -ENDS. same struggle to make financial ac­ uma. He was been adopted before he left, and he McGill is home, behaving himself most him. Ho thinks Mr. Nickliu will be out quail hunting with spect of every player and patron, and admirably. impotent, and I think Mr. I>aniar is an counts balance. When I speak of rael- Charley Irwin, Clarke Grillith, Jimmy felt certain it would not be. Said the League directors will do well to make a A good-hearted, generous ical changes, I am not indulging in Callopy, a gentleman gentlemen this afternoon: "To tell the boy is fnt little \VIllie, and his curves idiot. For the benefit of this individual named 11. S. note of tLis item. have three separate I will say again that Mr. Nicklin haO meaningless generalities. There must Adams, and others. Game was plen­ truth, I found so much objection to the The rumor that Star Park is to be cut wriggles to each foot be an absolute and startling transfor­ tiful and the slu>oling geiod. Mr. Adams affair that 1 gave up the thought of of their progress. no intention to accept the duties of the up has died out. and it is now a sure Camp is a curiosity. Victor Murdock presidency if same were again offered mation in the composition of the four sighted a Hock of birds and emptied the bringing it before the meeting. I talked thing that the old playground will ex­ teams. Three years ago the old man­ contents of his gun at them. Earle at to the "representatives from all clubs. roasted him one day, and Camp bought him, but after much persuasion, and at ist for two or three years more at least. 50 copies to send to his family. the unanimous solicitation of the mem­ agers had the displeasure of several the time was concealed behind some Mr. Robinson, of Cleveland, favored the Mr. Kuntzsch has a very friendly letter towns brought upon them by permitting bushes awaiting a shot, his position be­ scheme, and, I believe, Mr. You der Wilmot was hated by every crank bers present at the League meeting "favorites" to go Atie could have from President 1'owers of the Eastern last July, aud became a popular idol he consented to do so. Now, I think East, when the expen­ ing between Adams and the quail. The been induced to vote League. diture of a little more money might have first baseman was struck on one side of for two seasons, but the others wouldn't O. WHIZ. in September. He came up 140 points those persons know whom they . were even listen to an argument on it. There in batting during three months' work, thrusting into the most important po­ kept the men on the coast. Well, many the face by ninny of the leaden pellets, of these then popular stars have been while others entered his arm and side. is money in it if they could only see and playi'd a star game generally. sition in the League, and if they didn t it as I do, but they won't do it. To my Mike Kelly now would rather piny in Herman Long is not with the indoor know, they certainly should have made back with us for a season or two. and When placed under medical treatment Itoston tliirh anywhere else, but has no the spectators watch them go to bat or it was ascertained that he was badly mind, the more ganies we play the objections to other cranks this winter. That story about inquiries beforehand. Now, as to tin, more money there is in it for the clubs." cith'S ex.'cpt St. Louis Herman's hurting his arm indoors was statement that perform on the field with about the peppered with No. S shot in the ear, aud Louisville. Why the latter? Chattanooga has been same interest they would take in a game cheek, mouth and arm. Fortunately his THE HX-CLUB PRESIDENTS VIEWS. the most miserable nonsense. I played A BA11NACL0 of lawn tennis. Like an actor of a eyes escaped injury. In all he received Day after the League meeting the with and against Herman several times to the League ever since it wns organ variety show who has run the gamut of twenty-throe shot, and but for the dis­ writer met .ex-President W. C. Temple. last winter, and his arm, as I can tes­ Ized, I must beg leave to assure thii his gags and songs, they need to seek tance might have been seriously He said: "I haven't observed that the tify, was better in April than in Decem­ person that he should bo more carefu new scenes. While it was true that the wounded. Only five of the missiles League has transacted any very import­ I Am Truly Thankful ber. He played so good a second indoor in future of what he says, or shoulc ant business. Of course those penalties rliut he tried the position on the turf, old managers had become chestnuts, could be extracted. For Hood's ParcaparlHa. Dunnar deliberate, if that be possible, before he there is no doubt that many of the J. M. CABROLL, are good things, aud if properly en­ tlio wnr I contracted but soon realized the difference. makes any rash assertions. 1 can prove players in California are becoming forced will do a great deal of good. yphoid fever, and fevei and ague,Ivavinn me with That new Western League will be a to the satisfaction of all disinterestei moldy in public opinion. Take the Later Games Played. I would like to see the League adopt malarial and mercu­ Godsend to most of the local ball talent. individuals that the past and presen make-up of the home club the double championship season. It cer­ rial poisoning from It was hard sledding here last summer, record of Chattanooga as for instance. San Francisco, Nov. 12. Boston and a base bal One or two men have been playing tainly is a good thing. I never con­ which I havesuff red tner and many of the profession actually had town shows much more to her credi San Francisco played to-day. The former sidered it a failure in 1802. Now what to go to work. thaii does that of Atlanta. Ill the firs here for years, and although they are won by the following score: since, in neuralR'*, rheum­ good minor league men and have more did the clubs draw at Boston when the atism, nervous prostra­ The City League's season wfis a frost. lace. Laniar, you cannot show ou< R.H.m Anson's crew, by playing Sunday games, or less of a following, the average per­ Knn Francisco.. .0 1 I 0 0 0 0 rt 0 2 6 6 champions had a ten game lead, or even tion and general debility. Enstance in which Chattanooga has no Dostim ...... 0 1 1 0 2 0 3 0 T T » 1 not as big last season. The tour was a effectually crushed the little organiza­ played out the season without asking son who attends the games would just Much of the time I hare th as well be pleased to see new men in Bnttorlwt-Nlchota ami Kittredge; Kiicll and frost. Almost every club that went tion. League for assistance, while I know i SnTtt. Umpire McDonald. there outside of perhaps Pittsburg and been unable to work, aoci Unkind critics here are so rude as to to be a fact their places. I do not wish to be under­ that the League had t stood as underrating the men under dis­ Pan Francisco, Nov. 1C. The Bostons Chicago, will tell you that Baltimore the doctors' treatment tailed object to President Young's averages. I prop up poor Atlanta in '87 or she wouli were defeated to-day for the first time, hprdlv secured enough to pay to do u«i any good. Since I can hardly see why Glenalvin, who, un­ have given up the ghost long before cussion as ball players. They are as hotel bills. th Score: I observe that the Pittsburg Club was began taking Hood'* Sarsa- questionably, played second base for season ended. This fact is known t good as could possibly be secured out­ Ouklnnds ...... side of the big leagues, but they have 2 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 O 5 strongly in favor of the idea. I always parilla I hare not lo»t Mr. Stilliu»n. Chicago in 10 games, does not figure all Southern base ball admirers wh Itoslons ...... 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 I thought Mr. Kerr favored the scheme, either in the batting or fielding records. follow the game closely, and is not there outlived in this section their power of Hits Boston »: Ouklnnds 13. Brrora Boston day's work in three month3, weigh ten pounds attracting people to the ball grounds. 4; etokluuda 5. BatUriw) Cureey and KitUvilgiS but WHS not aware he was a big advo- Also why McGinnis, who participated fore, an idle assertion by any means in Then This may se-im strange to Kasteru lloruer aud Speur. cute of thu scheme." 17 games with Chicago and Philadel­ again, Chattanooga alway INCOME TAXES. phia, was similarly omitted. paid her players in cash, cranks who glory in their home pets, but San Francisco, NOT. 19. The- O.ik- Hood's Sa ___WILL. A. P"Cures rilELOX, never did give them her notes it should be remembered that San Fran­ Innds at last managed to equal 'Frisco's Some good judge of ball, players in JK. cisco, the feat of winning a game from the Bostons. the Eastern League can earn the eternal more Ibau fur yean aud am as did Atlanta last season. I heart of the game in Califor­ fn better health than Now that the World's Fair Is over and you doubt that statement, Mr. Man nia, is unlike other towns. The ques­ The score: gratitude of the Pittsburg Club. All lit any time since tbe war." J. U. STILLMAN, Chelten­ will have to do is write the big Ferris wheel is stoppod it Is then write to a certain player who wor tion of the home team winning the pen­ Onkltind ...... 5 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 2 10 the headquar­ ham, Fa. Be sore to get HOOD'S Sa about time for Captain Ansou's cogs to be­ Atlanta's uniform last year Pitche nant or a game rarely cuts any figure ItoliHl ...... 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 3 7 ters a good, unbiased opinion of young gin working. He Is about due for his Hits Boston, 12- Ouklnnil, 18. Brror« Boston, Hood's Dewuld by name and he can tell yt>i with the majority of the persons who 7; Oakland. 4. Uuttorles Curacy and Kittredgu; Nichols, the left-hander, who was Pill* become tbe favorite cathartic wiib celebrated annual proclamation, "We'll that he tried to garuishce the money patronize the local games. As a rnattw I'arivtt ulul bought from the Erie Club for 500 ewjr oue who tries tliam. 25c. per box. wiu the championship sui'B." Nov. 25. THE SFOBTINQ LIFE.

"Don Salambo," "Aronza" and a few varieties; and all the time we aim miser­ other straggling nom de plumes, which WANT A TRACK. ably at a sentimental phase of the OH, GIRLS! during tho past twelva years I have game of cycling so shall we suffer. As CYCLING DEPARTMENT. written for the American wheel press THE WHEELMENOF THE CAPITAL a racing nation we maintain there is SEE HOW YOU ARE VIEWED BY hare served me well, and each in its TAKE STEPS TO SECURE ONE. only one thing to save us, and that is— ONE OF YOURSELVES. time was somewhat widely known in cash. Nobody can get ou well without the man from escaping from the animal; the little stage upon which we puppets coin of the realm, and is it not folly to "All Knobs and Angles"—Cycling la the man could not let go for fear of The South Makes Another Move To­ of pressdom have delighted to strut ward an Association of Cycle Clubs suppose that an expensive and at the Only Fit For the "Lower and CYCLING CAUSERIE. disaster and yet, as he afterwards ex­ before an ever increasing and more same time impecunious sport like pressed it, "he wasn't stuck on the job, critical audience. Some of my dead —Plans For a First Class Track cycling can do without its assistance? Middle Classes," This Critic De­ by a durn sight." The "Bi. World" have passed away because they have Proposed. So long as England (as represented by clares—The Cause Why of Wheel- people hiive, I imagine, been very much outlived their usefulness they no longer cycle-racing) apes the gentleman by ft FEW BITS OF CYCLING DRIFTWOOD in the same position with the League womauship. drew the unwilling dollar from the edi­ Washington, D. C., Nov. 18. Last aiming at a Henley definition of ama­ organ contract. The paper has not tor, or the nickels from the reader; teurism so long will it come trailing PICKED DP. made money out of it nnd yet did not night at tho residence of Mr. B. C. Surely the lady contributor to "Sala'» others have sickened and weakened Bowen of the Arlington Wheelmen, the in laps behind all other nations. dare to let go of it for fear of making from lack of ability on the part of their "Cycle Record." Journal" is a bit hard on her sex in a case of bad into one of much worse. committee of the various clubs ap­ England in what she says below. We originator, while still a few have been pointed to consider the question of build­ The Nuisance o! Attending Cycle Shows Some time since when the paper went planted because they bred a brood of cannot agree that there are no pretty out to get a list of genuine subscribers ing a bicycle race track, had a meeting. A WINTER EVENING'S RIDE. female cyclists in England. "It appears imitators, who possessed few of the Those present were Messrs G. W. Organs Whose Stops Need Atten­ ou the premium basis, I expected thnt virtues and more than all of the vices of It Such as But Few (says the lady) that the majority of my they were preparing then to let go of the Cook, C. It. Murray and R. G. Cloakey, The Poetry sex in France who have been bitten by of those whose names they assumed of the Georgetown Cycle Club; Geo. W. Wheelmen Thoroughly Appreciate. "bar's foots" and try what virtue there without any right to the assumption. the bicycling mania are really pretty tion The Cause and Cure ol Blue Bennett, and C. J. Roncaville, of the The summer is over, we have bidden women, whereas in England, as yet, lay in being an independent paper. I am going to add another corpse to Washington Road Club; R. C. Jones, .fust how the new order of things will the graveyard list, I am going to make farewell to the cool, balmy evenings this form of locomotion has in the main Devils-The Debt Civilization Owes affect the/ paper aud the association it G. B. Weiss and R. R. Burr, of the Po- so tempting after the long hot days only attracted Englishwomen but sparse­ it an even half dozen. In future "The tomac Wheelmen. is difficult at time of writing for any one Commentator" lies buried with his in town, and to the fragrant odors ly favored by nature. 1 have noticed It was resolved to form a temporary wafted from fields of new-mown hay, a goodly number of women careering oa to Cycling-Burying an Old Friend. to attempt to predict, knowing as little brethren. Now that the brood of commen­ organization with a. view to the ultimate as is now known regarding what was the tators has become limited, only by the or over high walls from old-fashioned wheels, both in the country and in Lon­ true reason for the giving up of the con­ establishment of an organization to be gardens, where flowers breating sweet don, but have never once seen a pretty number of those cycling cuckoos who, known ns the Associated Cycling Clubs Cycle shows are an annual night- tract, the alleged one being the most lacking the instinct or inclination neces­ perfumes always love to lurk. and graceful woman oil the iron horse. piare to the man whose profession forces flimsey of pretexts, not calculated to of Washington, such organization to We do not regret these pleasures, It is getting quite a common sight to sary to build a nest of their own, are build {.nd control a track for training him to attend these exhibitions and deceive even a pure amateur. It will be prone to crawl into the home of less however; they will return in due time, see, first a huge, ungainly, ill-dressed rrind out so many columns of descrip­ noticed in the proclamation issued by and racing purposes. and meanwhile we have others in their female perched on wheels, with he* ignoble birds and there assume the Mr. Bowen was elected president and tive matter, which when printed I dare President Burdett in the "Bi. World," rights of ownership, I have made up stead. hair unkempt and an ugly cloth cap lay not one render iu ten ever reads that it "may become necessary to change Mr. Cook secretary of the temporary or­ The evenings are cold and dark, the well back upon her untidy head, and my mind to transfer the nest 1 built ganization, and a committee of four (to through. To attempt to put originality to some extent the condition of the to their entire oceupanes'. wind howls lustily, and the stars gleam her pnffej-out face in a bath of perspir­ or interesting matter into a cycle show present contract. . . . and one. re­ be added to as the various clubs of the out here and there through the dark ation, struggling along our thorough­ I do not know now which of the two city join i,i the movement, at the dis­ Itory is just about as likely to succeed sult may be that but one issue of the great writers, Morgan or Zola, has been clouds as though keeping sentinel over fares, looking woefully ugly in the eyea ts it would if you tried the same thing 'Bulletin' will be sent to the members cretion of the president),Messrs. Bowen, the lonely earth. Far out of the city of her more feminine sisters, and posi­ responsible for me coming to the con­ Cook, Jose and Jones, appointed to in­ n the multiplication table or the Chinese during each of the coming months. . . . clusion that neither my modesty nor my wo speed, getting fresher and fresher tively hideous, I should say, to the op­ alphabet. The man who succeeds best You will note all this "may be" neces­ spect the available sites for a track in every minute as we inhale the purer air, posite sex; and this atrocious appar­ greatness demands that I any longer and about the city and to report at the iu show reporting is the one who can sary, and "may be" it will, and then hide my feeble light under the thimble and up, up we toil through the wind ition will be quickly followed by a lean infuse into bis story the greatest num­ again "may be" none of these things will next meeting. ami the darkness, even higher and female, resembling in knobs at all an­ of a pen name, and certain it is. never­ It was also resolved that the chairmen higher. Anon we get on to the moun­ ber of superlatives when referring to conn; to pass; that depends on Well, theless, that I am done with that kind gles Don Quixote's famous horse. Th« the excellence and beauty of each and what? of the various club committees report tain side; away below us in the dis­ lean cyclist generally of fol der rol, and willing to give my tbe formation of the association to their tance gleam the lights of the city, every wheel exhibited. Some there are When the extension of the contract share of it to those who think the pos­ AFFECTS A SCANTY SKIRT. I know who simply stick to the old with the "Bi. World" was made under respective clubs and endeavor at the brightening up the clouds above them a Norfolk jacket, and a Tyrolese felt session of it is a valuable one. With next meetings of the clubs to have a like the glare of a huge furnace; the familiar "best" so often appearing on which extension the paper is now the writing of these lines "The Com- hat, and invariably wears eyeglasses.auU the advertising pages of the wheel working, the whole deal was rushed sv a ran tee fund established as a basis weird strangeness of the scene enters she looks for all the world as though she mentator" is interred with his brethren for the associated committees to work into our soul it is time to pause, listen, papers, such blockheads, notwithstand­ through in a star chamber manner, of the past. Peace to his ashes! There and her bicycle, too, would fall all ta ing their argument that nothing can be and no one knew anything regarding i.pcn and to report their success at the and drink in with eye and ear the magic pieces should she happen to sneeze at has been some worse and many better next meeting. of our surroundings. better than the best, never get to the high the affair until it was all over and done than he. F. A. E. any inopportune moment. I saw just position of even fifth assistant to a real with, and even then it took two years Severn! schemes were suggested, ap­ A bank affords ready shelter from the such a female cyclist, looking eminently cycling editor. The exhibitor who is of constant demanding by the wheel parently the most favorable being to gale; we nestle behind it and look out contented with herself, and with a also an advertiser either iu fact or iu press and the League at large to get IT HAS COME TO STAY. start a poular subscription among the far across the country as it slopes down facial expression denoting that in hep wheelmen of the city, by which it is be­ prospect demands a greater ingenuity even a view of the famous contract. Has Passed Beyond the Stage towards the sea, clusters of lights in own estimation the eyes of all Europe on Ihe part of the writer-tip than is Now it seems the same hanky-panky- Cycling lieved that a good track can be built, various directions marking the many were bent admiringly upon her and shown in the constant employment of now-you-see-it-aiM-noWjjyou-dou't policy of Doubt as to Its Permanency. and, without doubt, supported; a track suburban townships scattered along its applauding her daring and prowess, "best" when defining the merits of is to be gone through with in what The mania of roller-skating, says the once having been established, the in­ shore, while brilliant points of light wheeling down Grosvenor Place from each maky of wheel. The consequence appears to be an attempt at a cancella­ "Cycle Uecord," which a few years ago creased membership of the clubs and mark the sailor's beacons on its waters. Hyde Park to Victoria Station last of all this is that the average scribe, tion of the star chamber contract, or seized upon modern communities, was the additional interest which a good A bank affords ready shelter from the week. Why is it that ugly women in finding the'task too strong, succumbs to if not a cancellation at least a revision mora striking, but it was very short­ truck would enthuse being considered gale; we nestle behind it and look out England so delight in bicycling? The the inevitable, secures a stenographer, of it, so as to be more to the liking of lived. Cycling prepares for no such ample for the maintenance of such far across the country as it slopes down plainer their features and the thicker goes to each exhibitor and tells him to the publishers of the "Bulletin." ..lust ephemeral reign, and yet its advance has track. towards the sea, clusters of lights in their ankles, or the sharper their tell his own story. The products of how the L. A. W., which has used as a been rapid and quiet. It is not so long The movement must be pushed ahead various directions marking the many shoulder-blades and the more skinny »omc of these tellings are so wonderfully lever to get members the promise to since the wheelmen were few; mounted rapidly, as the building of tracks takes suburban townships scattered along its their shins, the keener they arc in dis­ modest that the compositor who sets supply them with a weekly journal, is on their dizzy eminence, they were ob­ considerable 1$m,c, and the adoption shore, while brilliant points of light playing to the world at largo that they them up has been known to faint, ami going to stand if it does not send these jects of popular derision and a good deal of various materials for the surface mark tho sailor's beacons on its waters. are indebted to nature for but little, Anyone who has had any dealings with same induced ones a paper but once a of public dislike on account of the alarm will have to be considered. To get at Behind, us the mountains rear their and that thry are indeed wholly froa the gentle jour knows it takes a great month, is something difficult to deter­ which their machines caused to animals. the best results, other clubs who have lofty heads proudly in the darkness, from any indebtedness to art. 1 think flcsl to make him keel over. mine. To an ordinary mortal it would Then the safety was introduced, and im­ built tracks will be asked for their bearing on their rugged sides the twin­ I can understand why some few girls Shows are a nuisance to the man who seem as though the League would provements in gearing, plan, and mate­ opiuons, and their experience of the kling lights of cosy farmhouses. Perfect of the lower and middle classes have has to go to see them, and I, for one, stand proven guilty of getting money rials were quickly added, but not fast different surfaces will be of great bene­ stillness seems to reign around, but taken to cycling. They have taken to never could understand how any man under false pretences; but then there are enough to overtake the demand. The fit to the city organization. The con­ presently as we sit, one sound after an­ it, or try to take to it, because their who was not forced to go ever paid his lots of people who believe the associa­ output in Great Britain and America is stitutions of the associated clubs of other grows upon us. On the other sweethearts of late years have flung good money or threw away even value­ tion does that now, so long as it claims enormous, while in France the army of Chicago, Baltimore and Philadelphia side of our cosy bank, the wind whistles themselves heart and soul into the less time in going to one of them and to be a league of "amateur" wheelmen. cyclists is so great that it is thought n will be discussed and the best possible along, making weird music, and we can amusement of traveling on two wheels looking at monotonous row after row These be sorry times in amateurism; source of abundant revenue may be points taken as a basis for the Wash­ almost imagine that in its train rush instead of upon two feet. There is not of machines, each one so like unto its even the stanch Curtisonian clipper, found in a wheel tax imposed on riding ington Associated Cycling Clubs. storm spirits madly contending or chant­ much strolling about nowadays arm-in- mate that only an expert could1 detect the A. A. U., feels the rottenness of machines. They have been pressed into The next meeting will be held Decem­ ing a wild piuau over the evil they arm, or, to put it more correctly, hand- the difference existing between them. its amateur plunking and has hoisted the military and civil services, but their ber 20. inedirate. in-hand, or arms-around-waists fashion, Of course, I know there are people who the distress signal of "more money employment here is insignificant beside A little below lies a tiny hamlet, and on SVardsworth Common, or Hampsteaa do do all of this and who will actually wanted;" so, perhaps, it is but natural the use made of them by the people. ever and anon cheerful voices reach us, and Putney Heaths, or in Dulwich tell you, in consequence of their per­ that our own dear League, built of the Whether for utility or for recreation, SOFT SNAPS. telling of human life near, while, further lanes. The young man, so soon as his verted tastes, that they really enjoy the same unstable limber, should find its dav's work is done, swallows a hearty they go everywhere. The plaything of What the Unsophislicateil Public off, tho rush of a passing train strives experience; but it always seemed to me organ in deep water, with.badly dam­ childhood is a toy velocipede, and on a to bring back our wandering fancies, that fun of this kind was akin to the aged rigging and a lee shore hard under stouter instrument the American, the Thinks the Pressman Has—A Speci­ and is aided by tho whistle of a steamer SLIPS INTO HIS ORAY BTCYfMJ SITT, pinusenient certain people find in attend­ the old tub's bows. Briton, or the Australian undertakes to men of the Gifts a Writer Gets. coming up faintly from tho sea. mounts his machine, and is off for -a ing funerals. As a species of amuse­ * * * tour the world, to penetrate the stagnant A man came up to me the other We throw off the atmosphere of petty long wheel, returning tired out, or re­ ment, 1 do not believe that a cycle show It was, I believe, a saying of Pascal old cities of inland Asia, where the Occi­ day and clapped me on the shoulder, care and business worry or intellectual freshed by the country air as the case can ever bo made a success. As a busi­ that the evils that afflict mankind arise dentals and their machines are equally saying "Ha! Sphinx, you journalists strain which has surrounded us all day. may be, to supper at 10 or 10.:!l>, and ness affair purely it can be made suc­ from our inability to sit still iu a room unknown and uncanny, to cross conti­ know how to look after yourselves. and feel that the world is indeed a grand even later. His poor little affianced cessful, but Dot financially, as a rule. meaning thereby, I take it, that iu use­ nents, to survey mankind from China to You get your nmchincs for nothing, place to live in. Then, rested and re­ lady-love, or some attractive little girl Hence 1 d'o not think that the rush fur less and ill-considered action is to be Peru. Among the visitors to Sydney and nobody knows what tips be­ freshed, we get into the wind again, he would quickly woo if the charms of cycle show honors on tin: part of pro­ fouud the origin of much tribulation, and are ladies representing their sex who use sides." 1 solemnly assured him it was and well wrapped tip start for home. the bicycle did not come between them, moters will be as great in a few years that calmly thinking out the best meth­ the bicycle as expertly, though not yet nothing of the sort, that 1 had to pay the Down, down we rush, now through dark­ is left at home with none but feminine from now as it seeuia to be this 'sea­ ods of action in advance would obviate as numerously as men. The poor man's same price as most fellows for my ma­ ness almost Cimmerian, where the ex­ companionship, of which she is heartily son. it. But the modern physician and hy- horse it has been called, and as such it chines, and that, furthermore, instead of citement of wondering what will be our sick and tired, to console her. In des­ To the man whose business takes him gicnist must often feel, as I do, like re­ serves thousands daily in their journeys get HUB all my advantages for-nothing, 1 fate, if any misguided vehicle happen peration she determines to learn the bi­ to the show the side lights are often versing Pascal's motto and saying that to and from business, while there are spent more on the sport than many of its to be on its wrong side, adds a zest to cycle, having in her mind's eye a vision of so lurid 11 description as to liven up the evils that afflict mankind are mainly many others who employ it iu the cause keenest votaries. In spite of my protes­ the run. Now over a better-lit road of "a bicycle made for two." She even the most jaded taste, but in the from sitting still in a room. I mean by of health. One of the sights of the tations I It'ft him unconvinced. There neatly spread with new metal in intri­ struggles bravely on in some seques­ end shows are dreary, tiresome, monot­ this that the great and increasing preval­ suburbs where be resides is one of the are a good many who share the same be­ cate patterns, some of which we dodge, tered spot in her efforts to wheel; and onous sort of affairs, which I believe ence of sedentary and indoor occupations lief; but if you will credit me as possess­ and some of which send us bumping at last when she is proficient in the new do not render the trade an adequate foremost men of letters in France solemn­ inflicted on human bodies is already ly trundling himself on a bicycle in ing a fair degree of varacity I will as­ and jumping, so that wo sympathize form of horsemanship she offers to ac­ return for the money they cost, and ripening a wretched source of physical, sure you that I never well hardly ever- heartily with Hood's pauper. Presently company her ,Iim or her Jack to Rich­ the memory of which lingers often in search of the irreducible minimum of psychic and moral suffering. personal exertion compatible with health. got anything given me at all. The sum we get into the haunts of men again, mond of Croydon; and even if he should the minds of those forced to attend them If there is any truth at all in evolution total of niy perquisites for three years' not approve of bicycling for women, she iu a sort of stale beer, bad tobacco sort And this is only a type of the universal rud how different does everything look! it is that animal and hunijfu life and acceptance of the machine. Young and connection with the cycle press is one We left the city weary and out of sorts, knows full well that there ari many of way that makes a man wish that he always "been conditioned handsome-looking young fellows ou the could have, about tive minutes' private progress have old use it, each sex, every calling is re­ saddle cover, which was pressed upon we reach it again, hungry indeed, but upon the exercise of the muscular sys­ presented among wheelmen. A clergy­ me by an old German at one of the fresh and jubilant in spirit ready for road who. if not called upon to sacrifice conversation with the limn who tirsl precedes and begets bicycle, will gladly avail thought of getting up a cycle show. tem, that function man who addressed the parade last Sun­ Stanley shows. In the generosity of his next dav, and all it may bring forth. their beloved » * * structure, and that disuse leads to atro­ day is himself a cyclist. heart he assured me he didn't want a Who would not envy us V "Irish Cy- themselves of her companionship on clist.'1 girls are wise in their It docs not matter whether you refer phy aud death. puff, or a mention of the article in ques­ wheels. These to that tired feeling as the ,,"blues" or Tbe disuse of the muscular system tion, as he was giving up the saddle generation. They recognize that sweet­ that is a result of civilization is the pro­ THAT BONANZA. cover branch of his business. Bene­ hearts are no longer stay-at-homes, and even as Ihe "willys," sooner or later DON'T LIKE 'EM. you must experience a dose of this com­ lific! source of much of the disease of Some Doubts as to the Rumored volent man! That accounted for the they have no intention of being left, like modern life, and an illustration of biologic Marianna in the moated grange, to sigh plaint, which will miike yon pessimistic $300,000 Professional Organiza­ gift! He could get no one to relieve him He Sees Them and Then Tells What enough to inquire whether life is worth law. All the discoveries of modern of tho burden of his stock he took ad­ and moan their young lives away un­ medicine and science simply confirm tion Being a Fact. vantage of the pressman's ignorance and He Thinks of the Sight. appreciated and unwooed. This clasi living or not. (icnerally speaking, if you An English writer, after bis first ere thus troubled, and cannot exactly the truth that, together with cleanliness, First we are told that there has be>n purchased relief at a small cost. I sat of girl is not only, as a rule, comely to muscular health and development are a syndicate formed at Itochdale, with on that saddle cover once, and only once. view of the costume of the emancipated look at and merry of speech and fas­ tell why, yon may be certain that it wheelman, thus unburdens his feelings springs from physical weakness. In­ the necessary conditions of freedom from a capital of £60,000, whose object is It made my sitting-down organ so cinating in manner, but from her habit disease, aud that there is no health of the development of professionalism. A swear it raised a blister a in the columns of a wheel paper: of life, having invariably to work for stead of reading Ihe. symptoms set forth hot that I'll , They were tin-re! 1 knew something in the advertisements of quack reme­ the muscles without use of the muscles. truck is to be built, competent officials foot square thereon. For this reason, her own livelihood, she is very deter­ The bacillus of tuberculosis has no pow­ engaged, and promises have been re­ was tip when 1 saw the portly figure resolute in character. She dies for thiu state of things, or in­ sitting down was a burden to me for of the father of cycling journalism mined and stead of courting painful ideas, wonder­ er to harm a person with proper thoracic ceived from a number of leading "ama­ some weeks afterwards. 1 had to have sees in the by no means dim distance a and pulmonary expansion and develop­ teurs" to throw iu their lot with the standing in the main road, about half ing whether burial expenses have de­ a rest from riding during the same a mile from Ditton, taking stock of particular "bicycle made for two," and creased with the price of other luxuries ment such as cycling surely gives to new organization. Again, one of the period, and altogether I think I was she means to be one of the riders on it. those who wisely ami moderately in­ what was going ou through a pair of in tbesc hard times, even if you are a chief London clubs will devote part of one of the most miserable wretches upon field-glasses. No fewer than, six be- Her vision of bliss does not finish up at desponding lover, a hypochondriac, or a dulge in it. All so-called "consump­ its funds to the promotion of pro. races. the face of the earth. I have carefully this point. She scents that there is a except this one of exercise breeehed women were at the Angel; valetudinarian, you should be up aud tion cures" Whether this is to be taken as gospel searched subsequent shows through and one, Miss Vant, a pretty girl, the daugh­ chummy friendship likely to result from stirring yourself; the blood of a melan­ are useless, and this with some excep­ I cannot pretend to say. I fear not. through in order to discover my Teuton ter of a well-known cycling tailor, of these rides a friendship better calcu­ choly man i.s thick and slow, creeping tions is effective in cure. There are few It may be, however, nnd if so I sin­ benefactor; but hitherto my efforts have Chancery Lane, looked, I must con­ lated, to her way of thinking, to de­ sluggishly through his veins, like muddy diseases that do not equally well illus­ cerely trust that the project will receive been of no avail. If I had found him fess, awfully nice and fetching. Miss velop into a happy marriage and a cozy waters in a canal; tbe blood of your trate the truth of the statements I have the support of tbe cycling press. It is I would have given him his present Smith's "pants" resembled wide Turk­ little suburban home in the future than merry, chirping philosopher is clear aud made above, as a consultation with any only by the promotion of professional again, owner having no further use, &c. ish trousers, nearly reaching to the any amount of sentimental hnnd-in-hand, <)uiek, brisk as newly-broached cham­ able physician will soon convince the races that the amateur ranks can be The object of art now adorns one of ankles. Mrs. Bonsor was well dressed, arm-in-arm flirtation iu Dulwich lane* pagne. Try, therefore, to set your blood doubter. cleared of some of the veiled profes­ my walls, hanging there as a perpetual but is rathor too stout for such a cos­ would lead to. ill motion. What has civilization done for this sionals with which it is at present over­ re:ninder of German generosity, and tume, and another lady with her didn't To effect this, don't go guzzling law? It is crowding people into huge run. I really believe that many of our keeping me in mind of the fact that look bad. But the climax was reached STRAWS. brandy and soda, or the elusive, and cities where every means of artificial prominent amateurs would ride for cash if it is unwise to look a gift horse in when two females came up clad in what delusive cocktails, or any of the other locomotion except cycling, every labor- if they had the chance, especially were the mouth, it is equally indiscreet to looked like bathing drosses, and con­ They Show That the Wind Abroad! juggling compounds iu which alcohol is saving apparatus, every necessity of professional racing held under proper sit! on a gift saddle cover that is, unless founded odd "mis at that. Tln-ir whole Blows Toward Professionalism. for such stimulants will drag disguised; business are all working to the same supervision, and the little game which you have previously insured your life. turnout was that of the "female scorch­ A very general, and, possibly, a well- you down two degrees for everyone it end of inactive muscles. From the killed it iu the past kept down with an This is my only gift experience during er." They were a dreadful sight as lifts you up. Try, rather, what a. brisk founded impression i.s abroad to the ef­ weak, half atrophied muscles naturally iron hand. ] am not like some writers, the whole of my connection with the they walked about, among the hundred fect that a determined and well-directed ride on a wheel will do for you; set follow the defective digestion aud assi­ sweet on the governing of professionals Press. All I can say is that, if there or so men who were assembled there your pegs iu motion on smooth and level effort will be made next year to restore milation of food and the over wrought being vested in Ihe hands of the N. C. U. are any presents knocking about, none with all the sang froid ill the world. professional cycle racing. Wo hope that ground, or hurry them up the sleep in­ morbid nervous system, ever vainly That body's "masterly inactivity" of the (except the saddle cover) have ever One notable opponent of the rational cline of some not too near-by hill; in this may prove correct, as we believe seeking to undo and right the evils of past season is not encouraging. If only come in my way. Perhaps it is nil dross movement was charged with hav­ that in a properly-conducted and re­ short, do anything that will start the denntrition and muscular inactivity. to enable our subsidized amateurs to owing to my modesty, which my friends ing carted these creatures dc.wn to dis- perspiration, and you will soon cease spectably-managed professionalism ex­ Our food is pre-masticated and we are appear in their true colors, I should s:iv I possess to an alarming degree. g'ist other ladies with the dress. True ists the best guarantee for the welfaro to have your brains lined wilh Mack, becoming, judging froai the advertise­ welcome and support any sound scheme "Wheeler." ___ or not, their appearance and manners as Burton expressed it, or to rise in the of amateurism. We have repeatedly ments of predigested foods which fill for the revival of professionalism. There were calculated to Imve that effect. urged on the Union the necessity of re­ morning, as Cowpcr did, "like an in­ Said to belong to the Lady Cyclists' As­ tho pages of the press, a race who soon must, however, be one thing done, the WHY SHE DON'T WIN. cognizing professionalism, and taking it fernal frog out of Acheron, crowned with will have no need of a private stomach removal of many of the restrictions un­ sociation. May do, but. If they are a the ooze and mud of melancholy." under its wing, as the turf and cricket * * * or liver, because we can and should der which a pro. now labors. "Sport A Few More Added to the L/ong .List fair sample, shall choke off any ladies authorities do; but, unfortunately, the buy these products from the slaughter­ I know from joining. Misfortunes never come singly; they and Play." ______of "Beeauses" Explanatory of Eng­ Union has shown neither desire nor in­ house and laboratory, and thus save clination to take such a step. We generally appear in triplicate or in the personal wear and tear. It is in the land's Loss of Racing Prestige. form of twins. Notice how everything Same Here. TWO SUCKERS. scarcely dare to hope remembering, as line of the much expounded physiologi­ We cannot see the use of trying to "They are looked after like race horses; we do, the depths to which professional­ iu the misfortune line seems to trans­ cal division of labor. But that line deceive the cycling public. We have some each man has a trainer who sees after pire in cycles. Let a bud railroad his|B'hargo as if he were a Derby run­ One in a Pump and One Outside of ism formerly fell that professionals will logically and inevitably ends in the con­ knowledge of the Inner workings of the It—How the Latter Exhausts His ever do any good unless held under the wreck occur and it is sure to be followed dition of some share-holding ants that trade, aui\ at the present moment there ner. Such is the manner in which C. by one or more of the same kind within are only two or three erack riders in Ens- V. Barden summed up his impressions Wind to Make the Former Force It sternest control, and it is doubtful if cannot move and unless fed by their Innd of whom \ve could say for certain this will be exercised by any persons a short time. This same unexplainable slaves die of starvation even when food of the American racing cyclist to us re­ Into a Tire. law seems to govern most things in life; that they do not receive remuneration, cently. Meintjes once said that he running meetings as speculations, and is before them. All this and more, too, and one of these is interested In the ma­ Some of the miseries of the wheeler not recognized as elected or authorita­ so it is but to be expected that in cycling has civilization brought upon the world. chine he rides. Amateurism, as defined thought Englishmen played with the who uses one of the pumps which were rule of cycles would be most sport of cycle racing. II. O. Dmican be­ tive governing bodies. In any event, we affairs the but as no evil exists without some off­ by the N. C. I1., was uever weaker than supplied in the early stages of pneumatic should be glad to see the experiment prominent. Hence when, a short time \Ve rememher a great friend lieves there are half a dozen Frenelinn-u well described by the writer setting virtue, and the few remedies at present. tires are tried. "Wheeling." ___ since, 1 received the doleful bit of in­ without a curative, or at least an al­ of ours standing up for the amateurism who ccmld whip all England at either Ihe of cycling notes in a Scottish newspa­ formation that an undeveloped L. A. of a. certain noted rider last year, anil he short or long-distance game, and thus per: Compulsorily situated in a pos- leviating remedy, so has science placed wns quite indignant when we smiled an "And the Next Day It Snowed." W. organ in Pennsylvania would not at the command of civilization a cure we have Britain (founder of cycle-racing) turo which Iris neither elegance nor for the next three months he sent to Inrrednlous smile. A short time ago he getting left far in the rear by more en­ comfort to commend it, the pnmpist Massachusetts lias proven that she is yet for the self-same ills it has caused. To told us that he had found out that the terprising and up-to-date nations. It is free from the influence of the base drum, League members free, as it had been, I the old and young, the weak and strong, rider in question was paid large sums for must endure the miserable backache I he horn and cow bell argument. Sue prepared myself for the shock I knew the rich and the poor of both sexes his various feats. So it Is with most of remarkable that it should be so, yet there generated thereby, while all the time knows when she has an able ami enthusi­ was coming. According to the law of cycling has been given as a pleasant, them, aud so it will be to the end, despite is the fact. We do not go in for our the fingers of the left hand holding, vise astic -servant, and, despite hoop-las to the cycles something of the same kind wns the most stringent restrictions of the sport with half the earnestness of the fashion, the end of the cylinder and contrary, she does' uotd ischurgo him with­ economical and ever ready remedy for N. C. U. True amateurism never had a American, the Continental, or the Colo­ sure, to follow iu a short time. The of exercise all must have to the flexible tube in their places, are being out just cause. In consequence of all this the lack stronger upholder than ourselves, but ot nial. We are, in short, amateurs, and, bored1 slowly to the quick by the corners she cast a>?0 votes for the re-election of something has happened: we are no live. It is a remedy so simple and so length we have conic regretfully to recog­ Mr. 1'erkins to the chief consulship, longer to receive the parent organ with as amateurs, who love the sport merely of the brass tube, and the flesh is as positive that many decline to believe in nize that it is Impossible. "Irish Cyclist." as a pastime, we must learn to put up burned by the increasing against 782 fur his opponent, Mr. Deau. the chan.ling irregularity of the past. its efficacy, simply because it is not surely being We have from the very inception of the For once I lie "Hi. World" has scored "a He's Gi t Enough. with being last on the list of the athletic heat "of the metal through friction. His cabal against the re-elected ouicial declared handed out across the counter of a powers, and eat indigestible, humble pie. dexter bund cannot be employed in re­ bent" on the entire wheel press by being drug store in the shape of a pill or Hartford, Conn., Nov 18. President ourselves adverse to the attempt of the riug the first to announce its probable dis­ Charles L. Burdette, of the League of All the time there is an amateur defini­ lieving the sinister one from its tortures, to down Mr. 1'erkins for no other reason potion, but daily the gospel of pure air tion in cycle-racing: all the time cash nipped and than that he neither knuckled to nor continuance as a free, gratis, for nothing preached by the wheel American Wheelmen authorizes the state­ as it is constantly getting and exercise ment thnt under no conditions will he re­ prizes are forbidden, expenses forbidden, lacerated between the piston rod anl feared the ring or its tin-eats. The over­ publication. I can't say "I told you so," extends and makes converts who, once main at the head of the League after the and a ten-guinea limit fixed, so shall we the cylinder. With the perspiration whelming majority by which Mr. 1'erkius but I will say 1 thought it was coming gained, rarely turn renegades and for­ annual meeting in February, ills term be poor as a cycle-racing country. pouring off his brow, his right foot has been re-elected shows conclusively to something like this. sake tlie religion of action in the open will not expire until one year from that three thing. First, the wheel press, which No wonder foreigners look with dis­ cramped by the weight of his body sit­ was almost a unit in opposition to Mr. The much-howled-at official organ con­ nir. It. is this more than any other one date. Colonel Burdette's decision is final, dain at our attempts at sport, and no ting on it, his back screwed up. imper- tract has, I fear, proven to the holders thing which has built the temple of the however, and nothing will tempt him to 1'erkins, h;is no influence even when one withhold his resignation. The annual wonder that our championships and our somitivo of Richard the Third, he feels of its own members headed the opposition of it to be sometning like the grip a wheel upon a foundation of rock, from the tire, and, finding it not nearly hard ticket. Second, the Suite of Massachu­ petty blowing of the adverse meeting well be held in the South. The records are taken from us wholesale, Western hunter once had ou a bear. which tbe place will he selected by the Executive when we consider the shabby-genteel enough and that Ills labor is not nearly setts is not seeking political chief consuls, The hunter was being chased around a minds of prejudice can never hope to Committee, consisting of Colonel Burdette, manner in which our racing is con­ completed, who would dare to censure preferring rather to have one who is di­ tree by bruin, but finally managed to dislodge it. rectly the opposite. Third, the ring In of this city; T. F. Sheridan, of t'hlciuto; ducted. The sport is out at elbows; that man if he indulged1 under such cir­ cycling, like the one in polities, has re- get a firm hold upon both of the bear's aud T. Carleton lirown, of Elizabeth, N. there is none of the go-ahead en­ cumstances in a gentle zephyr of words et'lved a facer which should be of benefit fore paws as they encircled the tree. I have been looking over my private J. The candidates for the president's posi­ unrecognized by the lexicographer? tion are Ucorge A. 1'erklns. of Msixsacuu- thusiasm about it which is so charac­ to it. We congratulate both Massachusetts Ibis kept the bear from geitiug at the graveyard, where in regular order I teristic of the American and continental "The Wheeler.'' and Mr. Pel-kins uyou their victory. hunter while at the same time it kept find buried "The OwL" "Uk" se*ts u>"i C. S. Luscomb, of New York. 6 THE LIFE. 25.

rtainlng of travelers, favors us with the ust: "and they caJl this fun!" To ar- own they both offer less resistance to the ollowing characteristic letter: "Sir So ve at the "fun" stage one rnuat not be wind «oid get more power over their CYCLING.. iany silly remarks have emanated from afraid of a little hard work at the he- work, and they will not bother about the en and women in regard to the dress nuing. My first five miles over a hilly emote consequences. rorn by Miss Reynolds In her cycle ride aad was the hardest manual labor I ever Prince Pierre d'Aloantara, who has rom Brighton to London and back (cov- erformed. To-day I make ten miles an een declared by the Insurgent Mello heir ring the 104 miles In 8h. 38m.), that I our over that same road with ease and o the throne of Brazil, has won a number ^OFFJEASON. ould like to ask this question: Which do omfort. Canadian "Cycling." f wheel races In France, where he Is iese Gruudyites in their hearts really tudylng at the College of A'ersailles. link most becoming the neat, comfort- RECORDS. An officer in the I. C. A. A. is quoted blo attire worn by this 16-year-old girl s saying that the association will here- WHAT A DSDALLY LIVELY CYCLING picture of whom on her bicycle I send fter entirely ignore the L. A. W., and ou, or the hideous dress of modern n English View of the Question of hat they will continue to hold cycle poman? Of course, the former.. Yet they Speed Limits. CESTRE IS DOING. re snch arrant humbugs that they will vents without the League's sanction. ondemn the former while thinking noth- Are we ever going to get to the end A new feature in tho record-grabbing ig of the iudeceut attire worn by women f the records? Such was the ques- ame. A party of AVestern experts "have t balls or at court, iu the ballet and the on asked mu the other day by a urchascd tho exclusive right to make win- Foot Ball, Pool and Polo Each ircus, all of which they look on with ap- :r records on a Southern race track." entleman who takes a great interest Veil, business is business, even in ama.- roving eyes! Well, for my part, I cannot i. such matters. Of course, everyone Bidding For the Cycler's Favor bide humbugs, and I record my vote for curism. liss Iteyuolds' attire, a similar one to an see that in. time a point may be Which is better "Zlmmy" or "Sang?" hich I have had occasion to wear myself, eached where more pace is impossible, "Cycle Record." If you are a maker, you "Johnnie Comes Marching Home" ml hope to wear again very often. The fact ut the real drift of the query is, ays your money and you takes your s that sensible women are daily uprising Have we yet arrived at a point where Soiee;" if you are not a maker you ought A o defy and defeat the intolerable laws of ecords are likely to stand for some o have better sense than to ask such fool New Tandem. he Mr. and Mrs. Orundys of the past and onsiderable time without alteration?" uestious. resent days. 1 remain, yours, very faith- Ramoge, the famous French pedestrian, ully, Florence Dixie." "Penny Illustrated laving in view the fact that most of ho walked from Paris to Belfort, and Syracuse, N. ¥., Nov. 18. Editor "aper." 10 record performances accomplished vho is capable of tramping 100 hours, Columbia "Sporting Life:" The Syracuse Athletic uring ths past season have been, due as taken to the bicycle and expects to Association has lost a favorite mem­ ather to the improvements in the vin some of the long-distance wheel races ber. Frederick Crandall, athletic cap­ IN DAYS OP OLD, urfaces of tracks than to any con- f the future. :ructional AVe shall always hare the makers' tain of the old Syracuse Athletic Club, When Riders Bold Told Oft Their alterations in machines and a very prominent and hustling mem­ lemselves, and that the classic road aid representative with us. You uray Stories of Miraculous Headers or ecords for single machines have not all him a makers' amateur, a speed mer- ber of the S. A. A., was laid at rest uaut, or an out-and-out prof castor al; but Standard Bicycle to-day by his sorrowing clulmiates, who Escapes Therefrom. een beaten by any startling amount, e is there all the same, and there's no expressed their sympathy by a large 1 never think of my first ride without think there are indications that, if so trying to suppress him. attendance at the obsequies and a beau­ bit of sentiment a sentiment which e have not yet come to the end of If cycle racing among ladies In France tiful set piece, with the red letter "S" feel sure all you fellows, and lor that 10 records, we are at any rate fast s happily dying out through want of sup- in the centre thereof. Athletic and mutter every cyclist shares in. The pproaching that point. While such ort, the pastime is certainly attracting cycling matters are quiet at present. arly days of one's riding must have idical change in cycle construct ion lore and more adherents among the fair glamour for'every mau who rides, or s the introduction of the "Kangaroo" ex, and the number of lady cyclists, In Outside of foot ball there is nothing 'arls especially, may be said to be le- much going on. Tlie S. A. A. eleven as riddeu for any number of years. nd afterward the rear-driving safety ion. has covered itself with glory this sea­ Liter the first run, the first tour the ere possible, of course, the likelihood To the record-breaker Shakespeare has son and has yet to lose a game. Yale rst dul), the new companions, theu the f records being continually beaten practical meaning when the poet says: Law School and Cornell's second eleven irst club race, the bitterness of defeat aturally followed, but now that we Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back. were rallied easy for the big boys with .lid afterwards the triumph of victory ave apparently reached a fixity of A'herein he puts alms " The speed man an "S" on their jerseys. The S. A. A. iiitil timu creeps ou, and the novelty atterns, we may perhaps with some uist first catch Time before he can grasp members are talking up a pool tourn-'y. icgins to wear away, and you feel onfidence anticipate that the finality lie alms he bears in the wallet on bis Should it come to a head, care should be hat you are! only a cyclist, one of many, f records is not far behind it. "Cycle ack. Vhat has become of my old ordinary "Radfahr Humor," the German wheel Graceful, light and strong, this product of the oldest taken iu the matter of limiting the con­ tecord." laper, in one of its clever cartoons, pic- testants. Too many of these would wonder? It is nearly ten years ago ures Meiutjes as a coal-black darky, make the affair tedious. I'olo on rol­ ince 1 first rode it. It was iiew when "FATHER BILL." t will undoubtedly drive the white South )icycle establishment in America easily retains its place ler skates is being talked about. Cy­ bought it, and although i only had it African to drink. His hatred of negroes clers must get onto something with hreo or four mouths, it was old when I He Gives Vent Once More to His Pet s only equaled by the disinclination of at the head. Always well up to the times or a. little in wheels all the year round. The an­ old it. It had had a severe doing there Dislike of AVheelmen. ho typical Anarchist to wash. an be no doubt. By many straighten- ' Uncle," as applied to the pawnbroker, nual election of officers of the S. A. A. American wheelmen have invented and advance, its well deserved and ever increasing popularity occurs in January, and several wires are ugs the cranks wore a gnarled and s a wretched pun ou the Latin word wisted look, the front wheel was more eveloped a new game, which consists iu incus, a hook. Pawnbrokers employed a already being pulled. It is fabout as iking up their residences at some es- look to lift articles pawned to upper good as settled that President Hazard ) shape than round by reason of much s a source of pride and gratification to its makers. To ride iiiffoting with cabs. The handle-bars ecially fast track, raking, dragging and helves before spquts were adopted. and Secretary Hughes will continue in lliiig the path until it is as smooth and (iono to tho uncus" Is exactly tauta- their offices. This is as it should be. tillered from the fame complaint as uount to the modern amateur's phase, a bicycle and not to ride a Columbia is to fall short of the he cranks, while the backbone had urd as a bowling alley, gathering to­ 'up the spout." Both gentlemen are fitted for the ollices other a staff of expert pacemakers, they hold and are popular, and where's i verged from its true course, and kept A scheme is on foot to revive profes- iillest enjoyment of a noble sport. tie tiny back wheel trailing round to uman and equine, equipping these pace­ ional racing in England, and to put it the use of a change. John Gardner has makers with tandems, triplicates, quad- returned from the South, and the boys he left, as if it wanted to go down a n a better basis. Strict rules rigidly en- ide street. Yet for all that I loved uplicates and bicycle sulkies, waiting orced, and the presence of French and gave him a warm welcome on his re­ or a warm windless day, and then rid- American cracks, would, we think, render turn. Several of Steam's tandems have ny old ordinary, and sorrowfully sold it or the £3 winch was offered me iu ig various distances, in various slyles, he success of this project very probable. been seen on the streets here of late. Tt>. racer, upon whieh Irish Cyclist." iy comparison I literally flew. during the past month three of these over the ground with astonishing speed. olonies have been established W. W. A racing saddle which Is void of all G. WHIZ. Those were the days, too, when one pring attachments Is not a comfort-giving ook an infinite interest in cjvle lore, Vindle and troupe at Springfield, Mass.; oat for a long ride on the average road, vhen new fads possessed an enormous V.. A. Ximiiierman and party at Hart- veil when mounted on a pneumatic nia- GO AS AND ON WHAT YOU PLEASE mount of interest for the novice, and ird, Conn., and T. S. Johnson & Co. hine. Mounted on such a saddle the rider t Independence, la. At. each of these eels every little uncveuness and jar from Popex lanufacturing Co,, nything new which happened to be or v__/ t But as You Go Always Remember hrontened to be, must of a necessity laces new records have been inade at 1 rough surface, which on a propel road the Following Kulcs For Your 11 sorts of odd and unusual distances, addle is barely apparent. ic requisitioned. I daresay all you fel- Harry AVheeler has gone abroad In Government. ows have gone through this period, nt Johnson seems to be the chief, as he earch of new worlds to conquer. AVe BOSTON, CHICAGO, Thfc mana.gem.ont of the Madison and spent no end of time, money, and airly rode a full mile last Wednesday lelieve him to be a fitting representative Square Garden Company announce the vorry over details in cycle construc- i liii. 553-58., which surpasses not only f the new order of professional, such us following as the rules to govern the six- ion which you would not now think 11 previous genuine records, but also all he N. C. A. has introduced. AVe wish worth a rap. How often, I wonder, he lies that have been told by unscrupu- he new Alexander all the success pos- NEW YORK, HARTFORD. day race whioli is to be run by the M. ible, and believe that he will defeat S. G. Co. It will be noted that for the lid yon enamel your first inachincjjiow ous wheelmen and track managers. ften. I wonder, did you take its bearings nore men than will ever defeat him. first time in the history of cycling a six- spirit of the Times. ___ The first attempt in France to get up day race will be run in which the choice o pieces: how often shift the saddle, a contest horse versus cycle was highly of the machine is not limited. ighten the spokes and otherwise rob uccessful. Nearly 50,000 people paid to Raco starts at 12.05 A. M., December he poor suffering repairer of his live- BITS OF RACING HEWS. ee the Cody-Meycr match. This is all 85, and finishes at 10.05 P. M., Saturday, ihood. The amateur repairer is most he more astonishing, as the result was December 30. The race will be a contiu- enthusiastic of all and the more ignor- A capital thing In amateurism $ $ $. a foregone conclusion. Ten horses, how- JOHNSON nou9 142-hour contest, tbe competitors int he is of what he is about, the greater The ttrst piece ou the programme >ver bad, c.in always beat one cyclist having the right to rest and ride us they he glamour the task has for him. In !ve. iding four hours a day for three days, may sec tit. Each competitor must se­ ifter days, -when many machines have "Steady work" Doing the standstill without pacemakers. lect and name two colors as his "official Because of the success of the fifty-mile jassed through that once novice's hands, n a bicycle. relay race a week is colors," and under no circumstances will There are more ways to finish in a ago last Saturday, there any competitor be allowed to start or ride lotails are all forgotten such as these, las since been some talk among the New­ without these colors. Competitors may use and if the machine is a bit muddy, ace than won. ark Wheelmen about the arrangement of any type of bicycle, and It shall not be f its enamel is a bit knocked about, The net profits of the Hartford Wheel 100-mile race on the same scale. It was within the jurisdiction of the referee to f its bearings are dirty, there is no Jluh's tournament were only $180.01. not considered feasible for tills year, how­ THE determine whether a machine is eligible worrv for the cycler's mind so long as A new play is named "Cracker Jack:" ever, but will be taken in earnest in the or not. A change of machine may be made lis wheels run cheerily. Happy days of ohn S. Prince is not to become an actor. arly spring, and will probably be among at any time during the race. In case a he novice, they come but once. No mat­ The great trouble with, the budding he first important bicycle events. change is necessary, competitors shall slow er how many new machines one may acer Is that too often he is nipped In the The great mistake racing men make lip on the inside of the track on either of ml. towadays Is in overtraining themselves. CHAMPION the two straightaways (no change to be mve the first season, the first machine, Kelly makes a better tire salesman Ve believe in the truth of tlie old say- made on the turns). The competitor's at­ he first run, number one of everything, han he does a tire pusher on the race ng which horse-trainers still repeat: tendant may aid him in dismounting and n fact, in connection with cycle riding, rack. 'Over-train, over-strain." The theory that mounting, and may give the competitor a mnst alwavs possess sentiment for the Palmer Is clever; his registered tele­ or a man to be In perfect condition his RECORDS AT INDEPENDENCE, I A. push-off; but no attendant mny run with cycler. "The Wheeler." graphic address IB the oue word, "Kec- nuscles should be as hard as iron is a his charge on the push-off. Any com­ nistako. When the muscles are hardened >rds." hey are In a condition of irritation. petitor who receives an unfair push-off CHASIXG SIN ON A CYCLE. What a racing man doesn't know Is DISTANCE STANDINQ may suffer disqualification at the hands jften the very Information he ought to The English system of licenses pays of the referee or his representative. well. The N. C. U. issued to pure ama- 1OO Yards 9 1-5 4 3-5 Each competitor may have two official Pneumatics, Coupled With Prayers acquire. eurs last year 2430 licenses, _!! applicants 1-8 Mile 17 1-5 12 1-5 and Piety, as a Possible Means of "What's the news?" "Lot's of it; icing refused the coveted olllciul purity attendants, whose names shall be handed hose racing men didu't break a single WORLDS to the management. These attendants Saving-Souls. stamp. The racing men paid the N. C. U. 1-4 Mile 28 24 2-5 WORLD'S must have some color or other mark of eeord yesterday." ;15«>, In round numbers, for the privilege 1-3 Mile 3-5 34 3-5 Identification. The attention of the throngs of prom- Messrs. Zimmerman and G. Banker lu- >f racing as amateurs. No wonder the 39 These official attendants shall be entire­ naders along Broad (street, Philadel­ eud to participate iu some of the Southern \. C. U. is a strong supporter of pure RECORDS 1-2 Mile 59 2-5 55 BECORDS ly under the. charge of the officials of phia, was attracted last Sunday neets this season. amateurism; it pays them to be so. the raco. Attendants may. at tho discre­ ifternoon by the appearance of a The rumor that the forthcoming six- The Madison Square Garden manage­ 2-3 Mile 1.21 1.16 tion of the referee, be suspended for un- squad of the "light cavalry" of lay race is to be run under N. C. A. stne- ment has decided to allow the riders in 1 Mile 1.58 1-5 1.55 3-5 rentk-manly or unfair conduct, or for any he Salvation Army, which made this lo'n Is not correct. ts six days' race to use any kind of ma­ act which, in the judgment of the officials, horoughfaro the basis of operations for The racing man to his friend who is chine which they may see fit, instead of may affect the success of the race. he day and swooped down upon the :ryiug to aid him to break a record Imiting them to ordinary or geared prdl- Official attendants, when not on active egions of the ungodly at many points. I'ace be with you." .uiries, as was first intended. This is con­ MATCH THEM WHO CAN! fluty, t.'.ust remain in the enclosure pro- "The man of the ho'ir," In cycling Is sidered just to the competitors, from the AND Tided for them. Coaching, advice, infor­ The "cavalry," which, like all other the he otic who can ride the greatest number 'act that many of the riders have been mation nnd nil other necessary attendance livisions of the army is made up of both jf miles in that time. ising safeties and other machines iu their must ho eiven from the enclosure or along nen and women, is mounted upon safety There is some talk of Brrlo having t races for the past year. the truck on the Twenty-seventh street )icycles and the riders present a very ry at the Springtlold-Hoston record re- The latest excitement in the foreign HIS idc of the Gnrden. latty appearance in their uniforms of Jeutly made by Graves. record world Is the fact that 1'IInion de I'ndcr no circumstances will attendants dark bine trimmed with red. E. Oxborrow, the English professional, Veloclpedique de Franco has refused to be psrmllted to stnuil, loiter, concli or The cavalry, or bicycle corps of the has covered 25 miles on the road in In. accept Lesna's 24-hours' record. The rea­ MOUNT call In eompplilors on the curves or on the bin., mounted son is, that, whilst admitting that Lesna Twenty-sixth street side of the track, or army, is just beginning to be organized on a safety. lid a fine performance, It cannot accept E. C. STEARNS &. Co., at any point nto this country, although it was intro­ "Veloce Sport" thinks that long-dis- the lap-scoring except as provided ahovc. .auco track races should be restricted to sheets as correct. As a All clnims nnd protests of any sort what­ duced by General Booth into England matter of fact, tlie lap-scoring got hope­ SYRACUSE, N. Y. ever must be handed to the referee In over a year ago, and has proven a great an hour. Qulle natural! lessly mixed as soon as sprinting com- A writing, and must he signed bv the com­ 'eature of the army's work iu the latter Boston calls them "expert exponents leneed amongst the riders in the night. petitor's attendant. I'nrter no circumstan­ . ountry, squads of gospel bicyclers >f velocity." but the rest of the world Referring to English sneers regarding ces will anv verbal protest or claim be scouring the whole of the island and s content to dub them cracks. the accuracy of American timing and tlie received from any of the competitors. 'erreting out John Bull in his most sin­ None of the English path safety rec- speed of American racing men in this coun­ STEARNS Tli" referee or his representatives shnll ful haunts. It is intended to extend the .'ds up to 240 miles with which the sea- try, tlie editor of Hie "Scottish Cyclist." hnve full power to decide all protests and on of 1KU3 opened remain now. after a visit to tlie United States, says: cbilms. nnd their decision shnll be final. corps over all sections of the world "Well posted on amateurism" The rac- Having seen American riders in Ameri­ Accidents to machines will not he consid­ eventually. ig man's account on the ledger of the can climate on American half-mile tracks, ered by the referee. CompotUors not prop­ The squad which appeared on Broad lannfaetnrer whose wheel he rides. no sane man would longer doubt the possi­ well-appointed establishment on Columbus arranged among themselves how every race erly costumed or who are gui'tv of unfair street numbered less than a dozen, ivenue, Boston, wherein he displays that was to be run, anil betted accordinftly, the Five years ago there were no safety bility of American times being faster than 11% pound wheel. 1'ctcr has already se­ riding, or who arc nngontlemanly in dress, majority of whom were women. They »icycle records beyond 21 miles 123 yards British." until at last the bookmakers declined language or conduct, may be disoualifled cured a contract for 500 machines, to be to bet on boys' races at all, de­ were followed with much curiosity and n "tho hour, and all were held by H. E. ganger is now on his father's farm, In delivered in lots of fifty. His 'S)4 wheel claring that they were bv the referee at any part of the race. whenever they made a stop Laurie. practically robbed. «hd noon such rtlsonnllflcatUm the compet­ were AVaukesha, breaking colts and enjoying he has already on the market. It is a The cause of the public esclandre which .inmediately surrounded by a crowd —V. Howard Harvey, of the Century rustic life. From his appearance one full diamond, tlie roadster weighing twen­ finally took place was a quarrel between itor forfeits nil rlirlit to prizes, entrance 3ycle Cle.b of Baltimore, recently redo would judge him teen, or any returns or prizes whatever, as whereupon one of the women would be­ to be In tlie full glow ty-two and tlie track racer eighteen two members of the ring. One boy. named gin to preach in the peculiar, hard-hitting 2_rii,_ miles in 24 hours, breaking the of health and strength. He is not increas­ pounds. It Is made of 18 and £!-gu»gu Browse, was overheard offering a "'fiver' to provided f<-r in (Ms contract. Maryland ing one Competitors aerec that short distance style of the army. Then a hymn 01 record. pound in weight, and with tlie ttiL'ing, with !>y>-incu tread, 44-Inch wheel another of the competitors, with, the ob­ If all we hear he true, we are threat­ :iresent prospects of activity for the winter base and has wooden rims. The machine ject of squaring races mnv lie held on the track during the two was sung, after which came the or­ there is not the slightest danger of flesh a race, by a lad who -re^V. TTprler no circumstances shall com­ der to "mount!" and the corps ened with a new terror. It is said that we Is llntshed In sold or regular black enamel. had lately been warned off. The latter, was now have the dressmaker's amateur piling on him to cause his muscles to be­ Berlo Is at present turning out two ladies' having nothing to lose, and having a petitors In the six-day race attempt to speeding away over the asphalt to a amongst us. ing slowed and clogged with fat. Sangei wheels which are not to weigh over six­ pace or In any other way nid eacli other Is no fool; breaking colts is easier work personal spite against Browse, told (he Nor sti'i'i any comrrelltor accept assistance new halting place. England Is to try th" speed possibili­ teen pounds apiece. Kacc Committee; and the consequence was ties of the American half-mile track, out than breaking records, even If it does not that the whole plot camo out." pnoRtiinWn" or other nld from any of the pay quite so well. Says the rittslii'.rg "Dispatch:" "We competitors In the elx-day race or in the CYCLING EVERYWHERE. of that description now being constructed all Know that Mr. Kaymond will not pro­ Mr. Raymond. In regard to the newspa­ iil-nrt races. Tlio re*r>ree or his represents at WallhauiKlow. Just why it took the Racing Board pose anything that will expel these crack pers, stated to a. reporter of the Brooklyn fives slnnM (le^He whether such pace or nM Even Down in a Coal Mine Yon Can Tlie racing wheels of this year were nearly four months to "exonerate" /1m- rider.; from amateur ranks because of "Citizen" that there were a number j^tj been offered er accepted, nnd for a light enough and safe, the latter qualifica­ niennan from the English charges against their being paid to ride bicycles. Ho of writers of bicycle news on the daily Vi'-.'nMon of nnv one of these rules the com Now Pedal Your Way Along. tion not being the least in the estimate his amateurship no one but tlie Kacing wants them to remain iu the L. A. AV., journals who did not know how to ride pctlter mnv suffer dlsniviMficwtlnn. Tn cas From the Sydney "Town and Country of a road or track rider. Board will ever krow. Perhaps they and instead of molding men to suit ama­ or who knew who the riders were. These, of a fall ca""od bv .T-eldent or bv foul rid Journal" we gather particulars of : "All flesh is grass"' shouted the Mil­ would not have acted even as promptlj teur rules, Mr. Kaymond would mold a writers were the very ones who w»ro In!?, the referee or Ms renv«;linl! a rt1<=tnnep ercMcr than fiv< most carefully planned and thoroughly appeared in several French papers: "Want august Board and Augustus Mmmermai AV. amateurs to cast them adrift. It may finest timers iu the country. Then Mr. Inns be niiilecl to iho competitor's score. tested. This velocipede is so small am ed, for the Velodrome, Buffalo, Paris, ui that If the replies were not forthcoming he that 'two classes' will again be un- Raymond asked how many writers knew by Dec. 1 the N. C. U. would pro­ blusuirgly proposed. But the most manly that the timers In every record made an Tlie mamirement airroes to provide suit light that it can be lifted from the trad grand organisaleur de records." ceed to nbTp tfinM fcr H>o M«O of competitors an' with one hand, leaving the other free tr "What would you suggest as a suitable act upon /iinmcrman's case upoi! and most business-like step for the L. affidavit as to the times being accurate, the evidence already in the hands of the A. W. to take would be to allow any or as did the surveyor of the track. As to th"lr official pftoii.i.-nfs. The manairemen carry a light or tools. When seated 01 eoat-of-arms for a crack amateur?" "He English governing body. will not provi.'p fnnfl or conVin-r utensils don't want any such thing; a money all of its members to ride for cash or Class B. he slated If It passed he would Tents must he ].»nt In proper condition the machine there is absolutely nothing The Australian road record for 2" anvthing else. Whatever plan is adopted have more work; that was all. In regard in front of the rider, and if the wheel: gram will be more appropriate." will simply to official timers, he stated that If that Tf not. the manntrcment re«»rvo the ri~!> John S. Johnson has cabled to Sweden miles stands at 111. 1m. This is the waj mean this in an indirect way. to cloan tl"> tents nt the expense of th< run into a fall of rock or earth upon the it was made: On Sept. 211, H. B. James Far better be frank about the matter so proposed law went into effect, our country to get terms for skating there this win being so large and not like the tight little e^eiipdnt. Tlie referee mny ta^e into con track when going at high speed the ride ter If he gets satisfactory terms he may took train from Melbourne to Beveridge that nobody will be deceived." pl'iorntlon the eaae of nny .competitor wh< 25 miles north. Tlie equiuoctieal gales Public faith in private bicycle records Nle across the sea, would have a milkv is simply shot forward from his seat go to Stockholm and open a rink. way of timers from the Atlantic to the falls so far behind that he hns no ehanei and easily maintains his equilibrium by The were on in full force, and after getting Is not great tills fall. The temptation, to win anv of the ahovo prizes. The ref malleability of gold Is so grea the Beveridge postmaster to sign his book owing to financial considerations, to make Pacific and from the Lakes to the On'f." #»ree or his renre«entafivnq ?nov disqualify running a few steps. that a sheet of foil, it Is said, can hi at the 25th milestone, he rode up to the new records is sullicicntly strong for the Now, Mr. Nelson, see what you h:\ve Biieh competitor should thov see flt. On an ordinary track the machines cat beaten as thin as the veneering of auia G. P. O., Mclliorne, 01 minutes later. Any Itaclng Board to make more careful rules brought on yourself by daring to pen fiuy- The scoring of the race sho'l he nnt1 be comfortably operated at the rat teurism upon a modern racing cyclist. little scepticism as to the correctness o governing them. The Amateur Athletie thing derogatory to bushwhacking record- In the hands of the management of th of from ten to twelve miles an hour Meintjes has become a blcyle agcn the time is based upon the possibility o Union has been confronted with the same brefiklng. race The score honrrls shaM he prominent and on first-class tracks experience' in his South African home, and will In tho two post office clocks not bein; difficulty, and the solution was found in The town of Waterloo. Canada, besides Iv dfsp'aved. Clnitns of ln rT-ecf seorin future try and Inculcate iu the minds o: synchronous. About 10 miles of the roai. refusing to accept records unless being noted for its excellent amateiir~l)and. riders can make from fifteen to twenty tho gentle Zulus the beauties of cycling. they Is known also as successful must he lodred w»h the chief scorer Im miles per hour with but little exertion is only fair, 9 miles is of good macadam were made in open competition. The in a high de­ niedlotclv after said error cr alleged erro What's In a name? The answer migh and the last (J miles is of good wood pav League of American AVheelmen rules per­ gree when it conies to having its celebra­ In scoring Is detceted. The referee or hi The designer of this machine foun< be, considerable, sometimes. An English ing. with plenty of traffic, and a cabl mit men to steal away to Isolated tracks tions, be they band tournaments, saenger- recrcsentfiti<-« shall nlso he notiflo.i a after tunnels reached a length of over . man by the name of Wiuterbottom recent road for the last four miles. and there make records as they please fests or bicycle meets. The bicycle races once. Tf Rnfli"l->nt proof of error I" elit-nin mile that altogether too much time wa ly won a road race Iu a bliudiug suo\\ A match between Fouruler and Gaby with their employers and fellow-employes. last August, under the management of the iihle. the referee Tray. In his ludirmen 1 consumed in walking to and from th storm. on a tandem, against the trotter. Lcnox They have their own starters, timers and Musical Society, were of such a character allow the eifiltn. Tn no case shall anv per face, so his first machine was built, ntii While the general public know little for 2Vi miles, drawing a pneumatic sulky ti-iels measurers, and, in fact, control the as to ouemir^ge the sport, and now bicycle son cxceot- the referee or his represent at! v of the delights of cluh lifj, they kuo\ situation. The wisdom of leaving a prem­ racing on their recently improved track as soon as it was put upon the trae resulted in a win for the horse, who bea will be a leading feature of fete davn at c1'!iii~n the score, its utility as a time and labor-savin something of the sporting side, and t the cyclists by 40 yards. The cyclists ium on fraud has been questioned, and It N'o short races shall he he'd dnrlnrr th them the path Is the leading feature o track wus inside the trotter's, and nifus is not improbable that more stringent Waterloo. At present the track at the last lionr of the race. At 0.30 TV M. c. device became evident. cycling. ured !)60 metres, as ag-iinst 1000 metre: rules will be adopted. It is said that it park Is being improved at considerable f?nfnrdnv evening no person shall he n 1 A Minneapolis paper has a picture h sand track. The cyclists started I (JO metre costs bicycle manufacturers several hun­ expense, the Waterloo Bicycle Club and lowed within dred dollars the Park Board uutaking supervision of the enclosure except the off There is no Pun in the Rider' It of "Johnson splitting the air." As in behind the trotter to make up the differ a week each when they want tlie work. AArlien completed It will be clals. nnd each competitor actual!'- In th Novitiate. diagram goes with this work of art we nr ence, and caught him easily in the firs to smash records. Expenses roll up for rnce at that time fihall he permitted t at a loss to thoroughly understand its ex lap. They then seemed to have the rac pacemakers, racing men, trainers, etc. from 20 to 25 feet In width, and will be have, Three difficulties confront the perso banked one foot in five at the curves. It one attendant inside the enclosure act meaning. at their mercy, because they were 40 me "Evening Sun." Is exactly one-quarter of a mile In length, ai'd such attendnnts shall strictlv re who covets a wheel to buy it, to ride 1 The N C. A. racer who was not fas tros to the good p^r lap, but to the gen Aieintjes when he returns home had within the special enclosure provided fo nnd to "harden up" for general road ri( surveyor's measurement. The track Is enough last season to win anything but th eral astonishment or all they were beaten better give a bit of Instruction to his j made Of clay, and during the past season them. As soon as " comnetitor r»tirc ine A beginner compared with an ol $10 fourth prizes says It Is no easy thin, by about 40 yards in the last lap. A con brother amateurs in Africa. They need it, pertnanently from the race, neither h "roadster." Is like comparing the endui siderable amount of money was lost oye I flue-sifted cinders and salt Improved tlie ance of u strong man with that of a ehjl< to "pursue the even tenner of your way' judging from the following taken from a j surface somewhat. In the spring more of nor his attendants shall have access to th In that direction. this race, which probably best explain local paper: "At a championship meet­ 'the same dressing, enclosure. ______The veteran rider dashes up hill and ovi the wonderful loss of speed on the par ing lately held In Johannesburg, a with the addition of the narrow side paths at an average tei Cannibalistic Africans (to mlssionarj brick dust, will make the surface very about to be boiled) "We II spare your lif of the taiuh-mous. regular 'ring' was discovered, not among hard Lady Dixie Dilates on Dress Reform mlle-au-hour gait with respiration as ret. the elder riders, even, but among and fast. It is expected that n two- nlnr as though strolling on foot, while on one condition." "Name it!" sail th Peter Berlo, who now divides his tlm the days' bicycle meet will be one of the at­ Lady Florence Dixie, who, hesides belli tl- man of prayers. "Can our mau Meintje between going after professional road rec ranks of the lads under IS, for novice slowly tolls over the same conn whom a great many races are usually tractions to draw visitors to the little one of the most charming of her sex. i with panting breath, bulglug eyes an beat Zimmerman?" ords and the manufacturing of light German town next year. a superb and courageous swimmer, a sploi find that by bending weight bicycles, has opened a large an reserved. XUess precocious specimens did hors«wouiau, and one of the most eu moisteued anatomy, and exclaim, la di as THE SPORTING LIFE.

glass, broken In all shapes and sizes, was There seems to be no end to the number prepared, as well as a plank through of new devices for pneumatic tires. The which was driven nails of various sizes. patent omce is deluged with applications for CYCLING. A machine was ready, having the rear patents on all manner of schemes. wheel lilted with a band, the frout tire The Humber people have declared a 10 being without any protection. Operations per cent, dividend on their stock, to pay began by the machine being ridden over which requires profits of not less tlian FOURTH NATIONAL CYCLE SHOW the glass bed by HcCiladery, who Is no 1100,000 on last season's business. UNCLE REMUS. light rider, being now about 13 stone There is no trade in this country, or weight. This hail no effect, save ns re­ any other, for that matter, in which there gards the tire which had no protector, and Is so much personality as the wheel trade. HE REMARKS OH THE WHEEL WOMAN'S which collapsed. Next, the broken glass Why it should be so we cannot say, but AT and plank studded with nails were ridden it is. over, at varying speed, time after time, DRESS REFORM CRUSADE. without puncture. Then, as a last resort, Air tires will not relieve saddle sore­ our representative balanced the machine ness, or overcome the unpleasantness of by the handlebar on the plank of nails, riding with au uncomfortable saddle, al­ while McGladery broueut all his weight though the vibration and Jar we greatly Hot in Fa?or ol the Way Woman is to bear on the rear wheel, but the band reduced. effectively protected the tire, and absolute­ The Cleveland Wheel Club expects to be ly defied all attempts at puncture. As Incorporated in a few days under the Progressing in Cycling He Dis­ somebody pres-vit said, the rider who has name of the Cleveland Wheel Club Com­ Shanks' baud titled won't have to resort to pany. The capital stock of the company THE ASSOCIATED CYCLING CLUBS OF PHILADELPHIA, courses in the Usual Intelligent Shanks' inure.' The exhaustive trial of will be $10,0(10. the device pleased ever} cue, and satisfied Manufacturers of saddles are all aiming the most sceptical." to secure ease for the rider, and are Manner of a Cycling Eipert. aware that a good article is becoming more and more an important factor in the HE WAS AN ARTIST. equipment of a wheel. JAfi. 29 to FEB. 3, IflCLiUSlVE, 1894. "Bloss grayshus! dat's a ter'ible rum­ Here is the greatest wheel crank In the pus vats gwiui,' ou 'bout r Com­ mouth, with eyes staring, his face the Chicago frost, which affected not the mon Council in the Twenty-fourth ward, picture of astonishment and alarm, and East alone, but the West and North as of Philadelphia. We wish Mr. MaeOwen For further information and prospectus apply to his lips forming a great red O, from well. Perhaps also there were too many well in his new battle. Whether it be well which the smoke rolled lazily in unaided meetings, and racers were overworked; to be elected or well to be defeated In curls up along his coal-black visage. perhaps the promoters held out promises such a contest Is a question opinions differ "W-a-a-t!" he exclaimed, when he had \yhich were never fulfilled, and the pub­ upon. somewhat recovered from the shock. lic became indifferent; whether or not, The profits of pneumatics is shown In of "Well, dat's dc mos' supprisin' 'telligence the racing altogether was not of unusual the annual report of the Dunlop Company. brilliance. The number of scratch races, Tho net profits for the fiscal year past I heerd sin' de waw! But, dere, honey, were $775,1100 and over, which enabled t li" ^i So-u-tU. ariftlfa. St., lE'lLllad.elpli.ia, ain't 3*oiis jes foolin' dis ole niggah, for too, had a deal to do with the retro­ company to pay its stockholders a dividend siiah, now?" continued the old man, gression. Those races kept the men out of li(XJ per cent., si ill leaving the com­ coaxingly, and gazing steadfastly into of the handicaps. Very often the back- pany undivided profits in the form of a with the valves on the wheels. Is ar­ the youngster's face, as if anxious to markers never started, or if they did, a redurva fund of $550,000. ranged lo be stored in one of the back find some tokens of insincerity. But he lap or two contented them, as they pre­ D. K. Harvey, of the Lovcll Arms stay tubes. This provides the rider always THICKORY! DELIGHTED WITH IT {HICKORY! found none. ferred to husband their powers for the Company, is one of the few happy men with a powerful pump at hand. scratch events. And who could blame In the trade whom the price question II. A. Lozier & Co. have acquired con­ Then Uncle Remus shook his head in does not in any way worry. It is a a most mournful manner, and sighed them? They rode to beat certain rivals, siderable knowledge regarding exhibiting OFFICE OF A. CLEMENT SHUTE, M. D., HOMEOPATIIIST, 715 Pittsburg St., to please themselves, not to please the case with the Diamonds he sells of take their machines at shows, their plucky CONNELI.SVILLE, Penn., Sept. 12, 1893. deeply. public, and so long as clubs showered them or leave them at $115 per take, and withdrawal of their exhibit from the "I doan' jes' know 'zactly w'at's eom- it is to the credit of the public that It World's Fair being an excellent example Wheel Co., Gentlemen :— Your HICKORY "A" has been scratch races ou programmes the policy don't leave such diamonds laying around Hickory in' obcr dis yer wo'ld. I 'low dar is of the racing man could not be ques­ of the possession of this knowledge on changes eomin' inter opperashun ebery loose when the buyer has the $115 neces­ their part. Under these circumstances" this receiving the hardest possible usage a machine could have for six day f'um de day I wuz so high. Some tioned. Offers of lap prizes made these sary to take one aud bo made happy by concern's opinion on the much-debated months, having ridden mountain roads and cinders by the mile, yet contests interesting, but at the same the taking. show question must; be considered of value. is, praps, fer de better, udders fer de time they exercised a baneful influence wuss. I link de ole wo'ld mils' be jes' The story going the rounds of the papers H.A.. Lozier, Jr. bellevas, a« we do. that the not a puncture, and the wheel to-day is as sound as when, bought. on the handicaps the most exciting form that George J. Gonld has an interest iu trade should not be taxed with more than tunning upside inside out. I rcck'lect do of sport from a spectator's point of the Spangler Pneumatic Tire is simply ab­ one show after such a season as it, like eve­ Not a loose spoke or nut to be found, and I am delighted with it, as time \v*eu de ladies wuz sorter contented view. surd, and the managers spwik of it in ry other industry, has just passed through, well as many others who at first were inclined to think it a novelty, to hang 'roun er piece er needle-wuk, or . those terms. There is no doubt that Mr. aud that iu justice to all concerned one bang ile planner, or sing in de choir, Gould is after good investments, but It or the other of the rival claimants for but now regard it as the best, after seeing what it has stood by my simple-like, widput deze new-fangled THEORY VS. FACT. must be remembered that they are of a show honors should withdraw and leave daily use of same in practice. twirlers, an' twisters, an' quivers, an' character about which he can keep thor­ the field open for a single representative Where the Wrangle Over Machines oughly posted, and in this case he simply exhibition. .No impartial observer can deny The;, spoon brake is perfect. Respectfully, quavers, like Brer Culwood's steam Usually Lands Those Who Indulge would have uo time to devote to a matter whistle, but now," and again the old that what Mr. Loxier says in this respect (Signed) A. CLEMENT SHUTE, M. D. in the Pastime. which to him would be otherwise than is in every way true and worthy of con­ man shook his , head mournfully, and mammoth. siderably more than mere passing atten­ groaned in a frightful manner. Perhaps when the wrangle about the Massachusetts, thanks to the efforts of tion. "1 see yo' pa's gotter new bistickle," merits of front-drivers and rear-drivers Chief Consul Perklns, Is solving the road "Measure for Measure" was written by he remarked after a pause, as if anx­ has made the participants too hoarse to problem In a practical wny. The State tho late lamented W. S. long before any shout any longer, another lot will bob Road Commission has decided to build in ious to change the subject. every town or township in that State knowledge of the forthcoming glory of "Oh, yes; isn't it a real beauty?" up and argue about the tricycle. And if one good road along the most used route. the bicycle was ever thought of, but that "Mebbe it is, an' mebbe it ain't," they do, it will bo safe to predict that en­ The design is to build from seven to ten doesn't prevent the Measure of to-day said the old man, cautiously. "I wuz thusiasts will not be wanting who will miles of road yearly in each countv, and being very much for Measure and good assert stoutly that the tricycle is faster measure, too. when it comes to supplying 'spectin' dat yer bike dis mawnin', en to spend about half a million dollars an­ the rider with a meritorious mount: but dar's jes' wuuuer two 'piuyous I hoi' than the safety. That is where nearly nually in this work. It Is estimated that the modern Measure is decidedly averse SOOTH , mass. 'but hit." all these machine discussions go wrong. in 20 years this will supply the State with to giving every Tom, Dick and Harry a There is always the same matter of as fine roads a-s they have In Europe. "I suppose you -know a great deal The two shows and the dates thereof guarantee that the bushel measure of a about bicycles, Uncle Remus?" speed cropping up. Of course speed mean that the trade will be forced to an wheel's merit shall contaiu sixteen qr.aits "Bless you, honey," said the old man, means ease, for the same cause gives extraordinary expense at the end of a sea­ of perfection, instead of the orthodox proudly, "1 sorter links I jes' duz, mine both, but it does not always mean com­ son which, to put it most mildly, has eight allowed by all the laws of fair deal­ Bfllili CO., fort, and if those arguing for front-driv­ ing in every other line of business. A you now! Dar's wuiiucr two tings 'roun not been of the most encouraging kind. five-minute interview with the modern, ox* — dat bike ob your pa's dat make me feel ers, tricycles, etc., were to devote their From four to six weeks' time will be re­ Hlghlantlville Meat-ure will soon praises to the undoubted comforts of quired for the employees of exhibiting everyday, jubus like. Ku^t place, I doau care 'bout firms to attend to the details of exhibits convince the interviewer that the guaran­ de watyercollums ob de hine wheel dey their pet tires they would be better ad­ at the two shows. It Is to be regretted tee question has grown to be au unbusi­ ball for cycle work. Our men are sorter interfere wid de thingimmy on vocates than now, when quite half of that this expense aud time coul I not have nesslike measure grafted upon the wheel Make the most perfect de headgear. Suppose yer pa wants them attempt to prove impossibilities in at least IK en decreased by half, through trade, and should in consequence at once all skilled ball makers. Nothing but the best material used. ter git off in a hurry, whar is lie?" the matter of speed. No doubt these only a single show being held, as has been be done away with. The little boy seemed to consider this amiable theorists quite believe all they the custom in former years. With the end of October the cycling sea­ Hear what Wm. Bown, of Birmingham, England, says: a regular iioser. assert, but experienced hands know Members of the New York Athletic Club son may be said to have terminat(Ml. "Why, bless grayshus'."exclaimed Un­ when the line of argument taken is an riding 1000 miles during 1893 will receive Hardy riders, wiio rise superior to weather "They are very fine, the best I have seen." why so many a bronze medal; for 2000 miles, a silver conditions and are not atfrighted at rainy cle Remus, triumphantly, as he noticed untenable one, and that is medal, and for 2.">00 miles, a gold medal. skies or muddy roads, may continue their W W. Stall, the maker of Trotting Sul- the puzzled face of the youngster, "I paper discussions that might otherwise These prizes will be presented at a dinner excursions, but the clubs have left the jes' waiiter lay long odds dat he can't be rendered interesting, become, instead, given to cycling members of the club some highways, and for the next four months kies, says: "We buy them because they are do hit! An' den it seems like to uio dat mere laughing stocks. "Wheeling." time In January. The following are the the social side of cycling will be upper­ dem saddle beariu's is all outer troof. three high mileages of the club to date: most. On the threshold of the festive the best on earth." Capacity now nearly T. E. Belts. 5102 miles; C. L. Jones, 4175; season a retrospective glance at the past Wat's'a maii ter do wid the axle ob de HERE, THERE ASP EVERYWHERE. J. H. Hanson, 3008. The Athletiu. Com­ year may not be inopportune. In out­ 2,000,000 per month. "Write for samples and hine mudgyurd w'en de middle ob mittee lias offered a medial to the mem­ door pastime like cycling the weather de handle-bar slews rouu' an hits him ou bers riding to Travers Island the greatest is, of course, the most important factor. prices. de nose?" The rolling wheel joke gathers lots of number of times (luring 18U3. The record Bad weather means a depressed sea­ JO HIST J. C5rH-A-3NTT. rest. «.aa.cl IVTgx-. The little boy ventured to reply that moss. now stands: T. E. Belts, 39 times; Dr. son; good weather unceasing activity. he really didn't know. Out of sight but rarely out of mind G. M. Hamuiond, 27. In this connection cyclists have reason to " 'Co'so not, honey," crowed the old the inner tube. A Louisville, Ky., dispatch says that congratulate themselves. The summer and An inclined cycling plane the homely Ileury Kink, ag(Kl 30 years, publisher of autumn have been dry and laden with GRAND SIX-DAY man exultantly. spinster willing to learn to ride a wheel. the "Southern Wheelman," was arrested sunshine the real has almost approached Look Out "Den again, I notice dat de makers Stiiriney, on a Giraffe-type machine, was Iu the post office yesterday afternoon by the ideal. In such favorable circumstances deze times is crazy on dat yer gear recently hailed as a "bloke a-rldiug on a Inspector R. W. MuAtee for sending im­ the clubs have been unusually active, queshun; now, w'at I am yea'nen ter guto." moral pictures through the mails, /ink and It Is safe to say that that hard-work­ know is how de lamp bracket kin hoi' The Kings County Wheelmen Intend to made a confession, implicating a promi­ ing and seldom-thaaked otllclal. the club Bicycle nent photographer, who used dissolute secretary, when he comes to report prog­ ...FOR THE its own wid de diameter er de back build a new club house to cost about $17,- ress, will be using no stereotyped phrase fo'ks is geared up OM. women for models. The Inspector refuses wheel if de front to give the name of the photographer. when he announces that the club has bad twel nigh on 72? fer it stands to reason It Is an extra-hazardous business, that /Ink was allowed bond In the sum of $2000. "a most successful season." dat de back stays mils' be screwed up of renting bicycles iu large cities to un­ known parties. Complaints against /ink have been re­ In answer to an Inquiry as to the prob- purty tight, so's to bear the extry strain ceived from St. IxHiis, Chicago, Memphis tble cost of first-class machines for '!)4, AT THE ob de bald head. Darfo,' if de tingum- W. II. Arnold, of the Mercer County and other cities. Mr. /ink is the gentle­ "Jake" Bretz,, he of Wilson, Myers & bob wants repairin', how's yo' ter do Wheelmen, of Trentou, has ridden 8035 man who thought tho issuance of a wheel Co., tells a few facts in his usual liretzon- miles since April 1. paper was based upon stealing and black­ ian fsishioiwabout as follows: "Regarding MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, N. Y. hit?" Corsets are recommended for the cnre of guardism. the price of 18!>4 Jbigh-grade wheels, we The little boy, looking considerably kyyhosls bleyclistarum. Spiked straight The Stanley Club announces that its are firmly of the belief that $130 is as Commenciag at midnight, Dec. 24, 1893, dazed, said he thought it should prove jackets would be better. show has actually lecelved up to date low as a strictly high-grade wheel, both In and closing at midnight, Dec. 30, 1893. awfully hard. It requires the understanding of a cy­ I-.53 applications for space. About 14«) material. Improvements and lightness of "I link so,' said Uncle Remus, con­ clist to recognize the true merit of a cycles will be exhibited, and all the lead­ weight, can be built and marketed and clusively, and looking very wise. "Well, trick-riding performance. ing tires will be on view, as nearly 40 yield a reasonable profit. We are CONDITIONS OF THE RACE. den, de on'y way outer the difficulty is A good saddle on a bicycle is just as es­ firms have taken up space. The inventions not disposed to jeopardize the Lib­ type of machine sential with a pneumatic-shod wheel as sections will be exceptionally interesting erty interests by reducing the qual­ Riders may use any ter make de pedals fo'm a rev'lution ob ity or to make a machine of they desire. fer de pup- with one with solid tires. this year, and larger than lust. The ar­ 3 in 4, w'ich is quite "miff President Bnrdett has expressed his in­ rangements made for entertainments dur­ first quality which Is sold at a lower puss ob bringiu' de suckle ob de front tention of resigning from the presidency of ing the show include two grand assaults- price than .f150. Economy must be PURSES. wh«el to fo'm a square to Mow the main the L. A. W. In February. at-arms by the German and Orion Gym­ studied, first of all, in the tools for pro­ Twenty-five Per Cent, of the Net Pro. ckube to hang closer away, so dat the A voluntary petition in insolvency has nastic Club; Bohemian smoking concerts; duction and then In the various improve­ fits to be divided among the ch:'.in wheel won't interfere wid de been filed by the Mu('unt» Cycle Company, billiard competitions fer a valuable chal­ ments, al' of which necessitates uumerons lenge shield, limited to cycling clubs; trick mechanical processes which represent in­ Pjaced Men as lollowsi brake dy'e foller me, honey?" the old of Hoston. and Everelt, Mass. creased cost. Then, again, the style of man asked gravely, noticing that the The first appearance of a rubber-tired riding competition for championship trophy, To the winner...... 5O per cent. offered by the Stanley Club, open to the tire goes a considerable way in figuring Second...... 25 per cent. little boy's face wore a look of intense cab was in London in 1888; now there are world; amateur weight-lifting contest; the cost and list price of a wheel, and mystification. over 2800 such vehicles there. concert each day by the Ladies' Hand, etc. the very best styles of pneumatic tires are Third...... 12 1-2 per cent. "I I am not sure that I understand, An English Inventor is experimenting Mr. Priest has this idea of American not or cannot be used at a profit ou ma­ Fourth...... 8 per cent. with a front-driver. In which both wheels we believe the chines sold at a list price as low as the Fifth...... 4 1-2 per cent. Uncle Remus. I must ask pa to ex­ are only 24 inches in diameter. trade, after visiting It, if public are disposed to believe will prevail plain the different parts of the bicycle interview we see him credited with In an IN ADDITION TO THE ABOVE THE The sighs of content which seem to Issue Kiigllsh paper: "I have, and, without as the standard high-grade machine nri-'e A. G. SPALDING & BROS, from a punctured tire are directly propor­ of 18(4." FOLLOWING PURSES WILL "Hoi* on dar!" interrupted Uncle Re­ making any vain boasts, I think I have tional to the sixe of its contents/ fairly sized it up. Everything Is in a Hero is an example, taken from a St. BE ADDED: mus in terrible alarm, "(loan' yo' go fer Much of the stuff culled "criticism" In shocking condition, and will be far worse. Louis paper, of how a cycling campaign CHICAGO NEW YORK PHILADELPHIA ter meushun all 'bout w'at I've jes' tole the wheel papers had host be kept out Many English firms have lost money, our­ Is conducted in the West: A. O. Da vis Winner . . . $12OO in Gold. yer; kaze ye mightn't 'splain tings of the reach of the garbage collector. selves amongst, them. But we have also is running like a scared rabbit for cover, for Baseball and Footballists, Athletes, |Second . . . SOO krectly." The principal lady dancers at the opera made money here, and hope to make more. and his election for chief consul Is a fore­ His motto Is "no coon- Cyclists. Horseback Riders, Boxers Third .... BOO "Oh, no, Uncle Remus," replied the mounted on safeties is one of the interest­ In these things fortune favors the bold. gone conclusion. Fourth . . . 35O youngster, earnestly, "I am quite sure ing photos at present on view In Paris. But the American trade, is a very peculiar shine goes." and that is the platform of and Oarsmen's use, A great inaugr people are undecided agc BOOK on All I'Hvutf l>l«<*lucit M?nt FKKK FRANK W. SANGER, then, In brief, constitutes Mr. Shanl's' for "gents." He should go iutu another and is telescopic; the long, flexible air overwhelming majority over "Coonshiue" aileJ.) CUKE OUARANTKFIV »e^Jr»n.' e'i puncture-proof bauO. A tlii.-k bed of line of buuliicss at ouet;. lub«, which connects the foot of the pump Davte. perleuce. Or. D. II. LOHE, WlMtei; CoiL Madison Square Garden, New York City. 8 THE SPORTING LIFE. 3ST ov. 25. FOOTBALL SOLE MANUFACTURERS SPORTS AND PASTIMES. Easily Taken Up OF EASY FOK PENNSY. Cod Liver Oil as it hands of such excellent men or experts as Maurice Duly, George F. Slosson, Frank Cornell Beaten 5O to O Despite a appears in Scott's Jas.J.Corbett's BILLIARDS. Ives, and lust, but uot least, Jacob Stubborn Fight. Emulsion is easily Schaefer. The manufacturers, who are for Spectacular the nonce, In the background, will, of foot bull, abounding in big taken up by BOXING GLOVES course, applaud the experts on and aid runs and sensational tackles, was played the IVES-SCHAEFER MATCH. them to the utmost of their ability In mak­ by the University of Pennsylvania system. In no ing the contests a success. A remarkable against Cornell at Philadelphia Nov. 18, Also makers of all styles feature of the Chicago and New York before 5000 people. The play was far other form can so and prices of Boxing and The Ex-Master Trying to Reg(i.52. forms to be found representative busi­ estate of his late father, diaries E. Mus­ Virginia, beat Georgetown 58 to 0. ness men, "lawyers and doctors, while sey, "who died as he had lived, without The first business of the A. A. U. On Thanksgiving Day the I'omell team was to consider the application from "AROUSD THE WORLD" TOUR the billiard room keepers were well re­ owing any one a dollar." will play the University of Minnesota at OF presented. Sehaefer won the bank. At John Spangler has just returned from an various Southern athletic clubs for per­ CANVAS JACKETS, St 1'aul. mission to fifteen minutes past eight the balls were extended tour through this State, his mis­ The sentiment of the authorities at West form a Southern Association. MOLE SKIN PANTS, AMERICAN BASE BALL TEAMS, weighed, the red being found just a triHe sion being that of u drun.mer and setter-tip Point is turning against foot ball, on ac­ The permission was granted unanimous­ heavy. Both players agreed to a change of tables. Mr. Spin gler reports trade as count of Its exceeding brutality. ly. The following States will form the CANVAS PANTS, Their Enthusiastic Welcomes, Royal of balls by mutual consent or by a claim being very good through the State. If the Pennsylvania-Harvard foot ball new association: Georgia, Alabama. Receptions, Banquets, Great Games Thomas Nelins and Harry Delf are en­ game at Cambridge draws as it is expected Florida, Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, STOCKINGS, CAPS, of either, sustained by the referee. gaged to play two exhibitions at pool. Played before Notables of Foreign Na­ Score: to a game between the two teams will he Arkansas and Kentucky. tions, Humorous Incidents, Interesting One will take place in Levy's room, 1204 an annual fixture. It was voted to amend Clause E. Sec­ SHOES, PROTECTORS Ivos-22 21. 1, 18. 7, 5, 0, 1, 0, 1. 14. 4, 42, Market street, and the other in Mc- During the last foot ball season Adventures, Etc., 84, 0, 10. 22, 0, 8, 10, 8. 0, 0, 77. 1SO, 4, 15, 0, I .a ugh I in's room, 1)31 Chestnut street. in Eng­ tion 2. Article IV of the constitution AND SWEATERS, 0,121. Total 603. Avernt;L>-20 1!3-:12. land twenty-two players were killed. This BY Frank Ives expects to give a series of ex­ appalling list of casualties stamps loot so as to read: Schnofer 0. 85, 2, 15, 21, 0, 0. 0. 0, 73. 8. 3, hibitions In the leading clubs of this city "That in the event of four-fifths of tho clubs As well as the famous 41, 11', 10. 28. 40, 11, 14, 88, 118. !>. 7, B8. 78, ball as the most dangerous of sports. occupying not less than two Stutoa or territories HARRY CLAY PALMER, 1, 11. 82, 25, 0, 1, 0, 78. Total SOO. Average In the near future. As Mr. Ives has never At Ann Arbor, Mii>h. Nov. 18, Michigan MORRILL NOSE MASK. played In this city these exhibitions luukiug formal application to bo admitted as n 21 7-71. will University beat Northwestern University separate association to active membership in the Representing THE S PORTING LIFE in SECOND NIGHT'S MAY. no doubt be the event of the season Iu 72 to U. Same date Aniherst closed her PRICES ALWAYS THE LOWEST AND the billiard world of Philadelphia. union, this union shall IK? empowered in its dis the "Around the World" Tour. On Wednesday night, Nov. 22, Jake season with a defeat, being beaten by crimination to admit the same as au active GOODS THE BEST. Schaefer ran up a big lead on Ives, and Daniel L. Dawson, the poet and business Williams, 30 to 12. member, and to allot such States as its ter­ in addition beat the high run record of man. who died at his home here a few Raymond Oarew, half-back of the To­ ritory." The Whole Most Elegantly Illustrated. weeks ago, was at one time a member of ledo High School foot hall team, was This action was taken to allow the ad­ The Famous Intercollegiate Foot Ball, 230, which has stood since 1885. In the the American and National Itilllard Asso­ fifth inning with one stroke Shaefer caught in a muss play at a game in mission of the Southern Association, PUBLISHER'S PRICE, $5.00, ciations. Later on we may write u sketch Adrian, Mleh., November IS. A seore of which was afterward admitted. gathered the balls and held them to­ of the remarkable life of this very re­ players piled on top of him and his neck The Official Foot Ball Guide for 1893, by W»Her gether at anchor, while he caromed markable mau. was dislociited. He was A letter was read from the Seventh taken to his Regiment Athletes petitioning the Camp, IB n<»w ready. 1'rice, 10 cents. OUR PRICE, $2.50 with a delicate fairy touch until the Burr Macintosh, who Is this year sup­ home, but died on Sunday. INCLUDING spectators became dizzy watching him porting Nat Goodwill, favored ns with a The more important games playe,l No­ Amateur Athletic Union to allow them EXPRESS CHARGES. wear out carpet by walking from one visit a f<>w days ago. The sister of this vember 18 resulted as follows: West to compete at Seventh Regiment games A.G.SPALDING&BROS., bright young man and actor recently Point, 4; I'rincetoii, :'.~>,OUO a side. UNION REMEDY CO., WlKSTEl), lc9, Carom, Combination and Pool Plated. Rub. and n mistnke on the part of the leaders country will breathe easier when this The Orange Lawn Tennis Club has elrct- The Kansas City Athletic Club is a nev\ of thelSrnnswluk Halke Collencler Make. ber Stock, Cea« of the business in permitting such a tiling affair is over. Charles A. Munn; treasurer, S Bryan organization of Kansas City, Mo. Tin (iiiifaialroin nil part* nl'thr world promptly attended to tor Fira to be possible. The natural result is, that ed the following officers: President, officers arc: A. A. Mosher, president: J Over 1,000,OOO \oise Hubduera SolLewis, the latter rosorte^ in Three Straight Heats. wepayiuyaliehaisea. W.HtU aCQ.i*-07 -*tt^St.,titl«i««. duly to play the gume and not to dictate November 20. to his old tactics and so hudly injure. At Klootwood Park, Now York, as to Its innmigoment. Hilly Murphy, Ra a Convenience fov Hoss that he could not take part iu thi Since the foregoing was written, posters tho Australian feather- iinal bout. Novomlier -t, King Directum made his for weiaht, has got another backer in Michael iitlo clear us the greatest trotting horse I.Mi(-nor4irm.t. H-M «1kr kR-.-srn. Ncc-I- the Chicago contests between Ives and Doyle, of Newark, the backer of Billy The medal for which C. AV. Stage, of Selmefer arrived in this city, just three Cleveland, the champion sprinter, ami F. in the world by defeating Alix in three ...i , <-very Iiou=c. pliwc of V,i-l no*- »r l*«ru days before the commencement of what Pliiunier and Van Hecst. Sporting Ltife Readers. straight boats for a IpoOOO purse. The roarrmiml. "Home" KI The Governor of Florida has declared C. I'ufi'er. of New York, the champion " MHUXl»rlsoriUhtipnch!rv?'r. Ch"aji- slioiiM he a series of most memorable hurdler, tied for at the World's Fair com­ time made .was slow. Alix and the 'irvron earth. games In the history of billiards. It would that he will not permit the Corbett-Mitch- Couaecteil instautlyco ell light In that State. petition, will be cut in two and hall cold weather wore to blame for this i or BewinJC lu^iin**, corn ehrltw, bo a libel on the average Chicagoan to Corbett has gone awarded to each athlete by the Amateur statQ of affairs. The track was in per­ ;. fans, lailie*. jctreicri' or d'.MiiiiU* Accuse him of being slow in any sense of out of training for two wcoks. Many of our readers, per­ Athletic Union. The two men have de­ '.iuery, Ac. Cknn, XolafU-'ss. fonts the word, especially after that wonderful McAuliffo and Mitchell have fallen out fect condition, and, so far as its surface _^ 'if--ifme. No experience Bfelc'l. T» haps, are located clined to toss a coin for the possession of - .-.liuw in operation mrans R file. (!u*r- «ity has brought to a successful financial because tho Englishman turned our Jack in places the trophy. was concerned, there was no cause for ___ anteed. Pr»l! f s iranii-nso. Circulars fr"c. torinlnatlon the most wonderful World's down In a theatrical deal In which they Silas H. Goodonough. of Winchester. complaint. In tho first heat Alix lead "TcTlIARRISON A CO., Columbus, O. fall-that the world has ever witnessed. At were to have been joint partners. where they are not able to find Conn., a Yale junior, died at the Yale until the baekstretch when she broke the gumo time the posters are several Near DCS Moines, la., November 21, the a large assortment of goods intirmary November 21. His death was the badly, and Directum shot ahead and weeks later tha.fi they should be. It is Layton-Murphy fight took place in a driz­ result of an accident which brought on an D. L. DOWD'S HEALTH EXERCISER. true that it Is better late than never, but won by two lengths in 2.15%. The zling rain. The men fought at catch- pertaining to their comfort and internal rupture. The accident occurred second was almost an exact repetition For Gei; tu-uicu, Ltniiu*, \ uuttirt, there Is no excuse, or should not be, in not weights for a purse of $e,0(!0 Jlijruicians, Itiwyvr*. bllliiird world In motion or pbiylng the nounced officially, be reopened Monday, the sidewalk.______third heat was against time, and was clergymen, e.iitm ttml others n >vr cnjnc. If these posters arc of any bene­ Nov. 27, with a ten-round go between every facility for obtaining won by Directiira, who finished a dozen \uins it. Illustrated circular, 4(1 fit live or ten days before the contests Dannie Necdham and Jim Ban-on, of Aus­ Of Interest to Travelers. lengths ahead of Alix in 2.08. The _ eugmviiigrt l'ico. Sciftitirti; Physi­ take place, It must appear obvious to all tralia, The cal ami V-Mal Cultniv, 9 K. Ulti Sf., New York. that they would prov« doubly bonelioiul and a twenty-round, go between nearly everything used by its Baltimore and Ohio Railroad an­ Utiarters were 32%, 1.03%, 1.35. Di­ Jimmy Barry and Johnny Conuers. No nounces that, they have placed on sale rectum was not urged or driven and 80 or 30 days sooner. It is a consolation to round trip was know, however, that In the West there Is a interference Is feared. readers, and will therefore tickets at reduced rates to the carefully nursed by Kelly at all but the Frank White lost his case against Dom- winter resorts in Florida aud the South, C. E. J. I'arker lit the helm as manager, take pleasure in purchasing and also to such points of interest last turn. This time is really phenom­ CLAFLIN'S^ even If he Is a little late. With Maurice inick McCafi'rey for $iiO as fee for ser­ as vices in seconding Horace Leeds by its Luray, Natural Bridge and Gettysburg. enally good, when the weather and at­ f)aly In New York to handle the great for them any article that they This company has also arranged to place mospheric conditions arc taken into con­ Amateur and Professional three-cornered tOMrnnmeut there Is strong being thrown out of Court. Judge Jerole- mon, before whom the case was tried, on sale excursion tickets to San Francisco sideration. It is equal to his world's reason to lutpo that bililurd men are once may desire, and which their and other points in California on account more recovering tholr understanding. characterized the contest as a brutal record, made in warm weather. The BASE^BALL^SHOES prize fight, and said White was guilty of of the Mid-Winter Fair, at unusually low Uriah t and early on tho morning of the absence from trade centres rates. Kxcursiou tickets are now on sale judges for the day were Dr. .T. W. Day, '; 831 Chestnut St., Phila., Pa. 20th lust., or nearly 11 month before the a misdemeanor in assisting at It. of Waterloo. N. Y.; David Bonnor, of John L. Sullivan now says that "Corbett to Baltimore and Washington via the fa­ opening of tha great three-handed tourna­ irfoy make inconvenient for mous Uoyal Blue Line. New York City, and H. C. Chaiublis, of ttt h-f in"t»flr«. Kfl«i>W of iporUnc life. 80* ment In New York between Slosson, Ives will hammer the life out of Mitchell." He With its Ycstlhuled train service Tin Virginia. Samuel McMillan was the {.if: tof'fc f" "ten: 37 plcturtn-^ll full-p^e ev ond Schaefer, the posters announcing the also says that should Alitchell happen to them to otherwise procure. Washington to Cincinnati, St. Louis and fM.-lnut, tni* to iif*. I'vrt v»M fr/rlOj in fUmpi win he will at once challenge him. starting judge. ___ TPEEP l> U JIisi.wiw. 101 W. Celt Ft. KM. Ciit, Ugw details arrived In this city. It Is very Chicago, the B & O. is In the best of con­ «vident that, while 181'S has been one of "Alt" Kennedy, the matchmaker of the Address, dition to handle western and southern Hoof Beats. FREE. the dullest, years In tho history of billiards, Roby Athletic Club, has arranged a ten- travel. That the line is a popular one. Tho world- famous thoroughbred ^00 ladies and that 18H4. will be one of the greatest iu Its round bout between "Jim" Ban-on, of horse KC. lAS «antc^nvstK-ndent« Is attested bv the immense World's Fair Longfellow died at his homo, the Nantura I'S' MONTHLY, TOLEUO, O 111 l>. history, if wo are to judge from the prus- Australia, aud "Danny"' Neee game, so under the auspices of the club ou Noveni- 833 Chestnut street. Philadelphia, Pa., and never cbauged ownership, except l>y far as rotates to ia*!«U pb.jrin;;, iu the bur 27. for rates and other information. inheritance.